Remember that cool RC plane you got for your 13th birthday? The same one that went nose-first into your neighbor's wall on ...

With so many examples to look at, building a solar-powered RC airplane in 2024 should be a snap, surely? The first handicap was that [ProjectAir] is based in the UK, which means dealing with the ...

[Matthew Heiskell] blew these numbers out of the water with a 10 hour 45 minute flight with an RC plane on battery power. Condensed video after the break. Flight stats right before touchdown.

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Flying an airplane is a challenging skill on its own. Civilians need over 40 hours of flight training to receive their pilot license, while military pilots require exceptionally more training.

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For years, you've been able to watch cool-looking electric-plane videos on YouTube, created by some of the 300 companies who are working on them. Today, Beta Technologies, in Burlington ...

Airplane tires may typically be smaller than truck tires, but despite bearing far more weight at much higher speeds (for comparably shorter amounts of time) they're typically quite durable.

Is there Wi-Fi on the plane? If so, will the airplane Wi-Fi work or be super slow? Also, is it safe to tell colleagues that you're "online and available" for work during a flight? Even though most ...

A woman, who goes by the username @erinrempel, recently posted a video on TikTok documenting her seatmates' invasion of her legroom on an airplane. Set to audio of someone screaming called "Female ...