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A Car That's Ready for Takeoff
Carl Dietrich, CEO of the company that invented the flying car Transition, talks about its possible effect on the future of travel. We also check in with Dr. Joseph Vaughan, assistant research professor in the department of civic and environmental engineering at Washington State University, about how it could help or hinder the environment.
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Voith Schneider Propellers give tugboats the ability to haul heavy freight and also spin on a dime. Inventor Meinhard Schwaiger has found a way to use the same principal on an aircraft. Called D-Dalus, the vehicle has made some initial, rope-bound flights in a cage. If all works as planned the craft will manage vertical flight without rotors and forward flight without airfoils. Its ability to hover in any weather may make it the ideal spy craft.
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Seventy years ago, America's first military stealth aircraft – the Waco CG-4A combat glider – soared silently into World War II history, powered only by the prevailing winds and the guts of the men who flew them.
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The ASME Aerospace Division’s objective is to promote the development and dissemination of the mechanical, materials and systems engineering aspects of aircraft, spacecraft and missile design and operation.
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