Unity's first powered flight was less than two months ago, which was itself the first powered flight Virgin Galactic had attempted since the fatal breakup of the company's previous SpaceShipTwo-class spacecraft, Enterprise, in 2014.
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This was the company's fourth rocket-powered flight of its test program.
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He also set new duration and distance records for solar-powered flight.
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It also set new duration and distance records for solar-powered flight.
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Not to mention the world's speed record for manned, powered flight — Mach 6.7.
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Bats are the true heroes around here—the only mammals to master powered flight.
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VSS Unity completed her first supersonic, rocket-powered flight this morning in Mojave, California.
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One avenue Delta doesn't seem to be going down just yet is electric-powered flight.
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And with an all-electric motor, it represents a pretty major breakthrough for battery-powered flight.
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During its first powered flight, Unity reached Mach 1.87 and an altitude of nearly 16 miles.
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In a little over a century powered flight has moved from the miraculous to the everyday.
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The Solar Impulse 2 team is ready to continue their round-the-world solar-powered flight.
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His first such designs saw print in 1903, the year the Wright brothers achieved powered flight.
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His first such designs saw print in 1903, the year the Wright brothers achieved powered flight.
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"Arguably, bats have the most sophisticated powered flight mechanism among animals," the paper reads in its introduction.
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Anchiornis probably glided down from trees, like a flying squirrel, but likely was incapable of powered flight.
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There is some debate about whether this species is the fastest flying bird in level, powered, flight.
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He compared this period of frenzied activity and pioneering spirit to the early days of powered flight.
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Nonaka was born in July 1905, just two years after the Wright brothers celebrated the first powered flight.
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During that last powered flight copilot Michael Alsbury unlocked the tail wings early while SpaceShipTwo was still accelerating.
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Zapata was making his attempt on the 110th anniversary of the first powered flight between Britain and France.
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On this morning, Stucky would be piloting the fifth rocket-powered flight, on a new iteration of the spaceship.
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"We're ready to go into powered flight," Whitesides said on Thursday at the Mars Society Convention in Irvine, California.
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In December, the company completed its longest rocket-powered flight ever, with its two pilots becoming Virgin Galactic's first astronauts.
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Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight and the reptiles flew above lakes and shallow seas.
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One hundred and thirteen years ago this week, an airplane created by the Wright brothers made the first powered flight.
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As a result, in 1967 the X-15 set the record for manned, powered flight, hitting Mach 6.7, or 4,520 mph.
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In short: he wanted to recreate the famed landing on video using a powered, flight-capable version of the Lego lander.
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On Thursday, Branson's Virgin Galactic completed its longest rocket-powered flight ever, bringing itself another step closer to bringing tourists to space.
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Wing-borne, electric-powered flight allows commuter aircraft to travel five or six times the distance of drones, a Lilium executive said.
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It's also debatable that any non-avian dinosaurs ever took up powered flight—though the four-winged Microraptor might be a contender.
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Virgin Galactic completed its longest rocket-powered flight ever on Thursday, taking a step ahead in the nascent business of space tourism.
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Unity's test flight comes not long after the company completed the spacecraft's first powered flight in nearly four years on April 5.
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Unity underwent extensive engine testing and seven glide tests before Virgin Galactic said it was ready to make another rocket-powered flight.
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Now, along with his partner André Borschberg, he also holds the distinction of completing the first ever Trans-Atlantic solar powered flight.
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Virgin Galactic has not tested a powered flight of one of its spaceships since the fatal crash of Spaceship Enterprise on Oct.
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Today's flight marks the fifth powered flight test of VSS Unity, and Virgin Galactic plans to continue with these flights throughout the year.
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And in the age of the Wright brothers, when powered flight started to gain ground, aviation became a significant theme in popular music.
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Since da Vinci, and probably long before, humans have been fascinated with self-powered flight, something that we've been unable to substantially achieve.
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In 2015, Mr. Saraceno set the record for the longest manned solar-powered flight, when passengers were attached to some of his sculptures.
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For this third rocket-powered flight, Unity took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port, lifted by the jet-powered mothership Eve.
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Virgin Galactic completed its longest rocket-powered flight ever on Thursday, making its pilots the company's first astronauts to reach the edge of space.
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More than four years ago, a Virgin Galactic spaceplane, the VSS Enterprise, broke apart during a powered flight test in pursuit of reaching space.
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Sure, there are gliders and dirigibles, which float more than fly, but powered flight is all about propellers (that's why they call them that).
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Richard Branson's fledgling space tourism company Virgin Galactic performed a powered flight of its spacecraft today, the first since a fatal crash in 2014.
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After the last powered flight, Virgin Galactic added more passenger seats and extra equipment to the back of Unity, changing the vehicle's center of gravity.
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Image: Min Wang, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesDuring the Jurassic period, various dinosaurs experimented with different forms of powered flight.
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Branson's ace in the space race is pilot Mark Stucky, who manned the 60-foot-long SpaceShipTwo in a successful rocket-powered flight in April.
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But self-powered flight actually gets much harder the smaller, which puts insects among the most bafflingly marvelous feats of engineering we have encountered in nature.
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Those will be the first heavier-than-air flights on another planet — powered flight, in other words, rather than, say, a balloon filled with gaseous hydrogen.
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The shift is much bigger than from past changes in military capability—the author highlights the use of submarines, powered flight, tanks, radar or nuclear weapons.
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Suit up He's no Tony Stark, but a man wearing a real-life "Iron Man" suit set a world record for body-controlled, jet-powered flight.
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The Swiss team's ultimate goal is to achieve the first round-the-world solar-powered flight, part of its campaign to bolster support for clean-energy technologies.
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Shortly after Piccard touched down in the UAE, he told CNBC that having both elating moments and setbacks made the solar-powered flight the "definition of adventure."
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It was not until more than 100 million years later that bats, which use powered flight like birds, and more gliding mammals appeared, following the dinosaurs' demise.
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Feathers, museum researchers said, are one of the most useful skin coverings that ever evolved for insulation or mating display as well as gliding or powered flight.
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An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board found the pilot prematurely unlocked the spaceship's "feather system," causing the vehicle to break apart during rocket-powered flight.
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On December 17th, 1903, in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, the Wright brothers made the first crewed, powered flight in an aircraft that wasn't a hot air balloon.
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This morning, space tourism venture Virgin Galactic successfully flew its spaceplane during another powered flight test over the Mojave desert — sending the vehicle to its highest altitude yet.
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"The winning designs demonstrate that there are still creative, bold innovators worldwide who are captivated and inspired by powered flight," Boeing CTO Greg Hyslop said in a statement.
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"Cosmic Girl will carry LauncherOne to at an altitude of approximately 35,000 feet before release for its rocket-powered flight to orbit," Virgin Orbit says on its website.
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He was born around 1832 and has lived through both World Wars, the completion of the Eiffel Tower, and the first powered flight, according to Guinness World Records.
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He was born around 1832 and has lived through both World Wars, the completion of the Eiffel Tower, and the first powered flight, according to Guinness World Records.
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The jet age officially began in 1952 with the first commercial turbine-powered flight from London to Rome — an event that also sparked a minor revolution in watchmaking.
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Virgin Galactic succeeded in the third rocket-powered flight of its Unity spacecraft on Thursday, in a test which pushed the vehicle faster and higher than ever before.
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Richard Branson's space tourism company completed the second rocket-powered flight of its Unity spacecraft — launching and landing from the Mojave Air and Space Port in the California desert.
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Virgin Galactic reached nearly halfway to space in the second powered flight of its Unity spacecraft Tuesday, putting the company only months away from launching its first commercial passengers.
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Unity's powered flight marks a major milestone for Virgin Galactic in the wake of the 2014 accident, which killed one pilot and seriously injured another, while destroying the space plane. .
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By 2012, the two men had successfully completed a solar-powered flight across the continental United States, which is when they realized their latest round-the-world journey was possible.
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For the first, NASA wants to hitch a ride on a vehicle that can carry their payload from altitude (250 m) safely back to the ground under rocket-powered flight.
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The last time the VSS Unity took the skies was in May, when it performed its second powered flight from Virgin Galactic's base at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
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An all-electric battery-powered plane has crashed into a lake in Norway, in what is a setback for the country's attempt to move away from fossil fuel-powered flight.
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Engine testing for the spaceship company's new vehicle, Spaceship Unity, is complete, and "a very small number of glide flights" remain before Virgin Galactic returns to powered flight, Whitesides said.
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It's the first powered flight of Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo aircraft, and the first flight since the 2014 disaster in which a pilot was killed and a co-pilot severely injured.
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Japan's Masazo Nonaka was born on July 18753, 1905, just two years after the Wright brothers celebrated the first powered flight and before Albert Einstein had published his theory of relativity.
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In 2014, the VSS Enterprise was destroyed in the middle of a powered flight test in a tragic accident that led to the death of one of the vehicle's two pilots.
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Virgin Galactic completed its first powered flight in nearly four years on Thursday when Richard Branson's space company launched its Unity spacecraft by rocket power, reaching supersonic speeds before safely landing.
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The new tourism space rocket SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity is the first powered flight since a crash in 2014 that resulted in the death of one pilot and destroyed the rocket's earlier model.
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In the history of powered flight, few places are as significant as Dayton, Ohio, the home of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who invented, built and flew the first successful airplane.
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Perhaps the most unusual artifacts that went to the moon and remained in Neil Armstrong's possession were parts of the original Wright brothers' airplane that made the first powered flight in 1903.
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With a range of 300 km and cruising speed of 300 km per hour, Lilium is the only electric aircraft capable of both vertical take-off and jet-powered flight, the company said.
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Aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus along with engine makers including Rolls-Royce have been researching or investing in battery-powered flight, but challenges remain before travelers take off in all-electric planes.
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Farmers in South Africa's Limpopo province today continue growing solaris, a nicotine-free tobacco that produces large amounts of oil and that was used as a feedstock for the country's first tobacco-powered flight.
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Wang said Ambopteryx, about 13 inches (32 cm) long and about 11 ounces (306 grams) in weight, was certainly capable of gliding but it is difficult to know whether it could achieve powered flight.
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Lilium said its jet, with a range of 300 km (190 miles) and cruising speed of 300 km per hour, is the only electric aircraft capable of both vertical take-off and jet-powered flight.
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This morning, Virgin Galactic conducted the second powered flight test of its spaceplane, the VSS Unity, over the Mojave Desert just 54 days after the company ignited the vehicle's engine for the first time during flight.
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Virgin Galactic Spaceplane Makes First Powered Flight Since Deadly 2014 DisasterEarlier today, the VSS Unity went supersonic during crewed tests, reaching speeds of 1,220 miles…Read more ReadIndeed, it hasn't been a smooth path for Virgin Galactic.
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Well, they just had their first powered flight, and that was a big one because it was the first time they'd ignited the engine on that type of vehicle since they had that fatal crash in 2014.
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For paleontologists who study ancient whales, this mystery is akin to the study of flight in ancient animals, and the seemingly endless quest to discover the "missing link" between gliding birds and those capable of self-powered flight.
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The solar powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2, for example, is in the final stages of its round-the-world solar-powered flight, while European airline Easyjet unveiled its concept for a zero-emission hydrogen fuel system this year.
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This will take some serious advances in fuel cell/battery technology, but it's hard to think that electric-powered flight isn't foretold, at least for flights within about 100 miles (which is still a lot of regional flights).
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Yasutaro Koide, born in March 1903 -- months before the Wright brothers made the world's first powered flight -- died early Tuesday in the Japanese city of Nagoya, said Akira Yamase, a representative of Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
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As the plane is flown—taking off, cruising, landing and coping with severe weather and aircraft faults that can strike at any point—the networks teach themselves how each specific element of powered flight relates to all the others.
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So tonight, when the Olympics opening ceremony used an early plane as one of of Brazil's major achievements, Twitter was quick to point out that, #actually, the first powered flight was flown by the Wright brothers in North Carolina in 219.
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So tonight, when the Olympics opening ceremony used an early plane as one of of Brazil's major achievements, Twitter was quick to point out that, #actually, the first powered flight was flown by the Wright brothers in North Carolina in 1903.
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As the researchers summarize: These analyses suggest that the impetus of the evolution of powered flight in the theropod lineage that lead to Aves may have been an entirely natural phenomenon produced by bipedal motion in the presence of feathered forelimbs.
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Occupying the tiny cockpit for the trip was project co-founder Andre Borschberg, who alternates with fellow pilot Bertrand Piccard at the controls for each segment of what they hope will be the first round-the-world solar-powered flight.
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Though pterosaurs pioneered powered flight long before birds first spread their wings, the two clades were fighting over many of the same niches during the Cretaceous, so it's important to know as much as possible about the sizes and shapes represented in each lineage.
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This round of preparation includes a number of relatively unexciting "captive carry" flights with the spaceship and carrier aircraft attached to one another to get familiar with the surrounding airspace, as well as tests of rocket powered flight for the VSS Unity on its own.
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In these two areas, SSTs and flying cars, change is happening that is reminiscent of the glory days of aeronautics—the half-century after 1903, the year that the Wright brothers made the first widely recognised, heavier-than-air powered flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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But for all the back and forth about the pros and cons of the program — it's either the best combat aircraft since the invention of powered flight or the biggest chunk of defense pork in history — there doesn't seem to be nearly as much talk about the thing itself.
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Bezos' Blue Origin is rapidly passing milestones with its BE-4 engine, SpaceX astounded millions with its Falcon Heavy launch, Virgin Galactic completed the first powered flight of its Unity rocket and Bigelow took the next step toward the world's first habitable private space station with Bigelow Space Operations.
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Using jet-powered flight once the craft is airborne also has big benefits in terms of energy economy once you're cruising through the air; Lilium says that it can get a range of around 186 miles from its battery and a top speed of about 186 mph, too, which is much more than what you'd get out of a large rotor-only vehicle with similar battery capacity.
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PARIS, July 25 (Reuters) - A French inventor failed in his attempt on Thursday to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard when he missed a landing platform mounted on a boat as he tried to land midway for refuelling, a member of his technical team said Franky Zapata was making his attempt on the 110th anniversary of the first powered flight between Britain and France.
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