SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster
SpaceX has now launched eight full-scale test flights of Starship, with a Super Heavy booster and Starship's upper stage stacked together to form a rocket that towers 404 feet (123.1 meters) tall. The ...
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50 years after Operation Babylift, the USAF and RAAF’s special airlift mission
It’s been 50 years since the USAF and RAAF airlifted almost 3,000 orphaned babies out of Saigon. AeroTime takes a closer look ...
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Examining over 100 years of flight automation and the history of the autopilot
Yet, it is also one of the earliest, having been introduced (in its most rudimentary form) in 1912, just nine years after the ...
The Reason Why Airplane Tires Are Filled With Nitrogen
While airplane tires might look like the ones on our cars, they're not filled with regular air, but nitrogen. There are ...
Defence commemorates Operation Babylift, 5 decades on
Announced on 2 April, 1975, the first two RAAF C-130 Hercules flights left Saigon on 4 April, bringing 194 children to ...
United flight makes emergency landing after report of fire in cabin
A United Airlines flight from Key West to Newark was forced to make an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International ...
Terrifying reason Alaska Airlines flight forced to turn around
The terrifying reason why an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 had to return to the airport just moments after take-off has been ...