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FAA Shutdown Costs Could Exceed $1.2 Billion - 0 views

www.npr.org/...hutdown-could-cost-1-2-billion

partisan politics budget

shared by anonymous on 02 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • After last night's vote on the debt ceiling compromise, the House adjourned for the summer but left nearly 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration employees, who have been furloughed because of a funding impasse, in limbo.
  • anonymous on 02 Aug 11
     
    "The political impasses is about Republican demands to cut $16.5 million from rural air service subsidies. But The Associated Press reports that during the 10-day shutdown, the government has lost more than $250 million and it stands to lose more than $1 billion in revenue from uncollected airfare taxes."
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D-Dalus - an entirely new genre of aircraft arrives - 1 views

www.gizmag.com/...18972

technology aviation

shared by anonymous on 22 Jun 11 - Cached
  • The key to the D-Dalus' extreme maneuverability is the facility to alter the angle of the blades (using servos) to vector the forces, meaning that the thrust can be delivered in your choice of 360 degrees around any of the three axes. Hence D-Dalus can launch vertically, hover perfectly still and move in any direction, and that's just the start of the story.
  • anonymous on 22 Jun 11
     
    "The D-Dalus (a play on Daedalus from Greek mythology) is neither fixed wing or rotor craft and uses four, mechanically-linked, contra-rotating cylindrical turbines, each running at the same 2200 rpm, for its propulsion."
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