#FAA Panel Recommends Lifting Ban On Gadget Use During Flights After receiving countless complaints abuse towards flight attendants who are only doing their jobs
whether electronic gadgets actually are dangerous during a flight's takeoff and landing. A 28-person advisory panel just concluded its study
the airplane's speed means that you'll be switching from tower to tower faster than your phone
Instead devices in airplane mode meaning devices with all their radios (Wi-fi Bluetooth and cellular) turned off would be just fine to use.
and flipped your gadget to airplane mode watch away. Gadget manufacturers have been campaigning for years for a change in the FAA's policy
when the plane is below 10000 feet). Amazon especially is annoyed as its Kindle ebook reader suffers a distinct weakness compared with physical books given that you aren't currently allowed to use a Kindle during part of your flight.
Amazon has tested previously interference on its own by testing an airplane packed full of Kindles as an Amazon representative told the AP.#The advisory panel's decision is likely to be implemented by the FAA;
the FAA not only created the panel but also had a hand in selecting some of the members
Fraunhofer is building a giant scanner that it says can be used for cars as well as to detect damage to airplane wings
and Android#that can be used for the detection of radioactivity in everyday life such as exposure on airplanes from medical patients or from contaminated products.
Schmale developed his unmanned aerial vehicles with a colleague at Virginia Tech as an alternative to costly manned research flights.
Then with the support of a manned helicopter overhead designating a contact of interest for the boats to intercept they swarmed around their target.
The fin had been pulled from storage where it had been sitting deflated since test flights several months before.
While bringing Internet connectivity to unconnected parts of the world should be a good enough move for public relations Facebook also joined the ongoing war against calling unmanned aircraft drones:
#U s army Wants A Parachuting Tank After years of service in wars--from Iraq to Afghanistan to Iraq again--the Humvee is on its way out.
Creatively titled Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) it s an armored vehicle that can be dropped from cargo planes.
It has to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter so that the crew can drive right in
In essence the ULCV should get a squad into the fight right off the helicopter over unpaved ground
Lastly the Army is also looking at a light reconnaissance vehicle (LRV) also carried by Chinook helicopters both inside and underneath.
#Pentagon Wants Artificial intelligence In Future Fighters The Department of defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed.
which is designed to outfight any other plane in the sky. However the Raptor is expensive to produce
Adding AI could free the pilot's mind to focus more on fewer tasks giving them a cognitive advantage in battle.
It s based on aircraft carriers which are notoriously challenging to land on. The Navy s own X-47b experimental drone has landed on an aircraft carrier successfully
and autonomously so adding a computer copilot to a naval craft could help there too.
Bringing the artificial intelligence inside the cockpit is one major way robots will fly alongside humans in fighters of the future--but it s not the only one.
Last month the Navy s X-47b flew in formation with the F/A-18 Super hornet with robots
By the 2030s humans with robot copilots could fly alongside robots remotely controlled by humans u
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.
But maybe a simple parachute could slow them down enough for a safe landing Sunspiral says.
Pilots who neglect to properly stow cargo risk having it bounce free during evasive maneuvers potentially injuring crew
Yesterday the U s. Navy announced the first successful manned & unmanned aircraft flight operations of its experimental X-47b drone.
The tests were performed#aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.##The exercise was operationally simple: the unmanned X-47b took off from the carrier's deck followed by a manned#F/A-18 Hornet.
but successfully integrating both manned and unmanned aircraft into the same flight patterns especially on the confined space of an aircraft carrier is essential for future operations.
but doing so at high speeds in three dimensions on a rocking platform in the middle of the ocean with airplanes worth millions of dollars The X-47b#has earned a pair of nicknames:#
Unlike most drones which have a pilot dictating their every move#by remote control the X-47b is largely autonomous calculating its flight paths.
Last summer the X-47b#successfully landed on an aircraft carrier#twice. It aborted a#third landing
but it did so to avoid crashing into the aircraft carrier and safely landed on an airstrip elsewhere.)
Here's a short video from the Department of defense showing some of the X-47b's latest flights
the Advanced High performance Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft (AHRLAC) looks like an alternate history version of a World war i fighter.
The result of a collaboration between South africa's Aerosud aviation firm and the Paramount Group, the AHRLAC is designed as a cheap alternative to the big name in military surveillance right now:
The pusher propeller design--in which the propellers are mounted behind their respective engines--helps the plane fly slowly, an important task for surveillance aircraft.
The manufacturers boast that AHRLAC is the"first ever aircraft to be designed fully and developed in Africa,
#Russia Orders Helicopters For Its New Amphibious assault Ships Russia recently ordered a batch of new attack helicopters,
and around 30 light helicopters within landing distance of a coast, where they will (in peaceful situations) arrive
It's likely each of the four ships would only fly eight attack helicopters so the full order for 32 indicates that Russia expects full delivery of the ships.
what military use the Mistral would add to the war in Ukraine, even with the planned Ka-52k helicopters.
Regardless of actual military utility, the international community is excited less about the sale, especially after Russia's seizure of Crimea and Moscow's ongoing support for the separatists that shot down a Malaysian airliner.
and testing in the areas of robotics space exploration aviation and other technologies NASA said in a press release.
Once renovations are complete Hangar One will again be home to high-tech innovation as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research development assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration aviation rover
The elevons were used successfully for numerous flights with a hand launch and a ground landing (landing is a particularly dangerous time for hardware).
The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS exploded a few seconds after its launch from NASA's Wallops flight facilities.
As stated by NASA's press conference the flight termination system was activated. This is a remote manual intervention that initiates a self-destruction mechanism
and the video below (shot from a small airplane from a distance) the explosion was huge.
and 6 degrees of freedom and can run in the sagittal plane at 4. 2 km h.
and actuation could be applied to various types of high-speed intelligent systems including high-speed robots manufacturing systems aircraft microscope image control for bio/medical applications and human-machine
The ability for machines to tap into multiple online data sources and services allows them to quickly stitch together value reducing time
and their battery life only allows for short flights. To increase the range of a small UAV one idea is to pair it with an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that can carry it to a site of operation and transport heavier cargo.
It broadcasts onto it. http://player. vimeo. com/video/98604521our proof of concept build uses a modified DJI F550 Flamewheel kit gets twelve minutes flight time and features its own
We are already working on more sophisticated features including live streaming data gimbal integration ultrasonic sound capabilities and improved flight time.
Overall automotive patents make up around one third of the total not including other types of vehicles such as trucks buses agricultural machinery aircraft and aerospace/defence.
Deutsche Post DHL Germany'#express delivery and mail company is working with German UAV provider microdrones Gmbh to test various methods of flight (piloted or autonomous) types and weights
The second system is a wireless video transmitter for the Gopro camera that is often used in model airplanes.
#The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight he whole is greater than the sum of its partsâ##a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array:
a modular robotâ consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take on just about any shape or form.
Although each unit is capable of generating enough thrust to lift itself off the ground on its own it is incapable of flight much like a helicopter cannot fly without its tail rotor.
However when joined together these units evolve into a sophisticated multi-rotor system capable of coordinated flight and much more.
otherwise be impossible to achieve on its own â##flight. This modular flying vehicle would then break apart in the air
1) docking (2) coordinated ground mobility and (3) coordinated flight. In accomplishing each of these tasks we would in turn validate our model
and to demonstrate coordinated flight in several configurations. Our goals were too ambitious under the framework of this class
in order to make the vehicle lighter for flight. Its primary limitation however was its inability to demonstrate coordinated mobility for randomly assembled configurations.
We opted instead for constructing the chassis out of laser-cut acetal plastic a higher-powered flight motor and a new propeller.
and thrust generation unit (i e. propeller and flight motor) from scratch but kept most of the power and control electronics the same.
The new flight motor and propeller was tested to ensure that it produced a sufficient amount of thrust
and constructed six complete units for flight. In this revision we demonstrated coordinated flight for a variety of configurations.
The flight controller was computed ahead of time and sent wirelessly to each unit prior to flight. Knowing that the chassis
and thrust generation unit was sound we then went ahead and integrated driving capabilities and intercommunication into the units.
To successfully accomplish this the flight control strategy must minimize the shear forces occuring between interconnected units during flight.
but the most striking feature of the Distributed Flight Array is its ability to fly in an unlimited number of configurations.
What is most surprising is that the units themselves do need not necessarily to communicate with one another during flight.
The only information that a unit needs for flight is its local sensor data and its position with respect to the vehicle centre of mass.
We instead developed a means for automatically computing the tuning parameters for any flight-feasible configuration of the vehicle that would result in best flight performance.
The Distributed Flight Array is currently being used at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich as a modular robotics platform for investigating algorithms in distributed estimation and control.
and to process the images after the flight. This processing now happens when the player visits the highscore table
making it ideal for navigating crowded environments like tradeshows, restaurants, offices and airports. It easy to imagine it one day being used to unobtrusively serve drinks at a cocktail event,
The world's first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co. Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R c model toys such as helicopters
& aeroplanes that are certified to CE UL and FCC standards. The Walkera Infra X Smart Drone with Crash Avoidance System (CAS) contains a total of 10 sensors 2 Ultrasonic Altitude Sensors on the belly of the drone 8 Infrared Sensors
For traditional radio frequency helicopters in same frequency cannot fly together because of interference. With 2. 4ghz radio system many helicopters can fly at the same time without interference.
Mind-controlled quadrotor dronemind controlled drones are a hot area for researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzou China who have adapted a Parrot AR Drone 2. 0 to be operated by an Emotiv EPOC
By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off; thinking left right and push makes it turn clockwise move forward
in order to maintain flight, but this makes it difficult for them to fit into smaller spaces.
the team had to first designate the primary mode of locomotion in this case flight, as the DALER will cover the longest distances this way.
so as to satisfy the constraints of both ground locomotion and flight. The best shape found for these wingerons is a triangular one.
Flight maneuverability requires rapid wingeron movements and low torque, whereas walking requires the opposite conditions.
while not compromising flight maneuverability. A second issue in creating a fixed wing drone capable of walking on the ground is with the morphology, thanks to the different centre of mass requirements for the two modes of locomotion.
The Delphi car a modified Audi SUV has no fewer than 6 4-plane LIDARS and an even larger number of radars.
but is also able to fly horizontally like a fixed-wing airplane. Following field tests, however, Google scrapped the design,
For fast forward flight, the vehicle tilts to a near-horizontal orientation, resulting in efficient lift production due to the conventional wing design.
hover-capable aircraft such as tiltrotors and tiltwings, the major advantage of a tailsitter is its mechanical simplicity:
A Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit (FMU) runs the onboard control loop that tracks the desired body rates using a rate gyroscope
Robbe Mini Wing RC styrofoam airframe Electronics: Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit Battery: Thunder Power RC G6 Pro Lite 25c Lipo 350mah 2s Motors:
Hacker A05-13s Motor controllers: ZTW Spider 12a ESCS with Simonk firmware Propellers: 5×3 GWS EP-5030 Flap servos:
including unmanned air vehicles (UAVS) due to the capability to disappear from view and leaving no visual,
airways and collapsed lungs. Now a new ARA software program funded in part by the Army intends to significantly advance that training via a downloadable hysiology enginethat allows medical personnel see how their actions affect every other aspect of their patient physiology.
#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."
Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International airport, the main entry point for flights bringing in international aid since the April quake, was closed anew Tuesday as a precaution.
#Helicopter's Robotic Legs Help Stick Tricky Landings Helicopters of the future could use insectlike robotic legs to land in unlikely places like the slopes of steep hills
Touching down on uneven surfaces is something that today's helicopters are equipped just not to do, according to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency,
But robotic landing gear developed for DARPA at the Georgia Institute of technology (Georgia Tech) could better equip these aircraft to land just about anywhere.
The new landing gear features four robotic legs with bendable"knees"that turn a normal helicopter into
the legs automatically move to stabilize the aircraft, according to DARPA officials, who recently tested out the new system near the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta."
unmanned helicopter successfully demonstrated the ability to land and take off from terrain that would be impossible to operate from with standard landing gear,"Ashish Bagai,
DARPA program manager, said in a statement. Embedded with force-sensitive contact sensors on each of its feet,
the robotic legs determine the precise angle they need to assume to keep the helicopter from tipping over
what Bagai referred to as"standard landing gear, "which typically features either retractable wheels or fixed skids (the ski-type beams sometimes seen under the fuselage of a helicopter).
Neither of these options works well on uneven terrain, which is unfortunate, because helicopters often need to land
and take off in areas like disaster zones, where there may not be any flat surfaces, according to DARPA.
The robo-insect landing gear can handle landings on irregular terrain, even if there are significant obstacles in the way,
And besides making landings more versatile, the jointed legs also significantly reduce the damage inflicted on helicopters during"hard landings,"according to DARPA.
The agency said these improved capabilities can"greatly expand"the effectiveness of helicopters used for both military and nonmilitary purposes u
During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology
in collaboration with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, involving a jet engine air inlet that traditionally causes drag during flight.
and avoid the need for pilots to control it. Designing for transformation on demand In self-assembly, independent components come together to build a final structure completely on their own,
and founder of Geniphys, has worked for more than 10 years to tap into the secrets of the extracellular matrix component of tissues.
an airplane flyover that falls far short of capturing the detailed images needed to identify a potential problem."
Tablets have made appearances in airports, where travelers can have delivered food to where they sit, but are limited still in the traditional restaurant scene.
and twist samples of the composite materials used to build F/A-18s and other aircraft.
"he says,"for the skin of the plane.""It's a sample of advanced composite,
the median age of today's active aircraft is 22-23 years old. As F/A-18s continue to age beyond their design life cycle,
NRL's robot could help get aircraft from factory to fleet faster. NRL66. 3 robot applies,
Computations from robot data predict how materials behave in aircraft A snapped composite specimen is one thing;
forcing Pemex to stop shipping finished fuel through its pipelines after discovering 3, 674 illegal taps last year.
when an illegal tap caused a blast that killed 29 people in the central town of San martin Texmelucan.
of big-name debuts including Cafe Coffee Day and airline Indigo. Shares hit their lowest level in about a year last week,
Interglobe Aviation, which runs the Indigo airline, is seeking a $400 million listing. Analysts warn more uncertainty is given in store the US Federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates as early as September,
raising the prospect of continued outflows from emerging markets. The Nifty is down 14.5 per cent
Khazendar team used data on ice surface elevations and bedrock depths from instrumented aircraft participating in NASA Operation Icebridge,
During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology
the cells that line the airways in the lungs are shaped unusually and cramble around like there a fire drill going on.
Until now, scientists thought that epithelial cells which line not only the lung airways but major cavities of the body and most organs just sat there motionless,
The physics of biologythe researchers decided to look at the detailed shape and movement of cells from the asthmatic airway because, according to Fredberg,
the researchers placed layers of epithelial cells from either normal airways or asthmatic airways on a soft gel surface that simulated the degree of stiffness of the lung.
Next stepsnow that it known that epithelial cells in asthmatic airways are shaped oddly and not jammed,
njamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium, Nature Materials (2015; doi: 10.1038/nmat4357source:
for example, resulted in a temporary grounding of all of Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, Ceder explains. Others have attempted to find a solid replacement for the liquid electrolyte,
Layered sheets of graphene keep their properties in-plane, but exhibit little stiffness or thermal conductance from sheet to sheet,
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
whether linear or circular, features electric fields oriented in a single plane. With circularly polarized light,
the plane is continually rotating through 360 degrees.)One of the distinguishing capabilities of circularly polarized light (CPL) is that it can discern the difference between right-handed and left-handed versions of molecules property known as chirality.
At MIT, theye been working on a prototype for a time of flight microwave camera which can be used to image objects through walls,
MIT microwave camera can do 3-D imaging using time of flight in the same way that Microsoft latest Xbox Kinect sensor works.
The time of flight camera sends out bursts of microwaves and then keeps careful track of how long it takes for the microwaves to bounce off of something
it has to be scanned mechanically along the entire focal plane, a process that takes something like an hour.
including whether it been placed in airplane mode, or set solely to vibration. Using a combination of various bits of information,
The separation of the control plane from the power plane makes a foundation for fully configurable ecosystem.
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,
When Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing, Tomnod directed its users to help search for the missing aircraft.
In fact the site couldn keep up with the traffic due to an influx of users looking to help. hrough games,
#LOT Polish airlines Now Accepting Bitcoin I not a big fan of the accepts bitcointype of post
LOT Polish airlines, the official Polish air carrier, is now accepting bitcoin. What does that mean?
which is why we are one of the first airlines in the world to give its passengers the possibility of paying with Bitcoins as early as today. airbaltic
The research is a combination of work from a student on fellowship at NASA from the University of Michigan and nearly a decade and a half of study on self-healing materials for both aircrafts and spacecrafts.
multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,
and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.
and also be used at airports. SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organization is set to test its sophisticated, indigenously-built,
multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,
and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.
and also be used at airports s
#First aqueous solar flow battery designed WASHINGTON: Researchers have designed the first aqueous flow battery with solar capability that can achieve a 20 per cent energy savings over traditional batteries.
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