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The new ammonia propulsion system uses heat exchanger technology originally developed for Reaction Engines' Skylon spaceplane

Reaction Engines testing Ammonia as Carbon-Free aviation fuel producing water vapor and safe nitrogen...

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August 24, 2020 - by David Szondy for www.newatlas.com

Reaction Engines and Britain's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have completed a concept study into the practicality of using ammonia as a jet aviation fuel.

By teaming Reaction Engines's heat exchanger technology with STFC's advanced catalysts, they hope to produce a sustainable, low-emission propulsion system for tomorrow's aircraft.

Modern jet engines use a variety of fuels based on kerosene that have a very high energy density that can propel aircraft well beyond the speed of sound and carry passengers and cargoes across the globe.

Unfortunately, such fuels are also derived from fossil fuels and produce significant carbon dioxide emissions, which the airline industry and many governments have pledged to reduce radically by 2050.

One way of achieving these cuts is to look at alternatives to conventional jet fuels to power airliners.

The problem is...

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A Lost Decade For Aircraft Manufacturers, Suppliers. Thanks To COVID19...

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September 21, 2020 - by Judson Rollins, Bjorn Fehrm & Scott Hamilton for leehamnews.com

Commercial aviation is facing a lost decade due to COVID.

Yes, most forecasts target 2024-2025 as returning to 2019 passenger traffic and aircraft production levels.

However, LNA in July published its own analysis indicating full recovery may not occur until 2028. Breathless headlines notwithstanding, it will take years for vaccines to be widely available and considered safe by enough of the world's population. Growing concern about vaccine production and distribution capacity through 2024 underscores this view.

Even Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said earlier this month that business travel might not fully return for a decade.

Indeed, the 2020s may well be a lost decade for aircraft manufacturers and...

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Yes, The United States Did Draw Up A Plan To Drop 80 Nuclear Weapons On North Korea

In 2017, a war between North Korea and the United States was much "much closer than anyone would know,"...

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September 20, 2020 - by THOMAS NEWDICK for www.thedrive.com

Current nuclear war plans are among any nuclear-armed military's most closely guarded secrets. Details of one such attack plan recently became available, however, revealing that the United States envisaged using 80 nuclear weapons in case of war with North Korea. The way this particular detail emerged is also pretty unusual — the associated passage appeared in U.S. journalist Bob Woodward's book Rage, detailing President Trump's administration, which was published this week.

In fact, the particular quote from the book was not entirely clear:

"The Strategic Command in Omaha had carefully reviewed and studied OPLAN 5027 for regime change in North Korea — the U.S. response to an attack that could include the use of 80 nuclear weapons."

This can be read two ways: a potential attack from the North could involve the use of 80 nuclear...

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Airports Have to Change Runway Names When Magnetic North Moves

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September 20, 2020 - by STEF SCHRADER for www.thedrive.com

he 9,000-foot runway 17L/35R at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport won't be called that when it reopens after construction, per Aviation International News. Turns out, those runway numbers actually mean something.

Austin's under-construction runway will now be 18L/36R, and it's all because the location of the magnetic north pole keeps changing. Magnetic north can move up to 40 miles in one year, according to Wired.

While the inner core of the Earth is solid, the outer core of the earth is liquid, and mostly made of molten iron and nickel, as the National Centers for Environmental Information explains. That flow within the outer core generates 95% of the Earth's magnetic field, and because it's fairly irregular, that causes magnetic north to move around a bit.

Thus, a runway name change can even happen to runways that...

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Control of Israel's El Al Airlines Bought By 27-Year-Old Student

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September 19, 2020 - by Steven Scheer for reuters.com

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A 27-year-old U.S.-born yeshiva student has secured control of El Al Israel Airlines ELAL.TA following a public share offering that was a government condition for the carrier to receive a 75% state-backed $250 million loan.

Eli Rozenberg's newly created Kanfei Nesharim Aviation bought $107 million of shares that would give him a nearly 43% stake in Israel's flag carrier, his spokesman said Thursday.

Rozenberg, who resides in Israel, is the son of Kenny Rozenberg, chief executive of New York-based nursing home chain Centers Health Care.

The government bought a 15% stake for $34 million while...

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Universal Hydrogen is proposing a conversion kit that would install hydrogen fuel modules to be fitted to the rear of existing airliners. (Image: Universal Hydrogen)

Conversion Plan Set To Promote Early Switch to Hydrogen Fuel for Dash 8 and ATR 42...

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September 19, 2020 - by Charles Alcock for www.ainonline.com

Universal Hydrogen, a California-based startup co-founded by former Airbus chief technology officer Paul Eremenko, has launched plans to convert regional airliners to hydrogen power. The company says its business model will encourage early adoption of the carbon-free fuel by the air transport industry before manufacturers develop new aircraft with hydrogen propulsion as standard equipment.

Eremenko and his fellow founders maintain that hydrogen is the only clear pathway for aviation to achieve true carbon neutrality and the complexity of the required infrastructure remains the key obstacle in the way of its widespread adoption.

Formed seven months ago, Universal Hydrogen recently publicized a plan to re-engine Dash 8 and ATR 42 regional airliners with fuel-cell electric propulsion and refillable hydrogen modules.

The modules will be supplied directly from...

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Boeing Test Pilot Brien Wygle, Who Commanded The Original 737 First Flight In 1967, Has Died, Aged 96

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September 18, 2020 - by Dominic Gates for www.seattletimes.com

The first flight of Boeing's original 737 took place 50 years ago on April 9, 2017, and Seattle's Museum of Flight will mark the anniversary with a celebration that's open to the public for the price of admission.

The occasion comes just weeks before the first delivery of the newest version of that jet, the Boeing 737 MAX.

Brien Wygle, the pilot who commanded that first flight on April 9, 1967, and who two years later was co-pilot on the first flight of the 747 jumbo jet, will participate in a panel discussion at noon in the museum theater.

"Fifty years ago we had no idea," Wygle, 92, said in an interview this week. "We were hoping to eventually sell enough to break even."

As it turned out, the longevity and success of the 737 proved astounding. Boeing as of last month had delivered 9,448 of the single-aisle twinjets, with 4,506 more still on order.

And with the delivery of the first MAX coming soon, Boeing plans to...

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