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https://aviation.flightone.edu.au/about/cplir/ | 2024-04-23T02:12:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00679.warc.gz | 0.933605 | 777 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__4119965 | en | WE WORK WITH THE WORLD’S BEST BRANDS TO DELIVER SAFE FLIGHT TRAINING.
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We’ve been training pilots for 40 years. This is our flagship course. It’s designed to prepare you for industry.
Be the commercially ready pilot employers want. We asked them, and then made the best course for you.
International students welcome.Explore Course
Pilot uniform, scheduled flight lessons, instructor time, briefings, ground school, textbooks and pilot equipment, initial sitting of theory exams and flight tests. (Repeated lessons and exams are not included. See course pages for exclusions non-tuition costs and VSL cover details.)
“Ground School” provides the full scope of CPL aeronautical theory designed for complete beginners. The subjects you will cover include navigation, meteorology, human factors, regulations, aerodynamics, aircraft knowledge, operations and planning and more.
Our flagship double diploma includes the Diploma of Aviation (CPL), the Diploma of Aviation (IR) and internationally recognised licences and endorsements issued by the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority: CPL, IR and Multi-Engine Class Rating.
By combining the CPL and MEIR, Flight One School of Aviation’s integrated double diploma offers an economical and efficient way to achieve key licence outcomes for career-oriented pilots.
Designed by industry experts, our syllabus is specific to Flight One School of Aviation and includes unique and realistic scenario-based training to ensure that you develop into a safe, knowledgeable aviation professional from your very first flight.Learn More
Additional Upset Prevention and Recovery training in a CT4 aircraft, this adds a spin flight activity and manual propeller pitch control (MPP) endorsement to your CASA flight crew licence.
In the multi engine phase of training there is an impressive range of aircraft types including the Seneca PA34, Diamond DA42 and Baron BE58.
A great addition to your training that can also be included in the Double Diploma is the elective for some training in a high-performance aircraft, this aircraft is turbine-powered with fast and efficient flight at altitudes that allow us to maximise the pressurised aircraft’s considerable performance envelope.
“My son learnt to fly last year, and three different captains used to work here. They delivered a very high standard of training.
It was almost as if he walked out the door here, and walked into a job. From the get go, the professionalism was outstanding – it actually caught me off guard.”Explore the Package
Internationally renown for its year round excellent weather, long sandy beaches, great surf, mountainous hinterlands, lush green rainforests, friendly intercultural residents and so much more, Queensland is one of the most desirable aviation training locations in the world.
Our on-airport training centres are located at the beautiful Gold Coast (right near the beach), and in Brisbane (Queensland’s capital city). You will learn to fly in a commercial, regulated airspace environment. Train here and you’ll be ready for any airspace in the world.Our Campus Facilities
Australia is regarded as having among the very highest aviation training and regulatory standards in the world. Australian CPL+MEIR holders have global potential.
For over 2 decades we have provided training to international cadets and overseas students seeking to be airline-ready pilots. Our instructors are from a variety of cultural backgrounds and greatly enjoy engaging with trainees from around the world.
Whether you are an airline employer or an individual student, our syllabus is flexible enough to provide the flight hours and options you need to build your career.Explore | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.universetoday.com/143967/weekly-space-hangout-november-13-2019-dr-rory-barnes-talks-vplanet/amp/ | 2020-01-27T18:04:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251705142.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20200127174507-20200127204507-00235.warc.gz | 0.901636 | 628 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__187537933 | en | Sondy Springmann (@sondy)
Veranika Klimovich ( @VeronikaSpace)
This week we welcome Dr. Rory Barnes to the Weekly Space Hangout. Rory is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington. He is also a member of NASA’s Virtual Planetary Lab as well as the University of Washington’s Big Data program. He studies the habitability of exoplanets with astrophysical, geophysical, and atmospheric computer models.
In August 2019, Rory released VPLanet, an open source, virtual planet simulator that links physical processes together and enables phenomena from one region of a planetary system to be tracked throughout its entire system. Eventually, it is hoped that this will help determine if an exoplanet is capable of supporting life.
VPLanet currently includes two modules which model the internal and magnetic evolution of terrestrial planets’ characteristics. However, being open source and designed for easy growth, researchers are able to write additional physical modules which can be easily integrated with VPLanet in essentially a “plug and play” manner.
To learn more about Rory, his research, and other projects, visit: https://faculty.washington.edu/rkb9/
To learn about the other programs and scripts Rory has written, visit: https://github.com/RoryBarnes
To read all about VPLanet, visit https://phys.org/news/2019-09-vplanet-virtual-planet-simulator-distant.html
The source code for VPLanet is available on GitHub: https://github.com/VirtualPlanetaryLaboratory/vplanet
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http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20050812X01236&key=1 | 2014-11-26T06:48:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931006064.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155646-00236-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.925776 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__90968399 | en | NTSB Identification: MIA05CA133.
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Accident occurred Wednesday, July 06, 2005 in St. Cloud, FL
Probable Cause Approval Date: 10/27/2005
Aircraft: Robinson R44, registration: N90SG
Injuries: 1 Minor.
NTSB investigators used data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator and did not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The pilot stated that after departure the flight proceeded to his property nearby, then he elected to return to the helipad where the flight departed. Upon approach to the helipad he noted a horse trailer obstructed one side of the helipad and a mowing trailer obstructed the other side of the helipad. He hovered over the top of both then decided to perform a 160 degree pedal turned to the left. He reported that he "lost my focus on a palm tree and consequently struck the tree with [the] tailboom which caused a main rotor strike. Hence the accident."
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The failure of the pilot to maintain clearance with a palm tree resulting in the in-flight collision with it, and subsequent uncontrolled descent and in-flight collision with the ground. Full narrative available
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https://3dprint.com/26371/cosmic2-nasa-3d-printed-arrays/ | 2021-01-26T13:22:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704799741.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126104721-20210126134721-00595.warc.gz | 0.933063 | 1,151 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__64381133 | en | 3D Printing Technology Plays a Part in the COSMIC-2 Satellite Mission with 3D Printed Antenna Arrays
As enthusiastic and persistent as humans are about the exploration of space, it is a hostile environment. When we send anything to space, the first question, of course, is how to get it there. The second major consideration is using stable materials that can help systems to perform their required duties while withstanding long-term exposure. The materials must also be able to survive for great periods of time. The technology of 3D printing gains more validity with each important product — and headline — but none renders it quite as valuable or newsworthy as when we send 3D printing technology into space.
And now, 3D printed parts will function externally in outer space for the first time, supporting the COSMIC-2 satellite mission. COSMIC-2 design and development began in 2011 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Critical components of the COSMIC-2 design are antenna arrays, of which they needed 30, for a project under budget constraints. Because of that, they decided to look for a material that could be made less expensively and faster than astroquartz.
Astroquartz can withstand high temperatures and is very strong, lending itself to the unique and critical designs engineered for space. For the latest project though, 3D printing is behind the creation of 30 antenna array supports for the FORMOSAT-7 Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC-2) satellite mission.
Looking for an alternative, and interested in the idea of using 3D printed materials that could handle the demands of space, JPL contacted RedEye, a Stratasys company, to see if they could handle the complex array designs. With 3D printing behind them, this was an affirmative answer all around.
The project for building materials designed to last in space had to meet specific and strict strength and load requirements. RedEye met the requirements using FDM parts, custom-designed, with Stratasys’ ULTEM 9085 material, a thermoplastic that has similar strength to metals like aluminum but weighs much less and works well for applications that demand thermal and chemical resistance.
“Using FDM for a project like this has never been done before and it demonstrates how 3D printing is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry,” said Jim Bartel, vice president and general manager at RedEye. “If this technology can be validated for use in the harsh environment of outer space, its capabilities are seemingly endless for projects here on Earth.”
While ULTEM 9085 is recommended for use in the transporation industry, this is certainly testing the material at an entirely new level. This very unique material is used most especially in aerospace, marine, and ground vehicle applications.
“The intricate design of the arrays and the durability of ULTEM 9085 made additive manufacturing a perfect choice for this project,” said Joel Smith, strategic account manager for aerospace and defense at RedEye. “Not only did it prove the strength of 3D printed parts, but using FDM to build these supports significantly reduced time and cost.”
Helping us to gather knowledge about the unknown, it’s becoming clear that with 3D technology, we may be able to do all the things we’ve hoped to reach for in terms of exploration. Have you been following these missions? What do you think of NASA’s decision to use 3D printed materials over astroquartz? Let us know in the COSMIC-2 Satellite forum thread at 3DPB.com.
Some history on the project: The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC-1) was put into orbit in 2006 to collect ionospheric and atmospheric data of temperature, moisture, and pressure globally, The COSMIC-1 project has since offered great scientific investigation and improvements in weather forecasting, and because of that, the U.S. and Taiwan have created a follow-up project called FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 to launch six satellites into orbit in late 2016 and another six in 2018 in hopes to capture enormous amounts of data for long-term weather prediction models and research.
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https://www.consumercomplaints.in/jet-airways-flight-delay-c1922555 | 2019-12-14T17:53:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541288287.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214174719-20191214202719-00525.warc.gz | 0.970793 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__66329562 | en | Jet Airways — flight delay
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SaSandeepthi Sweety on Apr 14, 2018
I have book my flight from Hyderabad to berlin, and I had a jet airways flight from Hyderabad to Mumbai which is at 9.15 pm on 10th of April, and the flight got delayed and I got a new ticket at 11.00pm, if I would I took this flight I would have missed my international flight, and called them and asked to change my flight, so they gave same flight at 11 pm and changed my international flight and they said they don't have any there options, this lead me to miss my job on the next day and loss of my salary.
I demand an explanation and compensation for this from the airways.
[Apr 14, 2018] Jet Airways customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
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https://au.pinterest.com/explore/earth-view-from-space/ | 2016-12-08T11:22:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542520.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00303-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.864938 | 256 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__119903415 | en | How Humanity Could Deflect a Giant Killer Asteroid and Space Art Photos | Take a Quick Break
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http://www.marskeaircraft.com/ | 2013-05-21T13:00:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.87246 | 227 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__154232121 | en | Welcome to the Official Site of Marske Aircraft Corporation. Here you will find information on the revolutionary Graphlite® Carbon Rod and its application for wing spars as well as a history of the Flying Wing designs of Jim Marske...from the revolutionary birth of XM-1 and Monarch Ultralite to the evolution of the Pioneer Sailplane Series (I, II, III, V)
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Graphlite® carbon redefines the performance of aircraft wing spars. No other conventional carbon can claim the Graphlite® combination of superior strength and lighter weight.
COMPOSITE DESIGN MANUAL
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE! This design manual used to only be available to participants of Jim Marske's exclusive Composite Basics and Structural Design Seminar and Workshop. Now, you can obtain a copy of the official Composite Design Manual referenced extensively throughout the workshop. This composite manual is more than 80 pages and covers over 50 years of personal experience working with composites, including many shortcuts, practical techniques and procedures not found in any other book currently on the market. | aerospace | 1 |
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-02-23-Issue-157/ | 2022-09-29T23:43:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335396.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929225326-20220930015326-00708.warc.gz | 0.921134 | 486 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__10715583 | en | ¶The First Rocket from Mars. Two weeks ago, Lockheed Martin won a $194M contract to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) for the upcoming joint NASA-ESA Mars sample return campaign. The cost-plus contract covers the development and manufacture of 10 test and flight-ready MAVs over the next six years culminating in what will likely be, barring other unforeseen entrants, the first rocket launched on another planet (as opposed to a moon, comet, or asteroid). Lockheed will be supported by Northrop Grumman, who will build the MAV’s solid propulsion motors—updated STAR 15 & 20 solid rocket motors, originally developed in the early 70s, which will need to survive a multi-year cold soak along with their propellant. To keep propellant grains above -40° C, the 2.8-meter long MAV will be housed in “the igloo,” an insulated dome blanketed with CO2, which will be heated by solar-powered electric heaters in 16 separately-instrumented heating zones (paper). The igloo will have to open for samples to be loaded into the MAV, but must also stay above minimum temperature levels, so loading may take multiple operations by the mission’s Sample Retrieval Rover. Along with the thirty-odd Martian sample tubes collected by (and optionally delivered by) Percy, the canister will include 5 pre-sealed blanks to help scientists determine which molecules are from Mars and which are originally from Earth. Once loaded, the MAV—with a total weight of around 400 kg—will carry 16 kg of payload, including ~470 grams of actual samples, into Martian orbit for the ESA-led hybrid chemical/solar-electric Earth Return Orbiter to snag and carry home. In order to survive the MAV’s ignition, the Sample Retrieval Lander will yeet the rocket into the air with a spring just before it ignites. (Due to the lower Martian gravity, the MAV will get significantly more hang time than it would on Earth.) All this is scheduled to kick off with the lander/rover/MAV combo launching NET 2026. Sample retrieval and launch to Martian orbit could take around 13 months after arrival, but samples won’t actually make it back to Earth until sometime in the first half of the 30s. | aerospace | 1 |
https://observer.com/2017/10/space-x-launches-2-missions-days-after-pence-undermines-program/ | 2023-01-27T04:36:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764494936.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230127033656-20230127063656-00813.warc.gz | 0.944713 | 1,206 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__96283816 | en | Just days after Vice President Pence publicly criticized American aerospace capability, SpaceX, a private U.S. aerospace manufacturing and transport company, has responded with two successful launches from the East and West coast of the United States. The dual launches and landings followed in-suit with CEO Elon Musk’s recent unveiling of the corporation’s plans to expand human (especially American) presence throughout the solar system.
“… In recent years the clarity of our purpose and the confidence of our conviction that propel the U.S. to be a vanguard of space exploration seems to have waned,” said Pence at the first meeting of the revived National Space Council in Virginia a week ago. “America seems to have lost our edge in space.”
On October 9, four days after Vice President Pence slighted the progress and exploratory spirit of America’s space program, SpaceX flawlessly delivered a group of ten Iridium NEXT satellites to individual orbits from their launch facilities in Vandenberg, California. Moments later, the rocket’s booster, which houses nine American-built engines and was engineered with the company’s breakthrough reusable hardware, soared through the skies for a precision touchdown on a SpaceX’s robotic drone ship called Just Read the Instructions.
Nearly 48 hours later, during a picturesque Florida pastel sunset, the world’s third flight-proven reusable rocket was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center by SpaceX. Just minutes after sending a satellite designed to improve television services throughout North America to orbit, the rocket’s booster also landed safely on the company’s East Coast drone ship, the Of Course I Still Love You.
The original breakthrough of bringing home an orbital rocket after launching it to space occurred in December of 2015, and is a feat which has eluded the space theater for over 50 years. SpaceX’s most recent successful mission represents the 18th recovery and is a prime example of the company’s rapid pace of innovation.
For years, the aerospace industry (and SpaceX’s competitors) claimed that a fully reusable rocket was simply not possible and wouldn’t be economically sustainable. This came from an industry that has been scrapping, for over 50 years, what are considered the most technologically complex and expensive vehicles developed by humans—discarding them after a single use.
SpaceX is one of the few options for rocket launch providers in the United States and their mission costs dramatically undercut the competition by millions—and that’s without the reusability factor. When counted alone, the private company is tied with Russia for liftoffs this year but are neck and neck in competition. SpaceX’s main competitor, the Lockheed-Boeing outfit United Launch Alliance, has launched six times in 2017.
In total, America is leading the world in orbital space missions this year with 22, and is also the only country to have re-flown three individual reusable boosters, thanks to SpaceX.
“Have we fallen behind as we believe?” Pence said to private sector aerospace executives. “America is out-innovating the rest of the world in space launches,” responded SpaceX President, Gwynne Shotwell, at the council meeting. “So far this year, SpaceX has successfully conducted 13 launches—more than any other nation.”
The comments followed SpaceX inching ahead of Russia last month. Today, a week after the National Space Council meeting, the two are tied again. Both are at 15 successful launches for 2017. “If we want to achieve rapid progress in space, the U.S. government must remove bureaucratic practices that run counter to innovation, and speed,” Shotwell explained.
Coincidentally, at the same time as the vice president was expressing his doubt in America’s space progress, U.S.-based astronauts Mark Vande Hei, and Randy Bresnik were risking their lives performing repairs during a spacewalk on the outside of the International Space Station, while traveling nearly 17,000 mph orbiting the Earth. Starting late next year, SpaceX will begin taxiing future crews to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and return human spaceflight to American soil. The United States currently pays almost $80 million per seat on the Russian Soyuz.
In previous statements made during his nationwide tour of NASA’s space centers this summer, and also during his opening speech before the space council, Pence honed in on the fact that the U.S. astronauts haven’t gone beyond low Earth orbit since the final Apollo lunar mission in 1972.
However, space budget allotments since the end of the Cold War haven’t returned to the gratuitous levels that allowed the United States to stay ahead of the U.S.S.R. A crewed return to the moon will require funding and federal support commensurate with the grandiosity of such a task.
Each of SpaceX’s doubleheader launches notably featured a technology that was incubated within the United States, and is one which no other company, government agency, or country can currently match. This revolutionary technology—paired with Elon Musk’s relentless approach to business—has hoisted what was a fledgling, and at times, volatile space company, to the undisputed industry leader it is today
Looking forward, Shotwell and Musk have openly offered (and are pursuing plans) to return humans to the moon, and step foot on Mars on a schedule that is drastically shorter than those listed by any other agencies.
Thaddeus Cesari is a Photojournalist, Commercial Videographer, and Newspaper Columnist with a passion for aerospace. When not filming, or reporting on rocket launches from inside NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Thaddeus can be found mountaineering, practicing photography, and helping communicate science by creating documentary short videos. | aerospace | 1 |
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The Institute for Women Of Aviation Worldwide announces the 3rd annual Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week, March 4-10, 2013. Held annually during the week of March 8, anniversary date of the first female pilot certificate worldwide, the week aims to foster diversity in aviation by celebrating history, raising awareness, and sparking vocations as thousands of girls and women are introduced to aviation through industry-wide collaboration.
Female-centric events, some offering aviation related interactive activities, others offering discovery flights, and many offering both have been organized throughout the United States.
The Frederick Airport Community will be defending its "Most Female Pilot Friendly Airport in the United States" title and aiming to recapture the world's title. Craig Fuller, president of AOPA, will participate in the quest by introducing girls and women to flying on Saturday, March 9, at AOPA's home airport. Holding on to the title will not be easy as many other locations in California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Washington State intend to challenge Frederick and other international locations. Event organizers include engaged individuals, both males and females, associations, museums, and flight schools. The flight schools will be competing for the "Most Female Pilot Friendly Training Center Worldwide" title.
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https://www.businessaviationcounsel.com/2009/10/an-invitation-to-corporate-pilotsflight-crew-to-post-resumes-on-our-site/ | 2019-07-16T03:04:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524475.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716015213-20190716041213-00212.warc.gz | 0.889668 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__134105576 | en | An Invitation to Corporate Pilots/Flight Crew to Post Resumes on Our Site
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We know times are tough for corporate pilots, flight attendants and others working in the business aviation industry. In an effort to assist, we will be creating a new page on our web site devoted to allowing business aviation flight crew and others in the industry to post some basic information about themselves and a brief resume of their experience. If interested, please use the “contact us” link on the home page and send us your information (background, position desired, geographic preference, e-mail address, etc.). We will organize it for inclusion on the new page. We are hopeful that this will be useful to you. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.itf-oecd.org/economics-co2-emissions-trading-aviation | 2019-04-23T00:58:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578583000.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20190422235159-20190423021022-00077.warc.gz | 0.843484 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__206968125 | en | - The Economics of CO2 Emissions Trading for Aviation
The Economics of CO2 Emissions Trading for Aviation
|Date of Publication||1 December 2009|
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|Tags||European Union Emissions Trading System, Air Transport, Aircraft, Airlines, Airports, Carriers, Costs, Emission Trading, Emission Trading Systems, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Low-Cost Carriers, Passengers, Prices|
The ITF Working Group “Drones in the Transport System of the Future” will examine how drones can become an accepted and integral part of a future transport system. Drones present new opportunities...
Air transport has continued to connect states to regional and global markets. It facilitates travel, tourism and trade, generates economic growth and development, and provides jobs and fosters other...
Air transport plays a pivotal role in tourism and enables trade over long distances of both time-sensitive and high-value goods. It has enabled travellers and shippers to bridge large distances and...
This workshop marks the launch of a new ITF Working Group on Drones in the Transport System that will explore the rapidly developing concept designs for drones and drone services, questions of... | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.halointerceptor.com/ | 2014-12-20T01:34:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769305.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00011-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.96181 | 2,877 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__17050320 | en | This bike is tuned and balanced with the traditional two wheeled to the riders. These hover bike is attached with two fan which acts as a wheel. It can be moved anywhere on the road. Thus this motor hover bike can be used in all terrain without any royal styles. Some of the features of this bike is it can be used as a flight for up to 15ft at 50km/h and it can weave through trees, buildings and under bridges.
It adds some extra features like it can rollover and crash so that it can sustain as and when major crashes happen. This hover bike has been adopted some intuitive controls so that it could be easy to fly and land whenever needed in case of emergencies. Any new user can try it out without the help and need of a pilot.
The trick with this hover bike Aerofex is that it needs some movements and balancing of riding a bicycle or motorbike. For pilot two control bars have been given to put at their knee while driving. It is being provided so that whenever the pilot or driver leans any way of direction the hover bike Aerofex controls the sense of balance among them.
A PAL-V is a kind of motorcycle which transforms into gyro copter that is designed and act as a flying machine. It is said to be Personal Air and Land vehicles that being able to lean into turns on the road, making it stable to drive quickly, despite its high center of gravity.
As per this vehicle it contains some of the best features of 230 horsepower gasoline, engine spinning, rear facing propeller, auto rotating retractable, and rotor to generate lift. This motor craft is a light weight that can be used to fly and in road a mechanical hydraulic articulated rear suspension enables the craft to lean into turns like a motorcycle having a boosting stability.
The speed of this motor craft in the air or in the ground is 112mph.When it turns to a car it takes a speed of 28mpg and when it changes to a cruise its range of speed is 750 miles. The modes of transformation from one vehicle to the other takes place within 10min.It cannot fly out of the traffic jam. This motor craft requires 540 ft of runway to take off and 100 ft to land.
This motor craft flies below 4000ft and for safety it can stall like fixed wing aircraft. In case of emergencies if the engine fails the motor craft can land safely as this motor craft has an auto rotating main rotor to protect this craft.
This new conceptual car is revolutionary — as it works on water, ice, sand, air as well as the road. The Volkswagen Aqua car can switch between surfaces like a hovercraft and has a top speed of 62mph.Thus this spectacular car is manufactured by the Germans. The all-terrain vehicle works like a hovercraft that can move seamlessly between different surfaces. The vehicle’s look and feel is of a sports car that is designed by four high-powered fans and integrated airbags that inflate to lift it from the ground. Some of the features are it has a large windscreen that stretches above the front seats to give a panoramic view of the landscape. You enter and exit the car from a hatch at the rear of the car.
Thus this car Aqua uses a hydrogen fuel cell to power two motors – with zero carbon emissions. It is first being equipped with one motor around the vehicle which makes it hover; while the second- drives it forwards and controls its direction. There is no better form of transport than an air cushion vehicle because it travels equally well over land, ice, and water. It can be moved from any amphibious modes of transportation within a desired time.
Being all in one lets users to switch from one mode to the other within fraction of seconds. Thus it is one of the versatile vehicles which give users relaxation, so by letting them sit in a comfort zone and travel in any long distance during upcoming future. It is thus an amphibious car that can switch over from any means of transportation whenever needed in any emergency situations.
The world’s prettiest and best-designed airborne automobile: the flying and driving car, panther has some of the distinction of originating in Slovakia. One of the most brands Packard product panther is the most searching amphibious car that accelerates at a speed of 111 km/h. Panther appears very viable, once an airborne, it can reach a top speed of 200km/h (124 mph) and travel as far as 700 km (430 miles), consuming 15 liters (four gallons) of petrol per hour.They are easy to drive and fly, hence the would-be users could glide by long lines in future and also during security checks at airports, saving much of the time on medium-distance journeys.
A combination of a car and a plane will always lose against the competition when we start comparing energy consumption.These amphibious automobile assures both a pilot or drivers to have a driver’s and pilot’s license with at least 25 flying hours. By looking it seems to be boat shaped car that can be used while diving, travelling in road and also during take-off it could be used as a flying car.
Thus these innovative and amphibious panther car would make each one’s lives so much easier — they would be able to park their car/aircraft at home, drive to the airport, take off, land and drive to their destination without switching vehicles. This mode of amphibious automobiles lets users to travel to the desired location just within a quick desired time. During take-off, emergencies or whenever needed it can be used as an aircraft and during landings, it can also be used as a flying car that could meet the requirements of users in any circumstances.
With an aggressive design and sporty looks, the Skycar is an elite segment of radical, lightweight aviation. The Skycar flies just like a paraglide, dangling below a wing like parachute and propelled by the fan in back. It come with a standard automotive instruments like the cockpit which features an altimeter, a variometer that measures ascent and descent, a GPS, and an LCD map display. The car’s 430-square-foot nylon wing is stored in the trunk. To fly, the pilot lays out the wing behind the vehicle, which will pull the wing into the air as it accelerates into takeoff. The car uses an airborne steering mechanism for foot paddles that manipulate the paraglide. The steering wheel controls retractable winglets on the car that adjust the pitch. Incase if the paraglide fails, the pilot can deploy an emergency ballistic parachute stashed in the Skycar’s roof.
The Skycar consists of some extra features like minimum weight, dynamic handling and peak performance. It is a fully road legal vehicle and hence bridges the gap between a trip to the local supermarket and a thrilling, unforgettable driving adventure. The car moves with a speed on land of 120 mph, in the air of 85 mph and in flight with a range of 200 miles.
In flight mode the Skycar is suspended by the latest ram-air wing and capable of take-off from a field or airstrip in less than 200 meters. It will be easier and safer to fly than any other aircraft, as it has no pitch control and therefore impossible to stall or dive. There is no danger of engine fail or breakdown as in that situation the pilot would simply glide down into the nearest field or strip of sandy desert. With these kind of unique feature one can easily have a thrilling experience to drive in a car and fly in an airplane randomly. Thus the Skycar with its machine can make you drive and fly in any mode of transportation.
Not just a car, but every “futuristic” automobile ever made seemed to employ some sort of flying car to work upon it! The car M200X Volantor, produced by Moller International is shaped like a saucer and can be used for a wide range of recreation and practical purposes. This car does not bother with ground-based obstacles; it can be used in road, or as a ferry between a yacht and the land. It could also be used as commuter vehicle. Volantor can be used by military or government, for skyscraper rescues and fire fighting. The civilian version of this car is restricted to a height of 10 feet, but can travel as fast as 50mph and fly for up to 90minutes.
This vehicle is not like anything we’ve seen before. It’s not a hovercraft, although its operation is just as easy. With the help of this vehicle you can speed over rocks, swampland, fences, or log infested waterways with ease as it is being not limited by any of the surfaces. The electronics keep the vehicles automobile stabilized at no more than 10 feet altitude, which places the craft within ground effect where extra lift is obtained from operating near the ground.
This lets you glide over 50 mph terrain that could stop most other vehicles. Thus this Volantor vehicle is so easy to operate that it does not foresee the requirement for significant training or licensing.It can be easily used as an amphibious modes of transportation at any circumstances.
A unique aircraft named Evolution had been designed by a Russian inventor Alexander Begak.This aircraft was designed for military and civilian missions which could be travelled on land, water and air. This aircraft could be used in difficult situations like in case of emergencies in the air; parachute system could help the aircraft reach the ground in a desired time. In water the pilot could use the inflatable emergency device so that the aircraft wouldn’t drown. With these kind of innovative aircraft vehicle the pilot can switch modes of transportation from land to air, air to water and water to land within fraction of seconds.
The aircraft is made up of coal plastic that is light in weight and simple for transportation. Its weighing capacity is of 60 kg such that it can be loaded onto a truck. It can fly at a height of 4000 mt above the ground and without refueling it can cover a distance of 400 km. It has 30 horse power motors that help it to reach at a speed of 160 km/hr in air and 80 km/hr on land.
The pilot controls the full aircraft through an on board’s computer which helps in navigation from one point to the other. This innovative aircraft has some special features like it requires small take-off distance of 5 to 50 mt. Thus this vehicle can be used as a fighter hovercraft, race aircrafts mission and during emergency landings. This is a versatile aircraft vehicle that can be travelled very fast and enhances performance specifications.
This amphibious luxury car has hidden capabilities of aquatic car that gives no indication as on the road it can walk on water. This is a great technology which is applied in amphibious car. Its physical appearance looks like sports car. Basically this car was being developed for racing and to attain any amphibious modes at different circumstances.
This car has much speed compare to speed boat. If you need to drive this car on water you need to neutralize gear and turn the steering of water jet. This car is equipped with 5 passenger seats, jet engines to enhance the speed of waves. This car has some extra specifications like cruise of 1 rear engine, land speed of 125 mph, water speed of 60 mph, weight of 3800, height of 66, length of 20.6 and width of 82.
There were three generation of amphibious cars namely the first generation called Orukter amphibious car, it used steam engine in river. The second generation amphibious cars namely Hydromotor used continental machine from land to water. The last third generation of amphibious cars namely Hydrorcar which had a combination of boat, car and truck was being used as military vehicle.
One of the best versatile amphibious light weight sports aircraft Seamax can land in water, land; based on any calamities. This aircraft has some extra features and enhances performance specification. In times of emergency it provides safety measures to the pilot as well as passengers. It is one of a sports aircraft which can go in water,air and land.
This aircraft bears some features such as length consisting of 19ft 10 in, wingspan of 33ft 6 in, cabin width 46.9 in, fuel capacity 26.5 gal, speed 130 mph, cruise speed 115 mph, take off distance 400 ft, landing distance 500 ft.
These light weight aircraft comes packed with manipulator technology. It also provides slow flight ability to make one be challenge-able during water landing. Having such amphibious features makes this aircraft unique from others. The speed from one mode of transportation to the other takes in fraction of seconds. This makes the aircraft versatile, comfort free to reach the destination.
One of the motorcars named Aythya amphibious is a futuristic vehicle consisting of two seater wheel system. These could be operated on both land and water. Basically it was used as a rental vehicle, one which could be hired out at vacation spots for tourists who want to explore surrounding land and sea. This innovative car has adjustable tires.
When Aythya is being used on land the wheels are perfectly round just like normal car tires. They are made up of 10 individual sections. When this vehicle enters the water, car senses and sections of the wheel open out automatically to form small paddles, turning this vehicle into a small paddle boat. Same ways there are four electric motors, one for each wheel.
It has the ability to analyze particular terrain and change the shape of the tire. The tires adapts to all terrains, such as water, land and snow. When the vehicle is running on normal roads the tires remain usual. When it is running in the snow or mud, the tires opens a bit and acquires more grips. The flaps are opened finally when running in water.
These vehicles have powerful batteries that are enclosed in every wheel. This vehicle is fun to use and powers electric engines that could be used in various surroundings. | aerospace | 1 |
https://pctechmojo.com/189/before-you-fly-for-real-fly-a-cessna-simulator/ | 2023-02-04T02:14:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500080.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204012622-20230204042622-00687.warc.gz | 0.958257 | 422 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__285900290 | en | Every pilot regardless if they are flying for the airlines or for private business or pleasure start out in small aircraft. Most will begin with a Cessna simulator or other light aircraft simulator before they ever actually get into an aircraft. Even those young men and women who fly for the United States Air Force begin with a small aircraft and work their way up to the larger transport, bomber and fighter aircraft.
Just about every person can identify a Cessna on sight, because they’re available everywhere. They are used for crop-dusting commuting and pleasure flying so we see them at most airports and in the air. For most aviation enthusiasts their relatively low cost make them an ideal choice.
The plethora of software available has become a critical element of the training for flight. The pilot starts off climbing into and aircraft and taxiing down the runway. In addition to learning all the FAA and ICAO rules and regulations to notice also needs to understand the mechanics and physics of flight. Simulators provide a safe environment for the untested to practice their skills.
You don’t think the flight simulators to give the real experience the advances computer technology in memory storage have spawned the creation of simulators that are extremely realistic. While the simulators which include hydraulic motion and three-dimensional cockpits is to train airline pilots are too expensive for the layperson like simulator software is available and it is very good.
There’s so many different kinds of digital instruction available specifically to learn how to fly they can be difficult to choose. The selection has gotten wide enough that there is a specification for those which teach ground rules, mechanics of flight and simulation of actual flight.
He just wanted jump right in and get started as a specimen later can be as realistic as you like. Even relatively inexpensive software packages can give you the excitement of flying. They provide the sensation of getting into the aircraft, taxiing, running down the runway, taking off and flying. And if there is some part of it you don’t do well, you can do it over and over again. | aerospace | 1 |
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This helicopter type is perfect for three adult passengers, or a family of four.
Up to four (4) weight dependent. Fourth passenger must be small as they will be sitting on the center rear seat (like the center rear seat of a car.)
Small checked bag, carry on bags, or small golf clubs.
Total Weight Capacity
700 lbs MAX, passengers and bags combined. | aerospace | 1 |
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MOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has confirmed that the launch of the Sentinel-1B satellite atop the Russian Soyuz-ST launch vehicle from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana had been postponed due to unfavorable weather.
"The launch of a Soyuz-STA rocket from the Guiana Space Center has been again postponed because of bad weather. Now the launch is scheduled for 00.02 a.m. Moscow Standard Time on April 25 (09.02 p.m. GMT on April 24)," the space agency wrote on its Facebook page.
The satellite was to have been launched at 00.02 am Moscow Standard Time (09.02 pm GMT) on Saturday but the launch was delayed for 24 hours due to unfavorable weather conditions. A source with the Russian space sector told TASS that a decision had been made to postpone the blast-off for another 24 hours due to high winds at the spaceport.
Along with the spacecraft, three microsatellites - a Norwegian and French ones and a satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) - will be put into orbit.
On February 16, a Russian light-class Rokot rocket with the ESA’s Sentinel-3A satellite blasted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region in the northwest of Russia). In September another satellite - Sentinel-2b - is to be put into orbit by a Rokot launch vehicle.
The European Space Agency has planned seven missions within the project, with each launching special research gauges into space. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/40050-answering-reader-questions-nasa-prepares-for-return-to-the-moon?r=34762 | 2024-04-13T13:15:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00059.warc.gz | 0.88328 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__14174143 | en | NASA's lunar-exploration program known as Artemis aims to bring human explorers back to the Moon -- specifically, the unexplored south pole region -- by 2024.
Once on the Moon, Artemis astronauts will be tasked with finding water and other essential resources for long-term exploration. The teams will learn how to live on its surface and demonstrate technologies that will support an eventual mission to Mars.
The engineering testing ground of the Moon will help NASA understand the effects of long-duration spaceflight on humans, along with other important exploration tasks like habitat building and technology demonstrations.
NASA’s powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit. Astronauts will dock Orion at an orbital outpost known as the Gateway and transfer to a human landing system for expeditions to the surface of the Moon.
In a live Tech Briefs-led presentation titled Artemis: Back to the Moon, readers had the following questions for Nujoud Fahoum Merancy, Chief of the Exploration Mission Planning Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Read Merancy's responses, and share questions and comments of your own at the bottom of each article.
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Airbus SE (AIR.FR) Chief Executive Guillaume Faury on Thursday expressed concerns that the grounding of the rival Boeing Co. (BA) 737 MAX plane could dent passenger confidence and damage cooperation among international air safety regulators.
"There are a number of negative impacts for the industry," Mr. Faury told reporters.
Boeing's 737 MAX suffered two fatal crashes in less than five months, spurring safety concerns that led to the jet's global grounding in March.
Mr. Faury said that if passenger trust in aviation were weakened it would be negative for the entire industry.
He also voiced concern about "tension" between aviation regulators in different jurisdictions.
European and other foreign regulators were the first to ground the MAX before the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the primary air safety regulator for Boeing planes. FAA Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell Wednesday told U.S. lawmakers the overseas regulators acted without data.
Boeing is working on a fix to the MAX flight control system flaw implicated in the two crashes that took place in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The accidents killed 346 people.
The FAA next week plans a meeting with foreign air safety authorities to explain how it will review the fix. Mr. Elwell said he hopes those regulators will follow the FAA's recommendation with little lag.
Airbus's Mr. Faury said the historic cooperation between its own regulator, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, and the FAA has been good for companies and safety. "We need this alignment and this joint understanding on how to develop and certify planes to remain."
Mr. Faury played down the prospect of any immediate benefit to Airbus from Boeing's woes. "We don't see anything positive from the current situation," he said.
Airbus's rival A320 planes are sold out through 2023, limiting its ability to provide any to MAX customers that may want to buy other planes.
Since the MAX fleet was grounded in March, several airlines have launched competitions for single-aisle planes. Mr. Faury said it was premature to judge whether the MAX situation would have an impact on the outcome.
Demand for planes hasn't been dented by the MAX situation, he added.
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http://archive.caller.com/news/local/tamucc-receives-faa-approval-to-start-test-site-for-unmanned-aircraft--video-ep-460857296.html | 2016-10-28T15:57:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00302-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.932741 | 745 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__207299158 | en | TAMUCC receives FAA approval to start test site for unmanned aircraft (+ Video)
Federal officials on Friday authorized Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi to begin testing unmanned aircraft, potentially unlocking an emerging economic vehicle for the Coastal Bend.
The Federal Aviation Administration granted the university a two-year Certificate of Waiver or Authorization, or COA, to use RS-16s, a type of unmanned aircraft that are launched by catapult. Such aircraft would be controlled from the university’s Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence & Innovation, in Flour Bluff.
University officials received word Friday the program met federal requirements to begin full operations as a test site for unmanned aircraft, or drone.
“We’re ecstatic,” University President Flavius Killebrew said. “This is a great opportunity for the university and for the community.”
Killebrew said the news validated the assertion that the school is evolving into a major player in UAS technology. Although unmanned aircraft is more commonly associated with the military and law enforcement, university officials hope one day the technology can be cleared for civilian industries, such as agriculture and forestry.
Chief engineer Jerry H. Hendrix said the center will fly its first mission next week. Data collected during that flight and others will guide the FAA on how to safely integrate drones into the national airspace over the next several years.
In December, the FAA selected A&M-Corpus Christi as one of six test sites to study the uses of unmanned aircraft. As of Friday, three other test sites had become operational — in Alaska, Nevada and North Dakota. Sites in New York and Virginia have not yet gotten certification.
State Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, said the FAA’s certification better positions Texas, particularly the Coastal Bend, for business when UAS technology goes mainstream. A study by Association of Unmanned Vehicles International last year speculated that, once airspace is opened to drones, the economic impact would be $8 billion statewide and $260 million in South Texas over the next 10 years. As many as 1,200 jobs are expected to be created for the area in that time.
“This is not only a great research gain, but also a great boost for economic development for the coastal area,” Hunter said. “It’s a positive start for job growth and opportunity.”
Last month, the FAA also approved a request by the university to use different unmanned aircraft to map its main Island University and Momentum Campus. Those flights use smaller, less-expensive unmanned aircraft and are conducted on Sunday mornings when there are few, if any, students or faculty are on campus.
U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, a member of the Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus and the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, praised the news about the most recent FAA clearance.
“By giving (the university) the green light, the work on UAS can now begin at home,” said Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi. “As one of just four operational test sites in the nation, I’m confident (the university) will remain a leader in this promising new technology.”
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https://mynextjobsearch.com/contracts-specialist-with-security-clearance/ | 2021-06-13T15:00:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487608856.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613131257-20210613161257-00067.warc.gz | 0.790806 | 105 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__4287679 | en | Job title: Contracts Specialist with Security Clearance
Company: Ball Aerospace
Job description: Powered by endlessly curious people with an unwavering mission focus, Ball Aerospace pioneers discoveries that enable… those who defend our freedom go forward bravely and return home safely. For more information, visit Ball Aerospace Career Site…
Expected salary: $105500 – 145500 per year
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http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_log.php?user=VE7JTE&project=2175&category=0&log=171015&row=595 | 2018-12-13T13:26:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376824822.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20181213123823-20181213145323-00458.warc.gz | 0.959884 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__262778374 | en | It’s time to work on the Fresh air and overhead lights for the cabin. I have drilled the holes as far forward as I can go so the fresh air will be facing me and not on top of my head. Air and lights came from Aircraft Spruce. I sent back the plastic ones and got good aluminum air ducts that don’t leak when you twist them closed. I will have little cargo lights in the back and seam to put out some good light when turned on. | aerospace | 1 |
https://orbsat.com/about-orbsat-corp/ | 2021-12-03T13:23:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362879.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203121459-20211203151459-00260.warc.gz | 0.911932 | 526 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__170098896 | en | Providing Global Connectivity with Mobile and Stationary Satellite Communications Solutions
A publicly-traded company headquartered in Miami, Florida, Orbsat provides solutions to fulfil the growing global demand for satellite-enabled voice, data, tracking and IoT connectivity services. Our long-term experience providing government, commercial, military and individual consumers with mobile satellite services uniquely positions us to capitalize on the significant opportunities being created by the current global investment in new and upgraded satellite networks.
There is huge demand and commercial potential for cost effective satellite systems providing voice solutions and high-speed internet across the globe, and Orbsat is already playing a leading role in delivering it to end users. Our US and European based subsidiaries, Orbital Satcom and Global Telesat Communications, have over 50 years’ combined expertise in providing global satellite connectivity solutions for more than 35,000 customers located in over 160 countries across the world.
Orbsat was included in Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America, placing it amongst just 3% of companies recognized in the communications sector.
We provide services and solutions globally for commercial, government and individual users, enabling them to communicate, track assets and personnel, or request SOS assistance via satellite from anywhere in the world.
Our key services include satellite communication solutions, emergency location systems, high-speed satellite internet, global asset + personnel monitoring, customised ground station systems and custom product design.
Our Global Presence
From our offices in the USA and Europe, we provide satellite communication solutions to tens of thousands of customers, resellers and partners located in over 160 countries around the world.
Our extensive e-commerce presence makes our range of portable satellite enabled voice, data and tracking solutions and services easily accessible for customers around the world to purchase.
We work with leading industry partners with one shared goal; to deliver cost effective and reliable satellite communications solutions across the world.
Our innovative partners spend billions of dollars installing thousands of satellites to deliver high-speed voice and data services capable of connecting everyone, to everywhere, no matter how remote their location.
Our vision is to collaborate with innovative partners to deliver low cost, reliable and easily accessible global satellite communications solutions.
Nearly half the world’s population cannot reach any internet network and much of the world has no cellular coverage, so our solutions enable our customers living in, or travelling to, areas of the world where no other forms of communication exist, to stay connected. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.latestly.com/india/news/india-planning-to-establish-its-own-space-station-says-isro-chief-924680.html | 2019-06-17T23:35:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998581.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20190617223249-20190618005249-00546.warc.gz | 0.944664 | 445 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__1401891 | en | New Delhi, June 13: A day after announcing the launch date of India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2, the chief of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K Sivan said the country is planning to launch its own space station. A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting crewmembers, which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time.
“We have to sustain the Gaganyaan programme after the launch of (the) human space mission. In this context, India is planning to have its own space station,” news agency PTI quoted Sivan as saying. The ISRO chief said the ambitious project will be an extension of the Gaganyaan mission. The first space station was Salyut 1, which was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. Chandrayaan-2 Will Have 13 Payloads: ISRO.
China is planning to establish its first permanent space station, provisionally called the Chinese large modular space station, to receive crews by 2022. There is just one fully functioning space station in Earth orbit: the International Space Station (ISS). Launched in 1998, the ISS is the ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and later Russian Salyut, Almaz, and Mir stations as well as Skylab from the US. Chandrayaan-2 First Look: ISRO Unveils Photos of Modules of India’s Second Moon Mission.
Five space agencies - NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe) and CSA (Canada) - are part of the ISS programme.
On Wednesday, ISRO announced that Chandrayaan-2 will be launched at 2:51 am on July 15. "ISRO has firmed up that Chandrayaan-2 Mission will be launched on July 15 early morning at 2 hours 51 minutes. The day we are going to land is either September 6 or September 7, that day happens to be the beginning of a lunar day. For one full lunar day, the lander and rover will be functioning and carry out scientific experiments," Dr Sivan said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://mtihorizon.com/gps-for-the-prototype-of-the-moon-to-come-in-2023/ | 2021-09-20T19:39:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057091.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20210920191528-20210920221528-00138.warc.gz | 0.930296 | 401 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__90167767 | en | It wasn’t that long ago that Global Positioning Systems (GPS) appeared, but they have quickly and forever changed our world. No military organization, no airline, and no individual could imagine life without GPS today.
In a few years, NASA plans to bring humans back to the moon and, shortly thereafter, begin building a colony there. This means that a lot of people and material will be heading to the Moon soon, and navigation solutions are mandatory if we are to be successful in our endeavors.
The idea of developing GPS solutions for the Moon is not new, but entered a new phase earlier this month, after the Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX program awarded a phase SBIR contract. II at Masten Space Systems.
Masten, the guys behind what could be a revolutionary lunar mining system, are currently working on “a prototype of a lunar positioning and navigation network” it should “Strengthen cislunar security and improve landing accuracy near resource-rich lunar sites.”
Besides the obvious benefits of knowing where you or your resources are on the Moon, a lunar GPS could “Cut multi-million dollar spacecraft costs” by ridding them of expensive navigation equipment and sensors currently required for navigation.
Masten moved to phase II after during phase I he proposed “The design of the prototype network that unloads the position, navigation and timing (PNT) beacons of a spacecraft into a dedicated sensor array on the Moon.”
Now the company will be working on the manufacture of the beacons. These beacons are supposed to sink into the surface like a mesh network, allowing “Coherent wireless connectivity to lunar spacecraft, objects and orbital assets”.
Masten plans to test the solution on an unspecified date using the Xodiac lander here on Earth, “To demonstrate the integration of payload and beacon operations in a terrestrial environment”. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/german-forces-test-stabilized-camera-sys/ | 2023-12-05T21:42:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00537.warc.gz | 0.940298 | 667 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__77219302 | en | German Forces Test Stabilized Camera System
German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement assigned UAV manufacturer EMT with testing of the MicroBAT 275, Bental's latest development of a stabilized camera system for light weight UAVs. The intention of the tests is to equip close range UAVs in the field with Bental's stabilized camera system.
"With the use of Bental's stabilized camera system we hope to improve the picture quality of surveillance flights by our close range unmanned aerial vehicles," says Guenter Freiwald, Project Manager Close Range UAV at the German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement.
Headquartered in Israel, Bental manufactures electrical motion systems for aerospace and defense applications. Bental's latest development, a stabilized gimbal with daylight or night vision camera MicroBAT 275, optimally suits for integrating imaging sensors usually only found on larger platforms into light weight UAV.
"Our stabilized camera system MicroBAT 275 has a diameter of 2.75 inch and a weight including housing, of only 350g," says Oliver Kittan, representative of Bental in Germany, "This likely makes it the most light-weight and compact camera system of its kind in the world."
Several UAV manufacturers have already integrated Bental's stabilized camera system into their platforms. Among them are ITL with their UAV Lightener, and Oto Melara and Celin Avio with their UAV Ibis.
German UAV manufacturer, EMT, is currently testing integration of Bental's camera system into its UAV systems. "The low weight of Bental's stabilized camera system, MicroBAT 275, predestines it for use in EMT´s family of UAVs", says Kittan.
Bental Industries Ltd., a member of KMN Holdings, is a manufacturer of electrical motion systems which range from brushless motors and servo actuators via starter generators with permanent magnet technology and suitable controllers to stabilized gimbals with camera systems. Bental's products find application in unmanned aerial vehicles, jet engines, optronics, antenna drives as well as turret and weapon positioning systems of armored fighting vehicles.
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UK flight test sees largest unmanned aircraft take off from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier.
CATIC have displayed its new AR-2000 drone at Dubai Airshow 2023, emphasising ship-based capabilities with PLA already purchasing.
Australia has ordered four Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton UAS which can operate as an uncrewed maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) alongside the country’s in-service Boeing P-8A MPA fleet.
The Khronos tethered UAS has been designed to be simple to use and has drawn on Elistair’s experience with hundreds of existing customers.
The use of long-duration Uncrewed Surface Vehicles for maritime surveillance and monitoring has become part of the fleet inventory as navies try to reduce the level of effort required to gather intelligence on areas of interest.
A growing number of uncrewed systems have been on show at Sydney's Indo-Pacific Maritime exhibition with a select few currently being trialled to see if they can enhance the Royal Australian Navy's surveillance levels. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.helisimmer.com/tag/autopilot | 2019-05-25T14:01:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258058.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525124751-20190525150751-00252.warc.gz | 0.956366 | 71 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__90630121 | en | If you are looking for a working helicopter autopilot for Prepar3D, your prayers have been answered and you can now get one, for free.
Do you know we have a Facebook Group specifically for helicopter flight simulation enthusiasts? We're already over 5,000 rotorheads in the group. Why don't you join us?
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https://hindustannewshub.com/world-news/china-taiwan-tension-china-is-upgrading-three-airbases-near-taiwan-is-there-any-final-preparation-for-the-attack/ | 2021-10-25T07:27:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587655.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025061300-20211025091300-00257.warc.gz | 0.963957 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__177965088 | en | China has started upgrading its three airbases near Taiwan. After the ongoing tension between the two countries and Xi Jinping’s statement, it seems that China should not attack Taiwan in any way. The work of upgrading these three airbases on the mainland of China, right in front of Taiwan, was started in 2020 amid the Corona epidemic. At that time the whole world was busy protecting the people of their respective countries from Corona and China was playing a different trick.
These airbases are 160 to 220 km away from Taiwan
The three Chinese Air Force bases are located in Longtian, Huan and Zhangzhou. The distance of all these is between 160 to 220 kilometers from Taiwan. In such a situation, it will take only a few minutes for Chinese fighter planes to fly from these airbases to reach Taiwan. In such a short time, the Taiwanese Air Defense may also face trouble in retaliate. Through these airbases, China also aims to further strengthen its presence in the Taiwan Strait.
China upgrading these 3 airbases (pic-the drive)
China is building an anti-blast bunker at the airbase
Satellite images have shown that China is building an anti-blast bunker at Longtian Airbase. Apart from this, the Chinese Air Force has also expanded both ends of the runway along with the new apron here. In such a situation, this airbase can play a big role in conducting various types of missions of the Chinese Air Force in the coming days. Four blastproof hangars are seen being built at one end of this airbase. Apart from this, many other safety shelters have also been constructed at the airbase.
Extended runway and upgrading apron
At the same time, three storage bunkers have been constructed at Hunan Airbase. Apart from this, the runway has been extended on the lines of Longtian Airbase and the work of expansion of the apron is going on. Administrative building and possible barracks are also being constructed at this airbase. The upgraded aprons at both the airbases suggest that China may increase the deployment of fighter jets in the coming days. In such a situation, these fighter aircraft will be able to increase China’s air strike capability in the ongoing tension with Taiwan.
This preparation is to avoid Taiwan’s retaliation
Interestingly, four blastproof aircraft shelters are also being constructed at this airbase. These shelters will be in addition to the already existing 24 normal shelters, which are already being used here. China’s intention behind making them blastproof is to avoid possible retaliation from Taiwan. These can also be particularly useful for supporting alert operations.
Also building missile defense site
The Surface to Air Missile Defense Site is being constructed at Zhangzhou Airbase. China wants to make preparations for the security of its air border through this air defense site. It is not yet clear which of its missile systems China will deploy at this site. It is expected that it can deploy HQ-9B, HQ-17AE or Lvoy-60. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.channel4.com/news/us-spy-drone-flies-in-uk-airspace-for-the-first-time | 2023-06-05T23:45:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652184.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605221713-20230606011713-00595.warc.gz | 0.930307 | 250 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__229129705 | en | The Ministry of Defence reveals that an unmanned US spy drone flew through UK airspace three times recently as part of the Nato trial, Unified Vision.
The unarmed Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft travelled through UK sovereign airspace on three different occasions in the last month, as a part of a Nato exercise.
The MoD revealed that the unmanned aerial vehicle flew from a base in Italy, through southern Europe before entering UK airspace to Norway, before returning to the States.
The flights took place at heights of about 50,000 feet, well above the cruising altitude of commercial airliners, according to the MoD.
Air Vice Marshal Phil Osborn said: “It is good to see existing airspace procedures enabling the seamless integration of remotely-piloted air systems, such as the unarmed Global Hawk aircraft, within European airspace.
“This trial will have helped with the development of the Nato alliance ground surveillance system (AGS) and the future airspace integration of RPAS.”
The trial, codenamed Unified Vision, comes ahead of the Nato summit in Wales this September, where world leaders will gather to discuss issues, including terrorism, cyber attacks, and piracy.
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https://iuseful.com/dji-phantom-3-drone/ | 2023-09-24T13:07:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506646.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924123403-20230924153403-00456.warc.gz | 0.95417 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__101010047 | en | I bought this from Amazon for approx £350. Never used a drone before or any UAV before, however after reading reviews and watching videos I understood that DJI drones are the most user friendly drones to fly with superb picture quality
The standard drone has a 1080p60 capable camera which is find for my needs, simply download DJI Go from the app store and register the drone to your DJI account and you are ready to fly.
I spent some time going though the DJI tutorials and various online tutorials to familiarise myself with the basic operation and what to look out for.
For safety, I took it to the local park so that I could test flying in an open, unobstructed space without the fear of crashing or hitting people.
I have since had many successful flights – and 1 mild crash into a washing line.
These are the cheapest DJI drones and are a perfect starting point for an introduction into the world of drones. I have been able to capture great videos from a unique vantage point that would otherwise be impossible to capture.
You can buy this drone or the newer smaller DJI Mavic drone direct from DJI here. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.globaldefensecorp.com/2021/07/14/boeing-rolled-out-first-p-8a-poseidon-aircraft-for-norway/ | 2024-04-14T02:43:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00285.warc.gz | 0.951251 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__66816420 | en | The first P-8A Poseidon aircraft for Norway today rolled out of the paint shop in Renton, in Royal Norwegian Air Force livery. Norway is one of eight nations to have acquired the P-8A as their new multimission maritime patrol aircraft.
Recently, the Norwegian air force revealed the names of its five P-8A Poseidon aircraft: Vingtor, Viking, Ulabrand, Hugin and Munin.
The names are inspired by Norse mythology and continue a tradition of almost 80 years that started when the names Vingtor, Viking and Ulabrand were used on Norway’s PBY-5 Catalina maritime patrol aircraft in 1942.
Since then, other maritime patrol aircraft operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force have carried those names, including its current P-3 fleet, which will be replaced by the P-8.
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https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/34845/installation-problems/ | 2022-12-02T22:50:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710916.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202215443-20221203005443-00206.warc.gz | 0.965618 | 255 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__93685493 | en | I recently re installed FS2004. I am now getting all sorts of error messages after downloading new aircraft. The principle issues now are , after downloading, there are missing guages, missing panels and no power. Despite using Shift +E I cannot start the engines in aircraft I used to have before.
I am clearly missing something (apart from my marbles that is). 🙂
It may not be a full 2004 aircraft but a 2002.
To get the panel and gauges look at the read-me and see what it says.
Without seeing which it is it's all just a guess.
The aircraft are ones I had backed up on disc. ie iFly 747-400 and others I have used many times. I was just wondering if it is something like an FSUIPC issue. (Not that I have any idea about FSUIPC). Given that I have re downloaded iFly before successfully, I can only assume when I re installed FS2004 it has not been a complete download.
You would get a FSUIPC error if it was that.
Inquiring about an FS2004 issue in the FSX section of the forums is where it all starts going wrong...
Oops!! Quite right, sorry | aerospace | 1 |
https://tiananmenstremendousachievements.wordpress.com/tag/j-10c/ | 2020-03-31T11:05:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370500426.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20200331084941-20200331114941-00060.warc.gz | 0.94507 | 2,616 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__184724422 | en | Andreas Rupprecht, Mainz and Juan Ju, Bonn – Jane’s Defence Weekly
05 March 2020
China has begun fitting locally made Shenyang-Liming WS10 ‘Taihang’-series engines into its J-10 multirole fighter aircraft, images released on 2 March by state-owned broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) suggest.
The images show an apparently newly built Chengdu Aircraft Industries Company (CAIC) J-10C fighter aircraft in People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) markings fitted with what appears to a WS10B engine, rather than the Russian-made Saturn AL-31FN turbofan that normally powers these aircraft. All main-production J-10s built by 2018, about 300 aircraft, appear to be powered by the AL-31FN.
It is unclear when or where the CCTV images were taken but the pictured aircraft, which appears to be almost ready for delivery, seems to be part of the fourth production batch of J-10Cs for the PLAAF.
Meanwhile, an image allegedly taken in mid-December 2019 but only posted recently on Chinese online forums suggests that the fifth batch of J-10C fighters is currently undergoing testing. The blurry photograph shows a J-10C painted in yellow primer and bearing what appears to be serial number 502 during a test flight at CAIC’s production facility in Chengdu Huangtianba.
Source: Jane’s Defence Weekly “Images suggest China has begun fitting indigenous WS10 engine into J-10C fighters”
Note: This is Jane’s Defence Weekly’s article I post here for readers’ information. It does not mean that I agree or disagree with the article’s views.
Chinese air force publishes in its Weibo a promotional footage 1:11 minute long to mark its 70th anniversary with images of new types of warplanes including J-20, Y-20, J-10C, J-16, H-6K, KJ-500, etc. The above photos are taken from the footage
Source: mil.huanqiu.com “Air Force issues salute-double 11 (November 11) footage with images of new types of warplanes such as J-20 and H-6N” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report, full text of which including the footage can be viewed at https://mil.huanqiu.com/article/7RvDl2DxKqk).
According to a report by Hong Kong’s Singtao Daily on April 17, Chinese air force’s new J-10Cs have begun to be assigned combat duties, which has further perfected Chinese air force’s combat capabilities of attack and defense. J-10C is an improved version of J-10 with more advanced navigation electronic system and various types of advanced weapons able to hit air, surface and ground targets at medium and short range.
Source: Singtao Daily “J-10C fighter jets assigned combat tasks” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese)
Taiwan’s CNA reports on November 15 that a new improved version of China’s J-10 fighter jet J-10C has recently emerged on Mainland web. There is rumor on the Internet that tests have begun in the test and training base of PLA air force and the new fighter jet will soon be delivered to PLA by batches.
According to the report, J-10C is better than J-10B in shape to reduce drag. Moreover, Hong Kong military analyst Leung Kwok-leung says that J-10C has stealth capabilities entirely different from existing stealth warplanes.
The report says that as J-10C allows radar wave to penetrate into its fuselage to be absorbed and weakened inside so that the radar wave will not bound back to the radar. J-10C is thus invisible to radar. That is a brand new stealth technology entirely different from existing one. Mainland China is the first to apply it.
Compared with F-22, J-10C is also a stealth fighter jet and has very good maneuverability not to lose to F-22 in dogfight.
J-10C makes F-22 unable to penetrate China’s air defense.
Source: mil.huanqiu.com “Taiwan media: J-10C will be delivered to PLA by batches, It does not lose to F-22 in dogfight” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese)
In its Situation Report, Foreign Policy says that it was surprised by China’s announcement yesterday that its aircraft carrier is ready for combat. So was Washington Post in its report yesterday.
In fact, China has not directly made such an announcement. Foreign Policy says China has made such an announcement based on the report on Global Times’ interview with the carrier’s political commissar Li Dongyou, who said in the interview that the ship is “constantly prepared to fight against enemies.”
The US must be surprised because China previously described the Liaoning carrier as a platform for testing and training. US military experts predicted lots of China’s problems in producing carrier-based fighter jets, training pilots for the jets, etc. Even the arrest cable for landing of the fighter jets may be a serious headache.
That is why both Foreign Policy and Washington Post regard Li’s words as surprise announcement in their reports.
Surprise is natural as the US always underestimates China’s ability. However both media are wrong in predicting that the carrier will be used “to reinforce” (Washington Post’s wording) or in “underscoreing” (Foreign Policy’s wording) China’s claims in the South China Sea challenged by U.S. Navy and others.
The Liaoning deploys only 24 J-15s that will not be fully armed due to sky-jump takeoff. The three airports on China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea may accommodate at least 12 dozens of J-20 heavy stealth fighter jets there with much greater fire power. Moreover, China will soon deploy its J-10C stealth fighter jets with entirely new stealth technology completely different from US one.
J-10C instead of J-15 will be able to win dogfight against US F-22 due to its super maneuverability.
Dogfight capability is not necessary for a stealth fighter jet in dealing with a non-stealth one, but is indispensable for a stealth fighter jet in fighting another stealth fighter jet. As F-35 is not designed for fighting a stealth fighter and is a lighter warplane unable to carry better radar, it is utterly no rival to China’s J-20 and J-10C. Only F-22 may be able to contend with J-20 and J-10C, but without ground support near China, it has great disadvantage.
Since China has built three large unsinkable fixed aircraft carriers on its artificial islands in the South China Sea, it needs no aircraft carriers there, especially the Liaoning that is much inferior to US ones.
Comment by Chan Kai Yee on Foreign Policy and Washington Post’s reports, full text of which can be viewed respectively at https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/1586822dc8796243 and https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-says-aircraft-carrier-now-ready-for-combat/2016/11/15/748addc8-aaf4-11e6-8f19-21a1c65d2043_story.html
Russian Military Observation website carried an article on June 29 titled “J-10C, headache of Western aircraft companies” stating that after integrated fire control system in its active phased array radar, China’s J-10A/B has already some of the characteristics of the next generation of fighter jets. That is followed by China’s project of great improvement in its upgraded version of J-10, i.e. J-10C. which the Russian media regards as a 4++generation fighter get .
Some Chinese blogs believe that three J-10Cs can be rival to one F-22 in combat while for J-10, the ratio shall be 50 to 1.
In a combat with F-22, J-10C can find F-22, a target of 0.07 square meters RCS, 100 km away while F-22A can find a J-10C with 1 square meter RCS 200-220 km away. It may fire its two AIM-120D medium-range air-to-air missiles 150-180 km away from the J-10C. If the missiles have been set at low interception (LPI) mode, the J-10C cannot detect the missiles until it has been locked on by the active radar in the missile’s warhead. J-10C pilot simply has no time to scan the airspace and is forced to take anti-missile action.
If the F-22 pilot fails to close in to reduce the distance between the two to less than 100 km, there is 50% chance the F-22 may be shot down by J-10C’s PL-21 beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile.
However if the F-22 closes in, its two powerful engines will give it much better maneuverability to ensure that there is no escape for the J-10C.
J-10C pilot may use the targeting device in his helmet to fire an infrared guided PL-9C short-range missile, which may hit the F-22A. However F-22A will soon be equipped with a helmet that may be equipped with a device to detect the infrared guided missile warhead.
US carrier-based fourth-generation fighter jets in service are inferior to J-10C in speed, acceleration capability and maneuverability. Even F-35A/B that the US will deploy on its aircraft carriers in the future is but comparable to J-10C in speed, acceleration and maneuverability. As J-10Cs have a combat radius of 1,000 km, it will be able to resist any attack from US carrier-based fighter jets.
China’s deployment of J-10Cs will greatly ease the pressure from US aircraft carriers.
Note: According to the analysis, if a group of three J-10Cs encounters a F-22, two of them will probably be destroyed by AIM-120D medium-range air-to-air missiles that the F-22 fires 150-180 km away from the J-10Cs, but the F-22 will soon come within the 150 km range of the PL-21 of the third J-10C. As PL-21 uses a scramjet engine to reach the speed of Mach 4.5, it is difficult for the F-22 to escape. Therefore, the above analysis proves that there is ground for the assessment of three J-10Cs rival to one F-22.
Source: mil.sohu.com “Russian media says that J-10C is as good as F35 in combat capabilities and not at a disadvantage in fighting F22” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese)
The above is the photo of a new version of J-10 recently emerged on the Internet. It is suspected as a J-10B or J-10C
In addition, the above photo of suspected J-10B (also regarded as J-10C) has emerged on the internet, on which we can see the mark of Chinese air force. As it bears the no. of 201 instead of the no. 1xx that mass-produced J-10Bs usually bear, some people believe that it may a J-10C, the newest version of J-10.
There are also the following photos of suspected J-10C and test flight of suspected J-10C on the Internet.
Note: The various versions of J-10 is China’s third-generation fighter jets regarded as able to deal with US F-16.
Source: mil.huanqiu.com “This version of J-10B with air force coating looks different” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese) | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.avidyne.com/news/press.asp?release=273 | 2018-05-25T12:40:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867092.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525121739-20180525141739-00339.warc.gz | 0.909032 | 620 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__112191 | en | Avidyne Announces New Servo Option for DFC90 Autopilot Retrofit
DFC90 autopilot will use Avidyne’s ASA575 series servos for new installations and when upgrading from legacy King autopilots; DFC90 can use existing servos when replacing STEC and Century autopilots.
Lakeland, FL – Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – Avidyne Corporation, a leading provider of integrated flight deck and safety systems for general aviation aircraft, announced today that their new ASA575 series autopilot servo/actuators, which are designed for use with the DFC90 digital autopilot system in new and retrofit installations.
The DFC90 autopilot will use Avidyne’s new ASA575 servos for installations in aircraft with no previous autopilot, or when upgrading an aircraft from a previously-installed King autopilot. Aircraft owners upgrading from an STEC or Century autopilot will have the choice of using the existing servos or upgrading to new Avidyne ASA575s.
“We initially launched the DFC90 to have plug-and-play compatibility with existing STEC autopilot servos in the large installed base of late-model Entegra-equipped aircraft,” said Patrick Herguth, Avidyne’s Chief Operating Officer. “In order to expand the DFC90 into a wider range of aircraft and to replace the aging fleet of legacy analog autopilots, we found that we really needed to have our own servos in order to insure dependability, reliability and overall system performance.”
“As we continue to expand our portfolio of avionics products, we are excited to launch our ASA575 series servos, which will allow our DFC90 series autopilots to extend into many more aircraft,” said Avidyne President and CEO, Dan Schwinn. “We are dedicated to making our safety-enhancing products—like the DFC90 with full-time Envelope Alerting—available to a wider range of aircraft, and having our own servos opens up yet another market for Avidyne.”
The DFC90 is currently certified in Cirrus SR20/22 and Piper PA-46 Matrix/Mirage aircraft with the Avidyne EntegraPrimary Flight Display (PFD). Avidyne is nearing certification of the DFC90 with the Aspen Pro PFD in a Cessna 182. Avidyne has also announced plans to certify the DFC90 in the Beech Bonanza and Baron, as well as the Piper PA-32. Announcements of other aircraft models being certified will be forthcoming soon.
Pricing for the DFC90 Flight Computer starts at $9,995 plus installation for single-engine piston aircraft, and $14,995 for twin and turbine aircraft. ASA575 servos will be available later this year and will be priced in accordance with specific-model Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) kits. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/raf-missed-fatal-flaw-ageing-2833631 | 2019-10-19T01:41:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986688674.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20191019013909-20191019041409-00542.warc.gz | 0.985377 | 654 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__15027149 | en | A SPY plane which crashed in Afghanistan killing a North Wales serviceman should not have been passed safe to fly due to a “fundamental flaw” in the aircraft fleet’s design, an inquest heard yesterday.
Flt Lt Allan Squires, 39, whose family came from Buckley, was one of 14 crew who perished when their 37-year-old reconnaissance aircraft crashed over Afghanistan.
A senior RAF officer admitted mistakes were made during a hazard assessment which could have identified the fault that caused the explosion which downed the ageing Nimrod plane.
Air Commodore George Baber said had they known then what they knew now, the Nimrod fleet would not have been deemed airworthy.
The hearing at Oxford Coroner’s Court had previously been told the tragedy was caused by fuel leaking into a dry bay and igniting on contact with a hot air pipe.
The Air Commodore said having fuel couplings in the same compartment as a hot air pipe was a “fundamental design flaw”.
The 37-year-old Nimrod exploded just minutes after undergoing air-to-air refuelling near Kandahar on Sept ember 2 2006.
The crew had no means of tackling the initial fire and so were forced to attempt an emergency descent to the Kandahar air base, but at 3,000ft the aircraft exploded into flames.
Air Commodore Baber told the inquest that he led a Integrated Project Team (IPT), who together with BAE systems, carried out a comprehensive hazard analysis of the Nimrod plane before the Afghanistan crash.
He said a number of hazards were identified and put into categories. He said the possibility of the explosion in the dry bay was graded as “improbable” – one of the lower categories.
But he admitted it should have graded higher which would have then warranted further action.
He told the inquest: “At the heart of this was a fundamental design flaw. This hazard assessment process was an opportunity to catch any inherent design flaw. We failed to catch that design flaw.
“The consequences were catastrophic and that is why we are here today.”
He added that the mistake in categorising the potential hazard was a “failure”.
When asked by Michael Rawlinson, the lawyer representing the families, whether the Nimrod was safe to fly, he replied: “I find it difficult to answer because the simple answer is ‘no’ because we had an accident.
“Any aircraft we fly carry hazards all the time. Clearly if we knew then what we know now we would not have flown the aircraft.”
Air Commodore Baber said, as the head of the IPT, he was responsible for deciding whether the aircraft was airworthy: the buck stopped with him.
He said he was conscious that the Nimrod was due to go out of service in 2008 but denied that he was under pressure to spend less money on the hazard analysis as a result.
He said: “I never felt under any pressure financially. I never came across a circumstance where I was put in that position.”
The inquest was adjourned until today at 9am. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flightglobal.com/us-navy-and-army-consider-joint-fire-scout-acquisitions/74666.article | 2024-02-23T05:08:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474360.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223021632-20240223051632-00295.warc.gz | 0.925708 | 651 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__75703312 | en | By Jamie Hunter
Northrop Grumman has received Milestone C low-rate initial production (LRIP) approval from the US department of defense (DoD) for its MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned air vehicle (VTUAV). The MQ-8B Class IV UAV is based on the RQ-8A VTUAV, the initial version of Fire Scout developed for the US Navy.
The US Navy and Army are exercising a Joint Acquisition strategy of the MQ-8B to maximize commonality between the two services and drive down costs.
The Navy has nine MQ-8Bs on order from Northrop Grumman and operational evaluation is planned for 2008 ahead of initial operating capability (IOC). The earlier incarnation RQ-8A completed the type’s first ship operating trials aboard the USS Nashville in January 2006 and the type will eventually be cleared to operate from all air-capable ships in the US Navy inventory, although the MQ-8B is closely allied to the service’s shaky littoral combat ship (LCS) programme.
The MQ-8B is based on the manned Schweizer 333 helicopter but differs from its RQ-8A predecessor in that it has a four-bladed main rotor, additional sponsons that accommodate more fuel, and a thicker tail boom – all of which means the MQ-8B can achieve its goal of 110nm range and ability to stay on station for 5 hours.
Mike Fugua, Northrop Grumman’s Fire Scout business development manager, told Flight Daily News: “The MQ-8B is the second-generation Fire Scout. Its ties to the Schweizer helicopter mean it offers excellent reliability and maintainability. The MQ-8B has eight-hour endurance and can fly at 125kt.”
It currently carries a 600lb payload that includes the FLIR Systems Brite STAR II forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) and the coastal battlefield reconnaissance and analysis (COBRA) system.
The RQ-8A demonstrated an initial radar and weapons capability with Northrop Grumman’s development test Fire Scout and indeed has fired unguided 2.75in rockets in trials on the Yuma Proving Grounds.
US Navy weapons requirements are likely to be based around the compact very lightweight torpedo, LOGIR (a low cost accuracy enhancement kit for rockets) and the Viper Strike gliding precision attack GPS/laser weapon to potentially engage small attack craft.
The US Army is expecting a first flight of its MQ-8B in November 2010, with IOC planned for 2014. The Army MQ-8B will form a vital airborne node for the networked brigade combat team (BCT) concept, with a modular mission package that will include Northrop Grumman's airborne surveillance and target acquisition minefield detection system (ASTAMIDS) sensor instead of BRITE Star.
Export opportunities for Fire Scout also appear strong, but Northrop Grumman described itself as being at the very start of understanding needs in this market.
Source: Flight Daily News | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread460509/pg1 | 2018-08-16T21:37:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221211185.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816211126-20180816231126-00479.warc.gz | 0.950496 | 2,057 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__156760199 | en | It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
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Air Traffic Control (ATC) transcripts reveal United 93 as being airborne after it's alleged crash. Similar scenarios have been offered with regard to American 77 and American 11 showing an aircraft target continuing past its alleged crash point in the case of American 11, or past the turn-around point in the case of American 77. However, both these issues can be easily explained by "Coast Mode" radar tracking. This is not the case with United 93.
Radar Coast Mode activates when a transponder is inoperative (or turned off) and primary radar tracking is lost, which enables ATC to have some sort of reference of the flight after losing radar coverage of the physical aircraft. When an aircraft target enters "Coast Mode", ATC is alerted in the form of a blue tag on the target as well as the tag letters switching to CST. ATC will readily recognize when an aircraft enters "Coast Mode".
According to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Flight Path Study, United 93 allegedly impacted the ground at 10:03am, September 11, 2001. The following transcript excerpts are provided by the Federal Aviation Administration. It is a conversation between Air Traffic Control System Command Center - East, Management Officers (ntmo-e) and other various facilities. The conversation is as follows in real time:
(relevant portions have been placed in bold)
1405 (10:05 a.m.)
ntmo-e: ok united ninety three we're now receiving a transponder on and he is at eighty two hundred feet
doug: now transponder and he's eighty two-hundred
ntmo-e: southeastbound still
doug: eighty two hundred feet and now getting a transponder on him
doug: ok buddy
ntmo-e: ok we've lost radar contact with united ninety three
United 93 transponder is recognized by Air Traffic Control as airborne after alleged impact time. Some have made the excuse this is due to Coast Mode tracking. ATC did not recognize any signs of CST (Coast Mode). Further confirmation that this was not any type of "Coast Mode" is that ATC also recognized United 93 reporting an altitude. The only way ATC could observe a reported altitude is if United 93 were squawking Mode C on the transponder, which means altitude reporting capability. Further confirmation comes in the form of latitude and longitude positions reported by ATC. N39 51 - W78 46 were reported as the last known radar position of United 93. It is unclear if the position is reported as Degrees, Minutes or Decimal, however, standard aviation terminology is in Degrees, Minutes. With that said, both positions are well past the alleged United 93 Crash site.
It is impossible for ATC to have observed United 93 transponder and altitude after the reported impact time and southeast of the crash site, if United 93 did in fact crash in Shanksville as the 9/11 Commission would have you believe.
Pilots For 9/11 Truth is an organization of aviation professionals from around the globe. The organization has analyzed Flight Data provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The data does not support observed events. See Pandora's Black Box - Chapter Three - Flight Of United 93 for full in depth analysis of United 93 Flight Data Recorder (Black Box) data provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB/FBI refuse to comment. Pilots For 9/11 Truth Core member list continues to grow.
Here's the account of Mark Barnick, who was a supervisor at Cleveland Center. He refers to 9:41, after UA93 had completed its U-Turn over Cleveland and switched off the transponder for the first time:
UAL93's transponder was then lost or shut off and the radar tag went into coast. Other aircraft in the area verified that they had visual ontact with UAL93 and that it was still flying southeastbound. In order to follow the aircraft, John Werth started a new flight following tag on UAL93's primary radar target. No altitude information was available and all other controllers were advised to keep all aircraft well away from the target of UAL93.
Originally posted by Reheat
Is there anyone with any common sense that believes the time an event is reported is the time that event occurred?
Do any of you commenting in this thread know the original source for that reputed conversation? Who were the individuals participating in the conversation, where did they work and what equipment was available to them?
Does anyone commenting know the ATC system well enough to be able to determine how this apparent time discrepancy might have occurred?
How do you suppose the aircraft crashed at some other location when TWO AIRCRAFT observed the reported crash site shortly after the crash, reported the description of the area (and in one case gave the lat/long coordinates) to ATC and those conversations are recorded and available on tape?
Do any of you realize that the reported seismic data was examined and the operator interviewed by the 911 Commission who found there was NO SIGNIFICANT seismic event?
This is just a beginning. Do you want more or are you more interested in perpetuating delusional ramblings of the idiots who originally posted and offered their analysis of this?
[edit on 4-5-2009 by Reheat]
[edit on 4-5-2009 by Reheat]
Originally posted by TrueAmerican...
But I guess an international group of professional pilots have nothing better to do than sit around and post false data on their website, eh? They have such a burning desire to deceive us that they spent all that time and money doing extensive research, building websites/forums, and acquiring source documents like this (take note reheat):
Geez, no wonder I don't fly anymore. Can't trust those lying pilots. Nope.
BTW, you're probably still safe to fly as (fortunately) only an incredibly small fraction of the pilots in the world are members of that group. Thankfully, the overwhelming majority of pilots are smart enough not to be fooled by idiots.
Originally posted by turbofan
Originally posted by ELECTRICkoolaidZOMBIEtest
the missing black box is a bit of concern however.
Since you are an auto mechanic
Originally posted by ELECTRICkoolaidZOMBIEtest
yeah....uh... id really like a more reliable source. this seems really conspiracy theory-y. (no kidding lol ) im not sure what a 3 minute discrepancy really matters anyways. the missing black box is a bit of concern however.
Around 4:50 p.m. on September 13, investigators discover the flight data recorder from Flight 93, one of the plane’s two “black boxes.” It is buried about 15 feet down in the main crater at the crash site, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Around 8:25 p.m. the following evening, the other ‘black box’—the plane’s cockpit voice recorder—is found about 25 feet below ground in roughly the same spot. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/13/2001; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/15/2001; Longman, 2002, pp. 217] The flight data recorder monitors airplane functions like its speed and altitude, while the cockpit voice recorder picks up conversations in the plane’s cockpit. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/14/2001] Both are mounted in a plane’s tail. They are encased in very strong materials, like titanium, and insulated so as to withstand a crash impact. [BBC, 9/15/2001]
The FBI's motion continues:
"As Federal Defendant has been focused on the search for records and the preparation of an explanatory letter to Plaintiff, it has not yet prepared a formal response to the Amended Complaint."
Documents for 2:07-cv-01614-RCJ-GWF can be accessed at The PACER Service Center.
"The PACER Service Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records."
By document labeled "Specialist's Factual Report of Investigation Digital Flight Data Recorder" (United Airlines flight 93 - N591UA) it is revealed that the FDR's unique serial number identification information (traceable to a unique federally registered aircraft) is absent and that therefore, proper aircraft registration identification cannot be confirmed by this absent data.
By FAA documents identified as "Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events", pages 4 and 13, it is indicated that American Airlines flight 11 (N334AA) and United Airlines flight 175 (N612UA) were not transmitting proper transponder identification data at the time of their respective destructions and that therefore, proper aircraft registration identification cannot have been obtained from this absent or erroneous data.
By documents labeled "NOTES TO CHAPTER 1", page 456, of the "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" (2004), it is indicated that "the CVRs and FDRs from American 11 and United 175 were not found" and that therefore, proper aircraft registration identification cannot have been obtained from this absent data.
By document labeled "Specialist's Factual Report of Investigation Digital Flight Data Recorder" (American Airlines flight 77 - N644AA), it is revealed that the FDR's unique serial number identification information (traceable to a unique federally registered aircraft) is absent and that therefore, proper aircraft registration identification cannot be confirmed by this absent data. | aerospace | 1 |
https://onenews1.com/asteroid-bennu-interesting-facts-about-the-asteroid-bennu-interesting-engineering | 2022-10-01T05:16:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335530.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001035148-20221001065148-00289.warc.gz | 0.918827 | 445 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__107220066 | en | Before leaving Bennu, OSIRIS-REx spent more than two years close to the asteroid. It monitored and gathered information about Bennu’s size, shape, mass, composition, spin, and original trajectory. The sample of rock collected from the asteroid’s surface will be delivered to Earth on September 24, 2023, for further scientific investigation.
“The OSIRIS-REx data give us so much more precise information, we can test the limits of our models and calculate the future trajectory of Bennu to a very high degree of certainty through 2135,” said study lead Davide Farnocchia, of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), which is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “We’ve never modeled an asteroid’s trajectory to this precision before.”
The spacecraft’s navigation camera also noted that Bennu was emitting streams of particles a couple of times every week. It turns out that Bennu is not just a rare active asteroid but also among the first of its kind observed by humans from a spacecraft. The spacecraft also revealed that Bennu has pieces of another asteroid scattered across its surface – thought to be at least in part as a result of a collision with the asteroid Vesta.
This vital piece of information could help scientists estimate the time it takes boulders on asteroids like Bennu to break down into smaller pieces. They may either eject into space or stay on the asteroid’s surface.
“The thermal fractures on Bennu are quite similar to what we find on Earth and on Mars in terms of how they form,” said Christophe Matonti, a co-author of the paper at Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur, Sophia-Antipolis, Valbonne, France. “It is fascinating to see that they can exist and are similar in very ‘exotic’ physical conditions [low gravity, no atmosphere], even compared to Mars.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.find-satellites.com/content/about/ | 2021-05-06T22:12:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988763.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20210506205251-20210506235251-00623.warc.gz | 0.903625 | 763 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__155458212 | en | What is Find Satellites?⌗
It’s a tool to help you find satellites. It can show you where they are around the globe, or from your location on Earth.
How will Find Satellites help me find satellites?⌗
Firstly, it plots the positions of 70+ significant satellites such as the ISS, geostationary satellites, cloud and weather monitors and of course the Moon. On top of that, it tracks the current 400+ Starlink satellites.
These positions are plotted relative to the Earth, based on a longitude, latitude and radial distance. So if a satellite were to be directly overhead at your particular geoposition, there would be a straight line running from the center of the Earth, through you, up to that satellite.
Each satellite is accompanied by a line showing its current trajectory, within a two hour window, more or less. A line also joins the satellite’s position in space to its overhead position on the Earth, showing in green when in your line of sight, and red when not.
The first time you use the app, it should request permission to use your device’s location. This is so that your position can be plotted on the globe, and used to calculate satellite visibility.
The theoretical visibility of satellites is determined by whether a straight line can be cast between your position on the Earth’s surface and the satellite without intersecting the curvature of the Earth. At the moment, this may not reflect actual visibility as nearby hills, trees and nefarious malcontents may not be fully taken into consideration.
Data available for each satellite will generally span around 2 hours, so you will see each satellites positions plotted as a path, showing the recent past and imminent future, generally an hour either way, give or take half an hour. When a satellite is selected, an arrow on the path will indicate direction of travel.
The app shows a row of satellites matching your current filter selection. Possible selections include currently visible satellites, near-earth satellites, far-earth satellites, geo-stationary satellites, and so forth.
Why do some satellites not show path information?⌗
One explanation is that you’re looking at the geostationary satellites. Since these move at the same speed as the Earth, they will always appear relative to the same latitude and longitude point. The other possibility is that you’re looking at the Starlink satellites. If the app plotted all the Starlink paths, the Earth would just look like a giant ball of string.
Why are some satellites shown as blue dots with smaller text?⌗
They are all Starlinks. I’ve attempted to render them in such a way as to not overpower everything else, hence the lack of paths, smaller text labels and so forth.
Where is the satellite position data coming from?⌗
It comes from a feed provided by NASA, and also Celestrak. The NASA feed contains verified, historical data, and also predicted future data. The Celestrak feed contains TLE data for all available Starlinks. Find Satellites refreshes its data every half an hour, so that as satellite positions are updated in real time, they should be more than accurate enough for any purpose you are likely to be using this application for.
Something broke, when will you fix it?⌗
I’ve probably noticed, and so hopefully soon.
If you find the web app that this blog is hiding inside at all useful or interesting, you are more than welcome to Buy me a Coffee. Without coffee, no staying up coding until 4am. You can also Find me on Twitter for free, of course. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/blog-archive.html?keywords=akatsuki&page=3 | 2017-03-26T15:02:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189242.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00184-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931787 | 722 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__211682840 | en | This Friday, Charles Bolden resigns as NASA administrator after a stint of 2,744 days. Robert Lightfoot, the agency's highest-ranking civil servant, will take over as acting admin. How long will Lightfoot serve? If history serves as a guide, it could be a while.
The Planetary Society is launching a new webpage showcasing LightSail academic papers, schematics, parts and imagery.
Blitzing Congress for NASA
Or, How I Spent My Day Off in DC
Posted by Bill Gowan on 2017/01/12 11:40 CST
Last February, a group called the Space Exploration Alliance held their annual "legislative blitz," walking the halls of Congress to sway lawmakers toward increased support for NASA's 2017 budget.
Go see Hidden Figures, and bring your kids. Despite its serious subject matter, the movie is joyful, often funny, and, in the end, triumphant.
SpaceX says they fixed a problem with the helium pressurization system that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket last year. The company pushes the boundaries of rocket science, creating an occasional jaw-dropping fireball in the process. But will the risk-reward equation change when SpaceX starts flying astronauts?
NASA announced two new asteroid missions today named Lucy and Psyche that will fill important gaps in our understanding of how the solar system was formed. Here are eight things to know about the two missions.
More than a month after a Progress spacecraft bound for the International Space Station plunged to the ground during a botched launch attempt, investigators are still unable to clear its rocket to carry future ISS crews.
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2017/01/04 01:04 CST
As 2016 came to an end and 2017 rang in, Opportunity was working the first leg of the ascent up the rugged western rim of Endeavour Crater on her way to an ancient gully, the next scientific tour de force down the road, and the mission was closing in on its 13th anniversary of surface operations coming up in the New Year.
Axiom Space, a recently formed company headed by former ISS program manager Mike Suffredini, plans to send an astronaut to the ISS in 2019 and connect a large multipurpose habitat there in 2020.
What's ahead for our intrepid space explorers in 2017? It'll be the end of Cassini, but not before the mission performs great science close to the rings. OSIRIS-REx will fly by Earth, and Chang'e 5 will launch to the Moon, as a host of other spacecraft continue their ongoing missions.
Our preview of spaceflight in 2017 starts with highlights of missions and events happening on and around our home planet.
China outlines its space exploration ambitions
Missions to the Moon and Mars will dominate China's focus
China released a new white paper on its policy and activities in space, outlining ambitious deep space exploration, human spaceflight and space science projects as major priorities for the years up to 2020 and beyond.
In a review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jason Davis says you're more likely to enjoy the film if you embrace it as comfort food—a story line that fits into a larger sequence of Star Wars events you already know.
Today is the solstice, the longest winter night at Earth's north pole, the longest day of summer in the south. To give a little light to northerners in darkness today, please enjoy this gallery of images of (mostly) sunlit north poles across our solar system. | aerospace | 1 |
https://wizardrockets.co.uk/product/loc-patriot-2-6/ | 2023-12-09T10:59:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100909.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209103523-20231209133523-00520.warc.gz | 0.854998 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__51318508 | en | Includes factory pre-slotted airframe and through-the-wall fin construction. Now with a decal set! The 2.6″ scale PATRIOT is an excellent introduction into mid-power rocketry. Easy to assemble and durable. It includes a 29mm motor mount, 1/8″ laser cut fins, and 1/4″ centering rings for durability. rail guides, 21″ rip-stop nylon parachute, 10″ payload section, shock cord and all necessary hardware to keep it together!
***Stable on D-F power. Larger motors will upset the balance of this rocket kit and nose weight may be necessary!!! | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.nicap.org/CATEGORIES/06-Trace_Cases/610110wichitafalls_dir.htm | 2019-08-21T07:26:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315811.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821065413-20190821091413-00393.warc.gz | 0.955096 | 408 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__141978900 | en | TRACECAT Case Directory
Category 6, Physical Traces
Preliminary Rating: 5
Jan. 10, 1961; Wichita Falls, Kansas (BBU)
Jan. 10, 1961; Wichita Falls, Texas
9:18 p.m. CST. A round, bright, white light, with an amber-red color on its lower side was observed from a Beechcraft Debonair aircraft flying from Tulsa, Okla. to Abilene, Texas. The plane was approximately 15 miles from Wichita Falls on an outbound heading at an altitude of 6,500 feet and at a speed of 160 mph. Thinking the object was an aircraft in trouble, the pilot took up course of 268 degrees toward Benjamin, Texas, in pursuit of the object. At approximately 9:24 p.m., the object disappeared toward the ground near Benjamin. About 10 seconds later a red flash was seen on the ground. The aircraft continued toward a red glow at the point of the flash and at about 9:29 p.m. another red flash on the ground was observed. At a point about 4 1/2 miles from Benjamin, the aircraft flew directly over the area of the red glows. The two red glows were approximately 1/4 mile apart. The aircraft circled the area with its landing lights on in an attempt to guide men on the ground to the source of the glows. The aircraft ran low on fuel and the search was discontinued. Duration: Approx. 6 minutes in the air (Dan Wilson)
Jan. 10, 1961; Benjamin, Texas
Glowing red, zigzagging UFO observed from air by pilot (also from ground by others); maneuvered and landed on large overgrown field. [NICAP UFOE, V]. This is historically interesting and is double listed as an AVCAT. OSI document of previous September (28th) says crash (was) reported and mention of "Moon Dust", asks ATIC to come to the scene. | aerospace | 1 |
http://en.worldtempus.com/article/breitling-jetman-flies-with-the-breitling-jet-team-11419.html | 2020-09-23T05:11:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400209999.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20200923050545-20200923080545-00011.warc.gz | 0.911913 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__77373131 | en | Breitling Jetman flies with the Breitling Jet Team
The world's first jet-powered man jumped off a helicopter with his rigid wing equipped with four jet engines.
Another top-flight feat makes aviation history. After crossing the Channel, flying alongside two Boeing Stearman biplanes carrying the Breitling Wingwalkers, looping the loop around a hot-air balloon and hurtling across the sky over the Grand Canyon, Yves "Jetman" Rossy has shifted up yet another gear with a formation flight alongside two jets from the Breitling Jet Team.
The world's first jet-powered man jumped off a helicopter with his rigid wing equipped with four jet engines. Adjusting his trajectory and altitude by his body movements alone, he then performed aerobatic figures above the Swiss Alps in the company of two L-39C Albatros planes from the Breitling Jet Team, the world's largest professional civilian aerobatics team performing on jets.
A stunning show – and a major new accomplishment supported by Breitling, the privileged partner of worldwide aviation.
From humble family beginnings Breitling grew into a major player in the world of chronographs and aviation instruments. At the dawn of a new era, the brand is poised for a legendary future.Find out more >
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/author/scottsunde/ | 2013-12-07T12:35:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163054424/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131734-00021-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.943643 | 341 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__74341932 | en | Posts by Author
FlightBlogger says Boeing has instituted a hold of about a month to the 787′s final assembly line. Boeing has instituted an approximately one-month hold on the 787 final assembly line and a halt in structural deliveries to its Everett factory due to supplier part “spot shortages” and “remaining engineering changes”, the company confirms, another in Read More
All that marketing work and no commission.
Boeing announced Thursday at it would resume flight testing of its troubled 787 Dreamliner.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., says the Senate Armed Services Committee will investigate the Air Force’s sharing of data that two companies submitted to win the $35 billion project.
At Flightblogger, Jon Ostrower has written a long report based on Boeing’s order backlog for the 787.
Boeing has predicted that airlines in North America will get about 7,200 new planes in the next 20 years. That would represent an investment of $700 billion.
Air Force officials made “minimal” changes to the final aerial refueling tanker request for proposals from the draft request that drew threats of a pullout from Northrop Grumman, according to U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wa.
Rep. John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who died Monday, had been a supporter of a split contract for a new Air Force tanker.
The Dreamliner has landed.
Flightblogger says Boeing has confirmed that it has completed factory gauntlet testing of the 747-8F, bringing the aircraft closer to its first flight. | aerospace | 1 |
https://wimbornemac.org/articles/news | 2019-04-25T22:22:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578742415.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190425213812-20190425235812-00474.warc.gz | 0.945557 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__24478310 | en | - Published: Thursday, 18 April 2019 08:54
- Written by Phillip Ford
As members of the BMFA (British Model Flying Association) we are holding an OPEN DAY at our Cashmoor Field on the 25th May from 10.30am
This is part of the BMFA's National Flying Month where model flying clubs all over the country will offer to all ages and genders a chance to watch and particpate in safe and legal model flying.
Wimborne MAC as part of the Southern Area BMFA offer you the opportunity to fly a radio controlled model aircraft with an instructor using a dual control system known as a "buddy-box". Also a chance to learn more about this fascinating sport and watch radio controlled models such as trainers, warbirds, civilians, biplanes, full on aerobatic planes and jet aircraft being expertly flown by our Club Members. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ecc.bg/en/yourrights/kalkulator-za-poleti/ | 2021-10-22T16:25:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585516.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20211022145907-20211022175907-00510.warc.gz | 0.952804 | 108 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__149079043 | en | Check your rights when traveling with an airline within the EU. Calculate yourself with the flight calculator if you are entitled to compensation if your aircraft is late.
Look what are the obligations of the airline companies, when you are waiting for a delayed flight at the airport. Also find out what you have to do, if your luggage is lost, delayed or does not arrive at the destination with you.
Use of the calculator is easy and free. All you need to do is enter the departure and arrival location of your flight in English. | aerospace | 1 |
https://up42.com/marketplace/data/tasking/nsl-tasking | 2023-06-02T01:24:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648245.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602003804-20230602033804-00087.warc.gz | 0.78578 | 199 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__228079933 | en | Near Space Labs Tasking
Near Space Labs' zero-emission balloon technology helps you purchase with a conscious. All data comes analytics-ready, meaning non-local means denoising, sigmoidal contrast and white balancing, image-based atmospheric correction have been applied. Near Space Labs 30cm data currently covers regions in the United States and plans to provide and capture data globally in the future.
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http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/2002_12_19.html | 2018-11-16T19:44:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743184.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116194306-20181116220306-00418.warc.gz | 0.981854 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__81869102 | en | Normally, I won't post all my flying stuff here (most people who read my blog are into computer geeky stuff, not flying geeky stuff--at least I think so), but I wanted to mention that I had a blast flying this morning before the storm rolled in. We made it up to 14,000 feet and had enough lift to keep right on going. If only our glider had an oxygen system.
What a blast! :-)
The full story is in my flying blog. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.newscrab.com/article/international/major-plane-crash-in-pakistan-in-last-50-years-know-the-full-timeline-here-24612 | 2020-06-01T14:09:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347417746.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200601113849-20200601143849-00345.warc.gz | 0.960157 | 794 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__160383048 | en | A major plane crash occurred in Pakistan on Friday. The PIA commercial aircraft going from Lahore to Karachi crashed near A-320 Karachi Airport. According to local authorities, 97 people have died in this accident so far. However, it is not clear whether all the deceased are passengers in the flight or the residents of the spot. The aircraft had 98 people (88 passengers and 10 crew members) on board. Let's know about some big plane accidents in Pakistan ...
May 20, 1965: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 707 crashes while landing at Cairo Airport, killing 124 people.
August 6, 1970: A PIA Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft crashes while trying to fly from Islamabad. About 30 people died in it.
December 8, 1972: A PIA Fokker F27 aircraft crashes in Rawalpindi near Islamabad, killing all 26 people.
November 26, 1979: PIA's Boeing 707 aircraft carrying Pakistani Haj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia crashed shortly after takeoff from Jeddah airport, killing 156 people.
October 23, 1986: A PIA Fokker F27 aircraft crashes in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 13 out of 54 people.
August 17, 1988: US-built Hercules C-130 military aircraft crashes near the eastern city of Bahawalpur in Pakistan. The military chief General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq and 30 others were killed. It also included the US Ambassador.
August 25, 1989: A PIA Fokker aircraft carrying 54 people suddenly disappeared after flying from Gilgit in northern Pakistan. Its debris was never found.
September 28, 1992: A PIA Airbus A300 aircraft crashes while making landfall in a cloud-covered hill near Nepal's capital Kathmandu, killing 167 people on board.
February 19, 2003: An Air Force Fokker F27 crashes in the fog-infested mountains near the northwestern city of Kohat. Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali, his wife, and 15 others were killed.
February 24, 2003: A chartered Cessna 402-B plane crashes in the Arabian Sea near the southern city of Karachi. It included Afghanistan's Minister of Mines and Industries Zuma Mohammed Mohammadi, four Afghan officials, a Chinese mining executive, and two members of the Pakistani crew.
July 10, 2006: A PIA Fokker F27 aircraft heading for Lahore was engulfed in flames and plunged into the fields shortly after takeoff from Multan, after which the plane exploded. 41 passengers and four crew members were killed.
July 28, 2010: Airbus 321, a private airline flight from Karachi, crashes into the hills in the area outside Islamabad while preparing to land Airbus 321, killing all 152 people.
November 5, 2010: A two-engined aircraft of Pakistani charter JS Air crashes shortly after takeoff from Karachi. A total of 21 people died, including employees of the Italian oil company.
November 28, 2010: The Russian-built Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane of the Georgian airline Sunway crashes after flying from Karachi. At least 12 people died in it.
April 20, 2012: Bhoja Air Airbus 737 aircraft flying from Karachi crashed near Islamabad due to bad weather. It killed 121 passengers and 6 crew members.
May 8, 2015: A Pakistani military helicopter crashed. It killed eight people, including Norwegian, Philippine and Indonesian messengers, including the wives of Malaysian and Indonesian messengers. The accident led to a fire in a school building in a remote northern valley near Gilgit.
December 7, 2016: A PIA ATR-42 plane going from Chitral to Islamabad crashes. All 48 passengers and crew members were killed in the accident. It also featured singer Junaid Jamshed.
Rajasthan Tourism App - Welcomes to the land of Sun, Sand and adventures | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.vahsonline.com/event/fredericksburg-chapter-meeting/ | 2022-09-27T21:09:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335058.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927194248-20220927224248-00638.warc.gz | 0.962808 | 308 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__124786278 | en | - This event has passed.
Fredericksburg Chapter Meeting – CANCELLED
March 21, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Due to the Coronavirus precautions, the VAHS Fredericksburg Chapter meeting for this month has been cancelled. We will notify you of any changes in next month’s schedule. Safe and healthy journeys to everyone.
Please join us on Saturday, March 21st, 9:00 a.m. for our monthly meeting and an enlightening presentation by Shannon Docent (and VAHS member), Joel McGee on Forced Induction Systems in Aircraft from 1925 – 1945.
Joel McGee’s Biography
From his earliest memories, Joel McGee has been fascinated with aviation. Currently, a high school student, Joel volunteers weekly at the Shannon Air Museum as a docent as well as with the Shannon Air Wing restoring museum aircraft. He is also active in his church as a pianist, audiovisual operator, and volunteer with their local nursing home ministry. Joel spends as much time as possible studying aviation history, aircraft mechanics, and pilot training. With ground school completed, he hopes to obtain his student license soon and begin his trek toward gaining his commercial pilot license. Ultimately, he would love to train as an airframe/powerplant mechanic and serve as a charter pilot or flight instructor.
If you have any questions about the meeting please call the office (540-376-3265). | aerospace | 1 |
https://beta.cnbctv18.com/market/stocks/interglobe-aviation-share-price-indigo-allowed-to-wet-lease-boeing-777-planes-for-a-year-as-rules-eased-15271971.htm | 2023-02-04T00:13:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500076.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203221113-20230204011113-00249.warc.gz | 0.938781 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__122945702 | en | Follow real-time updates on Union Budget 2023Catch exclusive videos on Union Budget 2023 from CNBC-TV18
Indigo can now wet-lease Boeing 777 aircraft from Turkish Airlines for a year. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had earlier denied IndiGo’s request to wet-lease aircraft for two years.
Interglobe Aviation (Indigo) shares were up two percent in morning trade on Monday after the Indian civil aviation ministry conditionally relaxed the rules to wet lease planes by Indian airlines by doubling down the period to a year. Indigo is one of the key beneficiaries of this as the airline can now wet-lease Boeing 777 aircraft from Turkish Airlines for a year.
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It is noteworthy that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had denied IndiGo’s request to wet-lease aircraft for two years.
Shares of Indigo advanced were trading at Rs 1940.30 a share at 9:30 AM. With this move, the Narendra Modi government is aiming to boost affordable direct connectivity between India and long-distance locations in the US or Europe.
Earlier, an Indian carrier was permitted to induct an aircraft on a wet lease for three months, subject to a one-time extension of additional three months. The permission was granted only in emergency situations like unscheduled maintenance, and emergency grounding of planes among others.
Seat capacity between India and Turkey will nearly double with the wet lease of Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. IndiGo and Turkish Airlines have had a codeshare partnership (an arrangement that allows airlines to sell seats to each other) since 2018.
“We have witnessed a huge demand for travel from India to Turkey, Switzerland, and Portugal. Keeping customer demand in mind, we now offer 19 connecting flights through Istanbul to destinations like Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, and Basel. This will not only enhance international connectivity but also add capacity on these routes and make travel more affordable," said Vinay Malhotra, head of global sales of IndiGo to Business Standard earlier.
A wet lease means that the lessor provides pilots, maintenance, and aircraft insurance during the lease period.
(Edited by : Abhishek Jha) | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.oom2.com/t30266-triangular-anomaly-between-rocks-on-top-of-a-mountain-curiosity-mars-rover | 2022-10-02T07:43:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337287.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002052710-20221002082710-00694.warc.gz | 0.89035 | 163 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__80061352 | en | July 20, 2015
Triangular Anomaly between rocks on top of a mountain – Curiosity Mars Rover
Mars rover Curiosity photographed a strange unnatural looking object sitting or docking between rocks on top of a mountain.
Could it be a small alien craft or probe or eventually a building structure or is it just an optical illusion?
If you compare the black/white images (SOL 1046) with similar images from the same area (SOL 1047) then you can see the top of the mountain and the unknown object in the black/white images, but it appears that NASA has left out this part of the mountain in the much brighter and clearer color images.
Why? There is something to hide for the public?
Thanks to: http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.defaiya.com/news/Aviation/Aviation/2014/08/15/honeywell-propels-embraer-legacy-500-into-service | 2023-09-21T11:18:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506027.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921105806-20230921135806-00324.warc.gz | 0.913373 | 393 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__324185654 | en | A number of Honeywell Aerospace products contributed to the certification of Embraer's newest midsize jet, the Legacy 500, setting a new standard for comfort and reliability in business aviation.
Aligned with Embraer's vision, Honeywell's technologies on the Legacy 500 are designed for the highest standards of customer comfort and come complete with the most advanced cabin and propulsion technologies. Honeywell provides the turbofan engines, auxiliary power unit (APU), Ovation Select Cabin Management System, cabin pressure control system and air conditioning system for Embraer's latest midsize jet.
“The Legacy 500 offers a new level in comfortable business travel, and we've been fortunate enough to work with Embraer and its customers from the beginning to deliver a truly customized and modern flight experience,” said Benjamin Driggs, President, Honeywell Brazil.
“The connectivity delivered by Ovation Select and reliability inherent in the HTF7500E engines and the new APU are going to make the Legacy 500 a productivity tool that customers won't want to live without,” he added.
Honeywell's latest member of the HTF7000 engine family, the HTF7500E, was developed specifically for the Legacy 500 and offers the latest technology to reduce the Legacy 500's NOx emissions to 29 percent less than Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection standards. The HTF7000 series to date has flown 2 million flight hours with a dispatch reliability of greater than 99.9 percent.
The Legacy 500's excellent cabin connectivity and in-flight entertainment help support productivity and enable passengers to control cabin temperature and televisions.
“Honeywell's technology has helped the Legacy 500 redefine customer comfort. The reliability of the engines and the capabilities of the cabin management and environmental control systems also set new standards for providing value to operators,” said Luciano Castro, Vice President Programs, Embraer Executive Jets. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.broadcastandcablesat.co.in/isro-banks-on-private-players-for-series-of-satellite-launches/ | 2023-12-07T19:09:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100686.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207185656-20231207215656-00733.warc.gz | 0.96701 | 467 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__141175248 | en | After successful satellite launches over the past five decades, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has now set its sights on the next mission, to tap the growing international demand for products and services for outer space.
The Indian space agency wants to build on its growing reputation for low-cost yet effective satellite launching capabilities to become a key player in the global space arena. To boost its satellite launching credentials further, several big-bang activities are being planned by ISRO over the next 5 years. The organization is also working on a smaller rocket that can be assembled in 3 days, effectively giving it the capability to launch satellites every week.
The space agency is encouraging private players to form small consortiums to undertake satellite and rocket manufacturing work so that it can remain focused on research and development. It has issued a tender inviting the private industry for assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) of 30–35 satellites.
Increasing space activity globally is being shaped by nimble private players rather than government sponsored space programs. These players bring the twin advantage of speed and agility to a country’s space program by focusing on specific solutions and delivering them in a time-bound manner.
Given the opportunities, private players are eager to join the space race. In India, 33 private firms are currently trying to build capabilities to launch small satellites.
Another ISRO official stated that, it had tried this model on a pilot scale with two satellites. “Alpha Design Technologies was allowed to build satellites at our facilities. We did the hand holding on the first one and tried their staff. The second satellite was completely built by them at our facility,” he added. In the next step, the idea is to let the private industry build their own facilities after gaining enough expertise, the official added. The private sector already supplies majority of the subsystems in satellite manufacturing. Giving the reason for the push, he said in the next 3–4 years ISRO plans to launch 58 satellites. “Our in-house capacity is limited. So we are looking to offload 30-40 percent of the work to the private sector.”
To this end, ISRO has built a space technology park spread over 25 acres in Bengaluru where the entire range of facilities have been set up for use by the industry. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/faa-will-miss-2015-drone-deadline-audit-says | 2023-11-30T21:54:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100232.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130193829-20231130223829-00592.warc.gz | 0.962118 | 573 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__270867190 | en | The Federal Aviation Administration is “significantly behind schedule” in its attempt to meet Congress’ September 2015 deadline for integrating commercial drones into U.S. airspace, according to an audit report.
The report by the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General warns that the FAA will miss the deadline for adding drones, also known as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to America’s National Airspace System (NAS).
“FAA’s delays are due to unresolved technological, regulatory, and privacy issues, which will prevent FAA from meeting Congress’ September 30, 2015, deadline for achieving safe UAS integration,” the report said. “As a result, while it is certain that FAA will accommodate UAS operations at limited locations, it is uncertain when and if full integration of UAS into the NAS will occur.”
The report said that the FAA has not reached consensus on technology standards to help drones detect and avoid other aircraft and maintain data links with ground stations. Auditors also found that the Administration has not set up a regulatory framework for drone integration and is not effectively collecting and analyzing drone safety data. The absence of procedures for sharing drone safety data with the Department of Defense, the largest user of drones, was also highlighted.
A law passed in 2012 aims to significantly increase commercial and law enforcement use of drones over the coming years. Questions, however, are being asked about the safety of the technology. A recent Washington Post investigation revealed that more than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed in accidents around the world since 2001.
Last month, the National Park Service prohibited drones, citing noise and nuisance complaints, visitor safety concerns and an incident in which park wildlife were harassed.
The FAA appears to have its work cut out bringing this divisive technology to America’s skies.
“The FAA agrees with the DOT IG’s recommendations and will carefully consider them as the agency continues to move forward with UAS integration,” wrote an FAA spokesman, in an email to FoxNews.com.
The spokesman acknowledged the challenges of safely integrating drones into U.S. airspace, but said that the agency has made significant progress towards that goal. The FAA, he wrote, has helped ensure four of six UAS test sites are operational and has published a UAS roadmap that addresses current and future policies, regulations, technologies and procedures. The agency has also issued a Comprehensive Plan encompassing partner needs, and simplified the process that authorizes UAS flights.
He also pointed to a rule issued for model aircraft, a plan to expand drone use in the Arctic, and the FAA’s authorization of two commercial flights in the polar region. The agency is on track to issue a proposed rule for small UAS this year, he added. | aerospace | 1 |
http://tass.ru/en/defense/842077 | 2016-09-27T08:47:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660996.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00279-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.929397 | 587 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__101097341 | en | Russia to lift ban on supplies of fruits, vegetables from Egypt within days — sourceBusiness & Economy September 27, 10:27
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MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/. The tests confirming the flight characteristics of Russia’s fifth-generation PAK FA (Prospective Airborne Complex of Frontline Aviation) fighter jet have been actually completed, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV Channel on Monday.
"Several planes are now primarily testing airborne avionics. The tests proving the aircraft’s flight characteristics have practically been completed," the deputy defense minister said.
Deputy Defense Minister Borisov earlier told the media the Russian military would purchase only a squadron of PAK FA fighter jets, compensating this with a larger order for Sukhoi Su-35 (NATO reporting name: Flanker-E) fighters.
The Sukhoi PAK FA (Prospective Airborne Complex of Frontline Aviation) is a fifth-generation fighter program of the Russian Air Force. The T-50 is the name of the prototype aircraft designed by Sukhoi for the PAK FA program. The aircraft is a stealthy, single-seat, twin-engine jet fighter, and will be the first operational aircraft in Russian service to use stealth technology. It is a multipurpose fighter designed for the air superiority and attack roles. The fighter is planned to have super-cruise, stealth, super-manoeuvrability and advanced avionics to overcome the prior generation of fighter aircraft as well as ground and maritime defences.
The PAK FA is intended to be the successor to the MiG-29 and Su-27 in the Russian Air Force and serve as the basis for the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft being co-developed by Sukhoi and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force. PAK FA fighter first flew in 2010. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.sakaltimes.com/nation/supersonic-cruise-missile-brahmos-test-fired-itr-18409 | 2018-11-18T18:38:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039744561.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20181118180446-20181118202446-00142.warc.gz | 0.953134 | 477 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__85095324 | en | Balasore: BrahMos, a supersonic cruise missile developed under an Indo-Russian joint venture project, was on Monday successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range(ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from here.
The army version of the missile, with a range of 290 km, operating on the principle of fire, with a capacity of carrying a conventional warhead up to 200 kg, was test fired from the launch complex 3 of the ITR at 1140 hours.
The nine-metre-long missile could be carried aboard a ship or a submarine with some modification. The missile can fly up to a height of 14 km at twice the speed of sound when fired from a ship.
It was charged by a solid propellant and has a preset trajectory and could change its course to strike 20 km from the target.
The missile, ITR sources said, has a diameter of 670 mm, weighing about three tonnes and could fly at near surface level but that shortens its range to 120 km. The first missile was first test-fired on June 12, 2001.
The name of the missile is derived from the name of two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and Moskva of Russia. The missile can fly at zero level.
The test carried out in the user-deployment configuration all the mission objectives. The missile followed a predetermined trajectory at a very low altitude impacting with precision on the designated land target, sources said.
The flight trial was witnessed by the officials of the Defence Research Development Organisation(DRDO) and Integrated Test Range(ITR).
BrahMos was currently one of the few supersonic cruise missiles in the world and the missile system has already been accepted by the Indian Navy with advance Fire Control System for its warships.
The missile was under development as a joint venture between the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) of India and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) (Russia) under BrahMos Aerospace.
Brahmos is the first and only supersonic cruise missile that uses liquid ''ramjet'' technology. A two-staged vehicle, its propulsion consisted of a solid propellant booster and a liquid propellant ''ramjet'' system,sources said. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/05/16/xcor-announces-lynx-trip-winner/ | 2022-10-06T06:22:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337731.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006061224-20221006091224-00209.warc.gz | 0.950859 | 598 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__129491546 | en | Mojave CA, May 16, 2012 (XCOR PR): XCOR Aerospace today announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard the Lynx Mark I suborbital launch vehicle. XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson made the announcement at the Spacecraft Technology Expo (STE) in Los Angeles, CA.
“About two months ago, we were at an event called the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, where together with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) we gave away a suborbital flight,” said XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson. “We had a winner, and we had a backup. Unfortunately our main winner was unable to accept the prize. Our backup winner, Jennifer Brisco, is now the official recipient of the suborbital flight.”
Jennifer, who hails from the San Francisco Bay Area was flown in to the Spacecraft Technology Expo in Los Angeles to receive the prize. She did not know that she had been selected until presented with the award at the Expo.
“It’s been my lifetime goal to take a suborbital flight,” said Jennifer. “This is an absolute dream…I am in shock right now, I am speechless.”
Jennifer, who is a space enthusiast, will be eligible to fly on the Lynx mark I as a suborbital researcher after passing a medical exam and completing a three day training program that includes altitude and G-force exposure.
“XCOR continues to bring down the costs and barriers associated with commercial human spaceflight,” remarked Andrew. “Reusable Launch Vehicles such as Lynx will usher in a whole new era of accessibility to space by offering routine, affordable and safe trips outside the atmosphere. We look forward to being on the vanguard of this revolution in affordable access to the cosmos.”
XCOR Aerospace is a California corporation located in Mojave, California. The company is in the business of developing and producing safe, reliable and reusable rocket powered vehicles, propulsion systems, advanced non-flammable composites and other enabling technologies like rocket piston pumps that enable full reusability. XCOR is working with aerospace prime contractors and government customers on major propulsion systems, and concurrently building the Lynx, a piloted, two-seat, fully reusable, liquid rocket powered vehicle that takes off and lands horizontally. The Lynx-family of vehicles serves three primary missions depending on their specific type including: research & scientific missions, private spaceflight, and micro satellite launch (only on the Lynx Mark III). The Lynx production models (designated Lynx Mark II) are designed to be robust, multi-mission (research / scientific or private spaceflight) commercial vehicles capable of flying to 100+ km in altitude up to four times per day and are being offered globally on a wet lease basis. (www.xcor.com). | aerospace | 1 |
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/07/23/dreams-of-legally-slapping-drones-out-of-the-sky-may-come-true/?replytocom=4384111 | 2023-06-01T05:49:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647614.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601042457-20230601072457-00746.warc.gz | 0.959372 | 2,576 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__81669980 | en | Wildfire roared over a Los Angeles area freeway that leads to Las Vegas on Friday, sending drivers running up a hill to get away, abandoning their cars behind them as they fled.
Some watched from the hill as smoke billowed and firefighters hosed down their cars to try to save them from burning.
What they didn’t see: helicopters dumping water buckets from above.
That’s because five drones flying close to the fire kept California firefighters from dispatching the helicopters for up to 20 minutes, as CNN reports.
This is the third time in recent weeks that drought-stricken California has been frustrated in fighting wildfire because of hobby drones flying in, presumably by people seeking video footage of dramatic scenes.
Another drone delayed efforts to battle a blaze in Mill Creek Canyon for at least 20 minutes on 12 July.
In June, a DC-10 carrying fire retardant wound up being diverted from a wildfire, forced to drop its load on another fire, while two smaller planes had to jettison their fire retardant because it made the aircraft too heavy to land.
Planes or helicopters being flown by pilots focusing on the fire and flying in smoky, low-visibility fire zones just can’t risk the danger of a mid-air collision with a drone, so firefighting aircraft get grounded when unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) get in the way.
These situations involve increased danger to life and property, as well as squandered time and money: the June scuppering of flights cost between $10,000 and $15,000 (approx £6300 – £9500).
They also frustrate the hell out of firefighters, who’ve tried education, reason and fines to coax drone enthusiasts into behaving both more wisely and more legally, given that some of the drones not only fly well above limits for unmanned aircraft flying in most situations but also because it’s illegal to fly unmanned aircraft in restricted airspace around a fire.
Shooting the things down is a tempting option, but it’s illegal.
But if lawmakers get their way, disabling or damaging UAS in emergency situations would be A-OK.
California legislators have introduced legislation that would exonerate emergency workers who take out drones.
Senate Bill 168, introduced by Assemblyman Mike Gatto and Senator Ted Gaines, would grant “immunity to any emergency responder who damages an unmanned aircraft in the course of firefighting, air ambulance, or search-and-rescue operations.”
According to CIO, disabling the drones would involve using jamming technology to prevent in-range drones from making and establishing a connection with the GPS signals and radio waves they rely on to operate.
The problem is that jammers are indiscriminate.
Beyond just blocking the Wi-Fi and GPS signals to the drones, jammers can block calls and messages to mobile devices.
That’s why US law prohibits marketing, selling or using the devices on public or private property.
Although authorized federal agencies can use jammers in some situations, the prohibition against their use covers state and local governments, according to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Gaines and Gatto weren’t immediately available to answer CIO’s questions about how the legislation will get around those prohibitions.
Companion legislation, Senate Bill 167, allows for drone operators to be fined and/or jailed for interfering with firefighting efforts.
Senator Gaines said in a statement that the situation now is “maddening” and that he “can’t believe that hobby drones are risking people’s lives to get videos on YouTube.”
If SB 168 passes, it’s going to be open hunting season for drones getting in the way during emergencies, with no worries about getting one’s pants sued off for taking them out, he said:
This bill will help make sure the skies are clear of drones and that the brave men and women fighting these fires can do their job of protecting the public without worrying about frivolous lawsuits.
The legislators’ move is sure to put ideas into heads over at the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
As The Register reports, there had been six near-miss run-ins between piloted craft and unlicensed drones in one year as of May.
All of those incidents involved a drone flying within 20 feet of airplanes at UK airports, some of them as high as 2000 feet above ground level.
The Register notes that pilots flying these toys could face five years of jail time if found guilty of recklessly endangering an aircraft, or any person therein.
In addition, the CAA has now launched what it’s calling the Dronecode to educate hobbyists of their responsibilities to fly safely and legally.
When introducing the California bills, Assemblyman Gatto offered what could read as a TL;DR version of the Dronecode:
Just because you have access to an expensive toy that can fly in a dangerous area doesn’t mean you should do it.
Image of drone courtesy of stevemart / Shutterstock.com.
13 comments on “Dreams of legally slapping drones out of the sky may come true”
Drone flyers have endangered passenger aircraft in the vicinity of more than one of our UK major airports, putting many lives at risk. I wish the UK law makers (the Houses of Parliament) would bring in laws than can be easily applied to get this menace to life and safety stopped by a broad range of people, not just police, etc.
I fail to see how a 1-2 lb drone (common for hobby and commercial advertising purposes) poses a greater risk than your average large bird like a duck (~2lbs), goose (~10lbs), owl, hawk, etc. Sure, you don’t want to hit one, but I would think airplanes are designed with small strikes in mind.
Of course, if we are talking about a reaper, predator, or other military drone I see a problem, but that’s not what we’re talking about.
Just run over or ignore the drones and be done with it.
@ Blake: Birds are aware of what’s going on around them, not just of a “target” like drone pilots, and usually, IME, try to avoid being intercepted from behind. Did you ever try to sneak up on a bird? Did it work?
Birds do damage to aircraft too. Perhaps you should contact your elected representatives to suggest that birds be banned from areas around airports, wildfire zones, etc… surely that would solve the problem. Good luck with that!
Apparently your education is defective. Please do some homework and go look up F.O.D.
Military personnel walk runways and aircraft carriers decks to clear any debris that could be sucked into the engines of very expensive aircraft, causing the engine to fail, resulting in a crash and possibly death.
Civilian aircraft airports spend millions to help prevent what adds up to billions in damage and losses from FOD.
Those little quad copters could easily cause an engine failure and endanger the pilot and those on the ground busy putting out what is most likely a fire started by a smoker.
Any of these toys seen flying in an emergency area should be shot down and the owners jailed.
Correction, they employ captive birds of prey ….. (Sorry)
Bird strikes are a serious hazard at airfields, whose operators go to great lengths to avoid them. They broadcast alarm calls, and employ captive birds of prey to deter birds. I was once on an aircraft that hit a few lapwings whist landing. They typically weigh about half a pound. The smell was obnoxious and they wrecked an engine. A drone weighing 1-2 lb and consisting mainly of metal would do a lot more damage.
I used to be a private recreational pilot and have a drone. They are easy to fly and to buy. There is no requirement to understand air law nor any attempt by manufacturers to educate. End result is people with limited knowledge flying in areas they should not breaking laws they do not know about.
UK CAA have a very pragmatic, realistic approach to drones which should be applauded. I hope that drone pilots realise that they use the skies with a lot of other people.
Regarding birds and engines – remember a bird strike put a plane in the Hudson. There is a story, which may or may not be true. Large plane engines are tested with supermarket chickens to check they can survive the bird strike. Anyway, one engine maker got back reports of these tests destroying engines only to find that they were using frozen chickens and not thawing them out first. Live flying birds are mostly a sort of soft plastic, but drones may be made out of hard but light metal. A bird can crack or even go through the cockpit windshield, so I guess a drone could too.
The noise and shock waves from a helicopter rotor drives birds away; drones are not aware of their surroundings. I can’t say I would like to be in a plane hit by a drone. I am just waiting for the first collision – even if there is no damage, I would expect all the passengers on the plane to sue the drone owner for traumatic stress.
That’s true that bird strikes can cause damage. Nobody denies this. But a downed plane from a bird strike is the exception. It’s important not to try and make exceptions into the rule. There are billions of birds, while only thousands of drones. The risk of downing an emergency vehicle due to a drone strike is, I imagine, exceedingly rare (to my knowledge it’s never happened).
Regarding the comparison to bird bodies, the drones I’ve seen employ plastic and (mainly) foam. Metal is employed in a limited manner, mainly to the battery, engines, and small screws. Many birds (ducks for example) have a craw, this can be filled with nuts, seeds, and rocks. Including the bones on the bird’s body, I don’t think it’s a huge leap to go from a large bird to a hobbyist’s drone.
A agree with the great common sense CAA’s rules on UAV. The FAA has recently adopted some of the same rules (line of sight, don’t fly next to airfields, overhead people comes to mind). However, there will always be people that do not follow the rules.
Without any additional evidence, I believe that the risks are largely being overstated by the emergency responders. The largest risk is probably the distraction caused by drone pilots to the responders. It is a shame that people and property are being put at additional risk due to these incidents.
However, the idea to jam drones seems knee-jerk to me. The drones that are piloted are within line of sight of the pilot anyway, making ID sufficiently easy in places where there is an evacuation. Not to mention that there are many frequencies RC aircraft can operate on and RC products have had to put up with interference for a while so they specifically have technology to block interference. However, many of these things are not ‘piloted’ per-say, they fly based on a predetermined flight plan. In this case, jamming may do nothing. Jamming is indiscriminate and will likely result in breaking legitimate communication. Not good.
I’d rather see a focus on education and enforcement. This applies not just to drones but also other RC craft, model rockets, etc.
Birds would LEAVE the area of a wildfire, drones come INTO the same area. As stated above, birds are also more aware of their surroundings.
Shotgun the drones.
A shotgun probably wouldn’t work. Shotguns have very limited range, much lower than where drones typically fly. Small-caliber rifle and all pistols simply aren’t accurate enough. Medium-caliber rifles (.223, .243, .270, 7mm, etc.) would do the job, but those shells can travel for miles when shot upwards.
Plus, the bullets would come down at only slightly lower velocity than they had going up. In other words, if they hit someone, it’s almost as bad as getting shot at point-blank range. It’s not a good idea to shoot ANYTHING where you don’t know what your bullet will hit if you miss. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.hughes.com/resources/press-releases/hughes-begins-final-testing-worlds-highest-capacity-broadband-satellite | 2023-12-08T12:11:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100745.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208112926-20231208142926-00111.warc.gz | 0.911059 | 526 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__290793947 | en | Upon Successful Completion of In-Orbit Testing, Company Accepts Handover of EchoStar XIX from Space Systems Loral
Germantown, Md.—Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, today announced the successful completion of in-orbit testing and handover of EchoStar XIX from Space Systems Loral (SSL), manufacturers of this next-generation, Ka-band high-throughput satellite.
Placed into geostationary orbit at 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) above the earth, the world’s highest capacity broadband satellite was successfully launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 18, 2016, and extensive in-orbit testing was completed in an extremely efficient manner.
“Accepting handover of EchoStar XIX begins the final testing phase in preparation for commercial launch of our fifth-generation HughesNet® service,” said Pradman Kaul, president of Hughes. “As providers of America’s #1 high-speed satellite Internet service, we are excited to now further expand availability of even faster speeds and more data for our customers across the nation. The rapid completion of in-orbit testing is a testament to how well our Hughes and SSL teams worked side-by-side over the last several months to ensure a smooth and successful outcome.”
Designed with Hughes JUPITER™ System technology, EchoStar XIX is a Ka-band, high-throughput satellite with 138 beams covering the continental United States, Alaska, Mexico and parts of Canada and Central America. It will power HughesNet Gen5, the next generation of high-speed satellite Internet service in the U.S., delivering more speed, more data, and more advanced features to consumers and small businesses no matter the location.
EchoStar XIX joins EchoStar XVII, which has been in service since 2012, and will enable HughesNet to more than double its current capacity—with more than 1 million subscribers, the nation’s largest satellite service. HughesNet also was recently ranked first in delivering advertised speeds in the Federal Communication Commission’s 2016 “Measuring Broadband in America” report for the second year in a row.
Hughes expects EchoStar XIX to be placed into service at the end of the first quarter of 2017. For more information on EchoStar XIX and HughesNet Gen5, visit https://www.hughesnet.com/ | aerospace | 1 |
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https://world-news.press/2020/06/14/putin-reacted-to-the-statement-by-trump-about-the-creation-of-superfast-missiles/ | 2021-01-26T19:09:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704803308.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126170854-20210126200854-00649.warc.gz | 0.964815 | 285 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__10029068 | en | Previously, trump said about the breakthrough in weaponry.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country will create a system of combat with new weapons in that time, other countries will begin to develop hypersonic missiles, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to Country.
He said this in an interview with Andrew Kondrashova in the program “Vesti Nedeli”.
“It appears (hyperacusia — Ed.). But I think that we will be able to surprise our partners that when they have these weapons will appear, with high probability we will have a means of combating these weapons,” he said.
Putin also said that today to counter hypersonic missiles, nobody can.
“That’s the uniqueness of our current situation. I repeat: with high probability we have means of dealing with hypersonic weapons will appear by the time when the leading countries of the world will appear that the hypersonic weapons,” he said.
We will remind, the President of the United States, Donald trump told details about the new American rocket, which was previously named “super-duper rocket”.
Before that, we wrote that the missile with a jet engine developed in the framework of the project, the U.S. air force on the aircraft hypersonic missiles HAWC, was destroyed during a recent test. | aerospace | 1 |
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Narrative:The airplane impacted the water descending at a high rate of speed. On a dark moonless night, the noninstrument rated private pilot rented an airplane and flew below a marine layer of clouds along the coastal shoreline. The pilot initiated a course reversal turn, during which the airplane turned away from the city lights. During the turn, seconds after the airplane was headed nearly perpendicular to the shoreline, the pilot commenced a descending right turn with a vertical descent rate of over 2,100 feet per minute. A witness about 1 mile away reported that the airplane looked as though it was falling straight down into the water. The pilot had taken his primary flight lessons from a Texas-based school, and he was, by his own admission, not familiar with flying around marine cloud layers. No evidence of mechanical malfunction or failures was noted during the wreckage examination.
|Date:||Wednesday 28 March 2001|
|Year of manufacture:||1978|
|Total airframe hrs:||8751 hours|
|Fatalities:||Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3|
|Aircraft damage:|| Written off (damaged beyond repair)|
|Location:||Santa Monica, CA -
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|Phase:|| En route|
|Departure airport:||Santa Monica, CA (SMO)|
|Destination airport:||Santa Monica, CA (SMO)|
|Investigating agency: ||NTSB|
|Confidence Rating:|| Accident investigation report completed and information captured|
Probable Cause: the pilot's loss of airplane control while maneuvering due to spatial disorientation. Contributing factors were the dark night, the marine cloud layer that restricted the pilot's cruising altitude, and the pilot's lack of familiarity with nighttime flight over the ocean.
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https://zeenews.india.com/news/world/iran-starts-mass-producing-indigenous-saeqeh-fighter-jet_1527058.html | 2021-05-06T17:20:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988758.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20210506144716-20210506174716-00112.warc.gz | 0.96288 | 170 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__192415883 | en | Tehran: Iran has started mass-producing the Sa'eqeh fighter jet, a spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has announced.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA Wednesday, Hossein Chitforoush said Sa'eqeh fighter jets would satisfy the needs of the IRIAF for the time being and "it would be altered and modified in line with the requirements of IRIAF".
The fighter jet is at the disposal of IRIAF at the present and is patrolling the Iranian skies, Tehran Times reported citing the spokesman.
Sa'eqeh is an Iranian-built jet fighter. It is a joint product of the IRIAF and the defence ministry. It is the second generation of the Azarakhsh fighter and was tested successfully in Iran Sep 20, 2007. | aerospace | 1 |
https://ciresblogs.colorado.edu/antarcticuavs/2012/09/27/winding-down/ | 2024-02-27T19:41:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474686.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227184934-20240227214934-00828.warc.gz | 0.969966 | 1,049 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__36510060 | en | Since my last blog post we’ve been busy flying our Aerosondes to Terra Nova Bay. After our first successful flights on the night of the 18th we launched two more Aerosondes to Terra Nova Bay for overnight flights on the 19th. All was going well with these flights until the generator belt on one of the planes broke. Without the generator belt the battery that powers the UAV avionics (autopilot) would quickly die and we had to ditch the plane in the ocean. The other plane returned safely on the morning of the 20th. The generator belt failure was likely due to the cold conditions which make the belts brittle. In 2009 we had a generator belt break, but since this occurred right after take off we were able to land the plane safely before the battery died. With a 3+ hour return flight back from Terra Nova Bay we didn’t have that option this time.
Three days later we were back in the air with two more planes going to Terra Nova Bay. The set of flights we did starting on the 18th and ending with the flights on the 22nd observed the Terra Nova Bay polynya from the start of a polynya event, as the sea ice first gets blown away from the coast, to a fully opened polynya on the 22nd. The data we collected on these flights looks really good and will give us some additional, and quite different cases, to look at compared to the data we collected in 2009.
In this sequence of satellite images you can see the polynya, which shows up as the dark portion in the middle of each image, gradually becoming larger. The white streaks across the polynya are bands of sea ice being blown away from the coast.
We completed our last Aerosonde flights yesterday, capping a long two days. On Tuesday (25 September) we launched two Aerosondes to Terra Nova Bay at 2:30 and 4:30 PM. These were our seventh and eighth science flights to Terra Nova Bay of the season. Shelley and I stayed up all night watching the flights and giving directions to Paul and Nick who did the actual flying. The planes started back to the Pegasus runway just after 2AM and I managed to get a quick 2 hour nap on the floor of my office before heading out to the runway for the landing. Both planes landed safely before 7AM. You can see a video of one of the landings here.
The Aerosonde crew quickly serviced one of the planes and we launched another science flight just before 10AM. This flight was to the Ross Sea polynya, just east of Ross Island. This polynya is much closer to the Pegasus runway, so it was a shorter flight than our Terra Nova Bay polynya flights. With this flight we collected the first 3-dimensional atmospheric data of a major Antarctic weather pattern known as the Ross Ice Shelf airstream. I’m hoping that as part of a future project we’ll collect additional data on this airstream and the polynya that forms as a result of it. The Aerosonde returned from this mission just after 4PM.
In the span of 26 hours we flew three science flights for a total of more than 36 flight hours. It was a long two days but we were all excited to get the UAV back safely from our last mission of the field season.
We’re scheduled to fly back to New Zealand on Monday and are now busy packing all of our gear and getting it ready to be shipped home. Despite the difficult start to the field season we wound up having a very successful season. We flew a total of 14 flights for 168 flight hours. The total number of flights was 2 less than when we were here in 2009, but we flew nearly 40 more flight hours than we did in 2009. More importantly we doubled the number of scientifically useful flight hours by using Aerosondes with longer endurance than the ones we used in 2009. Our longest flight this season was just over 18 hours. Since we spend nearly 6 hours of each flight flying from Pegasus to Terra Nova Bay and back the longer endurance of the Aerosondes gives us more useful time at Terra Nova Bay to collect the data we need for our research.
None of the success we had would have been possible without the very hard work of Nick, Paul, Peter, and Cam from Aerosonde. They worked unbelievably long hours and worked every day that we’ve been here. They were able to trouble shoot problems as they came up and made sure we were getting the data we needed.
Shelley was a tremendous help as well. She helped me with all of the scientific aspects of the project including the forecasts for all of the flights, planning our flight strategy for each flight, and analyzing the data as we collected it. It was great to have her here as someone I could bounce ideas off of and talk through all of the problems and challenges as they came up. I’ve been very lucky to work with such an outstanding team on this project.
I’ll end this post with another beautiful Antarctic sunset. | aerospace | 1 |
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2007 1st flight LH-10 piloted by Sebastien Lefebvre & ere participation of the International Exhibition of Aeronautics and Space.
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About MAGELLAN INDUSTRIES
Investment fund specializing in aviation and aerospace, development partner LH Aviation 3 years.Discover the website of Magellan industries | aerospace | 1 |
http://sova.si.edu/search?q=*&f=Archival_Repository%3ANational%20Air%20and%20Space%20Museum%20Archives%20Division | 2017-05-23T22:27:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607704.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523221821-20170524001821-00215.warc.gz | 0.955504 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__135493995 | en | The Theodore E. Boyd World War I collection consists of material documenting Theodore E. Boyd's World War I career. The bulk of the collection covers the World War I era, 1917 to 1919, but materials before and after those dates are also present. Materials include: correspondence, written both during the war to family and friends; photographs; military orders, mostly in English, a few in French; flight logs; identity card; Honorable Discharge and Distinguished Service Cross certificates; memoirs of his war experiences, both written for publication and to his family; and post war veterans rosters.
This collection consists of 72 linear feet of the papers of Benjamin O. Davis. Included are the following types of material: programs, invitations, certificates, correspondence, published material, and photographs.
The collection consists of 109 cubic feet of material, primarily photographs with some additional documentation, covering aerospace topics. The bulk of the material relates to US space exploration, including extensive photo files on US manned missions through the Space Shuttle, and satellite and sounding rocket work. The first series consists of unmanned spacecraft material, the second series consists of manned spacecraft material, and the third series consists of aircraft material.
Clement Melville Keys (1876-1952) was a financier and corporate organizer who promoted aviation through the post-World War I decade. In 1916 he came to the aid of the financially-troubled Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co. and was made an unsalaried vice president. Keys accompanied the American Aviation Mission to Europe in 1919, returning to purchase a controlling interest in Curtiss in 1920. He remained president of Curtiss until the 1929 merger with Wright Aeronautical Corp. to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation, whereupon he became president of the new company. In 1931, however, Keys resigned as chairman of T&WA following a bitter struggle for control of the airline. Mental collapse followed and Keys surrendered all his remaining aviation interests and left Curtiss-Wright in 1933.
This collection consists of the personal papers of Hattie Meyers Junkin. The material consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, and manuscripts, as well as material on Junkin's husbands and Weaver Aircraft Co.
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (1927-1992) was an experimental physicist, educator, inventor, entrepreneur, writer and novelist.
This collection contains Verville's personal papers. The material relates mainly to his various aeronautical concerns as well as his involvement with military aviation. The collection includes a large number of photos tracing the development of Curtiss aircraft and Naval Aviation, and especially documenting the design, construction, and flights of a replica of the Navy's first aircraft, the Curtiss A-1 'Triad', built under Verville's direction by the Bureau of Aeronautics to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of Naval Aviation in 1961. Also included are a large number of blueprints and photos of Verville-designed aircraft, especially those developed by the Verville Aircraft Co. in 1928 - 1931
This collection consists of memorabilia relating to Ms. Scott. The material includes her certificates, membership cards, and ribbons, as well as a collection of newspaper clippings from 1939-1969 relating to Ms. Scott.
This collection consists of articles and transcripts of speeches by Newell during his tenure with NASA.
This collection consists of a seven volume set representing a partial documentation of Gilbert's contribution to ATC development. The material was compiled by Gilbert's wife after his death in 1982. The collection also includes two books by Gilbert on air traffic control. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-satellite-navigation-systems/?ref=rp | 2023-02-09T06:58:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764501407.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230209045525-20230209075525-00250.warc.gz | 0.950646 | 962 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__140591699 | en | What is Satellite Navigation Systems?
Global Positioning System or GPS is a system formed from a constellation of satellites orbiting around the earth. It sends the details of the accurate position, velocity, and time. GPS has diverse applications ranging from military and weather conditions to vehicle location farms and many other areas. The navigation and positioning system was first formed by the U.S. for their military, which was further extended for civil use. Although there are other navigation systems formed by other countries, four of them are global while two of them are regional.
1. GLONASS (Russia): Global Navigation Satellite System or GLONASS is a space-based global satellite navigation system (GNSS), which provides real-time position and velocity determination for civilian and military users. It is operated by the Russian Federation and is the second alternative navigational system in operation with global coverage and comparable precision. It was officially declared operational in 1993 with 12 satellites and in December 1995, the constellation was finally set with 24 operational satellites in orbit. At present, GLONASS has a total of 26 satellites which provides an accuracy of 2.8 to 7.38 meters. The satellites are located at an altitude of 19, 130 km with a 64.8 degrees inclination and a period of 11 hours 15 minutes.
2. Galileo (EU): Galileo is a European owned global navigation satellite system, which provides high-precision navigation and positioning services to civilians and commercial users. It is named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galili and is interoperable with GPS and GLONASS. The system started its initial services on 15th December 2016 with 22 usable satellites in orbit. It will consist of 30 satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) once the Galileo constellation reaches its Full Operational Capability (FOC) by 2020. The complete 30-satellites Galileo system will have 24 operational satellites and 6 active spares, positions in three planes at an orbital height of 23, 222 km at an inclination of 56 degrees to the equator. Galileo is intended to provide an accuracy of 1metre for public usage and better positioning services than other positioning systems.
3. BeiDou (China): BeiDou is a Chinese satellite navigation system, which consists of two separate satellite constellations, BeiDou-1 and BeiDou-2. The first generation system is known as BeiDou-1, consists of a constellation of 4 satellites (three working satellites and one backup satellite). It became operational in 2000 and has offered limited coverage and navigation services for the users of China and its neighboring regions. It became decommissioned at the end of 2012. BeiDou-2 is a second-generation system, which will provide a constellation of 35 satellites in which 27 satellites will be located in Medium Earth orbits, 5 in geostationary orbits, and 3 in inclined GEO orbits. Currently, it has a total of 22 operational satellites which are located at an altitude of 21, 150 km.
4. QZSS (Japan): The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System is a regional satellite navigation system developed by the Japanese government in 2002. It has a three-regional satellite regional time transfer system and a satellite-based augmentation system. The primary purpose of this system is to provide highly accurate and effective positioning services in the Asia Oceanic region. The QZSS satellites will have 7 satellites in the future, out of which 4 operational satellites are already present in orbit. It is intended to provide a precision of 0.01 to 1 meter.
5. IRNSS – NAVIC (India): The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is officially called NAVIC which is an acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation. The regional Geo-positioning system has been designed in India by ISRO to provide accurate positioning in India and around the Indian mainland and a region extending 1500 km around it. The satellite system was first announced in 2007 but was fully functional by 2013.
A need for an indigenous satellite navigation system was felt earlier, but the Kargil experience, when the US denied providing GPS information to India, made the nation realize its importance. Currently, it is a constellation of 7 satellites, 3 in geostationary orbit, and 4 in geosynchronous orbit. In the future, the constellation size is expected to increase from 7 to 11.
According to the ISRO, the IRNSS was developed for terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation, disaster management, vehicle tracking and fleet management, and integration with mobile phones. It would provide the Standard Positioning Service (SPS) to all users having an accuracy of 1 m and Restricted Service (RS), which is an encrypted service for only authorized users with an accuracy of 0.1 m. | aerospace | 1 |
http://kids.aol.com/quizzes/space-quiz/ | 2013-05-25T14:38:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705956734/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120556-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.863443 | 381 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__93025678 | en | What does NASA stand for?
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Never Allow Space Aliens
- National Airlines and Space Adventures
- New Aeronautics and States Administration
NASA's motto is what?
- To infinity and beyond
- Space the final frontier
- For the benefit of all
- Sky's the limits
All space missions are launched from where?
- Cape Canaveral
- Kennedy Space Center
- White Sands Space Harbor
- Edwards Air Force Base
Which of the following is not the name of a space shuttle?
Which of the following men was NOT a member of the Apollo 11 crew?
- Michael Collins
- Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
- Neil Armstrong
- James A. Lovell, Jr
Which president had the dream of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- John F. Kennedy
- Ronald Regan
The lunar module that landed the astronauts on the moon was called what?
- Saturn V
What famous words did Neil Armstrong speak after landing on the moon?
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind
- Houston, we have a problem.
- The Eagle has landed.
- The moon rules.
How far is the moon from Planet Earth?
- 1000 km
- 384,403 km
- 425,340 km
- 1,000,000 km
The moon is considered to be what of the earth?
- Natural Satellite
There are nine planets in our solar sytem?
President George W. Bush announced that NASA hopes to have man back on the moon no later than what year?
Test Your Galactic IQ
See how much you know about the Apollo 11 mission and the NASA program with this space quiz. | aerospace | 1 |
https://dailynewshungary.com/wizz-air-no-fees-hand-luggage-october-29/ | 2022-12-06T01:57:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711064.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205232822-20221206022822-00034.warc.gz | 0.935117 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__136117468 | en | Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces that passengers will no longer be charged an additional fee to bring a large item of hand baggage into the aircraft cabin on all Wizz Air flights, from 29 October 2017.
In customer satisfaction surveys more than 80% of Wizz Air passengers** scored WIZZ highly in terms of on-board experience, friendliness and professionalism of staff. Wizz Air continuously listens to customer feedback, which is why Wizz Air believes that the new hand luggage policy will enhance the WIZZ travel experience even further.
Today the airline also announces a new service option for passengers called WIZZ Priority. Valid on all flights from today, WIZZ Priority now includes:
Speaking during the Q1 financial results announcement today, József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air said:
Wizzair.com website, WIZZ app or call center** based on representative sample of 200,000 passengers, Kantar-Hoffman research conducted for Wizz Air April 2016-July2017.
As we wrote before, Wizz Air announced a significant expansion of capacity in its Budapest network with two new aircraft, two new routes, and frequency increases on 13 popular services.
Source: Wizz Air – Press release | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.think-aboutit.com/standing-moon/ | 2019-12-10T15:14:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540527620.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20191210123634-20191210151634-00307.warc.gz | 0.951305 | 1,945 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__70292352 | en | Vol. I, Issue 3 Aug 18, 1997
Stop your world for a moment, get in touch with your feelings and imagine that you are an Apollo astronaut standing on the moon. Your fellow astronaut is nearby inside the lunar Lander and you are out there all alone, in your spacesuit, standing on the powdery, barren surface of the moon. It is beyond eerie. It is unearthly, alien. No amount of training could ever have prepared you for the way you are feeling right now. Your heart is pounding. The landscape is stark and flooded with searing light. With no atmosphere, the stars blaze all around you in a black sky like headlights pointed straight at you. You can see the earth above (below?), hanging like a light blue tree ornament in the perpetual night. You can almost reach up and touch it. Your family is there, so near yet so far. If the rocket on the Lander fails to ignite, you will die here. It is so unearthly quiet, you can hear the sound of your own blood flowing through your inner ears. You can almost hear the sound of your own digestion. You are truly and inexorably alone.
Then the NASA movie director yells “Cut!”, you lift off your helmet and head out the hangar door for lunch with the rest of the crew.
Whew! I had you there for a second. Now get in touch with your imagination again, and this time pry your mind open as w-i-d-e as it will go. Turn your truth detector on “high” and consider the outrageous, the impossible: that NASA never actually landed a man on the moon. That they faked it in a simulation filmed entirely inside a floodlit hangar here on good old terra firma.
Impossible!, you say. I mean, if you’re over about the age of 40, you can most likely remember exactly where you were and what you were doing as Neil Armstrong spoke those most famous words in all of human history: “One small step for man, one giant step for mankind”. Fake it? FAKE it? Why on Earth (literally) would they do this?
Hard digging investigative journalist, Jim Collier of “Votescam” fame, has now hung his credibility and perhaps his entire career on the question of whether NASA has actually “mooned” the entire world in the most colossal hoax of all time. The premise is that the pressure was on to beat the Soviets to the moon.
Everything was at stake – F$30 billion in federal funding, prestige, egos, careers, the whole works. NASA knew how to send three men TO the moon and go AROUND the moon, but lacked the technical expertise to land ON the moon – to separate from a “mother ship” (the lunar orbiter), descend in a smaller, self-contained “shuttlecraft” (the lunar lander), fire a 10,000-pound-thrust landing rocket and spiral down to a controlled landing, suit up, disembark, romp and play on the surface, go for a drive, return to the lander, blast off, rendezvous and dock with the orbiter and finally return to Earth.
So they faked it. Considering that this was the same general era as Stanley Kubrick’s blockbuster “2001”, the special effects technology certainly existed. And you can make a lot of movies with a cool F$30 billion.
In a recently released VHS video titled “It’s Only A Paper Moon“, Collier looks straight at the camera and in a “video letter” asks senior NASA management for proof of the accomplishment – a feat the entire world has long taken for granted.
Collier points out a few, minor inconsistencies, summarized here:
1. Two fully suited Apollo astronauts could not physically have fit in the allotted space inside the lunar lander and opened the door because the door opened INWARDS, not outwards. They could not have exited with their suits on. He measures this on film.
2. An Apollo astronaut could not physically have fit through the tunnel connecting the orbiter and the lander. It was too narrow. Collier went to NASA’s museum and measured it. The ends of the tunnel contained a ring of docking connectors. NASA’s “in-flight” footage that we are told was taken en route to the moon shows astronauts freely tumbling through this connecting tunnel which would be blatant enough except that there are no connectors visible, plus the tunnel hatch door opens the wrong way. Those shots were taken ON EARTH.
3. There is BLUE light coming through the spacecraft windows en route to the moon. With no atmosphere to filter through, space is BLACK. That footage was taken here ON EARTH, most likely in a cargo jet placed into a steep dive to simulate the sensation of “zero-G”.
4. Photos taken by disembarked astronauts show the lunar lander sitting on a placid, smooth, undisturbed surface. Impossible, if they blasted down to a landing, riding on a 10,000-pound thrust plume of flame. The entire area would be severely disturbed. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.
5. There are no stars in the sky in any Apollo photographs. None. That is impossible. The astronauts were surrounded by blazing white stars, unaffected by any atmospheric distortion. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.
6. There are multiple shadows projecting from the astronauts and from other objects standing on the lunar surface, shadows of different lengths. That is impossible. There was no other source of illumination besides the SUN, all of which (obviously) came from the exact same direction. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.
7. Earth never appears in a single NASA photo allegedly taken by an astronaut standing on the moon. Not one. If you were NASA, wouldn’t you want, for publicity purposes if none other, MANY shots of astronauts – may be of every single astronaut – posing “next to” the Earth? Maybe even appearing to HOLD Earth in his upturned palm?
8. With 1/6 the gravity of Earth, the “rooster tail” of dust kicked up behind the wheels of the “dune buggy” (lunar rover) should have gone up SIX TIMES as high as it would on Earth when traveling at the same speed. But it does not. It also comes back down in sheets – SHEETS! That is impossible in zero atmosphere. The dust should have come back down in the exact same smooth arc it went up in.
9. The folded lunar rover could not physically have fit in the allotted storage space on the lunar lander. Collier went and measured it. Space is several feet too short. Shots taken “on the moon” show the astronauts STARTING to unhitch the compartment and remove the rover but then cut away. When they pan back, the rover has been unfolded. How conveeeeeeenient!
10. The lunar lander crashed – CRASHED – during its only test flight on Earth. So why was it further test flown by attempting to land it ON THE MOON? If you were an astronaut’s wife, would you go along with that?
11. None of the Apollo astronauts has ever written an “I Went To The Moon” book or other such memoirs.
12. There is more – much, much more. The location of the directional thrusters, the smoky visibility of the burning rocket fuel, etc. …
Now ask yourself, if in fact we did NOT land on the moon and the American public ever discovers that fact, do you think their eyes and minds might be opened just a teeny bit to the HUNDREDS of already discovered and CONFIRMED acts of government deception?
Such as the FACT that a Social Security Number is NOT required by law? How about the limited imposition of the income tax? How about Gulf War Syndrome? How about abandoned soldiers in Korea and Vietnam? Gee, how about the entire New World Order?
NASA is stonewalling Collier completely. No response. No rebuttal. No denial. Just dead silence. Perhaps a few MILLION Americans should begin turning up the heat by asking NASA and their elected officials these same questions. But first, they simply MUST buy and view Collier’s video, “It’s Only A Paper Moon”.
Order by sending check or money order for F$19.95 plus F$3 S/H to:
Victoria Press House, 67 Wall Street, Suite 2411, New York, NY 10005
Oh, by the way, Grumman and Northrop corporations, developers and manufacturers of the lunar lander and the lunar rover, told Collier that all of the original blueprints and design records were destroyed. Not lost, misplaced or in the Smithsonian proudly displaying the history and development of this monumental feat of human engineering and accomplishment. DESTROYED.
Ready? Sing along, gang! And a one, and a two, …
“It’s only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea, but it wouldn’t be make-believe if you believed in me.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.aero-web.org/stories/philrowe/barnone.htm | 2023-01-27T07:12:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764494974.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20230127065356-20230127095356-00394.warc.gz | 0.979225 | 1,341 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__208322970 | en | This was the start of an exercise our Wing Commander would never forget. The Bar None simulation of a nuclear war launch of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) bomber force was under way. The name meant exactly what it said. All airplanes on the base must take part, one way or another, barring none. This was the severest test for both the flight crews and the maintenance technicians. And it came as a surprise.
First, planes on Alert Status responded to the klaxon by racing to the end of the runway, as if to launch during a real nuclear war situation. Then they taxied to the main flight line for downloading of bombs and armament, preparation for actual launch and flight on a simulated mission halfway across the country.
The workload on the maintenance and munitions specialists was daunting, made even more so by the miserable weather. With hands freezing, tools as cold as ice, and supervisors barking "Hurry up", the technicians slaved to get the job done. Getting that first wave of planes airborne was top priority, but so was safety and the caution necessary when dealing with nuclear weapons and live ammunition. Mistakes were not allowed.
Meanwhile, Alert flight crews faced two special challenges, rigorous written examinations on procedures related to deployment of our nuclear forces, where the only passing score is 100 percent. Then they'd fly the simulated war mission, to launch within hours. The pressure was as realistic as the SAC inspection team could make it.
The exercise was not unexpected, for each bomber unit was given a Bar None test once a year. The date and time, however, is never known, so it really came as a surprise. Even the actual start fooled those in Wing headquarters, for the inspection team arrived on a common military transport. Those planes were nothing unusual, arriving and departing at bases across the country at all hours as a matter of routine. One never knew whether an arriving transport was carrying ordinary cargo or bringing the inspection team.
Flight crews received weather briefings and then loaded their gear for the mission. Groups of 15 planes, the same number normally on alert, readied for takeoff. The interval between planes, roaring down the runway into the snowy darkness was 30 seconds, barely twice that allowed for a launch under real wartime conditions.
Just as the first wave was launched, maintenance teams readied the next group of 15, to be manned by flight crews not on Alert Duty when the klaxon sounded. Eventually, every plane and every crew would participate, though there were more crews than planes. That meant that maintenance people would have to turn returning planes around as soon as possible for the extra crews to fly.
The Wing Commander and his senior staff were under great pressure to ensure that things went right, and that safety prevailed. No matter how well the crews and technicians performed, an accident or mishap endangering personnel or equipment could mean instant failure for the entire unit. It would be days before the leaders got any sleep.
The weather got worse, though some couldn't imagine how. Clouds lowered and soon the base neared closure. When ceilings and visibility got below 300 feet and a half mile, all flying would have to stop. Only during actual wartime would the commander order airplane launches under below-minimums weather conditions. As realistic as the Bar None exercise felt, it was still just that, an exercise and not the real thing.
Activity in the Command Post, the communications nerve center for the Wing, was hectic. Messages came and went at a frantic pace. Status boards, reflecting the condition and readiness of each airplane, constantly changed as reports came in from the flightline and Maintenance Control.
Weather reports on the ever-worsening winter storm changed every few minutes. Actions by flight crews were gathered and data posted. Engine starts, taxi-outs and take-offs were recorded. Relayed radio reports from the planes, reflecting rendezvous with aerial tankers, completion of simulated bomb runs at distant targets, and condition of planes and their systems on their way home were recorded. The Commander was kept informed of hundreds of ever-changing conditions.
Getting that first wave of planes back quickly was vital, for those planes had to be put right back on Alert. One measure of the unit's performance was how soon the Alert Force could be "re-constituted". So progress of the first crews was monitored closely.
The weather would not cooperate. It soon became obvious that the planes of the first wave, all 15 of them, might not return to their Indiana home base. The airfield was officially closed just before the first plane was due back over the field, and the Wing Commander was tearing out the last remaining hairs on his already-balding head. Planes would have to be diverted to an alternate air base.
The forecaster predicted no improvement for several hours, meaning that there was no way to have the returning planes hold in orbit, awaiting improved weather.
Reluctantly, the Commander ordered them to divert to the one other B-58 base capable of support and helping them return later, Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas.
Flight crews weren't greatly displeased to receive the word to divert to Carswell, for there it was warm and clear. Crew rest rules dictated that they should have at least twelve hours on the ground before having to take off for Indiana. They were expected to sleep eight of those hours.
Bad weather also precluded launching of the second wave of bombers. Two-thirds of the planes were either airborne or now ready to fly. The others would follow, but getting the first group back was imperative. Tensions rose, nerves frayed and tempers flared as fatigue settled on top of frustration.
It was more than 24 hours after the first plane left before it was able to return. Soon 12 of the 15 landed back in Indiana. Three were delayed by mechanical problems discovered in Texas, not to return for another twelve hours. The Commander was happy to have some planes back home, but frustrated by the things he could not control, weather and mechanical failures.
The Alert Force was re-constituted, piece-meal, at the 49th hour. Fortunately, the SAC evaluation team leader judged that the unit should not be penalized for the weather delays. This, after all, was an exercise and not the real thing.
SAC Bar None exercises truly test every man, plane and resource of the organization. From the lowest G.I. on the flight line or in the shops, to the senior staff and the Commander himself, all performed at their very best. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.igorbnews.com/2019/09/aug-22-2019-russian-humanoid-robot.html | 2019-11-20T13:58:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670559.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20191120134617-20191120162617-00357.warc.gz | 0.974558 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__127767005 | en | The robot is known as Skybot F-850 or FEDOR. The weight of it is 350 pounds. FEDOR robots were developed by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects. The Russian name is also an acronym for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research. The robot can create movements like the commander and operator of the flight. Originally it was used for rescue operations, but later its use was expanded to space operations. In April 2017, a video of FEDOR shooting guns caused some media alarm. But of course, they are not really creating a Terminator.
On August 22, 2019, the robot was launched to the International Space Station. It is scheduled to spend a week and a half aboard the orbital outpost. The robot was strapped into the commander’s seat during the flight. The robot, Skybot F-850, carries sensors to measure launch vibrations, accelerations and other environmental factors. It is scheduled to return to Earth on Sept. 6.
A Soyuz 2.1a rocket was used to power the flight. The primary goal of the flight is to verify the suitability of the upgraded Soyuz-2.1a booster to make launches. The rocket was successful. It also already successfully launched other unpiloted cargo ships, although there was a malfunction in 2015. The next Soyuz crew is scheduled for launch on Sept. 25. The launching marked the first unpiloted flight of a Soyuz spacecraft in 33 years. | aerospace | 1 |
https://aerospace.technion.ac.il/seminars/multi-hotwire-probe-sensitivity-optimization-in-constant-temperature-anemometry-cta-for-transonic-flows/ | 2022-06-29T00:56:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103619185.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628233925-20220629023925-00739.warc.gz | 0.86501 | 257 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__191606266 | en | Multi-Hotwire Probe Sensitivity Optimization in Constant Temperature Anemometry (Cta) for Transonic Flows
Work towards MSc degree under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Beni Cukurel
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
A simple optimization method is proposed for multi-wire CTA probe design. The optimization computes the sensitivities to density, velocity and total temperature for each wire, based on empirical Nu – M – Re and ƞ – M – Re correlation for heated cylinders in compressible flow. This correlation is a reasonable estimator for the compressibility effect, enabling the reduction to M-independent relation. The output is a set of optimal wire temperatures and diameters, recommended for probe production. Following the manufacturing, it is necessary to calibrate each wire for Re – Nu relationship and apply together with the empirical compressibility relation. The technique allows the use of a single probe with multiple wires across a range of transonic flows with various conditions.
The talk will be given in English
Wed, 23-08-2017, 16:30 (Gathering at 16:00)Classroom 165, ground floor, Library, Aerospace Eng.
Light refreshments will be served before the lecture | aerospace | 1 |
http://avstop.com/news2/Boeing_787_dreamliner_goes_from_delopment_to_production.htm | 2023-06-08T14:33:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655027.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608135911-20230608165911-00485.warc.gz | 0.904312 | 533 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__249527206 | en | Boeing 787 Dreamliner Goes From Development To Production
On January 28, 2005, the aircraft's development designation 7E7 was
changed to 787. Early released concept images depicted a radical design
with highly curved surfaces. On April 26, 2005, a year after the launch
of the program, the final and more conventional external 787 design was
Its maximum seating capacity in a one-class configuration is between 290 to 330 passengers depending on variant. Boeing states that it will be more fuel-efficient than earlier Boeing airliners and will be the first major airliner to use composite materials for most of its construction.
Boeing featured its first 787 in a roll-out ceremony on July 8, 2007, at
The modification entails installing new fittings at 34 stringer
locations within the joint where the wing is attached to the fuselage.
Installations have been completed.
"Completing this work is a significant step toward first flight. We
continue to be pleased with the progress of the team and remain
confident the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner will occur before the
end of the year," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager
of the 787 program. "We will test the modification on the full-scale
static test airframe later this month. As soon as we confirm the loads
are being handled appropriately in the joint we will complete preflight
activities on the airplane."
Once the modification is complete on the static test airframe, it will
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https://www.myprogrammingschool.com/2020/10/spacex-northrop-seek-to-break-launch-gremlin-curse-with-friday-night-attempts-my-programming-school/ | 2020-10-29T01:15:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107902683.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029010437-20201029040437-00331.warc.gz | 0.91892 | 849 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__98338201 | en | SpaceX has an enormous launch on faucet for this night, delivering a beneficial satellite tv for pc into orbit for the US Space Force. With a liftoff time of 9:43pm ET (01:43 UTC Saturday), the corporate’s Falcon 9 rocket is due to ship a fourth GPS III satellite tv for pc into geostationary switch orbit. Weather circumstances look good, with a 70 p.c likelihood of “go” circumstances.
Built by Lockheed Martin, the GPS III satellites have been designed to modernize the present Global Positioning System constellation, offering 3 times better accuracy and improved anti-jamming capabilities. This mission will launch on a brand new Falcon 9 first stage, however SpaceX and the Space Force have reached an settlement that may enable future GPS missions to launch on flight-confirmed rockets.
While the payload is essential, maybe extra intriguing this night in Florida will probably be whether or not this mission truly will get off the launch pad. The final week has seen a succession of US launch attempts canceled for points primarily associated to floor methods.
Here’s a rundown of all the delayed launches within the final week from launch pads in Florida, Texas, and Virginia:
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New Shepard, experimental flight
September twenty fifth: As the suborbital New Shepard launch system was counting down towards liftoff, the launch was known as off due an unspecified “technical issue.”
New launch date: At the time, Blue Origin mentioned a brand new launch goal can be “forthcoming,” however no new date has been set.
Delta IV Heavy, NROL-44 mission
September twenty sixth: A day earlier than liftoff, the categorised mission is delayed due to an issue with the launch pad’s swing arm retraction system.
September twenty ninth: Lightning within the space, and a hydraulic leak within the Mobile Service scrubbed the launch hours earlier than liftoff.
September thirtieth: Scrubbed at T-7 seconds due to “an unexpected condition” prior to the engine begin sequence.
New launch date: United Launch Alliance has not set a brand new date for what would be the fifth launch try of this mission.
Falcon 9, Starlink-12 mission
October 1: At T-18 seconds, an “unexpected ground sensor reading” triggered an automated abort.
New launch date: The unconfirmed launch goal is 8:34am ET (12:34 UTC) on Saturday.
Antares 230, NASA provide mission
October 1: At T-2 minutes 40 seconds, launch scrubbed due to floor software program problem.
New launch date: Northrup Grumman says it can try to launch once more at 9:16pm ET Friday (01:16 UTC Saturday).
Back-to-back launches forward
As a results of these six scrubs in per week, it’s a bit exceptional to suppose that the final rocket to truly raise off from US soil got here again on September 12. Can you guess which one? It was truly Astra’s Rocket 3.1, flying briefly from a spaceport in Kodiak Alaska. The final rocket to achieve delivering a payload to orbit was SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster, with the Starlink-11 mission on September 3.
Depending on how their countdowns proceed on Friday night, it is attainable that Northrop’s Antares rocket may launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, and the Falcon 9 rocket may take off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station lower than half an hour later.
Additionally, ought to SpaceX efficiently launch the GPS III satellite tv for pc on Friday night, there may be the potential to launch its Starlink-12 mission from a separate Florida pad—Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center—lower than 12 hours later. This would shatter the corporate’s present report of just below 48 hours between a December 3, 2018 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and a December 5 launch from Cape Canaveral.
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A video has gone viral on Twitter showing a couple of armed Hellenic Air Force (HAF) F-16s during an extremely dangerous high-g, high-speed low pass over an undisclosed Greek air base.
🇬🇷 Vipers hugging the deck and ripping it up, or as the Greeks would say, cutting the grass. pic.twitter.com/dMAmgdnpjT
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On this External Cygnus Deployment mission, NanoRacks deployed 14 satellites with customers that included Spire, Asgardia, Tyvak, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and more. Also a part of this External Cygnus manifest were The Aerospace Corporation’s Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (Aerocube 7B/C) satellites, water-based propulsion smallsats. The ISARA and Aerocube 7B/C satellites deployed in this mission were funded through NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP), which is chartered to develop and mature technologies to enhance and expand the capabilities of small spacecraft with a particular focus on communications, propulsion, pointing, power, and autonomous operations.
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A space station is a crewed satellite designed to remain in low Earth orbit for a long period of time. In general, space stations have the ability for other spacecraft to dock to them. As ofthe International Space Station is the only operational crewed space station currently in orbit.
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Also included in the book are many full-color pictures showing the concepts from the early days to concepts of Space Station Freedom, and photographs from the Skylab, Salyut, Mir, and ISS programs.
I did feel the Salyut and Mir stations got kind of short-changed in this book. Also, coverage of the actual missions to Skylab was rather by: 6. A space station, also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station, is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time that lacks major propulsion or landing systems.
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This lavishly illustrated book explains the development of space stations from the earliest fictional visions through historical and current. The first two stations were fictional, but Mir was a real space station back in the ’90s.
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Nigeria’s bold attempt to migrate from terrestrial air navigation to a satellite based navigation system, known as Performance Based Navigation (PBN) has received a boost as two foreign airlines tested the new approach procedures with their pilots landing successfully at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.
Emirates Airlines was first to carry out the approach test on Global Navigation Satellite System [GNSS] in Lagos while KLM recorded same in Kano.
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Port Harcourt International Airport are listed among the first four major airports in the country to undergo the pilot scheme.
To operate on GNSS, aircraft are expected to be equipped with necessary prescribed gadgets on board for easy link with the satellite for seamless navigation and communication to designated airports.
The pilots of the two foreign airlines, while making approaches to land at these airports, had little or no contact with the air traffic controllers except that they were under close watch and monitoring on the radar.
Speaking on the development, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Mr Mazi Nnamdi Udoh described the development as a great achievement in the current drive of transforming the nation’s aviation industry by the Federal Government.
‘’With the success recorded in our quest of moving from terrestrial to satellite based air navigation system, Nigeria has joined the league of big countries that are already operating the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)’s endorsed air navigation programme’’, Udoh remarked.
The NAMA boss explained that the operation of the PBN would save cost for the airlines as they would burn less fuel during take- off and landing, reduce carbon dioxide emission and air traffic controllers’ workload.
NAMA commenced the transformation with the completion of the N360million World Geodetic Survey (WGS-84) of the country’s 22 airports and the procedural design of the four major airports in 2010.
Controllers, Pilots, Nigerian Civil Aviation [NCAA],Nigerian Air Force[NAF],Nigerian College of Aviation Technology [NCAT] and the Presidential fleet.
They are being trained by a PBN expert, Ed Hajek from the International Air Transport Association [IATA], Montreal, Canada.
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— David Brody, XTI Aircraft Co-Founder
DENVER, COLORADO, USA, October 21, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ -- XTI Aircraft Company (XTI) announced that veteran industry executive Charlie Johnson has joined XTI as its Chief Operating Officer, effective October 20. He joins XTI after four years as a member of XTI’s board of directors and also was the company’s interim CEO during 2016.
“We couldn’t be more pleased to have Charlie rejoin the executive team,” said Robert LaBelle, XTI’s Chief Executive Officer. “Charlie has already made significant contributions to the company through his active role as a director,” LaBelle said. “This is excellent timing for him to take over as COO and help bring the revolutionary TriFan 600 vertical takeoff airplane to the business aircraft market.”
I'm looking forward to my broader participation and expanding committment with XTI," Johnson said. "The Tri-Fan, as a long-range vertical takeoff and business aircraft, definitely will play a major role in what truly represents the future of flight." We are on a strong trajectory and accelerating path to reach our goals!"
Shortly after XTI’s formation, Johnson joined XTI as the third member of the company’s board of directors. He stepped into the CEO role on an interim basis during 2016. Johnson will retain his position as a board member as he assumes the COO role.
“As the former president and COO of Cessna Aircraft and as a member of The Living Legends of Aviation, and The Colorado and Kansas Aviation Halls of fame Charlie is truly a legend in the business,” said XTI founder and Chairman, David Brody. “We’re looking forward to his taking on this important role in the company, as well as his continuing contributions and guidance as a board member.”
On August 5, 2019, XTI issued an update on its operations. “We conducted a series of successful initial hover tests earlier this year, we announced a major collaboration with GE Aviation at Oshkosh in July of this year, and we’ve received 81 orders for the airplane so far,” said LaBelle in that announcement. “That represents over a half billion dollars in gross revenues upon delivery.”
The TriFan is a major breakthrough in aviation and air travel. The six-seat TriFan 600 will have the speed, range and comfort of a luxury business aircraft and the ability to take off and land vertically, like a helicopter. It will travel at 345 miles an hour, with a range of up to 1,400 miles. Using three ducted fans, the TriFan lifts off vertically. Its two wing fans then rotate forward for a seamless transition to cruise speed and its initial climb. It will reach 30,000 feet in just ten minutes and cruise to the destination as a highly efficient business aircraft.
“The market continues to recognize the value proposition of our unique and revolutionary airplane and its patented technology,” said LaBelle. “Vertical takeoff combined with long-range, the speed and comfort of a business aircraft, and our quieter and cleaner state-of-the-art hybrid-electric propulsion system.”
Shares in XTI may be purchased for $1.50 a share at https://www.startengine.com/xti-aircraft, providing a unique opportunity for the general public to invest in an aerospace company with a game-changing product, a world-class leadership team, and what the company believes presents significant growth potential. Potential investors should read the Offering Circular before investing.
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XTI Aircraft Company is a privately owned aviation business based near Denver, founded in 2012. XTI is guided by a leadership team with decades of experience, a deep well of expertise, and success bringing new aircraft to market. XTI is founded on a culture of customer-focused problem solving to meet the evolving needs of modern travelers.
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The exponential rise in debris cluttering Earth orbits poses formidable technical, political, financial, and legal challenges, from threatening satellites and space stations to impacting Earth to potentially provoking international conflict. How is the space debris situation evolving? Who is responsible for the management of Earth orbit? How should we approach debris removal and growth mitigation? Can the history of orbital debris help us achieve a safe and sustainable future in space?
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The Space Policy and History Forum is a collaboration of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. | aerospace | 1 |
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- The smallest aircraft operated by Lufthansa flying between Frankfurt and Mexico City is a 737 with 103 seats.
- The shortest connecting flight from Frankfurt to Mexico City is 18 hours, 50 minutes on Lanperu.
- Lufthansa has the most nonstop flights between Frankfurt and Mexico City.
- 122 flights per week fly out of Frankfurt connecting to Mexico City.
- The largest aircraft operated by Czech flying between Frankfurt and Mexico City is a 32S with 158 seats.
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Traveling on the route and need hotel in Mexico City? Choose from more than 45,000 hotels. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.rocketnews.com/2020/03/oceangate-chooses-toray-cma-to-make-carbon-fiber-for-its-titanic-submersibles/ | 2020-03-29T09:10:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370494064.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20200329074745-20200329104745-00419.warc.gz | 0.872512 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__220667167 | en | OceanGate’s Titan submersible made use of carbon composite for its pressurized hull, and the company’s future submersibles will up the ante when it comes to carbon fiber. (OceanGate Photo)
Toray CMA is the world’s largest supplier of carbon fiber and the leader in providing fibers for numerous aircraft, including the Boeing 777 and 787. The company’s U.S. head office is in Tacoma, Wash.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush said in a statement that Toray CMA “will play a critical role as we develop the next generation of manned submersible, to usher in a new era of exploration using aerospace-quality composites.”
Toray CMA’s vice president | aerospace | 1 |
https://msis.jsc.nasa.gov/volume2/Appx_h/ls36.htm | 2021-01-28T12:43:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704843561.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210128102756-20210128132756-00361.warc.gz | 0.922099 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__199758343 | en | Often questions arise concerning the illumination of exterior areas of the spacecraft not reached by direct sunlight.
One might expect the side away from the sun to be dark but light reflected from the
Earth or "Earth shine" provides ample illumination.
As the sun sets the external EVA lights are turned on to provide area lighting.
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equal EVA work when the spacecraft is on the night side of the Earth. | aerospace | 1 |
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PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus is considering beefing up its A330 passenger jet in a bid to expand a recent winning sales streak for the junior member of its wide-body jet family, the planemaker said on Monday.
While the twin-engined aircraft, in service since the 1990s, is enjoying a second honeymoon with airlines due, in part, to delays in Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, analysts say it faces a threat from a possible stretched version of the 787.
An Airbus spokeswoman said a decision on how to enhance the A330 would be taken in the second half of the year.
The EADS unit is considering increasing the maximum amount of weight the A330 can carry by up to 5 tonnes and adding drag-reducing wingtip devices called “sharklets” — upward-slanting wingtips designed to help the aircraft fly further on the same amount of fuel.
They are already planned for the smaller narrowbody A320 and similar devices appear on some Boeing 757s.
A330 sales have flourished in the past two years as Boeing encountered delays in bringing out its carbon-composite 787, which recently entered service.
It has shorter range than either the 787 or Airbus’s planned carbon-fibre alternative, the future A350, but has sold well to airlines operating intermediate long-haul routes.
With the changes under consideration, the A330 would be able to lift up to 240 tonnes at take-off, Airbus said — an increase of 5 tonnes for the most popular variant, the A330-300, and 2 tonnes for the A330-200.
Increasing the maximum take-off weight allows airlines to add more fuel to carry the same number of people and their baggage further, or else carry a larger payload.
France’s La Tribune newspaper said the moves to increase the maximum tolerated weight at take-off would add 7 percent to the range of the A330, potentially giving it a range over 7,000 nautical miles.
With a three-class layout, the A330-300 carries 295 people up to 5,650 nautical miles or 10,500 kilometres, while the A330-200 — a later spin-off with a shorter fuselage and more range — takes 253 people up to 12,500 km.
Boeing has said it was considering a stretched version of its 787 called the 787-10 that would carry about 300 people approximately 6,800 nautical miles.
The move has been described by an industry official familiar with Boeing pre-marketing as a potential “A330 killer”.
The skirmish addresses a lucrative niche of the industry alongside high-profile battles between the A350 and Boeing’s 787 and the older but larger 777, which had record sales last year.
Airbus has said the carbon A350 will eventually outshine the 777 because it will be lighter and cheaper to run, while Boeing was expected to make similar claims about the 787-10 against the A330, which stems from roughly the same era as the 777.
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Boeing is looking at expansive and more modest changes to the 777 widebody to keep the product viable, but a strategy decision is not likely soon, says Air Lease Corp. Chairman and CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy.
Boeing is already in talks with potential customers about the so-called 777X, says Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Jim Albaugh.
Some of the proposals being looked at include a brand-new engine to replace the GE90, which General Electric would first have to develop, Udvar-Hazy says.
Also on the agenda are potentially a new wing, or, at least, aerodynamic improvements.
Udvar-Hazy says the options range from major changes to a Band-Aid approach to keep the aircraft competitive versus the Airbus A350-1000.
Some options are “extremely costly, in terms of development and would involve significant redesign of the airplane,” he says.
The near-term focus for Boeing will be on getting the 787 into customer hands, he adds, so, “I don’t think Boeing is going to come to any quick decision.”
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With millions of fans all over the world trying to fly to South Africa to root for their favorite teams in the famed World Cup, airliners have also joined in the hype like KLM Royal Dutch Airlines recently placing more flights bound for Africa. And the battle between Spain and Germany on Wednesday could result to a multi-million dollar bonus for airlines as thousands of fans flock to South Africa hoping to watch the game live.
KLM was quoting EUR€4,000 for an economy ticket leaving on Friday and returning Tuesday, but seats were available for about EUR€1,450 with a longer stay as seen on the company’s website.
As the game finals are drawing near, a showdown between the world’s three major airlines alliances wherein each has a flag carrier representing one of the remaining teams have sprung.
Merged in 2004, KLM and its sister airline, Air France, are part of the Skyteam alliance. Iberia, together with its planned merger partner British Airways, is part of the “oneworld” global airlines club. Germany’s Lufthansa and South African Airways are part of the Star Alliance.
KLM will add four flights to Johannesburg, three from Amsterdam and one from Paris. A spokeswoman of Air France said that the airline already operates an A380 superjumbo daily from Paris to Johannesburg and could bring in another 250-seat Boeing 777-200.
The A380 Superjumbo jet of Air France
Last month, Lufthansa flew the German team to South Africa on its recently acquired A380 and is hoping the world’s largest airliner will bring luck to the team. Spokesman Jan Baerwalde said “If they win the Cup, we have promised to bring the team back again on the A380.”
Lufthansa's newly delivered A380 superjumbo jet
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In a meeting with his Russian counterpart last week, President Barack Obama lauded Russian Technologies plan to buy 50 Boeing 737s.
“I am especially pleased that Boeing and Russian Technologies are moving forward with a $4 billion deal on 50 Boeing 737s,” Obama said.
Russian Technologies (Rostechnologii) announced June 1 that it had chosen Boeing’s 737 over Airbus’ A320 for the large new narrow-body airliner order. The state-owned company operates carrier Rosavia and is working with Aeroflot on a deal for that carrier to lease some of the jets.
Thursday last week, Boeing announced it had signed a five-year contract extension with Russia’s VSMPO AVISMA Corp. and an agreement with Innovation Center of Skolkovo, Russia, during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s U.S. visit.
VSMPO AVISM has supplied raw material and titanium parts to Boeing since 1997. The extension continues deliveries of titanium forgings and rough-machined titanium forgings for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, 777 and 737 aircraft through 2015.
“This contract is another milestone in Boeing’s longstanding relationship with Russian Technologies/VSMPO-AVISMA — our strategic partner and supplier in Russia,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Jim Albaugh said in a news release.
Boeing expects to spend as much as $27 billion on Russian titanium, aerospace design-engineering services and other services and materials over the next 30 years.
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FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the company that invented overnight shipping 38 years ago, has made international express shipping even faster with the unveiling today of its first Boeing 777 Freighter (777F) during ceremonies with The Boeing Company in Everett, Wash. FedEx Express is the first U.S.-based global all-cargo freight airline to take delivery of the 777F, and has placed the largest order for the aircraft model to date.
“The Boeing 777 is an extraordinary testament to our dedication to fleet enhancement, allowing FedEx Express to provide unmatched services to our customers around the world” said David J. Bronczek, president and chief executive officer, FedEx Express. “Its payload capacity, range and environmental efficiencies create well-rounded, long-term strategic value for our company in meeting the global shipping demands of customers.”
Introduction of the 777F to the FedEx fleet of more than 650 aircraft expands what is already the world’s largest cargo airline. Its international routes will provide service benefits to customers and enhance the efficiency of the FedEx Express global network.
The 777F is the world’s largest twin-engine cargo aircraft. Its flight range, the equivalent of about 6,675 land miles, or nearly three times the approximate distance between the east and west coasts of the U.S., is the longest of any two-engine freighter, with a payload capacity of 215,000 pounds (98 metric tons).
This represents an increase in range of more than 2,400 miles and an additional 14,000pounds of payload over the MD-11 freighter, which until now has been the primary long-haul aircraft in the company’s fleet.
The global freighter’s range enables FedEx Express to fly between major markets and hubs in Asia, Europe and the U.S. with more freight and in less time than it takes today, allowing latercut-off times for customers in the markets to drop off their shipments. For example, 777F transit times from points in Asia to the U.S. will be from one to three hours faster than those of the MD-11.
By April 2010, FedEx Express plans to have four 777Fs serving routes between Asia and the U.S. In all, there will be 15 777Fs in the company’s fleet by the end of fiscal 2014; FedEx Express also has a second order of 15 777Fs, which will be delivered between fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2019, and holds options on 15 more 777Fs. | aerospace | 1 |
https://burjnews.com/chinese-flying-car-makes-first-public-flight-in-uae/ | 2024-02-22T10:36:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473738.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222093910-20240222123910-00591.warc.gz | 0.963813 | 181 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__49693711 | en | A “flying car” built by Chinese electronic vehicle maker Xpeng Inc made its first public flight in the United Arab Emirates.
According to the company sources, the brand is totally working towards launching electric aircraft on international markets.
The X2 is a two-seater electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that is lifted by eight propellers — two at each corner of the vehicle.
Monday’s unmanned, 90-second test flight in Dubai was described by its manufacturer as an “important base for the next generation of flying cars.”
“We are making step-by-step (moves) to the international market,” said Minguan Qiu, general manager of Xpeng Aeroht. “First we selected Dubai city because Dubai is the most innovative city in the world.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.cap.news/missour-squadrons-hold-advance-commemoration-of-cap-anniversary/ | 2024-02-24T09:42:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474526.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224080616-20240224110616-00219.warc.gz | 0.935495 | 487 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__25940462 | en | Missouri Squadrons Hold Advance Commemoration of CAP Anniversary
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Three Missouri Wing squadrons got a head start Sept. 18 – birthday of the U.S. Air Force – on celebrating the 80th anniversary of Civil Air Patrol’s founding.
The observation brought hundreds of all ages to Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield to meet pilots of numerous aircraft, including current and vintage CAP planes and World War II and modern aircraft. Members of St. Louis area squadrons -- the Gateway Senior Squadron and St. Louis and Wentzville composite squadrons – told them about CAP’s missions, programs and history.
Members staffed booths on aerospace education, showed off the aircraft and equipment needed for emergency services missions, and provided refreshments. Senior members and cadets helped ensure the aircraft ramp was secure and that visitors were able to park safely in overflow lots.
Twenty aircraft were on display, including an Air National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, a World War II B-25 Mitchell bomber, a T-28 Trojan, a CAP Cessna 172 and Cessna 182, a police helicopter, and vintage aircraft, including an L-2, L-3 and L-16.
Elite Aviation offered introductory Cessna 172 flights, and the Youth Aviation Museum in Creve Coeur brought its restored F-4 Phantom II cockpit and pedal aircraft for children to pretend to fly.
“It’s fulfilling to be part of such a proud past and an organization with the agility to meet the missions of the future,” said the Gateway squadron’s historian, 1st Lt. Larry Corbin.
Lt. Col. Keith G. Monteith, Gateway squadron commander, spearheaded the effort to commemorate CAP’s creation on Dec. 1, 1941.
“We received an overwhelming amount of support from Elite Aviation, the premier Cessna Pilot Center at Spirit of St Louis Airport, and our community, be it the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Army National Guard and local aviation organizations and aircraft owners, to put on this celebration of CAP’s history as well as inform the public of our capabilities and contribution to the nation,” Monteith said. “It was a team effort.” | aerospace | 1 |
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https://floridapolitics.com/archives/498071-space-florida-decries-lack-of-financing-money-in-budget-bills-2/ | 2022-08-19T08:22:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573630.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819070211-20220819100211-00682.warc.gz | 0.958827 | 593 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__143217839 | en | Both the Senate and House budget bills lack $6 million requested by Space Florida and the Governor for a financing fund, leading officials to plead for it Tuesday.
Space Florida President Frank DiBello and the agency’s board chair, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, decried the lack of funding as damaging to current and future space business development efforts.
The annual $6 million appropriation for Space Florida would be used to set up financing for aerospace companies agreeing to build in Florida, particularly on the Space Coast.
“Failure to support the financing fund this year will have a serious (effect) and be detrimental to our current and planned new activity. But worse, it will send the wrong message to the marketplace: that Florida is backing away from this industry,” DiBello told the Space Florida Board of Directors Tuesday.
He raised the prospect of growing competition for the space business from California, Texas, Virginia and elsewhere, saying, “This is not the time for Florida to unilaterally disarm.”
Nuñez agreed, noting Gov. Ron DeSantis had proposed $6 million this year. She told the rest of the board, “It is critically important, as Frank has explained.”
The fund has been a regular part of the agency’s budget for 10 years. It has created a pool of available money for Space Florida to put together creative financing offers and to help companies set up shop, including Blue Origin’s rocket factory and OneWeb’s satellite factory. Others are in the works.
The board authorized such a deal Tuesday.
The board gave DiBello and his staff authorization to work out final details of an agreement with an undisclosed company code-named “Project Constitution.” Space Florida Executive Vice President Howard Haug said the company proposed investing $90 million at an undisclosed site in Florida for an aerospace business that would result in 100 high-paying jobs by 2025. Space Florida would create a conduit financing package covering lease and sublease agreements, construction and equipment acquisition of up to $60 million.
The financing portion of Space Florida’s budget — the agency still is in line for $11.5 million in operating funds, as usual — has often been a battle in the Legislature. Last year, the full $6 million was restored in conference committee after the Senate bill proposed only $3 million.
This year, however, both chambers’ bills zeroed out the line, DiBello said.
“Some were surprised. Others offered differing suggestions as to why this has happened. But no one has expressed concern regarding the overall performance of our program or Space Florida. So any reasons on the ‘why’ would be speculation at this point,” he said.
DiBello said Democratic Sen. Audrey Gibson and Republican Sen. Tom Wright got a placeholder inserted for future negotiations. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/mysterious-sighting-american-airlines-flight-phoenix-76096003 | 2021-04-12T02:50:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038066568.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20210412023359-20210412053359-00107.warc.gz | 0.918712 | 93 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__257593527 | en | Transcript for Mysterious sighting during American Airlines flight to Phoenix
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This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. | aerospace | 1 |
http://koreabizwire.com/korean-air-plane-involved-in-minor-tail-strike-at-japanese-airport/116582 | 2020-11-26T23:52:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141189030.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20201126230216-20201127020216-00583.warc.gz | 0.967015 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__70487891 | en | SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air Lines Co. said Tuesday one of its passenger jets hit its tail on the runway while landing at a Japanese airport, although no there were no injuries and no damage to the plane.
On Monday morning at Kansai International Airport, the tail section of the South Korean flag carrier’s B737-900 jet made contact with the runway just as it touched down, causing the pilots to take off again. The plane circled the airport once before making a landing with no further incident, the company said.
A total of 91 crew members and passengers were on board and the Japanese authorities sent officials to look into what caused the strike, it said.
The transport ministry said it plans to investigate the incident by checking the findings of the Japanese authorities.
Aviation experts have said that stretched variants of the Boeing jets, like the B737′s 800 and 900, are more prone to tail strikes during landings and takeoffs and are equipped with special skids to reduce damage to the fuselage. | aerospace | 1 |
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Our programs are delivered in English as well as French and language courses can also be added to your training.
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55 hours dual instrcution flight time, including :
- 5 hours of travel flight;
- 10 hours of instrument flight.
35 hours solo flight time, including :
- 10 hours of navigation
- Travel flight of at least 2 hours with 3 landings, other than the departure point
- Licence will be restricted to “day flight only.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.adellelijah.com/blog/2010/12/26/cuddle-class-brought-to-you-by-air-new-zealand | 2019-10-16T08:31:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986666467.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20191016063833-20191016091333-00393.warc.gz | 0.968532 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__120675768 | en | As the main cabin door of an airliner comes to a close, look around closely. You see passengers either looking out over their seats hoping for that rare chance that they can occupy a space without a middle traveler or crossing their fingers and praying to the gate agent gods that no one comes in between them and a faux first class seat. I, for one, am reduced to hoping for any open seat which usually crowns me as the bearer of bad news to those eager travelers. On December 22nd, after four years of planning, a Boeing 777-300ER with the aircraft registration ZK-OKM, Air New Zealand launched an inaugural flight featuring an amazing reconfiguration of the three seat space. Dubbed "Cuddle Class" and officially known as the Skycouch, the airline offers three redesigned seats creating a space for children to play or a flat surface that acts as a futon for adults to...well...cuddle. Looking at the picture, just imagine a twin size bed for two which is better than sitting upright for more than 14 hours in an uncomfortable postion.
Passengers that are interested in this seating arrangement will have to buy two seats as well as the third middle seat for half the price and for the next 18 months, fly Air New Zealand as they will have exclusive rights to this design. Who wouldn't pay a little extra to have that bed conversion for that long haul, trans pacific flight? Peep the now internet famous two people dreaming away on their flight. What a concept! Now how do I get a flight on this aircraft so I can do a proper review of this amazing product? | aerospace | 1 |
https://plexuss.com/u/united-states-air-force-academy/certificate-programs | 2023-12-07T00:35:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100626.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206230347-20231207020347-00638.warc.gz | 0.852191 | 80 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__201412737 | en | Find out what it's like to study at United States Air Force Academy: information on rankings, majors, admissions, tuition, and alumni. Learn more about United States Air Force Academy.
2304 Cadet Drive Suite 3800, USAF Academy, CO 80840-5002, United States | (719)-333-1818
Uh oh! We have no major data for this college | aerospace | 1 |
https://dspace.xmu.edu.cn/handle/2288/86822 | 2021-08-05T20:59:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046157039.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805193327-20210805223327-00592.warc.gz | 0.899448 | 195 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__226731960 | en | Real-time simulation of satellite attitude control based on low cost embedded system
- 信息技术－会议论文
Considering the limitation of off-line simulation and the high cost of many real-time simulation equipments used in aeronautical and astronautical fields, a low-cost embedded real-time simulation system has been developed for the research of satellite attitude control. By using the mature ARM/DSP chip as the processor and the embedded Linux operating system in the target machine, and the monitoring and management interface based on the graphical programming language LabVIEW in the host computer, this system has successfully addressed key technical issues of real-time simulation. It has optimized the four essential components of the satellite attitude control closed-loop system. Initial application of the system has validated its effectiveness, and therefore proved that it will be significant in the engineering applications. 漏 2012 IEEE. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=0d911590-aecd-4ab2-9c2b-6206e7735532 | 2014-07-23T14:26:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997879037.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025759-00082-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.911775 | 536 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__148639571 | en | Tue, Jan 01, 2013
Clipper Transports Based On The NextGen 737-700 Airframe
The U.S. Navy has place a $145 million order with Boeing for two additional C-40A Clipper transport aircraft, increasing the service's ability to move military personnel and cargo around the world. The modified Next-Generation 737-700 aircraft will be the 13th and 14th C-40As in the Navy's Unique Fleet Essential Airlift Replacement Aircraft Program, which is replacing the Navy Reserve's aging fleet of DC-9-based C-9B Skytrains.
"The C-40A offers superior performance and range, 21st century avionics and quiet, fuel-efficient engines, and is increasing the Navy's capability for rapid response," said Andy Reheis, Boeing Global Transport and Executive Systems program manager. "Boeing looks forward to continuing our support of the Navy and meeting the service’s airlift needs."
The C-40A is certified to operate in an all-passenger configuration, an all-cargo variant, or as a "combi" that accommodates both cargo and passengers on the main deck.
The Boeing 737 aircraft in the C-40A program are manufactured by in Renton, WA, and sent to the company"s facility in San Antonio for modifications and certification. Boeing delivered the first C-40A to the Navy Reserve in 2001. Boeing also provides contractor logistics support for the C-40A fleet with industry partners Delta Technical Operations and J.K. Hill and Associates.
(Image provided by Boeing)
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https://www.ukwatchestore.co.uk/hamilton-replica-watches-master-of-the-air/ | 2020-08-12T08:31:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738888.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200812083025-20200812113025-00523.warc.gz | 0.936303 | 740 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__101485025 | en | — For the third consecutive year, Hamilton sponsored the Swiss Replica Watches National Aerobatics Championship. In what transcends a simple partnership, the brand shows its attachment to the world of aviation and shares its passion for the world of aeronautics with the general public.
The Reichenbach aerodrome in the Kander valley in the Bernese Oberland: A Swiss landscape worthy of the finest postcards. It is against this magnificent backdrop that the 62nd edition of the Swiss National Aerobatics Championship (SNAC), organised in collaboration with the Swiss Aerobatic Association (SAA) and Hamilton, were held. Over the course of one week, the best Swiss pilots competed at barrel rolls, tailspins and other stunts in their bid to win the title of Swiss Aerobatic Champion. Saturday was dedicated to the freestyle competition where pilots have between 3:30 and 4:00 minutes to put on a display of their choice. Spectating at an aerobatics competition is, I can assure you, a guarantee of four minutes of intense emotion with every flight! As a supporter of a number of Swiss aerodromes, Hamilton has close ties with the acrobats who perform in the skies above Switzerland. Today, four of the best acrobatic pilots in Switzerland are brand ambassadors for Hamilton.
Hamilton has been involved with aviation for a number of years. As early as 1919, its pilot’s chronograph timed the first postal service between Washington and New York, in the United States. Over the years, Hamilton’s involvement with and support of aviation professionals has increased and the brand today has a high level of legitimacy in the aeronautical world and, in particular, the world of aerobatics.
A great number of squadrons use Hamilton pilot’s Swiss cheap replica watches, such as the SnowBirds of Canada, the 123rd squadron of South Korea, the Silver Falcons of South Africa, the Patrulla Aspa of Spain and the F-16 demonstration team of the Netherlands. The brand is also the exclusive supplier to Air Zermatt – the world reference in helicopter rescue. Hamilton is also the copy watches sponsor of a number of international aviation events, such as the EEA AirVenture Oshkosh (Wisconsin, United States), which is the world’s biggest aeronautical event and attracts over 500,000 visitors every year, both members of the EAA and aviation fans. Hamilton also partners with a series of meetings in France that bring together the best pilots from around the world: the Free Flight World Masters Tour. One of the most famous participants at this event is none other than Nicolas Ivanoff, one of the world’s best acrobatic pilots and an ambassador for Hamilton.
The close cooperation between the brand and the aerobatic pilots stems from a mutual commitment. More than a simple face to a campaign, Nicolas Ivanoff is actively involved in the design of Hamilton watches, helping the brand to incorporate functions that are specifically adapted to the requirements of pilots. Most recently, he gave his input in the creation of the Hamilton Khaki Chrono WorldTimer, a Replica Rolex watch created especially for the 10th anniversary of this partnership between these two aviation fans. This quartz chronograph displays the time in 24 different time zones. Its Hamilton H-41 movement can also display Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). The Chrono WorldTimer is a reliable tool that pilots actually use when they fly. The yellow markings on the first four minutes of the dial are a tribute to aerobatics, because they correspond to the duration of a freestyle programme in competition. | aerospace | 1 |
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