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The strangest Boeing 747 modifications that never flew
The size and success of Boeing’s iconic 747 aircraft made it the perfect platform for a number of…
How Airbus tried to use this fighter jet for space tourism | Video
Space tourism sounds exciting, but it is wildly expensive. In the early 2000s, Airbus had an idea to…
Is it real? Meet MF-212, an odd modern Hungarian-Belarusian prop fighter
The history of aviation is full of projects that lead to the question: what were they thinking? Such projects…
Whatever happened to NASA’s ambitious space-based solar factory from the 1970s?
During the Cold War there was no shortage of projects that could have come straight from the pages…
Where are our jetpacks?
For more than a century now the jetpack has been a staple of science fiction. From 1930s comics…
Top 10 largest passenger aircraft that never flew
As airlines retire their legendary Boeing 747s, and the production of Airbus A380 – the largest passenger airplane…
Baby Sukhoi: how Russia came up with the world’s smallest fighter jet
Many people get shocked upon realizing how big modern fighter jets actually are. The length of the Sukhoi…
Flying wings: why everybody still talks about them | Part 1
In September 2020, Airbus presented their project ZEROe – three hydrogen-powered concept aircraft. A small conventional jet, a…
Flying wings: why they never succeeded, and probably never will | Part 2
The Golden Age of flying wings The end of the Golden Age is much easier to pinpoint than…
MAKS: the space plane An-225 Mriya was supposed to launch
Everybody knows and loves the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world’s heaviest and arguably largest aircraft. Many know about…