Proposed New Hill HX50 helicopter
2020-08-28
“The HX50 will deliver a truly desirable, attainable and capable aircraft that will re-launch general aviation.” Concept type helicopters have been proposed before … but this one has a better chance than most of flying in the real world. Dr Jason Hill (Ph.D), a helicopter aerodynamicist, is the designer ofRead More →
VERTICAL AEROSPACE UNVEILS DESIGN FOR FLYING TAXIS
2020-08-27
Vertical Aerospace announced the launch of their new aircraft, VA-1X. Capable of carrying up to five people (four passengers and a pilot), the VA-1X is set to be the world’s first certified winged all-electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and is on course to start commercial flights in 2024. NoRead More →
Max 8: Boeing settles with Fiji Airways
2020-08-26
Boeing Max 8’s may fly again by October 2020. Fiji Airways Managing Director and CEO Andre Viljoen confirmed that any revenue lost and any costs incurred by the airline after the grounding of the Boeing Max 8 aircraft have been settled by Boeing. “Fiji Airways has received the best MaxRead More →
Tandem rotor drone approach to cargo delivery
2020-08-25
There are now a number of heavy-lift cargo drones on the market, and they pretty much all incorporate six to eight horizontal propellers. The Avidrone 210TL is different, though, in that it goes with two sets of full rotor blades. Manufactured by Canadian start-up Avidrone Aerospace, the 210TL essentially takes the formRead More →
Artificial Intelligence versus Human F-16 Pilot
2020-08-24
In five rounds, an artificially-intelligent agent showed that it could outshoot a human. The never-ending saga of machines outperforming humans has a new chapter. An AI algorithm has again beaten a human fighter pilot in a virtual dogfight. The contest was the finale of the U.S. military’s Alpha Dogfight Challenge, anRead More →
SAAF Alouette III.
2020-08-19
4 August 2005. The last time the South African Air Force Allo’s flew in the Drakensberg. I got this image only after the second attempt that afternoon. It was taken from a BK117. We were running out of daylight and I tried the impossible shot, but brilliant pilots and tonsRead More →
The World’s First Warplane
2020-08-18
Over a hundred years ago, Captain Carlo Piazza climbed onto his spindly Blériot XI and made military history. On October 23, 1911, Captain Carlo Piazza climbed onto his spindly Blériot XI and made military history by spying on the enemy below. At the start of the Italo-Turkish War, the ItalianRead More →
The Greatest Aircraft That Never Were Produced
2020-08-12
Well into the producing the military Cessna T-37, Cessna set aside limited engineering and marketing resources to analyse the profitability of developing a civilian version of the T-37. Designated the Cessna Model 407, only a wooden fuselage mock-up of the proposed aircraft was ever produced. The aircraft was to haveRead More →