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USAF likely to modernise its F-15C and F-15E fleets
USAF likely to modernise its F-15C and F-15E fleets: The US Air Force’s (USAF) Boeing F-15C and F-15E Strike Eagle fleets are likely to be modernised, in a bid to offer enhanced systems to the fighter jet pilots.
Read more...Sukhoi’s second T-50 prototype performs initial tanker plug trial
Sukhoi’s second T-50 prototype performs initial tanker plug trial: Sukhoi's Russian Air Force fifth generation T-50 multi-role fighter jet has completed initial approach trials to a flight refuelling aircraft.
Read more...In Search Of ... The Fastest Blimp
In Search Of ... The Fastest Blimp: Texas Man Envisions An Around-The-World Airship Race It's an old adage ... at least among men ... that whenever two of something are traveling along the same course that somehow, no matter how subtly, they're racing. Speed and distance seems to have very little relevance in this observation.
Read more...AUVSI Urges Quick Site Selection For UAS Testing
AUVSI Urges Quick Site Selection For UAS Testing: Letter Sent To Secretary LaHood, Acting Administrator Huerta In a letter addressed to the Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, the president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International calls for quick selection of the six testing sites for Unmanned Aerial Systems for their integration into the NAS.
Read more...University of Arizona professor invents lightweight infinite pipeline
University of Arizona professor invents lightweight infinite pipeline:
A University of Arizona professor has invented a theoretically infinite pipe that promises to bring down the costs of laying pipelines while reducing environmental damage. Developed by Mo Ehsani, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, the new pipe, called InfinitiPipe, is of a lightweight plastic aerospace honeycomb under layers of resin-saturated carbon fiber fabric put together by a new fabricating process that allows pipes to be built in indefinite lengths on site... Continue Reading University of Arizona professor invents lightweight infinite pipeline
Scientists develop material that's harder than diamonds
Scientists develop material that's harder than diamonds:
Diamonds may be forever, but they aren’t what they were. True, they shine just as brightly and they’re as hard as ever, but scientists from the Carnegie Institution of Washington are giving them some competition. An international team led by Carnegie’s Lin Wang have discovered a new substance that is not quite crystalline and not quite non-crystalline, yet is hard enough to dent diamonds. .. Continue Reading Scientists develop material that's harder than diamonds
Virgin Atlantic quiere competir con British Airways en el mercado doméstico británico
Virgin Atlantic quiere competir con British Airways en el mercado doméstico británico: Virgin Atlantic ha anunciado que buscará ganar terreno en el mercado doméstico del Reino Unido, y para ello competirá con British Airways. El punto de partida será la nueva ruta entre Londres y Manchester, que comenzará a estar vigente desde marzo del 2013, y dispondrá de tres vuelos diarios.
Virgin Atlantic sumará nueva ruta entre Londres y Manchester el año próximo, y competirá así c
PROCON-I: un proyecto de cohete de alta potencia con cargaútil
PROCON-I: un proyecto de cohete de alta potencia con cargaútil: La gente delClub SpainRocketrynos ha enviado información sobre su última iniciativa: construir dentro del marco del modelismo aeroespecialun cohete de alta potencia con fines educativos y científicos.Se trataría de una lanzadera reutilizable llamadaPROCON-I(deProyecto Conjunto)capaz de transportar hasta 1 kg de carga a más de 3.000 metros de altura. La carga pueden ser proyectos de estudiante
Read more...Sixth generation fighter aircraft: rise of the F/A-XX
Sixth generation fighter aircraft: rise of the F/A-XX: F-35 aircraft are barely out of the wrapper, yet the US is already examining options for a sixth generation of fighter aircraft. Liam Stoker profiles the development to date of sixth generation fighters, including proposals from Lockheed Martin and B…
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