2022

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-first-propeller-with-11-blades

especially to Overscan and the Moderators who keep this place going for us. But also to everyone who contributes with threads and posts

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-FqTLWgcUQ December 18, 2022 The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) corvette HTMS Sukhothai (FS-442) sank in the Gulf of Thailand at 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday following a loss of power and subsequent flooding of the ship, according to the service. The RTN’s...

Well-known French journalist, author, pilot, THE voice of aerial meetings in France (La Ferté-Alais air show, Salon du Bourget air show, Paris Villaroche Air Legend and so on). He was 78 y.o.

Last ever Pilatus PC-6 has been built and delivered to Indonesian customer, end of an era View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjcUI-hY84 Anyhow in the last couple of Airpower Airshows, been a pleasure to see the Bundesheer Pc6 as well as the Flying Bulls one (my pics below) cheers

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63957074

View: https://twitter.com/SubBrief/status/1596857511415406592

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-63872209

https://www.aerosociety.com/media/19750/2022-medals-and-awards-brochure_final.pdf Congratulations, Tony, and very well deserved indeed. Your books were the catalyst for me to create this forum, which has given me a lot of satisfaction and enjoyment for the last 17 years, and meeting you in...

Oil tanker jam forms off Turkey after start of Russian oil cap (ft.com, subscription or registration may be required) https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/oil-tanker-jam-forms-off-turkey-after-start-russian-oil-price-cap-ft-2022-12-05/...

Looks like an awesome film! I love the Corsair which is featured in the film. In fact out of the 12 flyable Corsairs in the world the film crew obtained 6 aircraft for filming. The movie debuts in theaters November 23rd! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvBBd8pU1s

Space Perspective to launch balloon-borne tourist flights from 'marine spaceport' I'm dubious: a ship-launched balloon will carry passengers who paid $125,000 each up to 100,000 feet. They will subsequently splash down... and be picked up by the same ship. That had better be a *fast* ship.

Via Slashdot: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2022/11/17/qatar-ban-alcohol-sales-world-cup-stadiums/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/possible-ebola-case-investigated-colchester-hospital/

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/23m-classic-yacht-fire-new-orleans :(

https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1514222/australia-to-consider-banning-ransomware-payments Some more background: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/14/medibank-mental-health-data-posted-on-dark-web-as-russian-hackers-vow-to-keep-our-word...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1815231/banking-giants-and-new-york-fed-start-12-week-digital-dollar-pilot https://u.today/us-banking-giants-start-digital-dollar-pilot...

LOL. Looks like this company didn't shy away from getting a bit creative with the naming scheme, because of course a drone that proudly displays a "SEXBOMB" livery traveling at hypersonic speeds while the surface temperature of its skin raises sounds sexy :D...

During Dallas Airshow happen collision between P-63 Kingcobra with B-17 Fortress Both aircraft are lost, crew dead *WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO, NSFW LANGUAGE* View: https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1591522149512073217 View: https://twitter.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1591542984364986376