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The private jet industry is bracing for fall without its biggest money maker: business travelers. Execs are hoping wealthy vacationers can make up the difference.
"The increase in demand that we're seeing on the personal side is like nothing that we've ever expe…
Thomas Pallini
5 mins read
Private jet firms are buying dozens of new planes and hiring furloughed airline pilots as demand in the industry skyrockets back to normal
An almost-busy summer season in private aviation is encouraging firms to scale up with more readily…
Thomas Pallini
4 mins read
US Special Operations Command wants to transform its biggest planes to gain an advantage against China
To ensure US special operators can operate against a more capable enemy, SOCOM wants to give its bi…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
3 mins read
After Monorail, Mumbai Gets Commercial Seaplane Service; Now Fly To Aamby Valley Under 30 Minutes
In June last year, Kerala launched the country’s first tourist seaplane service that connects the d…
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Here Are The Spectacular Plans For A Floating Airport In London
There is a more outlandish idea that takes advantage of unused space: Build a new airport, and make…
Alex Davies
4 mins read
Why it's so hard for planes to land on water
While ditching, pilots have to keep the wings level and maintain an incoming angle that's not too s…
Clancy Morgan
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Insider Transportation: Rivian rejects Tesla's burnout culture, Carnival has a 'floating petri dish' dilemma, and Hyundai's cars stink (for real)
Plus: Elon Musk buys another jet, new evidence that COVID-19 can spread aboard planes, and how you …
Alex Davies
1 min read
Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had their plane delayed 6 hours ahead of their game against the Carolina Panthers
What was supposed to be a simple 90-minute flight turned into a much more grueling day of travel fo…
Tyler Lauletta
2 mins read
Struggling plane maker Boeing has reportedly sold its 130-foot corporate superyacht 'Daedalus' for $13 million
Struggling aircraft maker Boeing used the 130-foot yacht to entertain clients and host formal dinne…
Grace Dean
1 min read
From basketball courts to floating helipads, here are the megayachts owned by some of the wealthiest people in tech
There aren't too many tech billionaires with yachts. Perhaps it's because while private planes can …
Paige Leskin
1 min read
This Guy Took A Selfie While Floating In The Ocean Immediately After His Plane Crashed
As we read in BroBible, sirens inside of the plane started to go off, warning passengers that the p…
Caroline Moss
4 mins read
Japan built monster plane-carrying subs to attack US cities during World War II, but they never fired a shot
The enormous I-400-class submarines were supposed to carry planes and launch air raids on US cities…
Benjamin Brimelow
5 mins read
These US Navy planes help hunt down one of the greatest threats to American aircraft carriers — here's how they do it
A Navy officer said that when it comes to sub hunting, "we want to know where you are" and sometime…
Ryan Pickrell
4 mins read
As US planes bombed Japan in World War II, the Japanese sent balloons across the ocean to try to set the US on fire
Japan had limited resources, and bomb-laden balloons were a low-tech way to launch long-range attac…
Benjamin Brimelow
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The risk of getting sick on a plane is lower than you might think — if you know what to watch out for
Are airplanes vessels of disease, or are they no riskier than, say, a trip to the grocery store? We…
Sophie-Claire Hoeller
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Tourists captured the moment a plane crash-landed onto the shore in a busy Maryland beach town
"I happened to look up and I saw the plane coming right directly over top of us, and I said to my h…
Rachel Premack
3 mins read
Putin is floating a bizarre new conspiracy theory about the US' intervention in Syria
The Ghouta attack left more than 1,000 civilians dead and resulted in a deal brokered by the US and…
Natasha Bertrand
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Video shows how a single cough can spread invisible droplets throughout a plane cabin, highlighting how exposed passengers could be to the coronavirus
The video is part of a Purdue University study into how planes' ventilation systems affect the risk…
Sophia Ankel
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Boeing's newest plane is also its biggest headache
To truly beat Airbus and produce a worthy successor to its 757, Boeing would probably have to aband…
Benjamin Zhang
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China wants to build giant floating islands in the South China Sea
But China's proposed VLSFs would have a purpose-built design that would allow the platforms to func…