The Aviationist7h
Thunder in the Heavens: A Brief History of the Aircraft of the USAF Thunderbirds
Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...
Interesting Engineering21d
US supersonic aircraft nearly breaks sound barrier in test flight over Mojave Desert
The company’s Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg flew the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, reaching transonic speed during the flight. As Boom explains in a press release ...
Campus Technology22d
UC Berkeley Announces Sky-T1-32B Open Source AI Model, Offering High Performance at a Fraction of the Cost
Despite its relatively modest size of 32 billion parameters, the model leverages advanced methodologies such as optimized data scaling, sparse computation, and low-rank adaptation (LoRA). These ...
USA Today22d
FBI searching for drone operator that grounded aircraft battling Pacific Palisades fire
The crash took place at around 1 p.m. local time Thursday while the aircraft was operating over the Palisades Fire near the Pacific Coast, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson ...
New Atlas23d
Boom XB-1 pushes the sound barrier before supersonic flight
the prototype aircraft reached transonic speed. That is, flight so close to Mach 1 that some areas of airflow over the airframe exceed the speed of sound. It's also the point where the XB-1 was ...
english.mathrubhumi24d
US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier attacked by Yemen's Houthis
Truman aircraft carrier in the northern Red Sea in the past 24 hours, claiming the attack lasted nine hours. To advertise here, Contact Us "This is the fifth time we targeted the aircraft carrier ...
AOL24d
10 Model Airplanes Worth Sky-High Amounts
Who said model airplanes are only for aviation enthusiasts? For some collectors, they’re worth spending a fortune on, especially if they’re tied to major historical events like World War II or ...
aviationa2z25d
Air India Pilot With One of the Largest Aircraft Model Collection
GURUGRAM-An Air India (AI) pilot has turned his passion for aviation into one of the world’s largest collections of aircraft scale models. With over 100 meticulously crafted diecast models, Captain ...
TechCrunch25d
Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450
Training the 32-billion-parameter Sky-T1 took about 19 hours using a rack of 8 Nvidia H100 GPUs. (Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills.) According to the NovaSky ...
The Verge26d
Tesla’s redesigned Model Y is here — but not in the US or Europe
A performance version has yet to be announced. 1/4 Here’s a closer look at the exterior of the Tesla Model Y 2025 refresh. Image: Tesla The new Model Y otherwise features many of the same ...
Gizmodo27d
Firefighting Aircraft Collides With Some Idiot’s Drone Over Palisades Fire
A civilian-flown drone collided with a firefighting aircraft over the Palisades Fire on Thursday. And that aircraft, a Canadair CL-415 known as the SuperScooper Quebec 1 ... 4:32 p.m. on Thursday ...