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Boeing's ScanEagle long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) last week relayed real-time data and video to an underway ship serving as the command and control platform during the Navy's Giant Shadow experiment. One ScanEagle flew more than 20 hours in five flights, a company spokesman told Defense Daily yesterday.The company is preparing to install a new four-stroke engine in future iterations of the UAV, which will give it an endurance of 60 hours and a range of about 5,000 miles, he said.
Concepts: Gill, floor, design-build, Airbus, Freund, floor panels, aircraft, contract, typical three-class layout, passengers, seat, honeycomb core, graphite skins materials, design flexibility, floor system. Énoncés: Airbus France awarded the design-build contract for the A380 cockpit floors, and two Electronic Equipment Bay floors, to M.C. Gill Corporation. Although M.C. Gill has long been supplying a full line of qualified products to Airbus operators, this marks the company's first OEM contract for Airbus aircraft.
With attainable speeds of more than 186 mph (300 km/h), aerodynamics plays a crucial role. To achieve as high output co-efficients as possible (so- called "downforce"), the Carrera GT has an underbody geometry that can only be found in similar form in pure racing sports cars. The underbody is completely cased in carbon fiber and provides an additional suction effect thanks to its rear diffusor and flow channels. A global innovation -- the PCCC (Porsche Ceramic Composite Clutch) -- transmits power to the drivetrain. The Carrera GT's extremely light magnesium wheels are produced with a special forging process and are offered for the first time on a mass-produced vehicle. It consists of two individual carbon fiber lightweight shells, each weighing only 5.3 pounds (2.4 kilograms). The first Carrera GT models produced at the Porsche plant in Leipzig, Germany, will be delivered to customers at the end of 2003.
In a spectacular evening launch, the first flight of the Boeing Delta IV family of rockets successfully delivered the commercial telecommunications satellite W5 for Eutelsat S.A. The Delta IV lifted off from Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Approximately 37 minutes after liftoff, the rocket deployed the W5 spacecraft to a geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee of 539 kilometers above the Earth.
Hawkes Ocean Technologies (HOT) built the Deep Flight Aviator specifically for long-range, economical ocean exploration and to fully explore the pioneering concept of sub-sea flight. The Deep Flight Aviator was designed using Autodesk Inventor, software for 3D mechanical design, enabling a team of two engineers to design and build the submersible at a fraction of the cost of typical ocean technology projects. The Deep Flight Aviator -- the newest craft in the Deep Flight series of winged submersibles - is a two-seat exploration craft that was purpose-built to fly underwater. As the lead technology partner for the Deep Flight Aviator, Autodesk supports HOT's goal of developing advanced tools for deep ocean exploration. "The Deep Flight Aviator is as different from all previous submersibles as aircraft are to balloons. "Just as design advancements in air flight have allowed us to explore space, the Aviator's unique design enables economical, long-range search and survey work, and should prove to be a rev
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