Gulfstream's G700 Flexes on Competition, Sets 25 Speed Records for Luxury Business Jets
26 Jan 2023, 23:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As the new G700 made a tour around the world, timing the journeys between each destination, the new twin-jet's results were nothing short of astonishing
Mitsubishi F-4 EJ Kai: The American Phantom II Jet Powered Up Like an Anime Hero
25 Jan 2023, 07:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The F-4EJ and its ultimate variant, the EJ Kai, aren't hard to draw parallels between themselves and anime heroes. It defended its home nation like one
NASA/DARPA Want to Test Nuclear Fission Engines by 2027, Can They Bring Us to Mars?
25 Jan 2023, 00:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If ludicrously powerful rocket engines are what you're after, science fiction tells us there's no better place to look than nuclear energy
Igor Sikorsky Was the Henry Ford of Helicopters, Founded His Company 100 Years Ago
24 Jan 2023, 03:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / No wonder one of the first pieces of technology to inspire the young Sikorsky was a rough blueprint by Leonardo da Vinci for an air screw
We Need to Stop Treating Low Earth Orbit Like a Landfill, ESA Vows a Solution
22 Jan 2023, 18:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / "We want to establish a zero debris policy, which means if you bring a spacecraft into orbit, you have to remove it," Aschbacher declared.
NASA and Boeing Team Up to Build the Greenest Airliner in History, Sports 2 Sets of Wings
20 Jan 2023, 00:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The name of the game in the 2020's airliner sector is far different than in the late 1960s. Big, wasteful, fossil-fuel-burning behemoths are going dodo
Rockwell XFV-12: Proof the British Build Better VTOL Jets Than the Yanks
19 Jan 2023, 19:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The XFV-12's unfortunate story begins in the year 1972. By that stage, the British Harrier had already been in service for three years, debuting in April 1969.
This NASA Probe Snaps Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone, Just Tagged Another
12 Jan 2023, 20:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of these thousands of exoplanets, only a little over a dozen are located in what we like to call the habitable zone. TESS is getting very good at finding them
MiG-21 LanceR: Forged By the Soviets, Now Flying for NATO
11 Jan 2023, 23:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Though routinely overshadowed by more prominent Air Forces in Western Europe, Romania is home to one of the most historic and deeply rooted aviation programs.
This Man Put the Entire Soviet Space Program on His Back, He Deserves Our Respect
10 Jan 2023, 05:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The story of the life of Sergei Korolev is one that leaves a bitter aftertaste. But a life defined by a brilliant mind for engineering
New American Supersonic UAV Will Mimic Russian and Chinese Fighters, Packs AESA Radar
9 Jan 2023, 22:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / F-22 pilots can spend all day, and then some, doing mock dogfights with other Raptor pilots. Or, they could use the Revenant supersonic UAV instead
One of Artemis I’s Cube-Sat Missions Is in Deep Trouble, Time Running Out for Lunar Orbit
6 Jan 2023, 01:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Let's take a deep dive and find out why Artemis I's secondary mission is in serious jeopardy in the first place. It's not what you think.
Gilmour Space: The Aussie Team Ready to Make Satellite Launches Truly Affordable
5 Jan 2023, 22:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Should Gilmour's efforts succeed, space launch access for non-billion-dollar companies could be fast approaching sooner than you think.
Shenyang J-11: The Chinese Sukhoi Clone That Just Played Chicken With a U.S. Jet
5 Jan 2023, 01:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Shenyang J-11 twin-engine Chinese air superiority fighter is a geopolitical marvel in itself. Thanks to the not-so-smooth Sino-Soviet relationship
NASA Sounds Alarm on Chinese Moon Landing Ambitions, Could Claim Pieces for Themselves
3 Jan 2023, 00:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Less than two months after the first of NASA's Artemis missions completed what can be called a smashing success, NASA is whistling a different tune.
Arsenal VB 10: The Forgotten Twin-Engine French Superprop Revived by War Thunder
31 Dec 2022, 18:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With six M2 Browning Machine Guns on tap atop the four Hispano-Suiza 20 mm autocannons of the VB 10C-1, the VB-10-02 is an all-around excellent fighter
The Ins and Outs of Dragonfly: NASA's Incredible Plan to Put an Aerial Drone on Titan
30 Dec 2022, 00:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Say hello to Project Dragonfly, the remarkable attempt to place only the second-ever powered, heavier-than-air rotorcraft on the surface of another world.
NASA's $25.4 Billion Budget for 2023 May Sound Like a Lot, but It's Not
28 Dec 2022, 20:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In stark contrast to 2023's national defense budget totaling an eye-watering $857.9 billion, NASA's wound up receiving around $600 million less than proposed.
The F-15 Eagle Has a Flawless Kill-to-Loss Ratio, Its Accident Record, Not So Much
28 Dec 2022, 01:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Among those accounted for, 123 of the U.S. Air Force F-15 airframes have been lost to mishaps and accidents. 52 further losses occurred with all other nations
Russia Built This Forward-Wing-Sweep Jet Fighter Prototype In the Middle of Falling Apart
27 Dec 2022, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / None of Russia's 1990's tomfoolery stopped Sukhoi engineers from building a forward-wing-sweep jet fighter prototype that actually ran and drove as advertised