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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/dick-rutan-pilot-dies-aged-85 One of the greatest pilots has sadly left us.

Hi Flying boat design by E.F. Burton (Douglas Plant Engineer), I don't know if info has already been posted about this model, but it is new for me... source:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304947742035?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050

View: https://youtu.be/2LKS2kR4LJY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship

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

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.

http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/

SWARM robots have already been mentioned on this forum [ https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rolls-royce-swarm-engine-repair-microrobots.30577/ ] but they are merely one in a handful of Rolls-Royce programs aimed at robotic engine maintenance, for which the company teamed up with academics...

Originally I was going to post this in the FSCS thread ( https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/lancer-sika-pics-info.11823/ ) but this eventually became bigger than I originally intended ( 2 major files containing around 80 pages with 5 presentations in both, and two other presenations, all...

I stumbled upon this while reading Edward Hujsak's 1994 The Future of U.S. Rocketry. ULLV stands for "Ultra Large Launch Vehicle" This is a concept by the "Perigee West Company of La Jolla, California", which Edward Hujsak happened to be the president of, the company got several hundred...

i have been looking at a lot of old US vtol project that had promises but it got cancelled and it got me thinking. what would happend if some of those projets succeed, and what would happenend if thay did .

As we have had some interesting 50s and 60s what-ifs I thought it would be fun to go for a big one. Put yourself in the chair of Sandys, McNamara or any other key Defence Minister of your choice. Now put together a better balance of options than they did.

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

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

Does anybody remember the A-7/stealth pod cover stories from the mid 80's. I remember some pics and the basic cover story but can't find anything about it anywhere now.

Everybody and his brother were trying to have as good as aiforce/air-service as possible, and especially in the specified time frame, but many times the available budget was a serious brick wall between the desires and reality. What kind of aircraft should a not-rich, but a reasonably developed...

From FAA Aviation News 1964, this competition was intended to replace Douglas DC-3,the main tenders were; Learjet Model-? Hughes M-? or Model-? Culver City Type-? Republic AP-? Farmingdale Type-? Jerome Type-? Parkville Type-? Fairchild Stratos M-? Hagerstown Type-? ACME may A-3 ...

Nice video by Mike Machat with inspiration from resident forum guru Craig Kaston. h/t to Michel Van who posted this earlier in a different topic. View: https://youtu.be/s6SDKjUj6NI

Hello everyone this is my first post on here :) I was recommended this video by the "glorious" YouTube algorithm while watching some of Ward Carroll's videos. The person who did said video mentioned some things about the F-111B...how much better would it have been than the F-14 as an...

Hey fellas, I'm (planning) on making a video game, set in the late 1950s, where Britain, the USSR and the USA each have their own space programmes, the US having Von Brauns ferry rocket and space lift ops, and the Brits having the BIS', now formed as the British Interplanetary Commission...