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Household Waste From 2024 Could Be Made Into Jet Fuel
As part of Shell, British Airways and Velocys' plans to build Europe's first large-scale facility producing jet fuel from household...
robinhut2020
Nov 26, 20202 min read
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Boeing 747s
The Boeing 747-400 aircraft, first introduced in 1988, still receives critical software updates via a 3.5-inch diskette. The Register...
robinhut2020
Nov 25, 20202 min read
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Boeing’s 737 Max
It took American, American and Southwestern weeks, if not months, the plane returned to work and convinced tourists of its safety. The...
robinhut2020
Nov 25, 20204 min read
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Aircraft With Rainbow Trails
A passenger plane has been photographed brightening the skies over Germany as it leaves a rainbow-colored trail. The trail is an...
robinhut2020
Nov 25, 20201 min read
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The US Air Force Secretly Design, Build, and Fly Secret Fighter Jets Throughout
The US Air Force quietly designs, builds and flies a prototype next-generation fighter jet within a year. While nearly all details of the...
robinhut2020
Nov 25, 20202 min read
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'Elektrofuel' That Increases Aircraft Ticket Prices By Up To 60% Just A Way To Clear Symptoms
The new fuel and rising ticket prices will be important to clean up air travel and avoid the worst effects of climate change, according...
robinhut2020
Nov 23, 20202 min read
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The pilot flies a private plane to Wales and lands at a closed RAF base
A man flies a private jet from Surrey to Wales and lands at a closed RAF base so he can "go to shore". Flight tracking data published by...
robinhut2020
Nov 23, 20202 min read
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About Throwing a plane and making adjustments
THROWING A PLANE Good throws start with a good grip. It's always helpful to hold the plane where the bulk of the layers come together....
robinhut2020
Oct 12, 20202 min read
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An Intro before the Throwing and Adjusting
Most people have conflicting ideas about paper airplanes. They're sure they used to be able to make a great one, and they're sure they...
robinhut2020
Oct 11, 20202 min read
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The Flight Theory
THE WILD WEST OF FLIGHT THEORY The cause-and-effect theories are far from settled science. This is especially true for really small wings...
robinhut2020
Oct 9, 20201 min read
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All about Coanda
WHAT ABOUT COANDA? Strictly in the name of science, borrow or purchase a beach ball---one of those big, floaty, plastic-pool-toy,...
robinhut2020
Oct 8, 20202 min read
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Abstraction and Newton
EQUAL AND OPPOSITE ABSTRACTIONS! Well, now it's getting interesting. We have two plausible but completely conficting explanations. I love...
robinhut2020
Oct 7, 20202 min read
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Control Surface that matters, including Rudder
Balancing the four forces we discussed at the beginning of this chapter is the first part of making a good fying machine. Causing or...
robinhut2020
Oct 6, 20202 min read
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The Bernoulli
BERNOULLI Most physics teachers explaining fight will begin with Daniel Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician and renowned theorist of his day...
robinhut2020
Oct 6, 20202 min read
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The meaning of Elevators, Ailerons and Flaps
ELEVATORS An elevator works exactly the same way; however, elevators control the up-and-down movement of the plane (whereas the rudder...
robinhut2020
Oct 6, 20202 min read
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The weird stuff about flying
NOW IT GETS A LITTLE WEIRD Everyone likes the basic forces diagram we started this chapter with. However, things start to go off the...
robinhut2020
Oct 5, 20202 min read
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Another Important Rules That Matters
STALLING What's a stall? A STALL is a loss of lift caused by the airflow becoming chaotic over the wing. This happens when an airplane...
robinhut2020
Oct 2, 20202 min read
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The Effect of Dihedral Angle & Scale Effects
DIHEDRAL ANGLE Another basic component of fight stability is called DIHEDRAL ANGLE, which in airplane design refers to the angle at which...
robinhut2020
Sep 28, 20202 min read
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Wing Shape Matters
First, thinner is a winner for paper airplanes. Very flat wings have less drag than thicker or curved wings. This is not true for...
robinhut2020
Sep 24, 20202 min read
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Why Stuff Flies
Here's the short version: we're not sure why stuff flies. I'm an intellectual interloper. I don't have an aeronautics degree, just a high...
robinhut2020
Sep 21, 20202 min read
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