We are pleased to announce that as of the 30th April 2025, our Aeronautical Structural Analysis Software STRATOFEM is registered as a European Trademark. We shall now embark in updating it, enhancing it and linking it with extra modules in… Read More »STRATOFEM is now European Trademark
We show the result of a lower bound impact scenario of the 2024 YR4 asteroid for a vertical hit with Earth at 14 km/s. Having a size of overall 70m diameter, it will create a crater of no more than… Read More »2024 YR4 asteroid impact update (lower bound scenario)
We show the result of an extreme impact scenario of the 2024 YR4 asteroid for a direct hit of Earth at 20 km/s and 45 degrees inclination. A crater of more than a kilometer width and 300 m depth is… Read More »2024 YR4 asteroid extreme impact scenario
We have updated the MH370 subsection with the Presentations and Documentaries by adding the 10 Year Anniversary presentation that we posted in LinkedIn on the 8th of March 2024.
We have updated the MH370 subsection dealing with the Impact with the Sea by adding more information on the Boeing 777 Certification test involving the wingbox failure at Ultimate Load.
We have updated the MH370 Flaperon subsection with the preliminary results of a theoretical analysis of the Right Flaperon under guided ditching. In particular the locus of speeds that might or might not cause the fracture of its trailing edge.
We updated the MH370 Impact With The Sea subsection to include MH370 and Transair 810 similarities. The Transair Flight 810 Boeing 737-200 Cargo crashed to the sea shortly after takeoff in the early morning of July 2, 2021 and offers… Read More »MH370 Impact with the sea subsection has been updated
We have updated the MH370 section with a new subsection containing computational analysis of the Right Flaperon debris item under guided ditching and free-fall scenarios.
We have updated the MH370 Trajectories section by emphasizing the latest trajectory by Captain Patrick Blelly and Jean-Luc Marchand and providing a hyperlink to their very educational conference at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on the 7th September 2023.… Read More »MH370 Trajectories section has been updated with the new trajectory by Captain Patrick Blelly and Jean-Luc Marchand
Malaysian Airlines MH370 new debris items: We have updated the Photographic Evidence section of the MH370 part of our website with the discovery in 2020 of the Right Wing Inboard Spoiler and recently (possibly but not confirmed) a part of… Read More »MH370 section has been updated with two new debris items