aviation
Design
This Flight Helmet Collection Will Kill Your Childhood Dreams
9:20AM Rosa Golijan | I often daydream about piloting a super-speedy, highly experimental spy plane, but I lost all hope of ever doing that when I saw these flight helmets. Real, modded, new or old, they’re freaky enough to turn daydreams into night terrors. More »
Vehicles
Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have An Airbag
1:22AM John Herrman | This week, a long-brewing FAA regulation requiring planes to protect passengers from 16 G crash forces will come into full effect. What does this mean for you? Well, your next seat—or more accurately, seat belt—could have an airbag. More »
Vehicles
Boeing Swears Dreamliner Will Fly This Year, Really
7:20AM Jesus Diaz | Do you know that sinking feeling when people tell you they are going to do something again and again and again—and then once more—but they never, ever do it? That’s what I’m feeling right now with the Dreamliner: More »
Weapons
8:00AM Adam Frucci | Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Mi-24 helicopter firing off dozens of rockets at once. This one is Macedonian, and is from a “training exercise”. All bow before the might of the Macedonian army! [Big Picture]
What A Helicopter Firing High-Speed Rockets Looks Like
8:00AM Adam Frucci | Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Mi-24 helicopter firing off dozens of rockets at once. This one is Macedonian, and is from a “training exercise”. All bow before the might of the Macedonian army! [Big Picture]
Vehicles
Seriously, Is The Boeing Dreamliner EVER Going To Fly?
11:00AM Rosa Golijan | We’ve been following the progress of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for a long, loooooooooong time, so we’re excited that it’s finally ready to—oh, wait is that wing coming apart? More »
Science
Japanese ‘Origami Aeroplane’ Enthusiast Breaks World Record for Longest Paper Plane Flight
4:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Takuo Toda, head of the Japan Origami Aeroplane Association (classy!) set a new world record with his 27.9 second flight. His greatest ambition, however, is to launch a paper plane…from space. More »
Gadgets
Osama Bin Laden’s Brother Invents Must-Have Tourbillion Watch For Pilots
6:00AM Sean Fallon | Osama and his half-brother Yeslam have two very different professions. One is the world’s most notorious terrorist and the other is a pilot that makes fancy watches like those in his new “Aviator” line. More »
Design
Beautiful U.K. Stamp Series Features Britain’s Most Iconic Industrial Designs
1:40AM John Mahoney | So the English get to lick and stick ten beautiful icons of modern design, and we get Elvis? I see how it is. More »
Vehicles
Nuclear Powered Planes Will Not Assure the Destruction of Humankind
12:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | Aviation experts in the U.K. are arguing that the industry should push to convert their planes from using fossil fuel to using nuclear energy, an idea that’s sure to illicit a visceral “holy crap, god no!” reaction from the get go. But while it’s hard to separate the idea from the mental image of flying hydrogen bombs, there ARE actually a lot of good reasons to go nuclear in the sky. More »
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