In the February 01 Wired, look at Seascan, a joint
Insitu Group (http://www.insitugroup.com) and University of Washington Aero/Astro (http://www.aa.washington.edu)UAV. Fall flight target: cross-pacific on a "few"
gallons of gas. Interesting communications, instrumentation.
Happen to have read this article yesterday while browsing journals/killing time...anything (Harvard chemist) Whitesides writes is must read. But authors emphasize this is a toy (n = 6) problem: don't try scaling this to (e.g.) scheduling 1,000 airliners.And if one airliner breaks down,what do you do: tell the other 999 to sit still while you whip up another microfluidics array...?
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In the February 01 Wired, look at Seascan, a joint
Insitu Group (http://www.insitugroup.com) and University of Washington Aero/Astro (http://www.aa.washington.edu)UAV. Fall flight target: cross-pacific on a "few"
gallons of gas. Interesting communications, instrumentation.
Happen to have read this article yesterday while browsing journals/killing time...anything (Harvard chemist) Whitesides writes is must read. But authors emphasize this is a toy (n = 6) problem: don't try scaling this to (e.g.) scheduling 1,000 airliners.And if one airliner breaks down,what do you do: tell the other 999 to sit still while you whip up another microfluidics array...?