Life And Work In Space - Under Construction

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have written very recently about the beautiful launch of the first private space-vehicle-system (Falcon/Dragon) of the SpaceX company - today the Dragon cargo capsule has arrived back to the Pacific Ocean after a fully successful mission to ISS... A private space shuttle system (Dream Chaser vehicle on an Atlas V rocket) is also being developed by the Sierra Nevada company - my other favourite and it has gone through critical tests just today...

However stately run space (deep space!) exploration will be also conducted by the Space Launch System or SLS being developed mostly by The Boeing Company for NASA... The Space Launch System will have an impressive capability (70 to 130 metric tons into low Earth orbit) - obviously featuring state-of-the-art technologies and designed not at least for Moon and Mars missions...

I would like to share with you a newly discovered website on Deep Space Exploration: Beyondearth.com however the good old website of NASA also tries to keep you informed on the latest events of Space Flight: NASA Stay tuned because this seems to be the future of mankind...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

2012 - World Passport

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Hungarian joke:

The only cow of a poor man dies and he is very disparate... However God appears for him and He says: "Poor man, you can have a wish..." The man answers: "The cow of the neighbor should die, too!"

It is very interesting for a folkrolist that in the most American movies about the end of the world the most asteroids fall on New York City, Washington D.C. or Los Angeles... How can they find these relatively small spots on the map?

Today, try to communicate...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 7XX Streamliner - Boeing Entirely Yours

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The winner of the competition between the Boeing 767-8 Intercity and New Concorde is the Boeing 7XX Streamliner...

What we can know about the new supersonic airliner:

a) you can expect 3 sizes with a short, a traditional and a longer fuselage,
b) the usage of advanced and composite materials,
c) environmentally friendly and quiet jet engines,
d) new technologies to reduce drag and the sonic boom...

The marketing strategy for the Boeing 7XX Streamliner is going to be completely new as well: The Boeing Company doesn't want to give its private or airline customers suggestions how they can use the new supersonic passenger jet - but it is up to the creativity of the customers within the scope of security prescriptions...

For more news visit: Boeing.com or join the World Design Team: Newairplane.com

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

The Magic Of Rolls-Royce May 29th 2012

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have already seen that a Rolls-Royce motor car is not only there for pleasure and representation but it can also create revenue and attract money - just like other major investments... How useful a Rolls-Royce in a household can be actually I would like to collect some ideas about it:

1) A Rolls-Royce costs as much as a luxurious house or apartment, only that it is meant for the streets and the wide public - what does it mean:

a) you are sensational,
b) you are protected,
c) you are influential and
d) you are sensitive...

2) A Rolls-Royce belongs to the most traditional cars of the world - what does it mean:

e) you respect the achievements of the past,
f) you are out to work for the future,
g) you have got traditional values and
h) you have your own traditions, too...

3) I think a Rolls-Royce is one of the most emotional and romantic cars as well - what does it mean:

i) you have got emotional stability in your life,
j) you have the spirit of an artist and you are creative,
k) you like socializing and
l) you have got elevated purposes...

Now a Rolls-Royce owner with so many qualities and such a beautiful coat-of-arms doesn't work for money any more but for the welfare of mankind...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - And 21st Century

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the price list of current Boeing airplanes there is already the price for the Boeing 787-9 as well... Gosh! Because I believe that the 787-9 will double the success of the Dreamliner Family...

With so many 787s sold Boeing reached a high capacity in the skies again - this time with more flexible airplanes and with increased environmental friendliness... Congratulations to the awards and to the headlines!

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Cascade Of Fitness

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Very official Boeing news release (747 Fun Facts): "For a typical international flight, one 747 operator uses about 5.5 tons (5,000 kg) of food supplies and more than 50,000 in-flight service items."

This is not as funny... 5,000 kgs of food mean for 500 passengers (crew included) 10 kgs of food per passenger... Of course, you don't eat and drink 10 kgs of food during a flight of 10 to 15 hours... If you knew before your journey what you want to eat and to drink (here you can apply computer technology at the booking of a flight) you wouldn't need a menu and only 5 kgs of food would be plenty for one passenger...

The above measure could result in a weight reduction of 2,500 kgs of the airliner... I think 2,500 kgs can be translated into 25 average passengers with seats... The only question remaining is: where can you seat 25 more passengers?

The answer: you can seat the additional 25 passengers on another Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental... 20 "fit flights" (with reduced food on board) could allow 500 additional passengers - that is the full capacity of a new Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental... According to this calculation "fit flights" could result in major benefits for The Boeing Company, the operators of the Jumbo Jet and the passengers of the airlines...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Life On Earth

Ladies and Gentlemen,

What you don't have: the electric Rolls-Royce Phantom, Maybach, Duesenberg or Packard... Still there is life on Earth...

Because the serial production of the luxury electric vehicles with an extended range with Fisker has begun in 2012 - in all silence to me... Some data on the most famous Fisker Karma luxury limousine:

Range electric: 50 miles
Range extended: 300 miles
Range extension by the roof solar panels: 200 miles annually
Battery life-cycle: 10 years or 100,000 miles
Top speed: 125 mph
Acceleration: 6.3 seconds to 60 mph
Space: abundant

The Fisker Karma is a really luxurious and sportive limousine with a ridiculous fuel consumption (100 MPG are possible)... You can cruise in a city without emissions for a day but you can also travel far away using the range extender... And the Fisker Karma is solid reality, beautiful and seemingly durable, too...

Critics: it must mean much stress to live in the USA with so many changes...

Follow Fisker on Facebook, twitter or on their own website: The Fisker Company

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Easily Confused

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Very official Boeing news release (747 Fun Facts): "Engine thrust has grown from 43,500 pounds (19,730 kg) per engine on the early 747s to as much as 63,300 pounds (28,710 kg) on the current model."

This is not as funny... Because the airliner itself has not grown by nearly 50%... Through the usage of modern materials (new alloys and composite materials) and an entirely new wing design for example the slight growth of the size of the Jumbo Jet must have been balanced out, I mean the weight of the airliner could not grow significantly...

But how does the nearly 50% more thrust affect on this dwarf of an airplane? Does it result in a higher speed perhaps? This is the mystery of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Sky Hangar

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let's suppose that an airline wants to purchase 10 or 20 Boeing 747-8 Intercontinentals (this should be an average order)... The first question you face is where you can store so many large airplanes? Obviously you cannot sacrifice the surface of football fields without end for the sake of growing passenger numbers...

I think that the best place of an airliner is in the air:

a) the "power plants" don't have this name in vain but in fact they are gas turbines that work in electric power plants nearly non-stop during years,
b) the sky is always clear above the clouds that means there is no rain, no ice, not even too much dust at cruising altitudes - just like in the protection of a hangar,
c) in the air there are no cities, no roads, no corn fields and no forests - there is only space whithout end...

So if an airline could store its Jumbo Jets in the sky that means on long-haul flights of 10 to 15 hours with only 1 or 2 hours between 2 flights spent for preparations of the next flight you had 2 benefits:

a) you could save the costs of hangars and of other storage space and
b) your fleet of Jumbo Jets could achieve a maximum efficiency and capability...

These expensive airliners are not designed for occasional flight events but - just like electric power stations - for working day and night without interruption... In other words: they are designed to fly in the sky...

The Boeing Edge service and supply department is there to help airlines keep their Boeing airplanes as much in the air as possible... Visit: Boeing.com

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Nailing In 21st Century

Ladies and Gentlemen,

"He cannot even hit a nail into the wall," this is said about not so likely lads who are not as clever with their hands or strong enough... Actually I bored 4 craters into the wall of my room when I wanted to hang up 2 wire baskets ("glove compartment") - unfortunately... So I don't think it is so easy to hit a nail into a wall indeed...

What could be a 21st Century solution for hitting nails into the wall? The nail could be surrounded by a hard paper/cartoon frame by which you could hold and steer the nail easier - and maybe you could even avoid hitting your fingers with the hammer that way... During nailing the hard paper/cartoon frame would become flat and be destroyed so that you should remove it in the end, of course...

The whole process should result in less injuries and a more efficient and faster nailing... I have been inspired by riveting as a matter of fact...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Hydrogen Factory - And The Correct Usage Of Crude Oil

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let's say we have got crude oil on Earth without end - because it is reproduced by algae and plancton in the oceans and seas out of carbon-dioxyd and sunshine... Hydrogen is still a better fuel because it is cleaner and its energy density is much higher...

What can you do with the endless quantities of crude oil then? My idea: you could make plastic out of crude oil... For lighter airplanes, cars, coaches etc.

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Hydrogen Factory - The Difference

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Here you have a little popular science for beginners or disguised people... It is the difference between hydrogen combustion engines and fuel cells that there are no flames or tiny explosions in fuel cells - that is why fuel cells are preferred in spacecraft...

Otherwise as fuel cells don't use the energy of the water steam after the creation of water the energy efficiency of fuel cells is much worse than that of hydrogen combustion engines... In hydrogen combustion engines not only the little flames but also the very hot water steam can be used...

The difference between crude oil products and hydrogen is that crude oil products burn at a temperature of approx. 900 degrees Celsius while hydrogen burns at a temperature of approx. 2,700 degrees Celsius - so you can store much more energy in hydrogen than there is in crude oil products... Actually you can weld with a hydrogen flame...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Rolls-Royce Experimental Electric - Undone

Ladies and Gentlemen,

According to some news that I have not read Rolls-Royce Motor Cars decided not to produce the electric Phantom... Whatever... The ingenious RR 102 EX concept car must have inspired many engineers and sales managers with an environmental consciousness - that's how the Smart eBike was created very likely...

Smart. Fun.

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

Rolls-Royce Experimental Electric - High Voltage

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Q: "What's red and invisible?"
A: "No tomato..."

Source: WIKIPEDIA on Joke... In terms of the Rolls-Royce 102 EX:

Q: "What has zero emissions, zero noise and the luxury of a Rolls-Royce Phantom?"
A: "A Rolls-Royce Phantom in the garage..."

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team

NASA - Commercializing Space (SpaceX)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The first spacecraft of the private sector has launched this morning and is heading to the International Space Station with supply from Earth... It is about the Falcon 9 rocket system and the cargo version of the Dragon space capsule of the SpaceX Company... It has been a beautiful launch - just like stately run launches in the past...

After this 1st private space flight many more ones are to come, SpaceX is planning even more capable spacecraft and there are other companies preparing their space flights, too... That's why I cannot comment on every space flight of the future... As far as I know there can be maximum 2 spacecraft launches and/or returns in an hour: you'll only have to look up in the night sky to see spacecraft...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team