The Use of Satellite Technologies for Maritime Surveillance: An Overview of EU Initiatives

The sea lies at the heart of the EU prosperity and security: the Union and its member states depend on open and secure seas and oceans for their trade, transportation, energy, food, mineral resources, tourism, and a heal...

Achieving a More Electric Aircraft: a comparative study between the concurrent and traditional engineering models

The paper presents a model of concurrent engineering implemented in the life cycle of an electric motor as part of an electric aircraft with major advantages over traditional engineering. The paper also shows the 2D mode...

Book Review: Low Speed Wind Tunnel Testing, Jewel B. BARLOW, William H. RAE Jr., Alan POPE John Wiley & Sons, New York, Toronto, 1999, 3rd Edition, ISBN 978-0-471-55774-9

Aeromobile forces in missions abroad

This article shows the role of Aeromobile forces during missions abroad. Firstly it will be explained how to understand the concept of “Aeromobile forces”. After that a short classification of missions abroad will be sho...

A VORTEX MODEL OF A HELICOPTER ROTOR

A vortex model of a helicopter rotor is presented. Each blade of the rotor has three degrees of freedom: flapping, lagging and feathering. The motions after each degree of freedom are also known for all blades. The blade...