RFID R and D Opportunities and the Supply Chain (cont.)
Dick Cantwell, P and G / Gillette
Claus Garbisch, DHL Solutions
Brian Subirana, MIT
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Duration : 1:23:44
Watch Flight 2 of Armadillo Aerospace’s successful attempt to qualify to win Level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. See Super Mod aka Scorpius return from the lunar surface pad to its original start position. The competition is still open as there are other teams attempting to win the $1M first place prize purse later in October 2009. You can find out more about NGLLC 2009 at: http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge
You can also see photos at: www.lauchpad.xprize.org
Duration : 0:3:38
Watch Flight 1 of Armadillo Aerospace’s successful attempt to qualify to win Level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. See Super Mod aka Scorpius return from the lunar surface pad to its original start position. The competition is still open as there are other teams attempting to win the $1M first place prize purse later in October 2009. You can find out more about NGLLC 2009 at: http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge
You can also see photos at: www.lauchpad.xprize.org
Duration : 0:3:28
Over 30,000 Homebuilders Gotta Be Up To Something…
This year’s rendition of the Annual Oshkosh Aerial Love-Fest was a watershed event for all things homebuilding. In addition to the usual ortment of THOUSANDS of amazing personally-crafted experimental aircraft in attendance, the 30,000th such bird was found and celebrated.
Yuma, AZ homebuilder Bob Noll’s RV-9A airplane was recognized as the honorary 30,000th US-registered homebuilt at a ceremony at AirVenture 2008. Standing on stage with his daughter Katrina who came to AirVenture with him, acting FAA Administrator Bobby Sturgell, FAA ociate Administrator for Aviation Safety Nick Sabatini, EAA President Tom Poberezny and EAA Founder Paul Poberezny were on hand to recognize the milestone of 30,000 homebuilt airplanes registered.
Paul Poberezny was asked how he felt about the milestone after 55 years since he founded EAA. His answer, “unbelievable, simply unbelievable.” to which he gave a thumbs up. EAA Founder Paul Poberezny commented that he came along at the “right time” back in 1953, that the (then) CAA supported the movement. Now, 55 years later, the work was “worthwhile.”
Even FAA Boss, Bobby Sturgell, commented the first homebuilders were the Wright Brothers. He went on to say that the FAA is a willing participant in the homebuilt movement which supports homebuilding as recreational, educational as well as fun. He cited the example of winglets and Wittman-style landing gear as being technology which flowed from the homebuilt airplane. (At the subsequent “Meet the Boss” forum, Administrator Sturgell additionally commented that the number 30,000 represents 10 percent of the registered airplanes in the US.)
EAA President Tom Poberezny commented that the homebuilt movement was, “a living partnership between industry, community and the CAA then FAA. The freedom to fly in the US fosters the movement and allows ingenious builders to craft machines which hardly could be envisioned back in 1953.”
While all these milestones are …
Duration : 0:7:0
Healthcare and Life Sciences Requirements for RFID
Michael Rose, Johnson and Johnson
Robert Celeste, EPCglobal
Thomas Pizzuto, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Ted Ng, McKesson
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Duration : 0:46:4
North Carolina State University, Aerospace Senior Design 2008-2009
Piolin’s First Flight, March 17, 2009
The premise of this year’s senior design project was the design, construction and flight testing of a small, electric-powered UAS that is simple to manufacture and field deployable by a two person strike team. The aircraft must be capable of being disassembled and packed into a box with an internal volume of 1.5 cubic feet.
This video covers the entire first flight of Piolin. Flight testing items for the sortie included:
-Launch, climb to pattern altitude and initial aircraft trim
-High cruise speed (~60 mph), trim aircraft, elevator doublets and rudder pulses
-Cruise speed (~46 mph), trim aircraft, elevator doublets and rudder pulses
-Loiter speed (~34 mph), trim aircraft, elevator doublets and rudder pulses
-Power off, establish safe approach pattern, elevator doublet, rudder pulses, aileron doublets
-Full power, regain altitude, reduce throttle to cruise, power off and maintain altitude until stall
-Approach pattern upon recovering stall, power off approach and landing
Duration : 0:6:25
The Oldies Can Be Newbies…
There’s something about a Cub… a something that has remained alluring over the course of the better part of a century. But then again, there are Cubs and there are SUPER Cubs… hence our fascination with the CubCrafters Super SportCub.
CubCrafters tells ANN that the SUPER SportCub shares many airframe parts with the Sport Cub S2 and the Carbon Cub Kit. By eliminating virtually all airframe components that don’t carry flight or landing loads, this modern design is simpler, lighter and stronger than the Piper Super Cub designed in 1949. 60 years of technology has enabled CubCrafters engineers to maximize material design and incorporate modern manufacturing processes that maximize strength and minimize weight.
With a 180 HP engine, the airframe design has been tested to well beyond the requirements for Light Sport Aircraft. Flight and landing loads were increased by 40% to 5.65Gs for the design loads, and to 8.5Gs for ultimate tests. Piper Super Cubs were tested to 3.8Gs as required by the Standard Category. Struts, spars, landing gear, control surfaces, engine mount, and the fuselage were all tested by CubCrafters with lead weights and hydraulic pressure, not just analyzed by computer as allowed under LSA rules. This modern offspring of the Cub lineage is comprised of 50% fewer parts and is 250 pounds lighter than a similarly equipped Super Cub. With a power to weight ratio of 7.33 pounds per horsepower, the SUPER SportCub hauls the mail…
The SUPER SportCub is available in both one and two place configurations, and can be certified as either an S-LSA aircraft, or as an Experimental LSA aircraft if the customer so desires.
Aero-TV Renews Its Love Affair With A Cub… The CubCrafters Super SportCub
FMI: www.cubcrafters.com, www.aero-tv.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews
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Duration : 0:9:26
Horizontally-mounted test of a rocket engine at Armadillo Aerospace.
Duration : 0:0:37
R and D Opportunities and the Future of RFID Frequencies
Peter Cole, University of Adelaide
Alan Levesque, WPI
Leena Ukkonen and Lauri Sydanheimo, Tampere University of Technology
Richard Fletcher, MIT
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Duration : 1:2:43
Viking aerospace and Summit County locals, the Heli Boys, teamed up to test their unmanned helicopter over the Dillon Reservoir.
Duration : 0:2:25