Science Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is actually a detail from the full […]
aeronautics
Science Art: Opportunities for Design & Development Engineers…, 1966.
This is the illustration from a full-page ad from the Hughes Aircraft Company in the Jan/Feb 1966 issue of Information Display magazine. This isn’t selling […]
Science Art: Cockpit view of the Macchi MC.200 Saetta, 2009
This image came from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force with the less-easy-to-understand name (or “designation”) “210921-F-AU145-2009.” But it’s the cockpit of an […]
Peter Dodge’s final cyclone.
Ars Technica salutes NOAA hurricane scientist Peter Dodge, who underwent his 387th storm “penetration” aboard an airplane flying into Category 5 Hurricane Milton … and […]
Driverless cars, OK. Pilotless fighter jets? They’re flying now, too.
AP reports on a robot F16 that has just taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall out for a joyride courtesy of an AI fighter pilot: […]
Science Art: X-2 After Drop from B-50 Mothership, 1957.
Off we go…. Here’s some cutting-edge technology from 1957 which, frankly, is still pretty impressive. The Bell Labs X-2 is a rocket-plane that flew humans […]
Science Art: Ryan 262 Manta Ray: Program Status Report cover, 1975
This is the cover of a report on the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical “Navy Mini-Drone (STARS),” otherwise known as the Manta Ray. It was a fiberglass […]
Science Art: Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar.
This is not a movie prop, but a working prototype of the Avrocar, a disc-shaped flying machine that graced the skies between 1959 and 1961. […]
Science Art: 821393 – Flying Machine – Wright Brothers, May 22, 1906.
It’s an airplane. Maybe the airplane. And this is how it looked when the U.S. Patent Office made it official. I found the illustration on […]
An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.
DARPA reports on the Air Combat Evolution program’s newest breakthrough, which took a regular F-16 fighter jet, equipped it with an Artificial Intelligence program capable […]
Airship hangar awaits new zeppelin revolution.
BBC is waiting patiently for Google co-founder Sergey Brin to create another world-changing revolution. They’re hanging out in an enormous hangar, the Goodyear Airdock in […]
Exploring alien planets (and Earth) by balloon
Science News looks at the recent breakthroughs in planetary research using an often-overlooked kind of vehicle, a lighter-than-air balloon, as a research platform in alien […]
Science Art: Fig 2.1: Powder Rocket Projectile, 1956.
This is one of the first illustrations in V. I. Feodosiev’s and G. B. Siniarev’s Introduction to Rocketry, an English translation of a Russian text […]
SONG: A Pseudo-Satellite
SONG: “A Pseudo-Satellite”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: CNN 5 May 2022, “This solar-powered plane could stay in the air for months,” as used in the post […]
Solar plane can do the job of a satellite without going into space.
CNN is covering the Skydweller, a plane powered by more than 17,000 solar panels, enabling it to stay aloft for month, doing the same work […]