This is a previously unreleased video from the ANN archives.
This video provides an eye-opening view of the future of electric flight. Dr. Larry Ford talks about the 2011 CAFE Foundation Symposium and the advances in electric flight. Dr. Ford points out that the old jokes about the length of the extension cord for electric airplanes has been left in the dust. Practical electric flight is not just on the horizon, it’s already here.
This is a previously unreleased video from the ANN archives.
Jack Langelaan, Pipistrel Team Leader and engineering professor at Penn State University explains the Green Challenge. The NASA Green Challenge was to design, build, and fly an airplane that gets 200 passenger miles per gallon of fuel at 100 mph. To this into perspective, a Cessna 172 with four people aboard gets about 60 passenger miles per gallon of fuel.
An economic impact analysis commissioned by the Aerospace
Industries Association projects more than one million American jobs
could be lost as a result of defense budget cuts if the deficit
reduction select committee fails to reach agreement on alternative
balanced budget solutions. The Aerospace Industries Association
lobbies on behalf of aerospace and defense manufacturers.
Former USAF Test Pilot Gets The Slot Following Competition
After an intense selection process with more than 500 applicants
including some of the best pilots in the world, Virgin Galactic has
selected former USAF test pilot Keith Colmer as the first astronaut
pilot to join the commercial spaceline's flight team.
A unique science project designed to sow the excitement of
scientific discovery in students is sprouting this week aboard the
International Space Station. The Plants in Space project will allow
students and teachers to examine root growth in microgravity and
compare the results with those from plants used in their own
ground-based experiments.
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