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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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  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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  Six Engines Mean Survivable VTOL

  Posted by Graham Warwick 1:38 PM on Aug 23, 2011

  Six engines seem a bit extreme, especially on an aircraft of a size that would normally only have a couple of turboprops. But for retired aeronautical engineer Richard Oliver, six ... Read More >>

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  Unleashed - the Samarai Way

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:06 PM on Jul 17, 2011

  Electric aircraft are here today, but available battery technology severely limits their size and performance. Hybrid-electric propulsion is a solution, using fuel to provide suffi... Read More >>

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  RAND: Grand Challenges Could Inspire Aeronautics

  Posted by Graham Warwick 9:29 AM on May 23, 2011

  The US should use "grand challenges" to prioritize government funding for aeronautics research, says a new study by think-tank RAND, arguing current policies setting the research a... Read More >>

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  UK's Demon UAV Flies on Fluidic Controls

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:03 PM on Oct 04, 2010

  Demon, an unmanned research aircraft developed by Cranfield University, BAE Systems and nine other UK universities, has conducted its first "flapless flight".Photo: BAE/C... Read More >>

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  Snowbird Flies on Flapping Wings - and Human Power

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:12 PM on Sep 23, 2010

  Students at the University of Toronto have achieved a long-sought aeronautical feat - sustained human-powered, flapping-wing flight. On August 2, the team's Snowbird ornithopter ma... Read More >>

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  Clean Sky Gets Specific on Research

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:26 PM on Dec 23, 2009

  Europe's Clean Sky joint technology initiative is the biggest aeronautical research program out there - Euro 1.6 billion over seven years, funded 50:50 by government and indus... Read More >>

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