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Should we start a RCV thread? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6YhuU0id0 View: https://youtu.be/aDK5c2GmGM4 Looks like RTS unit so much.

"Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as a flying test-bed to evaluate...

Found this old American film from 1952 which has some good stock footage of early 50s combat aircraft ranging from B29s and B36 to a model Mig 15. View: https://youtu.be/Mg8a9UMqSzY Typical anti Commie era film but full of period flavour.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63957074

New video from NASA to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the mission. View: https://youtu.be/XhvliTtzQXY

Good Day All - From the collection of the late Mike Burke "The Artist", this is a engineer opportunities brochure with artwork that may be of interest. Guessing mid-'60s as the OH-6A first flew in 1963. Enjoy the Day! Mark

I recently bought a NIB copy of the Revell "Laser Battle Stations" model kit from 1984. There were a number of other kits released at the same time that all have connections to reports and concepts (see images) but these "laser battle stations" are a bit hard to place. They appear to be modeled...

some GA weirdo projects from early 80s

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/z8frvx/what_happened_to_hiltons_hotel_on_the_moon/ https://mascola.com/insights/lunar-hilton-luxury-hotel-advertising/ http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/hotels_in_space.shtml...

Was wondering if anyone else remembered this little Tex Avery short from their childhood.

New Scott Manley video. Computers Were So Slow Scientists 'Painted' The First Close Up Image Of Mars View: https://youtu.be/nSQlM6yGh7k

I'm stunned to find out that, unless several searches failed to work properly, there is no thread for the Martin "EGRESS" (EMERGENCY GLOBAL RESCUE, ESCAPE, AND SURVIVAL SYSTEM) capsule. This was a modification of the ejection capsule used on the B-58... fitted with a heat shield, de-orbit motor...

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/23m-classic-yacht-fire-new-orleans :(

https://thespacereview.com/article/4479/1

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1815231/banking-giants-and-new-york-fed-start-12-week-digital-dollar-pilot https://u.today/us-banking-giants-start-digital-dollar-pilot...

RIP Frank https://robinsonheli.com/press-releases/helicopter-pioneer-frank-robinson-passes/?fbclid=IwAR1gXT23VVaZLR6XC3yQtWiI81tx8VaQFeU5S6iPIvUdbItPQI_dEpP0W1I As it is i fly R44 and 66 …was in Cologne for European Rotors this week so here my pics below All the best

LOL. Looks like this company didn't shy away from getting a bit creative with the naming scheme, because of course a drone that proudly displays a "SEXBOMB" livery traveling at hypersonic speeds while the surface temperature of its skin raises sounds sexy :D...

Thread for unbuilt RAM launcher concepts (aside from the standard Mk 49 and SeaRAM launchers) This morning, I reminded myself of an unusual concept to mount Rolling Airframe Missile launchers on the sides of a Mark 45 gun turret. The idea was to use the gun drives and gun fire control to point...

During Dallas Airshow happen collision between P-63 Kingcobra with B-17 Fortress Both aircraft are lost, crew dead *WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO, NSFW LANGUAGE* View: https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1591522149512073217 View: https://twitter.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1591542984364986376

https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/11/10/1925239/nasa-launched-an-inflatable-flying-saucer-then-landed-it-in-the-ocean https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/10/world/polar-satellite-inflatable-heat-shield-launch-scn/index.html...