Japan, the UK and Italy's GCAP fighter demonstrator is 75% built, and reporters have finally seen it. A third longer than a Typhoon, with weapons bays reportedly double the F-35's capacity, its sheer size reveals the program's priorities: range and payload for the Pacific. How it compares to America's F-47 and Europe's collapsed FCAS.
In 2012, the Sankei Shimbun reported a biofuel revolution centered on Enomoto algae, a hyper-growth Botryococcus discovered by Kobe University professor Taira Enomoto. Heavy-industry giant IHI joined biotech venture Neo-Morgan Laboratory to commercialize it, with then-CEO Tomohiro Fujita declaring he wanted to cut the price to one-tenth within ten years. Fourteen years later, the joint venture has dissolved, but the algae produced the world's first commercial flight to use SAF certified under ASTM D7566 Annex 7, and a Japanese-led 5-hectare facility in Malaysia is now the largest of its kind on Earth. Did the promise come true, or is the dream over?