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Surprise Shuttle Landing Video!

April 27, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Talk about the shot of a lifetime! A Canadian airline passenger waiting on the tarmac at JFK this morning got an incredible view of the shuttle Enterprise landing! Just…wow. Video by YouTube user “daujla2″. (Hat tip to the New York Post.) [...]

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How High Do Planes Fly

June 6, 2011

Have you ever asked how high do planes fly? The answer is easy to understand when you remember how flight for aircraft works. The first thing to know is that air is a fluid just like water. So it works under the same rules. Any object that moves in a fluid is under the influence [...]

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Avionics

December 17, 2010

If you have ever wondered what helps to guide planes from running into each other then you were thinking about avionics. Avionics is a combination of the words aviation and electronics. Avionics is basically about the electrical systems installed in aircraft that give them additional functionality. The govern everything from navigation to control of the [...]

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Bernoulli Effect

October 31, 2010

The Bernoulli Effect is the interesting natural phenomenon that makes flight possible. Without this principle it would be impossible for most modern aircraft to soar through the skies. The principle was first discovered by Daniel Bernoulli a Swiss scientist who lived during the 18th century. The bulk of Bernoulli’s research focused on fluids (gases and [...]

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Fastest Plane

September 16, 2009

The fastest airplane in the world to date is the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird.” This is the fastest air breathing manned aircraft traveling at an astonishing speed of Mach 3.2 or about three times the speed of sound. The plane was commissioned by the CIA and Air Force for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering and was fabricated [...]

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