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+== Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers ==
+Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
+Jeremy Hsu – Oct 30, 2026 2:41 PM | 155
+Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data centers. But Boom may be facing turbulence after early backers for both ventures have questioned the company’s delivery timeline or backed out entirely.
+One of the company’s first customers, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, has expressed doubts about Boom’s original plan to deliver the first Overture supersonic airliner in 2029. Kirby’s latest frank assessment came during an interview with the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast that appeared on October 28, 2026.
+“‘29 is their official timeline,” Kirby told podcast host Monica Langley. “It’s not going to happen in ‘29—it’s going to take longer.”
+Boom first made headlines for flying its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft in 2024 and 2025 to demonstrate a “boomless cruise” concept that harnesses the Mach cutoff phenomenon. Such a feat involves flying just beyond supersonic speeds at higher altitudes under specific atmospheric conditions, so that the aircraft’s shockwaves refract upward and minimize the impact on the ground.
+The company’s plan to revive supersonic air travel has been backed by the Trump administration via efforts to ease regulations. In June 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed a new rule overturning a long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States, following an executive order from President Donald Trump.
+https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/united-airlines-ceo-doubts-supersonic-airliner-from-boom-will-be-ready-by-2029/
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+==== August - (German Airport Drone) ====
+== Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport ==
+Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.
+Jeremy Hsu – Aug 6, 2026 3:01 PM
+German police disarmed a drone carrying explosives after it was discovered near Ukrainian cargo aircraft parked at Leipzig airport—and authorities are looking into the possibility of a second drone after an approaching aircraft collided with something midair.
+The drone, first spotted by an airport employee, was hovering close to the ground between two parked An-124 cargo aircraft owned by Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines shortly before midnight on August 4, according to The Guardian. It had apparently been modified to help avoid detection by the airport’s drone defense sensors, said Alexander Dobrindt, federal minister of the interior for Germany, during a press conference.
+Dobrindt described the drone as carrying a fist-sized package of a substance believed to be the plastic explosive Semtex. Only a failed detonator prevented the drone from exploding near the Ukrainian cargo aircraft, he said.
+A bus driver managed to kick the flying drone and caused it to crash, according to Detlef Seif, a lawmaker and member of the German parliament’s interior committee. In an interview with Reuters, Seif described the driver’s actions as “very daring and courageous, but also very dangerous,” while acknowledging that “it is possible that his intervention prevented the intended attack.”
+German police used a bomb disposal robot to help disarm the drone and later carried out a controlled explosion, according to BBC News.
+Contrary to some media reports, the German Interior Ministry has denied that the apparently targeted Ukrainian cargo aircraft were carrying weapons or other munitions for delivery to Ukraine, according to Deutsche Welle. Instead, government officials described the aircraft as having been empty at the time of the drone incident.
+https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/germany-disarms-explosive-drone-found-at-airport-hunts-possible-second-drone/
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 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/13/0215218/amelia-earharts-airplane-may-finally-have-been-found
+== Researchers Spent 4 Days Investigating a Possible Amelia Earhart Wreck. Here’s What They Found ==
+A mysterious object suspected to be the Lockheed Electra 10E turned out to be something else entirely.
+Ellyn Lapointe - October 20, 2026, 11:20 am ET
+In 2020, an amateur researcher spotted an elongated, white object while browsing through Apple Maps satellite images of Nikumaroro Island in the West Pacific. In those blurry photos, it almost resembled an aircraft not unlike the plane Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world in 1937.
+The unusual shape, which came to be known as the Taraia object, immediately captivated researchers who had long searched for Earhart’s plane. Could she and Noonan have landed on the remote, uninhabited island and become marooned there, never to be seen or heard from again?
+Last week, an expedition team arrived at Nikumaroro Island to investigate the Taraia object, hoping to finally solve the decades-old mystery of Earhart and Noonan’s disappearance. Their task was arduous. The object was located on the edge of Taraia Peninsula in the island’s lagoon and submerged in several feet of water, complicating investigative efforts. Plus, Nikumaroro is absolutely crawling with coconut crabs—freakishly large crustaceans so oppressive the team couldn’t stay on the island overnight.
+https://gizmodo.com/researchers-spent-4-days-investigating-a-possible-amelia-earhart-wreck-heres-what-they-found-2000828150
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+==== 2026 - New Mexico (GPS Interference / Drone) ====
+== A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame? ==
+Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
+Jeff Wise - Jul 30, 2026 6:00 AM
+This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.
+But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.
+The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more contested than ever, whether it’s civilian drones wandering out of the approved zone or US agencies getting their signals crossed, as happened earlier this year when New Mexico and Texas scared the public by temporarily closing their airspace. (It turned out that US Customs and Border Patrol were using anti-drone lasers in that area.) The GPS jamming exercise that led to this latest crash is not a singular event. In the past year, the US military appeared to have sent out notices for at least 10 such exercises. “As drone warfare and electronic warfare expand, airlines are increasingly encountering navigation disruptions hundreds of miles beyond the actual conflict zone,” says Eliran Almog, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Cyviation.
+https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/
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+== The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon’s shadow ==
+Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun’s corona.
+Dhananjay Khadilkar – Aug 7, 2026 12:00 PM
+A walk down the tarmac at the National Air and Space Museum of France is guaranteed to thrill aviation enthusiasts. Several civilian and military aircraft of the past and the present are showcased in this museum, located at the Paris-Le Bourget airport. One of them is the legendary Concorde F-WTSS 001 prototype, the sight of which should give goosebumps to science enthusiasts as well.
+That’s because right behind its long nose is a painted map that traces the path of a June 1973 total solar eclipse across Africa. It’s there on the Concorde 001 prototype because a group of eight scientists set a new world record of observing a total solar eclipse for 74 minutes by flying this aircraft at more than twice the speed of sound.
+To put this figure into context, the maximum duration of totality on the ground is around 7.5 minutes when an eclipse is observed in the equatorial regions. For the upcoming solar eclipse of August 12, which can be seen from parts of Europe, the maximum duration of totality from the ground will be slightly more than two minutes.
+https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/the-ultimate-eclipse-chase-a-concorde-raced-against-the-moons-shadow/