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Showing posts with label Aviation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aviation. Show all posts
Monday, November 10, 2025

Aviation: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image Aviation is the interdisciplinary field encompassing the design, development, production, o...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Long-lived contrails usually form in natural ice clouds

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Contrails over Jülich, embedded in very thin and therefore barely visible cirrus clouds. Photo Credit:© Andreas Petzold Long-lived contrails...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

X-59 Soars: A New Era in Supersonic Flight Begins

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Lockheed Martin X59 First Flight Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin Corporation Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® in partnership with NASA, successful...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Sikorsky Converts BLACK HAWK® Into U-Hawk™, A Battle-Ready Autonomous UAS

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By removing the cockpit, seats and crew stations, the Sikorsky S-70UAS™ U-Hawk™ helicopter becomes the first fully autonomous Black Hawk hel...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

SwRI produces, evaluates sustainable aviation fuel made from e-fuel

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A multidisciplinary team at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) produced, characterized and tested standard jet fuel along with two sustaina...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Lockheed Martin Sikorsky Introduces Nomad™ Family of Long-Endurance, Runway-Independent Drones

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The Nomad family of VTOL drones can be scaled in size for a variety of sea and land-based missions.  Image Credit: Courtesy of Sikorsky, a L...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Lockheed Martin Vectis™: Best in CCA Class Survivability

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Lockheed Martin Vectis Artist rendering of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® Vectis, a Group 5 survivable and lethal collaborative combat aircraf...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Sikorsky Begins Black Hawk® Ground Runs With U.S. Army T901 Improved Turbine Engines

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Sikorsky started ground runs on a UH-60M Black Hawk equipped with two Improved Turbine Engines. This engine increases the Black Hawk's c...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Team makes sustainable aviation fuel additive from recycled polystyrene

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Illinois Sustainable Technology Center research scientist Hong Lu and his colleagues developed a method for converting waste polystyrene int...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

More than flying cars: eVTOL battery analysis reveals unique operating demands

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The operating phases of an eVTOL need varying amounts of power; some require the battery to discharge high amounts of current rapidly, reduc...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Sikorsky Looks to Future Family of VTOL Systems

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Hybrid-electric demonstrator will test electrification and autonomy for next-gen products Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin Sikorsky, a Lockheed...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Belgium And Lockheed Martin Celebrate Rollout of First F-35A For Belgium

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Belgium F-35A Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin Corporation Lockheed Martin presented Belgium's first F-35A Lightning II to the Belgian gove...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

General aviation sector grounded by red tape and sky-high costs

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Dr Lucas Tisdall piloting his plane. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of South Australia Red tape, over-regulation, spiraling costs and ...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Lockheed Martin's Next Generation Interceptor Program Advances Through Major Design Milestone

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Lockheed Martin NGI Artist rendering of NGI. Illustration Credit: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin's Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) pr...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Boeing, Nammo Ramjet 155 Test Sets Distance Record

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A Boeing and Nammo team set a record for longest indirect fire test of a ramjet-powered artillery projectile. Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation

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With Air-Guardian, a computer program can track where a human pilot is looking (using eye-tracking technology), so it can better understand ...
Monday, June 19, 2023

GE Aerospace runs one of the world’s largest supercomputer simulations to test revolutionary new open fan engine architecture

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CFM’s RISE open fan engine architecture. Image Credit: GE Aerospace To support the development of a revolutionary new open fan engine archit...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Next Generation Experimental Aircraft Becomes NASA’s Newest X-Plane

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The X-66A is the X-plane specifically aimed at helping the United States achieve the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To b...
Monday, February 13, 2023

VISTA X-62 Advancing Autonomy and Changing the Face of Air Power

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The X-62A VISTA Aircraft flying above Edwards Air Force Base, California. Photo Credit: Kyle Brasier, U.S. Air Force The Lockheed Martin VIS...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

DARPA Selects Performer Teams for Liberty Lifter X-Plane Program

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Liberty Lifter Illustration Credit: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Two teams -- General Atomics working with Maritime Applied Phy...