The auto giant that has a renowned name in field of car design has come up with some thing sporty. They have a concept design for a personal chopper that features a sports car like seating arrangement and has a glass body to provide an ultimate view. This luxurious design can revolutionize the way of flying a helicopter. car hire spain
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This is a concept given by Jameson and his colleagues at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The team wants to design a Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) based on the shape of a maple seed that would form a one-bladed helicopter. The best part of the design is that it is compact and has minimum number of moving parts. The team has received a funding of $1.7 million from DARPA that looks the prototype as a useful surveillance device that could be carried out by the soldiers to provide them with critical information related to those places those are hard to reach for them. It’s a single blade two inches long, with a tiny rocket thruster at its tip, which sets the blade spinning like a pinwheel at 15,000 rpm to produce lift. The whole device will just weigh about a third of an ounce with battery, sensors, navigation and communication equipment on it. The biggest problem that the researchers are finding to complete the project is maintaining the small size of the device, as until now there is no rocket thruster appropriate for this device. The team is working hard and hopes to complete the project as soon as possible. If completed successfully the device will have a top speed of 33 feet per second, and the nono-copter would be able to hover in place for at least a minute. It could then release a payload and return to the operator. Via: airspacemag
Hypersonic space planes have made it possible to travel at astonishing speeds and made earth a small place to live. Astrox cooperation is working on design of a hypersonic plane that will be able to travel at a speed of 25mach therefore revolutionize the transportation industry. The greatest drawback of any engine that could perform at high speed is that it has a speed limit of Mach 10 and after that, it starts functioning. Therefore, the company has incorporated an inward-turning scramjet engine that has no moving parts. shaped like a rectangular funnel it allows the air to enter at 2,200 MPH and mixes the fuel in very less time. The fast combustion process and no moving parts give this engine an advantage over other mechanical engines. It has been tested at Mach 2 in a supersonic wind tunnel and efforts are still on to make it better. Once developed this plane will be Traveling as fast as Mach 25 with at least 30 minutes of space shuttle-like views while in orbit is the highlight of this plane. This means it will take just 2 hours to travel from one end of earth to another. This is amazing…! Via: blorge
Jetpacks are some thing that can give an adventurous flight experience but their is always a feeling of impending death. Earlier too some people had tried to test the feasibility of this device for a horizontal flight but have often ended up in some thing very unpleasant. Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy has become the first person to gain the altitude and maintain a stable horizontal flight with his jetpack equipped with aerodynamic carbon foldable wings. The device is kerosene powered. You can have look at the video of this thrilling ride. Via: engadget
Boeing Business Jet operators will soon have a new and healthy upgrade in their aircrafts. Rockwell Collins will be developing EVS or the Enhanced Vision Systems for Boeing. The aircrafts will be fitted with the new upgrade in 2008. EVS will allow the pilots to descend their aircrafts below the minimums using the high quality image that will be provided by the Head-up Guidance System and the Head-Down Displays. These displays will increase the situational awareness of the pilots in case of bad visibility such as in case of fog. Rockwell Collins has also teamed up with Max-Viz to complete the certification of EVS on the Boeing. The aircrafts that have to be upgraded to the new system will require an upgrade to the HGS 4000 and also an upgraded infrared camera. Via: gizmag
Lockheed Martin has been approached by the government to develop spy airships. The ships will revolve around the earth at a height of 12-miles and each ship will be able to look after an area of 600 miles. If all goes according to plan we can expect to see 11 such ships spying on us by the end of the decade. These ships will be powered by solar energy as they will be having solar panels on top of them. This energy will be able to keep these ships in air for about a year. High-resolution cameras will be installed on these airships so that they can view the area between NYC and Toledo at once. Via: scifi
TGR Helicopr and the Everest Rescue Trust have launched a new initiative to rescue Everest climbers. The result is an unmanned helicopter that can operate at 30,000 feet. The base camp for the climbers is at a height of 17,600 feet and the summit is at 29,035 feet. Since traditional helicopters cannot operate above 14,000 feet the rescue mission was not possible. But now with Alpine Wasp the developers believe that many lives could be saved. The reason that the developers opted for an unmanned helicopter is that during such high altitude missions the pilot usually comes in the picture as the pilot may not be acclimated for the altitude and prepared for the extreme climatic conditions so there is nothing that he can do except for staying in the cabin. Moreover removing the pilot cabin from the helicopter has made more room for more rescue gear. The Alpine Wasp is powered by a special diesel engine that is designed by an American Company named DeltaHawk Diesel Engines and it operates on Jet-A1 fuel which is readily available in Nepal. The Alpine Wasp will be donated to the trust later this year. Via: blogspot
Scientists from Australia and U.S. have developed an experimental scramjet engine that can reach speeds as high as Mach 10. This super-fast engine has been successfully tested in Australia’s outback, where it reached speeds up to 11,000 kmph or 6,835 mph. Researchers now hope that this engine will give them a way to develop aircrafts that can fly at super-high speeds. Still scramjet engine is not as agile as an ordinary jet engine. Scramjet engine can only be started when the aircraft is already at a high speed and at a high altitude. For this scientists use an ordinary jet engine to take the aircraft at a high speed to a high altitude, when the conditions are met then the scramjet engine is fired thus increasing the speed of the aircraft. The tests have been successful and flight data will be examined over the coming weeks and compared to ground tests conducted in the United States. With this successful test, researchers are now hoping that their dream to build a hypersonic airplane will soon become a reality and that too in the near future. Scramjet engines can also show us the way to develop aircrafts that could fly at high speeds for long distances. Moreover, these engines can also be used as a cheap way to launch satellites into orbit. Via: Reuters
After the sad incident of September 11, 2001, air travel security concerns are catching pace. This has made companies to like Boeing to develop a foolproof mechanism to prevent any further incidents. The company has already patented the project. The system goes like this: If anyone tries to force entry into the cockpit a special ‘Uninterruptible Autopilot System’ can be activated either manually or using remote sensors that can be placed on the cockpit doors. Once the system is activated ground authorities will take full control of the plane and would eliminate any possibility of terrorists using the aircraft as a deadly missile. Once activated the system cannot be reversed until the airliner reaches safe grounds. Ground controllers can also guide the plane to its destination via remote controls and GPS systems and even land the aircraft using the existing ‘autoland function’. Boeing also claims that the company will make the system available in the next three years after which it can be fitted to airliners throughout the world. Via: engadget
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