Sentences with phrase «said flight testing»

Research supervisor Professor Simon Watkins, said flight testing on a micro plane showed the system significantly reduced the effects of turbulence.

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Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B) said the CSeries flight test program is «making solid progress» and initial performance results are «in line» with its expectations.

Airbus is developing a self - flying, electric, vertical - take off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft, called Vahana, which it said took its first test flight last month.

For example, Musk previously said he planned to launch the «silliest thing we can imagine» on Falcon Heavy's first test flight.

Facebook's solar - powered drone, which weighs 880 pounds, is now ready for in - flight testing, the company said.

Maj. Stephen Del Bagno was participating in a routine training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range when the crash occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, the Thunderbirds said in a release.

HERZLIYA, Israel, Oct 30 - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday that it was making progress on resolving technical issues facing the cutting - edge helmet being developed for use by F - 35 fighter pilots, and it cited positive initial reports from night flight tests of the system.

While SpaceX says it will not attempt to land the Falcon 9 booster again, there remains the possibility that Musk's company will use the expendable flight to further test landing technologies.

Canagey said a Google team was expected in Sri Lanka later this week to test flight controls, efficiency and other technical matters.

He said the BFR will be ready by next year for «test flights,» and he's targeting to put 1 million people on Mars.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

Fearful of a mass drug - test failure — poppy seeds are said to cause false positives — Chimello ordered flight attendants to replace the offending rolls with unseeded ones.

Last year, the GAO report says, vibration testing of the telescope at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, threw up some unexpected results.

Until now, pyroshock tests to ensure aerospace parts were ready for the rigors of flight had used explosives encased in lead to provide the impacts to parts needed for such experiments, mechanical engineer Mark Pilcher said.

The first such map, from just 89 days of in - flight testing, is 10 times better than 3 decades of gravity data from all other sources combined, says aerospace engineer Byron Tapley of the University of Texas, Austin, leader of the U.S. GRACE team.

The company said it hopes to begin test flights as early as this summer.

«This is a path to commercialization,» Holmgren says, «which is what all these test flights have been about.»

Shin said that if the tests are successful, the results will hopefully be used to overturn the current US law that bans civil supersonic flights over land.

«Mercury is the perfect test object for these experiments because it is so sensitive to the gravitational effect and activity of the Sun,» said Antonio Genova, the lead author of the study published in Nature Communications and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

During these test flights, which ranged from 15 - minute jaunts to reconnaissance journeys lasting nearly three hours, the crew took note of the drones» successes and limitations, Unvala says.

Testing a causal connection between flight ability and egg shape is tough «because of course we can't replay the whole tape of life again,» says Claire Spottiswoode, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge who wrote a commentary accompanying the study.

A living wing membrane, layered with tissue and muscle, would be able to tense and relax in sections and control flight better, Habib says, though these were mechanical limitations expected from the reconstructions that Palmer was testing.

«The craft could keep flying as long as the energy source, in this case the laser beam, is uninterrupted,» says Robert Burdine, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, who was laser project manager for the test.

«Certainly the data from our biofuel test flight will be a critical component towards helping biofuel become a certified aviation fuel,» Air New Zealand's general manager of airline operations and chief pilot, Capt. David Morgan, said in a statement.

Last month, Sapphire Energy, an algae biofuel company that participated in the Continental test flight, said it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011 (Greenwire, April 28).

With the completion of this latest safety - testing milestone of key systems, Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of Space Systems at Sierra Nevada, says that this stage of the Dream Chaser program, before NASA announces a winner, is «90 to 95 percent complete,» with at least one more landing flight test and tests of the thrusters remaining.

Air New Zealand said yesterday that using a 50 percent blend of biofuel with traditional jet A-1 fuel can improve fuel efficiency by more than 1 percent, according to data collected during the December 2008 test flight.

But in exchange for technical support, NASA will get access to flight - test data that could help the agency increase the amount of weight it can safely carry to Mars's surface, Reuter says.

«The engineers at Marshall were developing a simple adaptive control law, and wanted to flight test it,» said Chris Miller, chief engineer for the Launch Vehicle Adaptive Control (LVAC) project at NASA Armstrong.

Glover and other executives said they think the approval process will be smooth because after processing plant oils, «We leave a hydrocarbon that looks exactly like petroleum fuel,» said Jennifer Holmgren, the general manager of renewable energy and chemicals at UOP, the company that derived the plant - oil refining and processing treatment for the Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines test flights.

«When NASA develops new technology for launch vehicles like Adaptive Augmenting Control, we want to test it in order to mature the technology and build our confidence in it,» said Tannen VanZwieten, NASA Marshall's SLS flight control lead.

In that Space News interview, Ferguson said that the Starliner testing schedule includes a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the second quarter of 2018, this would be followed by an uncrewed orbital test flight, which is currently slated to take place in the third quarter of 2018.

If NASA opts to increase the crew size and mission length of Boeing's Crew Flight Test, the agency said it wouldn't be the first time it has «expanded the scope of test flights.&raTest, the agency said it wouldn't be the first time it has «expanded the scope of test flights.&ratest flights.»

Has Boeing said when they are going to make test flights with the CST100?

«There are a lot of different major structures for the flight test vehicles that are going through the factory now,» Hernandez said.

«The completion of this flight test campaign at Armstrong is a big step for NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project,» Fay Collier, the ERA project manager, said in the statement.

Shotwell said SpaceX's test flight of the crew version of its Dragon spacecraft would be late in 2016 and the first operational mission in early 2017.

When a specific need is identified, «we immediately go to the lab,» he says, recalling a flight to Paris, where he hand - carried 15 test shades requested by the St. Denis store, which counts a large Ivory Coast community among its clientele.

«Based on their study, English and King recommend that in the primary years, teachers should spend more time with the class «unpacking the outcomes» of the initial design (in this case the first test flight) and engage and scaffold students in discussions regarding areas for improvement before students move onto redesign,» Rosicka says.

In a second tweet, he said the payload for the test flight would be his own personal first - generation Tesla Roadster.

«We were in the flight path of all the test planes that might or might not work,» Caitlin says.

Using our standard battery tests, we have determined that Google's claim of 9 hours of HD video is true, although it assumes that the video is downloaded on the tablet itself (which is normal for let say, a long flight).

Once the campaign is completed, there is also an extra five «challenge mode» missions for you to complete and attack the leaderboards, (which do say Steam ID next to your name instead of Gamertag,) as well as a free flight mode for testing any of the thirty or so aircraft (and to go sperm whale and dolphin hunting, seriously.)

No matter how much Computational Fluid Dynamics they do, they always do the first test flights with tufts stuck to the aerodynamic surfaces — so they can see exactly what the airflow is doing despite what the models say.

In touting the test flight, JAL CEO Haruka Nishimatsu said, «Our participation in the search for a viable second generation biofuel is a clear signal to everyone of our strong commitment to increasing the environmental sustainability of the JAL Group and the airline industry.»

Express delivery company DHL International GmbH has already carried out test drone flights in Germany, and rivals FedEx and United Parcel Service of North America Inc. are also said to be actively exploring the idea of UAVs.

«Turning a test flight into more of an operational mission needs careful review by the technical community,» said William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said in a statement.

All of these incremental milestones are said to be leading up to the Stratolaunch's first test flight in 2019.

Update 3:13 pm ET: The Apple developer dashboard now says iTunes Connect and Test Flight are working normally again.

Airbus said the aircraft completed a second flight test the next day.