Showing posts with label Coanda weeps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coanda weeps. Show all posts

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Terminating the Raptor

Gates in 2009 placed the full weight of his reputation behind his push for the Obama scalebacks.. He was backed by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who called ending production of the F-22 a “major step in the right direction.”... Gates, McCain and other foes of relying on the F-22 have placed their faith in Lockheed’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter... The F-35, however, lacks the F-22’s “supercruise” propulsion abilities... “Any notion that an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or F/A-18E/F Super Hornet will be capable of competing against this Chengdu design in air combat, let alone penetrate airspace defended by this fighter, would be simply absurd.”

Monday, June 13, 2011

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

How about the jet engine?

Other giants of innovation during the 1,000-year period that began in the seventh century were physician Al-Zahrawi, whose innovations shaped European surgery, and Fatima Al-Fihri, whose multi-subject institute of learning, with no gender restrictions, laid foundations for the modern university... One curiosity is a replica of the flying machine of Abbas ibn Firnas, who constructed a winged framework near Cordoba in Spain and flew briefly before injuring himself.