Terrafugia flying finally takes first flight

Price: $194,000!

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Military Spy Blimp

Pentagon plans to spend $400 million developing a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above the Earth for 10 years, providing radar surveillance of the vehicles, planes and people below. It is absolutely revolutionary!

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AirBike

Human Powered Flight

The Airbike offers the hang glider or paraglider pilot the ability to pedal their way to new horizons.

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Solving the decades-old problem of just what glass is

It has been known that that despite its solid appearance, glass and gels are actually in a "jammed" state of matter — somewhere between liquid and solid — that moves very slowly. Paddy Royall from the University of Bristol in England, with colleagues in Canberra, Australia and Tokyo, has shown that glass fails to be a solid due to the special atomic structures that form in a glass when it cools. Now, metallic glass could revolutionize aircraft structure

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Turning insects into unmanned air vehicles

Electrodes and a control chip are inserted into a moth during its pupal stage. When the moth emerges the electrodes stimulate its muscles to control its flight.

Quieting Sonic Booms

NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet, in an effort to validate computer models that could be used in designing quieter supersonic aircraft. The Lift and Nozzle Change Effects on Tail Shock, or Lancets, project aims to enable the development of commercial aircraft that can fly faster than the speed of sound without generating annoying sonic booms.

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