Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
another addition to the list of products harmful to the ozone layer is the Concorde, the supersonic aircraft. Research shows that the trail of invisible fog of sulphuric acid left by a Concorde may be depleting the ozone layer far faster than climatologists had expected. David Fahey of the us …
a new generation of passenger jets, which will mainly use hydrogen as fuel, are in the offing. The aircraft will be cheaper to run and cleaner, leaving little more than a trail of water vapour across the sky ( Flight International , Vol 151, No 4565). The new aircraft, called …
after birds, it is cosmic rays that are likely to put aircraft in trouble. Scientists at the Swedish Aerospace Company, Ericsson Saab Avionics (esa), say that cosmic rays could damage aircraft that mainly depend on computers as they are susceptible to the high-energy particles that bombard the earth. Computers induce …
A new airport security system is proving five times better than X-ray machines in trials at Heathrow Airport, London. The system, invented by scientists at King's College in London, uses radio waves to detect molecules of prohibited substances. It relies on quadrapole resonance (QR) to detect nitrogen, found in all …
THE ear-splitting roar of a supersonic passenger jet during take-off could be muffled by surrounding the jet's exhaust with a 'virtual shroud' of air, according to Dimitri Papamoschou, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California at Irvine, in California, US. The shroud could be the …
THE Construction of an international airport at Devanahalli near Bangalore, which was stalled for acquiring approval from the state pollution control board (SPCB) and the Union ministry of environment and forests, would finally be completed, said Karnataka chief minister J H Patel recently. While the state government had green signalled …
even with the help of a flight data recorder (fdr), commonly known as a black box, it might be difficult to find out why an aircraft crashed. As the existing fdrs do not register all the information that investigators might need, the us federal aviation administration is now considering whether …
Pilots can now fly daring low-level missions at night using the Nightbird forward looking infrared (FLIR) imaging system. The system has revolutionised the operational effectiveness of military aircraft and can also add to safety in civil airlines. The FLIR, which was recently demonstrated in a display at London's science museum, …
High Speed Civil Transport, a joint US-Russian project to test Russia's supersonic airplane, the TU-144L on which future concords are to be modelled is underway at the Tupolev aviation complex in Russia. NASA is paying the complex US $10m for trial flights and equipment. A number of other aeronautics companies …
One of the biggest tobacco lawsuits was set in motion in the US recently with lawyers sending notices to potential claimants. These include former and current flight attendants on US airlines consistently exposed to second-hand smoke. A mass mailing exercise has begun to identify non-smokers among 120,000 flight attendants who …
AS THE debris of the first ever mid-air collision in the history of Indian aviation between a Saudi Boeing and a Kazakh il-76 aircraft lie spread over an area of 10 km in Charkhi Dadri
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) would organise the first ever exposition to focus on the ongoing development, modernisation and expansion of airport infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The CII exposition, which will commence in Bangalore on December 4, is scheduled to be held for three days. The exposition will …
a flight -free Sunday afternoon. It would be an extraordinary experience for the neighbours of Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, when activists will disturb air traffic for two hours. Recently, the neighbours of Schiphol (and of the five regional airports) as well as environmental organisations offered an appeal to the minister of …
a prototype aircraft that flies by itself at five times the speed of sound has recently been unveiled in the us . Its futuristic shape has led to the speculation that a secret full-size version of the plane could be responsible for ufo (unidentified flying object) sightings. The wedge-shaped LoFlyte's …
The Eurofighter (EF)-2000, being developed for the air forces of the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain, will be the first aircraft to have an integrated structural health and usage system developed by the British Aerospace (BA). The system performs real-time fatigue calculations and determines the life consumed by the airframe. …
for aerial fire-fighters, exchanging information over vast expanses of flaming wilderness is fraught with high risk and exigency . In an effort to improve the safety and efficiency of aerial fire-fighting, four us-based agencies, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa), the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Department …
over the last few years, the military's network of 24 global positioning satellites has emerged as a promising technology for landing planes in bad weather. Compared with the existing system of poor-visibility landings, the global positioning system (gps) is cheaper, more versatile, and could drastically reduce weather related airport delays. …
