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(or want to brave the free-falling Vomit Comet aircraft used by space agencies, which is enough to put anyone off their fries),

I'd assumed the flights would be fairly straightforward, with a well-established air miles system in place for most major airlines.

Airlines have coalesced into groups, each offering their own loyalty system. I have my heart set on flying to Bangkok with KLM

because Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport offers the best stopover experience, with free wi-fi, plentiful soft furnishings and a library.

But the Dutch airline is partnered to the Flying Blue group. So instead of KLM, I'd have to stump up nearly double the price for a direct flight with British airways,

or travel with one of the other members of Oneworld Alliance, such as Cathay pacific, which flies via Hong kong at three times the price of a KLM ticket.

My cash card jeers at me from my pocket. Three-nil to sterling. I also need to renew my passport.

It's a surprise to discover that Her Majesty's Passport Office is only too happy to comply with my unusual restrictions.

HMPO accepts postal orders a curious little throwback to the 18th century that has experienced lately a resurgence in popularity.

Postal orders enable money to be sent securely between individuals without drawing on a personal bank account, like a cheque would.

Joel Weinstock, now chief of the division of gastroenterology/hepatology at Tufts Medical center in Boston, struck upon the idea during a six-hour delay on the runway at Chicago's O'hare airport."

"While on the plane, I decided to play a game and pretend that it's caused by the loss of something rather than the addition of something.

Designed by Ralph Hooper and John Fozard of Hawker Aircraft, this highly sophisticated 50-year old aircraft has been modified

and updated throughout its life not just to give it greater power and performance, but to bring it into line with the world of computers, fly-by-wire and digital technology.

The AV-8B HARRIER flying with US MARINE CORPS today is a very different machine from the first of its kind,

Superficially, it might seem to be the same aircraft that first hovered in 1960 yet redesign has transformed it,

planes and power stations to name just a few. Without this"carbon sink  the world's ability to lock up carbon will be reduced

Plant-powered planes show promiseto the eye, there was nothing remarkable about the aging Falcon 20 jet as it took off from Ottawa International airport in Canada at the end of October in 2012.

10-seater plane was in the process of making aviation history. After a short flight that saw it climb to 30,000 ft (9, 000m) over the capital city,

the plane touched back down at the airport to secure its world first. Today, I flew the world's first 100%biofuel flight,

said pilot Tim Leslie on landing the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) craft. It is truly inspiring to take this step towards an eco-friendly future.

Unlike conventional aircraft which burn kerosene oe a polluting fossil fuel-Leslie's plane was powered by fuel derived from rapeseed oil.

However, it could equally have been powered by one of a number of biofuels made from algae, flax, coconut husks or even from used cooking-oil.

As a result, they are viewed by many as one of the main ways the aviation industry can reduce its carbon footprint.

That's important when you realize that aviation currently accounts for around 2%of all greenhouse gas emissions according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,

and the director of the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment.""Estimates vary from 5 to 10%,because of the altitude at which aircraft fly.

Emissions from planes have a different impact than they would on the ground. Â For example, the contrails from a jet oe those white streaks you sometimes see trailing a plane oe are known to cause high-altitude cirrus clouds,

which compound global warming. Dropping init is agreed generally, that these effects will only get worse if nothing is done

because air travel is growing Â. quickly. Â In fact, between now and 2030, the number of passengers and number of fights is likely to more than double

 Airline manufacturers and carriers are all too well aware of these effects and are working to try to mitigate them."

"Probably 75%of the research and development dollars we invest in the commercial airplane side goes towards improving our environmental footprint.

 Long term,  new aircraft shapes could help, while even further into the future are the prospects of electric, hydrogen or even solar powered aircraft.

However, these kinds of development are years oe even decades oe away. In the short term biofuels are looked on as a potential savior as most commercial passenger jets can use them with little to no modification,

and because they seem to offer significant benefits. For example, newly released figures collected by a plane trailing the Canadian Falcon 20 suggested that there was a 50%reduction in aerosol emissions compared to conventional fuel.

The flight went smoothly and the data collected enables us to better understand the impact of biofuel on the environment,

The NRC test is the latest in a series of demonstration flights aimed at proving the worth of biofuels.

 In 2008, Virgin Atlantic was the first to fly a plane on a blend of biofuel and regular jet fuel.

withat least 15  airlines and several aircraft manufacturers performing flight tests with various blends  containing up to 50%biofuel.

And, in 2011, KLM became the first airline to test it in regular commercial flights between Amsterdam

and Paris. All of these tests oe including Transatlantic flights-have shown that biofuel  works well,

crucially, can be dropped in  to existing fuel infrastructure at airports. With so many apparent advantages, you might expect that every airline is beginning to draw up a plan to use these fuels.

But you would be wrong. Sound barrierbiofuels are not without problems leading the chief scientist of environmental group Greenpeace to label the first flight by Virgin as high-altitude greenwash.

One of his main criticisms is that in some cases biofuels can lead to deforestation and a large increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

and also just the sheer size of the land area that would be needed to cultivate enough biomass to feed the growing aviation industry.

However, there is still a long way to go before these crops are grown on anything like the scale needed to support aviation.

"We are convinced that sustainable biofuels can provide a way to reduce the CO2 by between 60 and 80%on an airplane,

Â"We really do believe that by 2030,30%of all airplane fuel could be provided by sustainable biofuels.

 And if you're still concerned about flying in a plane powered by plants,

any fuel that finds its way into a plane is controlled tightly and regulated.""There are 12 different parameters that you have to measure with exact precision to get certified to be a jet fuel,

"We've flown on commercial flights, we've flown F18s over the speed of sound, C17s, Apache helicopters,

you name it, it's been flown. So this is not a technology question on whether these fuels will work

Now, archaeologists around the world are beginning to embrace the same technique, flying aircraft over everything from Stonehenge to patches of scrub

Both the Chases and Fisher teams admit that cruising over the tree-tops in a plane does not totally supplant the need to get up close and personal with a site.

'He now has a pilot up and running in Western Uganda and continues to tweak the chiller's size and design.

ranging from cataloguing stars in the distant corners of the universe with Galaxy Zoo to predicting the complex three dimensional structures of protein structures with Foldit.

Others are immediately obvious to anyone who has looked down at our continents from the window of a aircraft

showed that the skin cancer fighter also helped contribute to weight loss. Beyond weight loss, research shows that Vitamin d may also protect against diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.

and getting in the way of airplanes; 2. Cownose ray (below) for gobbling up the thousands of farmed oysters that wildlife officials have farmed throughout Chesapeake bay;(

The agent bought the plane tickets and got him a forged passport that made Karabou older than he was.

At the airport, he noticed that he wasnt even flying to Europe, but that he had a visa for Dubai.

He boarded the flight nevertheless. Showing Off His Skills to Gadhafi He completed a trial training period in Dubai.

at Orly Airport in Paris. His agent took Karabou to a hotel, took away his passport

I had a flight of all three at Tipsy Parson, in New york city, and expected them to be uniformly vile.

when the Vikings raised livestock in Greenland and grape vines were cultivated in Scotland, it was in fact warmer than it is today.

Airline flight attendants seem to be able to discern the difference between mobile phones and personal computers in their in flight announcements,

Bedier hired executives from the banking and airline industries to help him design the platform.

even when flying through optical illusions created in a lab. How theyre able to do this, with brains smaller than a peppercorn,

If you re going to do the Netjet thing##his is a service offering fractional aircraft ownership#for those who do not wish to buy outright

and private planes. We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,

which is home to two helicopters, a submarine, and a swimming pool. But while their excesses seem familiar, even archaic,

We are the people who know airline flight attendants better than we know our own wives.#

That evening, Elerian was catching a flight to London. Later in the week, he was due in St petersburg. Indeed,

Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery, and communication drones.

Operating at less than 2%of the cost of today s car, truck, jet, ship, and train systems, this emerging tube transport system will be a massive undertaking that demands talented new-age thinkers for decades to come.

Megacopta cribraria, an insect that hitched a ride to Atlanta on a plane from Asia in 2009, eats kudzu.

The photo was taken by Scientific American editor Mariette Dichristina at the Compass Summit in Palos verdes, California.

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#Yuleahoop a revolutionary new way to decorate your Christmas tree Featured invention at the Davinci Inventor Showcase 2011 The Yuleahoopis a small round ring with gripping slots that slips over the top branch

You can hang balloons and crepe paper streamers for an open house or family party. You can create a gazebo for weddings with crystal beads and flower garlands.

$1. 99 8. Garden Pilot Garden Pilot combines a directory of more than 14,000 plants with a comprehensive article database.

Podponics has 16 new pods being built on land at the Atlanta International airport, raised $725, 000+in private investment,

moving to the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International airport and constructing 16 pods. At that location Podponics will be just two miles from the Forest Park produce terminal#the single largest distribution center for produce in the region.

Their Atlanta airport farm will help them increase the payroll of their company from a handful to around 30 in the next year or two.

and German pumpernickel bread. 5. Shrimp Among the lessons six-time flier Story Musgrave passed along to rookie astronauts:

but after a few months in orbit, apparently folks will try anything to break up the monotony. 1. Mystery Meals Space station flight engineer Garrett Reisman kept the cameras rolling

which is thought best of as a software network that happens to have trucks, planes and distribution hubs attached.

And the success or failure of airlines today and in the future hinges on their ability to price tickets

Software-powered drones launch airstrikes without putting human pilots at risk. Intelligence agencies do large-scale data mining with software to uncover

flat array will all of the panels on a single plane. The other used the Fibonacci Sequence to create the same spiraled pattern he observed in the trees.

Rooms include the Birds Nest, the UFO and the Mirrorcube, just part of the 25 different architectural flights of fancy planned for the hotel.

and Space Museum, imagine fostering his love of airplanes with trips to nearby Gravelly Point Park for front-seat views of the takeoffs and landings at Reagan National Airport.

#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.

Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new Quick Tap#payment technology.

This means the sensors can be useful not only to anyone from airport security officials to military troops,

Tournaments will range from volleyball to badminton, from bridge to poker, from hot air balloons to marathons,

water jets, bubblers, ponds, and trickling brooks, each water sculpture will stand alone as a fine work of art.

live sporting events, airports, schools, parks, and even hospital waiting rooms. The question then becomes, If live music were inserted into the mix,

If airports added live music to help entertain waiting passengers, would this help change the image of the city,

as well as the distinctive aromas of clerics, fighters, mages, paladins and such. I totally guessed that paladins smelled like vanilla

FIGHTER: Leather, musk, blood, and steel. MAGE: All mystique and thrumming power: gurjum balsam, Sumatran dragons blood resin, olibanum, galangal, oleo gum resin, and frankincense.

Not acting is not an option because the life histories of these flying, nocturnal mammals#characterised by long generation times and low reproductive rates#mean that population recovery is unlikely for decades or even centuries,

#Two decades ago#after large companies like Alaska airlines, Union pacific and Turner Broadcasting adopted such policies#29 states and the District of columbia passed laws, with the strong backing of the tobacco

but Watson doesnt believe hostility is directed at the plane overhead. In other photographs of uncontacted people that Ive seen

and arrows pointed at the plane, or firing at the plane. That clearly denotes hostility,

#she said. In this picture, they appear to be isolated an people, looking up with curiosity.##Threatened by Illegal Logging Thackara

adding that bird populations around the lake are threatened also by flights from the nearby airport in Isparta.

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#Is Eating Insects the Answer to Reducing our Food Footprint? Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar Hungry for a grasshopper taco?

IBM also predicted real-time speech translation now exemplified by products like Samsung s Galaxy speech translation.

walk through the airport or buy cough medicine without being routed through a gantlet of candy bars, salty snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages.

For example, Boeing s wide-body commercial jets are riveted now automatically by giant machines that move rapidly and precisely over the skin of the planes.

the company said it struggles to find enough workers to make its new 787 aircraft. Rather, the machines offer significant increases in precision and are safer for workers.

assembly work that requires tactile feedback like placing fiberglass panels inside airplanes, boats or cars;

I m sitting in an airport, waiting for a flight, and the guy next to me pulls out his ipad with MY handle on it that s what I m working night and day for,

To that end, the U s. Bureau of Reclamation has begun a pilot test program in the Roza Canal in Washington.

A Nice Little Cabin in the Sky The typical plane cabin is drier than the Arizona desert,

But there are already planes in the air#made mostly of carbon fiber#that solve this problem. Carbon fiber is markedly stronger by weight than the aluminum used for most existing planes,

which means that the interior air pressure can be adjusted to more comfortable levels without the risk of damaging the fuselage.

Airlines also keep humidity levels low now to prevent the plane s metal skin from corroding,

Japan airlines and Nippon Airlines bought the first crop of these new planes. They re currently in service between Tokyo and Boston. 12.

but two new coasters#the X Flight at Six Flags Great America and Dollywood s Wild Eagle#have you hanging off the side of the track, dangling in midair.

It s kind of like you re sitting on the wings of a plane. The swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard had to completely reimagine the seat design to handle the stress caused by the differently distributed weight. 20.

pointing you#in a synthy voice reminiscent of A g. P. S. navigator#toward products on your list.

The Sun traveling through the Galaxy happens to cross at the present time a blob of gas about ten light-years across, with a temperature of 6-7 thousand degrees kelvin.

These received massive attention recently as citizen scientists#discovered a huge increase in these in our galaxy.

These are the product of new star formation in the galaxy so something is turning on the power!

Unlike the painstakingly slow 400-year period between Davinci s drawings of flying machines and the Wright Brother s first flight, development cycles in the digital era can now be measured in hours and minutes

Flagg s pilot study seems to show that they can. I was nervous when I was running the study because

Goals of the demonstration flight include reaching an altitude of at least 230 miles, maneuvering in space

as well as how much they would need to get to a flight demonstration. If we have multiple partners,

Parrot officially unveiled the follow-up to its popular quadrocopter at CES AR Drone 2. 0 Flying Drones

so that you can capture your flights in HD. There s also a whole raft of new sensors

so that it can always tell where the pilot is in relation to its flight path, and a new air pressure sensor that allows it to be more stable

7.)Flying-Hovering Monitor Drones Whenever an accident or disaster happens, the initial first-step should be to get eyes on the scene.#

The Guerrilla Grafters address the first two problems by making sure each grafted tree has a steward#who can monitor

as a six-year old boy named Falcon had gotten somehow trapped inside a small weather balloon that was flying over the Midwest.

Yes, this was the legendary balloon-boy incident, gripping the nation in panic and fear until the entire hoax started unraveling.

with weekly rocket flights departing to human colonies on the Moon and Mars (many of which use the same hydroponic food growing techniques perfected in Qatar) making it a truly intergalactic capital city.

I can still go pick up a bundle of helium-filled balloons for ten bucks? Well, you d be right,

try not to dwell on all the balloons you ve watched float away into nothingness. Wine As a species full of wine-guzzling lushes, humanity s unquenchable thirst has put us in a bit of a predicament#300-million case predicament,

Levandowski used to tell people that the car was designed to chase tornadoes or to track mosquitoes,

chrome-plated age of jet packs and rocket ships, transporter beams and cities beneath the sea, of a predicted future still well beyond our technology.

Its Firebird III concept car#haped like a jet fighter, with titanium tail fins and a glass-bubble cockpit#as designed to run on a test track embedded with an electrical cable,

A helicopter later found it beached on an embankment, wreathed in smoke, its back wheels spinning so furiously that they d burst into flame.

On Wednesday, Amyris announced another milestone#a memorandum of understanding with Brazil s largest low-cost airline, GOL Linhas Aereas, to begin using a jet fuel produced by yeast starting in 2014.

such as local buses and Amyris s experiment with GOL s planes. But dozens of other products are close to market,

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.#

and it works on the same principle that radar and sonar do#ut today s most advanced lidar is much more accurate,

when they made that first plane, #he says.##oethey made them, they went out there,

he thinks the economics favor a supersonic plane), Oster promotes a planetary network capable of speeding a passenger from New york to Beijing in two hours.#

Linear motors launch the capsules to jet-aircraft speeds and beyond; occasional linear motors en route maintain gaps between cars

Even in the closed tube of an airplane, they can get up and go to the bathroom, at least-neither Hyperloop nor ET3 appear to have included built-in bathrooms.#

U s. airline passenger miles have leapt by a factor of 20; we drive, collectively, 250%more miles in more than twice as many vehicles;

and the town would offer a $100 bounty reward for shooters who bring in debris from an unmanned aircraft from the U s. government.

and to steer clear of airports and crowds on the ground. But that will change in a couple years.

In addition to the obvious skills of aviation and agriculture, they need people skilled in wireless communications, image sensors

and video. 2.)LP960 from Lehmann Aviation (Lehmannaviation. com) The LP960 is able to detect damaged crops by taking aerial images with a thermal camera

the ipad flight app, camera, charging station, high performance batteries, Wi-fi extender, and a tracking system.

-use unmanned helicopters began with a request in 1983 from the external branch of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,

which was also in charge of agricultural aviation. They wanted an unmanned helicopter for crop dusting that could help reduce labor

and costs in Japan s labor-strapped rice farming industry. Depending on how it s equipped

#oeso long as cargo was handled one item at a time, with long delays at the docks and complicated interchanges between trucks, trains, planes,

found themselves chartering planes to bring in parts they otherwise would have had shipped, at a cost of $600 per car.

aircraft in 2007 over the Harris Fire in San diego County in Southern California. That same technology could be adjusted to detect forest fires at a very early stage.

This image was taken with a thermal camera mounted to a helicopter. Bluesky is a UK company specializing in aerial imaging.

high altitude aircraft, low attitude drones, or some combination of these, monitoring hotspots and instantly determining the danger level is well within our grasp.

But so does a full-frontal attack on a fire by smokejumpers, bucket-bearing helicopters,

and slow lumbering slurry bombers that each dumped more than 2, 000 gallons of red chemical fire retardant on a formerly pristine mountainside.

and send it to Nairobi s airport in a single day. And because farmers still control

I ll have this baby flying in no time!..Intimidation and determination, two characteristics that are about to be put to the test!..

#That s good news for those that have turned already to cloning to create a small pack ofsuper sniffing inspector dogs at airports,

the Wright Brother s first flight only lasted 12 seconds. Perhaps the most controversial comment made by Brand during his talk was#

because we are still going to need conventional fencing along airport runways, interstates, railroad right-of-ways, and so on.#

For example, if you fly into Albuquerque or El paso airports, you will come in quite low over rangeland.

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.

When I land at the airport, Marriott detects that I have arrived in town through the Marriott iphone app with location aware technology.

By now we have heard all about GE s smart jet engines that transmit over one terabyte of sensor data per flight.

the airline already knows if any maintenance is required and can expedite the process, saving time and money while decreasing the risk of engine issues in flight.

10,000 tiny flying swarmbots perform flawlessly together? 7. Cure for Aging Life expectancy is getting longer,

Once implemented, how will a technology like this affect the airline industry? 27. Genetically Engineered Athletes will engineered genetically designer babies,

How long before this same technology can be used to 3d print much larger items such as ships, stadiums, aircraft,

and hear about how they ambushed the neighbor girls with water balloons. You missed it.

The aerospace giant now assembles 787 Dreamliners at a rate of three a month at a massive facility adjacent to the Charleston airport,

and safety concerns that have dogged the use of these aerial high-fliers in more heavily populated areas.

Once the Federal Aviation Administration establishes guidelines for commercial use, the drone industry said it expects more than 100,000 jobs to be created

Today, satellites, manned planes and walking the field are the main ways farmers monitor their crops.

000 for a plane the farmer puts together up to around $160, 000 for a military-style device are equipped with infrared cameras,

sensors and other technology controlled by a pilot on the ground. The sticker shock may be steep

He s used the aircraft, which covers about 80 acres an hour, to study how yields on his property are affected by changes in topography.

A major reason to hire someone instead of buying is the extensive training needed to operate the costly piece of machinery and the complexity of flying it.

there is some uncertainty over how much flexibility the federal government has given really agriculture to use the aircraft.

Even farm operators and drone companies are divided over how much authority they have been given to fly the aircraft.

Until then, the agency said some operators will continue to incorrectly assume they can operate drones under the guise of existing model aircraft rules

which would cover planes flown for personal use below 400 feet, within eyesight and a safe distance from airports and populated areas.

We are concerned about any (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) operation that poses a hazard to other aircraft or to people and property on the ground,

If we receive a complaint about such UAS flights, we investigate to determine if the operator violated FAA safety regulations.

which is to regulate the entire airspace to prevent anyone from flying, said Ben Gielow, general counsel of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.

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