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Synopsis: Aeronautics: Flight: Flight:


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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.

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


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


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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.

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


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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,


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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?


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


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


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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.


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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,


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


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


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in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.


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and compute their own flight plans. They were created by a team of scientists led by Tamás Vicsek, a physicist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.


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lightweight enough to permit flight. Hexagonal micro-truss structure about 30 millionths of a meter wide.


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and drag the principles of regular flight to"soar"underwater. This means the Super Falcon is always positively buoyant


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The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.


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"Duru wrote in a description of a Youtube video of the hoverboard's record-breaking flight.


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if the Canadian space agency selects their ISS-MRI for a life science berth on a rocket flight in 2016.


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or the air flows that make aeroplane flights bumpy. Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.


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After the shuttle's last flight in 2011 though the US became dependent on Russia for transport to the ISS using Soyuz at a cost of nearly $71 million for each seat it requires.


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The first flights were initially set for 2008 but have since been delayed repeatedly. Founder Richard Branson announced a 2014 date last month.

which will see celebrities compete for a flight to space aboard an XCOR AEROSPACE Lynx craft.


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Advances in pre-flight automation mean that the rocket dubbed Epsilon can be ready to lift off in about a week with fewer people in mission control helping to slash costs to about $38 million per launch much cheaper than its heavier labour-intensive predecessors.


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After a few delays due to weather and a technical glitch the Antares launch vehicle lifted off on its maiden flight on 21 april.


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or underwatered. hey don have to know the flight algorithms, or underlying hardware, they just need to connect their software or piece of hardware to the platform,


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In a conventional Time of Flight camera, a light signal is fired at a scene where it bounces off an object


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The training set costs approximately $7, 000 and may be shipped as ordinary luggage on commercial flights.


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Hempsell says Skylon could potentially make 100 flights annually which if true could in its first year recoup the money spent in R&d

It all starts with regular SSTO flights. Very awesome breakthrough on heat exchange. This single breakthrough will ripple through a host of applications.

This saves on the weight of oxygen that would otherwise be needed for the flight through the atmosphere.

4. If LOX is an oxidiser for at least part of the flight where is the tank?

5. If LOX is used for part of the flight its weight needs to be factored in. Not just the weight of liquid hydrogen.


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#FAA Panel Recommends Lifting Ban On Gadget Use During Flights After receiving countless complaints abuse towards flight attendants who are only doing their jobs

whether electronic gadgets actually are dangerous during a flight's takeoff and landing. A 28-person advisory panel just concluded its study

Amazon especially is annoyed as its Kindle ebook reader suffers a distinct weakness compared with physical books given that you aren't currently allowed to use a Kindle during part of your flight.


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Schmale developed his unmanned aerial vehicles with a colleague at Virginia Tech as an alternative to costly manned research flights.


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but successfully integrating both manned and unmanned aircraft into the same flight patterns especially on the confined space of an aircraft carrier is essential for future operations.

Here's a short video from the Department of defense showing some of the X-47b's latest flights


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The elevons were used successfully for numerous flights with a hand launch and a ground landing (landing is a particularly dangerous time for hardware).


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The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS exploded a few seconds after its launch from NASA's Wallops flight facilities.

As stated by NASA's press conference the flight termination system was activated. This is a remote manual intervention that initiates a self-destruction mechanism


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and their battery life only allows for short flights. To increase the range of a small UAV one idea is to pair it with an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that can carry it to a site of operation and transport heavier cargo.


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It broadcasts onto it. http://player. vimeo. com/video/98604521our proof of concept build uses a modified DJI F550 Flamewheel kit gets twelve minutes flight time and features its own

We are already working on more sophisticated features including live streaming data gimbal integration ultrasonic sound capabilities and improved flight time.


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Deutsche Post DHL Germany'#express delivery and mail company is working with German UAV provider microdrones Gmbh to test various methods of flight (piloted or autonomous) types and weights


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#The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight he whole is greater than the sum of its partsâ##a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array:

a modular robotâ consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take on just about any shape or form.

Although each unit is capable of generating enough thrust to lift itself off the ground on its own it is incapable of flight much like a helicopter cannot fly without its tail rotor.

However when joined together these units evolve into a sophisticated multi-rotor system capable of coordinated flight and much more.

otherwise be impossible to achieve on its own â##flight. This modular flying vehicle would then break apart in the air

1) docking (2) coordinated ground mobility and (3) coordinated flight. In accomplishing each of these tasks we would in turn validate our model

and to demonstrate coordinated flight in several configurations. Our goals were too ambitious under the framework of this class

in order to make the vehicle lighter for flight. Its primary limitation however was its inability to demonstrate coordinated mobility for randomly assembled configurations.

We opted instead for constructing the chassis out of laser-cut acetal plastic a higher-powered flight motor and a new propeller.

and thrust generation unit (i e. propeller and flight motor) from scratch but kept most of the power and control electronics the same.

The new flight motor and propeller was tested to ensure that it produced a sufficient amount of thrust

and constructed six complete units for flight. In this revision we demonstrated coordinated flight for a variety of configurations.

The flight controller was computed ahead of time and sent wirelessly to each unit prior to flight. Knowing that the chassis

and thrust generation unit was sound we then went ahead and integrated driving capabilities and intercommunication into the units.

To successfully accomplish this the flight control strategy must minimize the shear forces occuring between interconnected units during flight.

but the most striking feature of the Distributed Flight Array is its ability to fly in an unlimited number of configurations.

What is most surprising is that the units themselves do need not necessarily to communicate with one another during flight.

The only information that a unit needs for flight is its local sensor data and its position with respect to the vehicle centre of mass.

We instead developed a means for automatically computing the tuning parameters for any flight-feasible configuration of the vehicle that would result in best flight performance.

The Distributed Flight Array is currently being used at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich as a modular robotics platform for investigating algorithms in distributed estimation and control.


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and to process the images after the flight. This processing now happens when the player visits the highscore table


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in order to maintain flight, but this makes it difficult for them to fit into smaller spaces.

the team had to first designate the primary mode of locomotion in this case flight, as the DALER will cover the longest distances this way.

so as to satisfy the constraints of both ground locomotion and flight. The best shape found for these wingerons is a triangular one.

Flight maneuverability requires rapid wingeron movements and low torque, whereas walking requires the opposite conditions.

while not compromising flight maneuverability. A second issue in creating a fixed wing drone capable of walking on the ground is with the morphology, thanks to the different centre of mass requirements for the two modes of locomotion.


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For fast forward flight, the vehicle tilts to a near-horizontal orientation, resulting in efficient lift production due to the conventional wing design.

A Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit (FMU) runs the onboard control loop that tracks the desired body rates using a rate gyroscope

Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit Battery: Thunder Power RC G6 Pro Lite 25c Lipo 350mah 2s Motors:


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"During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing-borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.

So far we have done this on five flights, "said Bill Fredericks, one of the aerospace engineers working on the project, in a NASA press release."


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Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International airport, the main entry point for flights bringing in international aid since the April quake, was closed anew Tuesday as a precaution.


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During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology


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in collaboration with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, involving a jet engine air inlet that traditionally causes drag during flight.


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During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology


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At MIT, theye been working on a prototype for a time of flight microwave camera which can be used to image objects through walls,

MIT microwave camera can do 3-D imaging using time of flight in the same way that Microsoft latest Xbox Kinect sensor works.

The time of flight camera sends out bursts of microwaves and then keeps careful track of how long it takes for the microwaves to bounce off of something


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Commercial businesses can now license Airware Flight Core autopilot technology, Ground Control Station for dispatching drones,

the Flight Core autopilot system, which provides the brains to each drone that Airware powers,

and ensure theye complying with flight regulations. Rather than having to pre-program a drone,

and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within

It was easily the most exciting flight of the day, launching via a catapult, flying several quick passes around the the whole area,

which will provide a full-on Linux computer for developers to work with in addition to the standard Flight Core autopilot and Ground Control Station integration.


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When Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing, Tomnod directed its users to help search for the missing aircraft.


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multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,

and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.

multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,

and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.


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Following flight, astronauts have four times the risk of herniated discs as the general population.""Given the impact of atrophy on astronauts in space,


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The spacecraft lost contact with the flight controllers shortly after it reached orbit and the capsule was found tumbling.


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Both these effects change the time of flight of an ultrasound wave through a bearing.


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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.


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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,

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


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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.


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#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.


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'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.'

and recovered mid-flight along with navigation and flight control systems s


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#The airbag for a BULLET: Ping pong ball-style cushion can be attached to any gun to slow down shots


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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.

which made its final flight in 2003. Standard airliners take around eight hours to complete the journey.


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which will span 25 flight days over five months. Borschberg has been practicing yoga and Piccard self-hypnosis.


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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.


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#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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it's in supersonic passenger flight. With the grounding of the Concorde fleets in 2013, flying faster than the speed of sound reverted to a military monopoly,

civilian supersonic flight held on by the skin of its teeth. Concorde may have carried the wealthy and glamorous across the Atlantic in under three hours,

On a typical flight it would take off like a conventional plane using ordinary turbojet engines, but once in the air, an open door in the stern of the plane reveals a rocket motor.


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Dwyer is now chasing down antimatter by releasing weather balloons and planning more head-on flights into storms h


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After measuring both the curvature of particle tracks in the detector's magnetic field and the particles'time of flight


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#Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects (w/video) Hardwiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology.

if tethering interfered with the insect's natural flight motions.""In particular, the researchers said, it had been difficult to elucidate the role that smaller muscles play in fine steering.

"Our wireless system allows us to record neuromuscular movements in natural, free flight, so we see

Six electrodes are connected to the beetle's optic lobes and flight muscles. The entire device is powered by a 3. 9-volt micro lithium battery

or even hover in mid-flight. The beetles were untethered but in a closed room equipped with eight 3-D motion-capture cameras."

"In our earlier work using beetles in remote-controlled flight, we showed excellent control of flight initiation and cessation,

but relatively crude control of steering during free flight,"said Maharbiz.""Our findings about the flight muscle allowed us to demonstrate for the first time a higher level of control of free-flying beetles.

It's a great partnership between engineering and science


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#Spherical nucleic acids set stage for new paradigm in nanomedicine drug development A research team led by Northwestern University nanomedicine expert Chad A. Mirkin

and Sergei Gryaznov of Aurasense Therapeutics is the first to show spherical nucleic acids (SNAS) can be used as potent drugs to effectively train the immune system to fight disease,


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#Bio-inspired eye stabilizes robot's flight without need for an accelerometer Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement-Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille


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How long until the satellites are ready for flight? The team has given three of their propulsion systems to the NASA Glenn Research center in Ohio,


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Another technology demonstration of nine UAVS accomplished completely autonomous UAV synchronization and formation flight. ONR officials note that

able to step in and take control as desired. his level of autonomous swarming flight has never been done before,


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which stands for cytometry by time-of-flight, and it gives researchers greater insight into the intricacies of immune cells than ever before.


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he delivery of the second flight laser is a major achievement by Selex-ES, who have overcome major technology issues along the way. he contributions of Airbus Defence and Space,


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During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology


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shopping, but this extends to maps, flights and news), to issues with Google scraping and fencing of datasets, often exclusively and at unmatched scale.


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But by combining the element-identifying capability of the SEM with time-of-flight mass spectrometry,


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The task force turned to crowdsourcing to develop a design for the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.


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while it's in the middle of a cross-continental flight. Too many cooks in the kitchen:


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#Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Shot Down Over Ukraine Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed today over the Ukraine.

According to the Russian news agency Interfax Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine after it failed to enter Russian airspace.#

The airline did say in a Facebook post that it lost contact with flight MH17 over Ukraine airspace.//

and an official with the Russian Emergency Ministry told Gawker that bodies from flight#MH17 were scattered over a 10 mile radius.#BREAKING:

Flight#MH-17#Torez#Donetsk#Ukraine by Nadezhda Chernetskaya pic. twitter. com/z4bydeovcp legionar(@Matevznovak) July 17 2014flight#MH-17#Torez#Donetsk#Ukraine.


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Orbital's first two flights went well, but the third was lost in late October when Antares exploded shortly after liftoff y


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The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.


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which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.


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and permanent magnetsto achieve hover flight. The board is real enough to be undergoing testing with an actual skateboarder in Barcelona (with videos of actual use to follow)


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known as a"vortex fluidic device",was invented during a flight between Los angeles and Sydney.""The design was actually put together on that 15-hour flight

The machine, known as a"vortex fluidic device",was invented during a flight between Los angeles and Sydney."


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"if a bird strike takes place in mid-flight, Professor wass said. 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.

The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,

"if a bird strike takes place in mid-flight, Professor wass said. 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.

The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,


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allowing a flight time of 45 minutes to one hour, at a maximum speed of 160 km per hour.


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and fuselage to recover themselves during flight, in the event of any undetectable cracks. The team has been working on the technology over the past three years in partnership with aerospace engineers.


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The Planetary Society is planning a second, full solar sailing demonstration flight for 2016. NASA selected Lightsail as part of the agency Cubesat Launch Initiative,


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The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra science and flight operations a


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#4d printing: A Process of Transformation in Structures The research team can now turn 3d printed objects into dynamic structures,


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#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.

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


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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.'

The plane has been in space for a total of 674 days, far more than its two previous flights


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#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


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