2024

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-wingless-hydrogen-powered-jet-could-fly-at-supersonic-speeds/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3cnrkPtq5FB-Sl-oT_UO1RAgePLypl9R36PYsUucx2AKgUzL0lhjuVnOg_aem_AU69eAeggcLkWLhsTK49x0AzxTqFkH1jA6Y6BzVS_25gLimoXRlFkG9i73Odr0OeUAXX7Sb93x-9gxGJs7Se_Fg4

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-marriage-synthetic-biology-3d-programmable.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter#google_vignette

I don’t think anyone was too aware of this until news that Boeing was eliminated from the competition,(https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-eliminated-us-air-forces-doomsday-plane-competition-2023-12-01/) so who will make this next “doomsday” plane? Northrop Grumman building...

revealed today, this is the D-Motor DKT-07, a new Belgian indigenously designed and built helicopter. whats so special about it is that it not only flies on traditional aviation fuels, but its also the first helicopter in the world to fly 100% on non-fossil fuels...

Tony Buttler has informed me that Chris Farara, former Hawker Aircraft employee, compiler of the Hawker Association newsletter, occasional writer, and diligent archivist of the Brooklands Hawker archive, has passed away. I can only speak from my own experience - Chris was a really nice man, who...

https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/0349255/veteran-pc-game-sopwith-celebrates-40th-anniversary

Researchers have created the world's first graphene semiconductor. The joke goes that graphene can do everything but leave the lab, but in the last few years, this is no longer true. In this episode we'll see how scientists turned the best conductor known to man into a semiconductor, opening the...

https://www.bartechnologies.uk/insights/windwings-win-gold-at-2024-edison-awards/

In its effort to replace the aging T-45 trainers, the Navy put out a Request for Information last August for what’s officially dubbed the “Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS).” It indicated a minimum buy of 145 aircraft and a contract award in 2026. That means a Request for Proposal could...

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4601227-military-response-baltimore-bridge-collapse/

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4604035-san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plans-to-rename-airport/

Possible cyber attack: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68844879 Switching over to VOIP for emergency and other critical telecommunications seems to have been rather short-sighted, at best.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240327/k10014404261000.html https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Japan-to-take-another-shot-at-a-homegrown-airliner-eyeing-hydrogen Just one year after the official end to the failure that was MRJ, Japan is trying to start another...

https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/radias-windrunner-to-be-the-worlds-largest-aircraft-ever-built Radias Windrunner, designed to carry windmill blades

From another source: https://www.turdef.com/article/design-of-the-turkish-aircraft-carrier-unveiled

https://www.twz.com/air/xq-67a-combat-drone-from-general-atomics-breaks-cover

View: https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1753822277152407914?s=20 View: https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1753472788839403705?s=20

View: https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1749831289018945792?s=20

https://www.defenseromania.ro/ultimele-zboruri-ale-mig-21-lancer-ale-romaniei-toate-drumurile-duc-la-bacau-zboruri-simultane-catre-bacau-ultima-misiune-a-mig-21_622607.html It was suposed at the end of the nineties to be an interim solution. Still, 20 years later, they still serve. View...

https://commercialisation.esa.int/2023/05/protein-the-new-european-heavy-lift-launcher-study/