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‘Plane’ Actor Oliver Trevena Signs With Untitled Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Plane and The Bricklayer actor Oliver Trevena has signed with Untitled Entertainment for management. Trevena has most recently acted in Hotel Tehran (in post) with Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi, TIFF movie The Cut with Orlando Bloom, Mermaid with Mel Gibson, and Ice Fall, with Joel Kinnaman, for which he also served as executive producer.
It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s a Medical Response Drone.
What if the first responder on the scene of a cardiac arrest were a drone carrying an automated external defibrillator? When every second counts, public safety professionals are increasingly eyeing drones — which can fly 60 miles an hour and don’t get stuck in traffic — to deliver help faster than an ambulance or EMT.
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s (Everything We Know About James Gunn’s) Superman
coming soon Updated Mar. 1, 2024 It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s (Everything We Know About James Gunn’s) Superman By Zoe Guy, a news writer who covers film, TV, music, and celebrities James Gunn is making yet another superhero movie, and he has found the Daily Planet’s next editor-in-chief. The Wire’s Wendell Pierce will
NASA flew a modified U-2 spy plane into thunderstorms to study super-energetic gamma-rays
News Science & Astronomy NASA pilots flew a high-altitude science aircraft directly into thunderstorms and recorded incredible data on gamma-ray flashes.Thunderstorms can create powerful updrafts and downdrafts of wind that accelerate air and water to high speeds. As ice crystals collide in these swirling air currents, electrons are stripped away from them, generating the electric
Stratolaunch’s huge Roc plane drops hypersonic test vehicle for 1st time (video)
Home News Tech The world's biggest airplane just notched another huge milestone.Stratolaunch's Roc carrier plane aced its first-ever drop test on Saturday (May 13), successfully releasing a prototype of the company's Talon hypersonic vehicle high above the Pacific Ocean off the central California coast.Everything went well, paving the way for an even more ambitious test
Largest plane yet tested with hydrogen-powered engine
Aerospace company ZeroAvia successfully tested using a hydrogen-electric engine to power one of the propellors in a 19-seat aircraft Technology 20 January 2023 By Jeremy Hsu A plane with an experimental hydrogen-electric engine on its left wing successfully completed a test flight this week. It is the largest such craft to be powered with the
The E-4 advanced airborne command post (AABNCP) during an electromagnetic pulse resistance test.Photo: SGT. ERNIE STONE - ID:DF-SC-82-04165 / National Archive / Public DomainOn March 1, shortly after Vladimir Putin activated his nuclear forces, the Nightwatch took flight from an Air Force base in Nebraska. The plane is a modified Boeing 747 that is sometimes…
Stratolaunch plane flies again as company prepares for hypersonic tests
by Jeff Foust — January 16, 2022 Stratolaunch says it will increase the pace of test flights of its Roc aircraft this year as it prepares for a first flight of a hypersonic vehicle before the end of the year. Credit: Stratolaunch WASHINGTON — Stratolaunch flew its giant aircraft Jan. 16 for just the third…
This experimental NASA plane will try to break the sound barrier—quietly
This year could be a big one for a unique aircraft called the X-59. The plane is a collaboration between Lockheed Martin and NASA, intended to break the sound barrier as quietly as possible. The space agency recently shared a picture of the flying machine wrapped in a pretty blue covering—complete with a red bow…
Plane at centre of deadly crash in Montreal was carrying marriage proposal banner
By Virginie AnnThe Canadian PressSun., Oct. 3, 2021timer1 min. readMONTREAL - A plane that went down on an island near Old Montreal on Saturday night was carrying a marriage proposal banner at the time of the deadly crash, authorities said Sunday.A spokesman for Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said the aircraft was towing a banner that…