How Lasers are Making Dangerous Air Flight Stages Safer
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The landing phase is the most intensive stage of an aircraft’s flight. According to Szondy (2021), up to 40% of crashes occur during this phase. This is likely due to the method of landing, in which pilots use visual cues and peripheral vision to judge their landing. These cues can be inaccurate or hard to see in situations of poor visibility. AirText, a company already versed in aircraft hardware, is using its new product, Land-DAR, to make this phase simpler and safer for small aircraft.
The Standard Methods of Landing an Aircraft
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With concerns for global warming and CO2 emissions rising, new industries are looking for ways to innovate everyday life to lower the population’s carbon footprint, without sacrificing their customer’s comfort or usability. The electric bus industry is one of these emergent industries, lowering the emissions from public transport. Dutch electric bus company Ebusco is also taking its innovations one step further: composite material buses, inspired by aerospace technology.
What are Composite Materials?
Composite materials are the combination of multiple materials with significant chemical and property differences (high strength, electrical resistivity, etc.) The composite material inherits the characteristics from all the substances making it, creating a single material with a sum, generally, more useful than its parts.