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“SpaceX’s Mars Goal: 1,000 Starships in 10 Years, 0 in Space Yet | Giga Gears”
Elon Musk is all about leaving Earth behind and heading to Mars on one of his rockets and taking a whole bunch of people with him. He’s previously said that to make regular flights back and forth between Earth and Mars a reality, his company SpaceX would need to build about 1,000 Starships.
Abandoned Supersonic Relic Runway Discovered in the Everglades
When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of becoming the center of commercial aviation’s fledgling intercontinental network. Local government wanted to construct the world’s largest airport in the middle of Everglades, 60 miles west of…
Giga Gears: Rolled Car Carrier, Skyhook, and Unsolved Disappearance
The Car Carrier cargo ship MV Golden Ray flipped on its side back in September of 2019 just off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia. It made for some pretty badass vacation photos, and an even more badass clean up operation that involved slicing the car carrier into sections via a giant chain. But what exactly…
“Boeing 737 Max Inspections Triggered by Missing Nut | Giga Gears”
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that airlines will have to inspect every Boeing 737 Max after a bolt was discovered with a missing nut during routine maintenance. The potential loose bolt is attached to a linkage on the rudder control system. Boeing also found an undelivered aircraft with a nut…
“Giga Gears’ Massive Plane Lands on Antarctica’s Ice Field”
Landing a plane on a normal runway is no easy task. Landing a Boeing 787 Dreamliner on an ice runway in Antarctica is another beast entirely, but that’s exactly what Norse Atlantic Airways pilots did at 2 a.m. on November 15, according to CNN. In doing so, the 787-9 became the first widebody aircraft to land on the…
