For all the government conspiracy militia nuts out there, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there is no such thing as silent, stealth black helicopters. The bad news is that, thanks to Eurocopter's noise-cancelling
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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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DARPA's hypersonic glider, which launched last Thursday, evidently failed at some point during its mach-20 manoeuvres. The vehicle's signal was lost just nine minutes into the mission, according to the Santa
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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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Drones can do just about everything autonomously these days, but most systems still require human assistance to land, refuel and take off again. Now, an aerospace startup, Aerovel, hopes to change that with its hover-capable Flexrotor drone that will come with its own automated docking
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If you've been anywhere near a television or Web enabled device in the last week (and you must have been), you know that a volcanic eruption in Iceland has grounded airline flights across Europe and even halted a few flights into the northeastern-most
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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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Drones powered by solar energy offer the promise of staying in the air for years on end, but DARPA scientists also want an option for the night time. Now the Pentagon agency has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a micro air vehicle that can harvest both sunlight and thermal
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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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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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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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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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Drones can do just about everything autonomously these days, but most systems still require human assistance to land, refuel and take off again. Now, an aerospace startup, Aerovel, hopes to change that with its hover-capable Flexrotor drone that will come with its own automated docking
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According to an article in the NY Times, preliminary tests on the sample capsule currently
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Drones powered by solar energy offer the promise of staying in the air for years on end, but DARPA scientists also want an option for the night time. Now the Pentagon agency has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a micro air vehicle that can harvest both sunlight and thermal
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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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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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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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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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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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Thompson Solutions has come up with an all-new economy class design that could give you more space and will allow airlines to increase their passenger load
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UPDATE: ALL QANTAS A380S HAVE BEEN GROUNDED
Update: Qantas has now grounded it's A380 fleet of three
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At 3pm today the first V Australia flight took off from Sydney Kingsford Smith heading for Los Angeles International
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Trans-Tasman flights could be getting a whole lost easier soon
Canadians can hop in and out of
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V Australia is celebrating its AOC approval with a raft of special airfares
Today V Australia
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?is what one Columbian policeman could have said after he accidentally did just that
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The Flying Kangaroo has been through a lot over the past year, the end result is airfare cuts in an attempt to get Aussies back on its planes
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OK, there's nothing particularly scientific about this, but it has 'popular' written all over it. And we love aviation in the PopSci offices
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V Australia launches and Branson attacks, Qantas fires under qualified maintenance employee and flight QF25 takes off with a bang
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A new online game lets you become the hero that saves the US Airways flight that crashed in the Hudson River in New York City
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