Long before Neil Armstrong made one giant leap for mankind (or, you know, didn’t, if that’s your belief), NASA’s work was a lot closer to home. In fact, it had nothing to do with aerospace at all. At least, not technically. The NASA we know and love today grew out of a federal agency founded [...]
A Robotic SPIDER may hold the answer to furthering hybrid airship efficiency While the airship industry certainly isn't "huge" compared to other methods of [aviation] transportation technology, it is seeing a resurgence--especially with Lockheed Martin's P-791 Hybrid Airship. Hybrid Airships, Lockheed Martin claim, offer the benefits of "large cargo capacities with significant reductions in fuel [...]
Supersonic commercial transport existed for 30 years--what happened? The 1950s was a time of communism, capitalism, polypropylene, and polio vaccines--not to mention the maturity and growth of television sets, solar-powered wrist watches, and the beginnings of the Concorde project. By the early 1950s, Arnold Hall (director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment) asked Morien Morgan (a [...]
