How clever designs helped save 80 people after their plane caught fire, lost a wing and skidded down a runway upside down
When Delta Flight 4819 from Minneapolis to Toronto landed in a fiery crash that ripped off a wing and rolled the plane upside ...
Unique Engine Placement: A Look At The Engineering And Design Features Of The HondaJet
The HondaJet  - sleek and efficient, dive into how over-the-wing engines and innovative design makes this small jet ...
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Wind over its wing: NASA's X-66 model tests airflow
NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project recently concluded wind tunnel tests of its X-66 semi-span model in ...
See the US Air Force's 'Franken-bird' F-35 made from wrecked stealth fighters take its first flight
Restoring the salvaged 'Franken-bird' F-35A Lightning fighter jet cost an estimated $6 million, a fraction of the $80 million ...
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NASA Subjects X-66 Semi-Span Model to Wind Tunnel Tests
Read about the latest tests conducted with the X-66 aircraft, NASA’s experimental airliner being developed with Boeing.
The Time A Hawker Sea Fury Propeller Fighter Took Down A MiG-15 Jet
On August 9, 1952, during the Korean War, a flight of four Hawker Sea Furys took off from the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier, ...
The moment 80 lives were upended – literally – and tragedy was averted during the fiery crash of a Delta flight in Toronto
Minutes before touching down at Toronto Pearson International Airport after relatively uneventful trip from Minneapolis, Delta Flight 4819 was cleared for landing on runway 23 under a westerly wind ...
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Engineers develop batlike wings that boost hovering efficiency and flight performance
French entomologist Antoine Magnan wrote that bumblebees "should not be able to fly," as their small wings should theoretically not be able to produce enough lift. It took modern high-speed camera ...
I fly Britain’s first revolutionary ‘air taxi’ – it can slash an hour-long journey to just 11 minutes
SIMON Davies strapped in his seatbelt, pushed forward the joystick in front of him, and blasted his ‘flying taxi’ straight up into the air. It might sound like a scene from futuristic ...
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The F-111 Aardvark Was a “Bomb Truck” in the Skies
The F-111 Aardvark’s fuselage could lug bomb loads up to 31,000 pounds and fuel for missions up to 2,500 miles long. When the ...
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All 67 victims from Potomac crash recovered as more wreckage removed from river
Crews working in choppy conditions raised a number of large pieces of the jetliner from the Potomac River, including the right wing ... its 200-foot (61-meter) flight ceiling.