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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.

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

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.

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

#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.

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

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;

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.

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.#

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.

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 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;

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

#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.

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,

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.

As usual, once I landed at the airport, I made my way to the customs area where

Long lines in airport customs is not unusual. But as I waded through this 45-minute process

Since there were two separate customs areas at the Istanbul airport, my rough calculations came out to well over 10 million man-hours a year wasted at this one single airport.

It s not unusual for governments to waste people s time over what they like to phrase asthe greater good.

The same goes for TSA-like security agents on the front end of airports. Within the next decade, 90%of those jobs will be gone as well.

Some of the positions he mentioned were commercial pilots, legal work, technical writing, telemarketers, accountants, retail workers,

They operate above the fray, independent of the frenetic energy of today s highways, airports, train, and bus depots.

Airport Security systems Dismantlers 144. Airport Customs Dismantlers Living on the edge of tomorrow! Extreme Innovation Outside of the multiple categories listed above are a number of unusual jobs, many still decades away.

Here are just a few to whet your appetite. 145. Extinction Revivalists People who revive extinct animals. 146.

#Can We Protect Against The next Moore Tornado? The scenes of devastation in Moore Okla. after a possibly 2-mile-wide tornado tore apart schools and homes on Monday (May 20) led to an inevitable question:

Could anything have been done to save buildings and lives? The answer according to tornado experts and building engineers is yes though there are roadblocks in the way.

Some are scientific because meteorologists have yet to fully grasp why tornadoes form when they form

and how to predict their paths. Others are economic: Building a tornado-proof building for example is already completely possible albeit very expensive.

There's no doubt we could engineer something that could withstand an EF4 or EF5 tornado said Darryl James a professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University.

The question is who could afford it? Despite these challenges researchers are working to make sure future tornadoes wreak less destruction

whether that means getting a better grip on where tornadoes are likely to form and move or protecting property

and people once the tornadoes have arrived. Â Â Predicting twisters The Moore Okla. tornado touched down at 2: 56 p m. CDT (3: 56 p m. EDT) on May 20

and spent 40 minutes on the ground carving a 17-mile-long (27 kilometers) path of destruction through the Oklahoma city suburb.

The National Weather Service pegged the tornado as an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale meaning winds reached more than 200 mph (322 km h).

) See images of the Moore tornado damage Tornados as strong as the one that ravaged Moore are relatively rare.

About 95 percent of tornadoes in the United states are EF2S or below according to the National Climatic Data center.

Only about 1 percent reach EF5 status. Predicting which storms will generate monster tornadoes or any tornadoes at all remains a challenge.

The basics of tornado formation are simple enough. When wind and humidity conditions are right thunderstorm systems can begin to rotate

and become what are called supercells. Supercells are marked by the presence of a mesocyclone a rotating updraft of air that can sometimes create a funnel cloud.

Exactly why this happens in some storms and not others is a key mystery. We're trying to be able to figure out why of two pretty much identical supercells one will generate a tornado

and one won't said Amy Mcgovern a computer scientist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Mcgovern and her colleagues are among the researchers trying to improve tornado predictions.

Using supercomputer simulations she and her team are working to model tornadoes on a very fine scale tracking their movements to within 165 to 245 feet (50 to 75 meters).

On-the-ground observations can only take researchers so far Mcgovern said. Radar can't sense every component of the wind's movement for example.

or temperature to see whether and how each influences tornado formation. At the 165-to 245-foot level of precision building a stable realistic simulation is difficult.

The team has done similar work to predict airplane turbulence with great success so once the database of simulated storms is built using them to predict real-world weather should be said successful she.

when a tornado is bearing down. On Monday the National Weather Service office in Norman Okla. gave residents 16 minutes of warning before the tornado even formed based on radar indicators that the storm clouds were circulating in such a way that a tornado was likely.

That 16 minutes is 3 more minutes than the average tornado warning time of 13 minutes.

The actual time most residents had to seek shelter was been longer because it took the tornado time to reach them.)

Ultimately researchers want to get quicker. Mcgovern's work could help meteorologists look for clues in storms that make tornado conditions more likely.

The eventual goal said William Gallus a meteorologist at Iowa State university is warn-on-forecast.

In other words meteorologists would be able to forecast tornadoes and issue warnings rather than waiting to see rotation

Using tornado simulators Gallus and his colleagues are working on understanding how local topography affects the way a tornado might move

and strengthen. For example they've found that ridges cause tornadoes to deviate left as they climb up

and right as they descend. Narrow valleys can also funnel wind into tornadoes from a mile

or so away Gallus said causing damage far afield from the actual funnel cloud. 50 Amazing Tornado Facts Moore in particular has been hit by three violent tornadoes in less than 15 years:

One in 1999 one in 2003 and one on Monday. Most scientists see that as a coincidence

Statistically that should not happen for about a million years to have a violent tornado pass by the same spot three times

Gallus isn't the only researcher looking to get a hyper-local look at how tornadoes work.

Tornado protection Once a tornado is on its way though saving lives can be a matter of having a place to Go in Moore students at Plaza Towers Elementary huddled in interior hallways

and bathrooms but a direct hit by the tornado collapsed most of the building. Likewise homes in neighborhoods hit by the tornado were destroyed completely.

As of Wednesday the death toll stood at 24 10 of whom were children. Video:

War Zone Sad experience is teaching that some old tornado safety tricks aren't as effective as hoped particularly

when buildings aren't designed with tornado safety in mind. In Joplin Miss. a 2011 tornado killed 158 according to the National Weather Service (the city of Joplin pegs the death toll at 161.

Among the devastated buildings was a local high school and some of the spots disaster experts would normally suggest people go for shelter turned out to be among the most badly damaged there.

Building in tornado country Even in Tornado Alley buildings are designed to withstand only 90 mph (145 km h) straight-line winds said Partha Sarkar who studies wind engineering and aerodynamics at Iowa State university.

and doesn't take into account even the most common types of tornadoes. An EF1 tornado can sustain gusts of up to 110 mph (177 km h).

) What's more Sarkar said rotational tornado winds can put even stronger stresses on buildings than straight-line winds.

A 90-mph tornado can be much more damaging than a 90-mph straight gust.

The buildings are designed simply not to withstand that level of wind he told Livescience. The Deadliest Tornadoes in U s. History Designing a tornado-proof building is said expensive Sarkar.

You need reinforced masonry steel or composite materials instead of timber and enhanced connections between walls foundations and roofs

and that will certainly help to make them stand up to most medium-intensity tornadoes EF2S EF3S maybe Sarkar said.

Another option would be tornado shelters another feature frequently missing from Tornado Alley construction. The storm shelters today are designed for 250 mph (402 km h) wind speeds

and we feel that is higher than will ever be experienced at the ground level in a tornado said Ernst Kiesling a mechanical engineer at Texas Tech and the executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association.

Shelter from the storm Unfortunately cost prevents homeowners in even tornado-prone areas from installing these shelters.

For Sarkar tornado-ready construction is a national issue. It's not going to go away he said.

Based on its analysis of the colors of individual items on the belt it controls air jets that blow bad grapes and detritus off the belt and sorts the remaining berries into grades for production of various qualities

That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.

With everything from printed metal airplane wings to replacement organs on the horizon could printed food be next?

The Sugar Lab had adapted 3d Systems'Color Jet Printing (CJP) technology to print flavoured edible binders on a sugar bed to fabricate solid structures.

and that at some point in the future groundwater pumping rates are going to have to decrease study lead author David Steward a professor of civil engineering at Kansas State university said in a statement.

10 Health Status Signs Taking water measurements Steward and his colleagues collected data on past and present groundwater levels in the Ogallala Aquifer and developed statistical models to project various

It would take an average of 500 to 1300 years to completely refill the High Plains Aquifer Steward added.

if we're able to save water today it will result in a substantial increase in the number of years that we will have irrigated agriculture in Kansas Steward said.

Steward and his colleagues anticipate future technologies will help farmers irrigate their land more efficiently.

which means that every year we're growing about 2 percent more crop for each unit of water Steward said.

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.

When working in the plant section crew members would need to wear oxygen masks similar to those worn by high-altitude fliers.

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

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.

-I rocket in favour of commercial space flights, had already been aired in public meetings (see Nature 460,791;

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,

On 8 december, its reusable'Dragon'capsule was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape canaveral, Florida.

is scheduled to make its first attempt to launch a spacecraft into orbit on its Falcon 9 rocket and return the craft to Earth.

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.

successfully completed its maiden test flight on 21 april. The rocket is the first vehicle to take off from NASA s new launch pad at the Wallops Flight Facility In virginia.

The flight puts NASA one step closer to having two US cargo carriers available to resupply the International Space station."

"It looks like it performed flawlessly throughout the day, said NASA launch commentator Kyle Herring. See go. nature. com/b6oeoz for more.

Primate carriers Vietnam Airlines said on 19 april that it will no longer transport primates used in research experiments, effective from 1 may.

The airline has been under pressure from animal-rights groups. It was one of the last major carriers to transport primates for research:

only Air france and Philippine Airlines say that they still do so. Air canada, United airlines and China Eastern announced that they would stop shipments in December, January and March respectively.

Animal activism Animal-rights activists occupied an animal facility at the University of Milan in Italy on 20 april.

the researchers will test their solvent at pre-pilot scales producing 1 litre of sugars per day says Luterbacher,

Alan Wasser the Space Settlement Institute's chairman says that a private company should build a spaceline similar to an airline between the Earth and moon.

if only one or 2 nations poseess the capability for advanced space flight and precious resources are discovered.

The acronym stands for light detection and ranging and it works on the same principle that radar and sonar do

when they made that first plane he says. They made them they went out there

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#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

and its rear propeller pushes it beneath the surface. Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.

From roughly 10 feet above the seafloor its side-scan sonar sends out acoustic waves that build a two-dimensional map.

while helping Bentprop locate WORLD WAR II airmen an effort they named Project Recover. The lead scientist is Eric Terrill director of the Scripps Coastal Observing Research and development Center.

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.

Scripps and the University of Delaware shipped 60 packages of equipment to Palau including underwater vehicles cameras various types of sonar

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.

Recognizing the strategic location Japan established an airfield there and after WORLD WAR II broke out it began to shore up its defenses building hundreds of bunkers

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.

He was gripped particularly by the thought that many airmen couldn't have survived the impact. These people died defending us he says.

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

and the canopy had been locked open suggesting that the pilot had ditched. It had been sitting there unknown for 65 years Scannon says.

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

and scrolls through sonar images produced by the Remus. Grainy and reddish the sonar images look like transmissions from Mars. Some show deep scours;

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;

he then added a layer with intriguing objects that had turned up in the sonar images.

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

and to rescue downed pilots. If they were in this deep it would have been on a risky endeavor.

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.

While side-scan sonar provides a general impression of contours along the bottom it doesn't directly measure the elevations of features.

The Echoscope or multibeam volume imaging sonar does enabling oceanographers to map topography accurately and in high enough resolution to distinguish man-made objects.

Terrill describes it as the oceanographic seafloor-mapping equivalent of ultrasound sonar used to look inside the human body.

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.

On the way back he and his wingman strafed four Japanese ammunition dumps; an explosion at the last one sent shrapnel into the oil cooler of his plane.

Mccullah placed a distress call and made for the island's western reef. Then he tightened his seat belt locked the canopy back and turned off the plane's engine switch.

Placing his left hand on the cockpit coaming he braced for impact. There was no shock Mccullah later wrote in a mission report.

He launched his life raft and swam across the reef where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up.

For the rest of his life Mccullah who after his rescue went back to the base had a brandy

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 the reef has crept into the propellers and the engine; a large bulbous coral head has taken up occupancy in the cockpit.

-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.

The sonar also revealed what Terrill says could be a new species of coral. When we reach the Corsair engineers lower the Remus now equipped with Gopro HERO3 HD cameras into the water

and it once again begins a methodical sweep. 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.

Terrill is beta-testing algorithms developed by Autodesk for the company's new cloud-based reality-capture software called Recap;

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