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Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: May 20, 2023, 12:05 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: IANS)The Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) of Jet Airways, was revalidated on May 20 last year for a one-year period and the validity ended on FridayUncertainty continues over the revival of grounded Jet Airways as the validity of the airline’s air operator’s certificate expires on Friday.There was no word from the Jalan Kalrock Consortium (JKC), which emerged as the winning bidder for the carrier under the insolvency…

As a person who takes many last-minute trips, I’m used to flying on budget airlines. I’ve traveled thousands of miles on JetBlue (my ride-or-die), TAP Air Portugal (amazing), Vueling (decent), Ryanair (can you tell I studied abroad in Europe?), French Bee (they lost my bag at Paris Orly for nearly a week) and Spirit (who among us wouldn’t buy a $45 round-trip ticket to see Pitbull play in Nashville?). Yet Frontier Airlines didn’t come across my radar until more recently.The Denver-based low-cost carrier caught my…

Six months after revealing its production eVTOL air taxi design, Archer Aviation has shown off its first functional Midnight aircraft, with flight tests set to begin in the coming months – and manufacturing has already begun on a conforming prototype.The Midnight is one of a new generation of futuristic electric air taxis designed to fly you from rooftop to heliport across town as quickly as a helicopter – but much quieter, much cheaper and with zero emissions. It'll carry four passengers and a pilot over distances up to…

The Miami Formula One Grand Prix over the weekend brought together two of Hollywood's biggest stars, Tom Cruise and Shakira. But it's not just their shared love of high-speed racing that has people talking - rumors are swirling that the Mission: Impossible star has his sights set on the "Waka Waka" hitmaker. US actor Tom Cruise (R) and Colombian singer Shakira (L) attend the 2023 Miami Formula One Grand Prix at the Miami International Autodrome in Miami Gardens, Florida, on May 7, 2023.(AFP) According to…

The pilots in this so-called Chinese Top Gun are mostly top in the sense that they are in selfless support of China’s frontline troops thanks to the emerging technological superiority of the People’s Republic (which would have made for a less snappy title). Another in China’s seemingly never-ending line of propagandistic, government-backed action films, this is only distinguished in dunderheaded patriotism from its American 80s and 90s equivalents by its absence of any functioning sense of humour.It’s about the country’s…

A research team has turned the bodies of dead mice into vivid 3D maps of anatomy, with tissues, nerves, and vessels highlighted in color. The technique, which renders the corpses transparent and then exposes them to fluorescent antibodies that label distinct cell types, could help everything from drug development to understanding the spread of cancer, its creators and other scientists say. The developers, at the Helmholtz Munich research institute, call their…

Despite a premature explosive ending to the first attempted orbital flight by SpaceX's Starship cruise vessel, there looks to be a lot of potential for the rocket's capacity to bring passengers and equipment to orbit  — beyond Elon Musk's public statements about taking human colonists to Mars.SpaceX already has a contract with the U.S. government and a number of private companies have proposed projects that could take advantage of the enormous potential of the world's biggest reusable rocket, if the project succeeds. It…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: April 20, 2023, 11:46 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: IANS)Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently inaugurated the New Integrated Terminal Building at Chennai Airport which is set up at a cost of Rs 1,260 croreThe US Bangla Airlines in the Chennai-Dhaka sector would be the first airliner to operate from the new integrated terminal building at the airport here, the central government said on Tuesday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently inaugurated the New Integrated…

The cartilage of the skate is stained with Alcian blue, the bones with Alizarin red. One of the few places in the world that collects Leucoraja erinacea and breeds it for research, including for the present study, is the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole. Credit: David Gold Lynn Kee and Meghan Morrissey, MBL Embryology CourseResearchers have discovered that little skate’s unique cape-like fins evolved through changes in the non-coding regions of its genome and the three-dimensional…

Flying across the world from Europe to Australia currently takes around 20 hours in a regular passenger jet. But Swiss startup Destinus is looking to slash that time to just four hours — by taking jet travel to hypersonic speeds.  Founded by Russian-born physicist and serial entrepreneur Mikhail Kokorich, Destinus is developing a prototype hydrogen-powered aircraft capable of travelling at Mach 5 and above. That’s five times the speed of sound: over 6000 kph.  This would take you from…