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Timely notices of NASA aeronautics research and technology
featured in popular magazines, television programs, films, or on the
World Wide Web.
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ON AUDIO
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Monthly |
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Various Radio Stations, iTunes, Podcast |
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The Pulse of the Planet |
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Various Aerospace Topics |
Each month, the Pulse of the Planet audio series features two-minute
audio segments on new aerospace research that affects passengers' flying
experience, from air quality and noise pollution to safety and the
development of new materials and technologies. Current and previous
months' segments are available for listening or for download from the
series' Web site.
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ON TELEVISION Updated 12-12-07
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Friday, December 14, 10 pm EST |
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ABC's Elizabeth Vargas interviews Bruce Fisher of NASA's Langley
Research Center in Hampton, VA for a program that investigates certain
travel myths, including one about whether lightning could cause an
airliner to crash.
Fisher was part of the eight-year NASA Storm Hazards Research Program in
the 1980s that studied lightning strikes and helped improve lightning
protection standards for commercial and military aircraft. Pilots
navigated an instrumented F-106 jet through thunderstorms looking for
lightning, while researchers took data during the storm penetrations.
Fisher figures he flew through more than 200 lightning strikes. In all,
the F-106 made 1,496 thunderstorm penetrations and took 714 direct
lightning hits.
"We tried to quantify the electro-magnetic properties of lightning in
flight, and lightning strikes to aircraft," Fisher said. "That way we
could come up with certification and test standards so that lightning
won't affect newer technologies now on aircraft like computerized
systems and displays inside of airplanes or composite materials on the
outside of airplanes."
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ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
A feature article in the July 2006 issue of "Popular Mechanics"
magazine explored several NASA aeronautics research projects including
the Intelligent Flight Control System, the Synthetic Vision System, and
ideas for aircraft designs for the future.
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