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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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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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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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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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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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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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Planes Grounded After Hackers Hijack an Airline's Flight Plan System
A cyberattack on Polish airline LOT left ten flights canceled this Sunday, stranding around 1,400 people at Warsaw’s Chopin airport. The attack hit the airline’s ground computer system, which is used...
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Watch the top 10 coolest airplane dogfight scenes in movie history
I’m not sure that CineFix included all the most visually awesome aerial dogfight scenes in their top 10 video for best dogfights of all time, but I do know that it’s always fun as hell to see two...
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Bold profile photo of the F-35 makes it look like a future space fighter
The F-35 Lightning II is a comically expensive fighter jet with a host of problems but one thing you can’t deny: it can sure look badass. Like badass in the being able to see a glimpse of the future...
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Planes Get Struck By Lightning Once a Year on Average
There’s a moment in the Truman Show, when Jim Carrey tries to travel to Fiji (and escape his creep-o TV show island) and this poster pops up at a travel agency. It’s funny because lightning strikes are...
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Incredible video of an air tanker refueling a tanker against a full moon
Without a doubt, this is one of the coolest airplane videos I have ever seen. Thanks to the magic of telephoto lenses, the moon in this infrared clip looks impossibly gigantic. The fact that a KC-10...
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Watch a Boeing 787 Dreamliner takeoff almost perpendicular to the ground
Wow. Watch the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner pull off an amazing aerial display in preparation for the 2015 Air Show. You can see the big bodied jet pretend it’s like a stunt plane and basically do tricks in...
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Seeing this kid fly in a stunt plane with her dad is true joy
It’s good to be young. It’s good to be young when life is simple and fear isn’t something you’ve learned yet and fun can be expressed in its most joyful form. It’s good to be young and have a dad who...
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Two planes crazily fly through a hangar in an epic stunt
Holy. Crap. This is just madness. Watch as British pilots Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones fly through an airplane hangar in two different airplanes while zipping through the air at 185mph. That’s right,...
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Watch a 10-engine drone transform from a helicopter into a plane
NASA’s Greased Lightning GL-10 is a beast of a drone (it has 10 engines!) that’s the closest thing we have to a Transformer in real life. It can flip itself into a helicopter and then fly like an...
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Seeing B-2 stealth bombers land is like seeing alien UFOs come to Earth
I forget how impressively thin and futuristic looking a B-2 stealth bomber is. I mean, just watch these two stealth bombers land at Royal Air Force Fairford in England, it looks like a UFO has just...
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Watch a F-35 fighter jet take off from a ski jump
Here’s the first time an F-35B has taken off from a ski jump. The little boost not only looks cool, like a stunt ramp, but helps the fighter jet take off with a more upward flight path. These type of...
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Even a B52 Looks Serene From This Height
It’s not often that you could use a word like serene to describe a B-52H Stratofortress. But in this image, accompanied by Saab JAS 39 Gripen jets from the Swedish Armed Forces, that’s exactly how it...
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What Are All Those Weird Noises You Hear on an Airplane?
I used to work at Boeing and repaired the computerized part of the machines which put together 747’s. People not familiar with airplanes are scared because they are forced to be quiet and go along with...
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Landing a Lockheed U-2 Isn't for the Faint-Hearted
It’s easy to forget just how shallow some airplanes are. In this image, you’re looking at a U.S. Air Force Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft as it flies above Royal Air Force Fairford in England...
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