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Outstanding photo of 24 military transport airplanes on the same runway
Outstanding photo of 24 (twenty-four!) USAF military transports in an elephant walk on December 6, 2014, at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.Read more...
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Climate Change Could Make It Harder for Airplanes to Get Liftoff
Every once in a while, unlucky passengers get bumped because an overbooked airplane is too heavy. It's maddening, and it makes you question the airline's ability to do arithmetic. But there is a...
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How airplanes are made
Building a commercial airplane is a monumental task. It takes around 4,000 really smart engineers over 7 years of planning to make one of those flying tubes with countless experts testing and...
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Watch Airbus' mad stunt with $1.5 billion worth of airplanes
I have to give kudos to Airbus for having the guts to do this using five test A350-900 XWB airplanes, its newest wide-body airliner. I know the stunt was well calculated and the pilots—all of them...
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The SR-71 Blackbird Took Its First Flight 50 Years Ago Today
No other plane in history has captured the hearts and minds of the American public quite like the SR-71 Blackbird, providing the West with an unprecedented look behind the Iron Curtain during its 33...
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Watch a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet land without one of its landing gears
A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 had to make an emergency landing earlier today at Gatwick Airport, London, when its right landing gear got stuck. Amazingly enough, the pilots managed to keep control...
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AirAsia Debris Identified Off the Coast of Borneo
The ongoing search attempt to discover AirAsia Flight 8501 is edging closer to a discovery. Indonesian officials have announced that they've discovered airplane debris in waters near the island of...
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The Trillion Dollar F-35 Won't Even Be Able to Shoot Its Gun Until 2019
At this point, it's not even funny how much the Pentagon has screwed up the development of its new stealth fighter jet , the F-35. But the latest report that the jet's 25mm cannon won't be operational...
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Meteorologists: Engine Ice Likely the "Triggering Factor" of AirAsia Crash
According to a report from Indonesian meteorological experts, the most likely cause of the tragic crash of AirAsia flight QZ8501 was not turbulence (as was previously believed), but actual chunks of...
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Absolutely Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Airplane Controls
All of them? If you're talking about a commercial airliner, then there's hundreds and hundreds. There are big, fat manuals describing what they all do. But, since you asked, buckle up.Read more...
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These videos of airplanes launching from aircraft carriers are badass
Once again, the French Navy shows they make the best airplane videos there are. This one shows the flight deck operations onboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles DeGaulle. Although I...
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These Circular Runways Were Designed To Catapult Planes Skyward
The January 10, 1960 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Sunday comic "Closer Than We Think" includes a curious invention that was supposed to literally catapult us into the Jet Age: The circular...
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This Is How a Plane Will Navigate Earth Using Solar Power Alone
Last year, the team behind Solar Impulse 2 revealed the design of a plane that it hopes will be able to traverse the world without refuelling. Now, it's revealed the route it will take when it takes...
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Striking images of the first war that felt like a video game
The USAF Air Combat Command just tweeted this photo: "Today in 1991, US-backed coalition air forces attained air supremacy over the Iraqis." Aside from any geopolitical consideration, there's...
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Cool picture of five airplanes ready to take off feels like CGI
It may be the weird combination of airplanes, their colors, or the texture of the runway, but this photo of two Bangladesh F-7BG Defenders, a BAF C-130B Hercules and two U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules...
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The story of the ultrasecret A-12 Oxcart—father of the SR-71 Blackbird
It may look like the SR-71 Blackbird, but this sleek flying beast is not the most famous supersonic spy plane ever created but its father, the A-12 Oxcart. In some ways, it was a better machine than...
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Drone footage of Russia's Air Force Museum shows a heaven for planes
All these fighter jets and war planes and attack helicopters are on display at Russia's Central Air Force museum just outside of Moscow. They're advanced killing machines. And yet this drone footage...
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Nobody would have believed this 70 years ago
Looking at this picture it is hard to believe that the United States and Australia were in a bloody no quarter war against Japan only 70 years ago: Spot the Mitsubishi F-2 escorting a Boeing B-52...
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A fascinating view into the US Air Force boneyards
You can zoom in this 48-megapixel image of the USAF boneyard in Tucson, Arizona—stitched from Bing Maps satellite images—and try to identify all those airplanes. Or you can watch this USAF documentary...
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The USAF Thunderbirds in a perfect formation
If this hadn't been published by the US Air Force, I would think it's a fake and those F-16s from their Thunderbird exhibition team weren't real but cloned and perfectly aligned in Photoshop to form a...
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