Oct 11 2010

Airplanes in Space?

Tag: Engines,Hydrogen,Rockets,Spacecraft,Vehicles — Irene Klotz @ 11:00 am
A vehicle that can take off, fly and land like an airplane, but also travel in space is "the holy grail" of aeronautics.

Aug 23 2010

Beyond the Black Box

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Artifacts,Atlantic Ocean,Aviation,Batteries,Birds,Child,Colleges,Communication,Computers,Design,Devices,Disasters and Accidents,Electronics,Engaged,Engineering,Engines,Events,Experts,Eye,Fall,Father,Fear,Glass,Government,Health Insurance,History,Internet,Inventions,Investigation,Lawsuits,Logging,Mining,Movies,Murder,Navy,Oceania and Australia,Office,Officer,Polar Regions,Privacy,Radio,Safety,Satellites,Science,Seas,Sensors,Storage,Streams,Submarine,Suicide,Technology,The Future,Touch,Transportation — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:00 am
Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

Jul 02 2010

A New Look at an Old Engine

Tag: Batteries,Cars,Consumption,Engineering,Engines,Exhaust and Emissions,Hybrid Cars,Internal Combustion,Motorcycles,Trucks — Gene Charleton @ 10:16 am
To hear some people tell it, the internal combustion engine is dead. But engineers are coming up with new ways to improve the engine's efficiency.

Apr 16 2010

Why Volcanic Ash Threatens Air Travel

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Aviation,Engines,Europe,Particles,Plane Crash,Safety,Volcanic Eruptions,Volcanoes — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:39 pm
As of Thursday, most of Europe's major hubs were closed. Here are questions and answers as to why it happened.

Apr 16 2010

Why Volcanic Ash Threatens Air Travel

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Aviation,Engines,Europe,Particles,Plane Crash,Safety,Volcanic Eruptions,Volcanoes — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:39 pm
As of Thursday, most of Europe's major hubs were closed. Here are questions and answers as to why it happened.

Apr 09 2010

Warm and Cold Patches Power Underwater Probe

Tag: Engines,Oceanography,Oceans,Robots,Seas,Vehicles — Irene Klotz @ 12:35 pm
A new thermal engine produces more energy than it consumes by tapping water temperature differences.

Apr 02 2010

Promising New Solar Power From Old Technology

Tag: Electricity,Engineering,Engines,Internal Combustion,Solar Power,Technology — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:01 pm
An updated version of a two-hundred-year-old invention is turning sunlight into electricity.
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