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https://europost.eu/en/a/view/new-contracts-to-speed-up-delivery-of-f-16-to-bulgaria-25118 | 2021-05-10T18:18:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991759.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20210510174005-20210510204005-00164.warc.gz | 0.954615 | 530 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__44066745 | en | New contracts to speed up delivery of F-16 to Bulgaria
After the deal with US is concluded the first jet fighter will come to Bulgaria by end-2022Europost , Sofia
The fact that Morocco and another Asian country bid for the latest generation F-16 Block 70 to renovate their combat air force will speed up the implementation of the plans to start the manufacture of new jet fighters for Bulgaria and the delivery of the first aircraft to be in end-2022, Lockheed Martin reported quoting James Robinson, International Business Development Senior Manager for F-16 at the manufacturing company.
As is known, the contracts for the new generation aircraft, world’s most successful multirole fighter, have already been concluded by Slovakia and Bahrein while Greece wants to upgrade 85 of its Viper aircraft which have the same characteristics but cannot boast F-16’s lifespan of 12,000 hours. At the same time Poland also ponders upgrading of its current aircraft fleet, Romania eyes purchasing more planes while Croatia re-assesses the needs of its national combat air force. Two weeks prior to the opening of the plant in Greenville, South Carolina, where the machines will be assembled, Robinson explained that although the recent contracts will put a strain on the company the new production line is already capable of boosting its capacity to meet the customers’ requirements.
According to James Robinson, misinformation has been spread, often by people who were not immediately involved in the negotiations, about our capability to deliver the new F-16 Block 70 aircraft within the time framework that meets the needs of the Bulgarian Air Force. He also assured that there will be no delay of delivery after the talks between Bulgaria and US are successfully completed and the deal is concluded. Robinson added that the aircraft for Bahrein, Slovakia and Bulgaria will be the first to be manufactured at the new facility in Greenville. “If we admit that the agreement is signed this summer we are planning to start the training of the Bulgarian pilots and ground personnel in the US no later than 2021 and will deliver the first F-16 to Bulgaria before the beginning of 2023,” Robinson said further.
Parallel with that, Lockheed Martin declares preparedness to build a base for maintenance, partial repair and overhaul for jet fighters (MRO facility) in Bulgaria. With this project the company will meet the requirement of the Bulgarian government that the aircraft be serviced in Bulgaria by local engineers and mechanics until their lifespan is exhausted. Other opportunities for partnership with the Bulgaria industry and possible participation of the local academic structures in the R&D programmes have also been discussed, the Company said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/mars/pillinger-point.html | 2019-10-18T17:05:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986684226.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018154409-20191018181909-00334.warc.gz | 0.780294 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__123502718 | en | The Bruce Murray Space Image Library
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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/orbiting-bacteria-test-origins-of-life/2960590 | 2023-10-03T05:29:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511053.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003024646-20231003054646-00279.warc.gz | 0.951744 | 632 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__187765707 | en | Scientists in Switzerland are sending bacteria into space to find out whether life on Earth could have started on another planet.
Biologists in Lausanne will test the theory later this month when they send bacteria-filled rocks into orbit aboard a Russian satellite.
If the harmless spores of Bacillus subtilis survive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, the biologists say it will prove that life could have extraterrestrial origins.
Tests on Earth have already revealed that bacteria can survive many aspects of an interplanetary flight.
Dangers in space
It has long been suggested that living organisms could have travelled around the early solar system, ferried by rocks that were blown off one planet before landing on another.
A number of experiments have already been conducted in Lausanne to see if bacteria could have survived the dangers of space travel.
Hitching a ride on a meteorite would have exposed them to acceleration, deceleration, radioactivity, UV light, intense cold and shock waves.
"Every kind of danger which could happen in space has been tested in the past apart from re-entry," said microbiologist Claude-Alain Roten at Lausanne University, who is leader of the bacterial experiment.
"Just by using ballistic systems, we could see that bacteria are able to endure 100,000Gs, which is a huge acceleration.
"If they can survive that, they can survive the acceleration when a meteorite is launched from one planet to another one.
"With the Swiss defence department, we also measured bacteria's survival in an explosion."
The latest mission is scheduled to launch from Plesetsk, north of Moscow, on October 15.
Two hollowed-out stones attached to the exterior of the satellite will be carrying bacteria.
Roten admitted that analysing the bacteria - should it survive re-entry - would not be conclusive proof that life appeared on other planets.
However, it would confirm whether terrestrial life could have emerged in another part of the solar system or even in another part of the galaxy.
"We'll have our proof if we can get Martian samples in ten years and analyse them and see if they are holding bacteria fossils," he told swissinfo.
"If the fossils have the same kind of biochemistry as terrestrial biochemistry, it would be a full proof of the theory.
"Another way to see if the theory is correct would be to analyse the atmosphere of extra solar terrestrial planets.
"If we can find planets with an atmosphere similar to that of the Earth, it is a very strong signal that on these planets there must be something similar to life."
Dozens of experiments, devised by researchers from other countries, will also be performed during this mission.
Scientists will analyse the results of the experiments when the satellite returns to Earth after a fortnight.
swissinfo, Vincent Landon
Bacteria sent into orbit aboard Russian satellite.
Survival could confirm extraterrestrial origins of life.
Study devised by Lausanne scientists.
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http://www.1squadron.org.nz/about-us/what-we-do-2/aviation-flying/ | 2020-06-02T08:18:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347423915.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20200602064854-20200602094854-00111.warc.gz | 0.929885 | 108 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__117394472 | en | Firstly we will teach you why the plane you’re going to fly doesn’t fall right out of the sky!
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As a member of the ATC, you will also be able to attend subsidised national flying (and navigation) courses, that can take you right through to your first solo flight in a powered aircraft or glider. Now that’s something most of your mates won’t do! | aerospace | 1 |
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Toho Titanium Company, Ltd. manufactures titanium metals such as premium quality titanium sponge for aerospace and other applications, titanium ingot (CP and Alloy), high purity titanium ingot/billet for semiconductor industry and electronic materials including high purity titanium dioxide and ultra-fine nickel powder etc.
L.C.M.A. S.A. is a European manufacturer and distributor of a wide range of C.P. titanium and titanium alloy semi-finished products, is present on the market since 1996 and with strategic location in Luxembourg.
Titanium bars, ingots, tubes, sheets/plates and wire belong to the product portfolio of L.C.M.A. The company offers its products and expertise in titanium business for individual projects in the aerospace, medical and petrochemical industries.
L.C.M.A. is a part of a vertically integrated structure which produces, melts, forges and rolls its products only in Europe, according to international quality standards ISO 9001:2008, EN9100:2009/AS9100:2009 and PED 97/23EC. | aerospace | 1 |
https://netcomposites.com/news/2012/may/6/boeing-enters-1-billion-composite-manufacturing-accord-with-mubadala/ | 2018-09-23T13:55:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267159470.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923134314-20180923154714-00438.warc.gz | 0.934703 | 418 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__57285015 | en | 06 May 2012
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Boeing awarded a contract valued at $1 billion over 10 years to Mubadala Aerospace’s composite aerostructures unit, which will produce aircraft parts, as the Middle East expands its role as an aviation hub.
Mubadala say the parts will be made at the Strata Manufacturing site in Al Ainand Strata, a subsidiary of the Mubadala investment fund in Abu Dhabi, will make empennage ribs for the 777 and vertical fin ribs for the 787 Dreamliner, and deliveries are expected to start in 2013.
The deal is “comparative to the existing deal with Airbus which is in the range of $1 billion,” Mubadala Aerospace Executive Director Homaid al-Shemmari explains.
According to Boeing and Mubadala they may in future cooperate on “military maintenance and sustainment activities, as well as pilot training and people development.”
Strata already manufacture composite parts for Airbus SAS 330 wide-body jet at its factory.
Solvay has signed a ten-year agreement for the supply of composites and adhesives to be used across Bell's military and commercial rotorcraft programmes, including the Bell 429, 407, 505, 525, V-22, and UH-1.
SGL Carbon and Fraunhofer IGCV have officially opened the Fibre Placement Centre (FPC) at SGL's site in Meitingen, Germany. Compositence, BA Composites and the Chair for Carbon Composites at the Technical University of Munich have also joined the alliance, and Coriolis Group and Cevotec are planning to come on board as partners.
With the aim developing a broader platform for additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, the University of Exeter, UK, and Victrex, have formed a strategic partnership to introduce next-generation polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymers and composites while improving the performance of the underlying AM processes. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?offset=90&where=%7C%7CSwitzerland%20-%20Air%20Force%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7CSwitzerland%20-%20Air%20Force%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C | 2016-09-01T05:38:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982982027.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200942-00028-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.895636 | 170 | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-36__0__108344223 | en | Pilots waves to the people during flight exhibition during Hamburg Airports Days 2015
participant for the 'Tag der Bundeswehr' (day of the German army) at TaktLwG74 Neuburg
AIR14 airshow. J5018 is wearing a special paint called "Panthers" showing the squadron 18 Panthers of the Swiss Air Force!
AIR14 airshow. The special forces of the Swiss Army "DRA10", performed a training demo.
An Eurocopter Cougar. Shot at Payern Air Force base during Air 14.
Close-up of the Swiss Air Force F/A-18C (J-5011; cn1351/SFC011), from Fliegestaffel 11, with splended new c/s for the Nato Tiger Meet 2016. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flightglobal.com/auvsi-uav-solutions-unveils-tethered-allerion-25/110803.article | 2020-08-09T12:10:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738552.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20200809102845-20200809132845-00446.warc.gz | 0.919979 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__65362059 | en | UAV Solutions has unveiled a tethered version of the Allerion 25, greatly extending its potential flying time. The new model, dubbed Allerion 25-T, boasts a 12h flight endurance, far surpassing the untethered model's 40min endurance.
The quadcopter is aimed primarily at emergency response and law enforcement agencies. Its small size and relatively fast assembly time allows it to be carried in the trunk of a police cruiser or similar vehicle.
The aircraft falls just below FAA-mandated maximums for legislating small UAVs, allowing largely unrestricted use under certain circumstances.
"The next phase of the ISR variant Allerion 25-T will include the addition of a communications relay which will make the tethered Allerion ideal for use during natural disasters and events where communications are critical," says the company.
Source: Flight Daily News | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.cheapflights.com.my/flights-to-Isle-of-Man/Kuala-Lumpur/ | 2023-12-03T21:59:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203193127-20231203223127-00159.warc.gz | 0.911714 | 338 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__237044682 | en | Regardless of the time of day you decide to fly, the ticket price will remain around the same. Book flights from Kuala Lumpur to Isle of Man as you normally would.
KUL and IOM are unique codes to identify airports used in the aviation industry. They are defined by IATA (International Air Transport Association) and are commonly called IATA codes. KUL to IOM refers to a flight route from Kuala Lumpur Intl Airport to Castletown Ronaldsway Airport. Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport (SZB), Malacca Batu Berendum Airport (MKZ) are other airports near this flight route and their unique identifiers/IATA codes.
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http://earsc.org/news/sentinel-1-to-be-used-also-for-land-applications | 2019-08-25T12:37:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027323328.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825105643-20190825131643-00006.warc.gz | 0.920512 | 248 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__134947523 | en | Sentinel-1, expected to be launched in 2013, is one of the five missions that the European Space Agency (ESA) is developing for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. The design of the Sentinel-1 mission is primarily based on marine applications; however, there is increasing interest in using it for land applications.
With this aim, in 2009 ESA carried out the major international AgriSAR field campaign as part of the mission’s preparatory activities. The campaign investigated the extent to which frequent coverage from the C-band radar on Sentinel-1 could deliver essential information to improve agricultural practices.
Scientists have spent two years analysing the data collected in the campaign and the results show that agricultural applications could benefit greatly from Sentinel-1’s all-weather images. The frequent coverage that Sentinel-1 offers is especially useful for monitoring crops where growth and management practices mean that they are constantly changing. According to Malcolm Davidson, Head of ESA’s Campaign Section, “the AgriSAR campaign data will continue to support the development of new ways of using C-band radar images from space for land applications”.
Further information is available at ESA | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.simplerockets.com/c/Gcd2rb/Sea-Dragon-I-Super-Heavy-USA-LV | 2021-05-15T04:15:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989812.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20210515035645-20210515065645-00281.warc.gz | 0.853627 | 275 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__35235053 | en | Sea Dragon is a 1962 project of a super-heavy sea-based launch vehicle capable of delivering 550 tons of payload to the LEO. The rocket would be assembled at a shipyard, then transported to the launch site in the Pacific Ocean.
Structurally, the Sea Dragon is a huge two-stage rocket with a heavy-duty Engine on the first stage and a slightly less powerful engine on the second stage.
Now about the Craft itself
This Craft is made in a scale of 1 to 1, taking into account all the special design, and most importantly, this Craft is adapted to the RSS! But you can also use it in the Stock System, you just have more fuel left in your reserve :) Payload 500 tons! It is necessary to launch the rocket from water with sufficient depth.
- Predecessor: Sea Dragon I Super Heavy USA LV
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- Number of Parts: 359
- Dimensions: 179 m x 31 m x 31 m
- Total Delta V: 85.4km/s
- Total Thrust: 34,908.1MN
- Engines: 32
- Wet Mass: 2.44E+7kg
- Dry Mass: -13,419,146kg | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/lasers-space | 2023-03-23T02:29:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296944606.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323003026-20230323033026-00261.warc.gz | 0.923975 | 1,764 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__122915336 | en | Lasers in Space
Lasers in Space
The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation." The laser is a unique device that produces a very pure color of light that is concentrated into a pencil-thin beam that stays concentrated, or focused, as it travels.
Lasers are commonly seen in several ordinary commercial applications, such as bar code scanners, laser pointers, CD players, CD-ROMs, videodiscs, laser surgery, and laser-light shows. However, lasers have many other applications as well. For instance, lasers enable us to communicate and transfer massive amounts of information, monitor our environments, provide protection from aggressive military attacks, and probe the deepest reaches of space and understand the origins of the universe. Lasers will have a myriad of applications in space, the following of which will be highlighted: (1) laser communications, (2) lasers for environmental and remote sensing, (3) space-based laser defense systems, and (4) lasers for astronomical applications in gravity wave detectors.
The use of lasers as a tool to transmit information, such as telephone conversations, television programs, and data, is well known. As the information age continues to advance, the use of lasers in space as a communication tool will become critical. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, most of the lasers used in communication applications will be associated with optical fiber connections. The growth of the Internet, however, will eventually clog up today's fiber-optic cables . This will occur because many people will use computers that send information back and forth to each other through fiber-optic phone lines (or fiber-optic cables). This clogging up of the phone lines and cables by computer usage is similar to the clogging up of the phone lines on major holidays, such as Mother's Day.
One way to avoid this problem is to place lasers on satellites in space. In this way, data can be collected from multiple locations that are geographically close to one another and beamed up to a satellite by either a laser or microwave link . The satellite can then collect the data and retransmit the information from one satellite on an ultrahigh-capacity optical data link using lasers.
The importance of using lasers in space for communications is that since light is traveling in space (a vacuum ) the light signals are not corrupted as much as they would be traveling through optical fiber. In addition, instead of using one color of a laser to transmit information, a satellite could have many different lasers, each transmitting information on a different color. This method of using different colors to increase the amount of information to be transmitted is called "wavelength division multiplexing" and is similar to how conventional radio signals are broadcast on different radio frequencies. With this type of laser technology, optical communication links in space could easily handle many tens of trillions of bits of information being sent every second.
Environmental and Remote Sensing
One of the most common uses of lasers in space is for environmental and remote sensing. In this application, a laser stationed on a satellite can orbit Earth (or other heavenly bodies such as the Moon or Mars) and direct a sequence of short optical pulses onto the surface. These pulses are then reflected from the surface, and the reflected pulses are detected by the satellite that contains the laser. Since the speed of light is known accurately, the time it takes for the light pulses to leave the laser/satellite, travel to the surface, and return can be measured, as can the distance from the satellite to the surface. By repeatedly sending sequences of pulses from the satellite to Earth's surface, a three-dimensional topological map can be generated.
The truly amazing feature of using lasers for this type of geographical mapping is that a distance resolution of a few millimeters can easily be achieved. More importantly, different types of lasers emit different colors of light, and these different colors reflect in particular ways, depending on the type of surface the laser light reflects from. In this way, one can use different types of lasers that not only will map out the geographical terrain but also will be able to measure the composition of clouds and perhaps detect water,minerals , and other natural resources underneath the surface.
Laser Defense Systems in Space
The prospect of using lasers in space, as part of an overall strategic defense plan of the United States, was gaining significant support in the early twenty-first century. In this scenario, lasers would not be a source of directed energy in an offensive attack, but the lasers would primarily be used in a defensive mode to target, track, and identify potentially hazardous threats that may come in the form of intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. The types of lasers used would vary widely, depending on the functions to be performed by the laser. For example, small low-powered lasers would be used to realize optical radar functions and to determine the location and velocity of moving targets in space. More powerful solid-state or chemical lasers could then be used as a source of directed energy to disable rogue missile attacks. Several plans have been proposed to incorporate lasers in space as part of a unified missile defense plan, including ground-based lasers and orbiting reflectors to assist in tracking and directing the laser radiation. Owing to the harsh environment of space, novel engineering approaches would need to be employed to make these laser systems robust and reliable. In addition, the need for generating power to operate the lasers may easily be accomplished by a combination of solar cells or direct solar-pumped lasers.
Gravity Wave Detection in Astronomy
Lasers in space are also used in astronomy. Researchers use ground-based lasers and optical interferometry to detect gravity waves . Optical interferometry is a technique that splits a laser beam into two beams by using a partially silvered mirror. Each beam travels in a different direction (or arm of the interferometer) and is then reflected back to the silvered mirror. The two beams are recombined and the resulting combined beam can provide information about the differences between the two paths that each beam traversed.
This method is being used on Earth to detect the presence of gravity waves that could have been produced from exploding stars or colliding galaxies. Currently, the limitation in the ground-based approaches is that the sensitivity provided is not sufficient for detecting gravity waves. It should be noted that the lengths of the arms of the interferometer on ground-based gravity wave detectors are on the order of 1 kilometer (0.6 miles). By placing the laser and interferometer in space, the sensitivity can be improved by increasing the lengths of the arms of the interferometer to thousands of kilometers and by removing any disruptions caused by Earth-related effects. The detection of gravity waves would be an incredibly important finding in science, because it would serve as another verification of German-born American physicist Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity .
Outlook Towards the Future
This brief description of the potential applications of using lasers in space shows that these light sources are truly unique and can provide unprecedented performance in specific applications. Scientists and engineers worldwide are researching these and other applications of lasers in space, not only to consider and test the feasibility of specific uses but also to continue to develop state-of-the-art laser systems so that these applications will flourish. What will the newest applications of lasers in space bring? How will these applications change the way humans live their lives? No one can be completely sure, but the new uses that will be discovered will be limited only by the human imagination.
see also Communications, Future Needs in (volume 4); Laser Propulsion (volume 4); Military Space Uses of Space (volume 4); Mining (volume 4); Power, Methods of Generating (volume4); Scientific Research (volume 4); Space Industries (volume 4).
Peter J. Delfyett
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http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001206X01775&key=1 | 2014-11-29T06:29:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931013466.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155653-00249-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.921493 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__100165920 | en | NTSB Identification: LAX94LA279.
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Accident occurred Saturday, July 09, 1994 in CAMARILLO, CA
Probable Cause Approval Date: 11/14/1994
Aircraft: FRANK M. KOPECKY QUICKIE, registration: N8036W
Injuries: 1 Minor.
NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
After takeoff on runway 26, the engine began to run rough as the aircraft reached 90 feet agl. Initially, when the pilot reduced the throttle almost to idle, the roughness dissipated. He then tried to advance the throttle, but the engine failed to develop any power. Anticipating an emergency forced landing and due to the lack of remaining runway, the pilot elected to turn toward a perpendicular taxiway. The pilot touched down in a flat open area beyond the taxiway. The left canard touched first causing the aircraft to ground loop. After an examination of the engine, the pilot concluded that a malfunction had occurred in the engine ignition system.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: the failure or malfunction of the engine ignition system. Full narrative available
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https://canadianhomesteading.ca/science/mars-cube-one-satellites-went-dark-and-nasa-doesnt-know-why/8482 | 2019-07-20T09:38:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526506.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720091347-20190720113347-00246.warc.gz | 0.946352 | 487 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__195022989 | en | The two Mars Cube One satellites, the small CubeSats that took off towards the Red Planet in May 2018, went “dark” with no apparent reason, puzzling NASA which doesn’t know why that happened. The MarCO space probes (as the Mars Cube One satellites are known – MarCO-A and MarCO-B) gone silent as they past Mars, the US space agency reported a couple of days ago.
“This mission was always about pushing the limits of miniaturized technology and seeing just how far it could take us,” said Andy Klesh, the mission’s chief engineer at JPL, said in a statement. “We’ve put a stake in the ground. Future CubeSats might go even farther.”
While the two Mars Cube One satellites have launched towards Mars as a test project for advanced communication systems in deep space, the fact that they went “dark” is puzzling the US space agency’s scientists. It might be that the small space probes reached their limits, as Andy Klesh said, but not everyone agrees with that.
Mars Cube One Satellites Went “Dark” And NASA Doesn’t Know Why
“The brightness sensors that allow the CubeSats to stay pointed at the Sun and recharge their batteries could be another factor. The MarCO sats are in orbit around the Sun and will only get farther away as February wears on. The farther they are, the more precisely they need to point their antennas to communicate with Earth,” NASA JPL said in a statement.
The two Marc Cube One satellites will move again toward the Sun during the summer. Then, NASA plans to attempt to contact the MarCO satellites once again, hoping that the batteries and the components of the two satellites last until them.
“There’s big potential in these small packages. CubeSats – part of a larger group of spacecraft called SmallSats – are a new platform for space exploration that is affordable to more than just government agencies,” said John Baker, the MarCO program manager at JPL, in the statement.
With over seven years of experience in online journalism, Vadim is passionate about everything related to science and the environment. For us, he will thus cover climate, environment, and science news, among others. | aerospace | 1 |
https://news.engin.umich.edu/2017/05/karthik-duraisamy-promoted-to-ae-associate-professor/ | 2021-04-14T00:53:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038076454.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210414004149-20210414034149-00484.warc.gz | 0.932794 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__260093696 | en | Congratulations to Dr. Karthik Duraisamy for his promotion to Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor!
Professor Duraisamy is interested in the development of computational models, algorithms and uncertainty quantification approaches with application to the aeromechanics of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, wind turbines and hypersonic cruise vehicles. This research includes fluid dynamic modeling at a fundamental level as well as in an integrated system-level setting. An overarching theme of his Computational Aerosciences Laboratory is the use of computational methods to answer scientific and engineering questions at the desired level of sophistication with an understanding of the effect of modeling uncertainties on the predicted results.
Professor Duraisamy was recently appointed the Director of the Center of Excellence on Rocket Combustor Dynamics, which will simulate flows and flames inside rocket engines, with the hope of laying the groundwork for smarter, more reliable designs. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.oaklandair.com/aircraft-maintenance/ | 2020-09-26T05:28:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400234232.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926040104-20200926070104-00068.warc.gz | 0.927591 | 407 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__3485821 | en | Aircraft Maintenance, Jet Maintenance and MRO Services for Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Michigan and Surrounding Areas
At Oakland Air, the safety and dependability of your aircraft is our primary concern. Our skilled and knowledgeable mechanics utilize the latest technology to ensure that each aircraft we service is regularly maintained and thoroughly tested. Over the years, we have earned a reputation as the industry leader in business, commercial, and regional aircraft maintenance, delivering reliable service and support while maintaining LEAN processes. Whether it’s scheduled line maintenance or major repair work, we have the ability to bring a safe aircraft back online, under budget and on time. We understand how costly downtime is, and everyone involved with your aircraft is committed to meeting your needs and exceeding your expectations with our unparalleled service.
Oakland Air Services MRO is headquartered at Oakland County International Airport (PTK) in Waterford, Michigan, conveniently accessible from Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Michigan, and the surrounding communities. Our 100,000 square foot Maintenance Support Facility has all the equipment and staff necessary to support your aircraft maintenance needs.
Our aircraft maintenance team has been servicing our valued customers since 1989. We started as a sheet metal shop in the late 1980’s and have continued to expand our service offering to include the value centered service capabilities that we have today. Our extensive experience allows us to provide on-demand, customized services, and we continually develop new and innovative ways to support our valued customers through continuous process improvement and by increasing our capabilities, capacity, and certifications.
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http://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Four_new_Galileos_join_Europe_s_largest_satellite_constellation | 2020-08-14T20:47:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739370.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200814190500-20200814220500-00523.warc.gz | 0.930515 | 645 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__133437053 | en | The latest four Galileo satellites have been given the green light to begin working alongside the rest of Europe’s satellite navigation fleet, giving a further boost to worldwide Galileo service quality.
Galileo has grown to become Europe’s single largest satellite constellation, built up over 10 launches over the course of this decade. The first of seven double-satellite Soyuz launches took place in 2011, with three sets of four-satellite Ariane-5 launches during the last three years.
The latest quartet of Galileo satellites were launched together by Ariane 5 on 25 July, bringing the number of satellites in orbit to 26.
Once safely in orbit the satellites entered their in-orbit test commissioning, overseen by a combination of facilities across Europe.
The Launch and Early Operations Phase team of France’s CNES space agency in Toulouse worked together with the two Galileo control centres in Fucino, Italy, and Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and ESA’s Redu centre in Belgium.
Redu’s 20-m antenna played an important part during in-orbit testing, allowing for high-resolution monitoring of the L-band navigation signal coming from each satellite.
The two control centres participated by testing their control of the satellites. The operations teams confirmed their fully-trained status and their readiness to manage the fleet now it has swelled to 26 satellites in total.
David Sanchez-Cabezudo, ESA’s Galileo In-Orbit Testing manager commented: “All the lessons learned and experience gained in these last years through the Galileo satellite commissioning campaigns have led us to a high level of efficiency and effectiveness – not only in managing the technical aspects of the testing operations but the large number of interfaces at contractual and human levels. A complex network of teams has had to work together to make this activity work.”
Galileo satellites orbit in three orbital planes in medium Earth orbit, 23 222 km up. The result is that at least four Galileo satellites should be visible from any point on Earth – the minimum needed to achieve a position fix.
Galileo Initial Services commenced on 15 December 2016, with each new addition to the working constellation serving to enhance the stability and speed of the system.
A further 12 Galileo satellites are currently in production by the same industrial consortium – with OHB manufacturing the satellite platforms and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd the navigation payloads.
The next Galileo launch is schedule for 2020, the same year that Full Operational Capability is set to start.
The Galileo programme is funded and owned by the EU. The European Commission has the overall responsibility for the programme, managing and overseeing the implementation of all programme activities.
ESA is entrusted with Galileo’s deployment, the design and development of the new generation of systems and the technical development of infrastructure. The definition, development and in-orbit validation phases were carried out by ESA, and co‑funded by ESA and the European Commission.
The European Global Navigation Satellite System Agency (GSA) ensures the uptake and security of Galileo. Galileo operations and provision of services became the responsibility of the GSA in July 2017. | aerospace | 1 |
http://checkrideorbust.com/how-to-get-a-pop-up-ifr-clearance-plus-an-approach-to-minimums/ | 2023-09-24T16:08:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506658.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924155422-20230924185422-00071.warc.gz | 0.962877 | 208 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__77346025 | en | One of the biggest perks of being an instrument rated pilot is being able to grab a pop-up IFR clearance if you need to get yourself out of a sticky situation. Thing is, while most IFR pilots know that a pop-up clearance is part of their bag of tricks, few have ever actually used one.
Cue this great video I stumbled across from Jason Schappert of ground school website MzeroA.com:
In the video, Jason finds himself stuck on top of a low cloud layer while he and his wife were filming a video for their ground school series. So they took the opportunity to get a pop-up clearance, followed by flying an ILS approach to minimums.
It’s a pretty cool real-world example of why it’s a great idea to get an instrument rating — and a good refresher if you’re an instrument-rated pilot who hasn’t given pop-up clearances much thought in a while. Definitely worth a watch! | aerospace | 1 |
https://tfir.io/us-air-force-wants-ai-powered-drones/ | 2023-10-03T21:39:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511220.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003192425-20231003222425-00426.warc.gz | 0.949738 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__98855781 | en | The US Air Force is working on an advanced project called Skyborg, which is being touted as an AI wingman for pilots. Will Roper, the US Air Force’s assistant secretary for acquisition, tech, and logistics, envisions Skyborg as an AI wingman ‘that will train and learn alongside pilots.’
“I don’t want this to just be a laboratory project that lives and dies there in a petri dish. I want this to become a program,” said Roper, “I want to see real, operational demonstrations within a couple of years. And I will push them to be faster than that.”
To achieve the AI-powered drone capabilities, the Air Force Office of Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) is conducting market research in the search of readily available commercial technologies that could be used in Skyborg project.
“We’ve been given the overall objective to have an early operational capability prototype fielded by the end of the calendar year 2023, so this is our first step in determining what the current state of the art is from a technology perspective and from a systems engineering perspective to provide that EOC capability in 2023,” said Ben Tran, Skyborg program manager.
According to Capability Request for Information (CRFI) documents, the primary goal of the Skyborg program is to deploy a modular, fighter-like aircraft that can be used to quickly update and field iteratively more complex autonomy to support the warfighter.
These AI-powered drones should be capable of avoiding other aircraft, terrain, obstacles, and hazardous weather. They should be able to take off and return, autonomously. They should not require a highly skilled person and should be operable with personnel who have limited engineering or pilot experience. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ba | 2019-05-20T18:44:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256100.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520182057-20190520204057-00085.warc.gz | 0.881124 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__3390510 | en | Edit Symbol List
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The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries (herein referred to as "Boeing," the "Company," "we," "us," "our"), is one of the world's major aerospace firms. We are organized based on the products and services we offer. We operate in four reportable segments: * Commercial Airplanes (BCA); * Defense, Space & Security (BDS); * Global Services (BGS); * Boeing Capital (BCC). Commercial Airplanes Segment This segment develops, produces and markets commercial jet aircraft and provides fleet support services, principally to the commercial airline industry worldwide. We are a leading producer of commercial aircraft and offer a family of commercial jetliners designed to meet a broad spectrum of global passenger and cargo requirements of airlines. This family of commercial jet aircraft in production includes the 737 narrow-body model and the 747, 767, 777 and 787 wide-body models. Development continues on certain 737 MAX derivatives and the 777X program. ... More ... | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.flynexgenaviation.com/courses/jet-and-turboprop-type-ratings/ | 2017-02-26T07:39:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171936.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00206-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.960569 | 228 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__64685334 | en | At NexGen Aviation, we do not give type ratings, however we can assist you with obtaining at desired type ratings with one of the major simulator companies. The main three companies are Flight Safety International, CAE Simuflite, and SimCom.
Type Ratings are required on all turbo-jet powered aircraft, any aircraft with a gross weight over 12,500 pounds, or any other aircraft that the FAA deems necessary. Type ratings are an excellent pad to a resume and may be the difference in getting hired with most companies. However, most companies will pay for training, including the type rating for the aircraft that you will be flying. Type ratings can be quite expensive so only pay for your own training if you have the extra money or it is necessary for a job. Training for a type rating will typically consist of a week of ground training on the systems of the aircraft, a week of training in a Level C or D simulator on operation of the aircraft in normal and emergency situations, and a Final Test. If you have any questions, feel free to contact NexGen Aviation and we will be more than happy to assist you. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.traveligo.com/airlines/air-china-ca | 2024-03-03T13:32:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476374.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303111005-20240303141005-00189.warc.gz | 0.87995 | 940 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__41126239 | en | Find Air China flight deals and all you need to know about flying Air China.
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In flight, the airline code CA is a leading national airline of China. It is the airline's second largest after China Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and South. China is the only airline to offer international flights. Size fleet is ranked 18th in the top 100 in the world, serving the best of China. In addition, safety has also won honors from the Department of Civil Aviation of China. The main base is located at Beijing Capital International Airport. Airport Chengdu Chuan Liu. And Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
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Bangkok: Sathorn Square Office Building, 98th Floor, 9, Unit 9008-9010, North Sathorn - Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand.
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https://stumpremovalnw.com/spirit-of-flight-foundation/ | 2023-12-02T05:44:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00615.warc.gz | 0.949001 | 613 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__188293394 | en | Spirit of Flight FoundationDani2022-02-21T13:03:29+00:00
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The Spirit of Flight Center was founded in 1998 and has over 1,000 aviation artifacts. The foundation is affiliated with the Air Assets International and has been featured in the television series CHASING PLANES. It is located at 205 N Pilatus Ln, Nampa, ID 83687. more articles The museum’s mission is to collect aviation history and inspire future generations to learn more about it. The museum will also host an exhibition of flying aircraft and will also host events such as the annual Air Show. The new museum will also be home to the new nonprofit, Spirit of Flight Productions.
For the history buff, the Spirit of Flight Center is a great place to visit in Nampa, ID. The non-profit Spirit of Flight Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that operates the center for public use. The center is a soaring experience that lets you fly in the same planes used by the United States Air Force and the Navy. This museum also offers a number of fun activities that children of all ages will enjoy.
The building will house the Museum of Air and Space and feature a museum and gallery space that is 3200 square feet. The site is large enough to allow for an additional three-hundred-six-square-foot building in the future. The building will also feature a replica of the Wright Brothers Memorial and will feature donor names on the monument. In addition to the museum, donors will be honored with a limited-edition Spirit of Flight bronze coin.
The Spirit of Flight Center will include an 8000-square-foot building that will feature gallery and office space. The building will also include a future 3600-square-foot addition that will house the museum’s collection. The museum will include a replica of the Wright Brothers Memorial and limited-edition bronze coin. The Spirit of Flight Center is located in the Nampa Municipal Airport. The facility will be located in the former Marilyn Monroe factory.
The new museum will be located at the Nampa Municipal Airport in Idaho. The airport is one of the largest in the country, and it is home to a number of amazing aviation organizations, including the Spirit of Flight Foundation. The facility will feature a World Class Spirit of Flight collection that will inspire future generations to learn about aviation. Guests will also be able to experience flying aircraft and a live flight of a radio-plane target drone.
The Spirit of Flight Foundation’s new facility in Nampa, Idaho, will be located in a renovated Marilyn Monroe factory. The airport is the fourth-largest municipal airport in the United States. The museum will feature a World Class aviation collection that will encourage generations to learn about aviation. The collection will include many types of airplanes, including a 1947 race plane built by Art Chester. In addition, the Spirit of Flight Center will also be home to a unique production company, Spirit of Flight. More information | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.theredstonerocket.com/military_scene/article_70673c4c-b116-11ea-a01c-f7af2d237a52.html | 2020-07-11T11:35:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655929376.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711095334-20200711125334-00413.warc.gz | 0.93446 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__58301647 | en | NASA has awarded the Marshall Operations, Systems, Services and Integration contract at Marshall Space Flight Center to SGT LLC of Greenbelt, Maryland.
The company will provide the necessary management, personnel, equipment and supplies to ensure mission operations and ground systems development services for NASA programs, project offices, payload developers, educational institutions, international partner space agencies and commercial partners at Marshall.
The cost-plus-award fee mission services contract – with an indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity component – has a base period of one year, which begins Oct. 1. The base period will be followed by one two-year option and five one-year option periods, which may be exercised at NASA’s discretion. The contract has a potential mission services value of $570.3 million, including options.
Under the contract, SGT LLC will be responsible for providing support and products for the development and execution of spaceflight operations that are the responsibility of the Human Exploration Development & Operations Office at Marshall.
These services include multiprogram facilities, systems and services – both local and remote – that support various spacecraft, payload, satellite and propulsion systems operations. This support also includes the Huntsville Operations Support Center, which enables all mission phases, including planning, testing, simulations, prelaunch, launch, postflight and all aspects of flight operations.
The Human Exploration Development & Operations Office also provides engineering, operations, maintenance and system development services and tools to program and project requirements. Primary program customers include the International Space Station Program, led by NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and the Space Launch System Program, led by Marshall. | aerospace | 1 |
https://rnr.life/blog/2017/01/30/this-space-agency-is-planning-to-launch-104-satellites-in-one-go-2/ | 2017-12-15T00:45:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948551501.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20171215001700-20171215021700-00380.warc.gz | 0.926194 | 192 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__48299041 | en | India is looking at the sky once again as it preps for another world record next month.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will attempt to launch 104 satellites on a single rocket in February.
ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will carry three satellites from India, and another 101 smaller nano satellites from five countries including the USA.
If things go as planned, ISRO would be able to surpass, by a long margin, the record set by Russia, which sent 37 satellites in one go in 2014.
ISRO’s attempt, however, is more about making satellite launches cheaper than shattering records. “Target of PSLV-C37 to launch the maximum number of satellites, tentatively on Feb. 15 is not for creating a record or publicity, it is aimed at cutting the costs down,” Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre director K Sivan told The Times of India. Read more… | aerospace | 1 |
http://missionconvergence.org/list/creation | 2018-12-10T22:04:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823445.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210212544-20181210234044-00365.warc.gz | 0.960012 | 690 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__245037762 | en | Somehow it happened that I visited Kaluga in sufficient regularity, usually either passing through some of the local estate. or just cases.
Never got to walk around the city, and even more so to see the State Museum of the history of cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky. But once again it so happened that I had to go to Kaluga for one printing, meaning we had to ride 100 miles for 5 minutes. In the end, as in Kaluga, I got the idea to finally carry out his wish.
The state Museum of the history of cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga — the world’s first and Russia’s largest space Museum. In its creation participated personally famous designer Korolev and Yuri Gagarin. Last June 13, 1961 laid the first stone in the Foundation of the future Museum:
And after 6 years, the new Museum welcomed its first visitors. In the Museum you can get acquainted with the domestic history of cosmonautics, from the first artificial satellite of the Earth to modern long-term orbital stations. However, many of the original machines that had been in space you can see with your own eyes. Continue reading
In 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the beginning of works on creation of an American space station.
In 1988 the station was named “Freedom” (“Freedom”). At that time it was a joint project of USA, ESA, Canada and Japan. Planned managed large station modules which will be delivered on orbit by space shuttles. But by the beginning of 1990-ies it became clear that the cost of developing the project is too large and only international cooperation will allow to create such a station. The USSR, already had experience of creation and injection into orbit, orbital stations “Salyut” and “Mir” space station, planned in the early 1990s, the creation of the station “Mir-2”, but due to economic difficulties, the project was suspended.
17 June 1992 the U.S. and Russia signed an agreement on cooperation in space research. In accordance with the Russian space Agency and NASA have developed a joint program “Mir — Shuttle”. This programme provided for the safety of American ships reusable “space Shuttle” to the Russian space station Mir, the inclusion of a Russian cosmonaut in the crew of the American Shuttle and American astronauts in the crew of the Soyuz spacecraft and the Mir station. Continue reading
SPACECRAFT ( SC ) is a technical device used to perform a variety of tasks in space. as well as conducting research and other works on the surface of various celestial bodies. Means of delivery of spacecraft into orbit serve as launch vehicles or aircraft .
Spacecraft, one of the main objectives of which is to transport people or equipment in the upper part of the earth’s atmosphere — the so-called near space. also called “Space aircraft” ( CLA ).
The use of spacecraft to determine their separation in the following groups:
suborbital SPACECRAFT ;
earth orbital SPACECRAFT . moving on geocentric orbits of artificial satellites ;
interplanetary (expeditionary) SC ;
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-perseverance-rover-nasa-mission-scientists-rehearsal-desert | 2023-12-10T17:43:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102612.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210155147-20231210185147-00693.warc.gz | 0.970873 | 1,787 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__192878232 | en | Megan Barrington watched the sun rise over the rocky outcrop. When light struck at exactly the right angle, she mounted a gizmo that looked like eye exam equipment on a tripod and aimed it at the spot. The goal: gather evidence that this windswept wilderness once teemed with life, and then beam the information to her colleagues back home.
Soon, a version of that setup (minus Barrington) will be deployed on Mars. The state-of-the-art, zoomable, multispectral camera is part of the toolkit on NASA’s Perseverance rover (SN: 7/28/20). “That instrument is going to allow me to look at the mineralogy of Mars at Jezero crater,” the rover’s landing spot, says Barrington, a planetary scientist at Cornell University.
The rover is scheduled to launch to Mars on July 30. A February role-playing exercise in the Nevada desert by Barrington and six colleagues was a kind of dress rehearsal for the rover’s various instruments. Another 150 team members around the world played the “Earth” team during those two weeks, sending commands from remote mission control and receiving data as it would appear coming from the real rover.
“We’re not just simulating a Mars mission,” says engineer Raymond Francis of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who organized and led the trip. “We’re simulating a specific Mars mission by presenting data … to the people who designed the instrument that will take that data. So the standard is high not to look like clowns.”
Perseverance has the most demanding and ambitious to-do list of any rover yet: seek signs of past Martian life, prepare the way for future human missions and collect at least 20 samples of Martian rock for eventual return to Earth. And that’s just in its first two years. For contrast, Curiosity rover has drilled a few dozen holes over eight years on Mars, and didn’t store any of those samples for later (SN: 7/7/18, p. 8).
The dress rehearsal in the desert will help ensure that when Perseverance lands on the Red Planet in February 2021, its handlers on Earth can get straight to the science.
“We don’t want to get there and learn how to explore Mars while on Mars,” Francis says. “We want [team members] to be ready when the rover hits the ground.”
Water marks the spot
The first order of business was to find the right spot for the dry run. “We had to pick a site that kind of looked like Mars,” Francis says. “The parking lot would not do.” The team wanted the site to look as Mars-like as possible, no factories, footprints or foliage to break the illusion.
An ideal site would have geology that echoed Jezero crater, which is thought to be the remnants of an ancient lakebed and river delta (SN: 11/19/18). It also had to be within a few hours’ drive of JPL, and not totally off the grid — the rover team slept in hotels, ate dinner in restaurants and had reliable Wi-Fi to send data to the Earth team every night.
The final requirement was that it be someplace the Earth team hadn’t seen before. If mission control members recognized the site, they could bias their findings with what they already knew.
“Most of the popular Mars analogs are already well known to the Mars community,” Francis says. “So we had to be a little sneaky.”
Previous exercises, in November 2017 and February 2019, were run in the Mojave Desert in California. For 2020, the rover team headed to Walker Lake in western Nevada. The lake’s water has been receding for thousands of years, so there are spots near the ancient shoreline where the present-day lake is invisible.
Walker Lake’s rocks preserved a cornucopia of biological signals for the ground team to discover: fossilized fish bones and shells of tiny shrimplike crustaceans called ostracods, which are not expected on Mars; and microbial fossils called stromatolites, which could plausibly be found in Jezero crater (SN: 10/17/18).
Francis and his team brought handheld versions of almost all the rover’s instruments to gather whatever data the Earth team requested. They had a drill, handheld spectrometers, lasers, a ground-penetrating radar that they transported in a jogging stroller, plus several elaborate camera setups to represent the rover’s navigation, hazard avoidance and zoomable 3-D science cameras.
Perhaps the most important piece of equipment was the broom used for sweeping away footprints. It became a running joke, Francis says: “We’ve got all this equipment, a multibillion-dollar mission, and it’s all hinging on this 99-cent broom.”
Almost everything went smoothly. But a few days into the mission, Barrington’s zoomable camera had “a major malfunction,” she says. She framed her shot, and…. nothing happened. The camera wasn’t getting any power, she realized. “I took it apart and rewired many pieces, to no avail,” she says.
She and her teammates finally realized one of the power adapters had completely blown. She had to drive two hours to the nearest city to get a new one.
Of course, driving into town to get a new part won’t be an option on Mars. The real camera, called Mastcam-Z, has been through weeks of rigorous testing and calibration, and is probably up to the task. But “we all go into missions knowing that sometimes irreversible mistakes occur,” Barrington admits. “All we can do at that point is use the instruments to the fullest capacity of which they are capable of operating.”
Signs of life, big and small
There was one major giveaway that the team was actually on Earth. “This is very much middle-of-nowhere desert, which is good,” Francis says. But the rover site was mere steps from a U.S. Department of Defense munitions facility, one of the largest in the world.
“It was really something to behold,” Barrington says. “They had hundreds of bunkers lined up in rows as far as you could see…. All of that was one very crooked metal fence away from us.”
More than once, military police showed up to check the team’s credentials. “I had to approach them and say, hello, people with the guns, I need you to stop walking now,” Francis says. “We’re running a Mars rover simulation and we don’t want you to put your footprints in this sand.”
Despite Francis and colleagues’ best efforts, the bunkers showed up in a few photos. The ground team gamely ignored them, apart from a few jokes about SpaceX founder Elon Musk building a Martian city.
By the end of the two-week exercise, the remote science team reviewing the data had noticed the ostracods and fishbones, and started exploring the stromatolites. “They were doing a good job of finding the biomarkers,” Francis says, who now has hope that “if Mars is hiding stromatolites, maybe we’ll see them.”
Coming home to quarantine
The field trip ended on February 27, just as awareness of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was rising in the United States. By March 15, JPL told employees to work from home. “We only had a few days together before we were all on remote work,” Francis says.
The pandemic has already contributed to the delay of the launch of the European and Russian ExoMars rover, which was also supposed to launch in July (SN: 3/12/20). If Perseverance misses the late July to early August launch window, the rover can’t head to Mars until 2022.
If the pandemic is still an issue by the time the rover lands in February, Francis doesn’t know what the team will do. “But,” he says, “the good news is the mission is designed for remote operations.” | aerospace | 1 |
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Gov. Perdue visits C.W. Davis Aviation Club
FLOWERY BRANCH -Governor Sonny Perdue paid a surprise early morning visit on Monday to the Aviation Club at Davis Middle School.
Perdue was invited by the school's aviation club sponsor, Jim Greer, who is an acquaintance of the Governorís pilot.
The Governor took time to share his love of aviation with the club. Perdue has a commercial pilot's license.
Greer says the club at Davis may be the only middle school aviation club in the nation that has taken on the construction of an airplane as their primary project.
Greer, who is also a counselor at the school, said the the aircraft was beginning to take shape. "We have the rear portion of the fuselage just about completely put together."
Student members who have a keen interest in the field of aviation meet in the mornings at Davis.
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https://www.marketresearch.com/Plunkett-Research-Ltd-v1424/Plunkett-Aerospace-Aircraft-Satellites-Drones-11266248/ | 2021-04-16T11:02:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038056325.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20210416100222-20210416130222-00070.warc.gz | 0.738691 | 987 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__207734697 | en | PLUNKETT'S AEROSPACE, AIRCRAFT, SATELLITES & DRONES INDUSTRY ALMANAC 2018
Plunkett Research profiles 350 of the world’s top companies in Aerospace, Aircraft, Satellites and Drones and analyzes top trends changing the industry for the mid term.
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Contents, Statistics, Forecasts and Analysis Include:
Major Trends Affecting the Aerospace, Aircraft, Satellites & Drones Industry
1) Introduction to the Aerospace, Aircraft, Satellites & Drones Industry
2) Boeing and Airbus Face Waning Orders/Major Aircraft Market in China
3) New Aircraft Designs Offer Greater Passenger Comfort/More Efficient Engines
4) Supersonic Jets Expected to Enter the Commercial Market
5) Electric-Powered Airplanes are Under Research and Development
6) Flying Cars Get Off the Ground
7) Smaller Satellites (SmallSats and CubeSats) and Low Earth Orbit Revolutionize Telecommunications
8) Light-Weight Satellites and Project Loon Balloons Studied for Internet Access and Whole-Earth Imaging
9) Private, Reusable Rockets Launch Commercial Satellites, Lowering Costs
10) Space Travel Firms Seek Tourists/New Vehicles for U.S. Astronauts
11) Commercial Uses of Drones
12) Drone Regulation and Licensing Evolve
13) Drones Provide New Tools for Precision Agriculture
14) Drones Save Time and Money in Safety Inspections and Insurance Adjusting
15) Package Delivery by Drone
16) The Future of Aviation, Satellites and the Aerospace Industry
Aerospace, Aircraft, Satellites & Drones Industry Statistics
1) Aerospace, Aircraft, Satellites & Drones Industry Statistics and Market Size Overview
2) Quarterly Aerospace Manufacturing Industry Net Sales, U.S. :2001-1st Quarter 2017
3) Gross Output in the Aircraft Manufacturing and Air Transportation Industries, U.S. Selected Years, 2005-2015
4) Satellite Telecommunications: Estimated Sources of Revenue & Expenses, U.S.: 2011-2015
5) Federal R&D & R&D Plant Funding for Space Flight, Research & Supporting Activities, U.S.: Fiscal Years 2015-2017
6) Federal R&D & R&D Plant Funding for Air Transportation, U.S.: Fiscal Years 2015-2017
7) Federal R&D & R&D Plant Funding for National Defense, U.S.: Fiscal Years 2015-2017
8) NASA Budget Appropriations & Projections: 2016-2022
9) U.S. Exports & Imports of Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts: 2012-2nd Quarter 2017
10) Consolidation in U.S. Airlines
11) U.S. Aviation Industry Average Annual Percentage Growth Forecasts by World Region: 2017-2036
12) Total Scheduled U.S. International Passenger Traffic, U.S. Commercial Air Carriers: 2001-2036
13) Quarterly System* Operating Profit/Loss for U.S. Airlines: 2nd Quarter 2015-2nd Quarter 2016
14) Air Carrier Traffic Statistics, U.S.: 1996-2016
15) Air Carrier Traffic Statistics, U.S.: 12 Months Ended March 2017 and March 2016
16) U.S. Airline Passenger Activity: 2001-2037
17) Annual U.S. Domestic Average Itinerary Air Fare: 1995-2016
18) Top 10 U.S. Airlines & Airports Ranked by 2016 System Scheduled Enplanements
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20) Employment & Earnings in Aerospace Occupations, U.S.: May 2016
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https://spaceref.com/press-release/spacehab-awarded-216-million-to-conduct-next-iss-resupply-mission-for-nasa/ | 2022-08-10T11:24:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571153.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810100712-20220810130712-00194.warc.gz | 0.861553 | 2,056 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__99944950 | en | - Press Release
- August 9, 2022
SPACEHAB Awarded $21.6 Million to Conduct Next ISS Resupply Mission For NASA
SPACEHAB, Inc. today announced that the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) added $21.6 million to the company’s
REALMS contract to perform the next resupply mission to the
International Space Station (ISS).
This Space Shuttle mission designated STS-106 and slated for
launch in August, will use SPACEHAB’s Logistics Double Module (LDM)
and Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) to ferry vital supplies to the ISS.
SPACEHAB’s carriers are needed to stock the ISS with food, equipment,
and spare parts for the first permanent crew that is scheduled to
arrive in October.
“This mission provides the foundation for continuous habitation of
the ISS later this year,” said SPACEHAB President David A. Rossi.
“As a leader in space commerce, we are pleased to play an
important role in expanding human presence in orbit. The ISS will be a
unique laboratory of the 21st century, benefiting everyone on Earth
through advances in biomedicine, pharmacology, and other life sciences
The STS-106 mission will be the second resupply mission for
SPACEHAB in calendar year 2000. SPACEHAB already is under contract to
perform a resupply mission to the ISS scheduled to launch on April 24.
The company will be flying an LDM and an ICC on this mission.
“With the space shuttle fleet back in operation and this second
mission to the ISS in August, SPACEHAB should be profitable in our
fourth quarter (ending June 30, 2000)”, stated Rossi.
SPACEHAB’s LDM adds 2200 cubic feet of pressurized volume to the
space shuttle, more than quadrupling the living and working area for
the astronauts onboard. Up to 10,000 pounds of supplies can be packed
into the LDM for delivery to the ISS through a pressurized access
tunnel connecting the LDM to the Space Shuttle’s primary crew
The ICC, a flat-bed pallet mounted in the Shuttle cargo bay over
the LDM access tunnel, enables SPACEHAB to transport equipment and
spare parts that need to be attached to the outside of the ISS by
astronauts on several space walks.
Both missions will carry SPACEHAB Oceaneering Space Systems
(SHOSS) boxes that attach to the top of the ICC and hold equipment in
easily accessible locations for astronauts performing these space
The Research and Logistics Mission Support (REALMS) contract with
NASA was established in 1997 enabling NASA to manifest new research
flights or ISS resupply missions as needed.
SPACEHAB’s next research mission is scheduled for launch in
early-2001 on Space Shuttle mission STS-107. This mission will be the
debut of the company’s Research Double Module (RDM).
More than 8,500 pounds of equipment is manifested on this
international research flight. SPACEHAB’s customers include NASA, the
European Space Agency (ESA), the National Space Development Agency of
Japan (NASDA), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the German Space
Agency (DLR), and the U.S. Department of Defense.
SPACEHAB’s Space Technology and Research Students (S*T*A*R*S)
program also will have a payload on this mission accommodating student
experiments from the United States, Japan, Israel, China, and
NASA recently manifested another RDM mission scheduled for launch
in late-2001 that has not yet been added to the REALMS contract.
Updated information regarding NASA’s Space Shuttle launch manifest can
be obtained at www.jsc.nasa.gov. (Once at this site, perform a search
for the Space Shuttle manifest.)
To register a classroom to participate in the STS-107 S*T*A*R*S
experiments contact SPACEHAB at 888-647-9543 or visit the company’s
website at www.spacehab.com.
Founded in 1984 and with more than $100 million in annual revenue,
SPACEHAB is the world’s leading provider of commercial services for
manned and unmanned missions in space. SPACEHAB is the first company
to commercially develop, own and operate habitable modules that
provide laboratory facilities and logistics resupply aboard NASA’s
The company also supports NASA astronaut training at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston, Texas and provides commercial satellite
processing services for Boeing’s Delta and Lockheed Martin’s Atlas
launch vehicles near the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida.
FACT SHEET April 2000 Logistics Double Module (LDM): -- SPACEHAB's LDM is a pressurized aluminum module that is carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, connected to the crew living and working quarters by an access tunnel. -- Dimensions: 20 feet long, 14 feet wide, 11.2 feet high. -- Volume: 2200 cubic feet (holds up to 61 Space Shuttle middeck lockers plus four double racks; additional subfloor stowage is available). -- Launch weight (module plus contents): Approximately 20,000 pounds (STS-101: launch weight approximately 18,000 pounds; payload ascent weight approximately 8,000 pounds module tare weight 10,000 pounds). -- Features: two viewports, multiple rooftop stowage areas. -- Boeing-Huntsville developed the LDM for SPACEHAB and serves as the Company's mission integration contractor. Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC): -- SPACEHAB's ICC is an externally mounted, unpressurized, aluminum flat-bed pallet, coupled with a keel-yoke assembly, that expands the Space Shuttle's capability to transport cargo. -- Dimensions: 8 feet long, 15 feet wide, 10 inches thick. -- Capacity: up to 6,000 pounds; up to six 400-pound-capacity SHOSS boxes (see below) on pallet surface. Cargo can be carried on both the top and bottom of the pallet. -- Launch weight (STS-101): 3,200 pounds (ICC plus cargo; payload ascent weight 1,300 pounds). -- RSC Energia is the maker of the ICC pallet structure. DaimlerChrysler Aerospace is the maker of the yoke that anchors the ICC in the Shuttle cargo bay and is SPACEHAB's mission integration contractor. SPACEHAB Oceaneering Space Systems (SHOSS) Box: -- The SHOSS box is an unpressurized "tool box" attached to the top of the ICC. -- Capacity: up to 400 pounds of tools and other flight equipment. -- Oceaneering Space Systems of Houston is SPACEHAB's partner for development of the SHOSS box and serves as the Company's integration contractor for SHOSS box contents. SPACEHAB's Role in International Space Station (ISS) Assembly and Resupply March 2000 Assembly Flight 1A/R, November 20, 1998: Russian Proton rocket launched Zarya control module. (No SPACEHAB payload.) Assembly Flight 2A (STS-88), December 4, 1998: U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour launched Unity connecting module (Node 1) with two Pressurized Mating Adapters that was linked to Zarya. (No SPACEHAB payload.) Resupply Mission 2A.1 (STS-96), May 27, 1999: SPACEHAB Logistics Double Module (LDM) and Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) and SPACEHAB Oceaneering Space Systems (SHOSS) box launched on Shuttle Discovery, carrying two tons of supplies to ISS including Russian Strela cargo crane components. Resupply Mission 2A.2a (STS-101), April 24, 2000: SPACEHAB LDM, ICC and SHOSS box to be launched on Space Shuttle Atlantis, carrying more than four tons of payload to ISS including Strela crane components and SOAR (Space-Integrated Global Positioning Integrated System (SIGI) Operational Attitude Readiness) technology-demonstration payload. Assembly Flight 1R, summer 2000: Russian Proton rocket to launch Zvezda service module, providing life support and living quarters for ISS crew. Resupply Mission 2A.2b (STS-106), August 2000: SPACEHAB LDM, ICC and SHOSS box to be launched on Space Shuttle Atlantis, carrying more than four tons of payload. Assembly Flight 3A (STS-92), September 2001: U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery to launch Integrated Truss Structure, third Pressurized Mating Adapter, Ku-band communications system, and attitude-control gyros. Assembly Flight 2R, October 2000: Russian Soyuz rocket with three crew members including U.S. astronaut William M. Shepherd, initiating permanent habitation of the ISS. Assembly Flight 7A.1 (STS-105), June 2001: SPACEHAB ICC and two SPACEHAB SHOSS boxes to be launched on Space Shuttle Discovery. Micrometeorite debris panels for the Russian Zarya module will be carried on the ICC. NASA and its partners have more than three dozen ISS assembly and resupply missions planned over the next five years. SPACEHAB anticipates playing a role in two to three of these missions per year. NASA's Research and Logistics Mission Support (REALMS) contract with SPACEHAB provides options for numerous Space Shuttle flights. | aerospace | 1 |
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Professor C. T. Russell is a member of the faculties of both the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. He is acting System-wide Director of IGPP. He is the head of the Space Physics Center in IGPP, UCLA and the Director of the UCLA Branch of the California Space Grant Consortium. He is the principal investigator on the POLAR mission; a co-investigator on the magnetometer team on the Cassini mission to Saturn; the ROMAP investigation on the Rosetta mission to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko; the IMPACT investigation on the STEREO mission to study solar and solar wind disturbances; the THEMIS mission to study substorms; and the magnetometer investigation on the Venus Express mission to study the solar wind interaction with Venus. He is the principal investigator of the Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres.Dr. Richard Elphic is the Project Scientist for the LADEE mission at NASA Ames Research Center. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He has been a member of the magnetometer teams for the International Sun-Earth Explorer, Pioneer Venus Orbiter, AMPTE-UKS mission, and the ESA Cluster mission. While at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Elphic was involved in several flight missions, including Lunar Prospector and Mars Odyssey. He is currently leading development of a neutron spectrometer instrument for NASA's Resource Prospector mission to land in the Moon's polar regions, now in Phase A. | aerospace | 1 |
https://impdb.org/index.php?title=13_Hours:_The_Secret_Soldiers_of_Benghazi | 2021-05-09T00:38:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988953.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210509002206-20210509032206-00289.warc.gz | 0.737417 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__33095379 | en | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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French title : 13 Heures - Les soldats secrets de Benghazi
James Badge Dale (Tyrone S. "Rone" Woods)
John Krasinski (Jack Silva)
Max Martini (Mark "Oz" Geist)
Dominic Fumusa (John "Tig" Tiegen)
Pablo Schreiber (Kris "Tanto" Paronto)
David Denman (Dave "Boon" Benton)
- 1 Boeing AH-64 Apache Longbow
- 2 Boeing CH-47 Chinook
- 3 Convair 240
- 4 Sukhoi Su-24
- 5 Boeing 707
- 6 Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon
- 7 Lockheed C-130H Hercules
- 8 Boeing 737-800
- 9 Bombardier CRJ900
- 10 De Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8
- 11 Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global Express XRS
- 12 Boeing 720-047B
- 13 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
- 14 General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
- 15 See also
Archive footage. Actually it's footage from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transporting JSOC Team.
Cockpit seen on Benghazi Airport.
Sukhoi Su-24 in the colors of Free Libyan Air Force (2011) which is not reputedly to have used such type of aircraft.
Seen on Benghazi Airport. Bearing livery of fake airline African Arrow.
Seen on airport in Aviano.
Used to evacuate GRS from Benghazi.
Registration CNA-OG, 382-4713 built in 1976. A Hercules of the Moroccan Air Force.
Tyrone Woods (James Badge Dale) arrive in Benghazi with this plane. 737-800 of Ryanair.
Seen on Benghazi Airport. One of two CRJ900s operated by Libyan Airlines.
Used to Evacuate GRS from Benghazi. Registration 9H-AEW, c/n 222 built in 1990 of Maltese charter airline Medavia. Filmed at Malta International Airport (MLA/LMML).
Seen on Benghazi Airport.
Registration N720JR, c/n 18451/307 built in 1962. This 720 has been stored at Malta International Airport (MLA/LMML) for over a decade and was last operated by JR Aviation.
Making aerial footage during GRS fight in Benghazi. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/robert-i-albright | 2023-03-29T22:51:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949035.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20230329213541-20230330003541-00270.warc.gz | 0.702956 | 192 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__60097245 | en | Robert I AlbrightMilitary
Assigned to 352BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF.
Awards: AM(OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force Twelfth Air Force Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
|Washington, USA||24 January 1918|
|Tacoma, WA||1 December 1942|
|Seattle, WA||22 August 1996|
|Lucera||Assigned to 352BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF.| | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.heritageconcorde.com/escape-hatches | 2024-04-20T19:53:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817674.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420184033-20240420214033-00075.warc.gz | 0.976498 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__22350650 | en | Concorde Escape Hatches
Not fitted to production aircraft just to Prototype and Pre-Production the escape hatch was a necessary requirement of test aircraft of the day. Test Crew's had one of the most dangerous jobs in the world at that time, while Concorde was in development the aircraft was pushing into unknown territiory so escape hatches were designed in to these aircraft.
The escape hatch was designed as a "last resort" means of getting out of the aircraft. From speaking to the original test crew members they were certainly not keen to use them.
It could be possible if the aircraft was beyond saving that the crew would have to jump out of the aircraft at Mach 2 and 60,000 feet!
In reality the escape hatches were never used in anger and the test program went smoothly and without any loss of test aircraft.
In the event of the aircraft being damaged beyond being saved or if a catastrophic incident were to occur the Chief test pilot would activate the emergeny evacuation beacon which would indicate to the crew that the aircraft was in trouble and to prepare for evacuation.
The crew would put on their pressure suits, helmets and parachutes and wait for the escape hatches to be opened to evacuate the aircraft . The Chief test pilot would activate the hatches by use of the hatch switches in the cockpit, there was also a manual method the crew could use in the event of power failure.
The crew were then expected to evacuate the aircraft by jumping out of the hatch
The hatches would literally be blown out of the aircraft and a wind break would be lowered into the stream of air passing over the aircraft's fuselage, once the hatch was ready for use the green "hatch ready" light would illuminate
Technical detail - Concorde 101 G-AXDN
Location of the escape hatches and escape hatch controls.
G-AXDN Fwd Escape hatch. Inner door is open and the outer door is closed for display purposes
G-AXDN Mid Escape hatch. Inner door is closed and the outer door is closed
Snap jack detail
The only image of an escape hatch being tested, this is G-AXDN with a net to catch the ejected outer door. Image copyright; Christian Julius | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.top10drone.com/alberta-drone-photography-services/ | 2022-07-03T23:35:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104277498.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703225409-20220704015409-00768.warc.gz | 0.902174 | 624 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__161052939 | en | Company Name: Alberta Drone Pilots
About Company: Alberta Drone Pilots was officially formed in 2014 as a subsidiary of Gruvpix Inc., an established video production company based out of Edmonton Alberta. While initially intended to supplement corporate video productions, we found that aerial imaging had a demand all its own. We set out to establish Alberta Drone Pilots to reach new markets and to increase awareness for this amazing technology. With hundreds of hours of flight time, ground school training and Transport Canada certification, we are the most experienced certified drone operators in Alberta.
Contact Number: 780-758-4788
Company Name: BlackHawk Aeronautical Solutions Inc
About Company: BlackHawk Aeronautical Solutions Inc. is your premier drone video and drone photographer in Edmonton, Alberta. we are extremely competent drone professionals with over 30 years flying radio controls, drones and manned aircraft. BlackHawk Aeronautical Solutions Inc. offers a wide variety of drone services across Alberta. We carry a Transport Canada Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) which permits us to fly our drones commercially.
Contact Number: +1.7809742335
Company Name: Peak Aerial
About Company: Peak Aerials is a full service professional aerial photography company based in Calgary, Alberta and operating across Canada. Since 1999, we have completed over 1500 aerial missions for a diverse range of clients and projects.
Our extensive experience in photography, aviation, and logistics allows us to undertake just about any aerial photography project efficiently and professionally. Our experience with using helicopters, airplanes, and UAV’s (drones) puts us in a unique position to choose the tools and platform that best meets our clients needs and budgets.
Contact Number: 403-919-0220
Company Name: SmartDrones Inc.
About Company: Our experienced aerial photographers specialize in a wide variety of aerial photography types including landscape, tourism, commercial, promotional, high-value real estate sporting events, and other special events.
Our chief pilot has a deep understanding of cameras, lighting, colour correction, and UAV technology; with SmartDrones, you’re not hiring some RC enthusiast with a point and shoot camera, you’re hiring an experienced aerial photographer. We use our knowledge and experience to deliver our clients the perfect shot.
Contact Number: 780-991-5050
Company Name: UAV North
About Company: UAV North is a federally certified and insured UAV operator located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We are comprised of a team of professionals that strive to provide you with high quality results, coupled with same day service and turn around.
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https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/shuttle/sts-107/STS-107-04.html | 2018-01-22T14:38:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891377.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20180122133636-20180122153636-00033.warc.gz | 0.95601 | 415 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__94860160 | en | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts pointed two Israeli cameras over the Atlantic and the Mediterranean today in search of small dust particles that might impact the weather and began experiments in human life sciences in the third day of the STS-107 scientific research flight.
Red Team members Commander Rick Husband, Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark and Israeli Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon were awakened at 4:39 a.m. CST. Following a handover with their Blue Team counterparts, they took over for Pilot Willie McCool and Mission Specialists Dave Brown and Mike Anderson, who began an eight-hour sleep period at 9:39 a.m. CST.
Specific experiment highlights today included:
· A radiometric camera and a video camera were aimed at the Atlantic and the Mediterranean as part of the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment. Although no dust was detected due to heavy cloud coverage, initial analysis showed that the two cameras are working well, supplying high-quality images. The cloud patterns imaged by the cameras showed remarkable details. The intent of the experiment is to help researchers better understand how dust particles in the atmosphere affect climate.
· An experiment that looks at the movement of calcium through the body to further understanding of bone loss in space began. Astronauts took oral calcium tracers that will be monitored over the course of the mission to examine how calcium metabolism changes in an astronaut's body during spaceflight.
· In the physical sciences, the second run of the Mechanics of Granular Materials was completed. The objective of the experiment is to improve and enhance science and technology in many disciplines including earthquake engineering and soil mechanics. Results may lead to answers concerning the consequences of earthquakes, such as damage to soils and foundations.
Shortly after 2 p.m. CST, Red Team members took time out from their experiment schedule to talk with reporters from CNN, CBS News and Fox News Channel. Asked about the importance of the flight to Israel, Ramon commented that he views the mission as an "opening for great science for our nation."
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https://warart.com/denardo-dominic-artist | 2023-03-23T02:30:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296944606.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323003026-20230323033026-00392.warc.gz | 0.983125 | 165 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__161551800 | en | Aviation artist Domenic DeNardo has been fascinated with airplanes since he was a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island. During World War II, he was obsessed with drawing war planes that flew from nearby airfields; F4U Corsairs, P-47 Thunderbolts, etc. His interest became more fully realized some 13 years later when he earned his private pilot's license and subsequently purchased the first of five airplanes that he would own.
DeNardo received his formal art training at the Rhode Island School of Design and he also studied engineering at the University of Rhode Island. His Illustrations have been widely published in periodicals, including Aviation Week & Space Technology, Time, the Wall Street Journal, Business & Commercial Aviation, Air Transport World and Commuter Air.
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https://laltoday.6amcity.com/city/aerospace-academic-achievement-program-lifts-off | 2023-12-03T07:14:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100489.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203062445-20231203092445-00890.warc.gz | 0.912073 | 115 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__118437677 | en | Attention parents with aspiring aviators: Looking for a way to inspire your student to succeed in school? The Aerospace Center for Excellence has you covered.
The center’s ACEs High academic achievement program offers free + exciting rewards to Polk County students ages 11-17. Think: A free flight in an airplane (yes, you read that right).
With year-long incentives, students are rewarded with:
- Discovery Flight in a real airplane
- Personalized military-style flight suit
- A visit to the Kennedy Space Center
- And more | aerospace | 1 |
https://dms.wjusd.org/Students/Clubs/Science-Club/index.html | 2019-02-22T15:18:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247518425.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222135147-20190222161147-00008.warc.gz | 0.904315 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__140001652 | en | Join us for snacks and discovery. We will discuss our upcoming mission to rendezvous with Halley's comet in a NASA simulation at the Discovery Museum on Thursday, December 8th. *
See Mrs. Scarisbrick in B-10 for a field trip form.
Click on the Museum Link to check out the Field Trip. Discovery Space Museum
*If you are planning on going on the field trip the meetings are required
This year we are going to do gardening, chemical reactions, grow snowflakes, robotics,and rendezvous with Halley's comet, etc.
Fall Meetings are on Thursdays
in Room B-10 from 3:00pm-3:45pm.
Science Club Advisers | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.eglin.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2002169451/ | 2024-04-17T02:34:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817128.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417013540-20240417043540-00500.warc.gz | 0.8942 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__76280440 | en | Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright presents a coin to Senior Airman Richard O’Rourke, 317th Airlift Wing client systems technician, at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 1, 2019. Senior Airman O’Rourke was coined for excellence in his duties over the past year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class River Bruce)
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If you would like to republish please give the photographer appropriate credit.
Further, any commercial or non-commercial use of this photograph or any other
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regarding use of images of identifiable personnel, appearance of endorsement, and related matters. | aerospace | 1 |
http://fastaviationflorida.com/office-assistant-aviation-industry/ | 2018-07-18T08:45:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590074.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718080513-20180718100513-00088.warc.gz | 0.947275 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__185499496 | en | We are as a small aircraft salvage yard in central florida. We are currently looking for someone full time to be an office assistant. We would like you to be familiar with aviation and airplanes such as Cessna 100 series, Beechcraft Bonanzas, Piper single and twin engine aircraft, tail draggers, etc. We say all these things because this position is a multitude of things such as answering the phone to take parts requests, researching parts, taking payments, shipping, and more.
You will be answering phones, taking parts requests, inputting invoice data into a computer, shipping parts, updating tracking information, digging around airplanes & parts, and other random duties.
We are really wanting someone that is familiar with aviation. You could be someone fresh out of a&p school, a graduate from a local aviation college, an aviation ethusiast, or even just recently retired from the industry and eat/sleep/breathe’s aviation. We would like you to have some background with small GA. (If you don’t know what GA means then it’s probably not the best fit for you. no offense-just don’t want to waste anyone’s time) This job is not for everyone, we are a salvage yard. It involves being inside and outside. If you have a lowered vehicle for transport, it will not like our road-it is dirt and can be rough after it rains. We encourage people with great attitudes, open minds, and a good work ethic to apply. More information will be provided upon retrieval of cover letter and resume. | aerospace | 1 |
http://ataridogdaze.com/weightless/View-ISS.shtml | 2019-04-25T15:54:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578727587.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20190425154024-20190425180024-00243.warc.gz | 0.894976 | 734 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__155721107 | en | |How to View the
International Space Station in the Night Sky
You can see the International Space Station and other Earth satellites in the night sky. No telescope or binoculars are needed. You only need to know where and when to look. The space station looks like a bright, fast-flying airplane, but without any blinking or colored lights. It can be as bright as the planet Venus and is easily visible, even in lit-up city skies. The Space Shuttle is also easily visible.
During most of the night, satellites fly in the dark and are therefore invisible against the dark sky. During the day, the bright blue sky obscures the view any satellite. However, for an hour or two after sunset and and hour or two before sunrise, the sky is dark, but high-flying satellites are lit up by the Sun and visible against the dark night sky.
To find out where and when to look for the International Space Station (ISS) and other satellites, see Chris Peat's Heavens Above web page. The home page shows the current position of the ISS over the earth in a picture like the following:
To determine when there are viewing opportunities, you need to enter your current location. From the Heavens Above home page, under Configuration, click "select from database," then select your country name and enter your city name. Then select your city from the list of matching names. This takes you back to the home page with your city name, latitude, and longitude shown under Configuration.
After you enter your location, under Satellites, click ISS. This presents a table showing the time and location of each viewing opportunity over the next two weeks. For example:
The table shows the viewing date, the maximum brightness magnitude, the starting time, the maximum-altitude time (when the ISS is the highest above the horizon), and the ending time. The listed times are for your local time zone, including daylight savings time, if applicable. These are 24-hour clock times, so 17:03 means 5:03 PM and 6:14 means 6:14 AM. The table also shows you where to look: W for west, SE for southeast, and so on. The magnitude indicates the relative brightness, with smaller or more negative numbers representing greater brightness. As a measure of comparison, the brightest planet, Venus, has a magnitude of -4.4 and the brightest star, Sirius, has a magnitude of -1.4. The North Star, Polaris, has a magnitude of 2.0.
Click the date in the table, and you get a star map showing the path of the ISS across the sky for that viewing opportunity:
Click the Ground Track link, and you get a map showing the path of the ISS over the ground for the viewing opportunity, with the local times marked along the route:
You can see the ISS only when it is inside the red circle. In this example, the ISS rises above the horizon at 6:57 AM, passes nearly overhead at 7:00 AM, and then sets on the horizon just after 7:02 AM.
A great time to view the ISS is shortly before docking with the space shuttle, or after undocking. If you're lucky, you can see both spacecraft at the same time with a slight separation in the sky.
Chris Peat's Heavens Above web site is the best source for information about viewing the International Space Station and other satellites, even better than NASA's own SkyWatch web page. You can help support the Heavens Above web site by viewing any sponsor ads there that interest you. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.nwfdailynews.com/story/lifestyle/things-to-do/destin/2019/07/31/delta-pilot-suspected-of-being-intoxicated-removed-from-flight-moments-before-takeoff/4570950007/ | 2023-05-31T19:29:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647409.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531182033-20230531212033-00192.warc.gz | 0.981376 | 210 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__113019680 | en | Delta pilot suspected of being intoxicated removed from flight moments before takeoff
A Delta Air Lines pilot suspected of being intoxicated was removed from a flight moments before takeoff Tuesday.
The incident happened at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, CNN reports.
The flight to San Diego had been fully boarded when the 37-year-old pilot, identified as Gabriel Lyle Schroeder, was arrested, according to an airport spokesman.
The pilot had apparently aroused suspicions when he left the security line after noticing that enhanced screening measures were in place, CNN said. He returned later and made it through the line before getting on the plane.
Police say they found a container of alcohol in Schroeder's possession at the time of his arrest. Toxicology results are pending.
"Delta's alcohol policy is among the strictest in the industry and we have no tolerance for violation," the Atlanta-based carrier said in a written statement obtained by CNN. "Delta is cooperating with local authorities in their investigation."
The flight eventually departed after a new pilot was secured. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.militaryhire.com/jobs-for-veterans/job/2071236/Technician/state/New-Jersey/city/Atlantic-City/ | 2020-09-19T21:06:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00386.warc.gz | 0.904707 | 316 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__8401446 | en | SAIC is seeking qualified IT support technicians to join our team. In preparation for the eventual award of multiple contract opportunities by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), SAIC is accepting resumes to fill technician positions (multiple levels of experience) in both our Washington DC, and the William J Hughes Technical Center (Atlantic City, NJ) locations.
The SAIC Team has a long, successful record of support to the FAA, applying expertise and innovation to solve complex and dynamic problems while maintaining the US worldwide lead in aviation safety. The SAIC Team is seeking a diverse range of skillsets; management, business management, financial and budget analysis support, technical expertise in the areas of engineering navigation systems, NAS operations, Air Traffic, Management Information systems (MIS), IT, and other technical areas related to Navigation support.
The successful candidates will resolve technical problems and answers queries by telephone or self-service ticket in support of internal and/or outside customer computer hardware, software, network, system/application access, and telecommunications systems. Address and correct any hardware, LAN/WAN and applications or COTS software, or connection issues to minimize work interruption. Ensure backup, recovery, and data restoration from workstations during upgrades or when a problem with the system is diagnosed. Support users in the use of computer equipment by providing necessary training and assistance. Assist with setting up new equipment and upgrading existing systems. Configure the systems and updating them with latest software upgrades and security measures. Regularly monitor software, hardware, security and connectivity issues. Perform regular performance and efficiency checks of computers | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.gao.gov/products/rced-88-118 | 2021-04-15T13:58:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038085599.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20210415125840-20210415155840-00158.warc.gz | 0.920052 | 523 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__49535589 | en | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) National Airspace System Plan, focusing on: (1) the justification and requirements for replacing improved instrument landing systems (ILS) with microwave landing systems (MLS); (2) potential MLS operational and economic benefits; (3) the MLS siting strategy; and (4) industry and user association views of ILS and MLS.
Recommendations for Executive Action
|Department of Transportation||1. The Secretary of Transportation should require the Administrator, FAA, to reassess the requirements to replace ILS with MLS, recognizing improvements to ILS and current and expected air traffic growth. The reassessment should consider: (1) improved ILS reliability; (2) increases in the number of available ILS channels; (3) reduced ILS siting problems; and (4) the ability of aircraft to land using ILS in lower ceiling and visibility minimums than previously possible.|
|Department of Transportation||2. The Secretary of Transportation should direct the Administrator, FAA, to demonstrate MLS benefits by testing the system in the challenging airport environments in which it is to be used. This should be done before proceeding with further MLS procurements. The operational tests should involve: (1) wide-bodied aircraft; (2) landing at major hub airports having difficult and complex operating requirements; (3) both good and poor weather conditions; (4) both curved and segmented approaches; and (5) operating under the control of FAA traffic controllers and interfacing with the air traffic control environment.|
|Department of Transportation||3. The Secretary of Transportation should direct the Administrator, FAA, not to proceed with the planned second MLS procurement unless the assessment of ILS improvements and air traffic growth, as well as the operational testing of MLS, has been completed. In the interim, FAA must accept delivery of 178 MLS and should use them: (1) in operational tests; (2) on some international runways, if internationally scheduled airlines are willing to acquire the necessary on-board avionics; (3) at locations that qualify for a precision landing system, but where FAA can clearly show that ILS cannot be sited because of terrain or obstacles in the approach or missed approach path; and (4) at heliports.|
|Department of Transportation||4. The Secretary of Transportation should require the Administrator, FAA, to take the action necessary to maintain ILS as the primary landing system nationally and internationally until the assessment, analysis, and demonstrations have been completed.| | aerospace | 1 |
https://eng.ncfu.ru/research-and-innovation/major-research-projects/pilotless-aerial-vehicle/ | 2023-11-28T20:00:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099942.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128183116-20231128213116-00819.warc.gz | 0.825698 | 1,047 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__19565433 | en | Pilotless Aerial Vehicle
Development of a multirotor type robotic pilotless aerial vehicle using a strapdown inertial navigation system.
Leader and Major Members
Leader: Linets Gennady Ivanovich, Head of Department of Infocommunications, Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Dr. ofTechnicalScience.
Team members: Petrenko V. I., Nikulin V. I., Yakovlev S. V., Sagdeev K. M., Samus M. V., Gaichuk D. V., Isaev A.m., Isaev M. A. Goncharov D. G., Shayakhmetov O. H., Melnikov S. V., Palkanov I. S.
Federal program Research and development in priority areas of research & technology complex of Russia for 2014-2020. The agreement on granting subsidies of 02/08/2019, # 075-15-2019-1471 (project unique identifier RFMEFI57818X0222).
Department of Infocommunications, Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications; Safety Basics, LLC.
Departments and Partners involved
Increased demand for the data component of on-board equipment as well as for managing on-board equipment inpilotless aerial vehicles requires advanced achievements in the field of information technology. The most acceptable option for equipping the already available and future UAVs implies an integrated information and control system offering solutions to navigation and traffic management issues. The problem can be solved, including through the use of reliable, compact and high-precision strapdown inertial navigation systems.
The research aims to develop design and software solutions in the field of strapdown inertial navigation systems for multi-rotor robotic aircraft.
The research includes in three stages. Stage 1 implies a set of activities aimed at a detailed study of the available theoretical and applied experience, technological advance in the development of unmanned aerial vehicle control systems.
Stage 2 implies the development of methodological, technical and software solutions to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the navigation systems operation for robotic multirotor aircraft under variousconditions.
Stage 3 is to include an experimental research, develop design solutions for manufacturing components of the experimental model, perform the commissioning, develop proposals and recommendations for using the research outcomes in view of the technological partner’s capacity.
3 articles have already been published in journals that belong to the SCOPUS and Web of Science list; 6 software registration certificates have been obtained; 2 applications for invention patent registration have been submitted to the Eurasian Patent Society as well as to the Federal Institute for Industrial Property:
- Optimizing Classification Thresholds of Status of Transionospheric Communication Channel for Decreased Quadrocopter's Positioning / G. Linets, S. Melnikov, V. Mironov // Errors Proceedings of the 7th Scientific Conference on Information Technologies for Intelligent Decision Making Support. – 2019. – V. 166. ISSN 1951-6851, ISBN 978-94-6252-728-7
- Optimization of the classification thresholds of the state of transionospheric communication channels to ensure accuracy of the positioning RBLA / G. Linets, V. Nikulin, S. Melnikov, A. Isaev // AIP Conference Proceedings 2171, 060006. – 2019; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5133204 Published Online: 15 November 2019 10
Software security papers have been obtained:
- Simulation model of inertial sensors of a strapdown inertial navigation system of a robotic unmanned aerial vehicle. Linets G. I., Gaichuk D. V., Samus M. V. Shiryaev E. M., № 2019614790
- Simulation model for identifying optimal thresholds for classification of the transionospheric channel status in the distribution of random variables according to the normal law. Linets G. I., Gaichuk D. V. № 2019615347
- Software implementation of a mathematical model of errors in a strapdown inertial navigation system for identifying the true location of the radius of the position vector of a robotic unmanned aerial vehicle. Linets G. I., Gaichuk D. V. № 2019614791.
- Frequency analyzer of vibrations for the multirotor UAV body. Isaev A.M., Isaev M. A. № 2019614350.
- Simulation model of a multirotor UAV. Isaev A.M., Isaev M. A., Linets G. I., Melnikov S. V. № 2019619475
The project is to be concluded with the development and manufacture of experimental components for a multi-rotor robotic unmanned aerial vehicle, as well as its assembly and testing.
Atleast 5 articles in journals belonging to the Web of Science Core Collection or Scopus databases will be published; 6 certificates of software registration will be obtained; 6 applications for invention patents registration will be submitted to the Eurasian patent society and the Federal Institute for Industrial Property. | aerospace | 1 |
http://biz.everychina.com/ec91082396-r/z5aec2a6-edge540_20cc_65_rc_airplane_model_remote_control_plane.html | 2019-06-18T23:30:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998844.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20190618223541-20190619005541-00345.warc.gz | 0.808995 | 404 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__35689044 | en | EDGE540 20CC 65"
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http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/73849/ | 2017-04-26T04:33:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121153.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00084-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.981374 | 331 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__15905940 | en | Long Beach Harbor
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This was a daytrip to remember. Flying to Santa Catalina Island aboard a four-engine flying boat. I can't recall how the trip came about, but in early fall 1966 my family decided to take a Saturday trip over to Catalina for the day. The usual way to get to Catalina then was via the steamer S.S. Catalina, promoted on billboards throughout the Southland as the "The Big White Steamship". An alternative to the steamer was Catalina Air Lines, operating several Grumman Goose amphibians and one large Sikorsky VS-44 seaplane. The VS-44 had been built in 1940 for trans-Atlantic service. (It did not have wheel landing gear, only pontoons.) By the end of World War II it was obsolete, superseded by land airliners such as the DC-4 and the Constellation. I knew about such flying boat aircraft that had been operated by Pan American and American Overseas Airlines.
As we settled into the passenger cabin, I tried to imagine what it would be like flying aboard this aircraft across the Atlantic. Seats were two and one, but there had doubtless been other amenities in its heyday that were not needed in its role transporting passengers a relatively short distance. Departures were from a seaplane airport at Long Beach Harbor. The aircraft taxied out from the dock and began its takeoff run right through the harbor. The pontoons supporting the wings plowed through the water and gradually lifted off. Off for Catalina! | aerospace | 1 |
https://pac.org/job/government-relations-director/ | 2017-10-23T22:19:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187826840.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023221059-20171024001059-00714.warc.gz | 0.886882 | 478 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__291272338 | en | Government Relations Director
Director, U.S. Air Force F-35 Program is the central interface for activities involving Washington-based management and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics with the senior echelons of both the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense. This individual plays a key and central leadership role in the development, coordination and implementation of strategies to support ongoing F-35 “keep sold” and future Modernization and Sustainment efforts, including supplier engagement activities. Will coordinate with Communications and Legislative Affairs to maximize impact of supplier outreach activities and events.
Responsible for interacting with numerous customers both within and external to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Air Force, supporting major commands and International customers to develop new business opportunities and keep existing programs sold.
The position interacts with Company program leadership executives and their teams within Lockheed Martin. Cultivates a strong working relationship with company level business development, government relations, and communication functional leaders.
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https://www.cantechletter.com/2023/04/intuitive-machines-has-a-92-per-cent-upside-says-roth/ | 2024-02-23T16:40:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474440.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223153350-20240223183350-00439.warc.gz | 0.920747 | 661 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__88290107 | en | A new contract win looks good on space tech company Intuitive Machines (Intuitive Machines Stock Quote, Charts, News, Analysts, Financials NASDAQ:LUNR), according to Roth Capital Partners analyst Suji Desilva, who reiterated a “Buy” rating on the stock in a Wednesday update.
Founded in 2013, Intuitive Machines supplies space products and services to support robotic and human space missions. The company announced on Tuesday that its subsidiary joint venture Space Network Solutions in partnership with aerospace engineering services firm KBR secured a NASA OMES (Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services) contract.
The five-year program award comes with a maximum potential value of $700 million and is related to the Joint Polar Satellite System, NASA’s Exploration and In-space Services program.
“This win is of strategic importance, allowing Intuitive Machines to support NASA in designing, developing, and demonstrating critical technology required to support the emerging orbital servicing market, and a validation of the Company’s experience in spacecraft development, autonomous systems, and near-space communications. We look forward to collaborating with NASA to push the boundaries of what’s possible in space,” said Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus in a statement.
In 2019, Intuitive Machines was awarded a $77 million contract by NASA to build and launch its Nova-C Moon lander. The company’s shares began trading on the Nasdaq Exchange in February 2023 after merging with a SPAC last fall. So far, the stock initially shot up like a veritable rocket before plummeting to Earth just as quickly and is now trading at about the level it began two months ago.
But Desilva sees upside over the next year and has maintained a 12-month target of $20.00, good for a projected return at the time of publication of 92 per cent.
On the new contract win, Desilva wrote, “Despite the IDIQ (indefinite delivery indefinite quantity) nature of the contract, we nonetheless expect LUNR to add several hundred million dollars of pipeline visibility over the next five years, increasing confidence in our forecasts.”
“We are encouraged that LUNR has added diversification from its current lunar access service mission contracts, which are ongoing, with an initial launch planned mid-CY23. This contract also increases our confidence in the market value of LUNR’s specialized offerings and capabilities, and we believe several additional programs of varying sizes are in the pipeline for CY23 as well,” he said.
By the numbers, Desilva is forecasting Intuitive Machines to deliver full 2022 and 2023 revenue of $88.5 million and $274.0 million, respectively, and 2022 and 2023 EPS of negative $0.06 per share and negative $0.38 per share, respectively.
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https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Astronauts-making-station-repairs-Wednesday-1770491.php | 2018-04-26T06:43:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125948089.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20180426051046-20180426071046-00434.warc.gz | 0.92061 | 966 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__9047353 | en | Astronauts making station repairs Wednesday
Astronauts making repairs outside station Wednesday
2 spacewalkers will replace motor for solar panel
Published 6:30 am, Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Two American astronauts will venture outside the international space station early Wednesday to make repairs to the hobbled solar power network, space agency officials said on Monday.
Peggy Whitson, the station's commander, and Dan Tani, a flight engineer, will replace an electrical motor that aims an outstretched 110-foot-long solar panel at the sun from the right side of the station.
The Dec. 8 motor breakdown made worse an earlier problem that prevents all of the station's right side solar panels from tracking the sun as the orbital outpost circles the Earth. While the left side solar panels are working without problems, the combined damage on the right side restricts the electrical power needed to move ahead with the assembly of the space station, Kirk Shireman, NASA's space station deputy program manager, told a news briefing.
Wednesday's repairs are critical to construction of the station beyond the addition of Europe's Columbus science module by seven astronauts tentatively scheduled to lift off aboard the shuttle Atlantis on Feb. 7.
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A successful motor replacement by Whitson and Tani should recover enough solar generated electricity to begin the addition of a Japanese science module with a pair of shuttle missions scheduled for March and April, Shireman said.
While Whitson and Tani are engaged in the repairs, a team of top NASA officials will meet at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to consider a formal approval of the Atlantis launch.
Two attempts to launch Atlantis with Columbus in early December were halted by faulty readings from shuttle fuel gauges. Shuttle engineers have found the cause of the fuel gauge problem and made repairs during two months of troubleshooting.
As Wednesday's six- to seven-hour spacewalk gets under way, Whitson and Tani will lug a 200-pound replacement electrical motor across the outside of the space station to the base of the right side solar panels. The outing is scheduled to begin at 4:20 a.m. CST.
The spacewalkers will be permitted to work only in darkness to make sure they are not harmed by the flow of electricity generated by the solar panels when the orbital outpost is in sunlight, said NASA's Holly Ridings, the space station's lead flight director. Ridings will supervise the outing from Mission Control.
The same astronauts examined the motor during a Dec. 18 outing. At the time, experts believed the motor might have failed when a small meteoroid struck an an external power cord. The pre-Christmas examination revealed otherwise.
If the repair effort goes smoothly, Whitson and Tani will float to a larger, circular mechanism that enables the station's right side solar panels to track the sun with Ferris wheel-like rotations.
The mechanism began to show signs of internal damage in September. Mission Control stopped the solar tracking, which created a long-term reduction in power generation.
The space agency is still working on a repair strategy.
During an October shuttle mission, spacewalking astronauts removed protective covers to expose signs of grit and metal degradation on an internal bearing and gear ring. Whitson and Tani found more signs of grit during spacewalking inspections on Nov. 24 and Dec. 18.
If there is time on Wednesday, Whitson and Tani plan to remove more protective covers in order to take closeup photos and gather samples of the grit.
NASA wants to pinpoint the cause of the internal damage before attempting a repair that will take several spacewalks.
The rotational mechanism was designed with an internal backup bearing ring as well as spare bearings and drive assemblies that could be used in a repair. Engineers are also assessing what it would take to clean away the internal grit and lubricate the mechanism.
Repairs of the rotational mechanism are unlikely before fall, Shireman said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.spacecentre.nz/resources/videos/spaceflight/apollo/apollo-11-tehl.html | 2020-01-22T17:28:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250607314.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20200122161553-20200122190553-00172.warc.gz | 0.83836 | 73 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__124231436 | en | Apollo 11: The Eagle Has Landed (1969)
This film from the National Archives and Records Administration tells the story of the first moon landing in 1969. It includes mission highlights from launch to post-landing activities
Astronauts on this mission: Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins.
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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/outreach/education-links | 2017-03-28T00:42:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189583.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00536-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.898546 | 130 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__33935878 | en | Please use this page to find links to other education projects, funding for space and astronomy projects and work experience in the space science area.
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https://forum.flyinginireland.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2495&sid=f386f1adda441b945206244e9939da34 | 2021-04-22T13:29:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039610090.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20210422130245-20210422160245-00525.warc.gz | 0.954794 | 688 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__58735977 | en | QUOTE "You cannot exercise the privilages of an FAA licence on a JAR regulated aircraft. In this or any other country."
Your statement seems a little misleading. For example in the U.K the ANO Article 21 states -
Exercising the privileges of a JAA Licence or an ICAO licence in UK Registered Aircraft
We have received a number of enquiries from Non-UK licence holders about the privileges of their licence within the UK. The situation is as follows:-
Article 21, of the Air Navigation Order 2000, states, that a pilot must hold an appropriate licence granted either by the UK CAA or by a foreign authority and rendered valid under the ANO to fly a UK registered aircraft.
A JAA licence is deemed to be a licence rendered valid under the ANO unless the CAA in the particular case gives a direction to the contrary. A JAA licence is a licence issued in accordance with licensing and medical requirements of JAR-FCL by a full JAA Member State that has been recommended for mutual recognition by Central JAA (JAA Headquarters). For the current mutual recognition status of JAA Member States please select this link.
A licence issued by any other ICAO Contracting State (including a JAA State that has not yet been recommended for mutual recognition) is also deemed to be valid under the ANO for the purposes of flying a UK registered aircraft, providing that the licence and medical are valid in accordance with the rules/laws of the issuing State, and the CAA does not in the particular case give direction to the contrary. However, Article 21 (4) (a) states that the holder of such a licence cannot:
1) Act as a member of the flight crew of any aircraft flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial work or on any flight in respect of which he receives remuneration for his services as a member of the flight crew; or
2) In the case of a pilot?s licence, act as a pilot of any aircraft flying in controlled airspace in circumstances requiring compliance with the Instrument Flight Rules or to give any instruction in flying.
Where a licence contains any extraordinary operational or medical limitations, individuals should contact PLD for advice.
http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?categ ... &faqid=208
It is a fact that the U.S.A is an ICAO contracting state, therefore Article 21 of the ANO applies to the FAA licence.
Furthermore it is noteworthy in the context of this discussion that there are a number of individuals flying commercially for major carriers (EI aircraft) in Ireland using FAA ATPL's with a waiver from the IAA.
It is also interesting that a rather large polulation of EI registered aircraft exist all over the world due to the leasing arrangements in place through Irish finance companies. A percentage of these aircraft are operated in countries south of the Rio Grande by pilots holding a variety of non JAR licences.
Finally a colleague of mine was in Ireland 3 weeks ago and rented a single engine aircraft in Dublin to do some sightseeing with his girlfriend, he has never held a licence other than an FAA ticket. He experienced a hearty Irish welcome at the flight school !
You may have been advised otherwise, however the reality seems quite different.
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https://bellenews.com/2015/01/06/science-tech/spacexs-falcon-9-launch-aborted/ | 2023-06-09T13:44:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656737.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609132648-20230609162648-00277.warc.gz | 0.953276 | 563 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__264516291 | en | SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch aborted
SpaceX has postponed an experiment to bring part of its Falcon 9 rocket down to a soft landing on a floating sea platform.
The space company has now rescheduled the Cape Canaveral demonstration for January 9.
Once the first stage of the rocket launches, and has finished its work, it will head back to Earth to try to touch down on a sea barge in the Atlantic.
If this kind of capability can be proven, it promises dramatically lower launch costs in the future.
All segments of a rocket are usually discarded after use and are destroyed as they fall back down.
SpaceX, however, has been practicing the controlled return of the first stage of its Falcon 9 vehicle.
The problem responsible for today’s scrub decision related to a technical issue detected in the steering mechanism of the rocket’s upper stage.
The next chance to send up the vehicle will be on January 9 at 05:09AM local Florida time.
SpaceX itself has been playing down expectations, rating the chances of success at no more than 50-50.
“I’m pretty sure this will be very exciting, but, as I said, it’s an experiment,” cautioned Hans Koenigsmann, vice president for mission assurance at SpaceX.
“There’s a certain likelihood that this will not work out all right, that something will go wrong. It’s the first time we have tried this – nobody has ever tried it as far as we know.”
The primary purpose of the flight is to send the Dragon cargo ship on a path to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS).
It will be the first American re-supply mission to the orbiting platform since October’s spectacular explosion of a freighter system operated by competitor Orbital Sciences Corporation.
However, it is the outcome of the SpaceX experiment that is likely to make the headlines.
SpaceX believes it can return, refurbish and re-use key elements of its rockets.
To this end, it has been testing first-stage boosters that relight their engines to try to slow their fall through the atmosphere, attaching fins to help guide them downwards, and legs to make a stable touchdown.
So far, there have only been mock landings, in which the stage is brought to a hovering position at the surface of the ocean, where, without a solid platform to set down, every booster has subsequently been lost in the water.
The experiment at the end of this week will be different in that SpaceX has sent a floating barge to the targeted return site some 200 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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http://www.ipy.org/index.php?ipy/detail/giipsy/ | 2017-02-23T00:25:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171066.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00041-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.884586 | 961 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__22248474 | en | GIIPSY: Global Interagency IPY Polar Snapshot YearThe 2007-2008 International Polar Year (IPY) provides an international framework for improving our understanding of high-latitude climate change and enhancing our skill in predicting world-wide impacts. Recent, well documented observations of the dramatically changing high-latitude components of earth
The Global Interagency IPY Polar Snapshot Year
The Global Interagency IPY Polar Snapshot Year (GIIPSY) is a World Meteorological Organization (WMO)/International Council for Science (ICSU) approved IPY Project (Project #91) whose objective is to obtain high-definition satellite snapshots of the polar regions during 2007-2008. Our primary purpose is to use these snapshots as benchmarks for gauging past and future environmental changes in the polar ice, ocean, and land. In the spirit of IPY, we also seek to secure these data sets as our legacy to the next generations of polar scientists.
GIIPSY comprises a group of polar scientists from around the world who have assembled a consolidated list of thematic objectives that call upon the collective resources of international and national space agencies. Our programmatic goal is to identify ways in which the resources of space-faring countries can be used in such a way as to collect data with which to address these scientific objectives, without putting undo burden on any single organisation. To that end, we seek cooperation in terms of spaceborne instruments, data relay systems, ground segments, processing, and data archiving and distribution capabilities.
A general description of the GIIPSY programme and its current status and progress can be found on-line at http://bprc.osu.edu/rsl/GIIPSY. Detailed scientific driving requirements and objectives for the satellite observations were derived from pre-IPY town hall meetings (e.g. AGU December 2006), discussions with other science planning groups including IGOS (Goodison, 2007, IGOS, 2007), and wide-ranging debate within the GIIPSY science community. The complete set of requirements are documented in subsequent publications and presentations (Jezek and Drinkwater, 2006, Drinkwater et al, 2008) or on the GIIPSY Web site. Together, we have taken the detailed science requirements and distilled them into a set of thematic objectives. Topics range from permafrost to sea ice and include several objectives that would be the first of their kind. In order to fulfil these scientific objectives, carefully coordinated data acquisitions over both the northern and southern hemisphere have to be scheduled using the broad range of available satellite instrument capabilities. This is best achieved using polar-orbiting satellites that routinely acquire image or other instrument data over the high-latitude regions along 14 crossing orbits each day.
Operational meteorological satellites equipped with the AVHRR optical imager such as NOAA-15 and MetOp acquire data which are routinely composited to provide complete polar coverage at intervals of up to a few hours. Such overlapping images acquired by meteorological satellites are used to track large-scale cloud motion, for instance, when the surface is cloud-covered. Meanwhile, other higher resolution satellite optical instruments may be used to capture ice sheet movement in instances when the surface is not obscured by clouds. Optical data are complemented by all-weather, day or night data acquired using satellite microwave radar or radiometers. Regular Arctic and Antarctic mosaics allow regional details of sea-ice conditions to be determined using microwave synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data, while pairs of high resolution SAR images may be used interferometrically, to reveal streaming ice flow in Greenland or Antarctica.
Finally, the products derived from multi-satellite, multi-frequency satellite data may be plotted on a virtual Earth to fully capture the state of various elements of the cryosphere. Many such products are now routinely available in Google for convenient viewing of current status of the entire Arctic (see: http://www.seaice.dk/damocles) and Antarctic (see: http://www.seaice.dk/polarview/google.s.html) regions.
IPY Space Task Force
Interaction between GIIPSY and the international space agencies is coordinated through the IPY Space Task Group. The Space Task Group (STG) of the Sub-committee on Observations of the ICSU/WMO Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 is the body tasked with addressing how to meet the space observation requirements of IPY. A number of meetings have taken place between the following Space agency members and participating organisations: Agenzie Spaziale Italiana (ASI), China Meteorological Administration (CMA), the Centre National d | aerospace | 1 |
https://vansairforce.net/community/showthread.php?s=1e5c4a22404464a3d78031b1fa7610b7&p=1570925 | 2022-05-19T21:37:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662530066.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519204127-20220519234127-00416.warc.gz | 0.908466 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__2167945 | en | Originally Posted by David Paule
Is there a list of things which must be installed on the engine before mounting it on an RV-3B? And hopefully, another list of things that should not be installed prior to that?
The main thing is the fitting for the oil pressure line!
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https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/136623-boeing_crash_manas/ | 2023-06-05T02:53:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650620.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605021141-20230605051141-00277.warc.gz | 0.955825 | 302 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__190338357 | en | A cargo Boeing 747 aircraft of a Turkish airline crashed 1.5 kilometers from the runway of Manas international airport in Kyrgyzstan.
Deputy head of the Civil Aviation Agency of Kyrgyzstan, Bakyt Dzhunushaliev, who visited the crash site, said that the plane missed the runway and attempted to go around.
It still remains unknown what caused the Boeing to miss the runway, the official said.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan, the Boeing 747 of Turkish Airlines was flying from Hong Kong to Bishkek. The aircraft crashed near the airport of the Kyrgyz capital on Monday morning at 4.31 a.m. MSK.
The plane crashed on a suburban settlement near Bishkek. As many as 32 cottages were destroyed. At least 37 local villagers were killed, including six children and four crew members. Many were hospitalized in serious condition with a various degree of injuries and burns.
The pilot of the cargo Boeing 747-400 was killed on the crash site. The number of victims may increase as rescuers continue to search through debris and rubble.
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https://www.vacationsmadeeasy.com/LancasterPA/activity/LancasterCountyHotAirBalloonRide.cfm | 2024-04-25T05:23:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297284704.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425032156-20240425062156-00172.warc.gz | 0.916635 | 316 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__66010098 | en | Lancaster County Hot Air Balloon Ride
There is nothing more romantic than soaring through the skies of the beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch Country with this Hot Air Balloon Tour. A Hot Air Balloon Ride Lancaster is certain to be a fun time.
Imagine starting your respite in Pennsylvania off with your loved one at your side, soaring off in a basket and a beautifully colored balloon over head just as the sun is beginning to illuminate the area with its sunshine rays. You will hear nothing more than the sounds of nature and the hot air racing into the balloon from time to time. Your professional and knowledgable pilot will guide the hot air balloon over tons of beautiful sights to see from the skies as you drift effortlessly through the air.
On this exciting Hot Air Balloon Ride Lancaster, you will travel from Bird in Hand, PA through the skies over the countryside, passing over beautiful small towns like New Holland, Strasburg, Ephrata, Reading, and Intercourse. You can view the Amish villages from high above the ground, as well as farmlands, the Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay, York, and Harrisburg. If you have been wanting to experience the relaxation and thrill of a hot air balloon ride, there is no better place to enjoy this unique experience than in the skies over Pennsylvania Dutch Country, whether you prefer crisp mornings or the colorful changing skies of sunset. Make plans to treat yourselves to a unique sightseeing experience on your Pennsylvania vacation by reserving your space on one of these Lancaster Hot Air Balloon Rides. hot air balloon Lancaster pa | aerospace | 1 |
https://spaceref.com/press-release/nasa-astronaut-gregory-h-johnson-to-appear-at-duluth-air-and-aviation-expo/ | 2024-04-15T02:04:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816939.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415014252-20240415044252-00599.warc.gz | 0.909794 | 431 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__125475492 | en | - Press Release
- Oct 31, 2023
NASA Astronaut Gregory H. Johnson to Appear at Duluth Air and Aviation Expo
CLEVELAND – NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Gregory H. Johnson will make an appearance at the Duluth Air and Aviation Expo in Duluth, Minn., on Saturday, Sept. 22. Johnson will speak with guests and sign autographs in the NASA exhibit area from 11 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2 p.m.
The NASA exhibit area, available throughout the weekend, Sept. 22-23, will feature the popular “Picture Yourself in Space” photo booth, where visitors can receive a free souvenir photo taken as an astronaut; a solar system scale, where a person can find out how much they would weigh on another planet; interactive kiosks like Lessons of a Widowmaker, where visitors can learn about NASA’s test aircraft and Improving Today’s Flight, where visitors can explore NASA’s pioneering research that was done closer to planet Earth and improved today’s flight; and information booths, where visitors can obtain free NASA informational material.
On Friday, Sept. 21, Johnson will speak about his experiences in space with Duluth high school students as part of NASA’s initiative to connect students to science, technology, engineering and math. He will speak at Denfeld High School from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. and East High School from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Reporters wishing to attend the event at the high schools should contact Denfeld High School Assistant Principal James Erickson at (218) 336-8830 or East High School Principal Laurie Knapp at (218) 336-8845.
For Johnson’s biography, visit: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/johnson-gh.html
For more information about the Duluth Air and Aviation Expo, visit: http://www.duluthairshow.com/2012/index.html | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.beano.com/posts/7-awesome-uses-for-drones | 2023-03-24T12:54:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945282.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324113500-20230324143500-00736.warc.gz | 0.965775 | 103 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__173985104 | en | Drones are amazing! They take incredible pictures and it's simply fun to flex your flying skills. But for some people that's not enough. Some heroic rebels have taken drone flying to the next level, literally, and in this video we've compiled our favourite examples. There's adrenaline-pumping drone racing and storm-chasing, to pet entertaining and pizza delivering.
One person even built their own helicopter in their back garden! It pretty much only goes up and down, but we still love it. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1203/07venus/ | 2020-10-20T06:34:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107869933.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20201020050920-20201020080920-00056.warc.gz | 0.93783 | 972 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__16521125 | en | DR EMILY BALDWIN
Posted: 07 March 2012
A phenomenon known as a hot flow anomaly (HFA), which causes a temporary reversal of the solar wind that normally moves past a planet thanks to its protective magnetosphere, has been detected on planet Venus, a surprising find given the planet's lack of magnetic field.
Planet Earth is protected by a magnetic "bubble" – the magnetosphere – which acts as a defence shield against the solar wind. The magnetosphere usually forces the solar wind to flow around the planet but sometimes conditions allow the solar wind to enter this bubble. When discontinuities in the solar wind remain in contact with a planet's bow shock – where the supersonic solar wind slows down abruptly and diverts around the planet – a pool of hot, 10 million degree plasma can collect.
When discontinuities in the solar wind remain in contact with a planet's bow shock, they can collect a pool of hot particles that becomes a hot flow anomaly (HFA). An HFA on Venus most likely acts like a vacuum, pulling up parts of the planet’s atmosphere. Image: NASA/Collinson.
“These plasma particles are trapped in place,” says David Sibeck, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “They make a big puddle that gets bigger and bigger, sending out its own shock waves. Hot flow anomalies release so much energy that the solar wind is deflected, and can even move back toward the Sun. That’s a lot of energy when you consider that the solar wind is supersonic – traveling faster than the speed of sound – and the HFA is strong enough to make it turn around.”
HFAs occur at Earth on the order of roughly one a day, and they are also seen on Saturn, and possibly on Mars (Mars Global Surveyor found indications of a martian HFA, but did not have all the instruments needed to conclusively prove it). Hints of an HFA at Venus were detected by NASA's MESSENGER satellite, which is currently in orbit around Mercury, alerting scientists to look through ESA's Venus Express satellite data. While HFAs are detectable most days on Earth, Venus' day is 243 Earth days, making the task somewhat challenging.
Glyn Collinson, first author on the paper due to appear in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics and also from Goddard, looked for signs that the spacecraft had passed through an HFA. This would be revealed by a sharp change in magnetic fields, with a lower density region "inside". Without instruments specifically designed to detect this phenomenon, the search turned up many potential events, but one stuck out from the rest, with the signature hot plasma found for an event occurring on 22 March, 2008.
Venus Express has been in orbit around Venus since 2006. Image: ESA - D. DUCROS.
"HFAs happen really fast – the whole thing took maybe only five seconds to form before slamming into the Venus Express," Collinson tells Astronomy Now. These atmospheric "explosions" last for many minutes on Earth, shaking particles along magnetic field lines and causing them to fall into the atmosphere near the magnetic poles to create aurorae. What the effects are for a planet without a magnetic field can only be speculated. "Without a magnetic field, HFAs will form directly on top of the ionosphere," explains Collinson. The ionosphere is the upper layer of the atmosphere and is filled with charged particles. "HFAs will likely disrupt the sensitive pressure balance between the solar wind and the ionosphere, maybe driving huge upwellings in the upper layers of the atmosphere like a gigantic tsunami, although you’d probably not be able to measure any difference at the ground level."
Since the new data confirms that HFAs can occur on a planet without a magnetic field, scientists will be on the look out for similar effects at other bodies in the Solar System, and in extrasolar systems too. "It’s fascinating that HFAs can form at such a small obstacle in the solar wind: Venus is ten times smaller an obstacle to the solar wind than the bubble created by Earth’s magnetic field," adds Collinson. "Now that they’ve been seen at the Earth, Saturn, Venus and probably Mars, I think it’s likely you’re going to find them everywhere, and not just confined to our Solar System. We are only really beginning to unravel the mysteries of how the Sun and space weather interacts with the Earth and the other planets. We’ve only known about HFAs for maybe 20 years. Imagine, such a violent and dramatic event going unnoticed for so long. What else is out there?!" | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/artemis-lightning-strike | 2023-09-23T00:18:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506429.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922234442-20230923024442-00061.warc.gz | 0.964018 | 533 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__144366902 | en | KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – NASA has released new details about a stunning lightning strike near its mega moon rocket that could have meant big problems, if it wasn’t for the agency’s lightning protection system at Launch Pad 39B.
On April 2, storms surrounded the Space Coast during a wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis I rocket lightning struck inside the launch complex’s perimeter at least four times.
Thunderstorms are common in the Sunshine State, but the storm might have produced something out of the ordinary.
NASA says at least one of the bolts was positively charged, meaning it was more powerful than the typical cloud-to-ground strike.
"There was a tremendous amount of energy that was transferred by this positive event," Dr. Carlos Mata, chief technologist for Scientific Lightning Solutions, said in a statement. "After more than 30 milliseconds, we still had almost 3,000 amps flowing through the ground. This particular event falls into that tiny percentage – less than 1 percent – that you just don’t expect to happen."
The agency says positive strikes account for less than five percent of all cloud-to-ground strikes and this particular bolt carried more energy than a high voltage transmission line that powers an entire city.
"You design things to withstand certain energy levels, but in this line of business, you can’t test it to make sure that it does what you expect it to do – you have to wait for Mother Nature to test it for you. And Mother Nature did put it to the test," Mata said. "Once we started looking at the data and realized the system had done what we designed it to do, I don’t think that I can describe how I felt, knowing that we hadn’t let anyone down, that we did our due diligence, and we did it right."
The agency said all the captured energy safely traveled through the catenary wires to the ground.
Despite the tremendous energy, the agency says there was no damage to the Space Launch System rocket or Orion spacecraft.
The April event was only the second time that a positive strike was recorded at the Kennedy Space Center.
Barring any type of additional thunderstorm activity and technical issues, NASA plans to retry the important dress rehearsal in late June.
The agency admits they’ll be keeping a close eye on the weather, which has caused problems for operations in the past.
If NASA can avoid trouble from Mother Nature, the mission team hopes to finish the critical dress rehearsal with the ambition of launching the rocket during the late summer or early fall. | aerospace | 1 |
http://wegowild.com/aviation.html | 2019-02-20T15:15:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247495147.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220150139-20190220172139-00013.warc.gz | 0.931364 | 253 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__81454860 | en | Are you a pilot or employee at an airport? Are you concerned about security?
Top 10 common sense things you can do to improve aviation security.
1. Greet anyone not known to you when seen near aircraft or on the ramp area.
2. Verify all vehicles on the ramp and ensure they belong.
3. Gather passengers and baggage at one location before boarding and after arriving.
4. Visually follow crew and passengers from the lobby to the aircraft and immediately report any unusual actions.
5. Verify the identity of flight students, aircraft renters and transient flight creww before allowing them to access the ramp.
6. Know your passengers and ensure that no unknown person or property is brought aboard your aircraft.
7. Lock your aircraft when it's unattended, even for short periods.
8. Concider using security tape on aircraft doors when away from your aircraft to guard against tampering.
9. Inspect wing and fuselage compartments for tampering prior to re-boarding aircraft.
10. Become familiar with other based aircraft and thier operators. Get to know your tie-down and hanger neighbors.
Security is everyones business! Don't leave it up to everyone else.
Aircraft Lookup Service | aerospace | 1 |
https://durangoherald.com/articles/17246-federal-report-questions-decisions-in-nm-rescue | 2020-06-04T02:33:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347436828.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20200604001115-20200604031115-00425.warc.gz | 0.980589 | 604 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__59938123 | en | SANTA FE A former state police chief pilot says there was pressure to fly rescue missions from the Public Safety Departments top administrator, and that may have contributed to a fatal crash in which a helicopter went to save a lost hiker near Santa Fe, according to a report by federal investigators.
The report by the National Transportation Safety Board also raised questions about a pilots decision to fly the rescue mission and whether the pilot was overworked before starting the mission, and it disclosed he was taking prescription medication for depression.
The crash occurred in June 2009 after the helicopter picked up the hiker and took off as a snowstorm approached. The pilot, Sgt. Andy Tingwall, and the hiker died. One crew member survived and was found the next day.
The helicopter apparently hit something after taking off into clouds, flew for a short distance and then crashed on a ridge at about 12,000 feet. It rolled down a steep slope.
The NTSB report, part of hundreds of pages of documents released on the agencys website last week, did not reach a conclusion about the cause of the accident. A separate report on that is not expected until early next year.
Michael Dowd, a former chief pilot for the state police who retired in 2008, told investigators that Public Safety Secretary John Denko always questioned his decisions when he refused to dispatch rescue missions. Dowd complained that Denko, a pilot and former state police chief, micromanaged the agencys aviation section.
The unnecessary pressures from DPS and state police management may have contributed to this tragedy, Dowd said in a letter provided to investigators.
Dowd had planned to send the letter as an opinion article to a local newspaper shortly after the crash but didnt. Calls to Dowds listed telephone number in Santa Fe said it had been disconnected.
Denko dismissed Dowds allegations as criticisms from a disgruntled employee who remained upset because he had been passed over for a promotion.
To make the comment that pressure was put on these pilots to fly when it wasnt safe to fly is blatantly untrue, an unfair statement and a ridiculous statement, Denko said in an interview Friday. I pride myself on safety. I would never, ever and I never did ever pressure people to fly when it was unsafe.
State Police Chief Faron Segotta said, Nobody ever told a pilot they had to fly.
The final decision about whether it was safe to fly, Denko and Segotta said, rested with pilots.
However, Segotta acknowledged that it was possible that Dowd or others may have felt pressure knowing that Denko, a longtime pilot, was in charge of the department.
If you know that the highest individual within the organization is maybe paying attention to the area that you are in command and control of, I dont think there is a person on the planet who wouldnt feel like theyre under the gun or being pressured. That happens in government and the private sector, Segotta said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://aircraft.fandom.com/wiki/Counter_Stealth_Radar | 2021-12-08T10:24:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363465.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20211208083545-20211208113545-00141.warc.gz | 0.952963 | 891 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__47222954 | en | All current stealth aircraft were designed to counter X-Band radars, but those shapes are getting ineffective if a radar operates in S-band and even more ineffective when the radar operates in L-band. The reason for the stealth aircraft to be detected is the wavelength of the radar, a radar operating in L-band produces wavelengths with comparable size to the aircraft itself and should exhibit scattering in the resonance region rather than the optical region, so that most of the existing stealth aircraft will turn from invisible, to visible.
Disadvantages of long wavelength radars
Actually a low frequency radar, comparable in size to a normal X-Band radar has very poor resolution, to fix this problem the low frequency radar must be built as large as possible to allow an engagement, however this only works on ground based radar stations and is problematic on aircraft, the accuracy of those radars is also inferior to normal radars, the frequency must be higher to get a lock with a missile, so that precision targeting cannot be done like on X-Band radars.
In Air to Air combat L-band using radar can be easily detected using passive detection, long before it will be able to track the enemy.
The US Department of Defence made the following statement: “The Northrop-Grumman B-2A 'Batwing' is sufficiently large that its shaping remains effective against lower band radars. The same is not true for fighters with LO shaping“, in fact this means that large stealth planes are still stealthy against low band radars, but Fighters with LO (Low Observable) shaping (alias F-35 Lightning II) are not stealthy enough to remain invisible against those radar systems.
The same does not go for Very Low Observable (VLO) aircraft, as seen in the Ausairpower statement made by Dr. Carlo Kopp: “Low band radars are not a panacea for the defeat of VLO (Very Low Observable) aircraft. Their angular accuracy has been until recently poor, and the required antenna size results in ungainly systems which are usually slow to deploy and stow, even if designed from the outset for mobility. The size and high power emissions of these radars, in types with limited mobility, makes them much easier to detect and destroy than typical mobile systems operating in the decimetric and centimetric bands, which can relocate rapidly after a missile shot.”
This statement means that low band radars are not an Ideal solution against VLO aircraft, because to detect them the radar stations must be very, very large and much to large to be mounted on an aircraft, so that the L-Band radars on the Sukhoi PAK-FA are actually useless, everything they would do at the end is letting a listening F-22 (or F-35) knowing that there´s a PAK-FA somewhere. They are also unable to provide target guidance for the weapons without being ungainly large, that’s the reason for those massive antennas on the ground based radar stations, to get at least a bit of accuracy.
To conclude, here are the general disadvantages of low band radars in shortened form:
- They are unable to provide weapon guidance because of bad resolution and accuracy
- They need to be ungainly large to track an aircraft accurately
- When mounted on aircraft, they are too small to track something or to get a lock on, everything that would happen at the end is letting the enemy know that there´s something out there
But in reality, the L-Band radars of PAK-FA are primarily used for friend-or-foe identification and electronic warfare, not target acquisition directly. Although the data will be used in the final data processing/analysis, whenever available.
The general advantages of low band radars in shortened form:
- Large UHF, S and L-band radars usually serve as early warning for other higher band radars.
- If linked to other radar stations (both ground based and airborne), this can provide very effective means for early target acquisition. Using an array of different radar bands for triangulation and scanning "suspect regions".
- Small L-Band radars can be useful for electronic warfare, friend-or-foe identification, decoy and illumination. | aerospace | 1 |
https://newsbulletinng.com/airpeace-records-engine-failure-aib-commences-investigation/ | 2020-07-13T21:30:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657146845.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20200713194203-20200713224203-00212.warc.gz | 0.962728 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__38902551 | en | A Boeing 737-500 belonging to Airpeace Airline had an engine failure this morning enroute Lagos to Owerri Airport.
The aircraft, which departed Murtala Muhammad Airport at 7.35 am had 90 passengers and 6 crew members on board.
According to the Accident Investigation Bureau AIB in a statement, information provided by the Air Traffc Control (ATC), revealed that after the flight crew declared engine failure at 07:47 local time it subsequently made an air return to Lagos.
The AIB added that the aircraft landed safely at 08:06 am , all the occupants disembarked with no injury.
The AIB team of safety investigators has since commenced investigation into the serious incident involving the Boeing 737-500 aircraft with registration marks, 5N-BUJ.
Reacting to the serious incident, spokesperson for the airline Stanley Olise in a statement said, “to day at about 07:47 local time, our Lagos to Owerri flight, which was already airborne was aborted when the pilot in command noticed a change in the parameter of one of engines.
He reported the incident, took precautionary measures and returned to base in line with Air Peace safety operational procedures.
The aircraft safely landed in Lagos at about 08: 06 local time. There were no injuries as the passengers were safely deboarded from the aircraft.
The pilot has reported the incident to appropriate authorities.
Air Peace apologises for the incident and assures its customers and other Nigerians that it continues to maintain high safety standards in its operations. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.lifestyleaviation.com/blog/news-1/austro-engine-raised-to-1800-hr-tbo-187 | 2023-12-06T00:31:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100575.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206000253-20231206030253-00602.warc.gz | 0.952218 | 286 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__241129285 | en | LifeStyle Aviation is pleased to provide you this significant announcement regarding the expanded TBO (time between overhaul) of the engines used in our Diamond DA40 and DA42 aircraft.
Austro Engine TBO Raised
Austro Engines, the Diamond Aircraft owned diesel engine maker, today announced in the following brief statement that their engines that power the DA40 NG and DA42 line of aircraft have been raised from 1500 hours to 1800 hours TBO recommendation. Their notice was brief and to the point…
Dear valued customers,
Austro Engine is very pleased to announce, that the time between overhaul (TBO) of the
AE300 was extended from 1500 to 1800 hours.
Best Regards Austro Engine
This announcement is just behind several recent other important announcements including:
1. The DA42-VI will be on Display at Sun N Fun April 21-26th and has a 220 lb increased useful load.
2. The DA62 was just certified! Contact LifeStyle Aviation for reservation information.
“This represents a significant milestone. While other manufacturers talk about providing aircraft with diesel engines that burn Jet Fuel, Diamond cements it leadership and dominance.” states John Armstrong, Founder and of the LifeStyle Aviation Network. “Diamond has been providing this technology since 2002. They went on to invest in developing their own engines. They are generations ahead of any other maker.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://uasroundup.com/?page_id=709 | 2023-01-27T12:03:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764494976.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230127101040-20230127131040-00232.warc.gz | 0.907478 | 2,137 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__165607920 | en | We thank our sponsors and vendors for helping make the UAS Roundups a success!
Pilot Institute™ was created to help people achieve their dreams of flight. Our mission is to create world-class courses that remove the friction from passing the FAA’s tests. This is summed up in our motto “Aviation Made Easy”.
We are headquartered in sunny Prescott, Arizona. We have taught well over 75,000 students in 98 countries so far and we have a 99% success rate on our courses.
All of our courses are created and taught by a certified Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor, and Remote Pilot. All of our instructors are not only experts in their field, but they are also proven educators who make learning fun and engaging.
We have courses on all types of flight from drones to airplanes. We are always building out our catalog to offer more to our students. It’s also our goal to regularly update our courses to make sure they provide the maximum value.
Pilot Institute is the sponsor of the gift bags!
Central Colorado UAS’s purpose is to bring together UAS pilots, hobbyists and interested parties together in an informal, social setting.
Our monthly meetings include networking, discussions about operating UAS, sharing information, updates on the legal and legislative environment, and an emphasis on community and fun.
We are a non-profit organization with several projects that require funding. If you’re so inclined, please contact us: [email protected].
CCUAS is the event sponsor!
Based in Boulder, CO and founded in 2011, Black Swift Technologies is recognized for delivering reliable, robust, and highly accurate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) capable of flying scientific payloads and demanding atmospheric environments (high altitude, arctic desert, corrosive particulates, and strong turbulence). Our purpose-built scientific aerial platforms are used around the globe for a variety of specialized atmospheric research missions in extreme conditions including monitoring and assessing wildland fires, volcanoes, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
Black Swift Technologies is a vendor and co-sponsor of our Sunday reception!
P3 Tech connects people with a passion for advanced tech platforms with the plans, programs, policies and information they need to succeed.
P3 Tech Consulting is a vendor and co-sponsor of our Sunday Reception
UAS Colorado is the state’s only 501(c)(6) business league supporting the unmanned aircraft industry. Our mission is to champion the Colorado unmanned aircraft ecosystem. Our vision is for Colorado to lead globally in unmanned aircraft technology for the good of all. To learn more, visit: https://www.uascolorado.com/
UAS Colorado is a vendor and sponsor of the Conference Luncheon
Our team of industrial design engineers and technical experts based in Colorado and Texas remove barriers to entry and bring ideas to market for innovative individuals and companies across the USA. The 3D Printing Store will help industries move toward faster, sustainable, and more sophisticated forms of additive manufacturing to meet supply chain demands. We have supported UAS platforms with designs for one off brackets and fixtures and spare parts for some platforms that are no longer supported by the OEM’s.
3D Printing Store is a returning vendor!
Taking Sonic Anemometers to New Heights. Longmont-based Anemoment LLC crafts SWaP-optimized meteorological instruments allow UAV operators to collect real-time localized weather data in places never before accessible.
Anemoment is a returning vendor!
Marketing and sales of instrumentation, software, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applied to surface and subsurface geoscientific mapping and process monitoring. AGS sales and provides support and training for the MagArrow magnetometer, the GEM2 UAV electromagnetic earth conductivity meter, the EM61 Lite deep looping metal detector, and the D230A Gamma Ray Spectrometer. AGS is a sales agent for the Universal ground Control System (UgCS) UAV command and control software. AGS provides training and technical consulting services.
Aerobotic Geophysical Systems is a returning vendor!
DroneSense is the industry leader for first responder situational awareness, offering a one of a kind and proprietary enterprise drone software platform that consists of 3 parts: Administration Portal, OEM Flight Application, and Operations Hub.
- Administration – tracks all flight logs both for an organization’s pilots and hardware effortlessly for reporting with the FAA and internally alike.
- Flight Application – replaces native flight apps from your drone manufacturer as an extreme enhancement for mission planning using 936 symbology for mission marking both before and during mission engagement.
- Operations Hub – a collaborative mission map where <1 sec. live streams from multiple drones at one time are monitored and engaged with in real time for situational awareness. Mission notifications can be sent automatically to stakeholders for instant collaboration on missions where seconds count.
All 3 pillars make DroneSense the only complete and comprehensive platform for Police, Fire, and EMS sUAS program management.
DroneSense is a first-time vendor!
The Elevation Beer Company brews craft beer in the rural mountain town of Poncha Springs, Colorado. Creating quality beer is our driving force inspiring a positive impact on the world we share, one pint at a time.
Elevation Beer Co. is a returning vendor and the beverage sponsor of our Sunday reception!
Pix4D is the developer of the world’s leading photogrammetry software for image-based mapping, 3D modeling, measurement, and inspections with drones, and now with mobile phones as well. Founded in 2011, Pix4D is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Denver, Berlin, Tokyo, and Madrid. Pix4D is expanding its product line address solutions for a wide range of industries, including Surveying, Mapping, AEC, Agriculture, Energy, Mining, Transportation, Public Safety, and Government.
Pix4D is a returning vendor!
Multicopter Warehouse ® was founded in 2014 and is a Tier 1 Authorized Dealer and Distributor for major UAS manufacturers of multicopters, parts, and accessories. We specialize in UAS technologies utilized for many applications such as Search & Rescue, Crime Scene Investigation, Agriculture, GIS Mapping, Utility Inspection, and Professional Cinema Aerial Photography. Additionally, we design, develop, and fabricate custom parts and accessories and perform all repairs in-house based on our clients needs. Multicopter Warehouse ® is an Authorized DJI Consumer and Enterprise dealer in the United States, and one of the few DJI Recommended Service centers with DJI trained and certified technicians in-house.
Multicopter Warehouse is a returning vendor!
Headquartered in Switzerland, Wingtra is the world’s leading VTOL drone producer for mapping, survey and mining industry professionals. Since its market entry in early 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 70 of the biggest equipment dealers and has been selling mapping drones globally ever since.
Wingtra is a returning vendor!
We are a local FPV drone shop trying to get everyone addicted to drones. We primarily focus on Tiny Whoops but all other FPV drones. We build them, fix them, and train people on how to fly better and try to grow the community. We help beginners and experts alike. We do indoor and outdoor racing and freestyle events.
Full Send FPV is a returning vendor!
Founded in 2014, Autel Robotics has always strived to let the needs of its customers drive innovation. We are a team of industry professionals with a genuine passion for technology and years of engineering experience. Our deep commitment in key core-technology research, our strive for excellence, and our goal to surpass customer expectations allows our team to set new benchmarks for drone technology and performance for commercial and consumer users alike.
Autel Robotics is a first-time vendor!
Censys Technologies Corporation builds remote sensing hardware and software solutions for UAS service providers, enterprise organizations and government entities. This includes the Sentaero family of products – which is the UAV performance and value leader in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, disaster relief and public safety.
Created by three Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumni in 2017, Censys Technologies’ priorities are centered on understanding customer needs and delivering technology and products that will perform and grow their business – bringing intelligence to business from beyond the horizon.
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Skyfish is an American commercial drone manufacturer and end-to-end drone platform. The Skyfish platform consists of drones (Skyfish M4, Skyfish M6), an onboard computer (Skymind), a ruggedized remote controller (Skyfish C1), flight software (Skyfish Mission Control), and a web portal for processing, storing, viewing, and analyzing 3D models, flown images, and maps (Skyportal). The company headquarters are in Missoula, Montana. The Skyfish Platform enables precision measurement and analysis of critical infrastructure assets using high quality photogrammetry sensors for producing engineering-grade 3D reality models. Skyfish offers broad sensor and payload support for various industry use case requirements, including photogrammetry for 3D modeling of infrastructure, land, and work sites, lidar, gas detection, thermal imaging, and environment-aware robotic interactions.
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We are a full-service cigar store that sells premium cigars (Montecristo, Arturo Fuente, Ashton, Gurkha, Oliva, My Father, Partagas, Romeo y Julieta, Rocky Patel, and many more!), humidors, lighters and other tobacco related accessories to meet your needs. We stock over 100 premium cigars! You will easily find the perfect cigar for special occasions or to smoke here in our comfortable smoking lounge with a drink from our Glunking Bull Sippin’ Lounge. We are conveniently located in Fairplay only a short drive from Breckenridge and Summit County. You can enjoy a round of golf on our golf simulator/The Golf Club 2019 and We offer guided flyfishing trips. Authorized dealer Paragon Fly Rods! We sell flies and fly fishing stuff!
Rocky Mountain Cigar Company is a first-time sponsor of the drone races! | aerospace | 1 |
https://controlar.com/en/business-units/aerospace-defence/ | 2024-04-19T05:00:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817289.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419043820-20240419073820-00188.warc.gz | 0.935495 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__42803838 | en | We apply all our testing and automation knowledge to the aerospace industry and defense to develop systems for validation and certification of electronic, electrical, and electromechanical components.
The versatility of our work team is a guarantee that our customers will obtain specific solutions according to their needs. We put a lot of effort into research and development to ensure the adaptation of our products to all types of requirements.
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Below, some reference projects developed by our sister company, EIIT. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1138326/moon-smells-wet-ashes | 2021-05-10T21:54:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989749.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20210510204511-20210510234511-00060.warc.gz | 0.937144 | 295 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__37225981 | en | Nasa files reveal the Moon smells of ASH
The late Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon, said it smelled "like the scent of wet ashes". To crewmate Buzz Aldrin, now 89, the odour was like "the smell in the air after a firecracker has gone off". Back on Earth, Nasa bosses barely mentioned the smell. And nobody warned Apollo 15 lunar module pilot Jim Irwin or other astronauts on future missions about it.
Armstrong: Film trailer teases untold story of astronaut
When Irwin told Mission Control: "There's a funny smell in here" they said it was simply "lunar dirt".
The unique smell is revealed in America's Smithsonian magazine marking next month's 50th anniversary of the first landing. It says a total of 842lb of rocks and dust from six lunar landings was brought to Earth but the smell vanished after being exposed to air and moisture on the journey.
No one has yet found out what causes the "Moon smell" or why it resembles spent gunpowder. But, it seems, the handful of space pioneers who have got a good whiff never forget it.
Geologist Harrison Schmitt, who flew on two Apollo missions said the smell "was like someone had been firing a carbine".
Late Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad recalled the "very distinctive smell", adding: "I'll never forget. And I've never smelled it again since then." | aerospace | 1 |
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briefing. "I was thinking, I need to go up there and find out what
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https://www.anabat.com/uav-quadcopter-on-the-modular-design-of-vibration-alarm/ | 2019-07-18T05:41:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525500.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718042531-20190718064531-00315.warc.gz | 0.863186 | 188 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__185540801 | en | Innovative Modular Design,the included battery, install the propellers and ready-to-fly Long Cruise Duration: Fly up to 25 minutes on a single charge using the included 4000mAh lithium polymer (LiPo) battery that's easily removable and contains intelligent circuitry and a charge-remaining indicator built-in.
Lost Connection Functionality: Outdoor flight is made possible by advanced GPS positioning that compensates for light wind. Xplorer will return Home when the flight distance is beyond the effective remote control distance or the battery runs low.
With Active/automatic stability 3-axises gimbal(±0.02°)/1080P 30FPS HD Video Camera for smooth video recording.
More Advanced flying experience:waypoint function,Up to 16 point ground stations/360°
Smart to follow, real-time record the moment. Automatically adjust the flying height, stable shooting high-definition picture. | aerospace | 1 |
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/proton-successfully-launches-russian-military-satellite/ | 2018-10-16T06:49:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583510019.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20181016051435-20181016072935-00311.warc.gz | 0.965242 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__105946887 | en | Please consider donating to Behind the Black, by giving either a one-time contribution or a regular subscription, as outlined in the tip jar to the right or below. Your support will allow me to continue covering science and culture as I have for the past twenty years, independent and free from any outside influence.
Russia today successfully used its Proton rocket to place a military communications satellite in orbit.
Though primarily a military satellite, it will also be used by civilian customers as well.
Meanwhile, in their effort to recover from last year’s engine recall that practically shut down their launch industry, the Russians are trying to up their launch rate, with additional Proton launches now set for September 9 and 28. At the moment, they and SpaceX are tied for the most launches in 2017, and I suspect it will be a neck and neck race for the rest of the year. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.cheapflights.com/flights-to-erie/baltimore/ | 2019-08-22T07:28:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027316785.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822064205-20190822090205-00103.warc.gz | 0.941569 | 106 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__105574790 | en | It’s likely that during this time there will be
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https://www.key.aero/events/atlantic-city-airshow | 2020-08-09T03:07:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738380.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20200809013812-20200809043812-00356.warc.gz | 0.905282 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__128466498 | en | North Morris Avenue
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Atlantic City Airshow (Thunder over the Boardwalk) 2020
The Atlantic City Airshow (Thunder over the Boardwalk) returns in 2020, following a successful 2019 event.
With lots to see in the air and on the water, along with trade stalls to visit and many other attractions on the ground. The Atlantic City Airshow is one of the go-to events in the local area in 2020.
Scroll down for aircraft participation and ticket information...
Aircraft due to participate in the flying display are listed below. Please note this list is subject to change.
United States Air Force
- Lockheed Martin F-16CM/DM Fighting Falcon (x6) - The US Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, "USAF Thunderbirds"
This event is free-entry, however VIP and premium seating will be available for the show. This section of the event when premium/ VIP tickets become available. Watch this space! | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.jetcost.co.uk/airlines/flights-conviasa.html | 2019-03-19T22:45:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202161.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319224005-20190320010005-00161.warc.gz | 0.810001 | 541 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__3124636 | en | Jetcost gives you exactly the right kind of help. It searches all of the cheap Conviasa deals available and delivers the one that suits your dates, your times and your budget the most. When you’ve found the right offer for you, just click through to Conviasa, and book directly with them.
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Conviasa Fleet: 29 aircraft
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|Boeing 737||Boeing 737-200||6|
|Canadair CRJ-700||Canadair CRJ-700||4|
|Embraer ERJ-190||Embraer ERJ-190||13|
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Full Name: Consórcio Venezolano de Indústrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/05/24/private-supply-ship-aces-pivotal-space-station-test/SrJcaBa2sLbj9UU3qzj9VJ/story.html?camp=pm | 2018-05-24T06:29:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865928.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524053902-20180524073902-00124.warc.gz | 0.939897 | 778 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__204887955 | en | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The world’s first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station Thursday, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
The unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule flew within 1½ miles of the orbiting lab as it performed a practice lap and checkout of its communication and navigation systems.
Officials at NASA and the SpaceX company declared the rendezvous a success and said the historic linkup is on track for Friday.
It is the first US vessel to visit the space station since NASA’s shuttles retired last summer, and the first private spacecraft ever to attempt a delivery. The Dragon is carrying 1,000 pounds of provisions.
SpaceX officials were happy with Thursday’s feat.
“It is a big confidence boost,’’ mission director John Couluris said. “Everyone’s very excited.’’
After working all night and into the wee hours, he urged his team to go home and rest up for Friday.
“It’s exciting to be an American and part of putting American spacecraft into orbit,’’ he said, “and we’re very proud right now.’’
NASA flight director Holly Ridings that said the mood is upbeat on her side as well, but that Friday’s delivery will still be a challenge.
“There’s still a lot of really new things that the teams need to perform and the vehicles, frankly, need to perform,’’ she said. “This is still definitely a demonstration flight.’’
As the predawn hours of Thursday unfolded, the space station astronauts struggled with bad computer monitors and camera trouble as the Dragon zoomed toward them, but the problem did not hold up the operation. Indeed, all of the tests appeared to go well.
The astronauts successfully turned on Dragon’s strobe light by remote control but could not see it because of the sun glare and distance of several miles. The Dragon finally popped into camera view about 10 minutes later, appearing as a bright speck of light against the blackness of space, near the Earth’s blue horizon. The two solar wings were clearly visible as the Dragon drew closer.
“Can nicely see the vehicle,’’ Dutch spaceman Andre Kuipers said.
SpaceX’s near-term objective is to help stockpile the space station, joining Russia, Europe, and Japan in resupply duties. In three or four more years, however, the company run by the billionaire who cofounded PayPal, Elon Musk, hopes to be launching station astronauts.
It is the cornerstone of President Obama’s strategy for NASA: turning over orbital flights to private business so the space agency can concentrate on destinations farther afield, like asteroids and Mars. Several US companies are vying for the opportunity.
Obama called Musk Wednesday, a day after Dragon’s flawless launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket.
“The President just called to say congrats,’’ Musk said via Twitter early Thursday. “Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer. He ended his tweet with a smiley emoticon.
Musk monitored Thursday’s operation from the SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne, Calif.
On Friday morning, two of the space station’s six astronauts, Kuipers and Donald Pettit, will use the space station’s robot arm to grab the Dragon and attach it to the complex. The crew will have just under a week to unload the contents before releasing the spacecraft for reentry next Thursday. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/spicejet-plane-returns-to-mumbai-after-windshield-crack-observed/cid/1867323 | 2022-10-04T20:02:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337524.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20221004184523-20221004214523-00601.warc.gz | 0.970591 | 398 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__193938314 | en | SpiceJet plane returns to Mumbai after windshield crack observed
A SpiceJet plane, which was heading to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, returned to Mumbai on Saturday after a crack was observed on the windshield, according to an official statement."On May 28, SpiceJet Boeing 737 aircraft was scheduled to operate SG-385 (Mumbai-Gorakhpur).
During cruise, windshield outer pane was observed to be cracked," the airline's spokesperson said.The pilot-in-command decided to return to Mumbai, the spokesperson said.The air traffic controller was apprised and the aircraft landed safely at the Mumbai airport, the spokesperson added.
More on SpiceJet, it faced a ransomware attack late on Tuesday night that delayed several morning flights on Wednesday, the cascading effect leaving several hundred passengers stranded for hours across the country’s airports.
A few flights were cancelled too. Sources said the airline had now shifted to a new server and delinked the old one so that flight operations could become normal.
SpiceJet did not reveal whether it had paid the attacker. Industry sources said the attack was similar to the one on Indigo in December 2020.
Then, too, the airline had acknowledged the attack and said some segments of data servers had been breached. However, little is known yet about the outcome of the probe, or whether any payment was made.
As passengers stuck at the airports on Wednesday expressed frustration, ground staff informed them that “the server is down”.
A passenger, Saurav Goyal, tweeted: “Extremely poor customer service by flyspicejet. My flight to Srinagar SG 473 scheduled at 6.25 AM from Delhi today is still at the airport. The Staff has no clue and the poor excuse is ‘server down’ so cannot take printouts. Passengers are suffering.”
After passengers blasted SpiceJet on social media, the carrier put out a statement. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.fourniergroup.net/aviation-insurance | 2019-09-18T17:04:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20190918151927-20190918173927-00468.warc.gz | 0.939661 | 904 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__27697127 | en | We broker a broad range of insurance for the aviation community nationwide. Whether you fly your two-seater for pleasure on the weekends, operate a fleet of business aircraft or something in between, we can deliver the right protection.
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https://www.yaktrinews.com/tag/air-india/ | 2022-09-28T19:49:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335276.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928180732-20220928210732-00618.warc.gz | 0.96131 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__178185958 | en | Fasten (or perhaps tighten) your seatbelts: Air India is putting its crew on a low-fat diet.
Air India said one of its planes landed at London Stansted Airport on Thursday following a bomb threat.
An Air India Boeing 737 aircraft was damaged after hitting an airport wall during take off on a flight from Trichy to Dubai.
After failing to sell its national airline, India is now pouring in more taxpayer money to keep it flying.
China wants global companies to drop references to Taiwan as an independent entity. India's national airline is the latest to fall in line.
India's government was hoping to raise billions selling the national airline to a private buyer. Now it's likely to have to spend billions instead to keep it flying after being forced to shelve the sale.
The first-ever flight to Israel over Saudi Arabia has been completed.
For the first time ever, an international airline can use Saudi airspace to fly to Israel. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.wbrz.com/news/smelly-odor-prompts-flight-crew-to-divert-airliner-to-la | 2018-10-22T01:13:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514443.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20181022005000-20181022030500-00049.warc.gz | 0.924844 | 210 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__160795369 | en | Smelly odor prompts flight crew to divert airliner to LA
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An Alaska Airlines flight that left San Francisco for New Orleans with 136 people aboard has been diverted to Los Angeles International Airport after the flight crew detected what the airline described as a "strong odor" in the cabin.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the plane was diverted to Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.
The newspaper says the plane landed safely and no emergency was declared.
Alaska Airlines says technicians were inspecting the plane in an effort to uncover what caused the smell.
Meanwhile, passengers were being rebooked on other flights.
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The Louisiana Red Cross gives out free smoke alarms in two neighborhoods
LSU to wear uniforms saluting fallen WWI heroes Saturday
Mega Millions jackpot reaches $1 billion ahead of Friday drawing
Power restored in downtown Baton Rouge after electrical fire causes hours-long outage | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.chron.com/news/article/PRN-Lockheed-Martin-Awarded-385-6-Million-1849812.php | 2017-11-25T12:02:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809778.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20171125105437-20171125125437-00743.warc.gz | 0.897199 | 415 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__155090070 | en | (PRN) Lockheed Martin Awarded $385.6 Million Arrowhead Production Contract
Published 3:15 pm, Monday, June 26, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) the Lot 3 follow- on production contract for Arrowhead(R), the "eyes of the Apache." Developed by Lockheed Martin, Arrowhead is the Army's Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.
The $385.6 million agreement authorizes production of 219 Arrowhead kits plus spares for the U.S. Army and foreign military sales. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control will produce the Lot 3 systems in Orlando and Ocala, FL. The final deliveries for the U.S. Army's AH-64 Apache helicopters and international customers will be in December 2010.
"This award will allow Lockheed Martin to continue to partner with U.S. Army Aviation. Apache aviators will benefit from unprecedented capabilities in target acquisition/designation and night pilotage," said Bob Gunning, Apache Fire Control program director at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
Lockheed Martin signed the original TADS/PNVS production contract on April 30, 1982, and the first TADS/PNVS system was fielded in 1983. The first Arrowhead production contract award was awarded November 11, 2003. Lockheed Martin rolled out the first Arrowhead system to the U.S. Army in May 2005, and completed integration on the first Apache helicopters in June 2005.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 135,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
For additional information, visit our web site: http://www.lockheedmartin.com | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nnam/education/articles/nas-pensacola-100th-anniversary/first-aircraft-crash-at-pensacola.html | 2024-04-23T02:30:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00201.warc.gz | 0.980622 | 809 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__51138999 | en | posted in NAS PENSACOLA 100TH on February 14, 2014
Long before a British monarch abdicated his throne to marry her and she became the Duchess of Windsor, Wallace Warfield Spencer lived in Pensacola, the wife of a naval aviator. One of her memories of that time was the sound of the bell that would toll when one of the training planes at the naval aeronautic station in Pensacola had crashed. “Whatever else we might be doing on our own account, our subconscious was always waiting for it to sound. Then, once it had sounded, the first frightening thought was ‘Has it sounded for me?’”
Unfortunately, accidents were a frequent occurrence in the early days at Pensacola given the fact that the science of aviation was in its infancy, airplanes were primitive in design, and the pilots learned to a certain extent by trial and error. The U.S. Navy’s first fatality occurred when Ensign William D. Billingsley crashed into the Chesapeake Bay on June 20, 1913, while flying from the aviation encampment at Greenbury Point, Maryland. After naval aviation operations shifted from that site to Pensacola, it was only a short time before Lieutenant (junior grade) James M. Murray lost his life in an aircraft crash, the first aviation fatality to occur at what became known as the “Cradle of Naval Aviation.”
A member of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Class of 1907, where the amiable midshipman’s smile was “the envy of all tooth powder advertisers” in the words of his classmates, Murray spent his first years following graduation at sea on armored cruisers. Like other pioneer aviators he was drawn to submarine duty before turning to flying, commanding one of the earliest boats to operate in the Navy, the A-2 (later named Adder), in the Asiatic Fleet.
Murray reported to Greenbury Point for flight training on July 30, 1913, and was among the complement of aviation personnel who boarded the battleship Mississippi (BB 23) in January 1914, and set course for Pensacola to establish the Navy’s first aeronautic station. On the afternoon of February 16, 1914, Murray took the controls of the D-1 flying boat and ascended from the waters of Pensacola Bay for a training flight. A short time later, Murray’s Naval Academy classmate, Lieutenant (junior grade) Patrick N.L. Bellinger taxied to shore following a flight of his own and heard yelling from shore asking if he had seen Murray’s airplane. Told where he was supposed to have been operating, Bellinger immediately took off and reached an altitude of about 100 feet heading towards Pensacola when he spotted the wreckage of the D-1 in the bay. Alighting on the water nearby, Bellinger spotted Murray floating on the surface and quickly maneuvered his airplane to a point where he could pull his fellow officer aboard. It was too late. Lieutenant (junior grade) James M. Murray, age 30, had drowned. “His death affected me very deeply,” Bellinger later wrote. “It also greatly affected our whole outfit. His was the first death at Pensacola and we had only been flying there two weeks.”
Out of respect for their comrade, no aircraft flew from Pensacola for the next two days, but then operations began again in earnest, with Bellinger destined to fly in combat, establish an altitude record, and perform successful catapult tests in the coming months. When the Navy adopted the designation “naval aviator,” Murray would posthumously be designated Naval Aviator Number 10. Bellinger was number 8, the danger of his professional calling evident in the fact that of the first ten naval aviators, half perished in aircraft accidents. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/forums/t/general-aviation-thread.13979/page-34 | 2023-10-02T01:29:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510942.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002001302-20231002031302-00395.warc.gz | 0.967959 | 378 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__239470743 | en | "Related to my previous post on C919, I'm wondering if this not another bargaining chips for CAAC with FAA for fastening the certification process for C919."
This's for me raise question that China try to bargain with US. Don't get me wrong, it's very understandable that any Civil Aviation Agency globally will scrutinized MAX before giving recertification to operate. However with most of other Agencies shown tendencies to give green lights, CAAC seems dragging on. Saying that they're not satisfied and what being done still not answering the main safety issues.
Related to my previous post on C919, I'm wondering if this not another bargaining chips for CAAC with FAA for fastening the certification process for C919. They know in the end, most of other International Civilian Air Authority still looking for FAA and it's European Counterpart assessment before they're taking their own. China will definitely need FAA help for C919 certification. It's just odd when they're adding more test need to be done for MAX, when other agencies already see the related data concerning recertification of MAX.
Yes it is.
Its not only about safety, but also about politics.
Indonesian airlines were for many years on the EASA-blacklist. That Garuda Indonesia was taken off from that list, was not only because of significant improvements, the removal coincidentally happened after Garuda ordered several A332 and A333.
Lion Air Group was only taken off from that list after they signed the biggest contract ever with Airbus (234 aircrafts). That was not a coincidence, Batavia Air was allowed to fly to Europe years before, because they already had the A320/321/333. End no, Batavia Air's aircraft maintenance was NOT better than from Lion Air Group. | aerospace | 1 |
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Beechcraft Queen Air C-GSFA On The Ice at Sandy Lake, 1976
Retired aircraft maintenance engineer Kurt Ariano recalls an interesting incident from the very early days of his career involving a successful emergency landing by “Flying Bandit” Ken Leishman.
Canadair CL-84 – A Canadian Design Odyssey Part 5: CX-84-1 No 401, The First Multirole Tilt-Wing for the Canadian Armed Forces
This instalment of Bill Upton’s serialized history of the CL-84 covers the first aircraft of the Canadian military contract.
Wooden Wings Over the Wilderness 6: The First Fokker Super Universals in Canada – G-SASK, The Most Famous One of Them All.
Flown by “Punch” Dickins on an epic McKee Trophy-winning trip over unmapped terrain, and stranded for an entire winter during the MacAlpine search: in these and more, G-CASK made history that ultimately helped Fokker sell aeroplanes. By Clark Seaborn
Historical Snapshot: A Very Short Photo Essay – Canada's Postwar Lancasters
Best remembered for the significant part they played in the RCAF contribution to RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, the Canadian-built Lancaster B.X also served in a number of interesting roles for nearly two decades beyond the end of hostilities. Terry Higgins uses captioned photos of a small number of those aircraft to illustrate how these roles developed. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.automate.org/companies/lockheed-martin-rms | 2023-03-28T01:53:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948756.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328011555-20230328041555-00570.warc.gz | 0.902158 | 139 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__247054255 | en | Lockheed Martin RMS
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https://andreasignotus.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/going-to-mars/ | 2021-07-26T05:27:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046152000.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20210726031942-20210726061942-00609.warc.gz | 0.927875 | 322 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__175906405 | en | I read on daily bases Antoine Cassar‘s blog. I like everything is in English … the others I can’t understand but I presume is beautiful, too. So, he found something very interesting that I will share with you after an avid research. NASA are inviting people tocraft own message to Mars wich will be recorded on ” a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere”. So, the green martians will not read your haiku. Out of the question. But you can connect to space, space exploration and science in general as Stephanie Renfrow states.
“Messages, which must be in the form of a haiku poem, will be voted on by the public; the top three most popular entries will be sent to Mars onboard the MAVEN spacecraft and will be prominently displayed on the MAVEN website. Messages must be in English.“The deadline for the submission of haikus for Mars is july 1st, public voting begins on messages on july 15th, public voting ends on july 29th, message contest winner announced on august 8th. The haiku you send MUST BE in 5-7-5 classical form. CLICK HERE FOR SUBMISION LINK TO MAVEN.
I like the idea, but as a former very active person, curently lazzy, I say I have plenty of time to write my messages … or at least one. Feel ree to send yours today if the afflatus hits you.
© Andreas Ignotus | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.mercuryjets.com/private-jet-doha-london/ | 2024-04-20T16:07:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00258.warc.gz | 0.888728 | 1,399 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__180299456 | en | Private Jet Charter Doha to London
Fly private from the culturally rich city of Doha to the historically iconic London and get a travel experience like no other. As you set off on your private flight from Doha, you’re not just choosing convenience; you’re embracing a lifestyle. Our private jet rental services are tailored to provide a serene travel environment, allowing you to relax or work in complete privacy and comfort.
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Embark on a luxurious journey from Doha’s dynamic and wealthy city to the sophisticated and historic London. Doha, known for its stunning modern skyline and cultural landmarks, offers an array of luxurious experiences, from upscale shopping to fine dining. With its rich history and modern cosmopolitan flair, London awaits landmarks like Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, and an array of high-end restaurants and boutiques. Traveling in the privacy of a private jet allows you to experience these cities’ offerings without compromising on luxury, comfort, or efficiency.
How Much Does a Private Jet Doha to London?
- Piston N/A;
- Turboprop N/A;
- Light jet N/A;
- Midsize jet: $80,900;
- Super midsize jet: $81,400;
- Heavy jet: $82,300;
- Ultra long range jet: $119,600.
Doha to London Private Charter Flight Time
Private flights between Doha and London typically range from 6 to 8 hours. Here are specific flight times for each aircraft category:
- Super midsize jets: Doha – London (Hamad International Airport – London Heathrow Airport), travel time is approximately 7:10 h (+1:30h for 1 fuel stop);
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For your private flights from Doha to London, it is advisable to consider super midsize, heavy, and ultra long range jets.
Super Midsize Jets
Super midsize jets offer more space, comfort, and longer range capabilities, making them suitable for transcontinental flights.
- Citation X: A high-performance super midsize jet known for its speed and range capabilities. It accommodates up to nine passengers and offers an extended range of approximately 3460 nautical miles. It features a spacious cabin with luxurious seating, a well-equipped galley, and ample storage space for luggage.
- Falcon 50EX: This jet is versatile and known for its long-range capabilities, accommodating up to nine passengers. It has an extended range of approximately 3400 nautical miles, a comfortable cabin with various seating configurations, a galley, a lavatory, and ample storage space.
- Challenger 300: Recognized for its range, cabin comfort, and overall performance, this jet typically accommodates up to nine passengers and offers an extended range of approximately 3500 nautical miles. It boasts a spacious and elegantly designed cabin with comfortable seating, a well-equipped galley, and generous storage space.
Heavy jets are top-tier for long-distance travel, offering the highest levels of luxury, space, and onboard amenities.
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Airports for Jet Charter Flights from Doha to London
When booking a private flight from Doha to London, the city is served by this airport:
- Hamad International Airport (DOH).
Here are popular airports that serve London:
- London Heathrow Airport (LHR);
- London City Airport (LCY);
- London Gatwick Airport (LGW).
Mercury Jets provides a seamless and luxurious flying experience from Doha to London. Contact us for an unparalleled private jet charter experience.
Are pets allowed on private jets from Doha to London?
Yes, pets are welcome on most private jets from Doha to London. Travel with your beloved pets in the cabin for a more enjoyable journey.
What are the luggage limitations for Doha to London private jet flights?
Luggage limitations depend on the aircraft, but generally, private jets offer generous luggage capacity. Discuss your needs when booking.
Can I charter a private jet from Doha to London for a day trip?
Certainly, our flexible scheduling accommodates day trips between Doha and London, providing an efficient solution for your travel needs.
Is catering provided on private jet flights from Doha to London?
Yes, we offer personalized catering services on our flights to ensure you enjoy high-quality meals suited to your preferences.
Can I fly directly from Doha to London on a private jet without stops?
Direct flights from Doha to London are commonly available, allowing for a smooth, uninterrupted travel experience. | aerospace | 1 |
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MOSCOW, June 8. /TASS/. Russia’s Flight Control Center has carried out a maneuver to increase the average altitude of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of the engines of a Progress MS-02 space freighter, Mission Control told TASS on Wednesday.
"The spacecraft’s engines worked during the scheduled period (239 seconds). As a result of the maneuver, the average altitude of the station’s flight orbit was increased by 800 meters to 403.4 km," Mission Control said.
The correction maneuver aims to achieve an orbit for the landing of a manned Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft and the subsequent launch of the manned Soyuz MS space vehicle, Mission Control said.
As was reported earlier, the landing of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is scheduled for June 18.
The launch of a Soyuz MS spacecraft, the first manned space vehicles of a new series, was postponed to July 7 from June 24. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/22/us/john-glenn-is-seeking-another-trip-in-space.html?src=pm | 2017-05-23T06:18:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607369.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523045144-20170523065144-00344.warc.gz | 0.975155 | 143 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__128875246 | en | NASA may be warming up to Senator John Glenn's dream of returning to space 35 years after he became the first American to orbit Earth.
Mr. Glenn, 75, an Ohio Democrat, and the agency are seriously talking about it, The Orlando Sentinel reported in its on-line edition on Friday.
Mr. Glenn circled the Earth three times during a Mercury mission in 1962 and has said he would like to make a second flight as part of a study on how space flight affects aging.
If Mr. Glenn returned to space, he would be the oldest person ever in orbit. For that to happen, NASA would have to change its policy against allowing civilians without military connections into space.Continue reading the main story | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/07/18/2017-15006/arms-sales-notification | 2018-03-20T06:53:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647299.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320052712-20180320072712-00474.warc.gz | 0.886298 | 1,828 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__206066520 | en | Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Department of Defense.
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.
Start Further Info
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathy Valadez, (703) 697-9217 or Pamela Young, (703) 697-9107; DSCA/DSA-RAN.
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This 36(b)(1) arms sales notification is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated July 21, 1996. The following is a copy of a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Transmittal 17-33 with attached Policy Justification and Sensitivity of Technology.
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Dated: July 13, 2017.
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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Transmittal No. 17-33
Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended
(i) Prospective Purchaser: The Government of India
(ii) Total Estimated Value:
|Major Defense Equipment *||$285.0 million|
(iii) Description and Quantity or Quantities of Articles or Services under Consideration for Purchase:
Major Defense Equipment (MDE):
One (1) C-17 Transport Aircraft
Four (4) Engines, Turbofan F-117-PW-100
Also included in the proposed sale are one (1) AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning System, one (1) AN/ALE-47 Countermeasures Dispensing System (CMDS), one (1) AN/APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Transponder, precision navigation equipment, spare and repair parts, maintenance, support and test equipment, publications and technical documentation, warranty, quality assurance, ferry support, U.S. Government and contractor engineering, logistics and technical support services, and other related elements of logistics and program support.
(iv) Military Department: Air Force (X7-D-SAE)
(v) Prior Related Cases, if any: IN-D-SAC—$4.12B, 29 Jun 2011
(vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, Offered, or Agreed to be Paid: None
(vii) Sensitivity of Technology Contained in the Defense Article or Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: See Attached Annex
(viii) Date Report Delivered to Congress: 26 JUN 2017
* As defined in Section 47(6) of the Arms Export Control Act.
Government of India—C-17 Transport Aircraft
The Government of India has requested the possible sale of one (1) C-17 transport aircraft with four (4) Turbofan F-117-PW-100 engines. The sale would also include one (1) AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning System, one (1) AN/ALE-47 Countermeasures Dispensing System (CMDS), one (1) AN/APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Transponder, precision navigation equipment, spare and repair parts, maintenance, support and test equipment, publications and technical documentation, warranty, Quality Assurance, ferry support, U.S. Government and contractor engineering, logistics and technical support services, and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated cost is $366.2 million.
This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to strengthen the U.S.-India relationship and to improve the security of an important partner which has been, and continues to be, an important force for economic progress and stability in South Asia.
The proposed sale will improve India's capability to meet current and future strategic airlift requirements. India lies in a region prone to natural disasters and will use the additional capability for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR). In addition, through this purchase India will be able to provide more rapid strategic combat airlift capabilities for its armed forces. India currently operates C-17 aircraft and will have no difficulty absorbing this aircraft into its armed forces.
The proposed sale will not alter the basic military balance in the region.
The principal contractor will be the Boeing Company, Chicago, IL. The purchaser typically requests offsets. Any offset agreement will be defined in negotiations between the purchaser and the contractor.
Implementation of this proposed sale will not require the assignment of any additional U.S. Government personnel or contractor representatives to India.
There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.
Transmittal No. 17-33
Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act
Item No. vii
(vii) Sensitivity of Technology:
1. The Boeing C-17A Globemaster III military airlift aircraft is the most flexible cargo aircraft to enter the U.S. Air Force fleet. The C-17 is capable of strategic delivery of up to 170,900 pounds of personnel and/or equipment to main operating bases or forward operating locations. The aircraft is also capable short field landings with a full cargo load. The aircraft can perform tactical airlift and airdrop missions as well as transport litters and ambulatory patients during aeromedical evacuation when required. A fully integrated electronic cockpit and advanced cargo delivery system allow a crew of three: Pilot, co-pilot, and loadmaster, to operate the aircraft on any type of mission.
2. The AN/AAR-47 is a small, lightweight, passive, electro-optic, threat warning device used to detect surface-to-air missiles fired at helicopters and low-flying fixed-wing aircraft and automatically provide countermeasures, as well as audio and visual-sector warning messages to the aircrew. The basic system consists of multiple Optical Sensor Converter (OSC) units, a Computer Processor (CP) and a Control Indicator (CI). The set of OSC units, which normally consists of four, is mounted on the aircraft exterior to provide omni-directional protection. The OSC detects the rocket plume of missiles and sends appropriate signals to the CP for processing. The CP analyzes the data from each OSC and automatically deploys the appropriate countermeasures. The CP also contains comprehensive Built-in-Test (BIT) circuitry. The CI displays the incoming direction of the threat, so that the pilot can take appropriate action. Hardware is UNCLASSIFIED. Software is SECRET. Technical data and documentation to be provided are UNCLASSIFIED.
3. The AN/ALE-47 Countermeasures Dispensing System (CMDS) is an integrated, threat-adaptive, software-programmable dispensing system capable of dispensing chaff, flares, and active radio frequency expendables. The threats countered by the CMDS include radar-directed anti-aircraft artillery (AAA), radar command-guided missiles, radar homing guided missiles, and infrared (IR) guided missiles. The system is internally mounted and may be operated as a stand-alone system or may be integrated with other on-board electronic warfare and avionics systems. The AN/ALE-47 uses threat data received over the aircraft interfaces to assess the threat situation and to determine a response. Expendable decoys tailored to the immediate aircraft and threat environment may be dispensed using one of four operational modes. The hardware, technical data, and documentation to be provide are UNCLASSIFIED.
4. The AN/APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Digital Transponder is an identification system designed for command and control. It enables military and civilian air traffic control interrogation systems to identify aircraft. The hardware, technical data, and documentation to be provided are UNCLASSIFIED.
5. If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge of the specific hardware and software elements, the information could be used Start Printed Page 32793to develop countermeasures or equivalent systems which might reduce weapon system effectiveness or be used in the development of a system with similar or advanced capabilities.
6. A determination has been made that the Government of India can provide substantially the same degree of protection for the sensitive technology being released as the U.S. Government. This proposed sale is necessary to the furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives outlined in the Policy Justification.
7. All defense articles and services listed in this transmittal are authorized for release and export to the Government of India.
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[FR Doc. 2017-15006 Filed 7-17-17; 8:45 am]
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Flight operations at Dublin airport have been temporarily suspended due to the confirmed sighting of a drone over the airfield, Ireland’s largest airport said on Thursday.
The flying of drones over Britain’s second-busiest airport, London’s Gatwick, sparked 36 hours of travel chaos last December while flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily grounded last week due to suspected drone activity.
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https://www.systratec.com/en/welcome-to-systratec/ | 2021-05-09T16:38:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989006.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20210509153220-20210509183220-00123.warc.gz | 0.886228 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__126999647 | en | In Systratec we design, manufacture, install and maintain weighing instruments for highly demanding applications: static and dynamic axle and wheel weighing scales, customised weighing platforms, scales for race cars and other competition vehicles, scales for aeroplanes, industrial scales and all types of associated equipment.
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The most advanced Weighing and Gravity Center Measurement Mobile System for the Aerospace Industry | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aviationcv.com/jobs/atlas-air-careers | 2019-04-26T17:06:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578841544.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426153423-20190426175423-00232.warc.gz | 0.90254 | 388 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__105157694 | en | Atlas Air Careers
Atlas Air is an airline based in New York. It operates as a cargo airline, passenger charter airline and it offers leasing services as well. The company provides an ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, Insurance) service to airlines, express operators, logistics companies and the U.S. Military. The airline was founded in 1992 and it started operations in 1993. In 5 years the airline managed to increase its fleet from 1 aircraft to 12 Boeing 747-400 Freighters. It was also the first airline in America to receive the Boeing 747-8 Freighter. In 15 years of the company‘s existence, it has managed to become one of the biggest cargo airlines in the world. The company has 8 hubs around the United States, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Their main base is in New York. Atlas Air has over 110 aircraft in its fleet and it serves 425 destinations in 119 countries all over the world. Joining Atlas Air is a career opportunity like no other – especially if you enjoy being a part of a much bigger plan – to deliver happiness to people’s doors. Career options are available for Pilots and Engineers on the ground.
Atlas Air bases
|Atlas Air bases|
|1.||Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport||United States|
|2.||Huntsville International Airport||United States|
|3.||John F. Kennedy International Airport||United States|
|4.||Los Angeles International Airport||United States|
|5.||Miami International Airport||United States|
|6.||Seattle International Airport||United States|
|7.||Chicago O'Hare International Airport||United States|
|8.||Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport||United States|
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https://focustaiwan.tw/business/201911270017 | 2020-07-05T17:36:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655887377.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20200705152852-20200705182852-00034.warc.gz | 0.904282 | 381 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__145217547 | en | EVA Air to launch direct flights to Phuket next year
Taipei, Nov. 27 (CNA) EVA Air, one of Taiwan's largest carriers, announced Wednesday that it will start operating direct flights to the Thai island of Phuket next year, making it the only airline to fly directly between Taiwan and the holiday hot spot.
Phuket is the largest island in Thailand, the airline noted, and a world-renowned tourist destination.
Currently, travelers making the trip between Taiwan and Phuket have to take a connecting flight. The new direct route will allow them to save at least six hours on transit stops out and back, according to the airline.
EVA Air will offer three round-trip flights per week on the route starting April 2, with the outbound flights departing from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11:05 a.m. and arriving at Phuket International Airport at 2:20 p.m.
The return flights will take off at 3:30 p.m. and arrive at Taoyuan at 9 p.m., according to the airline.
The new route means that EVA Air will be operating flights to 13 destinations in Southeast Asia, offering a total of 145 flights per week.
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https://energy.umd.edu/news/story/nasa-asks-universities-for-early-stage-innovation-tech-proposals | 2024-04-23T14:00:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818711.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423130552-20240423160552-00880.warc.gz | 0.889124 | 810 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__171996924 | en | NASA Asks Universities for Early Stage Innovation Tech Proposals
(reprinted from a NASA press release)
NASA is seeking innovative, early-stage space technology proposals from accredited U.S. universities that will enable NASA's future missions and America's leadership in space.
Proposals are sought for science instruments, cryogenic propellant storage for long-duration space exploration, optical coatings for astrophysical pursuits, oxygen recovery for life support systems, and to improve our understanding of and protection from near-Earth asteroids.
Each of these space technology areas requires dramatic improvements over existing capabilities. New early stage, or low technology readiness-level, technologies could mature into tools that solve the hard challenges facing NASA's future scientific and human spaceflight missions. Researchers should propose unique, transformational space technologies that address specific topics found in this solicitation.
"Space technology is the underpinning of all of NASA's future missions," said Michael Gazarik, NASA's associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington. "NASA's collaboration with the National Research Council and the agency's recent Strategic Space Technology Investment Plan have helped us identify areas where new, cross-cutting space technologies are needed to enable our future missions. Now we're reaching out to American universities to tap into the nation's best and brightest minds to help solve these tough technology problems."
This solicitation requests proposals on five topic areas. The first topic area seeks new instrument technologies for the exploration of planetary bodies within our solar system. Innovative technology advances are needed to support the instruments that scientists will need to better understand the history, climates, evidence of past life and future potential habitability of planets and moons within the solar system.
Spaceflight architectures for future human space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit will require technologies and capabilities not available today, such as long duration storage of cryogenic propellants in a zero gravity environment. Under a second topic area for this solicitation, NASA is particularly interested in proposals regarding how to mature fundamental experimental and computational solutions to address the challenges of cryogenic storage of liquid hydrogen.
Through a third topic area for this solicitation, NASA is seeking advances in optics technologies to enable the challenging science measurements that may contribute to the understanding of the first moments of the universe, the characterization of galaxy evolution over time and the characterization of newly found exoplanets.
As future exploration missions extend beyond low-Earth orbit, vehicles and extraterrestrial surface habitats housing astronauts will need to be highly reliable and self-sufficient; the opportunity for resupply of consumables diminishes the farther from home you go. The fourth topic area of this solicitation seeks novel technologies that will help close the atmosphere revitalization loop aboard spaceships and surface habitats during long duration space missions. New technologies must have the potential to significantly increase the oxygen recovery rate beyond the current state of the art.
Under a final topic area, NASA is seeking proposals for new technologies to better understand and protect our planet from near-Earth asteroids. Early stage technologies that will help with characterizing, understanding, and planning how to mitigate the threat of near-Earth asteroids are of great interest. These efforts are important for the sustainability and future of our home planet.
NASA expects to make approximately 10 awards this fall, based on the merit of proposals received. Each award will be made for one year with an additional year of research possible. The typical annual award value is expected to be approximately $250,000. Second-year funding will be contingent on the availability of appropriated funds and technical progress. Only accredited U.S. universities may submit proposals to this solicitation. Notices of intent are due by April 29 with proposals due May 21.
To view the Early Stage Innovation NASA Research Announcement and information for submitting proposals, visit:
The solicitation is a part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA's future missions. For more information about NASA's investment in space technology, visit:
Published April 12, 2013 | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/08/strong-winds-in-cook-islands-force-two-air-new-zealand-flight-back-to-auckland.html | 2021-09-28T19:33:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780060882.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20210928184203-20210928214203-00478.warc.gz | 0.963837 | 215 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__228479121 | en | Passengers heading to Rarotonga on Friday have had their holidays slightly shortened after strong winds at the island destination forced two Air New Zealand flights to turn back to Auckland just moments before beginning the landing process.
Flight NZ940 left Auckland at 8.55am on Friday, but was unable to land so returned to New Zealand. The same thing happened to flight NZ942 which left Auckland at 11.35am but returned a few hours later for the same reason.
"Flights NZ940 and NZ942 Auckland - Rarotonga returned to Auckland this morning due to the bad weather conditions causing crosswinds in Rarotonga," Air NZ Chief Customer & Sales Officer Leanne Geraghty told Newshub.
"We look forward to delivering our customers to the warm beaches of the Cook Islands soon."
Air NZ put customers on NZ940 onto a flight on Saturday morning, before the passengers on NZ942 were flown on Sunday morning.
Accommodation was provided to those who were transiting in Auckland before their next flight. | aerospace | 1 |
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