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In the second part of his four-part series, civilian public affairs officer David Elias is about to witness how Canadian Forces crews conduct search and rescue (SAR) exercises. He is boarding a CC-130 Hercules from 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron, 17 Wing Winnipeg, Man aircraft departing for a simulated SAR response above Lake Superior. He's never flown in an aircraft cockpit before, much less a cool military cockpit.

Some impressive facts about the largest aircraft ever made - the Antonov 225.

The first four test missions of the Space Transportation System (STS) - flights STS-1, 2, 3, and 4 - are covered.

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Projects - lists and links to a number of grant funded projects

This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California. -

Amazing aviation resource - news and information from around the world, summarized and updated daily

In 1793... Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard in Philadelphia makes the first manned free balloon ascent in America in a hydrogen balloon. Blanchard ascends from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and lands in Deptford, Gloucester County, New Jersey. One of the flight's witnesses that day was President George Washington. Blanchard also holds the record of first balloon flights in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland

Two computer instructors in the CalWomenTech Project used this information to develop a YouTube Video strategy to help their students improve their skills in binary numbers, a core concept in computer networking.The two videos combined had more than 53,000 views in the last year!

"The basic design requirements of the Open Course Library are simple enough. The material must be available online and accessible to anyone, says Mr. Green. Faculty designers, hired for their teaching experience and expertise in the subject, can use material from anywhere and anyone, as long as they abide by licensing agreements. Instructors can then use and revise the material as they see fit, dropping and adding components to customize the course for their own students. And now they have peer-vetted syllabi, lecture notes, and teaching materials, available with a few clicks of the mouse."

Waves of one form or another can be found in an amazingly diverse range of physical applications, from the oceans to the science of sound. Put simply, a wave is a traveling disturbance. Ocean waves travel for thousands of kilometers through the water. Earthquake waves travel through the Earth, sometimes bouncing off the core of the Earth and making it all the way back to the surface. Sound waves travel through the air to our ears, where we process the disturbances and interpret them.

A wave is defined as the transfer of energy from one point to another. There are two large, all encompassing categories of waves: mechanical and non-mechanical.

Actually there ARE two kinds of WAVES that Grandpa John was talking about.

To measure this acceleration we will drop a magnet and measure the time taken for the magnet to travel between two points. This information used with the distance formula below will allow us to calculate the acceleration of the magnet due to gravity.

All kinds of stringed instruments - guitars, pianos, violins - have stretched strings which oscillate when plucked or struck. This oscillation generates sound, which can be amplified acoustically by coupling the vibrations to a large sound-board (for a guitar, the top, and in an upright piano, at the back) or electrically by turning the string oscillations into an electrical signal (using a 'pickup') which can be sent to an electronic amplifier / loudspeaker.

Skunkworks Robotics is affliated with Aviation High School, located in Des Moines, Washington. We are registered as Team 1983 with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Our name, Skunkworks, is inspired by Lockheed Martin's top secret Skunk Works program, where the company designed many incredible aircraft such as the SR-71.

An executive of a robotics firm states that the development of aviation technology provides guidance for the emergence of military robotics systems.

Robotics program examines the expanding role of robotics in the exploration of space. Students will engage in activities before and after the videoconference, initially constructing simple machines, and then progressing to more complex devices. During the videoconference, participants learn about NASA's most advanced robotic systems.

European flight simulator designers are creating cost-effective full-motion flight simulators for helicopter pilots by using a heavy-duty industrial robot to provide motion to the simulator's cockpit.

The Robotics track of the Mechanical Engineering Degree Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott Campus provides a strong undergraduate education with a focus on the design of robotic systems for aerospace applications such as autonomous ground, air or space vehicles. The robotics curriculum combines a strong emphasis on the fundamentals of engineering kinematics, dynamics and controls with integrated analysis and design topics ranging from robotics real-time control, sensor integration, probabilistic robotics and mechatronics.

An interesting object lesson in physics and aerodynamics - I share this not because it's in any way important, but because it's so damn weird/cool.