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November 03, 2014

Airborne 11.03.14: SpaceShipTwo Update, Santa Monica Airport, Special Quicksilver

Also: P-40 Landing Gear Failure, AVW: Breaking The Sound Barrier, Aeromobil 3.0, Wright Brothers Master Pilots

While it is WAY too early to name a specific probable cause for the accident that befell SpaceShipTwo, evidence has revealed a series of worrisome clues that seem to indicate that SpaceShipTwo may have undergone an uncommanded wing feathering sequence at a speed in excess of Mach One. Wing feathering requires two primary actions... the first is to activate the wing feathering system, usually done at 1.4 Mach and, this time, done a bit earlier at about 1.0... the other is to actuate the wing feather sequence itself... which was reportedly NOT commanded or actuated... but occurred anyway. The ramifications of an uncommanded feathering system actuation at such speeds are s

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Request For Proposals Focuses On Low-Mass Materials With Honeycomb Or Foam Cores

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Rocket Science Is Hard... As Hard As Life Itself

Analysis/Commentary By ANN Editor-In-Chief/CEO, Jim Campbell It's been a bad couple of days... for aviation and aerospace -- and all those who dream of greater things for ourselves and our children. But as bad as the news has been, so has the coverage given to these events by general media personnel who, simply put, don't know what they are talking about. And worse than that, these clowns do not appeciate (or care) about the benefits our world has accrued or the critical (but necessary) relationship between risk and reward -- and/or how our present circumstances and capabilities have been brought about -- even if it was force fed to them by the likes of Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, and/or Neil A

Hart Starts What Might Be A 'Year-Long' Effort To Find A Probable Cause For The Loss of SS2

ANN RealTime Update--0206 ET, 11.03.14: A late Sunday evening press conference hosted by Acting NTSB Boss, Christopher Hart has revealed some notable details in this early investigation period. While it is WAY too early to name a specific probable cause for the accident that befell SpaceShipTwo, evidence has revealed a series of worrisome clues that seem to indicate that SpaceShipTwo may have undergone an uncommanded wing feathering sequence at a speed in excess of Mach One. Wing feathering requires two primary actions... the first is to activate the wing feathering system, usually done at 1.4 Mach and, this time, done a bit earlier at about 1.0... the othe