Submission + - VIDEO: Air France A380 hits CRJ while taxiing at J (flightglobal.com)
clarkes1 writes: Extraordinary video images have emerged of an Air France Airbus A380 colliding with a Bombardier CRJ during taxiing at New York JFK.
Submission + - 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's Flight (hallnj.org)
PyroMosh writes: "This Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the historic flight of Yuri Gagarin — Vostok 1. Although Colonel Gagarin died in a jet training accident in 1968, his legacy of ushering mankind into a new era lives on.
Yuri's Night celebrations are taking place all over the world tonight. Let's raise a vodka toast to the man who 50 years ago today became the first human in space!"
Yuri's Night celebrations are taking place all over the world tonight. Let's raise a vodka toast to the man who 50 years ago today became the first human in space!"
Submission + - Korean Air unveils A380 flying duty-free shop (flightglobal.com)
clarkes1 writes: Korean Air is to become the first airline in the world to offer a flying duty free shop when its first of 10 Airbus A380s enters service on 10 June. No this is not a late April Fools
Submission + - PHOTOS: Inside Russia's next generation airliner (flightglobal.com)
clarkes1 writes: Russia's next generation airliner, the MS-21, created plenty of buzz at the Farnborough air show.
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Submission + - New way to protect dignity during full body scans (flightglobal.com)
clarkes1 writes: Travellers protect dignity during full body scanners with sticky rubber pasties, the next must have travel accessory
Submission + - Hubble accuracy surpassed by earthbound telescope (arizona.edu)
randuev writes: High-speed adaptive optics system helped Large Binocular Telescope (on earth) to beat accuracy of Hubble Telescope (space) observations.
"A special sensor detects atmospheric distortions in real time and controls the mirror to adjust its position to compensate, effectively canceling out the blurring. The mirror can make adjustments every one-thousandth of a second, with accuracy to better than ten nanometers (a nanometer is one millionth the size of a millimeter)."
Now, that's what I call real-time. This nifty trick multiplied Strehl ratio (optical quality) of LBT by about 80 times to unprecedented Rayleigh limit. Hope we'll see more space around us in higher resolution on Google Sky.
"A special sensor detects atmospheric distortions in real time and controls the mirror to adjust its position to compensate, effectively canceling out the blurring. The mirror can make adjustments every one-thousandth of a second, with accuracy to better than ten nanometers (a nanometer is one millionth the size of a millimeter)."
Now, that's what I call real-time. This nifty trick multiplied Strehl ratio (optical quality) of LBT by about 80 times to unprecedented Rayleigh limit. Hope we'll see more space around us in higher resolution on Google Sky.
Submission + - First Membrane Controlled by Light Developed
An anonymous reader writes: A new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used. It is the first time that scientists have developed a membrane that can be controlled in this way by light.
Submission + - BlackBerry Services To Be Halted In UAE (bloomberg.com)
WrongSizeGlass writes: Bloomberg is reporting RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger, e-mail and Web browsing services will be suspended in the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East’s business hub, starting October 11th due to security concerns. RIM faces similar restrictions in India. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said in a statement on state-run Emirates News Agency. “In their current form, certain BlackBerry services allow users to act without any legal accountability, causing judicial, social and national security concerns for the U.A.E.,” it said. A senior Indian government official said, "Though RIM has been fully cooperating ever since the matter was taken up with it in 2008, reports of the company's move to set up a server in China forced us to look at it in a different way."
Submission + - VIDEO: Harrier crash-lands in Kandahar (flightglobal.com)
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Submission + - Meet the world's 1st iPad in-flight entertainment (flightglobal.com)
clarkes1 writes: Bluebox Avionics has formally launched the bluebox Ai, the industry's first — and thus far only — in-flight entertainment system to utilise the Apple iPad.
Submission + - Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in first flight (flightglobal.com)
clarkes1 writes: At about 07:15h Pacific Daylight Time (14:15h GMT) today Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnight Two carrier aircraft Virgin MotherShip Eve took off from runway 26 at Mojave air and spaceport with SpaceShipTwo attached.
Submission + - UAV pioneer reveals long-endurance VTOL aircraft (flightglobal.com)
clarkes1 writes: Tad McGeer, an unmanned aircraft pioneer who designed the Aerosonde and ScanEagle, has now unveiled a vertical take-off and landing, long-endurance aircraft in the same size class called Flexrotor.
