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(SUMMARY) Ever wonder what it takes to become an Apache helicopter pilot? Former British Army Air Corps pilot Ed Macy gives this description in his 2009 book Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World s Most Deadly Fighting Machine . As the most technically...

(SUMMARY) We promise not to post every single one of the videos the astronauts shoot from the International Space Station, but they ve been capturing some nice scenes lately in High-Definition, including this trip up the East Coast of the United States . And,...

(SUMMARY) NASA s Open Government initiative is tasked with expanding transparency, participation, and collaboration and creating a new level of openness and accountability. Part of accomplishing those goals is finding a way to present NASA, its mission, and...

(SUMMARY) Eurocopter s X3 (Photo: Patrick Penna) Helicopter speeds have traditionally been limited by a phenomenon called retreating blade stall, which describes what happens to the main rotor at high speed. The relative wind on the retreating blade is reduced...

(SUMMARY) DARPA s Space Surveillance Telescope in White Sands, New Mexico. Photo courtesy DARPA At a little after 10:00 EST this morning, a bus-size asteroid will give us a little buzz . It isn t big enough to do damage, even if it were to hit our atmosphere,...

(SUMMARY) January 22, 2012 solar flare. Photo courtesy NASA/SDO/AIA. Despite being the strongest solar storm since 2005, this week s flareup appears to have caused few disruptions on Earth. (As Space.com reports, the Coronal Mass Ejection hit Earth at an...

(SUMMARY) Screenshot from UAVForge submitted video for a concept by team GremLion The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is trying out innovation the 21st century way: crowdsourcing. The agency, along with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems...

(SUMMARY) Lufthansa tested biofuel in this Airbus A321, operating one engine on Jet A and the other on a 50-percent blend of Jet A and a fuel made from processed plant and animal-fat hydrocarbons. Jet A, the fuel that civil jets use (the military s are...

(SUMMARY) (Poster: movieposterdb.com) We swear we were doing work-related research when we came across this quote from Daniel L. Rust s 2009 book Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience : The first Hollywood movie showcasing airline travel,...

(SUMMARY) For the last 12 years, astronomers have been using a dedicated telescope in New Mexico to make the most detailed map of our universe as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey . Last week, at the annual American Astronomical Society meeting, the...

(SUMMARY) Robert K. Smyth learned to fly in the U.S. Navy, where he flew fighter aircraft from the F8F Bearcat to McDonnell F2H Banshees, one of the first carrier-borne jets. In 1952, he successfully completed the Navy s Test Pilot School and eventually left...

(SUMMARY) NTSB member Robert Sumwalt at today s hearing. As far as Washington hearings go, today’s National Transportation Safety Board panel on air race and air show safety was cordial. But the questions and answers suggest a battle brewing. Panelists ,...

(SUMMARY) The U.S. Marines signed on for the McDonnell F-4 Phantom from the start, with the Corps   first airplanes arriving in 1962. In addition to the pilot, the F-4 had a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO), which of course led to a lot of front seat/back seat...

(SUMMARY) Better days: Boeing execs unveil the first KC-767-A tanker at the company s Wichita facility in 2005. For aerospace workers in the greater Wichita, Kansas area, the New Year started off with more bad news. Boeing this week announced the planned...

(SUMMARY) Movie still: Space Junk3D, LLC Serendipitously well-timed with the upcoming deorbit of the Russian Phobos-Grunt satellite , the IMAX film Space Junk 3D will open on January 13 in giant-screen theaters, in 2D and 3D . Melrae Pictures and Red Barn...