airplanes

Every Airplane Needs These Giant In-Flight Entertainment Screens

This is the future of in-flight entertainment according to the aerospace giant Thales. Called Digital Sky, the prototype system provides 21-inch touchscreens that take up a huge swathe of the seat back. The Points Guy spotted the displays at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. The site explains that the large HD screens are installed…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 6

Crazy Airplane Flies In and Out and Through a Wind Farm

You know those basketball or soccer dribbling drills where you snake through a line of cones, dribbling in and out one way on a cone and then slithering through the opposite side of the next cone? That’s what pilot Hannes Arch is doing in this airplane at a wind farm in Tauern Wind Park in…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 5

What It’s Like to Fly Inside the Cockpit of an Airplane

One of my earliest memories as a kid on an airplane is poking in to say hi to the pilots while flying. Obviously, that doesn’t happen anymore, so just sit in with them through this video to see what it’s like to be inside the cockpit of an Airbus A320 flying across Europe. The views…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 31

Watching These Airplanes Try to Land in Crazy Winds Is the Scariest Thing

Here’s some truly frightening footage of airplanes landing at Birmingham Airport in the UK. “Landing” actually might not be the best term for these though because the airplanes look more like they’re spinning sideways and tilting out of control and praying that their wheels touch the ground instead of bouncing off like a basketball. These…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 23

An iPhone Is the Latest Thing to Catch Fire on a Plane

Lithium-ion batteries and aircraft have some bad blood: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners were grounded three years ago because of battery fires, the FAA banned all lithium batteries in hold luggage, and now an innocent iPhone has caused a fire on an Alaska Air flight. According to a KOMO news report, a girl on a spring break…

Tech News Chris Mills Mar 20

UN Aviation Agency Demands Real-Time Airplane Tracking in Emergencies

The UN’s panel on aviation has announced that airplanes should now be fitted with autonomous distress tracking devices which allow them to transmit their location during emergencies. The International Civil Aviation Organization announced the new provisions yesterday—a year to the day since the MH370 disaster. The new devices should be able to transmit “information at…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 9

DARPA’s New Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Concept Looks Totally Badass

Yesterday, DARPA unveiled the latest concept design for its new vertical take-off and landing craft. And hell this electric airplane look impressive. DARPA has in fact awarded the second phase of its design contract to the concept, which has been created by Aurora Flight Sciences. Called X-Plane, it will use a 4,000 horsepower engine—actually the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 4

Plane Debris Found in Africa ‘Consistent With Modelling’ For MH370

A piece of horizontal stabilizer found washed up on Mozambique over the weekend was already thought to be part of the downed MH370 plane. Now, Australia’s transportation chief has furthered the case, saying the location is consistent with how the debris would have drifted. “The location of the debris is consistent with drift modeling commissioned…

Tech News Chris Mills Mar 3

The Airbus Solution for Fat Flyers Might Be Bench Seating

Airplane seats can be a tight squeeze for some people. But a new patent from Airbus suggests that one solution might be to make its seats a little more like park benches, to accommodate all kinds of widths of human being. A patent application which describes a “Re-Configurable Passenger Bench Seat” has been filed to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 22

Here Are All the Awesome Vertical Landing Jets in History

We all know how badass the Harriers and F-35s of the world are but some of these other vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircrafts from history are totally wild. The Williams X-Jet was essentially a flying one-man podium barrel thing. The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was legitimately a man-made flying saucer. And so many other…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 15

Lightning Hitting an Airplane Wing Looks Like Lasers Shooting Out from It

The weather has been really fun and generous with lightning strikes these days. We’ve seen it destroy trees and gotten an up close view of it striking but this one might be the coolest angle yet: from outside a flying airplane window. The lightning hits the tip of the wing and then streaks in a…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 5

The Pentagon’s New List of F-35 Bugs Is Predictably Awful

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is the most expensive military program in the world, so it should be no surprise that the F-35 aircraft is loaded with powerful weapons controlled by powerful computers. Unfortunately, the guns don’t fire yet, and the computers still don’t work right. A Pentagon official released a damning report on…

Tech News Michael Nunez Feb 3

Airplane Makes Safe Landing Despite Having Huge Hole Blown in Fuselage

A passenger jet has safely made an emergency landing at Mogadishu’s international airport after an explosion pierced a large hole in its fuselage. Two people were injured and unverified reports claim that a person may have fallen out of the hole during the incident, which occurred above Somalia. A policemantold the Associated Press that “residents…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 3

All the Bomber Aircraft That Could Carry Nuclear Weapons

Only 5 countries have been able to create strategic bomber aircraft with the capability of carrying nuclear weapons. That would be the US, Russia, the UK, France, and China. We’ve put together this video that details every single one of those bombers. It’s fascinating to see how each country develops its only style of aircraft…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 1

How Drones Could Become an Airline’s Best Friend

Usually when you hear “drone” and “airplane” in the same sentence, what comes next is a moralistic tale about how irresponsible drone pilots pose serious threats to airlines. That’s why it’s kind of weird when one of Europe’s largest airlines partners with arguably the biggest civilian drone maker in the world. German-operated Lufthansa and DJI…

Tech News Darren Orf Jan 28

Autonomous Drones Can Land on Moving Cars Now

Self-driving cars might be all the rage these days, but what about the poor computer-piloted drones? Well, while no-one’s been looking, they’ve been perfecting the aerial version of the patented Italian Job getaway. A team of researchers at the German Aerospace Center were looking for a way to lighten the payload of a solar-powered UAV,…

Gadgets Chris Mills Jan 20

Fantastic Photo of a F-16 Flying Perfectly Straight Up in the Air

This here is one helluva shot. The F-16 looks suspended in space and time, perfectly perpendicular to the ground and the horizon while shooting straight up to all that is holy. The vertical pose reveals the weaponry on its underside and the super slick maneuver shows just how incredible these airplanes are. Great, great photo.…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 14

How a F-18 Super Hornet Gets Built from Beginning to End

Each F/A-18 Super Hornet carries a sticker price of about 60 million dollars and requires a whole lot of work to put together. This fun time lapse video shows the entire building process of an F/A-18 and you can see where a lot of that money goes. To transform scraps of metal into a flying…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 14

US Pilots Forget How to Fly Manually, Says Department of Transportation

Don’t read this if you’re about to board an airplane. A new report by the Department of Transportation warns that US pilot training no longer helps airline pilots maintain the ability to fly commercial flights manually, because of the surfeit of autonomous technology inside the cockpit. The organization’s report explains that in cases where technical…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 13

Guy Turns a Busted Heater Into a Cheap RC Plane

When their electric heater breaks, most people would just toss it in the trash. But Samm Sheperd instead saw potential in his busted heater, so he salvaged its internal impeller and used it to build a dirt cheap, remote control, jet-powered airplane. Sheperd’s plane isn’t going to win any beauty pageants; it’s a hodge-podge of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 11

Every Airplane Needs These Giant In-Flight Entertainment Screens

Crazy Airplane Flies In and Out and Through a Wind Farm

What It’s Like to Fly Inside the Cockpit of an Airplane

Watching These Airplanes Try to Land in Crazy Winds Is the Scariest Thing

An iPhone Is the Latest Thing to Catch Fire on a Plane

UN Aviation Agency Demands Real-Time Airplane Tracking in Emergencies

DARPA’s New Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Concept Looks Totally Badass

Plane Debris Found in Africa ‘Consistent With Modelling’ For MH370

The Airbus Solution for Fat Flyers Might Be Bench Seating

Here Are All the Awesome Vertical Landing Jets in History

Lightning Hitting an Airplane Wing Looks Like Lasers Shooting Out from It

The Pentagon’s New List of F-35 Bugs Is Predictably Awful

Airplane Makes Safe Landing Despite Having Huge Hole Blown in Fuselage

All the Bomber Aircraft That Could Carry Nuclear Weapons

How Drones Could Become an Airline’s Best Friend

Autonomous Drones Can Land on Moving Cars Now

Fantastic Photo of a F-16 Flying Perfectly Straight Up in the Air

How a F-18 Super Hornet Gets Built from Beginning to End

US Pilots Forget How to Fly Manually, Says Department of Transportation

Guy Turns a Busted Heater Into a Cheap RC Plane

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