Nov 01
Virgin America, the airline that invented the sassy in-flight safety video, has rolled out a brand new sassy in-flight safety video: A live-action musical number. It’s still heads and shoulders above most airlines, but is it the best?
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Oct 30
After putting its rovers on Mars, Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab showed the world that billion dollar hardware isn’t always the answer. And researchers at the EPFL
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Oct 30
Who hasn’t dreamed of soaring over a city, dipping between the rooftops, peering into people’s windows? A new simulator allows anyone to have a real-life birds-eye view of London.
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Oct 28
Being in a plane or boat that goes down in the ocean is a terrifying image that no one really ever wants to think about. But thankfully Kieran Normoyle, a final year design student, has given it some thought—lots of thought, actually—and he’s come up with a better inflatable life jacket design that protects against shock and hypothermia from freezing temperatures.
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Oct 24
We were promised supersonic flights. Today, we stay well below the speed of sound. We were promised transatlantic flights from New York to London in 3 and a half hours. Today, that flight takes us 7 hours. We were promised the future of flying. That future hasn’t existed for 10 years. The last flight of the Concorde was on October 24, 2003, we’ve been flying on slow-haul planes since.
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Oct 23
Once you realize how boring your neighborhood is from the air, that expensive quadcopter you bought should find a good home in the rafters of your garage. But don’t bury it too deep, you’ll need access to it around Halloween every year because Alton Porter has come up with the perfect use for your forgotten drone: turn it into a flying banshee.
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Oct 02
Last week, an FAA advisory committee recommended
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Oct 01
It’s four in the morning and you’re stuck in your hotel room, bored out of your skull but wide awake. Thanks jet lag! That’s the price you pay for changing so many time zones in a single airplane ride. Here’s why it happens, and how you can prevent it from ruining your trip.
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Sep 28
Dyson has some kick-ass vacuum engineers, but even the most passionate vacuum designer needs a little break now and then. That’s why Dyson’s team took a break to work on something completely different for a change of pace: weird, hacked-together flying (and crashing!) machines.
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Sep 25
If you’re not a fan of flying, you’ll probably want to steer clear of this supercut from Screen Junkies featuring some of the most harrowing plane disasters from movies and TV. Even if you’re cool with flying, it’s probably still a good idea to skip this one if you’ve got air travel planned in the coming days.
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