BREAKING: Army Chooses Bell Textron’s V-280 Valor Tiltrotor to Replace Black Hawk … the V-280 Valor tiltrotor beat out Sikorsky-Boeing’s bid — the Defiant X coaxial rotor blade platform — in the years-long competition to design the future long range assault aircraft, or FLRAA, a key part of the Army’s plan to modernize its aviation…
This is weird. And if this is confirmed, it’ll mean… something. Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies As if playing a cosmic game of Connect the Dots, the researchers drew lines between sets of four galaxies, constructing four-cornered shapes called tetrahedra. When they had built every possible tetrahedron from a catalog of 1…
This “experiment” seems like all kinds of fun. It also seems like the sort of thing that would attract the attention of the ATF. Or the DoD. I gotta admit I like the method of production of the nozzle. Adopting that process for a more advanced rocket might be a chore… a refractory metal nozzle…
Looks like the Ukrainians are taking the war home to Russian military forces, this time hitting Engels Air Force Base and potentially destroying two TU 95 “Bear” bombers. Unknown as yet *how* the Ukrainians pulled this off. I remain unconvinced that hitting Mother Russia is necessarily the wisest course for Ukraine; it could will…
And it hasn’t been in more than 20 years. But stuff like this – though it has been going on all along – just make it seem that much less fun. @rexross79 #qantas #melbourneairport ♬ original sound – ReXross
The story starts off right, but doesn’t stick the landing. Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China Yay! So, where’s it going? Kansas? Texas? North Dakota? It is telling suppliers to plan more actively for assembling Apple products elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and Vietnam… Crap. Sure, India is light years better…
A Beech Aircraft Company concept for a civilian VTOL for the 1980s, from circa 1971. This would be a two-seater using tilt-ducts. This appears to be less “engineering” and more “art,” as there are some definite headscratchers about the design. Where are the engines? In designs such as these it/they are typically in the fuselage,…
The West German Weser Flugzeugbau revealed the design of the P 23 tiltrotor in 1963. This was to be a do-everything vehicle… civil passenger transport, cargo transport, troop transport, ground attack, flying crane. It was an attractive design with one turboshaft engine at each wingtip; the rotors tilted, but the engines were fixed. The engines…
Rap music is, by and large, talent-free, devoid of artistic or cultural value. So how the hell Kanye West got to be a billionaire, I’ve no Earthly idea. But being a billionaire with years of fandom behind him, every time he does or says *anything* the news media makes a big deal of it. And…
