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Even the conservative Swiss are going to space.
Aviation Week & Space Technology Ares Blog discussion on new space access company.
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US Air Force = ‘hollow force’ ?
This article on the USAirForce in The American Interest is part of a series, incomplete as of this writing, on the US Armed Forces, and the road forward in this period of draw back and draw down. The...
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Galactic Virgin Rockets Away!
Love the Logo-shot! The space ship’s pretty simple really, it’s biggest downside would seem to be no fly around capacity if one misses the runway line up, but 1) how often does that happen theses...
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NASA may support SST x-plane
An artist’s concept shows Lockheed Martin’s low-boom supersonic airliner. (Courtesy: NASA) At www.flightglobal.com Science and resultant technology may well have made Low Boom supersonic flight...
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DARPA Finaly got the X51 to successfully ride its wave
Tucked under the B-52H’s port wing, the X-51A is pictured prior to launch on May 1 At www.aviationweek.com The U.S. Air Force has released new details of the record-breaking hypersonic test flight...
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A world (at sea ) of difference
as in many engineering projects the Navy’s UCAV X-47B flight testing and carrier qual seems to have suddenly jumped from baby steps to hyper speed. Navy officers are very clear on a distinction...
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Wired // Pilates PC-24 Jet Set Roughing it…next they’ll pu floats on it
Pilatus Aircraft has been producing airplanes since the 1940s, but the Swiss firm’s newest model, the PC-24, is its first jet. Pilatus didn’t want to just be another jet maker. Instead, the company...
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EADS eFan electric training aircraft
From: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/06/e-fan-electric-airplaneA tiny ducted fan aircraft, only about 40 hp and it can do aerobatics, 1 hour touring around or about 30 min of loops etc. People still...
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From The ENGINEER // What a Beauty! A Bugatti designed aircraft could soon fly
The ENGINEER :In the wings: recreating the Bugatti 100P Almost eighty years ago aircraft design was still more art than science and what science there was revolved around slide rules and mechanical,...
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From The ENGINEER: Bumble Bee Drones at War
The rise of the micro air vehicle 13 June 2013 | By Jon Excell Read more: http://www.theengineer.co.uk/in-depth/the-rise-of-the-micro-air-vehicle/1016519.article#ixzz2XeLGHbVs A soldier of The Queen’s...
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An Electric Air about them
Flying hybrid: This two-seater electric-gas airplane may be the first of many to take to the skies Read more at MIT TR :Once a Joke, Battery-Powered Airplanes Are Nearing Reality UVa’s Sustinere...
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Wired || $40K Electric sports plane
You Can Finally Buy an Electric Airplane, and It’s Just $40K By JASON PAUR
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Motorbike, jet ski, snowmobile, jet pack…
Welcome to the future: New Zealand approves permit for jet pack “It’s essentially a motorbike in the sky, so I imagine anyone who has a snowmobile or a jet ski, this is going to be something they’re...
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Someone got carried away with their QuadRotor project! Gas Electric...
AWST Ares Blog: New Ways To Fly by Bill Sweetman New at AUVSI was a variation on the quadcopter from Latitude Engineering of Tucson – the hybrid quadrotor, or possibly octorotor. A piston engine drives...
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Puny Titan, giant idea, solar powered pseudo satellite
Artist’s rendering of Solara 50 at high altitude. Titan Aerospace The coverage area of a Solara 50, superimposed over New York. From ars technica: Almost orbital Titan’s aircraft plans are … modest...
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Dream Chaser you have to like the name
Dream Chaser in a captive carry flight over the Mojave. (Credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation EDWARDS, Calif. (NASA PR) – NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of Louisville, Colo., successfully...
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Sometimes old & reliable is far better than new and shiney
At: http://breakingdefense.com/ Stick With The Tomahawk, Forget LRASM on July 12, 2013 By Steve Russell In America’s culture of optimism and innovation, there is always the desire for the better mouse...
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Stupid…back at the beginning and today
From StrategyPage.com: The USAF Stands Like A Rock August 26, 2013: The U.S. Air Force continues to come up short in its effort to supply enough pilots for its growing UAV fleet. Currently the air...
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From AW&ST Things With Wings
If you have heard of Richard Lugg, you probably know him as the man behind the HyperMach SonicStar supersonic business jet concept. And as if Mach 4 cruise, supersonic laminar flow, plasma drag and...
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Sikorsky S-97 First Flight
There have been several articles regarding the Sikorsky S-97 Raider, which achieved first flight this week. FoxtrotAlpha’s got a good backgrounder on this aircraft, its history and future. There were...
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