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Intel Data Plane Development Kit supported by Wind River for packet processing
EE Herald
The combination of Intel multi-core platforms and the Intel DPDK, a set of data plane libraries designed for high-speed networking, can achieve high levels of packet processing. "Communications equipment makers are under pressure to create devices that ...

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Reno Air Races plans to change course this fall
CBS News
He said the change would include the softening of some curves to ease the gravitational pull on pilots — including coming out of a stretch called the "Valley of Speed" where planes flying at speeds up to 500 mph gain momentum on the high Sierra ...
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Preliminary report released on fatal plane crash (SLIDESHOW)
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Witnesses also told NTSB investigators that Gutierrez's plane “pitched nose high and rolled to the right,” according to the report. “When you have an excessively high nose angle in a small airplane like that, you're going to start losing air speed, ...

Video: High-Speed Plunge Transforms Robo-Copter into a Plane
Wired News
Pointing them forward transforms the V-22 into an airplane for high-speed cruising. But design compromises such as short rotor blades (to allow the Osprey to fit aboard ships) and delicate, high-horsepower engines (to compensate for the short blades), ...

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Airline Unveils High-Tech Turboprop Plane
AllAfrica.com
By Mark Darrough, 22 May 2012 The world's third largest aircraft manufacturer, Canadian firm Bombardier Aerospace, demonstrated its advanced short-haul Q400 NextGen turboprop airliner to a team of RwandAir executives last Monday in an attempt to ...

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Ciena Unveils Next Generation Intelligent Control Plane Software
MarketWatch (press release)
Ciena's leadership in control plane technology stems from a 12 year history of innovation and live field deployments in some of the world's largest, most mission-critical and most performance-demanding networks, representing thousands of nodes and ...

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UK Holds Wing Design Competition for High School Students
UK News
Teams were challenged to design and construct a wing for their remote-controlled aircraft with one notable change from last year's event; in addition to last year's scoring for wing size-to-payload ratio, a new “speed round” required teams to build for ...

On the mend
Altoona Mirror
"You are flying just a few hundred feet off the ground at high speed - well over 100 mph in most flights - and if you lose lift, you may only have less than a minute to find a place to land if there even is one nearby." Milner sent a message through ...

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USA tests new unmanned aircraft with vertical takeoff
Pravda
Relatively high speed of the destroyers in early 20 th century suggested sailors another possibility of nearly vertical take-off from the deck of the ship - a tethered kite. These kites were run on the Baltic Sea, for example, in 1903.

Air show arrives in Kitchener-Waterloo
Toronto Sun
Patrick "Paco" Gobeil pilots the Demo Hornet, taking it through rolls, loops and inverted passes as well as the “high-alpha pass.” In the high-speed pass, Gobeil keeps the CF-18 restrained to just below the speed of sound with a vapour cone flashing ...