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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…
2023-02-16
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…
2022-11-07
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…
2022-10-28
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…
2022-06-21
Where are our jetpacks?
For more than a century now the jetpack has been a staple of science fiction. From 1930s comics…
2022-06-20
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…
2021-10-15
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…
2021-08-09
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…
2021-07-06
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…
2021-07-06
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…
2021-05-28