Airplane Mode – Do You Really Need to Turn off Your Phone in an Airplane?
Ever wondered why airliners ask you to turn off electronics in-flight? What airplane mode is all about? Can you turn off the airplane mode in-flight?…
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Aerospace
Take flight with Geekswipe. Explore the engineering and science behind aviation, spacecraft, and the future of aerospace technology.
How Reaction Wheels and Control Moment Gyros Work?
How does the ISS control its attitude? How can Hubble (HST) maintain its orientation? Explore how it's done by applying conservation of angular momentum.
What Is an Area Rule and How Does It Work?
Explore how Whitcomb's area rule works, and find out how this intuitive approach in design helped engineers to minimize the transonic wave drag.
How NASA Calculates the Distance, Velocity and Position of the Voyager Spacecrafts
Do you know how NASA accurately calculates the distance between the two Voyagers and earth? Wondering how they determine their position and velocity?