Archive for March, 2008

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Mark Robotic First For British Antarctic Survey

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Scientists have completed the first ever series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in Antarctica. This is the first time that unpiloted UAVs have been used in the Antarctic ... Read more..

Fake Diamonds Help Jet Engines Take The Heat

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Engineers are developing a technology to coat jet engine turbine blades with zirconium dioxide -- commonly called zirconia, the stuff of synthetic diamonds -- to combat high-temperature corrosion. The zirconia ... Read more..

Camera Brings Vast Improvement For Surveillance

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Researchers have developed a wide-angle camera that will be able to provide security forces with the ability to monitor large areas through high-resolution images taken from a satellite or an ... Read more..

Record-breaking Simulation Of Aircraft Wake Turbulence

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Dangerous vortexes form when an aircraft takes off or lands. A combination of optimised numerical methods, a supercomputer and highly developed visualisation methods revealed how this process generates primary and ... Read more..

First Flight Of The RoboSwift Micro-Airplane Is A Success

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

The RoboSwift, the micro-aircraft inspired by the swift, has made its first flight. The small, quiet aircraft is equipped with observation cameras that can be used in the future to ... Read more..

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