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Man proves he can still fly a plane after 100 years
Percy Skinner wanted to celebrate a milestone birthday in a unique way.
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Solar Impulse: Zero-fuel plane leaves Seville for Cairo
Solar Impulse is now in the home straight of its bid to circumnavigate the globe.
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EgyptAir Flight 804: Seats, suitcases and remains found
Some seats and aircraft parts. Personal belongings, including suitcases. And what's described as body parts. That's what EgyptAir and Greek officials say searchers have found so far in the effort to locate EgyptAir Flight 804, which is believed to have crashed early Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea while flying from Paris to Cairo. Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos relayed the Egyptian discovery of the body part, seats and suitcases at a news conference Friday...
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Lilium: The world's first electric vertical take-off and landing jet
Private jet flying could change forever as the world's first electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft is about to hit the market. The egg-shaped plane, called Lilium, has been heralded as high up as the European Space Agency (ESA), who highlight its environmental benefits as well as not needing to land at an airport. The plane takes off and lands vertically, meaning it can use helipads. The aircraft, designed in Germany, has a top speed of 250mph and a range of 300 miles.
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'Uh Oh. Seen the Wright Brothers’ Patent Lately?'
Demonstrating one of the problems with paper documentation, the Wright Brothers patent on the airplane was recently rediscovered--after 36 years.
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A Man Switched A Helicopter Engine Off Mid-Flight To Prove A Point
If a plane’s engine fails, you’d think (or like to think) its aerodynamic properties could glide you down to safety. Helicopters, on the other hand, are pretty clunky-looking things. So if you turned off the engine mid-flight, you’d probably expect the results to be pretty messy.
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After a Long Delay, Solar Impulse 2 Is Ready to Finish Its Round-the-World Flight
Solar Impulse 2 ,the solar-powered airplane sidelined last year midway through a pioneering trip around the world, is finally taking flight again. Sometime next week, Bertrand Piccard will climb into the single seat, featherweight aircraft and take off from Oahu’s Kalaeloa Airport, bound for North America. Piccard and his fellow Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg have been grounded since July, when their most impressive flight—a five-day...
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Airbus Loses Order for 840-Seat ‘Flying Sardine Can’ Superjumbos
Aimed to fit the planes with the highest-capacity seating layout in the history of civil aviation. Good riddance.
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Qantas 737 vs Tesla Model S P90D 737
Want!
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Crazy Airplane Flies In and Out and Through a Wind Farm
You know those basketball or soccer dribbling drills where you snake through a line of cones, dribbling in and out one way on a cone and then slithering through the opposite side of the next cone....it's like that.
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Ace pilots belly land passenger jet in Kazakhstan, all 116 passengers safe (VIDEOS)
Kazakh pilots safely landed a passenger plane without the use of its front wheels after a malfunction in the aircraft’s front landing gear on Sunday. Video of the miraculous landing immediately emerged online. The incident took place when the Fokker 100 aircraft operated by Kazakh airline ‘Bek Air’, which had departed from Kyzylorda, was landing at Astana International Airport on Sunday morning.
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Watching These Airplanes Try to Land in Crazy Winds Is the Scariest Thing
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Why flying is awful, explained using your sad, lonely apartment
What if your apartment were as tightly packed as the typical airplane?
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16 Most Annoying Plane Passengers You Never Want To Get Stuck Sitting Next To
The moment you board a plane the panic begins to set in… which of these people are going to be assigned the seats surrounding you? You want someone quiet, and courteous that doesn't smell bad or intrude on your personal space. But like most of us learned early in life, you don't always get what you ...
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Two Pilots Say They Can Find MH370. All They Need Is $5 Million
Two years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. What then grew into humanity’s largest, most expensive search operation has also been among its most frustrating and beguiling. Investigators have found only one real bit of evidence, a wing flap that washed up on the shores of Réunion, near Madagascar. It was pretty useless. Because it spent nearly 500 days bobbing...
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80th Anniversary of the Iconic Spitfire
Celebrations mark 80th anniversary of the iconic Spitfire planes.
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Kelly’s Heroes: Lockheed’s five finest airplanes
Featuring Its top hits: the Blackbird, U-2, F-104, P-80, and P-38.
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Possible MH370 Debris Found
Officials say that debris found on the coast of Mozambique likely belongs to missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
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The first Boeing 727 ever made will soon take its last flight
More than 50 years after its maiden voyage, the very first Boeing 727 will take its very last flight on Tuesday, March 1, weather permitting. The 727 will fly from Paine Field to Boeing Field International, both in Washington state. From there, the plane will go on permanent display at the adjacent Museum of Flight, where it will help kick off Boeing's centennial celebration at the museum.
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Fistfight between two female flight attendants forces pilot to make emergency landing
A Delta flight that departed from Los Angeles and was bound for Minneapolis had to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City after a fight broke out between two flight attendants.
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