Aug 23 2010

Beyond the Black Box

Tag: Air Travel, Aircraft, Artifacts, Atlantic Ocean, Aviation, Batteries, Birds, Child, Colleges, Communication, Computers, Design, Devices, Disasters and Accidents, Electronics, Engaged, Engineering, Engines, Events, Experts, Eye, Fall, Father, Fear, Glass, Government, Health Insurance, History, Internet, Inventions, Investigation, Lawsuits, Logging, Mining, Movies, Murder, Navy, Oceania and Australia, Office, Officer, Polar Regions, Privacy, Radio, Safety, Satellites, Science, Seas, Sensors, Storage, Streams, Submarine, Suicide, Technology, The Future, Touch, Transportation — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:00 am
Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

Jul 19 2010

Hurricane-Hunting Drone Joins NASA Fleet

Tag: Aircraft, Hurricanes, NASA, Robots, Storms — Irene Klotz @ 4:23 pm
An unmanned aerial vehicle will fly over the Atlantic to help us understand how tropical storms are formed.

Jul 07 2010

Solar Plane Takes Off in Historic Flight

Tag: Air Travel, Aircraft, Aviation, Solar Power, The Sun — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:15 pm
The Solar Impulse will attempt to demonstrate the value of solar energy by flying around the clock.

Jul 01 2010

Flying Car Gets FAA Approval

Tag: Aircraft, Aviation, Cars, Flies, Safety, Vehicles — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 12:26 pm
The Federal Aviation Administration has just removed a major hurdle from the path of a vehicle that may well be the first commercially viable flying car.

Jun 25 2010

Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Months as Castaway

Tag: Aircraft, Archaeology, Artifacts, History, History of Flight, Pilots by Type — Rossella Lorenzi @ 5:53 pm
The famous pilot and her navigator may have eaten turtles, fish and birds to survive on a remote island after making an emergency landing.

Jun 03 2010

Signs of Amelia Earhart’s Final Days?

Tag: Adventure, Aircraft, Artifacts, Aviation, Mystery, Pacific Ocean — Rossella Lorenzi @ 1:33 pm
Researchers scouring a remote South Pacific island describe clues that Amelia Earhart may have struggled to survive there after an emergency landing.

May 27 2010

USAF Vehicle Breaks Record for Hypersonic Flight

Tag: Air Force, Aircraft, Military Aircraft, Modern Military Aircraft — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:19 pm
The speed sets the stage for other hypersonic applications, including commercial transportation and access to space.

May 27 2010

Telescope in the Sky Makes Debut Flight

Tag: Air Travel, Aircraft, Astronomy, Extrasolar Planets, Galaxies, NASA, Science, Space Telescopes, Telescopes, Universe — Irene Klotz @ 10:11 am
Take a ground-based telescope and put it 40,000 feet into the air. What do you have? A new way to look at the universe.

May 18 2010

Air Force Wants Its Rockets Back

Tag: Air Force, Air Travel, Aircraft, Military, Rockets, Satellites, Space Shuttle, Technology — Irene Klotz @ 11:00 am
A new prototype rocket could give the Air Force a round-trip ticket to space by 2013.

Apr 28 2010

Flying Car Proposals Sought by Pentagon

Tag: Aircraft, Cars, Military, Technology, Vehicles — Irene Klotz @ 10:59 am
The Pentagon wants to develop a flying car not unlike the one envisioned in the space-age TV show "The Jetsons."
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