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Looking like a mix between a boat and a plane, the WaveFly 5X makes its inaugural flight in China, crosses 50 centimeters above the water, reaches 85 km/h, and aims for mass production as a commercial flying boat priced at $199,999 in the United States.

Carla Teles 09/06/2026 at 23:26

Economy

A junkyard has turned into an open-air airplane museum, made from retired fuselages and even doing business with Embraer, where you can enter the aircraft, pretend to start the engines, and take an entire plane home for around 100,000 reais.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/06/2026 at 20:23

Science and Technology

Plane drops 700,000 palm seeds over the coast of Paraná in an aerial restoration operation that turns the release into a green rain and targets precisely the areas where criminals plundered the Atlantic Forest by illegally extracting hearts of palm.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 04/06/2026 at 22:47

Interesting facts

With a wingspan of 67.89 meters and four engines, the C-5M Super Galaxy is considered the largest transport aircraft of the United States Air Force.

Ruth Rodrigues 28/05/2026 at 18:28

Accidents

Solar-powered plane crashes into the sea after facing bad weather: the Solar Impulse 2 became known for circumnavigating the world using only solar energy.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 15/05/2026 at 08:07

Interesting facts

Man builds cardboard airplane and tests it in an open field; watch the video

Ruth Rodrigues 13/05/2026 at 08:09

Science and Technology

Home-built airplane by a Minas Gerais engineer uses car parts, such as a power window motor for the flaps and a tachometer on the dashboard. The project took six years, and the aircraft has autonomy to fly up to seven hours non-stop.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 12/05/2026 at 23:56

Interesting facts

The Transoceânica is the longest bus route, departing from Rio de Janeiro to Lima, Peru, and takes over 4 days; while the world’s longest non-stop flight route connects New York to Singapore, covering 15,349 km.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 02/05/2026 at 18:28

Interesting facts

The 23-ton “flying tank” with 2 turbofan engines and a 7-barrel rotary cannon: the A-10 Thunderbolt II destroyed over 900 armored vehicles in the Gulf War and remains active in 2026.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 27/04/2026 at 14:13

Air Transport

The seven-blade propeller could equip the M700 FURY aircraft, making it quieter and more efficient, after certification from EASA.

Ruth Rodrigues 16/04/2026 at 09:09

Science and Technology

Embraer takes down the Boeing 717 in its own backyard: E-Jets arrive, deliver a cost per seat up to 20% lower, become the choice of US airlines, and lead Boeing to officially end the aircraft in 2006.

Carla Teles 15/04/2026 at 22:46

Science and Technology

Embraer takes down the Boeing 717 in its own backyard: E-Jets arrive, delivering a cost per seat up to 20% lower, become the choice of U.S. airlines, and lead Boeing to officially end the aircraft in 2006.

Carla Teles 15/04/2026 at 22:45

Looking like a mix between a boat and a plane, the WaveFly 5X makes its inaugural flight in China, crosses 50 centimeters above the water, reaches 85 km/h, and aims for mass production as a commercial flying boat priced at $199,999 in the United States.

A junkyard has turned into an open-air airplane museum, made from retired fuselages and even doing business with Embraer, where you can enter the aircraft, pretend to start the engines, and take an entire plane home for around 100,000 reais.

Plane drops 700,000 palm seeds over the coast of Paraná in an aerial restoration operation that turns the release into a green rain and targets precisely the areas where criminals plundered the Atlantic Forest by illegally extracting hearts of palm.

With a wingspan of 67.89 meters and four engines, the C-5M Super Galaxy is considered the largest transport aircraft of the United States Air Force.

Solar-powered plane crashes into the sea after facing bad weather: the Solar Impulse 2 became known for circumnavigating the world using only solar energy.

Man builds cardboard airplane and tests it in an open field; watch the video

Home-built airplane by a Minas Gerais engineer uses car parts, such as a power window motor for the flaps and a tachometer on the dashboard. The project took six years, and the aircraft has autonomy to fly up to seven hours non-stop.

The Transoceânica is the longest bus route, departing from Rio de Janeiro to Lima, Peru, and takes over 4 days; while the world’s longest non-stop flight route connects New York to Singapore, covering 15,349 km.

The 23-ton “flying tank” with 2 turbofan engines and a 7-barrel rotary cannon: the A-10 Thunderbolt II destroyed over 900 armored vehicles in the Gulf War and remains active in 2026.

The seven-blade propeller could equip the M700 FURY aircraft, making it quieter and more efficient, after certification from EASA.

Embraer takes down the Boeing 717 in its own backyard: E-Jets arrive, deliver a cost per seat up to 20% lower, become the choice of US airlines, and lead Boeing to officially end the aircraft in 2006.

Embraer takes down the Boeing 717 in its own backyard: E-Jets arrive, delivering a cost per seat up to 20% lower, become the choice of U.S. airlines, and lead Boeing to officially end the aircraft in 2006.

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Without her own home and pressured by rent, a 25-year-old bought a small 15-meter boat, gradually renovated the interior by herself, transformed the interior with paint, new flooring, a larger bathroom, and started living on the canals, paying much less per month.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

A city has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million smaller plants since 2016, reduced the temperature by up to 3°C in some areas, and won an international award for using vegetation to combat urban heat in Colombia.