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https://helihub.com/2017/03/13/astronautics-ad-vector-sign-mou-agreement-for-roadrunner-efi/ | 2020-04-05T09:40:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371576284.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405084121-20200405114121-00205.warc.gz | 0.899173 | 582 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__146692486 | en | Astronautics Corporation of America and Vector Aerospace have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together to obtain supplemental type certificates (STCs) for installation of the Astronautics RoadRunner electronic flight instrument (EFI).
As part of the agreement, Astronautics will be a preferred supplier to Vector, providing certified equipment, in addition to technical and product integration support. Vector will provide integration and support efforts, as well as STC development.
Astronautics and Vector will collaboratively pursue RoadRunner EFI retrofit applications for various aircraft, including Airbus Helicopters AS350, Bell 212, 412, and UH-1 rotary-wing aircraft.
The RoadRunner EFI has been designed as a drop-in replacement for current attitude direction indicator and horizontal situation indicator primary flight instruments, offering helicopter operators enhanced safety, reduction in operating costs, and minimal downtime.
“This MoU with Vector will help get the RoadRunner EFI to market faster so more operators can take advantage of the enhanced safety and reliability this product offers,” said Astronautics Vice President of Business Development and Product Strategy Dan Ryan. “We are excited to introduce the RoadRunner EFI to operators as a way to modernize their legacy aircraft with added capability.”
- Rescue helicopter ‘Juliet’ retires from Northland fleet
- US Navy grant to fund AnalySwift research to improve helicopter service life
- COVID-19 – Helijet offers free flights for healthcare workers
- Bell 360 Invictus chosen for US Army Scout Rotorcraft Competition
- Airbus-funded helicopter booking platform Voom ceases operations
- VFS 2020 Annual Awards announcements
- COVID-19 – Australian Rotortech event postponed to October
- USHST Infrastructure Working Group Completes 6th Annual Helicopter Infrastructure Summit
- FAA certifies Onboard Systems dual hook for Bell 206L and 407
- Utah Rotor Pathway Program Receives $1.1 Million Grant
- COVID-19 – Air BP to supply free fuel to a number of air ambulance services in England and Wales
- COVID-19 – EASA processing new aircraft configurations for medical transport at high priority
- HSM-70 Change-of-Command
- FAA Grants NATA Requested Crewmember Relief
- Airbus Helicopters launches RTEX tool to monitor Service Bulletins
- COVID-19 – Omni adapts four aircraft to transport suspected cases of COVID-19
- FAA advice on expiring air medical certificates was released prematurely and is invalid
- COVID-19 – London Heliport announces temporary closure
- Lockheed Martin’s FARA Enters Prototype Phase
- COVID-19 – 3 British Army AW159 Wildcats have been deployed to support UK with COVID-19 | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/up-and-running/9780123821027/xhtml/CHP016.html | 2018-10-22T15:25:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583515088.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20181022134402-20181022155902-00395.warc.gz | 0.915739 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__220348327 | en | Modal Analysis of TV Camera Arm Attached to Helicopter
(Design Problem courtesy of Aerospace Design Facilities Ltd)
|1||Modal shapes and natural frequencies|
Aerospace Design Facilities Ltd, based in the UK, is a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) FIC approved design organization for both helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Aerospace Design Facilities Ltd also supplies bespoke design and manufacturing services to the film industry. One typical example of their work is designing camera mounts to be placed on helicopters, as shown below.
A major consideration during the design of a camera mount on helicopters ... | aerospace | 1 |
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0759002 | 2021-07-31T16:35:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154089.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731141123-20210731171123-00323.warc.gz | 0.838126 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__78445045 | en | Internal Blast Damage Mechanisms Computer Program
Final rept. Jun 1971-Feb 1972
NAVAL ORDNANCE LAB WHITE OAK MD
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A computer program has been developed at NOL that describes the shock and blast loading characteristics of the detonation of a high explosive projectile internal to an aircraft structure both shock wave and confined- explosion gas pressure loads are considered. With certain modifications, the program can be made applicable to any internal explosion irrespective of the type of confining configuration, e.g., a naval ship compartment, land vehicle, or building structure. Discussions are given on the general use and content of the program, the input options available in the code, and the technical aspects of the calculational methods used to determine shock loading functions, confined-explosion gas pressure, venting of the confined gases, and damage propagation to other areas of the aircraft. | aerospace | 1 |
https://vsv.tudelft.nl/aggregator/sources/3 | 2020-01-29T22:15:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251802249.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129194333-20200129223333-00092.warc.gz | 0.928229 | 719 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__187865791 | en | Get the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. Space.com celebrates humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier.
Updated: 10 hours 52 min ago
NASA's Parker Solar Probe took one step closer to the sun Wednesday (Jan. 29) when it executed its fourth flyby of our star.
Let's hope that today's space-junk encounter is just a near miss as predicted, because a smashup would be pretty messy.
See images from NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
"Project Blue Book," the hit television docudrama about the U.S. military's investigations into aliens more than 50 years ago, is back for Season 2.
To honor the brave astronauts lost their lives in the Challenger disaster, The Rentals, an American rock band fronted by Matt Sharp (best known for his work as a bassist in Weezer), released a song and corresponding lyric video inspired by the devastating events.
A collision would create a debris belt that would endanger spacecraft worldwide.
While Trekkies worldwide exult in the return of Jeri Ryan to "Star Trek: Picard," the actor is also coming back to "Star Trek Online" — a long-running game in the Trek universe.
Tonight (Jan. 28), you can catch the crescent moon make a close approach to Venus in the evening sky.
Streams of plasma from the sun create "chirping" and "whistling" noises heard by NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
NASA has picked Houston-based company Axiom Space to build at least one habitable private module that will be attached to the orbiting lab, the space agency announced Monday (Jan. 27).
The hottest exoplanet ever found is so infernally hot that it's ripping apart hydrogen molecules in its atmosphere, astronomers have found.
Scientists are about to get their first-ever good looks at the poles of the sun, which could be key to solving some long-standing solar mysteries.
NASA should aim to put boots on the moon in 2028, not 2024, and achieve this goal explicitly to aid human Mars exploration in the 2030s, according to an authorization bill that was introduced Friday (Jan. 24) by the leadership of the House committee on science.
A crew of researchers prepared to leave "Mars" this past Saturday (Jan. 18) as another crew arrived, ready to explore the "moon."
The launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft has been delayed two days after engineers discovered a rocket issue during preflight testing.
A name has been added the U.S. memorial for fallen astronauts, honoring the first commercial spacecraft pilot to die in the pursuit of opening outer space to the public.
SpaceX called off the next launch for its Starlink megaconstellation of internet satellites due to bad weather Monday (Jan. 27), postponing the flight for 24 hours.
The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink satellites to join its growing broadband internet megaconstellation in orbit today (Jan. 27), and you can watch it live online.
NASA's New Horizons mission turned Pluto from a fuzzy blob into a detailed, geophysically complex world. But it's still a little fuzzy, as it turns out.
If you've been paying attention to the space engineers readying NASA's Mars 2020 rover, you may have noticed a recent surprise visitor in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. | aerospace | 1 |
https://poltrackpix.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/gates-and-windows/ | 2018-07-17T02:04:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589537.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717012034-20180717032034-00182.warc.gz | 0.987663 | 194 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__144455787 | en | When I was stationed at Moffett Field NAS in California I had the opportunity to catch training flights to various locations. It was a pretty good deal. I was an Avionics technician and my job was to fix anything that was broken. I was in an anti-submarine squadron and they flew Lockheed P-3 Orion aircaft, a turboprop with 4 engines and a “donkey dick” magnetic anomaly detector portruding from the rear.
These planes were based on the Lockheed L-188 Electra commerical airliner but without very many seats. On some of these flights I would attempt to sleep on the heated floor beneath the radar consoles.
I’m not sure where this photo was taken, it might have been Spain, Puerto Rico or Panama. I foolishly didn’t catalog my photos. I took this photo with my trusty Nikkormat SLR which accompanied me for most of my service time. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.aircraftdealer.com/aircraft-for-sale-detail/Diamond-DA62/2017-DIAMOND-DA62/66423.htm | 2018-08-17T06:20:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221211719.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817045508-20180817065508-00421.warc.gz | 0.877731 | 1,733 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__19413997 | en | LifeStyle Aviation has DA62 NXi Demonstration Flights Available. We are the Diamond Experts. LifeStyle Aviation has brought the first Diamond DA62 NXi to North America!
NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIAMONDSHARE! The DA62, our newest aircraft, is the ultimate SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE. With its cavernous cabin seating 7 and its nearly 200KTS speed and ultra high fuel efficiency, this aircraft will change the way you think about personal air travel for pleasure and business. The DA62 features a compelling mix of distinctive styling, lightweight carbon design, FADEC controlled Jet-A burning engines, the ultimate in modern avionics and superior flying qualities. The DiamondShare program makes access to this remarkable aircraft easily justifiable for those seeking the ultimate traveling machine. DiamondShare is The Smart Way to Fly! Call 406-FLY-1NOW / for more information.
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The program summary is below: how it works, who is eligible and aircraft details.
The DiamondShare™ Program
Aircraft Ownership that “Makes the Dollars Make Sense™”. Most pilots dream of buying their own aircraft so they can enjoy the freedom of flight and opportunity to go places in an airplane…their airplane. They dream of a different lifestyle and a means beyond the usual bounds – one with life changing potential and ability to conduct personal and business life at a new level.
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How it works
The DiamondShare Program is simple and is made up of Owners and Members. Owners purchase the aircraft and the DiamondShare team sets up the structure, program benefits and obtain 1 to 3 members to share the aircraft with fixed payments. The number of members, location of the airplane and other variables are determined by the owner. Members commit to a fixed “Dry Lease” access model for one year with a number of hours. Members typically pay a base member rate plus a location surcharge depending on tie down or hangar cost arrangements. Each user pays for his own fuel and there are no other hourly rates or charges…similar to a car lease.
Who is Eligible?
DiamondShare™ was inspired and created to provide all pilots an affordable, economically justifiable option to have ownership or access to an amazing new modern aircraft so they can achieve their dreams and goals. Our Secret is Sharing. This is NOT fractional ownership. The program dramatically reduces your total cost of ownership while enhancing your overall aircraft ownership experience. Utilization, fixed costs, insurance, storage and avionics subscriptions are all factored in. Also, if you own a business and plan to use your aircraft for some level of business flying, you will be simply amazed at current tax advantages available to help you purchase your aircraft. Owners often experience “Cash Flow Positive Purchases”. Explore the full details at the DiamondShare website or contact 406-FLY1-NOW. Interested parties should register on the website to receive information via email including notices of opportunities in their area.
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• 86 US gal Long Range Tank • Baggage Compartment • Nose Baggage Compartment accessible from both sides • Pitot Cover • Tow Bar • Tool Kit • First Aid Kit • Fire Extinguisher • Emergency Axe • Egress Hammer SAFETY • Composite Cabin and Safety Seats (up to 26g) • "FAILSAFE" Airframe and Wing Design • Multi-path Lightning Protection System • 3-point Safety Belts Automatice (all seats) • Garmin ESP electronic Stability Protection OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT • Avidyne TWX670 Tactical Weather Detection System • Avidyne TAS605 Traffic Advisory System • Garmin GWX70 weather radar • Garmin GSR56 iridium satellite data link (subscription required) • Garmin GTX33 ES ADS-B Out (replaces Garmin GTX33) • Jeppesen ChartView Approach Plates (subscription required) • Garmin Synthetic Vision Technology • Garmin GDL69A SAT WX (subscription required) • Air Conditioning / RACC II system (powered by an additional alternator) • TKS Deicing System • Oxygen System • Metallic Paint • Seating Configuration 3rd Row • Customized Paint
STANDARD INTERIOR EQUIPMENT • Premium Leather Interior • Electrically Adjustable Rudder Pedals • Power Outlet • Instrument Lighting • Adjustable pilot and co-pilot seats with adjustable lumbar support • Overhead ambient cabin light and reading and mpa lights • Middle Armrest
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http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/328864 | 2014-09-23T20:35:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657139669.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011219-00093-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.864548 | 321 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__38531284 | en | Advanced Metrology Technologies for Next-Generation Space-Based Radar
Agency / Branch:
DOD / USAF
Space-based radar concepts employing large (~ 300 m length) semi-rigid, active phased array antennas are being investigated for surveillance missions that include detecting surface moving targets in severe clutter environments. To achieve the required transmit and receive antenna pattern characteristics, metrology concepts are needed to address aggregate phase errors from structural, electronic and propagation sources. These error sources degrade the knowledge of the relative phase between sub-panels thereby producing an ineffective antenna pattern and poor beam pointing control. Technology Service Corporation and BBN Technologies will develop innovative techniques to isolate the phase and differential range errors. Our layered metrology concept utilizes miniaturized electronics already designed into the waveform generation and reference signal paths and that are distributed in the antenna. In Phase 1, a dedicated radar antenna calibration mode will be formulated for a candidate payload design to develop mission performance models and orbital demonstrations. Feasibility studies of how observations can be made both locally and in the far-field of the antenna to support the calibration will also be conducted. Novel orthogonal waveforms to support calibration will also be investigated by our team. In Phase 2, TSC and BBN will implement a metrology concept that is compatible with emerging AESA designs for Air Force SBR programs.
Small Business Information at Submission:
William J. Arnold
Corporate Senior Staff
TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CORP.
1900 S. Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90025
Number of Employees: | aerospace | 1 |
https://freejobsnews.com/cemilac-clears-biojet-fuel-for-aircraft-iaf-to-operate-biojet-fuel-flight-on-january-26/ | 2020-09-21T11:32:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400201699.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20200921112601-20200921142601-00613.warc.gz | 0.936796 | 358 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__284265381 | en | After months of ground and flight trials, the Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC), a premier military certification agency, on January 22, 2019, cleared the use of indigenously produced bio-fuel for use in the military aircraft.
P Jayapal, Outstanding Scientist and Chief Executive of the Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification deliberated on the results of various tests conducted on bio-jet fuel as per procedure recommended by top certification agencies.
Only after complete satisfaction with the performance parameters, the agency formally granted its approval for use of this fuel. This clearance is a major step for continued testing and eventual full certification of the bio-jet fuel for use on a commercial scale by civil aircraft as well.
For use of bio-jet fuel on all military and civilian aircraft, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), in collaboration with the Indian Air Force brought out a new standard for Aviation Turbine Fuels. These specifications align Indian standards with current international standards.
The biojet fuel is produced from a non-conventional source that is non-edible vegetable or tree borne oil. bThe bio-jet fuel has been produced from seeds of Jatropha plant sourced from Chhattisgarh and processed at CSIR-IIP’s lab at Dehradun. This fuel will now be used on military aircraft.
Increased demand of bio-jet fuel would give impetus to increase in collection of tree-borne non-edible oil seeds, which, in turn, will help generate additional income, increase remuneration for tribal and marginal farmers, and stimulating the collection of oilseeds. This is also a significant development that could reduce the carbon emissions and help India become a green fuel production hub. | aerospace | 1 |
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/k4ntmx43x5/1 | 2022-06-28T06:44:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103355949.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628050721-20220628080721-00461.warc.gz | 0.904853 | 249 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__267471441 | en | Data for: Maneuvering Flight Envelope Evaluation and Analysis of Generic Transport Model with Control Surfaces Failures
This dataset is comprised of 168 3D maneuvering flight envelopes of the NASA Generic Transport Model. It consists of 4 flight envelopes evaluated for the unimpaired case at different altitudes, and 164 flight envelopes evaluated for 41 different surface jam and control restriction failures of rudder and aileron at different altitudes. Each 3D flight envelope comprises of thousands of trim points for which a nonlinear 6DOF optimization process has been executed one by one. On average it took 8 seconds for each trim point to complete the optimization process, hence in order to evaluate all 3D flight envelopes, we spent more than 19600 hours in over more than 16 months; executing the optimization process on more than 8.8 million trim points. Such a large number of impaired flight envelopes provided a great insight on how the degree of failure affects the maneuvering flight envelope. Also numerous comparison plots are provided in this dataset which depict the variation of flight envelope with different degrees of control surface failure. This dataset has potential uses in post-failure analysis and development of aircraft resilient control and upset recovery systems. | aerospace | 1 |
https://techport.nasa.gov/view/5446 | 2023-03-23T15:04:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945168.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323132026-20230323162026-00292.warc.gz | 0.934559 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__207910941 | en | The SmartTopo SBIR phase I program resulted in the creation of the first technology designed to provide robotic vehicles with the ability to "learn and remember" the terrain over which they travel. The SmartTopo software system is designed to be portable and robust so that it can be used by NASA in a variety of general and embedded applications. It will be used in robotic inspection of spacecraft on-orbit, making re-entry safer for manned spacecraft. It will also improve the safety of air travel by producing a new type of aircraft altimeter which will tell the pilot the true position of the aircraft above the ground. A vehicle (aircraft, spacecraft, satellite, planetary rover or submersible) is sent forth with an internal digital map of the topography of an area to explore. As exploration proceeds sensors (video cameras for example) on the explorer will collect data as always, but now the SmartTopo software will process the data and update the original digital map data in real time, resulting in a higher resolution topographic model of the surface that it has surveyed. RIS has developed and demonstrated the key elements of this technology during Phase I. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.dxzone.com/tag-2m-satellite/11.html | 2013-05-19T19:58:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698063918/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095423-00098-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.895145 | 578 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__159644896 | en | - The HB9CV-Beam is a 2-Element-Yagi with two driven elements and was introduced by Rudolf Baumgartner, HB9CV in the 1950ies. The Beam is a coax-feeded version of the ZL-Special
Construction by DK7ZB for 2m, 6m and 10m
ZR6KMD 2M Beam Antenna
- This design was adapted from an article in the ARRL Handbook and built with simplicity and
duplicity in mind. This antenna is a vast improvement over a standard dipole with a forward gain of around 8db with a front to back ratio of 10db.
VP2M DXpedition to Montserrat
- Seven operators from six US States will travel to the small island of Montserrat in late January of 2007 to activate that island in a most unique way. Instead of big antennas, and tons of equipment, this DXpedition will instead focus on lightweight gear and portable operations.
HA1YA Mechanics & Electronics Inc.
- Specializes in manufacture of middle and high power RF decks and high quality linear amplifiers with metall ceramic tubes for HF, 6m, 2m and 70 cm bands. Transverters, power supplies and control units
Discovery Power Amplifiers
- The Discovery series of amplifiers are designed and built in the UK by Linear Amp UK Ltd, one of the world’s leading amplifier manufacturers, specializing in high power RF tube amplifiers.
The amplifiers use large GS31 or GS35 ceramic triode tubes. Band coverage 6m, 2m and 70 cms
Today's Space Weather - SEC
- Another interesting reports page with plots and graphs of solar flux.
Interesting resources provided here includes, Solar images, a text 3 day solar geophysical forecast, a 3-days Solar X-Ray flux plot updated evety 5 minutes, The Satellite Environment Plot, combines satellite and ground-based data
UISS Windows Packet Program
- This program has been designed for packet communication with ISS (International Space Station), PCSat or 'compatible' satellites with ease... Ideal for any UI packet communication.
- WinTick is a utility program aiming at synchronizing the PC clock to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). It was originally developed for accurate satellite tracking, running on the taskbar while a NASA-compliant tracking program (SGP4 or SDP4) is running in the foreground.
- Atpdec is an open source program that decodes images transmitted by POES NOAA weather satellite series.
These satellites transmit continuously, among other things, medium resolution images of the earth on 137Mhz.
These transmissions could be easily received with an inexpensive antenna and dedicated receiver.
For more information about receiving POES satellite images consult the rig site. | aerospace | 1 |
https://cvvnews.com/this-is-quicksink-the-new-low-cost-bomb-from-the-united-states-that-will-change-air-and-naval-warfare/ | 2022-05-17T03:59:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662515501.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220517031843-20220517061843-00413.warc.gz | 0.946172 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__246414930 | en | The United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL in its acronym in English) had spent years looking for a quick, effective and, above all, economical solution to destroy enemy ships. Obviously, torpedoes and cruise missiles are still the best option, due to their accuracy and reliability, but they are not always the cheapest or the most suitable for certain environments, especially considering China.
In collaboration with the US Navy, they opted for a bomb, something that seems obsolete and has not been seen since the Falklands War, 40 years ago. This is the Quicksink project, whose main objective is to provide a cheap and adaptable way of sinking ships from the air, in such a way that can be incorporated into the ammunition carried by Air Force planes. being installed in existing weapons (such as the GBU-31). It’s about a JDM systema low-cost kit that mounts to the tail section and contains a global positioning system that replaces all free fall bombs. This guidance system gives the pumps a circular precision of +/- 13 m. and, in addition, they can be dropped from practically any military aircraft.
In this way, it offers the advantages of a heavy torpedo but without the need for the presence of submarines or to launch an expensive cruise missile and, furthermore, at a much higher speed and over a much larger area, since fighter jets can be deployed anywhere in the world where the United States or its allies have air bases or aircraft carriers.
In addition, it is not the same to put a submarine at risk, much more expensive and with a larger crew, than an aircraft. An F-15, for example, costs $87.7 million, while a US submersible can cost up to $2.8 billion.
On April 28, 2022, an F-15E Strike Eagle launched a modified Quicksink-equipped JDAM that successfully destroyed a large vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, splitting it in half and sinking it. The trial allowed the researchers to assess the challenges associated with the future operational use of this system.
“The mission was successful thanks to the hours of planning and preparation provided by the entire test team,” 780 Squadron air-to-surface test flight commander Capt. J. Tucker Tipton said in an AFRL statement. Quicksink’s research and development will continue as the project progresses toward creating a lethal, adaptable and cost-effective anti-ship weapon.
Above all, it will be useful when dealing with attacking a large number of vessels in a relatively short period of time, especially thinking of a large fleet of Chinese fishing boats, backed by lightly armed naval militias and coast guard vessels, invading Philippine territorial waters.
“Quicksink is a response to the urgent need to neutralize maritime threats to freedom around the world”said Col. Tony Meeks, director of the AFRL Munitions Directorate. | aerospace | 1 |
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The Unmanned Little Bird is a modified MD 530F helicopter that's been in military service for 30 years. The small, agile aircraft is similar to those used by police departments around the globe.
Boeing has tested the helicopter for more than 100 hours during the past few months, with promising results. While Boeing has been sending up a pilot with the aircraft for each flight, the Little Bird normally is flown remotely from the ground with the pilot simply along for the ride.
Unmanned aerial vehicles have been of growing importance to the U.S. military because of the capability to carry out various objectives in dangerous areas without risking human life.
Most UAVs, or drones, have been developed from scratch, but Boeing took a different approach by retrofitting an existing vehicle. The result has been a quickened development process that could produce contracts only two years after project launch. Boeing officials say the remote operating technology also could be installed in the $20 million Apache Longbow helicopters used by the U.S. military and its allies.
The Apaches dominate Boeing's Mesa production facility, but the relatively inexpensive Little Birds (at about $2 million apiece with half the cost coming from sensor technology) could be on the assembly line in Mesa by the close of 2005. Boeing would fit the UAV kit onto existing aircraft.
Dino Cerchie, program manager on the Unmanned Little Bird project, said he's confident the U.S. military will be interested in the newly retooled aircraft for a number of reasons.
"Precision re-supply operations are probably the No. 1 attraction," he said. "It can also be used for surveillance and reconnaissance, communications relay and also be equipped with weapons."
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were in mind when developing the UAV, which still can be traditionally piloted.
"We're looking to fill a void over there," he said. "We're trying to make it safer for the soldiers."
Cerchie also said there are a number of noncombat applications for the aircraft.
He used the Chernobyl nuclear disaster as an example of how the Unmanned Little Birds could save lives. Several helicopter pilots died from radiation exposure after working to clean up Chernobyl.
Cerchie said Boeing was so confident in the potential of the Little Birds that it funded the project with its own research dollars as opposed to being asked by the government to develop something.
Boeing officials would not say specifically how much R&D money was going into the program but that it's "significant" and they expect to land government contracts from it.
"We really see this as a market void," he said. "We are using an existing air frame with 30 years of engineering development and a proven safety record."
The helicopter's flight path can be completely controlled from the ground by using software designed to navigate the aircraft. Cameras on the Little Bird also are controlled from the ground.
"All you have to do is tell it where to go, you don't actually have to fly it from the ground with a stick and a throttle," Cerchie said. "You can control it from a laptop PC and be more than 100 miles away from it depending on the antenna."
Mark Hardesty, a Boeing flight test engineer working on the project, said the Unmanned Little Bird can go higher than the reach of many weapons and the auto-pilot mode is as capable as the best pilot -- better in some circumstances.
"It never gets tired," he said. "And the point of this whole thing is persistent surveillance."
The prospect of Boeing landing a contract for the Unmanned Little Birds seems good considering the near-perfect results of testing, coupled with increased spending by the Department of Defense. Criticism of the unarmored or under-armored Humvees in Iraq also may push the DOD to look at other ways to keep soldiers out of harm's way.
Dyke Weatherington, U.S. Department of Defense Deputy for Air Warfare, said UAVs are supporting troops in a wide range of mission capabilities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Weatherington said both small and tactical UAVs are in demand within the military for a number of reasons.
"Small UAVs provide extended visual range to increase situational awareness of the local area, rather than putting foot patrols into high-threat areas," he said. "UAVs with weapons provide a tactical commander the ability to respond immediately to high-value targets without waiting for strike assets to appear."
Battelle Memorial Institute, an Ohio science and technology think tank, predicts that research and development spending by the federal government will increase nearly
6 percent over 2004 levels to $98 billion in 2005. Its annual R&D Funding Forecast names the DOD as the primary reason behind the federal government's increase in funding.
Battelle Senior Researcher Jules Duga said the DOD will continue to be interested in UAV technology, particularly because of conflicts the U.S. military is currently engaged in.
"The technology has great potential because of the lowered cost of manpower," he said. "It's a need that's been recognized by large and small firms, and UAVs make economic and patriotic sense."
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The number of civilian pilots certified to operate unmanned aerial vehicles－known as UAVs or drones－and training centers has soared over the past four years, according to an industry report released on Wednesday.
As of the end of 2017, China had 199 qualified training centers for civilian drone pilots and issued 24,407 certificates, according to a report issued by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of China, a nonprofit organization.
In 2014, China had just 18 such training centers. The number of certificates issued rose by more than 50 percent in the second half of last year. As of July, the association had issued 15,545 certificates.
"It shows that drones can be used in diverse businesses, which brings great convenience and incomparable advantages over manned aircraft," said Wang Xiazheng, director of the association"s department that deals with unmanned aircraft.
The China Civil Aviation Administration authorized AOPA-China to issue licenses beginning in 2015. The administration requires licenses for people operating unmanned aerial vehicles heavier than 7 kilograms.
The report also found that about 60 percent of pilots are 24 to 32 years old, and more than 95 percent are male.
The development of drones has boomed since 2014. China produced nearly 450,000 drones in 2016, and the total likely hit 500,000 in 2017, according to Wu Renbiao, vice-president of Civil Aviation University of China in Tianjin.
"There are around 3 million drones worldwide, 75 percent of which were made in China," Wu said in an earlier interview with China Daily.
The scale of China"s unmanned aerial vehicle market will likely grow at an annual rate of 30 percent between 2017 and 2021, Li Jian, deputy director of the administration, said at a conference in March.
The rapid development also comes with a downside. Civil aviation has occasionally been interrupted by unmanned aircraft. Last year, the administration reported 19 illegal drone flights around Chinese airports in May, which affected 326 commercial flights.
That prompted the administration to introduce regulations requiring real-name registration of drones weighing more than 250 grams. As of March this year, more than 180,000 drones in civilian use had been registered under real names.
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https://susanandersmusic.com/amelia-earhart | 2024-04-14T01:54:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00135.warc.gz | 0.964168 | 291 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__167687416 | en | There's a world of information about Amelia Earhart available online so I won't repeat her bio here. But one of the best things I found while researching her was a clip of her talking about the flight I wrote about in "What a Woman Can Do", when she became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.
Here's more on that flight:
"On the morning of May 20, 1932, 34-year-old Earhart set off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland to fly to Paris in her single engine Lockheed Vega 5B to emulate Charles Lindbergh's solo flight five years earlier. After a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes during which she contended with strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems, Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland."
Her first flying teacher was Anita "Neta" Snook, and Earhart paid it forward by supporting other female pilots through her involvement with The Ninety-Nines, the now international organization of women in aviation.
Some quotes from her:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky."
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
"Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price." | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ozatwar.com/ozcrashes/qld320.htm | 2022-01-19T17:23:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301475.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119155216-20220119185216-00409.warc.gz | 0.960486 | 537 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__116596894 | en | 5 OCTOBER 1942
CRASH OF AN AVRO ANSON
NEAR WRECK ROCK, BARGARA BEACH
RAAF Avro Anson, AX656, of 8 Service Flying Training School 8 SFTS at Bundaberg crashed into the sea near Wreck Rock, near Bargara Beach on 5 October 1942. The aircraft took off on an instrument flying training flight at 0815 hours and was declared overdue at 1200 hours on 5 October 1942. The duration of the training flight was scheduled to last only 1 hours 40 minutes. The Police were notified and twenty aircraft began searching for the missing aircraft.
Three small aircraft plywood fragments, a brass plate and some fabric were washed ashore between Bargara Beach and a point 20 miles north of Baffle Creek on 11 October 1942 indicating the aircraft hit the water with considerable force. They were found by Edward Robert Olsen of the Globe Hotel, Perry Street, North Bundaberg. One fragment bore the pencilled figures C 56. RAAF Personnel immediately left for the location and found a large quantity of wreckage from the missing aircraft between Bargara and Wreck Rock.
Roy Allan Wright of 22 Buss Street, South Bundaberg also contacted Police on 11 October 1942 advising that he had found a piece of plywood covered in fabric in Littabella Creek in front of a hut owned by Mr Gericke.
The Adjutant of 8 SFTS R.A. Hendy advised Police that based on the debris that had been found he believed the aircraft dived into the sea between Rosedale and Wreck Point.
The back pad of a parachute harness was recovered from the beach at Moore Park on 17 October 1942. This back pad was identified as part of one of three parachutes missing with the aircraft.
The three crew members listed below were listed as missing and their bodies were never recovered:-
P/O George William Turner (273754) Instructor
LAC Kevin Lynch (414247) Trainee
LAC George Linden Russell (413261)
"Aircraft of the RAAF 1921- 71"
By Geoffrey Pentland & Peter Malone
SOURCE:- Aircraft Crash Sites - Australia
Crash: No. 252
Position: 24.48 - 152.28
Department of Aviation Chart No: 3340
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http://physicsinventions.com/space-for-the-poor/ | 2019-07-17T16:22:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525355.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717161703-20190717183703-00165.warc.gz | 0.950296 | 795 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__96633974 | en | Journey into space has recently been the cherished dream of everyone. But while few people had a chance to see the Universe, to feel weightlessness and see the Earth from the window. Until recently, it was possible only by well-trained astronauts or very wealthy people, but for the common man “Cosmic Gate” were tightly shut.
But now, space tourism is gaining momentum. In the near future, almost everyone can afford to fly into space aboard the same way as they are now flying on airplanes. In addition to external and technical diversity of the spacecraft in the future, the developers promise the emergence of space hotels and entire space cities fantastic.
Space “for the poor”.
Who among us at least once in my life wanted to fly a spaceship and experience weightlessness? Previously, it was only a dream, but now to help space tourism program comes suborbital flights.
Suborbital flights are space partly because ship does not go into orbit. Aircraft or capsule are pushed to higher altitudes (about 100 miles), make a few parabolas, and then fall down, allowing passengers to experience weightlessness and overloading, as during space flight.
Today, a number of companies engaged in development programs suborbital flights. The best known among them Virgin Galactis, Space Adventures, as well Another day universe. The cost of a suborbital flight ranges from 100 to 200 thousand dollars.
The most extensive program of suborbital flights is a program run by Virgin Galactic, owned by British billionaire Richard Branson. To carry out tourist suborbital flights Virgin Galactic spaceport built a special, located in the State of New Mexico. The main development of the company became a spaceship SpaceShipTwo.
SpaceShipTwo accommodate four passengers and two crew members. The cost of travel on the ship will cost tourists of 200 thousand dollars, and the flight at an altitude of 110 km for two hours, during which one can experience the joys of overload and about six minutes to arrive in a state of weightlessness. The first SpaceShipTwo suborbital flight is scheduled for late 2012. But tickets for tourists already on sale.
A competing company Space Adventures has signed an agreement on cooperation in the sub-orbital flights with Armadillo Aerospace, which will develop a rocket ship. At the moment the ship is developed and has no definite name, estimated cost of the flight will be 110 thousand dollars, time of flight in space for 5-15 minutes.
In addition, a subsidiary of Space Adventures, the company ZERO-G operates flights on airplanes modified Boeing 727-200. Such flights are suborbital not but help astronauts prepare for a beginner to fly in space, but also bring a lot of fun and excitement to the tourists who can experience weightlessness. To become a member of the flight on a modified Boeing 727, only have to place an online application form on the website and pay about 29.9 thousand dollars, plus 5% tax.
Surrounding ZERO-G flights are scheduled for 19 and 20 November 2011. Since 2004. ZERO-G is “carried” more than 5 thousand passengers in 174 flights. The peculiarity of such a flight is that it is possible to artificially create the conditions for the Martian or lunar gravity, if any, to simulate a state of complete weightlessness.
Another company that is trying to catch up with competitors and to compete with them in the development of spacecraft for suborbital flights is Another day universe. Currently, she is developing a suborbital rocket Lynx. The first flights are scheduled for 2012., The cost is kept secret.
Suborbital flights are a transitional stage in the development of space tourism. According to the chief probation department RSC “Energia” Yuri Usachev, “these flights offer, because nothing else there.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-sci-phoenix27-2008may27,0,1329331.story | 2014-07-31T03:49:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510272329.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011752-00338-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.947948 | 636 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__115483181 | en | Employing a "follow the water" philosophy, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has gone to the pole to search for carbon-containing organic molecules that could indicate Mars' potential as a home for some forms of life.
"The pictures may look a little bleak but the science can be fascinating," said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, the mission's principal scientist.
"This is just like the active surface you see in the Arctic," he said from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, which is managing the mission.
On Earth, such features are formed by the thawing and refreezing of water, which cause the surface to expand and contract, something like a sheet of brownies pulled from the oven at the wrong time.
If the ice on Mars does thaw, it could provide a liquid medium for life -- not necessarily higher life forms but possibly rudimentary ones, such as bacteria.
A new batch of pictures received Monday night showed one glitch on the craft. A protective sheath covering its 7.7-foot-long robotic arm failed to deploy properly and is inhibiting one of the arm's joints.
Deborah Bass, a JPL deputy project specialist, called the issue more of an inconvenience than a problem. Phoenix's controllers will attempt today to wriggle the arm free before attempting to extend it Wednesday.
"This is not that big a deal," Bass said. "We're feeling incredibly confident" about the health of the lander and its capacity to do its job.
Phoenix landed on Mars on Sunday evening after a 296-day, 422-million-mile journey. The 7-foot-tall, 904-pound craft, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., made a near-perfect touchdown.
The landing was the first since the arrival in 2004 of NASA's twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, and the first soft landing -- using thrusters and a parachute instead of the rovers' protective air bag system -- since the Viking missions 32 years ago.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said the landing showed how the mission team was the "the most expert of the expert."
The $420-million mission is expected to last 90 days or, in the words of Barry Goldstein, the Phoenix project manager at JPL, "until Mars freezes over."
Phoenix landed in the spring season, but in winter the lander will be enveloped by a thick coating of carbon dioxide ice, which will probably kill its electronics and prevent its solar panels from gathering even the minimal amount of sunlight available.
Pictures taken by a mast camera that came down shortly after the landing showed that one of the lander's 3-foot pads had dug about 4 inches into the topsoil.
That made the scientific team even more optimistic that Phoenix would be able to dig down to the ice level.
"I think we won't have any trouble at all," Smith said.
The average temperature in the region is thought to be about minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit. That's far below freezing, but there are conditions that could allow the ice to melt and refreeze. | aerospace | 1 |
https://janggolan.blogspot.com/2017/01/spacex-returned-to-flight-saturday.html | 2018-07-16T03:06:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589172.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716021858-20180716041858-00180.warc.gz | 0.946252 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__107676245 | en | CNN: The private space exploration company headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:54 a.m. PT, taking 10 satellites into space for voice and data company Iridium. By Azadeh Ansari and Jackie Wattles
'It marked the company's first launch since a Falcon 9 rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in September.
The launch's success Saturday was made even sweeter by a smooth return landing for the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage booster. It safely returned from space and glided to a landing on a seafaring platform, known as a drone ship.
'SpaceX has been attempting to perfect the rocket landing -- along with rivals such as Blue Origin from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
'Because rockets are worth tens of millions of dollars, and they have historically been discarded after launch, mastering the landing is key to making space travel more affordable.
'Saturday's launch marks the seventh time SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket.' | aerospace | 1 |
https://bcnn1wp.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/china-has-plan-to-control-weather-will-move-clouds-and-make-it-rain-using-satellites/ | 2023-03-22T00:46:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943747.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321225117-20230322015117-00401.warc.gz | 0.912824 | 173 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__260538805 | en | China is launching a bizarre bid to control Earth’s weather so it can shift rain clouds thousands of miles from its soaking south to its parched north.
Six satellites will form a ring to spot water-laden clouds and create an atmospheric corridor to allow them to move to the arid regions, state media said.
Tianhe — which translates as “Sky River” — is being developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology and will reportedly be launched in 2020.
China’s damp southern regions often flood while the north suffers drought.
But the problem is having enough rain clouds to instigate downpours with.
Now state scientists and researchers are pursuing weather modification techniques to guide clouds north to the Yellow River basin, which is particularly dry.
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SOURCE: Patrick Knox | aerospace | 1 |
http://enm.avic.com/News/647728.shtml | 2019-09-21T00:54:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574159.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921001810-20190921023810-00430.warc.gz | 0.93972 | 302 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__107633230 | en | On May 5, the first C919 took off at 2:00PM from the No.4 runway at the Pudong Airport in Shanghai. After 79 minutes of a stable cruising flight within the limited airspace at 3,000 m altitude southeast of Nantong and completing its test subjects, it returned, landing safely thereby marking a perfect maiden flight of the C919.
The C919 large passenger aircraft is the first single aisle trunkliner developed by China. Its design places it in the most popular 150 seat class single aisle aircraft market. With the basic versions — a mixed layout of 158 seats and an all-economy cabin layout of 168 seats — its standard range reaches 4,075 km with an extended range of 5,555 km. Furthermore, the advanced aerodynamic configuration, structural materials and airborne systems allow its designed functions to reduce resistance by 5% and direct operating costs by 10% compared with the same category of aircraft in service. To date, the C919 has received 570 orders from both Chinese and foreign customers.
It is reported that the first flight of C919 marks the start of development flight tests and demonstration flight tests. Six test aircraft will be put into flight tests for the testing subjects of stall, power, performances, stable handling, flight control, icing, high temperature, plateau and cold region. Another two ground test aircraft will be used for static and fatigue tests. The second test aircraft will complete its maiden flight in the second half of this year. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/report-faa-knew-about-criminal-record-of-pilot-in-deadly-lockhart-balloon-crash/269-406196194 | 2023-05-28T05:25:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643585.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528051321-20230528081321-00347.warc.gz | 0.956788 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__25899402 | en | Prior to the Lockhart hot air balloon crash that killed 16 people back in July, the Federal Aviation Administration knew about the pilot's criminal record and violations of FAA rules, according to KVUE's news partners at the Austin American-Statesman.
The Statesman reports that the FAA had learned about Nichols lengthy criminal record of alcohol-related driving offenses prior to the crash. Nichols violated FAA rules by not voluntarily disclosing any of the five incidents. And instead of revoking his license, officials sent him a warning letter.
Pilot Alfred "Skip" Nichols was intoxicated on the morning of July 30, 2016, when the hot air balloon crashed and killed 15 other people. A toxicology report indicated that Nichols had taken multiple prescription medications before the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to issue new safety recommendations in the coming months.
Go here for KVUE's full coverage of the crash. | aerospace | 1 |
https://mavericktimes.in/news/technology-news/bepicolombo-off-to-a-7-year-trek-to-mercury/3777/ | 2023-09-21T22:41:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506045.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921210007-20230922000007-00615.warc.gz | 0.920235 | 522 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__253740755 | en | A joint European-Japanese mission, BepiColombo, to the tiniest planet, Mercury was blasted off from French Guiana on Oct. 19. BepiColombo will spend seven years cruising toward its target, where it will separate into two spacecraft and orbit Mercury for a year — or two, if the mission is extended.
After the launch, European and Japanese space agencies confirmed that the Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted the spacecraft which carried two probes into orbit on Saturday. The whole mission cost the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) almost $2 billion.
About the Mission
The BepiColombo spacecraft will have to follow an elliptical path that involves a fly-by of Earth, two of Venus and six of Mercury itself so it can slow down before arriving at its destination in December 2025.
Then finally, in December 2025, BepiColombo will split into its two components, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter built by the European Space Agency and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The ESA-developed Bepi will operate in Mercury’s inner orbit, and JAXA’s Mio will be in the outer orbit to gather data that would reveal the internal structure of the planet, its surface and geological evolution.
The probes are designed to cope with temperatures varying from 430 degrees Celsius (806 F) on the side facing the sun, and -180 degrees Celsius (-292 F) in Mercury’s shadow.
As it travels, one instrument on board will be making the most precise measurements to date of Mercury’s and Earth’s orbits around the sun. With these measurements, scientists will try to find any shortcomings in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Upon reaching the destination, the probes and other instruments aim at solving lingering mysteries surrounding Mercury. They also aim at knowing more about the formation of our solar system.
Those spacecraft will become the first to study Mercury since the only previous orbiter, NASA’s MESSENGER, ended its mission in 2015 after four years at the tiny planet.
Mercury’s extreme temperatures, the intense gravity pull of the sun and blistering solar radiation make for hellish conditions.
Mercury, which is only slightly larger than Earth’s moon, has a massive iron core about which little is known. Researchers are also hoping to learn more about the formation of the solar system from the data gathered by the BepiColombo mission. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/category/in-space/page/2/ | 2023-03-24T18:25:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945288.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324180032-20230324210032-00489.warc.gz | 0.962974 | 1,687 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__63316872 | en | By Jason Moon, CNN
A meteoroid struck the surface of the moon recently, causing an explosion that was visible on Earth without the aid of a telescope, NASA reported Friday. But don't be alarmed if you didn't see it; it only lasted about a second.
"It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before," said Bill Cooke, of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
NASA astronomers have been monitoring the moon for the past eight years, looking for explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. It's part of a program to find new fields of space debris that could hit Earth. NASA says it sees hundreds of detectable lunar meteoroid impacts a year.
By Matt Smith, CNN
The future of NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space observatory was in question Wednesday after a part that helps aim the spacecraft stopped working, the U.S. space agency said.
Controllers found Tuesday that Kepler had gone into a "safe mode" and one of the reaction wheels needed to orient the spacecraft would not spin, Associate NASA Administrator John Grunsfeld told reporters. NASA engineers are trying to figure out whether they can get the balky part back into service or whether they can resume control by another method, Grunsfeld said.
"We're not ready to call the mission over," he said. But at roughly 40 million miles from Earth, "Kepler is not in a place where I can go up and rescue it."
The Kepler mission has identified 132 planets beyond our solar system since its launch in 2009, leading scientists to believe that most stars in our galaxy have planets circling them. It has gone into a "safe mode" with its solar panels facing back at the sun, giving controllers intermittent communication with the craft as it spins.
Chris Hadfield has conquered space. Now he's conquering the Internet, too.
A video of the Canadian astronaut singing David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station has been zipping around the Web at light speed since it was posted Sunday. The five-minute clip features Hadfield singing a modified version of the tune and strumming an acoustic guitar while floating through a space module, more than 200 miles above the Earth.
By Monday morning, it had more than 1 million views on YouTube, 3,000 comments on Reddit and was being widely shared across social networks.
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
Leave it all behind and start anew on a planet no humans have occupied - how does that sound? More than 78,000 people applied to go on a one-way trip to Mars, through Mars One, an organization aiming to put four people on the Red Planet by 2023.
Apparently, they are unfazed by the idea that they can never come back or that taking showers on the way there would not be an option.
The applications came from more than 120 countries, although the United States led with 17,324 applications, the Dutch company said.
The International Space Station crew is preparing for a spacewalk to address the leak of ammonia from a cooling system, the commander said Friday.
NASA said the crew is preparing for a "possible" spacewalk and that a decision on whether to go ahead with it is likely to come late Friday.
Cmdr. Chris Hadfield of Canada announced the plan to venture outside the space station via his Twitter account.
"Good Morning, Earth! Big change in plans, spacewalk tomorrow, Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn are getting suits and airlock ready. Cool!" he posted Friday.
By Buzz Aldrin, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Buzz Aldrin, best known for his Apollo 11 moonwalk, holds a doctoral degree in astronautics and, at the age of 83, continues to wield influence as an international advocate of space science and planetary exploration. Aldrin’s new book "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration," co-authored with space journalist Leonard David, is a blueprint and strategy for American-led presence of human beings from Earth on the Red Planet Mars. He is on Twitter at @therealbuzz.
We need to get the world excited again about space exploration and have the pioneering spirit to reach beyond our boundaries and current capabilities.
I want a new generation of space explorers to feel as I did when it was my privilege to take part in the Apollo program that landed the first humans on the surface of the Moon. This is important, not only for the USA but for the rest of the world.
Let me tell you why.
Buzz Aldrin's new book is called "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration."
By Meg Urry, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the department of physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
On April 27, NASA's Fermi and Swift satellites detected a strong signal from the brightest gamma-ray burst in decades. Because this was relatively close, it was thousands of times brighter than the typical gamma-ray bursts that are seen by Swift every few days. Scientists are now scrambling to learn more.
We already knew that when the biggest stars run out of fuel, they don't fade quietly away. Instead, they explode in a blaze of glory known as a supernova. These stellar explosions are often bright enough to be seen by us even though they are in galaxies billions of light-years from our own Milky Way galaxy home.
In very rare cases - such as GRB130427A (tagged with the date of its discovery) - astrophysicists are lucky enough to see energetic gamma-rays from hyperfast jets of outflowing material consisting of charged particles created during a massive star's violent death throes.
By Rich Clifford, Special to CNN
It had been a little more than four months since completing my second space shuttle mission, STS-59, on the shuttle Endeavour.
I was finishing my annual flight physical at the Johnson Space Center Flight Medicine Clinic. The words from the flight surgeon were as expected: I was in great condition with nothing of note. Then I asked the doctor to look at my right shoulder because my racquetball game was suffering.
He asked if I had pain. I told him I wasn't in pain, but my right arm did not swing naturally when I walked. This comment must have set off some alarm, because he observed my walk down the hall and quickly said he would take me downtown to the Texas Medical Center the next day.
By Nana Karikari-apau, CNN
Editor's note: The Science Seat is a feature in which CNN Light Years sits down with movers and shakers from different areas of scientific exploration. This is the ninth installment.
NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman has logged more than 4,330 hours in space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia and the International Space Station.
Coleman was a flight engineer on a Russian Soyuz rocket that took her to the space station in December 2010, and came back to Earth in May 2011, having spent 159 days in space. CNN followed her on this journey - called Expedition 26/27 - to get ready for the expedition, and showed segments every month of what life was like for her and her family in the year before the launch.
This month, CNN Light Years caught up with Coleman to reflect on her spaceflight experiences. Here is an edited transcript.
Step right up and prove why you should get a one-way ticket to Mars! But wait - you might want to know a little more about this venture first.
A Dutch company called Mars One is looking for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars. The search began Monday. Departure for the Red Planet is scheduled for 2022, landing seven months later in 2023.
The space travelers will return ... never. They will finish out their lives on Mars and die there, representatives from the nonprofit organization said.
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https://global.foreignaffairs.co.nz/2021/02/25/mil-osi-russia-a-day-of-joint-combat-training-was-held-in-the-leningrad-army-of-the-air-force-and-air-defense/ | 2021-04-17T03:17:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038098638.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210417011815-20210417041815-00288.warc.gz | 0.952475 | 362 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__37119883 | en | MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –
In the Leningrad, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod, Pskov, Voronezh regions and the Republic of Karelia, joint combat training was held in aviation, anti-aircraft missile and radio engineering units of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense (Air Force and Air Defense) of the Western Military District (ZVO).
According to the plan of the training, the combat crews of the radar stations and anti-aircraft missile systems of the air defense units were supposed to deter the attempts of fighter aircraft to get into the given airspace and to inflict missile and bomb attacks on the most significant ground targets. The air groups of the operational-tactical and army aviation of the formation played the role of a mock enemy.
The main task of the subunits of the radio engineering forces was the early detection of air targets approaching from different directions and at different altitudes, as well as the transmission of the coordinates of the trajectory of aircraft movement for anti-aircraft missile divisions.
During joint combat training events, each of the fighters worked out the elements of evading air defense facilities, maneuvering and flying at extremely low altitudes. At the same time, the calculations of anti-aircraft missile systems have worked out the destruction of air targets with the help of electronic launches of anti-aircraft guided missiles.
More than 500 servicemen took part in the joint training event, over 200 units of aviation, radio-technical and anti-aircraft missile equipment of the association were involved.
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https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2001-09-24-Sea-Launch-Names-Jim-Maser-as-New-President | 2023-09-28T10:15:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510387.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928095004-20230928125004-00741.warc.gz | 0.959794 | 536 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__71495427 | en | The Sea Launch Company's Board of Directors has named James G. Maser as the company's new President and General Manager, effective Sept. 10.
Until his new assignment as President, Maser served as Chief Systems Engineer for Sea Launch, focusing his efforts on systems integration, recurring engineering process improvement, mission integration cycle time reduction, vehicle performance increase and mission assurance processes. In four months, he completed an assignment as the Chairman of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board, which ultimately led to a return-to-flight status after the failure of the ICO-1 mission in March 2000. The record-breaking turnaround was demonstrated by the successful PAS-9 campaign in July 2000, which has since been followed by three additional successes. Maser has appointed Kirk Pysher, previously Deputy Chief Systems Engineer, to succeed him as Chief Systems Engineer.
Maser, an aerospace engineer with extensive experience in program management, design and engineering leadership, came to Sea Launch in 1998 from the Boeing Delta and Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle programs. Before joining McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) in the 1980s, he was a research fellow at the NASA/Lewis Research Center. The American Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics honored Maser with the coveted George M. Low Space Transportation Award in Sept. 2000. He has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering from the University of Akron as well as a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of California/Los Angeles.
Maser replaces Will Trafton, who has been appointed President of Boeing Launch Services, Inc. (BLS), and Vice President and Deputy General Manager for Boeing Expendable Launch Systems in Huntington Beach, Calif. The newly formed BLS will provide marketing and sales services for both the Sea Launch and Delta launch vehicles. Trafton will continue in his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sea Launch Company, LLC.
Sea Launch Company, LLC, based in Long Beach, Calif., provides reliable, cost effective, heavy lift launch services for commercial satellite customers. The international members include the Boeing Commercial Space Company (U.S.), the Anglo-Norwegian Kvaerner Group (Norway), RSC Energia (Russia) and SDO Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash (Ukraine). Established in 1995, Sea Launch has a current backlog of 17 firm launch contracts. As the world's only services provider launching from the Equator, Sea Launch offers the optimal starting point for spacecraft heading for geostationary orbit. For additional information, visit the Sea Launch website at: www.sea-launch.com. | aerospace | 1 |
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What does 3 stripes on a pilot mean?
A flight engineer or a second officer wears two stripes.
A first officer, also called a co-pilot or second in command, wears three stripes.
A captain, or a pilot in command, wears four stripes.
Pilots also typically wear a winged badge indicating their qualification to fly and their seniority..
Why do pilots say 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.
Can airline pilots have beards?
In general aviation, there is no restriction to have your beards trimmed or clean shaved. One can get a private pilot license or even a commercial pilot license having a beard.
Do pilots cheat?
Not only do pilots hook up with the attendants but also passengers they meet on the flights, random women at bars hotels etc. … Also, it seemed like most of the pilots who were married- were actively cheating or trying to cheat on their wives.
Can pilots have tattoos?
Yes, pilots can have tattoos. Even an airline pilot can have a tattoo, but having visible tattoos as a pilot is discouraged. Having visible tattoos might not be a problem if you are a general aviation pilot.
Do pilots need math?
Pilots must understand geography and physics and must have good mechanical aptitude. The job also requires good math skills. Pilots use math on a daily basis. In addition to basic arithmetic, algebra and calculus, a thorough understanding of geometry allows pilots to do their job well.
Do pilots keep a gun in the cockpit?
Inside the cockpit, pilots carry the guns in a hip holster. Outside, they must be transported in locked boxes. “Their [the pilots’] authority lies within the flight deck,” says the deputy director. “They can’t be walking around to the stores or the malls with the firearm on their person.”
Do flight attendants know who the air marshals are?
‘ As to whether cabin crew are always aware when they have an air marshal on board, the answer is yes.
Are commercial airline pilots armed?
A Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) is an airplane pilot who is trained and licensed to carry weapons and defend commercial aircraft against criminal activity and terrorism.
Should pilots be armed?
In the United States and other countries, by contrast, armed pilots are not allowed. Arming pilots should not be a last resort, but rather the first response to the threat of terrorism. Certainly increasing the security at airports is a good idea.
Are pilots armed since 9 11?
Pilots are now allowed to carry firearms, but they must be trained and licensed. In the U.S., more air marshals have been placed on flights to improve security.
Do fighter pilots wear diapers?
Some have a “relief tube” that they pee into (sometimes attached to a venturi on the outside of the aircraft that causes a bit of suction), others provide the pilot with a jar, one can use a package of absorbent material (commonly known as a “piddle pack”), and in some case they wear a diaper. | aerospace | 1 |
http://disneyair.net/index.php/ | 2017-11-23T11:19:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806771.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123104442-20171123124442-00782.warc.gz | 0.901982 | 414 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__196351599 | en | Disney Air was created to bring the wonderful world of Disney to the Virtual Airline and flight enthusiasts. Disney Air strives to provide the highest quality in service, training, collaboration, and realism, setting it apart from many other
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https://www.twinotterworld.com/twin-otter-news-blog/2017/10/9/enhanced-vision-system-by-ikhana | 2018-11-20T13:52:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039746398.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20181120130743-20181120152743-00225.warc.gz | 0.861624 | 685 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__211512428 | en | IKHANA Aircraft Services Announces Development of Enhanced Vision System (EVS) for the DHC-6 Twin Otter FAA STC number SA02649LA
IKHANA Aircraft Services (IKHANA) announces the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) award of its Enhanced Vision System (EVS) STC for the DHC-6 Twin Otter series aircraft using the Astronics Max-Viz EVS 2300 sensor.
The Max-Viz 2300 provides pilots with an unprecedented level of situational awareness and safety by enabling them to see more precisely during day or night in adverse weather conditions, such as haze, smoke, smog and light fog, even in the darkest night. “IKHANA is always looking to apply innovations that improve utility, and safety while expanding Twin Otter capabilities,” states John Zublin, President and CEO of IKHANA. “EVS offers a unique capability that fits well within the Twin Otter’s typical operating mission in remote unimproved fields or other low visibility situations. As an alternative to computer database synthetic visions systems, the EVS 2300 provides the flight crew with a real-time visual situational awareness image that results in an additional level of safety for low visibility missions.”
The Astronics Max-Viz EVS 2300 design incorporates both a camera and power supply in one unit for easy aircraft installation. The system combines a long wave infrared un-cooled thermal image blended with a visible light sensor for “seeing” LED lighting. The blended black and white, dual field of view image is presented on any cockpit video-capable display. A separate color HD-compatible camera feed (720 x 480) can be displayed in the cabin, switched on in the cockpit, or be recorded. The software for the Combined Vision System (CVS) is capable of supporting future integration with Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS). The cockpit display shows terrain, runways, taxiways, aircraft and obstacles in poor visibility conditions, including light fog, haze, smoke, brown/whiteout, light precipitation and darkness. EVS provides For further information, contact Naras “Bo” Alksninis, Director, Special Missions Sales Tel: 951-600-0009 x218; Mobile: 818.554.5906; Email: [email protected] what synthetic vision alone can’t…the real world in real time…in a package that is small, reliable and affordable.
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IKHANA Aircraft Services, a DBA of IKHANA Group Inc., provides DESIGN - BUILD - FLY solutions to the aerospace industry through integration of new technologies, aircraft modifications, heavy maintenance, major repair, and critical parts manufacturing. Headquartered at the French Valley Airport (F70) in Murrieta, California, IKHANA holds FAA, EASA, Transport Canada, and Fiji repair station approvals, FAA Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA), and is a Viking Air Factory Endorsed Service Center. IKHANA has a proven reputation for developing unique engineered solutions across a wide variety of aircraft platforms and diverse customer base including extensive experience in the DHC-6 Twin Otter, King Air, and Gulfstream airframes. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://cruzersoftech.com/commercial-branding-on-spacecraft-five-key-points-in-nasas-evolving-space-vision/ | 2022-12-09T17:17:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711417.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209144722-20221209174722-00302.warc.gz | 0.919212 | 1,409 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__247694688 | en | Why can’t commercials be filmed on the Worldwide Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of vitality drinks or tennis sneakers? And as a substitute of claiming “The Eagle has landed,” why not receives a commission for saying “Right here’s your orbital Pizza Hut supply”?
The ultimate frontier is edging farther into the industrial frontier: That’s one of many high takeaways from this week’s conferences of the NASA Advisory Council at Ames Analysis Heart in California’s Silicon Valley.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and different officers and advisers supplied a preview of the developments we’re prone to be seeing in the months and years to return. Right here’s a fast rundown on 5 locations NASA goes towards:
Bridenstine stated a brand new advisory committee, headed by Maxar Applied sciences government Mike Gold, would look into the prospects for parlaying industrial alternatives.
“Is it attainable for NASA to offset among the prices by promoting the naming rights to a spacecraft, or the naming rights to its rockets?” Bridenstine requested.
Gold stated the probabilities may embrace having NASA obtain reimbursement when industrial space firms promote spots on spacecraft heading for the Worldwide Space Station, and leveraging these funds for entry or providers on future private-sector space stations.
“Our firms mustn’t have to show to Russian cosmonauts to execute industrial operations,” Gold stated. “When new industrial substance are created, industrial experiments performed, and even ads filmed, American astronauts ought to cleared the path.”
Up to now, Russia’s space effort led the best way in industrial actions, starting from bringing fare-paying spaceflight individuals on board the space station to filming Pepsi and Pizza Hut commercials. In a famous case from 2000, a Russian Proton rocket was emblazoned with the Pizza Hut emblem for $1 million.
Former NASA official Lori Garver tweeted that U.S. companies have long sought similar exposure by NASA.
“We thought-about this in the ‘90s,” she stated. “Nike would have paid a whole lot of hundreds of thousands for swoosh on the shuttle tank. It was too controversial. Perhaps it’s going to work this time!”
Bridenstine and different NASA officers made clear that they had been all in on the Gateway, an outpost that’s as a result of be constructed in lunar orbit in the course of the 2020s. The Gateway would host crews of astronauts however may additionally maintain itself in between 30- to 90-day-long missions.
Its go-to orbit is called a near-rectilinear halo orbit, which might come closest to one of many lunar poles (most probably the south pole) each six days to facilitate the potential switch of provides and crew to the moon’s floor.
However Bridenstine stated the Gateway’s photo voltaic electrical propulsion system may push it into all kinds of orbits, relying on the mission, and even to the Earth-moon L1 and L2 gravitational stability points, tens of hundreds of miles from the moon.
Bridenstine scoffed on the thought of merely leaving “flags and footprints” on the lunar floor, as was the case with the Apollo moon program of the Sixties and early ’70s.
“This time, once we go, we’re going to go to remain,” he stated, echoing one of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space mantras. “We’re going to go sustainably.”
The most important issue behind making the longer term moon marketing campaign sustainable and inexpensive shall be ensuring the spacecraft are reusable. That applies not solely to reusable rockets, corresponding to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Blue Origin’s yet-to-be-built New Glenn, but additionally to “reusable tugs to go from Earth orbit to lunar orbit,” plus lunar landers that may be refueled and reflown, Bridenstine stated.
NASA’s heavy-lift moon rocket, the Space Launch System, isn’t at the moment designed to be reusable. However at one level Bridenstine appeared to recommend that future incarnations may incorporate extra reusable parts.
Bridenstine stated one other distinction from Apollo could be elevated reliance on lunar assets. “That’s one other change in our coverage as a rustic,” he stated.
Latest scientific findings have given a lift to hopes that deposits of lunar ice may very well be transformed into breathable air, drinkable water and rocket propellants for refueling depots. However Bridenstine voiced much more formidable hopes, focusing on the potential extraction of platinum group metals or uncommon earth metals from lunar soil.
The administrator acknowledged that it’s not but clear how a lot of such supplies shall be discovered on the moon. “However to the extent that they exist, we must be actively working to ensure that we discover them relatively than any person else,” Bridenstine stated.
Commercialization of lunar assets may ultimately spark a tussle with different nations. U.S. legislation already offers extra weight to non-public claims on space assets, and Gold stated his committee could be taking a look at methods to interpret the Outer Space Treaty in order to not hinder acceptable industrial exercise.
The best way Bridenstine sees it, the Gateway in lunar orbit would function a mannequin for even farther-out space gateways. “We wish to have the ability to replicate that at Mars,” he stated.
However the key problem goes again to the well-known phrase attributed to Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom: “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.”
1 / 4-century in the past, President George H.W. Bush’s Space Exploration Initiative fell wanting its moon-and-Mars purpose, in massive half as a result of a scarcity of cash and political will. Practically a decade in the past, President George W. Bush’s back-to-the-moon Constellation program suffered the same destiny.
Will the present marketing campaign go farther? Keith Cowing, editor of the impartial web site NASA Watch, is cautious:
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 27, 2018
However retired Air Power Gen. Lester Lyles, chairman of the NASA Advisory Council, voiced hope that the sturdy commitments from the White Home, the Nationwide Space Council and Bridenstine will result in a full follow-through this time round.
“No pun supposed, I feel the celebrities are aligned proper now,” Lyles stated. | aerospace | 1 |
http://admiralmy.blogspot.com/2011/08/ | 2019-07-15T22:29:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524254.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190715215144-20190716001144-00201.warc.gz | 0.920954 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__168334946 | en | Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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In 1961, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, crash lands on the far side of Earth's Moon. The crash is detected on Earth by NASA, and President John F.Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the Moon as a cover for investigating the craft. In 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 lands on the Moon to explore the craft.In the present, the Autobots assist the United States military in preventing conflicts around the globe. During a mission to Chernobyl to investigate suspected alien technology, Optimus Prime finds a fuel cell from the Ark, discovering it had survived its journey from Cybertron. The Autobots are attacked by Shockwave who manages to escape. After learning of the top-secret mission to the Moon, the Autobots travel there to explore the Ark. There they discover a comatose Sentinel Prime – Optimus' predecessor as leader of the Autobots – and his creation, the Pillars, a means of establishing a Space Bridge between two points to teleport matter. After returning to Earth, Optimus uses the energy of his Matrix of Leadership to revive Sentinel Prime.
Working together, the Autobots and Human soldiers manage to rescue Carly and destroy Soundwave, Barricade, Starscream and Shockwave, with Optimus using Shockwave's arm-cannon to blast the Control Pillar, disabling the Space Bridge. Sam confronts Gould as he reactivates the Control Pillar. After a brief fistfight, Sam knocks Gould into the Pillar, electrocuting him. Bumblebee and Ratchet arrive and destroy the Control Pillar, permanently disabling the Bridge and causing the partially transported Cybertron to implode. Optimus and Sentinel fight while Carly convinces Megatron that he will be replaced as leader of the Decepticons by Sentinel. Sentinel severs Optimus's right arm and prepares to execute him when Megatron intervenes, incapacitating Sentinel. Optimus attacks Megatron, decapitating and killing him. Sentinel pleads for his life but Optimus executes him for betraying his own principles. With the Decepticons defeated, Carly and Sam are reunited and the Autobots accept that with Cybertron gone, Earth is now their home. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2022/10/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-vintage-photographs-from-the-victor-martin-malburet-collection/157 | 2023-02-01T18:31:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499949.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201180036-20230201210036-00248.warc.gz | 0.944658 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__283922559 | en | A great close-up of the Agena Target Docking Vehicle floating in space only 12 feet away from the Gemini capsule.
The photograph was shot taken by Buzz Aldrin through the 80mm lens of the Maurer space camera and Kodak Ektachrome SO-368 medium speed film as both spacecraft were station-keeping before docking. An eight-foot L-band radar antenna rises just aft of the docking cone, which is fitted to receive Gemini XII’s nose.
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Boeing has been awarded a $7.3 million contract to develop satellite launches for the US military.
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The core of the new vehicle will be the Boeing crew capsule named Starliner. The three-person capsule will be launched atop an upgraded version of the Atlas V rocket, a two-stage rocket that has launched many times over the last few years. The satellite carrier will support multiple missions, including launching smallsats.
“This future vehicle will provide human access to orbit for a variety of satellites and represents a significant expansion of Boeing’s human spaceflight capabilities,” said Phil McAlister, vice president of Boeing’s Space Exploration Systems.
The Starliner is a fully reusable spacecraft with a crew of three that can put up to five tonnes into orbit. The ‘Starboard’ side of the vehicle will act as a habitation module, with in-space launch escape seats and compartments for crew during flight. The Starliner is designed to be reused up to 50 times, with a planned lifespan of up to 30 years. The spacecraft will test out every major system before being launched, before Boeing shuts it down and retrieves it. It will also be able to land on any runway, allowing astronauts to hop
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https://www.pacmin.com/news/2011/10/3-scale-hondajet/ | 2024-02-26T16:57:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474661.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226162136-20240226192136-00823.warc.gz | 0.962033 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__108265929 | en | For the 2011 NBAA show in Las Vegas PacMin Studios was commissioned to build a custom 1/3.5 scale HondaJet aircraft model. This model replaced a previous 1/3.5 representation that was produced in 2007.
The aviation model incorporates interior and exterior lighting. The navigation, landing and strobe lighting were all painstakingly reproduced from original Honda CAD data and incorporated LEDs to mimic the full size aircraft lighting intensity. The large scale replica was mounted on a computer controlled motion platform that, in conjunction with a digital LED/video backdrop, gave the impression that the model was flying. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flyingmag.com/are-pilots-required-to-call-flight-service-for-a-briefing-before-departure/ | 2023-12-04T00:51:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100518.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203225036-20231204015036-00856.warc.gz | 0.946238 | 902 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__116280478 | en | Question: Am I required to call flight service to get a briefing before I depart?
Answer: The short answer is no. The regulations do not specifically state that you must call Lockheed Martin Flight Service (LMFS) (e.g., 800-WX-BRIEF) to get a briefing. FAR 91.103 (a) simply states, in part:
91.103 Preflight action.
Each pilot in command shall, before beginning a flight, become familiar with all available information concerning that flight. This information must include—
(a) For a flight under IFR or a flight not in the vicinity of an airport, weather reports and forecasts, fuel requirements, alternatives available if the planned flight cannot be completed, and any known traffic delays of which the pilot in command has been advised by ATC.
Certainly, a phone call on a recorded line to Flight Service (now known as Leidos) will fulfill most of these requirements. Briefers can provide the adverse weather along your proposed route of flight and assist you with identifying important NOTAMs and TFRs that may be relevant. You still must check many other aspects of the flight, such as takeoff and landing distances as well as weight and balance. But from a weather perspective, can you skip the call to Leidos and roll your own “weather” briefing and be perfectly legal?
Yes, you can, but here are the caveats. The Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) and advisory circulars such as Aviation Weather Services, AC 00-45H, Change 2, provide you with guidance on how to get a good preflight briefing. These documents mention making the call to 800-WX-BRIEF as a legitimate source. While these documents are not regulatory, if you decide to roll your own briefing and something bad happens during your flight, you will likely need to show the FAA how you briefed yourself for the flight. If you can’t or your explanation isn’t satisfactory, the FAA will likely cite this as being “careless or reckless” under FAR 91.13 since it handed you the proper recipe for a briefing in these nonregulatory documents that clearly state it is wise to make that phone call.
Nevertheless, the FAA is making a reasonable attempt to recognize that more and more pilots are briefing on their own and not making that phone call. In the revision memorandum in AC 00-45H, Change 2 (November 2016) it states:
The experience of listening to a weather briefing over a phone while trying to write down pertinent weather information becomes less tolerable when the reports are easily obtainable on a home computer, tablet computer, or even a smartphone. To see weather along your route using a graphic of plotted weather reports combined with radar and satellite is preferable to trying to mentally visualize a picture from verbalized reports. Although most of the traditional weather products, which rolled off the teletype and facsimile machines decades ago, are still available, some are being phased out by the National Weather Service (NWS) in favor of new, Web-based weather information.
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Moreover, a letter dated June 28, 2017, from the assistant chief counsel of the FAA stated in a legal interpretation that, “The PIC’s failure to contact LMFS prior to a flight would not be a violation of 91.103.”
How about using one of the heavyweight electronic flight bag (EFB) apps to get your briefing? Yes, some of the heavyweight apps also provide a way to get a briefing that is logged and recorded that will fulfill the regulatory requirements in part. In fact, the FAA stated in the same 2017 opinion letter that “similarly, a PIC’s reliance on only an EFB would not be a per se violation of 91.103.” The letter also cautioned that “we note, however, that there may be limitations and quality assurance issues in connection with the information available through certain EFB products that may affect compliance with 91.103 and necessitate further information gathering regarding the flight.”
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https://bouldercityreview.com/news/nevada-bc-being-considered-for-civil-drone-testing/ | 2022-12-03T15:36:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710933.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203143925-20221203173925-00235.warc.gz | 0.960036 | 1,049 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__128900089 | en | City staff, in coordination with the Nevada unmanned aircraft systems program office, hosted a public meeting Monday at the Boulder City Smith Center regarding Boulder City potentially becoming a testing area for unmanned aircraft.
Last year the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 was passed by Congress, requiring the Federal Aviation Administration to integrate civil unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, into the national airspace by September 2015.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s economic development office is leading a statewide effort for Nevada to be one of six national areas selected as a test site for the integration.
If Nevada’s application is approved, Boulder City will be one of the state’s three test ranges, Boulder City airport manager Kerry Ahearn said.
The small group attending the meeting consisted of about 20 people and included members of the airport community, city officials and a few concerned residents.
The meeting included a presentation by Boeing Co. subsidiary Insitu, which manufactures drones for the U.S. military, showing the technical aspects and potential applications of drone use.
Steve Bishop, Insitu’s business development executive, said that drones are not just for military use, and showed examples of drones being used to help fight fires and monitor wildlife.
“These types of things have very good, beneficial uses for nonmilitary applications,” he said.
Bishop, who brought a retired ScanEagle military drone for display, said his company was not contracted for the testing but would be interested in locating to Southern Nevada if it became a test site.
Jonathan Daniels, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas unmanned aircraft researcher and retired military pilot, said it is illegal for civil unmanned aircraft to operate in the national airspace.
The FAA’s five-year testing period will create a $10 billion national industry, with 70,000 jobs in the first three years, Daniels said.
With Nevada’s weather, unrestricted airspace and lack of corporate income tax, Daniels said it is the most attractive location for companies to locate.
“We want to be the Silicon Valley of unmanned aircraft systems,” Daniels said. “That really is the drive.”
Pilots in the audience mostly asked questions about the safety and technical aspects of integrating unmanned aircraft into Boulder City airspace, and whether flights would be beginning and ending at Boulder City Municipal Airport.
Many of the finer details were not available from the experts about the program, which is expected to be a public/private partnership with the state and numerous unmanned aircraft manufacturers.
However, Daniels assured the group that the integration would be gradual, probably beginning with a single aircraft flying in Eldorado Valley, but eventually leading up to operations at the airport.
“We’re going to minimize, to the negligible level, the impact on (general aviation),” Daniels said.
The experts also did not provide a clear answer to a question from the audience about who would be piloting the drones.
But according to Air National Guardsman Lt. Col. Jim Fleitz, a subject matter expert for the state, military pilots may be flying the drones.
“It all depends who we are using and who we are working with,” he said.
Attendees also had privacy concerns. Questions were asked about where the unmanned aircraft would be flying, and if they would be used for surveillance of residents.
The experts assured the group the unmanned aircraft would not be flying over houses or used for surveillance of residents.
The testing program is a non-military and nonlaw-enforcement endeavor, Daniels said.
“(The test effort) is not about what sensors we can use to look at people in their houses,” he said.
However, Fleitz noted that following the testing period, unmanned aircraft will use the airspace over Boulder City and the rest of the nation.
“Some day (unmanned aircraft) will fly over the national airspace just like any other aircraft,” he said.
Daniels said that the FAA is expected to select the test sites by July and have a final agreement in place by Dec. 31, allowing testing to begin January.
The FAA has received 50 applications from 37 states, Daniels said.
Former Mayor Bob Ferraro attended the meeting, and was enthusiastic about Boulder City becoming a test site for unmanned aircraft.
“I like it. I think it’s great for Boulder City,” he said.
However, not everyone at the meeting was supportive.
“It’s a total military operation going on in our backyard under our noses,” Boulder City resident Terry Stevens said. “It’s totally crazy.”
The City Council approved a resolution March 26 supporting Nevada’s application to be an FAA unmanned aircraft test site. All state municipalities have been asked by the economic development office to pass such a resolution.
Councilman Cam Walker at the March 26 meeting referred to the application as an “exciting economic benefit for our state.”
Las Vegas City Council passed a similar resolution supporting the FAA application April 17. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2012/07/19/Thailand-signs-up-for-two-more-Black-Hawks/UPI-59801342693800/?rel=51441347540356 | 2017-10-18T18:36:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823067.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018180631-20171018200631-00267.warc.gz | 0.947853 | 647 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__196820060 | en | BANGKOK, July 19 (UPI) -- Thailand has agreed to buy two Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters under the U.S. government's foreign military sales program.
The agreement, made by the Thai army in a letter of offer and acceptance, will make Thailand the first member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to fly the latest version of the Black Hawk, a statement by Sikorsky said.
"The Black Hawk helicopter is the standard by which all military utility helicopters are judged," said Samir Mehta, president of Sikorsky Military Systems.
"The UH-60M represents the very latest, most comprehensively equipped model that we have ever developed and delivered to the United States government. More nations are increasingly discovering its multi-mission value, outstanding performance record, and durability even in the harshest and most hostile environments."
Sweden became the first European country to acquire the four-bladed, medium-lift UH-60M from Sikorsky, a United Technologies Corp. company.
Mission configurations for the Black Hawk include troop transport, medical evacuation, electronic warfare, attack, assault support and special operations.
Sikorsky has manufactured more than 3,000 Black Hawk helicopters, which are operating in 30 countries, the company said.
Of these, more than 2,000 are operated by the U.S. Army which has flown them in Iraq and Afghanistan where they have accumulated more than 1.3 million fleet flight hours without a single Class A material failure, Sikorsky said.
The utility helicopter, introduced in 1979, is powered by twin General Electric T700 turbo shaft engines and can carry 11 troops with equipment, lift 2,600 pounds of cargo internally or 9,000 pounds of cargo in an external sling.
The Thai army also operates several of the earlier UH-60L version.
In August 2011, Thailand became the first country outside the United States to take delivery of Sikorsky's latest version of the naval Sierra version of the Black Hawk, the MH-60S.
The latest Thai deal comes after Sikorsky announced in February the opening of an office in Malaysia as the start plans to expand business operations in Southeast Asia.
"ASEAN has always been an important market for Sikorsky and the aerospace industry at large," Christophe Nurit, Sikorsky vice president of Asia sales said at the time.
"Sikorsky aircraft have been serving ASEAN fleets since the 1960s, providing a breadth of military and commercial mission support. Our products carry a legacy of safety and reliability that are a solid foundation on which to further grow our relationships in Southeast Asia."
ASEAN is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore Thailand and Vietnam.
Brunei last year contracted Sikorsky Aircraft for a dozen S-70i Black Hawks, a version assembled by PZL Mielec in Poland.
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. acquired PZL Mielec, based in Mielec, in 2007. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.hermantheshocker.com/the-victims-of-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17/ | 2023-12-07T10:22:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100651.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207090036-20231207120036-00161.warc.gz | 0.975216 | 1,289 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__280377280 | en | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-controlled forces on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. Contact with the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was lost when it was about 50 km (31 mi) from the Ukraine–Russia border, and wreckage from the aircraft fell near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km (25 mi) from the border. The shoot-down occurred during the war in Donbas over territory controlled by Russian separatist forces.
The responsibility for investigation was delegated to the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) and the Dutch-led joint investigation team (JIT), who in 2016 reported that the airliner had been downed by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine. The JIT found that the Buk originated from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Federation and had been transported from Russia on the day of the crash, fired from a field in a rebel-controlled area and the launch system returned to Russia afterwards.
The findings by the DSB and JIT were consistent with the earlier claims by American and German intelligence sources and claims by the Ukrainian government. On the basis of the JIT’s conclusions, the governments of the Netherlands and Australia held Russia responsible for the deployment of the Buk installation and began pursuing legal remedies in May 2018. The Russian government denied involvement in the shooting down of the airplane, and its account of how the aircraft was shot down has varied over time. Coverage in Russian media has also differed from that in other countries.
On 17 November 2022, following a trial in absentia in the Netherlands, two Russians and a Ukrainian separatist were found guilty of murdering all 298 people on board flight MH17. The Dutch court also ruled that Russia was in control of the separatist forces fighting in eastern Ukraine at the time.
The incident is the deadliest airliner shoot-down incident to date. All 283 passengers and 15 crew died. By 19 July, the airline had determined the nationalities of all 298 passengers and crew. The crew were all Malaysian, while over two-thirds (68%) of the passengers were Dutch. Most of the other passengers were Malaysians and Australians; the remainder were citizens of seven other countries. At least twenty family groups were on the aircraft and eighty passengers were under the age of 18. The flight crew were captains Wan Amran Wan Hussin (49) and Eugene Choo Jin Leong (44), and first officers Ahmad Hakimi Hanapi (29) and Muhamad Firdaus Abdul Rahim (26).
The armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine led some airlines to avoid eastern Ukrainian airspace in early March 2014 due to safety concerns. In the months prior to 17 July, reports circulated in the media on the presence of weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, in the hands of the rebels that were fighting the Ukrainian government in eastern Ukraine.
At 16:20:03 local time (13:20:03 UTC), a Buk ground-to-air missile, which had been launched from an area southeast of the aircraft, detonated outside the airplane, just above and to the left of the cockpit. The blast and fragments of the missile severely damaged the cockpit and instantly killed three crew members in it. Evidence on the left engine intake ring and left wing tip suggests that the left wing and left engine had also picked up some shrapnel from the missile. An explosive decompression occurred, tearing the forward section of the aircraft into pieces, causing the middle and rear sections to tear into three sections and depressurizing the cabin.
The explosive decompression could have incapacitated most occupants of the aircraft before the crash, though investigators never ruled out the possibility that some were still conscious when the aircraft impacted the ground. Some occupants might have suffered serious injuries that contributed to their deaths before the crash. The aircraft fell rapidly and continued disintegrating before impacting the ground.
The mid-air disintegration had caused the seats, pieces of interior wall and floor, overhead compartments, and other interior structures of the aircraft to fall out of the plane. Some bodies, personal belongings, and other light objects had also fallen out of the plane. As the result of the disintegration, the debris of the plane landed in six different areas.
On 9 September 2014, the preliminary report was released by the Dutch Safety Board (DSB). This preliminary report concluded that there was no evidence of any technical or operational failure in the aircraft or from the crew prior to the ending of the CVR and FDR recordings at 13.20:03 hrs (UTC). The report also said that “damage observed on the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the aircraft appears to indicate that there were impacts from a large number of high-energy objects from outside the aircraft”. According to the investigators, this damage probably led to a loss of structural integrity that caused an in-flight break-up first of the forward parts of the aircraft and then of the remainder with an expansive geographic spread of the aircraft’s pieces.
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) issued its final report on the crash on 13 October 2015. The report concluded that the crash was caused by a Buk 9M38-series surface-to-air missile with a 9N314M warhead. The warhead detonated outside and above the left-hand side of the cockpit. Fragments from the exploding warhead killed the three people in the cockpit and caused structural damage to the airliner leading to an in-flight break-up resulting in a wreckage area of 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi) and loss of the lives of all 298 occupants.
On 25 May 2018 the governments of the Netherlands and Australia issued a joint statement in which they laid responsibility on Russia “for its part” in the crash. The Netherlands and Australian foreign ministers stated that they would hold Russia legally responsible for shooting the airliner down. Netherlands Foreign Minister Stef Blok stated that “the government is now taking the next step by formally holding Russia accountable,” and, “The Netherlands and Australia today asked Russia to enter into talks aimed at finding a solution that would do justice to the tremendous suffering and damage caused by the downing of MH17. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/05/23/d-day-70-pt-12-daedalus-d-day-70th-preview/ | 2024-04-14T23:43:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00500.warc.gz | 0.914289 | 728 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__177631123 | en | In addition to the extensive list of events planned to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day in the UK, Lee Flying Assocation (www.eghf.co.uk) and partners have created a unique Daedalus D-Day 70th Airmen and Airborne Commemoration, as Karl Drage examines here.
The site of the former Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) is no stranger to hosting D-Day commemorative participants with the airfield, now known as Daedalus Aerodrome, regularly acting as a staging point for para-trooping aircraft embarking upon flights to the D-Day beaches each June.
On 4 June, the formation of up to eight Dakotas expected to take part in the Dakotas Over Normandy commemorations will do just that. The aircraft are scheduled to start arriving on the afternoon of 2 June and should get airborne, subject to weather and serviceability, between 1100 and 1200 on 4 June ahead of their 100 parachutist drop at Carentan, Normandy.
Between the arrival and departure phases, a public D-Day 70th memorial service will be held at Lee-on-Solent seafront Civic War Memorial at 1830 on Tuesday, 3 June. A two-minute silence will take place at 1900 followed by wreath laying by civic representatives and members of the Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and United States Navy.
At 1915, at the conclusion of the wreath laying, flypasts from the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster, Spitfires and Dakota, plus Royal Navy Historic Flight Sea Fury and a civilian Dakota will take place on the Lee-on-Solent seafront at Marine Parade.
Lee Flying Association’s Jon Butts also expects to welcome back Bill Charney, aka Capt Biff Windsock, and his Beechcraft D17S, “The Red Rockette”, which was operated by the Fleet Air Arm at HMS Daedalus during World War 2, Beech 18 Expeditor G-BKGM / HB275 and a number of other types relevant to the significant rold of RNAS Lee-on-Solent on D-Day.
Regrettably, public access to Daedalus Aerodrome is not permitted by the land-owner, however, the Lee-on-Solent Branch of the Royal British Legion has organised a public seafront D-Day 70th Memorial Service, closed by a Memorial Flypast organised by Lee Flying Association. Any surplus generated by the Daedalus D-Day 70th Airmen & Airborne Commemoration will be donated to the Royal British Legion.
The following Dakotas are expected to operate from Lee-on-Solent:
Tradewind Aviation – C-47 Skytrain ‘Union Jack Dak’
Airventure Ltd – C-47 Skytrain ‘Drag Em Oot’
Dakota Norway – C-53D Skytrooper LN-WND
Breitling – DC-3 Dakota HB-IRJ
DC-3 Association Finland – DC-3 Dakota OH-LCH
DC-3 Vennerne – DC-3 Dakota OY-BPB
France DC-3 – DC-3 Dakota F-AZTE (F-BBBA)
Goldtimer Foundation – Lisunov Li-2 HA-LIX
For more information, please refer to the Lee Flying Association website. | aerospace | 1 |
https://elkoraonline.com/the-out-of-control-chinese-rocket-did-not-break-apart-and-crashed-to-earth-on-saturday/ | 2022-08-11T23:56:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00196.warc.gz | 0.954106 | 311 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__170140969 | en | A Chinese rocket began an uncontrolled descent to Earth, preventing until the last moment scientists from predicting the point of its fall. It crashed into Earth on Saturday.
The central stage of the Chinese Long March 5B launcher finally fell into the Indian Ocean on Saturday July 30. In the end, the stage of the Long March-5B (LM-5B) rocket – whose weight is approaching 22.5 tons – did not completely breaks down on entering the atmosphere. And there in the Indian Ocean, around 6:45 in the evening, the dreaded impact happened. The exact drop point and impact size of the debris is still unknown.
It is the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), one of the eleven joint combat commands of the United States armed forces, responsible for space operations, that made the announcement on Saturday.
#USSPACECOM can confirm that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Long March 5B (CZ-5B) re-entered the Indian Ocean at approximately 10:45 am MDT on 7/30. We refer you to #PRC for more details on technical aspects of re-entry such as possible location of debris dispersal+ impact.
— US Space Command (@US_SpaceCom) July 30, 2022
The 23-ton Chinese rocket, which took off from Hainan Island on July 24 to carry a module to the Chinese orbital space station, began its descent to Earth described as “uncontrollable”. | aerospace | 1 |
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-02-15/news/mn-8154_1_solid-rocket | 2017-03-28T16:34:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189802.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00136-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.969334 | 1,026 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__138524869 | en | The space agency decided years ago against buying seamless solid rocket boosters for the shuttle that would have "precluded potential failure" associated with joints and seals because the segmented rockets offered by Morton Thiokol Inc. were cheaper, according to a 1973 NASA document.
The monolithic design was proposed by Aerojet General of California, one of the world leaders in propulsion systems, and the company planned to build the rockets as single units at its facility on the South Florida coast and barge them up to the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral.
But while the "inherent advantages were clearly recognized" by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the contract went to Morton Thiokol even though the Utah company "trailed in technical areas," according to the report. Morton Thiokol, the report states, "would give the agency the lowest funding requirements."
Awarding the contract to any of the other three bidders could "give rise to an additional cost of appreciable size," the report states. The report does not give specific estimates of savings.
The possible failure of a joint on the Challenger's right booster is the leading suspect in the Jan. 28 explosion that destroyed the vehicle and killed all seven persons on board. The boosters supplied by Morton Thiokol use steel rocket casings that are made up of four segments that are bolted together at the Kennedy Space Center.
Officials at Aerojet General declined to comment on the report, and they would not discuss their proposal to build the boosters as single units, but some engineers who are no longer associated with the company are sharply critical of the decision to build the rockets in reusable segments.
Werner Kirchner, a former vice president of Aerojet General who headed that company's solid rocket program for many years, said in an interview that the decision to build the boosters in segments was a serious error.
"I wouldn't build a rocket the way that one was built," Kirchner said, shaking his head. Kirchner pioneered in the development of rockets for the Defense Department. "They wouldn't have let me build a propulsion system like that for all the tea in China," he said.
Aerojet General built Titan ICBMs for the Air Force and Polaris ballistic missiles for the Navy as well as a wide range of liquid- and solid-fueled rockets. But while it ranked itself as the world's largest builder of rockets, it lost out early in the competition to build the boosters for the shuttle.
That is in spite of the fact that the evaluation from NASA praised the proposal from Aerojet General, particularly the "monolithic design" that would have housed the entire rocket in a single casing. That design, the report states, "precluded potential failure modes associated with joints and seals and thus contributed to a highly reliable design."
The decision to use segmented rockets left NASA in the position of trying to come up with a new technology while holding down costs, Kirchner said.
"They were looking for what I call an off-the-shelf technological breakthrough," he added.
In the "selection statement" justifying the decision to award the contract to Morton Thiokol, dated Dec. 12, 1973, NASA eliminated Aerojet General from among four bidders because "it ranked significantly lower in the mission suitability evaluation," an apparent reference to potential delays and rising costs from the company's plans to begin production in California and later move to Florida.
Several sources familiar with the problems of those early days of the shuttle program said NASA was concerned about the "logistics" involved in shipping the huge rockets in one piece.
Aerojet General planned eventually to move its shuttle operation to a large site it had purchased in southern Florida adjacent to the Everglades National Park. From the Florida plant, the assembled rockets were to be shipped up the coast to the Kennedy spaceport, a plan NASA applauded because of its "low cost, safe shipment via water."
But to start production in California and then move to Florida "created the lowest overall score in mission suitability" among the four bidders, the report states.
'Low Labor Costs'
Morton Thiokol, on the other hand, could begin immediate production of segmented rockets at its plant in Utah and would not need to build additional production facilities in Florida. The report notes that Morton Thiokol would benefit from "low labor costs" at its Utah plant, even though there was "some early risk because of a lack of experience (in building nozzles)." But since it already had the facilities needed to build the rockets, NASA concluded that "any selection other than Thiokol would give rise to an additional cost of appreciable size," the report noted.
Although Aerojet was eliminated early in the competition, the remaining three bidders--Morton Thiokol, Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. and United Technologies Corp.--were judged a "standoff" in NASA's evaluation. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/ums-skeldar-esg-complete-r-50-flight-trials/ | 2024-02-26T11:51:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474659.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226094435-20240226124435-00355.warc.gz | 0.92372 | 453 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__132124359 | en | UMS Skeldar, ESG complete R-350 flight trials
UMS Skeldar and ESG have completed a week-long flight demonstration programme of the R-350 rotary-wing UAS for Germany’s Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information technology and In-Service Support, UMS Skeldar announced on 23 November.
The demonstration saw the modified R-350 used as an unmanned mission avionics test helicopter equipped with two specialised payloads from ESG. The systems comprised a LiDAR and a gyro-stabilised EO/IR camera weighing over 27kgs.
The flights were conducted at the Bundeswehr Technical Centre for Aircraft and Aeronautical Equipment in Manching, and demonstrated the R-350’s ability to evaluate sensors and algorithms while performing automatic landing site recognition for manned helicopters beyond visual line of sight.
David Willems, business development director for UMS Skeldar, said: ‘We have been working very hard over the last few months to design a smaller vertical take-off and landing platform that can provide customers with an ability to carry out smaller critical activities, all the while having the provision to carry multiple payloads.
‘Alongside our larger Skeldar V-200 platform, this portfolio approach enables us to provide military, maritime and civilian organisations with a wide range of tactical activities from search and rescue and border patrol to medical supply and cargo delivery.’
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https://www.polytechforum.com/rockets/hl-20-aiaa-spacedev-hobbyspace-com-74830-.htm | 2023-03-31T13:06:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949642.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331113819-20230331143819-00218.warc.gz | 0.983399 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__143831244 | en | Resently a comment on the Landley HL-20 came up. the writer via a AIAA document stated that he BOR design also known as the HL-20 would be a good design for a manned space vehicle. Unfortunately the writer did not know that the X-38 /X-24A design under the PRIME program also went into space on 3 flights, and all were sucess. NASA went with the X-38 since it was known to fly effectivvely. the HL-20 hased a L/D ratio below 3.5 to 1, the X-24A was nearly 4 to 1.
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https://www.gktoday.in/topics/atomic-clock/ | 2020-02-24T04:40:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145897.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224040929-20200224070929-00170.warc.gz | 0.922367 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__127953155 | en | Recently, China has successfully launched its first geostationary BeiDou-3 satellite ‘G1Q’ into high orbit (about 36,000 km above the Earth) to boost its home-grown BeiDou global satellite navigation system. It was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the southwestern Sichuan Province. In a geostationary orbit, following the Earth’s rotation, it will view the ..
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed an indigenous atomic clock that will be used in navigation satellites to measure precise location data. It is being developed by the Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre (SAC). This clock is currently undergoing a series of qualification tests. Once it successfully clears all tests, the desi atomic clock .. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ernestgordonrecruitment.com/our-sectors/aerospace/ | 2023-12-09T21:15:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100972.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209202131-20231209232131-00850.warc.gz | 0.899095 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__30719134 | en | Leaders in Aerospace
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https://www.talpa.org/haber-ifalpa/ifalpa-daily-news-26-november-2013/ | 2024-04-14T18:27:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414161724-20240414191724-00020.warc.gz | 0.921272 | 425 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__200650977 | en | IFALPA Daily News – 26 November 2013
The IFALPA Daily News is now available online.
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Pilots union lifts industrial action after new Air Malta CEO is announced
The airline pilots association ALPA Malta has welcomed the designation of Air Malta’s former
chief engineer Louis Giordimaina as chief executive for the national airline.
DGCA hires 20 pilots as inspectors to ‘save skin’
The very real threat of the US flight safety regulator downgrading Indian aviation has forced the
government to hire full-time pilots from commercial airlines for the grossly-understaffed directorate
general of civil aviation (DGCA) as flight operations inspectors (FOI).
Emissions trading row set to flare up again
US politicians are calling for the country’s airlines to be protected from being charged for their
carbon emissions by the European Union.
Belle Air suspends all flights
Albanian airline Belle Air has stopped all flights after the company’s bank accounts were frozen for
more than two weeks.
AMR seeks court approval of DOJ settlement
American Airlines’ parent AMR on Monday asked a bankruptcy court to approve a settlement with
US regulators that would allow it to merge with US Airways and create the world’s largest airline.
El Al launches low-cost flight brand “Up”
El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. today launched its new low-cost brand “Up”, and is seeking to distinguish
itself from current routes.
Flying blind: Weather radars fail, pilots look out for clouds
Cruising at more than 30,000 feet at a speed of more than 700kmph in the middle of night a fortnight
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https://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/140991-reconnaissance_crimea/ | 2023-10-02T13:40:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511000.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002132844-20231002162844-00168.warc.gz | 0.963266 | 499 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__238302591 | en | On May 22, US Air Force drones conducted reconnaissance operations off the coast of the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory.
It was established that the reconnaissance was conducted by strategic unmanned aerial vehicle RQ-4B Global Hawk. The UAV flew along the south-western and southern coast of the peninsula, as well as above the Kerch Strait.
The US Navy P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft conducted another operation near Sevastopol and the southern coast of the Crimea. Another US drone made a reconnaissance flight along the line of demarcation in the Donbass, and also explored the border between the Kharkov region and Russia.
Experts note that the main purpose of the flights of US Navy aircraft over the Black Sea near the coast of the peninsula is to study the present-day military infrastructure of the Crimea.
As Ivan Konovalov, director of the Center for Strategic Studies explained, the goal is obvious - the reconnaissance of the modern military infrastructure of the Crimea. "It is obvious that the military infrastructure of the Crimea is powerful, and the Russian leadership does not hide it. There is a mixed division on the peninsula that includes land, antiaircraft, anti-missile, aviation troops. In a nutshell, the Crimea has been fortified and turned into a fortress," the specialist said.
Military expert Alexander Drobyshevsky earlier said that "the purpose of such flights is to obtain information about the radio-electronic environment in order to establish the forces and means of Russian air defences, to determine coordinates of anti-aircraft missile systems and their radars, to intercept information from radio relay communication lines between headquarters and assess capabilities of the layout of troops in various regions of the country."
"It has long been understood that the West has been trying to subject Russian borders to total control. We have not seen such activity even during the Cold War. The zones of reconnaissance aircraft are clearly defined - the locations of defence plants, air defence and missile defence systems, the layout of ground and naval groups," he said.
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https://airwaysmag.com/tag/ecodemonstrator/ | 2022-07-03T20:34:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104249664.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703195118-20220703225118-00478.warc.gz | 0.930915 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__145918752 | en | These are the technologies that the new Boeing 2022 ecoDemonstrator 777-200ER will test in a real-world setting.
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MIAMI — As part of the ecoDemonstrator program, Boeing has been conducting several months of test flights with a 757-200 (cn 24627/293) in order to assess new technologies intended to improve the efficiency of flight operations and reduce environmental footprints. In total, Boeing has completed 250 hours since this third generation of ecoDemonstrators testing started in March. The […] | aerospace | 1 |
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BAE Systems Technology Solutions Vice President and General Manager Dave Logan said, the ARMS system helps solve the No. 1 cause of helicopter-related casualties and breaks new ground in silicon-based phased array technology.
Logan added that the BAE MFRF ARMS system will improve aircraft survivability in degraded visual environments while enhancing helicopter lethality while minimizing size, weight, power and cost.
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Students in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering are able to take advantage of the College's Fidelity MOTUS 622i flight simulator. Thanks to a generous gift by alumnus William "Ted" Frantz '80 of Bellevue, Wash., students studying aerospace engineering are able to test their theories in flight labs as well as log flight hours toward their pilot's license. | aerospace | 1 |
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A video has shown what appears to be a very near miss between the world's biggest passenger plane and a helicopter in Dubai.
The Airbus A380 plane flies in from the right of the helicopter and swoops underneath it, exiting on the left.
Rather than being an accidental close call, however, the footage is actually a promotional video for Emirates Airlines.
See also: Ryanair plane in 'near miss with UFO' (video)
See also: Easyjet plane in near miss with paraglider
Dayv Franco, a 28-year-old Brazilian pilot, posted the 14-second video clip on his Facebook page, Vida de Piloto.
Emirates has 65 A380s in its fleet, each costing £242 million, with a capacity of 853 people.
In the UK, the A380 always remains at least 3,700ft away from another plane on takeoff.
The Daily Telegraph reports that it's not known how close the A380 comes to the helicopter but it appears to be well within 1,000ft.
So was there any danger here? Speaking to Mashable, Tom Curtis of Airsafe.com, said: ""In general for two aircraft flying in close proximity, size doesn't matter. If there's proper planning ahead of time and both sides know and maintain a proper separation distance, there shouldn't be a problem."
"Usually for a dramatic shot, you want to get as close as possible.
"But if the helicopter were only 150 feet above the aircraft, I would be nervous. If you misjudge anything, there would be very little time to react."
Emirates said the stunt was well planned and completely safe. Speaking to the Metro, an airline spokesman said: "Emirates can confirm that it has conducted air to air filming of the A380 over various parts of Dubai as well as the UAE, andhas safely completed all of the required flights." | aerospace | 1 |
https://carbonehondabennington.com/autoservice/your-question-what-car-has-a-jet-engine.html | 2022-08-18T14:05:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00004.warc.gz | 0.937247 | 1,041 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__66401242 | en | The Chrysler Turbine Car is an experimental two-door hardtop coupe powered by a turbine engine and manufactured by Chrysler from 1963–1964.
What car companies make jet engines?
Rolls-Royce also built engines for fighter planes in World War II and still builds them for civil aviation today. Saab loved to link its fighter jets to its cars in advertising despite the cars not having much to do with the aerospace and defense company, and Honda has its own private jet in production.
Can a jet engine work in a car?
Today, jet-powered cars just aren’t a feasible reality, as can be seen by Chrysler’s failed experiment with jet-powered vehicles. In reality, the turbines used nearly as much gas while they were idling as they did when they were flat out roaring down the highway.
What is a jet engine car?
A jet car is a car propelled by a jet engine. A jet dragster is a jet powered car used for drag racing. They are most commonly seen at race shows.
Why don’t they use jet engines in cars?
The main uses for gas turbines are in aviation and power generation. Aviation uses gas turbines for their high power to weight ratio. Power generation uses gas turbines for their high reliability / low maintenance, high maximum power and low capital cost. There is absolutely no reason to use gas turbines in cars.
Does Toyota make Jets?
(January 15, 2020) Toyota is exploring a new flight path for mobility through a new collaboration with Joby Aviation (Joby), an aerospace company that is developing and commercializing all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to enable the deployment of fast, quiet and affordable air transportation …
What does BMW stand for?
The acronym BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH, which roughly translates to the Bavarian Engine Works Company. The name harks back to the company’s origin in the German state of Bavaria.
Are jet cars faster than Top Fuel?
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters can exceed 280 mph in just 660 feet! … That from a standing start, NHRA Top Fuel dragsters accelerate faster than a jumbo jet, a fighter jet, and a Formula One race car!
Can you put a turbine in a car?
Putting a wind turbine on a car adds a lot of drag. Therefore, a car with a wind turbine attached will use a lot more fuel. As it turns out, the amount of extra fuel burned always exceeds the energy you get from the turbine. This is a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics.
How fast is a jet engine car?
An arrow-shaped car designed to reach supersonic speeds — it’s outfitted with a jet engine and its own parachute braking system — just reached 501 mph (806 km/h) in tests in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa.
What’s the fastest Jet Car?
Thrust SSC: 763 mph (1,228 km/h)
The Thrust supersonic car is a British jet car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers, and Jeremy Bliss specifically to break the world speed record. It currently holds the world land speed record with a top speed of 763 mph (1,228 km/h), registered on October 15, 1997.
What car has a helicopter engine?
The Howmet TX looks like a racecar from the Sixties, and that’s because it is. But it certainly doesn’t sound like a racecar from the Sixties, because it’s got a helicopter engine in it.
How much is a jet engine?
While costs vary, most jet engines have a price tag of around $10 million to $40 million each. And being that most commercial airplanes use multiple engines, the cost of production can be quite expensive.
How much is a Chrysler Turbine car worth?
Estimated value: $415,000
Chrysler’s experimental turbine engines attempted to eliminate pistons and the need for regular gas. These engines could run on peanut oil, salad dressing, or anything else combustible for fuel.
How Fast Is Jay Leno’s jet car?
Not only was it one of the big events for the season finale of Jay Leno’s Garage, during the high-speed run on an airstrip runway the driver’s window blew out. Sadly, during that run, the car only hit 165 mph. You’d think with all the hype it would’ve easily eclipsed 200 or maybe even 220 mph.
What cars have a turbo?
15 Factory Stock Turbo Cars
- 2019 Audi A3. …
- 2019 BMW 230i. …
- 2019 Chevrolet Camaro. …
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- 2019 Hyundai Veloster. …
- 2019 MINI Cooper. …
- 2019 Nissan Altima. | aerospace | 1 |
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Rocket racers ready to rumble after Oshkosh
- Kevin Robinson-Avila
- NMBW Staff
The Rocket Racing League brought "Star Wars"-style races another major step closer to reality at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2008 in Oshkosh, Wis.
The league's first ready-for-prime-time rocket whooshed over the heads of thousands of spectators on three separate days at the air show to demonstrate a bit of the excitement of future rocket racing, said league CEO Granger Whitelaw.
"It was fantastic -- the crowd loved it!" Whitelaw said. "I think rocket racing is going to be a lot of fun for fans."
The first rocket demonstration flights mark another significant milestone for the Rocket Racing League, which plans to establish its headquarters in Las Cruces and hold annual races at the New Mexico Spaceport after it opens.
The league believes rocket racing will become a NASCAR-like event that generates major economic benefits for New Mexico, similar to NASCAR Valley in North Carolina. In 2003, NASCAR's local impact was estimated at $5 billion.
Until now, the league had never flown a rocket in public. At Oshkosh, however, two-time NASA Shuttle Commander Rick Searfoss flew one of the league's newly built planes, offering spectators 10-minute demonstration flights on three occasions. The flights featured 15 to 35 seconds of engine burn time with orange plumes streaming out from behind the craft.
Searfoss conducted aerobatic moves at complicated angles, including a 90-degree turn and a "Double Immelman," where the craft flies vertically upward and then loops back in the opposite direction. Such maneuvers are easier than other aircraft for the rocket racers to perform because of the power and thrust from the rocket engine, which was built by California-based XCOR Aerospace. Air maneuvering will play an important role in future races, because pilots will fly through virtual obstacle courses projected in the sky.
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https://gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd-2018/5b999bb4b8ac31610362f4ee | 2020-07-04T18:30:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655886516.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704170556-20200704200556-00171.warc.gz | 0.874103 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__58669666 | en | Gas turbines are, and will continue to be, the backbone of propulsion and power generation systems. The high-pressure turbine (HPT), one of the key components in modern aircraft gas turbines, typically experiences extremely challenging flow environments that include high temperatures, pressures, and velocities. In this video, we present a high-resolution large-eddy simulation of a transonic HPT vane operating at realistic Reynolds and Mach numbers. A list of flow features, including the shockwaves on the blade suction side, laminar-turbulent boundary layer transition, vortex shedding in the wake, and acoustic waves propagating through the vane, are shown. In particular, we focus on the effect of incoming large-scale turbulence structures on the resulting flow around the vane. These structures wrap around the blade leading edge and induce streamwise streaks on the blade. Being stretched under the strong pressure gradient through the vane, the structures have a direct impact on the vane’s boundary layer characteristics. | aerospace | 1 |
http://idrw.org/iaf-pilots-of-no-51-squadron-sword-arms-spotted-with-falcon-slayer-badges/ | 2021-01-23T23:32:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703538741.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20210123222657-20210124012657-00641.warc.gz | 0.967572 | 268 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__181519615 | en | SOURCE: RAUNAK KUNDE / NEWS BEAT / IDRW.ORG
No. 51 Squadron equipped with MiG-21Bison which is based at Srinagar Air Force Station and took part in the aerial intercept and killed a vastly superior PAF F-16 in the close combat dogfight with an R-73 close combat missile by a Mig-21Bison flown by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, was seen with ” Falcon Slayer” Badges issued to the squadron pilots.
Vardaman has been officially moved from No. 51 Squadron to No. 23 Squadron (Panthers) which is equipped with MiG-21Bison and based at Suratgarh Air Force Station but the F-16 kill will remain with his previous No. 51 Squadron but the kill will be credited to Vardaman.
Pilots of the Su-30MKI Squadron which took part in the aerial intercept and survived the volley of 4-5 AMRAAMs fired by the F-16s at the missiles effective kill range of 50-60km was seen with ” AMRAAM Dodger” Badges.
NOTE : Article cannot be reproduced without written permission of idrw.org in any partially written form on in video format for YouTube. | aerospace | 1 |
https://spaceq.ca/australias-queensland-university-of-technology-partners-with-mda-on-a-logistics-robot/ | 2022-05-25T10:25:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662584398.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220525085552-20220525115552-00644.warc.gz | 0.924908 | 73 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__32054546 | en | It's been hinted as a technology that would be useful for future space exploration missions. The technology, a logistics robot, would be designed to work inside spacecraft or space stations.
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http://trendingposts.net/trending-news/nasa-predicts-huge-asteroid-cause-end-of-earth/ | 2017-11-21T02:32:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806310.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121021058-20171121041058-00375.warc.gz | 0.951068 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__211445864 | en | NASA predicts that this huge asteroid will cause the end of Earth if we don’t do anything to stop it
NASA has been keeping an eye out for “Armageddon” like situations in space. The 1998 movie depicted a scenario in which an asteroid was on its way to collide with Earth, which would have caused mass destruction and possible annihilation of Earth. NASA has in fact identified several asteroids with potential to impact Earth in future. Here is one of the asteroids that is closest to impacting Earth according to NASA.
1 The huge asteroid
This huge asteroid is named Bennu and it is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered in 1999 by the LINEAR project. It ranks second on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale in the Sentry Risk Table list as a potential Earth impactor asteroid. It has a chance of 1 in 2,700 of impacting Earth in the late 22nd century, around the year 2135. The proper name of the Asteroid is 101955 Bennu and it has a diameter of 492 meters and it has been under constant observation by Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar and the Goldstone Deep Space Network. | aerospace | 1 |
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Luna 4 Heavy Shuttle (stock) An American style shuttle ( which means it gets to space using only SRBs and the shuttle engine without using any fuel on the shuttle itself )
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Company Also Issued An EASA STC For Pilatus PC6
Two new props designed by MT Propellers received STC approval on
Thursday. The FAA and EASA have certified a new, composite 4-bladed
prop for Beech Barons, while the EASA also granted an STC for a
similar prop for the Pilatus PC-6.
Baron With MT Props
The FAA STC is for the 4-blade scimitar composite propeller
MTV-14-D-C-F/CF188-30g on the Beech Baron Model 95-C55, E55, D55,
58, G58 with the Engines TCM IO-520-( ) and IO-550-( ). The
installation is certified by FAA STC No. ST02819NY and EASA STC No.
The company says the propeller installation improves overall
performance, provides best vibration damping characteristics for
almost vibration free propeller operations, and reduces the weight
by approx. 20 lbs compared with the original metal propeller. It
also provides more ground clearance for reduced foreign object
damage (FOD), and the composite blades have no life limitation and
can be repaired in case of damage.
Pilatus PC-6 With MT Prop
For the Pilatus PC-6, an EASA STC was issued for the 4-blade
scimitar composite propeller MTV-16-1-E-C-F-R(P)/CFR240-55() on the
Pilatus PC-6/B1-H2, /B2-H2, /B2-H4 with the Engine P&WC
PT6A-20, -20A, -20B, /C20, -27, -34. The installation is certified
by EASA STC No. 10031167.
MT Propeller claims the same improvements in performance and
vibration dampening as it does for the Baron prop. The composite
for the PC-6 reduces the weight by approx. 14 kg (31 lbs) compared
with the original 3-blade metal propeller, and reduces the outside
and cabin noise significant and and complies with the strict German
noise regulations 2010, according to the company. They also say no
engine modification is necessary, and that the prop can be repaired
in case of FOD with no life limitation.
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https://www.gmv.com/en/Company/Communication/Events/2017/10/ADSCS.html | 2018-02-20T21:26:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891813109.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20180220204917-20180220224917-00598.warc.gz | 0.899181 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__190224416 | en | GMV will be present at the 11th ESA Workshop on Avionics, Data, Control and Software Systems (ADCSS), to be held in the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, from 17 to 19 October.
ADCSS covers topics related to avionics for space applications, in the form of a set of round tables. The workshop acts as a forum for the presentation of position papers followed by discussion and interaction between ESA and Industry and between participants.
Each theme of ADCSS workshops will be first introduced and then expanded by presentations on related developments from technical and programmatic points of view. A round-table discussion may follow, concluded by a synthesis outlining further actions and roadmaps for potential inclusion in ESA’s technology R&D plans.
Emanuele di Sotto, head of GMV’s SPS Entry, Descent, Landing and Launchers section, will be presenting the NGT-ATB project (Next Generation Avionics Test Bench for Space Transportation Systems). | aerospace | 1 |
https://spacenews.com/bus-size-nasa-satellite-re-enter-atmosphere-soon/ | 2024-04-12T10:58:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296815919.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412101354-20240412131354-00570.warc.gz | 0.940689 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__64072334 | en | WASHINGTON — A decommissioned NASA research satellite is expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere between late September and early October, NASA and U.S. military officials said Sept. 9.
The satellite, known as the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), is a school bus-size craft NASA launched aboard the space shuttle in 1991 and kept in service until 2005 when it decommissioned the nearly 6-ton satellite in preparation for an eventual atmospheric re-entry.
With no means of controlling the spacecraft, NASA and U.S. military officials cannot say exactly when or where the satellite will re-enter. Officials expect the satellite to break into 26 pieces of various sizes when it comes down somewhere between Canada and South America.
While NASA and U.S. military officials are constantly tracking the dead satellite, they said they will not have a better idea of where the pieces might land until about two hours before re-entry.
“We simply will not know where it’s going to come down until it comes down,” said Air Force Maj. Michael W. Duncan, deputy chief of U.S. Strategic Command’s space situational awareness division. “There are so many factors that will affect it. The atmosphere changes on a daily basis, so it’s impossible to say how this will affect re-entry.”
Duncan said Strategic Command will be sending updates to NASA and other agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as UARS gets closer.
There is a 1-in-3,200 chance that a person somewhere on Earth could be struck by falling debris from UARS, but the odds of UARS re-entering around a populated area are remote, NASA officials said.
UARS is the largest NASA satellite to make an uncontrolled re-entry in years, agency officials said. UARS is about 10.7 meters long and 4.5 meters wide, and weighs 5.7 metric tons.
While such large satellites only re-enter about once a year, other satellites and debris fall back to Earth on a weekly basis. But most of those objects burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the ground, said Nick Johnson, chief scientist of NASA’s orbital debris program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“Throughout the entire 54 years of the Space Age there has been no report of anyone being injured or impacted by any re-entering debris,” Johnson said.
Launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery in September 1991, the $750 million UARS mission spent 14 years studying the interaction between the Earth’s atmosphere and the sun.
In 2005, NASA intentionally used the last of the satellite’s propellant to lower its orbit to hasten its eventual re-entry, Johnson said. Otherwise UARS would not have re-entered the atmosphere until around 2025, he said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://morningsave.com/deals/2-pack-of-rocket-rc-micro-drones-17 | 2022-11-27T03:04:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710155.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127005113-20221127035113-00316.warc.gz | 0.935763 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__197100564 | en | 2-Pack of Rocket RC Micro Drones
- Each 2-Pack of drones consists of a Blue and Silver Micro Drone
- 2.4GHz allows you to fly your drones at the same time without interference
- 6 Axis gyro keeps the micro drone stable in all conditions
- Push-button 360 aerial stunts
- 3 Speed settings for beginner to advanced pilots
- Unique switch-blade technology allows you to operate in 3ch or 4ch
- Flight range up to 100 feet
- Quick Start Guide Video
- Battery Requirements: 2 x "AAA’s ( for remote controller / NOT INCLUDED)
- Charging: USB cable
- Remote Frequency: 2.4 GHz
- Flight Range: 100 ft.
What’s In The Box
- 2x Rocket RC Micro Drones
- 2x 2.4G Digital Controllers
- 2x USB Chargers
- 2x Instruction Manuals
- Spare Replacement Parts
Order received as promised. Loved it!! Thanks for the extra effort!
Really had Fun for me easy to fly
Huge learning curve
This micro drone takes off FAST and I can’t seem to control it. I’ve been watching instructional videos but I can’t even hover. Be careful you don’t lose it. It’s fun though.
My boys play hard with electronics
Take off, Took off
The units are extremely small, no dimensions were given but the size is ridiculous. I know they were “cheap”, but I thought this was like Overstock, you were actually getting good products at a discount price. One unit was defective, when I contacted the sellers, they said they would get back with me in 7 days, which I think is poor customer service response, if your buyer is having a problem with a purchased that was defective. As an after thought the instructions say the drones only have a 5 minute fly time.
Waste of money
Disappointed. Spend more time charging it than flying it.
I WAS NOT EXPECTING IT TO BE SO SMALL…
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As many as three launchers that have never traveled to space could try to reach orbit in the coming month.
The month’s biggest flight could be SpaceX’s Starship, a massive silver-colored spacecraft and rocket booster that is central to Mr. Musk’s goal of sending humans to Mars. A version of the vehicle will also be used by NASA to put astronauts on the moon. An orbital test flight would launch Starship from South Texas to a splashdown near Hawaii.
For casual observers, March offers only a couple of major astronomical highlights.
Source: NYTimes Science | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.questek.com/questalloy-ti.html | 2019-04-20T12:59:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578529813.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420120902-20190420142902-00459.warc.gz | 0.905485 | 579 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__61786737 | en | Low-Cost, Castable QuesTalloy™ Ti-6-4 Mod
QuesTek applied its Materials by Design methodology to computationally design and develop three castable titanium alloys under U.S. Army-funded SBIR Phase I and II programs to incorporate lower-cost raw materials and exhibit greater strength and/or ductility than Ti-6-4.
The alloys have demonstrated improved strength and toughness over traditional Ti-6-4 when processed via additive manufacturing routes, specifically Electron Beam AM at Sciaky. Please contact us if interested in evaluating out Ti alloys for additive.
Formal results will be published at AeroMat 2016.
Three new titanium alloys tentatively named QT-Ti-1A, QT-Ti-2A, and QT-Ti-2B were designed for both performance and economy, by:
- capturing the benefits of near-net-shape casting for manufacturing;
- containing less vanadium than Ti-6-4;
- having higher tolerance to oxygen and iron than Ti-6-4;
- being able to use significant amounts of Ti-6-4 scrap as input stock.
QT-Ti-1A (see blue star below) offers ~25 ksi greater UTS and ~2.5% greater elongation than cast Ti-6-4 (i.e. to “QT cast Ti-6-4” which was produced in the same manner as the three new alloys). QT-Ti-1A is expected to be the first of these alloys to be commercialized, and can be considered for example to:
- replace cast Ti-6-4 to increase a part’s durability or reduce its weight;
- replace wrought Ti-6-4 to reduce costs; or
- replace Ti-6242 in high-temperature applications to reduce costs.
Additional castable titanium property data can be found in the data sheet below.
Material and Licensing Availability
Some material is available for testing, evaluation or use; please contact us if you are interested. We’re always interested in speaking with potential licensees and with major end-users/OEMs about material needs and industry developments.
Material Data Sheets
- AeroMat 2012
A presentation on the computational design and development of QuesTek's new, high-strength, high-ductility castable titanium alloys
- QuesTek Wins SBIR Phase II Award to Further Develop a Low-Cost, Castable Titanium Alloy
November 30, 2009 - QuesTek was awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project from the US Army to continue the design and development of a new castable titanium alloy for Army applications | aerospace | 1 |
https://gator-rc.com/seagull-models-a6m2-zero-master-scale-kit | 2023-11-28T11:01:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099281.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128083443-20231128113443-00202.warc.gz | 0.879697 | 552 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__26749720 | en | The highly agile and fast A6M ZERO is one of the most notorious Japanese fighters of WWII. This model kit is of the highest quality laser cut balsa/ply with an accurate outline and requires minimal shaping and crafting thanks to its well thought out assembly. High-quality vacuum-formed plastic parts such as radial engine cover/baffle, pylon for center drop tank, and even a pilot figure bust is included! Full size crisply printed plans allow builder refer parts for correct use during assembly! A high-quality fiberglass cowling, LED Wing Tip Lights, generous decal sheet and more round off this impressive kit! As with all Seagull models, this one gives allows for a real scale outline, a relatively fast build, and great flying characteristics. You’ve been itching to actually build a wood model of this WWII LEGEND...the time is now to order your dream kit today!
Laser Cut First-Rate Quality Balsa and Aircraft Plywood
Full-Size Plans for accurate building/reference during the build
Aluminum Mechanical Main Gear Retracts
Aluminum Wing Tube with Cardboard tube liner
Plastic Molded Drop Tank
Accurate Scale Outline and Appearance, Including Tail Surfaces
Quality balsa and aircraft plywood construction for a strong and light airframe
Functional flaps allow for greater flight envelope and improved flight characteristics
Pilot Bust Figure and cockpit dash decal included
Included Wing Tip LED Lighting Set adds to the already great appearance and scale looks
Generous quality hardware package included
List of Most Items Needed to Complete Kit
The engine of your choice. Recommended 75 – 91 two-stroke, 91 – 100 four-stroke, 15cc petrol
Covering and any other added details of your choice.
6-channel (minimum) transmitter and receiver combo.
(8) Standard size servos. Recommended HS-5645MG
1x Glue. Recommended ZAP thin, Medium and ZAP epoxy 5min or 30min
*** Adhesives, building tools, servos, radio gear, engines/motor/batteries, not included***
Wingspan - 67″ (1702 mm) Wing area - 761 sq in (49.09 sq dm) Approximate flying weight - 9.3 lbs (4.22 kg) Length - 51.10″ (1298 mm) Recommended engine size - 10-5cc Gas (.60-.90 glow engine)/Electric Equivalent
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https://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/nasa-reestablished-contact-with-iss-after-3-hours-of-blocked-communication-1361357779-1 | 2021-12-01T16:17:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964360803.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20211201143545-20211201173545-00475.warc.gz | 0.95756 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__11217404 | en | NASA Re-Established Contact with ISS after 3 Hours of Blocked Communication
The ground controllers of NASA re-established contact with International Space Station in less than 3 hours after computer failure blocked their communication.
The ground controllers of NASA re-established its contact with International Space Station in just less than 3 hours after the computer failure had blocked their communication.
The flight controllers of Houston were updating the ISS software when the data relay system broke down. But ISS was able to irregularly contact NASA through the Russian stations. Usually, NASA communicates to ISS from Houston through three communication satellites.
Interruptions like these have happened certain times in past.
The main problem was that the primary computer that has the responsibility of controlling the critical functions of the ISS defaulted to the backup computer. But it did not allow the ISS to communicate with the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites of NASA. | aerospace | 1 |
https://arffwg.org/news/today-in-history-547/ | 2023-12-11T21:34:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679518883.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211210408-20231212000408-00500.warc.gz | 0.950429 | 1,055 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__260626599 | en | 54 Years ago today: On 8 April 1968 a BOAC Boeing 707 suffered engine fire and returned to Heathrow on fire for an emergency landing, killing 5 out of 127 occupants.
|Date:||Monday 8 April 1968|
|Operator:||British Overseas Airways Corporation – BOAC|
|Total airframe hrs:||20870|
|Engines:||4 Rolls-Royce Conway 508|
|Crew:||Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11|
|Passengers:||Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 116|
|Total:||Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 127|
|Aircraft damage:||Damaged beyond repair|
|Location:||London-Heathrow Airport (LHR) ( United Kingdom)|
|Phase:||Initial climb (ICL)|
|Nature:||International Scheduled Passenger|
|Departure airport:||London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL), United Kingdom|
|Destination airport:||Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH), Switzerland|
The aircraft was operating Flight BA 712 from London-Heathrow Airport to Zürich and Sydney.
A check pilot was on the aircraft for the purpose of carrying out a route check on the pilot-in-command. The aircraft became airborne from runway 28L at 15:27 and 20 seconds later, just before the time for the noise abatement power reduction, the flight crew felt and heard a combined shock and bang. The thrust lever for the No. 2 engine “kicked” towards the closed position and at the same time the instruments showed that the engine was running down. The captain ordered the engine failure drill. Because the undercarriage was retracted, the warning horn sounded when the flight engineer fully retarded the thrust lever; the check pilot and flight-engineer simultaneously went for and pulled the horn cancel switch on the pedestal whilst the co-pilot instinctively but in error pressed the fire bell cancel button. In front of him the flight-engineer went for the engine fire shut-off handle but he did not pull it. The check pilot then reported seeing a serious fire in the No. 2 engine. Having initially started an engine failure drill, the flight engineer changed directly to the engine fire drill. ATC originally offered the pilot-in-command a landing back on runway 28L and alerted the fire services but after a “Mayday” call Flight 712 was offered runway 05R which was accepted as it would result in a shorter flight path. About 1,5 minutes after the start of the fire, No. 2 engine, together with part of its pylon, became detached and fell into a waterfilled gravel pit. At about the time the engine fell away the undercarriage was lowered and full flap selected. The undercarriage locked down normally but the hydraulic pressure and contents were seen to fall and the flaps stopped extending at 47deg, that is 3deg short of their full range. The approach to runway 05R was made from a difficult position, the aircraft being close to the runway and having reached a height of about 3000 feet and a speed of 225 kt. There is no glide slope guidance to this runway but the approach was well judged and touchdown was achieved approximately 400 yards beyond the threshold. The aircraft came to a stop just to the left of the runway centre line, about 1800 yards from the threshold.
After the aircraft came to rest the flight engineer commenced the engine shut-down drill and closed the start levers. Almost simultaneously the pilot-in-command ordered fire drill on the remaining engines. Before this could be carried out there was an explosion from the port wing which increased the intensity of the fire and blew fragments of the wing over to the starboard side of the aircraft. The pilot-in-command then ordered immediate evacuation of the flight deck. The engine fire shut-off handles were not pulled and the fuel booster pumps and main electrical supply were not switched off. There were more explosions and fuel, which was released from the port tanks, spread underneath the aircraft and greatly enlarged the area of the fire. The cabin crew had made preparations for an emergency landing and as the aircraft came to a stop opened the emergency exits and started rigging the escape chutes. The passengers commenced evacuation from the two starboard overwing exits and shortly afterwards, when the escape chutes had been inflated, from the rear starboard galley door and then the forward starboard galley door. However, because of the spread of the fire under the rear of the fuselage the escape chute at the rear galley door soon burst and, following the first explosion, the overwing escape route also became unusable. The great majority of the survivors left the aircraft via the forward galley door escape chute.
PROBABLE CAUSE: “The accident resulted from an omission to close the fuel shut off valve when No. 2 engine caught fire following the failure of its No. 5 low pressure compressor wheel. The failure of the wheel was due to fatigue.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/9958 | 2021-06-14T14:49:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487612537.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20210614135913-20210614165913-00560.warc.gz | 0.863939 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__179278761 | en | By continuing to use this site without changing your cookie settings,
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Title:OPERATION GRAPPLE SHOTS - ROUND TWO [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AWE 80
Other titles:BRITAIN'S ATOMIC WEAPONS RESEARCH PROGRAMME COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Rushes from round two (codename Orange Herald) of Operation Grapple, a series of tests conducted on Malden Island in 1957.
Description: Reel one: Filmed onboard airborne Shackleton, the initial burst is seen at the side of the frame behind a small cloud, aircraft wing visible in opposite side of frame. Aircraft then turns towards the growing mushroom cloud.
Reel two: Airburst shots filmed from Valiant tail cone.
Reel three: Airburst shots filmed from Valiant tail cone. | aerospace | 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7 | 2016-02-13T15:34:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701166739.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193926-00229-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.982646 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__157283040 | en | However, this objective was not achieved due to equipment failures. Soviet sources later claimed that no docking had been intended, but this seems unlikely, given the docking adapters carried by the spacecraft, and the fact that the Soyuz 8 crew were both veterans of the previous successful docking mission. This was the last time that the Soviet manned Moon landing hardware was tested in orbit, and the failure seems to have been one of the final nails in the coffin of the programme.
The radio call sign of the spacecraft was Buran, meaning blizzard, which years later was re-used as the name of the entirely different spaceplane Buran. This word is apparently used as the name of an active or aggressive squadron in Soviet military training, and just like Soyuz 4, the Soyuz 7 spacecraft was constructed to be the active or male spacecraft in its docking.
Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( | ). Manned flights are indicated in bold text. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in brackets. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.twistysdownload.com/games/209946-air-conflicts-pacific-carriers-pal-xbox360-complex.html | 2017-04-26T04:15:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121153.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00352-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.838589 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__296201753 | en | Air Conflicts : Pacific Carriers PAL XBOX360-COMPLEX
Size: 1 DVD
Platform: XBOX 360
Date: Sept 2012
Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers is a unique flight simulation with strategy elements and a compelling storyline. The game is focused on aircraft missions during WW2 that are started from aircraft carriers. Choose your side: US Navy
vs. Japanese Imperial Navy
Enjoy This Fine COMPLEX Release! Greetings go to ViMTO, SWAG & Venom! | aerospace | 1 |
https://charlescountyrc.com/ | 2024-04-22T06:22:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818081.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422051258-20240422081258-00421.warc.gz | 0.898372 | 108 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__75480896 | en | Come see us on Facebook! Charles County Radio Control Club | Facebook
Flown around the CCRCC field during our 2nd Annual Electric Fun Fly! Great video Dave!
Kelvin Benford follwed my training flight with a student...he put together this awesome video!! Greatly appreciate the video and educating me on how the drone commercial business works!
This is a great intro video with humor! Seriously, Join CCRCC and we will help you!!!
Great video that really shows what us flyers can learn from.... | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/profile/Damien.Jourdan-51307?SSO=1 | 2018-10-20T22:12:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583513441.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20181020205254-20181020230754-00532.warc.gz | 0.949728 | 241 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__243846789 | en | This paper examines the optimal placement of nodes for a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) designed to monitor a critical facility in a hostile region. The sensors are dropped from an aircraft, and they must be connected (directly or via hops) to a High Energy Communication Node (HECN), which serves as a relay from the ground to a satellite or a high-altitude aircraft. The sensors are assumed to have fixed communication and sensing ranges. The facility is modeled as circular and served by two roads. This simple model is used to benchmark the performance of the optimizer (a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm, or MOGA) in creating WSN designs that provide clear assessments of movements in and out of the facility, while minimizing both the likelihood of sensors being discovered and the number of sensors to be dropped. The algorithm is also tested on two other scenarios; in the first one the WSN must detect movements in and out of a circular area, and in the second one it must cover uniformly a square region. The MOGA is shown again to perform well on those scenarios, which shows its flexibility and possible application to more complex mission scenarios with multiple and diverse targets of observation. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aerotrader.com/Arlington-Flight-Design-Ctsw/aircraft-for-sale?make=Flight%20Design%7C633586762&model=CTSW%7C633586770&city=arlington&state=Texas%7CTX&page=1 | 2019-10-23T20:26:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987836295.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023201520-20191023225020-00111.warc.gz | 0.880299 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__66482850 | en | CycleTrader App FREE — in Google Play
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https://www.avweb.com/air-shows-events/ebace/airbus-helicopters-lands-43-aircraft-order/ | 2023-10-03T14:44:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511106.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003124522-20231003154522-00578.warc.gz | 0.960078 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__60665590 | en | Airbus announced on Thursday that Italy-based business aviation operator Air Corporate placed a firm order for 43 helicopters at the 2023 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE). The agreement includes 40 H125 and H130 single-engine helicopters along with three twin-engine ACH160s from Airbus Corporate Helicopters. Based in Verona, Air Corporate offers services including passenger transport, helicopter management, flight training, aeronautical consultancy and appraisals, maintenance and new and used helicopter sales.
“We are experiencing a growing demand for the innovative ACH160 in the Italian market,” the Air Corporate board said in a statement. “Equally the H125 remains the helicopter of reference for aerial work missions in Italy due to its unrivalled performance. The H130 is also enjoying great success in our country for tourist flights and passenger transport.”
Airbus noted that the deal is the largest commercial helicopter order it has ever booked in Italy. The company reports that it currently has 90 customers in the Italian helicopter market with more than 240 helicopters in service in the country. According to Airbus, Air Corporate has already taken delivery of 17 of its helicopters over the last two years. | aerospace | 1 |
https://astro-gnome.blogspot.com/2014/08/little-gnome-astronomical-fact-9.html | 2021-04-10T18:36:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038057476.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210410181215-20210410211215-00613.warc.gz | 0.867168 | 85 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__176512731 | en | August 20th 1964 INTELSAT Formed.
The USA, Australia, Canada, the UK, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, and the Vatican City sign the International Communication Satellite System agreement. Between 1964 and 2001 INTELSAT was an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a series of communication satellites providing international broadcast services. The system was privatised in 2001.
|Earlybird being prepared| | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ainonline.com/taxonomy/term/506941?page=1 | 2013-05-22T02:03:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701063060/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104423-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.956554 | 435 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__10403086 | en | Earlier this year, the biggest threat to airports included in the FAA’s Contract Tower Program seemed to be program-cut plans announced just before the passage of the FAA Reauthorization in February. According to the president of Melbourne, Fla.-based Quadrex, Dr. Dave Byers, other airports could again find their contract towers at risk for closure when the FAA issues a long-overdue update to its cost/benefit analysis structure.
JetTech Aerospace delivered its first BBJ green completion in February and shut its doors not long after. According to the company’s former v-p of completions, Colt Mehler, a stagnant economy was the reason the Spokane, Wash.-based completion and refurbishment center went out of business.
“We had just delivered a great [BBJ] and the owners were happy with it, but there was little follow-on business,” Mehler explained, “and the risk-versus-reward was no longer appealing.”
Boeing has achieved a production rate of 35 Next-Generation 737s a month at its factory in Renton, Wash., the company announced today.
Boeing has hung a proverbial carrot in front of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) by promising to build the new 737 MAX in Renton, Wash., in return for approval of an early contract extension for hourly employees in Washington, Oregon and Kansas.
Boeing has begun building the first Next-Generation 737 at the program’s new production rate of 35 airplanes a month from 31.5, the company announced on Tuesday evening.
Boeing completed all flight tests required for type certification of the Rolls-Royce-powered 787-8 Dreamliner last month. ZA102, the ninth 787 built by Boeing, performed the final flight on Saturday, August 13. Chief pilot Mike Carriker returned ZA102 to its home base at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., at 1:58 p.m. local time following a 90-minute flight that originated in Billings, Mont. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.praktikstart.se/266/praktik/teknik/esa-internships/ | 2013-05-23T05:52:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702900179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111500-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.921533 | 202 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__170518915 | en | ESA’s Internship Programme assists young people within its Member States interested in space and related areas. It helps them to meet their university requirements to carry out an internship as part of their degree course, and promotes their academic and professional development by placing them under the guidance of experienced professionals.
Numerous applications are received each year for this very popular programme, however ESA only has a limited number of internships available across the establishments. To be considered students should have the following backgrounds:
Internships are available in a wide variety of disciplines and can be divided into:
space science, astronomy, mechanical and electrical engineering, telecommunications, Earth observation, aerospace engineering, navigation, microgravity research, spacecraft in orbit exploitation, tracking of satellites, processing and distribution of data from remote sensing satellites, information technology, etc.
legal, contract law, international affairs, communications/public relations, finance, human resources, etc.
För mer information om tjänsten, klicka här | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.azaircraftinteriors.com/service_aircraft_interiors.html | 2023-05-29T04:48:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644683.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529042138-20230529072138-00774.warc.gz | 0.947229 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__191922017 | en | AAID Aircraft Services - Custom Aircraft Interiors
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Business jets and private jets benefit from custom aircraft interiors. AAID is a premier provider of custom aircraft interior designs and will provide an estimate of what it will take to completely beautify your aircraft interior so that you are completely satisfied with the work of AAID. Visit our homepage to find out more. Our mission of AAID is to provide your aircraft interior with the best services including beautiful armrests, curtains and carpets. AAID has specialists on hand to help you carry out your vision for your custom aircraft interior of your dreams. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flyer.co.uk/aussie-startup-aims-to-electrify-light-sport-aircraft/ | 2020-08-08T09:25:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737319.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808080642-20200808110642-00513.warc.gz | 0.92602 | 668 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__154459358 | en | +VIDEO An Australian startup tech company is developing a complete electric propulsion system for light sport aircraft that can be fitted in place of an internal combustion engine.
Electro.aero, based at Jandakot Airport, near Perth, Western Australia, has been flying an all-electric Pipistrel Alpha Electro aircraft for the past 18 months, not only building up a wealth of experience but also helping the Australian civil aviation authority develop relevant regulations.
“Our vision is to power the next generation of light aircraft,” said Richard Charlton, CEO and co-founder of Electro.aero.
“Electric aviation is already here with hundreds of projects underway around the world. And the key enabling technology is the propulsion system. That’s why we founded Electro.aero.
“We helped establish electric aviation regulations in Australia by completing 18 months of commercial trials with the world’s first production electric aircraft. With the experience gained and lessons learnt from this we can now bring our own technology to market years faster than would otherwise be possible.”
Electro.aero intends to offer a ‘turnkey’ solution, called L.E.A.P., which could be fitted by a manufacturer into a new aircraft or retrofitted to an existing one.
Such as a system is much more than just the electric motor and Electro.aero is working on every element including:
- Airlink Cross-platform device management software, enabling remote data reporting and hardware performance optimisation
- B.E.M. Battery Energy Modules use proven, brand-name cells and are swappable and upgradeable
- Charger Compact, lightweight superchargers optimised for aircraft use and designed in compliance with the forthcoming SAE standards
- Drive Lightweight electronic speed controller optimised for aircraft use, and utilising either air or liquid cooling depending on application
- EMS Electrical Management System includes integrated touchscreen avionics, digital throttle, pilot interface and telemetry
- Fan Carbon fibre electric ducted fan offering revolutionary efficiency, safety and quietness never before possible on light aircraft
- Motor Airworthy electric motor has just one moving part and is designed for extreme reliability, in compliance with ASTM standards.
Joshua Portlock is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Electro.aero. He said, “We’re developing a unique, electric, ducted propulsion system that is optimised to allow electric aircraft to fly for longer and further than ever before.
“We’re a growing team with a history of world firsts and our technology is ready to commercialise.”
The company has already collaborated on various electric power projects including the recently announced WaveFlyer, a jetski that not only has an electric motor but also rises off the surface of the water on hydrofoils, details of which are being kept secret for the moment.
Electro.aero’s list of partners is a who’s who of electric aviation firms including Ampaire (hybrid Cessna 337), Bye Aerospace (eFlyers 2 and 4), ESAero, GoFly challenge, NASA, Pipistrel, University of Western Australia and Zero Emission Vehicles Australia (ZEVA). | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.planettechnews.com/space-movie-to-deliver-the-overview-effect-in-giant-domed-theaters/ | 2023-09-24T03:46:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506559.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924023050-20230924053050-00227.warc.gz | 0.944521 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__43717808 | en | The unique perspective just a few astronauts have ever seen of Earth from outer space, and the way in which it impacts them, is known as the Overview Effect.
Now, specially built theaters and a new film will bring the same experience to the masses.
“Experiencing the awe and wonder of our planetary home from the extraordinary vantage point of a spaceship is life changing,” says Nicole Stott, an astronaut with nearly 30 years with NASA that included two spaceflights and 104 days aboard the International Space Station.
The film aims to deliver a “Meditative experience that takes audiences on a journey into space to encounter the profound beauty, inner workings, and mysteries of Earth to inspire a greater appreciation for our shared, living planet,” said Cosm.
Even more ambitious than the film’s lofty aims are the theaters in which it will be shown.
Cosm is building 65,000-sq-ft theaters in Los Angeles and Dallas that will each house a dome measuring 87 ft in diameter.
Cosm has already brought some pretty impressive spaces to the world including an installation at the Shanghai Astronomy Museum and the Grainger Sky Theater at the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium in Chicago, so the odds are pretty good that its two new domed theaters are going to deliver the “Wow” as well.
Planetary Collective has equally impressive chops, having already released two well-received films: “Overview” – a short film that first touched on the idea of the Overview Effect as first conceived by space philosopher Frank White, and the SXSW release “Planetary,” another film that aims to shift perspectives by looking back at Earth from space. | aerospace | 1 |
http://oldafsarge.blogspot.com/2017/04/useless-things.html | 2017-04-30T01:08:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123635.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00639-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.967539 | 2,471 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__206148945 | en | Specifically, my experience with aircraft carriers is limited to touring the USS Hornet (CV-12) in the early '60s when my Uncle served as the ship's disbursing officer. (He's still got a picture of him in his office with very large stacks of money on his desk.)
|USS Hornet CV-12|
My other experience is with the USS Enterprise while it was docked at Alameda. A buddy and I had taken a cross country there and when we were ready to RTB on Sunday, the air cart used by transient alert couldn't blow enough air to get my second engine to the minimum RPM to start. While we were trying to figure out our options (staying an extra night at the Treasure Island VOQ as visiting Captains seemed the best. Attempting a single engine takeoff and starting it as we rolled was the worst...and quickly vetoed by your's truly with a YGBSM!).
As we're pondering, I notice a crane on the deck of the Enterprise, pick up an aircart and lift it over the side. After a few minutes, Transient Alert, hooked it up and the engine started right away.
So....I'm very experienced when it comes to Carriers.
I did serve my two staff tours in Operations on Joint Staffs. Both tours I dealt closely with Navy folks, frequently Aviators. Given that CINCPAC's AOR is almost entirely water, Carriers were high on the observation list.
One thing that I would comment about options for Carriers that I learned through working with those folks was the comparatively limited sortie generation capability a Carrier can produce compared with a deployed USAF Air Wing.
This is NOT a criticism, merely physics. I don't remember what the real number is, but I do remember it as being fairly low. Given that there's some maneuvering required to get aircraft into position for takeoff, that takes time and reduces the number one can get airborne at any one time. On the back side, landing, taking a barrier, and then getting cleared out of the barrier and taxied clear also takes time. Finally, there's a finite amount of space on the ship for aircraft which further limits the ability to generate sorties.
So, it was eye opening to me as an Ops Planner to built plans that tasked a Carrier Air Wing.
Do not misconstrue this to imply that I believe that Carriers are not needed or are not worth every penny they cost. I believe they are a very important aspect of National Power.
What I dislike about the whole National Defense argument is that we seem to have accepted that we must pay for National Defense from within the Defense Budget. After Years of Pillaging that budget for "Peace Dividends" starting with the Clinton Crime Family, and continuing on through today, there is very little (OK, None) left to cut.
What the Defense of the Nation needs are Carriers, Submarines, Bombers, Air Superiority Fighters, A-10s, New Tanks, Artillery, Helicopters, Amphibs, the list goes on and on. This is not an "Or" issue, as Instapundit likes to say "embrace the power of AND!"
However, what we don't need to pay for are able bodied folks to sit on their hind end and not produce anything because their "....lives matter." This article (behind the WSJ paywall, sorry) talks about a study from 1995 that says welfare payments are well above the poverty level and pay better than an entry level job. And that's 20 years ago, before the birth of Obamaphones and all the other largess passed out recently.
All to buy votes.
WHOA, juvat! Dial it down!
Ok, Sarge, I'm going to my happy place.
Where was I?
Oh yeah. Sortie generation.
Somewhere during the Reagan Years (a wonderful time to be a Fighter Pilot), someone figured out that if we were going to fight the godless commies, we needed to be able to maximize the ability to generate sorties and that one of the main impediments to that was launch and recovery times when the weather was bad.
Evidently, it's easy to generate sorties when you're flying out of Texas, not so much when your fighting in Germany...in the winter.
So, somebody came up with an idea on how to minimize the separation requirement for aircraft recovering into an airfield via instrument approaches.
A little background. Ordinarily, when multiple aircraft recover, Approach Control will either send you to holding and you'll do circles in the sky until you're cleared for the approach (or you go crazy). This would set up at least 5 miles of separation between entities, which makes the RAPCON (Radar APproach CONtrol) very happy. But since approach speeds are typically around 150K (some higher, some lower), that 2.5 mile per minute speed translates to 2 minutes spacing. Multiplied by a 50 aircraft strike package means a lot of guys that are staring at their gas gauge wondering about the glide range of their aircraft.
This guy, whoever he was, figured out that if we let the pilots get and maintain their own separation (it's called Military Assumes Responsibility for Separation of Aircraft (MARSA)), we could cut that spacing to about 30 seconds which would mean a lot more sorties putting ordnance on target, or at least close to target.
So, how did this happen?
Basically, you had to fly pretty good instruments and airspeed control was critical. The whole procedure was called ASLAR (you knew there'd be another acronym didn't ya) or Aircraft Surge Launch and Recovery). The 4 ship would begin the approach together, and at a point about half way down, the second element would "drag" (reduce airspeed and begin to get separation). Once that element was separated, the wingman would be given the order to drag also, Lead would maintain speed until he got to a specific point and then would slow down and configure. This would give between a mile and a mile and a half separation between the four aircraft. Total time to get the 4 aircraft on the runway was a couple of minutes (there was about 30 seconds between each).
It worked pretty well, especially if the weather was good and you could see everyone. It was a little sporty otherwise. We practiced it a lot at Kadena, and got pretty proficient.
It's now time for our ORI and we've deployed to Kwang-Ju AB on the ROK. One of the big grading points in ORI's is sortie generation. I know Fighter Pilots love sortie generation (AKA Flying Time), I'm pretty sure Maintenance guys are not so inclined. The benchmark in the ORI was to generate and fly each aircraft 5 times a day. With 24 aircraft in each squadron, that's 120 sorties per squadron per day. There were 3 squadrons.
Safety was paramount (it is just an exercise), but...making the mark makes a career if you're a Wing King or other O-6 in the wing.
The weather in Korea is a big factor in anything military on the peninsula (read any story about the Chosin Reservoir if you doubt me) and flying is no exception. So the ability to use ASLAR procedures effectively is critical to success.
So, There I was.....*
Leading a 4 ship on a 4 v 4 similar sortie against a 4 ship from one of the other squadrons. 8 Eagles turning and burning in a furball is an entertaining training exercise. Communication needs to be precise and concise as everyone looks the same. This is the third sortie for my flight, so on landing, there'll be a debrief, most likely in MOPP gear as there will undoubtedly be a condition black, some chow, a little planning for tomorrow's sorties (again in MOPP gear) and then some rack time. Fortunately, the "safety is paramount" takes over then and we don't have to wear MOPP gear to bed.
Unless it's for "realsies".
Weather at Kwang-ju is about 1000' overcast, light to moderate rain, visibility is about a mile or so. I'm in the front four ship and our "adversaries" are behind us. We will shoot the ASLAR and land all eight.
Normally, when landing the Eagle, the pilot will aerobrake until about 100K or so, and then fly the nose of the aircraft down to the runway, test the brakes and then roll out. That clears the runway in an expeditious manner.
I mentioned earlier, that a pilot might show off by attempting a min run landing, aerobraking to the maximum AOA (20.5 degrees, 21 degrees would drag the tail feathers), holding that until the aircraft stops flying which drops the nose to the runway quite forcefully, then max brakes until turning off. Doing that significantly reduces the landing roll. (It also tends to mess up Sarge's baby and other electronics in the nose of the aircraft.)
It is also not a good idea during an ASLAR approach as you very quickly close the difference between you and the aircraft behind you.
I've got 7 aircraft behind me as I break out of the weather and have the runway in sight. I'm very aware of that spacing and focused on getting to the end of the runway expeditiously. (There's no benefit to turning off early, the dearm crew is at the departure end.)
I come in and land the jet a little firmly to break the surface tension of the standing water on the runway, drop the nose at about 120, tap the brakes, good pressure, and continue the rollout.
I pass over the first departure end barrier at about 3K' remaining. Continue rolling.
As I'm approaching the second barrier at abour 1500' remaining, I resume braking, only to have the brake pedals go to the floor and nothing happen. Quickly I let off the brakes and reapply, same thing. As I reach for the hook, I realize this is going to get complicated quickly, but am out of options. Hook comes down.
And misses the barrier'
Later, runway inspection afterward would show I missed it by less than a foot. I'm now headed toward the MA-1A barrier in the overrun.
|The MA-1A stops the aircraft by snaring the nose gear and other articles underneath.|
The Eagle isn't really built for taking this type barrier. But, then again, it's not built for 4 wheeling in the mud either. Its long, somewhat delicate nose gear will catch the net, hopefully, which will then drag the anchor chain which should slow me down.
I'm committed though. A quick thought goes through my mind. "Should I bail out?" The seat will get me clear and if the gear collapses and I skid off into the mud, bad things will likely happen.
There wasn't a lot of time for rational thought, so I just file it away as an option for later.
There's a loud bang from under the aircraft a lot of vibration and racket and the end of the overrun is coming up. I shut down the engines, but come to a complete stop before departing the runway.
As I'm sitting in the aircraft, I notice the rest of my flight in the dearm area. They appear to be laughing and clapping their hands.
It's very humbling to have to ride in your aircraft as it's being towed back to parking.
But I did get a lesson on the 4 most useless things to a Pilot.
1) Altitude above you.
2) Fuel in the truck.
3) Runway behind you
4) 10 seconds ago.
3 & 4 were relevant. | aerospace | 1 |
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http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/story/2012-04-15/Boeing-737-makeover-to-add-fuel-efficiency/54299470/1 | 2014-12-20T15:27:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769981.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00004-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.972061 | 1,888 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__97777414 | en | Boeing updates 737 for a new era
Boeing's 737 — the commercial jet that made its debut in 1968 and the one you've most likely flown on — is getting a makeover to fit with the new demands of air travel in the 21st century.
The new version, the 737 Max, which is scheduled to make its debut in 2017, is designed with new engines to burn less fuel than its three predecessors, to help airlines pare costs and leave less of a carbon footprint on the global environment.
But at its most basic, the Max will be the same 737 stalwart the traveling public has come to know the last 44 years. It's a single-aisle jet that will ferry up to 215 passengers on both short and cross-country trips, and offer efficiency that's helped make the 737 the best-selling commercial jet in history, with 9,745 sold.
"They're known as the workhorse of the industry," says Mike Van de Ven, COO of Southwest Airlines, which has exclusively bought 737s for its fleet since the airline's birth in 1971.
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"It really beats the competition on fuel burn. It really beats the competition on reliability, and it really had a very effective maintenance program. And they just made that airplane better and better over the last 20 or 30 years."
Southwest, which has the largest fleet of 737s in the world, with more than 550, is reaffirming its faith in Boeing and the 737 by ordering 150 Max jets. American Airlines is sold, too, having ordered 100 Max planes in July before seeking bankruptcy protection in November.
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"There's a lot of interest in our industry and among our customers in the next generation of aircraft," says Virasb Vahidi, American's chief commercial officer. "Customers see it as a better product and younger fleet, and airlines see it as an opportunity to lower our costs."
A cheaper fuel bill could mean that rising airfares may not rise so quickly, say travel industry analysts.
"It hopefully will mean more stable pricing for consumers," says Bryan Saltzburg, general manager of TripAdvisor flights. Lower costs for an airline, he says, "should transfer to the consumer pocketbook."
Outfitted with new engines, the Max will use 10% to 12% less fuel than its most current Boeing peer, the Next-Generation 737, company officials say. That holds particular appeal for airlines, with jet fuel making up 25% to 40% of their costs, and whose profitability is threatened as the price of crude oil stays around $103 a barrel as it was on Friday.
"As an airline, there are several things you can do to combat high fuel prices, but one of the biggest, most important things is just having equipment that is designed to deal with it," says Southwest's Van de Ven.
Despite seeking bankruptcy protection from creditors, American is planning to buy the Max planes as part of its plans to reorganize and replace its older, fuel-guzzling fleet.
It also still plans to buy 130 of the Max's competitor — the A320Neo from Boeing's chief European rival, Airbus.
"It's very much a part of our restructuring plan," says American's Vahidi.
"Obviously, as we lower our cost structure … it would provide us with more flexibility to be able to grow the airline successfully and provide our customers with a more extensive network that flies to destinations that they want to fly to, and times of day they want to fly."
The fuel savings from the Max will be significant, he says. When matching 100 of the new jets to an equal number of the 737-800s that American currently flies, Vihadi says, "It's around $85 million per year in fuel costs that will be saved."
That, he says, "is a really big deal in terms of improving our operating costs."
New jets will cost less to maintain because they're younger, and the updated 737 Max will release a smaller amount of carbon dioxide into the air, airline officials say.
"They're good for the environment," Van de Ven says.
"They're good for the noise footprint, and they're good for our customers, because all of those efficiencies mean lower costs."
If you've ever flown coast to coast or to many points in between, chances are you've ridden on a 737.
Before the Max, there were three versions of the plane: the original that took flight for the first time in February 1968; the Classics, which began flying passengers in 1984; and the Next Generation, which made its debut in 1998 with new wings and engines that enabled it to go farther and faster than its predecessors while burning less fuel.
But all represented upgrades in the original concept of a narrow-body jet with the ability to fly medium to long-haul distances. "They got the design right," says Richard Aboulafia, aviation analyst with the Teal Group.
"Throughout the 737's life, we have been able to offer an aircraft … that has the best operating costs of any aircraft in the single-aisle market, and that is probably the single biggest contributor to its popularity," says Beverly Wyse, vice president and general manager of Boeing's 737 program.
Even with Max, demand remains so high for the 737 that Boeing in January began delivering current model 737s at the unprecedented production pace of 35 a month. It plans to ramp up to 42 a month at the start of 2014.
Driving the continued popularity of narrow-body planes such as the 737 has been the growth of low-cost airlines such as Southwest and Europe's Ryan Air, and now the booming air travel markets in China and India.
"They're seated at the right size, where you can do a lot of frequency between marketplaces," says Van de Ven of Southwest, which makes more than 10 trips a day between Baltimore and Chicago.
"That's one of the reasons I think the narrow body is such a big seller," Van de Ven says. "You can give the consumer many more trips and choices and itineraries because the demand is there to fill up that size of an airplane, and not a 250-seat airplane, 10 times a day."
Demand for 737s and similar narrow-body jetliners has soared with rising fuel prices.
"We're seeing older aircraft be replaced even more rapidly because that fuel-efficient aircraft is so critical to their fleet," Wyse says.
The Max will boast a new interior, first introduced in the 737 two years ago, that features bigger luggage bins, a more open feeling in the cabin, and better lighting similar to what's offered in Boeing's wide-body 787 Dreamliner.
But the Max will have competition. It's scheduled to hit the airways two years after Airbus plans to introduce the Neo, the latest version of its own narrow-body A320 jet.
The Neo will burn 15% less fuel than the current A320s, and the jet roared out the gate with 1,289 sold in 13 months, making it the fastest-selling jet program in modern times, says Chris Jones, vice president, North America sales, Airbus Americas.
"I think the market has endorsed the Neo clearly as the leading, most fuel-efficient single-aisle airplane out there," says Jones, who believes that the Neo's popularity pushed Boeing to respond. "I don't think the Max is the optimal solution, but I think the success we've had with the Neo has forced that decision to take place sooner than Boeing would have liked."
Neal Dihora, an analyst for Morningstar, also says that buzz around Airbus' Neo likely led Boeing to launch the Max with its new engines rather than wait to develop a whole new jet.
"I think they still want to do a new single-aisle aircraft," Dihora says. But "I think Boeing had to essentially react to the reality that they were losing a lot of market share. … So my sense is they sat around a room and said, 'Let's have a new engine option, too.' If you can't beat them, follow them."
Boeing disagrees. "It really was more of a question: Did the customers prefer to have the fuel-efficient gain right now, or were they willing to wait a little bit longer for an all-new aircraft?" says Wyse, who added that operating costs for the Max will be 7% lower per seat than the Neo.
A completely new single-aisle plane will arrive eventually. "It's something that we'll definitely do at some point," Wyse says, "at the time the market tells us it's ready for a new airplane."
In the meantime, Aboulafia of the Teal Group doubts airlines will pass fuel savings to passengers in the form of lower fares. But he says the shift in engines will still benefit the public.
Reducing fuel burn "helps everybody," he says. It's "good for manufacturers, good for consumers, good for the airlines. There are no losers in this." | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5259227/Plane-nearly-lands-occupied-runway-San-Francisco.html | 2018-07-20T01:26:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591455.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720002543-20180720022543-00029.warc.gz | 0.96125 | 1,237 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__243902130 | en | 'Aeromexico 668 go around!' Dramatic audio reveals how a passenger plane came just moments from landing on a runway already occupied by a packed jet at SF airport
- An Aeromexico passenger jet was ordered to abort a landing at San Francisco International Airport
- The plane descended toward a runway occupied by another commercial jet, the third close call at the busy airport in six months
- Aeromexico Flight 668 from Mexico City had been cleared to land Tuesday
- It was about a mile from the airport when controllers saw the aircraft was lined up for a runway occupied by a Virgin America jet waiting to take off for Hawaii
- 'Aeromexico 668 go around!' an air traffic controller is heard saying on audio recordings
- The pilot quickly acknowledges the request to abort the landing: 'Aeromexico 668 going around'
- The plane eventually landed safely, though the FAA said it was opening an investigation
Dramatic audio has revealed how a passenger plane was forced to abort landing at a runway already occupied by a packed passenger jet.
Aeromexico Flight 668 from Mexico City had been cleared to land Tuesday and it was about a mile from the airport when controllers saw the aircraft was lined up for a runway occupied by a Virgin America Airbus A320 jet waiting to take off for Kona, Hawaii, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday.
The tower quickly ordered the Aeromexico Boeing 737 jet to circle around when they noticed the impending disaster.
'Aeromexico 668 go around!' an air traffic controller is heard saying on audio recordings, the newspaper reported.
Audio was also obtained by KRON-TV.
The mishap is the third at the San Francisco International Airport in just six months.
For the third time in the last six month, an airplane nearly landed on an occupied runway at San Francisco International Airport (seen above in the stock image)
An Aeromexico passenger jet was coming in for a landing on Runway 28R, seen on the right of this picture, when controllers asked for the crew to abort their landing
The pilot quickly acknowledges the request to abort the landing: 'Aeromexico 668 going around.'
The plane later safely landed, said Ian Gregor, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
He said the FAA has opened an investigation.
An Air Canada flight crew landed in October on one of the airport's runways despite repeated warnings to abort because a controller believed another airplane had not left the area yet.
Aeromexico Flight 668 from Mexico City had been cleared to land Tuesday and it was about a mile from the airport. An Aeromexico plane is seen in the above stock image
Controllers saw the aircraft was lined up for a runway occupied by a Virgin America Airbus A320 jet waiting to take off for Kona, Hawaii. A Virgin American Airbus A320 is seen in the above stock image
Air Canada flight 781 from Montreal was given initial clearance to land but the air traffic controller then gave six orders to 'go around' and abort its landing because it believed another plane may still have been on the runway.
The pilot landed the plane anyway.
The Airbus A320 was initially cleared to land on Runway 28R.
The crew acknowledged their clearance as they were about six miles away from the airport.
Shortly afterwards, the Air Canada crew was told six times in 36 seconds to abort the landing and 'go-around' after concerns that another plane that had arrived just beforehand would still be on the runway.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said that the crew acknowledged the tower's initial clearance to land but did not respond to the subsequent orders.
In July, an Air Canada jet (like the one seen in the above stock image) with 140 people on board nearly landed on one of the airport's taxiways where four planes were waiting to take off, prompting the FAA to issue new rules for nighttime landings and control tower staffing at SFO
In July, an Air Canada jet with 140 people on board nearly landed on one of the airport's taxiways where four planes were waiting to take off, prompting the FAA to issue new rules for nighttime landings and control tower staffing at the airport.
Air Canada flight 759 from Toronto was descending toward a taxiway holding four other planes rather than the assigned runway and narrowly avoided disaster at SFO on July 7 at 11.56pm.
Data obtained by The Mercury News reveals that the Air Canada plane was at roughly 106 feet in the air when it flew over the second fully loaded Philippine Airlines jet that was in the second place on the runway waiting for take off.
The Air Canada plane was still continuing its descent when the pilot was told to abort the landing.
A flight crew member from a jet on the taxiway alerted both the Air Canada pilot and the air traffic controller over the radio about how close the Airbus 320 was to causing a disaster.
But once it passed the second plane, the Air Canada jet continued to drop as low as 81 feet above a United Airlines 787 plane - the third plane in line for takeoff - before it began to climb, The Mercury News reported.
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