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Watching how airplanes used to aerial refuel is totally incredible
The history of aerial refueling is pure nuts. Back on November 12, 1921, the first airplane to airplane refueling happened and it required a guy, Wesley May, strapping a 5-gallon can of gasoline on his...
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The world's first supersonic private jet just got a lot closer to reality
Meet the Aerion AS2. It’s the first supersonic private jet in the world and it just got a 20-unit order from Flexjet, a private air company. It’s going to change the way some people (rich people!) fly...
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Video: An airplane fuselage gets transformed into a stunning interstellar...
Wow. PlayMID’s Porta Estel·lar is a trully stunning visual light show inside an old airplane fuselage. It mimics the concept of interstellar travel, “from departure and takeoff to the sighting of...
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What happens when an airplane hits a bird
Poor birdie. If you ever wondered what would happen if an airplane and a bird hit each other head on, here it is. It doesn’t end up exactly how you think it would. Well, it kind of does as in the bird...
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Awesome photo of a F-15 being refueled from the air fuel tankers perspective
What a view. Here’s a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling a F-15 in the air from the perspective of the air tanker. Actually, it’s almost like seeing the whole process from the perspective of the boom, as we...
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Airbus Crazy Patent Watch: Detachable Cabins Edition
Airbus’s notable patents from the last few years reads like a list of failed aerospace Kickstarters: standing-room-only aircraft, bicycle saddles instead of real seats , or VR headsets to escape the...
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Awesome time-lapse shows the complete disassembly of a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane
Here is exclusive footage showing how their technicians disassemble an entire U-2 spy plane for inspection. It’s a remarkable feat because every part of the plane gets inspected and repaired or...
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How the gun turrets work on a B-29 bomber
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers were one of the biggest and deadliest aircraft used during World War II. They were the bombers used to drop the atomic bomb and were also used during the...
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Watch the first aerial test of the F-35's gatling gun
Woo, boy. Here’s video showing Lockheed Martin conducting the first aerial test for the F-35’s gatling gun. Called the GAU-22/A, the weapon can pop off 3,300 25mm rounds per minute. The gun fires so...
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This Boeing 747 Is Actually a Perfectly Detailed Giant Toy Model Airplane
This incredible aircraft is modeled after the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet and pretty much mimics it in every way, except it’s at 1/13 scale. Which makes it a very enormous model airplane! Its wingspan is 16...
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Here's the Crazy Wing Bending Airbus Does to Stress Test Its Airplanes
You would never want to look out of your window on a flight and see the airplane wing bend like this but it’s nice to know that Airbus stress tests the hell out of their flying tubes to make sure that...
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Watch a F-16 Take Off and Incredibly Shoot Up 15,000 Feet in the Air in Seconds
Wow, this is beyond incredible. Here’s footage of an F-16 launching itself 15,000 into the air in less than 45 seconds. It’s basically a vertical straight shot and you get to see how high—the fighter...
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Here's the Totally Awesome Way an Airplane Gets Painted
It takes a whole team of painters, an orchestra of machines and paint spray, what seems like miles of tape and paper, and oh so much work (not to mention the planning process) in order to paint an...
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Guy Turns a Busted Heater Into a Cheap RC Plane
When their electric heater breaks, most people would just toss it in the trash. But Samm Sheperd instead saw potential in his busted heater, so he salvaged its internal impeller and used it to build a...
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US Pilots Forget How to Fly Manually, Says Department of Transportation
Don’t read this if you’re about to board an airplane. A new report by the Department of Transportation warns that US pilot training no longer helps airline pilots maintain the ability to fly commercial...
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Fantastic Photo of a F-16 Flying Perfectly Straight Up in the Air
This here is one helluva shot. The F-16 looks suspended in space and time, perfectly perpendicular to the ground and the horizon while shooting straight up to all that is holy. The vertical pose...
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Autonomous Drones Can Land on Moving Cars Now
Self-driving cars might be all the rage these days, but what about the poor computer-piloted drones? Well, while no-one’s been looking, they’ve been perfecting the aerial version of the patented...
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How Drones Could Become an Airline's Best Friend
Usually when you hear “drone” and “airplane” in the same sentence, what comes next is a moralistic tale about how irresponsible drone pilots pose serious threats to airlines. That’s why it’s kind of...
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All the Bomber Aircraft That Could Carry Nuclear Weapons
Only 5 countries have been able to create strategic bomber aircraft with the capability of carrying nuclear weapons. That would be the US, Russia, the UK, France, and China. We’ve put together this...
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Airplane Makes Safe Landing Despite Having Huge Hole Blown in Fuselage
A passenger jet has safely made an emergency landing at Mogadishu’s international airport after an explosion pierced a large hole in its fuselage.Read more...
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