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Aircraft wingless - The forerunner of the US shuttle fleet
The X-24B airship, a precursor to the American-made shuttle fleet, is capable of making return flights to Earth from space and landed exactly where it was programmed. a…
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New weather technologies help keep the aircraft safe during thunderstorms
Storm thunderstorms often cause panic on flights.
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Reconnaissance aircraft flying in flocks like insects
Recently, Boeing engineers and Johns Hopkins University scientists have collaborated successfully on piloting multiple unmanned drivetrain systems at the same time.
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US supersonic flight tests failed
The US Air Force said Wednesday that the test flight of the X-51A Waverider unmanned aerial vehicle over the Pacific was delayed due to a control error that caused the a…
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The solar plane completes the flight
According to a reporter in Geneva, Switzerland's first and only Solar Impulse has completed a transcontinental flight (from Europe to Africa and vice versa) with lon…
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Next generation heat shield
The new IRVE-3 test flight was made on July 23 from the Wallops launch site of the US Aerospace and Defense Agency (NASA) in Wallop Island, Virginia. The test took 20 mi…
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The solar plane has returned
The solar-powered plane flew back to Rabat after successfully flying through the desert in Morocco. On June 22nd, Captain Andre Borschberg landed Solar Impulse's sol…
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Solar planes continue to cross the continent
On the morning of June 5, Solar Impulse continued its second flight from Madrid to Rabat, Marocco on a transcontinental flight of more than 2,500 kilometers. Do not use…
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Sun planes delayed flying to Morocco
The famous Swiss solar plane on 28 May delayed flights from Madrid to Morocco due to unfavorable weather conditions. This is the second and final stage of the cross-coun…
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Solar plane transcontinental flight
Solar Impulse, Switzerland's first solar-powered aircraft, landed safely in Madrid on May 25, completing its first intercontinental flight.
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Launched more fuel-efficient cars than cars
Many people think that, because the aircraft fly faster, so naturally the cost will be more expensive than the car. NASA's Green Flight Challenge 2011 has launched a…
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NASA develops a new generation of ultra-light and flexible aircraft
NASA said it will use a module - a drone vehicle for research created by Lockheed Martin - for the Air Force Military Research Laboratory (AFLR) to test new key technolo…
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The longest journey of the solar plane
Solar Impulse has announced that its solar-powered aircraft will test flights from Switzerland to Morocco in the coming weeks.
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HoverMast - Supercar camera tracking flight
HoverMast is a hovercraft in the air and can be mounted on a small vehicle such as an SUV. This device was developed by Sky Sapience and is still in the experimental pha…
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Waving to control the plane
One day unmanned aerial vehicles would be as simple as the arm waving, scientists say. Yale Song and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Unite…