Sentences with phrase «on airplane wing»

Our initial impression is that the game is a blast, especially when we jumped on an airplane wing and started sniping people while doing barrel rolls.

Because ice on airplane wings can add weight and decrease lift, making takeoffs and landings more dangerous, airplanes are sprayed with antifreeze prior to departure in wintry weather.

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.

A nanostructure inspired by the natural world repels water droplets and could prevent icing on airplane wings and other structures

He mounted IMAX cameras on airplane wings to capture dogfights, encased the same large - format cameras in waterproof containers to film overturning ships, and in other cases built gigantic custom - made Steadi - Cam contraptions to photograph the action on the ground.

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I got told by the wing commander as I came off leave that I had to get on an airplane later that day to go to Italy to set up a Crisis Action Branch.

There, he and his pals were well on their way to delivering scalable wind energy using airplane - size robotic kites inspired, in part, by the wings Griffith has been designing to power his kite - surfing hobby since college.

When assembling the airplane, one larger wing and one smaller wing will be rotated and attached behind the airplane so it looks like it is on the other side.

I like the look of 4 wings on the 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.

«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.

Inflatable wings on otherwise normal airplanes would also allow engineers to double the craft's wingspan in flight.

Ice poses major impediments to winter travel, accumulating on car windshields and airplane wings and causing countless unsuspecting pedestrians to dramatically lose their balance.

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.

Yet a few companies have kept at it: Woburn, Mass. — based Terrafugia, for example, has since 2006 been developing Transition, a «roadable aircraft» that resembles a small airplane that can fold its wings and drive on roads.

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.

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.

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.

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 first attempts at creating flying cars were fairly simple — install an airplane engine and two wings on a regular car.

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.

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].

Poll proposes nuclear - powered airplanes using reactors with engines on the wings.

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.

Airbus has already installed the first - ever 3 - D printed metal part on a commercial airplane, a bracket that attaches to its wings.

The new technology, which can be installed on existing airplane wings or integrated into entirely new airframes, can help engineers reduce the wings» structural weight, which in turn would allow the aircraft to consume less fuel than before.

Make it easier: If balancing on one leg is a challenge, reach out your arms to each side like airplane wings to help you maintain your balance.

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.

Remember that old episode of The Twilight Zone in which a young William Shatner plays an airplane passenger who freaks out when he sees some sort of creature out on the wing, mid-flight?

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.

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.

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).

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.

An airplane wing that can change shape depending on the conditions would increase efficiency and reduce emissions.

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.

Now this irrelevant dramatizing is all in good fun, so don't go thinking that LSUC's Treasurer, who has put her name to the Discussion Paper by way of an opening letter urging participation in the discussions, has spun back the odometer on us like an old - time used car salesman (a now reformed «salesperson»), telling us that a used car with wings is just as good as a late model airplane.