#BAE Systems Creates Innovative Communication Device to Assist Armed forces The prototype system is designed to improve soldier safety
BAE Systems engineers have adapted existing bone conduction technology often used in commercial headphones and hearing aids for the military domain.
Mohammed Akhmad, Principal Scientist at BAE Systems, said:""We recognise that on the battlefield, auditory situational awareness is essential for armed forces personnel.
A concept demonstrator for BAE Systems'bone conduction technology will be on display at DSEI (Defence and Security Equipment International), in London this year r
The team looked at an analysis approach using time-of-flight (TOF) information, which utilises the faster detectors present in modern PET systems to more accurately locate the source of each pair of rays.
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,
which flew until 1999. A variant of the Tupolev was used in experiments by Nasa, and American and Russian aerospace industries, in a joint research program after the end of the Cold war.
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,
just as safe, and would not cost much more than today long-haul flights. Fuel factor Johan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,
with his colleagues, has been testing two prototypes. One is a Mach 5 plane the Lapcat-A2 powered by a precooled air-turbo ramjet;
A similar concept powers the new missiles used by the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter plane, for instance. Ramjets can move a plane very fast.
What 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.
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 hydrogen But, deriving hydrogen efficiently is one main factor for high operating costs.
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
Airbus has patented just a delta-wing Mach 4. 5 hypersonic design that could be used to create business jets.
Also, they are working with US-based start-up Aerion to make available a fleet of supersonic jets for wealthy clients.
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.
The retired Concorde produced a 135-decibel noise on the ground a lot more than the average Airbus. Another 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
Nasa is working with Lockheed martin 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.
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.
By 2030 the hypersonic aviation industry could employ over 500,000 people, and be worth 3. 5 billion euros (£2. 5 bn) a year,
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 b
and structural biology at UC Berkeley and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a leading authority on the structure and dynamics of microtubules.
said Burke, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist. Simplicity enables automation which, in turn, can broadly enable discovery
and, perhaps most worryingly, airplanes and trains. Boisvert told Infiltrate he was concerned initially that a deadly July 2013 train crash in Spain was caused by a hacker (it turned out to be human error.
And some cybersecurity experts fear that hackers aboard an aircraft could bring down the plane using the onboard Wi-fi many commercial jets now offer to passengers."
"Modern aircraft are connected increasingly to the internet. This interconnectedness can potentially provide unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics systems,
"the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a statement. Michael B. Kelley contributed to this report
code-named Aquila, have a wingspan about as wide as a Boeing 767, yet weigh about as much as a compact car.
"Today, I'm excited to share that we've successfully completed our first test flight of these aircraft in the U k,
Calif. Test flights are set to continue in the summer. In early stages of development The drones are currently being developed by Ascenta,
And that's to say nothing of the red tape Facebook would have to manoeuvre to get a fleet of remotely controlled aircraft in the skies around the world.
"Aircraft like these will help connect the whole world, because they can affordably serve the 10 per cent of the world's population that live in remote communities without existing internet infrastructure,
#Airbus patents plane that could fly from New york to London in 1 hour A rocket-plane that could fly from Vancouver to Tokyo in three hours instead of 10 has been patented by Airbus. The U s. patent for an"ultra-rapid air vehicle
and related method for aerial locomotion"was awarded to Airbus, also known as the European aeronautic defence and space company, in July. Airbus said the plane would be targeted mainly at business travel
and VIP passengers"who require transcontinental return journeys within one day, "and at the military.
That would allow it to fly about 9, 000 kilometres from Paris to San francisco (currently an 11-hour flight) or Tokyo to Los angeles (currently a 10-hour flight) in three hours,
the plane could cover the 5, 600-kilometre distance between New york and London, normally a seven to eight hour flight, in an hour.
However, that doesn't take into account that the plane wouldn't be at its top speed for the entire duration of the flight.
The Concorde, built by Aerospatiale and British Aircraft Corp. The Tupolev tu-144 or"Charger"built by Voronezh Aircraft Production Association.
No sonic boom on ground But the patent says its main improvement over those two is that it reduces the noise of the sonic boom a loud bang caused by shockwaves created by an object moving faster than the speed of sound."
if not the only one, preventing the opening of lines other than transatlantic ones for the Concorde aircraft,
Airbus said it files for hundreds of patents a year.""These patents are often based on R&d concepts and ideas in a very nascent stage of conceptualization,
"Airbus has filed other unusual aircraft patents in the past. For example, last summer, it filed a patent to bicycle-style seats on planes that would make it possible to cram more passengers in the same amount of space.
And last fall, it patented an aircraft cabin shaped like a giant flying saucer n
#Mars simulation project: 6 people start 1 year of isolation in Hawaii dome Six people will spend the next year living in a dome in Hawaii in the name of science.
#U s. expected to announce drone registry The U s. federal government will require many drone aircraft to be registered,
since last year, including sightings near manned aircraft and major sporting events, and interference with wildfire-fighting operations, the government said."
"Federal aviation administration chief Michel Huerta said at a news conference to announce the step. Registration will increase pressure on drone operators to fly responsibly,
"Dave Mathewson, executive director of the Academy for Model Aeronautics, said in a statement. The FAA now receives about 100 reports a month from pilots who say they've seen drones flying near planes
however, hasn stopped Emdrive development rights being bought by aircraft giant Boeing and the UK Government funding the early development of Mr Shawyer ideas.
Airbus files patent for a hypersonic jet more than double the speed of Concorde A trip from London to New york could take just one hour
if Airbus has its way. The aerospace manufacturer is designing a hypersonic jet that it hopes will take people between the two major cities faster than most daily commutes.
The US Patent and Trademark Office recently approved an application from Airbus for the new jet,
which it says will travel at 4. 5 times the speed of sound. Business Insider points out that this is a major improvement on the 3. 5 hours it took for the now Mach 2 Concorde to make the same trip.
The jet is described as'an air vehicle including a fuselage a gothic delta wing distributed on either side of the fuselage,
and a system of motors able to propel the air vehicle.''The patent describes how three different types of engine,
powered by different forms of hydrogen, would work together to propel the vehicle at speeds of 3, 425mph (5,
500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at take off, before retracting into the fuselage just before it reaches the speed of sound.
A rocket motor would take it to an altitude of 100, 000ft (30,000 metres. The wing-mounted ramjets would then take control to push the jet to its final speed.
Airbus says it has designed the craft's aerodynamics to limit sonic boom, which was a major problem for Concorde
when it flew over land. Passengers on the aircraft will be limited to 20.''In the case of civil applications, the market envisaged is principally that of business travel and VIP passengers,
who require transcontinental return journeys within one day,'the patent states. Airbus thinks the jet would be able to complete trips such as Tokyo to Los angeles in just three hours.
The aircraft manufacturer says the hypersonic jet could also be for military applications, working to transport soldiers at rapid speeds.
But Airbus isn't the only one vying to create hypersonic aircraft technology. Last month, Air force bosses revealed they hope to have a hypersonic plane capable of crossing countries in minutes by 2023.
Several tests of hypersonic projectiles have already been carried out. Air force Chief Scientist Mica Endsley told Military. com that the Air Force and Darpa,
the Pentagon's research entity, plan to have a new and improved hypersonic air vehicle by 2023.
Experimental unmanned aircraft developed for the U s. Air force have gone already hypersonic during tests off the Southern California coast,
flying at more than five times the speed of sound. The Air force said a craft known as the X-51a Waverider flew for more than three minutes under power from its exotic scramjet engine and hit a speed of Mach 5. 1 last year.
The new air vehicle could be used to transport sensors equipment or weaponry in the future, depending upon how the technology develops.
Previously bosses had said only they hoped that missile systems would be available for testing in 2020. n
#Neuroon mask helps you avoid jet lag by tricking brain into changing time zones A revolutionary smart mask promises to help you stave off the dreaded effects of jet lag by preparing your body for the time difference before you even board the flight.
and artificially triggers sensors in your eyes during the flight to trick the brain into adjusting to the new time zone.
'And it will be the brightest thing in the sky, apart from aircraft. It'll be in mid sky from southern England
With RAF jets already being replaced by drones piloted by men sitting at computer screens many miles away,
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.
#Robotic Landing gear could help pilots land on rocky mountains and moving boats Helicopters may be able to move in any direction in the air,
but rigid landing gear means they are only able to land and take off on stable, flat surfaces.
engineers have designed Robotic Landing gear. The system comprises four articulated legs that can bend to land on uneven terrain
Instead of traditional landing gear, the system has jointed four legs that are able to fold up next to the helicopter fuselage or body while in flight.
and take off from terrain that would be impossible to operate from with standard landing gear. Having the ability to land on
Reduced risk of damage during hard landings, by as much as a factor of five, compared to conventional landing gear Stable landing
the landing gear is designed to let a helicopter touch down on sloping terrain up to 20 degrees, which is not currently possible,
compared to conventional landing gear. As well as working on new landing systems, Darpa is developing swarms of reusable drone aircraft that can work together to perform a mission,
which it has called the Gremlins program. The idea is to replace the expensive and increasingly vulnerable multi-function combat aircraft
Instead, they propose deploying from the air smaller unmanned aircraft, each with different capabilities, to perform a mission before retrieving them mid-air
'Our goal is to conduct a compelling proof-of-concept flight demonstration that could employ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and other modular, non-kinetic payloads in a robust, responsive and affordable manner.'
fitting somewhere between missiles and conventional aircraft. The agency is hoping to build on its automated mid-air refuelling technology alongside the sea based platforms for capturing drones as they come into land.
'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
Drone aircraft could also be used to deliver antibiotics or blood to front-line units to keep them in the fight,
CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works.''In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic
and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.''Mcafee says this is a huge issue being ignored.
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,
and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive, 'he said during the initial test.
#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,
with a transatlantic journey taking as little as half an hour. A concept aircraft named Skreemr could reach speeds exceeding Mach 10-that's 10 times the speed of sound.
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.
Using such a launch system the craft would be positioned on a pair of conductive parallel rails and accelerated along them using a powerful electromagnetic field.
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,
it could be years until they are used for consumer jets and there is no suggestion the designs for Skreemr will ever become reality.
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,
which made its final flight in 2003. Standard airliners take around eight hours to complete the journey.
Airbus'jet is described as'an air vehicle including a fuselage, a gothic delta wing distributed on either side of the fuselage,
and a system of motors able to propel the air vehicle'.'The patent describes how three different types of engine,
powered by different forms of hydrogen, would work together to propel the vehicle at speeds of 3, 425mph (5,
500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at take off, before retracting into the fuselage just before it reaches the speed of sound.
A rocket motor would take it to an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000 metres. The wing-mounted ramjets would then take control to push the jet to its final speed.
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.
The bank wants to replace PIN codes with biometric scanners that could identify customers using only their eyes.
They also believe the unique water-repelling nature of the material could be used in paint applied to airplanes and satellites or as part of electromagnetic shields for such things as unmanned aerial vehicles.
"said senior author Dr. Zhijian"James"Chen, Professor of Molecular biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at UT Southwestern.
whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device, or biological implant, engineers strive to make the material strong
Funding for this study was provided by a Boston University Nanomedicine grant and NIH P50hl083801 to James Hamilton and by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and NIH CA158448 to the Roger Tsien group p
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.
#Solar-powered plane lands in Ahmedabad on second leg of world trip A Swiss-made solar powered aircraft landed in Ahmedabad on Tuesday night,
The world's first aircraft powered by solar energy was to remain in Ahmedabad for two days before flying to the holy city of Varanasi on Saturday.
Bertrand Piccard and Andre Boschberg, are taking turns at the controls of the aircraft during their 35,000-kilometer (21,700-mile) journey.
The aircraft's wings are covered by more than 17,000 solar cells that recharge the plane's batteries.
which will span 25 flight days over five months. Borschberg has been practicing yoga and Piccard self-hypnosis.
Neither pilot will be able to stand in the cockpit while flying but the seat reclines for stretching
The SI2 aircraft has a wingspan of 72 meters (236 feet), 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.
two of the first ten drone flights were scrapped because of bad weather. Would-be drone delivery services in the United states face complications, too.
Initial plans would call for small scale uses such as camouflaging unmanned aerial vehicles, while future uses may include larger endeavors like hiding ships, aircraft,
and convoy vehicles from enemy radar r
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
Material testing procedures that regularly check for fissures in rail tracks or aircraft support structures also rely on ultrasound.
For example, an unpiloted air vehicle might change shape from one designed for a cruise mission to one designed for a dive.
Those with mutations in polycystic kidney disease genes formed balloon-like, fluid-filled sacks, called cysts, from kidney tubules.
Funding for the study came from Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National institutes of health N
. group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus."This will bring super-resolution to live-cell imaging for real."
#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,
#Overview of a Smart Optical Time-of-Flight Sensor Technology With billions of sensors already being deployed in all types of devices and applications,
Combined with the use of visible or infrared LEDS to perform time-of-flight measurements,
Time-of-Flight Principle Leddar sensors use LEDS to generate very short light pulses, typically 100,000 pulses per second.
The time-of-flight (Tof) principle essentially consists in measuring the time taken by a light pulse to travel from the sensor to a remote object
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