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While helicopters and other aircraft have complicated sensors, sometimes lo-fi works best, like a string taped to a chopper's ...
Witness the video that dives deep into the fascinating science behind glider flight, explaining how these sleek aircraft use natural forces like thermals, ridge lifts, and gravity to soar for hours.
A single-engine plane crashed into the ocean June 1 off Vero Beach. This year, the United States has seen 418 plane crashes, ...
Boeing’s newest aircraft showcase decades of innovation and engineering mastery. Starting with the 767 in 1982, Boeing introduced a wide-body twinjet featuring a supercritical wing and a two-crew ...
In the exercise called Dragoon Fury, the French Navy used its amphibious helicopter carrier Tonnerre as a drone platform.
Vicky Benzing followed up Hammond and Price’s acts in a vintage red Boeing Stearman biplane from 1940. A pilot, skydiver and ...
At just 14, Harmon Brown has already flown solo in a glider, logged 75 flight hours, and set his sights on a future piloting ...
Three people were rescued June 1 after a plane crashed down in the ocean in Vero Beach, Florida. Here's what we know.
Airbus confirmed a continuing dip in deliveries over the first four months of the year, with 192 aircraft handed over ... the company wryly describes as “gliders”. Airbus achieved the same ...
The weekend's fatal helicopter collision in Finland, which killed five Estonians, has brought into the spotlight private piloting and helicopter ownership.
China's attempts at converting ground-launched rocket artillery into low-cost precision gliders could transform aerial warfare.
Adding a small engine to the glider would allow it to drastically ... is “deployable from a variety of platforms,” what aircraft were used in the tests to drop the Grasshopper is not yet ...