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Terror-Proofing Jets
by John B. Carnett John B. Carnett Nearly five years after September 11, the airline industry is finally adopting new in-flight technologies to keep planes safe from terrorists. With $110 million in...
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American Airlines' Own Pilots to Protest Recent Mismanagement
American Airlines 777 Adrian Pingstone I don't know about you, but when airline pilots organize themselves enough to protest their employer's overall poor performance—not, I'd like to point out,...
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Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force's Frantic Unmanned Reinvention
Fit to Fight Armed with precision-guided bombs and missiles, the Reaper MQ-9 is the deadliest war drone yet. Here, it sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. Lance Cheung/U.S. Air...
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Manned and Unmanned Helicopters Most Efficient When Working Together
Flock of Copters Fly, my pretties! U.S. Army/Spc. George Welcome Flying alongside drones might seem a bit strange for U.S. Army chopper pilots, but it has major payoffs. The U.S. Army found that a...
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The 10 Best Jobs Of The Future
Job of the Future Todd Detwiler View Photo GalleryJobs may be scarce today, but if current trends hold, pretty soon there will be plenty of fun, lucrative gigs. If you have the vision to start...
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FYI: Could A Layperson Land A Jumbo Jet?
Surely You Won't Be Able To Land This Plane Paramount/Everett Collection Possibly, but only with a lot of luck and some autopilot assistance. Amateurs have landed smaller private planes after the...
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iPad Flight Manuals Coming to a Paperless Cockpit Near You
Airbus A380 Cockpit Even in the ultra high-tech cockpit of the Airbus A380, pilots still use paper maps and cockpit manuals. Some airlines are starting to replace the heavy books with iPads. Andy...
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Possibility of iPads In Cockpits Sparks Fierce Debate Among Pilots
iPads and Planes: Dangerous, Or A Good Combo? Wikimedia Commons/xlibber on Flickr Alaska Airlines's recent adoption of iPads into plane cockpits has sparked a debate among pilots as to whether...
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The Human Element
Live Fighters Aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, pilots play a key role in shows of force and complex missions. Even as drones become integrated into the fleet, pilots will lead. U.S....
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Jobs may be scarce today, but if current trends hold, pretty soon there will be plenty of fun, lucrative gigs. If you have the vision to start prepping now, you could be…
View ArticleVideo: Canadian Student Becomes First Human to Fly Under Own Power, By...
A Canadian engineering student achieved sustained flight in a human-powered ornithopter for the first time in August, and has just filed a claim for a world record, according…
View ArticleJust In Time For Spring Break, Water-Powered Jetpack Finally Goes On Sale
Waterskiing is so passé. This summer, you’ll be able to fly with Raymond Li’s water-powered jetpack, which is going on sale in March. It’s only $99,500!
View ArticleFYI: Could A Layperson Land A Jumbo Jet?
Possibly, but only with a lot of luck and some autopilot assistance. Amateurs have landed smaller private planes after the pilot became incapacitated, but outside of 1970s…
View ArticleiPad Flight Manuals Coming to a Paperless Cockpit Near You
Despite using advanced technology that lets planes practically fly themselves, airline pilots are still bogged down by a lingering 20th-century artifact: Paper. Now at least…
View ArticlePossibility of iPads In Cockpits Sparks Fierce Debate Among Pilots
Alaska Airlines's recent adoption of iPads into plane cockpits has sparked a debate among pilots as to whether replacing paper manuals with the tablet is really a good idea.
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Early in 2008 on the Black Sea coast, a Georgian drone flying over the separatist enclave of Abkhazia transmitted an instantaneous artifact from the age of human flight—the video record of its own...
View ArticleInvented: A Much Better Way To Predict Airline Delays
If you consider how many things have to go right for it to work, passenger flight is a seamless experience almost all of the time. Except when it isn't, and your flight is…
View ArticleHow An Airbus Cockpit Locking Mechanism Works [Video]
Speculation abounds this morning over what brought down Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, which crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday. The Airbus A320 plane, en route to…
View ArticleGlitch In Pilot Navigation App Delays American Airline Flights
A glitch in the iPad app that American Airlines pilots use caused delays in several flights this week; until it's fixed, pilots will revert to paper charts.
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Ed Dwight, the African American Astronaut who Never Flew
USAFEd DwightNASA’s early astronaut corps was anything but diverse. The criteria astronaut hopefuls had to meet in the late 1950s and 1960s was so strict that those eventually selected to fly in space...
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