Leading a crew to a Hot-spot

How the firefight could be improved with aerial IR camera. It would be amazing the moment when we will have hotspot detectors flying over our skys all the fire-season in order to catch the fires before they begin. I'm always thinking in future technologies that we will have in soon. Anyone is thinking in UZ, Unmanned Zeppelins?

Via:

Firewatch cobra videos

http://firevideos.firewatchcobravideos.com//videos/8/jesusita-fire-santa-barbara,-california

By the way...

Loockedheed Martin: P-791

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/p-791/index.html

What our Aerodynamics professor thinks about us..

This is the comic that our aerodynamics professor has upload to the "virtual workspace" of the course...while he is grading our exams..

what will be our future?

Why we need to go back to Mars

Some days ago I saw this amazing "TED talk" about sending an airplane to Mars.

About this talk:

"At TEDxNASA, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing -- and puzzling -- new discoveries about Mars: craters full of ice, traces of ancient oceans, and compelling hints at the presence, sometime in the past, of life. He makes the case for going back to Mars to find out more."

More info:

TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/joel_levine.html

Website of the Project: http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/

Ariane-5 Booster Recovery System Secuence

Altitude     Events (referenced to Fig)                          Initiated by


0            Launch phase (1)

+/- 10 km    Removal of first safety barrier in control system      Pressure
          (switching of baro relay) (1)

59 km        Booster separation from central stage (2)              Electrical signal
          Removal of second safety barrier in control system.    Supplied by booster
          Arming of safety device (BSA).

150 km       Culmination of ballistic phase (3)

8.5-27 km    Removal of third safety barrier in control system      Pressure
          (switching of baro relay), initiation of Altitude
          Determination System (ADS) (3)

4.8-5.2 km   Ignition of nose-cone release expandable tube (4)      Altitute from ADS
          Ignition of nose-cone separation pistons               Time delay from ADS
          Separation of nose cone                                Separation piston force
                                                                 + aerodynamic force
          Release and deployment of auxiliary parachute          Noise cone movement
          Release and deployment of drogue parachutes            Auxiliary parachute force
          De-reefing of three drogue parachutes,                 Built-in cable cutters
          in four steps (5)                                      with pyrotechnic delay

1320-2770 m  Activation of drogue strap release pyros and release   Time delay from ADS
          of drogue parachutes (6)
          Release and deployment of additional parachute (7 & 8) Drogue parachute force

1200-2640 m  Release and deployment of main parachute (7 & 8)       Drogue parachute force
          De-reefing of main parachute, in four in steps (9)     Built-in cable cutters
                                                                 with pyrotechnuc delay

0               Splashdown at v <>

More info:

http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/bulletin/bullet85/gigo85.htm

Space Calendar

I've just found the place where all crazy-about-space procastinators can get updated about all space issues week-by-week.

Via:

http://www.spaceagepub.com/calendar/currentcalendar.html

Plane with skis

I was looking for a video of a real (no R/C) aircraft whith skis and I've finally found it:

Skis :: Ohio Bush Planes from Greg Swingle on Vimeo.

Seen after a short procastinate, I'm doing my final exams...have you noticed it?

Ekranoplan

Ekranoplan from EW on Vimeo.

I've been procrastinating over vimeo and I've discovered this video. This documentary cannot finish as this video does,

I'll procrastinate a little more... :-)

Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City

Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City from David Martin on Vimeo.

Via:

http://avion.microsiervos.com (Spanish)

WTF!

I hope it was an emergency (there is a pharmacy just in front of the tricycle)

Seen in Graus, Huesca, Spain

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