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Flight around the world without fuel (Amazing...)

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 Flight around the world without fuel Last year unveiled its first solar aircraft in the world. Renewable energies are a major thrust of the Forum on the international media about climate change and the media, organized by Deutsche Welle. In this context, view the scale model of a plane preparing for a tour around the world using solar energy only. Many of the obvious things in our day was, and for several centuries, from the seventh impossible. For example, the conquest of space and the ability to fly and move quickly from one continent to another. Without the presence of people believe in the possibility of realizing the dream of flight and walked the opposite beliefs in their time, the sky has remained to this day free of the aircraft . This is the philosophy that believes in the famous navigator Swiss Bertrand Piccard, who succeeded in 1999 flew around the world in a balloon, he said in a lecture at the Global Media Forum, organized by Deutsche Welle in Bonn. Speaking ...

Aircraft Design Projects for engineering students(download)

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Aircraft Design Projects for engineering students Introduction It is tempting to title this book ‘Flights of Fancy’ as this captures the excitement and expectations at the start of a new design project. The main objective of this book is to try to convey this feeling to those who are starting to undertake aircraft conceptual design work for the first time. This often takes place in an educational or industrial training establishment. Too often, in academic studies, the curiosity and fascination of project work is lost under a morass of mathematics, computer programming, analytical methods, project management, time schedules and deadlines. This is a shame as there are very few occasions in your professional life that you will have the chance to let your imagination and creativity flow as freely as in these exercises. As students or young engineers, it is advisable to make the most of such opportunities. When university faculty or counsellors interview prospective students...