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- Photos: Soaring ambition for solar aircraft
- The Solar Impulse HB-SIA is designed to fly both day and night without the need for fuel and without producing any pollution. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Pollution, Aircraft, Photograph, Solar Impulse HB-SIA, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-07-03
- Photos: Looking back at NASA's X-15 aircraft
- The rocket-powered aircraft first flew in June 1959, helping set the stage for space missions including Apollo and the shuttle. by CNET News.com
- Tags: NASA, Aircraft, Photograph, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-06-12
- Air travel - how to lose a whole day
- I'm currently sitting in an airline lounge (shhh, don't tell anyone, but I mean Delta) waiting for my next flight and contemplating on how air travel has become a time consuming, frustrating experience for many business travelers. I was, on the other hand, impressed with the professionalism and efficiency of...
- Tags: Flight, Aircraft, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- A different 'spin' on flying cars
- A different 'spin' on flying carsTrueGround effect is more efficient than helicopters but anything that hovers for lift still consumes power constantly. Fixed wing aircraft are more efficient, and fixed wing ground effect aircraft are even more efficient. However for a short trip I think wheeled vehicles will...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, aircraft, car
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- (Photos: USAF Thunderbirds ready for air-show duty)
- (Photos: USAF Thunderbirds ready for air-show duty)I must be aloneI love aircraft but in this time I think the pollution from these people and a heck of a lot of the other useless flights should be severely restricted. One of the airshows puts more pollution into the atmosphere in...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, aircraft, USAF Thunderbirds, car, photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- FlightCode 1.1 (Mobile)
- FlightCode lists ICAO and IATA Codes for airports, aircraft types and airlines. It also lists the country codes/registration informations of an aircraft. You will find a link to the maps application for many of the listed airports. And you can mark everything you have seenspotting function.Note: The "Download Now" link...
- Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Apple iTunes, Volker Bublitz, Aerospace & Defense, Digital Music, Digital Media, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-04-01
- Military Aircraft Recognition Guide 2.0 (Mobile)
- Military Aircraft Recognition Guide contains over 40 slides of military aircraft. Each slide contains a top view, a front view and a colored side view of the aircraft as well as detailed information of its dimensions and performance. Version 2.0 added a new interface, and several new aircraft have been...
- Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Apple iTunes, Pentangelli Software, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-03-24
- Live from 40,000+ feet: Southwest Airlines WiFi
- Now, there's no excuse for your work to be late My flight tonight is a special wi-fi equipped Southwest Airlines jet with free wi-fi on-board. This post is hitting the ZDNet mother server via this aircraft as we cross over Colorado. How’s it...
- Tags: Southwest Airlines Co., Aircraft, Netbook, Wireless LANs, E-mail, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Online Communications, Hardware, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Gotham Prime 1.0 (Mobile)
- Gotham Prime is a simulation of modern and futuristic aircraft patrolling a city of the future in stunning 3D. Watch this amazing scene from 12 thrilling camera angles. You can set the speed of the aircraft to a breathtaking velocity or to a slow patrol. The aircraft fly between buildings,...
- Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Apple iTunes, Sputnik Games, Gotham Prime, Aerospace & Defense, Digital Music, Digital Media, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-03-19
- iSmartEFIS 1.1 (Mobile)
- iSmartEFIS uses the iPhone accelerometers and GPS to generate a realistic PFD display. By default iSmartEFIS simulates an aircraft's attitude, altitude, heading and speed in a static environment. Just as it would look on an aircraft's primary flight display. With addition of a purchasable registration id available from the Hangar...
- Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Apple iTunes, Hangar B-17, iSmartEFIS, Aerospace & Defense, Digital Music, Digital Media, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-03-18
- Aircraft Weight and Balance 1.0.0.2 (Windows)
- The software calculates the weight and balance problem of any light aircraft. Check for maximum weight of each item, maximum total weights and fit with the moment envelope. It is freeware with fully editable configuration file. You can add any plane to the software.
- Tags: Weight, Aircraft, Microsoft Windows, Aphesa, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-02-13
- Corsair Rage 1.13 (Windows)
- It's trouble on the high seas. Fly your corsair over land, sea, and complete cloud cover to protect your aircraft carrier from incoming squadrons of hellcats, and huge B-52 flying fortresses. An addictive retro style shooter you must see and play. The game features colorful arcade style graphics, soundFX, and...
- Tags: Sea, Aircraft, Microsoft Windows, H+Soft Retro Arcade Entertainment, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-01-10
- Air Cadets 1.1 (Mobile)
- Air Cadets features 4 game modes, 6 original characters, 3 original aircraft and 5 unique levels. It also includes 3 levels of difficulty with each having its own level layout per mode so that means there are a possible 25 combinations to play! The objective of the game is to...
- Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Apple iTunes, Hidden Games, Games, Aerospace & Defense, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-12-23
- Armageddon Squadron 1.0.0 (Mobile)
- The developers of Raging Thunder, Crash Nitro Kart and Wave Blazer present Armageddon Squadron, an arcade flight simulator giving you control of some of the best known aircraft of the WWII era in a variety of mission types and environments. Objectives include bombing and strafing raids against facilities and...
- Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Apple iTunes, Polarbit, Aerospace & Defense, Digital Music, Digital Media, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-11-27
- Pearl Harbor 2 (Windows)
- In the 7th of December 1941, the Japanese attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor without declaring war beforehand. The entire US war fleet suffered heavy losses during this sneak attack which the Japanese called "Tora Tora". 18 ships and 188 aircraft were destroyed and 2.403 Americans lost their lives. The...
- Tags: Aircraft, Microsoft Windows, Inca Gold, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2008-11-19
- Real planes racing with a virtual one
- A really unique competition was recently held in the skies of Spain. Sky Challenge was a race between two real planes and a virtual one organized by New Zealand based Air Sports Ltd. and the Geospatial Research Centre GRC, a New Zealand based company which is a joint venture between...
- Tags: New Zealand, Plane, Roland Piquepaille, Aircraft, Satellite, Geospatial Research Centre, INS, GPS, Aerospace & Defense, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-19
- Artificial Horizon 3D 1.0 (Mobile)
- Tausendstern Horizon simulates an aircraft's artificial horizon. In planes an artificial horizon is used to indicate the attitude of the craft relative to the horizon. Now you can have the same for your iPhone or iPod Touch, rendered in realtime in photo-realistic OpenGL. Corresponding to the roll and pitch angles...
- Tags: 3D, Mobile, Aircraft, Horizon, Tausendstern Horizon, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2008-10-15
- Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
- According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...
- Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Civil Aircraft Recognition Guide 1.0 (Mobile)
- Have you ever wondered what aircraft type you were looking at while waiting for your departure at the airport? What kind of aircraft just passed by? This application provides a civil aircraft recognition guide to your I-pod or I-phone. The application contains 40 civil aircraft profiles. Each profile displays a...
- Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Pentangelli Software, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2008-10-01
- Should our President be computer literate?
- Should our President be computer literate?The man with the BlackBerry gets my voteAlthough I fundamentally agree with you that being the leader of the free world is a bit more important that being able to check email and certainly requires a much broader range of qualifications, I have to say...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, aircraft
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29

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