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Photos: The tech keeping the world's airports flying high
Photo This demonstration model of a ramp management app, which has yet to be deployed with an airline, shows each stage of preparation that needs to be completed before a plane can take off - the yellow boxes shown here. [07 Jul 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo Shown above is the Embedded Vision Engine, which processes optical, radar and infrared footage taken during a plane's flight and brings it all together along with flight information. Shown here is the £9,000 Mac built... [28 Jan 2009]
Photos: A look inside Microsoft's new retail flagship
Photo One of the quirkier tech launches of last year was Microsoft Surface, an interactive screen on the horizontal plane. The facility, opened earlier this month, serves a number of purposes: to show retail customers... [26 Jan 2009]
Photos: Computers usher in pilots' vision 2.0
Photo The system creates sharp images in real-time from a camera attached to the plane and relays them back to the pilot, cleaning up visual feeds that would otherwise be obscured by the weather. The engine processes optical,... [16 Jan 2009]
Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' passes first test
Photo The Ministry of Defence's £800m vision of an unmanned spy plane got a step closer with the first official systems tests of Watchkeeper, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) under development by contractor Thales. [26 Nov 2008]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo During the 1940s, the house was given over to aerospace engineers at Vickers who used it to develop the Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane. The IBM development laboratory at Hursley House celebrates its 50th birthday... [19 Sep 2008]
Photos: McKinnon "distraught" says family
Photo The refusal of his appeal by the European courts has devastated McKinnon, said Clarke, leaving him "staring into space" and scared "they could put him on a plane at any minute". Anger boiled over into tears as the... [03 Sep 2008]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo The UK Ministry of Defence's Watchkeeper programme is aiming to develop an unmanned 'spy in the sky' plane that will provide the armed forces with vital intelligence and surveillance capability by 2010. [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: Military robot wars
Photo Team leader Julian Richardson, pictured here, cradles the RJ Mitchell Trophy, named after the designer of the World War II Spitfire fighter plane, the metal from one of which was used to make the trophy. [21 Aug 2008]
Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' takes off
Photo The UK Ministry of Defence's Watchkeeper programme is aiming to develop an unmanned 'spy in the sky' plane that will provide the armed forces with vital intelligence and surveillance capability by 2010. [15 Aug 2008]
Photos: Galileo's phase two goes into orbit
Photo The Giove-B satellite arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 13 March 2007 after being carried by this Antonov cargo plane. The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo satellite programme... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo The US military has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m to build a six-inch spy plane to gather sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones. This shows what the head of "the bat"... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky…
Photo The US Army wants a six-inch spy plane to gather data on sights, sounds and smells in urban combat areas. It has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m and five years to help make "the bat"... [17 Mar 2008]
Photos: Passenger's eye view of Heathrow Terminal 5
Photo In T5 the kiosks form the first 'wave' of the departure process, with passengers being drawn through the terminal towards their plane. This is the view that will greet air passengers when they arrive at Heathrow's... [13 Feb 2008]
Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off
Photo By putting the tech right by the plane any last minute changes, such as removal of baggage, can be managed more efficiently. This is one of the 96 bag drop points air travellers will be using when they pass through the... [12 Feb 2008]
