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Boeing 787 Dreamliner – reduced fuel consumption with carbon fiber

tecnics — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:00:55 +0000

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its first flight Dec. 15, 2009, two years late than the scheduled date. And landed a few days ago in Europe, at the Aircraft International Exhibition of Farnborough, near London.

The plane is made mostly of carbon fiber, which together with other lightweight materials, accounts for more than 50%..

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April 12, 1961 – The First Man in Space

tecnics — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:47:03 +0000

Exactly 50 years ago, April 12 1961, began the epic of man in space. Yuri Gagarin, ayouth of 27 years, aware that he could not accomplish other, was the first man to travel around the earth orbit..

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Space Shuttle retires

tecnics — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:06:30 +0000

Now that the retirement of the space shuttles Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour is approaching, one wonders what will be their future. The scenarios seem to have many but ultimately nothing is decided.

Initially, NASA had expressed their intension to sell spaceships to the end of their service at a cost of $ 42 million each. Indeed, it seems they are no longer for sale as reported by CNN. So here comes the hit that the U.S. press that these days the question: "Do you have a garage large enough to park a shuttle?"...

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Strategic Reconnaissance Lockheed SR-71 – BlackBird

tecnics — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00:11 +0000

The Lockheed SR-71, better known by its unofficial nickname Blackbird was a U.S. strategic reconnaissance plane that served from 1966 until November 22, 1989, when all samples were placed and the land due to the deletion of funds for the usage. During his career, the SR-71 broke some records, such as faster speed..

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Northrop Grumman – B2 Spirit Bomber

tecnics — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:18:53 +0000

The Northrop-Grumman B-2 Spirit is a U.S. strategic bomber capable of carrying both weapons conventional and nuclear. The enormous progress in technology has been instrumental in the program of modernization of U.S. bombers. Is the most expensive airplane ever built: it is estimated that the unit cost is between 1,157 e 2,2 billion. Stealth technology which has helped him penetrate enemy defenses without the possibility of being detected and shot down, something unthinkable for other types of aircraft. The initial order was for 135 planes, later reduced to 75 in the eighties, and finally the President George H. W. Bush reduced the final order for 21 copies in January 1991..

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Turbofan engine

tecnics — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:36:24 +0000

In this turbofan engine, the amount of air pressure in the bypass is three times that which reaches the combustion chamber in the core of the engine. Although not as powerful as the turbojet, the turbofan is quieter and efficient features that justify their use on passenger aircraft.. Continue reading [..]

Airbus A380 – the Colossus of Heaven

tecnics — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:03:42 +0000

The Airbus A380 manufactured by Airbus Industries, is an airliner quadrireattore double-deck, capable of carrying 853 persons or 525 version in the typical charter three-class configuration. The first test flight occurred on April 27, 2005. The first delivery took place on October 15, 2007 the airline Singapore Airlines ^[1], on 25 October has created the first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney. The ticket for this flight and costs from $ 535 to $ 100,000 for suites and mini suites..

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Rolls-Royce Trent

tecnics — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:00:02 +0000

Rolls-Royce Trent is a family of turbofan aircraft engines with high dilution ratio for civilian use products from the British Rolls-Royce plc.

Potent Trent 970 Airbus A380 were subjected to rigorous testing to ensure that they meet the goals set as fuel consumption, exhaust gases, noise and safety. The Rolls-Royce Trent is the turbine diameter greater than any other Rolls-Royce..

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Bloodhound – The fastest machine in the world

Max — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:45:03 +0000

Drive well beyond the sound barrier

Faster than a bullet, goes beyond the sound barrier and looks like a missile with wheels. And is called Bloodhound supersonic car is the prototype of perhaps destined to pulverize the world record for land speed (1228 km / h) obtained in 1997..

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Hubble retires

Max — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:36:56 +0000

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST abbreviated English name from the initials of the Hubble Space Telescope, or just Hubble) is a telescope placed in the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere, about 600 kilometers altitude, in orbit around the Earth (each orbit takes about 92 minutes). It was launched on April 24, 1990 with the Space Shuttle Discovery as a joint project of NASA and European Space Agency.

The telescope can reach an angular resolution better than 0.1 arcseconds..

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Speed record for steam cars

Max — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:02:53 +0000

In 2009, there is still someone who invests on a steam car and try to beat a record set more than a century ago: that is the singular challenge of a team of British engineers. (Alessandro Bolla, April 22, 2009)

A car capable of achieving the remarkable speed is 270 km / h is not a novelty, unless the fireball is not driven by a particular engine, how can it be a steam engine .... A team of British engineers is building this unique vehicle with the goal to beat the speed record for steam cars established in 1906 by American Stanley Steamer..

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The Cassini spacecraft – an adventure in evolving

Max — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Cassini-Huygens mission is an interplanetary robotic joint NASA / ESA / ASI, launched on October 15, 1997, with the task of studying the Saturn system, including its moons and its rings. The probe consists of two elements: the Cassini orbiter from NASA and the ESA Huygens lander. Cassini is the first spacecraft to be entered into the orbit of Saturn, the..

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