How Planes Keep Flying After an Engine Catches Fire
A Boeing 777 shed huge chunks of metal over a Denver suburb over the weekend—but wasn’t in danger of going down itself. Continue reading How Planes Keep Flying After an Engine Catches Fire
Tag Archives: Aviation
Scrappy: Drag Racing Bush Plane
We like to feature hacks that are affordable and accessible to the average person, but from time to time it’s fun to dream about the projects we’ll tackle when we’re all grown up and stinking rich. [Mike Patey] appears to …read more
MIT’s hybrid electric plane concept captures its own harmful pollutants
Shifting to alternative propulsion technologies could go a long way toward cleaning up the pollution created by the aviation sector, and a new design cooked up by MIT scientists offers an intriguing look at a potential solution. The engineering team be… Continue reading MIT’s hybrid electric plane concept captures its own harmful pollutants
FAA clears the path for supersonic flight testing over US soil
There’s a new crop of supersonic aircraft beginning to sprout, thanks to advances in engine, materials and satellite weather tracking that will enable aircraft to break the sound barrier over land without the disruptive noise pollution of a sonic boom … Continue reading FAA clears the path for supersonic flight testing over US soil
Has COVID-19 changed the aerospace industry forever?
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted society and ordinary citizens on a scale not seen since the Second World War. Whole continents have been paralyzed, economies have been shut down, and civil rights have been restricted in an effort to fight the virus…. Continue reading Has COVID-19 changed the aerospace industry forever?
Avionics Safety and Secured Connectivity: A Look at DO-326A/ED-202A, DO-355 and DO-356
One of the major improvements that the avionics industry is undergoing is an Internet of Things (IoT) upgrade. And this is inevitably affecting how airlines approach aircraft safety. From the beginning, safety has been paramount to the aviation industr… Continue reading Avionics Safety and Secured Connectivity: A Look at DO-326A/ED-202A, DO-355 and DO-356
Peter Sripol’s DIY Electric Ultralight MK4
Peter Sripol really likes building gravity defying death traps. He recently flew the fourth ultralight, which he designed and built himself. For a taste of what’s going on here, the wings have aluminum tube spars and are made of hot-wire-cut styrofoam sections.
To keep the plane simple, he got rid …read more
Lessons from barn owl flight could help aircraft handle strong winds
Intrigued by the remarkable ability of birds to remain stable in the face of powerful winds, aerospace engineers in the UK have carried out a study to examine the phenomenon in great detail. By observing a barn owl in flight as it contended with bluste… Continue reading Lessons from barn owl flight could help aircraft handle strong winds
Samad Aerospace proposes high-speed, long-range, hybrid VTOL jetplanes
Some 50 miles outside London, roughly in between Cambridge and Oxford, lies a decent-sized town called Milton Keynes. A couple of miles outside Milton Keynes sits Cranfield Airport, originally built in World War 2. It’s got a couple of runways, one tha… Continue reading Samad Aerospace proposes high-speed, long-range, hybrid VTOL jetplanes
Two major flight tracking services hit by crippling cyberattacks
By Waqas
It is still unclear who is behind these cyberattacks however both Flightradar24 and PlaneFinder suffered major service disruption after the attacks.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Two major flight tracking services hi… Continue reading Two major flight tracking services hit by crippling cyberattacks