NASA celebrates Black history and space at Smithsonian event | Space

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The Black History Month event Friday (Feb. 10) included astronauts, NASA directors and a discussion of why diversity matters, with high schoolers making up much of the audience.

Japan to replace attack, observation helicopters with drone fleet

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Japan has indicated it will give up its "obsolete" attack and observation helicopters in favor of unmanned systems, according to its defense buildup plans.

They will be replaced by "attack/utility," "miniature attack" and "surveillance" unmanned aircraft systems, according to the English-language version of Japan's defense buildup strategy released by the Defense Ministry in January.

Five injured after American Airlines plane crashes into shuttle bus at Los Angeles airport

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An American Airlines plane collided with a shuttle on a taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday evening, injuring five people. The collision happened just after 22:00 local time as the American Airlines Airbus A321 plane was being towed from a gate and the bus was ferrying passengers between terminals. "The plane that […]

US Air Force looks into flying robotic multi-engine jet transports

With an eye to taking autonomous flight to the next level, the US Air Force has awarded a contract to Reliable Robotics to study how to turn multi-engine transport jets into robotic aircraft that can handle all aspects of a flight by themselves, from taxi to landing.

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