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Space Stuff and Launch Info
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Kerbal Space Program Tutorial Series - Open Access to 1.7
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United Airlines Flight Clips Light Pole (May 2026) While Landing at Newark (EWR) Airport
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Artemis 2 launch - humans return to the Moon after 54 years
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Nozzle Design Questions
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Positive wing wash-in dynamic soaring one side
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Voyager 1: order-of-magnitude cross-track drift and speed loss over the next 100–1000 years
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Effective Regulation Needed for Safety - Case of TWA Flight 514
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Can a flow created by a fan show an Edge effect when hitting a wall?
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crash
  • Greg Bernhardt
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PW GTF (Geared TurboFan) Engines Manufacturing Issues Affecting A320/A321 NEO Aircraft
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Will Copenhagen suborbitals succeed in putting someone in space?
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General principle of turbomachinery: true also for rocket turbopumps?
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Countermeasures for hypersonic weapons
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Is the ephemeris data of satellites standardized as TLE files?
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Problem with Bernoulli calculation
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NTSB report on crash of UPS Flight 2976 (MD-11F)
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NASA Currently trying to build a rocket to launch into space
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Can someone please recommend basic reading on wind tunnels?
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Severe Turbulence for Delta Flight 56 (NTSB report)
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NASA ISS in Real Time, exploring 25 years onboard the station
  • Filip Larsen
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Aero/Hydro-dynamic Streamlining as a function of medium
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SpaceX SpaceX Starship development: 7th flight January 10
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Radiation Hard Electronic Design for LVO Long Mission
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Never think never for an improbable event
  • Astronuc
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Atmospheric reentry of a paper plane
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How do wind turbines do their thing?
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Generating Artificial Gravity in Spaceships
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How do altimeters react in high acceleration flow?
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Why is an Attitude Indicator not Built Like a Ball Compass?
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Why Do My Cl/Cd Derivations Differ from Phillips' Equations?
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Submarine noise level reduction, stealth question
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Simulation of reaction wheels in a spacecraft
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Mass of the rocket engine's nozzle and combustion chamber as a percentage of the total engine
  • Timothy S.
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NASA How low is Space Shuttle thermal protection's heat conductivity?
  • Timothy S.
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Blade root attachment design
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Rolls-Royce Trent-1000 Engine Issues - British Air cancels flights
  • Astronuc
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Does This Fidget Spinner Video Demonstrate the Magnus Effect?
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[Updated] How Did an F-35 Fighter Jet Go Missing While on Autopilot?
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Why satellite needed to launched in prescribed height and orbit
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Lidar and magnetism detection system
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Boom Supersonic
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Chinese Hypersonic Aircraft - Mach 6.56!?
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When does nuclear thermal propulsion outperform chemical propulsion?
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What are 1st stage and 2nd Stage engines of an airplane?
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Looking for books on aircraft engine maintenance
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Looking for equation/formula for calculating boomerang trajectory based on few variables for game
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Heat transfer in wing by anti-ice system using hot air in piccolo tube
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How high can an airship rise?
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Best rocket-stopping method
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Ideas for high school wind tunnel?
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Boeing Starliner Crew Capsule Failure - history & details
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Could a nuclear powered rocket be safely launched from Earth?
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Meaning of EPR in Radar detection
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What books should I be reading if I want to recreate the Daedalus 88? (human powered flight)
  • mad_theologian
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Engine fire on Cathay Pacific CX383, Airbus A350, Rolls-Royce XWB-97
  • Astronuc
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Would a propeller plane be able to fly in Saturn's atmosphere?
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Looking for AEDsys software (aircraft engine design)
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Explosive Bolts for Aircraft Engines?
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Model Rocket Stabilization
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Boeing Keep your seatbelt low and tight in flight, especially when seated next to a plugged door
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How does surface irregularity affect boundary layers?
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NACA - The Wind and Beyond - History of Aerodynamics in America
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Direction of Plane Engine Rotation
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Thermal effects in aircraft engines - sudden/rapid cooling
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Cracks Found in Pickle Forks, Boeing 737 NG (Sep - Dec 2019)
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Rocket nozzle thermal protection
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Calculating drag for high mach numbers
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"2001 A Space Odyssey" space station: Rotating or contra-rotating?
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Aerodynamics: flow separation's effect on lift and drag
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What Speed is Needed to Launch a 1500 kg Cargo Container to 160 km Altitude?
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How to use formulas for a delta wing?
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Brayton cycle in helium atmosphere with existing gas turbines?
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Feasibility of nuclear detonation for deep planetary science on Mars
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Why can't satellites be equipped with radar systems so that they can detect (and then avoid) impending collisions?
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Wing Sails on modern ships
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Hypersonic Aircraft, DART AE 001
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Centrifugal Compressor: Absolute Velocity Calculation
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SpaceX Bad News for SpaceX Starship -- Raptor Engine Exploded
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Shape and 2D Lift Relationship
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I don't understand how to calculate the drag coefficient
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About lift equation -- Trying to build a miniature helicopter
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Drag Coefficient -- What is the constant K?
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46 year old Voyager 1 once again sending real data
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How to find Malaysia flight MH370?
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Global Detection & Tracking any Aircraft Anywhere Anytime spots MH370
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In-Flight Incident: My Experience with a Throttle Malfunction | Pilot's Story
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Groundbreaking ‘blended-wing’ demonstrator plane cleared to fly
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Does a Rotating Wind Tunnel Impact Airflow on a Turning Vehicle?
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Can a parasail support its tow vehicle like a parachute sailer?
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Methalox Rockets: First Attempts, Future Plans
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Available Wind Energy Calculation
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Artistically Ornated Atmosphere
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Formation of a Starting Vortex for Symmetric Aerofoils (NACA 0015)
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Boeing How to Calculate Vector Forces from Wing Tilt on 757/767 Aircraft?
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NASA What's the Next Step for NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter After Mission Ends on Mars?
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How Does Britain's New £140m 'DragonFire' Laser Transform Air Defense?
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Induced drag relation with speed
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Does a wing fly in its own downwash?
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SpaceX Water injection into SpaceX raptor engine during first 10s
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Flow rate of air through constriction
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Ionizing Atmosphere on the nose of a rocket, missile or aircraft to reduce drag
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