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  • Boeing's uber-luxurious new business jet (photos)

    The new plane, a 737-700, features showers, big beds, and luxury appointments fit for a king. The super rich and governments are the only ones that can afford the plane.

  • First night flight by a solar plane (photos)

    A plane developed by Solar Impulse landed Thursday morning after a 26-hour flight that was entirely powered by solar energy.

  • Solar powered airplane: ready for take-off?

    Solar powered plane being tested in Switzerland.

    Blog posts | November 23, 2009 8:07pm PST

  • Wrong, blogger, there IS A SOLAR PLANE!

    Sunseeker II, courtesy Solar Flight website. I was so wrong...again. I mentioned nobody was proposing solar planes. Hell, there is a solar plane already. And it flies. It's called Sunseeker...

    Blog posts | May 22, 2009 2:57pm PDT

  • Real planes racing with a virtual one

    A really unique competition was recently held in the skies of Spain. Sky Challenge was a race between two real planes and a virtual one organized by New Zealand based Air Sports Ltd. and the...

    Blog posts | October 19, 2008 8:41am PDT

  • Delta rolls out Wi-Fi across U.S. fleet

    In the not too distant future your corporate VPN will follow you on any plane you fly. Delta Air Lines said Tuesday that it is rolling out Aircell's broadband Wi-Fi access across its 330 planes...

    Blog posts | August 5, 2008 7:36am PDT

  • Gallery: A dragonfly that spies

    Delfly Micro is a tiny plane that is about the same size as a dragonfly--and looks like one, too. Plus, it contains a tiny camera.

  • Fly the green skies at Mach 5

    The European Union has launched in 2005 its Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project (LAPCAT). Several companies worked on this €7 million EU-funded project. For example,...

    Blog posts | January 31, 2008 10:02am PST

  • Photos: Russian air show aims high

    The MAKS 2007 event has lofty aspirations, but is it ready yet to surpass the Paris Air Show? For hard-core aviation fans, it may not matter.The distance between France and Russia is more than...

  • Photos: Commuter challenge in the skies

    This weekend, NASA held its first Personal Aircraft Vehicle (PAV) Challenge, a test of experimental small-seat airplanes with a prize purse of $250,000.This weekend, NASA held its first Personal...

  • Fly this car to your next destination

    Ever wanted to fly your car instead of taking that five-hour road trip? Terrafugia, a company founded by graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hopes to make that a reality in the...

    Videos | August 5, 2007 11:41am PDT

  • Photos: Electric plane lands at Oshkosh show

    A proof-of-concept electric plane is being shown off at AirVenture, the biggest annual air show in the United States.

  • Photos: Stephen Hawking's zero-gravity flight

    The physicist gets an "amazing" experience of weightlessness and a rare moment out of his wheelchair. His next goal: "Space here I come."

  • Photos: Steve Fossett's flying adventure

    Veteran adventurer re-enters the record books Saturday by taking the GlobalFlyer plane on the longest nonstop journey ever.

  • Photos: Microjets cleared for takeoff

    Aviation companies are looking to small planes to bring down the cost of air taxi service and corporate jet ownership.

  • Photos: Microjets cleared for takeoff

    Aviation companies are looking to small planes to bring down the cost of air taxi service and corporate jet ownership.

  • Photos: Steve Fossett's flying adventure

    Veteran adventurer re-enters the record books Saturday by taking the GlobalFlyer plane on the longest nonstop journey ever.

Additional Results

  • Vyatta vPlane adds software defined networking

    Vyatta vPlane adds software defined network capabilities to its routing and network virtualization software appliance.

    Blog posts | May 4, 2012 3:13am PDT

  • Boeing's uber-luxurious new business jet (photos)

    The new plane, a 737-700, features showers, big beds, and luxury appointments fit for a king. The super rich and governments are the only ones that can afford the plane.

  • U-2 spy plane keeps on soaring (photos)

    The Pentagon, smitten with the Global Hawk drone, had been ready to ground the U-2 fleet for good. But the latest Air Force budget proposal tells a different tale.

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