Monthly Archives: July 2008
Boeing Teams With Canadian Firm to Build Heavy-Lift Rotorcraft
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and SkyHook International Inc. today announced a teaming agreement to develop the JHL-40 (Jess Heavy Lifter), a new commercial heavy-lift rotorcraft designed to address the limitations and expense of transporting equipment and materials in remote … Continue reading
Practical Jetpack soon to be available
OSHKOSH, Wis. — To rise off the ground wearing a jetpack is to feel the force of dreams. Very, very noisy dreams. On Tuesday, an inventor from New Zealand unveiled what he calls “the world’s first practical jetpack” at the … Continue reading
White Knight Two Launch Vehicle Unveiled
MOJAVE, California — After years of secretive construction, Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic presented the first stage of their commercial launch platform, WhiteKnightTwo, today at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Sir Richard Branson explains his motive for creating Virgin … Continue reading
XF4U Corsair
XF4U Corsair from the New England Air Museum. [usercontrol: /user controls/gallery.ascx ImageUrl=/gallery/xf4ucorsair/; RepeatColumns=6]
U-2R salute to a fallen soldier
[usercontrol: /user controls/gallery.ascx ImageUrl=/gallery/08-U2R/; RepeatColumns=6] From a reader Today one of our young A1C U-2 crew chiefs learned his brother, an Army E-4, was “killed in action” in Afghanistan yesterday. The AMU rallied, rapidly did some beautiful chalk nose art … Continue reading
Wired: Did the U.S. Army Arrange a ‘Sweetheart’ Deal to Sell Russian Helicopters to Iraq?
The Defense Department quietly gave a U.S. company a contract to provide 22 new Russian-made Mi-17 troop transport helicopters to the Iraqi military in a deal worth an eyebrow-raising $325 million, DANGER ROOM has learned. More
Higher, Faster, Stronger: 1950s Experimental Aircraft
Wired has a cool online article about 12 test aircraft from the 1950's. Here
Russian bombers in Cuba?
The media has been abuzz today at the prospect ofRussian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defence bases in Eastern Europe. The story has riled the US enough that a US … Continue reading
Russian vaporware: proposed re-usable space capsule
This is a proposed re-usable space casule that would use thrusters to safely return Earth. More
Set guns to stun
The US Army is interested in arming soldiers with weapons that can be switched between lethal and non-lethal modes. They asked Company Invention to make a rifle that can fire bullets at various speeds. The new weapon, called the Variable Velocity … Continue reading