Video)##The flyer is only about eight centimeters in diameter##small enough to fit in the palm of your hand
##which have four helicopter rotors. The machines can catch a ball and perform other autonomous feats of balance and coordination.
Airline seat concept that could morph to fit each passenger Morph airline seating. Traveling by air on a budget isn t pleasant.
The concept of static seats and the suggestion that they will provide a more pleasant flight experience is interesting,
airline staff can effectively tailor each bench for its occupants. All three seats take up 54 inches of width##a fairly standard economy bench size.
This simple adjustment gives the father more lateral space than almost#any major airline would offer in economy
With some economy airlines charging significantly more to sit in an exit row or close to the front of the plane,
offering airlines and passengers a##premium##row for those would like to pay more for the space.
a pet-friendly airline. Several times a year Meeker and his wife travel to Chicago or Minnesota to see their parents,
Chances are if you have been to London s Heathrow Airport you have caught probably a glimpse of something called an ULTRA PRT#transport pod.
These driverless pods have been shuttling travelers from terminal to terminal at the massive airport sonce 2011.
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He s taken it on planes on many occasions as part of a project that began some years ago in the Marshall islands.
Where are you a little over a year after it was announced that the first robotic insect took flight?
The EPFL team noted its work underscores confidentiality issues with drones as its aircraft can pull phones Wi-fi network names and MAC addresses.
With the top speed of a these trains just 25 percent less than the average speed of a commercial airplane (which travels at about 800 kilometers per hour), one can travel faster between city center to city center
and the need to travel outside of cities to reach airports hours in advance. By 2027
or even days to hear from someone at an airline to tell you where your lost luggage has ended up
and even contacting airlines directly when they get lost. The jumbo jet maker Airbus introduced a concept design for smart luggage at the Paris Air Show last year.
and can weigh itself to ensure that it meets airline requirements. AT&T unveiled a similar concept at a demonstration of itsnext-generation technologies in May.
The ultimate plan is to for the luggage to work with airlines IT systems, contacting the carriers directly and arranging for delivery to your home or hotel.
U s. airlines mishandled over 141,000 bags in April, according to government statistics, or about three bags for every 1, 000 passengers.
if it successfully gets candidates elected in its 2014 pilot campaign it plans to raise orders of magnitude more money to elect an an more pro-campaign finance reform congress in 2016,
The findings, reported in the journal Science, could lead to cheaper and greener cars, planes and electronics.
thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibers to form composites. Some 50%of the new Airbus a350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.
Yet until now, none of this thermoset plastic could be recycled. The potential impact here is said phenomenal
Nonlethal solution Mr Kieser said that he now planned to invite potential clients to see demonstration flights that would be held in Africa, Europe and The americas over the coming months.
tiles and taps will look together. Step into the Holoroom, where they will be displayed in augmented reality.
as if you were piloting an Air force jet and then aim your weapon where it tells you to.
while they want to do some early pilot line production themselves, they know they need a large manufacturing partner
William C Brown, the inventor of the cross-field amplifier, used a remote control helicopter to demonstrate his breakthroughs using wireless microwave power on the Walter Cronkite 6: 00 pm news. Citing Tesla same logic,
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
canceled or overbooked flights. Meet Airhelp, the startup that will save you all the hassle and claim money for you.
we search for your flight itineraries and figure out how much you can claim. If youe been delayed on a flight for the last three years,
you can claim money for that. But how much exactly can you claim? For a delayed, canceled
or overbooked flight in Europe, you can get up to $800 per flight. In the U s.,you could end up with $1,
300 for an overbooked flight. That why airlines will fight you very hard not to give you your money back.
According to Airhelp, only 0. 1 percent of eligible passengers get their compensation. Not only Airhelp will do the hard work for you,
but it will also generate some substantial revenue at the same time. And this is Airhelp secret sauce every time the company goes through the compensation process
youe likely to be rejected by the airline saying that it an extraordinary circumstance, Michaelsen said. e auto-generate the legal documents that you should send to the airline.
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
With the FAA and other civil aviation authorities moving toward policies that allow for the commercial operation of drones in civilian airspace,
while fossil fuel-or battery-powered unmanned aircraft are expensive to run and possess a shorter range.
while also developing advanced algorithms to help the aircraft better traverse wind patterns and flight routes.
and onboard battery storage that allows the planes to fly at night. The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model,
the Solara 50, is actually larger than a Boeing 767 jetliner, boasting a 164-foot wingspan.
The problem with solar planes is that they are limited to smaller payloads, said drone expert Patrick Egan.
which has flown already a model aircraft on it. The Navy 289 vessels all rely on oil-based fuel,
with the exception of some aircraft carriers and 72 submarines that rely on nuclear propulsion. Moving away from that reliance would free the military from fuel shortages
and manufacturing costs by designing a critical aircraft part that was 83 percent lighter and yet still met the safety and design criteria, according to GE general manager for technology Christine Furstoss.
And in 2012, GE Aviation was formed from the acquisition of Morris Technologies as the company wanted to learn more about additive manufacturing.
which helps it to learn how to develop the more difficult or traditionally expensive parts for aviation, oil and gas, healthcare,
Furstoss said by 2020, the company aims to print more than 100,000 parts for aviation. In the meantime, the company continues to focus on transforming its repair processes for industrial components.
He said the Education Foundation is working with local teachers on classroom pilots to try out startup products in a realistic environment.
If the captain happens to be on the bow or the stern rather than up on the bridge when there an emergency,
The captain just signs in to the nearest console and enters a password, as if he doing some online banking.
It incumbent on the captain not to share it with anybody. Everyone got to protect their password,
Even if an impostor did succeed in tricking the ship into thinking he was the captain, it unlikely a hacker could fire the weaponshat process involves more than one person.
Smart sensors installed across the city will also provide real-time information and services on weather, traffic, entertainment, tourism, emergency services and flights.
saying cities will move quickly from research and evaluation to investment in pilots. What are thoughts your on how we can develop intelligent infrastructure and the smart cities of the future s
unmanned aircraft operated by Israel, the U k. and the U s. are capable of tracking and firing on aircraft and missiles.
On some of its Navy cruisers, the U s. also operates Phalanx, a stationary system that can track
and engage anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The Army is testing a gun-mounted ground vehicle, MAARS, that can fire on targets autonomously.
in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.
Video)##The aircraft, called quadcopters because they have four rotors, navigate using signals from Global positioning system (GPS RECEIVERS,
and compute their own flight plans. They were created by a team of scientists led by Tamás Vicsek, a physicist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
But his machines were fixed-wing fliers that could move only at constant speeds and had to fly at different heights to avoid collisions.
but real fliers face other problems. The big enemies are noise and delay, says Vicsek.
The fliers also need time to receive and process those signals, and these lags mean the drones often get too close to one another
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.
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
It was sponsored by Lufthansa and looked basically identical to today's Twike. I'm sure it has a lot more power than the ELF.
If an enemy boat or aircraft gets too close to a Navy ship, the laser can deter the threat with an effect known as optical"dazzling."
IBM said the materials could even potentially be used in airplanes, where their strength, light weight,
resistance to stress and self-healing abilities could allow them to be used on airplane wings.
"In addition to the hard material that IBM says could be used for airplane wings, they also developed an elastic gel that is mostly liquid
Arne Melse of DHL says that 10 percent of the company vehicles are bikes. rom our pilots in four EU countries,
#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.
Try a poop-powered airport shuttle bus. The first of its kind in the United kingdom Bio-Bus is a 40-seat transit vehicle that runs entirely on fuel generated through anaerobic digestion.
which ferries commuters between Bristol Airport in North Somerset and the historic tourist-inundated city of Bath with several local stops in between.
Stay for the human excrement-powered airport shuttle. In addition to the Bath-to-Bristol airport service Bath Bus company operates open-top sightseeing coaches in England and Wales with routes in Windsor Cardiff Eastbourne and of course Bath.
The company has remarked not as to if any vehicles in its sightseeing fleet will join the airport shuttle
and be converted to run on Bristolian sewage and food scraps o
#Quantum'entangled'light sharpens microscopes'images The first microscope that uses the eerie trick of quantum entanglement to increase its sensitivity has been developed by Japanese researchers.
"It is like an airplane with wings upside down,"Graham Hawkes, founder and chief technical officer of Hawkes Ocean Technologies, told the Chronicle."
and drag the principles of regular flight to"soar"underwater. This means the Super Falcon is always positively buoyant
and includes on-site pilot and operations training. The vehicles are among the latest high-tech items geared at the super-rich,
Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.
The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
But longer, microwave wavelengths#for applications such as airport scanners#require a different approach, because there are no materials that can serve as micromirrors in that part of the spectrum.
Today s millimetre-wave airport scanners physically move an array of multiple sensors around a person.
The sudden ballooning also amplified quantum fluctuations into clumps of matter that went on to seed the first stars,
"Duru wrote in a description of a Youtube video of the hoverboard's record-breaking flight.
Should Jets Be rerouted to Avoid Warming Contrails? Pennsylvania State university geography professor Andrew M. Carleton and graduate student Jase Bernhardt studied April data from two weather stations, one in the South and the other in the Midwest,
when commercial jets were grounded, suggested that the absence of contrails had an effect upon weather. But it took the longer recent study to show that the effect could be observed over a longer period as well.
when tubes were placed in patients'airways for mechanical ventilation, a procedure that can cause the virus to become aerosolized.
and return to Earth using a parachute to slow its decent through the atmosphere about 8 days later.
and the jets are not always active exploring them remotely is challenging. The more the spacecraft can do without waiting for communication with Earth the better they can explore especially
if the Canadian space agency selects their ISS-MRI for a life science berth on a rocket flight in 2016.
In cases where images with greater resolution are needed the pair plan to use aerial imagery from drones provided local aviation and privacy laws permit.
But the most radical aspect of the redesign is the landing gear which will allow astronauts to set the spacecraft down on solid ground.
The current version of Dragon deploys a parachute as it descends and splashes down in the ocean.
You'll be able to land anywhere On earth with the accuracy of a helicopter Musk said during the event at Spacex headquarters in Hawthorne California.
and flown again much like commercial airplanes. As long as we continue to throw away rockets and spacecraft we will never have true access to space says Musk.
Like passengers in today's commercial aeroplanes riders of the Dragon V2 won't get much leg room in the capsule's tight quarters.
or the air flows that make aeroplane flights bumpy. Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
This is not a trailer for an alien invasion movie NASA is gearing up to conduct the first test flight of a disc-shaped spacecraft designed to safely land heavy loads
Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
Such weight can't be slowed adequately by parachutes in the Martian air which is just 1 per cent as dense as Earth's. Unfortunately rocket-powered landings are out of the question too as the atmosphere is still just thick enough to buffet incoming spacecraft with more turbulence than thrusters can accommodate.
and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
and moments later the parachute will fire. The saucer should gently splash down in open water.
NASA has three more test flights in Hawaii planned for the LDSD and mission managers will review the results before deciding on next steps.
After the shuttle's last flight in 2011 though the US became dependent on Russia for transport to the ISS using Soyuz at a cost of nearly $71 million for each seat it requires.
One of the alternative models was just little pockets of water driving the jets and in that model you wouldn't have much in the way of life
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.
Virgin galactic's Spaceshiptwo is a six passenger two pilot suborbital craft designed to give wannabe astronauts a few minutes in space.
The first flights were initially set for 2008 but have since been delayed repeatedly. Founder Richard Branson announced a 2014 date last month.
which will see celebrities compete for a flight to space aboard an XCOR AEROSPACE Lynx craft.
the Lynx is yet to perform a single test flight. For those looking beyond low Earth orbit Mars One is also continuing with its plans to send humans on a televised one-way mission to the Red planet by 2023.
Advances in pre-flight automation mean that the rocket dubbed Epsilon can be ready to lift off in about a week with fewer people in mission control helping to slash costs to about $38 million per launch much cheaper than its heavier labour-intensive predecessors.
while the two lobes on the horizontal plane consist of slower-moving particles (watch a NASA video of the tail in action).
Instead the smaller cheaper machine might help labs around the world study deep-space objects such as powerful radiation jets squirted out by black holes.
so that it crashes into metal atoms releasing a jet of electrons and positrons. These particles are separated into two beams with magnets (Physical Review Letters doi. org/m2n.
whereas our jet is a hundred times narrower and remains pencil-like as it propagates he adds.
After a few delays due to weather and a technical glitch the Antares launch vehicle lifted off on its maiden flight on 21 april.
For the test flight the rocket climbed high into a clear blue sky carrying a mock cargo ship with the same mass
and everything is defined in planes. In many applications you want the three-dimensionality: 3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together
If I turn on the two jets at one end it won t go straight. It will just turn.
The control algorithm constantly adjusts the velocity of the water pumped through each of the six jets to keep the robot on course.
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,
We did analysis of rides from Laguardia Airport and were able to build really detailed maps around where passengers were headed from that high-density departure point he says.
the rotor of a helicopter may actually move detectably between the reading of one row and the reading of the next.
this didn t change#until companies began bringing Wireless internet access into hotel lobbies libraries airports and other public places.
You can have a charging surface wherever you go from a kitchen counter to your workplace to airport lounge
if you take the area of the plane and the solid angle of light coming out from that plane, that is fixed,
Cossairt says. hat that means is that if you take the 3-D image size
when you re walking through the airport and you hit the moving walkway. When you get off
These illicit products which include electronics, automotive and aircraft parts, pharmaceuticals, and food can pose safety risks and cost governments and private companies hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
It even being used in helicopter extraction and rescue missions. Finding steady success with its military customers, Atlas is now expanding its Charlestown, Mass.
Also, the APA can function as a backup for a helicopter if something goes awry with the primary hoist:
Instead of flying the helicopter back to base for a working hoist, rescuers can store the APA in a seat compartment,
when you get the chance to enable something you couldn do before like continue a helicopter rescue operation
In a conventional Time of Flight camera, a light signal is fired at a scene where it bounces off an object
For example, in trying to prevent the buildup of ice on an airplane wing, the contact time of raindrops is critical:
#Finding blood clots before they wreak havoc Life-threatening blood clots can form in anyone who sits on a plane for a long time is confined to bed
including materials used in aircraft, oil wells, and other critical industrial applications. Metal fatigue, for example which can result from an accumulation of nanoscale cracks over time s probably the most common failure modefor structural metals in general
An additional major advantage is the ability to bring these models on commercial airplanes, whereas real parts of bombs are allowed never.
The training set costs approximately $7, 000 and may be shipped as ordinary luggage on commercial flights.
Are formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes. Their paper was published in Nano Letters an ACS journal.
E-jet printing refers to a technique called electrohydrodynamic jet described as a micro/nanomanufacturing process that uses an electric field to induce fluid jet printing through micro/nanoscale nozzles.
High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots Formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes Nano Lett. Article ASAP.
They can power a defibrillator open the emergency slides on an aircraft and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles.
#Bending but not breaking in search of new materials Making a paper airplane in school used to mean trouble.
Imagine that the host of a dinner party tries to get his guests'attention by giving a single tap of his oyster spoon on his crystal glass.
But seen from the side three distinct layers are revealed with sulfur atoms in their own planes above and below the molybdenum.
What we see in the images are short 5-to 6-nanometer planes and a lot of edge as though the material had drilled bore holes all the way through.
or airport scanners used to sense explosives or chemical threats. Zang says scanners with the new technology"could be used by the military police,
and aluminum (NCA) offers high enough energy density a measure of the stored electricity in the battery that it works well in large-scale and long-range vehicles including electric cars and commercial aircraft.
which helped to verify the efficacy of its application in a pilot 100 litre digester.
and thereby prevent life-shortening permanent damage to their already vulnerable airways. Thanks to a nearly $1. 3 million grant from the National Science Foundation
""A simple plane wave has the same polarization everywhere, "says Arno Rauschenbeutel, "but when the intensity of the light changes locally, the polarization changes too."
The rotational plane of the light wave pivots by 90 degrees.""Then, the direction of propagation is perpendicular to the spin, just like a bicycle, moving into a direction
and everything is defined in planes. In many applications you want the three-dimensionality: 3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together
Srtio3 can be viewed like a layer cake with alternating planes of Sro and Tio2. Thus in principle when matching Srtio3 with another material there is a choice as to
In fluorinated graphene the fluorine atoms do stick up out of the plane of carbon atoms but the physical changes in height paled in comparison to the changes of local energy each fluorine atom produced.
and solar cells to be developed for highly integrated electronic and optical circuits within a single atomic plane."
Here, the researchers demonstrated that it is possible to construct multicolor holograms from a single plane.
This projection is so wide that it is not even possible to display it on a plane,
when he was a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab."The other thing we see at airports is the use of swabs to check for explosive residue,
and the arrangement of the atoms in one of the planes of the nanocrystal catalyst facilitates the (n,
Other groups of scientists have assembled such planes of nanoparticles, essentially floating them on a liquid surface,
and machine applications like dancing martial arts flying a plane helicopter or even space ships of the future!!!
The vehicle would have a fuselage reminiscent of the Concorde and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2
and blast out of the atmosphere like a rocket. On the return trip Skylon would touch down on the same runway it launched from.
which they say could be ready for flight tests in the next four years. Building the craft itself would require a much heftier investment:
Spacex CEO Elon musk told an audience at the National Press Club in 2011 that private spaceflights would need to follow a model closer to that of airlines.
If planes were not reusable very few people would fly he said. Spacex plans to make rocket stages reusable
Hempsell says Skylon could potentially make 100 flights annually which if true could in its first year recoup the money spent in R&d
supersonic aviation. It could enable an aircraft to fly anywhere in the world in under four hours says Bond.
When air strikes an engine at five times the speed of sound it can heat up to nearly 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
If and when the engine passes flight tests one of Reaction engines'plans is to license the technology to a potential partner in the aerospace industry.
It all starts with regular SSTO flights. Very awesome breakthrough on heat exchange. This single breakthrough will ripple through a host of applications.
This saves on the weight of oxygen that would otherwise be needed for the flight through the atmosphere.
Most aircraft are designed to fly with a nose up angle of attack. This way the fuselage generates lift.
Since the engine inlet is extremely sensitive to the direction of airflow at high mach numbers it is angled down 7 degrees
but then they wouldn't have a convenient place for the rear landing gear and having the engines close to the ground makes them easier to service.
4. If LOX is an oxidiser for at least part of the flight where is the tank?
5. If LOX is used for part of the flight its weight needs to be factored in. Not just the weight of liquid hydrogen.
and British flag together with the Reaction engines logo on the side of the fuselage in the picture at the beginning of the article.
I can see a Reaction engines/Rolls royce partnership (I think RR was involved originally in Skylonâ#predecessor project HOTOL) providing the engines a Boeing/Lockheed martin/Any other building the airframe EADS providing the avionics or any other subsystem.
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