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"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
7 May 2024, 10:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It may not be pretty, big, or menacing, as many of the drones the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is presently using are, but this little contraption here has the honor of being (perhaps) the world's fastest drone when it comes to the time it needs to g...
7 May 2024, 10:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you really want to get noticed in your neighborhood and money is not an issue, then you can definitely go for a brand-new Mercedes-Maybach EQS. Imposing and screaming luxury through all its seams, the $179,900 German electric SUV is at the top o...
7 May 2024, 08:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It is obvious to anyone looking that drones of all shapes and sizes are rapidly taking over our world. From devices meant to shoot insane videos, these things have grown in a very short period of time into pieces of hardware able to do pretty much ...
7 May 2024, 07:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / And here goes another failed attempt at launching the SpaceX Crew Dragon-rivaling Starliner spacecraft. For what it's worth, though, this time it was not something Boeing did (or didn't do), but a fault with the spacecraft's launch r...
6 May 2024, 12:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of April the world got news of the first example of a brand-new breed of uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUV) being ready. The company that broke the news was Northrop Grumman, and it appears these guys only let us know about the dro...
6 May 2024, 11:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Cab-over-engine (COE) trucks are a special breed of monsters. A fairly common design over in Europe and elsewhere, where they serve transportation and logistic needs on a daily basis, these things can be seen over in the U.S. performing mostly tras...
6 May 2024, 10:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Motorcycle riding is a relatively easy thing to do, once you get the hang of it. Even the two most challenging things for newbies, keeping one's balance and gear shifting, tend to fade into the background once some experience is gained, and, l...
6 May 2024, 08:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space tourism is a relatively new concept that is quickly catching on. Taking advantage of the advancements made in recent years when it comes to rocket and spacecraft design, several companies are presently offering trips to space in exchange for ...
4 May 2024, 22:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Car auctions are events so common on the American automotive scene that the world at large rarely pays them a lot of attention. Yet from time to time a vehicle so special shows up that it makes such events the talk of the day in the industry. And t...
4 May 2024, 21:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not an easy thing for a company playing in the automotive industry (be it a maker of four- or two-wheeled vehicles) to be able to invent new segments, and it's equally hard to invent new names for existing segments. Yet such things d...
3 May 2024, 22:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Few people are as important for the American (but also larger) automotive industry as Carroll Shelby. The American is no longer among us, but the huge shadow he cast during his lifetime will probably still be noticeable for decades to come, and it ...
3 May 2024, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Moon is a peculiar thing in the skies of our world. A companion to Earth since times immemorial, it always shows us the same face, meaning there's an entire half of the satellite we know very little about. And China just sent a probe there...
3 May 2024, 09:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Flight corridors are, if you will, roads in the sky. They're the invisible freeways aircraft follow to get from point A to point B while keeping safe and well away from other planes and helicopters. Flight corridors are mostly reserv...
3 May 2024, 08:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Custom cars are always head turners, and depending on who made them and why, they can even turn in very valuable possessions. In this respect, you can't get anything better than a Chevrolet Bel Air that was touched, even marginally so, by an i...
2 May 2024, 13:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Car racing is one of the most challenging (and, at the same time, rewarding) activities humans can engage in. Many have given it a shot over the years, but very few have climbed to the top of this exciting world. For many, Mario Andretti is the dri...
2 May 2024, 11:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / External fuel tanks, or drop tanks as they are sometimes called, are common in military aviation. Dating back to 1923, when the pilots of the Spanish Civil War used them to extend the range of their airplanes, external fuel tanks have become must-h...
2 May 2024, 11:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of military drones is a very diverse one at the time of writing, and chances are the offer will continue to diversify as conflicts become more and more complicated. But many of today's drones owe their existence to the pioneers of th...
2 May 2024, 09:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like it or not, robots of all shapes and sizes have been with us for decades now. They are meant to help us in factories, aid us in dangerous circumstances and environments, and overall make our lives easier. We like all these robots, and we’...
2 May 2024, 07:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American carmaker Dodge started 2024 with a very exciting piece of news for fans of HEMI-powered SUVs: it let loose the Durango SRT 392 AlcHEMI Last Call. The news did have a darker side to it, though, as the model is to mark the final year of the ...
1 May 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Rolls-Royce Spectre is the most recent luxury land yacht made over in Britain. On the market for less than a year, the model is at the top of its game in terms of everything, and that's reflected in the thing's sale price: about $422,...