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NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter
Ingenuity, NASA’s autonomous Mars helicopter, was only meant to complete five flights. But since its history-making first flight in April…
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Thousands of Planes Are Flying Empty and No One Can Stop Them
In December 2021, 27,591 aircraft took off or landed at Frankfurt airport—890 every day. But this winter, many of them…
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This Software Aims to Make Your Flight Smoother—and Help the Planet
Fastening the seat belt buckle and knowing your flight is on its way to its destination: Nice. Getting stuck in…
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Delta Wants to Share No-Fly Lists to Keep Bad Passengers Out
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) As if we needed any more problems, passengers from hell are a thing now (or…
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As Travel Rebounds, Airlines Are Figuring It Out on the Fly
Before, air travel had certain rhythms. Business travelers flew out on Monday mornings and back on Thursday evenings, filling pricier…
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Being a Dick on a Plane Could Cost You $32,750
Photo: Stephen Brashear (Getty Images) The Federal Aviation Administration is upping its “zero tolerance” war on pandemic passengers who disrupt…
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Vietnam Lifts Ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft
File photo of passengers standing outside the departure terminal at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi in 2020.Photo: Nhac Nguyen/AFP…
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Hackers Looted Passenger Data From Some of the Biggest Airlines
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) SITA, a large data firm that works with some of the world’s largest airlines, announced…
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NASA’s Experimental Electric Airplane Edges Closer to Its First Flight
Concept art of the electric, 14-motor X-57 Maxwell in flight.Illustration: NASA Langley/Advanced Concepts Lab, AMA, Inc (Fair Use) Looking every…
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Federal Authorities Confirm Sighting of Yet Another UFO
Photo: Alexander Hassenstein (Getty Images) Multiple authorities have confirmed that commercial airline pilots recently saw, well, something, hurtling through America’s…
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