This would be so much fun…
Video: The homemade flying hovercraft
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Category Archives: aircraft
The $100,000 Jetpack
While Martin Aircraft’s Jetpack is not exactly ’jet’ powered it still is pretty cool:
The Martin Jetpack is the world’s first practical jetpack. It consists of a purpose-built gasoline engine driving twin ducted fans which produce sufficient thrust to lift the aircraft and a pilot in vertical takeoff and landing, enabling sustained flight.
The Martin Jetpack is creating a new segment in the aviation and recreational vehicle markets. Initially designed with the leisure market in mind, commercial demand for the Martin Jetpack has seen the research and development programme focus on readying the product for use in a number of sectors including emergency response, defence and recreation, with numerous applications in each sector.
One novel feature of the Martin Jetpack is the incorporation of a rapid deployment parachute in case of an engine failure.
Cool Infographic: 50 Years of Human Space Flight
Via space.com:
* Note: Some of the comments on space.com mention that the X-15 flew more than two times. This graphic is only counting the two sub-orbital flights the X-15 flew.
Video: Newly Discovered Aerial Footage Of WWI Aftermath
This is very interesting . Via BBC:
Extraordinary pictures of the aftermath of WW1, which have been hidden away for nearly a century, have been discovered in a vault in Paris.
The film is a part of a special BBC One programme that includes unique aerial photographs of the battlefield taken by British pilots.
Nick Higham reports on the footage that gives an amazing insight into history
All I Want For Christmas: 2011 Neiman Marcus Edition Camaro SS Convertible
This is one sharp car:
The specs on the 2011 Camaro SS:
The car is painted Deep Bordeaux and comes with subtle rally stripes. The interior is amber leather offset by black leather side panels and red stitching.
That’s cool, but even cooler is the power beneath the hood: The Neiman Marcus Camaro Convertibles are equipped with a 6.2-liter, V-8 engine. When paired with six-speed manual transmission, the engine delivers 426 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque; with the six-speed automatic, the engine delivers 400 horsepower and 410 pound-feet of torque.
So, in other words: We’d prefer the manual.
The car won’t be ready for delivery until the spring of 2011 (the version for mere mortals won’t be at dealers till February), so we won’t start pestering you about it until late February or so.
Very nice and kudos to Neiman Marcus for still calling the catalog the CHRISTMAS book.
Video: Russian Sukhoi T-50 Stealth Fighter Flight Demonstration For Vladimir Putin
Via Russia Today:
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is personally overseeing the country’s efforts to create one of the most advanced fighter jets in the world. He stopped by the Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow to watch a test flight of the Sukhoi T-50 jet. The plane features an array of technical and design innovations. Sukhoi, the company behind it, says it’ll be a few more years before the fifth-generation jet is ready for mass production.
Also @ MCT:
Video: Russian Sukhoi T-50 Stealth Fighter
The T-50 Russian Stealth Fighter
Saturday Night Links: The Super Hornet Edition
Found these really cool pictures of the Australian Air Force’s Block II F/A-18 F Super Hornet at the DEW Line.
Obstructing Government Operations (FAIL)
Ten Buck Fridays + Christine O’Donnell Grassroots Money Bomb
Job offers not sticking to Obama, but the crude won’t wash off
The Public School Indoctrination Machine at Work: Teachers Openly Promote Revolution
Yet you have idiot congresscritters like Rep. Gerry Connolly that insist that the only way to make up for their extraordinary level of deficit spending is to increase taxes.
America’s Golden Age of Ignorance
Ignorance is a dangerous, dangerous, thing. WE here in America, are only just re-learning this lesson.
This is truly the Golden Era of Ignorance in America. If we survive the damage it has done, we must begin all over again teaching our children what it means to be an American under the protection of the original US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Fundraiser Or Memorial Service? Focused From Day One, Eh?
Tuesday Night Links: The Air Racing Edition
Some great reading for a Tuesday night…
EPA Makes Gulf Oil Spill Worse
Conservative or Libertarian, We Stand Against Statism
DaleyGator Thought of the Day, This Might Make Your Head Explode
Sarah Palin: Mr. President: you have to get involved
Greece Is The Word: US Debt To Hit $13.6 Trillion This Year, $20 Trillion By 2015
Video: Russian Sukhoi T-50 Stealth Fighter
Found these videos on The DEW Line.com:
And then there is this video:
Please see my previous post for background on the Sukhoi T-50
The T-50 Russian Stealth Fighter
Via The DEW Line (from a Sukhoi press release):
A promising fifth-generation aviation complex (PAK FA) rose today in the sky from the airfield FRI them Gromov in Zhukovsky near Moscow, continuing, thus, a program of flight tests.
Fly the aircraft Honored Test Pilot of the Russian Federation Sergey Bogdan. The first flight of the PAK FA was held on 29 January this year at the airport included holding “Sukhoi” Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation production association Yuri Gagarin (KnAAPO). Upon successful completion of the first phase of tests, which consisted of six flights, the fighter was delivered to Zhukovsky.
Compared with previous generations of fighters, PAK FA has several unique features, combining the functions of attack aircraft and fighter. The aircraft is equipped with a fifth-generation an entirely new avionics, which integrates the function of “e-pilot”, and promising radar with a phased antenna array. This greatly reduces the load on the pilot and can concentrate on the implementation of tactical tasks. On-board equipment of the new aircraft allows the exchange of data in real time as a land-management systems, and within the aviation group.
Defense analysts think that the T-50 is not so much a challenge to the US Air Force’s F-22 as it is a means to maintain air superiority over the Chinese Air Force:
Even though it is nearly automatic to think of the PAK FA/T-50 in terms of a direct confrontation vs. the F-22, and this may indeed have been the original goal when the programme was first launched in the late 1980s, in the current global strategic scenario it is perhaps more likely that the Russians are rather interested in maintaining an air superiority edge over China’s current J-11s/SU-27s/-30s and future J-12. Also, the expected future worldwide usage of the F-35 JSF attack aircraft with its low observability qualities requires an interceptor capable to deal with this peculiar threat.
A cool video about Future Dog Fights and the F-22: