Hyundai thinks out of the box with hovering cars and transforming vehicles

Hyundai thinks out of the box with hovering cars and transforming vehicles:

Hyundai has been running the IDEA festival, an internal contest to challenge designers and engineers to come up with futuristic transportation solutions, for three years. In preparing for IDEA 2013, Hyundai provides a look at some of the best concepts conceived during IDEA 2012 – everything from flying cars, to egg-shaped transporters, to spare tires that transform into bikes. ..
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Scientists remotely control live turtles

Scientists remotely control live turtles:

Last year, much to the delight of squeamish people everywhere, scientists were successfully able to remotely control the paths traveled by live cockroaches. They did so by wirelessly stimulating the insects’ antennae and cerci sensory organs. Now, a group of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have reported success in controlling the paths of walking turtles. Fortunately for the reptiles, the KAIST researchers’ methods were considerably less invasive than those used on the cockroaches.
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DARPA announces winner in FANG challenge

DARPA announces winner in FANG challenge:

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced on Monday the winner of the first challenges in its competition to design the Fast Adaptable Next-Generation Ground Vehicle (FANG). The US$1 million prize went to “Ground Systems” – a three-person group with members in Ohio, Texas and California. The first of three challenges, the purpose of the competition is to bring crowdsourcing to the problem of creating armored vehicles, with the hope of reducing the design costs by a factor of five.
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Mars One comenzó el ‘casting’ de astronautas para crear la primera colonia en Marte

Mars One (en español Marte Uno) es un proyecto privado llevado a cabo por el investigador holandés Bas Lansdorp para establecer una colonia humana permanente en Marte. El plan es mandar satélites de comunicación al planeta en 2016 y luego de varias etapas, finalmente lanzar en 2023 un equipo de humanos en Marte para que vivan permanentemente y enviar un nuevo equipo de cuatro astronautas cada dos años luego del envío inicial.

http://notysweb.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/voluntarios-para-un-viaje-solo-de-ida.html

Los accionistas de Vueling aceptan la OPA de IAG a 9,25 euros por acción

• IAG pasará a controlar más del 90% de la compañía Vueling
• El consejo de administración había aconsejado aceptar la oferta
• IAG paga 123,5 millones de euros por un 44,66% de Vueling

http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20130423/accionistas-vueling-aceptan-opa-iag-925-euros-accion/647260.shtml

Archivan definitivamente la causa contra los controladores aéreos de Santiago

El magistrado-juez titular del Juzgado de Instrucción Número 2 de Santiago de Compostela, José Antonio Vázquez Taín, ha decretado el “archivo definitivo” de la causa abierta contra los controladores aéreos en Santiago de Compostela “por no ser los hechos constitutivos de delito”. El juez concluye en su sentencia que “el hecho de dejar de acudir al trabajo por parte de los imputados, debido a haber agotado su jornada laboral aeronáutica, se considera plenamente justificado”.

http://www.hosteltur.com/147240_archivan-definitivamente-causa-contra-controladores-aereos-santiago.html

La Asociación de Compañías Españolas de Transporte Aéreo contra la subida de tasas de AENA en 2014

http://www.actualidadaeroespacial.com/default.aspx?where=2&id=1&n=10504

El primer "espaciopuerto" diseñado por un español

• El proyecto consiste en levantar un puerto espacial en Colorado (EEUU)
• Si se aprueba el plan, la primera fase podría estar construida en 4 años
• El objetivo es que despeguen vuelos espaciales turísticos y comerciales
• Aseguran que se podrán unir continentes con vuelos mucho más cortos
• Por ejemplo, se podrá conectar España con EEUU en un par de horas

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/04/22/ciencia/1366630566.html

RAAF's A330 MRTT completes tanking trials with F/A-18 Super Hornets

RAAF's A330 MRTT completes tanking trials with F/A-18 Super Hornets: The Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) A330 multirole tanker transport (MRTT) aircraft has successfully completed tanking trials with Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets at an undisclosed location.

Nacimiento de @Gaudí3D

@Gaudí3D nace para que inicialmente cualquier estudiante universitario pueda conocer la impresión 3D y sepa cómo funciona y cómo puede fabricarse piezas, para ello abriremos un sistema de asociacidos mediante el cual los socios de Gaudí3D podrán imprimirse piezas por el mínimo costo que nos permita poder seguir con ello; además de investigar y desarrollar sobre esta tecnología para poder mejorarla. En este sentido, ya tenemos unos cuantas cuantas cosas que “estribillar” , como me gusta decir a mi.

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Airbus: Cada vez más cerca su total desembarco en Alestis

Dos fueron las condiciones que puso Airbus para desembolsar los 21,5 millones a repartir entre Alcor (16 millones por su 38%) y Caixabank (5,5 por su 16%): la salida de 312 trabajadores, y que el Ministerio de Industria condone o flexibilice la devolución de un préstamo de 90 millones

http://www.lavozdigital.es/cadiz/v/20130425/cadiz/cada-cerca-total-desembarco-20130425.html

PAK-FA to start operational testing in 2014 - The DEW Line

"In 2013 we are expected to wrap up its
preliminary tests and start operational
testing. In 2014, we are planning to start
official state tests," says United Aircraft
Corporation president Mikhail Pogosyan.
The first stage of those state trials should
be completed by 2015.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2013/04/pak-fa-to-start-operational-te.html

Alenia to provide components and support services for Oman's Typhoons

http://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsalenia-to-provide-components-and-support-services-for-omans-typhoons

Northrop's Multi function Advance Data Link waveform completes flight testing on F-35 aircraft

http://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsnorthrops-mald-waveform-completes-flight-testing-on-f-35-aircraft

Concorde Design Drawing To Be Offered At Auction

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=94385d9b-6629-4f76-8daf-2305d562b201

ECNAM REVEALS THE ‘ASTORE’ NEXT-GENERATION LIGHT SPORT AIRCRAFT AT AERO 2013, FRIEDRICHSHAFEN.

The Tecnam Astore is an all new two seat, low wing aeroplane that offers superlative performance and value.  

 

Combining beautiful Italian styling, the latest technological innovations, higher standards of comfort and very low purchase and operating costs, the Tecnam Astore has been developed by Tecnam's renowned Head of Aircraft Design, Professor Luigi Pascale.

 

For 65 years Tecnam has built its reputation through the development of innovative, stylish and affordable aeroplanes for all aspects of General Aviation flying. What could be more fitting in this special anniversary year than for Professor Pascale to name his latest creation in honour of his first production aircraft, The P48 Astore.

 

The Tecnam 'Astore' design affords the pilot the smoothest and most pleasurable flight with innovations such as an Apple iPad® mini supplied with each aircraft as standard. The Levil G Mini, using its WiFi connection, provides a full Primary Flight Display on the iPad® mini using compatible third party applications such as Air Navigation Pro or similar.  Additionally, the pre-installed dedicated app will compute the actual Weight and Balance, provide checklists and include all the Pilot Operating Handbook sections. Everything at the piots fingertips!

 

Tecnam's passion to make the flying experience as enjoyable as possible includes a new ergonomically designed interior allowing for enhanced all round visibility, control and switches that can be easily reached and the use of softer materials affording a more comfortable flight.

 

Low operating costs are assured through Tecnam's close association with Rotax. All of this results in a remarkably efficient aeroplane, with customers being offered a choice of how they want their Tecnam Astore' powered, be it with the Rotax 912ULS, the all new 912iS or the Rotax 914 engine. Operators may choose both MOGAS and AVGAS to fuel their Astore.

 

"We have built our reputation at Tecnam on producing aeroplanes that offer outstanding value, beauty and efficiency" said Paolo Pascale, Tecnam's Managing Director. "What better way to celebrate Tecnam's 65th anniversary than by offering our customers the very best next-generation LSA, the Tecnam Astore, designed to make flying a Tecnam aeroplane a most enjoyable flying experience".

 

Boeing’s original 787 battery testing pointed to overcharging as main concern | Components content from ATWOnline

Extensive testing on lithium ion batteries
during the 787 certification process led
Boeing to believe that "significant
overcharging" was the only occurrence that
would cause the batteries to vent fire,
according to a senior Boeing executive.
Testifying Tuesday in Washington DC at a
US National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB) hearing, Boeing VP and 787 chief
project engineer Mike Sinnett said testing
done in 2006 and 2007 "used what was the
state of the art at the time" to determine
what could potentially cause the battery to
fail and vent fire. Using a "nail penetration
test" to intentionally cause damage to the
lithium ion battery, "the only time we were
able to make a [battery] cell vent with fire
was significant overcharging," Sinnett said

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