F/A-XX: The Navy’s Secret Sixth-Gen Fighter Moves
Everybody talks about the F-47. Every defence reporter, every think-tank panel, every congressional hearing. Boeing’s clean-sheet sixth-generation fighter for the Air Force gets the headlines and the money and the Trump tweets. Meanwhile, across the river at...
40-Second Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Redesigned War Itself
The bet was always the same. Colonel John Boyd would start from a position of disadvantage — his opponent on his tail, locked in a simulated dogfight — and within forty seconds, Boyd would reverse the situation and be on the other pilot’s tail. He offered a...
Eve’s Air Taxi Hits 50 Test Flights — and the Transition Is Next
Fifty flights. Two hours of accumulated flight time. One full-scale engineering prototype. On April 9, Eve Air Mobility — the eVTOL spinoff of Brazilian aerospace giant Embraer — hit a milestone that separates the serious air taxi builders from the slideware...
0.3% More Fuel, 62% Fewer Contrails: The AI Fix for Aviation’s Hidden Climate Problem
Here is a number that should stop you mid-scroll: 62 percent. That is how much American Airlines reduced contrail formation on 2,400 transatlantic flights using nothing but artificial intelligence and minor altitude adjustments. The fuel cost? An extra 0.3 percent....
When Satellites Go Dark, Radar Sees Through: Bellingcat’s War Damage Tool
Shortly after Operation Epic Fury began, something unusual happened to the world’s satellite imagery. The U.S. government asked every commercial satellite provider to voluntarily impose an indefinite blackout over Iran and the Gulf. Planet, one of the largest...
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