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The E-6B Mercury that executes the “Take Charge And Move Out” (TACAMO) mission for America’s sprawling nuclear apparatus, basically delivering commands from the National Command Authority that can send nuclear-armed ballistic missiles flying during a nuclear apocalypse, is an incredible aircraft. Not only were they among the last Boeing 707 derivatives ever built, but they are …

WASHINGTON — Brittney Griner, the American basketball star imprisoned in Russia, was released on Thursday after nearly 10 months of captivity in a prisoner swap for Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” President Biden announced. In a brief statement from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, with …

What do robotic lightning bugs have to do with cars and mobility? With flying cars and personal jetpacks positioned to be the next big thing in mobility, technology will need to discover more compact, lighter, and cheaper ways to move forward. These tiny flying robot fireflies, created at MIT, could be the root of a …

First there was Rosie the Riveter. Now, meet Rosie the Rocketeer. A World War II recruitment campaign icon will be repurposed for spaceflight once again in the form of Rosie the Rocketeer, a dummy astronaut set to take flight this week. Rosie’s mission is to strap into the commander’s seat of Starliner, Boeing’s astronaut taxi, …

Jet packs, robot maids, and flying cars were all promises for the 21st century. We got mechanized, autonomous vacuum cleaners instead. Now a team of Penn State researchers are exploring the requirements for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles and designing and testing potential battery power sources. “I think flying cars have the potential …

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands Successfully on Mars (Highlight Reel)  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Highlights From NASA’s Successful Landing on Mars  The New York Times NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars  Fox News Driving Mars Exploration: How the Perseverance Rover Will Pave a Path into the Future  National Air and Space Museum Perseverance rover has successfully landed on Mars and …

This Mumbai based eatery has tweaked the entire dosa experience by introducing this unique concept of ‘Flying Dosa’ and the netizens are amazed with the unusual style of preparation of these flying dosas. You can’t miss out on street food, when in Mumbai and the flying dosa has turned out to be one of the …

The National Transportation Safety Board investigators described the crash as preventable, the pilot as experienced, and his employer as a generally safe charter operation. They spoke at a meeting of the NTSB to settle on an official cause of the January 26, 2020, crash that killed Bryant, his daughter, the pilot, and six others. “Even …

The New England Patriots are holding a Super Bowl sendoff Sunday morning for the 76 health care workers who are flying on the team’s plane to Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida. Patriots’ President Jonathan Kraft is expected to be joined by Pats’ captain Matthew Slater and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker at Logan International Airport …

That testing and LIFT’s presence at the airport is part of a larger effort by the Air Force to aid in the development of that type of technology. LIFT joins BETA Technologies and Joby Aviation, two pioneer businesses in the field of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, to work with the Air Force at …