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Is the seat-back movie about to die out?
Airlines feel the pressure to keep us constantly entertained while we’re up in the air. Is wi-fi about to change how we keep entertained above the clouds?
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Phinal Phlight!
Traditionally, on leaving overhaul at Saint Athan, aircraft would do a fly-by for the benefit of the groundcrew who had worked on it. The pilot of this particular Phantom FG1, a retiring Wing Commander, was chatting to a member of the ground crew the day before the departure flight. He said he was going to fly between the hangars and that the guy should be ready with a camera to record the event.
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Supersonic Airplanes and the Age of Irrational Technology
Was the Concorde a triumph of modern engineering, a metaphor for misplaced 20th-century values, or both? By Dara Bramson.
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The Last of the Vulcans Retires After 55 Years of Service
On the 1st of July, 1960 Avro pilot Tony Blackman climbed into the cockpit of a Hawker Siddeley Vulcan delta wing strategic bomber in order to deliver her from the aircraft manufacturer (A.V. Roe and Company, Avro) for Royal Air Force service. The British four-jet aircraft dressed in antiflash white–military serial XH558–was the 59th of the 136 Avro Vulcan medium range heavy bombers ever built. And this summer XH558, The Spirit of Great Britain, the last of her type is going to bid farewell to the skies.
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1,776 times American aircraft did something completely badass
Okay, actually, it's only five times — I couldn't resist the "1776" symbolism in the headline. Forgive me. What you're about to see below are five situations where American aircraft, built from...
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Fresh off the lot!
How many can you count?
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27 Things You Didn't Know About The SR-71 Blackbird
You could start the SR-71's engines with a couple of Buicks.
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Is This the Most Nightmarish Idea For Plane Seating Ever?
This airline seating arrangement could be a nice alternative to the middle seat or a new form of hell.
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Here's an Even Worse Way to Seat People in Coach
Hey, in the near future you can get face to face (and elbow to elbow) seating.
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RIAT 2015 Spectacular Take-offs!
Some highlights from the Royal International Air Tattoo, 2015
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Low Fly Mach Loop
Some Low flying in the LFA7 traing area in Wales near Dolgellau, First some F15 Eagles from RAF Lakenheath then a pair of GR4 Tornado's then slowed it down with a C-130 Hercules from RAF Brize Norton
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Flying the Typhoon Through the Mach Loop at Low Level
Filmed from the backseat of an RAF Typhoon flown by 2013 display pilot Jamie Norris on an ultra-low level sortie through the Mach Loop and the Lake District.
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Flying Aboard Goodyear's Anti-Gravity Machine
CNN got a rare chance to fly aboard Goodyear's new Zeppelin airship and found it a lot more sophisticated than its predecessor.
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Bugatti’s Futuristic Air Racer Set For First Flight
In the ’30s, Ettore Bugatti redirected a large slice of his empire’s engineering might towards the design of a ground-breaking air racer. Several years ago, the massive undertaking of building a full-scale replica of the Model 100 started in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is now nearing completion with its maiden flight planned for this year. By Alan Franklin.
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RIAT 2015 MiG-29 Polish Air Force
RIAT 2015 MiG-29 Polish Air Force
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What Is Dutch Roll, And How Do You Prevent It?
Sometimes it's performed intentionally as an aerobatic maneuver - and other times it happens accidentally and makes everyone feel like an out of control aerobatic passenger.
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Pilot Matt Hall Skims Water During Red Bull Air Race Qualifying Session Windsor 2010
Australia's Matt Hall had a scare during the first Qualifying session at the Red Bull Air Race in Windsor on Saturday when his plane touched the surface of the Detroit River but the former RAAF pilot quickly recovered and returned safely to Race Airport.
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Watch this white-knuckle jumbo jet landing in tenacious Amsterdam wind storm
The Boeing 777 landed in Amsterdam on Saturday during the Netherlands' worst July storm on record.
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Air passenger suing for a back injury 'caused by sitting next to obese man'
A man is suing an airline after claiming that he has suffered back pain since he was sat next to an obese man on a flight
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Bin Laden family jet crashes after botched landing in London
Osama Bin Laden's stepmother and sister are thought to be among four people killed after a private jet owned by the family crashed into a fireball after overshooting a runway while trying to land outside London. The £7million Embraer Phenom 300 was owned by Salem Aviation in Jeddah, which is controlled by the dead terrorist’s family. The Brazilian-built aircraft exploded after ploughing into a carpark killing the pilot and three passengers.
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