Continuing the woes of the US shipbuilding industry is the latest example of its inability to compete from a price/schedule standpoint internationally. The Australians announced yesterday that they were selecting a Spanish design for the F100:
Usually these spaces are given over to aircraft or the operations and battles they have flown in. The aviators normally are well represented as well, but there is another group, without whom from the dawn of aviation, none of this would have been possible – aviation maintenance personnel. Long before the mission is flown and…
So here is the situation – you are an emerging regional power with a teeming populace and growing, albeit uneven, economic prowess. On your borders are two nuclear armed nations with whom you have fought (conventionally) within the past 40 years. Aware of your growing need for and dependency on imported energy, you have undertaken to develop and…
(Picture from globalaircraft.org) Reports at the Paris Airshow this week that something was afoot between Russia and Syria over sales of MiG-31’s (and thereby updating Syria’s aging fleet of MiG-25’s) has generated a certain amount of heat over allegations that Iran is secretly funding the deal. More below the fold:
Every so often one needs to benchmark progress – and as halting as the US space program has been (and apparently will continue to be for sometime to come) progress is being made. Witness the almost non-chalant nature of the EVAs this week as part of STS-117’s mission to the ISS to deliver and install…
There are any number of websites accessible today on nuclear matters – technical, strategy, war fighting. For those of us who started our research/studies some few decades ago, it seems like an embarrassment of riches. We had to do the hard work – parsing reams of Congressional testimony, track down obscure references and deal with…
БУДЕТ наукой ракеты! (h/t Exile in Portales)
North Korea to shutdown nuclear plant by July 2007. Russia’s Interfax news agency is reporting this AM that North korea will be shutting down and sealing up its controversial nuclear plant by July. This is the plant that serves as North Korea’s main nuclear reactor and source for weapons grade plutonium. The development comes on…
… can be hazardous to one’s financial health Found the following whilst running research for a future article: For Sale: $195,000 (museum quality restoration)
Is it just YHS or does it seem since the intrusion of CAD and other automated design devices that aesthetics have taken a back seat in aircraft design? There was a day when an aircraft both funcitoned well and looked, well, pleasing, was easy on the eyes and sprang from the worn pencil and…
