Sentences with phrase «of aircraft design»

Responsibilities: • Facilitated compliance of aircraft design standards like weight balance, stress analysis, fatigue analysis / assessment and evaluation.

In addition to core courses in math, science, language arts, and social studies, we offer electives such as art, environmental stewardship, forensics, Japanese, and science olympiad, plus a series of seminars focused on aviation and aerospace, including Aviation and the American Character, History of Aircraft Design, and Robotics.

In fact, for much of the first half, it's quite a niche biopic at that — the director is quite the aviation buff, as his previous work might suggest, and he goes into a fair bit of detail on the ins and outs of aircraft design.

But he's never directed a film like «The Wind Rises,» a biographical period drama that has a few flights of fancy, but is otherwise a grounded and very personal tale of aircraft design, the oncoming storm, and doomed love.

They are hoping to show how 3D printing will revolutionise the economics of aircraft design — by flying the world's first fully «printed» plane.

Len Schumann, also from the Institute of Aircraft Design, said that the e-Genius behaved like a «conventional airplane» during flight, and that its performance was also comparable to conventional airplanes.

«The e-Genius is a full electric battery - powered airplane with a max take - off mass of 900 kilograms,» Andreas Strohmayer, from the university's Institute of Aircraft Design, told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.

Not exact matches

The bold red and white livery features close to 5000 dots, and is only the second time in the airline's history that its iconic flying kangaroo (always on the aircraft tail) has been changed to become part of a special painted design.

Currently the J - 15 launches using a ski - jump arrangement as with Russian and soon UK aircraft but at least one modified J - 15 was photographed with a catapult bridle on its nose wheel for land - based testing of a new magnetic catapult system likely to be used on the next Chinese aircraft carrier, the yet - to - be-named CV - 18, Type 002 aircraft carrier of entirely Chinese indigenous design to be built by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.

The new USS Gerald R. Ford, the first new aircraft carrier design from the US Navy in four decades, boasts a slew of improved features that separate it from the previous Nimitz class carriers.

Inspired by the single - seat fighter aircraft from World War II of the same name, it blends vintage design details into a timepiece that's elegant in design, precise in performance, and stylish in its commitment to the wearer.

«When aircraft land, they'll be able to come back, refuel, rearm, in kind of a pit - stop model... really modeled after NASCAR,» Capt. John F. Meier, the commanding officer of Gerald R. Ford said of the new design.

Another improvement on the Nimitz design, the AAG on the Ford class will help accommodate a broader range of aircraft and offer a less jarring landing than the Navy's current Mk - 7 Mod 3 and Mk - 7 Mod 4 designs.

Based in Chicago, Boeing designs all kinds of private and military aircraft, including the F / A -18 Hornet seen above.

«It's designed to be ingeniously simple,» says Kirk Hawkins, a former Air Force pilot and CEO of Icon Aircraft.

Hawkins and his co-founder, designer Steen Strand, founded Icon in 2006, after the FAA created a new category of airplanes called «light sport aircraft,» designed for recreational aviation.

«The U.K.'s airspace was designed decades ago and doesn't allow us to take advantage of the technology on board modern aircraft that would raise capacity, and also reduce emissions and noise for communities on the ground.»

With, Amazon Career Choice, Amazon pre-pays 95 percent of up to $ 12,000 in tuition, fees, and textbooks for its hourly associates looking to earn certificates or associate degrees in high - demand occupations such as aircraft mechanics, computer - aided design, machine tool technologies, medical lab technologies, and nursing.

The aircraft is designed to fly to remote forward bases to resupply soldiers and evacuate casualties — at a cost per vehicle of «less than a small helicopter,» according to a Lockheed Martin official.

Judging by the photos, the interiors look like a sleeker version of your garden - variety aircraft or Amtrak designs.

Prior to joining us, Mr. Straubel was the Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Volacom Inc., an aerospace firm which designed a specialized high - altitude electric aircraft platform, from 2002 to 2004.

It is mostly private companies that specialize in this type of financing, with programs designed for specific industries, such as the motor - vehicle, aircraft and industrial equipment sectors, although some banks can provide export - leasing services through subsidiaries.

It has an immense Naval build up, an active «area denial» system of missiles specifically designed against US aircraft carriers, and a build up on international reefs and islands of military runways and outposts.

The portable was the brainchild of Harry Bickerton, an aeroengineer who, before he got into hand - carried bicycles, was in charge of design and development for de Havilland Aircraft, which built the Spitfire.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

The consortium of DARPA, Boeing Integrated Defence Systems, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, and NASA has been working for more than a decade on developing and testing the X-51, an unmanned scramjet aircraft designed to meet the requirements of the U.S. Air Force.

Although Ghana has no military use of its nuclear assets, options for scientific research into modern nuclear propelled submarine and aircraft carrier ships, design and development of same technology and its transfer from partner OECD for its military use are imminent.

Vice Chairman of the RAeS General Aviation Group, John Robertson, reports on the Group's annual conference at which a significant announcement was made concerning the development of new UK light aircraft designs.

«Since this particular alleged terrorist plan to use a type of liquid explosive to attack passenger aircraft become known to us, government security, scientific and technical experts have been working to design measures to defeat it,» said transport secretary Douglas Alexander.

Until 1998 the aircraft - delivered, free - fall WE.177 A, WE.177 B and WE.177 C bombs provided a sub-strategic option in addition to their designed function of tactical battlefield weapons.

The General Aviation Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society has continued to focus on encouragement and support for design engineering and manufacture of light aircraft, particularly sport light aircraft, in the UK.

Designing the gradient coils, Wedeen says, was «as complicated as designing the engine of a new aircraft.»

To make this possible, Boeing has looked to the design of aircraft carrier jets in hopes of building planes with fold - up wings.

SUPERTALL SCRUTINY In presenting the changes that have occurred in the design of skyscrapers since September 11, 2001, in «Castles in the Air,» Mark Lamster notes three threats: aircraft impact, earthquakes and wind.

About half of Taylor's team is made up of engineers who maintain the aircraft and design software to analyse the data collected.

But even a weight restriction of only 0.5 % would result in the bumping of three passengers from an aircraft designed to carry 160 people, the team notes.

Efficiency alone — even in the form of aircraft with improved engines and designs such as the Boeing 787, expected to deliver a 20 percent improvement in fuel efficiency over existing big airplanes — is not the answer.

Such interactions are carefully considered in the design of buildings, bridges and aircraft.

Even when scaled up, the team expects the simple design to cost around $ 5 billion, in comparison with the $ 100 billion needed to launch thousands of high - altitude aircraft.

Economic considerations and environments for doing research enter in Sharon Traweek's description of Tsukuba Science City and its relationships with the surrounding area, and Gary Lee Downey's examination of the industry - university - government complex formed around a computer program for aircraft design.

Beatrice «Tilly» Shilling (1909 - 1990) A prize - winning motorcycle racer and aeronautical engineer, she designed a small metal ring that fit onto the fuel line of an aircraft engine to keep the flow of fuel constant.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Office of Naval Research has considered Osborne's work in designing its mobile offshore base — a floating platform as large as 10 aircraft carriers.

The company plans to develop a whole family of electric aircraft, from single seaters to four seaters which incorporate reduced CO2 emissions, and noise and weight reduction into the designs

Ian Bentley, a director of a rival light aircraft maker, Cirrus Design of Duluth, Minnesota, says pilots are interested in anything that improves aircraft performance even by a few per cent.

Because Mars» atmospheric pressure at ground level is comparable to that of Earth's atmosphere at 100,000 feet — a mere 1.4 percent of Earth's air pressure at sea level — an aircraft that can fly in such conditions will help engineers learn how to design aircraft to roam Martian skies.

Using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, as well as computing systems at NASA and UM, Martins has developed improved wing designs capable of burning less fuel, as well as tools that help the aerospace industry build more efficient aircraft.

«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.»

They found that tow - steered composites can reduce the structural weight of an aircraft by 10 percent when compared to conventional composite designs while reducing the fuel burn by 0.4 percent.

Data from wind - tunnel testing of these new aircraft designs as they come along will help refine the CFD algorithms.

In the case of commercial aircraft, designs have evolved to allow more people and goods to flow across the face of Earth.