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  Airbus Shows Zwilling, and Other Patents

  Posted by Graham Warwick 7:10 AM on Jun 11, 2012

  Airbus and Boeing may happily be churning out tube-and-wing, engine-under-wing airliners by the dozen, but they are not stopping their designers having the odd out-of-the-box thoug... Read More >>

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  More on Boeing's small launcher concept

  Posted by Guy Norris 1:24 PM on May 22, 2012

  Here are a couple of additional images of the small launch vehicle (SLV) concept recently unveiled by Boeing. The company outlined the scheme as a possible means of cutting the cos... Read More >>

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  Rockwell's Racing Colors

  Posted by Guy Norris 6:22 PM on May 11, 2012

  Several years ago I was touring the facilities of a major aerospace company and was disappointed to hear the visit to the wind tunnel was cancelled as it was temporarily ‘off... Read More >>

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  Phantom Eye Set for Flight Tests

  Posted by Guy Norris 7:41 AM on Apr 26, 2012

  Boeing is readying its hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned air vehicle demonstrator for first flight following the completion of taxi tests at Edwards AFB, Calif. The t... Read More >>

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  Volocopter - Safety and Simplicity in Numbers

  Posted by Graham Warwick 7:29 PM on Apr 20, 2012

  A strange, 16-propeller vertical take-off and landing craft has been awarded the Lindberg Prize for Innovation at the Aero-Friedrichshafen 2012 airshow in Germany. It is an example... Read More >>

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  Quicker Thinking - ONR Steps Up the Pace

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:01 AM on Apr 14, 2012

  This article was originally published as the Leading Edge column in the Apr. 16 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.Photo: US NavyQuicker ThinkingBudget cuts not only put... Read More >>

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  MIT's "Double-Bubble" Airliner Gets a Closer Look

  Posted by Graham Warwick 10:43 PM on Mar 29, 2012

  A team of MIT, Aurora Flight Sciences and Pratt & Whitney are beginning key windtunnel tests to prove whether an innovative aircraft configuration can deliver big fuel-burn red... Read More >>

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  Quiet, Efficient Supersonics Within Sight?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:28 PM on Mar 29, 2012

  NASA is claiming a breakthrough in quiet supersonic aircraft, with successful windtunnel tests of designs that combine low sonic boom and low cruise drag - characteristics once tho... Read More >>

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  Airborne Wind Energy - Aeronautics on a String

  Posted by Graham Warwick 3:54 PM on Mar 28, 2012

  Aeronautics doesn't have to be about aeroplanes. Altaeros Energies, an MIT spin-off, has demonstrated an airborne wind turbine (AWT) that uses lighter-than-air technology adapted f... Read More >>

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  Turboelectric Propulsion - Superconducting or Not?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 1:27 AM on Mar 24, 2012

  When NASA talks about turboelectric distributed propulsion, it talks in terms of superconducting generators and motors in a hybrid wing-body concept aircraft it calls the N3-X. But... Read More >>

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