the only fully legal flying carthe last time a flying car had shot a at making an impact was in 1956,
when the precursor to the FAA deemed the iconic Taylor Areocar safe for flight. Even without tangled masses of red tape holding it back,
On September 28, 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a Light Sport Aircraft certificate for the Maverick Sport,
The Sport Pilot license required to fly it is much easier to obtain than a standard pilot's license.
Its flight feature depends on a large, stowable glider wing and a rear-mounted propellor for thrust.
while the glider car is at an $80, 000 price point, but it wouldn't take much of a reduction to turn this into an attainable tool--or toy--for countless individuals and organizations.
which is added an bonus. The bottle will hit store shelves in a pilot phase in 2012.
New enzyme cuts cost of next-gen biofuelsthe advanced biofuels industry has failed so far to ramp up beyond pilot and demonstration projects.
and (at least domestic) air travel for their vacations. But these parents are worried about the threat pollution poses to their quality of life.
There are 80,000 planes flying our skies every day. It common knowledge that global climate change is a reality.
And certainly there an art to being a good steward. The canvas we have to perform our art on is our own backyards It is indeed the landscape.
On July 14, NASA flight controllers finished firing ICESAT's thrusters to lower its orbit so gravity can drag it back to Earth.
Sensor swilling cattle can alleviate world hunger  Slip this Texas longhorn a sonar mickey, connect to big data,
Slip a sonar device down a bovine's gullet and it will sit in the gut, emitting precise information about the digestion that's churning away or not.
If commercialized, it could one day improve the security at airports and other checkpoint areas or be used to monitor the environment.
In the future, let's hope a single-molecule sensor can stop someone like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab A k a. the underwear bomber from slipping through security.
there's always the naked scanners at airports -which is in itself, a touchy subject. Hat Tip via Popular Science Finding a needle in a haystack MIT news Related on Smartplanet:
and sour milk German airports use honeybees to sniff out air quality Breath test can detect cancer New remote sensing system can detect explosives
The aim is to get the"cybee"flying by 2015. The head of project Dr John Marshall, said:"
And if coaxing the machines into flight isn't enough of a challenge, the real innovation lies in getting the machines to mimic the collaborative behavior of a colony.
drone aircraft and rockets. But what about biology? Might biohacking tinkering with the DNA of existing organisms to create new ones lead to innovations of a biological nature?
Coskata won't have a pilot plant running until this time next year, and it will produce just 40,000 gallons a year.
One year after their first five pods, Podponics has 16 pods on leased land from the City of Atlanta at Hartsfield-Jackson International airport.
The land can t be used because of a specific flight pattern of Hartsfield, so it was just sitting idle.
with the Passbook service in ios 6. Passbook is marketed as a convenient way to hold airline, rain, and theater tickets.
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