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The Size of Dinosaurs Compared to Airplanes, Visualized
Just last week, a newly discovered dinosaur named Dreadnoughtus schrani laid claim to the title of world's largest terrestrial animal . But how big is that, exactly?Read more...
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"High-Energy Objects" Colliding with Flight MH17 Caused It to Explode
A preliminary report by the Dutch Safety Board into what caused the devastating crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has confirmed what many already feared.Read more...
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Nike's Concept Jet for Pro Athletes Is a Luxury Lounge at 40,000 Feet
Pro athletes lead a very luxurious life, with trainers ensuring they're always in top physical shape. But they still travel in cramped airplanes that weren't designed for seven-footers. Teague design...
View ArticleWatch a Mammoth Airbus A380 Go From the Assembly Line to the Runway
No matter how annoying it gets to squish into an economy seat, it's hard to deny that airplanes are awe-inspiring. Watching Qatar Airways' recent Airbus A380 assembled highlights how intricate the...
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For $300, You Can "Fly" on a Perfectly Recreated Pan Am 747
Pan Am ceased to exist 23 years ago, but the defunct airline enjoys a dedicated cult following—whose fixation with the past that doesn't seem quite so odd when considered in light of the stinky,...
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No, A Smoke-Filled Airliner Is Not A Good Place For a Selfie
Most humans' priority when their flying metal tube starts filling with smoke: panic, scream, scrabble for oxygen mask, pee their pants a little. This guy? He pulls out his smartphone and starts...
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Badass photo of an F-15 refueling
So the US Air Force is on Instagram and sometimes they post some nice shots. This one is not just nice. This one really kicks ass. It reminds me of Macross for some reason. The F-15 is still so damn...
View ArticleThis Tiny Humanoid Robot Can Fly a Plane
A humanoid robot could kick your ass at Flight Simulator... and probably at flying a real plane, too. Read more...
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A Bunch of US High-Schoolers Broke the Paper Airplane World Record
A 'science' project for high school kids normally involves making a poster of the periodic table, or perhaps torching things with a small gas burner if your science teacher is a bit Walter White. If...
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Planes Will Start Running on Biofuels From Fallen Trees in Two Years
Now here's some welcome innovation in the airline industry. Southwest Airlines announced today that it will be using biofuel on several of its flights by 2016, purchasing the blended fuel from a...
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Watching a Boeing 787 Dreamliner Come Together Never Gets Old
With her maiden flight just a few short weeks away, the newest 787—and the first for Virgin Atlantic—is all set to take to the skies. And to honor this momentous machine, Virgin has just released this...
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FAA's New $5 Billion Air Traffic Control System Forgot About Drones
Designers of the Federal Aviation Administration's futuristic, new air traffic control system did a whoops. Despite explicit instructions from Congress to take drones into account, they failed to...
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A Specimen Box Full of Tiny Paper Airplanes Instead of Bugs
It's hard to understand the appeal of displaying the corpses of dead insects and other small creatures on pins in a specimen box, but tiny paper airplane versions of famous aircraft? That deserves to...
View ArticleThe Planes of Red Bull's Air Race Championship
After a three-year hiatus for safety and organizational overhauling, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship is back for the 2014 season. These races pit daredevil pilots against gravity—and each...
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Why the Human Body Can't Handle Heavy Acceleration
Our bodies are surprisingly resilient in many situations, but rapid acceleration is not one of them. While the human body can withstand any constant speed—be it 20 miles per hour or 20 billion miles...
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The best flying experience ever perfectly recreated in cool new photos
Michael Kelley is a Los Angeles-based architectural photographer and aviation lover who often catches himself "at 2am looking up articles on aviation" (I know that feeling.) So when the opportunity...
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This woman has one of the best, most badass jobs in the world
Liz Kaszynski has one of the best jobs in the world: She is one of the ten aerial photographers working at Lockheed Martin, taking pictures from the back of fighter jets and hanging from helicopter...
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How flying is getting a lot safer in one simple graphic
Fascinating interactive data visualization by Information Is Beautiful Studio for BBC Future: All the flight incidents from 2014 to 1993 in one single graphic—436 in total. The size of the circles...
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This fighter jet film is so amazingly perfect you'd think it is 3D
I have a hard time believing that some of the sequences in this video are not rendered in a 3D software. They are just impossibly perfect—but yes, they are real. Most of them are fighters like the...
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These giant RC airplanes are so huge that you can fly a kid inside
I have seen big RC planes in the past, but this is really getting out of hand. I watch these videos of giant scale RC planes—the one above is 85 percent of the original size!—and I have to wonder...
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