Future airplane flocks would require a trained corps of pilots who intimately know their aircraft and their partners' flying habits. Drone flocks would be a different task, however. Drones are not as smart as pilots, and cannot tell what other aircraft will do. But the military would like to
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Of all the aviation tech emerging from the Farnborough International Airshow, Airbus' futurist visions are among the coolest.
The aviation firm unveiled its
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Virgin Galactic just released some nice video of its latest SpaceShipTwo (aka VSS Enterprise) test flight, the first with the spacecraft's two-pilot flight crew aboard.
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Having had limited success catching America's enemies by "smoking them out of their holes," Lockheed Martin and the DoD are turning to an airborne sensor-based platform to map the subterranean world and
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Image:Stealth Paint New Israeli nanotech paint purportedly turns any airplane or missile into a stealth aircraft.
Some innovations in flight are huge; for instance, this week we've
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An Army-funded research group at Carnegie Mellon University, working with engineers at Piasecki Aircraft Corporation, has made a huge leap forward -- or perhaps skyward -- for the future of autonomous flight. In mid-June, the team launched
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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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According to an article in the NY Times, preliminary tests on the sample capsule currently
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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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A swarm of buzzing dragonfly bots passes overhead. Suddenly, they make a kamakaze dive toward a nearby tree--but wait a minute, instead of crashing and careening to the ground, they're sticking to the tree. Resting, recharging, waiting for orders. All thanks to Mirko
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Future airplane flocks would require a trained corps of pilots who intimately know their aircraft and their partners' flying habits. Drone flocks would be a different task, however. Drones are not as smart as pilots, and cannot tell what other aircraft will do. But the military would like to
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Charles Darwin's theories of evolution have revolutionized the way mankind understands its origin. Now, engineers suggest that the process of natural selection may have surprising implications for spacecraft
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Moth-like drones could quietly conduct surveillance or creep closer to targets, while recharging or ducking inclement weather
High-rise dwellers and office workers might someday see aerial drones join the usual pigeons and other birds perched outside their windows. Stanford University's
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Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to cause airspace chaos around Europe, with budget airline Ryanair reeling from a string of ash-related incidents.
Two of the company's Belfast-based aircrafts were removed from service after staff found ash in their engines, Irish newspaper Belfast
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Radar is great for tracking objects in the wide-open sky or even at sea, but when you try to take it to street level you run into some obstacles -- literally. Radar requires a good line of sight, and obstructions like buildings or terrain features can render radar useless.
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How a record-breaking pilot made it through the night in a sun-powered plane
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1952, the year the first commercial jet airliner took flight, André Borschberg grew up longing for the skyward frontier and the "freedom of three dimensions."
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After a slew of successful of space telescope repair missions and launches in recent months, NASA is taking it easy these days. To use the newest powerful telescope, scientists will take a ride in a convertible. Sort of. The space agency's new telescope is situated inside
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The University of Queensland will lead a $14 million international consortium to help develop scramjet-based access-to-space systems, flying an autonomous scramjet vehicle at eight times the speed of sound ? Mach 8, or 8600 km/h. In parallel,
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Having had limited success catching America's enemies by "smoking them out of their holes," Lockheed Martin and the DoD are turning to an airborne sensor-based platform to map the subterranean world and
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The US Federal Aviation Administration wants you to fly the robot-friendly skies, but the regulatory overseer has more than a few challenges to overcome before it can extend that invitation in earnest. The FAA
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We don?t know which bit of news is tastier! OK, that was a terrible pun
Malaysian based
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The title pretty much says it all. The video says it even better!
You're not supposed to be operating electronic equipment during take off and landing, but people do anyway. Just check out the amount of take off and landing videos on You Tube. When this video was
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Caught on camera: A SouthWest Airlines Boeing landing at Houston Airport has had a tyre burst on landing and catch alight
Last night a SouthWest Airlines Boeing 737 plane?s tyre blew on landing and then caught fire. The difference with this emergency was that the
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No, Oprah is not turning into Jerry Springer, rather, she?s helping Virgin America celebrate the launch of in-flight internet access
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The Airbus A330 operated by Air France was carrying 228 passengers on a flight from Rio to Paris when it went missing around 0230GMT on Monday
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For around four months this year Qantas will scrap first class on some of its flights without reconfiguring the planes, so some lucky business class travelers will fly in first
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JAL outdoes US Airways in the ?Look what we can suck into our engines without injuring any passengers? game?
Yesterday
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Yet another plane crash, yet another airbus, but this time one survivor. Air travel is still a good idea though
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A Qantas Airbus A330-300 on route from Hong Kong to Perth hit severe turbulence over Malaysia, injuring seven
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Airlines may be losing money quicker than Hollywood stars lose weight, but American Airlines has found a solution? charge $42 million for a ticket - seriously!
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