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...auxiliary power unit provides electricity and compressed air primarily for air conditioning and on-board controls when the craft is on the ground and the engines are not producing this power. The unit is also a backup for the surface controls, like the rudder, in flight. Some experts theorized last week that as the auxiliary system disintegrated it might have ruptured hydraulic lines in the tail, which, in turn, could have affected the aircraft's main controls...
Though most of the newcomers have imitated People's low-fare strategy, one fledgling carrier went to the opposite extreme. Regent Air, which currently flies only two planes between Los Angeles and Newark, offers lavish $785 flights that feature caviar, French champagne and on-board hairdressers and stenographers. But Regent has also experienced lavish losses: in its first two years it went $38 million into...
...impacts a second, a bombardment that swung its antenna out of alignment with a tracking station in Australia. That brought communications to a halt. But before the blackout, Giotto relayed more than 2,000 images of Halley's back to earth, plus a torrent of data from the ten on-board instruments...
Powered by a modified 900-cc Kawasaki motorcyle engine, the Hexapod walks with the aid of 16 on-board computers. The data processors get their information from sensors and use it to guide the vehicle forward, backward or to the side. Scientists at Ohio State, who have spent $5 million so far developing the Hexapod, will put the machine through its first walking test this fall...
...basically on-board with the experiment as an experiment,” Currier House Co-Master Joseph L. Badaracco said. “If students conduct themselves responsibly this could be extended beyond the spring...