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A group of scientists and engineers recently presented the Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance (AVIATR) concept to the world. The aircraft is designed specifically to be able to fly in the dense atmosphere surrounding Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn.
Previous proposals saw researche... |
3 January 2012
05:22 GMT |
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General Electric engineers decided to start using three-dimensional printers for constructing complex jet engine components, such as for example fuel injectors. They say that the move will allow them to construct more solid, less expensive, less-work intensive components.
The company says that it currently takes en... |
20 December 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are currently considering a new proposal for delivering satellites into space. The approach would rely on using airplanes for the job, rather than regular rockets.
The Pentagon agency is constantly on the look-out for new options on strengthening... |
8 November 2011
03:16 GMT |
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is calling for new safety protocols, aimed at preventing instances of midair collisions. Currently, 10 to 12 small aircraft are involved in such events yearly, and the agency wants to put an end to this trend.They way it plans to go about doing this is to create a new and ... |
5 July 2011
08:49 GMT |
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Two of the largest aeronautics corporations in the United States, the Boeing Company and American Airlines, have recently signed an agreement solidifying their cooperation for improving aviation.The two companies want to develop and test emerging technologies that would make flights safer, cheaper, and more environme... |
22 June 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Composite materials have began to make their way into a wide variety of industries over the past few years, changing manufacturing methods, and allowing the creation of more advanced technologies. But they do have their dangers, and now experts made an important step in reducing the risk of using them.One important a... |
24 March 2011
06:44 GMT |
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A new type of space-based navigation signals has become available for use in Europe starting today, March 2. The EGNOS Safety-of-Life signal was just declared available for all those interested.This marks the first time that the European aviation industry is able to access this service, which is bound to improve the ... |
2 March 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Planetary scientists believe they may have discovered a way of keeping track of volcanic ash even at night, when the clouds are notoriously difficult to observe. They say that keeping an eye on the lightnings accompanying the clouds provides sufficient data to determine the height and path of clouds.This conclusion w... |
13 December 2010
03:12 GMT |
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Next time you're flying early in the morning and you want to watch the view outside, but hate that sun getting in your eyes, you might be in luck, especially if your airline of choice has adopted the iShade dimmable windows from InspecTech Aero Service.
As the company informs us, their iShades are the world&r... |
3 December 2010
10:27 GMT |
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This week saw the first science flight being performed with the airborne SOFIA telescope, which is an infrared observatory mounted at the back of a heavily modified airplane. Researchers are currently browsing through the data to derive new knowledge on the targeted objects. During the inaugural flight, SOFIA kept an... |
2 December 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Scientists at NASA announced that during their latest flight of the IceBridge mission, an airplane carrying climate experts and scientific equipment made its way near the South Pole. The flight was carried out using a modified DC-8 airplane.The American space agency will conduct the IceBridge mission for a total of s... |
10 November 2010
11:05 GMT |
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Given the large number of signs pointing to the existence of life on the Red Planet, it stands to reason that exploring it even further is the way to go. Experts believe that future studies will be carried out from airplanes.Thus far, Mars has been investigated using landers, rovers and orbiters, and all of these ins... |
7 October 2010
18:01 GMT |
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A new airborne defense system using lasers has recently misfired in a new battery of tests, when a glitch in its software made it miss a missile it was targeting. The goal of the flying laser is to provide the United States with a new method of defending against incoming missile. This is achieved by blasting the obje... |
25 September 2010
03:28 GMT |
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Officials with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) believe that laser systems mounted on aircraft represent the future of safeguarding the nation against incoming missiles. But such a system has recently had its third flight test delayed due to technical issues. The Airborne Laser is a device mounted in a heavily-mod... |
21 August 2010
03:57 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, sailors aboard the Thomas Jefferson research vessel, which is operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), managed to save a downed pilot. The crew aboard the ship received a message via radio report from the US Coast Guard (USCG), alerting all ships west of Key Wes... |
16 August 2010
03:40 GMT |
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Transportation is one of the main sources of pollution in the world and especially in the United States. A scientific study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, shows that driving a car is causing more damage than flying the same distance in an airplane. A report was published in February by N... |
9 August 2010
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Cloud seeding is a means of controlling precipitations over a certain area. Basically, it refers to using various types of particles to elicit the formation of water droplets above areas that would otherwise suffer from drought. Generally, seeding clouds is very difficult, and can be achieved via two methods – ... |
15 June 2010
02:47 GMT |
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Representatives from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that they have just dispatched a new research airplane to the Gulf of Mexico. The measure was taken in order for experts to ensure that the best available data of the ongoing disaster are collected. These sets of information w... |
10 June 2010
05:04 GMT |
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On Sunday, March 28, engineers and workers at Boeing managed to successfully complete the final wing test on the static unit for their new airplane, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The test rig, which is basically a full-scale airplane affixed to various scaffolds and technical equipments, is used to test new technologie... |
29 March 2010
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In an event that could mark the beginning of an era, this month will see the first drone flight for scientific purposes. A Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) will take off from California, carrying a number of instruments that will allow it to measure the concentration of ozone, aerosols, and various other par... |
4 March 2010
06:33 GMT |
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In a bid to reduce the physical involvement of military personnel in dangerous surveillance operations in conflict zones, experts have taken to developing new observe-and-report technologies that do not include humans. Their main focus is on the class of machines known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), basically re... |
3 March 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Many people know that gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are the most intense and energetic explosions in the entire Universe, when amazing quantities of radiation are emitted and accelerated at nearly the speed of light. The Earth's atmosphere protects us from these cosmic events to some extent, but not many people know th... |
12 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The air-transport industry is known to be one of the greatest contributors to the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted in the Earth's atmosphere each year. Airplanes consume tremendous amounts of fuel to carry millions of people each year, and climate experts have been looking for ways of reducing the amount... |
1 February 2010
05:59 GMT |
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For a long time, more than anyone cares to remember, passengers in United States airports have been forbidden to carry toothpaste, shampoo and other types of liquids aboard jets. Authorities feared that terrorists and other ill-intended people might try to sneak various compounds on air liners, and then mix these com... |
1 February 2010
02:41 GMT |
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The large number of passenger, cargo and military jet airplanes out there today significantly contributes to global warming and climate change. Primarily, the craft do so by burning fossil fuels and releasing significant amounts of pollution in the air, but they also create contrails. These are exhaust byproducts tha... |
30 December 2009
16:11 GMT |
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On Christmas Day, December 25, a passenger of Northwest Airlines' Flight 253 attempted to detonate an explosive device he had strapped to his leg inside the plane, while in mid-flight. For some reason, the explosive failed to detonate properly, and the attacker was subdued by passengers and crew members. But it ... |
29 December 2009
02:49 GMT |
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Experts reveal that using your cell phone or wireless device inside the airplane will probably not bring it down, but it will land you in a confrontation with the other passengers and the flight attendants. Since 1991, the use of cell phones was banned in commercial airliners, but scientists reveal that there is litt... |
22 December 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Boeing Commercial Airplanes company could finally sigh in relief. Its new airplane, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, took its maiden flight. Originally scheduled to take place in September 2007, the flight was canceled multiple times, due to various technical reasons. But now, more than two years later, the ... |
16 December 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Though a relatively large number of investigations have revealed that being aboard an airplane while the aircraft flies through the middle of a large thunderstorm is perfectly safe, a new work begs to differ. A number of experts feel that, while flying through large atmospheric fronts, lightning strikes can easily pr... |
8 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Experts at the Northwestern University (NU) have recently managed to make a new breakthrough in the field of quantum cascade laser (QCL) research. They have demonstrated that a single device, a mid-infrared laser, is capable of an output power larger than 120 watts, all at room temperature. This has never been eviden... |
2 December 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Between November 16 and 17, the Ion Tiger managed to fly for 26 straight hours carrying a 5-pound (2.5-kilogram) payload, and setting a new, unofficial record. The small unmanned air vehicle (UAV) uses hydrogen fuel cells for power, and appears to be making good use of them too. The advanced aircraft was designed and... |
1 December 2009
06:25 GMT |
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In the general field of physics, turbulences are among those factors that can cause a perfectly good device to malfunction. They represent hazard, and knowing your enemy is half the battle. Researchers looking into this type of phenomena are very dedicated workers, as was evidenced recently by California Institute of... |
24 November 2009
21:01 GMT |
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Piezoelectric materials are special classes of ceramics and crystals, which have the ability to generate electrical potential when mechanical pressure is applied on them. They currently provide the basis for a large number of applications, including powering up guitar pickups, making for fuses in rocket-propelled gre... |
23 November 2009
01:41 GMT |
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To military applications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are becoming increasingly indispensable and useful. These aircraft, which are currently flown by remote controls, are able to reach dangerous areas that are deemed too hazardous for human pilots. Their small sizes also make them difficult to detect with convent... |
16 November 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Over the past few years, lasers have become indispensable scientific instruments, which are used for a variety of tasks, ranging from measuring the distance from the Earth to the Moon and analyzing air composition, to offering a focal point for the active optics systems in modern telescopes. But, when firing a high-p... |
2 November 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Despite their impressive sizes, modern planes are still fairly sensitive to mid-air impacts. Over the past year, a cascade of incidents has drawn attention to the fact that birds still remain a major hazard for continental or global flights, especially in terms of the damage they cause when they impact the fuselages.... |
2 October 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies conducted on insect flight have revealed that nature and evolution seem to favor a wing design that is not flat and inflexible, such as airplane wings. While they may get the job done transporting humans from point A to point B, they are not highly efficient in terms of performances, when co... |
18 September 2009
03:42 GMT |
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For a long time, dentists have expressed their amazement at how the outer layer covering the teeth, the enamel, manages to endure so much stress and wear over the course of a lifetime without degrading or decaying too much. This is especially hard to explain, considering that the material itself is only as tough as g... |
20 August 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Piezoelectric devices are well known for their ability to convert mechanical stress into electricity, and a great many research groups around the world are currently working on developing their technology to a point where it could be used in mass applications. Scientists at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), i... |
18 August 2009
09:55 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, led by Dr. Chunlei Guo, recently announced the development of a new method of treating metal, which involves tremendously intense bursts of laser. If a shiny piece of metal is bombarded with the laser pulses, it eventually changes its color to ... |
21 July 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Airplanes could benefit from a new weather control system in the near future, currently under development by the American space agency NASA, and a partnership between the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, Colorado and the University of Wisconsin. The new warning method will employ satellite... |
8 July 2009
03:49 GMT |
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In what Swansea University Professor Larch Maxey described as the “irony of our times,” the expert was invited to fly from his home in England to the United States, to attend a climate change conference at the Smithsonian Festival. Maxey, who, for the past 15 years, failed to wrap his mind around the whol... |
27 June 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Jet lag is a phenomenon associated with long flights, from a part of the world to another, when the biological clock of passengers becomes “confused.” As such, upon their arrival at the destination, they tend to sleep during the day, at the same time when it's night in their place of origin. It takes... |
19 June 2009
10:05 GMT |
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In measures spurred by the January incident, when an airplane hit a flock of large birds and was forced to land on the Hudson River, authorities in New York City decided to kill at least 2,000 geese this year, all of them living in close proximity to the LaGuardia and JFK international airports. City Hall is collabor... |
13 June 2009
05:09 GMT |
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These birds have been objects of fascination for biologists for a long time, on account of the fact that they are the only species of birds to have the ability to hover in mid-air, flapping their wings 12 to 90 times per second. This trait also allows them to move backwards, something that no other winged creature ca... |
10 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Investigators under the gruesome task of searching the waters of the Atlantic Ocean for debris and bodies from the Air France Airbus A330-200 that crashed on June 1st, 2009, some 680 miles (1,090 kilometers) Northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off the northern coast of Brazil, recovered 15 more corpses from ... |
9 June 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Taking their commitment on reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions further, as previously stated, seven of the largest airlines in the world, including Air France/KLM and British Airways, have requested that the United Nations set the CO2 targets for the aviation industry soon. Together with the international N... |
9 June 2009
06:24 GMT |
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At the beginning of this year, an airplane was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters of the Hudson river in New York. The pilot managed to land the plane safely on the water, after a flock of birds hit one of its engines, forcing it to shut down. Now, using a sophisticated chemical analysis, experts have ... |
9 June 2009
01:42 GMT |
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On Saturday, June 20, an American couple will get married in the weightlessness of an aircraft dive, inside a plane known as The Vomit Comet. The two New Yorkers, Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan, will tie the knot in this fashion because they have both been fascinated by space since their early years, and also because ... |
4 June 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Despite a relatively large number of high-profile plane crashes taking place over the last months, statistically speaking, traveling by air is still the safest way of getting from point A to point B, hundreds or thousands of miles away. Large, commercial aircraft, especially, are best equipped to handle large number ... |
2 June 2009
10:04 GMT |
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