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| Wingsuit Video: Crazy Wingsuit Flight -- Man Lands on Water Without Parachute Posted: 13 Apr 2016 05:40 AM PDT Crazy Wingsuit Flight -- Man Lands on Water Without Parachute Author:  younas98086Tags: Posted: 13 April 2016 Rating: Votes: by Daily Motion Wingsuit Videos This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Kandersteg, Switzerland: Forecast for Thursday Night as of Apr. 13 9:02 AM CEST Posted: 13 Apr 2016 12:02 AM PDT |
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| BASE Jumping Video: My first basejumps Posted: 12 Apr 2016 10:19 PM PDT My first basejumps My first basejumps Author:  WesleyHunt2Tags: My first basejumps Posted: 13 April 2016 Rating: Votes: by Daily Motion base jumping Videos This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Catching the air in Butterfly Valley: base jumping comes to Fethiye Posted: 12 Apr 2016 06:40 PM PDT Catching the air in Butterfly Valley: base jumping comes to Fethiye 11 February 2016 by Jane Akatay No Comments Probably the ultimate adrenaline sport, Base Jumping has arrived in Fethiye and this April the town will host the first World Cup on one of the most spectacular stretches of coastline in the whole of Turkey and Mediterranean  Butterfly Valley is one of the most beautiful, and certainly the most dramatic locations in the Fethiye region.  Butterfly Valley Butterfly Valley – Popular Popular with travellers and holiday-makers looking for something a bit different, and with a growing reputation for ecotourism, it's usually where people go to chill out and relax during hot the summer months, perhaps camping, canoeing, scuba diving or hiking through the steep valley to see the famous Jersey tiger moths, from very the location got its name.  Jersey tiger moths – wikipedia Base Jumping Comes to Butterfly Valley But on Monday there was a very different kind of atmosphere, pure adrenaline, and a very unusual sight flying through the air: base jumpers. Cengiz Kocak and Hasan Dökmetepelioğlu have became the first two people to base jump into Butterfly Valley. Ever…  Cengiz Kocak preparing for his jump After the jump Kocak said: The first base jump to the Butterfly Valley, on which we have been working for over a year, has just been made from the exit point, "Fethi Bey." With Ali Es, we did our best but I particularly would like to congratulate Erdal Akkuş, who is the one behind the idea, for his great efforts in opening one of the most beautiful object in the world for our sport." A beautiful 'object' A beautiful object These two described the place from which they jumped as: One of the most beautiful objects in the world.' Base jumping involves jumping from a fixed place or 'object'. This can be natural or man made – free falling through the air – with only a few seconds to open the parachute.It's risky but for those who love it, very exciting and addictive. 'Exit point' – this is the place from when the jump happens, in this case it is from a platform. The organizers have named it Fethi Bey, who is the WWI pilot from whom Fethiye got its name. Why 'BASE' Jumping? For our readers who know little or nothing about this sport, the word 'base' in jumping is an acronym to illustrate the different kinds of objects from which the base jumpers jump. Buildings: jumping from buildings Antennas: Antenna towers are popular jumping points because they are often as tall as the world's tallest buildings. Spans (Bridges): Spans, or bridges, have to cross over large canyons or gorges to be suitable for a BASE jump. Earth: Earth refers to large natural formations that are suitable for BASE jumping — cliffs, canyons, fjords and gorges. BASE jumping actually began on a massive rock outcropping in Yosemite National Park known as El Capitan. Click here to find out more Catch the air around the butterfly Erdal Akkuş is the man behind the idea and this year, working with Ali Es, he's managed to make Butterfly Valley the location for the first Butterfly World Cup, which will be held on 26th to 29th April, 2016. Applications for this competition will be accepted using the reference system, via event's website and Facebook page. These will be online in the coming weeks. The list of athletes and sponsors will be announced in March. Details Object's name / Fethi Bey Place / Butterfly Valley, Fethiye Object type / Cliff (with ramp) Height / 179 m. Landing / Butterfly Valley Beach Access to the exit from the landing / 45 minutes hike / 30 minutes boat drive. |
| Record-breaking steel could be used for body armor, shields for satellites Posted: 12 Apr 2016 06:30 PM PDT Record-breaking steel could be used for body armor, shields for satellites by Staff Writers San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2016  This is a transmission electron microscopy image of different levels of crystallinity in the amorphous alloy. Image courtesy Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego. For a larger version of this image please go here. A team of engineers has developed and tested a type of steel with a record-breaking ability to withstand an impact without deforming permanently. The new steel alloy could be used in a wide range of applications, from drill bits, to body armor for soldiers, to meteor-resistant casings for satellites. The material is an amorphous steel alloy, a promising subclass of steel alloys made of arrangements of atoms that deviate from steel's classical crystal-like structure, where iron atoms occupy specific locations. Researchers are increasingly looking to amorphous steel as a source of new materials that are affordable to manufacture, incredibly hard, but at the same time, not brittle. The researchers believe their work on the steel alloy, named SAM2X5-630, is the first to investigate how amorphous steels respond to shock. SAM2X5-630 has the highest recorded elastic limit for any steel alloy, according to the researchers - essentially the highest threshold at which the material can withstand an impact without deforming permanently. The alloy can withstand pressure and stress of up to 12.5 giga-Pascals or about 125,000 atmospheres without undergoing permanent deformations. The researchers, from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology, describe the material's fabrication and testing in a recent issue of Nature Scientific Reports. "Because these materials are designed to withstand extreme conditions, you can process them under extreme conditions successfully," said Olivia Graeve, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, who led the design and fabrication effort. Veronica Eliasson, an assistant professor at USC, led the testing efforts. To make the solid materials that comprise the alloy, Graeve and her team mixed metal powders in a graphite mold. The powders were then pressurized at 100 mega-Pascals, or 1000 atmospheres, and exposed to a powerful current of 10,000 Ampers at 1165F (630C) during a process called spark plasma sintering. The spark plasma sintering technique allows for enormous time and energy savings, Graeve said. "You can produce materials that normally take hours in an industrial setting in just a few minutes," she said. The process created small crystalline regions that are only a few nanometers in size, with hints of structure, which researchers believe are key to the material's ability to withstand stress. This finding is promising because it shows that the properties of these types of metallic glasses can be fine-tuned to overcome shortcomings such as brittleness, which have prevented them from becoming commercially applicable on a large scale, Eliasson said. Researchers at USC tested how the alloy responds to shock without undergoing permanent deformations by hitting samples of the material with copper plates fired from a gas gun at 500 to 1300 meters per second. The material did deform on impact, but not permanently. The Hugoniot Elastic Limit (the maximum shock a material can take without irreversibly deforming) of a 1.5-1.8 mm-thick piece of SAM2X5-630 was measured at 11.76 +/- 1.26 giga-Pascals. By comparison, stainless steel has an elastic limit of 0.2 giga-Pascals, while that of tungsten carbide (a high-strength ceramic used in military armor) is 4.5 giga-Pascals. This isn't to say that SAM2X5-630 has the highest elastic limit of any material known; diamonds top out at a whopping 60 giga-Pascals - they're just not practical for many real-world applications. "The fact that the new materials performed so well under shock loading was very encouraging and should lead to plenty of future research opportunities," said Eliasson. The primary focus of future research efforts on these alloys is increasing the weight of the materials to make them more resistant to impacts. |
| Nextgen wind turbines could have blades 656 feet long Posted: 12 Apr 2016 06:06 PM PDT Nextgen wind turbines could have blades 656 feet long By Bob Morris on Tue, Mar 15, 2016 in Energy 0  Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor with three blades folds up in heavy winds. The longest blades on current wind turbines are 300+ feet. Engineers are working on prototypes for ginormous turbines with amazing new technology. The blades would be 656 feet long, more than two football fields, with towers taller than the Empire State Building. Each turbine could output a prodigious 50 MW. There will be two blades, not three, and they will face downwind. Blades will expand when wind speed is low and contract when high, allowing more energy to be generated at low-speed and protects the system during high winds. At dangerous wind speeds, the blades are stowed and aligned with the wind direction, reducing the risk of damage. At lower wind speeds, the blades spread out more to maximize energy production. The blades are sectional, rather than one huge piece, and would be assembled on site. The segments are 130-160 feet long, making them relatively easy to transport.Sandia's previous work on 13-MW systems uses 100-meter blades (328 feet) on which the initial SUMR designs are based. While a 50-MW horizontal wind turbine is well beyond the size of any current design, studies show that load alignment can dramatically reduce peak stresses and fatigue on the rotor blades. This reduces costs and allows construction of blades big enough for a 50-MW system. The plan is to site them far out at sea away from grumpy NIMBYs and migratory paths of birds. Prototypes are being funded by the Department of Energy through its Advanced Research Projects Agency working with universities. |
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