Susanne Bayly-Yukawa will remember, perhaps most of all, how she and her friend would not like getting on the plane. It was the 12th of August, 1985, on a Monday, when Akihisa Yukawa was due to arrive in Osaka for a single night. The two had been in London eight years earlier when Yukawa’s job brought him to England to […]
After years of bankruptcies and mergers and a difficult time in the aviation industry, the listing of U.S.-based airlines has been reduced. In the past, the small network of regional airlines linked a large portion of the nation. Still, due to the deregulation, these smaller ones were taken over by larger airlines, and today’s monopolies have been born. Today, we think of […]
The famous Learjet first flew in October 1963; it marked the dawn of a new era of stylish, elegant, and speedy executive aircraft. Its Learjet 23 was so swift–with a top speed of 561 miles per hour and a 3G speed of climb of 6,900 feet per minute that it was the only first-line U.S. Air Force and Navy fighters that could […]
During an earnings conference held on July 25, the RTX company revealed that it would be recalling up to 1,200 units of the PW1100G Geared Turbofan engines, made by its subsidiary, engine maker Pratt & Whitney, for rapid inspection. The culprit is microscopic contaminants found within the powdered metal manufactured at a New York facility. It was used to make engines’ stage […]
The first airship era was destroyed by fire. The next starts with the entire planet in flames. With the warming climate fast melting the glaciers, animals blinking out of existence, and one-of-a-kind weather occasions often filling the forecasts for seven days, Scientists, politicians act, activists, engineers, and anyone else who loves the planet Earth are scrambling to find ways to switch from fossil fuels and […]
Shinji Suzuki met Takuo Toda in 1999 atop Mt. Yonami in the city of Jinseki-Kogen, located in the south of Jinseki-Kogen in Japan. Toda, the Japan Origami Airplane Association chairperson, was in the area to launch a vast paper plane from the tower he constructed on top of the mountain specifically for this purpose. Toda has convinced the local city […]
Has published ten science-based books, including Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology (Basic Books 2015). He also has logged over 1000 flying hours as a private flight pilot. IN BRIEF At a strict mathematical scale, engineers can make planes that remain at a height. However, equations do not explain why aerodynamic lift happens. Two different theories reveal the […]
JetSMART became history when it was the initial South American carrier to receive an aircraft built by the Airbus factory in Mobile, Alabama. After the branch has been approved, the plane is scheduled to run local flights with JetSMART Colombia. JetSMART’s CEO was thrilled at receiving the plane, highlighting the company’s determination to grow and its place in South America’s […]
“Bigger is better” is Dassault Aviation’s motto for its new-generation business jets. This was clear when I first stepped into the brand new Falcon 6X at the company flight testing facility in The Istres-Le Tube Base Air Station (LFMI) to the west of Marseille. Its appearance is remarkably more significant than its diminutive predecessors, like Dassault’s new Falcon 8X flagship. […]
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