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http://www.emra-net.eu/download-pdf-aviation-weather-services-book-by-national-academies-press.pdf
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Each time we see grim pictures of aircraft wreckage on a rain-drenched crash site, or scenes of tired holiday travelers stranded in snow-covered airports, we are reminded of the harsh impact that weather can have on the flying public. This book examines issues that affect the provision of national aviation weather services and related research and technology development efforts. It also discusses fragmentation of responsibilities and resources, which leads to a less-than-optimal use of available weather information and examines alternatives for responding to this situation. In particular, it develops an approach whereby the federal government could provide stronger leadership to improve cooperation and coordination among aviation weather providers and users.The NWS did not give ASOS a lightning-detection capability because it anticipated that information on lightning and ... In contrast, human weather observers make hourly observations unless there is a major change that warrants making aanbsp;...
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US Marines Corps' two F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets collided Wednesday over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego in USA.
The single-seat F/A-18 Hornets collided during a daytime training mission over the ocean.
One of the pilots was able to land safely following the collision at nearby Naval Air Station North Island and the another pilot ejected safely from his jet and rescue crews were en route to recover him from chilly water, Fox News reported Wednesday.
The jets belong to the Third Marine Aircraft Wing based out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. The cause of the crash is under investigation, Officials said.
The collision follows an Oct. 25 crash involving another F/A-18 Hornet in the California desert. The pilot ejected without injuries before the jet crashed near the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, a sprawling base east of Los Angeles.
In July, another twin-engine Hornet went down during a training mission at the desert base, killing the pilot.
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On March 19, 2009, the crew of the Discovery flew around the International Space Station after undocking at the end of mission STS-119. They filmed this awesome video—which has been sped up—that shows the orbiting structure in amazing detail. It's hard to believe we built that thing—and at the same time, I wish we had a much larger one by now. Just like 2001.
More from Gizmodo
I don't think we're going to get a much larger space station (nor many more) until we build a space elevator or other drastically more economical method of getting materials into space.
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The sky is falling! Well…maybe not for 11 more years… "Asteroid 2011 MD" flew by Earth on Monday, June 27th—less than 8,000 miles away—but it will be back. Apparently, this bus-sized asteroid is on a similar orbit to Earth. The next time it cycles by Earth in 2022 the asteroid will be much closer than it was this time. Click here to read the full news story.
Homeschoolers @ the Library Presents: The Solar System
Come and unlock the mysteries of the gas giant planets of Jupiter and Saturn or the rocky planets of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth. Find out why Jupiter has a great red spot, and find out how Saturn got its rings. Discover why Earth has life and why the other planets don't.
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What do you get by extending your squit?
It’s the law. On January 1, 2020, all of us who fly in regulated airspace where a Mode C transponder is now required will need to have an FAA-approved ADS-B system onboard. What’s more, your transponder can be a key element in meeting the new avionics requirements.
ADS-B (which is short for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) technology will be replacing conventional radar-based surveillance as the primary method for identifying and tracking aircraft in U.S. airspace. Using the ADS-B datalink, each airplane will automatically transmit its precise position, its velocity (both vertically and horizontally), as well as its altitude and other information to controllers and other nearby aircraft. Each plane will need a WAAS-capable GPS receiver to provide the high-integrity location and flight path data for ADS-B networking.
Under the FAA’s new rules, only ADS-B “Out” transmission capability is required. There is no mandate for ADS-B “In.” However, this optional “In” capability — which receives the tracking data for display in the cockpit — should be a popular upgrade, since it can clearly enhance situational awareness by giving pilots a view of the same basic traffic data that ground controllers are monitoring on their scopes. Additional FAA inducements for adding ADS-B “In” include free datalink weather and various other flight information services.
The FAA has already begun to implement the nationwide infrastructure of ground stations needed to support ADS-B. By 2013, the FAA expects to have some 790 ground stations, linked through 4 data-control centers, providing full ADS-B coverage for more than 95 percent of the airspace over the contiguous United States.
On January 1, 2020, all of us who fly in regulated airspace where a Mode C transponder is now required will need to have an FAA-approved ADS-B system onboard.
ES takes you higher.
Even though it’s called a “Universal Access” transceiver, the 978 MHz UAT is actually less universal that the 1090 MHz “ES” transponder in terms of where it can fly and what airspace it can use.
For example, in its criteria for ADS-B “Out” compliance, the FAA will require 1090 ES transponders for aircraft operating higher than 18,000 ft MSL — while UAT is limited to aircraft that will operate no higher than 17,999 ft MSL. So far, no country except the U.S. has accepted the 978 MHz UAT format for their ADS-B datalinks. Consequently, pilots who want to fly outside the U.S. — or operate at or above FL180 — will need the 1090 ES transponder for ADS-B “Out”. Since the FAA has decided to retain its Mode C and Mode S transponder requirements for flight in regulated airspace (to provide a secondary radar backup to ADS-B, as well as communicate with other aircraft that have traffic warning systems), the 1090 ES solution can satisfy both the ADS-B “Out” and functioning transponder requirement with the same piece of equipment.
What is a “squitter” anyway?
If you’ve ever flown with a Mode S transponder, you’ve already done your fair share of “squittering.” By definition, the word “squitter” refers to a periodic burst or broadcast of aircraft-tracking data that is transmitted periodically by a Mode S transponder without interrogation from controller’s radar. Mode S ( which stands for mode “select”) technology was first developed in the mid-1970s as a way of using existing ground-based secondary surveillance radar (or SSR) to track onboard transponders more precisely and more efficiently — while reducing the number of interrogations required to identify and follow aircraft on the controller’s radar scope.
To greatly oversimplify the terminology, a “squawk” is a response a transponder makes to an ATC interrogation, while a “squit” is a transmission format that routinely sends aircraft ID and positional information without being interrogated. By reducing the need for back-and-forth interrogation/response over the air, the Mode S squitter works to minimize transmitted “chatter” in the system — and, thus, increase its target-handling capacity.
ES means more data per squit.
Under the current Mode S setup, a standard transponder squit only sends the most basic aircraft identification, system status and pressure altitude information — which ATC’s ground computers must correlate with radar tracking information to derive aircraft position, direction of flight, airborne velocity, vertical climb/descent, and so on.
Under the new ADS-B concept, each aircraft’s approved GPS navigation system will generate all of this data, and then transmit it at least once per second by means of an “extended squitter” — allowing ground controllers and other aircraft in the vicinity to track each airplane’s flight path with much greater precision and accuracy.
In fact, some 49 individual parameters can be sent over the extended squitter, compared to three for Mode C and seven for basic non-extended Mode S.
The “extended squitter” ES format is capable of carrying much more data than the basic “short squit” Mode S version. In fact, some 49 individual parameters can be sent over the extended squitter, compared to three for Mode C and seven for basic non-extended Mode S. (Note: The 978 MHz UAT “Out” has the same basic data transmission elements as ES — however, it uses a different frequency in the radio spectrum to broadcast the information.)
Eventually, when the transition to ADS-B is complete, the higher capacity ES datalink will allow controllers to see not only what each aircraft is doing, but what it intends to do. The route you have entered into your navigation system will be broadcast on the ES so controllers and other pilots can see where you intend to fly. With this futuristic technology, the clairvoyant mind-reading that some pilots seem to expect from ATC controllers won’t seem so unrealistic after all.
This briefing is provided for information purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal advice.
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OPM Press Releases
March 13th, 2017
Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. (OPM), a leader in advanced materials science and high performance additive manufacturing (HPAM™), today announced that it has received a Notice of Decision to Grant a Patent from the European Patent Office (EPO) for OPM’s invention on a "Customized Implant for Bone Replacement”, which leverages its OsteoFab® implant manufacturing process, originally filed on December 5, 2011. The patent, which took effect on December 21, 2016, will be valid until August 7, 2029, and enables OPM to apply its high-performance additive manufacturing process to 3D print customized implants for bone replacement.
February 3rd, 2017
Oxford Performance Materials Announces Second Round Investment from Hexcel Corporation
Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. (OPM), a leader in advanced materials science and high performance additive manufacturing (HPAM™), today announced that it has closed on an additional round of strategic investment from Hexcel Corporation (NYSE: HXL). In May 2016, OPM and Hexcel announced an initial strategic investment from Hexcel of $15 million. The second round of investment from Hexcel is $10 million, for a total equity investment of $25 million to date.
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn., Jan. 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. (OPM), a leading advanced materials and additive manufacturing (3D printing) company, has been selected by The Boeing Company to manufacture 3D-printed structures for the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, and OPM has begun shipping OXFAB® production parts for installation. The Starliner – designed to transport up to seven passengers, or a mix of crew and cargo, to low-Earth orbit destinations such as the International Space Station – is under development in collaboration with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. (OPM), announced today that it has closed on a strategic investment from Hexcel Corporation (NYSE:HXL). Hexcel, a fellow Connecticut-based company, is a leading supplier of advanced composites for commercial aerospace, space and defense and industrial applications, and OPM utilizes Hexcel carbon fiber in the production of its 3D printed OXFAB® ESD structural parts for a range of satellite and aerospace programs.
March 8th, 2016
Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. (OPM) announced that it has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2016, an annual list honoring leading enterprises and rising newcomers that exemplify the best in nimble business and impactful innovation. OPM was selected as one of the Most Innovative Companies by sector in the biotech category for the Company’s first-in-kind SpineFab® VBR implant system, which received 510(k) clearance from the FDA in July of 2015.
February 11th, 2016
Oxford Performance Materials Inc. (OPM), a leading advanced materials and additive manufacturing (3D printing) company, today announced that Paul Martin will retire from operational management of the company’s Aerospace & Industrial group and will chair a newly-formed Aerospace Executive Committee of the company’s Board of Directors, with a focus on strategy and market development for the rapidly expanding organization.
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5 December 1956 – A Northrop XSM-62 Snark, 53-8172, N-69D test model, fitted with a new 24-hour stellar inertial guidance system, launches from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida. It wanders off-course, ignores destruct command, disappears over Brazil. It is found by a farmer in January 1983. The Day They Lost the Snark By J.
Joe “Flew T-41, T-37 and T-38 White Rockets in pilot training class 68-G at Webb AFB, Big Spring TX.
Flew F-84F Thunderstreak in Ohio ANG, 1968-1971
Flew F-100 Super Sabre in Ohio ANG, 1971-1974
I spent my civilian career, including while I was a weekend warrior, at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB, working on propulsion and stealth technology development. After early retirement I started working for a small systems engineering company that supports base activities at WPAFB, and that’s where I am now.
Why did they affectionately call the F-84F the “Hog”? On a hot summer day, with two 450 gal tanks and the low thrust engine it had, the jet used every bit of Springfield’s 9000’ runway. But it was supersonic going straight down! When we got our Huns from VN they had lots of bullet holes in them. Both jets were great airplanes. My years flying the Thunderstreak and the Hun were the best.
“Outboard and back, for an easy light!””
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/flight-from-heathrow-to-hong-kong-makes-emergency-landing-in-siberia-after-fire-in-cargo-hold-a3402361.html
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Cathay Pacific flight CPX250 had left London around six hours before the crew had to take drastic action over fears of a blaze in the cargo hold.
The Boeing 777, carrying 214 passengers, was diverted to Novosibirsk in Russia where it landed on the snowy runway at around 12.20am on Wednesday.
Shocked passenger Michael Ots told the Standard: "The first thing we noticed was that the cabin crew were running around very frantically. Obviously everyone wakes up pretty fast when that happens.
"The pilot announced we were making a 'precautionary landing due to a techinical issue'.
"It was 15 minutes from the first we realised to landing at Novosibirsk. But the approach and landing were normal."
"It was strangely quiet though as obviously we didn't know what the issue was," he said.
"Since then we have waited for seven hours in the departure lounge and now at a hotel where we'll stay till a new flight arrives to take us on at midnight."
He went on: "Good to know that with Jesus our final destination is never in doubt and it's definitely better than #Siberia (no offence to Siberia ;)."
On Twitter, Cathay Pacific said the diversion had been a "precautionary measure" due to a "possible aft cargo hold fire."
A spokesman said: "At this time, there is no evidence that there was a fire at the aft cargo hold.
"The safety of the passengers and crew are our top priority. The flight landed safely and there was no report of injury to the 212 passengers or 18 crew on board of the Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
"We are now working to bringing the passengers and crew to Hong Kong as soon as possible."
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Florida [US], September 16 : American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX on Thursday launched the Falcon 9 carrier rocket that placed the Crew Dragon spaceship into orbit. This was the first-ever fully civilian crew mission dubbed as Inspiration4.
The launch took place at 00:03 GMT from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
“Dragon and the @inspiration4x astronauts are now officially in space! Dragon will conduct two phasing burns to reach its cruising orbit of 575km where the crew will spend the next three days orbiting planet Earth,” SpaceX tweeted later.
This mission is the first orbital mission in the history of spaceflight to be staffed entirely by non-astronauts. This journey will see the quartet free-flying through Earth’s orbit. (ANI)
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The Philippines Air Force, hampered by a long-term funding shortage and faced with the growing obsolescence of its combat fleet, has turned to its own workshops to perform low-cost upgrades and overhauls to return some of its stored fleet to service. The reworked aircraft are desperately needed as the Philippines has shifted its emphasis from national defense to internal security operations against various insurgent political factions.
An aircraft recovery program was launched in 1996, resulting in a slow but steady return of military aircraft from mothballs to the operational fleet, covering types such as the Siai-Marchetti SF-260 and S-211, Sikorsky UH-76 helicopters and Cessna T-41 trainers. The PAF’s recent restoration program has focused on the three principal combat types: the MD 520MG Defender, the Rockwell OV-10 Bronco and Bell UH-1 Huey.
Five armed Defenders were brought back to operational status during 2004 and 2005, a process that included the manufacture of parts that were no longer available on the open market. The work has swelled the numbers of Defenders in the 15th Strike Wing to 16, many of which are deployed to areas of political unrest.
Partnering the Defender in the counterinsurgency war is the Bronco. The survivors of the PAF’s original 24-aircraft OV-10A fleet were augmented in September 2003 by the Thai government’s is donation of eight OV-10Cs. A program was also initiated to overhaul and upgrade six of the OV-10As to a new OV-10M standard.
The Bronco Service Life Extension program was developed in cooperation with Marsh Aviation of the U.S. and mainly concerns a rework of its Garrett AiResearch T76-G-10/12 turboprops. Modified aircraft are fitted with four-bladed Hartzell propellers that significantly enhance performance. The first two aircraft were handed over in August last year and were deployed to the south of the country for evaluation in operational conditions. The four other aircraft are to be redelivered this year.
The Bronco fleet also has acquired new weapons in the form of a 20-mm cannon pod. The pod is produced locally and uses the gun from surplus Northrop F-5s. The F-5 was the PAF’s last jet fighter, but the fleet was grounded in 2002 following a fatal crash. Despite a comprehensive and favorable inspection of the fleet in 2004, the defense arm decided to permanently retire the F-5 last October.
The Bell UH-1 fleet of the 205th Tactical Helicopter Wing is the backbone of the counterinsurgency effort, providing rapid mobility for army and police teams. Based at Benito Ebuen air base on Mactan island, the unit operates around 40 Hueys.
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This image of Jupiter's southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed a close flyby of the gas giant planet on Dec. 16, 2017.
Juno captured this color-enhanced image at 10:24 a.m. PST (1:24 p.m. EST) when the spacecraft was about 19,244 miles (30,970 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds at a latitude of 49.9 degrees south -- roughly halfway between the planet's equator and its south pole. Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.
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Space travel company Virgin Galactic said that after reopening ticket sales in August, 100 people have already bought more expensive suborbital tickets. Thus, the company now has about 700 ticket holders for fast tourist flights into space. That’s about 300 less than the 1,000 tickets Virgin Galactic hoped to sell ahead of commercial flights.
However, Virgin Galactic says additional sales this quarter have been better than expected.
“We’re selling tickets ahead of schedule,” said Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazer. “The pricing strategy we announced last quarter has been well received.”
The tickets were offered to a group of people who made a refundable $ 1,000 deposit showing an interest in flying with Virgin Galactic. Early next year, the company will expand its ticketing options for people interested in flight information.
Virgin Galactic resumed ticket sales just a month after the company successfully launched billionaire Richard Branson into space in July. It was a hastily planned flight, taking place 9 days before rival Blue Origin’s flight. But in September it became known that Branson’s flight actually deviated from the approved trajectory during the return to Earth. The FAA temporarily suspended Virgin Galactic’s operations while investigating the incident, but eventually allowed the company to fly again in mid-September.
Even before the investigation was over, Virgin Galactic decided to resume ticket sales, claiming that there had been a “surge of consumer interest” following Branson’s flight. The company decided to sell tickets at a price of $ 450,000, significantly higher than the initial price of $ 250,000 announced during the first round of ticket sales several years ago.
The next manned flight was scheduled to take place in September – a flight called Unity 23. But in early September, Galactic announced the porting of Unity 23 after a third-party vendor “pointed out a potential manufacturing defect in a flight control component.” Galactic has decided to suspend its launch and inspect its aircraft. Then, in October, the company announced that it would not resume commercial flights until the end of 2022 due to the comprehensive modernization of its rocket planes.
A source: The verge
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Nearly a decade after the Air Force stood down the T-3A Firefly fleet following three fatal accidents, Air Force officials have made a final disposition decision to salvage the aircraft in place. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Three space fliers have safely touched down on Earth after almost six months aboard the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko all arrived at the station together for Expedition 49/50 mission in October 2016, and they reached solid ground this morning (April 10) at 7:20 a.m. EDT (1120 GMT) in Kazakhstan. They spent 173 days in space during their flight.
"It was a textbook touchdown," NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said during live NASA TV commentary after the landing. "The Soyuz was pulled by its main parachute onto its side, but the crew was quickly extracted and are in good shape."
Those monitoring the launch at Mission Control, and on NASA TV, had "some of the most spectacular video we've ever seen" of the capsule's journey down and landing on the cloudless steppe, Navias said — about 14 minutes of footage, from just after the chutes deployed to touchdown.
Kimbrough transferred command of the space station to NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson yesterday (April 9) before the trio left, making her the first woman to command the space station twice. (She was also the space station's first female commander, in 2008.)
After closing the hatch to the Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft near 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) this morning, the three undocked from the station about 3 hours later. Next, the spacecraft fired its main engine for 4.5 minutes starting at 6:28 a.m. EDT (1028 GMT) to slow down by 420 feet (128 meters) per second and finally leave orbit to return to Earth — in all, a much shorter journey than their two-day trip up to the station on that spacecraft last year. (The Soyuz can reach the station in as quickly as 6 hours, but on recent launches the arriving crewmembers have been testing features of the upgraded MS-02 spacecraft, and so took the longer route.)
Ryzhikov, who has now completed his first-ever space mission, commanded the Soyuz. Expedition 49/50 marked the second space missions for both Kimbrough and Ryzhikov. The three space travelers shared their ride home with science samples and other cargo along with personal items, according to NASA's space station blog.
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Still on board, Whitson, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy won't be alone for long: NASA's Jack Fischer and Russia's Fyodor Yurchikhin are set to launch April 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The two were monitoring this landing from the Cosmodrome, Navias said during the broadcast.
Kimbrough recently performed two spacewalks — one with Pesquet and one with Whitson — to prepare the space station to install a second International Docking Adaptor, which will one day let commercial vehicles dock with the space station. Right now, only the Soyuz can bring humans to the station and dock.
Sarah Lewin started writing for Space.com in June of 2015 as a Staff Writer and became Associate Editor in 2019 . Her work has been featured by Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Quanta Magazine, Wired, The Scientist, Science Friday and WGBH's Inside NOVA. Sarah has an MA from NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and an AB in mathematics from Brown University. When not writing, reading or thinking about space, Sarah enjoys musical theatre and mathematical papercraft. She is currently Assistant News Editor at Scientific American. You can follow her on Twitter @SarahExplains.
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Plasma magnets can create large-scale magnetic fields, useful in various applications
The Plasma Magnet Drive uses a low mass generator to produce large-scale magnetic fields. This is useful for various applications, most notably in spacecraft propulsion in the form of the plasma magnet drive (PMD).
The core structure of a plasma magnet consists of two pairs of charged, rotating coils (also referred to as antennas). These generate a rotating magnetic field which traps the stellar wind, creating a large ring current and thus a large-scale magnetosphere. Any thrust applied to the magnetosphere, such as from the stellar wind, is transmitted to the plasma magnet via the magnetic field, similar to the coupling of rotation in an electric motor.
The size of a plasma magnet-generated magnetosphere is negatively proportional to the stellar wind density. When the stellar wind density decreases (as occurs when moving further away from a star), the magnetosphere expands. As a result, a plasma magnet experiences constant thrust regardless of its distance from the star it orbits.
The principle advantage of the plasma magnet is its ability to form an enormous magnetic field using a relatively small device. Even a small, Information Age plasma magnet with coils 10 centimetres in diameter could produce a magnetosphere with a diameter of 30 kilometres. Modern plasma magnets, using larger coils made of advanced superconductors and powered by fusion or conversion reactors, can reach diameters in the thousands of kilometres.
While plasma magnets have various useful applications, particularly as a form of propulsion, they have two notable disadvantages when used as spacecraft drives. First, a single plasma magnet can only produce thrust away from a star: it cannot deflect the stellar wind at an angle like a solar sail or a conventional magnetic sail to produce thrust in other directions. This makes it only useful for accelerating outbound spacecraft or decelerating incoming vessels. However, this can be solved by using an array of plasma magnets, which can deflect the stellar wind at an angle. Second, a PMD that is driven solely by stellar wind is unable to greatly exceed the speed of the stellar wind* (measured in tens to thousands of kilometres/second, depending on the star and the spacecraft's position relative to it). This speed is adequate for interplanetary travel, but it is less suitable for interstellar journeys.
Many spacecraft use one or more arrays of PMDs as a primary or secondary drive system. These are often used to allow the spacecraft to be propelled by boostbeams, a method that overcomes the direction and maximum speed limitations of a PMD operating in isolation. Spacecraft transporting cargo that is not particularly urgent will often rely on the stellar wind alone for propulsion, reducing the burden on the boostbeam generators. Plasma magnet drives propelled by the stellar wind can offer thrust-to-weight ratios one or more orders of magnitude greater than ion drives or solar sails. While this is still lower than, (for example) a fusion rocket expelling reaction mass, PMDs have the advantage of not requiring any onboard reaction mass (since they use the stellar wind for this purpose).
Asteroid redirection: An array-based PMD can be attached to an asteroid to redirect it into a specific orbit, where it can be mined more easily. Additionally, it is possible to attach a long tether to an asteroid being mined, forming a rotovator which PMD-equipped spacecraft can then use. A PMD-equipped spacecraft on an outbound trajectory can dock with the end of the tether, pick up a payload of ore mined from the asteroid, then be swung by the tether onto an inbound trajectory; this is an alternative way to overcome the directional limitations of PMDs. However, using a tether constrains the spacecraft to relatively low speeds, to avoid over-stressing it.
In addition, asteroids on trajectories that could potentially lead them to strike inhabited worlds can be redirected by attaching a PMD to them. This is fuel-efficient and (with a single plasma magnet) provides thrust in a constant direction regardless of the asteroid's rotation.
Radiation shielding: The magnetosphere generated by a plasma magnet can stop charged particle radiation. However, it is not effective against neutrons or electromagnetic radiation (e.g. gamma rays). For long-term use, plasma magnet shielding must be supplemented by other forms of shielding and/or any passengers (or inhabitants, in the case of habitats) must be radiation-tolerant.
Aerobraking and landing: This involves the use of a dipole magnet, essentially a plasma magnet with non-rotating coils that produces a smaller magnetosphere and also requires the injection of gram quantities of plasma into said magnetosphere. When this magnetosphere contacts the atmosphere of a world, it traps the neutral atmosphere molecules and produces intense (kilonewton-level) drag. This allows propellant-less re-entry and descent on any world with an atmosphere, without needing a heavy heat shield (although an additional form of propulsion is needed for atmospheric flight and/or controlled touchdown).
Spacecraft that are designed for both interplanetary and surface-to-orbit transport have a plasma magnet that can double as a dipole magnet (by stopping its rotation), while spacecraft designed only for surface-to-orbit transport have just a dipole magnet system.
Using an array, it is possible to travel at an angle to the stellar wind and therefore achieve somewhat higher speeds, similar to how a sailing ship can travel faster than the wind by sailing at an angle to it.
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As the space race intensifies, China on Tuesday launched Shenzhou-16 spacecraft with a three-person crew to its orbiting space station. It is the fifth manned mission to the Chinese space outpost since 2021, state media reported.
The Shenzhou-16 or “Divine Vessel” spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China just after 9:30 a.m. (0130 GMT).
The launch was a "complete success" and the "astronauts are in good condition" said Zou Lipeng, director of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The Shenzhou-16 mission is led by Jing Haipeng, 56, China's senior spacecraft pilot. Including two trips as mission commander, he had travelled to space three times.
Jing flew along with Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao. Gui, a professor at Beihang University, will serve as a payload specialist engineer on the mission, while Zhu will serve as spaceflight engineer. Gui is the first civilian astronaut to travel to the space.
After completing the six-month mission, the crew now aboard the Tiangong station will be replaced by the new crew. The three-person crew in the Shenzhou-15 will now return to Earth after the mission.
The space programme officials on Monday said that they have plans to expand the space outpost along with launching a crewed mission to the moon before 2030. It was by the end of last year the station, comprising three modules was completed.
China has already made plans to make the next module a cross-shaped structure.
It was after exclusion from the International Space Station China built its own space station. The major reason behind it is believed to be largely due to US concerns over the Chinese space programmes' intimate ties with the People's Liberation Army, the military branch of the ruling Communist Party.
China's first manned space mission in 2003 made it the third country after the former Soviet Union and the US to put a person into space under its own resources.
(With agency inputs)
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Aircraft Composite Materials Testing
Composite use in Aircraft and Automobiles has exploded over the past several years. Composites are now used in a variety of safety-critical parts from large aircraft wing sections to very complex 3D components with very demanding inspection requirements. Krautkrämer composite inspection systems are designed specifically with two things in mind – find defects that could lead to part failures and do so at very high throughput rates to keep up with industry need.
We used to be GE Inspection Technologies, now we’re Waygate Technologies, a global leader in NDT solutions with more than 125 years of experience in ensuring quality, safety and productivity.
Aircraft Composite Materials Testing Solutions
Krautkrämer Hydrastar Robotic
Hydrastar robotic inspection system for complex composite parts
Automated robotic aerospace component inspection
Krautkrämer Hydrastar is our robot-based automated ultrasonic platform for the inspection of complex composite aerospace structures. Krautkrämer Hydrastar systems are complete turnkey solutions available in single and dual robot configurations with optional linear slides and turntables to inspect a wide variety of component geometries.
The Krautkrämer Hydrastar design incorporates several patented technologies including wide-area phased array squirters and reverse phasing surface adaptation. The result is industry-leading productivity.
- Industry standard, high accuracy six-axis robots with optional x-axis rails and turntable
- Industry leading phased array ultrasonic applications
- Application tooling for high throughput pulse echo and through transmission scanning
- Common ultrasonic instrument and software platform for conventional and phased array ultrasonic testing
- Outstanding, high dynamic range ultrasonic testing performance
- Simple operation by a single operator
- Advanced software tools for inspection analysis and automated report generation
- Semi-automated application tool selection and attachment to the robot
High Throughput Application Tools
- Conventional TTU Squirters available in single or dual frequency configurations
- Wide Area Phased Array TTU Squirters
- Phased Array Skin Bubbler
- Phased Array Inside Radius Bubbler
- Phased Array Outside Radius Bubbler
- Phased Array Stringer Bubbler
- All phased array tools are Reverse Phasing Contour Adaptation capable to follow changing geometry by measuring real-time Time of Flight variation
Automated ultrasonic composite airframe inspection solution
Krautkrämer Rokstar is the ultimate ultrasonic inspection solution for aerospace composite structures. This hybrid machine combines the dimensional control of Cartesian gantry systems with the flexibility of articulating robot solutions. The result is a rock-solid, 13 axis scanning system with a wide operating range capable of accurately and efficiently inspecting a variety of fabricated parts from large relatively planar wing skins to small complex 3D components.
• Robust industrial design to maintain tight dimensional control while scanning
• Broad selection of phased array tooling for rapid scanning of radii, skins, and stringers in both pulse echo and through transmission.
• Robotic wrists on both Y-axis for complex contour following
• Common ultrasonic instrument and software platform for conventional and phased array ultrasonic testing
• Reverse Phasing Contour Adaption capable to follow changing geometry by measuring real-time Time of Flight variation
Outstanding, high dynamic range ultrasonic testing performance
• Industry leading scan uniformity across large parts
• Rapid throughput Phased Array ultrasonic part scanning
• Simple operation by a single operator
• Advanced software tools for inspection analysis and automated report generation
• Quick change application tool selection and attachment to the scanning axes
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Back in October, Cessna’s CEO Scott Ernest stated that the company’s light sport Skycatcher had “no future.”
Me … I dunno, I really wanted to like the aircraft. I flew it, it was okay. It wasn’t anything overly spectacular. The only thing that really stood out was the remarkably high price for a Chinese-built airplane.
Maybe it was a case of bad timing. Back in 2007, Cessna announced that they’d received 850 orders. By 2008, they had 1,000. By then, though, the economy was heading into the tank. But, a sub-$100,000 light sport aircraft was still attracting buyers. That’s what we were all promised in 2006.
And then the price jumped to $109,500 for the first 1,000 planes in 2007.
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ExecuJet is today celebrating the opening of its first Mexican fixed-based operation at Del Norte International Airport in Monterrey, Mexico. The state-of-the-art facility, which began operating this week, offers the largest handling area at Del Norte’s General Aviation Terminal (GAT) and also boasts the largest hangar in the north of...Read more
ExecuJet Africa is celebrating its prestigious status as operator of the first ever jet to land at St Helena Airport (HLE) in the South Atlantic Ocean. A team of five Air Safety Support International (ASSI) representatives were among those who conducted an on-site audit of St Helena Airport, led by Justin Rothwell, senior aerodrome...Read more
ExecuJet announced an extended Line Maintenance capability for EASA registered aircraft at its base in Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria. In partnership with Maintenance Centre Malta (MCM), ExecuJet now supports a larger fleet of different aircraft types from Bombardier, Dassault and Hawker in the West Africa...Read more
ExecuJet Aviation Group is expanding its European managed fleet with the addition of a brand new Gulfstream G650 aircraft and one Gulfstream G550 aircraft. Niclas von Planta, ExecuJet’s Vice President, Europe, says: “As we continue to receive positive feedback and referrals from our customers globally, we are experiencing very high...Read more
NAS-ExecuJet, a partnership between ExecuJet Middle East and National Air Services (NAS Holding) expanded its FBO services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the opening of an additional FBO facility in the Royal Terminal at King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, on 10 February 2016. The FBO expansion at the Royal Terminal, utilised by...Read more
ExecuJet Middle East, part of ExecuJet Aviation Group, is celebrating extended Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approval for maintenance operations at the company's facilities at Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport. The new approvals cover base and line maintenance activities on Embraer Phenom...Read more
Vertis Aviation and ExecuJet, two of Switzerland's leading business aviation providers, announced today they will introduce the first European-based Gulfstream G650 to the charter market. The revered intercontinental range G650 business jet will be delivered to Vertis Aviation AG and readied to start revenue flying on ExecuJet's AOC immediately in...Read more
Zürich-headquartered ExecuJet Aviation Group, which is attending the Singapore Airshow for the first time, will be increasing its presence in Asia in 2014. Speaking at the Singapore Airshow, Graeme Duckworth, ExecuJet Asia's Managing Director, said: "The rapidly growing number of business jets in Asia has created the need for greater...Read more
ExecuJet Australasia, part of ExecuJet Aviation Group, is expanding the company's charter fleet with the addition of its first Gulfstream G650, based in Wellington, New Zealand. The aircraft is the first G650 available for charter in the region and brings the company's total number of charter aircraft to eight (8) The Gulfstream G650 has a...Read more
ExecuJet Asia is expanding its fleet of managed aircraft with the addition of its first Bombardier Global 6000 ultra-long-range business jet. The brand new aircraft, which will be based in Singapore, joins the ExecuJet fleet in March and will be managed for the exclusive use of its owner. The contract represents the latest notable win for...Read more
ExecuJet Malaysia is celebrating its approval as a Part 145 maintenance facility by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Based at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Kuala Lumpur, ExecuJet Malaysia is a Bombardier Authorised Service facility and a limited Gulfstream Authorised Warranty facility. ExecuJet Malaysia provides maintenance support...Read more
2016 weren’t easy for airlines around the globe that continue to struggle with ways of finding pilots to fill cockpit seats. 2017 is expected to be an even more pressing year, as Boeing, Airbus and other manufacturers keep accelerating their production, while the already small pool of qualified FOs and PICs grows at a significantly slower pace....
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Detalii JocSimple and fun space game. Fly in circles and avoid crashing into the enemy ships. Complete the missions and fly through the galaxy. Survive as long as you can. Speed up or slow down, just don't crash and have fun. Can you unlock and fly with all the spaceships available? Get ready, pilot!
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AIR Glide Sensor Unit
The heart of every AIR Glide installation, the sensor unit contains all sensors and an IGC certified flight recorder. It computes vario, airspeed, instantaneous wind, air mass movement, GPS-Position, magnetic heading and attitude.
Our AIR Glide sensor unit is a sophisticated sensor platform, that integrates 14 different sensors and a fully IGC certified flight recorder in a compact device. With a combination of these sensors, the relative air-mass movement and airflow around the aircraft is measured in real time. Independent of his flight direction the pilot sees real time air-mass and wind data updated every second.
The unit contains 3D accelerometers, 3D rate gyros, 3D compass sensors, and a highly accurate GPS receiver. This makes the Sensor Unit a full-scale inertial measurement unit. These sensors, combined with 4 pressure sensors for cockpit, TE, static and dynamic pressure, generate a vast amount of data that is processed in advanced sensor fusion algorithms to compute the aircrafts current attitude, speed, position, and to determine current wind and vertical airmass movement.
Small and versatile
Even though its packed with technology, the sensor unit is very small. This makes installation within its requirements (straight, level and without too much magnetic interference) easier to accomplish. The data interface and power supply works with a single cable with robust industrial technology cables and connectors. Cable lengths of over 10m are possible. Flights from the integrated IGC Logger can be downloaded from any connected display unit.
Live Wind - a new dimension in wind calculation
The permanent computation of wind direction and strength (we call this "live wind") helps pilots interpret their surroundings in a new way. You can see how wind becomes weaker or still in the center of lift and how air flows into and out of a thermal. Local wind systems in mountainous regions can be easily discovered.
The vertical airmass information (VAM) offers a view, independent of gusts, on the current vertical airflow, and is desinged to be easier to interpret and less prone to wrong indications than average netto variometer signals.
AIR Glide Sensor unit and conventional variometer in comparison
Average Variometer works principally by using
- changes in pressure between static pressure, absolute pressure and TE-pressure.
- sometimes acceleration is also used
Butterfly Variometer works principally by using
- changes in pressure between static pressure, absolute pressure and TE-pressure
- Inertial measurement unit computing 3D-position in real-time comparing 14 different sensors
- Sophisticated data integrity sensing.
- Dimensions: 84 x 77 x 26 mm
- 3D Acceleration, 3D rate gyro, 3D compass
- GPS (60 Channels)
- dynamic pressure, cabin pressure, static pressure, TEK-pressure
- temperature probe
- Supply via CANaerospace Bus
- approx. 60mA at 12V
- RS232 NMEA via RJ45 (for IGC calibration/readout)
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Cyber training facility
AFRL Seeks to Develop Space Domain Cybersecurity Training Range
Thomas Parisi, a program manager at the AFRL Information Directorate, said the Stellar Space Cyber Range will replicate a real-world satellite operations center that will allow military researchers and operators to practice efforts to protect satellites from attacks. The training range plan comes in response to a demand for cyber defense training aimed at satellite networks.
AFRL will work with the nonprofit research and development company Stephenson Stellar Corp. to develop the range. Stephenson Stellar received a $22.7 million contract in 2021 to develop the range, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
According to Parisi, AFRL plans to launch four CubeSats to low-Earth orbit to support the training range. The satellites are slated for launch in the fiscal year 2024.
Jeff Moulton, president of Stephenson Stellar, shared that while the satellites have been built, some aspects of the project have not yet been funded. According to Moulton, funding for satellite launches and cloud-based ground stations, which is estimated at around $18 million, could come from the Space Systems Command, the Space Development Agency or other organizations within the U.S. Space Force.
Parisi said having actual hardware in space will have greater benefits to cybersecurity officials in that operators and researchers will have an actual space to test solutions instead of just relying on a laboratory.
Tags: Air Force Research Laboratory cyber range cybersecurity SpaceNews Stephenson Stellar Corp Thomas Parisi US Space Force
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AOPA President Phil Boyer and Art Keefe
May 21, 2004 — Since the beginning, AOPA has been dedicated to improving general aviation safety. In 1950, the association created the AOPA Air Safety Foundation with the exclusive mission of providing safety research and education. These activities are funded by contributions from safety-minded pilots and organizations.
Thursday evening, the Air Safety Foundation's advisory board paid special honor to Art Keefe, who in the past 10 years has significantly increased ASF's funding and endowments, giving the foundation the resources to expand its activities and develop innovative new safety programs, such as interactive online training programs.
Art Keefe joined the Air Safety Foundation in 1995 to direct funding development. For nearly a decade, he has brought innovation and creativity to the foundation's giving programs. Through his efforts, ASF now has a $3 million endowment to help ensure continued funding of safety programs.
Long before there was eBay, Keefe created the ASF Online Auction that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. The popular ASF calendar was another Keefe innovation.
As the vice president for Planned Giving, Keefe created programs and sought out opportunities for significant gifts to the Air Safety Foundation. Some of these individual gifts have exceeded $500,000.
He created the AOPA Life Member and Life Hat in the Ring Society programs. More than 30 Life Hat in the Ring members have made commitments of $25,000 or more (some have contributed more than $100,000) so far.
For Art Keefe's significant contributions to the mission of the Air Safety Foundation, the ASF Board of Visitors (prominent members of the aviation community who volunteer their expertise to help guide ASF programs) made him an Honorary Life Member of the Hat in the Ring Society. Board of Visitor members Michael Lazar, James Robins, Thomas W. Haas, Lessing Stern, Lester T. Mumford, and AOPA contributed more than $35,000 to ASF in Keefe's honor.
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Bombardier Business Aircraft has announced Arabasco as an Authorized Service Facility (ASF) for the Challenger 605 aircraft customers based in or flying to Saudi Arabia.
Under the ASF agreement, Arabasco will offer Bombardier Business Aircraft customers a range of maintenance services from its maintenance facility located at the Private Aviation Terminal of King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah.
“This agreement will provide our customers across Saudi Arabia and surrounding countries with more access to support,” said Éric Martel, president, Bombardier Business Aircraft.
There are 100 Bombardier Business Aircraft in the Middle East. Arabasco will join a network of more than 50 ASFs worldwide and work in close collaboration with Bombardier’s maintenance network of service centres.
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I agree with both suggestions. Thank You. I did a little testing over the past two days. First I maintain almost 95% of my flights with a long enough turn around that it's at 1% or less. With that said I then decided on several flights to go in and add an extra 10 minutes on the turn around time. I addition since many of my planes fly a minimum of 3 flights a day some as many as 4 or 5 I decided to space each flight out by 10 minutes. I then let the game cycle through two weeks and checked those flights. On 75% of the flights I did this through it reduced the delay time. However on a few it still exists, but no longer listed as 'turnaround' instead its now weather or air traffic. I'm going to continue to do limited tests to see if it effects it better. I guess I'm questioning it because I see large airlines like Grav Airlines (232 planes) and Nova Sky (227 planes) with on time numbers of 92.9% and 93.4% respectively. I don't understand how it can be so high. I'm a numbers guy so I'm looking at the on time number, the delay times and the difference in income the company received when it rose.
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A timely flight to Jupiter
The Weizmann Institute of Science will have a direct line to Jupiter, if all goes according to plan, sometime in the year 2030.
Dr. Yohai Kaspi of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is the principal investigator on an experiment that will be sent to that planet aboard the JUICE (JUpiter ICy satellite Explorer) spacecraft, a mission planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the properties of the Solar System’s largest planet and several of its moons.
This experiment, one of 11 to be included in the mission, known as 3GM (Gravity & Geophysics of Jupiter and Galilean Moons), is a collaboration between Dr. Kaspi’s team and scientists from the University of Rome. The Israeli group, with funding from Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology, is providing an atomic clock built by the Israeli company AccuBeat; the Italian team will add a radio beam. When focused on the planet, the beam will penetrate the upper layers of its atmosphere, and the clock will time the radio waves as they pass through the planet’s atmosphere.
This set-up will give researchers valuable information on the composition of Jupiter’s atmosphere. During scheduled “flybys” of three of Jupiter’s moons, the apparatus will measure variations in the gravitational fields, which are expected to help researchers map the liquid oceans that are thought to lie deep beneath their frozen exteriors. Many planetary scientists think that if life on other planets is found - most likely microorganisms—it will be found in these oceans.
Working with AccuBeat, a designer and manufacturer of timing devices used in aerospace, defense, and telecommunications, Dr. Kaspi and his team are currently planning the assembly of a clock that is so accurate it would lose less than a second in 100,000 years, and strong enough to survive the eight-year one-way trip and still function in the harsh conditions of space. Their design was recently approved for flight by ESA, but launch day is six years away—in 2022—and there is plenty of planning yet to be done.
“This will be the first-ever Israeli-built instrument to go beyond Earth’s orbit,” says Dr. Kaspi. “These measurements will allow us to learn valuable information about the structure of Jupiter’s atmosphere and about what is driving the strong jet streams and storms on this planet.”
Dr. Yohai Kaspi is funded by The Helen Kimmel Center for Planetary Science.
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-- A secretive space plane owned by the United States Air Force launched this morning on its fourth mission to space.
Strapped atop an United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, the X-37B space plane had a smooth ascent into space, quickly reaching Mach 1 -- the speed of sound -- as it traveled to its place in low Earth orbit.
While it is not known how long the plane's fourth mission will last, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said last month the plane will be testing a Hall thruster, a type of propulsion system that could one day be used to power spacecraft on long-haul missions.
Like the space shuttle, the X-37B lands on runways, though it does so without pilots at the helm.
The plane touched down last October at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, marking the end of its third mission and 674 consecutive days in space.
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The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is joining the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Task Force to develop a streamlined registration process for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
The task force will be composed of 25 to 30 diverse representatives from the UAS and manned aviation industries, the federal government, and other stakeholders. The group will advise the Department on which aircraft should be exempt from registration due to a low safety risk, including toys and certain other small UAS. The task force also will explore options for a streamlined system that would make registration less burdensome for commercial UAS operators.
The association is welcoming the opportunity to join this task force of government and industry stakeholders. “This collaborative effort to develop an efficient process for UAS registration should lead to increased accountability across the entire aviation community,” says Brian Wynne, president and CEO of AUVSI.
Under the Federal Aviation Administration’s proposed small UAS rules released earlier this year, commercial operators would be required to register their platforms. Wynne says extending the requirement to other UAS users will help promote responsibility and safety.
“In addition to UAS registration, it is essential for the FAA to finalize its small UAS rules as quickly as possible,” Wynne says. “Once this happens, we will have an established framework for UAS operations, allowing anyone who follows the rules to fly. Considering that safety is at stake, time is of the essence to finalize the rules.”
The world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of unmanned systems and robotics, AUVSI represents more than 7,500 members from 60-plus allied countries involved in the fields of government, industry and academia. AUVSI members work in the defense, civil and commercial markets.
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Following the engine failure of United’s 777 last week, the FAA has requested an immediate grounding of all Boeing 777 aircraft equipped with the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. The particular engine comes with hollow fan blades, which are believed to be the cause for the incident last week. The FAA will be conducting thermal inspections on the engine over the next several weeks to determine if the engine will be safe and worthy to fly. The grounding of Boeing 777s equipped with this specific engine is the second grounding of Boeing aircraft in the last few years, although in this case, it is the engine manufacturer’s fault, not Boeing’s.
Reason For Grounding
The decision to ground all Boeing 777s equipped with the Pratt & Whitney engines comes after several accidents involved with this type of aircraft in the past. The grounding does not solely come from this one incident last week. For example, back in 2018, another United 777 equipped with the PW4000 experienced an almost identical accident to last week’s one, when one of its engines failed and parts fell off. That 2018 flight shares some striking similarities with the flight last week, not to mention that it was also heading to Honolulu. Another example of trouble with the PW4000 engine involves a Japan Airlines flight back in December of 2020. The same type of 777 with Japan Airline experienced an engine failure after two fan blades broke off the engine, which is the same cause of the accident last week with United. These accidents cumulatively prove that an issue with the PW4000 engine is apparent; they were not just one-time mistakes that randomly happened.
The poor and faulty function of these Pratt & Whitney engines could possibly be related to the aircraft being in storage for so long during the pandemic. Coincidently, on the exact same day of the United engine failure last week, a 747 aircraft in the Netherlands powered with a smaller version of the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines also experienced an engine failure and dropped metal parts over the city. This occurrence was very similar to the United engine failure on that same day. Furthermore, in the week following these incidents, a Delta Airlines 757 made an emergency landing in Salt Lake City after an indicator warned the pilots of a possible issue with the engine. The aircraft in this emergency landing was also powered by engines from Pratt & Whitney.
In the meantime, Boeing has supported the FAA in the grounding of that specific type of Boeing 777 aircraft. As of last week, there were 69 of these planes in service and 59 in storage. United Airlines is the only US carrier to have these aircraft in their fleet. As of now, United, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, and All Nippon Airways have all grounded their 777 fleets with this engine. These grounding won’t cause too much damage to airlines, as these types of 777 are only a small portion of their entire fleet.
After all of this news about the 777, is the aircraft still safe to fly? The answer is a solid yes! There are several different variants of the 777, and the 777 affected by the grounding is just one type out of others. Boeing 777s are powered by an array of engines from several different manufacturers such as General Electric, Rolls Royce, and Trent. Most 777s are still reliable and safe to fly. But for now, it is fortunate that the 777 incident happened now with such minor severity, rather than later. If this engine failure had happened later and if people had not been as lucky as the passengers on the United flight, catastrophic and fatal events could have happened, especially with a plane as large as the 777. It is lucky that the FAA can take action now, so that possible future incidents from this could be prevented.
Cover image credited to CBC
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Australia By Air has a broad range of experience and is an industry leader specialising in connecting Australia’s major cities and towns to its regional and remote communities.
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Fly-in fly-out is very commonly used in the mining industry,as mines are often in areas far from towns. The employees are flown by private charter to the mine site, where they work for several days, and are then flown back to their hometowns for their rest days. Employers prefer FIFO services when the cost of establishing permanent communities (of sufficient quality to attract families to live locally) would exceed the cost of corporate aircraft charter, airfares and temporary housing on the work site.
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Yesterday, the governments of Canada and its Quebec province finalized plans announced earlier this year to pump more than C$2 billion in direct grants and loans into the country’s aerospace sector, with some well-known OEMs, including Pratt & Whitney, Bell, and CAE, primed to receive up to $685 million. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the aid was part of the country’s “strategic investments” to promote a green economy and assist in the “profound transformation” of the nation’s aerospace industry, which supports 235,000 direct and indirect jobs.
Funds to be provided include nearly $70 million to Pratt & Whitney Canada to support ongoing work for a $163 million hybrid-electric aircraft engine propulsion project; $275 million for Bell Textron Canada for the Viridis hybrid-electric helicopter technology; and $340 million for CAE to acquire electric training aircraft and implement a global R&D program encompassing digital technology, electric aviation, and health care over the next five years.
Smaller aerospace firms would also benefit. Trudeau concurrently announced the launch of the Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative (ARRI) through a federal investment of $250 million over three years. The ARRI is designed to provide funding to small and medium-sized businesses and organizations in the aerospace sector “to help them become cleaner, more innovative, and more productive,” according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s office.
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Local students attend space camp in Alabama
If you call Katarina Vucenovic, Alexander Metcalf and John Kay space cadets they won't mind.
That's because the trio were among the fortunate few who attended the almost out of this world Honeywell Leadership Challenge Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, in Huntsville, Ala.
Honeywell developed the academy for children of its employees to address STEM education needs of students around the world, according to its information.
Kay of Kinnelon, Vucenovic of Lincoln Park and Metcalf of West Milford represented North Jersey at the camp held last week. There were 12 students from New Jersey chosen to attend.
"It was life-changing for him," said John Kay's father John who works at Honeywell. "He said it was the best thing he's ever done in his life." His son agreed.
The Kinnelon High School junior said he's always been interested in planes and rockets. He plans to attend a school for engineering and has long thought about designing plans or rockets.
"I knew that I wanted to do this before (the Honeywell academy)" the younger John Kay said. "This really reinforced it."
It took two tries for John Kay to get accepted into the program. After being denied last year, he said he really "applied himself" and was accepted into the program.
His reward was a week of hard work with like-minded peers that included a mock extra-vehicle activity (spacewalk), a spin on the centrifuge, and designing his own rocket. He met people at the top of their field including real rocket scientist eager to help future engineers literally reach for the stars.
John Kay said it probably won't just be NASA that gets heavily involved in spacing endeavors, but private companies too including Space X or Virgin Galactic. He said he would "absolutely love" to design the next generation of jets or rockets.
Lincoln Park's Katarina Vucenovic, who attends Boonton High School's Gateway Academy said she particularly enjoyed the flight simulators that made her feel as though she was in the cockpit of an F-18 or space shuttle.
"It was such a thrill to be able to pilot a fighter plane and work with my team to take out opponents and enemy bases," Vucenovic said. "For my team’s shuttle mission to the moon, I was chosen to be the shuttle commander...It was quite an experience to be in charge of such a vessel and to have the fate of our mission in my hands. It greatly tested my leadership skills and ability to work under pressure."
Perhaps more importantly, the experience opened her eyes to the opportunities of studying STEM-related subjects the next generation will get to tackle.
"(The program) presented to us information about a Mars mission in the works currently, as well as the designs for the space craft; featuring an inflatable/expandable deep space habitats for astronauts," she said.
Vucenovic said she is pursuing a career in the medical field and would enter a space program as a medical officer.
"I think it would be a life changing," she said of going into outer space. "I would love to see what our planet looks like from the outside, with all of the lights shining from major cities around the world as well as the view of aurora borealis in the North Pole from space. A walk on the moon would be pretty cool too, or even a tethered spacewalk around the shuttle."
The local trio joined students from 27 states and 45 countries and given the opportunity to participate in the same training simulations as NASA astronauts.
That's the point, said Dr. Deborah Barnhart, CEO and executive director, USSRC.
"They bring the best of their diverse cultures to Space Camp, where they will use teamwork and technology to prepare them for a future they have yet to imagine," Barnhart said.
The leadership academy, said President of Honeywell Hometown Solutions Michael Bennett, runs two one-week long events and is meant to inspire students to become tomorrow's science, math and engineering leaders.
"We want to give these students a passion to fuel their generation's technological contributions to the world," Bennett said.
The third student, Metcalf, of West Milford, was not available to be interviewed.
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A rocket ferrying an Earth-observing satellite is set to launch on a mission to measure the saltiness of the ocean from space.
The Delta 2 rocket is scheduled to blast off at 7-20 a.m. (10-20 a.m. EDT) Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base after a 24-hour delay so crews could review an issue with the rocket’s flight plan.
Weather looks good for lift-off.
The Argentine-built satellite carries a NASA instrument that will chart changes in ocean salt levels over three years. Other instruments from Canada, France and Italy will collect environmental data.
Scientists hope the $400 million mission will help better predict future climate change and short-term climate phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina.
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Mig 29 Fulcrum
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Nonetheless, it is very agile, with excellent instantaneous and sustained turn performance, high-alpha capability, and a general resistance to spins. United Press International. In addition, a newer models have been fitted with port-side inflight refueling probes, allowing much longer flight times by using a probe-and-drogue system. This is particularly important when operating from poorly prepared airfields. Summary Most Helpful Recent Funny.
Learn more Hover over the logos to learn more about the companies who made this project possible. While moving on the ground, the air intakes are closed and air is fed through the louvres on the upper surface of the wing root to prevent ingestion of foreign objects from the runway. Emphasis seems to have been placed on making the cockpit similar to the earlier MiG and other Soviet aircraft for ease of conversion, rather than on ergonomics. Encyclopedia of Modern Military Aircraft.
This defaults to your Review Score Setting. During flight, the open air intakes feed air to the engines. The small Serbian MiG fleet along with other jets were grounded for four months during Summer due to a battery procurement issue. Russia denies that the aircraft was theirs and says they did not have any pilots in the air that day.
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India also awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to Israel Aircraft Industries to provide avionics and subsystems for the upgrade. For other uses, see MiG disambiguation.
Reports afterward were contradictory whether he ejected or not. About Rheinmetall Electronics Rheinmetall offers extensive simulation and training solutions for the air force industry. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Twin-engine jet fighter aircraft. The cockpit features a conventional centre stick and left hand throttle controls.
The aircraft was piloted by a Russian mercenary. Innovations unique to the aircraft allow MiG pilots to perform remarkable moves like the Tailslide and Cobra maneuvers.
Most of the planes appeared to be in inoperable condition. The first five MiGs will be upgraded and flight-tested in Russia and the other aircraft will be upgraded in India with Russian technical assistance. They were compatible with Kh and Kh guided air to ground missiles and R guided air to air missiles. Follow this company Follow the company to be always up to date with this company. This project forms part of our recent analysis and forecasts of the global military aircraft market available from our business information platform Strategic Defence Intelligence.
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The deal successfully went ahead and Yemen also received two additional jets from Kazakhstan. One MiG was damaged, and four were evacuated to Iran.
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This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge to operate a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) in excluded sub-2 kg category operations. It includes operating within the relevant regulatory requirements of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).
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Analysing the properties of carbon fibre reinforced polymer (cfrp) parts to understand impact on mechanical performance
Carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) parts play an important role in reducing the structural weight of an aircraft. They are manufactured using automated fibre placement (AFP) machines, which enable aerospace companies to produce CFRP parts such as tail cones or wing skin panels relatively quickly.
When producing large aircraft structural parts, defects can arise during the AFP manufacturing process. These may affect the mechanical properties of the final CFRP composite part. When placing composite strips on a double curved surface, for example, robots might have to cut tows and restart, resulting in misalignment and gaps in the finished material.
Given the structural importance of CFRP parts in aircraft today, aerospace manufacturers need to be able to analyse and understand the impact of any defects that arise. Hexagon’s computer-aided engineering (CAE) software enables manufacturers to do that by pulling data directly from the AFP control software to conduct a structural analysis of the composite using a micromechanical model. This helps manufacturers to ensure quality by automatically simulating and assessing the final part’s mechanical properties and performance.
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Chinese rover will land on Mars on Saturday night
The Chinese Mars rover Zhurong should land on Mars in the next few hours. It is currently attached to the Tianwen-1 orbiter, according to The Daily Mail.
The Zhurong apparatus is named after an ancient Chinese god. The capsule will begin its descent at 7:11 PM ET (03:11 AM ET). Experts note that during the decline, he will face “seven minutes of horror”.
This term is used to describe the extreme conditions in which the device finds itself when it enters the atmosphere of Mars and as it approaches the surface. During this time, the team of scientists on Earth completely loses contact with him.
At first, the capsule with the Zhurong apparatus will descend at a speed of more than 19 thousand kilometers per hour. But he will have to slow down to zero within seven minutes to land.
The creators of the device used a different technology than NASA in preparing the Perseverance mission. Instead of a sky crane, they relied on engines at the base of the ship to slow the descent.
If the mission is successful, China will become the third country to “land” on the Red Planet after the USSR and the USA. According to plans, the rover should land in the same area as NASA's Viking-2 mission in 1976 – on the Utopia Plain. Once on a solid surface, the descent vehicle will open the ramp, from where the rover itself will roll out.
China has not disclosed its plans for the Zhurong mission. In the area of its landing there are vast deposits of ice – the rover is likely to study them.
Earlier it was reported that Perseverance has embarked on a search for extraterrestrial life. He works in the Jezero crater.
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The Fokker 50 was the successor to Fokker's F27 Friendship turboprop airliner; the company announced development of the new version in November 1983. The Fokker 50 is based on the fuselage of the F27, but design changes included the addition of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW125 turboprops driving six blade Dowty Rotol props that gave a 12 per cent higher cruising speed, greater fuel economy and thus range. These replaced the original Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops. There were new avionics and an EFIS glass cockpit, limited use of composites, small Foklet winglets and more cabin windows.
Two prototypes were built based on F27 airframes, the first flying on 28 December, 1985. The first production aircraft flew on 13 February, 1987 and certification was granted in May 1987. The first customer delivery took place three months later, more than a year after the final F27 delivery.
The Fokker 50 is capable of operations from unpaved surfaces and of performing steep airport approaches.
In March 1996, production was terminated as the company went into liquidation and the final Fokker 50 was delivered in 1997.
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We are a small general aviation aircraft maintenance, modification and repair facility specializing in Cessna 100 / 200 series aircraft, with a focus on Cessna 170/180/185 airframe repair.
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https://www.legit.ng/1195222-naf-pilot-buried-cas-sets-panel-probe-military-jet-crash.html
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The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar has instituted an air crash investigation to determine the remote and immediate causes behind the ill fated crash of the military jet that claimed the life of one pilot.
This was disclosed in statement by Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, the director of public relations and information headquarters f the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Friday, September 28.
Two Nigerian Air Force (NAF) F-7Ni aircraft taking part in the rehearsals for the aerial display to mark Nigeria’s 58th Independence Anniversary Celebrations were involved in an air incident on Friday, September 28.
The air mishap necessitated the 3 pilots to eject from their aircraft, which subsequently crashed in the general area of Katamkpe Hill.
Regrettably, however, one of them later died due to complications from injuries sustained upon impact on the ground. Thankfully, there were no civilian casualties.
Air Marshal Abubakar, on behalf of officers, airmen and airwomen of the NAF, commiserates with the family of the deceased officer.
Meanwhile, the remains of Squadron Leader Bello Mohamed Baba-Ari, the pilot who died during the crash involving two Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on Friday, September 28, was laid to rest at exactly 5:50pm at the Gudu cemetery, Abuja according to Islamic rites.
The body of the pilot arrived the cemetery in a Nigerian Air Force ambulance marked AF 442 at exactly 5:40pm.
The burial ceremony was graced by the Chief of Air Staff; Air Vice Marshal Saddique Abubakar, Secretary to the Government of the Federation; Boss Mustapha, Special Adviser to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, colleagues and family of deceased.
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Legit.ng had earlier reported that as part of the 58th Independence Day celebration, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has started aerial display in Abuja.
NAF called on Abuja residents not to panic as jets will be flying low. It said the aerial display will continue till October 2.
The clarification came after some news media (not Legit.ng) had earlier reported that fighter jets caused a scare at the National Assembly forcing staff at the complex to flee.
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The Mig-3 was an improvement over the very poor performing Mig-1 model, and in the early stages of the war was one of the fastest fighters on the scene, able to fly at a speed of about 400 mph. On paper, the Mig-3 was comparable to the Bf-109, but the Luftwaffe fighter still bested the Soviet aircraft. Some opine that the German pilots' far greater experience, better training, and superior tactics increased their kill ratio over the Mig. In many instances the Mig performed admirably, but again, opinion is that superior pilots showed the best results. Obviously, the machine is only half of the equation. Despite many hopefully applied upgrades, ultimately the Mig-3 was replaced by the far better performing Lavotchkin series of fighters.
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Marlyn is the first VTOL drone that combines the flexibility of a multirotor with the efficiency and speed of a fixed-wing. Thanks to our in-house developed technology and her unique design, Marlyn is built to safely perform surveying/mapping projects in any terrain, even under windy conditions.
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RTE is reporting that the new season of Cosmos is set to begin airing this year.
The show, which has had a stellar run in the UK, is set in the early 21st century, which means the crew of the Nostromo, a space station that transported the crew and the crew’s crew back to the 20th century, have all returned to their native planet of Earth.
They are joined by the Nostro-class ships that were launched in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Nostralike and the Nostra.
The new season also stars Anna Kournikova, the star of the film The Voyage Home.
The film, which is in cinemas now, won the Best Picture Oscar in 2015.
This marks the third season for Cosmos, and the third for the Nostramovie, a film series that also aired in the US in the 1970s and 80s.
This will be the first season to feature a lead role in the film series.
The series has been produced by Universal Television in association with The Motion Picture Group.
It is the third show to have a series starring an actor from a UK franchise, following BBC1’s The Black List and ITV’s The Great British Bake Off.
The latest episode, which airs on April 30, will see the crew return to the Nostrome to investigate a mystery that is being played out in the Nostros.
They discover the Nostronauts’ ship, the Nostradamus, is mysteriously missing.
This was a mystery for many decades, but now we have a clearer picture of the mystery.
The Nostromos Nostromom was a space capsule that transported a crew of astronauts from Earth to the outer reaches of the Solar System.
They were lost in space when the Earth’s atmosphere was depleted.
It was the only space capsule to reach the outer planets and the Moon.
A search has been launched for the ship since the late 1970s.
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Naval Air Station North Island or NAS North Island (IATA: NZY, ICAO: KNZY, FAA Location identifier: NZY) is located at the north end of the Coronado peninsula on San Diego Bay and is the home port of several aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. It is part of the largest aerospace-industrial complex in the United States Navy, Naval Base Coronado in San Diego County, California. The Commanding Officer of NAS North Island (aka NASNI) is also the Commanding Officer, Naval Base Coronado. As such, he commands or administers Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, Outlying Field Imperial Beach, Silver Strand Training Complex, Mountain Training Facility LaPosta, Warner Springs Training Area, and Naval Auxiliary Landing Facility, San Clemente Island. NASNI, with only its commands in the metropolitan San Diego Area, brackets the city of Coronado from the entrance to San Diego Bay to the Mexican border. NAS North Island itself is host to 23 aviation squadrons and 80 additional tenant commands and activities, one of which, the Naval Aviation Depot, is the largest aerospace employer in San Diego.
NAS North Island also operates two other airfields in the Southern California region. One is Naval Auxiliary Landing Facility (NALF) San Clemente Island, located approximately 70 miles northwest of San Diego in the Channel Islands. The other is Outlying Field (OLF) Imperial Beach. Formerly an independent naval air station, OLF Imperial Beach is located in the city of Imperial Beach, on the U.S.-Mexico border, 10 miles south of NAS North Island. The air station was formerly known as Ream Field in 1950's and 1960s.
NAS North Island resembles a small city in its facility content and its operations. It has its own police and fire departments, as well as advanced military security stations. It has large factory-type buildings which comprise the Naval Aviation Depot, employing 3,300 civilians, and its own commissary, Navy Exchange, and housing units. Recreation facilities include officer, chief petty officer and enlisted clubs, movie theater, golf course, tennis courts, bowling alley, parks and beaches. Its airfield has over 230 stationed aircraft, and its quay wall is homeport to two aircraft carriers: USS Carl Vinson and USS Ronald Reagan. Additionally, the base is home to the Navy's only Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles, Mystic (DSRV-1) and Avalon (DSRV-2). The DSRV motor vessel support ships are also homeported here.
North Island is headquarters for four major military flag staffs including:
- Commander, Naval Air Forces (COMNAVAIRFOR or CNAF), responsible for maintenance and training of all naval aircraft and aircraft carriers in the Atlantic Fleet, Pacific Fleet, the Naval Air Reserve, and the Naval Air Training Command
- Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMNAVAIRPAC or CNAP), responsible for maintenance and training of all naval aircraft and aircraft carriers in the Pacific Fleet...this is a dual-hatted post in that it is concurrently held by the Commander, Naval Air Forces
- Commander, Carrier Strike Group One and Commander, Carrier Strike Group Seven
- Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group One
With all the ships in port, the population of the station is nearly 35,000 active duty military, selected reserve military, and civilian personnel. DOD Contractors perform transportation flights from the air station to NALF San Clemente Island. These DOD Contractors also provide tactical training warfare for the United States Defense Department in joint efforts with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Some of these aircraft include C-26 Metroliner, Learjet, and Gulfstream aircraft.
North Island was commissioned a Naval Air Station in 1917, called Naval Air Station San Diego until 1955. On August 15, 1963, the station was granted official recognition as the "Birthplace of Naval Aviation" by resolution of the House Armed Services Committee.
The Navy's first aviator, Lieutenant Theodore Ellyson, and many of his colleagues were trained at North Island starting as early as 1911. This was just eight years after Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first manned aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. At that time, North Island was an uninhabited sand flat. It had been used in the late 19th century for horseback riding and hunting by guests of J. D. Spreckels's resort hotel, the Hotel del Coronado.
North Island derived its name from the original geography. In the nineteenth century it was referred to as North Coronado Island, because it was separated from South Coronado (now the city of Coronado) by a shallow bay known as the Spanish Bight, which was later filled in 1945 during World War II. In 1886, North Coronado Island and South Coronado were purchased by a developer to become a residential resort. South Coronado, which is not an island but the terminus of a peninsula known as the Silver Strand, became the city of Coronado. Fortunately for the Navy, North Coronado was never developed. Instead, Glenn Curtiss opened a flying school and held a lease to the property until the beginning of World War I. Curtiss invited both the Army and Navy to use the site for aviation training, with the Navy being the first to open a station in 1912. However the Navy abandoned its camp and did not return for five years, while the Army established an aviation school in 1913 at the southern end of the island. In 1917, Congress appropriated the land and two airfields were commissioned on its sandy flats. The Navy started with a tent city known as "Camp Trouble". As its name suggests, things did not always go well in the early days. The Navy shared North Island with the United States Army's Signal Corps, Air Service and Air Corps's Rockwell Field until 1937, when the Army left and the Navy expanded its operations to cover the whole of North Island. In 1914, then-unknown aircraft builder Glenn Martin took off and demonstrated his pusher aircraft over the island with a flight that included the first parachute jump in the San Diego area. The jump was made by a ninety-pound civilian woman named Tiny Broadwick. Other aviation milestones originating at North Island included the first seaplane flight in 1911, the first mid-air refueling and the first non-stop transcontinental flight, both in 1923. One of history's most famous aviation feats was the flight of Charles A. Lindbergh from New York to Paris in May 1927. That flight originated at Rockwell Field on North Island on May 10, 1927, when Lindbergh began the first leg of his journey. Forefathers of today's "Blue Angels", the three-plane "Sea Hawks" from VF-6B, the "Felix the Cat" squadron, were thrilling audiences with flight demonstrations as early as 1928. They demonstrated the training skills of Navy fighter and bomber pilots and on many occasions, flew their aircraft in formation with the wings tethered together.
The list of American military pilots trained at North Island reads like the Who's Who of aviation; however, America was not the only country interested in aviation early in the twentieth century. Six years before the Naval Air Station was commissioned, Glenn Curtiss trained the first group of Japanese aviators at his flying school on North Island. Among them were a Lieutenant Yamada, later the head of the Imperial Japanense Navy's Naval Aviation arm in World War II and Chikuhei Nakajima, founder of Nakajima Aircraft Company.
Even the base's first commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Earl W. Spencer, Jr., USN, added a degree of celebrity to North Island. His wife was Wallis Warfield, a prominent socialite who was to remarry twice and finally become Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson Windsor, better known as the Duchess of Windsor, for whom King Edward VIII gave up his throne in 1936.
During World War II North Island was the major continental U.S. base supporting the operating forces in the Pacific. Those forces included over a dozen aircraft carriers, the Coast Guard, Army, Marines and Seabees. The city of Coronado became home to most of the aircraft factory workers and dependents of the mammoth base which was operating around the clock. Major USO entertainment shows and bond drives were held weekly at the Ship's Service auditorium, which was later replaced by the 2,100 seat Lowry Theater. Famous people stationed here or on ships home ported here during the war years included Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Guy Madison, future television cowboy star of the 1950s and 1960s as Wild Bill Hickok, was at that time Seaman Bob Mosely, a lifeguard at the NAS crews' pool. Stars like the Marx Brothers and Bob Hope appeared regularly at USO shows at the auditorium.
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- Commander, Naval Air Forces
- Commander, Naval Air Forces, Pacific Fleet (COMNAVAIRPAC)
- Commander, Helicopter Maritime Strike WING Pacific (CHSMWP)
- Combat Camera Group, Pacific
- Commander, Carrier Strike Group One (CCSG-1)
- Commander, Carrier Strike Group Three (CCSG-3)
- Commander, Carrier Strike Group Seven (CCSG-7)
- Commander, Carrier Strike Group Eleven (CCSG-11)
- Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group One (COMCARDESGRU 1)
- Commander Destroyer Group Seven (COMDESRON 7)
- Commander, Destroyer Squadron Twenty-One (COMDESRON 21)
- Commander, Tactical Air Control Group One (COMTACGRU 1)
- Construction Battalion Unit 405 (CBU 405)
- Deep Submergence Unit (DSU)
- Defense Enterprise Computing Center Det San Diego
- DSU Det Mystic (DSRV 1)
- DSU Diving System Support Detachment
- DSU Unmanned Vehicle Detachment
- Fleet Aviation Specialized Operational Training Group Pacific
- Fleet Imaging Command Pacific
- Fleet Readiness Center Southwest
- Fleet Weather Center - San Diego
- HSC Weapons School, Pacific
- HSM Weapons School, Pacific
- Naval Air Technical Data and Engineering Service Center (NATEC)(was Command vs Center until 2011)
- Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station
- Naval Leader Training Unit, Coronado
- Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center
- Naval Public Affairs Support Element, West
- Naval Special Clearance Team One
- Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU)
- Navy Information Operations Command, San Diego (formerly NSGA, San Diego and FIWC, San Diego)
- Navy Operational Support Center North Island (formerly Naval Air Reserve San Diego)
- Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron(MSS-3)
- Naval Base Coronado
- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
- (PDF), effective July 14, 2022
- Resources for this U.S. military airport:
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US plane bound for India turned back to Amsterdam
A US Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai was turned back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday accompanied by Dutch fighter planes, and its passenger and crew were questioned.
A Dutch air traffic control spokeswoman said the plane was in German airspace when it turned back.
"Northwest flight number 42 from Amsterdam to Mumbai with 149 passengers returned to Amsterdam when a couple of passengers displayed behaviour of concern," said Northwest spokeswoman Kristin Heinmets.
A spokeswoman for Schiphol said the pilot had taken the decision.
"We are cross-examining witnesses, passengers and crew," a Dutch police spokesman said, adding no arrests had been made and the passengers were being questioned near the craft, a 273-seat DC10-30 plane.
Security has been increased at airports worldwide after British police said on August 10 they had foiled a plot to blow up planes in the mid-Atlantic using liquid explosives disguised as drinks.
A spokeswoman for Dutch counter-terrorism said the security alert had not been changed at Schiphol airport - Europe's third largest cargo airport and fourth biggest passenger hub - at midday on Wednesday.
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https://www.universalpersonality.com/california/local/4-people-killed-in-plane-crash-near-visalia-airport-ntsb-faa-begin-investigation/
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The one Beechcraft Bonanza plane took off from Visalia Municipal Airport at round 6:40 pm and crashed 16 seconds in a while Street 68 and Avenue 288, simply west of the airport.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) arrived in South Valley on Sunday and commenced investigating why the plane derailed shortly after takeoff.
The Turea County Sheriff’s Workplace has not disclosed the identities of the 4 victims.
First responders say it was foggy after they arrived.
There was no fireplace from the crash and it was not straightforward to search out the plane straight away.
“After we all responded, we have been in search of a plane,” Sgt stated. Jesse Cox of the Sheriff’s Workplace.
“This space is a big reservoir space and it’s exhausting to get again there. Now we have to stroll … now we have as many people as we had till we discovered it. I despatched it to the realm, “he added.
When the plane was discovered, the sheriff’s workplace confirmed that each one 4 on board had died in the crash.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board and the Federal Aviation Administration arrived on Sunday afternoon to take over the investigation.
In keeping with the NTSB, the crash wreckage is about 500 ft lengthy and has particles scattered in all instructions.
Investigators take photos and conduct floor surveys earlier than shifting the plane to a protected location for additional evaluation.
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4 people killed in plane crash near Visalia airport; NTSB, FAA begin investigation (*4*) 4 people killed in plane crash near Visalia airport; NTSB, FAA begin investigation
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Date of Award
Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Paul I. King, PhD
In the present research, the flow field associated with the ejection of a crew capsule from the fuselage of a high speed generic aircraft was experimentally investigated by means of the modified gas hydraulic analogy. For this, an existing hydraulic simulator was calibrated and modified to adapt it to the needs of the experiment. The analogy was evaluated for a five-sided capsule alone, and good quantitative agreement with the 2-D shock-expansion theory was obtained. It was found that the size of the model played a key role in the determination of good quantitative data. The analysis of the capsule interacting with a fuselage was made considering it at fixed vertical positions from the fuselage and moving with respect to the fuselage at different constant speeds. A clear difference in water depth ratio distribution on the surfaces of the capsule was found between the static and dynamic conditions and also differences occurred for the various velocities of separation. The agreement between theory and experiment was fair. It was concluded that larger models are needed to get good quantitative agreement between theory and experiment and that any separation study should be made applying a dynamical model.
DTIC Accession Number
Puebla, Cristian A., "Calibration and Initial Testing of a New Hydraulic Simulator" (1994). Theses and Dissertations. 6607.
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The Pukguksong-3 (US designation: KN-26) is a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) with an estimated range of 1,900 km.1 After implying the program’s existence in 2017, North Korea tested the missile near Wonsan on October 2, 2019.2
Pukguksong-3 (KN-26) at a Glance
- Originated from
- North Korea
- Alternate names
- KN-26, Pukkuksong-3, Pukgeuksong-3, Bukgeuksong-3
- Possessed by
- North Korea
- Submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
- 7.8 – 8.3 m
- 1.5 m
- Launch weight
- Solid propellant
- 1,900 km
- In service
- First tested 2019
North Korea first suggested the existence of the Pukguksong-3 in August 2017, revealing a diagram of the missile and new solid-fueled rocket motors at its Chemical Materials Institute in Hamhung.3 In October 2017, North Korea conducted a static test of a solid-propellant rocket motor reportedly intended for the Pukguksong-3.4 North Korea completed its expansion of solid-rocket production facilities by mid-2018.5
North Korea first tested the Pukguksong-3 on October 2, 2019, firing the missile to a 450 km range and 910 km apogee.6 In the test, the missile was ejected from an underwater platform and landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone near Shimane Prefecture. Data gathered during the test suggests that the missile employs two stages7
Like its predecessors, Pukguksong-1 (KN-11) and Puguksong-2 (KN-15), the Pukguksong-3 is a two-stage, solid-fueled ballistic missile. The missile has an estimated length of 7.8 – 8.3 meters and diameter of approximately 1.5 meters.8
The Pukguksong-3 incorporates a cold-launch system on its aft end; after surfacing, the missile ejects its rear engine cover and ignites its main booster. Preliminary analyses of Pukguksong-3’s trajectory estimate its range at roughly 1,900 km.9
The Pukguksong-3 is believed to be built for deployment on the Sinpo-class submarine or its derivatives. On July 22, 2019, North Korean state media revealed imagery of a new class of submarine, likely designed to carry ballistic missiles.10
Further activity at North Korea’s shipyards was reported on August 26.11 However, the Pukguksong-3’s service status—and the maturity of North Korea’s submarine program—remains uncertain.
- David Wright, “North Korea’s Latest Missile Test, All Things Nuclear, October 1, 2019, https://allthingsnuclear.org/dwright/north-koreas-latest-missile-test.
- “DPRK Academy of Defence Science Succeeds in Test-firing of New-type SLBM,” Rodong Sinmun, October 3, 2019, http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2019-10-03-0001.
- Joseph Bermudez and Dan Dueweke, “Expansion of North Korea’s Solid Fuel Ballistic Missile Program: The Eight Year Old Case of the Chemical Materials Institute,” 38 North, July 25, 2018, https://www.38north.org/2018/07/cmi072518/.
- Ankit Panda, “North Korea Has Tested a New Solid-Fuel Missile Engine, The Diplomat, October 25, 2017, https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/north-korea-has-tested-a-new-solid-fuel-missile-engine/.
- Jeffrey Lewis and Dave Schmerler, “North Korea Expanding Key Missile Site,” Arms Control Wonk, July 2, 2018, https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1205558/north-korea-expanding-key-missile-site/.
- “N. Korea presumed to have fired 1 SLBM-type missile:JCS,” Yonhap News, October 2, 2019, https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191002001257325.
- Reiji Yoshida, “North Korea fires ballistic missile built to be launched from submarine into Japan’s EEZ,” The Japan Times, October 2, 2019, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/02/national/north-korea-launches-apparent-missile-japan-coast-guard/.
- United Nations 1718 Sanctions Committee (DPRK), Panel of Experts, Final report of the Panel of Experts submitted pursuant to resolution 2464 (2019), S/2020/151, (New York, NY: United Nations Security Council, March 2, 2020), https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1718/panel_experts/reports; Michael Elleman, “North Korea’s New Pukguksong-3 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile,” 38 North, October 3, 2019, https://www.38north.org/2018/07/cmi072518/.
- Wright, “North Korea’s Latest Missile Test.”
- Josh Smith and David Brunnstrom, “North Korea’s Kim inspects new submarine, signals possible ballistic missile development,” Reuters, July 22, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-submarine/north-koreas-kim-inspects-new-submarine-signals-possible-ballistic-missile-development-idUSKCN1UH2LK.
- Joseph Bermudez and Victor Cha, “Sinpo South Shipyard: Construction of a New Ballistic Missile Submarine?” Beyond Parallel, August 28, 2019, https://beyondparallel.csis.org/sinpo-south-shipyard-construction-of-a-new-ballistic-missile-submarine/.
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4, Bruce St, Belfast, BT2 7LA
P: 028 9044 5800
Focus: Aero Engine Controls, AEC, Aero Engine, Engine Controls, Engine Control Systems, Goodrich, Rolls-Royce, Trent 1000 Engine, Trent Engine, Tay Engine, Electronic engine controls, BR725aero engine controls business
Main: Aero Engine Controls - A Rolls Royce plc and Goodrich Corporation Joint Venture
Additional: Aero Engine Controls is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce plc and Goodrich Corporation that provides expertise in engine intelligence.
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How to Build the Best Gaming PC for Flight Sim X – Velocity Micro Blog
So what are the best areas to focus on to build the best possible gaming PC for running Flight Simulator X as well as other flight sim programs? A Fast Quad Core CPU. Since Flight Sim X is a few years old, it puts much more emphasis on CPU speed than do many modern games.
Best Flight Simulators For PC 2016 – Flight Simulator Gamez
To keep you up to date with the latest in flight simulation software we have compiled in no particular order a list of the best flight simulators for PC. The X-plane franchise has been around for a while, though the game is one of the most realistic flight Sims, the developers have not rested on their oars…
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Operation_Fortitude This is a list of the best stand-alone Flight Simulators currently available for PC. This includes Civilian and Military Sims. Microsoft Flight Simulator X is and will be for a while the best simulator for learning and practicing to fly.
General Guide to Building a PC for Flight… – Flight Sim World | Forum
General Guide to Building a PC for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. want say, 4X SSAA, they're actually rendering the sim at both 1920X1200 and at 7680X4800. Good luck on building your new PC, and have fun and learn while doing it!
FlightGear – Flight Simulator download | SourceForge.net
FlightGear Flight Simulator: free open-source multiplatform flight sim. Best of all, being open-source, the simulator is owned by the community and everyone is encouraged to contribute. Multiscreen (current standing record: 10 on a single PC). Active Community.
Flight Simulator X Deluxe – PC – Games Torrents
Flight Simulator X Deluxe – PC. Published by Games Torrents – Posted in PC 50. How much these issues hinder your enjoyment of the game will depend upon what kind of frame rates you need to enjoy a civilian flight sim.
The Best Microsoft Flight Simulator X Add-Ons | PCGamesN
PC Games news and reviews from PCGamesN.com. The sixth best thing about sims like FSX is that they tend to be fully customisable through third-party add-ons. Milviz Flight Simulations (www.milviz.com). To chose a definitive 'best plane' for FSX would be madness.
X-Plane 11 | Coming this holiday season. | Your Next Flight Simulator
The world's most advanced flight simulator is getting an upgrade. Order the X-Plane 10 digital download now and get X-Plane 11 free on release day.
Flight Simulator X: Acceleration for PC Reviews – Metacritic
At $30, this is a very nice expansion for Flight Sim X, bringing not just some new aircraft but solid multiplayer elements to the fore. Best Recent Releases for PC. Upcoming PC Game Release Calendar. 2016 High Scores – PC.
Shop – GoFlight Technologies Inc | Flight Deck Console (FDC)
Default Sorting Price Low-High Price High-Low Title A-Z Title Z-A Newest Best Rating Most Viewed. GF-EFIS Electronic Flight Instrument System. $259.95. ADD To Cart Checkout now.
What is the Best Combat Flight Simulator for PC? | LevelSkip
LevelSkip». Simulation Games». What is the Best Combat Flight Simulator for PC? What is a flight simulator or flight sim? While you could say it's a video game, it is also so much more than just that.
Just Flight – A beginner's guide to flight simulation on your home PC
Software – There are a number of PC flight simulation programs around but by far the best in terms of performance, value and X-Plane is another increasingly popular stand-alone sim which has been continually refined over the years and is renowned for the amazing accuracy of its flight dynamics.
The best PC joystick | PC Gamer
Realistic flight sims were rare, and exciting space dogfighting sims were even rarer. The best controller for PC gaming. The best CPU coolers.
PC Flight Simulation – Best Flight Simulation Games – YouTube
This is the best pc flight simulation game that I've played. Highly recommend it over ms flight sim or flight sim x. Try it out and start flying your favorite planes over your favorite landscapes.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X Review – GameSpot
The aircraft in Flight Simulator X are all well done in terms of external and internal graphics. There's a lot of discussion about the sim's performance in the flight sim discussion forums, yielding a variety of config-file tweaks to Microsoft Flight Simulator X / PC. The Good. An incredible amount of content.
Pro Flight™ Yoke for PC and Mac| Saitek.com
There's no better way to begin your flight sim experience than with Saitek, the market leader in high-performance flight simulation hardware. 2 Desk Clamps. Flight Simulation Software Compatibility: FSX – Flight Simulator X (PC only). X-Plane 10(PC and Mac).
Flight Simulator X Deluxe – PC – Torrents Games
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Top 10 Flight Sim PC Games
10. Microsoft Flight Simulator X. This beautiful sim was on the cutting edge amongst Flight Sim PC Games in 2006. X-plane was a breakthrough, as one of the best and most widely available flight simulators… on the Mac.
PC Aviator – The Flight Simulation Company!
PC Aviator – Worldwide Supplier of Flight Simulation Software and Hardware. HD Airport Graphics V3. A2A Simulations Accu-Sim T-6 Texan FSX.
Flight Simulator PCs – designed specifically for Flight Sims
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Top 5 Best Joysticks for Flight Simulator Games
Need to get the best yokes for flight simulation games? Flight Simulator games are boring without realism, and a keyboard and mouse does not bring any sense of reality. Be sure to leave a comment on what you think makes a great flight sim joystick.
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PC Flight Simulator Training. There is a huge flight simulator community that is a wealth of information. They'll tell you if its good, bad, or a scam. Check out FlightSim, Avsim and Simviation for starters.
Amazon.com: Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Gold Edition: Video Games
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You can keep yer HoloLenses; the best thing Microsoft have done for PC gaming recently is let simulation developer Dovetail Games take over maintenance and further development on Flight Simulator X. The They're also re-releasing ye olde Microsoft Flight Sim X on Steam later this year.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Deluxe Edition (PC): Flight Sim…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator – Wikipedia
It is one of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator programs on the market. In 1982, Artwick's company licensed a version of Flight Simulator for the IBM PC to Microsoft, which marketed it as Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00.
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North Star Aviation is a full service FBO (Fixed base operator) providing General Aviation with pilots, fuel, aircraft charter, maintenance, and aircraft support since 1991. Located at the Mankato Regional Airport, North Star Aviation is Mankato, Minnesota's ONLY full service FBO, providing passengers and pilots with premier service and modern facilities. North Star Aviation is an AVFUEL dealer providing top quality AVFUEL products and service. North Star Aviation is an authorized avionics dealer for Garmin, UPS Aviation Technologies, and MeGott/S-Tech Autopilots. We have factory trained Challenger, Falcon, Hawker, Learjet, Beechjet, King Air & Citation pilots and mechanics.
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The 471st Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last assigned to the First Air Force, stationed at Westover Field, Massachusetts, it was inactivated on 10 April 1944.
The unit was a World War II B-24 Liberator replacement training unit (RTU), with graduates being assigned as replacement units to combat units worldwide. Originally a Second Air Force unit, it was reassigned to First Air Force when Second AF began B-29 Superfortress training, but was disbanded in 1944 when the need for B-24 aircrews diminished.
- Constituted as 471st Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 22 April 1943
- Activated on 1 May 1943
- Disbanded on 10 April 1944
- 804th Bombardment Group: 1943–1944
- 805th Bombardment Group: 1943–1944
- 806th Bombardment Group: 1943–1944
- 807th Bombardment Group: 1943–1944
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- Maurer Maurer (1983), Air Force Combat Units Of World War II, Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-0-405-12194-4
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The first ejection seat design review has been completed. The two-day conference at McDonnell in Saint Louis was attended by representatives of McDonnell, Northrop Ventura (formerly Radioplane), Weber Aircraft, and the Manned Spacecraft Center. This is the first of a series of ejection seat design meetings planned from March 29.
Continue reading “Tuesday, May 15, 1962 – Ejection seat in review; rocket catapult contract; new liaison”
The Air Force successfully launched a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile at 18:09 Greenwich Time. This suborbital flight, the first full-scale test of the vehicle to also be Project Gemini’s booster, from Launch Complex 16, flew five thousand miles out over the Atlantic Ocean and reached an apogee of about eight hundred miles. This vehicle was serial number N-2.
Launch Complex 16 has since its inauguration on December 12, 1959, been used for six launches of the Titan I, three of them successful.
North American awarded a $225,000 subcontract to the Radioplane Division of Northrop Corporation today, as part of North American’s contract to design and develop emergency parachute recovery systems and test vehicles for the Paraglider Development Program.
McDonnell contracted with Vidya, Inc, of Palo Alto, California, today to test new ablation materials for the Gemini heat shields.
The Manned Spacecraft Center directed North American to design and develop an emergency parachute system for flight test vehicles. These vehicles, both half-size and full-size, are required for Phase II-A of the Paraglider Development Program. The Manned Spacecraft Center authorized North American to subcontract the emergency recovery system to the Radioplane Division of the Northrop Corporation.
The Marshall Space Flight Center composed a procurement schedule for the Agena target vehicles, to be delivered to the Gemini Project Office.
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The first entirely Thai-built satellite, KNACKSAT is going to be aboard Spaceflight’s SSO-A mission in 2018
KNACKSAT is going to space! KNACKSAT, an acronym for KMUTNB Academic Challenge of Knowledge SATellite, is a 1U-CubeSat satellite (roughly 10 x 10 x 10 cm, 1.3 kg) developed by King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand. The satellite uses amateur radio frequencies for the communication between the satellite station and the ground station. It’s the first satellite entirely built in Thailand, entirely by a university team.
“We are very excited about this KNACKSAT project because it is our first time to design and build a real satellite. KNACKSAT will be the first satellite that is fully developed in Thailand and by Thai people,” says Dr. Suwat Kuntanapreeda, professor at KMUTNB. “Our students, the most important part of our team, have been learning so many things that they have never learn from textbooks. I would like to emphasize that this project is not only design and build a satellite, but also, more importantly, build a Thai team who know how to design and build satellites.”
The main missions of KNACKSAT include (1) developing a communication system using amateur radio frequencies, (2) taking images from space, (3) testing 3-axis attitude control algorithms by using magnetic torquers, (4) verifying a deorbit technology by a magnetic torque and (5) confirming the uses of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components in space.
But the larger objectives of the KNACKSAT project might be even more important: the educational and technology demonstration objectives. The educational objectives is to enhance the knowledge and experience of the students in satellite design and construction. These can be considered as fundamentals for development of larger satellites in Thailand in the near future. On a national level, the project inspires and promotes interest in science and technology for young Thais.
Dr. Kuntanapreeda is optimistic about the impact of the KNACKSAT project. “We believe that this project will be a leading force to a larger satellite project in the near future. I also would like to say that we are very glad to have the opportunity to work with Spaceflight and thank Spaceflight for this opportunity and to be a part of our unforgettable history. We would also like to acknowledge the financial support from Broadcasting and Telecommunications Research and Development Fund for the Public Interest, Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Thailand.”
The satellite will be on-board Spaceflight’s dedicated rideshare mission “SSO-A” aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2018.
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Yet another example of the benefits of flexible connections enabled by carbon nanotubes or graphene. It sounds like carbon is making a resurgence this year - and these solutions have the benefit of not adding any rare earths or toxic materials to the circuits.
Drones are, in essence, flying autonomous vehicles. Pros and cons surrounding drones today might well foreshadow the debate over the development of self-driving cars. In the context of a strongly regulated aviation industry, "self-flying" drones pose a fresh challenge. How safe is it to fly drones in different environments? Should drones be required for visual line of sight – as are piloted airplanes? Join EE Times' Junko Yoshida as she moderates a panel of drone experts.
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Conference "the use of drones at the municipal level"
This morning we had the pleasure of attending the informative day "the use of drones at the municipal level", organized by the Spanish Association of Airlines (AECA) and Gesdron. The meeting has dealt with the different aspects of the integration of aerial operations with drones in urban areas as envisaged by the new Royal Decree 1036/2017 approved in December last year. According to the new law, drones are no longer prohibited from flying over agglomerations of buildings, but now they have to assume their role the local administrations both in regulating the use of public spaces of their competition and in the operation of RPAS from their Institutions for public interest services such as police surveillance, emergency response, territory planning, etc.
We have counted on the presence of several experts in the field, among them the president of AECA, and each one has contributed his point of view on the subject in his area. This is a summary of the points that we consider most important of the interventions:
Felipe Navio, President of AECA
The president has made a brief introduction giving some figures on the unmanned aviation sector, background and future. As a relevant figure in terms of the potential of the sector, it has estimated that in the next decade we will have an unmanned aviation participation in the total sector:
- 10% in the air transport of goods
- 80% in aerial work
- The transport of people with drones is already a reality and can go on increasing
As you can see are nothing despicable figures that represent a turnover of the order of billions, so that the expansion of the sector is expected to grow exponentially in the coming years.
Antonio Mota, aeronautical engineer. General Manager of Airsolutions
Mr. Mota has told us about the most practical aspects of the operation of drones today. According to him, the three great stones on the path of unmanned aviation are:
The flight autonomy
We have been given a background on the work being done by several Spanish companies in these areas for years that position them in the global front. For example, the manufacture of drones with hybrid power technology, with combined explosion engine COM electric motors, or the use of a captive drone with cable feed for surveillance at the Mobile World Congres by the Mossos police. These technologies are aimed at overcoming one of the biggest limitations of RPAS's flight today: the autonomy of flight.
The radius of action
The vast majority of consumption drones communicate with the control stations in the 2.4 GHz band, an open band, which poses security risks and limits the range of action of drones by signal-to-link scope. In the next 2-3 years we will see how the control technology is developed by 5g, which will allow pilots to control unmanned aircraft virtually without limits of distance, as if it were a phone call.
Until now, the law in force established important limitations to the operation of drones. However, the RD 1036/2017 that comes into force now eliminates much of the restrictions, giving the RPAS sector the ability to compete with other aviation agents. In order to materialize these operations, air traffic control measures must be implemented, among others, and the U-Space system is already working in this direction.
In addition, this summer is expected to pass European legislation, which is already drafted in the document "Opinion 01/2018" and will introduce a new normative framework to which the European States should adapt within 2 years, with which the legislative changes Current have an expiration date. The European law will introduce 3 categories of operation, independent of the weight of the aircraft, and 4 kinds of drone according to their capacities, qualified or not for the different operatives.
The figure of the declared Training Organization is introduced, a less restrictive figure than the ATOs that can offer specific instruction for drones of the lower operating classes.
A new data protection law will also enter into force to which the RPAS operators must adapt.
Pablo Morera, aeronautical engineer. Director General Gesdron
Mr. Morera has told us about the important role of management of low-level unmanned aerial activity to be assumed by local administrations. For reasons of both security and regulation, the municipalities will take a role of special importance in the control of operations with drones that are carried out in their spaces, as they are the closest administrations and with more means than EFSA for the Control of drone operation. Although the competences on the airspace are only state, if they can regulate the use of their spaces in 2 concepts:
- The proprietary use of land for takeoffs and landings
- The occupation of public thoroughfare by safety zones which must be closed under the flight trajectories
In order to carry out these functions, fees will be taken to support the administrative structure necessary for the management of these aspects.
It is also foreseen that when being able to fly on urban nuclei, the municipalities begin to exert of operators to develop departments in their own organisms and to train their own personnel, or against cowardly the service hiring to operators companies Private. In any way, a range of uses of the drones for the administration will be opened that will be expected to begin. Urban and cadastral Control, security and heritage surveillance, data taking for environmental studies and a long etcetera are uses that different departments and police will have to cover with own or external means.
It has been a pleasure to hear all this information and much more from the hands of some of the experts in this area at the national level.
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Medals that have flown to space and back for sale
- Published: Nov 4, 2016, 3 AM
Among the items to be offered are medals from the Apollo 7, Apollo 11 and Gemini 6A missions, including an Apollo 11 medal originally from the personal collection of the mission command module pilot, Michael Collins.
The 28-millimeter .925 fine silver Apollo 11 Robbins medal was one of 450 flown aboard Apollo 11, the first manned moon landing mission, July 16 to 24, 1969, with crew members Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin.
The obverse depicts Collins’ early and original concept for the mission insignia, with an eagle carrying an olive branch in its mouth. NASA thought the sharp, open talons of the eagle looked too “warlike” and the olive branch, representing peace, was moved to the claws.
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The reverse of the medal offered features the serial number 64 in addition to the dates of the mission and surnames of the crew.
The obverse design was modified and adapted by Assistant U.S. Mint Engraver Frank Gasparro for the reverses of the Eisenhower and Anthony dollar coins.
With Serial No. 232, an Apollo 7 Robbins medal in the offering is graded and encapsulated Mint State 67 by Numismatic Guaranty Corp.
The 32-millimeter by 24-millimeter sterling silver medal is originally from the personal collection of a mission support crew member, Jack Swigart.
According to the auction lot description, the medal was “one of only 255 flown aboard Apollo 7, the first manned mission in the Apollo program, October 11-22, 1968, with crewmembers Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham. It was an eleven-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space launch.”
"The obverse of the medal features the mission insignia depicting a command service module, engine firing with the trail from that fire encircling a globe and extending out, symbolizing the Earth-orbital nature of the mission. The Roman numeral 'VII' appears in the South Pacific Ocean and the crew's names appears on a wide arc at the bottom. The reverse has the date of the launch, the serial number, and the sterling and Robbins hallmarks.”
An example of a gold-colored, 26-millimeter Fliteline medal flown aboard the Gemini 6A, which performed a space rendezvous with Gemini 7 on Dec. 15, 1965, is also among the space-flown medals offered.
The medal was among approximately 100 such medals aboard Gemini 6A manned by astronauts Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford.
According to the auction lot description: “The obverse features the hexagonal mission insignia reflecting the mission number; the spacecraft trajectory also traces out the number ‘6.’ The Gemini 6 spacecraft is shown superimposed on the 'twin stars' Castor and Pollux, for ‘Gemini.’ The obverse also has ‘Schirra’ and ‘Stafford’ with the original mission designation ‘GTA-6’ (for Gemini-Titan-Agena). The reverse has the dates of the flight and the revised mission designation ‘GT-GT-6.’”
A buyer’s fee will be added to the closing price of each lot won. The fee is 25 percent on the first $200,000 (minimum $19), plus 20 percent of any amount between $200,000 and $2 million, plus 12 percent of any amount over $2 million per lot.
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Fliers too often find themselves sweating on the tarmac and shivering in the air. Commercial planes aren't known for having the best climate control, but a group of flight attendants is seeking to change that.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA has created the 2Hot2Cold app to allow crew members and passengers to report extreme temperatures.
The goal is obtaining data that can be used to persuade regulators and legislators to establish airplane temperature standards. This week, 60,000 key chain thermometers will be issued to flight attendants at 23 airlines.
RELATED: After 6 weeks of training, freshly minted flight attendants soar
The union says extreme temperatures aren't just uncomfortable. They can impact cabin operations by degrading the crew's awareness of possible security threats and increasing stress that can lead to air rage, medical emergencies, a return to the gate and other operational disruptions.
"The fact is that no rules require airlines and airports to take this issue seriously. We know that the first step to fixing a problem is defining it," said AFA President Sara Nelson in a news release. "That's why we developed the app and decided to issue thermometers to all AFA members. We will document just how bad this is and we hope we can encourage action before we experience a tragic event."
The association is recommending a standard that would set a target temperature range of 65-75 degrees Fahrenheit, both in the air and on the ground, with a maximum allowed temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
The recommended standard would allow a maximum of 85 degrees Fahrenheit if all in-flight entertainment units are operating.
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Africa is a unique and vast continent, and crossing it is even more challenging. In today’s modern age of commonplace jet travel, what aircraft is best suited for this ruggedly beautiful landscape?
The nature of African Aviation
Africa has some pretty challenging factors when it comes to aviation.
- Quality of airports and airstrips. Africa’s airport infrastructure is different from that of Europe, where instead of A380 ready airports, many lack the facilities for larger aircraft. Thus the perfect plane needs to be agile and able to takeoff from progressively shorter runways.
- The distance is between destinations is also gargantuan. The perfect plane will need to be able to do the range and carry enough passengers to make it profitable.
- Speaking of passengers, the plane will also need to be fuel-efficient and able to operate long thin routes – sometimes two destinations might not have enough demand to justify a huge aircraft (like an Airbus A350 or Boeing 777) and thus need something that doesn’t require a small army to fill.
Our contender aircraft are as follows:
Airbus A220 series
The new Airbus A220 is a total game-changer for Africa. The small aircraft series has the following variants:
- Airbus A220-100 – 120 passengers with 36 inches of pitch (very generous) up to a range of 3,400 nautical miles.
- Airbus A220-300 – 150 passengers with up to 38 inches of pitch (even more generous) up to a range of 3,350 nautical miles.
Rumor has it that these performance numbers can be extended with additional fuel tanks. Airbus has revealed that it is working on a goal of building an extended range A220-300 that can fly from 3,350 nautical miles up to 4,000 nautical miles. This would allow the aircraft to be capable of taking 130 passengers as far as most of Western Europe (France, Germany, Spain, although not England), Moscow, all of Africa, the Middle East, India, and even as far as Singapore.
The A220 fits all the criteria for our’ perfect aircraft’. It is lighter than both the A320 series (six tonnes lighter) and the Boeing 737 MAX (eight tonnes lighter). This means that the aircraft is 12% and 15% cheaper to operate than the latter two airframes. Because the plane is built on a separate production line to the A320 there is not as much backlog delay (some airlines are facing many years to get their A320s).
Bombardier, the original designers of the A220 claimed an overall 15% lower seat-mile cost, 20% lower fuel burn and a CO2 emissions advantage, a 25% reduction in maintenance costs, and a four-fold reduction in the noise footprint compared to existing production aircraft. The aircraft is 70% cheaper to operate than the A330.
Passengers love the aircraft. Quieter spacious cabins (tall people can stand fully upright), wide aisles, big windows, and huge bins (the most enormous overhead bins on any aircraft). The generous space onboard for passengers means that long-haul flights are an option and are comfortable to do so.
Lastly, the A220 meets our airport infrastructure criteria. The aircraft only needs one of the shortest runways to take off (only 4,800 ft / 1,463 m, allowing it to land at many regional airports). Because it is profitable with such a small cabin, those thin routes to local areas will make money. An enterprising airline could fill in a market gap and run point to point international routes between regional cities to international hubs, skipping established flag carriers hub airports (no longer would passengers have to fly through Addis Ababa, for example, if going to Europe).
Air Tanzania has picked up four A220-100s from Airbus. The A220 will allow Air Tanzania to develop further its domestic and regional market as well as open new routes to India and the Middle East from its home base at Dar es Salaam.
“The A220’s unrivaled passenger comfort, combined with its remarkable performance and economics, will be an excellent asset to develop Air Tanzania’s network further,” said Tito Kasambala, Acting CEO, Tanzanian Government Flight Agency (TGFA). “With the addition of the A220 in our fleet, we are confident that we will expand our footprint in the growing African markets and beyond, as we unlock additional routes and regain our position as a key player in the African air transport market,” added Ladislaus Matindi, Managing Director & CEO, Air Tanzania Company Limited.
In last February, Green Africa Airways, Nigeria’s Lagos-based airline which was at the time due to start operations this year, had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for 50 A220-300 aircraft, “one of the major orders to be placed globally for the A220 programme and the largest ever from the African continent” according to Airbus.
A worthy alternative to the Airbus A220 would also be the Embraer Ejet E2 series.
Embraer Ejet E2 series
Brazilian Embraer has a new series of aircraft that are ideally suited for the African continent. There are three variants of the new E2
- E175-E2 – 80 to 90 passengers to a range of 2,017 nautical miles (3,735 km)
- E190-E2 – 96 to 104 passengers to a range of 2,850 nautical miles (5,280 km)
- E195-E2 – 120 to 132 passengers to a range of 2,600 nautical miles (4,800 km)
While it may not have the same range as the A220, it is certainly cheaper, The average price of an E2 jet is around $50 million US while an A220 is around $85 million on average at list prices. Essentially an airline that needs frequency over range may opt for two E2 aircraft over the A220.
“Africa has long been a market with low frequencies and long thin routes. As airlines start to ramp up their operations, the E2 family of aircraft is perfectly positioned to right size routes previously operated by narrowbodies, while keeping frequencies and adjusting capacity to new levels,” said Raul Villaron, Vice President Sales, Africa, and the Middle East, Embraer Commercial Aviation
Only in May did Congo Airways decide to order four of the E2 series for its route expansion and to replace its turboprop aircraft.
“These new jets will be replacing our legacy turboprops and will allow us to extend our operations within the Democratic Republic of Congo, and regionally to West, Central, and Southern Africa. Despite the current difficult circumstances, the fundamentals of our market have not changed; so we expect the momentum we’ve seen in the past to redevelop. I said in December that we may need to make an additional order for E2s due to the agility required to adapt to market changes – we have now reached that point.”
Airbus A330-800neo and Boeing 787-8
The A220 isn’t the only perfect plane for Africa. Both the Boeing 787-8 and Airbus A330-800neo come close as worthwhile comparisons.
- Boeing 787-8 – 246 passengers to a range of 7,850 nautical miles.
- Airbus A330-800neo – 252 passengers to a range of 8,150 nautical miles.
The added advantage of these two aircraft compared to the former Airbus A220 is that they are widebodies, can fly further and carry more passengers. However, that last perk, more passengers, means that they are restricted to more in-demand routes.
The Airbus A330-800neo edges ahead of the 787-8 by being bigger, landing smaller runways, and having a more extended range. Plus, because its essentially a neo version of the A330, it is cheaper for airlines to acquire and operate.
Uganda Airlines has moved ahead for two of the aircraft, realizing its potential for African Aviation.
“The A330-800neo combines low operating costs, long-range flying capability, and high levels of comfort. We are looking forward to launching operations and offer our customers best-in-class service”, said Ephraim Bagenda, CEO of Uganda Airlines.
If you are an airline looking for their next aircraft fleet (big or small), get in touch with Eways Aviation today. With certified experts on hand to help you make a selection perfect for your next mission, we are ideally suited to be your ongoing support partner in the aviation space.
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SpaceX Signs Launch Deal with Global-IP
Hawthorne-based SPaceX has signed up yet another customer for its rocket launch business, Cayman Islands-based Global-IP Cayman. Global-IP Cayman, which is working on providing satellite Internet to Sub-Saharan Africa, said it has signed a launch services deal with SpaceX for its first satellite. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Global-IP said the satellite, GiSAT-1, will be its first, and will provide Internet services to Sub-Saharan Africa. Global-IP Cayman said its satellite is being built by The Boeing Company, and that it expects to launch in Q4 of 2018.
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Moon Rush: Chandrayaan-3 Triggers Space Race to Lunar South Pole's Frozen Treasure Trove. ISRO's Indigenous Chandrayaan-3 Lander Become First to Land on South-pole of the Moon.
Houston, TX - India cemented its place in spaceflight history this week with the triumphant touchdown of Chandrayaan-3 on the perilous lunar south pole. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) achieved multiple firsts, becoming only the fourth nation to softly land on the moon while also pioneering access to the mysterious southern region.
However, India isn't the only space-faring power enticed by the riches lurking within the moon's polar shadows. NASA, China, and Russia all have south pole missions in the works, aiming to tap into invaluable resources that could enable sustained exploration. As an impending moon rush takes shape, Chandrayaan-3's success underscores the strategic urgency of securing a foothold at the final frontier's final frontier.
|July 06, 2023
|Scheduled launch of Chandrayaan-3 on July 14, 2023.
|July 07, 2023
|Successful completion of vehicle electrical tests.
|July 11, 2023
|Conclusion of 24-hour 'Launch Rehearsal' simulation.
|July 14, 2023
|Chandrayaan-3 launched into precise orbit for Moon journey.
|July 15, 2023
|Successful Earthbound orbit-raising maneuver.
|July 17, 2023
|Completion of second orbit-raising maneuver.
|July 22, 2023
|Completion of fourth orbit-raising maneuver.
|July 25, 2023
|Orbit-raising maneuver; TransLunar Injection planned.
|August 01, 2023
|Chandrayaan-3 inserted into translunar orbit for Moon approach.
|August 05, 2023
|Successful insertion into lunar orbit as planned.
|August 06, 2023
|Lunar-bound maneuver completed; Lunar Orbit Insertion video captured.
|August 09, 2023
|Orbit reduction maneuver successfully executed.
|August 14, 2023
|Mission enters orbit circularization phase.
|August 16, 2023
|Orbital adjustment completed.
|August 17, 2023
|Successful separation of Lander Module.
|August 19, 2023
|Lander Module in lunar orbit; De-boosting planned.
|August 20, 2023
|Lander Module in lower orbit; Descent prep for August 23.
|August 23, 2023
|Chandrayaan-3 achieves successful soft landing on the Moon.
|August 24, 2023
|Ch-3 Rover deployed for lunar surface exploration.
Table 1: This table discusses the chronological sequence of events related to the Chandrayaan-3 mission, India's lunar exploration project. Starting from the launch preparations on July 6, 2023, to the successful soft landing on the moon on August 23, 2023, the table outlines the key milestones achieved during the mission. The spacecraft's orbital adjustments, maneuvers, and notable achievements are highlighted, showcasing India's advancements in space exploration technology. The final event on August 24, 2023, suggests ongoing exploration activities on the lunar surface, hinting at potential discoveries in the future. (Data from: iso.gov.in)
Mission control in Bengaluru erupted into celebrations Wednesday as India's Chandrayaan-3 lander, carrying the Pragyan rover, gently touched down near the lunar south pole. In a statement from the surface, the lander declared: "I reached my destination, and you too!"
The landmark mission adds India to the short list of only the Soviet Union, United States, and China as nations that have achieved a controlled lunar landing. But more significantly, Chandrayaan-3 seized the distinction of first landing at the moon's south pole.
Space agencies have recently intensified their focus on the south pole, enthralled by the promise of hidden resources in its shadowy depths. Chandrayaan-3's trailblazing landing suggests India may have secured pole position in a brewing scramble for south pole supremacy.
Of paramount interest is water, perpetually frozen inside polar craters that never see sunlight. Chandrayaan-3 seeks to quantify lunar water reserves and study other intriguing geology. But water's value transcends science. It can sustain human crews, shield equipment from temperature swings, and split into rocket fuel. Access to lunar water could be the key that unlocks the solar system.
In 2024, NASA's VIPER rover will hunt for south pole ice to support the Artemis program. Astronauts including the first woman and person of color will follow in 2025, targeting a south pole landing. That same year, Russia hopes to rediscover its lunar landing touch with Luna-29. China is also plotting a 2026 robotic south pole mission.
With multiple superpowers aiming for the south pole, Chandrayaan-3 effectively fired the starting pistol in a moon race. ISRO believes its head start and mastery of polar landing technology provides a strategic edge. But Russia's crash landing last week underscores the extreme risks. To reap the benefits, engineers must first tame the south pole's forbidding frontier.
Why The South Pole? It's All About The Ice
The global fascination with the lunar south pole comes down to one thing: ice. Remote sensing orbiters detected substantial water ice hidden inside perpetually shadowed craters. With enough ice to fill a quarter million pools, the moon's poles harbor this precious resource.
Lunar colonies require steady water access for drinking, equipment cooling, growing crops, and generating fuel and breathable oxygen. Ice mining could make the moon a thriving deep space hub. The south pole's frozen bounty holds the keys to sustainable lunar living and exploration of Mars and beyond.
India first confirmed lunar permafrost in 2008 using a NASA instrument on Chandrayaan-1. A year later, NASA's LCROSS probe impacted a south pole crater, uncovering buried ice. In 2020, SOFIA's infrared telescope finally clinched the unambiguous detection of H2O molecules.
The moon tilts little, leaving some south pole areas eternally dark and frigid. Within permanently shadowed regions, temperatures dive below -400°F. Any water molecules are instantly frozen and trapped. Over billions of years, large concentrated ice deposits accumulated at the bottom of craters.
With lunar exploration entering an exciting new era, the south pole's cryogenic vault may soon bust open. Chandrayaan-3's historic touchdown puts India at the icebox doorstep, but international rivals are hot on its heels.
NASA And China Targeting 2024-2026
Given the south pole's strategic significance, India is hardly alone in jockeying for position. NASA is targeting ice extraction by the mid-2020s to fuel humanity's renewed moon presence.
Before Apollo-era heroes return through Artemis, NASA's VIPER rover will scout for resources in 2024. The agency is evaluating potential south pole landing zones for VIPER and the crewed Artemis 3 mission. Astronauts could visit VIPER to harvest lunar ice.
NASA experts believe the south pole could support a sustained base and act as an Earth-moon transport hub. Permanent lunar habitation hinges on tapping into south pole ice.
China is also plotting a 2026 robotic south pole expedition, building on its landmark 2019 far side landing. A Chinese rover aims to corroborate and potentially extract south pole ice. Beijing envisions lunar settlements by the 2030s, eyeing the industrial potential of an ice-rich permanent outpost.
Even the devastated Russian space program has south pole aspirations via its delayed Luna-29 sample return mission. But Russia's crash landing mishap last week underscored the extreme difficulty of navigating the perilous polar terrain.
Why Hasn't Anyone Landed There Yet? Navigating Treacherous Terrain
If the south pole is so alluring, why has Chandrayaan-3 charted virgin territory? The answer lies in the grave risks of directly sampling the moon's most foreboding realm. Only now, after careful mapping from above, are engineers confident enough to attempt south pole landings.
Most lunar landing systems rely critically on optical cameras to detect surface hazards during descent. But the south pole's permanently shadowed craters provide little illumination to safely guide landers.
Adding to the challenge, south pole terrain is heavily cratered, sloped, and rocky compared to the expansive basaltic plains on the near side. Touching down on rugged slopes riddled with boulders could spell disaster.
Mission controllers on Earth can't monitor south pole landings in real-time either, due to a lack of direct line-of-sight from terrestrial antennas. Communications must relay through lunar orbiters, adding latency.
Finally, south pole landers must withstand intense cold and dark for surface operations. Nuclear heating and power are essential when the sun perpetually hovers at or below the horizon. Even minor solar panel soiling from rocket exhaust could cripple solar-powered vehicles.
India addressed these hurdles through a combination of high-resolution south pole mapping and conservative landing site selection. Lessons learned from the crashed Vikram lander also strengthened Chandrayaan-3. But as Russia's mishap proved, success is not guaranteed. Perseverance will be required to tap the south pole's full potential.
Chandrayaan-3 In Drive To Solidify India's Lunar Dominance
India's surge to the moon's south pole was not without context. As global aspirations in space rapidly evolve, ISRO continues cementing India's status as an elite space-faring nation.
Chandrayaan-3 comes on the heels of last year's highly successful Gaganyaan orbital test flight, which qualified India's first crewed mission. ISRO seeks to launch Gaganyaan astronauts before the 75th anniversary of independence in 2022.
Spaceflight capability strongly signals technological power and economic prospects. India has invested billions in its space program to bolster technological self-reliance and national prestige.
Chandrayaan-3 specifically aims to consolidate India's position as a leader in lunar exploration. Building on Chandrayaan-1's lunar water discovery in 2008, Chandrayaan-2's orbiter provided exquisite south pole mapping data to enable this week's landing.
Now Chandrayaan-3 has expanded India's lunar footprint. Its rover Pragyan will quantitatively assess south pole water reserves while also conducting new science across a barely understood region.
ISRO's early strides at the south pole underscore its confidence that lunar resources can fuel India's spacefaring ambitions. Mastering high-latitude landings also stacks the deck for future missions. India could establish an enduring south pole foothold to support lunar settlement and harness ice for fuel.
At the same time, Chandrayaan-3 hands India prestige as the moon's polar pioneer. This could be leveraged for international collaboration, building on partnerships with NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos. Other nations may court ISRO's expertise as global urgency around lunar return escalates.
In coming years, the world will closely watch India's activities at the south pole now that Chandrayaan-3 has granted it exclusive access. With the moon race underway, ISRO must capitalize on its head start if it hopes to remain steps ahead.
Artemis And Mars Exploration To Drive South Pole Staking
Looking beyond India's historic achievement, Chandrayaan-3 underscores just how coveted the lunar south pole is becoming for all spacefaring nations. The big prize, of course, is water ice. But what specifically is elevating the south pole's importance after decades of modest interest?
In a word: sustainability. As NASA plans sustained lunar habitation through Artemis and future Mars exploration comes into focus, the ability to live off available resources becomes paramount. The south pole ice deposits grant the moon self-sufficiency.
NASA views south pole ice mining and processing as foundational for ambitious exploration.ToLunar outposts can manufacture rocket fuel, drinkable water, and air. Producing supplies from local ice allows missions to become indefinitely sustainable without costly Earth imports.
This concept will be proven on the moon before undertaking even more distant Mars expeditions. The moon, three days away, provides humanity's first off-Earth colony rehearsal. Lessons learned establish a template for survival on other worlds.
Thus Chandrayaan-3's landing symbolizes much more than India's lunar achievements. It encapsulates the dawning of a new space age where frontiers are no longer visited briefly, but permanently. Chandrayaan-3's descendants may one day dwell beside ancient south pole ice deposits, thriving where no human has yet survived.
VIPER Mission To Locate Exact Ice Deposits
Before astronauts homestead the south pole, NASA's VIPER rover will scout the terrain and pinpoint buried ice reserves starting in late 2024.
The golf cart-sized VIPER is tailored to locate ice within permanently shadowed craters. Using its 1-meter drill, VIPER can sample lunar regolith from depths up to a meter and analyze it for water content.
In 100 days, VIPER will traverse several miles while mapping resource availability. VIPER's goal is identifying the exact deposits future missions can mine. The rover will also assess solar illumination and temperatures to guide habitat and power system designs.
South pole ice likely resides in uneven, sporadic pockets. VIPER's surveys will provide astronauts geographical logs guiding them to directly tap into accumulations. This inventory could be critical for establishing mining operations during Artemis and beyond.
Once considered desolate, the moon's south pole is emerging as perhaps the most valuable piece of extraterrestrial real estate in the solar system. VIPER's resource mapping brings humanity closer to properly utilizing its hidden potential.
Artemis Astronauts To Return With Ice Samples
VIPER will merely scout the way for NASA's Artemis astronauts. The crew of Artemis III, slated to land at the south pole in 2025 or later, could visit VIPER sampling sites to harvest lunar ice.
NASA plans for astronauts to collected south pole regolith samples containing frozen water. As the first humans ever to touch lunar water, they will make scientific history. When returned to Earth, lab analysis of moon ice could unlock secrets about lunar geology and solar system evolution.
More importantly, scrutinizing lunar permafrost composition helps engineers extractor technology. NASA wants feedback on recovering each precious molecule of south pole water. The Artemis experience shapes designs for full-scale lunar ice mining.
Astronauts will also deploy new scientific instruments around the south pole to deduce water origins. NASA is intrigued whether comet impacts, solar wind interactions, or moon volcanism supplied the ice.
While Apollo only glimpsed the moon's frigid far side from a distance, Artemis astronauts will directly experience its cryogenic craters. Their fresh boots and gloves may crunch across billions of years of frozen lunar history.
Chandrayaan-3's achievement sets the stage for humanity's imminent return to the moon after a half-century hiatus. Within this decade, global explorers will once again embark for Earth's lonely companion, this time to stay.
Water Hunting Radars Light Up Icy Shadows
Landing safely near lunar water deposits is paramount. Future south pole missions will employ advanced onboard radars to see in permanent darkness.
NASA's VIPER and Lunar Flashlight crafts carry miniature radars to map buried ice from orbit. Flying above shadowed craters, their low-frequency beams can penetrate several yards into the regolith. Ice deposits weaker the signal, revealing their position.
The lunar surface itself is also radar-reflective except where mantled in ice. Combining microwave pings from varying angles generates 3D subterranean ice maps. Radar performs like ground-penetrating x-rays, lighting up otherwise invisible permafrost.
Chandrayaan-3 eschewed an ice-hunting radar, relying on prior orbital data. But future south pole landers would benefit from onboard radar to identify hazards and track subsurface water in real-time.
Radar instruments add substantial mass though, a prime constraint for lunar landers. Regardless, their ice-vision grants awareness no camera can match in perpetual darkness. Radar paves the way for future missions to seek south pole treasure.
Nuclear Power Generation Essential At South Pole
The south pole's two weeks of night and frigid temperatures pose serious power challenges. Landing craft must endure freezing darkness when sunlight for solar panels disappears. Nuclear sources provide the steadiest power supply.
NASA's Kilopower program has developed small fission reactors tailored for lunar and Martian surface missions. Kilopower units will eventually help habitats maintain operations through long nights and continue recharging rovers.
The technology limits payloads compared to solar, but provides continuous output regardless of lighting. Chevron-shaped reflectors maximize fission efficiency.
With solar unreliable at the poles, nuclear allows landing craft to survive the two-week night. Robust power ensures surface mobility, communication, and science operations proceed undisrupted by darkness.
Establishing Reachable Landing Zones Among Hazards
The lunar south pole's perilous terrain has repelled surface missions until now. Only with extensive mapping were engineers confident enough to attempt Chandrayaan-3's daring approach and landing. High-resolution views exposed accessible areas between hazards.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Chandrayaan-2 characterized the rugged landscape using multiple cameras and lasers. Image sets were digitally stitched into detailed terrain models locating slopes, boulders, and craters.
These maps indicated possible landing ellipses within the south pole, relatively flat sites with few hazardous rocks. Mission planners selected the safest zone to maximize Chandrayaan-3's landing odds after Vikram's failure.
Yet most of the southern pole remains too risky to consider. Future radar data will refine terrain knowledge. Additional south pole missions might land nearMalapert crater, filing in the PSR map.
Each successful landing expands viable access, opening more of the south pole's span to exploration. But landers must touch down precisely on target - hazard proximity leaves slim margins of error.
Establishing outposts requires identifying oases safe for sustained activity. The south pole's forfeiting environment commands utmost caution when targeting surface locales.
Conclusion: Chandrayaan-3 Plants India's Flag, However Much Work Remains
This week India planted its flag at the lunar south pole, an impressive accomplishment cementing its spaceflight credentials. However, Chandrayaan-3 represents a beginning, not the end, of south pole activities. Significant work remains translating its potential into sustained exploration capability.
The mission launches a new epoch in lunar science, but economics likely motivate the moon rush more than research. Water ice is the south pole's crown jewel, holding the promise of sustained deep space exploration if harnessed.
Many unknowns remain regarding accessibility, mining, and processing lunar permafrost into usable supplies. Overcoming these hurdles requires global cooperation and technical ingenuity in the decades ahead.
Chandrayaan-3 kicked off the race, but it is far too early to declare a winner. While India revels in its triumph, rivals are fast approaching. Maintaining leadership falls to ISRO to continue building on its landmark polar mission.
The finish line is still distant, but the competition is underway. Thanks to Chandrayaan-3, the lunar south pole moves one step closer to humanity's grasp. Missions departing Earth now target a new destination: the permanent frontier on the moon.
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Canada to send rover to Moon by 2026: minister
Canada will land a robotic rover on the Moon within five years, its industry minister said Wednesday, announcing that Ottawa plans to "dream big" as it advances its competitive stake in the growing global space market.
"Canada will be part of space history," Francois-Philippe Champagne told a news conference.
"We recognize that global interest in space and in the space industry is on the rise," he said. "As the whole world looks to the stars we are ready to make Canada a world leader in research, technology and innovation so that we can be there as well."
"Let's seize the moment. I don't think there's ever been a better time to be Canadian, and dream big."
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will partner with the United States' NASA on the mission, according to a statement.
Two Canadian companies will first be selected to develop concepts for the rover and science instruments for the mission.
The rover will be tasked with exploring a polar region of the Moon and carrying out scientific work, as well as taking images and collecting data on the surface.
In the meantime, a Canadian astronaut is set to take part in a lunar mission for the first time in 2023, as part of the NASA-led Artemis project, it was announced in December.
The mission, Artemis II, will see a crewed test flight sent into orbit but will not involve an actual landing on the Moon, according to the US space agency.
The following year, Artemis III aims to land astronauts, including the first woman, on the Moon. This will be the first landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Ottawa has invested Can$36.5 million (US$30 million) over the past year to advance lunar and space technologies including micro-rovers, and to build a third-generation robotic arm dubbed Canadarm3. Its predecessors were deployed on space shuttles and the International Space Station to stickhandle payloads.
A total of Can$2 billion has been earmarked for the Canadian space program over the next two decades.
The global space market, the government said, is expected to triple to Can$1.1 trillion. Canada currently has a 1.3 percent share of this market.
In a sign of the industry's global growth, an unmanned rover from the United Arab Emirates, a hitherto space minnow, will be transported to the Moon next year, lunar exploration firm iSpace announced in April.
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Logical Innovations has received a five year, $42 million contract from NASA to provide financial and business management services for the Johnson Space Center.
The space agency said Thursday the contract requires program, resource and data management as well as accounting, data entry, analysis, reporting and other business support services.
Contract work will support the space center’s office of the chief financial officer, office of procurement and other units, NASA added.
The company will perform majority of the work at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, until September 2021, the agency noted.
Logical Innovations is a Small Business Administration-certified small disadvantaged business that offers line-of-business support services for commercial and government sectors.
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Three flights at Modesto Airport were canceled Wednesday after a commuter plane blew out its tires after landing on the main runway. The plane sat there for hours.
The tires blew out on the SkyWest plane from San Francisco at 10:49 a.m. It had five passengers and three crew members on board. No one was injured.
SkyWest spokeswoman Marissa Snow said the 30-seat commuter plane was off the runway at 6 p.m, and United Express said operations had resumed. SkyWest Airlines operates the United Express flights between Modesto and San Francisco.
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Spicejet plane collides with electric pole at Delhi airport; probe launched1 min read . Updated: 28 Mar 2022, 05:50 PM IST
- SpiceJet said its flight SG 160 was scheduled to operate between Delhi and Jammu. During push back, the right-wing trailing edge came in close contact with a pole, causing damage to aileron
A SpiceJet plane collided with an electric pole at the Delhi airport during pushback of the aircraft. During the incident, the passengers were on board. The aircraft was changed for the passengers on board. An investigation has been launched to look into the matter, an airport official told news agency ANI.
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The US Air Force has awarded Houston-based KBR a $156.7 million contract to support technical assessment and enhancements of the US Army’s UH-60V Black Hawk utility helicopter fleet.
The five-year agreement is part of a multiple-award vehicle contract granted by the US Department of Defence Information Analysis Center.
Under the order, KBR will work with Northrop Grumman to develop technical solutions for the US Army Utility Helicopter Project Office “to increase availability, improve reliability, and reduce the support costs for the UH-60V.”
Furthermore, KBR will provide solutions for validation, prototyping, logistics, program management, testing, upgrades, and life cycle analyses.
Work for the program will be conducted at KBR facilities and partner sites in Huntsville, Alabama.
“KBR is excited to support PEO aviation as they advance Black Hawk technology to better support the US military with this critical asset,” KBR President and CEO Stuart Bradie said.
“KBR and Northrop Grumman bring the experience and expertise to deliver solutions to maintain Army aviation technological superiority and reduce costs.”
The UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter was developed to replace the US Army’s aging UH-60A and UH-60L fleet.
According to KBR, planned modernizations for the UH-60V will focus on the chopper’s fuel system, avionics architecture, and electrical system, drive train, airframe, and latest rotor system.
The new model features several updates over its predecessors, including a digital glass cockpit, advanced flight planning and mission equipment, and a certified GPS area navigation system database.
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The research study on Global Space Tourism market 2019 presents an extensive analysis of current Space Tourism market size, drivers, trends, opportunities, challenges, as well as key Space Tourism market segments. Further, it explains various definitions and classification of the Space Tourism industry, applications, and chain structure.
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By Application (Civilians and Rich)
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Space Adventures Ltd.
EADS Astrium GmbH
Virgin Galactic LLC
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Space Island Group LLC
SpaceX Exploration Technologies Corp.
Zero 2 Infinity SL
XCOR Aerospace, Inc.
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01: Space Tourism Market Overview
02: Global Space Tourism Sales, Revenue (value) and Market Share by Players
03: Space Tourism Market Sales, Revenue (Value) by Regions, Type and Application (2014-2018)
04: Region wise Top Players Space Tourism Sales, Revenue and Price
05: worldwide Space Tourism Industry Players Profiles/Analysis
06: Space Tourism Manufacturing Cost Analysis
07: Industrial Chain, Space Tourism Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers
08: Space Tourism Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders
09: Space Tourism Industry Effect Factors Analysis
10: Global Space Tourism Market Forecast (2019-2026)
11: Space Tourism Research Findings and Conclusion
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6. January 2018
Military , History
This aircraft museum is pretty much in our backyard, so to speak. We used to live a few miles from it, and if you're into airplanes, it's a great way to spend the day...
- A vast oasis of aircraft lies deep in the Arizona desert
- Vintage aircraft under the desert sky: Yeah, it's worth the heat
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- NASA has shared an animation of Ingenuity helicopter before its historic flight
- Takeoff of the 4-pound robotic helicopter is now slated for this Sunday (April 11)
- The space agency said another test of the blades will take place before its flightNASA's Ingenuity helicopter has managed to spin its blades to 50 revolutions per minute (RPM) in preparation for its maiden flight on Mars this weekend.
The space agency shared a short animation, captured by cameras attached to Ingenuity's parent craft Perseverance, of the blades rotating.
Takeoff of the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) robotic helicopter, already detached from the Perseverance rover, is now slated for this Sunday (April 11). If successful, Ingenuity, which has become affectionately known as 'Ginny', will be the first powered and controlled flight of an aircraft on any planet other than Earth.
Ingenuity carries a small amount of fabric that covered one of the wings of the Wright brothers' aircraft, known as the Flyer, during the first powered, controlled flight on Earth in 1903.
'With just a little bit of swing, the #MarsHelicopter has moved its blades & spun to 50 rpm in preparation for first flight!' NASA tweeted on Friday morning.
'Takeoff is slated for April 11, with confirmation expected overnight into April 12 for us Earthlings.'
NASA said that there will be another rotor test that needs to be performed before the first flight on Sunday.
'So next we'll have to do a high-speed (2,400 rpm) spin test while still standing on the surface,' the agency tweeted.
The space agency called the reveal of the chopper blades 'mind-bottling' in reference to a quote from the Will Ferrell ice skating movie 'Blades of Glory'.
In a short clip shared on Twitter, the 4-foot wide blades can be seen slowly unlocking on top of the 19-inch-tall helicopter.The rotorcraft arrived on Mars attached to the belly of Perseverance, which touched down on the Red Planet on February 18 after a nearly seven-month journey through space.
Perseverance, a robot lab on wheels, is designed primarily to seek out traces of fossilised microbial life from Mars' ancient past and to collect rock specimens for return to Earth through future missions to Mars.
The NASA team is gradually releasing the craft in several steps to get it safely on to the surface, after a suitable test flight location was found, which NASA is referring to its 'airfield' – a 33-by-33-foot patch of flat Martian land.
Ingenuity made the 239 million-mile journey to Mars inside the belly of Perseverance until it was dropped to the dusty Martian ground on April 4.
NASA also said on April 5 that Ingenuity had survived its first night on the Martian surface – a major milestone because surface temperatures can plunge as low as -130°F (-90°C).
Ingenuity is now about 13 feet away from Perseverance, according to NASA.
Perseverance snapped a selfie of the pair to commemorate one of their last moments together before the copter's flight.
On April 11, Ingenuity will take off on a slow, vertical ascent to about 10 feet (3 meters), hovering for 30 seconds, rotating in the air and then descending to a gentle touchdown.
Perseverance hosts Ingenuity's base station, enabling communication with mission controllers on Earth.
'As with everything with the helicopter, this type of deployment has never been done before,' Farah Alibay, Mars Helicopter integration lead for the Perseverance rover, previously said.
'Once we start the deployment there is no turning back – all activities are closely coordinated, irreversible, and dependent on each other.
'If there is even a hint that something isn't going as expected, we may decide to hold off for a sol [a Martian day] or more until we have a better idea what is going on.'
JPL plans to film the entire exercise with cameras mounted on Perseverance, parked a short distance away, and will beam images back to Earth hours later.
Ingenuity is also equipped with two cameras of its own its its cube-shaped base – one colour camera with a horizon-facing view for terrain images and one black-and-white for navigation.
The helicopter will undertake additional flights up to 16 feet (5 metres) high, assuming the initial flight goes as well as hoped.
Flying in a controlled manner on Mars will be far more difficult than flying on Earth, as the Red Planet has about one-third the gravity of Earth's.
Mars' atmosphere is also just one per cent as dense as Earth's at the surface.
During Martian daytime, the planet's surface receives only about half the amount of solar energy that reaches Earth during its daytime.
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After 5 months of testing during its long cruise to Mercury, European and Japanese teams concluded that the probe was ready for its mission.
System validation tests are currently held by the Solar Orbiter mission control team in Germany. It will be launched in February 2020.
The ISAE-SUPAERO aeronautics and space institute, supported by CNES’s JANUS student nanosatellite programme and in partnership with the French national aerospace research ONERA,...
Programme of the Year 2019: The New Universe and Dark Energy
"Taking the pulse of our planet from space" organised by ESA in Milan, Italy.
To raise awareness around light pollution, the International Astronomical Union organises worldwide events around the UNESCO...
Meteoroids 2019 will take place at Hotel Tatra in Bratislava, Slovakia, from June 17 – 21, 2019.
The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) 2019 will take place in Lyon, France
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Blizzard cancels more Florida flights
The toll of flights at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport lost to winter storm Juno has risen to five.
Canceled are: two flights, one out of and one into, New York’s John F. Kennedy airport; two flights to and from Boston; another flight out of Washington D.C.
Meanwhile, Punta Gorda Airport had no scheduled arrivals and a departing flight to Pittsburgh was listed as on time.
Thirty flights at Tampa International Airport were either canceled — most of the lost flights — or delayed.
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Kelly: John Glenn soared with dreams of a generation
A courageous five-hour trek into the blackness of outer space mesmerized America and turned him into a national hero
He was the Marine fighter pilot with the beaming smile and the soft-spoken style of a country pastor from the rolling hills of his native Ohio.
But John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95, will forever be immortalized for a courageous five-hour trek into the blackness of outer space a half-century ago that mesmerized America and turned him into a national hero — the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth.
In this age when space missions have become consigned to mere footnotes to the news of the day and scientists now talk of sending astronauts to Mars and beyond, Glenn’s three orbits around the earth on Feb. 20, 1962, seem, in retrospect, almost akin to an afternoon nap or a Sunday drive.
They were anything but.
To America in the early 1960s, energized by the ambitious agenda and hopeful oratory of President John F. Kennedy, yet nervous about the omnipresent threat of nuclear war with a blustery, muscular Soviet Union, which had already sent an astronaut to orbit the earth, Glenn’s brief mission was a national confidence booster.
Glenn not only survived the three orbits in which he streaked above the earth’s surface at 17,500 mph but also a fiery return through the atmosphere where he lost radio contact. The dramatic splashdown of his Mercury space capsule in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bermuda – with Glenn’s radio transmissions coming back to life confirming that he had survived — was captured on live television for a worldwide audience.
Glenn, already a decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot from World War II and the Korean War, would go on to other notable achievements — elected four times as a U.S. senator from Ohio, touted as a possible presidential and vice presidential nominee in the 1980s, and as a 77-year-old grandfather, returning to space as America’s oldest astronaut in 1998 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, which delivered supplies to the International Space Station.
But his first hours in space – in a mission named “Friendship 7” — marked an achievement that would follow him like a gracious shadow for his entire life and still cause many Americans to conjure up memories of where they were when Glenn circled the earth.
“John Glenn was my Mickey Mantle,” said former Teaneck Mayor Paul Ostrow, comparing the astronaut to the glamour-boy star of the New York Yankees.
Now 65, Ostrow can still remember where he was during Glenn’s landmark orbital mission: fifth grade, at the Whittier Elementary School on West Englewood Avenue in Teaneck.
“I even remember what seat I was in,” Ostrow recalled on Thursday. “I wasn’t sitting. I was standing.”
Ostrow’s class was much like the rest of the nation – silent and watching a black-and-white television that featured live coverage of Glenn’s return from space.
“To me, space flight was more important than sports or rock-and-roll,” said Ostrow, who, like many in the baby boom generation at the time, was captivated by America’s space program. “The idea of a guy getting into a small capsule the size of a phone booth and flying around the earth was unbelievable. The event was embedded in my head and hasn’t left.”
Three years earlier, amid the kind of magazine-cover publicity that had been mostly reserved for war heroes, movie stars and presidents, America’s fledgling National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA – selected seven military pilots for its Mercury space program. The group became known as the Mercury 7 and their training and exploits in space were later chronicled in the best-selling book, “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe, which was later made into a movie starring Ed Harris of Tenafly as Glenn.
Wolfe later described Glenn as “the last true hero America has ever made.” The statement, while obviously an exaggeration, nevertheless represents a sense of heroism that the smiling, cool-as-ice Glenn embodied in the early 1960s.
Glenn was the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts. His death marks the end of an era that evoked the kind of dreams of space exploration that now seem almost forgotten. NASA has cut back on its manned space missions and is redirecting its goals to include unmanned explorations of Mars and other planets, and possible missions requiring astronauts to travel for years in space.
Glenn’s mission into space, while small compared with NASA’s future plans to explore the outer reaches of the solar system, was the sort of achievement that not only gained him a personal visit with President John F. Kennedy but a ticker-tape parade in New York City. Glenn later became a close friend to the Kennedy family and was with Robert F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1968 in Los Angeles. Glenn was a pallbearer for Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral.
What made Glenn’s trip to space so formidable, however, was not so much the notion that U.S. astronauts could be launched into space atop powerful rockets. Already two Mercury 7 astronauts had traveled to space – Alan Shepard in May 1961 and Virgil “Gus” Grissom two months later.
The missions by Shepard and Grissom were brief, “suborbital” rocket shots into the sky, lasting only a short period. Neither astronaut left the earth’s atmosphere in the cramped triangular Mercury capsules.
Glenn’s trek, in a similar Mercury capsule, was the United States' third attempt at space flight. But it would be the first to test whether a U.S. space capsule could not only escape the earth’s atmosphere but also achieve enough speed and height so that an astronaut could then pilot a spaceship around the earth in orbit – and then return without burning up.
When Glenn survived, you could almost hear the nation's sigh of relief – and feel a sense that America was on its way to a goal of landing astronauts on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
In May 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the earth. In October 1962 – with the Cuban Missile Crisis looming and its reminders of the dangers of possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union — astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra, who grew up in Oradell, also orbited the earth.
As a liberal Democrat from Ohio, Glenn championed future space flight. He was implicated, along with other political figures, in the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s. But he escaped criminal prosecution. After retiring from the Senate, Glenn returned to NASA and flew aboard a space shuttle mission in 1998 – his task to test the effects of space flight on seniors.
That last experiment, while significant, pales in comparison to Glenn’s first trek into space – and Glenn’s own words that said so much about the dreams of a nation yearning to travel beyond the confines of earth.
“Oh,” Glenn said from his orbiting Mercury capsule, “that view is tremendous.”
Glenn was right – with the right stuff for a nation that needed a boost.
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- Who built Spirit and Opportunity?
- How long did Spirit and Opportunity last?
- When did spirit die?
- Is opportunity still alive?
- Is Spirit rover dead?
- Who named Spirit opportunity?
- Why did opportunity last so long?
- Are Mars rovers still active?
- Where did Opportunity die?
- What were the 2 robots that landed on Mars in 2004 called?
- Is Curiosity rover still alive?
- How did Curiosity die?
- Who visited Mars first?
- Is Opportunity rover back online?
- How much did Spirit and Opportunity cost?
Who built Spirit and Opportunity?
In recognition of the vast amount of scientific information amassed by both rovers, two asteroids have been named in their honor: 37452 Spirit and 39382 Opportunity.
The mission is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which designed, built, and is operating the rovers..
How long did Spirit and Opportunity last?
Spirit lasted 20 times longer than its original design until it concluded its mission in 2010. Opportunity has worked on Mars longer than any other robot—nearly 15 years. The rover last communicated with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover’s location on Mars.
When did spirit die?
Spirit stopped communicating with Earth on March 22, 2010, after it got stuck in a sand trap. (Spirit’s twin rover, Opportunity, operated until June 2018, until it was unable to charge its batteries due to a dust storm. NASA declared Oppy dead in February 2019.)
Is opportunity still alive?
Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed “Oppy”, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until the middle of 2018. … Due to the planetary 2018 dust storm on Mars, Opportunity ceased communications on June 10 and entered hibernation on June 12, 2018.
Is Spirit rover dead?
As of 2018, there has been no communication with the rover since March 22, 2010 (sol 2208). It is likely that Spirit experienced a low-power fault and had turned off all sub-systems, including communication, and gone into a deep sleep, trying to recharge its batteries.
Who named Spirit opportunity?
After the success of the Sojourner rover, NASA wanted to send more rovers to learn about Mars. So, in 2003, they sent two rovers to the Red Planet. The rovers were named Spirit and Opportunity. Together, they were part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Why did opportunity last so long?
Because Mars is almost twice as far from the sun as Earth, less sunlight reaches the surface, even in the summer. The rovers needed more creative solutions to survive the especially gloomy Martian winters when even less sunlight was available for power.
Are Mars rovers still active?
The rover sent its last status on 10 June 2018 when a global 2018 Mars dust storm blocked the sunlight needed to recharge its batteries. After hundreds of attempts to reactivate the rover, NASA declared the mission complete on February 13, 2019.
Where did Opportunity die?
Marson Mars. Opportunity bounced to a stop on the Martian surface in 2004 and roamed from crater to crater for 14 years. A huge dust storm that wrapped around the planet last June covered the rover’s solar panels and left engineers struggling for months to regain contact.
What were the 2 robots that landed on Mars in 2004 called?
In January 2004, two robotic geologists named Spirit and Opportunity landed on opposite sides of the red planet. With far greater mobility than the 1997 Mars Pathfinder rover, these robotic explorers have trekked for miles across the Martian surface, conducting field geology and making atmospheric observations.
Is Curiosity rover still alive?
Curiosity is a car-sized rover designed to explore Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). … The rover is still operational, and as of September 21, 2020, Curiosity has been on the planet Mars for 2889 sols (2968 total days) since landing on August 6th, 2012. (See current status.)
How did Curiosity die?
The Mars rover Opportunity has died, NASA announced yesterday (Feb. 13). A layer of dust likely coated its solar panels, preventing it from juicing itself up after a 2018 sky-blackening dust storm on the Red Planet.
Who visited Mars first?
The first to contact the surface were two Soviet probes: Mars 2 lander on November 27 and Mars 3 lander on December 2, 1971—Mars 2 failed during descent and Mars 3 about twenty seconds after the first Martian soft landing.
Is Opportunity rover back online?
Opportunity’s Mission Is Complete No response has been received from Opportunity since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), amid a planet-encircling dust storm on Mars. With the last uplink transmission on Sol 5352 (Feb. 12, 2019), the rover recovery efforts are concluded. The Opportunity mission is complete.
How much did Spirit and Opportunity cost?
The Viking missions alone cost nearly $1 billion — in 1970s dollars. The twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity cost a total of about $1 billion to build and operate as well. Curiosity, as the Mars Science Laboratory rover is known, is over budget at $2.5 billion.
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On Friday, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft said farewell to its long space-faring mission and dove down to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for a controlled impact. Rosetta's final image shows a rocky, dusty, out-of-focus landscape seen from just 66 feet (20 meters) above. That fateful landing site now has a new name: "Sais."
The Rosetta mission was named for the Rosetta Stone, an inscribed rock that helped scholars unravel the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Researchers believe it may have originally been displayed in a temple in the ancient Egyptian town of Sais.
"Just as the Rosetta Stone was pivotal in understanding ancient language and history, so the vast treasure trove of Rosetta spacecraft data is changing our view on how comets and the Solar System formed," says the ESA.
Rosetta first launched in 2004, arrived at Comet 67P in 2014 and then spent two years studying the space object before the mission ended with the controlled impact on the surface.
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When can you cross train?
As a FTA, Airmen have an eight-month window to apply to retrain into a new career field. For a four-year enlistee, the window is between the 35th and 43rd month of enlistment. For a six-year enlistee, the window is between the 59th and 67th month of enlistment.
When can first-term airman cross train?
First-term airmen can only apply for retraining during a specific window. For four-year enlistees stationed stateside, that falls during the 35th and 43rd month of their current enlistment, according to a video posted by AFPC, and six-year stateside enlistees can apply between their 59th and 67th month.
What are the requirements to cross train in the Air Force?
A first-term airman (four-year enlistment contract) assigned to a CONUS (continental United States) base is eligible to volunteer to retrain after they have completed 35 months (and no more than 43 months) of military service.
How many times can you Crosstrain in the Air Force?
To my knowledge, there is no limit other that minimum time limits for being in a career field before cross training. I’ve known a number of people that have cross trained three or four times in their career.
Do you have to enlist to cross train?
These kind of AFSCs require a six year enlistment. Six-year enlistment contracts in a critical career field will typically not allow you to apply for cross-training. This will be stated, as such, in your contract.
Can you cross train into Special Forces?
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. The changes allow Airmen to be released from their current jobs in the Air Force to cross-train into the special tactics career fields, should they be selected following an assessment of physical, mental and psychological attributes. …
Can Air Force officers cross train?
Most officers, at one time or another throughout their career, have served in a position or job outside of their original or primary Air Force Specialty Code. … “When my 19XX career field went away, I was able to select from critically manned career fields at the time to cross-train into,” Wallace said.
Can you Crosstrain in the Air Force Reserves?
Then the Air Force Reserve is for you. Becoming a Traditional Reservist or an Individual Mobilization Augmentee offers Airmen the opportunity to pursue a civilian career and still serve their country. … TRs also deploy with their units and have opportunities to cross train into a new career field.
What is a first term airman?
The First Term Airmen Center is designed to aid all first-duty-stationed airmen with their transition from a training environment into a mission oriented environment using the airmen’s skills, knowledge and training gained from technical school. … For upcoming classes or to register, call the First Term Airman Center.
When can you change your job in the Air Force?
Yes, within limits. Your first duty is to the needs of the Air Force. If there is a greater need in another job then you can move. Remember there are costs involved with any move so budget may be an issue.
Do you get to choose job in Air Force?
The Air Force calls its enlisted jobs Air Force specialty codes (AFSC) The Air Force has two enlistment options: Guaranteed Job, and Guaranteed Aptitude Area. … Under the guaranteed aptitude program, the applicant is guaranteed that he will be selected for a job that falls into one of the designated aptitude areas.
Can you change your MOS in the Air Force?
You can request a specialty reassignment when you re-enlist, during which you agree to serve for another few years in your new position. This is likely the best time to make a move to a new position.
What is the Air Force stressed list?
The Air Force stressed list is a list of jobs within the Air Force that need additional personnel. Therefore, that particular job is stressed or understaffed. For the stressed list, stress is a measure of how many airmen are available to work in that job, taking into account those that are deployed.
Can you change your AFSC before basic?
Yes, and in some cases you have to. If your unit changes equipment, the aircrews and mechanics have to train on the new equipment and get reclassified or transfer out. If you move to another location and the unit near your new home has no positions for your AFSC, you have to retrain into something they can use.
What is a CJR in the Air Force?
The Career Job Reservation program is a Headquarters Air Force tool used when needed to manage the number of First Term Airmen and Guardians allowed to reenlist into their current Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) or Space Force Specialty Code (SFSC) CJR limitations are established to manage projected surpluses and …
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Qatar Airways has revealed this week at the Kuwait Aviation Show that it will be adding eight additional destinations to its network in 2020: Nur-Sultan and Almaty, Kazakhstan; Cebu, Philippines; Accra, Ghana; Trabzon, Turkey; Luanda, Angola; Lyon, France and Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker, said the aviation show was the “perfect platform for us to kick start the New Year and unveil some of our exciting plans for 2020.”
“Eight new destinations will be joining our network this year in addition to the recently announced gateways of Santorini, Greece; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and Osaka, Japan. With these new routes, our operations will expand to 177 destinations around the world, reinforcing our position as one of the world’s most connected airlines.
“This ensures we can continue to provide our passengers more options and flexibility when planning their business and leisure travel,” Al Baker commented.
New destinations, launch dates and frequencies:
- Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan – Two weekly flights (starting 30 March 2020)
- Almaty, Kazakhstan – Two weekly flights starting 1 April 2020, increasing to four weekly flights from 25 May 2020
- Cebu, Philippines – Three weekly flights (starting 8 April 2020)
- Accra, Ghana – Daily flights (starting 15 April 2020)
- Trabzon, Turkey – Three weekly flights (starting 20 May 2020)
- Lyon, France – Five weekly flights (starting 23 June 2020)
- Luanda, Angola – Four weekly flights (starting 14 October 2020)
- Siem Reap, Cambodia – Five weekly flights (starting 16 November 2020)
Pitched as the world’s fastest growing airline, Qatar Airways added several new destinations to its growing network last year, including Rabat, Morocco; Izmir, Turkey; Malta; Davao, Philippines; Lisbon, Portugal; Mogadishu, Somalia; Langkawi, Malaysia; and Gaborone, Botswana.
Lead image: Siem Reap | Photo credit: Vincent Gerboiun/Pexels
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Are you a frequent flyer? Have you ever wondered how this entire air travel thing works? If you think everything is fine and dandy, you may be mistaken. Let us enlighten you with 15 confessions from pilots and flight attendants that reveal the dark side of air travel. Some of them may even give you nightmares, so be careful.
1.Your Pilots are Sleeping Most of the Time
According a to a recent study conducted on pilots, half of them have confessed to falling asleep involuntarily while flying, while one third of them confessed they wake up to find their co-pilot asleep. Pilots are human beings as well. We all feel sleepy at work, don’t we?
2.Oxygen Masks in Flights Work Only for 15 Minutes
Did you know that oxygen masks in flights work only for 15 minutes from the time they are pulled down? In most cases, this 15 minutes time is more than enough time for the pilot to bring the flight down to an altitude where you can breathe normally again. You have to act fast to put an oxygen mask down in higher altitude. You will only have 15 to 20 seconds before passing out completely due to lack of oxygen supply to the body.
3.Your Flight May be Carrying Dead Bodies or Human Organs
In case if you didn’t know this, regular flights carry dead bodies, organs and other human remains in cargo space. However airlines have strict ‘packing’ policies that should lessen your worry a little.
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The global Air Traffic Management (ATM) industry is undergoing a major transformation with the objective of seamless air navigation services and enhancement of performance. This foundation course, and requirement for the Diploma in Air Navigation Services Management, covers the key management areas of Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) activities and planning.
Gain a solid knowledge of modern business management practices in air navigation services to help you guide your organization to success. This interactive course provides examples and illustrations from ANSPs from around the world.
What you will learn
Upon completing this course, you will be able to
- Understand the context for the provision of Air Navigation Services
- Manage Air Navigation Services effectively from regulatory and financial issues to technology evolution
- Manage safety, quality, and risk in your everyday work
- Plan and compare performance with other Air Navigation Service providers and Understand Airspace System Block Upgrades (ASBU)
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Protect your drone from potential damage with these propeller guards. These guards are designed to prevent propeller damage and are easy to install. They're made from tough, lightweight plastic and add an element of safety for new pilots. They're also great for when flying close to objects.
Guards help prevent propeller or aircraft damage
Ideal for use when flying near other objects
Constructed from tough, lightweight plastic
Guards are easy to install and add an element of safety for new pilots
Includes 4 x propeller guards
1 X Quadcopter F450 550 Propeller Guard 4Pcs
2 X Screws(Pack Of 10 Screws)
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The U.S. space Agency is not the first decade developing a program for the preparation of the first ever human flight to Mars. In addition to many other problems, a very topical issue is the question of what will the astronauts eat during this long Autonomous expeditions. And, it seems the answer has finally been found — vegetarian dishes!
United States of America, like Russia, have very ambitious plans for Space exploration in the next few decades. For example, NASA is going to send the first humans to Mars by 2030 year. Moreover, active work on the Mars Program is already a few decades. And the American space Agency is now interested in not only the technical side of the question, but many "human" factors.
For example, recently, NASA issued a press release about the launch of the project Advanced Food Technology, namely, to consider establishing a full-fledged Autonomous systems and growing organic food.
In the classic television series the type of Sunshine or Star Trek characters, space ships and eat foods grown directly on interstellar cruisers. Here is the principle, and wants to learn from NASA, using it in its Mars Mission.
But the idea and NASA Advanced Food Technology, the spacecraft that will fly to Mars will be a private garden designed to provide members of the expedition a full set of fresh food on a year-round basis (in interstellar space because there is no winter, no autumn, no spring, no summer).
Moreover, already now experts Advanced Food Technology has developed over hundreds of dishes that can be prepared from the grown directly on a space ship the products. So the monotony of astronauts that are sent to Mars are not threatened!
Why the menu must be vegetarian? Yes, because the safety of dairy and meat products is not enough for space flight to Mars that will last a few years!
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New Delhi: An Air Asia flight, going from Kolkata to Mumbai, with 114 passengers onboard had to make an emergency landing at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport following a bomb threat by one of the passengers.
The incident took place on Saturday when the flight took off at 10 PM from Kolkata. Soon after the take-off, a woman passenger informed the crew that she had bombs which she was planning to detonate.
The crew swung into action and informed the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) about the flight returning to Kolkata.
The flight made the landing and was soon taken into isolation bay.
The passenger was arrested and taken to the Barrackpore court.
Reports said that she was mentally unstable.
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Astronomers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are ruling out the possibility that the 2005 YU55 asteroid is likely to fall down on Earth within the next century. But it will get close next week.
The rocky object was reported earlier to be completing another trip around the sun then passing by Earth within the moon’s orbit on Nov. 8, giving scientists a rare close-up of a space rock that could hold clues to Earth’s origins and future space travel.
The size of the asteroid is approximately 400 meters in length and twice as big as it was formerly estimated by scientists.
It was reported in several publications that this asteroid was discovered by Robert McMillan of the Space Watch Detection Team on Dec. 28, 2005.
Published accounts also said that it is expected to fly by at a distance of 191,120 miles (307,577 km), about eight-tenths the distance between Earth and the moon.
The distance from Earth to the moon is an average about 238,900 miles (384,472 km).Marshalling everything from major radar facilities to backyard telescopes, astronomers are gearing up for a fantastic view of an asteroid called 2005 YU55.
The 400-metre-diameter rock has been predicted to miss the earth on Nov. 8 scraping past us at just 0.85 of the distance between our planet and the Moon.
An advisory from JPL says NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency’s Deep Space Network at Goldstone as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon’s orbit on Nov. 8.
Monitoring of the gigantic asteroid will start at 9:30 a.m. local time (PDT) on Nov. 4, using the massive 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna, and last for about two hours. The asteroid will continue to be tracked by Goldstone for at least four hours each day from Nov. 6 through Nov. 10. Radar observations from the Arecibo Planetary Radar Facility in Puerto Rico will begin on Nov. 8, the same day the asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 3:28 p.m. PST, according to laboratory personnel.
Radar observations should pin down the orbit for 2005 YU55 to be eligible for a numerical designation from the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That may be a precursor to the asteroid getting a name from the International Astronomical Union.
The fly-by comes as the NASA is set to conduct a workshop on Nov. 14 to deliberate on a proposal by several international space agencies in September.
If ever this becomes possible, it will be possible to transport human beings to an asteroid by the year 2020. US President Barack Obama has expressed support for such a mission as a first step towards sending humans to Mars.
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There’s an enigmatic hint in their words: “Darkstar’s capabilities could be more than mere fiction. They could be reality…”
About a week after the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick finally hit the theaters, the Skunk Works division of Lockheed Martin released some details about the creation of the Darkstar hypersonic aircraft featured in the film. The involvement of the Skunk Works in the project had already been confirmed by the CEO of Lockheed Martin, James Taiclet, in a post on LinkedIn after the world premiere of the film. Now, the company added on its website a page dedicated to Top Gun and the mysterious Darkstar.
“Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® thrives on tackling seemingly impossible work, developing technologies for tomorrow’s challenges before the need is even identified. From creating radar evading stealth capabilities to X-planes that redefine the sonic boom to many revolutionary technologies in between, Skunk Works has a long tradition of quickly developing enduring innovation for when it’s needed most. When the Top Gun: Maverick team was looking to push the envelope and stand true to Maverick’s Need for Speed, Skunk Works was their first call. With the Skunk Works expertise in developing the fastest known aircraft combined with a passion and energy for defining the future of aerospace, Darkstar’s capabilities could be more than mere fiction. They could be reality…”
Some call it movie magic.
Our Skunk Works® team calls it defining the future.#TopGun
— Lockheed Martin (@LockheedMartin) June 3, 2022
That closing sentence is quite enigmatic, as it hints that the design might not be completely fictional. Since its first appearance in the film’s second trailer, many have already noticed a close resemblance of the Darkstar with the concept images of the SR-72 hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft released by Lockheed Martin in 2013 (and even teased by the US Air Force last year), although the latter was unmanned (but hey, what can satisfy Maverick’s need for speed better than a hypersonic aircraft?).
Get an inside look at the creation of Darkstar, a conceptual hypersonic aircraft designed for the big screen. #TopGun
— Lockheed Martin (@LockheedMartin) June 2, 2022
As you might already have seen in the film, the Darkstar has sleek aerodynamic shapes, with small wings and canted vertical twin tails. The aircraft is built around a turbine-based combined cycle propulsion system, with two turbojet/low-bypass turbofan afterburning engines and two scramjets. There’s also an interesting feature that comes from a real aircraft being developed right now by the Skunk Works, the X-59 QueSST. The cockpit, in fact, has no forward visibility and Maverick relies on a synthetic vision system to see what’s in front of the aircraft.
The web page on LM’s website continues saying that the all the work related to Darkstar was done in secret, with the Skunk Works working with the Top Gun: Maverick production team to understand their needs and then quietly working on the design and build until the concept was revealed to the world in the film. The page also features some short interviews with some of the people behind the design of Darkstar.
The design went from a concept to reality thanks to a team of conceptual designers, engineers and aircraft model developers, who brought together their expertise to quickly have a realistic aircraft forebody model with a working cockpit, while also keeping it structurally sound throughout filming. The model they built was so accurate that China was reportedly fooled in believing that it was a real experimental aircraft and even reoriented a spy satellite to take photos of it.
The Darkstar in the new @TopGunMovie seems pretty realistic for good reason. Jerry Bruckheimer told me that it was actually designed with Skunk Works engineers. The US Navy told him China reoriented a spy satellite to get pics of it, thinking it was a real experimental aircraft. pic.twitter.com/uefNnQYREw
— Alex Hollings (@AlexHollings52) May 2, 2022
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1⁄35Fighters Under the Midnight Sun
The only Soviet strategic attack which failed was against Finland. Of WWII European combatants, only Finland and Great Britain were never occupied. Part of Finland's success of holding off the Soviet monster was her independent air force, the Suomen Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force), which boasts the world’s highest scoring non-Luftwaffe or Japanese aces. In the Winter War the VVS (Soviet Air Force) commenced their air attacks against Finland in November 1939 with 3,253 aircraft, while the Ilmavoimat possessed only 36 Fokker D.XXIs and 10 Bristol Bulldogs to oppose the Soviet attack! The Continuation War began with another communist assault on 25 June 1941 and ended with an armistice on 4 September 1944. Ilmavoimat claimed 1807 kills with Finnish flak downing another 1345; Ilmavoimat lost 257 aircraft in action and another 315 to training and non-operational events. Extraordinarily, recent research into Russian archives reveal the Soviets credited 1855 of their losses to Finnish fighter pilots.
Before the Second World War, Finland, like many countries, followed the ideas of the air power theorist Giulio Douhet, who believed that strategic bombings with heavy, fast, high-altitude bombers would be the future way of aerial warfare. Because of this so called “Douhetism”, the development of fighters lagged behind bomber aircraft all the way until late 30’s and It was the Winter War that made the fighter the primary weapon in the Finnish Air Force.
When the war broke out in November 1939, the majority of planes operated by the Finnish Air Force were already obsolete. The much-published aid from abroad didn’t help much, consisting mainly of aging aircraft types (a good example of this is the Gloster Gladiator, of which England donated 10 to Finland, with the obligation of buying further 20). The only modern type was Fiat G.50, although the more numerous Fokker D.XXI is considered the best fighter in FAF service during the Winter War. Another peculiar characteristic of FAF was the multitude of aircraft types in service. This not only made maintenance more difficult, but also problematic was the fact that several aircraft types used machine gun ammunition of the same caliber that were not compatible with each other.
Despite the inferior equipment and being outnumbered by 10 to 1, Finnish Air Force was able to achieve incredible results against the enemy. One achievement that well symbolizes the sheer determination of the Finnish defenders is 6th of January 1940, when Lt. Jorma Sarvanto made the unofficial world record by shooting down six bombers from a formation of seven, the last spared only because he ran out of ammo. Their stunning performance against the VVS was due not to equity in numbers or even quality of equipment, but in ground breaking tactics and doctrine employed with excellent training. In the early 1930s the fighter arm's father, LTC Richard Lorentz experimented with, and implemented, the dual two plane basic formation that the nascent Luftwaffe eventually adopted as the Schwarm. Later, Capt. Gustaf Erik Magnusson toured several of the world's air forces, spending time with the Luftwaffe's new JG 132. The German adoption of the Schwarm convinced the FAF their tactics were sound. Lacking money for training, Ilmavoimat taught just three tactics of attack and emphasized gunnery. Pilots were ordered not to fire beyond 50 m!
After the conflict ended the 13th of March, Finnish Air Force had shot down 218 Russian planes according to the official FAF statistics. Recent Soviet sources acknowledge between 261 to 579 Soviet losses, 207 claimed air-to-air. The Ilmavoimat lost just 23 fighters in action.
During the brief period of interim peace before the Continuation War, which was to begin in June 1941, the shortcomings in the Air Force were clear and newer planes were purchased. The most important type was the B-239 Brewster which was the main fighter aircraft when the war started, the first of which arrived nearing the end the Winter War, but were too late to see any action. Other planes bought from abroad included Hawker Hurricanes from England (Finns did allegedly attempt to purchase Spitfires as well, but the Brits were understandably reluctant to part with state of the art aircraft while the war against Germany was at full swing) and war booty Curtiss Hawks and Morane Saulniers bought from Germany.
When the Soviet Union attacked Finland 25th of June 1941 after provoked by Germany being allowed to use Finnish territory in launching the Operation Barbarossa and Hitler declaring Finland to be fighting alongside (“Im bunde”) with Germany, VVS commenced numerous air attacks, the Finnish Air Force countering the attacks by shooting down 23 planes without casualties. It came clear that the better planes, tactics, and lessons learnt from the Winter War were put into use with full effect. During the first two weeks of the war, FAF managed to shoot down 68 enemy planes and losing only one Fokker fighter.
During the attack phase of the war, fighters covered attacking troops and bombers harassed clusters of enemy troops and convoys. The very successful aerial battles fought usually ensured Finnish air superiority, the pilot with most kills during this time being Chief Warrant Officer Oiva Tuominen with 18 downed enemy planes, the majority achieved flying a Fiat fighter.
By the year 1943, it had been ever clearer that the plane types operated by FAF were getting old and obsolete compared to the Russian arsenal, Finnish pilot prevailing because of their superior flying skills and training. To remedy this, modern Messerschmitt Bf-109 fighters and Junkers Ju-88 bombers were bought from Germany.
With the newer equipment, FAF was able to fight the ever more advanced planes fielded by VVS and help hold back the Fourth Strategic Offensive, started in conjunction with the Allied Normandy invasion in July 1944. During the offensive, Finland managed to purchase more Bf-109G fighters and were also helped by the German flight detachment Kuhlmey (and a half-strength assault gun brigade and an infantry division).
This newer equipment purchased helped Finnish pilots rack up their scores even further in the summer of 1944. Many pilots achieved the status of ace flying Bf-109G’s and those already experienced added even more downed planes to their accounts. The most successful non-German pilot of all time, Ilmari Juutilainen achieved the score of 94 without a single hit by enemy fighters. Other prominent aces include Hans "Hasse" Wind (75 official victories), Eino Luukkanen with a score of 56 and Urho Lehtovaara (44½).
All in all, the success of the Finnish air arm can be explained with good tactics, superior training, knowing the pros and cons of what was available and making the most of every piece of equipment. (The Finns maintained what would surely have been scrapped in other countries, resulting in some airframes getting high numbers of kills. A good example being BW-393, it’s 41 kills making it possibly the highest-scoring airframe of all time.
Another thing worth mentioning is how good results the Finns made with aircraft shunned by other countries, Brewster Buffalo being the most prominent example of this. Considered a failure by almost all other users, it was loved by Finnish pilots and was the main fighter in the Air Force until the introduction of the Bf-109’s.
But no matter how good the planes are, the skills of the pilots flying them is what matters the most, and this is well represented in the kill/loss ratio of Finnish fighters. Messerschmitt pilots shot down 663 VVS planes while losing 21 of their own, while 447 enemy planes were downed with Brewsters with only 19 planes lost.
Finland’s valiant stand against communist fascism is little known in the annals of the Twentieth Century. It is yet another shining example of how a free, democratic, small, motivated country with good tactics and doctrine can prevail in the face of seemingly overwhelming brutal regimes.
Text: Eetu Tahvonen and Fred Rick Boucher
Models by Fred Rick Boucher, Brian Fendley, Jean-Luc Formery, Nigel Julian, Frank Portela, Hermon Rector, Armando Jorge Soares and Eetu Tahvonen.
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talvisota (in Finnish)
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatkosota (in Finnish)
http://www.veteraanienperinto.fi/suomi/Kertomukset/sotilas/sotilas/talvisota/luutnantti_sarvannon_taistelulen.htm (in Finnish)
http://www.veteraanienperinto.fi/suomi/t_pankki/a_lajit/lentajan_maailmanennatys.htm (in Finnish)
Copyright ©2020 by Eetu Tahvonen. Images and/or videos also by copyright holder unless otherwise noted. The views and opinions expressed herein are solely the views and opinions of the authors and/or contributors to this Web site and do not necessarily represent the views and/or opinions of KitMaker Network, KitMaker Network, or Silver Star Enterrpises. All rights reserved. Originally published on: 2007-01-27 00:00:00. Unique Reads: 9034
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$330.00 – $485.00
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Legend HWO C-GBEP
Masterpiece of Craftsmanship and very fast airplane. Owner-pilot was very
generous to answer our questions on his visit to South Florida. Sorry that
the camera went out of focus at the peak of acceleration, plane is just too
Aircraft Emergency And Landing in a Glasair - the impossible turn ???
My Glasair engine is a Subaru SVX EG-33. Six bearings in the planetary
speed reduction unit failed during departure. I declared an in-flight
emergency and immediately returned for landing. Total flight time was 63
I failed to plug the camera mike in so you don't hear the engine monitor
blaring out alarms or chatter between other pilots and myself.
Departure was made with 10 degrees of flaps and remained there until
landing with 25 degrees. The buzzer during much of the flight is the "gear
up" with "flaps extended" warning horn ... the stall horn never sounded.
Speed did drop but the flight never reached critically low speed. Power
was intentionally reduced to keep gearbox temps down. I fly patrol flights
at 500 ft or less, often 6 to 7 hrs a day. So I do have low level
maneuvering experience. Some may call this the impossible turn but power
was available during the entire flight.
Glasair Sportsman: 360 vs. 390
If you're building a Glasair Sportsman, you have the choice of a 180-HP
IO-360 or the beefier IO-390. Which engine is best? It depends? In this
video, Kitplanes Magazine editor Marc Cook analyzes the pros and cons.
Glasair: Build an airplane in two weeks
Glasair's "Two Weeks To Taxi" program has been approved by the FAA. Pilots
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help of Glasair technicians inside of two weeks vacation time.
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You can even see a quite rare live firing test of am R-60 (AA-8 Aphid) air-to-air missile.
Noteworthy, it looks like the video maker tried to censor the German Air Force roundel at 01:57 (weird!), and you can see the shadow of a small drone used to film the plane on the ground in the very first seconds of the video.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
Integration of the MBDA Storm Shadow missile onto Eurofighter Typhoon multi-/swing role aircraft has started. Eurofighter and Alenia Aermacchi have released some images of the initial flight trials that began on Nov. 27, by the […]
An interesting image taken during a formation flight of MiG-29 fighter jets over Erebuni in Yerevan, Armenia, near the Turkish border. Even if the above image is just a preview of a video that will […]
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Israel officially entered the space
age with the lift-off of its first satellite, Ofeq-1, from the locally
built Shavit launch vehicle on September 19, 1988. With that launch,
Israel joined an exclusive club of countries - Russia, the United
States, England, Japan, India, France and China - that have developed,
produced and launched their own satellites.
As well as developing space hardware, Israel is using space as a platform to find out more about life on our own planet. Israel has made
important contributions in a number of areas including laser
communication, research into embryo development and osteoporosis,
monitoring pollution, and mapping geology, soil and vegetation in
The next step was taken in early 2003 when NASA launched the 28th
flight of space shuttle Columbia, on mission STS-107. The seven
crewmembers on board included the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon.
international space programs have taken an interest in Israel's space
achievements. In addition to NASA, Israel has formal space research
cooperation agreements with France, Germany, Russia, the Ukraine, the
Netherlands and India. In June 2003, Israel was accepted into the
European Space Agency (ESA) as a participating member.
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The story of a 22-year-old Boeing 737 making an emergency landing in Iran has caused a ruckus in the airline community following its sale to Iranian carrier Caspian Airlines at the end of February.
As initially reported by bne IntelliNews, on February 21, a Boeing 737-300 registered to Fly Armenia Airways, only founded in October 2019 and possessing only that one aircraft and never having operated a commercial flight in history, has raised plenty of eyebrows.
The aircraft was meant to fly from Tallinn to Yerevan, but was given a new flight plan to fly onwards towards Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, but it then disappeared over the skies of Iran, a country that struggles to acquire passenger jets because of the grip of US sanctions on its economy.
The aircraft was at first thought to have been hijacked, causing panic in Armenia and the UAE, but it was later found to have made a rather convenient emergency landing in Tehran, media reports suggested.
Newspapers in Armenia on February 24 reported confusion as to how an Armenian-registered Boeing 737 aircraft that took off in Estonia for a flight to Yerevan came to be diverted to land in Iran.
The One Mile At A Time aviation website, citing the events as "the most interesting airline story of 2021", carried a nonsensical message from Armenia Airways posted on Facebook, reading: "Dear colleagues, We inform you that today’s press conference will not be held. The reason for the delay of the press conference is not to arrive from the Islamic Republic of Iran. We apologize."
"It is surprising"
Analyst and expert on US foreign policy Suren Sargsyan warned that the incident, involving an aircraft with no passengers as it was on a technical flight, could invoke US sanctions, writing in a Facebook post: "[The aircraft] was given or sold to Iran in unknown circumstances, and it is surprising how the aviation authorities have allowed that to happen, given the international sanctions against Iran. The aircraft was supposed to arrive in Armenia days ago but landed in Tehran instead.
"I'd just like to remind you that any entity (state) that sells products prohibited by US law to Iran may be subject to American sanctions."
Hakob Tshagharyan, a former aide to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, was quoted by local press as saying that the plane flying from the Estonian capital was "hijacked" half-way into its flight and taken to Iran.
"On February 21, the Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia received a cable from the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority about an aircraft hijacking involving a Boeing 737 registered in Armenia," Tshagharyan wrote on Facebook.
He added: "The plane took off from Tallinn, Estonia, and was supposed to land in Yerevan. However, it was decided mid-flight to go to the [United Arab] Emirates for a technical inspection. Due to ‘a technical malfunction’, the plane ended up landing in Tehran."
Following the reports, the Armenian Civil Aviation Authority denied to Armenian media that it had received official information about an aircraft hijacking.
The confusion over the plane’s whereabouts was finally cleared up when Iran-based Caspian Airlines decided to purchase the jet following the declared emergency landing.
Quite naturally, analysts will ponder whether the transaction follows an entire exercise and creation of an Armenian airline in a giant ruse enabling Iran to buy planes by the side door.
The use of a so-called emergency landing in Tehran would amount to an entirely novel way of purchasing a plane. Perhaps it was an incident involving a Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA aircraft which ended up in Iran last year that got certain parties thinking.
The Norwegian jet was a much newer model than the “Armenian-owned” aircraft. It was meant to be on its way to Dubai when a technical fault made it land ahead of time at Shiraz Airport in Iran in January 2019.
That plane ended up sitting on the runway at Shiraz for weeks, as US sanctions against Tehran did not permit Iranian engineers to fit the necessary parts to the plane that would enable it to recommence its journey. Ultimately, Boeing and Norwegian representatives managed to fix the faults, but not without several parties having to struggle to shift the brand-new plane from Iranian territory.
That case highlighted the extent of how far-reaching US sanctions applied to the Iranian aviation industry and something as innocuous as a technical fault landing may cause companies untold months of stress to retrieve a plane from the Islamic Republic. It also highlighted how Iranian airlines are enduring ageing fleets that lower passenger safety, with some of their oldest planes said to be on sale to whoever wants a museum piece.
During the debacle that broke out over the Norwegian Airlines jet, many in Iran were quick to say the Iranians should simply purchase the plane from the foreign company to boost the country's passenger aircraft stock. That offer was immediately rejected by the European firm, which had no intention of getting into bed with IranAir or any of its local competitors.
The landing of the Armenian jet has several striking similarities to the Norwegian Airlines case, such as the onwards destination to Dubai, having to make an emergency landing in Iran “for safety” and the failed back room negotiations between the Iranians and the Norwegians. Did those failed negotiations inspire a blueprint for how Iran could get its hands on planes via a circuitous, sanctions-busting route?
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India efficiently test-fired a brand new model of its BrahMos missile on Thursday.
The missile launched from a check vary in Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha, was “equipped with advanced indigenous technologies and followed a modified optimal trajectory for enhanced efficiency and improved performance,” learn a authorities assertion.
“In this text-book flight, the missile followed the predicted trajectory meeting all mission objectives … The highly maneuverable missile cruised at supersonic speed for its maximum range and all mission objectives were met,” the assertion stated.
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It hailed the check as “a major milestone in the way forward for the BrahMos programme”.
India’s state-run Defence Analysis and Improvement Organisation (DRDO) stated the mission “validated many new indigenous systems successfully, demonstrating enhanced capabilities”.
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles might be launched from submarines, ships, plane or land.
The missile was developed as a part of a three way partnership launched in 1998 between DRDO and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya.
India test-fired a naval variant of the missile on Jan 11.
Days later, the Philippines introduced that it has finalised a deal price $375 million to amass the shore-based anti-ship BrahMos missile system from New Delhi.
Below the deal, India and Brahmos Aerospace will ship three batteries, prepare operators and maintainers, and supply logistics help, the Philippines’ Protection Secretary Delfin Lorenzana stated in a press release final week.
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LATAM Airlines Group's recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing — precipitated by the need to restructure in the midst of the massive…
China Airlines Inaugurates New Special Livery Commemorating 60 Years
Taiwan-based China Airlines is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, with the airline unveiling a series of special liveries for the occasion. An A350-900 was painted the number “60” in the shape of “GO” and the infinity symbol “∞” in the corporate identity color of blue and red. Additional aircraft such as the Airbus A330-300, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 777-300ER and Boeing 747-400/400F will be painted in the 60th-anniversary livery.
The special liveried Airbus A350-900 XWB had recently entered service with the new colors and flew first to Ontario, Calif. The Southern California city, an alternative to busier Los Angeles, was chosen the first destination to be flown by the liveried aircraft, as the city’s relationship with China Airlines has proved to be meaningful. Earlier, another special liveried aircraft, Mikado Pheasant, operated this route as well.
China Airlines launched Taipei-Ontario services a year ago, with the carrier changing the aircraft on the route to the A350 from the Boeing 777-300ER in October. Earlier, the carrier celebrated the first anniversary of the route, which the airline considers to have proved its “convenience and unique offering,” showing the “carrier’s commitment to the North American market” by serving smaller cities in addition to larger ones such as Los Angeles, New York and Honolulu, among others.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary, new amenity kits for business class and premium economy class will be introduced to passengers. The airline will enhance its in-flight entertainment with 16 movies becoming available in all Airbus A350-900 XWB and Boeing 777-300ER cabin classes. Also, the airline’s website will launch a “Birthday Promotion Discount” where Dynasty members in their birthday months and one of their companions may receive a five percent off discount.
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This true story involving the crew of an in-air refueling operation for Air Force bombers who take a training team on a dangerous mission. RAF Flight Lieutenant MacKenzie Barton is assigned to an American Air Force base as a result of an exchange of pilots between the RAF and the U.S. Air Force. Barton receives orders to pilot an Air Force tanker--a plane which is capable of refueling jet bombers in mid-air. But in trying to gain the confidence of the American crew members, Barton encounters only resentment. The story is based on an actual experience.
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https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2023/09/25/nation-world-news/nasas-first-asteroid-samples-land-on-earth-after-release-from-spacecraft/
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NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer | Monday, September 25, 2023, 12:05 a.m.
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Recovery team members carry a capsule containing NASA's first asteroid samples to a temporary clean room at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule following a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)
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Flight crews are the primary cause in two out of three accidents in the 41 states of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC), according to Mike Ambrose, director general of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA). Ambrose was speaking at the March 18 to 19 European Aviation Safety Seminar jointly presented in Geneva, by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and ERA.
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Richard Ramsden joined Minneapolis-based Wells Fargo Equipment Finance as a
v-p specializing in corporate aircraft loans and leases. Ramsden came to the company from Bombardier Capital, where he was manager of aircraft finance.
The FAA has given its 2004 Excellence in Aviation Research Award to the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) for publishing a manual on ditching for corporate, fractional, on-demand and commuter operators.
Reducing the incidence of damage to aircraft on the ramp is the aim of the ground accident prevention (GAP) initiative now under way by the Flight Safety Foundation.
In response to requests from corporate aviation managers, the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has compiled “Waterproof Flight Operations,” the current 664-page issue of Flight Safety Digest, which it says contains information that has not been readily available for corporate, fractional, on-demand and commuter operators.
The International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) and NBAA are forming a permanent global industry advisory group to gather input on the development of new communication, navigation and surveillance technologies and new air traffic management concepts.
Flight operational quality assurance (FOQA) programs are finally seeing application in business aviation, and in early February the Altria flight department revealed that it has been working with the Flight Safety Foundation in developing a FOQA demonstration program.
“We’re very pleased with this year’s show,” Jill Hilgenberg, show manager for Cygnus Exposition’s Aviation Events, told AIN during Aviation Industry Week in Las Vegas May 18 to 20. “Total attendance is 5,884, up from 5,100 last year, and about one fourth of those listed PAMA as their interest.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) assembly is expected to take action later this month on legal guidance for member states to protect safety-data-
collection systems while allowing for proper administration of justice.
The guidance would help nations protect from unwarranted use information collected under systems such as flight operational quality assurance programs and line operations safety audit programs.
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Proposed funding cuts that could affect NASA’s ability to conduct aeronautics research–including work on the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS)–continue to draw fire from lawmakers, aerospace officials and academia.
This summer, Dr. Michael Romanowski, the Aerospace Industries Association’s vice president for civil aviation, told Congress that if NASA is to remain at the forefront of aeronautics research, “it is critical that significant changes are made to the proposed aeronautics funding levels and research plans.”
NASA aeronautics funding has decreased more than 50 percent since Fiscal Year 1994, and Romanowski warned that while NASA continues to downsize and internalize its aeronautics program, the European Union is accelerating implementation of its R&D plan, Vision 2020.
In his testimony before the Aerospace States Association (ASA), Cessna chairman, president and CEO Jack Pelton pointed out that both Boeing and Gulfstream are using wind tunnels in Toulouse, France, the home of Airbus, to test new designs.
“The National Academies of Science, Aeronautics Decadal Study…provides an excellent roadmap for NASA to follow in making aeronautics research once again an important priority in government organizations, such as NASA and the FAA,” said Pelton.
“The general aviation industry simply cannot undertake the basic, pre-competitive research done by government agencies in the past. The risk is too great, and the cost for Cessna, Raytheon and other general aviation aircraft manufacturers is too high to do it on their own.”
Pelton explained that converting the results of NASA research into marketable products often requires that a manufacturer invest more than 10 times the amount NASA spends. This research introduces advanced technologies to GA aircraft for decades.
ASA drew other GA officials to its hearing on national aeronautics R&D policy. Preston Henne, Gulfstream senior v-p of programs, engineering and test, said that foreign countries and businesses “recognize the huge value associated with a strong aeronautics enterprise and are clearly willing to invest national as well as corporate treasuries to [expand] it. The U.S., on the other hand, seems to take the aeronautics enterprise for granted.”
The U.S. now has only one large civil aircraft manufacturer and doesn’t participate in the regional jet market as a manufacturer.
The bill currently in Congress cuts almost $88 million in aeronautics funding from last year’s enhanced level. Since 1994, NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate budget has been reduced from $1.54 billion to the $724.4 million that is proposed for FY07.
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https://dronevideos.com/when-hospitals-need-an-organ-transplant-should-they-call-for-a-drone/
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When Hospitals Need an Organ Transplant, Should They Call For a Drone?
Drones offer many technological and logistical advantages over fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, in a variety of settings. but when it comes to transporting freshly harvested human organs, the most important of these advantages are speed and travel time.
Hearts and lungs can only survive intact for a few short hours after being extracted from their donors. And a surprisingly high number of these donated organs – at least a quarter, in the case of kidneys, the organ most commonly harvested – are still deemed unfit for transplant because of the damaged condition in which they arrive. The problem isn’t the organ – it’s their means of transport.
Road vehicles often encounter heavy traffic (or crash) and many fail to arrive on time. Air cargo flights are unexpectedly delayed or rescheduled – or simply canceled. Helicopters are one alternative – but only if the trip is short. Choppers lack sufficient fuel and speed to travel the hundreds of miles that may be required to reach a waiting organ recipient.
Hospitals have known for some time that drones might be useful for organ transport but getting the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hasn’t been easy. The first serious proof-of-concept tests got underway about four years ago – and the results were promising. For example, in March 2018, a group of surgeons at the University of Maryland led by Dr. Joseph Scalea conducted more than a dozen experiments with a drone carrying a harvested kidney at various distances, including 2.4 kilometers, the distance estimated between inner-city hospitals. The bean-shaped organ survived each of the aircraft ’s 14 journeys intact.
A year later, Scalea received permission to test the concept during a live kidney transplant, which Scales himself supervised. The project included collaboration with the University of Maryland (UMD) Medical System, UMD’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site, and the nonprofit Living Legacy Foundation. After garnering headlines worldwide, Scalea & Co. then traveled to Nevada to organize the first successful drone transport of another harvested organ – eye cornea – this one conducted over a distance of more than 10 miles, the longest so far.
Thanks to these widely heralded successes, support from medical professionals for the use of organ donor drones appears to be growing. A survey among surgeons conducted in 2019 found that the vast majority were dissatisfied with conventional transport methods due to the relatively high rate of damaged and unusable donor organs that arrived. Many admitted to feeling “nervous” about turning to drones but the vast majority described themselves as “eager” to see the results of additional tests.
As with most current aerial delivery services – most of them for commercial items or non-perishable medical supplies – questions do remain about the viability of smaller propeller-driven drones – given their limited battery power and relatively short flight duration – to support long-distance organ deliveries. One reason? Perishable organs would need to be packed in thick ice to keep them cool during transit, adding considerable weight to the payload.
In the future, to ensure that drone organ deliveries are truly viable, larger fixed-wing drones with heavier batteries and a higher cargo carrying capacity would likely be needed, experts believe.
Experiments with larger aircraft are already underway. Last month, the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance (TOSA), in partnership with Texas Tech and other nonprofits, used a standard fixed-wing Cessna to deliver a small cargo of donated organs to cities hundreds of miles apart. The plane had a pilot in the cockpit – for security – but it flew autonomously, just like a modern drone craft.
“It looks like a plane. It is a plane,” TOSA CEO Joe Nespral said in an interview with a local San Antonio TV station. “But it actually has the technology and the ability to fly without a pilot [just like a drone].”
Nespral said his nonprofit is seeking FAA approval for a drone “corridor” that would allow hospitals to fly autonomous cargo planes nationwide without restriction. Other organizations are petitioning the FAA for similar approval to deliver non-medical supplies.
FAA approval may be coming fairly soon. The agency has been studying the issue of drone corridors as part of an ongoing review of its current regulations governing autonomous drone flights. Last October, the FAA gave New York the go-ahead to establish a drone corridor in a 50-mile radius surrounding the NUAIR drone test site – one of just seven FAA-certified drone “sandboxes” nationwide.
It’s only a step – but a significant one, experts say. Given the urgency that surrounds the skyrocketing demand for organ transplants, the FAA might grant special waivers to hospitals and selected drone companies to facilitate organ donor flights with fewer restrictions. At speeds of up to 200 mph, specially-equipped cargo drones – like the fixed-wing Cessna – could travel several hundreds of miles across several states, if need be, to complete a long-distance delivery with the harvested organ still intact. It’s worth the risk to save even one more life, groups like TOSA say.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. The first Boeing Inmarsat-5 satellite has launched and sent signals from orbit, the initial step to establishing Global Xpress, the worlds first globally available high-speed mobile broadband service for government and commercial users. This launch is noteworthy for two reasons: It is the first in the Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 series of four high-power…
Lighter than its bulky predecessor, the Navy's redesigned Aircrew Endurance Survival Vest recently attained initial operational capability, a key milestone in the development of the life-saving equipment, the service announced Dec. 18.
The fifth Lockheed Martin Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite for the U.S. Navy is entering its first system test faster than the previous build, now that integration is complete.
ATK has finalized an agreement with Airbus to manufacture and supply composite stringers and frames on the ñ1000 variant of the A350 XWB program. The contract expansion adds to the work already being performed on the A350 XWB program. This agreement is the next step in ATK’s valuable working relationship with Airbus and its partners,…
Air Force photograph by Edward Cannon Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III talks to Team Edwards about current issues and future challenges involving the service Jan. 30 in the base theater. Almost a thousand Airmen, government civilians and contractors filled the base theater to hear Air Force Chief of Staff Gen….
The U. S. Air Force officials successfully launched the fifth Global Positioning System IIF satellite carried aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV launch vehicle at 8:59 p.m., EST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Feb. 20.
In full gear, Sgt. Shawanna Washington moved ammunition, loaded mortar rounds into a gun tube, moved agilely as if under enemy fire, and completed other physically demanding tasks of a Soldier on the battlefield.
NASA/JAXA image NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have released the first images captured by their newest Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, which launched into space Feb. 27. The images show precipitation falling inside a March 10 cyclone over the northwest Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,000 miles east of Japan….
The U.S. Navy plans to install and test a prototype electromagnetic railgun aboard a joint high speed vessel in fiscal year 2016, the service announced April 7.
Missions in remote, forward operating locations often suffer from a lack of connectivity to tactical operation centers and access to valuable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data.
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