VROOM!

Haven’t you always dreamed of having your own private plane? You know, nothing fancy, just a little single engined low-wing tail-dragger that you could cruise around in? Imagine it: “Cubicle tower, this is USB Two-Zero-Oscar-Golf-Zulu holding short on runway Desk, requesting takeoff clearance…”
although it doesn’t quite fly, it’s still pretty cool. Soon to [...]

Mid-Air Cell / Internet

A Swiss tech firm OnAir will be setting up service to allow airline passengers to use their cell phones and access the Internet on laptops during flights.
China’s Shenzhen Airlines will set up the service by mid-2009 and hope to have a demo aircraft available for the Beijing Olympics next year.
Shenzhen Airlines President Li Kun [...]

Boeing’s X-Planes

This X-48B is Boeing’s Blended Wing Body prototype flew for the first time at Edwards Air Force Base in California. It was "remotely piloted from a ground control station in which the pilot uses conventional aircraft controls and instrumentation while looking at a monitor fed by a forward-looking camera on the aircraft."
Developed by Boeing, NASA, [...]

United Upgrades

United Airlines is upgrading passenger comfort with lie-flat seating, and the Business cabin gets cool gadgets like new 15.4-inch LCDs, a USB port, and an iPod adapter to let you charge your iPod and play your own music and videos on the seat’s entertainment unit. You will have 20 channels of "stored XM audio," with [...]

DIY Google Earth

Got a cell phone? Like RC airplanes? Put them together and you get your own personal Google Earth.
Materials needed: 1. Nokia N95 2. radio-controlled model airplane.3. Pict’Earth software.
Now, if you don’t crash it…

Take Pict’Earth anywhere with you as it fits in your car trunk and is ready to use in less than 10 minutes….Pict-Earth Live [...]