SolarStratos, fly into space only with solar energy
An ambitious project: take a plane into the stratosphere using only solar energy. SolarStratos really believes it.
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Masks, health checks and long check-ins: the future of flight
Confused rules, tight controls and many, many losses: the future of the flight linked to Covid-19 is very uncertain, much more than the post September 11th.
The Vespa of the future: redesigning an icon
An easy design exercise: imagine an icon like the Vespa in its future design. A talented designer tried it: here is the result.
Hyperloop plans Amsterdam Paris route in 90 minutes
Yet another route in Hyperloop's plans, this time in Holland. Between Amsterdam and Paris it will only take 90 minutes. We can not wait!
Elon Musk: “Chinese economy will double that of the USA”
The tycoon of Tesla, SpaceX and many others predicts that the Chinese economy will outperform the American one, and this will make the winds of war blow stronger.
Her0 Zero, the airplane of the future has no emissions (and it's beautiful)
Her0 is a concept that combines practice and aesthetics. It was not developed by an engineer, but by an eclectic visionary who wanted to attract the attention of the avionics industry. And he succeeded.
Still new US technological weapons in the event of the third world war
Washington works on better and worse technology weapons. I am a deterrent, to discourage a third world war. Or to win it if there is.
Dear Asimov, here we are: robots will kill
Future wars will be faster and more technological, but less human than ever: welcome to the era of robot soldiers. There is a perfect place to test advanced weapons: they are the Wallops Islands, a small patch of land off the coast of Virginia that seems to have come straight from Asimov's pen. If a fishing boat had passed there a year ago he would have seen half a dozen dinghies circulating in the area: a closer look would have revealed that the dinghies had no one on board. … Read more
KLM allocates funds for its plane that makes passengers fly in the wings
Two nacelles form the wings, and inside there is everything: passengers, tank and hold. It consumes much less than current planes, and now someone has decided to make it seriously.
The US Air Force launches the SHIELD into reality, but that's not what you think
The US Air Force announces that it has successfully used laser weapons to shoot down missiles in flight. The system is designed to be mounted on aircraft and take on both a defensive and offensive attitude.
At the debut the first aircraft in the world that moves without the use of flaps
BAE Systems writes a new page in aviation history by developing the first aircraft that uses supersonic air jets instead of the classic "flaps" to provide direction.
Tension in Turkey: Russia deploys its S-400, a fearsome weapon.
Technical evidence of Third World War: in an interview with Sputnik News (a rather pro-government Russian site), the head of the Turkish Intelligence department Hakki Pekin stigmatized the recent shooting down of the Russian Sukhoi24 bomber by the Turkish air force, calling it a " big mistake." Pekin predicts big problems from now on, and a very tough and well-organized response. “Aside from the cancellation of official visits and probable economic sanctions, Russia is placing its Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad. And … Read more
The new “yellow threat” is called J31
The arms race continues not so quietly: the eastern side of the planet is equipped with instruments that until now were the prerogative only of a few Western superpowers that can be counted on the finger of one hand. China is also perfecting an invisible aircraft: the Chinese Stealth J31 borrows a lot of the technology from the American F-35 jet. It is a twin-engine jet that has the same configuration as other 5th generation fighters such as the Sukhoi T-50. The trapezoidal wings and… Read more
The beauty of landing on a flying airport.
Size matters, even when it comes to aircraft: the bulkier the aircraft, the better they fly, with more stability and efficiency (think of the recent, enormous Airbus A380). Nothing prevents us from imagining, therefore, a timeline in which we will aim to create increasingly larger aircraft, to the point of launching real flying airports, capable of hosting and landing other planes on top of them. This is the underlying reason for the 'Airborne Metro' concept: it is, in fact, ... Read more
