Here’s a cool airplane hack on how to land a 747 just in case.
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Get on the radio, and tell whoever’s listening that you are landing a 747.
Engage a single channel of the autopilot — light one of the buttons labeled “CMD.” Point the headin ...
Concorde may be one of the fastest airplanes that most of us will ever ride in our lifetime and someone has made a 1:1 real life-size replica of the Concorde engine using what he learned from a $10 Concorde engine repair book he bought on eBay.
This engine might not run but I am ...
Moller has been building flying cars for decades now based in Davis, California, the same town that I went to college. I remember hearing about my friends who “saw” a flying car in the field at least couple times a month before I found out about it blogging.
Anyway ...
SX02 Flight Simulators with Surround Sound and 3 LCDs!
For gamers and flying enthusiasts, having a SX02 Flight Simulator in the house might not be such a bad idea. Afterall, the SX02 Flight Simulators come loaded with surround displays (3 LCDs) and every control, peripheral you ...
DIY - How to Make your own RC Helicopter!
Although most of us would be better off buying an RC helicopter off the rack at the local hobby store, you can make your own if you want to with this terrific DIY guide on how to make your own RC helicopter.
Flying RC helicopter is reall ...
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Stanford computer scientists have figured how to teach autonomous helicopters how to do stunt maneuvers.
It sounds like a great idea to me if they can apply this to general robotics.
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Perhaps, this MotoPod will let more people with personal airplanes to get around town easier by letting them stash their favorite dirt bike/motorcycle under the plane.
…basically a carg ...
Here’s a cool video of the A380 taking off. (See this post for what an A380 looks like inside)
I can’t wait to get a seat in one of these airplanes.
The cam feed can be shown on the seat-back displays and gives you an almost Superman-like view of the aircraft from ...
Yey, the Martin Jetpack is out. It looks like a lot of fun, maybe even more so than hang gliding.
Little is known about the capabilities of this flying machine, though sources familiar with its design say it can fly 100 times longer than previous jetpacks. Historically, 26 se ...
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