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Boom boasts supersonic success with XB-1

2 months ago | aerosociety.com | Tim Robinson FRAeS |Joe Coles

More than 20 years since the final Concorde flight, is a small US start-up now on course to bring back supersonic air travel? TIM ROBINSON FRAeS and JOE COLES debrief Boom’s XB-1 test pilot and consider the next steps in civil supersonics.
Blue Origin goes orbital

Jan 21, 2025 | aerosociety.com | Kate Arkless Gray

Jeff Bezos’s commercial space company Blue Origin wrote itself into the history books on 16 January, with the successful inaugural launch of its orbital rocket, New Glenn. KATE ARKLESS GRAY reports. Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands at an impressive 98m tall, and is powered by seven BE-4 engines, designed and manufactured by Blue Origin.
Could the next big environmental problem come from space?

Jan 9, 2025 | aerosociety.com | Tereza Pultarova

Could satellite mega-constellations trigger climate change 2.0? TEREZA PULTAROVA investigates. Air pollution from rocket launches and satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere could bring about the world’s next big environmental emergency. The space industry is pulling together to find a solution before it gets too late. Humankind may once again be playing with fire, thinks Sebastian Eastham, a sustainable aviation researcher at Imperial College London.
WindRunner - the biggest of the big

Dec 10, 2024 | aerosociety.com | Chris Pocock

Radia has designed its enormous WindRunner to transport turbine blades to remote sites by air. CHRIS POCOCK investigates a project that could result in the world’s largest aircraft. He describes himself as a “serial entrepreneur” but Mark Lundstrom’s latest venture must surely be his most enterprising yet. An aerospace engineer by training, Lundstrom plans to build the world’s largest aircraft by volume, specifically to carry the very largest wind turbines.
Rebuilding airports fit for heroes

Dec 6, 2024 | aerosociety.com | Tim Robinson FRAeS

Almost three years on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country’s airports provide a powerful message of hope and resilience as they look forward to the skies reopening again. TIM ROBINSON FRAeS reports. Think of airport disruption and delays, and for many of us in a ‘safe’ part of the world, the first things that come to mind are lost baggage, passport queues and IT glitches.
Scramble launched at RAeS HQ

Dec 5, 2024 | aerosociety.com | Tim Robinson FRAeS

In October, the Royal Aeronautical Society, in partnership with UK video gaming company Slitherine, hosted a special interactive social evening in its AeroSociety Lates series that brought together the world of PC gaming and aviation history with the early access launch of the company’s newest game, Scramble: Battle of Britain – an innovative turn-based 3D tactical air combat PC wargame that puts players in the cockpits of iconic fighters from 1940.
Putting Bahrain back on the aviation map

Nov 8, 2024 | aerosociety.com | Tim Robinson FRAeS

JeAhead of the Bahrain International Air Show, TIM ROBINSON FRaeS reports on the Gulf region’s oldest flag carrier – Gulf Air, which in 2025 celebrates its 75th anniversary. Despite the current challenges of conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, aviation supply chains and the workforce – air travel’s upward trajectory seems to have no limit after the near-death experience of that was the Covid pandemic. Passengers are expected to double between now and 2042 – to 18.6 bn people flying by air.
Gaining space superiority

Oct 22, 2024 | aerosociety.com | Tim Robinson FRAeS

As modern society becomes increasingly dependent on space-based critical infrastructure, so does the need to protect, defend and even fight for this domain. TIM ROBINSON FRAeS reports from the UK MoD’s Defence Space Conference, held on 24-25 September at the IET in London.
Leonardo UK debuts BriteStorm

Oct 15, 2024 | aerosociety.com | Andrew White

Leonardo UK unveiled the latest addition to its family of airborne, active decoy systems for drones at the Association of the US Army exhibition this week. ANDREW WHITE reports. BriteStorm has been developed by Leonardo UK as an advanced, stand-in jamming payload and has been designed as an attritable solution capable of being integrated on board a variety of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS).
Noemi floats the idea of electric seaplanes

Oct 11, 2024 | aerosociety.com | Jack Richardson

Two Nordic companies have recently taken the next steps to make the vision of electric seaplanes a reality as JACK RICHARDSON reports. In the race to increase the number of options for travellers to take part in aviation, companies all over the world are looking to take advantage of electrification to bring about a revival in seaplane technology.