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F35 is planning on being at RIAT this year, guessing it will also be at Farnborough the week after.

Hope it gets there in one piece.

That is an incredible photograph ^

Not sure it is Hind level but yes. Other 'Mungers need to step up Yo.

Just noticed the guy in the bubble window.

Soon.

Not sure if this is the right place but tonight at 11:30, Space X are attempting to land a booster from a Geostationary transfer orbit launch on a boat and you can watch it live here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1RO4IcOG0

They've landed and almost landed booster stages before but they have been from slower, easier launches. This one is different in that it has to go much faster and further and as a result, it will only have enough fuel for the landing burn and not the re-entry burn. This means it will be coming down arse-first at hypersonic speed and will most-likely either explode in the atmosphere or sink the landing barge. Or, just maybe, it will land gracefully.

Basically, they're attempting the below video but faster and with less fuel to slow down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMSzC1crr0

Looks like they fucked it there?

Yeah, that time one of the legs broke and it toppled over. They've since done a successful land landing but tonight's attempt will probably be an even more dramatic version of the above video, if it even hits the barge.

They have two drone barges, one called Of Course I Still Love You, which will be used tonight and the West coast one is called Just Read The Instructions, which is the one that got toasted.

Space X are brilliant. Out there and just doing it.

I didn't know they had Culture-style ship names for their barges, very cool

They have sci fi references in a their naming. Falcon 9 is after the millennium falcon.

We're live!

No, were live.

Also, the minimum thrust of just one of the 9 engines is more than the weight of the almost-empty booster, so it can't hover in like a lander, it has to come in fast, decelerate hard then cut the engine... Ideally just as the feet touch down.

Yeah, they had an engine failure on a recent launch yet still managed to get a satellite in orbit.

Apparently they had a problem loading it with fuel last night and it's unclear when the re-re-scheduled launch will be. Some time in the next few days.

Development Typhoon & BMW i8

Dat No...Nnn...Nnn....Nose!?

Not the Concorde's most efficient attitude. Wonder what their airspeed is?

Rough numbers, Concorde landing speed was approx 160knots, Spitfire maximum speed approx 280knots.