Researchers Create Drone that Can Land on Moving Vehicle
21 Aug 2014, 08:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We saw recently a drone that is able to glide like a plane towards its destination and land itself on a special platform it can detect. Well, how about a drone that can land on a moving vehicle now?...
MVP Is an Aircraft You Use Both as a Boat and Camping Platform
20 Aug 2014, 16:06 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine a seaplane that you can use in mostly all the situations you’d encounter every time you leave for vacation. MVP Aero Model 3 was designed to touch down on land and water, while still b...
Lockheed Martin Completes First Autonomous War Scenario Mission
19 Aug 2014, 09:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Transformers are just another step closer to become true, now that Lockheed Martin in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) succe...
Boeing and South African Airways Will Turn Hybrid Tobacco in Bio Fuel
14 Aug 2014, 13:49 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Boeing and South African Airways have recently closed a partnership through which the two corporations will collaborate in making sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. Besid...
First Production ICON A5 Amphibious Plane Unveiled
31 Jul 2014, 11:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A small Cessna plane is a great thing to start your aviation career with, but that thing is almost ancient. Luckily enough, ICON Aircraft just officially unveiled the production version of their A5 ...
Rescue Helicopter Explodes After Crashing on a City Street: Caught on Camera
24 Jul 2014, 12:05 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A video recently uploaded on Youtube shows the terrible moment a search and rescue helicopter exploded into a fireball after crashing into a block of flats in South Korea. It would seem the aircraft...
Fastest Machine On Earth Goes on Sale this September
24 Jul 2014, 09:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / So, you’re a speed addict, right? That Bugatti and Koenigsegg in the garage can’t satisfy your need to go faster and faster? Well, then you might need to ask the marines to give you a ri...
The Taranis Drone Now Flies Fully Stealthy
23 Jul 2014, 18:44 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Named after the Celtic god of thunder, the Taranis concept drone is the pinnacle of UK engineering and aeronautical design, capable of undertaking sustained surveillance, marking targets and gatheri...
Hoverbike Drone Is a 1/3rd Scale Model Off The Actual Flying Motorcycle
23 Jul 2014, 16:20 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Researchers from UK-based Malloy Aeronautics have recently launched their Kickstarter campaign to develop a 1/3rd scale model drone of the actual Hoverbike they’ve been working on for years. T...
ICON A5 Amphibious Aircraft Has Automative Lotus Interior Design and You Want It
21 Jul 2014, 17:32 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Developed by ICON Aircraft, A5 is an American amphibious light-sport aircraft that has an automotive-style interior jointly developed with Lotus. It seats two people in an enclosed cockpit, powered ...
FireFly Alpha Is The Cheap Space Ride For Lightweight Satellites
9 Jul 2014, 16:14 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Private aerospace company FireFly Space Systems has revealed the design of their newest creation, the FireFly Alpha. The next generation vehicle aims to launch lightweight satellites for the cheapes...
The Aircraft of the Future Will Transform and Heal Itself While Still Flying
8 Jul 2014, 11:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / BAE Systems, a British multinational defence, security and aerospace company headquartered in London, has recently unveiled a couple of their newest futuristic concepts. Engineers expect 3D-pri...
Future Aircraft to Have Starcraft-like Onboard Drone Production
7 Jul 2014, 13:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you’re at least a casual gamer, you might have heard or played with the Protoss Carrier ship in Starcraft, the race’s ultimate airborne weapon against air and land targets. We’l...
World’s First Smartphone-Controlled Aircraft Is Cheap and Fun
2 Jul 2014, 16:18 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Toby Rich, a German company based-in Bremen that creates smartphone gadgets, has designed the world’s first smartphone-controlled aircraft. The SmartPlane is bluetooth-paired with its remote a...
Pall-V One Is a Hybrid Car and Gyroplane James Bond Would Love
28 Jun 2014, 19:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / While some people keep chasing celebrity diets and lifestyles, or watch football matches yet taking another sip of their 6-pack of beer, innovative engineers think of new ways to break mankind&rsquo...
This Austrian Is so Strong He Can Pull a 142-ton Boeing 777
27 Jun 2014, 12:19 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / What, you thought you need a truck to pull a Boeing? Well, think again, because this 44-year old strongman from Austria just broke all the odds pulling an 142 tons airplane by only using his strengt...
Czech Private Army Museum Has Stalin’s Statue Sitting Next to Spitfire · Video
16 Jun 2014, 09:13 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Jay Leno collects cars and we know all about that, Elton John is more of the sunglasses collector, so it shouldn't surprise us that some people in this world collect weapons. But when it comes ...
Engineer Converts Boeing 727 into Home, Hides It in the Woods
10 Jun 2014, 13:10 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine going for a short tracking trip in the woods when suddenly you see a 153 foot (456 meters) (46 meters) passenger plane right in the middle of it. That is exactly what you’ll experience...
Sunseeker Takes World's First Solar-Powered Passenger Flight
2 Jun 2014, 15:23 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Solar Flight, the company that created the first airplane to make the first solar powered crossing of America in 1990, has recently announced that their newest airplane had made the world’s fi...
Virgin Galactic: One Step Closer to the Edge of Space
2 Jun 2014, 09:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The privately-funded space company owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS (Public Joint Stock Company) have recently signed a key agreement wit...