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Future Spy Planes Could Get a Lift from Ionic Thrusters
While hybrid planes like the the 787 Dreamliner and SUGAR concept are far more fuel efficient than conventional airliners, they do still rely on a non-renewable and increasingly limited supply of jet...
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This Supersonic Jet Has Trained 50,000 of America's Best Pilots
The US Air Force's armada are among the most advanced aircraft on the planet. As such, the USAF isn't going to let just any schmuck fresh out of basic training take to the skies in an F-35. Instead...
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Algorithm Improves Airline Arrival Predictions, Erodes Favorite Work Excuse
When you're flying anywhere you can pretty much turn the whole day into a black hole. The airport/in-flight wifi wasn't working. We sat at the gate for an hour. We were in a holding pattern. It's...
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You Can Make Insane Weapons Out of Airport Duty-Free Items
It's widely acknowledged that the purpose of airport security isn't to protect passengers from harm—it's to try and stop major in-flight attacks which take down the plane. That doesn't stop airports...
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Texting has been linked to its first fatal plane crash. Tomorrow the NTSB meets to decide if the distraction caused it. More »
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Invisible Lightning Strikes Could Be Bombarding Planes With Radiation
Lightning is a terrifying yet majestic force of nature, especially when you see it from an airplane. But scientists have recently discovered that lightning can sometimes be invisible—and it could be...
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The Navy's Next Gen Fighter Jets Will Heal Themselves
The F-35 Lightning and F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighters are among the most technologically advanced aircraft in history but the fact that they're barely out of testing (more than can be said...
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How a Single Android Phone Can Hack an Entire Plane
If airlines were already keen to keep your phone switched off, things could soon get even more militant. According to a talk by Hugo Teso at the Hack In The Box security conference, it's possible to...
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The Most Popular Seats on an Airplane Are At the Very Back
Where do you like sitting on an airplane? At the very front or the very back? At a window or an aisle? According to research by British Airways, the most popular seats on a Boeing 747 are 51B/51C,...
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The Most Badass Plane Ever Had An Equally Awesome Flight Suit
At the height of the Cold War, if you wanted a peek behind the Iron Curtain, it had to be a birds's eye view from 63,000 feet—above the reach of Soviet SAM batteries. And to fly that high, America's...
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FAA: No, You Can't Take Down a Plane With an Android App
Remember how the internet got itself all riled up a few days ago when it found out that it would only take one rogue Android user to hack and take over an entire plane? Yeah, about that—it's not true....
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Over 700 American Airlines Flights Cancelled After a Computer System Fails...
All American Airlines flights have been grounded following a system-wide computer outage across the United States. The outage reportedly affects the airline's ability to connect to its reservation...
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Watch an Airplane Turn Fog Into Beautifully Spinning Cloud Spirals
We've seen planes create a fiery vortex in the sky before, but here's a more peaceful version of it happening in real time. It's majestically beautiful. The wingtip vortices formed when an Airbus A340...
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TSA Delays Its New Knives-on-Planes Policy
Last month, the TSA announced that it was going to allow travellers to carry knives on planes once more, and the new rule was supposed to come into action this Thursday. Now, though, the TSA has...
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A 9/11 Plane Part Has Been Found in New York City
The NYPD is saying that a 5-foot long airplane part of a 9/11 plane has been found in an alley near the World Trade Center. The landing gear part, which came from one of the airplanes that crashed...
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The Trillion Dollar F-35 Is Grounded Yet Again
In what is becoming almost as consistent as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the F-35—America's trillion dollar joke of a fighter jet—has been grounded again. I don't even know how...
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A Crazy Aussie Wants to Fly From Sydney to London in a Plastic-Powered Plane
Come summer, one of the best targets for some good old-fashioned British whinging is always air travel - the discomfort, the long queues, the freakishly cheery staff. But I promise you, no matter how...
View ArticleSend Some Dangerous Airmail With These Weaponized Paper Planes
We've all done our fair share of chucking paper airplanes at friends. And maybe, if you're a real engineer, you've made some clever, paper-folding modifications that let your plane do a loop—or better...
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What Happens When a Drone Hits a Plane?
There's still a mysterious black drone in Brooklyn, and the FBI can't find it. Last week it appeared just 200 feet away from a passenger jet—that's too close. What if it'd hit it? Bad things. Bad,...
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If a Jet Engine Can Survive GE's Winnipeg Wind Tunnel, It Can Survive Anything
Even though today's largest airplane engines are capable of producing more than 100,000 pounds of thrust, they are still susceptible to ice build-up in the sub-zero temperatures at cruising altitude....
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