Skunk Works Announces Info on SR-72 Program

 

Readers,

Not sure if you caught last month’s headlines, but Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works announced that their SR-72 program is already in full-swing to construct and fly a follow-on to the great SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft.

Lockheed told Aviation Week that their high-end tech directorates have been working on special engines (combined cycle propulsion system) that combines a supersonic jet engine with a rocket engine.  Pretty interesting stuff.  Lockheed plans on it flying it as a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that will have speeds in excess of Mach 6.

Readers may recognize some of this technology from The Devil Dragon Pilot!

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Aircraft Comms with Satellites – found in “The Black Scorpion Pilot”

Team,

This article below may be of interest to readers of the Ford Stevens Military-Aviation Thriller Series.  It discusses the aircraft to satellite communications program the FAA has been working on to modernize operations.

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Data Comm is a program at the FAA that allows pilots and air traffic controllers to communicate ahead of departures. This innovative technology is based off of text messaging (readers- you may recognize this), is assisting pilots with their flight plan navigation and routing.  It is part of the FAA’s NextGen Program.

 

 

You may see it again in The Black Scorpion Pilot!

Read the CNET article here.

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Our new web look on ColbyAviationThrillers.com!

Readers,

After weeks of work, we are delighted to officially announce the launch of our new website today!  Our newly remodeled site can be found at https://authorlacolby.com//

Our goal with this new website is to provide our readers an easier way to learn about Lawrence A. Colby’s books in the Ford Stevens Series, and allow the visitor the ability to see the variety of photos that go along with his stories.  Each time the website is refreshed, a new header comes up depicting new, related photos to his military-aviation thriller novels.

Amongst the new features the site contains are integrated social media buttons for Instagram, Goodreads and LinkedIn to foster improved communication with our readers. We will be constantly updating our content with helpful information, articles, blogs, upcoming book announcements, and reader provided photos.

We hope you find the new website fresh and modern; we worked hard to make sure it contains valuable information to assist our readers.

Thank You!

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Author Lawrence A. Colby Interviewed on “Ready For Take-Off Podcast”

I had the honor and privilege of talking about aviation on the Ready For Takeoff Podcast with Captain George Nolly recently.  We discussed everything from military flight training to the C-130 to the upcoming release of The Devil Dragon Pilot. George Nolly launched his aviation career at …

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World, meet Captain Ford Stevens

Ford Stevens is a pilot’s pilot. All he wanted to do since he was a young was get into a cockpit. Perhaps explore the world a bit, to understand it…to experience flight in different cultures and be in the sky. He traveled globally with family …

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The Story

A Ford Stevens Military-Aviation Thriller…coming in December 2016! Concealed deep within China’s inland borders is one of the most secretive airplanes ever flown, known as Devil Dragon. She’s sleek, unbelievably fast, and mysterious—her test pilots have one mission in mind: make her test flights successful …

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