by Calum Wilson | Feb 12, 2024 | Editorial Comment, Flight, Technology
NASA and Lockheed Martin formally unveiled their quiet supersonic aircraft, the X-59, on January 12, 2024. The aircraft will travel faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.4 (925 mph). Mach being the ratio of the speed of the aircraft to the speed of sound through...
by Calum Wilson | Feb 12, 2024 | Editorial Comment, Technology
Artificial intelligence experienced something of a renaissance in the past year and it seems 2024 will be no different. Companies across the board are committing to greater AI use as its functionalities and intelligence improves at tremendous speeds. Several reports...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Oct 25, 2023 | Editorial Comment, Inspiration, Sustainability, Technology
Airbus will renew the entire fleet of chartered vessels that transport aircraft subassemblies between production facilities in Europe and the United States with three modern, low-emission roll-on/roll-off vessels, supported by wind-assisted propulsion. Airbus has...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Sep 22, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight
On September 13, 2023, Titan Travel, part of the Saga Travel Group, waved off its first-ever private jet holiday on a 23-day Captivating Cultures grand tour. Operating under the flight number HAT2130, the 737-400 single aisle aircraft left from the private terminal at...
by Olivia Beresford | Jun 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight, Space
At 8:30am MT, the Galactic 01 spaceflight took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, reaching an altitude of around 53 miles. The spaceflight evaluated and measured hypergravity to microgravity transition effects on the human body, including both biological and...
by Olivia Beresford | Jun 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight, Space
This mission represents a new era in government-funded commercial human-tended research missions. The crew will board VSS Unity for a 90-minute flight to conduct a series of suborbital science experiments. The mission’s two objectives are to conduct 13 human-tended...
