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Aerodynamic Efficiency: By removing windows, the Phantom 3500 maintains a laminar flow fuselage, which significantly reduces drag (35%) and cuts fuel consumption by roughly half (5:30 - 6:05). Micro fatigue around windows is responsible for significant down time and crashes. Cameras and fiber optics allow passengers to view outside.

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Charting the invisible traffic patterns within one of the most congested corridors of airspace on Earth

On the night of 28 August 1944, 97 German flying bombs crossed the Channel toward London. Four arrived. Ten weeks earlier the guns that stopped the rest had needed 2,500 shells to hit a single one. What changed was not an airplane. In this documentary: • The Fi 103 / V-1: 5,090 Reichsmarks, plywood wings, an Argus pulse jet and 850 kg of Amatol — the first cruise missile • Crossbow: the photo interpreter who found it, the ski sites, 122,000 tons of bombs and six months bought for D-Day • Diver: 13 June 1944, Grove Road, the Guards Chapel, and three defensive layers in the wrong order • The Tempest that could not catch it in level flight — and the geometry that did; Joseph Berry's 59½ • The Meteor: Britain's first jet, a jammed cannon and a wingtip • The most courageous decision of the war: the whole gun belt moved to the beach in days • SCR-584, the M9 director and the VT proximity fuze — the most secret American weapon short of the atomic bomb, banned over land until the flying bomb • 17% to 82%: the graph that ended the campaign • Double Cross: every German spy in England worked for MI5, and the bombs fell short • Aphrodite and Joe Kennedy Jr · He 111 air launches · Manchester on Christmas Eve • Antwerp X: the American command that reached 97.8% • The JB-2 Loon: America copies the buzz bomb in two months — and the road to the cruise missile CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:17 The Cheapest Weapon of the War 1:59 Twenty-Seventh of February 3:50 Photographs From Twenty-Eight Thousand Feet 5:48 Diver, Diver, Diver 7:13 Three Layers, in the Wrong Order 8:49 The Fighter That Could Not Catch It 10:53 Fifty-Nine and a Half 12:27 The Jet That Arrived Too Early 14:08 The Most Courageous Decision 15:50 A Radar That Aimed the Gun by Itself 18:08 A Radio in the Nose of a Shell 20:29 Seventeen Percent to Eighty-Two 22:13 The Curtain and the Corps 23:44 Lying to the Bomb 25:38 Crossbow, Aphrodite and Joe Kennedy 27:31 The Bombers Come In From the Sea 29:11 Antwerp X 31:10 The Buzz Bomb Goes to War for America 32:55 The Bomb With a Pilot 34:21 The Ledger 36:11 The Last One Subscribe for declassified aviation and black-project history every week. Which layer of the defense mattered most — the fighters, the guns, or the lie? Tell us in the comments. Music: "Clash Defiant" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Footage & photos: U.S. National Archives (NARA), U.S. Army Signal Corps / Army Pictorial Service, United News (OWI), British Ministry of Information / Crown Film Unit (public domain), Ford Motor Company films (NARA), Imperial War Museums and Bundesarchiv images via Wikimedia Commons (public domain / CC), Library of Congress. #V1 #FlyingBomb #BuzzBomb #WW2 #Tempest #ProximityFuze #SCR584 #OperationDiver #SeniorCrown #AviationHistory

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[Desc] A 4-seat electric aircraft called the RX4E, built by the Liaoning General Aviation Academy (LGAA) in Shenyang, China, just became the world's first electric plane certified for commercial passenger flights under Part 23 regulations. While Western aviation startups like Beta Technologies and Bye Aerospace have spent years and billions of dollars trying to get their electric aircraft certified by the FAA, this Chinese university lab quietly built, tested, and certified theirs in December 2024. The RX4E features a carbon fiber composite airframe, an Emrax electric motor from Slovenia with over 92% efficiency, Garmin G500 avionics, and a 69.1 kWh battery that costs just $10 to fully charge. Compare that to a Cessna 182, which burns $98 per hour in leaded aviation fuel alone. The RX4E's total operating cost sits at $40 to $60 per hour versus $150 to $250 for the Cessna, and its battery can be swapped in just 3 minutes, eliminating the need for expensive airport charging infrastructure. The RX4E has a range of 162 nautical miles, a cruise speed of 108 knots, and a purchase price of roughly $600,000 comparable to a new Cessna 182.

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iOS and Android apps to identify aircraft flying overhead

Plane Finder has a global network of data feeds and antenna radars that receive data broadcast directly from aircraft for flight tracking. Users are able to track flights online or through Plane Finder's flight tracking apps. The type of data readily available include flight history, flight cancellations, flight delays and squawks.

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Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright are credited with creating and flying the world’s first heavier-than-air, controlled, crewed aircraft. One-time bicycle mechanics with only some public high school e

At the start of the air war over Europe, **Luftwaffe pilots mocked the American B-17 Flying Fortress**, calling it a *“slow, easy target.”* They expected to ...

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A marvel of engineering and design, the Concorde ushered in the supersonic age — until its final flight in 2003. Find out what it was like to travel on one of the most famous airplanes ever made.

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Reduced wing assembly from 20 hours to 2 hours. Saved Boeing during WWII.

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There have been significant efforts recently aimed at improving the aerodynamic performance of aerofoils through the modification of their surfaces. Inspired by the drag-reducing properties of the tooth-like denticles that cover the skin of sharks, ...