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Woman Who Claimed She Was Surgically Implanted with a Device Disrupts Flight Headed to America [Planes]
There was a big scare earlier this afternoon when US Airways Flight 787 was re-directed from Charlotte, North Carolina to Bangor, Maine because a passenger was "acting suspiciously". F-15 fighter jets raced at maximum subsonic speed to intercept the plane and had the pilot force-land in Maine. It...
The New Do-It-All Airbus Tanker Transport Will Keep the RAF Flying High [Video]
As the Royal Air Force's fleet of heavy transport and tanker jets come to the end of their operational service lives, the RAF is faced with replacing a lot of planes. Luckily, the new Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport is a union jack of all trades.More »
Riding Along In Red Bull's Stunt Plane Won't Help Your Fear Of Flying [Video]
You can strap a GoPro camera to literally anything and the footage will be mesmerizing. But when you strap them all over Red Bull's air racing plane while it's being piloted by champion Kirby Chambliss, well then you've got a real excuse to put away that spreadsheet for a few minutes.More »...
Three Delta Employees Charged Over $600,000 Drug Duffle [Crime]
If you're going to smuggle a half-million dollars worth for heroin and speed through Hartsfield-Jackson International, try not to forget it at baggage claim.More »
The USAF's Ultimate Flight Simulator Had Two Cockpits and Actually Flew [Monster Machines]
Before spending the cash on expensive, full-size aircraft prototypes, US Air Force engineers needed a way to ensure that their experimental designs actually, well, worked. Their solution—an airborne flight simulator mounted on the front of a transport plane.More »
12 Mechanical Flight Sims from Aerospace's Analog Era [Design]
And you thought testing the F-117 was a feat? In the days before building a full-scale 737 mock-up in your garage was possible, flight schools and even NASA relied on mechanical simulators to train pilots. Our friends at Oobject have collected 12 of the most advanced simulators of the day.More &r...
Watching This Is the Closest You'll Get to Aerial Combat [Video]
If you've ever dreamt of flying a jet into war—I see you, joystick jockeys—this incredible GoPro footage is your best new alternative. Watch it in fullscreen if you actually want to feel nauseous.More »
This Is What the F-35 Looks Like Heading to War [Image Cache]
The F-35, the most expensive, long-running practical joke in American military history, just hit another milestone: aerial refueling with a serious weapon loadout. It's all for fun, of course, but this under shot shows what it would look like on the way to rain death from above.More »
20 WWII-Era Planes Are About to be Exhumed from a Secret Burmese Location [Planes]
David Cundall, a British aviation enthusiast, has spent 15 years and about $200,000 trying to recover a group of 20 WWII-era Spitfire planes that were buried in 1945 in an undisclosed location in Burma, after being dubbed surplus back in 1945.More »
Flight Aborted 392 Feet Before Landing Because Pilot Was Texting [Flying]
It's pretty widely accepted that you shouldn't text and operate a vehicle. Especially when that vehicle is a commercial aircraft. Apparently one pilot, though, hasn't taken that advice to heart. And he almost killed a few hundred people because of it.More »
