Aviation

Swiss-Company SolarStratos Unveils Its Solar Plane Ready to Reach the Stratosphere

Swiss-company SolarStratos recently unveiled its atmospheric solar plane in Switzerland for which the company has some grand plans. The main goal of the solar plane will be to eventually reach the Stratosphere, becoming the first…

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Watch a Replay of SpaceX’s First Successful Rocket Launch Since the September Explosion

Back in September, an issue with a rocket’s helium tank caused an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. To move forward with the company’s launches and perhaps win back the trust of skeptics,…

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Aerospace Components Benefiting from New Materials Science

Aerospace components represent, if nothing else, a gold standard for industrial manufacturing. There is no other activity that puts more stress on an object and its parts than is encountered in the aerospace industry. In…

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Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) Network to Be Used for Arctic Communications

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) network was developed for the U.S. Navy by Lockheed Martin to provide next-generation secure ultra-high-frequency (UHF) satellite communications. General Dynamics also worked on parts of MUOS, especially its integrated…

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The Great Challenges of Aviation Management

Success and failure in entering the airline business has been compared to the adventures of the Greek God Icarus, son of Daedalus, who flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax…

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Amazon Files Patent for Huge Flying Warehouse Equipped With Delivery Drones

Forget practicality these days. When it comes to their vision for the future, companies such as Apple, Google, and Amazon are in the business of filing for patents and figuring out logistics later. Amazon’s latest…

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Paper Plane Machine Gun Gets Upgrade and Fires 120 Airplanes Every Minute

Two years ago, I wrote an article about a YouTube user who developed a 3D printed paper plane machine gun. Well, time flies because Dieter Michael Krone is back with a new and improved paper…

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Do You Know Which Seat is the Safest on an Airplane?

It is a general perception that seats on the wings of an aircraft are the safest because the plane is “strongest” there. However, statistics show that in the case of a plane crash, the rear of an…

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Weapons Community Sparks Fast Growing Anti-Jamming Equipment Market

Electric signals or waves are as important to electronic equipment as blood is to humans and animals: when deprived of these life-giving elements, equipment, people, and animals are rendered dead to the world. The Military…

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