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Shortly after taking off from a nearby airport in Burbank with 16 people on board, the plane's cockpit started to fill with smoke Shortly after departing from Burbank Airport, Karol G‘s private jet made an emergency landing in Los Angeles. With 16 passengers on board, the plane’s pilot reported that there was smoke filling the cockpit and rerouted to Van Nuys Airport, according to ABC 7. Once safely grounded, Karol G and the other passengers on her jet embraced one another after exiting onto…

A jet ski The Batman would ride – that's how Finnish startup Viva Electric Jets describes its debut product of the same name. It's not much of an exaggeration, either, as the unique angular styling does indeed look like something that could emerge from the Batcave ... at least if the Batcave were more of a sea cave, less of an underground lair. The electric new PWC promises speeds close to 60 mph (96.5 km/h) backed up by one-hour rapid charging that could help riders spend less of the day at the charger, more of it…

A local shareholder will examine the internal records of a single-branch bank in Lakewood to determine whether its chairman squandered the bank’s profits on a fleet of aircraft that he used to travel to Denver Nuggets games, where he became known as the “Red Pant Man.” In an oral ruling Feb. 6 that took more than an hour to read, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Bonnie David decided that Rob Salazar can inspect certain records of Solera Bank. “I am convinced that the (bank) board’s decision not to pay a dividend in 2020,…

Interior of the Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak experimental fusion machine with a photo of the plasma overlaid. Credit: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, courtesy of EUROfusionThe Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world’s largest and most powerful fusion machines, has proven its capability to consistently produce fusion energy and has also established a new world record for energy output.These notable accomplishments represent a significant milestone in the field of fusion science and engineering.In JET’s…

Following Sunday night’s Super Bowl — where Patrick Mahomes led the Kansas City Chiefs to an overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers for their third Super Bowl victory in three years, with a beer-chugging Taylor Swift and a number of other celebs looking on in Vegas — and the post-game premiere of some generic CBS show nobody cares about, Stephen Colbert hosted a special weekend episode of The Late Show. Colbert’s Late Show episode was taped after the Super Bowl, which meant that we got his commentary on the…

How cool would it be to fly like Iron Man? Wouldn’t it be awesome to soar above the ground and feel the wind in your face? Well, guess what? A group of competitors is about to experience that exact sensation very soon. How? As part of the world’s first jet suit race. It’s happening Feb. 28 during the Dubai Boat Show at the Dubai Harbour. You’re probably wondering what a jet suit race is. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. It’s a new sport that’s taking off (literally).CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH…

A simple, cheap pretreatment promises to radically cut the price of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from waste wood biomass – potentially making it cost-competitive with fossil-based jet fuel, while cutting down emissions by up to 80%.SAF isn't a perfect green solution to aviation – indeed, no perfect solution exists at this point. Running SAF instead of jet fuel still produces carbon dioxide – but it's a higher-purity fuel, producing up to 3% more energy while burning cleaner, with heavily reduced sulfur and…

Taylor Swift’s legal team has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney over his @taylorswiftjets Instagram threads, warning the student is stalking and harassing the pop star by tracking her private jet travel. “This conduct poses an imminent threat to the safety and wellbeing of our client and must stop,” stated the letter from Washington-based law firm Venable posted to Reddit and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Sweeney’s Instagram posts aim to measure and record the carbon…

Even is not immune to . The agency says it's cutting around 530 employees from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California amid budget uncertainty. That's eight percent of the facility's workforce. JPL is laying off about 40 contractors too, just weeks after imposing a hiring freeze and . Workers are being informed of their fates today."After exhausting all other measures to adjust to a lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of an FY24 appropriation from Congress, we have had to make the difficult decision to…

Celebrities don’t like Jack Sweeney. For the past few years, the University of Central Florida junior has run several social media accounts that track planes and helicopters owned by billionaires, oligarchs, and other members of the ruling class using publicly available flight records from the Federal Aviation Administration. It bothered Elon Musk so much that he specifically changed X/Twitter’s policies to ban Sweeney’s account. Now, Taylor Swift is taking the baton from Musk. The pop star is threatening to sue Sweeney…