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http://darrellkindley.net/tag/planes/
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The movie “Top Gun,” which starred Tom Cruise, romanticized the life of a military pilot. However, not all pilots fly jet fighter planes. They may be responsible for reconnaissance missions, fly tanker or transport planes.
With road traffic worsening across the United States at alarming rates, it’s no surprise that many dream of taking to the skies like George and Judy Jetson. However, people might be shocked to learn that several companies are attempting to make these pipe dreams a reality.
Being an astronaut is like tightrope walking without a net. It’s risky, formidable, death-defying and intoxicating for those who have the right stuff. Candidacy for the job is fiercely competitive. In 2016, 18,300 hopefuls applied to its ranks and only 12 were accepted.
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http://www.aem.umn.edu/info/spotlight/Balloon_Team.shtml
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U of MN Ballooning Team Gives Local Middle School Students First Taste of Spaceflight with Missions to "Near-Space"
On May 19th and 26th, 2011, the University's High-Altitude Ballooning Team launched four weather balloons into the stratosphere (AKA "near-space"), to altitudes ranging from 80,000 to 90,000 feet. The balloons carried scientific payloads designed and built by students from nine local middle schools, under the instruction of teachers who attended a MN Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) workshop last summer. The payloads contained video and still cameras, flight computers, data loggers, accelerometers, and sensors to measure basic weather data, cosmic radiation levels, and solar panel output through the troposphere and lower stratosphere.
|Inflating two 1500-gram weather balloons with helium to carry middle school science payloads to "near-space."|
The balloons also carried tracking radios which transmitted GPS information to the team in real time so the flights could be tracked and recovered once the balloons burst and the payloads returned by parachute. The launches, as well as last summer's teacher workshop, were part of a new MnSGC outreach program promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for middle school teachers and students through the hands-on experience of high-altitude ballooning.
The Ballooning Team is advised by Professor James Flaten, Associate Director of the MnSGC, and was jointly sponsored by the MnSGC and the Pentair Foundation. Ballooning team members include Joey Senkyr, Philip Hansen, Monique Hladun, Vishnuu Mallik, Alex Ngure, Anthony Knutson, Angela Bowitz, Kyle Marek-Spartz, plus team co-leads Seth Frick and Caitlyn Mantych. The Ballooning Team works year-round to develop and fly high-altitude experiments and also performs outreach activities.
|Team member Vishnuu Mallik poses with students from Columbia Heights Middle School and their science payload.|
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https://africanfarming.net/crops/agriculture/the-uk-space-firm-to-support-kenyan-coffee-farmers
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The UK government has announced a new project to help Kenyan and Rwandese coffee farmers to improve crop quality and yield
The UK space firm EARTH-i Ltd will deliver the ACCORD project, worth more than 381mn KES, to deliver timely, geo-targeted advice via a simple mobile application, using satellite Earth Observation technology to help smallholder coffee farmers improve their crop.
This is set to allow smallholder farmers in Kenya to achieve higher incomes for their work, improving the quality of life for their families.
Coffee is the second most traded commodity globally. However, unpredictable weather, pests, diseases, nutrient depletion and other factors impact upon the quality and quantity of coffee, thus limiting the earning potential of farmers.
The ACCORD project is one of 10 new global projects announced by the UK government, as part of the UK Space Agency’s international partnership programme. This programme uses the UK space expertise to deliver innovative solutions to real world problems across the globe.
Speaking about the launch of the programme, Sam Gyimah, minister of science in the UK, “The UK Space Agency’s international partnership programme will help developing countries tackle big issues like disaster relief and disease control, while showcasing the services and technology on offer from our leading space businesses.”
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http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20140823/BLOG01/140829496/1061/FAA-reportedly-approves-GE-engines-on-787-9
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The FAA and Boeing could not immediately be reached for comment, and a document cited by the two sources was not available on the FAA’s website Saturday.
Boeing delivered the first 787-9 to Air New Zealand in late June with Rolls-Royce engines.
The company is on track to deliver 10 to 12 of the 787-9, which is a larger version of the 787-8, this year, according to All Things 787.
The airplane is assembled in Everett and North Charleston, South Carolina.
UPDATE: Boeing has confirmed that it received FAA approval. However, a spokesman declined to comment on when first delivery of a 787-9 with GE engines would happen.
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Originally Posted by CruisinK n J
I came across this picture of Delta's answer to the new cruise ships. It brings to mind the first time we saw the QM2 in Long Beach harbor.
Honestly, I didn't do it.
What model plane is this? It sure doesn't look like any passenger plane I've seen or heard of. It looks more like a NASA Super Guppy with jet engines and Delta markings. Are you playing "Fun with Photoshop" on us?
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https://icetrend.com/2022/01/09/the-james-webb-telescope-is-now-fully-deployed-in-space/
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The James Webb telescope is now fully deployed in space
The Space Telescope James Webb It successfully completed yesterday, January 8, the last stage of its unfolding, unfolding its last main mirror and getting ready to begin to study – in about five and a half months – each phase of the history of the cosmos. The first of its two wings was deployed on Friday and the second on Saturday morning., as planned, as announced by NASA.
Engineering teams were celebrating at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, as the space agency announced on Twitter that the final wing was ready. “The final wing is now deployed,” NASA wrote on the social network, although it made it clear that it is still pending to finish securing the telescope.
“I’m very excited about this, a wonderful milestone,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, a NASA engineer during a live video feed. Because the telescope was too large to fit the nose cone of a rocket in its operational lift-off configuration, it was carried folded like an origami.
– NASA (@NASA) January 8, 2022
The deployment, completed yesterday, has been a complex and challenging task, the most overwhelming project ever attempted, according to NASA. “We still have work to do,” NASA said in its live updates. “When the final latch is secure, NASA Webb will be fully deployed in space,” he said.
Webb, the most powerful space telescope ever built and the successor to Hubble, took off in an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on December 25 and is heading to its orbital point, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Even if it will reach its destination, known as the second Lagrange point, in a matter of weeks, you still have another five and a half months of setups to go.
The next steps They include aligning the telescope’s optics and calibrating your science instruments. Its infrared technology allows it to see the first stars and galaxies that formed 13.5 billion years ago, giving astronomers a new perspective on the earliest epoch of the Universe.
Earlier this week, the telescope unfolded its five-layer sunscreen, a 21-meter-long comet-shaped device that acts like an umbrella, which ensures that Webb’s instruments are kept in the shade so they can detect. faint infrared signals from the far reaches of the universe. This shield will be permanently positioned between the telescope and the Sun, the Earth and the Moon, with the side exposed to the Sun built to withstand temperatures of 110ºC.
Five months of calibrations
The visible and ultraviolet light emitted by the first luminous objects has been diffused by the expansion of the universe and today comes in the form of infrared, which the Webb can detect with unprecedented clarity. Its mission also includes studying distant planets to determine their origin, evolution and habitability.
NASA’s blog about the telescope reported Saturday that the procedure was’the last of the major deployments of the observatory»:« Its success will allow us to carry out the next five and a half months of tasks, which consist of establishing a stable operating temperature, aligning the mirrors and calibrating the scientific instruments ».
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https://technutty.co.uk/the-rocket-launches-to-look-forward-to-in-2017-id=77453
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Tracking what’s going on in space can be hard, with so many launches planned and constant changing of launch dates and times, you will soon find that tracking these fantastic events can be extremely difficult.
So today we decided to take the hard work away for you and have created a Google Calendar to help you track the space events of 2017, which we will do all the updating of for you.
Of course, space events are subject to change, and will often change their schedules regularly, so please note that this calendar may not be accurate all of the time. Also if you would like to help us manage this calendar then please let us know in the comments below.
Anyway, if you are interested, you can subscribe to our space calendar via this ICAL link, or you can simply bookmark this page and view it below.
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The Bartini A-57 was an experimental Soviet bomber of the mid-1950s that was designed by Robert Ludvigovich Bartini to take-off and land on water. The aircraft was never put into production. The A-57 was equipped with a thruster facing downward to assist its take-off from the surface of the ocean. It was intended to refuel from submarines out at sea. The bomber had a long slender delta wing.
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https://english.iswnews.com/30776/military-knowledge-mutabar-1-air-defense-system/
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Military Knowledge: Mutabar-1 Air Defense System
The Mutabar-1 air defense system is a short-range, low-altitude system, which is developed by Palestinian resistance forces. This air defense system was introduced in October 2023 during Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, in a video released for the first time by Izz ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades.
According to the released video regarding the usage and deployment of the Mutabar 1 system, this air defense system consists of three main parts. The first part is the missile launch base, the second part is the missile, and the third part is the guidance system and target acquisition.
Missile Launch Facility:
The missile launch facility of the Mutabar-1 air defense system is designed as a single launcher to reduce its weight and allow for the use of cheaper and more accessible components. This launch base has a 360-degree rotation capability around its axis and can adjust the angle between 20 to 70 degrees. This movement enables adequate coverage for performing air defense operations in the vicinity of the air defense system.
Missile of Mutabar-1 Air Defense System:
The missile, as the second component of the Mutabar-1 air defense system, has a very simple design. In fact, this missile is a rocket with similar components to ground-to-ground rockets and its explosive fuse is designed for direct impact. Control fins that fold together are used for guiding this missile in its final section, which are secured with plastic ties.
Stabilizing fins are not used in this missile because tube-shaped launchers similar to mini Katyusha rockets are intended to be used. The reason for using ties to hold the control fins is that the necessary technology to design these fins to open them after launch does not exist. Therefore, it is not possible to use folding control fins in the front section either. If folding control fins were present in the front section, ties would have to be used, which would complicate the loading of the missile.
The overall shape of the missile on its launcher is clearly visible and appears to be very similar to the tail end of laser-guided bombs such as the Basir and Krasnopol.
The fuel of the missile also appears to be the same solid fuel used in ground-to-ground rockets. In that case, the maximum altitude of fire should be considered as 7.5 kilometers and the engagement range would likely be limited to around 6 to 8 kilometers.
Target tracking and missile guidance:
The use of thermal and infrared cameras for guidance is completely ruled out as the missile’s nose cone does not carry such cameras. In the video, it is evident that guidance is performed from a control center, but the components of this center are not clear. Considering the presence of an impact fuse at the tip of the missile and its shape, independent guidance has not been utilized. Therefore, the guidance to the target will be entirely carried out by another system, referred to as a nest seeker method.
Based on the absence of thermal and infrared cameras, it can be speculated that both active and passive radar search methods are used.
The missile fuel also appears to be the same solid fuel used in ground-to-ground rockets. In this case, the maximum engagement altitude should be considered as 7.5 kilometers, and the engagement range will likely be limited to around 6 to 8 kilometers.
Considering the Israeli regime’s military might in suppressing air defense, finding and conquering radar in the Gaza Strip will be easy. For this reason, the most likely method of tracking would be using passive radar, as finding this type of radar is very difficult. Also, placing a wave collection dish at one point and its powerful computer system elsewhere practically makes its destruction impossible. Based on the mentioned reasons above, it can be claimed that the air defense missile guidance in the Muteber-1 air defense system must be in the form of passive radar seeker guidance.
One noticeable point in the released video is the firing of two air defense missiles with very little distance and almost simultaneously, which could have two possibilities. The first possibility is that the system has the ability to guide two missiles for one target. The second possibility is that the system has the ability to engage two targets simultaneously.
Although this system may not seem very advanced at first glance, but creating a short-range and low-altitude air defense system with the mentioned specifications is a great achievement for Palestinian resistance. It gives Palestinians the ability to shoot down various Israeli aircraft at low altitudes.
Specifications of Mutabar-1 Air Defense System:
Type: low-altitude short-range air defense system
Producer: Al-Qassam Brigades
Unveiled: October 2023
Crew: 4 people (2 gunners and a commander and a radar officer)
Engagement range: 6 – 8 km
Radar: probably passive radar
Radar detection range: maximum 10 – 12 km
Altitude of fire: 6 – 8 km
Number of simultaneous engaged targest: 1 or 2
Battrey: Each unit is fixed and carries one missile
Length: ~ 2.5 meters
Diameter: ~ 107 mm
Weight: ~ 50 kg
Range: ~ 6 – 8 km
Altitude of fire: ~ 7.5 km
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Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the most promising techniques for on-site manufacturing on extraterrestrial bodies. In this investigation, layerwise solar sintering under ambient and vacuum conditions targeting lunar exploration and a moon base was studied. A solar simulator was used in order to enable AM of interlockable building elements ou...
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... began prevented the use of a turbo-molecular pump to reach a higher vacuum level. The gas pressure within the chamber initially increased rapidly to over 200 mbar. Following this, the pressure increased linearly, at a rate of approximately 2.3 mbar=s until the end of the process. The pressure evolution graph during the AM process is shown in Fig. 5. ...
To satisfy the essential needs, including energy requirements, for human and robotic space explorations on planetary objects like Moon, Mars and asteroids, the proper exploitation of resources available in-situ represents a crucial issue. Along this line, the present work investigates the potential of a sintered lunar regolith simulant (JSC-1A) for possible solar energy harvesting and thermal energy storage applications. Regolith simulant powders are first consolidated by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) at 700 and 900 °C to produce bulk samples with different relative densities, i.e. 86 and 98%, respectively, and surface porosities. Negligible changes from the compositional point of view are induced by SPS at 700 °C, whereas a decrease of the original glassy phase content is observed when operating at 900 °C. The optical properties of sintered samples and pristine regolith powders are compared, considering the spectral absorptance/emittance, the integrated solar absorptance and the integrated thermal emittance estimated in a temperature range representative for the ISRU application, i.e. from 100 to 1300 K. We found that sintering changes the optical properties of regolith in a process-dependent way, with an increased solar absorptance and thermal emittance shown by sintered pellets with respect to pristine powders.
Lunar regolith is the most abundant natural resource on Moon's surface. It is the intensively studied prime candidate for in-situ fabrication and repair (ISFR) technologies for future crewed exploration and resource harvesting missions on the Moon. Additive manufacturing with lunar regolith is a promising ISFR method that can be used for sustainable local production of engineering tools and components. This method requires little quantities of extra materials delivered from Earth, but, like many other prospective ISFR technologies, is sensible to the quality of the pre-processed regolith powders that are used as the primary source materials. The evolution of properties of highland and mare lunar regolith simulants concerning grinding-based pre-processing was studied in this work. The effect of regolith grinding was studied for the processes, relevant to stereolithography-based additive manufacturing. Particle size distribution, mean particle size, UV–Vis, XRD and XRF spectra were acquainted from the samples, ground in a ball mill at various grinding times (to different fraction sizes). The photopolymerization efficiency was assessed for lunar simulant-infilled resins prepared from lunar regolith simulants ground with different parameters. It was found that the grinding time of lunar regolith simulants strongly influences their optical properties – the light absorption in the far UV increased by 5.5 times. Based on the measured photo-polymerization depth, the optimal grinding procedure for mare and highland lunar regolith simulants was determined.
The next step for the exploration of space seems to require the human participation by means of a long-lasting lunar outpost. Therefore, this paper attempts to review the up-to-date knowledge regarding prominent issues surrounding the construction stage of a permanent base on the Moon in the light of the 3D printing process. In this context, a number of significant and specific issues are presented and discussed in a detailed manner to determine both the state-of-the-art position of the related literature and the relevant fields for improvement and implications. As a result, the use of heterogeneous and collective swarms of ground robots through a decentralized approach seems reasonable for the 3D printing tasks. However, as it is an emerging technology, it has to be improved further and tested in a terrestrial context as well as on the Moon. In this regard, it is a must to investigate precisely if the solar energy will be adequate for the operation of robots during preparation, transportation, and printing processes of local and Earth-based construction materials. In terms of structural needs, a composite shelter, including (i) an inner inflatable shell with a three-layer membrane, (ii) an outer concrete layer with regolith, polymer, and reinforcing fibers, and (iii) an outermost shield with raw regolith, will likely be viable. However, sieving and binding issues during the preparation phase of concrete under vacuum and microgravity conditions must be solved efficiently.
The distinct difference between the lunar surface (Moon) and the Earth forced space research organizations (SRO) and researchers to study the geotechnical properties of the lunar soils for the successful execution of lunar missions. The planned Chandrayaan Missions of the Indian Space Research Organization include constructing lunar structures on the lunar surface for the future Moon colonization. The stability of such lunar structures is completely dependent upon the foundation systems adopted. The foundation systems of these lunar structures are expected to encounter various types of vibrations due to moonquakes on the lunar surface. The analysis and design of a foundation system with respect to ground motion and vibration rely on the dynamic properties of the lunar soil. Also, the characterization of dynamic soil properties like shear modulus, damping ratio, and Poisson's ratio is essential for the safe design of foundation systems. Therefore, it is imperative to evaluate the dynamic properties of the lunar soil against moonquake-induced vibrations. Past research has utilized lunar soil simulants were used to assess the lunar soil's geotechnical properties. In that order, this study explains the dynamic properties of the new lunar highland simulant LSS-ISAC-1 under simulated moonquake conditions using cyclic triaxial tests. The shear modulus and damping ratio were determined from the cyclic triaxial tests for the different relative densities (30%, 63%, and 80%), confining pressures (5 kPa–75 kPa), and frequencies to represent the loose, medium, and dense states of the lunar surface. The bender element test is also done to find the shear wave velocity and maximum shear modulus. The results were compared with the lunar soil simulant CAS-1 and lunar soils to show the reliability of the obtained test results of LSS-ISAC-1.
Scientific exploration of extraterrestrial planets has gripped human imagination since the advent of space travel. Human missions to Mars could produce insight into the essential questions of how, when and where life began on Earth. Such missions would only be feasible using local space resources materials, a concept called in situ resource utilization (ISRU). In the absence of organic materials from plants, the globally available oxidic surface minerals (regolith) are the only viable resource for large-scale construction efforts such as habitats, greenhouses, landing pads and equipment building. This review provides the first comprehensive literature review of ISRU materials research employing Martian simulants. It gives a detailed overview of all Mars simulants, their history, properties, and challenges, introducing a generational concept for simulants development. The available Mars simulant processing literature (including selected work on lunar simulants) is categorized into seven regolith bonding concepts. The state-of-the-art on additive manufacturing (AM) in ISRU research is discussed. Detailed feasibility assessments for all processing approaches are given, including overview graphs comparing the mechanical performance of each fusion concept with feedstock availability on the surface of Mars. Finally, major open questions and future challenges of materials processing for early Mars missions is examined.
In this article we present a design principle based on segmenting a structure into a set of topologically or geometrically interlocked elements. None of these designs was borrowed from Nature and yet there are some parallels between these structures born in the minds of researchers and Nature’s designs. We give some historical background, describe the different kinds of interlocking structures, and discuss the ways in which they can be generated. Based on the beneficial features of the proposed structures, such as a great tolerance to local failures, enhanced bending compliance, high sound and energy absorption, ease of assembly and disassembly, and nearly full recyclability, we discuss possible applications of the concept of topological and geometrical interlocking design.
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In total, around 2,800 troops and national guards from Latvia, the United States, and 10 more countries will participate in both trainings. The teams will cooperate with each other to improve their compatibility during tactical operations, including demonstrating the capacity to perform tasks in winter conditions.
On February 18, the International Military Training Saber Strike 22, conducted by the EUCOM, will be launched. About 400 U.S. soldiers and about 100 machinery units arrive with convoys, as well as 22 combat helicopters AH-64 Apache. Military transport plane C-17 has already arrived for training in Latvia, landing at the Lielvārde airfield.
By February 28, around 800 U.S. soldiers and up to 250 military units will arrive from the direction of Lithuania on shared roads.
From February 28 to March 11, international military training “Crystal Arrow 22” will also take place.
Military training will include flights of US Armed Forces aircraft, including combat helicopters AH-64 Apache in Latvian airspace, as well as movement of military machinery along Latvia's main and regional roads. As part of training preparations, the first flights and military movements started on February 13.
The National Armed Forces call on Latvian residents to be understanding.
A series of military exercises are also planned in May and June.
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|Quoting steiner (Thread starter):|
1. is a special airspace reserved for this around the airports or is fuel dumped where it is most convenient?
If you're dumping fuel, it's either for test (very small quantity), or an emergency. In either case, you do it where you need to, no clearance required.
In air, it depends on the volume and speed. Done right, it evaporates before it hits the ground so nothing is covered.
Depends on the volume. There's typically no need to dump more than you need to get to landing weight, and that will depend on how much fuel you've got at the time you start. Could be seconds (for a test), could be half an hour or more.
In an emergency, you do what you have to. When we test we try to be above 15,000' to make sure it's all evaporated and doesn't hit the ground.
You can, but you don't have to.
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Forests 2020 and ForestWatch-Optical (two separate products) deliver land cover and forest cover change information gathered from satellite Earth observation (EO) optical and radar data to end users at least every five days to monitor large land areas across the globe using custom-made solutions.
- High frequency and large area mapping of land cover changes using EO data.
- Highly accurate deforestation alert system.
- Tailored to suit the end-user’s requirements.
- Highly scalable solution i.e. new Areas of Interest (AOI) can easily be added, and land cover monitoring areas.
Key technical features
- Uses free EO data from the Sentinel-1 and 2.
- Sentinel-2 is a multispectral satellite constellation imaging in the visible to infrared spectrum. Sentinel-2 carries 13 bands with three different spatial resolutions: 10 metre, 20 metre and 60 metre and a combined revisit time of five days.
- Sentinel-1 is a C-band radar providing information day and night, and under cloud cover condition. Sentinel-1 has a combined revisit time of six days.
- The satellite images are processed and analysed using state-of-art open source software and machine learning.
- The ForestWatch-Optical solution is hosted by EASOS.
Forests 2020 works in areas in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Indonesia monitoring forest cover change using optical and radar imagery, supported by IPP.
ForestWatch-Optical is operational over two sites in the Malaysian peninsula, monitoring forest areas of potentially illegal logging activities, as part of the EASOS project, supported by IPP.
The University of Leicester has a track record of excellent research into Earth Observation science and applications, building on over 50 years of space research. Professor Heiko Balzter, director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, is an accomplished research professor with over 20 years research experience, 90 journal publications, over 3300 citations (h-index = 30), and over €14 million research income.
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4th April from 17z to 20z we would like to invite you for a fun Monday regional flying in Jönköping.
The main airline flying from Jönköping is Nextjet but BMI is also flying down to Frankfurt. You will also find some charter flight departing Jönköping on a weekly basis. If you don't fancy flying the airliners feel free to take your Cessna or Piper for a spin around the area for some sightseeing.
We hope to see you there!
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By using GPS technology, congressional leaders argued, planes will land and take off more efficiently, as pilots will be able to pinpoint the locations of ground obstacles and nearby aircraft. The modernization procedures play into the FAA’s ambitious plan to achieve 50-percent growth in air traffic over the next 10 years. This legislation is "the best news that the airline industry ever had," applauded Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.). "It will take us into a new era."
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood added that it "will provide the stability and predictability to ensure critical aviation safety programs … and infrastructure investments move forward."
The legislation allocates $63.4 billion to the FAA, including about $11 billion for the modernization of the air traffic system. It expedites the modernization project by requiring the FAA to generate new arrival procedures by June 2015 at the country’s 35 busiest airports, so planes will have the ability to land using the new GPS navigation systems. Other provisions in the bill include:
- Roughly $3 billion annually for the next phase of transforming the U.S. air traffic system from one based on radar to one relying on global positioning satellites.
- A congressional statement opposing a controversial European Union law that makes airlines globally pay for emissions from their aircraft when flying over Europe. The Obama administration also opposes the measure and is trying to get European states to resolve the matter at the United Nations.
- A provision permitting the Transportation Department to offer loan guarantees to airlines to help them pay for air traffic modernization equipment needed on their planes.
- A $190-million annual outlay for subsidizing airline service to rural communities.
The FAA Reauthorization Act, which awaits a signature from President Obama, requires the FAA to establish regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones, as well as expediting the authorization process for the use of drones by police and other agencies. The Associated Press reported:
The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for manned aircraft by Sept. 30, 2015. That means permitting unmanned drones controlled by remote operators on the ground to fly in the same airspace as airliners, cargo planes, business jets and private aircraft.
Currently, the FAA restricts drone use primarily to segregated blocks of military airspace, border patrols and about 300 public agencies and their private partners. Those public agencies are mainly restricted to flying small unmanned aircraft at low altitudes away from airports and urban centers.
Within nine months of the bill’s passage, the FAA is required to submit a plan on how to safely provide drones with expanded access.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, operates nine drones, which are used primarily for border and counter-narcotics surveillance authorized under four FAA certificates. Domestic use of drones beyond border protection is very limited. But Congress’s new bill will change that.
Drone manufacturers, industry groups, and local governments have been longtime critics of the FAA’s modest efforts in permitting unmanned aircraft to fly in U.S. airspace. "There is a huge potential market for civilian and commercial uses of unmanned aircraft systems," said Ben Gielow, Government Relations Manager at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
"We are looking at border security using UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) research, law enforcement, firefighting, just to name a few," asserted Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). "There are going to be more and more uses for unmanned aerial vehicles to be able to do the surveillance and photographing that have taken helicopter pilots and small general aviation and even large aircraft to do in the past."
But safety experts have raised serious concerns about whether sensors aboard the drones will accurately detect nearby planes, as well as taking immediate measures to avoid midair collisions. "At some point, the FAA has to get its arms" around such concerns "and answer those basic questions," warned Lee Moak, president of the Air Line Pilots Association.
Furthermore, privacy advocates worry that the bill will open the door to widespread use of drones for surveillance by law enforcement and, eventually, by the private sector. Some analysts predict that the commercial drone market in the U.S. could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars once the FAA authorizes their use, and that 30,000 drones could be flying domestically by 2020. "There are serious policy questions on the horizon about privacy and surveillance, by both government agencies and commercial entities," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy and legal group, also is "concerned about the implications for surveillance by government agencies," affirmed attorney Jennifer Lynch, and it is "a huge push by lawmakers and the defense sector to expand the use of drones" in U.S. airspace.
"Congress — and to the extent possible, the FAA — need to impose some rules to protect Americans’ privacy from the inevitable invasions that this technology will otherwise lead to," wrote American Civil Liberties Union policy analyst Jay Stanley. "We don’t want to wonder, every time we step out our front door, whether some eye in the sky is watching our every move."
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Trials and Tribulations of an Ace Pacer Electric Conversion
June 1, 1999
While browsing through the East Coast Model Centre (now Great Hobbies) catalog about a year ago (1998), I came across an old Ace Pacer kit in the clearance section. I promptly ordered it, thinking it would make a great electric conversion. Well, things didn’t go very well at first, so I decided I’d write this down and share what I’ve learned.
The Pacer is a 40″ span pattern plane, intended for an .049 glow engine, with a recommended ready-to-fly weight of 22oz. The plane has a sheet balsa fuselage and tail, with a foam wing (the ubiquitous Ace foam wing, still used in the recently re-released Ace Simple Series of kits). The wing comes in three pieces which need to be butt-glued together. The trailing edge is then faced with balsa, and ailerons are hinged to this.
This is not a kit review, but I’ve got to say that this is the worst kit I’ve ever built. Parts fit was horrible, and the airfoils of the foam wing sections weren’t consistent (they didn’t match where joined). I had to do a lot of sanding and shaping of parts that were supposedly preshaped. To better support the G-forces of hauling an electric flight battery around, I glassed the wing with 3/4oz glass cloth and water-based polyurethane varnish.
My original plan was to build the plane stock, and equip it with a 6V Speed 400 motor, Modelair-Tech 2.14:1 gearbox, and Graupner 9×5 folding propeller, all running from seven 600AE or 600AA cells. I did my calculations using MotoCalc, and came up with the following performance figures:
|Wing Loading||16.5 oz/sq.ft|
|Power Loading||47 W/lb|
|Pitch Speed||31 mph|
|Stall Speed||19 mph|
The power loading is high enough to fly the plane, although somewhat low for aerobatics. The big problem here is the pitch speed, which at 31mph is only slightly more than one and a half times the stall speed. According to Keith Shaw, an aerobatic aircraft should have a static pitch speed of at least 2.5 to 3 times the stall speed. Against my better judgement, I decided to go ahead anyway.
The first test flight was abysmal. After a difficult launch (always hard with a low-winged model, and even worse with an underpowered one), the plane just wallowed through the air. It required almost full up-elevator throughout the flight to keep the angle of attack high enough to generate enough lift at the slow top speed at which the motor could propel it.
After this flight, I went back to MotoCalc to see what other prop might work better. An 8×8 prop sounds like it would have worked well, absorbing about the same amount of power, but producing a pitch speed of 49 mph, about 2.5 times the stall speed.
Before I got around to trying an 8×8 prop, I read an article by Pat Mattes on the E-Zone about his brilliant idea to convert a Bill Griggs Models Assault to a twin by replacing the single Speed 400 6V motor in the nose with a pair of Speed 400 4.8V motors on the wings, wired in series. The idea was to use the lower voltage motors wired in series so that the same battery packs could still be used. With an eight cell pack, each motor sees only four cells. This gave me the idea of converting the Pacer to a twin.
Instead of a a series arrangement of low voltage motors, which wouldn’t give any more power than the original single motor, I opted for a parallel arrangement of higher voltage motors, namely the 7.2V Speed 400. To supply the higher current demand, I decided to go from a 7-cell pack of 600AE cells (which are really only useful to about 10A) to an 8-cell pack of 800AR cells (useful to about 20A).
I mounted the motors to the leading edge of the wings on dowels. I drilled a pair of 3/16″ holes in each wing, about one inch apart. Into these I epoxied 3/16″ hardwood dowels, extending out the leading edge by about the length of a Speed 400 motor. I attached the motors to the dowel with nylon cable ties. I may build nacelles to cover the motors at some point in the future. The motors are connected to each other, and to an AstroFlight zero loss connector at the wing centre section, by 16ga flexible wire. I used a soldering iron to melt a slot into the wing, inserted the wire, applied a bead of RC-56 glue on top of the wire, and then filled the slot with lightweight filler.
The speed control (my ESC with brake and BEC design, as published in the 4-4 issue of Sailplane & Electric Modeler) is in the fuselage over the front of the wing, as is the receiver. With no motor in the nose, the 8-cell 800AR pack had to go in front of the wing to balance the plane.
For the first flight attempt, I used a pair of Dymond 6×4 folding propellers, with rubber bands installed to keep them from folding except during a belly landing. The first flight as a twin, carried out by Rob Pike, went much better than the original flight, although the plane stilled tended to wallow a bit. This is consistent with MotoCalc‘s predictions for this new power system:
|Wing Loading||22 oz/sq.ft|
|Power Loading||75 W/lb|
|Pitch Speed||41 mph|
|Stall Speed||22 mph|
Notice that the pitch speed is now higher, but the stall speed has gone up due to all the extra weight. Based on the information from this test flight, I decided to try smaller, higher pitched propellers. Not wanting to buy (and risk breaking) two expensive Graupner CAM props, I decided to try the new APC 5.5×4.5 Speed 400 props. For this setup, MotoCalc predicts:
|Wing Loading||22 oz/sq.ft|
|Power Loading||68 W/lb|
|Pitch Speed||57 mph|
|Stall Speed||22 mph|
Now this plane flies! It’s still a bit hairy to launch, but it quickly grips the air as the props unstall, and flies with authority. Even though the power is slightly lower than with the Dymond props, the performance is much better, because the power system is properly matched to the characteristics of the airframe. The Pacer now goes where you point it. Because of it’s relatively high wing loading, it has to fly quite fast. And with a low wing and no dihederal, it requires constant attention. It has absolutely no self-righting tendency, staying in whatever attitude you leave it in.
So, I’ve learned a lot about the importance of matching the power system to the airframe and intended application. Watts per pound isn’t enough. Even with the large increase in weight going from a 7x600AE powered single-motor to an 8x800AR powered twin-motor system, the better match between power system and airframe has resulted in a transformation from a plane that could barely get out of its own way, to one that really sizzles.
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Military - Polish Air Force Flight PLF 101Saturday April 10, 2010
The military jet crashed and was destroyed while attempting to land in dense fog and poor visibility. The crew requested permission to carry out a trial approach to a decision height of 100 m and told the controller to expect a go-around. A few seconds before impact, the autopilot and autothrottle were disconnected in order to execute a go-around. The airplane impacted upsloping terrain at a distance of about 1,100 meters from the runway and 40 m to the left of extended centerline. The immediate cause of the accident was the failure of the crew to make a timely decision to proceed to an alternate airport although they were not once timely informed of the actual weather conditions at Smolensk, which were significantly lower than the established airport minima. Descent without visual contact with ground references to an altitude much lower than minimum descent altitude for a go-around, in order to establish visual flight. No reaction to the numerous TAWS warnings which led to controlled flight into terrain, aircraft destruction and death of the crew and passengers.
Polish president Lech Kaczynski and his wife were among the dead.
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DUBAI — Etihad Airways told cabin crew on Wednesday there would be layoffs this week, an internal email seen by Reuters showed, and a company source said the airline will keep its Airbus A380 superjumbos parked “indefinitely” due to a slower than expected recovery in air travel demand.
In the internal email, cabin crew were told those affected would be notified within 24 hours, without saying how many would lose their jobs.
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The warning was sent out two days after a similar notice was sent out to pilots at the Abu Dhabi state carrier.
Etihad has already cut jobs and salaries as its losses widened this year.
Staff were told in the email that Etihad believes it will become a much smaller airline as air travel demand has not been recovering fast enough, leaving the carrier with a larger workforce than it needs.
A company source said up to 1,000 cabin crew job cuts are expected, including senior cabin staff and cabin managers.
The airline employed around 4,800 cabin crew as of February.
The source said that Chief Executive Tony Douglas had told staff its A380s would continue to be parked “indefinitely.”
They have been grounded since March due to the pandemic that has shattered air travel demand.
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Run, Jump and STOMP to launch Stunt Planes! Includes three different planes designed by aeronautical engineers to perform a variety of amazing stunts. Looper plane performs giant loops, Glider plane soars up to 100 feet and Wildcat plane performs all kinds of crazy tricks! Adjust the angle of flight with the adjustable launch stand, fly into a head wind or with a tail wind, and more to change how these planes fly!
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Stratolaunch, the aerospace company founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, put the world’s biggest airplane through its second flight test today, two years after the first flight.
“We are airborne!” Stratolaunch reported in a tweet.
Today’s takeoff from California’s Mojave Air and Space Port at 7:28 a.m. PT marked the first time the plane, nicknamed Roc after the giant bird of Arabian and Persian mythology, got off the ground since Stratolaunch’s acquisition by Cerberus Capital Management in October 2019.
Roc rose as high as 14,000 feet and traveled at a top speed of 199 mph during a flight that lasted three hours and 14 minutes — which is close to an hour longer than the first flight on April 13, 2019. During that earlier flight, the airplane reached a maximum speed of 189 mph and maximum altitude of 17,000 feet.
Zachary Krevor, Stratolaunch’s chief operating officer, said today’s flight accomplished all of its test objectives by checking the performance of improved instrumentation, a more robust flight control system and an environmental control system that allowed the pilots to work in a pressurized cockpit. Krevor said the crew included chief pilot Evan Thomas, pilot Mark Giddings and flight engineer Jake Riley.
Recap from yesterday. Roc flew for 3 hours and 14 minutes at a max altitude of 14,000 ft. and a max speed of 178 kts. Beautiful shot from our chase plane. More tests in the works. pic.twitter.com/Ib9mYnqY1Z
— Stratolaunch (@Stratolaunch) May 1, 2021
The flight’s spiciest moment came at touchdown, when one of the mammoth plane’s landing gears settled the runway while the other was still in the air. “We did touch down initially on one gear, but that’s exactly the technique we prefer to use during a crosswind landing,” Krevor told GeekWire during a post-landing teleconference. “Though we stayed within our crosswind limits, we did have a little bit of a crosswind, and the aircrew did an excellent job of bringing the aircraft down.”
Since Roc’s first flight in 2019, the business model for the 10-year-old venture has shifted: In its early years, Stratolaunch focused on using Roc as a flying launch pad for sending rockets and their payloads to orbit. The concept capitalizes on the air launch system pioneered by SpaceShipOne, which won financial backing from Allen and won the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004,
The new owners still expect to use Roc for air launch, but the current focus is on using the plane as a testbed for Stratolaunch’s hypersonic flight vehicles, Once the plane is cleared for regular operations, perhaps next year, Stratolaunch could begin launching its Talon-A prototype hypersonic plane.
Touchdown!! Successful flight tests to round out the day. What a beautiful sight. pic.twitter.com/gdssjvoN8x
— Stratolaunch (@Stratolaunch) April 29, 2021
David Millman, Stratolaunch’s chief technology officer, said the company plans to build three hypersonic vehicles. He said that should open the way for conducting hypersonic tests at least once every 17 days, matching the tempo of flights for the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s,
Hypersonic flight at five times the speed of sound is a big deal for military applications. Russia and China are said to be working on hypersonic weapons systems, and the U.S. military is keen to keep up. Stratolaunch expects its technology to figure in the Pentagon’s plans.
“That’s exactly one of the areas that we’re looking at: how can we help the Department of Defense in mitigating risks for all their extensive flight testing,” Millman told GeekWire.
Millman said Stratolaunch’s Talon testbed will be able to carry payloads, test materials and fly a variety of profiles that can help the Pentagon determine characteristics of hypersonic flight before it conducts costly full-blown flights of its own hypersonic vehicles.
“What we’re doing is providing a path or them to test a lot of their technologies in a simpler way, in a repeatable way, in a useful way so that they can get to their all-up rounds much quicker,” Millman said.
Stratolaunch hasn’t ruled out eventually pursuing other applications for its launch system, including sending satellite payloads and crewed space planes into orbit.
Other companies, principally including Virgin Orbit, are also working on next-generation air launch technology. Such systems hold the promise of greater versatility and quicker response time for launching payloads, due to the fact that the carrier planes can take off from a wide variety of runways, fly around inclement weather and theoretically launch their payloads in any desired orbital inclination.
Stratolaunch’s twin-fuselage, six-engine Roc airplane is in a class by itself, thanks to its world-record wingspan of 385 feet. In comparison, the wingspan of the modified Boeing 747 that Virgin Orbit is using comes to 211 feet. The previous record-holder was the Spruce Goose, a prototype seaplane that made its debut in 1947 and had a 320-foot wingspan. Built by Mojave-based Scaled Composites, Roc has the capacity to carry more than 500,000 pounds of payload.
This is an updated version of a report first published at 10:31 a.m. PT April 29.
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Marooned on Spaceship Earth
Life has yet to be found anywhere but on Earth. Over a hundred planets beyond our solar system have been identified, with more being found every day. None, so far, is suitable for life as we know it, although this could be a selection bias since only the largest planets will be seen initially. Perhaps life may be someday confirmed on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system, such as under the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa. But such life will be at best rare and primitive. Certainly humans cannot live on Mars or in an ocean on Europa without extensive life support. Maybe one day the SETI project will hear signals from a civilization beyond Earth. But we are very unlikely ever to sit down together for tea and crumpets.
Much is made of human space flight. It is hyped as the search for new worlds akin to the explorations on Earth during the Age of Discovery. Space operas like Star Trek lead people to think that someday all we will have to do is hop in a spaceship and cross the galaxy at warp speed. Every planet we land on will have an atmosphere and other conditions sufficiently like Earth that we will be able to walk around without spacesuits. In this way, it is widely imagined, humanity will gradually populate the cosmos.
This is very unlikely ever to happen. The chance of humans finding new worlds to live on without extensive life support is very small. A spaceship moving at 11.1 kilometers per second, the escape velocity for Earth, would take 114,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star. That same spaceship would take 3 billion years to cross our galaxy.
Now, Einstein's special theory of relativity makes it in principle possible to reach anyplace in the universe in the lifetime of an astronaut onboard a spacecraft. The ship just has to go fast enough relative to Earth.
In order to reach the next nearest galaxy (excluding the Magellanic Clouds just outside the Milky Way), Andromeda in 10 years ship-time, the ship would have to travel very close to the speed of light (0.999998c). By the time the ship reached Andromeda, 2.3 million years would have elapsed on Earth. That is longer than the time Homo sapiens has been Homo sapiens. Any humans exploring the universe will effectively cut themselves off from Earth. Even if they traveled to Andromeda and back, aging only 20 years in the process, they would return to an Earth almost five million years in the future as measured on Earth clocks.
Notice that I have not used any technological limitations to argue that spaceflight to distant stars and galaxies is impossible. While a method for accelerating a spaceship to near the speed of light is beyond any technology we can currently imagine, I will not rule that out for future generations. People also speculate about traveling through wormholes, tunnels through space-time that act as shortcuts to other parts of the universe. I don’t know if that will ever prove possible, but I doubt it.
The amount of effort that is needed to provide life support for humans in space makes it clear that we did not evolve to live in space. Life on Earth evolved under the very special set of conditions that exist here. The sun is a stable source of energy. The orbit of Earth is almost an exact circle, which keeps us from experiencing too great a variation in temperature. Planets in multiple star systems, such as Alpha Centauri, of which Proxima Centauri is a member, would not have such gravitational stability, making them unlikely candidates for life.
Earth's distance from the sun is such that temperatures on our world are very suitable for the evolution of life structures based on carbon chemistry. The materials on Earth—large amounts of water, an atmosphere containing oxygen, a surface containing carbon and other elements, have made life possible.
By a fortunate coincidence, the spectrum of radiation from the sun is maximal in the same wavelength region where the transparency of Earth's atmosphere is maximal. These conditions, and many more, provide the delicate balance needed for complex carbon structures to survive on Earth. No other planet in the solar system has such conditions, and it seems likely that future star trekkers will never find another planet in our galaxy where humans could live without substantial life-support systems.
Notice also that I am not denying the possibility of some kind of life elsewhere in the universe. Indeed, I regard that as very likely. Here I am talking about Earthly life, specifically humans.
The suggestion is frequently made that humanity might someday live in outer space, inside space stations orbiting Earth and other planets. However, even if these space stations duplicate all the conditions on Earth, they may not be able to deal with the cosmic rays from which we on Earth are shielded by the atmosphere. The same threat prohibits lengthy space travel. The types of Mars missions people dream about would expose astronauts to life-shortening radiation poisoning.
Perhaps future technologies will solve this problem, too. Maybe genetic engineering will make new kinds of humans, really a new species, suitable for space travel. And, of course, we can always send automatons. The fact remains that humans are not constructed to live unsupported anywhere but on this tiny blue speck in a vast universe. Our species is marooned in space, on spaceship Earth.
Vic Stenger is working on two new projects: Where Do The Laws of Physics Come From? and The Godless Universe: The Scientific Case Against God.
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108th Wing holds ATSO Rodeo
Airmen don their M50 protective masks as they brush up on their chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear, self-aid and buddy care skills Feb. 9, 2014, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The exercise was part of the New Jersey Air National Guard 108th Wing's Ability to Survive and Operate Rodeo evaluation.
(U.S. Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)
Lajes Field supports B-2 refueling mission
A B-2 Spirit flies into position June 11, 2014, during a refueling mission over the North Atlantic Ocean. The B-2 is conducting training flights and regional familiarization in the U.S. European Command area of operations. The B-2 is a multi-role bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Paul Villanueva II)
Illinois National Guard trains for CBRN mission
Emergency response personnel from the 182d Medical Group check for radiological activity at the COBRA Training Facility at the Center for Domestic Preparedness at Anniston, Alabama. The CDP is a partner with the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program (REPP), and students learn to respond to, and manage, radiological operations.
(CDP/FEMA courtesy photo by Benjamin Crossley)
Unarmed Minuteman III Launched from Vandy
Airmen conduct an operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile on Sept. 23, 2014, from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The test flight traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
(U.S. Air Force photo/ Joe Davila)
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This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.
AAR is an independent provider of aviation services to commercial and government customers around the globe. The company was incorporated in 1955 and today has revenues of approximately $1.8 billion with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. AAR’s aftermarket expertise and award-winning market solutions, which can be integrated or leveraged separately, help customers increase efficiency and reduce costs while maintaining high levels of quality, service and safety.
The competitive advantage of ABC INTERNATIONAL is based on a virtuous mix of knowledge, experience and skill of a carefully selected team of experts. We are able to combine our know-how with our partners’ capabilities always keeping in mind cost effectiveness and on-time delivery. The main ABC INTERNATIONAL objective is to support customers with professionalism and effectiveness providing tailor-made and low lead-time engineering, design and certification services with an approach on cabin interiors. Our team is composed of skilled and well-motivated engineers and designers.
Able Aerospace Services is a leading supplier of fixed- and rotor-wing MRO solutions, with a comprehensive program that includes advanced exchanges for airframe components, new FAA approved replacement parts and more than 10,000 FAA-approved out-of-scope repairs spanning engine mounts, tracks, carriages, crossover beams, thousands of small mechs and in-house special processes, and more.
ACLAS Technics is an EASA, FAA and TCCA authorised MRO that offers structural component support and other specialist services for multiple aircraft types, including ATR42/72, B737, B757, Bombardier and Airbus. ACLAS Technics is part of the global ASL Aviation Group and provides 'Quality Technical Solutions' to airlines, OEMs, parts traders and lessors worldwide. ACLAS Technics delivers a tailored service to every customer. From our new state-of-the-art facility close to Edinburgh Airport in Scotland, we base our customer service on the 'VALUE ADD' principle.
Airline Component Parts (ACP), an Aereos’ company operating since 1994, is an FAA-certified 145 repair station specializing in the development of FAA approved repair solutions focused on high-value expendable components. ACP is dedicated to the repair and overhaul of electro-mechanical accessories such as torque motors, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, pressure switches, tach generators, LVDT’s, and fire detectors. Our passion for flying drives our experienced team to go above and beyond.
Aerodesign and Manufacturing Technology (ADM Tech) is an approved Part 21J, and Part 21G company, working with aviation companies -Airlines, MROs and manufacturers- worldwide since 2016. The activity of the company includes developing Minor design changes, EPA* parts, and STC on cabin interiors and secondary structures. (*) EPA: European Parts Approved by EASA ATAVIS, a company certified under EN 9120:2018 and ISO 9001:2015, specializes in purchasing, warehousing, distribution and supply of aviation parts.
Aviaprime Holding consists of two MRO’s – LINETECH and Adria Tehnika - giving you the territorial coverage and capabilities that you and your fleet needs. In three bases (Katowice, Ljubljana, Rzeszów) with 18 slots for heavy maintenance, we are reliable and trustworthy partners for your business. We provide complementary solutions along with EASA PART147 Training, Supporting Work Shops, Engineering and CAMO.
ADSE BV - An independent Aerospace Engineering Consulting services company for the entire commercial air transport life-cycle For more than 20 years ADSE offers process optimization and engineering support to the Aerospace industry. We aim at short term results, long term benefits and organizational learning in order to make improvements last. The ADSE engineering team builds upon design integration and certification know-how for aircraft, helicopters and their integrated systems.
Advanced Torque Products (ATP), an ISO9001:2015 certified company, proudly supports the Aerospace Industry with torque tools for both assembly and maintenance. Our line of Digital Torque Multipliers have an industry leading accuracy of +/- 0.4% and +/- 1% of total capacity, are easy to use, durable, and interchangeable. ATP offers an extensive range of torque tools, including custom multiplier adapters & accessories, click-out wrenches, torque verification devices and lifting devices.
Aernnova is a MRO solution maker. We offer Customer Support & Services to Airlines, MRO Companies and OEMs. We are a leading aerostructures company specialized in Design, Manufacture and Support of aerostructures and Tier1 for the main OEMs. Our background permits us to offer integral MRO solutions: •Engineering development of major/minor Reworks, Retrofits, Repairs, Cabin Reconfiguration and STC.
Aero Accessories provides advanced repair solutions for Next Generation Fuel, Pneumatic, Hydraulic & Electro-Mechanical components. Our mission is to leverage our decades of experience in component maintenance and engineering to deliver innovative and proactive solutions that produce premier quality and service. We differentiate ourselves as a leader in component maintenance through our commitment to recruiting and retaining the most skilled professionals and our continuing investments in cutting-edge technologies.
AESG specializes in providing test and repair solutions and a wide range of support for military avionics, commercial avionics, maritime, industrial sector and many more. Utilizing quality, leading OEM products, we provide innovative solutions and services to support complete maintenance capability. AESG provides test solutions and complex electronics repair support around the world to various military and commercial operators.
Welcome to Aero Shade Technologies, Inc. a leader in sun protection and light control for the aviation world. We strive to deliver the best in high-value, High-quality products at a very competitive price. AST designs and manufactures a variety of cockpit window shades for commercial, business and military aircraft. With our friendly support team you will find Prompt service and flexible deliveries that exceeds your expectations. AST sunshades are FAA approved for over 50 Aircraft from Boeing 747, Airbus, ERJ, and CRJ to Cessna’s.
Founded in 1998, Aeroco Group provide aircraft component maintenance, manufacture and design services to leading airlines and aviation maintenance companies, from cabin related services such as toilet modules, galleys, passenger and flight deck seats to cabin and cargo panels, livery, decals and airside support at various locations within the UK and Europe. In addition, Aeroco have recently invested in a new facility close to its main base at Manchester Airport where we will grow manufacturing services under our Part21G approval.
AeroLEDs was founded out of necessity to fill a void of high-output/low-power applications for the Experimental/Special Use aircraft with limited electrical system capabilities. With conventional lighting (or “legacy systems”), the light output varies with input voltage which decreases dramatically at low engine power settings, thus making the landing lights too dim during the final segments of the landing procedure.
Aeropeople consists of 3 divisions. Our Recruitment Division has broadened its expertise to now provide specialised manpower across the aerospace, aviation, defence and composites. Both our Line Maintenance team, based at London Stansted Airport, and CAMO team based in Cambridge, combine their numerous EASA and international regulatory approvals to create our talented Engineering Services Division. The latest addition to Aeropeople is our Aviation Training Division, AeroAcademy (itself part of the wider Marshall Group training facilities).
Aeroplex of Central Europe Aircraft Technology Center (ACE) was established in 1992 as a Lockheed - MALEV joint venture to provide reliable aircraft maintenance services. Today ACE is operating as an independent European MRO company at Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest. Our PART-145 approved station has facilities for base, line maintenance and component repair.
In 1991 when Aerotec opened the doors, we started with 7 employees and a very small customer base. Being an unknown FAA repair station in the aviation industry there were many challenges. Today, Aerotec employs approximately 100 employees and has a diversified customer base around the world.
In the last 15 years we have put many of our cost saving ideas into reality. Aerotec’s Magnum program has increased APU performance, and our in-house engineering capabilities have saved our customers millions of dollars through repairs versus replacement parts.
Air Salvage International (ASI) is a globally respected provider of professional asset management services to banks, lessors, and commercial airlines. With experience of 700+ projects worldwide, its fully accredited disassembly services have been at the industry forefront for over 20 years and have contributed to developing Best Management Practices set by AFRA. ASI is an affiliate of GCAM (EASA 145 and Guernsey 2-REG approved MRO) and Skyline Aero (component supply) who operate at the same Cotswold Airport facility in the UK.
Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services brings 35+ years of airline maintenance experience to the MRO marketplace. Airborne provides MRO services to industry leading cargo and passenger airlines that require experience with Boeing and Airbus airframe types. Airborne-Wilmington, Ohio is a 4 hangar facility with 315,000 sq. ft., plus a 100,000 sq. ft. Component Repair/Overhaul facility including Manufacturing and Engineering support to provide a one stop MRO location. Airborne-Tampa, Florida is a 2 hangar facility with 320,000 sq. ft. located at Tampa International Airport.
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The manned Shenzhou-12 spacecraft from China's Manned Space Agency onboard the Long March-2F rocket launches with three Chinese astronauts onboard at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Over the last few years, Africa’s space industry has been working with a number of countries paying to send satellites into orbit - including those designed and developed on the continent. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
In early September, China organised a dialogue session between three of its astronauts in orbit and youths from eight African countries, via a video link.
In the same month, Europe hosted Africa’s first regional stakeholder space workshop in Pretoria. A similar workshop had been held in Portugal in July, reflecting the extent to which developed countries are projecting a mix of soft power and space-sector capacity across the continent.
Over the last decade, Africa’s interest in space has been growing fast, offering opportunities for existing and new players from within and outside the continent.
However, Africa needs to develop a far larger pool of local space experts, according to a report on the sector.
“Capability gaps benefit foreign space powers, such as China and Europe,” according to a 2022 EU Global Action on Space Market Report Africa.
Media, analytics and consulting firm Space in Africa projects that the continent’s space market will exceed $10-billion in value by 2024, on the back of rising investment.
Over the last few years, Africa’s space industry has been working with a number of countries paying to send satellites into orbit – including those designed and developed on the continent.
Last year, 10 more African countries ventured into space science and are working on developing their first satellites, according to the Africa Space Industry Annual Report 2021.
By the close of 2021, about 13 African countries had sent satellites into orbit.
The report shows that 125 new satellites have been lined up for development by 2025 – by 23 African countries. Those figures have begun catching the eye of foreign space powers.
China has been on a diplomatic mission ever since launching its space station Tiangong in July. The mission showcases China’s developments in space, highlights its pool of experts and promotes its capacity to help African nations achieve their ambitions.
“This is the first time that a major aerospace power has had direct contact with African youths through ‘space-ground communications’ which will further inspire the young African generation to look up at the stars and devote themselves to science and technology,” said head of China’s mission to the African Union, Hu Changchun.
So far, China’s mission to the African Union, the China Manned Space Agency and the African Union Commission have reached Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia and South Africa through the astronaut-driven dialogue opportunity. The live events, dubbed “Talk with Taikonauts”, target the youth, considered Africa’s future space science custodians.
China is the largest beneficiary of space partnerships with African nations, enjoying huge commercial deals in building several satellites for countries such as Nigeria, Ethiopia and Sudan.
Last year, Europe unveiled two initiatives with a combined investment value of $29-million to develop the use of satellite technologies in Africa over the next four years.
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and the Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar have both offered to provide navigation services to the continent’s aviation sector, while the EU hopes to crystallise its longstanding cooperation with Africa.
European countries are now looking to move beyond their numerous funding and assistance initiatives – mostly at public and academic level – to grow their share of commercial activities in a variety of African tech spaces.
“The market opportunities with the highest potential are expected to be in agriculture, emergency response, transportation and infrastructure monitoring,” the EU advised its investors in its space market report.
These are key areas for Africa’s space policies, with the focus on Earth observation, satellite communication, navigation and exploration.
Those sentiments were shared in a report in the World Economic Forum’s Digital Earth Africa Report, called “Unlocking the potential of Earth observation to address Africa’s critical challenges”, which calls on African countries to leverage new-found satellite capacity to improve data collection and spur development.
Some of the challenges the continent faces include access to drinking water, rapid urban development, active deforestation and food insecurity, according to the report.
In 2021, African governments increased space sector expenditure by 9%, to $548.6-million. The figure was a 94% rise from the $283.12-million spent in 2018.
South Africa, the most advanced space market in Africa, had the highest national budget – at $154-million – followed by Nigeria at $68-million and Angola at $24-million.
Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya and Gabon all also have sizeable budgets for space technology.
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Air Malta welcomes passengers on inaugural flight from Tel Aviv
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After Air Malta’s recent launch of scheduled flights between Malta and Tel Aviv, passengers on the inaugural flight KM4829, were given a warm welcome by the airline when they arrived at Malta International Airport early this morning.
This service, which will be operated with flights up to three times a week on alternating weeks, will connect Malta with Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
Air Malta said as is customary, passengers on board the aircraft were greeted with a cake-cutting ceremony inside the terminal to celebrate this new connection. This is the first Israeli route on Malta International Airport’s schedule.
The flight schedule will operate as follows on alternating weeks:
dep Malta 0155hrs arr Tel Aviv 0540hrs
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dep Malta 0045hrs arr Tel Aviv 0430hrs
dep Tel Aviv 0600hrs arr Malta 0805hrs
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dep Tel Aviv 0530hrs arr Malta 0740hrs
More information is available on www.airmalta.com, by calling Air Malta’s Call Centre on +356 21662211, from Air Malta sales office at Malta International Airport or from Travel Agents in Malta or Tel Aviv.
Photo MIA: Captain Alessandro Muscat and Joseph Galea Acting CEO (centre) at the welcome ceremony.
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These PPC can be launched by inkscape vector graphics editor ubuntu foot or you could have a short airstrip if you have an acre or two that you can use.
Chapter 8: The National Airspace System.He was also a Steward for the 10th World Microlight Championships held in Levroux, France in 2005.There he has helped set competition and record setting policy for the sport on a world-wide basis.Chapter 12: Night Operations, chapter 13: Abnormal and Emergency Procedures. Well although there are other good canopy makers, Performance Designs is the Premier #1 brand that most pilots fly with and our personal choice.Beisswenger is also involved in industry organizations.Powered Parachute Canopies: There are a handful of manufacturers of Canopies (technically called "wings" since this is what makes the PPC fly).In mdf mds to iso converter late 2004, Beisswenger was chosen to participate in the Federal Aviation Administrations first Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) training class for the sport pilot program.Roy is a board member of the United States Ultralight Association.
The Light Aircraft Manufacturing Association (lama) presented Roy with their Presidents Award in 2014 and later asked him to become a member of the Board of Directors.This handbook conforms to pilot training and certification concepts established by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).To move right or left you move the bars for steering and adjust the engine propulsion to control the craft.He has trained local pilots, equipment dealers and students from other countries as well as US military members.Chapter 2: Aerodynamics, chapter 3: Components and Systems, chapter 4: Powerplants. You'll soon find out why Powrachute is the leader!
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“We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.”
After years of experimenting in their home state of Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright travelled to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a test that would propel them into history. On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot.
The Wright Brothers were the ultimate ’empiricists’, learning and ultimately succeeding from actually doing, rather than talking.
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"Extending our time and frequency expertise into new customer applications leverages our existing capabilities," said Bruce Montgomery, president, Syntonics. "Our focus on custom and semi-custom technology projects makes us a natural to perform challenging development work. We also welcome the opportunity to address important military problems."
The advanced clock contract is an extension of work begun in 2001 under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Under its new Phase II contract, Syntonics will develop a prototype precision time and frequency source for use onboard ships and aircraft. The prototype will be completed by September 2003, so that Phase III production can begin in GFY 2004. Syntonics' Precision Intermediate Computer-controlled Oscillator (PICO) clock is based on a quartz oscillator concept that provides highly accurate clock outputs even if precise timing signals from the Global Position System (GPS) are interrupted. This "holdover timekeeping" capability is important to the military and also has commercial telecommunications applications.
The second contract is a Phase I SBIR contract for the preliminary development of a hand-portable, electronically steered "Tactical Antenna Switching and Positioning System." Intended for shipboard or land-based use, this project addresses a particular UHF satellite communications requirement of the Special Operations Command.
Syntonics, the space oscillator specialist, is a privately held company developing high performance time and frequency electronics, including space-qualified precision oscillators. The company holds the exclusive license to sell oscillators based on ultrastable designs licensed from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
For more information on Syntonics and its products, please see the company's website at www.SyntonicsCorp.com.
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LONDON — Britain has warned the European Union it will build its own navigational satellite system if it is locked out of access to key defense-grade data from the Galileo network now being built by Brussels.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson became the second member of the government this month to threaten the EU. He said the country will respond to threats to deny it access to the military data needed to accurately target missiles by developing its own, rival system.
Britain could go it alone or team with other countries such as Japan, Australia and South Korea to build its own navigational satellite capabilities, Williamson said in an article for the Daily Telegraph.
“Defense scientists and the military experts have started work scoping out the possibilities of developing our own satellite system while we continue talks with the European Commission over our future role in Galileo. And we won’t rule out working with other nations,” he said.
The defense secretary also hinted Britain could adopt a similar effort to develop a new generation of fighter planes outside of the normal teaming with major European nations, further emphasizing the strains appearing between London and the EU on defense industry cooperation post Brexit — or Britain’s exit from the organization.
France and Germany announced progress toward launching a new fighter program at the recent Berlin Air Show with no mention of there being a place for Britain at this stage.
“I recently launched our new combat air strategy with industry to look at our next generation of fighter jets,” he said. “For us to succeed, we need to be ambitious and imaginative. That means exploring all the options and not just thinking about collaborating with traditional partners such as France or Germany but turning to new markets.”
Talking about the satellite system, Williamson said: “We have the expertise, the technical know-how and, crucially, the will to succeed.”
Britain has supplied much of the encryption and other know-how for Galileo.
The British are in negotiation with Brussels about their future relationship in the Galileo program in the wake of Brexit. The threat to build its own system is part of negotiations between the two sides. As things stand, only EU members would have access to the crucial military-grade data from Galileo.
A support facility capable of receiving military data from Galileo has already been moved from England to Madrid, Spain, and British companies have recently been locked out of further Galileo contracts.
The full network of some 30 Galileo satellites is expected to be operational around 2021.
For years Britain has relied on U.S. GPS for its military data. Russia and China also have navigational systems in orbit.
Britain has spent about £1.2 billion (U.S. $1.5 billion) as its contribution to building the nearly £9 billion satellite system, and industry here has received a substantial number of Galileo contracts in return.
The Financial Times recently reported the British were looking at whether they could recoup some of the money if Brussels barred access to the military data post Brexit.
British Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary Greg Clark recently delivered a similar message to Williamson about going it alone.
“The U.K.’s preference is to remain in Galileo as part of a strong security partnership with Europe. If Galileo no longer meets our security requirements and U.K. industry cannot compete on a fair basis, it is logical to look at alternatives,” he told the BBC.
The British have had a military space strategy waiting to be unfurled for several months, and its position on a Galileo replacement and wider issues like the Skynet 6 communications satellite systems could get an airing at a defense space conference being held in London later this month.
Defence Procurement Minister Guto Bebb and the chief of the Air Force, Air Marshal Stephen Hillier, are among the expected speakers at the Air Power Association event.
Andrew Chuter is the United Kingdom correspondent for Defense News.
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V-22... Times Two
If you like the
twin-engine, twin-rotor Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey... you'll love what
just came out of the wind tunnel.
Testing has just been wrapped up on the Quad TiltRotor -- a
four-engine tilt-rotor about the size of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules.
The aircraft would take off like a helicopter, lifted by four huge
rotors... two forward and two aft.
"It is a more complex aircraft, but it is what we consider a
very logical extension of the V-22," said Alan Ewing, manager of
advanced concept development for Bell, to the Dallas Morning
A one-fifth scale model has been undergoing tests at the NASA
Langley Research Center Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, as part of the
Army's Joint Heavy Lift project.
If the research conducted at Langley pans out, Bell-Boeing hopes
to build a proof-of-concept demonstrator as early as 2008.
Still to be determined is which manufacturer will provide the
four engines needed to power the aircraft -- engines that need to
provide enough ooomph to keep the Quad TiltRotor in the air, even
if two are inoperable.
One of the biggest issues facing designers on the Osprey was
creating a driveshaft to keep its two rotors in sync, and allow one
engine to power both rotors. That problem -- since resolved on
the Osprey -- is compounded by the additional complexity of the
Besides the Bell-Boeing team, three other teams are also
competing for the Joint Heavy Lift Project. Sikorsky has two
entries in the competition, each with two counter-rotating main
rotors, one placed on top of the other. One also includes
conventional pusher-propellers for forward flight.
Boeing's Phantom Works is also working on an advanced
tandem-rotor helicopter, a modern version of the venerable CH-47
Chinook. Another company, Karem International, is working on what
it calls an "optimum-speed" tilt-rotor.
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company is “shooting for July” for the first orbital launch of the company’s Starship vehicle despite lacking the regulatory approvals needed for such a launch.
A House aviation subcommittee hearing on commercial space transportation June 16 plowed familiar ground, revisiting a wide range of issues that have yet to be resolved.
SpaceX has disclosed details for the first orbital test flight of its next-generation Starship launch system, but the company is still far short of the regulatory approvals needed for the mission.
NASA has selected SpaceX as the sole company to win a contract to develop and demonstrate a crewed lunar lander, while keeping the door open for others to compete for future missions.
As SpaceX gears up for another test flight of a Starship prototype, the Federal Aviation Administration is facing new scrutiny from Congress for how it handled SpaceX’s violation of its launch license on an earlier test flight.
Private spaceflight companies can help to lead the way in advancing U.S. national security and exploration goals, provided they don’t get their heads stuck above the clouds and undermine the gains they’ve brought to the industry.
SpaceX launched a prototype of its Starship next-generation vehicle March 3, landing it safely only to have the vehicle explode minutes later.
Steve Blank’s op-ed of Feb. 5, “The FAA and SpaceX,” demands an informed rebuttal. It lacks grounding in the history and nature of private space activity regulation and he erroneously conflates that mission with the FAA's primary task of regulating the safest transportation system in human history.
At first glance the FAA/SpaceX dust-up over Starship might look like a rich entrepreneur breaking the rules versus a federal agency trying to keep the public safe. It's actually an example of a government organization — the FAA — unable to distinguish between innovation and execution.
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UDI U13AThis is another extraordinary alternative for the partners of RC helicopters with camera. The UDI U13A is extremely reasonable since it's under $100 USD and you can at present use it to take photographs and video. This heli is intended to be steady keeping in mind the end goal to help you get astonishing footage, and it's truly simple to control, particularly while drifting.
This is a light-weight RC helicopter that is worked to last, made of a metal compound edge and versatile sharp edges to persist slamming. Being a steady helicopter makes it safe to utilize, and notwithstanding when it doesn't have any auto-take after or auto-landing highlights implanted in it, regardless you can get an astonishing knowledge with this toy.
This is a 3 channel helicopter, which means is truly simple to fly, it's made so that even the learner pilot can have a fabulous time of fun with it. The operational scope of this heli is of 152 meters (500 feet).
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With effect of COVID-19, the capacity of air flights have been reduced or cancelled. Now all airlines do epidemic protection material transportation. To support transportation for our friends & customers, ADS team plan below air charters/freighters. and will be more flights to other countries in world.
- LH: PVG-FRA – we have freigher flight on Every Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri/Sun
- CX: CAN-JFK – we have charter flight on 30-April/1-May/2-May
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- CZ: CAN-AMS/FRA
- CX: CAN-JFK
- NW: CAN-ARN
- CZ/CA: SZX-SYD
- CV: CG-LUX
- OZ: YNT-ORD
- O3: CSX-LGG
- KYE: CGO-YYZ
- RL: HFE-SVO
- ET: CTU/PEK-JNB
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NAME : UDAN ( UDE DESHKA AAM NAGRIK ) RCS ( Regional Connectivity Scheme )
TYPE OF YOJANA : This is a regional airport development and regional connectivity scheme of Government of India, with the objective of providing affordable air travel to common Indian citizens.
MINISTRY : Ministry of Civil Aviation
WEBSITE : http://civilaviation.gov.in
PURPOSE : Basic aim of this scheme is making air travel affordable and widespread and to fulfill the dream of travelling by Air of common citizen of India.
- To boost inclusive national economic development, job growth and air transport infrastructure for development of all regions and states of India.
PROJECT DETAILS : The First component is to develop new and enhance the existing regional airports to increase the number of operational airports for the scheduled civilian flights from 70 as on May 2016, to at least 150 airports by December 2018 with regular scheduled flights.
- Initially more than 100 underserved and un served regional airports will be developed by December 2018, for which the initial funding of Rs. 4500 Crores was approved in May 2017.
- The Second component is to add several hundred financially-viable capped-airfare new regional flight routes to connect more than 100 underserved and unserved airports in smaller towns with each other as well as with well served airports in bigger cities by using “Viability Gap Funding” (VGF) where needed.
- Under this yojana the Air fare is fixed at Rs.2,500 per hour of flight for the 50% of the seats e. 9 RCS seats and max 40 RCS seats per fixed-wing flight, and max 12 helicopter RCS seats per heli flight connecting unserved and underserved regional airports, For the remaining 50% seats air fare will be at prevalent market rate. Capped RCS fares will also be graded based on distance, e.g. Rs. 1,420 for a distance of 151–175 km, Rs. 1,500 for a distance of 176–200 km, and so on, with a ceiling of maximum Rs. 3,500 fare for a total distance of 800 km or more.
- For the helicopter services maximum fare is also capped at INR2,500 for every 30-minute leg of flight. Capped helicopter fare will be graded on the basis of time of flight
BENEFITS : Due to this yojana many underserved and un served regional airports have received regular passenger air service. Prominent amongst these regional airports are Bhatinda, Bikaner , Kadappa, Porbandar, Pondicherry, Agra, Kandla, Nanded, Shirdi etc.
- Indian citizens from lower or middle class back ground are now enjoy Air Travel due to low air fares under this yojana.
- See some of these flight options displayed on the travel web portal Make my Trip Delhi to Shimla, Hyderabad to Nanded, Delhi to Bhatinda, Hyderabad to Pondicherry, Hyderabad to Kadapa, Delhi to Bikaner, Nanded to Hyderabad,Mumbai to Kandla, Mumbai to Porbandar, Mumbai to Shirdi, Jaipur to Agra. All these are regional Air Ports from small towns which have business or religious or tourist importance. The passangers travelling to these destinations are benefitted due to this yojana.
LAUNCHING DETAILS : Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the UDAN yojana from Jubbarhatti, an airport on the outskirts of Shimla on 27th April 2017.
BENEFICIARIES : This yojana benefits the large population of lower middle income group citizens.
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Többen, Helmut and Claude, Le Tallec and Antoine, Julia and Christiane, Edinger and Jan, Speidel (2010) INNOVATIVE FUTURE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM: SIMULATION OF A FULLY AUTOMATED AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. Professional Engineering Publishing Limited .
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Abstract: Within the project Innovative Future Air Transport System (IFATS) funded by the European Com-mision within the 6th Framework a new concept for the air traffic organization has been developed. The most significant difference to today's organization is the lack of pilots and controllers. The IFATS concept forsees that each aircraft receives a 4D contract before departure which is calculated and negotiated on a worldwide scale so that it is conflict free. If during flight unforeseen deviations from the contract occure (delayed take-off, unforeseen weather change, reduced engine performance or emergencies) a new contract is negotiated online taking into account the new boundary conditions. DLR provided to this project a tool that simulates a large number of aircraft (approx. 1000) flying such a 4D contract. With this tool one day traffic over Frankfurt airport with all the aircraft arriving and de-parting in Frankfurt was simulated. Normal situations were demonstrated together with disturbances such as delayed aircraft, thunderstorm, degraded performance aircraft and aircraft facing an emer-gency. At the DLR Air Traffic Management and Operations Simulator (ATMOS) simulations were con-ducted with "real" ATC and pseudo-pilots in comparison to this fully automatic IFATS mode.
|Title:||INNOVATIVE FUTURE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM: SIMULATION OF A FULLY AUTOMATED AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM|
|Journal or Publication Title:||Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering|
|Publisher:||Professional Engineering Publishing Limited|
|Keywords:||fully automated unmanned ATS|
|HGF - Research field:||Aeronautics, Space and Transport|
|HGF - Program:||Aeronautics|
|HGF - Program Themes:||ATM and Operation|
|DLR - Research area:||Aeronautics|
|DLR - Program:||L AO - Air Traffic Management and Operation|
|DLR - Research theme (Project):||L - Human Factors and Safety in Aeronautics|
|Institutes and Institutions:||Institute of Flight Control > Pilot Assistance|
|Deposited By:||Dr.-Ing. Helmut Többen|
|Deposited On:||23 Nov 2010 15:03|
|Last Modified:||07 Jun 2013 16:35|
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On July 20th, 1968, Apollo 11 launched from earth exactly 50 years ago. They come back from the moon exactly one year later on 20th July, 1969. Apollo 11 was the first flight to send people to the moon. The astronauts were: Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin; and Michael Collins. millions of paeple arond the word viewed the flight of Apollo 11.
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BOEING IS NOW formally offering the stretched 767-400ERX to airlines. Authority to offer was given at the beginning of January, and the company expects a formal launch early this year, leading to a first flight in 1999 and certification and first delivery in 2000 (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996, P5).
Programme manager John Quinlivan says that the 767-400ERX is being offered in response to airline interest in an aircraft with the same range as the current 767-300ER, but with increased capacity. Boeing has been studying 767 derivatives for several years, but Quinlivan says that the -400ERX has emerged "-because of customer requests for an aircraft with more passengers, able to fly the same route structures [as the -300ER]."
The insertion of two plugs will stretch the fuselage by a total of 6.4m and increase two-class seating capacity to 303, from 269 for the -300ER. Maximum take-off weight will be increased to 200,000kg, from 187,000kg for the -300ER. Wing aerodynamic improvements, including wingtip extensions and canted winglets which increase span by 7m, will offset the weight increase and enable the -400ERX to be flown on the same routes as the -300ER, without additional fuel and using the same 276kN (62,000lb)-thrust General Electric, Pratt & Whitney or Rolls-Royce engines.
Quinlivan says that other design changes will include:
- an additional wing leading-edge slat section outboard;
- a longer landing gear, using 777 wheels and brakes;
- increased electrical power-generation, from 90kVA to 120kVA, to accommodate inflight-entertainment demands;
- a new auxiliary-power unit.
The 767-400ERX is designed to replace the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and McDonnell Douglas DC-10, as well as older Airbus A300s and A310s. The aircraft is a direct competitor for Airbus' "shrunk" A330-200, but offers better operating costs than the heavier Airbus aircraft, with a 5% lower fuel consumption, Quinlivan claims. "We will carry the same number of passengers [as the A330-200], and do so more economically," he says.
Interested airlines are seeking a "seamless transition" from the 767-300, Quinlivan says, adding that "one significant order" will be enough to launch the programme. Boeing is pursuing a launch order for more than 40 767-400ERXs from Delta Air Lines, which already operates the -300ER.
Current plans call for the -400ERX to have an interior based on that of the -300ER - not the 777, as earlier believed. Quinlivan says that the 777 interior has flexibility features which add to cost and weight and may not be required by -400ERX customers. The basic -300ER two-pack air-conditioning system will be modified to cope with the -400ERX's larger passenger cabin, he says.
Quinlivan will not be drawn on a purchase price for the -400ERX, except to say that it will be more expensive than the -300ER, which is priced at $97-107 million. Boeing plans to continue building the 767-300ER alongside the -400ERX, but "-the market will decide" whether the existing aircraft remains in production, he says. Combining the new wing with the -300ER fuselage is also under study, Quinlivan confirms.
While Quinlivan anticipates that "-some work will be done at McDonnell Douglas", the new -400ERX will be assembled on the existing 767 line at Boeing. Existing airframe subcontractors will supply sections of the aircraft, although Boeing has yet to decide where the wingtip extensions and winglets will be built.
Source: Flight International
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Nigerian carrier Dana Air insists that the latest suspension of its operations by the country's regulator, pending a safety audit, is a temporary measure.
Restrictions were imposed on the carrier on 6 October via a directive from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.
"This, we understand, is to allow for an audit of our operations as a precautionary measure," says Dana Air.
Dana suffered a fatal accident in June last year involving one of its Boeing MD-83s, resulting in a prolonged halt to its operations. While the carrier was subsequently cleared to fly again, the Nigerian authorities briefly grounded it again earlier this year.
The reason for the safety audit has not been disclosed.
"At Dana Air, the safety and comfort of our guests and crew is a major priority," says the carrier.
"We would continue to co-operate with the aviation authorities and abide by all local and international safety regulations in the delivery of world-class air transport services to our esteemed guests."
Investigators have yet to release a final report into the 3 June 2012 accident, which occurred on approach to Lagos apparently following a loss of power in both Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines.
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Moscow Mayor Sobyanin confirmed a new drone attack on the Russian capital of Moscow this Friday (11). According to him, there were no victims and the unmanned vehicle was eliminated by the country’s air defense.
He reported that the wreckage of the drone landed in the embankment area of the Karamyshevskaya region, on the banks of the Moscow River. Witnesses reported loud explosions in the area of this landfill due to the downed drone.
Sobyanin claims that no one was hurt and there was no serious damage caused by the drone.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also commented on the incident and blamed Ukraine for the attack, classifying it as a “terrorist attack”.
“Today, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack with an unmanned aerial vehicle on an installation in Moscow was thwarted. The unmanned aerial vehicle was suppressed through electronic warfare and crashed in a forested area in the west of the city from Moscow,” reads the statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
During the morning, airspace over the capital’s Vnukovo airport was closed, with flight departures and arrivals being delayed. Russian emergency services said the disruption to services was caused by the drone incident.
Russia attacks the capital Kiev
Russian troops also attacked the Ukrainian capital on Friday (11) and launched a new missile attack on the country’s territory.
According to the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at about 10 am on August 11, launches of Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from the MiG-31K in the direction of the Kiev region were recorded.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported explosions in the city. According to him, fragments of the rocket fell on the territory of a children’s hospital. There were no casualties or damage, he said.
The head of the Kiev military administration, Sergei Popko, specified that rocket fragments fell in the Dneprovsky and Obolonsky districts, including in one of the residential areas. The resulting fire was promptly extinguished.
Editing: Rodrigo Durão Coelho
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Dimensions: 14" x 36"
AKA: unidentified flying objects: the true story of flying saucer (1956) movie poster
Price: $249.99 $187.49
- See all similar posters.
- Customers who bought this poster also bought...
- Cast/Crew Overview
Total Price: $249.99 $187.49
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If a Mars rover bumped into signs of life on Mars, would it know it — and would that life look anything like life here on Earth?
Geological and remote readings have suggested life may exist on Mars and some think it's highly possible that NASA's Odyssey or Spirit could have stumbled across evidence. Planetary scientists also say if primitive life exists on Mars, it could very well share traits with life on Earth.
"There is transport from Mars to Earth by meteorites," said Jason Dworkin, a biochemist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. "So it's reasonable to suggest that perhaps we're all Martians and life started on Mars and traveled to Earth."
The problem is, neither of the rovers now rolling around the Red Planet is very well equipped to confirm the existence of life or past life.
Telescopes on Earth recently confirmed readings from the European Space Agency's Mars Express, now orbiting Mars, which detected traces of the gas methane in the Martian atmosphere. Because methane lives for only a short time, its existence on the planet suggests it may be coming from volcanoes or microbial life.
So far, no active volcanoes have been located on Mars.
But neither NASA's Spirit, nor Opportunity have the tools to seek out a microbial culprit.
The rovers were designed to hone in on another key component on Mars — water. Last week, NASA scientists announced the rover Opportunity had found evidence that a salty pool of liquid water once sloshed on Mars' surface.
The mission's main scientist, Steve Squyres of Cornell University, described the former salty, wet conditions as "very suitable for life." Still, recognizing conditions for life is one thing; spotting evidence of life itself is another, more complicated challenge.
"I would not be surprised if the team has a number of odd-looking things and are puzzling over whether there is a possible organic connection," said Victor Baker, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
"But they'd have a great deal of difficulty with the instruments they have to identify them. They can only look at structure and shape, and shape alone is not completely diagnostic."
One of the rovers aimed for the Red Planet was actually equipped to test for organic molecules. But engineers lost contact with the European Union's Beagle II lander as it began its descent to Mars on Christmas Day.
The loss of the Beagle II means researchers eager to find definitive signs of Martian life may have to wait until 2007, when NASA plans to send another lander to the planet's northern latitudes. The Phoenix rover is slated to arrive on the planet, dig a trench and analyze soil and ice samples for organic molecules.
This would provide a direct test for life. But it wouldn't be the first time a lander has tested for life on Mars.
During the Viking missions in 1976 and 1977, two landers were equipped with an instrument called a gas chromatograph mass-spectrometer to identify organic molecules on Mars. Neither lander found signs of organic molecules.
But recently, some have revisited the results from one of Viking's other instruments. The so-called Labeled Release life-detection tool mixed Martian soil with a nutrient "soup" to see if any living organism would digest the solution and then release labeled gases. Experiments on both landers signaled the release of the labeled gas — suggesting that something had possibly eaten the "soup."
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In 2023, the Flight Simulator Area will make its fourth appearance at AERO. The special exhibition will attract both young people interested in aviation and experienced pilots: Flight simulator manufacturers and their suppliers will be presenting the latest products and developments in this fascinating sector.
Those who have never been in a cockpit yet, can experience the breathtaking feeling of taking-off and get a first impression of what it means to be a pilot. Experienced aviators visiting this special show area can find out more about advanced training options available and are given the opportunity to “fly” other aircraft types. Almost all aircraft models are available on the flight simulators.
For more information about presentations in our Flight Simulator Area please click here.
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NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins To Deliver Commencement Address
NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins delivers the commencement address on Saturday at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Hopkins graduated from the U of I in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering. He was aboard with the International Space Station for six months until his return to Earth in March.
He said he hopes his experiences will be helpful to this year’s graduating class.
“None of this came easy,” Hopkins explained. “None of it was handed to me, and I think hopefully there’s some lessons learned that I had as I’ve gone through my career and my experiences that I can share with them that they’ll find useful.”
NASA retired the space shuttle fleet in 2011, and has relied on Russia to carry astronauts to space.
Russian officials recently said the country plans to quit the Space Station partnership after 2020, a move that could kill the program.
Hopkins said 2020 is a long way off, and in the meantime, he said, the countries' space agencies continue to work together as usual.
“Obviously there’s some political tension between the two countries at the moment, but fortunately at the level of the space program, we’re still working together very well," he said. "I think that will continue. So, we’ll see what’ll happen beyond 2020.”
Hopkins said he wants to return to space, and plans to work to help NASA again send astronauts to orbit from American soil within the next few years.
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Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has won a $20, 148, 055 contract modification to support and sustain an air combat missile for the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
The company will also support U.S. foreign military sales agreements with nine international partners under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday.
Australia, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and Turkey are listed as AIM-9X Sidewinder program customers in the Pentagon’s release.
According to the company, more than 40 nations use this Sidewinder variant.
Raytheon will receive funding for individual delivery orders as they receive them and will perform work in Tucson, Ariz. through March 2014.
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On June 15 the Air Evac Lifeteam did a fly-in to familiarize the Hannibal-LaGrange University spring 2013 EMT class with the operations of the aircraft and how to assist at the scene of an accident or emergency.
The helicopter landed in an open field by the HLGU’s Roland Fines Arts Center and campus entrance. Students were allowed to ask questions and see equipment the flight team uses on a regular basis.
For more information on the EMS program at Hannibal-LaGrange University, contact Dot Lake at (573) 629-3140 or via e-mail at [email protected]. Visit the Web site at hlg.edu for class schedules and to apply online.
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Per saltire (diagonal cross) Azure (blue) and Gules (red), three arrows, one in pale (center and up) and two in saltire (diagonal cross), barbs to chief (upper part of shield) surmounted by a laurel wreath Or, within a border nebuly Argent (white); all within a narrow bordure of the third. Attached below the Shield, a White scroll edged with a narrow Yellow border and inscribed “USAF EXPEDITIONARY CENTER” in Blue letters.
Ultramarine blue and Air Force yellow are the Air Force colors. Blue alludes to the sky, the primary theater of Air Force operations. Yellow refers to the sun and the excellence required of Air Force personnel. The arrows symbolize martial readiness of air mobility support to national strategy in the air, on land, and at sea. The nebuly border, which spans throughout the field, represents clouds and symbolizes the global reach of air mobility operations. The laurel wreath denotes the unit’s excellence, accomplishments, and honors. The saltire infers a strong supporting system. The four quarters represent the four mission areas of expeditionary innovation, education, training and exercises as well as support of the four Military Services. The field framed by the nebuly border symbolizes the focus of air expeditionary operations during both peacetime and war.
The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center (EC) began at Scott AFB, IL as the Airlift Operations School under Military Airlift Command on July 5, 1978. On June 1, 1992 the school became the USAF Air Mobility School under the newly formed Air Mobility Command.
In 1994, the school broadened its training mission and relocated to Ft. Dix, NJ and reopened as the Air Mobility Warfare Center. In March of 2007, it was officially renamed the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center and became the Air Force’s leader in expeditionary training.
The EC expanded in scope January 7, 2011, by taking on administrative control (ADCON) responsibilities for installation support mission sets unique to three joint bases, as well as two bases where missions changed as a result of Base Realignment and Closure decisions. The Center expanded again in the spring of 2012, adding the Air Force’s only Contingency Response Wing and two Air Mobility Operations Wings, in Europe and the Pacific, to its ADCON responsibilities. The EC continues to evolve from a stand-alone Center of Excellence for expeditionary combat skills training and education to an organization with vastly greater responsibilities in support of the AF’s expeditionary needs and Air Mobility Command’s global mission.
The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center is the Air Force's Center of excellence for Expeditionary Agile Combat Support and Rapid Global Mobility training and education. The USAF Expeditionary Center provides direct oversight for the Global Air Mobility Support System, Joint Base installation support, world-wide contingency response, and builds partnership capacity mission sets within the global mobility enterprise. Located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., the center provides administrative control for five wings and two groups within Air Mobility Command, to include the 87th Air Base Wing and the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst; the 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii; the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein AB, Germany; the 628th Air Base Wing at Joint Base Charleston, S.C.; the 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group at Pope Field, N.C.; and 627th Air Base Group at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
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Drones that can be used for surveillance, rockets that can put satellites into space, 3D printing machines that can make aircraft parts and technologies that can solve the problem of connectivity by beaming high-bandwidth internet from space — these were some of the innovations on display by start-ups at Aero India 2019, the biennial air show that started on Wednesday.
However, the young ventures said they face many challenges including competing with large defence companies. They urged the government to provide support in terms of funding, incentives and policies which are friendly for small firms.
“What is needed is a support for local initiatives. But there are so many foreign companies here,” said Sai Pattabiram, founder of Zuppa, a Chennai-based firm which has developed the first-ever unmanned traffic monitoring system. The device embedded inside the drones can be used to monitor and track flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He said this was the first step in creating an indigenous drone ecosystem to counter the risks from an estimated 500,000, mostly China-made, illegal drones in India.
Pattabiram is in discussions with the government and hopes that his system would be used, as there are a multitude of possible ways that unregulated drones may cause security threat and disruptions in the country.
Experts say that start-ups and small firms can play a key role in helping the country with indigenisation in the defence sector. India was the world’s largest importer of major arms in 2013–17 and accounted for 12 per cent of the global total, according to Sweden-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The imports increased by 24 per cent between 2008–12 and 2013–17.
“Start-ups are making a very big difference to the aerospace industry,” said Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while addressing hundreds of foreign and Indian delegations comprising global defence companies, government officials and industry leaders at the 12th edition of Aero India. “Young start-ups are very much replicating all that is happening in Israel and are making sure that through innovation they can contribute,” she said.
But entrepreneurs want more action on the ground from the government. “The government should earmark at least 20 per cent of its defence Budget only for small and medium companies,” said Ravi Shankar S N, Managing Director of Accreate Additive Labs, a design innovation and 3D print-services company catering to the aerospace and defence industry.
Rohan M Ganapathy, the co-founder of Bellatrix Aerospace, said right now there is “no clarity on space law” and this needs to be addressed to make it easy for small companies to operate in such a sensitive sector. “Otherwise there is no surety,” said Ganapathy, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Bengaluru-based Bellatrix which is developing orbital launch vehicles (rockets) and electric propulsion systems for satellites. It is aiming to reduce satellite mission cost through its patented systems.
Dhinesh Kanagaraj, CEO and founder of Chennai-based Fabheads, said his start-up has automated the fabrication process and developed a 3D printer to print carbon fibre parts. The innovation enables it to provide advanced manufacturing processes that can make carbon fibre parts for aircraft like drones that are as strong as steel and as light as aluminium. “We have already built the technology, but we want the government’s help to scale it up,” said Kanagaraj.
Neha Satak, co-founder of space technology firm Astrome, said: “I think there need to be more interactions between the start-ups and defence forces to understand their challenges and build the solutions.”
The goal of Astrome, which could potentially compete globally with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX, too is to solve the problem of connectivity by beaming high bandwidth internet from space.
It is developing a technology that it says would cut the cost of internet access through satellites by 12 times. It plans to launch 200 satellites in the next few years to low-earth-orbit to beam reliable internet to people living in small towns and villages.
Srinath Ravichandran, co-founder and CEO at aerospace firm AgniKul Cosmos, said there should also be some government initiative to create awareness that start-ups are capable of doing important projects and should get support from everyone, especially suppliers and investors. “If you are a hardware start-up it is less easy to get funding compared to a software firm,” said Ravichandran whose firm is building an orbital class launch vehicle that can take small satellites to orbit.
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If you’ve ever observed satellites in the sky, you probably wondered how they maintain orbit without crashing down. The truth is, that many people wonder the same thing, so we want to provide some insight into how satellites stay in orbit.
Keep reading to learn more about satellites, why don’t they fall out of the sky, and how long they can stay in orbit.
Satellites are machines, planets, or moons that orbit a star or a planet. They are divided into natural and artificial, so when we look at things that way, the moon and the earth are also satellites. However, when most people mention satellites, they refer to machines launched into space that move around the earth or another body.
Currently, thousands of man-made satellites orbit the earth, and they all have different functions. Some take pictures of other planets, and some take pictures to help predict the weather, while some are used for communications.
Due to their position in orbit, satellites allow scientists to collect a lot of data rapidly and provide an astonishing view of space. Also, satellites improve our user experience with communication.
The majority of satellites are launched into space on rockets, and due to their speed, they can quickly leave the Earth’s atmosphere. When a rocket reaches its location above Earth, it releases the satellite that picks up on the rocket’s energy to stay in motion. This movement is called momentum.
Once the speed of the satellite balances with Earth’s gravity, the satellite remains in place, orbiting around the Earth. If there were no balance, the satellite would fall back on the Earth or get lost in space.
All satellites orbit Earth along different paths, at different speeds and heights.
Another common thing people wonder is why don’t satellites fall out of the sky. Although that’s not impossible, it’s quite uncommon to see a satellite crashing down or disappearing in space.
They don’t fall out of the sky because of the earth’s gravity. When a rocket releases the satellite, the momentum combines with gravity, keeping the satellite in Earth’s orbit.
When in orbit, satellites have set speeds that defeat the downward pull of gravity, but they retain enough balance to stay at the location where they’re launched.
The closer to earth, the more velocity the satellite will need to resist the earth’s gravitational pull.
Technically, satellites can stay in orbit for hundreds of years. However, a satellite commonly has a useful lifespan between 5 and 15 years, depending on the model and manufacturer. They need fuel to function, and as it cannot last forever, it becomes harder for a satellite to remain in orbit.
Scientists commonly remove old satellites from orbit and send them to a “graveyard” orbit to prevent them from interfering with other satellites and objects.
Satellites can crash into one another, and that’s why organizations such as NASA, NOAA, and others keep track of their movement in space. Typically, collisions are quite rare as the pre-defined satellite location before launching is set in such a way that the satellite won’t interfere with other satellites in orbit.
Still, satellite collision possibilities increase yearly as more satellites launch into space.
For a satellite to remain in orbit, it must have a perfect balance between its velocity and the earth’s gravity. They have set heights and speeds that help them define gravity and remain in orbit. However, as this fades with years during fuel consumption, satellites are sent to a “graveyard” orbit when their velocity cannot withhold gravity as it used to.
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On February 14, 2005, about 1520 Pacific standard time, a Robinson R44, N44NG, experienced a dynamic roll over and collided with terrain while practicing a pinnacle approach near Lake Arrowhead, California. Flight Development, Inc., was operating the helicopter under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. The certified flight instructor (CFI) sustained minor injuries; the commercial pilot undergoing instruction (PUI) and two passengers were not injured. The helicopter sustained substantial damage. The cross-country instructional flight departed Big Bear, California, about 1500, with a planned destination of Torrance, California. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed. The primary wreckage was at 34 degrees 33 minutes north latitude and 117 degrees 25 minutes west longitude. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
The CFI stated that the airplane had no mechanical failures or malfunctions during the flight.
In the written statement attached to Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report (NTSB form 6120.1/2), the CFI stated that he was demonstrating a pinnacle approach. The CFI selected a suitable landing spot with the intent not to land but to go around. Approximately 150 feet above the ground, the helicopter began to sink and it did not respond as he added collective to compensate. He felt that they were in a vortex ring state.
Choosing not to risk losing his preferable landing spot by lowering the nose to gain airspeed, the CFI opted to set down there, and attempted to cushion the landing using the collective. After a hard landing and bouncing two or three times, the helicopter came to rest with the right landing skid on a rock approximately 12-14 inches high. The CFI then attempted to lift the helicopter off the rock and set it down on level ground. The helicopter balanced on the rock with the right skid, and the left skid was in the air. The helicopter rolled left, the left skid contacted the ground, and the helicopter experienced a dynamic roll over.
Once outside the helicopter, the CFI reported that the winds shifted 180 degrees several times. He felt that this contributed to his encountering the vortex ring state, and the dynamic rollover.
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The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the more successful and iconic fighter planes of the Second World War.
Despite its very American origins, the P-51 was designed in response to a specification from the British government and a request from the Royal Air Force to build North American Aviation planes under license.
Although altitude problems designated it to RAF army-cooperation roles, the P-51 was known for its incredible speed and fast production output.
Origins of the P-51 Mustang
The development process for the P-51 Mustang began in Great Britain and was prompted by a purchasing commission call by British civil servant Sir Henry Self in 1938. Self was tasked with buying American military equipment to bolster the British armed forces, particularly in response to growing rearmament in Nazi Germany.
However, in the late 1930s, there were no American-manufactured fighter aircraft that met European specifications. The Curtiss P-40 was identified as the fighter that came closest to meeting the standards required, however, these were in short supply at the time.
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Self asked the North American Aviation (NAA) company if they could build the P-40 under license as he was concerned by the fact NAA had not designed a fighter plane before.
However, NAA executive James Kendelberger stated their company could design and build a superior fighter plane in a shorter time, rather than modifying their production line to build the P-40.
P-51 Mustang Development
NAA began work on drawing designs for the aircraft in January 1940. Kendelberger found inspiration for the design by studying aircraft produced in Britain and Germany. NAA also purchased design blueprints of the experimental Curtiss XP-46 which they factored into their own design.
The NAA prototype was named the NA-73X and the process was overseen by designer Edgar Schmued. Some of the design was lifted from the T-6 Texan trainer NAA had produced but improvements were made to the wings to reduce drag. NAA also fitted the powerful turbocharged Allison V-1710 found in the P-40.
The NA-73X completed its maiden flight in October 1940, which was considered a short development period as the plane had been commissioned only 149 days before its first flight.
Production was given the green light and the plane was given the name Mustang.
Test pilots noted that the NA-73X showed good handling and economical fuel consumption. However, while the Allison engine produced an incredible speed, it was also found to be underpowered at a higher altitude which the RAF feared could make the aircraft unsuitable for use during dogfights above Europe which took place at a high altitude.
British RAF test pilots also reported that below fifteen thousand feet, the Mustang showed incredible speed but expressed a reluctance to fly the aircraft any higher as the handling would grow weaker.
NAA felt that developing and fitting a new engine would take time and money. In May 1942, British test pilot Ronald Harker suggested switching the Mustang’s engine to the Rolls-Royce Merlin that had been fitted to the Supermarine Spitfire.
As a result, the Mustang Mk X was produced featuring the Merlin engine at Rolls-Royce’s facility in Hucknall, England in October 1942.
American production of the Mustang replicated the Merlin engine under license as the Packard V-1650-3 Merlin engine.
P-51 Mustang in British Service
Although conceived in America, the RAF became the first operators of the Mustang and the first Mustang squadron, No. 26 Squadron was formed in October 1942 and in May that year, the Mustang was sent for its first mission over occupied France.
Due to the altitude performance issues, many Mustangs ended up with the RAF’s integrated Army Cooperation Command to perform observational, ground attack and light but long-range bombing duties.
While it was deemed unsuitable as a dogfighter in European airspace, the Army Cooperation Command exploited its power and range to make the Mustang a dependable aircraft for performing high-speed missions over occupied Europe and sometimes Germany itself.
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Between 1943 and 1944, the Army Cooperation Command used the Mustang to locate V-1 missile launching sites.
Prior to the Second World War, the United States Airforce placed a lesser emphasis on fighter escort of bombers, believing that a large and tight formation of bomber aircraft would combine enough firepower to ward off attacking enemy fighters.
However, existing evidence and aircrew reports from RAF and Luftwaffe daylight bombing raids showed that unescorted bombers were vulnerable to both air and ground fire.
The creation of the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) in 1943 was intended to pave the way for a full-scale Allied invasion of Europe through preemptive bombing raids from above.
US Army Air Forces (USAAF) daylight bombing raids encountered stiff Luftwaffe air defense over Germany and lost significant amounts of Boeing B-17, including seventeen B-17s lost in October 1943 during a bombing raid over Schweinfurt in October that year.
As a result, the USAAF began exploring options for a bomber escort plane. The P-51 was deemed the most suitable option with its efficient range enabling it to escort B-17 bombers to their target and then back to American bases in England.
The Mustang was deployed alongside USAAF bombers in 1944 and quickly proved effective in air-to-air combat with Luftwaffe fighters.
In February 1944, Allied air forces launched what was known as the “Big Week” which consisted of a week-long bombing offensive against German aircraft manufacturing facilities.
During the raids, USAAF P-51 Mustang squadrons depleted the Luftwaffe of an estimated seventeen percent of their most skilled fighter pilots. Nazi military chief Hermann Goring allegedly stated during the war that he knew German air superiority was lost once the Mustang entered the fight.
In April 1944, USAAF Mustangs took part in Operation Jackpot which involved direct strikes on Luftwaffe fighter airfields. The attacks proved successful and decimated much of the Luftwaffe’s fighter capabilities.
In part due to the P-51’s abilities in the air and its success against Luftwaffe fighters, the RAF began to perform daylight bombing missions again over the German mainland from 1944 onwards.
However, the operations also exposed certain flaws with the Mustang’s design. The Mustang was found to be more vulnerable to defensive fire from the ground when taking part in strafing and ground attacks due to the engine being more exposed compared to other fighter planes.
The external fuel tanks on the wings were sometimes known to destabilize the aircraft and cause the P-51 to enter a spin when it was performing a dive manoeuvre.
Rather than risk losing more pilots to accidents, USAAF Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Hitchcock (then serving as an air force attaché at the American Embassy in London) decided to investigate the problem himself. Although not a frontline combat pilot during the Second World War, Hitchcock was an experienced pilot and a World War One ace who had played a role in the Mustang’s development.
To work out the problem, Hitchcock took a test flight in a Mustang in April 1944 but was unable to pull the plane out of a controlled dive and was killed when it crashed near Salisbury, England.
Although considered a tragic incident, the Mustang remained in service and continued to help the Allies gain air superiority over Europe which laid the groundwork for the successful D-Day landings in 1944.
By 1945, three P-51 USAAF squadrons claimed to have shot down 4,950 enemy aircraft, one of the most successful scores recorded by a fighter type.
The P-51 saw less action in the Pacific Theatre compared to other American-made aircraft due to its heavy demand in Europe. But as the Allies established total superiority in European airspace and land forces closed in on Germany, Mustangs began to be deployed more steadily against Japanese forces.
The Mustang first saw action in the Pacific War in 1945 when a number were donated to the Chinese Air Force as part of air defence against Japan.
After US forces successfully captured Iwo Jima in March 1945, the USAAF stationed Mustang squadrons on the island to escort Boeing B-29 bombers on raids against the Japanese mainland.
P-51 Mustang Role Post-war
Unlike other fighter aircraft, the Mustang continued to be used for frontline sorties in the immediate post-war period.
At the start of the Korean War in 1950, the P-51 served a frontline role as a ground attack strike aircraft and for photo reconnaissance.
Both the post-war United States Air Force, US Navy and the South Korean Air Force used the Mustang extensively during the Korean War, with US forces responding to South Korea’s invasion by exploiting the Mustang’s range as a long-distance bomber to attack North Korean targets.
However, with the jet age approaching, both the US and South Korea opted to replace their Mustang units with jet fighter aircraft such as the Grumman F9F Panther.
The Australian, South African and combined British Commonwealth Air Forces both deployed the Mustang as an attack aircraft in Korea. However, heavy losses prompted the Australian and South African militaries to switch to the F-86 Sabre jet while the British replaced their P-51 units with the Gloucester Meteor.
The Legacy of the P-51 Mustang
The Mustang became known as one of the fastest planes to take to the skies during the Second World War. It proved versatile in all theatres during the war, and military historians have credited the Mustang with destroying over five thousand enemy aircraft in total.
In doing so, it is credited with helping the Allies gain European air superiority.
The Mustang was also notable for achieving other significant records during its service: it was the first American-built fighter plane to achieve a speed of over 400 miles per hour and held the record for the fastest climb to 20,000 ft, which it managed in just over four minutes.
Perhaps most notably, American flying ace Chuck Yeager piloted a Mustang during the Second World War before he would go on to become the first pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947.
Specifications of the P-51 Mustang
- Crew: 1
- Length: 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m)
- Wingspan: 37 ft 0 in (11.28 m)
- Height: 13 ft 4.5 in (4.077 m) tail wheel on ground, vertical propeller blade
- Empty weight: 7,635 lb (3,463 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 12,100 lb (5,488 kg) 5,490
- Powerplant: 1 × Packard (Rolls-Royce) V-1650-7 Merlin 12-cylinder liquid cooled engine, 1,490 hp (1,110 kW) at 3,000 rpm; 1,720 hp (1,280 kW) at WEP
- Maximum speed: 440 mph (710 km/h, 383 kn)
- Range: 1,650 mi (2,660 km, 1,434 nmi) with external tanks
- Service ceiling: 41,900 ft (12,800 m)
- Rate of climb: 3,200 ft/min (16 m/s)
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The measurement you did on your engine gives only the thrust at zero airspeed, which is 9.5N. It doesn't give the engine power.
For comparison, the power for a 2.5cc OS Max engine is listed on the OS website as 0.41 brake HP at 17,000 rpm, which is about 306 W. This is a maximum power and will be lower at lower rpm. Your engine is probably similar.
You can download the program Prop Selector from the following site. It gives absorbed power (power provided by the engine) and thrust as a function of airspeed for a given type prop and rpm. The program uses data based on NACA model prop tests.
I plugged in your prop specs (8x4 inch, 2-blade) into the Prop Selector program. To get 9.5N thrust at zero air speed, the prop would be running at 14,000 rpm. The program shows an absorbed power of 175W. This is the power the engine would need to put out to get a thrust of 9.5N at 14,000 rpm for the given prop. Based on this model, your engine was probably putting out about 175W of power during your static test.
For a fixed-pitch prop, thrust is maximum at zero airspeed and decreases with airspeed. Eventually, the thrust reaches zero at some air speed where the angle of attack of the blade becomes slightly negative (prop 'lift' becomes zero).
Output power is defined as the airspeed times the thrust. At zero airspeed, the output power is zero, even though the thrust is max. Output power increases with airspeed, reaches a max, and then drops with increasing airspeed.
Absorbed power is the power needed to drive the prop. It supplies the output power plus power that is lost in the prop wake and prop vibrations.
Power efficiency is the output power divided by the absorbed power. Power efficiency is zero when the airspeed is zero, increases with airspeed, reaches a max, and then decreases with airspeed.
As an example, according to Prop Selector, for an airspeed of 35MPH, 14,000 rpm, and an 8x4 prop, the thrust is 6.5 N (lower than the 9.5 N at zero airspeed), the output power is 102 W, and the absorbed power (engine power) is 155W. The power efficiency is 65% (101/155). The Prop Select program shows a maximum power efficiency of 72% at an airspeed of 47 MPH for the given prop.
For your computer simulator, as a first approximation, you could assume that your engine is capable of putting out some maximum power for all rpm and then use the Prop Selector values to get a curve of thrust vs. rpm and airspeed for a given prop. This is approximate, because the engine power itself varies with rpm.
To be more exact, you would need the power vs. rpm curve for your engine, which you might be able to get from the manufacturer. Power for a glow engine usually increases with rpm and reaches a max at a relatively high rpm and then decreases. One gets a precise power vs. rpm curve using a brake measurement system (a dynamometer like those used for car or motorcycle engines).
In your simulator, you would read a throttle position which translates to a certain engine rpm. Knowing rpm and airspeed, you could get the thrust using data from the Prop Selector program. The thrust would then be used to determine the acceleration of the plane (thrust=F=ma, a=thrust/mass). The drag force would also need to be considered.
Let's say you assume your engine is capable of putting out power up to 200W at all rpm. Assume that a 50% throttle stick position means 10,000 rpm. For this rpm (and an 8x4 prop), Prop Selector shows the following for airspeed, thrust, and absorbed power:
0 MPH, 4.8 N 64 W
20 MPH, 3.8, 60 W
40 MPH, 1.3 N, 37W
Assume 75% throttle stick means 13,000 rpm. Then Prop Selector shows:
0 MPH, 13.9 N, 140 W
20 MPH, 7.1 N, 136 W
40 MPH, 4.5 N, 80 W
Try some higher rpm values, such as 15,000, which requires over 200 W absorbed power for airspeeds below 32 MPH. If your engine can't put out power above 200W at 15,000 rpm, then the rpm will never reach 15,000 for airspeeds below 32 MPH, and you won't get as much thrust as you expect. For example, using Prop Selector, at an airspeed of 20 MPH, the thrust will be only 9.3N at 200W and 14,700 rpm instead of the expected 9.7N at 212W and 15,000 rpm.
The thrust might be limited below a certain airspeed due to limited engine power. It depends on the engine, prop, rpm, and airspeed. The simulator software would need to account for this if you want a very accurate simulator.
Propeller tests to determine the effect of number of blades at two typical solidities
Lesley, E P (Daniel Guggenheim Aero. Lab., Stanford University)
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
NACA TN-698 , April 1939
Comparison of model propeller tests with airfoil theory
Durand, William F Lesley, E P
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
NACA Report 196 , 1925.
The following website gives prop power as a function of prop Dia, pitch, and rpm. I assume the results are for zero airspeed.
This site gives higher power values than Prop Selector software. For example, it shows that 237 W are required for a Master Airscrew 8x4 prop at 14,000 rpm and 199 W for an APC brand prop. These values are larger than the 175 W that Prop Selector gives. The variations are due in part to differences in the design of the prop and errors due to trying to scale results from tests of larger props (NACA tests) to smaller model aircraft props.
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China eyes year-long stays for space station astronauts
by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2016
China could send astronauts to its space station for more than a year at a time once it goes operational in 2022, a senior project designer told state media.
The country's second space lab, the Tiangong-2 -- or Heavenly Palace-2 -- blasted off Thursday night from the Gobi desert and is expected to operate for at least two years, the latest stage of the Asia's giant's ambitious space programme.
Construction on a space station will start in as early as 2017 and take around three years, before it enters into service in 2022, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing Zhu Zongpeng, chief designer of the space lab system.
Astronauts could be stationed in orbit for missions that last for more than one year in the facility, which has an initial designed life of at least 10 years, Zhu said, according to the report.
The longest single stay in space by a human so far is 437 days by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov.
The Chinese space station will weigh over 60 tonnes -- much smaller than the 420-tonne International Space Station -- and consist of a core module attached to two space labs, Xinhua said.
It will normally accommodate three astronauts at a time but has a maximum capacity of six, it added.
China is pouring billions into its space programme and working to catch up with the US and Europe.
Beijing sees its military-run space programme as symbolising the country's progress and a marker of its rising global stature.
The nation's first lunar rover was launched in late 2013, and while it was beset by mechanical troubles it far outlived its expected lifespan, finally shutting down only last month.
The Tiangong-2 will have two astronauts transported to it to conduct research projects related to in-orbit equipment repairs, aerospace medicine, space physics and biology, atomic space clocks and solar storm research during a 30-day stay, Xinhua said.
But for the most part China has so far replicated activities that the US and the former Soviet Union pioneered decades ago.
As well as building a space station, it intends to eventually put one of its citizens on the surface of the moon.
It announced in April it aims to send a spacecraft "around 2020" to orbit Mars, land and deploy a rover to explore the surface.
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New York, Nov 13 (IANS) The landing site of the Mars 2020 rover that NASA plans to launch next year could preserve signs of ancient life on the Red Planet, says a new study.
The rover's Jezero crater landing site is home to deposits of hydrated silica, a mineral that just happens to be particularly good at preserving biosignatures, said the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
“Using a technique we developed that helps us find rare, hard-to-detect mineral phases in data taken from orbiting spacecraft, we found two outcrops of hydrated silica within Jezero crater,” said the study's lead author Jesse Tarnas, a Ph.D. student at Brown University in Rhode Island, US.
“We know from Earth that this mineral phase is exceptional at preserving microfossils and other biosignatures, so that makes these outcrops exciting targets for the rover to explore,” Tarnas said.
NASA announced late last year that its Mars 2020 rover would be headed to Jezero, which appears to have been home to an ancient lake.
The star attraction at Jezero is a large delta deposit formed by ancient rivers that fed the lake.
The delta would have concentrated a wealth of material from a vast watershed. Deltas on Earth are known to be good at preserving signs of life.
Adding hydrated silica to the mix at Jezero increases that preservation potential, the researchers said.
“The material that forms the bottom layer of a delta is sometimes the most productive in terms of preserving biosignatures,” said Jack Mustard, Professor at Brown and study co-author.
“So if you can find that bottomset layer, and that layer has a lot of silica in it, that's a double bonus.”
For the study, researchers used data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The technique applied to the CRISM data used big data analysis methods to tease out the weak spectral signature of the silica deposits.
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NASA REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON THE AVAILABILITY OF POTENTIAL LUNAR PAYLOADS
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has released a Request for Information (RFI) to assess availability of potential lunar payloads. NASA has recently released a draft RFP for Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) to provide end-to-end services for payloads to the lunar surface; this RFI is seeking information about potential payloads for these landers. Responses to this RFI are sought broadly from U.S. industry, universities, non-profit organizations, NASA centers, and other U.S. government agencies, and will be used by NASA to further inform planning and acquisition strategy development.
To be ready for launches as early as 2019, NASA is requesting information as to the availability of existing hardware that can be used for flight with little to no payload development necessary. Existing hardware that respondents should consider in responding to this RFI include, but are not limited to: engineering models, flight spares, modified off-the-shelf instruments, etc.
Given the scope and the technical goals of the proposed activity, NASA is considering a much more risk tolerant approach to flight hardware development and integration than is normally adopted by other segments of NASA’s planetary exploration program (e.g., Discovery, New Frontiers), and is willing to accept risk consistent with Class D or Small-Sat payloads. As such, offerors are requested to provide information for those class of payloads and to briefly describe the risks associated with delivering and integrating this hardware.
This information will be used to help formulate a strategy for payload acquisition. NASA anticipates releasing a Program Element Appendix (PEA) to the Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON) Announcement of Opportunity (AO) later this summer for lunar payloads. Additionally, responses to this RFI from NASA Centers will be used to assess the availability of potential payloads within NASA and NASA may choose to move forward with these payloads directly.
Responses to this RFI are due via NSPIRES by June 27, 2018. Full text of the RFI, including instructions for submitting a response, can be accessed by following this link or by searching on NNH18ZDA012L at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/open.
Questions regarding this RFI may be addressed to Dr. Sarah Noble, [email protected]
Posted by: Soderman/SSERVI Staff
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How long is the NU3192 flight from Naha to Sukagawa?
The average flight time from Naha to Sukagawa is 2 hours and 30 minutes. The flight distance is 1719 km / 1068 miles and the average flight speed is 688 km/h / 427 mph.
What is the average delay of flight NU3192?
The average delay of flight NU3192 is 0 minutes and the flight is on-time 100% of the times.
When was the latest NU3192 flight?
The latest flight was scheduled for Thursday, January 21st, 2021 but was cancelled.
How else can the flight NU3192 be referenced as?
This Japan Transocean Air flight can also be referenced as JTA3192, NU 3192, JTA 3192.
See our NU3192 Flight Tracker above for more details.
There are flights connecting Naha OKA to Sukagawa FKS.
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https://www.thenewyorkcitytimes.com/peregrine-mission-1-spacecraft-has-no-chance-of-landing-on-moon-company-says/
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Astrobotic have given up on their Peregrine-1 spacecraft landing on the moon after it sprang a crippling propellant leak.
The problem occurred in the first few hours of the lunar lander’s journey into space.
The Pittsburgh-based firm – which had been hoping to be the first private company to complete a moon landing – said there was “no chance” of the spacecraft being able to survive the descent.
“Given the propellant leak, there is, unfortunately, no chance of a soft landing on the moon,” Astrobotic said in a statement.
However, the company said the lander has enough fuel left to allow it to operate “as a spacecraft” while engineers decide on its new mission in orbit.
US space agency NASA, which paid $108m to send scientific instruments up with the lander, had hoped the craft would scope out an area of the moon ahead of its own planned landing next year.
However, on Tuesday, following Astrobotic’s statement, NASA announced it had postponed landing astronauts on the moon until at least 2026.
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One of the most fascinating space trips was started on October 18, 1989 by NASA with the launch of the Galileo space probe.
During its journey to Jupiter, the Galileo probe reached some milestones, being the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid (Gaspra, on October 9, 1991, and later Ida, on March 28, 1993 ). It was also the first spacecraft to observe the impact of a comet against a planet, specifically Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 against Jupiter between July 16 and 22, 1994. Its journey to the The largest planet in the Solar System lasted almost 14 years, specifically 13 years, 11 months and 3 days, traveling a distance of 4,631,778,000 kilometers.
Upon reaching Jupiter's orbit, on July 13, 1995, the spacecraft separated into two parts: the orbiter and the space probe. The orbiter continued making observations until September 21, 2003, when NASA decided to crash it against Jupiter to prevent it from falling and contaminating any of its satellites. The probe descended into the interior of Jupiter on December 7, 1995, beginning an unprecedented journey in the history of the space race due to the extreme conditions it had to endure.
The Galileo probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere at a speed of 250,000 km/h. Its thermal shield reached a temperature of 15,500 ºC. It was such a brutal effort that the shield, made of phenolic carbon, lost more than half of its mass during the descent (it initially weighed 150 kg and when you detached only 72 kg remained). After crossing the atmosphere, the probe deployed a parachute to slow its descent, reducing its speed to 430 km/h. Finally, the extremely high temperature inside Jupiter, around 1,700 °C, and a pressure of 5,000 atmospheres ended up volatilizing the probe.
During his descent, Galileo was able to analyze the composition of Jupiter's atmosphere, discovering abundances of argon, krypton, and xenon, which has led scientists to conclude that Jupiter could be farther away from the Sun what it currently is, since to trap these gases the planet would have to have been much colder than it is now.
About this fascinating journey, V101 Space has released today an excellent video recreating the descent of the Galileo probe into Jupiter:
You can see here some captures of the video. Here we see the probe with its shield terminated as it entered the Jovian atmosphere.
The descent of the Galileo probe with its parachute, which drastically reduced its entry speed.
The probe in the gaseous interior of Jupiter , before volatilizing due to the high temperatures and the very high pressure.
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U a E Signs MoU With South Korea to Acquire 3 5B Missile Defense System
South Korean President Moon Jae-in at Dubai Expo 2020, in Dubai, U.A.E., Jan. 16, 2022.
The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea for the purchase of M-SAM advanced air defense systems for $3.5 billion.
The Emirati Ministry of Defense tweeted during weeklong aviation trade show last November that it plans to acquire M-SAM systems for $3.5 billion. The MoU for the surface-to-air missiles was signed on Sunday after the meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Emirati Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Dubai.
The M-SAM (Cheongung II, KM-SAM or Cheolmae-2) developed by LIG Nex1 and Hanwha Systems is a core element of South Korea’s multi-layered anti-missile program. The project to develop the M-SAM was launched in 2012. The missile passed a suitability evaluation for field operations in 2017, and its mass-production began the following year.
Employing the “hit-to-kill” technology, the missile is designed to intercept hostile missiles coming in at altitudes below 40km. It is the first indigenously-developed medium-range surface-to-air guided missile. The system is built based on technology from the 9M96 missile used on S-350E and S-400 missile systems.
It is equipped with multifunction radar to strike aircraft and missiles simultaneously. The modernization project was kick-started in 2021. The system is said to have recorded a 100% accuracy rate at multiple test launches.
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MS-177 sensor payload begins testing on RQ-4 Global HawkNews
March 01, 2017
SAN DIEGO. Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corp. started testing the MS-177 sensor payload on an RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft system. The flight tests is the first time the sensor has flown on a high altitude long-range autonomous aircraft. Testing is expected to continue through the first half of 2017.
The MS-177 sensor is designed to provide capabilities such as finding targets using broad area search and different sensing technologies. Other capabilities include tracking and assessing targets through its multiple sensing modalities, officials say.
The Global Hawk system is in active operation with the U.S. Air Force since 2001, it has amassed more than 200,000 flight hours with missions flown in support of military and humanitarian operations.
Read more on unmanned systems:
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster is ready to launch to Mars on Falcon Heavy
Playing David Bowie’s Space Oddity in mars-bound Tesla Roadster is brilliant. Why? Check the lyrics.
Make sure you synchronize the countdown with SpaceX launch control countdown.
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A little under a year ago, Emirates announced a $2 billion aircraft retrofit program aimed at refreshing the interiors of…
AirAsia Group Announces Major Fleet Groundings, Looks Towards Freight Operations
Malaysia’s AirAsia Group Berhad announced on Wednesday its decision to ground approximately 90% of its fleet, which currently consists of more than 200 aircraft across Asia, including slightly over 100 aircraft in Malaysia. This decision had to be made due to an ongoing wave of Covid-19 infections in Malaysia, where daily cases have been consistently […]
Malaysia’s AirAsia Group Berhad announced on Wednesday its decision to ground approximately 90% of its fleet, which currently consists of more than 200 aircraft across Asia, including slightly over 100 aircraft in Malaysia. This decision had to be made due to an ongoing wave of Covid-19 infections in Malaysia, where daily cases have been consistently reported in the thousands in the past week.
AirAsia Malaysia, the largest low-cost carrier in Malaysia, expects demand to start recovering in August, allowing it to restore flight operations to all 17 of the domestic airports it once served by October, Chief Operating Officer Javed Anwar Malik said at a CAPA Centre for Aviation event on Wednesday.
However, a full return to pre-Covid-19 passenger demand levels across Asia is not expected until around the third quarter of next year, Malik said.
Looking Towards Freighter Operations
Part of such efforts include starting up a dedicated freighter service as the demand for air cargo has been steadily increasing worldwide.
The logistics venture of AirAsia Digital, which goes by the name Teleport, is strengthening its position as an essential air logistics partner in Asia with the operation of its first-ever freighter aircraft, a dedicated Boeing 737-800F, alongside the conversion of two Airbus A320 passenger aircraft which had passenger seats removed for optimal cargo capacity.
Converting the two A320s from passenger aircraft to freighter aircraft was said to have been performed by Asia Digital Engineering, the fully-owned subsidiary of the group, and by Thai AirAsia for the aircraft that will be based in Thailand.
Set to begin freight operations across Asia from the beginning of the third quarter this year, the freighter will operate out of the Teleport hub in Bangkok, Thailand. The additional freight capacity will help to solidify its route network between busy regions such as China, India and Southeast Asia, enabling the improvement of connectivity to and from Teleport’s long-haul markets.
As for the two converted A320 aircraft, they will be based in the strategic hubs based in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Through these hubs, the A320s will continue their operations to important cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Yangon.
“We are excited to share this expansion as we strengthen our logistics footprint across Asia,” Adrian Loretz, Chief Operating Officer of Teleport, said of the new startup. “It was evident at the end of last year that the demand for cargo capacity was not going to be served with passenger belly capacity alone in the long run. So, we evaluated the option to utilize dedicated freighters to transport cargo. This is also part of our strategy to build the capacity and connectivity to offer 24 hours door-to-door delivery across all of Southeast Asia.”
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Lupos Global has requirements for EASA or UK CAA B2 H225/EC225 or AS365 Engineers to be based in Kuwait, UAE. This is for Permanent Contract positions.
Our client is the first-choice partner for aviation organisations in the UK, Europe and Middle East. They specialise in providing a wide-range of products for the rotary and fixed-wing aviation sectors.
Role is in Kuwait, UAE
Rotation is 6 Weeks on 6 Weeks off
Flights, Accommodation, Travel, Medial and Travel Insurance and visa provided
Competitive Monthly Salary plus other benefits!
Must have EASA or UK CAA B2 H225/EC225 or AS365 Type Rating
Experience and skill set requirements:
UK CAA or EASA B2 Licensed engineer
Type rating on H225/EC225 or AS365
At least 3 years of experience in aeronautical maintenance activity
Skilled to effectively operate specialized tools and equipment specific to aircraft and aircraft engine maintenance
Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
Team player, who is willing to take responsibility
If this position is of interest to you and you feel you meet the criteria, please send your CV directly to Tim Smith
Due to the number of applications we receive, it’s not always possible to contact unsuccessful applicants. Unless you hear from us within 14 days of your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
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PARNAS leader attacked during march in Nemtsov’s memorySociety & Culture February 26, 16:59
Donetsk water purification station recaptured from Ukrainian radicalsWorld February 26, 15:24
Russian skiers Ustyugov, Kryukov win team sprint at World ChampionshipsSport February 26, 15:23
Opposition activist Dadin sentenced for disorders at rallies leaves jailRussian Politics & Diplomacy February 26, 12:58
Aerospace Force chief says Russian army to get new combat jets and helicoptersMilitary & Defense February 26, 11:15
Mistura says Homs terror attacks attempt to derail Geneva talksWorld February 26, 5:49
Where to watch unique solar eclipse and spectacular ‘ring of fire’Science & Space February 26, 3:24
HNC expects Trump to correct Obama's mistakes in Syria - delegation headWorld February 26, 3:08
War on terror to dominate Geneva talks — Syrian UN envoyWorld February 25, 23:48
MOSCOW, November 29, 14:34 /ITAR-TASS/. The Interstate Aviation Committee, after receiving preliminary results of the technical commission's investigation into the crash of a Tatarstan airlines plane in Kazan, has proposed a number of recommendations to improve Boeing 737 flight safety.
The committee proposes to hold a technical conference to exchange experience of Boeing 737 operation.
In accordance with the regulations for investigating civil aircraft accidents, the commission recommends to organize additional training for pilots, including training to operate when approaching a runway, making a second approach, when it is difficult to determine the position of the aircraft and study specific features of the Boeing 737 navigation system, the IAC website said.
The federal air transport agency Rosaviation is informed about the recommendations, the IAC said.
Investigators are studying the documentation of the Tatarstan airlines on training and retraining of crews to pilot Boeing 737s.
On November 17, when approaching Kazan airport, a Boeing 737 fell and exploded. The liner was on a flight from Moscow's Domodedovo airport. All the passengers and crew aboard, fifty people, died. The Russian Investigative Committee's main department has opened a criminal case on charges of air transport safety regulations violation that caused deaths.
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LA UNION, Colombia --The pilot of a chartered plane with 77 people aboard told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel moments before crashing into the Andes.
A recording from the air traffic tower leaked to W Radio shows the pilot of the British-built jet repeatedly requesting permission to land due to a “total electric failure” and lack of fuel.
A female controller can be heard giving instructions as the aircraft loses speed and altitude about 8 miles from the Medellin airport. Just before going silent the pilot says he’s flying at an altitude at 9,000 feet.
W Radio didn’t say how it obtained the recordings. But they would seem to confirm the account of a pilot on a nearby commercial flight.
Authorities also said they were not ruling out the possibility the aircraft ran out of fuel minutes before it was to land at Jose Maria Cordova airport outside Medellin, a report given to rescuers by a surviving flight attendant. Officials said they hoped to interview her Wednesday.
Monday’s crash killed all but six of the people aboard, including most members of the Chapecoense soccer team from Brazil, which was enjoying a Cinderellas seaon and was enroute to play in a championship.
In addition to searching for causes of the crash, Colombian Authorities were also working to finish identifying the bodies of the victims before repatriating them to Brazil. Forensic experts have said that that process is going quickly because the crash did not include a fire.
The country’s aviation agency said Tuesday that the British Aerospace 146’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder had been found among the wreckage strewn over a mountainside and were already being studied by experts.
Initially, Colombian officials said the short-haul jet suffered an electrical failure, but there was also heavy rain when the crew declared an emergency and the plane disappeared from radar just before 10 p.m. Monday.
Sadness and pain resonated across the region over the loss of most of the Chapecoense soccer team from southern Brazil, which had fought its way into the championship of one of South America’s most prestigious tournaments just two years after working its way into Brazil’s top league for the first time in decades.
Pope Francis said a prayer for the victims, and thousands Tuesday attended vigils in Bogota, Colombia, and Chapeco, Brazil, home of the fallen team.
The aircraft, which departed from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was carrying the team to Wednesday’s first game in the two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin. Twenty-one Brazilian journalists were traveling with the team.
South America’s soccer federation canceled all scheduled matches in a show of solidarity, while the Real Madrid and Barcelona clubs in Spain interrupted their training sessions for a minute of silence. Brazil’s top teams offered to lend players to the small club for next season as it rebuilds, saying: “It is the minimum gesture of solidarity that is within our reach.”
In a moving gesture, Atletico Nacional asked that the championship title be given to Chapecoense, whose upstart run in the tournament electrified soccer-crazed Brazil.
Three players were among the survivors. Alan Ruschel was reported in the most serious condition, facing surgery for a spinal fracture. Teammates Helio Zampier and Jakson Follmann also suffered multiple trauma injuries, and doctors had to amputate Follmann’s right leg.
“The chances of surviving an airplane crash are practically zero. That my son is one of the survivors is a miracle of God,” Follman told The Associated Press.
A journalist also underwent surgery and two Bolivian crew members were in stable condition, hospital officials said.
The aircraft is owned by LaMia, a charter company that started in Venezuela but later relocated to Bolivia, where it was certified to operate last January. Despite apparently limited experience, the airline has a close relationship with several premier South American soccer squads.
Earlier this month, the plane involved in the crash transported Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and Argentina’s national team from Brazil following a World Cup qualifying match. The airliner also appeared to have transported the national squads of Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela in the last three months, according to a log of recent activity provided by Flightradar24.com.
Before being taken offline, LaMia’s website said it operated three 146 Avro short-haul jets made by British Aerospace, with a maximum range of around 2,965 kilometers (1,600 nautical miles) - about the distance between Santa Cruz and Medellin.
Hans Weber, a longtime adviser to U.S. aviation authorities, said the aircraft’s range deserves careful investigation. He noted that air distance between cities is usually measured by the shortest route but planes rarely fly in a straight line, with pilots steering around turbulence or changing course for other reasons.
Given the model of the plane and the fact that it was flying close to capacity, “I would be concerned that the pilots may have been cutting it too close,” Weber said.
A spokesman for Bolivia’s civil aviation agency, Cesar Torrico, said the plane was inspected before departing for Colombia and no problems were reported.
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The U.S. is increasingly worried about the weaponization of commercial drones. So it is working on technology that will allow it to take them over in flight.
A number of government agencies are working with industry to develop an emerging technology designed to take over the signal of attacking enemy drones, enforcing perimeter security at sensitive U.S. sites and Forward Operating Bases in high-risk combat zones.
The technology, called Mesmer, does not “jam†an attacking drone but rather manipulates its protocol, at times allowing users of the system to completely take over flight of the drone.
Despite the promise of Mesmer, the technology only works upon the protocols used by “known†drones and would likely be ineffective against signals emitted by unknown enemy drones such as those from certain potential adversaries around the globe.
At the moment, Mesmer can access and take over the signal of at least 10 drones as part of their system, a number which represents about 75 percent of the marketplace, Hunter said. Within six months, Department 13 plans Mesmer to have an ability to take over 90 percent of known commercial drones.
See my other work on “drone terrorism” and the rhetoric of threat inflation:
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The James Webb Space Telescope is the next major space telescope that will be launched, and it will be the successor of the current Hubble Space Telescope. With it, scientists are hoping that modern technology will allow for more distant sight, as well as the discovery of new celestial bodies that are still unknown to mankind.
In this video, which is a Time Lapse taken by NASA, you can see the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror as it is assembled, piece by piece.
The primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope has a total of 18 mirror segments that make up its primary mirror system - each one weighs 88 pounds, and together, they make a surface that spans 21.3 feet. The surface was completed on February 3rd.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched some time in 2018.
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By using relevant aerospace KPl in effectiveness examination, corporations that belong to the aérospace field will be ready to assess member of staff effectiveness and the cost of their productivity efficiently. My spouse and i am the scheduled method Promotional Director for the team, specializing in place themacshop.com.au physics, planetary development, geology, and heliophysics. The Hubble Ultra Way Subject too is an image of a pretty small section of space, equal to one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky roughly, or simply one-tenth the size of the full moon ás viewed from Earth. These quests consist of flybys on 1979 by Leading 11, on 1980 by Voyager 1, on 1982 by Voyager 2 and an orbital vision by the Cassini spacécraft, which entered orbit on 2004 and is likely to continue its vision good into 2017.
It traveled 1.074 million miles and orbited the Ground 37 times during its mission. Flagships are usually deployed inside the same exact method while other boats – around exoplanets with Army Spaceports. We will create the initially universal pattern road of our inner solar process detailing the active and probable regions and trajectories of Earth-cróssing asteroids, introducing the manner to protect the Ground from probable has effects on and launching up the Solar Process to probable survey. A good current, on-board selection capacity is essential to improving NASA’s features for running period critical events, like as a planetary touchdown or perhaps planetary “fly-by,” when sign delays are too fantastic for the surface to interact with the spacécraft during the event.
“I appearance ahead to human being foot prints about the surface area of Mars in my life time,” he or she stated. As part of Different Horizons’ lengthy mission, the spacecraft is likely to go far into the Kuiper Belt tó observe one or only two of the wintry, historical worldlets duplex in the rural deep-freeze of that deep, wintry region. Thought out services of spaceports for sub-orbital tourist spaceflight produce apply of active land surface commercial infrastructure often, integrating runways. Preparation and corporation will be major when it will come to reaching quests, and without the organised method, your job is collection upward for disappointment.
As the value of lunar survey, NASA place up a course named ” Artemis.” This appointed course is certainly engineered to deliver National astronauts, adding a male, to the moon by 2024 back. The first is the 0rion spacecraft, which will carry thé astronauts to and from thé Moon. Except that I get aIl the moon scam conspiracy theory theorists coming out of thé woodwork, which may make people sad: they can’t get pleasure from one of the nearly all astounding things that the people battle has ever done, ánd it occured within our own lives. The 30th Place Wing is preparing a prógrammatic environmental assessment for kick off sites we’re doing available to commercial companies sérving the small kick off market.
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I visit the NASA Photo website quite often and am always impressed by the images we can see from their telescopes.
Most of the time, while I am awed and amazed, I decide against using an image on the archive because it is just “wow”.
Occasionally there is the “WOW” image.
This is one such.
SOURCE:- NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO
Cauldrons of gas resembling butterfly wings and heated to more than 20,000 degrees Celsius tear across space at nearly 1,000,000km/h (fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes). A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun has ejected its envelope of gases and is unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is making the cast-off material glow. Photo released September 9, 2009.
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Based at RAF Waddington, includes a history of the squadron and aircraft specifications.
Provides information on a career in the RAF.
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The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows, includes team news, display information, fans area and downloads.
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Information about the role, structure, and current operations of the RAF. Also includes details of recruitment, their history, equipment, and units.
Royal Air Force Falcons Team
Parachute display team based at RAF Brize Norton. Gives team members, display schedule, features, news and photo gallery.
Royal Air Force Music Services
Provides musical support to Royal Air Force and related charity events worldwide. Includes details of the three principal bands and other ensembles, their charitable trust, and concerts diary.
Royal Air Force Reserves
Provides mission support to the RAF. Includes information about their role and structure, with links to their local squadrons and their specialisations.
Royal Air Force Tartan
Designed as a tribute to those who served in the RAF, and sold to support the RAF Association; now adopted as official dress for the RAF pipe bands. Includes a history, price list, and contacts.
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Ho Chi Minh City to organise balloon flights for visitors for the first time during the Tet Holiday.
Dam Sen Cultural Park has prepared for 17 balloons to be able to offer the service.
Two balloons can carry one pilot and four passengers. Four balloons can carry one pilot and three passengers each. The rest are mini balloons used to decorate the sky and the park.
Visitors can ride the balloons from 8am to 10am and from 5.30pm to 7pm during the Tet Holiday from January 28 to February 4. 40 experienced pilots from China and Germany will guide the flights at the height of 30 to 40 metres.
According to Du Huu Danh, director of Dam Sen Cultural Park, this is the first time hot air balloon flights have been available in city and this will be a highlight among other entertainment events at the park.
Compiled by Nguyen Hung Minh
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AFP: Iran could develop a ballistic missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, a senior US official told lawmakers. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iran could develop a ballistic missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, a senior US official told lawmakers.
Asked at a senate hearing about Tehran's missile capability, James Miller, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, said current estimates indicate "that it could potentially be as soon as 2015."
But he said that estimate assumed "foreign assistance" to enable Iran to improve its missile technology.
A report last year from the US Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center said Iran could build an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit US soil by 2015-2018, if it received outside help.
Analysts say Iran's Safir space launch vehicle, which Tehran put into orbit in February 2009, has the potential to be converted into a long-range missile.
Washington closely follows Iran's missile program and has cited threats from Tehran and North Korea as the main impetus for building up missile defenses for the United States and allies.
The US administration also accuses Tehran of a clandestine effort to build nuclear weapons.
Miller confirmed previous estimates that it would take "well beyond a year" for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon and "more likely in that plus three-year time frame."
Last week, General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a senate hearing that Iran could make enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb in one year but would most likely not be able to field a usable weapon for three to five years.
He also cautioned often impatient lawmakers that a limited US military strike was not likely to be "decisive" in halting Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
In a related development Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy chief of the Guards, told state-owned Al-Alam television channel the Revolutionary Guards will begin Thursday a three-day military drill which will test a range of home-built missiles and other weapons.
The exercise will see ground, air and naval units of the Guards participating and is aimed at "preserving the security of Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman," Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy chief of Guards told state-owned Al-Alam television channel.
"Iranian missiles and other weapons will be used … to test Iran's defence capability," Salami said.
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It’south at this point greater than 50 becomes older since Soviet Country primary buy a man, Yuri Gagarin, towards home, and the 50 work schedule twelve months wedding associated with Neil Armstron g’s hike to the moon around on 1969 is coming A further system that Airbus Assistance and also House wedding planners experience engineered in addition to assembled that spacecraft and then instruments is typically LISA Pathfinder, the particular systems demonstrator mission trying to be imperative components of Einstein’ohydrates rule from healthy relativity. 4 astronauts that could a Vital Set Eliminate (ISS) immediately following triumphant Nasa SpaceX defeat off. Von Braun’erinarians assumption associated with precise person liveable space search for delivered as one meant for undertakings positioned living area search perfectly into the twenty-first 80 month, together with NASA including this specific technique straight into virtually all your assignments.
SMEs are typically Room Exploration likewise critical contained in the advance of a lot of downstream solutions and also programs. The particular starship need to be built beyond Magravs plasma. Controlled through CNES to get ESA ; generate cornerstone with regard to Arianespace Business as well as governmental releases. Will number side to side and even the top to the base guide; Asphalt rail are going to be 12,000′ the 200′; Border Vivid white wines Litoral Projectile Assortment could offer radiolocation, meteorology, optics plus telemetry support. He did this and NASA’utes Skylab space sta, the main orbital research laboratory rrn which astronauts and even whenever read Planet and then the negative impacts associated with spaceflight at the person body.
The actual Apollo 13 departure exceeded this a long way half of your Lunar month by a good el connected with 254 kilometers (158 further; 137 nautical a hard way) over all the lunar place, and even 400,171 kilometers (248,655 mi) out of Universe, watching the in the uttermost individuals include things like probably traveled because of Society during 1970. From your crash and burn delivering for the leading crewed Soyuz spacecraft within 1967 on the breakup from the shuttlecock orbiter Columbia around 2003, 18 many people past away for the period of spaceflights. Standardisation is definitely significant used in making sure of the more effective put into action connected with space-based packages and therefore the opening-up of new trade just for space-based products and solutions in addition to services.
This specific generated serious government backing regarding armed service house services inside Joined Advises and the Soviet Union. All these shift away from internet websites want distinct commercial infrastructure meant for responding to their top to underlying part bringing room or space vehicles. The spaceport is normally laid out for you having a reddish blue arena if ever the opening is actually recognized because of it to a individuals orbit. A Apollo 13 trip flushed the a good deal aspect on the Celestial satellite found at a strong el for 254 kilometers (158 fuel consumption rate; 137 marine mileage) above typically the lunar surface, and 400,171 kilometre (248,655 mi) through Surface, paying attention to the history to receive the utmost human beings own came by way of Stretch of land all around 1970 actually.
One can find belongings in the modern world that are as a result of space passengers together with satellite television on pc placement. Magravs lcd is usually mindful interior personality, and what exactly is expected for the stage of want. In the 60s as well as 1970s, NASA moreover presented an alternative collection relating to room or space probes termed as Mariner, which will reviewed Venus, Mars, plus Mercury. Disclaimer: All the utilising data and even info ended up being simply granted through just about every Spaceport around the ones own treatment; make sure to cell phone that Spaceports utilizing any exact demands as well as wants facts.
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Seminar in lithosphere and planetology physics
Coordinator: dr hab. Konrad Kossacki
Our seminars are dedicated to the physics of various objects of the Solar System. Theoretical and laboratory studies, as well as those carried out with the use of space probes, are presented, e.g. mission Rosetta / Philae including landing on the surface of a comet, Comet Interceptor mission to a comet approaching Earth for the first time.
The topics of the seminars include seismic studies of the Earth's interior, simulations of the evolution of methane rivers on Titan, Saturn's moon, theoretical and laboratory simulations of comet evolution. The speakers are both employees of the Institute of Geophysics and guests from research centres in Poland and other countries.
Seminars are held on selected Fridays in the distance learning mode.
No upcoming seminars
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After seven months Rosetta’s lander Philae comes out of hibernation, sending more than 300 packets over 85 seconds to ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt. Ulamec:
Philae is doing very well: It has an operating temperature of -35ºC and has 24 Watts available. The lander is ready for operations. We have also received historical data – so far, however, the lander had not been able to contact us earlier.
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White Desert Introduces Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
In a landmark first for any Antarctic operator in 2021 White Desert was the first organisation to purchase SAF for use in Antarctica.
Carbon reduction for an aviation-based organisation in Antarctica provided a technically complicated challenge. When the highest carbon source arises from aviation, logistics and flight planning in Antarctica, efficient aircraft can only reduce carbon emissions to a certain level.
We started exploring Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), produced from waste oils and greases (as opposed to a bio-crops). Pure SAF produced from waste provides a carbon saving of 80% in comparison to conventional jet fuel. Current permitted SAF blends of 30-50% ( SAF: Jet A1) provide an overall carbon saving of 24-40%. SAF produced from waste also contributes to the circular economy and has lower emissions of soot and SOx, which is even more important when operating in Antarctic air quality.
In future seasons we propose the use of SAF for all Antarctic aviation activities, which will also contribute towards meeting our Science Based Targets set through the Pledge to Net Zero scheme.
Being the only company in the world to fly private aircraft to Antarctica, our emphasis has always been on luxury and safety. That same commitment extends to the ski-equipped aircraft that we use in the interior.
Wolf's Fang Runway
Using specialist techniques and machinery, we have created a runway that is uncompromising in its safety and with minimal delays. With experienced pilots flying over 25 flights a season, it is now regarded as a well-established and reliable airbridge between Africa and Antarctica.
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https://gazette24x7.com/need-to-management-a-fleet-of-drones-there-may-be-an-app-for-that/
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Utilizing a smartphone to regulate a drone is nothing new. However use a smartphone to regulate a fleet of miniature helicopter drones? That is fairly spectacular.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a number one protection and industrial aerospace and aviation firm based mostly in Israel, has developed with its new multiflyer system. The flexibility to permit an individual to regulate a number of drones as a fleet, and even take management of particular person flyers if wanted, may be helpful in lots of conditions, starting from security and regulation enforcement to first responder duties within the catastrophe zone.
The benefit of working a fleet of drones fairly than a single automobile is pace. For apparent causes, many drones work collectively in much less time than a drone can do. In time-critical conditions, it might probably actually make the distinction between life and demise. In much less pressing conditions, comparable to monitoring farms or inspecting buildings, drones enable extra work to be performed, comparable to battery life restrictions, by packing much less private flight time.
In accordance with New Scientist, the system permits new drones to be “hot-exchanged” whereas in flight. Staggering the intervals of including new drones to the fleet of drones on the fly implies that a steady drone may be put in, permitting those that run out of gas to drop and recharge earlier than launching once more. The publication says the IAI is at present advertising and marketing its multiflyer know-how for non-military purposes, however declined to touch upon its protection use. Nonetheless, utilizing an optical navigation system that doesn’t depend on multiflyer GPS, it might be helpful in navy conditions the place jamming is a possible risk.
“IAI UAV (Unmanned Aerial Autos) is a frontrunner in trailblazing applied sciences with over 50 years of expertise, and we’re consistently on the lookout for extra areas to speculate our R&D capabilities,” mentioned Moses Levy, Division of IAI Govt Vice President and Army Plane Supervisor. “Multiflyer is a big milestone on this regard, and we anticipate additional developments on this subject.”
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https://www.momondo.co.uk/flights/birmingham/dresden
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|Best price found||£112||The best flight deal from Birmingham to Dresden found on momondo in the last 72 hours is £112|
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|Airports in Dresden||1 airport||There is 1 airport near Dresden: Dresden Arpt (DRS)|
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https://wiki.ivao.aero/en/home/training/documentation/Spoilers
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Spoilers are devices intended to intentionally reduce the lift component of an airfoil in a controlled way. Most often, spoilers are plates on the top surface of a wing that can be extended upward into the airflow.
Sometimes they also called lift spoiler or lift dumper.
At the first look spoilers can just reduce the lift by increasing drag and we actually could call it high drag devices. But it's used widely in different cases.
Deploying spoilers on both wings at the same time allows the aircraft to descend without gaining speed, because they spoil the smooth airflow, reducing lift and increasing drag.
It is not obvious, but if you are flying through icing conditions, you often cannot reduce your engines to flight idle, because you need to keep your anti-icing surfaces, which are heated by engine bleed air, hot. Deployed spoilers help you to control your airspeed while losing altitude.
Typical view of deployed spoilers in flight:
On gliders, spoilers are most often used to control the rate of descent for accurate landings. By extending spoilers, glider pilots can increase drag, lower the nose, and descend faster without significantly increasing airspeed. Gliders typically utilize vertical types of spoiler (like some other small aircraft, for example the Mooney M20), which, when raised, disrupt the airflow over the aft part of the wing.
Spoilers are often used for roll control. Sometimes they are called spoilerons. They are deployed asymmetrically to augment the ailerons on each wing to bank the aircraft. The other advantage is the reduction of adverse yaw in a bank. To turn right, for example, the spoiler on the right wing is raised, destroying some of the lift and creating more drag on the right. The right wing drops, and the aircraft banks and yaws to the right. This helps keep your nose in line with the turn, which means you do not need to apply much rudder to stay coordinated.
Spoilers are also deployed to help reduce ground roll after landing. When you land, your wings are still generating lift, which means there is not much weight on your landing gear, and your braking effectiveness is reduced. When airliners touch down, they detect when the wheels hit the pavement and they deploy ground spoilers. By destroying lift, they transfer weight to the wheels, improving braking effectiveness.
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https://newscreatives.com/2021/08/27/defense-radars-keep-getting-better-and-flexdar-may-be-the-most-sensitive-and-discriminating-yet/
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On any night, hundreds of aircraft cross through the airspace above the Chesapeake Bay, northeastern Virginia and the Atlantic coast. From airliners and general aviation airplanes to stealth fighters and large tactical aircraft, they represent a convenient, diverse target set for an experimental distributed radar system being developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Raytheon Technologies
The system is called Flexible Distributed Array Radar (FlexDAR). As the name implies, it incorporates different radar nodes (radar sites) into an integrated system. In the case of FlexDAR, two sites are in operation, one just south of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland on the western shore of the Bay and another 75 miles southeast at NASA’s Wallops Island flight facility on Virginia’s northeastern Atlantic coast.
FlexDAR is “flexible” NRL radar division superintendent, Michael Walder, says because it is software-defined. The radar system can be “rapidly programmed to perform many functions. It can rapidly change the relationship between the nodes.”
An operator can, for instance, configure radar sites within the system to operate independently or in collaboration with each other. The phased-array antennas at each site could be tuned to be solely transmitters or solely receivers. They could even potentially focus their radiated power in directed-energy fashion though such potential is not formally being explored by the NRL research.
The operational flexibility of software-defined radars is advancing the state of the art throughout military and commercial applications. Such systems now have the edge processing power (i.e. at the site) to take advantage of advanced algorithms like super-resolution in real-time to allow them to identify and classify targets in greater detail than ever before.
The most advanced, like FlexDAR, also use their edge processing for self-awareness, collecting data on the physical, electromagnetic and environmental conditions around them, using these to adjust their performance.
NRL engineers developed the software radar signal processing and tracking algorithms for FlexDAR as well as network coordination techniques and an advanced graphical user interface. Raytheon took on the build and design of the two antenna-arrays for FlexDAR. Phased-array radars have been around for decades and Raytheon actually began work on its FlexDAR arrays in 2014.
A key differentiator for FlexDAR is that a single array can simultaneously perform multiple functions – scan for targets, communicate with other radars/sensors and even cue a response to a threat. According to Raytheon, the radar can not only look for small drones, larger aircraft and ballistic missiles, it can detect and track hypersonic missiles. If and when Hermeus flies its hypersonic drone for the Air Force, the NRL-Raytheon will surely want to take a crack at tracking it.
In addition to the edge processing software making this possible, the arrays take advantage of every-element digital beamforming (EEDBF). NRL’s Walder explains that older phased array radars form their beams in analog fashion and then use a converter to digitize them. FlexDAR and other EEDBF-enabled radars form their beams digitally in every element from the outset.
“You can form beams in different ways, in different directions based on software rather than what’s configured into the radar [hardware] when it’s built,” he says.
Each FlexDAR array consists of 1,008 elements to be exact. The array panels are approximately six feet by six feet according to Walder and judging from the photo above, each FlexDAR installation (which includes the array as well as the processing hardware and a user interface) is about the size of a couple of maritime shipping containers.
Given that the prototype system is purely experimental and not missionized, it’s reasonable to expect an operational FlexDAR installation would be smaller. That could make it adaptable to sea, land and air platforms.
“This kind of [array] can be applied anywhere,” Walder confirms. “In the commercial world, with fewer elements, it’s being adopted for cellphone technology.”
Each array-processor combination is a more effective transceiver than current systems and when multiple arrays are synchronized the result could be a multi-function radar net capable of providing a more detailed, fused picture than existing networked radars.
While the NRL/Raytheon team has yet to compile full results or evaluate all aspects of the system, it asserts that FlexDAR “demonstrates dramatic performance improvements in detection range, tracking accuracy, and electronic protection when operated in a distributed configuration.”
How much more range, accuracy and resiliency FlexDAR can offer, NRL won’t say. Walder does confirm that they’ve encountered no surprises thus far and that the FlexDAR front end (array) and back end (software, UI) were integrated without issue or disruption.
“We have a lot of work ahead of us to continue to exercise the capabilities [of FlexDAR] and discover new capabilities,” Walder says. That could take a while. There is no formal timeline for the FlexDAR evaluation which is part of the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Integrated Topside and Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare Command and Control Innovative Naval Prototype programs.
Operational resiliency is not a consideration in the NRL evaluation but the distributed nature of FlexDAR and its communication flexibility suggests it could complicate efforts by an adversary to disrupt the system’s sensing ability.
Research data and lessons-learned flow from NRL up to ONR and to interested parties in the Pentagon. Those parties are already likely looking at the possibility of adding a future operational FlexDAR to the quiver of systems that will go into the military’s developing Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) framework.
The prototype FlexDAR system is a “unique capability in the U.S.” right now Walder says though he notes that tangential distributed array research is underway the University of Oklahoma’s Advanced Radar Research Center. Lockheed Martin’s
For testing purposes, Walder acknowledges that the NRL-Raytheon team may fly a controlled target in the airspace above the system in the future. Fortunately for FlexDAR, the skies over the mid-Atlantic are a “target rich environment.”
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(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel on Tuesday successfully launched the Ofek-11 surveillance satellite into space, mere weeks after the Amos-6 satellite, carrying state of the art communications technology, was destroyed in a static test malfunction, just two days before it was scheduled to be launched into orbit.
While Ofek-11 entered orbit as planned, it began experiencing technical issues that interrupted its steady communications with its control station, at the Palmachim Air Base in central Israel, almost immediately.
"It is going to be a while before we can assess if this launch was fully successful, there are some issues that we are still concerned about," an Israeli defense official said Tuesday night. "We can't be 100% optimistic, but we are not 100% pessimistic either."
Another official noted that "some things appear to be out of the ordinary, but we have yet to complete our assessment; we are trying to stabilize its systems."
The Israel Aerospace Industries designed Ofek-11 as an all-weather radar imaging satellite that can provide imagery at all hours of the day. It was fitted with more sophisticated systems than the Ofek-10, which was launched from the same launch site in 2014.
The first Israeli satellite, Ofek-1, was launched into space in 1988. At the time, Israel was the eighth country to have successfully developed and launched a satellite into space. Today 12 countries have this capability.
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Mr G P Aird AFC a test pilot with the He Havilland Aircraft Company, ejecting from Lightning P1B XG 332 on 13 September 1962. He was on finals for an emergency landing at Hatfield, following A double reheat fire warning occurred about 15 miles North East of Hatfield. George was making a normal powered approach, unfortunately he had to position for runway 06 as the wind was from the northeast. His approach to Hatfield was from the NE. The runway was short by Service standards so the manually operated barrier had been erected at the northeast end of 06. At about 10 seconds from touchdown, at about 100 ft, the aircraft suddenly pitched nose up and, since there was no response to the controls, he ejected. The aircraft crashed on the airfield, broke up and caught fire.
Test pilot George Aird - flying a English Electric Lightning F1 - ejected from his English Electric Lightning F1 aircraft at a fantastically low altitude in Hatfield, Hertfordshire 13th September 1962 (Thanks to Daily Mirror Reference MP_0018484.)
The wreckage of the Lightning can be seen above just on the airfield short of runway 06 and just beyond the greenhouses in which George landed. Fire damage was the cause of this accident; the anchorage for the tail plane actuator jack had burned away, hence the loss of elevator control.
George landed in a greenhouse sustaining several fractures. The hole where George and the ejection seat went through the glass roof can be seen in the above picture in the near end of the roof of the second greenhouse from the left. They landed in adjoining rows of tomatoes! The damage at the far end of the greenhouse was made by the arrival of the Lightning canopy. The remains of the Lightning can be seen on the left just into the airfield. George was back flying again within six months and on Lightnings a year after the accident.
George retired from de Havillands (British Aerospace) in 1983 but continued executive and airline flying until his 65th birthday in 1993. He now has an NPPL.
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https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9677/967724/Al-Li-alloy-AA2198s-very-high-cycle-fatigue-crack-initiation/10.1117/12.2202283.short?SSO=1
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AA2198 alloy is one of the third generation Al-Li alloys which have low density, high elastic modulus, high specific strength and specific stiffness. Compared With the previous two generation Al-Li alloys, the third generation alloys have much improved in alloys strength, corrosion resistance and weldable characteristic. For these advantages, the third generation Al-Li alloys are used as aircraft structures, such as C919 aviation airplane manufactured by China and Russia next generation aviation airplane--MS-21. As we know, the aircraft structures are usually subjected to more than 108 cycles fatigue life during 20-30 years of service, however, there is few reported paper about the third generation Al-Li alloys’ very high cycle fatigue(VHCF) which is more than 108 cycles fatigue. The VHCF experiment of AA2198 have been carried out. The two different initiation mechanisms of fatigue fracture have been found in VHCF. The cracks can initiate from the interior of the testing material with lower stress amplitude and more than 108 cycles fatigue life, or from the surface or subsurface of material which is the dominant reason of fatigue failures. During the experiment, the infrared technology is used to monitor the VHCF thermal effect. With the increase of the stress, the temperature of sample is also rising up, increasing about 15 °C for every 10Mpa. The theoretical thermal analysis is also carried out.
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Mission or Study ID: Expedition 44
Expedition 44 was the 44th expedition on the International Space Station. The expedition commenced with the departure of Soyuz TMA-15M with the Expedition 42/43 crew on June 11, 2015. Roscosmos' Gennady Padalka was the commander of Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Korniyenko of Roscosmos. Kelly and Kornienko are on the first joint U.S.-Russian one-year mission, an important stepping stone on NASA's journey to Mars. NASA's Kjell Lindgren, Roscosmos' Oleg Kononenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui are scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan in late June. Increment 44 ended September 11, 2015. The Increment 45 crewmembers are Command Scott Kelly, and Flight Engineers Mikhail Korniyenko, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui, Kjell Nindgren and Sergey Volkov.
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https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/184963/could-venus-have-ever-supported-life
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Space & Astronomy
Could Venus have ever supported life ?
By T.K. Randall
June 27, 2010 · 3 comments
Image Credit: NASA/JPL
The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft is helping to determine if Venus ever had oceans.
Today Venus might seem a hellish place and not somewhere you'd find life but a long time ago the planet may have been home to oceans of liquid water and could have potentially developed living organisms.
The European Space Agency's Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. If it did, it may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth.
Source: Science Daily
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Viaggio Air was a Bulgarian airline based in Sofia and based on the Sofia Airport.
Viaggio Air was founded on 14 September 2002 and introduced on 27 February 2003 by its first flight with an ATR 42-300 acquired hand. At first she flew especially to Vienna and Budapest, and later routes to Kiev and Athens were planned. However, In 2005, the Bulgarian airline Hemus Air, the airline to 100 % and thus also got the rights to fly to these destinations.
Since 2007, the three Bulgarian Airlines Bulgaria Air, Hemus Air and Viaggio Air were composed wholly owned by Hemus Air with joint control. Since September 2007, all flights were carried out only under flight number of the Bulgaria Air and by early 2009 the brand name Hemus Air and Viaggio Air favor of Bulgaria Air were abandoned. Viaggio Air was dissolved in the sequence.
Finally, the fleet of the Viaggio Air consisted of two aircraft:
- 2 ATR 42-300
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Bombardier’s biggest and longest-range business jet, the Global 7000, landed Monday in Wichita to begin the bulk of its flight testing program.
The aircraft, serial no. 70001, landed at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday following a three-hour flight from Toronto Downsview Airport.
It arrived in Wichita a little more than two weeks after its first flight on Nov. 4.
The jet is one of five Global 7000s – called flight test vehicles – that will be part of the flight test program, a Bombardier Business Aircraft spokeswoman said Monday.
“Subsequent FTVs will come down there as well,” spokeswoman Anna Cristofaro said.
In addition to the Learjet plant, Montreal-based Bombardier also has a large flight test center on the west side of Eisenhower Airport.
Cristofaro said the company wouldn’t disclose the duration of the Global 7000’s flight test program or other details. Bombardier hopes to begin first deliveries of the airplane in the second half of 2018.
The Global 7000 was one of three aircraft development programs underway simultaneously at Bombardier until the company paused work on the Learjet 85 in late January 2015, resulting in the layoff of 1,000 workers, including 620 in Wichita. Later that year, Bombardier decided to end the Learjet 85 program altogether.
Since then, Bombardier has certified and delivered its first narrow-body jetliner, the C Series CS100, and is preparing to deliver its first CS300 – a larger C Series variant – to airBaltic in December.
Last year, Bombardier pushed back the Montreal-assembled Global 7000’s entry into service date by two years because of development delays.
The $72.8 million jet will be Bombardier’s largest and have the longest range. It will have maximum seating for 19 passengers and a crew of four and a maximum range of 7,400 nautical miles with eight passengers.
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https://gbp.com.sg/stories/mc-21-310-and-aurus-business-jet-aircraft-arrive-in-dubai-for-airshow/?slug=events
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The Dubai Airshow will mark the international debut for Irkut Corporation’s MC-21-310 passenger airplane, as well as AURUS Business Jet (VIP-version of SSJ100).
On the eve of Dubai Airshow 2021, both airplanes performed non-stop flights from Zhukovsky, Moscow region to Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai. While MC-21-310 arrived on November 10, AURUS touched down the next day. During the flights, the aircraft covered about 3,700 km, including over the sea. The flights were in normal mode.
The MC-21-310 aircraft, equipped with new Russian PD-14 engines, has been undergoing flight tests since December 2020. To participate at Dubai Airshow 2021, a part of the business and economy class cabin has been installed on the airplane. This will demonstrate one of the advantages of the MC-21 aircraft – an increased aisle between the seats provided by the widest fuselage in its class. The airliner will take part in the flight program of the airshow.
The AURUS Business Jet is equipped with an additional fuel system that increases the flight range up to 7,200 km. At Dubai Airshow 2021 potential customers will be presented with a comfortable cabin, designed and installed in Russia, as well as with optional solutions that allow to expand the capabilities of the airplane.
PJSC Irkut Corporation is currently conducting certification tests of MC-21-300 airplane and assembling airliners for the launch operators.
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"Huygens" Finds a Hostile World on Titan
International research team reports on the Earth-like surface of Saturn's moon Titan
Conditions on Saturn's moon Titan, with its dense atmosphere, are similar to those on Earth early in our solar system. Pictures and spectral analysis of Titan's surface, recorded by an international scientific team including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), show a dried-out "river" landscape. Evaluating the data has now shown that methane on Titan exists in solid, liquid, and gas states, and plays a similar role in Titan's atmosphere and on its surface that water plays on Earth. Water ice on Titan congeals to be similar to stone on Earth: it makes up a major component of the Titan's surface. "Stones" made presumably largely of water ice show signs of erosion and transport through a liquid. (Nature, Advanced Online Publication, November 30, 2005).
With a diameter of about 5,150 kilometres, Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It has a dense atmosphere which we mostly cannot see through. Until recently, Titan was one of the few objects in the solar system whose surface was not researched. In 1997, the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn was launched. The NASA spaceship Cassini reached Saturn's orbit in 2004 and since then has been investigating the ringed planet and its moons. The Huygens probe of the European Space Agency ESA separated from Cassini at the end of 2004 and landed on Titan on January 14, 2005, after a two-and-a-half hour descent through the atmosphere.
Among the scientific instruments aboard Huygens were the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR), plus a combination of 14 cameras, spectrometers for visible and infrared light, and photometers. The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research developed the CCD detector, which received the signal from all the cameras and spectrometers in the visible wavelengths.
During descent, as well as after Huygens landed, the DISR investigated the atmosphere and surface of Titan. At first sight, it is similar to a landscape on Earth. We can see the courses of rivers, which lead from a higher-lying area to a lower, flat terrain, bordered by a kind of coastline (see image 1). Spectral analysis showed indeed that materials from the higher areas were transported down to a "sea".
Huygens landed in the low-lying, flat area. The pictures taken after landing (see image 2) show that there is currently no liquid in the "sea". There are, however, "stones", whose rounded shape, and size distribution, suggest they were transported in a liquid. Given the extremely low temperatures on Titan -- about 180 degrees below Celsius -- the liquid could not be water. The scientists guess rather that it is methane and/or another hydrocarbon, and that the "stones" are made of water ice.
Investigations of the atmosphere on Titan concentrated on its dust layer. Before landing, it was assumed that the dust is only located above 50 kilometres up in the atmosphere, and the area lying underneath it is clear. The DISR measurements have now shown that the dust layer reaches down to the surface. Spectral analysis shows that the dust particles are aggregates of some hundreds of very small particles, about 50 nanometers across.
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delayed to January
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: December 9, 2007
NASA's Mission Management Team today delayed launch of the shuttle Atlantis on a critical space station assembly mission to at least Jan. 2 to troubleshoot elusive, intermittent electrical problems with low-level hydrogen fuel sensors that derailed launch attempts Thursday and again this morning.
The shuttle's current launch window closes Dec. 13 because of space station power and temperature issues related to the lab's orbit. The window reopens Dec. 30, but NASA managers do not want to conduct a launch campaign during the end-of-year rollover because of countdown software issues.
Given the subtle nature of the problems with the engine cutoff - ECO - sensors at the base of Atlantis' external tank, managers concluded there was not enough time to attempt repairs before the current launch window expires.
Bill Gerstenmaier, chief of spaceflight operations at NASA headquarters, said the delay to January would not cause a major disruption to the space station assembly schedule. The next two flights in the sequence are scheduled for launch in mid February and late April. The next flight after that is an August mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
"If you look at what this means moving into January from a big-picture standpoint, it's not that big an impact to us overall, it won't impact the next mission, the February flight, we'll be able to accomplish that on time as planned," he said. "There's also some schedule time between that February flight and the April flight, there's a couple of weeks of margin in there so that can slip to the right.
"So from a big-picture standpoint, it's really not a big impact to us overall from an assembly of space station standpoint. There's enough margin in the system that we can accommodate this move into January without a big impact."
That's assuming, of course, engineers can track down and correct the ECO sensor problem by then. LeRoy Cain, director of shuttle integration at the Kennedy Space Center, said engineers plan to brief NASA managers Tuesday on possible troubleshooting options.
"We set up what we're calling our short-term KSC troubleshooting team to put together, brainstorm ideas and troubleshooting methods that we might want to go do for the system we have out at the launch pad," he said. "They're going to report out for the first time to the program board, the PRCB, on Tuesday of this week.
"From there we will determine what steps we take in the way of troubleshooting ... to include possibly a tanking test, to include possible looks at some of the feed-through connector areas and other wiring and cabling areas. ... They will bring their recommendations to us Tuesday."
How NASA might proceed from there, he said, will "depend on what we find out when we go begin to do some more in depth troubleshooting."
"We feel like we need to find root cause and we're going to make every effort to do that. Beyond that, as far as our path forward, it would be speculation for me at this point. Our main focus at this point is, given the repeat failure that we had today ... we're very hopeful it will repeat again in a fashion that we can capture it and be able to narrow down the area that's causing the problem, whether it be in the tank or outside of the tank or somewhere in the connectors. That's really our main focus right now."
Said Gerstenmaier: "Data is data. Whether it helps us find the specific failure or it rules out all the things that can't be causing the failure, that helps us figure out a way to build better operational rules to fly safe and continue with the manifest."
He was referring to the possibility of developing rationale for flight with one or more failed ECO sensors by incorporating procedures utilizing new instrumentation to monitor the status of each sensor.
"We have a lot of options in front of us before, if and when, we would need to roll back" to the Vehicle Assembly Building where Atlantis can be removed from the tank for more extensive troubleshooting. "So we're going to consider the recommendations the team brings forward Tuesday. The Tuesday recommendations and any troubleshooting we might do while we have this system out at the launch pad allows us the opportunity to fly as early as Jan. 2. If we determine subsequently that we need to roll back and do more invasive kind of work, then that probably does not support Jan. 2."
Telemetry indicates a possible open circuit somewhere between an electronic unit in the shuttle's engine compartment and the sensors themselves. Launch Director Doug Lyons said the box is easily accessible at the launch pad, along with much of the wiring that runs through the belly of the shuttle and into the tank.
"In terms of our capabilities out at the launch pad, we've got very good access, particularly inside the orbiter aft so that there's almost limitless troubleshooting we can do there," Lyons said. "And we've got very good access to the tank. So we can do extensive troubleshooting out there before we would entertain rolling back. There's not many things we can't do out at the launch pad that we could do in the VAB."
In the meantime, flight controllers informed space station commander Peggy Whitson and her crewmates of the launch delay and told her she and Tani likely will be asked to carry out a spacewalk later this month to inspect a problematic solar array rotary joint on the right side of the lab's main power truss.
If Atlantis had gotten off the pad during the current window, NASA managers planned to add a fourth spacewalk to the shuttle mission to carry out the solar alpha rotary joint - SARJ - inspection.
Because of recently discovered contamination in the massive gear-driven joint, used to rotate outboard arrays to keep them face on to the sun, the starboard SARJ has been locked in place pending additional analysis.
NASA needs to fix the joint and restore it to normal, or near normal, operation before a sophisticated Japanese research module can be launched in April.
A SARJ inspection spacewalk by Whitson and Tani likely would be carried out before Dec. 21. An unmanned Russian Progress supply ship is scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 23 with docking on tap the day after Christmas.
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https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/this-beastly-f-22-was-reconstructed-after-a-take-off-incident
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This Beastly F-22 Was Reconstructed After a Take-Off Incident
In the past, we have brought you this video on the engineering of an F-22. Now, we have images of the beastly jet's reconstruction courtesy of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. (DVIDS)
In April 2018, the F-22 07-4146 was damaged due to an incident that involved incorrect takeoff and landing data of the runway length at Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada. This resulted in the pilot retracting the aircraft's landing gear sooner than they should have, causing the jet to crash back down on the runway.
Although the pilot was unharmed, the same could not be said about the jet which suffered severe damages. It took nearly four years at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to rebuild the plane but the work is almost done and the images are impressive.
The rebuilding process began with more than a year of running models and simulations to determine whether or not the aircraft was salvageable and to conceive of a plan for repairing it. Once that was done, the crew was ready to go.
“Everything worked out in the simulations, so the aircraft was put in our hangar in January 2020 and put on stands,” U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kevin Fitch said in a DVIDS statement. “That’s when the complete strip started — the wire harnesses, the struts, and the bulkhead. It was down to the bones of the fuselage at that point."
“Contractors, engineers, and structures personnel spent about 16 months replacing almost the whole bottom of the aircraft, the fuselage stations, and more than 40 wire harnesses,” Fitch continued. “Our active-duty guys didn’t start having a hand in the rebuild until June this year.”
The team had to coordinate with multiple different backshops and agencies to get all the parts necessary to build the jet but in the end, the effort and years of work were well worth it. The F-22 should be back in operations soon.
If this story piqued your interest read this one about upgrading the F-22s.
"Our first space launch will occur in less than half the time it took Space X to achieve that milestone," said Phantom Space CEO Jim Cantrell.
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https://alchetron.com/1956-Atlantic-R6D-1-disappearance
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Date 10 October 1956
Operator United States Navy
Destination Lajes Field
Fatalities 59 (all)
Passenger count 50
|Site Atlantic Ocean, 590 km (368.8 miles) southwest of Land’s End, United Kingdom|
Aircraft type Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster
Similar 1956 Scottish Airlines M, 1956 Hawker Hunter m, Northwest Orient Airlines Fl, 1956 B‑47 disappearance, 1956 London Heathrow
The 1956 Atlantic R6D-1 disappearance involved a Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster (BuNo 131588) of the United States Navy which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on 10 October 1956 with the loss of all 59 people on board. At the time, it was both the second-worst air incident to have occurred over the Atlantic and the second-deadliest involving any variant of the Douglas DC-6.
The R6D-1 – the U.S. Navy version of the United States Air Force C-118 Liftmaster and the civilian Douglas DC-6B airliner – was carrying a crew of nine and 50 passengers on a scheduled Military Air Transport Service flight from RAF Lakenheath, England, to Lajes Field in the Azores on 10 October 1956 when it disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean about 590 km (370 miles) southwest of Land’s End, England, at approximately 22:10. All of the passengers were personnel of the U.S. Air Force's 307th Bombardment Wing stationed at Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraska, returning to the United States from 90 days of temporary duty in England. The disappearance was the second major accident involving a Navy R6D-1 in 19 months, an R6D-1 having crashed in Hawaii in March 1955.
A 14-day search for the aircraft and survivors found only wheels and a life raft floating 596 km (370 miles) southwest of Land's End. No trace of the crew or passengers ever was found.
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdfytf_long-black-moon-structures-close-up_tech
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Moon Structures: This video is part 2 of 3 that I made. All REAL from NASA archives online.
These are NASA photos taken of the moons surface. These came from their Lunar Orbiter mission. I noticed these structures and at first disregarded them as photo lab errors, yet on further analysis I noticed these long black structures actually curve to the ground below them sometimes, indicating that these are on the surface of the moon!
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https://defbrief.com/2021/07/13/us-air-force-clears-kc-46-tanker-for-limited-refueling-ops/
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The US Air Force has given its green light for the KC-46A Pegasus tanker to start limited refueling operations with the centerline drogue system mission set.
The first Interim Capability Release (ICR) that will allow these operations was approved by Air Mobility Command commander Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost on July 9.
This decision provides more daily “taskable” operational capabilities to the joint team and increases capacity for tanker fleet requirements, the service said in a release.
“The last six months of operational use and programmatic evaluation indicate conditions have been met for ICR declaration of the centerline drogue system mission set,” said Van Ovost. “This decision reflects a risk-informed, data-driven, constraint-analyzed approach to releasing KC-46A operational capabilities to the joint force.”
The ICR plan was announced by Van Ovost in February as the command looks for ways to meet the joint force’s extensive aerial refueling requirements while the Air Force continues tanker recapitalization and divestiture efforts.
“This has required AMC to explore a variety of options or ‘tanker levers’ to relieve stress on today’s force,” said Van Ovost at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in February. “Increasing KC-46A operational use is the single largest lever available to bring additional air refueling capacity to meet joint force requirements as the tanker fleet is recapitalized to meet the needs of our combatant commanders.”
The Air Force added it continues to conduct boom air refueling with fighter, bomber and transport aircraft for training, exercise, demonstration and familiarization missions before formally operationalizing the capability. The ICR concept provides a data-driven approach to certify these capabilities incrementally as the program moves toward full operational capability (FOC).
“ICR codifies for operational use what we’re already executing daily as the KC-46A makes progress on its initial operational test and evaluation, or IOT&E, plan,” said Van Ovost. “This is about bringing increased, predictable, and taskable tanker capacity to the joint team today.”
In February, Van Ovost clarified there is no timeline associated with the ICR plan, which instead focuses on establishing confidence measures that allow the AMC commander and other senior leaders to qualitatively and quantitatively assess achievements in ICR milestones. If confidence measures are not met, then ICR on a particular mission set will not be declared.
While AMC seeks to provide increased operational capability to a stressed tanker fleet, Category-I deficiencies still need to be resolved, including the upgraded remote vision system 2.0 and a redesign of the boom telescope actuator. The KC-46A will not achieve FOC until those deficiencies are cleared.
Although FOC is still years away, substantial progress continues, the service noted. The FOC could be reached in 2023, when Boeing delivers the first tankers equipped with the reworked remote vision system.
“We’ve been simultaneously seasoning our aircrew and maintainers while identifying and wringing out deficiencies in the growing Pegasus fleet,” said Van Ovost. “We are flying and operating today with the KC-46A mission sets despite restrictions, including cross-ocean aerial refueling fighter movements, Aeromedical Evacuation missions, and cargo and passenger movements. The KC-46 is on a positive rate of climb!”
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https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/pm-modi-directs-isro-to-land-man-on-moon-by-2040/article67431169.ece
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Signalling a roadmap for India’s future space ambitions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “directed” the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to set up an India-crafted, indigenous space station by 2035 and land an Indian on the moon by 2040. This followed a review of preparations for the Gaganyaan mission — India’s first manned mission to space, scheduled for 2025 — on October 17.
“Building on the success of the Indian space initiatives, including the recent Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L-1 missions, Prime Minister directed that India should now aim for new and ambitious goals, including setting up ‘Bharatiya Antariksha Station’ (Indian Space Station) by 2035 and sending first Indian to the Moon by 2040,” said a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.
Mission to the moon, and beyond
Mr. Modi chaired the meeting to assess the progress of the Gaganyaan mission and outline the future of Indian space exploration. The Department of Space (DoS), under which ISRO functions, presented the state of preparedness and technologies developed for Gaganyaan. A critical test of a module called the Crew Escape System Test vehicle is scheduled for Saturday.
The DoS will make a roadmap for moon exploration, which will consist of a “series of Chandrayaan missions, developing a new generation launch vehicle, constructing a new launch pad, setting up human-centric laboratories and associated technologies,” the PMO statement said.
Mr Modi also “called upon” scientists to work towards interplanetary missions, including a space vehicle to orbit Venus and one that will land on Mars.
The International Space Station (ISS), jointly developed and maintained by the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, and European agencies, is the largest space station but is expected to be decommissioned by 2030 due to escalating costs and disagreement among partner countries on finances. China’s Tiangong is the only other space station, with three astronauts on board, though it is only about 40% of the size of the ISS. Since India signed the Artemis Accords, the United States’ endeavour to return to the moon, there are plans to send an Indian to the ISS in 2024.
Experts have said that a manned mission to the moon and a space station will require large, sustained investments and significant contribution from the private sector. While space stations and moon missions involving the U.S. and Russia were a product of military space races, future space stations will need to follow a different template that would require extensive testing and thus, high costs, an expert connected to the ISRO told The Hindu on condition of anonymity.
“The technological development that enabled the Apollo missions [which landed U.S. astronauts on the moon] would be crude by today’s standards. As the Gaganyaan mission demonstrates, there are multiple ground tests for every stage and these are what make missions expensive. We’ll need to wait for budgets before deciding on whether these are realistic timelines,” the person added.
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Group Notice From: (RCAF) Royal Caledon Air Force, Cornelius Fanshaw
The Royal Caledon Air Force and Dogs on the Run are banding together to bring you a Steampunk Dogfight!
This is very much a fun entry level event.
Multi-crewed airships will be provided, so come along and bring your friends and family.
No flying experience necessary!
We'll begin at 2pm SL time on Saturday afternoon at the DOR
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" I have worked closely with The National Group since leaving NASA in 1998. Jeff Lawrence, who worked with me at NASA, and Vince Versage are among the premier lobbyists in Washington, D.C. for space, aerospace and defense issues. I offer my highest recommendation... "
- Daniel S. Goldin, Former Nasa Administrator
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Led by the former Deputy Administrator for Congressional Affairs at NASA, Jeff Lawrence, the National Group assists corporations from around the country and the world in understanding, navigating and engaging NASA as they seek to participate in its various important missions. We also assist universities in becoming partners of the agency, by identifying how their research capabilities may allow them to fill an important function for NASA, then bringing it to the attention of the agency’s decision makers; from program managers right up to the Center Directors and the 9th floor of NASA Headquarters. We also help to link research universities with large corporations to bid on NASA research proposals.
As we enter a time when the US and NASA are changing the way we get to space by relying on commercial companies to do the routine missions while NASA focuses on the high risk/high reward technologies that took us to the Moon, an understanding of civil space policy is critical. The National Group has a proven record of helping their clients – US and International – do just that. We help them navigate both NASA – here and its many Centers – and the Congress.
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https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/multimedia/detail.cfm?id=3269
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International Space Station
STS096-715-042 (3 June 1999) ---
STS-96 crew member aboard Discovery recorded this image with a 70mm camera. Lake Hulun Nur in the People's Republic of China is visible in the lower left portion of the frame. A portion of the work performed on the May 30 space walk by astronauts Tamara E. Jernigan and Daniel T. Barry is evident at various points on the ISS, including the installation of the Russian-built crane (called Strela) and the U.S.-built crane.
Image Number: 096-715-042
For print or commercial use, please contact: NASA
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