US jet-engine colossus Pratt & Whitney have announced the test-programme results of their (ahem) revolutionary new PurePower™ Geared Turbofan (GTF) at the Paris Airshow. Unsurprisingly, P&W consider that the GTF will become the new standard in commercial jet engines, significantly greening the aviation industry.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Dassault Sees Composite Next-Gen Falcons
Although Dassault's Super Mid-Size [SMS] jet still is being designed on the firm's CATIA V workstations, engineers already are brainstorming concepts for a family of aircraft to be introduced in two decades, Bruno Stoufflet, VP scientific strategy, R & D and advance business, said today in Paris. The European Community's $2.2-billion Clean Sky joint technology initiative is a main driver. By 2015, Clean Sky seeks to develop technologies that will reduce carbon and noise emissions by 50 percent and slash nitrous oxide emissions by 80 percent.
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Supersonic travel may return, minus boom
The next generation of passenger air travel at speeds faster than sound may start as soon as 2015, with business jets leading the way, said Peter Coen, principal investigator for NASA's supersonic fundamental aeronautics program.
A small supersonic airliner capable of transporting 75 people might follow in 2025 and a larger one could arrive five years later, he added.
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A small supersonic airliner capable of transporting 75 people might follow in 2025 and a larger one could arrive five years later, he added.
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Revolutionary finding to pave way for smaller, faster and powerful electronics
Electronic devices that will be more efficient and consume less energy than those present today may be just round the corner-all thanks to a breakthrough discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
And the discovery involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have held tremendous promise but have not yet been proven in lab.
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And the discovery involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have held tremendous promise but have not yet been proven in lab.
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New advance in imaging technology, sCMOS, promises to facilitate scientific applications
Scientific CMOS (sCMOS), an advanced imaging technology, was the subject of a major announcement at this week's Laser World of Photonics (Munich, Germany, June 15-18). The new technology offers a number of useful features that operate simultaneously: extremely low noise, rapid frame rates, wide dynamic range, high quantum efficiency (QE), high resolution, and a large field of view. It represents a cooperative effort among three photonics companies: Andor Technology (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Fairchild Imaging (Milpitas, CA) and PCO (Kelheim, Germany) and has implications for numerous applications including biomedical research, astronomy, and security and defense.
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Picture perfect
A type of megapixel image sensor developed by scientists at Andor Technology in Northern Ireland, Fairchild Imaging in the US and PCO in Germany made its debut at the Laser Conference and Exhibition in Munich this week.
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