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Fast Company Liz Taurasi	Flying Cars Predicted In Two Years: What Then? Scheduled to debut in 2016 at an estimated cost of $279,000, the Transition is a street-legal car with wings that fold out to make an FAA-approved airplane.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Willie D Jones	Dutch Start-up Hopes to Spark Takeoff of Flying Car Market Engineers at Spark Design Engineering have created a three-wheeled personal air and land vehicle that takes off like a plane and lands like a helicopter.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Sandra Upson	Grounded No happy landings for latest twist on sci-fi staple: For the time being, the flying car stays tethered to the shop, a clunky compromise whose time may never come.
Popular Mechanics July 2006 Jeff Wise	Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller	UAV Aircraft and Crowded Civil Air Space: Is it Safe Out There? It's only a matter of time before the aerial unmanned vehicle take their place in civilian air space. How are we going to fit all these planes?
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Caroline Winter	Making the Dream of a Flying Car a Reality MIT graduate Carl Dietrich co-founded Terrafugia, which is now taking pre-orders for the science fiction fan's ultimate dream: a $194,000 flying car.
Aviation History January 2007	Letter From the swashbuckling days of the post-World War I barnstormers to long-distance flying feats such as Charles Lindbergh's iconic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, the appeal of flight was on a dizzying climb.
National Defense November 2010 Grace V. Jean	Look, It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's an Avian Robot To conduct surveillance missions while on patrol in Afghanistan, soldiers and marines hand-launch toy model-sized airplanes called the Raven.
IEEE Spectrum December 2011 Philip E. Ross	When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots.
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo	The Future May Belong to Unconventional Designs, Missions Unmanned aerial vehicles spying on enemies may be commonplace above today's battlefields, but there is a future generation of unconventional designs with added functions that, experts predict, almost certainly will displace current drones from their lonely, lofty perches.
InsideFlyer July 2009	Flying Blue Backlash Some members of Air France/KLM Flying Blue are hopping mad about the changes the program implemented April 1, 2009, and they are doing something about it.
Popular Mechanics February 28, 2008 Erik Sofge	Crash-Proof UAVs Fly Blind at MIT's High-Tech Aerodrome The Real-Time Indoor Autonomous Vehicle Test Environment (RAVEN) lab allows researches to test new designs for unmanned aircraft.
Wired December 22, 2008 Carl Hoffman	The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski The Icon A5, designed to thrill and a breeze to fly.
National Defense February 2010 Jean & Wright	Engineers Develop Single-Wing Twirling Drone Lockheed Martin Corp. engineers have unveiled a tiny aerial drone that spins like a falling maple seed.
Popular Mechanics June 11, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	World's Priciest Stealth Plane Takes First Run to Vertical Landing Needing a boost after a negative report leak, Lockheed Martin tested a prototype of its latest Joint Strike Fighter for the Marines today -- a supersonic F-35 that lands like a chopper and thinks like a pilot.
AskMen.com Steve Richer	How To: Get A Private Pilot's License We are at a point now where human flight is open to just about everyone, even the likes of flyboys Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Accordingly, it's become painless for someone to get their private pilot's license.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Susan Karlin	James Brown: Above & Beyond This experimental test pilots are aviators trained in engineering and can convey problems and improvements for plane development.
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson	FAA Still Working on Rules for Domestic Pilotless Aircraft Use The Federal Aviation Administration fears that a drones will collide with commercial aircraft.
Aviation History Laurel M. Sheppard	Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking Aviatrix In 1964, an Ohio woman took up the challenge that led to Amelia Earhart's disappearance, and become the first woman to fly around the world solo. She later chronicled her adventures in the book "Three-eight Charlie."
DailyCandy October 16, 2004	Travel: You So Fly Ready to earn your wings? Take an introductory flight with a certificated instructor at your local flight school or airport; then follow the AOPA's tips for getting started.
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National Defense October 2009 Grace Jean	Technologies to Help Aircraft Avoid Mid-Air Collisions Recent flight tests of newly developed technologies are proving that it is possible to fly manned and unmanned aircraft safely in the same airspace.
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty The Navy expects to invest a growing share of its aviation research dollars in unmanned aircraft as it seeks to extend the reach and endurance of its carrier-based air wings.
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National Defense February 2010 Grace V. Jean	Teaching Non-Pilots to Fly Predators Requires More Cockpit Hours in Manned Aircraft The Air Force last fall graduated its first class of Predator pilots from an experimental program aimed at training non-aviators how to fly remotely-operated aircraft.
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Popular Mechanics August 2007 Jeff Wise	Fly Your Own Plane for $30,000: Backyard Aircraft Flight Test Two-seaters represent the most affordable way for recreational pilots to get airborne and take a friend along. To tap into this market, plane makers have come up with cool machines that cost about the same as a base-model SUV.
Aviation History May 2006 R.E. van Patten	Hanna Reitsch: Hitler's Female Test Pilot Groundbreaking pilot Hanna Reitsch set more than 40 records in her lifetime. But she was tragically slow to recognize the ruin into which the Nazis were leading her homeland.
Aviation History March 2006 Paige W. Christiansen	Arthur Goebel Jr.: Forgotten Golden Age Daredevil A skillful transpacific flier, Hollywood stunt pilot and daring racer, Arthur Goebel Jr. seemed to thrive on danger.
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IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Rafal Zbikowski	Fly like a Fly The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster. Several groups have succeeded in building electronic sensors that mimic the fly's vision and other flight control apparatus.
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National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons	Debate Continues Over Role of Simulators in UAS Pilot Training There still is no agreed upon method of training new UAS pilots -- and keeping seasoned operators proficient -- for future conflicts where U.S. drones will be flying in contested airspace.
Salon.com July 15, 2000 Phaedra Hise	JFK Jr.'s fatal mistakes The final report on Kennedy's crash reveals a series of decisions that led him on a spiral crash course one year ago.
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Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Rand Simberg	Virgin Galactic's Unveil Is Tip of the Iceberg for Private Spaceflight The ability to fly experimenters and their experiments into suborbit, regularly and cheaply, could be a game changer in terms of research progress.
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Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge	Britain's Police Drone: Could It Stop Next Terror Plot? Authorities in the U.K. are testing a tiny helicopter with a camera. Is constant urban surveillance on the horizon? Or is Britain ready to foil the next threat even faster?
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Popular Mechanics March 2010 Joe Pappalardo	The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes.
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