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- Articles by: Helga Kleisny
Contributor: Helga Kleisny
Published articles: (2 entries)
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The lonely scientist, covered by his papers alone in his room, talking to no one, is extinct. Science happens world wide in connection with partners around the globe, frequent travels are part of the daily life. Like for anybody else, delays are quite an annoying concomitant, especially if you travel by plane to reach your destination faster. Very often in Europe the cause for a late arrival is Air Traffic Control (ATC) related. Today the control of the airspace over Europe resembles a patchwork rug, where each national air navigation service provider uses different technology and different procedures. Thus an airline pilot flying from Warsaw to Madrid has to speak to 45 different controllers during his flight. When entering a new sector, a pilot has to change the radio frequency and establish contact with the new air traffic controller. The heading, airspeed and level of the aircraft constantly has to [...]
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A simple white paper napkin depicts the future: at an informal dinner with aviation professionals the lead technical design engineer of Boeing sketches his personal vision of the airplane of the future, which is so futuristic that it even outranges the companies conceptual airplane. Any minute when a plane is not flying is a waste of money – the goal is to minimise the downtime. Leading airline companies already try to have their birds in the air around the clock. What still takes time is passenger boarding and de-boarding from an aircraft. Since there is no way to beam the humans aboard, the creative engineer found another solution to save time. In his futuristic vision, an airplane consists of a movable compartment, a ‘container’, where all passengers can be seated in a comfortable way before the plane has even landed. After embarking, while the passengers already enjoy their welcome drink, [...]
