On The DEW Line, Stephen Trimble found "startling trends" in cost data for the US Air Force's ageing and most mature combat aircraft, and noted that things get "a little weird" when the focus switches to less mature or less numerous types, citing per-flight-hour figures for the Lockheed Martin F-22 and Bell Boeing CV-22.
In our back-issue archive, Jon "FlightBlogger" Ostrower dug up a 1989 story in which McDonnell Douglas "concedes that, with fuel prices unlikely to rise substantially in the near future, there is 'inadequate motivation' for airlines to gamble on unducted-fan technology".
Asian Skies blogger Greg Waldron sourced from the China Defence Mashup website a photo purportedly of a crashed Chinese UAV.
"To me it looks like the Pterodactyl," he wrote.
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