Jets
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Looking for a brand new business jet? I know some of you are. Need to go great distances at the highest speeds possible without having to eyeball the grubby public? Gulfstream's G650ER has just proven its credentials by flying further and faster than anything else on the market.
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The military is always ahead of the civilian world when it comes to new technologies, and it's staggering to look back and see just how advanced aviation was as early as the 1950s and 60s, with supersonic jets, long-range remote-control helicopters, and other tech that feels way before its time.
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French custom builder Ludovic Lazareth is not a man that does things by halves. He has just released a fairly revealing teaser showing a 4-wheeled motorcycle, whose jet turbine-hubbed wheels fold up to turn the thing into a hoverbike.
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The HondaJet is an already impressive piece of aerospace engineering. Now Honda is upping the ante, today announcing the HondaJet Elite, which is claimed to not only fly farther than its competitors, but also fly quieter, with new noise-attenuating technology to keep noise down in the cabin.
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With several major players currently working on supersonic passenger jets, Aerion and Lockheed Martin are targeting those for whom even first class commercial air travel is substandard. The pair has just announced a partnership to develop the world's first supersonic business jet.
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At this week's NBAA Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, Bombardier Business Aircraft took the wraps off the latest flight prototype of its Global 7000 aircraft. Dubbed the "Architect," the fourth flight test vehicle is the first to make a public debut and the first fitted with a cabin interior.
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The promise of a powered wakeboard is exciting, but there's no consensus on the best way to bring that vision to life. Some companies will tell you electric power is the solution, but Mako doesn't share that vision. Instead of volts, the Mako Slingshot relies on jet power for on-water thrills.
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Canada may not be known for its jet fighters now, but in the 1950s it was working on an aircraft that many people say represented the state of the art – the Avro Arrow. Although the planes are now long-gone, a project has been launched to retrieve nine scale models from the bottom of Lake Ontario.
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Italian aerospace company Leonardo announces that its Aermacchi M-345 High Efficiency Trainer (HET) has completed its maiden flight.According to the company, the 30 minute flight went off without incident.
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Roaring, million-dollar World War 2 birds, chopped and tuned within an inch of disaster, wing to wing in a 400-plus mph circuit race over the baking Reno desert. New Atlas visits the world's fastest motorsport race, and meets some of its extraordinary characters.
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The business jet market has shown healthy growth in recent years and Cessna has reaffirmed its desire to join the big hitters with the maiden flight of the Citation Longitude super-midsize jet.
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Supersonic air travel is experiencing a rebirth of sorts lately, at least in terms of new concept designs. Spike Aerospace, in particular, aims to make it possible to travel faster than sound over new parts of the world by greatly reducing the sonic booms that result from breaking that threshold.
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