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...It can split into two halves that use small propellers to float through the air like drones....
...It has no aerodynamics, it’s awful, you need another propeller just to stabilise it. It is probably five times less efficient than an aeroplane.”...
...They are still pushing the propeller [on their networks] and pretending that it is a jet plane,” Mr Labuda said. Billing problems remain a huge issue in the telecoms sector....
...It is also planning next year for the maiden flight of a vertical take-off aerial taxi, using ducted propellers powered by electric motors....
...The C-2 Greyhound is a twin-engined, propeller-driven aircraft designed to ferry cargo, mail and passengers to US aircraft carriers. The aircraft was first produced in 1965....
...The 26-year-old’s salvation came in the form of a decades-old spinning propeller toy. In October his wife, a special education teacher, asked him to order “fidget” gadgets for her class....
...In its Tel Aviv office staff have meetings in ridiculous flying pods — baskets with propellers on top. This pernicious trend — ugly, stupid and ageist — started in Silicon Valley and has spread....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 28 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It recently printed a third of a turboprop engine, which weighs 5 per cent less than the traditional propeller system and reduces fuel burn by 1 per cent. The potential is clear for jet engines....
...The vehicle has four propellers that are capable of folding up when not in use, so that the parked drone takes up roughly the same space as a car....
...One example is electric drive to propellers or main rotor – an idea pursued in the past by Eurocopter....
...The company is shifting away from its money-losing jet aircraft business and focusing instead on the less competitive propeller-powered aircraft market....
...It’s not,” said Mr Bezos, unveiling a square device with eight propellers and a grip that holds on to yellow buckets for parcels....
...Jamie Hartzell, an early entrant to social impact investment, got a leg up from an early inheritance....
...And Beechcraft, born from the ashes of Hawker Beechcraft by dropping the jets and concentrating on its propeller range, is predicting a bright future partly by reaping the benefit of special mission demand...
...The audience at the preview of The Internship is a sea of rainbow propeller hats....
...GKN’s driveline division, which makes driveshafts, sideshafts and propeller shafts, reported a 15 per cent year-on-year increase in revenues to £773m for the quarter, buoyed by last year’s acquisition of...
...Because of long lead times, even aircrafts still on multiyear contracts from the US, such as Bell Boeing’s V-22 tilt rotor, a helicopter propeller aircraft hybrid, need to quickly secure international customers...
...The lawns are also large enough to land propeller planes. Who Vladi Private Islands, www.vladi-private-islands.de, tel: +49 40 33 89 89 …………………………………………………………….....
...I started out flying in Boeing 377 Stratocruisers, huge propeller-driven planes with two decks. I worked in first class, which was the best place to be....
...“It took 13 hours on a propeller plane. I was about 20 and I remember I took a bus from the terminal to …” Our waitress is at the table again, taking empty plates away....
...Turbofan engines make jet planes fast but heavy on fuel, so turboprop engines – which use turbines to turn propellers – were selected....
...Varying the thrust from the propellers eliminates the need for an anti-torque rotor at the rear, which cuts down the wastage of power....
...In 2009 Deloitte contested the company’s valuation of its kit – flying goggles and biplane propellers spring irresistibly to mind – which should give the accountancy some wiggle room....
...“Companies are constantly evaluating strategic opportunities, such as acquisitions, but when the financing markets are bad those plans often don’t get out of the lab,” said Tim Hartzell, a managing director...
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