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Airbus's Electric Airplane Prototype Is Eerily Silent in Flight
Airbus just showed its battery-powered E-Fan 2.0 electric airplane to the public for the first time, at England's Farnborough International Airshow. Standing still, it looks like a normal if slightly...
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Northrop Once Built Planes That Were Just Giant Wings
After World War II, the future of commercial air travel was supposed to be fantastic. There were promises that planes like Northrop Grumman's flying wing would become the norm for civilian flying....
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Why Can't We Protect Commercial Planes From Attacks?
Last week's downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over the disputed territory of Eastern Ukraine has set off worldwide outcries against the conflict, and calls to better defend commercial airlines...
View ArticleEpson's New Smart Glasses Provide Pilots with Smart HUDs
The Eurofighter Typhoon and F-35 Lightning II are two of the most advanced warplanes ever designed and come replete with bleeding-edge, motion-tracking, x-ray-vision-enabled helmets. But why should...
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China's Building the World's Biggest Sea Plane
Just because the Spruce Goose never took off doesn't mean that aquatic planes in general are wholly useless; these aquatic turbo-props are still used for a variety of humanitarian efforts throughout...
View ArticleThis Redesigned Airplane Cabin Would Give You More Room For Everything
You board the plane and instinctively duck to clear the overhead container doors. They're all full already, so you cram your carryon under the seat in front of you while the slob next to you reaches...
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Step Inside the Restoration of the Original Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is an iconic aircraft that singlehandedly pushed the airline industry into the jumbo jet age. Sitting derelict at the Museum of Flight for 14 years, the very first of its kind is...
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The size of this stunning explosion at an air show defies belief
Yesterday, photographer Mike Miley took his Canon 7D to the Oshkosh Air Show in Wisconsin, and holy crap, did he get some good shots. Chief among them is a jaw-dropping shot of two planes dancing...
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Researcher Can Hack Airplanes Through In-Flight Entertainment Systems
If you're about to get on an airplane, you might want to wait until you land before you read this post. Because cyber security whiz Ruben Santamarta says he has devised a method that can give hackers...
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We Need to Ban In-Flight Phone Calls Before It's Too Late
News recently broke that the Department of Transportation is revving up to try to officially ban in-flight phone calls. That's right; the singular, obscene act of yelling into your hand while...
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The Supersonic Nazi Rocket Concept Designed to Bomb Any City in 1 Hour
When WWII ended, American engineers examined a trove of Nazi concepts for rocket-powered weapons and airplanes. One of the most terrifying was Eugen Sänger's antipodal bomber, a manned supersonic...
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How One 1920s Feminist Imagined Our Futuristic High-Tech World
Josephine Daskam Bacon was an author known for her adventure serials that featured female protagonists. But in 1929, she took a break from her regular fiction writing and slipped on her futurist...
View ArticleThis Panoramic 4K Time-Lapse of Dubai Airport Is Mesmerizing
A busy airport at night is a beautiful thing to see in action. This video, though, takes that to a whole new level, showing a 360-degree time-lapse panorama of Dubai International Airport in 4K. It is...
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A British Pilot's Artificial Arm Came Off, Almost Caused Crash Landing
The pilot of a Flybe flight from Birmingham to Belfast City Airport managed to get himself in a bit of a mess last year—when his artificial arm somehow came off during a landing.Read more...
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Time lapse of an airport makes airplanes look like shooting stars
Aside from going through security and lugging around your carry on and rushing to the gate and avoiding human swarms, airplanes are magical places. Okay, maybe not. But there's beauty in how they...
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Sorry, But the FAA Has Decided Your 'Uber for Planes' Idea Can't Fly
The Federal Aviation Authority has shoved your Uber for planes idea back into the hangar. Yesterday, it ruled that it has banned pilots from "publicly offering seats on their planes in exchange for...
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BAE Wants to Make Airplanes With Skin That Feels Its Surroundings
BAE's had another mad brainstorming session, this time developing the concept of a "smart skin" for airplanes to help them "feel" their surroundings and detect damage.Read more...
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The futuristic jets, humans, and Star Wars designs of Stephen Chang
Stephen Chang tells me he loves to think about how the future will weave technology into humans. He has done a lot of cool art so far and I'm sure he'll get far. If he doesn't, that's fine: He got his...
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Cheap Airplane Seats Shouldn't Recline at All
Yesterday, we shared the amusing case of the cross-country trip that was diverted when two passengers got in a battle over a reclining seat. But the real villain here isn't our travel-addled selves....
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Pilot takes off from car road in the Alps to do some crazy acrobatics
I can help but to feel a mix of awe, envy, and fear as I watch Red Bull Air Force pilot Hannes Arch taking off from a road in the Austrian Alps and then perform some...
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