Items tagged with flight

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Winged Submersible Unveiled Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 19:29:19 - Anuradha Menon "The ocean needs more friends", says Graham Hawkes, who earlier this week unveiled the Deep Flight Super Falcon at the Academy of Sciences in San... read more

Atlantis Meets Up with Hubble Today Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - 14:03:25 - Anuradha Menon Space shuttle Atlantis will meet up with the Hubble Space Telescope today. The actual grapple of the telescope using the shuttle’s robotic arm is... read more

Flight of the Bumble Bee Inefficient Sunday, May 10th, 2009 - 17:56:03 - Ehud Rattner Brute force rather than aerodynamic efficiency is the key to bumblebee flight, Oxford University scientists have discovered. Scientists found that... read more

New Theory on Evolution of Flight Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 - 14:31:06 - Anuradha Menon Dr Robert Nudds and Dr Gareth Dyke point to the obvious but hitherto overlooked fact that modern birds don't offer many clues about how they arrived... read more

Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 14:51:29 - Anuradha Menon Attempts by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic bugs) have... read more

Air NZ's Successful Biofuel Test Flight Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - 16:52:50 - Anuradha Menon It was a history-making flight but it looked all very ordinary - and that's just how Air New Zealand wanted it. The airline yesterday completed the... read more

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again Saturday, December 13th, 2008 - 14:17:15 - Anuradha Menon It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but on Thursday Boeing announced revised first flight and first delivery dates for its long-awaited and... read more

NASA Stardust Capsule to the Smithsonian Saturday, September 27th, 2008 - 18:01:09 - Ehud Rattner Having returned the world's first particles from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the collection of flight icons in the... read more

China's Third Manned Space Shot Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 - 14:29:50 - Ehud Rattner China is preparing to launch its third manned space mission later this week — the nation's first where an astronaut will venture outside the... read more

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