Planes strutting their stuff at airshows is already pretty cool. In search of a publicity stunt, though, the makers of an infrared camera have been filming the stunts at the Paris Air Show through an infra-red camera. The results are pretty damn cool. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"I think its run off an on demand system above a certain altitude and speed not weight off wheels for extra safety. At the heights and speeds they are ..." More »
If the music's anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the '60s -- and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-insane ideas that were seriously being kicked around by its 'crack' team of engineers, and they're both totally ridiculous and dangerously awesome. Read More >>
What you're looking at here is history; the triumph of seven years of design and engineering. Today, the Airbus A350 XWB completed its first flight. Here's the video of the mammoth taking to the skies: Read More >>
Featured comment by Haizum74:
"Nice, seeing as you are a pilot, could you explain this. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27820890/1010635_198462116977884_....jpg its been a debat..." More »
Whether you need to get an airliner across a continent without flying it, piggyback a space shuttle to its launch site, or ship Snoop Dog's oversized tour stage to Nigeria, you're going to need the world's biggest and strongest aircraft: the Antonov An-225. Read More >>
Over in Europe, a new research scheme is looking into the possibility of creating cockpits that require just a single pilot to fly aeroplanes — but would you take such a flight? Read More >>
Featured comment by Danieltpe:
"A very interesting scenario. But it does come down to human error once again. One hydraulic systems are phased out of aircraft and they move closer to..." More »
So this is scary. Around 9AM this morning, a British Airways flight from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow after both its engines suffered damage of some kind, causing one engine to catch fire. Both of Heathrow's runways were closed for the landing, but the Airbus 319 landed safely and the fire is now out. Read More >>
Lockheed Martin just completed the latest high angle of attack test series. It was a complete success, as this video shows. The video footage is spectacular, especially that unreal first shot. Read More >>
Featured comment by khos:
"This is F..K...P, it's a video of a plane stalling, WOW. Anyone can film that, I want to see the techy bit on how the aircraft manages to control thin..." More »
This is China's stealth combat drone, an airplane that seems very similar to the American Northrop Grumman X-47B. The unmanned combat air vehicle was photographed while performing taxiing tests. Given the development speed of China's other military aeroplanes, it wouldn't be surprising to see this in flight in the next few weeks. Read More >>
Featured comment by otaviokz:
"I'm hopping China's military tech matches USA's one as soon as possible. Not being a national of any of such countries (nor a military ally), I believ..." More »
The other night, the pilot of US Airways Express Flight 4560 was having some bad luck. The landing gear on his turboprop twin-engine plane just wouldn't go all the way down. So with some quick thinking and righteous piloting skills, he went in for a wheelless, sparky touchdown, and pulled it off without a hitch. Read More >>
Featured comment by Hyperstate:
"I must admit I kind-of get his point... whenever I see crowds of americans chanting U.S.A! U.S.A! I find it properly douchetastic, and the americans d..." More »
Being a commercial airline pilot isn't as glamorous as Leonardo di Caprio would have you believe; in practice, it's more akin to long haul trucking than aerial acrobatics. So rather than force a human pilot to endure the monotony of maintaining course, a European research consortium wants to replace them entirely — with software. Read More >>
Featured comment by soothsayer36:
"reminds me of a joke :-
What is the ideal cockpit crew?
A pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the pi..." More »
You're looking at a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft being refueled by the 151st Air Refueling Wing over southern Idaho last week. But those are just details. What you're really looking at is a shock of beautiful, caught at a moment of technological awesomeness. [Flickr] Read More >>
You are about to witness an historical event: the first drone jet ever launched from an aircraft carrier. In a few decades, when autonomous drone planes battle each other in the skies, fire missiles at drone troops and battleships, humanity will look back at this day as the true beginning of total drone warfare. Read More >>
Richard Branson: eccentric billionaire, adrenaline junky, sworn enemy of neckties, and now... matchmaker. That's right—Richard Branson wants to get you laid. What's more, he wants to get you laid in a goddamn airplane. Read More >>
At the height of the Cold War, if you wanted a peek behind the Iron Curtain, it had to be a birds's eye view from 63,000 feet—above the reach of Soviet SAM batteries. And to fly that high, America's elite SR-71 pilots had to wear the most advanced flight suits this side of the Apollo program. Read More >>
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