MetaFilter posts tagged with aviation and Science

Concorde on steroids

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:47:57 -0800

Whooosh! London to Sydney in 5 hours on the A2 Hypersonic from Reaction Engines. Green too. If they can pull it off.

Suction is the female of movement and pressure is the male of movement.

UKnowForKids — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:48:55 -0800

"Lawsonomy is the knowledge of Life and everything pertaining thereto." The collected works of Alfred Lawson - professional baseball player, aviation pioneer, economist, scientist, theologist, and philosopher - are available to all. [more inside]

Not quite a flying car, but we're getting there

cedar — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:23:39 -0800

X-43A Flight. "The unpiloted 12-foot-long X-43A vehicle, part aircraft and part spacecraft, will be dropped from the wing of a B-52 aircraft, lofted to nearly 100,000 feet by a booster rocket and released over the Pacific Ocean to briefly fly under its own power at seven times the speed of sound." Watch (RealPlayer) it live.

Has Burt Rutan done it again?

canucklehead — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 07:38:50 -0800

Scaled Composites unveils a privately built spacecraft Could this be the leapfrog event that all of us sci-fi fans have been waiting for? If successful he will open up space for organizations other than the worlds most wealthy governments. Warp speed Mr. Sulu! (sorry getting a little carried away).

zeoslap — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:57:56 -0800

Presenting the no-gasoline, no-pollution, no-engine personal flier Hydrogen peroxide is used to fuel individual rocket motors at the tips of helicoptor like rotors.... James Bond eat your heart out :)