Saarinen�s Venerable TWA Flight Center to be Transformed
"Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars", By Louis Friedman. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 2015
A bird in flight inspired the winning design of the athletics stadium that will be built in Brazil's capital, Brasilia, for the 2016 Olympic Games...
NewsBriefs: Aerospace Firm Aims to Make High-Speed Flight a Reality (EADS and Los Angeles Times)
Construction Begins on Flight 93 Memorial
NewsBriefs: Flight Delays Expected to Worsen as Economy Improves
NewsBriefs: Virgin Atlantic Tests Biofuel Mix in International Flight (Virgin Atlantic)
NewsBriefs: Flights in New York Area to be Capped (CNN.com)
The elegance of a swan's wings extended in flight
NewsBriefs: FAA to Reduce NYC Area Flight Delays by 2011 (Joint Planning and Development Office)
Flight Path Precision
Air traffic delays at the four airports operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are among the most severe and costly in the nation. A study by the Port Authority proposes...
Flight Track Noise Impact Model (FTNIM): A Tool To Assess the Cost of Noise Abatement
Capital Facelift Takes Flight
Since 1988, one of the largest and most complex airport renovation projects in U.S. aviation history has been under way in Washington, D.C. Known as the Capital Development Program, the...
Octave Chanute: One of the First in Flight
The Ranger Telerobotic Flight Experiment: Mission, Technologies, and Programmatics
The Return of Deep Soil Mixing
Deep soil mixing, a technique originally developed in the U.S. in the 1970s but virtually ignored because for cost reasons, is regaining acceptance here due in large part to mechanical...
Drivetrain Design, Incorporating Redundancy, for an Autonomous Walking Robot
An often overlooked, though critical, component of a mobile robot is the drivetrain. To achieve the ambitious programmatic goals of an extra-terrestrial, planetary robotic explorer, a...
The Effect of Mobile Transporter Motion on the Space Station Attitude Control System
The effect of Mobile Transport (MT) motion on Space Station stability and the performance of the Attitude Control System (ACS) using Control Momentum Gyros (CMGs) is assessed. Analysis...
Microgravity Research in a Space Station Environment
A broad class of scientific experiments have evolved which utilize extreme low acceleration environments. A space station can provide such a `microgravity' environment, in conjunction...
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