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01/09/2009
NASA - Glass Cockpit Design (2000)
Eleven new full-color, flat-panel display screens in the shuttle cockpit replace 32 gauges and electromechanical displays and four cathode-ray tube displays. The new "glass cockpit" is 75 pounds lighter and uses less power then the older model, and its color displays provide easier pilot recognition of key shuttle functions. The new cockpit is expected to be installed on all shuttles in the NASA fleet by 2002, and it sets the stage for the next cockpit improvement planned to fly in 2005: a "smart cockpit" that reduces the pilot's workload during critical periods. During STS-101, Atlantis will fly as the most updated shuttle ever, with more than 100 new modifications incorporated during a ten-month period in 1998 at Boeing's Palmdale, Calif., shuttle factory. View the source and other glass cockpit designs HERE.
21/08/2009
Winchell Chung Jr - Rockets and Space ships Comparison
[1] Giraffe: 6 meters/20 feet
[2] City Bus: 12 meters/40 feet long
[3] Small Orion Drive ship: 21 meters/70 feet
[4] Millennium Falcon: 27 meters/90 feet (Star Wars)
[5] Polaris: 43 meters/140 feet (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet)
[6] Moonship: 44 meters/144 feet (Chesley Bonestell Conquest of Space)
[7] Luna: 46 meters/150 feet (Destination Moon)
[8] Arc De Triomphe: 49 meters/160 feet
[9] Orion Drive Mars Exploration Vehicle: 50 meters/165 feet
[10] United Planets Star Cruiser C-57D: 51 meters/170 feet wide (Forbidden Planet)
[11] Nautilus: 51 meters/170 feet long
[12] Space Shuttle stack: 56 meters/180 feet
[13] Absyrtis: 60 meters/197 feet (G. Harry Stine Contraband Rocket)
[14] Boeing747: 72 meters/232 feet
[15] RS-10: 73 meters/240 feet (Andre Norton Star Born)
[16] Ferry Rocket: 84 meters/280 feet (Collier's Magazine, 22 March, 1952)
[17] Statue of Liberty: 93 meters/300 feet
[18] DE-51 Destroyer Buckley: 93 meters/306 feet
[19] Saturn V: 102 meters/335 feet
[20] DY-100 Botany Bay: 111 meters/365 feet (Star Trek)
[21] California Redwood: 112 meters/367 feet
[22] Discovery: 113 meters/370 feet (2001, A Space Odyssey)
[23] Romulan Bird of Prey: 131 meters/430 feet (Star Trek)
[24] Great Pyramid of Cheops: 140 meters/500 feet
[25] Oscar class submarine: 154 meters/500 feet
[26] Galactic Cruiser Leif Ericson: 169 meters/554 feet
[27] Washington Monument: 170 meters/560 feet
[28] Klingon D7 battlecruiser: 228 meters/750 feet (Star Trek)
[29] LZ-129 Passenger airship Hindenburg: 245 meters/800 feet
[30] BB-62 Battleship New Jersey: 270 meters/887 feet
[31] NCC 1701 Starship Enterprise: 289 meters/950 feet (Star Trek)
[32] Eiffel Tower: 324 meters/1060 feet
[33] CVN-65 Carrier Enterprise: 336 meters/1101 feet
[34] Empire State Building: 444 meters/1500 feet
[35] Al Rafik: 102 meters/335 feet (Attack Vector: Tactical)
Read the source HERE.
16/04/2009
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