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Tag: Flight

Google Flight Search Expands into Europe

Google Flight Search Expands into Europe

Getting the cheapest flights is often a concern, especially if you’re traveling internationally. Google Flight Search is a quick and helpful tool for locating the best prices for flyers, but when the…

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Project Skyflash: You Will Believe a Man Can Fly

Project Skyflash: You Will Believe a Man Can Fly

Man wasn’t meant to fly, but we have certainly managed to find many ways to do just that. Now Fritz Unger from Germany has found yet another way to soar like an…

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Hypersonic X-51A WaveRider Test Flight Today

Hypersonic X-51A WaveRider Test Flight Today

I’ve always had a fascination with flight. My favorite aircraft is the SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird was a spy aircraft that ventured into enemy territory for many years with nothing but speed…

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Students Set Record for Human-Powered Helicopter

Students Set Record for Human-Powered Helicopter

A team of students at the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering have been hard at work trying to perfect one of the ideas that many inventors and pioneers…

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45-Foot-Long Paper Airplane Needed a Helicopter to be Launched

45-Foot-Long Paper Airplane Needed a Helicopter to be Launched

What’s the biggest paper airplane you’ve launched? I’ve noticed that they tend to get a bit flabby when you use bigger sheets of paper, but that didn’t stop the Pima Air &…

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LEGO Space Shuttle Flies High into the Stratosphere

LEGO Space Shuttle Flies High into the Stratosphere

Last week, we told you about an astronaut aboard the ISS who built a LEGO model of the ISS in space. Turns out those aren’t the only LEGO bricks to leave this…

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3D-Printed Cubic Kite Shouldn’t Fly But Does

3D-Printed Cubic Kite Shouldn’t Fly But Does

At first when you look at this strange looking kite, you’d think that it wouldn’t be able to get airborne, because of its shape and complexity. But this somewhat large, cubic structure…

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FAA Clears iPad for Use in Flight by Pilots

FAA Clears iPad for Use in Flight by Pilots

The FAA has announced that it has cleared the Apple iPad for use in commercial flights in all stages of the flight by pilots. American Airlines has conducted tests of both iPad…

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Jetman Yves Rossy Flies in Formation: Danger Has No Meaning to This Guy

Jetman Yves Rossy Flies in Formation: Danger Has No Meaning to This Guy

Yves Rossy, the flying Swiss maniac, has appropriately called himself Jetman, and I have to say that his moniker is well deserved, because that thing strapped to his back just looks plain…

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Guy Flies Through Chinese Mountain with Wingsuit, Lives to Tell the Tale

Guy Flies Through Chinese Mountain with Wingsuit, Lives to Tell the Tale

Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s some guy in a wingsuit flying through a mountain. Stuntman Jeb Corliss has been using his Wingsuit since 2007, but…

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Chinese Man Builds Flying Circle of Death

Chinese Man Builds Flying Circle of Death

What you see in the photos here is one of those rare items that is at the same time both awesome and supremely stupid. The man you see here is from China…

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New Airships to Hit Canada: A Bit of Fringe Up North

New Airships to Hit Canada: A Bit of Fringe Up North

I’ve always enjoyed airships. They’ve been featured prominently in Fringe, in the other universe. It’s a shame that there aren’t more around, but that might not be for long. Hybrid Air Vehicles…

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Google Chromebooks Fly Free on Virgin America

Google Chromebooks Fly Free on Virgin America

Yes Google Chromebooks are now available, but I bet that you haven’t really given one a try. Starting today, and until September, Google will lend you a Chromebook on select Virgin America…

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Eurocopter X3 Hybrid Helicopter Hits 232 knots

Eurocopter X3 Hybrid Helicopter Hits 232 knots

Helicopters are awesome, but they have some drawbacks. The fantastic thing about the helicopter is that it can land and take off vertically needing no more space to do so than it…

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Helicopter Emulates Falling Maple Seed Pod: I’m Never Getting in One of These Things

Helicopter Emulates Falling Maple Seed Pod: I’m Never Getting in One of These Things

Riding in a helicopter can be a thrilling, and sometimes harrowing experience. But this helicopter design is one that I can say that with certainty that I would never, ever set foot…

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Daredevil Jumps From Hot Air Balloon Wearing Rocket Wing, Flies Loops

Daredevil Jumps From Hot Air Balloon Wearing Rocket Wing, Flies Loops

I can trace my lust for a personal jet pack back to a single specific event from my youth. The episode of Fall Guy where Lee Majors used a jet pack really…

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