Airplane will Now Be Able To Fold It Wings While Flying With The Help Of Nasa's New Design

The National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) is trying to invent a foldable wing aircraft after being inspired from  incredible nosedive  of the hawk  when it folds its wings. NASA doesn’t want to have controlled dives, but there are many other benefits to this unique design, such as increasing the efficiency and capabilities of the aircraft.

NASA name  the design Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW). Until now, articulating wings on aircraft was done to optimize parking area and to make them fit into smaller hangars. the articulated  wings also helps  for easier movement within  the airport infrastructure.

But NASA wants to use smaller and adjustable wing ends along with more precise specifics  articulation and control with the ability  of changing position dynamically to create the perfect balance between lift and yaw control that is  needed during different flight conditions.

One use of this concept idea will be in supersonic aircraft. When the aircraft is flying at very high speeds, it  creates a lot of lift but consequently, have lesser yaw control. By folding the ends of the wings up or down, stability and yaw control will be enhanced, creating more vertical surface to augment the rear tailfin. But this will not happen at the expense of critical lift during the difficult takeoff and landing because the wings are still capable of straightening to add the lift surface to flight.

This concept is now a reality courtesy advancements in the actuators required to move the wings, which have been changed from the more outdated and heavy hydraulic systems to more efficient and lighter electric ones.

NASA’s Matt Moholt said on the concept,

“We are revisiting folding-wing aircraft. Because new technologies that did not exist in the 1960s allow actuation to be put in tighter wings, in smaller volumes. This allows a much thinner wing and a thinner portion of the wing to become articulable. Namely the tips of wings, which are normally rigidly fixed.”

This Russian Nuclear Weapon Is 2000 Times Stronger Than The Bomb That Hit Hiroshima

It looks like another cold war is on the horizons with the battle in Syria and Iraq getting worse each day and in the process, expanding the cleavage between the world powers. It has also triggered,increased the insecurity between the enemies fighting or covertly secretly

supporting the fighters in Syria and Iraq, triggering over the top defensive measures against each other and a serious concern for another arms race.

And supporting this argument is the recent news of the Russian army announcing a massive new nuclear weapon. The new nuclear bomb comes with RS-28 Sarmat missile which has the ability of travelling at a speed of 4.3 miles per second while carrying over 40 megatons of nuke explosives. For its destructive capabilities, NATO termed the missile “Satan 2”. The weapon is considered to be capable of devastating an area of the size of France and iit is also  2,000 times more power than the bombs that ravaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The missile is reported to have a range of 6,213 miles (10,000 km), which means that the missile is capable of hitting London and other European countries as well as the American west and east coasts.

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The Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau, Russia said in a statement:    

 "in agreement with the Decree of Russian Government 'on the state Defence Order for 2010 and the planning period 2012-2013', the Makeyev ROcket Design Bureau was instructed to start the design and the development of work on the Sarmat."

                           Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the upgrade of their older weaponry with Satan 2 and its 16 nuclear warheads at a time where international tensions are rising, and the smell of distrust and betrayal has fused with the stench of Arab carcases to create a deadly aroma. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has already criticised Putin for “discouraging the West’s efforts to give a political settlement in Syria.” The tensions further worsened when both Britain and the United States Governments announced that they would be sending supplies and troops for a NATO army build-up on the Russian border.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stotenberg justified the beefing up,

“This month alone, Russia has deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad and suspended a weapons-grade plutonium agreement with the United States.”

Testing of the Sarmat missile has already started near Miass in Russia, and the Russian Defence Ministry aims to put Sarmat ready for action as soon as late 2018.

What are your thoughts on the rising escalations between the world powers? 

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Iran New Suicide Drone

Iran unveiled its ‘suicide drone’  on Wednesday. The news was announced by the elite Revolutionary Guards saying that the Iranian suicide drone  was capable of delivering explosives to both the sea and the land targets.

The Iranian military will primarily use the new suicide drone for it  maritime surveillance. The Tasnim news agency, considered pro-Guards, reported that the suicide drone cannot carry missiles:


The suicide drone has not been designed to be armed with missiles, but it can carry heavy payloads of explosives for combat missions to launch suicide attacks. flying at a high drifting speed near the surface of the water, the aircraft can collide with the target and destroy it, either a vessel or an onshore command center.

























The Iranian suicide drone can fly as low as half a meter above the water and can attain a speed of 250 kilometers per hour. The drone can go as high as 900 meters.

The news release only included images of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the ground. No video or pictures of the flying drone were released.

'The report says that the drone can operate in both night and daytime conditions.it has an advance military camera with the ability of being used at night and during the day as well as the possibility of being in damp sea conditions.

Earlier in October, the Revolutionary Guards unveiled another attack drone named the Saegheh (Thunderbolt). The Iranians reverse engineered the Thunderbolt after the capture of the US Central Intelligence Agency RQ-170 Sentinel drone in December 2011.

Iran claimed that the US drone was taken over by the cyber warfare units and was landed safely while the US maintains that a technical problem caused the drone to crash. The images of the drone accompanied the announcement of the Thunderbolt, but no footage of the drone in flight was released.

Previously, Iran tested its first suicide drone in December 2014.

This Gadget Can Allow You To Walk Up Vertically With Its Manually Powered Elevator

Vertiwalk is a small compact manual lift that can take you to the upper storey without having to navigate the treacherous staircases. This manual gadget   can move you to the upper floor using only 10% of the energy that you are suppose to use in climbing the stairs.

 

 Vertiwalk is a pulley-operated elevator powered by your upper and lower limbs. The engineers who design this manual lift believe that it will come in handy as the migration towards highly-populated cities , and the cities keep expanding.

Vertiwalk is a hybrid between stairs and elevator. The Dutch designers have designed the pulley-operated manual lift at the Rombout Frieling Lab in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Estimates predicted that more than two billion people will migrate towards the cities in the next 25 years. With the house rent price on a  perpetual rise, the people have no option but to make the most of whatever space is available to them.

The riders propel themselves up manually using their arms and legs. The users of the Vertiwalk pull on the two ropes with their arms pushing the seat upwards. When pushed with legs, Vertiwalk propels them upwards.

The device can also be operated by those with the leg impairments. However, it could not lift the people in the wheelchair. Only a fraction of the body weight needs to be shifted between the seat and the foot plate of the Vertiwalk to push the seat upwards.
By using harmonious  movements and smart materials only 10% of the effort of walking stairs is required to bridge multiple floors. This does not only offer a solution to the growing number of people who are unable to take the stairs case BUT moreover offers new possibilities for urban architect 

Intel’s High Performance Commercial Drone

Meet  Falcon 8⁺, Intel’s New High Performance Commercial Drone

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Intel has started manufacturing their own commercial and professional drones.called the Falcon 8+, and it vows to better than all its competitors!

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Falcon 8+ commercial drone is created  for industrial inspection, surveying and mapping and is an upgrade on the previous AscTec Falcon 8 drone. It is a V-form octocopter entailing high stediness, accurate  GPS and state of the art flight control electronics and components. This helps the drone achieve the best weight-to-payload ratio, with an empty weight of 1.1 kg and a maximum payload of 0.8 kg making it ideal for some of the most intense field applications.

It predecessor, t Falcon 8 already had amazing gadgets such as Intel’s RealSense cameras and the company’s 3D-mapping technology to avoid collision . Building on this,  Falcon 8+ has added on Intel’s latest water-resistant ground Cockpit system, that allows the drone better control and fortitude towards environmental effects.

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The Falcon 8+  can also be controlled with a single hand joystick courtesy an Intel chipset-powered tablet at the centre of the cockpit. The chip is used for planning of complex flight patterns and also enables the users to record and send live video feed via a low latency digital link of up to 1080p resolution and within a 1 km range.

Another salient feature is its ability to replicate its travel routes by using its onboard sensors which can map surfaces down to the millimetre. The UAV is configured in a V-form and measures 768 x 817 x 160 mm. It has a takeoff weight of 2.8 kg (6 pounds) when it is fully loaded with all the gizmos such as camera and transmission gimbal sending the 1080p HD video.

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Intel revealed the Falcon 8+ at the InterGeo drone conference held in Germany, but the model is yet to be approved by the Federal Communications commission for sale or use in the United States. And also the price is yet to be determined .