It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a flying train?
Don't head to the eye doctor just yet. A team of Purdue students entering the Chicago Red Bull Flugtag next month have built what they hope to be a flying Boilermaker Special, and they plan to launch it off a 30-foot-high platform over Lake Michigan.

The program brings faculty together with business innovators and introduces entrepreneurship ideas in the classroom.

As we are now in the season of Severe Weather, please familiarize yourself with our Shelter-in-Place and Emergency Assembly Area Locations. More information is available at the AAE Safety website.

A recent article in the May 19 issue of Aviation Week features the contribution made by using Purdue's Boeing/AFOSR Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel (BAM6QT) to analyze the Hypersonic Test Vehicle (HTV-2) as part of the USAF/DARPA Falcon program.

A recent article in the March 12 issue of Aviation Week features research being performed at the Zucrow Annex by AAE Propulsion Professors on a wave rotor combustion rig. [PDF]

According to AAE Prof. and Swift Enterprises Ltd. co-founder, "For general aviation aircraft, range is paramount. Not only can our fuel seamlessly replace the aviation industry's standard petroleum fuel, it can outperform it."

Professor DeLaurentis is one of eighteen Purdue faculty members selected to participate in three April 11 faculty symposia that precede the inauguration. He will take part in the "Serious Games for Serious Learning: Harnessing the Digital Generation" panel discussion.

The former council chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) will talk about Europe's space policy during the William E. Boeing Distinguished Lecture at Purdue on Thursday (April 10). Sigmar Wittig, a former Purdue professor, served as the ESA's council chair from 2005-07.

Amanda Briden is the 2008 Sigma Gamma Tau Outstanding Sr. Engineering Award winner.

NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions