Items tagged with flight

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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

Solar Plane Makes Record Flight Monday, August 25th, 2008 - 16:37:30 - Ehud Rattner A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft. The Zephyr-6, as it is known... read more

In-Flight Mobile Phone Use Begins in Europe Sunday, April 20th, 2008 - 12:38:16 - Iddo Genuth Heading home from a business trip to Vienna last week, Francois Germain, a regional manager for BP in France, was using his mobile phone to check in... read more

Decision Making using Flight Simulators Saturday, April 5th, 2008 - 14:48:47 - Iddo Genuth Even flies like video games--and it's not just child's play, say scientists at the California Institute of Technology. With the help of a unique... read more

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