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X-49A Speedhawk Developer Piasecki Dies...
| January 5, 2009 | 3,067 Views | 1 Comment
Early last year, one of America’s pioneers of rotary aircraft, Frank Piasecki, sadly passed away. Piasecki was best known as the man who successfully developed the first tandem-rotor helicopter.
In 1940, Piasecki and a former class mate, Howard Venzie, formed a company called PV Engineering. The company built a single-seat, single-rotor helicopter designated the PV-2 that took its...
Boeing Laser Avenger Military Weapon...
| December 9, 2007 | 5,001 Views | 2 Comments
In late September 2007, Boeing successfully tested a 1kw solid state laser weapon mounted on a converted Humvee anti-aircraft vehicle in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The Laser Avenger was able to successfully destroy several unexploded mortar shells and two unmanned aerial vehicles, both of which were on the ground.
Humvee Mounted Lasver Avenger
Until recently, military lasers were...
FA-37 New Stealth Fighter Air Craft Jet...
| August 19, 2007 | 98,500 Views | 33 Comments
Making the rounds to an Email box near you! I just got it and found out that this has been circulating for some time. Below are photographs of a prototype aircraft known as the Talon. Reportedly it was taken onboard the USS George Washington CVN-73 for catapult fit checks. It noted that it was not exactly still Top Secret but certainly not yet made public.
FA-37 Talon Movie Prop
The...
Airborne Military Laser Weapons...
| August 16, 2007 | 7,919 Views | 9 Comments
Since the Cold War the U.S Missile Command and the U.S Air Force have continually focused their efforts on designing an Airborne Laser Weapon. Whilst this idea may still seem like science fiction, testing for this ground breaking technology has already begun.
Boeing Airborne Laser
A powerful Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) has been mounted in a turret-like array on the nose of...
V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Vertical Short Tak...
| August 3, 2007 | 14,406 Views | 1 Comment
Range, speed and flexibility. Hard rules once defined by the limitations of previous medium-lift helicopters. The V-22 is the world’s first production tilt-rotor combines the vertical performance of a helicopter with the high speed and range of a fixed wing aircraft which offers twice the speed, three times the payload, five times the range, and can fly more than twice as high as...
Boeing X-48B Remote Controlled Blended W...
| August 1, 2007 | 6,347 Views | 3 Comments
Boeing have been hot press this year following the highly anticipated 787 Dreamliner, despite the huge launch campaign and all the time spent perfecting the Dreamliner, Boeing have still found time to develop and begin testing the new X-48B an unmanned Blended Wing Body Aircraft or BWB.
Boeing X-48B UAV In Flight
The first ever flight took off on the 20th July from NASA’s Dryden...
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