flight

05.17.08

The Fully Loaded Flight Sim

We use the latest and greatest gear to assemble a tricked-out home flight deck. Our inspiration? An Australian hobbyist's $230,000 747 sim that's identical to the real thing-down to the very last knob
By Eric Adams and Doug Cantor Posted 02.05.2007 at 3:00 am 0 Comments

For a closer look at the individual pieces of our setup, launch the photo gallery

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PopSci at the X Prize Cup Executive Summit

See our exclusive video from the high-powered brainstorming event that brought together the world's leading aerospace visionaries
By Megan Miller Posted 10.20.2006 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

The Wirefly X Prize Cup kicked off Thursday with the exclusive X Prize Executive Summit, a high-powered brainstorming and networking event that brought together a distinguished group of the world's most influential entrepreneurs, astronauts, heads of NASA and the FAA, tech-industry experts and visionaries to talk about the future of the emerging personal-spaceflight industry.

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Getting High on Helium

John Ninomiya regularly takes flight using a rig so simple it´s scary: a bunch of helium balloons
By Posted 06.07.2005 at 5:00 pm 0 Comments

Dept.: You Built What?!
Tech: Cluster ballooning
Cost: $2000 per fight
Time: 2 Hours of prep for a two-hour flight
Practical | | | | | Popcorn



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Is this the future of air combat?

A revolution is under way in aerial combat. Tomorrow's fighter pilots may be ceding the skies to robots
By Posted 06.02.2005 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

For 65 years, the Mojave Desert has spawned the fastest, highest-flying and most agile airplanes in the world. This vast expanse of scrub and Joshua tree forests encompasses the U.S. Air Force's deadly-secret Area 51 in Nevada, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, and, at Mojave airfield itself, Burt Rutan's sci-fi enclave, Scaled Composites.

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