Sentences with phrase «light aircraft design»

A review from the 2014 Light Aircraft Design Conference can be viewed here.

Vice Chairman of the RAeS General Aviation Group, John Robertson, reports on the Group's annual conference at which a significant announcement was made concerning the development of new UK light aircraft designs.

Not exact matches

The HondaJet, a private light aircraft that seats four to six people, costs between $ 4.9 and $ 5.2 million and took nearly three decades from design to market.

Hawkins and his co-founder, designer Steen Strand, founded Icon in 2006, after the FAA created a new category of airplanes called «light sport aircraft,» designed for recreational aviation.

The General Aviation Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society has continued to focus on encouragement and support for design engineering and manufacture of light aircraft, particularly sport light aircraft, in the UK.

Ian Bentley, a director of a rival light aircraft maker, Cirrus Design of Duluth, Minnesota, says pilots are interested in anything that improves aircraft performance even by a few per cent.

A first division by design among aircraft is between lighter - than - air, aerostat, and heavier - than - air aircraft, aerodyne.

«Biology has an incredible diversity of species, which can provide us new design cues and synthetic routes to the next generation of advanced materials for light - weight automobiles, aircraft and other structural applications,» Kisailus said.

A month after his article on shipping innovations, Times reporter Fountain tackled aviation, reporting on innovative aircraft designs, new lighter materials and more efficient air traffic practices.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!

RH: The new high strength fabrics, light weight aircraft composite materials, and computer aided design tools have revolutionized airship design.

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