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0	Why Airplanes Still Have Ashtrays in the Bathrooms [Airplanes] You can't smoke on airplanes. For many reasons—both social and safety-related—that's a great idea, even if it does make some people a little cranky over long flights. So why the hell do they in... 0 Published 2 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Airports Will Steal Summer's Heat to Thaw Frozen Winter Runways [Airplanes] The winter months are some of the busiest travel times of the year, but they're also the most likely time for an airplane to be delayed. The culprit? Icy runways. Wouldn't it be nice and efficient if we co... 0 Published 6 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	F-18 Launching at Night Is My Favorite Airporn of the Week [Airporn] Some of my favorite airporn come from night launches on carriers. Here's a really beautiful shot of an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron launching from USS Carl Vinson. That engine fire is... 0 Published 12 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Never Before Seen World War II Fighter Plane Found in the Sahara Desert After 70 Years [Video] In what historians are calling the aviation equivalent to finding King Tut's tomb, a World War II fighter plane has been found in the Sahara desert 70 years after it crashed. Even more impressive, the pla... 0 Published 14 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Riding Along In Red Bull's Stunt Plane Won't Help Your Fear Of Flying [Video] You can strap a GoPro camera to literally anything and the footage will be mesmerizing. But when you strap them all over Red Bull's air racing plane while it's being piloted by champion Kirby Chambliss, w... 0 Published 14 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	F-22 Ground Crews Are Also Having Mysterious Breathing Problems [Airplanes] We knew the F-22 has a mysterious problem that causes breathing problems in pilots. Well, the plot is now thickening. It seems that ground crews are having hypoxia-like symptoms too and, of course, we don'... 0 Published 15 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Party-Pooping Scientists Want To Make Air Shows Less Awesome With Jet Engine-Quieting Sponges [Science] Dammit science. For all the good you do, you can be a real Debbie Downer sometimes. We like it when you cure diseases and invent awesome new materials like silicene, but when you take away the mighty roar ... 0 Published 19 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This F-35 On Afterburner Is Your Airporn Porn of the Day and My New Desktop Background [Airplanes] As problematic as the F-35 Lightning II has been so far, this airplane can look mighty amazing. Look at this F-35B going all afterburny in a flight test at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. That transo... 0 Published 23 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Boeing Engineers Just Came Up With a New Supersonic Airliner [Airplanes] Boeing's Sonic Cruiser began its life almost a decade ago. At the end, its superawesome supersonic design was replaced by the 787 Dreamliner's superboring superquiet and superefficient blueprint, which sta... 0 Published 23 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	F-22 Pilots Don't Want to Fly the F-22 [F-22] Not exactly a grand gesture of confidence: some of the US Air Force's airmen, the world's most elite, want nothing to do with the Air Force's "elite" new fighter. Why? Because the only people it's threaten... 0 Published 23 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This 727 Was Deliberately Crashed In the Desert For a TV Show We Can't Wait To See [Crashes] When a plane unfortunately crashes there's no shortage of photos and video of the wreckage, but rarely footage of the actual impact. So to appease our morbid curiosity of what really happens when a large a... 0 Published 24 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The USAF's Ultimate Flight Simulator Had Two Cockpits and Actually Flew [Monster Machines] Before spending the cash on expensive, full-size aircraft prototypes, US Air Force engineers needed a way to ensure that their experimental designs actually, well, worked. Their solution—an airborne ... 0 Published 24 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Pessimisting Airplane GPS Always Knows the Best Place to Land in an Emergency [Video] A company called Vertical Power has created a GPS-based co-pilot for smaller private planes that's constantly worried about the worst-case-scenario when flying. But that's a good thing, since in the event ... 0 Published 24 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Definitive Video On Why the Airplane Cellphone Ban Is Stupid [Video] Air companies and crews insist that using cellphones can interfere with commercial airplane instrumentation. This is complete bullshit. We have talked about this in the past and we even gave you advice ab... 0 Published 26 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Terrifying Landings and Aborted Landings Under 62MPH Crosswinds [Video] Last Wednesday, a huge storm system arrived to Spain from the North. In Bilbao, a city in the north of Spain, planes were forced to land under 62mph (100km/h) crosswinds. Some of them had to be aborted se... 0 Published 27 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watching This Is the Closest You'll Get to Aerial Combat [Video] If you've ever dreamt of flying a jet into war—I see you, joystick jockeys—this incredible GoPro footage is your best new alternative. Watch it in fullscreen if you actually want to feel nause... 0 Published 29 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Is What the F-35 Looks Like Heading to War [Image Cache] The F-35, the most expensive, long-running practical joke in American military history, just hit another milestone: aerial refueling with a serious weapon loadout. It's all for fun, of course, but this und... 0 Published 30 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Air Force's Secret Hypersonic Glider Flew So Fast Its Skin Fell Off [Airplanes] Last summer, the Pentagon's Falcon HTV-2 glider—which the Air Force says can fly from New York to LA in under 12 minutes, disappeared. Nobody knew why! Now we know why: it went so fast it ripped itse... 0 Published 31 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Is What 70 Fully Armed F-15s Taxying On a Single Runway Look Like [Airplanes] If you were impressed by the elephant walk of twenty-seven F-16 Fighting Falcons taxying down the runway, fully armed and ready for immediate take off and battle, check out these seventy (70!) F-15E Strike... 0 Published 32 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This F-35 Formation Is So Impossibly Perfect That It Looks Computer Generated [Airplanes] You know, the F-35 may have had a lot of problems and it may be overpriced and late and whatever. I don't care. It still looks amazing. This photo of two F-35s flying in formation is so awesome that it is ... 0 Published 33 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Beautiful Electric Plane Is Like an Airborne Tesla [Beautiful] Recently unveiled at the Aero Expo in Freidrichshafen, Germany, Pipistel's new Panthera four-seater plane can be ordered with a standard, albeit highly efficient, gas engine. But it's also available in an ... 0 Published 35 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Plane With Unconscious Pilot Is Circling Out of Control Off the Gulf Coast (Update: It's Down) [Airplanes] The FAA lost contact with a Cessna 421 shortly before 9AM this morning. The pilot, it turns out, was unconscious, and the plane ultimately slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 135 miles off shore. More ... 0 Published 35 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Air Traffic Controller Built a Fully Functional 737 Simulator in His Garage [Video] As an air traffic controller and a licensed pilot, James Price's life revolves around flying. So it's not that surprising that he's spent the last 12 years converting an old Boeing 737 nosecone into a ful... 0 Published 36 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Navy Looks for New Jet, on Top of Its Trillion-Dollar Model [Airplanes] On Friday, the Navy quietly released a "market survey" asking the big defense contractors for their "candidate[s]" for "strike fighter aircraft" in the decades to come. Which is a little weird, considering... 0 Published 38 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	An Airplane Made an Emergency Landing Because a Charging Cell Phone Was Mistaken for a Bomb [Wtf] OH MY GOD THERE'S A BOMB ON THE PLANE. That's what one passenger on board thought when he saw a cell phone being charged inside the airplane bathroom. The plane, headed for America, had to make an emergenc... 0 Published 38 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Pilot Almost Crashes After Mistaking the Planet Venus for an Airplane [Accidents] We've all felt tired to the point of being loopy, but most of the time, we're not in the cockpit of a 767, confusing a planet for another plane and sending ours into a nosedive. More » ... 0 Published 38 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Greatest Show of Air Force Might You've Ever Seen [Image Cache] You know what's cooler than 20 fighters ready to battle? Seventy fighters ready to battle—all lined up in perfect rows, and deadly as hell. More » 0 Published 38 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A TSA Agent Has Been Stealing iPads from Passenger Luggage [Tsa] Here's another awful thing to add to your oft updated list of why the TSA is terrible: a TSA baggage inspector has been charged with theft by a public servant for stealing eight iPads (on different occasio... 0 Published 38 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Hijacking Panic Sends Terrifying Sonic Booms Over England [Video] A series of unfortunate events: a confused helicopter pilot accidentally gives a signal that he's been hijacked. British RAF fighters are scrambled so quickly to shoot the thing down, they go supersonic. ... 0 Published 41 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How To Use Your Electronics During Takeoff Without Getting Busted [Frequent Flyer X] I'm no engineer, but I know this: If personal electronics could bring down a plane, Al Quaeda would just assign a pack of assholes to send simultaneous text messages from the next flight out of Jerusalem. ... 0 Published 42 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	American F-15 Fighters Intercept Korean Air Boeing 777 Because of Terrorist Threat [Terrorism] Two United States' Air Force F-15 Eagle fighters launched into Canadian airspace to intercept a Korean Air Boeing 777 on April 10, 5:30 Pacific Time. The plane was going to Seoul when it received a bomb th... 0 Published 43 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Are MIT's "Double Bubble" Planes the Future of Air Travel? [Planes] Fuel continue to be the largest operating expenditure for airlines and is expected to cost them an extra $40 billion this year. So, MIT's developing a new style of aircraft that could run on as little as 3... 0 Published 44 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Aftermath Photos of F-18 Crash Show How Lucky Everyone Was [Airplanes] The US Navy has published photos of the aftermath of the F/A-18D crash. They clearly show the damage on the apartments that got hit, along with the foam-covered grounds. It's amazing how lucky the resident... 0 Published 45 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Concorde Story—The Documentary [Video] Lunch break? Like planes? Watch this old documentary on the story of the Concorde, the first and only turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner in history. It was created by the French and the Britis... 0 Published 50 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	F-22 Failure Investigation Results: 'We Have No Clue' [Airplanes] After spending seven months in costly research, the Air Force scientific board investigating the F-22 life support system failure has turned in their conclusions. The findings: they have no idea about what... 0 Published 55 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Planes Flying Over Bystanders' Head Make for Wonderful Vintage Photos [Image Cache] The bystanders in these amazing photographs by Josef Hoflehner aren't screaming like Wayne and Garth, but I'm sure their hearts are sinking fast as passenger jets pass overhead. More » ... 0 Published 56 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	JetBlue Flight Forced to Land After Deranged Captain Screamed 'There's a Bomb On Board!' (Updating) [Video] JetBlue Flight 191 had to make an emergency landing today in Amarillo, Texas. The flight was en route to Las Vegas from New York's JFK when a man—allegedly the flight's captain—got out of the... 0 Published 58 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	These People Flew a Giant 45-foot Paper Airplane Over the Arizona Desert [Video] The people from the Pima Air & Space Museum thought it would be a great idea to make a 45-foot long paper airplane, lift it with an helicopter, and then drop it to let it glide across the Arizona desert. ... 0 Published 62 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster [Military] The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the supposed backbone of the Pentagon's future air arsenal, could need additional years of work and billions of dollars in unplanned fixes, the Air Force and the Government A... 0 Published 63 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Boeing's Jets of the Future Will Be 60 Percent More Fuel Efficient Thanks to Natural Gas [Airplanes] Using the moniker SUGAR (Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research), Boeing has been hard at work developing a series of jets that will take us from point A to point B in the future. They've already developed... 0 Published 64 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Ancient Airlifter That Makes Daredevil Drops Over Afghanistan [Video] The Caribou airlifter flies so low through the mountains and valleys of eastern Afghanistan that it's invisible from the ground … until it's right on top of you. The Vietnam-era, twin-engine cargo plane w... 0 Published 65 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Are Cheap GPS Jammers Bringing Air Traffic Control Offline? [GPS] An investigation into malfunctioning GPS systems at Newark Liberty International Airport revealed that the culprit is the cheap jammers that are easy to buy online. More » ... 0 Published 66 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Is the FAA About to Allow Electronic Device Use During Takeoff? [Airplanes] Everybody hates having to stop reading ebooks, listening to music and playing Angry Birds during take-off. But it's not a fact of life; the FAA is rethinking its policy on using electronic devices during ... 0 Published 67 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch This Crazy Hercules Airplane Flying Just Five Meters Above the Ground (Updated) [Video] Crazy jet fighter pilots: CHECK! Crazy bomber pilots: CHECK! Crazy airliner pilots: CHECK! Crazy military transport pilots: Watch this crazy pilot flying this Swedish Air Force' Hercules C-130 as low as ... 0 Published 67 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	B-52 Low Pass Flyby Is Even Crazier Than You Thought [Wtf] Remember that insane low pass flyby for that B-52 Stratofortress next to the carrier USS Ranger. Gizmodo Reader and retired US Air Force master sergeant has sent us the look from the ship. It's pretty blo... 0 Published 68 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	New Bi-Plane Design Promises All of the Sonic, None of the Boom [Planes] The Concorde became the premiere transport across the Atlantic in part because it was precluded from flying over populated areas due to the sonic boom it created on takeoff. A new two-wing design, however,... 0 Published 70 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Is This Insane Low Pass Flyby the Craziest Thing You're Going To See Today? Most Probably Yes [Image Cache] I thought this was the craziest low pass flyby ever, but obviously I was mistaken. After all, what you're seeing here is not a small fighter yet but a B-52 Stratofortress almost kissing the sea while flyi... 0 Published 70 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This May Be the Coolest Night Landing Scene In the History of Aviation [Airplanes] The US Marine Corps, they kick ass. Because they are amazing and because they are badass and because their pilots ride Veritech VF-1 Valkyries, as this night shot clearly shows. More » ... 0 Published 72 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Future Airplanes Could Get Power from Themselves Think about this: when airplanes land, there is some pretty serious energy lost as the plane brakes and slows down. We already have electric vehicles, trains, buses, shipping trucks, garbage trucks, and more saving energy from such braking and usin... 0 Published 74 days ago in Cleantech News -- Solar, Wind, EV News (#1...: Profile, Details
0	The Kalinin K7 Was King of the Propeller Planes [Video] When the Spruce Goose was still just a twinkle in Howard Hughes' eye, Russia was quietly constructing the largest propeller-powered plane to ever leave the ground. More » ... 0 Published 76 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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