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Vulture UAV to Glide in the Sky for 5 Years

The Pentagon has decided: out with the Northrup Grumman project and in with Manassas Vulture high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle. The Vulture will be used by the Pentagon as a surveillance and communications aircraft, which can be repositioned on an area of interest and fly high enough to capture a wide view image ...

23 April 2008
07:22 GMT

Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane, a First

In a press statement released yesterday, the aircraft manufacturer Boeing revealed that it had built the first airplane in the world running on power supplied by hydrogen-cell batteries. However, Boeing warned that although the hydrogen-cells may be used to power small airplanes, it might never become the primary pow...

4 April 2008
04:27 GMT

The New Boeing 787 Might Get Hacked!

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the new airline produced by Boeing Commercial Airlines, may put the lives of an important number of people at risk, as it might contain a serious security vulnerability in the onboard computer network, Wired reported a few days ago citing officials of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administratio...

7 January 2008
05:35 GMT

Boeing Drops Orion for Poseidon!

New stuff under the sun for Boeing! Gizmag reports that the giant company will have five P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine test planes finalized by March 2009, with the actual production process expected to begin starting in 2013.The plane is said to be no less than a hundred and twenty nine feet long aircraft with a 117 ...

10 November 2007
08:20 GMT

NASA Telescope Revolution: "Sunrise" to Use Jumbo-Jet-Sized Balloon!

During a landmark test, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), together with a team of research partners have successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of ...120,000 feet, meaning almost 40.000 meters. The craziest part is for that they used a balloon larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Giv...

24 October 2007
03:39 GMT

SUGV Early: the New Reconnaissance Robot Will be out by 2008

Boeing and iRobot are planning to build the next generation of reconnaissance robots for military, civil and commercial use. The reason why Boeing enter this joined venture is pretty clear: the Pentagon needs smarther robots than the Packbock. The little guy is going to be built on iRobot's Packbot robotic mili...

24 April 2007
15:46 GMT

Saab Space Supply Antennas for New Generation Direct-to-Mobile Satellites

Saab Space, a company headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, announced it has received an order for hundreds of antenna elements for Boeing Space and Intelligence System´s new, hi-profile Mobile Satellite Venture (MSV) system satellites. MSV is the first generation system of mobile satellites that uses a combination of...

10 March 2007
09:24 GMT




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