Felix Baumgartner is working to break the longstanding freefall record by jumping from a balloon gondola at the edge of space later this year

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and this week Red Bull said it has developed a "flying video production studio" to capture the event for live streaming over the Internet. When the current record was set, 50 years ago this month, USAF Col. (Ret.) Joe Kittinger documented his jump from 102,800 feet using spring-wound motion-picture cameras warmed by hot-water bottles. The Red Bull Stratos capsule will be equipped with nine high-definition cameras, three 4K digital cinematography cameras and three high-resolution digital still cameras. The outside cameras are in pressurized housings designed to protect them from the near-vacuum air pressure, ice and extreme heat of the stratospheric conditions.

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video: Lockheed Martin new UCAV

appearances are deceptive. Various is not a fast jet despite its swept wings and tails: it is designed for a 220 knot cruise speed, mainly to address a Marine requirement for a UCAV that can match the speed of the V-22. Top speed is 320 knots and it can loiter efficiently at 160 knots.

So why the swept wings? The semi-blended design with the long-chord inner wings is needed to provide a home for the lift fans on the vehicle's center of gravity. At the same time, sweepback is needed to balance the vehicle properly. And the big V-tails are not there for high-g maneuvering, but to provide adequate control authority during transition.

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Boeing planea duplicar el tamaño de su fábrica en China tras la recuperación del mercado

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El constructor aeronáutico estadounidense Boeing prevé duplicar el tamaño de su fábrica de materiales compuestos en Tianjin (China) a principios del próximo año para satisfacer la demanda creciente tras la recuperación del mercado de la aviación, según publica el diario local 'China Daily'.

"Nuestra factoría de Tianjin está completa ahora con 600 empleados. Tenemos que agrandar el lugar porque las necesidades de las aerolíneas comerciales crecen rápido", declaró al rotativo el presidente de Boeing China, David Wang.

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COMAC C919 – Real Goal Is Industrialization

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Airship Industry Prepares for Liftoff

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The turning point has been the U.S. Army's award earlier this year of a contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. to design and build as many as three football-field-size airships that will sit high over Afghanistan, monitoring everything that moves over hundreds of square miles.

The military already uses unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance, intelligence and combat operations. Now, the coming unmanned long-endurance multi- intelligence vehicle, or LEMV, will patrol for three weeks at time, sending a constant stream of data to operators below, at a fraction of the operating cost of current unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Army's sudden interest in the technology that it pioneered in its basic form as the spotter balloon is, in part, related to the need to step up surveillance and intelligence to help compensate for the drop in troop numbers. "We're exchanging technology for people," says Alan Metzger, head of Northrop's LEMV program.

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Talarion: A Strategic Decision. Interview with Bernhard Gerwert, CEO Military Air Systems EADS DS

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El mejor momento para reservar un vuelo sería unas 8 semanas antes, según dos economistas

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Makoto Watanabe y Marc Möller, especialistas en economía, crearon la fórmula BA = gUG + min(k – g, (1 – g)(1 – r)), que aunque vista así no nos brinde mucha información, esta fundada en dos variables, las tarifas y el riesgo, y cuya hipótesis de partida es que los precios de los billetes de avión van subiendo a medida que la fecha del viaje se acerca -no obstante, puede suceder que se ofrezcan ofertas de última hora-.

Ya algunos estudios anteriores habían estudiado el tema: por caso, y según citó The Observer, en el año 2004 el Aeropuerto de Niza había realizado un trabajo que comprobaba que los precios medios de los vuelos eran hasta un 12,7 por ciento más caros a lo largo de los 22 días anteriores a la fecha de despegue del avión.

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High-Efficiency UAV Ceramic Engine Debuts In Denver

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Use Of Ceramics Cuts Down On Weight, Friction, Engine Maker Says


The company says its M2P engine can increase operating efficiencies up to 12% and can burn standard fuel, making it more cost effective as well.

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El avión ruso SuperJet-100 llega a Italia para continuar las pruebas de homologación

http://sp.rian.ru/onlinenews/20100825/127566491.html

"El nuevo avión será sometido a pruebas de sonoridad y emisiones electromagnéticas. En el programa de homologación participan tres aparatos SuperJet-100 que han realizado más de 800 vuelos, lo que representa un 70% del citado programa", indica el comunicado


Sukhoi SuperJet-100, esperanza de la industria aeronáutica rusa. Infografía
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India nearly ready with air-to-land supersonic cruise missile

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"All the modifications have been completed. We are now in the process of readying with the missile," he told reporters here. This air-to-land supersonic missile "very precisely" attacks the target, he added.

But he said the Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft, in which it is planned to be fitted, needed to be modified and this process is expected to take two years.

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