Achieving heavier than air flight was a triumph in engineering and aerodynamics. But it was only a baby step down the path toward a successful helicopter. Thirty-six years would pass before Igor Sikorski made the first tethered flight in his…
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While rotary wing craft can be used to describe any vehicle that uses a means of upward lift to get airborne and fly, it generally refers to machines that generate lift around a central mast containing two or more rotor…
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Any Harry Potter fan knows that it would have been difficult for Harry to sneak around Hogwarts without the use of his silvery invisibility cloak. Also, Star Trek fans will remember the cloaking devices that appeared on that show. Of…
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Is it possible to honestly examine a matrix in which the examiner exists as a consumer? Is it possible to be totally-unbiased about the environment from which one receives all of the elements necessary for the examiner’s life? Is it…
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Saying general science is for profit or that it is for knowledge is not ever going to be a wholly accurate statement because there are blurry lines which allow no definitive answer even though science in and of itself is…
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In 1993, Verner Vinge, a respected scientist and mathematician, wrote, “Within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create super-human intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will end.” Mr. Vinge wrote this in a paper presented at the…
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As a fundamental aspect of everything, science exists at a constant level and never stops, because it never can. From the moment someone closes their eyes and falls asleep, there are already over several hundred different studies and scientific explanations…
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Many are often shocked when informed that a seemingly healthy person has died because of drug or alcohol overdose. Easy to go by undetected, these substances can often do more damage than one can imagine. It is the job of…
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There are two different meanings for the term U.F.O. In one, which is what it really stands for, Unidentified Flying Object, of course this is real. You see something you cannot identity that is, by definition, a U.F.O. What this…
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The importance of weight and balance control, from an aviation standpoint, leads to the safe and efficient operation of an aircraft. During the design phase of an aircraft, the manufacturer tries to make the airframe, the structure of the aircraft,…
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