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The American Air Force has reported that a test of the unmanned hypersonic X-51A “Waverider” scramjet has failed.…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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In a typical turbofan jet engine the oncoming airflow is compressed throughout a series of compressor stages, mixed…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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The turbine is at the heart of any jet engine with its primary task being to drive the…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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I have just returned from the International Conference for Composite Materials (ICCM) in Montreal, Canada and would like…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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The treatment of defects in aircraft structural design has been an important aspect in aircraft structural design during the…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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When I was travelling in Chile a short while ago I took a flight from the capital Santiago…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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Although the exploitation of advanced composite materials in the aerospace industry is steadily increasing, high strength metallic materials,…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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Vanity Fair recently featured an excellent article on Air France Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009. It…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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This blog has focused much on the technical side of aviation. One of the biggest drivers in civil…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan

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“Big data” is all abuzz in the media these days. As more and more people are connected to…

July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan