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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...

Volcanic ash detector will be installed around UK

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A cinder cloud from Icelandic spring of gushing lava Eyjafjallajokull prompted aircrafts crossing out flights in 2010. Flight powers and the Met Office were blamed by a few carriers and legislators for overestimating the risk to airplane. Around then, airplane couldn't fly if there was any fiery debris in the climate. The greater part of this provoked a universal push to enhance estimate capacity and the aeronautics powers to change their flight wellbeing tenets. 
The expense of shutting the airspace cost carriers more than £1bn. 
Image result for Volcanic ash detector network to be installed around UK"We've got three groups of fiery remains - low, medium and high, which is characterized by the measure of slag noticeable all around - that characterizes where aircrafts can fly," said Jonathan Nicholson of the Civil Aviation Authority. 
"On the off chance that the aircraft has masterminded with us that they can fly in the low and medium groups, then they're allowed to settle on their own decisions. So we ought to see a great deal less disturbance with the same measure of fiery remains as we saw amid the Icelandic volcanic cinder cloud." 

Image result for Volcanic ash detector network to be installed around UKWorking out whether a slag cloud is low, medium or high is the place the new government-subsidized system comes in. It will be comprised of 10 instruments called Light Detection and Ranging Systems, or Lidar.Airlines have additionally been taking the activity. Easyjet has been trying a fiery debris finder, which they want to fit to some of their air ship in future to give early cautioning of any powder in the flight way forward. 
Then, British Airways have flown a test instrument on one of their kind sized planes, which measures the electricity produced via friction created by the grating of a flying machine flying through fiery debris to attempt and survey the fixation. Be that as it may, the Civil Aviation Authority should sanction these instruments before they can be brought into utilization. 
Mr Nicholson said the innovation the carriers are taking a shot at fitting to their flying machine would be to empower them to see what fiery remains was before them.  "That will be a major help, particularly when you consolidate it with different things like the new radar, satellites, ground based location framework and the test flying machine." 
The dynamic volcanoes of Iceland will keep on displaying a danger to air go in future, yet the blend of enhanced identification, better estimate ability and more adaptable security regulations will minimize interruption next time around

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