UK highlights several more serious drone incidents [feedly]

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/uk-highlights-several-more-serious-drone-incidents-433594/

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UK highlights several more serious drone incidents
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All four of the most serious UK airprox incidents considered by investigators latest in-depth review involved drones or other unidentified objects in London airspace.
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Directed Energy Atmospheric Lens Could Revolutionize Future Battlefields [feedly]

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=e6f72ea8-8d54-4c8c-b0b7-b41e21151778

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Directed Energy Atmospheric Lens Could Revolutionize Future Battlefields
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LDAL Evaluated By The Science And Technology Facilities Council Within the next fifty years, scientists at BAE Systems believe that battlefield commanders could deploy a new type of directed energy laser and lens system, called a Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens which is capable of enhancing commanders' ability to observe adversaries' activities over much greater distances than existing sensors.
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Bell Helicopter Prague Delivers First Fully Customized Aircraft [feedly]

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=383b5db0-074f-4a1a-827b-6c0d0d2c00c8

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Bell Helicopter Prague Delivers First Fully Customized Aircraft
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The Company Continues To Expand Its Capabilities To Better Serve European Customers Bell Helicopter has announced the completion of the first fully customized aircraft from its new European state-of-the-art Customization and Delivery Center located in Prague. The customer, Air Transport Europe of Slovakia, recently accepted three newly customized Bell 429 EMS configured aircraft at Bell Helicopter's delivery center in Prague.
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Top 5 Drone Intercepting Methods You Should Know About - Interesting Engineering

http://interestingengineering.com/top-5-drone-intercepting-methods-you-should-know-about/

​Northrop ready for one aircraft replacement program, noncommittal on another - Washington Business Journal

Washington Business Journal

​Northrop ready for one aircraft replacement program, noncommittal on another Washington Business Journal Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC) appeared eager to bid on the program to build the next generation of ground surveillance aircraft. But the Falls Church contractor didn't seem ready to commit to helping replace U.S. Air Force's fleet of training ... Northrop CEO Evades Questions on TX ParticipationDefenseNews.com ​Northrop noncommittal on TX bidFlightglobal Northrop Grumman's guidance missesBusiness Insider Wall Street Journal -Yahoo Finance -Investor's Business Daily

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/01/26/northrop-ready-for-one-aircraft-replacement.html

Premium economy pricing compared to econo – now more consistent

https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2017/01/27/premium-economy-pricing-compared-to-econo-now-more-consistent/

KHI Drops Civil C-2 Version As Military Deliveries Proceed

http://aviationweek.com/awindefense/khi-drops-civil-c-2-version-military-deliveries-proceed

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has dropped a plan to build a civil version of its C-2 military airlifter.

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Airbus to fly VSR700 VTOL UAV before end of the year - IHS Jane's 360

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Airbus to fly VSR700 VTOL UAV before end of the year IHS Jane's 360 An artist's impression of the Airbus Helicopters-DCNS VSR700 VTOL UAV being developed for the French Navy's Système de Drones Aériens de la Marine requirement. The first flight is expected sometime this year. Source: Airbus Helicopters.

http://www.janes.com/article/67281/airbus-to-fly-vsr700-vtol-uav-before-end-of-the-year

A robotic NASA mission could help us mine asteroids in the future

In 2030, a robotic emissary launched from Earth seven years earlier will lay eyes on a metal world never seen from close range. That NASA spacecraft, known as Psyche, will carry with it a number of instruments designed to spy on the the metallic world called 16 Psyche as it circles the sun. 16 Ps...

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China's Moon-Sampling Mission Targeted for November

China is working to launch a sample-return mission to the moon before the end of 2017. The mission, known as Chang'e 5, will be the first to bring lunar material to Earth since the Soviet Union's Luna …

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How an international treaty signed 50 years ago became the backbone for space law

Happy anniversary, Outer Space Treaty Fifty years ago today, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom opened a treaty for signature that would become the backbone for international space law. It was a United Nations-approved agreement called the Outer Space Treaty, and 104 nati...

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The Implications of the Privatization of Space Exploration

By Lina Shi Background The dream of space exploration has existed throughout human history. Like many other scientific breakthroughs in the US, the capability of space exploration came as a result of …

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Artículo: JAXA Spacecraft Launch Live Stream: Watch The Cargo Ship Liftoff In Outerspace At NASA's International Space Station

NASA is preparing for lift off once again. The agency is scheduled to broadcast an unpiloted Japanese cargo spacecraft that will depart the International Space Station Friday morning.

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NASA studies astronaut twins to observe the rigors of space

When you spend nearly a year straight in space, you can expect NASA will want to conduct a good bit of research on you when you return to Earth. The space agency has been doing just that with astronaut Scott Kelly who was in orbit for 340 days. There's no one better to compare Kelly to than his t...

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US scientists create metallic hydrogen on Earth ending 80-year quest for 'holy grail of high-pressure physics'

US scientists have succeeded in squeezing hydrogen so intensely that it has turned into a metal, creating an entirely new material that might be used as a highly efficient electricity conductor at room temperatures. The discovery, published in the journal Science on Thursday, provides the first c...

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Russia to start mass-producing MiG-35 fighter jet in 2019

Russia will begin churning out advanced MiG-35 fighter jets in 2019. Although Russian Aerospace Forces will be armed with the MiG from next year. The MiG-35 is a further development of the MiG-29M/M2 and MiG-29K/KUB fighter jets, featuring improved combat capability and flight performance charact...

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https://theaviationist.com/2017/01/27/new-mig-35-fulcrum-foxtrot-demonstrated-for-putin-and-foreign-market/

La forma no tan secreta de derribar un F-22 o F-35 furtivo

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The fire may have saved the Apollo programme

Fifty years ago, a fire broke out during a test of the rocket that would take men to the Moon. Three astronauts died on the launch pad – but their deaths were not in vain. 22 January 1967, Cape Canaveral, Florida One of Nasa's most celebrated astronauts, Lt Col Virgil 'Gus' Grissom was becoming i...

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A 360-degree tour of a WWII ‘shadow factory’

It was first a secret aircraft engine factory in World War Two, before becoming a huge nuclear bunker. Explore the immense Drakelow Tunnels in England for yourself. At the outbreak of World War Two, with German bombing targeting key infrastructure, it was clear that the production of vital parts ...

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These 5 finalists will race to the moon in Google's Lunar XPrize competition

One of these spacecraft could become the first private spacecraft to land on the moon The race to the moon is heating up. Soon the Google Lunar XPrize will hand out $30 million in prizes to privately-funded teams who can send a robot to the moon, move 500 meters across its surface, and send pictu...

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Engineering students aim to brew beer on the moon

Now that's what we call a light beer There's a lot that needs to happen before humankind can become an interplanetary species. We have to figure out how we'll get to other worlds, what we'll eat, and what we'll live in. And then we need to figure out beer, because space is definitely BYOB. Lucky ...

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