Daily Archives: December 15, 2011
F-35 Concurrency Woes
By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor A 55-page report this weekend made public a laundry list of flaws currently dragging on the F-35 fighter program and is complicated by a production plan called “Concurrency” that allows Lockheed Martin to churn out the jets while testing continues. Structural cracks, electrical gremlins and a “classified” problem are among those [...]
Boris Chertok, Engineer With Russian Space Program, Dies at 99
By DENNIS HEVESI Boris Chertok, a Russian rocket engineer who played a central role in designing the navigation systems for Soviet spacecraft during the race to the moon, among them the one that carried the first human into space, died Wednesday in Moscow. He was 99. Russia’s state-controlled spacecraft manufacturer, RKK Energiya, for which Mr. Chertok [...]
