However, this meant immediate redundancy for 173 out of the 208 staff. SABRE is an exotic design, described as an air-breathing rocket engine. It allows an aircraft to take off from a runway as normal ...
He said the national flag carrier has 34 aircraft in its fleet, of which only 16 were operational while 18 have been grounded, due to which the airline was facing financial difficulties.
The researchers deployed rows of flaps to the wing design to prevent aircraft from stalling, much like birds deploy their covert feathers to achieve certain aerial maneuvers. Covert feathers are a ...
"One outcome was the ability, with the help of design elements such as thrust vectoring, to execute controlled flight at extreme angles of attack at which conventional aircraft would stall or lose ...