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Bad News for Fliers This Fall
Expect high fares and scarce seats, despite U.S. push for competition. Plus a map of the hardest hit American airports
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Cincinnati's Airport: Best In The U.S.?
What makes the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport the top-ranked in the U.S.? I decided to fly there to find out.
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Virgin Galactic aircraft cruises to supersonic speeds
The commercial spaceline, co-owned by billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group, just pushed its flagship aircraft higher and faster than ever before in a second rocket-powered flight.
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World's largest airliner: Is bigger better?
The A380 Superjumbo, the world's largest airliner, has come to the world's busiest airport in Atlanta. But do fliers really want to travel aboard giant planes?
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How to Make a Paper Airplane Fly Forever
The trick to make a paper airplane fly forever isn't in the quality of the paper or the intricacy of the folding, it's in using an electric stove to keep the paper airplane afloat in constant motion.
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In-Flight Internet Is About to Suck a Lot Less
We can all agree that in-flight internet speeds are about as quick as a carrier pigeon. But a new system from GoGo could deliver up to 60 Mbps to an entire plane -- it's just going to take a while to arrive.
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Up and away! Aviator attempts to cross Atlantic with 370 helium-filled balloons
An aviator has begun a world first attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean, dangling from 370 helium-filled balloons, in a real-life version of the Disney film 'Up'.
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America's First Supersonic Interceptor Was a Flying Bottle Rocket
When the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 bomber made its debut in 1949, it was more than a big deal. This reverse-engineered Boeing B-29 Superfortress gave the Russians intercontinental strategic strike capabilities that the existing US fleet of F-61 Black Widows and F-82 Twin Mustangs simply couldn't compete with. The American response: Build a better interceptor. Enter the F-94 Starfire.
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A Brief History of the Airship
From glorified balloons to military vehicles, we look up at the flighty past of dirigibles.
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Boeing Designed and Built This Slick VTOL Drone In Just 27 Days
DARPA's always working on a bunch of crazy projects, whether it's to find the next insane robot hero, or just Star Wars robot arms. On their long list of wants is an unmanned "X-Plane" that can do vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) like the dope-ass F-35B. Boeing whipped up this slick contest entry in 27 days.
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The Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown
There was once a time when man looked to the skies and expected to see giant balloons rather than airplanes drifting above. The Hindenburg Disaster promptly put an end to those dreams. But nearly a century later, one company may have finally figured out how to build a dirigible suitable for the 21st century. Just don't call it a blimp.
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Helicopter Carrying Colorado Politicians Picks Up Stranded Residents
Gov. John Hickenlooper's aerial survey of the Colorado flood damage turned into an unplanned rescue mission
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Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Drones
Paranoia over drones misses out on the fact that they’re good at plenty besides killing and spying. From agriculture to mail delivery, Pierre Hines lays out the case for drones.
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No flight of fancy, the jetpack is coming—from New Zealand
But Figuring Out What It Is and What To Do With It Is Still Up in the Air
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The Tiny Model Jets At This RC Air Show Are Still Incredibly Thrilling
Putting those cheap RC toys you can find at a department store and even the model kits from a hobby shop to shame, these incredibly detailed scale model fighter jets look almost as intense to fly as the real thing. In fact, racing through the skies they're almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing too.
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I Would Totally Freak Out If I Saw This Man Flying on a Broom
For a second, I was stunned that a flying broom can lift a human into the air. Then I realized how silly I am. And then I secretly wished it were true that people could fly on brooms. Then I swore that some angles of the video looked real.
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U.S. Military Wants a Space Plane
The new program, run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is called Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1. It follows in the footsteps of previous DARPA hypersonic projects, such as the HTV-2 aircraft that reached 20 times the speed of sound in an August 2011 test flight.
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Worst Inflight Movie Ever, A Supercut of Airplane Crashes in Movies
Ever notice how they cut out airplane crashes during inflight movies? Well this supercut is the complete opposite. Don't watch while flying!
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U.S. moves drone fleet from Camp Lemonnier to ease Djiboutiâs safety concerns
The U.S. military has been forced to relocate a large fleet of drones from a key counterterrorism base on the Horn of Africa after a string of crashes fanned local fears that the unmanned aircraft were at risk of colliding with passenger planes, according to documents and interviews.
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Airlines' new fee services include iPads and more room
Airlines are introducing a new bevy of fees, but this time passengers might actually like them. Unlike the first generation of charges which dinged fliers for once-free services like checking a bag, these new fees promise a taste of the good life, or at least a more civil flight.
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