Model Airplanes

So many investors wanted in on the supersonic jet in development in Centennial that Boom Technology decided to accept more funding than it set out to attract. It raised $33 million, the company plans to announce Wednesday.

“We now have all the money we need to go and build an airplane,” Boom CEO and co-founder Blake Scholl said.

The plane, of course, is no ordinary aircraft. It intends to travel faster than last century’s Concorde, but will be smaller, lighter and cheaper. Boom says the future plane will travel faster than the speed of sound and fly from New York to London in 3 hours and 15 minutes — for $5,000 round trip. The lure of faster, affordable travel enticed investors, but their attraction to Boom is a supersonic jet that is feasible and marketable.

“There has been extreme interest in Boom, not minor interest. Not paper airplanes either. Highly suitable investors and global airlines are looking at this. They see the disruptive nature of this airplane and they want to be part of it,” said Michael Boyd, president of Boyd Group International, an aviation consulting firm in Evergreen that is not an investor. “The thing is with this entity, they (Boom) are not dreamers. These people don’t want to just put out a supersonic airplane. They’re looking at it from a market perspective, not a dreamer’s.”

• Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

  Blake Scholl, left, and Joe Wilding, right, both co-founders of Boom Technology, stand in front of a large model

  Article source: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/22/boom-supersonic-jet-funding/

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After the Trump administration
announced a ban on carrying electronic devices larger than a
cellphone in the cabins of US-bound airplanes coming from eight
Middle Eastern and African countries, experts were left
questioning whether such a ban would actually be effective in
preventing terrorist attacks.

The US Department of Homeland Security announced the ban, which
applies to nonstop flights originating from 10 airports in
Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, and
the United Arab Emirates, on Monday evening. Passengers will have
to place all electronic items larger than a cellphone in their
checked luggage so the devices cannot be accessed in-flight.

“Evaluated intelligence indicates that terrorist groups continue
to target commercial aviation and are aggressively pursuing
innovative methods to undertake their attacks, to include
smuggling explosive devices in various consumer items,” a senior
administration official said on a call with members of the media.

Ban ‘ignores the realities of terrorist behavior’

David C. Gomez, a

Article source: http://www.businessinsider.com/experts-trump-airline-electronics-ban-2017-3

An international team of scientists and mathematicians have been working to reconstruct the crash of Germanwings flight 9525, which burst into thousands of pieces upon impact in the the French Alps in 2015, through complex computer simulations.

Led by AM professor of mathematics Goong Chen, the team used a computer model to recreate the plane and the surrounding terrain, and then virtually crash the plane in different ways to try to determine which initial conditions most likely led to the observed debris pattern.

“Through mathematical modeling and the ensued supercomputing, we can visualize from the dynamic video animation how the airliner was totally destructed and fragmented,” Chen said. “This is like a ‘crime scene reenactment’ that is often critical in the investigation of any committed crime. But only computer simulation has made this possible, as physical experiments even with small scale models can be extremely

Article source: http://www.thebatt.com/science-technology/a-m-prof-leads-team-of-researchers-to-investigate-germanwings/article_217976b2-0deb-11e7-91ec-d32f78e66c8b.html