I think any one of us with a mechanical inclination has always loved aircraft as much as we’re obsessed with cars. And if you were like me as a kid, you were always fascinated with RC airplanes, ...
Photogrammetry is described as the science of getting detailed info about objects by painstakingly analyzing, interpreting, and stitching back together available images of said objects. It’s also the ...
The An-225 was built for maximum power and payload, in contrast to other large jet aircraft, like the Boeing 747 and Airbus ...
It will forever be known as the AN-225 Mriya, and for more than three decades it has been the world’s largest aircraft in terms of payload. It set some 240 world records, many of them still unbeaten, ...
The first powered plane flight, performed by the Wright Brothers over the windswept beach of North Carolina’s Kitty Hawk in 1903, covered 120 feet. That historic flight would fit entirely in the cargo ...
Something that probably unites most Hackaday readers is a love of machines, particularly unique or interesting ones. In the world of aircraft for example, we’ve run several stories about those which ...
This is what happens when you are a bit too close to an An-225 Mriya. Designed at the end of Cold War to carry the Soviet “Buran” space shuttle and parts of the “Energiya” carrier-rocket between space ...
If you're an aviation fan, you've probably heard of the Antonov An-225 "Mriya." This jet was once the world's largest, powered by its six huge turbofan engines. However, the jet made the news in 2022 ...