When engineers build planes, they use heavy aluminum masking tape to cover up surfaces during production. Now, engineers at BAE Systems have created a new kind of tape that leaves the surface clean when it’s peeled away—and it’s reckoned it will save them $70 million. Read more…
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A New Kind of Masking Tape Will Save the Aerospace Industry Millions
If you’re about to get on an airplane, you might want to wait until you land before you read this post. Because cyber security whiz Ruben Santamarta has devised a method that can give hackers access to a passenger jet’s satellite communications equipment through the passenger Wi-Fi and in-flight entertainment systems*. And that’s scary. Read more…
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Researcher Can Hack Airplanes Through In-Flight Entertainment Systems
It’s a tale as old as time: Traveler meets luggage. Traveler falls in love. Traveler buys luggage. Traveler causes a scene as flight attendant forces traveler to pay $75 for improperly-sized baggage. And if you’ve secretly been holding out hope that we might one day be able to put this bit of passenger pageantry behind us—too bad. It’s about to get a whole lot worse. Read more…
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The Three Biggest Airlines Just Made Carry-On Sizes Even Smaller
This concept plane is called the AWWA Sky Whale and it’s the brainchild of Spanish designer Oscar Viñals. Should it ever leave the ground, the three-floor aircraft would hold 755 passengers and be powered by four large hybrid engines. Read more…
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The monstrous Sky Whale could be the future of air travel
A new photo captured by Artyom Anikeev shows Russia’s new Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter—America’s F-22 Raptor’s nemesis. According to The Aviationist, its new camouflage—inspired by a typical white tip Red Sea’s shark—will make it look “as a rhomboidal shaped aircraft, smaller than the actual airplane” from a distance. Read more…
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Newly captured photo shows Russia’s new badass shark stealth fighter
Traveling this summer? Don’t forget to pack the suntan lotion. And check in to your flight online. And check if your flight is delayed using your flight number. Speaking of, how the hell do airplanes come up with flight numbers? Apparently there’s a system! Like did you know flights that go east or north are usually given even numbers while west and south flights have odd flight numbers. Read more…
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What Your Flight Number Actually Means
It’s no secret that Google has an interest in the automotive industry , but over the years the popular search engine has also managed to amass quite the collection of aircraft. So much in fact, the company is in the process of inking an $82 million construction deal that would bring its fleet to Mineta San Jose International Airport. Pending city council approval, the privately funded facility would generate an annual $2.6 million rent lease, around $400,000 in fuel revenues and create 236 jobs. If agreed upon, the 29-acre Googleport will take up to two years to build and will include an executive terminal along with hangers to house the company’s private Boeing 737 and 747 jets. Google currently parks its jets at Moffett Federal Airfield, where the company has offered to renovate NASA Ames’ Hanger One in exchange for two-thirds of its facility space to house its planes. There’s no word if either deal will affect the other, but as it stands San Jose’s city council is expected to vote on its proposal sometime in April. Filed under: Misc , Google Comments Via: Gizmodo Source: Mercury News