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A plane spike to cut sonic boom
October 10, 2006 – 3:36 PM in Build Your Own
Back in 2004, NASA engineers worked with DARPA to reduce the sonic boom intensity in order to develop silent supersonic planes. Now, they're teaming with Gulfstream Aerospace on a project named Quiet Spike to reduce sonic booms. They've put a 24-foot-long lance-like spike weighing 470 pounds on the nose of an F-15B aircraft.
A battery-powered plane takes off
July 20, 2006 – 8:18 PM
In a brief article, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that a manned plane has flied on AA batteries in Japan yesterday.
NTSB investigating laptop batteries as the cause of UPS cargo plane fire
July 13, 2006 – 8:01 PM
Laptops get hot, but can they cause a plane to catch on fire? The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is holding hearings on whether laptop batteries caused a UPS cargo plane to catch on fire last February. The DC-8 plane with three crew members made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport after a fire broke out in the cargo hold. The fire continued to burn for four hours destroying the plane and most of the UPS packages inside.

Articles

Joysticks For Flight Simulation: Using A Lever To Fly A Plane!
November 9, 2001 – 12:06 PM
Flight simulators are making a comeback, with Flight Simulator 2002 and IL-2 Sturmovik in the vanguard. There's nothing like a joystick for that flying feeling! So we have decided to review the types of joysticks that are best suited for flight simulation programs, from the simplest model to the most sophisticated.

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