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http://www.batumiairport.com/en-EN/pressroom/Pages/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?pid=38 | 2018-10-23T05:18:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516071.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023044407-20181023065907-00534.warc.gz | 0.881013 | 123 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__154534917 | en | One More Kazakh Airline At Batumi International Airport
“SCAT” Airlines has performed first flight towards Aktau on June 6, 2016. Direct flights towards Kazakhstan will be performed twice a week on Fridays and Sundays via Boeing 737 type aircrafts.
Thus „SCAT“ Airlines will perform regular flights from both Tbilisi and Batumi International airports operated by TAV Georgia. It has to be mentioned that „SCAT“ Airlines already performs regular flights on route Astana – Tbilisi – Astana and Aktau – Tbilisi – Aktau. | aerospace | 1 |
https://configit.com/about/about-us/ | 2024-02-25T14:08:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474617.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225135334-20240225165334-00336.warc.gz | 0.967654 | 189 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__26766325 | en | Configit co-founder and CSO Henrik Reif Andersen on the event that launched Configit.
In 1996, I was a computer science professor at ITU in Denmark, working on configuration logic solutions.
In June of that year, an unmanned rocket launched by the European Space Agency exploded just forty seconds after lift-off. This rocket, named Ariane 5, was on its first voyage after a decade of development costing $7 billion. An investigation into the cause of the explosion found it was caused by a software error in the inertial reference systems.
Specifically, a 64-bit floating point number relating to the horizontal velocity of the rocket was converted to a 16-bit signed integer. The resulting number was larger than the largest store-able number, and thus the conversion failed.
As I watched this unfold, I knew the research we were doing could hold the key to preventing such disasters in the future.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://en.avia.pro/blog/spektrum-tehnicheskie-harakteristiki-foto | 2017-04-30T09:22:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124478.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00176-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.914347 | 479 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__208521115 | en | Spectrum. Specifications. A photo.
Spectrum - Ukrainian military multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicle designed "Ukroboronprom" in 2015 year.
Unmanned aerial vehicle model Spectrum Ukrainian aircraft manufacturers developed exclusively for military use. At the same time, due to the minimal cost of production of this aircraft and fast terms of its implementation, the drone was not only quite functional, but also very promising in terms of its further development.
Ukrainian drone Spectrum can be used to perform tasks such as execution of intelligence, observation and patrol fly, used to control the border areas, used as means of adjusting the fire, used to control the military units, and so forth.
Its first flight this aircraft means produced in 2015 year, and due to the fact that the first test trials were successful, the project was sent to mass production, however, the supply of drones in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so far unknown.
Drone Spectrum model is equipped with a single electro-optical camera that can be monitored, both in normal and infrared mode, which allows operation of the aircraft, both in the daytime and at night.
Power section multipurpose Ukrainian military air means provided one electric brushless motor. Device capable of supporting a flight at a speed of 85 km \ h., During 1,5 hours, which is sufficiently efficient and fully satisfies performed using UAV tasks.
- Length: 1,2 m .;
- Wingspan: 1,6 m .;
- Height: 0,4 m .;
- Maximum takeoff weight: 5 kg .;
- Cruising flight speed: 60 km \ h .;
- Maximum flight speed: 80 km \ h .;
- Maximum flight distance: 35 km .;
- Maximum flight height: 2100 m .;
- aircraft engine type: Electric;
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https://airport-fort-lauderdale.com/flight-lxj558-flexjet-gai-to-fll/ | 2024-03-01T19:58:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475701.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301193300-20240301223300-00665.warc.gz | 0.883668 | 106 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__141810568 | en | What is the status of Flight LXJ558 from GAI to FLL?
Flight LXJ558 from Montgomery County Airpark (GAI) to Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport (FLL) is currently scheduled.
How long is the LXJ 558 flight from Gaithersburg to Fort Lauderdale?
The average flight duration from Gaithersburg to Fort Lauderdale is unknown.
Are there any delays or cancellations for Flexjet Flight LXJ558?
Flexjet Flight LXJ558 is on time. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.iexplore.com/activity-guides/space-travel/top-10-space-tours-and-destinations | 2016-02-14T12:45:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701962902.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205195242-00255-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.918239 | 641 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__23679033 | en | While trips to Mars or other planets aren’t going to be offered anytime soon, lunar missions are on their way, and trips to the International Space Station have already begun. An explosion of tours on the lower levels is in the works from the world’s first Spaceline that will offer regular Sub-Orbital flights. There are also zero gravity flights, which your entire office can do, or astronaut training trips. On the lighter side you can head to space camp, which isn’t for just kids anymore, or simply watch a shuttle launch.
- Lunar Missions
While only a handful of people in the world can afford a trip to the moon, the trip is possible and space tour companies have already begun taking reservations at $100 million a pop.
- Orbital Flight
An orbital flight gives you ten days on the International Space Station where you will rotate the entire surface of the earth every 90 minutes. A handful of multi-millionaires have already made the trip. Expect prices to drop from the $10 million price tag as technology improves.
- Sub-Orbital Flight
Although these flights have been going on for a few years, when Virgin Galactic Spaceline begins the average price is going to drop significantly. You’ll fly 62 mile above the earth, experience weightlessness, and be able to see the curve of the earth.
- Zero Gravity Flight
Even Las Vegas now has a launch pad for zero gravity flights. The experience, usually done with a small group, costs about $4,000 a person and gives you the opportunity to experience weightlessness. These are the same flights astronauts use to train.
- Astronaut/Cosmonaut Training
At Star City, Russia you can go through a basic Cosmonaut training experience lasting about 10 days. You’ll get the opportunity to experience a centrifuge, a similar feel to a rocket launch, the feeling of weightlessness, and the opportunity to man a Soyuz Space Flight simulator.
- Space Camp, Various Sites
These favorite Pre-teen camps, often lead by NASA, give children the opportunity to learn the basics of space flight and begin their life long interest in outer space. A summer camp for the new millennium. Adult and corporate programs are increasing in popularity as well.
- U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Alabama
Apart from having the top Space Camp around, Huntsville, Alabama’s U.S. Space and Rocket Center a Space Museum, the host of numerous special events, and interactive features such as a Mars climbing wall, theater, and Apollo cockpit trainer.
- Star City, Russia
The military research and training facility north of Moscow is home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre and the rest of Russia’s space program.
- Kennedy Space Center, Florida
NASA’s launch headquarters, including a large visitor’s center, are just 45 minutes from Disney World and the rest of Orlando’s mega theme parks.
- Euro Space Center, Belgium
The visitor center of the European Space Program is also home to a a space school and training programs. | aerospace | 1 |
https://iwantthatflight.com.au/x2SYDOSA-Flights-from-Sydney-to-Osaka.aspx?po=all&includeairlines=JL&dealid=10336&afid=3097 | 2020-08-13T00:10:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738950.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20200812225607-20200813015607-00512.warc.gz | 0.887714 | 230 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__97262504 | en | The Cheapest Return Sydney to Osaka Flights.
These flights have been found in the last 24 hours. Whats this?Prices are from searches made in the last 24 hours and current prices may differ.
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- Sydney to Osaka, the quickest one-way flight is 9 hrs 55 mins on
- Sydney is 1 hour ahead of Osaka. Jetlag may be a problem.
- Sydney International Airport Station train station is close to Sydney airport.
Questions and AnswersWhat is the cheapest month to fly to Osaka from Sydney?
At the moment, the most affordable time of year to take a flight to Osaka from Sydney is August/2020.What airlines fly non-stop to Osaka from Sydney?
Qantas Airways fly direct from Sydney to Osaka.What is the cheapest airline to fly from Sydney to Osaka?
ANA is the cheapest airline to fly to Osaka from Sydney.What is the best airline to fly to Osaka from Sydney?
The best airline to fly between Sydney and Osaka is Singapore Airlines. For direct flights then Qantas Airways is best. AirAsia X is the best budget airline. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2017/0213/SpaceX-reignites-historic-launch-pad-that-sent-NASA-astronauts-to-moon | 2022-10-03T07:29:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337404.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003070342-20221003100342-00577.warc.gz | 0.939781 | 889 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__160478613 | en | SpaceX reignites historic launch pad that sent NASA astronauts to moon
A once-thriving hub of rocket launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is ready for its second life.
The NASA Kennedy Space Center launch pad from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin blasted off to the moon has sat dormant for years. In a few days, its next chapter will begin.
On Sunday, SpaceX, an aerospace company based in Hawthorne, Calif. that rents the historic Launch Complex 39A from NASA, tested the engines of its Falcon 9 rocket there in preparation to deliver supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station (ISS) on February 18. This will be the company’s 10th cargo trip to the ISS under its contract with NASA, according to Space.com, and its first launch from 39A in Florida.
“Falcon 9 rocket now vertical at Cape Canaveral on launch complex 39-A,” SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk posted on Instagram Sunday, alongside a photo of the rocket. “This is the same launch pad used by the Saturn V rocket that first took people to the moon in 1969. We are honored to be allowed to use it,” Mr. Musk wrote.
SpaceX signed a 20-year lease to take over the pad in 2014 and has spent the ensuing years fixing it up. NASA stopped using the launch pad in 2011, when its 30-year-old space shuttle program was shut down after Atlantis, one of five NASA space shuttles of that era, blasted off from 39A toward the ISS in the last-ever US shuttle mission.
Throughout the decades-long shuttle program, NASA’s spacecraft – Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour – carried people into orbit, launched and maintained satellites, and made it possible for humans to build the space station. The 18-year-old international science laboratory orbits 240 miles above Earth.
And starting Saturday, SpaceX will use the site to launch cargo in the Dragon capsule aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. The company hopes to use the Florida launch pad to send humans to the ISS in about a year.
“That is a big deal. It’s absolutely symbolic we are launching from there,” former NASA launch director Bob Sieck told the Orlando Sentinel on February 8.
Since shutting down its space shuttle program, NASA has relied on the Russian space fleet and, increasingly, on the private space industry to step in to fill the void in space exploration and to make it more affordable.
In addition to SpaceX, NASA has contracted with Orbital ATK, an aerospace and defense contractor based in Dulles, Va., and with Colorado-based aerospace company Sierra Nevada Corporation, to deliver cargo to the ISS for years to come.
The agency also is relying on SpaceX and Boeing to start delivering astronauts to space as soon as possible, though both companies are facing technical delays.
Though the delays are necessary to ensure astronaut safety, they put pressure on NASA because of the high cost of sending astronauts to the space station. The agency pays $82 million to the Russian space agency for each seat it reserves aboard Russia’s Soyuz rocket, the only one capable of ferrying people to space for now. According to recent estimates by NASA, seats aboard SpaceX and Boeing rockets could cost a comparatively cheap $58 million each.
"Given the delays in initiating a US capacity to transport crew to the ISS, NASA has extended its contract with the Russian Space Agency for astronaut transportation through 2018 at an additional cost of $490 million,” wrote NASA's Office of Inspector General in a September audit. “If the Commercial Crew Program experiences additional delays, NASA may need to buy additional seats from Russia to ensure a continued US presence on the ISS.”
Despite pushing private companies to innovate in space technologies, NASA hasn't given up on its own rockets. The agency is working with Boeing to build the Space Launch System rocket, which is expected to carry astronauts into deep space one day. It is scheduled to take its first test flight in fall of 2018, when it will to launch from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B, a site located down the street from SpaceX’s historic launch pad.
[Editor's Note: This article was updated with more accurate information about SpaceX's plans for the launch pad 39A.] | aerospace | 1 |
https://zmrindustryjournal.us/1648/nasa-to-showcase-xcom-for-efficient-space-communication/ | 2022-11-26T09:44:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446706285.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20221126080725-20221126110725-00723.warc.gz | 0.946226 | 358 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__36793284 | en | NASA is experimenting with a new communication technology in deep space which is likely to be demonstrated during International Space Station during spring. As of now NASA relies on regular radio waves to communicate between earth and spacecraft floating above. But new laser communication technology offer it high data rates so that spacecraft can now send larger data packets at one time. This technology is called X-Ray Communication system or XCOM that offers better advantages over radio waves. X-Rays have short wavelengths when compared to infrared and radio waves so XCOM can send more data using the same transmission power.
The X-Rays used in this communication system can broadcast tight beams using less energy while communicating across large distances. If the demonstration is successful then it could generate increased interest in this communications technology and permit efficient gigabits-per-second rates of data for deep space missions. This form of data transfer at extremely high rates is not common in telecom but recent research projects to speed up data processing have pushed the capability of computers to this range for few fields. These X-rays can also pierce the sheath of hot plasma that builds up when the spacecraft hurtles through atmosphere of earth at hypersonic speeds.
This plasma sheath sometimes acts as a barrier for communication and cuts of the radio frequency link between earth and the spacecraft for a few seconds. This phenomenon was effectively portrayed in the movie Apollo 13 when the spacecraft was not able to communicate with anything outside for a few nail-biting seconds. Till data no one has used X-rays in inter-space communication system but there are no applications that have been developed to ensure that communication does not get cut. NASA will use its MXS to generate rapid fire X-Ray pulses and while turn on and off server times per second to encode digital bits for transmission. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aviationschoolsonline.com/g/Online-Aviation-Schools/Brattleboro-Vermont-VT/ | 2024-04-13T18:26:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816832.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413180040-20240413210040-00370.warc.gz | 0.945497 | 1,142 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__78567333 | en | Online Aviation Degrees Near Brattleboro, VT
Online aviation degrees for people from Brattleboro, VT, like any online degree, are an educational staple for busy people everywhere. They don't require you to travel to school and allow you to study in your spare time. Hopefully, that is the case anyway. If you're considering an online aviation degree in Brattleboro, VT and make sure you consider several things about potential programs.
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Robinson Helicopters: The R22 seats two adults and occupants have panoramic views due to R22's large windows. Acoustical foam lowers cabin noise. A heavy-duty muffler and low tail-rotor tip speed lessen flyover noise. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.infosatellites.com/pansat-satellite-information-norad-25520.html | 2023-09-25T07:46:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506686.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925051501-20230925081501-00231.warc.gz | 0.904208 | 285 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__58456604 | en | The Petite Amateur Navy Satellite (PANSAT) was a small satellite designed and built by officer students, faculty, and staff at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The main objective was to support the Space Systems and Engineering and Space Systems Operations curricula by providing a "hands-on" hardware project where exposure to the many facets of a space system development and life cycle could be experienced. PANSAT provided educational training while in orbit through a space-based laboratory for officer students at NPS. PANSAT was launched from the Shuttle into a low-Earth orbit on the STS-95 Discovery mission as part of the third International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3) experiment. The spacecraft provided store-and-forward (packet radio) digital communications using direct sequence spread spectrum modulation. PANSAT operated in the amateur radio 70 cm band with center frequency at 436.5 MHz, a bit rate of 9842 bits per second and 9 MB of message storage. Amateur radio ground stations were able to utilize PANSAT via a bulletin-board type user interface.
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https://iafpa.asia/news | 2023-02-08T04:33:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500671.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20230208024856-20230208054856-00777.warc.gz | 0.883757 | 853 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__147532328 | en | NewsIndiGo flight enroute to Banglore suffers cabin depressurization
03 April 2021
Pilots flying an IndiGo flight from Lucknow to Banglore, India declared Mayday and were forced to perform an emergency landing at Banglore due to cabin depressurization. The aircraft landed safely without injuries sustained.
Click this link to read the full story: https://simpleflying.com/indigo-cabin-depressurization/
NewsAir France flight from Paris performs emergency landing
05 March 2021
Pilots flying an Air France flight from Paris to New Delhi, were forced to perform an emergency landing at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria due to a disorderly passenger on board. Shortly after the aircraft’s departure, the man started arguing with other passengers and later became physical, abusing one the attendants.
Click this link to read the full story: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/air-france-flight-new-delhi-emergency-landing-disruptive-14349882
NewsVivo smartphone shipment catches fire at Hong Kong Airport
11 April 2021
A shipment of Vivo smartphones caught fire at Hong Kong Airport's tarmac while awaiting to be loaded into a Hong Kong Air Cargo aircraft. The massive fire, which spread across 3 pallets, was safely extinguished by the Airport's Emergency Services.
Click this link to read the full story: https://theloadstar.com/hong-kong-air-cargo-ban-on-vivo-phones-after-pallets-catch-fire-at-airport/
NewsSafran working on new aircraft engines that use clean hybrid technology
14 June 2021
General Electric and Safran are developing new clean energy aircraft engine technology that could cut carbon emissions by 20%.
NewsNew decisions at ICAO Council's 223rd Session support aviation's recovery and development
With air travel devastated by the pandemic, ICAO has realized important progress towards facilitating the aviation sector’s recovery from the impacts of the pandemic.
Click here for the full report: https://www.icao.int/Newsroom/Pages/New-decisions-at-ICAO-Councils-223rd-Session-support-aviations-recovery-and-development-.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2gQZVtmBwA4AthifFIZ9U91YnJSyrIN1KV_E4DWK2TZVs8vkmlysJKs3M
NewsSilkway West Aircraft Performs Rejected Take Off At Hong Kong Due to Engine Problems
08 July 2021
A Silkway West Aircraft, departing from Hong Kong to Baku, performed a high-speed rejected take off due to engine problems.
Click here for the full report: https://www.aviationnepal.com/silkway-west-boeing-747-400-vp-bcv-rejected-the-takeoff-at-hongkong/
NewsGulf Air Aircraft Performs Emergency Evacuation, Passengers Head Towards Live Runway
06 July 2021
A Gulf Air Airbus A321 aircraft performed an emergency evacuation at Kuwait after experiencing “high temperature in the cargo”. The aircraft stopped at the taxiway and passengers started evacuating the aircraft via the emergency slides , heading dangerously towards a live runway. The straying passengers caused a go-around for another aircraft.
Click here for full report: https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/straying-passengers-cause-chaos-after-gulf-air-a321-evacuation-in-kuwait/144460.article?fbclid=IwAR0J7OAiPwIA68Xs1FUp7wnXvQ3Wejis1sCUaiywB1cTiYk_Bk_gwmodr-w | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20060405X00394&key=1 | 2014-11-22T00:32:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400374040.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123254-00095-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.946109 | 452 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__134469145 | en | NTSB Identification: MIA06LA074.
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Accident occurred Wednesday, March 29, 2006 in Daytona Beach, FL
Probable Cause Approval Date: 12/20/2007
Aircraft: Piper PA-44-180, registration: N938ER
Injuries: 2 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The landing gear was confirmed to be down and locked, three green annunciator lights were noted, and the nose landing gear was visually seen to be down and locked. The airplane touched down, veered sharply to the left and departed the runway. It collided with a runway distance remaining sign, damaging the right wing. Post-accident examination revealed the nose landing gear had collapsed. The upper drag brace (that connects the nose gear to the fuselage) was fractured, and the pivot lug (that connects the upper brace to the lower brace) was fractured in two places. The pivot lug fractures were consistent with overload stress separations. At least 13 internal horizontal and parallel cracks were uncovered near the vertical centerline of the brace. The cracks followed the grain flow lines resulting from forging. Flow lines were longitudinal in the arm portion of the brace with a smooth, gently curving transition into the thicker portion of the lug. However, flow lines in the upper fracture were convoluted and tightly twisted. A laboratory-induced fracture of the brace revealed an irregular boundary with ductile overstress features interspersed along the edge of the crack. Low magnification revealed a smooth, undulating surface. High magnification revealed a fine granular texture. Energy dispersive x-ray spectra revealed an increased oxygen level on the crack surface.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: Failure of the nose landing gear upper drag brace assembly due to overload acting on an undetected forging defect formed during the initial forging of the brace. A contributing factor in this accident was the runway distance remaining sign. Full narrative available
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http://juarezfamilyaz.blogspot.com/2013/07/graysons-first-plane-trip.html | 2018-07-16T19:59:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589455.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716193516-20180716213516-00447.warc.gz | 0.990632 | 168 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__253474132 | en | After our amazing stay-cation, we were home for all of 2 days before packing up again and heading to a family reunion in Montana (needless to say, by the time we actually got on the plane, I was a little tired). We flew a smaller airline that went out of a different airport than we normally fly, but it was very nice to go through such a small and easy check-in process! Rylie thought it was very cool that we boarded the plane on the tarmac and she did great on the flight. Grayson was perfect! He ate when we wanted and then slept the rest of the way. We can't wait to fly with both of them again!
In all of the flying that I have done over the years, I have never boarded a plane from the back end!
3 months ago | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.satellitetoday.com/business/2017/12/26/spectacular-spacex-launch-mystifies-los-angeles/ | 2018-03-21T07:09:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647584.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180321063114-20180321083114-00013.warc.gz | 0.89831 | 503 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__217285395 | en | SpaceX Spurs UFO Frenzy with Last Launch of 2017
SpaceX has officially reached the midway point of the Iridium Next launch campaign, lofting an additional 10 satellites for the constellation in the evening hours of Dec. 22. Illuminated against an inky dusk backdrop, the Falcon 9’s first stage separation and secondary stage ignition left a bright streak in its wake as it crossed the horizon.
The sight spurred mass confusion and wonder as onlookers around Los Angeles watched the rocket soar into orbit.
This #SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base was exactly 800 times cooler than I thought it would be. This was the view from Old Town Pasadena. Thanks to ABC7 Photog Jamie Evans for the Video. #rocket #UFO pic.twitter.com/PbtqWki6J7
— Rob Hayes (@abc7robhayes) December 23, 2017
SpaceX co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk took to Twitter to poke fun at the hysteria.
Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea pic.twitter.com/GUIHpKkkp5
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2017
The launch marked the first time Iridium satellites rode atop a previously flown rocket. SpaceX used the same Falcon 9 booster for an Iridium mission back in June.
SpaceX has now orbited a total of 40 satellites for the Next constellation and expects to finish the launch campaign in 2018. Once complete, the Next constellation will comprise 66 active satellites and nine on-orbit spares divided into six polar orbiting planes.
According to Iridium, the Next constellation will enable and introduce new services such as the company’s global communications platform, Iridium Certus. The satellites also carry Aireon’s real-time aircraft surveillance payloads and maritime Automatic Identification System (AIS) payloads, co-operated by Harris Corporation and exactEarth.
All Iridium Next launches take place out of SpaceX’s West Coast launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Four additional launches are planned for the first half of 2018, including a rideshare that will carry five Next satellites and the twin satellites for the NASA/German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission.
Having a sinking feeling that most people actually do think it was aliens …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2017 | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=79662 | 2019-12-06T21:46:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540490972.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20191206200121-20191206224121-00342.warc.gz | 0.963012 | 621 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__82968453 | en | Aeronautics student lands Delta Air Lines internship
Junior Zach Floto, a Liberty University School of Aeronautics student, recently landed a competitive internship at the Delta Air Lines headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. He is one of only three college students chosen from a pool of more than 700 applicants nationwide.
Floto, who is in the commercial/corporate aviation program at Liberty, first heard about the internship while he was attending a national flight team competition at Ohio State University two years ago. After he applied online, the management of the Chief Pilot Center and the vice president of Fight Operations at Delta contacted him and set up a web-based video interview.
“Two hours after the interview was finished, I got the call with the exciting news that I was selected to be one of the next interns for Delta,” Floto said.
He is the first intern to represent Liberty University.
“Everyone here is really excited about having a new school represented by the interns,” Floto said. “Whenever I am introduced to the employees here, they always start by saying, ‘This is our first student we’ve ever had from Liberty.’”
Floto has already invested more than 50 hours in the internship. He works with the Next Gen GPS Working Group, whose primary purpose is to assist the FAA in developing RNAV procedures (a navigation method) for new airports that Delta flies into, as well as revising and updating current procedures. His job requires him to keep track of developing procedures and test them in simulators. He has been instructed on how to use the aircraft simulators in the Delta training center, giving him opportunity to practice takeoffs, landings, low visibility operations, engine failures, and more.
Floto said he’s also gained a lot of experience outside the cockpit.
“I’ve learned many other valuable skills working in the office and talking to the other pilots. By interacting with my fellow employees, I have learned much about how an airline operates and the amount of work required to make such a large operation successful.”
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dave Young, dean of the School of Aeronautics, said Floto’s selection for the internship is “a testament to the quality of the students in the School of Aeronautics.”
He said it provides “a grand opportunity” when a major airline like Delta acknowledges Liberty’s aviation program: “Zach’s representation of Liberty University and the School of Aeronautics will open doors for our graduates. We’re very proud of him.”
During his internship, Floto is taking online classes to keep up with his studies. His ultimate goal is to become a captain for an international airline.
“Delta is a very strong company with a great future in front of them, and I hope to return to this airline in the future,” he said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/ams2482/ | 2022-05-28T02:01:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663011588.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528000300-20220528030300-00088.warc.gz | 0.74129 | 298 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__88181552 | en | TEFLON-IMPREGNATED OR CODEPOSITED HARD COATING TREATMENT OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS
- Aerospace Material Specification
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|Aerospace Material Specification||Hard Anodic Coating on Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys|
|Aerospace Material Specification||Aluminum Alloy, Extruded Profiles (6056-T4511) 1.0Si - 0.90Mg - 0.80Cu - 0.60Mn - 0.40Zn Solution Heat Treated and Stress-Relieved by Stretching|
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The committee of Finishes, Processes, and Fluids, AMS Committee B, shall prepare, coordinate, and revise documents related to processing technology, such as plating, brazing, coatings and compounds, through the participation of process suppliers, users, and interested government agencies. Committee activities shall provide a forum for the cooperative interchange of ideas and experience of the participants, resulting in the publication of specifications that embody sound, established aerospace industry practices and requirements to serve the suppliers and customers of aerospace processes. | aerospace | 1 |
https://blog.thepipingmart.com/grades/ams-7727-nickel-alloy-composition-properties-and-uses/ | 2023-06-07T03:05:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653501.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607010703-20230607040703-00326.warc.gz | 0.867975 | 1,003 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__84936494 | en | Materials used in construction and engineering must meet rigorous specifications to provide excellent performance in demanding environments. AMS 7727 is a unique material that has earned its reputation as the go-to material for high-stress applications. With superior physical and mechanical properties, AMS 7727 ensures excellent performance, durability, and longevity. This blog post will provide valuable insights into AMS 7727’s composition, physical and mechanical properties, uses, hardness, and heat treatment.
What is AMS 7727?
AMS 7727 (also known as Nilo K Alloy) is a high-strength, low-alloy steel used in critical components of aerospace applications. Characterized by its exceptional strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance, this material is highly sought-after by engineers seeking maximum performance and reliability. With its ability to withstand extreme temperatures and stress, AMS 7727 is a formidable choice for aviation and space exploration’s most challenging design requirements.
AMS 7727 Composition
AMS 7727 is a chromium-molybdenum alloy steel strengthened by adding nickel and nitrogen. The chemical composition consists of carbon, 0.09%; silicon, 0.30%; manganese, 1.00%; phosphorus, 0.025%; sulfur, 0.025%; chromium, 0.80% to 1.10%; nickel, 1.50% to 2.00%, molybdenum, 0.25% to 0.35%, and nitrogen, 0.025% to 0.045%. Combining these elements gives AMS 7727 high strength, corrosion resistance, and exceptional toughness.
AMS 7727 Physical Properties
AMS 7727 has excellent physical properties such as a high melting point of 1500°C, thermal conductivity of 24.3 W/mK, and density of 7.87 g/cm³. Additionally, its coefficient of thermal expansion of 12.0 µm/m°C allows for excellent machinability.
|Density||8.16 gm/cm3||0.295 lb/in3|
AMS 7727 Mechanical Properties
The mechanical properties of AMS 7727 steel are exceptional. It has a yield strength of 629 MPa, tensile strength of 894 MPa, and high ductility. AMS 7727 can withstand high temperature and pressure conditions and resist cracking and deformation.
|Tensile strength||520MPa||75.4 ksi|
|Yield strength||340 MPa||49.3 ksi|
|Modulus of elasticity||130 GPa||18900 ksi|
AMS 7727 Equivalents
- UNS K94610
- ASTM F15
- DIN 17745
- AFNOR NF A54-301.
AMS 7727 Uses
AMS 7727 is commonly used in the aerospace and defence industry, where high strength and durability are required. Its strength and toughness make it ideal for critical components such as landing gears, hydraulic actuators, and piston rods. AMS 7727 is also used in automotive and oil and gas industries, where its corrosion resistance and outstanding mechanical properties are highly valued.
AMS 7727 Hardness
AMS 7727 has excellent hardness and can be hardened by heat treatment. The material has a Rockwell hardness of 33 HRC and can reach up to 55 HRC after heat treatment. The hardness ensures it can withstand the harshest conditions without compromising strength or durability.
AMS 7727 Heat treatment
The heat treatment process is essential to fully utilize the exceptional properties of AMS 7727. This process involves heating the material to a high temperature and then quickly cooling it to produce a rigid and durable structure. This process enhances the mechanical properties, including the material’s hardness, ductility, and toughness.
AMS 7727 is an exceptional material with an excellent reputation for high-stress applications. Its composition, physical properties, mechanical properties, uses, and hardness makes it a go-to material in the aerospace, defence, automotive, and oil and gas industries. Its exceptional strength, toughness, and durability ensure the best performance and longevity. Hardening the material through heat treatment is crucial to extract the full potential of its properties. As an expert, I highly recommend the application of AMS 7727 in various industries to ensure the best performance and durability of critical components.
Pipingmart is a B2B portal that specializes in metal, industrial and piping items. Additionally, we share the latest information and information about materials, products and various types of grades to assist businesses that are involved in this business. | aerospace | 1 |
https://theconversation.com/explainer-the-international-space-station-12565 | 2023-03-31T20:32:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949678.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331175950-20230331205950-00407.warc.gz | 0.928576 | 1,738 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__41284927 | en | As the most visible man-made object in the night sky the International Space Station (ISS) is of significance to humankind. It takes humans from being explorers of space to being residents of space.
The Russians launched Zarya, the first module of the ISS, on November 20, 1998. It has grown considerably since then and has been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000.
Some 208 individuals from 35 expeditions have visited it since then. It’s the ninth space station to be inhabited, following the Salyut (and Almaz), Skylab and Mir stations.
Science and the space station
The ISS fulfils three broad research roles: space medicine, Earth and solar studies, and microgravity experiments.
Understanding the response of the human body to low and microgravity is critical for space exploration. Astronauts undergoing long periods of weightlessness – such as in flights to and from Mars – will need to understand the impact of this on their ability to carry out tasks, both routine and emergency.
The space station provides an ideal environment to study many aspects of humans in space, including: balance, digestion, muscle and bone retention and heart behaviour.
It also provides a unique window on the earth and sun – one in which scientists can use their understanding to respond to opportunities as they arise as well as conduct scheduled experiments and observations.
As a solar observatory, the space station is clear of Earth’s atmosphere, giving a unique perspective on terrestrial weather and atmospheric science.
The four laboratory sections house experiments selected on their scientific merit or educational and industrial interest. These include understanding how microgravity effects animal and plant growth, and understanding and developing novel industrial processes.
One of the main “big science” experiments on the space station is the alpha magnetic spectrometer (AMS) – an instrument designed to search for dark matter.
The AMS has been in operation and collecting data since June 27, 2011 and has an expected operational lifetime in excess of ten years.
A tour of the International Space Station
Approaching the the Rassvet dock in your Soyuz spacecraft, you realise just how big and frail the space station is.
Its most visible features are the eight solar arrays. They generate 84 kilowatts of power and have a wingspan of 73 metres, wider than a Boeing 777. They, along with the array of habitable modules, are supported by a central truss.
As you dock you can see nearby the Russian crew’s Soyuz craft docked at Poisk. At the other end, on the Harmony node, is a newly captured SpaceX Dragon supply ship.
Through the cramped airlock you enter the Zarya module. After taking a moment to orient yourself in this weightless environment, you proceed down a circular tunnel to the Zvezda service module.
This is the space station control and services centre, containing the Russian guidance and navigation computers.
It’s also the sleeping and hygiene quarters for two of the cosmonauts. In an emergency it can support all six of the crew.
Back through Zarya you’ll come to the US-built Unity node, a galley where it is possible for all the crew to gather and eat together.
Just off from this is the Italian-built Tranquility node, which is multi-purpose - with storage, berthing and habitation facilities. It houses the ESA-built observatory, the Cupola.
With its six side windows and a top window the Cupola gives observers a Millenium Falcon-type view of Earth below.
You wind your way back to Unity then through the truss structure (that supports the solar arrays and the Canadarm2) to the Destiny Laboratory – the primary US research facility. Continuing on from here, you reach Harmony.
You note the Destiny and Harmony nodes are square, rather than round like the older modules. This gives four usable working “walls” - there is no up or down, so no floor or ceiling.
Besides velcroing objects to every available “wall” space, the next noticeable thing is the total absence of chairs.
Harmony is home to four crew. The sleeping berths radiate into each “wall”. Each is about the size of a phone booth and have a sleeping bag-type arrangement as well as computer and space for personal effects.
Sleeping on the ISS is a novel experience. The station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, which means there is a sunrise and sunset every hour and a half.
The Harmony node also houses sanitary (yes, that is your toothbrush and toothpaste velcroed to the wall) and exercise facilities. A treadmill, gym and seatless exercise bike are part of the necessary exercise regime to ensure muscle does not waste away in the microgravity environment of the space station.
Off Harmony are the Japanese Kibo and European Columbus laboratories.
And … that’s it! This is your world for the next six months, all 388 cubic metres of it - about half the interior space of a Jumbo jet.
The international space residents
The first expedition of William Shepherd (US), Yuri Gidzenko (Russia) and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) was launched on a Russian Soyuz on October 31, 2000 and returned on the space shuttle Discovery on March 21, 2001.
At the moment, the ISS is hosting a six-person expedition, #35. Current commander Chris Hadfield (Canada) and flight engineers Tom Marshburn (US) and Roman Romanenko (Russia) docked on December 21, 2012.
Chris Cassidy (US), Alexander Misurkin (Russia), and Pavel Vinogradov (Russia), also flight engineers, docked on March 28, this year, replacing then-commander Kevin Ford (US) and flight engineers Oleg Novitskiy (Russia) and Evgeny Tarelkin (Russia).
You can watch the ISS crew live when they’re on duty.
Expedition #35 is an all-male crew, but 31 women have flown to the space station – including Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson, the station’s first female commander. In all, there have been nationals from 15 countries, including seven tourists.
In the Memorandum of Understanding between NASA and Roscosmos, the ISS is to provide for a variety of capabilities, such as
a laboratory in space, for the conduct of science and applications and the development of new technologies
a permanent observatory in high-inclination orbit, from which to observe Earth, the Solar System and the rest of the Universe
a transportation node where payloads and vehicles are stationed, assembled, processed and deployed to their destination
a servicing capability from which payloads and vehicles are maintained, repaired, replenished and refurbished
an assembly capability from which large space structures and systems are assembled and verified
a research and technology capability in space, where the unique space environment enhances commercial opportunities and encourages commercial investment in space
a storage depot for consumables, payloads and spares
a staging base for possible future missions, such as a permanent lunar base, a human mission to Mars, robotic planetary probes, a human mission to survey the asteroids, and a scientific and communications facility in geosynchronous orbit
In the 2010 US National Space Policy, the ISS was given additional roles of serving commercial, diplomatic and educational purposes.
The ISS has acted as an example and vehicle for international co-operation, but the US has vetoed China’s participation. China, as a result, is now pursuing its own space laboratory program.
The first of these, Tiangong-1, is in orbit and has docked with Shenzou-9, but is still to be inhabited.
The US Administration will fund the ISS until 2020. With continued interest from the international community, the space station should continue as a vehicle for fruitful science and demonstration of international co-operation for at least this decade.
The development of commercial spacecraft also provides a second string to the station’s future. SpaceX has demonstrated its capability to deliver cargo and possibly crew to supplement the ageing Russian Soyuz capability.
Only time will tell whether the US allows the addition of China and India, Asia’s space-capable nations, to the ISS fraternity. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.swot-adac.org/news/swot-first-echo-over-the-ocean/ | 2023-11-30T04:30:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00618.warc.gz | 0.926519 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__11519147 | en | SWOT mission is proceeding nominally and on January 16th the POSEIDON-3C altimeter gave the first waveform data.
After its successful launch in December 2022, SWOT mission is proceeding nominally. The “Jason 4” payload is active, and indeed DORIS, the POSEIDON-3C altimeter, the radiometer and the JPL GPS payload are functional and the first data are as expected soon.
In particular, SWOT-Nadir (altimeter type Jason 4 – POSEIDON-3C) has been switched on the 16th of January, no problems were reported, and it sent back to Earth a first echo over the ocean (see picture)!
The KaRIn instrument will be started up by the end of the week, and this will be the first full-scale test of end-to-end data transmission chain. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/a-women-only-team-from-kyrgyztan-is-pioneering-the-countrys-space-programme-5503781.html | 2021-05-18T10:00:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989819.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20210518094809-20210518124809-00158.warc.gz | 0.942656 | 867 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__210855666 | en | tech2 News StaffNov 05, 2018 14:37:47 IST
There are thirteen countries in the world that have built and launched satellites into space. Over 70 countries have space agencies of their own.
In under two years, Kyrgyzstan could join the ranks and become a country with stakes in space, with its first official space programme powered by a team of young women.
The 'Kyrgyz Space program' (unrelated to the brilliant Kerbal Space Program) is unique in many ways, and is gathering international praise for the multiple norms it is out to shatter. Driven by a motivated team of women aged between 17-25 years, the space programme is completely crowd-funded. Meeting twice a week in a training course, the group has decided to set its eyes on building the country’s first cube satellite (CubeSat) and send it to orbit by 2020.
The programme is part of a satellite-building course hosted by Kloop Media Foundation. Kloop is a media, journalism and training organisation in Kyrgyzstan with a reputation for being vocal and one of the most feminist-friendly, LGBT-friendly media agencies in Asia.
“We have the largest number of female camera operators, for example, and our sports editor is an 18-year-old girl. We also have a brilliant video engineer who is also a young woman,” Bektour Iskender, one of the agency's founding members was quoted to have said in a TED report.
One of Kloop’s founders, Bektour Iskender, tied up with a NASA scientist Alex MacDonald, who travels the world to inspire and encourages new local space programmes, to pioneer the country’s first space programme. The pair decided to formulate Kyrgyzstan's first space programme exclusively for girls, fighting the many social injustices that the country is known for.
Kloop started new programmes aimed at girls in STEM in 2016. Among them was a satellite-building school that would train young women in robotics and coding and help them put in the (wo)man-hours to put Kyrgyz’s first ever CubeSat in orbit.
The group has budgeted $150,000.
With fundraising underway, the girls are currently three months into a training program in basic electronics, physics and 3D printing.
They are mentored by a leading technology journalist and trainer at Kloop as well as experts and experienced engineers that have helped send microsatellites to space before. The progress of the country's space programme depends entirely on funds raised on Patreon.
The team’s next target is an additional $1,500 a month to bring in trainers from Lithuanian startup, NanoAvionics, which launched its country’s first CubeSat in 2014.
A total of $5,000 per month will arm them with all the resources needed to build the CubeSat.
And ultimately, the $10,000 per month target will help fund a lift to the ISS and have it launched into orbit.
While Kloop and the team are setting reasonable expectations for Kyrgyzstan's first mission, plans for a second are already in the works.
"They’re exploring the idea of directing the sun’s rays toward orbiting garbage to vaporize it and using the energy to propel the CubeSat,” Iskender told TED in a recent interview.
A second possibility is a mission to image the Tibetan plateau from a satellite — among the least-photographed places in the world — from space.
While there is plenty still left to work on, the group posts mission updates every so often when they manage to get hold of an English-speaking volunteer.
The first-of-its-kind space programme is a major step in rebuilding the country's reputation for gender discrimination, domestic violence, child marriage and kidnappings.
"Having Kyrgyzstan’s first space programme be launched by young women — it destroys all the norms beautifully.”
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https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/north-korea-rocket-launch-labelled-provocation-1483581 | 2022-10-06T18:56:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337853.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006155805-20221006185805-00540.warc.gz | 0.938772 | 537 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__260264701 | en | North Korea rocket launch labelled '˜a provocation'
For North Korea's propaganda machine, the long-range rocket launch yesterday carved a glorious trail of 'fascinating vapour' through the clear blue sky.
For South Korea’s president, and other world leaders, it was a banned test of dangerous ballistic missile technology and yet another “intolerable provocation”.
The rocket was launched from North Korea’s west coast only two hours after an eight-day launch window opened yesterday morning, its path tracked separately by the United States, Japan and South Korea. No damage from debris was reported.
North Korea, which calls its launches part of a peaceful space programme, said it had successfully put a new Earth observation satellite, the Kwangmyongsong 4, or Shining Star 4, into orbit less than ten minutes after lift-off. It vowed more such launches.
The launch follows North Korea’s widely-disputed claim last month to have tested a hydrogen bomb. Washington and its allies will consider the rocket launch a further provocation and push for more tough sanctions.
The US and Japan quickly requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council yesterday, saying Pyongyang had violated a council ban on ballistic missile launches.
Rocket and nuclear tests are seen as crucial steps toward the North’s ultimate goal of a nuclear armed missile that could hit the US mainland.
North Korea under leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to bolster its nuclear arsenal unless Washington scraps what Pyongyang calls a hostile policy meant to collapse its government. Diplomats are also pushing to tighten UN sanctions because of the North’s nuclear test on 6 January.
In a development that will worry both Pyongyang and Beijing, a senior South Korean Defence Ministry official said that Seoul and Washington have agreed to begin talks on a possible deployment of the THAAD missile defence system in South Korea.
North Korea has long decried the 28,500 US troops stationed in South Korea, and Beijing would see a deployment of THAAD, which is one of the world’s most advanced missile defence systems, as a threat to its interests in the region.
In a statement, North Korea’s National Aerospace Development Administration praised “the fascinating vapour of Juche satellite trailing in the clear and blue sky in spring of February on the threshold of the Day of the Shining Star.”
Juche is a North Korean philosophy focusing on self-reliance; the Day of the Shining Star refers to the 16 February birthday of former dictator Kim Jong-il.
North Korea has previously staged rocket launches to mark important anniversaries. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.kvrr.com/2016/11/29/pilot-couldnt-see-runway-before-crash/ | 2023-06-08T01:54:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654031.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608003500-20230608033500-00381.warc.gz | 0.975051 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__106368307 | en | Pilot Couldn’t See Runway Before Crash
The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot of a twin-engine plane that crashed near the Moorhead airport last week could not see the runway.
The NTSB’s preliminary report says the pilot initiated what’s called a “missed approach” procedure and eventually crashed into a field about a half-mile from the end of the runway.
The report says visibility was a half-mile due to dense fog and the clouds were just 300 feet above the ground.The pilot and one passenger received minor injuries, five other passengers were not hurt.
The crash happened last Wednesday just before 6 pm.
The flight originated in Baudette, Minn. The airplane is operated by Flight Development, LLC of Moorhead. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.wescam.com/newsroom/ | 2018-10-17T23:04:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511314.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20181017220358-20181018001858-00166.warc.gz | 0.87027 | 644 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__54391218 | en | L3 WESCAM Wins Largest Contract in History – Both in Units and ValueL3 to deliver next-generation MX-10D electro-optical, infrared and laser designator (EO/IR/LD) sensor suite to U.S. Army. These modernized ISR systems operate from the Army’s Tactical Unmanned Air Systems RQ-7Bv2 (Shadow UAV) and provide an advanced state-of-art capability to collect critical information for all members of the air-ground maneuver team.
L3 to Showcase Versatile MX™-GCS Sighting System at 2018 AUSAL3 MX-GCS Sighting System showcase at 2018 AUSA. Four Configurations Under One Roof – An Industry First.
Jupiter, Saturn and Mars: Astronomy at WESCAML3 WESCAM Engineers capture imagery of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars on MX-25 during Astronomy Night.
L3 WESCAM Delivers First EO/IR System for Canada’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue ProgramL3 WESCAM has delivered the first MX™-15 electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) system to Airbus Defense and Space in support of Canada’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) aircraft replacement program.
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https://www.sae.org/search/?sort=pdd&display=list&affiliations=%28%22The+Boeing+Company%22%29&taxonomy=%28%2250868%22+OR+%2250570%22%29 | 2020-10-21T05:33:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107875980.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021035155-20201021065155-00192.warc.gz | 0.891129 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__76507876 | en | A Reduced-Order Enclosure Radiation Modeling Technique for Aircraft Actuators
Modern aircraft are aerodynamically designed at the edge of flight stability and therefore require high-response-rate flight control surfaces to maintain flight safety. In addition, to minimize weight and eliminate aircraft thermal cooling requirements, the actuator systems have increased power-density and utilize high-temperature components. This coupled with the wide operating temperature regimes experienced over a mission profile may result in detrimental performance of the actuator systems. Understanding the performance capabilities and power draw requirements as a function of temperature is essential in properly sizing and optimizing an aircraft platform. Under the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL's) Integrated Vehicle and Energy Technology (INVENT) Program, detailed models of high performance electromechanical actuators (HPEAS) were developed and include temperature dependent effects in the electrical and mechanical actuator components. | aerospace | 1 |
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There is a paradigm shift in the mind-set of the benefits of the pre-planning and time spent at the early stages of every project to eliminate wastage and deliver a fully accountable and measurable project wiring system. As with the aerospace industry where quality control is critical, the Apex modular wiring system is manufactured and thoroughly tested in a controlled environment.
The result is a plug-and-play modular wiring solution for the project. Whether you are constructing a hospital, office, school, retail space or residential unit, Apex has the complete solution from distribution boards to final accessories and light fittings.
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Pre-wired modular (soft) wiring products are scalable to be used on any project; from the pre-wired Distribution Board along the busy service corridors, feeding into rooms, to all pre-wired power and lighting accessories as the final point of connection.
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Pre-wired modular wiring system for small power and lighting circuits; from the pre-wired Distribution Board along the busy service corridors, feeding into rooms, to all pre-wired power and lighting accessories as the final point of connection.
The following APEX Modular Wiring Schematic for project are available.
To receive a Schematic on the required project contact us with the form below. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.3ds.com/insights/customer-stories/vertical-aerospace | 2023-05-28T06:11:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643585.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528051321-20230528081321-00550.warc.gz | 0.93707 | 2,914 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__202805650 | en | The race to bring an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to market is on. One of the frontrunners, UK aviation startup Vertical Aerospace, is set to launch the world’s first certified winged eVTOL with the VA-X4. Quiet, efficient and carbon-emission free, eVTOL machines are praised as the next urban mobility solution. Innovators like Vertical Aerospace plan to move more freely and access local heliports and airports where noise regulations currently restrict the number of flights per day. Vertical Aerospace is targeting an aircraft that is significantly quieter than a helicopter – and will cost far less to run too – allowing it to tap into a market for travel between areas underserved by high-speed rail networks and regional airlines.
“What we’re witnessing is population growth in major cities where the ground base infrastructure such as road and public transportation is getting saturated and congested,” said Eric Samson, head of engineering at Vertical Aerospace. “Then there are helicopters, used for transportation around large cities, but they are increasingly facing landing restrictions due to noise levels, offer no safety redundancy and are cost prohibitive to the general public. We’re developing an electrically distributed propulsion system, which offers redundancy, is cheaper to run and maintain, will be about 30 times quieter than a helicopter and doesn’t sacrifice the planet.”
Vertical Aerospace’s VA-X4 has a winged design, which gives it lift and will reduce electrical load when in flight.
“The VA-X4 aircraft has been designed to carry five people – a pilot and four passengers,” Samson said. “We are targeting inter- and intra-city travel with a range of up to 100 miles at cruise speeds of 150mph. We’ve chosen a wing design because lift offers the benefit of speed, range and is very quiet in cruise conditions, which will help us stand out in this market.”
The company is currently building a demonstrator, which it plans to fly in the third quarter of 2021 before certifying and bringing the final aircraft to market in 2024. All of Vertical Aerospace’s product development is being defined and managed through the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform on Cloud allowing the company to innovate at speed and meet its ambitious targets.
“We’re in the process of writing a new chapter in the aviation industry,” Samson said. “We’re working with emerging technologies, including intuitive and safe flight control technologies from Honeywell. At the same time, we’re defining a new certification basis and collaborating with leading companies around the globe. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform will help us to develop and share the critical steps of requirements, ensure we’re developing the aircraft according to those requirements, do validation and also manage the certification of the aircraft with the authorities. It’s a one-stop shop and single source of truth for Vertical Aerospace and our business partners that allows us to work concurrently wherever we are in the world.”
Vertical Aerospace is working with Dassault Systèmes’ business partner Desktop Engineering (DTE) to maximize how it takes advantage of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The company finds the support and guidance invaluable as it builds its processes and maps them to the platform’s functionality.
“The amount of functionality the platform delivers is hugely exciting,” said James McMillan, senior design engineer at Vertical Aerospace. “We’ve started by focusing on our core business needs and making sure we get these processes up and working, such as building a product structure and implementing a part numbering system which is future proof and will support configuration control. When we have fleets of operational aircraft, we need complete traceability of all the parts.”
“We’ve been working collaboratively with DTE and Dassault Systèmes to build our product structure and future proof it,” McMillan said. “But equally we have a really tight program so there’s lots we have to do right away such as getting the part numbering system in place. The guidance from both DTE and Dassault Systèmes has been amazing.”
Vertical Aerospace opted for a cloud-based version of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to suit its immediate and growing business needs.
“The cloud ensures business resilience and allows us to continue working from any location at any time,” Samson said. “Having all our data reside on the cloud ensures a single source of truth while saving us any upfront capital investment. All of our apps are always up-to-date and we can add and remove functionality according to our changing requirements.”
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform will help us to develop and share the critical steps of requirements, ensure we’re developing the aircraft according to those requirements, do validation and also manage the certification of the aircraft with the authorities. It’s a one-stop shop and single source of truth for Vertical Aerospace and our business partners that allows us to work concurrently wherever we are in the world.
McMillan’s role at Vertical Aerospace is to define the company’s processes and implement a standardized, lean way of working across the organization.
“As soon as I saw what Vertical Aerospace was trying to do, I was blown away,” he said. “I love their vision, their green credentials, the innovation and the fact we’re developing brand new technology. We’re building an aircraft from the ground up and starting completely from scratch. So not only do we need to get our processes in order for the now, we need to future-proof them too.”
Alongside its product development, then, the company is putting in place industry-standard processes, all supported by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. One of the key areas the platform is helping with is change management.
“My experience of change management is that it’s usually spread across multiple platforms,” McMillan said. “But we’re handling all the end-to-end data management on 3DEXPERIENCE. In our decision meetings we can send actions out to people via the platform, record the sessions and the workflow supports that. We also will be able to set up signatory loops for key people to sign off documentation.”
This functionality is particularly important as the company advances to the next stages of its product development.
“The end-to-end change process is really important for us, especially as we look to the future,” McMillan said. “We will be able to map change management with configuration control, allowing us to set effectivity ranges on design solutions to make sure that they’re applicable to certain groups of aircraft. Today, we go to a single user, single log in and you’re able to see the entire process cradle to grave. It’s phenomenal. When we start producing aircraft and services, we are hopeful that we can achieve a fully 3D process with our suppliers, exchanging digital data all the way from production planning down to customer service, maintenance and repairs.”
With a fully connected product development lifecycle, Vertical Aerospace can work fast and collaboratively.
“We’re developing a new product so we want to use the latest, best platform to do that and it’s particularly exciting that we can work in partnership with DTE and Dassault Systèmes to set it up,” McMillan said. “I think that we could set a benchmark for how people work in the aerospace industry.”
Vertical Aerospace’s engineers use CATIA to design parts in 3D for the aircraft structure.
“We needed a CAD package that had the power to cope with the whole aircraft,” said John Russell, senior design engineer at Vertical Aerospace. “We knew CATIA could do that.”
For example, CATIA brings together a complete set of process-oriented functions, allowing engineers to design and validate composite structures all from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
“This is a composite aircraft primarily,” Russell said. “When you design in other CAD packages, you tend to simplify composite structure. But the analysis work that goes into composites and understanding plies, orientations and layers of composites is complicated. With this platform, very early on we could build a composite part using a composite workbench to build up the layers and plies. It takes a bit more time to set it up, but when there is more analysis being done, we can look at the best way to manufacture the part from start to finish; it is a far quicker process. In the future, we will be able to give this digital data to manufacturers and go straight to manufacturing.”
Importantly, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables Vertical Aerospace to build a virtual twin of the aircraft and incorporate all aspects, from aerodynamics to electronics.
“We’re mapping out the 2D electrical functional work and linking it directly to the 3D model,” McMillan said. “Soon, we will have the ability to link the 2D and 3D into the whole system architecture so that we can map it from the top-level aircraft definitions with requirements all the way down to the 2D and 3D. Everything will be in one place; we’re not looking around for different datasets and transferring data across. It’s a single source solution. So, if you move or change some of the functional work, it gives you an alarm that your 3D model needs updating. Equally, if you change the geometry, we get feedback to amend the 2D.”
With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Vertical Aerospace is able to carry out concurrent engineering and empower all users in the company to access the information they need to keep projects on track.
“The platform brings all teams together and means that non-CAD people can see the data too,” Russell said. “The aircraft initially starts with the aerodynamics team making a pleasing shape of the aircraft and doing the analysis and an aerodynamic flow over the aircraft. We have a master geometry surface and we’ve linked our CAD data to this, so when they change the aerodynamic shape, our CAD models are quickly updated too. People who don’t have CAD access can see all this in the web-based app. They can see the aerodynamic shape, the structure and interrogate the bill of materials. For everyone to see the parts and models and define a project plan – that’s a really big deal.”
The company is growing its partner and supplier network to bring its aircraft to market and will use its 3D model to hand over specific information and instructions to key stakeholders down the supply chain.
“We are a strong believer in working partnerships with very capable companies,” Samson said. “For example, Honeywell is developing our flight control systems and has a lot of experience with VTOL technologies. We are willing to create partnerships with companies that are agile, eager to disrupt and bring new technologies to market that will allow us to scale up to meet demand. It allows us to accelerate the development of the aircraft and certification process to 2024, which otherwise would have taken us much longer.”
“We’re including all the analysis work from the stress and aerodynamics teams and so forth into our 3D model-based definition on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” Russell added. “Having all the manufacturing and assembly information and installation instructions already integrated into the model will make the handover to manufacturing far easier and much more effective.”
As Vertical Aerospace brings its aircraft to market, it is working closely with the safety regulator CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) to help shape the regulations and define new levels of safety in the industry. It is this close working relationship combined with the company’s vision, innovative design and advanced technologies that will give it a clear route to certifying its aircraft.
“The 3DEXPERIENCE platform will give us full traceability and help us to achieve a DOA certification from CAA,” McMillan said. “We want to be first, but we also want to be the best.”
With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform at the heart of its operation, Vertical Aerospace has all the capabilities it needs to redefine the future of air travel.
“You’re only limited by your imagination,” McMillan said. “We’re building the company from the ground up and we have to take the modular approach. But we’re also looking to the horizon and we’re excited about the potential of what we can achieve with the platform – and that is a completely digital representation of the aircraft. Everywhere I’ve looked for a solution, I’ve found it on the platform. It’s so exciting.”
Founded by greentech entrepreneur Stephen Fitzpatrick in 2016, Vertical Aerospace is disrupting the way aircraft are developed. Combining the rigor and discipline of aerospace with the pace and agility of F1 enables Vertical to develop cutting-edge electric aircraft. The company is already a global pioneer in sustainable aviation technologies, as one of only a handful of companies to have flown multiple full-scale eVTOL prototypes with UK Civil Aviation Authority approval.
For more information: www.vertical-aerospace.com
Desktop Engineering (DTE) provides full turnkey solutions for CAD, CAM, FEA, CAE, and PLM solutions. As a fully accredited Dassault Systèmes platinum partner, it helps customers overcome their challenges and become super users in CATIA, 3DEXPERIENCE, SOLIDWORKS, ENOVIA, DELMIA, and 3DVIA to name just a few software products. | aerospace | 1 |
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Since 1981, Sterling has been helping aviation clients with their worldwide AOG shipping, transporting valuable aircraft parts swiftly and efficiently. We specialize in shipping AOG aircraft parts, rapid returns, heavy weight or oversized freight, and dangerous goods, while keeping down time to a minimum. With a focus on providing global AOG Logistics, Sterling is at the forefront of innovations, offering precision, individualized service and dependability.
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http://www.cnet.com/search/?query=curiosity | 2014-09-24T05:53:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410665301782.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914032821-00188-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.941817 | 294 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__60862637 | en | A giant hedgehog statue is spotted in London's Clapham Common after a survey reveals many Brits have never seen one in the wild. Naturalist Sir David Attenborough hopes to educate the masses about such creatures on his new show.
Curiosity has found and photographed its first chunk of iron meteorite on the surface of Mars.
Curiosity already passed the one Earth-year milestone, now NASA marks the occasion of a full Martian year with a fresh rover selfie.
Get a rare perspective on the Curiosity rover's travels across a distant planet with a fascinating image snapped by NASA's Mars orbiter.
UFO enthusiasts are excited about a strange blip of light in a photo from Mars, but the real explanation is likely much less exotic than alien life.
In a bittersweet moment, Curiosity looks back and takes a snapshot of its home planet above the Mars skyline.
Lego is launching a Curiosity rover set on 1 January, designed by an engineer who worked on the real thing.
Hitting shops on January 1, the miniature block version of the fearless rover comes with 6-wheel suspension, a robotic arm, and even tiny plastic Martian rocks.
The first analysis of soil dug up by the Curiosity rover reveals new insights into the red planet's propensity for retaining water beneath its surface.
After two years of exploration and driving, NASA's Curiosity rover has finally reached the base of Mount Sharp, a major goal of the mission. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Boeing-plans-787-party-for-50-000-1239791.php | 2018-03-20T23:23:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647545.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320224824-20180321004824-00005.warc.gz | 0.899184 | 710 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__251563708 | en | Boeing plans 787 party for 50,000
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It may not be as noisy and raucous as a Seahawks football game, but Seattle's Qwest Field will be rocking when The Boeing Co. holds a coming-out party for its 787 Dreamliner on July 8.
The 787 will be unveiled for the first time that afternoon at Boeing's Everett plant, but attendance for the rollout event is limited and it is not open to the public.
So Boeing is inviting its Puget Sound-area employees and retired Boeing employees in the area to watch the rollout live on the large Qwest Field screens.
About 70,000 people work for Boeing in the Puget Sound area. Another 40,000 or so are retired from the company.
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Each Boeing employee or retiree is allowed to bring one guest to Qwest Field, although the event is limited to 50,000 people.
The Dreamliner is Boeing's first all-new jetliner since the 777 and will be the first large commercial passenger jet ever developed with a composite airframe.
That first plane is in final assembly in Everett. It will be taken to the paint factory after it is finished and then rolled in to the Everett plant for an inside-the-factory celebration July 8 (7-8-07).
Watching the event in Everett that day will be invited Boeing employees who have worked on the program, a number of Boeing executives, including Chairman and Chief Executive Jim McNerney, media from around the world and executives of airlines that have ordered the 787.
Boeing has won nearly 600 orders for the 787 from more than 40 customers.
First flight will follow in late August or early September, and after a flight test program with six jets, Boeing has said it will deliver the first production plane in May to All Nippon Airways of Japan. | aerospace | 1 |
http://sci.renewable.media/Mercury | 2021-01-18T01:22:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703514046.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20210117235743-20210118025743-00571.warc.gz | 0.949682 | 848 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__221148201 | en | Mercury is the nearest of the planets to the Sun, and the smallest (8th) in size, zipping around the Sun in just 88 days. Its surface has a 600°C variation (c. 100K (-173°C) to 700K (427°C)), as it rotates very slowly, with a day two Earth months long!
Baked slowly on its orbital spit, Mercury is hot and barren. Mercury has pyroclastic vents, and it still collecting fresh craters from meteoroid impacts. This image is colour enhanced to reveal its chemical diversity, following an indepth study over 4 years by the orbiting Messenger satellite, which ended its journey when NASA decided to let it crash into the surface in April 2015, after running out of propellant.
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Flying to Mercury means travelling two-thirds of the way towards the Sun. Therefore, a spacecraft gains a lot of kinetic energy as it travels to Mercury, requiring it to brake to enter into orbit around the planet, or fly by. This requires a great deal of fuel (in fact less fuel is needed to send a probe out of the solar system!).
Launched in 2004, this NASA probe was the first and only to enter orbit around Mercury. From March 18, 2011, till April 30, 2015, Messenger scanned the surface of Mercury, until it was crashlanded, as planned, on April 30, 2015. Its mission included two fly-bys of Venus, and to study the chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field of Mercury.
One of the innovative features of this highly-successful mission was the use of a complex series of fly-bys, between Earth (x1), Venus (x2) and Mercury (x3), in order to minimise expenditure of fuel, while slowing enough to enter orbit around Mercury. Many probes fly past planets, in order to profit from the rapid acceleration from their gravity, known as the slingshot, so they can travel the vast distances between planets in reasonable time. However, the disadvantage is that it would take a great deal of energy, heavy fuel, to slow down enough to enter orbit. The technique used by NASA for Messenger proved that it is possible to have the best of both solutions - and get the data we so eagerly want before the original probe designers are in retirement.
Messenger spent 10 months taking nearly 100,000 pictures of Mercury's surface, which mapped the surface completely. Due to the closeness of its orbit, it required regular boosts to maintain orbit. When it finally ran out of propellant, after two year-long mission extensions, it was allowed to embrace its new home more intimately.
Among its discoveries was the confirmation that there is water ice at Mercury's North Pole. It also sent back data about how the planet formed, the chemical composition of its surface, the core, the poles, magnetic field, and its exosphere.
NASA launched the tenth mission in the Mariner series on November 3rd, 1973. This spaceprobe successfully flew by Venus (closest approach 5/2/1974, 5,768 km), and Mercury three times:
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https://thinklab.com/content/4939668 | 2019-10-23T19:53:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987835748.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023173708-20191023201208-00230.warc.gz | 0.777249 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__38455362 | en | How do you launch a successful space mission? – Mark McCaughrean
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When the European Space Agency launches a mission into space, Mark McCaughrean explains the hurdles they have to leap to finally get it off the ground.
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https://executiveflyers.com/what-is-an-aileron-on-a-plane/ | 2023-03-21T02:07:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943589.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321002050-20230321032050-00667.warc.gz | 0.912568 | 1,553 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__239192825 | en | An aileron is a moving section at the back end of a plane that deflects upwards or downwards.
Ailerons are used to control a plane’s longitudinal axis by altering the lift generated by each wing, with a pilot controlling the ailerons using a control wheel in the cockpit.
The pilot changes the lift each wing produces to roll the aircraft in either direction.
Ailerons aren’t the only tool pilots use to achieve this, but they’re the most effective.
Before ailerons, planes used a technique called wing wrapping, but it was comparatively less efficient.
What is an Aileron on a Plane?
Ailerons are the trailing sections of a wing’s plane that can be rotated to control an aircraft’s longitudinal axis.
You’ll have seen a plane’s ailerons rotating if you’ve ever sat in a window seat and looked at the plane’s wings.
The pilot controls the ailerons’ movement either manually or by autopilot.
The movement of the aileron is referred to as a ‘roll.’
Larger aircraft may have two ailerons mounted on their wings
What Are the Different Types of Ailerons?
There are 2 main types of ailerons:
1. Differential Type Ailerons
A differential type aileron has 2 ailerons: one which is deflected upwards and the other downwards.
The upward-deflected aileron is deflected a greater distance than the downward one.
Differential-type ailerons are the newer type.
2. Frise Type Ailerons
Frise-type ailerons also consist of 2 ailerons, one deflecting upwards and the other downwards.
But the upward aileron is not deflected at a greater distance than the downward one, unlike in differential type ailerons.
What is the Purpose of an Aileron?
Ailerons control the plane’s longitudinal axis, so they are used to roll and turn the plane to the left or right as necessary.
A pilot can increase the upward deflection of the right aileron and increase the downward deflection of the left one to roll the plane to the right.
Conversely, a pilot can increase the upward deflection of the left aileron and increase the downward deflection of the right one to roll the plane toward the left.
How Do Ailerons Work?
The pilot controls the ailerons with a control wheel for moving the plane left or right.
Ailerons work by increasing lift on one wing and reducing it on the other.
The wing with the lower lift drops while the one with more lift rises.
The plane turns, or rolls, in the direction of increased lift as a result.
What Are Ailerons Made Of?
An aileron’s skin and spar are made of solid laminate.
The trailing edge of an aileron is constructed with a foam material.
Can a Plane Fly Without Ailerons?
Planes can fly without ailerons by using a rudder instead.
But ailerons are preferable since they’re easy to use and perform better than rudders.
How Did Planes Turn Before Ailerons?
Planes used wing warping before ailerons were invented.
Wing warping involves twisting the outboard portion of the wing to alter the aircraft’s angle of attack.
But wing warping caused heavy stress to aircraft and risked asymmetric wing stall.
Some planes also depended on the rudder for turning.
Pressing the rudder back and forth allowed planes to change their angle of attack, but it was less efficient than rudders.
Ailerons & Adverse Yaw
Adverse yaw is when a plane initially yaws in the opposite of the intended direction.
For instance, if the plane was intended to roll to the right but initially yaws to the left.
There are two main ways to overcome adverse yaw:
- 1. Differential Ailerons
The upward deflected aileron is raised at a greater distance than the downward deflected aileron that is lowered.
The result is increased drag in the descending aileron, which decreases adverse yaw.
- 2. Frise ailerons
The upward-deflected aileron pivots on an offset hinge, pushing the aileron’s leading edge into the airflow, creating drag and reducing adverse yew.
What is the Difference Between Flaps and Ailerons?
Ailerons control an aircraft’s roll, while flaps increase the lift produced on a wing. Ailerons are closer to the wing tips and deflect in opposite directions.
Flaps are located near the wing’s root.
The flaps on both wings also move together, and flaps are also more complex than ailerons.
What is the Difference Between the Rudder and Ailerons?
Ailerons and the rudder perform the same purpose: controlling the yaw of a plane.
The primary difference is that the rudder is located at the back of a plane’s tail, while the ailerons are located at the wing’s trailing edges.
When Were Ailerons First Used?
Ailerons were first used in 1868 by Englishman Matthew Piers Watt, who patented a system of lateral flight control.
French experimenter Robert Esnault-Pelterie designed the next ailerons in 1904 to replace wing warping.
What is an Aileron Roll?
An Aileron roll is an aerobatic maneuver that involves a plane completing a 360 degree revolution along its longitudinal axis.
The aileron roll ends with the plane having no change in its altitude or heading.
The aileron roll is often one of the first maneuvers taught in aerobatics courses.
It’s also commonly confused with a barrel roll.
The difference between the two is that a barrel roll changes both an aircraft’s heading and its altitude, while an aileron roll does not.
- Ailerons are the deflecting flaps you see at the trailing ends of a plane’s wings.
- Ailerons serve an important purpose: they’re used to roll the plane to either the left or right.
- The pilot operates the ailerons with a control wheel that lets them increase or decrease the deflection of the ailerons in each wing.
- Changing the aileron’s deflection changes the lift generated by each wing.
- The pilot increases the lift on one wing and decreases it on the other, allowing the plane to roll in the direction of a higher lift.
- Before ailerons, planes used wing warping, but it was much less effective.
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https://satelliteprome.com/news/uae-space-agency-and-roscosmos-discuss-fields-of-collaboration/ | 2024-04-15T09:18:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816954.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415080257-20240415110257-00679.warc.gz | 0.916087 | 278 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__77510506 | en | The UAE Space Agency received the Russian State Space Corporation (ROSCOSMOS) delegation led by Director General, Yury Borisov.
At the outset of the meeting, the Russian delegation, said: “We look forward to strengthening the respective efforts in harnessing space knowledge to serve humanity and achieve comprehensive sustainable development.”
The parties held discussions on topics of shared interest, including the significance of preserving a worldwide conversation on the peaceful utilisation of outer space. The delegation also discussed the UAE hosting the 28th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), and the space sector’s responsibility in displaying various programs and initiatives to address climate change. The conference is scheduled to take place at Dubai Expo City from November 30 to December 12, 2023.
The parties also discussed the vital role of the space sector in supporting global initiatives to address climate change studies. Satellites in space provide environmental data that support climate studies, including those of air pollution, temperature change and rising sea levels. Scientists utilise this data to better understand climate change and how to mitigate its impact on our earth.
At the end of the visit, the delegation praised the role and great efforts of the United Arab Emirates in supporting the continuous endeavours for the sustainability of outer space, and in exploring opportunities for using space technologies to achieve sustainability on Earth. | aerospace | 1 |
https://flyinggeek.blogspot.com/2017/10/fokker-f27-mk-50-and-all-black-dhc8.html | 2018-08-15T01:44:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209755.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815004637-20180815024637-00022.warc.gz | 0.942494 | 117 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__177288526 | en | |Fokker F27 Mk50, VH-FKO, operated by Alliance Airlines|
Next up is an Air Nelson operated Bombardier DHC-8-311, ZK-NEM. This aircraft has recently returned from Australia where it was repainted into this [almost] all black livery. Air NZ now have one of every type they operate in an all black livery except for the B777-200's.
|Bombardier DHC-8-311, ZK-NEM, operated by Air Nelson/ Air NZ| | aerospace | 1 |
http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/orex/index.html | 2017-02-23T23:04:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171251.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00376-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.908529 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__104749 | en | About Orbital Re-entry Experiment (OREX)
The Orbital Re-entry Experiment (OREX) flight experiment is part of the research for the H-II Orbiting Plane (HOPE).
The OREX flight experiment is part of the research for HOPE to answer some critical technical questions. OREX is especially designed to acquire the following data related to atmospheric re-entry:
- 1. Aerodynamic and aerodynamic heating data during re-entry
- 2. Heat-resistant structural data during re-entry
- 3. Communications blackout data during re-entry
- 4. GPS navigation data during re-entry and in orbit
The OREX vehicle has a blunt-cone shape. The front of the vehicle, which is subjected to aerodynamic heating du-ring re-entry,is constructed of carbon/carbon material and ceramic tiles. These heat-resistant and thermal protective materials are planned to be used in HOPE. Temperature sensors and pressure sensors are installed in the vehicle.
|Weight||Approx. 865kg at launch, Approx. 761kg at re-entry| | aerospace | 1 |
http://mamajaviation.com/ | 2020-10-27T20:24:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107894759.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20201027195832-20201027225832-00410.warc.gz | 0.92142 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__190322213 | en | CABIN CREW FAIR 2019
The 3rd Edition of The Cabin Crew Fair is here!!!
All Cabin Crew in Nigeria and the aspiring ones will be congregating again this year for the annual Cabin Crew Fair. This year’s fair will create a platform for Cabin Crew Professionals to meet, connect and share knowledge, introduce the aspiring cabin crew to their career of choice and helping identify necessary skills…
We provide full range of services to support Cabin Crew, Aspiring Aviators, Pilots and passengers alike. In addition to offering Logistics services, we also conduct training for Aviator Personnel, host Events/seminars, Air Chatter, Online Media, Travel Packages, Recruitment, Consulting as well as Customer Relationship Management. We are at your service.
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Grace Ogbebor Omokhaye is an experienced cabin crew with years of flying and customer service experience in the aviation sector in Nigeria. With experiences spanning over seven years and having worked in leading aviation airlines... | aerospace | 1 |
https://grbizm.com/us-faa-shifts-gears-on-certifying-future-flying-taxi-pilots/ | 2024-02-23T04:10:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474360.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223021632-20240223051632-00316.warc.gz | 0.963705 | 407 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__169579612 | en | The Federal Aviation Administration said that it had shifted course on its approach to approving pilots of future electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft but does not expect it would delay certification or operational approvals. The eVTOL aircraft have been touted as air taxis that could be the future of urban air mobility. The low-altitude urban air mobility aircraft has drawn a huge amount of interest around the world as numerous eVTOL companies have gone public.
The FAA said in a statement it would pursue a predictable framework that will better accommodate the need to train and certify the pilots who will operate these novel aircraft. The flexibility, the FAA added, will eliminate the need for special conditions and exemptions. The FAA said it was modifying its regulatory approach because regulations designed for traditional airplanes and helicopters did not anticipate the need to train pilots to operate powered-lift, which take off in helicopter mode, transition into airplane mode for flying, and then transition back to helicopter mode for landing.
Pete Bunce, who heads the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), said in an email the FAA decision is in their minds detrimental to safety, and increases the workload on the FAA dramatically. This is bad policy for so many reasons. Many eVTOL startups are backed by major airlines or other large companies. Toyota Motor Corp has a stake in Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation is backed by United Airlines and Stellantis NV, while Vertical Aerospace a Bristol-UK-based manufacturer is backed by investors such as American Airlines Group Inc and Honeywell International Inc.
Joby is targeting the launch of its aerial ridesharing service in 2024. The FAA said its process for certifying the aircraft themselves remains unchanged. All of the development work done by current applicants remains valid and the changes in their regulatory approach should not delay their projects. The Air Current reported the shift earlier. The FAA briefed Congress on the issue on April 29, and the Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General said in March it would review the basis for certification of eVTOLs. | aerospace | 1 |
http://aircraftscales.com/dassaultfalconjet.html | 2024-04-23T04:45:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818464.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423033153-20240423063153-00270.warc.gz | 0.895399 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__70123184 | en | Aircraftscales.com a division of Jackson Aircraft Weighing Systems LLC provides Aircraft scales, Aircraft Weighing Equipment, Helicopter Scales and Large Jet Under Axle Weighing Systems for all your aircraft weighing needs.
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Main jack point on the Falcon 900. Good deep jack point retention, stable mounting via the one inch mounting hole in your jack, large format cells are the right tool for the job!
Our wireless system is laptop windows based, it is capable of standard read outs as well as custom MAP mode read outs with live tiles. You can load your aircraft type, display the scales on your diagram and capture the image as a print out with full details of the weighing.
USB antenna mounts directly to the laptop, just point the antenna at the aircraft and receive the wireless signals from the load cells. No cables!
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Main weighing point, note how deep the jack point goes inside the cell, good retension of the cell is paramount.
Nose point is the same, good retension with a deep jack point placement gives you a stable weigh. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.final-approach.nl/specials/haf-a-7-corsairs | 2023-12-08T18:19:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100769.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208180539-20231208210539-00296.warc.gz | 0.923723 | 330 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__224668744 | en | The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) acquired sixty A-7Hs and five TA-7Hs between 1975 and 1980. Between 1993 and 1994 the HAF acquired additional Corsairs, fifty A-7Es and TA-7Cs, just retired from the US Navy. Greece operated a fleet of 133 Corsair IIs which made them the largest international operator of the type. The A-7 Corsair II saw service in five HAF squadrons, flying a total of 355,000 sorties and 440,000 flight hours.
In the Hellenic Air Force, Corsairs were initially stationed at Larissa (347 Squadron) and Souda Bay (340 and 345 Squadron). In 2002, the Corsairs were consolidated at Araxos Air Base (335 squadron “Tiger” and 336 squadron “Olympos”).
On October 17th, 2014 The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) held an official retirement ceremony for its last A-7 Corsair IIs at Araxos Air Base, home of 116 Combat Wing. Operating the world’s last airworthy Corsair IIs, 336 Squadron decommissioned fifteen A-7E and two TA-7Cs at the event after thirty-nine years of active service.
These pictures where made in 2007 on Kleine Brogel, Belgium where the 10th Tactical Wing organised a large Operational Integration Exercise (OIE). Twelve countries participated with more than 50 planes and the Greek sent no less than two modern F-16's, two F-4E-AUP's and these beautiful A-7 Corsairs. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www2.ucar.edu/for-staff/daily/calendar/2014-01-07/eol-seminar-calibrating-measurements-made-during-high-speed | 2017-04-26T15:43:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121453.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00012-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.919102 | 491 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__107265073 | en | - UCAR Home
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Calibrating measurements made during high-speed flight: An application of the new EOL laser air motion sensor
Presented by: Al Cooper- Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Abstract: Measuring properties of the atmospher from a high-speed aircraft such as the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream GV presents a challenge because the flight speed affects most sensors. Measurements often involve complicated corrections as a result: To measure temperature, corrections must be made for dynamic heating caused by the motion of the aircraft, to measure airspeed, measurements of dynamic pressurem ambient pressure and temperature are needed; corrections are often made to the measured pressure that depend on the airspeed and/or orientation of the aircraft;ect. There are no standards or reliable calibration preferences for any of these measurements that apply in flight, so uncertainty analyses involve complicated and multi-dimensional examinations of these interactions and of how flight conditions might influence measurements from otherwise carefully calibrated sensors.
A reliable reference for any of these interlinked measurements can be of great value in reducing measurement uncertainty. A new EOL instrument, a Laser Air Motion Sensor (LAMS), now provides such a reference. This instrument measures the Doppler shift in laser light returned from ambient aerosols and provides a measurement of airspeed with less than 0.1m/s uncertainty. In this tak, I will discuss how various basic measurements from the LAMS to demonstrate how the presence of an absolute measurement of airspeed reduces measurement uncertainties not only in wind but also in pressure and temperature. Uncertainity and precision in pressure, for example have been reduced to <0.3 and 0.1 hPa, respecively, by use of measurements fro mthis new instrument. When combined with current high-precision measurements of altitude via GPS, this makes it feasible to map mesoscale pressure fields with high precision. Measurements of temperature have also been calibrated in flight wiht uncertainty of less that 0.3 deg C.
An added bonus of the LAMS is that, when combined with calibrated pressure measurements, it can also provide a measurement of the speed of sounds and so of temperature. This measurement of temperature does not depend on any other temperature sensor on the aircraft and should remain valid in cloud.
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http://downtownduluth.com/calendar/events/view/united-states/duluth-mn-55811/lake-superior-college-center-for-advanced-aviation/lake-superior-college-march-22-aviation-career-night | 2019-05-26T21:01:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232259757.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526205447-20190526231447-00174.warc.gz | 0.910155 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__29417043 | en | Lake Superior College March 22 Aviation Career Night
Friday, March 22, 4:30pm.
Education. Lake Superior College Center for Advanced Aviation, Hangar 103, 4960 Airport Road Duluth, MN 55811, Duluth, MN 55811.
Join us at Lake Superior College’s Center for Advanced Aviation on Friday, March 22, 4:30 to 7 p.m. Learn about aviation careers and programs, including professional pilot and aviation maintenance technician.
You’ll also get the opportunity to:
• Visit with instructors, aviation students and employers
• Tour LSC’s Center for Advanced Aviation and experience flight simulations and hands-on demonstrations
• Meet with an advisor
• Get information about admissions, financial aid, transferring credits and academic support | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ksn.com/news/remembering-9-11-mcconnell-air-force-base-holds-memorial-flight/ | 2021-04-20T22:11:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039491784.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210420214346-20210421004346-00370.warc.gz | 0.968197 | 679 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__211892603 | en | WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Today marks the 16th anniversary of 9/11, a day that changed countless lives forever.
Almost 3,000 people were killed in 2001, when hijackers flew planes into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
In honor of the anniversary of the attacks, McConnell Air Force Base took part in a memorial flight. KSN’s Amanda Aguilar flew with members of the United States Air Force on a KC-135 tanker.
The KC-135 tanker played a huge role on 9/11.
WATCH: U.S. Air Force member reflects on 16th anniversary
Lt. Col. Joseph Markusfeld remembers the day well. He was at home watching the news, when he saw the first plane hit the Twin Towers.
“When the second airplane hit, just like everyone else, I knew what had happened and I came into work,” recalled Markusfeld.
From there, the squadron commander brought members into the auditorium and said, “We are at war. Go home. Go into crew rest.”
Those that did not go into crew rest prepared the aircrafts to launch.
Markusfeld returned to McConnell Air Force Base later that evening.
“At 11 o’clock at night, about 23:23, I launched on 9/11 into a dark and empty sky with no one else out there on my way to a combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.,” he said.
Markusfeld and other Air Force members took to the sky in a KC-135 tanker, one of the first aircraft in the sky after the September 11 attacks.
“Within our aircraft, we were actually discussing if we were called upon to do so, to prevent another terrorist attack, how we would sacrifice our aircraft in order to prevent another attack,” he said.
The KC-135 is a military refueling aircraft.
According to Markusfeld, it’s the backbone of the U.S. Air Force refueling fleet.
“What’s really extraordinary about it is that it has a unique capability, not to the U.S. Air Force, but one that we exploit the best,” Markusfeld said.
As he reflected back on his experience, Markusfeld said the war could not have been fought without the KC-135 tanker.
“The KC-135 is instrumental to the reason the United States rules the sky,” he said. “That we maintain absolute air dominance over all of our combat operations.”
Markusfeld was later put on one of five crews selected as the initial Response Strike Team to support the strikes in Afghanistan. He remembers telling his wife goodbye and not being able to talk to her for a month.
The lieutenant colonel said the amount of patriotism the Wichita community showed during the attacks, helped crews remember what they were fighting for.
“We got out there to do a job,” said Markusfeld. “We were not going to let this stand.”
For Markusfeld and others at McConnell Air Force Base, the 9/11 memorial flight served as a reminder that many of their crews are still out there fighting. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://english.pravda.ru/news/science/55704-n/ | 2023-09-21T22:50:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506045.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921210007-20230922000007-00466.warc.gz | 0.96872 | 165 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__237311343 | en | The crewmembers of the International Space Station (ISS) have stopped their space walk ahead of schedule. The reason for this decision of the astronauts was the overheating of the space-suit of Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri, the Mayak radio station reported.
As reported earlier, the crew of the ISS began a space walk today. The tasks of the astronauts were to conduct a number of scientific experiments and to assemble some equipment. In total, the astronauts were to stay outside the ISS for about 5.5 hours.
The present crew has been working on the ISS since October 2003, and the return of the astronauts to earth is scheduled for April of this year.
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http://planettechnews.com/science/near-earth-asteroid-held-together-by-unknown-force | 2017-03-29T09:16:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190236.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00174-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.950336 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__294102316 | en | Near-Earth Asteroid Held Together by Unknown Force
One of the most infamous near-Earth asteroids is held together by forces other than just gravity and friction. Researchers have found that the asteroid is a loose blob of particles that clot together much as Moon dust collects on astronauts’ spacesuits. Any mission to divert an asteroid on a collision course with Earth would need to take these newfound cohesive forces into account.
This means that gently nudging an asteroid onto a new trajectory is potentially a safer option than blasting it to smithereens, Armageddon-style. “You’d want to avoid interacting with the asteroid directly,” says Ben Rozitis, a planetary scientist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and a co-author of the study.
Researchers have suspected that undetected cohesive forces help to hold some asteroids together, especially ‘rubble-pile’ asteroids, which are agglomerations of dirt and rock. Some of these rotate slowly enough for the gravitational attraction between the particles to hold them together.
But for faster-spinning asteroids, centrifugal forces would overwhelm the gravitational pull and rip the rocks apart. The fast-spinning 1950 DA will pass close by Earth in the year 2880. At one point, the odds of its hitting Earth were estimated to be as high as 1 in 300, but more recent observations have lowered that risk to 1 in 4,000. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/spacecraft/Endeavour_fisheye_17.html | 2017-03-30T22:37:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218203536.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322213003-00513-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.829222 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__247085754 | en | The Bruce Murray Space Image Library
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http://blog.thedailybeast.com/israel-shoots-down-drone | 2019-10-21T12:37:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987773711.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021120639-20191021144139-00249.warc.gz | 0.971397 | 88 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__69411948 | en | This can’t be good. The Israeli military has confirmed that its Defense Forces shot down an unmanned drone Saturday. It is still unclear where the drone originated, although Israeli officials confirmed that it hovered near the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement that the military is taking this threat “very seriously” and is still considering its response. Soldiers are still searching for the remnants of the drone. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.dronecommunity.biz/what-are-the-risks-associated-with-drones-and-how-do-we-deal-with-this/ | 2020-01-26T21:16:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251690379.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20200126195918-20200126225918-00494.warc.gz | 0.950384 | 1,109 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__125350884 | en | Around 2,000 drones are sold every month in Belgium. These unmanned aircrafts are also increasingly being used for commercial purposes. A total of more than 2300 large drones have already been registered in our country today. The increasing drone traffic, however, entails new risks. What if my drone crashes? Or worse, if it causes damage to third parties? And how can we protect ourselves against drone owners with bad intentions? Visitors to the exchange event on 23 May in DronePort, organized by BELRIM and Vanbreda, received answers to these questions.
Currently, each country has its own legislation for unmanned aviation, in order to control airspace security. From the end of June 2020, a covering European legislation will come into force, which was finally accepted today by the European Commission. These new rules were briefly explained by Mark Vanlook, Chairman of the Flemish drone cluster EUKA.
New European legislation
“There will be 3 categories of flights: the open, the specific and the certified category. Especially for the open category, now the recreational drone operators, a lot is going to change ”, Vanlook knows. Because soon every drone weighing more than 250 grams or with a camera on board must have a unique ID, so that it can be quickly identified by the authorities. For owners of drones that weigh more than 900 grams, a compulsory drone degree will be obligated that can be obtained after a theoretic training and exam.
Safe flying in risk zones
These rules are necessary, because every flight carries certain risks. Michiel Scharpé came to tell how his company Trinovahelps other companies perform air inspections and investigate complex locations such as sensitive industrial installations or densely populated areas. In such environments there are many dangers such as squalls, low flying birds, helicopters, limited landing possibilities, released gasses, narrow passages and little space to fly.
Inspections with drones are in fact safer, quicker and more precise, if of course the ‘flight envelope’ of the drone and the general drone legislation is respected. According to the company, that are the fundaments for safe drone operations. “The use of a D-RTK is also not unimportant. This is a high-precision positioning system and ensures ultra-accurate, centimeter-sensitive 3D positioning. This is certainly a must have for industrial and scientific applications,” concludes Scharpé.
Dropping drones safely
Rules are only meaningful if they are respected of course. But what if not everyone will obey the new rules imposed by Europe? BATS, Belgian Advanced Technology Systems, has developed a radar system that can detect, jam and take down drones within a 5 km radius. A jammer removes all communication signals in a certain zone, from radio signals to WiFi and GPS. Then a take-over system comes in action to take over all communication and let the drone land in a safe location.
Such systems have already been used for quite a while in military applications. But drones will also be used more and more for commercial applications and the number of unmanned flying aircraft will increase significantly. Such systems therefore become indispensable, according to the radar manufacturer. Not only to eliminate malicious drones, but also to protect the airspace around airports, events and other risk zones, to prevent dramatic accidents for example. The mobile system can be built into a van and must also save the insurance companies millions of euros in the long term.
DJI implements aircraft scanner
Also the developers of drones take measures themselves to guarantee airspace safety. For example, DJI today announced that from 2020 it will equip all drones over 250 grams with their new AirSense warning system by default (video). This technology receives ADS-B signals from nearby airplanes and helicopters and warns the drone pilots in the event that they fly too close.
“DJI leads the drone industry in developing safety technology and education, and we continue that tradition today by setting higher expectations for ourselves, our competitors and regulators,” said Brendan Schulman, DJI Vice President for Policy & Legal Affairs. “DJI was the first company to offer geofencing, automatic altitude limits, return-to-home technology and other safety features to the world’s growing community of personal and professional drone pilots.
What if things go wrong anyway?
Accidents with drones are often a point of contention with insurance companies. What many drone owners do not know is that aviation activities are usually excluded by the standard family insurance plan. If a drone causes damage to third parties, this can have fierce consequences for the owner. That is why there is a need for a specific insurance offer. Vanbreda has developed an ‘Infinity Program’, a package that covers all the risks that drones entail.
Such a package contains different types of protection, “explains Van Baeda, Koen Bauwens. “There is the protection of the” hull “, the hardware let’s say. This covers the drone’s own damage in the event of a collision, theft or other damage. In that case, the premium mainly depends on the value of the device, the docking and / or the payload. Other security measures are also taken into account, such as the use of a parachute for example. “On the other hand, there is the “liability “part in the event of damage to third parties. This is usually a fairly standard premium. | aerospace | 1 |
https://midjersey.news/2020/05/12/freedom-wing-flyover-for-burlington-county-wednesday-may-13-2020/ | 2023-12-02T05:19:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00131.warc.gz | 0.886138 | 189 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__276108240 | en | May 12, 2020
BURLINGTON COUNTY, NJ — The Air Force 514th Air Mobility Wing announced a flyover for tomorrow in Burlington and Camden Counties.
The Freedom Wing is flying high bringing our support through your towns!
Tomorrow between 1-1:20 P.M. keep your eyes to the sky as aircraft from the 514th Air Mobility Wing including a C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft and a KC-10 Extender Aircraft conduct operations in your backyard airspace!
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The 514th Air Mobility Wing salutes and thanks all healthcare workers, first responders, and other essential personnel serving on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19. | aerospace | 1 |
https://newsbeezer.com/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-shackleton-photo-tweet-may-be-lunar-outpost/ | 2019-08-25T15:43:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027330750.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825151521-20190825173521-00464.warc.gz | 0.947717 | 168 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__77704798 | en | Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos, shared a cryptic photo of famed explorer Ernest Shackleton's expedition in a tweet on Friday.
Shackleton's ship "Endurance" during the explorer's attempt to make the day.
Shackleton's expedition and Blue Origin's bid to send astronauts back to the surface of the moon first land crossing of the Antarctic more than a century ago. But Shackleton is also the name of a crater on the moon's surface. And it's not just any crater. NASA named the crater for the famed explorer in 2006 due to its potential as a lunar outpost.
The presence of "water ice," as NASA calls it, is key to any plan to return to the moon. This is how NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine says so with a permanent presence. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.mic.com/articles/142350/nasas-pluto-map-most-detailed-look-at-the-dwarf-planet-weve-ever-seen | 2023-01-27T07:32:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764494974.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20230127065356-20230127095356-00762.warc.gz | 0.950983 | 231 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__127183728 | en | NASA just released the most complete look at Pluto that we've ever seen.
The middle part of the image is the side of Pluto that was facing the New Horizons spacecraft during its closest approach. You can tell that the center of the map has much higher resolution (about 770 feet per pixel), while the edges have lower resolution (about 18 miles per pixel).
Pluto captured global attention when New Horizons flew past it in July 2015 and returned the most detailed images of the dwarf planet we've ever seen.
Now the spacecraft is headed to its next target — a small icy body way out in the Kuiper Belt.
But New Horizons is still transmitting data from Pluto back to Earth. (In late April, for example, we learned that Pluto was spotted with strange "halo" craters.)
Scientists will create even more detailed maps when more data arrives. "The team will continue to add photos as the spacecraft transmits the rest of its stored Pluto encounter data," NASA said in a statement. "All encounter imagery is expected on Earth by early fall."
That means the best images and maps of Pluto are yet to come. | aerospace | 1 |
http://38north.org/author/john-schilling/ | 2017-01-19T21:24:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280746.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00480-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.96257 | 562 | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__43068178 | en | John SchillingJohn Schilling is an aerospace engineer with more than twenty years of experience, specializing in rocket and spacecraft propulsion and mission analysis. Dr. Schilling received his Ph.D. in astronautical engineering from the University of Southern California, and spent most of his career as a contractor for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate. When not studying the nuclear arsenals of foreign dictators, he currently works for the Aerospace Corporation as a specialist in satellite and launch vehicle propulsion systems.
In his 2017 New Year’s Address, Kim Jong Un mentioned (among many other things) that North Korea had “entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile.” It should be noted that this was neither the focus of his speech—which, for the most part, was a list of last year’s accomplishments—nor [...]
(Photo: Pedro Ugarte/AFP) We note with bemused interest that the South Korean government is now claiming that North Korea’s missiles pose a “direct threat to the US homeland” and that “Europe is also within range.” European media has reported that the director-general of South Korea’s North Korean Nuclear Affairs Bureau made the [...]
North Korea seems to have tested its Musudan missile seven times this year, with only a single clear success to show for it. But the North Koreans aren’t simply repeating old failures. And they aren’t taking the slow path to developing a reliable system, with a year or so between each test to analyze the data and make improvements. That has [...]
Summary On September 20, KCNA reported that Kim Jong Un had overseen the testing of a large new rocket engine at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. They claimed this new engine had a thrust of 80 tons and would be use for a new space launch vehicle. Rocket engine thrust isn’t normally measured in “tons,” and there is some ambiguity [...]
The success of North Korea’s latest submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test suggests the program may be progressing faster than originally expected. However, this does not mean it will be ready next week, next month, or even next year. Rather, the pace and method of the North’s SLBM testing would suggest possible deployment in an [...]
“Even though the U.S. and its allies try to block our space development, our aerospace scientists will conquer space and definitely plant the flag of the DPRK on the moon!” What would have been alarming coming from a Cold War superpower seems almost comical coming from Pyongyang. Yet that was the recent claim from Hyon Kwang Il, director of [...] | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201109/the-lunar-effect-the-psychology-space-travel | 2020-07-02T07:13:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655878519.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20200702045758-20200702075758-00040.warc.gz | 0.973925 | 803 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__49285435 | en | The Lunar Effect: The Psychology of Space Travel
Why does space travel bring about pyschological transformation?
Posted Sep 03, 2011
Of the 24 US astronauts who traveled to the moon in the late 1960s and early 70s, it seems that the majority had powerful peak experiences during their trip and were permanently transformed as a result.
Charlie Duke, a member of the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972, looked out at his hatch at the lunar landscape and had a mystical vision of the presence of the divine. As he describes it, ‘I was overwhelmed by the certainty that what I was witnessing was part of the universality of God.' While walking on the moon and looking down at his fresh footprints in the lunar dust, he ‘just choked up. Tears came. It was the most deeply moving experience of my life.'
Edgar Mitchell was a member of the third successful mission to the moon in January 1971 and holds the joint record for the longest moon walk (9 hours and 17 minutes). While looking out at the earth from his spaceship, he felt an overpowering sense of euphoria and tranquility, and shifted into a different state of consciousness in which he perceived the meaning of the universe.
The experience changed the course of Mitchell's life. He turned his attention from outer to inner space. He began to read books about spirituality and to do research on altered states of consciousness and psychic phenomena. Within two years of his trip to the moon, he left NASA, and set up his own research institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is still flourishing today.
Gene Cerman, who took part in two lunar missions - Apollo 10 and 16 - had a similar vision of meaning and purpose. Looking at the earth from space, he felt that ‘It was too beautiful to happen by accident...There has to be a creator of the universe who stands above the religions that we ourselves create.'
Rusty Schweikhart didn't actually travel to the moon - he was a member of the Apollo 9 mission, in March 1969, which carried out tests to prepare for the moon landings later that year. But his vision of the Earth from space changed his life. One of the tests was a spacewalk around his lunar module, where he floated 160 miles above the earth and just a few miles above the moon. As he gazed below, he felt as though he lost his identity as an American astronaut, and felt ‘part of everyone and everything sweeping past me below.' And he felt a profound attachment to and appreciation for the planet Earth: ‘This tiny beautiful earth - the planet that keeps us alive, which gives us everything we have, the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the beauty of nature. And everything is so perfectly balanced and organised so that we can live. This beautiful tiny planet spinning through space.'
This is another reason why the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program is a matter of regret. But all is not lost. In fact, space travel will soon be accessible to members of the public. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company is planning to run twice daily space flights from its launch site in New Mexico, at a cost of around $200,000 per person. Several test flights have been successfully completed, and the service is expected to begin sometime over the next three years. Virgin Galactic aim to create 50,000 new astronauts over ten years, and to eventually offer trips to the moon. So the transformational power of space travel will soon be open to others besides trained astronauts. And if the price comes down, I'll probably see you up there some time.
Steve Taylor is the author of Waking From Sleep, described by Eckhart Tolle as ‘An important contribution to the global shift in consciousness.' His upcoming book - where ‘The Lunar Effect' is examined in more detail - is Out of the Darkness. His website is stevenmtaylor.com. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=264699 | 2016-10-22T07:02:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718426.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00421-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.917832 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__8588503 | en | Royal Brunei Airlines introduces flat bed Sky Dreamer seats in Business Class
Royal Brunei Airlines has intoduced new flatbed Sky Dreamer seats in its business class cabin, now rebranded as Sky Executive Class.
The Sky Dreamer seats offer maximum comfort as it can extend to 75 inches when fully reclined. The podded seat feature provides extra privacy. Each seat comes equipped with in-seat power connector and a 10.4-inch personal TV
New economy class seats featuring 8.4-inch personal TVs have also been installed.
To complement the new seats, Royal Brunei has also installed the latest Thales i-4000 series personal inflight entertainment system in the entire cabin. The new system branded as Sky Show, offers a new level of service with 17 video on-demand selections, 5 broadcast video channels, 10 games, 12 CD
albums on-demand and 15 channels of continuous audio entertainment in a variety of languages.
"Royal Brunei Airlines is delighted to introduce its new flatbed Sky Dreamer business class seats. Together with Sky Show and the new Sky Lounge at Brunei International Airport, we are now in a position to offer our customers a truly superb travel experience" said Peter Foster, Royal Brunei’s Chief Executive Officer.
Sky Dreamer and Sky Show is currently only available on one of the airline’s retrofitted Boeing 767 aircraft, and will gradually be implemented on four of its B767 aircraft by the middle of the year. This aircraft will initially serve the airline’s Frankfurt route, eventually extending to London and Australia. Depending on operational requirements, it may also be utilised on some of the regional routes.
19 March 2004 | aerospace | 1 |
https://kpae.blogspot.com/2013/12/paine-field-december-4.html | 2023-03-25T01:22:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945292.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325002113-20230325032113-00218.warc.gz | 0.799024 | 89 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__142457771 | en | Air India VT-ANE taxis to 34L for a delivery flight. 787 VT-ANB is in the background.
A 787 aft fuselage section unloaded from N780BA.
The world renowned N780BA of Jabara Airport fame taxis to the Dreamlifter Operations Center.
N28MS outside the Everett Modification Center. Photo by pdxlight.
World renowned N780BA.....love it!ReplyDelete | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/flight-briefing/pilot-and-airside-safety/runway-safety | 2013-06-20T11:05:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711441609/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133721-00079-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.92265 | 1,795 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__154470786 | en | Airservices considers runway safety one of its highest priorities as it remains one of the most serious threats to aviation safety. Improving runway safety, therefore, is a key focus of Airservices.
Improving runway safety involves considering all runway related incidents, including:
- runway incursions
- runway excursions
- runway confusion.
Airservices is working to improve runway safety through the Runway Safety Group, a cross industry group working to provide a coordinated improvement to runway safety.
- Skybrary – Runway Incursion
- Skybrary – Runway Excursion
- Skybrary – Ground Operations
- Eurocontrol- Runway Safety
- FAA- Runway Safety
- Flight Safety Foundation Runway Safety Initiative (RSI)
- European Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Incursions
Runway incursions are an ongoing safety concern, with approximately 20-30 occurring in Australia every month. Reducing the number of runway incursions is paramount to improving runway safety.
ICAO defines a runway incursion to be “Any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take off of aircraft” (ICAO Doc 4444–PANS-ATM).
Runway incursions are a serious safety concern around the world and have resulted in fatal collisions between aircraft, and between aircraft and vehicles, with many resulting in fatalities. Please review the documents below for more information on how you can avoid being involved in a runway incursion.
Runway incursion hotspots
Fortunately, most runway incursions have no immediate safety consequences. However, there are regular incursions (particularly at the capital city Class D airports) that have significant potential for a collision.
Incident reports show that runway incursions do not occur randomly around the aerodrome, but are often clustered at particular runway holding points. These are known as ‘hotspots’.
Runway incursion hotspot diagrams are an ICAO-endorsed and internationally-recognised means of providing information about aerodrome locations with an increased risk for incursions.
Most runway incursions occur at five Class D airports:
- Moorabbin aerodrome
- Bankstown aerodrome (revised version pending)
- Parafield aerodrome
- Jandakot aerodrome
- Archerfield aerodrome
These diagrams show the hotspots for each aerodrome and provide recommendations for ensuring runway safety. Careful consideration of these hotspots when flight planning can greatly reduce your risk of a runway incursion.
While Australia has had no fatal runway excursion incidents, the high number of international accidents requires a proactive approach in Australia to manage this risk. Runway excursions are therefore a key consideration for the Runway Safety Group.
For more information on runway excursions please view the following reports:
- ATSB – Runway excursions: Part 1 – A worldwide review of commercial jet aircraft runway excursions
- ATSB – Runway excursions, Part 2: Minimising the likelihood and consequences of runway excursions, An Australian perspective
Runway confusion occurs when pilots enter, take off on, or land on the wrong runway.
This is a particular problem at aerodromes with parallel runway systems where it is relatively easy to mistake runways during the day or night. Runway confusion can also occur when a taxiway, usually parallel, is mistaken for a runway. This is most often a problem at night.
In addition to thoroughly planning your aerodrome operation and maintaining situational awareness, to avoid runway confusion:
- pay careful attention to runways in clearances
- always read back an assigned runway in full (e.g. three one left)
- if a non-precision approach, circling approach or an entirely visual approach is being flown, take sufficient time during the approach briefing to confirm how you will positively identify the correct runway
- whenever conditions permit, make sure you visually identify the correct runway before you enter or land on it. Signage, orientation and runway markings are all important identifying features
- runway lighting is different to taxiway lighting and should provide the flight crew with an opportunity to distinguish one from the other.
Airside drivers play an important role in runway safety at all aerodromes. There are instances of vehicles being involved in serious runway incursions; therefore drivers need to take steps to ensure they are prepared to operate safely around runways.
The following educational products give airside drivers tips on how to:
- avoid an airside incident or runway incursion
- improve airside driver safety
- speak to Air Traffic Control and understand clearances and instructions
- maintain situation awareness.
Runway safety technology
Runway stop bars
A runway stop bar is a row of lights that an aircraft must not pass without both an air traffic control clearance and the lights being extinguished.
Many international airports use stop bar lighting. Melbourne and Sydney airports are currently the only Australian airports to have installed stop bars.
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance Control System (A-SMGCS)
A-SMGCS is an air traffic surveillance system enabling aircraft and vehicles on the airport surface to be accurately tracked by air traffic control in all visibility conditions. To cooperate with A-SMGCS, pilots should operate their transponders in accordance with AIP Australia ENR 1.6 – 9 para 7.1.9. There is no ‘Squawk Ident’ procedure associated with A-SMGCS as all tracking is automatic. If A-SMGCS is not available, ATC may stop or restrict low visibility operations.
Drivers of vehicles that need to operate on runways and/or taxiways at A-SMGCS airports will progressively find that their vehicles are fitted with vehicle locators, often referred to as ‘VeeLo’. These are Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) transmitters that send vehicle information to the A-SMGCS system enabling the vehicle to be automatically tracked and identified on ATC tower displays. They are normally installed so that they switch on and off through the vehicle ignition switch, and will only transmit to ATC when the vehicle is on an area of ATC interest. This is normally, but not necessarily, only taxiways and runways. There is no requirement for drivers to interact with the Veelo unless it has a manual ON/OFF switch, however if it is not operating correctly drivers may be requested by ATC to have it repaired.
Runway Safety Group
The Runway Safety Group (RSG) was officially launched on 22 October 2009 and consists of delegates from across industry including ATSB, CASA, Defence, Airports, airlines and industry bodies.Airservices is represented across the ATC, Aviation Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF), Government and Industry Affairs and Safety and Assurance business groups.The scope of the RSG aligns Airservices with ICAO, Eurocontrol and Flight Safety Foundation recommendations in the prevention of Runway Incursions, Runway Excursions and Runway Confusion occurrences.Runway Safety Group Structure
Runway safety survey
Airservices is committed to improving safety in and around runways for all users. To support this work we are conducting an ongoing national review of runway safety issues, particularly runway incursions.
Nearly all runway safety reports are generated by air traffic controllers. To allow all aspects of safety performance to be examined, it is important to capture as many perspectives of an incident as possible. The information gathered through reviews and feedback from all involved parties will better enable Airservices to make recommendations for changes required (if any) to procedures, training, aerodrome signage, facilities or markings.
If you have been involved in a runway incursion, you will receive a letter from Airservices and a request to complete an online Runway Safety Survey.
The Runway Safety Survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete, although the more information you provide us, the more helpful your response will be. Your assistance by completing the survey is greatly appreciated.
In completing this survey, your confidentiality is assured. Any reports generated from the information provided will not include any personal details that would allow any person, external company or agency receiving the report to identify you. The review team will be analysing for trends, trigger events and issues and not individual performance. No action will be taken against you by Airservices on the basis of the information you provide.
De-identified survey summary reports will be provided in appropriate industry safety newsletters and magazines and will be used to identify targeted safety programs and promotions that will address the most pertinent issues to all airspace users. | aerospace | 1 |
https://newsherald.com.ng/2018/10/12/breaking-aviation-unions-end-blockage-of-mma2-terminal/ | 2019-08-22T23:24:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317516.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822215308-20190823001308-00229.warc.gz | 0.937476 | 411 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__104455594 | en | BREAKING: Aviation unions end blockage of MMA2 terminal
Following the agreement reached between Bi-courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operators of Murtala Mohammed Airport two (MMA2) and the Aviation Unions to end the 2-day strike last night, Dana Air said it has resumed flights from the terminal.
Confirming this, the airline in a statement through its Media and Communications Manager, Kingsley Ezenwa declared: “we have resumed flights from MMA2 following the agreement reached by MMA2 and the Aviation Unions today. We thank the Management of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited BASL, operators of MMA2 for considering the economic implications and for putting national interest first in resolving the industrial action.
“We also wish to thank our teeming guests for their total understanding and cooperation in the course of our temporary relocation to the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) and we hope to continue offering the best of our services which we have come to be known for.”
The Dana Air spokesperson further noted that as a result of the airline’s core values of improving customer experience, and knack for customer-centric innovations, that it has also introduced a ‘Cash Top-Up’ concept for members of its loyalty and reward program Dana Miles.
“The Cash Top-up allows our Dana Miles members to top-up their miles with little cash to enjoy the hospitality of our economy or business Class cabin. Our interested Dana Miles members are advised to visit our website: www.flydanaair.com or do an email 72 hours before their preferred flight.’
“We are committed to always improving guests’ experience and exceeding their aspirations. We will continue to provide superior and convenient options to all our guests particularly, our Dana Miles guests, to ensure that they get much more value for flying with us,” Ezenwa added.
The post BREAKING: Aviation unions end blockage of MMA2 terminal appeared first on Tribune. | aerospace | 1 |
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/spacex-veterans-pass-milestone-in-self-flying-plane-race/articleshow/77777464.cms | 2022-11-28T06:41:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710473.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128034307-20221128064307-00371.warc.gz | 0.953148 | 876 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__274650262 | en | Silicon Valley has been hard at work on the vexing challenge of autonomous cars. Now veterans of SpaceX and Tesla Inc. are announcing what they’ve been up to: a new startup working on self-flying planes for cargo.
Reliable Robotics isn’t trying to invent a new kind of aircraft. The idea is to bring autonomous capability to existing planes, starting with smaller aircraft that ferry cargo. In June, with approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Reliable Robotics demonstrated a fully automated remote landing of a Cessna 208 Caravan turboprop owned by FedEx Corp.
“When I first started taking flying lessons myself, my first thought was, why isn’t this automated?” said Rose in an interview. “I worked on autonomous rockets and spacecraft and cars. Aviation is so much more well understood compared to driving.”
Based in Mountain View, California, the 35-person startup is focused on integrating automation into existing systems, starting with a small cargo aircraft. The plane flies on its own, but a pilot helps manage extreme weather or air traffic control from a control center on the ground.
Developers of automated flying technology envision everything from small drones delivering packages to air taxis ferrying human passengers across cities. While the visions are bold, the ones that pan out will take years to materialize.
“There are a lot of companies trying to get into this space and it’s going to take time,” said Phil Finnegan, director of corporate analysis at Teal Group. “But a market will develop.” Regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration are being cautious, he said, “and there’s a lot of hurdles that need to be surmounted before you can have widespread cargo deliveries. Carrying people is years out.”
Reliable has been in discussions with FedEx, which owns the Cessna used during recent test flights. The company is working with the FAA to get its system certified for use in civilian airspace and has raised $33.5 million in two rounds of funding led by Lightspeed Ventures and Eclipse Ventures respectively.
“I think we’ll see self flying aircraft before we see massive adoption of self driving cars,” said Greg Reichow, a partner at Eclipse Ventures who serves on Reliable Robotics’ board. “It’s a more achievable problem. When you are driving a car on the ground it has to deal with all of the variables of the streets: construction and kids and soccer balls and other cars. The air is more controlled: there’s controlled air space, air traffic control, and one regulatory agency in the FAA
Reichow, who was the VP of Manufacturing at Tesla before becoming a venture capitalist, says that Eclipse wanted to invest in autonomous aircraft and was looking for a strong team that had deep experience in building autonomous aerospace systems -- and in actually shipping real products.
“Reliable has a very thoughtful, pragmatic approach that is very different from a lot of companies that are new grads wanting to build an air taxi,” said Reichow. “The world of air cargo is the place to start.”
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https://zero.pindula.co.zw/hidden-water-reservoir-discovered-on-mars/ | 2023-03-30T18:39:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949355.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330163823-20230330193823-00723.warc.gz | 0.912869 | 383 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__156320852 | en | The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) hovering above Mars has found significant amounts of water at the heart of Mars’ dramatic canyon system.
The water, spotted in Valles Marineris, is hidden beneath Mars’ surface.
The hidden reservoir is about the size of over 45 000 square kilometres.
The new discovery provides another location for astronomers to look for water apart from the polar regions on the planet, where water is found as ice.
The spacecraft was mapping the hydrogen a measure of water content in the uppermost metre of Mars’ soil when it came across the chemical remnants.
Water ice has not been found on the Martian equator due to extreme temperatures making it not cold enough for exposed water ice to be stable.
The orbiter hunted for near-surface water as ice covering dust grains in the soil, or locked up in minerals at lower latitudes of Mars, and found small amounts. Igor Mitrofanov of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow said in a statement:
With TGO we can look down to one metre below this dusty layer and see what’s really going on below Mars’ surface and, crucially, locate water-rich ‘oases’ that couldn’t be detected with previous instruments.
The discovery was made by the Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector (FREND) telescope onboard the spacecraft. It revealed an area with an unusually large amount of hydrogen in the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system.
The European Space Agency on Wednesday said that the water-rich area is about the size of the Netherlands and overlaps with the deep valleys of Candor Chaos.
With mission planning to land in the lower latitudes on Mars, locating such a reserve of water on the planet could be highly beneficial for future missions.
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http://www.global-hawaii.com/hawaiiblog/?m=200909&paged=3 | 2017-04-26T23:27:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121752.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00306-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.90321 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__108421215 | en | posted by Dave on Sep 23
Six Thunderbird planes fly in Delta formation in preparation for the “Delta Bottom-Up Pass” and “Delta Roll”. Thunderbirds are Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon jets that can pull 9gmaneuvers and reach of a speed in excess of Mach 2 and carry up to 6 head seeking Sidewinder air to air missiles. Of course for this display there were no missiles and they kept the planes under the speed of sound so as to not break any windows. Learn more about the F16-C here. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2012/September/12/Racers-ready-at-Reno.aspx | 2014-07-22T14:14:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997858962.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025738-00225-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.940299 | 691 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__138659638 | en | September 12, 2012
A racer's six-blade prop is ready for action.
Two T-6s make their way around the course.
Biplane Class entry Phantom is a modified Mong Sport.
A heat of T-6 racers waits to take off.
P-51 Precious Metal basks in the sun.
Race aircraft, their pilots and crews, and air race fans from across the country have descended on Reno/Stead Airport north of Reno, Nev., for the 2012 National Championship Air Races. Qualifications for all race classes ran from Sept. 10 through midday Sept. 12, when racing began.
A fatal crash during last year’s air races, when the highly modified P-51 Mustang Galloping Ghost abruptly rolled, pitched up, and crashed—killing longtime race pilot Jimmy Leeward and 10 spectators on the ground—cast a pall of uncertainty over this year’s event. However, course modifications, additional pilot training, and a $1.7 million insurance premium increase allowed the races to continue. This year’s races continue through Sept. 16.
Rare Bear's engine receives some attention. Photo credit: Robert Fisher.
Unlimited Class race pilot Matt Jackson of Van Nuys, Calif., was not injured Sept. 11 when the right landing gear of his Hawker Sea Fury, Furias, collapsed after landing. “He had three green lights but one was flickering,” a journalist at Reno told AOPA. “Somebody came up behind him and told him the gear was down and couldn’t tell if it was locked,” he said. “He came in nice and slow, landed down on one wheel—nice and easy—then the other side collapsed,” causing the airplane to ground loop. Furias had qualified third in the Unlimited Class with a speed of 467.287 mph.
The number of racers this year is down in most categories except for Sport Class, which is at capacity, the Reno Gazette Journal reported.
Racing began Sept. 12 in all classes except Unlimited, which will fly its first heats Sept. 13. Three heats are flown in each class daily, with airshow performances between the heats. Race results are posted almost immediately on the Reno Air Racing Association website, or through the Air Races app for the Apple iPhone.
AOPA members can get a prime view of the action during the afternoon airshows at EAA AirVenture from the association’s new location on the flight line.
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https://126association.org/?page=hangman10 | 2021-09-22T01:51:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057303.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922011746-20210922041746-00283.warc.gz | 0.953485 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__73884327 | en | The 1-26 Association wishes to announce the winner of the 2010 HANGMAN AWARD is:
Ron flew a 552.8sm (838km) flight out of Blairstown on May 15, 2010. His flight was 12 hours and 20 minutes!!!!
and averaged a speed of 68km/hr.
This award was established in 2009 in honor of Doug "Hangman" Levy and is awarded for the longest 1-26 flight of the year
with turnpoints allowed. Ron won this award in 2009 and will receive another very nice plaque soon.
Congratulations from the 1-26 Association, Ron. | aerospace | 1 |
http://aviationweek.com/awin-only/india-working-improve-communications-satellites | 2017-04-30T11:14:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125074.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00445-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.87787 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__25075340 | en | NEW DELHI—India is working to develop higher-capability communication satellites to meet the country’s growing requirements, a senior space scientist says. The country’s space agency is in the process of "developing various technologies and finding a suitable foreign industrial alliance to acquire the latest satellite platforms and payload technologies to upgrade its current satellite platforms," Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan ...
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http://www.parabolicarc.com/2009/10/02/space-adventures-exploring-deal-spacex/ | 2022-07-07T11:24:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104690785.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707093848-20220707123848-00498.warc.gz | 0.954028 | 191 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__240954975 | en | Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson discussed the future of space tourism as the company’s latest client, Guy Laliberte, arrived at the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz transport:
Anderson pointed out that it was not yet certain whether the shuttle fleet would actually be retired next year. And as a backup plan, Space Adventures is looking into alternate means of reaching the space station — for example, via the rocket delivery system currently being developed by California-based SpaceX.
In addition, Anderson said, “we’re talking to the Russians about additional Soyuz missions” that would be fully paid for privately.
For all these reasons, Anderson said he couldn’t yet predict how many space station flights would be available for future space passengers. “I guess the realistic answer is, we’re just going to have to wait and see,” he said.
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http://currentaffairs.iqrace.in/nasa-launch-first-ever-mission-study-mars-deep-interior/ | 2019-03-21T16:07:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202526.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20190321152638-20190321174638-00398.warc.gz | 0.917534 | 227 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__70314084 | en | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on March 30, 2018, announced to send its first-ever mission to Mars to study its deep interior and find traces of how it was formed. Scheduled to be launched on May 5, 2018, NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport will be the first-ever mission dedicated to studying the heart of Mars. It also will be the first NASA mission, after the Apollo Moon Landings, to place a seismometer on the soil of another planet. The seismometer is a device that measures quakes. France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales led a multinational team that built an ultra-sensitive seismometer for detecting marsquakes. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) developed a thermal probe that can bury itself up to five meters underground and measure heat flowing from inside the planet.
The US space agency said that it also will be the first NASA mission since the Apollo moon landings to place a seismometer, a device that measures quakes, on the soil of another planet. | aerospace | 1 |
https://theaircurrent.com/tag/qatar-airways/ | 2022-07-06T19:20:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104676086.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220706182237-20220706212237-00506.warc.gz | 0.833987 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__92395851 | en | FAA not giving an inch as Boeing big jet programs face slide
Influential customer has “hard time seeing” 787 deliveries resuming before July, 777X certification...
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Issue No. 51 - The future of piloting
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Issue No. 47. A350 freighter will launch in Dubai, Boeing’s 777XF won’t — yet
Three Points: Reactivating A380s, BizAv’s big picture, flying the B-36 Peacemaker
Issue No. 46
Three Points: A reflection on Afghanistan, Embraer’s turboprop rethink, A350’s paint headache
Issue No. 45
Three Points: Delta’s deals are done, business travel’s green shoots, Alice’s new look
Issue No. 43
Emirates’ Tim Clark has the audacity to think long-term
Globalization, technology and crippling debt will shape the future of flying after COVID-19, says Clark.
Three Points: Qatar gives Delta a hand, supersonic squishiness, 737 Max miscellany
Issue No. 31
Surging coronavirus infection rates aren’t slowing U.S. air travel rebound, yet
The U.S. airline industry is still deep underwater. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aviatortips.com/should-you-buy-a-plane-for-flight-training/ | 2024-03-01T12:24:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475238.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301093751-20240301123751-00159.warc.gz | 0.958385 | 1,685 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__119236202 | en | When you are completing a Private Pilot flight training program, you need to fly for at least 40 hours and possibly as many as 100 hours, which means you need to fly often. If you intend to get a Commercial Pilot certificate, you’ll need many more hours (at least 250). So, should you buy a plane while training to fly?
Whether or not you should buy a plane for flight training depends on your individual situation, budget, and goals. It may be worth buying a plane for training if you’re committed to a substantial amount of flying. Otherwise, renting a plane initially and then deciding whether or not to invest in one later may be a better plan.
Now that we know that it may be a good idea to buy a plane while learning to fly, let’s go over the pros and cons of buying a plane and the costs of owning vs. renting a plane.
Buying a Plane for Flight Training
It almost always is a better financial decision to buy your plane rather than rent it. If you have your own airplane, it will be available to you whenever you need to fly, and it will most likely be in better condition than those that can be rented at a flight school. As you know, buying an aircraft is a big investment, so if you intend to buy an aircraft for flight training, be sure to buy one that you will want to continue using after your training has been completed.
There has been an increased demand for personal aircraft since the Covid-19 pandemic began, which means that it might be hard for you to find the type of plane you want to fly. However, since there is a high demand but low supply of airplanes, if you purchase an airplane, it will likely increase in value over time if you take care of it. Given the limited availability, it may even make sense to buy a plane, then sell it when you’ve completed your training.
The following video talks about why it was worth it for the creator of the video to purchase rather than rent a plane.
One thing to consider, however, is how much you will be flying. A good rule of thumb is that if you don’t fly at least 100 hours per year, it’s probably cheaper in the long run to rent.
Renting a Plane for Flight Training
If you don’t have the financial means to buy a plane, renting could be a good option, but the costs of renting add up in the end. However, there are a few benefits to renting a plane for flight training.
If you are simply renting a plane, you are not responsible for maintaining it. The rental company or flight school that you are renting the plane from is responsible for keeping the planes maintained, so they will take care of all required maintenance and repairs.
You also don’t have to worry about having access to a hangar to store your plane. The rental company will store the plane when it’s not in use.
It may be a good idea to rent for a little while before you decide to buy your own plane. Renting a plane allows you to try out and get to know how plane models work. However, this varies depending on the planes available at the rental company. If you aren’t “checked out” to fly a certain model, the rental company will have an instructor take you up and sign you off on the specific model.
Pros and Cons of Buying a Plane
- Availability: When you own your own plane, you don’t have to worry about reserving one when you want to fly. You will also be able to use the same plane every time you fly.
- Value: If you buy your own aircraft, it will likely increase in value.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Depending on the frequency of use, owning a plane for training may be more cost-effective than renting a plane in the long run.
- Personalization: Buying a plane for training allows you to customize it to your needs and preferences.
- Flexibility: Having your own aircraft gives you flexibility because you don’t have to schedule a time or hope for an available aircraft at a rental company. You can just hop into your aircraft and fly whenever you want or need to.
- High Initial Cost: Buying a plane is a significant investment, and the initial cost can be prohibitive for many people.
- Maintenance: When you own an aircraft, you are responsible for the maintenance and the cost of that maintenance. Aircraft owners must reserve a time for their plane to be maintained by an A&P (Airframe and Powerplant) mechanic. Aircraft are also required to have annual inspections in order to maintain their Airworthiness Certificates. This means that you can’t put off many repairs if you want to be able to still fly the airplane.
- Risk: As with any investment, there is always a risk that the plane may depreciate in value or suffer damage or accidents, which can be costly to repair.
- Insurance: Insurance is a good thing, but it makes owning an aircraft more costly. There are several different types of aviation insurance that you will have to have if you own a plane such as in-flight insurance, public liability insurance, passenger insurance, and combined single limit and aircraft hull insurance.
- Taxes: You will have to pay several different taxes if you own an aircraft. These taxes usually include sales tax, use tax, and personal property tax.
- Storage: If you own an aircraft, you have to have a place to store it. The cost to rent space at a hangar varies depending on the hangar you use. In addition, hangars are hard to come by at many airports. Many have long waiting lists that can take many months or even years.
Costs of Renting vs. Buying
The cost to rent a plane varies on the location and model of the plane. However, we have listed the general costs of renting a plane below.
- Basic 2-Seat Trainer: $90-120 per hour
- 4-Seat Trainer (Older Model): $120-170 per hour
- 4-Seat Trainer (Newer Model): $125-179 per hour
- 6-Seat Single-Engine: $220-384 per hour
- 6 to 8-Seat Multi-Engine: $290-479 per hour
If you’re renting a plane for flight school, you most likely will only need to rent the basic two-seat trainer plane. It’s best to choose the cheapest option because you will have to rent this plane multiple times, and the cost of renting add up quickly.
You should also keep in mind that due to high fuel prices, many operators charge surcharges on top of the rental fees. These can be an additional $10-20 per hour.#ProTip
The cost to buy and own a plane varies on the model and size of the plane. There are three general types of planes to look at when considering buying a plane.
- Ultralight Aircraft: $8,000- $15,000
- Single-Engine Planes: $15,000- $100,000
- Multi-Engine Planes: $75,000- $300,000
As you can see, the price for an aircraft varies quite a bit. Bear in mind, that these prices represent older aircraft that will require more maintenance. New aircraft are exponentially more expensive. While Ultralight Aircraft are the least expensive of these groups, they probably are not suitable for the training you will need. It’s recommended that you stick with the least expensive option that will fit your mission for your first plane. You can always sell it and move up into a larger model as you gain experience.
In the end, whether or not you should buy a plane for flight training depends on your individual situation, budget, and goals. It may very well make sense for your circumstances. However, you need to make sure that the amount you will fly will justify the commitment. It may be worth considering renting a plane for training initially and then deciding whether or not to invest in one later. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/mhi-expands-nagasaki-engine-component-plant-eyes-growth/148388.article | 2023-11-30T05:01:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00059.warc.gz | 0.965116 | 298 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__236695923 | en | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) aero engines unit is expanding its engine component facility in Nagasaki, as it forecasts an increase in demand for short- to medium-haul engines in the near term.
As part of expansion works, which are slated to complete by March 2024, the existing facility will nearly double in size to around 11,000 sq m (118,400 sq ft), says MHI Aero Engines (MHIAEL).
The expanded plant space will allow MHIAEL to “incorporate certain manufacturing processes currently contracted out to overseas suppliers”, it adds.
The Nagasaki plant manufactures combustors for Pratt & Whitney’s PW1100G geared turbofan engines, which power the Airbus A320neo family aircraft. It began operations in November 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, but has seen production lines now operating at near full capacity.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has caused sharp demand decrease in the aviation industry, however business relating to short and medium range commercial aircrafts used on domestic routes has been seeing a quick recovery. Aircraft flying hours of the A320neo family has already exceeded its pre-Covid level,” notes MHIAEL.
MHI is also looking to expand its engine MRO business, located at its Komaki headquarters, as part of wider optimism of an increase in long-term demand for commercial aircraft engines worldwide. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.manitobapost.com/manitoba-news/3-kids-at-space-camp-121167 | 2023-10-04T14:28:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511369.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004120203-20231004150203-00507.warc.gz | 0.944394 | 255 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__74656705 | en | WINNIPEG - Three young Manitobans have been over the moon this weekend as they join 49 other youth virtually connecting with engineers, scientists, and astronauts with the Canadian Space Agency during a week of space training.
Space camp activities are catered to youth in grades 6 through 9, and work on three areas: science and technology, communications and teamwork, and fitness and nutrition. The three Manitoban Junior Astronauts were selected from among 10,000 applicants to be part of the program.
Participants will hear stories from the CSA astronauts about their career experiences, and will be challenged in a series of fun and stimulating activities. On the agenda are real-world science experiments, a moon simulation, a problem-solving mission that will make use of satellite imagery, and workout routines with space fitness experts.
NASA is heading up the Lunar Gateway program, an ambitious plan to put a space station in orbit around the moon. With the CSA participating, the Canadian agency says it’s seeking to test the skills and knowledge of Junior Astronauts, show the next generation of astronomers how they can play a role in space exploration, and get them excited about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The space camp mission will finish Monday. | aerospace | 1 |
https://peaktutors.com/2018/12/13/auroras-lightning-and-rings-of-jupiter-amaze-in-surprising-nasa-juno-photos/ | 2020-11-29T05:26:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141196324.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20201129034021-20201129064021-00605.warc.gz | 0.763127 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__40307983 | en | Its main job is to spot the stars, but an ultrasensitive navigation camera on NASA’s Juno spacecraft is returning amazing images of Jupiter’s rings, auroras, lightning, and even its moonlit dark side.
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https://www.kiwi.com/en/airport/lys/lyon-saint-exupery-lyon-france/ | 2023-09-25T03:48:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506676.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925015430-20230925045430-00133.warc.gz | 0.895808 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__156067075 | en | Cheap flights from Lyon–Saint-Exupéry (LYS)
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https://www.southminneapolisnews.com/opinion-the-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-understands-white-rage-because-he-is-a-student-of-american-750.html | 2023-12-03T01:28:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100476.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202235258-20231203025258-00135.warc.gz | 0.915723 | 821 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__196422750 | en | Russia is launching a caller module for the International Space Station (ISS), aft much than a decennary of delays. The Nauka module is acceptable to assistance disconnected from Baikonur Cosmodrome successful Kazakhstan connected apical of a Proton-M rocket astatine astir 1500 GMT today, on with a caller robotic limb for the presumption created by the European Space Agency.
The ISS is composed of modules and instrumentality from antithetic abstraction agencies including Europe, Japan and Canada, but the bulk of the presumption is composed of 2 main sections, a Russian conception and a US segment. At 13 metres agelong and weighing much than 20 tonnes, Nauka, besides called the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, volition beryllium among the largest successful Russia’s half.
After launch, Nauka volition instrumentality 8 days to scope the ISS. Once attached, it volition enactment arsenic a caller hub for the Russian conception of the station. “It’s a subject laboratory, and it besides provides a batch of important work systems,” says Anatoly Zak, exertion of the website RussianSpaceWeb.com. Planned probe includes biologic and materials subject experiments. “It’s a measurement successful making the Russian conception much autarkic [from the US segment].” This includes a caller toilet wrong the module and sleeping compartments for the crew.
The motorboat of Nauka has been a agelong clip coming, with operation of the module opening successful the 1990s. Technical and proviso issues since then, specified arsenic the nonaccomplishment of components from Ukraine following the Russian annexation of Crimea successful 2014, person seen improvement stumble. “It’s overmuch much analyzable than thing the Russian abstraction programme has tried to physique successful the past fewer years,” says Zak. Russia’s past module – Rassvet – was carried to the ISS by a US abstraction shuttle successful 2010.
Nauka’s motorboat besides comes astatine a clip erstwhile Russia’s aboriginal connected the ISS is successful doubt. Earlier this year, the caput of the Russian abstraction agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said Russia would permission the ISS by 2025 if sanctions against the state weren’t lifted by the US. “Either we enactment together, successful which lawsuit the sanctions are lifted immediately, oregon we volition not enactment unneurotic and we volition deploy our ain station,” helium said. A long-touted thought is that Russia would detach its conception of the ISS to statesman its ain abstracted abstraction presumption successful orbit.
Jared Zambrano-Stout, a erstwhile main of unit for the National Space Council successful the US, says helium thinks specified a script is unlikely. “The logistics associated with separating the modules is simply a batch much challenging than is being publically discussed,” helium says. “If they were readying to bash that they should beryllium gathering much modules now, due to the fact that they’re going to request further things up determination to enactment a abstracted station.” Russia’s conception inactive relies connected electrical powerfulness from the US segment, for example.
NASA has made it wide that it hopes to proceed operating the ISS until 2030, by which clip galore of the station’s components are expected to beryllium excessively aged to continue. It is successful the process of processing a replacement abstraction station, the Lunar Gateway, that would beryllium positioned adjacent the satellite and enactment missions to the lunar surface, a task Russia has yet to explicit an involvement successful joining.
“Low Earth orbit volition beryllium the lone destination for their cosmonauts if they bash not cooperate with NASA, for the foreseeable aboriginal astatine least,” says Zak.
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https://aviation.report/trending-news/astro-aerospace-selected-for-afwerx-hsvtol-challenge | 2024-02-25T02:11:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474573.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225003942-20240225033942-00238.warc.gz | 0.933882 | 848 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__128086975 | en | Astro Aerospace Selected for AFWERX HSVTOL Challenge
Astro Aerospace has announced that its revolutionary Cavorite X5 eVTOL platform has been selected for the highly competitive AFWERX High Speed VTOL (HSVTOL) Concept Challenge– an initiative launched in partnership with the United States Air Force (USAF) and US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to explore innovative HSVTOL concepts that can support a wide range of military applications.
From a roster of 218 applicants, Astro is one of only a few OEMs in a small group of 35 successful challengers that are now in consideration to be granted funding associated with research, development, testing, and subsequently exclusive contract opportunities to produce and field aircraft to the USAF and USSOCOM.
Reid Melville, Chief Innovation Officer, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Transformational Capabilities Office stated at the Challenge’s May 5th launch, “The USAF and USSOCOM are seeking ground-breaking ideas that will further strengthen operational effectiveness and efficiency in contested, resource-constrained, and runway-independent settings.”
Astro’s Cavorite X5 is designed for speed, stealth, and operational versatility to support military missions such as Special Operations Forces (SOF) infiltration and exfiltration, personnel recovery, aeromedical evacuation, and tactical mobility. The High Speed eVTOL is also purposely designed for disaster relief, rescue missions and cargo transport. Traveling up to 275 mph over 340 miles, the Cavorite X5 offers exceptional payload, speed and range ideally suited for many high-risk environments.
Leading the development of the game-changing eVTOL is Astro President Brandon Robinson, a CF-18 Fighter Pilot, Top Gun graduate, and Mechanical Engineer from the Royal Military College of Canada. “We are very proud that the Cavorite X5 was chosen for the extremely competitive AFWERX Challenge,” remarked Mr. Robinson. “The patented technology that underpins our advanced design represents a versatile, scalable platform that can easily be adapted to help our servicepeople around the world.”
The Cavorite X5 pushes the boundaries of eVTOL performance. Its unique wings allow for flight in a configuration much like a normal aircraft for 98 percent of its mission, reducing drag for increased speed and operational range. Using a hybrid electric power system, the aircraft may also act as a mobile power generation station and potentially a remote command and control node on a military network.
Horizon Aircraft, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astro, has completed over 250 test flights of a 1/6th scale prototype of the Cavorite X5 and will have a 50 percent scale aircraft begin testing in Q1 of 2022. This prototype will have a wingspan of over 20 feet, weigh almost 500 pounds, and will have identical control surfaces and moving wing sections as the full-scale aircraft.
Patricia Trompeter, CEO of Astro stated, “The incredible potential the Cavorite X5 has to revolutionize how military, disaster relief and rescue operations are approached is something the Astro team has believed in for a long time. Being chosen as a finalist for the AFWERX Challenge is an unbelievable opportunity not only for our Company, but for the USA to prevail as a leader of innovation on the global stage.”
About Astro Aerospace
Astro Aerospace is the developer of an advanced, autonomous, short haul, eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) aerial vehicles. Our mission is to make self-flying unmanned and manned vehicles available to anyone, at any time, from anywhere, bringing a new and exciting aircraft into a mainstream mode of transportation.
About Horizon Aircraft Inc.
Horizon Aircraft is an advanced aerospace engineering company that has developed the world’s first high speed eVTOL that can fly most of its mission exactly like a normal aircraft while offering industry-leading speed, range, and operational versatility. Our unique designs place the mission first and prioritize safety, performance, and utility. Our X5 Cavorite eVTOL is designed to enter the market quickly and service a broad spectrum of early use-cases. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.dreamingtheworld.tv/the-creative-pocket-lab-blog/the-history-of-jet-engine-by-farzad-ashrafi | 2018-03-20T19:31:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647530.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320185657-20180320205657-00144.warc.gz | 0.973323 | 839 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__31705376 | en | by Farzad Ashrafi
Dr. Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle are both recognized as being the co-inventors of the jet engine. Each worked separately and knew nothing of the other's work. Hans von Ohain is considered the designer of the first operational turbojet engine. Frank Whittle was the first to register a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930. Hans von Ohain was granted a patent for his turbojet engine in 1936. However, Hans von Ohain's jet was the first to fly in 1939. Frank Whittle's jet first flew in in 1941.
Sir Frank Whittle (Born Coventry, England, June 1, 1907 died in Baltimore, MD, August 9, 1996) was an English aviation engineer and pilot, the son of a mechanic, Frank Whittle joined the Royal Air Force as an apprentice. The young RAF officer was only 22 when he first thought to use a gas turbine engine to power an airplane. While often regarded as the father of modern jet propulsion systems, the young Frank Whittle tried without success to obtain official support (From the Air Ministry or Industry) for study and development of his ideas. He had to persist his research on his own initiative and filed his first patent on turbojet propulsion in January 1930 which was granted in 1932.
With private financial support (support of investment bankers), he began construction of his first engine in 1935 which was successfully bench tested in April 1937; it was only a laboratory test rig, never intended for use in an aircraft, but it did demonstrate the feasibility of the turbojet concept. The modern turbojet engine used in many British and American aircraft is based on the prototype that Frank Whittle invented.
The firm of Power Jets Ltd., with which Whittle was associated, received a contract for a Whittle engine, known as the W1, on July 7, 1939. This engine was intended to power a small experimental aircraft. In February 1940, the Gloster Aircraft Company was chosen to develop the aircraft to be powered by the W1 engine - the Pioneer. The historic first flight of the Pioneer took place on May 15, 1941, with Flight Lieutenant P. E. G. Sayer as pilot.
Doctor Hans Von Ohain (Born Dessau, Germany, December 14, 1911) Died Melbourne, Florida, 13 March, 1998) was a German airplane designer who invented an operational jet engine. Hans Von Ohain obtained his doctorate in Physics at the University of Göttingen in Germany and then became the junior assistant of Hugo Von Pohl, director of the Physical Institute at the University. German aircraft builder, Ernst Heinkel asked the university for assistance in new airplane propulsion designs and Pohl recommended his star pupil. Hans Von Ohain, was investigating a new type of aircraft engine that did not require a propeller. Only twenty-two years old when he first conceived the idea of a continuous cycle combustion engine in 1933, Hans Von Ohain patented, in 1934, a jet propulsion engine design similar to the concept of Sir Frank Whittle but different in internal arrangement.
Hans Von Ohain joined Ernst Heinkel and asked for his support rather than approach the German industry (they probably would not have been interested) in 1936 and continued with the development of his concepts of jet propulsion, Heinkel saw the promise in von Ohain's invention — a means to build the fastest airplane in the world. At the end of February 1937, the He S-1 turbojet engine with hydrogen fuel was tested.
A small aircraft was designed and constructed by Ernst Heinkel to serve as a test bed for the new type of propulsion system — the Heinkel He178. The Heinkel He178 flew for the first time on August 27, 1939. The pilot on this historic first flight of a jet-powered airplane was Flight Captain Erich Warsitz.
A Von Ohain-type jet engine
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>>> let's begin this half hour with a flight attendant who lost his cool after passengers started complaining about a long delay. it was all caught on tape. nbc's ron mott has details on this. ron , good morning to you.
>> hey, matt, good morning. if you've flown more than a couple of times, you start to tune out announcements flight attendants make. not on this flight. the flight attendant was trust traited, not because seat backs and tray tables with weren't in their upright and locked positions. american eagle flight 4607 from raleigh-durham, north carolina was grounded for five drama filled hours because of weather. the delay pushing the crew to its time limit for the day.
>> if you have [ bleep ] otherwise you're going to have to fly with jose.
>> passengers dave abels flying with his nine-year-old daughter caught the incident on video.
>> the more people spoke up, the more he was getting angry at us and crazy.
>> the line for takeoff was so long and tensions so high, the pilot eventually returned to the gate.
>> unfortunately our hands are tied. we cannot leave until that's obtained.
>> reporter: tempers reached a boiling point and cops showed up.
>> he doesn't care. that's what he got on the intercom and told everybody.
>> serrano and passengers were questioned by the police but no one was arrested.
>> the captain wasn't back here.
>> we're going to finish this discussion on the jet way.
>> the passengers from indie rock band several fellow travelers deserve some of the blame.
>> i think jose probably suffered the brunt of a lot of the frustration of the banks. i noticed at one point it seemed like he was tearing up. i could tell he was upset.
>> reporter: parent company american airlines said passengers were threatening and unhappy. but said it had been a long day for our customers on board as well as our crew. we do apologize. eventually the flight was canceled. nbc reached out to serrano for comment. american airlines spokesperson said the incident is under review, they do not discuss personnel matters. they sent an e-mail from a first class passengers who said passengers were verbally abused.
>> ron , thank you very much. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aero-mag.com/onwards-and-upwards-10 | 2024-03-03T22:08:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476399.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303210414-20240304000414-00241.warc.gz | 0.945617 | 819 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__135250059 | en | According to ADS Group’s CEO, Paul Everitt, this year’s Farnborough Airshow will see the organisation supporting its members, building successful strategies with Government, and delivering a Brexit deal that sustains the UK’s leading position in international aerospace.
This summer, the aerospace industry will gather for the Farnborough International Airshow, the 51st edition of what is now the UK’s biggest and most important trade show, again putting a global spotlight on our world-leading sector.
The 2018 Airshow sees us celebrate 70 years since the event moved to its long-term home. It has grown immensely since 1948 and today hosts 1,500 exhibitors from more than 50 countries. This year’s Airshow will be the most international show in our history, a global showcase for the UK as the world’s aviation industry comes to Farnborough to do business.
The Airshow will demonstrate the UK’s renowned strengths in innovation and emerging technologies in our Aerospace 4.0 zone, explore our fast-growing space sector, and inspire the next generation into an exciting career in engineering with thousands of young people expected to attend Futures Day. Visitors and exhibitors will benefit from the best ever facilities as our brand new permanent exhibition and conference centre, Hall 1, hosts its first Airshow. Opened earlier this year, the centre has already hosted a series of successful events and I look forward to welcoming our thousands of visitors through its doors in July.
This year’s Airshow comes at a time when the global aerospace sector is continuing to grow to meet demand for ever more technologically advanced and fuel-efficient aircraft. Last year saw another annual record in the number of aircraft delivered and we expect that this year will see that record broken once again as major manufacturers continue to set more ambitious targets, and companies in both the UK and global supply chain work hard to raise productivity to achieve these demanding goals.
Our ‘2018 Industry Facts & Figures’ published in May showed that UK aerospace has grown to an annual turnover of £35 billion in 2017, with £30 billion in exports. As the global aerospace industry grows, so too has the sector in the UK, with 39% growth recorded since 2012. This industry now directly employees 123,000 people in the UK, delivering high value jobs in every part of the country, while 3,900 apprentices show our investment in skills and the future of the sector.
The UK is playing a vital role in supporting continued global growth in aircraft production, and industrial strategy has proved to be one of our key strengths, with Government and industry working together through the Aerospace Growth Partnership (AGP) to continually improve our international competitiveness.
Successful initiatives include the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), launched five years ago in 2013, which is delivering an independent research programme backed by £3.9bn of joint industry and UK Government funding. The Sharing in Growth programme is helping to accelerate the growth and development of key UK supply chain companies, and the SC21 programme has established itself as a class-leader in achieving supply chain excellence.
As our sectors face the challenges posed by Brexit, participation in programmes like these is one of the most important steps a company can take to making sure it is well prepared and maximising its ability to compete in domestic and overseas markets. ADS is working to support our members across the UK aerospace sector in these markets, to build successful industrial strategies in partnership with Government, and deliver a Brexit deal that ensures a stable transition and sustains the UK’s leading position in international aerospace.
There is no doubt that as we look forward to July’s Farnborough Airshow the UK’s aerospace sector is well placed to showcase our world-leading innovation, experience and capability. It has never been more important to show that the UK is open for business and is ready to compete in the global marketplace. I look forward to welcoming the UK aerospace industry to the Airshow and hope that every exhibitor and visitor has a productive week. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.abhaber.com/73642/ab-komisyonudrone-kullanimi-icin-yeni-kurallar-belirledi-english/ | 2024-02-27T10:34:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00561.warc.gz | 0.919787 | 323 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__207677981 | en | Drones: Commission adopts advanced rules for the safe operation of drones
Today the European Commission adopted EU rules to ensure increasing drone traffic across Europe is safe and secure for people on the ground and in the air. The rules will apply to all operators of drones – both professionals and those flying drones for leisure. Following the recently adopted technical requirements for drones, today the Commission completes another key deliverable under the Commission’s Aviation Strategy for Europe whose core objectives are to maintain the highest level of safety and to support the competitiveness of the EU’s aviation industry. Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc said: “The EU will now have the most advanced rules worldwide. This will pave the way for safe, secure and green drone flights. It also provides the much needed clarity for the business sector and for drone innovators Europe-wide.” As of 2020 drone operators will have to be registered with national authorities. Member States will be able to define so-called “no-fly zones” where – through satellite geo-location – drones will not be allowed to enter. “No-fly zones” may include airports and airfields or city centres. These rules, which will replace existing national rules in EU Member States, not only address safety but also contain important building blocks to mitigate drone related security risks. Through operators’ registration, remote identification and definition of geographical zones, all national authorities will have means to prevent misuse or unlawful drone activities. You can find more information on the new rules online, as well as a video and photos of different drone operations across the EU. | aerospace | 1 |
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1931:
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- Bert Hinkler flies a de Havilland Puss Moth from Canada to New York City, then non-stop 2,400 km (1,500 miles) to Jamaica, then on to British Guiana and Brazil. He then flies across the South Atlantic Ocean to West Africa in extremely bad weather, becoming the first person to fly across the South Atlantic solo and only the second person after Charles Lindbergh in 1927 to fly solo across the Atlantic. He completes his journey by flying from West Africa to London. For the flight, he receives the Segrave Trophy, the Johnston Memorial Prize, and the Britannia Trophy for the most meritorious flying performance of the year.
- Manufacturer Airspeed Ltd founded in York, England.
- Alexander Seversky founds the Seversky Aircraft Corporation.
- Watanabe Iron Works, the ancestor of the Kyūshū Airplane Company Ltd., begins to manufacture aircraft.
- First Bendix trophy race.
- The Imperial Japanese Navy decides to abolish its airship units and phase airships out of the fleet over the next few years.
- In New York City, the Empire State Building is completed, topped with a 200-foot (61-meter) mooring mast for airships. Plans to disembark airship passengers prove impractical, and the mast is never used except for a single three-minute contact by the United States Navy blimp J-4.
- U.S. Army Second Lieutenant William A. Cooke sets world gliding records for endurance and distance, flying an estimated 600 statute miles (966 km) in 21 hours 34 minutes 15 seconds at Wheeler Field, Territory of Hawaii.
- Summer 1931 – Transcontinental and Western Air moves its headquarters from New York City to Kansas City, Missouri.
- In the Soviet Union, construction of Leningrad′s Shosseynaya Airport (the future Pulkovo Airport) begins.
- January 6 – Italian General Italo Balbo leads the first formation flight across the South Atlantic. Twelve Savoia-Marchetti S.55s fly from Portuguese Guinea to Brazil.
- January 7 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing his Avro Sports Avian on New Zealand's west coast.
- January 8 – Piarco Airport, the future Piarco International Airport, opens in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
- January 9 – The Pratt-MacArthur agreement defines the United States Navy's naval air force as an element of the fleet that moves with the fleet and helps it carry out its missions. The agreement settles a lengthy controversy between the United States Army and the Navy over the role of naval aviation in overall national defense, as well as internal Navy debates over the role of naval air power.
- Flying from Oran in French Algeria, the French aviators Antoine Paillard and Louis Mailloux fly a 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) circuit for over 50 hours in the Bernard 80 GR in an attempt to set a new unrefueled nonstop closed-circuit world distance record. They cover 8,168 kilometers (5,076 miles) before higher-than-expected fuel consumption forces them to land only 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) short of the record.
- February 1 – Polish pilot Stanisław Skarżyński begins a 25,050-kilometer (1,556-mile) tour around Africa in a PZL Ł.2. He will complete it on May 5.
- February 12 – The Detroit News places an order for a Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro with the Pitcairn Aircraft Company. It is the first commercial order for an autogiro in the United States.
- February 14 – The United States Congress authorizes a new award, the Air Mail Medal of Honor, which the President of the United States is to award to pilots who perform distinguished service in connection with U.S. Air Mail service. It will first be awarded in December 1933.
- February 21 – After a Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra) Ford Trimotor lands at Rodríguez Ballón Airport at Arequipa, Peru, armed revolutionary soldiers surround it. They demand that it fly them to another destination, but the Trimotor′s pilot refuses. The standoff continues for 10 days until, on 2 March, the soldiers suddenly announce that their side won the revolution and let the pilot go in exchange for him giving one of them a ride to Lima.
- February 26 – Imperial Airways begins scheduled services between England and Africa using Armstrong Whitworth Argosys.
- February 6-March 1 – Flying the Blériot 110 over a closed circuit in French Algeria, the French aviator Maurice Rossi sets an unrefueled distance record of 8,822 kilometers (5,478 miles). The plane remains in the air for over 75 hours 23 minutes.
- The French aviator Marcel Goulette flies a Farman F.304 trimotor from Paris, France, to Tananarive, Madagascar, and back.
- March 9 – Flying a Farman F.302, French aviators Jean Réginensi and Marcel Lalouette set new distance and duration records over a closed circuit with a 2,000-kilogram (4,409-pound) payload, flying 2,678 kilometers (1,663 miles) in 17 hours.
- March 21
- Australia suffers its first airline disaster when the Australian National Airways Avro 618 Ten Southern Cloud disappears in bad weather over the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of all eight people on board. The aircraft's wreckage will not be discovered until October 26, 1958.
- Zygmunt Puławski, one of Poland's leading aircraft designers, dies during the sixth flight of the PZL.12 flying boat prototype – which he designed and built – when the PZL.12 stalls after take-off due to a strong wind and crashes in Warsaw, Poland.
- March 26 – Ad Astra Aero and Balair merge to form Swissair.
- March 30–April 2 – Flying the Benard 80 GR, French aviators Jean Marmoz and Antoine Paillard set a new closed-circuit unrefueled flight distance record, covering 8,960 kilometers (5,569 miles) in a time of 52 hours 44 minutes. A loss of coolant finally brings the flight to an end, although during the last part of the flight the two men pump champagne, eau de Vittel, and coffee into the radiator to keep the engine cool.
- March 31 – A Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing all eight on board, including American football coach Knute Rockne. The crash prompts the first grounding of an aircraft type, ordered by the United States Department of Commerce.
- April 8 – Flying a Pitcairn PCA-2 over Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, Amelia Earhart sets an autogiro altitude record, reaching 18,415 feet (5,613 meters).
- April 10 – C. W. A. Scott breaks the record for the fastest solo flight from England to Australia, making the flight between April 1 and April 10 in a time of 9 days 4 hours 11 minutes.
- April 14 – Honduras founds its National Aviation School. It is the forerunner of the Honduran Air Force.
- April 21 – Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Company pilot Jim Ray lands a Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro on the White House lawn in Washington, D.C., for a ceremony in which U.S. President Herbert Hoover presents the Collier Trophy to autogiro manufacturer Harold Pitcairn. After the ceremony, Ray takes off again in the PCA-2.
- May 5 – Polish pilot Stanisław Skarżyński completes a 25,050-kilometer (1,556-mile) tour around Africa in a PZL Ł.2. He began the tour on February 1.
- May 14 – A de Havilland Gypsy Moth piloted by professional hunter Denys Finch Hatton and carrying his Kĩkũyũ servant Kamau takes off from the airfield at Voi, Kenya, circles the field twice, stalls, and crashes, killing both men.
- May 27 – Launching from Augsburg, Germany, Swiss professor Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer ascend to an altitude of 15,781 meters (51,774 feet) in a balloon, establishing a new world altitude record for human flight and gathering substantial data on the upper atmosphere and cosmic rays before landing on a glacier in Austria.
- May 28
- Walter E. Lees and Frederick Brossy set a new endurance record for a non-refueled flight, landing a Bellanca J2 Diesel aircraft at Jacksonville Beach, Florida, after remaining in the air continuously for 84 hours 32 minutes. The record will stand until July 1986.
- Flying the Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro Missing Link, John M. Miller completes the first flight across the United States in a rotary-wing aircraft.
- June 5 – C. W. A. Scott breaks the record for the fastest solo flight from Australia to England, flying the 10,660 miles (17,160 km) from Wyndham, Australia to Lympne, England from May 26 to June 5, in 10 days 23 hours piloting a DH.60 Moth (Gipsy II).
- June 11 – The 40-passenger Handley Page H.P.42 four-engine biplane enters service with British airline Imperial Airways when G-AAGX Hannibal operates a Croydon Airport to Paris–Le Bourget flight, setting new standards of passenger service and comfort.
- June 23–July 1 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly around the world in a Lockheed Vega, the Winnie Mae, covering 15,474 miles (24,918 km) in 8 days 15 hours 51 minutes – a new record.
- July 15 – The United States Army Corps's Air Corps Tactical School completes its relocation from Langley Field, Virginia, to Maxwell Field, Alabama.
- July 20 – The Boston and Maine Railroad and Maine Central Railroad found Boston-Maine Airways, the future Northeast Airlines. It flies from Boston, Massachusetts, to Bangor, Maine, via Portland, Maine, as a Pan American Airways contract carrier.
- July 22–September 1 – Sir Alan Cobham and crew make a 19,800 km (12,300 mi) return flight between England and the Belgian Congo in a Short Valletta.
- July 27 – The Air Line Pilots Association, International is founded at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
- July 28–31 – Russell Norton Boardman and John Louis Polando fly the Bellanca Special J-300 high-wing monoplane Cape Cod, registration NR761W, powered by a 300 hp (220 kW) Wright J-6 Whirlwind engine, nonstop from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, to Istanbul, Turkey, in 49 hours 20 minutes, establishing a distance record of 5,011.8 miles (8,065.7 km). It is the first known non-stop flight to surpass either 5,000 miles or 8,000 kilometers.
- August 6 – Transcontinental and Western Air inaugurates the first air cargo service in the United States with a shipment of livestock from St. Louis, Missouri, to Newark, New Jersey.
- August 9 – After an engine separates from the American Airways Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor NC9662 shortly after takeoff from Cincinnati Municipal Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio, for a flight to Atlanta, Georgia, its pilot tries to return to the airport for an emergency landing. He misses the runway and then tries to land on the bank of the Little Miami River, but the aircraft strikes soft sand and noses over, killing all six people on board.
- August 29 – The German dirigible Graf Zeppelin pioneers the air route between Germany and Brazil.
- The Latécoère 380 flying boat sets six world seaplane records, including three speed-with-load-over-distance records and a closed-circuit distance-with-load record of 2,208 kilometers (1,372 miles).
- The Royal Air Force's first instrument flying course begins. Held at RAF Wittering, it employs six Avro 504Ns fitted with blind-flying hoods, turn indicators, and reduced dihedral to decrease inherent stability.
- September 7 – Herbert Clayton Wells loses his life during an air contests in Ottumwa.
- September 7 – Lowell Bayles wins the 1931 Thompson Trophy in the Gee Bee Model Z racer at the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, with a speed of 236.24 mph (380.42 km/hr).
- September 13 – The United Kingdom wins the Schneider Trophy outright by winning its third consecutive Schneider Trophy race. Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant John Boothman of the RAF High-Speed Flight completes the course at Calshot Spit in Supermarine S.6B serial S1595 at 547.297 km/h (340.1 mph). With the trophy retired, the Schneider Trophy races, begun in 1913, come to an end.
- September 23 – A Pitcairn XOP-1 autogyro conducts landing and take-off trials aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1). It is the U.S. Navy's first experiment with a shipborne rotary-wing aircraft.
- September 29
- Following the Schneider Trophy success, Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant George Stainforth in Supermarine S.6B serial S1596 breaks the 400 mph air speed record barrier at 407.5 mph (655.67 km/h).
- American inventor Ed Link receives a patent for his "Combination Training Device for Student Aviators and Entertainment Apparatus." Better known as the Link Trainer, it allows pilots to train safely on the ground for "blind" instrument flying.
- October 1 – KLM begins a regular service between Amsterdam and Batavia by Fokker F.XII. At 13,744 km (8,540 mi) this is the longest regular air route in the world at the time.
- October 3 – Brazil reestablishes Brazilian Navy control over naval aviation, creating a naval aviation corps which takes over the control of naval aircraft from the general staff.
- October 3–5 – Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon make the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, from Samushiro Beach, Japan, to Wenatchee, Washington in 41 hours in Miss Veedol, a Bellanca J-300 Long Distance Special.
- October 17 – The first hook-on test of the U.S. Navy's parasite fighter program takes places, as the Curtiss XF9C-1 prototype successfully docks with the dirigible USS Los Angeles (ZR-3).
- October 27 – The Detroit Aircraft Corporation files for bankruptcy. Eventually, the Lockheed portion of the company is bought out of receivership.
- October 27–28 – As a test of the second Fairey Long-Range Monoplane in preparation for a later attempt at setting a new non-stop distance flight record it, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Oswald R. Gayford and Flight Lieutenant D. L. G. Bett fly from RAF Cranwell in England to RAF Abu Sueir in Egypt, covering 2,857 miles (4,601 kilometers) nonstop in 31 hours.
- The first production R-6 rolls off the assembly line at the N22 factory in Moscow.
- Hillman's Airways is founded. It will begin charter services in December 1931 and scheduled services in April 1932.
- November 2 – United States Marine Corps squadrons VS-15M and VS-14M embark on USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3), the first time Marine Corps squadrons are assigned to aircraft carriers.
- November 20 – The Government of the Philippines creates an office under its Department of Commerce and Communications to handle aviation matters in the Philippines, particularly the enforcement of rules and regulations governing commercial aviation and private flying.
- December 5 – Lowell Bayles, winner of the 1931 Thompson Trophy, dies when the Gee Bee Model Z racer he is piloting crashes during a speed run at Wayne County Airport in Detroit, Michigan.
- Hillman's Airways begins flight operations with a charter flight. It will begin scheduled services in April 1932.
- December 29 – As the French aviators Louis Mailloux and Jean Marmoz take off in the Bernard 81 GR Antoine Paillard to attempt to set a new unrefueled non-stop closed-circuit flight distance record, the airplane's propeller hits the ground and its undercarriage collapses. The two men escape the accident with only a few bruises, and the aircraft eventually is repaired.
- Aeronca C-1 Cadet
- ANF Les Mureaux 110A.2, prototype of ANF Les Mureaux 113R.2
- ANF Les Mureaux 112GR
- Arado Ar 65
- Arrow Active
- Avro 627 Mailplane
- Beriev MBR-2
- Fairchild 22
- Farman F.250
- Focke-Wulf A 38
- Latécoère 300
- Latécoère 440
- Nakajima Army Type 91 Fighter
- Pitcairn PAA-1
- Pitcairn PCA-2
- Westland-Hill Pterodactyl Mk. IV
- Mid-1931 – Grigorovich I-Z
- Autumn 1931 – Stinson Model R
- Couzinet 21
- Farman F.280
- PZL.12 flying boat prototype - designed and built by leading Polish aircraft designer Zygmunt Puławski, the PZL.12 stalls and crashes in Warsaw during its sixth flight a month later on 21 March just after take-off due to a strong wind, killing Zygmunt
- Westland PV-3
- ca. late February – Potez 40
- February 2 – Latécoère 350
- Aeronca C-3
- Dornier Do Y with the Royal Yugoslav Air Force
- Fairchild 100
- Levasseur R3b with French Naval Aviation aboard the aircraft carrier Béarn
- Nakajima Ki-6 with Japan Air Transport
- Polikarpov I-5 with the Soviet Air Force
- Australian Dictionary of Biography: Bert Hinkler
- Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 382.
- Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 22.
- Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001, ISBN 1-55750-432-6, p. 16.
- Polmar, Norman, "Ships That Were Lighter Than Air," Naval History, June 2011, p. 19.
- Aviation Hawaii: 1930-1939 Chronology of Aviation in Hawaii
- TWA History Timeline Archived 2015-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Swanborough, Gordon, and Peter M. Bowers, United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911, Second Edition, London: Putnam, 1976, ISBN 0-370-10054-9, p. 2.
- Century of Flight: History of the Helicopter: Contributions of the Autogyro
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Medal, Air Mail Medal of Honor
- Johnson, Frederick L., "Modest Mal," Aviation History, March 2012, p. 19.
- Aviation Safety Network Hijacking Description
- Historic Wings: Flight Stories, "New York to Syria Non-Stop," 5 August 2012.
- aviastar.org Bleriot 110, 1930
- ameliaearhart.com Achievements
- century-of-flight.net Century of Flight: History of the Helicopter: Contributions of the Autogyro
- "Set Flight Record Without Refueling; Lees And Brossy, 84:33 Hours In Air, Recapture World Mark From France," New York Times, May 29, 1931.
- Blakeslee, Sandra "Plane Ends a Record Nonstop Flight," The New York Times, July 16, 1986.
- Santiago, J. P., "The Early History of ALPA, the Air Line Pilots Association, and the First Airline Strike," avgeekery.com, February 2016.
- "'Cape Cod's' Success Climaxes 5 Years [of] Bellanca Records". The Sunday Morning Star, Wilmington, DE. 2 August 1931. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- "Airisms from the Four Winds - More Atlantic Flights". Flight. United Kingdom: flightglobal.com. July 31, 1931. p. 774. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
- Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
- Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7607-0592-6, p. 77.
- The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska · Page 5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58114314/
- Layman, R.D., Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1849-1922, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87021-210-9, p. 124.
- Price, Alfred (1977). Spitfire: a Documentary History. London: Macdonald and Jane’s. p. 12. ISBN 0-354-01077-8.
- Bauman, Richard, "Link to the Future," Aviation History, May 2014, p. 50.
- Scheina, Robert L., Latin America: A Naval History 1810–1987, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-295-8, p. 195.
- Heikell, Edward and Robert, One Chance for Glory, Amazon book,ISBN 1468006088, May 2012, P.61
- Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 145.
- O'Connor, Derek, "Going Long," Aviation History, March 2016, pp. 54–55.
- Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 50.
- Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 146.
- Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 48.
- Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 60.
- Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 287.
- Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 144.
- Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 262.
- Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, pp. 218, 219.
- Polmar, Norman, "Historic Aircraft: Biplane Fighters in Action," Naval History, June 2011, p. 16.
- Polar, Norman, "'There's a Ford in Your Future'," Naval History, December 2015, p. 15. | aerospace | 1 |
https://insidegnss.com/category/b-applications/aviation-b-applications/page/2/ | 2021-04-18T11:54:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038476606.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418103545-20210418133545-00431.warc.gz | 0.930959 | 888 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__153712819 | en | Order-of-magnitude advances in inertial technology seem to take place roughly every 20 years, and the industry is poised at such a point now. New developments in photonic technology make high-performance inertial measurement accessible at lower size, weight and power. Many applications from driverless cars to UAVs can now take advantage of positioning that can independently bridge GPS outages from 2 minutes up to 10 minutes.By Inside GNSS
Previously, controlled reception pattern antennas (CRPAs) were only in the military domain, and highly classified. The need to counter increasing GNSS signal jamming and spoofing in the civil realm has brought CRPAs into limited use there as well. How to test for their efficacy in product design and development?
A free webinar on Wednesday, March 25 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time addresses the topic “GNSS Vulnerability Testing and the Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna (CRPA).” This technically rich, educational event is sponsored by Spirent Communications and Inside GNSS.By Inside GNSS
“I’ve been a revolutionist for 47 years,” Brad Parkinson began a recent invited lecture at Google, “with this stealthy revolution. GPS is indeed a stealthy revolution.” In his lecture “GPS and Humanity” he described how GPS has “stealthily” crept into the fabric of global society and created dependencies that did not exist before.By Inside GNSS
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told two U.S. Senators in January that his agency could not complete a decision on Ligado Network’s license modification by the end of 2019 because of a late-in-the-year response from a key federal agency.By Dee Ann Divis
Microchip Technology Inc. has released a smaller-footprint, higher-performance atomic clock to meet core telecomm, military and critical infrastructure requirements for wider thermal range, quicker lock and higher stability.By Inside GNSS
By Inside GNSS
In lead position on a sleigh rising from the North Pole to a height of 200 meters — standard cruising altitude for global package delivery — at 2100 hours UTC on December 24 — the youngest will hopefully be asleep by then and there’s plenty of territory to cover before dawn breaks, time’s a-wasting — navigator Rudolph will see between 40 and 45 GNSS satellites glistening in the night sky.
Trimble has introduced a compact, high-precision GNSS board designed for unmanned aerial systems (UAS): the Trimble UAS1. The board’s simple connectivity and configuration allow UAS system integrators to easily add satellite-based positioningBy Inside GNSS
A European aviation industry alliance will deploy new-generation GNSS-based landing systems, ground-based augmentation systems or GBAS, at airports across the continent, starting this year and gaining momentum in 2020. The GBAS Alliance includes airlines and aircraft manufacturers who will complementarily equip their planes with GBAS reception equipment. GBAS is recognized as a supplement to and future replacement of instrument landing systems (ILS).By Inside GNSS
A portable differential GPS-based precision landing system that guides aircraft in to spot landings in all weather, challenging terrain and surfaces conditions proved itself in a rapid set-up demo before military officials of five countries recently. A Raytheon team set up the company’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) in less than an hour on a small footprint and promptly brought in multiple F-35Cs, long-range stealth strike fighters, to the same designated runway landing point every time over the course of six different approaches.By Inside GNSS
Safety and cost reasons led U.S. aviation regulators to choose a somewhat less efficient system for oceanic air traffic control, government watchdogs told Congress, adding that the majority of the airlines the researchers surveyed agreed with that approach.By Dee Ann Divis
Passengers stranded at airports is not an uncommon occurrence, but when weather does not appear to be an issue, anxious travelers can get restless searching for answers.
Over the last day or two, a number of U.S. flights were canceled as aircraft were grounded and passengers were left scratching their heads.By Stan Goff | aerospace | 1 |
http://blog.newsline-media.com/14yr-old-glides-to-solo-scots-record/ | 2023-09-22T04:33:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506329.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922034112-20230922064112-00372.warc.gz | 0.974444 | 413 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__227388191 | en | For most youngsters turning 14 means a chance to get their hands on the latest video game or fashion trend to hit the high street. But for high flying Ruari Tait it saw him enter the record books – as the youngest person to fly a glider solo above Scotland.
And it comes just two years after the Gordonstoun schoolboy was involved in a near tragedy when he and dad Robert’s glider wing sheared off after smashing into a fellow enthusiast at 4,000 ft. After a dizzying spin lasting between 10 and 20 seconds, the pair cheated death with a textbook exit of the aircraft – parachuting 2,500ft to safety as their glider smashed into the ground below them.
However, the brush with death has not put the chocks on daredevil Ruari’s flyaway ambition to pursue his dream job in the aviation industry. He marked his 14th birthday yesterday (WED) – the legal age limit at which someone can fly the engineless aircraft unaccompanied – by taking to the skies above his Moray home on his first solo jaunt. The young Top Gun, who even managed a cheeky 2,000ft selfie at the controls, said: “It was great. I was quite nervous before but I was trying to keep calm.
“The accident hasn’t really fazed me.
“You just feel free. There’s no noisy engine or anything to disturb you when you’re flying.
“It’s quiet and peaceful. Depending on what glider you are in, you can only hear the wind.
“It was awesome.”
The birthday extravaganza was nearly a late departure though as it looked like the weather may scupper any chance of getting Ruari into the air. But it was a true family affair when they managed to pull it off as the sun broke through the clouds in the skies above their Elgin home just across the road from the Highland Gliding Club. | aerospace | 1 |
https://tipsbeast.com/militaria-a-new-orbiter-station-for-the-american-space-forces-will-be-created/ | 2020-11-28T19:24:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195745.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128184858-20201128214858-00669.warc.gz | 0.953741 | 561 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__137405712 | en | The Pentagon has ambitious plans to take over the Earth’s orbit and control everything that goes on there, and there will be a lot going on in the 1920s. A military space station will help.
The US Department of Defense wants to create, as soon as possible, installations on the Earth’s orbit that will allow the new troop to function normally. The latest information suggests that the whole project will cost $ 3.6 billion, will be implemented between 2020 and 2024 and will require the employment of new at least 6,000 staff members.
A small module will be created for a good start in orbit, during which experiments will be carried out for the testing of the fleet of satellites, space vehicles and various secret technologies. In the longer perspective, a normal space station will be created, where soldiers and robots will be stationed together, such as ATLAS or Valkyrie (see here).
Apparently, the home for US Space Forces is to be the most technologically advanced object in human history. We can expect the functioning of systems generating artificial gravity and ports for mooring of secret space vehicles.
The Pentagon also plans to build the first military facility on the Moon. It would be created in parallel with the first human colony, which is more or less in the second half of the 1920s. Space establishments will have the task of observing and guarding the Earth’s orbit and the Moon’s environment from hostile countries such as China, Russia and India.
Soon, the Pentagon will have at its disposal space planes, capable of free and fast flights to Earth’s orbit, satellite-robots to destroy enemy space installations, space-powered nuclear vehicles and such propulsion, capable of orbital impacts, and orbital modules and eventually port cosmic, in which cosmic troops of soldiers or robots can permanently be stationed.
“Our opponents are already in space, regardless of whether we like it or not. What we are doing will be done by us. These actions will be as much defensive as offensive, but now we will be polite and we will only talk about defensive intentions, “declared Donald Trump.
Maybe all this sounds unbelievable, but during the Cold War, funds for armaments and the development of space technologies were virtually limitless. It is thanks to this that the engineers from the USSR and the US have created inventions that still amaze with their momentum. They helped us to conquer the Silver Globe, and now a new race will help us to live on it and create the first bases on Mars.
On the occasion of space stations, it is worth mentioning that in addition to the International Space Station, which will be financed by 2030, a Chinese, Russian, Indian and international Lunar Space Station will be built in space in the coming years. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.seradata.com/cosmonauts-and-astronaut-return-to-earth-on-soyuz-ms-16/?related_post_from=100914 | 2021-06-18T02:16:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487634616.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20210618013013-20210618043013-00523.warc.gz | 0.903505 | 451 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__7285359 | en | Soyuz MS-16, having undocked from the International Space Station at 2332 GMT on 21 October 2020, proceeded to make its deorbit burn at 0200 GMT on 22 October before separate into three modules with the landing module carrying three crew Russian cosmonauts Anatoliy Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy who handed over command of the ISS to Russian Cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov who had recently arrived on the station on Soyuz MS-17. The subsequent parachute and braking rocket assisted landing of the Soyuz MS-16 crew capsule was made at 0254 GMT on 22 October on the Steppes of Kazakhstan.
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http://www.deagel.com/Cannons-and-Gear/Silver-Fox_a000171001.aspx | 2019-05-24T22:11:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257767.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524204559-20190524230559-00464.warc.gz | 0.880755 | 293 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__142581079 | en | Initial Operational Capability (IOC):
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Advanced Ceramics Research
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Description: The Silver Fox unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is aimed at providing the US Navy with a small, lightweight, inexpensive, expendable airborne asset that will fly autonomously for long durations at 60 knots (110 kph). The Silver Fox engine will run on JP-8/JP-5 fuel. The sensor packages intended for this aircraft weigh up to 4-pound (2 kg). Each platform will provide low cost surveillance imaging transmitted back to the control station that will be able to simultaneously operate up to 10 units.
The Silver Fox vehicles incorporate a "plug-and-play" modular design with many easily interchangeable components/modules such as wings, motor modules, control modules and mission payload modules. A whole Silver Fox system can be packed into a single 60x24x15 (152x61x38 cm) case. A launch pneumatic catapult is required in order to get the Silver Fox airborne and the payload consists of a FLIR. Other improved models are being developed by Advanced Ceramics Research, for example Silver Fox Block B, with greater flight endurance, payload, etc.
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http://www.hvpress.net/news/135/ARTICLE/9010/2010-04-15.html | 2017-04-24T15:07:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119637.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00239-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.925569 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__320808254 | en | Air Force Airman David M. Rush graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
He is the son of David Rush of Boulder Way, and Susan Morgan of Diagram Hill Road, both of Wappinger’s Falls, N.Y.
Rush is a 2003 graduate of Roy C. Ketchum High School, Wappinger’s Falls. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2006-09-15/works-dassault-falcon-7x | 2017-08-19T00:51:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105195.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818233221-20170819013221-00024.warc.gz | 0.965443 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__123805728 | en | Last month Dassault said its engineers have validated several improvements to the Falcon 7X– such as increased mtow, engine thrust, fuel capacity and winglets– that increase range to 5,950 nm from 5,700 nm. These improvements have nudged the type certification schedule into early next year.
Because the design now incorporates winglets, the secondary rudder was removed and the lower fin aerodynamics could be reoptimized. Dassault increased the mtow by 10 percent, to 69,000 pounds, and the payload capacity with full fuel has been increased to 2,988 pounds. Additionally, the basic operating weight has been increased to 34,272 pounds.
Since the Falcon 7X first flew in May last year, two other aircraft have joined the development and certification program. The three aircraft logging 570 flight hours over 185 flights.
The 7X’s flight envelope has been fully opened to Mach 0.93 and 51,000 feet. Reversers have also been tested down to full stop and reverse taxiing.
Dassault said that it has orders for 80 of the long-range trijets. Currently, 40 Falcon 7Xs are in various stages of production, with S/N 10 in final assembly. Dassault will ramp up production to three aircraft per month to accommodate demand, and the company expects to build 40 Falcon 7Xs in 2008. | aerospace | 1 |
https://spaceflight101.com/msl/msl-landing-site/ | 2023-09-26T09:00:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510179.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926075508-20230926105508-00318.warc.gz | 0.955527 | 909 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__46187763 | en | MSL Landing Site
NASA announced the Landing Site for the Mars Science Laboratory Mission on July 22, 2011. The Mission will target the Gale Crater to be its landing site. The Mars Rover will explore the lower portions of a 5Km mound of stratified materials that scientists are interested in. Variations in texture, appearance and mineralogy that have been observed suggest that those materials include the record of Martian history from a geological and climatic standpoint.
The landing site selection process occurred from 2006 to 2011 and included numerous proposals and workshops.
The actual landing site will drive the entire MSL mission and strategic mission operations. While selecting the site, ideal landing site resources and requirements were constantly looked at. Those include evidence of a certain extent of habitability (past or present), meet all engineering and safety policies and allow operational performance. Meeting those requirements depends on geological, chemical and mineralogical properties. Also playing a large role for rover operations is the terrain of the landing site. In addition to that, climatic conditions have to be within the thermal requirements of the vehicle at all times.
A series of community led, open workshops have been conducted in parallel with rover development. A Landing Site Steering Committee that was co-chaired by Dr. John Grant of the Smithsonian and Dr. Matthew Golombeck of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, organized and led the workshops. Those were held in 2006-2008, 2010 and 2011. Over 60 potential landing sites were considered and eventually narrowed down to a list of four. The final landing site was announced after the final workshop and when analyses by the MSL mission team were complete.
The MSL rover was designed without a particular landing site in mind so that the rover can access more of the Martian Surface. The vehicle can tolerate a broader spectrum in environmental conditions and the process of selecting a landing site could be extended and occur later in the mission design procedure.
A decision was made to land the MSL Mission at the Gale Crater which is at 4.49°S and 137.42°E. Within Gale Crater, a mountain raises up to 3 miles above the crater’s floor. That mountain will be explored by MSL to examine a record of the Martian Evolution. Curiosity will land on a smooth region in front of the mountain. The landing site is elliptical (6.4 by 19.8 Kilometers) and allows allows a safe landing even at the highest error rate in the descent and landing sequence.
Gale is believed to be 3.5 to 3.8 billion years old. The crater has a span of 154Km. An unusual feature of Gale that played a large role in its selection is an enormous mound of debris that is slightly taller than the southern rim of the crater itself. This material is expected to have a history of 2 billion years conserving a large record of Martian Evolution, both geologically and atmospherically. The exact origin of that mound is not completely known. Scientists suggest that it is the eroded remnant of various sedimentary layers that once filled the crater entirely, probably deposited on a lakebed in its original configuration. The material may have been layered by winds or volcanic ash falling from the sky. This would enable MSL to identify sediments that have formed or have been altered in the presence of water.
Gale is sitting at a very low elevation position on Mars (at –4444m). The vertical profile that is exposed causes attraction similar to that of Mars’ famous Valles Marineris Valley that is the largest canyon in the solar system. Gale holds a diversity of features and layers for investigating changing environmental conditions which will provide extensive information on the Planet’s habitability, past, present and future.
Through the mound’s layers, a number of channels track along which are the features that have formed most recently. These channels are up to 250m deep and 2Km from side to side presenting different layers on orbiter photography. These channels might offer a chance to explore the past of the Planet’s evolution. The channel is lower and lies on a gently sloping pile the are suspected to have washed down the channel.
In Depth – MSL Landing Site Documents
Anderson & Bell: Geologic mapping and characterization of Gale Crater and implications for its potential as a Mars Science Laboratory
Wray: Gale Crater: The Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Rover Landing Site
Science Targets Along a Proposed Gale Traverse | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.micropilot.com/news-2017-june-1.htm | 2022-01-29T00:26:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320299894.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20220129002459-20220129032459-00233.warc.gz | 0.88481 | 548 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__16748803 | en | MicroPilot autopilots compatible with Lockheed Martin’s mGCS
MicroPilot autopilots have achieved STANAG 4586 compatibility through integration with Lockheed Martin’s unmanned systems software ecosystem.
June 1st, 2017 – Stony Mountain, Canada – Working with Lockheed Martin CDL Systems, MicroPilot Inc. has developed a Vehicle Specific Module (VSM) to communicate with STANAG 4586 compliant ground control station (GCS) software. This will enable MicroPilot customers to utilize Lockheed Martin’s many previously unavailable tools as part of its unmanned systems software ecosystem with over 1.5 million flight hours worldwide.
STANAG 4586 is a NATO standard interface for Unmanned Control System and UAV interoperability. MicroPilot was able to cooperate with Lockheed Martin CDL Systems to create the VSM to make MicroPilot autopilot’s able to communicate with Lockheed Martin’s mGCS software, which is STANAG 4586 compliant.
“We are pleased that MicroPilot has invested in to STANAG 4586 compatibility and specifically integration with Lockheed Martin CDL Systems.” Says John Molberg, Business Development manager at CDL systems. “We are two proud companies who have been in the unmanned systems market for decades. This investment allows Micropilot customers access to our unmanned systems software ecosystem. Users can utilize our STANAG 4586 enabled software, such as our mobile Ground Control Station, optimized for controlling multiple disparate small UAS systems for military, civil and commercial uses. Further, these users are now immediately compatible with our Hydra Fusion Tools companion software which creates a complete spatial picture of a drone’s operational environment, including the ability to create real-time 3D maps.”
MicroPilot customers now have more options and utilities than ever to get the most out of their MicroPilot autopilots and the STANAG 4586 compatibility provides opportunities and attractive options for new customers as well.
Started in 1994, MicroPilot is the world leader in professional autopilots for UAVs and drones. MicroPilot is an ISO 9001 certified autopilot manufacturer that markets single-board autopilots, enclosed autopilots, and a triple redundant autopilot. MicroPilot offers a family of lightweight UAV autopilots that can fly fixed wing, transitional, helicopter, and multirotor UAVs. MicroPilot also provides complementary products such as the XTENDERmp, SDK, and trueHWIL2. MicroPilot autopilots have been purchased by more than 1000 customers in 85 countries. | aerospace | 1 |
https://runninwildtoys.com/collections/daron/products/daron-space-adventure-space-rocket | 2020-05-30T22:48:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347410352.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20200530200643-20200530230643-00009.warc.gz | 0.865952 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__192898406 | en | Daron Space Adventure Space Rocket
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This bright red Space Adventure Space Rocket comes complete with two astronaut figures and doors that open to reveal a multilevel playset for hours of creative fun! This 16-inch-tall rocket includes a rover vehicle for the astronauts to explore with, as well as buttons to activate its lights and sound. This vibrant Space Adventure Space Rocket features a transparent blue nose cone, sturdy grey fins, and an easy-to-grasp handle that lets your child fly the rocket around. The rocket’s exterior features NASA’s iconic meatball logo and portholes. Safe for ages three and up, this Space Adventure Space Rocket is a great gift for the little space enthusiast in your life—order today! | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=l1h0fve1g63vf4m7shjk4k05h6&action=profile;area=showposts;sa=thank;u=40793 | 2022-07-06T03:27:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104660626.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220706030209-20220706060209-00383.warc.gz | 0.946191 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__143088444 | en | « on: 13/09/2017 04:37:38 »
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Can Gravity be considered an endless Super Electrostatic charge....?No.
Electrostatic charges come in 2 flavours: + and -.
"Like charges repel, and different charges attract", as we were taught in high school.
Gravity only comes in 1 flavour, and it only attracts (as far as we know).
In our Solar system, consisting of the Sun, 8 planets, hundreds of moons and zillions of smaller bodies (including man-made satellites), they all attract each other. That's how NASA plays precision billiard balls with gravitational slingshot to get space probes to go where they want, when they want.
If gravity were electrostatic in nature, a space probe would be attracted to about half of the objects in the Solar system, and repelled from the others. This does not happen.
Gravity is not based on Electrostatic charges.
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http://pakistan-karachi.info/the-osbournes/no-277-squadron-raf | 2017-04-28T21:53:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123097.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00162-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.950229 | 346 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__77230390 | en | No 277 Squadron was formed on 22 December 1941 at Stapleford Tawney from air-sea rescue detachments at Martlesham Heath, Hawkinge, Shoreham and.
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Hurricanes , Defiants , Spitfires and Ansons were then supplied, the fighter aircraft being used for spotting downed aircrew at sea. Brenner, RCAF lesds me to a query about a squadron and crew which rescued him. Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment. Operation: Air Sea Rescue While so many aircrews were lost defending the British Isles or attacking targets held by the enemy, others were lost in the relatively unheralded support roles of Ferry Command, weather reconnaissance and Air-Sea Rescue. Air Member for Materiel. The squadron kept its Lysanders and Walruses for the entire period, but also operated Defiants, Spitfires, Sea Otters and even the Vickers Warwick. | aerospace | 1 |
https://airandspace.si.edu/topics/space?page=1 | 2018-12-11T11:26:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823618.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20181211104429-20181211125929-00443.warc.gz | 0.947047 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__197411566 | en | After 32 years, the gallery will close on December 3 as the Museum embarks on a years-long project to revitalize our infrastructure and transform our exhibitions. What better time to take a look back at the early days of the exhibit and how it came together?
The next few months will also bring some exciting developments in space science. There are new missions about to launch and spacecraft that will reach their destinations after long journeys. Here are six out-of-this-world things to look for in the news over the next few months.
On October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was officially created, beginning a 60-year journey of American innovation and space exploration. While there are many (many, many!) unique NASA objects in the Air and Space collection, these six highlight milestones that shaped our nation’s quest to better understand our universe.
The National Air and Space Museum is full of ideas that defy. Ideas that defy any obstacle, ideas that defy our expectations, ideas that literally defy gravity. Follow us as we discover the remarkable, the audacious, the outrageous, the #IdeasThatDefy. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.customdrones.org/what-are-unmanned-aerial-vehicle | 2023-09-22T08:54:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506339.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922070214-20230922100214-00442.warc.gz | 0.950883 | 467 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__191409827 | en | Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are aircrafts without a human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes a ground controller and a communications system. UAVs can be remotely piloted by a human operator, such as remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), or with varying degrees of autonomy, such as autopilot assistance, to fully autonomous aircraft. Recent technologies have enabled the development of many different types of advanced UAVs used for various purposes.
UAS consist of the aircraft component, sensor payloads, and a ground control station. UAVs are motorized aerial vehicles that do not carry a human operator, use aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, can fly autonomously or be remotely piloted, can be disposable or recoverable, and can carry a lethal or non-lethal payload. UAVs are used in numerous real-life applications, such as payload delivery, traffic monitoring, moving objects in a seemingly hazardous environment, and surveillance. UAVs are also classified according to the weight, maximum altitude and speed of the UAV component.
Beyond the military applications of UAVs, numerous uses of civil aviation have been developed, including aerial crop surveying, aerobatic aerial imagery in filmmaking, search and rescue operations, inspection of power lines and pipelines, counting wildlife, and delivering medical supplies to remote or otherwise inaccessible regions. In the field of remote sensing, UAVs are helping to quickly replace conventional aerial photography (photogrammetry) by providing high spatial resolution aerial images (orthophotos) of the Earth's surface. Other low-profile uses for unmanned aerial vehicles include firefighting and police use, as well as other types of domestic surveillance. Approaching its development as a complete unmanned aerial system (the flight hardware, controls, and data connectivity that make the hardware work), the United States Department of Defense (U.
S. Department of Commerce) has substantially developed capabilities, reliability, and access to UAS around the world. UAVs are increasingly used in many applications due to their rapid and cost-effective deployment. As technology advances and more applications become available for UAVs, they will continue to be an important tool for many industries. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/armed-drones-revolutionized-airpower | 2016-02-13T21:42:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701168011.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193928-00151-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.939218 | 407 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__7624750 | en | The success of the armed Predator has sparked a revolution in unmanned aircraft, making it “arguably the most important new military technology since the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile,” according to a paper by Wilson Center Senior Scholar Richard Whittle.
Whittle details how an office of the Air Force known as “Big Safari” put Hellfire anti-tank missiles on the previously unarmed Predator, transforming the surveillance drone into a weapon that was subsequently used by the CIA in Afghanistan beginning in 2001 and in other countries since. The move followed the Kosovo air war of 1999, during which Air Force commanders were frustrated by the inability of manned aircraft flying under high altitude restrictions to find and attack Serb military targets. The project to arm the drones gained momentum dramatically after the CIA used unarmed Predators to search for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the fall of 2000 – missions flown by Air Force crews, Whittle reveals – and spotted him twice but had no way to attack the mastermind of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
The armed Predator went into use days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when an Air Force crew seated in a ground control station on the parking lot at CIA headquarters in northern Virginia began flying the new weapon over Afghanistan. On the night the Afghan War began, Oct. 7, 2001, that crew fired the first missile launched in combat by the Predator, inaugurating a new age in warfare.
The paper, published by the Air Force Association’s think tank, The Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies, is available in full on The Mitchell Institute’s website at http://www.afa.org/Mitchell/Reports/MP7_Predator_0811.pdf.
Richard Whittle, who is also a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and author of The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey, is available for interviews. | aerospace | 1 |
https://catcountry1073.com/the-brightest-view-of-mars-in-15-years-is-this-week-heres-why/ | 2023-09-25T19:00:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510085.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925183615-20230925213615-00678.warc.gz | 0.944788 | 275 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__202865047 | en | The Brightest View of Mars in 15 Years is This Week – Here’s Why
As you catch a glimpse of the full "blood moon' in the night sky over South Jersey this weekend, you may notice what looks to be a reddish star to the left of the moon. Only that's no star. That's Mars!
Until Aug 3, Mars will be at its brightest since 2003 because it will be closer to Earth — boosting our ability to view the red planet.
According to earthsky.org....
Earth and Mars both orbit the sun, but because Earth is closer to the sun, it orbits at a quicker pace than the red planet. About every two years, when Mars reaches the portion of its orbit known as "opposition," it is precisely opposite the sun, at least from Earth's point of view. In essence, Mars and Earth create a straight line from each other, with the sun in the middle. This phenomenon will occur on July 27, 2018.
The "opposition" orbit will bring Mars the closest it has been to Earth since 2003, when it was about 34.7 billion miles (56 million kilometers) from Earth. On July 27, 2018, Mars will be 35.8 billion miles (57.6 kilometers) from Earth, according to calculations by NASA. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.tuko.co.ke/418771-vanessa-wyche-us-engineer-black-woman-lead-a-nasa-centre.html | 2021-09-26T11:48:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057861.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20210926114012-20210926144012-00232.warc.gz | 0.966365 | 533 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__213677987 | en | - Vanessa has been working for NASA for the past 30 years in different positions
- Her new appointment will now see her overseeing 11,000 civil service employees and contractors working on human spaceflight missions
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Texas Public Radio reported that Vanessa, in her capacity as the director with be leading the JSC's human spaceflight missions, America's astronaut corps, the International Space Station mission operations, and the Orion program.
Speaking to members of the media just recently, Vanessa noted that she is very much humbled and excited as well for the new role.
Vanessa added that she will be working hard to forge a new path of space flight and exploration.
"It is just an honor to know that I will have the opportunity to lead these efforts as we're moving forward... We'll have the opportunity to have robotic missions as well as human missions going to the moon and working in tandem together. So, yeah, now is an extremely exciting time," Vanessa said.
Vanessa has worked for NASA for about 30 years
TUKO.co.ke understands Vanessa started her career at NASA in 1989, serving at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas.
She has ever since been rising the ranks, including serving NASA in leadership capacities such as the director of the Exploration Integration and Science Directorate and flight manager overseeing various missions associated with the retired Space Shuttle Program.
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Vanessa, in her recent appointment, will be overseeing 11,000 civil service employees and contractors working on human spaceflight missions.
Her appointment was backed by various people, including NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy who said that Vanessa is a tenacious leader who has broken down barriers throughout her career.
Vanessa, on her part, noted that space exploration is for everyone as she encouraged students to take up STEM and work for her one day.
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http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20001208X09157&ntsbno=CHI98LA047&akey=1 | 2014-11-27T17:28:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931008919.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155648-00186-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.949861 | 495 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__175998 | en | On November 25, 1997, at 1500 central standard time (cst), a Hall RV-6, N36AH, operated by a commercial pilot, sustained substantial damage when on takeoff the airplane made an uncontrolled left turn. Subsequently, the pilot reduced power and the airplane impacted on the runway. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The personal flight was being conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. No flight plan was on file. The pilot reported no injuries. The flight was originating at Blair, Nebraska, when the accident occurred. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
In his written statement, the pilot said that during the initial takeoff as the tail wheel came off the ground, the airplane began to "fishtail." When the pilot made rudder corrections, the airplane's directional control got worse. The airplane became airborne entering an uncontrolled left turn. The pilot said that he did not have "positive response" when he turned back parallel to the runway. The pilot reduced power to land. The nose of the airplane tracked right, away from the runway heading. The pilot tried to turn back to the left, but the airplane's controls would not respond. The pilot reduced the power to idle and impacted the ground in a left nose down slip approximately 20 feet left of the runway. The airplane skidded across the ground and came to rest in the center of the runway.
A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector examined the airplane at the accident site. The spinner and lower cowling were crushed inward. The firewall showed buckling at the bottom. The left side of the fuselage from the cowling, through the cockpit and aft to the empennage showed heavy skin wrinkling. The left main landing gear was bent aft and embedded in the bottom fuselage skin. The left wing tip was crushed inward and broken aft. The left forward wing spar was broken aft. The wood propeller was broken aft and split. Examination of the engine and engine controls revealed no anomalies. Examination of the airplane's rudder controls revealed that a fracture had occurred outside of the weld attaching the base of a T-shaped bar, forming the foot rest of the pilot's left rudder pedal, to the torque tube connecting the left and right seat left rudder pedals.
Further examination of the broken parts revealed a fatigue crack on the torque tube, originating on the rear outside portion of the fracture. | aerospace | 1 |
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