News tagged with flight performance
Making a clean getaway: Scientists demonstrate how bird baths make for more accurate flyers
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle University scientists investigating why starlings bathe so often have discovered it alters their escape behaviour, with clean birds proving the most accurate flyers.
Trading energy for safety, bees extend legs to stay stable in wind
Jun 02, 2009 |
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New research shows some bees brace themselves against wind and turbulence by extending their sturdy hind legs while flying. But this approach comes at a steep cost, increasing aerodynamic drag and the power ...
Songbirds fly 3 times faster than expected (Video)
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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A York University researcher has tracked the migration of songbirds by outfitting them with tiny geolocator backpacks - a world first - revealing that scientists have underestimated their flight performance ...
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Steering the Ares Rockets on a Straight Path
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ares I-X rocket stood more than 325 feet tall on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Spectators watched in awe as its massive solid rocket motor blazed to life with a thunderous ...
Rocket test will carry Purdue experiment
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC.
GOES-14 (O) moving into on-orbit storage around the Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite named GOES-14, is being placed in on-orbit storage this month to await its call to duty.
Hydrogen-Powered Ion Tiger Sets 26-hour Flight Endurance Record
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 26 hours and 1 minute carrying a 5-pound payload, setting another unofficial flight endurance record ...
NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on ...
The upside of feeling down
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2009 |
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A chill wind chases you into the door of your local newsagent. Rain is drumming down outside. As you pay for your newspaper, you briefly notice a number of strange items on the checkout counter - a matchbox ...
NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science ...
Flying with the flu: Expert panel revisits the danger of air travel during a pandemic
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Attempting to ground planes during pandemics may not be worth the trouble, a panel of experts from the government, academia and the airlines industry heard at a recent meeting in Washington.
NASA's Ares I-X moon rocket makes first test flight
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.
Rosetta probe lined up nicely for Earth approach
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Following the first and primary trajectory correction manoeuvre 22 October, Rosetta is lined up nicely for the approach to Earth. The manoeuvre provided an 8.8 cm/s change in orbital velocity ...
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