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  • Nude Protest: Airport Body Scanners in Germany (video)
    1 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The underwear bombers Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports.
    So to protest, members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a fleshmob of people who stripped down to their skivvies last Sunday and converged on the Berlin-Tegal airport.
    The protesters marked their bodies with a number of messages such as, Something to hide? and Be a good citizen — drop your pants.
    One woman has the word diaper scrawled on her lower back with an (…)

  • The Cockpit: Where Custom & Tradition, Technology and Humans Collide
    14 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Probable Cause summation at the end of an aircraft accident investigation report is the official determination of why an accident occurred. Common threads are pilot error and equipment failure. Beyond structural failure, the clash between technology and humans was evident in the case of an American Airlines flight at Cali, Columbia.1 The third factor is more difficult to identify and document. It is the failure of the system, a situation that does not allow for the full utilization of (…)

  • Ground the Airbus?
    19 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Since entering service in 1974 with many technological innovations, such as computerized fly-by-wire control systems, user-friendly cockpits, and extended use of composite materials, 5,717 aircraft have been manufactured by Airbus, an European aerospace company. More than 5,100 Airbuses remain in service.
    Not including losses attributable to terrorism, rebellion or military action, Airbuses have been involved in 23 fatal crashes causing the deaths of 2,584 passengers, crew members and (…)

  • Comet, Airbus and Spaceplane: The Past, Present and Future of Commercial Aviation
    12 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    As commercial aviation becomes increasingly dependent upon computerized digital technology and less reliant upon hands-on human control, we have to consider the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of all aboard, and other similar disasters in the light of our collective experience and expectations.
    The Comet
    First flown in 1949 and introduced into passenger service in1951, the Comet was the first pressurized, jet-propelled commercial aircraft. Powered (…)

  • Making Smarter Cars Instead of Stupid Decisions
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    When the Big Three CEOs recently descended on Washington in their fancy corporate jets with inflated egos and high hopes for a juicy piece of the government’s $8.6 trillion corporate welfare pie, they were sent home hungry to do their homework and to write an essay about how they plan to spend bailout funds.
    Undoubtedly, the executives will travel business class when they come back this week; they will each have a business plan in hand, and Congress will give them $25 billion of taxpayer (…)

  • ErockIT – the fastest hybrid bicycle made in Germany - top speed 80 km/h
    29 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "ErockIT" riders have to pedal to get the bike going, and the faster they pedal, the faster the motor goes. The bike can reach speeds of up to 80 kilometres, or almost 50 miles, per hour and its inventor says it could revolutionise transport.
    http://en.rian.ru/video/20080929/117230866.html
    http://www.gizmag.com/the-erockit—50-mph-pedal-electric-hybrid-motorcycle/9528/
    http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/06/21/erockit-serial-electric-bike-impresses/
    http://www.erockit.net

  • Fuel-Free Oceanic Shipping
    20 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "DHL Completes More Eco-Friendly Ship Voyage as Industry Comes Under Fire
    A cargo vessel that uses a towing kite system to achieve better shipping fuel economy completed its first shipment this week as the industry found itself under fire from U.S. and international regulators."
    This story is out of today’s "Green Buzz," the newsletter post from Green Biz today. While it’s an amazing achievement to use a kite to cut fuel use by 20% on a cargo ship, the sad part is that most cargo (…)

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Won’t Go Away
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The National Transportation Safety Board’s historic ruling on the probable cause of the April 2006 Predator B unmanned aircraft crash in Arizona represents just the first of a series of unmanned systems accident investigations that will follow as drones of all sizes finally win approval by federal air safety regulators to operate unfettered in the National Airspace System (NAS).
    November 6th, 2007 09:47 AM EDT
    The Safety Board ruled that the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) accident was (…)

  • NTSB Cites Extensive Safety Issues in First Investigation of Unmanned Aircraft Accident
    27 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington, D.C. - As a result of its first investigation of an accident involving an unmanned aircraft (UA), the National Transportation Safety Board today issued a total of 22 safety recommendations to address what NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker said were "a wide range of safety issues involving the civilian use of unmanned aircraft."
    October 17th, 2007 10:32 AM PDT NTSB
    The safety recommendations approved by the Board stemmed from the April 25, 2006, accident in which a turboprop- (…)

  • The Failing
    7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The failure of the I-35 Bridge in Minneapolis was an obvious failure of infrastructure, of deferred maintenance, of it’s not in the budget for this fiscal year. But over looked is the fact that this is our second warning not our first. The levees failing in New Orleans was an identical failure. The warnings were well known and just like the I-35 Bridge and hundreds of others they fell on deaf ears.
    Our politicians like recalcitrant school children refuse to learn their lessons and spend (…)