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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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  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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  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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  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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  LNG Propulsion - A Cool Idea?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 10:17 PM on Mar 19, 2012

  What technologies could be available for an airliner entering service in 2045 that would not be ready in time for aircraft fielded in 2030? That's what NASA asked when it awarded B... Read More >>

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  Gojett - Making Supersonic Testing Affordable

  Posted by Graham Warwick 11:36 PM on Feb 29, 2012

  Starkey Aerospace - Starcor - is a start-up company formed by University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor Ryan Starkey to develop a small, low-cost, supersonic unmanned airc... Read More >>

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  Solar Impulse Back to "Earth"

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:52 PM on Feb 24, 2012

  Solar Impulse is claiming success in its simulated 72-hour flight, intended as a precusor to a solar-powered round-the-world attempt in 2014. Pilot Andre Borschberg says the simula... Read More >>

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  Solar Impulse Simulates 72-Hour Flight

  Posted by Graham Warwick 3:40 PM on Feb 20, 2012

  As a precusor to a round-the-world flight attempt, Switzerland's Solar Impulse will simulate a non-stop three-day flight of its second solar-powered aircraft, HB-SIB, from Feb. 21 ... Read More >>

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  Channeled Inlet Means Better Supersonics

  Posted by Graham Warwick 10:44 PM on Jan 03, 2012

  NASA has flight tested an inlet that promises to improve the efficiency of supersonic and hypersonic engines. The Channeled Centerbody Inlet Experiment (CCIE) was flown at speeds u... Read More >>

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  F-35B - The STOVL Challenges

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:28 PM on Dec 09, 2011

  This post is one in a series on the development of the F-35. Click here for a Flash graphic with system cutaways. Click on Read More to read the entire post on that system and chec... Read More >>

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