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https://nigerianflightdeck.com/safety-naape-charges-ncaa-to-abolish-sector-payment-monitor-airlines-technical-staff/ | 2023-02-04T09:12:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500095.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204075436-20230204105436-00362.warc.gz | 0.960792 | 970 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__306206657 | en | - Group fumes as 30 safety inspectors resign over non-implementation of NCAA’s CoS
THE National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) has charged the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to put adequate measures in place to stop sector payment of pilots by airlines and other aircraft operators stressing that it is perceived to have grave safety implications.
This is just as the group expressed dismay at the non-implementation of the revised 2016 Conditions of Service (CoS) of the NCAA stating that no fewer than 30 safety inspectors have sought greener pastures elsewhere after resigning from the regulatory agency
NAAPE made these observations in a communiqué issued at the end of National Delegates Conference which held at Hotel Interconnect, Gwarinpa, Abuja where they charged the NCAA to intensify inspection on airlines as several operators do not have enough qualified and experienced technical personnel, another safety concern.
The pilots and engineers association in its resolution explained that sector payment to pilots is calculated based on the number of successful flights a pilot performs on daily basis stressing that this affects the pilot’s pay when the aircraft are unserviceable, if there is inclement weather and the likes which will entice them to fly.
The communiqué read, “Several airlines and aircraft operators are in the habit of paying their pilots based on the sector payment methodology. Sector payment to pilots, which is calculated based on the number of successful flights a pilot performs on daily basis, has been perceived to have very grave safety implications.
“ For the purpose of earning more money, pilots could be negatively induced to attempt flying when an aircraft is unserviceable, when they are not medically fit to fly, when they are under intense pressure, when there are unfavourable weather conditions that may endanger flight, and to fly beyond the maximum hours stipulated by Nig.CARs 18.104.22.168.
“In the interest of safety, NAAPE advises the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority to put adequate measures in place to stop sector payment of pilots by airlines and other aircraft operators.
On the call for monitoring airlines to ensure there are adequate technical personnel, NAAPE said this move is safety inclined and aimed at nipping this practice at the bud.
The communiqué read,” There are reports that several aircraft operators do not have sufficient number of qualified and experienced technical personnel to operate and maintain their aircraft fleets. Consequently, the available technical personnel are over-worked, with the safety implication that several errors arising from fatigue could set in.
“NAAPE is concerned about this development, and hereby strongly advice the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to intensify its surveillance on operators to ensure that airlines and aircraft operators employ and retain sufficient number of qualified Pilots and Engineers to operate and maintain their aircraft fleets without compromising safety.
Also NAAPE condemned the wrong designation of holders of Aircraft Maintenance Engineer License (AMEL) as “Technicians” by some airlines and maintenance organizations.
According to the association, the AMEL is issued by NCAA based on the Nig.CARs and so any designation other than an engineer that is given to these license holders would be perceived as a violation of the Nig.CARs.
NAAPE said it finds the practice unacceptable and demeaning, and therefore calls upon all employers of aircraft engineers to be guided accordingly.
NAAPE also expressed dismay that the revised Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Staff Condition of Service (CoS) since 2016 has not been approved by all concerned agencies till date.
It said the agency’s personnel are still being paid based on 2013 Staff Condition of Service causing the resignation of at least thirty (30) qualified and seasoned Aviation Safety Inspectors from the regulatory agency in search of greener pastures.
NAAPE maintained,“NAAPE frowns with dismay that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Staff Condition of Service (CoS) that was revised since 2016 has not been approved by all concerned agencies till date.
“The agency’s staffs are still being paid based on 2013 Staff Condition of Service. In recent years, nearly thirty (30) qualified and seasoned Aviation Safety Inspectors have resigned from the Regulatory agency and sought employment with airlines and other international organizations due to their poor remuneration that is not consistent with their education and experience.
“This poor remuneration of the Inspectors poses serious threats on safety as there are no longer sufficient qualified Inspectors to carry out safety oversight on operators, and the remaining Inspectors who are over-worked and clearly de-motivated would most likely fail to satisfactorily perform their job functions which are very critical to the sustenance of safety within the Nigerian aviation industry. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.tefter.io/bookmarks/82596/readable | 2019-11-17T11:19:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668910.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20191117091944-20191117115944-00375.warc.gz | 0.974691 | 3,234 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__1341714 | en | Perhaps the single most complex, insidious, and long-lasting mechanical problem in the history of commercial aviation was the mysterious rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s. Although it had long been rumoured to exist, the defect was suddenly thrust into the spotlight when United Airlines flight 585 crashed on approach to Colorado Springs on the third of March, 1991, killing all 25 people on board. The crash resulted in the longest investigation in NTSB history, years of arduous litigation, and a battle with Boeing over the safety of its most popular plane. Flight 585 proved to be hardly alone; over the subsequent years, more planes crashed due to the same rudder defect, including USAir flight 427, which killed 132 people when it suddenly rolled over and crashed on approach to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1994. As it turned out, these were but two of the most serious of hundreds of incidents involving the rudder on the Boeing 737. This is the story of the origin of the defect, its consequences, and Boeing’s efforts to cover it up. Images sourced from The Seattle Times, the NTSB, Boeing, Tails Through Time, the Colorado Springs Gazette, The Times of India, Wikipedia, TribLIVE, The Flight 427 Air Disaster Support League, and Forbes. Video clips courtesy of Cineflix and the Weather Channel. Special thanks to the Seattle Times for its series of articles on the subject in 1996, which brought to light many of the details referenced here.
The long and complex story begins with the original design of the Boeing 737 in the 1960s. Unlike other Boeing aircraft, the 737 had only one rudder and only one Power Control Unit (PCU), a device which translates pilot inputs into motion of the rudder. This gave it less redundancy than other models, but Boeing got the design certified by showing that a failure of the PCU was so unlikely that it was a non-issue. Nevertheless, reports of mostly minor uncommanded rudder deflections on the 737 began almost immediately. Boeing blamed the yaw damper, a device that constantly adjusts the rudder a few degrees in either direction to counteract an aircraft’s natural tendency to stray off a straight course. These issues were frequently “fixed” by replacing or repairing parts of the yaw damper.
Pilots continued to report problems with the rudder on the 737, however. No one was keeping track, but there are estimated to be several hundred reported incidents, including some that were very serious. Among these were four reported in-flight upsets on Frontier Airlines 737s, including two on the same airplane in 1973. In the two latter cases, both over the Dakotas, flight attendants had been injured by the sudden rolling movement, but the pilots were able to regain control. Boeing again responded by modifying the yaw damper; no attention was paid to the PCU, despite the fact that the yaw damper was limited from moving the rudder far enough to cause the sort of major upsets reported by the Frontier crews.
It is now known that the problem was probably with the PCU all along. To understand the crashes that occurred later, it is first necessary to summarize the specific vulnerability that was causing these incidents. The most important component of the PCU is a small device called the dual servo valve, shown in the above diagram from the Seattle Times. In simple terms, the valve consists of an inner and outer slide which, when lined up in different ways, can direct the flow of hydraulic fluid to push the rudder left or right. (A more detailed explanation can be seen in the diagram.) A spring and an end cap are supposed to prevent the slides from moving too far.
However, if the spring and the end cap were slightly misaligned, the slides could extend beyond their design limit. This would cause a “rudder hardover,” where the rudder suddenly moves to its maximum deflection, resulting in extremely serious control problems. But this was only one part of the issue. When the slides in the dual servo valve extended too far, it would also misalign the openings on the outer slide and the valve body, allowing hydraulic fluid to move into the wrong channels and causing a rare phenomenon called “rudder reversal.” Essentially, the misaligned valve would allow hydraulic pressure intended to push the rudder in one direction to be channeled into a part of the actuator that would push the rudder in the opposite direction. In a rudder reversal, the effects of the rudder pedals would be reversed; trying to turn the rudder left would in fact turn it right, and vice versa. Because a rudder reversal could only happen when the slides were extended too far, it could only happen at the same time as a rudder hardover, right when pilots need to react quickly to counter the sudden roll.
On the third of March 1991, this hidden flaw turned deadly for the first time. United Airlines flight 585, a Boeing 737, took off from Denver, Colorado with 20 passengers and 5 crew members on board for a short 23-minute hop to Colorado Springs. As the plane approached Colorado Springs, all appeared normal. Suddenly, the plane rolled hard to the right and dived toward the ground. The pilots fought to save their plane, but they didn’t have enough time or altitude, and flight 585 nosedived into a park in the Colorado Springs suburb of Security-Widefield, killing all 25 people on board. The plane came in so low that witnesses saw terrified passengers inside, and the explosion shattered apartment windows in a nearby apartment complex.
Witnesses and emergency services rushed to the scene, but soon realized that no one could possibly have survived. The wreckage had been thrust into a 10-foot-deep crater and crumpled like an accordion; there was virtually nothing at the site that was recognizable as having been part of a plane. Investigators faced an enormous challenge, but they did soon cast their suspicions on the PCU. However, the yaw damper, which was an early suspect, had been compressed to one tenth of its original size and could not be examined. The servo valve was also heavily damaged, but investigators wanted to test it anyway, so they took it to the manufacturer for analysis.
The remains of the valve were taken from the United Airlines headquarters to the headquarters of Parker Bertea, the company that designed and built the valve, in Irvine, California. Investigators discovered upon their arrival that someone had made off with the spring and end cap, but at the time they did not know the significance of this act. The NTSB and Parker Bertea replaced the spring, the end cap, and several other parts that were ruined in the crash and began running tests on the valve. Nothing abnormal was found. Boeing, which had packed the valve for shipping, did not explain why it kept the spring and the end cap. It instead tried to steer the NTSB toward a conclusion that the crash was caused by a wind rotor, a phenomenon similar to a sideways tornado that could sometimes be found along the Rocky Mountains. The NTSB did not buy the theory, but it also could not find any evidence that the dual servo valve had failed. Then, in 1993, the captain of a United Airlines flight alerted maintenance to apparent problems with the plane’s rudder while on the tarmac in Chicago, and the dual servo valve was found to be faulty. But investigators were unable to prove that this same malfunction had happened on flight 585, and the investigation ended without determining a probable cause.
Three more significant incidents possibly involving this malfunction occurred in 1994. In April of that year, a Continental Airlines Boeing 737 suddenly rolled hard to the right while flying near Honduras. The pilots struggled against the roll for 18 minutes before making a successful emergency landing. When Boeing got wind of the incident, it blamed it on the yaw damper, even though it was demonstrated that the yaw damper couldn’t cause a roll as severe or long-lasting as the one the pilots of the Continental Airlines plane experienced. In a report acquired by the Seattle Times, the flight’s captain, Ray Miller, wrote: “I have been told by my company . . . that the FAA and Boeing (were) aware of the problems with the spurious rudder inputs but considered them to be more of a nuisance problem than a flight safety issue. I was informed, that so far as everyone was concerned, the rudder hardovers were a problem but that the `industry' felt the losses would be in the acceptable range. I was being mollified into thinking the incident did not happen, and for the `greater good' it would be best not to pursue the matter. In other words I am expendable as are the passengers I am responsible for, because for liability reasons the FAA, Boeing et al cannot retroactively redesign the rudder mechanisms to improve their reliability."
In August 1994, a Sahara India Airlines Boeing 737 conducting training approaches at New Delhi airport suddenly rolled over and crashed after a touch-and-go takeoff, striking an Ilyushin aircraft that was parked on the tarmac. All four crew members were killed, as well as five people working on the Ilyushin. Indian investigators said that the trainee pilot had pressed the wrong rudder pedal while responding to a simulated engine failure, but American investigators also found that the spring and end cap on the servo valve were non-standard; they had actually had their original serial numbers scrubbed off and replaced with new ones. Tests on the unusual servo valve found that it would sometimes reverse, but the crash was not officially blamed on a PCU malfunction despite this evidence.
Finally, in September 1994, the series of events took a new, disturbing turn. USAir flight 427, a Boeing 737 carrying 127 passengers and 5 crew from Chicago, Illinois to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was on final approach when it suddenly rolled violently to the left. The pilots, caught by surprise, fought to bring the wings level, but due to the rudder reversal, they were actually steering their plane into the ground. It entered a vertical dive straight toward the ground, spinning around like a top. The captain managed to make a radio call to air traffic control, exclaiming, “Four two seven, emergency!” He accidentally left the radio on, broadcasting the final seconds of the flight into the control tower, until the plane slammed into a wooded ravine, killing all 132 people on board.
This time, NTSB investigators suspected that the dual servo valve was responsible and they wanted to prove it. They ensured that the device was carefully preserved and was not tampered with, but again, they couldn’t test it without replacing some parts. The tests were inconclusive. However, metal particulate matter was discovered in the hydraulic fluid, which could have caused the valve to jam in the rudder hardover position. Boeing tried to dismiss this claim by showing that a metal particle jammed inside the valve would leave scratch marks when the valve moved; such scratch marks were not present on the valve from USAir flight 427. The NTSB was not convinced, and investigators believed that smaller particles in large concentrations, or fewer small particles in low temperatures, could cause a jam without leaving a mark. They also were able to demonstrate that cooling the valve to -40˚C and commanding it to pump hot hydraulic fluid could cause it to jam, but could not explain how such a large temperature differential could occur in flight. However, they did also discover that one in five Boeing 737s had much more particulate matter in their hydraulic fluid than recommended, and that the outer slide of the dual servo valve could jam for long periods without being noticed, making the otherwise rare simultaneous jam of the inner and outer slides much more probable.
While the USAir investigation was ongoing, more incidents continued to happen. In June 1996, Eastwind Airlines flight 517, a Boeing 737 carrying 53 passengers and crew from Trenton, New Jersey to Richmond, Virginia rolled sharply to the right on landing. The pilots applied full left ailerons to right the plane, but reported that the rudder pedals were unresponsive, indicating that a jam had taken place. The captain held the plane in a precarious sort of sideways flight for thirty seconds. After this harrowing half-minute, the plane leveled itself, and the pilots landed the plane. One flight attendant was injured, but a catastrophic accident had been avoided.
After the Eastwind incident, Boeing took the captain of that flight on a test run in which they simulated a yaw damper failure. The result did not at all resemble what the Eastwind pilot had actually encountered. Boeing’s narrative was further undermined when tests of an alternative theory for the USAir crash failed to support their hypothesis. Instead, Boeing tried to claim that flight 427 crashed because a pilot had a seizure and depressed the rudder. NTSB investigators dismissed this as ridiculous. Now with all the evidence they needed thanks to the additional information provided by having an intact aircraft and living pilot after the Eastwind Airlines incident, they were ready to blame Boeing’s PCU valve. The NTSB report recommended that the valve be redesigned, and the Federal Aviation Administration mandated that the changes be implemented by November 2002. Since then, no 737s have crashed due to rudder hardover or rudder reversal.
Boeing had no choice but to carry out the changes, but the company never stopped trying to deflect blame. While the investigation was ongoing, it adopted a philosophy of trying to avoid paying out damages to families of crews because this could be legally interpreted as an admission of responsibility. It had tampered with the PCU from the Colorado Springs crash and repeatedly tried to misdirect the investigation with “alternative” theories. It is widely suspected that Boeing knew about the problems with the PCU for decades but had done nothing, despite the hundreds of reported incidents. Because no one was collecting all the accounts of rudder deflections, it was likely that no one except Boeing realized how common they were. It was not until people started dying in crashes that enough scrutiny was placed on the 737 to uncover this history of ignoring the problem.
Another lesson to come from this sorry series of events is the paramount importance of finding the cause of every disaster. Families of victims believe that if the investigation into the crash of United flight 585 had been conducted properly, the tragedy of USAir flight 427 never would have happened. And there are other crashes that might be connected to the same failure—some still argue that rudder hardover caused the 1992 crash of Copa Airlines flight 201 in Panama, ruled to be pilot error in response to a malfunctioning instrument; and the 1997 crash of Silkair flight 185 in Indonesia, ruled by the NTSB to be pilot suicide, but determined to be rudder hardover by its Indonesian counterpart.
The crashes also highlighted the vulnerability of the NTSB to corporate meddling. In 1996, According to the Seattle Times, the safety board had only 90 employees and relied on manufacturers to provide technical expertise in cases like the United 585 and USAir 427 crashes, which made it much harder to investigate cases where the manufacturer knew that it was responsible. Boeing’s obfuscation at every turn was pure corporate expediency: fixing the problem would require a massive recall costing hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention millions more in compensation that would have to be paid out if Boeing admitted responsibility. Even when the flaw began to result in deadly crashes, Boeing stuck by this policy. Had the failure been easier to detect and prove, they might not have been able to get away with it, but—thanks in part to Boeing’s muddying of the waters—they never faced the massive backlash that they should have received. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.celebnetworthpost.com/laurel-clark | 2022-06-26T03:09:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103036363.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626010644-20220626040644-00552.warc.gz | 0.958346 | 634 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__58923864 | en | |Birth Day:||March 10, 1961|
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She studied zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before earning a medical degree.
During medical school, Clark did active duty training with the Diving Medicine Department at the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit in March 1987. After completing medical school, she underwent postgraduate medical education in pediatrics from 1987 to 1988 at the National Naval Medical Center. The following year she completed Navy undersea medical officer training at the Naval Undersea Medical Institute in Groton, Connecticut, and diving medical officer training at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida. Clark was designated a Radiation Health Officer and Undersea Medical Officer. She was then assigned as the Submarine Squadron 14 Medical Department Head in Holy Loch, Scotland. During that assignment, she dove with Navy divers and Naval Special Warfare Unit Two SEALs, and performed many medical evacuations from US submarines. After two years of operational experience she was designated as a Naval Submarine Medical Officer and Diving Medical Officer.
She is survived by her husband, fellow NASA flight surgeon Dr. Jonathan Clark (who was part of an official NASA panel that prepared the final 400-page report about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), and son, Iain, who was born in 1996.
Selected by NASA in April 1996, Clark reported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in August 1996. After completing two years of training and evaluation, she was qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. From July 1997 to August 2000 Clark worked in the Astronaut Office Payloads/Habitability Branch. Clark flew aboard STS-107, logging 15 days, 22 hours and 21 minutes in space.
STS-107 Columbia – The 16-day flight was a dedicated science and research mission. Working 24 hours a day, in two alternating shifts, the crew successfully conducted approximately 80 experiments. Clark's bioscience experiments included gardening in space, as she discussed only days before her death in an interview with Milwaukee media near her Wisconsin hometown. The STS-107 mission ended abruptly on February 1, 2003, when Columbia disintegrated and her crew perished during re-entry, 16 minutes before scheduled landing.
Currently, Laurel Clark is 61 years, 3 months and 16 days old. Laurel Clark will celebrate 62nd birthday on a Friday 10th of March 2023.
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https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/06/24/2021-13359/commercial-space-transportation-advisory-committee-charter-renewal | 2021-09-27T20:45:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780058467.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210927181724-20210927211724-00634.warc.gz | 0.8615 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__139520583 | en | Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation (DOT).
Announcement of renewal of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) charter.
FAA announces the renewal of the COMSTAC charter, a Federal Advisory Committee that provides information, advice, and recommendations to DOT and the FAA on the critical matters facing the U.S. commercial space transportation industry. This renewal will take effect the day of publication of this announcement, and will expire after 2 years.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James A. Hatt, COMSTAC Designated Federal Officer, FAA, Commercial Space Transportation, 800 Independence Avenue SW, Rm. 331, Washington, DC 20591, telephone (202) 267-7635, email [email protected].
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Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), FAA is giving notice of the renewal of the COMSTAC charter. The primary goals of COMSTAC are to: Evaluate economic, technological, and institutional developments relating to the U.S. commercial space transportation industry; provide a forum for the discussion of issues involving the relationship between industry activities and government requirements; in order to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary on issues and approaches for Federal policies and programs regarding the industry. COMSTAC membership consists of senior executives from the commercial space transportation industry; representatives from the satellite industry, both manufacturers and users; state and local government officials; representatives from firms providing insurance, financial investment and legal services for commercial space activities; and representatives from academia, space advocacy organizations, and industry associations. Complete information regarding COMSTAC is available on the FAA website at: http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/advisory_committee/.
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Signed in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2021.
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg,
Secretary of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 2021-13359 Filed 6-23-21; 8:45 am]
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http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10002020-21.html | 2014-03-14T03:42:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394678683789/warc/CC-MAIN-20140313024443-00080-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931675 | 89 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__96516340 | en | A view of the other side of the mockup 787 crew quarters, where six crew can rest during flight, as seen at the Dreamliner Gallery, in Everett, Wash., where Boeing shows customers the different options they can choose for their 787s.
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https://zitaaviation.com/careers/ | 2021-07-30T07:50:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153934.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20210730060435-20210730090435-00297.warc.gz | 0.886187 | 174 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__45452860 | en | Demand for Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers in both the Airline and MRO Industries is spiraling with figures showing that a number of more than 500,000 professionals will be required in the next 20 years. Obtaining a worldwide recognized EASA Licence will provide you with a wealth of employment opportunities in the global aviation industry.
“ As global economies expand and airlines take delivery of tens of thousands of new commercial jetliners over the next 20 years, there is extraordinary demand for people to fly and maintain these airplanes. To meet this tremendous growth, the 2016 Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook forecasts that between now and 2035, the aviation industry will need to supply more than two million new aviation personnel—617,000 commercial airline pilots, 679,000 maintenance technicians, and 814,000 cabin crew.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latecoere_225 | 2017-08-20T12:20:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886106465.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820112115-20170820132115-00452.warc.gz | 0.861991 | 1,208 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__219333241 | en | |Role||Microlight amphibious flying boat|
|Manufacturer||Latécoère (La societe industrielle d'aviation Latécoère, SILAT)|
|First flight||18 July 1984|
Design and development
Before World War II Latécoère was a prolific aircraft manufacturer, particularly known for large flying boats. Post-war they produced many projects but no new designs were built and flown for almost 40 years. By the mid-1950s they had diversified, with a wide range of technical products, many with their own Latécoère type number. Some of these numbers duplicated those of earlier aircraft, for example the Latécoère 300 was an early 1930s flying boat but a 1960s high voltage circuit breaker. Just one of their diversifications produced an aircraft; the Latécoère 225 ultralight shares its number with a post-war four engine bomber project.
The Latécoère 225, or Latécoère Laté 225 is an unusual aircraft in many ways, a low powered, single seat microlight amphibian of swept wing, canard, pusher, pod and boom configuration. Design was under way by 1983 and the unflown aircraft appeared at the Hanover and Cannes airshows of 1984. The first flight followed that July.
The Laté 225's airframe is of composite construction. Its high wing is swept at 13° and has constant chord. There are long chord end plate fins on the wing tips, rounded at the front but increasing in depth and with a vertical trailing edge that projects aft of the wing. The lower trailing edge of these fins is diagonally hinged to provide roll control. The wing is mounted on a boom which mounts the pusher engine at its rear end and reaches forward beyond the nose, where it carries an unswept, rectangular canard. This has an elevator for pitch control.
The flat sided pod fuselage is attached to the underside of the boom, with a glazed, single seat cabin forming the blunt nose. An inset rudder at the rear provides roll control. A single lift strut on each side braces the wing to the mid-lower fuselage. The underside of the pod is formed into a single step hull, equipped with a water rudder. The Laté 225 has an unusual tricycle undercarriage; the nosewheel retracts conventionally but the mainwheels, housed in fairings and fuselage mounted on cantilever legs, hinge upwards for landings on water, when they act as lateral stabilisers.
The Laté 225 was originally powered by an 18 kW, (24 hp) flat-twin two stroke engine but this was soon replaced by a 20 kW (30 hp) KFM 107er. It was undergoing tests in early 1985 but its subsequent career was either short or mostly unrecorded. At some point the design was acquired by SERLAG, who renamed it the SERLAG 225EX.
Aircraft on display
- Crew: 1
- Length: 4.95 m (16 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 8.03 m (26 ft 4 in) Canard span 2.90 m (9 ft 6 in)
- Height: 2.15 m (7 ft 1 in)
- Wing area: 11.85 m2 (127.6 sq ft) wing alone; canard area 1.85 m² (20 sq ft)
- Aspect ratio: 5.4
- Empty weight: 127 kg (280 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 258 kg (569 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 23 L (6.1 US gal; 5.1 Imp gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × JPX PUL 425 twin cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled two-stroke, 18 kW (24 hp) at 4,500 rpm
- Propellers: 2-bladed
- Maximum speed: 120 km/h (75 mph; 65 kn)
- Cruise speed: 85 km/h (53 mph; 46 kn) economic
- Stall speed: 45 km/h (28 mph; 24 kn)
- Rate of climb: 2.7 m/s (530 ft/min) maximum at sea level
- Wing loading: 18.8 kg/m2 (3.9 lb/sq ft) maximum
- Power/mass: 6.9 W/kg (0.042 hp/lb) maximum at MTOW
- Take-off distance on grass: 80 m (262 ft
- Take-off distance on water: 150 m (492 ft)
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- Chillon, Jacques. Fox Papa: Registre des avions Français amateur (2009 ed.). Brive: Ver Luisant. p. 220. ISBN 9782355510663.
- Ogden, Bob (2009). Aviation Museums and Collections of Mainland Europe. Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. pp. 140–1. ISBN 978-0-85130-418-2. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.economist.com/gulliver/2008/04/25/embarrassment-for-the-faa | 2021-10-19T10:06:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585246.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019074128-20211019104128-00106.warc.gz | 0.961169 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__191383133 | en | ERRORS made by air-traffic controllers in Texas have been covered up by America’s Federal Aviation Administration. It seems that FAA managers at the Dallas-Fort Worth Terminal Approach Control misclassifed mistakes by controllers as pilot errors or non-events. So after the controllers had allowed planes to fly too close together, the officials instead blamed the pilots. The reasons are believed to be connected to the FAA's bonus system, which is now being re-evaluated. Two people have been fired.
But before the FAA-bashing begins in earnest, it's worth reading the International Herald Tribune's piece on the regulator. It notes that “U.S. air accident rates are the lowest in the world” and says that
regulators elsewhere say they still view the United States as the global standard bearer when it comes to rules for air safety and regulatory compliance. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.pilotspost.com/arn0000505 | 2017-07-22T04:36:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423901.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170722042522-20170722062522-00166.warc.gz | 0.93266 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__16385265 | en | SAAF MUSEUM OPEN DAY 5 APRIL 2014
By Willie Bodenstein
The SAAF (South African Air Force) Museum whose motto is "Custodia Traditiones" (Custodian of traditions) holds a fly day on the first Saturday of every month.
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• To collect, preserve, restore and exhibit articles and records pertaining to the heritage and traditions of the SAAF and military aviation associated therewith.
• To undertake detailed research into and to accumulate and disseminate information and knowledge relating to the history and traditions of the SAAF.
• To cultivate an interest and educate the general public, particularly the youth, in military aviation.
The number and type of aircraft flown depends on serviceability and on most fly days members of the Defence Force Parachutist also display their skills.
North American Texan (Harvard)
It was not until 14 May 1973 that the Chief of the SA Defence Force gave approval in principal for its formation following the tireless efforts of 24 Squadron wartime veteran and author Col Peter M.J. McGregor. On 26 October 1973 official Government approval was obtained through the offices of the Minister of Defence, the Honourable P.W. Botha which meant that official efforts to preserve South Africa's military aviation heritage could now begin.
Recently completed open hangar housing various Mriage III, F1, Cheetah and Impala examples
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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-electric-planes | 2021-04-14T11:15:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038077810.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20210414095300-20210414125300-00246.warc.gz | 0.961081 | 1,232 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__129122363 | en | The aviation industry has high hopes for electric planes. Last year, 859 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) was produced by flights. This accounts for around two per cent of all human-created carbon emissions and aviation is responsible for 12 per cent of all transport-produced CO2.
The majority of CO2 produced by planes – around 80 per cent, according to the Air Transport Action Group's figures – comes from flights that are longer than 1,500 kilometres. Unless there's a radical overhaul of the aviation industry, there are few ways to drastically reduce the CO2 emitted by long-haul flights.
But shorter flights are in prime position for a CO2 emissions cut. Enter electric planes. Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Boeing are all involved in the development of prototype electric and hybrid electric planes and both the airliners EasyJet and JetBlue are supporting the creation of the new aircraft.
Not only could electric planes reduce carbon emissions from flights, they also promise to reduce noise pollution, says Frank Anton, the head of electric aircraft at Siemens. The company is working with Airbus and Rolls-Royce to develop a hybrid-electric plane – involving both electric motors and batteries. "There are enough reasons to change the architecture of a plane towards distributed electric propulsion and using hybrid electric," Anton explains. Startups Zunum Aero, Wright Electric and Eviation are all developing their own electric planes.
Depending on the type of plane developed – it's size, weight, and the number of passengers it can carry – Anton predicts it is possible to reduce fuel consumption by 25 per cent. He says hybrid-electric planes will be able to use their new systems at take-off and landing and when needed on longer-haul flights use traditional aviation fuel. Zunum Aero predicts its electric propulsion system can cut emissions by 80 per cent.
But the planes are nowhere near ready to take flight – let alone carry passengers on a commercial basis. Omer Bar-Yohay, the CEO of Eviation, says the company plans to have a flying prototype of its nine-person passenger plane ready for the 2019 airshow. In a move that's "aggressive but not impossible", he says the company will attempt to get the plane certified with air authorities for 2021. Zunum claims it will have a 12-seater hybrid electric plane ready for 2022 and a 50-seater plane prepared by 2027. Airbus, Siemens and Rolls-Royce's test plane, the E-Fan X, is planned to have space for 100 people and its demonstrator plane could fly as soon as 2020.
A new era of supersonic flight is almost here. But nobody can agree on the right speed
The complexity of developing batteries powerful enough but light enough means smaller, personal flying cars are further off still and the aviation industry remains hopeful that hybrid planes will be able to carry more people over longer distances while significantly reducing carbon emissions.
Like electric flying cars, which are being touted as short-hope taxis in the sky, hybrid electric planes will also do most of their flying over small distances. "The majority of air traffic has consolidated to a very small number of large hubs," says Ashish Kumar, the CEO of Zunum. The company's first 12-seater plane will have a maximum range of 700 miles.
"Those [international] hubs work fine for medium to long-haul journeys but if you try to do a short journey, say under a 1,000 or 1,500-mile trip, through a hub the overhead of transmitting the hub is so great it kills the proposition of air travel." He estimates that 70 per cent of the time it takes to fly domestically in the US is spent shuffling around on the ground between security, transit and in innumerable queues.
Similarly, Eviation's Bar-Yohay says the firm's planes will focus on regional travel. "When we look at what happens when you want to travel 100 miles, 200, or 500 miles, what happens today is most people will hop in a car and drive for up to ten hours," he says. The company's plane – called Alice – is designed to fly for 650 miles at most. (In the UK, Land's End to John o' Groats is 874 miles at its shortest road route).
Given these distances, electric plane dreamers are hoping for a resurgence in small, unused airfields. In the UK there are more than 40 airports operating commercially. A government map shows sites from Gatwick, Stanstead and Heathrow to smaller, less used, airports at Lands End, Oban, and Lydd.
But there are also several hundred airfields, disused airports and landing sites that could be converted into minuscule but functioning airports. But there are plenty of hurdles that would need to be overcome: airports have complex tax structures, commercial airspace is tightly regulated and the infrastructure at unused sites would have to be overhauled. In addition, for electric planes, there would need to be sufficient charging facilities.
This doesn't put the electric plane startups off the idea of regional travel, though. "A lot of the secondary airfields in the UK are being looked at for redevelopment as traffic has moved out of them. Our view would be that's short-sighted," Kumar says. "The stock of airfields that exists in the UK and Europe are actually a very significant asset that would immediately get lit up by this class of aircraft that are coming in five or ten years time."
"This area of the market is dramatically underserved," adds Bar-Yohay. "You don't need to fly that fast if you're flying 500 miles."
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https://arcaero.com/ | 2022-12-08T13:55:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711336.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20221208114402-20221208144402-00553.warc.gz | 0.888649 | 167 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__190891144 | en | Arcturus Aerospace officially opened a new 15,780 square feet manufacturing facility in Southwest Little Rock. The Little Rock Chamber of Commerce,
What We Do
State-of-the-art machining and measuring equipment ensures the highest quality parts.
We are an AS9100D certified shop for quality management and control systems.
If you are planning production on a forecasted annual basis or whether you need parts right away, we will work to accommodate you.
Arcturus Aerospace is a job shop with vast experience in multiple aircraft parts.
We work with a wide range of materials, including all grades of aluminum, stainless steel, and plastics (PEEK, Vespel®, and Teflon™). | aerospace | 1 |
https://airlineworld.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/new-livery-for-american-airlines/ | 2017-04-23T05:35:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118477.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00238-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.977534 | 510 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__173483854 | en | American Airlines is undergoing changes. Not only due to Chapter 11 procedures and a possible (more and more likely) merger with US Airways, but also due to technical reasons. Like the new livery – which is driven by all of these three.
American Airlines has been using the same logo and aircraft livery for more than 40 years. Quite a nice lifecycle for a brand, especially in our fast-paced, marketing driven world of the late 20th and early 21st century. But AA is going through so many changes, that it was about time. Even if the board may have had questions about it – the undebatable technical reasons made it a must.
AA has had the very well known, very well received and very well accepted, famous, landmark aircraft livery with the polished, silver aircraft bodies reflecting the sun so beautifully – having only the red and blue stripes across the planes on the sides below the windows. This now simply HAD to be changed, as it could no longer be maintained with the upcoming new aircraft types (mainly the 777-300ER in the short term), that have a (partial) composite frame: plastic can not be polished the same way as metal (it can’t be polished, period), thus it must be painted. (Even the old livery planes had composite parts which are very well visible on this image below on the left side, for example the hold door or the nose – they were painted in simple grey until now and made such planes look somewhat like they were pieced together from left-over aircraft parts with different paint on them…)
AA took a step forward, and once it had to change the basic color of the fuselage of its planes, it introduced a new logo and an updated, more fresh look – which was the right movement in my opinion. I think personally that the new design is fresh indeed with its dark grey “American” word on the forward part of the plane together with the updated, stylistic Eagle logo and with the new tail design that looks like a flag. But most of all, I think the fact that they still use the silver as the main color of the planes, keeps the heritage alive as well – as much as technically possible. Their planes will now be painted in silver-mica paint.
The American Eagle aircraft will also receive the new livery, the first outfitted airplane slated to begin flying in February. Here is a rendering of an Embraer E175 (ordered for Republic Airways Holding): | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.nashepravo.news/daily-flyer-october-1-2-2023/ | 2024-04-24T23:24:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819971.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424205851-20240424235851-00399.warc.gz | 0.974855 | 648 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__197773746 | en | Ukraine shot down 4 of 7 drones launched by Russia overnight
Ukrainian forces shot down four of the seven Shahed-136/131 "kamikaze" drones launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported on Oct. 2.
According to the report, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were launched from the southeastern direction, specifically from Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia's Krasnodar Krai.
Natalia Humeniuk, the spokesperson of the Southern Operational Command, said on air that Russian forces launched only a small number of drones along an unusual route, likely in an attempt to locate Ukraine's air defense batteries.
Three drones were shot down near Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and one was destroyed in Kherson Oblast, she said.
However, some of the UAVs managed to hit their targets, Humeniuk added. Damage was reported at an unspecified industrial facility, as well as at an agricultural company building in the Kherson district, according to the spokesperson.
Attack on Kherson: One of two wounded police officers dies
A police officer who was wounded as a result of this morning’s attack on Kherson has died in hospital.
"Doctors fought to save his life, but, unfortunately, one of the patrol policemen died on the operating table.
Russians keep attacking Kherson Oblast, killing and injuring people
At about 16:50 on October 1, the Russians dropped two guided air bombs on the residential area of the settlement of Beryslav. As a result of the strike, garages were destroyed, windows in medical institution buildings and residential buildings were broken by a blast wave, and a critical infrastructure facility was damaged.
The settlement of Tiahynka was also struck. During the attack, a 43-year-old man on the porch of his house received injuries incompatible with life.
The Russians attacked the settlement of Vesele as well. A 63-year-old woman was taken to the hospital with contusion and limb injuries.
Russians hit Kharkiv with missiles three times
Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kharkiv at around 01:00 on 1 October using S-300 anti-aircraft systems, with three missiles hitting the city.
Reports indicate that the hits occurred on premises belonging to a civilian business, and a fire broke out.
The authorities have not provided any information on casualties.
The Russians fired using artillery, mortars, and other weapons on the settlements in Kharkiv, Bohodukhiv, Chuhuiv, Kupiansk, and Izium districts over the past 24 hours.
Oil terminal hit alongside grain storage facilities in Russian attack on Uman on 1 October
Russian drones hit three civilian infrastructure facilities in Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, on the night of 30 September-1 October: a grain storage facility and two facilities at a defunct oil terminal.
A total of 3,600 square meters caught fire. It was reported that the reservoirs at the oil terminal have not been in use for a long time. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.bharatwa.com/tagged/weapon | 2022-06-29T12:51:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103639050.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220629115352-20220629145352-00446.warc.gz | 0.827509 | 80 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__246256790 | en | 2 min read
Top 5 Most Leathal Flying Weapons Ever Created In The World
Space is everything in the universe beyond the top of the Earth's atmosphere. Space also means what's between planets, stars, etc. Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.vegas24seven.com/rancho-high-school-academy-of-aviation-alumni-join-all-in-aviation-as-certified-flight-instructors/ | 2023-03-30T04:40:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949097.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330035241-20230330065241-00044.warc.gz | 0.931844 | 1,288 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__225731283 | en | Rancho High School ‘Academy of Aviation’ Alumni Join All In Aviation as Certified Flight Instructors
Upon graduation from University of North Dakota’s Esteemed Aviation Program, Chase Norberg and Nikolay Todorov return home to Las Vegas to begin aviation careers
Following the launch of its full-service aviation complex at Henderson Executive Airport (HND), All In Aviation announces the hiring of two alumni from Rancho High School’s Academy of Aviation as the flight school’s newest Certified Training Center Instructors (TCIs).
Due to a recent surge in flight school enrollment and an all-time high demand for private flight lessons, All In Aviation has brought on board Chase Norberg and Nikolay Todorov, growing its training team to eight full-time and five part-time certified flight instructors led by Director of Flight Operations, Carl May.
As Certified Training Center Instructors, Norberg and Todorov are responsible for providing private, instrument and commercial air and ground instruction, as well as providing transition training for pilots purchasing Cirrus aircraft.
After graduating from Rancho High School’s Academy of Aviation, the only public high school aviation program in the Clark County School District and one of only a handful in the U.S., Norberg and Todorov attended the University of North Dakota (UND), one of the top aviation schools in the country and the alma mater of both May and president of All In Aviation, Paul Sallach. Following graduation, Norberg and Todorov have returned to Southern Nevada to officially start their aviation careers with All In Aviation.
The duo bring over seven years of combined aviation experience and new perspectives to the All In Aviation team. Norberg is a certified Part 141 Stage Pilot, and CFII Trainer/Stage Check Pilot. Todorov is a certified Flight Instructor, Commercial Pilot. Both hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Aeronautical Science, Commercial Aviation.
“We are thrilled to have Chase and Nikolay become part of the team at All In Aviation. As alumni ourselves, we know how well UND trains their students, and we are so impressed by their qualifications and level of professionalism,” said Sallach. “By hiring Chase, Nikolay and other instructors, as well as enlarging our fleet, we are able to meet accommodate the tremendous growth we are experiencing.”
This fall, All In Aviation will take delivery of four new aircraft, which will allow the company to expand its flight school services and meet the increased demand for flight training. The all-new 2020 Cirrus Aircraft will include two SR22 turbos, an SR22 G6 and an SR20. All In Aviation’s fleet currently includes a 2018 SF50 Vision Jet, 2019 SR20 G6, 2018 SR20 G6, 2015 SR22G5, 2012 SR22 G3, 2008 Cirrus SR22, and two 2016 SR22 G5’s. For more information on All In Aviation’s fleet, visit: https://www.allinaviation.com/our-fleet.html.
In partnership with aircraft maintenance provider Lone Mountain Aviation, All In Aviation recently opened the first purpose-built, multi-use aviation complex of its kind at HND to serve the growing needs of the general aviation community in the south valley. Located on Jet Stream Drive directly across from the new Raiders headquarters, the complex features 9,000 square feet of office space, a premier retail shop for pilots, five training rooms, a full-size ground school classroom, a customer lounge, an avionics workshop, a parts department, and an 18-person conference room overlooking the complex’s 22,000 square-foot maintenance hangar. For aircraft storage, the complex features 25 hangars including 16 “T” hangars for small personal aircraft and 9 box hangars for mid-size business jets, all of which are 100% leased and occupied.
All In Aviation is also looking forward to debuting a 3-day ground school program, which is currently in development to attract pilots from all over the country.
About All In Aviation:
The only Cirrus Aircraft training partner in Southern Nevada, All In Aviation is a full-service aviation company offering flight training, factory transition training, pilot certifications, and aircraft rental, sales, management & storage. Dedicated to growing and developing more pilots, All In Aviation is a trusted partner for aviation training, from a student’s very first flight through some of the most advanced pilot certifications.
With an emphasis on quality customer care, All In Aviation’s flight instruction is led by highly experienced and professional certified flight instructors. Open to anyone, private pilot training is conducted in the air and in a classroom setting, with students certified after completing a minimum of 40 hours of instructed flying.
As a Cirrus Platinum Training Center, All In Aviation’s fleet includes the safest and most sophisticated piston aircraft on the market. The best-selling aircraft in the world, Cirrus airplanes are equipped with glass panels, air conditioning, and whole airframe parachute systems.
All In Aviation has two locations to serve Southern Nevada, located at Henderson Executive Airport and North Las Vegas Airport. For additional information call 702-ALL-IN22 (702-255-4622), visiting https://www.allinaviation.com/. Follow All In Aviation’s social media on Facebook at @AllInAviation or Instagram at @AllInAviation.
About Lone Mountain Aviation:
Established in 1982, Lone Mountain Aviation is the largest general aviation FAA Part 145 Certified Repair Station in Nevada, servicing top aircraft manufacturers including Cirrus, Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft, Mooney, TBM, Pilatus, and Pratt & Whitney. Lone Mountain is dedicated to providing the highest quality aircraft maintenance and repair available to the general aviation community. With technicians uniquely suited to maintaining, repairing and modifying the most technically advanced aircraft flown today, Lone Mountain’s approach to customer service is to keep pilots flying by maintaining budget, reducing down time, and delivering a safe, reliable and quality product. Visit http://lonemountainaviation.com/ for more information, and follow on Facebook at @LoneMountainAviation. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.moguard.com/06-23-11-131st-bomb-wing-family-day.html | 2015-08-29T20:56:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644064538.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025424-00033-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.968552 | 750 | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-35__0__83671346 | en | Current and retired members of the 131st Bomb Wing and their Families participate in Wing Family Day at Ike Skelton Park, Whiteman AFB, MO, June 11. (Photo by Master Sgt. Mary-Dale Amison)
By Rachel Knight
WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. - Both past and present Missouri National Guardsmen from the 131st Bomb Wing and their families participated in the wing's family day at Ike Skelton Park on Whiteman Air Force Base.
Col. Michael Francis, 131st Bomb Wing vice commander, said the wing picnic and retiree day capped off the 12 days of active duty training for bomb wing personnel and was an opportunity to come together with friends - past and present.
Over 500 individuals populated the park where food and family fun filled the day including a bouncy castle, horse shoes, dunk tank and much more allowed for never-ending activities.
"It was a great time for the wing to revel in a job well done during the past two weeks of annual training that included the reveal of the 131st Bomb Wing patch on the B-2 and Lt. Gen. Wyatt's visit," said Maj. Catherine Germain, wing's executive officer.
The unveiling of the 131st Bomb Wing patch on the "Spirit of Missouri" B-2 Bomber symbolized a milestone in the Total Force Integration of the active duty Air Force with the Missouri Air National Guard at Whiteman Air Force Base.
Lt. Gen. Harry M. "Bud" Wyatt III, director of the Air National Guard at the Pentagon, said that the Total Force Integration between the active duty and 131st Bomb Wing's Air Guardsmen is going well and is an example the Air National Guard need to look to for classic associations in the Air Force.
"What a great partnership and great capability you bring to the fight," said Wyatt at the unveiling ceremony.
Many attendees of the wing's family day had the opportunity to tour the B-2 Spirit Bomber hangars and simulators.
"A highlight of the day was seeing the B-2 in person," said retired Senior Master Sgt. Ron Hagenow. "I had read all about the aircraft but until you see it in person you don't realize its size or what it can do."
"It was also a great time for wing members and retirees to reconnect," Germain said. "This was the first 131st Bomb Wing Retiree Day since the wing switched missions."
Retirees were able to meet with past coworkers who have gained rank and past colleagues who have retired.
"I got to talk with Col. Greg Champagne (wing commander) and we reminisced," said Hagenow. "I sent him to officers' school and pilot training when I worked in the training office."
The group received a briefing first thing that morning which highlighted the unit's history dating back to the A-26 Invader.
"As for the wing now being a bomber unit, I am both sad and happy," said Hagenow. "Sad because of our long fighter heritage but also happy because our unit was chosen to fly the most sophisticated aircraft in the inventory. I think that says something about our people and our ability to get the job done."
For more information about the Missouri National Guard, please visit www.moguard.com and our social media sites: www.facebook.com/Missouri.National.Guard; www.twitter.com/Missouri_NG; www.youtube.com/MoNationalGuard; www.myspace.com/missouri_ng; www.flickr.com/photos/missouriguard | aerospace | 1 |
https://anokhinews.com/nasas-mars-helicopter-ends-history-making-mission-after-service/ | 2024-02-26T13:23:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226130305-20240226160305-00216.warc.gz | 0.949262 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__201107472 | en | NASA’s experimental helicopter, Ingenuity, has concluded its mission on Mars, marking a historic achievement for the U.S. space agency. Ingenuity, which landed on Mars alongside NASA’s Perseverance rover in February 2021, played a crucial role in testing the feasibility of flight in the Martian atmosphere.
Originally designed for a one-month demonstration mission, Ingenuity surpassed expectations, becoming the first aircraft to execute a powered, controlled flight on another planet in April 2021. NASA officially extended its mission in May 2021, and since then, the helicopter has completed a total of 72 flights on Mars, covering 14 times the originally planned distance and accumulating over two hours of flight time.
Despite its small size, Ingenuity proved to be a resilient and groundbreaking explorer, continually surprising mission controllers with its capabilities. However, the experimental helicopter recently faced challenges as mission controllers detected damage to one of its rotor blades during a landing attempt. This damage has prompted the conclusion of Ingenuity’s operational activities.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised Ingenuity as “the little helicopter that could” and acknowledged its unexpected success in pushing the boundaries of what was initially thought possible. While the helicopter’s primary mission was to test flight on Mars, it played an additional role in supporting Perseverance’s rover operations by identifying exploration areas and aiding in mapping routes.
Ingenuity’s achievements have opened new possibilities for future exploration in our solar system and enhanced our understanding of aerial mobility on other planets. The success of this mission has even led to NASA approving the development of two small helicopters for deployment in upcoming missions, showcasing the significant impact of Ingenuity on the future of space exploration. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.firstpost.com/tag/nasa-jpl | 2019-03-21T12:38:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202523.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190321112407-20190321134407-00050.warc.gz | 0.911334 | 230 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__37652673 | en | Latest News on Nasa Jpl
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NASA's InSight Mars mission's six minutes of terror: Here's what we can expectInSight's landing sequence on Mars from start to finish is pre-programmed into an onboard computer.
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NASA spots water in Jupiter's deepest clouds above the planet's Great Red SpotClouds & gas signatures found confirm that Jupiter is rich in oxygen & water, says NASA scientist
Jun 05, 2018
NASA's Curiosity Rover analyses Mars rocks after more than a year with improvised drilling methodNASA's Curiosity rover is analysing drilled samples on Mars in one of its onboard labs for the first time in more than a year, the US space agency said. The rover drilled its last scheduled rock sample in October 2016.
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Cassini spacecraft's 'Grand Finale' takes off with a Google DoodleThe Cassini spacecraft has just passed over Titan and thanks to the moon's gravity has changed its path in what would be its final manoeuvre. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.thedailybeast.com/space-center-employees-have-to-scrub-their-own-toilets-due-to-shutdown | 2023-06-09T08:23:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655446.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609064417-20230609094417-00790.warc.gz | 0.956347 | 227 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__180124059 | en | The 200 employees working without pay to keep the astronauts at the International Space Station safe are now being asked to scrub their own office toilets due to the government shutdown, The Houston Chronicle reports. “This is our reality at the Johnson Space Center,” a NASA manager tweeted on Thursday. “We now have no custodial services while we work without pay to keep the International Space Station operating.” The tweet included photos of signs asking employees to bring trash to designated bins and seeking volunteers to help “clean toilets, wipe toilet seats, handles, and sink faucet handles with disinfectant wipes.” Custodial services have been reduced at NASA's Johnson Space Center since about 94 percent of the employees are currently furloughed. A representative from the center's hired custodial service, Native Resource Development, told the newspaper they plan to ask for “voluntary layoffs” within their own business because of the reduced workload.
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https://www.blighter.com/islamic-state-drone-warfare-scuppered-by-british-zappers/ | 2022-11-28T02:11:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710462.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128002256-20221128032256-00147.warc.gz | 0.951435 | 112 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__242337699 | en | American troops in Syria and Iraq have helped to destroy more than 500 Islamic State drones using a British-made £1.5 million device.
The zapper, developed by a consortium of three small companies, scans unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from up to six miles away, locks on to their position and jams the signals that are controlling them. It can tackle swarms of drones at once if necessary.
Each drone is either forced to the ground or suspended in the air until it runs out of power.
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http://hanifidrus.com/index-61.html | 2023-12-09T12:42:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100909.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209103523-20231209133523-00031.warc.gz | 0.92656 | 747 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__206952427 | en | The civil aviation sector in India is at a significant point with Indigo Airlines’ groundbreaking order of 500 aircraft from Airbus, highlighting the immense potential of the industry. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, hailed the order as a testament to India’s remarkable aviation growth.
The civil aviation sector in India has reached a pivotal moment with Indigo Airlines’ remarkable order of 500 aircraft from Airbus, emphasising the immense potential of civil aviation in the country. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, praised the order as a testament to the unprecedented growth witnessed by the aviation sector of India over the past nine years and the opportunities it presents for stakeholders and the country’s 1.4 billion people, who increasingly aspire to travel by air.
The minister emphasised this landmark transaction, which comes on the heels of Air India’s procurement for 470 aircraft—250 from Airbus and 220 from Boeing. “With this latest order, India has once again set a historic milestone, securing the largest-ever recorded order by a carrier from any aircraft manufacturer in the world,” the minister said. Highlighting the significance of understanding the multiplier effects of civil aviation, including the direct and indirect economic impacts, the minister said, “Every dollar invested in civil aviation yields $3.1 in terms of new growth, and each direct job in the sector generates 6.1 indirect jobs, showcasing the tremendous dividends derived from the ever-expanding civil aviation sector.”
Minister Scindia stressed upon the exceptional growth of the country’s airline sector, which has seen a 75 per cent increase in fleet size, expanding from 400 in 2014 to a current count of 700 aircraft. “This growth has witnessed the emergence of countrywide carriers like Akasa and regional carriers such as India One Air, Star Air, and several others. Furthermore, the orders placed by India’s leading carriers now surpass the total fleet size of the country in 2013-14, illustrating the industry’s rapid expansion,” the minister shared.
Highlighting future plans, Scindia revealed the ambitious goals of expanding the fleet from 700 to nearly 2,000 aircraft within the next seven to 10 years. “The government aims to increase the number of airports from 74 to 148, develop water drones and heliports, and enhance the throughput capacity of the six major metros from 221 million to almost 420 million passengers annually by 2030. We are also looking at now creating with this expanding footprint, an international civil aviation hub within India. For far too long, our hubs have been located outside our eastern border or outside our western border, now the government is committed to establishing an international civil aviation hub within India, with Delhi as the first hub, bringing an end to the reliance on neighbouring countries,” the minister said.
Scindia said that the Prime Minister’s vision of democratizing civil aviation has now become a reality, given the expansion of infrastructure, fleets, and the creation of an international footprint within India. “As civil aviation continues to expand its reach, connecting metros with tier II and tier III cities within India and extending across the seas to multiple continents, it is undoubtedly time to seize the skies.”
The minister congratulated the Indigo team on their remarkable achievement and extended his best wishes for their future endeavours. “With the continuous growth of fleets, infrastructure, and international presence, India’s civil aviation sector is poised for remarkable success, aligning with the government’s vision to make air travel accessible to all,” he said. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread754108/pg1 | 2018-12-17T18:02:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376828697.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20181217161704-20181217183704-00306.warc.gz | 0.95262 | 428 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__176789074 | en | It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
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There is a 1-in-3,200 chance of satellite debris hitting a person on the ground, odds that NASA says are extremely remote. Outside experts agree. "Look at how much of Earth is covered with water," Victoria Samson, the Washington Office Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space, told SPACE.com this week. "There's a really good chance it's going to go straight into the ocean."
That window, NASA now says, has been trimmed to just three days. "Re-entry is expected Sept. 23, plus or minus a day. The re-entry of UARS is advancing because of a sharp increase in solar activity since the beginning of this week," NASA officials wrote in a status update today (Sept. 16). The projection is a day earlier than a previous forecast released by NASA yesterday. NASA spokeswoman Beth Dickey confirmed with SPACE.com earlier today that the reason UARS is expected to fall early in its re-entry window is because of the sharp uptick in solar activity. Solar effects from the sun can create an extra drag on satellites in space because they can heat the Earth's atmosphere, causing it to expand, agency officials have said.
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Do they have any idea on where it's going to 'crash'?
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by increased 'ufo' reports... you must be meaning that lots of uninformed spectators will mis identify a disintegrating satellite... | aerospace | 1 |
https://practicetestgeeks.com/faa-private-pilot-practice-test/ | 2021-07-28T04:20:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153521.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728025548-20210728055548-00011.warc.gz | 0.891105 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__228955251 | en | FAA Private Pilot Practice Test
This is a timed quiz. You will be given 60 seconds per question. Are you ready?
What is the purpose of the rudder on an airplane?
What is ground effect?
Changes in the center of pressure of a wing affect the aircraft’s
As altitude increases, the indicated airspeed at which a given airplane stalls in a particular configuration will
What is one purpose of wing flaps?
VNO is defined as the
VNO is the maximum structural cruising speed (airspeed indicator upper green arc limit). VNO should only be exceeded in smooth air. FAR 1.2. Answer A is incorrect because the normal operating range is indicated by the entire green arc on the airspeed indicator. Answer B is incorrect because the never-exceed speed is VNE, (the red radial line on the airspeed indicator). | aerospace | 1 |
http://sidegemeinde.com/8-Methods-for-Buying-Your-Drone-6737 | 2017-05-27T17:23:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608984.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527171852-20170527191852-00239.warc.gz | 0.96771 | 1,058 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__178522579 | en | 8 Strategies for Buying Your Drone
Businesses and consumers alike are finding new ideas and applications drone every day. From property to event photography to sports, drones are utilized for a number of purposes. In addition, individuals are finding drones becoming a great overdue activity too. This is why there has been a spike within the need for the drones the ones worldwide want to get one. However, buying a drone isn't a breeze. There are numerous of aspects you will want to remember before you go into the target purchase one. Are mainly some pointers that are going to assist you in investing in a drone that's fit for your requirements. The next areas needs to be examined prior to purchasing a drone.
Purpose of Use
The first tip for choosing a drone is to find out the purpose you simply want this vehicle. For instance, should you be looking to get this revolutionary product for purely recreational purposes then a smaller than average cheap quadcopter would be enough. However, if you wish to find the drone for professional aerial photography and videography then you will have to go for any higher model which is capable of capturing photos at different angles. For cargo carrying requirements, you will require a drone which is effective at lifting heavy loads and carrying them over cross country. If you intent to buying the drone for inspection purposes then it should be that you should decide on a drone that could function in unfavorable conditions. Drones used for wildlife photography are usually very costly and really should just be bought a high level wildlife photographer who would like to capture the wild animals within their natural habitat without risking yourself.
Another in the aspect that should be considered in relation to buying drones is its machinery. There are many forms of drones you can find nonetheless they their very own respective mechanisms. You must know that not all drones possess the machinery available to perform the functions you want these to do. For instance, if you wish to get the drone simply for the fun then this quadcopter with simple machinery will be perfectly. However, if you plan on while using drone to get a commercial purpose then this quadcopter wouldn't be enough. You will then will need to go for a drone whose machinery is capable enough to complete the task be it photography or package delivery.
Another tip which may be convenient if you are purchasing a drone would be to use a close look at its design. Generally each of the UAVs have similar essence; they fly with no need of an on-board human pilot. However, they differ judging by their design. For example, the quadcopter has four motors to propel it and search just like a helicopter as the military grade drones are jet fueled and appearance about the same as usual airplanes. So, if you aren't inside the military and they are in need of a stealth drone, it might be right for you to consider a drone that has a simple design.
Camera and Gimbal Supports
Drones are mainly used for the purpose of photography and videography. If you wish to use yours for similar purpose then you'll must find one which features a camera placed on it. However, a regular camera won't do the job. You would have to make certain that your camera installed on the drone you are buying is a good one that will take good quality pictures easily. Another tip to keep in mind is to buy drone that has a gimbal support. The gimbal support is going to maintain the camera stable through the drone's flight, letting it to take better pics and vids.
Battery timing is essential too when it comes to buying UAVs. Generally, a quadcopter or drone will fly approximately 5 to fifteen minutes at a time. With a bigger battery, the drone can stay airborne in excess of an hour or so. So, it is best which you go for a drone that features a powerful battery particularly if you want to use it for aerial photography or inspection purposes. Be sure that the battery with the drone is rechargeable and could be quickly powered up.
The plethora of the majority of the drones isn't a lot more than 50 meters. This really is generally an appropriate distance when deciding to take aerial shots. However, you'll find advanced drones available too that have a much higher range. If you want the drone for wildlife photography, then it is better if going for one that will provide you with a range close to 100 meters or even more.
Always ask the casino dealer to provide you with spare parts for the drone. A lot of the drones you can find have spare rotors because these areas of the drone are fragile and can breakdown if consistently used.
The price tag on the drones depends on their type. If you want to choose the most rudimentry model you then do not need to invest quite a lot of money on them. Still, it would be a big investment because these aerial vehicles don't come cheap. You can get the drone cheaper should you seek out them on the internet. There are several websites that supply discounts on the sale of quadcopters.
To summarize, there are many of aspects that you need to keep in mind before heading in to the market to buy drone. If you take these considerations in mind you'll get the most from forget about the | aerospace | 1 |
http://hobbyspace.com/Blog/?p=7339 | 2019-12-13T08:38:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540551267.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20191213071155-20191213095155-00104.warc.gz | 0.663983 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__5934068 | en | A selection of space policy/politics related links:
- Defense launch:
- The Space Review:
- Sen. Shelby Questions Need for Two NOAA Satellite Programs: COSMIC-2 and SIDAR – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- NASA signs over historic Launch Pad 39A to SpaceX – collectSPACE
* Open Lines, Sunday, 4-13-14 | Thespaceshow’s Blog – Discussion among the Space Show audience and David Livingston on a range of topics. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.bluraysforeveryone.com/product-p/hnejst13766.htm | 2023-03-23T19:47:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945183.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323194025-20230323224025-00714.warc.gz | 0.801188 | 1,080 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__93964513 | en | ***Includes "Silent Space Version" of the film, allowing fans to experience Gravity "without music for a surprising cinematic experiment."***
Actors: Sandra Bullock,George Clooney,Ed Harris
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Language: ENGLISH: Dolby Atmos, ENGLISH: Dolby TrueHD 7.1, ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps), SPANISH: Dolby Digital 5.1, FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1, FRENCH (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1, PORTUGUESE: Dolby Digital 5.1, GERMAN: Dolby Digital 5.1, ITALIAN: Dolby Digital 5.1, JAPANESE: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH, French, German SDH, Italian SDH, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Region: Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of Discs: 2 (Digital Copy)
Rating: Not Rated
Orig. Release Date: 2013
Studio: Warner Bros.
Release Date: 3/31/2015
Run Time: 91 Min.
- Gravity: Silent Space (Disc 1, HD): An experience that allows fans to watch Gravity
without any music. Presented with lossy 448kbps Dolby Digital 5.1
- Looking to the Stars: The Evolution of Space Films (Disc 2, HD, 42 minutes): Documentary
that begins with 1902's A Trip to the Moon, rockets toward 2001 and Star Wars
(among many others), touches on the pursuit of realism and the
challenges of depicting space on screen, and tracks the development of
sci-fi cinema over the decades. Interview segments feature Alfonso
Cuaron, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, FX masters Dennis Muren, John Dykstra and
Douglas Trumbull, and more.
- Gravity: The Human Experience (Disc 2, HD, 11 minutes):
Cuaron, writer Jonas Cuaron, producer David Heyman, actors George
Clooney and Sandra Bullock, author Mary Roach, retired astronaut Dr. Dan
T. Barry, and astronauts Michael J. Massimino and Catherine "Cady"
Coleman discuss space travel, the skills and traits of NASA's finest,
the awe mankind's advances have inspired over the years, and the manner
in which these elements were drawn upon when creating Gravity.
- Sandra's Birthday Wish (Disc 2, HD, 3 minutes): A birthday cheer sent to Cuaron from Bullock,
sporting a tin foil space helmet on the set of Gravity's "reshoots."
- Gravity: Mission Control
(HD, 107 minutes): Behind-the-scenes documentary that touches on every
aspect of the production, from the original script to the various
previsualization stages, the shoot itself, obstacles and difficulties
encountered along the way, and the marriage between editing,
performances and visual effects. Segments include:
- It Began with a Story (16:21)
- Initial Challenges: Long Shots and Zero G (10:12)
- Previsualizing Gravity (11:38)
- The Hues of Space (10:41)
- Physical Weightlessness (7:48)
- Space Tech (13:02)
- Sandra and George: A Pair in Space (9:37)
- Final Animation (15:01)
- Complete Silence (12:13)
- Shot Breakdowns (HD, 37 minutes): Breakdowns include:
- Behind the Visor (6:50)
- Fire in the International Space Station (5:42)
- Dr. Stone's Rebirth (7:54)
- The Sound of Action in Space (7:55)
- Splashdown (8:24)
- Aningaaq: A Short Film by Jonás Cuarón (HD, 10 minutes): Gravity co-writer Jonás Cuarón's short film focuses on the Inuit fisherman Dr. Stone (Bullock) inadvertently contacts while aboard the Tiangong's escape capsule. The short also includes an optional introduction with the father and son filmmakers.
- Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space
(HD, 22 minutes): Actor Ed Harris narrates this documentary about the
very real looming crisis that inspired the film's centerpiece disaster.
astronaut Matt Kowalsky is on his final mission in space, while medical
engineer Dr. Ryan Stone is making her first outing on the Space
Shuttle. While they are engaged in extra-vehicular activity, debris
collides into the shuttle, damaging it irreparably. Kowalsky and Stone
now find themselves drifting in space with low oxygen supplies, and cut
off from all communication on Earth. They work together in their attempt
to survive, but will they make it back to solid ground? | aerospace | 1 |
http://helihub.com/2011/09/14/faa-approves-onboard-systems-updated-md500600-attach-point/ | 2013-05-24T00:19:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704117624/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113517-00094-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.891422 | 703 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__88181687 | en | Onboard Systems, a leading provider of innovative helicopter cargo hook equipment, announced that its updated attach point kit for the MD500 & 600 aircraft has been certified by the FAA and is available for purchase. Onboard has also submitted the attach point kit to Transport Canada and EASA for certification in Canada and Europe, respectively.
The updated attach point kit design includes many features that will improve durability and longevity of the product. The attach point now comes with built-in travel stops to help prevent both the hook and control cables from impacting the aircraft frame, and provides an additional .75-inch clearance for the electrical and manual release cables. In addition, bushings have been added at the hook pivot point and link, making it easier and less expensive to perform ongoing maintenance.
"Our customers are really going to like the new built-in travel limits for this kit," said Karsten Lemmon, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Onboard Systems. "The original attach point kit design called for attaching rubber pads to the aircraft belly to help protect against banging, so the new built-in travel limits greatly improve ease of installation and use. Plus, the new bushings at the hook pivot point and in the link will significantly decrease wear-and-tear."
Onboard Systems International, Inc. designs and manufactures a complete line of innovative helicopter cargo hook equipment under its TALON™ brand, including belly hooks, cargo hook suspension systems, onboard weighing systems and remote hooks. Its low-weight, high quality products provide helicopter operators with increased cost efficiencies and safety through customer-driven designs, responsive service and support, and low on-going maintenance costs. Founded in 1975, Onboard Systems is a privately held US corporation located in Vancouver, Washington, with an international sales office in the UK.
- 07-May-13 I-ONYX MD Helicopters MD500E L’Aquila, Italy
- Polk County Florida Sheriff orders a 500E
- St Louis Metro Air Support buys new 500E
- UK 500E owner wins another helipad planning appeal
- Buyer wins suit over defective ex-police helicopter
- Aero Dynamix delivers MD500E NVG upgrades for Kansas City Police
- MD installs first updated Onboard Systems MD500/600 attach point
- 22-Aug-12 F-GHLF MD Helicopters 500E Lancon-de-Provence, France
- 26-Jul-12 N427WC MD Helicopters MD500E Dalles, US-Oregon
- MD Helicopters reports order for one MD500E at ALEA Convention
- 14-Jun-12 MD Helicopters 500E Columbus, US-Ohio
- Costa Rica Police learn to use helicopter in chases
- 05-Jun-12 MD Helicopters 500E Columbus, US-Ohio
- Fuel donation helps Oakland Police continue flying
- 28-Mar-12 N5189K MD Helicopters 500E Lawrenceville, US-Georgia
- UK: Helipad OK for sumo-wrestling, but not helicopters
- 08-Aug-11 Boeing AH-6M Fort Benning, US-Georgia (2F)
- 19-Jun-11 G-KSWI MD Helicopters MD500E Glastonbury, UK
- Oakland Police helicopter to return to the skies
- NZ pilot fined $6,000 for low flying | aerospace | 1 |
http://flights.expedia.com/flights-from-camp-springs-to-frankfurt-adw-to-hhn/ | 2015-07-30T08:56:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042987155.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002307-00137-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.952799 | 422 | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-32__0__6695473 | en | Book your to flights with Expedia and find last-minute to airfare. Expedia offers discount airfare on multiple airline carriers that fly direct and indirect routes between and , with new flight deals and promotions almost daily. When you book your next trip from to with Expedia, you can rest assured you’re getting great ticket prices and excellent service from one of the world’s most trusted travel providers.
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- UNITED offers flights from Camp Springs, MD to Frankfurt, Germany.
- The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Camp Springs to Frankfurt in 2009 was 56.28%.
- There were 103 passengers that flew from Camp Springs to Frankfurt in 2009.
- 183 seats were available on flights from ADW to HHN in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 103 passengers flew on all flights from ADW to HHN that year.
- UNITED operated flights from ADW to HHN using one type of aircraft in 2009.
- The newest aircraft servicing ADW to HHN in 2009 was UNITED's B767-3/R from Boeing. The B767-3/R started flying in 1990.
- The largest aircraft servicing flights between Camp Springs and Frankfurt from UNITED is the B767-3/R built by Boeing with 183 seats.
- The smallest aircraft servicing flights from ADW to HHN for UNITED is the B767-3/R built by Boeing with 183 seats.
- UNITED carried a total of 103 passengers from ADW to HHN in 2009.
- The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Camp Springs, MD to Frankfurt, Germany in 2009 was UNITED's B767-3/R from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
- In 2009, there was just one airline company serving flights from Camp Springs to Frankfurt.
(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases) | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001207X03980&key=1 | 2013-05-23T21:05:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703788336/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112948-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.948998 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__3992003 | en | NTSB Identification: FTW95RA287
Accident occurred Monday, July 10, 1995 in MEXICO CITY, Mexico
Aircraft: AEROSPATIALE AS355F, registration: XBDDX
Injuries: 3 Fatal,1 Serious.
The foreign authority was the source of this information.
On July 10, 1995, at 1410 mountain daylight time, an Aerospatiale AS355F helicopter, XB-DDX, was destroyed following a loss of control near Mexico City, Mexico. The commercial pilot and two crewmembers were fatally injured, and an occupant of a vehicle was seriously injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local observation flight. Full narrative available
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https://fortune.com/2016/08/31/japan-defense-spending-military/ | 2023-06-05T12:40:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652116.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605121635-20230605151635-00312.warc.gz | 0.91035 | 814 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__126326142 | en | Japan’s defense ministry on Wednesday asked for a hike in spending to record levels, as it juggles its responses to a growing ballistic missile threat from North Korea and China’s assertive moves in the East China Sea.
If approved, the hike of 2.3% will take the defense budget to 5.17 trillion yen ($51.47 billion) in the year starting April 1, for a fifth consecutive increase as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bolsters Japan’s military.
The nation’s Self Defense Forces are pivoting away from guarding the north against a diminished Russian threat to reinforce an island chain stretching 1,400 km (870 miles) along the southern edge of the East China Sea.
That means opting for fewer tank divisions as they build a mobile amphibious force from scratch.
The costly rejig comes as Japan is also forced to spend more to guard against ballistic missiles being developed by North Korea capable of striking most areas.
See also: This Defense Contractor Is Seeing a Considerable Rise in Earnings
The single biggest expenditure is 99 billion yen ($970 million) to upgrade Japan’s warhead-killing Patriot batteries, a last line of defense against missile strikes.
The improvements will double their range to around 30 km (19 miles) and sharpen targeting to hit arriving ballistic warheads.
They will take five years to complete, with the first four enhanced Patriots expected to be ready for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In June, North Korea test-fired what appeared to be two mobile Musudan rockets, one of which climbed to 1,000 km (600 miles), or enough to fly more than 3,000 km (1,800 miles) down range.
On Aug. 24, Pyongyang also fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) toward Japan that traveled 500 km (311 miles).
Japan’s biggest defense contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will upgrade the PAC-3s under license from Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co, sources familiar with the plan told Reuters last month.
The budget request also includes funding to improve Aegis destroyers that are Japan’s first line of defense against ballistic missiles.
Japan and the United States are developing a new warhead killer, the Standard Missile 3 (SM-3), to destroy targets in space, but no decision on a full rollout has yet been made.
See also: North Korea Could Deploy Submarine-Launched Missiles ‘Within Weeks’
Other proposed defense buys will reinforce the East China Sea, where Japan and China are locked in a territorial dispute over a group of islets 220 km (140 miles) northeast of Taiwan known as the Senkakus in Tokyo and the Diaoyus in Beijing.
Japanese air scrambles against Chinese aircraft are running at a record high, with Beijing’s navy probing deeper and more frequently into the Western Pacific beyond Japan’s island chain.
Chinese military activity in the region was “escalating,” Japan’s Self-Defense Forces chief Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano said in June.
See also: Why the Pentagon Is Reviewing an Unfinished Aircraft Carrier
Defense officials want 95 billion yen next year to buy six Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters, and a combined 92 billion for four Boeing Co and Bell Helicopter V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and six Boeing Chinook twin-rotor helicopters.
The SDF also wants 11 BAE Systems AAV7 amphibious assault craft, and two long-range Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-2 military cargo jets.
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Other buys will include a Northrop Grumman unmanned Global Hawk surveillance drone and a new larger-class diesel-electric submarine designed by Mitsubishi Heavy and Kawasaki Heavy. | aerospace | 1 |
https://nepalforeignaffairs.com/india-france-joint-naval-exercise-in-the-arabian-sea/ | 2024-02-22T03:38:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00544.warc.gz | 0.895381 | 455 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__157467655 | en | Fourteenth Indo-French naval exercise (VARUNA), scheduled for nine days, started with the arrival of four French naval ships at Goa in India on April 23. Representing the French Navy is Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle, two destroyers Chevalier Paul and Jean de Vienne, replenishment tanker Meuse and a maritime patrol aircraft Atlantique 2.
The Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle is carrying its complement of fighter aircraft Rafale M, Strike Aircraft Super Etendard, E2C Hawkeye AWACS and helicopters Dauphin and Alouette 3.
This naval exercise is covering the regional waters of the Arabain Sea as well as the Indian Ocean.
India’s home-made Aircraft Carrier INS Viraat, destroyer Mumbai, stealth frigate Tarkash, guided missile frigate Gomati, replenishment tanker Deepak, submarine Shankul and a few Fast Attack Craft are participating from the Indian side. Aviation assets of the Indian Navy participating in VARUNA-15 include carrier-borne fighter aircraft Sea Harriers, maritime reconnaissance aircraft P-8 I and Dorniers along with integral helicopters Seaking 42B and Chetak, a statement of the Indian Ministry of Defense said.
The scope of Exercise VARUNA includes the entire gamut of maritime operations from Aircraft Carrier Operations, Anti Submarines Warfare Exercises, Maritime Interdiction Operations to multi-ship replenishment exercise.
Regular IN-FN interaction over the years has allowed both navies to gradually and systematically increase the complexity and professional content of the joint exercises. VARUNA aims at deriving mutual benefit from the experiences of the two navies.
The confidence gained through such exercises helps develop Standard Operating Procedures, particularly in the fields of Joint Maritime Air Operations Planning with exchange of Carrier Operational Capabilities.
The other joint exercises include Coordinated Anti-Submarine Exercises, Surface Exercises, Cross Deck Flying, Damage Control and Fire Fighting, Air Defence, Firing Drills, Air to Sea Firing, Tactical Exercises and Visit Board Search and Seize Operations, which further hone the fighting efficiency of the two combat forces, the statement noted. | aerospace | 1 |
https://avidyne.com/news/press.asp?release=243 | 2018-04-26T03:25:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125948064.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20180426031603-20180426051603-00319.warc.gz | 0.928349 | 906 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__200964847 | en | Avidyne TAS600 Active-Surveillance Traffic Systems Selected by U.K. Royal Air Force for GROB115E Trainer
RAF finds dual-antenna TAS600 Series provides best performance and offers best value collision avoidance solution for its training fleet.
Lincoln, MA – Tuesday, November 16, 2010 – Avidyne Corporation, a leading provider of integrated flight deck and safety systems for general aviation aircraft, announced today that their TAS600 Series active-surveillance Traffic Advisory Systems (TAS) have been selected by the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force for its fleet of Grob G 115E training aircraft. The contract includes 119 TAS600 Series systems plus spares, which are being installed in the airplanes by aviation management company Babcock International Group over the next 2 years.
“Grob Aircraft and Babcock presented the RAF with all the available options, and the Avidyne TAS600 Series really provided the best value,” said André Hiebeler, Grob’s CSO & co-CEO. “Working with Babcock who manages the RAF training fleet, we developed an STC for the TAS600 Series, which is now being retrofitted across the entire fleet of Grob G 115E training aircraft.”
“The flight training environment poses a unique set of in-flight and ground-maneuvering conflict opportunities, and in reviewing accident studies, we have seen many instances where our TAS600 systems could play a significant role in enhancing safety,” said Avidyne Chief Operating Officer, Patrick Herguth. “Partnering with training fleets is another way Avidyne can improve safety by increasing awareness and expanding the reach of our safety products.”
“This agreement demonstrates the continued success of our FlySafe™ initiative, which was conceived to improve safety among flight schools and training fleets,” said Rob Higby, vice president of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service. “Through FlySafe, we are proactively enhancing safety in the general aviation community with cost-effective safety solutions, including active-surveillance collision avoidance similar to that which the airlines have enjoyed for many years.”
About Avidyne TAS600 Series
Avidyne’s TAS600 Series of Traffic Advisory Systems provide real-time active-surveillance traffic advisory alerts for general aviation and military training aircraft of all makes and models. The ADS-B-upgradeable TAS600 Series comprises four models—the TAS600, TAS605, TAS615, and TAS620—that are designed to match the performance of the specific aircraft. All TAS600 systems have patented top and bottom antennas that provide the same benefits as the dual-antenna TCAS systems found on virtually every air-transport category aircraft, including significantly-improved signal coverage, more accurate target tracking, faster updates, and better overall performance compared to single-antenna systems. Avidyne’s TAS600 Series provides the smallest, lightest, best performing and most affordable active-surveillance traffic systems available for general aviation.
Avidyne’s FlySafe program is designed to promote safety among the flight training and general aviation community. Participants in the FlySafe program include qualified maintenance facilities, flight schools and various industry affiliates. FlySafe partners are interested in enhancing the safety of their directly-owned or member-owned aircraft with Avidyne’s safety sensors and are actively promoting the FlySafe initiative.
About Avidyne Corporation (www.avidyne.com)
Avidyne’s continuing leadership in innovation and its Flying Made Simple™ system design make flying safer, more accessible and more enjoyable for pilots and their passengers. The company’s expanding line of products include the industry-leading Entegra integrated flight deck linefor new and existing aircraft, the new DFC90 and DFC100 digital flight control systems, the datalink-capable EX600 multi-function display and the dual-antenna TAS600 Series of active traffic advisory systems, the MLB700 broadcast datalink receiver, the MLX770 world-wide datalink transceiver, and the TWX670 Tactical Weather Detection system. Headquartered in Lincoln, MA, the company has facilities in Westerville, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Boulder, CO. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flightglobal.com/farnborough-2022/raytheon-promotes-low-cost-aesa-radar-for-range-of-platforms/149554.article | 2024-04-19T09:43:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817382.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419074959-20240419104959-00858.warc.gz | 0.925389 | 517 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__105582666 | en | Raytheon is promoting a new low-cost active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar intended for a range of aircraft types, from legacy fighters to ‘loyal wingman’ unmanned air vehicles (UAVs).
The PhantomStrike system is optimised for platforms that have space, weight, and power constraints, Raytheon says.
“There’s a huge market out there for upgrades, new aircraft, UAVs, and helicopters,” says Raytheon Intelligence & Space executive Richard Sandifer.
“So we thought let’s take some of the technologies we have from Raytheon that we’re developing now or have developed, and figure out how we can get a small, high performance radar into these [size-, weight-, and power-constrained] platforms.”
The radar draws from Raytheon’s work on programmes such the Patriot surface-to-air missile, which informs its gallium nitride (GaN) sensor array. Importantly for a radar designed for small platforms, PhantomStrike is air cooled, cutting weight and complexity.
Sandifer says that fixed-wing aircraft applications could include the Boeing T-7A, Korea Aerospace Industries FA-50, and Northrop F-5. Given its low cost, PhantomStrike could also be applicable for loyal wingman UAVs.
Thermal testing of the PhantomStrike array suggests the system performs better than modelled. Next year, Raytheon plans flight tests aboard its Boeing 727-200 testbed.
PhantomStrike will come in two array sizes; Raytheon has already conducted fit checks with potential customers, including with the smaller array on an F-5.
As for sales, Sandifer says the company is in discussions with several customers. In addition, PhantomStrike was developed with the international market in mind, meaning it can be obtained through a direct commercial sale, as opposed to the US government’s Foreign Military Sales process. PhantomStrike can also be produced outside the USA.
Sandifer adds that given its cost, PhantomStrike is suitable for the so-called ‘attritible’ unmanned aircraft of the future.
“It’s half the price of a modern day radar,” he says. “If you’re looking for radar with this performance on an attritible [aircraft] for the price that we’re asking, it’s a no-brainer.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.slideserve.com/raanan/saturn | 2024-03-03T18:04:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00018.warc.gz | 0.913953 | 838 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__48092293 | en | 200 likes | 587 Views
Saturn. Introduction to Saturn. Saturn is the sixth planet in our solar system and is the second largest planet . Saturn is a gas giant along with three others in our solar system. Saturn’s orbit. Saturn orbits the sun at a speed of around 9.69km/s.
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Introduction to Saturn • Saturn is the sixth planet in our solar system and is the second largest planet. • Saturn is a gas giant along with three others in our solar system.
Saturn’s orbit • Saturn orbits the sun at a speed of around 9.69km/s. • Saturn finish's on revolution around the sun in around 29.5 Earth years.
Saturn’s rotation • Saturn rotates at different speed depending on certain parts are above or under the equator. The parts below the equator rotate at a 10 hour and 39 minutes speed and above the equator rotate at a speed of 10 hours 14 minutes.
Saturn’s distance from the Sun • Saturn’s distance from the sun is very far do to it is the sixth planet away from the sun. Saturn’s average distance from the sun is about 1.4 billion km away or 9 AU. Since our solar system is not a complete circle Saturn can be closer to the sun and farther away from the sun.
Saturn’s gravity • Saturn’s gravity is less than Earth’s even though it is the second largest planet this is due to the gases on Saturn. Saturn’s gravity is 10.44 m/s2.
Saturn’s atmosphere • Saturn’s atmosphere is made up of around 96% of hydrogen and around 3% of helium. The other 1% of Saturn’s atmosphere is made up of methane and ice water.
Saturn's temperature • Saturn’s temperature is very cool, Saturn’s average temperature is -178 degrees Celsius. Saturn can get much hotter as you make your way to Saturn’s core. Saturn has three layers of clouds which affects the temperature on Saturn. The first or upper layer of Saturn the average temperature is -113 C, the second or middle layers average temperature is -88 C, and lastly the bottom layers average temperature is 50 C.
Saturn’s weather • Weather on Saturn is very cooled it is very windy. Saturn’s winds can reach speeds up to 1,000 M/H. Saturn is a gas giant so it is composed with helium and hydrogen.
Saturn’s composition of the planet • Saturn’s composition as you see to the right shows the composition. The core of Saturn is rock and ice. Saturn is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium.
Saturn’s other surface data • Saturn’s surface area is 42.7 billion k.m². • Saturn’s volume is 827,129,915,150,897 km3 • Saturn’s mass is 568.3E24 kg • Saturn’s density is 687.00 kg/m3
Saturn’s surrendering objects • Saturn has many surrounding objects, some of them are 150 moons surrounding Saturn Including the rings they make up 90% of Saturn’s mass. This is a photo of Titan the largest moon of the planet Saturn.
Saturn's history • In 1973 a space probe called Pioneer II captured the first up close pictures of Saturn. There were two other voyages to Saturn and its largest moon Titan. The most resent mission to Saturn was in Saturn’s orbit in 2004. Cassini stayed in Saturn’s orbit to study new moons and even new rings. This is a photo of the mission badge for the mission to observe Saturn.
Saturn’s fun facts • Saturn is named after a Roman god • Saturn’s biggest moon is named Titan • The day Saturday was named after Saturn • Saturn is least dense planet in our solar system • Saturn is not the only planet with rings | aerospace | 1 |
https://advancedtech.airliquide.com/air-liquides-technology-takes-a400m | 2024-04-24T13:28:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00649.warc.gz | 0.940909 | 288 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__145970936 | en | Air Liquide's technology takes off with the A400M
A partner of the A400M programme since the outset, Air Liquide is proud to be able to include its "OBOGS" technology among those fitted on the first aircraft delivered for France today.
France will sign off the first A400M – Airbus's ultra-modern military transport plane – in Spain today, and the aircraft will be fitted with an oxygen generation system designed by Air Liquide.
The A400M represents the most modern and competitive solution for meeting European needs in terms of tactical transportation, logistics, humanitarian aid, and peacekeeping.
The OBOGS is an on-board oxygen generation system. This equipment packs a huge number of innovations and makes it possible to enrich the air in oxygen, thereby meeting the physiological needs of the seven crew members at altitudes of up to 25,000 feet (7,600 metres).
Getting its energy supply from the plane's engines, the OBOGS can provide an unlimited amount of oxygen for the crew, which makes it possible to get beyond concerns about range and logistic constraints: a true leap forward and a real advantage.
Certified last March and declared "airworthy" (fit for flying), Air Liquide's OBOGS has already been fitted to several of these new aircraft, including the one delivered today for France.
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https://news.err.ee/1608348215/russian-ambassador-summoned-after-aircraft-violates-estonian-airspace | 2023-06-02T02:09:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648245.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602003804-20230602033804-00559.warc.gz | 0.947544 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__143637660 | en | Russian ambassador summoned after aircraft violates Estonian airspace
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday summoned the Russian ambassador to deliver a note after a violation of Estonian airspace by an aircraft of the Russian Federation.
Yesterday (Wednesday), at noon a Russian Air Force plane Beriev A-50 entered Estonian airspace above Vaindloo Island area without permission. The plane stayed in Estonian airspace for less than a minute.
The aircraft had a flight plan, but the transponder was turned off. At the time of the violation, the aircraft also did not have two-way radio communication with Estonian air traffic control.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Ambassador Alexander Petrov to express protest and deliver a note about the violation of the border of the Estonian airspace that took place on Wednesday.
"For Estonia, this is a very regrettable and serious incident and such series of repeated violations is not acceptable in any way," the ministry said.
This was the sixth violation of the Estonian air border this year.
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https://www.silkwaygroup.com/silk-way-west-airlines | 2024-02-25T13:57:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474617.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225135334-20240225165334-00533.warc.gz | 0.950767 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__106403114 | en | Our aim at Silk Way West is to become the continent’s leading cargo airline by providing our customers with the best and most cost-effective solutions for transportation of any kind of cargo. Every member of our outstanding personnel upholds Silk Way West’s commitment to reliability and safety along our route network of more than 50 destinations.
We are always eager to assist our clients in organizing their cargo transportation. Silk Way West has extensive experience in areas not serviced by other airlines, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, in addition to regular flights on intercontinental routes that extend throughout Asia and Europe from our centrally located hub in Baku. We work with government and non-government organizations from all over the world to provide dedicated solutions to any request, no matter how complex.
Our fleet of Boeing 747-400F and Boeing 747-8F aircraft meets the highest standards in aviation safety, and all airplanes are equipped with security systems such as our Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), ELT, ADF, and RVSM. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.duncanaviation.aero/news/duncan-aviation-completes-sixth-stc-for-gogo-avance-l5 | 2024-03-03T22:49:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476399.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303210414-20240304000414-00309.warc.gz | 0.924807 | 869 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__15067152 | en | LINCOLN, NEB — Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that its Engineering and Certification Department has completed six full-equipment Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) for Gogo Business Aviation’s (NYSE: GOGO) AVANCETM L5 in-flight Internet and Wi-Fi system. These STCs cover the Wi-Fi certification and full equipment and antenna installation required to provide in-flight connectivity to the Gogo Biz® 4G network and were issued for the following aircraft makes/models:
The Duncan Aviation STCs have been used for more than 50 installations of the Gogo AVANCE L5 Wi-Fi system.
“We currently do not have additional certifications in work but are excited about the future of in-flight connectivity,” says Manager of Completions Service Sales Nate Klenke. “We will continue to evaluate the market along with advances in technology to provide our cliets with additional certifications.”
Gogo AVANCE L5 connects to the Gogo Biz 4G network delivering faster speeds and enhanced network capacity enabling activities such as live streaming video and audio, video conferencing, on-demand movies, personal smartphone use, real-time data for cockpit apps, and remote diagnostics and support while in flight.
Duncan Aviation has completed more than 30 installations of the Gogo AVANCE L5 Wi-Fi system in aircraft at two of its full-service facilities (Battle Creek, Michigan, and Lincoln, Nebraska) and has installations scheduled at its facility in Provo, Utah, during the second half of this year. Additionally, there are installations scheduled at several of the company’s 26+ Satellite Avionics Shops, and several have been completed at the Satellite Shops in Houston, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Engineering and Certification Department at Duncan Aviation has applied for approval from the Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) and has received validation on the CL-600-2B16 series, covering Challenger CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, CL-604, CL-605 and CL-650 aircraft.
“We expect to receive TCCA STC validation for the remainder of the makes and models in the coming months,” says Engineering/Alterations Planner Mark Pawlowski. “We are evaluating validation of our Gogo AVANCE L5 STCs with the Mexico Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics.”
To schedule a Gogo AVANCE L5 installation at any of the main Duncan Aviation facilities (Battle Creek, Michigan; Lincoln, Nebraska and Provo, Utah) and select Satellite facilities throughout the United States, contact a Duncan Aviation Avionics Installations Rep (www.duncanaviation.aero/services/avionics-installation/contacts).
Duncan Aviation is an aircraft service provider supporting the aviation needs of business aircraft operators, government agencies, and other aircraft service providers. Services include major and minor airframe inspections, engine maintenance, major retrofits for cabin and cockpit avionics systems, full paint and interior services, engineering and certification services, fabrication and manufacturing services, and preowned aircraft sales and acquisitions. Duncan Aviation also has international aircraft components solutions experts available 24/7/365 at +1 402.475.4125 who can handle any aircraft system problem with immediate exchanges, rotables, loaners or avionics/instrument/accessory repairs and overhauls. Complete service facilities are located in Battle Creek, Michigan; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Provo, Utah. We also have dozens of other facilities strategically located throughout the United States to provide customers with scheduled regional support and the quickest response possible to avionics, engine and airframe Aircraft On Ground (AOG) situations.
For more information about any of Duncan Aviation’s services, call +1 402.475.2611 or visit https://www.DuncanAviation.aero/services
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http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/75677/ | 2016-05-28T13:53:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277807.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00126-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.956686 | 1,020 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__70195977 | en | Katekebo From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 712 posts, RR: 6 Posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 4317 times:
Yesterday early morning when I arrived to Amsterdam from Brussels the weather was quite bad, with a lot of strong wind, heavy rain and turbulence. We flew in a Fokker 70 and it was one of the most "funny" landings I have ever experienced (after accumulating more than 1 million miles so far).
I noticed that flights on Fokker 70's were operating as scheduled, but flights on Boeing 737's were delayed. I did not find information about other aircraft types.
My questions are:
1) Is there a significant difference between airplane types and models regarding the maximum cross wind, wind velocity, and other bad weather conditions that the are authorized to take off and land in?
2) Generally speaking, can bigger / heavier aircraft operate in worse weather than smaller aircraft? Or can smaller aircraft like the F70 operate in worse weather than big planes because they are easier to control and more responsive?
3) Are the bad weather limits something determined by the airlines or by the authorities?
Mr.BA From Singapore, joined Sep 2000, 3423 posts, RR: 20
Reply 1, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 4278 times:
Just a side note too many a time I noticed that B737s made it down in severe weather and wind conditions but you'd see the likes of A330s, B767s, B777s, A340s diverting? Only the B747s and B734s made it down nicely!
Mandala499 From Indonesia, joined Aug 2001, 7561 posts, RR: 76
Reply 2, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 4249 times:
Well, in some place in this world... when bad weather comes in, the 737s made it, the 747s made it, the 757/767s made it, the 777s made it, the A300s and A310s made it... the A319s made it, the 320s made it, but the 321s are the only one left holding!
When losing situational awareness, pray Cumulus Granitus isn't nearby !
Jetguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 4189 times:
When it comes to "bad weather" limitations, bigger isn't always better. Over the years, hundreds of people have been killed in windshear related accidents on one of the big factors in these type accidents is aircraft size. To put it simply, large, heavy aircraft are affected considerably more by windshear than smaller, lighter aircraft. It's high school physics - mass and inertia. Larger, heaver aircraft have more inertia to overcome which makes it harder for them to accelerate relative to the airmass that they are flying in. Light aircraft have less inertia to overcome plus they usually have the advantage of "instant" airflow over the wings when power is applied.
What this means is that large aircarrier type aircraft are more susceptible to windshear than smaller jets and light aircraft. In fact, I can't honestly remember any corporate jet ever being lost to windshear. Same thing applies to light aircraft. Not to say that it hasn't ever happened, it's just extremely rare.
Kellmark From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 698 posts, RR: 7
Reply 5, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 4183 times:
There are several factors involved here.
1. Low visibility issues. This is related to 3 factors. The airport facility and its capability, ILS, GPS or what it has for instrument landings. The aircraft and what it is equipped for, and the crew's qualifications. For example, for a CAT IIIA approach down to 600 foot visibility minimums, everything has to be qualified down to that level. If it is not, then the minimum visibility is raised accordingly. For example, if a Captain is new and has few hours on that particular type, then his minimums are raised. So each individual aircraft and flight may have a different situation. Some airlines also elect not to spend the money to get the best qualifications/lowest minimums. Its a business decision.
2. Then there are the wind conditions. Each aircraft type has a maximum demonstrated crosswind and limiting tailwind. Although usually landing in a headwind, the approach must meet those conditions. Also, many carriers, when there is turbulence, recommend additional speed adjustments on approach to compensate. All of this makes an approach more difficult, and individual crews may decide not to chance an approach depending on their comfort level even if they are within limits. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2018/10/15/nasas-hackathon-kicks-off-on-friday/ | 2023-03-29T19:57:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949025.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230329182643-20230329212643-00436.warc.gz | 0.917634 | 374 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__252302452 | en | NASA’s Space Apps Cairo chapter is gearing up to participate in the world’s largest hackathon for the fourth time in a row, taking place on 19-20 October at Nile University.
The hackathon is organised by the Egyptian section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is sponsored by the US Embassy in Cairo and SPEdu.
The International Space Apps Challenge is a part of NASA’s Earth Science Division -the world’s largest global hackathon- engaging thousands of citizens every year across the globe to work with NASA in building innovative solutions for the challenges we face on Earth, and in space, using open-source data.
It is a technology development event that draws on the talents and initiative of bright minded volunteers –developers, engineers, technologists, designers, and anyone with a passion and desire to make an immediate impact on the world or with an interest in Earth, space, and open data.
Cairo has been hosting the challenge since 2015 where it was ranked amongst the most successful
hackathons worldwide, with the largest number of registered applicants globally.
In 2016, Cairo was again chosen by NASA as one of a few exemplary sites for the Global Organizing Team to attend.
Deborah Diaz, chief technology officer for Information Technology, said “we are reaching out to women’s organisations influential in the data and maker communities to participate, and we encourage women-led teams in the hackathon”.
Diaz added that for the first time, an Egyptian team is one of the global finalists for the most inspirational projects.
This year, NASA’s Space Apps Cairo chapter is gearing up to participate in the world’s largest hackathon with the Egyptian government announcing 2018 to be the year of ‘Special Abilities’. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/3d-illustration-space-satellite-orbit-with-cloud-photo-p665193 | 2022-11-30T16:31:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710765.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130160457-20221130190457-00038.warc.gz | 0.829215 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__148911657 | en | Photo by deepagopi. Published on 10 May 2020
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http://www.twylah.com/BBCNews/topics/memories | 2014-09-20T22:40:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657133568.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011213-00061-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | 0.893645 | 84 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__52972087 | en | Next, you'll be asked to connect with Twitter. Rest assured, we will never send a tweet from your account
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http://newjersey.news12.com/news/astronauts-dock-with-space-station-for-1-year-mission-1.10140758 | 2016-12-04T08:15:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541220.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00197-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.910665 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__212379871 | en | BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - The capsule carrying a Russian and a New Jersey native who are to spend a year away from Earth has docked with the International Space Station.
Russian national Mikhail Kornienko and West Orange native Scott Kelly are to spend 342 days aboard the orbiting laboratory, about twice as long as a standard mission on the station.
The stay is aimed at measuring the effects of a prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body, a step toward possible missions to Mars or beyond.
The Soyuz space capsule, also carrying Russia's Gennady Padalka for a six-month stay, docked about six hours after launching Saturday from Russia's manned space facility in Kazakhstan.
The Associated Press Wire Services contributed to this report. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ndtv.com/feature/cargo-plane-nearly-collides-with-southwest-airlines-flight-at-us-airport-runway-3759582 | 2023-03-31T03:51:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949533.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331020535-20230331050535-00602.warc.gz | 0.953448 | 530 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__262910826 | en | A cargo plane and a commercial jet almost collided at Austin Airport in the United States on February 4, after air traffic control (ATC) cleared them to use the same runway, as per a report in the Independent.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a FedEx cargo plane was about to land on a runway where a Southwest Airlines flight was taking off when it abruptly changed course. As per a flight-tracking group that analysed the data, radar of the near-collision showed the FedEx plane flying directly over the Southwest jet, and at their closest points horizontally, the two aircraft were less than 1,000 feet apart, the outlet stated.
To avoid a collision with the Southwest Boeing 737, the FedEx Boeing 767 cargo plane pulled up and cancelled landing at the last minute. The Southwest flight took off on time, while the FedEx plane circled and safely landed 12 minutes later, the outlet further said.
It is still unclear whether the FedEx plane took prompt action after ATC advised it to or whether the pilots made the decision on their own.
An animated video posted by Flightradar24 on Twitter shows the FedEx Boeing 767 cargo jet approaching the same runway as the Southwest plane. It briefly appears to be flying directly over the Southwest plane before abruptly turning away.
The NTSB is investigating an incident involving a Southwest 737 and FedEx 767 that occurred today in Austin. Initial ADS-B data show the landing 767 overflying the departing 737. We are processing granular data now. https://t.co/twHCydm5ixhttps://t.co/wZ3Z0xKJempic.twitter.com/nkKVjshXmf— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) February 5, 2023
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are looking into the incident, which was described as a "possible runway incursion" by the NTSB.
The cargo plane, which had taken off from Memphis, "safely landed after encountering an event just before landing at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Saturday morning," a FedEx spokesperson told the Independent.
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According to the Washington Post, in an audio recording reportedly released from air traffic control in Austin, "Southwest abort. FedEx is on the go," can be heard saying. However, it is mentioned that it is yet to be understood whether the warning was issued by the pilot of the Boeing 767 or air traffic controllers. | aerospace | 1 |
https://generalaviationnews.com/2012/10/11/gans-own-jamie-beckett-wins-aopas-lets-go-flying-award/ | 2023-06-04T10:51:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649741.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604093242-20230604123242-00725.warc.gz | 0.957897 | 469 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__253517132 | en | The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has named Jamie Beckett, our Politics for Pilots blogger, recipient of its 2012 Let’s Go Flying Award, for his efforts in promoting and defending general aviation. The award was presented Thursday during the AOPA Aviation Summit in Palm Springs, Calif.
Beckett’s love of aviation began early as the son of a U. S. Air Force pilot who flew F-86s before becoming a Pan Am captain. After a “youthful flirtation” with the music industry, at age 30, Beckett decided to switch careers.
He originally intended to be an airline pilot and got his first job as a flight instructor in Winter Haven, Florida, in 1991. He also began writing about aviation issues for US Aviator. He earned his airframe and powerplant license in 1998.
Beckett has held jobs including a stint at Tim Reilly’s Warbird Museum in Kissimmee, Fla., where he helped rebuild the B-17 that toured the country as the “Liberty Belle.” He also did marketing and restoration work for Fantasy of Flight. And he has just completed his third year as an elected city commissioner, a position he uses to regularly advocate for general aviation and Gilbert Field.
Beckett blazed a trail in aviation advocacy by founding and serving as chairman of the Polk Aviation Alliance. The alliance was created to bring together the management of Polk County’s municipally owned airports, as well as that of SUN ’n FUN, Fantasy of Flight, the Seaplane Pilots Association, the Central Florida Aerospace Academy, Polk State College, and various government agencies. He writes about the joys and benefits of the industry in General Aviation News.
The Let’s Go Flying Award honors the individual or organization that best demonstrates the passion and commitment needed to ensure the future of general aviation. Previous winners include: 2011, Mireille Goyer, creator of the annual Women of Aviation Worldwide Week initiative; 2010, U.S. Marine Capt. Gabriel Glinsky, a V-22 Osprey pilot who taught a civilian ground school during a nine-month combat tour in Afghanistan; and 2009, actor/pilot Harrison Ford.
For more information: AOPA.org | aerospace | 1 |
http://eng.mynewshub.cc/mh122-flight-captain-made-accurate-decision/ | 2018-08-21T22:09:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221219109.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20180821210655-20180821230655-00697.warc.gz | 0.977147 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__204636599 | en | KUALA LUMPUR – The operating captain and crew of Malaysia Airlines flight MH122 made an accurate decision to obtain technical assistance from the nearest airport before landing the plane safely in Alice Springs Airport, says Group Chief Executive Officer, Captain Izham Ismail.
In a statement today, Izham said, the flight to Kuala Lumpur from Sydney was diverted to Alice Springs Airport, Australia on Jan 18 after facing technical difficulties.
Izham said based on reports received, there was a loud bang heard from the left hand engine, followed by a warning indicator which appeared on the electronic aircraft monitoring system which led the captain to request for the cabin crew to prepare for a normal landing.
“There was no chaos reported in the cabin. I thank all crew onboard for managing the situation by the book and in the calmest way possible. They crew performed their duties well, in line with their extensive training, in managing such situations. Safety was at no time, compromised.
“I apologise to all our guests over the incident and understand the anxiety experienced,” he said.
He said the affected passengers had been accommodated at four various hotels close to the airport and were provided meals and transportation.
“The passengers would continue their journey to Kuala Lumpur today on MH148, which would depart Alice Springs at 5.45pm and arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 9.50 pm the same day while passengers with onward connections have been rebooked on to the next available flights to their destination,” he said. – BERNAMA | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.modernghana.com/news/388396/1/iberia-begins-accra-madrid-flights-in-july.html | 2017-10-23T22:30:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187826840.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023221059-20171024001059-00647.warc.gz | 0.949534 | 143 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__97583446 | en | Madrid-based Airline, Iberia, is set to begin scheduled flight from Accra to Madrid from July this year.
The airline will however start its operations in partnership with British Airways which merged with Iberia in 2010.
Ghana's commercial manager for British Airways James Wooldridge told Joy Business they will offer seamless travelling experience to their passengers.
He added that Iberia hopes to capitalize on the structures of British Airways to reduce their cost of operations
About 40 airlines could be operating from the Kotoka International Airport by the close of this year as four international airlines are due to start operations.
They include: China Eastern Airlines, Qatar Airways, Air Canada and Royal Jordanian Airlines | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.azwg.org/2020/03/13/scholarships-to-three-azwg-cadets/ | 2021-11-30T20:27:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964359073.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130201935-20211130231935-00477.warc.gz | 0.938205 | 439 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__105590727 | en | Three Arizona Wing cadets received notification recently of their selection for national flight training scholarships.
Each year CAP awards academic and flight training scholarships to cadets based on merit. This year, three Arizona Wing cadets are among 36 nationwide who will receive flight training scholarships. Each scholarship pays $1,000 toward flight training.
The three cadets are:
- C/Lt. Col. Jacob Kottraba, Eloy Composite Squadron
- C/Capt. Weiss O’Connor, Deer Valley Composite Squadron
- C/2nd Lt. Johnathon Wilmoth, 388th Composite Squadron
These three cadets were among 246 who applied for flight training scholarships.
In a notification letter, CAP National Commander Maj. Gen. Mark E. Smith told the cadets, “For the aviation-minded, 107 of the applicants indicated they have piloting experience equivalent to the CAP pre-solo badge or more. Judging by the competition, your accomplishments place you at the top of the best of the best. I am pleased that we, CAP, can honor you with a reward for a job well-done, which helps you achieve your future academic or aviation goals.”
Three Arizona Wing cadets also received notification from national headquarters that they are prospective candidates for the Cadet Wings program.
According to the Cadet Wings Student Guide, the program “provides funded training to selected Civil Air Patrol cadets to earn their Private Pilot Certificate (PPC) in the Airplane (Single Engine Land-ASEL or otherwise known as powered), Glider, or Lighter-than-air (Balloon) categories and classes. The Air Force has allocated Civil Air Patrol (CAP) funds for CAP cadet flight training with the goal of fulfilling its mission of developing tomorrow’s aerospace leaders.
“As part of the Youth Aviation Initiative (YAI), Cadet Wings is a merit-based program, providing formal flight training for CAP cadets pursuing a PPC.”
More information will be announced as Cadet Wings finalists are selected and announced.
Read more about flight training opportunities for CAP cadets here. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.flykcub.com/?q=content/young-eagles-0 | 2024-04-15T11:59:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816977.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415111434-20240415141434-00740.warc.gz | 0.93427 | 305 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__139360917 | en | Palmetto Sport Aviation (Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 242) participates in the national Young Eagles program which gives young people between the ages of 8 and 17 a FREE introductory experience in general aviation which includes a 20 minute flight with an experienced, local, volunteer pilot. Since 1993, EAA Chapter 242 has flown over 10,000 Young Eagles! We are also striving to provide more and more ground activities to further enrich the visit to the Airport and the Chapter.
Young Eagles flights are offered on the second Saturday of each month. Weather permitting, flying begins at 9:00 a.m. The location for the event is the Chapter's Club House (the “Sport Aviation Center”) at the end of Hangar Building 'F' opposite the main terminal past the parking lot. Look for our “Young Eagles” banner on the fence as you drive in.
For individual children, there is no pre-scheduling per se until the morning of the event. Each child will require a permission form signed by a parent or guardian. For anyone bringing an organized group of more than three children (such as a Scout troop), or if you need to obtain registration forms for signature ahead of time, please send an e-mail message to [email protected] to give us some advanced notice and make arrangements.
While not everyone who participates in the Young Eagles Program becomes a pilot, the experience of flight is guaranteed to give each participant a new perspective on their world. | aerospace | 1 |
https://petapixel.com/2023/10/19/new-images-of-jupiters-moon-io-are-the-best-ever/ | 2024-02-25T03:25:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474573.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225003942-20240225033942-00522.warc.gz | 0.951007 | 452 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__147553668 | en | NASA’s Juno spacecraft took its best-ever images of Jupiter’s moon Io after making a close pass on Sunday — just 7,235 miles.
Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system with more than 400 active volcanoes on its surface, some of which are thought to be taller than Mount Everest.
The dark splotches indicate lava flows, shadows cast from the tall peaks, and even volcanic plumes that are bellowing out into space.
— Jason Perry (@volcanopele) October 17, 2023
Io is slightly larger than Earth’s moon and one of 95 known moons that orbit Jupiter. But it is one of the four largest moons, known as the Galilean moons, in the Jovian system.
The Juno spacecraft is scheduled to make an even closer pass to Io in December and then again in January 2024.
“We’re marching closer and closer,” Scott Bolton, the Juno mission’s principal investigator, told Mashable earlier this year.
The extreme volcanic activity means that Io isn’t suitable for life to exist but other Jovian moons could be.
One of Jupiter’s other moons, Europa, could potentially harbor extraterrestrial life because scientists believe beneath its icy surface is a water ocean.
All of the images from the Juno spacecraft are taken with JunoCam, a visible-light camera with a field of view of 58 degrees. It has four filters; red, green, and, blue, that filter visible light. The fourth filter, a methane band, provides color imaging.
Originally, Juno’s mission was to investigate Jupiter but its mission was extended and expanded to include three of the four Galilean satellites and the gas giant’s rings.
Over the years, NASA’s Juno probe has captured some of the most beautiful photos of Jupiter (see below) which it has been orbiting since 2016.
The Juno mission was never scheduled to inspect Jupiter’s moons and only came about after NASA got an unexpected 42 extra passes of Jupiter which threw up an opportunity to snatch close glimpses of Jupiter’s moons.
Image credits: NASA | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/08/22/nasas-giant-us-moon-rocket-debuts-on-launchpad%EF%BF%BC.html | 2022-09-29T05:24:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335304.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929034214-20220929064214-00093.warc.gz | 0.88269 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__190058738 | en | NASA’s gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, made its launchpad debut on Tuesday (Aug. 16) ahead of the behemoth’s debut test flight this month.
The 322-foot-tall (98-meter) rocket is scheduled to embark on its first mission to space — without any humans — on Aug. 29. It will be a crucial, long-delayed demonstration trip to the moon for NASA’s Artemis program, the United States’ multibillion-dollar effort to return humans to the lunar surface as practice for future missions to Mars.
It took 11 hours for the rocket to make the journey overnight from its assembly building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its four-mile trek to the launchpad.
The development of the Space Launch System was led over the past decade by Boeing.
Sitting atop the rocket is NASA’s Orion astronaut capsule, built by Lockheed Martin, it is designed to separate from the rocket in space, ferry humans toward the moon and rendezvous with a separate spacecraft that will take astronauts to the lunar surface.
For the Aug. 29 mission, called Artemis 1, the Orion capsule will launch atop the Space Launch System without any humans and orbit the moon before returning to Earth for an ocean splashdown 42 days later. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/containing-a-payload.155820/ | 2019-11-13T18:42:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667319.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113164312-20191113192312-00274.warc.gz | 0.966115 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__79028229 | en | Almost done with my first payload rocket. Main tube and fins are modeled after the Bertha. Except I went TTW to a 24mm motor mount. Then strapped on the Apogee boosters. Question is regarding the rockets nose cone and how to keep it in place during flight. I know most people use a friction fit on LPR but I sized the payload tube to fit a glow stick. Kinda heavy, so I'm concerned that a friction fit might come apart. Should I use a screw or will a tight fit suffice? Not concerned with the aerodynamics of a screw head. Wasn't trying to build for max performance or anything. Also... I had intended to attach a kevlar cord to the motor mount but managed to forget when I glued it together a year ago lol. Looking for ideas on how to still accomplish that. One idea was to attach cord to a coupler and shove the coupler down into the rocket. A little late to try the replaceable method I had been using on my other builds. Any recommendations would be great. Thanks! Thanks! | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.androidhire.com/web-stories/a-mississippi-circling-plane-lands-in-a-field-according-to-a-source-the-pilot-was-taken-into-prison-following-an-alleged-threat-against-walmart/ | 2022-09-25T08:08:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334515.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925070216-20220925100216-00648.warc.gz | 0.97648 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__231916077 | en | According to a source, the pilot who allegedly threatened to crash the stolen plane into a Walmart in Tupelo is now in police custody.
When the pilot called 911 and issued the threat at 5 a.m. local time, Tupelo police were alerted.
When the jet made an emergency landing many miles away from Ripley Airport, the pilot was the only one inside.
The Walmart in Tupelo has been evacuated and is currently closed.
A video that has been circulated shows the pilot and small plane in a field, mostly undamaged.
Police are forwarding inquiries to law enforcement and collaborating closely with local investigators.
According to a spokeswoman, the FBI field office in Jackson, Mississippi, took part in the incident response. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.enterprisetechnologyreview.com/news/how-to-guard-the-drones-adopt-these-measures-nwid-152.html | 2023-05-28T09:15:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643663.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528083025-20230528113025-00712.warc.gz | 0.940513 | 586 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__53999880 | en | Lisa Ellman, Partner and UAS Practice Co-Chair,...
Dominic Casserley, President and Deputy CEO,...
Jonathan Hinkle, AVP IT Operations, American...
Frederick Wedley, VP, Technology Services, CH2M
Enterprise Technology Review | Friday, March 29, 2019
As drones have entered the mainstream industries, concerns have arisen concerning the security and protection of sensitive data. Hacking attacks against companies have become prevalent lately. As the drone technology is gaining prominence, the question arises is: Are drones safe from hacking? Well, this incredible, easily accessible, and useful technology can be easily exposed to hacking and can lead to catastrophic outcomes. Hence, to ensure drone safety one must prioritize it.
Due to the growing market demand and the need to gain a competitive edge, drone makers have failed to consider hacking and other security issues. They have been unable to contemplate robust cybersecurity and defense policies and mechanisms for ensuring drone safety. Below mentioned are a few ways in which enterprises can guard themselves against the malicious actors out there.
1. Quality Drones: Well, failures on the manufacturer’s part are not the only reason for compromised drone security. Users must be careful about plenty of things- firstly, before buying a drone one must conduct comprehensive research on every drone brand. Also, one must consider that even if inexpensive drones have all the capabilities, one must not compromise just because of the additional cost.
2. Secure network: One must ensure that the device that is used for operating a drone- a smartphone, computer or a laptop must be free from viruses or other malware. The upgradation of antivirus applications must not be delayed; such issues become the loopholes and hacker’s favorite entry spots. One must use a virtual private network (VPN) that creates an encryption-based connection during communication that would make hacker’s job complicated.
3. Change the flying pattern: One should not stick to the same flying pattern every day. This is because the same model will help hackers to quickly make a note of it. But if the drones change the routes, hackers will not be able to get hold of the drones and their flying patterns.
4. Encrypting Communication: Manufacturers have to assure that the drones they produce are robust and have strong encryption. The absence of encryption will help hackers to keep a track on the communication easily. They will have a record of what data is being transmitted; they can even alter that data, send fake commands, and manipulate drones to work according to their wish.
Drones have a broad spectrum of possibilities. But it would not take much time for an experienced hacker to get into the system. Therefore to ensure a secure drone flight, one needs to ensure drone safety in the first place.
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https://katten.com/international-air-transport-association-iata-legal-symposium | 2023-12-09T00:54:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100781.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209004202-20231209034202-00555.warc.gz | 0.934268 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__83886112 | en | Alan Meneghetti will be a panelist at the “Cybersecurity and Data Protection: Risks, Challenges and Looking Ahead in the Aviation Industry and Beyond” session as part of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Legal Symposium on February 21. The breakout panel will focus on and explore key legal and technical risks and challenges in cybersecurity, both generally and as specifically applicable to the aviation industry. The panel also will look at aspects beyond cybersecurity as a security issue, including the convergence of data protection, privacy requirements and cybersecurity. Implementation, accountability and governance issues, as well as commercial upsides of tackling cybersecurity and data protection challenges in the industry will be part of the discussion. For more information, click here. | aerospace | 1 |
https://brickblockarmy.com/products/ww2-german-bf-109-plane | 2019-06-26T22:48:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000575.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190626214837-20190627000837-00084.warc.gz | 0.798348 | 84 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__159880636 | en | WW2 German BF-109 Fighter Plane
This nimble German fighter formed the backbone of Germany's air force. Use it primarily to intercept allied bombers and other fighter threats.
Consisting of a simple design this nimble plane Fighter Plane is perfect for any WW2 scene display.
- 286 pieces and instructions manual
- 1 Figure
- 1 open top canopy
- Pull up wheels
- Powerful engine design | aerospace | 1 |
http://aero-news.net/bannertransfer.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=d1f899b3-25e9-44cf-851c-c512ac0a9b4f | 2017-02-20T08:44:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170434.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00132-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.926303 | 669 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__18835721 | en | Fri, Dec 05, 2008
STS-125 To Finally Fly In May 2009
Thwarted earlier this year by a series of technical problems
onboard the orbital observatory, NASA announced this week the space
shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space
Telescope has been rescheduled to launch May 12, 2009.
STS-125 is an 11-day flight featuring five spacewalks to extend
Hubble's life into the next decade by refurbishing and upgrading
the telescope with state-of-the-art science instruments and
swapping failed hardware. Scott Altman will command STS-125, with
Gregory C. Johnson serving as pilot. Mission specialists are
veteran spacewalkers John Grunsfeld and Mike Massimino, and
first-time space fliers Andrew Feustel, Michael Good and Megan
The final servicing mission to Hubble was delayed in September
when a data handling unit on the telescope failed. Since then,
engineers have been working to prepare a spare for flight. They
expect to be able to ship the spare, known as the Science
Instrument Command and Data Handling System, to NASA's Kennedy
Space Center in Florida in spring 2009.
As ANN reported, NASA had hoped to launch the
delayed mission as early as February... but was forced to bump the
launch further due to the need for extra time to make the SICDHS
The manifest has been adjusted to reflect current planning. The
next space shuttle mission, STS-119, is now targeted for launch
February 12, 2009.
NASA is also examining its planned STS-127 mission onboard
Endeavour, currently targeted for launch on May 15, 2009. While
that launch date will likely be pushed off to accommodate STS-125,
the orbiter will be on the pad in time to serve as a "lifeboat" for
the Atlantis crew should an emergency arise on-orbit.
STS-128 is targeted for August 2009, and STS-129 is targeted for
November 2009. All target launch dates are subject to change.
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https://donmooreswartales.com/2010/08/04/neil-kennedy/ | 2023-02-05T14:37:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500255.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205130241-20230205160241-00461.warc.gz | 0.975036 | 1,860 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__300050842 | en | Capt. Neil Kennedy flew a KC-135 jet tanker in Vietnam War and continued to pilot the same flying gas station for the Strategic Air Command after the Southeast Asian war. He retired in 1991 as a brigadier general after 32 years of service in the U.S. Air Force and the Air Force National Guard and moved to Calusa Lakes subdivision in Nokomis, Fla.
“I volunteered for the Vietnam War in 1966 and flew with the 28th Air Refueling Group out of Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. We flew modified versions of the Boeing 707 airliner,” the 75-year-old former pilot explained. “We flew our tankers out of Okinawa to Vietnam mostly. Other units flew from the Philippines and Thailand and we were stationed overseas for three to six months at a time.”
Kennedy’s outfit kept B-52 and B-47 bombers in the air. They also gassed up F-104s and F-105 fighter-bombers and Navy and Marine jets, too.
“I flew 103 refueling missions in the combat area during the Vietnam War. We flew above the flak from enemy anti-aircraft guns,” he said. “We normally refueled planes at an altitude of 14,000 to 15,000 feet, which was out of the range of the enemy artillery. Our main concern was SAM, ground to air missiles. Fortunately I didn’t get hit.”
It was American fighter pilots and fighter-bomber pilots that caught hell from enemy ground fire when they flew down and dirty on search and destroy missions.
“One of the main problems for our fighter pilots over there was they would hit the same targets day-after-day. As fast as they would knock a target out the enemy would rebuild it,” Kennedy said. “In addition, the enemy knew when we were coming to bomb them and they would put up a wall of ground fire from artillery batteries, machine-guns, pistols, rifles — anything that would shoot and our pilots would have to fly through it.
“On one of our refueling flights we heard this guy in an F-105 saying on the radio, ‘I need a tanker immediately!’ We spotted him, turned into him and hooked up,” he said. “When he pulled up to our boom hose to refuel we could see he had shell holes all through his wings. We were pumping gas into him and he was throwing it overboard from the holes in his wings as quickly as we pumped it in.
“He was essentially out of fuel, so we keep him hooked to our boom for 45 minutes and flew him back to base trailing behind us. When we came over the base we punched him off our boom and he was still under power so he glided in for a landing,” Kennedy recalled.
He came back from Vietnam after his tours of duty over there and got a lousy reception from many Americans for taking part in the war.
“Vietnam veterans took a beating from the general public for that unpopular war. There were street demonstrations against us when we returned. The Jane Fonda’s of the world were talking to the enemy. It was a turbulent time in this country. We were just trying to do what we thought was right,” the old soldier said.
Better times were on the horizon for the career military officer. After Vietnam Kennedy returned to the 28th Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base. By this time he had made major.
Although Gen. Curtis Le May, the legendary, four-star general who ran SAC for decades, was a little before Kennedy’s time, America’s Strategic Air Force was still much under the spell of the World War II Air Force commander. SAC’s mission was to deliver a fatal load of nuclear bombs to a number of enemy cities any place and any time worldwide, if need be.
“In the 1960s Le May had SAC bombers airborne all the time. They were filled with hydrogen bombs with multiple nuclear warheads that could destroy a number of different cities with a single bomb,” he said. “His idea was that the Soviets would not be able to catch our bombers on the ground and knock out our strategic force with a single first strike. There were B-52s and B-47s circling over us all the time.”
On occasion Kennedy would get to pilot a B-52 in one of Le May’s war games.
“We’d take off from a SAC base at Rapid City, North Dakota and fly northeast toward Boston. Then we’d fly on to Tulia, Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle. From there we’d turn west and fly across Alaska and south down the Pacific Coast returning to the United States and our original base in a little over 24 hours,” he said.
Most of the time his unit was busy refueling SAC bombers as their crews practiced to blow up much of the world on Doomsday. In order to fly these long distances non-stop the strategic bombers had to gas up along the way and that was Kennedy’s primary job while in the Air Force.
Twice a year his unit would go to Omaha, N.B., SAC’s headquarter, for a biannual pep talk and general briefing of all the top brass in the command.
“Coming from a little town north of Pittsburgh, Pa. it was a very humbling experience attending this meeting with the commanding four-star general of SAC and all his staff sitting at this huge table,” Kennedy said. What always comes to mind when I think of SAC headquarters is the chapel out there with its huge stain-glass window of an aviator standing there holding his flying helmet. I’ll never forget that window till the day I die.”
In 1989 Kennedy hung up his spurs. By then he had become a brigadier general in command of the 170th Air Refueling Group out of McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. Even though he wasn’t flying for the Air Force, his flying days weren’t over.
He went to work as a Pan American pilot flying a 707 passenger jet around the world, something he had always wanted to do. This is the civilian version of the KC-135 he flew during his military career.
“I flew to Europe in the summer, when it was hot, and South America in the winter, when it was cold,” he recalled with a smile. “Every month we’d get to pick where we wanted to fly the next month. I had enough seniority I could pretty much fly where I wanted.”
The military is not only in Kennedy’s genes, but also in the genes of his sons and grandson. His youngest son, Patrick, is a colonel in the Air Force. His oldest boy, Timothy, is a Special Operations sergeant and radioman in the Air Force who flies on secret missions around the world. Then there is Airman 1st Class Justin Stroh, his grandson. He has served a couple of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and is serving there now.
He and his wife, Lou, live in Calusa Lakes. Kennedy spends much of his time on the golf course. Looking back on his three decades of service in the Air Force he said, “I wouldn’t trade a single minute of my career for anything. It was very satisfying and humbling to be able to do all that.
Name: Neil Kennedy
D.O.B.: 5 May 1935
Hometown: Mars, Pennsylvania
Currently: Nokomis, Fla.
Entered Service: February 25, 1958
Rank: Brigadier General
Unit: 1070th Air Refueling Group
Commendations: Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Force Organizational Excellence Award with “V” Device, Combat Readiness Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with 3 Bronze Service Stars, Air Force Longevity Service Award with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Device, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Married: Lou Kennedy
Children: Timothy, Patrick and Linda Stroh
This story first appeared in print in the Charlotte Sun newspaper, Port Charlotte, Florida on Friday, July 29, 2010. It is republished with permission.
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http://parabolicarc.com/tag/moon/ | 2019-10-21T12:10:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987773711.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021120639-20191021144139-00055.warc.gz | 0.936695 | 1,700 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__131611265 | en | The Ashahi Shimbun reports that Japan has formally signed on to NASA’s lunar Gateway project with specific elements to develop.
Japan’s space agency plans to take charge of development of a habitation module and an unmanned logistics vehicle for the Gateway cislunar space station as part of an international project….
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hopes to showcase the country’s excellence in technologies with an eye toward having a Japanese astronaut included in the lunar mission.
JAXA plans to work with its European counterpart to develop the habitation module by drawing on technologies it cultivated during the development and operation of the International Space Station’s Kibo experiment module, including one for recycling air and water aboard a spacecraft.
It also plans to take charge of resupplying goods using the HTV-X, a spacecraft under development as a successor to the Kounotori (HTV) unmanned transfer vehicle, seven units of which have been launched successfully.…
Vienna, Austria – (October 18, 2019) – The Moon Village Association (MVA) and Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) are pleased to announce that they have formed a strategic partnership and signed an MoU. With this MoU, the two entities aspire to strengthen their bond and their cooperation in the space sector.
This agreement between the MVA and CSEO will lead to the enhancement and progress of their common goals regarding the development of the Moon Village and promote the field of space exploration as well as developing numerous space initiatives.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (NASA PR) — A motor built by Aerojet Rocketdyne for the Launch Abort System (LAS) on NASA’s Orion spacecraft was successfully tested by engineers at the Redstone Test Center on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, October 16.
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stages to support as many as 10 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024.
On March 26, Vice President Mike Pence went to Huntsville, Ala., to declare that the Trump Administration would use “any means necessary” to accelerate the return of American astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2024 — four years earlier than planned.
Pence was putting Huntsville-based Marshall Space Flight Center and prime contractor Boeing on notice to get the delayed, over budget Space Launch System (SLS) being built to accomplish that goal back on track. If they didn’t, the administration would find other rockets to do the job.
In his effort to accelerate the Artemis lunar program, however, Pence unintentionally contributed to delays in NASA’s behind schedule effort to launch astronauts to a much closer location: low Earth orbit.
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — Amy Ross, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from left, watch as Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), and Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival Systems Project Manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing the Orion Crew Survival System suit, right, wave after being introduced by the administrator, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. The Orion suit is designed for a custom fit and incorporates safety technology and mobility features that will help protect astronauts on launch day, in emergency situations, high-risk parts of missions near the Moon, and during the high-speed return to Earth.
GLASGOW, Scotland (ESA PR) — On the left side of this before and after image is a pile of simulated lunar soil, or regolith; on the right is the same pile after essentially all the oxygen has been extracted from it, leaving a mixture of metal alloys. Both the oxygen and metal could be used in future by settlers on the Moon.
Samples returned from the lunar surface confirm that lunar regolith is made up of 40-45% percent oxygen by weight, its single most abundant element.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 8, 2019 (Aerojet Rocketdyne PR) – Aerojet Rocketdyne has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to design and manufacture a lightweight rocket engine thrust chamber assembly using innovative additive manufacturing processes and materials. The goal of the project is to reduce manufacturing costs and make a thrust chamber that is easily scalable to support a variety of missions, including America’s return to the Moon and subsequent missions to explore Mars.
WASHINGTON, DC (NASA PR) — At first glance, NASA’s new spacesuit that will be worn on Artemis missions might look like the suits that astronauts use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station today. However, 21st century moonwalkers will be able to accomplish much more complex tasks than their predecessors, thanks to strides in technological advances that started even before the Apollo program.
PARIS (ESA PR) — This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Canada.
HOUSTON (NASA PR) — As we prepare to send the first woman and next man to the Moon and on to Mars, NASA, with support from the University of Houston, has been working to develop advanced radiation detectors to better protect astronauts and vital spacecraft systems during solar storms. The detectors are based on technology that was originally developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to detect particle collisions in high-energy physics experiments. Storms emanating from our Sun release invisible, high energy particles, also called ionizing radiation, into space at relativistic speeds that can damage spacecraft electronics and systems, and impact the health of astronauts.
WASHINGTON, DC (NASA PR) — CubeSats can be part of a historic mission—Artemis 2—when NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will send astronauts on their first flight aboard the Orion spacecraft farther into the solar system than humanity has ever traveled before. Artemis 2, will mark a significant step forward in NASA’s plans to return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and future missions to worlds beyond, including Mars, and the small satellites traveling along for the mission will help inform the next steps of exploration.
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — When the first woman and next man step foot on the Moon in 2024, they will be wearing the next generation of spacesuits designed to give astronauts enhanced mobility to accomplish their exploration tasks on the lunar surface. NASA is currently designing and developing a new spacesuit system, called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit or xEMU, for use during Artemis missions at the Moon and adaptable for other destinations near and far.
The first successful launch of Germany’s A-4 ballistic missile and the orbiting of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1, took place 15 years and one day apart. The two achievements are related in more ways than their proximity on the calendar.
On Oct. 3, 1942, an A-4 developed by Wernher von Braun and his German Army team reached an altitude of 85 to 90 km (52.8 to 55.9 miles) after launch from Peenemunde on the Baltic Coast.
Pittsburgh, Pa. (Astrobotic PR) – CubeRover, an ultralight, rechargeable planetary rover developed by Astrobotic, has been awarded a $2 million NASA Tipping Point contract. The rover, roughly the size of a shoebox and weighing in at under five pounds, can carry its own payloads or team up with other CubeRovers as “scouts” for larger rovers and landers. | aerospace | 1 |
https://techport.nasa.gov/view/8774 | 2024-03-05T14:46:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00239.warc.gz | 0.950731 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__168041496 | en | The military has teams of individuals working in high stress environments over long durations. Examples include submarine crews, aircraft carriers, embedded special operations forces and pilots flying unmanned air vehicles for hours on end. Therefore we expect this same technology to transfer to military applications. A variety of commercial activities also have similar characteristics to NASA missions. As mentioned, air traffic controllers work in high-stress environment where small mistakes can be costly. Likewise, teams of operators control nuclear power plants, petrochemical plants, oil refineries, etc. They often perform standard operating procedures and need to be monitored closely for degraded performance. Even in situations in which lives or property are not at risk, monitoring and detecting problems with individual and team performance is useful for managers interested in achieving peak performance. Further possibilities include competitive sports teams, particularly professional sports teams with their highly paid teams, where team cohesiveness and particularly team performance are significant concerns.
This technology could be applied to all current and future NASA missions. While it is being developed for application to long duration space flight operations, the techniques are amenable to application in shorter duration flight operations as well, such as related to the International Space Station and Space Shuttle. This is particularly true with respect to behavioral and psychological health (whereas crew cohesiveness is anticipated to be less of an issue as duration decreases). This technology could also be applied to NASA's Aerospace activities. For example, it could be used to measure stress on air traffic controllers. Adaption to commercial airlines, in which the standardized procedures and repetitive nature of their execution within the close confines of an aircraft facilitates the modeling and establishment of norms for the behavior for individual crew. | aerospace | 1 |
https://talkradio.co.uk/news/singapore-airshow-plane-crashes-and-bursts-flames-delaying-around-170-flights-18020623791 | 2021-01-19T04:48:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703517966.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20210119042046-20210119072046-00713.warc.gz | 0.980326 | 266 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__236812021 | en | An aircraft which was part of the Singapore Airshow delayed around 170 flights after it went up in flames at Changi Airport today (February 6).
The plane was part of the Republic of Korea Air Force's Black Eagles aerobatic team, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said.
It skidded and hit a grass verge at the side of a runway at the airport and set alight, according to Channel News Asia.
CAAS reported that it had been about to take off for Singapore Airshow as part of the flight display.
It also stated that the pilot suffered minor injuries. Changi Airport Group said he was treated before being discharged from medical facilities at the airport.
A commercial passenger who witnessed the crash said "I saw the plane spin sideways, flip over and then slide down the runway upside down. It burst into flames, though most at the rear."
Changi Airport Group said the fire on the plane was controlled and put out by the services at the airport.
The runway was closed for the majority of the afternoon, leaving just one runway in operation. However it reopened at around 7pm local time.
This resulted in 170 flights being delayed for an hour or more and some facing delays of up to three hours.
Watch a video of the incident below | aerospace | 1 |
https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2010-06-16-Boeing-Names-New-F-A-18-and-EA-18-Programs-Vice-President | 2024-04-13T23:23:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00881.warc.gz | 0.918216 | 818 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__49800907 | en | ST. LOUIS, June 16, 2010 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that Kory Mathews will serve as program vice president of F/A-18 and EA-18 Programs within Boeing’s Global Strike Systems division.
Mathews succeeds Bob Gower, who has been named vice president, Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA) India.
In this position, Mathews is responsible for customer satisfaction and the quality, cost, and schedule performance of every facet of the F/A-18 family of strike fighters, including the F/A-18A/B/C/D/E/F and the EA-18G. Mathews leads all activities associated with program development, production, and support for the F/A-18 and EA-18 aircraft systems and all related elements of these programs.
Prior to this assignment, Mathews served as vice president and chief engineer for BMA, responsible for the engineering integrity of BMA products.
During Mathews' 26-year career with Boeing, he has held positions of increasing responsibility, including program manager and director roles in Advanced Systems (now Phantom Works); deputy program manager in Boeing’s Integrated Defense Advanced Systems; chief system architect for Boeing Unmanned Systems; and director of F/A-18 Strategy and Program Integration. Mathews also held positions on Boeing’s Joint Strike Fighter program that included definition and configuration management of the Joint Strike Fighter avionics preferred weapon system concept, and engineering, manufacturing and development planning for mission systems.
Mathews holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and an executive master’s degree in business administration from Washington University’s Olin Business School. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis.
"Kory’s diverse experience within Boeing, including on the F/A-18 program, will enable him to provide outstanding leadership for the F/A-18E/F and E/A-18G programs," said Shelley Lavender, vice president and general manager, Boeing Global Strike Systems. "Both the Super Hornet and Growler continue to provide increased capability for American warfighters around the globe, each day -- on-budget and on-schedule -- and Kory’s leadership will ensure that this capability will continue to be there for those who serve the United States."
The Boeing Super Hornet is a multirole aircraft, able to perform virtually every mission in the tactical spectrum, including air superiority, day/night strike with precision-guided weapons, fighter escort, close air support, suppression of enemy air defenses, maritime strike, reconnaissance, forward air control and tanker missions. Boeing has delivered more than 430 F/A-18E/Fs to the U.S. Navy. Every Super Hornet produced has been delivered on or ahead of schedule and on budget.
The EA-18G Growler incorporates a highly flexible design that enables warfighters to perform an array of Airborne Electronic Attack missions, operating either from the deck of an aircraft carrier or from land-based fields. It is the only airborne platform that delivers full-spectrum electronic attack capability, along with targeting and self-defense capabilities derived from the Navy's frontline strike fighter, the F/A-18E/F Block II Super Hornet.
A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world's largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world's largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $34 billion business with 68,000 employees worldwide.
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https://parabolicarc.com/tag/dave-evans/ | 2023-12-01T16:46:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100290.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201151933-20231201181933-00511.warc.gz | 0.889498 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__187775884 | en | - DLR is developing distributed and heterogeneous on-board computers for future space missions.
- Combination of radiation-resistant and commercially available processors that monitor each other and redistribute tasks in the event of an error.
- Successful experiment with Earth observation data on an ESA test satellite.
- Focus: space travel, earth observation, technology
COLOGNE, Germany (DLR PR) — Reliable and powerful computers play a central role in space travel: computer systems in satellites, for example, enable demanding earth observation missions. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing a new computer architecture that is intended to give the so-called on-board computers (OBC) more power and also enable them to repair themselves. Distributed heterogeneous OBCs are being developed in the ScOSA (Scalable On-Board Computing for Space Avionics) flight experiment project. You have different computing nodes connected as a network.(more…)
- Parabolic Arc
- June 17, 2022 | aerospace | 1 |
http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Arts/Art5961.htm | 2023-06-03T21:14:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649343.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603201228-20230603231228-00043.warc.gz | 0.894696 | 420 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__167431765 | en | NO-NAME DE HAVILLAND D.H.50. Sir Alan Cobham used a 385-h .p. Jaguar (radial) powered D.H .50J (G-EBFO) for his epic England - South Africa survey flight. This photograph illustrates the unique World War II 230-h.p. A.D.C. Nimbus-powered VH-UAB (c/ n. 106), built at Stag Lane in 1924. Before R.A .A.F. impressment as A.10-I it was G-AUAB, then VH-AUB. Four passengers plus pilot (in rear cockpit) could be carried.
A U.S.S.A.F. Wright Field, Dayton, experimental radar vehicle, in this case a stripped-down B-25J-32-NT (44-30646).
A special 1950 B-25 trainer conversion (N5126N). Note window curtains and nose radome.
HANDLEY PAGE "ATLANTIC". But for the successful intervention of the Vickers Vimy flown by Alcock and Brown (Saturday/Sunday, 14th/15th June, 1919) the four-motor Handley Page V.1500 "Atlantic" might have become the first aircraft to bridge the North Atlantic. A series of setbacks frustrated the Handley Page team - led by Admiral Mark Kerr. with Major H. G. Brackley and the Norwegian Major Trygve Gran as pilots - so that the attempt had to be abandoned. Instead, the "Atlantic" was used for a goodwill tour of Canada and the U.S.A. The V. 1500 was designed in 1917 to launch the air war on Berlin (some 250 were eventually built) but events decided otherwise. A 3,300-lb . H.E. bomb could be carried. Span 126 ft.; length 62 ft.; a.u.w. 30.000 lb . Normal cruise 80 m.p.h. for 1.300 miles. | aerospace | 1 |
https://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/smithsonian-air-museum-meets-shenandoah-national-park/ | 2021-09-27T20:53:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780058467.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210927181724-20210927211724-00604.warc.gz | 0.70581 | 100 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__68258236 | en | 14th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Altered Images
Smithsonian Air And Space Museum Meets Shenandoah National Park
On a recent trip to Washington DC, I wondered around the Shenandoah National Park. Later while visiting a friend we went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. So these two subjects seem to merge well together.
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|Copyright:||© Karen Portzer| | aerospace | 1 |
https://latesttalks.in/elon-musk-is-about-to-name-the-first-private-passenger-to-fly-around-the-moon/ | 2021-03-06T11:44:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178374686.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210306100836-20210306130836-00391.warc.gz | 0.940077 | 599 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__211891772 | en | Elon Musk Is About to Name The First Private Passenger to Fly Around The Moon
SpaceX has announced that it has signed the first space tourist to fly around the Moon. The announcement came as a tweet posted late Thursday.
According to the tweet, the company will announce the identity of the mystery passenger on Monday. Few other details have been provided, but a follow-up tweet by Elon Musk hints that the passenger may be from Japan.
SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle—an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space. Find out who’s flying and why on Monday, September 17. pic.twitter.com/64z4rygYhk
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 14, 2018
SpaceX will reveal the name of the Earthling who has signed up for the trip at 9 p.m. ET. But wait: What’s the BFR? And why does this plan sound so familiar? We’ve got you covered.
So, yeah. What’s the BFR?
Like so many items in Musk’s inventory, this rocket has earned itself a somewhat loaded name. The company is going with the mundane Big Falcon Rocket, based on the name of the existing Falcon rockets in the SpaceX fleet—but the exact meaning of the “F” has been negotiable for a while.
Whatever you call it, Musk originally envisioned the BFR as the primary transport vehicle for Mars-bound Earthlings. With a first-stage booster that’s roughly 200 feet tall, 30 feet across, and with dozens of Raptor engines beneath it, the BFR would be legitimately quite large.
It could send 150 tons into Earth’s orbit and thrust its partner spaceships (capable of carrying a hundred people) toward the smaller, redder planet next door.
In other words, it should be more than capable of reaching the moon, or cleaning up space junk, or ferrying people from one side of the planet to the other in about 30 minutes, all of which Musk says he’d like to do.
Cool! Is it happening?
Nope. Musk later announced that the trip has been delayed pending production of the BFR—and said that as of now, there are no plans to certify the Falcon Heavy for human spaceflight.
When might it happen?
It’s a total mystery so far. But given how long it takes SpaceX to design, build, test, and fly its rockets and crew capsules, we wouldn’t put our money on it happening any time soon.
It’s also not clear how much the private moon passenger will be paying for the privilege. For now, the world will have to wait for more details when SpaceX is ready to deliver them. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.claremoodymep.com/mars | 2018-05-22T02:12:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864622.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522014949-20180522034949-00088.warc.gz | 0.926556 | 515 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__154967561 | en | The European Space Agency is offering schools, science classes and youth clubs across Europe the opportunity to control the Mars Express webcam for one day only.
According to the ESA's website, the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) – the 'Mars Webcam' – is a simple, low-resolution device that was originally intended only to provide visual confirmation of Beagle lander separation. Since 2007, it has provided unique images of Mars, including crescent views of the planet not obtainable from Earth, which are routinely shared via a dedicated blog and Flickr.
In May, the Mars Webcam will be available for public imaging requests.
The ESA is inviting schools, astronomy clubs, science centres and other youth-engaged organisations (see eligibility details here) to propose targets for VMC imaging, which will be scheduled into an observation campaign that will run from 25–27 May.
While any number of eligible groups may submit proposals, only the most promising will be selected, one slot per group, corresponding to the eight (or so) observation slots available (the number varies depending on the targets proposed).
Proposals must include the desired observation target, a brief note about why it's interesting and a description of the intended project that will fully exploit the images. Proposals with strong educational value and representing a cohesive team effort will have the best chances of being accepted.
In return, ESA expects that groups that are awarded a slot will use 'their' image set in a scientific or artistic project that makes full, imaginative use of the visual information they contain. The projects must be shared with ESA, and they'll publish these later in the VMC blog.
The VMC image sets will be downloaded to Earth by 28 May, and then delivered to participating groups electronically. Projects should be completed by the end of the current academic year, or 31 July, whichever comes first.
Proposals will be accepted up until 27 March; any interested groups must register via the ESA's website to indicate their interest and provide details on their requested imaging target and their planned science/art project.
On 19 March, the Mars Express mission team will provide a tutorial via an #ESAHangout in Google+ and YouTube on the VMC camera and how its images are planned and acquired. Proposals can be amended afterwards, and all submissions must be firm by 27 March.
Full details on the VMC Imaging Campaign timeline, eligibility, registration and technical information are available via this link:
Online registration: Deadline 12:00 CET, 27 March | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.avjobs.com/jobs/public.asp?g=9CE2B9CD-F3EC-4397-8F57-83C1D1354977&af=RSSPUB&utm_source=Last50RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Last50RSS | 2020-09-22T21:05:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400206763.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922192512-20200922222512-00232.warc.gz | 0.931053 | 752 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__25753638 | en | Aviation Mechanic Lead Featured
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Aviation Mechanic Lead job at NextEra Energy Inc in West Palm Beach FL
Description, duties, responsibilities
Position Specific Description
The Aviation Department is seeking a Lead Maintenance Technician to oversee and perform aircraft maintenance activities. Have an extensive experience and knowledge in jet aircraft maintenance. This position also requires an individual who has team building skills, highly organized, excellent communication skills and the ability to handle sensitive information. The candidate must be dependable, have initiative, and be highly motivated to work in a team environment. This position is for day shift and working hours can be adjusted to accommodate flight schedules.
We truly have the best team in the business. Apply today to be a part of it!
Employees in this role are responsible for ensuring the highest level of dependable mechanical operation of any company owned aircraft. This job also assists the Aviation Maintenance Manager in overseeing daily maintenance operations.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Under limited supervision:
- Coordinates with maintenance technicians to perform all scheduled and unscheduled maintenance to the highest possible airworthiness standard
- Performs pre- and post- flight inspections on company aircraft
- Assists Aviation Maintenance Manager in tracking duty assignments of aircraft technicians and completing quarterly maintenance evaluation reports
- Assists with and ensures all aircraft and related documentation are processed and organized in an efficient and professional manner; maintains engine and airframe logbooks, aircraft records, related materials and aircraft manuals
- Assists in all areas of maintenance to be performed at off-site contract facilities
- Assists in and responsible for the cleanliness and organization of aviation facilities and work areas
- Ensures all support equipment is maintained properly
- Assists with all associated ground handling activities, including towing and fueling of aircraft, assisting passengers on arrivals/departures, etc.
- Serves as mentor to other aviation mechanics; serves as leader of maintenance team when Aviation Maintenance Manager is unavailable
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
High School Grad / GED
Experience: 8+ years
FAA Airframe and Powerplant Certificate
Employee Group: Non Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Aviation
Organization: NextEra Energy, Inc.
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Other Work Locations: Florida
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy Inc Company Overview
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy company with consolidated revenues of approximately $17.2 billion, operates approximately 46,790 megawatts of net generating capacity and employs approximately 14,000 people in 33 states and Canada as of year-end 2017. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy’s principal subsidiaries are Florida Power & Light Company, which serves approximately 5 million customer accounts in Florida and is one of the largest rate-regulated electric utilities in the United States, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Through its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from eight commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin. A Fortune 200 company and included in the S&P 100 index, NextEra Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity, and has been ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in Fortune’s 2018 list of "World’s Most Admired Companies. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/251331/ai-extends-contingency-plans-upto.html | 2013-05-23T18:59:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00093-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.969223 | 423 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__206657071 | en | AI extends contingency plans upto June 1
The strike by a section of Air India pilots entered its 15th day on Tuesday, forcing the airline to curtail operations till June 1.
“The contingency plan that we have put in place has now been extended to June 1 from May 25,” Air India sources said.
The ongoing crisis in Air India figured in the Rajya Sabha with Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh putting the onus on over 200 agitating pilots of the Indian Pilots Guild, saying they were not listening to the government’s appeals to end the strike.
“I committed in the House that no victimisation would be done...but pilots are not listening. That is where the situation stands today,” he said.
Air India’s image has been “dented” by the strike, he said while observing that the strike came at a time when the airlines’ revenue had gone up to 35 per cent and performance was improving.
He regretted that the striking pilots, who reported sick and did not resume work, were neither sick nor had visited doctors.
The airline has so far sacked 101 pilots. Five pilots have resumed duty. The IPG has demanded that all those sacked be reinstated and asked the airline to sort out forthwith issues relating to their career progression.With no signs of an end to the impasse, the airlines has decided to accept bookings only for those flights which are being operated under the contingency plan.
Under the plan, which Air India implemented on May 16, the national carrier is operating a bare minimum number of international operations by clubbing flights to destinations in Europe and the US.
Consequently, Air India continued operating a curtailed international schedule, flying seven West-bound flights instead of normal 16 daily flights.
The airline has so far lost more than Rs 250 crore due to the agitation by over 200 pilots, who have not been flying for the past 15 days despite.The government wants the pilots to first join back duties and then come to the negotiating table to resolve their issues. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/nasa-mars-mission-no-little-green-men----yet/d/d-id/1107613 | 2016-10-23T10:10:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00529-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938353 | 789 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__260280240 | en | NASA debunks rumors of new evidence of life on Mars, but its Curiosity rover continues to make many smaller discoveries. Some of NASA's latest images raise interesting questions.
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NASA isn't ready to announce the discovery of life on Mars. At least, not yet.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managing the Mars Science Lab mission, tried to dampen ongoing speculation about "major new findings" from the Curiosity rover. The space agency said on Thursday that rumors about a pending announcement of historic significance are incorrect.
Instead, JPL plans to provide a public update on Dec. 3 on the first soil samples taken by the rover's instruments in the search for organic compounds. "At this point in the mission, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics," JPL said in a written statement.
But NASA doesn't want to quash all hope for a breakthrough in its mission to discover signs of life on Mars. The mission has already uncovered an ancient riverbed, and "there is every expectation for remarkable discoveries still to come," the agency said.
A minor frenzy was set off on Nov. 20 when a JPL scientist was quoted as saying that Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars suite of instruments had uncovered data of such significance that it was "one for the history books."
Since Curiosity landed on Mars in early August, NASA has released scientific findings regularly as the six-wheeled rover rolls along the surface. Among the reports so far: changes in radiation on Mars are linked to daily atmospheric changes; little to no methane gas has been detected; and there's been a loss of atmosphere.
Earlier this week, NASA shared insights on a dust storm on Mars, which it has been monitoring from above using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and on the ground using Curiosity’s Rover Environmental Monitoring Station. Researchers expect those dual observation methods to provide new information about why some dust storms on Mars grow larger than others. In this case, the regional dusk storm is weakening, according to NASA.
In addition to capturing soil and atmospheric samples, Curiosity is generating thousands of images of its journey. They range from mundane pictures of the planet's rock-strewn surface to a self-documentary of the six-wheeled rover and its instruments at work. Pictured above is a composite image, comprised of 55 high-res images, that NASA describes as a "self portrait" of Curiosity. Close observation reveals scoop marks in the sand where the rover's robotic arm took samples.
Some of NASA's images provide new information about Mars, while others raise questions. As the world waits and watches for further discoveries from Curiosity, these pictures in this slideshow show the scientific process at work. Image credit: NASA
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https://headlines360.news/2021/02/23/perseverance-rover-landing-on-mars/ | 2022-12-09T15:52:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711417.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209144722-20221209174722-00796.warc.gz | 0.943424 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__55286118 | en | NASA has unveiled the first-ever video of a landing on Mars as seen by the Perseverance rover. You can see the video below:
The unprecedented footage takes viewers along for Perseverance’s harrowing ride, even showing the moment the rover, still attached via cables to its “sky crane” descent stage, hit the red dirt on Jezero’s floor.
“For those who wonder how you land on Mars, or why it is so difficult, or how cool it would be to do so — you need look no further,” acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said in a statement today (Feb. 22), when the entry, descent and landing (EDL) footage was unveiled.
“Perseverance is just getting started and already has provided some of the most iconic visuals in space exploration history,” Jurczyk added. “It reinforces the remarkable level of engineering and precision that is required to build and fly a vehicle to the Red Planet.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/idp-7c39e99c/ch-47-ah-64-uh-60-aircraft-mechanic-overseas-26-a3a14f76 | 2017-10-19T12:46:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823284.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019122155-20171019142155-00578.warc.gz | 0.900657 | 375 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__238817796 | en | Sorry, this job was closed 4 years ago. See all open Aircraft Mechanic Jobs in Hawaii County, HI
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Expected duties include - Removes and installs aircraft subsystem assemblies such as engines, rotors, gearboxes, transmissions, mechanical flight controls and their components. Services and lubricates aircraft and subsystems. Prepare aircraft for inspections and maintenance checks. Performs scheduled inspections and assists in performing special inspections. Performs limited maintenance operational checks and assists in diagnosing and troubleshooting aircraft subsystems using special tools and equipment as required. Uses and performs operator maintenance on tools, special tools and aircraft ground support equipment. Prepare forms and records related to aircraft maintenance and use applicable STAMIS systems. Shall have the ability to use respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and wear protective clothing and equipment (PCE) while performing duties involving access to chemical surety material. Contractor shall not be assigned to tasks requiring the use of respirators without prior medical evaluation. This medical evaluation will consist of the requirements listed in AR 40-5, TB MED 502/DLAM 1000.2, and TB MED 509.
AH-64, CH-47, OH-58, UH/HH-60 Helicopters - Includes all model variations (currently A and D). Military service schooling, FAA Airframe and Power Plant (A&P) license or equivalent shall be required to perform duties.
The mechanic II shall be qualified by aircraft type with a minimum of Three (3) years aviation maintenance experience.
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https://en.trend.az/iran/politics/2937230.html | 2021-05-15T02:36:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991812.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20210515004936-20210515034936-00346.warc.gz | 0.948151 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__86663725 | en | Iran imports plane parts before US sanctions kick in
Baku, Azerbaijan, August 5
Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi said the government has imported plane parts along with five ATR turboprop airplanes landing in the country.
“Along with the five ATR planes, we have imported US made and European-made plane parts,” Akhoundi said on August 5, Mehr news agency reported.
He added that the parts were delivered to the country as part of a 5-million-euro deal.
On Sunday, Iran received five more ATR turboprop airplanes only a day before the return of US sanctions that have already torpedoed the country’s plane purchases with other major providers.
US President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in May, and Washington now plans to reimpose sanctions on Tehran.
The first round of US sanctions on Iran goes into effect on August 6, followed by ones targeting Iran's oil exports on November 4. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.wtkr.com/news/spacex-presses-ahead-in-historic-1st-launch-of-astronauts | 2023-03-23T21:06:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945183.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323194025-20230323224025-00279.warc.gz | 0.938333 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__177931672 | en | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — With the weather outlook improving, SpaceX is pressing ahead in its historic attempt to launch astronauts for NASA, a first by a private company.
Forecasters put the odds of acceptable conditions at 50-50 for Saturday afternoon's planned liftoff, the first launch of NASA astronauts from the U.S. in nearly a decade.
SpaceX and NASA are monitoring the weather not just at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, but all the way up the East Coast and across the North Atlantic. The wind and waves need to be within limits in case the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule — carrying Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken — needs to make an emergency splashdown.
They're headed to the International Space Station.
Ever since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets launched from Kazakhstan to take U.S. astronauts took and from the space station. | aerospace | 1 |
http://blekko.com/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin?source=672620ff | 2015-02-26T23:18:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936459277.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074059-00251-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.96077 | 6,577 | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-11__0__186656260 | en | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - View original article
|The Rolls-Royce Merlin|
|Type||Liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine|
|National origin||United Kingdom|
|First run||15 October 1933|
|Major applications||Avro Lancaster|
Handley Page Halifax
de Havilland Mosquito
|Unit cost||£2,000 (Engine)|
|Developed into||Rolls-Royce Meteor|
|The Rolls-Royce Merlin|
|Type||Liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine|
|National origin||United Kingdom|
|First run||15 October 1933|
|Major applications||Avro Lancaster|
Handley Page Halifax
de Havilland Mosquito
|Unit cost||£2,000 (Engine)|
|Developed into||Rolls-Royce Meteor|
The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled, V-12, piston aero engine, of 27-litre (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce Limited designed and built the engine which was initially known as the PV-12: the PV-12 became known as the Merlin following the company convention of naming its piston aero engines after birds of prey.
The PV-12 first ran in 1933 and, after several modifications, the first production variants were built in 1936. The first operational aircraft to enter service using the Merlin were the Fairey Battle, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. More Merlins were made for the four-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber than for any other aircraft; however, the engine is most closely associated with the Spitfire, starting with the Spitfire's maiden flight in 1936. A series of rapidly applied developments, brought about by wartime needs, markedly improved the engine's performance and durability.
Considered a British icon, the Merlin was one of the most successful aircraft engines of the World War II era, and many variants were built by Rolls-Royce in Derby, Crewe and Glasgow, as well as by Ford of Britain at their Trafford Park factory, near Manchester. The Packard V-1650 was a version of the Merlin built in the United States. Production ceased in 1950 after a total of almost 150,000 engines had been delivered, the later variants being used for airliners and military transport aircraft.
In military use the Merlin was superseded by its larger capacity stablemate, the Rolls-Royce Griffon. Merlin engines remain in Royal Air Force service today with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, and power many restored aircraft in private ownership worldwide.
In the early 1930s, Rolls-Royce started planning its future aero engine development programme and realised there was a need for an engine larger than their 21-litre (1,296 cu in) Kestrel which was being used with great success in a number of 1930s aircraft. Consequently, work was started on a new 1,100 hp (820 kW)-class design known as the PV-12, with PV standing for Private Venture, 12-cylinder, as the company received no government funding for work on the project. The PV-12 was first run on 15 October 1933 and first flew in a Hawker Hart biplane (serial number K3036) on 21 February 1935. The engine was originally designed to use the evaporative cooling system then in vogue. This proved unreliable and when supplies of ethylene glycol from the U.S. became available, the engine was adapted to use a conventional liquid cooling system. The Hart was subsequently delivered to Rolls-Royce where, as a Merlin testbed, it completed over 100 hours of flying with the Merlin C and E engines.
In 1935, the Air Ministry issued a specification, F10/35, for new fighter aircraft with a minimum airspeed of 310 mph (500 km/h). Fortunately, two designs had been developed: the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane; the latter designed in response to another specification, F36/34. Both were designed around the PV-12 instead of the Kestrel, and were the only contemporary British fighters to have been so developed. Production contracts for both aircraft were placed in 1936, and development of the PV-12 was given top priority as well as government funding. Following the company convention of naming its piston aero engines after birds of prey, Rolls-Royce named the engine the Merlin after a small, Northern Hemisphere falcon (Falco columbarius).[nb 1]
Two more Rolls-Royce engines developed just prior to the war were added to the company's range. The 700 hp (520 kW) Rolls-Royce Peregrine was an updated, supercharged development of their V-12 Kestrel design, while the 1,700 hp (1,300 kW) 42-litre (2,560 cu in) Rolls-Royce Vulture used four Kestrel-sized cylinder blocks fitted to a single crankcase and driving a common crankshaft, forming an X-24 layout. This was to be used in larger aircraft such as the Avro Manchester.
Although the Peregrine appeared to be a satisfactory design, it was never allowed to mature since Rolls-Royce's priority was refining the Merlin. As a result, the Peregrine saw use in only two aircraft: the Westland Whirlwind and the Gloster F9/37. The Vulture was fitted to the Hawker Tornado and Avro Manchester, but proved unreliable in service. With the Merlin itself soon pushing into the 1,500 hp (1,100 kW) range, the Peregrine and Vulture were both cancelled in 1943, and by mid-1943 the Merlin was supplemented in service by the larger Griffon. The Griffon incorporated several design improvements and ultimately superseded the Merlin.
Initially the new engine was plagued with problems, such as failure of the accessory gear trains and coolant jackets, and several different construction methods were tried before the basic design of the Merlin was set. Early production Merlins were also unreliable: Common problems were cylinder head cracking, coolant leaks, and excessive wear to the camshafts and crankshaft main bearings.
The prototype and developmental engine types were the:
The Merlin II and III series were the first main production versions of the engine. The Merlin III was the first version to incorporate a "universal" propeller shaft, allowing either de Havilland or Rotol manufactured propellers to be used.
The first major version to incorporate changes brought about through experience in operational service was the XX, which was designed to run on 100 octane fuel.[nb 2] This fuel allowed higher manifold pressures, which were achieved by increasing the boost from the centrifugal supercharger. The Merlin XX also utilised the two-speed superchargers designed by Rolls-Royce, resulting in increased power at higher altitudes than previous versions. Another improvement, introduced with the Merlin X, was the use of a 70/30% water/glycol coolant mix rather than the 100% glycol of the earlier versions. This substantially improved engine life and reliability, removed the fire hazard of the inflammable ethylene glycol, and reduced the oil leaks that had been a problem with the early Merlin I, II and III series.
The process of improvement continued, with later versions running on further-increased octane ratings, delivering ever higher power. Fundamental design changes were also made to all key components, again increasing the engine's life and reliability. By the end of the war the "little" engine was delivering over 1,600 horsepower (1,200 kW) in common versions, and as much as 2,030 horsepower (1,540 kW) in the Merlin 130/131 versions specifically designed for the de Havilland Hornet. Ultimately, during tests conducted by Rolls-Royce at Derby, an RM.17.SM achieved 2,640 horsepower at 36 lb boost (103"Hg) on 150 octane fuel with water injection. With the end of the war, work on improving Merlin power output was halted and the development effort was concentrated on civil derivatives of the Merlin.
Most of the Merlin's technical improvements resulted from more efficient superchargers, designed by Stanley Hooker, and the introduction of aviation spirits with increased octane ratings. Numerous detail changes were made internally and externally to the engine to withstand increased power ratings and to incorporate advances in engineering practices.
The Merlin consumed an enormous volume of air at full power (equivalent to the volume of a single-decker bus per minute), and with the exhaust gases exiting at 1,300 mph (2,100 km/h) it was realised that useful thrust could be gained simply by angling the gases backwards instead of venting sideways.
During tests, 70 pounds-force (310 N; 32 kgf) thrust at 300 mph (480 km/h), or roughly 70 horsepower (52 kW) was obtained which increased the level maximum speed of the Spitfire by 10 mph (16 km/h) to 360 mph (580 km/h). The first versions of the ejector exhausts featured round outlets, while subsequent versions of the system used "fishtail" style outlets which marginally increased thrust and reduced exhaust glare for night flying.
In September 1937 the Spitfire prototype, K5054, was fitted with ejector type exhausts. Later marks of the Spitfire used a variation of this exhaust system fitted with forward-facing intake ducts to distribute hot air out to the wing-mounted guns to prevent freezing and stoppages at high altitudes, replacing an earlier system that used heated air from the engine coolant radiator. The latter system had become ineffective due to improvements to the Merlin itself which allowed higher operating altitudes where air temperatures are lower. Ejector exhausts were also fitted to other Merlin-powered aircraft.
Central to the success of the Merlin was the supercharger. A.C. Lovesey, an engineer who was a key figure in the design of the Merlin, delivered a lecture on the development of the Merlin in 1946; in this extract he explained the importance of the supercharger:
"Coming now to specific development items we can ... divide them into three general classes:
Dealing with (1) it can be said that the supercharger determines the capacity, or ... the output, of the engine. The impression still prevails that the static capacity known as the swept volume is the basis of comparison of the possible power output for different types of engine, but this is not the case because the output of the engine depends solely on the mass of air it can be made to consume efficiently, and in this respect the supercharger plays the most important role ... the engine has to be capable of dealing with the greater mass flows with respect to cooling, freedom from detonation and capable of withstanding high gas and inertia loads ... During the course of research and development on superchargers it became apparent to us that any further increase in the altitude performance of the Merlin engine necessitated the employment of a two-stage supercharger."
- Improvement of the supercharger.
- Improved fuels.
- Development of mechanical features to take care of the improvements afforded by (1) and (2).
As the Merlin evolved so too did the supercharger; the latter fitting into three broad categories:
The Merlin supercharger was originally designed to allow the engine to generate maximum power at an altitude of about 16,000 ft (4,900 m). In 1938 Stanley Hooker, an Oxford graduate in applied mathematics, explained "... I soon became very familiar with the construction of the Merlin supercharger and carburettor ... Since the supercharger was at the rear of the engine it had come in for pretty severe design treatment, and the air intake duct to the impeller looked very squashed ..." Tests conducted by Hooker showed the original intake design was inefficient, limiting the performance of the supercharger.[nb 4] Hooker subsequently designed a new air intake duct with improved flow characteristics which increased maximum power at a higher altitude of over 19,000 ft (5,800 m); and also improved the design of both the impeller, and the diffuser which controlled the airflow to it. These modifications led to the development of the single-stage Merlin XX and 45 series.
A significant advance in supercharger design was the incorporation in 1938 of a two-speed drive (designed by the French company Farman) to the impeller of the Merlin X.[nb 5] The later Merlin XX incorporated the two-speed drive as well as several improvements that enabled the production rate of Merlins to be increased. The low-ratio gear, which operated from take-off to an altitude of 10,000 ft (3,000 m), drove the impeller at 21,597 rpm and developed 1,240 horsepower (925 kW) at that height; while the high gear's (25,148 rpm) power rating was 1,175 horsepower (876 kW) at 18,000 ft (5,500 m). These figures were achieved at 2,850 rpm engine speed using +9 pounds per square inch (1.66 atm)(48") boost.
In 1940, after receiving a request in March of that year from the Ministry of Aircraft Production for a high-rated (40,000 ft (12,000 m)) Merlin for use as an alternative engine to the turbocharged Hercules VIII used in the prototype high-altitude Vickers Wellington V bomber, Rolls-Royce started experiments on the design of a two-stage supercharger and an engine fitted with this was bench-tested in April 1941, eventually becoming the Merlin 60. The basic design used a modified Vulture supercharger for the first stage while a Merlin 46 supercharger was used for the second. A liquid-cooled intercooler on top of the supercharger casing was used to prevent the compressed air/fuel mixture from becoming too hot.[nb 6] Also considered was an exhaust-driven turbocharger but, although a lower fuel consumption was an advantage the added weight and the need to add extra ducting for the exhaust flow and waste-gates, meant that this option was rejected in favour of the two-stage supercharger. Fitted with the two-stage two-speed supercharger, the Merlin 60 series gained 300 horsepower (224 kW) at 30,000 ft (9,100 m) over the Merlin 45 series, at which altitude a Spitfire IX was nearly 70 mph (110 km/h) faster than a Spitfire V.
The two-stage Merlin family was extended in 1943 with the Merlin 66 which had its supercharger geared for increased power ratings at low altitudes, and the Merlin 70 series that were designed to deliver increased power at high altitudes.
While the design of the two-stage supercharger forged ahead, Rolls-Royce also continued to develop the single-stage supercharger, resulting in 1942 in the development of a smaller "cropped" impeller for the Merlin 45M and 55M; both of these engines developed greater power at low altitudes. In squadron service the LF.V variant of the Spitfire fitted with these engines became known as the "clipped, clapped, and cropped Spitty" to indicate the shortened wingspan, the less-than-perfect condition of the used airframes, and the cropped supercharger impeller.
The use of carburettors was calculated to give a higher specific power output, due to the lower temperature, hence greater density, of the fuel/air mixture compared to injected systems. However, the Merlin's float controlled carburettor meant that both Spitfires and Hurricanes were unable to pitch nose down into a steep dive. The contemporary Bf 109E, which had direct fuel injection, could "bunt" into a high-power dive to escape attack, leaving the pursuing aircraft behind because its fuel had been forced out of the carburettor's float chamber by the effects of negative g-force (g). RAF fighter pilots soon learned to "half-roll" their aircraft before diving to pursue their opponents. "Miss Shilling's orifice",[nb 7] a restrictor in the fuel supply line to restrict flow together with a diaphragm fitted in the float chamber to contain fuel under negative G, went some way towards curing the fuel starvation in a dive; however, at less than maximum power a fuel rich mixture still resulted. Another improvement was made by moving the fuel outlet from the bottom of the S.U. carburettor to exactly halfway up the side, which allowed the fuel to flow equally well under negative or positive g.
Further improvements were introduced throughout the Merlin range: 1943 saw the introduction of a Bendix-Stromberg pressure carburettor that injected fuel at 5 pounds per square inch (34 kPa; 0.34 bar) through a nozzle directly into the supercharger, and was fitted to Merlin 66, 70, 76, 77 and 85 variants. The final development, which was fitted to the 100-series Merlins, was an S.U. injection carburettor that injected fuel into the supercharger using a fuel pump driven as a function of crankshaft speed and engine pressures.
At the start of the war the Merlin I, II and III ran on the then standard 87 octane aviation spirit and could generate just over 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) from its 27-litre (1,650-cu in) displacement: the maximum boost pressure at which the engine could be run using 87 octane fuel was +6 pounds per square inch (141 kPa; 1.44 atm).[nb 8] However, as early as 1938, at the 16th Paris Air Show, Rolls-Royce displayed two versions of the Merlin rated to use 100 octane fuel. The Merlin R.M.2M was capable of 1,265 horsepower (943 kW) at 7,870 feet (2,400 m), 1,285 horsepower (958 kW) at 9,180 feet (2,800 m) and 1,320 horsepower (984 kW) on take-off; while a Merlin X with a two-speed supercharger in high gear generated 1,150 horsepower (857 kW) at 15,400 feet (4,700 m) and 1,160 horsepower (865 kW) at 16,730 feet (5,100 m).
From late 1939, 100 octane fuel became available from the U.S., West Indies, Persia, and, in smaller quantities, domestically. Small modifications were made to Merlin II and III series engines, allowing an increased (emergency) boost pressure of +12 pounds per square inch (183 kPa; 1.85 atm). At this power setting these engines were able to produce 1,310 horsepower (977 kW) at 9,000 ft (2,700 m) while running at 3,000 revolutions per minute. The increased boost was available for a maximum of five minutes and was considered a "definite overload condition on the engine"; if the pilot resorted to emergency boost he had to report this on landing, when it was noted in the engine log book, while the engineering officer was required to examine the engine and reset the throttle gate. Later versions of the Merlin ran only on 100 octane fuel and the five-minute combat limitation was raised to +18 pounds per square inch (224 kPa; 2.3 atm).
In late 1943 trials were run of a new "100/150" grade (150 octane) fuel, recognised by its bright-green colour and "awful smell". Initial tests were conducted using 6.5 cubic centimetres (0.23 imp fl oz) of tetraethyllead (T.E.L.) for every one imperial gallon of 100 octane fuel (or 1.43 cc/L or 0.18 U.S. fl oz/U.S. gal), but this mixture resulted in a build-up of lead in the combustion chambers, causing excessive fouling of the spark plugs. Better results were achieved by adding 2.5% mono methyl aniline (M.M.A.) to 100 octane fuel. The new fuel allowed the five-minute boost rating of the Merlin 66 to be raised to +25 pounds per square inch (272 kPa; 2.7 atm). With this boost rating the Merlin 66 generated 2,000 hp (1,491 Kw) at sea-level and 1,860 hp (1,387 Kw) at 10,500 ft (3,200 m).
Starting in March 1944, the Merlin 66-powered Spitfire IXs of two ADGB squadrons were cleared to use the new fuel for operational trials, and it was put to good use in the summer of 1944 when it enabled Spitfire L.F. Mk. IXs to intercept V-1 flying bombs coming in at low altitudes. 100/150 grade fuel was also used by Mosquito night fighters of the ADGB to intercept V-1s. In early February 1945, Spitfires of the 2 TAF also began using 100/150 grade fuel. [nb 9]
Production of the Rolls-Royce Merlin was driven by the forethought and determination of Ernest Hives, who at times was enraged by the apparent complacency and lack of urgency encountered in his frequent correspondence with Air Ministry and local authority officials. Hives was an advocate of shadow factories, and sensing the imminent outbreak of war pressed ahead with plans to produce the Merlin in sufficient numbers for the rapidly expanding Royal Air Force. Despite the importance of uninterrupted production several factories were affected by industrial action. By the end of its production run in 1950, almost 150,000 Merlin engines had been built; over 112,000 in Britain and more than 37,000 under licence in the U.S.[nb 10]
The existing Rolls-Royce facilities at Osmaston, Derby were not suitable for large-scale engine production although the floor space had been increased by some 25% between 1935 and 1939; nevertheless, Hives planned to build the first two- or three hundred engines there until engineering teething troubles had been resolved. Having a workforce that consisted mainly of design engineers and highly skilled men, the Derby factory carried out the majority of development work on the Merlin, with flight testing carried out at nearby RAF Hucknall. The original factory closed in March 2008, but Rolls-Royce plc still maintains a large presence in Derby.
To meet the increasing demand for Merlin engines, Rolls-Royce started building work on a new factory at Crewe in May 1938, with engines leaving the factory in 1939. The Crewe factory had convenient road and rail links to their existing facilities at Derby. Production at Crewe was originally planned to use unskilled labour and sub-contractors with which Hives felt there would be no particular difficulty, but the number of required sub-contracted parts such as crankshafts, camshafts and cylinder liners eventually fell short and the factory was expanded to manufacture these parts "in house".
Initially the local authority promised to build 1,000 new houses to accommodate the workforce by the end of 1938, but by February 1939 it had only awarded a contract for 100. Hives was incensed by this complacency and threatened to move the whole operation, but timely intervention by the Air Ministry improved the situation. In 1940 a strike took place when women replaced men on capstan lathes, the workers' union insisting this was a skilled labour job; however, the men returned to work after 10 days. Post-war the factory was used for the production of Bentley motor cars, and in 1998 Volkswagen AG bought both the marque and the factory. Today it is known as Bentley Crewe.
Hives further recommended that a factory be built near Glasgow to take advantage of the abundant local work force and the supply of steel and forgings from Scottish manufacturers. This government-funded and -operated factory was built at Hillington starting in June 1939 with workers moving into the premises in October, one month after the outbreak of war, the factory becoming fully occupied by September 1940. A housing crisis also occurred at Glasgow where Hives again asked the Air Ministry to step in.
Having 16,000 employees, the Glasgow factory was one of the largest industrial operations in Scotland. Unlike the Derby and Crewe plants which relied significantly on external subcontractors, it produced almost all the Merlin's components itself. Engines began to leave the production line in November 1940, and by June 1941 monthly output had reached 200, increasing to more than 400 per month by March 1942. In total 23,675 engines were produced. Worker absenteeism became a problem after some months due to the physical and mental effects of wartime conditions such as the frequent occupation of air-raid shelters. It was agreed to cut the punishing working hours slightly to 82 hours a week, with one half-Sunday per month awarded as holiday. Record production is reported to have been 100 engines in one day.
Immediately after the war the site repaired and overhauled Merlin and Griffon engines, and continued to manufacture spare parts. Finally, following the production of the Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet and others, the factory was closed in 2005.
Early in 1940 Ford of Britain was approached by Herbert Austin, who was in charge of the shadow factory plan, about the possibility of converting an abandoned factory in Trafford Park into an aircraft engine production unit. Construction of the new factory was started in May 1940 on a 118-acre (48 ha) site. During this time Ford engineers went on a fact finding mission to Derby, where their chief engineer commented to Sir Stanley Hooker that the manufacturing tolerances used by Rolls-Royce were far too wide for them. As a consequence over a year was taken up re-drafting 20,000 drawings to Ford tolerance levels.
Ford's factory, which was completed in May 1941, was built in two distinct sections to limit potential bomb damage.[nb 11] At first, the factory had difficulty in attracting suitable labour, such that large numbers of women, youths and untrained men had to be taken on. Despite this the first Merlin engine came off the production line one month after the factory's completion, and the production rate was 200 Merlins per week by 1943.[nb 12] Ford's investment in machinery and the redesign resulted in the 10,000 man-hours needed to produce a Merlin dropping to 2,727 man-hours three years later, while unit cost fell from £6,540 in June 1941 to £1,180 by the war's end. In his autobiography Not much of an Engineer, Sir Stanley Hooker states: "... once the great Ford factory at Manchester started production, Merlins came out like shelling peas. The percentage of engines rejected by the Air Ministry was zero. Not one engine of the 30,400 produced was rejected ...". Some 17,316 people worked at the Trafford Park plant, including 7,260 women and two resident doctors and nurses. Merlin production started to run down in August 1945, and finally ceased on 23 March 1946.
As the Merlin was considered to be so important to the war effort, negotiations were soon started to establish an alternative production line outside the UK. Rolls-Royce staff visited a number of North American automobile manufacturers in order to select one to build the Merlin in the U.S. or Canada. Henry Ford rescinded an initial offer to build the engine in the U.S. in July 1940, and the Packard Motor Car Company was subsequently selected to take on the $130,000,000 Merlin order.[nb 13] Agreement was reached in September 1940, and the first Packard-built engine, designated V-1650-1, ran in August 1941.
This is a list of representative Merlin variants, describing some of the mechanical changes made during development of the Merlin. Engines of the same power output were typically assigned different model numbers based on supercharger or propeller gear ratios, differences in cooling system or carburettors, engine block construction, or arrangement of engine controls. Power ratings quoted are usually maximum "military" power. All but the Merlin 131 and 134 engines were "right-hand tractor", i.e. the propeller rotated clockwise when viewed from the rear. In addition to the mark numbers, Merlin engines were allocated experimental numbers by the Ministry of Supply (MoS) - e.g.: RM 8SM for the Merlin 61 and some variants - while under development; these numbers are noted where possible.
Data from Bridgman (Jane's) unless otherwise noted:
In chronological order, the first operational aircraft powered by the Merlin to enter service were the Fairey Battle, Hawker Hurricane, and Supermarine Spitfire. Although the engine is most closely associated with the Spitfire, the four-engined Avro Lancaster was the most numerous application, followed by the twin-engined de Havilland Mosquito.
At the end of World War II, new versions of the Merlin (the 600- and 700-series) were designed and produced for use in commercial airliners such as the Avro Tudor, military transport aircraft such as the Avro York, and the Canadair North Star which performed in both roles. These engines were basically military specification with some minor changes to suit the different operating environment.
A Spanish-built version of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2, the 1954 Hispano Aviación HA-1112-M1L Buchon, was built in Hispano's factory in Seville with the Rolls-Royce Merlin 500/45 engine of 1,600 horsepower (1,200 kW) – a fitting powerplant for the last-produced version of the famous Messerschmitt fighter, as the Bf 109 V1 prototype aircraft had been powered by the Rolls-Royce Kestrel V-12 engine in 1935.
The CASA 2.111 was another Spanish-built version of a German aircraft, the Heinkel He 111, that was adapted to use the Merlin after the supply of Junkers Jumo 211F-2 engines ran out at the end of the war. A similar situation existed with the Fiat G.59 when available stocks of the Italian licence-built version of the Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine ran short.
A non-supercharged version of the Merlin using a larger proportion of steel and iron components was produced for use in tanks. This engine, the Rolls-Royce Meteor, in turn led to the smaller Rolls-Royce Meteorite.
In 1938, Rolls-Royce started work on modifying some Merlins which were later to be used in British MTBs, MGBs, and RAF Air-Sea Rescue Launches. For these the superchargers were modified single-stage units and the engine was re-engineered for use in a marine environment.
Experiments were carried out by the Irish Army involving replacing the Bedford engine of a Churchill tank with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine salvaged from an Irish Air Corps Seafire aircraft. The experiment was not a success, although the reasons are not recorded.
One of the most successful of the World War II era aircraft engines, the Merlin continues to be used in many restored World War II vintage aircraft all over the world. The Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is a notable current operator of the Merlin. In England the Shuttleworth Collection owns and operates a Merlin-powered Hawker Sea Hurricane IB and a Supermarine Spitfire VC – the Hurricane can be seen flying at home displays throughout the summer months, while the Spitfire is currently undergoing a major restoration project.
Many aerospace museums possess examples of the Merlin that are on public display:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes | 2014-04-17T19:13:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609530895.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005210-00456-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.959202 | 2,140 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__80405650 | en | Apollo 11 missing tapes
The Apollo 11 missing tapes are missing slow-scan television (SSTV) recordings of the lunar transmissions broadcast during the Apollo 11 moonwalk, which was the first time human beings walked on the Moon. The tapes carried SSTV and telemetry data recorded onto analog data recording tape. The SSTV data was recorded as a backup against any failure of the live television broadcasts. To allow broadcast of the SSTV transmission on standard television, a real-time conversion from SSTV format was done. The converted video of the moonwalk was broadcast live around the world on July 21, 1969 (UTC). Many videotapes and kinescopes were made of this broadcast as it happened, and these have never been missing. Meanwhile, the missing tapes which carried recordings of the SSTV signal as transmitted from the Moon, but before undergoing scan conversion, are believed to have been erased and reused by NASA, along with many thousands of other tapes. (NASA was faced with a shortage of quality data tapes in the early 1980s due to a change in the manufacturing process in the mid-1970s. This caused tapes that were no longer needed to be reused.) If the original SSTV format tapes were found, modern technology could be easily and cheaply used to make a higher-quality conversion, yielding better images than those originally seen. There are several still photographs, along with a few short segments of super 8 movie film taken of a video monitor in Australia, which show the SSTV transmission before it was converted.
In 2009 NASA gathered old copies of the converted video and paid to have them processed by Lowry Digital. These restorations were released in 2010.
Only limited bandwidth was available to transmit the video signal, which needed to be multiplexed with other communication and telemetry channels beamed from the Lunar Module back to the Earth, so video of the Apollo 11 moonwalk was transmitted from the Apollo TV camera in a SSTV format of 10 frames per second at 320 lines of resolution. These SSTV signals were received by radio telescopes at Parkes Observatory, the Goldstone tracking station and Honeysuckle Creek tracking station. The format as received on Earth was incompatible with existing NTSC, PAL and SECAM television standards, so a conversion was needed for worldwide broadcast. This live conversion was crude: Simply put, the raw unconverted SSTV signal was split into two branches, with one branch sent to an analog data tape recorder where it was recorded onto fourteen-inch reels of one-inch-wide, fourteen-track analog magnetic data tapes at 3.04 meters per second. Each of the three tracking stations would have used approximately 15 tapes for recording telemetry during the moonwalk. The other SSTV signal branch, rather than being electronically processed and converted, was sent to a high-quality video monitor where a conventional television camera (using the NTSC broadcast standard of 525 lines resolution at 30 frames per second) merely re-photographed its screen. Optical limitations of both monitor and camera significantly lowered contrast, brightness and resolution of the original SSTV video whilst also putting noise in the broadcast. The video seen on home television sets was further degraded in quality by the very long and noisy analog transmission path through which the converted signal was sent, first by satellite from the receiving ground stations to Houston, Texas and thence by microwave relay transmission to New York, from where it was broadcast live to the United States and the world.
This low quality optical conversion of the Apollo 11 moonwalk video images, made with a TV camera taking pictures of a video monitor, is what was widely recorded in real-time onto videotape and kinescope. Recordings of this conversion were not lost and have long been available to the public (along with much higher quality video from later Project Apollo missions). If the SSTV tapes were to be found, modern technology would easily allow the production of higher quality television pictures from the Apollo 11 moonwalk than have ever been seen, other than by the few technicians and others who watched the SSTV transmission on video monitors as it was received. An amateur 8 mm film movie of about 15 minutes of Apollo 11 SSTV images, taken from another monitor before the conversion step, was rediscovered in 2005 and is available on DVD.
Search for the missing tapes
News that these analog data tapes were missing broke on August 5, 2006 when the printed and online versions of The Sydney Morning Herald published a story with the title One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures. The missing tapes were among over 700 boxes of magnetic data tapes recorded throughout the Apollo program which have not been found. On August 16, 2006 NASA announced its official search saying, "The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center … or at another location within the NASA archiving system", "NASA engineers are hopeful that when the tapes are found they can use today's digital technology to provide a version of the moonwalk that is much better quality than what we have today." NASA also had ongoing research reasons for finding these higher resolution tapes, since Project Orion was planned to carry out tasks similar to those of the original Apollo program, to "Get a team of astronauts to the moon and back safely".
The Goddard Center's Data Evaluation Laboratory has the only known surviving piece of equipment which can read the missing tapes and was set to be closed in October 2006, causing some fear that, even if the tapes were later found, there would be no ready way to read and copy them. However, equipment that could read the tapes was maintained.
On November 1, 2006 Cosmos Magazine reported that some NASA telemetry tapes from the Apollo project era had been found in a small marine science laboratory within the main physics building at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. One of these tapes was sent to NASA for analysis. It carried no video but did show that if any of the tapes are ever found, data could likely be read from them.
NASA news conference
On July 16, 2009 NASA held a media briefing in which the agency released somewhat crisper-looking (and otherwise cleaned-up), post-conversion video from the live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk, some of which had been in storage for nearly 40 years. They meanwhile had concluded that the reels of tape with the SSTV signal were shipped from Australia to Goddard and then routinely erased and reused a few years later. Moreover, a backup copy of the tapes which had been made in Australia was also erased after Goddard received the reels. There is also documentation that two hours of the Apollo 11 moonwalk SSTV were recorded in Australia on a different tape format but likewise, these other tapes have not been found. The SSTV signal had been recorded on telemetry data tapes mostly as a backup which could be held in readiness and played back later if the real-time conversion and broadcast around the world failed. Since this real-time broadcast indeed worked and was widely recorded on both videotape and film, the backup video was not deemed important at the time.
NASA stated that it did find several post-conversion copies of the video that are of higher quality than has been seen by the public. These include videotape recorded in Sydney after the conversion but before the satellite transmission around the world, videotape from CBS News archives (direct from NASA, without commentary), and kinescopes at Johnson Space Center. In 2009, NASA released some partially restored samples. The full restoration of the footage, about three hours long, was completed in December 2009. Highlights of this fully enhanced video were shown to the public for the first time at the Australian Geographic Society Awards on October 6, 2010, where Buzz Aldrin was the guest of honor.
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http://en.economiciraq.com/2017/11/24/uae-civil-aviation-cancels-flight-ban-in-iraqi-airspace/ | 2018-10-23T15:02:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516194.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023132213-20181023153713-00294.warc.gz | 0.923739 | 279 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__246676666 | en | The United Arab Emirates Aviation Authority (UAEA) decided on Friday to lift the ban on flights in Iraqi airspace after amilitary operations against ISIS were nearing completion.
“The UAE aviation authority has decided to cancel the flight ban in Iraqi airspace and the UAE airlines will begin to cross Iraqi airspace instead of passing over Iranian airspace from mid-next week,” a civil aviation source said.
The source pointed out that “after the abolition of the embargo will begin flights Emirates and the Union across the Iraqi airspace to various countries.”
He explained that “the number of transit aircraft will reach 500 aircraft per day in principle and then increase the number to fold this number per day estimated the proportion of revenues expected after the lifting of the ban at $ 187,500 thousand per day and at this rate only reach the revenues of the Iraqi airspace to $ 68 million annually, The cost of crossing the Iraqi airspace is $ 375 per plane. ”
The source added that “expected to raise the US Air Force soon also after the end of military operations, which is expected to reach the number of aircraft transiting the Iraqi airspace to 2000 aircraft per day, and if the Iraqi government to raise the fees for the passage of airspace to $ 1000 similar to neighboring countries, the amount expected Of crossing the Iraqi airspace in this case may reach 700 million dollars annually. “ | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.lpi.usra.edu/planetary_news/2015/05/28/nasas-europa-mission-begins-with-selection-of-science-instruments/ | 2024-02-26T19:00:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474661.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226162136-20240226192136-00681.warc.gz | 0.896286 | 309 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__96262425 | en | NASA has selected nine science instruments for a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, to investigate whether the mysterious icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life.
NASA’s Galileo mission yielded strong evidence that Europa, about the size of Earth’s moon, has an ocean beneath a frozen crust of unknown thickness. If proven to exist, this global ocean could have more than twice as much water as Earth. With abundant salt water, a rocky sea floor, and the energy and chemistry provided by tidal heating, Europa could be the best place in the solar system to look for present day life beyond our home planet.
NASA’s fiscal year 2016 budget request includes $30 million to formulate a mission to Europa. The mission would send a solar-powered spacecraft into a long, looping orbit around the gas giant Jupiter to perform repeated close flybys of Europa over a three-year period. In total, the mission would perform 45 flybys at altitudes ranging from 16 miles to 1,700 miles (25 kilometers to 2,700 kilometers).
The payload of selected science instruments includes cameras and spectrometers to produce high-resolution images of Europa’s surface and determine its composition. An ice penetrating radar will determine the thickness of the moon’s icy shell and search for subsurface lakes similar to those beneath Antarctica. The mission also will carry a magnetometer to measure strength and direction of the moon’s magnetic field, which will allow scientists to determine the depth and salinity of its ocean. | aerospace | 1 |
https://rchelicop.com/airplane/you-asked-why-are-airplane-wings-curved-at-the-end.html | 2021-09-22T08:17:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057337.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922072047-20210922102047-00289.warc.gz | 0.93968 | 1,020 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__141651250 | en | The purpose of these curved wingtips is to prevent high air pressure above the airplane from flowing over and under the wings. As the high air pressure pushes across the wings, it encounters the curved wingtips where it’s blocked.
Why does the 787 have curved wings?
Boeing states that the Dreamliner’s fly-by-wire technology: “… optimizes the shape (or ‘camber’) of the wing automatically to save the most fuel. During cruise, the wing trailing edge automatically adjusts upward and downward to continually optimize the camber for maximum efficiency.”
Why do planes have winglets?
Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by the difference between the pressure on the upper surface of an airplane’s wing and that on the lower surface. High pressure on the lower surface creates a natural airflow that makes its way to the wingtip and curls upward around it.
Why don t all planes have winglets?
Why don’t all airplanes have winglets? Designing winglets is a tough task. … As adding winglets ads weight, the benefit to the fuel efficiency of the aircraft needs to be enough to counter the extra weight from the add-on. A far easier way to improve flight efficiency is to increase the span of the wings themselves.
Do plane wings bend?
Aircraft wings can flex much more than most people realize. During testing, the Boeing 787 wings flexed 26 feet upward before failing. … Compared to earlier jets, today’s aircraft have longer, thinner wings that are more flexible, more fuel-efficient and provide a softer ride.
Why do 777 not have winglets?
B777 was designed when the advantages of the wingtips were well known, yet they decided to go without one anyway. … Because winglets are a tradeoff: In the highly visible case of the 777, an airplane with exceptionally long range, the wings grew so long that folding wingtips were offered to get into tight airport gates.
Can plane wings break off?
Turbulence can be a scary experience for a flyer, but you should remember that it’s extremely unlikely that the plane’s wings will come off. The aircraft is designed to allow the wings to bend in turbulence without compromising the structural integrity.
Do winglets increase lift?
Winglets increase an aircraft’s operating efficiency by reducing what is called induced drag at the tips of the wings. … The effect of these vortices is increased drag and reduced lift that results in less flight efficiency and higher fuel costs.
Who invented winglets for airplanes?
The initial concept dates back to 1897, when English engineer Frederick W. Lanchester patented wing end-plates as a method for controlling wingtip vortices. In the United States, Scottish-born engineer William E. Somerville patented the first functional winglets in 1910.
What’s a winglet Wings of Fire?
(The winglets are not to be confused with Winglets, which are short e-books in Wings of Fire.) Jade Mountain Academy is an intertribal school located within Jade Mountain and was founded by the dragonets of destiny after the War of SandWing Succession.
Why is a plane called heavy?
The word “heavy” means a larger aircraft type, with a Maximum Takeoff Weight of 160 tonnes or more. These aircraft create wake turbulence from their wings and require extra separation between following aircraft, and the use of “heavy” reminds other pilots of that fact.
How much fuel do winglets save?
Depending on the airplane, its cargo, the airline’s routes, and other factors, blended winglets can: Lower operating costs by reducing block fuel burn by 4 to 5 percent on missions near the airplane’s design range. Increase the payload/range capability of the airplane instead of reducing the fuel consumption.
How many wings of fire winglets are there?
Wings of Fire: Winglets (4 book series) Kindle Edition.
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No, an airplane cannot fly with only one wing. In order for a plane to stay stable in air, it has to maintain balance. With only one wing, the weight is shifted to one side of the plane.
Are plane wings glued on?
It is not widely known by the general public that aircraft wings are usually glued on to the plane, not rivoted, bolted, or using some other mechanical fasteners. There is a chain of linkages that holds a plane up – but the adhesive, being small and invisible, doesn’t get the credit it deserves. …
Do pilots turn off engines?
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https://www.space.com/21466-justin-bieber-spaceflight-virgin-galactic.html | 2024-04-22T02:34:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818072.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422020223-20240422050223-00439.warc.gz | 0.942313 | 640 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__57956602 | en | Justin Bieber is going to space, and he may even shoot a music video in the final frontier.
The teen pop star is the latest celebrity to sign up for a suborbital flight to the edge of space aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, joining actors Angeline Jolie, Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio.
"Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!" Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's billionaire founder, tweeted Wednesday (June 5). (Scooter Braun, Bieber's manager, has also booked a flight.)
Bieber responded with an idea whose seriousness is tough to gauge.
"@richardbranson @scooterbraun @virgingalactic let's shoot a music video in SPACE!! #nextLEVEL," the pop star tweeted to his more than 40 milion Twitter followers.
Seats aboard the six-passenger SpaceShipTwo currently sell for $250,000. To date, more than 600 people have put deposits down to reserve a spot, according to Virgin Galactic's website. However, the space plane hasn't launched anyone to space just yet — it's currently in the testing phase, with crewed flights expected to begin by the end of this year.
SpaceShipTwo is designed to fly to suborbital space and back, not make a full trip around the Earth. Passengers will experience several minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of our planet's limb against a black sky, Virgin Galactic officials say.
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The spacecraft made its first rocket-powered test flight in April and should begin commercial operations soon, officials say. Branson has said he and his family will be aboard th vehicle's landmark maiden voyage to space.
SpaceShipTwo is the successor to SpaceShipOne, a smaller test vehicle that won the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004 for becoming the first private manned spacecraft to carry people to space and back twice within the span of two weeks.
Virgin Galactic isn't the only game in town when it comes to commercial suborbital spaceflight. XCOR Aerospace is developing a one-passenger space plane called Lynx, which may be up and running around the same time as SpaceShipOne.
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Jet Aviation Moscow Vnukovo and Embraer have agreed to increase the inventory of spares parts available at the maintenance facility in Moscow.
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But for Lufthansa, the launch customer for the world’s largest twin-engine passenger, the first 777-9 is due to be delivered next year. In response to the Aero Telegraph website, a spokesman for the German carrier stated that the company has the aircraft throughout 2021.
Lufthansa ordered 20 units of the 777-9 variant, the largest of the new model, while Emirates placed an original order for 150 aircraft, but it was reduced to 115 units at the end of 2019.
Boeing launched the 777X program with the goal of offering a large-capacity widebody to be an alternative to four-engine aircraft such as the 747 and A380. To attract customers, airframer introduced several improvements seen in the 787 Dreamliner such as a lighter fuselage, large wings and more efficient engines. Thanks to this, the new 777-9 manages to be 21% more efficient than the popular 777-300ER.
However, the flight test program is long overdue. The first plane flew only in January and six months later Boeing has two aircraft carrying out the certification program. According to the FlightRadar24 website, the first prototype (N779XW), has already performed flights over six hours long, while the second airplane (N779XX), stayed at most just over three hours in the air.
Boeing aims to receive FAA 777X certification in early 2021. However, the aircraft will have the arduous task of obtaining approval from the U.S. agency shortly after the 737 MAX scandal, which prompted the US government to review the entire commercial aircraft certification procedure.
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Brazil's CENIPA reported there were no injuries and no damage to the aircraft, no investigation was opened.
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Phone - (219) 464-0132 | aerospace | 1 |
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-armys-new-air-defense-system-was-just-put-test-173366 | 2024-04-24T13:22:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00821.warc.gz | 0.971174 | 971 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__88281635 | en | Earlier this month soldiers from the United States Army’s 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment out of Ansbach, Germany headed to the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico to put the latest air defense system through its paces. The facility was used for conducting training and operational testing of the Army's Initial Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) system, which is one of the Army's newest platforms to replace the aging Avenger short-range air defense systems.
Developed at the tail end of the Cold War, the self-propelled surface-to-air missile Avenger Air Defense System, designated AN/TWQ-1, provided short-range air defense protection for ground units against cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), low-flying fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. It has been mounted to such platforms as the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
The Army has noted that while the AN/TWQ-1 worked well in the Cold War, the system has shown its age and is reportedly less survivable than other modern air defense systems. It also required a long set up time to make it operational.
To that end, the IM-SHORAD is its successor and was developed to bring a modernized package of capabilities to mobile ground units. The IM-SHORAD can be mounted on a Stryker armored vehicle to provide protection to an entire unit. According to the U.S. Army, the system features its own radar and offers an array of weapons that can prove effective against air threats without the long setup process of the Avenger.
“There's a lot of equipment on this machine that will change a lot of aspects for the Air Defense Artillery,” said Spc. Andy Mendoza, an air and missile defense crewmember with the 5-4 ADA. “Everything from operations to capabilities to new weapons we as ADA don't have currently, and I think it will make a huge difference to what we do.”
To date, multiple prototypes of the platform have to be produced for operation testing before the IM-SHORAD will enter full production. Currently, soldiers are now learning to use it, and this includes a mix of trial and error.
“It's easy to get caught up in what you are doing, how you're designing it and how you're explaining it to yourself,” said Steven Powell, acquisition logistics lead with the IM-SHORAD Program Office. “Everything might look good on paper, on the board, but until we get through the testing and putting it through its paces, understanding what it's actually capable of, we won’t know if we're producing the right system for the Soldier.”
To date the soldiers have been reportedly impressed with the system, and this includes not only the weapon platform but the vehicle, which has been described as bigger, stronger and a lot heavier—making it more than up to the task.
It has also been noted that an entire unit was brought in from Germany to conduct the testing. The reasoning was that the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment has already been equipped with the Avenger system that the IM-SHORAD system will eventually replace. This allows for the soldiers who will use it to provide their feedback during the crucial testing period, while they'll also be trained and ready to use it when it is deployed. The 5-4 ADA will be the "core cadre" of soldiers fully trained on the system and familiar with not only its abilities and unique features but also any quirks the platform presents.
“The reason why this platoon is out here from Germany is we'll be fielding the first system into the Army, so it not only gets us to test the system, but also understand how to use it so we can go back to our home unit and train with them on the system,” added 1st Lt. Ryan Pitcher, the units' platoon leader.
It also provided the 5-4 ADA to get to test the system on the historic WSMR, which is the Department of Defense's (DoD’s) largest, fully-instrumented, open-air range. It was established as the White Sands Proving Ground in July 1945 and the first atomic bomb, code named Trinity, was test detonated near the northern boundary of the range just seven days after the proving ground was established.
Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. He is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on Amazon.com. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/12/transparent-canopy-box-seats-on-top-of.html | 2022-05-21T09:51:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662539049.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20220521080921-20220521110921-00147.warc.gz | 0.965772 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__233027161 | en | Windspeed has designed the SkyDeck. Its aim was to create “exciting experiential in-flight entertainment for VIP aircraft owners and the airline industry.” It suggests that the SkyDeck could act as an additional source of revenue for airlines, with passengers paying to experience it.
The transparent canopy will be made of materials similar to those used for the canopies of supersonic fighter jets. It will be accessible via elevator or staircase, depending on the version, and there will be rotatable seats for passengers to take in the views. Either a one-seat or two-seat configuration is available to order and GPS systems integrated into the platform will provide flight and location information.
Windspeed says it will be possible to install the SkyDeck on a wide variety of aircraft, from wide-bodies to smaller executive jets. Despite this, there were still a number of hurdles that had to be overcome in the design to make it feasible. | aerospace | 1 |
https://azureflightsupport.com/services/flight-training/ | 2023-04-02T10:00:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950422.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230402074255-20230402104255-00269.warc.gz | 0.958711 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__119860099 | en | Flight Training & Flying Lessons
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We work closely with other flight schools in Middle Tennessee to provide training specific to multiengine ratings. | aerospace | 1 |
https://thisdayintechhistory.com/07/31/first-man-to-drive-on-the-moon/ | 2023-05-30T00:55:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644915.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530000715-20230530030715-00303.warc.gz | 0.952836 | 86 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__169147973 | en | First Man to Drive on the Moon
July 31, 1971
Using the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), Astronaut David Scott of the Apollo 15 mission becomes the first person to drive a vehicle on the Moon. The LRV was used during the last three missions to the Moon, Apollo 15, 16, and 17. The three LRVs used during the missions still remain on the surface of the moon. | aerospace | 1 |
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