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Jetpacks Building a jetpack for roller skates Gareth Branwyn

airplanes Standing in front of a jet engine is a great way to cool off Séamus Bellamy
News Off-duty pilot who tried to turn off plane engines may have been on shrooms Rob Beschizza
crime Off-duty pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after trying to crash jet Rob Beschizza
television Trailer for "I'm a Virgo" new show about a 13-ft tall teen Elías Villoro
insects Huge swarm of bees prevent Delta flight from taking off David Pescovitz
santa claus Rocketman Robert Maddox plays Santa on a rocket-powered sleigh Rusty Blazenhoff
mistakes Residential tower ablaze in Russia after fighter jet crashes into it Rob Beschizza
UFOs "Navy UFO" moves with camera mechanisms in glaring problem for alien fans Rob Beschizza
renewable energy The arms race in wind turbines is heating up Andrea James
aviation The EPA has released the first ever pollution regulations for airplanes…but they don't do anything. Thom Dunn
fly the friendly skies How to tell if you're flying on a Boeing Max 737 Clive Thompson
close calls Man attempts to stowaway in jet engine Mark Frauenfelder
robots A speedy, scurrying bug robot the size of a penny David Pescovitz
coronavirus Trump has been hesitant to invoke the Defense Production Act for medical gear. But he's already used it hundreds of thousands of times for weapons and bombs. Thom Dunn
boeing "Piss poor design" and "supervised by monkeys": New documents show what Boeing employees really thought of 737 Max Carla Sinclair
aviation Technical problems — not missiles — may have downed Ukrainian airliner in Iran, say some intel experts Xeni Jardin
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
Engineering Listen to the sound of one screw falling into a turbine engine Xeni Jardin
mistakes How flight crew exhaustion almost led to America's worst airline disaster Rob Beschizza