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http://ukrainianjournal.com/index.php?w=article&id=29070 | 2019-05-26T09:14:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232259015.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526085156-20190526111156-00009.warc.gz | 0.933471 | 167 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__177172038 | en | KYIV, March 12 – Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv) has expanded its fleet with the sixth plane of the Embraer brand – Embraer 195.
The press service of the airline reported that the plane received the UR-EMG registration number. The plane will be used in the short-range regional network of UIA and will start performing first commercial flights in the first half of March.
"Embraer-195 UR-EMG is the first plane under the UIA fleet reengineering program in 2019. This type of aircraft will allow the airline to work more efficiently as it will be an adequate replacement for the classic generation Boeing-737 airplanes fully removed from the UIA's fleet at the end of last year," UIA Communications Director Yevhenia Satska said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/items/af092e1d-4ece-4b29-9c77-ffc1fdaf958c | 2024-04-19T07:12:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817289.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419043820-20240419073820-00505.warc.gz | 0.885987 | 463 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__9623550 | en | NASA Advanced Space Suit Pressure Garment System Status and Development Priorities 2019
This paper discusses the current focus of NASA’s Advanced Space Suit Pressure Garment Technology Development team’s efforts, the status of that work, and a summary of longer term technology development priorities and activities. The Exploration Extra-vehicular Activity Unit (xEMU) project’s International Space Station Demonstration Suit (xEMU Demo) project continues to be the team’s primary customer and effort. In 2018 the team was engaged in addressing hardware design changes identified in the Z-2 pressure garment prototype Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) test results. These changes will be discussed. Additionally components whose first iterations were produced in 2018 will be discussed. A full pressure garment prototype, termed Z-2.5, was assembled that is composed of updated and first prototype iteration hardware. Z-2.5 NBL testing, performed from October 2018 through April 2019 will inform final design iterations in preparation for the xEMU Demo preliminary design review planned to occur in the third quarter of government fiscal year 2019. A primary objective of the Z-2.5 NBL testing is to validate changes made to the hard upper torso geometry, which depart from the planetary walking suit upper torso geometry that has been used over the last 30 years. The team continues to work technology development, with GFY2018 work being used to supplement and feed the gaps left by the scope defined for the xEMU Demo. Specifically, a Phase IIx Small Business Innovative Research Grant to mature durable bearings that are compatible with a dust environment and a grant funded by the Science Technology Mission Directorate, Lightweight and Robust Space Suit (LARSS) project, to mature planetary impact requirements and hardware will be described. Finally, a brief review of longer-term pressure garment challenges and technology gaps will be presented to provide an understanding of the advanced pressure garment team’s technology investment priorities and needs.
Richard Rhodes, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
Shane Mcfarland, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
ICES400: Extravehicular Activity: Space Suits | aerospace | 1 |
https://newsantaana.com/tag/b-25/ | 2022-08-11T01:44:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571232.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811012302-20220811042302-00551.warc.gz | 0.925303 | 242 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__99447158 | en | SANTA ANA, Calif., March 22, 2012 – The Doolittle Raid comes to life on Saturday, April 21 at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport when the Lyon Air Museum’s B-25 bomber “Guardian of Freedom” roars into the air at noon as part of a program about the famous World War II bombing mission. The event begins at 10:30 AM with a presentation and book signing by author Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, the granddaughter of the famous Doolittle Raid leader, Jimmy Doolittle.
70 years ago, on April 18, 1942, eighty men and sixteen North American B-25 bombers launched off the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, on an ambitious one-way mission to bomb Tokyo and other targets in Japan. The perilous assignment, flown by members of the US Army Air Force and supported by the US Navy, was lead by then Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle. In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, Lyon Air Museum has scheduled a flight of its own B-25 Mitchell bomber – “Guardian of Freedom,” weather and mechanical considerations permitting. Continue reading | aerospace | 1 |
http://homepost.kpbs.org/news/2011/oct/14/military-jet-crashes-at-air-show-in-china-video/ | 2018-06-19T16:11:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863100.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619154023-20180619174023-00598.warc.gz | 0.930772 | 87 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__161604947 | en | Chinese Central Television caught on tape the crash of a Chinese Air Force jet on Friday. The plane was a two-seater JH-7 "Flying Leopard" fighter-bomber, according to CBS News. One of the pilots survived, but the other is missing and feared dead:
CBS reports it's very rare for China to release any information about military accidents.
The Associated Press has posted video of the crash: | aerospace | 1 |
https://thebftonline.com/2018/business/aviation/gcaa-set-to-license-zipline/ | 2020-05-29T07:23:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347402457.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20200529054758-20200529084758-00163.warc.gz | 0.951038 | 711 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__52114708 | en | The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has begun assessment of Fly Zipline’s facilities as part of processes to license the drones operator to undertake the distribution of essential medicines and blood in the country
Per the GCAA’s 2016 directives, all drone operators are mandated to register with the Authority and observe safety and various drone-operations restricted areas in line with international aviation rules.
“Drone operations is on the increase and the ICAO has come out with manuals and guidelines to guide and control the operations of drones because, invariably, drones will share the space with manned aircraft and you want to make sure they comply with the rules of general civil aviation,” Ing. Simon Allotey, Director-General of the GCAA told B&FT shortly after a flag raising ceremony to mark this year’s International Civil Aviation Day in Accra.
He added that: “Now we have big players like Fly Zipline coming in. They are working with the GCAA, we visited their premises, and we have set-up a joint committee to take them through certification for the drones they will sue for their operations.
Apart from Zipline, there are other drone operators. We are looking at adding additional directives on security and privacy. Most of the existing directives now border on safety of drone operations, but drones could be used for espionage or they could be fitted with weapons. So together with national security, we will soon provide these additional directives,
Drones for life-saving job
The Ministry of Health is set to launch the largest and most advanced medical drone delivery network in the world.
The drone delivery network, which will be run by the Ghana Health Service and Ministry of Health, will give the country the most advanced health care supply chain on the planet, he noted.
The cost of the service in Ghana at full operations is US$88,000 per distribution centre per month. This equates to US$352,000 per month for all 4 distribution centres, or US$4,224,000 per year for all 4 distribution centres.
This price is discounted during Fly Zipline, the drones operator, ramp-up to make sure that Ghana only pays for the service as and when Zipline makes it available.
There is also a US$11,000 per month on-time payment discount, which will apply as long as the service fee was timely paid in the previous month.
Taking into account the on-time payment discount and the discounted ramp up, the estimated total 4-year cost of the contract is approximately US$12.5million.
Ghana will offset this cost by obtaining corporate social responsibility contributions from private sector contributors.
Among the terms of the service agreement is that Zipline is required to meet detailed performance requirements, such as range, payload, and number of flights per day.
The Ministry of Health will not own the facilities or equipment, so it bears no risk for construction cost overruns, maintenance costs, or technology obsolescence. It will only pay if Zipline meets its service commitments.
On value for money, he noted that the project is expected to serve over 2,500 facilities – meaning that the MoH will be paying only US$175 per facility per month for 24/7 instant access to almost any emergency supply the facility may need.
Zipline is expected to employ over 200 Ghanaians including pharmacists, engineers, flight operations, among others. | aerospace | 1 |
http://wyrp.info/private-jet-charter-new-york-to-london-private-jet-charter-delhi.html | 2019-02-17T05:17:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481624.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20190217051250-20190217073250-00061.warc.gz | 0.950409 | 1,037 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__187285204 | en | With Executive Jet Management’s jet charter service in Minneapolis, Minnesota, you can add hours of precious time to your day while escaping the stress of flying commercially. Our private charter flights help you avoid the multiple hassles of commercial travel, including missed connections, long security lines, delayed or cancelled flights, and inconvenient schedules.
There are two major differences between private charter and scheduled airline service: cost and flexibility. While booking a flight via jet services companies is generally more expensive, they provide a much higher degree of flexibility. With Pentastar Aviation Charter, Inc. your charter will fly on YOUR schedule to the domestic or international destination of YOUR choice. Our service to both major and general aviation airports gives you access to more than ten times as many domestic destinations as scheduled airline service. In addition, we have international experience operating in more than 80 countries.
We present clients with a range of pricing options for a given aircraft category. The lower end prices would be indicative of more moderately priced aircraft, while the higher end prices reflect aircraft featuring enhanced performance capabilities and/or a broader range of inflight amenities. Our intention is to provide clients with clarity when choosing aircraft within their preferred aircraft class so that they can make informed buying decisions.
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Same on return flight except we arrived a good half hour early but crew jumped to task and loaded us and dogs promptly for return. Only item worth mentioning was during climb out to altitude both my wife and I heard numerous bumping sound on both sides of fuselage up and down the sides and top. We have owned our own planes and owned shares in jets through Flight Options and chartered often over the years and we have never had this type of noise. It almost sounded like rivets coming out or random bird strikes (which I knew it was not). I mentioned it to the co-pilot and he told me to report it so maintenance could be sure to check it out. Said it may be a maintenance issue on an older aircraft but a first for me. After attaining altitude the noise did not reoccur. All else went according to schedule and the pilots were very professional and assisted on and off with dogs and luggage. I would use again this service. Thank
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread983221/pg1 | 2016-02-12T14:21:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701164268.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193924-00182-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.961802 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__155383179 | en | Iran unveils drone which can reach Israel As part of string of unconfirmed technological announcements, Islamic Republic claims to have manufactured new unmanned aircraft, capable of traveling as far as Israel, staying in air for up to 30 hours
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Here is a video of one of the IRAF drones shooting air to ground missiles. There isn't any reason to believe that they couldn't do it. They have help from other sources.
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How are we going to prove that Iran is using them? | aerospace | 1 |
https://blog.parker.com/aerospace/page/2 | 2019-12-11T06:16:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540529955.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20191211045724-20191211073724-00405.warc.gz | 0.942199 | 948 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__125337545 | en | EMI shielding gaskets such as conductive elastomer gaskets come in
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http://greenrisks.blogspot.com/2014/03/nasa-expands-its-exploration-of-planet.html | 2018-07-17T17:30:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589757.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717164437-20180717184437-00032.warc.gz | 0.903887 | 874 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__152895188 | en | Monday, March 3, 2014
NASA Expands its Exploration of Planet Earth
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international partnership led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The mission centers on the GPM Core Observatory satellite. This satellite is now 253 miles above earth traveling at 4.3 miles a second in a circular non-sun-synchronous orbit. The GPM satellite will make 16 orbits a day carrying two instruments: the GPM Microwave Imager and the (GMI) and Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), an advanced radar/radiometer system that can measure the amount, size, intensity and type of precipitation, from heavy-to-moderate rain to light rain and snowfall. The DPR will return three-dimensional images of precipitation, revealing the internal structure of storms within and below clouds. The Microwave Imager will serve as a calibration tool.
The GPM mission builds on the success of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a joint NASA and JAXA satellite launched in 1997 that measures precipitation over tropical and subtropical regions of the earth. During World War II scientists developed the ability to use ground-based radar to measure precipitation over land. The TRMM was the first utilization of spaceborn precipitation radar and this has resulted in the advances we’ve seen in the last 20 year in tropical storm monitoring and forecasting.
With its higher orbit and more advanced instruments the GPM Core Observatory satellite will provide even greater coverage of the earth-from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica. GPM Core Observatory will carry the next generation precipitation radar, the Duel-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR). One of the major advancements of the DPR is the second radar frequency. In addition to the DPR’s Ku-band radar that will measure moderate-to-heavy rain at 13.6 gigahertz, its Ka-band radar will measure frozen precipitation and light rain at 35.5 gigahertz. These measurements, combined with those from other satellites in the constellation, will provide global precipitation observations approximately every three hours.
Measurements from the GMI will also serve as a reference standard for cross-calibration of the other satellites in the GPM constellation that have sensors to provide data. You can read about the transfer of and coordination of all the satellite data in the NASA mission brochure.
The calibrated GPM constellation will provide measurements on the:
• Intensity and variability of precipitation;
• Structure of cloud and storm systems;
• Microphysics of the ice and liquid particles within clouds; and
• Amount of water falling to Earth’s surface.
Observations from the GPM constellation, combined with land-surface data, will improve our knowledge and understanding of our planet’s allowing for the creation of better:
• Weather forecast models;
• Climate models;
• integrated hydrologic models of watersheds; and
• Forecasts of hurricanes, landslides, floods and droughts.
Rainfall and snowfall vary greatly from place to place and over time as weather and climates change. Satellites can provide more uniform observations of rain and snow around the globe than ground instruments, especially in areas where surface measurements are difficult to take, for example over the oceans and in extreme altitudes. The GPM mission will help scientists understand how local, regional and global precipitation patterns change over time. The GPM Core Observatory satellite is designed to serve for 3 years and carries 5 years of fuel.
The distribution of water in the atmosphere and how it moves, changing between its solid, liquid and gaseous forms, is a powerful vehicle for redistributing Earth’s energy and influences the behavior of the planet’s weather, climate and other environmental systems. Lack of full data and understanding of the water cycle has hindered the ability of scientists to develop accurate models to forecast weather and climate. We cannot predict weather accurately more than a few days out and all the climate models have failed to demonstrate any ability to forecast the future. Now, there is hope of using the collected data to develop a better understanding of our planet and to ultimately build predictive models of our weather and climate. Mission Video | aerospace | 1 |
https://loveexpands.com/fun-interesting-facts/a-sheep-a-duck-a-rooster-were-the-first-passengers-to-take-a-trip-in-a-hot-air-balloon/ | 2021-09-23T06:17:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057417.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923044248-20210923074248-00321.warc.gz | 0.962337 | 107 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__166515221 | en | Fun Fact: A sheep, a duck & a rooster were the first passengers to take a trip in a hot air balloon
In 1783 the first hot air balloon was launched carrying a sheep, duck, and a rooster. The Montgolfier brothers invented the hot air balloon in France. The inaugural flight took animal passengers as it was unknown how flying at high altitudes would affect people. The flight was a complete success, and the animals landed, safe and mostly unharmed.
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A Boeing and Saab partnership completed the first digital splice of the forward and aft sections of a new trainer aircraft the two companies are building for the U.S. Air Force. Saab assembled the T-7A Red Hawk's aft fuselage in Sweden and delivered the hardware to a Boeing facility in St. Louis, where aircraft mechanics completed the joining process in less than 30 minutes, the Chicago-based aerospace and defense company said Thursday.More
Saab has finished building a new site in West Lafayette, Indiana, that will accommodate aft fuselage production work for the T-7A Red Hawk jet trainer the company is developing with Boeing. The Boeing-Saab team designed the Red Hawk trainer platform for the U.S. Air Force and won a $9.2 billion contract in September 2018 to manufacture the aircraft as replacement to the service’s fleet of T-38 trainers.More
Saab flew a Gripen multirole fighter jet that includes a 3D-printed replacement hatch during a March 19 trial. The company said Tuesday it replicated the original hatch using a PA2200 nylon polymer and a 3D printer as part of efforts to understand how the process could accelerate the process for maintenance personnel to fix aircraft parts that were damaged while operating in remote missions.More
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http://dictionnaire.sensagent.leparisien.fr/AH-64_Apache/en-en/ | 2020-08-07T16:14:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737204.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20200807143225-20200807173225-00005.warc.gz | 0.865827 | 11,908 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__148830195 | en | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|A US Army AH-64D Apache from 101st Aviation Regiment, in Iraq|
|National origin||United States|
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
|First flight||30 September 1975|
|Primary users||United States Army|
Israel Air Force
Royal Netherlands Air Force
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
|Number built||1,158 as of 2009|
|Unit cost||US$18 million (1996)|
The AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with reverse-tricycle landing gear, and tandem cockpit for a crew of two. The Apache was developed as Model 77 by Hughes Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the AH-1 Cobra. First flown on 1 October 1975, the AH-64 features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. The Apache is armed with a 30 mm M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. The AH-64 also carries a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire and Hydra 70 rocket pods on four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons. The AH-64 also features double- and triple-redundant aircraft systems to improve survivability for the aircraft and crew in combat, as well as improved crash survivability for the pilots.
The U.S. Army selected the AH-64 over the Bell YAH-63 in 1976, awarding Hughes Helicopters a pre-production contract for two more aircraft. In 1982, the Army approved full production. McDonnell Douglas continued production and development after purchasing Hughes Helicopters from Summa Corporation in 1984. The first production AH-64D Apache Longbow was delivered to the Army in March 1997. In August 1997, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged to become The Boeing Company. Today, AH-64 production is continued by the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems division.
Advanced Attack Helicopter
Following the cancellation of the AH-56 Cheyenne in 1972, in favor of United States Air Force and Marine Corps projects like the A-10 Thunderbolt II and Harrier Jump Jet, the United States Army sought an aircraft to fill an anti-armor attack role that would still be under Army command; the 1948 Key West Agreement forbade the Army from commanding fixed-wing aircraft. The Army wanted an aircraft better than the AH-1 Cobra in firepower, performance and range. It would have the maneuverability to fly nap-of-the-earth (NoE) missions. To this end, the US Army issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) for an Advanced Attack Helicopter (AAH) on 15 November 1972.
Proposals were submitted by five manufacturers: Bell, Boeing Vertol (teamed with Grumman), Hughes, Lockheed, and Sikorsky. In July 1973, the U.S. Department of Defense selected finalists Bell and Hughes Aircraft's Toolco Aircraft Division (later Hughes Helicopters). This began the phase 1 of the competition. In September 1973 the Army named their five most important projects the "Big Five" - the AAH was one of them.
Each company built prototype helicopters and went through a flight test program. Hughes' Model 77/YAH-64A prototype first flew on 30 September 1975, while Bell's Model 409/YAH-63A prototype first flew on 1 October. After evaluating test results, the Army selected Hughes' YAH-64A over Bell's YAH-63A in 1976. Reasons for selecting the YAH-64A included its more damage tolerant four-blade main rotor and the instability of the YAH-63's tricycle landing gear arrangement.
The AH-64A then entered phase 2 of the AAH program. This called for building three preproduction AH-64s, and upgrading the two YAH-64A flight prototypes and the ground test unit up to the same standard. Weapons and sensor systems were integrated and tested during this time, including the new Hellfire missile.
Moving into production
In 1981, three pre-production AH-64As were handed over to the US Army for Operational Test II. The Army testing was successful, but afterwards it was decided to upgrade to the T700-GE-701 version of engine, producing 1,690 shp (1,259 kW). In late 1981, the AH-64 was named the "Apache" keeping with the Army's traditional use of American Indian tribal names for its helicopters. Hughes was approved for full scale production in 1982. In 1983, the first production helicopter was rolled out at Hughes Helicopter's facility at Mesa, Arizona. In 1984, Hughes Helicopters was purchased by McDonnell Douglas for $470 million. The helicopter unit later became part of The Boeing Company with the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas in August 1997. In 1986, the incremental or flyaway cost for the AH-64A was US$7.03 million and the average unit cost was approximately US$13.9 million based on total costs.
In the mid-1980s, McDonnell Douglas studied an improved "AH-64B" design with an updated cockpit, new fire control system and other upgrades. In 1988 funding was approved for a multi-stage upgrade program to improve sensor and weapon avionic systems and incorporate some digital systems. However, improved technology was becoming available. It was decided to cancel the upgrade program for more ambitious changes. This would lead to the more advanced AH-64D Apache Longbow. Development of the AH-64D was approved by the Defense Acquisition Board in August 1990. The first AH-64D Apache Longbow prototype was flown on 15 April 1992, testing of the AH-64D prototypes ended in April 1995 after having outperformed the AH-64A model significantly. On 13 October 1995 full-scale production of the Apache Longbow was approved; in August 1996 McDonnell Douglas and the Army signed a $1.9 billion five year agreement to upgrade and rebuild 232 existing AH-64 Apaches. The first production AH-64D flew on 17 March 1997 and was delivered to the Army on 31 March 1997.
In 2004, General Electric Aviation began producing more powerful T700-GE-701D engines, rated at 2,000 shp (1,500 kW) for AH-64Ds. The total cost of the AH-64D program is US$10.5 billion through April 2007.
The AH-64 is powered by two General Electric T700 turboshaft engines with high-mounted exhausts on either side of the rotor shaft. The Apache has a four-blade main rotor and four-blade tail rotor setup. The crew sits in tandem, with the pilot sitting behind and above the copilot-gunner in an armored crew compartment. The crew compartment and fuel tanks are armored such that the aircraft will remain flyable even after sustaining hits from 23 mm gunfire.
One of the revolutionary features at the introduction of the Apache was the Helmet mounted display, the Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS); amongst other abilities the gunner can slave the helicopter's 30 mm automatic M230 Chain Gun to his helmet, making the gun track head movements to point at where he looks. The M230 can be alternatively fixed to a locked forward firing position, or controlled via the Target Acquisition and Designation System (TADS).
The AH-64 carries a range of external stores on its stub-wing pylons, typically a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, and Hydra 70 general-purpose unguided 70 mm (2.75 in) rockets. In case of emergency the pylons also have mounting points for personnel transfer (mounting points are handles normally used by maintenance personnel).
The AH-64 is designed to endure front-line environments and to operate during the day or night and in adverse weather using avionics and electronics, such as the Target Acquisition and Designation System, Pilot Night Vision System (TADS/PNVS), passive infrared countermeasures, Global Positioning System (GPS), and the Integrated Helmet And Display Sight System (IHADSS).
United States Army
American Apaches were used since 1989 in: Panama, Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo and in the Iraq war (Operation Iraqi Freedom). During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 more than 200 American Apaches were used.
The Apache was first used in combat in 1989, during Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama. The AH-64A Apache and the AH-64D Apache Longbow have played important roles in several Middle Eastern wars, including Operation Desert Storm in Iraq, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, and the invasion of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. The AH-64 proved to be an excellent tank hunter, during operations, and consequently destroyed hundreds of armored vehicles (mainly of the Iraqi army).
During Operation Desert Storm on 17 January 1991, eight AH-64As guided by four MH-53 Pave Low IIIs, were used to destroy a portion of the Iraqi radar network to allow bomber aircraft into Iraq without detection. This was the first attack of Desert Storm. The Apaches carried an asymmetrical load of Hydra 70 flechette rockets, Hellfires, and one auxiliary fuel tank each. During the 100-hour ground war, a total of 277 AH-64s took part. Apaches destroyed over 500 tanks, numerous armored personnel carriers and many other vehicles during Operation Desert Storm.
Deployment of AH-64s to the Balkans took place during conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo later in the 1990s, but the Apache encountered problems which reduced their effectiveness considerably. Criticisms included a lack of training for the crews and deficiencies in night vision equipment, fuel tanks, and aircraft survivability. An Apache crashed during training in Albania on 27 April 1999. Eventually the entire fleet in the Balkans was grounded for two weeks in December 2000. Major General Dick Cody, commanding officer of the 101st Airborne at the time, wrote a strongly worded memo to the US Army Chief of Staff about the failures in training and equipment.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, in one engagement on 24 March 2003, 31 Apaches were damaged, and one Apache crashed and captured by Iraqi troops near Karbala. The captured helicopter was destroyed via air strike one day after it was downed. The 24 March attack, against an armored brigade of the Iraqi Republican Guard's Medina Division, was largely unsuccessful: US officials claimed that it was because the tank crews had set up a "flak trap" in broken terrain, employing their guns to good effect. Iraqi officials claimed a farmer with a Brno rifle shot and brought down the Apache helicopter, but the farmer denies shooting it. The helicopter came down intact and neither the pilot nor co-pilot was injured in the incident, though both were captured. American AH-64Ds are flying in Iraq and Afghanistan without the Longbow Fire Control Radar as there are no armored threats for coalition forces to deal with.
The vast majority of Apache helicopters that have taken heavy combat damage have been able to continue their assigned missions and return safely to their bases. For example, of the 33 Apaches employed in the 24 March 2003 attack, 30 were damaged by Iraqi ground fire with several being damaged beyond repair, but only one of these did not make it back to base. In 2006, an Apache helicopter was reportedly downed by a Soviet-made Strela 2 (SA-7) in Iraq. The Apache is designed to be able to withstand such hits, but this one did not. As of 2009, twelve Apache helicopters were shot down by enemy fire during the entire war and another fifteen crashed in Iraq due to other reasons.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) first received AH-64As in 1990, for a total fleet of 42. There was some controversy over the Air Force's choice to purchase Apaches over upgrading existing AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters. The AH-64A was used frequently to attack and destroy Hezbollah outposts in Lebanon during the 1990s, attacking in many weather conditions — day and night. In 2000 Israel examined the prospect of aquiring up to 48 Apache AH-64Ds, US reluctance to share military sourcecodes for the software complicated the deal. A prospective sale of six AH-64Ds to Israel in 2009 was blocked because of US government concerns that the helicopters may pose a threat to civilian Palestinians.
During the al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, the IAF used the AH-64 to kill senior Hamas figures, such as Ahmed Yasin and Adnan al-Ghoul, with guided missiles. During the morning of 24 May 2001, a private owned Lebanese-registered Cessna 152 flew into Israeli airspace and was intercepted by two Israeli AH-64s, one of which shot down the Cessna with an AGM-114 Hellfire missile, killing the pilot. IAF Apaches played a significant role in Israeli aircover during the 2006 Lebanon War.
There have also been accidents involving the Apache helicopter in Israeli service. During the Lebanon War in 2006, two IAF AH-64A helicopters collided, killing one pilot and wounding three, all critically. In another incident in the conflict, an IAF AH-64D crashed, killing the two crew, due to a malfunction in the main rotor; this incident caused the Israel Air Force to refuse to accept further deliveries of AH-64Ds while it entered a dispute with Boeing over the craft's performance envelope.
The UK operates a modified version of the Apache Longbow initially called the Westland WAH-64 Apache, and is designated Apache AH1 by the British Army. Westland built 67 WAH-64 Apaches under license from Boeing, following a competition between the Eurocopter Tiger and the Apache for the British Army's new Attack Helicopter in 1995. Before its introduction into service in 2004, several problem were noted, including lacking the ability to securely communicate with other helicopters and a risk of damage to the tail rotor upon use of the Hellfire missiles.
Important deviations made by AgustaWestland from the US variants of the Apache include replacing the engines with more powerful Rolls-Royce units, and the addition of a folding blade assembly for naval use; allowing British Apaches to operate as apart of amphibious operations, flying from Royal Navy warships and auxiliaries. The Westland Apache replaced the Westland Lynx AH7 as the British Army's tactical attack helicopter. The Apache AH1s have been regularly deployed to Afghanistan, in support of UK and Coalition forces in the south of the country. British Apaches routinely use the Longbow Fire Control Radar in Afghanistan, stating that it improves situational awareness and avoidance of other aircraft during tactical maneuvers.
The Dutch government initially showed an interest in aquiring Apache helicopters in the late 1980s, where it stated that it may purchase as many as 52. The Royal Netherlands Air Force later ordered 30 AH-64D Apaches in 1995, construction beginning in December 1997. The Dutch AH-64Ds are not referred to as Longbows, because the radomes were not included. The Apaches of the RNALF are equipped with the Apache Modular Aircraft Survivability Equipment (AMASE) system. The AMASE is an advanced Electronic Warfare self-protection system against Infra-Red (IR) missile threats.
The RNAF Apaches' first deployment was in 2001 to Djibouti, Africa. This was the first deployment of the D-model Apache. They were also deployed alongside US AH-64s in support of NATO peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2004, six Dutch AH-64s were deployed as part of the Netherlands contribution to Multinational force in Iraq to support the Dutch ground forces. The Apaches took care of Close Combat Support and display of force, in addition to gathering information for the ground forces. In February 2006, the Netherlands contribution to NATO forces in Afghanistan was increased from 600 to 1,400 troops and 6 AH-64s were sent in support.
Shortly after Apaches were deployed to Kabul airport as part of the Netherlands contribution to ISAF, on 10 April 2004 a pair of Dutch Apaches came under light gunfire close to the Afghan capital. On 28 August 2004, an Apache crashed in Afghanistan for unknown reasons, but was not due to any enemy fire. On 17 December 2007, a RNAF Apache flew into powerlines during a night flying exercise in the Netherlands, forcing an emergency landing and causing a lengthy blackout in the region.
Other and future users
Japan has ordered 50 AH-64Ds. They are to be built under license by Fuji Heavy Industries, with its first helicopter delivered to the JGSDF in early 2006. These Fuji-made AH-64Ds are to be designated "AH-64DJP".
South Korea is also seeking to aquisition and introduce Apache attack helicopters, perhaps as early as by 2012. This move may be in response to plans by the US military to pull back thier own Apaches from South Korea. As of August 2009 the purchase remains uncertain, due to considerations of alternative aircraft.
In September 2003, Greece ordered 12 AH-64D in addition to existing fleet of 20 AH-64A+. Singapore purchased a total of 20 AH-64D Longbow Apache aircraft in two batches between 1999 and 2001. The United Arab Emirates purchased 30 AH-64A helicopters in 1991 and 1994, which they are now upgrading to AH-64D specification.
In 2005 Kuwait purchased 16 Longbow helicopters. Other countries with the Apache include Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The Apache Longbow is one of several types competing for the Indian Air Force order for 22 attack helicopters. Boeing had backed out of the competition in October 2008, but submitted an Apache proposal in October 2009.
The AH-64A is the original production attack helicopter. It is powered by two GE T700 turbo-shaft engines. The crew sit in tandem in an armored compartment.
The helicopter is armed with a 30 mm M230 Chain Gun that is slaved to the gunner's helmet-mounted gunsight. The AH-64A carries a range of external stores on its stub-wing pylons, including a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, Hydra 70 general-purpose unguided 70 mm (2.75 in) rockets, and AIM-92 Stinger air-to-air missiles for defense.
In 1991 after Operation Desert Storm, the AH-64B was a proposed upgrade to 254 AH-64As. The upgrade would have included new rotor blades, a Global Positioning System (GPS), improved navigation systems and new radios. Congress approved US$82 million to begin the Apache B upgrade. The B program was canceled in 1992. The radio, navigation, and GPS modifications, were later installed on most A-model Apaches through other upgrades.
Additional funding from Congress in late 1991 resulted in a program to upgrade AH-64As to an AH-64B+ version. More funding changed the plan to upgrade to AH-64C. The C upgrade would include all changes to be included in the Longbow except for mast mounted radar and newer engines. However, after 1993, the C designation was dropped.
The upgrades would go forward. However, since the only difference between the C model and the radar-equipped D model was the radar, which could be moved from one aircraft to another, a decision was made to not distinguish between the two versions, despite the presence or absence of the radar.
The advanced model, the AH-64D Apache Longbow, is equipped with an improved sensor suite, glass cockpit, and weapon systems. The key improvement over the A-variant is the AN/APG-78 Longbow dome installed over the main rotor which houses a millimeter-wave Fire Control Radar (FCR) target acquisition system as well as the Radar Frequency Interferometer (RFI). The elevated position of the radome allows detection and (arcing) missile engagement of targets even when the helicopter itself is concealed by an obstacle (e.g. terrain, trees or buildings). Further, a radio modem integrated with the sensor suite allows a D-variant Apache to share targeting data with other AH-64Ds that do not have a line-of-sight to the target. In this manner a group of Apaches can engage multiple targets but only reveal the radome of one D-variant Apache. Apaches that include all of the improvements of the Longbow Apache, with the exception of the Fire Control Radar are still designated as "AH-64D Apache Longbows", as the radome is removable and interchangeable between aircraft.
The aircraft is powered by a pair of uprated T700-GE-701C engines, and has a fully-integrated cockpit. The forward fuselage of the aircraft was expanded to accommodate new systems. In addition, the aircraft receives improved survivability, communications, and navigation capabilities. Most existing capabilities of the AH-64A Apache are retained.
The first of the upgraded Block II Apaches was delivered to the US Army in February 2003. Block II includes upgrades to the digital communications systems to improve communications within the 'tactical internet'.
Block III improvements, slated for 2008 onwards, include increasing digitization, the joint tactical radio system, enhanced engines and drive systems, capability to control UAVs, new composite rotor blade and landing gear upgrades. The new blades, which successfully completed flight testing in May 2004, increase the Apache's cruise speed, climb rate and payload capability. The Block III System Development and Demonstration (SDD) contract was awarded to Boeing in July 2006.
A number of other models have been derived from both AH-64A and AH-64D for export. The British-built AgustaWestland Apache (assembled from kits purchased from Boeing) is based on the AH-64D with several different systems, including more powerful engines and modifications towards naval usage.
A naval version of the AH-64A was proposed for the United States Marine Corps and Navy from 1984 to 1987. The Canadian Forces Maritime Command also examined the prospect of using a modified Apache in naval service. Multiple concepts were studied with altered landing gear arrangements, improved avionics and weapons. Funding for the naval version was not provided, the Marine Corps continues to use the AH-1 SuperCobra. Considerable interest was expressed by the US in trials onboard HMS Ocean to test the suitability of the AgustaWestland Apache used by the British Army.
- Egyptian Air Force ordered 36 AH-64As in 1995, and were being upgraded to AH-64D configuration in 2005. Egypt had 35 AH-64Ds in operation as of January 2009. Additional 12 AH-64D Block II Apaches being delivered, ordered in 2009 & total modernization for the existing fleet is being done, making a total of 47 units.
- Hellenic Army received 20 AH-64As in 1995, and ordered 12 AH-64Ds in 2003. Has 19 AH-64A and 12 AH-64D helicopters in service as of January 2010.
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force has ordered 50 AH-64Ds as of 2005, with 2 AH-64s in use as of Jan. 2009.
- Kuwait Air Force had 16 AH-64Ds on order in 2004, with all 16 AH-64Ds in use as of Jan. 2009.
- Royal Netherlands Air Force received 30 AH-64Ds as of 2005, with 29 AH-64Ds in service as of 2009.
- Republic of China (Taiwan) Army ordered 30 AH-64D Block III helicopters, additional GE T700-401D engines, weapons, and related systems through a Foreign Military Sale in 2008.
- Royal Saudi Air Force has 12 AH-64As in service as of Jan. 2009. In 2008, 12 AH-64D Apaches were requested.
- United Arab Emirates Air Force received 30 AH-64As as of 2005. UAE has 12 AH-64As and 14 AH-64Ds in service as of Jan. 2009.
- Crew: 2: pilot, CPG (co-pilot/gunner)
- Length: 58.17 ft (17.73 m) (with both rotors turning)
- Rotor diameter: 48 ft 0 in (14.63 m)
- Height: 12.7 ft (3.87 m)
- Disc area: 1,809.5 ft² (168.11 m²)
- Empty weight: 11,387 lb (5,165 kg)
- Loaded weight: 17,650 lb (8,000 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 23,000 lb (10,433 kg)
- Powerplant: 2× General Electric T700-GE-701 and later upgraded to T700-GE-701C (1990-present) & T700-GE-701D (AH-64D block III) turboshafts, -701: 1,690 shp, -701C: 1,890 shp, -701D: 2,000 shp (-701: 1,260 kW, -701C: 1,490 kW, -701D: 1,490 kW) each
- Fuselage length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m)
- Rotor systems: 4 blade main rotor, 4 blade tail rotor in non-orthogonal alignment
- Never exceed speed: 197 knots (227 mph, 365 km/h)
- Maximum speed: 158 knots (182 mph, 293 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 143 knots (165 mph, 265 km/h)
- Combat radius: 260 nmi (300 mi, 480 km)
- Ferry range: 1,024 nmi (1,180 mi, 1,900 km)
- Service ceiling: 21,000 ft (6,400 m, min. loaded)
- Rate of climb: 2,500 ft/min (12.7 m/s)
- Disc loading: 9.80 lb/ft² (47.90 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (310 W/kg)
- Guns: 1× 30 × 113 mm (1.18 × 4.45 in) M230 Chain Gun with 1,200 rounds
- Rockets: Hydra 70 FFAR rockets
- Missiles: combination of AGM-114 Hellfire, AIM-92 Stinger, and AIM-9 Sidewinder
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http://cosmosravelin.narod.ru/e-space/Gagarin2004/G04-1.html | 2023-12-06T10:12:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100593.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206095331-20231206125331-00889.warc.gz | 0.956651 | 298 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__139501733 | en | The Department of History
of Space Explorations
A Hero Of The Soviet Union, colonel Gagarin Iurii Alekseevitch, space pilot, member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1960, a deputy with the Supreme Soviet (convocations 6, 7), an honorary member of the International Academy of Astronautics and Space Exploration was born on March, 9 1934 in the town of Gzhatsk near Smolensk.
On April, 12 1961 he was the first in the world to perform a spaceflight on board of orbital craft "Vostok" - he circuited the Earth (it took 1 hr. 48 min.) and landed safely. It was this flight that proved manned spaceflights to be possible.
On March, 28 1968 Iu.Gagarin perished as a result of unsuccessful training airplane flight. He was buried on the Red Square in Moscow.
Air Force Academy in Monino, holding the orders of Kutuzov and the Red Banner, was named after Iu.Gagarin. His native town Gzhatsk was also renamed after him, as were a crater on the reverse side of the Moon and a research craft of the Academy of Science of the Soviet Union.
The picture and the text taken from a set of 41 post-cards ""Liotchiki-kosmonavty SSSR", M., Planeta, 1978, 100,000 copies " | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.satellite-evolution.com/post/2017/05/02/satellite-manufacturing-launch-market-to-generate-258-billion-in-next-decade | 2021-06-15T01:38:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487614006.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210614232115-20210615022115-00525.warc.gz | 0.934655 | 418 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__120047867 | en | Satellite Manufacturing & Launch Market to Generate $258 Billion in Next Decade NSR’s Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Services, 7th Edition (SMLS7) report, released tomorrow, forecasts 2,356 satellites are expected to launch during the coming decade, with both GEO and non-GEO satellite operators turning to diverse solutions to remain competitive with space-based and terrestrial players. NSR identified a growing focus on leveraging advanced technologies and new practices in optimizing satellite business cases across all satellite applications. “New platforms, flexible and more capable payloads, mass production, satellite servicing, reusable launch - myriad options are now available to operators in their toolbox as they diversify their solutions to respond to an evolving market,” states Carolyn Belle, NSR Senior Analyst and report author. “Non-GEO constellation projects, capacity and data pricing declines, and evolving end-user demand are creating a new market environment. The near-term result was a low 2016 commercial GEO order rate expected to continue into 2017, but long-term, NSR expects a rebalancing of the market to involve unique architectures in GEO, and non-GEO, and a combination of the two.” NSR’s SMLS7 study also found that government & military satellite markets demonstrate equally robust activity. “The value of space for economic development and national security continues to drive interest in launching space-based platforms, leading to a 10% increase in average launch rates in the coming decade,” continued Belle. From science to Earth Observation to situational awareness, the pursuit of space projects by experienced and developing space-faring nations will generate an average $17.5B in revenues annually. As space utilization increases and emerging constellations are deployed, preservation of the space environment will become more important than ever. Efforts to manage not only spectral interference between satellites but orbital traffic and debris are attracting more attention, with both commercial and government players needing to actively seek sustainable solutions that enable ongoing health of the industry at large. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/09/14/elon-musks-spacex-announces-first-round-the-moon-passenger-flight-in-a-tweet | 2023-06-07T04:52:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653608.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607042751-20230607072751-00360.warc.gz | 0.957112 | 496 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__80843146 | en | Elon Musk's SpaceX announced on Twitter that it had signed its first private passenger to make a trip around the moon aboard its BFR, or Big Falcon Rocket, launch vehicle.
The short message that went out Thursday night called the company's news "an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space."
But the tweet fell short of providing any actual details except that it would reveal more information on Monday about the passenger and the purpose of the flight.
SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle—an impor… https://t.co/G5IpyBTGG5— SpaceX (@SpaceX) 1536885011.0
Musk, who also heads Tesla, has said the rocket would be the largest and most powerful rocket in history. SpaceX has invested nearly $1 billion into the 27-engine rocket.
Less than 20 minutes after the first tweet, a second one followed with a reminder that no one has visited the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
Only 24 humans have been to the Moon in history. No one has visited since the last Apollo mission in 1972. https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z— SpaceX (@SpaceX) 1536886158.0
Not surprisingly, the announcement caught some industry experts off guard since the BFR rocket is still under development, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Early last year, the billionaire confounded the aerospace community when he announced that he would be sending two unidentified space tourists to the moon by the end of 2018.
“We’ve been approached to do a crewed mission beyond the moon from some private individuals,” Musk said at the time. “And they’re very serious about it. We plan to do that, probably in the fourth quarter of next year . That would be on a Dragon 2 spacecraft and a Falcon Heavy rocket, which is due to do its maiden launch this summer.”
Falcon Heavy's flight was delayed to February of this year and the Dragon capsule is still under development for passengers.
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https://www.indiatimes.com/lifestyle/iconic-photos-of-space-from-nasa-that-will-make-you-marvel-at-the-beauty-of-the-universe-369232.html | 2019-11-20T03:49:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670448.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20191120033221-20191120061221-00131.warc.gz | 0.911249 | 830 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__128481467 | en | Iconic Photos Of Space From NASA That Will Make You Marvel At The Beauty Of The Universe
The outer space is home to all of us. No, really, if you think about it this is the reality.
The working of it and how it sustains itself has always been an enigma. We’ve tried to find answers and various programs to the space are working towards unravelling the mysteries of the universe.
While there’s a long time for that to happen, there’s some beautiful images we’ve received because of the various space missions.
Here are 11 breathtaking photos from NASA that will make you marvel at the beauty of the universe:
1. Taken by Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8, this iconic photo was taken from the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon where Earth can be seen almost kind of looking out from beyond the lunar surface.
2. Neil Armstrong took this photograph of astronaut Buzz Aldrin with a 70mm lunar surface camera as he walked on the surface of the moon.
3. This breathtaking view of the full moon was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey back home.
4. This image of the sun shows a coronal hole on it. Coronal holes are regions where the sun's corona is dark and are generally associated with 'open' magnetic field lines. The image looks extremely beautiful.
5. Here’s a photo of astronaut Bruce McCandless as he floats above Earth during the first-ever untethered free flight in the year 1984!
6. This majestic photo is that of a galaxy named Andromeda which is 2.5 million light-years away from earth and was taken by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.
7. Located in the constellation named Aquarius, this Helix Nebula has been famously nicknamed the 'Eye of God.'
8. On January 22, 2003, the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia captured this sunrise from the crew cabin during Flight Day 7. It carried a seven-member crew, including Indian astronaut Kalpana Chawla. Unfortunately, Columbia and her crew were lost during reentry just 16 minutes before the scheduled touchdown.
9. This is the first ever image of Earth taken from another planet, Mars. You can see both the earth and its moon.
10. This image gives a view of the Americas at night. The clouds and sun glint have been added for aesthetic effect but one can’t deny that it’s a beautiful photo.
11. Jupiter and its four planet-size moons which are known as the Galilean satellites were photographed by Voyager 1 and then assembled into this collage.
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https://unmanned-aerial.com/upcoming-webinar-solving-avionics-safety-certification-challenges-in-uas-platforms | 2018-01-20T09:25:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084889542.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20180120083038-20180120103038-00392.warc.gz | 0.914313 | 223 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__254172372 | en | Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is hosting a complimentary webinar, “Solving Avionics Safety Certification Challenges in UAS Platforms,” on Wednesday, March 16.
The company is holding the webinar in partnership with dSPACE GmbH, a provider of tools for developing electronic control units; DDC-1, which offers safety-critical software solutions for mission critical systems; and LDRA, a provider of static and dynamic analysis engines for host and embedded software.
As the Federal Aviation Administration continues to release new approvals for the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in national airspace – and as other nations are making similar moves – many UAS platforms must comply with safety standards for technology, such as DO-178 B and C for flight-critical software, as well as DO-254 for hardware, explains RTI.
During the webinar, stakeholders from a range of development and technical engineering disciplines will discuss the challenges and solutions for managing avionics safety certification in unmanned aircraft.
More information can be found here. | aerospace | 1 |
https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2019/07/24/adirondacks-wilderness-floatplane/ | 2019-10-21T11:10:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987769323.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021093533-20191021121033-00139.warc.gz | 0.935878 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__140336298 | en | Hypertexthero / Linked List / July 2019 /
If I piloted real airplanes, flying light aircraft such as Cessna Stationairs for places like Helms Aero Service or Payne’s Air Service would be a dream job.
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https://pacetoday.com.au/us-drafts-new-asteroid-mining-bill/ | 2024-02-27T20:24:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474686.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227184934-20240227214934-00814.warc.gz | 0.906295 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__23595135 | en | The US is taking a major step forward in interplanetary
mining, drafting a new bill to aid development of the asteroid mining industry.
A bill has been forward “to promote the development of a commercial
asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to
increase the exploration and utilisation of asteroid resources in outer space”.
Dubbed the American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportunities In Deep Space Act or
the ASTEROIDS Act in a show of love
for acronyms, it is the first major step in regulating and supporting extra-terrestrial
mining since the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which set out international standards
for space exploration and ownership of materials found in space.
The treaty defines the sovereignty, or lack thereof, of
asteroid mining. It means that countries, or companies, can’t simply plant a
flag and claim sovereignty; however they can extract the metals and minerals
discovered on the asteroid.
The new US bill is focused on facilitating commercial
exploration, discouraging government barriers to the development of industries
for the exploration of asteroids, as well as outlining resolution of legal
disputes in space exploration.
It comes at a time when the space race has been
commercialised and the focus in the potentially huge levels of minerals and
metals that are believed to be found in asteroids.
“We do know now that there
are materials of enormous economic interest available in space, any near earth
object has a platinum group metals concentration greater than the best
terrestrial ores,” according to Princeton’s Space Studies Institute director Lee Valentine in his article A Space Roadmap: Mine the
Sky, Defend the Earth, Settle the Universe.
The moon is also understood
to hold more than twenty times the amount of titanium and platinum than
anywhere on earth, as well as the extremely rare helium 3 – which is valued at
around $90 000 per ounce.
There are already a number of
companies focused on mining near earth asteroids, as well as the lunar surface.
Deep Space Industries has also formed for asteroid mining,
while China has sent rockets to explore the lunar surface for minerals, with
the Chinese Government stating that “China’s space exploration will not
stop at the moon; our target is deep space”.
The Japanese have also recently made leaps in this direction,
as they prepare to launch a new probe to conduct mineral exploration on
The project is run by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
The exploration satellite will
arrive at the asteroid in 2018, when it will fire a projectile into the
asteroid to blast off material, gather the loose material and then return to
For a greater insight into the hows and whys space mining
click here to see an infographic explaining the industry. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1388713&p=20243599 | 2018-09-25T11:56:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267161501.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180925103454-20180925123854-00337.warc.gz | 0.902468 | 309 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__132741302 | en | Runway28L wrote:UA: N33262
zkeoj wrote:Hi All
I am trying to find out the registration of a 737 of UA (seen at LAX on 29jan18). The registration in the photo is covered by the wing, but the front landing gear door says "0262 ETOPS". I looked through airfleets.net, but couldn't really make sense of it.
Same with an AA A321: The registration ends with "AN", and there is number under it "853", but the rest is covered.
Can anybody help with these registrations, please?
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Blimps / Airships Everything from the Goodyear blimp to the Zeppelin
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Tails and Winglets Tail and Winglet closeups with beautiful airline logos | aerospace | 1 |
https://skydivingplanet.com/how-fast-do-you-go-in-a-wingsuit | 2024-04-12T13:39:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816024.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412132154-20240412162154-00213.warc.gz | 0.945036 | 1,356 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__168749387 | en | You’ve probably seen a wingsuit flyer soaring through the air at an almost horizontal angle and been impressed by the speed. Wingsuit flying is a totally different experience from skydiving or base jumping freefall. So how fast do you go in a wingsuit?
There’s a lot of physics involved, but professional wingsuiters can pick up some incredible speeds and travel remarkable differences. As wingsuit technology improves, so do the speeds and distances the average wingsuiter can travel.
Let’s take a look at how fast an average wingsuit pilot will travel and what the top-end speeds professionals reach. We will also look at the distances covered and how to slow down and stop when traveling at such high speeds.
How fast can you go in a wingsuit?
Wingsuit flyers use the added materials and webbed fabric between their legs and arms to obtain near-horizontal flight. The increased surface area and aerodynamics of the wingsuit allow pilots to create glide and momentary even lift. As the sport has grown in popularity through the 1990s and early 2000s, so has the tech. The top speeds and average distances have regularly been increasing over recent years.
A skydiver or wingsuiter in freefall will gain speeds of around 120 MPH in the belly-to-earth position and up to 180 MPH in the head-to-earth position. The speed obtained relies a lot on the surface area. In wingsuit flying, the increase in surface area allows the pilot to transfer some of that downward speed and momentum into glide. The speed of the wingsuit flight depends on the angle of the glide, as the less horizontal a pilot is, the more downward force and more incredible speed they can achieve. In a typical glide ratio of 3:1 (this means traveling three feet horizontally for every one foot of vertical fall), a wingsuiter can travel at around 100 MPH.
It can take a lot of time, skill, and practice to master the wingsuit ratio and reach optimal speeds. Wind speed can also play a crucial part in the speeds you reach, and with the proper knowledge, an experienced wingsuiter can use wind speed and direction to maximize their glide speed. So while 100 MPH at a 3:1 glide is a speed most wingsuiters will progress to achieve, those who master aerodynamics will go on to reach much greater speeds.
What is the fastest wingsuit speed?
At its most efficient level, wingsuit flyers can reach horizontal speeds above 200 MPH (and descent rates as low as 25 MPH). These incredible speeds not only surpass the average speed of a belly-to-earth freefall but also that of a head-to-earth freefall.
Incredibly, the fastest wingsuit flight on record is 246.6 MPH. A British wingsuiter, Fraser Corsan, achieved this feat on 22 May 2017. The Guinness Book of Records officially recorded it, although the FAI does not formally recognize it. Corsan started his initial jump as 35,508 feet over David, California. Coran’s ability to reach such a speed was undoubtedly helped by his knowledge, working as an Aerospace Safety Engineer.
It’s important to note that such speeds use specialist wingsuits with optimal aerodynamics. Due to the speeds and instability of these suits, they can only be worn and used by elite professionals. Absolute mastery is needed to reach these advanced speeds in professional-level wingsuits safely. Even the slightest error or misjudgment can result in a flight out of control and possibly fatal results.
How far can you fly in a wingsuit?
While horizontal wingsuit speed surpassing vertical freefall is impressive, so are the distances that can be achieved. How much distance you cover with a wingsuit depends on a few different things; the altitude you jump from, the wingsuit you are wearing (and your skill level), the angle you fly at and speed you achieve, the air density, and your deployment height. When you factor in all these things, there’s a big difference between the distances a newbie can reach compared to a seasoned professional.
At the beginner level, many wingsuiters will jump from typical skydiving heights of around 13,000 feet. Wearing a starter-level wingsuit (with optimal control and reduced speed), a new wingsuiter can get approximately 2 to 3 minutes of flight if deploying at 4,000 feet. The distance can still depend on your ability, as well as your strength and stamina and ability to hold a flat body position, and good glide ratio. It’s possible, even at a beginner level, to reach and pass distances of 8 KM.
At a professional level, significant distances can be reached. In 2015 a Navy Seal named Andy Stumpf jumped from 36,000 feet in a wingsuit, going a distance of 29.38 KM. But he only held on to that record for a year after U.S. wingsuiter Kyle Lobpries achieved a distance of 30.4 KM. Lobpries’ flight lasted 8 minutes and 27 seconds before he opened his parachute at 1,500 feet. Amazingly, this isn’t the longest wingsuit flight timewise. That record is by Colombian Jhonathan Florez, who flew his wingsuit for 9 minutes and 6 seconds over La Guajira, Colombia, in April of 2012.
How do you stop and land a wingsuit flight?
We’ve covered how fast you can travel and how far, but how do you slow down and land a wingsuit?
When flying at your top speed in a wingsuit, the suit itself will become very rigid while inflated with air. To land, you first have to slow it down. Wingsuiters can slow down using flaring. Flaring is the technique of exchanging forward momentum for momentary lift. This flight configuration slows down the gliding momentum and allows the wingsuit pilot to reduce their glide and angle and get into a relaxed configuration. They can then enter what is more like standard free fall. In a way, it’s a bit like a plane would perform a stall.
Once in the relaxed configuration, the pilot can deploy their parachute just as a skydiver would. It’s crucial not to deploy the parachute too early into a flare, as this can cause complications; there is an art to deploying smoothly and at the right time. Wingsuiters tend to deploy at heights similar to skydivers, around 2,500 to 4,000 feet, depending on confidence, experience, and skill level. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/2072496/nasa_delay_in_joint_mars_mission_with_esa/ | 2018-04-23T21:27:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946199.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423203935-20180423223935-00078.warc.gz | 0.960925 | 343 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__235897987 | en | June 30, 2011
NASA Delay In Joint Mars Mission With ESA
NASA and the European Space Agency's plans to have a joint mission to Mars faced another snag this week.
A letter from NASA formally committing to combined ventures to Mars this decade was expected to arrive in Paris this week, but it has not, according to BBC News.The plan was to start the next phase of building an orbiter to hunt for methane in Mars' atmosphere.
The U.S. space agency delaying its commitment is said to be due to NASA's difficulty in organizing its finances for the multi-billion-dollar ventures, which also includes a big rover to search for traces of life.
ESA's Industrial Policy Committee was expected to release industry to begin work on cutting metal on flight hardware this week. However, discussions on the subject will now take a different shape because the letter from NASA has yet to come about.
According to the plans, the ExoMars project will send an orbiter to track down the sources of methane and other trace gases recently detected in Mars' atmosphere in 2016.
The agencies then plan to send their large rover to Mars in 2018.
The 2016 satellite would act as the surface vehicle's data-relay station to get its pictures and other information back to Earth.
Industry says the timetable for construction is tight if launch dates are to be met.
The ExoMars project was originally approved as a concept by ESA ministers in 2005, but then went through several iterations as scientists and engineers struggled to match their ambitions for the project to the funds available.
Image Caption: Artist's impression of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Credits: ESA
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http://tees.tamu.edu/news/?tag=research&page=7 | 2018-03-18T04:10:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257645513.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20180318032649-20180318052649-00794.warc.gz | 0.942113 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__28382947 | en | In cooperation with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and faculty at Texas A&M University, VectorNav will be developing a ground-based simulation system that will address the problem of removing debris from low Earth orbit.
XCOR and the TEES Space Engineering Research Center have signed an agreement that will enable SERC to fly microgravity experiments on Lynx and also provide third-party services for other microgravity experimenters.
Dr. Dennis O'Neal, TEES deputy director and a researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Division, has been selected to receive two awards from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for a paper published in 2011.
Electrical engineering researcher Dr. Le Xie has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his energy research that could have a transformative impact on engineering sustainable electricity services of the future. | aerospace | 1 |
http://drugfreereading.com/seh/wilson.html | 2022-09-24T22:42:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030333541.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220924213650-20220925003650-00059.warc.gz | 0.933935 | 470 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__99697991 | en | National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas 77058
NAME: Stephanie D. Wilson
- NASA Astronaut
- Born September 27, 1966 in Boston Massachusetts. Enjoys snow skiing, music, astronomy, stamp collecting, and traveling.
- Graduated from Taconic High School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1984; received a bachelor of science degree in engineering science from Harvard University in 1988, and a master of science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas, in 1992.
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- After graduating from Harvard in 1988, Wilson worked for 2 years for the former Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver, Colorado. As a Loads and Dynamics engineer for Titan IV, Wilson was responsible for performing coupled loads analyses for the launch vehicle and payloads during flight events. Wilson left Martin Marietta in 1990 to attend graduate school at the University of Texas. Her research focused on the control and modeling of large, flexible space structures. Following the completion of her graduate work, she began working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in 1992. As a member of the Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem for the Galileo spacecraft, Wilson was responsible for assessing attitude controller performance, science platform pointing accuracy, antenna pointing accuracy and spin rate accuracy. She worked in the areas of sequence development and testing as well. While at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wilson also supported the Interferometery Technology Program as a member of the Integrated
Modeling Team, which was responsible for finite element modeling, controller design, and software development.
- Selected by NASA in April 1996, Wilson reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, she is qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. Currently, Wilson is assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Payloads/Habitability Branch.
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http://qihomeworkerey.quickrewards.info/lectures-1-5-flight-physiology.html | 2018-07-21T17:08:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592650.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721164755-20180721184755-00637.warc.gz | 0.893305 | 854 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__237821539 | en | 1 lecture notes on human respiratory system physiology 5 diffusion 6 in the pulmonary physiology absolute pressure means. Geol 104 dinosaurs: a natural history how can people determine the thermal physiology of extinct animals like non-avian dinosaurs 96/64 = 15 as size. 1 ent 503, insect morphology and physiology, examines insect internal morphology, histology • origin of flight mechanisms iii the insect abdomen. Human biology lecture notes: cardiovascular system, page 1 of 8 (slide 1) lecture notes: cardiovascular system fight or flight response (b. Presentations & lectures documentation extensive flight physiology lecture put together for the jmatt course. Surgeon, writer, and professor anthony a goodman puts a solid understanding of human anatomy and physiology within your grasp you'll learn to see how structure and function are integrated into efficient unityandmdasha perspective that reveals the logic and symmetry of the human organism with awesome clarity.
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http://my-gravity.com/index.php/en/prevention-of-the-catastrophes/283-gravekettle-curl | 2021-10-18T11:23:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585201.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018093606-20211018123606-00663.warc.gz | 0.907464 | 324 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__89682506 | en | Prevention of the catastrophes
Another spacecraft can be developed to salvation of mankind.The operation principle of the spacecraft is analogous to the spacecraft Cylinder (Spacecraft Cylinder see and Gravity is not an attraction see). At the same time the spacecraft Curl has the design features. It looks like the horizontal toroidal-shaped wire reel, flattened to the cylindrical shape. That is, this reel looks like, as if the wire is reeled on the circular hollow cylinder (pipe) by the expedient «in the cylinder and then outside» (look the observational installation in «The Theory and the experiments»). Because of the specified strain the reel looks like the cylinder, similar on the spacecraft Cylinder.
The current is brought to the reel through the lamellar electrical distributor by analogy to the direct current electromotor. The accumulator of start of the spacecraft and the gyroscopes of stabilisation of a heading, a tilt and a pitch are had in the reel. The spacecraft in comparison with the spacecraft Cylinder is more combined mechanically, however differs by the almost instantaneous start and the major accuracy of flight.
Besides, its construction allows to use the guidance of Inertia, featured in the Aircraft Umbrella. By that the kettle gets ability to reduce the velocity of flight from peak V (which more than velocity of a meteor, look above «Aircraft Cylinder»), to null almost instantaneous. As a result there is variety of possibilities favorable for planet Earth actions on a dangerous asteroid (look Gravity and Inertia control the dangerous natural phenomena). | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1658088/astronauts_ready_for_2nd_spacewalk/ | 2018-01-21T17:08:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084890795.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20180121155718-20180121175718-00213.warc.gz | 0.884813 | 514 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__24947405 | en | March 21, 2009
Astronauts Ready For 2nd Spacewalk
The second spacewalk of the first space shuttle mission of the year begins today on board a space station with two new solar array wings ready to start supplying electricity.
Today's spacewalkers, Mission Specialists Steve Swanson and Joseph Acaba, spent last night in the International Space Station's Quest airlock under reduced atmospheric pressure, a standard pre-spacewalk protocol to speed the purge of nitrogen from their bloodstreams. After a hygiene break they will return to the airlock accompanied by shuttle Pilot Tony Antonelli and Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata to continue preparations for their 6.5-hour spacewalk.When the spacewalk begins at 11:43 a.m. CDT Swanson and Acaba will move to the far port end of the station's truss structure to prepare the worksite for replacement batteries, a task slated to be completed during the STS-127 mission. Next, they will move inboard to the P3 truss segment to install an unpressurized cargo carrier attachment system.
Swanson then moves to the pressurized logistics module attached to the Kibo laboratory to install a Global Positioning System antenna, which will be used for the planned September rendezvous of a new Japanese cargo ship, and then moves to the Z1 truss segment to reconfigure connectors at a patch panel. In the meantime, Acaba will be collecting standard and infrared imagery of panels of the radiators deployed from the P1 and S1 trusses.
Swanson and Acaba join forces again at the S3 truss segment to install a payload attachment system before heading back to the Quest airlock to conclude the spacewalk.
Today's wake-up music was "In a Little While" performed by the group Pilgrim and Trout for Mission Specialist Richard Arnold.
The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew day, or earlier if events warrant.
Image Caption: During the STS-119 mission's first spacewalk, astronauts Richard Arnold and Steve Swanson (out of frame) connected bolts to permanently attach the S6 truss segment to S5. The spacewalkers plugged in power and data connectors to the truss, prepared a radiator to cool it, opened boxes containing the new solar arrays and deployed the Beta Gimbal Assemblies, containing masts that support the solar arrays. Image Credit: NASA
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http://astrofoto.org/aggregator/categories/2?page=7 | 2017-04-27T20:49:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122621.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00066-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.896632 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__161921304 | en | The Calabash Nebula, pictured here is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun.
Dr. George Carruthers, right, and William Conway, a project manager at the Naval Research Institute, examine the gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph, the first moon-based observatory that Carruthers developed for the Apollo 16 mission. Apollo 16 astronauts placed the observatory on the moon in April 1972.
This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows nearly the full length of Lake Powell, the reservoir on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Note that the ISS was north of the lake at the time, so in this view south is at the top left of the image.
Martha Chaffee, widow of Roger Chaffee, Sheryl Chaffee, daughter, and Roger Purvenas, son of Sheryl Chaffee, left, along with acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, right, place wreaths at the graves of Apollo 1 crewmembers Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger Chaffee as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017.
Dione's lit hemisphere faces away from Cassini's camera, yet the moon's darkened surface features are dimly illuminated in this image, due to Saturnshine.
Astronauts, from the left, Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee stand near Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex 34 during training for Apollo 1 in January 1967.
Uranus' moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites, just 480 kilometers (about 300 miles) in diameter. Nine images were combined to obtain this full-disc, south-polar view.
The JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes.
In a lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers simulated conditions that astronauts in space suits would experience when the Orion spacecraft is vibrating during launch atop the agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket on its way to deep space destinations. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.autoconnect.co.in/air-cargo/mesa-air-group-adds-another-b737-freighter/ | 2024-04-16T01:27:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817036.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416000407-20240416030407-00769.warc.gz | 0.938207 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__110536138 | en | Mesa Air Group has recently signed a letter of intent to lease an additional Boeing 737-400F cargo aircraft.
The extra aircraft will be available in May and adds to the two B737-400F aircraft it currently operates for DHL.
Brad Rich, Chief Operating Officer, Mesa Air said in a statement, “This 737-400F will be a great addition to the cargo fleet. The investment in a third 737 aircraft demonstrates our focus on cargo operations and our commitment to DHL. This aircraft will provide Mesa pilots with additional career advancement opportunities and provide flexibility to better meet the demands of the current cargo environment.”
Mesa Airlines is a regional air carrier providing scheduled passenger and cargo service to 114 cities in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Mexico, the Bahamas, Canada, and Mexico as well as cargo services out of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. | aerospace | 1 |
https://memim.com/npp-zvezda.html | 2021-07-23T22:18:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150067.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20210723210216-20210724000216-00473.warc.gz | 0.944919 | 954 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__267651456 | en | NPP Zvezda (Russian НПП Звезда, English RD & PE Zvezda ) is a Russian manufacturer of Tomilino in Moscow of life support systems for aircraft and manned space flight. The products range from space suits on ejection seats, up to life jackets and fire extinguishing systems. The name " Zvezda " means " star" in Russian.
NPP Zvezda was founded in 1952 for the development of pressure suits and air refueling systems. In the 1960s, the development of space suits began. The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was equipped with an SK -1 suit of NPP Zvezda. The Sokol space suits used during start of Soyuz spaceships come as well as those used on the International Space Station Russian Orlan -M spacesuits for this manufacturer. Since 1994, Zvezda is a privately owned company in the form of a corporation.
The chief engineer and general manager until 2008 Gai Ilyich Severin.
History of development
Developed between 1953 and 1957 and built NPP Zvezda pressurized cabins for animals. They had a life support system and have been used for flight experiments aboard sounding rockets. From 1959 to 1961, the development of the " Skafander Kosmitscheski -1" or " Space Suit -1 " was shown for the first Vostok flight. Yuri Gagarin Vostok and Voskhod and the other cosmonauts flew with a suit of " SK-1 " series into space. The first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was matched with one of the female physiology and " SK -2" that version equipped.
After Zvezda developed from 1964 to 1965 the first suit for a spacewalk (EVA ), called " Berkut ". With this Alexei Leonov stepped out during the Voskhod - 2 mission as the first man into space. It was founded in 1967 a new model called " Jastreb " developed. This was used by the cosmonauts Jelissejew and Khrunov during Sojus-4/5-Mission 1969.
After the tragic loss of the Soyuz -11 crew, the Soviet government ordered the development of a rescue suit for takeoff and landing. From experience with the SK- 1 and the pressure suit for fighter pilots " Sokol " was the " Sokol -K " called space suit.
For EVA space suit was developed in the 1970s of " Orlan ", which over the years several modifications went through ( Orlan -D, Orlan -DM, Orlan - DMA) The latest variant " Orlan -M" comes in extravehicular activities in the Russian part of the International space station for use.
Ejection seat production
NPP Zvezda is the main supplier of the Russian Air Force with ejection seats. The model K -36 is considered by many experts to be the world leader. The system has been extensively studied by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. IBP Aircraft had already opened a production facility to install the seat in the U.S. for the Lockheed F -22 and Lockheed Martin F -35. However, the U.S. government chose for political reasons from the British manufacturer Martin Baker ejection seat for a new fighter aircraft.
So far the following ejection seat models were made :
- K -36 - basic model
- K- 36D - production model (used in Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG- 29C, Sukhoi Su -27)
- K- 36DM - series model (used in Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG -29A )
- K- 36D -3, 5 - series model (proposed for the F -22 and Lockheed F -35 JSF, but used in Sukhoi T -50)
- K -37 - series model (used in Kamov Ka -50 Kamov Ka - and -52 combat helicopters )
- К - 93L -39 - series model (used in Aero L -39 Albatros )
- K- 36L -3, 5YA - new variant, undetermined
- CKC - 94M - Series model ( for light aircraft like Sukhoi Su -26, Yak- 52)
- СКС - 94М -1 - standard model with variable height adjustment, Weight 25 kg
- СКС - 94М2 - improved production model for a 30 year lifespan | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-from-kisangani-fki | 2019-10-21T20:12:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987787444.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021194506-20191021222006-00291.warc.gz | 0.915484 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__154228406 | en | Non-stop flights from Kisangani (FKI)Last updated on: 10-21-2019
Kisangani Airport (IATA: FKI, ICAO: FZIC), also known as Bangoka International Airport, is a small airport in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is an international airport and serves the area of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kisangani Airport has non-stop passenger flights scheduled to 5 destinations in 1 country.
At present, there are 4 domestic flights from Kisangani.
The longest flight from Kisangani FKI is a 1,096 mile (1,764 km) non-stop route to Addis Ababa ADD. This direct flight takes around 2 hours and 50 minutes and is operated by Ethiopian Airlines.
Airlines flying from Kisangani
In total there are 3 airlines flying from and to Kisangani.
Alternative airports to Kisangani
There are no alternative airports to Kisangani (FKI) within a range of 125 miles (200 km). | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.v2aviation.org/post/1st-of-may-1930 | 2023-03-26T03:50:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945381.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20230326013652-20230326043652-00622.warc.gz | 0.952613 | 316 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__10856906 | en | 1st of May 1930
On this day, but then in 1930, (what would be a world-famous) a female pilot received her Commercial Pilots License. Born on the 24th of July in 1897 (Atchison, Kansas, USA) she started her flying lessons on the 3rd of January 1921. Her first instructor was Neta Snook, one of the first women to graduate from the Curtiss School of Aviation. And at that time the only female flying instructor in southern California. She started her flying lessons in a "Canuck" Canadian Curtiss JN4 "Jenny". and later in a Kinner "Airster"
Curtiss JN4 "Jenny" Kinner Airster
Late in 1921, she began to participate in airshows, At that time no pilots license was required.
On the 16th of May 1923, she passed her test to obtain a pilot’s license endorsed by the National Aeronautic Association, the newly-created American arm of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI). She was awarded Certificate Number 6017. Over the next years, she would participate in a magnitude of aviation events.
Until, on this date, the 1st of May 1930 the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce, issued Transport Pilot’s License No. 5716 to no one else than Amelia Mary Earhart.
Amelia Earhart’s Transport Pilot’s License. (Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections ) | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.nellis.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2002821457/ | 2023-05-29T09:52:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644817.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529074001-20230529104001-00193.warc.gz | 0.866742 | 284 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__295995185 | en | Official websites use .mil
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An F-35 Lightning II based at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, taxis for Red Flag 21-3 Aug. 3, 2021. Red Flag takes place over the Nevada Test and Training Range, which has the largest contiguous ground space available for military operations, and is home to the most advanced aerial test and training environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Zachary Rufus)
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https://www.comebuy.cc/product/jjrc-x9ps/ | 2022-08-20T05:36:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00299.warc.gz | 0.851015 | 523 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__15454186 | en | Banggood Coupon: BGX9PSP Price: 12% off Time: 2020-11-30
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Optical Flow Positioning: It captures image data with the drone’s bottom camera, then uses the optical flow to improve the smoothness of the control. Brushless motor. It is equipped with the brushless motor, which makes your flight more powerful.
FPV Real-time Transmission: Instantly see what drone camera records directly on your phone. Altitude Hold Mode: In altitude hold mode, the drone maintains a consistent altitude while allowing roll, pitch, and yaw to be controlled normally.
One key takeoff / landing. One press automatically taking off or landing, the drone will take off or go back to the position where it took off.
One key return. One-key return function makes it easily to find the way home. Gesture Shot for Photo and Video: It adopts the gesture recognition system to follow for capturing photo or video using gestures once recognized and identified.
One key following mode. In the mode, the drone will fly following the player to capture the beautiful moment.Point of Interesting Flight: Choose one point, then the drone will fly around the point in a circle.WayPoint Flying: Design your own flight route.Tap to Fly . Choose one point, the drone will fly toward the aim straightly.
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https://lewistownflyingclub.com/vfr-unleashed-whats-next-for-you/ | 2022-12-02T19:20:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710916.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202183117-20221202213117-00222.warc.gz | 0.97017 | 1,213 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__294840667 | en | Take, for example, getting your tailwheel endorsement. Every tailwheel pilot I know says it profoundly improved his or her stick and rudder skills. When I achieved that endorsement a few years ago, it certainly did for me.
“What, exactly, were you trying to do with that landing?” my instructor asked as he took the controls and told me to sit back for a moment and breathe. We were in his 1946 Aeronca Champ, and from the way he reacted, I thought I had nearly balled it up attempting a wheel landing, a technique that involves touching down on the main landing gear in a nose-level configuration.
I had to be honest. “I really don’t know what I was doing,” I replied.
“I can tell,” he said politely.
Landing a tailwheel aircraft requires a whole new understanding of pitch and yaw, as well as of coordinated flight and the use of the rudder, and the ability to feel the aircraft by the seat of your pants. Reading how the aircraft is reacting to a crosswind, or how much energy still needs to dissipate before touching down, or what direction the tail of the aircraft is headed versus the nose—all of these skills call us to master the fundamentals of flight in ways that a tricycle-gear aircraft simply does not require.
And, there is no better platform for enjoying VFR flight than the “low and slow” of the typical tailwheel aircraft. It’s the perfect aircraft to get into backcountry airstrips, to land on grass, or to meander among beautiful scenery. Best of all, many tailwheel aircraft have some of the lowest operating costs in all of general aviation.
Or, how about doing some training in spins or aerobatics? Understanding the aerodynamics of stalls and spins will revolutionize your confidence in controlling the aircraft in all types of flight conditions.
I called Catherine Cavagnaro of Ace Aerobatic School in Sewanee, Tennessee, and confessed that I had become uncomfortable—frankly, even a bit scared—with power-on stalls, and I needed her help.
I had good reason: Several years back a friend and I had terrified ourselves with an inadvertent spin he got us into while practicing full-power stalls in his Mooney. Thankfully, we had plenty of altitude to spare. But when that airplane flipped over and started into a spin that neither of us expected, it took a joint effort to think our way through how to recover. Neither of us could remember all the nuances of what we were told to do with spins in our primary training years earlier. Because it is no longer a part of private pilot training to actually experience and recover from a spin, we only had the book knowledge, and even that was cloudy from years of inattention. I remembered the opposite rudder part. Neither of us remembered to close the throttle. So, as the spin tightened, our fear skyrocketed.
We got out of it somehow, and I immediately vowed to train in this area. When I did, I gained a new level of respect and confidence for the entire aerodynamic envelope. I’ve done a little bit of aerobatic flight since then, and while my stomach isn’t really there just yet, the enjoyment factor is enormous. As a result, I find myself able to manipulate my aircraft more precisely in the normal flight regimes specifically because I have learned how to fly in extreme attitudes.
Or, how about getting your formation card? I don’t have my card yet, but I’ve been able to fly with those who do, and it is now on my bucket list. Learning to fly super close to another aircraft is exhilarating and opens all kinds of social experiences among groups who routinely get together to fly in formation. This is yet another skill set that calls one to learn aerodynamics, precise aircraft control, energy management, and coordinated flight. And, like everything we’ve discussed so far, it is entirely based in visual flight rules.
The point is this: We’ve been talking throughout this series about stretching your wings, going farther, gaining new experiences, and discovering new destinations. Much of my hope is to inspire VFR pilots to learn to fly with confidence and safety in the hundreds-of-miles cross-country. To achieve that, learning to analyze the weather, developing critical decision-making skills, understanding airspace and air traffic control communications, and managing risk are all paramount.
But there are so many other ways to enjoy your VFR piloting privileges and grow into a highly accomplished, confident pilot. You can add to your certificate high performance or complex endorsements and put new aircraft types in your logbook. You can achieve a seaplane rating and open yourself to a new realm of exotic destinations and social experiences. You can earn your commercial certificate and master a different level of precision in your aircraft handling. You can perfect the art of short takeoff and landing (STOL) and participate in the many competitions and gatherings of STOL enthusiasts.
Before I became deeply involved with AOPA and began attending events and meeting other pilots in a variety of settings, I was trapped in a mundane cycle of limited flying experiences out of sheer ignorance to the broader opportunities. Just about all I thought my private pilot certificate afforded me was another trip in the Skyhawk to the handful of regional airports within easy reach of home. I had not been exposed to the magnificently large world of aviating that reaches into all manner of flying in all types of environments.
I hope you will be inspired to go further. With just a few hours of good instruction in each area, you can dynamically expand the portfolio of your flying abilities and create many new experiences for yourself and those who enjoy flying with you. And best of all, every bit of this can be done exclusively in visual conditions. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.rctoys.com/pr/2008/07/16/how-rc-jet-engines-work/ | 2015-11-29T05:08:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398456289.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205416-00128-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.945643 | 1,347 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__59232473 | en | RC jet engines represent some of the most impressive technology that the RC industry has ever created. RC jets are always an amazing sight at the flying field, because they look and sound just like the real jets you find at airports and military airfields. In this article, we will take a look at how model jet engines work, and show you the differences from full scale jet engines.
Before you go out an buy a jet, be warned that RC jets are some of the most complicated, expensive, and difficult RC model airplanes available. You will need both many hours of flying experience and a huge budget to successfully own and fly an RC jet.
This article is about real jet engines which burn kerosene (or jet A1), not the electric ducted fan models frequently found in hobby stores. EDF jets are great models to fly, and some are capable of advanced aerobatics, but they are not to be confused with real RC jets using real jet engines.
How Full Scale Jet Engines Work
In order to understand how model jet engines work, it is helpful to examine the full scale engines used by airliners and other jet aircraft. A jet engine is a device which operates inside a fluid (in most cases air), and expels it at high speed achieving a propulsive effect. The mechanics of jet engines are best represented by Newton’s laws of motion, specifically: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This means that the reason jets go forward is because they expel air backwards, faster than it came in. This basic principle applies for all types of jet engines.
But how do we achieve the movement of air needed to propel an aircraft? We know from high school chemistry that the volume and the temperature of any gas are proportional. Because of this, when air is heated, the volume increases. If the air is held in a container (the combustion chamber of a jet engine), then the pressure will also increase. Releasing the heated gas will result in an exit speed greater than the speed at which the air entered, creating the backwards flow of air needed to travel forward.
Interestingly enough, rockets are considered to be a type of jet engine. The only difference between a rocket and a conventional jet engine is that the rocket operates in a vacuum, and thus needs to take both fuel and an oxidizing chemical with it. The discussion of rockets and other exotic jet engines is beyond the scope of this article, so we will limit our investigation to three of the most common designs. These jet engines are listed in order of complexity, and all were used in full scale aircraft at some point in time.
The Pulse Jet
The pulse jet is one of the simplest jet engines, consisting of little more than a pipe and a fuel source. Pulse jets were used by Germany during World War II to propel primitive cruise missiles (V1 flying bombs). A pulse jet works by igniting a fuel air mixture in high frequency bursts. A typical pulse jet cycle operates as follows:
- Air is allowed to enter the combustion chamber, and fuel is simultaneously added.
- The intake valve is closed.
- Ignition is triggered, resulting in an outward flow of air and low pressure inside the combustion chamber.
- The valve is opened, and new air rushes in due to the low pressure in the combustion chamber.
This cycle repeats during the entire operation of the engine.
Pulse jets are not very efficient, and are extremely loud. Because of this they are not often used in full scale aircraft, but hobbiests often build them due to their design simplicity and lack of moving parts. In some cases, pulse jets are built to small dimensions and used on RC model airplanes.
More sophisticated jet engines use turbines to compress the air fuel mixture before igniting it. A turbine is a device which consists of sets of moving blades attached to an axle. If the turbine blades are spinning, they will move air through themselves and towards the back of the vehicle. This figure shows a moving turbine, spinning on an axle.
The operation of a turbojet is represented in this figure.
Unlike pulse jets, turbojets lack a repeating cycle (the engine operates continuously). There is a sequence of events that occurs during the engines operation though, so we list them here in chronological order.
- Air enters the turbine and becomes compressed.
- The compressed air is routed to the combustion chamber, where is is mixed with fuel.
- Ignition occurs, and the resulting hot air is allowed to exit the jet engine.
- Before leaving the engine, the hot air is forced through a gas turbine, which drives the compressor used in step 1.
Turbojets are far more efficient than pulse jets, because some of the energy produced by the combustion process is reused
Even though turbojet engines are more efficient than pulse jets, they are not often used in subsonic aircraft because of the noise they produce. Turbojet engines are well suited to high speed operations, exceeding the speed of sound. They become less efficient at the subsonic speeds which airliners and other commercial jet aircraft operate at.
The turbofan design operates on exactly the same principle as the turbojet engine, but instead of routing all of the intake air through the combustion chamber a small amount is allowed to exit unburned. Instead of being mixed with fuel and burned, some of the cool air is mixed with the exhaust, reducing the exhaust speed and increasing fuel efficiency. This figure illustrates the operation of a turbofan jet engine:
How Model Jet Engines Work
RC Model airplane jet engines work in exactly the same way as the full scale ones discussed above, with the exception of the air compression. Instead of using an axial turbine compressor, RC jet engines use a centrifugal compressor. A centrifugal compressor propels air outwards after it enters the engine, causing it to hit the engine case and be compressed. Centrifugal compressors need fewer moving parts than axial turbine compressors, and are more efficient for small applications. Many small full scale jets use centrifugal compressors for the same reasons.
Here is a picture of a typical RC model airplane jet engine, mounted on top of an RC model airplane.
RC jet engines operate on kerosene, exactly the same fuel that full scale jet engines use. Ignition is achieved with a small glow plug, like those found on two and four stroke RC model airplane engines.
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https://www.timesofupdate.com/israel-successfully-tests-laser-based-iron-beam-air-defense-system-tou/ | 2022-05-28T14:49:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663016853.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528123744-20220528153744-00652.warc.gz | 0.916694 | 636 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__20302245 | en | Israel successfully tests laser-based ‘Iron Beam’ air defense system
According to ReportsIron Beam, developed by Israeli defense contractor Raphael Advanced Defense Systems, is a guided-energy weapon air defense system designed to complement a range of air defense systems.
On Twitter, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced the successful testing of the Iron Beam on Twitter. He tweeted, “Israel has successfully tested a new” Iron Beam “laser interception system. It is the world’s first energy-based weapon system that uses lasers to shoot UAVs, rockets and mortars at a cost of $ 3.50 per shot. ”
Israel has successfully tested a new “Iron Beam” laser interception system.
It is the world’s first energy-based weapon system that uses lasers to shoot incoming UAVs, rockets and mortars at a cost of $ 3.50 per shot.
It sounds like science fiction, but it’s real. pic.twitter.com/nRXFoYTjIU
- Naphtali Bennett Bennett (ftnaftalibennett) April 14, 2022
Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett said, “This sounds like a science fiction story, but it’s real.”
How do iron beams work?
Iron beam system, which uses a fiber laser to destroy airborne targets Designed To destroy short range rockets, artillery and mortar bombs. It has a range of up to 7 km, which is often considered too close to the Iron Dome system to effectively prevent razors. The latest system can also intercept unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
The effectiveness of the latest laser system can be deployed on land, air and sea. Israeli defense forces intend to deploy laser systems around Israel’s borders over the next decade to protect the country from attacks.
Significant advantages of using a guided energy weapon over conventional missile interceptors are that they are cost-effective and can be used without any limitations. There is also no interceptor debris to fall on the protected area. According to the Israeli defense, the interceptions of the iron beam are quiet and invisible, costing only $ 3.50 or about Rs 250 to stop the flying object.
Recent successful tests will change security and strategic dynamics in the region, advancing Israel’s defense capabilities against Hamas and Iran. According to reports, trials took place in the Negev desert last month.
Israel is already there Developed Or deployed a series of air defense systems to intercept objects flying from long-range missiles to rockets. The Iron Beam is the fifth element of Israel’s integrated air defense system, including the Arrow 2, Arrow 3, David’s Sling, and the Iron Dome.
So far, Israel has used its Iron Dome defense system to intercept rockets and missiles fired from hostile neighborhoods. With a 90 percent interception rate against incoming rocket fire, it’s a big success for IDF. However, IDF officials say deploying the system is costly. Here is a detailed description of the operation of the Iron Dome air defense system. | aerospace | 1 |
https://edition.mv/business/7847 | 2020-10-22T17:41:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880014.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022170349-20201022200349-00637.warc.gz | 0.959084 | 476 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__135894818 | en | The first aircraft of the new domestic airline, Manta Air, arrived in Maldives on Tuesday.
Manta Air's first aircraft, an ATR 72-600, received a warm welcome as it landed at Velana International Airport. Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL) also participated in the event to celebrate the occasion.
Manta’s first flight flew in from Denmark’s Billund Airport. The chief executive officer of Manta Air, Mohamed Khaleel, stated that flights will start operating after full authorization is granted from the Civil Aviation Authority of Maldives.
According to Khaleel, their first flight will fly from VIA to Kudahuvadhoo in Dhaalu Atoll. After that, Manta will start regular flights to Dharavandhoo in Baa Atoll and Thimarafushi in Thaa Atoll.
“In December, our second flight will land in the Maldives,” he said. “Within the first couple of months of next year, Manta Air will introduce seaplane services as well.”
Khaleel explained that the airline will offer passengers to choose from either ‘Sapphire’ class or ‘Comfort’ class.
In addition, Khaleel claimed that the airline was not introduced as a burden for the two domestic airlines that are already competing in the industry.
Furthermore, Khaleel declared that their main purpose is to create a competitive environment within the domestic airline market in order to dismantle the monopolies that exist. As a result of competition, the Maldives will see a drop in the prices of domestic flights, he said.
“Each person will be able to reserve and confirm their seats with ease, even if the seat is available six months before the flight,” he said. “You will not have to wait until the last minute to confirm your seat, which is a current issue among other airlines.”
The airline reported that passengers who choose to fly with them will be able to book seats according to their preference, and the flight schedule will be updated every six months.
Manta Air was founded by some shareholders of one of the strongest companies in the local tourism industry, Universal Enterprises, in conjunction with Reollo Investments Pvt Ltd. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ncdsinc.net/news-and-resources/recent-news/p/item/13098/colorado-incentive-package-brings-500-new-aerospace-jobs-to-lockheed-martin | 2020-05-31T22:58:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347413786.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20200531213917-20200601003917-00530.warc.gz | 0.909774 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__149553721 | en | Colorado Incentive Package Brings 500 New Aerospace Jobs To Lockheed Martin
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Colorado Incentive Package Brings 500 New Aerospace Jobs To Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin is pledging to create as many as 500 new high-paying aerospace jobs in Colorado over eight years in exchange for up to $15.5 million in state job-growth tax incentives.
The jobs, which carry an average annual salary of $113,000, are part of Lockheed's Commercial Space division, which moved to the company's Waterton Canyon campus in Jefferson County from Pennsylvania this year. The company is set to open a new commercial space operations center there Wednesday.
Click here to view PDF press release. | aerospace | 1 |
https://tradewindenergy.com/2017/05/04/groundbreaking-new-lightning-sensor/ | 2019-02-20T09:02:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247494694.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220085318-20190220111318-00022.warc.gz | 0.868328 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__84648837 | en | NASA recently launched a new weather satellite called GOES-16 which floats in geostationary orbit 22,240 miles above earth’s surface. It carries an instrument that provides a first-ever look at lightning from space. The YouTube video below is an example of the data it can provide, showing about 36 hours’ worth of visible satellite and lightning imagery from the system that caused the flooding and blizzard this past weekend.
Fun fact – lighting strikes the earth on average 100 times per second, and each bolt can contain up to a billion volts of electricity! #itsamazingoutthere | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.techsansar.in/mirage-2000-india-balakot-air-strike-2019/ | 2021-10-21T05:39:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585381.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20211021040342-20211021070342-00625.warc.gz | 0.925872 | 740 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__83906108 | en | Mirage 2000 India-The Enemy of Enemy
The Mirage 2000 is the same jet with which Indian Air Force launched an airstrike on multiple terror launchpads across the LOC. The attack was prosecuted in the response of the suicidal attack, which was carried out by the Pakistan based jihadist terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) in which 40 CRPF jawans martyred.
2019 Balakot Air Strike
The fighter jets of Indian Air Force took off conveying 2000-lb bomb from Gwalior airbase. At morning 3 o’clock, Mirage 2000 entered in Balakot flying at very low-level altitude just to dodge the radar and dropped 1,000 kg bomb in order to destroy the terrorist camp of JEM. It took 21 minutes to complete the raid and just two minutes to destroy the launchpads.
Mirage 2000 Dassault Aviation
Mirage 2000 is manufactured by Dassault Aviation in the late 1970s. It’s a multipurpose fourth-generation single-engine fighter jet. The core purpose behind manufacturing this deadly fighter jet was to make it light in weight and replace Mirage III for French Air Force. Eventually, the aircraft’s weight got reduced and therefore, evolved into a multipurpose fighter jet with certain variants developed. Mirage 2000N, Mirage 2000D, Mirage 2000-5, etc are the evolved version of it.
What makes Mirage 2000 India fatal for the enemy?
- It carries two types of missiles, the first one is air-to-air missiles and the other one is air-to-surface missiles.
- Mirage 2000 range is 1,550 km with drop tanks and 285 m/s climb rate.
- It has a maximum take-off weight up to 17,000 kg, which means it can carry a weight of around 10,000 kg bombs.
- Mirage 2000 speed is 2.2 Mach i.e 2,336 km/hr or 1,451 mph at high altitude and 1,110 km/hr or 690 mph at low altitude.
- A specialized radar named Doppler radar is used in the jet that use Doppler effects to generate velocity data about the target at a distance.
Countries having Mirage 2000 variants
- France with 315 jets having four variants such as 2000C, 2000D, 2000N and 2000B.
- UAE posses 67 jets with a total variant of five named as 2000EAD, 2000-9, 2000-9D, 2000RAD and 2000DAD.
- Republic of China (Taiwan) holds 60 jets having two variants 2000-5EI and 20005DI.
- As of now, India is having 50 jets available in two variants- 2000H and 2000TH.
- Greece with 44 jets having three variants like 2000EG, 2000-5 MK2 and 2000BG.
- Egypt owns 20 jets.
- Brazil has acquired 12 jets in two variants 2000C and 2000B
- Qatar is having 12 jets with two variants 20000-5EDA and 2000-5DDA
- A total of 12 jets in two categories are giving their service to Peru
Unarguably, the Mirage 2000 India has a glorious history. It’s the same jet that turned the Kargil war’s result in India’s favour. In 1999 Kargil war, the operation Safed Sagar had been carried out by the Indian Air Force to support the ground troop during operation Vijay. The motive behind this operation was to wipe out the regular and irregular soldiers of the Pakistani Army. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.checkin.pk/airlines/gulf-air | 2024-02-22T10:45:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473738.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222093910-20240222123910-00559.warc.gz | 0.96192 | 738 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__33023792 | en | Gulf Air over the Years
When we talk about airlines operating in the Middle East no discussion would be complete without us mentioning Gulf Air. This airline is the flag carrier of Bahrain, it is headquartered in Muharraq adjacent to Bahrain International Airport. This is one of the oldest airlines operating in the Arabian Peninsula. Having its roots in the early 1940’s, it started off as a private passenger carrier service, with a fleet of 10, under the banner of Gulf Aviation Company. It was later on acquired by several different countries in partnership. This resulted in it being the national carrier of 4 different countries in the region namely: the UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar. As progress would have it, eventually as the economy of the countries and the airline industry in the region grew more and more of the countries started setting up their own airlines to the fact that Gulf Air Line became the flag carrier for just Bahrain from where it had originally started.
Gulf Airlines Fleet and Destinations
As mentioned earlier on Gulf Airlines initiated its operations with a small fleet of 10 aircraft that included 7 Avro Ansons and 3 de Havilland DH.86B four engine biplanes. Currently, it has 28 aircraft in its fleet and all of them are Airbuses. A further 55 aircraft have been ordered including several Boeings and Bombardiers among the acquisition of more Airbuses.
As of July 2017, Gulf Air flights are offered at 42 destinations in 25 countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. It was the first to offer flights to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Its main destinations after the Middle East were South Asia specifically Pakistan and India. Even now 15 of the 42 destinations are centred in South Asia.
Like the many other airlines in the region, the flag carrier of Bahrain having been in operation for so long offers a variety of services that include an aircraft engineering and maintenance division that is responsible for the operations of its own aircraft as well as for others that might require its services.
It has a dedicated fleet to handle cargo services, mainly consisting of Airbuses, the cargo service is operated to all the destinations that the commercial fleet goes to.
It has a frequent flyer program for its loyal customers called Falconflyer. Customers can obtain points when they fly with gulfairline and later on can redeem those points in terms of discounts and free tickets.
Complete Transport Service
The airline is offering a complete transport service that you can avail from the convenience of your own home from getting pickups from your home right to the doorstep of your destination that includes everything from hotel booking to car rental or transfers.
Gulf Air Reservation
If you are planning on flying Gulf Air then you won’t have to go that far. Having been in the airline industry for such a long time, gulfairline has an extensive network of travel offices and agents both office based and virtual to assist with customers getting a Gulf Air reservation. If you are wondering if you can get it done via the internet, then yes you can through checkin.pk, you can check the airline’s flight schedule and also make a Gulf Air online booking.
Cheap Gulf Air Line Ticket
If you are on a budget and wish to get cheap Gulf Air Line ticket then you can browse through the many flights that will auto-populate when you carry out a search through this website. You will also be able to check Gulf Air ticket rates that will be shown too. As a general rule the earlier you book a flight the cheaper the ticket and also if you select a flight that has multiple stops along the route those are comparatively cheaper than direct flights. | aerospace | 1 |
https://acrosskarman.wilsoncenter.org/article/nasa-looks-private-sector-successor-international-space-station | 2024-04-18T23:35:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00807.warc.gz | 0.96507 | 4,247 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__11631182 | en | NASA Looks to Private Sector for Successor to the International Space Station
The walls would be plush, like a Las Vegas lounge, speckled with hundreds of small LED lights programmed to change color. The vibe would be cozy and modern, intended to “create a nest,” its designer says: “A comfortable and friendly egg, which would feature materials and colors stemmed from a fetal universe.”
The best features would, of course, be the windows, generously large for expansive views of the Earth below and the universe beyond because star gazing is at the center of Philippe Starck’s latest creation. Instead of designing another avant-garde piece of furniture, or a luxury yacht or a gleaming hotel, the French architect and designer is working on the interior of a commercial space station that NASA hopes one day would replace the International Space Station.
For more than 20 years, the ISS has served as a continuously inhabited foothold in low Earth orbit, a way for space agencies around the world to study how humans live off the Earth for extended periods. A total of 19 countries have sent astronauts there, binding them into an international consortium that has transcended politics and the geopolitical tensions that have roiled relationships on Earth. To build the ISS, the United States and Russia combined forces with Canada, Japan and the European Union. The program has been such a profound tool of diplomacy, as well as science and engineering, that many in the space community think it should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At the very least, they think the life of the ISS should be extended. And late last year, the White House backed NASA’s plan to keep the ISS operating to 2030.
But it’s not clear that that the station will last that long. In recent years, it has sprung a series of leaks and has been rattled by errant thruster firings that have sent it spinning wildly. Despite its incredible durability, it cannot survive in the harsh vacuum of space forever. The extreme hot and cold temperatures take their toll. So do the bits of micrometeorite debris that the space station dodges a few times a year and occasionally gets hit. At some point, it will reach the end of its life, and NASA and its partners will be forced to coordinate its demise by deorbiting it to Earth and crashing it into the ocean.
Knowing that day may soon come, NASA is racing to find its successor. But the space agency won’t be building it. After investing billions of dollars into the ISS, NASA cannot afford to build another space station in Earth orbit, especially as it is embarking on an effort to return humans to the moon, under a program called Artemis. Instead, it is looking to the private sector to develop next-generation habitats that would be owned and operated by the companies, not NASA.
The space agency has recently taken the first major steps in that direction, reaching an agreement with Axiom Space, a Houston-based company that has hired Starck, to send a module of its space station to attach to the ISS as a test bed as soon as 2024. Late last year, NASA awarded contracts to develop commercial space stations, worth $415.6 million combined, to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Nanoracks, which helps companies fly science experiments and other payloads to the ISS, and Northrop Grumman, the longtime defense contractor.
The contracts are yet another sign that NASA is willing to place enormous bets on the growing commercial space industry, which has been eroding governments’ long-held monopoly on space activity. Driven by the investments and ambitions of the so-called “space barons,” Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, who have invested heavily into their space ventures, the industry has taken off.
Musk’s SpaceX in particular has demonstrated the commercial ventures can be successful and help bolster NASA. For years SpaceX has flown cargo and supplies for the space agency to the ISS. NASA has expanded that public-private partnership, allowing SpaceX to fly its most precious resources—its astronauts—to the space station as well. The company also recently won a $3 billion contract to develop the spacecraft that would ferry astronauts to and from the surface of the moon.
NASA is now extending this relatively new model to space stations, hoping the private sector can take on an even greater task—building destinations in space—that presents a host of even greater challenges. And it comes as some are warning that unless NASA and its partners can build the stations quickly, it could be faced with the ignominious prospect of the ISS retiring before its successor is ready. That would leave the United States with nowhere to send its astronauts, a problem exacerbated by the fact that China has started to build a station of its own.
“I think it would be a tragedy if, after all of this time and all of this effort, we were to abandon low Earth orbit and cede that territory,” former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a Senate panel in 2020.
The cost of a new space station is enormous. And so are the technical and engineering hurdles. Keeping people alive and healthy in space requires enormous vigilance: making sure they have enough to eat and drink; that they get along and don’t kill each other; that they don’t get hit by a micrometeorite; that they can communicate reliably to people on the ground; that they can handle sickness or injury on their own; or repair any number of problems for extended periods. It is such a daunting task that it’s something of a miracle that after more than two decades there has not been any major incidents on the ISS.
Whether the private sector can build commercial stations and operate them safely, then, remains to be seen. And if it can’t do that before the ISS finally reaches the end of its life, NASA would have a gap that would be even more severe than the period after the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011 with no alternative to launch its astronauts from United States soil. Instead, Russia flew NASA’ astronauts to the ISS, and charged a hefty price for the service, nearly $90 million a seat, before SpaceX restored human spaceflight for NASA in 2020.
“ISS won’t last forever & incentivizing the private sector to begin follow-on capabilities are needed now,” Lori Garver, who served as NASA deputy administrator in the Obama administration, warned on Twitter in 2020. “This concept isn’t hard. Have we learned nothing in the last 10 years?”
On the outside, Axiom’s station may look like the ISS, with solar arrays, docking ports, but the inside would be a world apart from the government-funded station. It would feature the “largest window observatory every constructed for space,” the company says. And unlike the at-times clunky and cluttered ISS, designed purely for function and astronaut survival, Axiom’s station would have the attributes of a hotel, a touch of Starck’s style and eye toward comfort mixed in.
“We want the customers to have this great, comfortable, luxurious feel,” Michael Suffredini, Axiom’s co-founder, told The Washington Post. “We’re even looking at how we cook food on orbit…to make the food a little more tasty.”
Blue Origin’s station, called Orbital Reef, would also have large windows, and the initial configuration would be expansive, about 90 percent of the interior volume of the ISS, with room for nearly a dozen astronauts. And it would have the ability to grow over time, as more modules get added. The station “will provide anyone with the opportunity to establish their own address on orbit,” Blue Origin says. The company has teamed up with a host of aerospace giants—Sierra Space, Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering and Arizona State University—that would have the station ready by the second half of the decade.
Bezos has moved slowly and steadily into the space business, his passion since he was five years old and watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. That, as he has said, was a “seminal moment” for him, that inspired him to found the company—“blue” for the “pale blue dot” that is Earth, “origin” for where humanity began—more than 20 years ago.
Bezos has said his space venture is “the most important work I’m doing.” Recently it has flown a series of people to the edge of space and back on suborbital tourist jaunts, allowing paying customers a few minutes of weightlessness and views from more than 60 miles high. The company is also building a massive rocket called New Glenn, that could reach orbit, and spacecraft that would land astronauts on the moon
But it has even more ambitious goals; Bezos says he wants “millions of people living and working in space.” In the long-term, hundreds of years from now, Bezos envisions massive space stations large enough to hold entire cities, even mountain ranges, plucked from the pages of science fiction. These stations would house thousands of people at once with climate conditions controlled by humans.
“These are really pleasant places to live,” Bezos said in 2019, during a speech in Washington. “This is Maui on its best day all year long. No rain. No storms. No earthquakes.”
That dream is a long way away and may never be realized. In the meantime, the company is partnering with Colorado-based Sierra Space to build the Orbital Reef space station. Calling it “a mixed use business park in space,” the companies say it would provide “a vibrant, growing business ecosystem in low Earth orbit that will generate new discoveries, new products, new forms of entertainment and global awareness of Earth’s fragility and interconnectedness.”
One of the key components of the station are habitation modules that inflate like balloons once they reach orbit. Instead of fixed structures, these habitats can be packed into the nose cone of a rocket and then expand in space, allowing them to be transported to orbit in a single launch.
Nanoracks also plans to use inflatable modules on its station, called Starlab. Built in conjunction with Lockheed Martin, Starlab would feature a laboratory, named for George Washington Carver, the famous scientist, where companies and countries could conduct experiments.
NASA would be one of the key customers for the commercial stations. But the companies believe there will be a strong demand from others as well that would support multiple private space stations. Countries with growing space ambitions, like India and the United Arab Emirates, could be looking for a destination for their astronauts. There are companies that would want to do research in space. Entertainment could also become a revenue source. Last year, Yulia Peresild, a Russian actress and film producer, Klim Shipenko, flew to the ISS to film scenes for a movie called, “The Challenge.” Peresild plays a doctor hoping to save the life of a crew member in space. NASA has also said it is working with Tom Cruise to shoot scenes for a movie on the ISS.
Commercial space stations could change what it means to be an astronaut and who gets to become one. The companies think there would be a high demand for private citizens to go to space. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have already sold dozens of tickets on their suborbital spacecraft. Blue Origin even auctioned off one seat for $28 million to a crypto entrepreneur. SpaceX flew a crew of four private citizens in orbit around Earth for three days last year in its Dragon spacecraft.
While it’s developing its space station, Axiom Space it working with a number of private citizens to go to the ISS on flights chartered by the company on a SpaceX rocket. The first flight, scheduled for February, would take three wealthy businessmen, who are paying $55 million each, for about a week on the station. They’d be accompanied by Michael Lopez-Alegria, a former NASA astronaut, who now serves as an Axiom vice president. The company is planning another private-astronaut mission, scheduled for later in the year, with Peggy Whitson, the decorated former NASA astronaut who was the first female commander of the ISS, to serve as the guide.
In the 200s, Russia flew a number of private citizens to the space station for the price of about $20 million each. Until recently, though, the practice was prohibited by NASA, which feared they would interfere with the astronauts. The policy was changed, though in 2019, in an effort to boost the commercialization of space.
“This is the very beginning,” Jeffrey Manber, CEO of Nanoracks, said. “We’re going to enter the next decade, where you have multiple private space stations in a robust public-private partnership with NASA.”
Perhaps. But space is hard, and failure is as much a part of the history of exploration as triumph. Even behemoths such as Boeing have struggled. While SpaceX has successfully launched several astronaut crews to the ISS for NASA, Boeing has yet to have a successful flight of the capsule it is developing for the same purpose.
On its first flight, a test without any astronauts on board in December 2019, the autonomous Starliner capsule ran into trouble shortly after it reached orbit. Its on-board computer was 11 hours off, making it think it was in an entirely different point in the mission. Then another software problem could have caused a collision as the service module separated from the crew capsule. Boeing had to cut the mission short and bring the capsule back without docking with the ISS, one of its primary objectives.
The redo of the uncrewed test flight last year didn’t even get off the ground. While it was preparing to launch, officials noticed that several valves in the service module were stuck. Now, that flight may not happen until at least May, and the first flight with astronauts onboard may not come until the end of the year at the earliest, which would be several years behind schedule.
Given that track record, it is not clear that the commercial space industry is up to the more daunting task of building and operating space stations. Space is rough. There are thousands of bits of debris whirling around in orbit at 17,500 m.p.h. so that even a small piece can cause catastrophic damage. From time to time, the ISS has to maneuver to avoid getting hit, and sometimes it does. In 2016, a piece of debris cracked a window. Then last year a piece hit the station’s robotic arm, leaving a small puncture, like a bullet hole.
Russia last year added to the dangerous clutter in space when it fired a missile and blew up a dead satellite as target practice. It was seen as a warning to the United States and others that it could take out key satellites in orbit. But it caused a massive cloud of debris that threatened the ISS, and forced the astronauts, including two Russian cosmonauts, to seek shelter. The crew out on their spacesuits, boarded their spacecraft and waited for the worst. If debris hit the station, the astronauts were ready to abandon it for home.
Last summer, the ISS was taken on a wild ride when the thrusters of a newly installed Russian module started firing by mistake. It spun the ISS one and a half times, leaving it upside down before crews could get it back to its normal orientation. The astronauts were never in danger, NASA said, but a flight director in Houston said that he was thrilled that the solar arrays didn’t snap off.
There are less dramatic mishaps as well. After more than 20 years in orbit, things break, even the toilet. The batteries need to be replaced. Every once in a while, the ISS springs a leak, like the one recently that was so small the astronauts had a hard time finding it. They were able to isolate it to the Russian segment of the station, where an enterprising astronaut opened a bag of tea and watched how the leaves floated to a barely perceptible hole.
While the partners on the ISS are working to keep it going, the Chinese are building a brand new station. Last year, it launched the first of three modules and intends to complete it by the end of 2022. Called Tiangong, or “Heavenly Palace,” the station would be home to three astronauts, and China plans to keep it in operation for a decade.
It is part of a broader space program that included the first landing of a robot on the far side of the moon in 2019. Last year, it became only the second nation, after the United States, to land and operate a rover on Mars. Viewing China as a threat, the Trump administration took a very hawkish tone when talking about its space ambitions. In a speech calling for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon, former Vice President Pence warned that China was trying “to seize the lunar strategic high ground and become the world’s spacefaring nation.”
While it has sought to dismantle virtually every remnant of Trump’s legacy, the Biden White House has embraced its tough stance against China. Bill Nelson, who serves as the NASA administrator for the Biden administration, has called China “a very aggressive competitor” that is challenging American leadership. And he recently warned: “Watch the Chinese.”
The intent of such talk may be political. Compared to other agencies, NASA’s budget is tiny—less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget. Over the next few years, much of it will be tied up in its “Artemis” program to return astronauts to the moon, leaving little for space station development. So Nelson, the former Democratic Senator from Florida, knows he needs more money from his former colleagues in Congress.
His predecessor agrees.
“We are not ready for what comes after the International Space Station,” Bridenstine, the NASA Administrator during the Trump administration, said during a Senate recently. “Building a space station takes a long time, especially when you’re doing it in a way that’s never been done before.”
NASA this year requested $101 million for the program that would develop private space stations, but Bridenstine and other have said that is not nearly enough. In his written testimony, he said Congress needed to appropriate $2 billion annually to the effort.
While NASA lobbies Congress for more money, and the companies work to develop their commercial stations, the ISS keeps humming along, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, as it has for years, a marvel of engineering that continues to set new records for human space exploration. Another one is set to fall shortly.
About two weeks before he returns to Earth in March, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei would break the America spaceflight duration record set in 2016 by Scott Kelly. In all, the former Army Colonel will have spent a total of 353 days on the station—just short of a full year but 13 more days than Kelly and any other American. During his time on the orbiting laboratory, he will have performed hundreds of experiments for scientists on the ground. But in some sense, the real experiment isn’t anything in a test tube. Rather, it’s him, his body—brain, bones and blood—that doctors and scientists will study to see what sort of effect space had on him, and what clues it might hold as NASA prepares to send humans on long-duration missions to the moon and Mars.
As it looks to reaching out further into the solar system, NASA hopes Vande Hei’s record, too, will fall. If it does, it won’t be on a station that built by NASA. From now on, it plans to be a tenant in low Earth orbit, not the landlord.
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The venerable B-1B was first delivered to the Air Force in 1985. It got its beginnings, however, in 1974, with the construction of the first B-1A Prototype, SN #74-0158. This aircraft first flew on 23 December 1974. This repaint pays homage to the beginnings of this lethal platform, that at one time, almost never made it. Cancelled by the Carter Administration in 1977, it was revived by President Ronald Reagan in October of 1981. You must have the PAYWARE Virtavia B-1B. Not tested in FSX:SE or P3D, but it should work nicely in both.
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Blue and white Piper PA-28-181 Archer II N6749T Civil Air Patrol advanced cadet aerial training platform textures. Your assignment is to utilize this non-STOL aircraft to complete ten solo short field full flap landings on the numbers and coming to a complete stop within the first three runway centerline hashmarks (which is possible as shown in screenshot #5) before advancing in your training and graduating to actual CAP search and rescue aircraft. For the payware Carenado Archer II for FSX. Repaint by Tom Tiedman.
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https://www.geektime.com/2017/03/21/3-drones-commissioned-by-the-department-of-defense-you-should-know-about/ | 2019-09-20T18:09:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574058.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920175834-20190920201834-00188.warc.gz | 0.958919 | 1,936 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__162617852 | en | More than just Predators and Hellfires, the US military is developing drone programs that are changing the future of defense
In early January, the US military succeeded in capturing headlines and imaginations when they provided an inside look at their latest advances in drone technology. In the midst of the preparations for the battle of Mosul, 60 Minutes ran a story about the Perdix drone program that represents the next stage of integration into the armed forces. In the test that was carried out in October of last year, 103 of the Perdix microdrones were jettisoned mid-flight by three F/A-18 Super Hornets, engaging in an aerial exercise.
Already in their 6th generation, these small drones with their wingspan under a foot across work together as perhaps the ultimate Internet of Things, communicating as a swarm to carry out their mission. Unlike the drones that have come to prominence over the past 15 years in the wars with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, controlled by pilots sitting on bases like Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, these little machines are operated through Artificial Intelligence.
By moving away from the human-controlled model, they allow these microdrones far more autonomy to respond far faster to new situations and needs.
“Due to the complex nature of combat, Perdix are not pre-programmed synchronized individuals, they are a collective organism, sharing one distributed brain for decision-making and adapting to each other like swarms in nature,” said Strategic Capabilities Office Director William Roper whose organization played a role in developing the project alongside the Department of Defense (DoD) and Naval Air Systems Command. “Because every Perdix communicates and collaborates with every other Perdix, the swarm has no leader and can gracefully adapt to drones entering or exiting the team.”
As opposed to their larger cousin, the $15 million Predator drone, the Perdix is fairly cheap and is undergoing a fairly rapid development cycle. That makes it perhaps more similar to a consumer-type device than a classical military one. This expendability could also expand their use in operations, reaching out to more units and for more missions.
Zooming out a bit, there appears to be a move on the part of the DoD to explore smaller, cheaper drones that can be integrated with units. The focus of these drones appears to be on acting as a force multiplier, giving the military valuable information beyond their current capacity.
“Unmanned vehicles, like many other capabilities in the DoD, are viewed as force multipliers,” says LTC Roger M. Cabiness II from the Office of the Secretary of Defense-Public Affairs at the DoD. “These types of vehicles, and the underlying technology are a resource to enhance support to service members by improving the information used to make decisions to ultimately improve effects on the battlefield.”
Beyond the Perdix project, there are a number of other small drone initiatives being spearheaded by the military that are worth keeping an eye on.
1. PARC: Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications
PARC is a tethered, small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by CyPhy capable of staying airborne for several days LTC Cabiness tells Geektime. Once in the air, the PARC drone acts as its name describes, providing images from its perch in the sky and helping to give the team better reception for communications. Carrying infrared cameras or similar sensors, LTC Cabiness explains that PARC uses a microfilament line to carry power up to the UAV and HD imagery data down to the operator.
This kind of drone essentially gives soldiers in the field the advantage of gaining a kind of high ground no matter where they are. It is easy to see how this tool will quickly find its way onto forward operating bases or in convoys.
Developed through the sponsorship of the Rapid Reaction Technology Office and the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, LTC Cabiness explains to Geektime that the InstantEye provides tactical operators with enhanced situational awareness and instantaneous overhead video on demand.
Small and weighing only 200 grams, LTC Cabiness says that the InstantEye can be stowed compactly in a small canister and quickly unfolded and deployed when needed, streaming video back to the controller. This is basically the military’s version of a standard microdrone that gives special forces soldiers the ability to peek in through windows, over walls, and get around other obstructions in order to get a better intelligence picture of their situation.
3. AWESUM: Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine UAS against Mobile targets
How often do you have a piece of military technology with a kick-ass name like AWESUM?
This navy drone was developed through the sponsorship of the Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) Program to help give submarine sailors a wider picture outside of what they can see through the periscope and sonar.
Shot out of the sub’s countermeasures launchers, this three-pound, three-inch unmanned aerial system (UAS) gives the crew a bird’s eye view to assist in tasks like targeting and assessing damage following combat.
For years now, submarines have acted as platforms for underwater vehicles and personnel like SEALs. With this drone, they gain an eye in the sky. Add to this the fact that the AWESUM’s control and sensor feeds are integrated directly into the combat control system, and they gain a real edge in battle. According to LTC Cabiness, the technology for this project has already made its debut onto US subs, being first introduced in November 2016.
Is the future of drones in the US military coming from the commercial market
One of the details that popped out in their January statement on the tests was the fact that these drones were built using totally commercial materials.
The Perdix project came out of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab and not the legendary DARPA. These days many of the military’s advancements in robotics seem to be coming out of the Cambridge area, with Boston Dynamics establishing itself as one of the big names pumping out bots that catch headlines.
While their Big Dog robot that was aimed at carrying heavy loads for troops in the field was rejected by the Marines for being really, really noisy, their latest invention series of devices are getting faster, rolling and jumping into people’s nightmares.
It is unclear whether some of these fast moving, bi-ped bots will have military uses, but once they solve some of the major kinks for civilian use, they could easily move over some of the basic concepts.
Once that happens, it might not be too long until we need to take out Robot Insurance from great providers like Old Glory.
In the statement released by the DoD after the Perdix test was publicized, they included an interesting tidbit: the researchers utilized a fast development model of issuing constant updates, a system that is far closer to that of a lean startup than traditional defense programs.
The fact they are made out of publicly available parts shows how fast the private sector is pushing forward in the sector, in many instances perhaps prepared to overtake the military in the development of drone technology.
At this point, it may be worth asking whether the next period of innovation will increasingly come from the private sector. I still remember back to 2004 when the civilian GPS was far more accurate than what we had in the IDF’s infantry units. Now Waze, Google Maps, and Moovit completely blow that older technology out of the water.
Drones like the Mavic coming out of DJI are breaking boundaries of what are possible in the civilian market. Even Islamic State fighters in Mosul are using commercially bought drones for intelligence gathering and aerial bombings, gaining low-level yet surprisingly effective air capability that would not have been possible five or ten years ago.
While many of these advancements are both scary and exciting, we shouldn’t expect to see swarms of drones buzzing through the air anytime soon. The DoD is currently looking for a manufacturer that can produce 1,000 units of the Perdix drones a year and has stated that they are looking to improve on the drone for the “Gen 7” version.
Unlike commercial drones that are used for fun or maybe some light work purposes, military grade drones need to prove that they are reliable and can take some punishment from the bumps of the field. Then there are additional considerations about the manufacturers, who we can assume the DoD would prefer were not based in China where there are likely security concerns from companies like DJI.
One company that has caught my eye in developing ground-based robots is Tel Aviv’s Roboteam with their product line of three main bots, the MTGR, Iris, and the heavy Probot.
As robots and automation et large continue to make their way into our lives, we can plan to see plenty more of these innovations in the military space. Some like the PARC may seem totally uncontroversial in their purpose, essentially acting as floating cameras that would otherwise have been mounted on blimps. However, the combination of robotics with AI in a military context may put others on edge. Not that anyone is expecting a rise of the bots anytime soon a la Bender Bending Rodriguez-style, but the roll out of this technology needs to done with a lot of transparency and clear guidelines on their use. | aerospace | 1 |
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Experts have been baffled how a large passenger jet seems to have flown undetected and possibly beaten military radar systems for up to six hours.
Avoiding radar via “cloaking technology” has long been one of the objectives of the defence industry and Freescale has been active developing chips for military radar.
On its website, the company says its radio frequency products meet the requirements for applications in “avionics, radar, communications, missile guidance, electronic warfare and identification friend or foe”.
Last June it announced it was creating a team of specialists dedicated to producing “radio frequency power products” for the defence industry.
And on March 3, it announced it was releasing 11 of these new gadgets for use in “high frequency, VHF and low-band UHF radar and…
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https://www.moralepatcharmory.com/blogs/breaking-defense/exclusive-air-force-to-upgrade-abms-every-4-months-roper | 2020-05-26T08:42:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347390755.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526081547-20200526111547-00136.warc.gz | 0.947326 | 1,136 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__187629843 | en | AFA 2019: First there were ‘pitch days’ for start-ups to demo their new ideas to the Air Force. Next there will be “connect-a-thons” where industry is invited every four months to test platforms, devices or applications that might work with the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) — the crucial foundation for enabling multi-domain command and control (MDC2), says the service’s acquisition czar Will Roper.
This innovative model for rapidly developing ABMS as the “connective tissue” to link platforms to each other and to shooters will be first demonstrated in four months, Roper said. It will also, as close observers of the Air Force know, help build the first versions of what will become Multi Domain Operations.
“What we are going to use is a Skyborg attritable drone, a cheap attritable aircraft, to link an F-22 and an F-35 that speak two different languages,” he explained. “We want to use the attritable drone to be the universal translator for both, or if you like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the ‘babel fish’ to talk to both, and we’re even going to push the connection down to a tablet on the ground to simulate a soldier being there.”
The sinister-sounding Skyborg program emerged from the Strategic Capabilities Office program called Avatar, Roper said. Avatar is also known as the “loyal wingman” concept that would give drones a measure of autonomy to carry weapons, jammers and other systems and to work in tandem with fighter jets.
Breaking D will remember that the Air Force Research Laboratory in March demonstrated one such “loyal wingman” drone, the XQ-58A Valkyrie was built by Kratos. And colleague Valerie Insinna at Defense News reported in May that Roper told lawmakers Valkyrie would be transitioned to the Skyborg prototype program, albeit with new where the drone will be outfitted with new sensors and payloads to enable it to network to the piloted aircraft.
The “connect-a-thon” concept will allow interested Air Force programs offices and industry to “come with anything they’re working on that they’re envisioning to be part of ABMS” and see if it actually works.
Roper stressed that the focus of the demonstration, and of ABMS itself, is on “the connective tissue between programs, not the end states, the platforms themselves” — that is, networking capability via software-defined networks, software-defined radio systems, and cloud-based coding and infrastructure. The ultimate goal, Roper enthused, is to “build a families of systems” and “create something that feels like the Internet of Things for the Air Force.”
“It’s not far-fetched,” Roper stressed.
Further, he said, that once the Air Force can talk more publicly about the fiscal year 2021 budget, it will become clear that ABMS “is a top priority for us.” The 2021 budget, he noted, will be the first where funding for ABMS is consolidated into one budget line to make it easier for Congress to track. Congress has been skeptical of the program, dubbing it as simply too vague to make sense of. Roper said that he hopes as the demonstrations get under way, it will help make the program more “concrete.”
ABMS, he said, is critically important because the service has decided not to recapitalize the venerable Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) airborne C2 platform. The service “is pursuing nine lines of effort” that make up what Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein calls the ‘highway’ — the “thing the trucks run on,” Rope said. These include “software defined networks, software defined radios, data architecture, adaptability, autonomy, mesh ad hoc networking,” Roper said, “stuff that we treat like buzzwords in the Pentagon but we never actually put resource to.” The Air Force, with ABMS, is “putting serious resource to” those concepts, he stressed. “We are no kidding going to do it.”
Further, by not tying ABMS to any platform, the Air Force opens up “a competitive environment for programs and the vendors they’re working with to come in and be part of ABMS-ing their platform,” Roper added. This allows “forward-leaning programs” to move first to adopt the system, until eventually every service sensor is connected to every platform and every type of ground receiver. The beauty of the ABMS design, he said, is that it can first be deployed with new platforms but also be connected “backwards” to existing ones.
“We’ve already heard thoughts from F-16, F-22, space programs — Low Earth orbit programs — who say we can do this, we want to be part of the networked family,” Roper said. Indeed, Roper is working with Space Command head Gen. John Raymond to identify a space program that could be next to undertake a similar experiment to the first airborne demonstration, linking satellites via the nascent ABMS system to a ground station. | aerospace | 1 |
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Parked on a remote stand by the Heathrow Airfield Operations base for the day after operating the 'Ethiopian 700' from Addis Ababa overnight. Canon 600D 100-400L IS.
Arriving into RWY 09L. [1600 pix]
Waiting the time for the evening flight to ADD parked at the remote stands
On finals after a short flight from Paris,CDG
ET 787 Lining up Runway 27 for flight back to Addis Ababa as "ET 611". [f/5.6, 1/8s, ISO 4000, handheld] | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/110951/20170128/test-flights-russia-s-new-mig-35-fighter-shot-down.htm | 2020-07-02T12:48:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655878753.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20200702111512-20200702141512-00168.warc.gz | 0.953295 | 612 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__115361881 | en | |Arthur Dominic Villasanta |||Jan 28, 2017 08:42 AM EST|
(Photo : Russian Aerospace Forces) MiG-35.
A persistent lack of money has delayed the expected deliveries of the Mikoyan MiG-35 air superiority fighter for testing and evaluation by the Egyptian Air Force and the Russian Air Force.
The evaluations were supposed to have taken place at the end of 2016 and two MiG-35s delivered to Egypt. In July 2016, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), the conglomerate that includes Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, said it was completing the general assembly stage, and should move to flight tests according to schedule.
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"We will begin state tests as part of the Ministry of Defense program at the end of summer (2016). The tests will be carried out until next year," said General Director Sergey Korotkov.
Those tests were to have begun in January 2017 and failed to take place due to funding shortfalls.
The delay belies the claim made in December 2016 by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin that test flights of fourth-generation MiG-35 jet will begin in January 2017.
This generation 4.5 (or generation 4++) fighter made by Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG is in the same league as the Sukhoi Su-35S.
Egypt signed a contract in April 2015 for 50 MiG -35s worth over $2 billion, and has made a down payment on this order. Egypt's MiG-35s will be equipped with high precision targeting pods.
In contrast, the Russian Air Force has ordered only 37 MiG -35s worth $1.1 billion but has delayed acquiring the jet because of government spending cuts. Development of Russia's MiG-35 should be completed in 2017 while entry into service with the Russian Air Force is scheduled for 2018.
The main customer for the MiG -35, however, was supposed to be the Indian Air Force and the jet was first unveiled at the Aero India 2007 air show in Bangalore. The MiG -35 was one of six contenders for India's multi-role combat aircraft competition that would see 126 jets on order.
France's Dassault Rafale eventually won this competition and the loss was a huge blow to cash-strapped Russia.
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Microsoft Surface Pro 5 Rumors and Release Date: What is the Latest? | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112685883/safety-support-contract-wallops-flight-facility-nasa-090212/ | 2015-11-30T04:44:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398460982.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205420-00278-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.91618 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__4640381 | en | September 2, 2012
Safety Support Contract At Wallops Flight Facility Selected By NASA
NASA has awarded a contract to Millennium Engineering and Integration Company of Arlington, Va., to provide range and institutional safety support at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. The five-year contract is worth as much as $25 million.
Institutional safety ensures compliance with NASA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards related to the operations and construction of new or modified facilities and complex systems. This includes, but is not limited to, fire protection, industrial hygiene, pressure systems, explosives, lifting devices, and emergency preparedness.
For information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.expedia.com/lp/flights/den/las/denver-to-las-vegas | 2019-05-23T16:08:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257259.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523143923-20190523165923-00549.warc.gz | 0.901213 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__138743791 | en | Search over 1,000,000 properties worldwide and 550 airlines worldwide.
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|Airlines Serving||Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta, Frontier Airlines, Spirit Airlines, United|
Very nice and educated people working there
Arrived early. Yay
We actually had leg room for the flight.
Was not happy with the end of the flight in Vegas. They told us the number of the baggage pickup but failed to mention that we would have to get on a bus and drive 15 minutes to retrieve our bags.
Everything was pretty great. One or two of the flight attendants were kinda crabby though.
Nothing special about frontier other that always 15 minutes late
Rude flight attendants
Prefer Southwest. Free baggage and seats and usually less expensive air fare. | aerospace | 1 |
http://sofiaflighttraining.com/topic/obuchenia/obuchenie-na-aviotehnitsi/aircraft-type-training-courses/boeing-737-300400500/ | 2019-05-21T16:56:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256494.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521162634-20190521184634-00013.warc.gz | 0.695434 | 94 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__82904477 | en | Cabin crew training
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07.10.2019 Boeing 737-300/400/500 (CFM56), Theoretical and Practical training, Category B1.1/В2
Differences from Boeing 737-300/400/500 (CFM56) to Boeing 737-600/700/800/900(CFM56)
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https://shobdonairfield.co.uk/aero/event/laa-strut-keth-taylor-ferrying-c172-washing-dc-to-tel-aviv-730pm/ | 2019-03-25T18:53:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204086.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325174034-20190325200034-00472.warc.gz | 0.851718 | 108 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__161934917 | en | LAA Strut – Keith Taylor (Ferrying C172: Washing DC to Tel Aviv) – 7:30PM
We are a social group registered with the Light Aircraft Association. Open to all including pilots, kit-buliders and general aviation enthusiasts.
Come along to our meetings for aviation related talks and to meet local aviators for information, tips and advice.
Meet Keith Taylor – Ferrying a C172 from Washing DC to Tel Aviv via the Azores
Meeting in the main club house. | aerospace | 1 |
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-07-17/news/0607170174_1_fuel-tanks-center-fuel-aircraft-certification-service | 2017-12-15T19:07:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948577018.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20171215172833-20171215194833-00554.warc.gz | 0.95994 | 700 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__205663309 | en | A decade after a Paris-bound jumbo jet exploded in the night sky and plummeted into waters off Long Island's south shore, killing all 230 aboard, the airline industry and federal officials still are at odds over measures that safety experts say would have prevented the accident.
Trans World Airlines Flight 800 crashed minutes after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a spark ignited vapors in a fuel tank located in the center of the Boeing 747's wing. Officials never pinpointed what triggered the blast but suspected a short circuit transferred excess voltage into the tank.
The July 17, 1996, accident prompted one of the most expensive and far-reaching investigations in aviation history.
But 10 years later, safety experts are frustrated that the primary cause of the accident--the flammability of fuel tanks--hasn't been fixed. The Federal Aviation Administration says it is essential to do so to save lives. The airline industry disagrees, arguing that dozens of retrofits since 1996 adequately limit the risk of explosions.
In November, the FAA proposed a controversial system that would pump nitrogen into center fuel tanks to replace oxygen, which is flammable. The measure would affect 3,800 aircraft with center fuel tanks--about half of today's fleet.
The nation's airlines contend the expensive system is redundant, adding that they have spent $1 billion since 1996 to comply with new FAA rules that seek to limit hundreds of sources that could ignite vapors in fuel tanks. They say the proposed modifications would cost $420,000 per plane to install and maintain.
The ongoing dispute underscores increasing tensions between cash-strapped carriers and safety regulators.
"Economics drives safety changes; it always has," said Michael Barr, director of aviation safety and security at the University of Southern California. "I think the science is there, but is the money there to do the science?"
Safety experts acknowledge the FAA's proposal to reduce the flammability of fuel tanks is aimed at preventing a "rare occurrence."
"We're dealing with extremely low levels of probability, but that's the nature of the safety business," said John Hickey, director of the FAA's aircraft certification service.
Regulators note that since 1989, center fuel tank explosions have caused four airplane accidents, leading to 346 fatalities.
After Flight 800 went down, the FAA issued more than 100 directives ordering airlines to overhaul wiring and to complete assessments of fuel tank systems to ferret out equipment or processes that could spark a fire and explosion. The studies led to the discovery of 200 previously unknown ignition sources.
After the agency issued the proposed rule that would mandate its system on numerous Boeing and Airbus models, it received comments from airlines saying its analysis was flawed and that the costs of the new system outweighed its benefits.
"This doesn't seem to be a smart use of our valuable safety dollars," said Basil Barimo, vice president of operations and safety at the Air Transport Association, a trade group that represents most U.S. carriers.
Airbus also weighed in against the proposal, saying there is no evidence that fuel tank systems on airplanes built after 1970 present the same problems as older models.
The FAA will spend the upcoming months reviewing comments and hopes to issue its final ruling by September 2007.
As the agency studies the matter, Boeing says it will install a system designed to reduce the flammability of fuel tanks on its new 787 aircraft and is testing it on other models. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA10663 | 2017-11-19T21:45:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805809.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119210640-20171119230640-00715.warc.gz | 0.89167 | 100 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__224712272 | en | Click on the image for the animation
During the first 25 seconds after NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander deploys its parachute, the spacecraft will jettison its heat shield and extend its three legs.
This illustration is part of the animation featured above.
The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.rrauction.com/landing/page/321-marion-edward-thomas-collection/ | 2021-07-28T17:03:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153739.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728154442-20210728184442-00538.warc.gz | 0.961228 | 460 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__287871669 | en | Marion “Ed” Thomas was the official astronaut photographer at Kennedy Space Center for 25 years. In addition to having close personal relationships with NASA’s finest, Thomas was senior photographer and team leader for all phases of pre-launch, launch, and post launch activities spanning the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, and Space Shuttle programs.
In a 1973 Today article, Thomas was nonchalantly quoted as saying, “they needed a photographer and I happened to be there.” Ed knew every astronaut during his tenure, and captured the entirety of NASA from Von Braun’s early rocketry, through to the Shuttle. Thomas was witness to both the comedy and the tragedy of the Space program,” including capturing images of the Apollo 1 crew a mere 20 minutes before the tragic January 27, 1967 fire.
Thomas witnessed the tense preparation for the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11, of which this year is the landmark 50th Anniversary. The American Space Program’s incredibly high stakes and occasional sorrow was countered by the levity in the astronauts’ practical jokes and good naturedness. The NASA shutterbug quipped, “I would continually catch them off-guard...it got so they would come up and stick their thumbs over my lens.”
More than a mere, photographer, Thomas was welcomed into the astronaut’s lives—he even pitched to Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, who nearly broke his leg rounding the bases for a home run forever outlawing pre-launch NASA baseball games. Every laugh, every launch, and every landing, for two and a half decades, Ed was there to document it all.
RR is offering this once-in-a-lifetime collection—highlighted by a remarkable full-sized Book of Mormon flown on Apollo 16 for Thomas by Commander John Young—thereby telling a visual story, mission by mission through the most vibrant years of the space program. From rare early rocketry photography, to captivating images of the man who declared we “go to the moon,” vintage Mercury shots from Shepard to Cooper, behind-the-scenes Gemini prep, every Apollo mission, and more, this incredible compendium is truly a sight to behold. | aerospace | 1 |
https://investforesight.com/anna-lee-fisher-more-women-to-be-involved-in-space-programs/ | 2020-09-21T19:19:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400202007.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20200921175057-20200921205057-00402.warc.gz | 0.97207 | 465 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__56827159 | en | Dr Anna Lee Fisher, NASA astronaut and the first mother in space, made a presentation at the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, covering her experiences during participation in the NASA program. Her visit to Russia received support from NASA and the US Embassy. A special guest of the meeting Dr Fisher had with Moscow public was Anna Kikina, at the moment, the only female astronaut in the Russian space program.
An essential focus of a number of questions from the audience was the participation of women in space exploration. “I am proud of how NASA accepted and embraced women in its program. The change will also come to other countries and to the Russian program as well, and pretty soon there will be more women involved. It just takes time for culture and societal norms to change,” Dr Fisher said.
When asked how one can make it into space, she mentioned there are three options: to achieve extraordinary results in studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), to joint military as a pilot, or to become a space tourist after launching a successful business and making 20 to 30 million dollars to book a flight at Soyuz spacecraft. Yet the most important of all, she stressed referring to her personal ‘check list for life’ of about a dozen items, is “if you have a dream, do not give up and be persistent.”
“Every astronaut would tell pretty much the same thing, once you go into space and see this beautiful planet, you do not see any borders, and you start to feel more like you are from planet Earth as opposed to whichever country you originally came from. Space program brings people together. The US and USSR launched it when they were in Cold War, and then we became partners and now we are all working together,” Anna Lee Fisher noted. “Those who love space are united in their vision of the future and – no matter what the political differences are between countries – are united in our love of space and protecting our planet.”
Dr Fisher welcomed development of space tourism as “more people will get to see the planet from space and they will come to realize how beautiful it is – and we will all learn to get along better and take care of our planet and take care of each other.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.shawnshawn.co/blog/review-of-top-gun-movie | 2023-12-01T20:41:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100304.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201183432-20231201213432-00849.warc.gz | 0.981039 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__36791275 | en | So what is the attraction to Top Gun over time?
This movie is very attractive is you are about 18 or inspired to serve a great cause. Basically, Pete Michell, played by Tom Cruise, is challenged to be the best fighter in a special dog fight school called top gun for the elite fighter pilots. He is haunted by the cover-up of his father’s dog fight during Vietnam, which tarnishes his record. Pete has to deal with his best friend, who is just trying to make a career of flying without being disqualified. In the end Pete has to live up to his friend Goose dying accidentally and eventually become the best of the best.
Does this movie encourage rape in the armed services?
There is a suggestive scene that the armed services pusuit the women into the lady’s room as established protocol to seduce them. Although completely harmless, you could see some guys getting the wrong impressive from the film scene.
How realistic was the Top Gun movie?
Looking at the digest of various critics, the basics of the flight simulation were real, but some of the tactics like the fly by the deck and diving below 10k would just get you disqualified from the course completely. Likely, that was added for drama in the film since Maverick is a maverick.
Do most fighters fly planes or drones nowadays?
The US airforce estimates that they will need actual fighter pilots for another 30 years. That said there is a high demand for drone pilots and now they have minimal real flight training on Cesnas before training on drones.
When did the drone program get its start?
They actually go back to 1915, but were small planes only. In 1960, when Francis Power secret U-2 was shot down over the USSR, then the drone program started in earnest. By 1973, Israel had adapted drones for the Yom Kippur War. By 2008, the US airforce had over 5000 drones deployed. They now have small hand-sized drones to track the enemy called Ravens, so the technology has really advanced.
Are you working on a painting of this movie?
Yes, stay tuned. I have a vacation and then going to finish a painting on the subject.
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https://www.wshampshire.com/industries/additional-applications/ | 2024-02-21T02:36:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473360.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221002544-20240221032544-00733.warc.gz | 0.92672 | 945 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__125461306 | en | A composite is formed by combining two or more different materials with unique properties that do not dissolve into one another. Combining different constituents produces composite materials with unique attributes, separate from the individual materials. Due to their many benefits, composites are found across a broad range of applications, such as chemical processing plants, stage equipment, custom engineering firms, aerospace, and appliance/business, to name a few.
Composites are favorable for use in corrosive environments, including chemical processing plants. Manufacturers are increasingly using Timco Technical Plastics for products such as gaskets, wear pads, wear plates, bearings, bushings, gears, scraper blades, spacers, valve bodies, check valves, seals, and labyrinth seals on chemical process equipment and pumps. With the proper selection of materials, these parts can withstand the harshest chemicals and offer a more extended part life and lower system downtime.
The most common applications of composite materials in chemical processing plants include:
Plastic composite materials offer reduced weight and reduced vibration, making them an excellent option for stage equipment applications. At WS Hampshire, we supply composite sheaves and pulleys in a wide range of sizes, including head blocks.
Our sheaves are constructed with nylon for added durability and versatility. These lightweight components are ideal for the stage equipment industry, as they ensure longer cable and rope life, reduced operating costs, increased load capacity, and optimal corrosion resistance. Common applications for nylon sheaves include lifting, rigging, overhead lighting, safety systems, and more.
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When it comes to aircraft, weight is everything. Over the years, aerospace designers have strived to improve lift-to-weight ratios progressively. Composite materials have played a central role in weight reduction. The main categories of composite materials currently used in the aerospace industry are glass-, fiber-, and aramid-reinforced epoxy. Composites such as fiberglass-reinforced aluminum produce materials that are light enough to fly up above the sky, but strong enough to withstand extreme weather conditions and high altitudes.
Other than the weight factor, the following are additional benefits of using composites in aerospace industries:
- Composite materials have a high impact resistance
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Due to their many desirable benefits, composite materials are used throughout the aerospace industry for a wide range of products, including fuselages, bulkheads, wings, and various other applications in civilian, commercial, and military aircraft.
Compared to metal alloys, composites offer more manufacturing and design versatility, making them a desirable material alternative for applications such as appliances and business equipment. Unlike some other sectors, the appliance industry moves at a fast pace and is therefore always moving towards more advanced technologies to keep with customer demands for optimal function and design. This means that manufacturers look for materials that can balance requirements for heat resistance, thermal stability, and other functional requirements, with aesthetic demands. Composite materials offer the ideal solution in these situations, providing an attractive yet durable material option ideal for appliances and business equipment.
In the business equipment industry, composites are used for products such as:
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For the appliance industry, composites can be found in applications including:
Composites are used in parts within these appliances, such as control panels, side trims, consoles, handles, motor housings, knobs, vent trims, kick plates, and more.
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At WS Hampshire, Inc., we are an experienced full-service fabricator of custom composite materials to meet the needs of various applications. With 135,000 square feet of manufacturing space that houses a wide range of advanced machinery, we can produce innovative, high-quality components designed to reduce downtime and operating expenses.
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https://fleet.freeworld-airways.com/training/airways.html | 2017-10-21T06:23:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824618.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021062002-20171021082002-00199.warc.gz | 0.908081 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__257183876 | en | In most cases, aircraft, especially airliners, cannot simply fly from one point directly to another. Rather, they must follow designated airways. Airways are an invisible three-dimensional network of roads that zigzag within controlled airspace, linking a series of waypoints (usually VORs and fixes) into an easy to remember route. Sometimes called corridors, most are eight nautical miles wide.
Each airway carries its own name, required airspeed, radio and cockpit instrument procedures, operating altitudes, and rules for entering and leaving the airway.
The low-altitude Airways (Victor airways in Canada and the US) run from 700 feet above ground level to FL245 (FL180 in North America), while High altitude airways (Jet Routes in Canada and the US) run from Fl245 upward (FL180 upward in North America). Within these broad groups, all navigation aids such as radio transmission stations, visual and satellite checkpoints, and the responsible control center have names and unique abbreviations. This complex language is printed on pilot charts and in thick directories. Low-altitude airways are shown on a sectional aeronautical chart.
At points where these invisible roadways intersect, radio signals from ground stations mesh to form an electronic picture on cockpit instruments that looks like a road intersection. The National Aviation Regulations and air traffic control sets rules on how to cross airways and at what altitude, what intersections to use, and at what angle and speed of flight to enter and leave them.
Airways are for civilian aircraft and airliners. A separate system of airways exists for military aircraft that protectscivilian aircraft from the very high-speed military operations and which protects military or government areas from unauthorized flights over their land.
2.3.2_ Flying airways
Flying airways in X-Plane is usually a matter of getting the full waypoint list of an airway (use Goodway's ICAO plan parser to do this or look up the appropriate charts for the area if you can get them), and simply fly point to point within in the airway using the GPS or FMC. At this time, X-Plane does not natively support airways, meaning we have to do everything the manual way.
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https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/07/18/sevilla-bound-flight-from-barcelona-aborts-take-off-after-bird-strike/ | 2023-09-26T15:22:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510214.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926143354-20230926173354-00477.warc.gz | 0.969859 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__278221298 | en | A SEVILLA-bound flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport has aborted take-off after the airplane was hit by a large bird, causing numerous delays.
The incident took place last Sunday morning, July 16, when a Vueling flight was hit by a bird as it entered the runway from the taxiway, according to an airport spokesperson.
The pilot informed the air traffic control of the incident and returned to the tarmac to deplane the passengers.
The 180 passengers on the flight VY2212 bound for Sevilla were evacuated on the runway via the emergency ramps and half a dozen passengers were treated on the spot for minor injuries, meanwhile the aircraft was declared ‘aircraft on ground’ for a thorough engineering inspection.
According to a spokesperson from Vueling, the passengers were then transported to another Vueling flight which took off from the airport at 12:30pm local time.
The incident saw all take-offs postponed for 45 minutes for safety reasons as airport technicians checked the runway.
Bird strikes only pose a significant threat to flight safety in rare cases, but they are almost always fatal for the birds.
- MID-AIR SCARE: Bird strike forces plane to return to Spain’s Malaga airport after takeoff
- GETTING AROUND: 141 Direct Flights from Malaga Airport
- Malaga Airport third busiest in Spain | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.northwestgyro.com/product-page/the-city-of-manchester-tour | 2023-12-06T21:40:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100603.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206194439-20231206224439-00651.warc.gz | 0.904433 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__133898743 | en | Treat a special someone to a bird's eye view experience in a Gyrocopter from our base at Manchester Barton Airfield. Choose from either the MTO Sport open cockpit, or the MAGNI M24 enclosed cockpit aircraft.
After a short safety briefing you'll be helped in the aircraft and kitted out with a headset communications system (for MTO Sport experiences, you'll also be provided with a flying suit & gloves). The flight takes approx. 30 Minutes covering Manchester’s iconic city landmarks including Salford Quays, Media City, Coronation Street, Old Trafford, Etihad Stadium and the Velodrome Cycling Centre. Upon completion of the experience you'll receive a personalised flight certificate and have the opportunity to purchase your framed photograph.
A spectacular sight from the air!
The City of Manchester Tour
- Pre-Flight Safety Briefing
- Approx. 30 minutes in the air
- Certificate to take home
- Spectators are welcome | aerospace | 1 |
https://thetourisminternational.com/2020/06/27/united-delta-cleared-to-resume-flights-to-china-twice-a-week/ | 2022-08-07T16:22:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00414.warc.gz | 0.949478 | 294 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__64153776 | en | United Airlines Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. received approval from the Shanghai government to resume flights to China after months of suspension amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The two American airlines were cleared to operate two flights a week, Caixin confirmed with multiple sources. United Airlines will resume two flights a week from San Francisco to Shanghai starting July 6, and Delta will operate two flights a week from Seattle to Shanghai, according to confirmation letters issued by the Shanghai government.
Delta originally planned to start the flights Thursday, but the preparation time is too short and now it’s applying for the first flight to take place June 27, an insider from the airline said.
Sources close to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) told Caixin that the total of flights between China and America will double to eight a week.
The background: Before the pandemic, Chinese and U.S. airlines operated about 300 weekly round-trip scheduled passenger flights between the two countries. Since late March, that’s been slashed to fewer than a dozen.
U.S. carriers, which halted passenger flights to China and flew only cargo services since February, are longing to boost their revenue by resuming the more profitable passenger flights.
As part of measures to prevent imported infections, Chinese civil aviation regulators in May introduced the so-called Phase Five policy, limiting airlines to one international flight a week between China and any other country. | aerospace | 1 |
http://sonicbomb.com/modules.php?set_albumName=var_milavi&id=kittinger&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php | 2014-09-02T14:00:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535922087.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909043425-00086-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.97916 | 498 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__214467652 | en | Joseph William Kittinger II was a former pilot and career military officer in the USAF. He is most famous for his participation in Project Man High and Project Excelsior. In 1957 as part of Man High he set an interim balloon altitude record of 29,500 m in Man High I for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.).
For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward", as part of research into high altitude bailout, he made a series of three parachute jumps wearing a pressurized suit, from a helium balloon with an open gondola.
The first, from 23,287 m in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm, the G factor calculated at his extremities was over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). Three weeks later he jumped again from 22,769 m. For that return jump Kittinger was awarded the Leo Stevens parachute medal.
On August 16, 1960 he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 31,300 m. He was in freefall for 4½ minutes and reached a maximum speed of 988 km/h before opening his parachute at 5,500 m. Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, causing his hand to swell. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
The jumps were made in a "rocking-chair" position, descending on his back, rather than the usual delta familiar to skydivers, because he was wearing a 60-lb "kit" on his behind and his pressure suit naturally formed that shape when inflated, a shape appropriate for sitting in an airplane cockpit.
Kittinger later served three combat tours during the Vietnam War, flying a total of 483 missions, the first two tours as an aircraft commander in A-26 Invaders. On a voluntary third tour in 1971-72, he commanded the F-4 Phantom 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron and then became vice commander of the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. Col. Kittinger was shot down during a MiG engagement on May 11, 1972, just before the end of his tour and spent 11 months as a prisoner of war in the "Hanoi Hilton" prison. | aerospace | 1 |
https://corporate-9729.medium.com/its-time-to-talk-about-future-7c68ac182ea6?source=user_profile---------8------------------------------- | 2021-12-03T10:18:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362619.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203091120-20211203121120-00181.warc.gz | 0.940315 | 1,181 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__163393105 | en | For a year and a few months, the devastation of the new coronavirus has left humanity in the midst of uncertainty. In order to live and survive, we have been forced to change our way of life and society in various ways. Among them, the space industry and other deep tech industries are confronting various hard things for the future 10 or 100 years from now, without stopping their steps and challenges. In the face of the great and invisible threat of 100 years, the earth now gives each of us the time and opportunity to ponder this question, “What should we think and what should we leave for the future?”
Before the COVID-19 disaster, there were many opinions (especially in Japan) that the space industry was a bubble and could burst sooner or later. As a result, some companies and startups went bankrupt or ended up applying for Chapter 11, but overall, we are making strong progress. Against the backdrop of an unprecedented monetary easing economy, with numerous listings through SPACs, a large amount of investment continues to flow into the space industry as growth funds. The cost structure of launch services and satellite manufacturing has changed drastically, and more than several tens of satellites are being launched into outer space every month, which will be important for numerous exploration missions such as the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. Many successful results have been achieved in those deep space exploration missions. 2020 may have been a year of fortune-telling the future of humankind and the earth in many ways.
WARPSPACE has overcome many predicaments and managed to reach this spring. We have not only survived but also achieved a number of major milestones that will lead to the future, For instance, we have completed ground demonstration of all elemental technologies required for small satellite inter-satellite optical communication networks, have applied for the patents that are the core of our architecture, have also obtained letters of interest (LoI) from domestic and foreign earth observation satellite operators and started a mutual feasibility study with potential customers with an eye on future service usage. We are truly proud of our members who have achieved this many.
We cannot further appreciate existing investors who continue to support us, new investors who have courageously made investment decisions despite the COVID-19 crisis, and those who supported us through crowdfunding. With those people’s feelings in mind, we will continue to move forward strongly.
WARPSPACE Aims to Commercialize World's First Intersatellite Optical Communication Network
TSUKUBA, Japan--()--WARPSPACE Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter "WARPSPACE," Director CEO: Satoru Tsunemachi), a spin-out space…
In 2021, we will start the full-scale development of actual small optical communication satellites with domestic and overseas partners. In order to secure our position as a future space telecommunications carrier, we will also promote our IP patent strategy on a global scale. We will be able to propose more detailed service and operation to potential customers. We will further deepen cooperation with government agencies, space agencies, and various industries in each country. Up until now, WARPSPACE was a team of about 10 people, but it will double or triple this year. Once the COVID-19 crisis is over, the diversity of the team will expand in various vectors. Our members are distributed in all age groups from teens to 70s, but unfortunately, they are still homogeneous in other vectors (gender, nationality, etc.). Diversity is an organization’s innovation engine. We will act to deepen diversity and inclusion not only within the company but throughout the Japanese space industry.
Let’s talk more about the future.
The expansion and sustainable development of human space use has always been achieved by the realization of strong and stable communication infrastructure. In 2023, we will realize the space-space optical communication network ahead of the rest of the world. From 2025 to 2030, we will establish the position of the top communication (including stratosphere) carrier in the entire outer space and support the expansion and sustainable development of the global human economic zone. With the exponential increase in space-space and space-earth data transaction, we will contribute to various industries on the earth, and similar to the history of the development of the Internet, humans will use our architecture as an infrastructure to create many new industries and services.
Our architecture does not stay only in Earth’s orbit. The longer the distance, the more space optical communication will show its true value. Our optical communication will make a great contribution in the field of deep space exploration including moon exploration. We will also work to solve communication issues on the earth. Currently, many government agencies, trading companies, and major telecommunications companies have shown interest in our potentials such that WARPSPACE’s service could play a role as one of the backbone infrastructures of stratospheric communication platforms, low-latency intercontinental communication for international financial transactions, and it also could be utilized for quantum cryptography communication which has similar device configurations to our system.
WARPSPACE will create completely new infrastructure in space, which is mostly unexplored, and support and contribute to the expansion of the global human economic sphere since the Age of Discovery.
The significance of the existence of space startups is to draw and create a world that transcends the future that people can imagine. The rough waves of uncertainty will probably not subside when the COVID-19 crisis is gone, but there have never been a crisis humans can overcome. We always steer towards the goal and move forward with a leap of thought.
“Lead the frontier era of space telecommunication.”
April 20, 2021
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https://www.universetoday.com/116658/where-the-heck-did-philae-land-rosetta-team-narrows-the-cometary-search/ | 2024-04-12T10:32:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296815919.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412101354-20240412131354-00621.warc.gz | 0.949855 | 552 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__69119554 | en | The first soft comet landing Nov. 12 showed us how space missions can quickly drift to the unexpected. Philae’s harpoons to secure it failed to fire, and the spacecraft drifted for an incredible two hours across Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko before coming to rest … somewhere. But where? And can the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft find it?
That’s been the obsession of the European Space Agency for the past couple of weeks. Controllers have pictures from Philae during its descent and brief science operations on the surface. They’ve managed to capture the little lander in incredible photographs from Rosetta. But the key to finding Philae will likely come from a different experiment altogether.
The experiment is called the Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radio wave Transmission (CONSERT) and is a piece of work between both lander and orbiter. Rosetta sent radio signals to Philae on the surface to get a better sense of what the insides of 67P are made of. But it turns out it can also be used to pinpoint the lander.
ESA recently released a landing zone of where, based on CONSERT data, it believes the lander came to rest. The next step will be to get the Rosetta spacecraft to examine the area in high-definition.
“By making measurements of the distance between Rosetta and Philae during the periods of direct visibility between orbiter and lander, as well as measurements made through the core, the team have been able to narrow down the search to the strip presented in the image shown above,” ESA stated. “The determination of the landing zone is dependent on the underlying comet shape model used, which is why there are two candidate regions marked.”
Finding Philae is not only a goal to fulfill curiosity, but also to learn more about the comet itself. The team needs to know where the lander is sitting before they can fully analyze the CONSERT data, they said. So the search continues for the hibernating lander, which right now is in a shady spot and unable to transmit status updates since it can’t get enough sunlight to recharge. (This could change as 67P gets closer to the Sun, but nobody knows for sure.)
Rosetta, meanwhile, is in perfect health and continues to transmit incredible pictures of the comet, such as this one below released a couple of days ago. The montage you see includes the zone where Philae was supposed to have touched down, but it will take higher-resolution images from the Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) to get a better look. | aerospace | 1 |
http://old.seattletimes.com/html/boeingliveeventcoverage/2015414569_photo_the_paris_air_show_is_also_an_arms_bazaar.html?syndication=rss | 2017-10-17T06:44:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820927.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017052945-20171017072945-00347.warc.gz | 0.815405 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__279113785 | en | Boeing Live Event Coverage
PHOTO: The Paris Air Show is also an arms bazaar
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A display showing the Aster 30 vertically-launched surface-to-air missile (in a nice shade of white), used as a hit-to-kill interceptor to bring down incoming missiles. To the left, in military green, is the vertical launch module.
At the rear, on the left, that rectangular thing is a fast-spinning radar antenna.
The system is made by Thales/MBDA. The latter is a subsidiary of EADS, the Airbus parent company that is also Europe's biggest defense contractor.
Jul 13 - 6:30 AM Good-bye from the 2012 Farnborough Air Show
Jul 12 - 5:47 PM Boeing, Airbus see sunny side of modest Air Show order tally
Jul 12 - 11:59 AM Big United order allows Boeing to claim a successful Air Show week
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https://neuck.com/they-showed-how-a-black-hole-could-fit-space/ | 2022-06-30T15:38:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103850139.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630153307-20220630183307-00661.warc.gz | 0.94549 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__271122504 | en | This week we are going to the cosmos at Tech_FM.
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The US administration has told NASA that they will return to our natural satellite – within five years. China also has a huge space disaster program, India is moving quickly, not talking about Russia and Europe.
But scientists also introduced a new idea of how space could go on for a long time. You have to have the sunshine, powerful laser and something so small … a black hole.
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https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/dragon-reaches-orbit/ | 2018-10-21T06:53:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583513760.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20181021052235-20181021073735-00177.warc.gz | 0.948906 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__158436546 | en | Please consider donating to Behind the Black, by giving either a one-time contribution or a regular subscription, as outlined in the tip jar to the right or below. Your support will allow me to continue covering science and culture as I have for the past twenty years, independent and free from any outside influence.
Another successful Falcon 9 launch for SpaceX this morning, placing a Dragon capsule in the correct orbit for rendezvous and berthing with ISS.
We still await word on the attempt to land the first stage of the rocket on a barge in the Atlantic. From the link above: “SpaceX founder Elon Musk has tweeted an update: ‘Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho.'” More details here.
Based on what they have released, SpaceX has achieved something pretty incredible for its first attempt, actually hitting the floating ship at landing. That the landing itself was not soft or gently is literally only a detail. They will have the opportunity on future launches to get it right. | aerospace | 1 |
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http://www.chuckyeager.org/video/timeless-voices-bob-hoover/ | 2023-05-29T08:22:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644817.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529074001-20230529104001-00153.warc.gz | 0.980512 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__236714828 | en | A decorated WWII pilot and test pilot, Hoover was also the back-up pilot during the testing of the Bell X-1 supersonic aircraft. His real claim to fame however came from his work as a stunt pilot. Flying in air shows around the world wearing his trademark wide-brimmed hat, Hoover made the impossible look easy. In this film, you’ll see him perform some of his trademark stunts in a P-51 Mustang.
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Published on Sep 17, 2015 R.A. "Bob" Hoover is one of the greatest pilots of his generation. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.careersin.space/job/accion-systems-boston-full-time-senior-test-engineer/ | 2022-05-24T18:37:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662573189.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220524173011-20220524203011-00665.warc.gz | 0.896768 | 876 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__132580621 | en | We're working to change the world by making outer space more affordable and accessible
About Accion Systems
At Accion [pronounced AX-ee-on], we’re working to change the world by making outer space more affordable and accessible. We come to work every day to build next-generation ion engines and other cool technologies for spacecraft. Our younger selves would be very proud of us.
Our team is excited about our mission and we work hard together to achieve it… and we have fun! We offer competitive salary and benefits including health (w/ 80% employer contribution), dental, 401(k) with match, fitness reimbursement, and unlimited vacation. We strongly value motivated, enthusiastic employees and we work hard as a group with big growth mindsets to achieve ambitious company and personal goals.
This is a unique chance to join one of Boston’s few space companies working on technology that is launching into orbit. Every employee at Accion works on critical projects that directly impact our overall success.
About This Position
Accion Systems is searching for a dynamic Senior Test Engineer to contribute to the development of test systems and methodologies for Accion’s space propulsion products. This engineer will be responsible for the development, execution, analysis of test data, and test equipment for Accion’s TILE products and advanced development projects. The engineer will also inform best practice DFT, adapted for Accion’s products and technology.
The engineer will play a pivotal role in the development of Accion’s test infrastructure, from test execution tools to best practices to guarantee mission assurance. In this regard, the engineer will support manufacturing to transition engineering and R&D test setups to production.
The ideal candidate will have a multi-disciplinary background and experience developing test for space systems or a similar high reliability or harsh environment field. They will have a balance of breadth across all major engineering disciplines.
- B.S. in an Engineering field
- 7+ years of hands-on experience designing test campaigns and methodologies
- 7+ years of experience operating and maintaining test and measurement equipment
- Experience with testing for space applications
- Strong communications skills (written, verbal, presented) with extensive test report generation experience
- Significant experience supporting the test validation of products for the DoD and/or space industries
- Experience supporting product development via test from development to full production
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and teamwork-oriented environment
- Current hands-on lab and fabrication experience (electrical/harnessing assembly, basic machine shop)
- Experience with Python for test automation/execution and data handling/analysis
- Experience with implementation and usage of data plotting tools
- M.S. in an Engineering field
- 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and maintaining automated test and measurement equipment
- Familiarity testing to EMI/EMC standards such as MIL-STD-461/464
- Expert level understanding of electronics, circuits, and electrical test methods
- Strong commitment to and knowledge of space mission assurance
- State of the art lab facility
- Unmetered vacation policy, flexible work schedule, and an inclusive company culture
- Excellent health and dental plans with 80% employer contribution
- Fitness reimbursement and professional development stipend
- 100% company matching 401k plan
- Fully stocked kitchen with snacks, drinks, and weekly team lunches
- Open office setup with plenty of breakout spaces to fly solo
- Free on-site parking and 5 minute walk to the Orange Line
- Onsite fitness center, cafeteria, coffee shop, lounge, rooftop garden, harbor walk, softball field, and corn-hole
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., or protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
Accion verifies COVID-19 vaccination as part of the hiring process.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other protected factor. | aerospace | 1 |
https://tv.thecheers.org/tv-series/100571/James-May-on-the-Moon/788181/1/1 | 2024-02-22T10:26:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473738.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222093910-20240222123910-00510.warc.gz | 0.943417 | 120 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__19959876 | en | James May commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. He meets three of the men who walked on the moon, before experiencing the thrill of weightlessness, and the bone-crushing G forces of a Saturn V rocket launch. Finally, he puts on his own space suit and flies to the edge of space in a U2 spy plane, where he looks down at the curvature of the earth, and upwards into the black infinity of space.
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https://floridatraveler.org/2014/02/16/pensacola-naval-air-station-100-years-of-service-to-america/ | 2023-06-01T02:55:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647525.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601010402-20230601040402-00158.warc.gz | 0.96082 | 226 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__159234286 | en | In October 1913, Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels organized a board to develop an aeronautical option for the U.S. Navy. To Captain Washington Irving Chambers, the biggest booster of naval aviation, Florida was the logical choice for air training – the first commercial air flights were just happening in Tampa, Florida.
Pensacola, with its huge Bay, was selected for the first naval aviation center. When the USA entered WWI in April of 1917, Pensacola was still the only training field. The station started with 38 naval aviators, 163 enlisted ground personnel, and 54 fixed wing aircraft.
Pensacola remained the major training field in WWII. The Navy even trained Doolittle’s Raiders to take off from carriers in the Bay. The jets came in 1954 and Pensacola trained the pilots who went to Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East.
There was concern of the fate of the base when Hurricane Ivan scored a direct hit on the facilities in 2004. But Pensacola continues to produce pilots who go on to great careers like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. | aerospace | 1 |
https://gazette.com/opinion/guest-column-cu-partners-with-u-s-space-force/article_ceff2072-09d4-11ec-8ab7-5bd22f6e0103.html | 2021-09-25T09:47:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057615.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925082018-20210925112018-00056.warc.gz | 0.96128 | 891 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__75471735 | en | Colorado is the epicenter for the aerospace and defense economy.
Our state boasts an aerospace industry that generates more than $15 billion in annual output, 33 federally funded labs and every major player in the defense contracting industry. A driving force behind this economy is the University of Colorado system, a leading public research institution with four campuses that are committed to advancing space exploration and national security.
CU Boulder is the No. 1 public university recipient of NASA research awards and is consistently ranked in the Top-10 public for its aerospace programs. Collectively, our campuses have produced 20 current or former astronauts. And every semester, we have more than 5,000 active duty, reserve, honorably discharged or military dependent students enrolled in our four campuses. CU remains committed to serving those who serve, and I am proud of our ongoing efforts to support our men and women in uniform — and their families — attain their educational goals.
Last week, we went further — announcing a partnership with the U.S. Space Force that will expand research opportunities, create more advanced degrees and lead to greater workforce and leadership development for this new and exciting frontier in the space domain.
I was fortunate to be at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus last week for the ceremonial signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David D. Thompson and University of Colorado President Todd Saliman. It was a proud moment for our university and a reminder of the important role that universities can play in advancing space science and workforce development.
We are not alone in this effort. CU joins nine other institutions across the country within the Space Force’s University Partnership Program that will also identify and pursue research areas of mutual interest among member universities, while also establishing scholarships, internships and mentorship opportunities for university students and ROTC cadets.
I was particularly moved by the general’s words when he said: “We need the brightest minds working together in high-performing teams to drive innovative solutions.”
Yes, we do. Colorado ranks No. 1 in aerospace employment concentration with more than 62,000 civilian and military workers in the industry.
Coupled with our world-class research institutions and engineering programs across the state, it is no coincidence that industry and the military sees Colorado as the epicenter for all things aerospace. Space Force continues to build out its footprint across the Front Range with the recent renaming of numerous installations to signify its critical role in defending our nation’s space-based assets. Between Buckley Space Force Base, Peterson Space Force Base (current home of U.S. Space Command), Schriever Space Force Base, Buckley Space Force Base, and Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, these Colorado-based installations are home to largest concentration of Space Force personnel.
The aerospace ecosystem in Colorado is second to none, and I believe the University Partnership Program will only further reinforce the state’s — and CU’s — leadership within the space domain.
But the partnership — and CU’s commitment to the U.S. military and those who serve in it — means much more to me. It’s been at the core of my work during the 10 years I have served on CU’s board of regents.
My father, Howard C. Sharkey, was part of the greatest generation. He served his country proudly for 31 years in the Air Force. He flew B-17 bombers during World War II as part of the 306th bomb group and retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel. At times, his career took him overseas to Japan, Taiwan and Germany.
Stateside, the most significant tour of duty for him took place in Colorado Springs, which was where he chose to retire. And as an Air Force brat who moved around throughout my childhood without a real home, Colorado Springs became my place to call home. So, announcing the partnership at UCCS made this even more special for me.
When my father passed in 1990, I made a promise to do what I could to honor his service. We have a duty to honor these patriots, and I’m pleased to say that Colorado — and CU — is there for them.
Sue Sharkey is the vice chair for the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents and represents the 4th Congressional District on the board. | aerospace | 1 |
http://phys.org/tags/space+shuttle+discovery/page10.html | 2016-10-28T22:05:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00305-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.920272 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__131337852 | en | (AP) -- NASA will try Thursday to launch space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage, although stormy weather could force yet another delay.
(AP) -- NASA has yet to decide whether space shuttle Discovery is safe to lift off on its final mission Thursday. The weather, though, is getting worse.
(AP) -- The final launch of space shuttle Discovery has been delayed again, this time because of an electrical problem.
(AP) -- NASA celebrated 10 years of continuous human presence at the International Space Station on Tuesday while readying shuttle Discovery for one last trip into orbit.
Space is about to get its first humanoid from planet Earth. Robonaut 2 - affectionately known as R2 - is hitching a one-way ride to the International Space Station this week aboard the final flight of space shuttle Discovery.
(AP) -- After a two-day delay, NASA's countdown clocks began ticking Sunday toward the final launch of space shuttle Discovery.
(AP) -- Last-minute leak repairs have again pushed back space shuttle Discovery's final launch, this time until Wednesday.
The launch of the space shuttle Discovery on its final scheduled mission has been delayed by at least 24 hours until Tuesday because of a leak in a pressurization system, NASA said.
NASA's space shuttle Discovery will make its swan song flight Nov. 1 carrying two University of Colorado at Boulder-built biomedical payload devices, including one to help scientists better understand changes in the virulence ...
(AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery has new seals and is no longer leaking. | aerospace | 1 |
https://oralhistory.unt.edu/collections/name/u | 2023-12-11T19:28:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679516047.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211174901-20231211204901-00771.warc.gz | 0.911996 | 716 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__220040213 | en | Collections: Browse By Last Name. u
ULATOWSKA, Hanna K. (b. 1933)
ULATOWSKA, Hanna K. (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 0859
College professor, Holocaust survivor. Her experiences as a non-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. Family background; German conquest of Poland, 1939; life under German occupation; Warsaw Uprising, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in the concentration camp; escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau; postwar life in Poland under Russian occupation and communist government; emigration to United States; lasting effects of Holocaust experience.Date of Interview: 16/02/1990
UREY, Harry B., Jr. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 454th Bomb Squadron. 323rd Bomb Group. 9th Air Force.
UREY, Harry B., Jr. (b. 1923)U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 454th Bomb Squadron. 323rd Bomb Group. 9th Air Force.
Interview ID: OH 1339
Mechanical engineer. His experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His pre-service work experiences assembling the B-26 for the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland; flying characteristics of the B-26; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1942; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program; primary flight training, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1943; basic flight training, Independence, Kansas, 1943-44; advanced flight training, Pampa, Texas, 1944; B-26 training, Dodge City, Kansas, 1944; formation of his crew, Barksdale Army Air Field, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1944-45; assignment to the 454th Bomb Squadron at Valenciennes, France, 1945; his first mission, March 24, 1945; German flak; his encounter with Me-262 fighter jets on April 4, 1945; postwar career.Date of Interview: 14/10/1999
UTTAL, Jordan R. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 2nd Air Division Headquarters. 8th Air Force.
UTTAL, Jordan R. (b. 1915)U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 2nd Air Division Headquarters. 8th Air Force.
Interview ID: OH 1330
Business executive. His experiences as a statistics control officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and business experience in the dairy industry; entry into the Army, December 29, 1941; Air Forces Administrative Officer Candidate School, 1942; training as a statistical control officer at Harvard Business School under Robert McNamara, 1942-43; application of business methods to Air Force operations; assignment to the 14th Bomb Wing, MacDill Field, Florida, 1943; description of the functions of a statistical control officer; assignment to the Statistical Control Section, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force, 1943; temporary transfer to the Photo-Analysis Section, 2nd Air Division; his courtship and marriage to Joyce Christie King on December 29, 1944; influence of his wartime experiences on his postwar business career.Date of Interview: 27/09/1999
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https://dev.matzav.com/putin-turkey-stabbed-us-in-the-back/ | 2021-01-19T21:23:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703519784.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20210119201033-20210119231033-00675.warc.gz | 0.977018 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__285130921 | en | Turkish F-16 fighter jets shot a Russian SU-24 warplane out of the sky Tuesday after it ignored warnings for violating the country’s airspace near the Syrian border, a Turkish military official told Reuters.
The plane reportedly crashed in the area known by Turks as “Turkmen Mountain” in northern Syria near the border. At least one of the two pilots was reportedly killed. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incident a “stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists.”
A U.S. official said that Turkey had not warned the coalition that it was about to take down a plane. “They just did it,” the official said. “We need to make sure this doesn’t become something worse.” Turkey says its pilots warned the Russian aircraft 10 times before striking it. Read more. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.mcapgroup.com/about-us | 2019-10-14T13:38:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986653247.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014124230-20191014151730-00023.warc.gz | 0.957097 | 331 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__216474238 | en | To our Clients:
To best serve the global airline industry, MC Aviation Partners (MCAP) specializes in the fullest range of aircraft finance and fleet management services. We identify and provide the best solution for our clients from our various services such as aircraft purchase and lease back, technical and remarketing management, and financing for pre-delivery payment (“PDP”).
MCAP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, a prominent Japanese trading house with a strong global network that has been in the aircraft leasing business since 1984. MCAP was established in 2008 and since then has successfully grown to become one of the key players in the industry.
In 2014, MCAP established Vermillion Aviation Holdings Limited, a joint venture with CK Assets Holdings Limited and the Li Ka Shing (Overseas) Foundation. With our commitment to expanding and accelerating our business, we strive to capitalize on the combined financial and expert resources of this joint venture and pursue a strong, innovative and high value-added business together with our airline customers.
Aircraft leasing is a competitive service industry that, ultimately, is defined by its people. Over the course of the last several years, MCAP has developed and built a commercial aviation platform supported by many of the industry’s finest aircraft finance and technical experts with a deep understanding of the airline business
We welcome you to MC Aviation Partners Group. We serve airlines, big and small, and are committed to earning your trust through the scale and quality of the services that we provide.
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Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2014/10/29/392502-tmc-eyewitness-account-orbital-rocket-blows-up-launch.htm | 2024-02-23T06:33:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00885.warc.gz | 0.955623 | 1,484 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__157348253 | en | Orbital Sciences Corporation lost its third commercial supply mission, Orb-3, to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, Oct. 28, around 6:23 p.m. (EDT) due to an flight anomaly in the first stage. Cause of the failure is unknown and it will likely take NASA and Orbital Sciences months to arrive at conclusions and the root cause or causes. Regardless, both the Wallops Island, VA, launch site and Orbital suffered a significant setback Tuesday evening.
The two stage Antares launch vehicle lifted off “majestically,” in the words of Orbital executives -- slowly, for mere mortals -- building up thrust from two Aerojet AJ-26 engines fueled by a mixture of RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen. The flight started normally for the first handful of seconds, but appeared to waver and fall at around 10 to 12 seconds into flight, as witnessed by press observers such as myself.
Initial explosion. TechZone360 photo by Doug Mohney
At a 9:15 p.m. press conference, Orbital Sciences Executive Vice President Frank Culbertson said both visual indications and telemetry from the Antares indicated a problem with the first stage, which subsequently “disassembled” – a diplomatic term for blew up. Heat from the first stage “disassembly” could be felt a couple miles away at the press viewing area.
Range Safety terminated the flight at around 20 seconds from liftoff, estimates Culbertson, resulting in a second, louder explosion as the second stage was essentially blown into small pieces by design using explosive charges.
Secondary explosion. TechZone360 photo by Doug Mohney
The press were immediately ordered onto a bus and taken quickly away from the area. As we departed, flames from the wreckage covered a large portion of Wallops Island around Pad 0A.
A NASA Wallops official said the damage appeared to be contained to the southern part of Wallops Island, where the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) pad is, and not affecting Orbital’s vehicle assembly buildings and a Navy training facility on the northern end of the island. The entire island is “locked down” at this time as the fires burn out, with officials planning to send out a team Wednesday when there is more light to survey, see hazards, identify and ultimately collect wreckage.
Officials from both Orbital and NASA were emphatic that local residents should not attempt to touch or handle wreckage, as it may contain hazardous materials, such as solid rocket fuel or hydrazine. They cited the potential for wreckage to fall “on a beach, in someone’s yard” and if found to call NASA officials to come pick up the pieces.
Given the shocking and unexpected nature of the evening’s launch, NASA and Orbital are being very cautious and tight-lipped at this time. Orbital will be in charge of the investigation with assistance from NASA, the FAA, and the state of Virginia.
One potential “root cause” given the obvious failure of the first stage might be the Aerojet AJ-26 rocket engine, a heavily refurbished Soviet/Russian NK-33 engine. Two AJ-26 engines have blown up during testing since 2011, with the second failure occurring this year. Orbital scrutinized its existing stock of AJ-26’s after this year’s failure, with Aerojet attributing a significant loss to the test failure and efforts to correct the issue.
Culbertson said it would be “several weeks” before they would have an idea of the damage to the pad and support facilities and what it would take to repair it. He put the cost at the Orb-3 mission at “over $200 million,” not including the loss of research materials, replacement equipment and other cargo. He would not be drawn into a discussion as to how long it would take for Orbital to resume operations of Antares, but emphasized the company would fly again from Wallops in the future,
The Cygnus SS Deke Slayton had almost 2300 kilograms of cargo on board. A NASA official cited the loss of a 6,000 psi nitrogen tank on the fight and suggested a replacement may go up on a future SpaceX supply mission. Other losses include 32 CubeSats, including Planetary Resource’s first on-orbit testbed for its Arkyd space telescope family, and a set of 18 STEM experiments put together by high school and college students.
It is likely the twin explosions from the failed launched damaged the pad and its immediate support equipment, including the Antares TEL (transporter, erector, launcher) that horizontally brings the rocket to the pad, then moves to the vertical position and holds it in place for launch. Wallops officials said they still have pressure readings coming from some pipes and tanks near the pad.
Loss of the Orbital Orb-3 mission will not have an immediate impact on International Space Station operations. The facility keeps anywhere from four to six months of supplies on board and has a steady and diverse set of cargo vehicles to keep food, experiments, and consumables flowing. A Russian Progress freighter is scheduled to go up on October 29 followed by a SpaceX Dragon vehicle.
The mission was to be the third launched this year and the fourth time Orbital has sent a spacecraft to rendezvous with ISS. Originally scheduled for launch on October 27 at 6:45 p.m., the first attempt was scrubbed due to a wayward sailboat in the middle of the downrange safety zone – a precaution that seems quite reasonable with this evening’s events.
Orb-3 was to the third of eight commercial fights Orbital has conducted for NASA under a $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) awarded in 2008. Under the contract, Orbital is expected to deliver up to 20 metric tons of cargo to ISS through 2016. Orbital has some insurance, but It wasn’t made clear as to if or how much NASA would pay in case of a launch failure or how much Orbital might have to spend to “make good” on the loss of a CRS mission. Orbital stock is likely to take a beating when the markets open.
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http://libarchstor2.uah.edu/digitalcollections/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Spacecraft+construction+materials&sort_field=added&sort_dir=d | 2023-12-07T07:58:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100650.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207054219-20231207084219-00839.warc.gz | 0.911655 | 564 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__284801501 | en | Corrosion problems associated with space vehicles, in general, are discussed as contrasted to those problems experienced with structures in an earth atmosphere. Primary emphasis is placed on structural alloys in this discussion, although some corrosion failures experienced in various mechanical components are described. General corrosion prevention measures are indicated, and solutions to specific corrosion failures described. Major failures experienced have been attributed to stress corrosion cracking, rather than general or galvanic type corrosion. Most such failures have occurred with only five different materials: three aluminum alloys - 7075-T6, 7079-T6, and 2024-T6; and two precipitation hardening stainless steels - 17-7PH and AM 355. Corrective actions were different in each case, but involved either a complete change to another material, a change to a different temper of the same alloy, or a modification of the heat treatment and/or general processing techniques. General conclusions are that the types of failures described could be avoided by: a more suitable selection of alloys in the initial design, a realistic review of the environments that could be encountered in the service lifetime of the component, lowering stresses, improving process controls, and effecting better familiarization of design personnel with the with the overall stress corrosion problem in an effort to reduce human error.; Preprint 18e.; Materials for re-entry and spacecraft systems - spacecraft materials.; Materials Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31 - April 4, 1968.
8 x 10 inch black and white photograph. A photograph of a list of things contributing to stress corrosion. Referenced by "Materials in Space Exploration." Is part of envelope containing photos accompanying C. E. Cataldo paper "Materials in Space Exploration."
8 x 10 inch black and white photograph; This is a cutaway drawing of the bulkhead with information about the LH2 tank skin, insulation, Aft LOX bulkhead, 2014-T6 alum skin and fiberglass core. Part of an envelope with photos accompanying C. E. Cataldo paper "Materials in Space Exploration."
8 x 10 inch black and white photograph.; Drawing contains information about the modified epoxy adhesive, aluminum film, mylar film, perforated phenolic honeycomb core, tank skin, mylar honeycomb core, polyurethane adhesive, weight and thermal conductivity.; Photo negative no. 651746 M-268.
This paper presents a general review of major structural alloys that have been used in liquid rockets and space vehicles, the current state-of-the-art as applied to the Apollo launch vehicle systems, and discusses some materials currently under development for future requirements in vehicles for space exploration. Some aspects of the importance of corrosion resistant materials and suitable protective measures are discussed, as applied to both flight hardware and associated ground support equipment. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.theragex.com/author/rage/ | 2023-10-03T04:39:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511053.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003024646-20231003054646-00625.warc.gz | 0.868932 | 252 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__163050641 | en | Explore the technical specs, capabilities, and strategic implications of Taiwan’s Jianxiang UAV. Discover how this kamikaze drone is a pivotal asset in Taiwan’s asymmetric warfare strategy.
An exhaustive report detailing the critical events and military losses on Day 586 of the Russia-Ukraine war, including diplomatic maneuvers, military actions, and updated casualty figures.
Dive into an in-depth analysis of the V-22 Osprey’s technical specs, from its revolutionary tiltrotor technology to its role in modern military operations.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine persists, the UK heightens its military commitment by deploying Typhoon jets to Poland. Explore the geopolitical significance and the aircraft’s advanced capabilities.
A comprehensive report on the recently discovered overheating issues in Apple’s latest iPhones, delving into iOS 17 bugs and third-party app conflicts.
An in-depth report on the key events and military losses on Day 585 of the Russia-Ukraine war, including diplomatic moves, military engagements, and casualty figures.
The successful test of the T-600’s ability to launch torpedoes adds another layer to the evolving landscape of military drones. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.businesstraveller.com/airlines/2016/09/09/cathay-pacific-add-a350-b777-300er-melbourne/ | 2023-03-26T06:57:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945433.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20230326044821-20230326074821-00604.warc.gz | 0.92933 | 262 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__172103563 | en | Cathay Pacific will begin deploying its A350-900 and B777-300ER on the Hong Kong–Melbourne route starting next year.
According to routesonline.com, the Oneworld member will first begin operating the A350 as flights CX105/104 from February 1, 2017. The fuel-efficient aircraft will replace the A330-300 that is currently serving the route.
Cathay Pacific has outfitted its A350 with a three-class configuration that includes 38 seats in business, 28 in premium economy and 214 in economy. Check out our review of the aircraft on a recent flight from London Heathrow to Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, the B777-300ER will start operating flights CX163/178 from March 1, 2017 – also replacing the A330-300.
Cathay Pacific has chosen to deploy a three-class B777-300ER, featuring 40 seats in business, 32 in premium economy and 268 in economy.
The A330-300 will continue to operate the return CX135/134 daily service.
The aircraft adjustment is now reflected on the Cathay Pacific website, and customers may now book for seats to fly on the A350 and B777-300ER.
For more information, visit cathaypacific.com | aerospace | 1 |
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388th TFW F-16A 'Fighting Falcons' based from Hill AFB south of Ogden, Utah. The wing started its conversion to the F-16A Fighting Falcon on 23 January 1979, becoming the USAF first fully operational F-16 Fighter Wing. During initial stages of conversion the wing trained F-16 instructor pilots and provided replacement training for new F-16 pilots. Thereafter the 388th trained for war readiness at U.S. and NATO locations.
Lt. Col. Greg W. Visyak (Key West) was 125th Fighter Wing Alert Detachment Commanders at Homestead ARB, FL from Nov. 15, 1993 to Dec. 31, 1995. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.coreconstruction.com/projects/hangar-1048-naval-air-station-joint-reserve-base-at-fort-worth/ | 2018-10-19T03:27:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512268.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20181019020142-20181019041642-00405.warc.gz | 0.935876 | 200 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__97461069 | en | The Hangar 1048 Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Fort Worth project, built for Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast, included the addition, demolition, and renovation of an aircraft hangar located at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, TX. The facility supports a fighter plane hangar and squadron operations. The hangar was constructed to increase capacity to house a cargo and/or passenger plane and utilized a pre-engineered metal building. The project also included the installation of a connection close to the existing door to minimize demolition, cutting a new storm water trench drain, and modifications to the existing hangar maintenance work. The Hangar 1048 Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Fort Worth project now meets all the structural criteria for the military installation.
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https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/local/2019/10/04/b-17-nine-o-nine/2618063007/ | 2022-12-09T09:19:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711394.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209080025-20221209110025-00585.warc.gz | 0.969735 | 566 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__241971009 | en | B-17 'Nine-O-Nine' had Fort Smith stop in 2017
World War II era bomber crashed in Connecticut
The B-17 "Nine-O-Nine" that crashed in Connecticut on Wednesday killing seven passengers and crew was seen at the Fort Smith Regional Airport during the Collings Foundation's national Wings of Freedom Tour in March 2017.
Gary Dunn, an Ozark native who maintains and flies a B-24 with the Collings Foundation of Stow, Massachusetts, was reported on his Facebook page to have been safe after the crash.
The Collings Foundation issued this statement on its website after the crash: “Our thoughts and prayers are with those who were on that flight and we will be forever grateful to the heroic efforts of the first responders at Bradley (International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.) The Collings Foundation flight team is fully cooperating with officials to determine the cause of the crash of the B-17 Flying Fortress and will comment further when details become known.”
The crash reduces the number of B-17s actively flying to nine, according to Rob Bardua, spokesman for the National Museum of U.S. Air Force, near Dayton, Ohio. The Collings Foundation aircraft on tour in 2017 — including a B-24, a P-51 and the B-17 "Nine-O-Nine" — were based in New Smyrna, Florida.
Thirteen people — 10 passengers and three crew members — were on board the "Nine-O-Nine" when it crashed Wednesday after traveling about 8 miles and reaching an altitude of 800 feet. The B-17 crashed at the end of a runway, authorities said.
According to Air Force Magazine, the airframe of the Collings Foundation's B-17 that crashed was delivered in 1945, but was too late to fly in the war. It was used for sea rescues instead before being parked in the Nevada desert to test how a nuclear blast would affect stationary aircraft. It was later purchased by a firefighting company that converted it to help put out blazes, and flew in that role until the mid-1980s.
The Collings Foundation purchased it in 1986 and restored it to its wartime configuration, Air Force Magazine adds. The foundation painted it as the original “Nine-O-Nine” B-17 of the “Mighty Eighth” Air Force’s 91st Bomb Group that flew 140 missions in the war without aborting or losing a crew member, according to the foundation.
The aircraft had flown for the past 30 years, having suffered severe damage in August 1987 during an air show in western Pennsylvania. It crashed that August through a chain link fence and knocked over a power pole after being caught by a severe crosswind upon landing. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3686e12f69d76f6209cacd/russian-cargo-ship-set-to-dock-to-the-international-space-station | 2022-01-16T19:43:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300010.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220116180715-20220116210715-00126.warc.gz | 0.973416 | 421 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__17416928 | en | Russian cargo ship set to dock to the international space station
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MOSCOW (AP) _ An unmanned Russian spaceship on a vital supply mission approached the international space station, preparing to dock Saturday with its cargo of food for the two-member U.S.-Russian crew, who have been forced to ration their dwindling supplies.
The Progress M-51 lifted off Friday from the remote Baikonur cosmodrome in the steppes of Kazakhstan and was set to moor at the station at 2:31 a.m. Moscow time Sunday (6:31 p.m. EST).
The spaceship carries about 2.5 tons of food, water, fuel and research equipment for Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao, who are in their second month on the station.
Russian and American space officials were alarmed earlier this month to learn that the two had gone through so much food on the station.
NASA officials have said there was enough food to last seven to 14 days beyond Dec. 25, but warned that the crew will be forced to return to Earth if Progress doesn't successfully dock at the station.
The crew has already been ordered to cut back on meals because food is running short, and the ITAR-Tass news agency said that there was no turkey for Christmas dinner.
Officials at Russian Mission Control in Korolyov, just outside Moscow, sought to play down concerns, saying the crew has enough food for another month.
Russian Soyuz crew capsules and Progress cargo ships have been the only link to the space station since the U.S. shuttle fleet was grounded after the shuttle Columbia burned up on re-entry in February 2003, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
The Progress is also carrying Christmas presents for the crew from their families and friends, as well as scientific equipment, including a German-made robotic device.
NASA has said it plans to resume its shuttle program in May. | aerospace | 1 |
https://downloads.zdnet.com/product/20415-75243709/ | 2020-11-01T01:40:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107922746.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201101001251-20201101031251-00083.warc.gz | 0.887416 | 168 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__179662980 | en | All you need to know about the Aviation Weather. This app provides a comprehensive reference and educational information regarding the Aviation Weather beyond what FAA provides. Both student and seasoned pilots benefit from the wealth of information presented by this app. While weather forecasts are not 100 percent accurate, meteorologists, through careful scientific study and computer modeling, have the ability to predict weather patterns, trends, and characteristics with increasing accuracy. Through a complex system of weather services, government agencies, and independent weather observers, pilots and other aviation professionals receive the benefit of this vast knowledge base in the form of up-to-date weather reports and forecasts. These reports and forecasts enable pilots to make informed decisions regarding weather and flight safety before and during a flight.
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When they called rows 20-25 for our flight out of White Plains this afternoon...NO ONE lined up. Pentti and I were the only ones in the back of the plane and he was in the rest room with our boarding passes. I've never been on a flight with so many empty seats. We literally had the back of the plane to ourselves.
So....I figured I'm on vacation....relax.
Tomorrow we set sail for the Panama Canal! | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.momondo.ca/flights/paris/la-baie | 2022-05-27T13:21:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662647086.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220527112418-20220527142418-00722.warc.gz | 0.907688 | 425 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__97096193 | en | Fastest flight time
Airports in Saguenay
The cheapest time of year to fly to Saguenay from Paris is June. The most expensive is January.
The cheapest day of the week is typically Saturday. The most expensive is typically Saturday
Paris to Saguenay flights are approximately 0% more expensive at noon than at noon
Paris Charles de Gaulle - Saguenay Bagotville
Fly from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Saguenay Bagotville for the best Paris - Saguenay flight prices
When you’re planning your trip from Paris to Saguenay, the most popular airport-to-airport route is Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Saguenay Bagotville Airport. In May, C$ 537 is typically the cheapest round trip price you’ll find from Paris to Saguenay which you can find when you fly CDG — YBG.
The straight-line distance from Paris to Saguenay Bagotville is 5169.9 km. A reasonable flight in good conditions will take 13h 29m.
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https://www.ededitedit.com/2011-cavalcade-of-planes-show-highlights-at-clow-airport-1c5-in-bolingbrook-il/ | 2019-02-20T16:44:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247495147.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220150139-20190220172139-00435.warc.gz | 0.886035 | 144 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__196473179 | en | Cavalcade of Planes Video
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Video highlights of Bolingbrook’s Clow Airport 1C5 12th annual Cavalcade of planes event. War birds, fly-bys, helicopter displays. The annual event attracts thousands of aviation enthusiasts who are treated to displays of historic aircraft, museum exhibits, food and entertainment, flyovers, rides in experimental aircraft, and a lot of great fun. Video produced by Ed Edited It Productions (http://www.ededitedit.com). Visit http://www.bbclowairport.com for more information about the event. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/DeltaChangesAimToPreventCrewOverflights_201989-1.html | 2017-10-19T07:17:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823255.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019065335-20171019085335-00344.warc.gz | 0.958836 | 280 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__21556483 | en | Delta Aims To Prevent Crew Overflights
Dispatchers at Delta Air Lines will soon be able to contact flight crews with special sound alerts, rather than text messages only, to avoid an incident like the one last October when two distracted pilots overflew their destination by more than an hour, the airline has told the NTSB. In a document filed with the safety board, the airline said it is changing its software so dispatchers will be able to send aural alerts to Airbus A320 and A319 cockpits, in addition to text messages. The two pilots, who at the time were operating as a Northwest Airlines flight, told investigators they were at a loss to explain how they flew so far off course without noticing. The Air Line Pilots Association told the NTSB it would also be a good idea to consider installing "crew alertness monitors" on A320s that automatically sound an alert and trigger red flashing lights if the crew goes quiet for too long. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association agreed in its statement to the NTSB that an aural alert system would be a good idea.
NATCA also suggested that controllers need to have current phone numbers for air carrier dispatch desks as well as refresher training on NORDO procedures. Click here for the NTSB collection of documents relevant to this ongoing investigation. The FAA has revoked the certificates of both pilots. | aerospace | 1 |
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The second half of October will be filled with a couple of rocket launches from Florida's Space Coast. United Launch Alliance LLC will send up its Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on Oct.
Increased defense spending is making a larger number of contractors go for mergers so that they have more scale to bid on bigger projects.
L3 Technologies' (LLL) merger with Harris Corp. is expected to generate an Earnings before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) of $2.4 billion and free cash flows of $1.9 billion, for fiscal year 2018.
The defense contractors agreed to a merger that will form one of the industry’s largest players, a $33.5 billion behemoth to challenge weapons makers such as Raytheon Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. With product lines spanning communications and electronics, the newly formed L3 Harris Technologies Inc. is poised to capitalize on military spending increases under U.S. President Donald Trump. “This looks to be a special transaction capable of catapulting both companies into the defense big league,” Carter Copeland, an analyst at Melius Research, said in a note Monday.
L3 and Harris would combine to form a military communications and defense electronics company with about $16 billion in revenue and a significant presence in Greater Washington.
President Trump raised eyebrows earlier this year when he announced plans to create a “Space Force,” which would become the sixth branch of the military.
Increased demand for its products could catalyze Northrop Grumman's (NOC) stock price. The U.S. Air Force is expected to increase in size in order to counter growing threats, while other countries such as Japan are seeking to improve their defense capabilities. The aerospance and defense company's acquisition of Orbital ATK could provide it with synergies.
Northrop Grumman and the Air Force have invested a combined $300 million to develop the OmegA rocket over the past three years.
Limited restrictions and rising global conflicts are driving sales of U.S.-manufactured military equipment, aiding revenue growth for some defense companies.
Each award is part of a portfolio of three agreements that leverage commercial launch solutions in order to have at least two domestic, commercial launch service providers that meet National Security Space requirements.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2018 -- In new independent research reports released early this morning, Fundamental Markets released its latest key findings for all current investors,.
By Joey Roulette ORLANDO, Fl. (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday said that it had awarded a total $2.3 billion (£1.7 billion) in contracts to develop rocket launch systems for national security ...
The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday said that it had awarded a total $2.3 billion in contracts to develop rocket launch systems for national security missions. The three contracts are part of a Department of Defense initiative to assure constant military access to space and curb reliance on foreign-made rocket engines, like ULA's flagship Atlas V rocket that uses Russian-made RD-180 boosters.
The U.S. Air Force selected Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance on Wednesday to each develop a domestic launch system prototype. SpaceX, despite winning an initial development award ...
She is credited with driving major intelligence community contract wins, including a recent $668 million award to monitor federal networks and protect them from cyber attack.
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 08, 2018 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) plans to release its third quarter 2018 financial results on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. You are.
All put together, the 25 highest-paid D.C.-area execs leading public companies were paid about $384.2 million last year. If you think that sounds like a lot, you're right — the D.C. metro area pays its CEOs more than 20 percent more than the national average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Out of the top 25, four lead government contracting companies, four head tech firms and four are in hospitality.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center deals on a national level with contractors for its weaponry and human support programs. These are the top 10 contractors by dollar amount in 2018, up to June 13.
United Launch Alliance just chose Jeff Bezos’s company to supply the main engines for its new Vulcan rocket, but the Centennial-based company has already started making its launch vehicle of the future. The rocket manufacturer on Sept. 27 contracted to buy Bezos’s Kent, Washington startup Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines for the main stage of the rocket ULA aims to start flying in two years. Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA, told the Denver Business Journal this spring his company plans two Vulcan launches — carrying real payloads — in the latter half of 2020.
Big work is ahead for companies in metro Orlando, thanks to five military contracts totaling more than $1.6 billion. Here's a rundown of which firms picked up big U.S. government deals: United Launch Alliance: The Centennial, Colo.-based rocket company locked down a $867 million contract with the U.S. Air Force. The military branch will use ULA's launch capability of the Delta IV and Atlas V rockets.
Third Quarter 2018 financial results webcast and conference call scheduled for Wednesday, October 24, 2018 FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 02, 2018 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.newshour.press/india/fighter-jet-amca/ | 2024-04-24T15:30:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819668.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424143432-20240424173432-00457.warc.gz | 0.942536 | 777 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__139471226 | en | A 15,000 crore project has been cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security(CCS) to design and develop the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), India’s own fifth-generation fighter jet.
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), which is under the purview of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, will be the nodal agency for executing the programme. The fighter jet will be manufactured by the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
AMCA will make India one of the select few countries that have their own fifth-generation fighter aircraft.
Other Fifth Generation Fighters
Only a select few countries have been able to design and develop a fifth-generation stealth fighter. The USA, Russia, and China have their own fifth-generation fighters, such as the F22 Raptors and F35 Lightning of the USA, the Sukhoi Su-57 of Russia, and the J20 mighty Dragon of China.
India will join this elite club soon as it seeks to develop its fifth-generation aircraft within the coming 10 years.
Features of Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft
Engine: The Mk1 or Mark 1 variant of the aircraft will use the US-made GE414 engine of the 90 kilonewton(kN) class, while the advanced AMCA Mk2 will have a more powerful 110kN engine, which DRDO’s Gas Turbine Research Establishment will develop in partnership with a foreign defence firm.
Stealth & Weapons: The aircraft will hold a 6.5-tonne fuel tank and an array of weapons in its belly. AMCA will be a 25-tonne, twin-engine aircraft, which is bigger than any aircraft in the Indian Air Force inventory. It will have stealth features to avoid detection by enemy radars. According to Dr Krishna Rajendra Neeli, project director at ADA, the fighter jet will be on par or even superior to other fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft in use globally.
AMCA: Need, Features & Development Timeline
The Indian Air Force has 30 squadrons, compared to the sanctioned strength of 42 squadrons. With an ageing fleet of Mig-21, Mig-29, Jaguars, and Mirage 2000, the number of squadrons is projected to decrease further, and the IAF has been raising this concern with the defence ministry for quite some time. The recently inducted fighter jets, Rafale and Tejas, are 4.5-generation fighters, which will boost the number of IAF squadrons.
Discussions for AMCA started in 2007, with original plans to manufacture the jet with Russia. However, India withdrew in 2018, citing disagreements with the Russian partners.
Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft will have stealth features like low electromagnetic signature and coating that diverts radar signals instead of reflecting them, causing detection.
Apart from stealth, the AMCA will have a large belly to store a 6.5-tonne fuel tank and a weapons bay loaded with advanced weapons.
The fifth-generation fighter will have its maiden test flight in 4-5 years, and 5 prototypes will be built before HAL begins manufacturing the aircraft.
Indian Air Force has indicated that it requires seven squadrons of AMCA to start with. One squadron consists of 18 aircraft, and with the current ageing fleet, Tejas and AMCA will not be able to fill the gap in the strength of the IAF fleet.
The growth trajectory of Indian defence manufacturing has shown ascension with the capability to design and develop complex systems like aircraft carriers, fighter jets, helicopters and warships. India is moving towards achieving its goal of self-reliance as it starts building critical infrastructure and keeps developing new systems to address its requirements.
Additionally, Bharat is emerging as a significant player in supplying weapons and platforms vital to national security. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aviationcrossing.com/jobs/q-aviation-operation-jobs.html | 2020-11-25T04:49:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141181179.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20201125041943-20201125071943-00292.warc.gz | 0.806135 | 1,263 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__140125470 | en | THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF AVIATION JOBS ON EARTH
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Located in Northern California, the Joby Aviation team has been steadily working toward our goal of providing safe, affordable, fully electric air transportation that is accessible to everyone. Imagine an ..
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a world leader in proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars, as well as advanced high-resolution surveillance ..
Aviation Structure Repairs LLC
Atlanta, GA, US
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Supporting the Most Exciting and Meaningful Missions in the World CBP Aircraft Mechanic: Brown Field, CA Job Title: CBP A&P / Aircraft Mechanic Location: Brown Field, CA Pay: $39.64/hrPreferred Airframes: AS350Required ..
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Aircraft Engine Inspectors
STS Technical Services
Oscoda, MI, United States
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Ramp Agents work outdoors in a very fast-paced airport environment. Customer service agents must keep both the company goals and customer expectations in mind when completing their .. | aerospace | 1 |
https://tech.attribyte.com/author/Eric%20Berger | 2019-01-22T07:55:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583831770.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190122074945-20190122100945-00129.warc.gz | 0.919124 | 480 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__23524350 | en | 16 Hours Ago No, the rocket isn't about to blow up—it's just physics in action.
3 Days Ago Russia is less and less a space super power.
3 Days Ago "This was definitely our top choice, I would say by quite a bit."
4 Days Ago "The government is not the enemy, they’re our friend."
5 Days Ago To divine the future of NASA in 2038, we looked back to 1998 for some clues.
6 Days Ago Satellogic aims to image Earth at 1-meter resolution once a week.
7 Days Ago New NOAA head may come from AccuWeather.
10 Days Ago "We must part ways with some talented and hardworking members of our team."
10 Days Ago Eighteen missions in 2017. Twenty-one missions in 2018. How many this year?
10 Days Ago "Don't think of what you see at Cape Canaveral."
13 Days Ago "Starship will look like liquid silver."
14 Days Ago "Early flights are especially dangerous, as there’s a lot of new hardware."
17 Days Ago Company says it remains on track for mid-2020s delivery of new planes.
18 Days Ago Soon—if it hasn't already done so—the lander will deploy a rover named Yutu II.
19 Days Ago "This may be the most primitive object seen by any spacecraft."
19 Days Ago New rockets, commercial crew, planetary missions, and even SpaceX's Starship.
31 Days Ago Mitsubishi's new H3 rocket is now deep into development.
31 Days Ago "We're kind of watching what happens with that first launch."
33 Days Ago Confidence is increasing for a January flight of the first Dragon 2 mission.
34 Days Ago Four launches are possible from the Americas, and one from India.
35 Days Ago SpaceX, Arianespace, and United Launch Alliance all are on the docket.
38 Days Ago "We are working on a new technology where we will give life to this dead last stage."
39 Days Ago A little informal polling finds little support for an 80km line for space.
40 Days Ago United Launch Alliance chief: "I’m pretty sure I sent Gwynne flowers."
40 Days Ago "Please be careful, my hand is there." | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.ball.com/aerospace/newsroom/events/space-symposium | 2023-03-21T20:04:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943746.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321193811-20230321223811-00312.warc.gz | 0.856497 | 342 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__185017861 | en | The 38th Space Symposium will be held April 17-20, 2023 in Colorado Springs, CO. The annual event brings together space leaders from around the world to discuss, address and plan for the future of space.
Ball Aerospace is a proud sponsor of Space Symposium and we will welcome attendees at our exhibit booth to showcase various programs and capabilities. Learn more below.
Ball Aerospace Overview
At Ball, we bring innovation, integrity, agility and performance to the most important mission – yours.
Ball Configurable Platform
The BCP is equipped for a range of missions, including space-based environmental monitoring, deep space exploration and more.
Learn about how our extensive heritage across science and exploration mission classes informs our development of technology that will enable the science of tomorrow.
Working closely with the science community, Ball Aerospace contributed to all four of NASA’s Great Observatories – Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer.
The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer mission measures the polarization of cosmic X-rays to improve our understanding of exotic objects in the universe.
James Webb Space Telescope
Learn about our role on NASA’s latest premier observatory which is studying emissions from objects formed when the universe was just beginning.
Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable advances in astrophysics by providing survey capabilities in infrared wavelengths.
Science at Any Scale
From delivering entire missions to contributing critical subsystems, engineering support, and operations, we value our role as a mission partner.
Ball Aerospace is at the forefront of miniaturizing instruments for ai and space-based applications. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.businessjetinteriorsinternational.com/news/airframes/embraer-legacy-450-gains-easa-certification.html | 2024-02-25T12:32:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474595.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225103506-20240225133506-00370.warc.gz | 0.95524 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__95785451 | en | Embraer Executive Jets’ Legacy 450 has received type certification from EASA. The aircraft has met or surpassed all design goals, exceeding targets such as range, runway performance, hot-and-high takeoff distance and maximum payload. Conclusion of the process in Europe follows the recent certification granted by the Brazilian and US aviation agencies.
“This is a great achievement that paves the way for deliveries to begin in the member states of the European Union as well as in EASA-associated countries,” said Marco Tulio Pellegrini, president and CEO of Embraer Executive Jets.
The mid-light Legacy 450 has a range of up to 2,575 nautical miles. It offers seating for up to nine passengers. Production of the aircraft has begun and the first delivery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015.
September 11, 2015 | aerospace | 1 |
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