Flying Cars Reportedly Still Decades Away
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It's a frustrated commuter's escapist fantasy: literally lifting your car out of a clogged highway and soaring through the skies, landing just in time to motor into your driveway.
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Imagine a drive-in movie screen that floats 1,000 feet in the air &amp;#151; and travels 15 mph. An Orlando-based blimp company called The Lightship Group has effectively made one, and it could be coming to a night sky near you.
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Sixty years ago a salesman and pilot coined the term "flying saucers" and a worldwide subculture was born. Highlights of the unfolding rumors and reported sightings contribute to the belief that aliens are hanging out somewhere in reach.
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GOLDEN, Colorado &mdash; It has to be some sort of record. At no time over the five decades of sending robot craft into the heavens have so many spacecraft been on duty at such a variety of far-flung destinations or en route to their targets.
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Hundreds of World War II crash sites still dot the European landscape, but finding them isn't as easy as one may think.
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In March, NASA (news - web sites) launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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Science & environment: Luxury car brand could swap 1950s glamour for a hydrogen-powered car that drives itself
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A federal investigation has museums wondering if they can keep the fruits of a serendipitous discovery four decades ago.
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As motorways become more and more clogged up with traffic, a new generation of flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways.
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If aerial dogfights were still part of warfare, the F-22 would give the U.S. an edge. But today, they are the stuff of video games
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After half a decade of turmoil, a picture of air travel in the U.S. is starting to emerge, and it is far different from the caring image the airlines like to present.
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NASA plans to try to set a world speed record for jets on Monday with the flight of a pilotless vehicle that culminates a decades-long research program into hypersonic flight.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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Safety measures have still not been introduced on some military aircraft, two years after a crash killed 10 servicemen, the BBC learns.
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Aviation enthusiasts awaiting the historic flight of NASA's experimental X-43A 'scramjet' will have to wait another day. Mission planners hope to fly the unmanned jet at a record-breaking 7,000 mph. By Amit Asaravala.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry Ford envisioned two cars in every garage in America. I wonder, as the 21st century starts, if we shouldnât also make room in our garages for a scooter.