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+22 +6Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation's hope or hype?
A pilot project at Rotterdam airport plans to capture CO2 from the air and turn it into jet fuel.
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+10 +2UPS Now Runs the First Official Drone Airline
The FAA has granted a Part 135 certification for the logistics giant's drone business, propelling the little fliers closer to a commercial future.
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+4 +1X-29: NASA's ambitious 1980s fighter jet with inverted wings
The X-29, an experimental plane flown by NASA in the 1980s, sports one of the most unusual designs in the history of aviation.
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+14 +3Boeing to pay bereaved 737 families $144,500 each
The financial assistance fund Boeing set up after the crashes has started accepting claims.
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+20 +4‘Worse Than Anyone Expected’: Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
The findings put pressure on airline regulators to take stronger action to fight climate change as they prepare for a summit next week.
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+19 +3The Silent Arrow is a massive glider delivery drone
It can carry up to 1,631 pounds of supplies to the battlefield.
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+26 +3Volocopter raises $55M led by Volvo owner Geely, sets 3-year timeline for its flying taxi service
The promise of flying cars has become an idea more synonymous with the tech world’s shortcomings than its exciting potential, but today one of the startups that has been focused on actually trying to make small, airborne vehicles a reality is announcing a fundraise and says it’s on track for a commercial launch in two to three years.
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+15 +4Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?
Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay off
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+12 +2What it's like to eject out of a military jet
When things go terribly wrong in a military aircraft, the pilot’s last resort is the equipment they're sitting on: the ejection seat. And it cannot fail, ever.
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+3 +1Airlines are waiving pet-in-cabin and baggage fees for Hurricane Dorian evacuees
As Hurricane Dorian continued to churn through the Caribbean on Friday afternoon, several airlines took steps to help Florida residents choosing to evacuate before the storm makes landfall in the mainland US. Residents along the entire Florida coast prepared for what was forecasted to be a "major" Category 4 hurricane when the storm makes landfall late Monday into early Tuesday.
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+23 +4Volocopter reveals its first commercial aircraft, the VoloCity air taxi
It’s a race to the skies in terms of which company actually deploys an on-demand air taxi service based around electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. For its part, German startup Volocopter is taking another key step with the revelation of its first aircraft designed for actual commercial use, the VoloCity. The VoloCity is the fourth-generation eVTOL vehicle that Volocopter has created, but the first three were created for testing and demonstration purposes, and have flown more than 1,000 times in service of that goal.
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+34 +4This plane can fly 500 miles, powered entirely by hydrogen
It’s the largest zero-emissions plane to ever fly without any fossil fuels.
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+9 +2Electric air taxis powered by hydrogen promise greater range for intercity commutes
Your daily commute may be about to take to the skies. More than 100 electric air taxi designs are already in the works for short hops in cities, including the Airbus Vahana, the German Volocopter, and Uber’s Elevate project. But now, a new design aims to rise above the others with its use of hydrogen fuel cells instead of batteries to power longer flights that can carry more weight.
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+25 +2WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all
Fears of cyber-hijackings? That's plane crazy, says Dreamliner maker
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+29 +2Romanian Engineers Have Created a Fully Functional Flying Saucer
The "All-Directional Flying Object" is a proof of concept that's the result of more than two decades of engineering work.
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+6 +1The Wild Story Behind the Military Plane Inside Vagabond Brewing
The Salem-based brewery expanded to Portland in February—and promptly got an annoyed visit from the US Air Force.
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+39 +6Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours
Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency
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+18 +4Airbus’ new bird-plane hybrid is both fascinating and unsettling
The Bird of Prey concept plane relies on the theory of biomimicry
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+34 +7The helicopter team that films the Tour de France is one of a kind
When filming this race, 500 feet is considered high altitude.
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+8 +2MH370 pilot was in control 'until the end': French investigators
"Certain abnormal turns made by the 777 can only have been carried out manually. Someone was in control," they said.
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