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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:35:11 -0700, Bob Fry
wrote in : A tip-of-the-hat to the Europeans, who, along with the Asians, and the Indians, and even some South American countries, are pulling ahead of the Americans in any number of technology areas. But we've got faith-based democracy! And a stay-the-course presidency. Yay. Bowing partnered with a group in Spain: http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers...ust/i_atw.html Imagine an aviation technology that one day will be so energy-efficient and environmentally preferred that it will revolutionize the commercial airplane industry's use of fuel. If the Boeing Research and Technology Center in Madrid, Spain, has its way, this future won't be so far off. The center's first major project is one designed to both develop and flight-test a fuel cell-powered electric demonstrator airplane. Recently, the Center—which opened in July 2002—announced both the project and its industry partners. The Fuel Cell Demonstrator airplane is scheduled to make its first flight in late 2004 or early 2005. Boeing Phantom Works, the advanced research and development unit of the company, operates the R&T Center. Here's the futu http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/...ionengine.html http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/...r_030414s.html EDD will lead a team in the development of advanced Carbon-Based Ion Optics, or CBIO. These are the critical components of high-power gridded xenon ion thrusters that have a traditionally limited lifetime. A two-phase effort, the first phase entails a 16-month effort to design, fabricate and test ion optics made from carbon-carbon composites and pyrolytic graphite. The CBIO project also includes the development and validation of an Ion Optics Lifetime Computer Model to predict the performance and lifetime of candidate grid designs. The second phase is a 12 1/2-month extension period to develop and test carbon based ion optics designs for possible use on the next generation ion engine. EDD is teamed with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA Glenn Research Center on the CBIO Project. |
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