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Let The Commentary On This Stream Of Planes Landing In Storm Ciara Bless Your Monday
Storm Ciara ravaged Britain all weekend, but its impact on air travel isn’t all just breaking trans-Atlantic records. Oh no. In fact, the commentary on a livestream of planes touching down at Heathrow has provided us with some of the most surprisingly delightful motivation you can get to start off your week.
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The Latest Top Gun 2: Maverick Trailer Has A Wild Super Spy Jet At Least
The trailer for Top Gun 2: Maverick is out, and it looks like it ticks all the boxes that modern cinema appears to be looking for when it comes to new movie releases: we’re just gonna phone it in and re-make all the old, iconic movies that everyone loves because it guarantees people will see…
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Here’s Why Rotodyne, The Vertical Takeoff Airliner, Failed
If a helicopter and an aeroplane had a little Einstein genius baby, that baby would be the Fairey Rotodyne, a passenger airliner that was said to be capable of vertical takeoff. It was supposed to be the hot new thing almost six decades ago—the way everyone would be getting around. And then, shockingly, it failed.
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Autonomous Airport Cart Experiment A Partial Success
In troubled times, a nation needs heroes of all kinds to look to, and it appears we’ve got one, Jorge Manalang, who took down an airport catering cart that went feral and started doing autonomous doughnuts, faster and faster, threatening to slam into workers on the tarmac or the aeroplane at the skyway. The video…