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Non-Tech : Aerodynamic technology and clever usage ?
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From: Arthur Tang1/27/2010 1:03:31 PM
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Its been years that airplanes use reverse thrust of jet engines to stop fast landing on runways. In the last few years, Airbus pilots had started to learn something new. Takeoff and landing of Boeing 757 is 180 miles per hour. Airbus started to do it at 159 miles per hour. Now they are taking off and landing at 135 miles per hour. Taking off on shorter runways. And landing with flappers(deflectors) on the wing slowing with air resistance rather than reverse thrust of jet engines wasting gas. You never feel safer.

Car design is going thru some impressive changes. Suspension is now much tighter. Tires weighing less does not drop down and bounce up, on contact with the road. The cars feel tighter even on rough roads. Car design is also based on lift, drag and air resistance reduction to save gas consumption.

Turbo engines now are shifting rpm and torque by having 21 PSI of compressed air at the highway speed or city driving. Motorized turbo compressors can do computer optimized air intake pressurized. Just ask Ford, ecoboost engines converting to super fuel conservation by increasing horsepower with compressed air intake at normal speeds.

So, we march on , one foot in front of the other. Aerodynamics will be designed into new airplanes and cars, even. New products are the lifeline of improving economy, the governments only had to print money to change hands.
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