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more about #aircraft more comments → ID Ron Burgundy: pew pew? more » Dirkfart Faeclefunk: If that's what Alexander the Great used I can see now how he kicked so much butt. more » FooSchnickens - BPH Free: They make low speed rockets? more » shenanigans61: Holy fuck! more » TheCrudMan: I want the fast lens they used to take that quick shutter photo. more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: Actually, I heard this is a picture from the Iranian Air Force, so only half of those rockets are real. The other half is photoshopped in. more » mocanlagunas: When will Redbull bring their race to NY? When? more » Spaceboy: A Hind-D??? Colonel, what's a Russian Helicopter doing here???? more » Cyberization: Can I get a Pew Pew? more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Is the windshield still poorly armored? more » KTK1990: Awesome images. *has a few new desktop wallpapers* more » dingus: Need to call in an airstrike? There's an app for that. more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: Can we PLEASE have this during the next Gizmodo Gallery, PLEASE? more » Crescent: I don't know which one is better a war pilot with a pr0nstar name or an MIT professor with a pr0nstar name more » IQslump: I like the idea of a MIT professor with a porn star name. more » -
#imagecache
This Is What a Helicopter Firing High-Speed Rockets Looks Like
Here's something you don't see every day: a Mi-24 helicopter firing off dozens of rockets at once. This one is Macedonian, and is from a "training exercise." All bow before the might of the Macedonian army! [Big Picture] -
#uavs
Need To Fly A Military Drone? Yep, There's An iPhone App For That
MIT Professor Missy Cummings (a former F-18 Hornet Navy Pilot), and her team of 30 students and undergrads, have successfully demonstrated how an iPhone could be used to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV. More » -
#aircraft
World's Largest RC Chopper Is Probably Big Enough for a Very Short Pilot
This RC helicopter is a scale model of a Russian Mi-24 chopper, a monstrous beast that's 55 feet long. The scale version looks about 1/8th the size, and still scares the crap out of us. Check out the video below. More » -
#diy
Man Builds 747 Flight Simulator in His Warehouse, Earns Guinness Record
Flight enthusiast Matthew Sheil has built a 747-400 flight simulator in his Sydney warehouse that can stand up to any $40 million training version—and he did it for under $200,000. More » -
#airplanes
Photos of Plane Being Lifted From the Hudson Are Staggering
We've seen plenty of photos of the plane that landed in the Hudson, but none quite like these, which were taken by the crane operator who lifted the downed craft from the chilly waters. More » -
#aircraft
Insane Unmanned 'Mule' Drone Can Fly at 289MPH
This Mule unmanned aerial vehicle is huge, fast and crazy. It's just going through its first wind tunnel testing, but it might someday be hauling injured troops back to base with no pilot involved. More » -
#military
Britain Building Next-Generation Aircraft Carriers for F-35 Fighters
Britain is not only getting a whole lotta lot of F-35B STOVL fighters, but two new 60,000-ton state-of-the-art aircraft carriers. Apparently, according to Dr Lee Willett, it's all part of a new World arms race: -
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#militarysecrets
Declassified UFO Files Reveal Military Engagement, Near-Collision
The UK Ministry of Defense has just declassified nineteen secret files detailing UFO encounters over the past decades, one of them involving a USAF Sabre fighter pilot who was ordered to fire at will against an unidentified flying object in British airspace. Unfortunately—or fortunately—lieutenant Milton Torres lost the contact after the UFO left the scene at a whooping 9,941 miles per hour. According to him, it had the proportions of an aircraft carrier: More » -
#glider
Orlens Glider Concept is Green, Recyclable Air Transport of the Future
This concept glider, dubbed Orlens, is attention-grabbing through its rather beautiful shape alone. But when you look into how it would work, you can see that designer Roland Cernat has put a lot of thought into its greenness. It would be made of entirely recycled materials, and be recyclable itself, would have photovoltaic cells atop the wings for energy for eco-friendly propulsion and have an aerodynamically-efficient body. The body too would be made from a flax-based bio-compound that would be CO2 neutral. It's pretty much what green personal air-transport of the future should look like, which is why it's just won Roland the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Competition. Impressive, and I'd love to take it up and give it a spin, were it not just a concept. [Inhabitat] -
#tiltrotor
Buy Your Own V22, Kinda: Bell 609 Civilian Tiltrotor Gets Rolled-Out
Forget the improbable promises of the Falx tiltrotor: Bell aircraft has rolled out its 609 civilian tiltrotor for real. Looking and flying like a smaller cousin of the military V22 Osprey, also a Bell vehicle, the 609 will undoubtedly please millionaire business people since it can perform all the rooftop-landing duties of a normal helicopter, but flies twice as fast and can fly 9 passengers up to 25,000 feet altitude. Plus, it'd be undeniably cooler to turn up at your meetings in something that looks like it belongs in a sci-fi flick versus something that reminds people of Magnum, PI. More »
