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http://churchandstate.org.uk/category/space-travel/page/2/ | 2022-07-03T17:55:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104248623.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703164826-20220703194826-00685.warc.gz | 0.931057 | 255 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__139356084 | en | A fission surface power system will provide safe, efficient, and reliable electrical power on the Moon and Mars.
Artemis is the latest in a long series of projects over many decades to attempt a human return to the Moon.
Leaving Earth does not mean "leaving Earth behind". We must address the problems we face on Earth today.
Humanity’s destiny awaits beyond Earth, and the foundation for the move into space must be built by our generation.
Sscientists need to better understand how the physiology of the body will be affected by the travel conditions of space over prolonged periods.
When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity's first steps out of Africa.
There are over 13,000 near-Earth objects that might hold untold riches. The possibilities for business success in space are endless.
In an amazing new experiment MOXIE device on the rover produced a tiny amount of oxygen on the Red planet.
SpaceX has won NASA’s $2.89 billion contract to build a spacecraft to send astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024.
Space technologies could be used to help mitigate the effects of climate change, as well as protect both animals and communities. | aerospace | 1 |
https://ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/simon-tyler-adventures-in-space/ | 2020-02-28T18:38:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875147628.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20200228170007-20200228200007-00099.warc.gz | 0.899383 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__103117658 | en | Simon Tyler: Adventures in Space
Friday 9th November 2018 - Starts 16:30
TICKET PRICE: £5
City Books Presents:
Children’s Literature Festival 2018.
Inviting all budding astronauts on an adventure in space! Join illustrator and space-aficionado Simon Tyler for a journey through the solar system, exploring planets, galaxies, science and space vehicles, as featured in his new book, Adventures in Space.
Learn about some of the space craft humans have sent into orbit and have a go at drawing your own in this fact-filled, interactive event for ages 7+. | aerospace | 1 |
https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2021/12/07/nato-russian-planes-nearly-collide/ | 2022-01-19T13:28:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301341.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119125003-20220119155003-00480.warc.gz | 0.95423 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__105925663 | en | MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Moscow has said that a United States (US) plane threatened civilian aircraft but “catastrophe” was avoided when a Russian passenger plane dived to avoid the NATO reconnaissance aircraft that crossed its path above the Black Sea.
On Friday morning a NATO CL600 reconnaissance aircraft descended rapidly across the planned route for a Tel Aviv to Moscow Aeroflot service with 142 people on board, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA) said in a statement.
The Aeroflot flight reportedly had to drop 500 meters to keep its distance from the reconnaissance aircraft, which the pilots saw from the cockpit with the naked eye.
A second plane, a smaller CL650 aircraft, flying from the Black Sea resort Sochi to Skopje, the capital of Northern Macedonia, also had to divert to avoid the spy plane, the Russian air transport authority said Saturday.
“The direction and altitude of the commercial flights were immediately altered” to avoid a collision, the agency said, adding that the unknown plane did not respond to radio hails from air traffic control.
While the FATA did not say which nation had operated the spy plane, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova indicated on Sunday that the reconnaissance aircraft belonged to the US.
“The actions of the US Air Force have created a threat to civil aviation,” Zakharova said on messaging app Telegram.
FATA said it would lodge a diplomatic protest. | aerospace | 1 |
https://iprosurv.com/tag/flooding-2/ | 2023-03-20T09:13:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943471.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230320083513-20230320113513-00015.warc.gz | 0.95367 | 444 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__169378193 | en | Iprosurv has secured Extended Visual Line of Sight permissions from the Civil Aviation Authority for its network of remote pilots.
Standard aviation regulations insist that drones remain within the pilot’s sight at all times during flight which has historically limited flight distances to around 500m but Iprosurv’s new permissions allow its remote pilots to fly drones up to 2km from the launch site, with no direct line of sight required by the remote pilot.
The special permissions issued by the CAA have so far been granted to less than 1% of the nation’s commercial drone operators.Story continues belowAdvertisement
Commenting on the move, Iprosurv co-founder and CEO, Rebecca Jones, said: “We are delighted that the CAA has once again recognised the high level of training, safety and monitoring that takes place across our network of remote pilots and has seen fit to provide us with these new permissions.
“What may seem like a technicality is actually a huge leap forward in the capabilities of drones, particularly in the early assessment of disaster areas, assisting the emergency services and in the survey of inaccessible buildings.”
Adding: “These exemptions will allow us to stream footage and data direct to the client’s desktop even before a site has been physically visited.”
Currently, when faced with a large survey area, pilots often have to stop a flight once the limits of line of site have been reached, drive to the next launch site and start the process again.
Iprosurv says its new level of functionality will allow insurers, property managers and the emergency services to view the entire area and assess and triage the situation in real time.
Jones continued: “Drones have always had the potential to completely change the way we respond to disasters or large-scale surveys but having the ability to remain in the air for longer, going further distances and relaying real time data back to the client is a huge step forward.
“In granting these permissions, the CAA has shown a welcome willingness to help unlock the commercial and societal benefits of drones and we look forward to introducing our new capabilities to all of our clients.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.muldrake.com/glenn24.html | 2020-04-09T06:05:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371830894.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20200409055849-20200409090349-00450.warc.gz | 0.946864 | 870 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__124496343 | en | John H. Glenn
Born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Muskingum College
USMC WWII and Korean War Veteran
U.S. Senator, Ohio
In 1962, John Glenn made history as the first American to orbit the Earth. Thirty years later, he made history again by becoming the oldest man to fly in space - He still has the "Right Stuff"!
About the Man:
John Glenn was an honor student in high school and a star player in football, basketball, and tennis, before graduating in 1939. At one point in his early years, an epidemic of scarlet fever restricted him from going outside. Glenn kept himself occupied by building model airplanes out of wood. When the models crashed, he repaired them and flew them again.
Glenn learned to fly in a Navy Program for civilians in New Philadelphia, Ohio, while attending Muskingum College. After three years of college, he left to join the Naval Aviation Cadet Program and became a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He became a naval aviator in March of 1943. John served in both WWII and the Korean War.
In the book, Moon Shot© 1994, written by former astronauts, the late Alan Shepard and the late Deke Slayton, referred to the type of pilot John Glenn had been. They mentioned that during the war, mechanics often declared Glenn's aircraft unfit to fly, because he brought them back in such bad shape. The remarkable thing was that he returned the planes without injury to himself.
After the Korean War, Glenn became a test pilot.Later, while assigned to the Fighter Design Branch of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, John Glenn gained experience in the design of new planes and equipment.
On July 16, 1957, he set a transcontinental speed record in a supersonic jet. He traveled from New York to Los Angeles in three hours and twenty-three minutes, in an F8U jet aircraft.
About the Spaceflights
Mercury 6 (Friendship)
February 20, 1962
Mercury 6 lifted off into space at 9:47 a.m.The spacecraft went into a low orbit using the craft's guidance systems. NASA devised the systems to keep the spacecraft in an upright position. There were tracking stations located around the world that monitored Glenn's flight. One tracking station over Mexico picked up a signal that showed the spacecraft swinging to the right.
Due to a malfunction in the system, Glenn had to control the spacecraft manually to maintain the proper attitude, or position. He gained control of the craft, and of the situation, with the cleverness and agility only an experienced pilot of John Glenn's stature could have done.
Glenn crossed the Atlantic Ocean, flew over Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and over Australia. He flew over the Pacific Ocean, over the West Coast of the United States, and back over Florida. Each complete orbit took one and one-half hours.
Mercury/Friendship-6 splashed down at 2:43 p.m.
Flight Duration: Four hours, Fifty-five minutes, and Twenty-three seconds, 3 orbits.
Space Saga Video - John Glenn Circles the Globe
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-95)
October 29, 1998
John Glenn made history once again, at the age of 77. He returned to space as a payload specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-95) on October 29, 1998, 2:19 p.m. He held the distinction of being the oldest person to ever travel into space. Glenn took part in experiments intended to help scientists better understand the effects of aging. These experiments will help astronauts in the future prepare for long-duration space flights planned to Mars and beyond.
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-95) landed on November 7, 1998, at 12:04 p.m.
Click on the patches to read about John Glenn's historic spaceflights
in more detail at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Website.
Also check out John Glenn Returns to Space
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https://infrastructuretoday.co.in/web-exclusive/boc-aviation-announces-200th-boeing-plane-delivery/105825 | 2021-06-13T10:25:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487608702.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613100830-20210613130830-00249.warc.gz | 0.957381 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__119932206 | en | Leasing company BOC Aviation Limited, which has dealt extensively with Indian carriers, has announced the delivery of its 200th Boeing plane to Lion Air Group.
The next generation Boeing 737-800 plane will be operated by its Malaysian affiliate Malindo Air.
“BOC Aviation had a very successful 2016 and marks another milestone in 2017 with our 200th aircraft delivery from Boeing,” said Robert Martin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the lessor.
BOC Aviation has taken delivery of approximately half of the 200 airplanes directly from Boeing, comprising the 737 and 777 aircraft families, while the other half has been a combination of purchase and lease backs from airline customers.
BOC Aviation’s cumulative orders for new Boeing aircraft now total 297 aircraft from the Boeing Next-Generation 737, 737 MAX, and 777 aircraft families. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aerotechnews.com/nellisafb/2018/02/09/fairchild-refuels-red-flag-18-1/ | 2022-09-24T15:37:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030331677.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220924151538-20220924181538-00508.warc.gz | 0.931088 | 441 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__56011675 | en | Red Flag 18-1 is built around a realistic combat training exercise involving air, space and cyber forces of the United States and its allies.
The exercise is hosted north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and Training Range and is aimed to increase the combat capability of the U.S. armed forces for nearly any future combat situation. Participants include; the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Army and the Marine Corps.
“An exercise of this scale and magnitude allows our Airmen the opportunity to practice the skills they need before we have to execute real world operations or contingencies,” said Maj. Stephen Massey, 92nd Air Refueling Squadron assistant director of operations from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. “The strategic value tankers provide is invaluable. Tankers can effectively increase the range of bombers and fighters and there is no limit to the range of our force because of our tanker fleet.”
During Red Flag 18-1, aircraft and personnel make up two forces, the allies or ‘Blue,’ and the opposing force or ‘Red.’ The ‘Blue’ forces work together to utilize capabilities of aircraft and personnel to execute missions, such as air interdiction, combat search and rescue, close air support, dynamic targeting and defensive counter air operations to target mock airfields, vehicle convoys, tanks, parked aircraft and a variety of other simulated enemy assets, role-played by the ‘Red’ force.
KC-135s were once considered to be the Air Forces premier refueling force, enabling fighter jets, bombers and other aircraft the ability to stay airborne to accomplish long range mission sets, without the tankers, fighter jets may not be able to hit their long-range marks.
“It’s exciting to take part in a high-paced exercise,” said Capt. Joshua Newman, 93rd ARS pilot and past Red Flag participant. “It’s an opportunity to train through real-world scenarios, and to see the immediate results of how our air refueling impacts the battlespace and our mission partners’ capabilities.” | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread525980/pg1 | 2018-01-19T17:54:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084888077.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119164824-20180119184824-00072.warc.gz | 0.902102 | 1,237 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__128510689 | en | So we have seen in the past the use of high resolution monitoring sensors such as the BuckEye 39megapixel sensor and the stupidly huge 66megapixel
AngelFire system, the new ARGUS-IS (Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance - Imaging System developed by Darpa is a whopping 1.8GIGApixel
sensor, however even that has grown old quickly and they are trying to work on a replacement already.
The summary is -
2.3GIGApixel (to see how big that is go Here
and imagine every frame being this big)
running at least 2 frames per second!
IR and visible spectrums
small and energy efficient and able to be mounts to a small unmanned craft!
The details are below -
A09-046 - Ultra Resolution Camera for C4ISR Applications
TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems, Sensors, Electronics
ACQUISITION PROGRAM: PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors
OBJECTIVE: Proposals are sought to develop a novel multiple-FPA visible/infrared electro-optic sensor. The SBIR program is to focus on the design,
development and demonstration of a wide area persistent surveillance capability not currently available. While the ability to combine multiple focal
plane arrays to form a single image from an individual sensor has been demonstrated over the last few years, a multiple-FPA sensor system able to
cover a larger area on the ground with 0.3 meter resolution (instead of the 1 meter resolution that is being used today) has not been designed or
developed. In addition, current persistent wide area ISR systems are very expensive, heavy, and require a lot of electrical power. This SBIR program
seeks a low cost, light weight, low power, electronically stabilized sensor system that can be flown from small aircraft (manned and/or UAV) and
operated at a greatly reduced operational cost.
DESCRIPTION: Army and DOD have been developing high resolution cameras for wide area persistent surveillance applications. This topic entails the
design, fabrication and demonstration of a combined visible/infrared sensor system with a minimum of 2.3 Giga pixels per frame and capable of
operating at 2 frames per second or faster. In addition, the sensor system should have the user-selectable option of operating as a three color (RGB)
camera with electronic stabilization capability so the requirement for a stabilized platform can be removed/relaxed. The sensor should use parallel
electronic interfaces as a means of transferring data. The assembly, alignment and calibration of this type of sensor will require access to and the
use of calibrated precision optical alignment and calibration systems. A FPA sensor system capable of simultaneously measuring visible and infrared
will simplify overall sensor system design and development for persistent wide area surveillance applications. The end result will be a highly
sensitive, discriminating sensor system that is more reliable, lighter, and less costly than currently available. The proposed sensor system will
require innovative research and development. Individual FPA chips and optics can be COTS if available, although this is not a requirement.
PHASE I: During Phase I, the program shall design a new and innovative multiple-FPA sensor technology that will improve current wide area surveillance
capabilities. Survey of research and development (R&D) efforts currently underway to develop single visible/infrared focal plane array chips and a
determination of the feasibility of using existing chips in a multiple-FPA sensor system will occur in Phase I. In addition, a survey of current
circuit card development capabilities to determine the best R&D processes currently available for fabrication of multiple-FPA sensor cards will be
conducted. Once a specific FPA chip and fabrication process has been identified, a small scalable multiple-FPA sensor system will be designed and the
feasibility of the proposed concept and technologies will be demonstrated. Phase I deliverable shall be a final report to include; the individual
sensor performance data, the system level design and architecture as well as the anticipated performance of the sensor. The Phase I effort shall not
include the design or the development of a new FPA chip technology.
PHASE II: During Phase II, the program shall complete the final design of the sensor array technology. The Phase II program shall first demonstration,
in a breadboard configuration, a multiple-FPA card sensor system with a minimum 2.3 Giga pixel capability. Card fabrication process verification will
be conducted that will require the development of an electro optics alignment station to provide optical input to individual FPA cards during assembly
and debugging. Calibration measurements during the assembly and alignment process will allow the removal of any misalignment of individual FPA chips
due to the circuit card fabrication process. Following the successful demonstration of the sensor system, the required number of completed FPA cards
with individual optics will be integrated into a full-up working sensor system meeting the above stated specifications. The Phase II deliverables
shall include a final report detailing the overall system design and performance. In addition, the contractor shall deliver one (1) low cost
commercial aerial photography sensor system that meets a large majority of today’s commercial aerial photography requirements.
PHASE III: the final product from the SBIR will be tested on a small manned aircraft up to 10,000 feet. Engineering and prototype development, test
and evaluation, and hardware qualification demonstration in a system-level test-bed which shows application to an insertion potential into one or more
unmanned aerial vehicles will be completed.
Possible commercial applications of the ultra resolution camera include, but are not limited to, improved border and maritime management/patrol,
critical infrastructure protection, transportation security, search & rescue, crime prevention, land & sea traffic monitoring, pipeline/powerline
monitoring, private infrastructure surveillance/security, and aerial photography, and satellite augmentation system
[edit on 11-12-2009 by freakyclown] | aerospace | 1 |
https://newsroom.gy/2016/09/27/coi-established-investigate-illegal-aircraft-found-yupukari/ | 2021-09-24T01:02:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057479.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923225758-20210924015758-00604.warc.gz | 0.976394 | 217 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__61373327 | en | CoI established to investigate illegal aircraft found at Yupukari
President David Granger has mandated that a Commission of Inquiry be established to investigate the circumstances under which the foreign aircraft, which was discovered near the village of Yupukari, Upper Essequibo-Upper Takutu on September 13, 2016 had entered into the country.
According to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency, Brigadier Edward Collins has been identified and appointed as the Commissioner and will be sworn in on Wednesday (September 28, 2016) before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan.
The Commission is expected to examine, advise and report on all circumstances under which the twin-engine Cessna Aircraft bearing bogus United States registration number; N767Z entered into the country.
The aircraft was discovered by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) following information received, at a location just off the Yupukari airstrip; an area that has been under regular and constant surveillance because of its close proximity to another airstrip used by aircraft that were connected to the illicit drug trade. | aerospace | 1 |
https://en.thekarmanews.com/jeff-bezos-and-crew-successfully-complete-historic-space-launch/ | 2024-04-15T19:32:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817014.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415174104-20240415204104-00548.warc.gz | 0.954003 | 338 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__88960773 | en | Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, went to space and back Tuesday morning on an 11-minute, supersonic joy ride aboard the rocket and capsule system developed by his space company, Blue Origin.
Riding alongside the multibillionaire were Bezos’ brother, Mark Bezos; Wally Funk, an 82-year-old pilot and one of the “Mercury 13” women who trained to go to space in the 20th century but never got to fly; and an 18-year old recent high school graduate named Oliver Daemen who was Blue Origin’s first paying customer and whose father, an investor, purchased his ticket. Funk and Daemen became the oldest and youngest people, respectively, ever to travel to space. And this flight marked the first-ever crewed mission for Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital space tourism rocket, which the company plans to use to take wealthy thrill seekers on high-flying joy rides in the months and years to come. The crew climbed the launch tower and took a brief respite in an adjacent shelter, before climbing into the capsule, dubbed RSS First Step.
There was a brief hold at T-15 minutes, leading to the launch running slightly behind schedule. New Shepard took off at 8:11 CST. They passed the Kármán line (more on that later) at 8:15 AM; capsule separation followed, and the booster returned to the launch site autonomously and with a loud boom at 8:19 AM. The crewed capsule floated slowly to Earth via parachute, touching land at 8:22 AM for an eleven-minutes total flight time. | aerospace | 1 |
https://baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-212-vellox-croydon-4-killed | 2022-01-24T14:36:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304570.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124124654-20220124154654-00165.warc.gz | 0.924394 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__110606187 | en | Date & Time: Aug 10, 1936 at 0200 LT
Type of aircraft:
Croydon – Paris
Crew on board:
Pax on board:
Shortly after takeoff from Croydon Airport, while in initial climb by night on a mail flight to Paris-Le Bourget Airport, the twin engine aircraft crashed in flames in a garden located in Hillside Gardens, less than a km from the airport. All four occupants were killed and the aircraft was totally destroyed. | aerospace | 1 |
http://lancastered627.shaunmcguire.co.uk/Avro%20Lancaster.htm | 2023-12-02T06:09:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00007.warc.gz | 0.938776 | 706 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__174437234 | en | The Avro Lancaster
Lancaster Intercom on Op's
PO. Arthur Marcus Fitzgerald
Sgt. Cyril Herbert Pratt
Sgt. Sydney James Mitchell
Sgt. William Walter George Addison
Sgt. Henry Albert Toomey
Sgt. Stephen Preston
Sgt. John Goodwin
ED627 Crash Site
Hauptmann Ludwig Meister
Crew members photo
Durnbach War Cemetery
Durnbach Cemetery Video's
Bombed from above
Members of other Crews
Contacts and Links
The Avro Lancaster
The Avro Lancaster was an
extremely fine aircraft renowned for its durability and lack of vices,
fitted with four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. With a wingspan of just over
100 feet and equipped with three power operated (hydraulic) turrets, it
could not hold its own against determined daylight fighter attacks, but
could deliver sufficient firepower to defend itself at night.
The seven crew (pilot, flight engineer, navigator, bomb aimer,
wireless-operator, mid-upper and rear air gunners) were all specialists,
trained to fly as a team.
The "Lanc" could easily fly on three engines, could manage on two and limp
away on one. It was of all-metal construction and it's maximum speed was 270
miles per hour; it could carry 14,000 lbs of bombs for 1,000 miles (or 2,350
lbs of bombs for 5,500 miles) and had a maximum height of 22,000 feet. Soon
it became RAF Bomber Command's Shining Sword. By the end of the war
specially modified versions were lifting 22,000 lbs.
It was operational by Christmas 1941 and mostly replaced the 1 and 5 Group
Hampden-equipped Squadrons of Lincolnshire.
The Lancaster is best remembered in the specially-adapted Dam Buster and
10-Ton "Grand Slam" versions. It was extremely popular with its crews and
had an average life of twenty operations.
Lancaster Mk III - ED627
ED627 was part of a batch
of Lancaster Mk IIIs built by A V Roe and Co at Newton Heath / Chadderton
between November 1942 and June 1943.
It was delivered to No 207 Squadron in February 1943 and carried the
Squadron marking EM-N. Between September 1942 and October 1943 No 207
Squadron, who were part of No 5 Group, were based at RAF Langar near
According to an item in the book '207 Squadron RAF Langar 1942-1943',
compiled by Barry Goodwin and Raymond Glynne-Owen, ED627 was involved in an
incident on 8 April 1943. During take-off for an operation to Duisberg,
piloted by Wing Commander Parselle, ED627 lost a main wheel and, in a shower
of sparks, slewed off the runway at 80mph. The bomb doors were crushed and
the 4,000lb 'Cookie' bomb dug a deep furrow in the grass. Fortunately the
bomb load did not explode and Lancaster ED627 was repaired and operational
again in a matter of weeks.
ED627 completed a total of 34 operations between the first, to Berlin on
27/28 March 1943, and it's final operation to
on 27/28 August 1943.
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http://mireportz.com/stories-politics/russia-to-treat-us-jets-in-syria-as-targets-after-america-guns-down-first-regime-warplane | 2018-04-22T16:13:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945624.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422154522-20180422174522-00217.warc.gz | 0.962643 | 496 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__214345960 | en | Russia has said it will treat US warplanes operating in parts of Syria where its air forces are also present as "targets" amid a diplomatic row caused by the downing of a Syrian jet.
The country's defence ministry said it would track US-led coalition aircraft with missile systems and military aircraft, but stopped short of saying it would shoot them down.
A hotline set up between Russia and the US to prevent mid-air collisions will also be suspended.
"All kinds of airborne vehicles, including aircraft and UAVs of the international coalition detected to the west of the Euphrates River will be tracked by the Russian SAM systems as air targets," the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.
The warning followed after a US F-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian army SU-22 jet on Sunday in the countryside southwest of Raqqa - the first such downing of a Syrian jet by the US since the start of the country's civil war in 2011.
Washington said the jet had dropped bombs near US-backed forces but Damascus said the plane was downed while flying a mission against Isis militants.
Russia's Defence Ministry said the suspension of its communication line with the Americans would begin immediately.
The US did not use its hotline with Russia ahead of the downing of the Syrian government warplane, said the ministry, which accused the US of a "deliberate failure to make good on its commitments" under the de-confliction deal.
"The shooting down of a Syrian Air Force jet in Syria’s airspace is a cynical violation of Syria’s sovereignty," the ministry said.
"The US’ repeated combat operations under the guise of ‘combating terrorism’ against the legitimate armed forces of a UN member-country are a flagrant violation of international law and an actual military aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic."
Theresa May appealed to Russia to continue the use of "deconfliction" measures over the skies of Syria to reduce the risk of misunderstandings in what is a crowded airspace.
Russia, which has been providing air cover for Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, since 2015, has an agreement with the US aimed at preventing incidents involving either country's warplanes engaged in operations in Syria.
Downing the jet was akin to "helping the terrorists that the US is fighting against”, Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://helihub.com/2016/12/20/vector-aerospace-receives-easa-stc-approval-for-ads-b-upgrade/ | 2019-05-24T03:34:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257497.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524024253-20190524050253-00404.warc.gz | 0.887397 | 804 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__188412528 | en | Vector Aerospace, a global independent provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval for its new ADS-B solution, which is applicable for installation on the Airbus Helicopters AS332, Leonardo Helicopters AW139 and Sikorsky S-76 series of helicopters. Vector’s retrofittable ADS-B solution has already received STC approved from the national airworthiness authorities of the USA (FAA), Brazil (ANAC) and Mexico (DGAC).
This new ADS-B In/Out retrofit upgrade features an intuitive, panel-mounted touch screen transponder which replaces the aircraft’s existing transponder. Should console or cockpit space be a challenge, Vector also offers a remotely mounted transceiver with a compact cockpit control head.
With 1090 MHz and Mode S extended squitter, the L-3 Lynx Multilink Surveillance System (MSS) unit provides ADS-B traffic and weather data, as well as airport database, NOTAMS and TFRS. Other capabilities include a MFD/PFD interface and optional Wi-Fi for personal electronic devices (PEDS) integration.
Installation of this ADS-B retrofit can be undertaken easily, with the associated aircraft downtime ranging from one day for simple configurations to a maximum of two days for more complex work.
“Receipt of EASA certification approval for this ADS-B retrofit upgrade broadens our ability to offer this unique solution to customers across the globe,” said Elvis Moniz, Vice President, Business Development – Airframe & Avionics Solutions at Vector Aerospace. “This upgrade has generated significant customer interest in recent months, and we are actively supplying ADS-B kits and installation support to operators globally as the ADS-B regulatory compliance mandate date draws closer. To date, Vector has installed nearly 500 ADS-B systems in a variety of aircraft types, and we are continuing to work on new ways to offer our customers cost-effective solutions that are technically sound, well documented and well supported.”
Vector Aerospace offers over 35 modern STCs for the Airbus Helicopters AS332 L/L1 and H125/AS350, Bell Helicopter 206, 212, 412, UH-1H, 427 and 430, Leonardo Helicopters AW139, and Sikorsky S-76 and S-61 series helicopters. Vector is currently in the process of finalizing FAA STC approval for a retrofittable AS350/EC130 series crash resistant fuel tank developed in cooperation with Robertson Fuel Systems.
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http://gwylgolwg.com/445.html | 2019-04-19T20:35:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578528058.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20190419201105-20190419223105-00096.warc.gz | 0.867803 | 279 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__190666453 | en | The Airbus A350 XWB is a family of longrange, twinengine widebody jet airliners developed by Airbus. The A350 is the first Airbus with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of polymer.
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https://ifaq.wap.org/society/fighterpilots.html | 2020-01-19T05:02:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594209.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119035851-20200119063851-00076.warc.gz | 0.966725 | 181 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__58383905 | en | What is the ideal cockpit crew?
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A jet engine stops whining when it pulls in to the parking spot. | aerospace | 1 |
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Sikorsky announced on April 4 that the production of its Raider X competitive prototype for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft programme – a part of the service’s wider Future Vertical Lift portfolio – is now more than 85% complete
Qatar Airways is set to hand out 100,000 free round-trip tickets to healthcare professionals as a way of saying thank you for their hard work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has revealed that as part of its plans to reintroduce 40% of its normal flight schedules from July, passengers will no longer be allowed to queue for the toilet. Instead they will have to request permission from a crew member.
The chief executive of British Airways’ parent group IAG has said the company will need to review its plans to relaunch flights after the British prime minister Boris Johnson revealed proposals to implement a 14-day quarantine period for passengers arriving into the UK by air.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said it does not recommend that airlines leave the middle seats empty on flights, as they argue that such a measure offers few safety benefits and doing so, would stunt operators’ ability to turn a profit. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.thebreadwinner.co/2023/07/21/rino-republicans-protect-team-biden-from-financial-transparency-rules/ | 2024-04-13T22:13:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00393.warc.gz | 0.962019 | 488 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__56361352 | en | Establishment Republicans rejected Representative Mary Miller’s (R-IL) amendment this week that would have revealed that Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of transportation, had taken 18 private, taxpayer-funded flights.
H.R. 3935, the Securing Growth for Robust Leadership within American Aviation Act, a measure intended to address persistent problems in the aviation sector, was the subject of Miller’s amendment proposal.
Miller put out her proposal to deal with the ongoing mystery concerning Buttigieg’s 18 taxpayer-funded private aircraft flights ever since assuming office in 2021 as a part of that. Data collected by Americans for Public Trust (APT) revealed that Buttigieg traveled to Nevada, Florida, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Ohio, and New Hampshire using two taxpayer-funded Cessna 650XL planes operated by the Federal Aviation Admin. In 2022, Buttigieg allegedly flew privately to Montreal, Canada to attend a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Former cabinet officials, including former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, utilized the exact same fleet a total of seven times with a cost to taxpayers of $94,000, according to Politico. Tom Price, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), quit in 2017 after taking 26 flights aboard a private plane that cost the tax payers $1.2 million.
Miller commented on Breitbart News, saying, “Taxpayers want to know where Mayor Pete has been flying off to with their money as the train and aviation business crumble in our nation.
“While your trip was postponed or canceled, Mayor Pete took 18 covert flights on an FAA jet that was paid for by taxpayers. Mayor Pete destroyed commercial air travel through his COVID vaccination regulations and racial pilot hiring rules.” She said, “My amendment will compel the FAA to provide the logs for Mayor Pete’s covert private jet trips.”
This week, Miller stated on the House floor that Americans deserved “openness and oversight” about Buttigieg’s personal travel.
However, Miller’s amendment was rejected. The amendment was defeated by ten House Republicans because it lacked the two votes necessary to pass the House. Representatives Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Katie Porter (D-CA), and Ted Lieu (D-CA) are the three House Democrats that voted in favor of the amendment. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/251557/hong-kong-airlines-delays-proposed-krabi-launch-to-mid-nov-2015/ | 2021-12-09T10:29:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363791.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20211209091917-20211209121917-00373.warc.gz | 0.878381 | 93 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__66206 | en | Hong Kong Airlines has modified the proposal to launch Hong Kong – Krabi route, scheduled to be operated by Airbus A320 aircraft on daily basis. Previously scheduled from 25OCT15, the airline now plans to operate this route from 13NOV15.
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https://www.livecareer.com/resume-search/r/aircraft-mechanic-56957a22989a48e4a10484870f62452d | 2019-05-22T04:38:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256763.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522043027-20190522065027-00470.warc.gz | 0.878222 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__143987178 | en | Aircraft Mechanic with experience with 10 + years experience working on Embraer EMB 145, EMB 135, and EMB145 XR aircraft. Aircraft Tire and Battery shop experience of 5 + years.
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AFTER SPACE STATION TIANGONG-1 CRASHES, A LOOK AT OTHER GARBAGE THREATENING EARTH
By Elana Glowatz On Monday, April 2, 2018 – 12:02
The debris floating around Earth includes leftover pieces from SpaceX rocket launches.
PHOTO: STUFF IN SPACE/SCREENSHOT
The wayward Chinese space station Tiangong-1 crashed into the Pacific on Sunday night, ending a weeks-long brouhaha as people wondered whether the parts that survived the spacecraft’s fiery rush through Earth’s atmosphere would land on their heads.
While the defunct station dropped safely in the water, there’s plenty more garbage around the planet that could cause trouble.
For starters, Earth’s lower orbit is choked with hundreds of thousands of space debris pieces that remain from old satellites and equipment like launchers dating back as far as the start of the Space Race. Although most are small, they are moving as fast as 17,500 miles per hour—a speed about 10 times faster than a bullet—and can do some damage, no matter how tiny.
Visualizing that amount of material can be rough, so the website Stuff in Space can help bring it home. It shows what a cluttered mess Earth’s orbit is. It also allows the user to sort the space junk by source if, for example, someone wanted to see what SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets have left behind. The most recent addition is some leftovers from a rocket body that is cruising at about 8,700 miles above the Earth and moving about 2.5 miles per second—or 9,000 miles per hour.
Scientists have been struggling for years to figure out what to do with space debris. Collisions have made small impacts in the International Space Station, which poses a risk to astronauts living there. The debris also narrows the spots through which space agencies and companies can launch future missions to Mars or neighboring solar systems.
One recent concept is a space “harpoon,” which the company Airbus is building to throw at a large satellite called Envisat that is out of commission. The harpoon would pierce the satellite and then move it in such a way that it would burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists in China, the nation behind the Tiangong-1, have proposed using lasers to break up the larger chunks into smaller pieces.
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Until the world’s experts figure out what to do with all the space trash up there, you can keep an eye on the debris and track the pieces that fall to Earth on Satview. It also shows the satellites in orbit, of which more than 1,700 are still operating.
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https://stocksdailynews.com/3-thrilling-space-stocks-for-aggressive-investors-to-buy/ | 2024-02-22T10:34:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473738.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222093910-20240222123910-00660.warc.gz | 0.94078 | 905 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__100862393 | en | The once government-dominated space sector has become increasingly commercialized in recent years, with a myriad of investment opportunities emerging in the process. Hence, wagering on buying the best space stocks to buy presents an exhilarating prospect for the adventurous investor. From established defense plays to up-and-coming startups, the diverse range of players in the space industry offers tremendous long-term opportunities for investors.
Morgan Stanley predicts the global space sector could skyrocket to a staggering $1 trillion value by 2040. On top of that, there is substantial pent-up demand for space travel already, as Cowen analysts reported that 39% of individuals with a $5 million net worth have expressed interest in shelling out a minimum of $250,000 for an outer-space experience.
That said, we’ll take you on a thrilling journey through three space stocks holding massive promise for aggressive investors.
Space Stocks to Buy: Lockheed Martin (LMT)
Investing in a secondary play might be a more apt approach when wagering on a risky sector such as space. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) is arguably one of the best secondary plays in the space sector, with a strong presence in the aerospace and defense segments. The defense contractor boasts a stable business, which has handsomely rewarded shareholders through regular dividend payouts and share price appreciation.
The firm’s space segment, which includes space transportation, defense systems, and satellites, has played a key role in NASA’s Lucy mission to Jupiter and the 2024 Orion mission to the moon. Additionally, it partnered with space services provider NanoRacks to develop Starlab, the first-ever free-flying commercial space station. With Starlab expected to achieve initial operational capability by 2027, Lockheed Martin is well-positioned to capitalize on the burgeoning space industry.
2022 was a relatively tough year for the business as it faced multiple supply chain issues negatively impacting its top and bottom-line performances. However, In 2024, Lockheed Martin could potentially return to mid-single-digit growth.
Nevertheless, its dividend profile remains as strong as ever, with 20 consecutive years of growth and a 2.5% forward yield.
ARK Space Exploration & Innovation ETF (ARKX)
One of the best ways to board the cosmic journey of investing in the space sector and minimize risk is to invest in an exchange-traded fund (ETF). ARK Invest’s ARK Space Exploration & Innovation ETF (BATS:ARKX) provides diversified exposure to the leading names involved in space, aerodynamics, artificial intelligence, and other transformative technologies.
Investing in the ARKX ETF allows investors to tap into the thriving space industry, benefiting from cutting-edge research and strategic decisions made by the ARK Invest team. Helmed by ARK Investment Management and backed by the renowned Cathie Wood’s expertise, the fund effectively capitalizes on her visionary approach towards investing in high potential disruptive stocks. Wood’s bold predictions and investment strategies have made her one of the most prolific growth stock pickers in recent history.
Virgin Galactic (SPCE)
The leading space tourism play Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE), has given its investors multiple false starts over the past few years. Once a red-hot stock, SPCE’s price shot to the moon following its management’s lofty claims and targets, which they failed to achieve. Consequently, amidst several delays and other setbacks, its stock is down over 90% from its highs achieved in February 2021.
However, this year SPCE stock has been ticking upward following an announcement that upgrades to its VMS Eve mothership were complete in anticipation of commercial testing to begin in the second quarter. Commercial testing is expected to remain on track beginning in the second half of 2023.
Though there’s a lot to dislike about SPCE stock, the long-term opportunity in space tourism cannot be denied. According to Vantage Market Research, the space tourism market could grow at a CAGR of 36.4% between 2021 to 2028. Moreover, the company still has over $900 million in the bank to continue investing in its business.
On the date of publication, Muslim Farooque did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/5086993 | 2018-09-19T08:43:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156096.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919083126-20180919103126-00153.warc.gz | 0.93838 | 495 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__36686431 | en | The craft is for hovering flight, vertical takeoff and landing, and horizontal forward flight. It has a tail-sitting fuselage and a ducted fan mounted to the fuselage aft to provide propulsion in both (a) hovering and vertical flight and (b) horizontal forward flight. At each side is a floating wing, supported from the fuselage for passive rotation (or an actuator-controlled optimized emulation of such rotation) about a spanwise axis, to give lift in forward flight. The fuselage attitude varies between vertical in hovering and vertical flight, and generally horizontal in forward flight. Preferably the fuselage is not articulated; there is just one fan, the sole source of propulsion, rotating about only an axis parallel to the fuselage; and thrust-vectoring control vanes operate aft of the fan. Preferably at each side a small, nonrotating wing segment is fixed to the fuselage, and the floating wing defines--along its trailing portions--a corner notch or slot near the fuselage; forward portions of the fixed wing segment are within this notch. Preferably the spanwise axis is along a surface of the floating wing, and a long hinge supports that wing from the fixed wing segment, within the notch. During vertical and transitional flight characteristically the leading edge of the floating wing is down relative to the fuselage axis.
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https://spacenews.com/tag/intelsat-epic/ | 2022-12-07T20:28:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711218.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20221207185519-20221207215519-00581.warc.gz | 0.941756 | 665 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__288724149 | en | Maxar Technologies says the geostationary satellite order it disclosed in November without naming the customer is a high-throughput Intelsat spacecraft that will also carry a pollution sensor for NASA.
Intelsat estimates the in-orbit failure of its first high-throughput satellite will cost the company between $45 million and $50 million in revenue for the year.
Intelsat’s first Epic-series high-throughput satellite, Intelsat-29e, is drifting in orbit after back-to-back anomalies, forcing the company to shift customers to other spacecraft.
Satellite communications providers for some time have been trying to show the military the potential advantages of multiple spot beam satellite designs.
A last-second abort halted an Ariane 5 launch of two telecommunications satellites Tuesday evening.
Intelsat-33e, which took longer to enter service because of a broken thruster, is now taking longer than expected to fill with paying customers.
SpaceX continues to outperform its launch cadence from earlier years, conducting its tenth successful launch this year with an expendable mission for Intelsat on July 5.
Skot Butler recently replaced the plain-spoken Kay Sears, who finished her 10-year tenure at the tail end of a decline in U.S. government bandwidth spending that tracks the military’s shrinking footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan. Butler now gets a chance to come in at a trough and build, rather than manage a decline, as Sears had to do.
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on Oct. 27 said the global satellite bandwidth pricing environment appears to be stabilizing as satellite owners stop short of an all-out price war.
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on Sept. 27 said it had put a bondholder’s loan-default threat behind it and would pursue its balance-sheet restructuring as intended.
A European Ariane 5 rocket on Aug. 24 successfully placed two Intelsat-owned telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit, a launch that included the second of Intelsat’s do-or-die Epic high-throughput satellites.
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on July 27 positioned itself on both sides of the barricades of the satellite services business -- a company storming the entrenched widebeam satellite pricing structure with its Epic high-throughput spacecraft (HTS) while at the same time maintaining a strong vested interest in that structure with the rest of its fleet.
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on May 24 said pricing pressure on its new high-throughput Epic satellite was stronger than forecast but was being compensated by larger-than-expected volume demand.
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on April 28 said tests of its first Epic-class satellite, Intelsat 29e, have confirmed the performance increases the company had been predicting and that the satellite would enter service by late May.
Europe’s Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket on Jan. 27 successfully placed the first of Intelsat’s Epic-generation satellites into transfer orbit, a launch so important for Intelsat that the fleet operator was willing to forgo a co-passenger to secure the earliest possible launch slot. | aerospace | 1 |
http://hanoitimes.vn/investment/news/2018/07/81E0C9D1/vietnam-to-increase-foreign-ownership-limit-at-domestic-airlines-to-49/ | 2019-05-25T20:35:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258439.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525184948-20190525210948-00315.warc.gz | 0.903075 | 553 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__77675876 | en | The Hanoitimes - There will be no difference in the required minimum amount of capital for airlines providing international and domestic air transport services, according to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).
Under MoT's new draft decree, instead of the previous limit of 30% of charter capital, foreign investors in the aviation sector can now own up to 49% of charter capital in a domestic airline.
Concurrently, there will be no difference in the required minimum amount of capital for airlines providing international and domestic air transport services, stated in the MoT's draft decree amending Decree No.92, which stipulates conditional business sectors or activities in the civil aviation industry.
Moreover, there must be at least one Vietnamese natural or legal entity owning the highest share of charter capital in a foreign invested airline. In case a Vietnamese legal entity has foreign investment capital, the foreign holding must not exceed 49% of that entity.
The draft decree also removed requirement that legal representative of an airline must be a Vietnamese national.
Concerning the minimum amount of capital required for establishment and maintenance of an airline, the draft decree stipulated that an airline operating up to 10 aircraft must have VND700 billion (US$30.3 million).
In the current decree, this regulation is subject to airlines providing international air transport services, while an airline operating domestic routes only needs at least VND300 billion (US$13 million).
Under existing legislation, for an airline operating from 11 to 30 airplanes, the minimum amount of capital shall be VND1 trillion (US$43.25 million) required for an airline providing international services, and VND600 billion (US$25.95 million) for an airline operating domestically.
However, the new decree recommends all airlines operating from 11 to 30 airlines must have at least VND1 trillion (US$43.25 million), while airlines with up to 30 airplanes are required to have VND1.3 trillion (US$56.2 million).
Currently, for an airline operating up to 30 airplanes, airline providing international routes is required to have at least VND1,300 billion (US$56.2 million), while VND700 billion (US$30.3 million) is required for an airline providing domestic routes.
Vietnam currently has four airlines, including national carrier Vietnam Airlines, budget operator Jetstar Pacific Airlines (partly owned by Vietnam Airlines), budget carrier Vietjet Aviation, and Vietnam Air Services (VASCO).
On July 9, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc gave his approval to the FLC-backed Bamboo Airways investment project at Phu Cat Airport, Binh Dinh province, which will later on become Vietnam's fifth airline. | aerospace | 1 |
https://interdrone.com/news/xiaomi-unveils-the-mi-drone/ | 2023-09-27T04:19:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510259.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927035329-20230927065329-00001.warc.gz | 0.955122 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__197511146 | en | Last week, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi teased the possibility of joining the drone industry. Today the company is officially announcing it is releasing its own drone.
“Today is the special day where we are going to conduct our new product launch event across several platforms online,” the company wrote in a blog post. “I’m sure most of you already know what is the new product we’re talking about. Yes, it’s one of the most anticipated product for tech geek: Mi Drone.”
The Mi Drone is quadcopter that is available in two varieties: A 1080p version for US$380, and 4K version for $456. The drone will come with the ability to sense and avoid objects, autonomous flight, GPS capabilities, the ability to monitor the system’s battery, a PCB antenna, and the ability to fly up to 27 minutes.
?[A] drone is an expensive toy for most of the people, therefore we decided to enter to this field. We strive to bring the fun of technology to everyone,” the company wrote.
In addition, Xiaomi designed the drone to make it more portable. “Mi Drone uses module design, which is easy to disassemble and assemble. Mi Drone can be easily put into the bag, and you may bring it to anywhere and start to discover the beauty of the world,” according to the company. | aerospace | 1 |
https://blog.kericoach.com/2020/05/ | 2022-12-06T14:44:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711108.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206124909-20221206154909-00358.warc.gz | 0.960345 | 225 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__268256510 | en | When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
This weekend, for the first time in 10 years, the United States launched a manned rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral, with the aim of docking with the International Space Station. This feat was a joint effort by NASA, a government-funded organization, and a private company that goes by the name of Space Exploration Technologies (better known as SpaceX for short). The success of this launch is due, in large part, to the cost-saving innovations in rocketry by SpaceX engineers—one of the most impressive of which is the use of a reusable Falcon booster rocket. Yet, when somebody has a breakthrough innovation, it is usually a combined cascade of events. “Very rarely, is it one little thing,” according to Elon Musk, the CEO/CTO of SpaceX. “It’s usually a whole bunch of things that collectively amount to a huge innovation.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/unoosa-and-uae-space-agency-announce-agreement-to-advance-space-sustainability/ | 2024-02-22T17:30:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222161802-20240222191802-00873.warc.gz | 0.913095 | 533 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__11162977 | en | The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency digitally signed an agreement today to increase collaboration on the long-term sustainability of space activities and promote the use of space for sustainable development.
Space exploration is booming more than 80 countries have launched satellites since 1957 and over 2,500 are currently operational, according to UNOOSA estimates. Record political and economic capital is being invested in the space sector. This includes middle- and lower-income countries. With such increased interest comes heightened risk testing the normative and institutional structures underpinning a secure and sustainable space environment. Challenges include: the proliferation of space debris, the emergence of large constellations of satellites and the increasing complexity of space operations. These pressures point to a clear need to reinforce dialogue and the exchange of best practices among both – established and emerging space faring nations.
The benefits of space for sustainable development are increasingly evident. The growth of space applications presents an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate global sustainable development. It is therefore crucial that more countries have access to space and space data, something UNOOSA is working on with its Access to Space 4 All Initiative.
This agreement lays the corner stone to establishing a UNOOSA project office in the United Arab Emirates, acting as a new global hub to foster international progress on space sustainability and space for development issues. This collaboration will see the convening of the global space sector to support dialogue, research and trend-analysis, reinforcing efforts to catalogue best-practices on both responsible activities in space and leveraging the potential of space to accelerate sustainable development.
UNOOSA Director Simonetta Di Pippo said: “Through this agreement, UNOOSA and the UAE take a big step towards establishing a new international hub for space sustainability. With space technology accelerating sustainable development around the world and global investment in the space sector increasing, now is the time to strengthen global dialogue on space sustainability issues. The UAE, with its steadfast commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals and significant achievements in the space sector, is the perfect partner for this ambitious plan.”
UAE Space Agency Director General Mohammed Al Ahbabi said: “The UAE Space Agency is pleased to collaborate with UNOOSA in the effort to ensure sustainable development in outer space so that all of humanity can continue to benefit from its uses for peaceful purposes and socioeconomic benefit now and in the long term. We look forward to continued fruitful dialogue designed to accelerate the global space sector’s contribution to humanity’s aspirations.”
The announcement was made 10 June 2020 in Vienna. | aerospace | 1 |
https://modineaviation.com/about | 2024-04-16T16:42:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817103.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416155952-20240416185952-00132.warc.gz | 0.908971 | 396 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__68911950 | en | meet your cfi
The founder and owner of Modine Aviation is also the primary Flight Instructor, Examiner and Aviation consultant. Amon "CJ" Modine, is a retired Paramedic from the Fire Department of New York (FDNY*EMS). He was an educator at the Fire Academy, where he oversaw the development of Emergency Medical Services Training for EMT, Paramedic and Firefighter candidates. Like many others in the FDNY, he responded to the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. He survived the collapse of the second tower. CJ, now retired from the Department, lives on Central Florida's Space Coast with his family, where he enjoys all things Aviation.
Amon "CJ" Modine - Examiner
"To ensure you get the best training possible, we offer personalized, one-on-one, learner-oriented training."
FAA Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE)
Pilot and Flight Instructor ratings:
Commercial Pilot, Instrument Airplane
Single | Multi Engine Land
Gold Seal Flight Instructor - Airplane
Gold Seal Flight Instructor - Instrument
Advanced Ground Instructor
Instrument Ground Instructor
Total flight time (as of 2024) 14k+ hours
FAASTeam Lead Representative
CJ served on the Board of Directors of the Orlando Apopka Airport for many terms, where he assisted in the development of the airport, establishing instrument approach procedures (TERPS), and installation of VASI (Visual Approach Slope Indicators) for both ends of the runway.
Recognized for his efforts with the naming of MODIN Intersection, as depicted on the RNAV (GPS)-A and RNAV (GPS)-B approaches to X04 by industry peers.
Aircraft Owners & Pilot's Association
National Association of Flight Instructors
Society of Aviation and Flight Educators | aerospace | 1 |
https://helihub.com/2018/11/30/helitsa-starts-s92-maintenance-training-in-australia-secures-own-part-147-approva/ | 2019-09-15T05:57:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514570740.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20190915052433-20190915074433-00441.warc.gz | 0.923253 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__22474892 | en | HeliTSA has celebrated its second anniversary, proving its model of rotary maintenance training was a much-needed addition to the Australian market. The training model offers exposure to operational aircraft and is now expanding to encompass S-92 courses.
“If there is one thing engineers are good at, it’s making things complex. So when we launched HeliTSA, we made our mission crystal clear: to deliver training for engineers, by engineers,” said HeliTSA co-founder Pep Sayabath.
“That guides us as we make decisions. When we were deciding whether to launch S-92 training, we had to ask ourselves – is there any demand for engineers on this aircraft? If the answer was no, then we weren’t serving local engineers.
“But with the S-92 being the most popular offshore machine in Australia at the moment, we are excited to launch this training. We have recently been contracting to S-92 operators and have a long list of tips ready to teach.”
The decision to launch S-92 training came after multiple requests from engineers in Australia and abroad.
AgustaWestland AW139 training courses will still continue, alongside AW139 Exclusion Removal training and AW139 first of type OJT Journals. The development of OJT Journals and Exclusion Removal training signifies HeliTSA’s commitment to exploring new avenues to help engineers get licensed and keep their qualifications current.
The relaunch has also seen HeliTSA’s S-92 and AW109 first of type OJT Journals approved by CASA.
With a growing list of training solutions developed in accordance with industry needs, HeliTSA is a cost-effective option for engineers and aviation corporations in Australia.
- Students STEP into the Future with Bell
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- AeroVironment unveils VAPOR all-electric helicopter UAS
- StandardAero expands with Safe Aviation Solutions acquisition
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- CHC Appoints New Executive Lead for Global Operations and Supply Chain
- HAI President/CEO Named to USDOT Safety Oversight and Certification Advisory Committee
- Able Opens New Expansion of Headquarters
- Leonardo puts forward AW149 at DSEI 2019
- Russian operator Skypro adds fourth AW139
- Rotex Helicopter to take delivery of new KMax in Q4
- Volocopter raises 50 million Euros in C round funding
- UTair Engineering picks AMOS MRO software
- PHi exits Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
- Volocopter completes integration tests at Helsinki Airport
- Helicopter pilot appointed new Station Commander at RAF Odiham | aerospace | 1 |
https://communique.uccs.edu/?p=26017 | 2021-03-03T21:44:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178367790.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210303200206-20210303230206-00366.warc.gz | 0.966656 | 126 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__61538799 | en | Chase Klug, an Aurora sophomore majoring in accounting, recently shared his unusual view of campus.
From an altitude of 8,000 feet, Klug took pictures during a flight lesson aboard a Diamond DA-20. His images were taken with an iPhone 7 Plus and show main campus from Summit Village Housing to University Hall. The Diamond DA-20 is a flight trainer previously used by the U.S. Air Force Academy.
This was Klug’s first flight at the controls with an instructor. He hopes to earn a private pilot’s license in addition to a bachelor’s degree. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.edinburghairport.com/about-us/media-centre/press-releases?page=4 | 2019-05-22T11:51:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256797.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522103253-20190522125253-00079.warc.gz | 0.890509 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__161459714 | en | Proposal E7a preferred option.
New winter route to launch in December.
Edinburgh Airport disability service rated as 'very good.'
Busiest June on record for Edinburgh Airport.
Statue in honour one of the world’s greatest ever pilots unveiled.
Edinburgh picks up award.
Passenger numbers up 7.4%.
Direct route to Beijing comes into operation.
New noise and track keeping system now live.
Views sought on variant to proposed flightpath. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.defenseworld.net/category/1/30/Bombers | 2019-01-23T13:48:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547584332824.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20190123130602-20190123152602-00283.warc.gz | 0.939437 | 1,106 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__45357384 | en | Russia has grounded its Tu-22M3 fleet until the end of probe into the causes of Tuesdays air crash that killed three crew members. "For now all Tupolev-22M3 have been banned from flying until the causes of todays crash become clear,"
A third of Royal Air Force frontline fighter-bombers are unfit to fly, according to a Freedom of Information request. Of the 434 aircraft, 142 of them, which include 55 Typhoons are sidelined,
The Russian Su-34 fleet has been grounded after two of the jets collided mid-air while training over Sea of Japan on Friday. "On 18 January, at 8:07 (Moscow time), while performing a planned training flight over the Sea of Japan, 35 kilometers from the coast, two Su-34 planes of the Far Eastern Air Defence Forces made contact in the air while manoeuvring," Russian media quoted Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian MoD as saying
Upgraded Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bombers will soon be inducted into Russias Long-Range Aviation soon, Long-Range Air Force Commander Lieutenant-General Sergei Kobylash said Friday. "The long-range Air Force will soon get modernized Tu-160M2 aircraft with the improved characteristics
China's J-20 stealth fighter jet has been equipped with a retractable refueling probe embedded on the right side of the cockpit, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday. Embedded under the fuselage, the probe only pops up when the fighter jet conducts an aerial refueling mission
China has revealed a new-generation stealth bomber program, Hong-20 whose flight trials may take place soon, state-owned Global Times newspaper reported today. The Hong-20 official unveiling could be slated for next months Zhuhai Air show though there is no confirmation of it as yet
An Iranian official said the country has supplied Iraq with Sukhoi Su-25 fighter planes for intensifying anti-ISIS operations, but Baghdad has denied the claims, according to a report by Asharq Al-Awsat
The Bulgarian ministry of defense (MoD) has invited bids from Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and Belarusian 558 Aircraft Repair Plant (ARP) to overhaul its Su-25 fleet. The estimated value of the contract is 41 million levs ($24
Tupolev has signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry to modernize strategic bomber and missile carrier Tu-95MSM, the company's general director, Alexander Konyukhov said. "The contract for deep modernization - Tu-95MSM - was signed a month and a half ago, and the work was deployed at the Taganrog Aviation Plant (Beriev-IFTTC)," Konyukhov was quoted as saying by
Russia is set to roll-out the first prototype of modernized long-range missile carrier-bomber Tu-22M3M on August 16. The first prototype of a deeply modernized long-range missile carrier-bomber Tu-22M3M was created, Interfax was told in the press service of the Tupolev company
The Royal Air Force scrambled Typhoon fighter jets based in Romania on Thursday, in response to Russian Su-24 FENCER aircraft operating near NATO airspace over the Black Sea. Operating from the Romanian Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta on the Black Sea coast, the RAF Typhoons responded to the suspected bomber aircraft heading west towards NATO airspace, the British MOD announced Thursday
A Su-22 fighter –bomber belonging to the Vietnam air defense forces crashed in the central region of Nghe An killing both the pilots. The su-22 with two pilots on board had an accident when conducting aregular training flight on a hill in Nghe An, Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Trong Nghia, vice chairman of the General Political Department under the Vietnamese People's Army was quoted as saying by VietNamNet news daily Thursday
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The American-made Patriot and Russian S-400 Triumf air defense systems are currently hogging international orders despite their price tags running...
The Russian ministry of defense on Thursday published a series of videos showcasing the production, deployment and installation and testing...
The market for fighter jets in countries which are expected to have open competitions is estimated at US$50 billion to...
The Indian MoD's plan to purchase 110 fighter jets may be its costliest fighter jet buy ever with the entire... | aerospace | 1 |
https://gizmodo.com/japanese-team-creates-working-space-elevator-made-of-5027034 | 2022-08-14T12:17:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00360.warc.gz | 0.958541 | 124 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__59753063 | en | For those of you who know what a space elevator is, you also know how difficult (some would say impossible) it will be to create one. Well, don't tell that to the starry-eyed guys in Redmond this weekend, who are attending the annual Space Elevator Conference 2008. And they have a blog! And in this blog today I found... a working space elevator! Made of Lego blocks! Sadly, it was only a working model, not the real thing, meaning Jesus' lifelong dream of a Lego space elevator carrying him to a life-sized Lego Galaxy Explorer space ship is postponed, indefinitely. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-russian-cosmonauts-remain-at-intl-space-station-and-biden-just-sanctioned-russias-space-program | 2023-02-05T17:29:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500273.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205161658-20230205191658-00209.warc.gz | 0.950337 | 744 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__112293825 | en | President Joe Biden announced new sanctions Thursday designed to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching a full-scale invasion into Ukraine.
Among those sanctions were measures that Biden said, “will degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.”
“Biden says that today the US is blocking multiple large Russian banks including VTB, sanctioning Russian elites and family members, cutting off Russia’s high tech imports which will prevent them from modernizing multiple industries such as their space program,” CNN National Security correspondent Kylie Atwood reported.
“Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war, and now he and this country will bear the consequences. Today, I’m authorizing additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to Russia,” Biden said as he announced the new sanctions. “We estimate that we’ll cut off more than half of Russia’s high-tech imports. That will strike a blow to their ability to continue to modernize their military. It’ll degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.”
But sanctions that impact the Russian space program directly could potentially complicate matters — and relationships — aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as CNN space and defense correspondent Kristin Fisher noted.
“Biden announces that new sanctions against Russia ‘will degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.’ No mention of the partnership at the International Space Station where 4 NASA astronauts, 2 Russian cosmonauts, & 1 European astronaut are currently on board,” she tweeted.
Biden announces that new sanctions against Russia "will degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program."
No mention of the partnership at the International Space Station where 4 NASA astronauts, 2 Russian cosmonauts, & 1 European astronaut are currently on board
— Kristin Fisher (@KristinFisher) February 24, 2022
According to a report from the Associated Press published just one day earlier, however, experts do not expect tensions on the ground to spill over into the ISS and its continuing mission.
An aerospace expert says tensions over Ukraine should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.-Russia cooperation in space. Four NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts are among those currently on the space station. https://t.co/STozNjATMp
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 24, 2022
According to the AP’s report:
Tensions in eastern Ukraine and heightened Western fears of a Russian invasion should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.-Russia cooperation in space, the former head of the National Space Council told The Associated Press.
Scott Pace, who served as executive secretary of the space council under President Donald Trump and is now the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, said the space station “has been largely isolated” from political events.
“It’s possible to imagine a break with Russia that would endanger the space station, but that would be at the level of a dropping diplomatic relations,” said Pace. “That would be something that would be an utterly last resort so I don’t really see that happening unless there is a wider military confrontation.”
In order to keep conflict on the ground from creating tensions at the ISS, Congress has previously designed sanctions to include a carveout exempting space cooperation, but Biden’s comments at Thursday’s press conference — promising that sanctions would cripple the Russian space program going forward — could signal a change in that particular strategy. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.earthfiles.com/2004/08/21/part-2-martian-water-ice-and-organic-molecules-nasa-will-look-for-unique-signs-of-life-on-mars/ | 2023-11-29T12:04:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100081.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129105306-20231129135306-00491.warc.gz | 0.929663 | 200 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__235564508 | en | "Is the overlap of methane and water on Mars evidence of geothermal activity on Mars? Or is it evidence of biology? That's the question which we all want to answer."
- Michael J. Mumma, NASA Astrophysicist
September 21, 2004 Greenbelt, Maryland - NASA scientists began searching for methane on Mars in 1989. By 2002, the NASA infrared facility in Hawaii with its high resolution spectroscopy began to detect methane. In 2003, the Mars Odyssey's neutron and gamma-ray sensors had tracked seasonal changes of carbon dioxide "dry ice" and water ice. As the dry ice dissipated with the seasonal changes in temperatures, water ice was confirmed to be 90% by volume in some places in the Northern Hemisphere.
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http://deepspaceindustries.com/explore/ | 2014-09-20T05:54:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657132883.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011212-00258-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | 0.91944 | 974 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__119807490 | en | As we enter the third millennium it is time to begin doing things differently. Giant multi-billion dollar missions, decades long timelines for even the smallest return on investment are unacceptable. DSI intends to break out not only from the Earth, but from the old ways of doing things.
While our technology will be beyond cutting edge, our costs will be kept low. While our time horizons are deep and our plans reach far into the future, our goal is to begin creating returns on our investments in the very near term.
While we are developing cutting edge systems and integrating a wide range of technologies into our plans, like any mining, exploration or refining firm on Earth today, Deep Space is far more than a technology company. In fact, our plan is to not be burdened with hardware and factories any more than we have to be. We use partnerships, licensing and sub-contracting to achieve our goals. This allows us to stay nimble and not have to do things simply because we have to justify the infrastructure we have in place. However, it is important to be able to do some things ourselves, to demonstrate our capabilities and learn how to be good customers and operators. Thus Deep Space Industries is creating both asteroid expeditions and breakthrough devices to utilize the material it harvests in space.
Small, nimble, lighting the way…
DSI will launch several extremely low cost Firefly expeditions on one-way reconnaissance missions to promising asteroids. Firefly missions will discover key aspects of target asteroids, including more about their composition, their structure (solid or rubble piles, for example) and spin rate (rapidly spinning asteroids will be harder to capture). Firefly spacecraft will utilize ultra low-cost cubesat and nanosat components, and will be sent into space as secondary “ride along” payloads on large launch vehicles carrying commercial communications and remote sensing satellites.
Tag ‘em, bag ‘em, and bring em back home.
The next step is to scale up the Firefly spacecraft to include asteroid capture tools, and additional fuel to enable them to return asteroid samples to Earth orbit. Dragonfly missions will bring back the first payloads of asteroid materials for study, early processing experiments and sale. Customers will include both scientific researchers and private collectors. For example, NASA is paying $1 billion for the OSIRIS-REx mission that may bring back 2 kg in 2021. Collectors pay as much as $1 million per kg for rare meteorites. DSI will feed part of the returned material into prototypes of its Microgravity Foundry (see below) to demonstrate its practicality for in-space manufacturing using asteroid resources.
DSI moves into full-scale commercial operations with the launch of Harvestor™-class asteroid collection missions, which will require the entire capacity of major launch vehicles, such as the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Proton or Ariane 5.
These missions will return thousands of tons per year, producing water, propellant, metals, building materials and shielding for everything we do in space in decades to come. Initial markets will be customers in space, where any substance is very expensive due to the cost of launching from Earth, over time, as costs drop and technologies improve we can then begin “exporting” back to Earth.
Space customers include communications satellites needing propellant to double their working lives, crewed stations needing water and propellant, and the first solar power satellites to beam nonpolluting, carbon-free and radioactivity-free power to electric utilities on Earth. Over time, if successful, these facilities may well grow into massive construction projects, consuming immense amounts of materials – provided by DSI.
DSI is developing a patent-pending breakthrough in 3D printers able to output complex metal components using a simple process with few moving parts. The MicroGravity Foundry (MGF) will enable early utilization of asteroid material to produce structural parts, fasteners, gears, and other components to repair in-space machinery and to create new space infrastructure, such as solar power satellites. A version of the MGF process will be licensed to terrestrial users; the underlying process is more straightforward than those now employed to digitally print metal components.
The water and hydrocarbons found in carbonaceous asteroids will be distilled into propellant for use by space stations, commercial habitats, and communications satellites. Crewed space agency expeditions to the Moon, Mars, and the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos will need prodigious quantities of fuel; standard mission plans envision that 90% of the mass launched from Earth for a Mars expedition will be fuel. Tanking up in Earth orbit from asteroid fuel instead will greatly reduce the cost of Mars trips by dramatically reducing the mass launched at great expense up the Earth’s deep gravity well. | aerospace | 1 |
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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. A contingent of F-22 Raptor fighter jets from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, have joined combat air forces from across the nation at Nellis AFB for the joint, full-spectrum readiness exercise Red Flag 17-3. Department of Defense (DoD) officials say that the exercise facilitates readiness training on a higher level, as each unit brings specific expertise and talents to the table; Red Flag exercises teach them to work together as they would in the field, possibly for the first time, before facing an actual threat.
The DoD reports that 10 F-22s from the 95th Fighter Squadron have joined the exercise alongside Marine Corps F-35B and Air Force F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighters, marking the first time in Red Flag history that both variants of F-35 will take part in the exercise. The F-35B is the short-takeoff and vertical-landing version of the jet, while the F-35A has conventional takeoff and landing capabilities.
Additional aircraft such as B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers, E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters, and others will be featured during Red Flag 17-3, with each playing an important role in the exercise theater, DoD officials say. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.brevardtimes.com/2015/11/astronauts-scott-kelly-and-kjell-lindgren-display-thanksgiving-meal/ | 2023-03-25T02:22:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945292.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325002113-20230325032113-00006.warc.gz | 0.910086 | 370 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__166042045 | en | Categories: International Space Station
Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren Display Thanksgiving Meal
U.S. astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren displayed what they will eat aboard the International Space Station for Thanksgiving. On the astronauts’ menu for Thanksgiving 2015 in outer space is: smoked turkey; candied yams; rehydratable corn; and potatoes au gratin.
In a YouTube video uploaded by NASA’s Johnson Space Center, both astronauts expressed what they are thankful for.
“We’re thankful for the thousands, if not tens of thousands of people at NASA and its contractor companies and all the international partner space agencies around the world that work so hard to keep us safe and make us so successful up here on the International Space Station,” said Lindgren.
“Being on the Space Station here and looking down at our incredibly beautiful planet gives us a different perspective on what it means to be citizens of planet Earth,” Kelly said. “Since I’ve been up here, seen so many bad things that often happen down there, we follow that on the news. And it just makes me really thankful to live in a country like the United States that provides us with freedom and opportunity. For me being a middle-class kid from New Jersey to just have the privilege to come up here and represent my country like this – this is what I am thankful for this Thanksgiving.”
After giving thanks, the astronauts opened plastic food packages containing their Thanksgiving dinner. Lindgren munched on the smoked turkey while Kelly sampled the candied yams. Image and video credit: NASA
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ETA students in the rocketry club are now preparing for competition.
“We have two rocketry teams right now trying to compete for competition, we have team America and we have the NASA SLI team, both teams are trying to compete for time and height,” ETA teacher Christina Moreno, said.
Both Rocketry teams are currently test flying to make sure that they reach closest scores as possible before submitting qualifying flight. Both Rocketry teams go out to practice and test out their rockets at the Kitty Hawk field.
These students put a lot of work into their Rockets and also have to make sure of a lot things regarding their rockets.
“We have to take into consideration a lot of things; the speed of which the rocket is going at every given point, the height at what you want it to be, and if you can keep everything inside the rocket safe,” freshman Katie Hart said.
Some Rockets contain an egg inside of them, and the students’ goal is to make sure the egg comes back safely and unbroken.The different teams have different requirements. Team America which are smaller rockets, must go 850 feet caring and the egg has to come back safely. NASA on the other hand is going on a mile height.
Students who participate in the Rocketry club also get the opportunity to go out of state. This year one group will be going to Huntsville Alabama and another group will be going to Washington D.C.
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|Publication date||Mar 7, 1995|
|Filing date||Nov 14, 1990|
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|Inventors||Arthur S. Kesten, Alexander Vranos, William M. Proscia|
|Original Assignee||United Technologies Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (8), Non-Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (11), Classifications (23), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to methods to enhance combustion rates and extend extinction limits in high speed propulsion units such as ramjet and scramjet engines.
High-speed propulsion requires very rapid mixing and combustion of fuel and air. Most practical combustors, including combustors for high speed transport, are turbulent non-premixed systems. In most turbulent combustion systems, aerodynamic mixing is relied upon to mix small packets of fuel with small packets of air. In the initial stages of mixing, large eddies are formed in which fuel and air are mixed reasonably well on a macroscopic scale. In the final stages of mixing, however, fuel and air molecules mix by molecular diffusion. This final mixing is responsible for bringing together fuel and air molecules for reaction. We believe that the significance of this last step in the mixing process has been underestimated and it now appears that this may be a critical or limiting process in many high velocity combustion systems.
In turbulent flames, reacting flame elements are elongated by the turbulence, leading to "stretching" of the flame. The process is very similar to that observed when a candle flame is stretched by blowing. With sufficiently rapid or extensive stretching, the candle flame is blown out. Flame elements in combustors can be extinguished in a similar manner. In combustor jet flames, choice of fuel can greatly increase stretch tolerance. The amount and rate of stretching a flame can tolerate before being extinguished is called its extinction limit.
The addition of hydrogen and small hydrocarbon molecules to hydrocarbon fuels is known to increase flame extinction limits under laminar flow conditions by increasing the rate of combustion. The increased combustion rate is due to more rapid mixing of fuel and air by molecular diffusion. Evidence uncovered in recent years suggests that molecular scale mixing in turbulent combustion systems occurs in laminar flamelets in which molecular diffusion is the mechanism by which fuel and air molecules meet for reaction. Thus, it has been proposed that adding hydrogen and small hydrocarbon molecules to hydrocarbon fuels will increase the combustion rate and hence, will increase flame extinction limits even in turbulent combustion systems. Other possible effects of hydrogen addition, such as increased flame temperature, and increased hydrogen atom and hydroxyl radical concentrations are also likely to have a positive influence on the combustion rate and flame extinction limits.
Currently, gas turbine engines used for aircraft propulsion are fueled with liquid hydrocarbons because these fuels have relatively high energy densities, are readily available, and have favorable handling logistics. The fact that liquid hydrocarbon fuels do not produce flames with especially high extinction limits is ordinarily not limiting. Some proposed applications however, such as supersonic or hypersonic aero-space transport, require fuels with higher combustion rates and wider extinction limits than liquid hydrocarbons can provide. Liquid hydrogen has been proposed for some systems because it has wider ignition and blowout limits and a specific energy three times that of liquid hydrocarbon fuels. However, hydrogen, even when stored in a liquid state at cryogenic temperatures, has an energy density only a third that of typical liquid hydrocarbon fuels. As a result, the use of hydrogen as a fuel would require significantly larger fuel tank capacity than if liquid hydrocarbons were used as a fuel. Thus, in volume-limited systems, a fuel with a higher energy density than hydrogen and wider extinction limits than typical hydrocarbon fuels would be desirable.
Mixtures of hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuels have specific energies and energy densities between those of either component alone and offer the potential for combustion efficiency and flame stability which is also intermediate to that of hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuels. Thus, a fuel with an acceptable energy density and extinction limit can be formulated by mixing hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuels. Dual fuel systems, which would have separate liquid hydrogen and hydrocarbon tanks, would require less total system tankage than a purely hydrogen fuel system. However, such a system would be complex because it retains the requirement for liquid hydrogen storage, while adding the need for two separate fuel supply systems.
In a report of the 24th JANNAF Combustion Meeting, October 1987, "Mach 2 Combustion Characteristics of Hydrogen/Hydrocarbon Fuel Mixtures", Diskin et al. discussed the feasibility of mixing hydrocarbons into a hydrogen fuel system as a technique to increase fuel density for scramjet combustors. Although addition of liquid hydrocarbons to a hydrogen fuel was shown to increase fuel density while maintaining acceptable combustion performance, the mixed fuel system did not overcome the handling problems associated with liquid hydrogen fuels, and as disclosed, would require a dual fuel delivery system.
Accordingly, if routine supersonic or hypersonic aero-space transport is to become a practical reality, it will be highly desirable to have a method to enhance combustor performance using a single fuel source.
The present invention is directed towards providing a method of enhancing high speed combustor performance using a single fuel source.
Another aspect of the invention includes a method of extending the operating limits and flame stability of a combustor in a high speed propulsion unit by catalytically decomposing at least a portion of a stream of hydrocarbon fuel to produce hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments, separating the decomposition products by molecular size, and introducing the hydrogen, lower molecular weight fuel fragments, and nondecomposed hydrocarbon fuel into a combustor of a high speed propulsion unit. The introduction of hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments into the combustor leads to more rapid molecular mixing of fuel and air, which in turn leads to increased combustion rates and extended extinction limits.
Another aspect of the invention includes a method to provide an effective sink for aerodynamic heat loads of a high speed aircraft while extending the operating limits and flame stability of a combustor in a propulsion unit of the aircraft. The heat sink and flame stability are provided by transferring heat from a heat source of the aircraft to a catalytic reactor by means of a heat exchange fluid, endothermically decomposing a stream of hydrocarbon fuel in the reactor to produce hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments, and introducing the hydrogen, lower molecular weight fuel fragments, and nondecomposed hydrocarbon fuel to a combustor of a propulsion unit of the aircraft. The heat exchange fluid used to transfer heat to the catalytic reactor is the hydrocarbon fuel.
Another aspect of the invention includes a combustion apparatus for use in a high speed propulsion unit. The combustion apparatus includes a combustor having a hydrogen pilot flame, a means for catalytically decomposing at least a portion of a stream of hydrocarbon fuel to produce hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments, a means for separating hydrogen from decomposition products, and a means for introducing the hydrogen into the combustor to produce a hydrogen pilot flame.
The foregoing and other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description and drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates a basic embodiment of this invention in which decomposed hydrocarbon fuel is fed directly to a combustor without separating the lower molecular weight decomposition fragments.
FIG. 2 illustrates a cross-section of the fuel feed area of a high speed propulsion unit.
FIG. 3 is a front view schematic of the fuel feed area of a high speed propulsion unit.
FIG. 4 illustrates a system in which hydrogen is separated from decomposed hydrocarbon fuel and is fed separately to a combustor.
FIG. 5 illustrates a system where hydrogen gas transfers heat from a heat exchanger to a catalytic reactor before the gas is channeled to the combustor.
The present invention discloses a method for enhancing the rate of continuous combustion in a turbulent combustion system in which fuel and air are injected separately. The method is applicable to gas turbine, ramjet, and scramjet combustors or any propulsive device where extending the operating limits and flame stability while maximizing energy density of the fuel is advantageous.
Energy is stored chemically in a liquid hydrocarbon fuel which has a relatively high energy density. The fuel must be one which can be endothermically decomposed into hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments. Such fuels are referred to as endothermic fuels. The fuel should contain from one to about 14 carbon atoms. It may be an oxygenate such as an alcohol. In particular, normal paraffins, including pentane, heptane, and decane; naphthenes, including methylcyclohexane, cyclohexane, and decalin; and alcohols, including methanol, ethanol, and propanol are suitable fuels. Combinations of these fuels are also suitable. Methylcyclohexane is a preferred fuel because it decomposes cleanly to toluene and hydrogen with minimal formation of side products.
The fuel is vaporized and catalytically decomposed in a catalytic reactor into hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments. The particular fuel fragments produced will depend on the particular fuel fed to the reactor. For example, if methylcyclohexane is used as the fuel, one molecule of fuel will be decomposed into three hydrogen molecules and one toluene molecule. Depending on reaction conditions, small amounts of light hydrocarbons such as methane might be formed. Because the products are in the gas phase, the resulting fuel mixture will be about 75% hydrogen by volume, assuming 100% conversion of the methylcyclohexane. If the conversion is less than 100%, there will be proportionally less hydrogen in the resulting fuel mixture.
The catalyst used in the reactor may be any catalyst which promotes the endothermic decomposition of a hydrocarbon into hydrogen and lower molecular weight fragments. The preferred catalysts include those comprising platinum family metals, such as platinum, rhodium, iridium, and palladium. Catalysts which contain other metals such as nickel, chromium, and cobalt have also been shown to be effective. The catalysts may comprise a single metal or a combination of suitable metals.
Typically, the catalytic metals are supported in the reactor on a substrate such as alumina or zirconia. The particular support mode chosen depends on the amount of catalyst surface area required and the amount of pressure drop which can be tolerated in the reactor. A packed bed of catalyst particles may be used where a large surface area is needed and the inherent high pressure drop is not a problem. A coated wall may be used if pressure drop is a primary limitation and a large surface area is not required. A monolith, generally having a honeycomb structure, provides a compromise between a packed bed and a coated wall. It combines a moderate amount of surface area with a reasonably low pressure drop. As a result, a monolith structure is the preferred catalyst support mode.
The reactor operating conditions depend on the amount of catalyst available, the particular fuel being used, and the conversion from fuel to hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments desired. Typically, the reactor may be operated under pressures from about 0.1 atm to about 70 atm. Reactor inlet temperatures may range from about 200° F. to about 1400° F. If methylcyclohexane is used as the fuel, a reactor inlet temperature from about 400° F. at reduced pressures down to about 0.1 atm to about 1000° F. at pressures up to about 60 atm will result in substantial conversion.
The energy required to heat and vaporize the fuel and to drive the endothermic decomposition reaction is transferred to the reactor using an appropriate heat exchange fluid which may be circulated to scavenge heat from heat sources. The working fluid may be the fuel itself, engine exhaust gases, hot air from engine inlet boundary layer suction, hydrogen, or any other suitable fluid. Engine exhaust gases and hot air are heat sources themselves and probably will not require circulation to other heat sources in order to supply adequate energy to the reactor. Other working fluids may be circulated to draw heat from airframe leading edges or other parts of the aircraft which are susceptible to heating, especially those which require cooling. Depending on the heat source and working fuel chosen, heat for the reactor might not be available throughout the entire operation cycle. For example, if heat is to be drawn from aircraft leading edges, sufficient heat will not be available during takeoff. However, hydrogen addition to fuel is not required at the low speeds encountered at takeoff.
Reactor effluent, which comprises hydrogen, lower molecular weight fuel fragments, and nondecomposed fuel may be separated by molecular size. The separation may be accomplished with any material through which hydrogen and other small molecules will preferentially diffuse. A preferred separator will contain a palladium membrane. Palladium provides extraordinary selectivity for hydrogen, but usually at the expense of fairly high pressure drop. Typically, the palladium membrane will be from about 0.01 mm to about 10 mm in thickness. The particular thickness is a design parameter. Depending on the application, the thickness may vary to afford different diffusion rates. Those skilled in the art can readily determine the appropriate thickness using a source such as "Diffusion In and Through Solids" by Richard M. Barrer (Cambridge University Press, London, 1941), Chapter 5, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Barrer describes the permeation velocity of hydrogen through metals like palladium. Hollow glass fiber or polymeric fiber materials which are less hydrogen selective, but which have a lower pressure drop would also be suitable for use in the separator. A suitable family of hydrogen specific polymeric fiber materials, called Prism™ Separators, is available from Permea Corporation (St. Louis, Mo.).
Finally, hydrogen, lower molecular weight fuel fragments, and nondecomposed fuel are fed to the combustor where the presence of the hydrogen and other small molecules results in improved combustion. Under some circumstances, the combustion process can be further enhanced by injecting the hydrogen and other small fuel species upstream of the main fuel injection point in order to pilot the main fuel burner. This sort of staged injection is possible if the hydrogen and small molecules, if any, were separated from other fuel decomposition products as described above. Various possible fuel feed schemes are discussed below.
In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, such as methylcyclohexane, is stored in a fuel tank and is pumped to a catalytic reactor. The reactor contains a platinum family catalyst supported by a honeycomb structured monolith, preferably comprising alumina. A working fluid which draws heat from any of the heat sources of the aircraft provides the necessary heat of reaction. Fuel entering the reactor is vaporized and at least partially catalytically decomposed to hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments. The decomposition products are fed directly into the combustor of a high speed engine to improve the combustion rate and flame stability.
FIG. 2 shows a schematic cross-section of the fuel feed area of an exemplary high speed propulsion unit such as a ramjet or scramjet. In this embodiment, only a small fraction of the total fuel flow is catalytically decomposed, and the hydrogen is used to fuel a pilot flame. The pilot flame will be stable over a wider operating range than would the original hydrocarbon fuel alone and will anchor the main flame. This pilot flame could also be fueled by a mixture of hydrogen and lower molecular weight decomposition products, but the flame would be less stable. A schematic front view of the combustor unit is shown in FIG. 3.
In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, a liquid hydrocarbon fuel is pumped to a catalytic reactor, vaporized, and at least partially catalytically decomposed to hydrogen and lower molecular weight fuel fragments. The decomposition products enter a separator, preferably containing a palladium membrane, and are separated by molecular size. Hydrogen, smaller fuel fragments, and nondecomposed fuel are then fed into the combustor of a high speed engine at controlled rates to achieve the combustion rate and flame stability necessary for the particular operating conditions.
FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of this invention in which hydrogen and small molecules separated from the rest of the decomposition products are routed back through a heat exchanger to transfer heat from a working fluid to the catalytic reactor. Alternately, the hydrogen stream could itself be used as a working fluid to absorb heat directly from aircraft leading edges and other heat sources for transfer to the reactor. After providing heat to the reactor, the hydrogen stream is fed to a combustor where it enhances combustion rate and flame stability. Using hydrogen gas as a heat exchange medium simplifies the system design and efficiently reclaims heat energy from the hot exhaust gases and other heat sources.
Controlled addition of hydrogen and small molecules to the combustor fuel enhances the combustion process and extends operating limits through better ignition, minimized blowouts, and greater flame stability at lean fuel ratios. Hydrogen enhancement of hydrocarbon combustion may also result in higher combustor efficiency and a potential reduction in combustor length and weight. An accompanying benefit of the method may be reduced engine emissions.
The beneficial effects of adding hydrogen and other small molecule species to hydrocarbon flames are attributable to the inherently higher rate of molecular diffusion characteristic of small molecules in general, and hydrogen in particular. Feeding smaller fuel molecules to the combustor leads to more rapid molecular mixing of fuel and air, which in turn leads to an increased combustion rate and extended extinction limits. Such considerations may be crucial to the operation of high speed propulsion units such as ramjets and scramjets in which fuel residence times in the combustor are in the sub-millisecond range.
Not to be ignored in the operation of aircraft at very high speeds is the need to dissipate considerable amounts of heat from airframe leading edges and other parts of the aircraft. The present invention provides an excellent heat sink for this heat which must be dissipated. As discussed above, the heat would be used to operate the catalytic reactor which endothermically decomposes the fuel. It would provide the sensible heat necessary to heat the fuel to its boiling point, the latent heat of vaporization needed to vaporize it, and the heat of reaction needed to decompose it. Together, these heat loads add up to a considerable heat sink capacity. For example, methylcyclohexane could absorb up to 1905 Btu/lb of fuel decomposed. Other potential fuels could absorb even more heat, as shown in Table 1. Thus, in addition to providing a fuel with superior combustion characteristics due to the presence of hydrogen, the use of catalytically decomposed endothermic fuels provides a means of cooling critical parts of the aircraft. In effect, this invention takes a debit, excess heat, and turns it into an asset by recyling heat from the airframe to the combustion process.
TABLE 1______________________________________ Maximum Usable Total Heat Sink Temperature Capacity at TmaxFuel (Tmax) °F. Btu/lb______________________________________Methylcyclohexane 1340 1905Decalin 1340 1682Heptane 1340 2068Methanol 1400 2561Propanol 1340 2996______________________________________
Although this invention has been shown and described with respect to detailed embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail thereof may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed invention.
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https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-to-know-if-a-particular-aircraft-is-ads-b-equipped/15620 | 2020-09-28T11:20:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401600771.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928104328-20200928134328-00601.warc.gz | 0.953515 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__257280666 | en | I am trying to research how much of US commercial flight is actually using the NextGen system. My interest in this is from the angle of Public Policy, rather than as an avaiation nerd - so please excuse my mistakes (if any that follow).
As I understand, NextGen requires equipment at both the aircraft and airport ends.
I can get data about NextGen equippage at airports, but am not able to identify what aircraft is equipped with ADS-B. Is there a way I can get that information through the FAA database? Or any other database? | aerospace | 1 |
http://ualrpublicradio.org/post/aviation-officials-excited-about-new-law-meant-help-business-arkansas | 2018-06-23T13:44:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865081.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623132619-20180623152619-00340.warc.gz | 0.962354 | 601 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__58024048 | en | A law passed in the most recent legislative session is meant to help the state attract aviation business that was flying away because of a sales tax Arkansas levied that other states didn’t.
Act 1182 by Rep. Joe Jett, D-Success, enacts a “fly away” provision exempting from taxes aircraft sales where neither the seller nor the buyer are located here.
Cheri McKelvey, vice president and co-owner of Air Resource Group, a Little Rock-based aviation company with an office in Springdale, said all of the planes she has brokered between out-of-state customers have flown to another state that did not charge the sales tax, often Kansas, to finalize the deal.
McKelvey said the absence of those planes means Arkansas companies have been missing out on performing the upgrades that follow. Moreover, the existence of the tax has made Arkansas less likely to attract aircraft transactions between out-of-state clients despite its desirable central location.
Companies and individuals often do business based on an individual state’s tax laws. Aviation is different because of the ease with which the product can be moved to take advantage of those laws, she said.
“It kind of levels the playing field for us, actually, to be able to do more for an airplane buyer or seller,” she said.
Chad Causey, executive director of the Arkansas Aerospace and Defense Alliance, said of the law, “We’re excited about it. We think it’s a big win that will have a big impact on the aerospace industry here in Arkansas.”
The aerospace industry currently employs about 5,400 Arkansans at 45 repair stations and 80 fixed base operations, according to the National Business Aviation Association. Arkansas aviation companies include Dassault Falcon Jet, Lockheed Martin, Triumph Group and Rose Aircraft Services.
Jett, a certified flying instructor, said the provision is revenue neutral because Arkansas wasn’t earning any sales tax revenue beforehand on the lost sales. He said the added business will raise funds for the state’s Department of Aeronautics that can be leveraged with federal grants to raise money for safety and economic development around airports.
The law also clarifies that taxes on repair parts and labor will not be levied for work done on airplanes rated with a gross takeoff weight of 12,500 pounds “or more.” The previous law covered planes that were “more than” 12,500 pounds, which meant a number of popular aircraft models were being taxed for maintenance, repair and overhaul work.
Jett said he hoped the revenue from the additional aircraft business could lead to reduced aircraft fuel taxes in the future.
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Cosmonaut Valeri G. Korzun egresses a trainer at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Korzun is Mir-24 commander. EDITOR'S NOTE: Since this photograph was taken cosmonauts Korzun and Aleksandr Y. Kaleri were named to replace the original Mir-22 crew. Along with French spationaut Claudie desHayes, the two joined NASA astronaut Shannon W. Lucid onboard the Mir space station in August. | aerospace | 1 |
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-father-son-duo-fly-su-30-on-diamond-jubilee-celebrations-of-20-squadron-indian-air-force-2840118/ | 2018-10-23T18:24:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516892.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023174507-20181023200007-00083.warc.gz | 0.933255 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__77955290 | en | To celebrate the diamond jubilee of the 20 Squadron of Indian Air Force located in Pune, a father-son duo of serving IAF officers took a sortie together in a Sukhoi-30 MKi fighter jet at Lohegaon Air Force base. The squadron celebrated its diamond jubilee on June 3 at the air base.
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On the occasion, Air Marshal SB Deo, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Air Command, and a 20 Squadron veteran himself, flew a Su-30 MKI sortie with his son Squadron Leader Karan Deo, who is presently posted to the same squadron.
Air Force officials said that it is a matter of great pride for two generations of pilots to have flown a Su-30 sortie together on the momentous occasion of 60 years of the squadron’s existence. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.catic.cn/front/newdetail-0a9e086ef2854892890dc254fbbcab0c.html?pageNo=1 | 2020-08-07T02:59:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737152.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200807025719-20200807055719-00289.warc.gz | 0.966514 | 230 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__175887068 | en | On April 29, the 3rd Aerospace Fair of Mexico was held at Santa Lucia Air Force Base, northeast of Mexico City. It is the second time for CATIC to attend the exhibition on behalf of AVIC.
CATIC showcased its UAV and trainer products, including Wing Loong I and Wing Loong II, Harrier I, L-15B light fighter trainer, K-8 basic trainer and AC312E multi-role helicopter. While the newly appeared Wing Loong I and Wing Loong II’s 1:1 static models attracted large amount of visitors with their inquiries, the L15 simulator also took many foreign pilots to experience the excellent performances of L15.
Through the exhibition, CATIC shows the strength of the Chinese aviation industry, promotes the understanding of the Chinese aviation products from those Latin American countries and enhances the exchange and communication with the Latin American military community.
The FAMEX, which takes place every two years, has become one the most influential aerospace exhibitions in the Latin American Region. This year of fair brought 505 exhibitors form 35 countries and regions, which is larger than the last fair. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.kinetx.com/services.aspx?navProg | 2017-03-26T16:53:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189244.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00468-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.852329 | 252 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__133408349 | en | KinetX Aerospace provides key engineering services encompassing Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware
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KinetX also provides lifecycle services that include proposal, concept trade and feasibility studies,
program planning, risk reduction assessment and planning, mission design, engineering implementation,
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Check out our specific engineering disciplines to get more information on our specific capabilities. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.perfectjammer.com/black-five-drone-anti-blocker.html | 2024-02-21T15:20:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473518.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221134259-20240221164259-00154.warc.gz | 0.878823 | 544 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__60238003 | en | 1.900MHz/1.2G/1.6G/2.4G/5.8G is fully open, and the UAV is forced to land. (For the UAV's own flight control system without the function of forced landing, it cannot be forced to land)
2. When 2.4G/5.8G is turned on, the drone loses control when the GPS is turned off, and the drone returns to flight at this time.
3. First select the "Band Button Switch" to determine the function that needs to counter the drone.
4. Align the front of the device with the drone. At this time, the "frequency band button switch" displays "blue light", indicating that it has started to work. Adjusting the direction as the drone moves can better counter the drone.
5. "Power display" can know the power status, check the power after each use, if it is lower than 30%, it needs to be charged in time.
|Point the device at the drone, and the drone will drive away and return to the take-off position
|900MHz/1.2G/1.6G/2.4G/5.8G fully open
|For drones whose own flight control system has no forced landing function, forced landing is not possible
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1170-1280MHz / Power 10W
1550-1620MHz / Power 10W
2400-2483MHz / Power 30W
5725-5850MHz / Power 30W
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A directional shield-type UAV countermeasure device with built-in lithium battery, easy to operate, and can realize single-frequency control. The UAV is forced to return. And after the UAV is controlled, the image transmission channel is cut off, and it will not be able to transmit video, aerial photos, or receive any instructions from the ground remote control, so as to achieve the protection of key areas and prevent privacy from being leaked .
Airports, public security system, prisons, detention centers, drug rehabilitation centers, confidential institutions, troops, large-scale competitions Events, concerts, important meetings, government agencies, anti-terrorist fields and other important locations and facilities, areas that require space security and drone control.
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http://www.kcra.com/news/health/Sick-kids-get-personalized-songs/-/11797232/17881648/-/yvr8k0z/-/index.html | 2013-12-06T15:44:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163052034/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131732-00049-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.768475 | 68 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__129588497 | en | View Radar >>
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory on Thursday announced it successfully launched a drone from a submerged submarine. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/progress-ms-02-on-the-pad.html | 2019-11-11T20:40:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664437.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20191111191704-20191111215704-00200.warc.gz | 0.741143 | 117 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__206177700 | en | The Bruce Murray Space Image Library
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http://westwindaviation.com/aircraft/index.php | 2013-05-24T01:43:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.766099 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__74163649 | en | Westwind School of Aeronautics Currently Operates a Fleet of more than 25 Aircraft and 3 Flight Simulators
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http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/16596/print | 2024-04-16T12:08:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817081.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416093441-20240416123441-00640.warc.gz | 0.960066 | 1,456 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__175679665 | en | During the meeting, a contract for the Defence Ministry's purchase of the Il-76MD-90A transport aircraft was signed in the President's presence.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues, friends,
I have every reason to thank and congratulate the chief designer, plant director and the entire team who worked hard to achieve this stage in the creation of a new Russian transport aircraft. Today we witnessed the final phase of the project.
As you know, Ulyanovsk Aviation Plant was one of the youngest enterprises in the Soviet time: it had barely began operating in the late 1980s — early 1990s when it closed down again. Attempts were made to organise the production of buses and some other things, and in 2003 the plant employed 1,500 people, most of whom were engaged mainly in protecting the industrial facilities and the territory.
It was around 2005 when we focused our efforts on the plant and the question arose if it was possible to create here a new Russian transport aircraft on the basis of IL-76. Long negotiations ensued with our friends and partners in Uzbekistan since the aircraft’s final assembly was done at the Tashkent plant in the Soviet period, but unfortunately, we did not reach agreement for economic reasons and made the final decision to launch production at the Ulyanovsk plant.
”A key challenge is the thorough modernisation of the entire aviation industry, both civil and military which includes personnel training, renewing testing and manufacturing infrastructure, developing the full chain of auxiliary production facilities to manufacture hardware components and prospective materials, including composites.“
Practical work began in 2006 but it took us six years to get the new plane up in the air. Once again, I congratulate all of you, both the veteran workers, and the plant already has such employees, and young professionals who joined the company in recent years.
What we saw here today, the event we all witnessed was more than just the flight of a newly restored aircraft. Over 70% of IL-76 has been modernised, and the result is essentially a new aircraft with a qualitatively higher performance, reliability, range, cost effectiveness and cargo capacity, which has increased by 20 tons.
I want to emphasise that there is a truly great demand for IL-476. We started negotiations six years ago with our partners in some Asian countries, including China. I think they were ready to buy 38 – up to 50 aircraft. I am sure that there will be great demand for this aircraft in our country and abroad. The plant will get a solid list of orders, which is why we have invited not only Government members here today, not only technology manufacturers, but also all potential customers.
I am confident that our foreign partners will show an interest in this aircraft. Our key customers will include the Russian Armed Forces, state agencies and local aircraft companies. We agreed that a contract is to be signed today on the purchase of 39 aircraft by the Defence Ministry for a total of almost 140 billion rubles. I want to note that this is the largest order in the Russian aviation industry in all of its short history.
This is the first new aircraft the Russian aviation industry has produced in the past 21 years. I congratulate you once again and ask you to sign the contract I have just mentioned.
Signing of contract.
Vladimir Putin: [Defence Minister] Mr Serdyukov demonstrated a good example to all potential clients. I hope our colleagues present here will also follow this example. I will address the subject in more detail.
Of course, we have some major, serious work ahead to fulfil the signed contract, and I expect it will be duly and timely implemented, therefore particular attention must be given to resolving all issues concerning the launch of the serial production of the new aircraft which requires staff and production facilities to be ready for such production.
For our part, we will provide the necessary assistance to the Finance Ministry and the Defence Ministry. Instructions will be given to ensure issue of state guarantees to the enterprise for undertaking serial deliveries of the Il-476 airplane.
No doubt, a key challenge is the thorough modernisation of the entire aviation industry, both civil and military which includes personnel training, renewing testing and manufacturing infrastructure, developing the full chain of auxiliary production facilities to manufacture hardware components and prospective materials, including composites.
This is why it is so important for the enormous resources we are channelling toward the armament programme and the development of the military-industrial complex in Russia to have a cumulative, systemic effect, allowing us to create a truly global, competitive aviation industry. You all know quite well that the competition in this sector, in global aviation, is very fierce.
”Russia must certainly maintain a strong aviation sector overall. This is required to guarantee our security and our technological sovereignty. In equipping our Armed Forces and other state agencies, we will rely primarily on Russian manufacturers.“
But so far, there is in fact no one aside from ourselves and our American partners who is producing such aircraft. The Europeans are planning to build an aircraft that seems to be essentially based on the An-70, but its loadbearing capacity will be 20 tonnes less. Still, they have not produced it yet; they are just planning to do so. And so, there is currently no one aside from Russia and the US building such planes.
Russia must certainly maintain a strong aviation sector overall. This is required to guarantee our security and our technological sovereignty. I repeat: in equipping our Armed Forces and other state agencies, we will rely primarily on Russian manufacturers.
This summer, we had detailed discussions on issues of organising deliveries of new military aviation technology to the army and navy. Today, we will talk about designing the state order for civil and specialised aircraft which will meet the needs of the Defence Ministry, Emergencies Ministry, Interior Ministry, the FSB, and other agencies and ministries. Such aircraft include transport, medical and fire-fighting aviation, airplanes that are used in emergencies for cargo transportation, humanitarian assistance, transporting wounded and sick individuals.
Currently, a significant proportion of the existing fleet of these airplanes is outdated morally, technologically and physically. By 2018, overall, we will have to retire some 80 aircraft. So now, we are to carefully plan the programme for renewing our air fleet, with an eye toward the future: what airplanes, of what class and in what quantity the country will need.
We should put together a common – I want to stress this – a common, consolidated state procurement order for Russian-made civil and transportation aircraft. And we must take this approach, because we fully understand that if we do not have such a consolidated order, it will be practically impossible for companies to launch production to the fullest extent; it will be impossible to ever build things serially – the financial factors won’t allow it. They require a stable order for several years. It is precisely that approach which will allow for companies to be engaged in rhythmic, efficient work and have the opportunity to plan long-term technological development programmes and cut costs. | aerospace | 1 |
https://thebulletin.org/2019/06/the-focus-of-us-military-efforts-in-outer-space-should-be-arms-control/ | 2023-06-10T05:10:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656963.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610030340-20230610060340-00034.warc.gz | 0.892211 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__20787110 | en | By Lawrence J. Korb | June 28, 2019
Much of the public debate about space militarization has involved organizational structures: Should the United States create a separate (i.e. sixth) military service, or elevate the mission now carried out by the US Air Force Space Command, making it into another unified combatant command? Proponents of the first idea want to use a Marine Corps model – the Marines are a separate service, even though under the administrative umbrella of the US Navy – while supporters of the second vision support the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) model. But this structural discussion obscures a more important question: How can the United States best protect its interests in outer space without creating a space arms race that could actually jeopardize US long-term economic and national security?
Should the United States create a separate (i.e. sixth) military service, or elevate the mission now carried out by the US Air Force Space Command, making it into another unified combatant command?
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https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/155826-russian_nuclear_forces/ | 2023-03-24T04:13:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945242.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324020038-20230324050038-00537.warc.gz | 0.943203 | 239 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__216292576 | en | The United States works to create combat space vehicles that could disable Russian satellites and therefore ensure the loss of control over Russian strategic nuclear forces, Major General Nikolai Nestechuk, the head of the Military Space Academy named after Mozhaisky said, RIA Novosti reports.
According to him, the American side has already developed a few of such combat systems.
"They are capable of carrying out a covert manoeuvre to approach and incapacitate our spacecraft in any conditions of any situation, at any time,” Nestechuk said during a round table at the Federation Council.
According to him, combat systems that threaten Russian satellites can be deployed as part of such systems as OneWeb or Starlink, as well as X-37B reusable carrier ship.
"This means that we will lose control of our strategic nuclear forces in the first place, which cannot be allowed," Nestechuk admitted.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine will soon launch a counteroffensive against Bakhmut (the Russian name of the city is Artemovsk), General Alexander Syrsky said | aerospace | 1 |
https://en.uniparthenope.it/ugov/degreecourse/30074 | 2022-08-12T05:10:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00327.warc.gz | 0.866814 | 768 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__93546119 | en | Education objectives: The course is designed to provide the student with the theoretical and practical foundations of avionics systems for CNS applications.
Knowledge and understanding: The student must demonstrate knowledge and know how to understand the issues related to communication systems and the main aeronautic navigation systems.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding The student must demonstrate that he is able to use the acquired concepts and the tools necessary to analyze an avionics system
Making judgments: Students must be able to autonomously evaluate situations different from the standard ones presented by the teacher during the course and to adopt the best solution methods.
Communication skills: The student must have the ability to present a paper related to avionics systems using correctly the scientific language.
Learning skills: The student must be able to update himself continuously, through the consultation of texts and publications (also in English) in order to acquire the ability to deepen the topics of the Avionics systems field.
Basic mathematics and physics.
INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS: Definitions and basic terminology. Historical perspective on avionics systems. Typical architectures and elements of an avionics system.
AVIONICS SYSTEMS FOR AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS: elements of electromagnetic fields, antennas and modulation techniques, architectures of avionics communication systems (ACARS, Satcom).
AVIONICS BUSES: ARINC-429: definitions, interfaces, architectures, line coding. MIL-STD-1553B and STANAG-3910. Fiber-optic buses.
AVIONICS NAVIGATION SYSTEMS: ADF/NDB, VOR e D-VOR, DME, ILS, MLS, TACAN.
IDENTIFICATION AND SURVEILLANCE: Basic ATC concepts. PSR, SSR. Interrogation coding (Modes A, C), reply coding. Mode S and applications (ADS-B). Analysis of avionics transponders.
HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE (HMI): Avionics displays (HUD, HMD), integrated instrumentation.
FBW AND FBL: Historical perspective. Servomechanisms and electronically controlled actuators. FBW sensors, FBL technologies.
FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (FMS): Instrumentation and functionalities. EFIS, ECAM, flight decks.
Aviation Electronics (or Avionics) and avionics systems, i.e. the subsystems of an aerospace platform depending on electronic components, play a fundamental role in modern civilian and military aircrafts, representing 30% (or, in some military aircrafts, up to 75%) of the overall vehicle cost. Color displays, GPS/GNSS systems, equipment for radio communications, flight control systems, radionavigation and flight management systems are only some examples of onboard avionics systems. Their study requires obviously an interdisciplinary approach.
The course aims to build up the necessary knowledge base on avionics civilian and military systems, presenting the main design issues and the basic functionalities of such systems (CNS, Communications, Navigation, Surveillance), describing the principal characteristics, the hardware architectures, the data exchange techniques, and the engineering mathematical principles underlying each avionics system. Therefore, some basic concepts of radio communication systems, signal theory, electromagnetism and antennas are dealt with.
Ex cathedra lectures
The teaching material consists of lecture notes in pdf format, sent via email to the students.
The objective of the exam is to check the level of achievement of the training goals previously indicated.
The exam consists of an oral examination during which students shall discuss several aspects of Avionics.
The exam is passed if the candidate reaches the minimum score of 18/30 | aerospace | 1 |
https://nigerianflightdeck.com/nigeria-air-gets-fgs-nod-to-lease-airbus-boeing-aircraft/ | 2023-06-08T18:20:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655092.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608172023-20230608202023-00680.warc.gz | 0.950227 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__282919551 | en | AT the Federal Executive Council ( FEC) meeting today, Federal government approved the leasing of three aircraft for the commencement of operations for Nigeria Air.
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, while declining to comment on an actual date of operations disclosed this new development to State House Correspondents at the close of the meeting at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He stated that the airline would commence operations with three aircraft made by Airbus and Boeing, running solely domestic routes.
He added that the airline would expand into regional and intercontinental routes.
On date of commencement he said,“we will announce commencement soon.”
Since the airline logo was unveiled on PowerPoint at the Farnborough Air Show in England in July 2018, Nigeria Air’s kick off has been postponed time and again with a new date everytime
The airline has been in and out of the news owing to how it was unveiled, who the partners are, and other such controversies. READ ALSO: FG suspends project ‘Nigeria Air’
However in September 2018, it was suspended barely two months after its proposal and somehow dug up again
Of recent the airline acquired it’s Air Transport License ( ATL) and is on the verge of getting an Air Operators’ Certificate ( AOC) once it scales the five (5) step certification hurdle, one of which is a demonstration flight with its aircraft which according to civil aviation regulations must be three(3) upon certification. READ ALSO: Updated: Nigeria Air receives Air Transport License from NCAA | aerospace | 1 |
https://followelonmusk.com/spacex-first-crew-mission-final-preparations/ | 2021-07-28T01:35:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153515.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20210727233849-20210728023849-00674.warc.gz | 0.945532 | 627 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__87867931 | en | D-Day -1: Final Preparations before SpaceX’s historic mission on May 27th.
We are one day away from witnessing history! Back on April 24th, we reported that NASA and SpaceX announced that Orbital Human Spaceflight will resume from U.S. soil on May 27th, at 4:33 pm Easter Time. The mission, dubbed the Crew Dragon Demo-2, will also mark the first time in history that a private company will launch astronauts into orbit. Well this day is only 24hrs away, and excitement is ramping up! A couple days ago, Elon Musk tweeted a picture of the mission’s patch. One for the record books.
Watch the recap here:
Falcon 9 rocket and the Crew Dragon spacecraft are on the launching pad:
SpaceX announced that the Falcon 9 rocket and the Crew Dragon Spacecraft have been vertically docked on the launchpad. Elon Musk also tweeted a beautiful picture of both the rocket and the capsule 2 days ago.
Complex 39A will yet again be the site for a historic event:
The Crew Dragon Demo-2 will launch atop the historic Kennedy Space Center launch pad Complex 39A. It is located in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and has launched the first astronauts to the moon, supported dozens of other missions, including both the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
The mission passed a key NASA safety review test on May 22.
According to a report by Business Insider, SpaceX was able to clear 2 major tests that would’ve prevented the mission from going through in case of failure in either one. The first one was a flight readiness review needed to reduce risk and prevent the death of the crew, and the second one was a test-firing of the Falcon 9 rocket engines.
Low probability of failure in terms of either the mission or loss-of crew.
According to another report published by Business Insider, loss-of-crew is estimated to be 1 in 276, whilst lost-of-mission has been set at 1 in 60. Any risk to the mission is thus considered to be approximately 4.5 times a risk on the crew. Both figures are deemed acceptable by NASA.
COVID-19 still looms large for everyone involved in the mission.
The coronavirus pandemic also constitutes a threat, albeit an indirect one, to the success of the mission. In an article published by The Verge, deputy manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Steve Stich stated that the agency is taking quote-unquote “extra precautions”, by implementing temperature checks and physical distancing for the astronauts, the ground staff at Mission Control, and potential visitors. The article also stated that the dozens of staff who will work at Mission Control, who usually work in close proximity to each other in closed rooms, will be spread out in separate rooms.
In conclusion, this historic event constitutes another milestone in Elon Musk’s stellar career, and the democratization of space travel and the colonization of planet Mars will definitely become a reality at some point in the future. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.businesspundit.com/qantas-emergency-airbus-a380-still-working-out-kinks/ | 2023-06-04T18:09:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650201.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604161111-20230604191111-00789.warc.gz | 0.959713 | 501 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__225038697 | en | A Qantas A380 with 489 passengers and crew on board made an emergency landing today when one of the plane’s Rolls-Royce engines failed shortly after takeoff from Singapore’s Changi airport. Qantas has grounded all of its A380 flights until it figures out the cause of the engine failure and why the housing on the back of the engine flew off. Air France, Lufthansa, and Emirates, which also employ A380s, will not be suspending their flights. Singapore Airlines, however, will be holding off its A380 routes.
The interesting thing about the Airbus A380 is that, as a so-called superjumbo, it’s the largest passenger jet in the world right now. The nearly 240-foot-long plane has two stories, about 330 miles of wiring, twenty wheels, space for built-in suites, bars and salons, and enough room for 800 people if it only accommodates economy class.
It is, in other words, a behemoth. Airports have had to add emergency equipment, widen taxiways, and adapt skybridges to fit the massive airliner into their infrastructure. It took Airbus parent company EADS 16 years to manufacture the first A380 after conceptualizing the superjumbo in 1991.
It’s no wonder a plane of this bulk and complexity has run into so many problems. From the BBC:
Ever since its launch at a grand ceremony at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse almost six years ago, the Airbus A380 programme has struggled to overcome a string of complications.
Technical problems led to production slowing down, causing lengthy delivery delays and cost overruns so large that some industry observers question whether the programme will ever make a profit for its European manufacturer.
And there have been operational problems, including an engine failure in September 2009 on a Singapore Airlines flight from Paris, and two tyres bursting on landing in Sydney in March this year.
There are currently 37 A380s currently in operation. In a July 2010 press release, Airbus announced that the 33 A380s flying at the time had transported 6 million passengers since the first A380 delivery. So a low volume of flying mammoths can transport an impressive number of customers.
As with any new, complex product, the kinks are still being worked out of the A380. It’s just that the large number of humans on board makes that prospect a lot more risky. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://www.atlanticaviation.ie/interior-specialist-cabin-mechanic/ | 2019-06-16T14:34:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998250.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20190616142725-20190616164725-00387.warc.gz | 0.897631 | 766 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__88673613 | en | Job Title: Interior Specialist / Cabin Mechanic
Reports to: Crew Leader or Designee
Location: Atlantic Aviation Group, Shannon Airport, Shannon, Co. Clare
Apply: Email your up-to-date CV together with any supporting qualifications to [email protected]
Atlantic Aviation Group
With over 55 years of experience, Shannon based Atlantic Aviation Group (AAG) is one of Europe’s leading independent aviation solution providers. The company has a strong reputation of providing customers with a complete range of solutions including; aircraft maintenance & modifications, technical, engineering and design services, logistics and material solutions and international training and consultancy. This reputation is built on a proud history and tradition of superior craftsmanship, technical expertise and continuous training, which is supported by our flexible, open and partnership-based customer relationships.
The company provides a range of aviation solutions including; Part 145 Aircraft Maintenance, CAMO & Technical Services, Part 21 Design Services and the EASA Part 147 Atlantic Aviation Institute which provides aviation training to airlines, MRO’s and companies around the world.
AAG have an exceptional opportunity for a highly-motivated career focused and ambitious Interior Specialist / Cabin Mechanic seeking a role in a challenging, fast-paced and rewarding environment. Our aim as a team is to attract and develop key talent across all levels of our growing aviation business.
The Aircraft Cabin Mechanic is responsible for maintenance and repairs to keep aircraft working safely and efficiently. The Aircraft Mechanic has responsibilities which include but are not limited to;
- Compliance with the organisational policies and procedures detailed in the Atlantic Aviation Group MOE and supporting manuals.
- Identifying and rectifying existing and potential unsafe conditions.
- Adhere to safety and deactivation/reactivation requirements.
- Maintaining the work environment in a clean and safe manner.
- Complying with the Atlantic Aviation Group internal and mandatory reporting requirements.
- Complying with the Atlantic Aviation Group safety policy.
- Sign off maintenance tasks performed or supervised within the scope and limitations of an authorisation, where issued.
- Persons performing work must notify their crew leader and inspector of mistakes requiring rectification to re-establish required maintenance standards.
Essential Job Function
- Responsible for the maintenance and preventive maintenance of aircraft, components and equipment.
- Operates powered and non-powered ground equipment.
- Completes aircraft maintenance forms entries and enters data into the Maintenance Data System, ensures entries are accurate and complete.
- Non- EU/EAA nationals require current and valid permission to work and reside in the Republic of Ireland.
- Must hold a valid aircraft standards based qualification or equivalent.
- Minimum of 3 years experience, post qualification on but not limited to some of the following; cabin interior furnishings repair/replacements, seat removal, rectification, installation, carpet trimming, removal and installation, coin matting removal, installation, etc.
Typical Working Conditions
- Work is performed at the AAG Hangar in Shannon and possibly offsite providing AOG support
- PPE is provided by Atlantic Aviation Group and its use is mandatory while in the production environment.
- Required to work overtime, as necessary.
- Must satisfy and maintain airport security requirements
Typical Physical Demands
- Must be able to use ladders, work stands, lifts, etc. and be able to work on all areas of the aircraft that may require access during performance of duties.
- Must be comfortable working at heights and confined spaces.
- Physical exertion such as: pulling, pushing, reaching, bending, standing, walking and light lifting of boxes, bags, files and electronic equipment.
- Must satisfy and maintain the required medical standard. | aerospace | 1 |
https://soledadmemorial.org/plaques/petty-officer-second-class-a-j-desomber/ | 2024-04-16T06:39:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817073.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416062523-20240416092523-00670.warc.gz | 0.846777 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__1347812 | en | A J DeSomber
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"Tony" was a jet engine mechanic on the first true supersonic carrier-based fighter aircraft. Maintenance readied the aircraft for dogfighter, strike aircraft, and reconnaissance. | aerospace | 1 |
http://martiansands.com/marssunrise23/ | 2018-02-24T14:08:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815812.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224132508-20180224152508-00458.warc.gz | 0.939191 | 224 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__265572983 | en | S89-25053 (January 1989) — This is an artist’s concept depicting a possible scene when the first human travelers might walk on the surface of Mars. The artwork was part of a NASA new initiatives study which surveyed possible future manned planetary expeditionary activity. The area depicted is Noctis Labyrinthus in the Valles Marineris system of enormous canyons. The scene is just after sunrise, and on the canyon floor four miles below, early morning clouds can be seen. The frost on the surface will melt very quickly as the Sun climbs higher in the Martian sky. The astronaut depicted on the left might be a planetary geologist seeking to get a closer look at the stratigraphic details of the canyon walls. On the right, the geologist’s companion is setting up a weather station to monitor Martian climatology. In the far right frame is a six wheeled articulated rover, which transported the pair of astronauts here from their landing site. The vehicle is unpressurized. Please note that this artwork is strictly speculative and does not represent any definitely planned or budgeted projects. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.stripes.com/news/new-wolf-takes-over-kunsan-s-8th-fighter-wing-1.49427 | 2022-11-27T01:38:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710155.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127005113-20221127035113-00424.warc.gz | 0.973676 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__264177226 | en | New Wolf takes over Kunsan’s 8th Fighter Wing
May 25, 2006
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Air Force Col. Jeffrey G. Lofgren assumed command of the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base on Monday.
He succeeds Col. Brian T. Bishop, who moves to a new Air Force assignment at the Pentagon.
The wing also is known as the Wolf Pack, and by tradition its commander is referred to as The Wolf. The tradition dates to the Vietnam War, when Col. Robin Olds gave the unit its nickname.
Lofgren became the wing’s 45th Wolf during the afternoon ceremony at Kunsan’s Hangar 3.
He was promoted to colonel in June 2004. His previous assignment was as commander of the 388th Operations Group, 388th Fighter Wing, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
Lofgren graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1984, the Air Command and Staff College in 1997, and from the National War College, where he received a master’s degree in national security strategy, in 2001. In 1994 he received a master’s degree in aerospace science technology from Embry Riddle University in Arizona.
Kunsan Air Base runs along South Korea’s western seacoast and has a reputation as an austere assignment with a high training tempo and few off-base recreational opportunities. Most of its 2,600 airmen serve one-year tours unaccompanied by family members. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.bestinflight.net/interesting/what-planes-does-boeing-build-in-washington-state-solution-found.html | 2022-12-05T04:49:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711003.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205032447-20221205062447-00520.warc.gz | 0.927829 | 1,186 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__72299266 | en | It was developed by Boeing in Everett, Washington, United States, to assemble airplanes for the company’s commercial aircraft division.
The Boeing 777 is a commercial airliner.
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- 1 What planes does Boeing make in Washington?
- 2 Where are the Boeing manufacturing plants located?
- 3 What does Boeing build in Renton?
- 4 Where are Boeing 777 built?
- 5 How big is the Boeing factory in Seattle?
- 6 What does Boeing do in Seattle?
- 7 Who owns Boeing?
- 8 Is Boeing moving out of Renton?
- 9 Where are most Boeing planes made?
- 10 Who is Boeing CEO?
- 11 Where are Boeing wings made?
- 12 What is the biggest Boeing plane?
- 13 Where are Boeing 777X made?
What planes does Boeing make in Washington?
Everett is a city in the state of Washington. The Everett facility is in charge of assembling the following aircraft: the 747, 767, and 777, among others.
Where are the Boeing manufacturing plants located?
Boeing’s key manufacturing sites are spread across three separate locales in the United States. The Everett and Renton plants are both located in the state of Washington, while the third factory is located in the city of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina.
What does Boeing build in Renton?
The Boeing Company’s Renton, Washington Factory is home to the Boeing 737 MAX airplane, which is now in production. Current manufacturing comprises the 737 MAX 7, 737 MAX 8, 737 MAX 9, and 737 MAX 10 variants, with the 737 MAX 7 being the most recent. One million and one hundred thousand square feet of floor space has been covered (102,000 square meters).
Where are Boeing 777 built?
The Boeing facility in Everett, Washington, is responsible for the construction of the airplane. After entering service in May 1995, Boeing had received more than 1,300 orders and had constructed more than 1,000 Boeing 777 aircraft for more than 60 customers by 2012, according to the company.
How big is the Boeing factory in Seattle?
The Boeing Everett Factory is an aircraft assembly facility owned by Boeing that is located in Everett, Washington. This massive structure, which occupies 399,480 m2 and is located on the northeast corner of Paine Field, is the biggest structure on the planet in terms of volume at 13,385,378 m3 (472,370,319 cu ft) (98.3 acres).
What does Boeing do in Seattle?
Boeing Future of Flight is one of Seattle’s most popular and outstanding attractions, drawing in visitors from all over the world. We are located about 25 miles north of Seattle on the I-5 corridor. The Boeing Tour provides visitors with the opportunity to see 747, 767, 777, and 787 Dreamliners being assembled before they are sent to their final destinations.
Who owns Boeing?
Timothy J. Keating, Leanne G. Caret, Theodore Colbert, Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc. (BLK), and Newport Trust Co. are the company’s main stockholders, followed by Theodore Colbert.
Is Boeing moving out of Renton?
Boeing is de-cluttering its Commercial Airplanes headquarters facility in Renton, Washington, USA. Boeing said in October that it is considering selling up its local headquarters as well as other surplus real estate as a result of the necessity to cut expenses significantly amid the pandemic-driven slowdown in the aviation industry.
Where are most Boeing planes made?
Boeing makes seven separate families of commercial aircraft, which are manufactured in two locations in Washington state—Renton and Everett—and one plant in California. Boeing manufactures seven distinct families of commercial aircraft.
Who is Boeing CEO?
Boeing Co. BA -0.70 percent Boeing Co. BA -0.70 percent David Calhoun, the company’s chief executive officer, assumed the position in January 2020 with a responsibility to resolve the company’s management, engineering, and manufacturing issues.
Where are Boeing wings made?
Boeing’s Everett, Washington factory is responsible for the majority of the company’s wings. It all starts with building the metallic spar and rib framework, which is then followed by the installation of flying systems and aerodynamic components, as well as the installation of fuel tanks and engine holders, and then the installation of wingtips.
What is the biggest Boeing plane?
It is the world’s biggest and longest twin-engine commercial aircraft, and it is built by Boeing. Once it is put into operation, the 251-foot-long aircraft will be capable of transporting up to 425 passengers on long-distance trips that can go up to 7,285 nautical miles around the globe.
Where are Boeing 777X made?
Shenyang Commercial Aircraft Corporation (SACC), a subsidiary of AVIC, collaborates with Boeing to supply spare parts for the whole 777 series of aircraft. The horizontal stabilizers of the Boeing 777s are manufactured in China by the manufacturer. In fact, according to the Global Times, components for more than 10,000 Boeing airplanes are manufactured in China. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.adastraradio.com/events/operation-blackbird-public-event | 2022-09-26T18:46:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334915.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20220926175816-20220926205816-00127.warc.gz | 0.886379 | 134 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__62699256 | en | 1100 N. Plum Hutchinson, KS 67501
Save the date for Operation: Blackbird on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at the Cosmosphere!
Get ready for a super-sonic day! Enjoy stories of flying three times the speed of sound at the edge of space. Hear what it took to operate and maintain the world’s fastest manned air-breathing jet. Meet SR-71 pilots and crew and enjoy book-signing events plus intimate breakout sessions on SR-71 Blackbird operations, maintenance, training and technology. Free and open to the public!
For a complete schedule, see operationblackbird2022.org | aerospace | 1 |
https://petapixel.com/2016/06/10/nasa-releases-image-plutos-dark-side/ | 2023-12-10T20:45:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102637.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210190744-20231210220744-00317.warc.gz | 0.889999 | 293 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__250516873 | en | Forget the dark side of the moon (except the album… never forget that album), this photograph released last week by NASA shows you the dark side of a different celestial body: Pluto.
We’ve seen a bunch of different photos and photo mosaics of Pluto, culminating most recently with the most detailed photo of the dwarf planet’s surface that NASA says we’ll see “for a very long time.” But this image of Pluto’s “dark side” (not an actual dark side like the moon has, just the “dark side” that New Hozizons saw) offers a very different view.
Captured by the New Horizons spacecraft using its Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC), the photo was shot about 19 minutes after New Horizons’ closest approach to the dwarf planet. Pluto is seen in silhouette, with the sunlight “illuminat[ing] Pluto’s complex atmospheric haze layers” while simultaneously casting a crescent of light across the planet’s nitrogen ice plains and a mountain range informally named the Norgay Montes.
You can find out more about the image and see higher resolution versions—the full-res shot has a resolution of 1,400 feet per pixel—on NASA’s website here.
Image credits: Photograph by NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=https%3A%2F%2Foforchristsakes.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F08%2F14%2Fcome-on-huh-nasa-everyone-knows-thats-joe-bidens-head-jesus-h%2F&title=Come+On+Huh%2C+NASA.+Everyone+knows+that%27s+Joe+Biden%27s+Head.+Jesus+H%21 | 2019-12-15T19:29:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541309137.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20191215173718-20191215201718-00345.warc.gz | 0.84919 | 69 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__93366108 | en | Come On Huh, NASA. Everyone knows that’s Joe Biden’s Head. Jesus H!
Curiosity in Exaggerated Color This color-enhanced view of NASA’s Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA…
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http://freaquewaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-christmas-moon.html | 2018-07-17T05:47:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589573.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717051134-20180717071117-00057.warc.gz | 0.958548 | 475 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__163626932 | en | We know that Easter always comes as the first Sunday after the Spring Equinox and a full moon. Christmas does not seem to have any correlation with full moon. Last time a Christmas fell on a day of full moon was 1996. Next time that will happen will be 2015. I have never heard any one talk about this. I don't think there's any meaningful science in it. Anyway, I like this picture I took this morning on Merry Christmas day of 2012!
There was an interesting NASA Science article talking about the full moon of 2004 even with a poem joking about Rudolph's red nose. But that article was wrong, the moon on 2004 Christmas was full enough, but not the full moon -- that was the day before the full moon! One day closer than 2012, but still not yet the full moon according to Chinese lunar calendar.
We have all seen this famous earth-rise picture by Apollo 8 took from the lunar orbit on Christmas eve, December 23, 1968 as
That evening, the astronauts--Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders--held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth." They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis.
What can be more appropriate than reading the book of Genesis on Christmas eve while orbiting the moon! Of course that episode led to Apollo 11 that landed the first humans, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface 6 hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, Aldrin slightly less; and together they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material for return to Earth. A third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit until Armstrong and Aldrin returned to it for the trip back to Earth.
It is also appropriate for us to remember here that Astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away this year in August, 25 2012, R.I.P. | aerospace | 1 |
https://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/2017/title-6/section-6-1-43/ | 2019-09-20T20:45:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574077.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920200607-20190920222607-00089.warc.gz | 0.929216 | 344 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__45142636 | en | 2017 New Jersey Revised Statutes
TITLE 6 - AVIATION
Section 6:1-43 - Use of emergency facility or facility operated exclusively by and for government; license for aeronautical activity; fixed base operation
6:1-43. Use of emergency facility or facility operated exclusively by and for government; license for aeronautical activity; fixed base operation
It shall be unlawful, except as provided for by the provisions of this chapter and the rules, regulations and orders adopted pursuant to this chapter, to operate, use, or cause to be operated or used any avigation facility intended to accommodate the operation, take-off, or landing of aircraft, except in the case of emergency or at avigation facilities owned and operated exclusively by and for the Government of the United States. No aircraft or airman shall utilize, land, or take off from any area of land or water, unless that area is licensed for such activity, or found and declared by the commissioner to be vital or necessary for avigation purposes. It shall be further unlawful to operate or allow to be operated without proper license any aeronautical activity-fixed base operation that is required to be licensed by the provisions of this chapter or the rules, regulations and orders issued pursuant to this chapter in the interests of the public health, safety and welfare.
L.1938, c. 48, p. 136, s. 24. Amended by L.1952, c. 201, p. 717, s. 3; L.1971, c. 118, s. 3, eff. April 29, 1971; L.1983, c. 264, s. 14, eff. July 11, 1983. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au/r-d/3178-wa-to-host-major-space-technologies-symposium | 2024-04-14T05:36:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816864.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414033458-20240414063458-00440.warc.gz | 0.938581 | 331 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__26670408 | en | The conference will be co-hosted by four universities – Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia - in partnership with Defence Science and Technology.
The universities were selected after a nationwide search for an academic partner for the event, with the four being described as "among the leaders of Australian research into space technologies".
The topics explored by the EDTAS will impact Defence and national security "over the next 20 years", according to the government, and give WA a showcase to "build on their space research and share expertise with other international and Australian researchers in attendance".
The federal government said, "Australia is increasingly dependent on space-based systems to provide information and communication to support Defence operations and national security. Space capability is one of nine priorities identified for further development in the 2016 Defence White Paper."
"The Liberal National government is committed to harnessing space and space-based technologies for Defence and our national security," reads a joint release between Minister for Defence Industry Steven Ciobo and Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews.
"The Liberal National government also established the Australian Space Agency with funding of $41 million dollars to grow and transform our nation’s civil space industry, aimed at creating another 20,000 jobs and tripling the size of our space sector to $12 billion by 2030. This investment is on top of more than $300 million in funding aimed to kick-start the local space industry and develop world-leading core satellite infrastructure."
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https://thevalleyvoice.org/nasa-to-try-artemis-i-launch-saturday-weather-odds-improve-orlando-sentinel/amp/ | 2022-12-09T03:53:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711376.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209011720-20221209041720-00282.warc.gz | 0.953122 | 1,072 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__287636607 | en | NASA announced it would pursue the launch of its $4.1 billion Artemis I rocket to the moon on Saturday.
The two-hour launch window will open at 2:17 p.m. and the teams will meet on Thursday for a reassessment prior to an official countdown start.
The Space Launch Delta 45 weather squadron updated its forecast Thursday to predict a better chance of good weather, now a 60% chance of good conditions, up from the initial 40% forecast Tuesday. The Monday night backup window has a good weather chance of up to 70%.
“I am optimistic that we will have some clear skies to work with during the afternoon attempt on Saturday,” 45th Weather Squadron Launch Officer Mark Burger said at a press conference on Tuesday evening. “But again, the probability of a weather violation at any point in the countdown still seems pretty high to me.”
As it scrubs on Saturday, the next window will fall on Labor Day, a 90-minute occasion that opens at 5:12 p.m., which NASA said would still be feasible given that NASA only needs 48 hours to replenish all the gases. needed to refill the tank.
The massive combination of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft sent through several roadblocks Monday morning on NASA’s first shot to send the Artemis I mission into space, but ultimately an engine problem forced a scrub.
The culprit was what is known as the venting system, which feeds cryogenic propellant from the core stage into the four RS-25 engines at the base. Sensors showed during a bleeding test leading up to Monday’s aborted launch that one of the engines was not cooling to acceptable levels.
All four need to be temperature controlled so they don’t get stressed with the liquid hydrogen (LH2), which is cooled to minus 423 degrees Fahrenheit, when it starts flowing full throttle into the engines on takeoff.
The LH2 combined with liquid oxygen cooled to minus 297 degrees Fahrenheit provides 2.2 million pounds of thrust, which when combined with two solid rocket boosters provides 8.8 million pounds of thrust for SLS on takeoff.
Other issues during Monday’s attempt included loading the cryo-propellants, which required adjustment when a possible hydrogen leak was detected in one of the umbilical cord’s power lines. To address both issues, NASA is shifting how Saturday’s countdown will go.
“We agreed on what was called option one, which was to operationally change the charging procedure and cool down our engine earlier,” said Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin. “We also agreed to do some pad work to address the leak we saw in the umbilical cord of the hydrogen tail service mast.”
NASA SLS manager John Honeycutt said teams weren’t quite sure if the engine temperature was really off, and that it could be a faulty sensor based on readings from other equipment at the site.
“I think we understand the physics about how hydrogen performs and not the way the sensor behaves,” he said, noting that it “doesn’t match the physics of the situation.”
He said replacing the sensor on the launch pad would be a pain and require a rollback, so instead they’re going to “fly with the data we have access to today.”
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The sensors from Monday’s attempt showed that three of the four motors came within 10 degrees of a minus 420 degrees Fahrenheit target, while the fourth, the one that convinced managers to scrub, was about 40 degrees warmer, Honeycutt said.
“We’re going to try to launch,” Sarafin said. “And you know you come in this earlier attempt – [Monday’s] attempt – you know we said if we couldn’t thermally condition the motors we wouldn’t launch. And that’s the same attitude we’re going into on Saturday. I don’t see it any other way.”
If and when it takes off, the rocket would become the most powerful ever launched from Earth, surpassing the 7.6 million pounds of thrust produced by the Saturn V rockets from the Apollo missions to the moon.
Artemis I is believed to send the unmanned Orion capsule on a multi-week mission to orbit the moon, travel 1.3 million miles and return home as the fastest human-assessed spacecraft with a speed of over 24,500 mph generating nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit on reentry.
The goal is to test the limits of the launch system and spacecraft so it can advance to human missions, including Artemis II, an orbital lunar mission planned for 2024, and Artemis III, which aims to send people, including the first woman to the planet. to restore lunar surface. since 1972. That flight could come as early as 2025.
But first Artemis I must get off the ground.
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http://proaviation.com.au/2013/12/17/hot-spots-whyalla-accident-revisited/ | 2022-08-13T11:44:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00008.warc.gz | 0.972891 | 4,171 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__33427619 | en | Could the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s final report on the crash of the Piper Chieftain into the sea off Whyalla in May 2000 have inadvertently overlooked some potentially very relevant matters?
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s decision to release its Whyalla Airlines crash investigation report on December 19, 2001, was promptly branded by industry cynics as a Canberra ruse to bury the report and any resulting debate in the festive period, in the hope that it would be stale news when post-Christmas normalcy returned.
Seven passengers and the pilot died when the Piper Chieftain was ditched at sea at night following a double engine failure on May 31, 2000. The airline voluntarily suspended operations the following day in the hope of an early return to the air. But Whyalla airlines never flew again.
In a post-accident pattern of behaviour now familiar to the general aviation industry, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) launched a series of post-accident “special audits,” interviewing various individuals including a former chief pilot (who had been dismissed six weeks earlier for alleged misconduct not related to his aviation duties); the chief pilot of another operator; and the bereaved partner of the deceased pilot.
The then chief pilot and manager, Kym Brougham, recounted that the statements of these individuals were preferred by CASA above the detailed information offered by a long term employee:- “A mature, adult, sensible person, who was ignored because he answered the questions too well, and was accused of being coached to answer them.”
The CASA investigation quickly homed in on “evidence to suggest” that pilot flight and duty time records had not been properly maintained – “leading to the risk of incorrectly calculating the statutory rest periods.” To date, CASA has not released the outcome of its investigations into these allegations; and the ATSB findings did not suggest that fatigue issues were a factor.
CASA then called in extra staff from Canberra, says Brougham: “They kept saying ‘we need more time to look at it,’ meaning to look at whatever allegations were made against us. On June 10, on the day of the memorial service at the beach, they served a “suspension notice pending investigation.” The notice, signed by (then) Assistant Director Aviation Safety Compliance Division, Laurie Foley, said the suspension was based on “reason to believe that there exist facts and circumstances which justify the suspension.” Quoting no demonstrable facts and circumstances to support the suspension, CASA used language such as:
- “It therefore appears that…….. some of the records of the duty times of the members of the operating crews …..may be inaccurate”;
- ”It appears that, on some occasions…….dead head transportation of pilots was not taken into account when calculating flight and duty times”;
- “Some…..pilots interviewed by the Authority consider the “turnaround” between two sectors on your regular public transport routes may be inadequate”;
- “Some of the pilots …….. expressed concerns about the adequacy of the accommodation provided”;
- There is evidence to suggest that the company’s pilots are under undue pressure to comply with time constraints imposed by the company; may not be recent to conduct the operations required of them; and the company is not providing adequate rest facilities.
- On the basis of the facts and circumstances described above, I have reason to believe that there is a serious risk to air safety if the AOC…….were not suspended;”
- Therefore, until these facts and circumstances can be investigated thoroughly and such further action as may be appropriate may be taken by CASA, I have reason to be believe that to permit the continued operations of the company would pose a potentially serious and immediate safety threat to other aircraft, and to such persons and property as may be effected by the operation of aircraft under the control of Whyalla Airlines Pty Ltd
CASA did not provide the company at any time with details of the progress of the investigation; nor any with indication of a time when its conclusion was expected. This mirrors the authority’s conduct in similar investigations such as those related to the suspensions of Aquaflight Airways, Uzu Air, and Yanda Airlines.
“We cooperated with them all through June and early July, but it looked like they weren’t going to relent. They kept saying ‘we need more time.’ We were desperate at that stage to create some flying and some cash flow, and finally we went to the AAT (Administrative Appeals Tribunal) to appeal against the suspension. In the third week in July they got the sitting under way, but CASA weren’t ready to start until the following day because the expensive QC they’d hired hadn’t yet done any homework. In fact, at one stage he fell asleep while he was cross-examining his own witness. CASA didn’t care, because they knew the longer they dragged it out the more they’d hurt us.”
In the AAT, under its in-house rules which are more relaxed than those of formal courts, a number of allegations and unsigned statements became public property and were duly miss-reported in the non-aviation media, says Brougham: “Anything tendered in the AAT was available to the media. That means that CASA can make a wild allegation, and the media can print it like it can print evidence given under oath in a normal court case. The media had taken an above-average interest, and CASA circulated these documents, some of which were unsigned witness statements. The pilots wouldn’t sign them, because they said they were bullshit, but the media printed them as evidence, and people read terrible stories about us.” (One television report interpreted the ATSB findings interestingly, saying: “The ATSB said the company had been trying to save money by using a weak mixture of fuel!”)
As well, CASA indicated in the AAT hearings that if the tribunal overturned its decision to suspend the company’s AOC, it would probably then suspend or cancel Broughham’s chief pilot approval, which would have the effect of a further suspension or cancellation of the AOC, and a return to the AAT for a further confrontation with CASA’s expensive legal firepower. Assessing that further AAT hearings would send them insolvent, Kym and Chris Brougham voluntarily surrendered their suspended AOC.
Meanwhile both had provided full cooperation to the ATSB, but they and many of their staff were unimpressed with the level of technical knowledge displayed by some of the investigators, whom they say appeared to have decided that incorrect fuel mixture leaning practices were a key factor in both engine failures: “I finished up asking them technical questions about operating engines, and I found their knowledge deficient,” says Brougham. “We spent two weeks researching and drafting the reply, getting the facts right, but that’s how far off track they were; they just wouldn’t talk to us.”
In its draft report (which was leaked to the media), the ATSB focused strongly on the use of excessively lean fuel mixture as the cause of both engine failures, says Brougham: “That was when a lot of people turned against us, because we were blamed for running the engines too lean to save money, and for causing the accident. The draft report actually said the chief pilot was more interested in saving money than in his safety program. The ATSB report finally vindicated us, but by then it was too late.”
The final report release date, advised to interested parties when the ATSB’s draft report was circulated to them in April 2001, was set before significant new evidence was thrust under the ATSB’s nose, which compelled a complete review of the investigation, and a comprehensive rewrite of its conclusions. The disparities between the preliminary and final reports raise serious questions about the quality of the ATSB investigation, as well as CASA’s role in the airline’s shutdown. The report also raises more questions than it answers, about other possible and credible causes of both mechanical failures. The removed material related to the mixture leaning issue was not replaced by other analysis, leaving notable apparent gaps, omissions and errors in the final report.
Under “Significant Factors” in the draft report, the ATSB said the Manager/Chief Pilot had instructed pilots to use fuel mixture leaning procedures that did not provide an adequate margin for error from exceeding fuel mixture leaning limitations; and that these practices had resulted in unintentional mechanical damage, which had resulted in the two engine failure, even though they were of dissimilar types.
Normal mixture leaning procedures in high-performance piston engines are to lean the mixture until the exhaust gas temperature (EGT) reaches a peak; and then to richen the mixture until the EGT drops by 25 to 50 degrees according to engine manufacturer recommendations. Some aircraft manufactures publish alternative procedures, usually not supported by the engine manufacturer, under which the mixture may be further leaned until the EGT reduces to a similar degree. Although the draft report claimed those practices had been extant at Whyalla Airlines, the final report made no such claim; and noted: “The Chieftain engine handling procedures described by most pilots were generally in accordance with those described by the Manager. Most pilots used a mixture setting in cruise that resulted in an EGT 50°F rich of peak.”
Repeatedly throughout the draft report, the ATSB made statements in support of its mixture leaning theory, saying that specialty analysis had found the damage in both engines to be consistent with the effects of abnormal combustion; that it had found the airline’s management policy had been to encourage fuel leaning practices which had the unintended consequences of inducing engine damage; that reports from various sources suggested that the actions of the pilot might have been adversely influenced by the manager; that no company pilot, including the Manager/Chief Pilot, expressed any knowledge of the engine manufacturer’s recommendations; that new pilots were being taught to operate the engines on the lean side of peak EGT as part of a normal cruise power regime; and that the chief pilot’s continual advocacy of minimising fuel consumption was likely to have encouraged a culture within the company that operating the engines within reduced fuel leaning margins was the norm.”
Labelling several of these and other statements in the report as “ill founded and defamatory,” Whyalla executives Chris and Alan Brougham sent the ATSB a 17-page analysis of the draft and successfully demanded their removal as well as raising several apparently relevant new issues which the investigation had not addressed.
They later provided a more detailed and technical analysis of some of the draft’s findings, prepared by Doug Sprigg, a powerplant mechanic and commercial pilot who has spent 30 years studying engine reliability, failure causes, and the development of strategies to extend engine longevity. This analysis posed the serious possibility that the ATSB had developed a tunnel-vision view of its “aggressive leaning” theory, which had caused it to overlook available information of high potential relevance. While ATSB postulated that the left engine’s bearing failure was caused by combustion abnormalities creating high combustion chamber pressures and resulting high loads on the engine’s reciprocating components, Sprigg’ analysis rejected this on what other engine specialists agreed were credible technical grounds. He believed that there was ample evidence that faulty bearing manufacture had caused a large number of bearing failures in similar engines; and that this was an issue which ATSB had not investigated adequately. Sprigg’s analysis also credibly questioned a number of ATSB conclusions relating to the nature and cause of the evidence of pre-ignition identified by ATSB, and its role in the engine failures.
Two current issues in the USA and failures of a number of factory remanufactured engines in Australia supported Sprigg’ view that this issue must be evaluated in the Whyalla context. A large number of engine bearing failures in high-compression Textron Lycoming powerplants had now caused the grounding of a fleet of new turbocharged Cessna 206Ts in California, and given rise to a class action against Textron Lycoming and New Piper by Malibu Mirage owners. Sprigg believed these had occurred as a result of changes in the metallurgical composition of the bearings themselves.
The Californian Highway Patrol had taken delivery of 14 of an order of C206Ts, and had already introduced 12 into service, when it grounded the entire fleet following a series of forced landings due to bearing failures in aircraft which had all flown less than 500 hours since new. Bearing failures had also triggered a class action by Piper Malibu Mirage owners against Textron Lycoming and New Piper; and court documents provided copious evidence that Piper, Textron Lycoming and bearing manufacturer KS Bearings Inc were well aware of the problem, and had been working on remedies for at least two years.
ATSB Executive Director Kym Bills however said: “Based on careful analysis of the engine failures and recorded radar and audio data, it is likely that the left engine failed first as a result of a fatigue crack in the crankshaft. This was initiated about 50 flights before the accident flight due to the breakdown of a connecting rod bearing insert. The combined effects of high combustion gas pressures developed as a result of deposit-induced pre-ignition, and lowered bearing insert retention forces due to an ‘anti-galling’ lubricating compound used during engine assembly by the manufacturer, led to this breakdown.
“It is likely that because of the increased power demanded of the right engine after the left engine failed, abnormal combustion (detonation) occurred and rapidly raised the temperature of the pistons and cylinder heads. As a result, a hole melted in the number 6 piston causing loss of engine power and erratic engine operation.”
Although issues were identified in the company that the ATSB believes had the potential to adversely influence safety, the report says: “There was insufficient information to conclude that any of these issues were of significance with respect to the accident.” The Bureau had stated publicly that: “No one should be blamed for this accident.”
In its technical analyses, Sprigg insisted that ATSB was probably wrong on several counts: “I dispute that cracking was initiated fifty flights before the loss of the aircraft. That would mean the engine ran for fifty flights with a de-metalled big end bearing that had excessive clearance and a lack of lubrication, which had already caused a “planar discontinuity”, cracking of the nitrided surface of shaft. I believe the fatigue crack propagation would have to be far more rapid, associated with first order vibrations in the shaft, causing almost immediate failure after the initial heat stress crack. How can a journal or a connecting rod bearing last without lubrication, cooling and cushioning for fifty flight cycles after lubrication breakdown has already caused heat stress cracking? ”Fifty (fatigue) cycles leading to ultimate failure of the shaft would be likely to be related to first order disturbance (power stroke forces) in the shaft, and not flight cycles, which are far more likely to show up in turbine engines during rapid temperature changes. If the fatigue crack propagation were related to flight cycles, then it is more likely that the planar discontinuity was caused by heat stress of the nitrided crankshaft surface during re-grinding as part of the engine remanufacture process 200 hours before.”
Similarly Sprigg contested ATSB conclusions that the left engine failed because of pre-ignition-inducing deposits in the combustion chamber which melted and created regions of incandescence that led to pre-ignition and increased bearing loads: “Advanced ignition timing caused by preignition, should show increased heat flow to combustion chamber surfaces. That would be manifested in melting damage to piston crown, top ring land and/or cylinder head, before any damage could be attributed to this cause in the connecting rod assemblies. Massive pre-ignition detonation could cause bearing failure, but combustion chamber surfaces should have evidence of overheat and or overload.”
Sprigg also did not accept it was possible that the right engine was operated under different conditions to the left engine until the failure of the left engine: “That is, had there not been the catastrophic failure of the left engine, both engines would have had the same piston crown deposits. I strongly believe differences are due to the high power operation of the right engine to maintain flight after the failure of the left engine. Examination of failures in engines of similar type revealed similar piston crown deposits, because they are normal combustion products. Again we are looking at a sudden and unforseen, catastrophic bearing failure which may be due to babbit material (bearing overlay) fatigue.”
Both Brougham and Sprigg, independently say several other credible causes of the partial failure of the right engine have not been duly investigated or eliminated:
- a misfiring magneto
- a blocked injector
- a faulty fuel control unit or
- the pilot omitting to adjust the mixture from its lean cruise power setting with the engine on climb power.
Brougham says “CASA claims the hole was recent, in the last ten minutes of flight, because it would otherwise have dumped all the oil. We say that’s nonsense, because we’ve holed two pistons before and the flight has continued its whole duration. So we know they’ll run for another hour with a hole that size in the piston.”
The ATSB made recommendations to Textron Lycoming and the FAA on engine deposits that may cause pre-ignition; and on the use of anti-galling compounds between connecting rod bearing inserts and housings during engine assembly. It had however apparently not sought to explore the relevance to the Whyalla events, of the unusually large number of bearing failures in similar powerplants in the US and Australia.
- A convincing and informative review of these events by US aviation commentator John Deakin presents a lucid and knowledgeable countervailing view that is well worth reading.
- This article has been only slightly updated and is re-published with the kind consent of Yaffa Publishing’s Aircraft & Aerospace magazine where it first appeared in March 2002
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https://www.ccc.ca/en/news-events/events/aerospace-defence-and-security-expo-2018/ | 2020-11-24T15:03:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141176864.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20201124140942-20201124170942-00526.warc.gz | 0.906018 | 189 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__90068560 | en | Aerospace Defence and Security Expo
August 9, 2018 to August 10, 2018
Abbotsford, British Columbia
CCC will be participating in the Aerospace, Defence and Security Exposition from August 9 – 10 in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Hosted for seven previous years by the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC Pacific), the event will bring together some of the Canada’slargest aerospace and defence OEMs and suppliers, senior government and military officials. Ran in conjunction with the Abbotsford International Airshow, this event will offer the latest information on relevant industry related developments in commercial and military aerospace as well as defence and security.
CCC’s Director of Business Development and Sales – Aerospace and USA Operations – Mr. Dave Wheeler, will participate and be available to meet with Canadian companies. To schedule a meeting with CCC, please contact us.
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http://www.eetimes.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=40014&piddl_msgid=241804 | 2015-07-05T03:01:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097199.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00237-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.962056 | 203 | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-27__0__98479193 | en | As always it is the human-modulated social questions that are hardest to deal with.
I suspect that car makers might be happy to design such systems into drivers seats and offer them as an optional safety feature that triggers an alarm.
Question is.... how will it be used and by whom? If it's just to alert the driver that they should take a rest, that's fine... but if it's going to be used to spy on people who depend on driving as a livelihood, that's a little creepy.
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https://www.businessairnews.com/mag_story.html?ident=19993 | 2022-08-09T15:05:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00245.warc.gz | 0.953462 | 385 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__106482146 | en | Denver, Colorado-based Part 135 operator Mountain Aviation has added the 26th Citation X to its fleet, making it the largest Citation X operator in the world. The new aircraft is leased from the company's strategic partners and will be available for charter. “Today marks a significant milestone in the 27-year history of Mountain Aviation,” says director of operations Michael Vargo. “I couldn't be prouder of the team we've built that's turned this dream into reality.”
As of Q4 2020, Mountain reports that it is ranked third among all private jet floating fleet operators and second in the super-midsize category in terms of flights, hours and total miles flown. The current growth plan for the super-mid fleet has Mountain operating 35 Citation Xs by Q2 2021. The recent additions to the fleet bring the total number of aircraft operated by the company to over 60, from King Airs through to the Gulfstream IV-SP.
“To see this growth with zero outside investment is a testament to our team mentality and focused execution. We have taken a different approach in the industry, which is driving the growth,” reveals CEO Gregg Fahrenbruch.
Mountain has prioritised its development of fleet optimisation, mission execution and flight safety. To support growth, the company's maintenance team has taken an innovative approach to fleet maintenance and shortened the duration of typical maintenance events through specialised training, tooling and investment in technical personnel. This increase in maintenance efficiency directly contributes to increased uptime per aircraft along with higher dispatch reliability. The company has worked closely with Textron Aviation to ensure long term technical and parts support for the new additions and future fleet additions.
“We're excited to continue our aggressive pursuit of growth and expand our reach in 2021. We're just getting started,” adds Fahrenbruch. | aerospace | 1 |
https://mng-lang.smugmug.com/PressTelegramMyCapture/Recovered-B17E-Bomber | 2016-12-06T17:56:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541950.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00078-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938527 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__228999353 | en | 06-08-10 - The front fuselage of the B17E Bomber " Swamp Ghost " was unveiled during a homecoming ceremony held at The Reef restaurant in Long Beach. The family of the late " Swamp Ghost " bombardier Col. Richard Oliver, from left to right, sisters Karen Braughton, Kathy Castaldo, wife Linda Oliver, son Michael Oliver and Michael's wife Nancy Munson get a close up look at front of The Flying Fortress that crash-landed in a primitive New Guinea swamp in February 23,1942. Col. Richard Oliver and his crew survived the crash after a six week trek to safety, returned to combat and the bomber remained in the swamp until it was rediscovered in 1972 by an Australian Air force crew. The B17E air crewÕs surviving relatives, aircraft salvage team leaders and aviation historians welcomed home the fallen aircraft to honor the heroes of World War II.
Stephen Carr / Press-Telegram | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.earth.com/image/northern-hemisphere-snow-cover/ | 2019-10-19T05:17:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986688826.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20191019040458-20191019063958-00111.warc.gz | 0.927593 | 107 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__99428932 | en | Last update: October 18th, 2019 at 10:01 am
Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at snow cover in the northern hemisphere.
This image was actually taken exactly 16 years ago in February 2002, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra satellite.
The snow cover can be seen from space blanketing all of Canada and parts of the midwestern United States and Rocky Mountains.
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory | aerospace | 1 |
https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-05460-1_5 | 2019-10-14T07:49:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986649232.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014052140-20191014075140-00324.warc.gz | 0.961097 | 199 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__81384694 | en | But Look! The Flag Flutters!
Without air there can’t be any wind. And without wind, a flag cannot flutter. Since there isn’t any atmosphere on the Moon, you would expect that a flag wouldn’t be moved by the wind. Planting a flag on the Moon was actually never thought about during mission planning. It was included so late in the program, that the procedure for planting the flag was the only activity for which the astronauts of Apollo 11 did not train. It turns out that Armstrong and Aldrin didn’t manage to plant the flag firmly enough into the ground, so during their launch off the Moon in the Lunar Module the flag fell down. But now critics point out that, in several NASA recordings, the American flag planted on the Moon flaps in the wind. Their argument is this: In several video sequences, the flag flutters in the wind and therefore, the respective scenes must have been shot on Earth. | aerospace | 1 |
https://finalwebdesign.com/tech-blog/skylon-the-future-of-space-travel/ | 2024-04-21T14:39:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817780.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421132819-20240421162819-00837.warc.gz | 0.977125 | 438 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__150214832 | en | While several private companies have been working around the clock to be one of the most pivotal companies in the world to fund space travel, Reaction Engines Limited based out of Britain has taken a different approach to what they see is technology that could change the world. Their space plane, the Skylon Spacecraft is designed to be a single stage rocket that uses a combined cycle and air breathing to reach space. There are lots of technologies that are being looked at for spacecrafts within the private sector, but there are several reasons why this one make work best out of all of them.
Several components of NASA’s space shuttles were only usable one time. Rocket boosters, which were usually ejected from the craft in upper orbit only received one use before they had to be reconstructed. Additionally, each spacecraft was only designed to handle a little more than a dozen flights, at which point it had to be revamped or simply torn down. The Skylon spacecraft is capable of handling up to 200 flights, which significantly lowers the cost of a single payload, especially when the estimated cost for one spacecraft is going to be about 12 billion dollars.
Single Stage Orbit Entry
As mentioned before, NASA’s shuttles used several stages to get the shuttle itself into orbit. The Skylon spacecraft eliminates the needs for several stages, and can do it in just one. The vehicle is designed to take off from an airplane runway, accelerating to faster than Mach 5 and climbing 16 miles before it needs to use a liquid oxygen take to take it into orbit.
Enhanced Payload Delivery
The concept behind the Skylon spacecraft is that it would climb into space, release a payload up to 15 tons, then re-enter the atmosphere. At this point, Skylon would be significantly lighter, making the need for fuel almost absent upon re-entry.
No Humans Allowed
The best part of the Skylon spacecraft is that the endangering of humans during transport is completely removed from the shuttle itself. Skylon will be completely driven from the ground, and no human will ever have to enter the craft before or during a flight to make sure that payloads are properly delivered | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ctlopez.com/story/?story=20030312_3620&h=Women-aviators-gather-for-film-premier | 2023-09-23T17:13:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00686.warc.gz | 0.985659 | 974 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__158465580 | en | By Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez
ARLINGTON, Va. (March 12, 2003) -- More than 200 people gathered at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery on March 10 to view the premier of the film "Above & Beyond: 100 Years of Women In Aviation."
The film chronicles the contributions of women to aviation from 1903 to the present and highlights such contributors to aviation as Katharine Wright, sister of the Wright brothers; Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle commander; and the more than 1,000 World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots.
The premier of the film, part of a year-long celebration leading up to the 100-year anniversary of the first successful powered flight, also coincides with the Women's History Month.
Kenne, who has civilian flying experience, began by telling the crowd that she was honored to be part of the festivities.
"I'm really pleased to be part of the centennial of flight program and to introduce tonight's screening," Kenne said. "In the film you will see women of varied backgrounds, races, economic backgrounds, some young and some not so young. You will see that at times women had to overcome barriers to reach the same goal they shared with many men -- the passion to fly. It is not surprising that we here tonight honor the women in World War II and others in the field of aviation."
The World War II women aviators Kenne spoke of were the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Between 1942 and 1944, more than 1,000 women flew military aircraft inside the United States to compensate for a shortage of male pilots -- pilots who had gone overseas to fight in World War II.
"These women, the WASP, who came from all types of backgrounds, responded in a time of national emergency due to love of their country and passion to fly," Kenne said. "During their time, the WASP delivered more than 12,000 aircraft and logged over 60 million miles of flying."
Nearly two dozen WASP were in attendance at the premier of the film, including Dorothy Lucas, whose duties during the war included towing aerial targets.
"I towed targets for the male cadets," Lucas said. "There was an enlisted man in the back seat, a young boy like I was a young girl -- and this target was on the end of a cable that weighed about 600 pounds, so you couldn't do any acrobatics with all that weight back there. This boy had to unroll the thing on the cable and it went way out the back of the ship. The target was a flag, and the cadets made their passes at the flag. That's how they learned aerial gunnery."
Lucas said she joined up with the WASP out of duty to country.
"I was here in Washington, working at the Pentagon and going to night school," Lucas said. "I had two brothers in the service. Everybody was in uniform. I wanted to do something."
Betty Shipley was another WASP who attended the premier. Shipley joined because of her fascination with flying.
"At the entrance to Riverside, Calif., there was a bridge," Shipley said. "When I was 12 years old, a man had his wife stand on that bridge, and he flew under that bridge with an airplane. That really impressed me, and that is what made me want to fly -- that and the fact that my brother was a Navy pilot."
During her stint as a WASP, Shipley flew several aircraft.
"The biggest one I flew was an AT-6," Shipley said. "When we were in training, every class was different. We were the first ones to fly an AT-6. We had started with a 120-horsepower plane and then we went to a Steerman 220-horsepower plane. Finally we jumped to an AT-6, which was a 650-horsepower plane."
The plane must have seemed larger than life to Shipley, who had had been formally trained as a schoolteacher.
"It was a big airplane, and I was little," Shipley said. "It took two cushions under me and two cushions behind me to reach full right rudder. I was so small."
Later, Shipley was able to put to good use her formal skills as a schoolteacher. She trained pilots with the 1st Mexican Fighter Group in aircraft instrumentation.
Stories like those of Shipley and Lucas are featured in the film, which will be shown as a regular feature at the WIMSA Memorial during March. Extending beyond Women's History Month, the film will be part of a series of related centennial of flight activities. | aerospace | 1 |
http://arnaldoaskatu.org/tag/cnn | 2020-10-22T04:17:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107878879.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022024236-20201022054236-00416.warc.gz | 0.917068 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__135564447 | en | CNN launches new series ‘Saved by the Future’ with leading names in science and technology exploring the innovations that will shape our future | Nachricht
HONG KONG, Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — This month, CNN launches ‘Saved by the Future’, a brand-new cross-platform series in which some of the biggest names in science and technology spotlight breakthrough innovations in mobility, automation, energy, sustainability and artificial intelligence that could transform our lives in decades to come.
In the first of three 30-minute shows, host Nicki Shieldsguides conversations with Bill Nye, Fabien Cousteau and Kathy Sullivan, who transport us to a world of future possibilities that once seemed like mere science fiction, in everything from mobility in space to electric drones that can predict the weather.
Shields first speaks with TV Star “The Science Guy”, climate change advocate and social media sensation Bill Nye about the future of space exploration. Nye is CEO of the Planetary Society, which successfully launched its LightSail 2 spacecraft in 2019. The spacecraft is powered by solar winds | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.patreon.com/posts/sexism-in-space-6119195 | 2019-02-19T08:43:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247489729.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20190219081639-20190219103639-00161.warc.gz | 0.912806 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__36862726 | en | To be honest, the main reason I wanted to include gender in the title is because I thought more people would want to view it if it referenced this cosmonaut's uncommon gender. It's a click-baity thing to do, you might say. I'm open to feedback on any of these issues.
Regardless, I hope you like the video aside from what I chose to title it!
I received this image of cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya from the ham
radio transmitter on board the International Space Station on June 19th
2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Videos shown at the end:
"Failed ISS Slow Scan TV!"
"Coolest ISS Slow Scan TV Image!
"My First Perfect ISS SSTV Image!"
For more info on ISS SSTV see my "ISS SSTV Reception Hints" article:
73, John Brier KG4AKV | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3554551/first-woman-among-group-to-enter-awacs-program-tours-jet-before-final-reduction/ | 2024-02-22T21:58:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00892.warc.gz | 0.958487 | 940 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__102316107 | en | First woman among group to enter AWACS program tours jet before final reduction Published Oct. 10, 2023 TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- The final E-3 Sentry Airborne Early Warning and Control System scheduled for reduction departed Tinker for the final time September 21, 2023. Aircraft 83-0009 is now among over a dozen AWACS sent to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tucson, Arizona for reduction. The process is part of the FY23 President’s Budget Request, when the Department of the Air Force announced its intent to divest 13 AWACS aircraft and redirect funding to procure and field a replacement. AMARG, America’s Airpower Reservoir, is a one-of-a-kind specialized facility within the Air Force Sustainment Center, providing aircraft preservation and storage, parts reclamation, disposal preparation, aircraft regeneration to flying status, and depot maintenance for America's military services, U.S. government agencies, and allied governments. This departure marks the 12th AWACS to depart Tinker Air Force Base. The 13th aircraft, 71-1407, is scheduled to remain on base and serve as a static display. By retiring the E-3, the 552nd Air Control Wing can focus on prioritizing the health of the remaining fleet. Divesting part of the fleet will improve sustainability by adding high demand, low availability parts back into the supply chain, providing a temporary improvement for aircraft availability. Before aircraft 83-0009 left for reduction, one final visitor helped bid it farewell. Over two decades have passed since Martha “Fran” Stephens last stepped foot onto what’s commonly known as “the bird cage” at Tinker. Stephens is all too familiar with this aircraft in particular. “When I started in the U.S. Air Force, this was my plane,” said Stephens. “It has always had a special part in my life and my husband’s because he also worked the AWACS.” It was 1981 when Fran first began working at Tinker as an AWACS radar technician. While touring the aircraft for the final time, Stephens met Airman 1st Class Mariam Cham, a current radar technician with the 552nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. “I came into this field ready to pull my fair share,” said Stephens. “If something was a 50 lbs. weight [and needed] two people to be lifted, I lifted it whether I was physically able to or not—it was very rare anyone had to help me.” Stephens will tell you her 15-year career was one of hard work and dedication. Throughout her time in the AWACS program, Stephens broke several glass ceilings. “I was the first five level, the first seven level, first production superintendent, the first shop chief at Kadena Air Base, Japan that was a woman,” said Stephens. “I was the first quality assurance person that came in this field for radar, the first avionics section heads in quality assurance.” The end of an era may be near for the AWACS, however the future has never looked brighter. “We’re going to miss the jet,” said Col. Kenneth Voigt, commander of the 552nd Air Control Wing. “I have a lot of fond memories flying on this aircraft particular, but it is part of our process as we start to bring the future and bring the future faster.” “If someone tells you they worked on an AWACS, that probably means they worked like a dog,” said Stephens. “They should be respected for that.” Looking into the future, the Air Force has considered and assessed suitable E-3 AWACS replacements to align with the operational needs. On April 26, 2022, the Air force publicized its intent to replace a portion of the AWACS with the E-7A aircraft. The Boeing E-7A is the only platform capable of meeting the requirements for the Defense Department’s tactical battle management, command and control and air moving target indicator capabilities. The first E-3 AWACS arrived at Tinker March 23, 1977. Since then, most of the aircraft have been housed and sustained here. Although the basing strategy for the E-7 has not yet been finalized, the existing infrastructure will be considered as basing and sustainment options are evaluated. The E-3 AWACS community values the long-standing relationship between Tinker AFB and Oklahoma. | aerospace | 1 |
https://apnews.com/HeatherWilson | 2020-06-02T06:03:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347422803.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20200602033630-20200602063630-00371.warc.gz | 0.939692 | 2,864 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__117806456 | en | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed a former ambassador and senior official at the Federal Aviation Administration as civilian leader of the Air Force.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump nominated an aerospace executive and former ambassador to Finland to be the next secretary of the Air Force on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is nominating the Air Force general in charge of U.S. Strategic Command to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The University of Texas System on Tuesday formally appointed U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson as president of the University of Texas at El Paso despite opposition from...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force said on Wednesday that it needs $4.9 billion in extra funding over the next three years to rebuild and repair two key bases heavily damaged by natural...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a bill into law that expands the availability of grant funding for seriously injured veterans to provide money so that family members may be...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — El Paso-area lawmakers are urging U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson to reach out to concerned students ahead of the final vote on her nomination as the next president at...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, once seen as a candidate to succeed Jim Mattis as defense secretary, said Friday she is resigning to become president of the University of...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S. Air Force Secretary and former Congresswoman Heather Wilson has been named the next president of the University of Texas at El Paso.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's proposed Space Force, which faces an uncertain fate in Congress, would be the smallest military service — by far.
LONDON (AP) — U.S. officials have honored a British man who has for decades tended a memorial for 10 U.S. World War II airmen who sacrificed their lives to save children in Sheffield,...
OSCODA, Mich. (AP) — Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson is pledging cooperation with the state of Michigan over toxic chemical pollution near a former military installation, despite a continuing dispute about cleanup responsibilities.
Wilson made the promise in a letter to U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, who released it Thursday.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been accused in a new lawsuit Tuesday of breaking a man's ribs and leaving him with a concussion when she smashed into him from behind while skiing at a Utah ski resort in 2016.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit filed against actress Gwyneth Paltrow (all times local):
A spokeswoman for actress Gwyneth Paltrow says a lawsuit accusing her of seriously injuring a man at a Utah ski resort is "without merit."
Paltrow spokeswoman Heather Wilson said Tuesday in an emailed one-sentence statement that Paltrow expects to be "vindicated."
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched the U.S. Air Force's most powerful GPS satellite ever built.
A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday, hoisting...
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Congress members representing southwestern Ohio say Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton will get at least 400 new jobs as it adds a mission related to managing versions of the F-35 strike fighter.
The Pentagon's decision to base the F-35 Hybrid Product Support Integrator Organization at Wright-Patterson was announced this week by Ohio's senators, Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Sherrod Brown, and GOP Rep. Mike Turner.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tinker Air Force Base has been selected to oversee the maintenance of the U.S. Air Force's new long-range strike bomber, the B-21 Raider.
Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson visited the Oklahoma City base on Friday to make the announcement.
The Air Force announced in a news release that Edwards Air Force Base in California was picked to lead the testing and evaluation of the new bomber.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is inaugurating its 19th president.
Jim Rankin has been on the job since January. The South Dakota Board of Regents named him to succeed Heather Wilson, who left the school last year to become U.S. Air Force secretary.
An inauguration ceremony is scheduled from 3-5 p.m. Thursday at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. It's open to the public.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Creating a Space Force as a separate military service, as proposed by President Donald Trump, would cost an estimated $12.9 billion in its first five years, according to a detailed Air Force plan for how to go about it.
This is the first publicly available cost estimate. When the White House announced plans to establish a Space Force in August, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan declined to give a figure but said it would be in "the billions."
DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says it is awarding Lockheed Martin a $7.2 billion contract to build 22 next-generation Global Positioning System satellites.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said in a Friday statement the satellites, known as GPS 3 Follow-On, "will provide greater accuracy, and improved anti-jamming capabilities, making them more resilient."
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson was in North Dakota to commemorate the launch of the first large drone to fly beyond sight of the pilot and without a manned airplane to observe the plane.
The flight was conducted Monday by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., which is a tenant at the Grand Sky aviation technology park. A recent authorization by the Federal Aviation Administration allows the drones to fly within 30 miles of the park.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — An unmanned aircraft test site in North Dakota is set to fly its first large drone beyond sight of the pilot and without using a manned airplane to observe the flight.
The Federal Aviation Administration in 2016 allowed the Northern Plains Test Site in Grand Forks to begin flying the drones beyond visual line of sight. The facility has now been approved to fly without the chase planes.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Two mothers unveiled the green highway sign on a June morning.
Moments earlier, members of a solemn crowd stood in the grass next to a parking lot and bowed their heads. Mike Chase, the director of Strode Funeral Home, delivered a prayer.
His steady voice carried above the roar of the vehicles passing the Ampride gas station beside Highway 33.
Then Robin Briggs and Anne Fultz untied the fasteners that held a cream tarp over the road marker.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Air Force is cutting 72 jobs from its base in Colorado Springs as the service's computer warfare efforts will no longer be overseen by the Air Force Space Command.
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AP) — Georgia lawmakers on Capitol Hill say the Air Force will house its new battlefield information gathering system at Robins Air Force Base in the state's central region.
The military's Advanced Battle Management System will be used for surveillance and intelligence gathering to give U.S. commanders real-time battlefield information.
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says bases in Missouri, South Dakota and Texas will receive the next-generation B-21 bomber to replace existing aircraft starting in the mid-2020s.
The Air Force said Wednesday that Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri have been chosen as "reasonable alternatives " to host the new B-21 bomber.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A nonprofit has donated the region's first two temperature-controlled beds to preserve stillborn babies at hospitals.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that the nonprofit called Kennedy's Angel Gowns has donated the so-called "Cuddle Cots" to Sentara Leigh Hospital. The cots cool the bodies of stillborn infants to allow parents more time to grieve.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in southern Arizona will be the site of continued experimentation aimed at collecting data to enable the Air Force to buy an off-the-shelf light-attack aircraft at low cost.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says in a news release issued Friday in Washington that the experimentation May through July will involve using the AT-6 Wolverine and the A-29 Super Tucano.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado congressman Doug Lamborn is trying to stop the closure of a small Air Force squadron that flies generals and classified cargo in two Lear jets.
The Gazette reports that lawmakers were blindsided by Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson's plans to close Peterson Air Force Base's 200th Airlift Squadron by June to save $10 million.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence plans to visit Las Vegas and a nearby air base to highlight an industrial entrepreneurship program and speak to troops.
The White House says Pence will travel with Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson on Thursday for the appearance at AFWERX Vegas, and a speech to military members and families at Nellis Air Force Base.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's congressional delegation is urging the Air Force to transfer some older combat search-and-rescue helicopters to the state National Guard when new models enter service with an active-duty unit at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force's top civilian official on Thursday publicly acknowledged for the first time that the domestic abuse charges for which the Texas church shooter was court martialed in 2012 should have been reported to the FBI.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A graduate of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has been named the school's 19th president.
The South Dakota Board of Regents announced the appointment Tuesday of Jim Rankin. Rankin grew up in Fort Pierre and graduated from SD Mines in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The state Board of Regents has named four finalists for the presidency at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City.
The presidency has been vacant since Heather Wilson resigned in May to become Air Force secretary.
The finalists are officials at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, Missouri University of Science and Technology, the University of Arkansas and Wichita State University in Kansas.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is planning a visit to North Dakota.
U.S. Sen. John Hoeven says Pence will visit Minot Air Force Base on Friday.
Hoeven is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and co-chairman of the Senate Air Force Caucus. He and Pence will review the Minot base's nuclear missions.
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — Officials of the Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha are hoping two new projects will help it survive the next round of military base closures.
SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force secretary has visited the Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to discuss the future of the base's aircraft as the agency experiences budget woes.
The Sedalia Democrat reports that Heather Wilson visited the base Tuesday.
Over a U.S. Air Force base in the New Mexico desert, pilots on Wednesday tested some off-the-shelf options as the military looks for its next light-attack aircraft.
Test flights for the experiment known as the OA-X initiative are being conducted at Holloman Air Force Base. Air Force Secretary and former New Mexico congresswoman Heather Wilson was on hand along with other top officials as pilots put the planes through their paces.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican lawmakers questioned the Air Force's top civilian official on Wednesday about alleged improprieties in the way it acquires multimillion-dollar aircraft.
Reps. Ted Budd and Walter Jones, both of North Carolina, said in a letter sent Wednesday to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson that there may be a "serious, systemic problem" at an Air Force unit known as Big Safari.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Heather Wilson flips through a scrapbook documenting the pregnancies and births of her two daughters.
There are hospital bands from the days she went into labor, portrait photos of her pregnant belly, stickers featuring storks and flowers.
The last page, devoted to her first daughter, Kennedy, features two tiny footprints.
"Big feet just like Mommy's!" the page says.
"This is all we have for Kennedy, are her footprints," Wilson says. "This is literally all we have."
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation say the Air Force is giving the final go-ahead to move two F-16 squadrons at least temporarily from Hill Air Force Base in Utah to Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico.
The announcement Saturday by Democratic Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Republican Rep. Steve Pearce says Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson approved the interim relocation after an environmental assessment found no significant impact. | aerospace | 1 |
https://unmanned-aerial.com/3dr-brings-infrared-camera-integration-to-solo-drone | 2020-02-18T16:29:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143784.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20200218150621-20200218180621-00268.warc.gz | 0.89128 | 259 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__116217514 | en | Offering infrared-camera integration for its Solo unmanned aircraft system, Berkeley, Calif.-based 3D Robotics (3DR) has introduced new gimbals that are compatible with FLIR Systems International’s thermal imaging cameras.
Available for pre-order exclusively on OEM Cameras, the three-axis, stabilized gimbals are available with all of FLIR’s Vue Pro infrared cameras and feature tilt control with 3DR’s Solo controller. The total weight of the gimbal and FLIR camera is 389 grams, says OEM Cameras.
First introduced in April of last year, the Solo drone was pegged by 3DR as the “world’s first smart drone.” FLIR first rolled out the FLIR Vue Pro later in 2015; most recently, the company introduced the FLIR Vue Pro R, the latest member of the Vue thermal imaging camera series for commercial drones.
According to a 3DR blog, the integration brings forth opportunities in fields such as construction, solar power, utilities and agriculture.
“This marks an important step for Solo (and consumer drones in general), broadening applications from video and photo capture to the kind of data capture demanded by commercial users,” the blog says. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2014/09/19/navys-triton-uas-completes-cross-country-test-flight/ | 2021-01-17T10:03:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703511903.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20210117081748-20210117111748-00746.warc.gz | 0.922055 | 348 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__254092406 | en | [Avionics Today 09-19-2014] The MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) arrived at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland this week after completing its inaugural cross-country ferry flight, bringing the Navy closer to delivering this UAS capability to the fleet.
|Thales Top Sky ATC system. Photo: Thales
The cross-country flight marked the transition from initial flight test, which established basic safety of flight, to testing that will demonstrate Triton’s capability to perform operational missions in the maritime domain.
“The testing performed here over the next few years is critical to delivering a capability that will provide our warfighter an unparalleled awareness of the maritime environment in locations across the globe,” said Rear Adm. Mat Winter, who oversees the program executive office for unmanned aviation and strike weapons at NAVAIR.
During the approximately 11-hour 3,290-nautical-mile flight originating from Palmdale, Calif., the Triton flew along the southern U.S. border, the Gulf of Mexico and across Florida via an approved instrument route. Operators navigated the aircraft up the Atlantic Coast and Chesapeake Bay at altitudes in excess of 50,000 feet to ensure there were no conflicts with civilian air traffic.
Triton has completed 15 test flights at various speeds and altitudes prior to this ferry flight. Triton operations have been scheduled to start at Pax River within the next several weeks where the integrated test team will conduct further envelope expansion, sensor, communications and interoperability testing. Three Triton test vehicles will fly approximately 2,000 hours before achieving initial operational capability in 2017. | aerospace | 1 |
https://wordlesstech.com/tag/rocket/page/8/ | 2022-10-02T23:19:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337360.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002212623-20221003002623-00100.warc.gz | 0.891556 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__180054084 | en | Booster test for Space Launch System Rocket, will one day propel astronauts towards Mars.
A Delta IV Heavy, world’s largest rocket, lifted off June 11, 2016, carrying NROL-37 for the National Reconnaissance Office.
SpaceX needs more room for its rockets, following a series of successful landings.
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully landed on a drone ship. It’s the first time in history such a landing has ever been achieved. Watch the video…
Blue Origin reusable rocket has made its third successful flight and landing back on earth. Watch the company’s video of the flight…
In this long exposure photograph, the gantry arms close around the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft to secure the rocket, at launch pad 1 at the Baikonur
90 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard’s liquid-fueled rocket launched spaceflight.
A timelapse video showing Sentinel-3A satellite, from final preparations to liftoff on a Rocket launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket for NASA’s InSight mission, is offloaded from the Antonov (AN-124) Russian aircraft.
EmDrive, the rocket of the future, could supposedly power a spacecraft to Mars in just 10 weeks, without any rocket fuel. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.farecompare.com/flights/Oshima-OIM/city.html | 2015-11-28T09:29:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398451872.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205411-00286-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.761147 | 559 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__125016647 | en | Cheap Flights to Oshima
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https://aerographs.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Classic-Aircraft/G00003TZfmZwYeAE/I0000.OLqFsce56M | 2021-06-21T22:12:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488504838.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621212241-20210622002241-00281.warc.gz | 0.88931 | 160 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__76445529 | en | A "Gull Wing" SR-10 Stinson, otherwise known as the "Shell Oil" Stinson. Photographed during AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin for Goodyear Aviation Tires. It was flown by JImmy Doolittle for two years just prior to WWII.
Created by aviation photographer John Slemp of Aerographs Aviation Photography. Clients include Goodyear Aviation Tires, Phillips 66 Aviation Fuels, Smithsonian Air & Space magazine, and The Lindbergh Foundation. Specialising in high end commercial aviation photography and the supply of aviation stock photography for advertising, corporate, and editorial use.
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https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-5p;jsessionid=447BCF614BEF11D1417F42227206DB64.jvm2 | 2017-10-18T09:08:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822851.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018085500-20171018105500-00021.warc.gz | 0.89074 | 337 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__236230664 | en | The SENTINEL-5 Precursor mission is a joint initiative between ESA and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, represented by the Netherlands Space Office NSO. The mission consists of one satellite carrying the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) UV-VIS-NIR-SWIR instrument.
The main objective of the SENTINEL-5P mission is to perform atmospheric measurements, with high spatio-temporal resolution, relating to air quality, climate forcing, ozone and UV radiation.
The SENTINEL-5P Mission Guide provides a high-level description of the mission objectives, satellite and ground segment. It also provides an introduction to heritage missions, thematic areas and services, orbit characteristics and coverage, instrument payloads, and data products.
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Air-quality monitoring satellite in orbit
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The first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere, Sentinel‑5P, has been launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) today.
The first stage separated 2 min 16 sec after liftoff, followed by the fairing and second stage at 3 min 3 sec and 5 min 19 sec, respectively. The upper stage then fired twice, delivering Sentinel-5P to its final orbit 79 min after liftoff.
After separating from the upper stage, Sentinel-5P deployed its three solar panels and began communications with Earth. The first signal was received 93 min after launch as the satellite passed over the Kiruna station in Sweden.
Launch Campaign Resources | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.dig-saar.de/idf-working-to-upgrade-range-of-iron-dome-system/ | 2021-09-17T07:11:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780055601.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20210917055515-20210917085515-00185.warc.gz | 0.892677 | 110 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__38784590 | en | 25.05.2012 04.Siwan. 5772 Tag 48 des Omer
If technology upgrade effort is successful, fewer batteries would be required to defend Israel’s borders.
The IDF is working to increase the range of the Iron Dome counter rocket defense system, with the aim of enabling it to intercept longer-range rockets, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
To achieve the improved performance, the IDF is focusing on two tracks – technological upgrades to the system as well as modifications to the Israel Air Force’s operational doctrine…. | aerospace | 1 |
http://connect24by7.wordpress.com/ | 2014-03-09T14:12:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999679121/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060759-00004-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.961931 | 364 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__112900230 | en | There are generally 3 primary ways to become a pilot. You can go via the Sponsor Route, i.e. cadet or army, air ambulance, police wings and many more. You can begin your flying training at 17 all the way until as old as you want if you just want to fly for leisure. I am pretty sure most of you would love to become a pilot as a lifelong career rather than for freedom.
How? Once you start your training for pilot, you have to apply for a student pilot license from where you want to join. In Asia, to get into the airways, you will need to have a CPL with 165 times in only one motor, 35 times in a multiple engine airplane with a total of 200 hours. Moreover In addition you required to complete all ground exams to obtain a Frozen ATPL Online (Airline Transport Pilot License). I know all these terminology appears to be unfamiliar to you, but I will describe more in details in my upcoming publish as I just want to keep it possible for now on how to become a Pilot.
Self-Sponsor Route – If you select this route, you will have to pay your own flight training with no assurance of job after you graduate student.
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For More Regarding ATPL Online Question Bank Jus visit @ https://www.test2fly.com/ | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.maderaairshow.com/NASFallon.aspx | 2014-09-18T05:39:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657125654.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011205-00103-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | 0.952489 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__73721216 | en | Naval Air Station Fallon Search and Rescue
Naval Air Station Fallon Search and Rescue has been an entity in the Fallon community since 1973. The team originally operated the legendary H-1 helicopter more commonly known as the "Huey" for that entire period until March 2009 and now operates the SH-60F helicopter. The Search and Rescue team is responsible for providing on-demand rescue to the Fallon Range Training Complex and surrounding military operating areas. The team is also available for aerial firefighting, civilian medevac, civilian search, and natural disaster response. Their high level of training and ability makes them the best show in town for high altitude technical rescues. The team's versatility was demonstrated when they pulled a stranded horse out of the American River gorge near Auburn last September. The team was awarded the Chief of Naval Operations SAR team of the year for 2009. As with all military SAR, NAS Fallon prides itself on its rapid response, incredible capabilities, extended range, and willingness to help just about anybody...even horses. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.jasp-online.org/asjournal/spring-2023/excellence-in-survivability-hugh-griffis/ | 2024-03-05T09:54:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948234904.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305092259-20240305122259-00403.warc.gz | 0.956493 | 2,132 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__189227058 | en | Excellence In Survivability: Hugh Griffis
By Robert Wissel
The Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office (JASPO) is pleased to recognize Mr. Hugh Griffis for his Excellence in Survivability. A well-known technical expert, leader, and voice in the industry for more than 40 years, Hugh currently serves as the Technical Director of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Analysis & Training Systems Division (EZJ). Throughout his long career, he has successfully developed and applied rigorous modeling and simulation (M&S) methodologies in support of numerous program acquisition efforts, defining weapon system requirements, verifying specifications, performing assessments for developmental/operational testing (DT/OT), and enabling Warfighters to evaluate and refine operational tactics.
An Ohio native and system engineering graduate of Wright State University, Hugh began his Government service in 1981 at the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. As a junior engineer, he was privileged to be mentored by national experts and trained with in-house engineering classes on subjects such as nuclear weapon effects and simulations, FORTRAN computer programming, finite element simulations, weapon system acquisition, and FASTGEN3 target description modeling.
Hugh’s first task in the business was to migrate FASTGENv3 punch card decks to mainframe computers with permanent data storage. The B-52 and A-10 target descriptions were contained in dozens of card boxes, with each card requiring a specific order. So, getting the data stored permanently was a ground-breaking, albeit tedious, achievement.
In the early 1980s, nuclear threats were a high national priority, and the Air Force engineering community was responsible for determining the nuclear hardness of aircraft. Hugh was tasked with updating legacy nuclear effects models and authoring nuclear weapon delivery “safe escape” data for all nuclear-capable aircraft, including the B-52, B-1B, FB-111, F-16, and F-15, as well as the United Kingdom’s Tornado aircraft. The nuclear effects data and methodologies he developed in these efforts were used explicitly in the weapon delivery technical manuals (which, thankfully, were never used in war).
In 1984, Hugh was assigned to the Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB)— which later became known as the B-2—prior to its Preliminary Design Review. As the nuclear hardening lead, Hugh managed requirements that altered the B-2 outer mold line and all major aircraft attributes, including the crew station, engines, weapons bay, structures, avionics, mission systems, coatings, and supportability considerations. The team’s use of advanced M&S, verified by testing, contributed greatly to the B-2’s successful development. And these enhanced nuclear simulations, with modest improvements, are still in use.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the decreased urgency for nuclear hardness assessments, Hugh shifted his technical focus to ballistic vulnerability activities. Leveraging his FASTGEN3 experience, he initiated data processing improvements and authored the FASTGENv4 model. The new code changed the geometry model data standard to today’s simpler and less error-prone data structure.
In the spring of 1991, when the Air Force awarded the Milestone B contract for the F-22, program management was informed that the program was in violation of Live Fire Test & Evaluation (LFT&E) congressional law. Thus, to avoid the purchase of an additional and highly costly Engineering Manufacturing Development aircraft, Hugh was tasked with developing and leading the F-22 LFT&E and ballistic vulnerability hardening programs.
Congress requested a study by the National Research Council (NRC) to explore the pros and cons of full-scale, full-up testing of the F-22. In 1994, Hugh spent 3 days briefing the NRC review board—which comprised more than a dozen national experts—on the program’s alternative LFT&E plan. After months of follow-up discussions and negotiations, the plan ultimately became part of the NRC’s final report (which still remains a valuable technical resource), and Congress approved the NRC recommendation in 1997.
Also in support of the F-22’s development, Hugh led the chemical/biological (C/B) hardening program, which was favorably reviewed by the Government Accounting Office review in 1995, as well as led the development of a new COVARTv4 model, merging best-available legacy vulnerability missile fragments and high-explosive projectile methodologies into an improved single application. Based on the efforts of Hugh and the EZJA Vulnerability Team, both COVART and FASTGEN would continue to be improved and adopted as important analysis tools in vulnerability reduction and LFT&E programs throughout the survivability community.
The last major test of the F-22’s planned LFT&E program was the aircraft’s ballistically hardened wing testing, which was completed at Wright-Patterson in 2001. Prior to that testing, a major facility upgrade was required, and Hugh served as the acting Technical Director of the Aerospace Vehicle Survivability Facility during both the facility’s construction and wing testing. He also authored and delivered the final F-22 LFT&E report in 2004.
In 1998, while still leading the F-22 LFT&E activities, Hugh was also assigned to support the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), later called the F-35. Hugh provided technical oversight during the program’s demonstration phrase, in which extreme efforts were required to ensure the mandated use of Government-furnished models and data didn’t provide a competitive edge to either vender. Hugh was assigned to lead the development of an alternative LFT&E plan for the three Service variant aircraft and to define the vulnerability reduction design requirements for ballistic, C/B, laser, and high-power microwave threats. Working with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) at Patuxent River, MD, as well as AFLCMC and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson, he helped provide time-critical, expert support in crafting the important design requirements.
During the JSF’s source selection, Hugh also served as lead for vulnerability reduction and LFT&E. Leveraging many of the F-22 program’s insights, Hugh was instrumental in defining the F-35 system engineering approach for C/B design and obtaining funds to develop long-lead test data. With the support of Lockheed, Battelle, and AFRL, the resultant F-35 program provided enhanced C/B material databases and robust decontamination technology (as discussed in numerous previously published Aircraft Survivability journal articles). Hugh would continue to lead the F-35 ballistic vulnerability, C/B, and LFT&E program for several years.
In the fall of 2003, Hugh was selected to serve as JASP’s Air Force Principal Member, and in 2004 he was promoted to the position of Technical Director for the Analysis and Training Systems Division of AFLCMC’s Engineering Directorate. Then in 2005, he stepped up to serve as Chief of the division, a position he held for 4 years before deftly arranging to hire his successor so he could move back to his preferred Technical Director role.
In 2009, Hugh was also tasked to serve as the Air Force Lead for the Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME), Joint Anti-Air Combat Effectiveness (J-ACE) Air Superiority Program. As time marched on, Hugh became the Integrated Product Team lead, and he continues to lead the high-performing J-ACE team and its development of the Joint Anti-Air Model (JAAM), currently used by more than 4,000 users and 360 operational sites.
Additionally, Hugh has supported numerous Air Force engineering process improvement activities over the years to accelerate weapon system acquisition. One of them, in 2010, resulted in the MIL-HDBK-520, System Requirements Document Guide, and defined the concepts used in today’s systems engineering requirements traceability tools.
Hugh currently continues to lead development efforts for both JASP and the JTCG/ME, leveraging numerous advanced computer simulations, such as Survivability and Lethality of Aircraft in Tactical Environment (SLATE), Air Combat Effects Library (ACEL), BlueMaxv7.x, Endgame Manager (EMv6.x), and multiple Intelligence Center simulations.
Hugh and the team have also recently defined an innovative process in which technical developments would first be implemented in SLATE/ACEL. Then, as features and data mature, these capabilities would be promptly migrated into the JAAMv6.0/ACEL Warfighter application. Although this technical management approach requires significant effort, delivery times of new simulation capabilities to the Warfighter are expected to be greatly reduced.
Not surprisingly, Hugh has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors throughout his career, with the most notable being the Combat Survivability Technical Award from the American Defense Preparedness Association (now called National Defense Industrial Association) in 1996. But in spite of his many achievements and recognitions, Hugh is quick to point out that his successes in M&S and testing would not have been possible— or as meaningful—without the contributions of the many skilled, dedicated professionals in Government and industry whom he has been fortunate to work with throughout his career. Most importantly, he feels fortunate to have had the constant, loving support of his wife, Anita, and daughter, Daniele.
Congratulations, Hugh, on this well-deserved recognition for your many contributions, longstanding dedication, and proven excellence in aircraft survivability, as well as for your mentoring of countless members across the community. Your pioneering efforts have not only helped lay the foundation for today’s aircraft survivability professionals but are sure to continue to help guide future practitioners for many years to come.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mr. Robert (Bob) Wissel is currently the AFLCMC/EZJ Analysis and Training Systems Division Chief. He has more than 30 years of experience as an operational effectiveness analyst with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center; the Air Force Research Laboratory; HQ Air Combat Command; a defense contractor; and, most recently, the AFLCMC’s Engineering Directorate. | aerospace | 1 |
https://evanstonnow.com/civil-air-patrol-leader-honored-at-age-101/ | 2022-10-06T07:07:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337731.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006061224-20221006091224-00749.warc.gz | 0.936616 | 210 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__37095617 | en | A long-timer leader of the Civil Air Patrol, 101 year old Col. Charles Compton, presided over a 76th anniversary gathering for the organization Wednesday at Presbyterian Homes in Evanston.
Compton, who was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal by President Obama in 2014, was one of the first pilots to join the CAP during World War II.
He patroled U.S. coasts providing surveillance and protection for military and supply ships, flying out of the first operational CAP base in Atlantic City and provided submarine spotting and convoy protection along the coasts of New Jersey and Delaware.
CAP pilots provided aerial escort, surveillance and warning for military convoys, oilers and merchant ships bringing supplies to the Allies, flying over 500,000 hours and saved hundreds of crash victims from 1941 to 1945 with 65 members losing their lives out of the 120,0000 volunteers.
Also at Wednesday’s event, attended by members of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, CAP Chaplain Bret Lortie was promoted to the rank of Lt Colonel. | aerospace | 1 |
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Captain Monty Mendenhall
The ‘space race’ between the US and the USSR began in earnest in 1957. The Soviet Union captured the high ground by orbiting the world’s first artificial satellite and reaped enormous national prestige.
In his recently published papers, the US’s number one rocket scientist of the cold war era, Wernher von Braun, stated that the US could have orbited a crude satellite in 1956 and beaten the Russians into space. According to von Braun, political considerations prevented him from launching one.
An orbiting satellite would have unavoidably passed over the Soviet Union. In 1957, the limits of a nation’s vertical airspace were undefined. There was fear among US politicians, that an over flying US satellite would provoke a confrontation with the Soviet Union. Von Braun felt that the order to put an orbiting US satellite on hold, came straight from President Eisenhower.
After launching a satellite that over flew US airspace every ninety minutes, the Soviet Union was hardly in a position to be critical of future US satellite over flights of her own territory. Four days after the successful Soviet satellite launch, US Secretary of Defense Quarles met with President Eisenhower and observed, “The Russians have in fact done us a good turn, unintentionally, in establishing the concept of freedom of international space.” (Quoted from Curtis Peeble’s book, “The Corona Project”)
Though allowing the Soviet Union be the first into space and reap world prestige humbled the US, the decision to delay the US’s first satellite was probably best. Had the US launched the first artificial satellite, the USSR almost certainly would have protested and likely prevented, or at least forestalled future US satellite launches. Another possibility, had von Braun been permitted to launch the first artificial satellite, the US would never have been perceived to be, ‘behind the Russians,’ and there would never have been the national enthusiasm that was required to support the tremendously expensive ‘space race’ which concluded with a US landing on the Moon.
The Discoverer satellite program was the first successful series of US satellites. The program was aptly named too. Under the cloak of scientific research, the primary goal of the Discover mission was to take high-resolution photographs of the entire Soviet Union. Early in the program, there were many failures. The first completely successful Discoverer flight was number 18 and what a success it was. The data captured on that flight alone, was worth far more than the amount that the US had spent on the entire space program. Discoverer 18 revealed that the much-vaunted Soviet bomber force was a hollow shell and that there were far fewer Soviet ICBMs than US experts had estimated.
Discoverer 18 also photographed the launch complex at the secret Soviet space center. These photos revealed a recent Soviet space disaster of enormous proportions. It was evident that a huge rocket had exploded on the launch pad. A photographic search of nearby cemeteries revealed many new graves. It was years later though before the true extent of this Soviet disaster was revealed. Among those killed in the accident was the commander of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin. Though a great loss, probably much more damaging to the USSR’s space program, was the death of Mikhail K. Yangel. Yangel was the Soviet Union’s equivalent of the US’s Wernher von Braun. Also killed were a host of government officials, rocket engineers and technicians.
The data gleaned from Discover 18 revealed the USSR’s weaknesses and changed the US’s foreign and space policy forever.
Almost lost in the excitement over the huge US space program, were the discoveries and developments of Robert Mainhardt and Arthur Biehl. While most of the US’s rocketry research was concentrated on building larger and larger rockets, MBAssociates, Mainhardt and Biehl, were developing rockets that weighed less than one ounce. They called their tiny 13mm (.51 caliber) rockets, ‘Gyrojets.’
Mainhardt wrote, ”In 1960, MBA expended a great deal of effort to prove that little rockets – under one inch in diameter – could be developed to be cost effective for various applications. The world experts said it couldn’t be done.”
One development was to ‘make a gun that could fire small rockets.’ We tooled up for a six shot, low cost, no recoil handgun that was foolproof and cheap. These guns were die cast out of aluminum, magnesium or zinc alloy (except for springs and screws).”
Mainhardt continued, “These guns worked and the unit cost was low, so you could give one to every Vietnamese farmer. The late Vietnamese President Diem was given the first gold plated model. He then gave his ‘village chieftains’ silver plated ones. The ‘village chieftains’ were to give every farmer a plain one. Then, guess what? The working farmers didn’t want them. They said, ‘Why should we shoot the Viet Cong? They only come to get their ‘tax ration’ of rice. We know we will either have to give them some rice or give some to Saigon, so who cares?’ ”
Thus ended the “Rocket Guns For Rice Farmers” program.
More MBA Developments
Robert Mainhardt continued, “Many other products (besides the rocket guns) were devised from the early efforts of Art Biehl and myself. We built some seven million signal flares using the Gyrojet rocket engines.” In addition to the Gyrojet pistol, MBA also developed and marketed Gyrojet carbines, Gyrojet inserts for 12 gauge shotgun barrels and Gyrojet underwater spear guns.
Though the 12mm Gyrojet rockets were made in the greatest quantities, other calibers were made as well. These Gyrojet calibers included .16, .25, .30, .38, 13mm, 20mm, 30mm and 40mm.
Because Gyrojets are rockets, they place little stress on the launcher and have almost no recoil. A Gyrojet launcher for the largest 40mm ammo could be lightweight. Firing one from the shoulder in either the semi auto or full auto mode would be both possible and practical.
Mainhardt added, “We also made hundreds of thousands of fin stabilized rockets (called MBA Finjets) of under 1/8 inch diameter (1.5 inch length) that flew at Mach 2 (1400 mph).”
The original purpose of the tiny Finjet was to saturate an area with high kinetic energy projectiles. This concept was never fully explored. The MBA Finjet may have been the inspiration though, for a weapon once used in a ‘James Bond’ motion picture. No actual connection is known, but Bond’s ‘last ditch cigarette rocket weapon’ looked much like an MBA Finjet.
Gyrojet rocket ammo and Finjets are stabilized using different principles. The Gyrojet has no fins. Having no external projections makes it more suitable for use in a magazine fed weapon. To stabilize it, the Gyrojet must have two or more rocket nozzles. The nozzles are canted to impart a stabilizing spin to the small missile. A standard 13mm Gyrojet rocket rotates at about 3600 revolutions per second (216,000 rpm).
Simplified fin stabilized Finjets only required one rocket nozzle. Though no cost figures have been revealed, it was likely the less expensive of the two rockets to manufacture.
Even smaller and simpler than the fin stabilized MBA Finjet is the 1/16 inch diameter, 1.5 inch long, MBA Lancejet. Like an early Chinese skyrocket, with a long stabilizing stick instead of fins, the tiny MBA Lancejet’s length stabilizes it to some degree. As for its intended use, Mainhardt states, ”Multiple salvos of these lower velocity subminiature rockets exhibit characteristics similar to Finjets, but elimination of the fins provide unique advantages.”
Left unstated by Mainhardt (perhaps due to ongoing research), are the specific advantages of the Lancejet. One potential use for the finless Lancejet would be as ammo for a very high speed Gatling gun type of rocket launcher. With low weight and little recoil, a weapon of this type could be mounted on a light utility vehicle or a small helicopter. This type of weapon might be ideal for area saturation.
Classified New Uses?
MBA developed larger versions of the Lancejets. Mainhardt described them as, “Javelin stabilized rockets with excellent penetrating and warhead carrying ability. Payload volume is sufficiently large to carry an impressive explosive or incendiary charge, capable of inflicting substantial primary damage and able to detonate explosive or inflammable targets to produce secondary damage. Lancejets pack like simple rods.”
In 1980, Mainhardt proposed a method to protect ICBM silos with a system called ‘Swarmjet.’ An excerpt from his proposal stated, ”Our most significant force deficiency… will be the vulnerability… of our fixed silo ICBMs. … There is a solution called… called Swarmjet… using large numbers of relatively small high velocity rockets fired in salvos to ‘kill’ incoming ICBMs.”
Further, but classified, work may still be being going on with larger versions of MBA Finjets and Lancejets. A large salvo of tiny rockets might be an effective final, very close range, defense against anti-ship missiles. Another use might be for intercepting an incoming ICBM at high altitude, before it could release its MIRVs. The final stage of the anti-missile missile would launch a salvo of thousands of tiny rockets toward an incoming MIRV platform.
A Gyrojet rocket consists of eight components. The largest is the hollow rocket case. It is made of high tensile strength steel to withstand the 2500 psi of internal pressure caused by the very hot combustion gases and the high centrifugal forces caused by rotating at 3600 revolutions per second.
The second component of the Gyrojet is the base. The third and fourth components are contained within the base. In the center of the base is a percussion primer. Arranged symmetrically on the outer perimeter of the base are two, or more, rocket nozzles. The nozzles are canted to impart a stabilizing spin to the rocket. The spin is calculated to be three turns per foot of linear travel. In rifle barrel terms, this would be a very fast twist ratio of one turn in four inches.
TThe Gyrojet’s nozzle material must have a precisely defined erosion and ablation rate. If the nozzles burn or erode unevenly, asymmetrical thrust will be produced. If that occurs, the rocket will become destabilized, destroying its accuracy.
The fifth component is the propellant. Solid rocket propellant containing metal, and therefore having a high density, can give high thrust. Due to safety considerations however, Gyrojet rockets use a propellant that is quite similar in composition to double-based nitro cellulose gunpowder. Mainhardt stated, “Non-metalized double-based propellants (gunpowder) cannot detonate (explode). They can only deflagrate (burn). A composite or metalized propellant is probably unsuitable for use in a hand held weapon.”
Another consideration for choosing a double-based nitrocellulose propellant instead of a metalized one, is that the combustion gases of gunpowder type propellants are relatively clean and non-toxic. The combustion gases of metalized propellants are both corrosive and toxic. Neither trait is desirable, especially for indoor defense use.
Cost benefits also resulted from using a double-based nitrocellulose propellant instead of a metalized one. Gunpowder type propellant is much less expensive than the metalized type. Moreover, the metalized propellant is very erosive. Rocket nozzles for gunpowder type propellants can be made from cold rolled steel. Metalized propellants require the use of more expensive nozzles that are made of ceramic or from other exotic materials.
Gunpowder type propellants are relatively simple and safe to work with. Using ‘dowling’ and ‘pencil sharpening’ machinery, MBAssociates formed the double-base nitrocellulose powder into pointed cylinders. These cylinders of propellant closely fitted the inside of the steel rocket case.
Primer ignition alone was insufficient to ignite the rocket propellant quickly and uniformly. The sixth component of the Gyrojet rocket was a sensitive chemical ‘initiator.’ The ‘initiator’ received the initial impulse of the primer and ignited the propellant. To accommodate the ’initiator’ and to provide a path for the combustion gases, the cylinder of rocket propellant was formed with a tube-like hollow cavity in its center. The ‘initiator’ was placed inside the hollow tube.
To help reduce the rocket’s internal pressure, a seventh component, a combustion inhibiting chemical compound, was applied to the outside of the propellant cylinder. In this way, the propellant could only burn from the inside. The inhibitor prevented it from burning on the outside and raising pressures to unacceptable levels.
Data provided by MBA states that the maximum thrust of the gunpowder fueled Gyrojet, is 3.2 kilograms or approximately 7.5 pounds. This may not seem like a lot of thrust, but when applied to a missile weighing only 185 grains, the thrust to weight ratio is an astounding 284 to 1. For comparison, the combined thrust of a Boeing 777’s engines is 180,000 pounds. The maximum takeoff weight is 640,000 pounds. A Boeing 777’s thrust-to-weight ratio is only .281 to 1, about 1/1000th of a Gyrojet rocket’s.
Like a B777 on take off, a Gyrojet rocket begins moving relatively slowly. The Gyrojet’s fuel burns for 1/10 of a second. When its fuel is consumed at sixty feet downrange, the unguided missile has accelerated to a velocity of 1250 feet per second (FPS), slightly greater than Mach one.
The last component the Gyrojet rocket ammo is an aluminum membrane. It is located between the nozzles and the propellant. The membrane seals the case to prevent the entrance of moisture. The primer and the internal pressure after propellant ignition ruptures the membrane, permitting the burning gases to escape through the rocket nozzles.
Wernher Von Braun
Mainhardt kept Wernher von Braun informed of MBA’s research into small rockets. Von Braun replied with the following comments.
“I have read with interest…. the report that you recently sent me. The considerations in this very thorough treatment of miniature rocketry are reminiscent of some of the problems we are encountering in our daily work, although essentially at the opposite ends of the size spectrum. The progress you have made in proving feasibility and usefulness of these little rockets is noteworthy. I foresee many valuable applications in the weapons field.”
The Gyrojet Launcher
Looking much like a semi automatic pistol, the seventeen-ounce Gyrojet rocket launcher is cast from zinc alloy or aluminum. The only precision made part is the extruded launching tube or barrel. For accuracy, a very close fit is needed between the Gyrojet rocket and the barrel.
Standard MBA Gyrojet pistols have a five-inch barrel. A few snub nosed models were made with two-inch barrels. MBA also manufactured carbine style launchers for Gyrojet rocket ammo. The operating mechanisms of all three are identical.
The velocities of the snub nosed pistol, the five-inch barreled pistol and the carbine type launchers were identical. This is easily explained. Unlike normal cartridge ammo, the barrel length has no effect on the velocity of Gyrojet rocket ammo. Most of the Gyrojet rocket’s acceleration takes place after it has exited the launching barrel.
accurate, the Gyrojet rockets must fit the bore of the launcher very
closely. Twenty-four Gyrojet 12mm rockets were measured. They were very
consistent. All measured
.496 X 1.400 inch, plus or minus .0005 inch.
The tube’s inside diameter measured .499 inch. The average
clearance between the launching tube and the rocket was only .0015 inch.
Since the Gyrojet rocket is self-stabilizing, the tube requires no
rifling. The diameter of
13mm Gyrojet ammo is .511 inch. Like
the 12mm ammo, its diameter was very consistent also.
The Mark I and Mark II Gyrojet launchers are much alike. Both hold six rounds of rocket ammo in their grips. They do not have detachable magazines. The most noticeable differences are their methods of ‘loading’. The Mark I is loaded through a port on the left side of the launcher. A cover swings vertically to access it. The Mark II has a retractable ‘slide’ over its ammo well. The slide is retracted to load a MK II launcher.
To load either launcher, first lower the hammer and place the safety to ‘ON.’ Next, open the loading gate (Mark I) or retract the ‘slide’ (Mark II) and press six of the Gyrojet rockets downward into the grip. The follower is spring-loaded. Be careful. All of the rocket rounds will pop out of the grip if the loader’s thumb slips off of the top round. Finally, while restraining the rockets, close the loading gate or ‘slide.’
The Gyrojet’s hammer is located in front of the trigger. Before firing the first round, cock the hammer forward and down. When the trigger is pulled, the hammer moves up and backward. It strikes the nose of the rocket and forces the primer against a fixed firing pin that is located behind the rocket.
The Gyrojet launcher’s safety restrains neither the hammer nor the trigger. If the trigger is pulled when the safety is ‘ON,’ the hammer will strike the rocket. The rocket will not ignite however. When the safety is ‘ON,’ a metal block moves up between the rocket and the fixed firing pin, protecting the primer.
The backward striking hammer is an inspired feature that simplified launcher production and reduced costs while simultaneously solving a major problem that is associated with spin stabilized rockets. Since the hammer strikes the rocket on the nose, it blocks the exit path of the rocket. When the rocket moves forward, it recocks the hammer. This simplifies the design and permits a quick second shot.
To achieve a reasonable degree of accuracy, a spin stabilized rocket must be allowed to ‘spin up’ before it exits the barrel. The rearward pressure that is generated by hammer spring on the nose of the rocket, restrains the rocket briefly to allow time for it to ‘spin up.’ Without the restraint of the hammer, the Gyrojet rockets would leave the snub nosed and five-inch barrels before they became stabilized. Without the hammer’s brief restraint, there would be no hope of accurate fire.
Gyrojet rocket launching pistols were inexpensive to produce. In 1970 their retail price was $99.00 though. For a gun that was produced with a level of technology that was similar to making a cap pistol, that was a high price. At that time, for comparison, the price of a S&W Model 10 revolver was about $100.00.
Manufacturing Gyrojet rocket ammo was another matter entirely. It was expensive to produce. The first batches were made by hand using machine tools. In 1965, it was priced at $1.35 per round. By 1972, the retail price had increased to $3.00 per round. Unverified by Mainhardt, but many RKIs feel that even at $3.00 per round, the rocket ammo was sold at a loss. By the late 1970s however, there was little demand for Gyrojet rocket ammo. Norbert Smoot, a longtime FFL/SOT dealer, recalls “…seeing pallets of Gyrojet ammo priced a $1 per box of six” at Davidson’s Wholesale in Greensboro, NC.
Had Gyrojets achieved popularity and high production rates, the ammo costs would have been more reasonable. Robert Mainhardt maintained that, “Cost analyses showed that miniature rockets and conventional ammo would cost about the same if produced in the same quantities. ….both are fabricated of similar materials - steel, double-based propellants, primers - and both require approximately the same number of operations to the same tolerances. It is possible that future Gyrojet designs could be produced at less cost than conventional ammunition.”
Unfortunately, conventional ammo is produced at the rate of billions of rounds per year, while Gyrojet ammo was produced at less than one million rounds. There was little economy of scale for Gyrojet production.
According to data published by MBAssociates, standard 12mm Gyrojet rockets weight 185 grains and achieve a burnout velocity, at sixty feet down range, of 1250 fps. Their energy at the propellant burn out point is 700 foot-pounds, approximately twice that of standard .45acp 230 grain ball ammo.
Early Gyrojet rocket production
suffered from a lack of quality control.
H. P. White Laboratories tested a batch of it in June of 1963.
About 20% of the rockets failed for various reasons.
Accuracy was unacceptable as well.
Initial dispersion averaged 20 mils of
circular error probability (CEP).
A second batch of 98 improved Gyrojet rockets was tested later that year. Three of them failed to ignite and seven more of the 98 rounds required a second blow from the hammer before igniting. Accuracy improved to 7 mils CEP or about 7 feet at 100 yards. Though better than the first tests, this must still be regarded as unacceptable performance. One in ten rockets failed to ignite on the first try. Mainhardt later claimed to have reduced the failure rate to only 1%.
Gyrojet rockets are spin stabilized by their canted nozzles. Hence, they require no rifling. Early Gyrojet pistols were smoothbore. As soon as the BATF (Alcohol, Tobacco Tax Unit, or ATTU, in 1963) noted that the Gyrojet handguns were smoothbore, they required that their bores be rifled to avoid being classified as Title Two ‘Any Other Weapons’ (AOW).
After the ATTU’s ruling, MBA engraved their new Gyrojet launcher barrels with very shallow rifling to avoid the AOW classification. A Gyrojet rocket does not engage the rifling. It will drop freely through the bore. The rifling serves no purpose at all except to avoid the AOW designation.
Destructive Device Gyrojets
Gyrojets were developed before the 1968 Gun Control Act was passed. Among other things, the 1968 law created a new firearm category for firearms with a bore diameter greater than fifty caliber, Destructive Devices (DD). Prior to its passage, a live cannon could be bought with no more difficulty than buying a rifle. Many firearm magazines from the early 1960s contained ads from Potomac Arms for wheeled cannons. Readers were urged to ‘buy one and tow it home.’
A 13mm Gyrojet’s bore diameter is greater than .50 caliber. It is .511 inch. That created a problem for many who had legally bought 13mm Gyrojets prior to the passage of the 1968 Firearms Act. If they had missed the 1968 amnesty registration of them, they were in possession of unregistered Destructive Devices.
Acting very responsibly, MBAssociates requested and received permission from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division of the Internal Revenue Service (the name of the BATF in 1970) to convert the previously sold, unregistered, 13mm Gyrojets to 12mm, or, .49 caliber, thus removing them from the DD category.
In 1981, BATF ended the 13mm Gyrojet problem entirely by removing them from the DD category and classifying them as ‘Curios & Relics.’ Edward M. Owen, the chief of the BATF’s technical branch, wrote a letter to Bob Mainhardt to notify him of this change. The letter is reproduced below. Owen’s letter also confirms that some Gyrojets were full auto.
This article is based on letters and interviews with Robert Mainhardt that were recorded in 1992, plus data published by MBAssociates and data from the collections of Kevin Dockery, Leonard Yates and Tim Bixler. Unfortunately, the author has lost contact with Mainhardt and could not ask him any questions about the full the auto versions of his Gyrojet rocket launchers.
the co-developer of the ‘stealth’ radio submachine gun was able to supply some interesting anecdotes
about the full auto Gyrojets. See
the accompanying interview for more information about his full auto
Gyrojet and the thirty day, 1968 amnesty registration.
The BATF Letter
This refers to your letter of March 25, 1981, in which you provided information regarding the production of Gyrojet Rocket Guns. For your information, the following firearms have been have been removed from the destructive device category and are no longer subject to the provisions of the National Firearms Act (NFA):
Gyrojet Rocket Guns, caliber 13mm,
The above firearms have also been determined curios or relics as that term is defined in Title 27, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 178, Section 178.11, thereby authorizing licensed collectors to acquire, hold, or dispose of them as curios or relics subject to the provisions of Title 18, United States Code (U.S.C.), Chapter 44, and the regulations in Title 27, CFR, Part 178. They are still firearms as defined in Title 18, U.S.C., Section 921 (a) (3).
Persons having registered firearms in the above category should write the NFA Branch and request that their file in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record be amended to reflect that these firearms are no longer subject to registration requirements.
Little has been written about MBA Gyrojets. The few stories that have appeared have, for the most part, simply repeated data that was supplied by MBA.
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