Founder and test-pilot Richard Browning of British human propulsion startup Gravity demonstrates the MegaMan-looking 1000bhp Gravity Jet Suit.
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Excalibur
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The shot of a lifetime, taken during yesterday’s solar eclipse by American photographer Kirsten Jorgensen.
Going Up
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Test pilot Murat Ospala takes an F-16 fighter to 15,000 feet in about 45 seconds, 30 of which are spent on the runway.
Hold onto your guts.
The always upbeat Boeing X-32.
Pano Am
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The windowless passenger cabin of the flight-time-halving Mach 1.8 (1200mph) Spike Aerospace S-512 supersonic business jet has ultra thin LCD displays embedded in the walls – relaying panoramic video from cameras on the plane’s exterior or from an onboard database.
We would select an underwater display, ensuring a restful flight from which we would disembark fully insane.
The high decibel take-off and flight of a 4.8 meter long, 1:15 scale RC model of an Airbus A380 filmed by Swiss RC enthusiast Thomas Bodmer and built by Michael Schlemmer.
The model has a 5.3 meter wingspan, four miniature jet engines and a 10.5l tank, weighing in at nearly 70kg.
Dirty bird.
Firebombing
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkB3M3DkXU
A blazing housefire in Russia is extinguished in an instant by a massive ‘waterbomb’ dropped by an amphibious Beriev Be-200 Altair.
Dempsey’s €100,000 trip estimate ‘wildly inaccurate’ says Department of Transport (RTE News)
Are you the girl reflected in the mirror? Must be odd seeing this.