The September issue of the Smithsonian's
Air & Space Magazine is a really good one - I read it cover to cover and learned a lot of fascinating stuff. The cover shows an artist's concept of a "hypersonic wave rider" under the headline "10 New Ways to Fly." Of course hypersonic flight is one of the ten, but it will be a few years before that really happens, though there are experts quoted in the article who believe we are close to a breakthrough in this long-promised technology (which will probably be applied to high-speed cruise missiles before we see any sort of space plane for people). Here are the ten articles on these amazing flight technologies:
- X-racers (Rocket Racing League)
- Boeing Dreamliner (innovative cabin design and lighting)
- Spy Blimps and Heavy Lifters
- Fly Green (on biofuels)
- Tilters (V-22 Osprey is operational)
- Orion's Brain (flight control software and displays for NASA's CEV)
- 20 Hours to Solo (sport pilot license and aircraft)
- Lunar clipper (Moon tourism with Russian hardware)
- Son of a Buzz Bomb (PDE - pulse detonation engines)
- Mach 20 or Bust (hypersonic flight)
All of these articles are
available on line (at least for now).
The September issue of the Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine is a really good one - I read it cover to cover and learned a lot of fascinating stuff. The cover shows an artist's concept of a "hypersonic wave rider" under the headline "10 New Ways to Fly." Of course hypersonic flight is one of the ten, but it will be a few years before that really happens, though there are experts quoted in the article who believe we are close to a breakthrough in this long-promised technology (which will probably be applied to high-speed cruise missiles before we see any sort of space plane for people). Here are the ten articles on these amazing flight technologies:
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