An Alternative Sport Powerplant Shows Great Promise... And Power
At the 2011 Sebring Sport Aviation Expo, few displays got more attention than Viking Aircraft Engines. In an industry heavily dominated by one powerplant manufacturer (and one whose prices keep heading for the stratosphere), then news of what appears to be a solid alternative engine offering sure gets everyone's interest.
First In-Flight Test Of Spacecraft's Tail Section In Its
Near-Vertical Configuration
Early on Wednesday morning, in the skies above Mojave Air and
Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo demonstrated its unique reentry
‘feather’ configuration for the first time.
SpaceX Founder Lays Out Facts About The Company's Costs
Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been
done before, there will always be skeptics. So when I started
SpaceX, it was not surprising when people said we wouldn't
succeed.
Technicians at the NASA Shuttle Logistic Depot in Cape
Canaveral, FL, are doing additional forensic engineering testing on
a faulty power distribution box, called a Load Control Assembly 2
(LCA-2). It was removed Tuesday morning from the aft compartment of
space shuttle Endeavour.
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