Sentences with phrase «better airplane wing»

For instance, it might be used to help design a better airplane wing.

Not exact matches

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 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.

Fixed - wing (airplane - style) drones like the Predator can carry much more weight for their size than rotary - wing (helicopter - style) drones, but can't hover to get a good close - up look at objects of interest, nor could they easily hand off a taco, and they need a runwaylike surface to land.

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.

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.