Apr 03 2011

Southwest Cancels Flights After Emergency Landing

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Aviation,Safety,TransportationDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 12:20 pm
The airline was inspecting its aircraft after a hold in a fuselage forced a plane to land.

Mar 18 2011

Global Hawk UAV to Peek Inside Damaged Reactors

Armed with radar and infrared sensors, the aircraft could help assess the extend of unseen damage inside the nuclear reactors.

Mar 02 2011

Amelia Earhart Clue Found in Clumps

Tag: Aircraft,Archaeologist,DNA,Mystery,Pacific Ocean,PlantsRossella Lorenzi @ 7:46 pm
Clumps found on a remote island where Earhart is thought to have lived as a castaway may be human feces.

Jan 05 2011

China Completes Stealth Fighter Prototype

Tag: Air Force,Aircraft,Aviation,Fighter Jet,Military,Stealth TechnologiesDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 4:34 pm
The J-20 will eventually rival the U.S. Air Force's F-22.

Dec 10 2010

Turbine-Powered Car Accelerates Like a Jet

Tag: Aircraft,Auto,Cars,Concept Cars,Engines,Technology,VehiclesEric Bland @ 5:38 pm
Finally able to buy a Jaguar? How about one powered by turbine jets?

Dec 10 2010

Amelia Earhart’s Finger Bone Recovered?

Tag: Aircraft,Archaeologist,Artifacts,Aviation,Classic Aviation,DNA,MysteryRossella Lorenzi @ 2:25 pm
A tiny bone fragment collected on a remote tropical island could be turtle -- or it could belong to the legendary pilot, researchers say.

Nov 24 2010

Pterosaurs Flew Long, Slow

How were pterosaurs able to cruise the skies of the ancient world between 220-65 million years ago?

Nov 19 2010

Buy Your Own Jetpack

Tag: Aircraft,Aviation,Engineering,VehiclesIrene Klotz @ 12:00 pm
With a price tag soaring around $100,000, this jetpack is the "Segway of the sky."

Nov 03 2010

Airliners Fly in Face of Cyber Attack Scares

Tag: Aircraft,Computer and Internet Security,Computers,InternetDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 5:10 pm
What would happen if all those screens tracking all those flights suddenly went blank?

Oct 14 2010

‘Flapless’ Aircraft Steered by Air Bursts

Since the Wright brothers, flaps have been used to maneuver aircraft in flight -- until now.

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