Share this story On Tuesday afternoon in Dhaka, a government adviser stood up at the Secretariat and confirmed that a committee had finished drafting the agreement. Bangladesh intends to buy the Chengdu J-10.Twenty aircraft. A headline figure of $2.302 billion. And a...
Share this story Buried in a routine American contract announcement on Monday was a single word that set the European defence press moving: Poland.The US Department of War confirmed that Boeing had been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for...
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Vier Jahre lang zählte eine Gruppe flugzeugähnlicher Objekte auf chinesischen Vorfeldern zu den unterhaltsamsten Rätseln im Bereich Open-Source-Intelligence. Sie ähnelten der Chengdu J-20. Irgendwie wirkten sie aber auch merkwürdig. Analysten untersuchten Satellitenbilder...
Share this story Somebody at the Tailhook Association convention this past weekend was holding a camera when the U.S. Navy put a particular slide on the screen. On it: a pair of Castelion Blackbeard test articles hanging under the right wing of an F/A-18E/F Super...
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Zwölf Jahre später ist eine Boeing 777 mit 239 Menschen an Bord immer noch vermisst. Nicht im Sinne von: Niemand weiß genau, wo das Wrack liegt – vermisst im Sinne von: Die größte und teuerste Unterwassersuche der Geschichte ist nun abgeschlossen.
Diese Geschichte teilen: Die Bell 47 ist der Hubschrauber, den jeder zeichnen kann: eine Glaskuppel, ein offenes Gitterleitwerk, zwei Männer, die in etwas sitzen, das wie ein Goldfischglas auf Kufen aussieht. Es ist die Maschine aus dem Vorspann von M*A*S*H, und für eine ganze Generation war sie einfach das, was man sich unter einem Hubschrauber vorstellte ….
Share this story At 11:24 on the morning of 14 August 2005, a Greek Air Force F-16 pilot pulled alongside a Boeing 737 orbiting quietly over the Aegean and looked into the cockpit. The first officer was slumped motionless in his seat. The captain’s seat was...
Share this story On 14 November 2004, a US Navy F/A-18F on a routine training intercept off southern California was vectored onto something the cruiser USS Princeton had been tracking for days. The squadron commander who flew that intercept has described what he saw...
Share this story Twelve minutes after leaving Tokyo on the evening of 12 August 1985, the rear pressure bulkhead of a Boeing 747 gave way. The escaping air blew off most of the vertical stabiliser and severed all four hydraulic systems. The crew were left with an...
Share this story Two minutes and thirty-three seconds passed between the moment an Airbus A310 stopped doing what its crew believed it was doing, and the moment it hit a hillside in the Kuznetsk Alatau. Seventy-five people died. The story is usually told as a simple...
Share this story The next single-aisle airliner has a geometry problem, and Boeing has quietly patented one answer to it. The problem is simple to state. The most promising engine architecture for the 2030s — the open fan — has a rotor roughly twice the...
Share this story Five years ago this month, a US Marine Corps F-35B took off from a British aircraft carrier, landed on an American assault ship, took on fuel and weapons, and flew off again to attack a second set of targets. The Marine Corps called it the first time...
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