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Synopsis: Aeronautics:

Now, cramming more people onto planes makes them more efficient per person. he load in aircraft,

just like a jet of fuel sprayed from an injector. ou turn on the headlights and the light just reflects back into your eyes,

The result is a detailed moving image of a jet of fuel in the cylinder that can be presented in various ways, in black and white or in colour.

Airships were supposed to be the way of the future, not aircraft. Experts believed the aviation industry would die because of environmental concerns and falling passenger numbers.

But despite these concerns it has collapsed not. In some sectors, business and leisure travel are booming.

New generations of aircraft like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus a380 are far more efficient than older aircraft#70%more fuel efficient than aircraft of 40 years ago, according to the International air transport association (IATA.

Air traffic control and airport management will also be revolutionised as digital technology makes aircraft easier to manage.

Lighter aircraft can be bigger and carry more freight and passengers. New fuelsin years to come they can be flown remotely, too.

Passenger aircraft might not be flown remotely#we will still feel safer with a human in the cockpit

#but automated air traffic could double the capacity of the flight paths around the world and only airport capacity would constrain us.

British aerospace flew an aircraft remotely to Inverness in Scotland this summer in a Civil aviation Authority-supported experiment.

Allowing UAVS to monitor and spray crops is regulated already and sanctioned in both North and South america.

which behaves very like the kerosene that the jet engines of today use. Jet engine efficiency#has come on in leaps and bounds,

but the fuels they use are still polluting hydrocarbons which come out of the ground. Butanol can be produced by bacteria in biomass

and if an economically efficient method can be found to industrialise that process then your flight of the future could literally be fuelled by alcohol.

The number of aircraft flying on our skies, however, also depends on the infrastructure to safely manage it.

The US, for instance, currently has some of the most antiquated air traffic management in the developed world

as a result of Congress failing to back reforms proposed by the Federal Aviation Authority#after a very famous air traffic controllers strike more than 25 years ago.#

New forms of air traffic management, using digitised TV and mobile signals bounced off aircraft will replace the 1940s-era radar system still in use by#air traffic control,

and allow planes to land more efficiently, using less fuel in the process. Although no air traffic system is using such signals at the moment,

Air traffic control systems are being interfered with, both offshore and across moors and hills. The movement of the turbine blades creates, essentially,

a phantom signal that even modern radars find hard to differentiate from a real moving aircraft.

this could cause problems for existing flight paths. As the need for wind power increases, a solution will have to be found.

##This could behave like a very efficient jet engine in the atmosphere, but also be able to function outside the atmosphere like a rocket.

However, these flights are likely to run from dedicated spaceports and it will be some time before mixed-mode airports that can operate both spacecraft

and aircraft become possible. The early space systems will probably involve gliding back to Earth

I am about to enter the large clean room at Ball aerospace in Boulder, Colorado where the mirrors for the $8. 7 billion James webb space telescope (JWST) are being built and tested.

While Air force officials have argued the highly manoeuvrable aircraft with stealth technology would be useful in dealing with Syria's sophisticated air defence systems and surface-to-air missiles,

Another issue is that flight restrictions on the F-22 were lifted just earlier this year after concerns over pilot oxygen deprivation,

Last year, Boeing released a video of its High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (Champ)- a missile that essentially fries circuits by causing a surge in power.

It's all jet and no lag, #he says.""In an average month, I spend about a week-and-a-half in Berlin, about a week in San francisco and the rest of the time split between Los angeles, New york and London.#

The state documented 787 people as suffering from exposure to the pesticide drifting through the air between 2002 and 2011, according to the most recent records.

When the Pilot Can Elbit Systems is developing new applications for smart helmets for pilots that will be able to sense life-threatening developments during flight.

In non-pressurized cockpits, for example, when flying helicopters over high mountain ranges, hypoxia can develop slowly over the course of an hour.

but, during the condition, the aircraft is uncontrolled and could hit the ground. A warning issued just prior to the onset of GLOC could alert the pilot to take precautions,

and assess his or her performance and tolerance on the specific flight. Once the system ecidesthat the pilot is in danger,

the autopilot can be activated to take control

#Machines Making Machines: Printing Missiles Researchers at Raytheon Missile Systems say they have created already nearly every component of a guided weapon using additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing.

the Kurdish fighters group operating against ISIS inside northern Syria. he conclusion of an agreement between Turkey and the U s.-led anti-ISIS coalition to open Turkish airbases for coalition aircraft conducting

Western Economic Diversification is also contributing funding to bring online a number of additional underwater observatories and high frequency coastal radars.

One of the most recent examples of this is from EV charging solutions provider Aerovironment who has announced a compact new portable charger that is dual voltage that reportedly offers faster charging times compared to the standard cordsets found with most EVS these days.

The Aerovironment Turbocord according to the company behind it offers both 240-volt/16-amperage and 120-volt charging options that allow it to charge nearly three times faster meaning less than three hours for plug-in hybrids and less than six hours for full battery electrics.

The result is a tyre that delivers significant improvements in aerodynamics and rolling resistance while still offering outstanding grip in wet weather conditions.

By the same token the narrow tread concept improves aerodynamics. The most spectacular achievement however is that these improvements do not involve a trade-off in terms of safety.

with a demonstrator tree to be installed in Paris on the Place de la Concorde this coming May.

We may also see the location of airplanes.""The system-conceived in an EU research project-is designed to complement existing airport security systems already in place e

assembly-line machines do their own'thinking'A major consumer of time and money in the manufacturing of aircraft, motor vehicles,

Different models of aircraft have different body shapes, different types of seats and cabins, and so on.

All of this affects the shape and size of the fuselage. This means that production lines have to switch from one variety of aeroplane to another using different machines and different setups for the machines.

This costs time and money. PRESS can help significantly reduce costs by having the machines themselves adapt to different aeroplane models

says Peschl. roducts used to be more standardised. Today, customers want more varieties and customised products.

by producing high frequency electric discharges, plasma generates'ionised'gas that can change the surface properties of the material it is in contact with.

#A robotic answer to safe automated industrial maintenance Maintenance and repair work in the aeronautics

explains project manager Mariola Rodríguez. ablebot will demonstrate the potential of cable robotic systems for the life-cycle maintenance and repair of aircraft,

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#A European Flood Alert System to protect Europe's cities In 2010, when a big flood hit Poland, the Czech republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia, the situation was quite different.

and an antimicrobial part to pierce the membrane of any bacteria cell that it touches. t works like a spike bursting a balloon,

reducing resource waste The production of advanced high-tech components for aircraft and other aerospace applications is an expensive

The project was funded between 2007 and 2010 by the EU's 6th Framework Aeronautics and Space Programme and was coordinated by the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with partners in Belgium,

or a cargo-hold from damaging the structure or tearing a hole in the fuselage and bringing down the plane.

universities and small and medium sized companies with specialist expertise in areas like textile and aeronautics."High-tech textiles have advanced a lot in the last few years.

The primary challenge was to make these state-of-the-art materials contain the rapid gas expansion that occurs in an explosion strong enough to rip open the aluminium fuselage of a plane.

and parts that go into our aircraft, cars, machine parts, says project coordinator Jan Willem Gunnink of UK-based Delcam.

while robots are not ready to machine an Airbus turbine blade, they are definitely viable for the pre-manufacturing processes of, for example, metal parts,

EU project makes first'solar'kerosene An EU-funded research project called SOLAR-JET has produced the world's first'solar'jet fuel from water and carbon dioxide (CO2), a promising technology for a better

and can be used by existing vehicles and aircraft without modifications of their engines or of fuel infrastructure.

The SOLAR-JET project brings together research organisations from academia and industry (ETH Zürich, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR),

Aimonetti adds. o much of it is black box. I obsessed with exposing the creative aspect.

which we look at the interaction between the dipoles associated with these molecules and the nanosensor at high frequencies,

professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Washington University studies how malaria affects red blood cells.

and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute supported the work a

#DNA sequencing reveals six new forms of blindness Scientists have discovered six new forms of inherited blindness,

and radar systems for aircraft ships and satellites can be extremely heavy and large so minimizing the size of these systems could provide significant savings.

of aeronautics and astronautics and an adjunct professor in physics. The reactor called the dynomak started as a class project taught by Jarboe two years ago.

This discovery which is like a eesaw circuitwas led by postdoctoral scholar Weizhe Hong in the laboratory of David J. Anderson biology professor at Caltech and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The Simons Foundation the National institutes of health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute supported the work. Source:

and cools in response to the outside air temperature it expands and contracts causing the bellows to do the same.

That means any slight shift in an office building s air conditioning or the natural outside air temperature during the course of a day would be more than enough to activate the chemical in the bellows.

and homeland security applications says Yakovlev. deally you#d like to target a suspicious substance from an airplane possibly

and releasing electrical charge while subject to stresses or pressures up to 44 psi and vibrational accelerations over 80 g (significantly greater than those acting on turbine blades in a jet engine).

The Rice university lab of chemist James Tour in collaboration with Lockheed martin developed the compound to protect marine and airborne radars with a robust coating that is also transparent to radio frequencies.

when (Lockheed martin engineer) Vladimir Volman saw a presentation by Yu Zhu a postdoc in my lab at the timehe says. olman had calculated that one could pass a current through a graphene film less than 100 nanometers thick

Volman suggests the material would make a compelling competitor to recently touted nanotube-based aerogels for deicing airplanes in the winter. e have the technology;

and can be sprayed on to heat any kind of surface. he Lockheed martin Corp. through the LANCER IV program the Air force Office of Scientific research

and showed the capability of operating at high frequency which is handy for applications where power concerns are critical such as processing

Currently AM processes such as multi-jet modeling which create a solid 3d object from a digital model by laying down successive layers of material can fabricate a complex object in a matter of hours.

By comparison Universal serial bus (USB) chargers for small electronic devices provide about 5v of power. e were aiming for the highest energy efficiency we could achievesays Hawkes. e had been getting energy efficiency around 6 to 10 percent

when they built their early airplanes. They made their planes a little unstable to get the maneuverability they needed. hen an animal

when you were a kid you d get a balloon and it would be wilted the next day?

or photonic devices but if this can be realized on a large scale it'#going to cover a broad spectrum of applications. ltrathin h-BN protection might find a place in turbines jet engines oil exploration

Combining jet printing with self-assembling block copolymers enabled the engineers to attain the much higher resolution as suggested by lead author Serdar Onses a postdoctoral scientist at Illinois. Onses earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin

And because e-jet can naturally handle fluid inks it is suited exceptionally well for patterning solution suspensions of nanotubes nanocrystals nanowires

since 1999 threatening important wheat production areas of the world#says co-author Jorge Dubcovsky a wheat geneticist at University of California Davis and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.#

Boeing, the Air force Office of Scientific research, Sandia National Laboratory, and the Office of Naval Research supported the research u

which uses hurricane reconnaissance aircraft to punch through a storm#s eye wall and release dropsondes sensors that free-fall

#If you want to blast through a hurricane you have to build a bigger airplane#Mohseni says.#(

#The military) asks for a Batman airplane a super-duper aircraft that could do everything.

But what if you lose one of these super-duper airplanes?##We are going the opposite direction.

unlike bottles for petroleum or gas burners that cannot be carried on airplanes and must be sourced at destination.

but by expelling a jet of water. This allows them to move very quickly and quietly.

As part of the recent Google Science Fair Texas teen Alex Spiride recently showed off his own bio-inspired Squid-Jet underwater vehicle e

#CNN gets go-ahead to use drones in newsgathering News media heavyweight CNN has reached an agreement with the Federal aviation administration (FAA) designed to usher in the use of drones in newsgathering and reporting.

"Unmanned aircraft offer news organizations significant opportunities,"says FAA Administrator Michael Huerta.""We hope this agreement with CNN

and associations will help safely integrate unmanned newsgathering technology and operating procedures into the National airspace system.""While the development will be welcome news for CNN

and other media outlets looking to tap into the potential of unmanned aircraft, to others it may seem a little overdue with the FAA still outlawing drone use for commercial purposes.

and to establish what options are available and workable to produce high quality video journalism using various types of UAVS

but it will also speed up the prototyping process As well as ISAAC begins work on the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Advanced Composites Project and the Space technology Mission Directoratecomposites for Exploration Upper Stage,

These include rooftop garden loral therapy, art classes making realistic representations of everyday objects, music therapy with bongos sounding ike a heartbeat.

I asked why you don t see wipers on some aircraft on when they are coming in at very low levels for landing.

But the e-commerce giant isn t the only company researching how to harness the potential of small unmanned aircraft:

##Fedex founder Fred Smith has spoken repeatedly about his desire to#move to a fleet of unmanned aircraft,

#Powerup 3. 0 A paper airplane controlled by your smartphone Powerup 3. 0 Scientists have spent so much time making amazing airplanes,

for all that great work, there s been surprisingly little work in the creation of better paper airplanes.

##Though it s called 3. 0, it s the paper airplane 2. 0 for most of us.

What s the worst part about paper airplanes? If you picked either##running to retrieve it

##or##total lack of control over its flight path##then this innovation is for you. Basically, Powerup 3. 0 allows you to control a paper airplane with your smartphone.

Exactly what we ve all been waiting for ever since the first man got bored in class

and make the paper airplane of your choice. My favorite is the one that does loop-de-loops,

and go nuts controlling your paper airplane. The battery charges via mini USB and lasts for 10 minutes of continuous flight.

The app itself gives you a pilot s view, complete with a range indicator, a thrust level indicator,

It s somewhat depressing that we re now controlling our paper airplanes with iphones. I feel like

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The first step would be funding to update the Boeing/North american Aviation studies done in the 1970s.

##Aircraft can safely traverse the beam and tests have demonstrated that even the sensitive honeybee is unaffected,

Boeing and GE are developing the capability to 3-D print aircraft components, he said,

and one of its models, the Volocopter VC200, recently passed its first flight tests. Video)##E-volo s#vehicle may look bizarre,

Its frame is created from carbon fiber to keep the aircraft lightweight and It seats two people.

a prototype of the VC200 took to the skies for its first series of test flights.

Not only was impressed the team with the smooth flight experience of the aircraft, but they were surprised also by how quiet the Volocopter ran.

The VC200 took a total of nine flights, including one that lasted nearly 22 meters.

Each flight lasted a few minutes. However, the tests were limited to indoors, so who knows what s possible once the Volocopter is taken outside?

It is E-volo s hopes that the aircraft will eventually get up to speeds of 50 knots and stay in the air for more than an hour.

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The concept of static seats and the suggestion that they will provide a more pleasant flight experience is interesting,

Which is why Janusz Bryzek, an executive at Fairchild, #apparently organized the Trillion Sensor Summit,

Using GPS waypoints to a designated target, the Black Hornet can fly a full 20-25 minutes before needing to recharge,

#Lockheed martin s SPAN spy rock could be the military s new secret weapon The surveillance technology is so small it can fit in a rock.

Lockheed martin showcased developments in their surveillance technology called SPAN (Self-Powered Ad hoc Network) at the annual AUSA Army meeting in Washington, D c. last week.

or an unmanned aerial vehicle to further study an area, or summon an engineer when a pipeline or bridge structure is in danger or fractured.

Lockheed touts the##field -and-forget##technology as providing maximum coverage at minimal costs, claiming that the sensors can remain in the field for years at a time without maintenance,

Earlier this year, a former Lockheed martin subcontractor made headlines for attempting to sell on ebay for $10 million#an early 2000s prototype of the surveillance rock before Lockheed pulled the plug on the project.

Included in the package were hundreds of pages of detailed development instructions, two years of emails with Lockheed and some hardware##but no rock.##

And although Lockheed claims that SPAN s inconspicuous sensors##reduce the likelihood of discovery and tampering,

and balloons floating in the air with Internet connections. Google which boatloads of cash, and limitless ambition sees itself as the only company willing to take big risks like this. not proposing that we spend all of our money on those kinds of speculative things,

Where are you a little over a year after it was announced that the first robotic insect took flight?

and all the other things necessary for autonomous flight. BI: Last month, Greenpeace released a short video that imagines a future in which swarms of robotic bees have been deployed to save our planet after the real insects go extinct.

The EPFL team noted its work underscores confidentiality issues with drones as its aircraft can pull phones Wi-fi network names and MAC addresses.

and automation services that enable organizations to generate editorial content on autopilot. Could similar technology be leveraged to deliver educational content?

The jumbo jet maker Airbus introduced a concept design for smart luggage at the Paris Air Show last year.

presenting more upward trending graphs than a keynote at a hot air balloon convention. And he s probably going to be right

thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibers to form composites. Some 50%of the new Airbus a350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.

Yet until now, none of this thermoset plastic could be recycled. The potential impact here is said phenomenal

Nonlethal solution Mr Kieser said that he now planned to invite potential clients to see demonstration flights that would be held in Africa, Europe and The americas over the coming months.

The Skunk unmanned aerial vehicle with its four paintball guns, loudhailer and cameras is only a logical next step in the development of UAVS,

and goes to show that UAVS have unlimited almost uses, he said. I predict that we will see a whole new wave of UAVS emerging with payloads more unusual than tasers,

dart guns and paintball guns. But Noel Sharkey, chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms control campaign group

the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.

as if you were piloting an Air force jet and then aim your weapon where it tells you to.

The sophistication of cutting-edge drones like British BAESYSTEMS batwing-shaped Taranis and Northrop grumman X-47b reveal more self-direction creeping into ever more heavily armed systems.

and dirigibles until his funding was canceled by J p morgan. In 1960 William C Brown, the inventor of the cross-field amplifier, used a remote control helicopter to demonstrate his breakthroughs using wireless microwave power on the Walter Cronkite 6: 00 pm news. Citing Tesla same logic,

or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,

canceled or overbooked flights. Meet Airhelp, the startup that will save you all the hassle and claim money for you.

we search for your flight itineraries and figure out how much you can claim. If youe been delayed on a flight for the last three years,

you can claim money for that. But how much exactly can you claim? For a delayed, canceled

or overbooked flight in Europe, you can get up to $800 per flight. In the U s.,you could end up with $1,

300 for an overbooked flight. That why airlines will fight you very hard not to give you your money back.

According to Airhelp, only 0. 1 percent of eligible passengers get their compensation. Not only Airhelp will do the hard work for you,

which will be called Autopilot, enables the driver to hand over the driving to the vehicle, which takes care of all driving functions.

It was ostensibly a hedge against Google balloon-driven Project Loon and the possibility that Google,

which uses Internet hubs suspended from high-flying balloons to provide bandwidth to areas of New zealand that are wired off the grid.

Balloons previously utilized to scour hard-to-reach locations, are susceptible to changing weather conditions, while fossil fuel-or battery-powered unmanned aircraft are expensive to run

and possess a shorter range. Google s technical experts will work with Titan Aerospace to advance the material design for the drones wings,

while also developing advanced algorithms to help the aircraft better traverse wind patterns and flight routes.

The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model, the Solara 50, is actually larger than a Boeing 767 jetliner, boasting a 164-foot wingspan.

Commercial operations for the technology are still approximately 12 months away and some experts in the industry are skeptical as to

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which has flown already a model aircraft on it. The Navy 289 vessels all rely on oil-based fuel,

and manufacturing costs by designing a critical aircraft part that was 83 percent lighter and yet still met the safety and design criteria, according to GE general manager for technology Christine Furstoss.

ost UAVS unmanned aerial vehicles are a few million dollars, says Wade Knudson, who heads the Zumwalt project forraytheon (RTN),

which made most of the ship computer systems. his is a $5 billion UAV. Unlike aerial drones,

Smart sensors installed across the city will also provide real-time information and services on weather, traffic, entertainment, tourism, emergency services and flights.

unmanned aircraft operated by Israel, the U k. and the U s. are capable of tracking and firing on aircraft and missiles.

On some of its Navy cruisers, the U s. also operates Phalanx, a stationary system that can track

and engage anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The Army is testing a gun-mounted ground vehicle, MAARS, that can fire on targets autonomously.

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