Aero-Quantum

From being India’s largest international carrier to near bankruptcy Naresh Goyal founded Jet Airways in 1993 with a fleet of four leased Boeing 737 aircraft. At a time when private airlines had just started coming up in India, Jet Airways, a full-service airline, grew fast to become India’s largest international carrier. However, with budget airlines such as SpiceJet and Indigo entering the broil, the aviation industry became a highly...

Our earth is constantly moving in cosmos space at a very high speed. There are three kind of movements our earth is making. The first movement is the rotation on its axis that gives us day and night. The second movement is the revolution around the sun that gives us cold and hot seasons. The third movement is the movement of whole solar system around the center of milky way galaxy. Have you ever wondered how these movements first...

Do you like science fiction stories and science fiction movies? If so, the movie called Jurassic Park must be well-known for you. If you liked the previous version of the movie, the good news for you is that the new Jurassic Park 4 is on the way. The movie is expected to be released on July 14th, 2014. See the trailer of the previous Jurassic Park movies here below. !-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-1616580696425557"; /* 468X15 - Horizontal...

1. If the sun were to "turn off", the Earth would completely freeze within a week with a temperature of 0 degrees Fahrenheit even in the equator. In a year's time it would dip to -100 degree Fahrenheit, and millions of years later it would be a stable -400 degrees Fahrenheit. 2.The sun is getting hotter, becomming 10% more luminous around every billion years. This could mean that in a billion years, there will be no liquid water on Earth. 3....

I thought to write something about the orbital mechanics that I know so far. This would be a revision for me as well as chance to realize new things and come up with new questions to ask for myself. The celestial mechanics or the orbital mechanics is the study of dynamics of satellites and planets in their orbit around bigger masses. For example, the moon and artificial satellites such as GPS, International Space station, etc. revolve...

Energy is not continuous, but comes in small but discrete units. The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves. The movement of these particles is inherently random. It is physically impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time. The more precisely one is known, the less precise the measurement of the other is. The atomic world is nothing like the world we live in. There is a new branch of science called Super String Theory or M Theory, which is further demonstrating...

Hereby, I have shared a documentary about Parallel Universes at the end of this post. Parallel universe is also known as the "alternative reality". The idea behind the parallel universe (multiverse) is that there are far more than just one universe and that we constantly interact with many of these "hidden" universes. This idea mainly evolved on the basis of the fact that subatomic particles are unstable. The subatomic particles (elementary...

Australian transport investigators have announced they have identified a "critical safety issue" with engines fitted to the world's largest passenger airliner. Some Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines, which power some Airbus A380 "superjumbos", may be prone to "fatigue cracking", which could lead to oil leakage and a fire. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said they think this was "central to the engine failure" which occurred on...

There was an age when communication and transportation was limited which kept us to persue a limited ammount of space on earth. With each slight progress in communication and transportation, our community suddenly elaborated. We started from streeet to street and then town to town and eventually from country to country. With this rapid development in science and technology, we might eventually talk about planet to planet. For example, in...

July 13, 2010Solar Impulse, whose wingspan is the same as an Airbus A340 (64.3m), flew 26 hours and 9 minutes, powered only by solar energy stored during the day. It was also the longest and highest flight in the history of solar aviation, organizers said. Bertrand Piccard, the Swiss president of the project, best known for completing the first round-the-world flight in a hot air balloon in 1999, said the success of the flight showed the...

It is certain that there won’t be any life on earth once the sun gets burnt out and it starts expanding to form a red giant which will end the earth and solar system. This is estimated to happen in five billion years from now on. But that time is very far from us, so we don’t need to panic right now. Besides, the search for another shelter planet is going on with the rapid development in science and technology. The other thing that we should...

The society I am living is about 5 square kilometers in area. It takes probably an hour to go around. This society is just a small part of the city, and the city itself is a small part of the country. There are hundreds of such countries and thousands of such cities on the earth. I can't imagine how many hours or years will it take to visit around the earth.  The other day I was browsing some images of telescopic views of space. At...

South Korea has lost contact with its Naro-1 rocket, just 137 seconds after take-off. Officials believe the rocket exploded. Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center had hoped to use a Naro-1, South Korea's first carrier rocket, to launch a STSAT-2B satellite. South Korea had postponed the launch on Wednesday due to problems with the rocket's fire extinguisher system. Science...

Chinese researchers have successfully built an electromagnetic absorbing device for microwave frequencies. The device, made of a thin cylinder comprising 60 concentric rings of metamaterials, is capable of absorbing microwave radiation, and has been compared to an astrophysical black hole (which, in space, soaks up matter and light). The research published June 3 in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German...

Astrophysicists analyzing infrared images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope found indications of a dust cloud surrounding a relatively young star. The star is 10 to 16 million years old, and analysis of the dust cloud suggests that it may coalesce and become a rocky planet like earth. It is located at a distance from the star that it may build an atmosphere, collect liquid water, and perhaps, in millions and millions of years, support...

25th May, 2010 Australian scientists Monday unveiled the world's smallest electronic switch measuring just a few atoms, which will shrink microchips and revolutionise computing speeds. The seven-atom transistor, measuring four-billionths of a metre and embedded in a single silicone crystal, is the first step in a "quantum computer" which will make calculations millions of times faster than existing devices. Lead researcher Michelle Simmons...

Fishtail Air has with the help of Air Zermatt, a Swiss helicopter company, introduced an advance "Alpine Rescue System" in the Himalayan region of Nepal. As there has been many deaths of the mountaineers in the Himalayan region, Fishtail Air has started this system to carry out rescue operations to save precious lives. Air Zermatt, a helicopter company based in Switzerland, is famous company for rescue operation. It has now joined hands...

Are eco-friendly airplanes possible? The ecology is finally getting more attention, and eco-friendly products are becoming increasingly popular. Hybrid cars are one of the best examples how eco-friendly vehicles are becoming more and more popular as their sales have experienced significant growth in the last few years. And now it looks like air traffic might also have its green representative in form of eco-friendly plane after MIT-led...

1. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph (1,610 kph) but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph (107,826 kph). 2. Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth. 3. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun. 4. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant. 5. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles (10.8 kilometres) down to the deepest part of the ocean. 6. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will...

American biologist Craig Venter has announced that he has created the first ever "artificial life form" on Earth at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a U.S. laboratory and research center. The breakthrough is the culmination of fifteen years of research and builds upon earlier work, research which saw the creation of a synthetic bacterial genome and the transplant of a genome from one species of bacteria into a second. "Synthia", a nickname...

Without no doubt, everyone knows that Jupiter is the fifth member of our solar system and it is the largest planet in our solar family. Here below can you find some more interesting facts about Jupiter. Equatorial Radius: ~71500 kms [11.21 times that of earth] Surface Area: 6.21796×1010 km² [122 times that of earth] Volume: 1.43128×1015 km³ [1321.3 times that of earth] Mass: 1.8986×1027 kg [318 times that of earth ;...

What is a black hole ? In simple words, a black hole is a strange astronomical body which is formed when a massive star dies. As the star dies, the nuclear fusion reactions stop because the fuel for these reactions gets burned up. At the same time, the star's gravity pulls material inward and compresses the core. As the core compresses, it heats up and eventually creates a supernova explosion in which the material and radiation...

Gravity is a well-known term and everyone in general knows that it is a pulling force. It is such a force which keeps everything in contact and everything thus constrained to something. Gravity of earth keeps the moon where it is supposed to be and gravity keeps you where you are now. If you weren’t under gravity of earth, you would be floating in space. This understanding of gravity is not really limited to the force of attraction between...