Britain faces severe criticism from the European parliament over its continued arms trade with Saudi Arabia amid growing evidence of the Arab state's indiscriminate bombing of Yemen. A vote is scheduled for later this month on a resolution calling for an EU-wide arms embargo on sales to Saudi but...
In the last months of World War Two, Nazi Germany tested an experimental fighter more spaceship than aircraft. Only now are we realising how inspired it was. BBC Future looks at the Horten Ho 229, one of aviation's most futuristic designs. In December, US aircraft maker Northrop Grumman unveiled ...
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DARPA's fully-loaded quadcopter autonomously navigates an indoor maze at 45 mph
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
DARPA recently flew a fully-laden quadcopter through an indoor obstacle course at 45 mph (32 km/h) as part of the agency's Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program. The test flight was conducted entirely under autonomous control with the goal of developing small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) with the ability to navigate through tight spaces without the need for outside control or GPS.
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International F-35 customers pushing block-buy plan
// Flight Global HEADLINES
International buyers of the Lockheed Martin F-35 are considering leading the US government in entering into a three-year block buy arrangement for planned orders between 2018 and 2020.
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Which came first, the drone or the PowerEgg?
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Conventional drones are often billed as portable, though they're also often a collection of rods, rotors, and other bits and pieces that are perfect for catching on things and getting tangled. To make taking drones into the backcountry a bit less onerous, Beijing-based Powervision Robot has taken the gubbins of a quadcopter and built them into a giant PowerEgg that folds up into one smooth package shaped like a cackleberry for transport.
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Tags: Quadcopter Related Articles: Ghost Drone 2.0's camera can be controlled via VR goggles 100 drones fly in formation to set new Guinness World Record Review: Axis Drones Vidius quadcopter is a tiny eye in the sky Blu drone folds up to go in your pocket X PlusOne drone hovers steady, but also flies nose-first at 60 mph X8+ drone keeps you in its shot, and accepts lots of gear
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The U.S. Air Force has reassigned its acting weapons buyer to other duties after he revealed that he failed to list "a Northrop Grumman retirement account held by his spouse" on his annual disclosure form, the service said in a statement.
The Air Force decision on Richard Lombardi came days before the Feb. 16 deadline for the Government Accountability Office to rule on whether to overturn the service's decision in October to award Northrop Grumman Corp. its new bomber, a program valued at as much as $80 billion. Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., which had a joint bid for the project, protested the award
Diamond Aircraft says it's building an airplane that takes over in an emergency, flies itself to an airport, and lands safely on its own.
What about the balloons? It seems if you control a large portion of the internet, you have vested interest in getting the internet to more people. Both Facebook and Google have been testing aerial devices that would be able to provide reliable wireless internet access in remote locations. Until n...
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Sputnik International | Northrop Grumman Seeks New Markets for Drone Helicopters, Radars in Asia Sputnik International Northrop Grumman's airborne fire control radars including its latest active electronically scanned array fighter radar, the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar will be on display. The SABR provides 5th generation radar capabilities to the F-16 combat ... Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk UAV to Collect Weather Data for NOAAGovConWire NOAA to Use Northrop-Built Global Hawk for Weather Pattern Data CollectionExecutiveBiz (blog) |
NASA is researching ideas that could lead to developing an electric propulsion-powered aircraft that would be quieter, more efficient and environmentally friendly than today's commuter aircraft. The proposed piloted experimental airplane is called Sceptor, short for the Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology and Operations Research. The concept involves removing the wing from a 
Western superiority in military technology is "eroding", notably at the hands of China and Russia, a leading think-tank said Tuesday in its annual report on the state of militaries around the world. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London said in its Military Balance report that increasingly easy access to technology by non-state groups means the world faces "an in 
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NASA proposes X-plane revival with supersonic, subsonic designs
// Flight Global HEADLINES
NASA plans a return to a decades-old tradition of developing and flying experimental aircraft projects, or X-planes , in order to achieve new breakthroughs in supersonic and subsonic aeronautics research under the Fiscal 2017 budget proposal submitted to Congress on 9 February.
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TAI to offer T129 for Poland's Combat Helicopter Procurement Programme
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Turkey's centre of excellence in defence and aerospace industries, and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) are planning to extend cooperation for the Kruk Combat Helicopter Procurement Programme of the Armament Inspecto…
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North Korea launches long-range rocket amidst international censure
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has launched a long-range rocket that is claimed to be carrying an earth observation satellite, amidst international criticism.
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USAF doubles remotely piloted aircraft pilot ranks
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
The US Air Force's (USAF) 558th Flying Training Squadron (FTS) has revealed plans to double the remotely piloted aircraft pilot ranks.
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January's top stories: Indonesia, KAI to develop KF-X jets, India-France Rafale deal
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
Indonesia agrees to jointly develop Korea's domestic fighter jets, France and India finalise the Rafale deal, and Iraq requests US to supply weapons worth $2bn for F-16 aircraft. Airforce-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from January 2016.
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India's Tejas aircraft conducts first test firing of Derby BVRAAM missile
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
India's light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas has reportedly conducted the first test firing of a beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), Derby, in Jamnagar, a city in the Indian state of Gujarat.
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Schiebel Camcopter S-100 completes tests with NLR's detect and avoid system
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
Schiebel has successfully completed a series of flight tests of the newly developed airborne detect and avoid system onboard its Camcopter S-100 unmanned aircraft system (UAS), at the airport of Den Helder in the Netherlands.
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Elon Musk May Be Close To An 'Electric Jet'
// Aero-News Network
Says He Has Been Mulling The Idea For Years Well, we can scratch this one off our April 1 story idea list. It seems Elon Musk has some plans in the works to develop a VTOL electric jet.
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Man Arrested After UAV Impacts Empire State Building
// Aero-News Network
Struck The Building At The 40th Floor, Landed On The 35th A New Jersey man who tweeted that he was using his UAV to take images of the Empire State Building in New York City has been arrested after the aircraft crashed into the side of the iconic structure.
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China's experimental fusion reactor maintains superheated hydrogen plasma for 102 seconds
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
A bit of friendly competition never hurt anyone. China's EAST tokamak and Germany's Wendelstein 7-X aren't exactly fusion energy's answer to Messi and Ronaldo, but through their own flashes of individual brilliance the reactors might one day command the world's attention in a much more important way. Wendelstein 7-X made headlines last week after generating a quarter-of-a-second pulse of hydrogen plasma, and now scientists at China's Institute of Physical Science have flexed their fusion muscle to sustain the gas for an impressive 102 seconds.
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Tags: ChinaFusionNuclear Related Articles: ARC reactor design uses superconducting magnets to draw fusion power closer Wendelstein 7-x stellarator puts new twist on nuclear fusion power Germany's Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor produces its first flash of hydrogen plasma First plasma from Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor Scientists announce breakthrough in quest for fusion power Can crowdfunding give us safe fusion power by 2020?
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Parrot's multispectral crop monitoring sensor can be retrofitted to existing drones
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Drones have certainly emerged as promising tool in agriculture, with several groups including MIT and DJI announcing crop-monitoring unmanned aircraft inside the last year. But what if you've already got a perfectly good drone capable of taking long, automated flights over your farmland? Parrot has just announced a sensor attachment that can be slapped on old drones to take infrared pictures and help farmers work out the areas in need of attention.
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Northrop Grumman has just released an animation that shows how 6th Generation fighters might look like
// The Aviationist
Northrop Grumman has just launched a new ad that teases next generation fighter jets. One year ago, Northrop Grumman, at that time competing with Lockheed Martin and Boeing for the LRS-B ( Long Range Strike-Bomber) released an interesting ad that teased the shape of the next generation bomber. Earlier today, the aerospace giant released a […]
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F-35 arrival at NAS Patuxent River after first transatlantic crossing B-roll and pilot interview
// The Aviationist
Interesting video with pilot interview provides some interesting details about the F-35's first transatlantic crossing. On Feb. 5, the Italian Air Force's first F-35, dubbed AL-1 and serialled MM7332 (with code "32-01" and markings of the 32° Stormo – Wing) landed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Mariland, at the end of the JSF's first […]
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US Navy boosts F-35C and F/A-18 buy in new budget plan
// Flight Global HEADLINES
The US Navy says maintaining Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet production in St Louis is "vital" for overcoming a strike-fighter shortfall caused by delays in fielding the Lockheed Martin F-35C.
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USAF's GPS crash causes 12-hour blockage to several firms
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
An error in the US Air Force's (USAF) Global Positioning System's (GPS) time-monitoring reportedly has caused a 12-hour blockage preventing several telecom companies from operating their systems.
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NASA First SLS Flight To Send Small Satellites Into Space
// Aero-News Network
Thirteen CubeSats Will Be Boosted Into Orbit By The Heavy-Lift Rocket The first flight of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft in 2018.
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Boeing, Turkish Airlines Announce Long-Term Collaboration Agreement
// Aero-News Network
Strategic Alliance Agreement Will Support Development Of Turkey's Largest Airline, Aerospace Industry Building on their 70-year relationship, Turkish Airlines and Boeing have signed a collaboration agreement that the parties say will strengthen the carrier as well as Turkey's aerospace and technology capabilities.
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Easyjet to trial hydrogen hybrid airplane tech
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
EasyJet has announced plans to test a hybrid hydrogen fuel system. The concept was conceived by students at Cranfield University and could save around 50,000 tonnes (55,115 tons) of fuel a year, as well as the associated CO2 emissions. It would recover energy from braking when a plane lands.
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Paper waste converted into eco-friendly aerogel
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Known as "frozen smoke" because of their milky translucent appearance, aerogels are among the world's lightest solid materials. Consisting of 99.8 percent air, they're highly heat-resistant and are an excellent form of insulation. Now, scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have used paper waste to create one.
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Tags: AerogelsRecyclingNational University of SingaporePaperEnvironmentally-friendlyWaste Related Articles: Airbus A350-900ULR to fly world's longest commercial passenger route Fujitsu begins field trials of AI app to alleviate congestion following major events The Wall House fits two homes under one green roof Nightclub urinal tells patrons when they've had one too many World's largest dome structure completed in Singapore Coral tentacles inspire bio-sock shown to treat Deep Vein Thrombosis
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Carbon dioxide from the air converted into methanol
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
The danger posed by rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide has seen many schemes proposed to remove a proportion it from the air. Rather than simply capture this greenhouse gas and bury it in the ground, though, many experiments have managed to transform CO2 into useful things like carbon nanofibers or even fuels, such as diesel. Unfortunately, the over-arching problem with many of these conversions is the particularly high operating temperatures that require almost counterproductive amounts of energy to produce relatively low yields of fuel. Now researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) claim to have devised a way to take CO2 directly from the air and convert it into methanol using much lower temperatures and in a correspondingly simpler way.
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Largest member of A350 XWB Family becomes reality 
