2025

Stumbled upon this the other day: an epic 3rd episode of Legendary movie Tron, first released in 1982, where the Digital world permeates the real one. Seems Filming wrapped on May 1st (see wiki link below). Without any doubt, a must see. (release date October 2025) View...

Pakistan is claiming to have shot down 2 Rafales. First combat loss?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-removes-ntsb-vice-chair-sources-2025-05-06/ Not a good look. Regards,

View: https://youtu.be/zf9dC2QV0ng https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/05/hd-hhi-and-sima-peru-ink-agreement-to-jointly-develop-submarine/

I just read the "top level budget proposal" linked here: https://spacenews.com/white-house-budget-proposal-would-phase-out-sls-and-orion-scale-back-iss-operations/ (it was suggested by Flyaway in post #98 of the thread White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent). In the...

https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/volonaunt-airbike-star-wars-speeder-1236702192/ https://volonaut.com/ Cannot work this one out at all, out of nowhere could be very interesting if real. Or slick AI and looking for $$$ Regards,

So a 3rd 747 might be modified to serve as an interim presidential transport until the definitive airframes arrive ? https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/01/trump-air-force-one-l3-harris-boeing-delays.html

A Venera space-probe was launched in the early 1970s shortly after Venera 8 was launched and if it had successfully been injected into a heliocentric orbit it would've been Venera 9 but instead failed to leave orbit with the Soviets renaming it Cosmos 482 in an effort to sae face. It's orbit has...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/ Pretty massive outages. Regards,

April 26th 2025, a massive explosion occurred at the Shahid Rajaee Port near Bandar Abbas, by far Iran's largest sea port. In 2020's Beirut explosion, said to be a large stockpile of Ammonium Nitrate, there was initially a gray smoke cloud and then an explosion containing a dark red smoke. In...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/delta-plane-fire-orlando Regards,

https://www.defensenews.com/space/2025/04/21/boeing-looks-to-existing-production-lines-for-golden-dome-pitch/

Dassault Aviation expresses willingness to commit to a Space Plane project, meeting AdlAE recent new long term perspectives: (Link in Fr - You might want tuse an auto-translator)...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-computer-human-brain-cells-cortical-labs-cl1-b2709866.html Interesting to say the least. Regards,

And so their revenge begins. Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5xx036p4vo

https://abcnews.go.com/US/helicopter-crashes-hudson-river-new-york-city/story?id=120691975#:~:text=All%20six%20people%20on%20board,according%20to%20law%20enforcement%20sources. Regards,

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modernizing-defense-acquisitions-and-spurring-innovation-in-the-defense-industrial-base/

https://www.workboat.com/trump-signs-executive-order-to-revitalize-us-shipbuilding-industry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/faa-replaces-leadership-in-d-c-area-air-traffic-control-after-fight/ar-AA1CxZLR https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-arel-faa-air-traffic-chief-retires-faa-replacing-dca-managers/ Looks pretty messy............... Regards,

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/gm-corvette-ev-concept-car.html