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Sep 25, 2015
This week's top aerospace and defense stories, including Norway's first F-35A and Boeing's bulk Chinese aircraft order.
Sep 24, 2015
Team hopes stratospheric mountain waves and polar night jet stream will combine to propel Perlan 2 glider into the stratosphere and a record altitude for sustained level flight of 90,000 ft.
Sep 23, 2015
Developers hope to ground test a turbine engine at Mach 3.2 in the coming months, paving the way for long-range supersonic cruise missiles as well as potentially laying the foundation for a viable combined-cycle hypersonic propulsion system.
Sep 21, 2015
Deep-space flight time and expense could be greatly reduced through the use of nuclear rocket engines and make Mars exploration more feasible.
Sep 21, 2015
XTI’s VTOL TriFan appeals to crowdfunders; game-changing demos at AFRL; fast-formable composite parts; how UAS can help in a crisis; more unmanned news.
Sep 21, 2015
JT8D engines powering MD-88s suffer the worst fan-blade erosion of any engine in Delta’s fleet. FAA research program will support tests of an anti-erosion coating.
Sep 17, 2015
Why the Pentagon should invest in high-tech commercial research and why start-ups will warm to the lure of government dollars.
Sep 16, 2015
Simulation of complete aircraft and engines takes a giant step as software developer Ansys shows computational fluid dynamics code can run efficiently on a massively parallel supercomputer.