A new, innovative, and very cool (and, somewhat ominous)
"micro-air vehicle" recently made its first flight. The RoboSwift
-- developed by aerospace engineering students at Delft University
of Technology, in cooperation with the Experimental Zoology Group
of Wageningen University, Netherlands -- took flight this week...
and later attempted to imitate its feathered namesake, with
less-than stellar results.
A former space shuttle runway at Edwards Air Force Base is
getting a "green" makeover... from what some may initially think is
an unlikely source. Arizona Public Service Co. is providing 12,000
tons of fly ash to repair a deteriorating concrete runway that has
seen some of the world’s most famous pilots and
astronauts.
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