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Levitating Plane-Train Gives Mass Transit a Lift
By Mark Brown, Wired UK The future of mass transit may be a whole lot cooler than you think. Japanese researchers rolled into the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai with a...
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Video: Solar Airplane’s Maiden European Flight
It took almost 13 hours, but an airplane powered only by the sun has completed the first international flight ever made by solar power, opening a new chapter in electric aviation. André Borschberg, the...
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Bomb-Resistant Baggage Hold Tested
British engineers are testing a flexible, bomb-resistant baggage hold that could eliminate the need to use heavy — and expensive — hardened luggage containers to protect aircraft from explosions. An...
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Flying Car Taxis Closer to Takeoff
Your flying car is almost ready. Uncle Sam has signed off on the exemptions Terrafugia needs to begin building the Transition, the “roadable aircraft” it plans to begin selling for $250,000 or so late...
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An Airbus Captain’s Take on the Air France Disaster
Editor’s note: Air France Flight 447 was en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro when it went down over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. It took 11 months to locate the...
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Passenger-Ready 787 Dreamliner Is Ready to Board
After years of delay and billions in development, Boeing rolls the Dreamliner out of the paint shop and invites the press to have a look.
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Using Radar To Make Runways Safer
German researchers have developed a system that uses infrared, optical 2D and 3D cameras and networked radar sensors to continuously scan runways for debris that can damage or even bring down aircraft....
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Airships Could Prove a Lifeline in the Arctic
Airships could soon be soaring to remote mining communities in the Great White North, carrying supplies to areas not easily served by airplanes or trucks.
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Flying the Police Aircraft of the Future
The last thing you want to hear when strapping into an aircraft is how cheap it is, but low cost is the reason police in one Texas town added an autogyro to the fleet.
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High Cost Makes Aviation Biofuel Slow to Take Off
Despite the promise of more sustainable aviation, we're years from seeing biofuel have any impact on the amount of fuel the airlines consume each year.
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Asiana Flight 214 Investigation Focuses on Airspeed in Final Seconds
Central to the question of just what happened in the cockpit of Asiana Flight 214 in the moments before it slammed into a sea wall at San Francisco International Airport is why the crew allowed the...
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