aircraft
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What the Hell Happened to Supersonic Passenger Flights?
Ever since the supersonic Concorde was grounded in 2003, airline passengers — at least, wealthy airline passengers — have yearned for the return of faster-than-sound transit. Today, a trip from New York to London takes seven hours in the air; the Concorde could do it in under three hours in 1976. In an era where the…
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11 of the Weirdest X-Plane Designs
X-planes are a class of experimental aircraft designed to test and demonstrate new innovations in flight — some were created for NASA, others for DARPA or the U.S. military. The first X-plane, X-1, was flown by Chuck Yeager in the 1940s and was the first craft to fly faster than the speed of sound. Over…
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DJI’s Second FPV Drone, the Avata, Is Smaller and Safer to Fly
Just a few months after DJI officially announced its folding Mini 3 Pro drone with improved obstacle avoidance, the company has followed up with another release for 2022: a radical redesign of the DJI FPV called the Avata, which is the company’s first drone with full propeller guards and is its second drone focusing on…
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Trump’s Red, White, and Blue Air Force One Paint Job Would Reportedly Turn the Jet Into a Flying Sauna
Former President and apparent aeronautics graphic designer Donald Trump may have inadvertently tried to turn Air Force One into a flying oven. New reports claim Trump’s preferred red, white and blue, Air Force One paint job could lead to sweltering temperatures on board and added costs for Boeing.