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YouTuber Banned From Flying Over Allegations he Deliberately Crashed His Plane
Before we get into this fresh YouTube drama, I feel I should start this one by firstly confirming that I am not a qualified pilot. – Given that I do have around 11 hours of instructed flying, however, I’m by no means ignorant of the processes and training required to…
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Civilian Gets Accidentally Launched From Jet Ejector Seat
Civilian Accidentally Launched From Ejector Seat For those of you who have an interesting in flying and specifically military jets, it’s likely a dream to actually get to fly in one of them. For one particular passenger, however, that dream turned very quickly into a nightmare! In a report via…
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Intel Drone Chief Predicts Flying Cars Within 5 Years
Intel Drone Chief Predicts Flying Cars! If films like Blade Runner and Back To The Future have taught us anything, it’s that it’s dangerous about making predictions about the future of flying cars. We have, after all, exceeded both of the dates in those films. Despite this, I still find…
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Former Royal Marine Takes On Assault Course In Jet Suit
Jet Suit Shown Tackling Assault Course It has probably been the dream of many to own some kind of rocket jetpack. Well, if not then science fiction makers clearly seem to think so as it’s a subject they’ve regularly visited for over 70 years now. A now retired Royal Marine…
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Flying Cars Rumoured To Be Appearing At CES 2019
Flying Cars At CES 2019? Just in case you hadn’t noticed, we’re currently in 2019. I only make this point because according to Blade Runner we should now have access to flying cars. Oh, and the opportunity for a better life in the ‘Off-World’ Colony. Sadly, however, it seems that…
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Man Creates Flying Car Based On Drone Technology
Man Creates Flying Car Based On Drone Technology For the last 70 years, one of the biggest visions of the future is the creation and mass ownership of flying cars. In fairness, it’s a concept that does make a little sense. For example, there’s a lot less traffic up there…
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UK Jet Plane Reports ‘Closest-Ever’ Near Miss With Drone
UK Jet Plane Reports ‘Closest-Ever’ Near Miss With Drone One of the most popular tech gadgets released in the last 5 years certainly has to be drones. With their relatively inexpensive cost and ease of use, they have become wildly popular not only as a fascinating (and fun) toy but also…
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Pilot Reports Drone Deliberately Flown Towards His Aircraft!
Pilot Reports Drone Deliberately Flown Towards His Aircraft! Concerns over the size of drones and a handful of irresponsible owners have meant that the UK recently introduced much tougher rules regarding their ownership. Put simply, now they must be below a certain weight unless you’re certified. They must also only…
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Cybersecurity Experts Claims To Have Hacked Into Aircrafts
Cybersecurity Experts Claims To Have Hacked Into Aircrafts Cybersecurity is never far away from our minds in the modern world. We’re constantly being told to change our passwords or to make them so cryptic that we can barely remember them. During the Black Hat cybersecurity conference though, one member claims to…
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Boeing Reveal Plans For Hypersonic Commercial Plane
Boeing Reveal Plans For Hypersonic Commercial Plane Boeing is one of the biggest names in terms of aircraft. Their 747 and 737 models are some of the best known in commercial aviation. For the future though, it seems that Boeing wants to do something pretty impressive. In a report via…
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Star Wars Fighters Proven To Be Bad At Flying
Aerodynamics Software Proves The Star Wars X-Wing and Tie Fighters Are Bad At Flying In science fiction, there are very few spacecraft more iconic than the X-Wing and Tie Fighter. Ok, with the exception of those from Star Trek and, of course, the Millenium Falcon. It seems, however, that despite looking…
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Elon Musk Says Flying Cars Will Be Aerial Guillotines
Elon Musk Describes Flying Cars as aerial guillotines One of the biggest dreams of motorists is that one day we might be able to ditch the traffic and gridlock and be able to fly directly to our destination. In Back To The Future style, where we want to go, you…
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First Non-Stop Flight From Australia to UK Lands
Non-Stop Flight from Australia to the UK With the mass commercialization of flying, getting to anywhere in the world no longer represents a massive difficulty. One of the more taxing efforts for commuters, however, is the actual flying itself. This is particularly notable when you have to make a ‘change-over’.…
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Drones Under Scrutiny Again as Collision with Plane Confirmed
Drone regulation on the way? Drones are a pretty fun piece of technology. Most of us have, I would expect, owned or operated a drone. From an entry level ‘budget’ £20.00 going into the thousands, they can be amazingly accessible. With this, obviously comes misuse and again, we may find…
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Creating a Personal Flying Machine Could Earn You $2m
Up, Up and Awayyyyyyyyyyy… Having your own personal flying machine, like a rocket pack, is a dream of many. I daresay that many of us, as kids (or possibly adults) might have even doodled our own designs for how we could fly around the world. Well, those dreams could land…
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