pressure and water vapor similar to data collected by weather balloons but on a global scale using a technique called GPS Radio Occultation (GPS-RO).
and as space on an aircraft is at a premium, and you'd like to pack in as much energy in the form of burnable fuel as possible,
temperatures around the aircraft are around-40c(-40f) or-50c, so you do not want your fuel gelling up on you."
when there were a number of test flights using a blend of conventional fuel and biofuel. In February 2008, the first commercial flight partly powered by biofuel (derived from a mixture of babassu nuts
After a lengthy review by aircraft makers, engine manufacturers and fuel producers, biofuels were approved for commercial use in 2011.
#Airbus to build giant satellite network European aerospace giant, Airbus, is going to build the world's largest satellite constellation.
The company will produce 900 spacecraft for Oneweb, a British Channel Islands-registered concern that aims to broaden internet access to the underserved.
Airbus will be the"industrial partner"on the project. And the role represents an immense challenge
because Airbus has made its name on some of the world's highest specification and most expensive telecommunications platforms.
Airbus says it will make the first 10 spacecraft at its Toulouse manufacturing facility before shifting work to a dedicated plant in the United states. Many rockets will be required to get the constellation in orbit
Airbus would not give a formal interview at the airshow but issued a statement from its head of space systems. his partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story,
and expertise across the entire Airbus Group. neweb is led by Greg Wyler, and the American entrepreneur was pictured meeting French President François Hollande at the Le Bourget showground.
#Plane wings could'heal themselves'Self-healing aeroplane wings could be introduced in the next five to 10 years,
"which are interspersed in the aeroplane wing itself. The spheres burst when damaged, releasing the liquid,
"The"healed"aircraft wings were often as strong as they had been said originally Prof Wass, who is working with aerospace engineer colleagues on the research project."
"We are talking about aeroplane wings here-the most demanding application because of the safety aspect,
The new Airbus a350 XWB that is flying daily displays at the Paris Air Show can claim several engineering firsts.
One of these is that it has printed more 3d components than any other aircraft, about 1,
And United Launch Alliance-a joint venture between Lockheed martin and Boeing-has the parts on the rockets it sends into space.
The 3d components on the A350 XWB are mostly widgets and brackets, formed by fusing layer upon layer of resins in machines that replicate computer-generated 3d models.
says Ian Risk, Airbus Group's head of innovations in the UK, where the aerospace giant makes aircraft wings."
"These components contribute a huge amount to the manufacturing process. Often, it's the fiddly parts that create delays in production,
Mr Risk doubts there will ever be a machine big enough to turn out a whole airframe."
Say, for example, an A380 superjumbo is flying into Singapore and needs a new part. In our digitally connected world, a machine could be programmed to start printing even before the aircraft lands.
In sounds good in theory, and Mr Risk says that"agile manufacturing"will certainly reshape the industry's global supply chain
so it's only a matter of time before a tipping point is reached. 3d parts reduce weight on aircraft,
He predicts that one of the most significant impacts could be on aircraft design, especially as 3d offers the promise to produce more complex shapes."
about 40-50%of aircraft components will use printed materials. It's about 4%now.
As with 3d components used in civil aircraft, they have to go through rigorous regulatory approval.
Lead researcher Aydogan Ozcan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute chancellor professor at UCLA, sat down with Bioscience Technology to talk about this advancement and its implications for resource-poor labs,
and design, said David Agard, Ph d.,professor of biophysics and biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator,
The study was supported by funds from the National institutes of health, the John G. Bowes Research Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute s
and Jonathan Weissman, Ph d.,professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute t
#New Knowledge: Parkinson's disease May Begin In The Gut, Aarhus University Study A major epidemiological registry-based study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital indicates that Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract.
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute h
#Flight Flies on 100 Percent Biofuels This week saw the first-ever completely biofuel-powered flight take place.
The National Research Council of Canada conducted the first flight on 100 percent renewable, drop in biofuel on its Falcon 20 jet, according to oilprice. com, marking a huge milestone for the aviation and renewable energy industries.
Oilseed crops commercialized by Agrisoma were used as a feedstock and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel.
Previously, flights on biofuels had been limited to a 50 percent blend with petroleum making this a major breakthrough.
Progress in biofuel-powered flights and the Navy continued pursuit of alternative energy are great steps to help the United states build a biobased economy
The mini military space plane is poised for liftoff Wednesday on another long orbital test flight. The three previous missions also began with rocket launches from Cape canaveral Air force station.
Although largely mum about this X-37b flight, the Air force has acknowledged a thruster experiment involving electric propulsion.
Spaceflightnow. com revealed more details of the flight, which is described as a'hall thruster electric propulsion test.'
However, it lands using a runway like a normal aircraft. The X-37b is too small to carry people onboard,
The plane has been in space for a total of 674 days, far more than its two previous flights
According to X-37b manufacturer Boeing, the space plane operates in low-earth orbit, between 110 (177km) and 500 miles (800km) above earth.
#Lightsail launches to test revolutionary solar technology in Earth orbit A small spacecraft designed to test solar sail technology in Earth orbit has taken flight in a successful launch.
On this particular flight, though, Lightsail will be in too low an orbit to escape the clutches of Earth.
But this flight will be a key test to not only prove that the physics of solar sailing works as theorised
The software, called Mandrake and developed by Lockheed martin, verifies a user's identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual's finger strokes on a touch screen.
senior fellow for Lockheed IT and Security Solutions, told Nextgov. com.'People can forge your handwriting in two dimensions,
the Pentagon's research entity, plan to have a new and improved hypersonic air vehicle by 2023.
'It showed that you could get a scram jet engine, launch it off an aircraft and it could go hypersonic.'
'It was able to go more than Mach 5 until it ran out of fuel.''It was a very successful test of an airborne hypersonic weapons system.'
'The new air vehicle could be used to transport sensors, equipment or weaponry in the future, depending upon how the technology develops.
so the military could strike targets at a safe distance without putting pilots and aircraft at risk.'
Experimental unmanned aircraft developed for the U s. Air force have gone already hypersonic during tests off the Southern California coast,
The test marked the fourth and final flight of an X-51a by the Air force
of which have scheduled test flights for 2018 or 2019. The same technology could also revolutionise air travel -although military bosses have their own goal.'
'The previous three flights ended in failure or didn't reach the intended speed. Though the aircraft was designed to reach Mach 6,
or six times the speed of sound, program officials were satisfied with its performance in the latest test.'
accelerating the aircraft to Mach 5. 1 at 60,000 feet. The flight ended with a planned plunge into the ocean.
The Waverider traveled more than 230 miles in six minutes making it the longest hypersonic flight of its kind.
Engineers gathered data before it splashed down. Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works, which built the Waverider,
called the test'a historic achievement that has been years in the making.''''This test proves the technology has matured to the point that it opens the door to practical applications,
it said it will continue hypersonic flight research c
#Drown out screaming children and loud commuters with volume knobs for your EARS: Buds alter pitch to tune out any sound Ever wanted to drown out certain sounds around you,
the company explained. uppress the jet engine on an airplane. Reduce a baby crying. Boost the bass at a club.
stadiums and flights) where you can control and curate what happening in real time.'
#World's first BIOLIMB created: Dead arm'brought back to life'in the lab could allow amputees to grow replacement limbs In a world first,
Breakthrough material clots like blood to help surfaces repair themselves Tiny cracks on the wings of aircraft can lead to jets being grounded at a cost of millions of pounds.
is said to have tarted on the back of an envelopeas the team looked at ways to prevent tiny cracks from forming in places such as aircraft wings.
and much like fighter jet pilots are ejected from their downed aeroplane, we have discovered certain molecules are pushed free from the dying cell,
The weapon apparently deactivates the radios of UAVS and warheads, causing them to lose control. Designed for the surface-to-air BUK missile system, the gun was developed by Russia United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC.
#Airbus takes on Spacex: Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
17:32 GMT, 16 june 2015 Aerospace behemoth Airbus is set to build the largest satellite constellation seen so far.
Airbus will make 900 spacecraft-building up to four a day-with 300 to be kept as spares for after the proposed launches,
e have worked with Airbus Space and Defence, to streamline the manufacturing process to the point that several satellites can be produced each day. his will redefine the cost structure for satellites,
director of Airbus's Defence and Space programme, said: his partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story.?
by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian federal space agency installed the cameras on the hull of the station's Zvezda Service Module.
But now there a noninvasive wristband that deploys a buoyant balloon on demand to save wearers from drowning.
and triggering the CO2 cylinder to fill the balloon, which can pull a wearer towards the water surface.
Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, presented his work at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics'Propulsion and Energy Forum in Orlando yesterday.
and F-35 built by Lockheed martin Corp. Lockheed redoubled security efforts focused on suppliers after a"significant and tenacious"attack on its computer networks in 2011 that was enabled by lax security at a supplier.
000 to $500 with greater volume and also if automakers did away the in-cockpit view,
An IMU sensor, often used to manoeuvre aircraft, can record velocity, orientation and gravitational forces using accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers.
An IMU sensor, often used to manoeuvre aircraft, can record velocity, orientation and gravitational forces using accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers.
It has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time.
Helium balloons will be attached to the plane and float it up into the air. The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards.
It has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time.
Helium balloons will be attached to the plane and float it up into the air. The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards.
It has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time.
Helium balloons will be attached to the plane and float it up into the air. The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards.
It has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time.
Helium balloons will be attached to the plane and float it up into the air. The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards.
where it is expected to enable airplane wings to self heal in flight. Other sectors have expressed a strong interest in its potential:
While Facebook is looking to send drones#the size of massive passenger planes into orbit to bring Web access to the masses Google is looking at high-altitude balloons
BAE Systems is the industrial lead for the project, which also involves the NASA Jet propulsion Lab, University of Maryland, the University of Michigan,
One BAE Systems prototype looks like a fly and weighs less than an ounce. Its lightweight carbon joints help the robot imitate real flies.
#US Air force confirms Boeing's electromagnetic pulse weapon For the last few years, the creative minds of Hollywood had outpaced seemingly the reality of technological and scientific advances in the weapons field.
and into reality is the joint U s. Air force and Boeing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of targeting
"While it appears that the Laboratory has only commissioned five such devices with Boeing, with the Air force's recent confirmation of the weapon's existence,
Lockheed martin test fired a laser weapon in March that took out a truck engine from a mile away,
and don have to be cleaned as often. ome potential applications for anti-icing surfaces include protection of aerofoils, power transmission lines,
"said Reuben Shaw, a senior author of the paper, professor in the Molecular and Cell biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist."
motorcycles, diesel trains, generators, container ships and aircraft, among others. It is hoping to have the same impact as the catalytic converter,
"said Myung-Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS.""These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of the temperature of the sun,
These include Japan IHI, a major manufacturer of jet engines, power turbines and other heavy industrial equipment;
so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission, Myung-Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author,
Radar, which detects objects in motion through high frequency radio waves, enables what Project Soli design lead Carste Schwesig calls a undamentally different approachto motion tracking. typical model of the way you think about radar is like a police radar
or personal computers or airplanes or carsere laughed at by their contemporaries in every case, says Mikosza y
morphing aircraft, giant-range strain sensors, failure-free pacemaker leads, and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices.
The machine, known as a ortex fluidic device was invented during a flight between Los angeles and Sydney."
#Self-healing technology one step closer after scientists produce aircraft wings which fix themselves Their research,
if there was a way of preventing the tiny, almost undetectable cracks that form in an aircraft wings and fuselage.
just as strong after it has ealed raising the possibility of aircraft wings that can repair themselves iterally on the flyif a bird strike takes place in mid-flight,
The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
because you don want an aeroplane wing with a big red splodge on it showing that it been damaged. epending on the outside temperature,
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
and allow engineers to spot cracks more easily.**Offshore wind turbines could also benefit from self-healing technology,
The prototype demonstrates optical derivative functions mathematical building blocks commonly used in complex engineering model simulations such as weather prediction and aerodynamic modeling.
a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and leader of the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) group,
or PTS, was conceived originally as a joint project between the MERS group, the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford university and aerospace giant Boeing,
Boeing tasked the researchers with creating an interactive system for a so-called Personal Air vehicle essentially
which is now being developed by Lockheed martin. Up and walking The new device, called the Ekso,
NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
but in the air it flies more like an airplane. Future versions of the drone could be used for a variety of applications,
what we are testing now would make also a great one-to four-person-size personal air vehicle."
"Over the course of five flight tests, the drone was able to take off and hover like a helicopter,
before demonstrating that it can also fly like a conventional airplane. Now, the researchers are examining ways to make the drone more aerodynamically efficient,
25 kg), with each successive version getting closer to a real aircraft's weight and design."
"We did lose some of the early prototypes to'hard landings'as we learned how to configure the flight control system.
The study was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and appears today (June 4) in the journal Science n
Myung-Ho Bae, one of the study's authors, told Live Science trapping the heat in one region makes the lighting more efficient."
and waveforms, including bursts and high frequency signals. From the announcement: he small size and novel shape of the Precision Novi implant improves patient comfort
so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission, Myung-Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author,
and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft.""This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,
or the wings of airplanes.""This is the first time anyone has achieved such a broad range of color on a one-layer, thin and flexible surface,"concluded Change-Hasnain."
#Leti Demos New Process to Fabricate High-brightness Micro-LED Arrays for Next-gen Head-mounted and Head up displays:
and head-mounted displays can improve safety and performance in fields such as aeronautics and automotive,
For example, the global research firm Marketsandmarkets forecasts the market for head up displays alone to grow from $1. 37 billion in 2012 to $8. 36 billion in 2020. urrently available microdisplays for both head-mounted
In terms of applications, based on the combination of low adjunction and a"wide"effective bandwidth, the researchers expect to see their 3-D PPY aerogel used in surface coatings for aircraft.
2015leti Demos New Process to Fabricate High-brightness Micro-LED Arrays for Next-gen Head-mounted and Head up displays:
2015leti Demos New Process to Fabricate High-brightness Micro-LED Arrays for Next-gen Head-mounted and Head up displays:
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
Among other applications of this sensor, mention can be made of desulfurization of petroleum products, production of jet fuel and launching of aircrafts and other aerospace applications.
or minute flaws within airplane wings in industrial testing, that may otherwise be unobservable due to an instrument's diffractive limit.
morphing aircraft; giant-range strain sensors; failure-free pacemaker leads; and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices.
individual aircraft taxing and taking off, and the effects of wind direction and the perimeter and M25 motorway road traffic.
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
#Helium'balloons'offer new path to control complex materials (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to manipulate a wide range of materials
Inserting helium atoms (visualized as a red balloon) into a crystalline film (gold) allowed Oak ridge National Laboratory researchers to control the material's elongation in a single direction.
Yamashita, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Macarthur Fellow and an associate professor at the U-M Medical school, looked through her old image files
Think of California as a jumbo jet that has just run out of fuel and is plummeting toward a mountain.
and keep watching the in-flight Hollywood entertainment, pretending nothing bad is happening outside your immediate focus.
While the drone flies, the user is able to view the flight from FPV (first-person view) via a front-facing camera. his project serves as the beginning of brain-machine control as a human-centric application says Marvin Andujar
According to this Dailymail article, the software can be trained to associate a person thinking about a floating balloon with turning left.
Each time the driver thinks of the floating balloon their brain signals are the same, and it is these signals that are ranslatedinto commands.
Out on the flight line at the Point Mugu United states Naval Air station, north of Los angeles, a ground crew is preparing an unmanned MQ-8c Fire Scout chopper for takeoff,
surveillance and ash and trashresupply flights. Aerospace giant Northrop grumman is at the cutting edge of this technology with its Fire Scout system
and the company has built 24 MQ-8b models that are already in service with the US NAVY
and then emansthem and converts them into Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) using advanced systems and sensors. Program director for the US NAVY Captain Jeff Dodge likened the upgrade from the MQ-8b based on a smaller airframe to the model aircraft to a brain transplant. e are taking the computer
and putting it on a bigger, stronger helicopter, he said in a hangar at Webster Field near Pax River Naval Air station on Chesapeake bay.
when the UAVS are operated in concert with manned choppers such as the Seahawk MH-60 omeoor the MRH-90 also fielded by the RAN.
At the other extreme of the unmanned aircraft spectrum is the $80 million Northrop grumman built US NAVY Triton maritime surveillance aircraft.
Australia is set to buy up to seven of the jet aircraft to be based at Edinburgh RAAF base near Adelaide.
After that the aircraft will operate at five locations in so called orbits of four aircraft providing the US with constant global coverage of the oceans.
News coverage from Afghanistan means that most people are familiar with modern-day fixed-wing military UAVS such as missile armed Reapers
and Predators or the smaller unarmed Heron aircraft flown by the RAAF on surveillance missions from Kandahar airfield.
Northrop grumman is taking the unmanned concept to the next level with the Triton and Fire Scout and the most incredible of them all the X47-B unmanned combat jet that has landed already
and taken off from an aircraft carrier. Pilots such as Lieutenant commander David Selew, who have thousands of hours of flying experience,
Lieutenant commander Selew is the Government Flight test Director for the Fire Scout MQ-8c at Point Mugu.
With a wingspan as wide as a Boeing 737 passenger jet the Triton can fly up to 20,000 metres high
and pilots will be used to fly Tritons that will be deployed forward at US fleet bases around the world The same approach will apply to the RAAF fleet of Orions as they retire during the next decade to be replaced by either Triton or the Boeing P-8 Poseidon manned
aircraft. They won be based forward but they will operate away from Adelaide at places such as Tindal,
He said the aircraft sensors were very powerful and the turret under the nose was the same as the Reaper
and identifying small vessels in various sea states as well as oil and gas platforms and if the RAAF wants others systems such as weather radar
and Australia is the first overseas customer for the aircraft that will cost about $80-million each.
At the Pax River base the Tritons are controlled by air vehicle operators, mission payload operators and a tactical commander who are located in a control room with three large TV screens on the wall
and the system is ly by mousewith the operator using the computer mouse to control the aircraft
and as sure as night follows day it will involve fewer airborne pilots and increasing numbers of unmanned aircraft systems.
have seen we the last of piloted aircraft? Probably not, but it will become increasingly difficult in the years ahead to find a military pilot who actually takes to the air i
A small air traffic control tower sticks out above the white horizon. But this airport actually has two air traffic control centers.
The second one is just a short walk from the airport runway. Inside a ground-floor windowless room there's a display that looks exactly like what you'd see out of an air traffic control tower.
You can see the snowy runway you can see the trees you can even see a car pulling into the airport parking lot.
and it's expensive to keep air traffic controllers there who spend hours with no planes to land.
The day you have one air traffic controller who can control two airports then you have some good benefits according to costs Backman says.
And a problem landing an airplane is far more consequential than a laptop freezing up. Backman says when he saw the first mockup of this technology in 2004 he was dubious.
Mikael Henriksson the project manager has been an air traffic controller for 40 years. He says in all his time looking out tower windows there were only three big innovations:
For the air traffic controller this is like airline pilots going from propeller to jet Henriksson says. It's a paradigm shift.
airplane numbers runway incursion warnings. You can zoom in or switch to an infrared view to see through thick fog or darkness.
The air traffic controllers could be a few #or a few thousand#miles away in a safe environment because it doesn't matter
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