Collaborate Disseminate
One of the current hype trends is the supposedly imminent revolution in air transport. So many companies showing digital renderings and mockups to illustrate their own utopic vision for the future, reaching fevered pitch at events like CES 2020. But aviation has a long history of machinery that turned out …read more
Continue reading How Efficient Can An Airplane Be? The Celera 500L Sets To Find Out
Mankind’s fascination with airplanes is unbroken. Whether you’re outside with your camera, getting an actual glimpse of the aircraft, or sitting at home with your RTL-SDR dongle and have a look at them from a distance, tracking them is a fun pastime activity. Provided, of course, that you are living close by an airport or in an area with high enough air traffic. If not, well there’s always real-time tracking online to fall back to, and as [geomatics] will show you, you can build your own live flight tracking system with a few lines of Python.
As it’s usually the …read more
Continue reading Putting That Airplane On The Map – Live And With Python
A study showed which surfaces in an airport have the highest concentration of viruses, so make sure to wash your hands. Continue reading The Dirtiest Place in an Airport Is Not in the Bathroom
On the season two premiere of Science Solved It, we dive into one of the most pervasive conspiracy theories: chemtrails. Continue reading Send this Article to All Your Friends Who Believe in Chemtrails
“We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative penetration.”
Continue reading DHS says it remotely hacked a Boeing 757 sitting on a runway
Iran’s military unveiled a new version of its homebuilt Qaher F313 fighter jet last weekend, but a drive down the runway revealed it’s far from ready for flight. Continue reading Iran’s Stealth Fighter Is Still Fake and Not Convincing Anyone
Six months. Eight accidents. Eight destroyed Hornets and one damaged one. Five dead aviators. Continue reading The Military’s Hornet Fighters Are Falling Out of the Sky
A “hoverboard”? Pshaw. Those don’t really float on air. Get a supersonic jet plane instead. The post 12 Futuristic Gifts for the Early Adopter appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading 12 Futuristic Gifts for the Early Adopter
There were only 15 cranes left in the world. Then people stepped up. Continue reading How Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate By Following an Airplane