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Aerosense, Sony Corp.’s joint-venture drone company, has unveiled a prototype of the flying machines it will use to serve business customers. The airplane-shaped drones will take off and land vertically, and are expected to carry objects weighing up to 22 pounds, and fly for more than two hours at
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Six gyroplanes built by German company AutoGyro perform a formation display at the Classics Of The Sky airshow at Tauranga Airport in New Zealand. The AutoGyro GmbH is a world leader in the development, production and distribution of gyroplanes.Since its inception in 1999, the specialist in air exercise equipment
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A group of NASA interns from different colleges across the nation came together during Summer 2015 with one goal: the successful flight test of PRANTDL-2. This student-produced video details the students' journey from fabrication to flight test of the PRANDTL-2 subscale aircraft. The students also worked on preparing the
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Britain’s Paul Bonhomme was crowned the winner of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship stop at the famous Ascot Racecourse on Sunday, flying brilliantly under pressure in the world's fastest motorsport series. The victory was Bonhomme’s third this season and second straight win at Ascot
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Robert “Red” Jensen is an Operations Engineer and Pilot for subscale aircraft at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. As part fabricator, engineer and integrator, Red is responsible for testing subscale models of aircraft and ensuring they are safe, capable of flight and ready to support the center’s needs.
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A birthday tribute to Singapore's 50th Anniversary that happened on 9th August 2015. This is a tribute to a nation that has made the impossible possible. A small city-state that has defied the odds and continues to amaze many others over the years since independence in 1963. This
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Four World War One aircraft, a Sopwith Camel, Nieuport 11, Fokker Dr.1 and a Fokker D.VII go head-to-head in a dogfight at low level, simulating some of the battles seen in the skies above Belgium and France during World War One. Source: YouTube
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This is a short clip of three Mk1 Spitfires at the Flying Legends 2015 Air Show at Duxford. It's taken from the official Flying Legends Film of the show available to order at www.FlyingMachinesTV.co.uk. Source: YouTube
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Graeme Frew takes his Yak-3 for a spin at the Classics Of The Sky airshow in Tauranga, New Zealand. The Yakovlev Yak-3 is a World War II Soviet fighter aircraft. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by pilots and ground crew alike. It was one of the
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Economist Films: Meet the people pioneering new careers as drone pilots, from the South African savannah to the building sites of California. “Drone Rangers” is the first film in the Economist's new “Future Works” series, which looks at the jobs of tomorrow being done today. Economist Films is
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The 22nd Edition of this world famous aerial spectacular was held at the iconic Duxford airfield on the 11th and 12th July. Flying Legends featured world class, unrivalled, choreographed displays featuring unique aircraft types rarely seen together in the UK skies or anywhere else. Flying Legends culminated in the finale
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The development history of the Bf (Me) 109 goes back as far as 1934, when the Bavarian Aircraft Works (BFW) in Augsburg which became Messerschmitt AG in 1938 started development of a lightweight fighter plane for a competition held by the Reich Air Ministry (Reichsluftfahrtministerium). Willy Messerschmitt designed the aircraft,