Automated Air Traffic Control System Enables Fewer Pilots, Flying Cars
For the FAA, it's not the flying that keeps regular joes
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Air Force's Next-Gen Bomber Will Be More Spy Plane Than Strike Aircraft
It turns out the Air Force's
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Video: NASA Drops A Helicopter From Midair to Test New Anti-Crash Tech
No stranger to rough landings, NASA just engineered a crash of its own design to
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To Increase Passenger Jet Fuel Efficiency, Airlines Look to Nature's Flying Formations
Your next flight could be in a convoy
It turns out the lumbering Spruce
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Swiss Team Achieves First-Ever Manned Solar Plane Flight
Considering the massive carbon emissions that come from burning jet fuel, air travel is in serious
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The First Proposed Complete Double Decker Airlines Was?
Not the Airbus A380! That distinction went to the now defunct McDonnell Douglas company
It?s
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Krispy Kremes on Air Asia, Qantas Gets Fourth A380
We don?t know which bit of news is tastier! OK, that was a terrible pun
Malaysian based
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jetBlue?s Ridiculously Good Deal
Unlimited travel for US$599. Believe it!
If only jetBlue flew in Australia. Alas, the budget
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V Australia Launches New Routes
Branson?s Aussie baby will become something more than a one-tick-pony before the year is out
There
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Qantas Celebrates 50 Years on Pacific Route
A route that was once dominated by Qantas is now shared by three other airlines, but it didn?t stop Qantas celebrating the feat, in typical GFC style
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F/A-18 fighter jet crashes into residential area in the USA
More like science fiction rather than popular science
An F/A-18 supersonic jet has crashed
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United We (Fail to) Fly
And you thought United Airlines service couldn?t get any worse? (not that we have anything against United)
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NASA's Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
What's cooler than a hover-capable, electric-powered, super-quiet personal
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Using 3-D Printing Tech, British Airbus Engineers Aim to Print Out an Entire Aircraft Wing
Rapid prototyping, or 3-D printing, has been used to create all kinds of amazing objects in a variety of media, but a team working under EADS in the UK wants to print something heretofore unheard of: the entire wing of
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Airbus A380's Engine Disintegrates Over Indonesia, Manages to Land Safely
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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Air Force's Next-Gen Bomber Will Be More Spy Plane Than Strike Aircraft
It turns out the Air Force's
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Landspeeder UAV Completes First Lift Off
For everyone looking to go to Tosche station to pick up some power converters, your ride
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Solar Impulse HB-SIA
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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Sikorsky and Eurocopter Compete To Build Super-High-Speed Choppers
Who will build the fastest experimental helicopter?
The cabin of a helicopter flying faster than 170 knots (196 mph) is a perilous place. Vibrations experienced at such high speeds can quickly exhaust pilots, obscure instrument panels, and knock equipment loose. (Pilots
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Prototype: Luxury Eco-Zeppelins Will Fly Future Passengers Around the World
Phileas Fogg may have hopped aboard hot air balloons, trains, and elephants in his race around
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DARPA Bounces Smart Radar Off Buildings To Track Individual Urban Vehicles From the Sky
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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Air Force Calls for Airborne Electric Lasers That Can Target Land and Air
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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Power-Seeking Flying Microdrone Would Scavenge Solar and Thermal Energy Day and Night
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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Video: US Navy Helicopter Drone Makes First Coke Bust on the High Seas
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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VTOL Drone Would Land, Refuel and Take Off By Itself
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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Video: Perching Drones Learn How to Land Vertically on Walls
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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DARPA's HTV-2 Hypersonic Glider Fails During Trial Run
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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US Air Force Tests Method for Using Light to Heal Battlefield Injuries
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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Laser scanning flyovers of NYC will yield most accurate 3D map
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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Ryanair jets grounded after volcanic ash found in plane engines
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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