Monthly Archives: August 2008
HyLiner ESTOL Commercial Concept
Once airports cannot grow any further, aviation will require concepts to increase air travelling capacities without the need to build new runways. Keeping that in mind, a Bauhaus Luftfahrt solution study is based on a new type of hybrid airliner … Continue reading
2008 Thunder over Michigan Air Show Armor
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2008 Thunder over Michigan Air Show
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U.S. Satellite Shootdown: The Inside Story
Assessing technological risk is a thorny enough problem here on Earth, even with our experience and our intuition about familiar uncertainties, factors, and processes. But transport the problem into the unearthly venue of outer space, where human experience is limited, … Continue reading
A380 Inflight tail camera
A report from an Emirates A380: …One of the coolest things about the A380s onboard video system is the realtime view it displays of the plane in flight. Theorem captured the takeoff, and we shot this video that shows the … Continue reading
Zeppelins alive and well and poised for comeback in Germany
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin launched his first flying machine from Lake Constance here in 1900. Thus began a chapter of aviation history that would propel Friedrichshafen onto the world stage, make it a prominent target for Allied … Continue reading
New Stealth Destroyer “defenseless”
Two weeks ago, the Navy canceled plans to build the rest of its hulking stealth destroyers. At first, it looked like the DDG-1000s' $5-billion-a-copy price tag to blame. Now, it appears the real reason has slipped out: The Navy's most … Continue reading
New England Air Museum
The New England Air Museum is located at Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut, USA. The museum is housed in three large display buildings consisting of more than 75,000 square feet (7,000 m²) of exhibit space. In fair weather, the outside storage … Continue reading
Toronto Aerospace Museum
The Toronto Aerospace Museum is an aviation museum at the Parc Downsview Park in Downsview, Ontario, Canada, located at the northern end of the City of Toronto. The museum, founded in 1977 is open year round and part of the … Continue reading
Airliner maintenance mishap
[usercontrol: /user controls/gallery.ascx ImageUrl=/gallery/08-enginerunup/; RepeatColumns=6] From a reader: BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – A three-plane ground crash at the Baton Rouge Metro Airport could have become an explosive disaster. It happened at the new regional maintenance hangar for Atlantic Southeast … Continue reading