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Flexpakrenew has demonstrated at pilot scale that a set of technologies can be combined to produce performing paper-based packaging materials with a demonstrated environmental gain.
EU project makes first'solar'kerosene An EU-funded research project called SOLAR-JET has produced the world's first'solar'jet fuel from water and carbon dioxide (CO2), a promising technology for a better
and can be used by existing vehicles and aircraft without modifications of their engines or of fuel infrastructure.
The SOLAR-JET project brings together research organisations from academia and industry (ETH Zürich, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR),
Homeowners could use a small filter attached to their tap. Further research is needed to optimize the process
Homeowners could use a small filter attached to their tap. Further research is needed to optimize the process
The first step would be funding to update the Boeing/North american Aviation studies done in the 1970s.
##Aircraft can safely traverse the beam and tests have demonstrated that even the sensitive honeybee is unaffected,
Boeing and GE are developing the capability to 3-D print aircraft components, he said,
Where are you a little over a year after it was announced that the first robotic insect took flight?
lightweight enough to permit flight. Hexagonal micro-truss structure about 30 millionths of a meter wide.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
The fist-sized robot, a product of Virtual Incision in Lincoln, Nebraska, will have its first zero gravity test in an aircraft flying in parabolic arcs in the next few months.
or underwatered. hey don have to know the flight algorithms, or underlying hardware, they just need to connect their software or piece of hardware to the platform,
A five-year stretch at Boeing as an engineer for the U s. military A160 Hummingbird UAV and as a commercial pilot put Downey in contact with drone manufacturers, who,
and solar cells to be developed for highly integrated electronic and optical circuits within a single atomic plane."
It s a type of Vertical Takeoff or Landing (VTOL) rarely done with humans on board because#that transition from vertical to horizontal and back again is difficult for onboard human pilots to manage.
For the drone it works fine and the design lets the wing fly fast like a plane.
Aircraft operate in vast empty skies and do so on three axes. Training a car to sense
and avoid other cars#is simpler than doing the same for an aircraft. Still Google s development and prior experience with cars is a strong sign that this work will continue and ultimately yield fruit.
and avoid other aircraft its been slow to implement changes and create a regulatory framework that lets innovation like this happen stateside.
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
It has a tilt-wing design that allows for vertical takeoff and landing--similar to existing tiltrotor aircraft like the Bell-Boeing V22 Osprey."
"said Zach Johns, the prototype's main pilot.""The four engines on the right wing also work in concert.
"Successful flight tests have not only demonstrated its hovering capabilities during its vertical takeoff--the way a helicopter does
"During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing-borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.
So far we have done this on five flights, "said Bill Fredericks, one of the aerospace engineers working on the project, in a NASA press release."
Now we're working on our second goal--to demonstrate that this concept is four times more aerodynamically efficient in cruise than a helicopter."
what we are testing now--would make also a great one to four person size personal air vehicle."
and dangerous jobs much better than humans or helicopters. The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot.
Commercial businesses can now license Airware Flight Core autopilot technology, Ground Control Station for dispatching drones,
the Flight Core autopilot system, which provides the brains to each drone that Airware powers,
and ensure theye complying with flight regulations. Rather than having to pre-program a drone,
and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within
It was easily the most exciting flight of the day, launching via a catapult, flying several quick passes around the the whole area,
which will provide a full-on Linux computer for developers to work with in addition to the standard Flight Core autopilot and Ground Control Station integration.
Planes and helicopters can be terribly expensive for collecting this overhead video and measurement data, though.
Downey grew up the son of pilots, then built his own drones at MIT. Now his company Airware is going to teach them to do our bidding,
and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
"Celtic in partnership with Ghent-based Biobase Europe Pilot Plant produced the first samples of biobutanol earlier this month.
and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
"Celtic in partnership with Ghent-based Biobase Europe Pilot Plant produced the first samples of biobutanol earlier this month.
#How to build a hypersonic airliner t is a magic aircraftthe pleasure of flying in it is almost a carnal one.
So said Joelle Cornet-Templet, a chief stewardess for Air france, about Concorde: one of the world first supersonic civilian airplanes,
which flew from 1976 to 2003 and became a watchword for travelling in style. This thoroughbred airliner could fly from London to Sydney in 17 hours, three minutes and 45 seconds;
compared to around 22 hours on a Boeing 747. Concorde was the best-known member of an exclusive club of two;
the only other civilian airliner able to break the speed of sound was the Soviet union Tupolev tu-144,
The end of the Concorde and Tupolev airliners left the supersonic market empty. But now, 12 years after the Concorde fleet last flew,
even faster airliners are taking shape in research facilities. One of those designs is by Lapcat-II,
a European-designed aeroplane capable of cruising speeds up to eight times faster than sound (8, 500 km h or 5, 280 mph) taking passengers from Brussels to Sydney in 2 hours and 55 minutes.
At the AIAA Hypersonic Space Plane conference in Glasgow in Scotland in July, a paper submitted by Lapcat-II researchers said their early airliner tests suggested such a design would be greener than current aircraft,
and would not cost much more than today long-haul flights. Fuel factorjohan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,
One is a Mach 5 plane the Lapcat-A2 powered by a precooled air-turbo ramjet;
and a promising Esa-designed Mach 8 plane, also powered by a ramjet engine. A ramjet is an air-breathing jet, with no major moving parts.
Ramjets can move a plane very fast. But how do you power them? Fuel choice is important,
the risks of an explosion or fire are lower compared to conventional airline kerosene fuelwhat more,
liquid hydrogen fuel is not highly combustible mid-flight. Although hydrogen can be ignited, the risks of an explosion or fire are lower compared to conventional airline kerosene fuel.
Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is
In Asia, Japan aerospace exploration agency (Jaxa) is also working on a hypersonic airliner called Hytex intended to cross the Pacific ocean in two hours at speeds of Mach 5. Both Lapcat-II
The Hytex turbojet engine has been tested successfully in a flight experiment which simulates speeds up to Mach 1. 8. Hytex uses liquid hydrogen both as a fuel
says Hideyuki Taguchi, leader of Jaxa hypersonic airplane research. Hunger for hydrogenbut, deriving hydrogen efficiently is one main factor for high operating costs.
the airfare tickets of a hypersonic trip could drop to about half the price of a business-class ticket.
though hydrogen-fuelled airliners would not emit greenhouse-increasing gases such as carbon dioxide, sulphur oxides or soot like today subsonic airplanes,
there is another issue. Water vapour produced by hydrogen combustion stays in the stratosphere for a long time and could be a contributing factor to global warming.
And that effect could be worse than the current fleet of long-haul airliners the longer that water vapour remains."
"Lapcat-II also plans for their Mach 8 Esa-variant airliner to fly well above 33 km, hopefully minimising the environmental impact.
when stored as a liquid it needs far less space than gas. f a market for small business jets existed,
Race for the skiesother companies are already working to make the supersonic business-aviation market a reality.
Airbus has patented just a delta-wing Mach 4. 5 hypersonic design that could be used to create business jets.
And Lockheed martin has a commercial plane, the N+2, that will travel at Mach 1. 7. There one problem with flying so fast,
European hypersonic jets would fly over the North pole and cross the Bering strait, avoiding populated land.
and Boeing to design airplanes that break the sound barrier more quietlyanother problem is that of the uperboomwhich develops
when a supersonic airplane changes its speed, turns or manoeuvres. In a superboom the ground noise of a sonic boom is two
As the European hypersonic plane will fly higher, its ground shock waves will be spread out and produce a smaller shock wave.
and Boeing to design airplanes that break the sound barrier more quietly. From 2020 to 2025 it may be possible that airplanes could then exceed the sound barrier over populated land without causing a major disturbance.
In Europe, Steelant team tested their 300-seat design, albeit a 1: 120 scale model, at speeds of Mach 8 within a wind tunnel.
While the design consumes two times more fuel per second than a Mach 4 plane, it gets to the destination in roughly half the time so the fuel consumed overall during the trip is roughly the same.
When we have a lighter airplane, we have lower fuel consumption and smaller tanks, which makes the vehicle again smaller,
The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.
according to research by Airbus and the Japan Aircraft Development Corporation. he estimated ticket price for Tokyo to Los angeles is the same as that of an existing first-class seat,
Airbus and Aerion aeroplane tests will start in 2019. The European A2 Mach 5 aeroplane may take another 20 years to complete.
The Esa Mach 8 aeroplane might become commercially sustainable sometime in the mid 21st Century.
The Concordes and Tupolevs that paved the way for supersonic air travel in the 1970s now gather dust in museums.
But their legacy may be continued, fast and high above our heads, in the years to come
that covers conducting airways of lung-tissue. The mucus barrierhich serves as a protector from foreign materials
because they possessed a positive charge that caused them to be tickyand adhere to the negatively charged mucus covering the airways.
this is the first biodegradable gene delivery system that efficiently penetrates the human airway mucus barrier of lung tissue,
A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination,
A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination,
the academics working on the project have to set up a pilot test that proves their theories correct on a large scale.
as we can easily install this system into a drone, airplane, or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health,
and frosting on aircraft wings.""This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces, "said Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute."
-In cooperation with the industry partner the scientists built a second pilot plant at Wonosari hospital.
A second stage of the grant will help bring a pilot to India this summer.
#Flight Flies on 100 Percent Biofuels This week saw the first-ever completely biofuel-powered flight take place.
The National Research Council of Canada conducted the first flight on 100 percent renewable, drop in biofuel on its Falcon 20 jet, according to oilprice. com, marking a huge milestone for the aviation and renewable energy industries.
Oilseed crops commercialized by Agrisoma were used as a feedstock and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel.
Previously, flights on biofuels had been limited to a 50 percent blend with petroleum making this a major breakthrough.
Progress in biofuel-powered flights and the Navy continued pursuit of alternative energy are great steps to help the United states build a biobased economy
motorcycles, diesel trains, generators, container ships and aircraft, among others. It is hoping to have the same impact as the catalytic converter,
NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
The 62-lb. 28 kilograms) drone can take off vertically like a helicopter, but in the air it flies more like an airplane.
Future versions of the drone could be used for a variety of applications, the researchers said."
what we are testing now would make also a great one-to four-person-size personal air vehicle."
"Over the course of five flight tests, the drone was able to take off and hover like a helicopter,
before demonstrating that it can also fly like a conventional airplane. Now, the researchers are examining ways to make the drone more aerodynamically efficient,
Fredericks said. The GL-10 drone is the latest in a series of prototypes used to develop the concept.
25 kg), with each successive version getting closer to a real aircraft's weight and design."
the GL-10 is a quiet flier because its engines are powered battery. NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
"We have demonstrated now an entirely new class of electromagnetic metamaterials that are fabricated from separate atomic planes of Van der waals materials,
A second stage of the grant will help bring a pilot to India this summer.
which is used already for scanning by plane, satellite or tractor, has become a precise, noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing.
They say the device taps in to the body's natural rhythm and gives the wearer control over how alert
This is all the information needed for the device to tap into the body's natural response to external rhythms."
Solving the problem is not so simple, especially with regards to aviation the source of two-percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
Ours is the first process to generate true drop in aviation biofuels. Scown cites the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) on the importance of drop in aviation biofuels. n a 2014 report
the IPCC pointed out that drop in biofuels are the only viable alternative to conventional jet fuels,
air travel is going to require renewable liquid fuels because batteries and fuel cells simply aren practical. The process developed at EBI can be used to selectively upgrade alkyl methyl ketones derived from sugarcane biomass into trimer condensates with better than 95-percent yields.
A two-litre petrol engine drives two fans either side of the pilot to lift the jet pack and up to 120kgs of human into the air,
along with a low-altitude parachute for use should things go wrong. After initial test flights in 2011
an updated version was shown off recently at the Paris airshow. It could fly for up to 30 minutes at speeds as fast as 74 kilometres per hour.
Pilots will be able to reach altitudes of 1, 000m taking off and landing vertically, meaning rooftops,
gardens and parking lots are all viable launchpads. In fact, Martin believes that the jetpack ability to land in confined spaces will be its selling point,
New zealand-based Martin Aircraft recently floated on the Australian stock exchange, seeing a $50m investment from Chinese aerospace company Kuang-Chi Science,
and has been showing off a simulator of the jetpack at airshows including Paris. Jetpacks: niche hobby or future transport for the masses
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