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NASA Developed an X-Plane that Can Go Supersonic Without a Boom
NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Transport an experimental X-plane the organization has been developing with Lockheed Martin to decrease the strength of sonic booms — has passed an initial design review. It flew successfully in an 2.5-meter by 2-meter (eight-foot by six-foot) supersonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
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Why the 747 Is Such a Badass Plane
"The plane that's a ship. The ship that's a plane."
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Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production
The world’s largest passenger aircraft may no longer be manufactured if its only major customer, Emirates, does not order any more.
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Top Ten Asymmetric Aircraft
Despite in many cases possessing design advantages, very few profoundly asymmetric aircraft have been constructed. There is no obvious reason for this but it may just be that they are not trusted. By Joe Coles.
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Evidence of advanced UFOs 'beyond reasonable doubt', says former Pentagon chief
The existence of unidentified flying objects using technology more advanced than human capabilities has been proved “beyond reasonable doubt”, the former head of a secret US government programme has said. Luis Elizondo, who quit as head of the Advanced Threat Identification Programme (AATIP) two months ago, warned nations now “had to be conscious” of the potential threat posed by UFOs.
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Confessions Of A C-2 Greyhound Carrier Onboard Delivery Pilot
A C-2 pilot describes how the workhorse Greyhound we know today was a very finicky and neglected aircraft years ago. By James Wallace, Tyler Rogoway.
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Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757
A Department of Homeland Security official admitted that a team of experts remotely hacked a Boeing 757 parked at an airport.
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The Soviet Union’s flawed rival to Concorde
The world’s first supersonic airliner was not the Anglo-French Concorde but a Soviet design intended to show the world the superiority of the USSR. Stephen Dowling reports.
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108 U.S F-35s Won’t Be Combat-Capable
Not that any of the other 800 built before testing and design is complete will be, either. By Dan Grazier.
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What American's New Tightest Ever Coach Seats Are Really Like - View from the Wing
American Airlines is introducing 30 inch pitch coach seating — that’s the distance from seat back to seat back — on their new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, and they’ll be retrofitting their existing 737s to match so they can squeeze more seats onto the aircraft. They argue the seats will give passengers as much personal space as they have today, even though seats are closer together. And they displayed the seats publicly for the first time today.
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Why electric airplanes within 10 years are more than a fantasy
The fundamental problem is a matter of physics: the energy density of jet fuel is way, way higher than the energy density of batteries.
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DeLorean Aerospace Company is building a flying car that doesn't need roads
Of course you remember the DeLorean car from Back to the Future. At the end of the 1985 movie, it didn’t just speed off into the distance—it flew away after Doc Brown’s infamous line, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” If Paul DeLorean has his way, Back to the Future won’t be science fiction. It will be a documentary.
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NGOD
Soon the Roskilde Airshow 2017 will be held. This is a photo from the 2015 event.
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What It Really Costs to Fly Private
It's cheaper than ever, but not necessarily cheap.
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Exclusive: SFO near miss might have triggered ‘greatest aviation disaster in history’
An Air Canada pilot mistakenly started to land on a SFO taxiway, where four fully-loaded planes were waiting to take off, rather than the runway.
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The 21 Unwritten Rules of Flying You're Probably Breaking
Which ones are you guilty of?
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What went wrong with the F-35, Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter?
The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none. By Michael P. Hughes.
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Here's What Those White Spirals Inside Airplane Engines Are For
If you’ve ever traveled on a commercial airplane, there’s a likely chance you’ve noticed those little white swirls in the center of those engines on the wings. It may seem straightforward: to keep people on the ground advised when the turbofan is spinning, right? But that doesn’t explain everything.
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Two Missing WWII B-25 Bombers Found in the Pacific Ocean
Using a sonar-equipped underwater robot, a team of scientists has discovered the debris of a missing World War II-era B-25 bomber plane off the coast of Papua New Guinea. By Knvul Sheikh.
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Virgin Galactic’s new SpaceShipTwo space plane flexes its wings in flight for first time
Virgin Galactic had VSS Unity, its upgraded SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, bend its wings into a “feathered” position for the first time in the air. By Alan Boyle.
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