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China’s J-35 shift signals a carrier air wing problem for US planners

What changes when a carrier force that once relied on ski-jump launches begins throwing stealth fighters and fixed-wing radar ...
Hackaday

X-wing Aircraft Are Trickier Than They Look

The iconic X-wing ship design from Star Wars is something many a hobbyist have tried to recreate, and not always with success. While [German engineer] succeeded in re-imagining an FPV quadcopter as an ...
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Performance of Rotating Wing Aircraft, by K. Hohenemser, No. 871, July 1948 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics [Ingenieur-Archive, Vol.8]

Mandel Lenkowsky Early Vertical Flight Development Collection / Series 2: Scientific and Mathematical Notes, Aircraft Drawings, and Published Works Material is ...
The National Interest

America’s Best Cold War Jets All Had One Design Feature

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...
New Atlas

Split-wing aircraft gets new propulsion system

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however, for enhanced aerodynamics, cruising performance ...