Herne Bay airshow crash: quick-witted spectators dash into sea to save pilot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/14/herne-bay-airshow-crash-quick-witted-spectators-dash-into-sea-to/

OPINION: Can Airlander revive the airship's prospects? [feedly]

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OPINION: Can Airlander revive the airship's prospects?
// Flight Global HEADLINES

At Flight International we salute innovation. And Hybrid Air Vehicles, the start-up behind the Airlander 10 which has re-emerged from its hangar after returning to the UK in 2013 has it in spades.
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Marine Corps Tests Tiny Helicopter UAV [feedly]

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Marine Corps Tests Tiny Helicopter UAV
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Pocket-Sized Drone Delivers Live Video Feeds From Three Cameras The U.S. Marine Corps is conducting tests with the Black Hornet PD-100 helicopter drone that can deliver live video feeds from three cameras about a mile away.
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B-2s Conduct Deployment To Indo-Asia-Pacific Region [feedly]

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B-2s Conduct Deployment To Indo-Asia-Pacific Region
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Three Spirit Bombers Rotated To Guam Three B-2 Spirits deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, to Andersen AFB, Guam, in the U.S. Pacific Command area of operations Aug. 9.
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EasyJet incident highlights 'open descent' mode risk

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/easyjet-incident-highlights-open-descent-mode-risk-428468/

UK investigators have reiterated the need to understand aircraft behaviour in various modes after the stall-protection system intervened on an EasyJet Airbus A320 during a visual approach to Paphos.

Think you can take out a swarm of attack drones? DARPA wants to hear from you - ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/article/think-you-can-take-out-a-swarm-of-attack-drones-darpa-wants-to-hear-from-you/

ZDNet

Think you can take out a swarm of attack drones? DARPA wants to hear from you
ZDNet
... aircraft and has drones that can fly at 45mph. Now, in its never-ending quest to close capability gaps, the Pentagon's advanced research agency wants to develop a defensive system that can take out an attacking fleet of smallunmanned air systems ...

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£1m military drone crashed in Wales after crew disabled anti-crash systems – report - The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/12/watchkeeper_drone_wk031_crash_report_1m_uav_destroyed/

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The Register

£1m military dronecrashed in Wales after crew disabled anti-crashsystems – report
The Register
A £1m British Army Watchkeeper drone had to be scrapped after crashing at an airfield in Wales when the ex-RAF officer piloting it disabled the unmanned aerial vehicle's anti-crash systems. Although the official main cause of the accident was given as ...

Britain looks to robot dragonflies and lasers for future defense - New Atlas

http://newatlas.com/britain-robot-dragonflies-lasers/44885/

Britain looks to robot dragonflies and lasers for future defense
New Atlas
... Insights Unit (IRIS) is intended to identify emerging technologies and determine their potential military impact. Among a number of projects currentlyunder consideration, Skeeter is a tiny Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) from Oxford-based Animal Dynamics.
Dragonfly drones, VR helmets, and laser guns on British military's wishlistArs Technica UK

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AeroVironment launches new UAV recovery system for ships - IHS Jane's 360

http://www.janes.com/article/62938/aerovironment-launches-new-uav-recovery-system-for-ships

SpaceX succesfully launches another satellite, brings home another rocket | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/13/spacex-succesfully-launches-another-satellite-brings-home-another-rocket/

Best Fighter Jet In History Grounded By Bees

F-22Beeeeeeeeeesssssss Drones aren't normally a problem for the F-22. The U.S. Air Force's advanced stealth fighter is built to clear the sky of any hostile aircraft, be it another fighter, an encroaching bomber, or even an unmanned aerial scout. It turns out, however, there's a kind of flyer tha...

http://www.popsci.com/best-air-superiority-fighter-in-history-grounded-by-bees

Ukraine Crimea: Russia sends new air defence missiles

The Russian military has announced the delivery of new air defence missiles to Crimea, in a move scheduled before the latest tension with Ukraine. The S-400 Triumph missile systems were earmarked for troops in Crimea last month, Russian media said at the time. In a statement on Friday, the milita...

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Singapore, France could receive first Airbus MRTT in 2017 - IHS Jane's 360

http://www.janes.com/article/62928/singapore-france-could-receive-first-airbus-mrtt-in-2017

Lives before luggage

http://www.aerosociety.com/News/Insight-Blog/4624/Lives-before-luggage

Bombardier moving work out of Belfast to Mexico and Morocco to cut costs - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/bombardier-moving-work-out-of-belfast-to-mexico-and-morocco-to-cut-costs-34958495.html

New “Bionic” Leaf onverts CO2 in the air into alcohol that can be burned as fuel

and  it's Roughly 10 Times More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-bionic-leaf-is-roughly-10-times-more-efficient-than-natural-photosynthesis/

Network Monitoring Could Have Prevented The Delta Airlines Outage

The Delta Airlines power outage that grounded thousands of flights across the country was attributed to their legacy systems. What could they have done to prevent it? A network monitoring tool would have pinpointed the source of the problem possibly before the outage happened or even in just minutes instead of the reported 30 minutes. It would have allowed Delta’s IT team to be nimbler while they remediated the issue. full text: https://www.ipswitch.com/blog/network-monitoring-prevented-delta-outage/

United States Navy Deploying Newly Designated RQ-20B ... - Business Wire (press release)

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160811005571/en/United-States-Navy-Deploying-Newly-Designated-RQ-20B

Business Wire (press release)

United States Navy Deploying Newly Designated RQ-20B ...
Business Wire (press release)
The U.S. Navy Deploying Newly Designated RQ-20B AeroVironment Puma AE with Precision Recovery System Aboard Guided Missile Destroyer.

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Bombardier gets £1bn contract in 'biggest rail boost since Victorian era' - BBC News

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-37031833

NASA Unveils Partnerships And Concept Art For Deep Space Habitats

Astronauts could call one of these home sweet space-home Ever since they started cramming grown men and women into tin cans and jettisoning them beyond Earth's atmosphere 55 years ago, NASA's looked for ways to make living and working in space not just possible, but sustainable and comfortable fo...

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