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 …
a european Commission's ( ec' s) decision to clamp down on the use of old noisy aircraft inside European Union's ( eu' s) airspace is set to provoke a trade dispute between the eu and the us. W ith the unanimous backing of 15 eu member states, the ec plans …
Aeroplane passengers may no longer have to yell at each other to be heard. Ultra Electronics of Cambridge, UK, has designed a passenger seat that halves the perceived ambient noise inside most aircraft cabins. The trick is done through a sound-cancelling device built into the headrests. A microphone samples sound …
THE Dutch government inspectors have played down the health risks posed by chemicals released into an Amsterdam suburb following the 1992 crash of an El Al cargo plane. But the inspectors admit that some questions cannot be answered because documents detailing the plane's cargo are incomplete. Claims of a cover …
A SMALL radio-controlled aircraft could soon be monitoring the air for signs of biological weapons. Fitted with a sensor developed at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, the craft will venture into possible danger zones and send back data on any biowar bacteria it detects. The biosensor was …
A recent patent from British Petroleum (BP) makes a disturbing admission: piston-engined aircraft need such high-octane fuel that tetraethyl lead is still added to it to keep its octane rating up. So while all new cars can now use unleaded fuel, aircraft engines are still dropping lead from the sky. …
Aviation history was made recently when an unpiloted aircraft flew over the Atlantic safely for the very first time. The designers of this remarkable robot plane say the breakthrough could eventually lead to improved weather forecasting. The robot aircraft, designed research teams based in Australia and the US, flew from …
Female flight attendants run a higher risk of getting breast cancer. This could be due to the effects of jet lag on melanin, a hormone, the level of which is up to 10 times higher levels in the blood at night than during the day. Crossing time zones repeatedly may …
A robot plane is due to take off from Newfoundland later this month and fly 3,000 km across the Atlantic to Ireland without any human intervention whatsoever. The flight, say the developers of the plane, should take 24 hours. The 14-kg plane has been designed by researchers at the University …
US naval scientists in California have developed a nonpolluting rocket fuel that burns alcohol and hydrogen peroxide. The key is the catalyst that the navy is keeping under wraps. The catalyst is suspended in alcohol and mixed with hydrogen peroxide. It breaks down the hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water, …
At night police using spotter helicopters find it hard to tell cops from robbers on the ground. The simple answer, according to Richard Harvey of Newport in South Wales, UK, is for each officer on the ground to wear a small infrared transmitter on his or her head. Driven by …
SOFTWARE that allows airline pilots to calculate their takeoff speed more accurately should increase safety margins in aborted takeoffs and also cut maintenance costs. The speed at which a plane can lift itself off the runway, known as vl, has to be calculated from the various flight characteristics of the …
NEWS from home: Indian aeronautical scientists and engineers are working on an ambitious project called Micro Air Vehicles (MAY) to produce aircraft that will not be much bigger than the palm of our hand. These "palm-top" planes will be crucial in operations which would require them to fly to spots …
To prevent collisions of aeroplanes with mountains, several major airlines have announced plans to install a satellite-based navigation system in the cockpits of planes. The equipment, called enhanced ground proximity warning system, uses the global positioning system of satellites to pinpoint the exact location of the plane. With this information, …
A global positioning system (gps) receiver, a laptop computer and some software can be used to warn pilots if they are flying too close to the ground. California-based Dubbs and Severino has developed the software from technology originally researched by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Military pilots are …
governments may be forced to hike air ticket costs as European environmental groups are pushing for pollution taxes on aviation fuel. When European Union environment and transport ministers met in Chester, uk, recently, environmentalists demanded for a tax on carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from aircraft or extra tax …
when a us air force pilot complained last year that the composite wing on his Stealth fighter is too flexible, no one bothered to check. However, his fears were soon realised when the us $45-million aircraft shed the faulty wing during an air show last September and fell out of …
Scientists from the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have recently patented a breakthrough biotechnological process that can be employed to produce kevlar aramid fibres used extensively in aircraft, space systems and rocket motor casings. These are also used as high-strength materials to make fibre-reinforced polymer matrix composites that …
hollywood has even made a film about it. Fly Away Home tells the story of a father-daughter team and their efforts to lead a flock of young geese to a new home and of their eventual success. Reality, however, is a totally different ball game, far from the big screen's …
Bangladesh experienced its worst ever cold wave that killed at least 220 people in the western and northern districts. Biman Bangaladesh, the national airline, cancelled many of its domestic and international flights due to heavy fogs blanketing the affected regions. Authorities distributed blankets to the victims to protect them against …
And now a window to keep out aircraft noise. Fergus Fricke and Ramin Mohajeri at the University of Sydney, Australia, have developed a window that responds to the sound of an aircraft by shutting. When the noise falls below a threshold, the window opens again. The invention could be of …
