Aviation

Against the silver-gray sky in the old film reel, the bulbous jet lurches upwards like a flying saucer in an old Ray Harryhausen film. The Short SC1 aircraft, a British-built experimental plane, was the first fixed-wing plane built in the…
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Apparently, flying cars are the future of personal transport and, one day, we’ll all be zipping around in the skies getting from A to B with ease. Butas it stands, no flying cars actually exist yet, so we have to make do with startups…
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Photo: Daniel Brenner/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Frontier Airlines has had a very intriguing past 13 months. The Denver-based low-cost carrier lost out in a billion-dollar bidding war to acquire Spirit Airlines against JetBlue. Last October,…
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Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto (Getty Images)International airports are the first impression that most travelers have of a country or major city. Terminals serve as literal gateways to the world where millions of passengers pass through…
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Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)A passenger aboard a Southwest Airlines flight who just happened to be a pilot for another airline helped land the plane after its captain was “incapacitated” and required medical attention, according to NBC…
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Photo: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (Getty Images)Near-misses have become far too common for passenger air travel in the United States. There have been six serious close calls since the start of the year. While no one has been injured or…
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Dayna Baumeister, codirector of Arizona State University’s Biomimicry Center, isn’t surprised that the paint has so many hidden functions. “It’s a fantastic demonstration of what’s possible when we rethink our designs by asking nature for…
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Nearly 120 years into the history of modern flight, I did not expect biplanes to make a comeback in drone form. Yet the STRIX, from the Australian wing of defense giant BAE Systems, is exactly that. What’s more, this odd duck of a biplane…
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We’re one week past the four-year anniversary of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which went down in Ethiopia shortly after takeoff on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 people onboard. It was the second crash involving a Boeing 737…
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Photo: New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office/TwitterYou’d think we wouldn’t have to say this, but airports really don’t like it when you skip the parking deck and drive your car into the airport itself. And yet, a man was arrested last night…
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