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https://9-air.flight-status.info/aq-1448 | 2021-06-15T01:14:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487614006.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210614232115-20210615022115-00298.warc.gz | 0.832494 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__43341123 | en | 9 Air Flight status
Check your Flight status 9 Air
Flight Harbin, China to Guangzhou, China
Domestic flight AQ1448 from Harbin (HRB) China to Guangzhou (CAN) China operated by 9 Air - Live flight status, flight schedule, flight arrival and departure times, flight route and flight duration.
On average, nonstop flight takes 0 minutes, with the flight distance of 2730 km (1696 miles).
Flight AQ1448 arrives in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport at Terminal T1A.
7 flights per week. The Flight AQ1448 is operated on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday . | aerospace |
https://www.dizruns.com/tag/priorities/ | 2024-03-01T10:44:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475238.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301093751-20240301123751-00026.warc.gz | 0.805563 | 81 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__199516097 | en | If you’ve ever been on an airplane, no doubt you’ve heard (or ignored) the pre-flight spiel from the flight attendants.
- Use your seat cushion as a floatation device.
- Seat backs and tray tables upright and locked.
- Put your oxygen mask on first.
The oxygen mask? That one is kind of a big deal. Read more | aerospace |
https://www.timesnownews.com/videos/et-now/news/civil-aviation-ministry-to-extend-the-suspension-on-regular-international-flights-till-march-15-video-89826414 | 2023-06-09T20:57:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656833.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609201549-20230609231549-00528.warc.gz | 0.920209 | 89 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__180181186 | en | Civil Aviation Ministry To Extend The Suspension On Regular International Flights Till March 15
Civil Aviation Ministry is likely to extend the suspension on regular international flights till 15th March. Aviation regulator DGCA is likely to issue a formal order soon. Currently the suspension on regular international passenger flights is till 28th February. Regular international flights may resume from 15th March and onwards. India suspended the regular international passenger flights since March 2020 due to Covid. | aerospace |
http://rvnewsletter.blogspot.com/2008/11/suggested-reading-air-mail-airplanes.html | 2018-07-21T21:11:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592778.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721203722-20180721223716-00034.warc.gz | 0.954439 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__5996996 | en | This blog is a collection random musings on the state of general aviation and some of the interesting stories that abound among pilots.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Suggested reading: Air mail airplanes
Air & Space Magazine from the Smithsonian has a captivating story and slideshow from the Blakesburg, Iowa fly-in last September airplanes that were once the backbone of the U.S. Mail system. I'll have to put that on my list of things to do in September. The article is called "You've Got Mailplanes." | aerospace |
http://www.telescopezone.com/FirstAstronaut/first-american-astronaut-to-orbit-the-earth | 2023-11-29T05:53:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100056.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129041834-20231129071834-00013.warc.gz | 0.985748 | 894 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__22132754 | en | It was likened to single combat. The Soviets were Goliath. Glenn was David.
"We hadn't really thought that any nation could even touch us technically, " Glenn said in a 1998 interview with ABC News. "And all at once, here was this bunch of Soviets over there, for heaven's sake, outdoing the United States of America in technical and scientific things."
After the flight of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in May 1961, Kennedy had committed the United States to landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Glenn later said he wondered at the time how NASA would pull it off.
The Atlas rocket that would launch his Mercury capsule was famously unreliable; it had blown up on several test flights. The astronauts had volunteered to leave Earth, but they also planned to return.
Glenn named his spacecraft Friendship 7, honoring his fellow astronauts. He would make three orbits of the earth. His launch was scheduled and scrubbed no fewer than 10 times in four months.
The Flight of Friendship 7
And then it was launch day - Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn woke early, had breakfast, put on his pressure suit and climbed into Friendship 7 before dawn. The countdown moved toward zero. In the control center, Glenn's backup pilot, Scott Carpenter, keyed a microphone and said, "Godspeed, John Glenn."
Glenn did not hear him; Carpenter was not on his radio link. Instead, he felt a jolt as the rocket left the launch pad. "Roger, liftoff, and the clock is running. We're under way."John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth.
The Atlas did not fail. Five minutes later, he was in orbit.
The nation hung on every moment of his flight, one man, alone in the void, in a capsule so small (6 feet in diameter at the base) that he could not stretch out his arms. He reported that weightlessness was pleasant. He marveled at the "fireflies" - later determined to be flecks of frost - that drifted away from Friendship 7 when he rapped on the hull of the spacecraft.
Glenn was having a wonderful time. But then, trouble. As he began his second orbit, Mission Control received a signal suggesting that the heat shield, designed to prevent the capsule from burning up during reentry, had come loose. Worried controllers feared they might lose Glenn. They ordered him not to jettison the capsule's retro rockets, strapped on over the heat shield, after he fired them to descend from orbit.
The outside of the capsule heated to 3, 000 degrees as the atmosphere slowed it. Glenn watched as chunks of debris flew past the window and wondered whether it was the retro pack breaking up, or the heat shield.
It held. He splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. America had probably seen nothing so daring since the transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh.
Crowds mobbed him at a ticker-tape parade in New York. Kennedy, who saw Glenn's star power, welcomed him at the White House. He returned to work at NASA and lobbied for another flight, but the Kennedy administration had quietly let his bosses know he was too much of a national icon to risk in space again.
The Americans would gradually overtake the Soviets in space. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. But we no longer live in the space age. Glenn has complained publicly that since the space shuttles were retired last year, America has not had a way to launch its own astronauts into orbit. And Glenn's mantle as hero has only taken him so far; a run for president in 1984 left him in debt for years.
John Glenn is 90 now, dividing his time between Washington and Ohio after a long career in the U.S. Senate. He and his wife Annie have been married for 69 years, slowed only by the inevitable maladies of age.
Glenn did, after years of lobbying, get to fly on a space shuttle mission in 1998. He was 77 by then, arguing that the effects of weightlessness - bone and muscle loss - are similar to the effects of aging. While he was in orbit he said he was having such a good time that he might like another flight after that, but Annie, visibly angry, put a quick stop to that. | aerospace |
https://globalchiefinsights.com/tag/astronomy/ | 2024-04-14T13:21:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816879.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414130604-20240414160604-00175.warc.gz | 0.935317 | 1,028 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__82780738 | en | The James Webb telescope of NASA has taken stunning photos of nebulae, groups of galaxies and even the “deepest” view of the universe. It has also taken photos of Jupiter to see if it can be used to observe nearby celestial objects like moons and asteroids, as well other elements like planet rings and satellites.
NASA said, “Fans of Jupiter will recognize some familiar features of our solar system’s enormous planet in these images seen through Webb’s infrared gaze. A view from the NIRCam instrument’s short-wavelength filter shows distinct bands that encircle the planet as well as the Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow the Earth. The iconic spot appears white in this image because of the way Webb’s infrared image was processed.”
Bryan Holler, a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, who helped plan these observations said, “Combined with the deep field images released the other day, these images of Jupiter demonstrate the full grasp of what Webb can observe, from the faintest, most distant observable galaxies to planets in our own cosmic backyard that you can see with the naked eye from your actual backyard,”.
According to Engadget, “It’s worth noting that James Webb captured these images moving across its field of view in three separate observations, proving that it’s capable of finding and tracking stars in the vicinity of a celestial body as bright as Jupiter. That means it can be used to study moons in our solar system and could give us the first images of the plumes of material known to spew out of natural satellites like Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.” They also said, “The team also tracked asteroids in the asteroid belt to figure out the fastest objects it can observe. They found that it can still get gather data from objects moving up to 67 milliarcseconds per second across its field of view. NASA says that’s equivalent to tracking a turtle moving from a mile away. As Stefanie Milam, James Webb’s deputy project scientist, said, these images show that “everything worked brilliantly.” We can expect not just more impressively detailed images of space in the future, but also information that could shed more light on how the first galaxies had formed.”
It’s only a few days until NASA and its partners on the James Webb Space Telescope project reveal the first full-color images and spectroscopic data captured by the observatory. The agency has shed a little more light on what to expect by revealing the James Webb Space Telescope’s initial list of cosmic targets.
Captured by James Webb Space Telescope
One of them is the Carina Nebula, which is around 7,600 light-years away. NASA says it’s one of the biggest and brightest nebulae in the sky and it includes stars that are several times larger than the Sun. Another nebula the telescope captured images from is the Southern Ring. That’s roughly 2,000 light-years from Earth and is a planetary nebula — it’s an expanding cloud of gas that surrounds a dying star.
Closer to home is the gas planet WASP-96 b, which is almost 1,150 light-years away and has around half the mass of Jupiter. NASA will provide a look at the planet’s light spectrum data. Much further from here is Stephan’s Quintet, which is around 290 million light-years away in the Pegasus constellation. This is the first compact galaxy group that was discovered, all the way back in 1877. It comprises five galaxies, four of which “are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters,” NASA said.
Also on Tuesday, NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency will reveal imagery for SMACS 0723. “Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations,” NASA explained.
Important Step for JWST
A committee of experts from NASA, ESA, CSA and the Space Telescope Science Institute spent five years determining the first targets for Webb’s instruments. The full-color images and spectroscopic data that James Webb Space Telescope captured will be revealed on July 12th at 10:30 AM ET. You’ll be able to view them on NASA’s website.
This marks an important step for James Webb Space Telescope as it marks the official beginning of the observatory’s general science operations. The aim is to provide us with more detailed images and information about the earliest stars and galaxies as well as potentially habitable exoplanets. After launch in December, it took several months for the James Webb Space Telescope to reach its destination and prepare for full operation. We’re very close to finding out just what the observatory is capable of. | aerospace |
https://shineyourlight-shineyourlight.blogspot.com/2014/05/1-410-world-war-i-in-photos-aerial.html | 2018-05-24T07:49:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866107.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524073324-20180524093324-00082.warc.gz | 0.980319 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__54912182 | en | Over the course of the war, the role of the military aviator progressed from one of mere observation to a deadly offensive role. Early on, pilots would would fly off armed only with pistols (or completely unarmed) -- by 1918, fighter planes and massive bombers were in use, armed with multiple machine guns and devastating explosive payloads. Older technologies, like tethered balloons and kites were used on the front lines to gain an upper hand. As aircraft became more of a threat, anti-aircraft weapons and tactics were developed, and pilots had to devise new ways to avoid being shot down from the land and the sky. Aerial photography developed into an indispensable tool to guide artillery attacks and assess damage afterward. The pilots of these new aircraft took tremendous risks -- vulnerable to enemy fire, at the mercy of the weather, flying new, often experimental aircraft. Crashes were frequent, and many paid with their lives. On this 100-year anniversary, I've gathered photographs of the Great War from dozens of collections, some digitized for the first time, to try to tell the story of the conflict, those caught up in it, and how much it affected the world. | aerospace |
http://nationaldrones.com.au/ | 2017-06-24T17:22:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320270.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624170517-20170624190517-00094.warc.gz | 0.921941 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__70994404 | en | National Drones is an Australia wide service provider of aerial photography and videography, aerial spotting and aerial surveillance services utilising unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s), otherwise known as Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) or drones.
Our drone services cover a wide range of industries including, but not limited to: real estate photography; building and solar panel inspections; insurance assessment; agricultural land surveillance; television and media; mining; mapping and surveying; asset inspections; emergency services and more.
You can hire a drone operator in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart.
Looking to rent a drone? Call us today to book a free demonstration to discover how using one of National Drones fully insured, licenced and experienced UAV controllers can help you cut costs, deliver efficiencies and save time. | aerospace |
https://www.yangdaonline.com/yangda-sky-eye-30nlt-30x-night-vision-ir-laser-drone-zoom-camera/?setCurrencyId=1 | 2024-04-17T03:55:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817128.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417013540-20240417043540-00447.warc.gz | 0.740947 | 981 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__78492262 | en | Sky Eye-30NLT is one 1080P 30X zoom camera designed for multirotor to conduct night-vision missions like inspection, surveillance, search, and rescue, due to its powerful night vision capability. It consists of one 1080P 30X zoom camera, and an IR laser illuminator served as an auxiliary IR light for the zoom camera. The 30X zoom camera features low illumination: 0.01lux/F1.6 can spot the object as far as 500 meters in the night with the help of an IR laser illuminator.
Zoomable IR laser
When the 30x camera is zooming, the IR laser of Sky Eye-30NLT will zoom simultaneously, which will enable the 30X stellar zoom camera to see the target more clearly.
Auto object tracking
With the on-board object tracking module, Sky Eye-30NLT can track static or moving targets smoothly, keeping it in the center of the frame.
GPS coordinates from a Pixhawk flight controller will be led to the gimbal, and you can read it from the photo EXIF file.
Dual video output
There are two video streaming outputs: HDMI and Ethernet, which will allow you to choose the video transmitter for your drone.
Easy for integration
Sky Eye-30NLT comes with a fantastic advantage that the gimbal can not only be controlled via PWM signal, but also serial command. Also, gimbal data (like Yaw/Pitch/Roll angle, zoom status, etc.) can be obtained by sending serial command to the gimbal via its serial port, which is useful for precise gimbal control and system integration.
Versatile control method
The night vision zoom camera Sky Eye-30NLT offers four control methods: PWM, S.bus, serial command, software control via Ethernet port.
Gimbal quick-release mechanism
This feature is available for this camera, and please check HERE to get more information.
|30X optical zoom camera (SONY FCB EV-7520)
|1/2.8 inch 2.13MP CMOS SENSOR
|720P/1080P 30FPS Ethernet
|720P/1080P 30FPS MP4
|30X optical focal zoom, 4.3-129mm
|12X (360X with optical zoom)
|Up to 105dB
|Less than 1S
|Support; 3 modes: Open, Close, Auto
|Pitch: ±90° Roll: ±45° Yaw: ±150°
|Max rotate speed
|Angle amount of jitter
|Pitch and roll: ±0.02° Yaw: ±0.03°
|PWM, S.bus, serial command, software control
|Static current: 330mA(@12V)
Dynamic current: 450mA(@12V)
|IR laser illuminator
|Over 500 meters
|IR Light angle
|Wide:70° Cover range: over 40 meters
Tele:2.0° Cover range:over 500 meters
|2 seconds(from wide angle to tele angle)
|IR laser power consumption
|Less than 11W
|PWM/TTL command control
|Pelco_D protocol(Baud rate: 9600bps by default)
|Total weight (gimbal and camera)
|-25° ~ +60°
Your Purchase Includes
1 x Sky Eye-30NLT 1080P 30X optical zoom camera with IR laser illuminator
1 x Sky Eye-30NLT 3-axis high stabilized gimbal system | aerospace |
https://lumiformapp.com/templates/cessna-150-checklist_17236 | 2024-04-20T14:07:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00419.warc.gz | 0.914851 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__95534604 | en | This customizable checklist can be used by Cessna 150 pilots to complete checks from pre-flight inspections to securing the aircraft after takeoff. Pilots can attach and annotate images of any defect found on the aircraft and instantly notify technicians for a quick response. Pilots can also accomplish this checklist while in the skies and have it automatically synced once they reach the ground.
Disclaimer: This checklist is not a direct replacement for your respective country’s aviation regulation-mandated OEM checklist. It is only meant as a secondary source of information. Always compare your aircraft-provided checklists and customize them. | aerospace |
http://nefar.net/weather.html | 2023-06-10T01:42:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656869.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609233952-20230610023952-00118.warc.gz | 0.897004 | 325 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__133160736 | en | Weather and Launch Conditions
Aviation Weather Report
for Daytona Beach area
Relevance: Covers the Bunnell launch site.
Includes hourly projections for wind direction, wind speed, cloud cover, temperature...
From Air Sports Net
Fire Danger Index - map of the State.
Relevance: We will be using the FDI this year, instead of the Drought Index.
The thought is that it will allow us to fly more often. We shall see....
Drought Index Map of the State of Florida
Relevance: If the Drought Index is over 600 for our area, we can't launch.
NASA Interactive Weather
Relevance: Real-time images direct from the GOES satellites, including animations.
Look at the pictures and see for yourself what the weather is doing.
Global Hydrology and Climate Center at Marshall Space Flight Center, Birthplace of the Redstone!
FAWN - Florida Automated Weather Network
Relevance: Data from automated weather stations scattered around the State.
Stations are closer to our launch site than Daytona, and about as far inland.
Pierson Station (just South of the launch site)
Hastings Station (a few miles North of the launch site)
WINDYTY - Displays wind direction and speed all over the globe.
Relevance: Dunno. But it's so cool, somebody here will find it useful.
Includes projections for the next few days.
Rev. 5/5/19 - GH | aerospace |
https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/77764 | 2016-10-27T02:33:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00054-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.757899 | 261 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__16213192 | en | Low-Cost/Robust Nanosatellite Spacecraft for Distributed, Communication Systems Constellations
Department of Defense
Agency Tracking Number:
Solicitation Topic Code:
Small Business Information
Advanced Solutions, Inc.
6901 S. Pierce St, Suite 301, Littleton, CO, 80128
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged:
Abstract"The SBIR Phase I work uncovered that the most expensive and challenging aspects of multi-satellite projects are the ability to build and test the satellites in a simulated environment that provides a high fidelity validation in a distributedtest-like-you-fly environment at a reasonable cost. Expanding on three of the four elements investigated during Phase I, ASI will construct components that can be used in conjunction with Test Bed and Spacecraft development to validate and verifyformation flying on-board and ground based algorithms. ASI will continue the development of multi-satellite ground system architectures and data flows, internet based ground data systems, and satellite constellation operations concepts. The developmentof these concepts will allow the development of two inter-related products, a Dynamic Space Simulator (DSS), and a Distributed Web Based Data Delivery System (WebDDS)."
* information listed above is at the time of submission. | aerospace |
https://www.spacetraveler.news/what-is-space-in-science-called | 2023-11-29T03:14:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100047.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129010302-20231129040302-00649.warc.gz | 0.956088 | 662 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__218001947 | en | The universe is a vast and mysterious place, and the study of it is known as astronomy. This field of natural sciences deals with celestial objects, including those in the Solar System, Galactic and Extragalactic regions. It is the science that studies outer space, and its name comes from the Greek words astron, meaning “star”, and nomos, meaning “law”. When it comes to philosophical considerations of space, we look to metaphysics.
To understand the relativity of space and time, we turn to Relativity. To learn about space as the region of the universe beyond Earth and its atmosphere, we look to Cosmos. For scientific research coverage in this region, we look to Space Exploration. We measure long distances in space in light-years, which is the distance it takes for light to travel in a year (approximately 5.8 trillion miles (9.3 trillion kilometers)).
The problem space includes the current number, any previous work, and everything related to the problem. Elizabeth first became interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and she still wants to be an astronaut one day. There is also the expression cyberspace to refer to digital communications, although it has gone out of style in recent years. Most early astronomy consisted of mapping the positions of the stars and planets, a science that is now known as astrometry.
When the first neutral atoms formed from a sea of primitive ions, space became transparent to radiation, releasing energy that is now considered microwave background radiation. In fact, the empty environment in space and on the Moon is one of the reasons why the Apollo program's lunar lander was designed to look almost spider-like, as described by the Apollo 9 crew. Ironically, even though space itself is cold due to the lack of particles with which to interact, it is difficult to remove waste heat from spacecraft, requiring specialized infrared radiators. One example is gravitational waves or ripples in space-time that come from interactions between black holes.
This means that when humans send a probe to a distant planet or asteroid, the ship will not suffer drag in the same way that an airplane does when it navigates through space. In mathematics, space is defined as a three-dimensional continuum without limits where objects can have relative positions, directions and sizes. In addition to the debris fragments that dot the emptiest regions of space, research has shown that these areas also harbor different forms of radiation. In some cases, the three dimensions of space combine with the dimension of time, creating what is known as space-time.
The answers to these questions may require the construction of new terrestrial and space instruments and, possibly, new advances in theoretical and experimental physics. Space is also a term that can refer to various phenomena in science, mathematics and computer science and generally encompasses the concept of area or region. The study of chemicals found in space - including their formation, interaction and destruction - is called astrochemistry. From understanding relativity to exploring distant galaxies and planets - there are many aspects of space that are fascinating and worth exploring further. Whether you're an aspiring astronaut or just curious about what lies beyond our planet's atmosphere - understanding what space is in science can help you gain a better appreciation for this vast universe. | aerospace |
https://dronesoverarkansas.com/news/new-drone-owners-must-register-faa/ | 2023-01-31T17:40:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499888.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131154832-20230131184832-00733.warc.gz | 0.964665 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__19916146 | en | New Drone Owners Must Register With FAA
Looking to buy a drone or expecting to get one for Christmas? You’re not alone. And now, you may have to register that drone with the Federal Aviation Administration before you can launch it.
The FAA announced regulations in 2015 stating drone owners have to register their device. A Federal judge tossed out those rules in September. But just this month, President Trump signed a bill restoring the regulations. The owner must attach a drone I.D. number which is then linked to the owners name and address. The owner also has to pay a $5 fee.
The FAA says registration enables the agency to check in with drone users and make sure they understand they are accountable to the public for flying responsibly. Any drone that weighs more than .55 pounds needs to be registered. Otherwise, the owner could face civil and criminal penalties.
Click HERE for FAA Drone Registration? | aerospace |
http://www.universetoday.com/15463/how-big-is-the-solar-system/ | 2013-05-24T09:46:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704433753/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114033-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.936787 | 562 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__166987809 | en | Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter
Defining ‘how big is the Solar System’ is the fodder of an ongoing debate among scientists. As humans, we like definitive answers and sure quantitative numbers to bandy about when we talk about anything. That is just impossible with the solar system. The main restrictions lie within our inability to ‘see’ the distances necessary to find the answers that we seek. According to NASA and other leading authorities on the subject, there are multiple theories. In the spirit of free knowledge, here are a few of the dominant theories on ‘how big is the Solar System’.
One of the more widely held theories is that the Solar System exists to the edge of the Sun’s gravitational influence. That is believed to be about 125,000AU or two light years. Earth is 1 AU from the Sun to give you an idea of the distances being considered. Beyond that all objects are more strongly influenced by other stars. The problems with this theory is that science is unable to detect objects at that distance and can not determine beyond a reasonable doubt how they are influenced or by what.
Another dominant theory is that the Solar System extends to the edge of the heliosphere. The heliosphere is the region where the solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium and is slowed down. The heliopause is where interstellar medium stops the solar wind from our Sun and the solar winds of other stars holds sway. This is thought to happen at about 95 AU, but, again, this is only a theory since o spacecraft has encountered this barrier. Voyager 1 is currently on a trajectory that will take it out of our Solar System. By 2014 Voyager 1 should hit the heliopause. Hopefully, its instruments will still be functioning and able to return data as this happens.
NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft been able to map the region where the hot solar wind meets up with the cold interstellar medium. Not visually, but through neutral, or uncharged, atoms. These atoms help to explain some findings by Voyager 2 as it passed beyond the Solar System in 2007. Scientist hope to use this data to produce a map of the helioshpere.
Although, it is impossible to visualize ‘how big is the Solar System’ with current optical technology, science is making strides by using neutral atoms. The two Voyager spacecraft are also contributing a great deal of information to be analyzed. The NASA probe IBEX is weighing in on the fray as well. With all of the information coming in, a more definitive answer should be on the way.
We have recorded a whole series of podcasts about the Solar System at Astronomy Cast. Check them out here. | aerospace |
http://www.mondaq.com/turkey/x/411080/Aviation/Aircraft+Finance+n+Turkey | 2017-04-28T17:52:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123046.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00090-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.958368 | 1,201 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__273429183 | en | Since aircrafts are high priced, airlines usually prefer different financing methods than payment for their fleet in cash. Apart from payment in cash, there are different means of aircraft finance.
Third parties providing the necessary finance of the purchase of the aircrafts are preferred by the buyers. There are many financial institutions and lenders in the aircraft finance market that may finance the purchasing of aircrafts as third parties.
Aircraft leasing should also be considered as one of the main means of aircraft finance. It should be noted that aircraft finance is very common and popular in Turkey. They are preferred due to their nature and option to buy at the end of the termination of the term.
Turkey has ratified the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the "Convention") and the Protocol to the Convention on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (the "Protocol" and, together with the Convention, the "Cape Town Convention") in 2011. By ratifying such Convention, Turkey has become a country which is very fit for aircraft finance in all respects.
In Turkish Law, the Directive of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation concerning the Methods and Principles of Aircraft Lease ("Directive") has entered into force in 2013.
Real and legal persons interested in financing the purchase of an aircraft should find a lender who can satisfy his/her needs and aims.
On the other hand, the processes and procedures for financing aircrafts are getting more complicated as the characteristics of the aircraft and the financed amount increases.
In order to evaluate the whole transaction, the lender, first, requires some information regarding the aircraft including model, year, registration and proposed purchase price submitted by the borrower.
The lender would require financial information, corporate documents from the borrower such as articles of association and resolutions regarding the approval and authorization of the transaction.
It is quite likely that the lender would require an appraisal of the aircraft in order to ensure that the value of the aircraft is consistent with the lenders expectations for the particular transaction.
The lender will further carry out a title search on the aircraft to detect the current owner of such and whether any security interests, liens or other encumbrances are recorded against the aircraft.
If any liens, encumbrances or other title defects are revealed upon the search, then the lender will require that any obstacles shall be released or otherwise resolved prior to the closing of the transaction. Searches on the judgments regarding the aircrafts will also be performed to ensure that clear title of the aircraft gets conveyed to the borrower.
The lenders have security interests over the financed aircrafts, for insuring such interests, lenders may purchase the title insurance of the aircrafts. By doing so, accurateness of the registration, documentation and that the transaction and security documents' being filed in a timely manner will be ensured by the aircraft title insurer. Then, if any title issues arise after the transaction closes, the title insurer will be responsible for securing the lender's interest in the aircraft and resolving any title defects covered in the insurance.
The loan documents typically associated with a basic aircraft finance transaction include a loan agreement, aircraft security agreements, guaranty and authorization. Loan Agreement contains the terms and conditions of the loan and the borrower's promise to repayment of the loan pursuant to those terms and conditions. Loan Agreement also provides the lender with remedies if the borrower does not perform its obligations under such agreement.
The aircraft security agreement or mortgage agreement pledges the aircraft as security for the loan agreement. In the event that the borrower fails to repay the loan, the lender will have the right to collect the debt through aircraft. The lender would be able to sell or dispose of the aircraft to recover as much of the outstanding loan balance as possible.
In the financing transactions in which the loan is being guaranteed by a third party, that real or legal person third party will need to execute a guaranty that obligates the guarantor to repay the loan in the event that the borrower defaults.
The lender will require that the appropriate parties execute the loan documentation and also other transaction documentations such as mortgage agreement pursuant to their terms and conditions.
The mortgage agreements should be duly registered to the Civil Aviation Registry under Turkish Laws in order to protect the property against third-party claims, together with the aircraft itself or after the registration of the aircraft to the Turkish Civil Aviation Registry.
It should also be noted that related loan agreements are enjoying tax advantages in Turkey under certain conditions. Only the mortgage agreement is subject to stamp tax under the laws of Turkey. Thus, Turkish aviation practice enjoys a lot of that as well.
Financial leasing: Legal reforms in civil aviation industry
Financial leasing is the most used type of aircraft finance in Turkey mostly because of various tax advantages.
Financial leasing transactions are governed by the Financial Leasing Code numbered ("the Code") and the financial leasing of aircrafts are subject to the abovementioned Directive. According to the Directive, aircrafts may be leased within the frame of dry-lease, wet-lease and short term wet-lease agreements.
The difference between dry-lease and wet-lease is that the lessee assumes the commercial liability regarding the flights, whereas the technical and operational liability is assumed by the lessor. For financial leasing of aircrafts, the written consent of the aircraft's owner is required.
Depending on the type of lease and the status of the parties (local or foreign airlines), the permission procedures and other terms and conditions for aircrafts leasing may vary which have been regulated in the Directive.
The financial lease agreements whose subject matter is the leasing of the aircrafts are also required to be registered with the Aviation Registry pursuant to Civil Aviation Code numbered 2920.
Protecting the lessor against any third party claim with respect to the leased aircrafts is the main function and aim of these registrations.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances. | aerospace |
https://www.kusi.com/russian-fighter-jet-forces-down-u-s-drone-over-black-sea/ | 2023-03-23T23:08:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945218.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323225049-20230324015049-00359.warc.gz | 0.890179 | 153 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__276008162 | en | Russian fighter jet forces down U.S. drone over Black Sea
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – This week a Russian fighter jet forced a U.S. Air Force drone down over the Black Sea. The maneuver by the Russian fighter jets caused damage to the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drove.
The Russian jets flew in front of the unmanned drone and dumped fuel on it in attempt to interfere with its flight capability. Then, the Russian jet allegedly mismaneuvered and hit the propeller of the U.S. done, forcing U.S. forces to bring the drone down over International waters.
Military Expert Rebecca Grant joined KUSI’s Paul Rudy to discuss the significance of this interaction. | aerospace |
http://www.myhometownnews.net/index.php?id=96920 | 2014-09-22T04:21:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657136545.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011216-00223-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.944622 | 103 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__114064917 | en | Randy Barber/staff photographer
Paris Butler and Kaiden Williams, right, show off the astronaut suits they made. Burns Sci-Tech was one of only 18 schools in the world to be chosen to speak to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. A total of nine students, K-8th grade, were allowed to ask two questions each during the 9-minutes and 30 seconds of contact time. The event was a collaboration of the Daytona Beach Amateur Radio Association, Burns Sci-Tech and NASA. | aerospace |
https://www.utsi.edu/reception-scheduled-for-utsi-graduates-2/ | 2023-12-03T04:32:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100484.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203030948-20231203060948-00625.warc.gz | 0.935004 | 357 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__170687814 | en | The University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) will host a reception for UTSI graduates in the auditorium of the Academic Building from 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday, May 8, 2017. Ron Litchford, Principal Technologist for Propulsion, Space Technology Mission Directorate, National Aerospace & Space Administration (NASA), will be the guest speaker.
Litchford received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1987 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical & aerospace engineering from the University of Tennessee Space Institute in 1989 and 1992, respectively. His professional experiences broadly encompass aerospace propulsion & power systems and advanced energy applications. This includes 2 years (1987-1989) as a NASA Graduate Research Fellow; 5 years (1989-1994) as a Research Engineer with the UT-Calspan Center for Space Transportation and Applied Research, a NASA Center for the Commercial Development of Space; 5 years (1994-1999) as Advanced Projects Manager within the R&D Division of ERC Inc., an aerospace engineering and research service company; and 18 years (1999-2017) within NASA devoted to research and technology development for launch and spacecraft vehicle systems.
UTSI was established in 1964 primarily to offer AEDC engineers and scientists an opportunity to earn graduate degrees. The Institute’s graduates hail from all over the United States as well as from various other countries. UTSI is focused on defense and aerospace as well as automotive industries.
The event will include presentations to the graduate students and a reception will follow in the main lobby. The event is free and the public is invited. Please contact Clara Ferguson at 931-393-7228 for additional information. | aerospace |
http://spg.iaa.es/EFM_delivery | 2019-03-25T03:23:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203548.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325031213-20190325053213-00414.warc.gz | 0.886394 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__93210676 | en | Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)
SO/PHI Electrical Functional Model Delivery
After the successful Delivery Review Board (DRB) that was held last July, the SO/PHI Electrical Functional Model (EFM) has been delivered to Airbus Defense & Space in Stevenage.
The first step will be the model initial verification after transportation. This will be done by performing the procedures safe to mate and health check followed by the excution of the full functional tests.
As a second step, the model will be integrated in the platform Electrical Test Bench (ETB) together with the other instruments that will be part of the Solar Orbiter mission.
The main aim of the ETB is to perform the electrical and data interfaces verification. Different tests will be done to check the power, the SpaceWire interface as well as the telemetry. The ETB will also be used to verify the failure management (FDIR) of the different instruments. | aerospace |
https://skyrora.com/skyrora-hosts-european-union-made-3d-consortium-meeting-to-discuss-additive-manufacturing-innovation-for-space/ | 2024-02-21T12:56:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00873.warc.gz | 0.905112 | 742 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__171363907 | en | Skyrora Hosts European Union ‘Made-3D’ Consortium Meeting to Discuss Additive Manufacturing Innovation for Space
The research will enable Skyrora to produce lighter rocket engine components to deliver higher quantities of satellites to orbit per launch
Glasgow, 4th July, 2023 – Alongside a team of international experts, Skyrora Ltd. hosted the most recent meeting for the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme’s ‘Made-3D’ project at the company’s engine manufacturing facility outside of Glasgow. The meeting brought together the project’s consortium of 13 pioneering industrial companies, universities, and research organisations in the field of additive manufacturing from across Europe to discuss how the project can increase the competitiveness of multi-material components and products for use in a wide range of applications, including the automotive, aerospace, and aeronautic sectors.
Commencing activity at the start of this year following several years of research, the ‘Made-3D’ project will run for 3.5 years supported by approximately €6.7 million in funding, with the consortium meeting twice per year.
Skyrora has been awarded £500,000 through Innovate UK in association with the European Commission to contribute ground-breaking additive manufacturing innovation to the project. This funding will enable Skyrora to complete research with partners to produce a multi-material LEO rocket engine vacuum nozzle. Production will be enabled by Skyrora’s in-house hybrid 3D printer, Skyprint 2, which is the largest of its kind in Europe.
Following production, the optimised nozzle prototype will be tested during a LEO rocket en-gine hot fire test at Skyrora’s state-of-the-art testing facility in Midlothian, which is also the largest of its kind in the UK. If successful, this innovation will allow for a 50% weight reduction of the nozzle, enabling Skyrora’s LEO rocket engine to deliver competitive advantage by carrying an increased payload to orbit to accommodate further small and cube satellite customers per launch of their orbital Skyrora XL vehicle.
Skyrora CEO Volodymyr Levykin said:
“We were honoured to host the most recent meeting of the ‘Made-3D consortium’ at our manufacturing facility outside of Glasgow, bringing together like-minded leaders from across the European space sector. As we rapidly approach orbital launch, Skyrora seeks to push the envelope when it comes to innovative advancements in manufacturing, not only to refine our offering for prospective customers globally, but to do so in the most sustainable way possible.”
“Contributing to the ‘Made-3D’ project will enable Skyrora to develop a unique bi-metallic printing process via our Skyprint 2 machine that has never been done before, unlocking potential avenues for third party commercial collaboration in the process.”
Broadly, the ‘Made-3D’ project aims to enhance the additive manufacturing process to enable the multi-material processing required within the automotive, aeronautics, and aerospace industries, focusing on material design, process design, component design, and sustainability. The results of the project will significantly impact the entire process chain of 3D printed multi-material components, from computational material-design concepts to industrialization and recycling. For instance, the project aims to unlock access to reusing leftover metal powder and bulk materials from the printing process to eliminate wasted resources.
Skyrora’s novel contributions will be led by Olexandr Grydin. | aerospace |
https://superuse.org/story/weathervane/ | 2020-01-28T03:07:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251773463.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200128030221-20200128060221-00016.warc.gz | 0.938116 | 524 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__66398024 | en | ‘The fastest home in the housing industry’ is the claim put out by Max Power Aerospace, Inc. Formed in 1998, the company’s primary business is salvaging retired airliners for their parts. Tom Bennington, Max Power’s president and a former 727 captain, loves to talk about building houses out of Boeing airliners. The company now has a patent on its 727 house design, which can be set up on land, in a lake or even in the ocean.
An airplane’s structure is built to carry up to 189 people at over 920 km/h and in temperatures of -60 degrees Celcius. It can safely protect you through any winds, even hurricane force winds. THe amount of energy to heat and cool it is minimal.
The patent concerns a wind-resistant habitable dwelling, which includes the fuselage of an aircraft rotatably mounted on a single support column. The vertical tail fin is kept to allow the dwelling to pivot on the column and point in the direction of the prevailing wind, exactly like a wind vane would. The fuselage of the aircraft has points all along its undercarriage to support framework for attachment to a column.
For $290,000, you get the aircraft fuselage and both wings; the vertical stabilizer, including the a second engine inlet; one Carbis staircase (main entry over the left wing). Handrails can be attached on the wings. The finishing and sealing of unnecessary openings on the aircraft’s exterior skin and an all over exterior paint job. The two times 48 passenger windows along the sides of the aircraft remain unchanged. Cockpit windows are replaced with windows that swing forward and open out. Opening the cockpit windows out allows breezes to flow through the hull.
You also get a finished interior package, including walls and lighting; the basic floor plan of kitchen, full bath, half bath, two bedrooms and public areas in the centre of the aircraft, such as a living room; a connector, the steel column and large bearing on which the aircraft smoothly rotates, and a steel and concrete cylindrical shaped footer that securely anchors the wind vane home into earth.
While a working example has yet to be constructed, there has been substantial interest in Max Power’s 727 home design. As this story goes to press, the company is currently working out the technical requirements for what could be their first sale.
Max Power Aerospace
Airplane Home (concept, 2003)
Boeing 727 (1963 – 1984) | aerospace |
https://www.army.mil/article/150519/New_York_Army_National_Guard_aviators__Army_Reserve_civil_affairs_Soldiers_train_together/ | 2022-08-12T21:54:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00659.warc.gz | 0.963918 | 1,295 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__94144418 | en | COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Three New York Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters descend out of the darkness, land in a remote, wooded area, and drop off three teams of Army Reserve Soldiers.
As the Black Hawks take off again, the civil affairs Soldiers establish security around the aircraft landing zone and then fade into the woods to make their way towards their final training objective, a linkup and engagement with roleplaying local national key leaders.
In the sky, helicopter crew chiefs call out potential location of enemy forces so that the Reserve Soldiers on the ground can avoid them.
This scenario played out under the cover of darkness here, June 13, as Soldiers from the New York Army National Guard's Company A, 3rd Battalion, 142nd Aviation Regiment participated in a training exercise with Soldiers from two Army Reserve civil affairs units.
The training scenario tested the helicopter crew's night vision goggle flight operations and gave them experience inserting troops in remote locations, to include conducting decoy landings.
The Army Reserve Soldiers received experience working with aviators and honed their skills needed to infiltrate to an objective and work with local national officials.
The exercise began about 7:30 p.m. when the New York Army National Guard UH-60s landed in a field near Basset Medical Center in Cooperstown, New York, to rendezvous with Army Reserve Soldiers, of the 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, based in Syracuse and Utica, and the Bristol, Pennsylvania-based 304th Civil Affairs Brigade.
Cooperstown is best known as the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, but is also the place where the Susquehanna River begins.
Upon landing, the aviators conducted static training with the reservists. The crew chiefs of each aircraft showed the civil affairs Soldiers how to properly board the aircraft, buckle themselves in, safely exit the aircraft in a landing zone and pull security around the perimeter before the helicopter takes off again.
Spc. Benjamin Cleaveland, a crew chief aboard one of the Black Hawks, said the goal of the training lesson was to properly load the Reserve Soldiers, teach them the three-step drop to disembark and have them maintain security to assist the pilot and crew.
Aboard the aircraft, he said, the crew chiefs serve as on-board mechanics to troubleshoot and fix problems, man weapons for self defense and provide extra sets of eyes on the sides and rear of the aircraft for the pilots that can only see in front of them.
After the quick lesson, crew chiefs opened one of the helicopters to a hands-on tour by local Cooperstown residents, who turned out to catch a glimpse of the Soldiers and the aircraft.
Then, as darkness descended around 9 p.m., the three Black Hawks took off with the civil affairs Soldiers, landing in one false landing spot before taking off quickly and reaching a landing zone near Otsego Lake to drop off the reservists.
From there, said Capt. William Stuart, intelligence chief for the 304th, the civil affairs Soldiers moved to an objective and, once there, conducted civil affairs tasks, such as meeting with local nationals, engaging key leaders, assessing the situation within a village and working with the local populace and government to further the overall mission.
Stuart said civil affairs is one of three branches of special operations, along with special forces and psychological operations, and works with civilians on the battlefield, host nation governments, local governments, nongovernmental organizations such as the International Red Cross, other governmental agencies such as state departments and news organizations.
"We're the battlespace commander's link to anything that's civilian," he said. "We serve as the conduit of information to and from them. We attempt to further the completion of the mission utilizing the special skills of operating with the civilians that exist within the battle space."
Stuart called the aviation assets "a force multiplier," which allows civil affairs units to move quickly from one place to another, perhaps to infiltrate an area covered by enemy forces or restore operations to an area affected by conflict of natural disaster.
As the reservists prepared for the arrival of the 3-142nd aircraft, Stuart said the Soldiers carried out some home station civil affairs work - coordinating with the aviation unit, the local government and residents in the area.
Though none of the civil affairs units is based in Cooperstown, he said one of the company commanders serves on the Otsego County legislature and, as a result, was able to act as a liaison between the military and civilian representatives.
"To land helicopters hundreds of meters away from people's houses requires a lot of coordination. That's something that civil affairs prides itself on being able to do," Stuart said. "It's a skill set that we certainly have, and we're allowed to flex that even in the planning process."
Once the Black Hawks took off after dropping off the civil affairs Soldiers for their mission, the pilots circled the area a few times while the crew chiefs assisted the ground forces by scanning the area for possible enemy forces.
While the loading and unloading went well in both the cold-load and hot-load phases, Cleaveland said he found spotting the enemy confusing as he tried to relay messages to the civil affairs teams.
"What I thought was the enemy didn't seem to be what they thought was the enemy," he said. "That being said, I still think it went well. It was good training."
From the aviation standpoint, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Thomas Brumschmid, a Black Hawk pilot, said the goal of the exercise for the aircrews was the successful multi-ship air assault mission with civil affairs, gaining more crew proficiency with the use of night vision goggles, or NVGs.
Noting it went safely and smoothly, he said aviators trained well with landing and taking off with multiple aircraft and in nighttime conditions using NVGs.
"It's one of the worst conditions of flight that we can do, so we like to train in that," Brumschmid said, noting nighttime flying is a perishable task.
"When you're wearing those NVGs, you only have about a 40-degree field of view, so we try and do that more than anything else - fly in those harder conditions of flight," he said. | aerospace |
http://blog.sfgate.com/cmcginnis/tag/777-300er/ | 2015-02-27T07:47:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936460577.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074100-00084-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.922671 | 72 | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-11__0__38848485 | en | Posts filtered on Tag
Last week Singapore Airlines (SIA) invited The BAT up to Seattle to a look inside its new Boeing 777-300ER as it rolled off the assembly line. In the airline industry, this is known as a “delivery.” …
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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-a-flight-path-looks-like-when-the-pilot-possibly-falls-asleep-2009-10 | 2018-10-18T20:46:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512014.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20181018194005-20181018215505-00259.warc.gz | 0.869256 | 170 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__129392539 | en | This is what a flight path looks like when a pilot (possibly) falls asleep en route.Investigators are still trying to figure out why a flight from San Diego to Minneapolis went 150 miles beyond the destination, while also not responding to messages from the ground.
The pilots’ explanation, they were having a ‘heated discussion about airline policy.” (Image from FlightAware via Mike Hudack)
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https://www.newcenturypharm.com/ | 2023-06-03T19:28:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649302.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603165228-20230603195228-00595.warc.gz | 0.902129 | 252 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__117257794 | en | - Pioneering Tomorrow's Therapeutics -
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https://chiefexecutive.net/the-future-of-business-travel/ | 2023-12-10T00:04:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100989.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209233632-20231210023632-00049.warc.gz | 0.934614 | 912 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__252894379 | en | While technology that improves our lives takes a giant leap forward daily, commercial, business and personal aviation innovation has advanced at a snail’s pace over the last half century. New developments on the near horizon, however, may change all that—and, in the process, transform the way you do business forever.
Case in point: The supersonic Aerion AS2 may make traveling from New York to Paris and back the same day a reality, while the “roadable” aircraft—think flying car—could bring new meaning to the term “road warrior.” This, when accrued with the drool-worthy Jettly’s offerings make it a boon for globetrotters.
The pages to follow offer an overview of some of the potential advances poised to revolutionize air travel, as well as insights from industry insiders and experts on the forces and innovations shaping the industry’s future.
A SUPERSONIC RENAISSANCE
In 1958, a Pan Am Boeing 707 marked the dawn of the commercial jet age as it arched gracefully across the Atlantic from New York to Paris at just under the speed of sound. The seven-hour
flight shrank transoceanic travel time by nearly half.
Fast-forward nearly 60 years. The newest airliners and the latest business jets are still cruising at virtually the same speed.
There was a brief glimmer of hope for a faster future when Concorde broke the “Mach barrier” 40 years ago. Cruising at twice the speed of sound, Concorde reduced the Paris-to-New York flight time to a stunning three and a half hours. But, while the supersonic jet flew like a bullet over the ocean, it encountered a massive regulatory speed bump approaching land.
The U.S. prohibits civilian aircraft flying faster than Mach 1 (the speed of sound) over land, and European sonic boom restrictions are equally punitive. That meant that for a considerable
portion of Concorde’s journey, the sleek speedster was forced to throttle back to its most uneconomic operating regimen. So, as high as the hope for shrinking time and space, so was the cost. As a result, the plane once destined to transform jet travel was rendered a financial failure and grounded forever. Now, however, a new dream of traveling faster than the speed of sound is nearing reality, but this time, it’s designed specifically for business jet travelers.
CEO PERSPECTIVE / AERION: SPEEDING AHEAD
“The credit for the Aerion supersonic business jet goes to Dr. Richard Tracy. His breakthrough aerodynamic design, natural supersonic laminar flow technology and new construction techniques and materials, which create optimal efficiency throughout the speed range, make this new jet feasible. “We built our business plan assuming that we would fully adhere to current global
regulatory requirements. That would limit us to high subsonic speeds over the U.S. Over the rest of the world, we would fly using existing standards that allow supersonic speeds so long as the sonic boom doesn’t hit the ground [At Mach 1.2—800 mph—the AS2 will be boom-less].
“Because our expertise is in aerodynamic design and natural laminar flow technology, it was always our intention to team with an existing aircraft manufacturer to build the airplane. Last year, we announced collaboration with Airbus Industries, and we are working with them to put the airplane into production.
“As worldwide commerce expands, the need to travel longer distances more frequently is growing. We believe there is sufficient demand for an airplane like this to satisfy that need, justify the investment and make a very attractive financial return to investors. While you don’t need an airplane in this category 100 percent of the time, when you do, this capability is invaluable.
“We see this as the first in a family of airplanes. Clearly, it could be a bigger business jet or it could be an airliner in the future. All of these proprietary technologies have application in military or commercial areas. In fact, that was the motivating factor for Airbus to collaborate with us. We have licensed them to utilize our technology in their future commercial products.
“Those are just some of the things on the horizon, and we are very optimistic.”—Brian Barents, Co-chairman, Aerion | aerospace |
http://pix11.com/2015/06/27/delta-flights-from-la-guardia-diverted-for-5-hours-from-low-fuel/ | 2018-06-21T12:39:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864148.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621114153-20180621134153-00171.warc.gz | 0.963049 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__196911530 | en | GREENVILLE, Texas — A Delta Air Lines regional jet flying from La Guardia Airport to Dallas-Fort Worth during storms had to divert to a small North Texas airport to refuel.
WFAA-TV reports Flight 7306 safely landed at Greenville Municipal Airport-Majors Field on Thursday night, refueled and continued on to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Nobody was hurt. The plane, operated by Shuttle America, was at Majors Field in Greenville, 60 miles northeast of DFW airport, for about two hours.
Delta on Saturday referred questions to Shuttle America, which didn’t immediately return a message. Airport officials in Greenville, which does not have commercial service, also did not immediately comment.
Passenger Jeanette Jones told WFAA that the crew handed out snacks to passengers, who remained on board during refueling, until the flight resumed. | aerospace |
https://www.fisherspacepen.co.uk/about-us/ | 2022-08-15T19:01:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00139.warc.gz | 0.967926 | 724 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__74251021 | en | FISHER SPACE PEN STORY
When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils. But the lead sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the capsule’s atmosphere where there was no gravity. It could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in the thousands of exposed electrical connections in the spacecraft.
Since the fire on Apollo 1, in which three astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere. In the early sixties, NASA approached Paul C. Fisher, who was President for Fisher Pen Company and had been in the ball point pen industry since 1948, the year in which he conceived the idea for and produced his famous Bullet pen. In addition, he was familiar with the problems of the early ballpoint pens leaking and drying out. NASA approached him to develop a pen that would not have any of these issues. Fisher did not think that this could be done and told them so. Soon afterward, he had a dream which led him to start working on a pressurized pen with a sealed cartridge.
After several years and many experiments, he successfully developed the first pressurized pen. Paul C. Fisher estimates that he spent over one million dollars of his own money. By July 1965, when NASA approached him again, he was ready. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Centre at the time. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA and passed all tests. In December 1967 he sold the first Fisher Space Pens to NASA for $2.95 each. NASA began using the Fisher AG-7 ‘Anti-Gravity’ Space Pen on the October 1968 Apollo 7 mission. Soon after, the Russians adopted the Space Pen; they did not continue using pencils.
Now the Space Pen goes wherever life takes you! Unconditionally guaranteed to write at any angle even upside down. Our Space Pens are perfect for corporate gifts, law enforcement, search and rescue, fire fighters, the outdoorsman, military, etc. Anyone who demands the highest quality and reliability will find it in our pens.
Fisher Space Pen –Goes anywhere, writes everywhere.
HOW A FISHER SPACE PEN SAVED THE APOLLO 11 MISSION
It’s a story that for many years was not circulated outside the inner circles of the U.S. Space Program: The Fisher Space Pen helped the original Moon-landing astronauts, Neil Armstrong, and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin get back to Earth.
When about to leave the moon, the astronauts were climbing back into the Lunar Module and the life support backpack on one of the astronauts brushed against the plastic arming switch and broke it. The switch was to be used to activate the Lunar Modules engines for the module’s rendezvous with the mother spacecraft.
Aldrin informed Houston’s Space Centre by radio. A scientist immediately went to work on the problem by breaking the plastic switch on a duplicate module and studying the possibility of reaching a tiny metal strip inside the switch. The strip had to be flipped over to one side to activate the Lunar Module engine, but ground control knew the astronauts had dispensed with practically every tool in the interest of less weight. But they still had their Space Pens, and so were advised to retract the point and use the hollow end of the pen to activate the inside switch. Aldrin then used his Space Pen to flick the switch, lifting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin safely off the moon! | aerospace |
https://larrynlucky.tripod.com/id7.html | 2024-03-05T14:26:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00631.warc.gz | 0.860151 | 486 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__209424005 | en | Experienced in flight data acquisition, electronic instrument
installation, satellite communications/tracking, data communications technology, managing satellite communications sites,
project management, and general assembly.
GOLDSTONE DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS COMPLEX
OPERATIONS SHIFT SUPERVISOR
Supervised the tracking operations of the deep space network at Goldstone. Used information received from satellite-tracking schedulers, from JPL in Pasadena,
to assign and direct technicians in the daily administration of the deep space antennas.
FLIGHT DATA ACQUISITION
Set up, operated, monitored, modified, calibrated, and maintained computer systems and divisions
for acquisition and analysis of flight data, utilizing knowledge of electronic theory and operation of computer systems.
Set up required electronic data acquisition, test, and measurement equipment and accessories.
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION
Supervised and coordinated the activities of engineers and technicians engaged in the
installation, testing, adjusting, and maintenance of satellite tracking and telemetry systems. Installed, tested,
and repaired antennas and related equipment that received communication and experimental satellite signals. Laid underground
cable to connect antenna base to source of power and signal lines in building. Assembled and attached electronic components
of antenna. Solderred connections to electronic controls, using soldering gun and wire cutters. Tested installed
system for conformance to specifications, using test equipment, such as multimeters and oscilloscope. Assisted in the
complete recabling of 26 meter antenna.
DATA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Installed and repaired data communications lines and equipment for computer system, using hand tools and
test equipment. Moved, changed, installed, repaired, or removed data communications equipment. Read technical
manuals to learn correct settings for equipment. Measured, cut and installed wires and cables. Spliced wires or
cables, using hand tools or soldering iron. Connected micriocomputer or terminal to daat communications lines.
Disassembled equipment and inspected and tested wiring to locate and repair problem. Modified equipment in accordance
with federal specifications. Test communication lines to ensure that specifications are met, using testing instructions
such as voltmeter and data scope. Entered commands into computer to test equipment. Read messages on computer
screen to verify the data is being transmitted between locaations of data communications equipment. | aerospace |
https://geremy.co.uk/epages/364c2b81-e826-48ea-aded-582ceaf6e41c.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/364c2b81-e826-48ea-aded-582ceaf6e41c/Products/RAP2%23608 | 2020-09-24T02:01:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400213006.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924002749-20200924032749-00360.warc.gz | 0.96266 | 78 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__78347789 | en | Tire pressure panel possibly from old Boeing aircraft, not sure which variant. Possibly optional extra for airlines to add into lower dus bay below main instrument panel. The panel is metal, and features two push buttons by JAY-EL as pictured. The panel has 4 dzus fasteners. The panel is in good overall condition, the rear pinout is also in good order. | aerospace |
https://www.derflugplatz.at/product/qatar-airways-a380-800-safety-card/ | 2023-02-04T02:49:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500080.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204012622-20230204042622-00590.warc.gz | 0.92837 | 171 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__87517232 | en | The A380 is a grand aircraft. It’s a great aircraft to fly on for passengers, a great aircraft to fly from a pilots point of view. It’s a technical marvel from Airbus’s point of view, but it’s too much aircraft for almost all airlines. As the Post pandemic world approaches, many of these leviathans are finding themselves parked up, retired, or scrapped altogether. Qatar Airways bought 10 A380’s, the first of which arrived in mid-2014. Sadly Qatar expects to retire all its A380’s by 2028, so grab this card while you can. The card itself is labelled ‘version 2’, so it’s a revision to the original. it’s in excellent condition and in need of a new home. | aerospace |
https://naoliz.best/articles/how-many-space-explorations-have-failed | 2023-12-11T03:43:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103464.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211013452-20231211043452-00777.warc.gz | 0.968452 | 670 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__277033918 | en | Has any space missions failed?
STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
The space shuttle Challenger disaster that occurred on January 28, 1986, marked one of the most devastating days in the history of space exploration.
What percentage of NASA launches fail?
In any event, it seems reasonable to conclude that about 6 percent of all satellites (large and small) will be lost due to failures of the launch vehicles.
How many spaceships have blown up?
There have been two space shuttles lost due to explosion. The Challenger shuttle exploded in 1986 due to a leak in it's fuel system causing the booster rockets to separate. This was followed on February 1st, 2003 with the Columbia explosion.
What is the success rate of space exploration?
(See Table 12.) Of all the 5,038 rockets launched to date, some 4,621 accomplished their mission, with a success rate of 92%. This means that if ever you have to fly anyone of them, you have 11 chances in 12 of getting into space.
How many times SpaceX failed?
Since March 2006, SpaceX has launched 5 Falcon 1 and 171 Falcon 9 rockets. Of these 3 Falcon 1 and 2 Falcon 9 launches were complete failures and one Falcon 9 launch was a partial failure.
How many NASA launches have failed?
NASA has successfully launched 166 crewed flights. Three have ended in failure, causing the deaths of seventeen crewmembers in total: Apollo 1 (which never launched) killed three crew members in 1967, STS-51-L (the Challenger disaster) killed seven in 1986, and STS-107 (the Columbia disaster) killed seven more in 2003.
What is NASA success rate?
The number of missions launched is similar to our pre-COVID flight rate and about average for the program for the past 10 years. We achieved a 94% success rate for this year.
How many attempt to Mars have failed?
They all failed: three at launch; three failed to reach near-Earth orbit; one during the burn to put the spacecraft into trans-Mars trajectory; and two during the interplanetary orbit.
How many missions has spacex failed?
Since June 2010, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 200 times, with 198 full mission successes, one partial failure and one total loss of the spacecraft. In addition, one rocket and its payload were destroyed on the launch pad during the fueling process before a static fire test was set to occur.
What was NASA's biggest failure?
VIDEO: Challenger Explosion
On January 28, 1986, the tenth mission of the space shuttle Challenger ended in tragic disaster. We remember the seven astronauts who lost their lives that day, including Christa McAuliffe, who was chosen by NASA to pioneer its Teacher in Space program.
Has anyone been lost in space yet?
To date, no astronaut has ever been 'lost' to space during one, but there have been a couple close calls. When outside their spacecraft, astronauts attach themselves to the hull with tethers made of heavy-duty materials like kevlar.
Has anyone ever gone to space and not made it back?
On 1 February 2003, Columbia was returning to Earth after a 16-day scientific research mission. They never made it back. | aerospace |
http://pearl1.lanl.gov/external/Research/venus.shtml | 2016-02-06T15:26:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701146600.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193906-00156-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.902192 | 750 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__150671004 | en | Top scientists aim for Venus planetary lander project
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 9, 2010—Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed instruments for Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Mars, Saturn, interstellar space, and the driving solar wind that flies between the planets. Now they’re setting their sights on the planet Venus. As part of a proposed NASA mission called the Surface and Atmosphere Geochemical Explorer (SAGE), Los Alamos researchers are planning a laser tool that will rapidly measure the surface, and beneath the surface, of the planet whose hostile environment will likely destroy the lander within a few hours.
NASA, as part of its New Frontiers competition, awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.3 million for a one-year concept study for a Venus lander mission, SAGE, to study the history of our sister planet’s surface, climate and atmosphere and to predict its ultimate fate in the solar system. The Los Alamos-led instrument aboard SAGE would integrate two spectroscopic analysis techniques, both using a laser, to identify chemical compounds by the light spectra they emit. Raman spectroscopy and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy will both be used on the SAGE lander, providing multiple measurements of the planet’s surface and subsurface.
Since the planet’s atmosphere is visually impenetrable, little is known about the Venus geology. Several Soviet Venera landers of the 1970s–‘80s were the only successful missions to each very briefly explore the Venus surface. Upon reaching Ground Zero, SAGE’s instrument package would dig in, begin analyzing the landing site with a suite of instruments in addition to the Raman-LIBS device, and then send this information back to Earth before being melted and destroyed by the hot, hostile environment.
Several unique aspects of the LANL device on SAGE are that it allows many measurements to be made at different spots on the Venus surface and subsurface near the lander, whereas the old Soviet landers could only make one measurement each mission, and mineral identification will be done with SAGE, which has not been done previously.
While Venus and Earth were similar a birth, Venus has since been referred to as “Earth’s evil twin,” said Sam Clegg, principal investigator for the Los Alamos instrument.
“The Venus atmosphere suffers from global warming due to the runaway greenhouse gases. One of the goals of the Raman–LIBS instrument is to explore how the Venus geology has contributed to this global warming,” Clegg said.
The LIBS component of the device is similar to another Los Alamos space-bound instrument, the ChemCam LIBS package aboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity that is due for launch to Mars in the fall of 2011.
The Raman-LIBS instrument is an international collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory, Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Washington University in St. Louis, the Lunar and Planetary Institute and Mt. Holyoke College. The overall SAGE team is led by University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), and is partnered with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Lockheed Martin in Denver, Colorado. The principal investigator is Dr. Larry Esposito, professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences.
LANL Press June 2010. LANL Contact for this story: Nancy Ambrosiano | aerospace |
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/booked-a-jet-airways-flight-heres-what-passengers-can-do-ticket-refund-3849921.html | 2019-05-22T23:29:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256980.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522223411-20190523005411-00459.warc.gz | 0.955988 | 491 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__214961968 | en | Jet Airways will offer a refund for all passengers affected by the suspension of flight operations
Cash-strapped airline Jet Airways flew its last flight on the Amritsar-Delhi-Mumbai route on April 17 and announced a temporary shutdown as lenders refused to provide it with the much-needed emergency funding.
As of Thursday, April 18, all domestic and international flights of Jet Airways stand cancelled. This has led to confusion and panic among the customers who had booked flights with the carrier.
The airline has said that it will inform all guests about the suspension of flight operations through text messages or emails to the respective contact details in the bookings.
If you have a booking with Jet Airways for a later date than April 18, you will receive a text, email or phone call from Jet Airways authorities. The airline will offer a refund for all passengers affected by the suspension of flight operations.
Passengers have to call the airline or visit its office in case their flights have been cancelled within 72 hours of departure. A list of all Jet Airways offices across the country is on their website.
If the flight has been cancelled beyond 72 hours, passengers have to fill the form on the Disruption Assistance page of the website, if booked directly with Jet.
In case a passenger has booked the flight through an agent, they will have to contact the agent directly. If a ticket has been booked through travel portals like MakeMyTrip, ClearTrip, Yatra, etc, they will have to cancel their tickets on those websites of apps and seek a refund for their tickets.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has said that the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) and other regulators are monitoring the situation carefully to ensure that all existing rules regarding refunds, cancellations, and alternate bookings are followed strictly.
"Any passenger complaints or issues should be promptly reported to the AirSewa portal or on its mobile app. We will follow up immediately. Our overriding priority remains the safety, convenience, and affordability of our Aviation system. We are assisting airlines and airports to bring in capacity rapidly to ensure that fares remain stable and competitive," it said on Twitter.A meeting between the secretary of MoCA with airports is underway and airlines will coordinate and address any emerging issues on capacity, slots and passenger convenience.
Get Lok Sabha 2019 Live Election Results, constituency-wise tally, news, views and analysis | aerospace |
https://defence.nridigital.com/global_defence_technology_oct20/industry_news | 2023-06-03T12:24:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649193.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603101032-20230603131032-00704.warc.gz | 0.939961 | 2,136 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__234151085 | en | 13 October 2020
US advances with three weaponry sales to Taiwan
The US administration is reportedly advancing with the sale of three advanced weaponry packages to Taiwan.
According to a Reuters report, the heads of Senate Foreign Relations and House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committees were informed that the US State Department has approved the possible weapons sales. The two committees have the right to assess or block potential weapon sales before the sales are formally notified to the US Congress.
Sources told the news agency that the notifications were for Lockheed Martin-made truck-based rocket launcher, Boeing’s long-range air-to-ground missiles called SLAM-ER and external sensor pods for F-16 jets that will allow the aircraft to send imagery and data to ground stations in real time.
The US State Department is also expected to soon approve the sale of other armaments such as aerial drones, land-based Harpoon anti-ship missiles and underwater mines.
A US State Department spokesperson told Reuters: “As a matter of policy, the US does not confirm or comment on proposed defence sales or transfers until they are formally notified to Congress.”
If confirmed, the move is likely to face a strong response from China, which considers Taiwan as one of its provinces and opposes any military support to the island. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian already said that the US should suspend weaponry sales to Taiwan.
13 October 2020
BAE Systems’ PHASA-35 aircraft completes critical endurance trials
BAE Systems has announced that its Persistent High-Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35) completed critical endurance trials, following its maiden flight in February that paved the way for future persistent surveillance technology.
During the critical endurance trials, the aircraft was operated in difficult stratospheric conditions in a simulated environment for 72 hours.
The trials were carried out along with BAE Systems, Prismatic and the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
The critical ‘soak’ tests showcased that the aircraft worked effectively as a fully integrated system with the communications sensor payload by Dstl.
A series of ground-based tests was also carried out in a hangar at Prismatic’s facility near Farnborough, UK.
The tests allowed the team to practice different operations required in flight, such as the transition from daytime to nighttime.
BAE Systems Air chief operating officer Ian Muldowney said: “PHASA-35 is a great example of how we’ve brought together the best in British expertise and partnered to drive technological innovation and deliver critical capability. This latest success, only eight months after PHASA-35’s maiden flight, further demonstrates how UK industry and our partners are accelerating pace to deliver the UK’s vision for innovation, a Future Combat Air System and information advantage.”
In the next few months, BAE Systems plans to carry out further flight trials.
After the conclusion of the flight trials programme, the aircraft is expected to commence initial operations within 12 months.
12 October 2020
US approves $14.7bn sale of F/A-18E/F and EA-18G to Finland
The US State Department has approved a possible foreign military sale of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft to Finland. The sale, worth an estimated $14.7bn, also includes weapons and related equipment.
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has also notified Congress about the sale.
Finland has requested 50 F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, eight F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft, 14 EA-18G Growler aircraft, and 166 F414-GE-400 engines, of which 144 are installed and the remaining 22 are spares, as well as 500 GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II all-up round.
Also included in the sale are 12 GBU-53/B SDB II guided test vehicles, 12 GBU-53/B SDB II captive carry reliability trainers, 150 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder tactical missiles and 32 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder captive air training missiles.
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement: “This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by improving the security of a trusted partner, which is an important force for political stability and economic progress in Europe.
“It is vital to the US national interest to assist Finland in developing and maintaining a strong and ready self-defence capability.”
Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Company, Raytheon Missile Systems Company, General Electric and Lockheed Martin will serve as principal contractors. For the implementation of the sale, six additional US contractor representatives will be assigned to Finland to support the delivery of the aircraft. They will offer support management, inventory control, and equipment familiarisation.
12 October 2020
Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group starts maritime security and stability operations
The US Navy's Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group has commenced maritime security and stability operations in the Indian Ocean.
The group includes aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and the embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54), and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97).
It carries out routine operations in the Indo-Pacific region to support the commitments of the US to its regional allies and partners. The operations represent the second part of the 2020 deployment under which the strike group sailed in the Indian Ocean.
USS Ronald Reagan commanding officer Captain Fred Goldhammer said: “Our flexible presence is a key element in helping assure our regional allies and partners that the United States remains committed to ensuring freedom of the seas. From the international dateline to the Indian Ocean, and everywhere in between, on board Ronald Reagan we seek to preserve peace through strength and remain ready to answer the call.”
The ships and aircraft of the strike group will oversee the warfighting readiness through air defence, anti-submarine warfare, maritime strike, and force protection exercises.
In August this year, US Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group conducted integrated operations with Murasame-class destroyer JS Ikazuchi (DD 107) of Japan in the Philippine Sea. This move is part of the current shared commitments to achieve regional stability through cooperation.
12 October 2020
North Korea displays new ICBMs in military parade
North Korea has displayed previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at a military parade in the capital of Pyongyang
The ‘massive’ missile was carried by an 11-axle truck and would be one of the largest road-mobile ICBMs globally if it becomes operational, analysts told Reuters.
The night-time military parade was held to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party.
The reclusive nation often uses military parades to unveil new missiles and other weaponry.
AT the event, Hwasong-15, the longest-range missile ever tested by the country and, reportedly, a submarine-launched ballistic missile were also displayed.
According to experts, the larger missile could be designed to carry multiple independent reentry vehicles that will enable it to attack several targets minimising interception risks.
However, it is not confirmed if the missile displayed in the parade is a prototype or a conceptual model.
Former US intelligence officer for North Korea Markus Garlauskas told the news agency that the new ICBM is displayed to eliminate doubts about North Korea’s capability to strike the continental US.
This is the first time that North Korea displayed a ballistic missile since the beginning of denuclearisation talks between the US and North Korea.
8 October 2020
Warrior production contract “could add £1bn to the UK economy”: KPMG
A KPMG report commissioned by Lockheed Martin has found that a production contract for the Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme (CSP) could add up to £1bn to the UK economy.
The £1bn in gross value added to the UK economy is based on an expected production contract covering the upgrade of 275 vehicles between 2021 and 2029. At this time, the exact number of vehicles set to be upgraded has yet to be confirmed as Warrior CSP is still under a development contract.
Under the Warrior CSP programme, Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs), originally built in the 1980s, will receive a new turret based on the CTA International CT40 cannon as well as other upgrades to the vehicles electronics systems.
Lockheed Martin has said around 80% of the Warrior CSP solution is sourced from British companies in its current state. Once awarded, production and integration of the new turret will be completed at Lockheed Martin’s site in Ampthill, Bedfordshire.
The KPMG report adds that a production contract for the vehicles could deliver 100 annual full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs and up to 2,000 annual FTE jobs through the supply chain and direct employment at the peak of production.
An executive summary of the report seen by Army Technology states that, based on an expected contract award in the last quarter of 2021, resultant vehicle deliveries would likely take place between 2023 and 2028.
The MOD told Lockheed Martin in August 2020 that it intends to upgrade up to 290 Warrior AFVs. Lockheed Martin was originally awarded a development contract for Warrior CSP in 2011. Under this timeline, it would have been 12 years from development contract to delivery of the first Warrior CSP vehicles.
KPMG found that a production contract would generate £278.9m in direct GVA, £484.3m in indirect GVA from the supply chain and £280.4m in GVA created through Lockheed Martin employees spending Warrior CSP-related wages.
Lockheed Martin Ampthill vice president and managing director Lee Fellows said: The economic impacts of the Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme have been significant to the UK economy and a production contract will bring greater prosperity impacts to the UK.”
Warrior CSP is designed to extend the in-service life of the Warrior armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) beyond 2040. | aerospace |
http://gimpygal.blogspot.com/2005/07/discovery-debris.html | 2018-06-20T15:11:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863650.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620143814-20180620163814-00172.warc.gz | 0.982527 | 342 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__180334741 | en | It turns out that there was some debris that fell off of the external fuel tank during separation (when the orbiter was somewhere around 60 miles above Earth). The debris fall-off was picked up by one of the cameras on the external tank, and did not appear to contact the orbiter.
There was also a bit of debris that seemed to fall off near the tiles at the front landing gear. It is (right now) believed that this was a bit of tile from the front landing gear area, one of the hottest parts of the shuttle upon re-entry.
NASA engineers and administrators will be examining and analyzing the camera footage in the next few days, to try to determine the extent of the damage. For all they know RIGHT NOW, since we have never seen this part of a mission before (prior to this, the cameras were not in place), this could be "normal" damage that always occurs. The examination of the orbiter by the shuttle remote manipulator arm, by the astronauts on EVA (extra-vehicular activity), and by cameras and CanadArm2 on ISS will also help evaluate the extent of the damage, in addition to the ground-based evaluation of the shots captured during today's launch.
Well, we've got them up there. Now we need to get them home. Oddly enough, I haven't seen anything about this debris on NASA's website (at least, not in a quick scan), though both the BBC and CBS News have a (very little) bit on it. Seeing as I've got nothing better to do in general these days, I'll be following the mission and its key aspects, and post anything interesting up here. | aerospace |
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-8054.html | 2024-02-27T16:26:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474676.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227153053-20240227183053-00144.warc.gz | 0.901519 | 760 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__177534969 | en | From Geomagnetism and Space Science to Space Weather
- University of Umeå, Physics Department, Uppsala, Sweden ([email protected])
Early studies of “geo-magnetism” dealt with the understanding of long-term developments and short-term disturbances in the geo-magnetic field as measured by magnetometers on ground level. Soon after the IGY the concept of several co-existing and globally or locally interacting ionospheric current systems (DP1 & 2) was born. Both systems seemed to respond differently to solar wind driving conditions and internal magnetospheric processes. Through continued global international study efforts, like e.g. the International Magnetospheric Study (IMS) and later the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program (ISTP) the 2-dimenional monitoring of geomagnetic “disturbances”, now understood as complex signatures of different current systems within and beyond the upper atmosphere, became a powerful tool to monitor and study the complicated three-dimensional coupling of the magnetosphere to the upper atmosphere and its ultimate relation to certain solar wind drivers of magnetospheric conditions.
Geomagnetic observations, both globally and regionally, are today a valuable asset to put the very local measurements of magnetospheric satellites (even if “multi-point”) into its proper context with respect to the dynamics of the magnetosphere. The ultimate goal of such measurements today is not only to identify the energy and activity state of the magnetosphere as such, but also to study the exact location, strength and spatio-temporal development of the most powerful short-lived magnetic disturbances that we know, the so-called magnetospheric substorms and the closely related intensifications of major magnetic storms.
The study of the physics of the geo-space environment in response to solar activity and solar wind driving has over the last twenty years matured to make first useful predictions of a large variety of plasma processes in near-Earth space, which have the potential to detrimentally affect human space exploration and human technological infrastructure both on ground and in space. The fast-growing research and operational field of Space Weather has stimulated new active research (including advanced model efforts) to get to the bottom of some of the most effective geo-space plasma phenomena, and to understand the variability of ionospheric currents, and their connection to the outer magnetosphere. This is at present one of the most intriguing scientific problems in the field of Space Weather. Potentially any conducting infrastructure on the ground can be detrimentally or catastrophically affected by fast changes in the magnetic field (dB/dt) via geomagnetically induced currents (GICs). In parallel, the involved ionospheric current systems can cause further secondary impacts on space-borne communication and navigations systems via ionospheric plasma instabilities and atmospheric drag effects on satellite orbits.
In my presentation I will give a short background to the historical progress of space science with the help of magnetometer data, and then highlight a selection of recent research topics, where global and regional magnetometer networks (together with a multitude of dedicated space missions) represent a very important part of the systematic and coordinated study of the near-Earth plasma environment, the coupled solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere – atmosphere “System of Systems”.
How to cite: Opgenoorth, H.: From Geomagnetism and Space Science to Space Weather, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-8054, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-8054, 2023. | aerospace |
http://www.strategic-culture.org/tags/2strategic-nuclear-forces.html | 2016-02-09T13:45:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701157212.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193917-00010-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.903871 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__21035151 | en | According to Russia’s stance, any country committing an act of aggression against it will have to face guaranteed retaliation. The Russian strategic forces have reached the critical stage: the US missile defense is capable of intercepting 600 - 700 ballistic missiles and is being upgraded. The estimates show that only the level of 1.5 thousand warheads guarantees the capability to strike on launch. The further strategic arms reductions without reaching an agreement on missile defense will devalue the Russia deterrence potential and create new threats to the security of Russia and international security in general...
Yuriy RUBTSOV | 18.02.2013 | aerospace |
https://www.controlhobbies.com/cefics-punkair-para-rc-paragliders-rc-paraglider-the-eagle-1.9-hybrid-chrigel-maurer.html | 2024-02-25T19:29:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474641.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225171204-20240225201204-00782.warc.gz | 0.879988 | 551 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__155240967 | en | The Eagle 1.9 is the ultimate RC paraglider inspired by the world's best pilot, Christian "Chrigel" Maurer. Imagine soaring through the skies with the same grace and precision as Chrigel himself. We proudly present this high-performance model, meticulously crafted using our unique hybrid construction techniques.
"The Eagle" derives its name from Chrigel, who has achieved a remarkable feat by winning the Red Bull X-Alps, considered the toughest paragliding race, for the seventh consecutive time in 2021. To honor his extraordinary accomplishment, we have updated our renowned Chinook 1.9 model to mirror the design of Chrigel's X-Alps glider from 2015, resulting in an exceptional paraglider.
The Eagle 1.9 boasts outstanding glide and climb performance, offering a wide speed range that spans from incredibly slow to astonishingly fast. This exceptional range ensures maximum safety and effortless handling, all while maintaining a lightweight structure.
Like its predecessor, the Chinook, the Eagle 1.9 provides exceptional flight stability and performance at a remarkably low weight. By pairing it with our recommended pilot system, such as the PRO Ultralight or Emotion, you can push the boundaries and fly in weather conditions previously considered impossible for RC paragliders.
The Eagle 1.9 is engineered to withstand even the windiest conditions. As part of our CrossAlps/Chinook series, this paraglider exhibits exceptional wind resistance while maintaining impeccable stability. Remarkable thermal flight capabilities and aerobatic characteristics complement its design as a high-performance glider.
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SPECIFICATIONSWingspan: 3.4mSurface Area: 1.9m²Aspect ratio: 6.1Cells: 36 (10 Single Skin)Wight range: 1.5-3kgFabric: Skyman D10Lines: Aramid
INCLUDEDWing The Eagle 1.9 HybridWing bagRisersMade in Germany
NEEDEDLarge/Extra Large Flight SystemPower System4 – 6 Channel Radio System | aerospace |
https://ohiodailynews.com/2020/07/10/widespread-rain-and-line-of-storms/ | 2020-08-10T05:05:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738609.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20200810042140-20200810072140-00044.warc.gz | 0.921454 | 97 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__56568535 | en | UNITED STATES (CNN/AP) — A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its tail.
Comet NEOWISE swept within Mercury’s orbit a week ago. Its close proximity to the sun caused dust and gas to burn off its surface and create an even bigger debris tail. Now the comet is headed our way, with closest approach in two weeks. It is the first visible comet of 2020. | aerospace |
http://www.gereports.com/with-big-american-airlines-order-rd-powered-fuel-efficient-leap-engine-leads-narrow-body-market/ | 2013-12-06T01:51:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163048970/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131728-00028-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.94369 | 439 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__184372336 | en | The new, fuel-efficient CFM LEAP engine was the star of the show at last month’s Paris Air Show, with carriers like Virgin America, SAS and others ordering 910 engines for their narrow-body Airbus A320neo planes (including Air Asia’s commitment to 400 LEAP engines, the largest single-firm aircraft order in aviation history). Now American Airlines has joined the crowd, announcing this morning an agreement with Boeing to buy a new narrow-body fleet of 300 737s, up to 160 of which—the new, re-engined 737 model—will be powered by the CFM LEAP. Together with its earlier selection to power China’s COMAC C919, the CFM LEAP engine and its technology is gaining momentum with the next generation of narrow-body aircraft. CFM International is the 50/50 joint company of GE Aviation and Snecma (Safran Group).
GE Aviation and its joint venture partnerships in CFM and the Engine Alliance, respectively, currently have 25,336 jet engines in service globally. More than 10,000 new engines are on order.
American’s decision to buy the new Boeing 737 aircraft powered by the LEAP engine—in addition to the LEAP’s wins in Paris—shows how CFM’s enduring commitment to R&D—the partners in CFM have spent more than $12 billion over the last decade—has paid off. With the engine purchases and accompanying service and maintenance agreements, GE Aviation’s American workforce will be busy producing and repairing engines for decades to come.
The CFM56-7BE engine will power the balance of the order from Boeing, up to 140 of the existing 737 model. GE Aviation President and CEO David Joyce said today, “We are thrilled to be supporting this significant fleet renewal by American Airlines. CFM International, our partner company with Snecma, has a long and proud history of supporting American Airlines. This marks a significant new chapter in the relationship, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring our reliable engine innovations to the airline.” | aerospace |
http://avia.liveuamap.com/en/time/04.10.2016 | 2017-03-27T02:53:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189377.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00330-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.87966 | 424 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__177045973 | en | Russian MiG29, Su24, Su27, Su30, Su34 and ukrainian MiG29 at a Belbek airbase, Sevastopol
Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-34 over Lattakia today
Chinese aircraft carrier Type 001A much more clearer images showing the second half of the island has been lifted
Intense Assad government air strikes on 5+ towns in East Ghouta today
Fighter jets take off and land on public roads in Finland during a training exercise
Russia RuAF Su-34 over Idlib today.
PHOTO: Russian Baltic Fleet Su-24M pilots during recent exercises in Kaliningrad.
US Air Force One landed in Israel
Libya: An EO-5B aircraft purportedly hovering the skies of Derna
RSAF E-3 Sentry AWACS escorted by F-15S Strike Eagles, from the 92nd Sqn, over the Saudi northern region
Turkish Airlines TK82 from Boston to Istanbul is diverting to Dublin
JIT presents evidence BUK launcher brought from Russia to east Ukraine before shot down MH17 based on photos and witness accounts
Amsterdam: over 200 journalists at JIT #MH17 report
N. Daraa: Rebels downed this drone over Dael likely used to coordinate/monitorate SyAF airstrikes on the city.
Russian Air Force - Open Skies observation a/c Tu154 RA85655 / RF85655
Russian Su-34 Over Saraqib today
Picture: Syrian government waplane at Hama airbase hit by Grad rockets
Russian Tu-160 intercepted by 4 Rafale in Atlantic near French coast.
Looks like an "Ukrainian People's" Drone-1 (PD-1) drone crashed in Luhansk region controlled by LNR group
China Air force sent about 40 aircraft including bombers and fighter jets over Miyako Strait near Okinawa Island. Japan
Russia Today footage of Russian Su-25 flying over Latakia during SAA offensive
Ukraine Air Force of "Center" group on training | aerospace |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/673395/trump-announces-plans-for-pentagon-to-create-space-force/ | 2021-01-19T21:43:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703519784.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20210119201033-20210119231033-00770.warc.gz | 0.957255 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__75541006 | en | President Donald Trump has announced that he is directing the Pentagon to create a new “Space Force” as an independent military service branch aimed at ensuring American supremacy in space.
While he has previously talked about his desire for a space unit, he seemed to take those musings one step further, specifically ordering the Pentagon to begin the creation of a sixth branch of the American armed forces.
“When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,” President Trump said during remarks at the White House.
“We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force, separate but equal.”
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said that the department understands the president’s guidance, and is working on the matter while taking into consideration the implications for intelligence operations for the other services.
“Working with Congress, this will be a deliberate process with a great deal of input from multiple stakeholders,” she said.
The Defence Department is already in the middle of a congressionally-mandated review of the space force issue.
The study began in March, with an interim review due in August and a final report due December 31.
Decades ago, the military deemed space a critical war-fighting domain, creating the Colorado-based Air Force Space Command in 1982.
It includes more than 36,000 personnel around the world that provide space and cyber capabilities for the Defence Department.
And the Space and Missile Systems Centre at Los Angeles Air Force Base in California, designs and buys most of the Pentagon’s space systems, while also overseeing satellite and other aircraft launches.
In addition, a number of federal defence agencies control portions of the space programme, including Nasa and the National Reconnaissance Office, which develops and operates surveillance spacecraft and satellites for intelligence gathering.
In a March document outlining the review, the Pentagon said it has already made organisational changes to beef up the stature of the space force, but is reviewing others.
The document sent to Congress said the review will look at research, capabilities, acquisition and joint warfighting needs, and will assess “whether the Space Corps concept should be implemented”.
The establishment of an independent space force was mentioned by President Trump in a March speech to service members in California, but it has faced opposition since it could create an expensive new headquarters bureaucracy and trigger complex and divisive battles between the agencies that currently control part of the space mission.
So far, the Pentagon does not have any cost estimates for the development of a new command, or any description of how it would be set up or its impact on other defence and intelligence agencies. | aerospace |
https://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/2012/KRN-20120924.htm | 2021-10-20T14:21:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585321.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020121220-20211020151220-00228.warc.gz | 0.931653 | 696 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__52652370 | en | BEXUS 14 (Balloon-borne EXperiments for University Students)
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Balloon launched on 9/24/2012, from European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Description of the payload
BEXUS which stands for Balloon Experiment for University Students is a project part of the REXUS/BEXUs initiative that allows students from universities and higher education colleges across Europe to carry out scientific and technological experiments on stratospheric research balloons. The basic idea behind BEXUS is to provide an experimental space platform for students in different research areas such as atmospheric research, fluid physics, magnetic field, materials science, radiations physics, astrophysics, biology and also on technology demonstrators.
Each year, two balloons are launched, from ESRANGE base near Kiruna, Sweden each carrying several experiments assembled on a medium-sized gondola (1.16 m x 1.16 m x 0.84 m). The total lifted-mass is approximately 300kg with payload weighing between 30 and 112kg (which means generally 4 student experiments per gondola).
The first five flights of the program were carried out under sponsorship of the Swedish Space Corporation that offered available space on yearly technological flights carried out at ESRANGE. Since 2008, BEXUS is realised under a bilateral Agency Agreement between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). The Swedish share of the payload has been made available to students from other European countries through a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). EuroLaunch, a cooperation between the Esrange Space Center of SSC and the Mobile Rocket Base (MORABA) of DLR, is responsible for the campaign management and operations of the launch vehicles. Experts from DLR, SSC, ZARM and ESA provide technical support to the student teams throughout the project.
Video footage of the launch
Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 9/24/2012 at 11:00 utc Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden
Balloon launched by: Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon 12.000 m3 End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 9/24/2012 at ??
Balloon flight duration (d:days / h:hours / m:minutes): 5 h Landing site: --- No Data --- Campaign: BEXUS
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http://www.rg-sys.com/management-team.html | 2020-02-17T06:45:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875141749.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217055517-20200217085517-00385.warc.gz | 0.963315 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__66621549 | en | Peter J. Gaffney, President
Mr. Gaffney has over 30 years experience in the aerospace and defense industry. Prior to starting RG Systems, Mr. Gaffney spent most of his career at Integral Systems, Inc. where he designed and developed a number satellite ground systems for commercial and government customers. During his tenure at Integral Systems, Mr. Gaffney was VP of product development for the EPOCH IPS product line, VP of Integral's Commercial Division and VP of the Government Division. He eventually became COO and then CEO. Mr. Gaffney has extensive technical, management, and financial experience in commercial and government contracting.
Jay A. Reese, VP Strategy
Mr. Reese is a co-founder of RG Systems and has extensive experience in the software development, engineering, and management of satellite ground systems for national security and civil agencies. Mr. Reese led the development, integration, and installation of many of NOAA's POES and GOES satellite ground systems. He is currently the technical and management lead for several NOAA POES and GOES ground system upgrade and sustainment programs. Mr. Reese is highly regarded at both NOAA and NASA for his technical expertise and management capabilities. He has strong ties with government and commercial customers and industry partners.
Joe Valvano, Chief Engineer
Mr. Valvano has 30+ years experience working in the space communications industry, with primary expertise in satellite earth station applications for NASA, NOAA, DoD, and commercial customers. He has designed, installed, and acceptance tested earth stations all over the world including, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. Prior to joining RG Systems, he was Principal Systems Engineer at Integral Systems, where he architected and designed many commercial and government earth stations, leading all project phases from requirements analysis through customer acceptance testing. He also worked for ASRC Federal where he led a team of engineers and policy analysts doing spectrum management for NASA Headquarters.
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http://commercial.yuneec.com/comm-en-tower | 2020-09-22T20:30:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400206763.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922192512-20200922222512-00494.warc.gz | 0.890725 | 239 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__120023264 | en | Turbulence and wind are no longer an obstacle in capturing precise imaging of vertical structures. Communication towers, flare stacks, antennas, smokestacks, and other vertical objects can be efficiently inspected with the precise flight of the Yuneec H520 and the Px4 flight stack.
High Precision in Challenging Environments
Vertical inspections require precise and clear imagery in what are often hostile conditions. Although an sUAS cannot replace a human or provide a complete audit, thermal and long-lens payloads provide for deeper views of tower inventory. Yuneec offers two payloads for the Field Service Provider (FSP) or tower inspector - the E50 and E90 cameras. The longer focal length of the E50 camera allows users to fly further back from the object being viewed, without compromising image quality or depth. The E90's 1-inch sensor provides deep color and 20-megapixel still images for deep zoom analysis of fine detail. High-turbulence environments can be unpredictable and unforgiving. FSPs and tower inspectors will also benefit from the H520's six rotor design, which provides stability in situations of high winds during tower inspections. | aerospace |
https://www.oma.bz/2017/05/02/world-war-ii-aircraft/ | 2020-09-29T07:54:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401632671.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929060555-20200929090555-00213.warc.gz | 0.978219 | 1,254 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__122321087 | en | During World War II fighter airplanes were utilized to obtain breeze superiority over a battlefield. Although World War was the first primary battle that consisted of the aircraft, that was actually throughout The second world war that aircraft tackled some of the best crucial regulations of combat. Oma Online has data for three primary sorts of aircraft that were used in World War II including fighters, bombing planes, and transportation airplane. The Douglas SBD Dauntless was a The second world war American naval recruiter aircraft and plunge bomber that was produced by Douglas Airplane coming from 1940 through 1944.
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More than two lots of airplanes of world war 2, as well as bomber aircraft, whooshed over Washington, D.C.’s most famous buildings on Friday to note the 70th wedding anniversary of the Allied triumph in Europe. Under the yellow clay-based soil from the Kisatchie National Park, Hurston stated he firmly believes, is actually various World War II devices– tanks, half-track autos, vehicles, vehicles and also P-40 fighter airplanes crammed in their authentic shipping cages.
Previous USA Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and also numerous The second world war veterans attended the overpass, which was open to the general public as well as began around twelve o’clock, according to the organizers of the Toolbox of Democracy Overpass. The previous armed forces airplanes soared in turn formations giving an account of the largest fights of The second world war, from Gem Harbor to the last attack on Japan. | aerospace |
https://www.nisenet.org/events/online-workshop/online-workshop-celebrating-moon-our-nearest-neighbor-space-recorded | 2020-07-11T11:28:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655929376.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711095334-20200711125334-00047.warc.gz | 0.906609 | 233 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__45337866 | en | The NISE Network runs a series of free online workshops to increase the number of professional development opportunities available to our partners, and create more channels for partners to share their work and learn from each other directly.
Celebrating the Moon, Our Nearest Neighbor in Space
There are a lot of exciting Moon events coming up: International Observe the Moon Night on October 20, 2018, a total lunar eclipse on January 21, 2019, and the July 20, 2019 celebration of the 50th of anniversary of the Apollo 11 first humans landing on the Moon. This one-hour online workshop highlighted these events and how to celebrate them in your museum. We also shared NASA's latest efforts to study the Moon and the cameras mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and shared some practical tips for observing the Moon with your visitors.
This material is based upon work supported by NASA under grant or cooperative agreement award number 80NSSC18M0061. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | aerospace |
https://www.nfb.ca/film/nfb_space_school_health_lesson_4/ | 2023-12-08T01:49:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100710.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208013411-20231208043411-00475.warc.gz | 0.846498 | 215 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__250820575 | en | Host Jeremie Saunders introduces us to Lesson 4.
How astronauts train for the mental and psychological challenges of working and living in Space.
Describes how astronauts train in the Space Suit here on Earth.
Describes what it feels like to perform an actual Spacewalk.
Host Jeremie Saunders introduces us to Health for Astronauts (Lesson 1).
Describes the equipment and techniques used by astronauts to exercise in space.
Describes the kind of candidates that NASA and CSA are looking for.
Host Jeremie Saunders introduces us to Lesson 3.
Host Jeremie Saunders introduces us to Lesson 2.
Describes how astronauts prepare their bodies to be able to work in space.
Describes the characteristics of the Space Suit and how to put it on.
Describes the foods and challenges of eating in space.
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NFB Space School - Health - Lesson 4 - Mental Preparation, Rohan Fernando & Eva Madden, provided by the National Film Board of Canada | aerospace |
https://wspd.iheart.com/featured/fred/content/2017-04-20-not-a-good-week-for-airllines/ | 2020-01-24T16:17:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250624328.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20200124161014-20200124190014-00346.warc.gz | 0.962795 | 65 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__132995064 | en | This has not been a good few weeks for the airline industry. The two United incidents and now this video showing an irate passenger attacking the pilot in the terminal. The passenger was upset over the amount of space the pilot took up in the aisle when disembarking. Watch and see how he handles it.
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https://communismexposed.mp3mp4pdf.net/2021/07/04/video-obama-dark-spirits-took-over-the-republican-party-larry-elder/ | 2021-09-18T23:18:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056578.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20210918214805-20210919004805-00623.warc.gz | 0.96139 | 1,587 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__45734947 | en | China’s Commercial Airliner Ambitions: Dream or Nightmare?
Last month, the United States and Europe approved a halt in their 17-year trade dispute over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus. Furthermore, both sides agreed to “collaborate on addressing non-market practices of third parties that may harm their respective large civil aircraft industries.” This means China.
China is trying hard to break into the commercial airliner business, a lucrative sector dominated by the Boeing-Airbus duopoly. One might think that such a business would be ripe for more competition, and yet no other segment has been so hard to break into. The global civilian aircraft sector is an elephants’ graveyard of ambitious programs—the Mitsubishi SpaceJet, Sukhoi’s Superjet 100, Turkey’s TRJet—that have all failed miserably.
Only Embraer of Brazil has succeeded in offering Boeing and Airbus any meaningful competition, and only by carving out a niche building small regional jets.
So why does China believe that it can join the “big boys club” of commercial aircraft production? In the first place: size. China is the world’s largest national air travel market and the fastest growing. China buys around 200 new passenger jets every year, about one-eighth of the world’s total demand. Consequently, there is a huge domestic market to tap into and build upon.
In the second place: pride. The decision to enter into the large commercial aircraft market was made at the very top, by the State Council of China and by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC)—the state-owned company created in 2008 to take charge of passenger jet development—is wrapped in self-described “aeronautical patriotism.” COMAC views the production of large commercial aircraft as its contribution to the “China dream” in the wild blue yonder, equivalent to the nation’s development of nuclear weapons and the launch of the country’s first satellite.
Finally: deep pockets. The CCP is willing to throw a lot of money at commercial aircraft development, an aerospace equivalent to its land-and-sea Belt and Road Initiative.
COMAC currently has two passenger jets in the works. The first is the ARJ-21, a medium-sized regional jet seating up to 90 passengers and designed for short-haul flights of less than three hours. Launched in 2002, during the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001–2005), the ARJ-21 was the country’s first attempt in 30 years to design an indigenous commercial airliner. The plane had its first flight in late 2008, and COMAC has predicted that it would sell up to 1,000 such jets.
An even more ambitious airliner, the C919 narrow-body jet, was initiated in 2008. The C919 seats around 160 passengers, which puts it in roughly the same category as two workhorses of the skies, the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320. COMAC predicted in 2012 that it would conduct the first flight of the C919 in 2014 and begin deliveries by 2016.
In addition, China is currently collaborating with Russia on the CR929 wide-body jet, which could carry around 300 passengers.
COMAC is already claiming that its airliners are a big success, boasting over 600 orders for the ARJ21 and more than 800 orders for the C919. There are huge holes in this story, however.
In the first place, both programs are years behind schedule. The ARJ21, for example, was two-and-a-half years late in achieving first flight. In late 2010, the plane failed its predicted load rating during static tests, suffering wing cracks. The plane has also had problems with its wiring and avionics, as well as being overweight, which limits its load weight.
The C919 looks to be in even more trouble. The program is believed to have already cost China over $20 billion, and it has missed its milestones for first flight and first deliveries by three years. In addition, neither the ARJ21 nor the C919 has been awarded an airworthiness certification by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), without which it is almost impossible to sell the airliners outside of China.
In fact, so far nearly all the orders for the ARJ21 and C919 have come from Chinese airlines, making it highly likely that Beijing strong-armed these companies into buying the planes. The first airline to receive the ARJ21, for example, was Chengdu Airlines, which is partly owned by COMAC. At the same time, the ARJ21 is particularly unsuited for the Chinese air market; it carries too few passengers for most air routes between large cities, while the country’s expanding network of high-speed trains is cutting into national short-haul air traffic.
Moreover, perhaps only a third of the 1,400 orders for these aircraft are “firm.” The rest are either “options”—that is, non-binding purchase agreements—or else are unconfirmed orders.
Finally, calling these aircraft “Chinese” is stretching the point. In fact, both the ARJ21 and C919 relying heavily on foreign suppliers for critical components and subsystems. The nose cone for the ARJ21 is a direct copy of the defunct McDonnell-Douglas MD-82, which China built under license back in the 1990s. The aircraft’s wing, meanwhile, was designed by the Antonov Design Bureau of Ukraine.
Both aircraft use Western-supplied avionics, landing gear, nacelles, flight controls, and—most important—engines. In fact, it is estimated that only 25 percent of the overall value of C919 is actually Chinese, mostly in the manufacture of the fuselage and wings, as well as final assembly. I can put together an IKEA bookcase, but that doesn’t make me a carpenter.
At yet, like most things in China, just because it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean that Beijing isn’t going to do it. As noted aerospace expert Richard Aboulafia has put it: “Every single civil aircraft produced by an authoritarian country (or by a socialist economic system) has been a miserable failure on the market.” He adds, “Well-run countries with nice, smart governments don’t start national aircraft programs,” but “incompetent autocrats love them.”
Furthermore, Aboulafia states, “Only autocratic regimes have the ability to allocate resources to national jetliners without anyone questioning why.” Consequently, the CCP can waste tons of money on vanity projects like the ARJ21 and the C919.
That said, China could still end up manufacturing a lot of commercial airliners and then forcing its domestic airlines to buy them. That might be sufficient for Beijing, and it would significantly cut into Boeing and Airbus sales to China. Ultimately, however, it will be the Chinese people who will pay the price.
Richard A. Bitzinger is an independent international security analyst. He was previously a senior fellow with the Military Transformations Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore, and he has held jobs in the U.S. government and at various think tanks. His research focuses on security and defense issues relating to the Asia-Pacific region, including the rise of China as a military power, and military modernization and arms proliferation in the region. | aerospace |
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/quot-science-in-space-quot-early-1960s-space-exploration-film-sputnik-explorer-vanguard-rocket-1249_VTwgEpcBhv7n1JX.html | 2020-04-09T01:21:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371826355.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200408233313-20200409023813-00338.warc.gz | 0.881363 | 938 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__187064094 | en | "SCIENCE IN SPACE" EARLY 1960s SPACE EXPLORATION FILM SPUTNIK & EXPLORER VANGUARD ROCKET 12494
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This short National Academy of Sciences educational film from the early 1960s, part of the Planet Earth series, gives viewers a look at how satellites are placed into orbit and the importance they play in advancing technology, science, and space exploration. The film opens with footage of a rocket at a launch pad and men in the control room preparing for liftoff. The rocket blasts off into night (01:05). An illustration shows Alexander the Great using griffins to get to space (01:53). Another illustration shows Jules Verne’s space capsule. Viewers see photographs of the rhesus monkey that was sent into space aboard a U.S. rocket. A radar dish tracks a sounding rocket through the air (03:14). A man works on a satellite (04:01). A truck hauls a large rocket (possibly a Vanguard rocket) to the launch site. The rocket is lifted into position and men pump fuel into the rocket. Footage shows a failed rocket launch, as the rocket explodes just after its boosters ignite (05:10). Two men work on assembling a satellite in a laboratory (06:00). One man works on an eight-ounce tape recorder to broadcast noise back to Earth. A man puts on a satellite’s magnesium shell cover. There is an illustration of Sputnik 3 and Explorer 3 (08:00). Another man moves solar cells on the Explorer 6 satellite. Viewers see tests conducted on a rocket’s nose for ejecting a satellite into space. A Vanguard three-stage rocket takes off with a satellite (09:10). Animation is used to show how the rocket continues into space with the various rocket stages cutting out and falling away. A small rocket spins and pushes the satellite into orbit during the final stage. Viewers see an animation depicting how a satellite orbits Earth (11:24). The first Vanguard rocket is launched in 1958 (11:44). A radar dish locates a satellite. Two men sit in a radar station and monitor signals. Volunteers use telescopes to locate and record the paths of satellites in orbit (13:15). The film shows a special camera at one of the international chain of Optical Observation Stations (14:26). A photograph shows the tracked path of Sputnik 3; another shows Vanguard 2 in 1959. At a computing center, men monitor an IBM 704 computer used for computing tracking data of satellites (15:48). There is a shot of what appears to be another Optical Observation Station located in what looks like the southwest U.S. (17:00). Scientists compute atmospheric density in a room (17:45). Animation is used to show how a satellite in orbit records micrometeorites (18:48). The film then shows the first weather image ever transmitted from a satellite, (from Explorer 6), which shows cloud cover over the central Pacific Ocean (19:30). A man goes to sketch the Van Allen radiation belt on a blackboard in a room (21:11). Men watch a space probe launch from inside the control room. A photograph taken by the third Soviet space probe shows the far side of the moon (23:30). The film uses more illustrations and animations to show projections of future lunar missions. A man sits at a control station monitoring radio signals (25:40). A solar physicist uses a large telescope to examine the Sun. The film shows a map of the stars, then another space probe taking off from a launch pad and flying through the air on its way to space, concluding the film.
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https://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/aviation_safety_management/course/description/?type=I&unit=AV&prgList=AVI&course_title=Safety%20Program%20Management&CourseID=32067 | 2014-04-19T17:02:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537308.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00486-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.891427 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__67655145 | en | Safety Program Management
Learn to create, maintain and continuously improve aviation safety programs. Examine the most current Safety Management System (SMS), and learn how to incorporate it into your own aviation program. Work on developing your aviation safety plan to meet the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization Safety Management Manual. Examine the significance of culture and how to tie operational risk management into your aviation safety program.
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https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/cincinnati-pilot-jon-thocker-killed-in-culpeper-air-fest-crash-in-virginia-state-police-say | 2018-10-19T10:43:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512395.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20181019103957-20181019125457-00529.warc.gz | 0.97496 | 420 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__177613585 | en | CULPEPER, Va. - A veteran Cincinnati pilot was killed when his homebuilt plane crashed during an aerobatic, night-time performance in an air show in Virginia Friday, according to Virginia State Police.
Jon Thocker was performing with his friend and long-time flying partner Ken Rieder of Cincinnati when Thocker’s plane hit the ground during the Culpeper Air Fest.
Thocker and Rieder performed under the name of Redline Airshows and had been flying together in formation for more than 12 years, according to the Redline Airshows website. The two were performing their signature night flight that included trails of fireworks shooting from the planes' wings.
Thocker had built 10 custom planes, according to the Culpeper Air Show program. The plane he flew Friday night was registered with the FAA on Oct. 2, 2017 and is listed as amateur-built and experimental, according to a Northern Virginia news website, InsideNova.com.
Thocker flew heavy cargo planes around the world for DHL and retired after 25 years “to pursue a lifelong passion for building and flying experimental aircraft,” according to his bio on the Redline Airshows website. Thocker owned and operated Redline, LLC, a company specializing in “state of the art avionics installations and experimental aircraft builder assistance,” the website says.
His partner, Rieder, was a kid when he was inspired to pursue aviation after seeing the Blue Angels perform at Lunken Airport, Rieder's bio says. He is an aerobatic and multi-engine flight instructor and serves as flight-lead for the Redline team.
Air-show fans and others who knew Thocker are expressing their condolences and sharing their memories on Twitter.
AirshowView360 first identified Thocker as the pilot in a Facebook post. Their post said Thocker was “well known in the airshow community, a wonderful person and friend who always loved to talk to everyone. He will be greatly missed.” | aerospace |
https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/clean-fuels/07122016/clgs-biofuels-fuel-us-navy-test-flight/ | 2021-12-06T19:55:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363312.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20211206194128-20211206224128-00628.warc.gz | 0.923383 | 447 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__50302449 | en | Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) has announced the successful deployment of its biofuels ISOCONVERSION technology in a US Navy test flight. The US Navy EA-18G Green Growler test flight recently took place at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and used ReadiJet® (CHCJ-5) technology for fuel – a product derived from CLG’s biofuels ISOCONVERSION process.
The test flight was the first of nine flights the Navy’s military specification certification process required for the technology’s operational use, and marked an important milestone in the execution of drop-in renewable fuel as a petroleum alternative in a jet engine. The Navy has since successfully completed all nine of the required test flights.
“The successful US Navy test flight using ReadiJet technology is an exciting breakthrough for our biofuels ISOCONVERSION technology,” said Leon de Bruyn, Managing Director of CLG. “Products like ReadiJet and ReadiDiesel® are made possible through the biofuels ISOCONVERSION process and are sustainable, environmentally conscious alternatives that possess the same energy content expected of petroleum derived fuels.”
Biofuels ISOCONVERSION is a jointly developed technology by CLG and Applied Research Associates (ARA) that can convert a wide variety of low cost, contaminated waste feedstocks, such as yellow grease, brown grease and used cooking oil, into renewable biofuel technologies. The technology, based on CLG’s hydroprocessing technology and ARA’s patented catalytic hydrothermolysis process, can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% compared to petroleum, which is just one of its positive environmental impacts.
The recent Navy test flight was a historic event that proved the technology’s compatibility with petroleum jet and diesel engines and paves the way for renewable jet fuel producers and the overall market for biofuels.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/clean-fuels/07122016/clgs-biofuels-fuel-us-navy-test-flight/ | aerospace |
https://caainternational.com/course/easa-part-147-maintenance-training-organisation-approval-easa-part-66-certifying-staff/ | 2020-09-20T07:12:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400196999.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920062737-20200920092737-00169.warc.gz | 0.906382 | 688 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__215924034 | en | EASA Part 147 Maintenance Training Organisation Approval and EASA Part 66 Certifying Staff
2-day course | London Gatwick, Malaysia & In-company
- Delivered by experienced UK CAA inspectors
- Gain an understanding of EASA compliance and the approval processes
COVID-19 Training: Our face-to-face classroom courses resume in October 2020 with special COVID-19 measures in place. We will also continue to deliver our virtual training courses for the foreseeable future. Virtual Training Discount: We have introduced a 10% discount when you book any two of our September or October virtual courses.
What is EASA Part 147 Maintenance Training Organisation Approval?
EASA Part 147 Maintenance Training Organisation Approval is the European standard fort the approval of maintenance training organisations and it has two parts; basic training and aircraft type rating training. The basic training covers requirements for the issue of a Part 66 aircraft maintenance licence. The aircraft type rating training deals with the requirements for the endorsement of type ratings to the Part 66 aircraft maintenance licence.
What is EASA Part 66 Certifying Staff?
EASA Part 66 Certifying Staff is the European standard detailing with the requirements for the issue, extension and variation of Part 66 aircraft maintenance licence.
In this course you will discuss EASA Part 66 Engineer licensing and Part 147 approved training organisations, together with the associated Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Materials (GM). The knowledge and skills developed through the course will allow you to help your organisation demonstrate and maintain compliance.
he course is suitable for you if you are an employee of a Training Organisation, administer the licensed engineer authorisation process or regulate such organisations.
The course is beneficial for Accountable Managers, Heads of Colleges, Quality Managers, Training Managers, Examiners, Assessors and Instructors.
This training course will include the following topics:
- Introduction to EASA
- Part 66 certifying staff and associated AMC/GM
- The EASA approval processes
- Part 147 approved training organisations and associated AMC/GM
- Construction of Maintenance Training Organisation Exposition
- Construction and control of training material
- Quality oversight and audit programme
- Basic and type training requirements
By the end of the course delegates will demonstrate understanding of the:
- Compliance with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations
- Initial approval requirements and process of Part 147 approved training organisations
- Production of a Maintenance Training Organisation Exposition (MTOE)
- Construction and control of training courses
- Requirements for procedures for control of the Approval and the quality oversight of the organisation
- Requirements for initial issue and amendment of the Part 66 Licence
It would be advantageous for delegates to be familiar with, or have experience of, aviation training.
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EASA Part 147 Maintenance Training Organisation Approval and EASA Part 66 Certifying Staff Instructors
Steve has 20 years of experience in working as an engineering-type training instructor. He joined the UK CAA in 2012 and was working as a licensing and training standards surveyor conducting surveys for UK and EASA organisations. Steve has also experience as a quality manager working for a Part 147 organisation. He is currently part of the UK CAA airworthiness team conducting Part 147 surveys for UK and EASA organisations. | aerospace |
https://arffwg.org/news/blue-angels-jet-made-emergency-landing-at-colorado-air-show-after-experiencing-flat-tire/ | 2023-03-27T14:47:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948632.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327123514-20230327153514-00799.warc.gz | 0.958321 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__252632042 | en | By Jesse Sarles
LOVELAND, Colo. (CBS4) – A U.S. Navy Blue Angels fighter jet landed unexpectedly in northern Colorado on Saturday during The Great Colorado Air Show. Later in the weekend officials revealed that the emergency landing was due to a flat tire.
The landing happened just moments after takeoff and emergency vehicles rushed to meet the plane on the ground.
No one was hurt, and the Blue Angels completed their performance with the five remaining F/A-18s. The rest of the show went on as planned.
The fighter jet team performed above the skies of Loveland for the air show both on Saturday and Sunday. Airport officials say all six jets flew during Sunday’s show.
Prior to this weekend, the last time the Blue Angels performed in northern Colorado was 2002. The Blue Angels flew high over the Grand Junction Air Show in 2019.
The U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team also performed in Loveland over the weekend. | aerospace |
https://www.lewiscountycap.org/emergency-services | 2023-12-05T21:14:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00440.warc.gz | 0.92565 | 216 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__34286632 | en | Emergency Services Resources for Cadets and Seniors
NESA Ground Team Curriculum Page
CAP General Emergency Services Exam (GES-116 Test) - Opens the Learning Management System (LMS) Page in E-Services
Incident Command Exams
CAP's emergency services include air and ground search and rescue, disaster relief and civil defense for natural disasters. Our members fly approximately 85 percent of the search and rescue mission hours directed by the Air Force.
In order to provide willing and skilled cadets, Lewis County Composite Squadron conducts emergency services training and participates in mass training with other squadrons.
During these events, cadets are trained in fields that range from communications to ground team. Civil Air Patrol teaches, trains, qualifies, and uses cadets in emergency services.
During Memorial Day weekend 2013, several cadets and seniors traveled to a remote site in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest to practice basic ground team skills, including evidence line searches, team communication, locating clues, navigation and compass use, fire building and marching in full gear. | aerospace |
http://qwww.brunel.ac.uk/aerospace-engineering/why-study-aerospace-engineering-at-brunel/inspirational-alumni | 2022-01-25T23:01:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304876.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125220353-20220126010353-00062.warc.gz | 0.928273 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__82616649 | en | Brunel’s Aerospace Engineering students go on to achieve great things in the world of engineering and beyond.
Our alumni have gone onto have successful careers in a range of sectors including engineering, IT, business and science. The Aerospace Engineering department is committed in producing high calibre graduates with a skillset tailored to the needs of the industry.
Brunel’s aerospace engineering courses give you the opportunity to raise your profile through our annual showcase, Brunel Engineers, placement options and mentoring.
Stand out from the rest with one of our aerospace engineering degrees at Brunel | aerospace |
https://www.terma.com/defense/airborne-tactical-reconnaissance/ | 2017-05-25T08:43:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525083009-20170525103009-00309.warc.gz | 0.866707 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__125663005 | en | Airborne Tactical Reconnaissance
Terma is a leading supplier of turnkey reconnaissance solutions used to take pictures of objects on the ground, in the air, or at sea.
Worldwide, the majority of F-16 aircraft use Terma's tactical reconnaissance solution to carry out surveillance missions. The equipment and solution concept is modular and flexible and can also be used on other aircraft platforms, for example the Saab JAS 39 Gripen.
Terma's reconnaissance equipment is absolutely free of vibrations, ensuring sharp and accurate pictures under all circumstances. In addition, the reconnaissance system can operate automatically, allowing the pilot to concentrate on his other tasks.
A complete reconnaissance solution with camera, control system,
software, harnesses, environment control, power unit, control panel
and pod aerostructure for aircraft.
A Modular Reconnaissance Pod System (MRPS) equipped with an advanced RECCE suite, certified for the JAS 39 C/D fighter aircraft, and compatible with other aircraft.
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Supporting our customer solutions is the key to success. | aerospace |
https://jokersrevenge.com/true89.htm | 2023-05-28T13:53:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528114832-20230528144832-00132.warc.gz | 0.89179 | 508 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__212059621 | en | After every Qantas
Airlines flight, pilots complete a gripe sheet which conveys to the
mechanics problems encountered with the aircraft during the flight
that need repair or correction. The form used is a piece of paper on
which the pilot completes the top section,listing the problem..
mechanics read the report and respond in writing on the lower half
of the form documenting, what remedial action was taken. This way
the pilot on the next flight of that plane can review the
form before taking off.
Never let it be
said that ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humor. Some may
say that aircraft maintenance should be taken seriously because
incorrect maintenance can lead to accidents. While this is true,
keep in mind that Quantas is the only major airline that has never
had an accident!
Here are some
actual logged maintenance complaints and responses:
P = the problem
logged by the pilot,
S = the solution and action taken by engineers.
P: Left inside main
tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're there for.
P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious.
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed | aerospace |
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/electronic-maintenance-3345579 | 2019-11-17T09:56:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668910.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20191117091944-20191117115944-00196.warc.gz | 0.87443 | 779 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__140208240 | en | Electronic Maintenance - Field 59
Marine Job Description
Marine occupational field code 5900 is the classification for electronics maintenance. Marine Corps jobs within this field code can involve maintenance, repair, and operation of a variety of different types of electronic equipment, mainly within the Marine Air Command and Control Systems (MACCS) network. Electronic equipment supporting MACCS serves the areas of: air defense, air defense weaponry, surveillance radar, radio communications, air traffic control, and data monitoring. Personnel working in occupational field codes beginning with 59 will need to have skills and competency to perform the necessary maintenance, repair, and operational tasks pertaining to MACCS equipment as well as other sophisticated electronics which may include: computer hardware, communication systems, data signals, data monitoring, and radar.
Marines entering the electronic maintenance occupational field will receive formal courses of instruction in basic electronics followed by detailed instruction involving specific electronic, data, communication, and radar systems. After completion of formal training, a military occupational specialty (MOS) will be assigned which designates a specific job in the electronics maintenance field, usually working within the Marine Air Command and Control Systems network.
Military service, in general, offers a multitude of apprenticeship opportunities. The United Services Military Apprenticeship Program (USMAP) works in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to offer apprenticeships for Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy service members. Department of Labor Certificates of Apprenticeship Completion are awarded through the collaboration of the USMAP and DOL. There are a multitude of apprenticeship offerings in the electronics maintenance field specifically for MOSs within marine occupational field code 5900. Skills and certifications obtained through military and marine apprenticeships can be highly beneficial for rising within the Marine electronic maintenance ranks. Apprenticeship certificates are also applicable for utilization in civilian occupations upon leaving military service.
Examples of Field 5900 Jobs and Functions
- MOS 5939 Aviation Communication Systems Technician: Performance and supervision maintenance of radios and communication systems found within selected units of the Marine Air Control Group.
- MOS 5948 Aviation Radar Repairer: Site work, installation, operation, testing, adjustment, alignment, and repair of the Marine Air Command Control Systems’ air defense radar systems and associated equipment.
- MOS 5951 Aviation Meteorological Equipment Technician: Install, test, maintain, and repair all electronics, information technology, and other associated equipment employed by the Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) occupational field in support of Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) operations.
- MOS 5953 Air Traffic Control Radar Technician: Survey and install air traffic control precision approaches and surveillance radar systems.
- MOS 5954 Air Traffic Control Communications Technician: Survey and install air traffic control communications systems. Inspect and perform preventive maintenance for proper operations. Diagnose and repair operational faults.
- MOS 5959 Air Traffic Control Systems Maintenance Chief: Supervise, coordinate, and instruct enlisted personnel in the performance of air traffic control maintenance functions. Provide information concerning the capabilities, limitations, and reliability of air traffic control systems and equipment. Provide instruction on the operation and maintenance of air traffic control systems.
- MOS 5974 Tactical Data Systems Technician: Plan and perform operational management and maintenance of tactical data systems and common hardware/software suites within the Marine Air Command and Control Systems network. Responsibilities can include: installation, configuration, management, system administration, and maintenance of all MACCS’ tactical data systems, hardware, and software.
Other Marine Corps Jobs under This Occupational Field
- 5912 Avenger System Maintainer
- 5942 Aviation Radar Repairer
- 5952 Air Traffic Control Navigational Aids Technician
- 5979 Tactical Air Operations Module/Air Defense Technician
- 5993 Electronics Maintenance Chief | aerospace |
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Which is the best airline in Indonesia?
There are many airlines in Indonesia, but which one is the best? In this article, we will compare the different airlines and see which one comes out on top.
The first airline we will look at is Garuda Indonesia. Garuda is the flag carrier of Indonesia, and it is based in Jakarta. The airline has a fleet of 88 aircraft, and it serves 95 destinations. Garuda Indonesia is the largest airline in Southeast Asia, and it is also the sixth largest airline in the world. The airline has a 4-star rating from Skytrax, and it was voted the best airline in Asia-Pacific for 2017.
Next, we will look at Lion Air. Lion Air is the largest low-cost carrier in Southeast Asia, and it is based in Jakarta. The airline has a fleet of more than 300 aircraft, and it serves more than 120 destinations. Lion Air is the only airline in the world that operates the A320neo and the 737 MAX. The airline has a 3-star rating from Skytrax.
Then we have Batik Air. Batik Air is a subsidiary of Lion Air, and it is based in Jakarta. The airline has a fleet of 23 aircraft, and it serves 28 destinations. Batik Air is a full-service carrier, and it has a 2-star rating from Skytrax.
Next, we have Sriwijaya Air. Sriwijaya Air is a budget airline, and it is based in Jakarta. The airline has a fleet of more than 50 aircraft, and it serves more than 60 destinations. Sriwijaya Air is the largest airline in Indonesia by fleet size. The airline has a 2-star rating from Skytrax.
Finally, we have SilkAir. SilkAir is a regional airline, and it is based in Singapore. The airline has a fleet of 19 aircraft, and it serves 53 destinations. SilkAir is a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, and it has a 4-star rating from Skytrax.
So, which is the best airline in Indonesia? It is hard to say, as all of the airlines have their pros and cons. However, Garuda Indonesia is probably the best airline in Indonesia, as it has a 4-star rating from Skytrax and it was voted the best airline in Asia-Pacific for 2017.
Are Indonesian planes safe?
Are Indonesian planes safe? This is a question that has been asked many times, and the answer is not always clear. The fact is, there have been a few incidents over the years that have raised safety concerns. However, it is important to remember that Indonesian planes are still considered to be safe overall.
One of the most notable incidents involving an Indonesian plane was the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 in December 2014. The plane crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 passengers and crew on board. This was the deadliest plane crash in Indonesia’s history.
However, it is important to note that the AirAsia crash was not due to a problem with the plane itself. The plane had been experiencing bad weather and was flying in an area that was known to be dangerous.
Other incidents that have raised safety concerns include a crash landing at Solo City Airport in 2009 and a plane that burst into flames at Adi Sumarmo Airport in 2013.
Despite these incidents, Indonesian planes are still considered to be safe. The majority of crashes and accidents are due to factors such as bad weather or human error. The planes themselves are usually in good condition.
So, are Indonesian planes safe? The answer is yes, but it is important to be aware of the risks involved. It is always a good idea to do your research before booking a flight and to be aware of the weather conditions in the area where you are flying.
Which airline is the safest?
Which airline is the safest?
There is no definitive answer to this question as there are many factors that contribute to airline safety. However, some airlines are considered to be safer than others.
When it comes to airline safety, the most important factor is the airline’s safety record. Airlines with a good safety record are less likely to experience accidents or incidents.
Another important factor is the airline’s fleet age. An airline with an older fleet is more likely to experience accidents or incidents.
The third important factor is the airline’s safety rating. Airlines with a good safety rating are considered to be safer than those with a poor safety rating.
So, which airline is the safest? There is no definitive answer, but some airlines are considered to be safer than others.
How safe is Garuda airlines?
Garuda airlines is the flag carrier airline of Indonesia. It is one of Asia’s largest airlines, flying to destinations around the world. How safe is it to fly with Garuda?
Garuda has a good safety record. It is one of the safest airlines in the world, with a fatality rate of just 0.07 per million flights. It has never had a fatal accident.
The airline has a fleet of over 100 aircraft, including Airbus and Boeing jets. It is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Garuda is subjected to regular safety audits by the Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The CAA has awarded the airline with a four-star safety rating, the highest rating possible.
In addition to its own safety audits, Garuda is also accredited by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Aviation Safety Programme. The IATA programme is a global safety initiative that audits airlines against international safety standards.
So, overall, Garuda is a very safe airline to fly with. It has a good safety record, and is certified by some of the world’s most respected safety authorities.
Is Batik Air a safe airline?
Is Batik Air a safe airline? That is a question that is often asked, and there is no easy answer. The fact is that, like any airline, Batik Air has both good and bad safety records. However, on the whole, Batik Air is considered to be a safe airline.
One of the main reasons for this is the fact that Batik Air is a relatively small airline. With only a handful of planes, Batik Air is not as likely to be hit by safety problems as some of the larger airlines. In addition, Batik Air has a good safety record, with few accidents or incidents.
However, it is important to remember that no airline is 100% safe. There is always the potential for something to go wrong, so it is always important to do your research before booking a flight. Make sure to read up on Batik Air’s safety record, as well as the safety record of any other airline you are considering.
Ultimately, while Batik Air is not perfect, it is considered to be a safe airline. If you are looking for a safe and reliable airline, Batik Air is a good option.
Is Garuda a 5-star airline?
Garuda Indonesia is the flag carrier of Indonesia and has been awarded a 5-star rating by Skytrax. This makes it the only airline in Southeast Asia with this rating.
The 5-star rating is the highest possible and is given to airlines that provide excellent service across all areas, from cabin comfort to customer service. Garuda Indonesia is one of only seven airlines in the world to hold this rating.
The airline has a strong focus on safety and was the first in Southeast Asia to be certified as a 4-star airline by IATA. It has also been named the best airline in Indonesia for six consecutive years by Traveloka.
Garuda Indonesia operates a fleet of more than 100 aircraft and serves destinations in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Is Indonesian AirAsia safe?
There is no doubt that AirAsia is one of the biggest and most successful airlines in the world. But with great success comes greater scrutiny, and AirAsia has recently been under fire for a number of safety concerns.
The first issue was raised in early 2017, when an AirAsia plane travelling from Perth, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia went missing. The plane and all passengers and crew were later found to be safe.
However, the incident raised questions about AirAsia’s safety procedures, as it was revealed that the pilots had not been following the airline’s standard operating procedures.
More recently, AirAsia has been in the news again for safety concerns, this time relating to an incident in which an AirAsia plane overshot the runway in Kalibo, Philippines.
Investigators found that the plane’s captain had failed to follow the correct procedures when landing, which led to the plane overshooting the runway.
So, is AirAsia safe?
The answer is yes, AirAsia is safe. However, it is important to be aware of the safety concerns that have been raised in recent months.
AirAsia has responded to these concerns by tightening up its safety procedures, and it is likely that the airline will continue to make safety a top priority.
So, if you are thinking of flying with AirAsia, rest assured that you will be travelling with a safe and reputable airline. | aerospace |
https://insideunmannedsystems.com/intel-breaks-guinness-world-records-title-for-drone-light-shows-in-celebration-of-50th-anniversary/ | 2023-12-08T12:49:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100745.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208112926-20231208142926-00695.warc.gz | 0.92418 | 299 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__165463214 | en | In celebration of Intel’s 50th anniversary, the company flew 2,018 Intel Shooting Star drones over its Folsom, California, facility on July 18, setting a new Guinness World Records title for the most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously.
“Several years ago, we had an idea of flying drones forming the Intel logo over our corporate headquarters, and here we are doing just that. It really speaks to the innovative spirit that Intel was founded on 50 years ago,” Anil Nanduri, vice president and general manager, Intel Drone Group, said in a press release.
Never before have this many unmanned aerial vehicles simultaneously gone airborne, according Intel. The drones formed a rotating globe, dancing bodies and Intel’s logo hundreds of feet above the company’s campus in Folsom.
Also in celebration of Intel’s 50th anniversary, the company planned to honor employees and their families by flying 500 Intel Shooting Star drones over its corporate headquarters, the Robert Noyce Building, in Santa Clara, California.
The Intel Shooting Star drones are a type of UAV specifically designed for entertainment purposes. They are equipped with LED lights that can create countless color combinations and can easily be programmed for any animation. The fleet of drones is controlled by one pilot.
Intel coordinated a similar spectacle for the 2018 Olympics Opening Ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but Sunday’s show used almost twice as many drones. | aerospace |
https://actionairimage.com/about-us/ | 2020-11-29T02:13:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195967.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20201129004335-20201129034335-00636.warc.gz | 0.933684 | 371 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__170373060 | en | Michael Jorgensen is Australia’s premier air to air photographer. With a fast paced worldwide flying career including Military Fast Jet operations and Air to Air refuelling, he is more than comfortable organising highly qualified teams of pilots and photographers, in order to safely capture that unique aerial footage. Mike now instructs formation and aerobatic flying in Sydney Australia, and holds an Airline Transport Pilots Licence. He is also a regular mentor pilot in the warbird and aerobatic flying community.
When he is not teaching advanced aerobatics and formation, Mike is behind his camera, writing aviation articles, or pushing himself in the gym to maintain his high G-tolerance. He is an expert air to air photographer having flown backseat and photographed for the United States Navy Blue Angels, the Royal Air Force Red Arrows, the Swiss Air Force display team the Patrouille Suisse, the UK’s Blades Extra 300 team, the New Zealand Red Checkers, and the magnificent Breitling Jet Team!
Mike has also photographed a number of private warbirds, including Red Bull Air Race pilot Matt Hall in his P-51 Mustang! High performance aerobatic pilots who have trusted Jorgo ‘whilst inverted’ include Patty Wagstaff, Mark Jefferies, Steve Jones, and Nigel Lamb. His flying skills also allow him to fly the subject aircraft in close for other photographers when required.
Whether you simply want advertising or public relations footage for your business, wish to promote your latest airliner or fighter jet, or need advanced motion picture stunt coordination, then Mike is the pilot/photographer who can achieve fantastic results. His contacts and friends list contain a wealth of flying and cinematic experienced personnel from all over the world, and they are all in the same professional frame of mind regarding safety and excellence. | aerospace |
https://diwan-news.com/2021/02/21/israel-to-upgrade-arrow-air-defense-system-to-4th-generation-jointly-produced-with-the-usa/ | 2021-08-03T18:10:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154466.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20210803155731-20210803185731-00372.warc.gz | 0.950963 | 327 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__130829683 | en | The Israeli Ministry of Defense announced that the next generation missiles have been developed that will take the country’s air defense system capabilities one step further. Missile systems, called Arrow-4, are the type of Arrow-2s currently in use. will replace.
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Arrow 4s, which were started to be developed by the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) and the American Missile Defense Agency, will represent the next generation of endo-exo atmospheric interceptors. System operating as part of a multi-layered system to destroy ballistic missiles in the atmosphere and space, Can destroy nuclear, biological, chemical warheads or conventional missiles that travel intercontinental distances.
The first of the currently used Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 systems is capable of destroying enemy missiles after they enter the atmosphere, and the other before the missiles enter the atmosphere. The main contractor of the Arrow-4s will be Israel Aerospace Industry (IAI), while the company’s direct sales division will develop the launch platform and missiles. Israeli company Elta defense industry will design a new radar for the system.
IMDO President Moshe Patel stated that Arrow-4s began to be developed 30 years after the Gulf War, and that has a symbolic meaning. According to Patel, the Arrow’4s, which were decided to be produced at the stage reached after the Gulf War, which was stated to have caused the establishment of IMDO, will have unprecedented flight and interception capabilities. | aerospace |
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g33055-d629082-Reviews-Up_Away_Ballooning-Santa_Rosa_Sonoma_County_California.html | 2014-04-21T12:55:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539776.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00177-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.993661 | 63 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__199247006 | en | Did Hot air balloon ride on 04/17/14 and i must say i had an amazing experience during the flight. Mike and his crew is awesome and friendly. The brunch was great too. I would highly recommend up & away ballooning to everyone who is in the bay area for vacation. Its a must !! | aerospace |
http://nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/2009/20090319-uaffia.htm | 2019-11-12T19:34:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496665726.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112175604-20191112203604-00209.warc.gz | 0.914983 | 546 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__134056434 | en | 19 March 2009
A US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III flew into Whenuapai last night to begin preparations for the Royal New Zealand Air Force Open Day to be held this Saturday, 21 March. The C-17 will be conducting a practice flying display over Whenuapai (West Auckland) 3:30 - 4:15 pm this afternoon.
Media interested in photo and/or filming opportunities are requested to contact Squadron Leader Kavae Tamariki on 021 420 899 to arrange access to Base.
For further information please contact Squadron Leader Kavae Tamariki, Media Adviser Air Force (Navy) 021 420 899.
The C-17 Supports U.S. and N.Z scientific research operations in Antarctica: The U.S Air Force provides airlift support in an extremely adverse environment, sometimes landing the C-17 on a six-foot thick ice runway to deliver supplies to the U.S. Antarctic Program from August through February each season.
During the 2007 to 2008 season, U.S. Air Force C-17s flew 57 missions to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from Christchurch, New Zealand, carrying more than 3.1 million pounds of cargo and more than 2,800 passengers.
On the return missions from McMurdo, C-17 aircrews flew more than 850,000 pounds of cargo and 2,700 passengers back to Christchurch. The C-17 Globemaster III is part of the 517th Airlift Squadron based in Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, USA
The aircraft is operated by a crew of three (pilot, copilot and loadmaster), reducing manpower requirements, risk exposure and long-term operating costs.
Cargo is loaded onto the C-17 through a large aft door that accommodates military vehicles and palletized cargo. The C-17 can carry virtually all of the Army's air-transportable equipment.
The C-17 has an un-refueled range of approximately 2,400 nautical miles. It has a global range with in-flight refueling. Its cruise speed is approximately 450 knots (.76 Mach). The C-17 is designed to airdrop 102 paratroopers and equipment.
The design of the aircraft allows it to operate through small, austere airfields. The C-17 can take off and land on runways as short as 3,500 feet (1,064 meters) and only 90 feet wide (27.4 meters). Even on such narrow runways, the C-17 can turn around using a three-point star turn and its backing capability. | aerospace |
https://theelegantclassygentleman.com/2021/02/22/black-history-month-the-first-black-astronaut-robert-h-lawrence-jr/ | 2022-09-30T06:41:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335444.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930051717-20220930081717-00247.warc.gz | 0.962306 | 411 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__243935266 | en | On June 30th 1967 the United State Air Force selected Robert H. Lawrence Jr, as a member of the third group of aerospace research pilots on the Manned Orbital Laboratory. The M.O.L. was a joint project of the National Reconnaissance Office and the USAF, with the mission of taking high resolution photo imagery of enemy locations from space during the cold war. The mini-space stations with a 2 man crew would for a month at a time in low earth orbit to spy on hostile enemy sites from modified Gemini Capsules. Lawrence’s selection made him the first African American Astronaut by any national space program.
Born in Chicago 1935 October 2nd, Lawrence finished high school at 16, earned a Bachelor’s of Science in chemistry at age 20, and later became an Air Force Officer and highly accomplished pilot logging 2,500 flying hours, and 2,000 hours in jets, and earned a PhD in physical chemistry from The Ohio State University in 1965, the only selected MOL astronaut with a doctorate.
After Lawrence completed the US Air Force Test pilot School in 1967, he was immediately assigned to the MOL program. While as an instructor for other pilots, he practiced landing techniques that was later used in the Space Shuttle program. At the end of 1967 in December, Maj. Lawrence died in a plane crash after ejecting from a F-104 Starfighter at Edwards Air Force Base, bringing this brilliant pilot-scientist career to an end. In June 1969 the Nixon Administration cancelled the MOL program. Because of his untimely death and the relative secrecy surrounding the MOL program, Lawrence’s name remained largely unknown for many years.
“Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden recalled that Lawrence was involved in the development of the maneuver that would become a critical part of space shuttle landing techniques called ‘flare.’ KSC Director Bob Cabana said, Maj. Lawrence truly was a hero. He took that first step setting the stage for what was to come.” | aerospace |
https://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/a-nonstop-flight-on-twa/ | 2021-05-10T08:52:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989115.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20210510064318-20210510094318-00273.warc.gz | 0.696519 | 83 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__115979790 | en | 16th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
A Nonstop Flight on TWA
Although TWA (Trans World Airlines) is now gone. In Kansas City, it's spirit flies on with two ex-TWA aircraft on display at no other than the TWA Museum.
|Photo Location:||Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America|
|Copyright:||© Daniel Metcalf| | aerospace |
http://www.warinangola.com/default.aspx?tabid=1631 | 2021-01-18T19:51:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703515235.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118185230-20210118215230-00187.warc.gz | 0.962505 | 195 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__255499113 | en | 04h00 - 09h00
The first to move on the morning of the attack were the paratroopers of the Composite Parachute Battalion, who got up at 04h00 and began fitting their weapons, equipment and parachutes.
At 05h19, the four Buccaneers bombers took off from AFB Waterkloof, followed at 05h43 by the faster Canberra. The heavily laden 'Bucs' could fly only at medium altitude, so their true airspeed (TAS) was considerably lower than that of the 'Cans', flying over 10,000 feet (3,000 m) higher. One of the Buccaneers went to an air force base nearer to the Angolan border in order to refuel and act as a close air support (CAS) aircraft, while the fifth aircraft of the Buccaneer strike force was delayed due to a brake problem, leaving four Buccaneers available for the initial strike.
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https://naaju.com/birds-shit-could-clog-elon-musks-heat-shield-for-spacex-spacecraft/ | 2021-06-12T22:37:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487586465.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20210612222407-20210613012407-00397.warc.gz | 0.964187 | 1,217 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__175835446 | en | In recent months, Elon Musk has revealed new details about the upcoming SpaceX launch system, called Starship.
Musk said the new launcher, which he and his engineers recently redesigned, will eventually replace all the rockets in the company. It would be quite reusable and extremely inexpensive to launch, perhaps reducing the cost of access to the space 100 times. Musk thinks that over time, such a system could lead to round-trip tickets to Mars that would cost less than $ 500,000 and "maybe even less than $ 100,000."
But that assumes that ordinary debris, such as dust or even bird droppings, does not allow Starship's giant spacecraft, as it is currently designed, to burn when landing on Mars or his return to Earth.
Musk has not yet unveiled all the details of Starship – he said it could happen in March or April – but he described it for the last time as a 180-foot-tall spacecraft that will launch into orbit above Super Heavy, a rocket booster of about 220 feet tall. . The spacecraft is designed to be refueled into low Earth orbit to propel 100 passengers and more than 100 tons of cargo at a time to Mars.
Musk launched "radical" and "deliciously counter-intuitive" design changes in November. Since then, he has analyzed the essential details and confirmed the existence of a prototype "test hopper" built by the Texas company.
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One of the major changes to the design is that SpaceX is now planning to build Starship from stainless steel alloys instead of carbon fiber composites, Musk said. The second change involves a "bleeding" heat shield that will let the liquid flow through small pores to keep the ship cool when it moves at high speed.
However, several aerospace experts worry about how SpaceX would build such a system without obstruction.
Why poo, dust and other debris can threaten Starship
A heat shield is a must for a spaceship.
When a vehicle comes back from Earth to Earth, it can reach a speed of about 19,000 mph. It's so fast that molecules at the front of a ship turn into superheated plasma that can corrode, melt or even vaporize some of the hardest and most heat-resistant materials.
Musk has m said Starship's nose can be exposed to temperatures of about 2700 degrees Fahrenheit. The type of steel alloy that SpaceX can use on Starship's outer skin, called 310S, melts at around 2400 degrees.
Most spacecraft (including the future SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle) use "ablative" heat shields designed to burn and insulate the vehicle's hull as it enters the atmosphere. NASA has used this type of technology in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space capsules. To protect its fleet of space shuttles against heat, NASA has stuck thousands of heavy ceramic tiles to the bottom of each ship.
But as Musk tells Popular Mechanics, Starship will have a heat shield cooled by sweat.
The system would work like human skin, in which sweat absorbs heat from the body, evaporates to carry heat, and eventually cools. With Starship, the "sweat" would be water or methane, and the "pores" would be innumerable holes in Starship steel belly.
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At least some aerospace experts are worried about the challenges that such a heat shield would face.
"You can imagine that it would not take much to obstruct something like this, if it were microscopic pores," Business Insider Walt Engelund, aerospace engineer and director of the Technology and Technology Branch, told Business Insider. from space exploration to NASA Langley.
Dwayne Day, who helped investigate the loss of NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew, said such clogs may be faced with many commonplace factors.
"What if a bird pooped on your rocket and it clogged a few holes, then when the thing comes back, no coolant comes out of those holes and this part of the vehicle overheats?" he said.
The dust on Mars, which recently killed NASA's Rover Opportunity by blocking sunlight on its solar panels, could also pose a threat to Starship's small steel skin pores.
In addition, said Engelund, the carbon content in fuels such as methane tends to "coke" or turn into solid when exposed to high temperatures, so that it could also pose a risk clogging if Musk chooses methane as a coolant.
Engelund said various liquid cooling systems had been tested in NASA 's hypersonic wind tunnels, which were blowing air at thousands of kilometers at the time to simulate incredible speeds in the upper atmosphere. In these tunnels, a blocked coolant channel may vaporize an aircraft model.
Looking for hooves in thousands of pores before launching a spaceship from Earth would be difficult, but it would be much harder to do it on Mars, where there are no launching towers or gantries .
"How do you make sure all the holes are open? Or at least that there is no significant obstruction?" Said the day.
In an e-mail addressed to Business Insider, SpaceX pointed out that constant changes and modifications to the Starship design were expected – this is part of the company's more comprehensive design approach – while the engineers s & ### Use to make the launching system a reality. Indeed, the system (formerly Big Falcon Rocket and other names before) has already undergone several major revisions since its first detailed description by Musk in September 2016.
"They surprised a lot of people and have a lot of smart people working for them, and Elon seems to be really committed and dedicated to that," said Engelund. "Maybe we could do some things with them, I guess there will be some." | aerospace |
https://pjsgroup.com/college-sports/ | 2021-10-26T02:07:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587794.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026011138-20211026041138-00580.warc.gz | 0.890095 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__82177049 | en | PJS is helping to deliver collegiate sports a smarter travel solution
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Our Director of Safety is a revered industry pro who spearheads our proactive approach and is at the forefront of implementing standards that go well beyond the FAA minimum legal requirements.
Before setting foot on the aircraft, our in-house safety team examines the operator accident, incident and enforcement history along with aircraft age, history and liability insurance coverage. We supplement safety processes and the liability insurance policies of the Air Carriers with a liability policy of our own. | aerospace |
http://www.globalinfodirect.com/european-space-shuttle-ixv-returns/ | 2018-01-18T08:16:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887077.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118071706-20180118091706-00177.warc.gz | 0.969479 | 353 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__114489788 | en | European space shuttle IXV returns
The European space shuttle IXV, the mini-space plane has finished its test flight and has come splashing down in the pacific ocean.
The shuttle few east and took a turn around the globe before landing in the Pacific Ocean, west of the Galapagos Islands. The spaceplane is wedge shaped and was designed to collect information on how the objects from space fall back to Earth.
Esa director general, Jean Jacques Dordain said, “It couldn’t have gone better. But the mission itself is not over because now it is necessary to analyse all the data gathered during the flight.” When the spacecraft re-entered earth’s atmosphere, it had a speed of about 7.5 km/s, escalating the temperature in the immediate surface to at least 1,700 C.
The trajectory was controlled by flaps and thrusters to make sure that it will fall back near a recovery ship. The Esa also used a parachute system to guide the spaceship to gently fall into the ocean and floatation balloons were also used to stop it from sinking to the bottom of the sea.
Esa project manager Giorgio Tumino said, “Europe is excellent at going to orbit; we have all the launchers, for example. We also have great knowhow in operating complex systems in orbit. But where we are a bit behind is in the knowledge of how to come back from orbit.”
He added that if the ship had gone close to the circle, i.e., to the orbit and stayed there and came back, it is important to master the next leg of this journey just as other nations that are engaged in space research do. | aerospace |
https://www.caly-toys.fr/en/timmy-bird-en/ | 2022-01-23T22:08:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304309.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20220123202547-20220123232547-00428.warc.gz | 0.911561 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__17359139 | en | I have been flying across 30 m
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Press the lever under the right wing and let the bird fly gently towards the horizon once the wings begin to flap. | aerospace |
https://www.revlx.co/boeing-clocks-5-new-737-max-orders-from-a-new-customer/ | 2023-09-30T00:01:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929222230-20230930012230-00571.warc.gz | 0.953341 | 654 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__266345853 | en | Today Boeing clocked a small order for its 737 MAX series of aircraft. Five Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft have been ordered by the aircraft lessor Griffin Global Asset Management. While seemingly unrelated, the order comes the same day that the aircraft was recertified to fly in Malaysian airspace.
Griffin has placed an order for five new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. Photo: Boeing
The return of the Boeing 737 MAX is now really gathering pace. Since the Federal Aviation Administration recertified the aircraft in November, many airlines have brought the aircraft back into service. Many more Aviation authorities have given the jet the green light to return to the skies.
Today Boeing revealed that it had clocked a small order for the Boeing 737 MAX. Griffin Global Asset Management has placed an order for five of the popular MAX 8 variant, making the first time that the lessor has ordered directly from Boeing.
At this moment in time, daily few details of the order are available. Boeing didn’t reveal how much the order was worth or when the first of the aircraft will be delivered. It did, however, reveal that the 737 MAX family has now received 529 orders so far this year. Considering only a handful of firm orders were placed while the aircraft was grounded, it shows that airlines and lessors have confidence in the type now that it has returned to service in most markets.
Boeing has received 529 MAX orders so far this year. Photo: Vincenzo Pace – Simple Flying
Commenting on the order, Ryan McKenna, Founder and CEO of Griffin, stated,
“As market conditions rebound, we are finding opportunities to serve our airline customers in innovative ways. An important component of this strategy is providing balanced capacity that meets returning passenger demand. The 737-8 is well-positioned to support this objective, and this order lays a strong foundation for more to come with Boeing and Griffin on future opportunities.”
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The 737 MAX is bouncing back
As mentioned, the Boeing 737 MAX has been on the rise ever since the FAA gave the green light for the jet’s return to service. Initially, the process was relatively slow, with aviation authorities showing caution with the type, but the return to service has gathered pace in recent weeks.
Several new airlines have taken their first 737 MAX jets. Photo: Ryanair
By this point, many airlines have either returned the MAX to service or begun to fly the jet for the first time. As such, the plane is now being flown by more than 30 operators. This week we saw some significant gains in recertification for the jet too. First, India recertified the plane, a big step forwards as India is considered a major MAX market. While China has recently been flying the demonstrator MAX, the type remains grounded there for the time being. But just today, Malaysia gave the jet the green light to resume flights.
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https://sentinelmission.org/space-exploration-glossary/philae-lander/ | 2024-04-12T17:33:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816045.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412163227-20240412193227-00204.warc.gz | 0.969214 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__129495073 | en | Exploring the Philae Lander: A Journey to Comet 67P
The Philae Lander is a robotic spacecraft that was part of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Launched in 2004, the Philae Lander was designed to land on the surface of the comet and conduct scientific experiments to better understand the composition and history of these celestial bodies.
Why was the Philae Lander sent to space?
The primary goal of the Philae Lander mission was to gather data about comets, which are believed to be remnants from the early solar system. By studying comets like 67P, scientists hoped to gain insights into the origins of our solar system and the role that comets may have played in the formation of planets and life on Earth.
How did the Philae Lander land on Comet 67P?
After a decade-long journey through space, the Rosetta spacecraft arrived at Comet 67P in August 2014. The Philae Lander was then released from Rosetta and began its descent to the comet’s surface. The landing was a complex and challenging process, as the low gravity and irregular shape of the comet made it difficult to predict where Philae would touch down.
Despite these challenges, the Philae Lander successfully landed on Comet 67P on November 12, 2014. The landing site was named Agilkia, after an island on the Nile River in Egypt, where the Philae obelisk was discovered.
What were the scientific discoveries made by the Philae Lander?
During its mission on Comet 67P, the Philae Lander conducted a variety of experiments to study the composition and properties of the comet’s surface. One of the most significant discoveries was the detection of organic molecules, including amino acids, which are the building blocks of life.
The Philae Lander also found evidence of water ice on the comet’s surface, suggesting that comets may have played a role in delivering water to Earth billions of years ago. Additionally, the lander observed the comet’s activity, such as the release of gas and dust particles, providing valuable insights into the processes that shape these icy bodies.
What challenges did the Philae Lander face during its mission?
Despite its successful landing, the Philae Lander faced several challenges during its mission on Comet 67P. One of the most significant issues was the lander’s orientation, as it ended up in a shaded area that limited its access to sunlight and hindered its ability to recharge its batteries.
This led to a shorter-than-expected mission duration, as the Philae Lander was only able to operate for a few days before its batteries ran out. However, the data collected during this time provided valuable insights into the comet’s composition and behavior, making the mission a success despite the challenges.
What is the current status of the Philae Lander?
After completing its mission on Comet 67P, the Philae Lander went into hibernation as its batteries were depleted. Efforts were made to re-establish contact with the lander, but it was ultimately declared lost in July 2016.
While the Philae Lander may no longer be operational, the data it collected continues to be analyzed by scientists around the world, contributing to our understanding of comets and the early solar system. The mission of the Philae Lander may have come to an end, but its legacy lives on in the scientific discoveries it made possible. | aerospace |
https://www.start-stick.eu/batteries/startstick-15/ | 2024-04-23T06:57:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00891.warc.gz | 0.934385 | 124 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__134514429 | en | The StartStick 15 is a 13 lb emergency start battery. While still lightweight enough to be stowed on-board, extra battery power allows the StartStick Fleet to start almost any light turbine aircraft in a fleet. The SS28V14A model is ideal for both emergency starts and commercial ramp use where ground power is needed for extended periods of time. StartStick Fleet is also ideal for providing ground power while operating near salt-water environments where engines are motored or compressor washed regularly.
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https://www.theindianpanorama.news/world/europe/indian-air-force-gets-rafale-edge/ | 2017-01-19T02:11:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280425.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966009 | 511 | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__169009056 | en | In a major boost to the Indian Air Force, India has signed a formal agreement with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets for $8.7bn, in a major defense deal.
The deal was signed by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and his visiting French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian today sixteen months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s plans to buy 36 Rafale fighter aircraft in fly away condition during his trip to France.
The delivery of the jets will start in 36 months and will be completed in 66 months.
India is looking to modernise its Soviet-era military and the deal is the result of years of negotiation.
“You can only ever be completely sure once has been signed and that’s what happened today,” Mr Le Drian told AFP news agency after Friday’s signing ceremony.
The first Rafales are expected to be delivered by 2019 and India is set to have all 36 jets within six years.
Friday’s deal is a substantial reduction from the 126 planes that India originally planned to buy, but is still the biggest-ever foreign order of Rafale fighters, AFP says.
French President Francois Hollande has hailed it as “a mark of the recognition by a major military power of the operational performance, the technical quality and the competitiveness of the French aviation industry”.
Here’s what you need to know about the Rafale jet
- The combat aircraft comes equipped with state-of-the-art missiles like ‘Meteor’ and ‘Scalp’ that will give IAF a capability that had been sorely missing in its arsenal.
- Its Beyond Visual Range (BVR) Meteor air-to-air missile with a range in excess of 150 km makes the Rafale a strategic weapon in the hands of IAF
- ‘Scalp’, a long-range air-to-ground cruise missile with a range in excess of 300 km, also gives IAF an edge over its adversaries.
- According to Dassault Aviation, the Rafale can carry out both air-to-ground strikes, as well as air-to-air attacks and interceptions during the same sortie.
- Stating that the Rafale has ‘Omnirole’ capability, Dassault Aviation claims that the aircraft can perform several actions at the same time, such as firing air-to-air missiles during a very low altitude penetration phase. | aerospace |
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A study about The ROKAF Pilots' Job Satisfaction Level and Intention of Turnover: Focused on The Factor Analysis of Job Stress
Park, Kyung-Jong ; Noh, Yo-Sup ; Shin, Jong-Hwa ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 1~11
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.001
Many pilots of the Korean Air Force(ROKAF) leave their jobs in order to move out to civilian airlines. Thanks to this considerable turnover phenomenon, the ROKAF faces a serious lack of air defense power. While the common understanding of this problem mainly talks about 'money' as the main cause of turnover, some pilots point out rather different issues. Many pilots say in a large-scale survey that they face serious job stresses not only from relative shortage of their income compared to civilian pilots, camp life, separated family conditions, overly loaded administrative works, but also from their professional flight trainings and low promotion rate to high ranks. The survey shows, however, at the same time, that the ROKAF pilots do not consider their job trainings and overall roles as the military pilots as the main factor causing the intention to turnover. A critical aspect of the pilots' job condition is many stress factors consistently affect overall job satisfaction level which stimulates the decision to turnover when they have to choose between the extension of military service as a pilot and moving-out to civilian airlines for new pilot's life. In other words, they accept the job difficulties as pilot in the military, but their long-term job satisfaction level is negatively affected by the job stresses.
A study on Risk Assessment Procedure for the Structural changes of Navigable Airspaces
Kim, Do-Hyun ; Kim, W.Y. ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 12~17
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.012
'Navigable airspace' means an airspace at and above the minimum safe flight level, including airspace or flight procedures needed for safe takeoff and landing. Airspace may be established as needed and may be abolished, and in some cases may be limited to airspace management. These are absolutely based on risk assessment. Safety is the state in which the risk of harm to persons or of property damage is reduced to, and maintained at or below, an acceptable level through a continuing process of hazard identification and risk management. 'Risk' is the assessed potential for adverse consequences resulting from a hazard and 'Risk assessment' involves consideration of both the frequency and the severity of any adverse consequence. This paper proposed 'risk assessment procedure' for the structural changes of Navigable Airspaces through literature reviews relevant to manuals on airspace management and risk management.
A Study on the Air Traffic Situation Variables which Influence the Job Performance of Military Air Traffic Controllers
Sin, Hyon-Sam ; Jang, Jung-Ha ; Ahn, Jae-Mo ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 18~23
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.018
The air traffic situation variables were emphasized in this research to review the awareness level of job performance of military air traffic controllers in application of air traffic situation variables such as detection of aircraft identification, type of aircraft, position ,speed, altitude, determination of separation between departing and arriving in-trail aircraft, physical airport conditions, adverse weather conditions, NAVAID outage and ATC facilities' operational status. In this respect, This study was conducted under the auspice of ATC facility operating agencies and devoting air force air traffic controller's participation by answering the questionnaires from nine radar approach control facilities and other air traffic control towers.
Analysis on the effect of the opening of high speed rail way on the change in the air passenger's demand - Focused on Seoul and Jeju line -
Lee, Joon-Kyu ; Yoo, Kwang-Eui ; Kim, Duck-Nyung ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 24~31
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.024
Competition between air transportation and railways has grown fiercer in major countries around the world with the rise of high-speed railways. In South Korea, air passenger travel has been rapidly decreasing since the initial launch of the Seoul-Pusan KTX line in 2004 and second opening that followed in 2010. Further expansion of the high-speed railway is expected. At present, research efforts to verify the validity of constructing an underwater express railway tunnel between Ho-nam and Jeju Island are taking place. Considering the possible high speed railway connection between Seoul and Jeju Island, this thesis has analyzed the choice behavior of existing passengers of the major and low-cost carriers. For this, Stated Preference (SP) research has been performed for three variables, including fare, travel time and the number of runs, to estimate the substitution rate of each of the three variables. Binomial Logit Model has been estimated with the obtained data. The estimation of the model has found that airline passengers of major and low-cost carriers are willing to pay approximately 7,200 KRW and 5,000 KRW, respectively, to reduce travel time by one hour. If the number of runs in one day increases, it has been estimated that the passengers are willing to pay additional fares of about 390 KRW and 30 KRW, respectively. On the other hand, the substitution rate between the number of runs and the travel time was found to be somewhat insignificant. If the construction of the Seoul-Jeju line progresses in the future, this study could be used as preliminary data for determining fares, travel time and the number of runs.
Relationship between gastric mucosal eosinophilia and the presence of Helicobacter pylori in Republic of Korea Air Force soldiers
Kim, Hyun-Soo ; Lee, Sang-Hwa ; Lee, Seok ; Choi, Won-Ho ; Kim, Ji-Ho ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 32~36
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.032
The Analysis of Aeronautical Information with the aerial sporting and recreational activities in AIP
Shin, Dai-Won ; Lee, Gi-Moung ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 37~43
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.037
The LSA system in Korea was introduced for the development of the aerial sporting and recreational activities. For the development of the aerial sporting and recreational activities, multi-faceted effort is needed. We discussed only for the Aeronautical Information of the aerial sporting and recreational activities. In this study, we surveyed the status of aerial sporting and recreational activities in Korea, and international AIP(Aeronautical Information Publications). We introduced the development plans for the information service of aerial sporting and recreational activities in Korea.
Development of Runway Incursion Risk Assessment Checklist
Maeng, Sung-Kyu ; Jung, Yoon-Sik ; Choi, Jin-Kook ; Kwon, Bo-Hun ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 44~51
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.044
One major safety issue of surface operations is the occurrence of runway incursions. Runway incursions are the consequence of multiple operational and/or environmental factors. Human error is known to contribute to almost every runway incursion. One major contributing factor for runway incursion is crew's lack of situational awareness during airport surface operations, induced by weather considerations, by complex airport factors or by crew technique itself; it is also caused by ATC issues. Various airport factors may affect pilot situational awareness, distract the crew, or lead to crew confusion. The recommendations to avoid runway incursions are manifold; Proper Crew's CRM/TEM skills, adequate communication technique, proper knowledge of airport surface markings, lights and signs and preparation of preparation of expected taxi out/in routing. Also runway incursion risk assessment on specific airport before flight may lead to aware of risk level and contribute to prevent runway incursion.
A Study on Improvement for a Flight Instructor Rating
Kim, Kwang-Joong ; Maeng, Sung-Kyu ; Yoo, Byeong-Seon ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 52~62
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.052
An airman licensing system is central to the establishment and management of a state's airman licensing which gives official privileges to a person to perform specific activities by evaluating applicant's knowledge and proficiency. In recent decades, the level of the domestic aviation industry continues to leap forward and state's airman licensing system has also been advanced. However, accidents caused by pilot human errors are still occurring. In particular, the pilot occupations require a lot of experience and knowledge and the student pilots receiving the initial flight training have formed their own flight habits based on knowledge, skill, training methods, procedures, etc learned from the flight instructor. This paper discusses possible ways on the improvement for the domestic flight instructor rating by analyzing domestic and international rules and procedures for a flight instructor rating.
A Study on the Air Travel Demand Forecasting using time series ARIMA-Intervention Model
Kim, Min-Su ; Kim, Kee-Woong ; Park, Sung-Sik ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 63~74
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.063
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of intervention variables which may affect the air travel demand for Jeju domestic flights and to anticipate the air travel demand for Jeju domestic flights. The air travel demand forecasts for Jeju domestic flights are conducted through ARIMA-Intervention Model selecting five intervention variables such as 2002 World Cup games, SARS, novel swine-origin influenza A, Yeonpyeongdo bombardment and Japan big earthquake. The result revealed that the risk factor such as the threat of war that is a negative intervention incident and occurred in Korea has the negative impact on the air travel demand due to the response of risk aversion by users. However, when local natural disasters (earthquakes, etc) occurring in neighboring courtiers and global outbreak of an epidemic gave the negligible impact to Korea, negative intervention incident would have a positive impact on air travel demand as a response to find alternative due to rational expectation of air travel customers. Also we realize that a mega-event such as the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup games reduced the air travel demand in a short-term period unlike the perception in which it will increase the air travel demand and travel demands in the corresponding area.
Fatigue and Stress of Air Traffic Controllers in Korea
Yoon, Yong-Sik ; Lee, Su-Ran ; Sohn, Young-Woo ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 75~83
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.075
Air traffic controllers often experience fatigue and stress on the job due to work-related factors. Performance impairment resulting from fatigue and stress is an important concern for aviation safety. The goal of this research was to investigate fatigue and stress factors for air traffic controllers. The research involved an extensive literature review of fatigue and stress in the air traffic control environment and surveyed fatigue and job stress level of Korean air traffic controllers compared to other occupation groups. Results of survey showed that fatigue and stress levels of air traffic controllers were significantly higher than other occupation groups. Specially air traffic controllers reported that night work created high level of fatigue and perceived that physical environment and job demand induced high level of stress. In addition, implications for fatigue and stress management were discussed.
The 3D Numerical Analysis on the Predictions of Flight Stability at Take-off and Landing (Crosswind 60°)
Sheen, Dong-Jin ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 84~92
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.084
The aim of this paper is to research the change in the turbulent flow and the AOA occurred by
crosswind to the direction of runway through the three-dimensional numerical analysis and to predict the take-off and landing flight stability. As a result, the maximum amplitude of AOA variation on runway reached
within 7 second because of the wake formed by the constructions in the vicinity of the airport, and the overall effects appeared as an irregular aperiodic forms. Additionally, it was observed that the layout and shape of the buildings effected on the strength of turbulence directly, and the rapid flow generated between the buildings changed into stronger wake and eventually expected that the flow raises serious take-off and landing flight instability.
Residual strength analysis for notched composite laminates
Kim, Sung-Joon ; Hwang, In-Hee ;
Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, volume 20, issue 1, 2012, Pages 93~101
DOI : 10.12985/ksaa.2012.20.1.093
This study reviews several fracture models for predicting the residual strength of notched composite laminates. Representative experimental results on the residual strength of composite laminates containing a notch subjected to static uniaxial tensile loading have been collected from open literature. And notched strength data for T300/5208 are analyzed. The various parameters associated with the fracture models have been determined for laminates. Notched strength data sets are compared with fracture models and the applicability of the different fracture models in predicting the notched strength of composite laminates is discussed. And static tests have been performed on 2.0mm depth notched specimen. And the test results are compared with analysis models. | aerospace |
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https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4589/1 | 2023-09-29T00:28:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510462.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928230810-20230929020810-00517.warc.gz | 0.962483 | 1,435 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__316795742 | en | China’s spaceplane returns: is this a new weapon in their counterspace arsenal?
by Ajey Lele
|There is a view that China’s spaceplane has been designed and developed on the same lines as that of the US spaceplane, the Boeing X-37B.|
During 2017, Xinhua reported that China proposed to launch its reusable spacecraft during 2020. They had quoted this information based on the declaration from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It was even mentioned that such systems would be useful for transporting (and getting back) people or payloads into orbit. Apparently, such a project was planned since a spaceplane is a good option to improve the frequency of launch in a cost-effective fashion. Yet, is this agenda for developing a spaceplane the only reason for the project, or is there something more to it?
All over the world, various agencies are working towards developing reusable spacecraft technologies. In the field of space tourism, both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin have flown reusable suborbital vehicles. SpaceX is already taking astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) using reusable spacecraft launched by rockets with reused boosters. States like China have programs like Shenzhou for crewed missions to the Tiangong space station. This station is expected to maintain itself as a permanently crewed space station. Incidentally, China's Shenzhou-16 is slated to be launched in the coming days to take three astronauts to the space station.
The Chinese commercial space launch corporation called CAS Space (Guangzhou Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd.) is involved towards the development of commercial space launch vehicle for suborbital travel. This company was established during 2018 and has already performed the first successful launch of a four-stage solid-fuel launch vehicle called Kinetica 1, in July 2022. In August 2021, the company had announced their intention for developing a suborbital space tourism vehicle called ZK-6. This vehicle, which is presently under development, is anticipated to be comparable to Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. China’s space tourism agenda is likely to become a reality around 2025. This means that China has strategies in place for undertaking orbital and suborbital human travel. China is planning to undertake crewed Moon missions by 2030. China is also working with Russia on building a lunar research base. With all those efforts, it seems unlikely that China would convert its spaceplane project for human travel, at least in the foreseeable future.
There is a view that China’s spaceplane has been designed and developed on the same lines as that of the US spaceplane, the Boeing X-37B. The US spaceplane has undertaken six missions so far. The first mission, which lasted for 224 days, was launched in April 2010, while the sixth mission, which launched in May 2020, stayed in space for 908 days. For the last 13 years, the US has been totally silent about the purpose behind undertaking these missions. The only information available is the photographs of X-37B. Another input given by the US agencies is that, during the 2020 mission, one small satellite called FalconSat-8 was deployed, which contained five experimental payloads designed by NASA and the US Air Force.
There is no official information available in regards to China’s reusable spaceplane. In regards to the US intentions behind launching the spaceplane missions, there has been significant speculation for years. Since the Chinese project is also on somewhat similar lines, there could be several commonalities behind the purpose for such missions.
|The mystery surrounding the real purpose for spaceplane missions raises doubts about their actual intentions. Could such vehicles be developed and tested for undertaking a space-based anti-satellite strike, or they are meant for undertaking high-altitude surveillance?|
In regards to the US X-37B, initial expectations were that the project would be a replacement to the retired Space Shuttle program. However, it has never even been used even for carrying cargo to ISS. To argue that the US and China are using such missions to showcase reusable space capabilities may not be correct. Both these states have advanced space programs and there is no need for them to use such missions only for the purposes of the so-called demonstration of that capability.
There could be experiments on board those vehicles for testing space worthiness of various materials. Typically, it could be argued that such reusable autonomous spaceplanes could be testing advanced guidance, navigation, and control systems. They could also support research in thermal protection systems, reentry mechanisms, avionics, propulsion, and autonomous systems.
However, astronauts on the ISS already conduct various experiments in zero gravity. The Chinese space station is also hosting similar experiments. Hence, it could be argued that if you have an established space station, then there is not much of a need for a having a different platform like a spaceplane to undertake the experiments. At the same time, it is well understood that the space station cannot be an alternative to the spaceplane in every respect.
The mystery surrounding the real purpose for spaceplane missions raises doubts about their actual intentions. Could such vehicles be developed and tested for undertaking a space-based anti-satellite strike, or they are meant for undertaking high-altitude surveillance? Another use of such platforms has already been demonstrated and that is for the deployment of reconnaissance satellites. Since a spaceplane has a demonstrated capability of staying in space for almost 1,000 days, they can be viewed as important platforms designed for launching during pre-war/conflict stage. That would make them something like cyberattacks, which normally are seen taking place as a prelude to the war. Spaceplanes could be used in a “launch on demand” role for satellites before and during the war.
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are essentially data-dependent systems. These technologies at present are just beginning to be comprehensively used for space applications. However, there are some issues with their reliability and adaptability aspects. Along with the algorithmic developments, there are also issues related to quality and quantity of data. Spaceplanes, with such a long stay in space, must have collected a good amount of important data of military relevance. Such data could help improve on related AI applications.
Weaponization of a space is a reality. Spaceplanes appears to be a platform capable of launching both kinetic and non-kinetic counterspace missions. With such a platform available, states can demonstrate both deterrence and usability factors in regards to their counterspace agenda. However, it appears that some more work needs to be done to improve the capability of such spaceplanes. The existing systems may not yet be considered potent space-based weaponry. There could be some issues with their orbits towards undertaking military specific missions. However, looking at the trajectory of China’s counterspace program, it is likely that China will weaponize its spaceplane in the near future.
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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2012/Feb/26/pressure-builds-for-civilian-drone-flights-at-home/2/ | 2016-05-30T17:14:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051036499.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005036-00108-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.955112 | 805 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__68386267 | en | Potential civilian users are as varied as the drones themselves.
Power companies want them to monitor transmission lines. Farmers want to fly them over fields to detect which crops need water. Ranchers want them to count cows.
Journalists are exploring drones' newsgathering potential. The FAA is investigating whether The Daily, a digital publication of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., used drones without permission to capture aerial footage of floodwaters in North Dakota and Mississippi last year. At the University of Nebraska, journalism professor Matt Waite has started a lab for students to experiment with using a small, remote-controlled helicopter.
"Can you cover news with a drone? I think the answer is yes," Waite said.
The aerospace industry forecasts a worldwide deployment of almost 30,000 drones by 2018, with the United States accounting for half of them.
"The potential ... civil market for these systems could dwarf the military market in the coming years if we can get access to the airspace," said Ben Gielow, government relations manager for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, an industry trade group.
The hungriest market is the nation's 19,000 law enforcement agencies.
Customs and Border Patrol has nine Predator drones mostly in use on the U.S.-Mexico border, and plans to expand to 24 by 2016. Officials say the unmanned aircraft have helped in the seizure of more than 20 tons of illegal drugs and the arrest of 7,500 people since border patrols began six years ago.
Several police departments are experimenting with smaller drones to photograph crime scenes, aid searches and scan the ground ahead of SWAT teams. The Justice Department has four drones it loans to police agencies.
"We look at this as a low-cost alternative to buying a helicopter or fixed-wing plane," said Michael O'Shea, the department's aviation technology program manager. A small drone can cost less than $50,000, about the price of a patrol car with standard police gear.
Like other agencies, police departments must get FAA waivers and follow much the same rules as model airplane hobbyists: Drones must weigh less than 55 pounds, stay below an altitude of 400 feet, keep away from airports and always stay within sight of the operator. The restrictions are meant to prevent collisions with manned aircraft.
Even a small drone can be "a huge threat" to a larger plane, said Dale Wright, head of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association's safety and technology department. "If an airliner sucks it up in an engine, it's probably going to take the engine out," he said. "If it hits a small plane, it could bring it down."
Controllers want drone operators to be required to have instrument-rated pilot licenses - a step above a basic private pilot license. "We don't want the Microsoft pilot who has never really flown an airplane and doesn't know the rules of how to fly," Wright said.
Military drones designed for battlefields haven't had to meet the kind of rigorous safety standards required of commercial aircraft.
"If you are going to design these things to operate in the (civilian) airspace you need to start upping the ante," said Tom Haueter, director of the National Transportation Safety Board's aviation safety office. "It's one thing to operate down low. It's another thing to operate where other airplanes are, especially over populated areas."
Even with FAA restrictions, drones are proving useful in the field.
Deputies with the Mesa County Sheriff's Office in Colorado can launch a 2-pound Draganflyer X6 helicopter from the back of a patrol car. The drone's bird's-eye view cut the manpower needed for a search of a creek bed for a missing person from 10 people to two, said Ben Miller, who runs the drone program. The craft also enabled deputies to alert fire officials to a potential roof collapse in time for the evacuation of firefighters from the building, he said. | aerospace |
http://www.perfectday.ca/experience/flying-gifts/flight-simulator/fa-18-jet-fighter-simulator-experience | 2017-04-24T11:17:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119356.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00544-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.904609 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__237707381 | en | A mission in our F/A-18 Jet Fighter simulators is sure to hit your gift-giving target and bring your pilots home smiling! Our F/A-18 simulators are so like the real cockpit as to be suitable for military squadron-level training. Within the cockpit all major switches, selector knobs, and instrumentation are fully functional, providing you with real-life Multi Function Displays, Heads Up Display, Back up flight instrument set and engine/fuel status instruments.
The replica SJU-17 ejection seat completes the cockpit equipment giving you the sensation of sitting in an actual F/A-18 cockpit.
Upon your arrival at our base you will be introduced to your Mission Commander who will provide you with your mission details for the experience ahead.
As a first step, your instructor will take you through the paces on our PC simulators to show you the critical skills and systems you'll use during your flight in the F/A-18 simulator. Key topics covered include: Flight skills, Systems operation details, Mission procedures, Air combat skills instruction.
You now climb aboard your F/A-18 Hornet air combat flight simulator for one hour of high-intensity flying, fighting and air-to-air combat.
Your experience makes you the pilot of one of the fastest, most powerful jet fighters to fly in the military today.
You'll be in communications throughout your mission with your instructor in the control tower and the other pilots on your mission, so you're never stranded in the skies. | aerospace |
https://www.alternet.org/2015/12/air-force-whistleblowers-risk-prosecution-warn-drone-war-kills-civilians-fuels-terror/ | 2021-10-26T13:17:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587877.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026103840-20211026133840-00641.warc.gz | 0.948868 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__221233483 | en | Air Force Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror
Has the U.S. drone war "fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS"? That’s the conclusion of four former Air Force servicemembers who are speaking out together for the first time. They’ve issued a letter to President Obama warning the U.S. drone program is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism. They accuse the administration of lying about the effectiveness of the drone program, saying it is good at killing people—just not the right ones. The four drone war veterans risk prosecution by an administration that has been unprecedented in its targeting of government whistleblowers. In a Democracy Now! exclusive, they join us in their first extended broadcast interview. | aerospace |
https://fractalwonder.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/chinas-got-a-brand-new-booster/ | 2018-04-21T00:11:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125944848.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420233255-20180421013255-00636.warc.gz | 0.964016 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__147534699 | en | The Kaitouzhe-2 (KT-2, or sometimes TK-2) solid-fuel rocket made its maiden flight (unannounced, as is typical for Chinese government flights) from Jiuquan Space Center, placing a small payload into a polar orbit. Given the tendency to use liquid rockets for satellite launch services (they’re more versatile and more efficient), it’s been speculated that the rocket is really intended as a ballistic missile. (Solids are more practical for this purpose, as they can be stored indefinitely in a fueled state and require much less infrastructure to launch.) However, officially it’s a low-cost commercial satellite launch vehicle. That would also be plausible, since this vehicle appears to be suitable for the suddenly burgeoning small satellite business. They’re less fuel efficient than liquids, but they’re mechanically a lot simpler, which means they can usually be manufactured more quickly and in greater volume.
Anyway, if you’re like me, what you really want is to see a rocket. So here it is! | aerospace |
https://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/destination-moon-base | 2018-09-26T14:23:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267165261.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20180926140948-20180926161348-00228.warc.gz | 0.89947 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__112201540 | en | DescriptionDestination Moonbase is a single player, keyboard controlled Lander variant
In this game the player must successfully land on one of the three moonbase landing pads within the time limit. The game has three levels of difficulty and the time, rate of decent and number of craft varies as the game's difficulty increases.
There are two screens to the game.
The first screen sees the lander positioned below the orbiting space station, from here the lander must be rotated before the engines are fired otherwise it will shoot upwards into the space station which will destroy it. On this screen if the lander goes beyond the right/left border it will reappear on the other side.
The second screen sees the lander approach the lunar surface, here if the craft approaches the right/left border the background scrolls beneath it.
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https://magazine.punch.co.uk/image?&_bqG=97&_bqH=eJxz98_1DU3zy_ZJLjPUTQ_yM6xMDy40My7JSom0MjUwsDKEYCDpGe8S7Gxbnp.bmqdqZF6snVlcXJparAYWjnf0c7EtAbJDg12D4j1dbENBWrK8sjJNg5LycjzT1eIdnUNsi1MTi5IzAPvMI7Q-&GI_ID= | 2022-07-01T10:08:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103940327.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220701095156-20220701125156-00688.warc.gz | 0.843851 | 306 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__167108568 | en | Interwar Aviation, Women Aviators Cartoons from Punch magazine
Lady Aviator. "I'm afraid you won't see my husband for a few minutes yet. He always prefers to come down that way as he never trusts me to make a safe landing."
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http://foxperiodical.com/russia-wnats-to-leave-iss-why-and-the-future-planning/ | 2021-05-11T23:32:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990419.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20210511214444-20210512004444-00589.warc.gz | 0.955991 | 391 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__70224852 | en | After more than two decades of international cooperation in space exploration, Russia announced this week that it will leave the International Space Station in 2025 and build and operate its own floating laboratory, which will enter orbit in 2030.
Relations between Russia and the United States have steadily deteriorated in several ways, and the two powers have also accused each other of militarizing space.
Recent US-Russia Space Rivalry
According to a report in the Financial Times, other space agencies relied on Russian advanced technology to build modular space stations in the early years. Russia is irreplaceable because its Soyuz passenger ship is the only means of transportation. After the United States abandoned the space shuttle program in 2011, astronauts entered the International Space Station, but the dependence on the United States ended when the United States deployed the SpaceX system developed by Elon Musk last year.
What is Russia planning?
Russia is currently planning to build and operate its own space station, which will be launched in 2030. According to Interfax news agency, the space module will be assembled by Energia and is worth at least US$5 billion. According to reports, the station is orbiting the Earth at high latitudes, which will allow it to better observe the polar regions, especially if Russia plans to develop Arctic sea routes when the ice melts. The new station will also help Russia cope with the challenges its astronauts are currently facing on the aging International Space Station, such as: B. Conduct experiments and adapt the latest technology to the hardware architecture that has been in use for more than two decades.
However, leaving the International Space Station will also mean that Russian researchers will not be able to enter the laboratory. The construction of the laboratory has taken more than 15 years of engineering and installation work, and it is only now expected to truly gain its research potential. ISS will have to wait until at least 2028, and then update the critical system based on the FT report to continue using it. | aerospace |
http://www.rar.be/about/team/ | 2024-04-23T14:58:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818711.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423130552-20240423160552-00559.warc.gz | 0.979303 | 631 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__29184048 | en | Date of Birth: March 25th, 1959.
Flight hours: +3000 hours.
When he was fifteen, he started his studies to become a butcher. His hobby at that time was the breeding of birds.
He saw his first Tipsy Nipper during a meeting at Balen-Keiheuvel back in 1974. It was love at first sight.
At the age of seventeen, Raymond started to fly model aeroplanes. That is when he first got in contact with real aviation. Some years later he moved to Antwerp, where he joined the Aviation Society of Antwerp vzw and became a member of the local spotters community.
Nine years later he entered a private pilot course and bought his first aircraft, the Auster Arrow J2 OO-ABV. Raymond was by then known as "The Flying Butcher".
The first Tipsy Nipper came into his life when he bought OO-VAG in 1986, although he could not fly it because of his length!
In 1988 he founded the Belgian Nipper Aircraft Club.
In 1989 he bought Tipsy Trainer G-AISB which he had registered in Belgium as OO-EOT, as a tribute to Ernest Oscar Tips.
During the following years, he restored several Tipsy Nippers and modified them in such a way that at last, during 1992, he could fit himself into a Nipper cockpit. This made him the 'biggest' Nipper pilot, he is after all 1.98m.
In 1993, he flew his Tipsy Trainer to Czech Republic. During this trip Raymond flew this magnificent aircraft for over 1000 nm.
In 2000, Raymond started as professional engineer at an aviation company based at Grimbergen airfield. He later became a licensed aircraft engineer. During his spare time Raymond restored the Piper PA 18-95 Super Cub OO-VIK to a very high standard. He won several prices with this aircraft including the ‘Best Contemporary Aircraft’ Award at the annual PFA-rally at Cranfield in 2002.
2003 was the year that has changed his professional life. Raymond founded his own company: R.A.R. Raymond’s Aircraft Restoration Bvba. Several projects passed through his hands including Piper PA 18-95 Super Cub - OO-HBG, Tipsy T.66 Nipper - OO-LEO, Fokker DVIII - N111EV, Oberlechner Job HB-KEV,…
At present, he has flown over 1600 hours on 25 different types. His favourite planes are, of course all Tipsy, types, but also the DH.82A Tiger Moth, Waco UPF-7, Piper Cub, Stampe SV.4, N.A. T.6 Harvard and the Aeronca Chief.
During the summer of 2009 Raymond also flew the Fokker DR.1, owned by the Early Birds Foundation and normally on display in the Stampe and Vertongen Museum at Antwerp Airport. | aerospace |
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