Push it to the limit: engineering Australia’s hypersonic aircraft
Taking a radically different approach to materials, structures and manufacturing saw Australia’s Hypersonix send its aircraft beyond five times the ...
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How the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan was designed
This record-breaking aircraft features twin fuselages, a straight wing cruciform profile and a wingspan wider than the 100 m dash ...
Here are nine radical passenger aircraft designs – but will they get off the ground?
An aerospace engineer judges the viability and efficiency of nine innovative passenger aircraft designs, including a plane with three wings ...
BVLOS: Drones beyond the horizon
BVLOS – Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight – is fast becoming part of the lexicon of engineers, pilots, regulators and lawmakers.
Autonomous electric air taxis are coming soon
While it might seem to be a long-held distant dream, air taxis are close to becoming a feature of our ...
From a Canberra carpark to Cape Canaveral … and beyond!
Four days into the new year, Canberra-based space services company Skykraft launched a 300-kilogram satellite stack into space. The company’s ...
Meet the cobot making life easier for Boeing employees
By taking over a repetitive yet integral task in the manufacture of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft, ‘Wayne’ has helped to ...
The biggest challenges to hypersonic flight – and how they’re being tackled
Hypersonic flight has been talked about and researched for more than 60 years, but it remains rare outside of very ...
In it for the long-haul: The evolution of long-haul aircraft design
Qantas will break records with its new Sydney-to-London ultra-long-haul flight — but the evolution of long-haul aircraft design is just ...
This engineering associate has helped put thousands of pilots in the air
Alvan Nair started as an apprentice avionics maintenance engineer at Ansett Australia in 1995. Now, his career in the aviation ...
