F22 was easily the star of the show !
80% of the crowd left after it.
Black Eagles were 2nd best.
I havenāt thrown at the Avalon show for a very very long time. Both times I was there it was annoyingly windy.
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Itād be a tad chilly in Murmansk.
Made me remember this.
Presser on interim report of Gold Coast Helicopter crash.
Final report could take 18 months to 2 years.
Summary of interim report on
Todayās āit will buff outā
At the helicopter crash presser today the ATSB bloke said they have 90 incidents to be investigated.
18 months to 2 years is about the norm for serious fatal accidents.
I think when I was last looking a few weeks back there was 86 open for investigation but they would have tied up a few of those plus any new ones added
Japanās H3 rocket mission unfortunately failed yesterday.
Second stage apparently didnāt ignite.
Launch at 59:30
1:01:30 First Stage booster separation.
1:01:49 From the video it appears to be flying sideways.
This is pretty cool.
Whatās the chance the technology gets to large commercial flights?
Has been in the works for sometime now. Both Airbus and Boeing are putting insane amounts of work into making this happen in the next 10 years or so.
Also a couple of smaller mobs that are in the business or converting smaller aircraft to hydrogen powered and we could see that in the next few years potentially
Is it cheaper?
Cheaper to run but aircraft will be more expensive initially and costs for passengers will rise accordingly.
Short and medium haul in hydrogen aircraft will be a real possibility within 10 years but I think for long haul itās just far too cost prohibitive at this stage so SAF will be the way forward for some time
At to conference last week a bunch of the key presentations were on sustainable aviation. Most of the projections showed that even with the new fuels there would likely be no improvement in aviation emissions before 2050. There were a couple of factors at play, the first being the expected growth in the aviation sector (suggesting twice as many aircraft by 2050), plus the changes in the large transport would be generational, so any new fuel that was developed that was going to make much difference would be years before it had a real impact on the majority of the fleet.
Expectations around smaller aircraft were new fuel sources coming on (electric, hydrogen, I canāt really remember) over the next decade, but larger aircraft, which were the biggest contributor, were going to be a while off.
It seemed that Boeing (the presenters in this case) were pushing hard at development, and also pushing the engines OEMs, but I didnāt walk away thinking that we were close to making major breakthroughs .
have just watched the limited series of MH370 on Netflix
where the fark did it go
No idea but Iām pretty sure that Blaine dude didnāt find the debris just conveniently lying on the first beach that he went to.