Flying taxi by Toyota
Endgadget (yes, I know) enthuses over the Toyota-backed SkyDrive flying car, tested with a pilot at a Toyota facility: The SD-03 is billed as the […]
Endgadget (yes, I know) enthuses over the Toyota-backed SkyDrive flying car, tested with a pilot at a Toyota facility: The SD-03 is billed as the […]
Click to embiggen This illustration, by Erik Nitsche and Roslyn Welcher, is from a book by CBF Macauley that claims to be “the first complete […]
Click to embiggen NASA, for a while, was looking at different ways an aircraft’s body could be used to generate lift, rather than having wings […]
This airship is a kind of ancestor of the blimp or dirigible, designed by 19th-century American artist and inventor Rufus Porter, who’s perhaps best remembered […]
Click to embiggen This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel. In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying […]
Popular Science introduces us to “The Plimp,” a vehicle that hopes to be a nearly unsinkable aircraft: With a rigid, winged body held underneath a […]
Click to embiggen The European Space Agency has a way with names. This is in their image library as “Engine.” The description offers little more […]
Click to embiggen “Internal view of a Pratt & Whitney J58 afterburner and exhaust nozzle.” Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Click to embiggen This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a […]
Popular Science looks at the the backyard engineering that goes into an effective homemade military drone: To better understand ISIS drones, I spoke with an […]
Click to embiggen This is an image from this NASA eBook on high-flying fashions: Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but […]
Reuters tells the story behind the one-time spy airship entering civilian service as “the flying bum”: The Airlander 10, known in Britain as ‘the flying […]
CityMetric takes a look at why the zeppelins went down in the end… and how one new system might bring them back Today, the Van […]
Nature profiles the amazing new high-atmosphere vehicle for exploring space from Antarctica: If all continues smoothly, experts expect the flight to last for 100 days […]
You probably know about the Moller SkyCar and you might have heard of the Terrafugia “roadable plane.” Well, now, The Guardian is reporting on a […]
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