News articles tagged with 'flight' (Page 5)
Scientific balloons achieve Antarctic flight record
— 4 Jan 2008 19:52 | EnvironmentThe National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have jointly achieved a new milestone in the almost 20-year history of scientific…
Animal behaviour study overturned
— 24 Oct 2007 17:00 | BiologyAn international team of scientists has overturned an ecological study on how some animals search for food. Previously it was believed that wandering albatrosses and other species forage…
Discovery begins mission to the International Space Station
— 24 Oct 2007 00:01 | AstronomyThe space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off Tuesday, 23 October, from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 11:38 AM EDT to continue construction of the International…
Solar telescope reaches 120,000 feet on jumbo-jet-sized balloon
— 23 Oct 2007 21:45 | AstronomyIn a landmark test flight, the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000…
SOFIA observatory enters aircraft testing phase
— 13 Oct 2007 11:48 | AstronomyNASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, known as SOFIA, began a series of flight tests Thursday of the highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft. The tests are the first…
Epic flight across the Pacific
— 13 Sep 2007 10:33 | BiologyA female Bar-tailed Godwit, a large, streamlined shorebird, has touched down in New Zealand following an epic, 18,000-mile-long (29,000 km) series of flights tracked by satellite, including…
X-48B takes first flight
— 27 Jul 2007 00:01 | AstronomyNASA's Dryden Flight Research Centre in Edwards, California, provided critical support for the first flight on 20 July of the X-48B. The 21-foot wingspan, 500-pound remotely piloted…
What determines the speed at which birds fly?
— 17 Jul 2007 10:52 | BiologyAerodynamic scaling rules that explain how flight varies according to weight and wing loading have been used to compare general speeds of a wide range of flyers, from the smallest insects…