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What Happens If Your Airplane Loses Power? Out Pops the RAT
Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing several planes in recent months. But what happens if the power in your plane actually does go out? That’s an issue that nobody really wants to…
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After ISS Retires, European Astronauts Might Hop on Airbus’s Commercial Space Station
The European Space Agency is looking to the Starlab station for its orbital needs.
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Engine Recall Forces Major Airlines to Ground Planes and Cancel Flights
What’s a plane without an engine? After aerospace company Pratt & Whitney issued a recall on some of its engine models, airline companies in the U.S. and Europe are scrounging for parts, and doing anything they can to prevent cancelled flights. Financial Times reports that after Pratt & Whitney issued a recall on thousands of…
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A U.S. Regulator is Using VR Simulators to Test Helicopter Safety
The top aircraft regulator in the US says it’s experimenting with a pair of virtual reality helicopter training simulators to conduct safety research. While Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a semi-dystopian metaverse VR-enabled future may have hit a snag or two, the adoption of VR for less flashy, but almost surely more consequential training simulators continues…