extendable flight deck and hangar for remotely piloted drones, many equipped with weapons, which could target the enemy without putting the crew in harm way.
but rigid landing gear means they are only able to land and takeoff on stable, flat surfaces.
Reduced risk of damage during hard landings, by as much as a factor of five, compared to conventional landing gear Stable landing and takeoff on sloping terrain of up to 20 degrees, more than twice current limits and on craggy,
'We wouldn't be discarding the entire airframe, engine, avionics and payload with every mission,
and recovered mid-flight along with navigation and flight control systems s
#The airbag for a BULLET: Ping pong ball-style cushion can be attached to any gun to slow down shots
CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works.''In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic
Because it can be launched by both bombers and fighters, Lockheed's Joint Air-to-surface Standoff Missile,
'That's an operational system already in our tactical air force'In 2012, aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the computers of an entire military compound.
During Boeing's experiment, the missile flew low over the Utah Test and Training Range, discharging electromagnetic pulses on to seven targets,
Boeing said that the test was so successful even the camera recording it was disabled. Although the project is shrouded in secrecy,
Boeing's CHAMP takes out enemy electronics with pulse The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon.
The energy causes voltage surges in electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge protectors have the chance to react Keith Coleman, Champ programme manager for Boeing's prototype arm Phantom Works,
or more-and one in five consultations with GPS are for this complaint. But some people seem to cope better with long-term severe pain,
#Skreemr concept could travel five times faster than Concorde It's 12 years since Concorde made its last supersonic flight at Mach 2. 04,
or 1, 354 mph (2, 179 km h). ) But the future of flight could be much faster,
Designers Charles Bombardier and Ray Mattison envisage the craft could be launched using a magnetic railgun system to catapult it into the sky at high speed.
which is around twice the speed of Concorde, The Globe and Mail reported. The designers say scramjet engines could then be used to propel it to speeds of over 10 times the speed of sound,
Bombardier Skreemr's sleek design, with four wings and two large rockets on the rear, is intended to be used as a commercial aircraft to carry 75 passengers in luxury.
While Bombardier came up with the idea Mattison, from Design Eye-Q in Minnesota, created the renderings of the concept.
Earlier this month, illustrations emerged for'Concorde 2, 'based on a patent awarded to Airbus in July,
which describes a craft that climbs vertically into the air before breaking the sound barrier as it travels horizontally across the sky.
It's been dubbed Concorde 2 because it would be much faster and quieter than the retired supersonic jet,
having been designed to have speed a top of Mach 4. 5, meaning a journey from New york to London would take just one hour.
Airbus hopes its planned hypersonic jet which would travel at 4. 5 times the speed of sound,
Its proposed one-hour journey time between New york and London would be more than three times faster than the original Concorde,
Airbus'jet is described as'an air vehicle including a fuselage, a gothic delta wing distributed on either side of the fuselage,
500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at takeoff, before retracting into the fuselage just before it reaches the speed of sound.
Airbus says it has designed the craft's aerodynamics to limit sonic boom, making it much quieter than Concorde,
which some complained was too noisy when it flew over populated areas. However, unlike with Concorde, the Airbus design will limit passengers to just 20. t
#Forget PINS, soon you'll be able drawing money out using your EYES: Retinal scanning to be trialled by Citigroup Citigroup is testing new technology that will allow customers to withdraw money using retinal scanning.
and it is expected also that LTEM will bring a breakthrough in the development of next-generation optical devices, super high frequency devices,
Now Boeing has announced the first all-electric ion propulsion satellite is fully operational. The satellite in question doesn have a snappy name it a communications satellite called ABS-3a 702sp.
In this case, Boeing claims the Xenon Ion Propulsion system (XIPS) designs used for ABS-3a is ten times more efficient than liquid fueled rockets.
After being tested by Boeing, the satellite was turned over to ABS on August 31st. Now that the design has proven itself viable,
Boeing is forging ahead with a second satellite for ABS using the same XIPS engines.
spanning larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. At about 2, 300 kilograms (5, 070 pounds), the Si2 weighs about as much as a minivan or mid-sized truck.
An empty Boeing 747, in comparison, weighs some 180,000 kilograms (400,000 pounds) u
#Travelex'Supercard'points to lower consumer FX costs LONDON (Reuters)- Travelex (IPO-TUL. L) unveiled a new UK digital wallet
an international charging kit, a polishing cloth and a USB cable for high-speed data transfer. In terms of specifications, the smartphone features a 3. 1-inch touch screen with a 720 x 720 pixel resolution and offers a pixel density of 330ppi.
texting and working while on autopilot should suffer the most motion sickness, while those who steadfastly keep their eyes on the road are likely to endure the least measure of discomfort.
#Boeing Patents Futuristic Force field Aerospace and defence firm Boeing BA-1. 59%has just been granted a patent for
but Boeing has submitted a few ideas, including using at least one of the following igh intensity laser pulses,
if Boeing gets it working, that is
#App Discovery Nightmare And How Reliance Entertainment Is Tackling It As app discovery of games becomes an ever more insurmountable challenge,
The Federal aviation administration on Thursday awarded an xperimental airworthiness certificateto Amazon AMZN-0. 33%that would clear the way for the company to begin testing its drone program.
In addition to monitoring for incidents in and around the vehicle, Lyfelens features built-in GPS that provide access to the speed and location of the vehicle, mileage tracking and historical trip data,
Those with mutations in polycystic kidney disease genes formed balloon-like, fluid-filled sacks, called cysts, from kidney tubules.
#Amazon to begin testing new delivery drones in the US Last month it emerged that the Federal aviation administration (FAA) had granted Amazon permission to begin testing a delivery drone prototype for its Prime Air service,
finally granting an"experimental airworthiness certificate"to Amazon in March 2015. The slow progress partnered with the now-evident worthlessness of the permit prompted Amazon to carry out testing of its more sophisticated models abroad,
and the angle of incidence that can be determined by imaging-collecting optics that focus the reflected beam on the sensor photodetectors.
Packed inside are high frequency vibration motors which spur certain muscles in the hand into action to allow better control,
#Airbus patents design for Mach 4-plus supersonic jet If there's one area where the 21st century has gone backwards technologically,
With the grounding of the Concorde fleets in 2013, flying faster than the speed of sound reverted to a military monopoly,
Now Airbus'Marco Prampolini and Yohann Coraboeuf have been granted a US patent for an"ultra-rapid air vehicle"designed to fly at 20 km (12.4 mi) higher than conventional aircraft and over four times the speed of sound twice the speed of Concorde.
Concorde may have carried the wealthy and glamorous across the Atlantic in under three hours, but only 20 were built ever after an Anglo-french development program in the 1960s that was compared to the Apollo Moon landings in cost and complexity.
and the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s made the Concorde economically unviable and it ended up as a tiny fleet, only flying with British airways and Air france because of French and British government pressure.
the Soviet union's TUPOLEV TU-144"Concordski"had an extremely short career after a fatal crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973.
The Airbus patent takes the idea of the Concorde, boosts the performance and reduces the impact of the infamous sonic boom.
According to Airbus, the craft is essentially a flying tanker with most of the fuselage made up of liquid oxygen and ecofriendly liquid hydrogen.
But what really sets the Airbus dsign apart is its suite of propulsion systems used to keep it aloft.
and the aircraft cruises along its flight path and can cover a range of 9, 000 km (5, 600 mi) in three hours the equivalent of Tokyo to Los angeles or Paris to San francisco. Meanwhile,
Airbus says that the supersonic passenger craft can operate from conventional airports so long as they can supply the cryogenic propellants.
It's highly unlikely that the Airbus supersonic will ever be built, but if it is,
#BAE Systems'Battleview 360 is made to raise situational awareness in tank crews BAE Systems is looking to solve one of the most restrictive elements with tank warfare through its Battleview 360 digital mapping system.
"Battleview 360 builds on years of work across BAE Systems to improve situational awareness and integrate information
and they can make fast, yet effective, decisions,"states Peder Sjölund, technology manager at BAE Systems Hägglunds, Sweden."
BAE states that the system will be highly versatile and adaptable to a wide range of military assets.
Daimler likens the system to the autopilot used in aviation, in that the driver must be prepared to take control at any time.
They include two individuals he knew from his years working at General electric and aircraft engine maker Allied Signal,
who previously held similar positions at aerospace giant Northrop grumman and inverter maker Advanced Energy. Innovus is looking to maintain high fuel efficiency
is being built into the bellies of jet engines and promises to save billions of gallons of fuel in the coming decades by reducing weight
It has helped GE win jet engine orders worth $100 billion so far from airlines looking to shave their huge fuel bills.
No one wants the aircraft engine that is holding them 35,000 feet above the earth to shatter like a vase.
The metal uper-alloysthat now line the hottest parts of jet engines are heavy, about 70 percent as dense as lead.
GE designed the material into an engine called the LEAP to be used on the coming Airbus 320neo and Boeing 737 MAX.
Pratt & Whitney, CFM main competition, is trying to achieve similar fuel savings with a new type of jet engine that uses a gear system never tried before.
Those with mutations in polycystic kidney disease genes formed balloon-like, fluid-filled sacks, called cysts, from kidney tubules.
a system developed by Boeing to be mounted on top of U s army vehicles. Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
but from many hundreds of meters away,"Isaac Neal, a Boeing engineer, said in a video about the new weapons system that was posted on the defense contractor's website.
but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,
The only cost associated with operating them is the cost of electricity to power the lasers, according to Boeing,
which look like tiny blimps with pudgy bodies and eight stubby legs, are capable of shedding almost all of the water in their cells
Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them radio waves.
The U s. Federal aviation administration (FAA), which sets guidelines for how and where commercial drones can be flown,
Car companies, the aviation industry as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
Equipped with stereoscopic cameras for depth perception, five thrusters for stability, GPS and pitch-and-roll sensors,
conformal electronics and antennas for maximizing space efficiency and reducing aerodynamic drag; and inherently more durable circuits that will withstand the extreme strain, shock,
The work was done by researchers in the laboratories of Lewis and Harry Atwater, director of JCAP and Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials science."
Results of the research have been published in Talanta, vol. 144,2015, pp. 778-787 7
#Upgrading the quantum computer: New quantum computer architecture Abstract: Within the last several years, considerable progress has been made in developing a quantum computer,
says MIT aeronautics and astronautics alumna Natalya Brikner Phd 5, cofounder and CEO of Accion Systems. ou can make a satellite the size of a softball with a surprising amount of capabilities,
an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics who invented the underlying technology. Ultimately, he adds, the technology could give small startups and even countries without well-funded space programs the opportunity to use low-cost satellites for space exploration. t
It works like blowing up a balloon and then releasing it to fly around the room. The 27-cm long robot is inflated with water and once released,
variability in addition to high mobility("Liquid crystals for organic thin-film transistors"."Hiroaki Iino, Takayuki Usui and Jun-ichi Hanna designed a molecule that would incorporate a number of desirable liquid crystal qualities, in particular the smectic E phase.
3) An inertial reference system is used an instrument in navigation that is able to process the measurements of a device's motion (acceleration and angular velocity) in order to estimate its orientation (angles of roll, pitch and heading.
imec associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.
when the materials are components of machines like jet engines. oint defects are very important to modern science and technology,
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
says Juliet Hughes, mother of 8-year-old Felix, who took part in a trial to see
says Hughes e
#Clump of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing MOVE OVER, microchip. A random assembly of gold nanoparticles can perform calculations normally reserved for neatly arranged patterns of silicon.
and GPS equipment. The research was performed by scientists from the Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics department of UT research institute MESA+(within the strategic research direction Applied Nanophotonics) in collaboration with the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster and the companies Lionix and Xio Photonics.
It was designed with all the latest equipments like GPS, video and audio, solar panels 3g facilities and foam arms to hug
the clinician opens two positioning balloons: one around the front end of the catheter, passing through the hole,
The light reflects off of the balloon's shiny interior and activates the patch's adhesive coating.
As the glue cures, pressure from the balloons secures the patch it in place. Finally, both balloons are deflated
and the catheter is withdrawn. Over time, tissue grows over the patch and it dissolves.""This really is a completely new platform for closing wounds
the ONR glasses allow SIGINT soldiers to monitor a variety of enemy waveforms, indicating Internet traffic, 2g/SMS, VHF/push-to-talk radio systems,
#Boeing Just Patented A Force field Made Of Lasers So, Boeing just patented a force field. Technically, the patent is for a ethod and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc,
but that just a long way of writing out something unbelievably futuristic: protective force fields may one day make their way onto the battlefields of the future.
#Where GPS Fails, A Shape-Shifting Cube Can Guide You Home A Yale university engineer builds a small cube that acts as a tactile compass for the visually impaired
Compasses and GPS help people without disabilities find their destinations every day, but are of less use to the visually impaired,
and directions normally provided by a smartphone or in-console GPS. No single technology used by the cube is new.
the researchers created very high frequency sound waves? surface acoustic waves? that run along the surface of Linbo3, akin to earthquake tremors on land.
The flexible MOF material could perhaps even be placed inside a balloon-like bag that stretches to accommodate the expanding MOF as methane is pumped in
the GPS (Global positioning system) receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.
energy saving method for manufacturing virtually any industrial composite, says Brian L. Wardle, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT."
"Typically, if you're going to cook a fuselage for an Airbus a350 or Boeing 787, you've got about a four-story oven that's tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure that you don't need,
"This research was funded in part by Airbus Group, Boeing, Embraer, Lockheed martin, Saab AB, Tohotenax, ANSYS Inc.,the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base,
Ishihara and his colleagues found that thin-film transistors using the laser-printed layer exhibited mobilities as high as those of conventional poly-silicon conductors.
which involves improving the production process of the thin-film transistors to include additional non-silicon layers,
#New centimeter-accurate GPS SYSTEM could transform virtual reality and mobile devices The researchers'new system could allow unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver packages to a specific spot on a consumer's back porch,
The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
Currently, VR does not use GPS, which limits its use to indoors and usually a two-to three-foot radius."Imagine games where,
"Humphreys and his team in the Radionavigation Lab have built a low-cost system that reduces location errors from the size of a large car to the size of a nickel--a more than 100 times increase in accuracy.
which they describe in a recent issue of GPS World. Centimeter-accurate positioning systems are used already in geology, surveying and mapping,
The breakthrough by Humphreys and his team is a powerful and sensitive software-defined GPS RECEIVER that can extract centimeter accuracies from the inexpensive antennas found in mobile devices--such precise measurements were not previously possible.
where centimeter-accurate GPS could lead to better vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology.""If your car knows in real time the precise position
#Sensor mimics bats to detect dangerous structural cracks An ultrasound sensor for detecting dangerous cracks in structures such as aircraft engines,
which two balloons are inflated to different sizes and connected via a tube and valve. When the valve is opened,
air flows between the balloons. Instead of equalizing in size, as one might expect, the larger balloon inflates more
while the smaller balloon deflates. This unexpected behavior comes from the balloons'nonlinear relationship between pressure and volume
meaning the an increase in volume doesn't necessarily increase the pressure.""When inflating a balloon,
the first few blows are the hardest but after reaching a critical pressure it becomes easier,
"said Johannes Overvelde, Phd student AT SEAS and first author on the paper.""Similar to the balloons, in our research we connect fluidic segments in such a way that an interplay between their nonlinear response results in unexpected behavior.
Certain combinations of these interconnected segments can result in fast moving instabilities with negligible change in volume."
The work was done by researchers in the laboratories of Lewis and Harry Atwater, director of JCAP and Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials science."
"One could describe it as a flight simulator of quantum physics, "says Mathias Tomandl who designed and implemented the essential elements of the simulation in the course of his Phd studies.
when the materials are components of machines like jet engines.""Point defects are very important to modern science and technology,
"It's a big black box in the cancer field--mostly because it's very difficult to study,
along with a photo and GPS location to an online database. When the database notices a submission that may be interesting,
Its system, bearing the catchy name Jamsdefender, combines active noise cancellation, digital volume normalization, and a dual speaker on each headphone to ensure protection and performance.
The headphones also employ active noise cancellation tech to block out ambient noise. Traditionally, sounds from the environment seeping into our headphones make us crank the volume up to potentially unhealthy levels without even realizing.
Nanoscale Speed bump Could Regulate Plasmons for High-speed data Flow The name sounds like something Marvin the Martian might have built,
Both lasers have now been delivered to Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France, ready to be integrated into the rest of Aladin.
the team spirit and motivation has remained always high. ow that the lasers are both safely in the hands of Airbus in France we wish them well with integrating them into the Aladin instrument
The Aladin team at Airbus have had the first laser since last year and have carried already out some important tests on its optics.
who have overcome major technology issues along the way. he contributions of Airbus Defence and Space,
In this way they influence the orientation of the spindle apparatus and control the spatial arrangement of the new cells. s in a GPS SYSTEM
Lopez said. he successful application of the MEMS technology to manipulate an X-ray beam at very high frequencies will certainly lead to further,
a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and principal developer of the mission-planning system. ith this system, we were showing we could safely zigzag all the way around the reef,
and grow them precisely in intricate patterns required for the device you want, such as thin-film transistors or light-emitting diodes. a
the clinician opens two positioning balloons: one around the front end of the catheter, passing through the hole,
The light reflects off of the balloon shiny interior and activates the patch adhesive coating.
As the glue cures, pressure from the positioning balloons on either side of the patch help secure it in place.
Finally, both balloons are deflated and the catheter is withdrawn. Over time, normal tissue growth resumes and heart tissue grows over the patch.
Those with mutations in polycystic kidney disease genes formed balloon like, fluid filled sacks, called cysts, from kidney tubules.
#Google Project Loon Set to Enmesh the Globe with Internet Balloons by 2016 Project Loon is yet another highly ambitious project of the tech-giant Google,
To achieve this, the company plans to send out a fleet of super-pressurised helium balloons,
Hundreds if not thousands of these balloons are to be launched into the stratosphere providing Internet access to rural areas,
Basically, the balloons will be maneuvered by adjusting their altitude to float to a wind layer with the desired speed
The signal travels through the network balloon to balloon then to a ground-based station connected to an Internet service provider (ISP),
We need about 300 balloons or so to make a continuous string around the world,
with each of the 300 proposed balloons providing connectivity to the ground below in an area that spans 40 kilometres.
As for the balloons themselves, the company claims theye come a long way since the announcement of the project two years ago. n the early days
the balloons would last five or seven or 10 days. Now we have had balloons that have lasted
as long as 187 days, said Cassidy. ee also improved the launch process. It used to take 14 people an hour
or two to launch a balloon. Now with an automated crane we can launch a balloon every 15 minutes with two
or three people. he oonsaren the only thing that was scaled up, by the way at the beginning,
whereas now the balloons can deliver speeds up to 10 megabits per second, or the equivalent to 4g mobile speeds in many parts of the world.
if the flagship 300 balloon ring is a success, the project will then begin rolling out to the first beta commercial customers,
and Internet balloons, ads on Web pages and inside apps provide over 90 percent of their company revenue.
and delivering Wireless internet via stratospheric balloons; and Nest, which sells connected home devices and is trying to reinvent the face-worn computer Google glass.
The Black box Society: oogle is not really a competitor in numerous markets, but instead serves as a hub
and publicly-owned datasets that permit a variety of services to flourish, favouring instead the creation of black box systems,
so they provide us with real time GPS feeds wherever their smartphones are, says Nick Cohn, senior traffic expert at Tomtom.
not only GPS from cars and timings from traffic lights, but also air quality sensor data and images from cameras. n its own, each is of low value,
which runs the National Traffic information service. ore data in and more data out can only be a good thing.
and 3g-beaming balloons, while Google (now a subsidiary of Alphabet) will"slim down "and exclude companies that are not a part of its core internet business.
The Aerojet Rocketdyne engine is equipped with a new controller, or rain, among its improvements. Shuttles flew with three reusable main engines positioned at the back of the orbiter,
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