Thursday, January 12, 2012

iPhone celebrates it's fifth birthday


Five years ago today, Apple unveiled the original iPhone to the world. It wasn't a tightly kept secret, shrouded in mystery and speculation like more recent Apple announcements, but it was arguably the world's most anticipated gadget launch.Although its form factor -- a capacitive touchscreen candy bar  hasn't dramatically changed over the years, each iteration of the iPhone has yielded important improvements. Let's take a look back at how the iPhone revolutionized what we thought a phone could be.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Construction of Remote Controlled Airplane


There are a lot of ways to construct a remote controlled airplane. Different kits are available for designing a RC plane. Cost and performance of RC plane is depend on the way of construction. Normally kits are made of foam or plastic or balsa wood. For the construction of fuselage formers and longerons are used. For wings and tail surfaces normally spars and ribs are used. Solid sheets of wood also sometimes used for structure construction. For heavy RC airplane construction a composite wing consisting of expanded polystyrene core covered by the safety veneer of wood is used. If we want to make remote controlled airplane for windless environment, the lightest models are most preferable. 

Types of Remote Controlled Airplane


Although all the aviation airplanes models are not possible to build in realistic but the scientists are using aeromodeling to give it a possible replicate full-scale aircraft model. Its main purpose is to test the future aviation designs, to realize the limitaions of making a proposed aircraft. Normally remote controlled aircrafts are lighter (even lighter than the air) than the aviation aircrafts. It can also make as the heavier than the air (wing glider/sail plane), fixed-wing single or multiple, multiple engine or rotary wing aircraft (autogyros/ helicopters).

The most interesting thing for remote controlled airplanes builders is that they are capable of making a controllable mini aircraft that almost look like full scale original aircraft. For desigining a full scale aircraft one need to consider about detailed cockpit, operable cable connected flight control surfaces, fixing landing gear etc. But these need not to be considered as making remote controlled airplane.