NASA and Boeing have effectively cancelled the X-66 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) concept demonstrator aircraft. Officially described as a "pause," development of the thin-wing airplane is being halted in favor of ground-based testing.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: NASA, Boeing, Aircraft, X-Plane, Transonic
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From skies to simulations: X-66 transonic demonstrator plane shelved
Posted by ArielTechGeek 5 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
US Space Force's X-37B space plane snaps a selfie with planet Earth
Posted by ArielTechGeek 63 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Last week, the US Space Force posted a photo online from its uncrewed X-37B space plane's seventh mission, showing the orbital test vehicle above our planet in High Earth Orbit. Now that's a selfie worth sharing.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX, Boeing, X-37B
Watch: Skydiver hooks up to a plane in mid-air for the first time
Posted by ArielTechGeek 82 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
This is just all kinds of outrageous. Last November, a skydiver jumped out of a helicopter, glided down into the Grand Canyon wearing a wingsuit, turned around to face the sky, and hooked up to a plane flying above him so it could tow him up and away into the air.Continue ReadingCategory: Sports, LifestyleTags: Skydiving, Red Bull, Wingsuits
First private-built supersonic plane smashes sound barrier
Posted by ArielTechGeek 90 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Boom Supersonic has gone, well, supersonic, its XB-1 prototype breaking the sound barrier today in the skies over the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. With Chief Test Pilot Tristan Brandenburg at the controls, it reached a speed of Mach 1.122.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Boom, Aircraft, Supersonic
Ao-ft arranges mass-timber house around contours of London plane tree
Posted by Ronnie 126 days ago (https://www.dezeen.com)
A tall plane tree forms a focal point for Tree Courtyard House, a home with a cross-laminated timber structure on a backland site in east London by local studio Ao-ft. Read more
Rocket plane makes first civil supersonic flight since Concorde
Posted by ArielTechGeek 161 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) autonomous Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a speed of Mach 1.1 on November 12, 2024.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Supersonic, Dawn Aerospace
First production-line electric plane from BETA soars in gorgeous video
Posted by ArielTechGeek 164 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Small aircraft manufacturer BETA Technologies has rolled the first electric plane off its fully scaled production line in Vermont. You can go along for the ride with this milestone-setting aircraft in a slick new video from the makers.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Beta Technologies, Electric Aircraft, Plane, eVTOL, Flight, FAA
Electra upsizes ultra-STOL hybrid electric plane to carry 9 passengers
Posted by ArielTechGeek 166 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
We've been following Electra's ultra-short takeoff and landing electric hybrid prototype for some time and now the company has unveiled its EL9 Ultra Short production model that is designed to carry nine passengers at 175 knots (201 mph, 324 km/h).Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Electra (aircraft company), Electric Aircraft
Full-scale model of autonomous, expendable fighter plane unveiled
Posted by ArielTechGeek 221 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Giving a preview of the future of military aircraft, General Atomics unveiled a full-scale mock-up of its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), which is an autonomous warplane designed to augment air forces with cheaper, expendable robotic fighters.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, drones, US Air Force, Aircraft
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