A year behind schedule, a team of French engineering students is finally preparing to send Nephelios, the solar-powered manned airship they've developed, on its maiden voyage across the English channel.
The ambitious project had aimed to accomplish
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In a sign that US President Obama's vision for a private space industry might be gaining some legs, Iridium Communications has penned a nearly $500 million
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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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Two rotors are better than one, and if our recent excitement over UPenn's quadcopter is any indication, four rotors is better than two. Sometimes. Researchers at the ETH Zurich recognize that different tasks call for different aircraft, and with that in mind they've designed
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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 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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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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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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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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New York City may be on the cutting edge of cuisine and fashion, but in nerdier pursuits like cartography, NYC has unfortunately fallen behind -- like, 30 years behind. But a twin-engine airplane fitted with LIDAR scanners has lately been gathering data that will close
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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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Drug runners and pirates beware: a US Navy helicopter drone made its first official drug bust on April 3. The US Navy Fire Scout stealthily tailed a "go-fast" boat suspected of carrying narcotics for three hours, and captured video of the boat's refuelling rendezvous with a fishing vessel.
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For all the government conspiracy militia nuts out there, I've got some good news and
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An autopilot system modeled after honeybee flight is faster and more accurate than gyroscope-based programs, according to a new study. By imitating how honeybees sense their surroundings,
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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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Two rotors are better than one, and if our recent excitement over UPenn's quadcopter is any indication, four rotors is better than two. Sometimes. Researchers at the ETH Zurich recognize that different tasks call for different aircraft, and with that in mind they've designed
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A year behind schedule, a team of French engineering students is finally preparing to send Nephelios, the solar-powered manned airship they've developed, on its maiden voyage across the English channel.
The ambitious project had aimed to accomplish
Read more...
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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Some take religious journeys to sacred places, others gather at the home fields of beloved
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The challenge is packing the power of a chemical laser into an electric laser's smaller, more portable package Skyborne chemical lasers have successfully shown off their potential killing power, and so the Air Force has now turned toward putting a more compact electric laser aboard its
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Cheap airfares and plenty of flights means it?s just the right time. Here's the ultimate list of how much it will cost you and where you can go
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The carrier with the largest number of A380 orders made the surprise announcement yesterday
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In 1990 Qantas had to repaint some of its fleet with different branding under the carrier name of Australia Asia Airlines. PopSci got to the bottom of why
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Sadly this is a true story. A true story of extreme stupidity
One of the Philippines?
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Not affluent enough to afford a $10,000 plus business ticket for your next long-haul flight but don?t want to be stuck in cattle class? There is another option!
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Everyone is talking about the A380 today. Find out why here
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The aviation industry is suffering during this economic climate and Qantas has been hit hard
For
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It?s all happening in the skies at the moment with airlines being awarded, new flights heading in and out of the country as well as new carriers coming in
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The Skytrax Airline of the Year Award winners have just been announced and Singapore Airlines has been toppled from the number one spot
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Budget airlines Tiger Airways has announced it will begin flying Australia?s busiest route, Sydney to Melbourne
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