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 …
IT WAS almost the last flight for passengers on board a commuter aircraft thattook off from Washington D C one nightin April last year. As the aircraft gainedheightthe pilot set its course for a shortflight to NewarkNew Jersey. Then suddenlythings went wonky. The air trafficcontrol radioed the pilot that the …
BLEAK future awaits the aerospace engineering departments of the five Indian Institutes of Technology (11TS), which played a key role in the development of light combat aircraft, missiles, launch vehicles and satellites. The HT managements have initiated a move to scrap the undergraduate aerospace engineering courses. The reasons cited by …
Charitable Net Non-profit groups are putting up their web sites to extend support to people in need. The free-to-browse sites disseminate information ranging from how to conserve oil to evil effects of free licensing of firearms. The American Red Cross Society calls for donations through its website, and surfers have …
THANKS to Steve Casner, a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames research centre at Mountain View, California, us, aspiring pilots can now learn to fly advanced commercial aircrafts by using nothing more than a laptop computer. Casner's basic idea was to simulate the programme found …
Scientists in the optics and laser technology department of British Aerospace's Sowerby Research Centre at Filton in South UK are planning to develop 'smart' aircraft wings that look after themselves. The new wings have miniature sensors manufactured from optical fibres that change colour when they experience stress or temperature changes. …
THE use of computer technology has grown immensely and software is being used to develop varied products ranging from trains to toasters. But as the power of digital hardware has grown, the size and complexity of the software needed to control it has als6 increased. Traditional software development is labour-intensive …
RECENT research conducted on the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has shown that a large proportion of the population living around the airport has developed serious respiratory complaints. A higher than average number of people suffer from stress and cardiac problems. It is suspected that there may also be …
AIRSHIPS (dirigible powered balloons having a rigid elongated structure) are all set to take on the skies. The lighter- than-air craft is being manufactured by Zeppelin Luftschifftech1:1ik at Friedri- chshafenin southern Germany. During the '20s and '30s, airships were the fastest means of crossing the Atlantic - doing so in …
Here is good news for the Russy Modi types -high-powered executives who often pilot their own planes: a parachute for the plane. It will be the main safety feature of Cirrus Design Corporation's SR20. Expected to sell for US $1,30,000 when it is introduced next year, the singIe-engine SR20 aircraft …
IT WAS in 1969 that the Concorde, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, built jointly by France and Britain, made its high-flying debut. Twenty seven years later, it is still the only one of its kind. But its successor is being developed in design bureaux and laboratories around the world. …
THERE seems to be no limit to the harm done on the environment in the name of development., At least one lakh trees - mainly coconut - are proposed to be felled to clear the ground for a proposed airport in Lakshadweep. The local government has planned to construct an …
The glamour of the profession apart, airline crew face a heightened risk of cancer. Researchers of the Finnish Cancer Registry conducted a study of the extent to which airline staff were exposed to cosmic radiation and the consequent risk of cancer harboured by them (British Medical journal, Vol 311, No …
SRI International, the US contrad research organisation - former known as Stanford Reseai 2 tute - has devised a hardensi luggage container to mitigate ON effect of a terrorist bomb blast on aircraft. The 0.5 inches thick "blanket" is made of materials that can absoic bomb blast debris and fragment …
WHEN the US Air flight 1016 crashed in 1994 in Charlotte, North Carolina, air traffic controllers knew more about the weather conditions than did the plane's crew. This has led the committee of National Research Council to conclude that air traffic controllers should exercise more caution about allowing aircrafts to …
A HIGH-altitude Russian spy plane has been donated to western European scientists for studying ozone layer depletion over the Arctic region. Russia will provide the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg with (;eophysika, a specially transmuted version of the Mvasishchev Ni-55 aircraft, having an instrument bay capable of carrying more Than …
J C WILSON of the University of Denver has found that the first and only commercially run supersonic airliner - the Concorde - emits loads of sulphur particles in the atmosphere. He says that the discovery may compel engineers to alter the design of the engine and the fuels to …
A complete helicopter (prot - can now undergo shake tests India to assess vibration levels pre-test flight responses. Des' by the Structures Division, N Aerospace Labs (NAL), Ban this highly advanced facility been set up at Hind Aeronautics Ltd, Bangalore. The design and develop activity at NAL cost Its 15.7 …
In what is being termed as a historic venture, the India-China-South Korea consortium to build a 100-seater passenger aircraft could cause a severe jolt to the powerful Western aerospace industry. Civil aviatiation experts opine that the Asian airline industry soon expects to see the maximum growth globally, in the medium-size …
The famed Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh could possibly suffer structural damage due to vibrations caused by aircraft movements in the vicinity. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) appointed a research group in the first week of December, to study the development of cracks in some of the sculptures, ascribed …
THE Indian skies are not as generous and capacious as they appear to be in the rosy light of touristy optimism when it comes to accommodating the steadily increasing domestic and international aircraft flights. The "airport stress syndrome" has come to roost in India, following its establishment as the hub …
