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The successful test flight from Virgin Galactic's spaceship, the VSS Unity, could be the first step for tourists wanting to take a quick trip to space.

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Samsung recently released a video showing the multiple tests conducted on the Galaxy Note 4, including drops from various heights, and a «tumble test» that recreates what it's like to drop your phone down a flight of stairs.

The latest vehicle for China's aviation dream, the Comac C919, has just completed its first test flight after Beijing decided to take a different path: buying parts from European and US aviation companies rather than stealing their technology.

B - 1 flights represent the US's go - to response for North Korean provocations, such as missile tests, and the bomber flights draw a strong, sometimes dangerously escalating response from Pyongyang.

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.

A nearby testing bay, which is also used to qualify Merlin engines before flight, was also damaged from the explosion — perhaps by flying metal, concrete, or liquid - oxygen - fueled flames.

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was coming up, which would serve as the perfect trial by fire — the long flight across the Atlantic would let me test the tablet's entertainment functionality while the conference itself, from which I'd have to file stories, would serve as a good work scenario.

Their pursuits survived mockery from critics, thousands of revisions, hundreds of test flights and broken bones.

An OH - 58D Kiowa Warrior from Task Force Saber, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, fires a 2.75 - inch rocket at a mountainside during a test flight in eastern Afghanistan, March 2, 2012.

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

Mignolet, who has started all 16 of Liverpool's top - flight games this season, failed a late fitness test and so the summer signing from Bolton Wanderers will deputise between the sticks.

Here are some kid - tested suggestions from travel experts — flight attendants, travel agents, and frequent - flying parents — for air travel with children:

However, under pressure from the Defense Ministry, with Karl - Theodor zu Guttenberg (Christian Social Union) as minister, a military inspector eventually carried out the necessary tests allowing for a temporary flight permission [2].

Ortiz cited recent media reports of pilots flying drunk as the reason for his bill, including incidents in which an American Airlines pilot flunked two sobriety tests before his flight from Detroit and an Alaska Airlines pilot who flew a commercial plane from California to Oregon and back again while reportedly drunk.

Bio-jet fuels derived from oil - rich feedstocks, such as camelina and algae, have been successfully tested in proof of concept flights.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

Using high - speed cameras focused on bats trained to obtain nectar from artificial «test tube» flowers containing honey water in the lab, the researchers» video captured bats hovering in short flights (rarely lasting a second) over the feeders.

«You release them in free flight and from then on nothing can touch the test masses any more.»

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will soon flight - test a plasma antenna (encased in a tough, nonconducting polymer) that is designed to be immune from detection by radar even as it transmits and receives low - frequency radio waves.

This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but rather the rendition of a test at the Institute for Flight System Dynamics of the Technische Universität München (TUM).

Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight.

If the test was positive, we would be sent to another hospital and quarantined for at least a week, and the rest of my family and other passengers from our flight would be sent to one of the local hotels that are cordoned off exclusively to house people under quarantine.

Orbital Sciences has docked a craft with the space station and a SpaceX rocket failed a reusability test — but could still help cut waste from space flight

Projects ranged from testing fluid dynamics to researching space flight hardware in structural and environmental testing facilities.»

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.

First tested in 2011 and then again in 2012, the most recent test flight occurred from Fort Sumner, N.M., in September 2013.

And after 11 days of free flight for engineering tests, the Russian ISS Progress 54 cargo ship, now loaded with trash from the station, was commanded to deorbit for its fiery entry into the Earth's atmosphere for disposal.

«During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing - borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.

To test the hypothesis that the pesticide impairs flight ability, the researchers designed and constructed a flight mill (a bee flight - testing instrument) from scratch.

Back in the lab, using a wind tunnel and computer - controlled odor - stimulus system, the moths in free flight were tested to see just how finely they could discern different frequencies of Sacred Datura odor as well as mixes of background odors from creosote bushes.

The experiment, called Phobos LIFE, for Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment, is designed to test the hypothesis that early life could have hopped from one planet to another on board meteoroids.

Corey S. Powell graduated from Harvard with a degree in history and science and performed an early stint as a research assistant at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, building and testing gamma ray telescopes.

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.

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

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.

«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.

In a final test Farman flew from one end of the field to the other, and skirted along the fortifications at this point in a large circle, covering in all more than 2 kilometers (1 1/4 miles) in a flight which lasted for nearly three minutes.

Researchers from the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems use a long - duration - flight simulator at NPP Zvezda to test how cosmonauts might respond to the physical and psychological stresses of being confined in cramped quarters on a journey to Mars.

In one of the innovative tests, the F / A -18 flew a sequence of test points that maximized the bending excitation of the actual airplane based on data collected from earlier flights and prior structural tests.

Upon the return of the newspaper correspondents and photographers from North Carolina, considerable more information was obtainable regarding the recent flights made by the Wright brothers in testing their aeroplane than has hitherto been available Unfortunately, not one of these men is a qualified technical observer, for which reason we are little better off for details than we were before.

On parabolic flights with zero gravity for 22 seconds and in tests on research rockets with five minutes of zero gravity, Professor Ullrich's team already discovered that cells from the human immune system already respond to the absence of gravity within seconds.

From NASA: «NASA's Commercial Crew astronauts Doug Hurney, Eric Boe, Bob Behnken, and Suni Williams are working closely with Boeing and SpaceX this year as each company works toward flight tests.»

Design certification signifies that the system can «safely approach, dock, mate, and depart from ISS» followed by certification that determines whether the company has completed the flight tests and other activities and meets CCP requirements.

AR is part of a team of firms that are working to ready the CST - 100 for its maiden test flight, slated to take place from Cape -LSB-...]

Believed to be the world's first alternative jet fuel produced from wood, the fuel meets international ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards, allowing it to be used safely for today's commercial flight.

In October 2016, citing development and production concerns, Boeing spokesman William Barksdale stated that the company would delay its pad abort test from October 2017 to January 2018, with the uncrewed test flight moving from December 2017 to June of 2018.

In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space, giving those left behind on Earth the sense that they were along for the ride.

GAO cites the CCP program manager as explaining that its analysis is based not only on statements from the companies, but takes into account that the companies «are aggressive and use their schedule dates to motivate their teams» and «assume an efficiency factor in getting to the crewed flight test that NASA does not factor into its analysis.»

In this handout provided by U.S. Navy, Navy divers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 (EODMU11), Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11 - 7, attach a towing bridal to the Orion Crew Module during the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT - 1) NASA Orion Program following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 December 5, 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.