| Fake diamonds help jet engines take the heat |
 Ohio State University engineers are developing a technology to coat
jet engine turbine blades with zirconium dioxide - commonly called
zirconia, the stuff of synthetic diamonds.
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| Record-breaking simulation of aircraft wake turbulence |
 Dangerous vortexes form when an aircraft takes off or lands. A
combination of optimised numerical methods, a supercomputer and highly
developed visualisation methods revealed how this process generates
primary and secondary vortexes, and how the secondary vortexes cause
the primary ones to decay.
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 Pilots and ATC abide by it, aviation weather references it, and aircraft maintenance and the military adhere to it. Formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time, now called UTC, time for flying still bears the elusive “Z” (phonetically known as Zulu) appended to most timely things in aviation.
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| Sharing Skies, Managing Risk |
 Flying is an international activity and global trade is dependent on
it. Aviation security cannot and does not end at any national border.
With that as its basic premise, the second Canadian Aviation Security
Conference will take place on March 5 and 6, 2008, in Gatineau, Que.
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