flying
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Apparently, Planes Can’t Take Off if There’s a Swarm of Bees on the Wing
There are plenty of reasons why the average flight would get delayed. Someone threw up during the landing. The pilot called in sick. It’s a Southwest flight. None of them are ideal, but you’d understand why there’s a delay. But as it turns out, your flight could also be delayed because a swarm of bees…
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Watch a Russian Fighter Jet Collide With a U.S. Drone Near Ukraine
The United States Pentagon released dramatic footage this morning recovered from an unmanned U.S. Air Force drone that was knocked out of the sky in international airspace over the Black Sea, just off the coast of Crimea, by a Russian fighter jet this week. The video from Tuesday’s incident, which you can watch below, shows…
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XPeng Strapped a Drone to a Hatchback and Called it a Flying Car
Flying cars are the future, apparently. That’s what tech companies like to say whenever they wheel out a new vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft that they’re tenuously claiming is a flying car. So far, very few of these creations have made it off the drawing board and into reality. Things changed this week, when…
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Net-zero Aviation: Possible or a High-flying Dream?
As international air travel rebounds after COVID-19 restrictions, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation are expected to rise dramatically – and with it, scrutiny of the industry’s environmental credentials. Aviation emissions have almost doubled since 2000 and in 2018 reached one billion tonnes. Climate Action Tracker rates the industry’s climate performance as critically insufficient. As the…