Sentences with phrase «flight speed of»

Indeed, physicists can nowadays reduce the flight speed of molecules relatively quickly to almost absolute zero at -273.15 °C.

The flight speed of birds is more complex than research has previously managed to show.

Last year, biologists Anders Hedenström and Susanne Åkesson showed that the flight speed of terns is affected by their morphology, weight and the size of their flock.

The machines are complex enough to have personalities, with multiple cars that sometimes dispatch seemingly at their own will, a mix of old and new technologies that make them stubborn to fix, and new flight speeds of 100 floors per minute.

FIM also receives updates on the flight speeds of nearby aircraft, derived from GPS signals.

Not exact matches

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

During its flight, which was heralded as a landmark in private rocket development, Rutan's SpaceShipOne reached Mach 3, three times the speed of sound.

Boeing hopes to create hypersonic commercial flights that will travel 5 times the speed of sound.

The sum is going to Boom Supersonic, Japan Airlines said Tuesday, in hopes that the Denver - based upstart will successfully develop a plane that could cut flight times in half with cruising speeds of Mach 2.2 — more than 1,450 miles an hour.

After the demise of the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003, flight times have stayed relatively constant — but Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Technology, says air travel could get a speed boost in just a few years.

He reached speeds of 833.9 mph or Mach 1.24 and set several other records including highest manned balloon flight and highest skydiving jump.

Designed to provide exceptional service for high - priority, on - demand goods, DP World Cargospeed systems will deliver freight at the speed of flight and closer to the cost of trucking.»

The first stage of T Flight would transport around 8 million people around the region at speeds ranging from 370 to 620 mph.

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

You will then learn all sorts of things about how to control your flight, your speed, your maneuverability, and the trick usually lies in not thinking too hard about whatever you want to do, but just allowing it to happen as if it were going to anyway.

Your Pilot, armed with years of safely maneuvering our balloon flights amid the winds and a mountain of information to share about your flight and the wine world below you, will gauge the wind direction and speed and pick the perfect launch site.

I would go so far as to get Thierry to get Michael Johnson on a flight over to re-teach a couple of our lads (Monreal & Giroud) how to run properly... I'm sure they have a good 0.2 we could squeeze outta their 40m... he does high level consulting in track & speed improvement, american football, futbol del mundo etc..

If they play as done Wednesday in CL qualifier, we are in serious dirt; their speed, passing are devastating Of course Sanchez might play Liverpool, doesn't mean he is staying; he will be in better shape for his country two games... In that case he will take a direct flight back to team buying while out in country's duty... I» m a true gooner but realistic, honest; from what u saw that night, Liverpool has most pleasant game in EPL and Europe's Top 3 to 5.

Such engagements are made possible by the speed of contemporary air flight.

Weight effects speed, flight time, take off and landing, and the dexterity of your quadcopters.

This little drone offers stable, fast flight, with three - speed modes for pilots of varying experience.

Stylish, well - made flights at the end of these darts reduce drag and help achieve top speed and accuracy.

With a top horizontal speed of 22 miles per hour, this drone should be able to keep up with any kind of action, and its propellers are designed for smooth, even flight that supports splendid video quality.

Three flight speeds, including eco, drive, and sports mode give you options and the battery allows up to twenty minutes of flight time.

We also liked the very solid flight time, range, and quick charging speed of the drone.

Assuming an average flight speed (550 mph), Stuker's 18,000,000 miles would translate into 32,727 hours (3.7 years) of flight time.

These outbound electrons don't reach peak speeds until they are a few thousand kilometers high, where the atmosphere is so thin that the particles rarely collide with gases and therefore don't glow, says FAST project scientist Robert Pfaff Jr. of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Ultimately, the Federal Aviation Administration banned supersonic civilian flights over the continental United States, partly explaining why the Concorde went out of production and why airliners have been cruising at roughly the same speed for the past 50 years.

The jets were the first planes capable of flying faster than the speed of sound in level flight and are, as I learned, the direct descendants of the X-1.

NASA's flight deck interval management (FIM) system cuts down on the banter: it combines satellite - based location tracking and automated computer commands to keep track of planes» positions and constantly updates pilots on safe flight speeds for landing.

At extreme velocities at or above the speed of sound, the rocket paneling could flutter, potentially destabilizing the flight trajectory.

By comparing the speed of the head and the thorax throughout the flight, they found that during each turn the head shifts after the body starts rotating and stops before it levels out.

«The existing methods for biology rely on vision - based motion capture systems that utilize high speed imaging sensors to record the trajectory of joints and limbs during bat flight.

On its debut flight in Switzerland in June 2014, the plane reached a maximum altitude of 5,500 feet (1,680 m) and flew at an average ground speed of 35 mph (55.6 km / h).

In a recent study published in EPJ E, their model reveals that the gravity - like attraction towards the heart of the swarm increases with an individual's flight speed.

The new technique is able to not only identify the products of these chemical reactions, but also detect the flight paths and speed of all the molecules that come flying off the SAM.

The company's latest test flight was much more successful, powering to Mach 3 speeds and reaching a height of 93.6 kilometres.

Then the researchers measured the aerodynamic response of the creatures» wings, taking into account variables like flight speed, attack angle, and bone structure.

In this flight the machine rose quickly, and sped rapidly on at a height of some 20 feet.

For over three years, the scientists have been collecting data on the flight of neutrinos — those mysterious, nearly massless particles that can travel through anything at immense speed — originating in the SPS accelerator at CERN, near Geneva, and traveling underground all the way to Gran Sasso, 731 kilometers (about 450 miles) away.

As most choppers don't vary rotor speed during flight, the researchers were even able to use tremor frequencies to deduce the number of rotor blades and their revolution speed.

By measuring the changing frequency of the signals as the chopper passed each one, the researchers determined the approximate location, altitude, speed, and flight direction of the craft.

Flight recorders vary widely, but the latest models record more than 100 aspects of an aircraft's behaviour, such as which way the rudder is pointing and the plane's speed.

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

Bees control their flight using the speed of motion — or optic flow — of the visual world around them, but it is not known how they do this.

However, the speed of the car itself had no effect on flight initiation distance.

«Our results show that birds adapt their flight speed to several different factors simultaneously and independently of each other.

Climate Science Day is not a junket for the atmospheric scientist who works as a contract employee at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; it is more like science version of speed — dating.

The time of this flight was 1 minute and 28 seconds, which corresponds with an average speed of about 25 1/2 miles an hour.

Now a combination of high - speed filming and computer simulations reveals how the birds» wings manipulate the surrounding air to aid in flight.