Why Commercial Jets Have Been Getting Slower
The days of supersonic travel have been over for more than two decades, while aircraft continue to cruise at Mach 0.85.
What Is The Oldest Plane Still Flying In The Qantas Fleet?
The oldest aircraft still flying for the Qantas Group is a Fokker 100 currently serving its regional QantasLink airline.
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AI could assist early, rapid diagnosis of asymptomatic heart failure
AI-assisted diagnosis of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction may detect disease early and thereby expedite treatment of ...
Ukraine’s Elegantly Simple Recoilless Shotgun Drone
A 12-guage shotgun has a powerful kick, but Ukrainian drones have a neat solution to firing shotguns against aerial targets.
Few papers covered the Wright brothers' first flight. Here's what was reported
When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it.
Gene Hackman: the death of a Hollywood legend
With a distinctive gravelly voice and magnetic screen presence, Gene Hackman, who has died aged 95, was one of the great film ...
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Selfridge plays host to historic air race
On the morning of March 6, six F-22 Raptor jets of the 1st Fighter Wing took off from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia on a ...
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Maiden Flight of the Spitfire
On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest ...
50 Extremely Rare Historical Photos That Show Just How Completely Unhinged The World Used To Be
16.One of the biggest fads of the 1950s was "phonebooth stuffing," where-in a bunch of people would, well, stuff themselves into a phonebooth: The world record at the time was 25 people stuffed into a ...