The project started with attempts to charge by simply flying near power lines, but when that method yielded only micro-watts of juice, focus shifted to actually landing on the lines.
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Hargrave's aeronautical journals and drawings illustrate his lifelong project to develop a practical flying machine and power plant in Australia.
In 2010, fire caused a 787 test flight to lose primary electrical power while flying from Yuma, Arizona, to Laredo, Texas.
Flying at 230mph, I eased power and dropped the flaps and landing gear.
Power is generated by the wing flying in a circular path, with electricity transmitted to the ground via the conducting core of the tether.
The code is separated into 740 computer instruction files that handle everything from dressing up a character in an almost infinite selection of outfits (a total of 10 to the 27th power, in fact) to flying through the city, as well as 25, 000 graphics files.
Over the past five years, I've reported on topics from tourism in Sierra Leone to flying boats in British Columbia to the earning power of Hip-Hop Cash Kings like Jay-Z, interviewing personalities from Dr. Ruth to 50 Cent in the process.
It was supposed to keep him working hard, flying straight, and aware, for all the power he held, of where he never wanted to go again.
Flying Spur bests Mulsanne, however, in sheer power: It holds a 6-liter, 616-horsepower W12 engine and eight-speed transmission and will go 0-60 miles per hour in 4.3 seconds.
Rather than use fixed turbines to generate power, Makani has been experimenting with "flying wings" adorned with several smaller turbines that act as propellers as the craft takes off.
The nuclear sites ban, which affects 80 facilities such as power plants and Energy Department areas, restricts aircraft flying below 18, 000 feet from coming within a radius of 10 nautical miles of each facility.
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McGwire's banner year came during one of the biggest power periods in Major League history, when balls were flying out of the park at a rate of once every 34 times at bat.
Vice president John Miksad said it was caused by flooding or flying debris, and he added it could take a week to restore power completely.
Power's camp were undone by former Brazil captain Carlos Dunga unexpectedly flying in from Japan to vote with Paladini.
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Five years ago, a Cuban airforce defector in a MIG-29 fighter aircraft -- flying undetected until outside Key West, Florida -- confirmed that he had trained to attack the Turkey Point nuclear power facility in South Florida.
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