Lilienthal And Wright Gliders Fly Side-By-Side At Nags Head
On December 14 and 15, replicas of the Lilienthal biplane and the 1902 Wright glider flew side-by-side over the sand dunes of Jockey’s Ridge State Park in Nags Head, North Carolina. The flights happened thanks to a remarkable joint effort among the Otto Lilienthal Museum, the German Aerospace Center, and Kitty Hawk Kites.
Spacecraft Parts Were On Board When They Arrived In Port, But Things Apparently Got Rough
Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief, the two recovery ships SpaceX hopes will be able to regularly bring back payload fairings from launch operations, returned to Port Canaveral in Florida Thursday with the fairings from Monday's satellite launch. But the boats looked like they had had a difficult time of it.
“Landing on Mars is difficult and we cannot afford to have any loose ends. After many hurdles, the parachute system modifications are moving forward, and these preliminary tests show very promising results that pave the way for the next qualification tests.” Source: Thierry Blancquaert, ExoMars Spacecraft Systems Engineering Team Leader following parachute extraction tests for the ExoMars rover.
Here's something you might prefer to find in your driveway on Christmas rather than the Lexus or Jaguar. Or maybe not, but anyway, a video recently released on Twitter shows the test flight of a homebuilt manned quadcopter flying in the inventor's back yard.
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