Ace Combat Infinity: A Wonderful, Long Lost Combat Flight Game We Wish Never Shut Down
25 Dec 2022, 09:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Because AC: Infinity's servers shut down nearly half a decade ago, the only frame of reference people who never played the game only has the Ace Combat wiki
NASA and China May Dominate Mars, but the Soviets Are Still Kings of Venus, Here's Why
25 Dec 2022, 05:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If the Americans and Chinese basically have Mars all to themselves, the Russians, or should we say, the Soviets still dominate the exploration of Venus
Christmas Bullet: The Catastrophe of an Airplane That'll Make You Go Bah-Humbug.
24 Dec 2022, 18:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Christmas Bullet. An absolutely bonkers airplane with a body count that equals its production run
Convair NB-36: The Bonkers American Bomber With a Nuclear Reactor in its Belly
23 Dec 2022, 18:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The impetus for the NB-36's development is one rooted in the atomic era of the 1950s to late 1960s. A time where the U.S. went a bit nuts about nuclear power
Detailing the Life of InSight - Mars' Most Underappreciated Space Probe Lost Today
22 Dec 2022, 01:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, the genesis of the InSight lander has its roots in NASA's previous Martian lander. This would, of course, be the Phoenix launched in 2008
Raytheon Wraps Up First Test Run of New Jet-Electric Hybrid Engine, First Flight in 2024
21 Dec 2022, 19:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Riding a $163 million wave of investments started in July of last year, it shouldn't be too long before Collins and Raytheon now have a working prototype.
Elon Musk's Starlink Internet Nets One Millionth Subscriber, Dunks on the Haters
20 Dec 2022, 23:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With a base cost of $599 for all the hardware and $110 a month for internet service Starlink is perhaps the most successful Elon Musk venture outside of Tesla.
Los Alamos NERVA: The American Nuclear Engine That Could Have Taken Humans to Mars
18 Dec 2022, 16:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We don't blame you if you're shocked the United States wielded a nuclear spacecraft engine as far back as the 1960s. Or that hardly anyone remembers it.
Dassault and Airbus Join Forces to Help Build Europe's First Gen-Six Jet Fighter
16 Dec 2022, 17:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Dubbed the Global Combat Air System, then change to Future Combat Air System (FCAS), the prospective new fighter is touted as just as potent as American jets
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter: The Supersonic Jet Fighter That May Actually Be Cursed
11 Dec 2022, 16:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As most av-geeks will tell you, the Starfighter was a supersonic jet interceptor that might as well have a voodoo-hex cast on it
Parker Solar Probe: The Bugatti Chiron of NASA Space Probes, Six Decades in the Making
11 Dec 2022, 14:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The proposal for an ultra-high-speed space probe designed solely to study the atmosphere of our Sun stretches back to 1958 and the foundation of NASA itself.
Apollo 17 Crew Took Last Steps on the Moon 50 Years Ago This Month, It's Time to Go Back
7 Dec 2022, 00:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Before Artemis III brings the first woman and the first POC to meet the Lunar regolith in 2025, we ought to take a look back and appreciate the past
Northrop Grumman's B-21 Raider Dazzles in Public Debut, Ready to Fight Very Soon
3 Dec 2022, 01:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As the hangar doors behind the stage crept backward, the long-awaited next flagship American stealth bomber waited tantalizingly behind a large cloth cover.
This Bell UH-1H Huey Isn't Just a War Veteran, It's also a Movie Star for Hire
2 Dec 2022, 20:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The UH-1H served with several militaries across the globe. It also served in a variety of roles, including as trainers, search and rescue, and coms jamming.
NASAs New Horizons Begins Extended 2nd Mission, Could Keep Exploring Into the 2050s
2 Dec 2022, 17:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Launched nearly 17 years ago in January 2006, New Horizons famously captured what is probably the most vivid pictures mankind will likely ever have of Pluto