aerospace industry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud Actual nuclear bomb. Probably wouldn't actually happen, since it sounds more like a big bargaining chip, but potentially a huge turning point for the chip industry, and especially...

I noticed there wasn't a general thread for this, so I created this since there are a lot of unrealised chinese launcher projects. Starting with one that's already described on astronautix, but I'm posting a source, taken from Xiandong Bao "A Modular Space Transportation System" (IAF-92-0857)...

https://spacenews.com/vast-releases-design-of-haven-2-commercial-space-station/

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/11/boeing-layoffs-factory-strike.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/latest-talks-boeing-striking-machinists-break-off-progress-114320115

60 today, and still shifting books like a teenager. Thread 'TSR2 Conference - Cosford 13 May 2023' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/tsr2-conference-cosford-13-may-2023.41350/

Reuters reports that Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, will be leaving the company effective immediately. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-defense-head-ted-colbert-leave-2024-09-20/

https://www.spacewar.com/reports/Air_Force_Awards_33_2_Million_to_Outpost_for_Development_of_Scalable_Earth_Return_Vehicle_999.html

Not sure where to post this but my co-author Lowell Ford (Bastard Stepchild) and key resource for new book LightWeight Mustangs, John Morgan, passed away Thursday/Friday last week. Stories and more knowledge untold about the Mustang will be left unspoken. RIP Bill Marshall

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/dick-rutan-pilot-dies-aged-85 One of the greatest pilots has sadly left us.

There have been several discussions about the British aircraft of the 60s since I started here a few weeks ago, apparently it's a never ending topic. They appear to start out technically and end financially and politically in a viscous circle of failure. In the process some interesting and...

It struck me recently why we haven't examined what might have happened if Gloster's Javelin had been a better aircraft. Of all the twin engined fighters for the RAF, the Javelin was produced in the largest quantity and of all of them was the most heavily armed. But ultimately let down by too...

In the thread "Could the UK have done a better job of maintaining carrier based air power?" I've suggested that doing a better job of managing the British aerospace industry is closely related to the UK doing a better job of maintaining carrier based air power. The first step to that is...

You are a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Supply just back from your summer holidays in 1950. You've just left the office of the Minister of Supply, George Strauss. He's handed you a big job this time. He wants you to come up with a plan for rationalising the aircraft industry on a...

In early 1970, the Aussies sent a request to Saab that they wanted to procure the in-development fighter variant of the Saab 37 Viggen (JA 37) as a replacement for their aging Mirage III. Saab got green light for export and sent classified preliminary documentation in December 1970. Swedish...

In the second half of the 20th century, successive French governments had repeatedly tried to acquire control of Dassault. Notably, in 1981, following Mitterand's election, the socialist government attempted it, but effective lobbying, fears of disrupting the company's effectiveness and Marcel...

I have just been told that Bernard & Graefe, owned by the Monch Publishing Group, magazine sellers, is discontinuing definetelly its landmark book series on German aviation subjects,"Die Deusche Luftfahrt". IMHO I believe this to be a case study of mismanagement of a most respected brand, with...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/27/boeing-to-hire-10000-workers-in-2023-as-it-ramps-up-production.html

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

I've just heard that Harrier and P1216 designer Ralph Hooper passed away yesterday. He was 96, and in my view, Britain's greatest ever aircraft designer. Ralph explained his achievements modestly but clearly to the many who asked. Glad we asked him to do so for a video a few years back...