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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
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
News #FalconHeavy success: SpaceX launches world's biggest rocket Xeni Jardin
video The fascinating history of the first commercial jetliner Andrea James
News Travel tip: don't throw coins into your plane's engine "for blessings" Cory Doctorow
science fiction Read: an excerpt from Tropic of Kansas, a spookily prescient comic dystopia about trumpism Cory Doctorow