Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - A Great Day

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As the first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental has been delivered to an unidentified VIP costumer today I can proudly announce that the new Jumbo Jet already belongs to history... The aircraft left Paine Field, Everett, WA and the USA and she left Boeing fans behind with a bleeding heart... She left behind space...

Otherwise you can store on a rectangular field of 1 km x 1 km 10 x 10 = 100 examples even of this large airplane... That means you can hide 100 Jumbo Jets in a forest... Once again, the new Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental from above: (see picture)

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

"Devilish Laughter"

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In all languages that I have ever heard people laugh in a really very common way... Laughter is a part of speech but one that even people understand that don't get the rest of the speech or cannot tell or laugh at a joke... How can this be?

Let's suppose there is a God and we are not only the successors of apes that also do laugh... In that case laughter must have some higher and elevated function in order to connect a little bit all of us...

I think you laugh in your privacy (with or without friends) - so laughter might be a sign of privacy... And this sign instinctively creates respect (in terms of some distance) in everybody who is listening either way he or she speaks the language of the laughing person or not...

Body language ("click" or "that way") must be a universal sign of love and cooperation and it may create nearness...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 767-8 Intercity - Dynamic Or S/VTOL Runway

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I've been inspired by the test stands for brakes of cars... On these test stands cars roll at the same place because underneath the wheels of the car the wheels of the test stand are turning, too...

Based on the above idea you could probably build dynamic or S/VTOL runways for airplanes, too - both for take-off and landing... During take-off the airplane is rolling on wheels built in the runway, faster and faster - until it majestically lifts off... You can say that there is no uplift if an airplane is standing at the same place - I hope that there is an uplift because the airplane is speeding on the wheels in the ground... As if a giant aircraft would taxi around a very small planet: less gravity, larger wings and quicker take-off... All these because of the wheels in the runway...

You could also land on a dynamic or S/VTOL runway... It is the most important that you experiment with old and out-of-service Boeing 767s and not with new developments... A runway is 4 - 5 kilometers long so it would mean a major environmental benefit if you didn't need to build more of them...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Rolls-Royce Wraith - Protection Against Weather

Ladies and Gentlemen,

10 or 20 years ago "washable gloves" were invented in Poland... You convey up some substance on your hands, it protects your hand during work from dirt and hurts and then you can wash the gloves from your hands by soap water... I prefer leather gloves for working...

However it is a big question how you can protect the wooden bodywork of the Rolls-Royce Wraith against weather: sunshine, rain, freeze or dust... I think a "washable garage" could be the solution: you convey up some chemical substance on the car body, it protects the wood during days or weeks and thereafter you can remove it at any carwash...

Well, as it seems not even the middle-class of Rolls-Royce is a really affordable vehicle...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Ornithopter

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You must have already rocognized that the wings of all modern airplanes are flapping more or less during the flight - which is only natural in case of aluminium structures of a lenght of over 30 meters...

My idea is that you could probably moderate this (still not intentional) flapping by built-in springs and these springs could even generate some on-board electricity completing or replacing the auxiliary power unit... You had a more flexible airplane and a greener one by this solution...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

New Mercedes-Benz A-class February 25th 2012

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am waiting for the new A-class of Mercedes-Benz... To be presented at the Automobile Show in Geneve...

I used to dream of so big glove-compartments that 1 or 2 laptops easily find their place in them... A silly idea actually... However portable computers have become so small in the meantime in terms of the iPod touch or tablet computers that they can in be stoved even in the most elegant glove-compartments...

Soon our world is going to be complete...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

The Artificial Virus

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Viruses overwrite the genes of bodily cell - that's how they multiply... Now overwriting genes sounds good and promising... Artificial viruses (made out of healthy human chromosomes) could solve the following:

a) healing genetical disorders,
b) healing cancer,
c) healing demaged organs (e.g. a scar is not either what there is in your genes),
d) return aging (that is based on the decay of your genes) etc.

Artificial viruses need a prescription of your house physician or a medical specialist... Of course, this is not a commercial for HIV...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 767-8 Intercity - Comfortable Luggage Bins

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the Boeing Sky Interior and Dreamliner Interior you will find really huge luggage bins - at a hight of about 190 cms... Now who can lift suitcases of 10-20 kgs into such altitudes?

In the Boeing InteriYours concept you have the same spacious luggage bins - but they can descend by pneumatic and telescopic rods to a level where it is easy to load them... Afterwards the hand luggage bins also ascend to their place with the heavy suitcases by pneumatic help...

Of course, I believe that carrying so much hand luggage it is not necessary any more to have a conventional cargo space on passenger airplanes but you could use this "lower deck" in many creative ways...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 777-300ER - In Pakistan

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You know Pakistan: it is situated next to Iran and Afghanistan - it must be kind of a difficult country... Not as livable...

Which doesn't mean that it is not lovable... The order of Pakistan International Airlines for 5 beautiful Boeing 777-300ERs means that people there are strongly devoted to opening to the world, to working with others and to learning others... The people of Pakistan are devoted to peace (in the middle of a war zone)...

Cent makes the Dollar - and I think this is the way you can achieve world peace... (Seemingly world peace is the opposite of still standing of life...)

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing, Pakistan International Airlines Finalize Order for Five 777-300ERs - Feb 20, 2012

Boeing 767-8 Intercity - Don't Stop

Ladies and Gentlemen,

How can you reach a cruising speed of Mach 10 with an aircraft of 2 jet engines? I guess you can do it in 2 easy steps:

a) Start/Take-off: you start with 2 engines on but with only flaps 0-10 (this setting is meant to replace the canards),

b) Space-time Jump: when you are about to reach normal cruising speed and altitude you switch off the 2 main engines and the aircraft is only propelled by the jet stream of the auxiliary power unit, all this with flaps 0-10 (hopefully more uplift and canard setting on)...

Warning! These ideas are intended for the entertainment of totally bored people - and not for airline pilots... Never try it out!

In the draft below the orange line means the track originally intended at the design of the airplane - the green line means the track intended by me...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

The Polar Bear

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Thanks to the book print, the internet and other blessings everybody on Earth knows already what is a polar bear...

I think we are close to everybody knowing the advantages of an iPod and if we work on like this mankind could also learn what is life like beyond the Saturn...

So what is the difference between the "global village" and a global family? Yes, it is the polar bear...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Presidential Visit In Everett

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Pres. Barack Obama has visited The Boeing Company in Everett, WA on Air Force One... He checked out the Boeing 787 Dreamliner assembly line and the airplane itself - and he was impressed by the modern aircraft and the work of so many Boeing employees...

I think it had been a little strange if the President had visited the Boeing 747-8 assembly line...

Wait a minute... The President of the USA has got an official home (The White House), a private jet (Air Force One) - doesn't he need a Presidential Yacht as well? Let's say it could be called "Navy One..."

Splash!

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 767-8 Intercity Vs. New Concorde - Canards

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Both the Boeing 767-8 Intercity and New Concorde could be enhanced by canards - approx. as shown in the pictures below...

For more information on the legendary TU-144 visit: TU-144 Official Website

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Is Anybody Out There?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Yes, there is... As the surroundings of Innsbruck, Austria doesn't only consist of nature but humans live there, too I think the Airport Innsbruck could be extended... Here you have 2 possibilities:

a) a 2nd runway behind the existing one and the village Völs on the fields (o.k. you should export some more corn and vegetables that way),
b) a tunnel straight through the "Norden Chain" over Innsbruck into Germany providing with a new railway and highway connection to Tirol and you could build a new airport next to Penzberg, Germany as well...

This is called "disclosing the region..."

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 767-8 Intercity Vs. New Concorde

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It would be easy to develop and to produce a re-engined version of the popular Boeing 767: clean, quiet, fuel-efficient and fast...

And I think it would be the same easy to develop and to produce a re-engined version of the magical Concorde: clean, quiet, fuel-efficient and fast...

Boeing 767-8 Intercity or New Concorde: you have to supply the growing market but not anyhow... You need to offer style, emotions and intelligence, too...

Ready, steady, go!

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Rolls-Royce Experimental Electric - More Durable Batteries

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If an electric battery loses from its original storage capacity it means that its chemical or physical structure changes - and that is impossible... Still it is our everyday experience that batteries lose from their original capacity with time... How can you explain that?

I think when an electric battery is charged and then run empty it is also heated and then cooled - just like when a blacksmith transforms iron into steel... When iron is being transformed to steel the contaminations of coal are burnt out from it... This process is good for the flexibility but I guess iron has got a better electric storage capacity: electric magnets have got an iron core and no steel core e.g. So there may be a change in the chemical and physical structure of batteries, too...

I think it is just - elsewhere desired - flexibility that spoils electric storage capacity: physically more flexible batteries may get rid of their electron cloud easier than batteries that are not "run in" yet... The occurance might be similar to solar flairs: the matter of the battery just throws away its additional or superflous electron coat...

How could you make "run in" batteries soft again? I think one or more adjustable screws through the batteries that could deform the batteries a little were able to restore the original softness and so the original electric storage capacity... This method wouldn't mean an eternal battery life either - but you could expand the lifetime of this disposable car part, too...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Modern Medical Science As Of February 11th 2012

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let's stem cells be, they are not ethic - let's organs grow from the bodily cells of a grown-up (in terms of being born)... Bodily cells start to multiply as follows:

"The Start checkpoint is a major cell cycle checkpoint in yeast. The Start checkpoint ensures irreversible cell-cycle entry even if conditions later become unfavorable. The physiological factors that control passage through the Start checkpoint include external nutrient concentrations, presence of mating factor/ pheromone, forms of stress, and size control." (Wikipedia)

"The S-phase-promoting factor (SPF) is a CDK-cyclin complex that induces the S-phase (synthesis phase) of the cell cycle. Toward the end of the G₁ phase of mitosis, an SPF is phosphorylated, causing a biochemical cascade that results in the activation of DNA replication proteins and the initiation of the G1/S transition." (Wikipedia)

The liver is ready... I would like to emphase that I don't want livers to explode but I am dreaming of letting a new liver grow in a laboratory flask when it is needed...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Sandwich-floor MAX

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the Sandwich-floor MAX Concept Car I have collected some very important developments of the previous 2 decades in automobile industry...

MAX Sandwich-floor means:

• MAX passenger compartment (room for 4 reclining seats)
• MAX downsizing
• MAX hybrid-drive
• MAX luggage compartment
• MAX compact sizes (all this on a length of 4 meters)

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Reducing Isolation

Ladies and Gentlemen,

A worldwide network of intercontinental highways is often mentioned as another option of connecting people, cultures and economies... For example you could connect Florida, US with Venezuela and Malaysia with Australia over superlong bridges and the islands in between...

As conventional suspension bridges and pile bridges seem to be impossible to realize I have thought of "vacuum bridges" which could hover over the seas... A connection between the thin air in greater hights and the level of the bridge could create a vacuum that could possibly hold the entire weight of the bridge and of the traffic on it...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - New Approach

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Here you have 2 new ways to make the embarkation and disembarkation of a Boeing 747-8IC more pleasant... The basic idea is that it is very uncomfortable for passengers of all classes to climb over each other using only one main door of the airliner - and it is quite slow, too... So the new plans:

a) For boarding and unboarding the Airbus A380 airliner new passenger bridges were built at many airports... If the passengers of the Boeing 747-8IC could also use the double bridges placed after one other then first class and business class passengers could enter and leave the airplane through the very first door and economy class passengers could enter and leave the airplane through the 2nd main door...

b) If the above is not possible then first and business class passengers could embark and disembark the Boeing 747-8IC on one side while economy class passengers could use the main door on the other side of the airplane...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Shoop-shoop

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The following is my personal opinion, of course - no science...

I don't think that there can be too many mechanical engineers in a country... Human beings and human life are determined by the usage of tools: automobiles, sewing machines, computers etc. Tools represent an immense value in our personal lives and in our culture and the new aspects of environmental protection and recycling only increase our need for new machines... Actually it is machines that make our lives easy and comfortable (washing machine or vacuum cleaner) - so easy and comfortable that we have even got time and energy for thinking, day-dreaming or socializing...

Yes, NASA is not only depending on the new Space Launch System - but also on vacuum cleaners in the homes of NASA employees... (This is space age...) That's why I think that if a country or a region want to become richer and want even more civilisation then they should educate engineers without limits - because engineers and their machines enable a culture of higher level among others...

This is only one way of creating culture and value in a country... But I would be very interested in the percentage of engineers in the population of very rich and leading countries like Germany, Japan or the USA - e.g. compared to Hungary or Sudan... In Hungary engineers don't really have any prestige - while in Germany you have the expression "art of engineering" and in the USA there is NASA...

Hoooooo!

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Book A Flight

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You can often hear the common place that the USA goes 20 years before the rest of the world... How is that possible while the USA was born only in 1776 - approx. 1,000 years after the creation of Christian kingdoms in Europe, not to mention the traditions of China or India... This advantage of the USA is only possible if there live not only "breakaways" in the States but the culture of the USA is based on the civilisation of the rest of the world and everybody is honestly pioneering...

"There is always more USA behind us than before us..." (JDLM)

"You should deal seriously with politics..." (Berta Wolfinger-Boeing)
"What is 20 years???" (unkown)
"Land! There is land before us!" (Christopher Columbus)

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Shuttle

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In fact the second stream of a turbofan jet engine doesn't mean anything else than a stream of pressurized air: no supercharger stage, no combustion chamber and no turbine stage... Is it not a kind of waste to leave this second stream of air absolutely unused? In this pressurized fresh air you could also burn fuel - that means an "afterburner" or "forsage" not after the first stream but around it...

The result is an air-breathing rocket-engine: very simple, reliable and powerful... This solution could be much more space-efficient than carrying rocket-engines on their own on the airplane (compact) and the separation of the first and second air-streams within the same jet engine could mean a better usage of the newly developed "zig-zags" at the end of the nozzles (more strength and less noise)...

A transatlantic crossing (I mean: space-time jump) between Paris or London and New York within 30 minutes? Not a dream any more... Reaching Sydney from New York in 1 hour? This could boost economical and social development... You could connect any 2 major city pairs faster at Mach 15 than some suburbs with the metropolis...

The eternal question of the Overhead Space Utilization or SkyLoft could be solved at such high speeds by a beautiful panoramic roof - providing with a view both to the quickly rushing landscape underneath the airliner and to the sky with many visible stars even at daytime...

"There is always more Boeing 747 before us than behind us..." (JDLM)

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

2013

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You can expect many interesting things for the upcoming fiscal year 2013:

• scientific results from the Mars mobile labolatory Curiosity,
• a decision about the Boeing 747 program,
• the new S-class from Mercedes-Benz,
• a very environmentally friendly Rolls-Royce model,
• the IAA in Frankfurt am Main,
• a functional "quantum computer" etc.

And what's more many people may think "13 is my lucky number..." However such thinking is superstition instead of real faith...

Superstition is: 1 (idea, practice, etc based on the) belief that certain events cannot be explained by human reason or physical laws; irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious 2 idea or belief held by many people for no good or logical reason... (This is a try to subscribe a "fixed idea" in an euphemistic way...)

Real faith is: 1 belief in the existence of a god or gods, who has/have created the universe and given many a spiritual nature which continues to exist after the death of the body 2 particular system of faith and worship based on such a belief 3 controlling influence on one's life; sth one is devoted or commited to... (I think the essence is that faith is constructive...)

(The above definitions are based on the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary...)

So between superstition and real faith the choice is yours...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team