When fighter jets become outdated, they aren't necessarily sent to the scrap heap. A lucrative Pentagon program offers military contracts millions of dollars to turn old F-16s into unmanned drones designed to be blown up in midair.READ»
The long-awaited Boeing 787 was certified by the FAA last week--three years later than customers expected. What business execution lessons can be learned from this complex program?READ»
How a split-second stall in a top-secret chopper could lead to a new-and-improved Chinese stealth fighter and greatly alter the international arms race--in four easy steps.READ»
Last year, when Proctor & Gamble set out to make its Tide liquid laundry-soap packaging more appealing to seniors, the company turned to the last designers on earth you’d expect: college students.
[The Indiana-based medical ...READ»
NASA's contracted three of the biggest names in aircraft design to dream up the kind of airliner we'll see in 2025, and has just shown the initial concepts. They're weird, eco-friendly, and wonderful.READ»
In the absence of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, private companies are left to fill the black hole of space exploration. Now, 50 years after John Glenn orbited the Earth, some very different kinds of explorers are leading the way.READ»
Since we realized our technology could rocket us from the surface of the Earth into the void, we've been building all sorts of vehicles to take us there. Yet apart from the Space Shuttle and the X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne, they've ...READ»
Space weather affects your life more than you may think, and now some new science experiments, leveraging Iridium's array of satellite phone spacecraft, may let scientists measure it in real time to better understand the phenomenon.READ»
Boeing's newest research aircraft got a public unveiling yesterday, which is interesting for such a future-facing aircraft that's surely destined for a ton of cloak-and-dagger work. It's an unmanned spy plane, and even its looks are ...READ»
Late yesterday, Boeing's 747-8 freighter prototype number three lumbered into the Spring sky above Everett's Paine Field on its maiden flight. It then flew about successfully for two and a half hours before swooping heavily down on ...READ»
We'd heard that the budget trims would force NASA to include commercial space companies in its operating budget, and the agency has wasted no time at all: It's announced a $50 million investment to boost commercial astronaut ...READ»
Since Boeing and Airbus are in a pitched battle for superiority in the aircraft industry, you may not be surprised to learn that both companies have scheduled first flights for new planes at the very same time. But you'd be wrong, ...READ»
Several years ago, I moderated a panel at a design conference in Dubai. Among the panelists was a guy from Boeing, who dazzled the crowd with a slide show of the interior of the 787 Dreamliner. It was a view into an aviation ...READ»
