Showing posts with label airplane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airplane. Show all posts
and these drawings were true masterpieces... they were done without computers, xrays, or modern tech of any kind.
Boom Supersonic, setting out to build and test planes to succeed at less than ridiculous prices for mach 2 flights across oceans (most countries have banned supersonic commercial airline traffic overland)
Virgin has also signed an option to buy 10 of the planes to hopefully reintroduce 3.5-hour passenger flights between London and New York 13 years after Concorde was decommissioned.
Virgin is partnering with a pilot and former Amazon executive, who is building a prototype of the new jet, called Boom, in an aircraft hanger in Colorado. While several other companies, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin, are developing new supersonic jets Scholl said his plan is likely to beat them to market as it does not require any new technology that would need approval by regulators. It's all currently on the shelf parts.
“We are talking about the first supersonic jet people can afford to fly,” Scholl, the founder and chief executive of Boom, said. “You will be able to fly New York to London in three-and-a-half hours for $5,000 return, [which is roughly] the same as [the cost] of business class.”
“There is a huge market out there, more than 20 million a year fly business class internationally. We can take them to Mach 2.2 (1,451mph, and faster than Concorde which flew at a top speed of Mach 2.04) and save them half their journey time.”
Scholl reckons there is so much demand for faster international travel that affordable supersonic flights could become a $100bn market. He said his plane will concentrate initially on London to New York, San Francisco to Tokyo, and Los Angeles to Sydney.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/23/boom-supersonic-jet-travel-affordable-business-class
http://boomsupersonic.com/
http://thespaceshipcompany.com/supersonic-travel-and-the-spaceship-company/
But is this missing the obvious? We can video chat across the world with our cell phones. We no longer have to be in the same room to see and hear other people
two World War One DH9 bombers were found in an elephant stable in India, they are nearly finished being restored
A rare First World War bomber was discovered rotting in the elephant stable of a maharajah's palace, a de Havilland DH9 two-seat biplane is the only one in Britain and one of only six in the world.
Its chance discovery was made by a British backpacker, a keen aircraft enthusiast, who photographed a cannibalised DH9 in a new museum at the Palace of Bikaner in Rajasthan in 1995. He passed the word to an airplane restorer, Guy Black, who visited the palace in India 3 years later. But the aircraft had been moved to the palace's former elephant stables.
There, among piles of elephant saddles, was the airframe of the DH9, engineless, its timbers partly eaten by termites and much of its fabric covering missing.
Along one wall, were a dozen DH9 wings. Several tailfins were nearby.
He said: "I could not believe my eyes. The DH9 are as rare's as hen's teeth now and there wasn't a single one in a collection in Britain."
In the stables were the remains of three DH9s that been given by Britain to the Maharajah of Bikaner in the early 1920s to help him establish an air force under the post-war Imperial Gift Scheme.
Mr Black bought two of the rotting hulks. D5649, the plane he restored and sold to the Imperial War Museum for nearly £1 million was unveiled at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, yesterday. The Imperial War Museum, by luck, had a DH9 engine to instal in the restored plane.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549157/Maharajahs-bomber-spreads-its-wings-again.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6577629.stm
the second one is still in the works and not quite finished yet
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33167009
Just one little problem with thinking Nascar is an American racing sport. Well, how can it be American when the engine blocks are all cast in England? Why don't they use engines made in the USA? Seriously, where is the MADE IN USA sticker?
Don't you think the cars and tires and engines should be American? Isn't that what Nascar was?
Grainger and Worrall is an engineering and machining company in Telford Shropshire, England. It's near the center of England, jut west of Birmingham
They made all the engine blocks used by "Chevys and Fords" in the 2015 Daytona 500
They also make the engines for the Acura NSX, and the Aston Martin DB11, and they did the F1 engines in 2014, and the 2015 NHRA Pro-stock engines. They also make parts for the Veyron and the Mulsanne, and they make brand new heads for the Rolls Royce Merlin V12 airplane engine used in Spitfires, Mustangs, Hurricanes and the Lancaster bomber.
http://www.sbnation.com/nascar/2011/9/9/2415041/kyle-busch-nascar-american-flag-car-richmond-9-11-2011
http://www.gwcast.com/en/
Sept 2015 issue of Car and Driver, page 26
FWIW, Nascar doesn't claim to be American, or Made in the USA http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/about-nascar.html I looked, and it doesn't.
the 99s
Aviators in Early Hollywood By Shawna Kelly
The organization was founded November 2, 1929, at Curtiss Field, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York. All 117 women pilots at the time were invited to assemble for mutual support, the advancement of aviation and a central office to keep files on women in aviation. Louise Thaden was elected secretary and worked to keep the group together as they struggled to establish themselves and to grow.
With over 150 chapters in the United States and Canada and another 17 offshore Sections located on five continents, nearly every member can feel connected to a nearby group. These groups work with their local communities to support the mission of The 99s: promote the advancement of aviation through education, scholarships and mutual support. Chapters and Sections sponsor and teach educational sessions for youth and adults. With youth, they use aviation to bolster STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) classes for youth, interesting them in the possibilities that STEM fields offer, for adults, they offer seminars for the companions of light aircraft pilots.
http://www.ninety-nines.org/
https://museumofwomenpilots.org/
https://www.facebook.com/99s-Museum-of-Women-Pilots-204164313080425/
an ability we didn't have to pay to have designed into the F-17, that came in handy and saved lives, a sonic boom
in March 2003, two F-16 pilots were called to assist 52 British special operators surrounded by 500 Iraqi troops — meaning the friendlies were outnumbered almost 10 to 1.
The Iraqi troops were pressing the attack, pinning the Brits down and preparing to overrun them.
Thinking fast, one of the pilots climbed to high altitude and then went into a dive, quickly building up sonic energy around his plane as he neared the ground with the massive amount of sound energy surrounding his cockpit, he broke the sound barrier and pointed the bulk of the energy at the ground where he believed the Iraqi troops to be.
Lynch pulled up a mere 3,000 feet from the ground, sending the massive sonic boom against the troops below.
https://www.americangrit.com/2016/12/30/time-f-16-pilot-saved-ground-troops-sonic-boom/
