Economics Explained
Is War Good For The Economy?: Dead Money
Can wars end economic decline? It may have helped in the past, but can it help today? Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes of economists....
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Ukraine’s MIG killer: how the Stinger missile works
The Stinger missile system is the world’s most legendary MANPAD, or Man-Portable Air Defense System, and the U.S. is sending many to Ukraine.
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Emirates planning to replace windows on planes with virtual ones
Imagine getting on an airplane without any windows, instead you see projected images of what is outside.
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NASA | Operation IceBridge Antarctica 2011 Mission Preview
In preparation for Operation IceBridge's Antarctica 2011 campaign, flight crews at NASA Dryden worked to outfit the DC-8 aircraft -- NASA's long-haul "workhorse" -- with an array of different instruments designed to measure sea ice, ice...
Economics Explained
The Turbulent Economics of the Airline Industry | Economics Explained
In today's episode, we'll explore the economic factors that are likely to define the airline industry for the foreseeable future! ✈️ What are the new pressures pushing prices upwards? What are the pressures pushing prices downwards? And,...
The March of Time
1940: US AIR CORPS: Pilot into observation biplane (commander aircraft battle force) MS Navy Admiral in cockpit (believed to be Aubrey Fitch). XWS Airplane taking off from carrier. Many airplanes in flight. Three aircraft carriers. AERIAL Carrier.
MOT 1940: US AIR CORPS: Pilot into observation biplane (commander aircraft battle force) MS Navy Admiral in cockpit (believed to be Aubrey Fitch). XWS Airplane taking off from carrier. Many airplanes in flight. Three aircraft carriers....
NASA
Tour the Plane Giving NASA’s ICON a Ride to Space
Early in the morning of Nov. 7, 2018, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a spacecraft that will explore the dynamic region where Earth meets space. ICON launches on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, which is...
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NASA Peers Inside Hurricane Edouard
The swirling nature of hurricane clouds are a familiar sight in satellite imagery, but in order to better understand these storms, scientists need to look inside them. In 2014, NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk aircraft flew over...
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NASA | Hurricane Hunters
During the 2010 hurricane season, NASA deployed its piloted DC-8 and WB-57, and unmanned Global Hawk aircraft in a massive effort to collect as much data as possible, arming hurricane researchers with the information needed to predict...
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China claims it has carried out successful hypersonic aircraft test
China says it has tested out a new hypersonic aircraft, The Starry Sky-2 , which could one day be used to carry nuclear missiles, reports The South China Morning Post.
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NOAA Team Helps NASA’s Operation IceBridge Tackle Arctic Spring
NASA’s Operation IceBridge has returned from its spring campaign measuring changes in the Greenland ice sheet and in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Flying for the first time on board a borrowed NOAA P-3 aircraft, the airborne mission...
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NASA Has Eyes On The Atlantic Hurricane Season
NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall. After the hurricanes have passed, the satellites and aircraft see...
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NASA | Hurricane Scientist talks GRIP, Hurricane Earl
NASA's Hurricane expert Dr. Jeff Halverson explains how NASA's GRIP mission is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Earl and other storms over the Atlantic. Scientists use data collected from NASA's DC-8, Global Hawk and WB-57 aircraft to...
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NASA | Earth's Climate Checkup: Operation IceBridge Monitors Arctic
NASA scientists have just begun the most recent leg of the Operation IceBridge Mission, an unprecedented six-year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not through the lens of a satellite, but from onboard an airplane. In fact,...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Live Shot 2014
Dr. Tom Wagner talks about Arctic sea ice and the ARISE mission in this canned liveshot interview.
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How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey
A group of scientists and pilots conducted a series of science flights over Western Colorado for a new five-year NASA-led airborne mission called SnowEx. SnowEx is exploring better ways to measuring how much water is stored in...
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China’s powerful new carrier almost ready to sail
Beijing’s powerful new aircraft carrier is more modern than U.S. carriers in some important capabilities.
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NASA | Operation IceBridge: A Science Lab in the Arctic Sky
One of the keys to gathering data for Operation IceBridge is a highly modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner, which NASA operates as a flying science laboratory. This workhorse DC-8 can fly long trips, allowing a suite of scientific...
Financial Times
The future of Britain's air force
The Royal Air Force is leaping towards the future with the arrival of new F35 fighter jets but the threats to the UK are shifting fast with a resurgent Russia to the fore, and uncertainty surrounds the UK defence budget. As the RAF marks...
The March of Time
Carswell Air Force Base briefing
MOT 1951: U.S. CARSWELL AIR BASE: WING BRIEFING ROOM: INT CU Sign. WS Officer at podium briefing crew in seats. VS Audience pilots. DRAMATIZATION: VS Officer at map talking about airplane route plan mission. VS Map. MS Pilot w/ cigar. Texas
The March of Time
Carswell mock mission take off
MOT 1951: U.S. CARSWELL AIR BASE: MOCK MISSION: NIGHT: WS Crewmen assembled under Convair B-36 bomber airplane. MS Commander Bill Horton (unconfirmed) talking. VS Airmen boarding B-36. INT VS Crewman sitting fastening safety belt. Texas...
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Operation IceBridge: What (and Who) it Takes to Keep a Mission Flying
This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for Operation IceBridge, a cryosphere-focused mission tasked with mapping the fastest-changing areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet and measuring sea ice thickness across the western Arctic...
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NASA | IceBridge Kicks Off Campaign with “New” Aircraft
NASA’s Operation IceBridge is back in the field, but this time, there’s a twist. Instead of using the P-3 or DC-8 aircraft from previous campaigns, they’ve outfitted a C-130 cargo plane for the trip. Science flights begin this week as...