Air Race Showcases Extreme Engineering At the Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth Texas 12 planes are gearing up for a high-flying aerial showdown Saturday (Sept. 6) on the sixth
Reaching speeds of up to 250 mph (400 km h) the planes'pilots are accomplished aerobatics experts from around the world.
Whoever wins the race will be aided by advanced light aviation engineering according to Mike Mangold an American aerobatics pilot who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship twice
and now serves as a test pilot and commentator during races. Supersonic! The 10 Fastest Military Airplanes We're flying with very high G forces at very high speeds and at very low altitudes.
And we're doing this within a compact arena that's less than a mile 1. 6 km across Mangold told Live Science.
Only three models of airplanes are being used for this year's races: the Zivko Edge the Breitling MXS-R and the Corvus Racer.
While they may look slightly different all three planes have streamlined aerodynamic bodies that are designed to maximize speed
and minimize drag (the force that opposes the plane's movement through the air). Much of a plane's exterior can also be customized to make it more aerodynamicor to otherwise improve its design.
However there are certain parts of the planes that simply can't be engineered re. The engine and propeller or power plant is the same on every plane Mangold said.
An airplane's engine sets certain limits on how fast a pilot can go because it controls the amount of torque (the work done by the engine that turns the propeller)
and thrust (force created by the propeller) that a pilot has to work with in the air he explained.
The weight of each airplane is kept also standard at around 1532 lbs. 695 kilograms. Since lighter airplanes can fly faster this rule helps ensure that no one gets an unfair advantage.
But besides the plane's engine and weight the pilots and the engineers and mechanics who work for them are free to experiment with their planes'designs Mangold said.
Some of the parts that can be customized include the cowling or engine covering; the skins or the metal sheets that cover the internal parts of the aircraft;
the wingtips the curved ends of the wings that serve to reduce drag; the wheel pans the bulbous-looking parts that cover the aircraft's front wheels;
the shape of the fuselage or actual body of the plane; and the canopy the transparent part that covers the cockpit.
Of the three planes flying in this year's race Mangold said that one the Zivko Edge is easier to customize than the others.
Nine of the 12 pilots in Saturday's race will be flying some version of the Edge he said.
The Edge has a metal tube frame whereas the Breitling MXS-R is a molded carbon-fiber airplane Mangold said.
It has no metal tubing on it so it's very difficult to make major changes to it.
Two pilots will be flying the MXS-R on Saturday. One pilot Peter Besenyei will be flying the Hungarian-made Corvus Racer a plane designed specifically for him.
Air racing fans can watch a full-length broadcast of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from the Texas Motor Speedway on Sept. 15 at 7: 30 pm ET
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#Coffee Genome Reveals Why Your Java Smells So Good Not all caffeine is created equal. Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the coffee plant
and found the caffeine in your morning cup evolved independently from caffeine found in other plants.
In Africa criminal syndicates are reportedly using helicopters and infrared goggles to kill elephants in the dead of night.
Increased battery life and flight duration greater payloads cheaper infrared sensors and affordable real-time transmission of imagery would all make a major difference.
They might consider a fisheries agent based on a coastal atoll who uses a tethered balloon carrying a radar sensor to detect all vessels that enter the community's no-take fishing sanctuary.
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
More than 15000 ivory pieces were pulverized most of them trinkets seized at airports between 1987 and 2007 from tourists who are likely unaware that their souvenirs contribute to a grisly elephant poaching industry.
or bats'general association with Dracula a lot of people are terrified of nocturnal fliers like this one
To learn the route the birds follow an ultralight aircraft piloted by a costume-clad human all the way down to the Southeast.
We think we have uncovered the mechanism for the appearance of seasonal greening of Amazon forests shadowing within the canopy that changes the amount of near-infrared light observed by MODIS lead study author Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight
When working in the plant section crew members would need to wear oxygen masks similar to those worn by high-altitude fliers.
The technology consists of a ring of jets surrounding the crops which maintains a certain level of carbon dioxide by tracking wind-direction and carbon dioxide concentration.
To discover this the researchers studied flight patterns of the bats after objects were placed in the animals'paths.
Unmanned aircraft were banned officially from U s. national parks in June 2014. But just last week on Aug 2 an unidentified tourist crashed a drone straight into the famous rainbow-colored Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone national park in Wyoming.
We'll probably have to fly a real piloted helicopter over it to get the exact location Bartlett said.
As such the pilot was apprehended not nor identified by park officials. Bartlett said an investigation into the matter is ongoing.
Earlier in April drone handlers in Zion national park in Utah were caught harassing a herd of bighorn sheep with a robotic flyer.
This makes Vitamin c a helpful fighter against problems like heart disease atherosclerosis and even joint pain.
Blood clot reduction Bromelain can help prevent blood clots from forming making pineapple a good snack for frequent fliers and others at risk for blood clots.
To the chef's surprise and the king's delight the potatoes puffed up like little balloons.
Aircraft Drops Retardant on Oregon Fire (Photo) Zooming low and tight against a cloud of billowing smoke an MD-87 air tanker drops retardant on the Two Bulls fire
The stunning shot comes courtesy of Jim Hansen of the Central Oregon Fire Management Service who snapped it from a 337 Skymaster airplane on June 7 according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
which shows one of the aircraft used in battling the blaze. Retardants usually mix water with chemicals such as ammonium sulfate
or flown on aircraft or by analyzing emissions directly at the source such as at oil and gas wells.
and aircraft data to provide a comprehensive look at methane which is a potent but short-lived greenhouse gas.
Sharovipteryx was a glider about the size of a modern crow with wing membranes attached to long hind legs.
and biomechanics of flight at the University of California Berkeley has published a book The Drunken Monkey:
The crucial step to making aircraft was to separate these two functions leaving the wing to do the lifting
but transferring the power function to an engine and propeller something no bird ever possessed.
or aircraft we need to ensure that the probability of failure of that part per year is something like one in a million.
Top down studies take air samples from aircraft or towers. These types of studies offer an accurate measurement of overall methane emissions
took on the features we see today with galaxies full of stars surrounded by planetary system.
or 9 billion stars in our galaxy with Earthlike planets about 5 percent of stars making the odds very high for intelligent life elsewhere.
This Nordic grog predates the Vikings. It was found buried in tombs alongside warriors and priestesses and is now available at liquor stores across the United states thanks to a reconstruction effort by Patrick Mcgovern a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Delaware-based Dogfish Head Craft
Now homebodies and wannabe globetrotters can dive into the Great Barrier reef uncover the history of the Roman Colosseum and even climb Mount everest for free and without the airport hassles.
Blebbing is like blowing up little balloons on the edges of cells which often precede cell death.
She then got mud stuck in her airways and tried to blow it out of her trunk.
and couldn't clear her airway Fisher told Live Science. It was just a matter of minutes before she would have lost consciousness Fast-flowing river Khroma was also healthy
It's surprising to think of Changyuraptor flying because it's so large maybe the size of a peacock Chiappe said.
The tail tells us Changyuraptor could have generated a fair amount of lift to slow its flying
If more specimens are found in the future they may add to researchers understanding of the animal's flying capabilities Chiappe said.
#Capturing a Comet-Galaxy Conjunction Victor Rogus is an amateur astronomer and this is the eighth in his series of exclusive Space. com posts about amateur astronomy.
the conjunction of comet Pan STARRS (C/2011 L4) and the great galaxy Andromeda (M-31.
That meant tearing around the backwoods gravel roads in a pickup truck with a chainsaw and a compass searching out the required azimuth readings on a standard compass.
Because the comet and galaxy were circumpolar (continually visible throughout the evening or in this case dipping below the western horizon to re appear in the east before dawn.)
The Andromeda Galaxy can be seen many nights out of the year but those special times when this galaxy is adorned by a comet just about as bright as itself makes the effort well worth it and
I was pleased very with my results. Indeed the skies provide wondrous sights a lot of planning and preparation will allow you to see them
Liturgusa fossetti honors James Stephen Fossett an aviator and explorer who died in an air crash in 2007.
and said What about dead galaxies? I was like Wow I hadn't thought about that.
The flight response and escape suggests a predator-prey relationship between the two beasts the researchers said.
Original Cheerios used to provide 25 percent of the daily value of riboflavin or Vitamin b2 per serving according to the trade publication Food Navigator.
The companies declined to explain the vitamin loss to Food Navigator but the reason likely has to do with the difficulty of sourcing vitamins from non-genetically modified sources.
Vitamins are tough to certify as GMO-free however according to Food Navigator. They may be manufactured from genetically modified organisms
These ridges far from Antarctic research stations could only be reached by air in this case a helicopter launched from the icebreaker R/V Polarstern.
The aerial shots of Pompeii in the movie were real helicopter shots with computer graphics projected over them Anderson told Live Science.
#Straw Could Power Jets Straw is thought often of as a fuel for horses but if a French research project pans out passenger jets could soon fuel up with biofuels derived from this agricultural byproduct.
The Probio3 project began last July with financing from a French economic stimulus program. The effort aims to use straw to create a biofuel that can be mixed with kerosene in a 50/50 blend.
The program will also look at using sawdust and wood shavings to power aviation. Biofuels have developed in response to the high costs of oil production
Meanwhile spikes in food prices over the past few years have tampered government enthusiasm for biofuels that divert food crops even as the European union intends to reach an annual output of 2 million tons of aviation biofuels by 2020.
and the dependability of the fuel source could insulate airlines from spikes in fuel prices c
and increase inflammation of the airways in people who have asthma. Similarly people with sensitive sinuses can be irritated by pollens.
and cool in temperatures from 60 to 70 F 16 to 21 C). Chinchillas do not get along well
The researchers also discovered that the trees with thin layers of bark have lots of lenticular channels small airways that allow gas exchange between the bark and the outside air.
and congested airways that accompanies it. Hay fever or seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis to give it its official name is caused
and sore eyes that make hay fever a misery In the longer term airways can become inflamed and blocked causing permanent nasal stuffiness snoring lack of sleep and susceptibility to infections and sinusitis.
Because the susceptible cells line the lower airways as well as the nose patients with hay fever and asthma often find that their asthma is worse during the pollen months
because histamine release in the airways causes them to constrict. This seasonal#or pollen#asthma can be quite severe.
and allows more pollens and other irritants into the airways which my make asthma more difficult to control.
when gasoline and coal are burned Bryan Duncan an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told Earth Observatory.
In February France pulverized more than 15000 pieces of ivory mostly trinkets seized at airports over a 20-year span.
The more intense flow tends to fence off cold Arctic air keeping incursions like last winter s Polar Vortex episodesfrom impacting the northern parts of the country.
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But after all of these years Mitchell's commitment to bald eagles is staying Alive with the beginning of the 2014 flight season in early March Byrd began the 38th year of his involvement in the aerial survey.
but the census flights remain a primary tool for keeping tabs on the population. The annual bald eagle assessment involves two rounds of flights.
The first the survey round begins in early March and involves systematically flying over all tributaries to check nests that we've recorded from previous years.
and breeding success. Three of us have been doing these flights together for 23 years. We make a good team.
An ex-fighter pilot flies the plane. Named Caton Alexander Shermer he goes by Capt. Fuzzzo.
Byrd sits in the copilot seat keeping the log and marking each nest. I'm the spotter.
Those lazy flying days of the'70s when nests were rare and a day's flying could be recorded on a single sheet are gone long.
The tremendous population recovery has made for intense flying days when we set goals of checking on 100 nests before breaking for lunch.
The census surveys have gotten pretty intense since the bald eagle population has recovered. Eagles mostly eat fish
These flights involve more than just keeping track of the numbers of breeding eagles in our territory.
and that's why it's so important to continue the research especially these annual census flights.
Still fresh are the memories of undertaking long heartbreaking flights without finding a single nest.
and even dancing in a pot one of the stars of the film Guardians of the Galaxy bizarrely blends the plant and animal kingdoms.
The only thing holding it in is said the ice shelf Robert Thomas a glaciologist at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island Va. who was involved not in the study.
These three categories are broken further down into many squirrel types such as Albino Mountain Tree Antelope Spotted Grey American Red Douglas Fox Pygmy Northern Flying Southern
The researchers used moderate-resolution satellite imagery as well as reports from ship captains and airline pilots to track a pumice raft from the Havre Seamount a submarine volcano in the southwest Pacific near New zealand.
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but does not specify why these particular flying creatures are outlawed. Permitted birds include chicken geese ducks and turkeys.
Researchers are now trying to study the area with the help of camera-equipped aircraft.
because it is so difficult to reach Doug Morton a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland told the Earth Observatory.
and a group of NASA researchers are sweeping across the Alaskan landscape in a low-flying airplane equipped with a portable imaging system called G-Liht.
The plane hovers just 1100 feet (335 meters) above the treetops and collects high-resolution imagery that satellites in orbit just can't capture.
and a combination of different approaches like aircraft and tall towers said Dlugokencky a co-author of the Science paper.
As a result of funding cuts in 2012 the agency slashed some monitoring from aircraft and ground stations.
Another particularly ugly method employed by Wildlife Services is shooting predators from planes and helicopters sometimes killing them sometimes just catastrophically wounding them.
In 2012 more than 3000 coyotes were killed this way in my home state of Montana alone.
and I can't imagine that global warming will keep me from flying to those places.
The author's most recent Op-Ed was Is Climate Change Response'Fight or Flight'or'Rest and Digest'?
and its behavior (the massive flights of these birds across the country until such mast was found).
In 2004, the teams used helicopters to help them spot and kill the animals. And finally, between 2004 and 2005, the teams used'Judas'goats and'Mata hari'goats.
and in some ways more immediate moral concerns that somehow don't get put on the same moral plane.</
points out that with his $5-million annual budget, he can monitor 84 spots, mostly in North america, via ground-based sites, aircraft, or ships.
and policy-makers to neglect ground-and aircraft-based measurements. A more even split in spending between ground and space would allow him to boost his network of sensors by an order of magnitude
then they would throw up salt-rich jets giving out a strong sodium signal that could be spotted by ground-based telescopes.
and is evaporating releasing pure water as a jet of steam and leaving the salty residue behind.
Nature Newsmysteriously, Earth has much less carbon in its rocks than would be expected from the amounts of carbon available in the planet-forming regions of our Galaxy.
The gas and dust in these disks make up the interstellar medium that forms the space between stars in galaxies,
-I rocket in favour of commercial space flights, had already been aired in public meetings (see Nature 460,791;
and formulations that are sprayed from planes and in the field. Of eight species of South american frogs studied, four showed some sensitivity to the herbicide mixture at concentrations below the application rate used in Plan Colombia,
The collision sent hundreds of pieces of debris flying at high speed across low-Earth orbit, threatening other satellites and increasing the risk to a NASA shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope
mounted under its carrier aeroplane Whiteknighttwo) on 7 december at Mojave Air and Space Port, California. The rocket ship, developed by aviation designer Burt Rutan
and bankrolled by British billionaire Richard Branson, will carry passengers to the edge of outer space for US$200, 000 a ticket.
says it has signed already up more than 300 passengers for flights from a yet-to-be built spaceport in New mexico.
even if all flight testing goes smoothly. Research London medical hub: Details of a new £520-million (US$850-million) biomedical research centre in central London were outlined on 7 december.
California. www. agu. org/meetings/fm09 Number crunch 221 The number of days unmanned underwater glider Scarlet Knight took to cross the Atlantic ocean, gathering water data.
There are no such stars seen in our galaxy or other nearby galaxies. It's a rather spectacular star.
since its 14 december launch, including these colour-altered images of the comet Siding Spring (right) and the Andromeda galaxy.
Keith is developing a method to use aircraft to release fine sulphur particles that will stay aloft for years in the stratosphere.
In the meantime, other organizations, including the UK Royal Society and TWAS the academy of sciences for the developing world, based in Trieste,
including a Roman-era warming period, a cold snap in the Dark ages and a subsequent period of warming, during which the Vikings discovered Iceland.
We're catching a piece of the galaxy. I'm cautiously excited, says Westphal, who adds that the researchers must conduct more tests to ensure that their particles are truly interstellar grains,
Flights across Europe have been grounded because of fears over potential engine damage caused by the silica ash cloud issuing from the fissure.
which can discriminate between wind turbines and aircraft. The project would supply 3 gigawatts of wind power.
A 2007 review had recommended restructuring the organization after criticisms that projects such as combat aircraft and guided missiles encountered huge time and cost overruns.
aircraft will crisscross the skies, measuring an array of greenhouse gases, aerosols and other atmospheric properties as they fly over cities, industrial facilities and agricultural areas.
as part of Calnex, NOAA plans to use aircraft to sample pollution plumes downwind of cities, refineries, power plants and agricultural fields.
051 flights to obtain food and 14,857 prey items collected by the birds across three control sites and three treated sites.
The modified Boeing 747sp aircraft sports a hole in its fuselage for a 2. 5-metre telescope,
A yearlong pilot study testing whether peer review panels could judge the'impact'of research was released on 11 november
a team of astronomers declared last week that they had discovered two gargantuan'bubbles'of ray-emitting particles extending north and south of our Galaxy's centre (M. Su et al.
or a jet of energetic particles from the black hole at the Galactic Centre. First asteroid dust The Hayabusa space explorer has picked up dust from the Itokawa asteroid, from
aeroplanes crisscrossed the morning skies above Arizona's cotton fields, dropping millions of tiny moths onto the croplands below.
'However, the moths released from the planes were different from those responsible for the caterpillars munching their way through the state's cotton crops.
but says that countries missed an opportunity to spell out long-term climate funding, perhaps through a levy on international aviation and shipping.
Research Orion from a plane Nearly a decade overdue, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Observatory (SOFIA) has published its first images of the sky,
After test flights the instrument completed its first flight to collect astronomical data on 1 december.
NASA and the German Aerospace Center, who together fund SOFIA, plan two more science flights before Christmas.
People Developing world Romain Murenzi, a physicist and Rwanda's former science minister, was named on 7 february as the new executive director of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world.
Murenzi is expected to take up the post at TWAS headquarters in Trieste, Italy, around April; he will replace Mohamed Hassan,
Research Shuttle swansong NASA's space shuttle Discovery launched for its 39th and final flight on 24 february, taking six astronauts as well as supplies and additional science capabilities to the International Space station on an 11
A flight test vehicle, Enterprise, will travel to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New york city.
but 墉 thanks largely to prevailing winds 墉 it is expected that there won't be such a large impact on European flights.
an aircraft that will combine a state-of-the-art optical sensor with a laser capable of mapping forests in unprecedented three-dimensional detail.
With data from a single flight that used an earlier version of the system, Asner and his colleagues identified more than 30 species. The latest technology,
How icebergs begin A seasonal ice-survey flight has spotted the birth signs of a large iceberg in West Antarctica:
but from the underbelly of the largest aeroplane ever built according to Stratolaunch Systems, a company that was announced on 13 december.
the first private craft to reach suborbital flight) and Microsoft cofounder and billionaire Paul Allen.
from where they will start to map lunar gravity in March 2012. go. nature. com/msewftregulation of aviation's greenhouse-gas emissions is set to start in the European union.
All flights to or from Europe will have to buy carbon credits under the region's emissions trading scheme.
Airline carbon row Global airlines are protesting a European law that requires them to pay for some of the carbon emissions from their flights using European airports.
Last week, China's airlines said they would not pay the charges; US airlines have raised prices for European flights,
but the country's government is said to be looking at ways to counter the policy.
From 1 january, aviation was included in the European union's Emissions Trading System, with airlines expected to buy permits covering 15%of their carbon dioxide emissions in 2012.
First payments will not be collected until next year. Safer reactors France's nuclear regulator is demanding stringent safety upgrades for the country's reactors in response to the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.
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