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designed by pilots for pilots... a design that not only improves safety in flight but also on ground, well done!

Have you ever seen a plane so bizarre that you did a double-take? 🤔 Meet the Convair NC-131H TIFS (Total In-Flight Simulator)—aka, the airplane equivalent of wearing a nose that doesn’t quite fit! With its enormous, bulbous nose sticking out like an afterthought, this quirky aircraft looks like it’s trying to sneak into a superhero movie. It’s not just a plane; it’s an identity crisis with wings! 🚀✈️ Sure, the TIFS had an important job simulating various aircraft systems for testing, but you’ve got to admire the sheer audacity of its design. Did they think, “What if a plane had a Pinocchio moment?” Despite its odd appearance, the NC-131H was an engineering marvel in its time—proof that sometimes the strangest-looking things are doing the smartest work (which is what I tell myself every time I wear mismatched socks to meetings). Next time you see a strange design, just remember: genius can have a big nose too. 😉 #Aviation #Aerospace #Engineering #Convair #Innovation #Design #AviationHumor

Is the Gulfstream G700's Flight Deck the Future of Aviation Technology? ✈️🔧 Join us as we explore the Gulfstream G700's Symmetry flight deck, featuring Honeywell's Primus EPIC avionics. Discover how this advanced cockpit design enhances reliability and integrates cutting-edge technology for an intuitive flying experience. #GulfstreamG700 #AviationTechnology #FlightDeck #Honeywell #Avionics #SymmetryFlightDeck #AerospaceInnovation #FlyingExperience #CockpitDesign #AviationTrends

Key Points & Video about the XQ-67A Demonstrator AFRL &  General Atomics  📐First Successful Flight: The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) successfully flew the first of the second generation of Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP), known as the XQ-67A demonstrator, on February 28, 2024. 📐OBSS Program: The flight was part of the Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) program, which focuses on validating the design, build, and test processes for the XQ-67A. 📐Common Chassis Design: The XQ-67A is built on a common chassis, or genus, similar to a motor vehicle frame. This design approach has been proven successful with its first flight. 📐Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness: The common chassis design enables faster and more cost-effective replication of the aircraft. 📐Response to Great Power Competition: This new approach addresses the challenge of great power competition by delivering advanced, affordable capabilities to warfighters more quickly. 📐AFRL's Mission: AFRL aims to provide advanced technologies that lead to reliable, effective, and integrated capabilities for the nation's warfighters, both now and in the future. 📐Development Timeline: The XQ-67A was designed, built, ground tested, and flown in just over two years, building on the success of the XQ-58A Valkyrie and complementing the X-62 VISTA and F-16 VENOM efforts. 📐Flight Testing: AFRL's flight testing initiatives aim to deliver science and technology quickly through agile and continuous development. 📐Autonomous Flight Capability: While the XQ-67A is remotely piloted, it is also capable of autonomous flight. 📐LCAAPS Program: Under the Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Platform Sharing (LCAAPS) program, AFRL developed a chassis or "genus" as the foundational core architecture for building various "species" of aircraft. 📐Product Line Philosophy: This approach provides an alternate acquisition strategy for ACP aircraft, enabling faster development, lower costs, and frequent technology updates. To view a video of the first test flight of the XQ-67A, which took place at the General Atomics Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility near Palmdale, California, see YOUTUBE LINK Below... #WingedMonkeys #AFRL #GeneralAtomics

Software takes flight! Did you know a modern Boeing 787 Dreamliner has over 6.5 million lines of code - more than the plane itself and a Space Shuttle combined 🛫💻 Follow for more mind-blowing tech facts! #AviationTech #CodeFacts #DidYouKnow

Airbus aircraft typically feature a bulbous nose design, which differs from Boeing's pointier nose. This shape enhances visibility for pilots and provides a larger cockpit space, accommodating advanced avionics. The design also optimizes aerodynamics, balancing drag and lift characteristics during flight. #aviation #airbus

One step closer to the return of commercial supersonic flight ever since one of the greatest feats in Engineering, the Concorde! Great to see Booms' XB-1 Demonstrator completing it's first test flight without issue. It'll be very interesting to see how their flight test campaign develops as they increase the speeds to that ever impressive supersonic number. It'll be interesting to see how Boom changes the market for commercial Aerospace and who else follows them down this route. I know I'll be following their journey, will you? #Aerospace #BoomSupersonic

We use a jet instead of a propeller aircraft because it lets us fly higher, capturing wider swaths of data in a single pass. Plus, jets can stay in the air longer, which means we can cover more ground in less time and keep your wide-area data acquisition costs down. More at io-aerospace.com! #DataAquisition #WideArea #RemoteSensing #OpticalImagery

https://lnkd.in/gEtM94Fh A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls that enable the pilot to fly the aircraft.

The idea behind SPRINT is to develop the technologies needed to create a new class of aircraft that combine VTOL capabilities with high speeds. While it's true that such aircraft have been around for over half a century – the Harrier and the F-35 Lightning II, for example – these fighter planes aren't suited for commando operations or similar missions that require high speed, high agility, plus independence from conventional runways. One of four companies chosen by DARPA to create a concept prototype, as its preliminary design phase Aurora has opted for a scalable blended wing design that incorporates three lifting fans inside of a composite fuselage. Though the latest version has an uncrewed cockpit, later, larger ones designed to carry four or more lift fans could have more traditional crewed cockpits.