Saturday, January 28, 2012

Flight of the Day

1. For aerobatics pilots, this is the answer to your prayers for a dream aircraft, the modified Laser Z300 vertical-winged aircraft, the dream project of pilot-designer Mathhew Tanner. Ben Coxworth reports at gizmag.
2. The Philippines really needs this, in fact, it should have done this a long time ago. Better still why not design one itself? A P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft to patrol the Philippine skies, report by Manuel Mogato at Yahoo! News.
3. Here's another attempt at human-powered flight, with a twist. Jarnos Smeets, a Dutch mechanical engineer, founded the Human Birdwings Project to achieve the dream of Da Vinci: human birdflight: to fly like a bird! Eric Mack at gizmag writes.
4. What do The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have in common when it comes to environmentally responsible aviation? Well, read about it in Science Daily with materials supplied by NASA.