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Dubai has announced the world’s first jetpack competition to be held on February 28, 2024. This event will bring together eight pilots from around the world to compete in a new sport. The event, which has been officially endorsed by the Dubai Sports Council and is being organized with the participation of Gravity Industries, a […]
Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its innovative Liberty Lifter X-Plane, which promises to revolutionize the cargo transportation industry. This aircraft is capable of carrying cargo weighing up to 100 tons over a distance of up to 12 thousand kilometers, and it can take off and land on the water surface, effectively overcoming […]
From February 5 to May 5, 2024, Poland imposes restrictions on civil aviation due to increased military activity along its eastern borders. The Polish Air Navigation Service Agency has issued NOTAM N0604/2024, indicating restricted areas for civilian flights, in particular in the areas bordering Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia and the Kaliningrad region of Russia. The list […]
Swiss, which is a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is changing the rules for flight personnel in favor of employees. In the future, flight attendants will be allowed to have visible facial piercings, and lipstick will no longer be mandatory for women. It will also be possible to wear opaque tights and use medical tights, such as […]
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and CTO of X (formerly known as Twitter), has been named the most overvalued CEO in the United States for the second year in a row, according to a survey conducted by Fortune among hundreds of U.S. CEOs. According to NV.ua, the survey involved executives from various companies who were […]
Astrophotographer Jeff Dye captured an extremely rare phenomenon on camera – the swirling of the northern lights over a crater lake in Iceland. Typically, auroras occur when solar particles excite gas molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere, emitting bright light. However, the northern lights are a unique form of this phenomenon, caused by huge storms in […]
iFixit experts regularly disassemble electronic devices to show how they work and how they can be repaired on their YouTube channel. This time, they got their hands on the brand new Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset, which went on sale in the US on February 2, 2024. During the disassembly, the internal layout of […]
Russian occupants fired on Kherson with the latest Grom-1 air-to-ground precision-guided missiles. Photos with the remains of the missile were posted on Twitter by X. The Russian Aerospace Forces shelled a residential area of Kherson with Grom-1 missiles, which were adopted in 2013. In the published pictures of the remains of the missile, one can […]
The Ukrainian company LUAZ Motors has announced the launch of an electric pickup truck line. It will consist of City, Farmer, and Cargo models. LUAZ City will be offered for purchase for USD 16,000. Thus, the cost of the pickup truck is comparable to the Skoda Octavia or Volkswagen Passat of the 2018 model range. […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a unique discovery by capturing two exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs, which are the last stage of a star’s existence. The discovered exoplanets resemble the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn in their characteristics and allow us to speculate on what the solar system might look like after the […]