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https://gisuser.com/2022/10/mobilicoms-skyhopper-combo-selected-by-israeli-ministry-of-defense-for-drone-fleet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mobilicoms-skyhopper-combo-selected-by-israeli-ministry-of-defense-for-drone-fleet | 2023-06-06T06:34:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652235.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606045924-20230606075924-00471.warc.gz | 0.916739 | 505 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__283545900 | en | Shoham, Israel, Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mobilicom Limited (Mobilicom or the Company, NASDAQ: MOB, MOBBW, ASX: MOB), a provider of cybersecurity and smart solutions for drones, robotics, and autonomous platforms, has received and fulfilled an initial SkyHopper COMBO order for an existing Tier-1 customer, Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD), for a new fleet deployment program designed by a leading drone manufacturer.
Mobilicom’s SkyHopper COMBO data link is being used within IMOD’s new drone platform, deployed as part of IMOD’s small drone fleet solution for intelligence, reconnaissance, and homeland security applications. IMOD has designed its solution to operate in interfered environments prone to cyber-attack domains where SkyHopper COMBO’s secured data link features are considered critical.
While Mobilicom does not consider the initial delivered order of ~A$92,000 (US$58,000) to be material, IMOD indicated it intends to expand its fleet deployment, which will likely result in repeat larger orders for the Company as the small drone platform is commercialized.
The SkyHopper COMBO is recognized for its industry-leading line of sight (LOS) and beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVOS) capability, enabled by secured direct software defined radio (SDR) data link or one of two cellular operators. In addition, the SkyHopper COMBO can scale for simultaneous use of small drone fleets by multiple teams in multiple locations.
IMOD’s adoption of the SkyHopper COMBO validates its use for defense applications. The solution is also suitable for a range of commercial uses, including suburban drone delivery, long range inspection of utility infrastructure and public safety operations.
Mobilicom CEO Oren Elkayam said, “The incorporation of SkyHopper COMBO by the Israel Ministry of Defense as part of its small drone fleet solution is a testament to Mobilicom’s cybersecurity credentials and the inherent flexibility of the COMBO to operate one of three available datalinks, guaranteeing connectivity anywhere, anytime.
The order adds to success with Tier 1 drone and robotics customers globally, and highlights another avenue for customer adoption and expansion within our end-to-end offering, ensuring we are well-positioned to continue to execute against our growth strategy.” | aerospace | 1 |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098048/Pilot-grounded-testing-positive-crystal-meth-just-hours-off.html | 2017-10-22T16:30:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825308.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022150946-20171022170946-00626.warc.gz | 0.950219 | 603 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__300536681 | en | Pilot grounded after testing positive to crystal meth just hours before take-off
A pilot on an Indonesian airline was arrested just hours before he was due to command a flight after testing positive for crystal meth.
The 44-year-old pilot for Lion Air, Indonesia's largest domestic airline by passenger volume, was arrested in a hotel on Saturday in Surabaya, Indonesia's second city, according to the National Narcotics Agency.
The pilot was due to fly to Makassar on Sulawesi island, Balikpapan on Borneo and back to Surabaya, the spokesperson said.
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Grounded: A Lion Air plane sits on the runway in Indonesia after its pilot was arrested for taking crystal meth
Probe: The pilot is the second to test positive for a substance by Lion Air this year
He is the second pilot to test positive for Lion Air in 2012. Crystal meth is known as 'shabu-shabu ' in Indonesia and between 2010 and 2011 it overtook marijuana as the number one drug in the country of 240 million people, a senior narcotics agency official said.
Budget Airline Lion Air serves domestic flights and routes from Indonesian cities to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh. A spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
In November it placed a $21.7 billion order with Boeing, its biggest commercial order on record. The 230 short-haul 737 jets deal takes Lion Air's orderbook to more than 400 planes.
Drug taking paraphenalia, along with a bank card, was also seized by officials hours before the plane was due to take off
Several other personal effects of the pilot can be seen in this picture taken before the arrest
The government now will require pilots and cabin crew to undergo drug and alcohol tests before boarding a plane, Transport Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan told Reuters by telephone.
Indonesia is struggling to upgrade its civil air safety after a series of deadly accidents that led the European Union in 2007 to ban all Indonesian airlines from its airspace.
The ban was lifted progressively starting in 2009.
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http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/aug/10/frontier-spokane-international-airport-las-vegas-f/ | 2019-03-23T01:20:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202704.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20190323000443-20190323022443-00275.warc.gz | 0.900603 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__28158483 | en | Frontier Airlines starts nonstop service between Spokane to Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport on Monday afternoon with a flight to the Nevada city.
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Virgin Atlantic plans to operate three flights a week from Delhi to London's Heathrow from September 2, while Mumbai services are planned to re-commence from September 17 with four flights per week TRIP REPORT- Virgin Atlantic B747-400 - Barbados to Manchester - Economy. 286 Views 0 0 × Thanks! Share it with your friends! × You disliked this video. Thanks for the feedback! admin. Published Jan 24, 2019. FLIGHT INFO: Airline: Virgin Atlantic Aircraft: Boeing 747-400 Registration: G-VBIG Route: Bridgetown, Barbados - Manchester, UK Seat: 61K Class: Economy Flight time: 7 hours 15 minutes.
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British-based Virgin Atlantic (VS) flies to about 30 destinations within the United Kingdom, elsewhere in Europe, and in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean. Its aircraft have a three-cabin configuration: Upper Class (Business Class), Premium Economy Class and Economy Class. The Upper Class cabin has seats that convert into flat beds, and passengers also have access. A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-300 aircraft. NurPhoto via Getty Images The End Was Nigh. The High Court vote marks the end of a torrid period for Branson and his team after the coronavirus lockdown.
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The entry of Virgin Atlantic's A350 to the market has been hugely exciting for the commercial aviation market in the U.K., and with both Virgin and British Airways taking delivery of more and more of these brand-new, state-of-the-art aircraft, things are looking up.. Naturally, a huge amount of the media attention has gone to the swanky new Upper Class suites, but most people fly economy on. Virgin Atlantic saved by 'milestone' £1.2bn bailout package Virgin Atlantic to provide free coronavirus insurance Ryanair, Virgin Atlantic and Tui still failing to pay refunds on tim Virgin Atlantic Airways | Flying Club - Flight report Virgin Premium Economy LHR - IAD - Well, this is interesting and quite a pleasure, using my VS Gold Card for the first time., I find myself being upgraded, not at the gate but upon arrival at the checkin. In Fact today ha been a day if firsts - but not first class Virgin Galactic recognizes that the answers to many of the challenges we face in sustaining life on our beautiful planet, lie in making better use of space
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. by joeheg April 17, 2019. April 17, 2019. For the return flight on our impromptu trip to London, I booked us in Premium class on Virgin Atlantic from London Gatwick direct to Orlando. It's wonderful being able to fly non-stop from London to your home airport, even if it means flying with a bunch of kids who are so excited to be. Expanded Air France and KLM codeshare on Delta operated Flights from the UK: About Virgin Atlantic. Virgin Atlantic was founded by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson 34 years ago with innovation and customer service at its core. Today Virgin Atlantic carries 5.4 million customers annually, and was recently voted Britain's only Global Five Star Airline by APEX two years running in the Official.
Called USA Virgin Atlantic customer service, was on hold for 90 minutes, till my phone died. Tried again later that evening and No one answered. The next day, we got up at 4:00 am because we had to be at the airport 3 hours before the flight, had no breakfast and when we checked in at the counter we found out that we where seated separately on both flights and that our vegan meals where. Virgin Atlantic COVID-19 Cover policy details This policy covers every existing Virgin Atlantic booking, as well as new reservations made for travel between Aug. 24, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021 Virgin Atlantic designed the seat to ensure that the screen could be flipped out even for taxi, takeoff and landing, and the airline has said that it is going to make sure customers are aware of this great feature. There was a wide range of movies and TV shows, games, and a moving map. Most importantly, it had a gorgeous tailcam. This was my entertainment of choice almost throughout the flight. Please enjoy the report, and I look forward to your comments. MAN-MCO Virgin Atlantic VS75 Wednesday, December 23, 2015 Departure: 11:15 (actual 11:13) Arrival: 15:40 (actual 15:34) Actual Block Time: 9h21 Actual Flight Time: 8h57 Seat: 9A Upper Class Boeing 747-400 My day had begun at 03:45 when I woke up to catch the 04:09 train to Munich airport. After an excellent fifth-freedom flight, MUC.
This one (12k) was mine for this flight to JFK. Virgin Atlantic A340-600 Upper Class cabin looking forward. Almost immediately, I could tell they designed the Upper Class cabin for social interaction. The seats are all angled toward each other and away from the windows, with ottomans that double as an additional seat for your traveling companion - which works great for eating together or. A transatlantic restroom dalliance aboard a Virgin Atlantic flight ended with the woman involved banned from ever again flying on the airline. According to reports, the cabin crew aboard a March. Virgin Atlantic is set to return to the skies this summer, announcing new destinations for August and beyond Virgin Atlantic reports 2018 loss. Virgin Atlantic this week also revealed their operating results for 2018, and it's not great news. Virgin Atlantic has announced a loss of 26 million GBP for 2018, which at least is an improvement over their 49 million GBP loss the year prior.. There are some significant areas of improvement in 2018 compared to 2017, with revenue rising nearly 6%, passenger. We're the official home of the Virgin Group and Branson family. Get the latest from Richard Branson and the Virgin companies
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Virgin Atlantic renews Heathrow and Cape Town flight after 6 year absence. By Philippa Larkin Feb 12, 202 Virgin Atlantic will restart flights from 20 July having agreed a £1.2 billion recapitalisation programme with financial partners. The plan will include refinancing over the next 18 months as well as cost savings of £280 million per year and £880 million rephasing and financing of aircraft deliveries over the next five years. The airline said it aims to rebuild its balance sheet and return.
Virgin Atlantic to cut 80% of flights due to coronavirus. News & Advice. Why the coronavirus pandemic will lead to aircraft extinction. News & Advice. Heathrow to close half its terminals. Home. Virgin Atlantic confirmed in a statement that the flight had been diverted to Boston due to reports of smoke in the cabin. Our crew responded immediately and the plane has landed safely, it said
Virgin Atlantic Flight 205 Simulator Accident Report Canyon (NoWorries) First Officer. Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Posts: 352. Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:20 pm . Hey everybody, first post! Wondering if you've ever experienced anything like this. Flight Synopsis; at 6:25 local time a Virgin Atlantic Airlines 747-400 callsign Virgin 205 egressed Chicago O'Hare with an IFR flightplan for London Heathrow. Virgin Atlantic will introduce its iconic Clubhouse experience to the airport for the first time, alongside a refurbished Virgin Holidays v-room Increased capacity reaffirms Virgin Atlantic's commitment to serving passengers flying from Manchester and the surrounding areas - the airline has increased flights from Manchester Airport by 92% since 201 Finance and policy reporter. Yahoo Finance UK. 22 May 2020. Reblog. Share. Tweet. Share . A Virgin Atlantic flight as the UK government prepares to order international arrivals to quarantine for 14 days, enraging airlines. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) More. Virgin Atlantic has delayed resuming flights until at least August this year ahead of Friday's government announcement that it plans to.
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class has long aimed to offer this level of excitement, but for around 10 years, it's been let down by one thing, and pretty much one thing only - old seats. Travellers would always say that they love the feeling of flying Virgin, but the damned Upper Class seat just wasn't quite up to its new, more modern peers, especially as airlines added doors and large. Flight status, tracking, and historical data for Virgin Atlantic 607 (VS607/VIR607) including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times
Then, in January 1991, less than four years after conquering the Atlantic Ocean, Branson and Lindstrand were accompanied by American millionaire Steve Fossett on the first hot-air balloon flight across the Pacific. Their perilous, 7,671.9-km (4,767.1-mi) journey from Japan to Canada in the Virgin Otsuka Pacific Flyer lasted 46 hr 15 min Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. will eliminate 1,150 more jobs to preserve its rescue funding as demand for long-distance flights remains depressed and Britain winds down its worker furlough program Die britische Fluggesellschaft Virgin Atlantic (VS) fliegt rund 30 Ziele in England und weiteren europäischen Ländern sowie in Afrika, Asien, dem Mittleren Osten, Nordamerika und der Karibik an. Ihre Flugzeuge sind mit drei Kabinen ausgestattet: Upper Class (Business Class), Premium Economy Class und Economy Class Scheduled cargo-only services to the US, Hong Kong and China, India, Israel and South Africa First-ever cargo-only flights from Dublin to London with same-day connections to New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tel Aviv and Johannesburg Twice-weekly flights relaunched to Mumbai Additional aircraft available for exclusive cargo charters Virgin Atlantic will operate over 90 [ | aerospace | 1 |
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An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, the airline said.
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https://wiki.conworlds.org/wiki/Saab_39_Gripen | 2021-04-10T14:03:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038057142.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20210410134715-20210410164715-00575.warc.gz | 0.865192 | 1,661 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__26875960 | en | Saab 39 Gripen
|Saab 39 Gripen|
|First flight||9 December 1988|
|Introduction||9 June 1996|
|Primary users||Skandinavia, Baltic Federation, South Africa|
|Number built||513 as of December 2009[updat|
|Unit cost||US$60-70 million (export price for Gripen C)|
Saab 39 Gripen was the first of the new generation, multi-role fighter aircraft to enter operational service. Using the latest technology it is capable of performing an extensive range of air-to-air, air-to-surface and reconnaissance missions employing the latest weapons. Gripen is designed to meet the demands of existing and future threats, while simultaneously meeting strict requirements for flight safety, reliability, training efficiency and low operating costs. Today it is the backbone of the Luftforsvaret
Features[edit | edit source]
Gripen is a truly international weapon system incorporating the latest technology from a team of major defence industries. As the newest generation of fighter in service today, it has been designed to maintain operational superiority against existing and future threats by providing spare system capacity to easily allow the incorporation of new sensors, avionics and weapons.
Netcentric Fighter[edit | edit source]
A truly Network Centric new generation multi-role fighter with the world’s most highly developed secure and multi-frequency data link, providing total situational awareness for the pilot in all roles.
Superior Sensor Fusion[edit | edit source]
A fully integrated avionic mission system operating on five 1553B digital data bus highways. This provides total sensor fusion, resulting in enhanced combat capability guaranteeing precision delivery of smart weapons.
Smart Digital Cockpit[edit | edit source]
An advanced fully digital cockpit layout with three large colour, Multi-Functional Displays (MFD) and Hands-On-Throttle-And-Stick (HOTAS) provide the pilot with a superior combat advantage. ‘Don’t need, don’t show’.
See First – Kill First[edit | edit source]
A combination of low radar, IR and visual signatures, along with the long range PS05 multimode radar and sensor fusion, including world leading new generation weapon integration, ensure a high kill-ratio in long range engagements.
Outstanding Agility[edit | edit source]
The world’s most agile fighter for close combat. A combination of advanced aerodynamic layout utilizing a combined close-coupled canard – delta configuration and a triplex, digital Fly-By-Wire Flight Control System (FCS) leads to a winning Dog-Fight capability.
High Operational Tempo[edit | edit source]
Gripen’s high operational availability, rapid turnaround and minimal support requirements lead to sustained high sortie rates, giving Commanders the ability to meet the most demanding operations with minimum resources.
Affordability[edit | edit source]
Gripen achieves the lowest operating cost of any fighter currently in operational service. This is accomplished by combining advanced system design, high technology and modern components.
Future development[edit | edit source]
The Gripen is built to be adaptable to changing threats and operational requirements faced by a modern air force. Gripen has significant growth available and many features are implemented in software. This means that modifications are much easier to design and implement. In most cases costly hardware changes can be avoided.
Two-seater[edit | edit source]
A two-seat version of the Gripen, which retains the full operational capability of the single-seater, is also available for tactical weapons training, more specialised missions and type conversion.
Technical Specifications[edit | edit source]
Designed to ensure outstanding combat agility. Gripen features a delta-canard configuration with relaxed aerodynamic stability. The delta wing and canards, along with the digital Fly-By-Wire Flight Control System, give the fighter an optimum combination of manoeuvrability, acceleration, top speed and short-field performance.
- Advanced aerodynamics combining a close coupled canard-delta configuration.
- Lightweight structure employing advanced materials and construction techniques.
- The world´s most highly developed data link.
- Triplex, digital fly-by-wire Flight Control System for optimum combat agility.
- Fully-integrated avionic systems operating via five MIL-STD 1553B digital data bus highways.
- Advanced cockpit layout with large colour Multi-Function Displays (MFDs) and Hands-On-Throttle-And-Stick (HOTAS) controls.
- Long range PS-05/A multi-mode, pulse doppler radar.
- Powerful, fuel efficient, Volvo Aero Corporation RM12 turbofan engine.
- On Board Oxygen Generation System (OBOGS) and Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR).
- Low visual radar and Infra-Red (IR) signatures.
- Heavy and varied weapons load covering all mission parameters - Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground, Air-to-Sea, Reconnaissance and Advanced Tactical Training - an unrivalled mix of simplicity and sophistication.
- 50% lower operating costs than its best competitor.
- “On-condition" maintenance.
- Capable of operating from simple road bases and dispersed bases with the minimum of maintenance personnel and ground support equipment.
Armament[edit | edit source]
- Guns: 1 × 27 mm Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon with 120 rounds (single-seat models only)
- Hardpoints: 8 (three on each wing and two under fuselage) and provisions to carry combinations of:
- Rockets: 4 × rocket pods, 13.5 cm rockets
- 4 × GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb
- 2 × Bk.90 cluster bomb
- 8 × Mark 82 bombs
Gripen V-G[edit | edit source]
Gripen V-G is the "fifth generation" Gripen with increased fuel capacity, a more powerful powerplant, increased payload capacity, upgraded avionics and other improvements. The new Gripen V-G version has many new parts and is powered by a new Volvo Aero engine. The engine produces 25% more thrust at 106 kN, enabling a supercruise speed of Mach 1.4 with air-to-air missiles.
The Gripen V-G maximum takeoff weight has increased from 14,000 to 16,500 kg with an increase in empty weight of 200 kg. Due to relocated main landing gear, the internal fuel capacity has increased by 40%, with a significant increase in range. Combat radius will be 1380 km with six AAMs + drop tanks, and 30 min on station. Ferry range will be 4,070 km with drop tanks. The new undercarriage configuration also allows for the addition of two heavy stores pylons to the fuselage. A new Saab Electronic Defence Systems radar and a new antenna has been added.
Luftforsvaret has begun to upgrade all its Gripen to Gripen V-G in 2018. The upgrade programme should be finished in 2024 and would guarantee the operative life of the aircrafts at least until 2035.
Gripen M[edit | edit source]
See: Saab 39 Gripen M
Gripen M is the "navalized" version of Gripen E capable of operate from aircraft carrier decks. For carrier operations, the M model has a strengthened airframe, the airframe and undercarriage are reinforced to withstand the stress experienced upon landing, an arrestor hook, catapult attachments, longer nose gear leg to provide a more nose-up attitude and a built-in boarding ladder. Consequently, the Gripen M weighs about 310 kg more than the Gripen E. The Gripen M, unlike the Gripen E, can both conduct aerial refueling and "buddy" refuel other aircraft. | aerospace | 1 |
https://australianaviation.com.au/tag/embraer/ | 2020-10-28T18:27:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107900200.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028162226-20201028192226-00653.warc.gz | 0.885738 | 256 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__144413893 | en | This story from the October 2019 edition of Australian Aviation by John Walton looks at how the key players plan to meet the demand for regional jets.
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Embraer has named Flexjet as the launch customer for its recently certified Praetor business jets.
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Boeing and Embraer say they now expect their proposed joint-venture to be finalised in early 2020, rather than the previous target of the end of 2019.
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Brazil’s Azul Airlines officially received the first Embraer E195-E2 regional jet at the manufacturer’s São José dos Campos facility on September 12.
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Embraer chief executive Francisco Gomes Neto says the airframer is well positioned for a promising future after the company posted a narrowing a first half loss in calendar 2019.
Embraer’s Praetor 500 business jet has been certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the United States Federal Aviation Administration. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Aviation-Structure-Repairs-EI_IE3069333.11,37.htm | 2021-08-02T10:19:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154310.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802075003-20210802105003-00125.warc.gz | 0.889592 | 87 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__248954644 | en | Aviation Structure Repairs is aware of the importance of having the right professionals on the job. In order to provide the best qualified aviation technicians ASR has implemented an internal management program where we train and supervise our technicians to have integrity on ...
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https://www.helis.com/news/2000/ngminlas.htm | 2019-02-24T02:10:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249569386.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190224003630-20190224025630-00023.warc.gz | 0.911891 | 535 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__128261300 | en | April 17, 2000:
Northrop Grumman Wins Contract to Develop New Mine Detection
MELBOURNE, Fla., USA ( Northrop Grumman Corp. Press Release ) -
Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems and Aerostructures (ISA) sector
has been awarded a $40 million contract for the engineering and manufacturing development of the U.S. Navy's Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) . This is approximately a three-year effort for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, with a production decision expected before the end of 2004.
ALMDS uses a laser-based system mounted in a helicopter. The laser scans an extremely wide path of the ocean while the helicopter flies at high speed. ALMDS generates a topographic view of the ocean floor together with a computer-enhanced image of the shapes, sizes and locations of mines. The sensors can accurately locate and identify mines in a single pass over the target area while minimizing threats to the platform.
``Securing this prime contact for the ALMDS program positions us in a new market -- with a new Navy customer. This program builds upon our core capabilities in systems integration and software development,'' said Alan J. Doshier, sector vice president-Airborne Ground Surveillance and Battle Management Systems business unit.
``We have been able to integrate excellent laser technology from our teammate, Arete Associates of Tucson, Ariz., to create a product that is highly responsive to our customer's needs.''
The laser system will be contained in a pod and mounted on the helicopter which will have a workstation for the ALMDS operator. In addition to overall systems integration responsibility, Northrop Grumman will produce the pod and workstation.
Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems and Aerostructures sector, headquartered in Dallas, Tex., is a premier aerospace systems integration enterprise. ISA has the capabilities to design, develop, integrate, produce and support complete systems, as well as airframe subsystems, for airborne surveillance and battle management aircraft, early warning aircraft, airborne electronic warfare aircraft, air combat aircraft, and commercial aerostructures.
Northrop Grumman Corporation, headquartered in Los Angeles, is a world-class, high technology company providing innovative solutions in systems integration, defense electronics and information technology for its U.S. and international military, government and commercial customers, as a prime contractor, principal subcontractor, team member or preferred supplier. The company had revenues of $9 billion in 1999 and has a workforce of 45,000 employees.
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https://dronespros.com/where-can-i-fly-drones-casa-app-has-the-answers-3/ | 2022-10-07T13:36:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338073.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007112411-20221007142411-00618.warc.gz | 0.940951 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__115642094 | en | Not sure about where you can fly your drone?
Civil Aviation Safety Authority teamed up with Drone Complier to produce an easy-to-use smartphone app illustrating where you’re not allowed to fly.
These areas include within 5.5km of controlled aerodromes, in approach and departure paths of non-controlled aerodromes and helicopter landing sites, as well as in restricted or military airspace. The app also highlights ‘caution’ areas around unregistered aerodromes where aircraft could be flying.
The ‘Can I fly there?’ drone safety app reflects the standard operating conditions for those flying their drone commercially (under the excluded category of commercial operations) and is a valuable educational and situational awareness tool for both commercial and recreational drone flyers.
The app is available on Android and iOS devices, with a web-based HTML5 version also accessible. | aerospace | 1 |
https://icrac.net/2013/07/x-47b-autonomously-aborts-landing-on-aircraft-carrier/ | 2017-09-22T19:02:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689102.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922183303-20170922203303-00498.warc.gz | 0.971124 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__116497579 | en | After already having demonstrated the ability to take off from an aircraft carrier deck earlier this year, this week the Navy’s X47B technology demonstrator drone also managed to successfully complete a landing maneuver for the first time. However, what is most interesting about this is that, after having completed two landings, the drone, while coming in for a third touchdown “detected an anomaly in its own navigation computer and decided, all on its own, to abort the landing”, as David Axe over at the War is Boring blog reports. He raises an interesting question in connection to this:
Two things are worth mentioning.
First, the Navy’s new killer drone detected a problem and made the proper decision before its human minders discovered it, thus boosting mission safety.
Second, what if the drone had autonomously made the wrong decision? | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.qbd.com.au/air-power/stephen-budiansky/9780141008301/ | 2018-05-27T03:46:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867995.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527024953-20180527044953-00431.warc.gz | 0.899522 | 91 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__135568365 | en | No single human invention has changed war more than the aeroplane. The potential of air power to revolutionize the very nature - perhaps even the meaning - of combat was strikingly evident almost from the moment the Wright brothers first flew.
Stephen Budiansky tells the story of air power showing how, in the course of the 20th century, it transformed warfare.
- Publication Date:
- 24 / 02 / 2005
- 128 x 198mm | aerospace | 1 |
https://global.foreignaffairs.co.nz/2021/02/18/mil-osi-russia-the-winner-of-the-qualifying-stage-of-the-army-2021-falconry-competition-has-been-determined-in-the-army-corps-of-the-air-defense-forces-on-sakhalin/ | 2021-03-01T09:25:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178362481.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20210301090526-20210301120526-00385.warc.gz | 0.954102 | 323 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__11523941 | en | MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –
In the Army Corps of the Eastern Military District on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the second qualifying stage of the ARMY-2021 “Falconry” competition has ended.
The competition was attended by the calculations of unmanned aircraft formations and military units of the army corps of the Air Defense Forces. In addition to passing tests in knowledge of the theoretical part, the specialists performed practical flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) “Orlan” and “Eleron”.
When performing competitive tasks, the UAV crews fulfilled the standards for the deployment of complexes and the launch of aircraft.
In addition, the participants were faced with the task of finding both stationary and mobile objects in the established square of the terrain, transferring coordinates to control points. One of the main tasks that the servicemen were solving was the adjustment of artillery fire on the identified object.
Also, UAV operators have shown their skills when performing a drone landing for accuracy. The servicemen landed the aircraft in a given area, preventing it from leaving the landing site.
During the second stage of the ARMY-2021 “Falconry” competition, a team of UAV specialists of the association was determined, which will defend the honor of the army corps of the Air Defense Forces in the district stage of the competition.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a translation. Apologies should the grammar and / or sentence structure not be perfect. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/new-family-of-uavs-make-appearance-at-uv/ | 2023-03-23T23:19:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945218.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323225049-20230324015049-00422.warc.gz | 0.939493 | 806 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__3695113 | en | New family of UAVs make appearance at UV Conference
A new family of Unmanned Airborne Systems is making its appearance at the UV Europe Conference being held at the Celtic Manor Hotel on 22 and 23 July 2009.
AESIR, named after a family of Norse gods, has developed a family of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) designed to operate in both urban and rural environments providing a platform suitable for tasks including surveillance and cargo lift.
The VTOL craft utilise the Coanda effect to generate lift and have inherent stability as a surveillance platform. The design has no external rotating parts and can survive low speed impact with the ground, buildings and other fixed objects.
“The AESIR craft offer considerable benefits over similar sized UAVs, not only is the space under the canopy fully useable but the design means that we are able to lift a much larger payload,” said Chris Newland, CEO of Aesir Ltd. “Though we have designed a range of products we also have the capability to customise these to meet a range of options depending on requirements,” he added.
The AESIR UAVs provide a sustained hover capability, have a large payload capacity when compared to similar sized fixed wing craft and have been designed to use “plug-and-play” payloads resulting in considerable flexibility. Designed into the craft is an effective perch-and-stare capability.
The AESIR family of craft range from a 300mm diameter craft called Vidar, through Odin which is a 1m diameter craft with a payload capability of 10kg, to Hoder which is a multi engine craft with the capability to lift a payload of 1 tonne.
Vidar is a man portable craft designed to provide surveillance and situational awareness inside buildings and in close confined spaces. It has an electric engine powered by Lithium Polymer batteries and a 15 minute endurance with a 100g payload.
Odin is fitted with a rotary internal combustion engine and can carry a 10kg payload for up to an hour. Fitted with an autonomous flight control system and managed through a simple to operate ground control system, it can be adapted to a range of tasks including ISTAR, communications relay, electronic warfare, asset protection, IED detection and can be used as a loitering munition.
Hoder is a heavy lift craft capable of carrying a one tonne payload. It is primarily intended for cargo transport but can easily be adapted to become a long endurance craft by reducing the payload and increasing the fuel. Hoder is in the early stages of development but is expected that it will be multi-engined.
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https://flights.expedia.com/flights-from-bismarck-to-billings-bis-to-bil/ | 2015-10-09T09:31:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737922497.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221842-00105-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.920043 | 402 | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-40__0__15016038 | en | Book your BIS to BIL flights with Expedia and find last-minute Bismarck to Billings airfare. Expedia offers discount airfare on multiple airline carriers that fly direct and indirect routes between BIS and BIL, with new flight deals and promotions almost daily. When you book your next trip from Bismarck Municipal to Logan Intl. with Expedia, you can rest assured you’re getting great ticket prices and excellent service from one of the world’s most trusted travel providers.
Interesting Facts About Flights from Bismarck to Billings (BIS to BIL)
- The smallest aircraft servicing flights from BIS to BIL for Skywest Air is the CRJ-2/4 built by Canadair with 50 seats.
- The newest aircraft servicing BIS to BIL in 2009 was Skywest Air's CRJ-2/4 from Canadair. The CRJ-2/4 started flying in 1997.
- The largest aircraft servicing flights between Bismarck and Billings from Skywest Air is the CRJ-2/4 built by Canadair with 50 seats.
- The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Bismarck, ND to Billings, MT in 2009 was Skywest Air's CRJ-2/4 from Canadair which started flying in 1997.
- Skywest Air operated flights from BIS to BIL using one type of aircraft in 2009.
(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)
BIS to BIL Flight Schedule
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https://www.brandywinecomm.com/products/oem-solutions/42-products/commercial-gps-synchronized-clocks/149-gpsdo-gps-disciplined-oscillator-module | 2021-06-21T19:20:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488289268.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621181810-20210621211810-00603.warc.gz | 0.902657 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__187754233 | en | GPSDO - GPS Disciplined Oscillator Module
The GPS Disciplined Oscillator Module is a small Commercial –Off-the-Shelf (COTS) GPSDO that has been designed to meet military requirements such as MIL-STD-188-164A. At only 4.1” x 2.75” x 1” (104.0 x 70.0 x 26.0 mm) in size, the unit provides Stratum 1 performance. The GPSDO supplies three isolated, low noise precision10 MHz frequency reference signal outputs. These outputs are accurate to 1x10-12 when slaved to a timing supply from an internal GPS tracking receiver.
The frequency standard is also able to slave to an external 1PPS signal to steer and hold the internal oscillator and clock system precisely in time. Time and frequency information maintains its high accuracy with the internal oscillator even when no satellites can be tracked. A serial data port is provided to report time, date, position, and GPS satellite health and signal strength. The GPSDO module also has dual power supply inputs and can operate off either supply input. Optional capabilities include automatic interface to an external military GPS receiver such as the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR), Ethernet Interface for NTP time service and SNMP status monitoring. Standard frequency output is 10 MHZ, but other frequencies are possible. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.noodle.com/learn/details/279713/mars-what-do-we-know | 2018-06-24T21:00:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867055.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624195735-20180624215735-00037.warc.gz | 0.884677 | 93 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__134813716 | en | As the launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory draws nearer, scientists provide a general overview of what's known about the Red Planet, and what we hope to learn with the Curiosity rover. MSL is now scheduled to liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 26.
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https://lazyapply.com/resignation-letter/aircraft-technician-resignation-letter | 2023-12-02T21:33:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100452.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202203800-20231202233800-00415.warc.gz | 0.968265 | 362 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__233781894 | en | Aircraft Technician resignation letter
So you have decided to quit your current aircraft technician job and are going to take a next step in your career. Just make sure you end things with your current company in good note. One of the most important part of quitting is to write a good resignation letter as aircraft technician.
here are 3 examples that you can use for resignation letter as Aircraft Technician -
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Dear [employer name], I am writing to let you know that I am resigning from my position as Aircraft technician with immediate effect. It has been a pleasure to work for the company and I have enjoyed my time here. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to work as an Aircraft technician and contribute to the company. I wish you all the best for the future. Sincerely, [Your name]
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Dear [Employer], I regret to inform you that I am resigning from my position as aircraft technician. It has been a pleasure working with you, and I would like to thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the company as an aircraft technician. I will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, [Your Name]
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Dear Aircraft technician manager, I am writing to inform you of my resignation from my role as an aircraft technician. It has been a pleasure to work for the company and contribute to its success. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to work in this role and for the support you have provided me during my time with the company. I wish you and the company all the best for the future. Sincerely, [Your name]
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https://www.pdmanagers.com.au/our-projects-post/raaf-base-edinburgh-woomera-aircraft-pavement-maintenance/ | 2022-05-17T04:24:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662515501.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220517031843-20220517061843-00117.warc.gz | 0.760192 | 123 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__129068733 | en | RAAF Base Edinburgh/ Woomera Aircraft Pavement Maintenance
|Client:||Department of Defence|
|Project:||RAAF Base Edinburgh / Woomera Aircraft Pavement Maintenance|
|Duration:||January 2009 – December 2009|
PDM undertook the construction management on behalf of Australian Pavement Maintenance Systems for the 2008 – 2009 airfields maintenance package RAAF Base Edinburgh & Woomera.
Works included pavement rectification, pavement rejuvenation, concrete repairs and joint replacement works whilst under an active military aviation environment. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.oscilloquartz.com/industries-time-frequency-11 | 2018-09-22T21:19:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267158691.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180922201637-20180922222037-00292.warc.gz | 0.845682 | 80 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__94723857 | en | Time & Frequency
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https://wildabouttravel.boardingarea.com/2018/08/inside-the-aeromexico-crash/ | 2022-10-01T21:22:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030336921.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001195125-20221001225125-00129.warc.gz | 0.968407 | 648 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__8611984 | en | Like many passengers, I sometimes film the take off or landing whilst en route. Some of my films are interesting and some are not. The video below is definitely very interesting as it captures the failed take off of Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 which crashed on Tuesday July 31, 2018 during takeoff from Durango International Airport.
The Embraer 190 was bound for Mexico City, 765 kilometres (475 miles) away. Whilst accelerating in stormy weather, the aircraft apparently became airborne briefly and then veered off the runway after being hit “by a gust of wind”. The left wing hit the ground on the left of the runway. Both engines broke away during the subsequent ground slide. The aircraft came to rest about 380 metres past the runway threshold and 320 metres past the paved end of the runway and ended up in a field 460 metres (1,500 feet) beyond the end of the runway. It then caught fire which engulfed and destroyed it.
Of the four crew and 99 passengers on board, 85 reported injuries, mostly minor. 49 went to hospital. Two of those injured had more serious injuries, one of whom was the pilot who had surgery on the spine. The other serious injury, was an eight year old girl who had first and second degree burns to about 25% of the body.
This video should not be watched if you fear flying:
The Embraer 190 is a narrow-body medium-range twin-engine jet plane. There are 549 flying with airlines across the globe including JetBlue in the USA, Tianjin Airlines in China and the Netherland’s, KLM Cityhopper. According to Aviation Safety Network, seven E190s have been destroyed or written off since 2007. Five of those accidents had no fatalities and two saw a total of 77 deaths.
This particular model registration XA-GAL was 10.3 years old and was first delivered to former US Airways. 2009. It had been with Aeroméxico Connect since 2014.
No cause has been determined but the flight data recorders have been recovered. It is usually some months before authorities report on a plane accident. There has been some speculation that the plane encountered wind shear.
Aeromexcio is one of the oldest airlines in the world, flying since 1934. Their fleet of 133 includes 72 at the mainline carrier and 61 at its Aeromexico Connect regional subsidiary and they connect 89 destinations. They are rated as a three star airline by Skyteam with passengers giving them a 50% rating. Airline ratings currently gives Aeromexico 7/7 for safety.
Delta Air Lines owns 33% of Aeromexico and has options to buy up to 49%. The two airlines have a joint cooperation agreement (JCA) aimed at integrating schedules and service across the two networks.
I have never flown Aeromexcio. This incident has not dissuaded me. Full marks to crew and passengers for executing a rapid escape from the downed aircraft.
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https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/energy-research | 2022-05-20T02:03:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662530553.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519235259-20220520025259-00550.warc.gz | 0.946513 | 274 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__180018362 | en | BAE Systems has announced a £1m three-year partnership with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to conduct research into energy management.
The initiative recognises the need to better manage energy in the defence sector, which will cut emissions, reduce overall cost and secure supply.
Research will focus on the development of intelligent energy management systems for use in the defence sector, initially on BAE Systems sites across the UK but with potential for wider use both in the defence industry and on military bases.
Longer term, the research partners aim to extend these systems to other sectors to enhance the competitiveness of British industry.
The partnership will also investigate new energy technologies that could enable unmanned aircraft systems to operate more efficiently, helping them to stay in the air for longer.
Nigel Whitehead, group managing director, Programmes & Support at BAE Systems, said: 'Environmental issues are a growing concern for the military and the defence industry. Our partnership with UCLan will show how engineers can tackle these issues and is part of a wider energy management strategy at BAE Systems.'
The partnership will be delivered under the guidance of a BAE Systems/UCLan governance group. UCLan will establish a Centre for Energy and Power Management, which will be located within its Centre for Sustainable Development in Preston, Lancashire. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au/industry/5043-podcast-space-connect-meets-australian-pioneer-adam-gilmour | 2023-12-03T21:20:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203193127-20231203223127-00149.warc.gz | 0.915811 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__246888033 | en | Gilmour’s philosophy is that rockets can be made smaller, cheaper and faster, and doing so will open up space and make it far more accessible.
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https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?1734881-Vortex-lattice-code | 2017-03-26T17:32:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189244.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00459-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.84758 | 1,313 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__207397831 | en | Vortex lattice code
This thread will detail my work on a vortex lattice code intended for optimizing wings. For the final tool, I plan to couple it with XFOIL code subroutines to compute profile drag at each section, which will then be integrated using a strip-theory approach. So the lift and induced drag will be computed via the 3D potential flow approach, and the profile drag will be summed up by a 2D analysis of each section.
The solution process will look like this:
1) Create the geometry using a separate spreadsheet with visual display of the wing as you create it. The spreadsheet will then automatically write the required geometry input files for the vortex lattice code.
2) Set up an input file for the code listing flight condition (specified alpha or specified CL, yaw angle, Reynolds number at the root); root airfoil, tip airfoil, and other airfoils between the root and tip; paneling discretization, and any runtime options.
3) Run the code. The following will happen:
---i) First, airfoil shapes will be interpolated to each panel. These coordinates will be used when running XFOIL to get profile drag.
---ii) From the computed airfoil geometry, create the mean camber line at each panel. The mean camber line is used for the vortex lattice geometry.
---iii) Using the mean camber lines, input geometry, and paneling setup, create wing panels and compute information such as panel areas, collocation points, normal vectors, etc.
---iv) Set up a vortex ring for each panel, where the leading edge of the vortex ring is along the quarter-chord line of the panel and the collocation point is at the center of the 3/4-chord line of the panel (half-chord line of the vortex ring).
---v) Set up horseshoe vortices in the wake, whose leading edges line up with the trailing edges of the aftmost vortex rings on the wing. To satisfy the Kutta condition, the horseshoe vortices in the wake have the same circulation strength as the vortex rings they line up with.
---vi) Solve for the unknown strengths of the vortex rings by satisfying the boundary condition of no through-flow at the collocation points.
---vii) Get the velocity at the wing panels by summing up influences of all vortex rings and horseshoe vortices. Get pressure distribution from velocities by the Bernoulli equation.
---viii) Find the lift coefficient, pitching moment coefficient, and induced drag coefficient by integrating the pressure differential on the surface.
---ix) If a lift coefficient was specified and the computed lift coefficient is not the specified lift coefficient, adjust the angle of attack and start over at step vi).
---x) Calculate Reynolds numbers for the airfoils at each section. Run each airfoil at the appropriate Reynolds number and angle of attack to compute the profile drag.
---xi) Integrate the profile drag across the span to get the total profile drag.
---xii) Write output files for spanwise variation of sectional lift, induced drag, profile drag, and any other output files deemed valuable.
You may ask, "Montag DP, why are you making a new vortex lattice code when there are already some good freely available ones, like AVL and XFLR5?" There are a few reasons. The main reason is that I want to eventually be able to wrap an optimizer around it to maximize the performance of sailplane wings. There are some other reasons too:
1) AVL doesn't do profile drag.
2) XFLR5 does profile drag, but I don't like how everything is behind a GUI. It's not good for running a lot of cases in a short amount of time.
3) By writing the code myself, I can make it so that it is easy to wrap an optimizer around it. I can also parallelize it to run faster.
4) It will be fun, and I can experiment with some other things like wake relaxation. Perhaps eventually the inviscid part of the analysis can be made unsteady and applied to aeroelastic problems or rotorcraft simulations.
So far all I've done is written the code to calculate the influence of arbitrary quadrilateral vortex rings on arbitrary points in space. The first picture below shows streamlines from a test I did. I will next have to add triangular vortex rings and horseshoe vortices before I can start writing the vortex lattice code.
Progress will probably be slow in the next couple months because I'm taking Quals at the end of October, so I won't be devoting much time to this before then.
The vortex lattice code is pretty much stalled. I got busy with other stuff and now I'm working on an airfoil optimization code. Plus, the already-available options like AVL and XFLR5 already do pretty much everything I wanted to do with the vortex lattice code anyway. I'll update this thread if I do start working on it again. In the meantime, we can discuss optimization via PM or in my XoptFoil thread in the Modeling Science forum.
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If landing altitude differs from the reference altitude, (for instance when the landing point is far from the UAV power on point), the height between landing point and UAV power on point can be set either :
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https://omanwires.com/2018/oman-air-receives-third-boeing-737-max-8-five-by-september/ | 2023-01-30T17:54:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499826.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130165437-20230130195437-00717.warc.gz | 0.939791 | 334 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__285535992 | en | Oman Air expects to obtain a total of 5 737 Max by September, stated a press release.
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Supersonic passenger plane
The first commercial airliner that flies passengers at
speeds in excess of the speed of sound.
The people behind the invention:
Sir Archibald Russell (1904- ), a designer with the British
Pierre Satre (1909- ), technical director at Sud-Aviation
Julian Amery (1919- ), British minister of aviation, 1962-1964
Geoffroy de Cource (1912- ), French minister of aviation,
William T. Coleman, Jr. (1920- ), U.S. secretary of
Birth of Supersonic Transportations
On January 21, 1976, the Anglo-French Concorde became the
world’s first supersonic airliner to carry passengers on scheduled
commercial flights. British Airways flew a Concorde from London’s
Heathrow Airport to the Persian Gulf emirate of Bahrain in
three hours and thirty-eight minutes. At about the same time, Air
France flew a Concorde from Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport to
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in seven hours and twenty-five minutes.
The Concordes’ cruising speeds were about twice the speed of
sound, or 1,350 miles per hour. On May 24, 1976, the United States
and Europe became linked for the first time with commercial supersonic
air transportation. British Airways inaugurated flights
between Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., and
Heathrow Airport. Likewise, Air France inaugurated flights between
Dulles International Airport and Charles de Gaulle Airport.
The London-Washington, D.C., flight was flown in an unprecedented
time of three hours and forty minutes. The Paris-
Washington, D.C., flight was flown in a time of three hours and
The Decision to Build the SST
Events leading to the development and production of the Anglo-
French Concorde went back almost twenty years and included approximately
$3 billion in investment costs. Issues surrounding the
development and final production of the supersonic transport (SST)
were extremely complex and at times highly emotional. The concept
of developing an SST brought with it environmental concerns
and questions, safety issues both in the air and on the ground, political
intrigue of international proportions, and enormous economic
problems from costs of operations, research, and development.
In England, the decision to begin the SST project was made in October,
1956. Under the promotion of Morien Morgan with the Royal
Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, England, it was decided at
the Aviation Ministry headquarters in London to begin development
of a supersonic aircraft. This decision was based on the intense competition
from the American Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 subsonic
jets going into commercial service. There was little point in developing
another subsonic plane; the alternative was to go above the speed
of sound. In November, 1956, at Farnborough, the first meeting of the
Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee, known as STAC, was held.
Members of the STAC proposed that development costs would be
in the range of $165 million to $260 million, depending on the range,
speed, and payload of the chosen SST. The committee also projected
that by 1970, there would be a world market for at least 150 to 500 supersonic
planes. Estimates were that the supersonic plane would recover
its entire research and development cost through thirty sales.
The British, in order to continue development of an SST, needed a European
partner as a way of sharing the costs and preempting objections
to proposed funding by England’s Treasury.
In 1960, the British government gave the newly organized British
Aircraft Corporation (BAC) $1 million for an SST feasibility study.
Sir Archibald Russell, BAC’s chief supersonic designer, visited Pierre
Satre, the technical director at the French firm of Sud-Aviation.
Satre’s suggestion was to evolve an SST from Sud-Aviation’s highly
successful subsonic Caravelle transport. By September, 1962, an
agreement was reached by Sud and BAC design teams on a new
SST, the Super Caravelle.
There was a bitter battle over the choice of engines with two British
engine firms, Bristol-Siddeley and Rolls-Royce, as contenders.
Sir Arnold Hall, the managing director of Bristol-Siddeley, in collaboration
with the French aero-engine company SNECMA, was eventually
awarded the contract for the engines. The engine chosen was
a “civilianized” version of the Olympus, which Bristol had been developing
for the multirole TRS-2 combat plane.
The Concorde Consortium
On November 29, 1962, the Concorde Consortium was created
by an agreement between England and the French Republic, signed
by Ministers of Aviation Julian Amery and Geoffroy de Cource
(1912- ). The first Concorde, Model 001, rolled out from Sud-
Aviation’s St. Martin-du-Touch assembly plant on December 11,
1968. The second, Model 002, was completed at the British Aircraft
Corporation a few months later. Eight years later, on January 21,
1976, the Concorde became the world’s first supersonic airliner to
carry passengers on scheduled commercial flights.
Development of the SST did not come easily for the Anglo-
French consortium. The nature of supersonic flight created numerous
problems and uncertainties not present for subsonic flight. The
SST traveled faster than the speed of sound. Sound travels at 760
miles per hour at sea level at a temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit.
This speed drops to about 660 miles per hour at sixty-five thousand
feet, cruising altitude for the SST, where the air temperature
drops to 70 degrees below zero.
The Concorde was designed to fly at a maximum of 1,450 miles
per hour. The European designers could use an aluminum alloy
construction and stay below the critical skin-friction temperatures
that required other airframe alloys, such as titanium. The Concorde
was designed with a slender curved wing surface. The design incorporated
widely separated engine nacelles, each housing two Olympus
593 jet engines. The Concorde was also designed with a “droop
snoot,” providing three positions: the supersonic configuration, a
heat-visor retracted position for subsonic flight, and a nose-lowered
position for landing patterns.
Early SST designers were faced with questions such as the intensity
and ionization effect of cosmic rays at flight altitudes of sixty to
seventy thousand feet. The “cascade effect” concerned the intensification
of cosmic radiation when particles from outer space struck a
metallic cover. Scientists looked for ways to shield passengers from
this hazard inside the aluminum or titanium shell of an SST flying
high above the protective blanket of the troposphere. Experts questioned
whether the risk of being struck by meteorites was any
greater for the SST than for subsonic jets and looked for evidence on
wind shear of jet streams in the stratosphere.
Other questions concerned the strength and frequency of clear air
turbulence above forty-five thousand feet, whether the higher ozone
content of the air at SST cruise altitude would affect the materials of
the aircraft, whether SST flights would upset or destroy the protective
nature of the earth’s ozone layer, the effect of aerodynamic heating
on material strength, and the tolerable strength of sonic booms
over populated areas. These and other questions consumed the designers
and researchers involved in developing the Concorde.
Through design research and flight tests, many of the questions
were resolved or realized to be less significant than anticipated. Several
issues did develop into environmental, economic, and international
issues. In late 1975, the British and French governments requested
permission to use the Concorde at New York’s John F.
Kennedy International Airport and at Dulles International Airport
for scheduled flights between the United States and Europe. In December,
1975, as a result of strong opposition from anti-Concorde
environmental groups, the U.S. House of Representatives approved
a six-month ban on SSTs coming into the United States so that the
impact of flights could be studied. Secretary of TransportationWilliam
T. Coleman, Jr., held hearings to prepare for a decision by February
5, 1976, as to whether to allow the Concorde into U.S. airspace.
The British and French, if denied landing rights, threatened
to take the United States to an international court, claiming that
treaties had been violated.
The treaties in question were the Chicago Convention and Bermuda
agreements of February 11, 1946, and March 27, 1946. These
treaties prohibited the United States from banning aircraft that both
France and Great Britain had certified to be safe. The Environmental
Defense Fund contended that the United States had the right to ban
SST aircraft on environmental grounds.
Under pressure from both sides, Coleman decided to allow limited
Concorde service at Dulles and John F. Kennedy airports for a
sixteen-month trial period. Service into John F. Kennedy Airport,
however, was delayed by a ban by the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey until a pending suit was pursued by the airlines.
During the test period, detailed records were to be kept on the
Concorde’s noise levels, vibration, and engine emission levels. Other
provisions included that the plane would not fly at supersonic
speeds over the continental United States; that all flights could be
cancelled by the United States with four months notice, or immediately
if they proved harmful to the health and safety of Americans;
and that at the end of a year, four months of study would begin to
determine if the trial period should be extended.
The Concorde’s noise was one of the primary issues in determining
whether the plane should be allowed into U.S. airports. The Federal
Aviation Administration measured the effective perceived noise
in decibels. After three months of monitoring the Concorde’s departure
noise at 3.5 nautical miles was found to vary from 105 to 130
decibels. The Concorde’s approach noise at one nautical mile from
threshold varied from 115 to 130 decibels. These readings were approximately
equal to noise levels of other four-engine jets, such as
the Boeing 747, on landing but were twice as loud on takeoff.
The Economics of Operation
Another issue of significance was the economics of Concorde’s
operation and its tremendous investment costs. In 1956, early predictions
of Great Britain’s STAC were for a world market of 150 to
500 supersonic planes. In November, 1976, Great Britain’s Gerald
Kaufman and France’s Marcel Cavaille said that production of the
Concorde would not continue beyond the sixteen vehicles then contracted
for with BAC and Sud-Aviation. There was no demand by
U.S. airline corporations for the plane. Given that the planes could
not fly at supersonic speeds over populated areas because of the
sonic boom phenomenon, markets for the SST had to be separated
by at least three thousand miles, with flight paths over mostly water
or desert. Studies indicated that there were only twelve to fifteen
routes in the world for which the Concorde was suitable. The planes
were expensive, at a price of approximately $74 million each and
had a limited seating capacity of one hundred passengers. The
plane’s range was about four thousand miles.
These statistics compared to a Boeing 747 with a cost of $35 million,
seating capacity of 360, and a range of six thousand miles. In
addition, the International Air Transport Association negotiated
that the fares for the Concorde flights should be equivalent to current
first-class fares plus 20 percent. The marketing promotion for
the Anglo-French Concorde was thus limited to the elite business
traveler who considered speed over cost of transportation. Given
these factors, the recovery of research and development costs for
Great Britain and France would never occur.
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Russia’s Aviation Industry in Crisis Amid Delays As Planes Break Down
Hundreds of Russian passengers bound for the city of Yekaterinburg have been stranded in Antalya, Turkey, for a second day after a Russian airline suddenly lost two of its three Boeing 777 aircraft due to technical problems, authorities said.
“Two Boeing 777 aircraft out of the three available in the airline’s fleet were simultaneously out of service due to technical reasons,” Russia’s Red Wings said in a statement. In a post on its Telegram channel, the airline said the two aircraft “simultaneously failed.”
Russia’s aviation industry has been hard hit by Western sanctions imposed over President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian-operated Boeing planes have been sanctioned by the U.S. government, and the plane maker has stopped delivering spare parts and new aircraft to the country.
By Isabel Van Brugen | Newsweek
Leaders hopeful FAA investments will ease air travel troubles
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Plans to invest in the Federal Aviation Administration have leaders optimistic that the air travel industry is about to get some much-needed updates.
The hope is that will mean a smoother experience for passengers after several seasons of messy travel troubles.
As we fly through the summer travel season, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he’s been encouraged by how things are going.
“The rate of cancellations and delays is dramatically lower than it was a year ago. Matter of fact lower than the 10-year average,” Buttigieg said.
He believes that’s because of the pressure his department has put on airlines to take better care of passengers.
“A lot of progress has been made. There’s still a long way to go,” Buttigieg said.
By Hannah Brandt | FOX2Now
NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’
A new solid-state sulfur selenium battery developed by NASA could revolutionize air travel by powering planes with electricity instead of gas.
Airplanes require a lot of fuel to get and stay in the air. While flying, they release a wide variety of harmful pollutants into the air. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that commercial air travel accounts for 10% of U.S. transportation emissions and 3% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
Electric airplanes do exist, but they’re not widely used. They can’t fly as fast or for as long as planes powered with traditional combustion engines. The unfortunate fact is that electric batteries just aren’t as “energy dense” — they don’t store as much per-pound energy — as gas. A plane would require a battery with an energy density of around 800 watt-hours per kilogram (about 363 watt-hours per pound) to get off the ground. Until recently, the strongest batteries had an energy density of only 250 watt-hours per kilogram (about 113 watt-hours per pound).
Most of today’s electric vehicles use lithium-ion batteries, the same kind of batteries that power most phones and laptops. Lithium-ion batteries have a high power-to-weight ratio and can withstand high temperatures, but they still can’t provide larger airplanes with the energy they need to get off the ground or to go very far. In addition, lithium-ion batteries are made with flammable materials, posing a risk to aircraft should they malfunction.
By Jane Donohue | The Cooldown via Yahoo News
New Airline Lounges And Inflight Perks Make Air Travel Surprisingly Better This Summer
With weather disruptions and constant delays upending the conversation about air travel this summer, it’s actually not all bad news. Many carriers are working to improve what they offer as they invest in new aircraft, lounges and amenities, a welcome change following the pandemic years.
Whether you are traveling as the result of winning a free vacation (are you entering these free travel sweepstakes?) or to visit a new hotel or resort in a destination you’ve never visited, these airline products are worth exploring. Thankfully, air carriers are introducing new products and perks that can make the travel experience better.
By Ramsey Qubein | Forbes
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Strafe Run is a near-infinite flyer where you play as François the Flying Frenchman during the first world war. Understandably he is a grumpy pilot, crashing as often as he is, it adds to the stress of being a pilot in a plane that can bare fly, and most of the time it insta-crashes while trying to land.
Will you be able to fly to the end of the whole front line of WWI ?
Fly till you die! | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.nafa.aero/articles/the-national-aircraft-finance-association-nafa-celebrates-50-years-of-aviation-finance-expertise | 2021-12-01T15:33:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964360803.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20211201143545-20211201173545-00373.warc.gz | 0.956861 | 1,106 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__84144529 | en | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 24, 2021
Contact: Tracey Cheek
The National Aircraft Finance Association (NAFA) Celebrates
50 Years of Aviation Finance Expertise
Edgewater, MD: 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of NAFA’s inception. The occasion comes at a pivotal moment in the world of aircraft financing—a time when the professional education, lender access, and networking opportunities NAFA provides are more important than ever.
The History of NAFA
NAFA was born in the late 60s when Tom Harvell, Bob Beech, Carol Davis, Jim Peters, Victor Hermey, Bob Keeling, William Staub, and other lenders who financed aircraft in large volume came together with an idea: improve and facilitate the lending process to support aircraft buyers.
Their first order of business? Figure out who was lending on aircraft. For that, they reached out to a local Oklahoma City title and escrow firm, which conducted research to identify this common core of entities. Over the next few years, the group began meeting in a more formal way as the Aircraft Finance Association, or AFA for short. In its early years, the AFA worked to develop a streamlined FAA escrow process to immediately secure lienholder interest in aircraft—a process that, at the time, was an uphill battle requiring much litigation. They also worked to improve the process of reporting aircraft interests, with an end goal of better grasping how exactly to value an aircraft, specifically when it comes to financing used assets. The solution, in part, lead to the formation of the industry’s first comprehensive aircraft value guide for both business and general aviation.
What started as a small, scrappy group of lenders figuring out how to corral the industry grew, by the 1980s, into a network of approximately 70 member companies. It was at this point that AFA rebranded to become the National Aircraft Finance Association, or NAFA.
Fast forward to today, and the organization has grown to nearly 200 member companies, including the five largest banks in the United States. In addition to niche financiers, NAFA is home to certified appraisers, aviation attorneys, title and escrow firms, aviation tax specialists, aircraft insurance firms, aircraft manufacturers, brokers, and dealers—essentially anyone involved with the touchpoint of buying and/or financing an aircraft. This diverse representation has allowed NAFA, over the past 50 years, to successfully facilitate the exchange of ideas and capital that finance the world’s business and general aviation aircraft.
Key tenets of the organization include:
- A world-class network
NAFA hosts a complete network of lenders and product/service providers, all of whom regularly convene via in-person or live video events to discuss and resolve key, timely industry issues.
- Industry expertise and education
NAFA members obtain comprehensive education on the latest industry developments, laws, and regulations from a vetted group of experienced professionals.
- Unparalleled access to lenders and borrowers
With NAFA, all aircraft financing needs are housed in one organization, with tailored solutions for first-time and experienced buyers alike that not only support but promote aircraft finance.
The Future of NAFA
50 years in, NAFA is showing no signs of slowing down. Aircraft purchasers are leaning on financing more than ever as a way to become more liquid while maintaining their cash reserves. There is also an uptick in first-time aircraft buyers (people entering the market who haven’t owned before as well as entities who may have owned an aircraft 15-20 years ago and are now returning)—a large percentage of whom are financing their purchases. This all coupled with historically low interest rates is fueling an increase in financing demand.
NAFA is primed for the surge in demand with a 2021 plan that includes:
- Expanding educational offerings through articles and newsletters. During COVID-19, NAFA also launched webinars, which covered topics such as best practices in aircraft lending, how to manage a loan portfolio in this unique economic environment, and impending regulatory changes in the market.
- Developing and growing NAFA as the voice of aircraft finance by closely tracking activity and changes in the market and publishing recurring market updates on the state of aircraft financing.
- Collaborating with other aviation associations as a way to expand access to aviation and aircraft ownership.
- Investing in the future of aviation professionals with a newly established NAFA Foundation, and a scholarship program that supports aircraft finance students from universities across the country.
According to Jim Blessing, President of NAFA, “Many things may have changed over the past 50 years, but NAFA has retained the founders’ love of aviation and original purpose: to promote aircraft financing and the organizations that support it.”
About NAFA: The National Aircraft Finance Association (NAFA) is a professional association that has been promoting the general welfare of aircraft finance for 50 years. Our network of members is comprised of lenders and product service providers who work together to finance general and business aviation aircraft. NAFA sets the standard for best practices in aviation finance by educating its members with the most up-to-date industry trends and best practices. Government legislation, market influences, and industry insights allow member companies to provide the highest quality services the industry has to offer. | aerospace | 1 |
https://billyskyscraper.mystrikingly.com/ | 2022-09-28T18:28:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335276.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928180732-20220928210732-00229.warc.gz | 0.957458 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__239814514 | en | An awesome infinite runner designed for your android device
Billy Skyscraper - The Jetpack Avenger
Enter the world's most secure banks... with a jetpack !
Jetpack ? What is it ?
History of the jetpack
From fiction to reality
Jet pack, rocket belt, rocket pack and similar names are used for various types of devices, usually worn on the back, that are propelled by jets of escaping gases (or in some cases water) to let a single user propel him or herself into the air or fly.
The concept emerged from science fiction in the 1920s and became popular in the 1960s as the technology became a reality. The most common use of the jetpack has been in extra-vehicular activities for astronauts. Despite decades of advancement in the technology, the challenges of Earth's atmosphere, Earth's gravity, low energy density of available fuels, and the human body not being adapted to fly naturally remain an obstacle to its potential use in the military or as a means of personal transport. To compensate for the limitations of the human body, the jetpack must accommodate for all factors of flight such as lift and stabilization. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.halldale.com/articles/20039-skyborne-opens-flight-training-to-all | 2024-02-22T03:20:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00746.warc.gz | 0.957367 | 260 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__57561312 | en | Skyborne is now offering an Airline Academy Program for flight training applicants who wish to learn how to fly before committing to a defined career pathway. The flight school is also launching a Skyborne CFI Scholarship providing $2.5 mmillion in training value to program graduates who wish to become flight instructors at Skyborne.
The new Airline Academy Program provides a 10-month course which trains applicants through their Private Pilot License (PPL), Instrument Rating, and Commercial Rating. Applicants can begin their training as soon as they are ready and may choose to add optional supplements, such as on-site accommodation, to their training package. After completing their PPL, trainees who wish to pursue a career with one of Skyborne's airline partners must undergo the academy's aptitude testing process designed specifically for airline pilots.
Skyborne is also providing up to $2.5 million in scholarships to the first 100 trainees who have completed the Airline Academy program and wish to become a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) at Skyborne. Those who apply for an instructor role and pass the CFI selection process will receive $25,000 in training sessions covering the cost of their CFI, Certified Flight Instructor Instrument (CFII) and Multi-Engine Instructor (MEI) ratings. | aerospace | 1 |
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Military Helicopters: The Pocket EncyklopediaOff-line encyclopedia of military helicopters. You will not only learn basic facts of all important helicopter types, their dimensions and performance data. You will get comparison of competiting models. Besides you can check charts with aircraft ordered by dimensions, thrust, number of built items and many others. Each type is depicted with a couple of photos.
DescriptionYou will learn this information: Year of the first flight, how many items were built, number of flight deck crew, troops capacity, overall length and height, rotor diameter, number of rotor blades, typical operating empty weight, maximum take-off weight, maximum speed, maximum range, service ceiling, number of engines, power per engine, rate of climb. Besides, learn non-numeric facts like country of origin, NATO code name for non-NATO types, role, rotors arrangement, operators etc.
You can get all helicopters ordered according to any of these parameters. App shows helicopters' specification in either imperial or metric units or both, according to your preferences.
Currently these 29 military helicopters are included in this encyclopedia but more ones are to be added soon:
Aérospatiale Alouette II, Alouette III, SA 321 Super Frelon, SA 330 Puma, SA 341 Gazelle,
Bell AH-1F Cobra, AH-1W SuperCobra, AH-1Z Viper, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, UH-1 Iroquois,
Boeing AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook,
Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche,
Eurocopter AS 332 Super Puma, AS 532 Cougar, EC 665 Tiger,
Kamov Ka-27, Ka-50 Black Shark, Ka-52 Alligator,
Mil Mi-6, Mi-8T, Mi-12 (V-12), Mi-14, Mi-17, Mi-24, Mi-26, Mi-28,
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, CH-53E Super Stallion.
Optimized for these devices:
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History of versions
- 1.0 (not published yet)
The first version. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.geoinformers.com/post/2018-11-12-isro-is-planning-to-send-a-mission-to-venus | 2023-12-11T02:43:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103464.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211013452-20231211043452-00377.warc.gz | 0.896752 | 350 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__9779699 | en | ISRO is planning to send a mission to Venus
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to study Venus from an elliptical orbit that is closest to the planet at 500 km and 60,000 km at the farthest end – similar to Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) of 2013.
Shukrayaan-1 (Venus craft) is a proposed orbiter to Venus by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to study the surface and atmosphere of Venus.
Earmarked for mid-2023, the mission, tentatively named ‘Mission Venus’, has revived the 18-month-old pitch for what is slated to be the first Indian orbiter mission to Venus, The Hindu reported.
After 18 months of planning, ISRO has invited international proposals for scientific payloads on the rocket that will launch an orbiter to Venus. The orbiter itself will have 12 instruments, including a thermal camera, mass spectrometer and cloud monitoring camera. The spacecraft will be able to carry about 100 kg, and will have 500W of power, according to ISRO.
Proposals are solicited from interested scientists -
In this context, proposals are solicited from interested scientists within India for novel space based experiments. This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) is addressed to all institutions in India. Those sending proposals may be currently involved in planetary exploration studies / the development of science instruments for space / willing to develop the experiments. The Principal Investigator of the proposal should
(i) provide necessary details of the instrument which can address the scientific problems and
(ii) be capable of bringing together the instrument team and lead the team for developing a space qualified instrument. | aerospace | 1 |
https://english.thesunrisetoday.com/index.php/british-airways-plane-catches-fire-in-las-vegas/ | 2023-03-24T16:52:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945287.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324144746-20230324174746-00035.warc.gz | 0.955618 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__98013659 | en | British Airways plane catches fire in Las Vegas
A London-bound British Airways jet caught fire on Tuesday as it was preparing to take off from Las Vegas, prompting the crew to abort takeoff and evacuate terrified passengers.
“There were 159 passengers and 13 crew on the flight,” McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas said.
It added that seven people on board were treated for minor injuries.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the fire broke out in the left engine of the 257-seat Boeing 777 shortly after 4:00 p.m. (2300 GMT) and the crew immediately aborted takeoff and ordered an evacuation.
“Passengers deplaned on the runway using emergency slides and (were) bused to the terminal,” FAA spokesman Ian Gregor told AFP.
He said a probe was underway to determine the cause.
An AFP correspondent at the airport said the blaze was quickly put out by some 50 firefighters who rushed to the site within minutes along with other emergency vehicles.
Passengers described scenes of panic on the plane with one witness saying there was “a lot of screaming” as fumes filled the cabin and the crew deployed the emergency slides.
Some of the passengers posted dramatic images and videos that showed plumes of smoke and flames engulfing the aircraft.
“Just got evacuated from our flight#BA2276 plane caught fire somehow omg,” passenger Dominic Worthington said on Twitter. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.sportsbettinginfo.co.uk/news/soaring-through-the-skies-the-thrilling-world-of-fpv-drone-races | 2024-02-23T00:30:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473871.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222225655-20240223015655-00894.warc.gz | 0.930254 | 881 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__113157728 | en | Soaring through the Skies: The Thrilling World of FPV Drone Races
In the realm of modern technology, the fusion of innovation and excitement has given rise to various thrilling recreational activities. One such phenomenon that has gained significant popularity in recent years is First Person View (FPV) drone racing. Imagine hurtling through the air at breakneck speeds, navigating tight corners and obstacles, all while sitting comfortably on the ground with a pair of specialized goggles that give you a bird’s-eye view of the action. FPV drone racing has transformed from a niche hobby to a global sensation, captivating enthusiasts and spectators alike with its blend of technology, skill, and adrenaline.
The Basics of FPV Drone Racing:
At its core, FPV drone racing involves pilots flying small, agile drones equipped with cameras, wearing FPV goggles that provide a live video feed from the drone’s perspective. The pilots control their drones using remote controllers, often with a first-person view through the goggles, making it feel as though they are seated inside the drone, hurtling through the air.
The drones used in racing are typically small and lightweight, designed for speed and agility. They can reach astonishing speeds of over 100 miles per hour, and their nimble design allows them to navigate through intricate courses with tight turns and challenging obstacles. Courses are often set up in open spaces, ranging from abandoned warehouses to purpose-built tracks with elevated gates, tunnels, and other obstacles to test the pilots’ skills.
The Thrill of the Race:
What sets FPV drone racing apart from traditional drone flying is the competitive and adrenaline-pumping nature of the sport. Pilots compete head-to-head in races that demand precision, quick reflexes, and strategic decision-making. The thrill of FPV racing lies in the intense speed, the precision required to navigate through tight spaces, and the ever-present risk of crashing, which adds an element of excitement for both pilots and spectators.
Technology Behind FPV Drones:
The technology that powers FPV drone racing is continually evolving, pushing the boundaries of what is possible. High-quality cameras mounted on drones provide clear and low-latency video feeds to the pilot’s goggles, allowing for a real-time immersive experience. Advanced flight controllers and powerful motors contribute to the drones’ agility and speed.
The FPV goggles worn by pilots play a crucial role in the racing experience. These goggles provide a live video feed with a wide field of view, allowing pilots to see everything their drone sees. The low-latency transmission ensures that pilots can make split-second decisions, crucial for navigating through the intricate race courses.
FPV Racing Community:
Beyond the thrill of the races, the FPV drone racing community plays a significant role in the sport’s growth. Enthusiasts from around the world come together to share their passion, knowledge, and experiences. Local and international competitions bring pilots together to showcase their skills and learn from one another. Online forums and social media platforms serve as hubs for discussions, equipment recommendations, and sharing exhilarating race footage.
Challenges and Risks:
While FPV drone racing offers an exhilarating experience, it comes with its own set of challenges and risks. Pilots must contend with technical issues, such as signal interference and equipment failures, which can lead to crashes and disqualifications. Safety measures are crucial, and race organizers prioritize guidelines to ensure a secure environment for both participants and spectators.
The Future of FPV Drone Racing:
As FPV drone racing continues to capture the imagination of enthusiasts worldwide, its future appears promising. Technological advancements will likely bring improvements in drone performance, camera quality, and overall racing experience. The sport may gain even more mainstream recognition, with increased sponsorships, media coverage, and participation.
FPV drone racing has evolved from a niche hobby to a global phenomenon, captivating audiences with its unique blend of technology, skill, and adrenaline. The immersive first-person view, high-speed races, and dynamic community make FPV drone racing a thrilling and accessible sport for enthusiasts of all levels. As technology advances and the community continues to grow, the future of FPV drone racing looks poised for even greater heights, promising an exhilarating journey for pilots and spectators alike. | aerospace | 1 |
http://tradearabia.com/news/TTN_209701.html | 2014-03-11T04:41:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394011126320/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305091846-00078-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.865273 | 666 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__103512433 | en | Boeing delivers milestone 737 to flydubai
Seattle, December 18, 2011
Boeing recently delivered the 7,000th 737 to come off the production line to Dubai-based flydubai, making the airplane flydubai's 14th next-generation 737-800 with the new Boeing Sky Interior.
The Boeing 737 is the best-selling commercial jetliner of all time with total orders exceeding 9,300 airplanes, including orders for the new 737 MAX.
"It is incredible to be delivering our 7,000th 737. We thank flydubai and all our customers who have made the 737 the world's most popular jet airliner," said Beverly Wyse, vice president and general manager of the 737 programme.
"This success is due to the years of expertise that thousands of employees continue to build into every Boeing 737 used in private, government and commercial service."
In November 2010, flydubai had the distinction to be the first airline in the world to offer passengers an enhanced onboard experience with the brand new Boeing Sky Interior.
The recent delivery will be the 21st in flydubai's fleet and the airline has an additional 30 737-800s on order.
"We are proud to be a part of this important milestone for the 737," said Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO, flydubai. "With its continuous innovations, the Next-Generation 737 brings the right combination of operational and environmental performance to address the requirements of our markets."
"The Next-Generation 737 is a major cornerstone to flydubai's modern, fuel-efficient and economical portfolio of commercial jets,” he added. – TradeArabia News Service
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https://www.aninews.in/news/world/us/insight-deploys-solar-panel-all-set-to-sunbathe-on-mars201811271155560001/ | 2022-01-24T18:14:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304572.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124155118-20220124185118-00483.warc.gz | 0.917109 | 443 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__24831457 | en | Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 27 (ANI): NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter relayed signals that the InSight lander has successfully deployed its solar panels upon landing on the red planet, ensuring that the lander recharges its batteries for surface operations.
Our Mars Odyssey orbiter phoned home, relaying news from @NASAInSight indicating its solar panels are open & collecting sunlight on the Martian surface. Also in the dispatch: this snapshot from the lander's arm showing the instruments in their new home: https://t.co/WygR5X2Px4 pic.twitter.com/UwzBsu8BNe— NASA (@NASA) November 27, 2018
"The InSight team can rest a little easier tonight now that we know the spacecraft solar arrays are deployed and recharging the batteries," Tom Hoffman, InSight's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California stated.
NASA further quoted Hoffman as saying, "It's been a long day for the team. But tomorrow begins an exciting new chapter for InSight: surface operations and the beginning of the instrument deployment phase."
The solar panels are designed to provide 600 to 700 watts on a clear day, enough to sustain the tools which will aid in studying the inner workings of Mars. The panels will produce at least 200 to 300 watts even during dusty conditions on the planet.
The solar arrays are around seven feet wide and are an upgraded version of those used with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. The changes will ensure that operations are supported for one full Mars year which is equivalent to two Earth years.
Moving forward, the team will now deploy the lander's robotic arm and utilise the attached camera to click pictures of its surroundings.
The team of engineers will then decide where to place scientific instruments which will be fully functional in two or three months.
The InSight lander, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, successfully became the eighth Mars landing for the USA on Monday night (local time; around 1 a.m. of November 27 IST). (ANI) | aerospace | 1 |
https://vidmaxviral.com/video/221066-strange-phone-call-from-nc-home-where-f-15-crash-landed | 2023-12-10T05:50:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679101195.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210025335-20231210055335-00253.warc.gz | 0.972405 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__230281199 | en | The pilot of a $100million F35 fighter jet who ejected over South Carolina over the weekend can be heard pleading for an ambulance and admitting he his 'not sure' where his plane is in astonishing newly-released audio of a 911 call.
The unnamed pilot, a 47-year-old with decades of flying experience, parachuted into a resident's back yard from 2,000ft after the super-advanced stealth aircraft suffered a malfunction over Charleston.
His jet kept flying for 60 miles until it crashed in a rural area near Indiantown. The aircraft was finally tracked down after a frantic 28-hour search for the wreckage.
Now, a bizarre four-minute recording has emerged which captures the moment the pilot repeatedly asked a puzzled dispatcher for medical help while admitting he has no clue where his F35 jet is.
Moments earlier, the North Charleston resident had tried to explain to the operator that the pilot had just parachuted into his backyard and needed help.
In the audio recording, the resident can be heard telling the dispatcher: 'We got a pilot in the house, and I guess he landed in my backyard, and we're trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please.'
The pilot, becoming frustrated that the dispatcher couldn't believe what the resident was telling her, took the phone and said: 'Ma'am, a military jet crashed. I'm the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling.
'I'm not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash landed somewhere. I ejected.' | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/29238/jet_engineers_scramble_ultimate_rush/ | 2020-12-02T00:55:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141685797.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20201201231155-20201202021155-00667.warc.gz | 0.956404 | 699 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__196637503 | en | Sydney to London in two hours? Australia to California in just over one?
An international race is underway to flight test a hypersonic "scramjet" engine, which researchers believe will one day allow people to fly at 8,000 km (5,000 miles) per hour or more, making inflight movies and "economy-class syndrome" a thing of the past.
The Centre for Hypersonics at Australia's University of Queensland is one of the contestants, and has slated its first tests for the end of June and the beginning of July, HyShot project leader Allan Paull said on Thursday.
A NASA/Langley Research Centre-led project, Hyper-X, is likely to carry out a test in the United States shortly before.
But the Australian version of the engine, which will use the rush of air at high speeds to ignite pollution-free hydrogen, is particularly interesting because so far it has been built for a cost of just over A$1 million (US$520,000).
"It's cheap as chips," Paull told Reuters.
Supersonic is defined as up to Mach 4, four times the speed of sound, and hypersonic is anything above that.
Commercial flights at Mach 8 are still way off. Concorde, for example, cruises at supersonic levels of around Mach 2.2.
The fastest known aircraft was the U.S. SR-71 Blackbird, developed at the height of the Cold War for high-altitude spying on the Soviet Union, and which flew at a speed of about Mach 3.1.
SATELLITES AND MILITARIES FIRST, PEOPLE LATERScramjets - short for supersonic combustion ramjet - will probably make an impact first in the field of satellite launches, because unlike conventional rockets, they do not need to carry their own oxygen supply and would free up space for cargo.
Paull said there were bound to be savings as a result.
The military community is also watching with great interest the HyShot test at Woomera, a former rocket test site 450 km (280 miles) north of Adelaide, Australian defence sources said.
The University of Queensland project is backed by the Australian military, the U.S. Air Force, an agency of Britain's Department of Defence and Japanese, German and Korean bodies.
The much more expensive U.S. experiment will actually involve flight, attaching a scramjet to a small aircraft, and aim for Mach 7 at an altitude of 30 km (19 miles) - 20 km higher than normal commercial flights.
The Australian scramjet will simply test "shock tunnel" results by shooting an engine into the atmosphere on a rocket, and hoping it will ignite as it plunges back down to Earth.
Paull's speed objective is Mach 7.6, and the engine should ignite 35 km to 23 km (22 miles to 14 miles) off the ground.
The first test flight had been expected to take place last year. But a delay in the delivery of the rockets and some technical glitches pushed back the date.
Allan said HyShot was a virtual "do-it-yourself". All of the parts are straight off retail store shelves.
"It's the only aircraft that's got Dick Smith all over it," he joked, referring to a well-known Australian electrical chain. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10699611/Missing-Malaysia-plane-MH370-may-have-fallen-victim-to-pirates.html | 2017-02-23T21:08:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171232.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00104-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.972155 | 657 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__178881838 | en | The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have been “an act of piracy” and the possibility that its hundreds of passengers are being held at an unknown location has not been ruled out, US investigators have said.
Seven days after the Boeing 777 vanished en route to Beijing with 239 people on board, officials are examining the possibility the flight was deliberately steered off course and landed by an unknown hijacker.
There have been claims that the plane flew on for more than five hours after it disappeared in the early hours of Saturday. In theory, MH370 could have flown more than 2,200 nautical miles, meaning it may have reached as far as the Indian border with Pakistan.
As an international fleet of more than 50 ships pushed further into the Indian Ocean to search for signs of a crash, US and Malaysian investigators believe “human intervention” could have played a role in the disappearance.
US authorities believe the aircraft continued to send faint transmissions, or “pings”, for several hours after the flight was last in contact with the ground.
The pings, sent automatically by the 777’s internal systems, raise the possibility that the flight was still airborne but that whoever was in control had deliberately severed contact with the ground.
Data from military satellites also suggest that the MH370 was flying over the west coast of Malaysia, hundreds of miles off its intended course north-east to China, Reuters reported, citing two sources close to the investigation. The military radar, more powerful than its civilian counterparts, suggests that the plane may have been following a series of established “way points” – geographic turning points used by pilots to navigate their course.
The flight reportedly disappeared off military radar as it flew north-west of Malaysia towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an Indian territory made up of 572 small islands in the Indian Ocean.
Hishammuddin Hussein, the Malaysian transport and defence minister, refused to comment on the military radar reports but said his country was “following all leads”. He said that police had not yet searched the home of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the experienced Malaysia airlines captain of MH370.
The respected aviator built a personal flight simulator at his house on the edge of Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.
The hijacking theory is just one of many competing possibilities as investigators remain baffled how the airliner could have disappeared without trace.
While the naval search for the MH370 began in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, evidence that the flight remained airborne for hours after it was last seen has led to a massive expansion of the search grid.
A fleet of 57 ships from 13 different countries is now actively hunting through the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean, where the average depth is 13,000 feet – nearly 10 times deeper than the Gulf of Thailand.
The Indian navy is taking the lead on the land and water search around the Andaman Islands. The population of 380,000 is spread across only 37 of the islands, making it possible that the aircraft crashed on land without being noticed. Many of the islanders have little contact with the outside world and some of its tribes are considered among the most isolated people on the planet. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://satprnews.com/2021/01/23/spacex-gets-backing-for-boosting-space-taxi/ | 2021-06-19T18:15:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487649688.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20210619172612-20210619202612-00424.warc.gz | 0.972526 | 490 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__157788637 | en | In the latest release, the safety group of NASA has said that the plans of the SpaceX to lit off its “space taxi” rockets at the time when astronauts are on board is very much a possible option. Some NASA officials have raised serious concerns over the company’s “load and go” policy whereby the fuel would be loaded into the rocket when the astronauts are inside the spacecraft. The scientists have put the plan of SpaceX’s “space taxi” in considerable doubt. However, on the other hand, the Safety Council of NASA has given the plan a clean, green signal. The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel has given the vote of confidence for the execution of the project made by Elon Musk and his team.
Retired Captain Brent Jett Jr. has said in his statement that the safety council goes through all the necessary steps and actions to find out if any plan has such potential of causing any harm to the rockets or the astronauts boarding it beforehand. As far as this particular plan of the company is concerned, they have made the necessary test and also said that the company has also abided by all the rules that were needed to be followed for executing this plan. So there should not be any problem in giving green signal to this plan.
Now, what is this “load and go” procedure? It is a process whereby the company would load super-chilled fuel just half an hour before launching of the rocket. This is mainly done to ensure the fact that the fuel does not heat up much if it loaded hours before. Moreover, it will also be a cost-saving initiative from the company’s point of view. The super-chilled fuel makes it more dense in composition than that of the traditional mix of the liquid oxygen and fuel. As a result, more of such quantity can be loaded as boosters. In turn, such extra propellant will also ensure the fact that sufficient fuel remains so that the rocket can come back to Earth safely as well.
But as per the rule books of NASA, the astronauts or the ground staffs should not be near the rocket when fuel is poured into the missiles. So it is strictly against the NASA’s space shuttle programs. The issue was taken up seriously in January at a meeting conducted at the House Committee on Science after an explosion took place during fueling in September of the previous year in the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. | aerospace | 1 |
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The aircraft is a further development of the A340-200, with increased passenger capacity. The aircraft can carry 295 people in a three-class configuration at a distance of 7300 nautical miles (13520 kilometers). The first flight of the aircraft took place on October 21, 1991.
- Modification: A340-300
- Wingspan, m: 60.30
- The length of the aircraft, m: 63.60
- The height of the aircraft, m: 16.70
- Wing Area, m2: 361.60
- Weight kg: empty equipped aircraft 130200; maximum take-off 275,000
- Engine type: 4 turbofan General Electric CFM56-5C4
- Thrust, kg/f: 4 x 15422
- Maximum speed, km / h: 976
- Cruising speed, km / h: 937
- Practical range, km: 12520
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- The payload of 295 passengers in a three-class configuration or 41,000 kg of cargo. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.suasnews.com/2018/05/drone-america-and-nias-integrate-professional-grade-uas-into-the-largest-bi-state-multi-agency-fire-evacuation-drill-to-date/ | 2023-11-30T16:00:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100227.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130130218-20231130160218-00630.warc.gz | 0.934384 | 1,422 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__245578575 | en | On May 19th Drone America, supported by the Nevada Institute of Autonomous Systems (NIAS) participated in a Bi-State, Multi-Agency Fire Evacuation Drill that was conducted at the north end of Lake Tahoe on the Nevada and California Border. This Bi-State exercise involved more than seventeen separate first responder agencies and helped further Drone Americas mission to serve communities through the safe application of our state of the art unmanned technology, serving those who serve us.
The Bi-State Evacuation Drill is a collaboration between Drone America, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District along with Washoe County Emergency Management, Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF), Nevada Army National Guard, Nevada Highway Patrol, California Highway Patrol, North Tahoe Fire Protection District, Cal Fire, Placer County Emergency Management, Placer County Sheriff’s Department, Red Cross, IVGID, and other partnering agencies. This was the first time in our nation where commercial drones conducted simultaneous operations with manned emergency aircraft in the same airspace during a real-time scenario with the common mission of saving lives and property.
The Bi-State Fire Evacuation Drill affected Kings Beach, CA., Incline Village, NV and Crystal Bay neighbourhoods, affecting approximately 1,100 residents. Residents were asked to voluntarily evacuate to Tahoe Biltmore via a reverse dial 911 call.
Drone America’s VTOL Savant and flight team established a forward operating base (FOB) at Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village. At 12:15 p.m. Incident Command called for support, for a severely injured firefighter in need of plasma and medical supplies, beyond what the ground crew had on hand, to sustain victim until air extraction could arrive. Coordinates of the remote hilltop location were received and verified. The Drone America Flight team configured the required payload and a mission was launched.
Taking off at a ground altitude of 6,236 ft. and covering a flight distance of 4.5 miles Drone America’s VTOL Savant climbed 1,000 feet to 7,250 ft. MSL, 250 ft. AGL above the drop point.
Due to the tall tree cover and the lack of a safe landing zone the package was airdropped successfully by parachute to the waiting ground team. The mission took 6 minutes and 45 seconds to air drop the critical care supplies around steep terrain and other air traffic.
During the critical supply drop mission, Drone America was requested to provide real-time visual reconnaissance of the drop area and the affected ground team. Incident Command had concerns of the fire front advancing on the team during treatment of the victim.
While the VTOL Savant was returning to base the Drone America flight team readied the ISR (Information Surveillance and Reconnaissance) payload, and upon return of the VTOL Savant the Drop Payload carriage was replaced with the ISR payload and the aircraft readied for immediate return to the scene. The VTOL Savant was launched with only a 10-minute turnaround time. The VTOL Savant achieved the commanded ISR target altitude of 8,200 ft MSL, 1,200 ft AGL above target area and began transmitting live video immediately during its flight.
During the ISR flight to the location, the recovery Blackhawk helicopter was dispatched. The DA VTOL Savant arrived on scene first and transmitted geo-referenced live video of the affected firefighting team to multiple locations, including incident command and flight operations. Sharing the same airspace, the recovery Blackhawk helicopter arrived 10 minutes after the VTOL Savant arrived on station and operated between 700 ft and 1050 ft below the VTOL Savant.
The simulated injured firefighter was airlifted to safety and survived with additional treatment.
The team on the ground was advised of the advancing fire in real time and incident command maintained real-time situational awareness of the developments on the ground. The DA VTOL Savant returned to base successfully. Total mission time for both primary and secondary missions was 1 hour 16 minutes. Total distance covered: 23.4 miles including time to, from and over target areas.
“Working side by side with emergency services while integrating our unmanned systems into a real-world exercise give us further insight into operational safety and effectiveness. Delivering value in the form of data, video or critical supplies is our utmost priority allowing us to better protect the lives of those that serve us,” said Mike Richards President and CEO of Drone America.
“This joint operation integrating drones into all aspects is a perfect public safety use case to enhance safety for the public, first responders, and public safety and emergency management officials—the largest in Nevada to date involving drones. Nevada companies like Drone America and NIAS are setting the standards for full integration of drones into wildland firefighting, medical air delivery of critical supplies, and wildland fire surveillance while ensuring drones are safely integrated into the National Airspace System,” said Chris Walach, Senior Director of all FAA- designated Nevada UAS Test Sites and NIAS.
“North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District is in the process of becoming a response partner with Drone America due to their capabilities and their intelligence gathering. The Bi-State Evacuation Drill was a clear demonstration of how we can all work together, potentially saving lives and saving taxpayers dollars. It is a pleasure working with Drone America and we look forward to future endeavours, together.” said Ryan Sommers, Fire Chief of North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District.
“North Tahoe Fire Protection District’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) strives to accomplish an innovative approach to using drones during emergency incident responses. Drone America illustrated the capabilities of drone incident response at the Bi-State Evacuation Drill; confirming the mission of the District’s UAS program. We look forward to ongoing growth in technology and seeing increased public safety benefits from incident responses utilizing (UAS) drones.”
– Michael Schwartz, Fire Chief, North Tahoe Fire Protection District.
About the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS):
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and FAA-designated Nevada Unmanned Aviation Test Site leads the growth of the Nevada Unmanned Aviation Systems (UAS) Industry through business teaming relationships, collaborating with primary research institutions on UAS research and development, and enhancing the Nevada UAS Industry knowledge base to attract new and permanent business and create jobs in the State of Nevada. Learn more at www.nias-uas.com.
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Drone America strives to be one of the World’s Top Providers of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles, high tech equipment and services. Our mission is to use UAS technologies as a means to survey, protect, and preserve human life and strategic resources around the Globe. For more information about Drone America please | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.avipeo.com/en/news/uav/details/bell-and-rolls-royce-collaborate-on-advanced-propulsion-systems | 2022-06-28T14:52:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103556871.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628142305-20220628172305-00445.warc.gz | 0.949261 | 454 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__231181510 | en | UAV Bell and Rolls-Royce collaborate on advanced propulsion systems
Bell Helicopter and Rolls-Royce have signed a teaming agreement on developing advanced propulsion systems together
Bell and Rolls-Royce will research engine designs, which improve performance, safety and affordability for future aircraft. Efforts are aimed at the V-280 Valor and the V-247. Both vehicles are advanced vertical lift platforms. Bell wrote in a statement that the collaboration would focus on the integration of Rolls-Royce´s low-risk propulsion systems into Bell aircraft.
Keith Flail, vice president of Advanced Vertical Lift Systems at Bell commented: “The goal of this collaboration is to enhance the performance and affordability of our aircraft further. Future Vertical Lift programs bring revolutionary solutions for warfighters; Bell and Rolls-Royce are focused on delivering those capabilities.”
Jason Propes, senior vice-president, Defense Customer Relations at Rolls-Royce added: “Bell is at the forefront of creating highly capable and sustainable aircraft that vastly outperform legacy platforms, and Rolls-Royce is a world leader in advanced engines and propulsion systems. We are excited to enhance our long-standing relationship with Bell and help deliver on customer requirements through innovative solutions and proven technologies."
Throughout the partnership, Bell will lead the development, production and design of advanced vertical lift systems, while Rolls-Royce will provide its expertise in propulsion systems to provide potential customers with high-performance solutions.
Rolls-Royce and Bell Helicopter have established a successful relationship for over 50 years, and this commitment is further proof of that.
Bell has been in the aviation sector for more than 80 years and currently has its headquarters in Forth Worth, Texas. Bell is developing, manufacturing and delivering helicopters to worldwide customers. Furthermore, the company has shifted its focus toward defining the future of on-demand mobility.
Rolls-Royce is an engine and propulsion system manufacturer and employs more than 6,000 people across the U.S. Engines are being manufactured in Indianapolis. The company shows a strong interest in the future of flight, as nearly US$1 billion have been invested in Research and Development since 2013.
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https://www.shadesofgreen.org/experiences/attractions/kennedy-space-center | 2021-04-13T20:12:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038074941.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210413183055-20210413213055-00108.warc.gz | 0.840768 | 126 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__97813852 | en | Kennedy Space Center
The United States Space Program history comes alive at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, just over an hour from Shades of Green in Cape Canaveral, Florida. With attractions and experiences that reflect all segments of our space exploration, Kennedy Space Center is a pilgrimage for space fanatics anybody who’s ever looked skyward. See the space shuttle Atlantis, Rocket Garden, and relics from the Apollo moon mission era. Go behind the gates to see launch pads or the Launch Control Center up close. You can even set your sights on what’s next with a look at where the Mars mission will launch. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.cnet.com/videos/a-year-in-nasas-perseverance-rover-is-still-searching-for-the-secrets-of-mars-history-and-future/ | 2022-12-06T19:07:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711111.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206161009-20221206191009-00060.warc.gz | 0.950466 | 1,726 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__237273538 | en | Speaker 1: I think Mars is, is it is the hot destination right now, right? And I think the next big, big achievement of space exploration is going to be putting humans on Mars,
Speaker 2: Even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic three unmanned space crafts from three different countries set off for Mars in July, 2020, the United Arab Emirates hope probe China's town, 11 rocket. And of course NASA's perseverance Rover. All three took advantage of a particularly opportune launch window. When objects launched [00:00:30] from earth would have a shorter, more efficient path to Mars. The three missions will explore the red planet's atmosphere map certain parts of its rain and collect surface samples for evidence of water and life and do it in three different ways. Through these missions, scientists, hope to understand how a planet like Mars can transform from a possibly habitable system with liquid water, organic material, and an energy source into a dry, dusty and desolate place. [00:01:00] So why the sudden race to Mars
Speaker 1: Life has been what is driving so much of Mars exploration, but there really is a lot more to Mars. And one of the things is that it has this fantastic rock record extending over billions of years and no other planet has that. So if we wanna understand even simple things about, you know, how do Earthlike planets evolve over their first billion years? Mars is the place to do that.
Speaker 2: Dr. Briani Hogan is on the science team for the perseverance Rover as well as a co investigator on the mass Kinsey camera system, [00:01:30] which captures the stunning images sent back from Mars. NASA's perseverance Rover landed on Mars on February 18th in Giro crater, a 500 meter deep crater that was once home to a 1600 foot deep lake scientists think a network of rivers probably fed into the site, making it a prime place for life to have evolved on the red
Speaker 1: Planet. And we can see that because when you look at, uh, at Jesu row from orbit, you can actually see this huge river channel cutting through the crater rims, blowing into the crater and creating a Delta where it flowed [00:02:00] into an lake that's where organic materials can be concentrated in per reserved over very long periods of time on earth. Since we're hoping to find the same thing on Mars,
Speaker 2: Armed with multiple scientific instruments, including a pixel x-ray spectrometer and Ari fact subsurface radar, perseverance Rover has four main goals. Goal one determine whether life ever existed on ours. This mission focuses on surface based studies of the Martian environment with perseverance [00:02:30] seeking biosignatures and rocks that formed in an ancient Martian environment. A bio signature is any substance that provides scientific evidence of past or present life. Dr. Hogan, an expert in meteorology knows exactly what type of biosignatures the perseverance Rover may find on the marching surface.
Speaker 1: We can do things like search for, you know, larger scale fossils that microbial colonies might leave behind in a rock. So textures, right? That could be that look, biological and origin. We can look at things like that.
Speaker 2: [00:03:00] Goal two characterize the geology of Mars. Each layer of rock on the marching surface contains a record of the environment where it was formed, like rings on a tree. Perseverance will search for rocks that formed in water and preserved evidence of organic materials. The chemical building will locks of life on
Speaker 1: Mars. There are, you know, 4 billion year old rocks just sitting on the surface where they were deposited, waiting for us to come look at them. And it's entirely possible that some of those rocks could contain, uh, contain signs [00:03:30] of how life started on Mars, which can then tell us about how life started on their own planet.
Speaker 2: Goal three, analyze the climate of Mars. Mars is atmosphere, wind, and weather patterns also play a key role in analyzing if microbial life existed in the past. So NASA's perseverance Rover carried something big underneath its belly on its month long mission to Mars to accomplish this goal. Something new to the red planet. That's never been attempted before the ingenuity helicopter.
Speaker 1: [00:04:00] There are so many questions we wanna ask that are kind of like just beyond the range of a Rover. You know, how did things in this region form, or like, why did Mar outta than get a field? And when did it go away? Those kind of questions require much bigger spatial scales. And so a helicopter would be an absolutely fantastic way to
Speaker 2: Do that. Wayne, less than four pounds, the ingenuity helicopter was designed to survive in the harsh mark environment. After landing, since there's a 20 minute delay in communication from earth, Mars, ingenuity has to fly independently without human control [00:04:30] out on April 19th. It did ingenuity successfully completed the first powered flight on another world, a historic moment and a major milestone demonstrating what's possible. Mars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that video is fantastic. Cuz you can see the dust lifting off and then getting blown away and it's actually getting blown away to the north, which is really important for understanding, you know, how stuff is moving around the crater and where the, the, you know, the sedimentary rocks we might be seeing right now, how they formed and where they came from.
Speaker 2: [00:05:00] And finally, perseverance is last goal to prepare for human exploration, NASA hopes to send a maned mission to Mars within the next 20 years. But human survival on Mars for an extended period of time comes with its own set of unique challenges. Mars's atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide oxygen is less than 1% compared to 21% in Earth's atmosphere. Fortunately, the perseverance Rover has Moxi the Mars oxygen in C2 [00:05:30] resource utilization experiment Moxi draws carbon dioxide and compresses it before passing into what's known as the solid oxide izer or soy soy essentially takes CO2, which is two oxygen atoms and one carbon atom and separates them the separated oxygen ions join up to create a new molecule oh two, which is the oxygen that humans need to breathe. The co or carbon left behind is essentially waste, but could [00:06:00] be used to potentially fuel future vehicles on Mars and on April 20th, the Rover's 60th day on Mars, Moi successfully produced five grams of oxygen from the red planet's thin carbon dioxide, rich atmosphere, NASA's perseverance Rover China's ti one, one missions and the UAE hope probe are equipped with some of the most advanced scientific instruments to ever explore Mars, but with so many missions happening at the same time, is [00:06:30] there a risk? One of them could potentially harm the planet.
Speaker 1: There's a whole field at NASA called planetary protection. And that's about trying to prevent us from contaminating other planets with life from earth. When we take robots to Mars and we take humans to Mars, can we do it as safely as possible without contaminating the marshal environment, especially because we don't actually know for sure that there isn't life living on Mars today, right? It very well could be. And so, uh, we, by if we contaminate Mars too much, we'll risk kind of wiping that, you know, marsh and unique marsh and ecosystem,
Speaker 2: [00:07:00] But how likely is it that the Rover will actually find evidence of life on Mars? It's
Speaker 1: Always hard to say, you know, we're trying to answer a really big question that we have no idea what the answer is to. Um, and I think if we can answer either direction, that's a really, really big result. If we see zero evidence for any kind of microbial life, that's still a very important result will really help us understand, you know, how rare and. | aerospace | 1 |
https://uasweekly.com/2024/02/06/ga-asi-demonstrates-a2e-concept-with-afsoc/ | 2024-03-04T21:14:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476532.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304200958-20240304230958-00778.warc.gz | 0.940496 | 823 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__79902452 | en | During a series of demonstrations in December 2023, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) worked collaboratively to execute several capability demonstrations as part of the Adaptive Airborne Enterprise (A2E) concept development.
The first demo featured the simultaneous control of three MQ-9A remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by a single crew using the government-owned AFSOC RPA Control Suite (ARCS). ARCS adds additional capability to the Ground Control Station (GCS), by allowing a standard crew to control multiple UAS platforms. The second demo showed that an MQ-9A can launch a Altius 600 from a launch pod.
“We have established a great partnership with AFSOC,” said David R. Alexander, president of GA-ASI. “We know our RPA will be a key building block for AFSOC to achieve its A2E vision.”
AFSOC is acquiring MQ-9B from GA-ASI for rapid prototyping and will forego a traditional GCS to control the RPA. Rather, AFSOC intends to control both the MQ-9A and MQ-9B aircraft, as well as a family of small UAS, from the ARCS. This event demonstrated the viability of ARCS to control the MQ-9A platform, which will lay the foundation for future work to integrate the MQ-9B aircraft into ARCS. This event also demonstrated the viability to operate the MQ-9 platform as surrogates for small UAS, all of which will be controlled by ARCS.
“These demonstrations were what we needed to really start to make A2E a reality,” said AFSOC Col. Trey Olman. “This was the first time we were able to demonstrate control of multiple RPAs from a single workstation, which is important in reducing manpower requirements.”
The A2E demonstrations took place at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. and Melrose Air Force Range (MAFR), N.M., and utilized Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Launch & Recovery (SLR). AFSOC launched the three MQ-9As using GA-ASI’s Portable Aircraft Control Stations (PACS) and Ground Control Stations. Once airborne, control for the three MQ-9A was handed from the three GCS to a single ARCS workstation. Control of all three aircraft was handed back from ARCS to each GCS and the three aircraft performed SATCOM landings via GA-ASI’s Automatic Takeoff and Landing Capability (ATLC).
The A2E concept envisions AFSOC projecting air power from beyond the horizon, using a family of large, unmanned aircraft along with small, expendable UAS, from permissive to denied environments. MQ-9B is the ideal platform for inserting air-launched effects into potentially hostile environments. The MQ-9B’s combination of range, endurance, reduced manpower footprint, and overall flexibility will key to AFSOC’s future family of advanced UAS systems.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a leading designer and manufacturer of proven, reliable RPA systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems, including the Predator® RPA series and the Lynx® Multi-mode Radar. With more than eight million flight hours, GA-ASI provides long-endurance, mission-capable aircraft with integrated sensor and data link systems required to deliver persistent situational awareness. The company also produces a variety of sensor control/image analysis software, offers pilot training and support services, and develops meta-material antennas.
For more information, visit www.ga-asi.com | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.airhistory.net/pub/show.php?type_version_id=6310&search_mode=1&page=6 | 2019-12-15T13:45:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541308149.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20191215122056-20191215150056-00333.warc.gz | 0.967849 | 115 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__30327851 | en | DElivered new to Sabena in May 1955 and flown on their scheduled transatlantic services. By 1965 used on European routes and here operating a summer holiday schedule to Manchester. Leased to Aviaco as EC-ASS, being sold in September 1969 as TR-LOX.
Bought by Aigle Azur in July 1952 as F-BGSL. Merged into UAT in 1955. Leased to Air Afrique from December 1963 until November 1965. Operating an inclusive tour charter from Manchester wearing the Air Afrique scheme but with UTA titles. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Article/1799968/air-force-announces-ellsworth-as-first-b-21-base/ | 2023-06-09T17:04:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656788.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609164851-20230609194851-00513.warc.gz | 0.935954 | 674 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__252468328 | en | The Air Force announced today that Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, has been selected as the preferred location for the first operational B-21 bomber and the formal training unit.
Whiteman AFB, Missouri, and Dyess AFB, Texas, will receive B-21 Raiders as they become available.
The Air Force used a deliberate process to minimize mission impact during the transition, maximize facility reuse, minimize cost and reduce overhead.
“These three bomber bases are well suited for the B-21," said Secretary of the Air Force Heather A. Wilson. “We expect the first B-21 Raider to be delivered beginning in the mid-2020s, with subsequent deliveries phased across all three bases.”
Ellsworth AFB was selected as the first location because it provides sufficient space and existing facilities necessary to accommodate simultaneous missions at the lowest cost and with minimal operational impact across all three bases. The Air Force will incrementally retire existing B-1 Lancers and B-2 Spirits when a sufficient number of B-21s are delivered.
“We are procuring the B-21 Raider as a long-range, highly-survivable aircraft capable of penetrating enemy airspace with a mix of weapons,” said Gen. David L. Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff. “It is a central part of a penetrating joint team.”
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana and Minot AFB, North Dakota, will continue to host the B-52 Stratofortress, which is expected to continue conducting operations through 2050.
The Air Force will make its final B-21 basing decision following compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and other regulatory and planning processes. That decision is expected in 2021 and is part of the overall Air Force Strategic Basing Process.
What does this mean for Whiteman AFB?
Whiteman AFB will house B-21 Operational Flying Squadrons to fulfill the Air Force’s requirements to grow its bomber fleet.
There are many factors that drove the Air Force to select Whiteman in sequence and with the combination of units selected in the decision. Whiteman is the only current location with a B-2 mission; therefore, it must remain operational until sufficient B-21 aircraft are fielded at Ellsworth AFB.
Whiteman does not have sufficient space and existing facilities necessary to accommodate a B-21 formal training unit and operational missions and B-2 missions simultaneously. As B-2s are phased out, B-21s will be phased in and using current bomber bases will minimize operational impact, reduce overhead, maximize re-use of facilities, and minimize cost.
“Team Whiteman is excited about the Air Force’s decision that our base will host the B-21 Raider,” said Brig. Gen. John Nichols, commander of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB. “As home of the world’s most strategic aircraft, Whiteman is absolutely the right choice to be one of the bases that will house the next generation of stealth bombers. The B-21 – like the B-2 has done for the past 30 years – will support the nuclear triad by providing visible and flexible nuclear options and conventional capabilities that will assure allies and partners, anytime and anywhere.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X21734&key=1 | 2014-11-28T12:25:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931010166.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155650-00065-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.922434 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__47218965 | en | NTSB Identification: FTW00LA238.
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Accident occurred Monday, August 21, 2000 in WICHITA FALLS, TX
Probable Cause Approval Date: 07/10/2001
Aircraft: Cessna 152, registration: N4711L
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators may have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The student pilot attempted to land on runway 17 with 20 degrees of flaps. According to the pilot, during the landing, the nose landing gear touched the runway first, 'causing the aircraft to bounce.' The airplane bounced a second time, and 'then on contact with the runway the third time, the nose gear collapsed.' Subsequently, the airplane skidded to the left edge of the runway, and came to rest upright. The pilot reported that he was never made aware of how to recover from a bounced landing.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The student pilot's delayed landing flare and failure to recover from the ensuing bounced landing. Full narrative available
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https://www.arnold.af.mil/News/Press-Releases/Display/Article/410377/aedc-names-new-executive-director/ | 2018-10-15T23:48:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583509958.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20181015225726-20181016011226-00099.warc.gz | 0.951527 | 596 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__161325404 | en | AEDC names new executive director
Release Number: 208210
Published December 30, 2008
Michael Britt Covington is Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) new executive director. In this role, Covington will be responsible for assisting the center commander in overseeing the daily operations of Arnold.
Covington, who reports for duty at AEDC Monday, comes from Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Okla., where he was the technical director for the 76th Maintenance Wing. There he was responsible for technical leadership of the largest wing at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. The 76th Maintenance Wing performs depot maintenance on the KC-135, B-1, B-52 and E-3 aircraft and maintenance and overhaul of F100, F101, F108, F110, F118, F119 and TF-33 engines.
He previously served as deputy director of the 77th Aeronautical Systems Group at Brooks City-Base, Texas, where he was responsible for $150 million budget and lead a 300-person group providing advanced performance, survival and force protection capabilities to U.S. and allied air, ground and naval forces through development, production and sustainment of human-centered systems including aircrew life support, egress, survival, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense, aeromedical evacuation equipment, medical information, Air Force uniforms and aircraft mishap analysis.
He has served as chief engineer and engineering technical director for the Contractor Logistics Support Aircraft Program Office at Tinker. He was responsible for operational safety, suitability and accountability for 23 Air Force aircraft systems including the KC-10, C-12, C-20, C-21, C-26, C-38, C-9, E-4, E-9, VC-25 (Air Force One), T-43 and Air Force Academy aircraft.
Covington has also served for seven years as an Air Force aircraft mishap investigator and technical advisor to the Air Force chief of safety at headquarters Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland AFB, N.M. He specialized in human survivability, crashworthiness, structures, mechanical systems and landing gear.
Covington began his civil service career as an aerospace structural engineer at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins AFB, Ga., in 1986. He worked on C-130s and C-141s. He later served as the C-130 Aircraft Structural Integrity program manager. Additionally, he served as the C-130 Structural and Mechanical Engineering branch chief and served for a short time as the C-130 chief engineer where he supervised and managed the C-130 technical staff.
He has earned a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from Auburn University, a Master of Science in engineering management from Mercer University and has attended the Air Command and Staff College as well as the Air War College at Maxwell AFB, Ala. | aerospace | 1 |
https://hotcountry921.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/flight-with-85-plumbers-forced-to-return-to-airport-due-to-toilet-troubles/ | 2020-07-15T17:27:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657170639.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20200715164155-20200715194155-00176.warc.gz | 0.986714 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__166301695 | en | If only someone thought to jiggle the handle.
According to the Independent, a Norwegian Airlines flight from Oslo to Munich had to turn around mid-flight because of problems with the toilets.
Norwegian communications advisor Fatima Elkadi told Norwegian news site Dagbladet, “It is true that DY1156, which was to fly from Oslo to Munich, had to return to Oslo again when they found an issue with the toilets on board.”
The irony is that on the 186-seat plane was literally packed with plumbers. In fact, 85 of the passengers were from the Norwegian plumbing industry and between 60 and 70 were plumbers from the Rørkjøp plumbing company.
Rørkjøp CEO Frank Olsen said, “We would have liked to fix the restrooms, but unfortunately it had to be done from the outside and we didn’t risk sending a plumber to work at 10,000 meters,” he told Dagbladet. “There was a good atmosphere in the plane, what with the irony about the broken toilets.”
Ground technicians fixed the problem and the plane took off again, landing in Munich at around 12 p.m. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_8465274_center-gravity-rc-plane.html | 2017-03-27T08:52:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189466.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00103-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.920834 | 310 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__130313474 | en | The physical attributes of your radio-controlled (RC) aeroplane will directly impact the overall performance of the aircraft. One of the most important aspects of the aeroplane is its centre of gravity. This point is where all forces exerted on the aircraft are equal. Finding this point is essential to balancing your aircraft. Learning how to find your aeroplane's centre of gravity will enable you to adjust your aircraft and maximise its performance.
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Measure the wing chord of the aircraft --- the width of the wing from the leading (front) edge to the back edge (not the distance of the wingtip to the body).
Divide this figure by 3 to calculate one-third of that length. Place three tiny dots with the marker on the wing to indicate three-thirds.
The centre of gravity is located along the first dot from the leading edge. Draw a line across the aeroplane's fuselage to outline this point along the wing. Measure the width of the plane's fuselage. The centre of gravity appears at the centre of the fuselage where it intersects the line you traced from the wings.
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- Consult your instruction manual. It is standard procedure for manufacturers to print the precise centre of gravity for your aircraft.
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http://www.stupidindianpilot.com/instrument-rating-requirements-aeroplanes/ | 2024-04-18T14:34:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00166.warc.gz | 0.931503 | 712 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__36198198 | en | So have you heard about Instrument rating?? Let me give you a brief idea about what it is. An instrument rating is an advanced qualification for pilots that allows them to fly aircraft solely by reference to instruments, without relying on visual cues. It’s essential for flying in adverse weather conditions or situations with low visibility. Pilots with an instrument rating are trained to navigate and control the aircraft using the cockpit instruments, including altimeters, gyroscopes, and navigation systems.
This rating enhances a pilot’s skills and safety when flying in challenging environments. In basic language, this rating is a qualification needed for pilots to fly in low visibility conditions. Now lets look at the requirements to get this rating.
Requirements for issue of Instrument rating
Knowledge: He shall pass a written and oral examination in Air Regulations, Air Navigation, Aviation Meteorology and Instrument Rating as per syllabus prescribed by the Director-General for issue of Commercial Pilot’s Licence. He shall also pass a practical test on interpretation of aural and visual signals as per the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General.
Experience: He shall produce evidence of having satisfactorily completed as a pilot of an aeroplane.
- Not less than one hundred hours of flight time as a Pilot-in-Command including not less than fifty hours of cross-country flight time.
- Not less than forty hours of instrument time of which not more than twenty hours shall be instrument ground time. A minimum of five hours of instrument time shall have been completed within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of application for the Instrument Rating.
- Basic Requirements — He/She shall be :
(i) holder of a current Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes);
(ii) holder of a current Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s Licence for operation of radio telephone apparatus on board an aircraft issued by the Director-General.
He/She shall have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Examiner his competency to fly an aeroplane in respect of which Instrument Rating is desired, solely with the aid of instruments by undergoing an instrument flying test within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of application for the rating. The flying test shall be carried out in accordance with the syllabus as prescribed by the Director-General. The Director-General may, however, allow such tests or part thereof to be carried out on an approved simulator for the type of aircraft.
Provided that in the case a pilot who holds a current Instrument Rating (Helicopters), he shall have not less than one hundred hours of flight time as Pilot-in-Command of an aeroplane including not less than twenty five hours of cross-country flight time and not less than twenty hours of instrument time of which not more than ten hours may be on an approved simulator.
(a) The rating shall be valid for a period of twelve months from the date of the instrument rating flying test.
(b) It shall be renewed for a further period of twelve months at a time from the date of expiry provided that the instrument rating flying test has been carried out within two months preceding the date of expiry and all other requirements for renewal are met.
(c) In other cases, the validity of renewal of the rating shall commence from the date of the test.
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https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/skyfox-pilot-weighs-in-on-kobe-bryants-chopper-crash | 2023-09-21T18:55:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506029.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921174008-20230921204008-00396.warc.gz | 0.981036 | 336 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__179337127 | en | So just how hard is it to deal with fog and other weather conditions when you're flying a helicopter?
FOX 2 spoke to one of our own pilots to find out more about the conditions that led to the fatal crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others.
There are many questions lingering, but we do know that weather played some role.
Derek Kevra and SkyFOX pilot Capt. Laith
"(Weather) is something we check every day as part of our normal routine," said SkyFOX Capt. Laith. "Every time you go up; you always want to make sure the weather is good before you take off."
Capt. Laith has experience flying in California.
"California is a lot more tricky to fly in than Michigan for several reasons," he said. "One, Michigan is pretty flat so you don't have to deal with a lot of the mountainous terrain. The topography is really tricky there too because in between the valleys you have a lot of wires and cables and canary lines that make it really hard depending on what time of the day it is."
Heavy fog was reported in the area and we do know that the pilot was given special visual flight rules. But it appears communication with the tower was spotty.
"There is a lot of traffic in California so you got out there trying to get in touch with air traffic control sometimes," Capt. Laith said. "You might have to wait a couple minutes because there are so many calls one after another."
While there are very likely other things that led to the crash, mechanical or communication issues - the weather remains a top culprit. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aerobcn.com/ | 2022-01-18T19:31:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300997.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118182855-20220118212855-00535.warc.gz | 0.915601 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__21912567 | en | Iraqi Airways, the national carrier of Iraq, has taken delivery of its first out of five A220-300 aircraft from Mirabel, Canada. Upon entry into service, Iraqi Airways will become one of the first airlines to operate the A220 in the Middle East region.
Leonardo welcomes the announcement made by the U.S. Department of Defense to award AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. a $159.4 million USD firm-fixed price modification to the previously awarded contract for the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Helicopter Training System. This modification exercises options for the production and delivery of 36 TH-73A helicopters Lot III and initial spares.
Global full-service aircraft lessor Aviation Capital Group (ACG), wholly owned by Tokyo Century Corporation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for 20 A220s and a firm contract for 40 A320neo Family aircraft, of which five are A321XLRs.
U.S. Navy and Boeing have successfully maneuvered the Boeing-owned T1 test asset on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier for the first time – an early step forward in ensuring the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueler will seamlessly integrate into carrier operations.
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. today announced performance accomplishments for its next-generation Gulfstream G500 and Gulfstream G600.
The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) has ordered an additional two five-bladed H145s destined to equip the Sécurité Civile, an agency of the French Ministry of Interior that performs rescue and air medical transport services throughout France.
Helicópteros Marinos has been based in Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina for more than 34 years, operating from the city of Río Grande and the TOTAL AUSTRAL operations base in Río Cullen to provide support for the production and exploration platforms of its customer, Total Energies.
The structural completion of MSN11000 in the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Hamburg follows the recent assembly and equipping of the Major Component Assemblies (MCAs) and their subsequent delivery and introduction on schedule into the FAL in November.
Long-time customers David and Patty Miller love their Cessna Citation Mustang, but it was time for an interior refresh and other upgrades. When they were ready to take the leap, they knew exactly where to take it for a makeover.
Embraer, Fokker Techniek and Fokker Services have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU opens opportunities to explore for a broad range of activities in the Defense, Commercial and Support markets.
Textron Aviation announced the next generation Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 and Cessna Citation XLS Gen2 business jets. Unveiled on the eve of this week’s National Business Aviation Association – Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), the updates to the entry-level light jet and the midsize business jet usher in the next generation of aircraft design and technology, increasing comfort and productivity for passengers and pilots.
The Airbus Helicopters UH-72 Lakota fleet has exceeded the 1 million flight-hour mark, some 15 years after the first Lakota UH-72A entered service for the U.S. Army and following the first delivery of the newest UH-72B to the National Guard, as announced at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) trade show in Washington, D.C. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/machine-learning-new-era-of-space/ | 2020-04-02T18:19:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370507738.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200402173940-20200402203940-00038.warc.gz | 0.939627 | 1,029 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__184688596 | en | As automation, Machine Learning and AI leave their indelible imprint on multiple and diverse fields, including image analytics, workflow management, construction, autonomous vehicles, agriculture and the future of communication systems, it does seem that very soon these technologies will blast us off to the stratosphere. And the metaphor is quite fitting!
AI and Machine Learning solutions are being increasingly researched and implemented in the space sector for a space age of the future, whose mainstay would be advanced robotics and which might resemble a robotic inter-galactic adventure.
AI and Machine Learning in space
Application of AI is being extensively researched in the domain of satellite operations, especially in supporting the operational mechanism of huge satellite constellations, which usually includes many facets – relative positioning, communication, if cycle management etc.
Machine Learning is being used for analyzing and processing high-resolution satellite imagery and for getting exact and precise visual representations. Machine Learning is already an invaluable tool in the analytics of complex remote sensing data and telemetry data. Beyond Earth Observation, for powerful imagen and data processing and analytics, Machine Learning is used to process data from deep space missions.
There are certain Mars rovers that are AI configured and navigate on their own. But extensive use of rovers in the future would not be possible without upscaling existing research capabilities.
ESA among the pioneers
ESA is supporting and sponsoring many studies into the use of AI for space and spacecraft operations. As of now, spacecraft’s need to constantly communicate with Earth-based stations to operate, but the new age autonomous space crafts would be able to operate autonomously. This will boost exploration efforts and also significantly reduce the cost of space missions. It has been identified that autonomous navigation and software upgradation are the key requirements before going completely autonomous.
The focus is also on managing complex constellations to reduce the workload of on-ground stations. With complete automation, the need for human intervention would be reduced, saving a lot of time, effort and money. For this purpose, automated collision avoidance maneuvers need to be developed. One study under the aegis of ESA’s Basic Activities inputted historical mission data into ML algorithms to search for new features useful for future telemetry checking, command verification and procedure writing processes.
Deep Learning also has its set of utilities in space, no matter however nascent in scope. Deep Learning can be applied in automatic landing, intelligent decision making and fully automated systems. ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) is researching these possibilities. In particular, the ACT researched evolutionary computation, which includes writing computer code in such a manner so that all evolutions are considered. The better results are kept, and the worse are simply rejected — just like in Darwinian ‘Survival of the Fittest’ evolution. This can be used to calculate the trajectories of the planets. ACT is also working on a community science mobile app that would enhance and improve the autonomous capability of space probes and optimize planetary and celestial tracking system.
Jouney of a thousand miles begins with a single step and ESA has already taken a giant leap in AI and Machine Learning research. Smart data transmission software aboard the rover removes the margin of human error which can otherwise lead to fatal consequences. AI has proven to be a powerful tool for sifting and filtering through a virtual ocean of data and its predictive analytics methods would soon be used by many space agencies.
Consensus across the board
Just like ESA, other space agencies are also equally enthusiastic to develop AI capabilities and use it in space programs. The German Aerospace Center launched an AI assistant that will assist astronauts with their daily tasks on the International Space Station. The voice-controlled smart assistant, which is known as CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile companioN) is capable of multiple functions.
NASA is researching to make communication networks more efficient and distortion free by using an AI-based cognitive radio that would increase reliability and minimize noise distortion. NASA also plans to design fully automated launchers and rovers for future missions.
NASA has also joined hands with Google for the exclusive training of AI algorithm that enables sifting data from the Kepler missions and identifying signals from an exoplanet, leading to the discovery of two new exoplanets, which were previously undetected by scientists. The same project will now be deployed for Earth Observation as well.
Created under the European Horizons 2020 Framework, ESA and NASA collaborative project called AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis), will analyze and process data from space, reduce error margins and expose aberrations.
JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency, has also developed an intelligent system that is aboard the International Space Station clicking and storing pictures of experiments in the Japanese module, KIBO. It was developed to promote the autonomy of extra- and intra-vehicular experiments while seeking to acquire the robotics technology necessary for future exploration missions.
ROSCOSMOS, the Russian Space Agency, is also not behind. It has developed two humanoid robots called FEDORA, which has been sent to the ISS. | aerospace | 1 |
http://aupress.au.af.mil/bookinfo.asp?bid=74 | 2017-11-18T23:04:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805114.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118225302-20171119005302-00471.warc.gz | 0.852828 | 188 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__181480813 | en | Space Power Integration
Perspectives from Space Weapons Officers
This book is the culmination of Gen Lance Lord’s vision to initiate vigorous discussion about how best to integrate space to support the war fighter. From the first Space Weapons Officer Air and Space Integration Conference in 2005 come nine research papers that form the basis for this publication and fulfillment of General Lord’s vision. The papers address issues across a spectrum of air- and space-integration topics at the operational level of war.
AU Press publications are available at no cost to active duty, total force, and retired military and to Department of Defense personnel and organizations. Publications can be ordered by e-mail at [email protected] or by calling 334-953-2773 (DSN 493).
Authors may retain copyright on this material. For more information contact AU Press at [email protected]. | aerospace | 1 |
http://interceder.net/latest_news/Jonathan-Heller | 2015-11-26T10:34:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398447043.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205407-00166-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.935411 | 79 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__123732698 | en | Pilot Coming in for Landing Reports Laser Strike
NBC San Diego / Posted 16 days ago
A pilot coming in for a landing at Lindbergh Field reported seeing a laser near the flight path Monday night.
As United Flight 691 was on its final approach, the pilot saw the laser at 8:15 p.m., according to airport spokesman Jonathan Heller.
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https://africanews.space/the-moon-agreement-and-the-future-of-lunar-governance-in-africa/ | 2024-02-21T21:14:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00382.warc.gz | 0.92706 | 959 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__114385947 | en | On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to take steps on the surface of the moon. Apollo 11 became the first lunar landing mission consisting of the Saturn V SA-506 rocket. The mission launched on July 16, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Centre. The launch was undoubtedly a new frontier for all humankind and signalled a new era in the realm of human spaceflight and extra-planetary exploration.
Over 50 years later and moon-faring interests have been renewed amongst both public and private stakeholders investing in near-term development and settlement on the lunar surface. While this development inspires awe, it also dredges recollections of a tumultuous history surrounding this extra-terrestrial entity. The first humans sent to the moon were a culmination of a competitive space race, and history has repeatedly shown that where new territories and conquests are concerned, often great injustice and exclusion occurs. Without adequate institutional oversight, history is set to repeat itself. The global space sector seems oriented towards lunar exploration under the guise of global beneficiation of which Africa may be left behind.
Over the past few years, the African space industry has grown remarkably, especially as regards the satellite industry, which currently forms the largest market share of the USD7 billion space economy. Despite this, there are some outer space activities that Africa as a region is yet to explore. Only a few countries have active astronomy programmes, have expressed an interest in engaging in future human spaceflight missions, and even fewer have expressed interest in exploring the moon.
The prospects of going to the moon are indeed worth the hype. The moon presents many exciting engineering possibilities; for instance, testing technologies, flight capabilities, life support systems and exploration techniques for future missions. The lunar surface is also fertile ground for a host of various precious minerals and elements to be used both on Earth and on the moon, in a process commonly referred to as In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU). Asteroids, the moon, and other extra-planetary bodies present an immense opportunity for resource development in platinum group metals (iron, platinum etc.), rare earth elements (potassium, phosphorous) and water and ice, which is essential for manufacturing rocket propellants.
What makes Africa significant in this development is the extent to which future mining methods on the moon are reminiscent of those in situ resource utilisation techniques already employed on the continent. Africa is the mining capital of the world; it has the largest minerals industry. By all intents and purposes, any future extractive industry in outer space should rightly be steered by the successes and relative failures of the African mining industry. Africa is indeed at an advantage in terms of industry experience, with large infrastructural, regulatory and institutional systems that will prove beneficial in lunar mining activities.
Exploration and resource utilisation on the lunar surface stands to be a lucrative extension of outer space activities. However, in exercising the freedom to use and explore outer space, Africa will still require its efforts to meet international muster. More African countries need to sign and ratify the Outer Space Treaty, Rescue Agreement, Moon Agreement, Liability Convention and Registration Convention. Also, certain treaties have been drafted and are positioned to address the new challenges that are likely to result from humankind’s return to the moon. These include:
- The Hague Building Blocks for the Development of an International Framework on Space Resource Activities;
- The Moon Village Principles on Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Practices;
- NASA’s Artemis Accords, and;
- UNCOPUOS General Exchange of Views on Potential Legal Models for Activities in Exploration, Exploitation, and Utilisation of Space Resources.
These regulatory instruments are necessary for attempting to address issues likely to arise concerning resource extraction, planetary protection, lunar dust and safety zones. These legal documents indicate a desire to benefit from space activities in a manner that is peaceful, coordinated and sustainable. Treaties such as the Moon Agreement ensure that African states align themselves with visions of the moon that consider its significance as our planet’s immediate heavenly connection, deserving of respect and territorial integrity.
Accordingly, Africa should set its eyes on receiving its equal beneficiation of any future gains obtained from going to the moon. As it currently stands, the African Space Strategy and Policy does not expressly make mention of any intention to exploit lunar resources. However, this is a policy point that will represent a vital component of any future space programme agenda in the coming years and is worth inclusion in forthcoming policy reviews. This will be a progressive step in space commercialisation, not only for the region, but each independent, and space-faring African nation, to fully realise its potential in this diverse and multi-resourceful sector. | aerospace | 1 |
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/tag/faa/page/3/ | 2014-10-20T09:59:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507442420.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005722-00197-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.965931 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__91957004 | en | On at least 150 commercial air carrier flights since the early 1990s, pilots have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land before realizing there was a mistake.
During construction at the airport last spring, residents complained planes big and small were using the runway near Lemmon Avenue on the airport’s east side and flying over their homes while they sleep.
The next big thing in American aviation sounds and looks like an oversized leaf blower with wings and a tail, has duct tape keeping some of its pieces in place and must be carried to a catapult that sends it into flight.
Extremely foggy conditions across North Texas on Friday morning could wind up having an impact on both arriving and departing flights at DFW International Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced six states on Monday that will develop test sites for drones, a critical next step for the march of the unmanned aircraft into U.S. skies.
Federal officials are seeking a $325,000 penalty against Southwest Airlines over a faulty repair job on an AirTran Airways jet in 2011. Southwest Airlines has 30 days to respond.
A pilot made an emergency landing in a small plane just short of a runway in Mesquite Sunday.
You still won’t be able to use your cellphone. But depending on which airline you fly, you may soon start getting permission from the flight crew to use other electronic devices throughout your flight.
The U.S. Coast Guard says two people have been killed when their World War II-era plane went down in shallow water near Galveston.
NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Air traffic was shut down at LaGuardia Airport early Monday evening after a Southwest Airlines plane’s nose gear collapsed as the aircraft touched down on the runway. The Federal Aviation Administration said […]
The government is moving toward easing restrictions on cellphone use during takeoff and landing.
Three men were injured after the small twin engine plane there were riding in crashed shortly after taking off from a Southeast Texas airport. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.brookfieldav.com/single-post/2018/05/23/combination-of-culture-and-strength-urumqi-air | 2024-04-23T20:38:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00888.warc.gz | 0.931465 | 725 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141879726 | en | Combination of Culture and Strength-Urumqi Air
Approved by Civil Aviation Administration of China, Urumqi Air was established by Urumqi government cooperating with HNA on November 18, 2013, which is located in Urumqi, Western China.
Adhering to the HNA corporate culture and striving to build local airlines brand legend, Urumqi Air is committed to further optimize the environment of Urumqi economic and aviation service brand building in Urumqi city and to promote the development of Urumqi modern service industry. In line with the "foothold in Xinjiang, the national service" concept Urumqi Air adheres to the regionalization, localization operation and is into a service in regional economic construction and development of aviation group enterprise. In the implementation of economic development at the same time, Urumqi Air integrates social responsibility values into the enterprise development strategy to explore the corporate social responsibility and strategic target fusion point committing to the harmony of enterprise value and social value.
Since its establishment, Urumqi has had "safe, fast and considerate" as its service concept. Urumqi Air will actively respond to the initiative of “One Belt One Road” to accelerate the speed of aircraft introduction, to increase transport capacity in Xinjiang area, gradually open the international routes of central Asia, West Asia, South Asia and Europe, and promote the development of the frontier.
Urumqi Air expresses wonderful culture to the world as well, especially by its Logo. The Logo integrates two elements including Ed with silk and flying dove. Three kinds of color Ed silk shows that the ancient silk road has three roads through Xinjiang, interprets the historical and cultural characteristics of the Urumqi. The blending of three colored silk also reflects the communication and blend between Urumqi Air and Urumqi's local culture; the "peace and friendship" concept symbolized national unity and common development. The colour of the new Logo from Xinjiang Ed the elements in the silk, with gold, purple and green color, represents the auspicious, happiness, growth, strongly to convey the spirit of regional culture in Urumqi.
Based on profound culture, Urumqi Air has a quick development in recent years. By the end of March 2018, Urumqi aviation operates twelve B737-800 aircraft and one E-190 airliner. The main business scope includes air passenger and cargo transportation, agency between airlines, aviation equipment maintenance, aviation equipment import and export, aviation catering service, etc. Urumqi Airlines has opened 34 cities including Karamay, Kashi, Akesu etc., a total of more than 8 million hours of safe flight, safe transportation of nearly 5 million passengers, 2015-2017 for three years of normal flight rate in Xinjiang, the main airlines are the first, the basic formation of the Urumqi International Airport as the center, the main city of the domestic route network framework, the country.
In February, 2013, the people's government of Urumqi signed a strategic cooperation agreement with HNA group, and the two sides cooperated to establish Urumqi Air based on the main operation base of Urumqi fort international airport.
On August 20, 2014, the first passenger plane, Boeing 737-800, has been received since the establishment of Urumqi airlines. The aircraft landed at the international airport in Urumqi, Xinjiang.
On August 28, 2014, Urumqi Airlines Co., Ltd. officially accepted the operation certificate issued by civil aviation administration of Xinjiang. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=14579&page=1694&soldarchive=1 | 2021-09-23T09:04:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057417.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923074537-20210923104537-00389.warc.gz | 0.887869 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__195484077 | en | 1/48 368 Aurora General Dynamics TFX F-111A USAF
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
This is the 'Big A' issue from 1972 of this classic kit. Aurora put forth an excellent effort at the time on it's big 1/48 F-111. It features good detail and swing wings, retractable landing gear, pilot and radar navigator and Air Force markings. NOTE: this kit has had the main landing gear assembled and painted, but not installed in the fuselage. Quality is professional. The tricky gear retract mechanism works flawlessly. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals, instructions and stand.
This item has been sold.
Click here to return to the main page. | aerospace | 1 |
http://ilnk.us/aviation-mechanic-schools-in-new-york.html | 2019-04-26T04:29:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578759182.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426033614-20190426055335-00020.warc.gz | 0.959547 | 256 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__47084083 | en | Aviation mechanic schools in new york. Control the sky national guard helicopter crews fly a variety of missions from security operations to disaster relief. The truth about working as an aircraft mechanic. Learn about working in aviation as an aircraft technician. See nearby programs in automotive technology construction aviation energy industrial technology transportation and more.
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The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. | aerospace | 1 |
http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-asia/baf-officer-killed-pilot-critical-in-trainer-jet_769031.html | 2019-01-17T14:53:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583658988.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117143601-20190117165601-00261.warc.gz | 0.954704 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__23074967 | en | Dhaka: A Bangladeshi Air Force trainer jet
crashed in central Tangail district on Sunday, killing a flight
officer and critically injuring the pilot.
"Flight Lieutenant Reza Sharif succumbed to his wounds
(at a nearby military hospital) and the pilot of the aircraft,
Squadron Leader Mamunur Rashid is being treated with critical
wounds," AKM Hafizur Rahman, the district police chief, said.
He said the L-39 aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force
crashed in a marsh in Madhupur area apparently due to a
The pilot and the BAF official were admitted to the
nearby hospital at the Ghatail military cantonment.
BAF officials, who have reached the spot, said an
investigation has been launched into the crash. | aerospace | 1 |
https://flights.expedia.com/flights-from-new-york-to-sarasota-lga-to-srq/ | 2015-11-29T01:08:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398454553.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205414-00068-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.880659 | 813 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__101011395 | en | Book your LGA to SRQ flights with Expedia and find last-minute New York to Sarasota airfare. Expedia offers discount airfare on multiple airline carriers that fly direct and indirect routes between LGA and SRQ, with new flight deals and promotions almost daily. When you book your next trip from LaGuardia to Sarasota Bradenton Intl. with Expedia, you can rest assured you’re getting great ticket prices and excellent service from one of the world’s most trusted travel providers.
Interesting Facts About Flights from New York to Sarasota (LGA to SRQ)
- Delta Airlines operated flights from LGA to SRQ using one type of aircraft in 2009.
- The oldest aircraft servicing trips from New York, NY to Sarasota, FL in 2009 was Delta Airlines' MD-80 from Mcdonnell Douglas which started flying in 1990.
- The largest aircraft servicing flights between New York and Sarasota from Delta Airlines is the MD-80 built by Mcdonnell Douglas with 142 seats.
- 266 seats were available on flights from LGA to SRQ in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 237 passengers flew on all flights from LGA to SRQ that year.
- The average aircraft occupancy on flights from New York to Sarasota in 2009 was 89.74%.
- The smallest aircraft servicing flights from LGA to SRQ for Northwest Airlines is the A319 built by Airbus Industrie with 124 seats.
- There were 237 passengers that flew from New York to Sarasota in 2009.
- The newest aircraft servicing LGA to SRQ in 2009 was Northwest Airlines' A319 from Airbus Industrie. The A319 started flying in 1997.
- Northwest Airlines, Delta Airlines offer flights from New York, NY to Sarasota, FL.
- Northwest Airlines carried a total of 123 passengers from LGA to SRQ in 2009.
- In 2009, there were 2 airline companies operating between New York and Sarasota.
(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)
LGA to SRQ Flight Schedule
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http://www.bestaviation.net/news/airlines-looking-to-absorb-spanair-aviation-jobs-181243/ | 2014-03-12T18:10:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394023864525/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305125104-00013-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.964896 | 300 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__81199958 | en | By Caroline Clayfield on 31-Jan-2012
The sudden collapse of Spanair – Spain’s fourth largest airline – has prompted other airlines to look at the opportunities its demise could open up, with the potential for hundreds of aviation jobs to be saved.
The carrier ceased operations on Friday and left more than 20,000 stranded across Europe and Africa after suddenly canceling some 200 flights.
While the passengers have had to scramble to find alternative options to get to their destinations, other airlines – including Irish budget carrier, Ryanair – have been looking at the demand in the region and the potential to scoop up some of the airline’s business and aviation jobs.
The collapse was prompted by the ceasing of takeover talks with Qatar Airways, which had been discussing the provision of further financing for the troubled airline.
On Monday, a spokesman for Ryanair said it was examining opportunities in Spain following the collapse of Spanair, stating, “We certainly see it as an opportunity to expand our base.”
Some 4,000 aviation jobs are at risk from the collapse of the airline, including hundreds of maintenance jobs, as well as cabin crew jobs and commercial pilot jobs. The airline had been seen as a flagship of the regional government of Catalonia, which had heavily subsidized it.
Aviation News from Europe
Lufthansa to cut 3,500 airline jobs
BA working with unions on bmi aviation jobs
Finnair to outsource aviation jobs | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/088/S88206.html | 2019-01-16T06:24:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583656897.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20190116052151-20190116074151-00609.warc.gz | 0.922922 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__7548414 | en | |Occurred : 4/4/2012 17:38 (Entered as : 04/04/12 17:38)
Reported: 4/4/2012 5:35:15 PM 17:35
Location: Albuquerque, NM
|One craft at altitude that remained stationary for length on observation. It appeared to be lower than commercial air traffic, because a commercial airliner flew past but did not deviate from a straight flight path. The disc stayed stationary for another 5 minutes before disappearing.
I speculate that the disc was monitoring Kirtland AFB and taking readings of the nuclear materials that are stored on base in the below ground bunkers. | aerospace | 1 |
https://acci-cavie.org/en/air-algerie-finally-makes-its-first-landing-in-douala-after-a-4-year-wait/ | 2023-12-05T21:24:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00526.warc.gz | 0.93949 | 342 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__313388720 | en | [ACCI-CAVIE] Douala International Airport finally welcomed its first direct flight from Algeria, with Air Algérie’s inaugural aircraft landing on the tarmac on October 12. This confirms information previously disclosed on September 27 by the new Algerian ambassador to Yaoundé, Abdallah Boukemmache, during a meeting with the Minister of the Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey.
“The primary target for this new Algiers-Douala-Algiers route is the African population transiting through Algiers to reach other destinations such as North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia,” explained sources at Air Algérie.
As a reminder, Air Algérie has been considering entering the Cameroonian market since 2019, according to the Cameroon Aeronautical Authority (CCAA), which granted it third and fourth freedom rights to operate flights to Cameroon. CCAA reported that the Algerian airline had applied for schedule approval for scheduled international air services.
The opening of the air link between Cameroon and Algeria is expected to facilitate travel and strengthen trade and tourism through the airports of the two countries. This new route will make Air Algérie the third North African carrier to serve Cameroon, alongside Royal Air Maroc and EgyptAir.
The announcement of this inaugural flight follows the Head of State’s August 1 decree ratifying the agreement on air transport services between Algeria and Cameroon. The agreement, signed on February 24, 2021, in Yaoundé, covers air transport services between the two countries. It revises the 1974 agreement and aims to promote tourism and trade between them. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.thetechoutlook.com/news/science/what-did-elon-musks-tweet-say-about-spacexs-starship-the-fully-reusable-launch-vehicle/ | 2022-08-19T06:02:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00685.warc.gz | 0.960984 | 467 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__15530343 | en | What did Elon Musk’s tweet say about SpaceX’s Starship, the fully reusable launch vehicle
Elon Musk has given a clue about his big project Starship still being in its experimental phase. He said earlier today on Twitter, “I can’t say for sure that Starship will reach escape velocity, but my hubris certainly has.”
I can’t say for sure that Starship will reach escape velocity, but my hubris certainly has
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2022
Starship is a fully-reusable super-heavy lift launch vehicle developed by Elon Musk founded SpaceX. Starship is the most powerful, two-Stage-to-orbit launch vehicle that consists of the super heavy booster stage and the spacecraft. The spacecraft is again divided into four stages such as cargo, crew, propellant, tanker, and lunar lander. The complete space vehicle is reusable and powered by Raptor engines.
SpaceX has successfully completed the fifth high-altitude flight test of a Starship serial number 15 (SN15) prototype. According to reports by SpaceX, the SN15 is powered by three Raptor engines which serially shut down once it reached approximately 10 km in altitude. SN15 then performed a propellant transition to internal header tanks and reoriented itself for the descent. The starship prototype version landed safely in its intended location using its computer-controlled four flaps. According to SpaceX, “SN15’s Raptor engines reignited as the vehicle performed the landing flip maneuver immediately before touching down for a nominal landing on the pad.”
SpaceX says that the fully reusable launch vehicle Starship is still being tested several times before it can become fully operational. The reusable, super-heavy lift vehicle is designed for carrying both cargo and crew for a long duration interplanetary journey both to Mars and Moon. However, the Starship is still in its observational and experimental mode before it can deliver its uninterrupted services to the betterment of humanity.
Elon Musk’s tweet hinted that his confidence is boosting as SpaceX’s Starship qualifies the successful test flights. Even though it hasn’t yet reached its escape velocity to leave for Earth’s orbit, the successful test flights show it will in near future. | aerospace | 1 |
https://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-airspace-design-1469196960 | 2023-06-08T10:59:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654871.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608103815-20230608133815-00288.warc.gz | 0.964413 | 1,605 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__43104904 | en | Think Los Angeles at rush hour is bad? Try doing it half-blindfolded with nothing but a radio and a few blinking lights to show you the way. That's how pilots navigate the invisible highways in the sky, and there's a beautiful design that makes it all work. It only took about a hundred years to come up with it.
When you take a step back and think about it, airspace design—and the air traffic control system that dictates it—is a small miracle. Actually, it's a pretty big one. This complex set of rules, developed and refined since the early days of aviation, keeps planes from crashing into each other or slamming into the ground when trying to land in bad weather. Incidentally, it was these very kinds of tragedies that prompted authorities to write the rules to begin with before technology took the reins, shaping the way we fly today. In the next ten years, technology will transform it all again, but I'll come back to that. First, let's get our history straight.
It all started back in the 1920s when the most prominent pilots in the United States were actually mailmen. These guys would fly by-planes from coast-to-coast along the original transcontinental airway. (Even Charles Lindbergh got in on that action.) In 1927, having realized the business potential of passenger air travel, the Department of Commerce took control of the airway from the U.S. Postal Service, and the nation's first air traffic control tower opened three years later in Cleveland. Before that, pilots relied on hand signals or flags—even giant arrows—on the ground for signals. Aside from that single superhighway connecting the coasts, though, all of America's airspace remained uncontrolled.
That started to change in the early 30s, when instrument flying became the thing to do. After Jimmy Doolittle's first blind flight in 1929 proved that technology could guide pilots through the skies, the government took a keen interest in regulating air traffic. With backing from the Department of Commerce, which was overseeing aviation at the time, four of the country's top airlines—American, United, Eastern and TWA—opened the first full-blown air traffic control facility to watch over the sky above Newark, New Jersey in 1935. Similar facilities opened in Chicago and Cleveland soon thereafter.
Air traffic control was a pretty manual endeavor in the beginning. Using maps, blackboards, a radio, and mental calculations, the first air traffic controllers kept track of the planes in the air but also began writing the rules that would shape airspace design. To keep planes from colliding midair, this required constant radio contact between pilots and the ground that enabled air traffic controllers to dictate altitude and direction. A control zone that amounted to a five-mile-wide vertical cylinder was set up around airports, and, in 1938, the Civilian Aeronautics Administration (CAA) was formed. Then World War II happened.
The war effort shaped airspace design in many ways, the most profound of which was probably the introduction of radar. Over the next few decades it would become one of the most valuable tools in the control tower as it enabled the air traffic controllers to know the position of aircraft at all time. At around the same time, pilots started relying on ground-based radio beacons to help them navigate, a system that also led to the development of more pronounced airways. For obvious reasons, the web of airways sort of looks like a map of all the Interstate highways. At least in the beginning it did.
As the skies got busier after the war, they also got messier. A series of midair collisions, along with the advent of the jet era, prompted Congress to pass the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. This led to the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration and the beginnings of a more complex system of airways. Below 18,000 feet, there were so-called Victor airways, eight nautical miles-wide each, that were used by both pilots flying under instrument flight rules (IFR) and visual flight rules (VFR). A map of the pathways would resemble a game of connect-the-dots in which each dot was a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) station that sent beacons up to the planes and helped them navigate.
Above the Victor airways were the jetways. This includes the most restricted airspace, which would later become known as Class A airspace. Air traffic controllers required all pilots to be instrument-rated at these altitudes, although improvements in VOR technology enabled them to map out their own routes independent 0f the established roadways.
But before airspace design became too messy, more rules arrived with the creation of the Department of Transportation in 1967. Air traffic control was also on its way to become more automated thanks to these newfangled machines called computers.
Traffic got worse and worse as the cost of flying dropped, and it effectively went out of control after the airline industry was deregulated in 1978. This created a highly competitive airline industry and also led to the first National Airspace System (NAS) Plan in 1982 that was designed to enhance air traffic control and air navigation to keep pace with the growth of the airline industry over the next 20 years. Efforts to automate the system continued and, soon, the nation's skies resembled an intricate latticework of specialized airways. These stretched laterally across the landscapes below and stacked up in layers, marking different vertical levels of restriction.
The most recent major adjustment to the nation's airspace design arrived in 1993 when the current system of airspace class went into place. This slightly modified version of the international system divided the sky into a veritable layer cake of classes labelled A through G, based on altitude. Whereas Class A represented the strictly regulated jetways, Class G airspace close to the ground was completely uncontrolled. Airspace around busy airports is Class B, while Class C is reserved for airports with moderate traffic, and Class D for airports with very little traffic. Everything else between 1,200 feet and 18,000 feet is Class E airspace.
Today, U.S. airspace is in the middle of yet another redesign. Radar and radio, the very technologies that once drove innovation in the industry, are gradually being phased out as GPS technology takes over. This a potentially transformative development for air traffic control and airspace design as it enables controllers to make minute adjustments that shave minutes or even seconds off of flight time, leading to less congestion both in the skies and on the ground.
It's going to take some time to make the transition, though. Ten years ago, Congress gave the go ahead to the Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act which will usher in a new system for air traffic control—called NextGen—set to launch in 2025. The New York City area stands to benefit the most from these improvements as, with its three airports combined, it has some of the busiest skies in the country. Andrew Blum published a big feature in Wired on the future of New York City's skies back in 2009, detailing how subtle adjustments to airspace design will lead to major improvements in traffic control.
Inevitably, the system's only going to get more complex, and therein lies the challenge. Steve Kelley, a former air traffic controller who's in charge of the FAA's redesign, described the situation succinctly to Wired. "The airspace is the airspace," he said. "No one's going to give us more of it. We just have to use it better."
Images via Aaron Koblin / Century Aviation / FAA / CWAM / Rick Camacho
It's one of the busiest travel weeks of the year, so what better time to take a closer look at how we get where we're going—and how we could be doing it better? Check out more of Gizmodo's Air Travel Week posts here. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.fragileoasis.org/projects/space-shuttle-guide/ | 2019-01-21T21:37:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583814455.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20190121213506-20190121235506-00141.warc.gz | 0.916986 | 202 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__78904974 | en | Documenting Space Shuttle data for future generations.
With the retirement of the world’s first reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, there needs to be a way to guarantee that the knowledge is not lost and distributed to the next generation of space enthusiasts. Knowledge gained should not only be to make possible missions to Mars and creating lunar bases, but to enable us on earth to make renewable energy as common as the pocket calculator. The Space Shuttle Guide is attempting to organize this data in a format which is easy to use.
Since the space Shuttle is one of the most complex machines ever created, the amount of information on the space vehicle is overwhelming. In order to encourage grade school children’s interest and create enthusiasm in the next generation, the Space Shuttle Guide attempts to allow users to find any piece of information on the Shuttle in three clicks. It also hopes to generate interest in those people who have insight in the shuttle to share the knowledge they have and disseminate it to current and future space enthusiasts. | aerospace | 1 |
http://flights.expedia.com/flights-from-houston-to-wichita-iah-to-ict/ | 2013-12-12T02:05:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164346985/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133906-00030-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.737091 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__68069773 | en | Cheap IAH to Wichita flights
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Browse the the most popular airlines servicing the Houston (IAH) airport. Visit their flights pages to learn more about the most popular routes these carriers fly.
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Browse the most popular airlines servicing the Wichita (ICT) airport. Visit their flights pages to learn more about the most popular routes these carriers fly. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/ArticleFullRecord.jsp?cn=HGJHC0_2014_v15n4_412 | 2017-02-23T20:57:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171232.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00061-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.656636 | 428 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__185657295 | en | Grantham W., "Comparison of Flying Qualities Derived From In-Flight and Ground-Based Simulators for a Jet-Transport Airplane for the Approach and Landing Pilot Tasks", NASA Technical Paper 2962, Hampton, VA, USA, 1989.
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MIL-F-8785C, Flying Qualities of Piloted Airplanes,1996. | aerospace | 1 |
https://spaceforce.org.uk/u-s-militarys-annual-list-of-unfunded-priorities-includes-1-billion-for-space-force/ | 2022-07-02T21:10:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104204514.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702192528-20220702222528-00120.warc.gz | 0.908759 | 591 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__190040475 | en | One of many largest single gadgets is $255 million to launch two GPS three satellites
WASHINGTON — Quickly after the Pentagon’s funds request is submitted to Congress every year, the army providers ship to Capitol Hill a separate want listing referred to as “unfunded priorities.” These are gadgets the army would love Congress to fund if lawmakers determine so as to add more cash to the Pentagon’s proposed funds.
Final week the army providers and the Missile Protection Company submitted almost $18 billion in unfunded priorities for fiscal 12 months 2021, together with $1 billion for the House Drive.
“As typical, these lists can have a big effect on the places and takes the Congress makes to the president’s $705 billion DoD funds request this 12 months,” mentioned Erin Neal, a companion on the protection and aerospace consulting agency Velocity Authorities Relations.
DoD requested $15.4 billion for the Space Force, the most recent department of the armed forces that resides within the Division of the Air Drive. In a letter accompanying the House Drive’s $1 billion listing of unfunded priorities, Chief of House Operations Gen. John Raymond mentioned the Trump administration’s proposed funds “is a superb first step in direction of constructing the House Drive we want for the long run, and we need to proceed that momentum.”
The billion-dollar House Drive want listing contains a mixture of launch providers, satellite tv for pc upgrades, categorized house warfare applied sciences and coaching for house operators. The contents of the House Drive listing have been first reported Feb. 20 by InsideDefense.com
One of many largest single gadgets is $255 million to launch two GPS three satellites that already are in manufacturing at Lockheed Martin’s meeting line however whose launches haven’t been funded. The House Drive would use this cash to launch the sixth and seventh satellites of the GPS three constellation. Two spacecraft are already on orbit and three extra are anticipated to launch in 2020 and early 2021.
The House Drive funds request for 2021 has $1.05 billion for 3 Nationwide Safety House Launch missions however none are GPS. The three funded missions are code named AFSPC-36, AFSPC-87 and AFSPC-112.
Different big-ticket gadgets within the 2021 unfunded priorities listing:
- $149 million for on-orbit checks of the fifth House-Based mostly Infrared System (SBIRS) early warning satellite tv for pc (GEO 5) and for the mixing of the ultimate satellite tv for pc of the constellation GEO 6.
- $175 million for satellite tv for pc communications enhancements
- $110 million for brand spanking new house situational consciousness capabilities
- $30 million to hurry up the payload improvement of the Air Drive Analysis Laboratory’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) | aerospace | 1 |
http://parman.blogspot.com/2007/09/japan-aerospace-exploration-agency-fly.html | 2017-05-22T19:17:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607046.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522190443-20170522210443-00258.warc.gz | 0.931781 | 530 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__238046882 | en | Thursday, September 13, 2007
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
FLY ME TO THE MOON... And however the rest of the lyrics to that Frank Sinatra song go. At 6:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time today (10:31 AM, Japan Time on September 14), an H-IIA rocket carrying the Kaguya spacecraft lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan after a one-day weather-related delay. Kaguya, formerly known as SELENE (or—Yes, I’m really nerdy enough to type this out—SELenological and ENgineering Explorer), will take 19 days to reach the Moon. 37 days after launch, Kaguya—which is such an ambitious project that it has been labeled "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program" in the 1960’s—will settle into a 62 mile-high circular orbit...and will start its one yearlong mission.
These two photos show the aluminum sheets as well as the location on the spacecraft
where they will be installed (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
So what makes Kaguya worth mentioning in my Blog, you ask? Simple... Aluminum sheets (shown above) bearing the names and messages of 412,627 people, including Yours Truly, are onboard the spacecraft. As part of the Wish Upon the Moon campaign carried out by The Planetary Society of Japan and The Planetary Society based in Pasadena, California, people got to submit their names and wishes online earlier this year. The name of this public outreach effort is based on the classic line "Wish Upon the Star" (in case you didn’t notice), though a consolation for your wishes not coming true is your name orbiting the Moon for at least a year before it crashes down onto the lunar surface. Unlike the Phoenix Mars lander, which has a DVD onboard that should last for at least 500 years on the Red Planet's surface, and Dawn, which is carrying a silicon microchip bearing the names of 365,000 people and should stay in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres for at least 50 years, Kaguya will eventually come to a fiery end at the end of its mission. Oh well. It will still last longer than my name did on Deep Impact. Anyways, that’s all. Two spacecraft launched, one more to go. Dawn launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida on September 26. Godspeed, Dawn.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / The Planetary Society (Japan/USA)
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https://airspeedhigh.com/our-company/ | 2021-12-09T06:51:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363689.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20211209061259-20211209091259-00096.warc.gz | 0.953002 | 188 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__126130501 | en | A bit about us
Airspeed High Ultralights started in July 2009 with the intention of bringing a professional approach to Ultralight flight training. Its owner/operator, Mr. Andreas Ruttkiewicz, is a former Canadian Forces pilot, holds a private pilot license and an Ultralight permit with instructor rating. He has flown an array of aircraft including CF-18s. Andreas is a Transport Canada authorized person(AP), Transport Canada pilot examiner(PE) and an Industry Canada Radio License Examiner
Airspeed High Ultralights believes that flight training should not only be safe and professional, but also fun and rewarding. Where possible, we use scenario based training to keep it interesting and realistic. We encourage students to dedicate a set time period to obtaining their permit. Training is more efficient and cost effective when a consistent schedule is followed. We take pride in our efforts to help each of our students reach their personal aviation goals. | aerospace | 1 |
https://airspacesafety.com/statistics/online-tutorial-and-test/ | 2024-04-23T08:26:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00196.warc.gz | 0.924455 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__3728135 | en | The Online Tutorial and Test is an available action included in the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Airspace Infringements: review and actions process (CAP1404).
The tutorial includes the knowledge expected of a competent pilot and helps refresh core knowledge and understanding of airmanship. It is openly available to all pilots on the Airspace & Safety Initiative website.
Pilots that need to take the test are sent log-in details by the CAA.
The test is made up of 20 randomly selected multiple-choice questions that need to be answered in 20 minutes. The pass mark is 85% (17 correct answers out of 20). The questions are drawn from information included in the online tutorial, the wider Airspace and Safety Initiative website, and basic airspace and core aviation law knowledge needed to obtain a flight crew licence.
61 pilots had to complete the Online Tutorial and Test after being involved in an airspace infringement. Each pilot was given a period of 28 days within which they could study the tutorial and complete the test. Of the 61 tests taken, 25 pilots passed the test and 36 failed to achieve the 85% pass mark.
Pilots that failed the test had their test paper and infringement casefile reviewed again by the CAA and another course of training action was required. These included one-to-one ground school training, theoretical training with a Flight Instructor or Flight Examiner and a requirement to complete the Airspace Infringement Awareness Course.
Subjects with a low pass rate
These subjects resulted in a pass rate of less than 40% of the questions asked:
- Aerodrome Traffic Zones and Rule 11 of The Rules of the Air Regulations 2015
- Air Traffic Services
- Charting and abbreviations (regulated AIS products)
- Meteorology (regulated met products)
- NOTAM interpretation
- Transponder Mandatory Zones
- Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and Special VFR | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.pwencycl.kgbudge.com/A/i/Aircraft_Engines.htm | 2024-04-14T06:48:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816875.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414064633-20240414094633-00068.warc.gz | 0.963781 | 4,278 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__16485978 | en | The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
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engines of the Second World War were almost exclusively piston
engines using high-octane gasoline
(petrol) fuel. Jet engines were introduced towards the end of the
war in Europe, but saw no operational use in the Pacific. Rocket engines were employed by
the Japanese MXY7 Ohka suicide aircraft.
The heart of a piston engine was a set of cylinders, each containing a piston. The pistons were attached by piston rods to a central crankshaft through one end of the cylinder, and the other end of the cylinder was tightly sealed except for a set of valves and spark plugs. The pistons invariably operated on a four-stroke or Otto cycle. During the first stroke, the piston was pulled downwards by the crankshaft as the fuel valves opened to allow a mixture of air and gasoline vapor to enter the cylinder. During the second stroke, the valves closed and the piston began to move back up (still driven by the crankshaft) and the air and vapor mixture became highly compressed. As the piston reached the top of the cylinder, the spark plugs fired and ignited the fuel-air mixture, whose pressure increased enormously as it burned. During the third stroke, this white-hot gas drove the piston back down the cylinder with great force, driving the crankshaft. During the fourth stroke, the exhaust valves opened as the crankshaft pushed the piston back to the top of the cylinder, expelling the burned fuel and air. The cycle was then ready to repeat.The timing of this cycle had to be carefully designed, and the engine had to efficiently feed fuel-air mixture to the cylinders and efficiently carry off the exhaust. The fuel-air mixture needed to be at a high enough pressure to force it rapidly into the cylinders, while the exhaust system needed to be at low enough pressure for the exhaust to be rapidly extracted from the cylinders. The combustion process created tremendous amounts of heat, of which only a fraction (typically 20% to 30%) was used to drive the piston. Much of the remaining heat was carried off in the exhaust, but the rest went into heating the cylinders, which had to be cooled to prevent overheating. The cylinders could be cooled either by fitting them with large cooling fins and directing a strong flow of air over the fins (air cooling) or by surrounding them with a jacket containing water or a mixture of water with ethylene glycol (liquid cooling.) In the latter case, the liquid still had to be circulated to a radiator exposed to air flow, so in some sense liquid cooling involved an extra step. However, the radiator could be located some distance from the cylinders, which gave added design flexibility.
An Ha-40 inline aircraft engine.
U.S. Navy. Via Francillon (1979)
A Kotobuki 1 KAI 1 radial aircraft engine.
U.S. Navy. Via Francillon (1979)
Because the piston drove the crankshaft during only one of the four strokes, high-performance engines required several cylinders firing in sequence to ensure that at least one piston was driving the crankshaft at all times. There were many ways that the cylinders could be arranged around the crankshaft, but the high-performance piston engines of the Second World War fell into two broad categories. Inline engines typically placed the cylinders in long rows, rather like an automobile V engine. Radial engines arranged the cylinders in one or more circles around the center of the engine. Inline engines had a much smaller cross-section, which simplified streamlining; however, the inline cylinder layout could not be adequately cooled by airflow alone, so a liquid cooling system was required. Radial engines had a large cross-section, but with appropriate cooling fins, the cylinders could be cooled by airflow alone. The tradeoff was greater drag for the radial engine versus greater weight and vulnerability to damage for the inline engine. In practice, the tradeoff of weight for drag meant that neither the radial or inline engine gave a decisive advantage for aircraft speed. The inline-engine Mustang was very fast, but so was the radial-engine Corsair. The inline-engine Spitfire was nimble, but so was the radial-engine Hellcat. The type of engine was a key recognition feature for single-engine monoplanes: Aircraft employing radial engines had a blunt nose due to the large cross-section of the engine, while aircraft employing inline engines had a pointed, streamlined nose to take maximum advantage of the reduced engine cross-section.
Multi-row radial engines were developed as early as the First
World War, but this engine configuration posed the challenge of
providing adequate cooling for the second row of cylinders.
However, the introduction of the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp
in 1932 proved that such engines were viable, and the Twin Wasp
became one of the most produced engines in history.
To a point, larger cylinders delivered greater power. However,
the length of a cylinder was limited by the inertia of the piston
rod, and the diameter of the cylinder was limited by the speed at
which the burn front ignited by the spark plugs could propagate
across the cylinder. The aircraft engines of the Second World War
had two sparks plugs on opposite sides of each cylinder, but even
then the cylinder diameter was limited to about six inches (15
cm). The spark plugs were wired independently, and it was
accepted practice for pilots to switch off one half of the
ignition system and then the other half while warming up the
engine, to detect any faults in either ignition system.
Aircraft fuel systems could be quite complicated, but at a minimum a fuel pump was required to pump the fuel from the tanks through a filter and into a carburetor, in which a flow of air sucked fuel from a float chamber and rapidly converted it to vapor, which then entered the engine. More sophisticated engines sprayed a fine jet of fuel into the incoming air stream or even injected the fuel directly into the cylinder at the appropriate moment, though direct injection required extremely high manufacturing tolerances to ensure that exactly the right amount of fuel was injected at just the right moment. Fuel injection did have the important advantage over float carburetors that the latter could not function at negative gravity arising during violent combat maneuvers. Air normally entered the engine through a forward-facing ram inlet that allowed the aircraft's own forward motion to help force the air into the engine, while the exhaust was expelled to the rear of the aircraft and provided a small amount of added thrust.
The moving parts of the engine required constant lubrication, which was provided by oil pumped to the appropriate points. The pump was invariably an intermeshing gear pump, which was ideal for imparting very high pressure to a viscous liquid at a modest flow rate. The oil was cooled after it had circulated through the engine and was filtered before being returned to the oil pump.
Most engines used poppet valves in their cylinders, as shown in the preceding animation. These looked something like a golf tee and were seated in a very hard, durable ring of Stellite. The valves were subject to intense heating, and so their hollow stem contained a small quantity of metallic sodium to help carry away the heat. However, a small number of aircraft engines used during the Pacific War used sleeve valves, which took the form of a separate metal sleeve between the piston and the cylinder which slid or rotated to open ports at the appropriate points in the engine cycle. Sleeve valves operated relatively quietly and were highly reliable and efficient, but they tended to burn large quantities of oil, because of the additional surfaces requiring lubrication.
As a aircraft gained altitude, the reduction in air pressure
improved exhaust efficiency while hindering carburetor efficiency.
At higher altitude, the loss of carburetor efficiency predominated
and the engine rapidly lost power. To regain high altitude
performance, it was necessary to equip the engine with a
supercharger, which was a centrifugal air pump that helped drive
air into the engine. Conventional superchargers were driven by the
crankshaft at an enormous rotation rate, typically 30,000
rotations per minute, through a set of multiplying gears. This
required an elaborate clutch to avoid stripping the gears when the
engine power fluctuated. The most sophisticated superchargers had
up to three speed settings for different situations. A more
sophisticated form of supercharger was the turbocharger, which
used the engine's own exhaust to drive the supercharger.
Turbochargers were highly effective at high altitude but required
scarce alloying metals such as tungsten
to manufacture turbocharger blades that could stand up to the
extremely hot exhaust gases. As aircraft designers sought ever
greater high altitude performance, most large military aircraft
engines began to be equipped with two turbochargers. The high
degree of compression achieved this way heated the incoming air
sufficiently that an intercooler (between the two turbochargers)
or an aftercooler (after the second turbocharger) or both were
required. Production of turbochargers was a significant constraint
on aircraft production throughout the war.
Many high-performance engines had a takeoff or combat boost
setting to provide maximum power for a limited period of time.
During combat boost, the supercharger ran at its maximum rate and
the fuel-air mixture entering the engine was made unusually rich.
The rich mixture suppressed predetonation and helped cool the
engine. Some engines included injection of water or of a
water-methyl alcohol mixture into the cylinders during combat
boost, resulting in a boost setting that as much as doubled the
power over maximum normal engine operation. However, combat boost
could be maintained for only a few minutes without risking the
destruction of the engine, and the pilot then had to switch to
rated boost, which was the maximum power that could be maintained
The engine turned a propeller, whose blades had a simple airfoil
shape, often that of the Clark Y airfoil. The rotating blades
drove air from in front of the propeller to its rear, and this
acceleration of a large volume of air was matched by an equal and
opposite force on the propeller which drove the aircraft through
the air. Because the blade rotated more slowly at the center
than at the end, the blade had to be manufactured with a twist so
that the angle of attack of the blade was greater at the center
than at the tip. This ensured that the blade tip remained subsonic
while allowing the inner blade to drive a strong flow of air. Most
propellers of the Second World War were variable pitch propellers,
of which the most sophisticated was the constant speed propeller.
A constant speed propeller had a complicated control mechanism
that automatically increased the pitch as the engine was throttled
up, so that the engine maintained a constant number of rotations
per minute as the propeller "bit" harder into the air at higher
power. In case of engine failure, the propeller could be
"feathered", that is, the blades could be rotated directly into
the air flow to minimize air resistance and prevent the blades
from "windmilling" and possibly further damaging the engine. The
blades could usually also be reversed to slow the aircraft after
landing. A propeller typically had at least two blades, for
balance, but propellers on some of the highest-performance
aircraft used during the war, such as the Spitfire XIV, had as many as
five blades. The crankshaft might be connected directly to the
propeller hub, but since the ideal rotation rate for the engine
was often greater than the ideal rotation rate for the propeller,
it was common for the crankshaft to connect to the propeller hub
through a set of reduction gears.
While many aircraft of the 1940s used electric starters to start
their engines, military aircraft favored cartridge starters, which
used large cartridges of gunpowder.
The gas from the cartridge pushed a piston whose motion was
converted to torque to turn the engine. The engine had to be
strengthened to take the powerful kick it got from the cartridge,
and the cartridges themselves were somewhat expensive, but they
were a lightweight self-contained starting system ideal for use at
The aircraft engines of the Pacific War relied on high-octane
aviation gasoline. The high octane rating meant that the fuel had
very little tendency to predetonate when compressed by the piston
in the cylinder. This in turn meant that high compression ratios
could be used, which increased engine power. The use of
high-octane gasoline posed logistical
challenges, since it was expensive and hazardous to transport and
store, and because aircraft consumed fuel at a prodigious rate.
A quirk of both Japanese (Goodwin and Starkings 2017) and British
(Bergerud 2000) aircraft engine design was that no great effort
was spent on eliminating all oil leaks. It was considered more
cost effective to simply replace leaked oil after each sortie. In
the case of the Japanese, the acceptance of oil leaks was so
extreme that some aircraft, such as the D3A Val, were notorious for
obstructed vision from oil leakage onto the windscreen.
All of Japan's aircraft engines were imported or built under license until the mid-1930s, and the Japanese designs in production when war broke out in the Pacific were based on foreign designs. Almost all were air-cooled radial engines, and some were quite good. While the Japanese made no great technological breakthroughs, they were innovative in perfecting existing designs and technology. American experts who examined Sakae and Kinsei engines in aircraft wreckage at Pearl Harbor described them as "like a Swiss watch", comparing their workmanship favorably with Allied aircraft engines. However, Japan was cut off from the remarkable advances in metallurgy made in the United States during the war years, and important alloying metals were in very short supply. Japanese engineers were too few in number and worked under a stifling military bureaucracy. As a result, the performance of Japanese aircraft engines lagged badly behind those of her principal enemy as the war dragged on.
One reflection of this is the government regulation of Mitsubishi, one of the largest of the zaibatsu or family industrial conglomerates and a major manufacturer of aircraft and aircraft engines. The steel import supply chain of Mitsubishi was taken over by the Japanese government in 1938. Together with poor control of hundreds of subcontractors feeding parts into the production lines, this significantly hinder productivity. The Airplane Industry Manufacturing Law of August 1938 put all aircraft manufacture under government license, apparently to encourage lesser players the expense of the zaibatsu (Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Kawasaki, Nakajima, and the Nissen division of Hitachi). By May 1939 the major aircraft engine manufacturers were Aichi, Ishikawajima, Gasuden, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, and Nakajkima. Gasuden had largely dropped out of aircraft engine manufacture by the time war broke out in the Pacific. Propellers were manufactured by Japan Musical Instrument Company and Sumitomo. By this time, the government controlled the component supply chain to the major manufacturers.
By May of 1943 it had become clear that the Army and Navy had to cooperate better to make good use of the scarce resources available to Japan. The two-digit Joint Designation System for aircraft engines was adopted that month. The first digit indicated the general engine type, while the second digit indicated cylinder bore diameter and stroke distance. Manufacturer and precise model number were also part of the designation. Thus, the Nakajima [Ha-35] 25 engine was an air-cooled 14-cylinder double-row radial engine (3) with a bore of 130mm and stroke of 150mm (5) designed by Nakajima, model number 25.
Ha-1: air-cooled inline engine
Ha-2: air-cooled single-row radial engine
Ha-3: air-cooled 14-cylinder double-row radial
Ha-4: air-cooled 18-cylinder double-row radial engine
Ha-5: air-cooled, more than 18-cylinder, multi-row radial engine
Ha-6: liquid-cooled 12-cylinder engine
Ha-7: liquid-cooled, more than 12-cylinder, engine
Ha-8: diesel engine
Ha-9: special engine
In practice, a bewildering variety of nonstandard designations were used for Japanese aircraft engines. Designations such as Ha-26-I should not be confused with [Ha-26] 1 which are different engines.
On 1 November 1943, the Japanese government created a Ministry of
Munitions to further coordinate manufacture, and there were some
improvements. Engine manufacture rose from 28,500 in 1943 to
46,500 in 1944. However, a major earthquake on 7 December 1944,
combined with fears of the Allied strategic bombing
campaign, produced a near-panic and enactment of hte
Urgent Dispersal of Plants Act of February 1945, which seriously
disrupted manufacture. Aircraft engine manufacture dropped to just
11,900 from January to August 1945, more from the crash effort at
dispersal than from bomb damage.
Japanese aircraft engines were subjected to a run-in of 7 hours
by the Army and 9 by the Navy before being certified for use.
About 10% of engines failed. Lack of fuel and test stands reduced
these numbers to 1.5 hours and 2 hours, respectively, by the end
of the war, with corresponding loss of reliability.
U.S. aircraft engine design made rapid strides during the war,
primarily due to improvements in metallurgy that made it possible
to make lighter, smaller, more powerful engine components. The Allies also had access
to more reserves of crucial alloying elements such as tungsten for
U.S. aircraft engines typically had an official designation consisting of R or V for radial or inline engines, respectively; the approximate displacement in cubic inches; and a model number. Some had a popular nickname as well. Thus, the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp was a radial engine with an approximate displacement of 2800 cubic inches (46 liters) which came in several models, such as the R-2800-8W with water injection.
The leading American aircraft engine manufacturers in 1941 were Wright and Pratt and Whitney,
with Allison just coming into the
picture as a major manufacturer of inline engines. However, by
1944, some 60% of engine horsepower was being produced by former
automobile manufacturers under license.
R-985 Wasp Junior
R-1535 Twin Wasp Junior
R-1830 Twin Wasp
R-2000 Twin Wasp
R-2800 Double Wasp
R-3350 Duplex Cyclone
Gunston (1999, 2006)
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia © 2006-2007, 2009-2010, 2012-2013, 2019 by Kent G. Budge. Index
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http://www.appsforkids.org/uncategorized/kidsnews/design-a-tool-to-be-used-in-space/ | 2019-07-17T01:47:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525004.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717001433-20190717023433-00280.warc.gz | 0.920548 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__148574842 | en | Design a tool to be used in space!
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Sharing The AirSharing the air with birds is a great thing, except when aircraft and birds try to occupy the same space at the same time. Usually that is a lose-lose proposition. In flight training, bird avoidance may not seem like a high-priority item, and yet there is enough evidence to suggest that CFIs and students should have at least a passing discussion about why it's good to avoid birds.
Reportedly, a CFI and student were cruising at 1,500 feet when they were approached by a flock of 10-pound turkey buzzards. The landing lights on their Piper Warrior were turned on, and most of the flock turned sharply left and dived. But one confused avian turned right and collided with the Warrior's stabilator. There was a loud bang followed by some vibration. The instructor declared an emergency and landed uneventfully at a nearby airport. The bird was not recovered and presumably fared less well than the airplane.
Bird strikes, while not considered a big issue for light general aviation aircraft, have been responsible for some major accidents and more than 300 fatalities since the age of flight began. According to an FAA study, more than 16,000 collisions occurred during a recent seven-year period over the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Nearly 80 percent occurred less than 1,000 feet above the ground, but some high fliers have encountered flocks of birds at altitudes exceeding 20,000 feet.
Some of the physics of a bird encounter may pique your interest. An FAA flight standards district newsletter mentions that hitting a two-pound seagull - the type of bird most likely to be involved in a bird strike - at a speed of 120 mph results in an impact force of 4,800 pounds. Jets have a much bigger problem. An impact at 600 mph results in a force of more than 35 tons. Frequently, jet engines will be severely damaged or fail as the result of a strike. The U.S. Air Force suffers millions of dollars of losses each year as well as periodic fatalities caused by bird strikes involving high-speed aircraft.
The engine of a propeller-driven aircraft is seldom harmed. The danger comes from broken windshields or structural damage to wings or empennage. The danger of a bird joining you in the cockpit should not be underestimated. A firsthand account comes from a Cessna 172 pilot: "With explosive suddenness, the windshield shattered, air rushed in, and my door blew open. There was a thud against the back of my seat, and the noise rose to deafening levels. With increased drag we quickly lost airspeed and altitude."
One of the most likely places to encounter birds is the airspace around airports. Airports are occasionally located adjacent to dumps. This is considered an incompatible mix as birds are attracted in large numbers to garbage and thus pose a hazard to arriving and departing aircraft. To help, FAA has published Advisory Circular AC 150/5200-33 to provide guidance to communities and airport managers.
For pilots, the Air Force Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard Team (BASH-I'm not making this up) and FAA's Aviation News from January 1996 offer this guidance for avoiding bird strikes:
- Avoid low altitude flight as much as feasible to reduce the risk of a strike.
- Strikes are most likely in August, September, and October - particularly in migratory flyways. These tend to be the larger birds. Keep a lookout, just as you would for other flying objects.
- Dawn and dusk are the times with the highest probability of a bird encounter.
- Turn on landing or recognition lights. This helps birds see oncoming aircraft.
- Plan to climb. Birds almost invariably dive away, but there are exceptions.
- Slow down. This will allow birds more time to get out of your way and will lessen the impact force if you do hit one.
- If a collision seems likely, duck below the glareshield to avoid being hit by the bird and flying plexiglass. Advise passengers to do the same. Protect your eyes and head.
- If a collision occurs, fly the aircraft first. Assess the damage and decide whether you can make it to an airport or you should make an off-airport landing. Declare an emergency - it doesn't cost anything. Even if no damage is visible, divert to the nearest airport and have a mechanic look at the airplane. There are likely to be some aerodynamic modifications that do not have FAA approval.
For more information on bird strikes, see the FAA's bird strike page ( www.faa.gov/ arp/pdf/strkrpt.pdf ), AOPA's bird strike pamphlet (www.birdstrike.org ), and the joint FAA/USDA Web site (www.faa.gov/ arp/pdf/manfin.pdf ). Bruce Landsberg is executive director of the AOPA Air Safety Foundation.
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https://www.trip.com/flights/yulin-to-beijing/airfares-uyn-bjs/ | 2020-01-19T15:49:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594662.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119151736-20200119175736-00506.warc.gz | 0.865605 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__49675866 | en | Generally the best time to book Yulin to Beijing flights is two months in advance. And the cheapest days to fly are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. Sunday is the most expensive.
There are 19 direct flights from Yulin to Beijing.
China United Airlines provides 73 of the non-stop flights between Yulin and Beijing.
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China brought Musk to the UN.
The Asian country filed a complaint with the United Nations after, according to it, its space station was forced to avoid two collisions with satellites launched for the Starlink project of entrepreneur billionaire Elon Musk.
The Chinese station this year had two “close encounters” with satellites of Starlink, an Internet provider company operated by SpaceX, also owned by Musk.
The incidents reported by Beijing to the United Nations (UN) space agency have not been independently verified.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
However, in an interview with The Financial Times Posted Wednesday, Musk argued that space is “enormous“And that there is room for billions of satellites, not to mention specifically the dispute with China.
The event occurred on July 1 and October 21, according to the documentation submitted by Beijing to the UN.
“For security reasons, the Chinese space station implemented a preventive control to avoid collisions“Beijing said in the complaint.
Once the incident was known, Musk, Starlink and the United States received numerous criticisms on the Chinese social network Weibo.
“Starlink’s risks are gradually being exposed. All mankind will pay for their economic activities, “said one user.
China also accused the United States of putting astronauts at risk by ignoring outer space treaty obligations.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China is asking the United States to act responsibly.
Scientists have made public their concern about the risks of collisions in space and have called on world governments to share information about the 30,000 satellites and other space debris that are estimated to orbit Earth.
SpaceX has already launched nearly 1,900 satellites as part of su red Starlink to provide low-cost Internet and plans to put thousands more into orbit.
Last month NASA postponed a spacewalk from the International Space Station at the last minute because of the risk of collision with space debris.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12577999/ | 2020-11-26T12:41:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141188146.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20201126113736-20201126143736-00374.warc.gz | 0.935069 | 400 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__144766290 | en | The colonization of space will depend on our ability to routinely provide for the metabolic needs (oxygen, water, and food) of a crew with minimal re-supply from Earth. On Earth, these functions are facilitated by the cultivation of plant crops, thus it is important to develop plant-based food production systems to sustain the presence of mankind in space. Farming practices on earth have evolved for thousands of years to meet both the demands of an ever-increasing population and the availability of scarce resources, and now these practices must adapt to accommodate the effects of global warming. Similar challenges are expected when earth-based agricultural practices are adapted for space-based agriculture. A key variable in space is gravity; planets (e.g. Mars, 1/3 g) and moons (e.g. Earth's moon, 1/6 g) differ from spacecraft orbiting the Earth (e.g. Space stations) or orbital transfer vehicles that are subject to microgravity. The movement of heat, water vapor, CO2 and O2 between plant surfaces and their environment is also affected by gravity. In microgravity, these processes may also be affected by reduced mass transport and thicker boundary layers around plant organs caused by the absence of buoyancy dependent convective transport. Future space farmers will have to adapt their practices to accommodate microgravity, high and low extremes in ambient temperatures, reduced atmospheric pressures, atmospheres containing high volatile organic carbon contents, and elevated to super-elevated CO2 concentrations. Farming in space must also be carried out within power-, volume-, and mass-limited life support systems and must share resources with manned crews. Improved lighting and sensor technologies will have to be developed and tested for use in space. These developments should also help make crop production in terrestrial controlled environments (plant growth chambers and greenhouses) more efficient and, therefore, make these alternative agricultural systems more economically feasible food production systems.
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https://www.aviationacrossamerica.org/blog/2009/07/30/air-traffic-fee-issue-worries-pilots-they-say-shifting-the-burden-from-commercial-airlines-to-general-aviation-would-be-unfair/ | 2020-11-24T17:43:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141176922.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20201124170142-20201124200142-00575.warc.gz | 0.95122 | 758 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__89727745 | en | By Greg Stiles
August 16, 2007
There is a tug of war between commercial airlines and general aviation pilots over future funding of the nation’s air traffic control system.
On one hand, commercial airlines are pushing to eliminate their contribution through fuel taxes, while general aviation pilots are wary of what would happen if they have to share a greater portion of the funding.
Congress will likely settle the matter in the days ahead, with the present funding arrangement due to expire next month.
“The big issue is that the airline industry is trying to reduce its tax by $500 million a year and push it off on to general aviation,” says George Gilman, a state representative and pilot. “The Senate version of the bill would shift all that cost to general aviation.”
Presently, the aviation system is primarily funded largely through a mix of taxes paid into the Airport and Airways Trust Fund. The Alliance for Aviation Across America (AAAA), says taxes going into the trust fund are generating record revenues, sufficient to fund all modernization programs. It points out the Congressional Budget Office anticipates continued increase in revenue through 2016, while the White House Office of Management and Budget expects the trust fund to top $21 billion by 2012.
The FAA has put forth a funding proposal, backed by the airlines, which would shift billions of dollars in tax liabilities from the carriers to small and mid-size businesses that depend on general aviation. A Senate alternative proposal includes a combination of tax cuts and user fee increases that the AAAA considers just as harsh. One bill would allow the FAA administrator to set user fees, while the Senate bill would impose a $25 per flight flat tax on all aircraft operations, except the smallest piston-powered planes.
“They’ve been floating these ideas for the last 10 years and usually don’t get any traction at all,” Gilman says. “If something like this passed, I suspect it would reduce the amount of general aviation; at least that’s what happened in Europe .”
Calls to SkyWest Airlines headquarters in St. George, Utah , were not returned. A spokesman for Alaska Air Group, the holding company for Seattle-based Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, said the company generally supports any stand taken by the Air Transport Association, but deferred further comment to the ATA. A call to the airline trade group was not returned.
“Let’s face it,” Gilman says. “The airlines would just not like to have us up in the air with them. They feel it’s a cause for congestion and slows the system down. There are some jets that fly in that 20,000 to 30,000 feet area the commercials are in, but most general aviation flights stay between 10,000 and 12,000 feet and never get up into the area the commercials are flying.”
“General aviation struggles as it is,” Case says. “Our feeling is anything that would hurt general aviation wouldn’t be good. I think they need to find the additional funds from some other source.”
Just as small boat operators don’t pay a fee to the Coast Guard every time they launch, he says general aviation pilots should not have to pay every time they taxi on the runway for takeoff.
“Everybody that flies isn’t rich,” he says. “We don’t get landing fees from planes unless they are over 12,500 pounds.”
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http://ttnonline.com/Article/7312 | 2023-06-06T06:17:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652235.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606045924-20230606075924-00002.warc.gz | 0.946329 | 288 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__183635317 | en | Jet Airways eyes more Gulf-India flights
India’s Jet Airways will soon look at operating direct services to almost all of India’s large cities, a top official said recently.
Jet Airways Gulf, Middle East and North Africa general manager Abraham Joseph said the immediate priority was to launch world-class services from Bahrain when it begins operations on 5 January.
“We are starting off with a flight a day to Mumbai and Kochi, from Bahrain, both of which will be non-stop operations,” said Joseph.
“The 14 flights every week will operate state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft, in the configuration of 124 economy and 16 business class seats.”
Joseph said flights to New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore from Bahrain would follow soon, depending on clearances from India’s civil aviation authorities.
Jet Airways, India’s largest private airline, had been given the go-ahead to fly to Bahrain in September 2007.
India’s civil aviation ministry has allocated 2,100 seats every week to Jet’s Bahrain operations. Of these, 1,050 seats have been allocated for Kochi while the rest have been allocated to Mumbai.
The airline will operate full-service flights initially, operated by Jet Airways as well as its low cost arm, Jet Lite, to offer an all economy budget service later. | aerospace | 1 |
https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2018/07/17/pilot-shortage-across-u-s-means-more-jobs/ | 2022-07-07T16:24:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104495692.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707154329-20220707184329-00495.warc.gz | 0.944578 | 437 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__245858512 | en | Delta Airlines announced it will be hiring 8,000 pilots over the next decade to help curb the pilot shortage across the country.
Everyone relies on flying for travel, but the most important thing to keep it going is running out.
Owner of Desert West Aviation David Shapiro says, “between 2018-2026 there’s going to be a glut of pilots flying for the airlines.”
Fewer and fewer pilots are flying the friendly skies. Steven Kiley is a pilot and student at Desert West Aviation, he says, “I love just seeing the airplanes taxi. That smell of jet fuel gets me going.”
But his passion for flying isn’t shared by everyone, “when I go out into the world outside the airports, really I don’t hear about a lot of other people perusing it.”
He thinks it’s because becoming a pilot isn’t easy. It takes years of hard work.
To put the pilot shortage into perspective, according to the federal aviation administration, in 1987 there were over 800,000 pilots, but over the last three decades that number has decreased by 30%.
Vice Chairman of the Palm Springs Air Museum Fred Bell says, “baby boomers are retiring in larger and larger numbers, so over the next probably five to ten years, this is going to get worse, it’s not going to get better.”
Bell says the shortage of pilots and maintenance crews could mean more delays, “airplanes that break on the ground, somebody just doesn’t run over and fix it. Those types of things.”
But for aspiring airline pilots like Kiley, it’s the perfect time to jump in. “They’re going to be seeking out those qualified pilots and I’m going to have the upper advantage,” he says.
“Not everyone can be a doctor or a lawyer, so an airline pilot! It’s fun you get to see the world!,” says Shapiro.
Commercial airlines have recruiting programs to bring in more pilots. | aerospace | 1 |
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/11/29/0142246/nasa-x-ray-tech-could-enable-superfast-communication-in-deep-space | 2018-05-26T04:26:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867309.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526033945-20180526053945-00609.warc.gz | 0.940742 | 429 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__170057426 | en | An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: New technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say. The technology would combine multiple NASA projects currently in progress to demonstrate the feasibility of X-ray communications from outside the International Space Station. The radio waves used by mobile phones, Wi-Fi and, of course, radios, are one kind of light. Other forms of light can carry data as well; for instance, fiber-optic telecommunications rely on pulses of visible and near-infrared light. The effort to use another type of light, X-rays, for communication started with research on NASA's proposed Black Hole Imager. That mission is designed to analyze the edges of the supermassive black holes that previous research suggested exist at the centers of most, if not all, large galaxies. One potential strategy to enable the Black Hole Imager was to develop a constellation of precisely aligned spacecraft to collect X-rays emitted from the edges of those black holes. Keith Gendreau, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, thought of developing X-ray emitters that these spacecraft could use as navigational beacons to make sure they stayed in position relative to one another. The system would keep them aligned down to a precision of just 1 micron, or about one-hundredth the average width of a human hair. Gendreau then reasoned that by modulating or varying the strength or frequency of these X-ray transmissions on and off many times per second, these navigational beacons could also serve as a communication system. Such X-ray communication, or XCOM, might, in theory, permit gigabit-per-second data rates throughout the solar system, he said. One advantage that XCOM has compared to laser communication in deep space is that X-rays have shorter wavelengths than the visible or infrared light typically used in laser communication. Moreover, X-rays can penetrate obstacles that impede radio communication. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.astrobotic.com/astrobotic-and-ris4e-demonstrate-technologies-to-explore-extreme-lunar-environments/ | 2024-04-14T04:41:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816864.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414033458-20240414063458-00695.warc.gz | 0.922514 | 1,707 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__45470962 | en | September 18, 2018 – As America prepares to return to the surface of the Moon, Astrobotic Technology is partnering with scientists from the RIS4E node of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), led by Stony Brook University, to demonstrate the robotic technologies needed to explore and study our nearest neighbor’s most interesting and challenging destinations.
Under a research contract with NASA, Astrobotic has developed a custom navigation software product, known as AstroNav, to give small free-flying spacecraft the ability to autonomously explore lunar lava tubes. Meanwhile, SSERVI researchers have been working to analyze the capabilities of compact and deployable instruments needed to collect and characterize geologic samples in the field. Advances in both areas are paving the way for future missions that are far more dynamic and autonomous than those possible today.
To explore sub-surface environments on the Moon, Astrobotic’s AstroNav employs both stereo vision- and LiDAR-based navigation, works without GPS or previously stored maps (neither of which exist in the target environment), and can operate in real-time while a free-flying spacecraft explores a novel environment at a high rate of speed.
The ability to utilize and fuse multiple of sensors is critical to exploring these challenging environments. While LiDAR can be used to explore pitch-black subterranean environments, and visual sensing can be used on the brightly lit surface of the Moon while using far less power, combining the sensing modalities allows a spacecraft to perform a seamless traverse over the lunar surface before dropping into a skylight from above.
A primary goal of Astrobotic’s research is to demonstrate the capability to navigate and map, using both LiDAR and vision, and to seamlessly transition between the two sensing modalities mid-flight when environmental conditions change rapidly. If successful, AstroNav could enable a small spacecraft to explore these underground environments autonomously, returning from the darkness to send data back to Earth, return a sample to the surface, or refuel.
Lunar lava tubes are high-priority targets for scientific research because they provide access to geologic formations that have been shielded from space weathering for billions of years, and therefore may contain a preserved record of the conditions present during the formation of the lunar mare. Additionally, while these tubes are rich in scientific samples, they could also be ideal locations for future human settlements because they provide natural protection from radiation and micrometeoroids. Both applications make lunar lava tubes appealing for further exploration.
While lava tubes are difficult to access because they are buried below the lunar surface, roof collapses, known as skylights, offer a tantalizing way to access the subsurface. Long hypothesized to exist, only in the past decade have numerous lunar skylights been detected from orbital imagery, and scientists have recently discovered that the Moon may host massive networks of lava tubes. In fact, radar data from the Japanese Spacecraft SELENE, currently in orbit around the Moon, indicates tubes that may be 50 km long and large enough to contain a colony the size of Philadelphia.
Integrated, Interdisciplinary Preparation for Future Lunar Missions
Planning for robotic and human missions to explore lunar skylights is already underway in earnest, and this past April Astrobotic’s Future Missions and Technology team joined the RIS4E SSERVI team, led by Prof. Timothy Glotch from Stony Brook University, at a field test site in New Mexico to demonstrate a number of key technologies required for these missions. The field site, known as the Potrillo Volcanic Field, has volcanic features analogous to those found on the Moon and Mars, and the collaboration between the teams sought to address the challenges of conducting extra-planetary geologic data and sample collection from autonomous aerial science platforms.
Due to its unique features, the Potrillo Lava field has served as a venue for planetary geologists and NASA astronauts since the Apollo program. At Potrillo, RIS4E team members conducted geologic fieldwork, incorporating sophisticated hand-held scientific instruments, including a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, an X-ray diffractometer, and a hyperspectral infrared camera, into geologic studies similar to what astronauts might one day perform on the Moon. Meanwhile, Astrobotic flew their custom uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) above the lava field, recording sensor data and developing detailed maps of areas of interest.
Testing together, the science and engineering teams were able to understand each other’s goals and challenges, and refine a vision for lunar subsurface exploration. "Working with a leading commercial space exploration company like Astrobotic has given the RIS4E team a valuable perspective on how science an exploration can be best combined for future lunar missions. We look forward to future successful collaborations,” said Dr. Glotch.
Fraser Kitchell, Director of Astrobotic’s Future Missions and Technology team echoed the success of the collaboration. “Working with RIS4E allowed us to work side by side with the planetary geologists for the first time. These field tests gave us a much more practical understanding of each other’s needs and current capabilities, and as a result we can design better operational concepts, better technologies, and, ultimately, better missions.”
“The Potrillo field site presented a challenging flight environment and a great demonstration of the capabilities of AstroNav,” said Astrobotic Senior Research Engineer Kerry Snyder. “We are looking forward to the continuing to push the technology toward mission infusion.”
Astrobotic’s research was funded in part by NASA’s Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. Under this contract, Astrobotic will perform a field demonstration of AstroNav technology in lava tubes in the coming months.
The company has plans to further develop and expand their research into GPS-denied in-space navigation, with planned extensions to AstroNav that will enable spacecraft to land on unmapped planetary surfaces and perform satellite or asteroid rendezvous. The company is also actively developing the software to provide autonomous landing or subsurface navigation capabilities to terrestrial UAVs.
About Astrobotic Technology, Inc.:
Astrobotic Technology, Inc. is a space robotics company that seeks to make space accessible to the world. The company’s lunar lander, Peregrine, delivers payloads to the Moon for companies, governments, universities, non-profits, and individuals at an industry-defining price of $1.2 million per kilogram. The company is also developing advanced space robotics capabilities such as terrain relative navigation, mobile robotics for lunar surface operations, and reliable computing systems for mission-critical applications. Astrobotic has more than 30 prior and ongoing NASA and commercial technology contracts, a commercial partnership with Airbus DS, a corporate sponsorship with DHL, and 12 signed deals for Peregrine’s first mission to the Moon. The company is also an official partner with NASA through the Lunar CATALYST Program. Astrobotic was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.
RIS4E field team is composed of faculty, students, and research scientists from Stony Brook University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and several other institutions. RIS4E team members are engaged in a variety of activities, including laboratory spectroscopic studies, theoretical calculations, sample analysis, and geologic field work, designed to further NASA’s science and exploration goals related to the Moon, the moons of Mars, and near-Earth asteroids. For more about RIS4E email [email protected]
RIS4E is one of 13 teams within SSERVI, based and managed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. SSERVI is funded by the Science Mission Directorate and Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. For more about SSERVI visit: sservi.nasa.gov
NASA’s STTR programs fund innovative space exploration technologies that take us across the Solar System and beyond. STTR companies partner with Research Institutions to create their innovations. For more about the NASA STTR program visit: sbir.nasa.gov | aerospace | 1 |
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