· Hanley Innovations:
o Creators of software used to pre-check airplane aerodynamics have developed such titles as Aerodynamics Suite, 3D and 2D wing and airfoil analyzer, Aero-Trajectory Software, among others.
· Air Research Technology Inc.:
o Creators of “Wing Extensions”, which lowers stall speed, lowers necessary speed for take-off, increases take-off performance by a possible 30%, among many other improvements.

Identify one company that is involved with the products your team identified, include its name, a description of its mission, and number of people/ companies involved.

· Company: ART Inc. (As mentioned above as Air Research Technology Inc.)
o Mission: To research and create improvements for personal planes such as those from the Cessna Company.
o There is truly only one company involved in the ART Inc. Research Facility, however the Cessna Personal Airplane Company has many close ties to it, in that most of all the ART Inc.’s products are improvements for Cessna Aircrafts.

Propose and describe a new product or process based on your team’s NCT Technical Application.

In the area of airplane turbulence control, one may think that improvements would only help to comfort passengers and improve flight quality. However, as few know, there have been cases of aircrafts crash landing because of an undeterminable or inaccurately estimated powerful cell of unsettled air. While detection and prediction of the power of these cells is still in research, improvements upon state of the aircraft when undergoing turbulence can be greatly improved, as can the leisure of the everyday passenger.

Because the wings of the aircraft generate the most lift, they are equally more affected by rough air. But perhaps if bouncing and jarring wings were not to affect the state of the cabin of the aircraft, many of the small bumps occurring in flight could be neglected. How would one achieve separation between the wings and the cabin? Our group believes that there is one excellent way to do this. We propose that a shock absorbent gelatin-like substance surround the cabin of the aircraft. This would hold many purposes.
· Firstly, with the wings separated from the cabin by a shock-absorbing substance that is also a substance with the property to take the shape of its container, the entire shell of the aircraft could shift up, down, left, or right, with the cabin still suspended in the substance. Therefore, the cabin would not move. It would simply stay at the same altitude while the frame of the airplane moves around it.
· Secondly, when rotating on an aileron axis (rolling the wings without pitching the nose of the aircraft up or down) the cabin could remain at no angle, while the shell of the aircraft rotated around it. This is what our group calls Axial Aircraft Rotation.

The last two points have been improvements for the everyday passenger. Of course with deadly turbulence, simply having less bounce in the cabin would not affect the situation. Or would it? It is quite a feasible idea that a pilot would work more efficiently on a flat angle, than pinned to the floor when spinning quickly. There are quite a few situations in which the Axial Aircraft Rotation would have a positive effect on a dangerous situation. For example:
· In many fatal aircraft crashes, it has been reported that an aircraft may spin rapidly for almost a whole minute before hitting the ground. One might think that this could be enough time to correct whatever has gone wrong, however with the horizon spinning at a rate of about three times per second, the situation can be become both confusing and nauseating. However, if the Axial Aircraft Rotation were to be implanted, the cockpit of the plane would be in an almost completely stable state for that one minute that would be almost otherwise useless in the improvement of the deadly situation.
· If worst comes to worst, and an aircraft were to crash, in all odds the pilot would attempt to put the bottom of the plane down first. If this were achieved, the shock-absorbent substance between the frame and the cabin would absorb a substantial amount of the impact force that is sustained.
· Finally, again regarding turbulence, when dangerous turbulence is encountered, if the cockpit is not jarring and bouncing, in can help a pilot maintain straight thought, and help him improve the problem quicker, therefore averting any more dangerous situations that might have resulted for slow reaction.

As it is apparent, there are several solid examples of why Axial Aircraft Rotation would be beneficial to the entire aircraft industry. Safety and comfort precautions are both added in the implanting of the design. Axial Aircraft Rotation could simply provide a more comfortable ride on a business trip, or it could just as well save
some passengers’ lives.