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https://www.planelogger.com/Forum/ViewTopic/1505
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Yesterday (April 7th, 2018), I was at Opa Locka Airport for the annual vital flight. Entering Opa Locka Airport there are 4 Avia Leasing Antonov 12 aircraft sitting there along with several DC 3s. 3 of the 4 Antonovs are missing at least 1 engine and do not seem like they will fly again. Does anyone know the tail numbers of these 4 Antonovs that are parked in Opa Locka Airport.
Also of note there is the Boeing 707-330B of Lowa (N88ZL) parked by Signature flight ops hangar # 51.
I don´t know how accurate this is but maybe this helps?:
It does Dennis-
Thank you very much
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The DJI FPV system comes with a DJI FPV Air Unit Module, DJI FPV Camera, DJI FPV Goggles, and a DJI FPV Remote Controller. With a 4km transmission range, you’ll be able to fly your drone farther and, because of the improved low-latency video transmission (28ms), you won’t miss any of it. The RC also has a low latency rate between the RC and the Air Unit, coming in at 7ms. When recording, the FPV Air Unite captures video at 1080 p and 60fps.
But it’s drone racing where the FPV system really shines. “As drone racing grows in popularity,” explains Ferdinand Wolf, Creative Director, DJI Europe, “FPV racers are looking for the next technology to keep up with their demands. The new DJI FPV System was designed using our vast experience creating aerial and ground transmission systems and offers technology truly unique to the market. As the only digital video transmission solution on the market that performs at the same level as analog, even surpassing it in some aspects, we hope to set a new standard for digital FPV.”
The challenge DJI is facing is that racing drones can fly at 90 miles per hour, and the video transmission uses low resolution and low latency analog signals to relay information. The result is poor color, video quality, and detail—no to mention the image regularly breaking up. Going to digital improves the detail and picture quality, but doesn’t have the range needed or the latency to handle the job. As already discussed, DJI’s FPV is able to meet both needs of better range and lower latency. The 150 degree ultra-wide-angle lens provides the view you need, but should you need to focus in, the “Focus Mode” narrows down the signal bitrate to the center of the frame. You can also adjust the camera modes to match your need—racing, standard, or LED mode for dark environments.
DJI’s FPV system not only gives the edge in racing, but also provides the detail you need to have a flying experience unlike any other. That alone makes this system with the price.
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Number of homes in NBN limbo balloons
Bitcoin soars above $3196 to all-time high
AGL CIO gets a promotion
Guidelines for Australian driverless vehicle trials released
How WA govt plans to get to zero data centres
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NASA plans emergency space walk to fix broken PC
Failure leaves ISS dependent on backup.
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Euro astronauts could replace laptops with AR headsets
For science experiments and space station work.
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Samsung floats 'space internet' plan to save mobile
Cellular backhaul in the sky.
Aug 12 2015 4:37PM
Jeff Bezos' space start-up launches test flight
Reaches 93km above Earth.
May 1 2015 12:41PM
NASA, Nissan partner for autonomous car tech
Aim to deliver vehicle systems from next year.
Jan 12 2015 12:58PM
BlackBerry Work Space for iOS, Android gets US clearance
Defense agencies allowed to use BES 10 on rival devices.
Aug 7 2014 3:34PM
Telstra dials up co-lo space in NextDC
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NASA sets space communications speed record
Laser to the space node.
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https://www.sellman.fi/portfolio/rocketspinner/
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Rocket Spinner, is the must-play one-touch space rocket game.
Just tap or hold the rocket fly into SPACE. Always control fuel, if the limit is exceeded, the rocket can drop.
Rocket Spinner - Fly into the sky can be easy to play but so hard to master. So, you will love it.
This game is similar to a mobile game named "Flip The Gun".
I was a graphic designer on this project.
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|2012-2013 Long Jump Challenge Rules|
|Written by Sharon Ripperger|
|Friday, 02 December 2011 09:34|
2012-2013 BFA Long Jump Challenge
INTRODUCTION: The BFA Long Jump is an annual contest to promote the sport of hot air ballooning. Individual pilots plan and conduct their own flights from launch sites of their own choosing. The basic rules are “40 gallons of propane, fly as far as you can.” The complete rules are below.
The BFA Long Jump has been conducted annually since 1990. The current all time longest Long Jump flight is 693 miles, by Alvin Hansen in 2003. Last year, the winning 2011-2012 Long Jump flight was 238 miles by Tim Cloyd. Do not worry if a flight of hundreds of miles is more than you care to attempt. Long Jump is more about personal achievement than anything else. Many pilots report high satisfaction in conducting a Long Jump flight of ten, twenty or fifty miles.
ENTRY: Any current BFA pilot members may enter with a hot air balloon. Prior entry is required. Per each Long Jump season, a one-time entrance fee of $20 is required. Payment can be by credit card over the telephone to the BFA office (515)961-8809, or by check payable to the BFA mailed to the BFA office at P.O. Box 400, 1601 N Jefferson, Indianola, IA 50125. Each pilot is entirely responsible for planning and executing his or her own flight.
Acceptance of Rules and Regulations: Competing pilots are required to know, understand, accept, and abide by the BFA Long Jump Challenge rules. Special care is needed in cold weather and high altitude flights. “Fly with your head, not over it.”
1. The contest runs November 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013.
2. The maximum allowed fuel for a Long Jump flight is 40 gallons of propane. Reserve/emergency fuel may be carried, but it is not required or recommended.
3. Liftoff and ascent is to be made on the on board fuel. Hot inflation – up to equilibrium- may be conducted with an ‘inflation tank’.
4. Adherence to all local aviation regulations is required.
5. Flight at or above 18,000 feet MSL is not permitted.
6. No items may be dropped during flight except lightweight objects, such as pieces of paper, to determine wind direction.
7. Landing must occur prior to sunset on the day of launch.
8. The winner is the pilot who conducts the longest distance flight in a hot air balloon, as calculated from the launch site to the landing site.
Pilots must prove their claim for their flight by submitting their claim on the BFA Official Flight Report Form, or equivalent. Starting in 2012-2013, submission of flight report by email is encouraged. An official electronic flight report form will be provided to each registered participant. A hardcopy flight report form will be provided upon request.
The flight report must include:
· Pilot’s name,
· BFA member number,
· Date of flight,
· Launch site (nearest town name, and latitude/longitude of exact launch site),
· Time of launch,
· Time of landing,
· Latitude and Longitude of the landing site,
· Amount of fuel on board at lift off.
Pilots are also encouraged to share:
· Cruising altitude,
· Maximum and/or average speed,
· Amount of fuel remaining at landing
· Temperature at launch site and/or en route
· Envelope temperature at cruise.
There is no limit on number of attempts per season.
IT IS REQUIRED that the launch/landing sites shall be verified on an appropriate chart (as specified below) by the signature of an appropriate witness, preferably an uninterested bystander who agrees to vouch for the veracity of the launch or landing claim and provides appropriate contact information to allow contact and verification if needed.
Starting in 2012-2013, inclusion of a hard copy aeronautical chart is not required. A Xerox copy of a chart is acceptable, or a digital photograph of your chart and/or a screen grab from an on-line resource such as Skyvector.com
GPS latitude and longitude reports are acceptable and the launch/landing verification must be made by an appropriate witness and the location, with respect to landmarks. Inclusion of launch, landing, and en route photos in the flight report is encouraged.
The Long Jump Committee will evaluate each flight report. If the pilot does not substantiate his/her claim with sufficient, adequate and verifiable proof, disqualification is possible. It is the responsibility of the pilot to prove, by credible evidence, the qualifying details of the flight.
EMAIL FLIGHT REPORTS DIRECTLY TO:
Starting 2012-13 Email preferred: [email protected]
Flight Reports must be received no later than April 15, 2013.
If you have Questions or Comments please contact Mark at 405-600-0328 or email: [email protected]
The Manager will acknowledge receipt of Reports. Call to verify if not acknowledged (Phone 405-600-0328).
NEW! CHARITY TIE-IN
Starting in 2012-2013, a charity tie-in is possible.
For those pilots who elect to incorporate charity outreach with their Long Jump efforts, consider conducting a “Long Jump-a-Thon.” To conduct a “Long-Jump-a-Thon”solicit pledges from members of your community, either as a lump donation or as a quantity per mile flown. Consider conducting a glow in your community prior to your flight to announce your charity outreach efforts. This year the suggested charity group is the American Cancer Society. The charity tie-in is completely optional.
|Last Updated on Thursday, 18 October 2012 13:17|
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1892 – Birth of Fritz Gustav August Kosmahl, German World War I flying ace.
1914 – The first Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Wakamiya conducts the world’s first naval-launched air raids during the early months of World War I from Kiaochow Bay off Tsingtao, China.
1942 – Death of François de Labouchere (shown), French World War II fighter pilot, one of the first pilots to join the Free French Air Force, killed in action in his Supermarine Spitfire near the Baie de Somme.
1949 – William”‘Bill” P. Odom lost control of his modified North American P-51 Mustang “Begin the Beguine” during the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, and crashed into a home, killing himself and two people inside.
1986 – First flight of the American Aviation Industries FanStar, a two-engined version of the Lockheed JetStar.
2012 – Wearing a white costume designed to induce endangered Siberian cranes to follow him, President of Russia Vladimir Putin pilots a motorized hang glider in three brief flights over Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic, apparently the first time a Russian head of state has piloted an aircraft.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: Media
military base, Florida, United States
New Horizons liftoff
Liftoff of the New Horizons spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral...
A Delta II rocket launching U.S. satellite Dawn, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
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Polaris A-3 missile on the launch pad, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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August 19, 2003
Retired pilot Jack Dunn logged more than 55,000 flying hours during his career. Now he satisfies his urge to "leave the earth" by building and flying radio-controlled model airplanes. Above, Dunn holds one of the many planes in his workshop.
Stories this photo appears in:
Jack Dunn feels most at home in the air.
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Know Your Distance
Use full links
Below is the distance given from New Delhi to various cites of India this is for refence poupose only
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Space vehicle Progress M-19M was launched today by the International Space Station.
He takes on the international station 2.5 tonnes of cargo: Fuel for the maintenance of the ISS, food, water and air for astronauts, as well as scientific equipment and parts for the station.
Also, the ISS will be delivered to the new treadmill for training astronauts. Russian simulator BD-2 will replace American TVIS.
The launch of "Soyuz-U" was held at 14.12 Moscow time from the Baikonur space center, RIA Novosti reported. Docking of "Progress M-19M" to the ISS is scheduled for April 26 in an automatic mode. Truck will fly to orbit for two days, and not on the "short" a six-hour scheme.
Currently, the ISS astronauts are keeping watch Roscosmos Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Roman Romanenko, NASA astronauts Thomas Mashburn and Christopher Cassidy and the Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Running GTK "Progress M-19M" was carried out in the framework of the International Space Station.
The next mission in two days 26.04.2013. Carrier rocket Soyuz 2.1b will be launched on the satellite navigation GLONASS-M
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $1,059,239,124 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for recurring logistics support and sustainment services for F-35 aircraft in support of the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, non-Department of Defense (DoD) participants; and foreign military sales (FMS) customers. Sustainment services to be provided include ground maintenance, action request resolution, depot activation, Automatic Logistics Information System, operations and maintenance, reliability, maintainability and health management implementation and support, supply chain management, and activities to provide and support pilot and maintainer initial training. Work will be performed in Fort Worth (46 percent); Orlando, Fla. (32 percent); Warton, United Kingdom (9 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (7 percent); and Greenville, S.C. (6 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2017. Fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement (Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps); fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance (Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps); non-DoD participant; and FMS funds in the amount of $211,847,835, will be obligated at time of award, $100,076,889 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the Air Force (48 percent); Marine Corps (19 percent); Navy (13 percent); non-DoD participants (16 percent); and FMS customers (4 percent) under the FMS program. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-17-C-0045). (Source: DoD, 02/28/17) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center and reprogramming labs.
Blue Angels nearing opener
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Halfway through their winter training in El Centro, Calif., the Blue Angels are getting ready to begin their 2017 season March 11 with their annual start-of-season performance at Naval Air Facility El Centro. The Navy flight demonstration team arrived in El Centro Jan. 5 following a brief holiday break after the 2016 end-of-season show Nov. 11 at Pensacola Naval Air Station. This year marks the 50th year the Pensacola Naval Air Station-based team has conducted winter training at El Centro in Southern California. (Source: Pensacola News Journal, 02/28/17)
Plan for region unveiled
NICEVILLE, Fla. — Northwest Florida as a region must commit to economic diversification if it wants the $1.2 billion in BP money to create the change its business leaders envision. That was the message from Jon Roberts for more than 100 people who showed up at Northwest Florida State College Monday for a preview of the "blueprint" for successful regional diversification drawn up by TIP Strategies, where Roberts is a managing director. The plan is called Northwest Florida Forward. One key will be training a workforce capable of stepping in to fill positions as new industry locates in the area, he said. Another involves taking advantage of existing regional "industry clusters" such as aerospace and defense, financial services and advanced manufacturing. It will also mean addressing infrastructure needs, developing "entrepreneurial hubs" and building "vibrant downtown areas," a news release circulated by the group said. "We designed this regional strategy to be a framework for prioritizing projects so everyone in Northwest Florida benefits," said Rick Byars, the chairman of the board of Florida's Great Northwest. "This plan underscores the importance of a regional approach to build a diverse and vibrant regional economy now and for generations to come." (Source: Northwest Florida Daily News, 02/27/17)
Monday, February 27, 2017
Eglin and India's PSLV
|The squadron's AN/FPS-85 radar.|
Air Force photo
Thursday, February 23, 2017
The chief of staff, Air Force announced today the assignment of Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Azzano, commander, 96th Test Wing, Air Force Materiel Command, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., to director, air, space and cyberspace operations, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (Source: DoD, 02/23/17)
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
AF, Navy team on tower
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – In a move to save money, the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group teamed up with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Naval Support Activity Panama City, to utilize the Navy’s recently-built communications tower to replace the 53rd WEG’s unserviceable, outdated Gulf Range Drone Control System tower. These towers are essential for triangulating communications for controlling unmanned drones over the Gulf of Mexico. This innovative investment took about a year to accomplish and will save hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. Constructing a new tower would have cost an estimated $700,000, and leasing a commercial tower would cost approximately $9,000 annually. (Source: AFNS, 02/22/17)
SSC conducts RS-25 test
|RS-25 test captured by drone. NASA photo|
Contract: Raytheon, $45.5M
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, McKinney, Texas, was awarded an estimated $45,500,000 modification for an existing indefinite–delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee line items, for low-rate initial production (LRIP) and full-Rate production of the Silent Knight Radar system in support of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This action is an order for LRIP II radars. This modification increases the contract ceiling to $200,000,000. The work will be performed in McKinney; and Forest, Miss., and is expected to be completed by June 2019. Fiscal 2016 and 2017 procurement funds in the amount of $39,155,826, are being obligated at the time of the award. The requirement was synopsized via FedBizOpps and one offer was solicited and received. This is a sole-source requirement. This is not a multi-year contract. Headquarters, USSOCOM, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (H92222-16-D-0033). (Source: DoD, 02/22/17) Gulf Coast note: The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, part of USSOCOM, is headquartered at Hurlburt Field, Fla.
AR1 sets U.S. record
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- Aerojet Rocketdyne recently demonstrated the highest chamber pressure of any United States produced liquid oxygen and kerosene main combustion system. This milestone occurred during a series of successful test firings of the AR1's staged combustion system at NASA's Stennis Space Center. Preparations for the staged-combustion testing began at Stennis last summer, pushing the limits of the nation's premier large engine development test facility. During this testing, Aerojet Rocketdyne combined the engine's preburner with the main injector in order to validate injector design parameters and performance. The AR1 engine is being developed as a replacement for Russian-made engines currently used on domestic rockets. AR1 is a 500,000 lbf thrust-class liquid oxygen/kerosene booster engine that incorporates the latest advances in rocket engine technology, materials science and modern manufacturing techniques to deliver an affordable, reliable booster engine quickly. (Source: Aerojet Rocketdyne, 02/22/17) Previous
Bay OKs GKN incentives
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — The Bay County Commission on Tuesday approved $750,000 in incentives for GKN Aerospace Florida Inc., which plans to open a parts manufacturing facility at Venture Crossings, part of Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport. The incentive funds would come from tax dollars the company would be paying into Bay County in the coming years, county officials said. The company will be required to create at least 170 jobs at an annual wage of $63,156 in Bay County by Dec. 31, 2020, or a mutually agreeable date, and maintain each of those jobs for at least three years from the date of their creation. The company also must spend $55 million in capital expenditures. Becca Hardin, president of the Bay Economic Development Alliance, said the company will not receive any financial support until the jobs are created. (Source: Panama City News Herald, 02/22/17) Previous
Sunday, February 19, 2017
SpaceX aces launch, landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX launched a rocket from the historic site that saw some of NASA's greatest space missions, then landed a booster nearby in a resounding success. The launch was originally scheduled for Saturday but scrubbed. The California-based company's Falcon 9 launched a Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station this morning from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The pad was used for Apollo and space shuttle missions. (Sources: Multiple, including Space.com, NPR, USAToday, 02/19/17) Gulf Coast note: SpaceX uses Stennis Space Center, Miss., to develop its next generation Raptor engine.
Controlling the skies
MILTON, Fla. -- With nearly 1.2 million takeoffs, landings and other operations a year, the airspace surrounding Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Northwest Florida is busier than the airspace above the airport in Atlanta. It all happens under the watchful eyes of veteran flight instructors and experienced military air traffic controllers. A feature story. (Source: Pensacola News Journal, 02/17/17)
How county got GKN project
PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- It all started as a conversation between neighbors, according to an account of the story behind GKN Aerospace's decision to locate a new manufacturing facility in Bay County. It's about how local educators and stakeholders teamed up to land the project. A feature story. (Source: Panama City News Herald, 02/18/17) Previous
Friday, February 17, 2017
New Hurlburt assignment
The Air Force chief of staff announces today the assignments of Maj. Gen. Michael T. Plehn, chief of staff, Headquarters U.S. Southern Command, Miami, Fla., to vice commander, Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field, Fla. (Source: DoD, 02/17/17)
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Boeing workers nix union
Workers at a Boeing plant in South Carolina soundly rejected a drive to unionize, with almost three-quarters of workers at the aircraft factory rejecting union representation. It was the first vote at the North Charleston plant and a high-profile test for organized labor in a strongly anti-union state. The National Labor Relations Board said 74 percent of the 2,828 workers who cast ballots Wednesday at locations throughout the plant voted against joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The plant builds 787 Dreamliners for the Chicago-based company. (Sources: Reuters, ABCNews, Washington Post, 02/15/17) Gulf Coast note: The Airbus A320 assembly line in Mobile, Ala., is also non-union.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Bay County lands GKN Aerospace
PANAMA CITY, Fla. – GKN Aerospace will locate a new manufacturing facility in Venture Crossing Enterprise Centre in Bay County, investing $50 million and providing 170 jobs. GKN, a British multinational, will lease a building that will be developed and owned by a subsidiary of The St. Joe Company. GKN Aerospace provides components and assemblies for aerostructures, engine products, landing gear, wiring systems and special products like ice protection systems, for civil and military fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms, and is also involved in the space market. A company official said it will manufacture "advanced technology aerospace products" at the site, but could not provide details due to contractual obligations to its customer. The Venture Crossing business park northwest of Panama City is a Florida First Certified Site that includes Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport. (Source: GCRL, 02/15/17) St. Joe news release, Bay County EDA news release
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Santa Rosa's pitch to aerospace
MILTON, Fla. -- Sitting in the middle of a highly active aerospace neighborhood, Santa Rosa County in Northwest Florida has launched a program pointing out why it’s a good choice as a home for aviation-focused companies. It's doing so with a new brochure and a planned addition to its website that will highlight what it has to offer. (Source: Gulf Coast Aerospace Newsletter, 02/14/17)
The technology goldmine
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. – NASA's Stennis Space Center in South Mississippi is just one of the technology goldmines in the region. And it has redesigned a part of its website to make it easier for companies and individuals to find the technologies that can be developed for the public. That's something that can mean big bucks. (Source: Gulf Coast Aerospace Newsletter, 02/14/17)
MOBILE, Ala. -- It was 10 years ago last month that Airbus put and engineering center in Mobile, and now the growing Airbus footprint in the region seems "brilliant" given President Trump's call to create jobs in America. The event was marked with a celebration at the center. The engineering center, final assembly line and an Airbus Military operation and the regional airport combined account for some 650 workers. (Source: Gulf Coast Aerospace Newsletter, 02/14/17)
Boeing S.C. set for union vote
Boeing faces its first union vote on Wednesday at its aircraft factory in North Charleston, S.C., a high-profile test for organized labor in a strongly anti-union state. Boeing is running a hardball campaign against the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), which is trying to organize about 3,000 workers at one of two plants where Boeing makes 787 Dreamliners. The other, in Washington state, has long been unionized by the IAM. Opposition is strong in South Carolina, one of 28 states that does not require workers to join a union, and has the lowest proportion of union workers, at 1.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. New York is the highest with 23.6 percent. (Source: Reuters, 02/13/17) Gulf Coast note: The Airbus A320 series plant in Mobile, Ala., is non-union.
Monday, February 13, 2017
New Southwest service
NEW ORLEANS -- Southwest Airlines will add two new non-stop flights from New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport to Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Columbus, Ohio, beginning the weekend of April 30. The Raleigh-Durham connection will be available twice a week on Fridays and Sundays. The Columbus flight will depart once a week on Sundays. (Source: nola.com, 02/10/17)
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Contract: Lockheed, $10.3M
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $10,300,000 for delivery order 0133 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0020). This order provides for the design, documentation, integration, and testing of the U.S. Reprogramming Laboratory to execute the mission data reprogramming mission for the F-35 Block 3F configuration in support of the Air Force and the Navy operational aircraft. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in June 2017. Fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $5,000,000 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 02/08/17) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.
Michoud damaged by tornado
NEW ORLEANS -- Michoud Assembly Facility in East New Orleans suffered significant damage from a tornado that hit Tuesday, but NASA said no critical space hardware being built there was damaged. NASA said in a statement late Feb. 7 that all of Michoud's 3,500 employees were accounted for, with five suffering minor injuries. NASA said the tornado damaged at least two buildings, including the main manufacturing building. NASA uses Michoud to support assembly of the Orion crew vehicle and the core stage of the Space Launch System. The storm did not damage any Orion or SLS hardware currently at Michoud, NASA said in its statement. (Sources: SpaceNews, 02/08/17, WWL-TV, nola.com, 02/07/17)
A320neo assembly expanding
Airbus is aiming to begin final assembly of A320neos at its Chinese plant in Tianjin around mid-year, with production at its Mobile, Ala., line at the end of 2017. The designation "neo" stands for new engine option, a more fuel-efficient engine. At the Airbus plants in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany, the manufacture of A320neo is already underway. Airbus gave the schedule estimates for Tianjin and Mobile – without identifying specific months – having delivered a total of 70 A320neos by the end of January this year. (Source: FlightGlobal, 02/07/17) Note: The A320 series plant in Alabama is at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley. It delivered its first jetliner, an A321 with the current engine option (ceo), in 2016.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
UTC Foley wins award
FOLEY, Ala. -- UTC Aerospace Systems' facility in Baldwin County is one of Industry Week magazine's 2016 Best Plants winners. The site employs about 600 people who assemble nacelle components and oversee the integration of propulsion systems for the Airbus A320. In addition, the site will provide support for other new airplane platforms including the Bombardier C Series, the Embraer E2 and the Mitsubishi Regional Jet. The OE manufacturing facility is about 230,000 square feet, but later this year an 80,000-square-foot expansion currently under construction will open. It's designed primarily to house engine integration activities. The OE facility is co-located with the Alabama Service Center, a 210,000-square-foot maintenance, repair and overhaul facility for nacelle systems that serves customers in the Americas, and employs about 200 people. Together, the two businesses are Baldwin County's largest manufacturing employer. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp. (Sources: UTC, Industry Week. 02/07/17) Note: The site handles work for the A320 series jetliners being built in nearby Mobile, Ala.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Swarmathon competition set
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- Area high school students in Mississippi and Louisiana are invited to participate in a pilot “swarmathon” competition to develop robotic swarms for use in space missions. The competition to develop algorithms for robotic swarms has openings for 20 area teams to compete. The exercise will help students develop skills in robotics and computer science and also advance NASA technology for future space exploration efforts. Teams have until Feb. 15 to enter the challenge, and their final algorithm code must be submitted by April 15. The high school competition is designed as a virtual contest using a high-level programming language. Teams must have a faculty mentor and coach. Interested teams should contact April McIntosh. (Source: NASA/Stennis Space Center, 02/02/17)
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Contract: UTC, $18.8M
United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded $18,790,576 for modification POOO17 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-firm, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-14-C-0026). This modification exercises an option for supplies and services to implement engineering changes to the Rolls Royce lift fan systems, 3Bearing Swivel Module Conditioning Flow System, and production thrust recovery in support of the F-35 Lightening II for the Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and international partners. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Ind. (97 percent); and Oklahoma City, Okla. (3 percent), and is expected to be complete in December 2018. Fiscal 2015 aircraft procurement (Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy); fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) and international partner funds in the amount of $18,790,576 will be obligated at the time of award, $11,183,318 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification combines purchases for the Marine Corps ($14,790,025; 78.7 percent); Air Force ($3,394,535; 18.08 percent); international partners ($344,756; 1.83 percent); and Navy ($261,260; 1.39 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 02/01/17) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center and reprogramming labs.
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— Captain Kirk, Iron Man, Sesame Street's Slimey the Worm, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex are set to lift off to space later this week on the first test flight of Orion, NASA's next-generation spacecraft.
This eclectic 'crew' flying aboard NASA's unmanned Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) are among the souvenirs and mementos packed for the four-hour, two-orbit mission. The Orion capsule with its cargo of sensors, instruments, and memorabilia is scheduled to launch Thursday (Dec. 4) at 7:05 a.m. EST (1205 GMT) on board a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The mementos, which include a Star Trek action figure, a Marvel challenge coin, a muppet, a dinosaur fossil, and an Apollo lunar spacesuit part, were collected for the flight by Lockheed Martin, NASA's prime contractor for Orion and the company responsible for the EFT-1 mission.
NASA's Orion Exploration Flight Test mission patch. (AB Emblem)
The toys and artifacts packed aboard the Orion continue a long tradition dating back to the early days of U.S. human spaceflight, when astronauts carried small trinkets for their families, friends, and organizations that helped make their mission possible.
To boldly go
The Orion is NASA's first crewed space capsule since the Apollo command module. It is designed to take astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before. The EFT-1 mission will test systems that are critical to future human missions to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars.
During the flight, the Orion will fly 15 times farther out than the International Space Station before plummeting back to Earth to test its heatshield at speeds nearing what it would experience if it was returning from the moon. After reentry, the Orion will deploy parachutes and then splash down in the Pacific Ocean, where it will be recovered by the Navy.
William Shatner's NASA-issued Orion EFT-1 "boarding pass" and an example of the Captain Kirk figure he provided to fly aboard.
To raise public awareness about EFT-1, Lockheed worked with the Entertainment Industries Council (EIC) to recruit items from science fiction-related celebrities to fly onboard Orion.
"A noted space enthusiast, William Shatner is thrilled to send Kirk back to space and support Orion, while inspiring future generations about space travel," EIC vice president Skylar Jackson told collectSPACE.
Shatner provided his "Captain Kirk in Environmental Suit" collector's edition action figure to symbolize his iconic role on "Star Trek."
Director Jon Favreau offered an "Iron Man" challenge coin to represent engineering, technology and flight.
"'Iron Man' transcends generations and even has had his own adventures in space making this contribution one that will further enhance the conversation among young people about the importance of space research and discovery for years to come," Jackson said.
Actress Claudia Wells' "Back to the Future" autographed photos and Delorean model that are packed on Orion for EFT-1. (EIC)
Other sci-fi celebrity items flying on Orion include signed cast photographs and Delorean time machine model from "Back to the Future" actress Claudia Wells, and photos of Mayim Bialik's ancestors given by "The Big Bang Theory" actress and real-life neuroscientist. EIC's co-founder Brian Dyak and executive vice president Larry Deutchman also provided a "Crash Test Dummy" action figure, a character they invented to promote the use of seat belts.
In a similar collaboration to Lockheed's and EIC's, NASA and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the children's television show "Sesame Street," partnered to fly items that will inspire a new generation of explorers.
Oscar the Grouch's pet worm Slimey, who previously flew to the moon as part of the TV show, is launching on Orion, as are Ernie's rubber ducky, Cookie Monster's cookie and Grover's cape (from when the furry blue monster becomes "Super Grover"). The Muppets' items, once back from the mission, will take prized spots on the Sesame Street set where millions of children will be able to see them.
Orion EFT-1 technicians pack Cookie Monster's cookie and other Sesame Street items to fly onboard the space capsule. (NASA)
From Jurassic Park to Tranquility Base
Also packed aboard the historic Orion test flight are some historical artifacts.
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science, located near Lockheed Martin's space systems division in Colorado, is loaning part of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The prehistoric fossil "will make the flight as a reminder of how much life the Earth has seen during its existence," NASA explained on its website.
From the land before time to the moon landings, Orion is also launching an Apollo spacesuit oxygen hose. A spare that did not fly in space prior to this mission, the 45-year-old artifact is on loan from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Together with the hose, Orion is holding a small sample of lunar soil that NASA says will be used to inspire students toward science and engineering fields.
An oxygen hose from an Apollo lunar spacesuit. An artifact like this is packed aboard Orion for Exploration Flight Test-1.
"The artifacts chart humanity's progress and technological advancement as the nation takes a critical step forward on the journey to Mars," the space agency stated.
Art aboard Orion
Lockheed Martin also commissioned several artistic works to fly on Orion.
The recordings include "Mars" from Gustav Holst's "The Planets" performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and "We Shall Overcome" by Denyce Graves, as arranged by Nolan Williams. The latter features the words "we shall live in peace," which NASA explains is "a theme common throughout America's civilian space program and efforts."
Several poems by Marshall Jones and Maya Angelou will also be on Orion, including Angelou's "Brave and Startling Truth," as will a small sculpture, titled "Pioneer Woman," by sculptor Ed Dwight. Dwight was the United States' first black astronaut candidate.
"The [flown] works will help expand the cultural connection between the arts and science," the space agency stated.
Medallions, mementos and a microchip
Lockheed Martin, collaborating with NASA, loaded several lockers aboard the Orion spacecraft with an assortment of flags, medallions, patches and pins that after the flight will be given to EFT-1 team members, museums and schools.
Lockheed Martin's Orion EFT-1 medals include the Latin phrase, "Cum Spiritus Novus, Itur Ad Astra." (collectSPACE)
The Lockheed Martin medals are inscribed with the Latin phrase, "Cum Spiritus Novus, Itur Ad Astra," or translated, "With Renewed Spirit, We Shall Go To The Stars." Each features the Exploration Flight Test-1 emblem on one side and the Space Launch System rocket on the reverse.
Among the banners flying aboard the capsule is a custom flag created by EIC using the image of the astronomical constellation Orion. The flag's design "shows the unity of entertainment [and] journalism [with] science, engineering and technology to create "The Art of Making a Difference," Skylar said.
Rounding out the Orion EFT-1 commemorative payload is a microchip with the names of more than a million people who signed on to be a part of NASA's "Journey to Mars" program. The online campaign collected 1,379,961 names from more than 200 countries on digital boarding passes.
This article has been updated to correct the description of the Apollo oxygen hose flying on Orion.
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Indonesian authorities say the Merapi volcano had nothing to do with Thursday's Qantas A380 engine emergency. But ash clouds from Indonesia and elsewhere have been a hazard to aviation before.
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Airbus A380 airliners have been grounded by the Australian airline after an engine blowout Thursday that prompted an emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.
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Eid ul-Fitr always leaves the country's overburdened and poorly maintained transportation systems bursting at the seams, and can result in massive traffic jams.
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Sentiment is overwhelmingly positive in the aviation industry currently, although respondents indicate that they are anticipating an increasingly competitive environment over the next five years.
90 percent of respondents report that current market conditions are favourable for their industry. Of those, 30 percent attribute their confidence to the availability of funding for investment, 28 percent to improved economic conditions in key markets, and 18 percent to continued lower oil prices.
Of the 10 percent who do not believe current market conditions are positive for their industry, a third blame increased competition from a combination of traditional competitors, new market entrants and new modes of transport. A further third point to overcapacity and a further third to economic uncertainty in key markets.
Looking ahead, 74 percent expect competition to become more aggressive over the next five years, and 83 percent believe that the number of routes and services offered will increase. Perhaps as a result of the expected increase in competition, just 34 percent forecast that fares will rise during this period, even though 72 percent expect an uptick in fuel costs.
The number of routes/services offered will
Fares / freight costs will
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Respondents appear divided when asked what they view as the optimal investment opportunity for the aviation industry currently. While 25 percent point to the development of new markets, both geographical and sectoral, 17 percent point to the purchase or leasing of aircraft, favouring new rather than used aircraft, and narrow-body rather than wide-body or regional aircraft. A further 17 percent highlight infrastructure improvements. Unlike the rail, shipping and logistics industries, respondents’ enthusiasm for investment in new technology is more muted – just 5 percent believe that this is the optimal investment currently, compared with 20 percent of all respondents.
Aside from fuel efficient and low carbon technology, what form of technology will be the most significant driver of change in the aviation industry over the next five years?
Despite the limited interest in investment in new technology generally, big data and predictive analytics finds enthusiastic supporters amongst respondents from the aviation industry and throughout the transport sector. The ability to anticipate passengers’ behaviour, as well as maintenance issues and repairs, will be the form of technology that will be the biggest driver of change in the aviation industry over the next five years according to 47 percent, and is likely to give the operators who adopt this technology a clear competitive advantage.
Again, respondents are divided when asked to consider what poses the greatest challenge to the operational efficiency of the aviation industry. Inadequate infrastructure is a concern for 22 percent, while 15 percent highlight a lack of suitably qualified people, and another 15 percent highlight supply and demand imbalances.
What form of infrastructure investment would benefit the aviation industry the most over the next five years?
While respondents from the rail, shipping and logistics industries favour greater integration with other forms of transport, respondents from the aviation industry are more focused on increased capacity as the infrastructure investment that would benefit their industry the most over the next five years. The development of new airport capacity in emerging markets is supported by 32 percent, followed by 28 percent who would prefer to focus investment on air traffic control, and 25 percent who believe additional capacity at existing airports would benefit the industry most.
While the aviation industry is overwhelmingly optimistic currently, 34 percent are apprehensive about the threat posed to their industry by global political uncertainty and 20 percent by the threat of a global recession. Terrorism is seen as posing the greatest threat to the aviation industry over the next five years by 15 percent.
When asked which regulation has had the greatest impact on the aviation industry over the past decade, 30 percent point to an uncoordinated approach to aviation regulation globally, while 15 percent cite the regulation of competition and barriers to entry, and 13 percent mention fragmented and bilateral air service agreements.
Aside from infrastructure investment, which of the following forms of government support would help the aviation industry most?
Negotiating coordinated air service agreements comes top of the aviation industry’s wish list for government support. 25 percent believe that Open Skies agreements would be the most helpful form of government support for the aviation industry, followed by 18 percent who would like to see the removal of barriers to foreign investment – both key concerns for airlines with operations in Europe following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. 16 percent would like passenger and fuel taxes to be lowered.
Which three countries offer the best investment opportunities for aviation over the next two to five years?
China offers the best investment opportunities over the next two to five years, according to 24 percent. India and the US are also popular markets for aviation investment, according to 16 percent and 11 percent respectively, with India overtaking the US in the past year. Regionally, Asia is the most popular investment market, favoured by 55 percent.
Respondents anticipate that capital markets will be a key source of funding over the next two years, according to 29 percent, followed by 25 percent who point to operating leases (which free up airline capital), and 24 percent who point to bank debt. Respondents are broadly satisfied that finance will remain available to the aviation industry – 65 percent believe that access to funding will remain at the same level over the next five years, while 22 percent believe that funding will become increasingly available.
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Slovakia Air Force Aero L-39ZAM Albatros crashed north of Zvolen. The military trainer jet, assigned to 2nd sqn of Slovak Air Force, crashed after a technical malfunction. Both pilots ejected safely.
The military plane L-39 between Sliac and Kovac crashed today at 14:15. He informed the defense department. The Minister of Defense of the Slovak Republic, Peter Gajdoš, also took the place.
Two pilots were on board. “There were two parachutes, so there is still a big chance that the crew is alive,” said shortly after the Gajdoš incident. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense Danka Capakova later explained that they had both survived because they were able to eject. “They are currently receiving medical attention in one of the hospitals and the plane has ended up in an uninhabited area,” she added.
The report that the pilots live is also confirmed by Mayor Sliač Daniel Dunčko. “They told me they were catapulting, nobody killed, the plane fell into an uninhabited area,” he expressed himself.
Further details will be provided later by the Minister of Defense Peter Gajdoš, head of the general staff of the SR force SR. Daniel Zmeko and commander of the air force OS SR gender. Ľubomír Svoboda directly in the aviation disaster.
The L-39 is a two-seat jet aircraft designed for basic and advanced pilot training, allowing a simple transition to the MiG-29 fighter plane.
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The space sector is left guessing about an incident on the moon that US space agency NASA reported last week. Astronomers found a rocket body late last year that was headed for a lunar impact. The rocket body struck the lunar surface on March 4; the resulting crater was later discovered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
After a rocket body impacted the Moon last year, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to snap a surprising view of the impact site. Unexpectedly, the crater is actually two craters and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end: https://t.co/WtMAFrNkUw pic.twitter.com/hcoYPxlm8z— NASA 360 (@NASA360) June 27, 2022
The incident is noteworthy because no other rocket body impact on the Moon has produced two double craters. It's interesting that no nation or company claimed ownership of the rocket body despite scientists watching it on a crash course with the moon for months.
The four Apollo SIV-B craters (Apollos 13, 14, 15, 17) had relatively asymmetrical shapes and were somewhat larger than each of the double craters (more than 35 metres, or around 38 yards).
It is remarkable that despite thousands of telescopes space-based sensor networks, and cameras being used on Earth as part of the worldwide space monitoring operations, a whole rocket stage was in space for six to seven years before reaching the moon without being detected.
The high-altitude trash may not have been of much concern to anyone outside of the asteroid surveys, which could be one of the reasons the item went undiscovered.
Whatever the case, it appears to be the first occasion when a piece of space debris has unintentionally struck the lunar surface. Although our equipment has hit the Moon before, but those collisions were either deliberate or failed lunar landing missions.
"It was unexpected to see a double crater, which would mean the rocket body had substantial masses at either end. Mass is often concentrated at the motor end of an expended rocket.” NASA stated.
Arizona State University (ASU) data from 2016 shows that at least 47 NASA rocket bodies have caused "spacecraft impacts" on the moon.
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There are some disasters the world just isn't prepared for, and one of those is an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. NASA is determined to come up with a solution to that problem, though, and it just hired the services of SpaceX to help achieve it.
The best way to prepare for deflecting an asteroid is to do a test run, which is exactly what NASA has planned for its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). DART is set to be the first space mission "to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor on a binary asteroid target." The target in question is called Didymos B, and it's the smaller asteroid of the two Didymos asteroids. The name Didymos is Greek for "twin."
The aim of DART is three-fold. NASA wants to demonstrate it can measure asteroid deflection within a 10 percent range of accuracy, to capture high resolution images of the target asteroid prior to impact, and to prove it can use "autonomous guidance with proportional navigation" to hit the center of a 150 meter target body.
DART will intercept Didymos B in October 2022, but before then the agency needs to plan every stage of the mission including the launch. Yesterday, NASA announced that it had selected SpaceX to provide launch services. The planned DART launch will happen in June 2021 using a Falcon 9 rocket, with the launch taking place at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Solar electric propulsion (using NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster) will be used by DART to allow it to intercept the asteroid in October 2022 when it's 11 million kilometers from Earth. The technique for deflecting the asteroid is known as a kinetic impaction, which sees a spacecraft at high-speed navigated into the path of the target and hopefully changing its trajectory.
At $69 million, the DART mission is relatively cheap when you consider that, if successful, it paves the way for potentially saving life on Earth in the future.
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FAA takes steps to advance drones
The skies got a little clearer for the future of commercial drone use in the United States when the Federal Aviation Administration proposed long-awaited rules for their governance.
It’s a good first step, but there’s still a lot of heavy lifting to be done.
The proposed rules — which will still take a couple of years of hearings and changes before they are implemented — are good news for agricultural uses of drones, but not so much for those like Amazon’s Prime Air and their desires to use them for commercial delivery.
But neither are they as onerous as Amazon and others feared they would be and they are less restrictive than current regulations.
Under the FAA proposal, commercial drone operators would have to be certified, fly only during daylight hours and keep their aircraft in sight.
That’s good news for farmers who would like to use the miniature aircraft for crop disease detection and more targeted spraying of pesticides. It would also benefit real estate agents who like the ability of drone views to sell properties and for utility companies who would be able to use them to inspect power lines.
It’s not so good news for commercial deliveries since the line-of-sight regulation would curb those plans. Amazon officials said the rules would not permit Prime Air to operate in the United States and the company might launch its drone delivery plans in other countries that are more accommodating.
“The FAA needs to begin and expeditiously complete the formal process to address the needs of our business, and ultimately our customers,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president for global public policy.
As the hearing process moves forward, we would expect that Amazon, Google and other companies that want to advance drone delivery systems will try hard to make the case that such systems can be both reliable and safe — but that’s a hurdle they will have to face before the FAA can sign off on it.
Commercial use of robotic aircraft could have massive impacts on the way we conduct business and on our personal lives, but as FAA administrator Michael P. Huerta put it last weekend, “We can to maintain today’s outstanding level of aviation safety without placing an undue regulatory burden on an emerging industry.”
The FAA rules are a starting point for that vision.
–The Journal Times of Racine
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The layoffs at Boeing’s Puget Sound-based Commercial Airplanes division won’t be increasing beyond the 4,500 the company announced earlier this year, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said today in an earning conference call.
McNerney set off a rush of anxiety among Boeing workers and area business people already traumatized by numerous layoffs when he said the company would reduce its payroll by about 10,000 workers this year.
That remark came early in the earnings conference call and immediate touched off new headlines around the country.
The new figure caught the company’s public relations and human resources people flat-footed.
“We don’t know anything about that. It was news to us,” said one Boeing public relations employee.
In a media question-and-answer period later in the call, McNerney said the 5,500 additional job cuts would come from attrition, retirements and possible job cuts in operations outside the commercial airplane division.
That doesn’t mean that only 4,500 workers in the Puget Sound area will lose their Boeing jobs this year. The company has other divisions here including significant operations by the defense and shared services divisions, but the commercial airplanes operation employs the great majority of Boeing’s workers in this area.
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It seems that David Field on the Airline Business blog isn’t a fan of certain corporate airline blogs!!!!
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The Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) started testing multi-purpose Ansat helicopter in Pakistan. The objective of testing is to prove the ability to use the machine in high temperatures.
At the moment the helicopter has already started test flights. It is planned to expand Ansat’s temperature regime to +50° Celsius. Thus, its temperature range will be from -45° to +50° Celsius.
“Ansat is a very attractive helicopter due to its flight performance characteristics, including for customers from Asia and the Middle East. We have planned several upgrades of the machine, including the extension of the temperature range. I hope that positive test results will turn the interest of potential buyers into a number of agreements”, said the company’s Deputy CEO for marketing and business development Alexander Shcherbinin.
It is planned to finish testing by mid-November. After this, a conference is scheduled in Islamabad for potential Pakistani customers to explore the helicopter’s competitive advantages and specific features of operation.
Ansat is a light multipurpose twin-engine helicopter serial production of which is deployed at the Kazan helicopter plant. In May 2015, the modification of the helicopter with a medical module was certified. It It complies with all international standards for medical aviation and allows to save a patient’s life during transporting to a hospital. According to the helicopter certificate, its design allows converting it into a cargo version or into a passenger rotorcraft that can lift up to seven people.
The medevac Ansat has a number of competitive advantages over rivals in its class. First of all, it requires less operational, training and maintenance expenses. In addition, the helicopter has the biggest cockpit in its class and can maintain high speed, which allows to use it for long-range trips.
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The first pictures and spectra of Mars were taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The telescope is a product of an international partnership with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
One of the brightest objects in the night sky, both in terms of visible light that can be seen by human eyes and infrared light that Webb is made to detect is the Red Planet.
With its infrared sensitivity, the telescope offers a distinctive perspective on our neighbouring planet that complements information gathered by orbiters, rovers, and other telescopes.
View of Mars's visible disc is provided by Webb's special observation station at the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2 (L2).
Webb can record spectra and images with the spectral resolution required to investigate short-lived phenomena like dust storms, weather patterns, seasonal changes.
Without appropriate observation methods, Webb's equipment are so sensitive that the intense infrared light from Mars blinds users, a condition known as "detector saturation."
By employing very brief exposures, detecting only a portion of the light that reached the detectors, astronomers were able to compensate for Mars' extraordinary brightness.
Some of the planet's light that is emitted as it travels through Mars' atmosphere is absorbed by carbon dioxide molecules.
The Mars team will later use these images and spectroscopic data to investigate regional variations on the planet and look for trace gases like methane and hydrogen chloride.
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Coming changes to Light Sport rules are expected to bring a boon to the still-nascent eVTOL industry, according to manufacturer Doroni Aerospace. In a news release this week the company says the new Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) initiative will include eVTOLs and allow them to be developed under the more permissive and less bureaucratic regime. “This is a game-changer for the aviation industry and a momentous leap towards a more inclusive and advanced future of flight,” said Doroni CEO Doron Merdinger. “We are thrilled to be part of this transformative moment and look forward to collaborating with the FAA and fellow stakeholders to usher in a new era of aviation.”
The eVTOL inclusion was lost in the initial publicity of the MOSAIC rules, which will eliminate highly restrictive weight and performance limits that many considered unworkable and dangerous. Merdinger said his industry will similarly benefit, giving designers much more leeway in creating new small urban mobility aircraft. Doroni is working on an 1850-pound two-place aircraft that uses four vaned ducted fans driven by electric motors. It’s claiming a predicted top speed of 140 MPH with a range of 60 miles.
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A witness said the crash was in a rice field approximately 100 feet above the ground, according to media reports.
“The Berkeley County Fire Department says two planes have crash-landed near Old Highway 52 at Lewisfield Plantation,” NBC WYFF Channel 4 Greenville reported.
“A Shaw Air Force Base F-16C Fighting Falcon crashed today near Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, at 11:30 a.m. (4:30 p.m. GMT)” the statement read. “Our thoughts are with the friends and family of anyone aboard the civilian aircraft,” the US Air Force said in a statement.
According to local media reports, the fire department added that a pilot ejected from the F-16 and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is searching for him. The investigation into the planes collision is ongoing, local media reports.
The Federal Aviation Authority, however, put the time of the collision at 11.03 a.m. (4:03 p.m. GMT).
The number of people killed on board the Cessna was not initially known.
The Air Force said the pilot on board the fighter jet had ejected safely and been recovered.
The F-16 is one of the oldest and regularly used combat aircraft in the US Air Force.
It became operational in 1978 and is still flown many air forces around the world, including Israel, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt.
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Drones A Coming Crisis for GA
We should all be cheering that Congress passed a comprehensive FAA funding bill yesterday, a bill that President Obama is expected to sign into law soon.
But the soon-to-be law has a section in it that should be cause for great concern to all in GA. In this seemingly innocuous subtitle, Congress saw fit to mandate a timetable for the adoption of drone aircraft — which it now calls unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS. The timetable is shockingly quick: the law calls for full integration of UAS into the national airspace system (NAS) by 2015, just over three years from now.
This wouldn't be great cause for alarm if it weren't for the hazards posed by UAS to us GA pilots. These craft represent, in fact, the first new airborne hazard to aviation in decades. Lasers and tethered surveillance balloons have been around for some time now, and their threat pales in comparison to the threat that drones will bring.
There are several problems with the new law, but the greatest is that it mandates integration into the NAS before it has been shown that UAS can be safely allowed to fly in places where you and I fly our light GA airplanes, jets, and helicopters.
The big question is this: How can we ensure that drones won't be a greater mid-air collision risk than other airplanes are now?
If there's any research that has been done on this, I am unaware of it. I am, in fact, at a loss as to how this could possibly be made to work.
Here's why. Our current approach for preventing mid-air collisions is a multi-faceted one based largely on a see-and-avoid strategy. Using its radar, which might be primary or Mode-C, ATC sees there's a potential conflict and let's you know, for example, that there's traffic at 11 o'clock and three miles. You look for that traffic, and if you see it, you do whatever's necessary to avoid hitting it. Almost always, that means you need to do nothing. See-and-avoid, however imperfect, is effective. The second tier is mandated separation. I won't go into the little details here, as there are numerous separation minimums that ATC follows to regulate the safe flow of traffic in different areas and phases of flight. An example is the 1,000-foot separation vertically for IFR enroute traffic. Even if both you and the other guy are off your assigned altitude by a couple of hundred feet, you'll be just fine anyways. For crossing traffic, ATC will still rely on see-and-avoid if you're in the clear, or it will give you vectors to maintain separation if you're in the soup. It all works extremely well, but all of it relies at least in part with the ability of the human pilots to see something, recognize what it is, take the proper actions and, often, communicate that to ATC or the other pilot. None of this works with unmanned aircraft.
The final part of the collision avoidance strategy — the only part that applies to drones — is aircraft-mounted collision avoidance equipment, though the only kind that is relevant here is TCAS II, an expensive system that is installed in a small percentage of civil and military aircraft. TCAS II provides what are known as “resolution advisories,” or RAs, which command pilots to climb or descend when faced with an imminent collision threat with other TCAS II equipped aircraft. (The aircraft not told to climb is, sensibly, told to descend).The system works great.
And it is exactly what we need to ensure that we won't be smacking into drones flying in our airspace, but it won't happen. Neither my airplane nor yours, most likely, is equipped with TCAS II. The drones won't be either. Many of them will be outfitted with inexpensive systems because, remember, one of the greatest benefits of drones is that they're cheap to operate precisly because there's no pilot on board.
Will ADS-B be a possible solution? It might be part of one. But that satellite-based system isn't mandated for installation on GA airplanes until 2020, five years after Congress wants our skies filled with drones. How will we keep from running into UAS when we're flying perfectly legally in our airspace? The FAA isn't saying and Congress didn't even bring it up.
The only possible answer is that the drones will have to avoid us.
And that terrifies me. I doubt that these unmanned aircraft, bought and operated because it's cheaper to do so than use manned aircraft, will be outfitted with anything close to being capable, smart or reliable enough to do the job, if such systems even exist, which I doubt is the case. And if they don't, don't expect them to be conceived, built, tested, certificated and installed in three years. It ain't gonna happen.
Hopefully, the folly of this mandate will make itself clear before the carnage begins. Which could be with the introducton of small drones (around 5 pounds -- tell my SR22 that this is "small") in 90 days and 55 pounders (yikes) in just over two years. Honda Civic-sized models could be here in just more than three.
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Military missions and political crises often share a critical need: to get airborne vertically—and get away fast. Finding the ideal vehicle for that is the goal of the AFWERX High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing (HSVTOL) Concept Challenge. Now a Dallas company has been awarded a market research investment to move to the challenge’s next stage—and it’s among only 11 companies out of 200 entrants to get it.
Dallas-based Jaunt Air Mobility received the investment from Collaboration.ai, which has a $10 million contract with U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to facilitate AFWERX challenge programs, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force. The AFWERX program at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), connects innovators across government, industry, and academia.
The investment—the terms of which weren’t disclosed—will be aimed at advancing solutions that enable “optimal agility in austere environments.”
The 11 advancing companies were selected by Collaboration.Ai, USSOCOM, and the Air Force working together, Jaunt says.
Jaunt’s solution is its MAV 55
Jaunt’s solution is seen in the image above. The Jaunt Multi-Mission Air Vehicle (MAV 55), delivers the speed and capabilities of a fixed-wing aircraft combined with VTOL, through what the company calls “highly efficient patented SRC [slowed rotor compound] technologies.”
The SRC tech is designed to slow the MAV 55’s rotor down once it’s aloft, reducing drag and vibrations. The tech delivers a lift-to-drag ratio up to five times better than a helicopter, “providing an exceptionally efficient flight with very low noise—noise that is practically imperceptible in flight,” according to the company.
Jaunt says its MAV 55 meets the broader HSVTOL conceptual framework of the HSVTOL Concept Challenge. That framework increases the trade space of speed, range, survivability, payload, size, and flexibility to carry out USAF and USSOCOM missions—across a full spectrum of potential scenarios.
The company emerged as one of the 11 top-tier entrants in the challenge by meeting or exceeding rigorous evaluation criteria, Jaunt says. The criteria included technical merit, reliability, scalability, and other factors.
Jaunt’s leaders have experience ‘in these mission sets’
“We’re incredibly pleased to be working with the Air Force and SOCOM,” said Jesse Crispino, Jaunt’s chief operations officer, in a statement. “We were confident in our team’s knowledge of the mission requirements—having been personally involved in these types of operations—and [in] our engineering capability to apply Jaunt’s Slowed Rotor Compound (SRC) technologies.”
“I’ve been intimately familiar with these mission sets,” Crispino told Dallas Innovates. Crispino spent the last five years of his 22-year-career in the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC), part of USSOCOM. He served as the chief experimental test pilot and director of the Systems Integration Management Office.
“Everyone in the military—and especially USSOCOM—is pursuing high speed, long range, VTOL aircraft,” Crispino told us.
Robert Pratt, Jaunt’s director of operations, is familiar with the mission sets as well, Crispino said. He spent 20 years in the U.S. Army in various aviation roles.
Contract: Develop two conceptual designs
The next step for Jaunt is to develop two conceptual designs with the initial aircraft proposal for its MAV 55. Benefits of the company’s unique slowed-rotor technologies include minimal aircraft downwash during operations where actual aircraft landing isn’t possible. They also include overall “acoustic signature reductions.”
Over the next six months, Jaunt will further develop its MAV 55 solution. It says it will be closely with the USAF, USSOCOM, and Collaboration.Ai, the prime contractor facilitating the HSVTOL Concept Challenge.
Dr. Reid Melville, chief innovation officer for the Air Force Research Laboratory Transformational Capabilities Office, said in the statement that Jaunt and the other 10 advancing organizations have the potential to do something transformative.
“The HSVTOL Concept Challenge has surfaced an impressive range and caliber of solutions to help us understand how to build a new class of air vehicles,” Melville said “We believe the organizations selected to receive market research investments at this stage have the potential to deliver truly groundbreaking innovation.”
Founded in 2019, Jaunt merged with AIRO Group in October
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Dallas with a full-time team of four here, Jaunt does its design and manufacturing in Montreal, Canada. The company acquired all the Intellectual Property from Wichita Falls, Texas-based Carter Aviation for slowed-rotor and associated technologies. Carter had been developing its slowed-rotor compound technology since 1994, according to Electric VTOL News.
Early last October, Jaunt entered into a merger agreement with Miami Lakes, Florida-based AIRO Group Holdings and some of its affiliates. Per the agreement, AIRO Group will acquire all of Jaunt’s equity and Jaunt will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of AIRO Group.
Jaunt is working on more than military solutions. It’s building the next generation of eVTOL and hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft for “faster, quieter, and safer travel over urban areas”—with a goal of moving both people and packages in the future. The company says its Jaunt Journey is the world’s first electric aircraft combining helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft flight capabilities.
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Defense contractor Lockheed-Martin received a Navy contract this year to deliver a high-energy shipboard laser system with two separate but linked capabilities by 2020.The "kamikaze threat" has been around for over 70 years, hypersonic missiles are just a much faster variant. As I have said before, no matter how fast the missile, the speed of light is faster.
The “high energy laser and integrated optical-dazzler with surveillance” (HELIOS) system will combine the ability to attack and destroy unmanned aircraft and small boats with an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability linked to a long-range, high-resolution camera. The camera system includes a laser with the ability to damage—“dazzle”—sensors on unmanned aircraft.
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The Navy and other services also hope that lasers will provide a capability to respond to high-performance targets, particularly missiles. An antimissile laser system would not need to distinguish between decoys and actual missiles and instead could employ its nearly unlimited capacity to attempt to destroy all of them without needing to husband scarce defensive missiles.
The promise of electric weapons—including not only lasers but also particle beams—largely motivated the Navy’s move toward all-electric ship propulsion with the Zumwalt - (DDG-1000) class destroyers. The hope was that in combining propulsion with auxiliary power plants, ships would gain electric power capacity sufficient for such weapons.
With both the Russian and Chinese governments developing hypersonic antiship cruise missiles, the need for new antiaircraft weapons has become more urgent. A defensive missile ought to be at least as fast as its target, so that it can maneuver into position to intercept. (Faster is better.) Navy Standard Missile air defense interceptors have speeds ranging from Mach 2.5 up to about Mach 4, depending on the specific variant. (Antiballistic missile interceptors are much faster.) “Hypersonic” missiles by definition travel no slower than Mach 5, with China’s DF-17 having a claimed speed of Mach 10. At such rates of travel, the time available for an engagement would be extremely short. A defender responding to a Mach-10 missile launched at a range of 1,000 miles would have eight minutes to acquire, classify, engage, and destroy the threat.
Lockheed press release on this here:
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $150 million contract, with options worth up to $942.8 million, for the development, manufacture and delivery of two high power laser weapon systems, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-Unmanned Aerial System (counter-UAS) capabilities, by fiscal year 2020. With the High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) system, Lockheed Martin will help the Navy take a major step forward in its goal to field laser weapon systems aboard surface ships.More here:
"The HELIOS program is the first of its kind, and brings together laser weapon, long-range ISR and counter-UAS capabilities, dramatically increasing the situational awareness and layered defense options available to the U.S. Navy," said Michele Evans, vice president and general manager of Integrated Warfare Systems and Sensors. . .
HELIOS combines three key capabilities, brought together for the first time in one weapon system:
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- A high-energy laser system: The high-energy fiber laser will be designed to counter unmanned aerial systems and small boats. The energy and thermal management system will leverage Lockheed Martin experience on Department of Defense programs, and the cooling system will be designed for maximum adaptability onboard ships. In addition, Lockheed Martin will bring decades of shipboard integration experience, reducing risk and increasing reliability.
- A long-range ISR capability: HELIOS sensors will be part of an integrated weapon system, designed to provide decision-makers with maximum access to information. HELIOS data will be available on the Lockheed Martin-led Aegis Combat System.
- A counter-UAS dazzler capability: The HELIOS dazzler will be designed to obscure adversarial UAS-based ISR capabilities.
“Our beam control technology enables precision equivalent to shooting a beach ball off the top of the Empire State Building from the San Francisco Bay Bridge.” Paul Shattuck, Director of Directed Energy systemsI sure hope so.
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https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/male-airport-temporarily-shut-down-after-flydubai-aircraft-suffers-burst-tires
| 2023-12-11T22:43:20 |
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Male’s Velana International Airport (MLE), the Maldives’ main international airport, was temporarily shut down on March 28,2023 after a Flydubai aircraft suffered multiple burst tires upon landing.
Flight FZ 1569 from Dubai International Airport (DXB), operated by a 737 MAX 9, was attempting to land on MLE airport’s runway 36 when the incident occurred. No injuries were reported.
Photos of the burst tires were published on Aviators Maldives’ Facebook page:
The airport operator, Maldives Airport Company, posted a tweet confirming the incident:
“An aircraft ground incident has been declared at Velana Airport due to a tire burst from an aircraft during landing. Passengers & crew are safe. The runway is temporarily closed & we are working to resume normal operations.,” the airport said.
Aviators Maldives posted a list of flights that were affected (canceled, diverted, or delayed) due to the two-hour closure of the runway:
Normal operations resumed at MLE airport at around 17:45 local time.
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http://www.jerebeasleyreport.com/2014/10/army-helicopter-maker-sued-in-fatal-georgia-crash/
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A lawsuit has been filed arising out of the crash of an Army helicopter on Jan. 16. It’s alleged in the suit that a tiny missing part caused the helicopter to spin out of control and crash during a training flight in Georgia, killing the co-pilot and seriously injuring two crew members. The lawsuit blames the manufacturer of the MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., and others that make its components for the crash at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah.
The mother of Capt. Clayton O. Carpenter, who died, and the two injured crew members are Plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The crew belonged to the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. According to Timothy Loranger, a lawyer with Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC, who represents the Plaintiffs, a missing safety cotter pin caused a malfunction in the helicopter’s tail rotor.
Source: Claims Journal
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New domestic flights bound for the heartland of Japan
Followed connection network established to having connection with international flights. Himawari Airlines starts the second part of domestic routes expandation.
“Bound for the heartland Japan” flights will provides >98% coverage of Japan airports. From the south boundary, Yonaguni of Okinawa and the most north point, Wakkanai of Hokkaido. Now we are heading to whole Japan and writing a new page for air traveling.
Furthermore, according to our commitment with local residents after Japan National Airways privatlization. We will provide fast and efficient air travel service to restart flight from Honshu ( main island) to outing island. For this, we are proud to be world first operator of high reliablility and high quality French based Aérospatiale ATR42-500 aircraft.
On this aircraft, we executived our mutual respect sprit to local residents that installing Relaxing Cabin on to the plane.
From today, we will continue to provide Relax and Enjoy air services by euqipped digital cockpit and comfort cabin ATR-42 aircraft.
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Kosmos 20 (Russian: Космос 20 meaning Cosmos 20) or Zenit-2 No.13 was a Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite which was launched in 1963. A Zenit-2 satellite, Kosmos 20 was the thirteenth of eighty-one such spacecraft to be launched.
|Mission type||Optical imaging reconnaissance|
|Mission duration||8 days|
|Launch mass||4730 kg|
|Start of mission|
|Launch date||18 October 1963, 09:36:00 GMT|
|Rocket||Vostok-2 s/n G15001-01|
|Launch site||Baikonur, Site 1/5|
|End of mission|
|Landing date||26 October 1963|
|Landing site||Steppe in Kazakhstan|
|Perigee altitude||205 km|
|Apogee altitude||302 km|
|Epoch||18 October 1963|
Kosmos 20 was a Zenit-2 satellite, a first generation, low resolution, reconnaissance satellite derived from the Vostok spacecraft used for crewed flights, the satellites were developed by OKB-1. In addition to reconnaissance, it was also used for research into radiation in support of the Vostok programme. It had a mass of 4,730 kilograms (10,430 lb).
The Vostok-2 rocket, serial number G15001-01, was used to launch Kosmos 20. The launch took place at 09:36:00 GMT on 18 October 1963, using Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Following its successful arrival in orbit the spacecraft received its Kosmos designation, along with the International Designator 1963-040A and the Satellite Catalog Number 00673.
Kosmos 20 was operated in a low Earth orbit. On 18 October 1963, it had a perigee of 205 kilometres (127 mi), an apogee of 302 kilometres (188 mi), an inclination of 65.0°, and an orbital period of 89.6 minutes. Having spent eight days in orbit, the spacecraft was deorbited on 26 October 1963. Its return capsule descended under parachute and was recovered by the Soviet forces in the steppe in Kazakhstan.
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A Scottsdale air charter company has been ordered to pay $94,000 to an employee who was fired after raising flight safety concerns.
The order issued against West Jet Aircraft by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was announced Thursday. The money is for back wages, damages and legal and medical fees.
According to OSHA, the unidentified ex-employee was fired for preparing a complaint to the Federal Aviation Administration about suspected violations of flight safety standards by West Jet. They investigated under federal whistleblower statutes.
OSHA says the employee had repeatedly told West Jet officials about suspected violations of federal aviation rules.
Calls to West Jet seeking comment Thursday weren't immediately returned.
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WASHINGTON, DC—The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) today responded to a request for comments from the Department of Transportation (DOT), and urged DOT to ban voice calls on all flights within, to or from the U.S. TTD argued that allowing passengers to make in-flight phone calls would be inherently disruptive to the cabin environment and create needless safety issues that would be nearly impossible to resolve.
“The noise and distraction of passengers talking on their phones would interfere with the ability of flight attendants and pilots to deliver important safety announcements to passengers, particularly during times of emergency,” said TTD President Edward Wytkind.
As the only flight crew members physically present in the aircraft cabin, flight attendants would be responsible for policing passenger phone calls and mediating disagreements among passengers when they predictably arise. This would create yet another distraction from their regular job responsibilities, including those critical to the safety and security of the passengers and crew.
“Allowing in-flight phone calls would not only effectively turn flight attendants into professional mediators, but it would create an unnecessarily chaotic environment in the cabin,” said Wytkind. “Safety announcements, special instructions, and other vital pieces of information, especially during in-flight incidents or emergencies, would be lost in the din of chatting passengers. There is no upside that would justify this risk.”
In addition, the flying public opposes cell phone use during flights. Surveys continue to show that the vast majority of fliers disapprove of in-flight calls.
CONTACT: Jennifer Michels, [email protected], 202.628.9262, 703.395.2195
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http://rpdefense.over-blog.com/2015/03/a-french-rafale-marine-aircraft-of-flotille-11f-during-carrier-qualifications-aboard-the-uss-carl-vinson.html
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ARABIAN GULF (Mar. 3, 2015) U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner, Jr.
A French Rafale Marine aircraft of Flotille 11F deployed aboard the French nuclear powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (CDG) launches from the flight deck during carrier qualifications aboard the U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is deployed as part of the Carl Vinson Strike Group supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
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V1 Rotate has been providing aviation training solutions to flight students and corporate flight departments for over 15 years.
Learning online has the advantage of being available on your schedule. You will have access to a huge resource library, which will prepare you for your Transport Canada Written Exams.
We will work with you to provide tailored learning to meet your goals and Transport Canada regulations.
Developed by aviation professionals with thousands of flight hours, we look forward to providing you with your ground training and helping you achieve your aviation goals!
Learn anytime, anywhere
Enjoy our online pilot ground school courses, wherever you are and whenever you want. Access course content on mobile, tablet, or desktop.
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1/400 Scale. This kit comes molded in white with decals for Boeing 2700-200 and Pan American. Measures 9.50 inches long with display stand. Officially Licensed with Boeing.
The Boeing 2707 was an American supersonic passenger airliner project during the 1960s. Boeing won a competition for a government-funded contract to build an American supersonic airliner. The design emerged as a large aircraft with seating for 250 to 300 passengers and cruise speeds of approximately Mach 3. It was intended to be much larger and faster than competing supersonic transport (SST) designs such as the Concorde.
The entire SST concept was the subject of considerable negative press, centered on the issue of sonic booms and effects on the ozone layer. A key design feature of the 2707 was its use of a swing wing configuration. Rising costs and the lack of a clear market led to its cancellation in 1971 before the prototypes had been completed.
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Did you know?
- The smallest aircraft operated by Lufthansa flying between Split and Toronto is a 32S with 164 seats.
- The shortest flight between Split and Toronto on TAP is 10069 km.
- 40848 seats are available per day to fly out of Split connecting to Toronto.
- 4 flights per week fly out of Split connecting to Toronto.
- The shortest connecting flight from Split to Toronto is 29 hours, 25 minutes on Sata TAP.
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https://www.ite.edu.sg/courses/course-finder/course/coc-in-piloting-unmanned-aircraft-(multi-rotor)-7-to-25-kg
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CoC in Piloting Unmanned Aircraft (Multi-rotor) 7 to 25 Kg
Course Details Anchor Navigation
Campus where course is offered
ITE College Central
Course CertificationSkillsFuture Certificate of Competency (CoC)
This SkillsFuture Certificate of Competency (CoC) course prepares participant with no prior experience in UA operation to attain the Class A (Rotorcraft) UA Pilot Licence (UAPL) limited to multi-rotor UA up to 25 kg. Upon completion of this course, participant can register for CAAS Unmanned Aircraft Pilot Licence (UAPL) practical examination and apply for a CAAS Class A (Rotorcraft) UA pilot licence with CAAS upon meeting the CAAS UA pilot licence requirements.
What you'll learn
- Apply Unmanned Aircraft (UA) System Knowledge
- Apply UA piloting skills for UA up to 25kg
- Apply and set up UA for flight with Geo-Fencing application
- Prepare UA for autonomous flight using mission planning application
- Perform Contingency/Emergency planning considerations
- Conduct Pre-flight, In-flight phase & Post-flight phase
- Perform safety practices in UA operation
This is advanced level course.
Attained CoC in Piloting Unmanned Aircraft (multi- rotor) under 7 kg.
Fee for this course can be paid using SkillsFuture Credits.
Please visit www.skillsfuture.sg/credit for more information.
SkillsFuture Course Reference Number: TGS-2021002347
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https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Zeyrok-RTF-Camera-Yellow/dp/B01EXE4R48
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- Zeyrok RTF w/ Camera Yellow
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Key Features Fully assembled, no building necessary SAFE technology makes flying simple Incredibly durable, lightweight unibody airframe Available in brilliant yellow or vibrant green color schemes Remote control 720p/1.3MP camera Maintenance free enclosed rotor drive system Large 750mAh 1S Li-Po flight battery and convenient USB charger Brilliant LED orientation lights with status indication Removable skids with integrated camera pod Removable 4GB Micro SD memory -function transmitter with Spektrum DSMX technology Overview There's nothing like the exhilarating feeling you get during your first flight with a drone. That's why the Blade brand has been in the rotor wing business—because flying a great aircraft keeps that exhilaration alive. Using decades of combined experience, the Blade team has engineered great designs that harness new technology so that you can experience success on the first flight and beyond. Today, exclusive SAFE technology and the all new Zeyrok quadcopter is poised to help you become a great RC pilot, plus have fun of exploring aerial photography and video all at the same time. The Blade Zeyrok quadcopter is the ideal drone for new pilots and anyone who wants a fun flying experience. Based on a proven power system, its next-gen airframe has been industrial engineered to have a futuristic concept-appearance that's incredibly durable. But you'll have no trouble keeping it together. That's because the SAFE system of the Zeyrok drone is designed with multiple flight modes to provide the kind of confidence-building flying characteristics that makes lift-off as smooth as possible. As a result, you can rock from beginner to expert drone pilot at the pace that's right for you.
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Top customer reviews
This is the most fun RC aircraft that I have ever flown, it's incredibly stable and FAST! It truly provides the best of a 4 channel helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft - rock solid hover, VTOL, acrobatic tricks, and insanely stable fast forward flight (first time I have ever felt comfortable doing this).
Mine drifted to the right badly out of the box, trim would not help, but the instructions show how to re-calibrate the unit to correct for this. The radio that comes with the RTF aircraft is the fanciest I have had so far from Blade, gone is the pointed antenna and you have two additional channels - flight mode, panic / camera. The rest is what you would expect, same somewhat cheap radio layout with the small trim buttons. My only complaint on the radio is that it's easy to flip the flight modes while you're just carrying it around, I had one crash because it was set to the stability / agility mode and banking to the right caused an unplanned low altitude flip. Always check the flight mode on the radio before taking off!
The camera is about what you'd get from an old first generation camera phone, nothing special. Video is extremely shaky (to be expected, I suppose) and the lens aperture is not very wide (not much light). I took a bunch of selfies and random blurry photos by accident while playing with the Panic button, not realizing that the unit comes with a microSD card pre-installed and the Panic channel converts to a Camera channel when it is in place. The camera seems to be on some sort of a vertical gimbal mechanism, which is cool.
Overall, AWESOME product! So much fun to fly, the stability is wonderful. But keep in mind that this is still a 4 channel (well, technically more) aircraft and is not meant for kids or beginners. But I do highly recommend it as a way to learn basic 4 channel flight characteristics before moving on to helicopters.
This was my first quadcopter. 10 years ago, a flew a coaxial helicopter and a fixed pitch helicopter. I went back to trucks and planes, but decided to give helis or quads another try. Things have really come along. It is easier to fly than a fixed pitch helicopter, and equally as easy to fly as a coxial helicopter. However, it has a lot more control authority than a coaxial heli, and won't get carried off with a 3 mph wind.
If you look at the manufacturer's page, and advertising, all the good things they say about this are pretty much right. (and there are a lot of them) They won't mention the bad things; that's what I'm here for. Let me do a Pro/Con list:
+ Easy to fly (for a helicopter-type ship)
+ Durable design; takes more to damage it than a heli.
+ Killer good looks
+ LEDs help quite a lot with orientation at dusk
+ Not big or powerful enough to really hurt someone. (unless you fly it into their eyes)
+ Affordable enough to learn on
+ Affordable batteries
+ Camera footage (video and still) is surprisingly good, for such a small camera!
- Can't handle a lot of wind; motors and battery aren't powerful enough
- Too small to fly more than about 100' away without losing orientation
- Geared-down brushed motors are a bit noisy, but nothing objectionable.
I had one hit where I clipped some leaves in a tree, then crashed down about 10' on to bricks. It landed right on one of the ends, and messed it up. I opened up that end with the little screwdriver that came with the Zeyrok, re-aligned the motor gear with the spur gear, screwed it back together, and it was up and flying 5 minutes later. That would have been a devastating, parts-breaking crash with a heli.
In the beginner mode, with the rates turned down, I can fly walking speed around obstacles as a challenge. Around trees and weeds, in local parks (away from kids). Go to the higher rate mode opens the flight envelope a bit more; then, it can be flown in a larger area or slightly more wind.
Going to the intermediate mode, the allowed bank angles are much higher, and it can handle up to about a 10 mph wind
In Expert mode, a tiny movement of the stick makes a big movement of the Zeyrok. This really is for experts who like to do stunts and high-G flying. I don't fly here. The thing about Expert Mode on this one is that it has all the control authority for banking and yawing, but the power system is too gutless to do serious stunts. Doesn't matter HOW good you are.
This quad is a little too big to fly in a house, but would be fine in a school gym, for example.
Compared to my Traxxas Aton, this one is simpler, less powerful, but no less fun, I'd say. It is actually more of a pure flying experience, as it doesn't have as many bail-out options.
The stick action of the transmitter is quite smooth; better than RTF transmitters for RC cars and trucks.
One last warning: it is easy to fly *for a helicopter.* Compared to driving a car or boat, or even a plane, it is harder, because the pilot has to control 4 things, all at the same time: throttle, yaw (rotation), and banking. With a plane, there are three dimensions it can be flown through, but one can pretty much leave the throttle in one spot, and just control the rest. With cars/trucks, there are mostly just 2 dimensions, and SO easy to bail out. The only way to have more challenge is by racing and varying the terrain.
With the Zeyrok, one can challenge oneself by flying it slowly and precisely around obstacles, or quickly and smoothly through patterns in the air. Ground terrain doesn't matter, but wind does.
If you have any possibility of wanting the camera, go for it now. It is good enough to be worth the extra $40. It includes the camera, the landing skis, and a micro SD card that inserts right into the size of the quad. I attached a self-portrait pic, so you can get an idea.
DO read the instructions, or you'll miss out.
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PROJECT TITLE :
Using creeping wave to size cylindrical defect
A technique using creeping wave for sizing a single cylindrical defect has been developed, which will relate the time of flight between the satellite pulse and also the reflected pulse to the dimensions of a defect, and the 3-dimensional defect reconstruction downside is simplified to a series of cross-sectional reconstructions.
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https://spider.princeton.edu/2015/02/12/the-view-from-spider/
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The view from SPIDER
William C. Jones, Assistant Professor of Physics
Good news! Our team has been able to recover the data collected by SPIDER during her flight over Antarctica. These photos were taken by SPIDER during and just a few hours after launch.
A photo taken during SPIDER’s ascent. Below is the launch vehicle and the crane arm that held SPIDER while the balloon that would carry her was inflated.
A photo taken during SPIDER’s voyage above Antarctica.
Another photo taken by SPIDER during her flight.
Yet another photo by SPIDER.
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http://www.redorbit.com/images/pic/2810/astronaut-alan-bean-prepares-for-return-home/
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Astronaut Alan Bean Prepares for Return Home
May 4, 2003
Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, holds a Special Environmental Sample Container filled with lunar soil collected during the extravehicular activity (EVA) in which Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander, and Bean participated. Connrad, who took this picture, is reflected in the helmet visor of the lunar module pilot.
Topics: Environment, Exploration of the Moon, Human spaceflight, Apollo program, NASA Astronaut Group 3, Apollo 17, Pete Conrad, Extra-vehicular activity, Apollo Lunar Module, Moon landing, Alan Bean, Apollo 12, Hospitality Recreation, Alan L. Bean, Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Return Home Astronaut, Commander, Alan Bean Prepares, Astronaut, lunar module pilot
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https://bandhmodels.com/shop/kits/plastic/aircraft/hasegawa-07219-f-104c-starfighter-u-s-air-force/
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1:48 Lockheed F-104C Starfighter U.S.A.F.
The F-104C was developed as a tactical fighter for the Tactical Air Command of the USAF. Equipped with a refueling nozzle on the forward left side of the fuselage and special “Boundary Layer Control” (BLC) systems which increased the performance of the flaps, 77 F-104C’s were produced in total.
Fighter-bomber version for USAF Tactical Air Command, with improved fire-control radar (AN/ASG-14T-2), one centerline and two wing pylons (for a total of five), and ability to carry one Mk 28 or Mk 43 nuclear weapon on the centerline pylon. The F-104C also had in- flight refuelling capability. On 14 December 1959 an F-104C set a world altitude record of 103,395 ft (31,515 m).
479th TFW, USAF George AFB, California 1963
479th TFW, USAF George AFB, California
Skill Level 3
Length: 14.4 in (367 mm)
Width: 6.3 in (160 mm)
This plastic model kit requires paints, glues and basic tools to complete.
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https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Hawker_Hind
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|Hawker Hind (Afgan), Shuttleworth Collection|
|Role||Light bomber, Trainer|
|Manufacturer||Hawker Aircraft Limited|
|First flight||12 September 1934|
|Primary users||Royal Air Force|
Design and development
An improved Hawker Hart bomber defined by Specification G.7/34, was purchased by RAF as interim aircraft while more modern monoplane bombers such as the Fairey Battle were still in development. Structural elements were a mixture of steel and duralumin with the wings being fabric covered while the main differences compared to the earlier Hart was a new powerplant, (the Rolls Royce Kestrel V) and the inclusion of refinements from the earlier derivatives such as the cut-down rear cockpit developed for the Demon. The prototype (Serial number K2915) was constructed very rapidly due to Hawker's development work for other proposals, and made its first flight on September 12, 1934. A variety of changes were subsequently incorporated ("ram's horn" exhaust manifolds, Fairey-Reed metal propeller and engine improvements) with the first production Hind (K4636) flown on 4 September 1935.
The Hind went into service in November 1935 and eventually equipped 20 RAF bomber squadrons. A number were also sold to foreign customers including Afghanistan, the Republic of Ireland, Latvia, Persia (Iran), Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia. By 1937, the Hind was being phased out of front line service, replaced by the Fairey Battle and Bristol Blenheim, and with many of the Auxiliary Air Force squadrons changing role to fighter or maritime patrol units. At the outbreak of the Second World War 613 Squadron retained the Hind in the Army co-operation role before re-equipping with the Hart derivative, the Hawker Hector, in November 1939. The Hind found a new career in 1938 as a training aircraft, representing the next step up from basic training on Tiger Moths. It continued in use as an intermediate trainer during the Second World War. Hind trainers were also operated by Canada and New Zealand.
In 1941, Hinds flew combat missions in their original role as light bombers against Axis forces - South African Hinds were employed against Italian forces in Kenya, during the East African Campaign and Yugoslav Hinds were used against the Germans and Italians Iranian Hinds were used briefly against Allied forces during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. The Imperial Iranian Air Forces's bases were subsequently occupied by the Allies and their aircraft were either destroyed or dismantled by the invading British.
- Hind Mk I
- Two-seat light bomber aircraft for the RAF, powered by a 477 kW (640 hp) Rolls-Royce Kestrel piston engine.
- Afghan Hind
- Similar to the Hind Mk I, four aircraft fitted with Rolls-Royce Kestrel V engines, plus another four aircraft fitted with Kestrel UDR engines; eight built for Afghanistan.
- Latvian Hind
- Two-seat training aircraft, powered by a Bristol Mercury IX radial piston engine; three built for Latvia.
- Persian Hind
- Modified version of the Hind Mk I, powered by a Bristol Mercury VIII radial piston engine; 35 built for Persia.
- Portuguese Hind
- Similar to the Hind Mk I, two aircraft built as bombers, two aircraft built as trainers; four built for Portugal.
- Swiss Hind
- Two-seat unarmed communications aircraft; one built for Switzerland.
- Yugoslav Hind
- Modified version of the Hind Mk I, two aircraft fitted with Rolls-Royce Kestrel XVI piston engines, one aircraft fitted with a Gnome-Rhone Mistral engine; three built for Yugoslavia.
- Afghan Air Force acquired 28 aircraft in 1938, the final example retiring in 1957.
- Royal New Zealand Air Force acquired 78 aircraft of which 63 entered service, primarily as trainers 1940-1943. The other 15 were lost to enemy action in transit.
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia
An airworthy ex-Afghan Hind flies with the Shuttleworth Collection. Others are on display at the RAF Museum in Hendon and the Canada Aviation Museum. Several former Royal New Zealand Air Force Hinds are being restored/reconstructed by the Subritzky family / The Classic Aircraft Collection at Dairy Flat near Auckland, of which at least NZ1517/K6687, and NZ1535/K6721 are under restoration to airworthy condition; substantial parts are also held for NZ1518/K6717, NZ1528/L7184, NZ1544/K6810 and NZ1554/K5465. Another former RNZAF Hind is being restored for static display at MoTaT. The remains of other Hinds were recently located in Afghanistan.
Data from The British Bomber since 1914
- Crew: 2
- Length: 29 ft 3 in (8.92 m)
- Wingspan: 37 ft 3 in (11.36 m)
- Height: 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m)
- Wing area: 348 ft² (32.3 m²)
- Empty weight: 3,195 lb (1,452 kg)
- Loaded weight: lb (kg)
- Useful load: lb (kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 4,657 lb (2,167 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Kestrel V Water-cooled V-12, 640 hp (477 kW)
- Maximum speed: 161 kn (185 mph, 298 km/h) at 15,500 ft
- Stall speed: 39 kn (45 mph, 72 km/h)
- Range: 374 nmi (430 mi, 692 km)
- Service ceiling: 26,400 ft (8,050 m)
- Wing loading: 13.3 lb/ft² (37.1 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 0.14 hp/lb (0.22 kW/kg)
- Climb to 10,000 ft 8 minutes 6 seconds
- Hawker Hart
- Hawker Audax
- Hawker Demon
- Fairey Fox
- Vickers Vildebeest
- List of aircraft of World War II
- List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force
- List of bomber aircraft
- Crawford, Alex. Hawker Hart Family. Redbourn, Hertfordshire, UK: Mushroom Model Publications Ltd., 2008. ISBN 83-89450-62-3.
- Mason, Francis K. The British Bomber Since 1914. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1994. ISBN 0-85177-861-5.
- Mason, Francis K. Hawker Aircraft since 1920. London: Putnam, Third revised edition 1991, first edition 1961. ISBN 0-85177-839-9.
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Our Legislature is once again taking up the idea of taxing new aircraft (Avweb), which drives the small airplane folks over the border into New Hampshire and the big airplane folks to Advocate Tax for a “solution” (starts with the aircraft owned by an LLC somewhere other than Massachusetts, presumably).
[Plainly nobody is going to pay $6.25 million in sales tax on a $100 million Gulfstream if the plane, pilots, and mechanics can be based in New Hampshire and the plane can swoop in, pick up the rich people, and fly out (has the effect of doubling aircraft noise for neighbors since there are two operations instead of one).]
I had wondered why PlaneSense, whose owner lives in Massachusetts, hadn’t moved down from New Hampshire (huge base that generates lots of jobs) when Massachusetts went tax-free for aircraft. Presumably the owner figured out that the Legislature wouldn’t be able to resist reinstating the tax. Smart guy!
Bernie Sanders would be proud, presumably…
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https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/SpaceX_rocket_successfully_orbits_on_fourth_attempt
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SpaceX rocket successfully orbits on fourth attempt
Monday, September 29, 2008
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) successfully launched and sent into orbit a Falcon 1 rocket, which was launched yesterday at 23:15 UTC from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
This was the fourth attempt to launch this class of rocket, and the first vehicle to be successfully launched by private spacecraft developers. Previous attempts to launch this vehicle ended in failure due to engineering errors. Perhaps the most critical part of this flight occurred during the stage separation between the first and second stages of this rocket. In this flight, unlike previous attempts, the separation was without incident and the second stage maintained the planned trajectory into orbit. The rocket achieved an orbit at an altitude of 135 miles above the Earth after approximately ten minutes of powered flight.
The main technical difference between the third and fourth attempts was an adjustment in the timing between shutting down the first stage rocket engine and when the stage separation takes place. On the third attempt, the first and second stages collided into each other immediately after stage separation, which in turn damaged the second stage engine and resulted in a mission failure. For this fourth attempt, the stage separation occurred without any problem, and was greeted with loud cheers and applause by SpaceX employees who were watching a live telecast of the launch at the Hawthorne, California, USA manufacturing plant. This telecast was also released as a live video feed on the SpaceX website during the launch.
While other rocket companies have been successful at sending vehicles into orbit before, this is the first vehicle that has been designed from scratch without any components that came from previous government-sponsored vehicles. This is also the first privately developed liquid-fueled vehicle that has achieved orbit.
Elon Musk, founder, primary investor, and CEO of SpaceX, congratulated his employees upon reaching this milestone, saying "That was frickin' awesome! There's only a handful of countries on Earth that have done this. It's usually a country thing, not a company thing. We did it." He also said later on, "Definitely one of the best days of my life."
The payload of this rocket consisted of a 360 pound engineering test object made of aluminum, which was also fabricated by SpaceX in their Hawthorne manufacturing facility. Called the Ratsat, it was decorated with a logo of a rat by the SpaceX team that built it. Elon Musk estimates that it will remain in orbit for between five and ten years before burning up in the atmosphere.
Additional milestones accomplished by SpaceX on this flight included a successful deployment of parachutes on the first stage of this rocket, where SpaceX hopes to be able to recover this stage and be able to re-use that portion of the rocket on a future flight with some refurbishing. The second stage also performed an additional test by restarting its engine and moving to a higher orbit at between 300 to 450 miles (500 to 700 km) above the Earth with an inclination of 9.2 degrees, passing above the International Space Station during the maneuver.
"This is a great day for SpaceX and the culmination of an enormous amount of work by a great team," said Elon Musk, "The data shows we achieved a super precise orbit insertion—middle of the bull's-eye — and then went on to coast and restart the second stage, which was icing on the cake."
SpaceX is offering future flights of the Falcon 1 to the public for a price of about $7.9 million USD each, although Mr. Musk estimated that the total cost to test and develop this rocket, including the three previous failed launch attempts, came to about $100 million USD.
The next launch of the Falcon 1 is slated to happen sometime toward the end of the year, with a satellite that was manufactured and paid by the Malaysian government. Also scheduled for early next year is the maiden flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, which uses a multiples of nine rocket engines that are identical to the engine that was used in today's launch as well as many of the other components that were used on the Falcon 1. SpaceX is also under contract with NASA to develop a vehicle called the Dragon that will be supplying cargo to the International Space Station under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. This spacecraft is also intended to eventually be capable of manned spaceflight.
- "SpaceX Falcon I rocket fails to orbit test satellite" — Wikinews, March 21, 2007
- "Mishap destroys SpaceX Falcon 1 after maiden launch" — Wikinews, March 24, 2006
- "SpaceX Falcon I launches from Kwajalein Atoll" — Wikinews, March 21, 2007
- "SpaceX delays Falcon 1 launch again" — Wikinews, February 21, 2006
- "Spacex cancels Falcon 1 launch until 2006" — Wikinews, December 19, 2005
- "SpaceX scrubs Falcon I rocket launch" — Wikinews, November 28, 2005
- Press Release: "SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 1 to Orbit" — , September 29, 2008
- "Mission Status Center" — , September 28, 2008
- Press Release: "Latest Launch Updates" — , September 28, 2008
- Aaron Rowe. "SpaceX Did It -- Falcon 1 Made it to Space!" — , September 28, 2008
- Chris Bergin. "Space X’s Falcon I launch success on fourth attempt" — , September 28, 2008
- Alan Boyle. "Low-cost rocket finally gets to orbit" — , September 28, 2008
- "SpaceX launches 1st commercial rocket into orbit" — , September 28,2008
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Join in and visit the National Air Force Museum with us! We will square off into teams and complete a scavenger hunt as we explore the best Aviation museum in the WORLD (according to Mr. Packer). He would venture to say it is better than the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Sign up and come experience the history of aviation! Students attending must submit a field trip permission slip.
This will be emailed to you after you sign up.
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Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini.It was the 10th and final crewed Gemini flight, the 18th crewed American spaceflight, and the 26th spaceflight of all time, including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (54 nmi). Chrystal Jackson. At orbit insertion Gemini 10 was about 1600 km behind the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle 10 (GATV-10) which had been launched into a …
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Medium. The GATV launch occurred about 100 minutes prior to the launch of the Gemini 10 spacecraft.
A time-exposure photograph shows the configuration of Pad 19 up until the launch of Gemini 10. Onboard the spacecraft are John W. Young and Michael Collins. S66-42702 (12 July 1966) --- Gemini-10 prime crew, astronauts John W. Young (left), command pilot, and Michael Collins (right), pilot, check equipment in the White Room atop Pad 19 where they participated in a Simultaneous Launch Demonstration. Gemini 10 was launched on July 18, 1966 from Complex 19 at 22:20:26.648 UTC and inserted into a 159.9 x 268.9 km orbit. Gemini 10 was launched on July 18, 1966 from Complex 19 at 22:20:26.648 UTC and inserted into a 159.9 x 268.9 km orbit. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. Astronaut John Young commands on his second spaceflight, with Michael Collins enjoying his first mission. Launched on July 18, 1966, the purpose of NASA's Gemini 10 mission was to conduct a double rendezvous and docking test with a two-person crew …
Spacecraft No. The launch is perfect and Gemini 10 reaches orbit to rendezvous with their Agena target spacecraft. At orbit insertion Gemini 10 was about 1600 km behind the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle 10 (GATV-10) which had been launched into a near circular orbit about 100 minutes earlier.
10 was inserted into a 145- by 86-nautical-mile elliptical orbit. Download Image of Gemini 10 prime crew participate in Simultaneous Launch Demonstration. The Gemini program consisted of a total of 19 launches, 2 initial uncrewed test missions, 7 target vehicles, and 10 crewed missions, each of which carried two astronauts to Earth orbit. The Gemini Agena target vehicle (GATV) attained a near-circular, 162- by 157-nautical-mile orbit.
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Gemini 10 launch time exposure by NASA. At orbit insertion Gemini 10 was about 1600 km behind the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle 10 ( GATV -10) which had been launched into a near circular orbit about 100 minutes earlier. Dimensions. Let’s zip to the Gemini 10 launch on July 18, 1966.
Gemini 10 (officially Gemini X) was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.It was the 8th crewed Gemini flight, the 16th crewed American flight, and the 24th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (54 nautical miles)). Watching the Gemini 10 launch, July 18, 1966. The GATV was launched as the second stage of an Atlas-Agena rocket at 3:40 p.m. EST on July 18, 1966 from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14. Media in category "Launch of Gemini 10" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Gemini 10 launch time exposure - GPN-2006-000036.jpg 3,223 × 3,730; 3.82 MB
The Gemini X mission began with the launch of the Gemini Atlas-Agena target vehicle from complex 14. Publication date 7/18/1966 Topics Gemini, Who -- Michael Collins, What -- Gemini 10, What -- Agena. Country of Origin.
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Gemini was a NASA spaceflight program that paved the way for the moon landings. Gemini 10 was launched on 18 July from Complex 19 at 5:20:26 p.m. EST (22:20:26.648 UT) and inserted into a 159.9 x 268.9 km orbit. Painting, Watercolor and Ink on Paper.
Gemini 10 marked the second successful dual launch and docking with the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle (GATV). The Titan II was selected as the launch vehicle for the Gemini project. Artist. United States of America. Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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NASA / DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY NASA / DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt broadcasting live from the Moon. Dr Schmitt opened his gold plated visor and looked into the TV camera mounted on the lunar rover. As of 2014, he is the last person to have ever set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 17 mission took place between the 7th and 19th of December 1972.
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It does not require a pilot’s license and costs almost $100,000. But the flight time does not exceed 20 minutes.
RotorX has unveiled the Dragon, a compact electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The device is made in the form of an octacopter, each screw is equipped with an electric motor with a power of 16 kW. The maximum flight time on a single charge is 20 minutes, the electric aircraft can accelerate to 101 km/h and can lift a pilot weighing no more than 113 kg. The RotorX Dragon is a single seat joystick controlled model. It belongs to the ultra-light class, so a pilot’s license is not required to control it, the manufacturer notes.
The novelty is intended, rather, for flights at low altitude, but those who dare to climb higher will be pleased with the presence of a ballistic parachute in case of an emergency. It also offers an automatic landing system and the possibility of hovering in the air without manual control. The RotorX Dragon will be supplied as an assembly kit with all necessary tools, as well as written and video instructions. Or buyers can visit the headquarters of the American company Advanced Tactics and assemble the aircraft under the supervision of specialists, as well as receive training in operating the device. The RotorX Dragon is currently available for pre-order for $99,000 and will ship in August next year.
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Ukraine to Represent the New Generation Passenger Jet at 49th Le Bourget Air ShowBy Worldwide News Ukraine, PRNE
Thursday, June 16, 2011
KYIV, Ukraine, June 17, 2011 -
Ukraine is going to showcase a new generation passenger
regional jet An-158 at the 49th
International Paris Air Show Le Bourget on June 20-26, 2011. The
key features of the new exhibit include the ability to land on the
various types of ground under zero visibility conditions.
The main Ukrainian exhibit to participate in the demonstration
flights at Le Bourget Air Show will be the An-158 passenger
regional jet (previously referred to as An-148-200). The aircraft
with a range of 2,5-3,1 thousand km is an upgraded version of
An-148 with stretched fuselage that may accommodate 99 passengers.
Also, compared to the previous models, this one received additional
wingtip fences. The machine is equipped with D-436-148 engine
designed by the state owned Ivchenko Progress and produced
by Ukrainian JSC Motor-Sich. The key features of the plane’s
design include the placing of the craft’s engines high, making it
possible to land even in the snowdrifts and on the ground if there
is no runway.
The participating companies from Ukraine are the state-owned
AntonovAeronautical Scientist/Technical Complex, Ivchenko
Progress, JSC Motor-Sich, PA Yuzhmash,
Yuzhnoe SDO, the State Space Agency of Ukraine, State
Corporation Vector, state company Ukrspecexport.
An-158 is certified by International Civil Aviation Organization
to land under zero visibility conditions (ICAO category III
approach). The plane also acquired an Interstate Aviation Committee
certificate. The first flight of the plane was successfully
completed on April 28, 2010.
About 20 units of the new plane have already been preordered by
a number of international companies. Currently, AntonovAeronautical
Scientist/Technical Complex is launching a serial production of
An-158, with an aim to hit the market by the end of the year and
build over 100 planes by 2020.
The Paris Air Show, officially titled Salon International de
l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, Paris-Le Bourget, is considered
to be the biggest world air show while being the oldest one
(established in 1909) at the same time. It is held at the Le
Bourget Airport in Paris every odd year in June and is dedicated to
aeronautics and space conquest. Every other year hundreds of
thousands (estimated 390 thousand visitors in 2009) attend the show
where the latest achievements in the aircraft industry are
For more information, contact Maria Ivanova +380443324784 news at wnu-ukraine.com, Project Manager at Worldwide News Ukraine
Tags: France, June 17, Kyiv, Ukraine, Worldwide News Ukraine
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Recirculation tunnels are for indoor flying. They are very silent and can be operated at any weather conditions. Therefore, recirculation tunnels can be installed in highly populated residential areas (e.g. center of the city) to attract tourists, active lifestyle and entertainment seekers. Special technology ensures very high air-flow speed that makes these tunnels very attractive among professionals.
These tunnels are mostly used as a stand-alone business for the general public – people who want to experience the freedom in flying, for shows, professional and military training.
One beginner fly at a time irrespective of the diameter of the air-stream. If the diameter of the air-stream allows, then up to 8 professionals can fly at a time. Beginners can fly up to 4 meters on their own or in full height of the tunnel in tandem with experienced instructors. It is possible to sell up to 50-54 minutes of flying time per hour.
Wind speed goes up to 300km/h (186 mph)? in recirculation tunnels. Closed aerodynamic technology allows installing this tunnel inside buildings. The minimum height of such technology is 22,5m. Part of the technology can be built underground to decrease total height of technology.
This is a unique activity where experienced instructors work face-to-face with beginner flyers. Even more there are two persons overlooking each customer: one is experienced instructor in the airflow, the other is airflow operator who adjusts wind speed according to a particular client. These tunnels have safety nets above and below the flying zone. It is not possible to fly out of the tunnel.
up to 300km/h (186 mph)
less than 65 dBa outside the tunnel building, 110 dBa in the center of the air stream. Super silent technology allows these tunnels to be installed in residential areas.
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What is space junk and why is it a big problem?
Free-for-all access to low-Earth orbit is increasing the risk of collisions. But how likely is a space junk collision?
Space is getting increasingly crowded. At least, it is in the region of low-Earth orbit, where many satellites operate.
Spanning altitudes between about 160km and 2,000km above Earth’s surface, low-Earth orbit requires less fuel to reach than higher orbits.
Its relative proximity to the ground also provides advantages for low-powered communication devices, such as Iridium satellite phones (once the cause of Iridium flares), as well as for Earth observation – think weather-forecasting, monitoring the environment and spying.
Read our interview with Dr Space Junk Alice Gorman
The International Space Station and China’s Tiangong space station also occupy low-Earth orbit, both at an altitude around 400km.
There are plenty of objects like artificial satellites and bits of spacecraft that have fallen out of use and remain in orbit around Earth. These are collectively known as space junk.
Satellites can remain in position long after they have stopped functioning and the process of launching them is also a decidedly messy affair: spent rocket stages and separation bolts also contribute to the debris circling around Earth.
All of this space junk is orbiting Earth at speeds of up to 28,000km/h and as it continues to accumulate it poses an increasing risk of collision.
For example, in the 20 years of its operation, the ISS has had to shift around 30 times to avoid being hit by orbital debris.
But the problem isn’t just the risk of a collision, because a satellite hit by debris can shatter into thousands of fragments, any of which can go on to collide with other satellites and so on.
This could potentially trigger a runaway cascade of satellite destruction – a chain reaction of collisions – until a whole region of orbital space is so full of hazardous debris that it’s rendered unusable or impassable for decades.
This possibility is known as the Kessler Syndrome, and will be familiar to anyone who’s watched the film Gravity (one of our pick of the best space and sci fi movies).
In the worst case scenario, it could block human access to space and end services such as GPS and satellite imaging for a long time.
How likely is it that space junk will cause a collision?
As more and more satellites are launched into low-Earth orbit, the risk of a catastrophic Kessler Syndrome, and the huge economic impact it would have, only increases. But how likely is it to occur?
Two economists, Akhil Rao, at Middlebury College, Vermont, and Giacomo Rondina at the University of California, San Diego, built a model that not only considers the orbital dynamics involved in a Kessler Syndrome occurring, but also the changing economics of satellite launches.
They note that, currently, orbital space is effectively open access: anyone who can build a rocket is able to place as many satellites as they like in any orbit they choose.
Rao and Rondina focused on the orbital shell, between the altitudes of 600km and 650km, which lies at the edge of the region where Earth’s thin, upper atmosphere will naturally de-orbit debris within 25 years.
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Based on the recent growth of the space sector, they calculate a Kessler Syndrome would occur around 2048. But if launches increase more quickly, it could even happen as early as 2035.
Possible solutions to avert the problem include technology to actively remove debris from low-Earth orbit, or new international laws to limit and control the number of launches.
Lewis Dartnell was reading Open access to orbit and runaway space debris growth by Akhil Rao and Giacomo Rondina. Read it online at: arxiv.org/abs/2202.07442.
This article originally appeared in the May 2022 issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
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The Flight Data Monitoring Market is expected to exceed more than US$ 6 Billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 7.5% in the given forecast period.
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Flight data monitoring and Analysis (FDMA) is employed to boost flight crew performance and traffic control procedures. Thus, flaws within the aircraft operations is detected before they cause major accidents therefore developing a preventive and corrective action. For this reason, they’re integrated with the aircraft operator’s safety management system. in several regions of the world, the concept of FDMA is addressed differently. International Aviation Civil Organization (ICAO) has created FDMA necessary for aircrafts on top of a mere most certificated take-off mass. this is often expected to be the key driver for the Flight data monitoring and analysis market during the forecast period.
The scope of the report includes a detailed study of Flight Data Monitoring Marketwith the reasons given for variations in the growth of the industry in certain regions.
The report covers detailed competitive outlook including the market share and company profiles of the key participants operating in the global market. Key players profiled in the report Curtiss-Wright, Flyht, Safran Electronics & Defence, Skytrac, Teledyne Controls, Flight Data Services, Flight Data Systems, Flight data people, Guardian Mobility and Scaled Analytics. Company profile includes assign such as company summary, financial summary, business strategy and planning, SWOT analysis and current developments.
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- Certification Clearance
- Lack of Expertise
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- Increasing Demand for Real-Time Analytics in the Aviation Industry
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- Assurance of the Quality and Accuracy of Information Received by Flight Data Monitoring
- Ageing Aircraft
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The Flight Data Monitoring Marketis segmented on the Basis of End-use Industry, Solution Analysis, Aircraft Analysis and Regional Type.By End-use Industry this market is segmented on the basis of Fleet Operators, Drone Operators, Investigation Agencies and FDM Service Providers.
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During 2020 the skies went dark, but 2021 has brought new light and hope for the future of aviation. This is the year of the airline startup. Why has COVID-19 sparked a surge of new airlines, despite ongoing financial struggles for major airlines?
According to data from Cirium, more than 40 airlines paused operations or shut down since the start of 2020. In conjunction with collapsing revenue, thousands of aviation workers were laid off in the last year. All of that said, the hardships of 2020 also opened the door for new, smaller airlines to lay ground. Increased availability at airports coupled with the selling of airline assets at a discounted price, small startups are taking advantage of the bargains and the demand.
The most well-known startup of the year has been Avelo Airlines, offering low-cost airfare to hungry travelers. Breeze Airways is another new name in the game, who’s initial launch was pushed from 2020 to this year. These two new giants aside, who else is heading to the skies this year?
According to aircraft leasing firm Avolon Holdings Ltd., upstart airlines are popping up across the globe, with more than 90 new carriers securing funding and preparing for takeoff.
The bottom line is this- aviation manufacturers are dropping costs in an effort to sell aircrafts, airports are looking to fill vacancies, pilots and cabin crew are seeking new jobs after being laid off by major airlines, and grounded travelers are returning to the sky. All of these factors have come together to make 2021 the perfect year to launch a new airline.
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To ensure you’re getting the best shopping experience, please enable Cookies in your browser preferences. We are assuming you have very little or no experience with RC flying devices, thus we want to share with you my rule for RC drones differentiating a toy-grade ship (easier to fly) from a hobby-grade one (harder to fly). We took a quick look at what is out there in plastic kits and they were all pretty small especially for the attack machines (apache, cobra, etc.) A couple of the models plastic model kits we saw video of looked really good but we have a feeling that their rotor hubs and blades and all were probably scratch built which is way beyond my capability.
Remote control helicopters have taken major advances in the last many years, gone are the days of three channel RC helicopters. Controlling these in unison enables the helicopter to perform the same maneuvers as full-sized helicopters, such as hovering and backwards flight, and many that full-sized helicopters cannot, such as inverted flight (where collective pitch control provides negative blade pitch to hold up inverted, and pitch/yaw controls must be reversed by pilot).
On the other hand, some of the simplest helicopters that we know don’t require such advanced systems to be pretty stable, and even when this could be perceived as a weakness for the quads, it’s actually the opposite, because these systems are very effective and they’ve brought to the world a very stable flying gadget. In practice, this means that kits of the same subject in nominally identical scales may produce finished models which actually differ in size, and that hypothetically identical parts in such kits may not be easily swapped between them, even when the kits are both by the same manufacturer. RC drones, hobby grade RC helicopters are almost always better in quality and fly much better; but the very best feature they have going for them is you can easily get replacement parts for them when something breaks or wears out. For more information, please visit our site http://www.modelsports.com.au/
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A United Airlines (NYSE: UAL) Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787 Dreamliner was forced to make an emergency landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Tuesday, due to problems with an oil filter aboard the plane.
According to AirlineReporter.com, the jet, bound from Denver to Tokyo, was inspected by a fire crew after landing in Seattle. Repairs are currently under way on board the aircraft.
The Denver Post reports that the flight took off from Denver International Airport at 1:19 p.m., diverting at 4:25 p.m. Mountain Time and landing in Seattle at 5:10 p.m.
"United Flight 139 from Denver to Tokyo-Narita diverted to Seattle due to an indication of a problem with an oil filter," United said in an emailed statement. "The aircraft landed normally and without incident and we are working to reaccommodate customers."
The incident is the latest to befall the 787 Dreamliner, which was introduced by Boeing in 2011. This January, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all U.S.-based airlines to ground their Boeing 787 Dreamliners after lithium-ion batteries overheated on two of the 50 jets in service. On May 20, the Dreamliner returned to the skies, according to Reuters.
As previously announced, the embattled company created a stir earlier Tuesday at the 2013 Paris Air Show by officially announcing a new aircraft called the 787-10. According to the Los Angeles Times, the plane will fly up to 8,055 miles and seat 300 to 330 passengers.
"Our ongoing investment in the 787 family is well-founded," said Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner. "With the 787-10, we've designed an exceptional airplane supported by an efficient and integrated production system that can meet increasing demands and create new opportunities for us.”
As all eyes are trained on Boeing and their continuing saga with the 787 Dreamliner, time will tell if they can weather the latest storm.
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In the world of aviation, there isn’t just one type of pilot, just like there isn’t just one type of doctor. The title of “pilot” is an umbrella term that branches out to refer to a very diverse array of roles in aviation. You will find that different pilots are trained to fly different types of airplanes, for very specific purposes, oftentimes with varying degrees of niche skill sets.
Pilots can be classified into two main categories: commercial and non-commercial. Within each category, there are a myriad of classifications specific to aircraft type and capability, the conditions of flight (such as altitude, weather, and terrain being overflown), and the purpose of the flight.
Aviation is extremely diverse. In just a mere century since the first flight, the role of the aviator has evolved and expanded to encompass and fulfill a wide variety of functions in society. Let’s explore the different types of pilot roles that exist today, and what kind of pilot you can become. (On a related note, have you ever wondered how hard it is to become a pilot?)
With a minimum of 40 hours of training, you can earn a Private Pilot License. This entry-level license is your ticket to allow you to fly most basic single-engine aircraft, with passengers, for any non-commercial purpose. All flights must be conducted under Visual Flight Rules (VFR), which means that you cannot fly through clouds, and must be able to take off, navigate, avoid other aircraft, and land while being able to look out the window.
One variation of the Private Pilot License is the Sport Pilot Certificate. (The terms “certificate” and “license” are often used interchangeably in aviation parlance, and will be used interchangeably in this article.) It is similar to the Private Certificate, but it comes with greater limitations: The aircraft you fly must be either a one- or two-seater, must have a takeoff weight that does not exceed 1320 pounds, and does not exceed a max airspeed of 120 knots. Ultralight or glider aircraft will typically fall into this category. Obtaining a Sport Pilot License only requires 20 hours of training, and does not require a medical exam (which is required for a Private Pilot License). You must maintain visual contact with the ground, you may not fly through clouds, and you may not fly at night.
The Recreational Pilot Certificate is another alternative to the Private Pilot License. As with the Sport Pilot Certificate, it has a lower barrier to entry, requiring only 30 hours of flight training. But it comes with limitations and restrictions as well: You may not fly more than 50 nautical miles from your home base airport. You cannot fly more than 10,000 feet above sea level or 2,000 feet above ground level (whichever is higher in elevation). Similar to the Sport Pilot Certificate, you must maintain visual contact with the ground, you may not fly through clouds, and you may not fly at night.
The Instrument Rating itself is not a “type” of pilot license. It is more of an “add-on” to your existing license, that unlocks the ability to fly through clouds, through low-visibility conditions, flying by reference to instruments only, without the need to maintain visual reference outside the window. It also allows you to fly above 18,000 feet above sea level. The Instrument Rating is an implicit prerequisite for flying most high-performance aircraft and is a practical necessity for most commercial operations. It cannot be obtained “by itself”, as it is not a standalone certificate, the way the Private, Sport, or Recreational License are.
As the name implies, this rating allows you to fly aircraft with multiple engines. It is not a standalone certificate, but is an add-on to your existing license.
This endorsement allows you to fly aircraft with retractable landing gear, variable-pitch propellers, and complex wing flap configurations (beyond the standard wing-flaps found in a basic single-engine aircraft). It is not a standalone endorsement, but an add-on to your existing license.
As the name implies, this add-on endorsement allows you to fly your aircraft at higher altitudes… Namely any altitude above 25,000 feet above sea level. This endorsement exists because the requirements for supplemental oxygen, cabin pressurization, and the knowledge of how to deal with in-flight emergencies with regards to loss of oxygen/cabin pressure, are essential in this regard.
Seaplane Type Rating
If you want to fly an airplane that is capable of taking off and landing on water, then you will need to get a Seaplane Type Rating, which can be obtained either as part of your Private Pilot training or as an add-on to your existing license.
Commercial Pilot License
The Commercial Pilot License is your ticket to being able to earn money and be compensated for flying, for commercial purposes. Both the Private Pilot License and the Instrument Rating are prerequisites for obtaining your Commerical Pilot License. Other endorsements, such as the ones for piloting multi-engine, high-altitude, or complex aircraft, are not required in and of themselves for the Commercial Rating, per se. However, as a practical matter, you will need to obtain those endorsements, if you want to be able to make practical use of your Commercial Rating. Otherwise, with just your commercial license, you would be relegated to flying single-engine basic trainer aircraft.
The rest of the sections below will cover the various types of pilot roles that fall under the umbrella of commercial operations.
Certified Flight Instructor
One popular career path for commercial pilots is to become a Certified Flight Instructor. You basically get paid to teach other people how to fly, and help them get their own pilot license. While many pilots may choose to become Certified Flight Instructors as a career choice, there are many other pilots who view flight instruction merely as a stepping stone to help them build up the hours and gain the experience needed in order to pursue more advanced careers in aviation.
If you have ever seen those airplanes towing banners in the sky with advertisements or special messages on them, yes, that is a type of job for pilots. Additional training may be necessary in order to receive authorization to perform either of these types of jobs, but a Commercial Rating is required at a minimum.
Writing messages in the sky using smoke trails can also be a lucrative way to make easy money as a pilot. Some training would obviously be required in order to learn how to write in the sky. You must have a Commercial Rating in order to sky-write. Proper spelling and good penmanship are also required (pun intended)!
Sightseeing / Aerial Photography Tours
Aerial sightseeing is a popular pilot job. Depending on where you live, flying tourists for hire, to checkout city skylines or famous landmarks can be constantly in demand. However, these types of jobs are heavily tied to the economy, so you might see a slowdown in aerial sightseeing tours during a recession. But when times are good, this can be a lucrative venture to get into as a pilot.
Medical Air Transport / Air Ambulance
Typically, when most people think of an air ambulance, they think of helicopters. Indeed, helicopters can airlift you to a nearby hospital. But in some exceptional cases, where you need medical transport faster, for father distances, or for some reason, flying in a helicopter would impose undue additional risks for the patient (such as lack of a pressurized cabin, limited space for storage or to manage or administer care to the patient in flight, adverse weather conditions that would prevent the safe completion of a helicopter flight, and cost (it may cost less to operate an airplane than a helicopter under certain circumstances), then a medical air transport airplane would come into play.
Reconnaissance / Cartography
Surveying the land after a natural disaster, or conducting aerial reconnaissance are both examples of essential activities employed by governments and agencies, for logistical planning, civil engineering, disaster recovery, and the like. Although these days, drones are doing a fair share of the reconnaissance work, there are still ample opportunities for manned-flight reconnaissance missions.
Search And Rescue Operations
Both helicopters and airplanes can be used in search and rescue operations, depending on the terrain and the distance over which the operations are being conducted, be they over plains, mountains, or even over open water. Seaplanes might be more conducive for operations over open water, especially if a landing is warranted. Helicopters would be ideal if they need the flexibility to be able to land anywhere. Airplanes may be used if either a landing is not anticipated or required unless it is possible to land in an open field where the operations are being conducted, if no airport is nearby.
Law enforcement at all levels of the government is necessary and is in need of pilots. Whether for transporting government officials, transporting law enforcement personnel, or carrying out law enforcement activities such as apprehending and transporting criminals, aviation plays a hand in law enforcement.
While ferrying would-be parachute jumpers to altitude doesn’t require any special rating or endorsement apart from a Commercial Rating per se, it is essential that jump pilots be very well versed with the FAA rules and regulations concerning parachute operations, and all of the pre-flight planning, preparation, and emergency procedures that concerning the flight.
The application of insecticide or fertilizer over a field of crops, delivered from an airplane is what is known as crop dusting. Crop dusting has been around since the earliest days of aviation, and still continues to be an agricultural necessity, even to this day. All you need in order to become a crop duster is a Commercial Pilot’s License. What makes crop-dusting unique amongst other types of pilot jobs is that it requires you to fly at very low altitudes above the surface of the other. Typically, low altitude flying is prohibited in areas with a residential or commercial population. Factors such as wind shear and ground-effect can also impact the safety of crop-duster flying.
There is a need to ferry passengers and cargo to and from remote areas that are out in the wilderness, far removed from civilization, that are generally inaccessible by highways and roads, and oftentimes are even deemed inhospitable. One such example of bush flying in North America includes remote areas of Alaska and Canada. In many cases, bush flying may even require the use of a seaplane, if the area is remote enough that it is separated from the mainland by a body of water. More often than not, takeoff and landing operations must be done on grass strips or in open fields, as there are no paved runways or airports in these remote regions of the world.
Stunt Pilots / Aerobatic Flying
The thrill of watching stunt pilots perform aerobatic maneuvers in the sky has been a form of entertainment since the dawn of aviation. There is something enthralling about gazing up and watching airplanes race through the sky. Equally thrilling, then, is the thrill of performing aerobatics as a stunt pilot. This affords you the opportunity to get paid for pushing the envelope of high-performance aircraft for the amusement of others. While there is no formal FAA rating for aerobatic flight, a Commercial Rating is required, at minimum. This is not only because you get paid for this type of flying, but also because aerobatic flying involves abrupt changes in aircraft airspeed, altitude, power, and orientation, and unusual flight attitudes that are not used in “normal” flight. Manveuers such as steep turns, spins, spirals, chandelles, lazy eights, and eights on pylons, stalls, slow-flight are all covered as part of your Commercial training. While these do not prepare you directly for aerobatic flight, they do provide a basic foundation to prepare you as such.
How do we make sure that airplanes are able to operate safely properly? How do we gauge and measure the performance characteristics of an airplane? Somebody has to go up and test it out, right? Test pilots are a staple of the aviation industry. Somebody has to be willing to take the risk to test out aircraft before they can be certified for carrying passengers and cargo and complying with government-mandated airworthiness directives and certification standards. There will always be a need for test pilots, not only to test new innovations and design concepts in aviation, but to certify existing airplanes as being safe for flight.
Airline Transport Pilot
Each of the above commercial pilot jobs requires only a Commercial Rating (in conjunction with all of the aforementioned add-on endorsements as appropriate).
However there is an entire arena of commercial aviation jobs that require another level of pilot certification, and that is the Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) rating.
The ATP rating is a step above the Commercial Rating (which itself is a prerequisite for the ATP rating). The ATP rating allows you to fly large jet airplanes for high-stakes commercial operations.
In the next few sections below, we will delve into some of the commercial operations that require an ATP rating.
The ATP rating has a very high bar for entry: You must have accumulated a minimum of 1,500 hours of flight experience before you can get your ATP rating.
Mainline Passenger Airlines
All of the major commercial airlines that transport passengers domestically across the country or internationally across the world, require an ATP rating.
Regional airlines are essentially similar to mainline airlines, except that they are commissioned to operate within a limited geographic range, serving only specific “regions”, as opposed to the entire continent or the entire world. That being said, the jet airplanes used in regional airlines typically carry fewer passengers and are equipped to fly shorter distances. Regional airlines are also typically cheaper for consumers and offer less in terms of amenities and services than a mainline airline would.
As an alternative to flying for the airlines, there are an abundance of pilot jobs in corporate aviation. Corporate aviation means that you fly exclusively for executives or employees of a specific corporation… or in some cases, a limited number of corporate clients with whom there is a contract to provide services drawn up. You fly corporate personnel on private jets for business meetings or for any other business-related purpose. Corporations may avail themselves of private jets as a perk, which affords them more privacy, greater comfort, greater efficiency, and less hassle, avoiding the rush of the commercial airlines.
Flying for charter operations is similar to corporate aviation, in that you are piloting smaller, private jets, for a limited, exclusive number of passengers. The difference is that charter operations are available to be reserved by anyone, and not exclusively by a specific corporation. Anyone who wishes to book a charter airplane for themselves, their friends, and their family, may do so. But it comes at a price, as flying via charter aircraft is generally be more expensive than flying on a commercial airliner.
The ATP rating is required not only for ferrying passengers but also for transporting large volumes of cargo. All of the major mail and parcel delivery services that transport large volumes of shipment by air on large cargo jets, require their pilots to have ATP ratings.
The military itself has an abundance of opportunities for would-be pilots and experienced pilots to utilize their aviation skills for the defense and service of their country. The military is where you get exclusive access to fly high-performance aircraft that are not available to the general public! Fighter jets, military cargo jets, stealth bombers, spy planes, helicopters, and the like. In conjunction with learning to fly weaponized aircraft that can travel at supersonic speeds, you also receive combat training. Military aviation experience can go a long way in helping you build hours toward future commercial aviation jobs, once you eventually leave the military.
Here is a resource that you might helpful, if you have ever wondered what are the steps involved in becoming a commercial pilot.
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Virgin Galactic is preparing to land among the stars.
On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic said they were working on its final preparations at its base in New Mexico as the VSS Unity is scheduled to launch into space from Spaceport America sometime in the fall.
The company said the ship would be crewed by two pilots and several research payloads in the cabin.
Virgin Galactic says its top priority is safety, so they want to make sure the pilots are prepared for the task at hand.
To do just that, they will be using VMS Eve as an in-flight simulator. The pilots will use Eve to practice the identical approach and landing pattern since it's similar to Unity's, Chief Pilot Dave Mackay stated.
"The cockpit structure of Eve is almost identical to that of Unity: the same pilot seats and windows, as well as very similar flight controls and instruments," Mackay said in the press release.
The company will go through a full, planned rehearsal before the VSS Unity takes flight.
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Unfortunately, this job is expired as of 3/14/2016.
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Under the direction of the Chief Instructor or designee, conducts pilot evaluations and training with UVU Professional Pilot students in accordance with FAA regulations, department policies and standard operating practices. May also be assigned to train and recommend initial flight instructor candidates, perform flight instructor standardization, or other duties deemed necessary by the Chief Instructor.
At least 650 verifiable hours total time in aircraft.
At least 400 verifiable hours of instruction given as a CFI in airplanes.
Held CFI Certificate for at least 2 years.
Knowledge of Federal Aviation Regulations, including FAR Part 141.
Knowledge of standard pilot training practices and all applicable information resources.
Knowledge required to demonstrate competence in the privileges of the pilot and instructor certificates held by the applicant.
Must regularly demonstrate competence in all operational duties including piloting, flight instruction, ground instruction, student evaluation, instructor evaluation.
Effective teaching skills.
Interpersonal, problem-solving and communication skills.
Organizational and prioritization skills.
Ability to pass initial and recurrent tests related to Part 141 check instructor duties.
Abilities to maintain proficiency and currency on required pilot and instructor privileges.
Ability to administer assessments of student performance.
Ability to communicate professionally and effectively verbally and in writing.
Ability to recognize and resolve student concerns.
Ability to work professionally and collaboratively with others.
Ability to receive feedback and accept correction.
Ability to determine, prioritize and accomplish assigned tasks & personal goals.
Ability to use standard word processing and general computer applications.
Ability to work within the operating limitations of all aircraft in the UVU fleet including access to controls and emergency equipment.
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Price Induction will attend the coming ‘SINGAPORE AIRSHOW 2018’
Price Induction will attend the coming ‘SINGAPORE AIRSHOW 2018’.
Our business representatives will be present at the Airshow on February 6-8 to exchange on Price Induction activities: turbine engine programs for aerospace propulsion and power generation, R&T projects on innovative propulsion architectures, Test Benches for research and training as well as special Test Benches for R&T projects in propulsion.
If you want to benefit from Price Induction expertise, products and services, for detailed information or to arrange a meeting with Price Induction team, please contact: [email protected]
Price Induction was very happy to exhibit in the Paris Le Bourget Air Show 2017 from the 19 to 23 June. It was once again a great opportunity for the team to meet many industry R&T leaders, academics and experts, and exchange about turbomachine related innovations and future projects.
Price Induction’s multi-presence in the show
Three different WESTT solutions were exhibited at the show:
The WESTT CS/BV Virtual Engine Test Bench on PI booth;
The WESTT BV66 interactive learning station on PI partner Defense Conseil International’s booth;
The WESTT SE-HP assembly and disassembly DGEN High Pressure’s spool test bench on PI partner Aerocampus Aquitaine booth.
Thanks to our R&T SAFRAN partner, visitors could also discover a freshly kick-started project about the DGEN 380 HP core engine hybridization.
Moreover, Price Induction had the pleasure to promote the Flying Whales’ LCA60T program airship for which our design office has developed a POC of electric propulsive system.
Flying wales electric propulsive system
Key meetings on Price Induction booth
Price induction had the pleasure to welcome both academic and industrial partners on its booth throughout the week.
Propulsion R&T representatives from major aerospace groups such as SAFRAN, AIRBUS, DASSAULT or Technical Research Institutes stepped by to exchange about current and future potential projects with them.
A special meeting gathered three academic partners on 22 June. InHolland Hogeschool, ENAC and Polyaéro met together and exchanged about the WESTT solutions and their experience using it.
Signature of a partnership between Price Induction and Defense Conseil International (DCI)
DCI, the reference operator of the Ministry of the Armed Forces for the international transfer of the French military know-how to France friendly countries armed forces, and Price Induction signed an industrial and commercial partnership focused on MRO (EASA/Part 66 and DSAé/FRA 66) initial training.
Price Induction’s team will welcome you
on booth B94, Hall 2B
Visit us and discover:
– Our expertise as an engine manufacturer to support innovative projects around propulsion, from design and engineering to instrumentation and testing.
– A wide range of test bench solutions dedicated to Aerospace Research and Education.
Curious about engine architecture & simulation ?
Take the opportunity to try some of our WESTT solutions,
– Westt CS/BV virtual engine test bench on our booth
– Westt BV66 interactive learning station with new helicopter 12.1 content
– Westt SE-HP assembly / disassembly hi pressure line station
ELISA Aerospace (ISAE Group), the French Aerospace engineering school located in Saint-Quentin, France, has become the 39th WESTT CS/BV partner!
Eight teachers just received a training session to master the operations of the virtual test bench and understand how this educational solution can be leveraged as a new way for control, aerodynamics and thermodynamics teaching.
Within the 5-year mandatory program, the WESTT CS/BV will be used to illustrate propulsion theory in the first two years and turbofan design in the last 3 years.
See you this summer at the Paris Le Bourget Air Show on booth B94, Hall 2B, to speak with the WESTT community!
Last Friday at ILA Airshow, apprentices from the main Berlin-based MRO players were given a demonstration by Unai of our new BV 66 station dedicated to maintenance training. Trainees liked the interactivity of the solution enabled by the combination of theoretical content, animations and live hardware-in-the-loop simulation of our DGEN 380 turbofan engine.
Price Induction will be taking part in the Moscow International Aviation and Space Show, the MAKS 2015. This major event for Russian and international aviation professionals will take place at the Zhukovskiy air field near Moscow, Russia from August 25th to August 30th.
If you would like to request a meeting, please email [email protected]
Price Induction примет участие в Международном авиационно-космическом салоне МАКС 2015. Это важнейшее мероприятие для Российских и международных специалистов пройдёт на аэродроме Жуковский в Московской области с 25ого по 30ое августа.
Если Вы бы хотели назначить совещание с нами, просим написать емэйл на адрес [email protected]
Price Induction’s team is back from the Paris Air Show where it displayed the DGEN 390 high-bypass turbofan engine and the new dual channel ECU, as well as the WESTT CS/BV virtual turbofan engine test bench. Once again, our technology captivated a number of people from different backgrounds – from professionals and professors to students, we exchanged with more than 300 people on our booth.
Moreover, during the Airshow an MoUwas signed between Price Induction and the Russian National United Aerospace University (Национальный Объединенный Аэрокосмический Университет) in order to explore mutually beneficial opportunities between parties.
Overall, the Paris Airshow was a success – we had the opportunity to meet new or current prospects, existing clients and references, and to promote Price Induction’s 3 business lines:
Aero Engines – turbine engines dedicated to General Aviation
Test Benches – WESTT product line for research and education centers, as well as conventional and non-conventional test benches for the aerospace industry
R&T Projects – Innovation works for major aerospace groups. Integral engineering and prototyping of complex mechanical systems
Price Induction announces its participation to the Airshow China 2014 in Zhuhai on November 11-16, 2014. Price will exhibit the DGEN turbofan engine and WESTT SOLUTIONS for the first time in China in Hall 1, Stand #D1-2.
The DGEN turbofan engine for general aviation will be on display at Price Induction’s booth #D-1-2 in Hall 1. Today, the DGEN 380 engine achieved over 1500 hours of testing, 6000 ignitions and 2200 endurance cycles. It is also used by an increasing number of universities and research centers worldwide including the ISAE-Supaero engineering school in France and the Civil Aviation University of China in Tianjin.
Besides, we will offer live demonstrations of the virtual engine test bench WESTT CS/BV on our booth. This very innovative learning system is particularly interesting for engine regulation, thermodynamics and aerodynamics studies. All interested people and especially professors, instructors as well as students are invited to discover its features and experience its wide range of educational applications.
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Searching for Balloon rides in Vallejo? Welcome to the end of your search! Finding a firm to provide Balloon rides is easy. In addition, you can visit additional pages here, or look in your yellow pages.
Enjoying Balloon rides is something anyone can $do, but it is also a great way to celebrate a birthday! When you speak with the pilot you are thinking about booking with, always to ask how many others will be flying with you.
When it is time for your charter, your ride company will offer to let you help with the assembly and inflation of the balloon. Go ahead and do it - it adds to the experience!
Why can't I get a balloon ride in the middle of the day?
Balloons fly early in the morning, right after sunrise and late in the day, right before sunset. This is when the wind is calmest since the sun is low in the sky. The wind is generally too unpredictable, with severe up-and down-drafts, during the middle of the day. It isn't safe to offer balloon rides when the wind is unstable.
Famous Balloon Quote:
There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.
— William Wordsworth, 'Peter Bell,' Prologue. Stanza 1.
What if you have to go to the bathroom?
Pre-planning is the key! Since flights average about an hour or so, pre-planning pays off in this regard. There are no bathrooms aboard the balloon.
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The balloon is made of nylon, which is strong and lightweight. There is a valve at the very top of the balloon which the pilot used to descend. The valve is also used to deflate the balloon after landing.
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Some interesting details about the F-15E Strike Eagle crashed in UAE (while en route to Afghanistan) May 3, 2012Posted by David Cenciotti in : Aviation Safety, Military Aviation , add a comment
On May 3, 2012, a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft crashed in the United Arab Emirates.
Fortunately, both the pilot and the WSO (Weapon Systems Officer) ejected safely and were later rescued with minor injuries.
Although the first news agencies reported that the combat plane crahsed during a “training mission”, according to our sources, the aircraft belonged to a “section” of Strike Eagles of the 366th FW from Mountain Home Air Force Base, in Idaho, flying as “Cube flight” to Bagram, the airfield that has recently hosted Obama’s Air Force One on a “surprise visit” to Afghanistan.
Indeed, even if the aircraft crashed in UAE, where six U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft are currently deployed, the 366th FW is not involved in any anti-Iran military build up in the Persian Gulf region: along with the other Strike Eagles, the doomed F-15E was on its way from CONUS to Afghanistan via Moron, Spain (where they landed on May 1) and Al Dhafra air base, UAE.
At Bagram, the 366th FW’s F-15Es will replace the 335FS ones from Seymour Johnson AFB.
About a year ago, an F-15E was also the only U.S. Air Force loss in Libya.
Image credit: U.S. Air Force
- Photo: nearly 70 F-15E Strike Eagles in largest Elephant Walk to date. (theaviationist.com)
- F-15E Strike Eagle that destroyed a flying Iraqi Mi-24 reaches 10,000 logged flying hours. Over Afghanistan. (theaviationist.com)
- It was not a useless “show of force”: this video shows that the nearly 70 F-15Es took off after Elephant Walk (theaviationist.com)
- Photo: U.S. F-22 Raptors landing at Moron airbase, Spain, on their way to the Persian Gulf. (theaviationist.com)
- Exclusive: What nobody else will tell you about the U.S. F-22 stealth fighters deployed near Iran (theaviationist.com)
Photo: Iranian maritime patrol aircraft buzzes the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz February 29, 2012Posted by David Cenciotti in : Aircraft Carriers, Iran , 4comments
“Tower this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby”
“Negative Ghost Rider, pattern is full”
Many of you remember this memorable quotes from Top Gun movie. Imagine the same request radioed by an Iranian maritime patrol aircraft to the Air Boss of USS Abraham Lincoln, as the American supercarrier sailed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Obviously, the Iranian Fokker 27 that you can see in the following screenshots (from a BBC Persian footage) did not request any permission to buzz the “Island” of the flattop and was closely monitored from many miles away. Nevertheless they are interesting as they show a close encounter that is quite common in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere.
Iranian Navy Fokker F27s have already performed low passes on other aircraft carriers in the past. Since they are turboprop reconnaissance planes they don’t pose a real threat to the Strike Group that doesn’t need to take any defensive action other than tracking the surveillance plane all time.
Aircraft carriers don’t even need to change their course if a spyplane pops up on the radar, provided that it is not armed and it doesn’t show an aggressive behaviour.
Something different happens if a more threatening formation approaches the supercarrier. For instance, when two Russian Tu-95s buzzed the USS Nimitz in the Pacific, the carrier launched some F-18s to intercept and escort the “intruders”.
Not only planes pay visit to the Carrier Strike Group in the Gulf: Iranian speedboats can be seen in the following screenshot, in close proximity of the Lincoln and accompanying ships.
- U.S. Fifth Fleet vs Iran Navy update: American supercarrier monitored with…binoculars. (theaviationist.com)
- “U.S. supercarrier detected by an Iranian spyplane near the Strait of Hormuz”. Trivial as that could be the last thing that plane will ever detect. (theaviationist.com)
Airspace violations – Episode 8 January 30, 2012Posted by David Cenciotti in : Airspace violations , 2comments
Previous episodes: Archive
The following episode took place about 24 years ago. However, it occurred in the Strait of Hormuz, saw the direct involvement of U.S. warships operating in the 5th Fleet Area Of Operations amid heightened tensions, and involved also an Iranian F-14 (one of those has recently crashed during a mysterious night scramble).
Hence it is also quite topical since it gives an idea of what the above mentioned contributing factors can produce.
U.S. – Iran war games…24 years ago
(Iran Air Flight 655 shot down by USS Vincennes)
On Jul. 3, 1988, an Airbus A-300 (registration EP-IBU) operating as Iran Air Flight 655 from Tehran Bandar Abbas to Dubai was shot down by two ground-to-air missiles fired by the USS Vincennes, a Ticonderoga-class warship that was cruising in the Persian Gulf waters to keep a closer eye on the bloody and consuming war that involved Iraqi and Iranian armed forces.
Both missiles struck the fuselage, breaking off part of the tail and one wing and causing the death of all 290 people on board.
During the Iran-Iraq war in the ’80s, the U.S. presence in the region was significant in order to protect oil tankers threatened by both countries. Just one year before this incident, in May 1987, the guided missile frigate USS Stark was attacked by an Iraqi Mirage F-1 jet and 37 American sailors perished during the clash. Further investigation led Captain Glenn Brindel to be blamed not to have defended its frigate against the attack.
Therefore, the U.S. Navy agreed that new and more strict rules of engagement (ROE) were needed in order to allow Captains to get a more powerful right to defend themselves and “fire before being fired upon”.
These premises constitute the roots which gave birth to the root causes of the tragedy.
On Jul. 3, 1988, three U.S. ships were patrolling the Persian Gulf: USS Vincennes, USS Montgomery and USS Sides. Suddenly, the second one reported enemy fire coming from small boats belonging of theIRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps).
Responding the request of support from the USS Montgomery, the Captain of USS Vincennes ordered to step in the battlescene and engaged some IRGC boats for half an hour.
In a few minutes, some missiles were also launched and shortly after an Iranian F-14 was shot down in a great ball of fire.
In the meantime, in the more peaceful but busy environment of the Bandar Abbas airport, the doomed Airbus A-300 was ready for a short flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
After take-off, flight 655 was instructed by the ATC to activate the transponder (on the Airbus, the transponder ‘squawks Mode III’ identified the aircraft as neutral and civilian) and was requested to reach an altitude from 7,000 to 12,000 feet.
At the same time the USS naval ships in the Strait of Hormuz got another warning signal on their radar devices and identified it as a possible and serious threat.
During the seven minutes between take-off of of flight 655 and the launch of missiles, the U.S. naval units made several attempts to get in contact with the Iran Air A300: USS Vincennes tried to use the military radio channel of frequency 243.00 MHz used for emergency purposes and four other attempts on the civil channel at 121.5 MHz.
So how this incident occurred if many attempts to communicate were made?
First of all ICAO final investigation report proved that the A-300 was not able to receive communication on the military emergency frequency 243MHz with onboard radio equipment.
Instead, dealing with the attempts made on the civilian radio frequency 121.5MHz, the board of inquiry ascertained that the Iran Air crew did not pay the due attention during the first phases of the flight or did not realize to be a possible target of naval units.
The crew was in continuous communication with ATC and was therefore unable to hear the warnings issued on the civil aviation distress radio frequency. ICAO also determined that of the four warnings issued on this distress frequency, only one was considered clear enough to be recognizable by the flight crew as directed to them.
Forty seconds past this last recognizable transmission, the USS Vincennes crew fired the missile.
More in details ICAO stated that:
- The aircraft weather radar was probably not operating during the flight nor would normal procedures have required its operation in the prevailing weather conditions.
- The radio altimeters were probably functioning throughout the flight;
- Apart from the capability to communicate on the emergency frequency 121.5MHz, United States warships were not equipped to monitor civil ATC frequencies for flight identification purposes.
- Four challenges addressed to an unidentified aircraft (IR655) were transmitted by United States ships on frequency 121.5MHz.
- There was no response to the four challenges made on 121.5MHz, either by radio or by a change of course. This indicated that the flight crew of IR655 either was not monitoring 121.5MHz in the early stages of flight, or did not identify their flight as being challenged.
- The aircraft was not equipped to receive communications on the military air distress frequency 243MHz. There was not coordination between United States warships and the civil ATS units responsible for the provision of air traffic services within the various flight information regions in the Gulf area.
Final statement summarised that: “The aircraft was perceived as a military aircraft with hostile intentions and was destroyed by two surface-to-air missiles.”
After stating that the environment on board the civilian plane contributed to the incident, the ICAO inquiry led to a more bewildering truth on the chaos and strain that reigned onboard the US naval units.
During the seven minutes between the take-off and the shot down of flight 655, excited communcation were made among the Captains of US naval units in the area, clearly stating the doubtfulness of identifying the approaching aircraft.
The US Department of Defense admitted that “…there was growing excitement and shouting in the Combat Information Centre of the USS Sides about a commercial flight.”
In the very first moments the radar operator of USS Vincennes identified the radar track as “unknown-assumed enemy” as the “Combat Information Center” of the same unit identified it as an enemy F-14 fighter jet.
Two minutes later the Captain of USS Sides, assumed the non-threating nature of the aircraft but a minute later USS Vincennes Captain ordered the shot down.
The US Navy never blamed its crew for the incident and excused it with the need of defending the crew itself and their ships from any possible threats. On the same day of the incident, US President Ronald Reagan stated that USS Vincennes followed all the requirements for the interception of foreign aircraft and that the Captain on duty ordered the launch of missiles only for defense purposes.
On Jul. 13, 1988, Vice-Secretary Williamson declared before the ICAO Counsel how high the level of danger was during the event. He noted that on Jul. 3 all the US naval units were engaged on a large operation of pursuit against Iranian vessels and it could have been considered a real war theatre.
On the extraordinary session of ICAO Counsel (Jul. 13-14, 1988), the ICAO President stated that: “…fundamental principle that States must refrain from resorting to the use of weapons against civil aircraft must be respected by each State”.
Representatives agreed to blame the U.S. act and some pushed for a rapid approval of Article 3bis of Chicago Convention – at that time not yet ratified. In particular, USSR and Nigeria blamed the US to lead a barbaric and brutal campaign against free and innocent people.
At the end of the technical investigation, on Mar. 17, 1989 the ICAO Counsel adopted the following Resolution:
Having considered the report of the fact-finding investigation instituted by the Secretary General…and the subsequent study by the Air Navigation Commission of the safety recommendations presented in that report;
Recalling that the 25th Session (Extraordinary) of the Assembly in 1984 unanimously recognized the duty of States to refrain from the use of weapons against civil aircraft in flight;
Reaffirming its policy to condemn the use of weapons against civil aircraft in flight without prejudice to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations;
Deeply deplores the tragic incident which occurred as a consequence of events and errors in identification of the aircraft which resulted in the accidental destruction of an Iran airliner and the loss of 290 lives;
Notes the report of the fact-finding investigation instituted by the Secretary General and endorses the conclusions of the Air Navigation Commission on the safety recommendations contained therein;
Urges States to take all necessary measures to safeguard the safety of air navigation, particularly by assuring effective co-ordination of civil and military activities and the proper identification of civil aircraft.”
“Deplores”, “Notes”, “Urges”: nothing really effective to avoid repeating the incident.
24 years later the tension between US and Iran is at its highest peak ever. Let’s hope we are not going to witness another similar episode in the Persian Gulf. For sure, we would not feel very comfortable flying across the Strait of Hormuz these days.
© David Cenciotti & Simone Bovi
Above image credit: Irandefense.net
U.S. aircraft carriers face Iranian stealth subs in the Persian Gulf. And remote controlled ones too… January 19, 2012Posted by David Cenciotti in : Aircraft Carriers, Iran , 13comments
Although the U.S. Navy has just rescued sailors of an Iranian boat in distress for the third time in 10 days, Tehran doesn’t seem to appreciate the aid that the American warships are giving to Iranian civilian mariners in the Persian Gulf.
In an interview with the Fars News Agency, Rear Adm. Farhad Amiri said that Iran’s ordinary submarines, covered with coatings that make them stealth, since “do not allow sound to travel through them and do not reflect waves sent by sonar systems”, could by the worst threat U.S. aircraft carriers will have to face next time they cross the Strait of Hormuz.
Since they American flattops can’t track them, Iranian submarines have acquired the ability to hide at the proper depth and “when the submarine lies on the sea bed, it can easily target an aircraft carrier that is passing nearby,” Amiri said.
Being one of the most powerful tools in the hands of the U.S., aircraft carriers are one of the most ambitious targets of any anti-American country. That’s why they are also some of the most heavily defended assets which does not travel alone (as done by the Chinese trainer Varyag) but alongside a Strike Group (once known as Battle Group) including ships, supporting vessels and a nuclear submarine, whose task is, among the others, to defend the flattops from underwater attacks.
So, although I’m unable to determine whether the threat posed by the Iranian subs is real or not (actually unable to say whether the subs are really stealth because they don’t even exist…), I would still bet on the Carrier Strike Group. Especially considering the usual claims made by the regime in the last years.
According to Mehr News agency, in a couple of month Iran plans to launch new 500-ton submarine Fateh (Conqueror) submarine, whereas Iranian researchers have built a new 3-kg smart remote-control sub, with a submerged speed of 19 kts, capable to carry out surveillance missions for…one meter (I hope there was a problem with the translation otherwise this would remind me of the surveillance drone that resembled a radio-controlled scale model more than a modern drone).
Once in a while a genuine video from Iran: Iranian Air Force F-5 nose-gear-up landing January 3, 2012Posted by David Cenciotti in : Iran, Military Aviation , 4comments
In the last few weeks, beginning with the saga of the captured US stealthy RQ-170 drone and ending with the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, with the alleged video of the U.S. aircraft carrier Stennis taken from an Iranian Fokker 27, I’ve often discussed about the authenticity of the footage released by the Iranian State TV or news agency, with the readers of this blog.
In the past, the Iranian propaganda machine has used doctored videos and fake images to spread its messages and this is the reason why many are doubtful each time new images showing Iran’s military achievement surface.
However, the one I’m posting below was just uploaded on Youtube (date is Jan. 1, 2012) and looks like it is authentic.
It shows an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) F-5E performing a nose-gear-up landing at Dezful airbase also known as Vahdati Air Base, in southwest Iran.
The aircraft comes to a stop thatnks to the dragchute and, later, we see the pilot unhurt near its plane.
Actually, we can’t be sure whether the nose gear failed to come down or it collapsed after landing: the fact that someone was filming it (from a dangerous position) suggests the emergency was known before the aircraft landed, still, ground personnel seems to be unprepared to the management of the emergency, with people and cars initially rushing towards the plane and then coming back.
Dealing with the news, on Jan. 2, the IRNA news agency has published another picture, this time depicting the coast-to-sea long-range missile, named the Qader (Capable), with a range of 200 km and capable to target destroyers and battleships.
Delivered to the Navy in September 2011, the Qader is believed to be the most powerful missile of the Iranian Navy.
A short-range Nasr (Victory) cruise missile with the capability to destroy large vessels, and a surface-to-surface Nour (Light) “ultra-advanced surface-to-surface missile” were fired by the Iranian naval forces in the last phase of the Exercise Velayat-90, as well as a surface-to-air medium-range smart missile, named the Mehrab (Altar), equipped with anti-radar and anti-jamming systems.
To be honest, mainstream media have all broadcast the same image, with different captions, so my guess is that the one in this picture is the Qader, even if it might be a Nour (as affirmed by the IRNA website…wasn’t the Nour a surface-to-surface missile?).
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The United Earth Space Probe Agency (abbreviated UESPA) was a part of the United Earth government which was responsible for space exploration.
UESPA evolved, in part, from the United Earth AeroNav Forces of the early 21st century.
In 2067, UESPA launched the Friendship One probe toward the Delta Quadrant, as part of a series of unmanned exploration.
UESPA personnel also aided in the construction of the Enterprise in 2150.
After the founding of the Federation, UESPA became one of the five sub-commands of the new Federation Starfleet. UESPA was responsible for the exploratory division of the new Starfleet; the USS Enterprise was part of this division.
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You asked for it and here it is: The widescreen version of the 2D panel! You will now be able to fly and view the DC-9 Classic on your cool widescreen display without any stretching or squeezing.
Being an old design, the MD-80 cockpit has what seems like knobs and switches everywhere. This can be a bit confusing and overwhelming for the pilots just starting to fly this bird. One of the most frequently asked questions we get on the support forum is "how do you start it up?". Well, this video tutorial seeks to answer that very question.
The DC-9 Classic comes with these 6 liveries in the release package:
The DC-9 Classic boxed edition is now available for purchase.
Coolsky brings this popular aircraft to your desktop with the release of Ultimate Airliners: The DC-9 Classic. This aircraft addon is a state of the art simulation of the Douglas DC-9 aircraft for Flight Simulator X. The DC-9 Classic simulates the DC-9-30 series aircraft and represents a new level of realism, simulation accuracy, graphics quality and included features.
This is an expanded checklist for the Super 80 Pro created by Stuart Ball. An expanded checklist gives you a more detailed description of what to do compared to the normal checklist, which is more of the abbreviated kind. This expanded checklist will guide you through all the Super 80 Pro checklists step-by-step and show you how to properly fly the aircraft.
The cowboy's checklist for the DC-9 Classic, created by Thomas Thurnheer, contains the minimal steps needed to operate the DC-9 Classic. This checklist has been designed for those who like to keep the workload low while starting out flying the DC-9 Classic or for flying online.
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Just out doing some practice laps at San Diego Silent Flyers on the FPV course. This is a Multi Rotor Mania Stretched 217mm 4″ race quad. 2206 2800kv Brother Hobby motors, Speedix 25amp speed controls, Flip 32 F4 flight controller on Betaflight 3.1.7. RaceKraft 4040×4 props, Spektrum 200mw video transmitter, Spektrum 650tvl camera, and Pagoda 2 antenna. Controlled by a DX9 Spektrum transmitter.
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This latest selection represents the sixth cycle of NASA’s continuing call for payloads through an announcement of opportunity. More than 100 technologies with test flights now have been facilitated through NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Flight Opportunities Program.
Tag: Flight Opportunities Program
LAS CRUCES, NM (NMSA PR) — The New Mexico Spaceport Authority is excited to host a NASA Flight Opportunities Program launch conducted by UP Aerospace, Inc., at the Spaceport America Vertical Launch Complex on Friday, June 21. This will be the first sub-orbital NASA Flight Opportunities Program launch, and the 19th overall launch from Spaceport America.
The sub-orbital sounding rocket launch is part of the NASA Flight Opportunities Program, which is designed to provide suborbital payload launch opportunities for NASA and other government agencies, as well as for educational institutions and the private sector.
- Addressing the group via video, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said NASA is not excluding the possibility that the Flight Opportunities program would fund human researchers on suborbital fights. Previously, NASA had said it would purchase flights for payloads but not for researchers to fly.
- Garver provided no details on precisely what safety standards the space agency would require prior to paying for researchers to fly.
- NASA has spent $29.5 million on the Flight Opportunities program over the past three years, and it has requested an additional $15 million for FY2014. In 2010, Garver addressed the first NSRC and said NASA would seek $15 million per year over 5 years, but the agency has not received all the funding it requested.
- The deputy administrator also announced plans for a joint solicitation for science and tech payloads to be issued by NASA’s Science and Space Tech directorates. The solicitation is expected to be pushed in late summer or early fall.
- XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson said that while satellites have been removed from the U.S. Munitions List in draft regulations, crew spacecraft have been added to it. Calling the decision a major step backward, Nelson urged urged audience members to oppose this move during the on-going public comments period.
- Virgin Galactic Vice President for Special Projects Will Pomerantz said the company has taken reservations for nearly 600 people worldwide for flights aboard the company’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicles.
- Pomerantz added that NanoRacks has delivered the first payload racks for flying experiments aboard the space plane.
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) – For a second year, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate is seeking proposals for suborbital technology payloads and spacecraft capability enhancements that could help revolutionize future space missions.
Selected technologies will travel to the edge of space and back on U.S. commercial suborbital vehicles and platforms, providing opportunities for testing before they are sent to work in the unforgiving environment of space.
PITTSBURGH, PA – APR 4, 2013 (Astrobotic PR) – Last week Astrobotic successfully flew a sensor package designed to guide spacecraft safely to the surface of asteroids, moons, planets, and beyond. The flight occurred on an unmanned helicopter operated by a pilot on the ground.
The flights are preparation for demonstration of this capability on a propulsive lander similar to Astrobotic’s Griffin. Astrobotic was selected by NASA for flight opportunities on a propulsive lander which culminate in a fully autonomous landing demonstration with hazard detection, trajectory planning, and closed-loop control.
MOJAVE, Calif. (NASA PR) – A rocket-powered, vertical-landing space-access technology demonstrator reached its highest altitude and furthest distance to date March 25 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif., using a developmental navigation system designed to land a space vehicle on other celestial bodies.
John W. Kelly, program manager for NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, began a one-year executive internship at the Mojave Air and Space Port last week.
Kelly will be focusing on access to space initiatives as well as the research potential of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Kelly also will help to build a closer working relationship between the spaceport and the nearby NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, where he is employed.
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) solicited proposals from state and local governments, eligible university and other public entities to develop six UAS research and test sites around the country.
Mojave spaceport officials are considering submitting a proposal for designation as an UAS research and test site. So, Kelly’s expertise would be valuable if the spaceport goes forward with a proposal.
Designation as one of the six UAS sites would bring new companies and many new jobs to the spaceport, which is located in California’s High Desert.
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Contracting Office Address
NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center, Code A, P.O. Box 273, Edwards, CA 93523-0273
NASA/DFRC is hereby soliciting information and feedback from both current and potential flight service providers, as well as the technology payload providers and potential sources for Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles And Payload Integration Services For Maturing Crosscutting Technologies That Advance Multiple Future Space Missions To Flight Readiness Status.
Tillamook, OR, January 24, 2013 (NSC PR): Near Space Corporation (NSC) launched its first balloon flight with the NASA Flight Opportunities Program on Sunday January 20th. NSC has completed more than 160 balloon flights since it began operating from Tillamook, Oregon in 1996. This was the first balloon launch with the NASA Flight Opportunities Program.
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program has selected two new technologies to fly on commercial reusable suborbital vehicles. The flights will test the payloads’ functionality before full deployment on future missions. One technology will be tested on a suborbital reusable launch vehicle and the other will be tested on a high altitude balloon.
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Aerial photography can make fascinating combined use of backgrounds in art and aviation.
Aerial photography one of the oldest types of photography. The first aerial photographs were taken from the basket of a hot air balloon in 1858. Capturing different angles and perspectives is a central concern of the art of photography. Whether from the cockpit of a helicopter or from the window of a spaceship, aerial photography offers the unique opportunity to see the world from an elevated perspective.
Used in reconnaissance by the military, from space to view the earth, in creating topographic maps and filming natural disasters, aerial photography is a functional art form that provides both important information and aesthetic gratification. In its brief history, aerial photography has been achieved in a number of ways, from securing cameras on the decks of satellites to adhering them to the wings of kites. Today, professional photographers utilize the latest in digital camera technology to capture images from perspectives that few people have experienced.
According to the Professional Aerial Photographers Association (PAPA), the first known aerial photographer was Gaspard Felix Tournachon, a French hot air balloon enthusiast who decided, in 1858, to take his photographic skills to the air. The first aerial photo was of a French town that Tournachon managed to capture on film from the basket of his anchored balloon. Hovering 80 feet above the town, Tournachon managed to make photographic history as well as make use of his three year old patent on aerial photography.
As photography and photographic equipment progressed, so did experiments in aerial photography. In the 1880s European photographers experimented with cameras attached to kites. George Lawrence, an American photographer, was able to capture the full devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake using kites and a large panoramic camera. Along with kites, early aerial photographs were captured using homing pigeons and, before airplanes became popular, even small rockets. Wilber Wright flew the first airplane to carry an aerial photographer.
During World War I, aerial photography replaced military sketching. Sketch artists were replaced by photographers who took photos to help with military campaigns. According to the Professional Aerial Photographers Association, the use of photography toward the war effort led to lasting inventions improving shutter speed and stability. In the years that followed the war, aerial photography was on a path toward commercialization with the popularizing of topographic photos used to make maps. Sherman Fairchild took the first topographic photos of New York City in 1921. Ever since, the business of aerial photography has proved lucrative.
Today, aerial photography has expanded its range with a number of techniques and specialized equipment. The style of photography as well as the specialization of equipment ultimately depends on the nature of the job as well as the budget of the photographer.
Types of aerial photography and related equipment include:
The most sophisticated type of aerial photography is satellite imaging received from space. Common uses for satellite imaging include photographing private property, conducting land surveys, military photography, community planning, engineering surveys and cartography. Many aerial photographers are pilots who also have photography credentials.
Any individual hoping to be a serious aerial photographer should earn a formal degree in photography. Many colleges offer programs and degrees in digital photography. The Brooks Institute of Photography offers a range of classes that allow students to study both traditional and digital photography. The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University focuses its curriculum on commercially viable photography techniques.
Pilot and plane rental costs can take up much of an aerial photographer's budget. Acquiring a pilot's license can cut costs and assist in gaining employment. Aviation schools around the country offer pilot training, as do a many universities. Oregon State Flying Club, for example, provides comprehensive training that meets Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards. The FAA website lists information on requirements for a license.
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Actual IMC flight lesson in a Cessna 172R
Watch in HD!
Well, it’s official – I have started IFR training – I am saying it out loud!
So I guess that means I need to finish and get the rating!
I quietly started mid 2013, after over 15 years of happily (blissfully) being a VFR only guy flying on nice weekends for fun, while talking myself out of the need for IFR.
And it is true – I don’t “need” it… But there is no doubt about the huge safety margin it adds to get IFR training.
Math is a huge weakness for me, I fly for un, never plan to go commercial, and I never imagined I’d go as far as IFR training…
My hope is to maintain the rating, and continue to slowly practice and build experience slowly.
But rest assured, I won’t be going solo and shooting approaches to minimums any time soon.
For now, enjoy the view from my first flight into IMC – this lesson was doing holds and approaches at about the about half way point into my IFR training.
Happy new year everyone!
have a safe 2014, and keep the shiny side up.
DISCLAIMER: I am a “weekend warrior” private pilot, I fly for fun with no intentions of going commercial.I have had my PPL for over 15 years, but still consider each flight a learning experience – I generally take detailed notes after each flight to remind myself what went well or what I could do to improve…. Having the GoPro cameras to record flights like this is invaluable. I find these self analysis videos very helpful in my constant quest to improve, and am happy to share.Feed back is invited; however, please keep it positive
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The Cessna Citation X and the Cessna Citation 10 are currently the fastest corporate aircraft in production. With travel speeds of up to 600 mph, you will reach your destination quickly! Charter a Citation X for a trip cross country from Los Angeles to New York and you will see the difference being non stop and comfortable. Cessna Citation 10 Jets have a 5 foot 6 inch cabin interior which means you don’t only see the luxury interior, but it feels spacious with the ability to stand up during flight. Most Citation X aircraft are equipped with Wifi internet. If you are interested in getting a one way flight or a round trip flight on a Citation 10, just give us a call for a charter rate quote.
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Estes Flying Model Rocket Kit Nova 2497
If you have 5 minutes, you have time to get the Nova ready for the launch pad. Standing just over 20 inches tall, you can reach altitudes of 700 feet. Add the BT-55 Booster Accessory (2257) and a D12-0 booster engine and watch this rocket soar way past 1,400 feet!
Features screw on motor retainer.
ARF - Almost Ready to Fly
Length: 20.6 in (52.3 cm)
Diameter: 1.33 in (34 mm)
Estimated Weight: 2.5 oz (70.9 g)
Projected Max Altitude: 700 ft (213 m). With booster: 1500 ft (457 m)
Recommended Engines: B6-2, B6-4 (First Flight), C6-3, C6-5
Recommended Engines with D12-0 booster: B6-4 (First Flight), C6-5 (requires booster accessory 2257)
Model Rocket Kits are rated by Skill Level
RTF Ready to Fly
ARF Almost Ready to Fly
E2X Easy to Assemble
If you are just starting in the hobby start at the beginner level and move up from there at your own pace.
What is needed to build and fly
All model rockets come in kit form that require assembly. The materials are primarily cardboard tubes, balsa or plastic fins and nose cone. Materials will vary by model and are typically specified in the description of each kit.
Additional supplies will be necessary to build and finish your model rocket kit and may include:
Scissors, Hobby Knife
Wood Glue, Model Cement or CA(Super Glue)
Finishing Supplies like:
Launching Equipment and Supplies like:
Model Rocket Motors and Igniters
A safe place to fly using guidelines from the National Association of Rocketry Safety Code
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A Japanese agency mentioned Monday it had efficiently launched a spacecraft tasked with inspecting doubtlessly harmful man-made junk floating across the Earth.
The European House Company (ESA) estimates that round a million items of particles from satellites and rockets bigger than a centimeter—large enough to “disable a spacecraft”—are in orbit.
The Lively Particles Elimination by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) is supposed to rendezvous with and look at the stays of a Japanese H2A rocket floating in house for the final 15 years, Astroscale Japan mentioned.
The probe was launched from New Zealand at 1452 GMT on Sunday, and Astroscale “has efficiently made contact… and is able to begin operations”, mission supervisor Eijiro Atarashi mentioned in an announcement.
The exact location and orbital place of the H2A higher stage rocket physique, launched by Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) house company in 2009 and across the dimension of a bus, just isn’t recognized.
However utilizing remark knowledge from Earth, the estimated location shall be decided and ADRAS-J will strategy “from a secure distance” after which collect pictures to evaluate the construction’s actions and situation.
The ADRAS-J spacecraft—which Astroscale says is the primary of its form—was chosen by JAXA for the primary part of a program geared toward eradicating massive particles of Japanese origin in cooperation with personal corporations.
Junk like used satellites, elements of rockets and wreckage from collisions has been piling up because the house age started, with the issue accelerating in current a long time.
Potential options embody utilizing a laser beam to push objects into a brand new orbit and Astroscale’s personal house “tow-truck”, which makes use of a magnet to gather and transfer out-of-service satellites.
The launch of the ADRAS-J mission got here after Japan efficiently blasted off its new flagship H3 rocket on Saturday after years of delays and two earlier failed makes an attempt.
It additionally adopted the nation’s profitable touchdown final month of an unmanned probe on the Moon—albeit at a wonky angle—making it simply the fifth nation to realize a “comfortable” lunar touchdown.
© 2024 AFP
Japanese house particles inspection probe launched (2024, February 19)
retrieved 19 February 2024
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http://www.themotorpool.net/USMC-Harrier-AV-8B-Plus-Fighter-Bomber-VMAT-203-p/b11b248.htm
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Armour Collection B11B248 USMC Harrier AV-8B Plus Jump Jet - Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 (VMAT-203) [Low-Vis Scheme] (1:48 Scale)
"Obsolete weapons do not deter."
- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
The AV-8B Harrier II is a second generation vertical short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft based on the original British Harrier design of the late 1960's. Combining tactical mobility, responsiveness, reduced operating cost, and basing flexibility -- both afloat and ashore -- V/STOL aircraft are well-suited to the special combat and expeditionary requirements of the US Marine Corps.
The primary mission of the AV-8B Harrier II is to provide close air support to ground forces. Secondary missions include short range interdiction, fighter escort, deck launched interception, and combat air patrol (CAP).
After completing operational evaluation trials in March 1985, the USMC AV-8B Harrier II was formally approved for full production some six months later. A two-seat training version was introduced in 1987 and a night attack version entered service in late 1989.
Pictured here is a spectacular 1:48 scale diecast replica of a Harrier AV-8B Plus flown by the US Marine Corps' VMA 203 squadron. Sold Out!
Historical Account: Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 (VMAT-203) is a squadron in the United States Marine Corps that trains naval aviators to fly the AV-8B Harrier. Also known as the Hawks, the squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 14 and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 and its predecessors dates back to 1947. VMT-1 began the evolution in 1947 as an independent squadron and shortly thereafter became part of Marine Training Group 20. Subsequent evolutions were as a unit of Force Aviation Headquarters Group until 1958, at which time VMT-1 again became a separate squadron of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Equipped with the TF-9J "Cougar", and the T-33 Shooting Star, and conducted training in swept wing refresher/ transition, instrument procedures, and instrument ground school.
On July 2nd, 1967, VMT-1 received its first A-4 Skyhawk and began its transition to the new aircraft. The last F-9 was transferred in December of that year. In May of 1972, the squadron was re-designated VMAT-203. With a new mix of aircraft, the A-4M, and TA-4J, the squadron was tasked to train replacement aircrews to Fleet Marine Force duty.
The arrival of V/STOL aviation instituted another era for VMAT-203. The squadron's A-4 SkyHawks were retired and VMAT-203 became the AV-8A/C training squadron as part of Marine Aircraft Group 32. In December 1983, the first AV-8B Harrier II was delivered, and until March 1985, VMAT-203 was assigned the dual missions of training both AV-8A/C pilot and AV-8B replacement aircrews. Having trained its last AV-8A/C pilot in March 1985, VMAT-203's exclusive mission then became the training of AV-8B aircrews and maintenance personnel.
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Synopses & Reviews
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The ASA Commercial Pilot Test Prep includes the Computer Testing Supplement CT-8080-1Cand#151;with the same FAA legends, figures, and full-color charts youand#8217;ll be issued at the testing centerand#151;to help you become familiar with all available information before you take your official test. You can count on ASA to keep up with changes in the FAA Knowledge Exams with free updates available both online and through an email Update subscription service. ASAand#8217;s Commercial Pilot Test Prep is the pilotand#8217;s best resource for successful test-taking.
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ASA Test Prep Board includes editors Jackie Spanitz, Charles L. Robertson, Cliff Seretan, and Paul Hamilton. Jackie Spanitz is the director of curriculum development at Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc., and the author of several books, including Guide to the Flight Review. Charles L. Robertson is an associate professor of aerospace at the University of North Dakota. Cliff Seretan holds a Commercial Certificate with an Instrument Rating for Single- and Multi-Engine Land Airplanes and CFI for Airplane Land and Instrument. Paul Hamilton is a sport pilot and light-sport aircraft expert, a flight instructor, and the owner of Adventure Productions Co.
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Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Four USN F-18 aircraft lead by two F-15 aircraft took the opportunity to use LFA7 for some low flying training. The aircraft from USS Harry S Trueman were hosted by RAF Lakenheath for a short time before re-embarking to their ship. Light was very poor, compounded by a camera error on my part led to some high ISOs being used. Still is was an awesome sight/sound coupled with a callsign "Viper" and I did get some images, so here they are:
Final Flight of the 849 Sea Kings ASAC MK7 from RNAS Culdrose. Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control the only place to witness these aircraft was Burrator Reservoir near Plymouth. The aircraft flew over here on their way to retirement/disposal at HMS Sultan. Not been before I got there slightly later than anticipated and didnt have time to carry the big glass up the hill. So I made my way up with more portable glass, the images I managed to get are below. It was a long time since I had seen three Sea King ASAC Mk7s in the air so BZ the engineeers for making in happen.
A spitfire from the BBMF stopped over at RNAS Culdrose for a flypast over Mullion in tribute to the late Geoffrey Wellow, former WW2 spitfire pilot. Here are some of the images of the aircraft at RNAS Culdrose
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A BRITISH spaceman is training to save the world from a giant asteroid — just
like Bruce Willis in the blockbuster Armageddon.
Major Tim Peake is part of a NASA team due to fly to investigate one of the
cosmic rocks by the mid-2020s.
And if an asteroid is found to be on collision course for Earth, it is him and
his three Extreme Environment Missions Operations comrades who could be
flown to deflect it.
Major Peake — a 40-year-old former Army Air Corps officer — said: “Earth has
close calls all the time. In February one 45 metres wide got so close it was
nearer than the satellites which provide our TV signal. And last November
one 360 metres in diameter came between us and the Moon.
“The work we are doing is without a doubt going to help prevent a catastrophic
collision with one of them.”
The team spent 12 days simulating weightless conditions in a deep sea research
station off Florida.
Their prime aim is to travel to an asteroid in a shuttle, then spend up to 30
days skimming it on a smaller craft so they can grab samples from it and
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CEO & Co-Founder
PTTOW! Los Angeles Member Dinner + CEO & President of Virgin Galactic, George Whitesides
November 15, 2012
PTTOW! recently had it’s first member dinner in Los Angeles, at the gorgeous venue in West Hollywood called Duplex on third. The dinner was great; but it was all our PTTOW! Members and attendees who made this night truly special.
In addition to the night, we were lucky enough to have George Whitesides from Virgin Galactic, a firm developing commercial space vehicles, share his awesome story about everything they’re doing with regards to the future of space travel. George, CEO and President of Virgin Galactic, was previously Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a position to which he was named after serving on the NASA transition team for the incoming Obama administration.
read more connect with this member
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SU1242 is a domestic flight operated by Aeroflot. SU1242 is departing from Moscow (SVO), Russia and arriving at Orenburg (REN), Russia.
The flight distance is about 1269.59 km or 788.89 miles and flight time is
0 minutes. Get the latest status of SU1242 / AFL1242 here.
Update on May 19, 2022, 5:40 a.m.
Distance: 1269.59 km / 788.89 miles or 685.52 nautical miles.
Departure Sheremetyevo Airport
Arrival Orenburg Airport
|Scheduled Departure: 5:45 p.m.
||Scheduled Arrival: 10:20 p.m.
|Departure Terminal : Gate
||Arrival Terminal : B Gate
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"At about 2200hours yesterday 13 November 2014, a ground attack helicopter on an armed patrol crashed around the Federal University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State. The crew of 3 was lost in the ill-fated accident. Rescue party worked throughout the night to preserve the wreckage of the aircraft and scene of the accident for proper investigation to be carried out. Further details would be made known later."
Friday, 14 November 2014
Military confirms 3 dead in yesterday's helicopter crash in Yola
Posted by Ekpedeme Albert
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New microwave weapon can down drone swarmsMarie Donlon | February 03, 2023
A $66.1 million contract from the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) to develop a new microwave weapon has been awarded to the tech company Epirus.
Designed to support RCCTO’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High-Power Microwave Program, the Leonidas microwave weapon can reportedly down enemy drones while leaving friendly aircraft unharmed, according to the company.
To demonstrate their effectiveness against autonomous drone swarms, the team tested the Leonidas technology, showcasing its lethality against a host of unmanned aerial services and assorted electronic systems. Further, the weapon defeated drone swarms and outperformed a handful of similar weapons systems.
For more information on the Leonidas, watch the accompanying video that appears courtesy of Epirus.
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Published on Jul 20, 2019
Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon. With the announcement of the long awaited Artemis mission, NASA plans to send the first man and woman to the Moon's south pole by 2024.
Read More: What is Artemis? https://www.nasa.gov/feature/what-is-... "As a result of Artemis, NASA will be able to establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon by 2028 to uncover new scientific discoveries, demonstrate new technological advancements, and lay the foundation for private companies to build a lunar economy."
One Giant Leap Celebration | Apollo 11 Moon Landing 50 Years Later https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/la... "Exactly 50 years ago on July 20, the world heard these famous words as Neil Armstrong lowered onto the surface of the Moon: 'That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.'”
NASA estimates it will need $20 billion to $30 billion for moon landing, administrator says https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/tech/n... "The space agency will need an estimated $20 billion to $30 billion over the next five years for its moon project, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNN Business on Thursday. That would mean adding another $4 billion to $6 billion per year, on average, to the agency's budget, which is already expected to be about $20 billion annually."
Countdown to Launch takes a deep dive into upcoming space missions from around the world, interviewing the people involved and exploring all the science, innovation and technology involved.
Seeker explains every aspect of our world through a lens of science, inspiring a new generation of curious minds who want to know how today’s discoveries in science, math, engineering and technology are impacting our lives, and shaping our future. Our stories parse meaning from the noise in a world of rapidly changing information.
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SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink satellites from California base
Early on Saturday morning, a SpaceX rocket lifted 52 Starlink broadband satellites from California into orbit.
From Vandenberg Space Force Base on the California coast, the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket arced over the Pacific at 4:41am (6:11pm GMT).
On a SpaceX droneship in the ocean, the Falcon’s first stage returned and landed. It was the stage’s eleventh launch and recovery.
Launch commentator Youmei Zhou at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, reported that the second stage continued into orbit and the satellites were successfully deployed.
A satellite-based worldwide internet system called Starlink is being built by SpaceX, which has been working on it for years.
A constellation of over 2,000 satellites in low Earth orbit was launched on Saturday, the 34th mission for Starlink.
At 10:58 p.m. EST Saturday, was also planned to launch a Turkish communications satellite from Cape Canaveral (9:28am IST, Sunday).
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Thermal Design Verification Testing of the Solar Array Cooling System for Parker Solar Probe
Parker Solar Probe (PSP) will explore the inner region of the heliosphere through in-situ and remote sensing observations of the magnetic field, plasma, and accelerated particles. PSP will travel closer to the Sun [9.86 solar radii (RS)] than any previous spacecraft to obtain repeated coronal magnetic field and plasma measurements in the region of the Sun that generates the solar wind. The baseline mission will entail 7 years from launch in 2018 until the completion of the 24th orbit and, if delays necessitate, a backup 8-year 26-orbit mission will be flown with launch in 2019. During its lifetime, the spacecraft will be exposed to wide ranging thermal environments from the cold of Venus eclipse to exposures to the sun’s corona that produces a perihelion solar constant in excess of 480 suns. Spacecraft power is generated using photovoltaic solar arrays that are actively cooled by the SACS (Solar Array Cooling System), manufactured by Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks CT. This paper will describe the equivalent “Test Like You Fly” environments that were simulated and the results achieved during the SACS qualification and thermal design verification vacuum testing that took place at GSFC between March 1 and March 16, 2017.
Elisabeth Abel, JHUAPL
G. Allan Holtzman, JHUAPL
Eric Wallis, JHUAPL
ICES203: Thermal Testing
The 48th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA on 08 July 2018 through 12 July 2018.
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HELICOPTER ,INITIATION FLIGHTS & ULM ULTRALIGHTS FLYING.
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Come fly with us and the Real Aeroclub de Reus Costa Dorada.
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Feel the experience of flying in ultralight pilots experienced hand in a Private Club aircraft in exclusive collaboration with Karartravel. (1/2 hour from Barcelona)
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Ultra-rides with cab in modern equipment for different landscapes and places: Mediterranean coast, beaches and mountains. You can make wonderful photographs from the air and admire the most beautiful landscapes from Catalonia.
Flights of 15, 30, 60 minutes and trips to various airfields throughout Catalonia and Valencia area.
Possibility of pilot courses with titles approved microlight aircraft in Europe.
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‘Winston Churchill described Soviet Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” – the same could be said of Aeroflot, the Soviet Union’s only airline, which to some degree served as a microcosm of the country itself.’
So writes Bruno Vandermueren in the introduction to his fascinating book Aeroflot – Fly Soviet (Fuel publishing), which unwraps the mystery surrounding Aeroflot by presenting a stunning ‘visual history’ of it.
There’s a lot of material to work with. By the late 1930s, explains Vandermueren, Aeroflot had the largest fleet of aircraft in the world (most of them small Polikarpov biplanes). World War II slowed its growth, but from the mid-1950s onwards the carrier resumed ballooning in size.
In 1958, reveals Vandermueren, the volume of passengers it carried surpassed that of American Airlines. By the mid-1960s one in five air travellers was on an Aeroflot flight and the fleet contained over 7,000 aircraft and helicopters. In 1976, it became the first airline to carry more than 100million passengers a year.
Vandermueren writes: ‘In 1990, the last complete year before the dissolution of the USSR, Aeroflot carried 137,198,200 passengers, about an eighth of the world’s total, though because of restrictions on freedom of movement 96.77 per cent of these flew on domestic flights.’ Aeroflot was, as the publisher says, ‘a parallel aviation universe, one that existed for 70 years, from the very beginning of the USSR through to its demise in 1991′. It was a carrier that was the sole operator of some aircraft types and what the world saw of Aeroflot outside the Soviet Union, Vandermueren says, ‘was just the tip of the iceberg’.
In his book Vandermueren takes readers into the parallel universe, examining ‘Concordski’, the USSR’s (faster) version of Concorde; the jetliner that touched down at Heathrow in 1956, causing as much stir ‘as if a UFO had landed’, and beautiful graphic ephemera, including vintage Aeroflot adverts and magazine covers. Read on for a peek at aviation’s riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…
In the late 1930s, most of the Aeroflot fleet consisted of small biplanes like this Polikarpov R-5, reveals Vandermueren. He writes: ‘The route from Stalinabad (now Dushanbe), the capital of the Tajik SSR [Soviet Socialist Republic], over the Pamir mountains to Khorog (pictured here in 1937) is still considered one of the world’s most dangerous air routes’
This promotional brochure from 1950 is urging passengers to ‘save time, use air transport’, explaining that it takes 36 hours to travel the 820km (509 miles) from Riga to Moscow by train, but only three and a half hours by plane
LEFT: This image appeared in Soviet Union Illustrated Monthly in December 1956. The caption read: ‘High above the Pamirs at an altitude of 16,500 feet, passengers have oxygen at their disposal. Pictured is Davlyat Khudododoyeva, member of the Khorog Dance Ensemble, on her way to a concert in Stalinabad.’ RIGHT: This is an Aeroflot advertisement in weekly magazine Ogonek, depicting an Ilyushin 12, the first post-WWII Soviet airliner. The advert is telling the readers: ‘Save Time! Use air transport’
Passengers in the cabin of a Tupolev Tu-104. The 50-seater turbojet-powered airliner made its inaugural flight on June 17, 1955, and in the following year, when this picture was taken, it began flying the route between Moscow, Omsk and Irkutsk three times a week. And it landed in Britain. Vandermueren writes: ‘On March 22, 1956, the Soviets surprised the aviation world when their first passenger jetliner landed at London Heathrow on its maiden international flight. On board were Soviet diplomats and the head of the KGB, arriving in the UK to prepare for the impending state visit of Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolay Bulganin (Premier of the Soviet Union under Khrushchev). The arrival of the Tu-104 was a sensation, as if a UFO had landed on British soil. The British aviation community and the public responded with high praise and experts were astonished by the giant leap forward Soviet civil aviation had made’
The serving hatch of the Tu-104 kitchen. Vandermueren writes: ‘With the introduction of the Tu-104, the Soviets had gone almost overnight from a fleet of small, slow, uncomfortable piston-driven planes to operating jet airliners capable of reducing travel times by at least 50 per cent. However, the Tu-104 was not the easiest plane to pilot: it was vulnerable to stalling and had a high landing speed. In the early 1960s, a popular rhyme to the tune of a funeral march ran: “The Tu-104 is the fastest plane: it will get you to your grave in just two minutes.” At the time, accidents were common for all types of aircraft, and the Tu-104 was no exception. Following a fatal accident in Moscow on March 17, 1979, the Soviet Ministry of Civil Aviation ordered the phasing out of the jet, and before the year’s end Aeroflot had retired its last Tu-104. After more than 23 years of service, carrying 100million passengers, the era of the first Soviet jet airliner was over’
Press photographers capture the first arrival of a Tu-104A at Amsterdam on July 7, 1958
An Aeroflot ticket office at 33 Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris, in the 1970s. Vandermueren writes: ‘Outside the USSR, Soviet airliners were often regarded as unsafe and uneconomical – as inferior imitations of their Western counterparts. In fact, however, the Soviets successfully developed many airliners and helicopters in accordance with stringent regulations to meet the specific requirements of Aeroflot operations. These aircraft proved to be reliable machines, in many ways comparable with their counterparts in the West, if fundamentally different in design approach. From the mid-1950s on, the safety record of Soviet airliners gradually improved and became akin to that of the West, contradicting a persistent reputation for poor safety’
This 1986 picture shows an An-28 of Aeroflot’s Tajikistan Directorate. This aircraft entered service in 1984 and, Vandermueren reveals, ‘saw limited use, being employed mostly in Siberia and in the hot and high-altitude conditions of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic’
Passengers board a Tu-154B-1 at Novosibirsk in 1983. Vandermueren writes: ‘This 164-seat jetliner was the first to be devised by the Tupolev Bureau specifically as a passenger aircraft, with no lingering connection to the design of strategic military bombers.’ The aircraft’s maiden flight was on October 3, 1968. Passenger operations began in 1972. Vandermueren reveals that it became a ‘workhorse’ of the fleet and was exported to 20 countries. However, it was ‘also involved in the darkest day of Soviet aviation history’. The author writes: ‘ On Wednesday July 10, 1985, flight SU7425, a Tu-154B-2 from the airline’s Uzbek Directorate, departed Karshi airport en route to Leningrad via Ufa. While cruising at 38,000 feet at too low an airspeed, it stalled, went into a flat spin, fell from the sky and crashed in the Uzbek desert, killing all nine crew members and 191 passengers. Investigators concluded that crew fatigue had been a major factor in the accident’
The prototype Tu-144 at Moscow Sheremetyevo in 1969. Vandermueren explains that the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union’s (slighty faster – Mach 2.35 vs Mach 2.2) answer to Concorde – and ‘was derisively nicknamed “Concordski” in the West’ (with the West accusing the Soviets of stealing technical data for Concorde to build it). It made its maiden flight in 1968, a full two months before Concorde took to the skies for the first time. The Tu-144 broke the sound barrier on June 5, 1969, and a year later became the world’s first passenger airliner to exceed a speed of Mach 2.0. A heavily tweaked version began commercial operations on November 1, 1977, flying from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and arriving in Alma-Ata two hours later. This journey takes just over four hours today. However, after the fatal crash of a new version of the Tu-144 during a test flight in 1978, supersonic passenger travel in the Soviet Union was halted, having been running for just seven months. The commercial need for it had evaporated, explains Vandermueren, who adds: ‘The two Tu-144 aircraft assigned to Aeroflot made only 102 flights for the airline, 55 of which had carried a total of 3,284 passengers.’ The plane continued to be used for urgent freight services and in the 1990s Nasa used it for research into the next generation of supersonic aircraft. Today, explains Vandermueren, only seven Tu-144s exist. One stands next to an Air France Concorde in the Technik Museum Sinsheim in Germany
LEFT: This is the cover of Aeroflot 82 magazine, which proclaims ‘Welcome to The Soviet Union!’ The picture shows the famous Aeroflot Globe rotating above the Arbat Restaurant in Kalinin Prospekt, Moscow. RIGHT: Flight attendant Tatyana Zinchenko on the cover of Aeroflot’s inflight magazine Soviet Airlines, No.3, 1977. In the background is a narrow-body Ilyushin Il-62M jetliner in the standard livery introduced after 1973
The flight deck of a Tu-134, pictured in the early 1970s. The prototype of the Tu-134 made its inaugural flight on July 29, 1963. Vandermueren explains that between 1966 and 1984, a total of 852 Tu-134s were produced at factory 135 in Kharkov. The author continues: ‘Nicknamed “Whistler” because of its high-pitched engine sound, the plane proved both popular and reliable. Accidents did occur, but it wasn’t always technical issues with the aircraft that were to blame’
Aeroflot – Fly Soviet by Bruno Vandermueren is out now (£24.95, Fuel)
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Yuba air crash draws fed eyes
A federal probe will begin today into the crash of an ultralight aircraft in eastern Yuba County.
According to a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration's Manhattan Beach office, the agency will send an investigator to Dobbins, where the airplane went down on Saturday afternoon.
The pilot, Blake Lancaster of Camptonville, was practicing touch-and-go landings on a private airstrip when the accident happened. It was the third local plane crash since early October.
No information was available Sunday on the condition of Lancaster, who witnesses said was flown by helicopter to Sutter Roseville Medical Center. A nursing supervisor had no record of his status.
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Flying around in my Powered parachute today and witnessed a hot air balloon hard landing. No one was hurt and all turned out well the wind was blowing from the North at about 10 mph, I guess this might be a regular thing for hot air balloons in windy conditions.
This hot air balloon ride guided meditation for sleep gives you a great escape from everyday life. Once in the basket it is your imagination that decides where to go tonight. As you travel towards your final destination you dislodge worries, anxiety and intrusive thoughts and drop them over the side. Feeling lighter and lighter,
Learn about landing hot air balloons in this free ballooning video Expert: Jeff Thompson Contact: www.ThompsonAire.com Bio: Jeff Thompson is owner of Thompson Aire Hot Air Balloon Rides in Orlando Florida, and started flying hot air balloons at the age of 16. Filmmaker: Madison Paige
A hot air balloon made an emergency landing in the Sears Auto Center parking lot in downtown Santa Rosa, Thursday, June 29. Video by Lila Wetherwax. The Press Democrat is a newspaper in Santa Rosa California covering Wine Country, Sonoma County and the North Bay.
The Kentucky Derby Festival hot air balloon glow and early morning balloon race lift off the weekend of April 29, 2011. Shot with my Canon HG-21 in HD and edited in Sony Vegas Pro 9. Enjoy!
27th November 2018 Hot Air Balloon Stories A members’ ballooning club in the East Midlands has recently turned 40 years old. When Nottinghamshire businessman John Webster started the Nottingham and Sheffield Hot Air Balloon Club in 1978, hot air balloons were still a rare sight in the United Kingdom, and hot air ballooning was an
The incredible Teotihuacan pyramids are an hour outside Mexico City. We see them from the air with an AMAZING hot air balloon ride and then in the afternoon go see them up-close from the ground! Link to Watch More of My Videos: http://bit.ly/2njYMPF Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinpoore/ Learn more about Remote Year and get $300 if you
We spoke with Jeff Meeker at Fair Winds Balloon Rides in Boulder about the majesty of a Colorado balloon ride. Other shooting locations: Snowmass and Pagosa Springs. Learn more about ballooning in Colorado at http://www.colorado.com/articles/colorado-balloon-rides-balloon-festivals.
The perfect start to any day with a beautiful morning’s flight over Lincolnshire. Our big red hot air balloon floated up, up and away from Belton Woods Hotel in Grantham on a gorgeous spring morning in May. Unwrap an unforgettable airborne adventure on our website at virginballoonflights.co.uk or call us on 01952 212750. Copyright: Virgin
Hot Air Balloon Ride Over Bagan, Myanmar. True magic is hard to find, but we found it here in Myanmar when we took an Oriental Ballooning sunrise hot air balloon ride over the temples in Bagan. We were up in the air for over an hour and we spent the entire trip peering over the
27th December 2018 Hot Air Balloons at Events The Hudson Hot Air Affair takes place in early February 2019, with next year’s festival marking its 30th birthday. To celebrate this significant anniversary, the theme will be ‘Pirates Fly’n the Croix-ribbean’. Attendees expect to see some swashbuckling balloons and pirate-themed entertainment, despite the cold and un-Caribbean
14th January 2019 Hot Air Balloon Stories Thrill-seekers Mike Scholes and Debbie Day from Burgess Hill will make their record-breaking attempt to travel by hot air balloon from Dartmouth in Canada, to Dartmouth in Devon in July of this year. If successful, they will be the first female-led crew to make the 2,800-mile crossing; a
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is the largest hot air balloon event in the world. For 9 days, it brings together pilots and guests from all over the world to witness a one of a kind experience. Seeker takes you to the festival to witness this beautiful event, and to envision what it’s like to
Fahren tut der Nils von http://www.a-ballon.de aus Augsburg. Gefilmt mit dem Yuneec 500+ Quadrocopter mit einer CGO2+. Der Film wurde nicht bearbeitet und nicht geschnitten. Vielen Dank an http://www.Yuneec.com und http://www.Copter.eu für die Bereitstellung vom Q500+ für den Test (demnächst auf www.quadcopter.de) Musik: Stereoshock Chasing Dusk
1min.45secs – A bit more detail in this one – NEW 2012 2013 – Hot Air Ballooning from Brisbane and Gold Coast flying daily we offer a range of trips and a fantastic celebration champagne breakfast at O’Reillys Canungra Valley Vineyards. Australia’s largest operator of balloon rides and flights and more people choose to fly
Rip Bill Chapel (1935 – 2017) Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 9, 2004 A balloon became entangled in a radio tower on the final day of the city’s trademark balloon festival Sunday, forcing the pilot and two young passengers to climb most of the way down the nearly 700-foot-tall structure. Continue Reading Below Bill Chapel was
The Star took a hot air balloon ride over Tucson with the company Tucson Adventures by Hot Air Expeditions. Experience the journey in less than 3 minutes.
Luv 2 Drivelapse? – http://www.facebook.com/takemytripdotcom “Like” for updates & great travel ideas This isn’t your typical Drivelapse drive. On October 11, 2014, a terrible traffic jam on the way to Balloon Fiesta Park left me stuck for hours on Interstate 25. Frustrated, I watched the Mass Ascension from the freeway. A few balloons landed near
29th January 2019 Balloon Ride Innovation Last month, NASA scientists announced their intention to send specially adapted hot air balloons to Venus as part of ongoing international research into the composition of the mysterious orb. Venus is the second planet from the sun, and because it shares many characteristics with the Earth in terms of
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LNP videographers Keith Schweigert and Casey Kreider accompanied the US Hot Air Balloon Team on a ride above Lancaster County earlier this month. Here is their stunning footage.
On June 7th 2014, at 5:30AM, Dieter and I took a hot air balloon ride. We celebrated his birthday and although, he had done this before, it was my first time in a balloon! For those of you afraid of heights, nothing to fear, it was so smooth and beautiful. You should try it! Thank
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https://www.piclife.com/pilot-insurance-news/aviation-technology-news/biofuel-flight-in-australia-scheduled-800748075
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Biofuel flight in Australia scheduled
April 9, 2012, 09:58 am
Qantas and SkyNRG recently announced they will operate Australia's first commercial biofuel flight April 13 from Sydney to Adelaide. Using an Airbus A330, the flight will operate using a 50:50 blend of biofuel derived from used cooking oil and conventional jet fuel.
The fuel will be supplied by SkyNRG and is certified for use in commercial aviation. The lifecycle carbon footprint is about 60 percent smaller than that of conventional jet fuel, making it a more environmentally sound fuel source. Qantas Group is working to advocate the development of the sustainable aviation fuel industry in Australia to reduce costs and improve energy efficiency, Air Transport World reported.
The flight will depart Sydney at 10:20 am and arrive at Adelaide at 12:25 pm. The goal of the flight is to raise awareness about the potential for sustainable aviation fuel in Australia produced at a commercial scale and a competitive price. Without the awareness and attention, the industry will likely not realize the many benefits of alternative fuel sources. Qantas believes the transition to biofuel must be a collaborative effort, and hopes the flight will inspire other airlines and aviation groups to lend their support and resources toward future research and development in Australia, ATW reported.
In the United States, the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recently conducted a study highlighting the potential for alternative energy production at airports. The study indicated that airports should consider transitioning to alternative fuel sources due to the many economic and environmental benefits.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said grasslands at many airports could be used to develop American-grown biofuel and biobased products that will eliminate the country's dependence on foreign oil and boost the transition to clean energy consumption.
"Converting airport grasslands to biofuel, solar or wind production not only provides more environmentally-sound alternative energy sources for our country, but may also increase revenue for airports and reduce the local abundance of potentially hazardous wildlife to aircraft," Vilsack said. "Such efforts may be particularly beneficial for rural economic development, as many rural airport properties contain expansive grasslands that potentially could be converted to biofuel crops or other renewable energy sources."
As new fuel sources pave the way for innovation in aviation, professionals should not forget about the fundamentals of air travel including safety and pilot insurance.
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http://simpsons.trendolizer.com/2019/09/the-best-evidence-for-the-apollo-landings-debunking-the-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories.html
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Using historical footage from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 and modern imaging of the Moon, I show the most surprising evidence for why the Apollo Moon Landings were not fake. In this video, we use images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo 17 and Apollo 15 landing sites and correlate it with historical footage from the early 1970's, showing conclusively that the Moon Landings were genuine events. Images and videos NASA/JSC image library - https://images.nasa.gov/ Project Apollo Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/ LROC images - Arizona State University, http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/ Freepik - https://www.freepik.com/ Music: Vasilis Natsou, http://www.vasilisnmusic.com/ Feedback:...
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https://www.rfidjournal.com/passive-rfid-tags-okd-for-takeoff
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Apr 13, 2005Speaking at the RFID Journal LIVE! conference this week in Chicago, John Dimtroff, an aerospace electronics engineer for the Federal Aviation Administration, told conference attendees that the FAA has decided to allow passive tags to be used on airplanes and that the written policy would be published this month.
Boeing and Airbus—the world's biggest aircraft manufacturers—have both been working with aviation authorities to allow passive RFID tags for use on planes. Both company want to use RFID to track and maintain aircraft parts in their supply chain and in operating aircraft. Boeing and Airbus representatives who attended the conference welcomed the FAA's decision.
"Passive RFID can now be used; 2.45 MHz, 915 MHz and 13.56 MHz passive RFID can all be used as long as they are only interrogated when the plane is not in the air," said Kenneth Porad, Boeing's principal engineer for reliability and maintainability.
Airbus expects the FAA decision to be followed by similar action in Europe, according to Jens Heitmann, the company's senior manager of system/equipment standardization process and methods.
The FAA's decision is likely to have a significant impact on the aviation industry, according to Erik Michielsen, director of RFID and ubiquitous networks at ABI Research and author of a recent ABI report entitled RFID Aerospace and Defense Market.
"The FAA passive RFID approval is critical to the industry's future. With the FAA backing, Airbus, Boeing and the numerous other implicated parties can now more formally address RFID collaboration in an industry desperately in need of more-efficient inventory and supply chain management solutions," he says.
Prior to the FAA decision, Boeing and Airbus executed studies to determine if on-board RFID tags would interfere with an aircraft's critical systems. As part of that work, Boeing carried out two FAA-approved trials, one involving 13.56 MHz tags and the other using 915 MHz tags, on a working aircraft. (See UHF Tags to be Tested on Planes and Tests Show UHF Tags Safe for Planes.)
In July, Boeing will start trials with Delta Air Lines to test UHF RFID tags on 14 Pratt & Whitney 2037 jet engines on Delta-owned Boeing 757 aircraft (see Delta to Test Tags on Aircraft Engines). The tests were initially set to take place last year but suffered delays.
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Ballina connection with aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
BALLINA claims a special connection with the historical Sir Charles Kingsford Smith flight across the Pacific Ocean.
It was the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia.
That's because the crew were originally expected to be flying straight into Brisbane, where crowds of thousands were waiting.
Instead, they were blown off course by storms and bad weather during the final leg of the flight from Suva Fiji.
At the time there was little media coverage mentioning Ballina as the point where the aircraft first flew over the Australian coastline.
It wasn't until later that the town fully realised the significance of the event and decided to commemorate it by naming a major park and road Kingsford Smith and Southern Cross.
Sir Kingsford Smith and his crew of four left California on May 31, 1928.
The 3870km journey was broken into three stages from California to Hawaii, Hawaii to Fiji and Fiji to Brisbane. Southern Cross was expected in Brisbane about 8am.
The crowds had begun to gather in moonlight, as the aircraft was expected early.
"It was a truly memorable occasion," a journalist reported in the Richmond River Express on June 11, 1928.
"From before daylight people flocked towards the landing ground, and soon there was an endless procession of motor cars bound for the aerodrome."
With the Southern Cross failing to appear as scheduled, the crowds grew anxious. Just before 9am, a message from the fliers was received and it was announced the crew had reached the coast just south of Ballina and had turned north for Brisbane.
It was reported the 26,000 spectators held their restraint during the plane's approach but broke the barriers around the field and made a wild rush towards the Southern Cross once it landed.
The total flight distance was about 11,566km.
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Ground Operations Group (GOG)
The Ground Operations Group (GOG) was established by the Safety, Flight and Ground Operations Advisory Council (SFGOAC)
as an adviser on all matters related to ground operation safety. The GOG works with all industry stakeholders including Airport Council International (ACI), Airport Service Association (ASA).
Main Areas of Activity
The GOG provides the strategic directions on:
- Development and implementation of Ground Ops standards
- Development and innovation of technologies and equipment used in ground operations
- Promotion, support and implementation of IATA’s various ground operations programs
with the aim of reducing ground damages and injuries as well as improving operational efficiency.
The GOG has delegated responsibiity from Airport Service Conference to review and approve the Airport Handling Manual (AHM), IATA Ground Operations Manual (IGOM).
also oversee work plan of the Ground Operations
Composition and Meetings
Participation as a voting member of the GOG is open to 10 IATA member airlines and 5 Ground Service Providers based on the biennial nomination process. The GOG meets twice a year.
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Developed in the 1930s, the Kingfisher series was assigned to battleships and cruisers for observational duties. Used by the United States Navy, the Kingfisher aircraft could be launched into the air by catapult. As a compact floatplane this aircraft did not have exceptional engine power, but could be used for various military activities such as air sea rescue, dive-bombing, liaison roles, and artillery spotting. The plane’s floats could also be removed and a wheeled undercarriage could be installed if needed. Due to its light weight, the plane was armed with a single forward facing machine gun and another in the rear.
Pillow-pack protected during shipping to avoid damage
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I’ve been working with drones a lot, flying ships that use drones as a primary or supplemental source of damage. I’m also old, and the systems for drones are largely the same as when I started this game - simple but one-note, requiring absolute minimum input, and sometimes, giving far more than is warranted for such little effort.
Drones have always been an interesting subject for me, because I love the idea of controlling lots of little worker bees like an RTS game. The power fantasy of being a carrier pilot still appeals to me, but drones are in such a weird place in EVE right now. I think it’s time they got a bit of a touchup, and here is my suggestion.
Drone Control Interface
A new high slot module. Can only be fit to certain ships.
Only one may be fitted per ship.
The Drone Control Interface requires training in Drones. The tech 2 version requires Drones V.
While active, this module works similarly to Bastion Modules, Industrial Cores, and other mode-switching features on ships. Your ship’s velocity and agility are reduced. Your ship’s other weapon systems either cannot be activated or are significantly reduced in effectiveness. Your ship’s drones receive bonuses to their speed, tracking, hit points, and damage, and you can control drones from much farther (effectively eliminating passive drone link augmentors and changing how passive drone modules work). While active, your drones have reduced priority from NPC enemies and they take reduced damage from AOE affects such as smartbombs.
All ships designated Drone Ships can fit a DCI. All other ships cannot, and any ship that is not a “Drone Ship” has their Drone Bay reduced to 25 m3 total. This allows for utility drones like salvagers, miners, EW, and light logi drones to be used by any ship. However, combat drones and new support-type drones are solely the territory of Drone Ships that can fit the Drone Control Interface, alongside other modules.
Drone Flights and Controls
No more passive drones. Drones cannot be set to auto-engage, will not switch targets automatically, and must be commanded to target enemies like any other weapon system.
In order to provide a slight education curve from Drone Ships to Carriers, Drones will now be assigned to “Drone Flights.” These are essentially drone groups that you can assign to hotkeys such as 1, 2, and 3, and issue individual orders to. Selecting your ship’s capacitor allows you to control your ship, selecting the Drone Flight on the UI or pressing your hotkeys allows you to select that group. This is important because…
More Than 5 Drones
Through the use of other modules, likely high slot modules that require an active Drone Control Interface (similar to compressors and an Industrial Core), players may be able to control more than 5 drones. Perhaps the Drone Control Interface allows +1 active combat drone per level of Drones, but each “Drone Flight” can only have 5 drones in it at once. This means that you could have a flight of lights and a flight of mediums. Support drones may also go above the combat drone limit, but would require their own support module, as suggested in my next point.
New Drone Types
“Support Drones” could be singular drones that each require a module to be deployed, such as the aforementioned “Support Drone Controller.” They could vary in type and function, such as a support drone that pulses shield restoration to your other drones (not ships) in space, or perhaps target paints a specific target to provide bonuses. Only one of these drones could be deployed per “Controller” fit, but they could be deployed in addition to combat drones, meaning you could control more than 5 total drones at once.
Other New Drone-Specific Modules
Other new modules could include something like the Support Drone Controller which allows you to launch 1 additional drone in the “support” category. You could update Drone Navigation Links and make it so that tracking computers or other modifiers are now Drone-specific bonuses, preventing people from doubling up on benefits for drones and turrets. These modules can only be activated if there is an active Drone Control Interface.
New Hull Bonuses
It could be possible to keep hull bonuses relatively the same or adjust as necessary. However, it may be preferable to move hard bonuses like “50% drone hit points and damage” off of hulls and instead put them onto the Drone Control Interface, or new modules entirely. It would likely be better to encourage what types of drones a specific ship can fly - light, medium, heavy, sentry, logi, etc. - by manipulating these bonuses on the hull.
New Fitting Options
With the changes proposed above, all sorts of new modules specific to drones and Drone Ships would be available. This shakes up the meta for Drone Boats themselves a bit - perhaps target painting could also be more beneficial to drones, encouraging them to be used as more than aggro management? Maybe the fitting requirements for drone-boosting modules requires sacrificing speed or a tank, so that these ships are vulnerable once you get past their web of drones or allies?
Won’t This Just Cause More AFK Ishtars?
Before you come in here talking about the “AFK Botters” problem, consider this: AFK Botters will always find new ways to AFK bot. CCP taking away interesting player options and interactivity because “botters will use this” only hurts we who actively play the game. Also, people still AFK rat in Ishtars, maybe if we made drone gameplay more interactive it would require them to be at their computers.
Also. All drones should be normalized, except for damage types and base hull values. All drones should have the same speed, tracking, and damage multiplier at each tech level, with the potential that all faction drones might have more HP, ‘augmented’ drones do more damage, and tech 2 drones have higher stats overall, or whatever - but the only difference between Amarr, Minmatar, Caldari, and Galente drones should now be the type of damage they deal.
Anyway. This essay brought to you by a supremely tired drone lover who wants drones to be actually kinda cool.
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Interested in FDM for your corporate aircraft of small airline fleet? CAPACG’S signature Flight Data Monitoring service is designed for small to medium operators.
Excerpt from the linked article; “Incidents such as the February 2009 fatal crash near Buffalo of a Continental Connection flight operated by Colgan Air and the August 2006 fatal crash in Lexington, Ky., of a Delta Connection flight operated by Comair highlight room for improvement, even in the small margins that exist. Speakers at Tuesday’s symposium, ranging from […]
Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) System The Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) system connects 46 safety databases across the industry and is integrated into the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) process. ASIAS has evolved to the point that ASIAS now has access to Flight Operations Quality Assurance(FOQA) programs from 12 operators […]
On June 15th, the FAA published the attached information on CAST -Commercial Aviation Safety Team. CAPACG, LLC participates in the International Helicopter Safety Team – modeled after CAST. Fact Sheet For Immediate Release June 15, 2010 Contact: Alison Duquette Phone: (202) 267-3883 Commercial Aviation Safety Team The nation’s impressive safety record is due in part […]
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The GP-B spacecraft
NASA PRESS KIT
Posted: April 17, 2004
All of the Gravity Probe B technologies are integrated into one of the most elegant and sophisticated satellites ever to be launched into space. Over four decades in development, the GP-B space vehicle is a marvel of engineering and truly a beautiful sight to behold.
From it largest to smallest parts, it is filled with the cutting edge technologies and materials described in the previous section, many of which were invented specifically for use in the Gravity Probe B mission.
Inside the Dewar
Inside the neck area of the Dewar is a doughnut-shaped tank called the "guard tank." Once the Dewar has been conditioned for launch - an iterative process of successive evacuations and fills that transforms the liquid helium inside the Dewar to the superfluid state - the guard tank keeps the Dewar supercooled for weeks, without the need for additional conditioning, while the space vehicle is being readied for launch.
Science Instrument Assembly - Quartz Block and Telescope
The Science Instrument Assembly (SIA) contains the quartz block and the telescope. The SIA is located at the center of mass of the Dewar, along its main axis. It is mounted inside a vacuum canister called the probe (described in the next section).
The quartz block houses the four gyroscopes and SQUID readout instruments (Super Conducting Quantum Interference Devices - the magnetometers that read the gyroscopes' spin axis orientation). Each gyroscope is enclosed in a quartz clamshell housing, mounted in the quartz block and surrounded by antimagnetic shielding. The gyroscopes are electrically suspended with only 0.001 inch clearance from the housing walls, and they spin at up to 10,000 rpm during the science phase of the mission.
Optically bonded to the top of the quartz block is the quartz reflecting Cassegran astronomical telescope, which focuses on the guide star, IM Pegasi. Optical bonding is a patented method of fusing together quartz parts, without the use of any "glue" or fasteners to ensure that the SIA does not distort or break when cooled to cryogenic temperatures. The line of sight of the telescope is rigidly aligned to the SQUID readout loop of each gyroscope. As such, the quartz telescope provides the frame of reference for measuring any drift in the spin axis of the gyroscopes.
The SIA is mounted in a cigar-shaped canister, called the "probe," which is inserted into the Dewar. The probe is an amazing feat of cryogenic engineering, designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Palo Alto, California. It provides both mechanical and structural stability for the SIA. The probe is designed to provide a free optical path for the telescope to view distant space through a series of four windows, mounted in its upper section. These windows also serve to reduce thermal conductivity into the Dewar.
The inside of the probe is maintained at an extremely high vacuum - much greater than the vacuum of space. The probe is surrounded by a superconducting lead bag between it and the Dewar. The superconducting lead bag provides an impenetrable shield from electromagnetic signals that could disturb the gyroscopes.
Taken together, all of these measures create an ultra pristine, cryogenic environment, free of any external forces or disturbances, in which the gyroscopes spin.
At the upper end of the probe, capping off the Dewar, is the "top hat." The top hat serves as a thermal interface for connecting over 450 plumbing and electrical lines, that run from various electronics and control systems, mounted on the space vehicle's truss system outside the Dewar, to the cryogenic vacuum chamber inside the probe and Dewar.
Before Gravity Probe B was completely integrated, each component went through years of testing and construction. Some parts even had to be de-constructed and rebuilt. The entire probe was assembled in a Class-10 clean room, as any particles larger than a single micron would disrupt the precise structure.
Outside the Dewar
The sun shield is a long, conical tube that keeps stray light from entering the telescope. Inside the sun shield are a series of black, metal baffles that absorb incoming stray light before it can reach the telescope. In addition to blocking out stray light from the Sun, the sun shield also blocks stray light from the Earth, Moon, and major planets.
Proportional Micro Thrusters
The proportional micro thrusters on the space vehicle provide a very means of controlling its attitude or orientation in space. In the case of Gravity Probe B, an unprecedented amount of on-orbit control is required for the vehicle to maintain its drag-free orbit. This is accomplished by harnessing the helium gas that continually evaporates from the Dewar's porous plug and venting it as a propellant through eight pairs of opposing or balanced proportional micro thrusters.
These micro thrusters continually meter out a flow of helium gas - at the rate of about 1/100th the amount of a human "puff" exhalation that one might use to clean eyeglasses. This metered flow of helium keeps the space vehicle's center of mass balanced around one of the gyroscopes, called a "proof mass" - a predetermined test mass that serves as a reference for measurement. The thrusters are set up in pairs, so that they counterbalance each other. As long as the same amount of helium is flowing from two opposing thrusters, the space vehicle will not change its position along that axis. However, if the telescope or the SQUID readout for the proof mass gyroscope requires the space vehicle's position to change, it is simply a matter of unbalancing the flow, ever so slightly, in the appropriate thruster pair to move the vehicle in the desired direction. These proportional micro thrusters also control the roll rate of the GP-B space vehicle.
Solar arrays convert energy from the Sun into electrical power that is stored in the space vehicle's two batteries and then used to run the various electrical systems on board. The position of each solar array can be controlled to maximize its power output.
GPS Sensors & Antennae
GPS (Global Positioning System) sensors calculate and transmit information about the space vehicle's position. In the case of the Gravity Probe B space vehicle, the number and placement of the GPS sensors provide positioning information that is over 100 times more accurate than traditional ground-based GPS navigation systems. For example, a high quality handheld GPS sensor on Earth can locate your position to within about a meter, whereas the GPS sensors onboard the GP-B space vehicle can locate its position to within a centimeter.
Telemetry & Communications Antennae
These antennae enable both inbound and outbound communications with the space vehicle - this includes communications with ground stations and with orbiting communications satellites in the Tracking Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). Telemetry data from the space vehicle and science data from the experiment are transmitted to ground stations using these communications systems. These systems also enable the GP-B Mission Operations Center (MOC) to send daily batches of commands to the space vehicle. Communications between the space vehicle and orbiting satellites is limited to a 2K data format, whereas communications with ground stations uses a 32K data format, enabling far more data to be transmitted per unit of time.
A star tracker is basically a camera and pattern matching system that uses constellations and stars to determine the direction in which a satellite is pointing. The Gravity Probe B satellite contains two star trackers - one wide field and one narrow field (called the star sensor). The wide field star tracker is used to locate the general region of the heavens containing the guide star, and then the narrow field star tracker helps align the space vehicle with the guide star.
The Gravity Probe B on-board telescope basically performs the same function, but it uses a different technique, and it is orders of magnitude more precise and more accurate. The narrow field star tracker has a field of view on the order of one degree (60 arcminutes), and it can focus to a position within perhaps one arcminute - about the same as the whole field of view of GP-B on-board telescope, which can pinpoint the guide star's position to within a milliarcsecond.
With such a small field of view, it would be nearly impossible to locate the guide star using only the onboard telescope, so the star trackers function like "spotting scopes" for initially pointing the space vehicle towards the guide star. Once the narrow field star tracker has focused on the guide star, the onboard telescope takes over the job of maintaining the precise alignment required for measuring gyroscope drift.
GP-B uses a standard, flight-qualified gyroscope, equivalent to those found on other spacecraft (and also airplanes, ships, and other vehicles). This gyroscope is not part of the relativity experiment, but rather it is part of the general navigation system used for monitoring the general direction and position of the space vehicle.
Electro-mechanical Control Systems
Surrounding the Dewar, is a lattice of trusses that forms the structure of the space vehicle. Attached to these trusses are a number of electrical and mechanical systems that control the operation of space vehicle and enable the relativistic measurements to be carried out. These control systems include the following:
MISSION STATUS CENTER
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Summary: flight attendant and one of the crew members aboard on the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 that crashed into the World Trade Center who was believed to be involved in relaying information about the hijacking on board by telephone to the American Airlines operations center on the ground.
Cause of Death: Injuries sustained in a plane crash
Born: February 5, 1956
Died: September 11, 2001
Location: New York City, New York
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DOD halts F-35 deliveries amid repair bill disagreement with Lockheed –
The Pentagon has suspended acceptance of most F-35 deliveries as manufacturer Lockheed Martin and the F-35 program office debate who should be responsible for fixing jets after a production issue last year.
Orbital ATK expansions anticipate surge in DOD advanced munitions technology needs –
Orbital ATK has hired more people and is expanding facilities as it anticipates a surge in Defense Department advanced missile and munitions technology needs.
Northrop to begin cutting in aerial refueling capability in E-2D Advanced Hawkeye production this year –
This year, Northrop Grumman will begin manufacturing the first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning aircraft built from the ground up with an aerial refueling capability, program officials said April 10.
Major players pitch solutions for Navy’s next training helicopter –
Several major players in the helicopter industry pitched possible solutions at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference for the Navy’s next initial-entry, rotary-wing training helicopter as the service signals stronger intentions to replace its aging TH-57 Sea Ranger fleet.
German ‘Tornados’ still struggling with night ops –
Germany’s Tornado aircraft are still behind the curve when it comes to the critical capability of night vision, the defense ministry has told lawmakers.
Italian Air Force finalizes AARGM OT&E campaign –
The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare Italiana: AMI) has finalised the operational evaluation and testing of its AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Block 1 supersonic air-to-surface missile system with a live fire campaign at the U.S. Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Land Ranges in California during Exercise ‘Blazing Shield 2018.’
Thai marines to procure Elbit howitzers –
The Royal Thai Marine Corps has signed a contract with Elbit to procure the Israeli company’s 155 mm autonomous truck mounted howitzer system.
India commissions first new Vikram-class OPV –
The Indian Coast Guard has commissioned its first new Vikram-class offshore patrol vessel. The platform, which has been named ICGS Vikram with pennant number 33, was officially inducted on 11 April in a ceremony officiated by Indian Minister of State for Defence, Subhash Bhamre. Vikram is part of a $220 million contract awarded to Larsen & Toubro in March 2015 for seven vessels.
U.S. approves CH-47F sale to Spain –
The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 17 Boeing CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters to Spain. The sale, which was announced by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency April 4, is valued at $1.3 billion and covers the latest variant of the Chinook, as well as defensive aids and other equipment and support.
Boeing to restart production of Standoff Land Attack Missiles –
Boeing has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for standoff land attack missiles to support Saudi Arabia. The deal, announced April 10 by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $64 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
Navy’s top officer lays out aggressive new cruiser replacement strategy –
Buoyed by rapid progress on the next-generation Frigate, the U.S. Navy’s top officer is ready to quickly move out on the long-debated replacement for the Navy’s aging cruisers.
Pentagon ‘still assessing’ possible missile strike on Syria, Mattis says –
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said April 11 that the U.S. and key allies are still working on options to respond to Syria’s suspected chemical attacks, and have not concluded who was behind the attacks.
Military’s stunning fighter pilot shortage: One in four billets is empty –
The military’s fighter pilot shortfall is reaching alarming proportions — and a new report from the Government Accountability Office shows just how bad the problem has become.
F-35 program head supportive of future transition to service-led offices –
The head of the F-35 program office acknowledged Wednesday that the program will eventually transition from a centralized management structure to separate offices led by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps — backing up a directive by the Pentagon’s top acquisition official.
15 years later, Wounded Warrior Project still adding new members –
Fifteen years after it was founded, seven years after official U.S. combat operations ended in Iraq and three years after the combat mission ended in Afghanistan, Wounded Warrior Project is still seeing a surge in new members.
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Johnson Gage Company, The
534 Cottage Grove Rd.
Bloomfield , CT 06002 US
As Seen In Modern Machine Shop
Inspection System Verifies Cutting Tool Geometries
IMTS 2018: Johnson Gage’s JCR runout and concentricity inspection system enables verification of cylindrical runout.
Thread Inspection Systems Suited for Multiple Industries
Johnson Gage’s offers a range of portable or bench, external and internal thread inspection systems.
Portable or Bench Thread Inspection Systems
The company’s full range of portable and bench inspection systems for external and internal threads incorporate functional and pitch diameter measurements for UN, metric, NPT and other thread forms. Also featured is the Centrax inspection system for verification of cylindrical runout or concentricity.
Thread Inspection Systems
The company features its full range of portable, bench, external and internal thread inspection systems.
Thread Inspection Systems Ensure Dimensional Conformance
Portable or bench external and internal thread inspection systems incorporate functional and pitch diameter size measurements for UN, metric, NPT and other thread forms subject to virtually all thread acceptance standards. The company showcases medical, aerospace and automotive applications that demonstrate how its gage thread inspection systems help ensure complete dimensional conformance of essential thread characteristics. They are useful for operations ranging from simple verification of assembly to complete process control systems for safety critical applications.
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