Tag: Aircraft
Boeing: why the Ukraine crisis could help it become the world’s...
Joseph Mellors, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Boeing has faced a lot of bad press in recent years, and deservedly so....
Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a single sensor. I...
Inspired by sci-fi, an airplane with no moving parts and a...
Steven Barrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since their invention more than 100 years ago, airplanes have been moved through the air by the spinning surfaces...
What went wrong with the F-35, Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter?
Michael P. Hughes, Francis Marion University
The F-35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired, serving the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
