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IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
Philip E. Ross |
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots.   |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Anthony Colozza |
Fly Like A Bird Flapping wings could revolutionize aircraft design. |
Wired
July 2001
Carl Hoffman |
The X Wars Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines -- if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon... |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Lawrence & Jenney |
The Fastest Helicopter on Earth Sikorsky aims to break the helicopter speed record |
Scientific American
January 16, 2006
Sarah Todd Davidson |
Pumped-Up Performance Engineers report that it is just a matter of a few tweaks over the next year before inflatable aircraft or inflatable wings on otherwise normal airplanes will be operational. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Jeff Wise |
The Tech That Makes New Airplanes and Runways Safer The plane, the runway, the airport, the technology are all examined here |
Fast Company
Liz Taurasi |
Flying Cars Predicted In Two Years: What Then? Scheduled to debut in 2016 at an estimated cost of $279,000, the Transition is a street-legal car with wings that fold out to make an FAA-approved airplane. |
Wired
July 2002
Scott Kirsner |
Citizen Plane One of the pioneers of personal computing has a plan to reinvent aviation. Now if he can just get the future of flying off the ground. |
National Defense
June 2013
Insinna & Tadjdeh |
Air Force Making Headway on Fuel Efficiency Goals The Air Force is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The service requires massive amounts of fuel to power its aircraft, but in a budget crunch, officials know they must curb consumption in order to save money and be less susceptible to a volatile oil market. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes. |
Popular Mechanics
June 11, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
World's Priciest Stealth Plane Takes First Run to Vertical Landing Needing a boost after a negative report leak, Lockheed Martin tested a prototype of its latest Joint Strike Fighter for the Marines today -- a supersonic F-35 that lands like a chopper and thinks like a pilot. |
Salon.com
July 18, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do airlines cut down the flow of oxygen in the cabin to save fuel? Can wind shear rip off a plane's wing? |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Sandra Upson |
Grounded No happy landings for latest twist on sci-fi staple: For the time being, the flying car stays tethered to the shop, a clunky compromise whose time may never come. |
Salon.com
December 13, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
A no-fly zone for terrorism By taking pilots out of the loop, can software prevent planes from being used as bombs? |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Susan Karlin |
James Brown: Above & Beyond This experimental test pilots are aviators trained in engineering and can convey problems and improvements for plane development. |
Wired
July 2005
Ron Berler |
Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true. |
National Defense
October 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Fear of Crashes Keeping Drones out of U.S. Airspace The senior director of unmanned aircraft systems and control technologies at Rockwell Collins, Vos and other industry representatives are advocating a push for the development of automation technologies that will make it possible for piloted aircraft and drones to fly safely in the same airspace. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005
J.R. Wilson |
The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2009
John Keller |
UAV Aircraft and Crowded Civil Air Space: Is it Safe Out There? It's only a matter of time before the aerial unmanned vehicle take their place in civilian air space. How are we going to fit all these planes? |
Salon.com
August 9, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot When airplanes collide, who is responsible? Are we doing enough to prevent such disasters? |
Salon.com
June 28, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small? |
National Defense
July 2012
Dan Parsons |
Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission. |
Fast Company
November 2003
Scott Kirsner |
Some Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines They won't end up in every garage, but a new generation of low-cost "personal" jets could really take off. Tiny Adam Aircraft is racing to be first on the runway. |
National Defense
June 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Training For War: A Multimedia Experience Just as training technologies for the newest fighter jets are going digital, so are those for one of the Air Force's oldest airplanes, the C-130 Hercules. |
AskMen.com
Steve Richer |
How To: Get A Private Pilot's License We are at a point now where human flight is open to just about everyone, even the likes of flyboys Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Accordingly, it's become painless for someone to get their private pilot's license. |
National Defense
June 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future May Belong to Unconventional Designs, Missions Unmanned aerial vehicles spying on enemies may be commonplace above today's battlefields, but there is a future generation of unconventional designs with added functions that, experts predict, almost certainly will displace current drones from their lonely, lofty perches. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Jeff Wise |
Fly Your Own Plane for $30,000: Backyard Aircraft Flight Test Two-seaters represent the most affordable way for recreational pilots to get airborne and take a friend along. To tap into this market, plane makers have come up with cool machines that cost about the same as a base-model SUV. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2007
Jeff Wise |
Civilian UAVs: No Pilot, No Problem You probably haven't yet seen a robot plane overhead. But more are flying all the time, and their promise is such that, like computers, they could move beyond commonplace to ubiquitous. |
National Defense
April 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter. |
Wired
December 22, 2008
Carl Hoffman |
The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski The Icon A5, designed to thrill and a breeze to fly. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2007
J.R. Wilson |
Manned and Unmanned Aircraft to Share Controlled and Commercial Airspace Governments, organizations, and industries throughout the world are trying to find ways of developing electronic and electro-optical technologies to enable unmanned aerial vehicles to operate together safely. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006
Davin Coburn |
Canyon Riders Want to make the hawks jealous? All you need for aerotrekking are canyons, empty airspace and some high-flying ultralights. |
Aviation History
July 29, 2004
Craig Roberts |
It Flies Like a Hummingbird The road to wedding helicopter ascents with fixed-wing speed was paved with bizarre flying contraptions. |
Wired
Andrew Blum |
Key to Eliminating U.S. Flight Delays? Redesign the Sky Over New York City More than 2 million flights pass over the city every year, most traveling to and from the metropolitan area's three busiest airports: John F. Kennedy, Newark, and LaGuardia. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
Erico Guizzo |
Winner: Carbon Takeoff With a radical carbon-fiber composite wing, Boeing is pushing the envelope of aviation design in its new 787 jetliner. |
Salon.com
September 12, 2001
Phaedra Hise |
Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
Inc.
November 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
National Defense
December 2013
Dan Parsons |
Debate Continues Over Role of Simulators in UAS Pilot Training There still is no agreed upon method of training new UAS pilots -- and keeping seasoned operators proficient -- for future conflicts where U.S. drones will be flying in contested airspace. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2005
Ben Ames |
Unmanned combat aircraft takes to the air Military engineers at Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems are working on a carrier-based unmanned fighter jet to serve in dangerous missions like striking enemy radar centers, or endurance missions like long-term surveillance. |
Popular Mechanics
December 10, 2008
Michael Milstein |
Is a Controversial Technology to Blame for the F-18 Crash? The F/A-18D Hornet that slammed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego Monday came from the first family of fighter jets with full fly-by-wire technology. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Jeff Wise |
Just Don't Call it a Blimp It might look like something out of a Jules Verne novel, but this prototype of a hybrid airship could hold the key to tomorrow's long-distance, low-cost air transport. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Jeff Wise |
How Plane Crash Forensics Lead to Safer Aviation After each plane crash, investigators study the wreckage, analyze flight data and examine clues regarding flight conditions. Once they have determined a cause, they often help create recommendations that prevent the problem from recurring. |
National Defense
August 2008
Sara Peck |
Civilian Drones Have Yet to Pass Weather Test Researchers at the Army's White Sands Missile Range in Arizona are developing weather forecasting software to help unmanned aerial vehicles fly in a variety of climates. |
Aviation History
C.V. Glines |
The Guggenheims: Aviation Visionaries Everyone flying today is a beneficiary of this father-son team's vision and largesse. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
10 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Here are eight crashes and two emergency landings whose influence is felt -- for the good -- each time you step on a plane. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
David Schneider |
Drone Aircraft: How the Drones Got Their Stingers Unmanned aerial vehicles come of age |
Salon.com
March 8, 2002
P. Smith |
How safe is your airplane? After the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, some pilots requested that all Airbus A300 planes be grounded. But they're still aloft... |
Popular Mechanics
September 18, 2008
Roxana Tiron |
4 High-Tech Systems to Save the U.S. Air Force From unmanned aerial vehicles that stay aloft for five years to engines that can slow down a supersonic fighter jet, a handful of important programs explained at the 2008 AFA Symposium could engineer the next generation of military aviation. |
