With Robotic Cargo Ferry Launch, Europe Will Become an Official Supplier to the ISS This Month
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Shifting Position of Magnetic North Requires Tampa Airport to Rearrange Runways
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Sikorsky and Eurocopter Compete To Build Super-High-Speed Choppers
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Test Flight: These Tiny R/C Choppers Are Like Pocket Dogfighters
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The Navy's Next-Gen Electromagnetic Catapult System Hurls its First Planes Skyward
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Five Contests That Recognize The Science Achievements of the Everyman
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A New Way of Flying
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Bee-Inspired Algorithm Helps UAVs Detect the Horizon For Improved Aerobatics
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The Air Force's Top Secret Space Plane, in Orbit for Seven Months, is Coming Home
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Solar Impulse HB-SIA
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19.02.11
The ESA's newest Automated Transfer Vehicle--ATV-2, otherwise known as Johannes Kepler--is loaded up and primed for its February 15th launch to the International Space Station, marking a several significant milestones for the European Space Agency and its contribution
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The north magnetic pole is slowly sliding from its current locale in the far north of Canada toward Russia at a rate of something like 40 miles per year, but most of us don't feel the repercussions of that. However, far from the frosty Canadian tundra, sunny Tampa, Fla.,
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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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Gyroscopes and infrared blasters ready radio-controlled helicopters for midair battle
Unsophisticated electronics and design used to keep tiny R/C helicopters out of the fight. Eventually, motors the size of aspirin capsules let companies stack two counter-rotating rotors
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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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There's a long tradition of offering big cash prizes to entice talented and creative individuals to solve problems that have stymied industry and governments for decades. For example, in 1810, French cook Nicolas Appert won a 12,000-franc government prize for a food preservation
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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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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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All good top secret robotic space plane test missions must come to an end, and so it goes for the Air Force's X-37B, otherwise known as the Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (OTV-1). After seven months of thrilling amateur satellite watchers with its shifting orbital flight patterns
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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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Everyone is talking about the A380 today. Find out why here
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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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On your last flight, did you stare with envy at the people sitting in the exit row? Did you get a charley horse from trying to cross your legs under your tray table? Consider yourself lucky, pal. Your next budget flight might ask you to fly horseback style, squeezed
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There's a long tradition of offering big cash prizes to entice talented and creative individuals to solve problems that have stymied industry and governments for decades. For example, in 1810, French cook Nicolas Appert won a 12,000-franc government prize for a food preservation
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The Missile Defense Agency's airborne laser weapon is supposed to save us all from imminent nuclear demise, but after yesterday's botched test firing - the second failure
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Researchers at Yale's Grab Lab aren't about to let the nuances of rotary-wing flight restrict what unmanned aerial vehicles can do. A team there has developed a hand-like modular grasping and manipulation platform that can be fitted to the bellies of UAVs to provide them
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Who needs cover shots and voiceover when you can digitally re-create the moment? That's what staff at a Hong Kong TV station must have thought when they heard about the US flight attendant who made a hasty exit from his aircraft following an incident with a passenger this week.
Steven Slater,
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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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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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An ultralight kit plane designed in the 1970s has become the first four-engined electric plane to take to the skies. Weighing in around 175 kilograms -- including the pilot -- the
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