Aerospace
Tomorrow, October 4, 2007, marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik.
It changed my life and the life of all Americans who are old enough to remember the event.
Adding even a small amount of carbon nanotubes can go a long way toward enhancing the strength, integrity, and safety of plastic materials widely used in engineering applications, according to a new study.
Ground-based energy from inexpensive or green sources can be used to provide initial launch propulsion from Ocean Assisted Launch Platforms.
I have all honors classes. Straight A's last year in 8th grade. But nothing can fully prepare me for High School. And not only highschool: Magnet. Which, by the way, is 25-some-odd miles away. So I got 6AM-4PM long days, all honors 10th grade classes, and I probably will be in my room for hours doing homework. But it's worth it; I'm doing it for my passion. Aerospace Technology!!
Imagine a solution to global warming, a simple yet effective solution that can be implemented very soon using current technology to create monitor and maintain a devise that will be able to regulate global temperatures on a short medium and longterm basis depending on what is needed. Imagine no more, the solution is at hand. I Zax Vagen open my hands and freely extend this as a gift to humanity.
911 and the golfer Payne Stewart and 2005 (100+fatality) Helios decompression crashes were preventable
America faces a crisis over the lack of ethics and morality among elected officials, police, business executives and religious leaders. Academics so far are largely shielded from the public “tar brush” but they know about similar woes in their own profession, noted for example in the book Leasing the Ivory Tower, by L. C. Soley. Conspicuous eruptions of academic administrative crime and corruption were reported in recent news stories by NPR and CNN regarding the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory. Those reporting the story observed that American universities were as deviant as other institutions in American society.
SR-71 in Los Angeles? NO WAY!
SR-71 in the middle of Los Angeles???
NASA's F-15B research testbed aircraft with Gulfstream's Early fighter pilots were sometimes called knights of the air, a reflection of medieval times when knights used blunted lances in jousting tournaments to dismount competitors from their horses. Now, jet-borne jousting is combating supersonic shockwaves, hopefully enough to lessen the resulting sonic boom heard on the ground.
The U.S. military depends on small, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform such tasks as serving as "eyes in the sky" for battalion commanders planning maneuvers. While some of these UAVs can be easily carried in a backpack and launched by hand, they typically require a team of trained operators on the ground, and they perform only short-term tasks individually rather than sustained missions in coordinated groups. MIT researchers, in collaboration with Boeing's advanced research and development arm, Phantom Works, are working to change that.
September 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of two aerospace milestones that involved both triumph and tragedy for the flight test community at Edwards Air Force Base. It was in September 1956 that the highest and fastest flights of the Bell X-2, a swept-wing, rocket-powered research aircraft were flown. Sadly, the latter of those two missions cost the life of Air Force Capt. Milburn "Mel" Apt, one of the test pilots assigned to the project.
Researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed hydrogen. The fuel-cell system that powers the 22-foot wingspan aircraft generates only 500 watts.
