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https://janggolan.blogspot.com/2016/02/russias-planetary-exploration-has.html | 2018-06-23T15:37:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865098.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623152108-20180623172108-00567.warc.gz | 0.968021 | 241 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__19543321 | en | phys.org: Under an ambitious plan with the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists have new hope of again sending missions to the Moon and to Mars. by Maria Antonova
'The ambitious plan, however, has caused jitters among some observers and is dismissed as a pipe dream by others.
'In January, the ESA already warned that the 2018 mission could be delayed due to cash flow problems. With the economic crisis, the Russian government is likewise pressed to make budget cuts and space exploration is far from one of its priorities. The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, is itself in financial limbo but went ahead and announced its programme for the next decade in January, though the plan has yet to be confirmed, said Igor Marinin, editor of Space News magazine. "Now there is no plan, so there is no financing and Roscosmos is taking out loans just to pay salaries," he told AFP. "For this reason, I'm sceptical, and I don't think we will make a good landing platform in the time that's left."
'Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov last month admitted that Russia "does not have financial capabilities for advanced space projects."' | aerospace |
https://nerdshala.com/pentagon-says-bidens-new-helicopter-is-unreliable-in-emergencies/ | 2021-12-03T04:31:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362589.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203030522-20211203060522-00524.warc.gz | 0.958874 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__108738522 | en | President Biden’s first flight on the new presidential helicopter is delayed, Bloomberg report,
Running news: According to Bloomberg, the Pentagon’s test unit warned that the helicopter built by Lockheed Martin was not “suitable for operation”, especially in emergency situations.
big picture: The new VH-92 helicopter program was intended for a $5 billion replacement for helicopters currently used by the president and other top officials.
In a report dated 28 September, The Pentagon’s test unit found that while the helicopter was good for “administrative” missions such as visiting Camp David, it was not effective for emergency flights, according to Bloomberg.
- The report explained that “Mission Communication Systems (MCS) often delay critical communications at the start of contingency missions and do not adequately support timely, continuous and secure communications.”
- According to Bloomberg, the helicopter could still scorch the White House lawn, where it could land.
What are they saying: According to Bloomberg, spokesman Major George Hernandez said “the report did not raise any issue” that the Program Office and the Marine Corps “were unaware, or that the issues had been corrected earlier.”
- John Dorian, a spokesman for Lockheed’s Sikorsky division, said they “will continue to work closely with our customers to ensure that the aircraft meets all operational requirements.” | aerospace |
https://www.duupdates.in/spacex-crew-dragon-spacecraft-due-to-bad-weather/ | 2024-04-24T12:32:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00848.warc.gz | 0.975249 | 664 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__44619626 | en | On Wednesday, a planned mission to the international space station was aborted by NASA due to bad weather. This delayed a historic event that was going to mark the first crewed launch from US soil in almost a decade.
A Crew Dragon capsule was built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX which is a company based in California. It aimed a view of taking off at 9.33 pm UK time. Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were in the Crew Dragon capsule. Unfortunately, this mission had to be called off 17 minutes before the launch time.
The fuelling of the Falcon 9 rocket which carried the capsule had begun. Later the decision was taken to cancel this mission due to the cloudy skies and rain. This launch will be attempted again on Saturday afternoon, the team is all set. There will be another backup time on Sunday.
It was expected that the weather would clear 10 min before the launch at Florida’s Kennedy Space center but the only possible launch window was ” instantaneous”, due to the movements o of the space stations. Any delay in launching would have meant cancellation of the mission.
There were no technical issues identified on the spacecraft and the countdown was smooth.
Those two astronauts who had boarded the spacecraft sat in there for two hours ahead of the launch time in their suits. Mission control thanked the two astronauts for their resilience.
Mr. Hurley made an announcement that they could see raindrops on the windows and figured that whatever that was, it was so close to the launchpad at a time when they needed it not to be.
This mission was going to be the first crewed launch for SpaceX and for NASA’s commercial crew programme. NASA’s commercial crew programme partners with private contractors to send astronauts to the ISS.
At some point of time Rocket launchers used to be nation-states’ preserves. But with launch, it is going to be first in a new era of commercial flight. In this, private companies will develop the technology to be sent to space with astronauts. It aims to open this up for the general public.
Last time, in 2011, Us space agency had sent people to ISS . After then it relied on Russia’s space programme to take its crews to and from the station. This cost as much as $86m (£70m) each time. It hopes the commercial crew programme will cut the price for initial launches to $55m.
Before the launch, entrepreneur and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said the event was “a dream come true”. He also stated that the Falcon 9 was “a well-proven rocket”.
Musk has become best known for Tesla, his audacious effort to build an electric vehicle company. But SpaceX predates it.
For the eccentric CEO, this is just the beginning: He’s planning to build a city on the red planet, and live there.
It all started with the dream of growing a rose on Mars.
Musk wants to somehow grow a rose on the red planet, show it to the world and inspire school children, recalls Hubbard
US President Donald Trump had travelled on Air Force One to watch the event. It was also attended by vice-president Mike Pence. | aerospace |
https://www.satshow.com/sgx2021/ | 2021-06-25T12:31:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487630175.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20210625115905-20210625145905-00622.warc.gz | 0.907917 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__40934768 | en | Built with young professionals in mind, SGx is a full day of open discussion forums that connect the ideas of students and young professionals with the experience and insight of aerospace industry leaders.
SGx was developed in partnership with the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) and the Future Space Leaders Foundation (FSLF). If you are a student or just entering the field, this is a great opportunity to ask questions and learn from aerospace industry experts and government leaders.
SGx tickets are available through the SATELLITE 2021 registration system. Register in 2 easy steps!
Contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions. | aerospace |
https://coverpage.org/tech/lockheed-hints-again-at-the-existence-of-a-secret-high-speed-jet/ | 2023-12-01T16:35:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100290.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201151933-20231201181933-00021.warc.gz | 0.951031 | 1,156 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__29270508 | en | By Oliver Parken
For those of you active on Twitter, it would have been hard to miss the buzz surrounding the Oscars yesterday evening. Top Gun: Maverick, the second highest-grossing film of 2022, racked up an impressive total of six Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Film Editing and Visual Effects. The film’s sound team deservedly went on to win the Oscar for Best Sound.
In celebration of Maverick’s Oscar nomination success, Lockheed Martin – whose legendary Skunk Works advanced projects division worked with the producers of the movie on the fictional “Darkstar” hypersonic aircraft – tweeted a series of “Real Top Gun” images in the lead-up to the ceremony. One tweet, in particular, caught people’s attention immediately.
In the tweet, Lockheed Martin described its famed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft, capable of traveling at speeds well over Mach 3, as currently being the “fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft [emphasis added].” As you’ll remember from the film, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell takes the Darkstar hypersonic test jet over Mach 10 before bailing out of the aircraft.
The use of the word “acknowledged” here is even more mysterious when considering the first tweet the company posted.
The first of Lockheed’s “Maverick-worthy images of real aircraft” posted to Twitter yesterday (seen below) features the fictional Darkstar, illuminated with a deep red backlight.
When it comes to Darkstar, as The War Zone has outlined extensively in the past, distinguishing between fiction and reality isn’t such an easy task.
For one, it has long been indicated that the fictional Darkstar is broadly reminiscent of existing renderings of Lockheed’s proposed SR-72 uncrewed hypersonic aircraft, suggesting Darkstar’s design is at least somewhat rooted in future Lockheed hypersonic aircraft designs. That a mysterious new SR-72-like aircraft would appear in the movie was apparent even before Maverick’s release, with one then-Lockheed official even suggesting the film could offer a “sneaky peak” at what may be the successor of the SR-71.
Exactly how much of Lockheed’s SR-72 concept may have ended up in Darkstar’s design is unknown. As we suggested several years before Maverick’s release, however, it was possible that Lockheed’s secretive SR-72 program was already further along in development than the company had let on. It’s certainly possible that to some extent at least, elements of Lockheed’s SR-72 design, or more likely a precursor demonstrator of its technologies, has been hiding in plain sight on our cinema screens.
We know from as early as 2016 that Lockheed was openly discussing the possibility of building a demonstrator aircraft, roughly the size of an F-22 Raptor, to help prove the technologies that would underpin the SR-72’s hypersonic design. Such a demonstrator would have cost less than $1 billion to produce and could be flying in just a few years time.
A rendering of Darkstar. Lockheed Martin via Twitter
Then, a couple of years later, more evidence came to light that seemed to support the possibility that such an aircraft existed. From our past report:
Early in January, 2018 more evidence to support exactly this hypothesis emerged via a speech given by Lockheed’s Jack O’Banion, Vice President of Strategy and Customer Requirements, Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works), at The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech conference. During the address, O’Banion clearly referred to the company’s hypersonic aircraft as if it was already a reality, stating in part: “Without the digital transformation, the aircraft you see there could not have been made. In fact, five years ago, it could not have been made.”
While this was peculiar, it certainly wasn’t the smoking gun. However, fast forward to today, and Lockheed has also directly indicated that the fictional Darkstar design reflects real-world capabilities – indicating that a hypersonic aircraft that can outpace the SR-71 either does or could, in the not so distant future, exist.
As we noted in this past War Zone piece on Lockheed’s full-size mockup of Darkstar, questions continue to linger on the real-world projects Skunk Works’ Advanced Projections Division is in the process of working on, as well as other secretive USAF projects dating back decades, rumored to deal with high-speed flight. You can read more about the USAF’s more recent Mayhem high-speed hypersonic program here.
The Oscar-themed tweets yesterday only add to this speculation, alluding to the prospect that aspects of Darkstar could actually be in development, in one form or another. It’s also possible that a secret manned aircraft broke the SR-71’s records long ago.
Whatever the status of Lockheed’s mystery projects, there’s no doubt that the tweets helped to rouse even greater interest in what was one of 2022’s standout movies. But above all else, they offer further evidence of Lockheed Martin going out of its way to hint that the history of high-speed flight isn’t exactly as we understand it to be.
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The global military drone market size is projected to reach USD 23.78 billion by 2027 on account of the increasing demand for remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), shares finds Fortune Business Insights™ in its report, titled “Military Drone Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis, By Product Type (Fixed Wing, Hybrid and Rotary Wing), By Range (Visual Line Of Sight (VLOS), Extended Visual Line Of Sight (EVLOS), and Beyond Line Of Sight (BLOS)), By Technology (Remotely Operated Drones, Semi-Autonomous Drones, and Autonomous Drones), By Application (Intelligence, Surveillance Reconnaissance and Targeting(ISRT), Combat Operations, Battle Damage Management, Logistics & Transportation and Others), and Regional Forecast, 2020-2027”. According to the report, the global market value was at USD 10.53 billion in 2019 and is anticipated to register a CAGR of 12.12% from 2020 to 2027.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to hamper the military drone market growth as contracting economic growth has forced countries to redirect their resources towards healthcare and other essential sectors. Defense expenditures, as a result, have reduced, especially in developing countries, which has slowed down the adoption of UAVs.
US Air Force Awards Drone Contract to Four Companies
Four aerospace & defense giants, Boeing, Kratos, General Atomics, and Northrop Grumman, bagged a major contract from the US Air Force (USAF) in July 2020 to build Skyborg, the USAF’s AI-enabled drone wingman. The USAF aims to build an arsenal of UAVs powered by artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to adapt to battlefield conditions through the Skyborg program. The idea is to engineer Skyborg drones that are cost-effective, yet strong enough to sustain in field conflicts as well as deliver wingman functionalities to manned fighter jets. The estimated worth of the contract is approximately USD 400 million.
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Increasing Deployment of UAVs in Border Conflicts to Accelerate Growth
The deployment of military drones by armed forces for border security has steadily expanded in the past few years in response to the growing intensification of border conflicts between neighboring countries. The most recent example in this context is the resurgence of border tensions between India and China, which led the two countries to rapidly upgrade and deploy advanced military technologies along their borders. In May 2020, for instance, China deployed its AR500C unmanned helicopter equipped with strike capabilities along with tools to disrupt electronic communication at high elevations in response to the alleged deployment of UAVs by India to monitor contested areas. In July 2020, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) developed indigenous drones to bolster the Indian Army’s response against China’s maneuvers on the border. Similar actions can be witnessed in Israel, which deployed its Skylord counter-UAV system to perform surveillance along the troubled Gaza border, and in Eastern Europe, where Ukraine has been shooting down Russian spy drones.
Government-Defense Companies Partnerships to Characterize Market Competition
With growing emphasis on beefing up national security, government agencies are increasingly partnering with private defense companies, OEMs, and institutions to develop advanced defense technologies. As a result, key players in the market for military drone are engaged in a constant race to secure government contracts to strengthen their R&D activities and widen their offerings. Besides this, companies are also collaborating with each other to engineer novel drone systems to efficiently conduct surveillance operations and enhance military capabilities.
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https://kdvr.com/news/technology/spacex-rocket-launch-ends-in-failure-explodes-in-air/ | 2023-12-03T17:03:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203161435-20231203191435-00506.warc.gz | 0.975312 | 697 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__230905781 | en | SpaceX said that an “anomaly” had caused the spaceship, named Dragon, to fail and was investigating. NASA is set to hold a press conference later Sunday.
“It is not clear what happened,” NASA said initially. “The vehicle has broken up.”
— Justin Warmoth (@JustinWarmoth) June 28, 2015
SpaceX — which is headed by Musk — has made seven trips to the ISS under a contract the company has with NASA. It is the first company to complete a return trip to the space station, a feat previously achieved by only governments.
The failed cargo flight was carrying more than 2 tons of supplies, including 1,500 pounds of food and provisions for the crew aboard the space station.
In a statement, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the failure of the resupply mission will not affect the safety of the astronauts on board. Current supplies should last for several months and resupply flights by other operators are scheduled in coming months.
Three space station astronauts, two Russians and NASA’s Scott Kelly, were awaiting the arrival of SpaceX’s shipment, which was meant to arrive on Tuesday.
In a tweet from space, Kelly, who is the brother-in-law of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, said he watched the launch. “Space is hard,” he wrote.
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) June 28, 2015
SpaceX’s mission is the latest failed attempt to resupply the International Space Station, a laboratory that has been orbiting earth since 1998 and operated jointly by Russia and the U.S.
Dragon was also meant to bring nearly 1,400 pounds of supplies in its return trip. The spaceship was scheduled to land in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, California, in about five weeks.
In late April, Russia had to abandon a trip to the ISS after its spacecraft carrying 3 tons of cargo lost control.
And last October, a cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences destined for the ISS exploded just after the company was awarded a $1.9 billion contract with NASA. (Orbital Sciences became known as ATK after merging with the aerospace arm of Alliant Techsystems Inc. in February.)
— Stu Ostro (@StuOstro) June 28, 2015
Separately, one life was lost last fall — just days after the Orbital Sciences incident — when a craft developed by Virgin Galactic intended for eventual civilian passengers exploded during a flight over California.
Sunday’s launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida was supposed to be the third attempt by SpaceX to recover the rocket that launches its spacecraft.
Typically, the expensive rockets that give spaceships their initial lift are discarded into the ocean after takeoff. In an attempt to recover and reuse those rockets, SpaceX developed a floating platform for the ejected rocket to land on.
— Chris Maddern (@chrismaddern) June 28, 2015
SpaceX has made two previous attempts to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket — once in January and again in April. Both attempts at landing failed.
The ability to recover launch rockets is expected to move space travel further toward a future in which people, satellites and other items can be inexpensively launched into orbit.
SpaceX plans to launch its first rocket with humans on board in 2017. | aerospace |
http://aheadincloud.com/pictures/nasa-perseverance-rover-ready-to-explore-the-wilds-of-mars/index.html | 2022-01-19T08:42:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301264.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119064554-20220119094554-00010.warc.gz | 0.944749 | 1,991 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__137050263 | en | NASA started a new chapter in its space exploration history book with the safe landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars on Feb. 18. This stunning image shows the rover as it was lowered to the surface using what's called a "sky crane" maneuver.
This could very well become an iconic image when it comes to humanity's efforts to investigate our solar system.
Perseverance is on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life, collect samples and deploy a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity.
NASA's Perseverance rover sent back its first look at the Mars surface on Feb. 18. with a low-resolution shot from an engineering camera. This view highlighted the dusty and rocky surface of the red planet within the Jezero Crater, a region that has a fascinating history of water in the deep past.
One of the first images Perseverance sent back from Mars was this look at one of its six wheels. Geologists were excited about the pitted-looking rocks nearby and wondered if they might be volcanic or sedimentary.
Since landing on Feb. 18, the Perseverance rover has had a chance to look around and scope out the surrounding landscape, which shows off some pretty typical Mars sights of dust, dirt and rocks.
Perseverance rover spent some time snapping pictures of its body parts after landing. This image shows the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer, an instrument that will take weather measurements and study dust particles.
An upward-facing camera captured this view of the deployed parachute that helped ease Perseverance's arrival on Mars. The parachute contained a hidden message: "Dare mighty things."
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped an image of Mars showing Perseverance and all the assorted bits used and discarded during the landing process. The orbiting spacecraft gives us a different perspective on the landing site in Jezero Crater. Annotations show the locations of the parachute, descent stage, rover and heat shield.
Thanks to some extra cameras NASA installed for the Perseverance mission, space fans got unprecedented views of the harrowing landing process. This is the protective heat shield jettisoned by Perseverance just minutes before landing.
The highlighted portion of this image shows where the mission's descent stage landed safely away from the Perseverance rover on Feb. 18. After escorting the rover to the surface, the descent stage moved away and impacted the surface. The rover fortuitously caught sight of the smoke plume in the distance.
This image shows a small section of the rover's first high-definition panorama, which NASA stitched together from 142 separate images. The full panorama shows a sweeping view of the landscape and the distant walls of Jezero Crater.
The Perseverance rover snapped a look at its deck and stowed arm on Feb. 20, 2021. The vehicle was looking pretty clean just a couple days after its arrival on dusty Mars.
NASA sent its Perseverance rover to collect samples, search for signs of past microbial life and even unleash an experimental helicopter. This illustration will have to tide us over until we get a proper selfie from Mars.
Perseverance launched on July 30, 2020, kicking off a months-long journey through space. Landing was a tense process, but Perseverance joined Curiosity as NASA's only functioning rovers on Mars.
NASA's latest red planet rover was originally known as the Mars 2020 rover until a naming contest gave it the new moniker Perseverance. NASA announced the name in March 2020. It was chosen from over 28,000 entries from students across the US.
NASA's Perseverance rover hitched a ride into space on July 30, 2020, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The rover took months to reach Mars before touching down on the red planet in February 2021.
The Perseverance rover is the size of a small car. Its "head" holds cameras on top of a neck-like mast. These act as the rover's eyes, helping it record the Martian surface, look ahead for hazards and snap gorgeous landscape views. This design gives the rover "a human-scale view," according to NASA.
Mars is challenging for robotic explorers. Humanity has had both triumphs and heartbreaks when it comes to investigating the red planet.
NASA's Perseverance rover isn't the only vehicle with big Mars dreams. The European Space Agency plans to launch its ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover in 2022. China's space agency also launched its own Tianwen-1 rover mission in July 2020.
NASA's Perseverance rover touched down in a previously unexplored part of Mars called Jezero Crater. The space agency announced the winning landing site in late 2018.
This Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image shows the Jezero Crater delta region. "The landing site in Jezero Crater offers geologically rich terrain, with landforms reaching as far back as 3.6 billion years old, that could potentially answer important questions in planetary evolution and astrobiology," said NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen.
Put your wheels in the air like you just don't care. NASA's rover team put the Perseverance rover through a series of tests during its final preparations in April 2020. These tests included balancing the rover, a concept similar to balancing a car's wheels. NASA added weight to the rover chassis to achieve this.
Mars is a tough landscape. It's sandy and rocky and can be punishing on a rover's wheels, as the Curiosity rover knows. Perseverance's six aluminum wheels are made with cleats that give them traction in tricky surface conditions. Each wheel is 20.7 inches (52.5 centimeters) in diameter.
One of the wildest aspects of the Perseverance mission is that it includes a helicopter. The small helicopter, named Ingenuity, is riding on the rover's belly until NASA finds a suitable spot to release it for a test flight.
This image shows the flight model of the helicopter in early 2019. NASA considers Ingenuity a high-risk, high-reward technology demonstration. If it works, it will be a stunning achievement in flight on another planet.
In April 2020, NASA tucked the Mars Ingenuity helicopter into the belly of the Perseverance rover. The Mars-copter was protected by a shell during the descent to the planet's surface in February 2021. NASA intends to deploy the helicopter within a few months.
NASA invited Earth's citizens to ride along with the Perseverance rover to Mars. Nearly 11 million people signed up and their names are now etched on silicon chips that are installed on an aluminum plate on the rover.
The plate also sports an illustration of the Earth, the sun and Mars. There's a special message hidden here, too. Morse code hidden in the sun's rays spells out the phrase "explore as one."
The Perseverance rover won't ever forget its own name. It's wearing a titanium nameplate that's not just decorative. "The plate serves as rock and debris shield to protect a flexible cable that carries power and data from computers in the rover's body to actuators in the arm, as well as to the instruments and the drill in the turret," NASA said.
NASA's Perseverance rover will be doing a lot of sampling of Mars. In May 2020, engineers installed a set of sample tubes into the rover's belly. "Each tube is sheathed in a gold-colored cylindrical enclosure to protect it from contamination," NASA said.
Perseverance will be in charge of placing samples in the tubes, but it will be up to a future Mars mission to pick them up. NASA hopes to collect at least a dozen samples and eventually retrieve them for study on Earth.
Perseverance will be looking for signs of past microbial life in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This photo shows a collection of stromatolites, rounded accumulations of fossilized microbes and sediment, found right here on Earth in Nevada.
"Scientists hope to find something similar in the dry lakebed Perseverance will be exploring on Mars," said NASA.
It takes a big rocket to get off this rock. This United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster escorted NASA's Perseverance rover into space from Florida in July 2020. This look at the Atlas V comes from late May 2020 at Cape Canaveral.
NASA shared this look at the rocket-powered rover descent stage in 2018. This crucial component of the landing system helped to slow the rover's arrival and then lowered the vehicle to the surface using a "sky crane" maneuver.
"Nylon cords spool out to lower the rover 25 feet (7.6 meters) below the descent stage; When the spacecraft senses touchdown at Jezero Crater, the connecting cords are severed and the descent stage flies off," NASA said in describing the landing process.
This is how you pack up a rover for shipping to Mars. NASA shared a look at the Perseverance rover's belly with the descent stage above it and the helicopter in place in May 2020. The rover launched in July 2020.
It takes a lot of specialized equipment to safely land a rover on Mars. The bowl-shaped back shell kept the Perseverance rover protected as it entered the Martian atmosphere.
NASA wanted its Perseverance rover to have a pleasant and gentle arrival on Mars in February 2021. To do that, it needed a big parachute. This still image came from a September 2018 test that mimicked the conditions of Mars.
The successful test was one in a series and gave NASA confidence in the parachute system. "It was the fastest inflation in history of a parachute this size and created a peak load of almost 70,000 pounds of force," NASA said. | aerospace |
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Silicon Sensing Systems will launch a new high performance all-MEMS inertial measurement unit (IMU), AMU30, at Sensors Expo this month. AMU30 is the company’s first IMU to combine high performance motion sensing with full attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) capabilities.
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https://www.wuwf.org/local-news/2016-09-21/nelson-funding-bill-mandates-astronauts-go-to-mars | 2023-05-30T23:11:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646181.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530230622-20230531020622-00370.warc.gz | 0.956572 | 610 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__85826413 | en | Nelson Funding Bill Mandates Astronauts Go To Mars
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson is sponsoring a NASA funding bill, which requires a human to set foot on Mars.
Nelson spoke on the Senate floor earlier this year promoting the bill which was unanimously approved by the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Senate bill 3346 provides the space agency $19.6 billion with a few strings attached. One of them is a commitment to a manned flight to the Red Planet.
“We’re going to send a human crew to Mars in the decade of the 2030s,” Nelson said. “And we are right at the cusp of the breakthrough to show how this is possible.”
Mars is already in NASA’s master plan, as Administrator Charles Boldin said in 2014.
“For one thing, Mars’ formation and evolution are comparable to Earth’s,” said Boldin. “What we learn about the Red Planet may tell us more about our own home planet’s history.”
The rocket which will carry astronauts to Mars had its first successful test in December, 2014. Testing is also underway on the spaceship, Orion.
Sen. Bill Nelson’s call to put a man on Mars comes 54 years after President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to send a man to the moon, and 30 years after Nelson flew as a payload specialist aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.
“On this occasion of 30 years later on something that was transformative to me, I want to take this occasion to say that I am so optimistic of where we are going,” Nelson said. “Because we are going to Mars.”
In May, Mars and the Earth moved to within 47 million miles of each other, the closest in more than a decade and called “Opposition.” The next such encounter will be in 2035. Wayne Wooten, an astronomer at Pensacola State College, says if manned missions are being flown to Mars by then, it could reduce the travel time by several weeks.
“Mars is about as close to the sun and Earth as it’s going to get; at the same time the Earth is overtaking it and passing it closest to Mars,” Wooten said. “This is an opposition about as good as it gets.”
And Florida Senator Bill Nelson says the testing of SLS and Orion will help re-kindle excitement among those who think the space program ended with the close of the shuttle program.
“They will be reminded and re-energized and enthused, as only human space flight can do,” Nelson said.
Other provisions in S-3346 are NASA’s commitments to encourage development of private space companies and programs for some lower-Earth orbit business – including the ferrying of astronauts to the International Space Station perhaps as early as next year. | aerospace |
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The $63 million Lunar Prospector mission concludes Aug. 1 and researchers plan a spectacular end for the little spacecraft -- smacking it into a constantly shaded crater on the moon's South Pole.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers believe there is a good chance the 3,800-mph (6,115-kph) crash of the 354-pound (160-kilo) craft will gouge a hole in the crater deep enough to free a cloud of water vapor if ice is locked in the frigid soil.
Scientists are eager to find water on the moon because it can be chemically reduced and used as a rocket fuel and as a breathable gas. The presence of water would make it possible to build a base on the moon without the need for fuel and oxygen resupply from Earth.
But Von R. Eshleman and George A. Parks, researchers at Stanford University, said in a letter to the journal Science that Lunar Prospector is more apt to collide with a concrete-like mineral inside the crater than ice.
``We don't believe that crater is paved like a roadway, but we do believe the soil may be chemically very much like concrete,'' Eshleman said in an interview.
If there is water on the moon, Eshleman said, it is probably in the form of hydrous, or water-containing, mineral crystals.
Hydrous minerals do contain water, but it is so tightly bound chemically to the crystals that it would take temperatures up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (815 Celsius) to break those bonds and extract useful water, he said.
Eshleman agrees with NASA scientists that if there is any water on the moon -- a highly uncertain possibility -- it is probably in the soils in deeply shaded craters at the lunar poles. But once the water got trapped there, he said, it is very likely the water combined with the dry lunar soil to form the crystal minerals.
David Goldstein, a University of Texas researcher who first suggested smashing the moon with the Lunar Prospector, conceded that some lunar water may be chemically locked in minerals, but he thinks there also might be ice.
``We think the chances of there being free water there is about 10 percent,'' he said.
Goldstein said the energy released by the Lunar Prospector's crash into the moon will vaporize ice, but not separate water from the minerals.
``In a half cubic meter of soil, the crash will raise the temperature by about 400 degrees Kelvin (about 720 F or 382 C),'' said Goldstein, far less than the 1,500 degrees F needed to extract the water from a concrete-like crystal.
This means that if any water is detected from the collision, it probably came from ice, not from hydrous minerals, said Goldstein.
Lunar Prospector was launched Jan. 6, 1998 and has spent 18 months orbiting the moon. It used instruments to map the lunar surface, plot the moon's geology and search for water.
Lunar Prospector will smash into one such shaded crater at about 5:52 a.m. EDT on July 31.
``We selected that day because the funding for Lunar Prospector runs out on Aug. 1,'' said Goldstein, a member of the spacecraft science team. ``We thought this would be a good way to end the mission and still get some science.''
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worked for UL for over 17 years and served in many different positions at the
company. Steven has worked as both a product safety and performance reliability
engineer in the Photovoltaic industries. Additionally, he worked in product
assessment for safety in the Power Systems and Power Supply categories. He has
been involved with photovoltaic module evaluation and testing since 1997 and
its development at the Northbrook office. He has served on many different
safety standards development committees over the years.
joining UL, Steven worked for over 19 years the consumer electronics industry
in direct sales and marketing with Team Electronics of Peoria (IL).
in Peoria, Steve was actively involved with the Peoria L5, a local chapter of
the L5 Society, which promoted space commercialization, colonization and
exploitation for economic benefit of all mankind.
with the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences’ planetarium staff in conducting
model rocketry workshops and events, to increase awareness in space sciences.
also conducted annual model rocketry events at Illinois Central College in East
Peoria during the “Spaceweek” period in July, which commemorated the Apollo 11
mission and helped to increase public awareness in space sciences.
“Challenger Accident” in 1986, Steve and Peoria L5 founder Robin Miller were
called upon by local media to serve as “local experts” in space activities
during coverage of the event. Peoria L5 also conducted a Challenger Memorial
event at Illinois Central College, which provided information on the causes of
the accident as documented in the Rogers Commission Report, as well as
information on how the country should respond, by placing the goals of the
National Commission on Space Report as the blueprint for America’s future in
space exploration and exploitation.
In 1987, a
year after the 51-L accident, Peoria L5 hosted a massive Spaceweek event with
Lakeview Museum, which featured guest speakers from John Deere in microgravity
research, McDonnell-Douglas on Shuttle-based medical product purification,
Comcast Corporation on satellite communications, and others on NASA budget
planning and the National Commission on Space report. The event featured a “Space Banquet,” which
offered guests Shuttle-based rehydratable foods and special guest speakers.
Steve was presented with the 1987 Peoria L5 Space Pioneer Award for his service
and contributions to the space advocacy community.
Peoria L5, Steve founded and operated the Illinois Valley Aerospace Club in his
hometown of Roanoke, Illinois. The club focused on model aircraft and model
rocketry and conducted numerous public launch events in Central Illinois and
the Chicago suburban areas, as representatives of model rocket product
manufacturer, Estes Industries. IVAC’s crowning achievement was conducting
fund raising events from 1977 to 1981, and then taking the club to witness the
first launch of the Space Shuttle, STS-1, as invited guests of NASA on April
12, 1981. The organization operated from 1974 until 1984.
STS-1, Steve has also attended the launches of STS-4 in 1982 and STS-133, the
final flight of Orbiter Discovery on February 24, 2011. He has toured the
Kennedy Space Center 11 times from 1970 to 2012, and toured the Marshall Space
Flight Center in Alabama in 1977, 1981, 1982 and 1993.
actively studied and researched the American Space Program, with an emphasis on
both static and flying space modeling since 1966. His scratch-built Shuttle
launch complex model in 1/144 scale was used by Revell Corporation in 1984 to
illustrate a forthcoming production scale model kit at both the Dallas Hobby
Show and the New York Toy Fair. The same model was used as the centerpiece for
the Spaceweek 87 event at Peoria’s Lakeview Museum. Steve continues an active
space modeling hobby, with published articles of both real and fictional
spacecraft models in numerous magazines and websites.
Once at UL,
Steven became the Primary Designated Engineer for UL 1703 – Photovoltaic
Modules and Panels, from 1997 until 2003. During this time, Steven served as a
U.S. delegate for IEC Technical Committee 82 (Photovoltaics), Working Group 2,
which worked to create and maintain the IEC standards on PV equipment. Steven
also served as a U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) representative to the IEC,
the IEEE and ANSI.
still serves as Senior Regional Lead Reviewer for photovoltaic products. He has
helped provide training for UL engineers from seven different countries in
order to help UL provide more localized service to the PV industry
worldwide. Steven was presented the UL
GM’s Award in 2005 for helping to provide specialized testing for UL PV clients
a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Technologies from Bradley
University and is a Professional Engineer-In-Training in the state of
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training sessions for new Photovoltaic Product Engineers from 2007 to 2009. | aerospace |
http://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/casestudies/motorola-s-broadband-wireless-solution-propels-communications-at-world-s-largest-military-air-show-to-new-heights/ | 2014-07-13T00:39:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1404776435808.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20140707234035-00035-ip-10-180-212-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.901126 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__78393336 | en | Download Now Free registration required
Launched in 1971, The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world's largest military air show, according to Guinness World Records. It needed a high-capacity communications to ensure air show operations remain non-turbulent. The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises needed a high-capacity temporary communications system that could cover a large area to support its biggest yearly event, a military air show. The organization found the ideal solution in Motorola's wireless broadband suite of solutions. The Motorola network hosted a record number of mission-critical applications for the RIAT. More than 160 work stations were connected to the network, which supported 13 different mission critical applications in 15 geographically separate locations. Applications ranged from security communications and video surveillance streaming, and the option for point-of-sale operations.
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https://www.pio.gov.cy/en/press-releases-article.html?id=31560 | 2022-11-30T08:17:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710733.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130060525-20221130090525-00096.warc.gz | 0.933149 | 545 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__68679112 | en | Address by the Minister of Defence, Mr Charalambos Petrides, at the 1st Cyprus Air Force Aviation Conference organised by the Air Force Command of the National Guard, in Larnaka
I welcome the decision of the National Guard and the Air Force to hold this very pertinent and timely conference.
I hope that this conference will become an institution for years to come as it will help to bring about best practices and ideas for the future. The presence of prestigious speakers and distinguished guests from more than 11 countries proves the importance of its thematic areas.
The speed of events on the international stage, the gravity of security threats in Europe and the wider Eastern Mediterranean and the unpredictability of geopolitical changes, force us to reassess our ability and willingness to act in a modern and technologically advanced environment.
The Republic of Cyprus supports the various defence initiatives within the European Union, and advances its defence cooperation with countries in the region.
At the same time, our core task and mission is to defend the national security and interests of Cyprus, mitigate the imminent threat we face from Turkish revisionism, strengthen our resilience, and create a capable deterrent force to protect our citizens and sovereign rights.
In the context I mentioned above, we actively participate in the Permanent Structured Cooperation, in numerous capabilities projects of the European Defence Agency, in EDIDP projects and European Defence Fund Research and Innovation projects.
I would like to highlight that we are participating in a significant number of projects aimed at improving the Air Forces, taking into account the technological developments and the need for interoperability. We have also significantly modified the processes of national defence planning by adopting economies of scale and the European cooperative approach.
In recent years we have also increased our total defence spending, almost reaching the 2% benchmark of Gross Domestic Product, even in 2021, when the pandemic has weighed on public finances. To this end, we will continue to exploit the synergies and opportunities offered by the European Defense Fund and the local defence R&D ecosystem which we fully support.
The Air Force of tomorrow should be an important tool in shaping our strategic goals and achieving our political and military level of ambition. I would like to reiterate that it is a commitment by the Ministry of Defense that the input of experts, operational, academia and defence industry, guides any decisions made in our defence planning. Our vision for a better and more effective military is mutual.
With these thoughts I wish you productive work in the coming days.
I thank you for your interest to participate and I congratulate the National Guard and the Air Force Command for this initiative.
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https://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/u-of-t-engineering-grads-make-aeronautical-history/ | 2023-12-06T20:38:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100603.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206194439-20231206224439-00157.warc.gz | 0.956878 | 957 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__237488757 | en | U of T engineering grads make aeronautical history
July 11, 2013
TORONTO, ON – An aerospace team with strong U of T Engineering connections has made history by winning the $250,000 AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Prize, for the first-ever sustained flight of a human-powered helicopter.
The American Helicopter Association, which established the Prize in 1980, has confirmed that AeroVelo Inc., founded by U of T Engineering alumni Dr. Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson, has successfully met the prize’s rigorous conditions: a flight duration of 60 seconds and reaching an altitude of 3 meters while remaining in a 10-meter square.
Many teams have tried, and failed, to win the prize since it was announced in 1980. But history was made at 12:43 on June 13, when AeroVelo’s Atlas helicopter rose to an altitude of roughly 3.3 metres, maintained flight for approximately 65 seconds and drifted no more than 10 metres. Reichert, who holds a land speed record for cycling, was the pilot for the record-breaking feat.
Reichert and Robertson both graduated from U of T Engineering’s undergraduate Engineering Science program and then took graduate studies at the university’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), where they founded U of T’s Human-Powered Vehicle Design Team. In August 2010, the team’s first project – the construction of the world’s first successful human-powered ornithopter – made aviation history by achieving the age-old dream of human-powered bird-like flight. Called Snowbird, the ornithopter sustained both altitude and airspeed for 19.3 seconds, and covered a distance of 145 metres at an average speed of 25.6 kilometres per hour.
AeroVelo, which includes several current U of T Engineering students among its team members, has been working on ATLAS since May 2012.
Reichert said the team had to overcome a number of challenges, but he was always confident they would succeed. “We came into this very confident that we were capable of winning this prize. At every step we realized that the prize was a lot more difficult than we originally anticipated but at every step we were able to overcome the difficulty and get even closer and closer to the prize.”
He said that one of AeroVelo’s goals is to provide opportunities for engineering students to experience real-world applications of engineering practices and theories. “The project offered a rare opportunity to work at the leading edge of engineering on an incredibly challenging and engaging project. It’s where passion and science meet that you will find the innovative discoveries.”
UTIAS director Professor David Zingg said he was delighted that Reichert and Robertson won the Sikorsky prize. “This is a tremendous accomplishment on so many different levels. First, it is a great technological achievement, requiring ingenuity, knowledge, and experience in a number of challenging technical areas. Second, we have to look closely at some of the ideas developed during the course of the project to see where else they can be applied. Finally, through accomplishing such a challenging feat, Todd and Cameron have provided tremendous inspiration for young engineers both in Canada and around the world.”
U of T Engineering Science Chair Mark Kortschot also congratulated AeroVelo.
“What an achievement! We are incredibly proud of, and impressed by, the Atlas helicopter team,” he said. “Todd and Cameron worked with a team that included many engineering undergraduates. The team has shown the knowledge, skill and ingenuity to do something truly inspirational. We have a strong emphasis on engineering design and entrepreneurship in our Faculty, and the Atlas project is a fantastic example of both.”
Professor Cristina Amon, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, also expressed her pride in the historic achievement. “Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson exemplify the entrepreneurial, innovative spirit of U of T Engineering. Warmest congratulations to Todd and Cameron, and the students who have worked with them on this remarkable accomplishment.”
Founded in 1873, the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto has approximately 5,200 undergraduates, 1,950 graduate students and 240 faculty members. U of T Engineering is at the fore of innovation in engineering education and research and ranks first in Canada and among the top Engineering schools worldwide.
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http://english.kalerkantho.com/online/national/2018/04/22/9562 | 2019-01-20T09:55:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583705091.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20190120082608-20190120104608-00608.warc.gz | 0.974238 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__228110535 | en | US-Bangla Airlines authorities claimed that both captain Abid Sultan and the aircraft, which crashed while landing at Trivubhan International Airport in Nepal on March 12, were fit to fly.
US-Bangla Airlines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Imran Asif came up with the claim on Sunday after the first investigation report of the incident was published recently.
Referring to the separate probe reports made by Nepal and Bangladesh Civil Aviation authorities, Imran Asif said: “Civil aviation authorities of both the countries did not find any technical glitch in the aircraft. Captain Abid Sultan was also mentally and physically sound during the incident happened."
“According to the international law, a pilot can work 14 hours in a day, including 11 flying hours. The media reports that cited the technical glitch of the plane and tiredness of the pilot during the incident, were baseless," he added.
Twenty-Seven Bangladeshi passengers were killed in the plane crash in Trivuban International Airport in Kathmandu on March 12, leaving at least 50 people dead among 71 passengers, including 22 Nepalese and one Chinese nationals. | aerospace |
http://bacajela.blogspot.com/2012/02/dassaults-rafale.html | 2018-07-19T19:13:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591216.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719183926-20180719203926-00190.warc.gz | 0.935952 | 2,036 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__118349005 | en | The Rafale is a 9.5 – 10.5 tonne aircraft powered by 2 SNECMA M88 jet engines, each generating up to 16,500 pounds thrust with afterburner. Canards are used to improve maneuverability, especially for snap-shots in short-range dogfights, and radar shaping lowers the aircraft’s profile relative to 4th generation competitors like the Mirage 2000 or F-16. Carrier capability was a prime motivator behind France’s decision to go it alone with the Rafale program, and variants exist for both land-based and carrier use.
Despite its size, the Rafale can carry an impressive set of ordnance beyond its 30mm DEFA 791 cannon: up to 9.5 tonnes of weapons and stores on 14 pylons (1-2 on center fuselage, 2 below engine intakes, 6 underwing and 2 wingtip pylons), 5 of which are “wet” pylons that can carry heavy stores or fuel tanks. Its RBE2 mechanically-scanned array radar can direct MBDA’s MICA missiles, and future integration of the long-range Meteor is also planned. A combination of Thales/SAGEM’s OST Infrared Scan and Track optronics, and MBDA’s MICA IR medium-range missiles, allows the Rafale to supplement its radar-guided ordnance with no-warning attacks on enemy aircraft from beyond visual range. At present, this capability is only duplicated by Sukhoi’s SU-27/30 family, and advanced MiG-29s.
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The aircraft comes in several broad types, and also comes in different capability tranches.
Carrier-capable Rafales are single-seat fighters, and are referred to as Rafale Ms. They will become the French Navy’s only fighters, replacing the F-8P Crusader fighter, Etendard IVP reconnaissance aircraft, and Super Etendard strike aircraft. They feature the usual set of carrier modifications, including lengthened and strengthened landing gear, strengthened airframe and arrester hook for landings, and carrier landing electronics. The front-center pylon is deleted on this version, in order to make room for that landing gear.
French Air Force Rafales come in 2 broad types: the preferred 2-seat Rafale B, and the single-seat Rafale C. They will eventually replace the SEPECAT Jaguar, Dassault’s Mirage F1, and most of the Mirage 2000 family in French service.
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Within those designations, Dassault’s Rafales also come in capability tranches that are common across all versions.
Initial Rafale F1s are limited to air superiority missions, and included only Rafale-Ms intended as urgent replacements for the 1950s/60s eraF-8P Crusaders that served as the French carrier force’s air superiority fighters. Rafale F1s are capable fighters and represented a huge upgrade for the Marine Nationale, but even in air superiority mode they lack the wide weapons fit of 4+ generation counterparts like the JAS-39 Gripen or modern F-15 Strike Eagles, the optimized cockpit and defensive systems of EADS’ Eurofighter, or the price advantages of Sukhoi’s SU-30 family. Plans will upgrade them to the F3 configuration.
Most of the Rafales currently in service are built to the F2 standard, which adds the ability to carry and use precision ground attack weapons. This standard includes 2-seat air force Rafale-Bs, single-seat Rafale-Cs, and naval Rafale-Ms. Key additions include radar ground attack and terrain-following modes, carriage of laser-guided bombs and Storm Shadow/ Scalp cruise missiles, its OSF IRST sensor and MICA IR missile capability, Link 16 datalink, and a buddy tanker pod for Rafale Ms. The F2 standard does not include integration of independent laser targeting capability, however, which is why French Rafales over Afghanistan had to operate in conjunction with Super Etendard and Mirage 2000D fighters.
Since 2008, all Rafales have been delivered in the F3 standard, which adds the ability to carry French ASMP-A air-launched nuclear missiles, allowing the Rafale to replace the Mirage 2000N in that role. Other modifications include full integration with the Reco NG reconnaissance pod, implementation of all currently planned modes for the RBE2 radar, antiship attack with the Exocet or ANF, the Gerfaut helmet-mounted sight, and support for an improved tanker pack.
The batch ordered in 2009 will also have improved protection suites and Thales’ RBE2-AA AESA radar, replacing the mechanically-scanned RBE2 array on previous aircraft. Full integration with Thales’ Damocles surveillance and targeting pod was expected to be complete by 2010, and Damocles-equipped Rafales were used over Libya in 2011. Efforts to include MBDA’s Meteor long-range air-air missiles are ongoing. Some sources refer to Rafales fielded with all of these modifications as Rafale F4s, but the type has not been formally defined yet.
Nuclear ASMP-A capability is irrelevant to exports, but the addition of an AESA radar and full independent precision strike capability will go a long way toward making the Rafale more competitive with challengers like American F-16/15/18s, Saab’s JAS-39NG Gripen, EADS’ Eurofighter Typhoon, and the oncoming F-35 program.
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Unfortunately for the Rafale, 1985 proved a perilous time to begin an expensive decade-plus weapons project. The end of the Cold War led to a severe funding crunch. Development took a long time, and fielding was delayed for many years. That delay left Rafales with great potential as a 4+ generation fighter, but limited operational capabilities compared to even previous-generation aircraft.
The first operational Rafale-M aircraft was delivered in 2000, to the Marine Nationale, and the type entered full service in 2004. Plans call for delivery of up to 60 Rafale Ms.
The end of 2004 saw initial delivery of 2-seat Rafale B fighters to the French air force, and 2005 saw delivery of the first single-seat Rafale C. The aircraft entered service with the air force in 2006. All Rafale B/C fighters have been delivered as F2s or F3s. Current plans call for delivery of 234 Rafale B/C aircraft by the end of the program, but actual numbers may well be lower.
For previous French fighters, domestic production has been supplemented, and subsidized, by strong export sales. To date, that has not been the case for the Rafale. Questionable precision ground attack capabilities for Rafale F1-F2s, coupled with limited integration beyond French weapons, have hurt the aircraft badly on the export market. To date, it has lost export opportunities in Algeria (SU-30MKA, Rafale was a longshot), Greece (Eurofighter, then F-16),Morocco (F-16C/D), The Netherlands (F-35A or JAS-39NG), Norway (F-35A), Saudi Arabia(Eurofighter), Singapore (F-15SG), South Korea (F-15K), Switzerland (JAS-39), and the UAE (F-16E/F). Other losses are rumored.
Rafale-B (click to view full)
Despite Dassault’s rosy projections for the global fighter market, therefore, this difficulty in finding foreign orders has choked expected investments and started to feed back into platform modernization issues. By 2006, the French armed forces had ordered just 120 Rafales (82 Rafale A-C for the Armée de l’Air, 38 Rafale M for the Marine Nationale) of the planned 294. About 70 Rafales had been delivered by 2009, when a new French purchase raised the order book to 180; but 2009 also saw production cut from 14 to 11 aircraft per year. This is seen as the minimum necessary to maintain the production line.
Additional multi-year buys are possible. Nevertheless, absent export orders, a combination of deteriorating global finances, future demographic crunches in Europe, and the advent of unmanned UCAV projects like the nEUROn throw additional Rafale production orders into question.
As the British have demonstrated, one way to improve a jet’s affordability is to improve maintenance contracts. In 2008, the French defense ministry’s SIMMAD signed a 10-year “Rafale Care” contract with Dassault that paid for availability and flight-hours, rather than spares and man-hours. The British approach would have eventually built toward a contract that made Dassault responsible for all sub-contractors as well, but a decade-long 2012 contract between SIMMAD and Thales made it clear that France’s approach is trending instead to a set of modular performance-based contracts with major suppliers.
Once the French approach has several years of data behind it, that kind of future cost certainty may be helpful on the export front, where fully modernized Rafale versions may be about toreap their first export win in Brazil, were picked as 1 of 2 finalists in India’s MMRCAcompetition, and have reportedly been offered to Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar. They were also re-offered to the UAE, to replace their Mirage 2000-9s. | aerospace |
https://www.lasercentral.com.au/laser-central-launches-into-a-new-chapter/ | 2021-10-28T07:27:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588282.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028065732-20211028095732-00343.warc.gz | 0.970377 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__258455673 | en | For 20 years Laser Central has been striving to be the best in the industry. We are here to provide a high-quality laser cutting service to companies that dream big and reach for the stars.
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As the US shuttle Discovery blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral launch pad on Tuesday, cameras showed a piece of debris falling away from the exterior fuel tank. They also revealed a nick in the protective tiles near the nose landing gear. No doubt controllers could not help thinking about the Columbia disaster in 2003 when foam falling from the fuel tank punched a hole in the wing’s protective heat shield at launch, leading to the shuttle’s disintegration on re-entry. Now, under safety rules introduced after the fiasco, the potential damage to Discovery during the launch will have to be carefully scrutinised. Astronauts have already unfolded and tested an extendable robot arm equipped with a laser. Later they will train in on the orbiter’s wings and nose cap to check for any problems. | aerospace |
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The spacecraft is now orbiting asteroid Bennu at a distance of approximately 882 meters. | aerospace |
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A RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the Mission Control, the crew of the Soyuz TMA-1 has met the cosmonauts of the fifth permanent expedition on the ISS - Russian cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Sergei Treshchev and American astronaut Peggy Witson.
The crew members shook hands. The first to enter the ISS was the Belgian astronaut. Unlike his Russian colleagues, he is making his first space flight.
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https://cowboystatenews.com/wyoming-delegation-applauds-helicopter-upgrade-at-f-e-warren/ | 2023-09-29T05:55:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510498.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929054611-20230929084611-00148.warc.gz | 0.914793 | 393 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__267293060 | en | U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and Congresswoman Liz Cheney, all R-Wyo., applauded the announcement that new MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopters will be based at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne. The Grey Wolf will replace the UH-1N Huey helicopter fleet. F.E. Warren will also receive $75 million in construction funding to support the upgrade.
“I am pleased to hear F.E. Warren will be one of the newest homes to the more modern MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopter,” Enzi said. “These helicopters are faster and more advanced aircrafts, which will help ensure our Air Force can successfully carry out its missions and keep our country safe.”
“Our men and women in uniform deserve nothing but the very best. I’m pleased Wyoming’s F.E. Warren Air Force Base will receive the new MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopters and new construction funding. This substantial investment and upgrade in technology will help protect our missile fields and strengthen America’s nuclear deterrent,” said Barrasso.
“The MH-139 Grey Wolf will help ensure that the land-based leg of our nuclear triad continues to be ready, secure, and safe. I am pleased that F.E. Warren is receiving this upgraded aircraft, which will further enable our men and women in uniform to perform the vital mission of continuing to protect our nation,” Cheney said.
The UH-1N Huey entered operational service in 1970 and provides aerial security coverage to intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fields in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. Air Force officials said the new MH-139 Grey Wolf closes the capability gaps in the areas of speed, range, endurance, payload and survivability in support of the ICBM missions. | aerospace |
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The Edge of Darkness features amazing scenes of places never before seen. Images and information were gathered by key space missions that culminated with groundbreaking discoveries in 2015. The show features a spectacular flight though the great cliffs on Comet 67P, a close look at the fascinating bright “lights” on Ceres, and the first ever close ups of dwarf binary planet Pluto/Charon and its moons.
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They can dock with space stations, repair satellites, and land on planets. The vast reaches of our solar system are open for Orbiter fans to explore Add-ons Free Flight Simulators Listed in this category are a selection of flight simulator packages and games that are free-to-download. Free-to-Download All of the files here are free to download — no registration or subscription is required, however, some of the installation files are quite large so you may benefit from registering for a PRO account which offers uncapped download speed. | aerospace |
http://www.iheartradio.ca/am-1150/news/aircraft-incident-at-kelowna-airport-1.8490751 | 2018-12-16T11:00:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827639.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216095437-20181216121437-00635.warc.gz | 0.982012 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__162540543 | en | Aircraft incident at Kelowna airport
Just after 10:30 this morning (Oct 11), there was an incident involving a private aircraft at Kelowna International Airport.
YLW Communications Advisor Jessica Hewitt says "a privately registered Quest Kodiak was on approach, and it advised the air traffic control tower of a possible mechanical issue".
She says as a safety precaution "our emergency response teams were dispatched, and the aircraft landed safely at approximately at 10:37 am and there was no disruption to scheduled flight service."
Hewitt says the three people on board were not injured.
The cause of the mechanical issue is being investigated. | aerospace |
https://www.theepochtimes.com/william-shatners-blue-origin-space-mission-delayed_4042944.html | 2021-11-29T15:32:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358774.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129134323-20211129164323-00289.warc.gz | 0.95717 | 250 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__145957679 | en | Forecasted winds pushed the launch up to Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.
In a Sunday press release, Blue Origin said, “As part of today’s flight readiness review, the mission operations team confirmed the vehicle has met all mission requirements, and astronauts began their training today. Weather is the only gating factor for the launch window.”
Shatner’s trip on Jeff Bezos’ rocket was first reported at the end of last month. He and the company have since confirmed it and on Thursday, he told the audience at his ComicCon panel that he’s “terrified” for his mission.
Related: William Shatner to Go to Space
“I’m Captain Kirk and I’m terrified going to space,” the Star Trek actor quipped. “You know, I’m not really terrified. Yes, I am. It comes and goes like a summer cold.”
Shatner, 90, will become the oldest person to travel to space when the mission does launch. He will be accompanied by Audrey Powers, the vice president of Blue Origin’s New Shepard mission and flight operations. | aerospace |
http://www.flightoptions.com/operations/scheduling-and-dispatch.html | 2023-03-20T22:33:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943562.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20230320211022-20230321001022-00285.warc.gz | 0.935992 | 348 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__163676330 | en | Scheduling & Dispatch
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They’re responsible for filing flight plans with the crew members and for handling all the international paperwork associated with flying outside the United States, from flight plans to customs. Also, Dispatch monitors weather patterns and airport closures and updates for a proactive approach to achieving operational efficiency. Our Pilots look to Dispatch for current, real-time information regarding their flight plans. With so many different elements to track, our Dispatchers are quick-thinking and creative in finding the perfect solution to keep our operation running as efficiently as possible.
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Constantly reviewing trips and coordinating with flight crews to ensure continuous operational safety and success, our Schedulers find solutions that work around weather delays, aircraft maintenance and short notice travel requests from Owners. Schedulers assign crew to aircraft to maximize trip coverage, monitor duty times for pilots, assign all the trips to tail numbers and assess demand for the days ahead. Our Schedulers are truly professional problem solvers, finding the perfect fit for each moving piece of the puzzle. | aerospace |
https://www.esteponapress.com/how-many-rovers-are-on-mars/ | 2024-04-25T15:29:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297295329.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425130216-20240425160216-00349.warc.gz | 0.971118 | 1,022 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__16312923 | en | As humanity approaches Mars colonization, a logical question arises — how much do we know about the Red Planet and which technology has helped us gain the knowledge we have? Even though there are still plenty of things to be discovered about our red neighbour, we already know a lot thanks to multiple interplanetary stations and rovers that have been roaming this planet since 1961. To date, there have been a total of seven rovers on Mars, and three of them are still active now, transmitting valuable data back to Earth. But before we tell you how many rovers are on Mars now and which data they are sending, let’s take a quick look at how this planet’s exploration began.
USSR attempts to land the first rover on Mars
USSR was the first country to land spacecraft on Mars, even though that particular tech can only be called a rover with a stretch. There were a total of three spacecraft in the Soviet’s Prop-M series, and they were all tethered probes rather than independent rovers. Soviet Mars 2 managed to reach the necessary orbit and even started with a descent, but soon enough, it crashed on the surface. Mars 3 landed successfully but shut down after 14.5 seconds of transmitting. Still, it made history as the first man-made spacecraft to ever transmit data from Mars, which is why we are compelled to list it here. Later in the 1970s, USSR repeatedly attempted to land more interplanetary rovers, but none of their spacecraft reached this planet’s surface.
US Rovers on Mars: Success After Two Decades
Unlike the Soviets, the US took some time to carefully prepare for a Mars landing, which is probably why its rovers were (and still are) way more successful. Since 1997, US rovers have been transmitting valuable scientific data from the Red Planet. So, let’s take a look at some facts about rovers on Mars that were the first to send us something of value.
Sojourner landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, and became the first truly successful example of the interplanetary rovers space industry can justly be proud of. Its stay was relatively short — slightly over two months — but during this time, Sojourner sent back 550 images and performed 15 rock analyses. According to Orbital Today, it was data from this rover that allowed scientists to determine the approximate size of Mars’s Metallica core, placing it somewhere 1300-2000 km.
Spirit landed on Mars on January 4, 2004, and was supposed to stay operational for about the same time as Sojourner. However, this rover outperformed itself and kept roaming this planet for two years instead of three months. This ‘stubborn’ piece of equipment helped establish that Mars soil is rich in silicates.
Opportunity followed soon after Spirit, landing on Mars on January 25, 2004. Similar to its twin, it stayed on the Red Planet for years, posting its last stats update on June 10, 2018. Thanks to this tech, we discovered that Mars could have had a humid climate once. Opportunity also found a meteorite on this planet’s surface, which was the third meteorite discovered beyond Earth.
What rovers are on Mars now?
The USA is not the only country to have sent Mars rovers. Right now, three spacecraft are active on our red neighbour — two from NASA and one from China. So, what are the rovers on Mars still working?
This spacecraft is now the oldest still-functioning Mars rover, in operation since August 6, 2012. One of its most notable findings is the discovery of methane in the atmosphere, as well as clay deposits and organic compounds in the soil. This same equipment greatly contributed to analysing climate and surveying mountain slopes.
Perseverance is a relatively new tech that has been roaming Mars since February 18, 2021. Its primary goal is to look for convenient landing sites because humanity today is clearly set on colonizing its red neighbour. As a bonus, this rover carries a small helicopter, Ingenuity — the first aircraft to have successfully flown into Mars’ atmosphere.
Zhurong is the first rover not made by NASA to successfully make a Mars landing on May 15, 2021. Since then, this spacecraft has been actively looking for traces of past life on the Red Planet and conducting a series of other important observations in this process. It has already sent back detailed topographic maps, along with studies of soil, ice, and ionosphere.
Locations of rovers on Mars are regularly monitored by their respective space agencies, and contact is maintained at all times unless dust storms and other outside factors interfere with the signals. Besides, plans for sending more rovers are already in motion, so within the next few years, we may get to monitor more rovers than the three we have now. | aerospace |
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/tv-and-film-first-look-at-netflixs-space-force-with-steve-carell-and-lisa-kudrow-20200408 | 2020-10-22T18:00:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880014.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022170349-20201022200349-00321.warc.gz | 0.9729 | 499 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__99813089 | en | First Look At Netflix's Space Force Starring Steve Carell And Lisa Kudrow
The streaming service announced today that Emmy and SAG Award-winning actress Lisa Kudrow has joined the cast and will play Maggie Naird, the wife of General Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell).
Maggie is a Washington Air Force wife who has sublimated parts of herself to her husband's career for two decades. But as he takes on his biggest challenge, she is growing in a different direction.
Howard Klein will serve as executive producer, he's worked on The Office (which also starred Steve Carell) and Parks and Recreation.
The official synopsis for Space Force reads: "A decorated pilot with dreams of running the Air Force, four-star general Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell) is thrown for a loop when he finds himself tapped to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the US Armed Forces: Space Force.
"Skeptical but dedicated, Mark uproots his family and moves to a remote base in Colorado where he and a colourful team of scientists and 'Spacemen' are tasked by the White House with getting American boots on the moon (again) in a hurry and achieving total space dominance."
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From co-creators Carell and Greg Daniels (The Office), Space Force is a new kind of workplace comedy, where the stakes are sky high and the ambitions even higher.
Carell will reportedly earn a record-setting salary in his first role in a scripted comedy since Michael Scott, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It was revealed back in January that it's called Space Force and is inspired by Donald Trump's bizarre plan of the same name - a branch of the military that centred on fighting aliens, or some such weirdness.
When Trump announced the space force last year, many people were intrigued how that would work.
He said they would be in charge of defending American satellites from interference from other countries - which, to be fair, is a legitimate threat.
Trump said about the project: "The Air Force is going to focus on the Air Force. We need a separate branch, and we're working on that. It's called the Space Force, which is very exciting. People love it, people love it, they get it, and they love it."
Space Force will launch on Netflix on 29 May.
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/ | 2023-03-27T10:01:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948620.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327092225-20230327122225-00426.warc.gz | 0.892337 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__262406311 | en | Published on Jul 20, 2016
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency’s EPIC camera on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite. The camera has now recorded a full year of life on Earth from its orbit at Lagrange point 1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth, where it is balanced between the gravity of our home planet and the sun.
EPIC takes a new picture every two hours, revealing how the planet would look to human eyes, capturing the ever-changing motion of clouds and weather systems and the fixed features of Earth such as deserts, forests and the distinct blues of different seas. EPIC will allow scientists to monitor ozone and aerosol levels in Earth’s atmosphere, cloud height, vegetation properties and the ultraviolet reflectivity of Earth.
The primary objective of DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force, is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA.
For more information about DSCOVR, visit: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Kayvon Sharghi
Music Credit: Beside You, Dominic Marsh and Giovanni Tria on Sound Pocket Music
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12312 | aerospace |
http://www.flyrightinc.com/about/ | 2017-08-18T16:24:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886104704.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818160227-20170818180227-00001.warc.gz | 0.942726 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__51018430 | en | FlyRight Inc. offers initial, recurrent and ancillary flight training in FAA approved full motion simulators. As an FAA-approved 142 Flight Training Center, we have achieved the highest level of accreditation from the FAA. Our programs are insurance company approved and based on leading-edge training knowledge.
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https://www.nwksradio.com/goodland-grad-helps-to-explore-the-final-frontier/ | 2021-10-20T16:29:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585322.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020152307-20211020182307-00449.warc.gz | 0.930636 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__170281677 | en | From the GHS Class of 1974..Terry Leonhart, explained to his Cousin Janis Elfers, how the Space-X craft will take to space later in 2014 after major testing. Terry is QualityAssurance Specialist at space Systems Group in Louisville, Colorado. Many of his projects have parts son craft now on Mars..and many craft orbiting the Sun..and in deep, deep space. Leonhart returned to Goodland for a High Plains Museum presentation Saturday. The Museum is hosting s Smithsonian Exhibit on views from space. Sierra Nevada Corporation works close with NASA on many Spacecraft parts. | aerospace |
http://bdmilitary.blogspot.com/2006/12/ | 2018-07-21T02:15:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592150.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721012433-20180721032433-00461.warc.gz | 0.927991 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__88295017 | en | Monday, December 11, 2006
Armed forces deployed across Bangladesh
The Bangladesh armed forces have been deployed across the country to aid the civil administration in maintaining law and order after the country's main opposition launched weeks of violent protests that disrupted life in the populous nation and killed scores. BMF correspondents from Bangladesh and around the world will bring 24 hour unparallel coverage on the tense security situation prevailing in Bangladesh. Please log in to the forum if you are an existing member otherwise if you are a new members register in the forum for access.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Helicopter capable OPV's to join Bangladesh Navy
A pair of Royal Navy Castle class offshore patrol vessels will join the Bangladesh Navy’s fleet in 2007 according to various international naval magazines. The Castle class OPV’s are capable of accommodating a helicopter up to the size of a Sea King anti-submarine and transport helicopters.
These ships have been designed with dual capabilities with the ability to carry out fishery protection and offshore patrols. Fitted with a sophisticated navigation and tracking system to locate and intercept other vessels.
Bangladesh Air Force to purchase 8 attack helicopters
The Bangladesh Air Force plans to purchase 8 new helicopters with ground attack helicopters in 2007. The Prime Minister, who also holds the defence ministry portfolio, mentioned in her final speech last month to the Bangladesh armed forces that the Bangladesh Air Force’s helicopter fleets capabilities will be increased.
It has been learned that the Bangladesh Air Force will most likely acquire Russian made Mi-17 armed helicopters and Bell helicopters from the United States.
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http://www.aerodromineu.com/ | 2022-01-26T21:05:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304961.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126192506-20220126222506-00530.warc.gz | 0.94978 | 123 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__45610908 | en | Welcome to the website of Aerodrom Ineu
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http://www.defenseworld.net/news/20252/UAE_Royal_Injured__4_Soldiers_Killed_in_Yemen_Helicopter_Crash | 2018-07-16T20:23:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589455.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716193516-20180716213516-00256.warc.gz | 0.948788 | 957 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__102115454 | en | A member of the UAE royal family, Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 27, was injured while four soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed while on duty in Yemen’s shabwa Province on August 11.
Two others were also hurt when the helicopter went down the cause of which was described as mechanical failure by UAE’s National newspaper. The UAE Army is part of the Saudi-led coalition which is fighting a brutal war against the Houti Shiite rebels who had earlier deposed Yemen’s Sunni president.
Prince Sheikh Zayed is the grandson of the country's founding father and has served in the elite Presidential Guard.
The funerals of four UAE soldiers who died in a helicopter crash in Yemen on Friday took place on Saturday night.
The helicopter was on “a regular mission” in Shabwa province in Yemen while taking part in a Saudi-led campaign targeting Shiite rebels there, the newspaper said.
A report in Iran’s Press TV said quoting Yemen's official Saba news agency, the chopper crashed in the Amqeel area of Ar Rawdah district in the south-central Yemeni province of Shabwah on Friday afternoon.
It showed the photograph of a crashed chopper which it claimed was the UAE Armed Forces helicopter.
The US State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale of 28 AH-64E Remanufactured Apache Attack Helicopters and 9 new AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopters estimated $3.5 billion to the United Arab Emirate
A United Arab Emirates military helicopter crashed into the sea on Sunday, killing two crew members, the countrys armed forces said in a statement. The aircraft crashed “during a routine flight over international waters, causing the death of its pilot and co-pilot,” said the statement on the official WAM news agency
The United Arab Emirates Joint Aviation Command (JAC) has selected the AgustaWestland AW609 TiltRotor for search and rescue (SAR) missions. Delivery of the first three AW609 TiltRotors to the JAC, with three additional options, is expected to start in the 2019 timeframe
Russian Helicopters is likely to commence talks with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the possibility of joint manufacturing of Helicopters in the Gulf Arab state. The companys director general Alexander Mikheev was quoted by Sputnik News as saying, “We are holding talks and see that here we can make several major, interesting investment programs together with the local partners, which are ready to open their market for our joint helicopter projects in the future
The United Arab Emirates have shown interest in purchasing Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets and will likely sign the contract with Russia for atleast dozen jets by this year end, a Russian news agency reports. "They want a lot, over a squadron but the exact number will be specified in the course of negotiations that may be held in November during an air show in Dubai," a source in the system of military and technical cooperation told
The Saudi-led coalition has claimed that a residential area it bombed in Yemen Friday had housed a rebels communications center but admitted to the collateral damage that caused 14 deaths. The spokesman for the Arab Coalition forces Col
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http://linker.aero/services | 2018-07-19T03:54:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590493.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719031742-20180719051742-00566.warc.gz | 0.902373 | 128 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__107292770 | en | ADD ITEMS TO CART, PLEASE
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Embraced by general aviation pilots for its numerous flight applications, low cost, and ease of use, the popular Apple iPad tablet is catching on in the more structured environment of airline flight decks, according to Aviation News.
To reap the weight and fuel savings gained from eliminating paper manuals and charts from the flight deck, Alaska Airlines issued iPads to 1,400 pilots, and United Continental committed to distributing the devices to 11,000 pilots.
Winning approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use iPads for digital charts and manuals in all phases of flight, including takeoff and landing, American Airlines took the utility of the tablet one step further.
Involved in each of these efforts was Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen, which has embraced the iPad as an ideal storage and display platform for its navigation software products when used as an electronic flight bag (EFB).
“What we find in the iPad is a really superb platform,” said Rick Ellerbrock, Jeppesen chief strategist for aviation. “It’s just ideally made for this kind of application for a number of reasons. The form factor, the cost, the robustness, the stability, the readability, the display characteristics are outstanding. It’s got a nice infrastructure for delivering electronic content.” | aerospace |
https://hansenfineart.co.uk/products/stephen-brown-heading-home-for-christmas-boeing-707-american-airlines | 2023-12-08T06:51:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100724.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208045320-20231208075320-00651.warc.gz | 0.937566 | 89 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__19424439 | en | Stephen Brown - Heading Home For Christmas - Boeing 707 - American Airlines
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https://www.trentonsystems.com/blog/integrated-base-defense-ibd | 2023-12-11T22:50:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679518883.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211210408-20231212000408-00024.warc.gz | 0.928203 | 2,991 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__147160275 | en | Integrated Base Defense: How the U.S. Air Force Protects Its Assets
by Brett Daniel, on Sep 24, 2020 10:42:52 AM
Photo: Integrated Base Defense (IBD) as we know it today has been a topic of conversation for the Air Force for more than a decade now. But what is IBD, and why has the Air Force declared 2020 the "Year of Integrated Base Defense?" Learn all about IBD in this blog post.
Table of Contents
- What is integrated base defense?
- Where does the concept of integrated base defense come from?
- How are integrated base defense objectives achieved?
- Is integrated base defense effective?
- Why is integrated base defense important in 2020?
- Trenton Systems: A Trusted Choice for Integrated Base Defense
When aircraft are removed from their natural environment of the air and returned to their bases, they become vulnerable, like any bird of prey in its nest.
- Joseph Milner, Colonel, United States Air Force
Milner’s quote, taken from his Air Force Research Institute Paper on the need for Integrated Base Defense (IBD), opens a dialogue about a defense dilemma that should be discussed more often: how the U.S. Air Force protects the assets that allow Air Force personnel to do their jobs, protect themselves and others, ensure air force base security, and in turn, achieve effective national security.
The U.S. Air Force has officially declared 2020 the "Year of Integrated Base Defense," and in late July, held AFWERX Fusion 2020, where leaders discussed the Air Force's Base of the Future initiative.
The initiative is made of up six challenges, one of which is entitled "Base Security and Defense." Its mission is to "protect the people and critical resources" of U.S. Air Force bases by enhancing security and strengthening perimeter defenses. This is, in a nutshell, what IBD is all about.
In this blog post, we’ll talk about integrated base defense, what it is, its history, its objectives, and its future, particularly in the context of the emerging use of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and edge computing in military applications.
We'll also discuss what the Air Force Security Forces had to say about IBD at AFWERX, as well as why you should choose made-in-USA quality and reliability for your IBD and other mission-critical applications every single time.
Graphic: In practice, IBD is a concerted effort between military and non-military forces to better protect U.S. Air Force bases around the world. It also encompasses the technologies used to accomplish this goal.
What is integrated base defense?
Integrated base defense, or IBD, is an umbrella term encompassing a host of activities that the United States Air Force carries out to protect its installations – the air force bases themselves - the bases’ assets – the aircraft, the base defense operations centers (BDOCs), and other interior and exterior base facilities - and most importantly, the members of the Air Force stationed at these bases.
The primary goal of IBD is to facilitate seamless cohesion, communication, and interoperability between existing base defense systems and cohorts to augment and improve overall base defense efforts.
According to the Physical Security Enterprise & Analysis Group (PSEAG), an arm of the Office of the Secretary of Defense responsible for DoD security equipment research, development, testing, and evaluation, these improvements include:
- Automated display of threat data
- Fusion and correlation of base defense information
- Assessment and dissemination of threat information via a shared Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Reduction of troop-to-task ratio and training requirements
According to a summary of a $495 million IBD contract won by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), L3Harris Technologies, and Northrop Grumman in 2009, there are 10 threat-related elements of IBD:
Graphic: The establishment of IBD stems from previous insufficiencies in air base protection efforts.
Where does the concept of integrated base defense come from?
Historically, the Air Force has considered threats originating outside of air base perimeters to be the responsibility of the other branches of the military or the nations in which U.S. Air Force bases are located, according to an Air Force Research Institute Paper authored by Col. Joseph Milner of the U.S. Air Force.
In this paper, Milner contends that events that occurred during the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the conflict in Iraq prove that these forces, as disparate, standalone sources of defense operations, are either generally lacking with regard to the effective execution of base defense operations, or they downplay certain risks that many air base commanders consider critically important to overall base security.
In response to these insufficiencies, the Air Force began developing IBD strategies and tactics, with instructive documents being released in the mid-2000s.
How are integrated base defense objectives achieved?
According to Milner, IBD emphasizes ground intelligence collection efforts, applies an interoperative defense systems approach, and creates a concerted base defense counterinsurgency plan between joint bases, the other branches of the military, host nations, and local civil authorities.
You can think of IBD as an “all hands on deck” approach to air base defense, with numerous military, government, and non-government forces involved in defending a base. In addition, the American military forces use intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data collected and processed by high-performance computing platforms to achieve their IBD objectives.
Photo: U.S. Air Force personnel at Joint Base Balad in Iraq, where the first operational IBD test was performed. Credit: Military Bases
Is integrated base defense effective?
Milner’s research paper documents the first-ever IBD test at length. A summary of the paper is provided below, but you can read the entire study here.
The first operational IBD test occurred in 2008 at Joint Base Balad in Iraq, which experienced more than 400 attacks from insurgents in 2006 alone.
Previously, defense efforts at Balad had been mainly reactive: responses to insurgents were determined on the spot as an attack was happening.
But with IBD in place, proactivity was key: intelligence analysts and aircraft would gather data on Balad’s exterior terrain and use it to enhance security patrols. This, in turn, gave the local U.S. Army forces more time to develop and execute counterinsurgency (COIN) operations, with local government and non-government forces eventually being integrated into this force-symbiotic COIN plan.
As a result of this newly implemented, IBD-focused plan, the number of attacks on Balad decreased by 75 percent, and miss distances doubled. Overall, enemy loss of effectiveness increased by more than 90 percent.
Graphic: A rise in complex technologies that could potentially threaten U.S. Air Force bases is partly why IBD continues to be an essential initiative for the Air Force today.
Why is integrated base defense important in 2020?
As mentioned, the Air Force has declared 2020 the official year of IBD, and given the rise of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and edge computing technologies in military operations around the world, integrated base defense security systems (IBDSS), with an emphasis on advanced cybersecurity protocols, is important now more than ever.
Threats to American air force bases may be better managed with IBD, but they’re becoming more complex, covert, and unpredictable due to advancements in technology. As such, the Air Force and its partners must continue to facilitate and innovate IBD through cohesive and effective collaboration between both personnel and the digital defense systems supporting related operations.
At the 2020 virtual event for AFWERX Fusion, the Air Force’s premier innovation program, Heidi Scheppers, deputy director, Security Forces, HQ AF/A4S, discussed the initial Integrated Base Defense Security Systems (IBDSS) program development document authored by the Air Force in 2005.
She stressed how the program has struggled to keep up over the years.
“When we drafted this document, we realized that we need systems designed to make decisions better and faster in order to respond to the many threats appropriately,” Scheppers said. “However, the IBDSS program has not kept pace with evolving threats, operations, technologies, policy guidance, or defense/security/law enforcement industry standards and best practices. Sustainment efforts to upgrade or refresh systems continue falling further and further behind, with some fielded systems in service for over 20 years.”
Referring specifically to the future of air base defense, Schepper said:
“We are integrating advanced technologies to ‘sense’ the base air picture and enable seamless physical to digital layered defense. The result is a digital layered defense system across all domains, using AI, ML, edge computing, UAS, and kinetic effects.”
And at the heart of the Air Force’s push for innovative IBDSS, Scheppers said, is a cyber-secure, multi-domain command, control and communications architecture powered by affordable, non-proprietary, COTS computer systems with open design principles - ergo, and open systems architecture.
According to Schepper, this architecture encompasses four aspects of defense:
- Defender Multi-Domain Command, Control and Communications (DMDC3) – to provide a platform that integrates computing power, means of communication, and situational awareness tools
- Platform for Integrated Command, Control, and Communications and Responsive Defense (PICARD) – to ensure ongoing development is performed with open design principles and open systems management, discarding outdated technology and implementing low-cost technology
- Defender Command, Control and Communications (DC3) – to integrate systems and networks in IBDSS and transport data in any form to get timely, relevant information to Air Force personnel in real or near-real time
- Defender Multi-Domain Situational Awareness Tool (DMSAT) – to ensure a mobile common operating picture interface and kit for all defenders
“These four aspects together will transform command and control centers with seamless integration. As a result, Security Forces will receive much more relevant and actionable information to better protect the manpower and assets. We must continue to innovate and adapt. This will ensure that the US military maintains our technical and tactical advantages that we have enjoyed since WW1.”
Photo: Trenton Systems' 2U rugged servers (above) are powering IBD systems this very second.
Trenton Systems: A Trusted Choice for Integrated Base Defense
Trenton Systems’ made-in-USA, mission-critical servers power integrated base defense security systems at U.S. Air Force bases around the world.
Situated in both racks and transit cases, these 2U rugged servers are used to surveil the bases’ interior and surrounding areas for potential threats and insurgents, delivering accurate, timely, relevant, and usable information to Air Force personnel in real or near-real time.
Due to the fast-paced nature of this mission-critical application, these systems must be in a constant state of operation, able to store and process surveillance data quickly, and fitted with high-powered graphics processing units (GPUs) and lots of PCI Express (PCIe) slots to run the bases’ surveillance programs efficiently and support any additional system expansion.
To support these outcomes, we recommended a 2U rugged server comprised of:
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This is just one configuration, of course. Trenton Systems specializes in both custom and COTS solutions to serve the needs and requirements of its military, industrial, and commercial customers.
Choosing Trenton Systems for your military, commercial, and industrial applications also comes with a host of benefits, including but not limited to:
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As discussed in this blog post and by our nation’s top Air Force leaders, the rise of AI, ML, UAS, and edge computing technologies in defense and warfare operations around the world poses a truly unique threat to air base defense, cybersecurity, and ultimately, national security.
Truly reliable and trusted rugged servers and workstations crafted within the nation’s borders and utilizing advanced cybersecurity software from leading cybersecurity companies are important now more than ever.
Given the continued proliferation of counterfeit parts, the infiltration of America's government and top industries through foreign microchips, email hacks, and other avenues, and the growing weaponization of AI and ML against American defense operations around the world, trusted rugged servers and workstations made in America with stringent quality control and top-notch cybersecurity measures should be the obvious choice for America's mission-critical defense systems.
Trenton Systems checks every box, from made-in-USA quality and reliability, the latest high-performance technologies, truly rugged durability, and advanced cybersecurity. Best of all, we’re here to cater to the needs of your program or application, and we'll do it right here at home, with you. | aerospace |
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Basic Description: As a Field Operations Technician (FOT) at Juniper Unmanned, you will be held accountable for more than just piloting an aircraft. A drone pilot at Juniper is responsible for conducting field data acquisition with a variety of tools including unmanned aircraft and remote sensors. You will frequently travel across the country to acquire high quality data in a safe, effective, and compliant manner. You will take direction from the Data Acquisition Manager, who provides all information needed to accomplish a mission. During data collection, you will always safely operate a multi-rotor aircraft within FAA Part 107 compliance. While operating in the field, you will be responsible for capturing detailed, high-quality images of asset infrastructure, communicating effectively, assessing risk, problem solving, and establishing a safe operational environment.
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- Able to safely fly multi-rotor platforms with competence in a variety of demanding scenarios.
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- This is a full-time position. | aerospace |
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https://www.droneuniversities.com/drones/jim-williams-formerly-of-the-faa-speaks-freely-about-unmanned-flight/ | 2020-01-18T09:02:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250592394.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20200118081234-20200118105234-00489.warc.gz | 0.97562 | 462 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__160135724 | en | Recently, Jim Williams, who managed the FAA office to integrate drones into the U.S. airspace retired. He then had the opportunity to speak at McKenna Long & Aldrige’s unmanned aircraft systems symposium in Washington, D.C. Safely outside of the FAA, Williams had some interesting things to say about the route and challenges to drones operating safely in American skies.
Here are some points that stood out as he reflected on his time at the FAA, and looked forward to the future of unmanned flight:
- He expects drone package delivery in five years.
- Well funded, Amazon’s drone program is a juggernaut, but he believes they are out of touch with the challenges of flying safely in cities.
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When moderator Mark Dombroff asked Williams about his greatest disappointment with respect to drones, he cited the time it took to release the proposed rules for drones weighing under 55 pounds. These missed deadlines were a point of frustration for many in the drone community.
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https://publiclawlibrary.org/emergency-landing-and-temporary-grounding-investigation-into-alaska-airlines-mid-air-incident-raises-safety-concerns-for-boeing-737-max-9-fleet/ | 2024-02-27T15:41:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474676.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227153053-20240227183053-00342.warc.gz | 0.959584 | 526 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__75171365 | en | PORTLAND, Ore. – An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport on Friday night when a section of the aircraft blew out shortly after takeoff. This incident prompted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to temporarily ground certain Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft. The situation has raised concerns among aviation experts regarding the cause of the mechanical malfunction and the potential legal consequences.
Robert Hedrick, an attorney with Aviation Law Group in Seattle, classified this event as a “preventable accident” under federal law. He noted that the specific aircraft involved in the incident was relatively new, having been in operation for only two months. Hedrick expressed confidence in the NTSB and the FAA to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Although social media footage indicated that a passenger window panel had been blown out, there was no risk of passengers being sucked out of the plane due to the FAA’s stringent standards for seat attachment to the fuselage, according to Hedrick.
Hedrick also offered advice to future passengers, suggesting that they should promptly report any abnormalities or concerns to the flight crew. As for potential lawsuits or injury claims, it is too early to determine the legal ramifications. Hedrick believes that such claims may stem from physical injuries resulting from the aircraft’s depressurization, which can cause inner ear problems, as well as emotional distress experienced by passengers.
The missing door is a significant question that could hold the key to understanding the cause of the incident. Hedrick expressed the hope that an extensive search would be conducted to locate the door, as it would be crucial in determining how it failed.
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In summary, an emergency landing due to a blown-out section of an Alaska Airlines aircraft has led to the temporary grounding of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 planes by the FAA. Aviation experts have raised concerns about the mechanical malfunction and possible legal consequences. The NTSB and the FAA will conduct a thorough investigation. Passengers were not at risk of being sucked out of the plane due to stringent seat attachment standards. The missing door remains a key element in determining the cause of the incident. Alaska Airlines has begun inspecting the grounded fleet, with 18 planes cleared for service. | aerospace |
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https://documentaries.io/the-mir-space-station-and-how-it-came-to-be-inventions-that-shook-the-world-spark/ | 2020-10-30T19:53:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107911229.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20201030182757-20201030212757-00615.warc.gz | 0.897891 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__130012510 | en | Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft.
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By Gregory MonePosted 08.13.2007 at 4:32 pm 1 Comment
Start saving now. A new player in the space hotel market has announced that it's planning to welcome guests in 2012. The price? A three-night stay will run $4 million.
To get its orbital hotel rooms into place, The Galactic Suite Project, as it's called, will launch each one independently. Tourist trips will start with an extended training program set on a tropical island. Then a rocket-powered ship will carry four passengers and two pilots into orbit, where they'll rendezvous with the hotel. While it's unclear whether the company's technology is on track for that 2012 deadline, the group certainly has its sales pitch down. My favorite line: "Imagine being in a weightless spa while watching 15 sunsets a day." Uh, no, sorry, can't do that. Guess I'll have to scrounge up that $4 million to see what it's like.—Gregory Mone
By Gregory MonePosted 07.20.2007 at 12:42 pm 8 Comments
Traditional spacesuits are bulky, heavy, unwieldy and, let's be honest, they just dont look all that cool. Now MIT aeronautics researcher Dava Newman and her team are developing the Biosuit, next-generation exploration garb that will enable astronauts to be more mobile, flexible and even runway-ready. The suit, which we first reported on here, will be skin-tight, but still easy to move around in. In contrast, suited-up astronauts expend about 70% of their energy just trying to bend their heavily-encased arms and legs. While Newman is primarily focused on designing the suit for missions to the Moon and Mars, and enabling astronauts to freely explore the surface without wearing themselves out, the sleek, swank design also looks perfect for space hotel nightlife.—Gregory Mone
By Patrick Di JustoPosted 05.20.2005 at 2:00 am 0 Comments
As Ansari X Prize champs Burt Rutan and Paul Allen and their band of multimillionaire brothers—Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and hotelier Robert Bigelow—close in on developing the launch vehicles and orbital habitats that will open space travel to the well-heeled tourist, one big question remains: What are you going to do up there? | aerospace |
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https://sscspace.com/ssc-to-collaborate-with-colombia-in-space/ | 2024-02-22T02:17:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473598.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221234056-20240222024056-00865.warc.gz | 0.931982 | 525 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__106510454 | en | Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Government of Colombia regarding joint space activities. It aims to strengthen Colombia’s ambitions to develop its national space program, with the help of Swedish research, competence and established space operations infrastructure.
SSC will offer its support utilizing the vast experience of satellite communication and operations as well as rocket launch activities. This expertise is based on the 50 years of experience from operating the most versatile space base Esrange in Sweden as well as the company’s global network of satellite ground stations. Additionally, the LoI includes utilization of space data to fight climate change and enable a more sustainable region in South America, where SSC can provide game changing support through the subsidiary GlobalTrust.
The collaboration with KTH also provides an academic exchange in various research disciplines, not least student rocket and balloon campaigns that have long been an important part of the space industry. It also includes increased academic exchange such as exchange of students and professors.
Through the establishment of a national space programme, Colombia aims to develop the country’s capabilities in rocket and satellite missions, satellite ground station development, earth observation and space data analytics for climate research and security, applications in artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security. The LoI also includes the exchange of experience to support the establishment of a Colombian space agency.
“Cross-national collaborations are crucial for the global space sector to keep up with the growing societal needs for space-related services. With this LoI we enable further collaborations to, for example, combat climate change affecting the Amazon rainforrest and agriculture sector in Colombia, as well as industrial growth and security in the region. Together, SSC and KTH is well-suited to establish a long lasting collaboration that beneficial for all parties in this joint endeavor,” says Stefan Gustafsson, Head of Strategy at SSC.
“We are very happy with this LoI, an important step for a long-lasting collaboration in important domains. The agreement’s focus efforts are beneficial not only for the signatories but for the whole region,” says the Colombian Presidential Advisor for Digital Transformation, Mr. Saúl Kattan Cohen during a visit to the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden.
For more information, please contact:
Philip Ohlsson, Head of Communications at SSC
+46 (0) 707 21 70 26, [email protected] | aerospace |
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We took the Caipirinha with us to Scotland. We visited the Scottish Highlands and managed to get some flight in. The weather really did not help and this was sort of a maiden flight for our Capi.
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Re: Flight arrives at 1:05 - enough time?
I'd also check to see where your plane is coming from. The weather may be great at your airport but the plane can't get there because it's coming from somewhere with bad weather. | aerospace |
https://elite-wings.com/dassault-unveils-a-falcon-10x-full-scale-cabin-mockup/ | 2023-12-11T21:46:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679518883.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211210408-20231212000408-00422.warc.gz | 0.92301 | 426 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__124279896 | en | “The Falcon 10X is not just another intercontinental contender, it’s in a league of its own and has to be experienced first-hand to be fully appreciated,” said Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier. “Because of its sheer size and imaginative layout, you’ll move about this cabin differently, much more easily, than in any competing business jet. The 10X will provide the ultimate in privacy and in collaborative workspace—indeed, it will be able to provide both at the same time.”
Compared to a flying penthouse due to its spaciousness and homelike ambience, the 10X cabin is endlessly customizable. The 10X cabin is 6-feet, 8-inches (2.03 m) tall and 9-feet, 1-inch (2.77 m) wide, a larger cross section than some modern regional jets.
Falcon 10X Program Update
Detailed design for the 7,500 nm, Mach 0.925 jet will be completed before year-end, with parts production beginning in 2022. Many components and structures will come from Dassault’s new Factory 4.0 smart manufacturing facility in Seclin, France. A redesigned building at Dassault’s plant in Biarritz will manufacturer the advanced all-composite wing.
Rolls-Royce meanwhile is developing the latest and most powerful variant of its ultra-efficient Pearl engine series to power the new aircraft. The modules for the first Pearl 10X test engines are currently being assembled at Rolls-Royce’s center of excellence for business aviation engines in Dahlewitz near Berlin, Germany. The first engine test run is scheduled for next year. The Pearl 10X will be rated at more than 18,000 pounds of thrust and be 100% SAF capable.
“The Falcon 10X will be the new benchmark in business aviation,” said Trappier. “We’re eager to see industry reaction at NBAA-BACE, we anticipate a very positive response.” | aerospace |
https://www.109aw.ang.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3320101/ny-air-guard-aeromed-technicians-train-with-canadian-counterparts-in-the-arctic/ | 2024-04-18T08:25:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00004.warc.gz | 0.958218 | 1,195 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__122547484 | en | N.Y. Air Guard Aeromed Technicians train with Canadian counterparts in the Arctic Published March 6, 2023 By Staff Sgt. Madison Scaringe 109th Airlift Wing NUNAVUT, CANADA -- New York Air Guard medical technicians who normally transport patients on aircraft like C-130s are learning to do the same thing on the much smaller, Canadian CC-138 “Twin Otter” as part of their participation in a month-long Canadian Arctic exercise. The three Airmen from the 109th Airlift Wing’s 139th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, are part of a 60-Airmen contingent taking part in Guerrier Nordique 2023, a Canadian Forces exercise that kicked off on February 22. This year the focus of the annual exercise is on combat capability and lethality in temperatures that consistently range from -30 to -50 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks on end. The aeromedical specialist is testing their casualty evacuation capabilities in a degraded environment, according to Lt. Col. Robert Huhn, the 139th’s commander. “As agile combat ready Airmen, familiar with operating in the Arctic, we are collaborating with the exercise partners in order identify shortfalls associated with providing casualty evacuation in a degraded environment like the Arctic, and to come up with sustainable solutions,” he said. “We are leaning into the Air Force’s concept of Agile Combat Employment by proactively looking for ways for aeromedical evacuation crew members to do more with less in new environments,” Huhn said. The LC-130H four-engine transport flown by the 109th are the largest ski-equipped aircraft in the world. The Royal Canadian Airforce, though, operates the much smaller de Havilland CC-138 “Twin Otter” ski-equipped aircraft that has only two engines and is operated by 440 Transport Squadron. So, in keeping with the Department of Defense focus on Arctic agile combat employment, the 139th team is learning to operate with the smaller aircraft in smaller teams, explained, Maj. Nathan Phelps, a 139th flight nurse. “We not only modified our equipment footprint, but our crew size as well. Normally, we fly with five medical aircrew members, but here we have found a way to function with only two. This is a much more deployable force package than our traditional system,” he said. The crew members must be able to perform their medical duties in a variety of places, including various aircraft and ground vehicles. Because the 109th Airmen were working with the Canadians of 440 Squadron, the aeromedical personnel got a chance to learn how to work in the Twin Otter, explained Senior Master Sgt. Jennifer Dippo, a 139th aeromedical technician. “The training involved actually getting on the Twin Otter and learning about the emergency exits and procedures, the equipment they have on board, and how we can configure and secure our patients for in-flight care,” Dippo said. The 139th medical technicians also received similar training on carrying casualties in the Canadian Army’s Hagglunds “Bandvagn 206”, an all-terrain vehicle that has two carrier compartments on power track, Dippo said. “We have to involve some of our Canadian Army counterparts so we can operate as a Joint-function team in the case of an emergency,” Dippo said. The 139th team is also testing their newly assembled medical kit the squadron created for the Arctic environment, Dippo said. “One of the key components we wanted to do was both validate and refine the medical kit that we spent the last year designing specifically for use in a tactical environment, and to make sure that it was appropriate for both our patients and the Arctic area of operations,” she said. “We’ve talked with the experts here who have ample experience in Arctic environments to get their feedback on our equipment and explain some of their procedures so that we can apply that in our operations as well,” Dippo explained. The 139th Airmen have been running a joint-service medical office in Resolute Bay with the Royal Canadian Medical Services and sharing best-practices on functioning in the extreme Arctic conditions, Phelps said. Together, the medical teams have established plans and procedures on how and where to take casualties in the event they need evacuation from Resolute Bay, Dippo explained. “We’ve identified the capabilities of regional hospitals so we can make sure patients will be moved to hospitals with appropriate facilities, whether for surgical support, blood transfusions or advanced care,” she said. “Two key priorities during this exercise are cooperation and preparation, and that’s exactly what we’re doing,” Huhn said. “We’re collaborating with our allies in an exercise setting so that in the future we can provide rapidly employable, high quality medical care to our service members in a contingency environment,” he added. While the 139th has experience working in various types of tactical environments, the lack of advanced medical facilities in remote arctic regions like Resolute Bay present the squadron with a unique challenge they wanted to take on, according to Huhn. “To maintain the integrity of the exercise in a contingency environment like this, we felt that sending our own internal assets would provide an additional layer of safety and continuity for more rapid transport should a casualty occur in an environment like this,” Huhn said. According to the Air Force Arctic Strategy, interoperability is especially critical in the Arctic region. By developing interoperable systems with our allies, the Department of the Air Force demonstrates capability, enhances operational flexibility, and conveys a strong deterrent message with a commitment to the region, Huhn explained. | aerospace |
https://skycontrol.net/airlines/air-india-to-join-star-alliance-star-alliance-chief-executive-board-approved-membership/ | 2023-11-28T20:38:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099942.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128183116-20231128213116-00353.warc.gz | 0.938409 | 680 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__69917429 | en | Beijing, China - December 13th, 2007 - At their annual Board Meeting, the CEO’s of the Star Alliance member airlines have today voted to accept the application of Air India to become a future member of the alliance. Glenn Tilton, Chairman and CEO of United Airlines, in his capacity as the Chairman of Meeting said: "India has long been on the radar of Star Alliance; after all it is one of the world’s fastest growing economies and aviation markets. Having now come to an agreement with Air India makes us the first airline alliance to secure a member in India, which will enable our customers to receive more benefits when travelling to, from and within India in the future."
"Air India is delighted in being invited to join Star Alliance. This invitation comes in the wake of Air India’s merger with India’s leading domestic carrier Indian Airlines, thus making Air India the prime player in the Indian subcontinent. In addition, the recently announced fleet expansion of over 100 aircraft will help Air India serve the travelling public better in terms of global reach and services. In being selected as a future Star Alliance member, Air India will add value to passengers patronising member airlines of the alliance", said Vasudevan Thulasidas, Chairman and Managing Director, Air India.
The specialised teams at Air India, Star Alliance and its member carriers will now be working on the integration process, which once completed, will make Air India a part of the Star Alliance network, currently consisting of 19 members.
About Air India
Air India is India’s finest flying Ambassador. The urge to excel and the enthusiasm, which characterised Air India’s first flight, way back on October 15, 1932, is quintessential even today - thanks to Air Indians who have kept alive the tradition of flying high. Air India is set to emerge as a world class international carrier following its merger with Indian, the country’s leader in the domestic sector. The merger has commenced smoothly. The re-branding exercise is underway and very shortly passengers will see the unified face of the new invigorated Air India. The merged entity, which will have a fleet of 115 plus aircraft initially, will offer passengers seamless travel across domestic and international routes. It will also have one of the youngest fleets amongst the international airlines.
About Star Alliance
The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer customers worldwide reach and a smooth travel experience. Star Alliance was voted Best Airline Alliance by Business Traveller Magazine in 2003, 2006 and 2007 and by Skytrax in 2003, 2005 and 2007. The members are Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, bmi, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, SWISS, TAP Portugal, THAI, United and US Airways. Regional member carriers Adria Airways (Slovenia), Blue1 (Finland) and Croatia Airlines enhance the global network. Air India, EgyptAir and Turkish Airlines have been accepted as future members. Overall, the Star Alliance network offers more than 17,000 daily flights to 897 destinations in 160 countries.
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https://fastretrieve.com/parachute/what-is-the-world-record-for-the-highest-parachute-jump.html | 2021-01-18T00:59:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703514046.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20210117235743-20210118025743-00077.warc.gz | 0.939721 | 885 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__132971047 | en | In 2014, Alan Eustace set the current world record highest and longest-distance free fall jump when he jumped from 135,908 feet (41.425 km) and remained in free fall for 123,334 feet (37.592 km).
What is the highest parachute jump ever recorded?
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner makes the highest skydive ever Oct. 14, 2012. He jumped from 128,000 feet (39,000 meters), or about 24 miles up, during the Red Bull Stratos mission. This story was updated at 6:19 p.m. EDT.
How high can you parachute from?
around 14,000 feet
What is the highest free fall?
Joe Kittinger holds the record for the longest free fall at around 4 minutes and 36 seconds when he jumped from 102,000 feet. Even though Felix Baumgartner jumped from quite a bit higher, he only had a free fall time around 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Why?
Who broke Felix Baumgartner record?
Can astronauts parachute to Earth?
Therefore, if we’re talking about skydiving or jumping from space, we should assume that the astronaut has jumped from the ISS. … Short answer: The astronaut will orbit the planet and eventually plummet to Earth, only to burn up during re-entry* (*some conditions apply).
Can a man jump from space to earth?
Similar to skydiving, space diving is the act of jumping from an aircraft or spacecraft in near space and falling to Earth. … However, Joseph Kittinger still holds the record for longest-duration free fall, at 4 minutes and 36 seconds, which he accomplished during his 1960 jump from 102,800 feet (31.3 km).
Can you skydive from 50000 feet?
Basic skydive has an exit altitude of 10,000 feet. This is the average altitude for skydiving here in the US and common to most Cessna aircraft dropzones. This means you will skydive from 10,000 feet above ground level.
What happens if you open a parachute too early?
You are likely to drift off the drop zone. The winds can be pretty heavy at high altitudes, and unless you steer continuously they may blow you off-course. Needless to say, the refrigeration effect of the wind and slipstream will make you feel even colder than the mere altitude. Your landing is likely to be rough.
How high can you skydive without oxygen?
In the recreational world of skydiving, jumping is most often conducted between the altitudes of 10,000 and 13,500 feet. Skydiving from above 15,000 feet requires the use of oxygen, which is why most skydiving operators jump from under that altitude.23 мая 2019 г.
Could you jump off the moon?
Although you can jump very high on the moon, you’ll be happy to know that there’s no need to worry about jumping all the way off into space. In fact, you’d need to be going very fast – more than 2 kilometres per second – to escape from the moon’s surface.
How fast did the Red Bull guy fall?
What happens if everyone jumped on a plane?
If everyone on the plane jumped at the same time the plane would dip slightly and then return to normal flight. When everyone is mid-jump their weight will be momentarily removed from the plane. So the plane would actually be carrying less weight for that fraction of a second and its lift would continue to be the same.
How much did it cost for Felix to jump from space?
No e-mails, no phone calls.” The non-reusable balloon used by Baumgartner cost $250,000, with the wider cost to the sponsor Red Bull of the whole record attempt estimated to have cost many millions of dollars.
Who jumped the highest in the world?
Did Felix really jump from space?
14, 2012. He jumped from 128,000 feet (39,000 meters), or about 24 miles up, during the Red Bull Stratos mission. Astronauts in the United States and Europe sent congratulations to Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner today (Oct. | aerospace |
https://www.giichinese.com.tw/report/fs830817-global-commercial-uas-market-outlook.html | 2019-07-17T06:17:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525094.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717061451-20190717083451-00292.warc.gz | 0.852475 | 745 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__176505825 | en | 全球商用UAS (無人飛機) 市場展望:2019年
2019 Global Commercial UAS Market Outlook
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|全球商用UAS (無人飛機) 市場展望:2019年 2019 Global Commercial UAS Market Outlook|
|出版日期: 2019年04月11日||內容資訊: 英文 54 Pages||
商用UAS (無人飛機) 或商用無人機的市場持續發展。法規當局的支援遲滯等，雖然有幾個妨礙市場成長的要素，但是由於技術及軟體的進步，日益使用於許多用途，可短時間提供資訊為進行決策。
A Growing Market that has Huge Potential if Regulators and Industry Can Team Up to Create Global Technical and Operational Standards that Ensure a Safe Low-altitude Air Traffic Environment
The market for commercial unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or commercial drones, continues to evolve. While several factors, including the relatively slow progress global regulatory agencies have achieved integrating small drones into national airspaces, are hindering the market's growth. Advances in technology and software are enabling drones to be used in an increasingly wide array of applications while providing intelligence for business decision making in shorter time periods. In addition, many businesses have now been using drones long enough to have developed best practices that have allowed them to implement new or unique procedures and/or data analytics solutions that produce the maximum utility from drone-collected intelligence. This maturation is necessary for the market to achieve sustained growth.
The total commercial UAS market size was developed from historical data related to small drone sales, average prices, and regional demand. Several additional inputs, including survey results, information from primary interviews of industry participants, and current and forecast sales trends from top competitors were included to develop a feasible platform market forecast removed from the hype of the initial bloated market estimates promoted by several research services. Estimates and competitive landscape information includes:
The goal of this report is to provide an outlook of the commercial UAS market for 2019 and beyond, to include discussions of global and regional platform demand, technology trends, market trends, growth opportunities within the market, and key technologies and developments that are likely to affect, and even drive, the future ecosystem.
This outlook also contains a number of market predictions based on an evaluation of current and expected trends. These predictions were made after consulting with over a dozen industry insiders and included discussions with several of the top of competitors in the commercial drone services market. | aerospace |
https://cms.trtworld.com/africa/both-black-boxes-recovered-from-crashed-ethiopian-airlines-plane-24824 | 2023-06-01T20:17:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648000.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601175345-20230601205345-00403.warc.gz | 0.961603 | 1,916 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__206946130 | en | Investigators have recovered both black boxes from the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed just outside Addis Ababa on Sunday, killing all 157 on board.
Ethiopian Airlines confirmed on Monday that both black boxes from the crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane had been recovered.
The cockpit voice recorder and the digital flight data recorder from the flight that crashed on Sunday have both been recovered from the crash site, the airline said in a statement.
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday en route to Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board.
Accident Bulletin no. 6— Ethiopian Airlines (@flyethiopian) March 11, 2019
Issued on March 11, 2019 at 01:40 PM Local Time
The Digital Flight Data Recorder(DFDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder(CVR) of ET302 have been Recovered.
Ethiopia is observing a national day of mourning as investigators search for bodies and clues into the crash.
Ethiopian Airlines said it will work with Boeing, the national civil aviation authority and international experts in trying to unravel what caused the brand new plane to come down just six minutes into its flight.
Eight crew and 149 passengers from 35 countries perished when Flight ET 302 ploughed into a field near Tulu Fara village outside the town of Bishoftu, some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa.
A witness said the plane came down in flames.
"The plane was already on fire when it crashed to the ground. The crash caused a big explosion," Tegegn Dechasa recounted at the site, littered with passenger belongings, human remains, and airplane parts around a massive crater at the point of impact.
"The plane was in flames in its rear side shortly before the crash. The plane was swerving erratically before the crash."
A local farmer, Sisay Gemechu, said, "The plane seemed to be aiming to land at a nearby level open field, but crashed before reaching there."
TRT World 's Natasha Hussain reports.
China, Ethiopian Airlines ground 737 Max fleet
China's civilian aviation authority on Monday ordered all Chinese airlines to temporarily ground their Boeing 737 Max 8 planes after the crash.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China said the order was taken out of safety concerns because the Ethiopian crash was the second in similar circumstances since the Indonesian crash in December also killed everyone aboard.
It said further notice would be issued after consultation with the US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing on safety measures taken.
Eight Chinese nationals were among the 157 people aboard.
Meanwhile, Ethiopian Airlines on Monday also grounded its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet.
"Following the tragic accident of ET 302... Ethiopian Airlines has decided to ground all B-737-8 MAX fleet effective yesterday, March 10, until further notice," the state-owned carrier said in a statement released on Twitter.
Accident Bulletin no. 5 Issued on March 11, 2019 at 07:08 AM Local Time pic.twitter.com/rwxa51Fgij— Ethiopian Airlines (@flyethiopian) March 11, 2019
UN staff were among the passengers
Among the dead were tourists, business travellers, and UN staff, including some who worked for the World Food Programme, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the international Organisation for Migration.
The IOM said in a statement early indications were that 19 staff members of UN-affiliated organisations perished in the crash.
Many were headed for an annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, which opens in Nairobi on Monday with some 4,700 heads of state, ministers, business leaders, senior UN officials and civil society representatives.
Ethiopian Airlines, the continent's biggest carrier, said, "The search will continue in the morning."
"A committee comprising of Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority and Ethiopian Transport Authority has been set up to carry out the investigations," it added.
"Once the ... deceased are identified, their bodies will be delivered to their families and loved ones."
The US National Transportation Safety Board said it would send investigators to assist, and Canada, which lost 18 citizens, said consular officials were "immediately deployed" to Addis Ababa to determine the facts.
Ethiopia's parliament declared a national day of mourning for Monday amid a global stream of condolences.
Deeply saddened by the news this morning of the plane crash in Ethiopia, claiming the lives of all on board. My heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims — including our own @UN staff — who perished in this tragedy.— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) March 10, 2019
Cockpit data recorder
The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines calls itself Africa's largest carrier and has ambitions of becoming the gateway to the continent.
Records show that the plane was new. The Planespotters civil aviation database shows that the Boeing 737-8 MAX was delivered to Ethiopian Airlines in mid-November.
Boeing said it was "deeply saddened" by the crash.
The cockpit data recorder showed that the jet's airspeed indicator had malfunctioned on its last four flights, though Lion Air initially claimed that problems with the aircraft had been fixed.
The last deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was in 2010, when the plane crashed minutes after takeoff from Beirut killing all 90 people on board.
The plane is the same type as the Indonesian Lion Air jet that crashed in October, 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
Ethiopian Airlines said the plane had taken off at 8:38 am (0538 GMT) on Sunday from Bole International Airport and "lost contact" six minutes later.
TRT World's Narkwor Kwabla has the story.
According to the airline, Kenya had the largest number of casualties with 32, followed by Canada with 18, Ethiopia nine, then Italy, China, and the United States with eight each.
Britain and France each had seven people on board, Egypt six, and Germany five – though the breakdown was not final.
France's government later said there were eight French victims.
African Union commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat spoke of "utter shock and immense sadness," while Mahboub Maalim, executive secretary of the IGAD East African bloc, said the region and the world were in mourning.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his British counterpart Theresa May both described the news as "devastating."
Sympathy messages also came from the governments of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Germany, France and the United States.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam said the plane had flown in from Johannesburg earlier Sunday, spent three hours in Addis and was "despatched with no remark," meaning no problems were flagged.
Asked if the pilot had made a distress call, the CEO said, "The pilot mentioned that he had difficulties and he wants to return. He was given clearance" to turn around.
TRT World spoke to journalist Coletta Wanjohi for the latest.
Lucky passenger who missed the flight
Ahmed Khalid missed the flight ET302 due to a delay in the first flight from Dubai to Addis Ababa. He was asked to take the next flight.
''My flight was from Dubai to Addis Ababa and then from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, but because of the delay from Dubai, I missed the first flight [to Nairobi]. So, when I reached Addis Ababa they told me to take the second flight, which is at 11 o'clock [local time] and I said it's fine.''
"They [crew] were just going up and down until one passenger saw on his mobile that the first plane which had just flew, like six minutes after it flew, it just crashed.''
TRT World spoke to aviation expert Desmond Rose.
Passengers of "at least 35 nationalities" were on crashed Ethiopian plane, including:— TRT World (@trtworld) March 10, 2019
🇰🇪 Kenya 32
🇨🇦 Canada 18
🇪🇹 Ethiopia 9
🇺🇸 USA 8
🇮🇹 Italy 8
🇨🇳 China 8
🇫🇷 France 7
🇬🇧 UK 7
🇪🇬 Egypt 6
🇳🇱 Netherlands 5
🇸🇰 Slovakia 4
🇮🇳 India 4 pic.twitter.com/1uXsbpmWW6
Reforms in aviation sector
Sunday's crash comes as the country's reformist prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has vowed to open up the airline and other sectors to foreign investment in a major transformation of the state-centered economy.
Ethiopian Airlines has been expanding assertively, recently opening a route to Moscow and in January inaugurating a new passenger terminal in Addis Ababa to triple capacity.
Speaking at the inauguration, the prime minister challenged the airline to build a new "Airport City" terminal in Bishoftu‚ where Sunday's crash occurred. | aerospace |
https://www.adsgroup.org.uk/blog/aerospace/fia-recap-smes-big-role-in-aerospace/ | 2019-06-27T04:11:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000613.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190627035307-20190627061307-00240.warc.gz | 0.943576 | 601 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__36571680 | en | Written by Kirsty Templeton
With the Prime companies such as Airbus, BAE System and Boeing grabbing the headlines at Farnborough it is important that we recognise the contribution that aerospace SMEs have within the sector. In her opening ceremony speech, Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged the value of companies such as Produmax, Aeromet and Poeton, highlighting their exceptional skills, energy and innovation within the industry.
In recognition of this she awarded £343m for innovative research and development projects within aerospace to boost productivity. This includes:
- £255m of joint investment for research and development projects supported by the Aerospace Technology Institute and UKRI. This will fund 18 projects, involving 20 companies, including 13 small and medium size businesses, and 12 research organisations and universities across the UK.
- £68.2m of joint funding with industry for R&D, specifically targeting small and medium sized businesses to help them increase their competitiveness.
- £20m of Government and industry match funding will go towards a productivity improvement programme.
These exciting projects will support aviation developments such as the future of flight, and cleaner, greener air power of the future.
This investment is a clear indication of the UK’s investment in the aerospace industry and showcases the Government’s intention of keeping the UK at the forefront of aerospace technology in terms of innovation and productivity.
Building on this the Prime Minister announced that it will start work on a potential Aerospace Sector Deal, which will look at tackling barriers for growth, increase productivity and competitiveness. It calls to our sector to demonstrate how aerospace can support further the industrial strategy grand challenges, regional prosperity and delivery of the government’s skills priorities.
Currently the Aerospace Growth Partnership, a collaboration between the Government and Industry, is already involved in programmes such as Supply Chains for the 21st Century, NATEP and Sharing in Growth which provide grants, collaboration opportunities and mentoring from Primes to SMEs within the Aerospace sector.
There is real innovation to be had in the supply chain and initiatives such as NATEP help to support that ‘bottom up innovation’ to give these ideas and products a competitive advantage. It is a way to create and exploit new technologies.
The aerospace sector is one with a diverse and innovative supply chain. The SME suppliers who support these sectors are something to be celebrated in the UK. They represent a diverse range of products from, high strength powders for additive manufacturing, to turbine blades, all contributing to the technology and innovation within our industry.
Without the innovation and products these SMEs provide, the UK aerospace Primes and industry would not be as strong, which is why it is important to invest in their future.
Now industry has to work on its proposal for an Aerospace Sector Deal with Government that will see further funding in the advancement of the industry. One thing is for sure, the aerospace industry has seen commitment from the Government this summer in its future and sustainability. | aerospace |
https://theloadstar.co.uk/tag/air-france-klm-cargo/ | 2018-04-25T10:48:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947795.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20180425100306-20180425120306-00290.warc.gz | 0.900446 | 599 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__227520922 | en | Air France-KLM Cargo Headlines
News / Russian airspace threat subsides as ABC is given back its Schiphol slots
Dutch carrier KLM will not be blocked from using Russian airspace after landing slots for all-cargo carrier ...
News / Air freight boom in China means more airlines clamouring for operating licences
Tianjin Airlines Cargo is seeking an aircraft operating certificate (AOC) from the Civil Aviation Administration ...
News / Losing interest in freight? No, says Air France-KLM, we are investing in it
Air France-KLM Cargo said a decision to report cargo and passenger results as one figure was ...
News / Declining cargo revenue the first-quarter story for IAG and AF-KLM
Declining cargo revenue was the story for flag-carriers on both sides of the Channel, as Air France-KLM ...
News / Schenker hits back at air freight cartel demand for customer info
Schenker has slammed Air France-KLM, Martinair and Qantas for demanding details of its relationship with ...
News / Africa has the airspace of the future for ambitious air cargo carriers
High costs and challenges in the African market are not dampening airline ambitions to grow ...
News / AF-KLM blames cargo losses on low load factors and stiff competition
Air France-KLM announced yet another full-year loss in its cargo operations. However, there was a 1% ...
People / A tough job at AF-KLM Cargo for Marcel de Nooijer
We don’t like to gloat, but The Loadstar tipped as long ago as January 2015 ...
- 1.CMA CGM's swoop to take nearly 25% of CEVA is 'a banker's dream'
- 2.Analysis: Damco a prime takeover target if Hapag-Lloyd looks for a forwarder
- 3.Analysis: CEVA Logistics IPO priced for a big 'pop' on day one?
- 4.'Encouraging start' to 2018 for Panalpina as profits leap in Q1
- 5.Flexport has ambitions to become a top-10 forwarder
- 1. [email protected] on CMA CGM's swoop to take nearly 25% of CEVA is 'a banker's dream'
- 2. Luiz on Flexport has ambitions to become a top-10 forwarder
- 3. Alex Lennane on Analysis: CEVA Logistics IPO priced for a big 'pop' on day one?
- 4. [email protected] on Analysis: CEVA Logistics IPO priced for a big 'pop' on day one?
- 5. [email protected] on Analysis: Damco a prime takeover target if Hapag-Lloyd looks for a forwarder | aerospace |
https://innovationtoronto.com/2012/07/terrafugia-flying-car-completes-first-phase-of-flight-testing/ | 2022-09-26T02:22:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334644.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220926020051-20220926050051-00554.warc.gz | 0.942136 | 339 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__81164505 | en | First customer delivery of a Terrafugia Transition is expected to occur in late 2012.
Six years after the initial announcement that Terrafugia, Inc. would develop a “roadable airplane,” the Transition has completed the first phase of flight testing. The flight testing, carried out at Plattsburgh International Airport in northern New York State, assessed the light sport aircraft‘s full performance envelope. The Transition prototype was reported to perform “exceptionally well,” allowing the testing to be carried out quickly.
The Terrafugia Transition is classified as a light sport aircraft, and is also designed to meet National Highway Traffic Safety Administration standards. In addition to working as a fine aircraft, the Transition can be legally driven on the road by folding the wings after landing.
A light sport aircraft is defined by the United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) as a fixed-wing airplane seating at most two people, with a maximum take-off weight of 1,320 lbs (600 kg), a maximum speed in level flight of 138 mph (222 km/h), a stall speed under 51 mph (82 km/h), and having a single engine and an unpressurized cockpit. The light sport category is nicely wedged between conventional light planes and ultralight planes (weighing less than 254 lbs (115 kg) empty weight and capable of flying no faster than 63 mph (101 kph), providing the opportunity for aviation enthusiasts to fly in a reasonably capable aircraft without requiring full noncommercial training and medical clearance.
via Gizmag – Brian Dodson
The Latest Streaming News: flying car updated minute-by-minute | aerospace |
https://www.dodmantech.mil/News/News-Display/Article/2704398/dod-officials-describe-modernization-priorities-that-will-benefit-warfighters/ | 2024-04-12T21:53:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816070.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412194614-20240412224614-00215.warc.gz | 0.957306 | 671 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141530278 | en | Defense Department officials spoke about the DOD's modernization strategy, including the development and procurement of high priority systems — such as artificial intelligence, directed energy, small satellites, hypersonics, a 5G network and unmanned aerial systems — which could potentially offer game-changing results on the battlefield.
Dr. Mark J. Lewis, the acting deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, and Michael Brown, the director of the Defense Innovation Unit, spoke today at the Defense News Conference.
Lewis noted that Congress has been very supportive with the direction of the DOD's research and engineering work.
One of the important reasons for this support on the Hill, Lewis said, is that the DOD has demonstrated that it has adopted an approach to "accepting risk intelligently." That means supporting research and engineering efforts that either result in success or in some measure of success, such that even if an experiment fails, some learning about the physics and process results in enlightenment for the successful creation of a future capability.
The types of failures that the DOD wants to avoid are "dumb failures," such as a fin falling off a rocket or use of a wrong type of battery, said Lewis, who is also the director of defense research and engineering for modernization.
A second strategy of the department, Lewis said, is ensuring each of the services and DOD organizations — including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — are researching and developing systems that are complementary across the department and are not duplicative.
A third strategy, Lewis said, is working with industry and academia on important research or technologies that could benefit the warfighter.
The other portion of this strategy is working with allies and partners across the globe, even those that are less traditional partners. This benefits the department because it gets a variety of perspectives and viewpoints, he said, adding that all 11 of DOD's top modernization priorities involve working with allies and partners.
The department's modernization priorities are rapidly developing, Lewis said. "The most important thing is that we're moving beyond the research lab. We're moving beyond the development phase. We're really moving to actual procurement."
Some examples Lewis cited are:
- The Space Development Agency just awarded contracts for low-Earth orbit satellites that will benefit the military's command, control and communications systems.
- Several programs across the department are involved in testing hypersonic prototypes, including an air-breathing cruise missile with plans to deliver these to the warfighter before the end of the decade.
- The department is experimenting with AI for numerous applications, including for UAS flights.
In addition, Brown provided the following examples:
- Testing of AI-assisted augmented reality is being done with microscopes that will look for precancerous cells that a radiologist might not be able to otherwise spot unassisted.
- AI algorithms are helping National Guard troops and California firefighters pinpoint areas they need to be or avoid in fighting wildfires.
- DIU is supporting the Army's small UAS program known as Blue sUAS. Five suppliers are already on the General Services Administration schedule and two more will be added next week. Although it was an Army program, the Air Force and Marine Corps are ready to buy, and talks are underway with the Department of the Interior and Customs and Border Protection. Allies have also expressed an interest. | aerospace |
https://www.thespaceshow.com/guest/emily-logan-0 | 2023-12-02T06:32:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00875.warc.gz | 0.978737 | 391 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__308415717 | en | Emily Logan is a junior majoring in Aerospace Engineering and minoring in Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I have four siblings and grew up in Colorado. Math has always been my favorite subject, followed closely by science. The Harry Potter series is my absolute favorite book, but science fiction books such as Ender’s Game are also fun to read multiple times. I also really enjoy watching movies. Until senior year of high school I was unsure what I wanted to do in college, but one day I was asked what I wanted to be (for the yearbook) and at that moment I realized I wanted to go to space as an astronaut and explore the completely new environment, or hopefully by the time I graduate, a whole other world. This newfound desire to be an astronaut led me to choose to study Aerospace Engineering. At CU, I took the Gateway to Space class, which allowed students to send their own mini-payloads up to 30 km (or “near space”). The experience of designing, building, and finally watching our project soar away on the balloon really sealed the deal that this was what I wanted to do. After that class I got involved as a Mission Specialist on the RocketSat team. I worked on the summer team and help prepare the payload for launch in Virginia. I attended the launch, and this inspired me to come back to the project as the project manager. The next year I managed the entire team for the launch this past June, which was yet another incredible experience. Managing this project also solidified my desire to continue my work with the EE minor because the payload electronics were extremely temperamental. I really like the idea of the RockSat program providing launch opportunities to students because I had benefited so much from them, so I then took over the RockSat-C program to continue to lead and encourage students to use what they learn in class to build actual payloads to go to space! | aerospace |
https://www.pax-intl.com/ife-connectivity/people/2019/08/06/ben-griffin-joins-oneweb-team/ | 2021-09-26T13:30:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057861.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20210926114012-20210926144012-00015.warc.gz | 0.967723 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__144774903 | en | Ben Griffin joins OneWeb team
OneWeb announced today Ben Griffin has been appointed Vice President for Commercial Aviation, leading its newly formed Commercial Aviation team.
In his new role, based at OneWeb's White City, London, headquarters he will be responsible for delivering in-flight connectivity solutions, harnessing the power of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites with speed and low latency, to airlines.
He has more than 20 years' aviation experience to OneWeb, the last 15 of which were spent in the aircraft connectivity sector, most recently with Inmarsat for eight years.
"I am delighted to have joined a company with so much potential,” said Griffin. “The OneWeb offering is by a long way, simply the best technology, best suited to the aviation market. It stands to significantly change the landscape of passenger connectivity with its ability to deliver consistently strong Internet coverage across the world in a way that is often promised, but rarely delivered."
OneWeb is building a global communications network with what the company says is an initial constellation of 650 satellites in Low Earth Orbit, scaling up to 1,980 satellites that will be 1,200 km from Earth. With a successful launch of its first satellites in February 2019 and recent high-speed video streaming during its system tests, OneWeb is on track to begin monthly launches starting in December 2019 as it prepares for partial service in 2020 and global commercial service in 2021.
OneWeb will be attending APEX EXPO in Los Angeles, California from September 9-12. | aerospace |
https://www.ifsworld.com/au/industries/ | 2018-09-23T16:41:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267159561.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923153915-20180923174315-00369.warc.gz | 0.86936 | 85 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__32783852 | en | IFS is a leading vendor of enterprise asset management (EAM) software to the Aerospace and Defence sector globally. We supply full-spectrum enterprise, project and program-centric manufacturing software to tier 1, 2 and 3 manufacturers and vendors serving the Aerospace and Defence sector.
- Military Logisticians
- Aerospace and Defense Manufacturers
- Commercial Aviation
- Commercial Aviation In Service Support
- Defense In Service Support | aerospace |
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2013/10/20131023-amyris.html | 2022-07-04T11:59:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104375714.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704111005-20220704141005-00170.warc.gz | 0.939382 | 674 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__252065006 | en | |An overview of the direct sugar to hydrocarbon (DSHC) process for the production of renewable jet fuel. Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge.|
Renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris, Inc. and GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A., the largest low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America, signed a memorandum of understanding that could pave the way for GOL commercial flights to use Amyris renewable jet fuel in 2014. The anticipated partnership was announced during the first commercial flight with a renewable jet fuel in Brazil by the airline earlier today.
Under the memorandum of understanding, GOL and Amyris will work together to establish a framework for bringing Amyris renewable jet fuel produced from Brazilian sugarcane (direct sugar to hydrocarbon pathway, DSHC) to GOL’s commercial flights following regulatory approvals and validation by standard-setting bodies, including ASTM International and Brazil’s Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP).
Amyris has been involved in an R&D program with Total since 2010, one focus of which has been the development of renewable aviation fuel using the DSHC pathway. (Earlier post.) Amyris and Total initiated the process of consideration by ASTM of the DSHC pathway in June 2011.
Lifecycle analysis indicates that the Amyris renewable jet fuel could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% or more when compared to conventional fossil-derived jet fuel. Amyris has applied for certification under the Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) and is a member of Bonsucro, the world’s leading sugarcane sustainability standard.
We are committed to working with the aviation industry to bring cleaner skies, starting in Brazil in 2014. Following two successful demonstration flights and a series of successful tests with multiple industry stakeholders, we look forward to receiving ASTM validation and ANP approval of our breakthrough renewable jet fuel produced from Brazilian sugarcane.—John Melo, Amyris’ President & CEO
Amyris uses its industrial synthetic biology platform to convert plant sugars into a variety of molecules; Amyris’s initial portfolio of commercial products is based on Biofene, Amyris’ brand of the renewable sesquiterpene (C15) farnesene, a long-chain hydrocarbon. This can be subsequently upgraded to diesel or jet fuel, among other products.
Amyris operates a production facility, located adjacent to the Paraíso sugarcane mill in Brotas, São Paulo in Brazil, to convert sugars into a renewable hydrocarbon, farnesene, which can be processed into a drop-in renewable jet fuel compliant with Jet A/A-1 specifications following regulatory and industry approvals.
In September, GOL participated in the launch of the Céus Verdes do Brasil Project (“Brazilian Green Skies” in Portuguese), which aims to improve the efficiency of Brazilian airspace.
The Amyris-GOL partnership, under of auspices of the Brazilian Biofuels Platform, an industry and government-supported initiative to encourage the use of renewable fuels in aviation, was announced at Brazilian Aviation Day celebration. | aerospace |
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20150402_Victims_of_Chesco_plane_crash_are_identified.html | 2023-09-26T09:14:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510179.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926075508-20230926105508-00504.warc.gz | 0.978658 | 678 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__219922834 | en | Pilot in Chesco plane crash recalled as 'kind soul'
Joseph Deal loved adventure. Richard Poch seemingly spent nearly half of his life in or around a plane.
Joseph Deal loved adventure.
Richard Poch seemingly spent nearly half of his life in or around a plane.
On Sunday, the men, both certified pilots, boarded a small, single-engine craft at the Brandywine Airport in Chester County as part of a routine flight review conducted every two years to test a pilot's skills.
They traveled not even half a mile before their plane abruptly crashed.
"Joe was a kind soul and a wonderful man," Deal's family said in a statement Wednesday, after police publicly identified the men as the pair killed in the early-afternoon crash. "His passion for adventure was only outweighed by his love of family and friends and his dedication to helping others."
Federal officials said they are still investigating what caused the men to lose control of the plane.
Deal, 64, of Drexel Hill, was flying the aircraft. He was accompanied by Poch, 67, of West Chester, a longtime Air Force veteran and certified flight instructor with Federal Aviation Administration designations.
Both men had active aircraft registrations with the FAA. It is unclear who owned the plane.
Deal is survived by his fiancee and his five siblings. He was a volunteer for multiple organizations, including the Community Action Agency of Delaware County and Frankford Methodist Church.
Poch, who in addition to a 30-year Air Force career, served a stint as a space shuttle mission controller with NASA, according to online records. He is survived by his wife, two children, five grandchildren, and three siblings. Services were held Wednesday at Temple Sholom in Broomall.
Poch's family could not be reached for comment.
According to eyewitnesses at Brandywine Airport, the engine was checked and cleared before the Sunday flight, officials said. But when the single-engine, fixed-wing airplane made its way down the runway, an eyewitness heard the engine "sputter" and then heard the engine's power restored.
The engine soon sputtered again. The plane banked to the left, and the witness lost sight of the plane, said Tim Monville, a senior air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.
Only a half-mile away from the end of the runway, the plane fell into the backyard of a residence on the 1000 block of Saunders Lane in West Goshen, bursting into flames. The crash site was in a rare open space along a block surrounded by homes and offices.
The identities of the victims were confirmed Tuesday using dental records.
Officials could not say if the pilots may have been attempting to land when it crashed. Based on how surrounding trees and power lines were undisturbed, Monville said there is "no evidence of a shallow-type of approach" to landing the plane.
Investigators have said they were unable to find the plane's serial number amid the wreckage.
Federal officials, including the FAA and the NTSB, along with West Goshen police, were meeting with manufacturers of the engine and aircraft, investigating who maintained the plane last, and inspecting the fuel supply system.
A preliminary report on the findings will be released next week, Monville said. | aerospace |
https://xconomy.com/san-diego/2010/03/19/lindbergh-grandson-launches-incentive-prizes-for-advances-in-electric-aircraft-and-green-aviation/3/ | 2022-08-13T18:19:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00124.warc.gz | 0.945764 | 481 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__175403267 | en | Lindbergh Grandson Launches Incentive Prizes for Advances in Electric Aircraft and Green Aviation
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experimental, light sport aircraft, or certified. Hybrid electric aircraft will be eligible as long as the aircraft’s primary propulsion is electric. The Chevrolet Volt, for example, uses an internal combustion engine as a range extender, but is powered by a pure electric power train.
—Best Electric Aircraft Sub-System, which is defined as a set of components designed to work together to accomplish a specific task. The system must advance the field of electric aircraft in both performance and practicality—for example, electric powertrains, energy storage systems, and charging systems.
—Best Electric Aircraft Component Technology, which is defined as a component that advances the performance and practicality of electric aircraft. For example, electric motor, batteries, and power electronics.
—Public Choice Award, which enables the public to vote on any electric aircraft that are currently flying, regardless of cost or practicality. Lindbergh says the award offers an opportunity to gauge the public’s interest and excitement among various electric aircraft projects.
Lindbergh’s grandparents, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, had historic ties to San Diego. Charles Lindbergh made his historic solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927, flying the Spirit of St. Louis, a single-engine plane made in San Diego by Ryan Airlines. Erik Lindbergh says made today’s announcement at the Torrey Pines Gliderport, a city-owned park on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, because both Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh set aviation records by flying fixed-wing gliders along the coast here in 1930.
Charles Lindbergh was 28 and had been famous for nearly three years when he flew a bungie-launched Bowlus sailplane from Mount Soledad to Del Mar on Feb 24, 1930. The 30-minute flight set a regional distance record for glider flight, which was about 10 miles, according to amateur historian Gary Fogel. Anne Morrow Lindbergh made a roughly 10-minute flight in a Bowlus sailplane that was launched from Mt. Soledad on Jan 29, 1930. She received the first first-class glider license awarded to a woman, Fogel says. | aerospace |
http://www.uniforms-4u.com/p-us-air-force-chief-of-staff-uniform-hat-3261.aspx | 2017-04-28T06:30:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122865.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00209-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.926179 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__78066167 | en | US AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF UNIFORM HAT
This is the exact authentic hat of the Air Force chief of Staff! Only one person in the world wears this hat! A unique collector's item.
The Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force serves as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipage of more than 700,000 active-duty, National Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving in the United States and overseas.
As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the general and other service chiefs function as military advisers to the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council and the President of the United States.
Like the other service chiefs, this officer has no operational military command authority. | aerospace |
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vexpmanual/vexp60000.htm | 2013-06-18T23:18:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707436332/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123036-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.875318 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__171406132 | en | This section provides guidance on stores supplied for use in ships, aircraft and hovercraft which are departing on a voyage or flight with a non-private purpose for an eventual destination outside the UK. It does not cover the VAT treatment of sales on board ships, aircraft or hovercraft (see V1-4 Place of supply).
|VEXP60100||The law on ships and aircraft stores|
|VEXP60200||Scope and definition of stores for VAT purposes|
|VEXP60300||Conditions governing the supply of ships stores|
|VEXP60400||Blanket declarations of entitlement by airlines|
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|VEXP60600||Supplies of fuel for lifeboats|
|VEXP60700||Supplies of stores to the Royal Navy| | aerospace |
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Directional_droid | 2022-06-25T04:05:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103034170.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625034751-20220625064751-00116.warc.gz | 0.905888 | 153 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__20382610 | en | The directional droid, or orbital tech-support droid was a droid model used to assist Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptors while docking with hyperspace transport rings. The droids were fitted with yellow lights that turned green when the transport ring was correctly oriented, allowing the pilot to depart. When Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi departed Coruscant for Utapau towards the end of the Clone Wars, two directional droids helped orient his transport ring for his hyperspace journey.
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https://www.naijacenter.com/news/military-aircraft-crashes-explodes-on-runway/ | 2018-03-19T22:37:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647153.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319214457-20180319234457-00430.warc.gz | 0.954728 | 174 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__195364530 | en | PORT HARCOURT – A NIGERIAN Air Force Parade helicopter crashed on the runway of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Thursday.
The incident which happened at about 10am resulted in the explosion of the aircraft minutes after the crash.
“The plane regularly engages in routine flight parade in the area, but this morning it crashed on the runway and started smoking. Suddenly a spell of explosions followed”, a civilian working for a servicing firm at the NAF Base narrated.
He further said the condition of the pilot and co-pilot could not be determined at the spur of the moment as they were said to have fled the aircraft before it exploded.
The incident has left the runway closed at the Port Harcourt NAF Base at the time of gathering the report.
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https://external-expressjet.icims.com/jobs/search | 2019-09-20T01:11:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573801.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920005656-20190920031656-00103.warc.gz | 0.926114 | 278 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__194401443 | en | Reporting to General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer, the Sr Mgr-Corporate Communications has responsibility of all aspects of internal and external corporate communications and ExpressJet’s online presence. Duties include but are not limited to:
The Recruiter – Flight Ops position reports to the Manager – Flight Operations Hiring & Recruitment. Flight Operations Recruiters are responsible for assisting with Flight Operations recruitment activities and interviewing candidates. Their role ensures that ExpressJet successfully attracts, selects, and on-boards high performing pilots. This position is open to current ExpressJet employees in good standing that are NOT current and qualified ExpressJet pilots.
The HR business partner (HRBP) position is the Human Resources specialist responsible for aligning business objectives with employees and management in designated business units. The position serves as a consultant and resource to managers and employees on human resource-related issues.
The ERJ Flight Instructor reports to the Program Manager, ERJ. An air transportation flight instructor is an airman designated by a 14 CFR Part 121 certificate holder, who has the appropriate training, experience, and demonstrated ability to instruct other airmen in a curriculum segment of that certificate holder’s training program. An air transportation flight instructor may certify the proficiency and knowledge of other airmen and recommend them for proficiency or competency checks, proficiency checks leading to certification and other special qualification flight checks. | aerospace |
http://econocuba.impela.net/2014/03/weekly-commercial-flights-now-available-from-key-west-to-cuba/ | 2020-02-28T14:50:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875147234.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20200228135132-20200228165132-00233.warc.gz | 0.92626 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__169376092 | en | Weekly Commercial Flights Now Available From Key West to Cuba
The flight is being billed as the first weekly commercial flight of its
kind since the 1960s
By Brandon Launerts and Hank Tester | Friday, Feb 28, 2014 | Updated
8:23 PM EST
Key West is renewing its historic roots with Cuba as passengers can now
board the first weekly commercial flight from Key West to Havana in more
than five decades.
Flights will take off on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from Key West
International Airport to José Martí International Airport. The new
flight service is from Air Marbrisa and Mambi International Group, which
collaborated for the project.
The first flight takes off on Friday.
The route is being billed as the first weekly commercial flight of its
kind since the 1960s. A lot of paperwork is involved with the flight as
laws make the flight only open to Americans with permission from the
But travel restrictions are slowly easing.
“I made the application two years ago to be the port of entry for Cuba
and I thought that would take forever. It did not,” said Key West
International Airport Director Peter Horton.
Key West’s new flight service positions itself to be ready in case
travel to Cuba is allowed for all Americans.
Source: Weekly Commercial Flights Now Available From Key West to Cuba |
NBC 6 South Florida – | aerospace |
http://www.mynepalimusic.com/2016/09/f-16-fighter-jets-flying-over-islamabad.html | 2016-10-23T23:45:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00314-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.856528 | 192 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__95950778 | en | नया दशैँ तिहारका mp3 गीत सुन्नुहोस् साथै डाउनलोड गर्नुहोस्
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Perused: Nervous Pakistan supports for 'Indian reaction'; numerous flights scratched off, parkways close for warrior planes
Perused | Rafale to give Indian Air Force edge over Pakistan
As indicated by reports, individuals turned out on streets and around 5-6 planes were found in the sky.
Peshawar-Islamabad thruway is additionally purportedly shut. | aerospace |
https://wideopennews.com/asteroid-2024-ej2-alert-as-it-near-pass-the-earth/ | 2024-04-20T14:30:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00507.warc.gz | 0.963484 | 747 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__7201550 | en | According to NASA, a house-sized asteroid that is traveling at nearly 31,000 mile/hour is expected to pass close to Earth today.
Later today, the rock known as 2024 EJ2 will quickly pass by Earth and get closer to the planet than the moon.
NASA’s Asteroid Watch database indicates that 2024 EJ2 will pass by today along with four other asteroids.
It’s also rather close, as seen by photos taken by NASA’s Solar System Dynamics Lab.
The other five asteroids in the group include two “bus-sized” asteroids that are 7 meters wide, one that is the size of a home, and the biggest, which has a diameter of about 60 meters and is as broad as a commercial airplane.
2024 EJ2, being just less than 20 meters in diameter, is identical in size to the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, whose flight across the Russian sky was captured on camera and went viral.
This meteor might very well destroy a small city on impact because of its size and speed; if it were to deviate from its intended path, it would cause significant harm.
Luckily, NASA has not classified this meteor as a “potentially hazardous object” since an object must be larger than 150 meters wide to qualify for this classification.
Although 2024 EJ2 will pass Earth for the first time, it will also fly by Earth in 2031, but from a little further distance.
Although the near-misser of today may not seem like much, NASA reports that a massive space rock, up to one kilometer in diameter, is expected to fly past Earth in April of this year.
This massive meteor will pass Earth at a distance greater than that of the Moon yet still far closer than Venus, our closest planet.
Over the last three decades, NASA has been tracking things that it refers to as “near-Earth objects” (NEOs): comets and asteroids that circle the Sun and are within 48 million kilometers of Earth.
However, the space agency established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) in 2016 “to find, track, characterize and mitigate against NEO impacts” as a specific precaution to offset the possibility of “potential impact hazards.”
A spacecraft may be sent outside Earth’s orbit to “intentionally collide” with an asteroid, deflecting it off path and sparing our planet. This is the most amazing proposal from the PDCO, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or “Dart.”
Tiny Asteroid Impact Near Berlin on January 21
On January 21, a tiny asteroid was seen striking through the sky close to Berlin. This resulted in a long-lasting, brilliant, and safe fireball that was visible over a wide area.
It was only detected the day before by a Hungarian astronomer, proving that NASA is not able to observe everything.
The meteor, known as 2024 BX1, was just the eighth to be found prior to its collision with Earth.
The first person to see this asteroid was astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky, who is stationed at the Piszkéstető Mountain Station and is connected to the Konkoly Observatory in Hungary.
Sárneczky reportedly made the finding at the observatory using the 60-cm Schmidt telescope. NASA released a thorough forecast of the impact site and timing after the cosmic object was identified.
Enhancing our knowledge and readiness for such cosmic occurrences requires being able to identify and monitor such meteors beforehand. | aerospace |
https://coconuts.co/hongkong/news/aviation-officials-suspend-use-boeing-737-max-flights-hong-kong/ | 2019-10-23T15:05:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987834649.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023150047-20191023173547-00546.warc.gz | 0.96682 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__144031996 | en | Hong Kong aviation authorities announced this afternoon that they are suspending the use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for flights in and out of Hong Kong, joining a growing list of countries and airlines to ground the planes following two crashes involving the specific model in relatively quick succession.
The Civil Aviation Department (CAD) had already clarified yesterday that no Hong Kong-based airlines operated 737 MAX aircraft as scrutiny of the model intensified. Today’s suspension is expected to affect at least two airlines, India’s SpiceJet and Russia’s Globus Airlines, which have recently operated flights into Hong Kong using the jets.
“As stated in our press release issued yesterday (March 12), the CAD has been closely monitoring the developments, the investigation progress and the information from relevant aviation authorities,” a CAD spokesman was quoted as saying in a statement today. “Having regard to the latest situation, the CAD has decided to temporarily prohibit operation of Boeing B737 MAX aircraft into, out of and over Hong Kong. The temporary prohibition will take effect at 6pm Hong Kong time on March 13 and continue until further notice.”
Concerns over the model were most recently thrust to the fore when an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed just minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport on Sunday, killing all 157 passengers, including a UN program officer from Hong Kong. A Lion Air plane of the same model crashed into the sea under similar circumstances in Indonesia in October.
Noting that the US Federal Aviation Authority — the body that certified the 737 MAX — had affirmed its airworthiness and that investigations were still ongoing, the CAD spokesman said today that the suspension “is solely a precautionary measure to ensure aviation safety and protect the public.”
The CAD said it has contacted SpiceJet and Globus, with both airlines saying they would switch to different aircraft for flights to Hong Kong in order to comply with the suspension.
Some two-thirds of the 737 MAX 8s currently in use by airlines have already been grounded, the New York Times reports, with the EU, China, Indonesia, Australia among the many countries to suspend their use.
The US is one of the few major markets where they have not yet been suspended, with the FAA saying its review of the aircraft was ongoing.
The Times also reported today that two pilots in the US had previously filed incident reports saying they had experienced “flight control problems” in the aircraft when switching to autopilot.
The problems bore similarities to the sudden automatic descent that led to the Lion Air crash in Indonesia. The pilots in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, meanwhile, had also reported “flight control problems” just before their plane went down. | aerospace |
https://silentgarden.net/spaceflight/ingenuity-helicopter-deployed-onto-the-martian-surface-spaceflight-insider/ | 2021-04-18T23:07:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038862159.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418224306-20210419014306-00211.warc.gz | 0.950024 | 714 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__246034415 | en | April fifth, 2021
NASA’s first interplanetary helicopter has touched the floor of Mars for the primary time after the craft was deployed from beneath the much-larger Perseverance rover.
Since touching down on the floor of Mars in February, the rover and its Earth-based controllers have discovered an appropriate spot on the Martian floor to behave as a makeshift “helipad” for the experimental helicopter named Ingenuity.
Over the course of every week, the 1.8-kilogram plane was slowly deployed. This began with the jettison of a particles cowl defending the helicopter throughout Perseverance’s closing sky crane descent to the floor of the pink planet.
After that, the craft first was rotated from its stowed horizontal place to a vertical place and 4 prolonged legs and its battery absolutely charged utilizing Perseverance’s energy supply.
Then on April 3, 2021, Ingenuity was released to drop a closing 4 inches (10 centimeters) to the bottom.
Whereas this will not sound like an Earth-moving occasion, if the helicopter didn’t land correctly, controllers on the bottom would have had no solution to carry Ingenuity upright once more.
Quickly after deployment, the rover backed away to permit the helicopter’s small photo voltaic panels to start independently charging its batteries.
This is not going to solely present energy to the plane but additionally give it the thermal power it must survive the brutally-cold Martian nights, which can be as cold as minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 90 levels Celsius).
The subsequent steps over the approaching days shall be for controllers on Earth at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California to determine communications and start checking the car’s varied techniques.
These checks embody ultimately spooling up the experimental helicopter’s rotors to a low rpm to make sure that they’re working correctly.
Ingenuity’s contra-rotating coaxial rotors are roughly Four toes (1.2 meters) in diameter and function as much as 2,400 rpm in an effort to obtain elevate in Mars’ ambiance, which is about 1% as dense as Earth’s.
As of proper now, Ingenuity’s first flight is slated for April 11 and is anticipated to final about 20 to 30 seconds, hovering simply above the floor of the pink planet.
Assuming that’s profitable, the helicopter workforce plans as many as 4 further autonomous flights with rising complexity over the course of its anticipated 30-day design life.
Finally, NASA stated Ingenuity can fly as excessive as 15 toes (5 meters) with a variety of as much as 980 toes (300 meters). Every flight can last as long as 90 seconds.
Video courtesy of NASA
Having a life-long curiosity in crewed house flight, Desforges’ ardour materialized on a household trip in 1999 when he was ready see the launch of Area Shuttle Discovery on STS-96. Since then, Desforges has been an fanatic of house exploration efforts. He lived in Orlando, Florida for a yr, throughout which period he had the chance to witness the flights of the historic CRS-Four and EFT-1 missions in individual at Cape Canaveral. He earned his Non-public Pilot Certificates in 2017, holds a level in Aviation Administration, and presently works as an Operations Analyst within the aviation business in Georgia. | aerospace |
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High-Throughput Satellites (HTS) are a game-changer in satellite communication. These satellites offer significantly higher data transfer rates and bandwidth compared to traditional satellites. With the increasing demand for data-intensive applications like video streaming, HTS systems are revolutionizing how we access and transmit data globally. The market for HTS is expected to grow as more providers adopt this technology to meet the demand for high-speed internet connectivity.
2. Software-Defined Satellites
Software-defined satellites are another trend reshaping the satellite communication landscape. These satellites utilize software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined radio (SDR) technologies to enable flexibility and reconfigurability. With software-defined satellites, operators can dynamically adjust and optimize satellite resources based on changing needs, maximizing efficiency and adaptability.
3. Electric Propulsion Systems
Electric propulsion systems are gaining popularity in satellite design due to their efficiency and cost-effectiveness. These systems use electric thrusters, such as Hall-effect thrusters or ion thrusters, to propel satellites in orbit. Electric propulsion reduces the need for large amounts of traditional propellant, extending the operational lifespan of satellites. The market for electric propulsion systems is expected to grow as satellite operators seek more efficient and sustainable propulsion solutions.
4. Inter-Satellite Links (ISL)
Inter-Satellite Links (ISL) are becoming increasingly prevalent in satellite communication systems. ISL allows satellites to communicate directly with each other in space, bypassing the need for ground stations. This capability enhances data transfer speed, reduces latency, and enables satellite constellations to operate more efficiently. With the rise of satellite mega-constellations for global coverage, ISL technology is crucial for seamless communication between satellites.
5. Optical Communication
Optical communication is emerging as a promising technology for satellite communication subsystems. Instead of traditional radio frequencies, optical communication uses lasers to transmit data between satellites and ground stations. This technology offers higher data transfer rates and lower latency, ideal for applications such as Earth observation, remote sensing, and high-speed internet access. The market for optical communication in satellite systems is projected to grow as more satellites adopt this advanced technology.
6. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Satellite Operations
In the realm of satellite communication subsystems, artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to make appearances. Artificial intelligence algorithms are being utilized to optimize satellite operations, which includes anything from resource management to the prediction and prevention of system problems. In addition to improving decision-making and overall system performance, autonomous satellite systems that are powered by artificial intelligence are able to do real-time analysis of massive datasets. It is anticipated that the use of artificial intelligence into satellite communication subsystems would continue, hence driving efficiency and reliability.
7. Cybersecurity and Secure Communication
Concerns regarding cybersecurity are becoming increasingly important as satellite systems grow more linked and data-intensive. In order to protect themselves against potential cyberattacks, satellite communication subsystems are adding further sophisticated cybersecurity mechanisms. It is absolutely necessary to implement encryption, secure authentication, and intrusion detection systems in order to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of satellite data. The industry is placing a greater emphasis on secure and robust communication, which is driving the growth of the market for cybersecurity solutions that are specifically designed to satellite systems.
Subsystems for satellite communication are at the forefront of technical advancement, making it possible to implement a wide variety of applications, ranging from monitoring the environment to providing access to the internet on a worldwide scale. We have investigated a number of trends that are influencing the future of satellite communication. These trends include high-throughput satellites, operations driven by artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. There will be an increase in the market for advanced satellite communication subsystems as the demand for connectivity and data continues to climb. This will result in additional innovation and connectivity being implemented all over the world. | aerospace |
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https://chutes.nl/missions/testmissions/entry_test/experimental-spaceplanes.html | 2023-12-04T15:56:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100531.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204151108-20231204181108-00548.warc.gz | 0.970915 | 2,850 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__48323015 | en | The most notable space plane is most likely the United States Space Shuttle. There are however more spaceplanes that have been in development and even flew. Think of the Soviet Buran, the X-20 dyna-soar and the upcoming Dream Chaser. To make these missions possible many demonstrator missions have been flown. This page gives an overview of the different missions that flew in support of spaceplanes. For an overview of planned or operational space planes can be found here.
Operator: NASA, ESA, DLR
Mission: Crew return vehicle
First flight: Unflown
The X-38 was an experimental NASA vehicle that could be launched on an Ariane 5 launcher. The project was cancelled in 2002. The launching on top of the Ariane 5 reminds one of the Hermes spacecraft, which was cancelled in 1987. Later, the X-38 research was used in the Crew Return Vehicle (CRV). The CRV would be used if a fast evacuation of the international space station (ISS) would be required. The X-38 would have used a 100 ft drogue parachute and a parafoil main parachute, much like the Space Rider.
A backup parachute system was designed to safely land the vehicle in case of an emergency. This system contained a hybrid continuous ribbon-ringslot main parachute of 36.6 m diameter and a 7.9 m ribbon drogue parachute. The pilot chute and mortar of the backup system were identical to that of the primary recovery system and nearly identical to that of the Space Shuttle brake chute system.
A sub-scale version of the parachute was tested during drop tests where the parachute’s performance and new manufacturing methods were evaluated. The X-38 program was eventually cancelled in 2002, however, the parachute system lived on. The design was transferred to the US army’s LVAD program (Low-Velocity AirDrop system), where it would be used to land equipment from aircraft. Several tests showed skirt inversion and canopy inflation, likely caused by the high angle of attack encountered by the parachute when the payload is dropped out of the aircraft, in combination with the downwash. A temporary reefing system eventually solved the problem. [24, 25, 26]
Parafoil landing of the X-38, drop test
Mission: Winged Re-Entry demonstrator
Testing for: HOPE
In the ‘90s and early ‘00s, Japan had several research programs running to develop the necessary technology readiness to launch a reusable, orbit-capable space plane called HOPE. After the success of the OREX capsule re-entry experiment in 1994, the HYFLEX mission flew in 1996. In contrast to the ballistic OREX capsule, HYFLEX used a steerable, lifting body configuration during re-entry. The ALFLEX vehicle was flown in the years after HYFLEX to prove the technological capabilities for autonomous landing, subsonic flight and transonic flight for the HOPE spaceplane (see ALFLEX and HSFD).
The vehicle was 4.4 meters long, weighed 1054 kg and featured two small, tilted wings near the rear of the vehicle. Attitude control was provided by two aerodynamic flaps and a series of RCS thrusters for control outside of the atmosphere. Three types of thermal protection were included: a carbon-carbon heat shield, ceramic tiles and a flexible insulator.
In February 1996, HYFLEX was launched aboard the J-I rocket. The flight proceeded nominally and all data was transmitted to the ground station. However, after the splashdown in the ocean, a flotation system failure occurred, causing an unsuccessful recovery and loss of the vehicle. Apart from the failed retrieval, the mission was a success and improved Japan’s technology readiness regarding lifting body re-entry. [64, 65]
Mission: Winged Re-Entry demonstrator
Status: In development
Testing for: RLV
ISRO's RLV is a project that aims to develop a reusable launch vehicle that can reduce the cost and increase the frequency of space missions for India. The RLV is envisioned to be a two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) vehicle that can launch satellites into orbit and return to Earth for reuse. The RLV consists of a winged orbiter and a booster stage. ISRO has been testing various technologies related to the RLV through a series of experimental flights.
The first flight, called RLV-TD HEX-01, was conducted in 2016 and demonstrated the hypersonic flight and re-entry capabilities of the vehicle. It was launched on top of a solid rocket booster and reached an altitude of about 65 km. Then, it separated from the booster and glided back to Earth, performing various manoeuvres to test its aerodynamics and control systems. It splashed down in the Bay of Bengal, about 450 km from the launch site. The flight lasted for about 13 minutes and was deemed a success.
The second flight, called RLV-TD LEX, was conducted in 2023 and demonstrated the autonomous landing capability of the orbiter on a runway. The RLV-TD, was released from a helicopter at an altitude of 4.6 km and landed safely on a runway using its own guidance and control systems.
The third flight, planned for 2024, will demonstrate the powered cruise flight capability of the orbiter using an air-breathing scramjet engine.
The RLV project is a landmark moment in India's space history as it showcases the country's technological prowess and innovation in developing a low-cost and eco-friendly launch system. The RLV will also enable ISRO to launch more satellites for various applications such as communication, navigation, remote sensing and scientific exploration.
Mission: Aerothermodynamic and structural testing for winged-body vehicles
Flight: 6 flights (1963-1965)
When the X-20 Dyna-soar was cancelled without flying the hardware, a new program was created to achieve the goals. This project was the Aerothermodynamic elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests, or simply named ASSET. Besides testing the heatshield created for the Dyna-soar, the ASSET program also aimed to test flutter behaviour in hypersonic speeds, control during hypersonic speeds using a trailing edge flap and study materials and structures in a re-entry environment [48,49].
Two versions were created, the aerothermodynamics structural vehicle (ASV) and the aerothermodynamic elastic vehicle (AEV). The two versions split the goals with the AEV studying the flutter and control and ASV studying the materials and structures in re-entry environments. Both ASSET vehicles had a height of 1.79 m and a wingspan of 1.53 m [5.]. It had an L/D between 1.2 and 1.4 controlled by a weight that is moved internally . The ASV had a mass of 512 kg and the AEV 555 kg. Another difference between the two vehicles is for the ASV had a parachute recovery system, but the details are unknown, the AEV because of the extra support equipment had no recovery system on board .
All ASSET vehicles were launched with variants of the Thor launch vehicle. The AEV was launched on the standard Thor launcher. The ASVs were launched on the Thor-delta. This difference was to increase the re-entry velocity of the ASVs (5-6 km/s) to the AEVs (4km/s) . This ensured the ASVs had a temperature in excess of 2200 C on the nose cap [49,51].
Of the six flights flown two were with an AEV vehicle and four with an ASV vehicle. As previously mentioned the AEV did not have a recovery system and were designed to be lost after the flight. Of the four ASV flights, only one vehicle (ASV-3) was successfully recovered . Of the three vehicles that were lost, one was due to the second stage of the launcher that failed to ignite (ASV-2), another sunk after the flotation system failed (ASV-1) and one was lost due to a parachute failure (ASV-4) . However, except for ASV-3 good telemetry data was received and these flights were judged as a success. The data gathered during the ASSET program eventually would be used to design the space shuttle.
Mission: Structural, heating, and manoeuvring research during re-entry
Flight: 3 flights (1966-1967)
During the mid-1960s the US-Air Force started the PRIME program. This program had the goal to test various elements during the hyper- and supersonic flight regimes. The goals were to test the structure and the heat shield. But the main goal of the, at the time a classified goal, was to test the manoeuvrability during the re-entry . The goal was to be able to have a cross-range manoeuvrability up to 1100km from the target, which was for the retrieval of data from space.
The vehicle itself was a 403 kg lifting body re-entry vehicle made mostly out of aluminium . It was about 2 m long and 0.8 m wide and had a lightweight phenolic ablative heatshield between 20-70mm thick . Once the vehicle was back in the atmosphere it deployed a 1.46 m ballute drogue parachute using a parachute mortar . Afterwards is deployed the 14.3 m main parachute, which was an extended skirt type with an air pick-up cone . The vehicle was recovered in mid-air using a specially equipped JC-130B Hercules . If for some reason the vehicle was not picked up by the recovery aeroplane it also had the capability to land in the ocean. For this floatation bags were installed .
In total 4 flights were planned at the start of the program with only 3 being completed . The fourth flight was a backup flight for when one of the first three flights were unsuccessful. This was not the case. However, of the three flights that were flown two of the three vehicles were lost in the ocean. All data was sent down, therefore these flights were still qualified as a partial success. As all goals were achieved.
Mission: Spaceplane development/ prototype for Buran
A month before Apollo 11 lifted off, in 1969, a Cosmos-3 launcher lifted off carrying an 800 kg and 3m long, BOR-1 vehicle. This vehicle, which is similar in shape but not in size to the Dream Chaser and the X-38, was the first attempt by the soviet union to gain practical experience in space planes for the Spiral project. The Spiral project fulfilled a need the soviet air force had of hypersonic orbital aircraft.
The BOR-1 vehicle, a 1:3 scaled version of the eventual capsule on top of the Spiral vehicle, reached an altitude of 100 km as planned on its first mission. However, when it re-entered the atmosphere at 3.6 km/s, the heat reached every part of the outer surface. When it landed, all surfaces were found to be burned. However, it still transmitted its trajectory information up to 60-70km.
After this, the investigation of space planes continued with the BOR-2 and BOR-3 vehicles. With the BOR-2 vehicle having improvements on its thermal protection system and the BOR-3 being scaled up in size, being a 1:2 scaled version of the final Spiral project vehicle. The BOR-2 flew four times, of which all were successful. BOR-3 flew twice. Both times an issue occurred. The nose fairing was destroyed during the first flight when flying at about 5km with Mach 0.94. The flight program was fully implemented on the second flight, but due to a parachute failure, the vehicle crashed.
During the seven missions, the vehicle had good stability and manoeuvrability. But unfortunately, the Spiral program was cancelled in favour of the Buran program. However, more investigation was needed for the Buran program on the heat shield, which consisted of various materials: quartz fibre tiles and a carbon-carbon nosecone. For this, the BOR-4 vehicles were used. However, compared to BOR-3, BOR-4 vehicles were intended to orbit, circle the earth once, and re-enter and land. Seven BOR-4 vehicles were produced, of which one flew a suborbital flight, and four others went into orbit. All four successfully splashdown. However, one BOR-4 was lost in the black sea before retrieval.
Because the BOR-4 vehicles were aerodynamically different from the Buran vehicle, it could not be used to validate the aerodynamics for Buran. The BOR-5 vehicle was created, a 1:8 scaled model of the Buran orbiter weighing 1450 kg to validate this aspect of the Buran orbiter. Besides the aerodynamics also the thermal protection and vibrational loads were measured.
The BOR-5 vehicles, as BOR-1/2/3, were suborbital vehicles, which were launched to a maximum altitude of 210 km. After which, it re-entered and landed with a velocity of 7-8 m/s using a parachute in Lake Balkhash. Five flights were flown, of which only the first was unsuccessful with the vehicle failing to separate from the launcher. Half a year after the last flight of the BOR-5 vehicle, the Buran launcher lifted off from Baikonur.
After the BOR-5, the focus was again put on the Spiral shape with BOR-6. However, the BOR program was cancelled before this came to anything. [54,55,56,57,58,59]. | aerospace |
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/17/volocopter-debuts-a-bigger-evtol-aimed-at-the-city-suburban-commute/ | 2024-02-25T16:47:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474617.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225135334-20240225165334-00831.warc.gz | 0.962185 | 434 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__157533328 | en | Germany electric aviation startup Volocopter revealed Monday a new electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft targeting the suburban-to-city commuter.
The four-seater VoloConnect is designed to have a range of 62 miles, making it well-suited for trips between the suburbs and the city, the company said. The aircraft design is a significant departure from the VoloCity, the company’s first passenger eVTOL that is designed for shorter urban trips. The two-seat VoloCity, which has to be certified, has a 22-mile range.
VoloConnect’s longer range indicates that the company has its sights set on markets outside of major city centers, and that it is looking to more directly compete with rival eVTOL startups. VoloConnect’s aircraft specs are in line with that of competitors Archer Aviation and Wisk Aero, which each have eVTOL designs with an anticipated range of around 60 miles.
VoloConnect has a hybrid lift-and-push design, combining aspects of what one might typically see in a helicopter with a small aircraft. The vertical lift is facilitated by six propellers that sit parallel to the aircraft body and are connected by two wings. The push comes from two large fans on each side of the craft. Three wheels can retract into and out of the plane’s belly during take-off and landing.
The German-based startup said the new craft can reach a cruising speed of 112 mph (180 km/h) and a top speed of around 155 mph (250 km/h). It aims to achieve certification by 2026.
Electric aviation startups are all competing to be the first company to bring an aircraft to market. Even as Volocopter released this new design, the company is primarily focused on launching its air taxi service, which would use the smaller VoloCity aircraft, in Singapore by 2023. But before Volocopter’s aircraft can take to the skies, it will first need to achieve type certification with the European Union Aviation Safety Administration, and, in the case of Singapore, the relevant aviation authority there. | aerospace |
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https://apcss.org/college/faculty/holtman/ | 2021-10-26T20:30:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587926.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026200738-20211026230738-00444.warc.gz | 0.908547 | 388 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__200735675 | en | Major Curtis D. Holtman joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in June 2021 following his tour as the Director of Staff, 306 Flying Training Group, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado. A fifth-generation service member, he commissioned into the Air Force from Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.
Maj Holtman is a Senior Pilot with over 1,900 hours in the T-34C, T-1A, C-130J and TG-16A. He has over 230 combat flight hours and has flown missions in support of combat, security cooperation, and humanitarian operations in the Middle East, North America, Africa, Europe and Asia. Maj Holtman is a three-time instructor pilot, accruing over 700 hours of instruction across multiple airframes. He also has joint and interagency experience working in the Military Assistance Program Office of the United States Embassy of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Major Holtman holds a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His Professional Military Education includes the Air and Space Basic Course, Squadron Officer’s School (Distinguished Graduate), Pilot Instructor Training (Distinguished Graduate), Air Mobility Command’s High Flight, ‘Dare to Lead’ Leadership Development, and Air University’s Leader Development Course for Squadron Command. He is also an Air Force certified Master Resiliency Trainer and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
His personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal (Two Awards), Aerial Achievement Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal (Two Awards), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (Three Awards), the Combat Readiness Medal and Humanitarian Service Medal. | aerospace |
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Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, lots of gunfire, a speeding train, an approaching helicopter — all caught in a swooping bird’s-eye view. Not that long ago, the only way to capture all that simultaneous action in one aerial shot would have required a second helicopter with its own camera crew. But that isn’t how the opening sequence in The Expendables 3 was shot. Instead, an unmanned drone, operated remotely, hovered above the scene for the film, which Lionsgate is releasing Aug. 15.
“We flew right next to a train and helicopter,” says pilot Ziv Marom, owner of the drone camera-services company ZM Interactive. “We shot everything from chasing tanks to explosions to flying over buildings and motorcycle jumps. We can also do shots that a real helicopter can’t do. We can do lower altitudes.”
As drones — also known as UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles — are being employed for everything from warfare to Las Vegas bottle service, Hollywood is eager to draft them into filmmaking because they hold the promise of new creative options, real cost savings and possibly even safer sets. Drone-makers, rigging manufacturers and aerial production companies all are joining forces to offer remote-controlled, camera-equipped drones. Another shot in Expendables illustrates a drone’s versatility: A camera-equipped drone flew out of a building’s window for an aerial view, then returned back through the same window — something that could never have been achieved with a helicopter. But Expendables was shot in Bulgaria. In the U.S., before drones can become commonplace, regulatory issues are a major hurdle.
Currently, federal law prohibits the commercial use of unmanned aircraft — in filming or for any other purpose. To conduct an operation like filmmaking with a UAV in U.S. airspace, users need a certified aircraft, licensed pilot and Federal Aviation Administration approval, according to FAA spokesman Les Dorr. The FAA is considering a request by the MPAA, which filed a petition on behalf of seven aerial production companies — Aerial MOB, Astraeus Aerial, Flying-Cam, HeliVideo Productions, Pictorvision, Vortex Aerial and Snaproll Media — asking for a regulatory exemption to allow for the domestic use of unmanned aircraft systems by the motion picture and television industry.
“All flights will occur over private or controlled-access property with the property owner’s prior consent and knowledge,” Snaproll said in the petition. And addressing privacy concerns, it added, “Filming will be of people who have also consented to being filmed or otherwise have agreed to be in the area where the filming will take place.” In saying it would consider the issue, a process that could take a few months, the FAA cautioned, “All the associated safety issues must be carefully considered to make sure any hazards are appropriately mitigated.”
The FAA already is working on a proposed set of rules specifically developed for users of small — less than 55 pounds — aircraft that it expects to complete later this year. Although the FAA has not yet determined what those regulations might entail, they could be applied to drones used in filming because many digital cameras are getting smaller and lighter as the technology advances.
Making the case for why film and television productions should be allowed to follow suit, Neil Fried, the MPAA’s senior vp government and regulatory affairs, argues: “Unmanned aircraft systems offer the motion picture and television industry an innovative and safer option for filming. This new tool for storytellers will allow for creative and exciting aerial shots.”
Not everyone is convinced, though. “I’m really dubious about the use of drones,” says director of photography Richard Crudo, president of the American Society of Cinematographers and an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences governor. “First of all, people don’t realize that these things are like flying lawn mowers — excessive care must be taken with their use.”
Others argue, though, that unmanned craft could make filming safer by keeping filmmakers on the ground. Says Dan Kanes, a director of photography whose company Paralinx makes a wireless HD video link that enables remote monitoring while filming with a drone: “It’s much safer than flying a full-size copter. Unfortunately, sometimes there are helicopter accidents.” In 1982, on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, one such accident resulted in the death of actor Vic Morrow and two children. More recently, two filmmakers who were working with James Cameron were killed in February 2012 when their helicopter crashed while location scouting off the south coast of Australia. And in early 2013, three died in a crash while working on a Discovery program in Acton, Calif.
Although the Feb. 20 death of Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant who was struck by a train in Georgia while filming Midnight Rider, didn’t involve an aircraft, it has given new urgency to demands for safer sets. Drones could offer one solution. “If you place a remote-controlled, unmanned camera in a place that is dangerous to humans, you are also alleviating some of the risks that crewmembers could face,” says Kanes, adding that unmanned aircraft “can make filmmaking safer as long as the people practicing are following safety protocol on set. It’s really important to have vetted specialists, hopefully union members.” In fact, he suggests, Local 600, the International Cinematographers Guild, should consider establishing a special designation for drone operators.
Patrick Smith of Aerial Media Pros — a dealer for drone-maker DJI — says that his company has used drones for low-flying shots. And he always starts with a safety briefing that includes the actors. “We want to talk and let them know we can get within maybe 10 feet of them, if they want, based on their comfort level. We do a lot of preplanning. I’m constantly scouting so that if something goes wrong, [I know] where I can ditch it in a safe position to avoid everyone.”‘
But a red flag was waved by the FAA’s Jim Williams in a speech in May at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Conference when he reported that there have, in fact, been filming accidents involving unmanned aircraft. “During the Endure Batavia Triathlon in Australia earlier this year, an athlete was injured when a small UAV commissioned to film the event fell from the sky, hitting her in the head,” said Williams, who is manager of the FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office. “The competitor was unable to complete the race because she sustained injuries that required stitches.” The risk of injury from unmanned aircraft is not limited to people on the ground, either. In March, a near midair collision was reported close to the Tallahassee Regional Airport in Florida. According to Williams, “The airline pilot said that the UAS was so close to the jet that he may have collided with it.”
Nonetheless, outside the U.S., filmmakers already are employing drones. They were used in the U.K. for HBO’s Game of Thrones and the upcoming BBC One drama series Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
And cost savings immediately come into play. On Expendables 3, the original shooting plan called for about 38 days of helicopter shots, but that was reduced to no more than 10 when the drones proved their versatility, according to ZM Interactive’s Marom. The daily rates for using the drones ranged from $4,500 to $8,000, he says, depending on the drone, camera and number of operators. Typically, a two-person crew — a pilot and a camera operator — are required, though sometimes a focus puller also is added. By comparison, adds Smith, “you’re probably looking at between $15,000 and $20,000 for a helicopter day with a crew.”
Beyond safety concerns and cost savings, Kanes emphasizes that drones can offer filmmakers new creative options. “It’s a great way to get new perspectives. Instead of using a jib or a crane, it allows you to have an infinite crane arm,” he says. And, adds Smith, “the one-take shot is what the directors of photography and producers really like, the ability to follow something really close and then pull back or go high for a reveal.”
But Crudo remains dubious. “Sure, they have their place in the tool kit,” he says, “but it won’t be long before gratuitous aerial shots will be breaking out like the plague at every level of the business.”
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DRONES
? WHAT THEY ARE EXACTLY
Although any type of drone to which a camera can be attached can be pressed into service, typically the UAVs used by filmmakers are multirotor aircraft that use multiple propellers to achieve lift.
? WHAT THEY WEIGH
A small UAV with a tiny camera like a GoPro can weigh as little as 2 pounds, while a heavier UAV configured with such larger cameras as a Red Epic or Arri Alexa can range from 16 pounds to 30 pounds.
? WHAT SORT OF CREW IS NEEDED
Typically, at least two: a pilot who operates the drone and a camera operator who operates the camera via remote control. Sometimes, there’s a separate lens puller to handle focus.
? HOW THE GROUND CREW MONITORS FILMING
A wireless HD video link allows directors to see what’s being shot in real time.
? WHAT’S NEXT
Some companies already are working to create rigs that could hold two cameras on a single drone, allowing filming in 3D from the air.
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https://lewistownflyingclub.com/thrustmaster-and-boeing-team-up-to-create-innovative-peripherals/ | 2023-03-29T09:05:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948965.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230329085436-20230329115436-00296.warc.gz | 0.919332 | 778 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__87327642 | en | Having initially unveiled their buzzed-about new concept to the community at Flight Sim Expo in San Diego in late 2021, Thrustmaster has now pulled back the curtain and released their full line of flight sim peripherals officially licensed by Boeing.
Following their first highly successful collaboration with the legendary aerospace company, with the launch of the replica F/A-18C Hornet™ HOTAS Add-On Grip, Thrustmaster is now applying full throttle to this partnership with one of the world’s largest and best-known aerospace manufacturers by releasing its TCA Boeing Edition range.
With the arrival of three new Boeing-licensed products for Xbox and PC, Thrustmaster — the world’s leading manufacturer of flight sim accessories — is proud to now offer two different yet fully complementary licensed product lines dedicated to civil aviation, adding to their 2021 release of a full line of Airbus-licensed flight controls.
An exciting new flagship endeavor for Thrustmaster, the TCA Boeing Edition range features unique, exclusive, and proprietary technologies integrated with a specific goal in mind: allowing users to replicate the controls, flight kinematics and sensations experienced by real Boeing pilots at the controls of a Dreamliner — right from the comfort of their favorite desk or table. This previously inaccessible yet highly aspirational world of civil aviation is now within reach for the entire flight sim community.
The TCA Yoke Boeing Edition is a 1:1 scale ergonomic replica of the world-famous Dreamliner range of Boeing’s civil aviation business. The legendary hardware represents Thrustmaster’s very first yoke system and so is a truly revolutionary leap forward that completely changes the game for flight sim novices and experts alike.
Built around the idea of making a brand-new flight simulation experience possible for users, the product accurately reproduces the sensations of a floor-mounted Boeing pendular yoke for simmers using their gear on a desk or table with a 100% metal internal pendular system.
Much more than a sidekick to the TCA Yoke Boeing Edition, the TCA Quadrant Boeing Edition plays its own important role in this brand-new flight simulation experience. Developed as an ergonomic replica of the legendary Boeing throttle quadrant, the unit incorporates all of the iconic features required for proper piloting of airliners, as well as more modest private airplanes.
TCA Quadrant Boeing Edition is the first throttle quadrant to offer a complete, functional autopilot system with three different parameters, inspired and approved by Boeing: Altitude management, Airspeed management, and Heading management.
With 3 axes and 17 action buttons plus an encoder for very extensive mapping possibilities both on the ground and in the skies, TCA Quadrant Boeing Edition stands out thanks to its unique progressive-resistance feel — just like on real Boeing airliners.
Highly versatile, the throttle quadrant features 4 fully swappable levers, allowing for use of the aircraft’s speed brake, flaps or thrust levers, depending on the circumstances. Users also have the option to pair 2 units together and step up to a whole new level of piloting: 6-axis flight.
Plug-and-Play compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane on PC, the replica Boeing flight sim hardware is further evidence of Thrustmaster’s continued expertise in the category. The manufacturer has honed its skills and developed a unique level of know-how in the world of flight simulation, cementing its reputation as one of the global leaders in this high-tech sector.
For pilots who want to take their sim piloting to an authentic level, the TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition brings all of this gear together in one bundle under $500. It is available now as a single bundle or as individual parts:
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https://www.zoomtv.com.au/fly | 2022-05-24T02:30:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662562410.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220524014636-20220524044636-00343.warc.gz | 0.924742 | 694 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__58842815 | en | ZoomTV on 7mate S05E010 Attitude Aerobatics Pt 2
Zoom TV get dragged screaming into the skies with Attitude Aerobatics - a rewind to one of our favourite segments from 2012. Aaron isn't the biggest fan of flying while Allan has logged countless hours behind the controls of a plane. So it's a Goose and Maverick kind of situation...
ZoomTV on 7mate S05E010 Attitude Aerobatics Pt 1
It's Aaron's turn to go up with Attitude Aerobatics and wow what a ride. Using a world class competition aircraft, which has been selected by numerous air races around the world. This beautiful machine has power, speed, agility and not to mention 300 horse power of screaming engine.
Zoom TV on 7mate Ep. 21 - Attitude Aerobatics Pt 2
Allan and Aaron are at Jandakot airport and are about to do something a little daring. Darius Pavri from Attitude Aerobatics is taking them up for a ride and Allan is first! Attitude Aerobatics provide an spectacular aerobatics joy flight experience, operating the world class extra 300 L , a two seater unlimited class german build aerobatic aircraft, just like those seen in the Red Bull races. This really is a once i a life time experience.
Zoom TV on 7mate Ep.16 - Attitude Aerobatics Pt.2
Allan Symons and Aaron Pitt go vertical with the help of Attitude Aerobatics. These guys know speed and they know how to have a good time getting our boys to push their bodies to the limit at 8 G's while giving them an experience they will never forget! Our Perth viewers also have the chance to win an Attitude Aerobatics adventure of their own, just follow the links from zoomtv.com.au. Part 1 of 2. www.attitudeaerobatics.com.au
ZoomTV on 7mate S05E09 Tiger Moth
Kate hits the skies in a 1940′s de Havilland Tiger Moth that was used in the 2nd World War to train pilots and the flight is nothing short of spectacular! The standard flight sees you soar above Perth and experience the view from a new perspective in the open cockpit. If you're game and you want some extra excitement the pilot will be more than happy to do a few barrel rolls and loops
ZoomTV on 7mate Ep 16 Tiger Moth
This 1940′s de Havilland Tiger Moth was used in the 2nd World War to train pilots and is nothing short of spectacular! The standard flight sees you soar above Perth and experience the view from a new perspective in the open cockpit. If you're game and you want some extra excitement the pilot will be more than happy to do a few barrel rolls and loops
Aaron takes to the skies with Rotorvation and finds out what services they offer. Whether you are a buisness requiring aerial work, you want to learn to fly or simply book a helicopter scenic flight or helicopter charter, their friendly staff will put you at ease and make your flight an experience to remember. http://www.rotorvation.com.au/ | aerospace |
http://news.discovery.com/space/tags/russia.htm | 2014-10-22T05:00:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507445886.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005725-00341-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.918739 | 284 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__102835916 | en | It was shaping up to be the ultimate story of horny reptiles, space adventure and high drama. But sadly for the Russian 'gecko sex' space experiment, the story has a very definite anticlimax. Continue reading →
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