Skylon ‘Super-Plane’ Can Fly Anywhere in the World in Just 4 Hours
London to Sydney in four hours instead of more than 20 hours sounds like a dream. But the UK is developing a new kind of super-plane that can fly anywhere in the world in just…
Aviation
NASA Releases Prototype Z-2 Spacesuit That Astronauts Will Wear on Mars
NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars by the mid-2030s. The future astronauts will be wearing the next-generation spacesuits designed for walking on the surface of the Red Planet. NASA has just unveiled the design…
Futuristic Flying Vehicles Will Deliver Goods Then Poof Out of Existence
It sounds like an engineering fantasy or a scene out of a Harry Potter movie, but it is real that Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, is developing unmanned,…
Martin Aircraft Gains Approval for World’s First Commercial Personal Jetpack
The world first saw the personal jetpack in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball. Now, 51 years later, the technology finally looks ready for prime time. The Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand has just…
Guy Flies Startup’s FAA Approved JB-9 Jetpack Around the Statue of Liberty
Here we go again with another jetpack demonstration sure to get everyone riled up. A startup called Jetpack Aviation is home to the only FAA and US Coast Guard approved jetpack, the JB-9 jetpack. In…
Jetpack Daredevils Soar and Dive Around an Emirates A380 Superjumbo Jet
In an insane new video, Jetman Yves Rossy and his protégé Vince Reffet are back with arguably their craziest stunt yet. As you can see, the two jetpack daredevils perform some pretty risky maneuvers in…
Flying 10 Times the Speed of Sound, Supersonic ‘Skreemr’ Jet Could Fly from New York to London in 30 Minutes
The Concorde made its last supersonic flight across the Atlantic on October 24, 2003. It had a cruising speed of twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 or 1,354 mph (2,179 km/h). More than a…
Telemetry Acquisition & Simulation Transforming Automobiles
Telemetry Use in Real & Virtual Environments Telemetry uses wireless transmission and reception to remotely monitor and record equipment parameters, environmental variables, and even human physiology including body and skin temperature and heart and respiration…
Long-Lost Footage of Relocation Project Shows Beavers Parachuting In the 1950s
In order to combat Idaho’s overpopulation of beavers in the 1940s and ’50s, the state’s Department of Fish and Game came up with one of the most unique relocation projects to this day. A beaver…
DARPA Visions 2045: Interstellar Travel, Virtual Immortality & More
Most people have heard of Ray Kurzweil’s prediction that humans will achieve immortality by 2045, a mere 30 years from now. But what does DARPA believe the future will look like in 2045? On October…
