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How the helicopters of the future are shaping up
The Pentagon is looking ahead several decades toward future fleets of rotorcraft - and working now to lay the plans for getting there.
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Which airline is most fuel efficient?
The airline industry uses about 4.5 million barrels of oil per day, or 10 percent of the oil that goes towards transportation. But there's a sizeable difference between the carbon footprints of various airlines: According to recent research from the International Council on Clean Transportation, America's most fuel-efficient major airline, Alaska Airlines, is 26 percent more fuel efficient than Allegiant, the least fuel-efficient.
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The Hunt for Houdini’s Airplane
Amateur detectives have found clues to the fate of the magician’s biplane.
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Watch a retired F-16 fighter return as a target practice drone
When old fighter jets are retired from service, they're not necessarily mothballed — sometimes, they're turned into unmanned planes for test pilots to shoot down. And that's precisely what's happened with this F-16 retrofitted by Boeing, which was recently tested at Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base.
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Neil Armstrong's Most Courageous Moments As A Pilot
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, died one year ago on Aug. 25, 2012, at the age of 82. The pioneering American is remembered as a humble hero; he's often described as a private man who was never comfortable in the public spotlight. When it came to tempting fate, however, Armstrong never shied away.
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How hard is it to land a plane?
A passenger managed to land a plane after its pilot fell ill. How difficult is it to bring an aircraft safely down without training?
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Air Force aims to land more top guns amid pilot shortage
Help wanted: At least 130 veteran military aviators for nine-year commitment to fly fighter jets. Salary: $34,500 to $97,400. Plus good benefits and a $225,000 signing bonus — guaranteed. Contact: U.S. Air Force by Sept. 30.
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Q&A With a Pilot: Just How Does Autopilot Work?
Pilot Patrick Smith explains why human pilots are still in control of airplanes, even when they turn on autopilot.
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Insanely Low Plane Flyby
A biplane pilot traveling around 200mph barely misses a quad bike rider and the woman holding this camera on a runway. That has to be the closest flybys you'll ever see!
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Pilot Decompression Sickness: High-Altitude Pilots Prone to 'Brain Lesions' Triggered by Decompression Sickness
A new study suggests that pilots of the high-altitude U.S Air Force U-2 planes are prone to developing brain lesions triggered by decompression sickness. The researchers also confirmed that divers and mountain climbers are not excluded on the casualties of the effects of decompression in the brain.
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Pilots' View Of California's Rim Fire
California Air National Guard crews battling the huge blaze have taken some amazing videos as they pass over the flames and smoke.
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World's most dramatic runways
Arriving at an air terminal is rarely a memorable event. All the more reason to book a flight touching down at one of these hairy or awesome air strips.
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15 Vintage Black and White Photographs of Airships
Since its inception in the 1850s, we have always been fascinated with lighter-than-air flight or balloons with steering and propulsion capabilities. Like many early flight and other aeronautical experiments, however, the trial-and-error period was hazardous and lasted awhile.
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A Timelapse of the Final Ride Space Shuttle Endeavour
The video begins with the stacking of the shuttle atop the 747 transporter at the Kennedy Space Station in Florida and the later unstacking at Los Angeles Airport, then follows the earthbound orbiter on the slow crawl along the avenues, side streets and residential roads of L.A. The 6-and-a-half minutes of footage are just a tiny fragment of what was supposed to be a 36-hr. trip and turned out to take four days — and from the look of the video, it’s a wonder it didn’t take much longer.
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Confirmed: N. Korea repainted civilian jets for military parade
Photographs of two Air Koryo cargo planes landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport have confirmed that North Korea repainted civilian jets with temporary camouflage coloring for a high-profile “Victory Day” celebration in July.
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The longest flight in the world
Amazing advances in technology now let nonstop flights fly farther and cheaper for airlines than ever before. Many follow routes that take them near the North Pole as they whip over the top of the globe to the other side of the world
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Concorde and supersonic travel: The days when the sun rose in the west
It's been 10 years since Concorde's last passenger flight. There was nothing quite like flying supersonic, says Simon Calder, but it's an experience he's unlikely to be able to repeat soon
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World View balloon, capsule to offer luxury ride to the edge of space
There’s a new player in the bustling world of “commercial space,” although the “space” part in this case is a matter of definition. A Tucson-based start-up plans to use a helium balloon to lift big-ticket customers in a pressurized capsule to nearly 100,000 feet. That’s a journey to the edge of space, if not into space as traditionally defined.
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New video shows Iranian suicide combat UAV drone. Patched together with duct tape.
Towards the end of September, the Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced that Tehran managed to develop and produce a new type drone, dubbed Ra’ad 85 (Thunder 85). But, unlike all the other Iranian UAVs, Ra’ad 85 is a suicide remotely piloted vehicle capable of destroying both fixed and mobile targets.
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Feeling squeezed in coach class? It's not just you. Plane seats are shrinking
Airlines' push to lure high-paying fliers with flatbed business seats is leaving economy-class passengers with less space. American Airlines, United and Air France are cutting space by wedging an extra seat into each coach row.
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