Intriguingly, however, Orville Wright later questioned whether Gustave Whitehead was indeed first in powered flight. Three years after the Wright brothers' historic flight, Brazilian Alberto ...

USS Enterprise: How a Navy Nuclear Power Aircraft Carrier 'Struck a Rock' The USS Enterprise (CV-65), America's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, faced two significant incidents in the 1980s ...

At Boeing, engineers have created the SUGAR Volt concept plane which combines electricity and fuel to power flight ... was five times as long as the first electric flight in 1973.

Almost as astonishing as the fact that a pair of bicycle shop owners invented the airplane is the fact ... so different after applying power that it seemed at first, to a great extent, as if ...

At the beginning of his magnum opus, 'Process and Reality' (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which ... please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time ...

So the X-57 Maxwell, NASA’s first piloted X-plane ... over the decades to maximize power and fuel efficiency. NASA’s cost comparison for electric aircraft But that doesn’t mean there aren ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question ... in sustained power projection operations ...

In a groundbreaking achievement for aviation and automotive technology, the AirCar, developed by KleinVision, successfully ...

The use of electromechanical and electro-hydrostatic actuators for flight control in particular requires reliable fault detection. Fault detection algorithms are being developed for this purpose, ...

So far, it has been revealed that their first Boeing 737 airplane model is ready. This was revealed with the airline's new image at Aeropuerto del Norte in Monterrey a few days ago, demonstrating that ...

A first flight can be thrilling and a tad daunting. Commercial airplanes cruise at about 575 mph at altitudes of ...