Sentences with phrase «airplane wings in»

The new insights could be useful both when it is desirable to have droplets stick to surfaces, such as in some kinds of 3 - D printers, to help make sure each printed layer adheres thoroughly to the previous layer, and when it's important to prevent droplets from sticking, such as on airplane wings in icy weather.

I'm still getting a pretty regular smack - down; I got an airplane wing in the eyeball just yesterday.

Not exact matches

The school, located in Tipp City, Ohio, is named after the wing of an airplane because the teachings are meant to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses and «fly.»

«If indeed the wing piece was in the extended position, consistent with where it would be in low - speed operations, this MIGHT suggest the airplane was still under control when it crashed,» Smith told Business Insider in an email.

There, he and his pals were well on their way to delivering scalable wind energy using airplane - size robotic kites inspired, in part, by the wings Griffith has been designing to power his kite - surfing hobby since college.

«The features of this airplane is that is has improved wings, improved performance and, at the same time, the first A350 - 1000 that has our Q - Suite (business class), which is the industry leader in passenger comfort,» Al - Baker said.

The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to find a valid equation for chemical equilibrium, or to help students gain sound understanding of metabolism.

The seven - minute video was released by the media wing of Isis's Aleppo «province», and praised the «lion fighters» of the militant group's branch in Sinai for «bringing down a Russian airplane».

Their technique, published June 23 in the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing, could also be useful in other fluid dynamic analyses — for example, when studying unsteady vortices detaching from the wing of an airplane.

They found that she had stumbled on a new family of thermoset polymers, exceptionally strong plas - tics that are used in products ranging from smartphones to airplane wings.

Sensors can be placed in a part of a structure that doesn't have easy access, like the inside of an airplane wing, or even embedded in concrete.

Engineers can calculate the maximum stiffness of a given material in a given shape; for instance, they know how to give airplane wings their maximum strength using a given alloy.

«On airplanes, the back edge of the wing is where you get most of the noise,» Justin Jaworski, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, told TechNewsDaily.

In any case, the findings are still in their earliest stages, and it might take two or three years before the ideas for a quieter airplane wing are tested with a small model in a wind tunnel, Jaworski saiIn any case, the findings are still in their earliest stages, and it might take two or three years before the ideas for a quieter airplane wing are tested with a small model in a wind tunnel, Jaworski saiin their earliest stages, and it might take two or three years before the ideas for a quieter airplane wing are tested with a small model in a wind tunnel, Jaworski saiin a wind tunnel, Jaworski said.

Inflatable wings on otherwise normal airplanes would also allow engineers to double the craft's wingspan in flight.

Or what defects can I see in my airplane wing laminate?»

Because ice on airplane wings can add weight and decrease lift, making takeoffs and landings more dangerous, airplanes are sprayed with antifreeze prior to departure in wintry weather.

A team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) has developed a new way to prevent ice buildup on surfaces like airplane wings, finding inspiration in an unusual source: the poison dart frog.

When flying insects get in the way of an airplane's wing during takeoff or landing, it's not just the bugs that suffer.

For example, conventional X-rays can't see a defect called a grafoil in the laminate layers of an airplane wing without removing the protective copper mesh that diffuses energy if lightning hits the plane.

However, if the speed increases beyond a threshold, the object will suddenly experience a large upward positive lift, like an airplane wing, as Patrick Bot of the Naval Academy Research Institute in Brest, France, and Marc Rabaud of the University of Paris - South and colleagues report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.

The blades have a cross section similar to an airplane wing and generate force in similar fashion.

«For example, this approach excels in figuring out which material or interface property might be limiting performance, even for complex stacks of materials like batteries, thermoelectric devices, or composites used in tennis shoes or airplane wings.»

Then she improved on nature to create permanent nonstick surfaces that could keep artificial walls free of insect infestations, prevent ice from adhering to airplane wings, and deter bacterial growth on medical devices continually in contact with body fluids.

In that concept, a spherical shell of metamaterial — specially shaped metal pieces that bend light in ways other materials can not — would cause light to skirt the inner edge of the shell like wind around an airplane wing, making anything inside the shell invisiblIn that concept, a spherical shell of metamaterial — specially shaped metal pieces that bend light in ways other materials can not — would cause light to skirt the inner edge of the shell like wind around an airplane wing, making anything inside the shell invisiblin ways other materials can not — would cause light to skirt the inner edge of the shell like wind around an airplane wing, making anything inside the shell invisible.

On an airplane, the pitot tube can be mounted in a number of ways, including jutting out from the edge of the wing or sticking up from the fuselage.

They play an important role in applied sciences as well as industrial and commercial research, with uses ranging from the measurement of stress in commercial airplane wings to the inspection of details inside valuable artifacts in archaeological studies.

The new technology, which can be installed on existing airplane wings or integrated into entirely new airframes, can help engineers reduce the wings» structural weight, which in turn would allow the aircraft to consume less fuel than before.

Astaire and Raymond save the day by staging the climactic «Flying Down to Rio» number thousands of feet in the air, with hundreds of chorus girls shimmying and swaying while strapped to the wings of a fleet of airplanes.

Shoehorned into a coach seat over the wing of one of those airplanes that seats about a hundred people, I quaffed my Pepsi with the quick rabbit - swallows necessitated by the tiny plastic cup they offer to the undesirables, and thought about the wisdom of Focus Features deciding to fly me from Denver to The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills to attend the junket for Charlie Kaufman's bittersweet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

He mounted IMAX cameras on airplane wings to capture dogfights, encased the same large - format cameras in waterproof containers to film overturning ships, and in other cases built gigantic custom - made Steadi - Cam contraptions to photograph the action on the ground.

Line observed as the students dragged images of matching plane parts together — yellow wings with yellow engines, for example — to «build» the largest number of airplanes in the shortest period of time.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

(Uh, not me — not in a car named after a desert wind but designed to act like an airplane wing.)

This pressure difference means the wing is pushed upward, producing lift and keeping an airplane in the sky.

[63] Various airplane models were used in filming, from a life - sized plane with detachable wings to film the crash in the woods, to plane fuselages either built atop snowmobiles or shot from nitrogen cannons.

Remember that old episode of The Twilight Zone in which a young William Shatner plays an airplane passenger who freaks out when he sees some sort of creature out on the wing, mid-flight?

Nina Katchadourian's five - part portfolio Window Seat Suprematism (2014) is based on photographs of airplane wings she took over the course of numerous commercial airline flights; in this work she documents her peripatetic lifestyle while also channeling the pared - down compositions of the Russian avant - garde.

In future airplanes, weight and drag are reduced by smaller tails and even new coatings that prevent insect residues from building up on the wings.

In short, modeling an airplane wing is at least several, and likely many, orders of magnitude simpler than modeling the climate.

Is the mathematical solution to the fluid flow over the airplane wing simpler than the mathematical solution to the instantaneous radiative - convective balance in the atmosphere?

Now this irrelevant dramatizing is all in good fun, so don't go thinking that LSUC's Treasurer, who has put her name to the Discussion Paper by way of an opening letter urging participation in the discussions, has spun back the odometer on us like an old - time used car salesman (a now reformed «salesperson»), telling us that a used car with wings is just as good as a late model airplane.