A clean-aviation milestone
Zero-emission flight leapt forward in July, when Swiss pilot André Borschberg flew the solar- and battery-powered Solar Impulse HB-SIA for 26 hours, 9 minutes and 10 seconds, reaching a height of 28,500 feet before gliding back down
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Who says America isn't a manufacturing economy anymore? The country has already dedicated her first commercial spaceport,
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DARPA's Transformer - sometimes referred to as the flying Humvee - seems to be moving right along, even if only on paper at this point. The DoD's out-there tech incubator has awarded Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute $988,000 to develop an autonomous
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Anyone following the news out of America's Af/Pak engagement knows that drones are being used increasingly - some say alarmingly so - to ferret out and eliminate militants along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. But if drones can track militants hiding in the Pakistani
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An Airbus A380, the massive double-decker 525-seater airplane, suffered what's being referred to as an "engine disintegration" during a flight, showering a western Indonesian island
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NASA is looking for a way to get into space without having to use those pesky, bulky rockets. That means hypersonic
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Batdrones, swarming UAVs, and better radar are in our future
Bat Con 2010 could have been a decidedly depressing science meeting, with days full of papers discussing bat deaths from white-nose
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Last week we celebrated the dedication of Spaceport America, New Mexico's dedicated private spaceflight hub that hopes to
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Building a satellite and launching it into space was once a multi-million dollar proposition. But even though miniaturization and easy-to-adapt technology formats like the CubeSat
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Pirate Parties International, the central group that unites all of the disparate political Pirate Parties in other countries, recently had a meeting wherein a particularly bonkers proposal was discussed. The problem: Where can servers that store data frequently seen as unsavory
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Not the Airbus A380! That distinction went to the now defunct McDonnell Douglas company
It?s
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Late next year, you'll be able to buy your own flying car in the United States-- er, "roadable aircraft" -- thanks to a thumbs-up from the Federal Aviation Administration. As long as you have $230,000 and a sport pilot license.
The agency approved the Transition
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The official performance results aren't available yet, but General Atomics confirmed this afternoon that it's next-gen aircraft carrier launch system successfully launched an F/A-18E Super Hornet on Saturday, not with steam but with its new
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True to its aeronautic roots, NASA is evaluating a new generation of supersonic airplane designs to see whether they can reduce sonic-boom levels.
Boeing
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The closer we get to the year 2015, the louder people lament that our world hardly resembles the one depicted in Back to the Future II. Although it will be awhile before any of us coast around in a flying Delorean, we've piped down our complaints, as a young
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There's no question that the future of warfare, espionage, and clandestine operations is moving rapidly toward reliance on drone aircraft. But should citizens grow restless when this technology moves into the private sector? A German drone maker claims Google is
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In the near future, wounds may be treated with a flash of light. A process called photochemical tissue bonding can replace conventional stitches, staples and glues in repairing skin wounds and even reconnecting nerves and blood vessels.
Researchers
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Airships of the future are getting a little closer to reality. A new time-lapse video shows the world's largest airship being inflated in an Alabama cattle barn, and the ship's manufacturer says it will be ready for test flights soon.
It took six hours
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The Israelis are developing a hovering, rapidly deployable eye in the sky that smartly skirts the usual problems associated with hovering aircraft. Israel Aerospace Industries has worked up two functioning prototypes of a hovering
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The world's first volunteer-built, not-for-profit passenger rocket funded purely by donations and sponsorships is preparing for launch next week, ticking off a milestone in human spaceflight history. The Danish
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To perfect the vertical and short takeoff and landing ability of the F-35 Lightning II, test pilots have been taking off and landing at progressively shorter distances and slower speeds, building up to the final, true vertical boost. And today, engine manufacturers Pratt
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For all the government conspiracy militia nuts out there, I've got some good news and
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Every now and then, we like to gather three things that have gone bigger, better and faster this
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Phileas Fogg may have hopped aboard hot air balloons, trains, and elephants in his race around
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What's cooler than a hover-capable, electric-powered, super-quiet personal
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For everyone looking to go to Tosche station to pick up some power converters, your ride
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Flying alongside drones might seem a bit strange for U.S. Army chopper pilots, but it has major
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For the FAA, it's not the flying that keeps regular joes
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Considering the massive carbon emissions that come from burning jet fuel, air travel is in serious
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It turns out the Air Force's
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