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PR Pictures taken by photographer Lee Durant at Heathrow Terminal 5 for Advanced Transport Systems Limited. Advanced Transport Systems, Heathrow Driverless Ultra Vehicle passenger delivery system. Images taken on the 19th March 2010.

I, Pod

London Heathrow rolls out personal pods to replace buses.

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Brave Archivist Rifles Through Clinton’s Stuff, Rewarded

Among the list of things one expects to find while sifting through former President Bill Clinton’s stuff, a lost moon rock might be low on the list.

101219-N-2953W-028 PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 19, 2010) Sailors position aircraft markers on the Ouija board during a simulated general quarters drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are on a three-week composite training unit exercise followed by a deployment to the U.S. 7th and 5th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Adrian T. White/Released)

Last Seance

Aircraft carriers replace ouija boards with digital displays.

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Canadian Air & Space Museum Body Checked by Ice Rink

The Canadian Air & Space Museum arrived last Tuesday to an eviction notice and the news that four ice rinks were to be built in their space.

F-22 Raptor.

F-22 Pilots Breathing Easier?

We’ll find out soon enough. After four months on the ground, the F-22 Raptor was cleared by the U.S. Air Force to resume operations this week.

SSgt Jalkenne Joseph, Aerospace Medical Craftsman from the 959th MSGS, Wilford Hall, monitors patients in the USAFSAM Clinical Hyperbaric Medicine, hyperbaric pressure chamber. By spending time in the chamber patients are exposed to excessive amounts of oxygen which enriches the blood to the point where oxygen is even carried by plasma, which increases the body�s ability to heal. (US Air Force photo by Steve Thurow)

Last Breath for Brooks

Seven Air Force bases sigh to a close.

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The Unusual Suspects

Moon hoax believers contend that NASA’s Apollo lunar landings were elaborately orchestrated lies, and that men never walked on the moon. Apollo 18, a film that opened this month, proposes the opposite: that NASA launched a manned lunar mission the public has no knowledge of—until now. The Apollo program was canceled in 1970, and the […]

United announced that it is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. (PRNewsFoto/United Continental Holdings, Inc.)

Charting a Lighter Course

Pilots swap their navigation charts for an iPad.

Jimmy Leeward and The Galloping Ghost at the 2010 Reno air races.

Tragedy at Reno

What it was like in the pits that day

The Vin Fiz Crosses America

Scenes from Cal Rodgers’ first transcontinental flight in 1911.

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Let’s Argue About The Right Things

We seem to be in one of those periods in which basic reasons for doing what we do as a nation are called into question.

U.S. Army Pvt. Nicholas Marker of Fort Campbell, Ky., constructs a chocolate helicopter, that sits on display at the 36th Culinary Arts competition on Fort Lee, Va., March 5, 2011. The chocolate center piece is displayed as part of the cold foods table category in which Marker received a bronze medal. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Courtney Lindsay/Released)

Choco-copter

Culinary specialists make chocolate fly off the cart.

By 1944, Ernest Taylor Pyle (in Normandy, France) had won millions of loyal readers and a Pulitzer.

On the Wing and On the Ground

Ernie Pyle’s aviation and war dispatches.

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Sick of Birdstrikes

A grass that turns birds’ stomachs — away from airports.

 

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A New Angle on a Space Shuttle Launch

What’s a better way to get a new view of a space shuttle launch than using a “whole-sky lens”?

X-47 on Deck, Kind Of

This summer the X-47B unmanned combat aircraft made its first arrested landing on the USS Eisenhower. Well, actually it was an F/A-18D Hornet.

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A Faraway Tower

Swedish airport towers managed from a distance.

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The Astronauts’ Ride

Strange days for NASA’s astronauts

110504-N-NL541-127 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 4, 2011) A BQM-74E aerial drone is launched from the guided-missile frigate USS Thach (FFG 43) to simulate an incoming missile for a weapons firing exercise during the Atlantic phase of UNITAS 52 off the coast of Brazil. Ships from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and Argentine, Brazilian and Mexican navies participated in the firing exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Stuart Phillips/Released)

Dronin’ and Draggin’

What drones go up, must be dragged down.

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Remembering 9/11 at American History

The National Museum of American History is displaying artifacts recovered from the horrific crash of United Airlines Flight 93 a decade ago…

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