Tag: air travel

‘Airplane Mode’ will let you relive the monotony of economy class this fall

If you spend any time at all on social media, you may have seen how much people have fallen in love with Microsoft’s latest Flight Simulator release. And it’s easy to see why. Not only is it a well-made title, accidental 212-story monolith and all, b… Source

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Where top VCs are investing in travel, tourism and hospitality tech

The venture community has been fixated on travel and hospitality since the dot-com era and early-2000s, when mainstays like Kayak and Airbnb were still Silicon Valley darlings. As the multi-trillion-dollar global travel and hospitality market continues to grow, VCs are still foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to redefine…

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NASA’s advanced vision system for its supersonic test jet is undergoing a key stress test

NASA is keeping things moving with its X-59 program – the one where it’s developing a modern supersonic aircraft that proves the viability of lessening the traditional supersonic ‘boom’ to a mere supersonic ‘thump,’ in order to show that supersonic commercial passenger flights over land could be a real thing.…

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