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The Crash of Delta 1086 Is Exactly Why Airlines Cancel Flights for Snow
We've all moaned and groaned over flights cancelled due to weather. It's maddening to miss your connection (or even your whole trip) because of bad weather, but incidents like today's crash of Delta...
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This Solar-Powered Plane Is About To Fly Around The World (Very Slowly)
After endless years of planning (and a not-so-successful dry run ), the Solar Impulse sun-powered plane is about to take off on its around-the-world voyage — provided it's not too cloudy, of course....
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Spectacular video of F-18s in never-before-seen action
Our friend Lieutenant Chris Nigus —Weapons Training Officer with the Strike-Fighter Squadron VFA-27 Royal Maces—sent us his new video, which has some truly spectacular shots that I have never seen...
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Cool video shows fighter jet takeoff from a completely new perspective
Here's awesome footage from underneath a MiG-29 showing the fighter jet taking off from an aircraft carrier. The view is insane, you see the jets fire up and watch the world turn blurry as the MiG...
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Watch a B-2 bomber refuel and then make its fuel receptacle disappear
Damn, that thing really is stealth. This video shows how the B-2 stealth bomber refuels and rotates its fuel receptacle so that it can maintain its stealth. You see the receptacle in clear view when...
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Google Now Tells You If Your Flight Will Have WI-Fi
Snagging in-flight Wi-Fi can be somewhat of a lottery. Now, Google will let you find out before you fly if your airplane will provide you with data as you cruise through the skies.Read more...
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Airplanes Look Like Swarming Fireflies In These Mesmerizing Timelapses
We're so used to seeing planes flying overhead, but these timelapse videos track the flight patterns of planes, bringing air traffic to light in trails of busy, beautiful light. They make air travel...
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Solar Impulse Just Took Off in the Dark to Head from Mandalay to China
Early this morning, Solar Impulse took off form Mandalay, headed to toward China—after more than a week spent waiting in Myanmar for weather conditions to improve for flight.Read more...
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Some Of The Strangest Flying Machines Ever Built
It’s been just over a century and change since the first airplane flight. And an amazing amount of innovation has happened to aviation since then. Along with quite a bit of weird experiments, that...
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Here's Why a Single Airplane Seat Can Cost Airlines $300,000
Massagers! Sliding doors! Airbags! THE AMENITIES ALONE! The space race between airlines to design fancier first class and business class seats is well-known. But all that luxury comes at a price to the...
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Cool photo of 12 US Air Force Stratotanker refueling planes in a row
Here are twelve KC-135 Stratotanker refueling airplanes all lined up on the runway like a dozen ducks in a row. It was part of an aerial exercise at the Kadena Air Base in Japan where the Stratotankers...
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This photo of flying F-16s looks so perfect I can't believe it's real
What a perfect picture. The timing is perfect, the angle is perfect, the sky is perfect, the F-16 Fighting Falcons are perfect. I mean, the photo is so perfect that it almost doesn't feel real. Like...
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NASA's Awesomely Elaborate Plan to Deal with Splattered Bug Guts
Bug guts on your windshield are an inevitable part of life and a reminder of your own fleeting mortality. But they’re also a major drag on the aerodynamics of a car or plane—reducing the fuel...
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Boeing's New 737 MAX Is About to Make Flying a Little Less Horrible
Two incremental but important changes—wider seats and redesigned bins—have been announced for Boeing’s new 737 MAX, which will take to the skies in 2017. This isn’t just about passenger comfort,...
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Watching fighter jets burn through the night is pure awesome
I can pretty much watch these fighter jets rip through the runway at night forever. I mean, what is more awesome than seeing city lights blur and afterburners shoot out fiery power? This footage comes...
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Awesome underneath angle of a B-1B Lancer taking off
Here’s a really cool shot of a B-1B Lancer from the US Air Force taking off from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The underneath angle is perfect as it makes the soaring bomber look like a beautiful bird...
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Toyota's Making Airline Seats That Can Adjust to Any Body Type
It’s a really good question: Why can’t airline seats be as comfortable, durable and adjustable as the ones in cars? In a partnership with All Nippon Airways, Toyota has come up with a new seat design...
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China's 'Air Force One' gets escorted by 8 fighter jets in cool video
The background: China’s president Xi Jinping was visiting Pakistan so Pakistan sent eight JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to escort China’s presidential plane when it entered Pakistani air space in a nice...
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FBI and TSA Warn Airlines to Watch Out For Wi-Fi Hacks
Following concerns about the plausibility and dangers of passengers hacking airplane Wi-Fi networks, the FBI and TSA have issued a joint alert warning airlines to be increasingly vigilant about...
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Cool photo of a paratrooper makes it look like he's surfing an airplane
The angle of this photo of a paratrooper making a jump off a C-130 airplane is so perfect that it makes it seem like the soldier is using the Hercules aircraft as a surfboard of sorts. Obviously, he’s...
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