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I have always been intrigued by the possible applications of inflight thrust reversing. There is some technical literature available from experiments performed on an F11F by Rohr in the late sixties.
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China’s CE-25A Electric Commuter Airliner Demonstrator Emerges. The 19-seat aircraft features an unusual array of ducted fans with electric motors with a cruising speed of approximately 400 km per hour and a range of around 400 to 500 km.
twz.com/air/chinas-ce-25a-el…
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Boeing 3Q26 Earnings:
737 Rate 52 delayed into 2H 2027, expect longer time between subsequent rate steps.
777-9 certification expected mid-2027. Rate 1 through most of 2027.
787 transition to Rate 10 by end of 2026.
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The first 737 rolled out of the Everett factory WestJet line 9504
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The 1981 MOD assessment, drawn up by the Service Chiefs, about the scale of threat posed to the UK by Soviet air forces - up to 200 bombers delivering 1200 tonnes of weapons per day.
It noted UK stockpiles of SAMS (Rapier & Bloodhound) would be exhausted in 3 days.
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A West German Luchs reconnaissance vehicle during a NATO training exercise - Early 1980s
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RT @sternenko: And finally: I am Ukrainian. I don't feel sorry for Russian soldiers. They are attacking our homes. They are killing our chi…
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Honey, I shrunk the Backfire.
(NASA wind tunnel tests of a proposed variable geometry A3J/A-5 Vigilante)
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One reason young people want socialism so much is that they're jealous that older people have it and they don't.
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Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.
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Boeing supplier dispute has halted 777 freighter production for two months, sources say $BA #NoNerdsNoBirds reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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Martin Model 307 "Seamistress", proposed seaplane transport aircraft derived from the more well known P6M Seamaster (note size difference between with models/drawings side by side). Looks like at least two different engine configurations were considered. Also not the vertical tail/horizontal stabilizer configuration common to other period Martin designs.
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