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See your new favorite parts of Earth (and Middle-earth) in 4 minutes
You'll never need to board a carbon-spewing plane again.
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Python hitches a ride on a plane wing, survives an international flight
The python probably wasn’t going for free air travel. More likely, he was looking for yummy rodents to eat.
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Critical List: Dust storm hits Phoenix; Electric Prius hits the roads
Phoenix was hit by a 5,000-foot-tall, 50-mile-wide wall of dust.
What does Virgin Australia have in common with koala bears? They're both very interested in consuming eucalyptus leaves, which hopefully will not get the airplanes as stoned as they get the koala bears.
Car companies don't trust drivers with 10-year-old cars to steer clear of 15% ethanol, which can damage older vehicles. So they think nobody should get it. -
The world’s fastest all-electric plane
A French pilot flew a plane powered only by electricity at more than 175 miles per hour, the fastest an all-electric plane has ever gone. That's much, much faster than other all-electric planes, which tend to be the type available at toy stores, and about 15 mph faster than the previous record set by the pilot, Hugues Duval.
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World's first hybrid-electric plane is aeronautical equivalent of flying pig
Siemens just unveiled the world's first hybrid-electric aircraft, the DA36 E-Star. It uses an unique power train to do the seemingly impossible: take off and land on nothing but batteries.