‘You Are Not Leaving Without Us’: Why Disabled Astronauts Are Key to Humanity’s Future in Space

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“I went silent,” Dwayne Fernandes told me. “I shut the hell up.” Fernandes, a double-amputee since the age of 11, was recounting his experience in weightlessness, having recently participated in a parabolic flight alongside a disabled research crew. The zero-g flight threw him into a deeply contemplative state, and as…

5 people including the patient died when a private air ambulance crashed in Nevada on Friday night

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A Pilatus PC-12 similar to the one that crashed in Nevada on Friday.
A Pilatus PC-12 similar to the plane that crashed in Nevada on Friday.

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AI-Controlled Fighter Jet Flies 17 Hours Without Pilot's Help

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced it has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm for a self-flying F-16 fighter jet less than three years after creating the control simulated F-16 jet.

DJI Updated Its Entry Level Lightweight Drone So It Flies For a Full Minute Longer

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The DJI Mini lineup offers some of the best drones on the market for novice pilots, starting with the very affordable $279 DJI Mini SE. Today, DJI revealed an upgraded version of that entry-level model, the DJI Mini 2 SE, which comes with some minor performance improvements, and like everything else these days, a…

A standard high-altitude research tool became the world's most-tracked aircraft after thousands of people mistook it for the suspected Chinese spy balloon

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A balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, on February 1, 2022.
A balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, on February 1, 2022.

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Boeing just made its last-ever 747 jumbo jet, ending a 5-decade era. See 7 ways the Queen of the Skies changed the industry forever.

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The first Boeing 747 at the Everett assembly line.
The first Boeing 747 at the Everett assembly line.

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Billionaire Richard Branson calls the Boeing 747 a 'wonderful beast' after the last jumbo jet is delivered but says it was 'too expensive'

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Sir Richard Branson stands on the wing of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 at Heathrow Airport.
Sir Richard Branson stands on the wing of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 at Heathrow Airport.

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See inside the Boeing 787 flight simulator where Singapore Airlines pilots train

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Singapore Airlines Boeing 787 flight simulator.
Singapore Airlines Boeing 787 flight simulator.

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Aviation's best bet for cutting emissions is a new kind of fuel — but there's nowhere near enough of it

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An operator performs the maneuver to refuel an airplane.
Current US production of sustainable aviation fuel is around 4.5 million gallons per year. The White House wants to up production to 3 billion gallons by 2030, in order to fully decarbonize aviation by 2050.

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Boeing is ramping up production of its 737 and 787 jets. See inside the factory where the MAX planes are built.

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Boeing 737 factory tour.
Insider toured the factory in June 2022.

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