This Silent Eagle Could Soon Be Patrolling the Korean Peninsula

This Silent Eagle Could Soon Be Patrolling the Korean PeninsulaThe new fifth-generation Silent Eagle has finally cleared export restrictions meaning it may soon be the new face of South Korea’s aerial fleet. That’s good news for an unsteady place.

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Boeing’s Newer, Bigger, Less Flammable Dreamliner Is Ready to Fly

Boeing's Newer, Bigger, Less Flammable Dreamliner Is Ready to Fly

This last year has not been kind to Boeing’s fledgling 787 Dreamliner class airplanes, what with the repeated electrical fires, fleet groundings, and bad publicity. But Boeing is confident that it’s worked the kinks out in its newest Dreamliner iteration, the 787-9, which rolled out of the factory earlier today and is eagerly awaiting its first test flight.

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How To Keep Travel From Wrecking Your Body

How To Keep Travel From Wrecking Your Body

It goes without saying that modern methods of travel—planes, trains, and automobiles—are a hell of a lot better than ye olde horse and buggy days, but convenience has a cost. Many hours of remaining sedentary exact a serious tax on your body. While nothing you do can make a long trip a zero-impact affair, there are some things you can do to mitigate the stresses you put on your physique.

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These Solar-Powered Giant Winged Drones Could Replace Satellites

Over the past decade there’s been a big push for cheaper alternatives to space travel. Blasting man-made objects into orbit has never been a cheap endeavour, and a company called Titan Aerospace thinks gigantic solar-powered drones could even be a far more affordable alternative to launching satellites.

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This Hybrid Quadcopter Drone Can Take Off and Land Vertically

This Hybrid Quadcopter Drone Can Take Off and Land Vertically

Quadcopters offer extreme precision and control in flight, not to mention the ability to take off and land vertically. But compared to the traditional plane design used for most drones, their speed and long range capabilities are limited. So an Arizona-based drone builder called Latitude Engineering hopes to capture the best of both worlds with a quadcopter and drone hybrid that doesn’t need a runway, but can fly long distance missions.

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This F-35B’s Vertical Night Landing Makes It Look Like a Badass UFO

On August 14th, the amazing, hovering F-35B made its first, vertical, at-sea night landing on the USS WASP. We’ve seen it hover before, and even do a vertical take off, but man, nothing quite compares to the sheer night-vision, sci-fi awesomeness of this clip.

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How Underwater Drones Are Searching For the Lost Pilots of WWII

How Underwater Drones Are Searching For the Lost Pilots of WWII

Deep below the Pacific Ocean, dozens of WWII pilots are lying in watery graves, still inside the aircraft took them across the sky decades ago. It’s far too late for a rescue, but as Popular Science explains, the people behind the BentProp Project—and their undersea drones—are surfacing these soldiers’ incredible history.

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Watch an Insanely Relaxing Flight Across the Arctic Ice Plains, by NASA

What you see here is some of the best footage shot from the front and back mounted cameras on one of the P-3B aircraft that runs NASA’s IceBridge missions. These vistas are from the spring mission over Greenland and the Arctic, but NASA’s going back for more this fall.

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Leaked Pics Reveal North Korea’s New-Old Military Cargo Plane

Leaked Pics Reveal North Korea's New-Old Military Cargo Plane

Nukes aren’t the only military implement North Korea’s been tinkering with over the last few years. During a recent air force parade, the Hermit Kingdom reminded the world of its deadly, deadly fleet of 30-year-old attack choppers. Today, new images have surfaced of a mysterious, camouflaged cargo jet.

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The President Gets a Personal Osprey He’s Not Allowed to Use

The President Gets a Personal Osprey He's Not Allowed to Use

Even with the VH-71 helicopter project permanently grounded, President Obama still has a number of egregiously expensive air transport options—such as the newly unveiled MV-22 Osprey—to choose from. The only problem is the MV-22 is that he’s not actually allowed to ride in it.

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