News tagged with jet engines

DARPA seeks non-thermal approaches to thin-film deposition

When the Department of Defense (DoD) wants to build a jet engine, it doesn’t put a team of engineers in a hangar with a block of metal and some chisels.  Jet engines are made up of individual components ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CU team's efficient unmanned aircraft jetting toward commercialization

Propulsion by a novel jet engine is the crux of the innovation behind a University of Colorado Boulder-developed aircraft that’s accelerating toward commercialization.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Aircraft of the future could capture and re-use some of their own

Tomorrow's aircraft could contribute to their power needs by harnessing energy from the wheel rotation of their landing gear to generate electricity.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (6) | comments 12

GE investing $1B in Bay Area software hub

(AP) -- General Electric Co., a maker of power plants, jet engines and medical imaging equipment, said Thursday that it is investing $1 billion in a new software headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area with plans to hire ...

Technology / Business

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High temperature, high speed metal fatigue test device with 1000C heat resistance

A research group led by Dr. Yoshiyuki Furuya, a Senior Researcher of the Materials Reliability Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, succeeded in the development of a high temperature ultrasonic ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vacuum-like device makes cellular exploration easier

It's a bit of a challenge. But, imagine a microscopic jet vacuum cleaner, the size of a pen nib that hovers over cell surfaces without ever touching them. Then imagine that the soap in the cleaning solution ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cold electrons to aid better design of drugs and materials

A new source of very cold electrons will improve the quality and speed of nanoimaging for drug and materials development to a trillionth of a second.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Paris Air Show spotlights fuel cost fears

(AP) -- Airlines will be seeking a cleaner, cheaper way to fly and planemakers will be angling for billions in new contracts Monday at the Paris Air Show, which stars a solar plane, biofuel jet engines and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Conflicting policies on flying under ash confuse

(AP) -- If you had hoped to fly Qantas between Australia and New Zealand, you were out of luck. The national carrier grounded planes after a plume of ash from a Chilean volcano moved over the southern Pacific.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eurocontrol: No major ash impact on air traffic

(AP) -- No significant disruptions of air traffic are expected in Europe in coming days as a result of volcanic activity, Eurocontrol said Thursday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel ash analysis validates volcano no-fly zones

Planes were grounded all over Europe when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in Iceland last year. But no one knew if the no fly zone was really necessary. And the only way to find out would have been to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study justifies closing airports in volcano event

The disruptive closing of some European airports after last year's volcanic eruption in Iceland was the right thing to do and may have saved lives, a new study concludes.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Ceramic coatings may protect jet engines from volcanic ash

Last year's $2 billion shutdown of European airspace following a volcanic eruption in Iceland alerted everyone to the danger that ash clouds can pose to aircraft engines.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

1,000 mph car to be built next year

(PhysOrg.com) -- The "Bloodhound SSC," a car expected to be able to travel at 1,000 mph (around 1,600 km/h) or faster, is on track to be constructed in the UK early next year. The design was finalized last ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Making use of jellyfish on dry land

John Dabiri, assistant professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at Caltech who won a MacArthur Award this year, is fascinated by jellyfish. He believes jellyfish propulsion can inform engineering, which in turn can inform ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0