Collaborate Disseminate
The aviation industry is always seeking advancements to improve efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. The former is due to the never-ending quest for profit, while the latter helps airlines maintain …read more Continue reading Sharkskin Coating Reduces Airliner Fuel Use, Emissions
With a goal of creating the fastest aero road bike in the world, British manufacturer Ribble spent three years in the wind tunnel and on the track optimizing, tweaking and micro-adjusting the aerodynamics of its all-new Ultra SL R. The race-ready road … Continue reading Ultra-aero Ribble thrusts forth toward “world’s fastest” bicycle goal
The advent of aerodynamic wings in motorsport was one of the most dramatic changes in the mid-20th century. Suddenly, it was possible to generate more grip at speed outside of altering suspension setups and fitting grippier tyres. However, it was …read more
Scientists in Europe researching aerodynamic forces have opened up some interesting new avenues of study inspired by fish scales. This new understanding of the flow patterns over the surface of the creature’s skin was used to create bio-inspired fish s… Continue reading Secrets of fish scale drag offer clues for more aerodynamic aircraft
Otto Aviation claims its odd-looking Celera 500L “bullet plane” is “the biggest thing to happen to the aviation and travel industries in 50 years,” and that its extreme fuel economy could make private flights as affordable as regular commercial air tra… Continue reading Remarkable low-drag “bullet plane” aims to democratize private flight
One of the current hype trends is the supposedly imminent revolution in air transport. So many companies showing digital renderings and mockups to illustrate their own utopic vision for the future, reaching fevered pitch at events like CES 2020. But aviation has a long history of machinery that turned out …read more
Continue reading How Efficient Can An Airplane Be? The Celera 500L Sets To Find Out
At my university, we were all forced to take a class called Engineering 101. Weirdly, we could take it at any point in our careers at the school. So I put it off for more interesting classes until I was forced to take it in one of my final years. It was a mess of a class and never quite seemed to build up to a theme or a message. However, every third class or so they’d dredge up a veritable fossil from their ranks of graduates. These greybeards would sit at the front of the class and tell us …read more
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