Sentences with phrase «from airplane wings»

Most recently, he and his colleague Nigel Peake showed, mathematically, that the noise from airplane wings could be reduced tenfold if their designers took a few cues from the feathers that fringe the trailing edge of an owl's wings.

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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.
These could make it more expensive for U.S. manufacturers that source parts from the country, including, say, airplane wings or electronics, with some suggesting that companies ultimately will pass the costs down to the consumer.
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.
Solar - sensitive CQDs printed onto a flexible film could be used to coat all kinds of weirdly shaped surfaces, from patio furniture to an airplane's wing.
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.
It turns out those patterns influence myriad phenomena, from the drag on an airplane's wings and the formation of Jupiter's red spot to the rustling of tree leaves.
«During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing - borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.
A solution to this problem was inspired by technology engineered to prevent ice from adhering to 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.
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.
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.
If your shoulder blades look like wings on an airplane, press into your palms and work to lift the rib cage up away from the floor.
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.
The biggest brainwave designers had was to cant the dash toward the passenger, creating what looks like an airplane wing from above.
From above, the instrument panel resembles an airplane wing; set low and with a turbine look about them, the round air nozzles, a classic TT feature, are reminiscent of jet engines.
When viewed from above, the sleek instrument panel resembles the wing of an airplane; the round air vents — a further traditional TT feature — are reminiscent of jet engines.
[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.
Whether you buy a ticket on a helicopter or a fixed - wing airplane, the view from above will give you a new appreciation for the island's natural wonders.
One composition, O Halme, ihr Halme, O Halme der Nacht has a realistic looking airplane wing protruding from the top of the vast canvas above the blue / yellow / black grass field that grows beneath it.
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.
60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.
(Check out his recent picture of an airplane wing retrieved from the deep blue.)
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