Not exact matches
The CSeries is Bombardier's new generation of
aircraft for commercial airlines, in development for more than a decade as an alternative to smaller
models of passenger jets
built by rivals Boeing and Airbus.
The San Rafael, Calif., company's AutoCAD design software is used by designers the world over to
model everything from office furniture to
buildings to
aircraft components.
While designing an
aircraft, CFD is often considered both an accurate and less expensive approach before investing in
building models and testing in air tunnels.
But a series of smaller, challenging projects — perhaps
modeled after prize competitions for developing «disruptive» technologies, or Lockheed Martin's famed «Skunk Works» facility that pioneered futuristic spy planes and supersonic
aircraft — could help
build esprit de corps, he says.
In the late 1990s he tried to
build a
model aircraft factory at the Tate Gallery.
My past life involved helping to
build, operate and test the most sophisticated
models we had for predicting the performance of imaginary
aircraft fighting against imaginary threats in an imaginary world.
I suppose we shouldn't trust the complex
models built by, say, Boeing to guide 787 development because they're incapable of generating counterintuitive, unexpected surprises like, oh, cutting back thrust suddenly causing the
aircraft to launch itself into near earth orbit.
This is how we
model aircraft, cars,
buildings, bridges, ships, etc..
But you can't operate a
model aircraft «at a lateral distance of less than 250 feet (75m) from
buildings, structures, vehicles, vessels, animals and the public including spectators, bystanders or any person not associated with... [more]
But you can't operate a
model aircraft «at a lateral distance of less than 250 feet (75m) from
buildings, structures, vehicles, vessels, animals and the public including spectators, bystanders or any person not associated with the operation of the
aircraft».
Outside of work, Greg likes to
build and fly radio controlled
model aircraft, spend time with his three grandchildren, and travel with his family.