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Flying inside the cockpit of a fighter jet is the best roller coaster

Strap yourself in your chair. Put down the coffee mug. And make sure you have an empty stomach because you’re about to take a ride in a flying roller coaster. Or well, the closest thing there is to a flying roller coaster. The video below gives you the backseat cockpit view of an ultra low…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 20

China’s J-15 Flying Sharks Are Actually Russian Knockoffs

No surprise here. Like some of China’s other new planes, its new J-15 fighter jet is really just a clone of an older Russian design. But can a clone surpass its master copy? China hopes the answer is yes. The J-15 Flying Shark is a derivative of the Russian SU-33, which entered service in the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 6

British Fighter Jets Are Flying With 3D-Printed Parts

BAE Systems, which helps the UK’s RAF put together its aircraft, has revealed that some Tornado fighter jets have been flying with spare parts built using a 3D printer. Flights heading out from BAE’s Warton airfield in the UK have seen Tornado GR4s flying off with 3D printed cockpit radio covers, support struts and power…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK Jan 6

These skydiving lunatics prove the world has always had total badasses

Borderline supermen have been making crazy dives at the Earth since long before Felix Baumgarnter took a fall from space. Here are a pair of back-in-the-day badasses in a 1941 “Death Dive Race” to the ground. And looking back on it today they still seem as ballsy as ever.

Sploid Eric Limer Jan 3

Who Needs Fireworks When You’ve Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

Sure, light painting is awesome when you’re doing long exposure shots with a PixelStick or something, but that’s only one way to cover your world in glowing graffiti. Take, for instance, this LED-powered rainbow plane. Whipped up by Instructables user roballoba, the rainbow plane (planebow?) is a pretty involved process, but the results are worth…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 1

The World’s First Supersonic Private Jet Will Only Cost $80 Million

For the world’s super-wealthy CEOs, time is money. To minimize how long corporate leaders are away from the helm of their empires, start-up Spike Aerospace wants to deliver them to their destinations in half the time of conventional planes by shuttling them around at Mach 1.6. Developed by a team of ex-Gulfstream, Eclipse, and Airbus…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 30

This wonderful sound is a turbine engine’s worst nightmare

Turbines are huge, intricate, beautiful machines. And if you drop something inside of them, they double as musical instruments. But as YouTuber AgentJayZ demonstrates, the delightful xylophone sound that makes is actually horrible. Why? If you’ve got a screw in there and you turn it on, you’re going to be the owner of a brand…

Sploid Eric Limer Dec 26

How to Survive an Uninterrupted 72-Hour-Long Flight Simulation

Methods for staying awake during a long haul get pretty tired. Seriously, you can only slap yourself in the face so many times. So when Bertrand Piccard needed to figure out how to stay alert during a 72-hour-long test in a flight simulator this week, he got creative. Piccard is one of two pilots who…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 20

This Was the First Plane To Cost $1 Billion More Than We Expected

Delivering America’s military might to foreign shores is no small feat, especially when that might is the size of an M-1 Abrams tank. For more than half a century, we’ve relied on one of the largest military aircraft in existence to do so—a plane that ended up costing just a little more to build than…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 19

These New Sensors Will Turn Passenger Jets Into Flying Weathervanes

Despite our best efforts, accurately predicting the weather remains about as easy as accurately predicting the next winning Powerball numbers. But with the installation of a new type of humidity sensor, the fleets of commercial passenger jets that inhabit our skies could soon provide meteorologists an unprecedented look at the sky—in real-time. Developed through a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 16

Airports Are Pretty Awesome When They’re Not Stressing You Out

The default emotions in airports are pretty much all negative. You’re either late, exhausted, frustrated, hungry, regretting Panda Express, remembering all the crucial things that were in the checked bag you’ll never see again, or composing a complaint letter/Tweet in your head. But airports are also beautiful. Photographer Owen Scharlotte shot this time lapse of…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Dec 8

This Nuclear Bomber Could Break the Sound Barrier Twice Over

Delivering a nuclear strike is only the first phase of a mission. Next comes the most important part: hightailing it out of there before the entire area turns to glass. And for crews aboard America’s first supersonic bomber, getting the heck out of Dodge was done at twice the speed of sound. Developed for the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 6

Boing 474: The Chinese Are Now Knocking Off Our Airplanes

Chinese manufacturers are experts at knocking off just about anything, from “Rat Ban” sunglasses and “Wee” gaming consoles to, yes, “HiPhones.” But now it looks like they’re very close to copying another American export: They’re bootlegging our Boeing 747s. Copying our planes is actually nothing new for the Chinese aerospace industry. This has been going…

Tech News Alissa Walker Dec 2

The First In-Flight Movies Had a Live Orchestra

As crude as they may seem when compared to the home theater setups we enjoy in our living rooms, the in-flight entertainment options available on most flights have come a long way. Although, it’s hard not to feel a tinge of sadness that movies accompanied by live orchestras never caught on. Now that was flying…

Movies Andrew Liszewski Nov 29

Why Airlines Don’t Just Add More Holiday Flights

Every year around the holidays airports are jammed with travellers heading all over the country. And it begs the question: if this happens so regularly and reliably, why don’t airlines just add more flights this time of year to keep up with the demand? As CNBC’s Phil LeBeau discovered, it’s not as easy as just…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 28

An iPhone-Piloted RC Plane That Does Most of the Flying For You

You may not need a pilot’s licence to take the controls of a remote control toy plane, but that doesn’t mean that keeping it in the air is easy. And to ensure that this iPhone-controlled RC SmartPlane spends more time flying than careening towards the ground, it features special software that automatically (and secretly) makes…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 26

The Kids in This Billboard Point at Actual Planes Flying Overhead

In an attempt to entice more people to travel on its airline, British Airways has created a couple of digital billboards to promote its ‘Magic of Flying’ campaign where footage of children pointing at actual planes flying overhead is displayed. The only problem is that’s actually a little creepy. The advertisements use readily available GPS,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 21

Folding Wings Will Let Boeing’s New 777x Squeeze Into Small Airports

Commercial planes have gotten bigger and bigger over the past few decades, but the size of the gate at most airports have stayed the same. To circumvent this little infrastructural disconnect, Boeing’s future 777x jet will have a massive wingspan that folds up upon landing. The 777x is already in the news this week, after…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 18

7 Repurposed Military Vehicles Hiding Out in Civilian Life

It’s no mystery that technology developed to fight wars comes in handy during peacetime. From duct tape to the internet, some of the most important pieces of modern technology were developed by the military. Badass vehicles are no exception. All kinds of vehicles, both big and small—but mostly big—make their way back home after carrying…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 13

If only all planes could empty out 873 passengers in 78 seconds

Let’s hope none of us ever have to be put in a situation where we have to evacuate an airplane but this 2006 evacuation test of an Airbus A380 makes our current plane deplaning process look like a complete waste of time. The test incredibly emptied out all 873 passengers of the plane in less…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 11

Flying inside the cockpit of a fighter jet is the best roller coaster

China’s J-15 Flying Sharks Are Actually Russian Knockoffs

British Fighter Jets Are Flying With 3D-Printed Parts

These skydiving lunatics prove the world has always had total badasses

Who Needs Fireworks When You’ve Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

The World’s First Supersonic Private Jet Will Only Cost $80 Million

This wonderful sound is a turbine engine’s worst nightmare

How to Survive an Uninterrupted 72-Hour-Long Flight Simulation

This Was the First Plane To Cost $1 Billion More Than We Expected

These New Sensors Will Turn Passenger Jets Into Flying Weathervanes

Airports Are Pretty Awesome When They’re Not Stressing You Out

This Nuclear Bomber Could Break the Sound Barrier Twice Over

Boing 474: The Chinese Are Now Knocking Off Our Airplanes

The First In-Flight Movies Had a Live Orchestra

Why Airlines Don’t Just Add More Holiday Flights

An iPhone-Piloted RC Plane That Does Most of the Flying For You

The Kids in This Billboard Point at Actual Planes Flying Overhead

Folding Wings Will Let Boeing’s New 777x Squeeze Into Small Airports

7 Repurposed Military Vehicles Hiding Out in Civilian Life

If only all planes could empty out 873 passengers in 78 seconds

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