Airplanes
This Metal Is 99.9 Percent Air
A new metal "microlattice" is strong yet incredibly light, lending itself to a wide variety of aerospace, automotive and medical uses
Airplane Contrails May Be Creating Accidental Geoengineering
Dissipating haze from plane exhaust alters how sunlight reaches the Earth and may be unintentionally affecting our climate
Air Force One is Getting a Makeover
The best presidential perk is about to get even better
Gary Powers Kept a Secret Diary With Him After He Was Captured by the Soviets
The American fighter pilot who's the focus of Bridge of Spies faced great challenges home and abroad
JetBlue Goes Green with a Farm at JFK Airport
The airline hopes to produce herbs and around 1,000 pounds of blue potatoes each season
The Rise and Fall of the Plane "Anyone Could Fly"
It was billed as the "Model T" of airplanes. So what happened?
Nine American Airports for Art Lovers
Your layover just got better
The World’s Largest Aircraft Might Lose its Title to a Blimp
This despite having a wingspan almost as long as a football field
Why Airplane Seats Come With Barf Bags
One of the last remaining luxuries of airplane travel
You Might Actually Want a Layover at These Seven Airports
From nap pods to real-time flight tracking, these airports have features that will surely please passengers
The Murderous Story of America’s First Hijacking
Earnest Pletch’s cold-blooded killing of Carl Bivens was just one chapter in the strange life of the mechanic, farmhand and erstwhile carnie
North Korea's Military Still Uses Stealth Planes From the 1940s
The An-2 can hover and fly backwards
70 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Crashed Into the Empire State Building
14 people died in the accident
Look Up: Clouds Could be the Next Movie Screens
An abandoned military strategy leads to the first “cloud movie”
This Film Shows a Glimpse of Amelia Earhart Before Her Final Flight
After 70 years in storage, the footage shows the pilot posing for press photographs
How Bug Guts Slow Down Planes and What Engineers are Doing About it
Designing the most fuel-efficient plane means keeping wings free of sticky exploded bugs
This Crazy Land Art Deflects Noise From Amsterdam's Airport
To drown out flight noise, the Amsterdam Airport turned to large-scale landscaping
Has a Finnish Company Found a Cure for Jet Lag?
Valkee is releasing the Human Charger, a new gadget that beams light through a user's ears
Paper Airplanes Flew Decades Before Real Ones Did
Kids have been folding paper so it flies since at least the mid-19th century
The Untold Story of the Vengeful Japanese Attack After the Doolittle Raid
When the U.S. responded to Pearl Harbor with a surprise bombing of Tokyo, the Imperial Army took out its fury on the Chinese people
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