News from the aviation industry.
New Aviation Pavilion Opens at Museum of Flight
New Exhibit Takes Flight The Museum of Flight is kind of a big deal--in fact, it's the largest non-profit air and space museum in the world. Located in Seattle, Washington, the museum features over 175 different aircraft and spacecraft, tens of thousands of aviation artifacts, millions of rare photographs, dozens of exhibits, a world class [...]
Solar Powered Plane Completes US Crossing
Solar Powered! In a bid for what is planned to be the first round-the-world solar flight, Swiss adventurer, Andre Borchberg landed an experimental solar powered aircraft at New York's JFK airport on Saturday after taking off from Lehigh Valley International Airport nearly 5 hours earlier. Solar Impulse 2 arrived at roughly 4am eastern time after a beautiful flyby [...]
Lockheed Martin Plans to Build a Mars-Orbiting Science Laboratory
Mars, take heed (Lockheed, that is) Lockheed Martin is a leading name in aircraft manufacturing, particularly in the design, manufacture, and support of military aircraft. But did you know that Lockheed Martin also has interests that are, well, a little more out of this world? Lockheed Martin (and its heritage companies) has contributed to the space [...]
The Air Force Wants Aircraft With Lasers
A Sophisticated Heat Beam While the notion of lasers and particle beam weapons would have once been limited to the realms of science fiction, the truth is that ever since the laser was invented in 1960, it’s been leaching out of the Star Trek universe into our very real, very tangible world (and no, it’s [...]
The Race to the Red Planet: Elon Musk may fly us to Mars and beyond
With the exotic name, the brilliant mind, the outlandish job title, and the handsome face, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, may have briefly flirted with the idea of becoming a supervillain. Thankfully – on the surface – he seems to be a pretty stand-up guy. Everything Elon Musk does is huge; in [...]
A commercial success: United Airlines celebrates its 90th birthday
90 years for United Airlines hardly seems like a long time. For thousands of years, humans have always been fascinated by the prospect of flight. During the Middle Ages, several…erm…optimistic individuals strapped large, winged contraptions to their torsos: jumping off of high structures in a futile attempt to break away from the largely inconvenient but [...]
A Brief Study of Jet Lag
Spend a thousand years doing the same thing every day, and you might call it more than a habit. Movement is a constant for most creatures on the planet; and barring the occasional oddity (see photo of frog riding beetle), these creatures generally carry on moving in a similar fashion: whether it be crawling, slithering, [...]