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Aviation startup Aerion Supersonic is reportedly shutting down operations, ending ambitious plans to bring a supersonic business jet to market later this decade. According to Florida Today, the company has had a hard time funding the productions of its… Continue reading Supersonic passenger flight suffers setback as Aerion closes shop
Israeli/American company Eviation is preparing for the first test flights of its gorgeous Alice, an all-electric 11-seat luxury plane with an impressive 506-mile (814-km) range from a single charge of its huge 820-kWh battery pack.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Eviation prepares to fly Alice, its stunning luxury electric plane
Two years on from its maiden flight, the world’s largest aircraft has taken to the skies for another outing. Stratolaunch’s Roc carrier plane carried out its second test flight today, performing a series of in-flight maneuvers over the Mojave Air and S… Continue reading World’s largest plane returns to the skies after two years
Two years on from its maiden flight, the world’s largest aircraft has taken to the skies for another outing. Stratolaunch’s Roc carrier plane carried out its second test flight today, performing a series of in-flight maneuvers over the Mojave Air and S… Continue reading World’s largest plane returns to the skies after two years
[Amy Makes Stuff] has long used a pair of diamond honing blocks to freehand sharpen planes, chisels, and all the other dull things around the shop. Although this method works fairly well, the results are often inconsistent without some kind …read more
Continue reading Machining a Honing Jig Will Keep Skills Sharp
Canada’s Horizon Aircraft has popped up out of stealth mode with an interesting 5-seat hybrid eVTOL design using a wicked-cool split-wing mechanism to transition between VTOL and horizontal flight, and a totally unique path to market.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Horizon presents its long-range Cavorite X5 hybrid eVTOL
Shifting to alternative propulsion technologies could go a long way toward cleaning up the pollution created by the aviation sector, and a new design cooked up by MIT scientists offers an intriguing look at a potential solution. The engineering team be… Continue reading MIT’s hybrid electric plane concept captures its own harmful pollutants
Once upon a time, bailing out of a plane involved popping open the roof or door, and hopping out with your parachute, hoping that you’d maintained enough altitude to slow down before you hit the ground. As flying speeds increased and aircraft designs changed, such escape became largely impossible.
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A plane is a tool familiar to all woodworkers, used to shape a workpiece by hand by shaving away material. Regular planes are two-handed tools available at all good hardware stores. For finer work, a finger plane can be useful, though harder to find. Thankfully, [Daniel] put together a video …read more
Continue reading Building A Tiny Finger Plane For Detailed Work
One of the major improvements that the avionics industry is undergoing is an Internet of Things (IoT) upgrade. And this is inevitably affecting how airlines approach aircraft safety. From the beginning, safety has been paramount to the aviation industr… Continue reading Avionics Safety and Secured Connectivity: A Look at DO-326A/ED-202A, DO-355 and DO-356