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Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4C Triton long-range drone completes first flight (video)

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Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft is one step closer to serving the Navy in reconnaissance and surveillance missions, having just completed its first flight. The drone spent 80 minutes in the air, reaching an altitude of 20,000 feet. That’s child’s play compared to the aircraft’s full potential: according to the Navy, it can soar at up to 60,000 feet and stay airborne for as long as 30 hours, due in no small part to its 130-foot wingspan. By 2015, the Triton will undergo operational testing and evaluation, and the Navy hopes to add additional aircraft to its existing fleet (currently just two strong). Check out the long-range spy plane in action just past the break.

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Harvard University’s robotic insect takes its first controlled flight (video)

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There’s hardly a shortage of animal inspired robots, but few are as tiny as Harvard’s autonomous RoboBee. The robotic insect has been around for a while, but researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering only recently managed a minor breakthrough: controlled flight. Using new manufacturing and design processes, the team has managed to keep the coin-sized bug aloft by independently manipulating the robot’s wings with piezoelectric actuators and a delicate control system.

“This is what I have been trying to do for literally the last 12 years,” explains Professor Robert J Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “Now that we’ve got this unique platform, there are dozens of tests that we’re starting to do, including more aggressive control maneuvers and landing.” There’s more to be done, however. The tiny machine still requires a tether for power and control, and researchers are still studying nature to suss out how insects cope with flying through wind and the elements. Eventually, the team hopes to outfit the RoboBee with lightweight batteries, an internal control system and a lighter chassis. For now, however, they’re just happy to learned to steer. Check out the insect in action after the break.

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Ethiopian Airlines completes first commercial 787 Dreamliner flight since grounding

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Nervous flyer? If so, it’s probably best you weren’t heading from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on business recently. If you were, you might have found yourself onboard the first commercial 787 Dreamliner flight since the global fleet was grounded due to concerns over battery failures. The flight comes just days after the FAA approved Boeing’s fix, prompting deliveries of the new craft to resume. With Japan already having cleared the 787 for takeoff, we can expect to see a few more of them in our skies soon. We’re more interested in joining the mile-high Android club.

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SpaceX’s prototype rocket Grasshopper hovers at 820 feet in highest flight yet

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Author: Rod Sutherland

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SpaceX last night released a video of the latest successful test flight of its Grasshopper prototype rocket, a spacecraft designed to launch and land vertically. We’ve already seen the Grasshopper hit some impressive marks, flying over 260 feet high in March before landing precisely back on the launch pad at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas. But this latest test flight, Grasshopper’s fifth, continues SpaceX’s goal of launching the rocket to ever-increasing heights, this time up to 820 feet. Even more impressive, the rocket managed to hover in place at that height, holding “against wind,” before returning squarely to the launch pad, as SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted.

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First ‘express’ flight to the International Space Station cuts travel time from two days to six hours

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Author: Alexander McQueen

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Usually, trips from the earth to the International Area Station take about two days– however today, the first manned “specific” air travel to the ISS removed and anticipates to make the journey in only 6 hours. The air travel, manned by one NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, removed today at 4:43 PM EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan; it’s anticipated to dock by 12:10 AM EDT tonight. While this is the first manned flight to make this specific flight (where the Soyuz spacecraft makes 4 orbits of the earth prior to reaching the ISS), a variety of unmanned cargo air travels have currently made the fast journey. When the Soyuz spacecraft arrives, the 3 astronauts will stay at the ISS for the next six months. If you’re interested …

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The Highs and Lows of Human-Powered Flight

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Author: Angela Chin

On March 19th 2012, YouTube individual jarnosmeets80 uploaded the a video to YouTube entitled “Flying like a bird|part 14/14.” In it, a guy putting on a set of homemade wings and a helmet with a GoPro connected achieves exactly what lots of wishful-thinkers, experts and millennia of wingless bipeds have long imagined doing: flying. Regretfully, one month later the video’s developer, filmmaker Floris Kaayk, admitted the whole thing was an intricate hoax. Skeptics will have been quick to dismiss the video directly away, and anything more than a general Google search might have convinced most of the exact same. But, with more than 7 million views at time of this writing, it’s pretty clear that as a land-based types, it doesn’t take much for us to suspend our disbelief at the idea of being able to fly. Even if it is just for one minute and 50 seconds. Head past the break to check out even more.

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10-Foot Python Rides On Plane Wing, Dies During Flight

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Author: Margo Tipton

WARNING: IT’S HARD TO WATCH THAT POOR BASTARD GETTING BEAT AGAINST THE PLANE DURING FLIGHT, I RECOMMEND NOT WATCHING THE VIDEO UNLESS YOU’RE ADAM OR EVE AND HAVE A SERIOUS THING AGAINST SNAKES.

This is a video of a 3-meter python trying to fly without paying from Australia to Papua New Guinea aboard a Qantas Airlines flight. Things didn’t work out too hot for him. And not just because there was no beverage service either.

The snake–an Amethystine python–didn’t survive the hard trip, killed either by the 248mph wind (400km/h) or the 10.4F (-12C) temperatures. When the plane arrived to its destination, the snake was still hanging from the wing, already dead.

Aw man, that sucks. My only hope is that he’d always dreamed of flying like a bird and died fulfilling that life-long fantasy. “Get real, GW.” I WAS TRYING TO BE POSITIVE. He died f***ing cold and alone, you happy? “Let’s go with the bird thing.” Well it’s too late now!

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Northrop Grumman, Cassidian run Euro Hawk UAV through its first full test flight (video)

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Author: Jack Schmidt

Europe isn’t fairly as securely on the bleeding edge of UAVs as the US. Northrop Grumman and EADS-run Cassidian just brought the continent one action more detailed with the initial complete evaluate air travel of Euro Hawk. A brand-new take on the International Hawk HALE with a new objective system from Cassidian, it ought to be the continent’s initial military UAV that mates both long air travel durations with high elevation: the two partners expect Euro Hawk to gather strategic intelligence from up to 60,000 feet and for as long as 30 hours before it has to touch down. There’s more screening to go previously active service starts– the initial air travel only lasted eight hours, for instance– however the unmanned leaflet must at some point keep watch over German soldiers and areas well past the restrictions of human stamina.

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Google tests Flight Explorer tool, offers more visual and powerful ticket searches

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Google could have updated its trip search device for tablets simply a few months back, however it’s been a while because its desktop equivalent saw a refresh. Presently being checked under decision sign “Air travel Explorer”, the outfit has a new providing that offers a more customizable and aesthetic interface to help root out an appropriate plane ticket. While the filters are virtually the same as the existing Google Flights browse engine, there’s a new slider to pick trip length, an upfront indicator of the very best offered ticket rate for the selected timeframe, along with useful graphs that show rate over time, and which yield up specifics when you hover over them with your mouse pointer. There’s every chance that these new additions will certainly be merged into Google Air travels as soon as any sort of crinkles have been settled, but in the meantime there’s nothing to stop you utilizing it at the link below. And hello, deliver us a postcard!

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Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes first US domestic flight with United Airlines

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Author: Jenny Zhao

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Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is formally now in solution on United States domestic paths, following its first international landing on American ground back in April. The state-of-the-art airplane landed at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on Sunday early morning after a journey from Houston run by United Airlines. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the plane landed practically 15 minutes ahead of timetable to an ovation from the travelers and crew.

United has actually bought 50 Dreamliners, of which two have actually been delivered up until now; they will initially run on courses that additionally absorb Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco, and Washington. If you’re interested in seeing the aircraft’s interior however aren’t anticipating taking a journey any type of time quickly, United has actually l.

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