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Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition Review
There’s a long history between flight simulator games and flight simulator peripherals, I mean… OBVIOUSLY. However, few have been in the game as long as Thrustmaster, and they’re easily one of the biggest names in the business. So it makes sense that their latest would be the TCA Sidestick Airbus…
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Airbus Look Towards AI Development For Pilot-less Aircraft
Airbus reveals development of AI to remove the pilot from flying While the auto-pilot does a lot of work on aeroplanes, there are still some key components. Namely the pilot, co-pilot and sometimes a flight engineer. While human input is still a major factor, particularly in smaller private aircraft, on…
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Lilium Gets $90M Funding for Electric VTOL Project
Flying car startup Lilium unveiled their working all-electric VTOL prototype back in April, showing that their design is functional. Even more impressive is that it has a higher top speed than a helicopter at 300km/h and shows a more passenger-friendly design than some of the drone prototypes from other companies.…
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Airbus Unveils Modular Flying Car System
Airbus has debuted a new modular flying car system at the Geneva Motor Show 2017. The concept, dubbed Pop.Up, is effectively a giant quadcopter – designed in partnership with Italdesign – which can be coupled with a number of different, specially designed commercial transportation driving capsules to turn them into…
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Why Not Drive Under A Bus? The Land Airbus Lets You Do Just That
When it comes to public transport, people either love it or hate it. I personally am in between, neither hating it or loving it, but for the car drivers that get caught behind the bus on a busy day, I can only imagine their hatred of public transport. A Beijing-based…
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The Light Rider – A Metal 3D Printed Electric Bike
These days you can 3D print everything, from a new set of dice for your tabletop adventures to spare body parts. With so much we use being made of plastic, what happens when you want to 3D print something a little more durable? APWorks, a subsidiary of Airbus, have answered…
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‘Concord 2’ Hypersonic Airbus Being Developed!
Airbus are known for their giant airplanes, and it’s not hard to know why, as they’re used all over the world to transport people and materials. Their new design hopes to improve on that by allowing them to travel at speeds of up to four and a half times the…
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Airbus A400M Software Update Caused Crash
Investigators for the Airbus A400M crash have narrowed down the cause of the software configuration error that led to the crash. According to sources speaking to Reuters, the most likely scenario is that critical software data was wiped from three of the engines during a software upgrade. During a software upgrade…
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Airbus unveils Reusable Rocket Engine Program Adeline
European airspace firm Airbus has revealed their answer to reusable rockets. Most of the things humanity has shot in space has been expendable. Cost, reliability and complexity have kept us from reusing our space hardware. Airbus’s Adeline or Advanced Expendable Launcher with Innovative engine Economy aims to change that. Using…
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Airbus A400M Disaster Blamed on Faulty Software Configuration
As software continues to grow more complex, the chance for critical errors to emerge increases. Airbus has found out the hard way after a Spanish A400M suffered a fatal crash just last month. Investigators have determined that a software configuration error for the engines led to nearly full engine failure, leading…
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Airbus A350 WXB Jet Features 1000 3D Printed Parts
3D printers have revolutionized many industries in recent years, but before they started entering the consumer market, albeit mostly for the enthusiast crowd at the moment, they were getting used in everything from Formula 1 to aerospace technology. The Airbus A350 XWB jet however, has more 3D printed parts than…
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Engineers Working For Free to Realise Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transportation System
Last year, Elon Musk pitched a fantastical idea for a new national transportation system in the US. Called Hyperloop, it involved capsuled traincars propelled at high speed through low pressure underground tubes. Now, a group of engineers are working for free to make the project a reality. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies…
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Next-Gen Supersonic Jet Capable of Flying From NYC to London in Less Than 4 Hours
Those super-long trans-Atlantic flights could be a thing of the past, especially with the next generation of supersonic passenger aircrafts. New supersonic jets are being made for the 1%, which are capable of hitting Mach 1.6, or over 1200 miles per hour. Aerion, a Reno, Nevada-based company is developing a…
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Replica Mini Mars Created Just Outside London by Airbus Defence
If you want to test a new rover for a mission on the red planet you’ve got two options. One would be to spend billions and fire your creation through space to Mars and put it straight to work, alternatively you can spend £500,000 and build a massive “Mars Yard”…
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