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June 1, 2024
Actually test flight number three of a series of test flights we use the term operational flight but for us who are pilots, every flight to test flight until, till we feel the vehicle has certified? >> yes. thank you. im so glad that youre here with me. prepare yourself for many moments of confusion from me while i ask you these questions heres the next one weve just is not youre not unusual at all. >> we always want to make the public feel really good. so we stopped using the term tests. but fo...
April 26, 2024
The long-awaited Starliner mission is on track to carry two NASA astronauts — Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — to the International Space Station.
April 21, 2024
This is the challenge faced by zeroavia, one of several companies working to make hydrogen powered flight a reality. They retrofit existing planes with hydrogen engines. The company had several successful Test Flights with this plane last year. In the original frame, we would be able to fly about 19 passengers. It looks like a lot of kit in there. How would you fit in 19 people . Yeah, so in the retrofitted configuration, it will be about a dozen people. Daniela is one of the engineers working o...
April 21, 2024
They retrofit existing planes with hydrogen engines. the company had several successful test flights with this plane last year. in the original frame, we would be able to fly about 19 passengers. it looks like a lot of kit in there. how would you fit in 19 people? yeah, so in the retrofitted configuration, it will be about a dozen people. daniela is one of the engineers working on the engine. actually, the fuel cells are this one. the power is created in these small layers. so you have to build ...
April 20, 2024
Pressures we need them at. what you end up with is an aeroplane that cant have any passengers in. this is the challenge faced by zeroavia, one of several companies working to make hydrogen—powered flight a reality. they retrofit existing planes with hydrogen engines. the company had several successful test flights with this plane last year. in the original frame, we would be able to fly about 19 passengers. it looks like a lot of kit in there. how would you fit in 19 people? yeah, so in the re...
April 20, 2024
That means that we need often very large, very heavy tanks, because they need very thick walls to deal with the incredibly high pressures we need them at. what you end up with is an aeroplane that cant have any passengers in. this is the challenge faced by zeroavia, one of several companies working to make hydrogen—powered flight a reality. they retrofit existing planes with hydrogen engines. the company had several successful test flights with this plane last year. in the original frame, we w...
April 19, 2024
Hydrogen fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen to create a flow of electrons around a circuit to power a motor. and as we all know, hydrogen plus oxygen equals h20. the problem is... we cant do much about the fundamental properties of hydrogen. volumetrically, we need to compress it to get sort of in the ballpark of not quite a third of the efficiency of fuels that we use. that means that we need often very large, very heavy tanks, because they need very thick walls to deal with the incredibly ...
March 13, 2024
SpaceX will attempt to send the massive Starship rocket to orbit for the third time early Thursday morning after U.S. regulators gave the green light for launch. Starship testing is conducted from SpaceX’s sprawling Starbase campus near Boca Chica, Texas, though the company will livestream the launch on its website and on the social media site X starting at 6:30 a.m. CT. SpaceX has conducted two test flights of the 400-foot-tall rocket so far.
February 25, 2024
KALIKOT, Feb 25: Test flights have been successfully conducted at Suntharali Airport in Kalikot. Nagendra Bahadur Bista, chairman of Narharinath Rural Municipality, said that a Tara Air aircraft, which flew from Nepalgunj with a technical team, successfully completed the test flight to Suntharali Airport on Sunday.