Sentences with phrase «from aircraft wings»

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The idea for Saildrone's design, a hard carbon - fiber sail that looks and acts like an aircraft wing, came from Jenkins's past as a land - yacht racer.

The official told the AP that air safety investigators had a «high degree of confidence» that photos of the wreckage showed a part from the aircraft's wings that is unique to the Boeing 777.

What makes these items unique is that they're crafted from old Boeing 747 engine turbofan housings, airplane wings and other bits of retired aircraft.

«Seven fixed - wing aircraft from the U.S. Coast Guard and Air National Guard are in support, he added, and the Texas National Guard is using about 200 Humvees, 218 high - water vehicles, 15 wreckers and 19 fuelers.»

«And six rotary - wing aircraft from the Utah, Nebraska and North Carolina Army National Guard are en route to the area.

Lessons learned from the wings could be applied to new technologies, including foldable aircraft wings or solar panels that unfurl from a spacecraft.

Flares loaded with cloud - seeding material fire from an aircraft's wings as it flies through a cloud.

«Designing the fuel - efficient aircraft of the future: Stampede supercomputer helps researchers design jets with morphing wings, or built from composite materials, that will burn less fuel.»

Hu will use the tunnel as part of a $ 663,000 grant from NASA to study icing of aircraft wings, part of a $ 360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study icing of wind turbine blades and part of a $ 20,000 seed grant from Iowa State's Institute for Physical Research and Technology to develop new technology to study aircraft icing.

Their paper, published in Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, provides a model for four stages of ice formation on aircraft wings.

The argument rests on the method used to translate analogue data from sensors, such as those that measure the angle of the wing flaps, into a digital form that the aircraft's processors can handle.

Among aerodynamically lifted aircraft, most fall in the category of fixed - wing aircraft, where horizontal airfoils produce lift, by profiting from airflow patterns determined by Bernoulli's equation and, to some extent, the Coanda effect.

The sensing system is anticipated to be of benefit in monitoring the health of various structures, ranging from buildings and bridges to windmill blades and aircraft wings.

Seen from above, the dashboard resembles the wing of an aircraft.

Dunk Island is just off the coast of Mission Beach and is accessible by boat, seaplane, helicopter and fixed wing aircraft from Cairns city.

You can drive to Pumphouse Point from most cities across the state, but the best way to arrive is on a helicopter or fixed - wing aircraft from Hobart with Par - Avion Wilderness Tours.

They have a fleet of fixed high wing aircraft which can also land on the water, to ensure you get the most from your experience.

It seems to me that Piccard's point about CO2 balance is really about the embodied energy that it took to create the two Solar Impulse aircraft (HB - SIA and HB - SIB), in the first place: their fuselages, massive wings the span of an Airbus 340, the 12,000 solar cells that line the upper surface of those wings and stabilizer, the motors, batteries, communications and navigation equipment that keeps the plane on track and lets the world watch the flight in real time; not to mention the support team in Switzerland, and in Morocco where it safely flew yesterday, June 21st, from Rabat to the desert town of Ouarzazate.

NASA's P - 3 research aircraft, managed at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, is outfitted with a suite of instruments to directly measure these and other properties from air drawn into the plane through inlets on the sides and wings.

One interesting result from using the flying - wing approach: «The large center body creates a forward lift that eliminates the need for a tail to balance the aircraft.»

Yet it's long been noted that the addition of «winglets» to aircraft wings can reduce fuel consumption - in fact, Southwest Airline's use of winglets even earned them a nomination from one of our readers for our Unexpected Green competition.

But that's not the only simple improvement that could cut fuel use - now a team from the University of Warwick in the UK claims that «waggling» air accross aircraft wings could cut skin friction drag by 40 %, offering a 20 % savings in fuel consumption and emissions.

The wing of a Delta jet clipped the tail of an aircraft that provides regional air service for the carrier while both planes were on the taxiway and preparing to fly out of Boston on Thursday evening, forcing officials to remove them from service for inspections.

Materials engineers develop, process, and test materials used to create a wide range of products, from computer chips and aircraft wings to golf clubs and biomedical devices.

Trained in airborne infiltration techniques from both fixed and rotary wing aircraft utilizing the T - 10D, MC1 - 1C, and SF - 10A parachute canopies