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Everything about this plane is insane

At first glance, this plane looks completely wrong. The shape, the layout, and the design choices make you question how it ...
This isn’t your average toy plane - it’s a turbine-powered rocket slicing through the air at jaw-dropping speeds.
We spent two years teaching AI to help us think. Now it’s starting to act—and that changes everything. We’ve already seen AI elevate human productivity. That capability is currently expanding with ...
Since the unfortunate demise of the Concorde programme in 2003, no supersonic airliner has graced our skies. Despite frequent claims of a successor to the iconic delta-winged aircraft, only military ...
The U.S. Air Force’s new Wedgetail radar plane is designed to scan for threats hundreds of miles away, stay airborne for long stretches and act as a mobile battle station for dozens of fighters at ...
Humans tried to fly for centuries before Wilber and Orville Wright did it in 1903. Discover the history of human flight and how fast we can really go. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org ...
A flight from Norway to Aberdeen was forced to return mid-air after the pilot was unable to land due to heavy snowfall in the city. At least 10 flights to and from Aberdeen Airport have been cancelled ...
When a plane carrying four young children crashed in the Amazon rain forest, there was little hope of finding them alive. Rescuers spent more than two weeks searching for the wreckage of the small ...
When Airbus surprised the world by flagging an urgent software fix for thousands of A320 planes in service globally, the order passed through Jetstar’s operations centre, located in an unassuming ...
The third stop of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship is in Chiba, Japan on June 3 and 4 2017. Red Bull Air Race technical director Jim Reed explains how speed and angle of attack affect lift on ...