The proposals are due April 1 of this year, and the Langley Research Center in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Lockheed Martin, with the Draper Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences, is proposing a robotic airplane to fly over the surface of Mars, about a mile above the surface.
Its ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly like an airplane, combined with its capacity to haul more troops and equipment farther, faster and with greater survivability than existing helicopters ensures that it will be of enormous value in future actions requiring long-range, swift and stealthy projection of ground forces.
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Since 1999, when Cirrus began selling FAA-certified airplanes, the company has attracted a different kind of owner-pilot. (Disclosure: I own and fly a Cirrus.) Many of us never thought of flying a small airplane until we saw a Cirrus.
That's a proposed mission that would send a robotic airplane to Mars to fly over the surface looking for the chemical signs of life.
He was unable to convince any of his other contacts to become clients because, according to Ed, they were looking to fly in a nicer twin, cabin-class airplane.
"If you're on an aircrew, you can just pick up a model of the airplane that you fly, " he said.
Or in-flight flight, which grants its bearer the ability to fly like a bird, but only within the confines of an airplane.
The desire to fly an airplane has been shown to represent one aspect of a sensation-seeking personality, a genetic trait associated with risky behavior involving driving, sex, sports and vocation, according to psychology studies.
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Meanwhile, a team of Yamaha motorcycle designers will attempt to set a world record of their own when they fly their pedal-powered airplane over 75 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
Its creators said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America.
Next, you'll make a model airplane out of wood and paper-and it had better fly.
"From that moment on I knew I wanted to fly, " says Lowy, who soon had airplane wallpaper in his bedroom and a vast collection of model airplanes and trading cards.
But I would rather fly in an airplane with wings designed by one competent aeronautical engineer than one with wings designed by a committee of the first 20, 000 names of non-engineers in the Boston phonebook.
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