Gigantic Stratolaunch aircraft makes 2nd test flight
The gigantic Stratolaunch aircraft flew Thursday for its second time, taking to the skies over the Southern California desert
Apr 29, 2021
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News tagged with flight
Energy & Green Tech
Aircraft could cut emissions by better surfing the wind
Airlines could save fuel and reduce emissions on transatlantic flights by hitching a better ride on the jet stream, new research has shown.
Jan 25, 2021
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Robotics
Copying beetle wings to design MAVs that can recover from midair collisions
A pair of researchers at Konkuk University has designed a miniaturized micro air vehicle (MAV) capable of recovering from midair collisions. In their paper published in the journal Science, Hoang Vu Phan and Hoon Cheol Park ...
Telecom
Loon balloon breaks record for stratospheric flight duration—stays aloft for 312 days
Google parent Alphabet has announced that its Loon team has broken the record for the longest stratospheric flight duration, staying aloft for 312 consecutive days. The announcement was posted on the Loon blog, where the ...
Robotics
Raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
The northern goshawk is a fast, powerful raptor that flies effortlessly through forests. This bird was the design inspiration for the next-generation drone developed by scientists of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems ...
Oct 28, 2020
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Successful maiden flight for energy-efficient Flying-V aircraft
This summer, a team of researchers, engineers and a drone pilot of TU Delft traveled to an airbase in Germany for the first real test flight of the scaled flight model of the energy-efficient aircraft design called the Flying-V. ...
Sep 8, 2020
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Researchers develop new bio-inspired wing design for small drones
Researchers from Brown University have designed a new type of wing that could make small fixed-wing drones far more stable and efficient.
Jan 29, 2020
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Commuting in the sky: Flight system tech in demo debut
No potholes, no fender-benders, no middle-finger greetings when you try to pass, no lane closings, no long delays....just travel between cities quickly if done skyward, and for the tired commuters (cut to mighty violins) ...
Energy & Green Tech
First commercial electric plane takes flight in Canada
The world's first fully electric commercial aircraft took its inaugural test flight on Tuesday, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and offering hope that airlines may one day end their polluting emissions.
Dec 11, 2019
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Business
Longest non-stop passenger flight arrives in Sydney
The longest non-stop passenger flight touched down in Australia Sunday morning after more than 19 hours in the air, a milestone journey from New York that Qantas hopes to parlay into commercial success.
Oct 20, 2019
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Flight
Flight is the process by which an object moves either through the air, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere (as in the case of spaceflight), by aerodynamically generating lift, propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement.
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