Winter 22 – Page 2 – Leonardo Times

22Apr

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Aviation, Featured

Higher, Faster, Further

The history of Aéro-Club de France Authors: Marcos Talocchi and Tuomas Simula, Editors Leonardo Times The 14-bis of Santos-Dumont in flight. The Aéro-Club de France was one of the first aeronautical associations in the world, having been founded over a hundred years ago. We explore its history and contributions to aviation, while diving deeper into the life of one of its founding members. CREATION OF THE CLUB Near the end of the 19th century, there were first hints of aviation becoming a feasible means of transport. The first powered and controllable airships were developed, and the first heavier-than-air flights were done using gliders. In Paris, a collective of inventors, industrialists and early aviation enthusiasts saw the need for an organization developing and promoti...

Starship’s Story

The development of a highway to Mars Authors: Marcos Talocchi and Lisanne Vermaas, Editors Leonardo Times Render of Starship in orbit during stage separation. The future of spaceflight is, in short, defined by one word: sustainability. And what other way to achieve it other than leaving single use launchers in the past and embrace reusable rockets? This is what SpaceX proposes with Starship, the first 100% reusable space launcher. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX in short, was founded by Elon Musk in 2002. His plans to colonize Mars in order to make mankind a multiplanetary species stems from even before SpaceX was founded. After generating his initial capital as co-founder of PayPal, Musk joined the board of the Mars Society and announced Mars Oasis: A pr...

Eyes in the skies

Investigating the ever-growing and flourishing uses of UAVs in agriculture Author: Arham Elahi, Leonardo Times Editor and Naomi Lijesen, Final Editor EAvision’s 30X agricultural drone demonstrating spraying capabilities. Optimizing the agricultural industry is of the utmost importance. Currently, we technically have enough food on the planet to sustain everyone, even though it is tragic that it is not equally distributed. However, the current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to grow by a third, or 2.3 billion, by 2050 - thus, global food production must rise by about 70% to meet this demand [1][2]. Of course, clearing such an enormous area of land to facilitate more agriculture is not a sustainable solution when considering climate change and the strain humans put on t...