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A curious incident occurred on a United Airlines flight last week. A Boeing 777-300ER en route from Frankfurt (Germany) to San Francisco (USA) had a toilet failure, forcing an emergency landing. This was reported by Bild. According to eyewitnesses, an unpleasant smell of feces appeared in the cabin due to a malfunction of the waste […]
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet crashes into the sea near the temporarily occupied Sevastopol. This was reported by local Telegram channels. The information about the crash was confirmed by the propagandist of Fighterbomber (Ilya Tumanov), adding that the crash looks like the plane was hit by anti-aircraft weapons. According to local media and propagandists, the […]
In Russia, an air traffic controller fell asleep at the controls and lost an IL-76. He managed to break 17 rules while sleeping, Baza reports. It is reported that the IL-76 transport plane was flying to the Tver region on the afternoon of February 16. Flying over the Volgograd region, the crew tried to contact […]
After a series of ground tests, the 5th generation Turkish aircraft made its first flight. The fighter was flown by test pilot Barbaros Demirbas. The Turkish national combat aircraft KAAN, which was developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries, took off for the first time. This was reported by Defence Turk. On the morning of February 21, […]
A thunderstorm at Brussels airport was one of the reasons for the 476-day delay in the departure of the Ukrainian giant An-124 Ruslan transport aircraft, the pilot of Antonov Airlines said. Dmytro Antonov on his YouTube channel. According to the pilot, on August 18, 2004, he was flying from Gostomel to Brussels to pick up […]
Swiss startup Sirius Aviation has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first hydrogen-powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The model, called Sirius Jet, is capable of flying a record 1850 km at a speed of up to 520 km/h on a single charge. It uses liquid hydrogen as a fuel, which does not […]
NASA is developing a new concept of a solar-powered aircraft capable of flying over the surface of Mars. This concept, known as the Mars Aerial and Ground Intelligent Explorer (MAGGIE), was announced as part of the Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. MAGGIE is a compact, ultra-high performance solar-powered aircraft designed to fly in the Martian […]
According to journalists, a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft made a safe emergency landing in Portland even without an important spare part. The part that broke off from the Alaska Airlines plane during the flight was found in the yard of an American teacher named Bob. This was reported by the BBC. Authorities were searching […]
DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. In 1903, the Wright brothers piloted the world’s first airplane that used wing deformation to successfully fly. Since then, almost every airplane has used a system of movable external […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has signed an agreement with Aurora Flight Sciences to create a prototype of the latest X-65 aircraft, which will become a platform for testing advanced technologies. The new product is based on Active Flow Control (AFC) technology, which uses jet air jets […]