Using footage shot by The Slow Mo Guys, you can get a pretty good estimate of the speed at which cracks travel through a sheet of glass. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c197da3da84021ed988952b/master/pass/shatteredglass-178045568.jpg
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Drone shatters passenger jet’s nosecone & radar during landing (PHOTOS)
Published time: 13 Dec, 2018 22:42 A drone has collided with a passenger airplane in Mexico, mauling its nosecone and radome as the jet was attempting to land in Tijuana, Mexico. The crew had to request assistance to land the crippled aircraft. An Aeromexico Boeing 737-800 collided with the remote-controlled craft while approaching the airport […]
Porsche shatters the Nürburgring record we thought was unbreakable
Porsche There must be something in the air. On Friday, we brought you news about Romain Dumas and Volkswagen breaking records at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Just five days after Dumas’ made it to the top of the mountain, his colleagues at Porsche Motorsport—the team with which he won Le Mans in 2016—have […]
Pilot 'sucked halfway out' as cockpit window shatters at 32,000 feet
A co-pilot cheated death when a cockpit window broke and fell out during a flight in China. The windshield on the right side of the Airbus A319’s cockpit cracked, shattered and fell out mid-air. The incident occurred when the plane had just reached its cruising altitude of 32,000 feet, about 30 minutes after it had […]
Another plane forced to make emergency landing after windscreen shatters mid-flight
The JetBlue Airlines flight was travelling from San Juan to Tampa when th incident occurred. Flight 1052’s outer windscreen shattered during the flight and the pilots performed an emergency landing. They diverted to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after the problem occurred. Whilst no injuries were reported, it is the most recent incident regarding inflight window […]
WATCH: Man risks falling to his death as glass bridge SHATTERS below over mountain valley
Watch this viral video which shows a man clinging on his life when a bridge cracks to pieces beneath his feet. Through the transparent glass you can see a deep valley below the man, which would mean certain death if he were to fall. At first, he is walking calmly, hands in his pockets, as […]
The Fastest 911 Ever: Porsche’s GT2 RS Shatters the Production-Car Nurburgring Nordschleife Lap Record [Video]
– When it comes to estimating the performance of its cars, Porsche is surprisingly conservative. C/D often beats the company’s published zero-to-60-mph times in our testing, and it turns out that Porsche is no different when spitballing Nürburgring lap times. With the new 911 GT2 RS, Porsche guessed it could pull off a lap in less […]
A Murder in Kansas Shatters the New American Dream
When Indian tech worker Srinivas Kuchibhotla is fatally shot in Kansas, the immigrant community grieves—and reconsiders its place in America. https://media.wired.com/photos/594af5aa5bab2866f2f93484/master/pass/0717-WI-FFKANS-01.jpg Wired
NextEV does it again, shatters the Nürburgring lap record in an electric car
Enlarge (credit: NextEV) The folks at NextEV have done it again. Not content with settling for the fastest ever electric vehicle lap of the legendary 12.9-mile (20.8km) Nürburgring, it has gone one better and set a new production car record. Racing driver Peter Dumbreck lapped the Nordschleife in just 6:45.9 seconds: It’s important to note […]
Drake’s More Life shatters streaming records with 89.9 million streams on Apple Music in 24 hours
Drake’s latest project More Life was streamed 89.9 million times in its first 24 hours on Apple Music, breaking the single-day album streams record for every music service. Apple Music far outpaced Spotify, which streamed the album 61.3 million times in its first day, a record for the service. More Life also helped set records […]
