Flying indoor electric model airplanes and helicopters.
Duration : 0:10:48
Nov 182009
identical good footageNov 182009
A review of a cool little flying toy Cessna airplane that you hang from your celing and watch as it flies around in an arc. Nice little toy and only $6. View this and other toy reviews by going to http://www.toysforjunior.com
Duration : 5 min 52 sec
Nov 092009
Flying over Georgetown , GuyanaNov 062009
Video taken from the Sunset Beach Bar – Plane spotters’ paradise
Duration : 0:0:27
Nov 062009
Dave Allen with his unique views on airplanes and flight lingo
Duration : 0:10:27
Nov 032009
By Glenn Pew for AVweb.com
Boeing has flown a manned aircraft on hydrogen fuel cell power. The full text of Boeing’s release follows:
MADRID, Spain, April 03, 2008 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that it has, for the first time in aviation history, flown a manned airplane powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
The recent milestone is the work of an engineering team at Boeing Research & Technology Europe (BR&TE) in Madrid, with assistance from industry partners in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
“Boeing is actively working to develop new technologies for environmentally progressive aerospace products,” said Francisco Escarti, BR&TE’s managing director. “We are proud of our pioneering work during the past five years on the Fuel Cell Demonstrator Airplane project. It is a tangible example of how we are exploring future leaps in environmental performance, as well as a credit to the talents and innovative spirit of our team.”
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts hydrogen directly into electricity and heat with none of the products of combustion such as carbon dioxide. Other than heat, water is its only exhaust.
A two-seat Dimona motor-glider with a 16.3 meter (53.5 foot) wingspan was used as the airframe. Built by Diamond Aircraft Industries of Austria, it was modified by BR&TE to include a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell/lithium-ion battery hybrid system to power an electric motor coupled to a conventional propeller.
Three test flights took place in February and March at the airfield in Ocaña, south of Madrid, operated by the Spanish company SENASA.
During the flights, the pilot of the experimental airplane climbed to an altitude of 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) above sea level using a combination of battery power and power generated by hydrogen fuel cells. Then, after reaching the cruise altitude and disconnecting the batteries, the pilot flew straight and level at a cruising speed of 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) for approximately 20 minutes on power solely generated by the fuel cells.
According to Boeing researchers, PEM fuel cell technology potentially could power small manned and unmanned air vehicles. Over the longer term, solid oxide fuel cells could be applied to secondary power-generating systems, such as auxiliary power units for large commercial airplanes. Boeing does not envision that fuel cells will ever provide primary power for large passenger airplanes, but the company will continue to investigate their potential, as well as other sustainable alternative fuel and energy sources that improve environmental performance.
BR&TE, part of the Boeing Phantom Works advanced R&D unit, has worked closely with Boeing Commercial Airplanes and a network of partners since 2003 to design, assemble and fly the experimental craft.
The group of companies, universities and institutions participating in this project includes:
Austria — Diamond Aircraft Industries
France — SAFT France
Germany — Gore and MT Propeller
Spain — Adventia, Aerlyper, Air Liquide Spain, Indra, Ingeniería de Instrumentación y Control (IIC), Inventia, SENASA, Swagelok, Técnicas Aeronauticas de Madrid (TAM), Tecnobit, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and the Regional Government of Madrid
United Kingdom — Intelligent Energy
United States — UQM Technologies.
Duration : 0:1:59
Nov 032009
This plane was really built in 1941! http://www.valsartdiary.com
Duration : 0:4:12
Nov 022009
Red Bull Air Race airplanes arrived in Porto 2008 and everyone’s ready for Qualifying and Race Day, 6 & 7 September 2008.
Never heard of Porto? Porto is a Portuguese city located in the North of country.
Music in this video: Incorporated (My Way)
You can’t go to Porto? No worries, there are some ways how you can follow the race. Check out http://www.redbullairrace.com for official results and pictures. On http://www.facebook.com/redbullairrace you get a live RSS ticker starting on Saturday 2.30PM local time (British Summer Time) and Sunday 2.30PM.
Duration : 0:0:54
Nov 022009
