Archive for the 'Aviation Information' Category

Jet Lag - 5 In-flight Tips

Monday, April 13th, 2009

The secret to combating jet lag, and arriving at your destination with little or no jet lag, lies in sound preparation well in advance of your date of travel. This, however, is only the foundation of your “anti jet lag” plan and all of your sound preparatory work will be wasted if you don’t also [...]

Jet Lag - 5 Pre-travel Steps to Reduce the Effects of Jet Lag

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Ask any regular long-haul flyer about their experience of flying and you will soon discover that everyone has a different “magic” formula for overcoming or avoiding jet lag.
In reality of course no magic formula exists - and there is certainly no magic pill or tablet. There is, however, a great deal that you can do [...]

Fuselage Mounted Laser Vortex Enhancer Directed to Airfoils

Monday, April 13th, 2009

DARPA has developed a small laser cannon, just like Star Wars to use as a weapon in a fighter plane for air to air combat, destroying enemy missiles or perhaps using a combination later on of Argon or CO2 (depending on altitude) for close air support. Recently it was announced that they would put this [...]

Mirrors to Redirect Mini Laser Weapons on Fighters for Vortex Airflows

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Recently a new airborne laser system was announced to be put onto fighter jets, once this technology becomes more advanced we will no longer need missiles for air-to-air combat. The system, which will go onto a fighter jet would be called the; “HELLADS” or High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System, it is being tested [...]

Flying Blimp Walrus Could Have Assisted in Evacuations

Monday, April 13th, 2009

What is a Walrus Super Blimp? It is a giant heavy lift Blimp being evaluated by the United States Department of Defense’s special research division; DARPA. What is DARPA? Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. You see they have been looking at how to move more for less? Imagine having to move millions of tons of [...]

Moving Troops and Evacuation Strategies

Monday, April 13th, 2009

There are many ways to evacuate people from disasters like Hurricane Katrina for instance. There are also many ways to move troops to the area of conflict. One way to move vast amounts of people, is to do so with large aircraft. Another idea, which has been kicked around, was lowering body functions to a [...]

Material Memory and NASA High Tech Plastics for Rotor Blades

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Some new materials, types of plastics seem to be stronger than steel by quite a bit. Since they are made of polymer plastic blends it will be possible to add in some material memory manufacturing in the process. This would allow the rotor blades made out of this new plastic material to change shape. These [...]

FAA Intervention in Privatized Space Flight is Ridiculous

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Burt Rutan and his team of designers, engineers and test pilots at Scaled Composites did something no private group had ever done. They proved that private space flight is feasible and safe. With the help of some Billionaire entrepreneurial investors they are poised to build an entire industry of Private Space Flight. This after other [...]

Fuel Costs and Air Fares Set To Rocket After Hurricane Katrina Punishes The US

Monday, April 13th, 2009

It now looks certain that Hurricane Katrina will push fuel prices - and air fares - up through the roof.
Hurricane Katrina has just killed hundreds of people, and it could well be thousands of people that we don’t know about already. But now the awful diseases we’ve all heard of in Third World countries - [...]

Whos Paying for the Private Jet?

Monday, April 13th, 2009

One of the major perks of being a celebrity is the free stuff. Just ask the famous attendees of this week’s VMA music works. Flying around with the entourage can get expensive, and don’t except these kiddies to be sitting in coach. Private jets all the way. But are all these extravegences ruining them?
M.C. Hammer [...]