News on aeronautics, levitation phenomena & "flying machines"

Aeronautics & aerospace engineering:

 

• Disc-shaped spyplane could hunt for terrorists - NewScientist - 04 February 2002

 

• Nikola Tesla's Curious Contrivance - Air & Space magazine - September, 2006

 

• HyperMach unveils SonicStar supersonic business jet concept - gizmag -June 20, 2011

 

• A mighty wind - MITNews - April 2, 2013

 

• Ionic thrusters generate efficient propulsion in air - ScienceDaily - April 3, 2013

 

• Ionic Wind Could Power Jet Engines - Discovery news - Apr 8, 2013

 

• Siemens, EADS and Diamond Aircraft sign MoU on Electric Propulsion System - SIEMENS - 2013-Jun-17

 

• Rolls-Royce works with EADS on advanced hybrid distributed propulsion concept for future airliners - Rolls-Royce - 18 June 2013

 

• eConcept: EADS's Hybrid-Electric Airliner - Jun 25, 2013

 

• Elon Musk Just May Have to Develop an Electric Supersonic Jet - Bloomberg - Aug 8, 2013

 

• Elon Musk's next big project could be supersonic jet - Telegraph.co.uk - 10 Aug 2013

 

• EADS, Siemens Plot Way To Hybrid-Electric Propulsion - Aviation Week - Oct 14, 2013

 

• Better combustion through plasma - Science Daily - November 26, 2013

 

• Change in geometry improves aerodynamics - phys.org -Dec 23, 2013

 

• NASA's Warp-Drive Solution for Faster-Than-Light Space Travel - dailygalaxy - January 02, 2014

 

• VTOL X-Plane Program Takes Off: DARPA tasks four companies with designing new aircraft to revolutionize vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight capabilities - Darpa - March 18, 2014

 

• Swiss unveil new solar plane for global flight - Dailymail -9 April 2014

 

• Solar-powered Impulse 2 makes maiden flight: Eco-friendly aeroplane set to fly around the world next year - Dailymail - 2 June 2014
  

 

• Aircraft safety: New imaging technique could detect acoustically 'invisible' cracks - Science Daily - October 6, 2014

• New feather findings get scientists in a flap - Science Daily - October 21, 2014

 

• NASA tests revolutionary shape changing aircraft flap for the first time - phys.org - Nov 09, 2014
  

 

• Powering space craft of the future - Science Daily - December 8, 2014

 

• Solar plane set for landmark round the world flight - phys.org - Jan 20, 2015

• Helicopter could be 'scout' for Mars rovers - Science Daily - January 26, 2015

 

• Aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine tested in UK - phys.org - January 27, 2015

• New imaging technology to design, build greener, safer aircraft - Science Daily - January 28, 2015

 

• Novel technology could combat flight pollution - Science Daily - February 2, 2015

• Ten-engine electric plane completes successful flight test - Science Daily - May 5, 2015

 

• Insect wings might serve gyroscopic function, new research suggests - Science Daily - March 18, 2015

• A new propulsion system for airships - Dicyt - June 4, 2015
  

 

 

Levitation phenomena:

 

• Aussie Scientists Have New "Pull" as Tractor Beam Goes the Distance - Dailytech - September 9, 2010

 

• Scientists develop acoustic levitation, could enable the eventual levitation of humans - extremetech - July 16, 2013
  

 

• Sound wave 3Dvolution: Japanese scientists move objects using acoustic levitation - RT - January 03, 2014

 

• Diamagnetic levitation of pyrolitic graphite over a single magnet achieved - phys.org - August 28, 2014

 

• A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam - Nature News (photonics) - 19 October 2014

• Supersonic laser-propelled rockets - phys.org - Oct 29, 2014

• Supersonic laser-propelled rockets: Hybrid approach may help power rockets, launch satellites, push future aircraft past Mach 10 - Science Daily -October 29, 2014

 

• Transmission mechanism using magnetic levitating gear - Science Daily - November 30, 2014

 

• Levitation recreates nature's dumbbells - Science Daily -  January 7, 2015
  

 

• Particle manipulation by a non-resonant acoustic levitator - AIP Scitation - 05 gener 2015