Aerospace
This is Not worth your time. I was astonished beyond words to discover an earlier Blog entry (which was only a cyber signpost) had been read twohundredfiftytwo times......
Good G~d! Do you not have anything else to do!!
gc/w Jesus 5766:10.Summer in san Diego.It is hot.
A study by the Meteorology Department at the University of Reading suggests that a widespread adoption of night-flying restrictions could help minimise the impact of aviation on our climate. The study, published in Nature this week, shows that even though only one in four flights over the UK occur during the night, these flights are responsible for at least 60% of the climate warming associated with aircraft condensation trails (contrails). For countries without night-flying restrictions the contribution of these flights to the contrail warming can be even larger.
"Private jet traffic is creating commercial flight delays, safety concerns, and calls for small planes to pay more into the system, according to Business Week (June 5, 2006)." According to the Federal Aviation Administration's Workload Forecast (FAA), which forecast aerospace activity for the next 11 years; indicated that the number of FAA towers will more than likely remain constant at 266 compared with the number of contract towers at 234. The FAA has forecasted that the number of contract towers is expected to increase to 241, during the next ten years.
A research consortium funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has successfully sent a fleet of aerial drones through the pollution-filled skies over the Indian Ocean, thereby achieving an important milestone in the tracking of pollutants responsible for dimming Earth's atmosphere.
A jet fuel comparable to Jet A or military JP 8, but derived from at least 50 percent bituminous coal, has successfully powered a helicopter jet engine, according to a Penn State fuel scientist.
If mastering flight is your goal, you can't do better than to emulate a dragonfly. With four wings instead of the standard two and an unusual pitching stroke that allows the bug to hover and even shift into reverse, the slender, elegant insect is a marvel of engineering.
To Infinity and Beyond
Imagine planning your next family vacation. Will you go to Florida? Or Hawaii? Maybe even somewhere local like St Louis. What if one of your options was space where you float in a bubble or sit out and just look at earth and the stars. Yes, I am sure this sound like some sci fi movie that we will never see but in actuality it could be closer than you think. Today I am writing on the privatizing of space exploration. It has started with an award called “ The X Prize” and there are plans for actual space resorts on the drawing board.
Alliant Techsystems, DARPA and the Office of Naval Research successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. in a pre-dawn launch on Saturday, Dec. 10. This was the first-ever free flight of a scramjet-powered vehicle using conventional liquid hydrocarbon jet fuel. The jet flew at speeds in excess of mach 5.
For almost a hundred years most planes have looked like a tube with wings, but that may change thanks to NASA research. Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., are testing a design for a flying wing, called a blended wing body or BWB, which would be more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly than today's aircraft.
Well, I expect everyone knows about this already . . .
but it seems the US patent office has granted a patent for something which looks very much like a ' flying saucer ' which " may move at a speed approaching the light-speed " . . .
Really ?
I'm not dreaming am I ?
More info and a direct link to the online patent docs via :
www.ohpurleese.com
Thirteen aerospace engineering students from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) spent a part of their summer on a lake. This is normal for many college students, but this lake was the Roger's Dry Lake located in California's Mojave Desert. The Air Force Test Center's C-17 Globemaster The students were participating in the C-17 flight noise mitigation study, a NASA experiment that may one day make the world a quieter place.
How to make an airline system that's already safe even safer is a question NASA researchers wrestle with every day. One solution being developed at NASA is a kind of virtual reality video display for cockpits. Engineers and their industry partners have designed and tested Synthetic Vision Systems, which combine Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals, a computerized photo-realistic terrain atlas and advanced sensors that can "see" through fog.
As the Sun slowly rises, a light fog begins to dissipate and sea gulls can be heard overhead. The ocean breaks along the beach. A light breeze dances across the sand. The morning begins on Virginia’s barrier island formerly called Keeckotank, Accocomoson and Occocomoson.
Marta Bohn-Meyer The crash of an aerobatic plane in Oklahoma has claimed the life of Marta Bohn-Meyer. Bohn-Meyer was chief engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and a widely known precision aerobatic pilot. Bohn-Meyer, 48, died Sunday morning when the Giles G-300 she was flying crashed as she was beginning an aerobatic practice routine near the C.E. Page Airport in Yukon, Okla. Yukon is a suburb of Oklahoma City.
Providing the benefits of speed, portability and access, a pair of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) surveyed storm-damaged communities in Miss. as part of the search for trapped survivors of Hurricane Katrina. In what is one of the first deployments of such craft for disaster search and rescue, the vehicles captured video imagery to help responders focus efforts and avoid hazards.
