Sentences with phrase «of airplane wings»

Nina Katchadourian's five - part portfolio Window Seat Suprematism (2014) is based on photographs of airplane wings she took over the course of numerous commercial airline flights; in this work she documents her peripatetic lifestyle while also channeling the pared - down compositions of the Russian avant - garde.

The passenger footpegs are elegantly styled to resemble the profile of airplane wings.

This technology might find use as an active camouflage fabric that can change its reflectance as desired or as a mechanism for making «riblets» that improve the aerodynamic drag characteristics of airplane wings [see box on opposite page].

Combining the classic but usually disparate physics of airplane wings and golf balls, the surprising reversal might serve to make a new type of mechanical switch that would flip off or on depending on how fast fluid flows past it.

Combining the classic but usually disparate physics of airplane wings and golf balls, the surprising reversal might serve to make a new type of mechanical switch that would flip off or on depending on how fast fluid flows past it or perhaps to stabilize machines like underwater gliders.

Sensors can be placed in a part of a structure that doesn't have easy access, like the inside of an airplane wing, or even embedded in concrete.

For example, conventional X-rays can't see a defect called a grafoil in the laminate layers of an airplane wing without removing the protective copper mesh that diffuses energy if lightning hits the plane.

Hyundai says the term refers to the underside of the airplane wing.

They instead offer a reduced posture, literary and poetic, through edited content that opens narrative: a bulging curve acts as a burial mound or slice of an airplane wing, at once becoming both aeronautics and religion, while the piece adjacent has a perfectly removed rectangle stacked on top, a Mono - Ha movement, forming a tiered pavilion or possibly an Atari invader (Untitled, 2014 for both).

(Check out his recent picture of an airplane wing retrieved from the deep blue.)

Not exact matches

The school, located in Tipp City, Ohio, is named after the wing of an airplane because the teachings are meant to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses and «fly.»

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.

«The features of this airplane is that is has improved wings, improved performance and, at the same time, the first A350 - 1000 that has our Q - Suite (business class), which is the industry leader in passenger comfort,» Al - Baker said.

Dawkins is like the little boy who thought he could make an airplane by adding something that looks like a pair of wings to something that looks like a fuselage.

The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to find a valid equation for chemical equilibrium, or to help students gain sound understanding of metabolism.

I like the look of 4 wings on the airplane.

The seven - minute video was released by the media wing of Isis's Aleppo «province», and praised the «lion fighters» of the militant group's branch in Sinai for «bringing down a Russian airplane».

Scientists increase the resolution of so - called topology optimization to improve design capabilities for airplane wings and more.

Fixed - wing (airplane - style) drones like the Predator can carry much more weight for their size than rotary - wing (helicopter - style) drones, but can't hover to get a good close - up look at objects of interest, nor could they easily hand off a taco, and they need a runwaylike surface to land.

Already, the bridge's novel design, with a deck shaped like an airplane wing, is being used as a template for future bridges across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bering Strait.

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.

Such high - efficiency energy conversion dictates the use of lift - type turbine blades, similar to airplane wings, of twisted and tapered airfoil shapes.

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.

Whether it's monitoring the integrity of buildings during earthquakes or airplane wings during flight, so - called strain sensors are getting more and more important for our safety.

Engineers can calculate the maximum stiffness of a given material in a given shape; for instance, they know how to give airplane wings their maximum strength using a given alloy.

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.

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.

«On airplanes, the back edge of the wing is where you get most of the noise,» Justin Jaworski, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, told TechNewsDaily.

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.

When flying insects get in the way of an airplane's wing during takeoff or landing, it's not just the bugs that suffer.

The effect melds the physics of balls and airplane wings.

A system like theirs could someday be part of self - healing airplane wings or spaceship components that include composite materials made of multiple constituents.

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.

However, if the speed increases beyond a threshold, the object will suddenly experience a large upward positive lift, like an airplane wing, as Patrick Bot of the Naval Academy Research Institute in Brest, France, and Marc Rabaud of the University of Paris - South and colleagues report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.

«For example, this approach excels in figuring out which material or interface property might be limiting performance, even for complex stacks of materials like batteries, thermoelectric devices, or composites used in tennis shoes or airplane wings.»

Geologist Jeffrey Moore has figured out a way to study the viability of the arches with engineering tools designed to test airplane wings and bridges.

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.

Controlling this response is crucial to many applications, including 3 - D printing, the spraying of some surface coatings, and the prevention of ice formation on structures such as airplane wings, wind turbines, or power lines.

In that concept, a spherical shell of metamaterial — specially shaped metal pieces that bend light in ways other materials can not — would cause light to skirt the inner edge of the shell like wind around an airplane wing, making anything inside the shell invisible.

/ Superconductors and metallic glasses / Semiconductors and bronzes and brasses / Fiber composites for strong airplane wings / These are a few of my favorite things.

Imagine an aerodynamic sensor that can conform to the exact slope and angle of a jet airplane wing.

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.

«Perhaps these big V formation birds can be thought of quite like an airplane with wings that go up and down.»

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.

Try stretching the arms out to the sides, like the wings of an airplane, or reaching them back, palms facing up, along the sides of your torso.

Astaire and Raymond save the day by staging the climactic «Flying Down to Rio» number thousands of feet in the air, with hundreds of chorus girls shimmying and swaying while strapped to the wings of a fleet of airplanes.

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.

With their wings spread, they were about the size of a small airplane, but their bodies were very light.

Line observed as the students dragged images of matching plane parts together — yellow wings with yellow engines, for example — to «build» the largest number of airplanes in the shortest period of time.