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For The Price Of A BMW 5 Series, You Could Buy A Whole Damn Train
This General Electric Genesis P32AC-DM locomotive, straight from the rails of the Metro-North Railroad, is just about the neatest thing I've seen on GovDeals.
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Why A Shipwreck On The Ocean Floor Added Millions To The Cost Of A Natural Gas Pipeline
A ship that had settled on the seafloor over 2½ centuries earlier suddenly came into view, and the consortium building a nearby pipeline was on the hook.
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Car Vs. Airplane Engines: Why They're Built Differently
The engine in your car and the one in a small plane have more in common than you might think, but there are plenty of differences between the two. Here's why.
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Airplanes Should Not Have Windows
I'm sure a bunch of you disagree, so prepare to hurl insults at me in the comments below. I don't care if this makes you boo, I've seen what makes you cheer.
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FAA Fires Two LaGuardia Controllers For Leaving Work Early Before Fatal Crash
Veteran controllers revealed that it was common for shift supervisors to let overworked controllers go home early as a reward.
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SpaceX To Build Second Spaceport In Louisiana That It Claims Could Launch Thousands Of Starship Rockets Per Year
Keep in mind that all this hinges on Starship eventually becoming a real boy!
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Google Bid $10 Million For Spirit Airlines' Corporate Data To Train AI
A bankruptcy court will decide whether or not to approve the sale to Google in early September.
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Boeing's Smallest 737 Max Variant Finally Achieves FAA Certification After A Decade Of Trying
It's yet another win for Boeing, which has been on a bit of a streak lately.
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Zohran Mamdani's Plan To Fix The Crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Is Bad, But It's The Best We Can Get
This is likely the best option that's politically and economically viable, and it solves an issue that costs the city hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
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NASA Can't Rescue The Satellite That Was Going To Rescue Another Satellite After All
The plan was for the Link satellite to fly over to Swift, grab onto it, and haul it back up into a stable orbit. Unfortunately, that's not what happened.
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Empty Tanker Pays $4.6 Million To Cut Panama Canal Line
Obviously, it would be a dream for shippers to avoid the auctions, the locks and Panama entirely.
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The Sherman Tank Calliope Strapped 60 Rocket Tubes To A WWII Medium Tank's Turret
The Sherman was already a formidable WWII tank, but one unusual modification turned its turret into a platform for an astonishing rocket barrage.
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Army Chief Chosen By Pete Hegseth Cancels Experimental Drone Battalion
The real culprit here appears to be internal politics at best, or personal grudges at worst.
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How Oil Spills In The Ocean Get Cleaned Up
Oil spills can create some devastating ecological damage. But a few different methods help to both contain and remove this oil from the ocean.
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Climate Change Presented China With A New Potential Shipping Route For These Stressful Economic Times: The Arctic
It's not a route for the faint of heart.
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Fewer Thieves Are Stealing Motorcycles, But More Are Getting Away With It
Declining rates of bike theft mirror other trends in U.S. crime, but stolen motorcycles are far less likely than cars to ultimately be recovered.
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These Are The V-Twin Engines That Power Arch Motorcycles
Arch Motorcycles builds some of America's most exclusive performance cruisers, but what exactly is hiding beneath the bodywork of these bespoke bikes?
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New NASA Pictures Reveal SpaceX Crash's Devastation On The Moon's Magnificent Desolation
The more and more rockets humanity launches, the more and more likely we are to litter the lunar surface.
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Trump Administration Covers Up Real Reason USS Abraham Lincoln Hasn't Been Resupplied: Because Iran Blew Up The Resupply Base
Sailors and Marines on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) have been enduring for a record-setting 250 days at sea
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A $100 Coin-Sized Device Can Hijack A Boeing 737
Before you cancel your flights, the team went out of its way to say that they all still fly on Boeing 737s. They don't think this is an imminent threat.
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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Type Of Star Powered By Black Holes Instead Of Fusion
Freshly spotted, but probably already dead.
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5 Facts About Air Force One That We Swear We Didn't Make Up
Air Force One isn't just a plush Boeing 747 that flies the president from point A to point B. It's an airborne oval office designed to survive a nuclear war.
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This Well-Preserved German Military Motorcycle Was One Of Many Relics Buried In WWII Waste Pit Uncovered By A Drying Danube
Dog tags were found nearby, but the investigation into whose bike it was continues.
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The Fastest Electric Bike In The World Can Beat The Koenigsegg Agera RS's Top Speed
The Koenigsegg Agera RS is mighty fast in a straight line, but even that four-wheel rocket ship is no match for the fastest electric motorcycle on the planet.
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Florida Man Just Needed A Nap, So He Jumped A Barbed Wire Fence To Break Into An Airbus A320 And Sleep In The Bathroom
JetBlue is claiming that this entire incident caused a flight delay, costing the giant corporation a grand total of $2,400.
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How Oil Companies And Execs Legally Pass Responsibility For Cleaning Up Leaky Drilling Sites To You: Read This
The story focuses on Tom Ragsdale, whose company was responsible for at least 16 spills. He hasn't paid royalties or rental fees owed to the state, either.
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The Army Spent $6.9 Billion On Stealth Helicopters That Basically Just Went To A Museum
The U.S. spends an absurd amount of money on military expenses, including $6.9 billion on two helicopter prototypes that never saw action. Here's the story.
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