A MAVinci micro air vehicle (MAV) is inspected before taking off. (Credit: MAVinci) ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2010) — An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA's Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land [...]
The GRIP mission's DC-8 payload. Credit: NASA Scientists, graduate students and NASA flight crew came together and took part in the first flight of the DC-8 aircraft in NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment on Tuesday, August 17, as it flew into the remnants of Tropical Depression Five over southern Louisiana. The inside [...]
The first WhiteKnightTwo mothership sits on a Mojave, Calif., runway with designer Burt Rutan and Sir Richard Branson nearby during the debut in July 2008. Credit: Virgin Galactic The huge mothership jet built to launch suborbital spaceships for Virgin Galactic suffered landing gear damage Thursday during a test in California's Mojave Desert, the aircraft's builders [...]
Image courtesy Terrafugia For anyone who’s ever wanted to skip airport security lines and boarding delays, a newly designed flying car may pave the way for future personal transportation. Developers unveiled a scale model of the redesigned Transition "roadable aircraft" (pictured in a digital rendering) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Monday. The new design is both a [...]
Small aircraft with lighting striking in the distance. (Credit: iStockphoto/Duard Van Der Westhuizen) ScienceDaily (July 28, 2010) — A researcher at the University of Southampton is studying the potential for damage posed by lightning for carbon fibre composites (CFCs) which are increasingly being used in aircraft manufacture, with a view to reducing damage and minimising [...]
The first "A" in NASA stands for aeronautics, and the agency is leading a host of federal programs and initiatives that aim to develop a fleet of environmentally friendly aircraft DOUBLE BUBBLE: One aircraft proposed by a group led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), including researchers from Pratt & Whitney and Aurora Flight [...]
A smoke visualization still of the actual vortex wake behind our glider during a free-flight high angle of attack landing. (Credit: Jason Dorfman/CSAIL) ScienceDaily (July 26, 2010) — Everyone knows what it's like for an airplane to land: the slow maneuvering into an approach pattern, the long descent, and the brakes slamming on as soon [...]
©ok4me2/ALO/SAL 15 July 2010 Airbus A380 lands in The Netherlands fo the first time!
This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Full Story. Credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin Corporation A new design concept for a futuristic faster-than-sound aircraft could break through legal barriers to supersonic flights over land by shushing the sonic booms created by such vehicles. The [...]
WOULD you fly in an airliner knowing there were no pilots in the cockpit? This is no mere hypothetical question. The US Federal Aviation Administration this month kicked off what could be the first step in a journey towards the full automation of the airliners we all travel on. Drone-filled skies The FAA commissioned the [...]
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