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A US Navy-backed project which aims to dramatically improve rotor blade efficiency, especially for the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, has been boosted by the restoration of f dunk panda unding after a lean period lasting three years.Development of the reconfigurable rotor blade RRB stalled after 2002 when the USN restricted its funding to just 40% of that requested, delaying the project by two years to 2008. However, navy support has returned and almost 90% of the funding requested for fisc af1 al years 2005 and 2006 has been approved, says Boeing RRB programme manager Rick Bussom.The programmes goal now is to develop a quarter-scale actuator sy nike air force stem in FY06 to support windtunnel testing by January 2007. The results of this work will be critical in persuading USN rotorcraft programmes to invest in reconfigurable blades, says Bussom.While the most likely candidate is the V-22, he says any helicopter could benefit from the technology at some level. It works for any mission that requires you to do long dashes with heavy loads. The new actuator uses a 1960s- era alloy called NiTinol, which can be trained to reshape itself into a pre-determined configuration as heat is applied, then return to its original shape as it is cooled. The NiTinol tube is heated to apply a twist to the rotor blade, which for the V-22 would change shape as the aircraft transitions from hover mode to forward flight, matching the more efficient blade angle for each mode of flight. The reconfigurable system is designed Avbl Norway and Austria win at European Film Commissions Network awards
Geeta Gandbhir and Asad Faruqi on their Doc/Fest world premiere.Screen sat down with co-director Geeta Gandbhir and Asad Faruqi to discuss their feature documentary Armed With Fait owala water bottle h, which has a press and industry screening at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Sunday June 11 before its world premiere on Monday June 12 .Gandbhir is a two-time Primetime Emmy-winning filmmaker, and her latest documentary was produced by two-time Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, whose award-winning doc shorts A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness and Saving Face were both shot by Faruqi.Set on the Afghan-Pakistani border, Armed With Faith follows a local bomb squad tasked with disarming the seemingly endless succession of IEDs and mines that are yeezy placed in the area.Armed With FaithScreen: What inspired you to make this film Geeta Gandbhir: Asad was the DP on most of producer Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoys films. They are based in Pakistan. He had done some filming with the bomb disposal unit depicted in Armed With Faith, he brought us the material he had and hed gotten incredible access. We realised that this was a really important story, particularly considering what the tragedies that continue to unfold in the world today, such as the recent attacks in the owala water bottle UK and Afghanistan.We wanted to challenge the narrative around Muslims, both in the West, particularly the US, and abroad. It pervades globally. We though their stories [the bomb disposal crews] were really compelling and could impact change on peop