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MQ-9 Reapers begin adding GBU-38's to their arsenal. The GBU-38 can be employed successfully during adversed weather due to its GPS-guidance. An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, takes off for a mission armed with GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions Feb.
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On Jan. 18, 2018, Armstrong’s Subscale Research Lab crew piloted the 𝝁Cub (MicroCub) for its inaugural flight, successfully demonstrating the aircraft’s airworthiness. The MicroCub is a Bill Hempel 60-percent-scale super cub, which has been modified by Armstrong to support engineering campaigns focused on the integration of unmanned aircraft
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to the Fighting Redcocks of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 22, and an EA-18G Growler, assigned to the Cougars of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt and its carrier strike group are
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NASA is investigating the ways flexible, light weight, ultra-efficient lift wings may increase efficiency for aircraft, and how to address their challenge with flutter in flight. One technology that may make it possible to stabilize flutter, increasing both aircraft efficiency and safety, is the use of advanced flight control systems.
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Live coverage of SpaceX Elon Musk's Starman Driving a Tesla in Space after Successful Heavy Falcon Launch. Source: YouTube
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U.S. Navy video of a U.S. EP-3 Aries aircraft flying Jan. 29, 2018, in international airspace over the Black Sea being intercepted by a Russian Su-27. This interaction was determined to be unsafe due to the Su-27 closing to within five feet and crossing directly through the EP-3&
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Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (GO) completed the GO1 Inert Test Article captive carry flight test at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in December. Under a public-private partnership with NASA, GO developed the GO1-ITA, a mass properties and outer mold line simulator for the GO1 hypersonic flight testbed and
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German brothers Johannes and Phillip Mickenbecker made a drone from a bathtub. It's remote-controlled and uses the same technology as common drones. The brothers flew it around in a gym with a pilot inside. They needed permission from the German government to build it. The bathtub has to
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The skies above southern California lit up with strange and scary sightings - it was in fact simply the launch of SpaceX Falcon 9. Team Vandenberg supported the successful launch of the fourth Iridium mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 on Friday, Dec. 22, at
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The Red Star Yak 52 Display Team do their thing (massed formation aerobatics) at the Classic Fighters airshow held at Omaka Aerodrome in Blenheim, New Zealand. A Precision Warbird Mass Formation Display Team. We are actually several teams across the United States, staffed by FAA qualified warbird formation pilots that
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Once a week the drone of DPDgroup connects Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume to Pourrières, in the Var. This line delivers an isolated business incubator that brings together a dozen start-ups in the field of technology. From now on, their parcels delivered by Chronopost and DPD France will be shipped by drone from the
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Engineers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center examined the X-56 Multi-Use Technology Testbed as the aircraft underwent “moment of inertia” testing in the center’s Flight Loads Laboratory (FLL). The tests, which were the final series for the vehicle in the FLL, featured a swing test to determine how