After presenting a very brief outline of this flight program, this paper will dwell in more detail on the key challenges that must be met for successful flight. These include the comparison of the frequency of the PARCS cesium clock with Earth-bound cesium clocks using the GPS carrier-phase method, the implementation of the phase modulation scheme needed to minimize the impact of space-station ...

birds, sometimes numbering in millions, can cause serious damage to grain fields. in order to find a method to accordance with environmental issues and effective in controlling these birds, in this research, the effect of sound was studied for keep birds away. the broadcast unit was developed with the following design criteria: 1) three sound levels of hawk, gas gun and sparrow distress, with f...

The flight-capable morph of the wing-polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus, accumulated a substantially greater quantity of total lipid and triglyceride, compared with the obligately flightless morph, during the first five days of adulthood. Increased lipid accumulation in the flight-capable morph was genetically based, and was produced when ovarian growth is substantially reduced in that morph. ...

Proper design of receiver flight paths allows three-dimensional information to be encoded in sensed bistatic SAR phase history data. The authors show how the flight path taken by the receiving platform determines the resolution of nonparametric scene reconstructions and determines the variance of three-dimensional scattering centre location parameter estimates. Based on these relationships, a b...

We consider the problem of transport in a one-parameter family of piecewise rotations of the torus, for rotation number approaching 1∕4. This is a zero-entropy system which in this limit exhibits a divided phase space, with island chains immersed in a "pseudo-chaotic" region. We identify a novel mechanism for long-range transport, namely the adiabatic destruction of accelerator-mode islands. Th...

We present an algorithm for the crew pairing problem, an optimization problem that is part of the airline crew scheduling procedure. A pairing is a round trip starting and ending at the home base, which is susceptible to constraints that arise due to laws and regulations. The purpose of the crew pairing problem is to generate a set of pairings with minimal cost, covering all flight legs that th...

The biogenic amine octopamine modulates a variety of aspects of insect motor behavior, including direct action on the flight central pattern generator. A number of recent studies demonstrate that tyramine, the biological precursor of octopamine, also affects invertebrate locomotor behaviors, including insect flight. However, it is not clear whether the central pattern generating networks are di...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster performs at least two distinct types of flight initiation. One kind is a stereotyped escape response to a visual stimulus that is mediated by the hard-wired giant fiber neural pathway, and the other is a more variable ;voluntary' response that can be performed without giant fiber activation. Because the simpler escape take-offs are apparently successful, it...

In this paper, an approximate solution of sensitivity matrix of required velocity with final velocity constraint is derived using a piecewise linear gravity assumption. The total flight time is also fixed for the problem. Simulation results show the accuracy of the method. Increasing the midway points for linearization, increases the accuracy of the solution, which this, in turn, depends on the...

The first flight test phase of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Autonomous Formation Flight project has successfully demonstrated precision autonomous station-keeping of an F/A-18 research airplane with a second F/A-18 airplane. Blended inertial navigation system (INS) and global positioning system (GPS) measurements have been communicated across an air-to-air telemetry link and used to c...