What can you see from treetops that you could never see from the ground or even from high up in an airplane?
and even tornado tracks Hansen said. There are a ton of stories here he said. Some of the information that comes from forest maps is unexpected entirely he added.
The balance between incoming and outgoing radiation keeps Earth's overall average temperature at about 59 F 15 C). This exchange of incoming and outgoing radiation that warms Earth is referred often to as the greenhouse effect because a greenhouse works in much
Almost all cars trucks ships trains and airplanes run on gasoline or diesel fuels. Manufacturing and other industries contribute about 20 percent of U s. greenhouse gas emissions followed by residential and commercial sources (11 percent) and agriculture (8 percent.
and militarism anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney wrote in her book Kamikaze Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms:
when they were painted on the side of kamikaze warplanes. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.+Original article on Livescience. com m
The findings could also help inform aeronautical engineering projects working to design aircrafts capable of flying at high elevations Dillon said.
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.
The 10 Fastest Military Airplanes We're flying with very high G forces at very high speeds and at very low altitudes.
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.
One pilot Peter Besenyei will be flying the Hungarian-made Corvus Racer a plane designed specifically for him.
To learn the route the birds follow an ultralight aircraft piloted by a costume-clad human all the way down to the Southeast.
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.
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.
This makes Vitamin c a helpful fighter against problems like heart disease atherosclerosis and even joint pain.
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.
The crucial step to making aircraft was to separate these two functions leaving the wing to do the lifting
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
#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.
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
and said What about dead galaxies? I was like Wow I hadn't thought about that.
#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.
and cool in temperatures from 60 to 70 F 16 to 21 C). Chinchillas do not get along well
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An ex-fighter pilot flies the plane. Named Caton Alexander Shermer he goes by Capt. Fuzzzo.
and even dancing in a pot one of the stars of the film Guardians of the Galaxy bizarrely blends the plant and animal kingdoms.
Researchers are now trying to study the area with the help of camera-equipped aircraft.
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.
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,
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,
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
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.
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,
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.
The modified Boeing 747sp aircraft sports a hole in its fuselage for a 2. 5-metre telescope,
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.
Research Orion from a plane Nearly a decade overdue, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Observatory (SOFIA) has published its first images of the sky,
an aircraft that will combine a state-of-the-art optical sensor with a laser capable of mapping forests in unprecedented three-dimensional detail.
but from the underbelly of the largest aeroplane ever built according to Stratolaunch Systems, a company that was announced on 13 december.
The result from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) suggests that oxygen abundances throughout the Galaxy are more variable than expected.
As the Sun travels through the Galaxy the bubble stops electrically charged atoms in their tracks
IBEX found the ratio of oxygen atoms to neon atoms to be lower in the Local Cloud than the average ratios for both the Solar system and the Galaxy as a whole
George Gloeckler, a heliophysicist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, points out that the ratios could offer information about how the Galaxy has changed in the 4. 6 billion years
Two years ago, Peruvian engineer Carlos Villachica unveiled the ECO-100v, a US$4, 500 machine that uses water and jets of air to separate gold from sediments.
It also takes into account environmental factors such as damage caused by tornadoes a real possibility in Kansas and one that the first risk assessment overlooked.
and take a census of local galaxies, as well as testing out technology for a larger project in which it is due to be involved:
Eventually, instrumented aircraft will join the effort. Once the operation is fully under way in 2013,
and Shepson augmented those measurements with detailed assessments from aircraft. With further funding, the team expects eventually to encircle Indianapolis with a dozen towers to measure CO2 and methane."
a space telescope that will measure the locations and shapes of some 2 Â billion distant galaxies.
agricultural land is responsible for about 14%of the world s greenhouse-gas emissions, slightly more than the global contribution from planes, trains and automobiles.
Kepler s drift could be minimized by keeping it pointed in the same plane in which the craft orbits the Sun. But that presents a complication.
and that star field does not lie in the plane. In one proposal offered up by Welsh and his colleagues,
Researchers have used already microlensing to reveal some 40 Â planets towards the centre of the Galaxy,
He has used Fermi to discover two galaxy-sized bubbles of ionized gas blowing from the centre of the Milky way,
he took to the air in a light aeroplane. His message is that exploitation of the tar sands
The project will start with the laser data collected by planes flying out of Kinshasa (see Leaf by leaf.
Philippe MASCLET/Masterfilms/Airbusgiant ash cloud tests sensor for aircraft Sensors to detect volcanic ash have moved closer to widespread use on commercial airlines following flight tests involving the world s
announced on 13 Â November that it would mount the AVOID sensor on a number of its commercial jets by the end of next year.
Adam Block/Mount Lemmon Skycenter/Univ. Arizonasupernova seen in nearby galaxy Astronomers have spotted one of the closest supernovae in years in the galaxy M82, about 3. 5 Â megaparsecs
NASA/ESA/J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer & the HFF Team (STSCI) Super-distant galaxies glimpsed Astronomers unveiled pictures of the deepest galaxy cluster ever imaged at the annual meeting
enhancing the visibility of more-distant galaxies. Abell  2744, which shows hundreds of galaxies as they looked 3. 5  billion years ago,
produced gravitational lensing that allowed scientists to see background galaxies from more than 12 Â billion years ago.
Some of the objects captured are 10-20 times fainter than any galaxies previously observed.
Space station stays As space-agency leaders from around the world gathered in WASHINGTON DC to discuss the future of space exploration
We have begun to learn a little bit more about hurricane dynamics by flying planes into the eye of the storm.
) sending aircraft straight to the source to drop weather balloons and sensors to collect data on aspects like wind direction pressure water vapor can help us learn more about how storms work.
when they made that first plane he says. They made them they went out there
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We're also at a 10-year low in tornado activity. But a good try nonetheless Popular Science.
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inventing an electromechanical system to trap airplane hijackers the system drops a hijacker through trap doors seals him into a package then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors
US Patent#3811643 Gustano A. Pizzo anti hijacking system for aircraft May 21 1972. Ed note:??
but it is chemtrails the program of doping the earth's atmosphere with weather control chemicals from high flying jets not fossil fuels that caused it.
when jets started to be used widely worldwide. At that time the number of tornadoes in the U s. ceased being a constant 180
or so per year and started increasing so they are seven times that many or more every year now.
tornadoes occurring where they were once unknown like Brooklyn; the worst hurricane season on record;
and the radiation in the SAA is known a hazard to satellites spacecraft and high-altitude aircraft.
#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau
He has spent the past 20 years making annual wreck-hunting trips to Palau about 500 miles from the Philippines to find aircraft that had been shot down during one of WORLD WAR II's fiercest battles planes that may still be holding their pilots His organization Bentprop Project
Bentprop could find planes in a tricky marine environment with steep terrain fast currents and coral heads while Scripps tested circulation models and advanced imaging systems.
The mangroves growing along the shore around Palau are so dense that aluminum wreckage from aircraft has been found sitting on top of the tree canopy about 30 feet up.
and suddenly you're in a supersonic jet. By the 1920s Palau had grown into a thriving Japanese port for goods and services en route across the Pacific.
And between the beginning of the air campaign and the end of the war Bentprop estimates 200 U s. aircraft were shot down inside Palau's barrier reef.
Some 40 to 50 planes and 70 to 80 airmen have never been recovered. Scannon a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver.
He came with a group looking for a Japanese naval vessel that had been sunk by George h w bush who flew torpedo bombers during the war.
When he researched Palau's history at home he realized there must be many more planes in ruins around the islands.
Combing the jungle and surrounding waters they located debris from more than five dozen aircraft. Last year local spear fishermen diving on Palau's western barrier reef stumbled across one of the most impressive finds:
an intact plane. They alerted the owner of a dive shop who passed photos of the wreck along to Bentprop.
Scannon's team eventually identified the plane as an American Corsair. It had sustained some damage to its left forward wing root
It gave us great hope that there were other intact airplanes out here that no one has seen.
Bentprop calculates that eight American planes including A b-24 bomber remain hidden in Palau's western lagoon.
It carried 10 to 11 men including a pilot and copilot gunners bombers a radioman and a navigator.
the rest presumably went down with the plane. We have very very good information about
We got a plane! Moline announces. Everyone springs up and huddles around the screen snapping photos with their phones.
Reuter had used an archival map of observed plane crashes to mark Google earth layers with known wreck sites;
and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane. If that's intact it tells me it was speed a low impact perhaps ditching says Daniel O'brien a former skydiver
My first impression is that's a Zero a long-range fighter aircraft. There are rounded edges at the tail.
But if it is a floatplane the only U S. airplane it could be would be amphibious.
Flip Colmer a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta also with Bentprop reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action
During WORLD WAR II floatplanes in Palau often flew rescue operations. As they scooped airmen from the water another plane provided cover overhead.
Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.
The identification number painted on the plane's exterior would have degraded by now; to confirm the exact craft divers would try to recover a stamped metal plate riveted to the inside of the cockpit.
The Japanese also flew seaplanes. If there's any primer left on the interior of the cockpit
U s. airplanes used lime-green zinc chromate; the Japanese had a red primer. The team will have to get a close look.
With the boat now directly over the plane the dive teams begin to suit up.
Terrill fills his scuba tank with nitrox to allow himself more time to explore the aircraft 100 feet below.
and O'brien. He carries a handheld sonar that displays acoustic images on an LCD screen allowing the divers to zero in on the floatplane even in five-foot visibility.
The front motor and propellers have broken away from the body of the plane so that it now resembles a chewed-off cigar or the burnt end of a firecracker.
The next day Bentprop compares the aircraft in the western lagoon with a hundred different vintage planes.
The high-speed reconnaissance floatplane had a single engine contra-rotating propellers and a center pontoon that could be jettisoned during an attack.
It's a very unusual aircraft one of the rarest archaeological planes you will find he says.
Of more than 60 aircraft Bentprop has identified in Palau half of which are Japanese the team has recovered just one metal plate stamped with a serial number:
that of the American Corsair discovered by the spear fishermen. That plate revealed the Corsair's story.
On November 21 1944 a young Marine captain named Carroll Mccullah set off from the American airfield to finish off a Japanese vessel that had been bombed earlier.
an explosion at the last one sent shrapnel into the oil cooler of his plane.
Then he tightened his seat belt locked the canopy back and turned off the plane's engine switch.
and swam across the reef where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up.
Today Mccullah's plane rests intact on the seabed with its nose up against the edge of the reef like a car driven up onto a curb and abandoned.
-and-bar symbol the aircraft has been scoured to bare aluminum. Scripps wants to use its technology to document this chapter of the Corsair's story too before it ends altogether.
We're not only here to find and detect underwater objects but to get a snapshot of the state of those objects that may be corroding
Suzanne Finney an American archaeologist working with Palau's Bureau of Arts and Culture joins us for the 45-minute boat ride to the site of the Corsair.
With data from the robotic vehicles Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country's rich underwater sites something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat.
When we reach the Corsair engineers lower the Remus now equipped with Gopro HERO3 HD cameras into the water
Back in California Terrill and his team will use the thousands of captured images plus hundreds of photos taken by human divers to build a 3-D reconstruction of the plane.
when he declared the U s. didn't fly spy U-2 planes over Russia. Quislings will say that that was a matter of patriotically protecting the American agenda.
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