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By KyndFellow, on September 4th, 2010
 The Verticopter may be described as a hybrid between modern planes and helicopters. While the aircraft can take off and land vertically, it still retains high performance horizontal flight. Using a computer program called Blender, Daniel Klaue invented prototypes including remote controlled, UAV (unmanned air vehicle), and 2 seater and 7 seater full-scale models. Klaue currently pursues development of his design with a start-up company from Mountain View, California, named Garrow Aircraft. (more…)
By KyndFellow, on August 26th, 2010
 The same company the runs Virgin Music, Virgin Mobile, and Virgin Atlantic Airways, now seeks to start a whole new kind of business. Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group plans to start the worlds first space tourism airline, Virgin Galactic. The business tycoon has already invested in a fleet consisting of two types of spaceships and accessory aircraft to provide suborbital spaceflights. (more…)
By KyndFellow, on August 26th, 2010
 The X-47 Pegasus began as part of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System program, a collaborative effort between DARPA, United States Air Force, and United States Navy. The original vehicle by Northrop Grumman carries the designation X-47A, while the follow-on naval version is designated X-47B. The X-47B Pegasus may be described as a demonstration unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) that is now part of the US Navy’s program to create carrier-based unmanned aircraft. (more…)
By KyndFellow, on July 26th, 2010
 The United States Air Force keeps breaking speed records with its new X-51 Waverider hypersonic missile that travels over 600 miles in 10 minutes. At that speed x-51 Waverider soars at one mile per second. No missile before it accelerated to the speed of Mach 5 (3600 mph). In comparison, current missiles such as the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles fly at a maximum speed of 550 mph. (more…)
By KyndFellow, on July 30th, 2010
 En route on the mach 4.7 supersonic jet, I flipped open my iTV , which connected me to the most advanced space network, spacecast. The usual news was being broadcast; “NASCOM, the space people have started mining a new mineral on the moon which is almost identical to Uranium; the Americans have come out with yet another version of the unmanned X-67 which maneuvers itself at mach 25 (more…)
By KyndFellow, on August 27th, 2010
 The United States Air Force (USAF) confirmed for the first time that it deploys a stealth aircraft seen in rare photographs and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated by the USAF and developed by Lockheed Martin, currently flies in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The USAF said the RQ-170 Sentinel came out of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works,” also known as Advanced Development Programs, in California, where it developed other secret aerospace projects (more…)
By KyndFellow, on July 31st, 2010
 In July 2009, X-51 Waverider took to sky from Edwards Air Force Base to break the aviation speed record. Carried under the wing of a B-52 over the Pacific Ocean at the altitude of approximately 50,000 feet (15.2 kilometers), Waverider accelerated by its ATACMS solid rocket booster to the speed of Mach 4.5 before the booster jettisoned. Waverider’s Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne SJY61 scramjet then kicked in, unleashing acceleration to a flight speed near Mach 6. At that speed Waverider traveled at over one mile per second. (more…)
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