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Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered plane piloted by André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, is ready to continue its revolutionary voyage around the world...
Nearly 70 years ago, pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 rocket plane (now on display at the Smithsonian). Now, NASA has announced they will build on that historic flight with a contract to design a...
Airline mogul and billionaire Richard Branson just announced that in three years Virgin Atlantic airplanes will be fueled by waste gas from power plants, steel works, and aluminum plants...
Students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently demonstrated an aviation first by cruising the sky in a hybrid propulsion aircraft. A team of nearly 200 students spent the last year and a half designing, manufacturing,...
Flying cars are here! Well, “roadable planes” are at least. The Terrafugia Transition is a two-seat prop plane that can legally drive itself home from the airport, converting from a 100-horsepower plane...
Before the official opening of the Paris Air Show, Airbus parent company EADS revealed what it has in the works to be the successor to the Concorde jet: the Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation plane, which could reach...
Put this on the list of things we’ll buy when we’re rich and famous. Designer Yelken Octuri has created a flying yacht for princes Aziz, Dawood and Hashim. The flying yacht was designed to allow the princes to...
It has long been an accepted fact that steel is as good as it’s going to get: the innovators of the last century took care of developing the best processes to create as strong and light a product as possible, using...
Put this on the list of things we’ll buy when we’re rich and famous. Designer Yelken Octuri has created a flying yacht for princes Aziz, Dawood and Hashim, corporate executives of the Masqat Airways air transport...
The High Speed Solar Airship (HSSA) is a high-flying airship concept that proposes using thin-film solar panels and other off-the-shelf components to create a cost-competitive, high speed vessel for cargo hauling...
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