Tag: airplane

Todd Beamer: The First Flight to Be Hostaged by Islamist Terrorists

“The first flight to be hijacked by Islamist terrorists was a flight that struck the World Trade Center on 9/11, killing nearly 3,000 people. It was flown by Todd Beamer, a former flight instructor in the National Air Guard who is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list. In fact, I’ve written a book…

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The Aibo Drone vs the Astaroth Drone

Read all of the article in the online version of the magazine as well as other sources at Paladin’s website. This article also offers a comparison to another autonomous drone, the Astaroth. Drones were a very big deal when they first arrived: the first commercial drones were the Aibo family of drones. The first commercial…

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Windows Flight Simulators PC – The New VR Mode

Microsoft has recently launched the Windows Flight Simulators PC, which features a new VR mode. The VR mode is now better than ever before – and it’s not only good. The new edition of the PC – Version 7 – includes the new flight sims, as well as a number of new features. Microsoft and…

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JRE Conference – What’s New?

The second week of the conference continues with two events scheduled for Wednesday: a session by Bruce MacFarlane on the latest programming language in use on the planet, JRE, and another panel examining the state of the art in programming languages. Session 1 (8:30 to 10:10) “What is JRE?”: JRE is a JVM-based execution environment.…

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Lockheed Martin F-16 Engine Software Update

In the last couple days, we have been working with a small team of software engineers (with a very small budget) to upgrade F-16 engine software. We have done it for some hours now, and I’m going to write about the process of creating the software and how we completed the upgrade. The first static…

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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Crash

According to the latest figures released by the Indonesian government, the number of people killed by the plane accident is yet to be determined. This report, which is based on the government’s latest data, has provided an estimate of the death toll to be at least 12,150 people. A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER plane crashed…

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The Gigabyte Aero 17 – A Review of the Gigabyte Aero 17

Like this: Like Loading. Greg Morano is an editor for Computer Security and a consultant specializing in computer forensics. He was the editor of CORE Vault, the source for the CORE Vault and CORE Vault II databases of forensics tools and malware. Greg is a member of the SIGCE Advisory Board on C/C++, the Advisory…

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The Dream of a Reusable Space Plane

It’s no secret that NASA is interested in space vehicles that are powered by engines, and that is what the Space Shuttle program is all about. Even more so now, when the shuttle program is on the verge of being retired. On October 18, 2003, after having been launched in January of that year, STS-96…

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Challenger’s Orbiter-1

Posted March 18, 2012, by David W. When you think of the Fourth of July, which of the following is the most obvious? (You’ve seen fireworks but don’t really know exactly what the fireworks are. The Fireworks. The Space Shuttle, the Space Shuttle, the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle, the Shuttle. The Space Shuttle, the…

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Flight Simulator X Review

Flight Simulator X is now available! In this article, we’ve highlighted the latest screenshots and trailers that were released for Microsoft Flight Simulator X! We have included a few screenshots of flight simulation simulators that you might find interesting. This is quite amazing considering that Microsoft has announced that the game will be available for…

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