Sentences with phrase «flight test on»

Research supervisor Professor Simon Watkins, said flight testing on a micro plane showed the system significantly reduced the effects of turbulence.

Not exact matches

«The flight conditions go beyond what we test for on Earth.

Virgin Galactic is «back on track» after completing its first rocket - powered test flight since a fatal crash in late 2014.

The spaceflight company's VSS Unity vehicle on Thursday successfully completed its first powered test flight, Virgin Galactic tweeted.

For example, Musk previously said he planned to launch the «silliest thing we can imagine» on Falcon Heavy's first test flight.

North Korea's reported progress on miniaturizing nuclear warheads — coupled with two test flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July — are raising pressure on Trump.

Samsung recently released a video showing the multiple tests conducted on the Galaxy Note 4, including drops from various heights, and a «tumble test» that recreates what it's like to drop your phone down a flight of stairs.

Richard Branson's space company on Thursday completed its first rocket - powered test flight since 2014.

Still, the reclassification of costs for two 787 Dreamliner flight - test airplanes, tough decisions around 747 production (slow sales led to unsold aircraft), and higher costs on developing models weighed on operating performance.

The world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crashed and suffered damage on its second test flight on Wednesday.

The first launch of the Falcon Heavy will be a test flight, and SpaceX is notorious for offbeat payloads on its vessels» maiden voyages.

On Wednesday, Airbus took a brand new A380 superjumbo on a test flight over EuropOn Wednesday, Airbus took a brand new A380 superjumbo on a test flight over Europon a test flight over Europe.

This isn't the first time an aircraft manufacturer has gotten creative on a test flight.

HERZLIYA, Israel, Oct 30 - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday that it was making progress on resolving technical issues facing the cutting - edge helmet being developed for use by F - 35 fighter pilots, and it cited positive initial reports from night flight tests of the system.

The XPS 13's superior battery life (surpassing 16 hours in some tests) will ensure you'll get plenty of work done even on international flights without power plugs.

Russia has so far carried out four tests of the Yu - 71, with the most recent test flight conducted on Feb. 26, Russia's Sputnik News reported, citing a recent report by Jane's Intelligence Review.

The idea was to put a twist on the practice of sending dummy payloads into space during flight tests.

The company is now looking at selling space on the rockets during test flights to accommodate experiments and researches.

All is set at Blue Origin's test flight center in Texas as Jeff Bezos's team is gearing up for New Shepard's eighth launch on April 29.

Jeff Bezos» space company Blue Origin successfully landed one of its New Shepard spacecraft during a test flight on Friday.

He said the BFR will be ready by next year for «test flights,» and he's targeting to put 1 million people on Mars.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

Air Canada, on the other hand, has partnered with Gogo to offer ground - to - air service on its North American routes before testing out Gogo's own satellite technology for consideration on its wide - body fleet for flights to Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

The Clarets have enjoyed a fine season on home soil in the top flight but their great defence will naturally be put to the test in this one against the powerful Liverpool attack.

Petr Cech has warned Liverpool their sternest tests lie ahead as expectation steadily builds on the league leaders, with Chelsea, Champions League semi-finalists and a team with top - flight winners in their midst, hovering unnervingly at their backs.

With Leonardo Ulloa on the opposition team sheet, O'Driscoll welcomed the chance to test himself against a proven top - flight striker, and was pleased to have sealed a hard - fought point.

Speaking of wind: The windier it gets the harder it is to pilot a drone so be patient at first and take your drone for it's first test flight on a day with calm weather.

To test their sensor technology in the most realistic environment possible (without endangering unwitting vacationers or business travelers on actual flights), Chen and his team are working in a mock airline cabin at Purdue's Ray W. Herrick Laboratories.

The details on how that's done we will be proving in test flights.

Here, Makani's airborne wind turbine sits on the runway prior to a test flight in Alameda, California.

The California - based company SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon capsule toward the station on Nov. 30 on its second and final orbital test flight, NASA officials announced last week.

Last October, BioJet 1 — a 1968 Czechoslovakian L - 29 fighter jet — reached around 17,000 feet (5,200 meters) on 100 percent biodiesel during a test flight in Reno, Nev..

The firm hopes to send the Taurus 2 on its first test flight this December, SpaceNews reported recently.

When the team stopped the flight — because the craft had surpassed the goals of the test — the battery on the drone had more energy than it started with.

In 2009, prototypes of the suit were tested by three volunteers on a plane that creates brief periods of weightlessness by following a roller - coaster - like flight path (see photo).

Using high - speed cameras focused on bats trained to obtain nectar from artificial «test tube» flowers containing honey water in the lab, the researchers» video captured bats hovering in short flights (rarely lasting a second) over the feeders.

«You release them in free flight and from then on nothing can touch the test masses any more.»

Virgin Atlantic airline announced that early this year it will conduct the first flight test of a biodiesel — petroleum diesel blend in one of the four engines of a 747 aircraft; Air New Zealand is planning a similar test flight on a Rolls Royce engine in one of its 747s later in the year.

And based on the timeline for building SLS and Orion, a 2021 Mars mission would be the first crewed flight for both vehicles, which would mean skipping a piloted test flight closer to home.

During its first free flight test at night, Morpheus (a Human Exploration and Operations MD project) tests NASA's ALHAT and an engine that runs on liquid oxygen and methane, which are green propellants.

A short video was created to show the transport of the flight microshutter device into a cleanroom at NASA Goddard on May 15, 2014, where it will undergo various tests for several months to verify its integrity and operation.

In a test on an early shuttle flight, astronauts were pricked in the arm with various antigens, to which they showed a diminished immune response.

Next steps will likely involve further ground testing and, at some point, a technology demonstration flight experiment on the station.

But leaks reported on Russianspaceweb.com suggest the commission will point the finger at design errors and inadequate preflight testing of the spacecraft's flight control system.

A confident SpaceX has merged its final two test flights to the International Space Station in a bid to press on aggressively with commercial space flights for NASA

He rode along on the flight tests to keep an eye on the coatings and watch for any anomalies.

Even if this round of flight tests bolsters the case for the use of NASA Langley's bug coatings, it will probably be quite some time before they end up on commercial airliners.

That's why a group of researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center — the «bug team» — recently ran several flight tests of coatings that may one day reduce the amount of bug contamination on the wings of commercial aircraft.

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics tests scientific outcomes on self and space perception during in - flight motions,.