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  Supersonic Stringbag? New Look at Busemann's Biplane

  Posted by Graham Warwick 3:52 PM on Mar 22, 2012

  Biplanes are slow, right? Well researchers in Japan and the US are investigating a biplane configuration to reduce the shockwave drag and sonic boom of supersonic transports.Concep... Read More >>

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  Blown Lift - Cal Poly's AMELIA STOL-liner

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:27 PM on Mar 21, 2012

  One of the unconventional aircraft configurations NASA is researching is a cruise-efficient short take-off and landing (CESTOL) airliner that would be able to make steep approaches... Read More >>

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  Bored With Winglets?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 8:16 PM on Aug 05, 2011

  Winglets are everywhere these days, on almost every business jet and Boeings up to through the 767. Most Airbuses have wingtip fences, but the A320NEO and A350XWB will join the A33... Read More >>

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  Wild Ride - Measuring Wake Turbulence

  Posted by Graham Warwick 1:13 PM on Jun 09, 2011

  German aerospace center DLR has been chasing wakes, in a bid to develop tools to predict turbulence in the cruise and simplify the certification of new aircraft. The tests involved... Read More >>

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  Flying Greener, on the Wings of a Gull

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:42 PM on May 26, 2011

  Gull wings have usually been used on aircraft for mechanical reasons - to combine the biggest propeller with the shortest landing gear on the F4U Corsair, for example. But Dr Nhan ... Read More >>

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  Want Laminar Flow? Talk to Aerion

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:00 PM on May 16, 2011

  Aerion has not yet been able to secure an industry partner to develop and build its supersonic business jet (SBJ), but the company says there is growing demand for its natural lami... Read More >>

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  NASA Takes Closer Look at MIT's Double-Bubble

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:53 PM on Apr 22, 2011

  MIT has been funded to take a closer look at its D8 "double-bubble" configuration, which has emerged as a promising concept from NASA's N+3 studies of airliners that could enter se... Read More >>

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  Germany's ATTAS Testbed Thinks Big

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:28 PM on Apr 06, 2011

  One unconventional aircraft has been simulating another in flight tests at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where its VFW 614 in-flight simulator has been programmed to fly as if... Read More >>

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  Looking for Ice With a Gulfstream

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:00 PM on Mar 22, 2011

  Gulfstream says its new G250 mid-size business jet has completed natural icing tests, both to verify the aircraft's stability and control with ice build-up on unprotected surfaces ... Read More >>

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  Looking for Laminarity

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:43 PM on Jan 26, 2011

  Drag-reducing laminar flow is the "new" big thing in research into more environmentally friendly aircraft, and Dassault has completed a test flight to evaluate technology for measu... Read More >>

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