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https://www.modelairplanenews.com/e-flite-umx-mig-15-edf/ | 2023-03-25T19:55:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945372.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325191930-20230325221930-00716.warc.gz | 0.934246 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__15641247 | en | Back by popular demand, the E-flite UMX MiG-15 EDF BNF Basic jet features a vivid new color scheme and even higher performance. A scale replica of the surprise Russian weapon introduced during the Korean War the E-flite MiG 15 this upgraded EDF jet shines with intricate surface detail, functional split-rudder, nose wheel steering and removable landing gear is the potent Delta-V ducted fan system housing a more powerful brushless motor that makes acceleration quicker and top speeds faster.
More finely tuned AS3X stabilization makes this nimble dog fighter seem smoother than jets many times larger. Plus, the optional-use SAFE Select technology gives pilots new to flying a high-performance jet revolutionary flight envelope protection that makes getting familiar with a new model feel more comfortable than ever before.
The UMX MiG-15 model comes out of the box 100% factory-assembled and ready to go! It’s equipped with industry-leading Spektrum 2.4GHz technology that binds to your 5+ channel DSMX/DSM2 equipped transmitter so you can be flying within minutes of opening the box.
I bought one a few months ago. Flys very well but as with all micro jets, it does perform better with the landing gear removed. That being said, it does not have an abundance of power. Rolls are axial, loops are easy with enough speed. Make sure batteries are relatively new and fully charged. Overall a good performer and entry level EDF.
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https://www.wats-event.com/quadrant-group | 2020-10-30T17:24:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107911027.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20201030153002-20201030183002-00541.warc.gz | 0.92291 | 173 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__118779190 | en | Quadrant Group has operations in the USA and UK providing quality-assured products and services across military and civil flight simulation and training sectors. The Group offers services including simulator relocations, updates and maintenance and a range of proprietary products and support to simulator OEMs including software/hardware engineering, test and commissioning, and mechanical/electrical design and manufacturing. UK-based Quadrant Systems Limited (QSL) is an EASA and UK CAA ATO offering flight training and B737NG & A320 Level D FFSs for dry lease. Having both flight training and ATC simulation expertise, the Group offers a Simulated ATC Environment (SATCE) solution for FSTDs – Quadrant INTERACT™ – delivering the next-generation of environment simulation.
Learn more at www.quadrantgrp.com | aerospace |
https://www.airbushelicopters.ca/airbus-helicopters-and-helisim-break-ground-on-expanded-north-american-training-center/ | 2023-11-29T12:35:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100081.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129105306-20231129135306-00254.warc.gz | 0.930961 | 734 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__246576738 | en | Airbus Helicopters and Helisim break ground on expanded North American training center
Grand Prairie, February 5, – Airbus Helicopters Inc. and Helisim broke ground Tuesday on a new, state-of-the-art helicopter pilot and maintenance crew training center in Grand Prairie, Texas.
With an initial investment of $40 million, the Helisim Simulation Center will provide introductory and recurrent training to thousands of pilot personnel each year. The first stage of the new facility is scheduled for completion later this year when the first new Thales Reality H Level D full-motion flight simulator will be delivered.
Helisim, a joint venture of Thales and Airbus Helicopters and a global leader in helicopter training, will develop and operate the simulation center. The center will house the first Level D full-motion flight simulators in North America for Airbus H145 and H175 helicopters, two high-tech civil helicopters, which are now entering wide use in the Americas.
“Airbus Helicopters builds some of the most innovative helicopters on the market today. The North American training center will meet our customers’ needs for exceptional training on those aircraft,” said Anthony Baker, Vice President of Customer Support for Airbus Helicopters Inc. “This training center will advance safety for the thousands of men and women who operate and fly in our helicopters every day.”
The new center represents a major international expansion of France-based Helisim, which brings 18 years of experience in simulation training for Airbus Helicopters aircraft.
“Helisim is committed to improving flight safety across our industry through simulator-based training,” said Christian Cochini, CEO of Helisim. “By working closely with Airbus Helicopters Inc. and Thales, we will now be able to provide unparalleled training solutions to North American customers.”
Eventually, the North American training center will expand to include an H160 simulator, once that helicopter model is certified and production is underway. The center also incorporates the existing training facilities of Airbus Helicopters Inc., including its H125/AS350 full flight simulator and H135/H145 flight training device.
The venture is expected to bring several thousand pilots and maintenance personnel to Grand Prairie every year, sometimes for two weeks or more, supporting the growing local economy in Grand Prairie.
“Grand Prairie is a proud supporter of Airbus Helicopters Inc., which has helped to make North Texas a hub of aviation,” Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen said. “This training center will strengthen that reputation while boosting our local economy.”
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2017 it generated revenues of € 59 billion restated for IFRS 15 and employed a workforce of around 129,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as one of the world’s leading space companies. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.
HELISIM is a Joint Venture between Airbus Helicopters, Thales and DCI providing high-end simulation training services for pilots. HELISIM is the main simulation center for Airbus Helicopters platforms, operating 24/7 with over 150,000 cumulated flight hours, since its creation in 2000, and over 2,600 pilots trained every year. HELISIM LLC is the U.S. based HELISIM subsidiary. | aerospace |
https://www.firstorderhistorians.com/2018/10/30/rescue-workers-find-back-human-remains/ | 2022-07-06T17:04:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104675818.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220706151618-20220706181618-00021.warc.gz | 0.972222 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__150175057 | en | The Indonesian rescue services Tuesday again, human remains have been found at the place where the plane of the Indonesian low-cost airline, Lion Air on Monday into the sea is deposited.
On board were 189 people. The media speak of a defect in a boordinstrument.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8, which is only a few months in the service, disappeared Monday from radar, 13 minutes after take-off in Jakarta. He crashed into the java sea shortly after the pilot to the air traffic control had requested authorisation to return.
Dozens of divers have been to the place sent flight JT 610 is gone. But since Monday night have the emergency services, no hope for survivors to be found.
The rescue teams have so far ten lijkenzakken filled with body parts, but still need to Jakarta be sent for DNA tests to identify them, says Muhammad Syaugi, head of the Indonesian agency for rescue operations, television station Metro TV. Also, there are fourteen bags filled with debris, but also shoes, wallets and clothes.
The rescue services are still looking for the fuselage of the aircraft, which is on the seabed is, at thirty to forty metres in depth. The two black boxes are still not recovered.
The CEO of Lion Air, Edward Sirait, indicated Monday that the company repairs had to run to the unit in Bali before it was returned to Jakarta. But he gave no further details. According to him, it was a “normal procedure”.
The British public broadcaster BBC, which is a technical booklet in hands got on the flight from Bali to Jakarta on Sunday, said that there was a problem with the ‘reliability’ of an instrument to measure speed. Also weeks the altitude of the pilot and the co-driver from each other. | aerospace |
https://www.militarycollectibles4u.nl/a-72791251/uitrusting-overig/franse-parawing-nieuw-gemaakt/ | 2022-08-15T16:56:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00032.warc.gz | 0.840502 | 112 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__190287379 | en | Franse parawing - nieuw gemaaktArticle number: 7052753. G1. per stuk
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Basic parachute wings are awarded to French military personnel as well as members of the Foreign Legion who have completed 5 parachute descents.
Dutch forces are allowed to wear these wings over their right breast pocket.
The wings are manufactured in silver and gold metal, with two pins at the rear for attachement to smock. | aerospace |
https://www.thespacereport.org/page/6/?taxonomy=topic&term=earth-observation-remote-sensing-satellites | 2021-09-23T11:33:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057421.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923104706-20210923134706-00672.warc.gz | 0.917058 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__252806436 | en | Earth Observation/Remote Sensing Satellites
In 2008, there were ## remote sensing satellites launched on behalf of ## countries. Of particular note, in August, the German RapidEye constellation of ## remote sensing satellites was launched. The ## RapidEye satellites travel along the same orbital plane and feature identical sensors, allowing large amounts of imagery to be collected, up to ## million square kilometers (## million square miles) per day. ## satellites in the same orbital plane allow for a higher number of multiple imaging passes over the same spot and quick revisit times. With these capabilities, the RapidEye constellation is capable of imaging any point on Earth every day.
LEO spacecraft are also used to provide images of the Earth for civil, scientific, and military applications. In 2008 the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing reported that there were ## satellites in use or in development for this purpose, operated by ## different countries. The U.S. has been the leader in the commercialization of electro-optical remote sensing technology, but recent years have seen other countries begin to excel in the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. | aerospace |
https://www.leonardo.us/blog/leo-discussed-eye-safe-wavelength-laser-diodes-at-spie-dcs | 2023-10-04T13:00:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511369.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004120203-20231004150203-00069.warc.gz | 0.922486 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__28070948 | en | Leonardo Electronics US recently exhibited at the 2017 SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing conference in Anaheim, California on April 11-13.
Representatives met with companies interested in 1550 nm laser illumination and pointing. Our new 1550 nm laser diode platform is particularly relevant for covert military applications that demand high power, low SWaP and reliability in harsh environments.
Leonardo Electronics US demonstrated the 1550 nm laser diode in the booth exhibit and was able to have great discussions with customers and prospects collaborating on designs. On the first day of the show, Prabhu Thiagarajan, Vice President of Engineering; John Goings, Key Account Manager; Nick Moor, Optical Engineer; and Brian Caliva, Product Development Manager, presented a technical talk titled, “Direct-Diode Laser Illumination and Pointing at Eye-Safe SWIR Wavelengths.”
“DCS is an exciting opportunity to partner on programs critical to defense,” said Robert Walker, director of sales and marketing. “Direct diode laser components at 1550 nm are an attractive option for enabling higher power efficiencies (up to 35 percent) and significantly reduced size and weight ratios, or SWaP. These reduced SWaP metrics open the door for a wider range of deployable platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles.”
Check out some of our photos from the show:
Robert Walker and Brian Caliva demonstrating the 1550 nm laser at SPIE DCS.
Showcasing Leonardo Electronics US high power laser diodes for defense applications such as directed energy, range finding, and illumination and pointing. | aerospace |
https://www.airlines-wifi.com/sun-air-express-wifi/ | 2024-04-23T02:34:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00819.warc.gz | 0.81475 | 722 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__99111370 | en | Sun Air Express WIFI
Sun Air Express WIFI currently does not have WIFI available onboard its planes, either before or after the take-off. It Is expected that Sun Air Express will have WIFI in the near future.
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Sun Air Express phone number where you can call for talk to a real person at Sun Air Express about any traveling related matter or future Sun Air Express WIFI service is Repoerted As None Active Airline
Does Sun Air Express have WIFI?
No, Sun Air Express does not provide WIFI or internet connection onboard its planes during flights or when on the ground.
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Sun Air Express does not provide WIFI or internet connection, not for free or at cost, onboard its planes during flights or when on the ground.
What Sun Air Express planes have WIFI?
None of Sun Air Express planes have WIFI.
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What is Sun Air Express onboard internet speed?
Inflight WIFI service is not available on any of Sun Air Express flights.
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How do I get refund for Sun Air Express WIFI?
There is no interenet or WIFI available onboard Sun Air Express planes. If you wish to contact Sun Air Express customer serivce, call phone number Repoerted As None Active Airline.
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Does Sun Air Express WIFI supports Netflix?
Sun Air Express WIFI Does Not Support Netflix as there is no WIFI service available on any of Sun Air Express flights.
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There is no Inflight WIFI, either paid or free onboard Sun Air Express flights.
Airline: Sun Air Express
Street: Repoerted As None Active Airline
City: United States
CallSign: RED DRAGON
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Everything You Need to Know About In-Flight WiFi & About Sun Air Express WIFI
Watch this video to discover why is it expensive and why paying more for your WIFI doesn’t mean you’ll get faster service or higher quality of your WIFI onboard as it all a factor of the airline (in your case, Sun Air Express WIFI), aircraft type, in-flight WIFI provider, and the location you are on the globe:
Airlines-wifi.com is a free website providing airlines WIFI and internet connection onboard including Sun Air Express WIFI and all leading airlines. This website is a completely independent and not associated with any of commercial company or federal or state’s government departments, offices, agencies, boards, or commission.
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https://metroaviation.com/2019/06/28/mercys-life-line-celebrates-35-years-of-service/ | 2019-09-16T08:06:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572516.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190916080044-20190916102044-00004.warc.gz | 0.931512 | 400 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__46178798 | en | Mercy’s Life Line celebrates 35 years of service
June 28, 2019
Source: KY3 Online
Mercy Life Line air ambulance service is celebrating 35 years of accident-free service with a free, family-friendly community safety expo on Saturday, June 29.
Mercy will have a
Kids can also take a trip through Safe Kids’ “Safety Town” and complete a tricycle obstacle course that teaches the rules of the road. Along with free games and lots of prizes, food trucks will be on hand with snacks for purchase.
The Mercy Life Line Free Community Safety Expo starts at 9:00 a.m. and will go until noon Saturday, June 29. Attendees are instructed to use the parking lot south of the Mercy Clinic – Smith Glynn Callaway, located at 3188 South Maryland Avenue in Springfield.
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http://alert5.com/2010/06/29/rocaf-ground-crew-injured-during-pre-flight-check-pilot-went-ahead-with-mission/ | 2013-12-10T20:00:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164024169/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133344-00053-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.990101 | 115 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__191230692 | en | RoCAF ground crew injured during pre-flight check, pilot went ahead with mission
A RoCAF ground crew was injured during pre-flight checks of a IDF fighter at Ching Chuan Kang AFB last month but the pilot insisted on carrying on with the flight.
A post-flight inspection found that the starboard tailplane had hit the ground crew and resulted in a long crack on the surface. The repairs took three days.
An investigation revealed that the airman was in the wrong position during the checks and there were two versions of the training manuals. | aerospace |
https://www.udemy.com/user/peter-carter-7/ | 2022-01-24T07:45:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304515.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124054039-20220124084039-00020.warc.gz | 0.907311 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__86962958 | en | I'm an experienced higher education manager, international education consultant, qualified ESL teacher and entrepreneur with over 25-years experience in creative, innovative delivery strategies for the international education marketplace.
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I have been lecturing in the area of Aviation English for the past 18-years and through my experience have been fortunate enough to develop courses for;
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https://www.handcraftedplaques.com/naflnuwiwoar.html | 2023-09-23T12:14:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506480.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923094750-20230923124750-00756.warc.gz | 0.925619 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__140705973 | en | NAVAL FLIGHT NURSE WINGS
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Measuring 21" x 6", our new Naval Flight Nurse Wings Wood Art is handcrafted from 7 different All-Natural fine hardwoods.
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https://yoles-rondes.net/amateur/topic-1046.php | 2020-10-26T14:54:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107891428.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026145305-20201026175305-00507.warc.gz | 0.926956 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__88480456 | en | I was so excited! Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact. Students will also have an opportunity to learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Having Trouble? Effect of spaceflight on the human body Space adaptation syndrome Health threat from cosmic rays Space psychology Psychological and sociological effects Space and survival Space medicine Space nursing.
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https://www.snotr.com/video/18584 | 2021-12-01T06:20:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964359093.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20211201052655-20211201082655-00485.warc.gz | 0.906685 | 120 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__126213257 | en | On Jan. 14, 2005, ESA's Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn's hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Huygens made the most distant landing ever on another world, and the only landing on a body in the outer solar system. This video uses actual images taken by the probe during its two-and-a-half hour fall under its parachutes.
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https://edmonton2015.ca/spacex-starship-prototype-sn9-explodes-on-landing-after-test-launch-abc-news/ | 2023-03-31T18:50:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949678.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331175950-20230331205950-00607.warc.gz | 0.946308 | 1,473 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__99805977 | en | Spacex Starship Prototype SN9 Explodes On Landing After Test Launch – ABC News
NASA apprehensive a weekend liftoff – coupled with a dramatic nighttime launch – could result in a superspreader occasion. They urged the crowds to put on masks. Maintain safe distances. Similar pleas for SpaceX’s first crew launch on May 30 went unheeded. The three-men, one-girl crew led by Commander Mike Hopkins, an Air Force colonel, named their capsule Resilience in a nod not solely to the pandemic, but also racial injustice and contentious politics. It’s about as various as house crews come, including physicist Shannon Walker, Navy Cmdr. Victor Glover, the primary Black astronaut on a long-time period space station mission, and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi, who turned the primary person in virtually forty years to launch on three varieties of spacecraft. Musk was replaced by SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in bidding the astronauts farewell. Besides its sleek design and excessive-tech features, the Dragon capsule is kind of spacious – it could carry up to seven people. They rode out to the launch pad in Teslas – one other Musk company – after exchanging excessive-fives and hand embraces with their children and spouses, who huddled on the open automobile home windows. Previous area capsules have launched with no more than three. The additional room within the capsule was used for science experiments and provides.
Like the Merlin 1D sequence, Raptor can assist extremely deep throttling with stable combustion potential right down to 20% of the engine’s rated thrust. This allows the ITS Booster to fly versatile ascent profiles and actively throttle its engines on the way in which back to a propulsive touchdown, requiring lively management of the vehicle’s thrust-to-weight ratio. SpaceX stored quiet on the planned Thrust-to-Weight Ratio of the Raptor engine as it continues to be early in its improvement. The quantity naturally changes forward of certification testing. The creation of an excessive-pressure, methane-fueled, full-flow engine at a T/W ratio matching that of Merlin would characterize a serious milestone in house propulsion. The ITS Booster employs a cluster of 42 Raptor SL engines, generating a liftoff thrust of 127,800 Kilonewtons or 13,000 metric-ton-drive. Because of Raptor’s excellent thrust-to-weight characteristics, SpaceX opted to go for a relatively low-thrust design with respect to the entire launch thrust wanted to send 450 metric tons toward Mars. The ITS Booster design calls for an outer ring of 21 engines and 14 Raptors forming an interior ring, all affixed in place with no gimbal capability which cuts large mass from the engine bay.
They operate in combination with the bottom transceivers. These satellites are positioned nearer to the Earth which helps bring down latency. As famous above, the corporate had initially promised a download pace of wherever between 50 to one hundred fifty Mbps; nonetheless, the company is now exceeding the expectations of users with obtain speeds of more than 160 Mbps. In line with fashionable pace check provider Ookla, that is 95 per cent greater than other web suppliers within the United States. These depend on lasers to offer higher speeds. However, as of right now, the SpaceX Starlink public beta test is barely available for users in the northern US and southern Canada. This system is more likely to be rolled out in quite a few other areas by next yr. You may keep up to date with us for more Starlink news and newest updates.
A SpaceX rocket phase that has spent around seven years in space will smash into the moon in the approaching weeks, in line with experts. The Falcon 9 rocket in query originally launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in February 2015, as a part of a mission to deploy an area-weather satellite tv for pc. After completing a long burn, the second stage of the Falcon 9 released the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, which started its journey in direction of its ultimate destination-a special location in area, generally known as a Lagrange level, located around one million miles away from Earth. But after sending the satellite tv for pc on its manner, the second stage of the rocket lacked the power to escape the gravity of the Earth-moon system and was excessive sufficient that it did not have sufficient gasoline to be directed back into Earth’s ambiance, space knowledgeable and meteorologist Eric Berger wrote for Ars Technica. This left the second stage section in a somewhat chaotic orbit. Now, consultants who observe near-Earth objects say the rocket stage is on a collision course with the moon. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer on the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, also agreed with Gray’s conclusion. For those asking: sure, an old Falcon 9 second stage left in excessive orbit in 2015 goes to hit the moon on March 4. It’s attention-grabbing, however not a big deal. McDowell mentioned in a tweet Tuesday. Some uncertainties remain in the predictions for exactly when and the place the article will strike the moon, in keeping with Gray. However, the actual results of that sunlight are onerous to predict completely.
The corporate makes use of that info to improve. When its upgraded model of Falcon 9 debuted in 2018, the company said that it anticipated every Falcon 9 first stage might fly an estimated 10 times with little-to-no refurbishments in between, and as many as a hundred instances before retirement. Streamline its recovery process. Now, the company says that the quantity 10 could also be more of a suggestion than a tough restrict. With B1051 set to make its ninth flight, it’s solely potential we’ll see at the least one, if not multiple boosters reach that 10-flight milestone. On Thursday (March 4), SpaceX’s different fleet leader, B1049, took off on its 8th flight. The booster is again in port, ready for transport to SpaceX’s services for publish-flight inspections and shall be prepped to fly once more.
Starlink has introduced a new consumer terminal clients can get with their starter equipment. As first reported by The Verge, the company now offers a rectangular option (PDF) that’s smaller and lighter than its authentic circular one. The unique model is an ordinary dish that’s 23-inch vast, but the rectangular version is simply 12 inches wide and 19 inches long. Users have to put in that antenna on their rooftop or anyplace excessive up with a clear view of the sky to be able to access its satellite internet. The new terminal’s smaller type issue might give users extra options in terms of potential locations where they’ll set up it. It is also solely 9.2 pounds, which is almost half the load of its circular counterpart. As well as, the rectangular terminal comes with more accessory choices, including a protracted pole users can merely stick in the ground so that they not need to mount the antenna on their rooftop. SpaceX launched Starlink as a beta service in late 2020. Offered prospects access to its satellite internet for $99 a month. | aerospace |
http://akaerospace.com/comprehensive-launch-capabilities | 2020-07-09T01:32:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655897844.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709002952-20200709032952-00045.warc.gz | 0.927799 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__221851343 | en | From the Last Frontier
To the Final Frontier
Comprehensive Launch Capabilities
The Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska (formerly known as the Kodiak Launch Complex) was the nation’s first commercial spaceport not collocated on a federal range. Located about 44 road miles south of the city of Kodiak at Narrow Cape on Kodiak Island, the spaceport is state-of-the-industry and AAC strives to keep it that way. Vigilance, regularly scheduled maintenance, and periodic upgrades govern day-to-day activity. PSCA is situated on 3,717 acres of state owned land, and AAC has authority during launch missions to limit public access to an additional 7,000 acres to assure public safety and security. PSCA is the nation’s only high latitude full service spaceport. It features all indoor, all weather, processing and was designed specifically to provide optimal support for space launches to low earth orbit, sun synchronous orbit, polar orbit, and highly elliptical orbits such as Molniya and Tundra orbits. PSCA offers unrestricted down range launch azimuths ranging from 110° to 220°, and is the only U.S. facility that can launch high inclination (63.4°) missions without land over-flight and the requirement to resort to energy consuming dog leg flight segments. The spaceport, like all U.S. west coast facilities, sits on the seismically active Pacific Rim, and all structures and components are designed to exceed applicable design criteria for seismically active zones. | aerospace |
https://whitefoxdefense.com/blog/1st-time-on-live-tv-a-drone-operator-caught-flying-illegally | 2019-07-17T02:26:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525009.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717021428-20190717043428-00412.warc.gz | 0.933936 | 1,061 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__182500744 | en | 1st time on live TV: a drone operator caught flying illegally.
“We’re not talking about drones flying underneath the flight path,” said WhiteFox Strategic Advisor Brett Velicovich to NBC’s Richard Engel. Together, they looked up at the sky from the Venice Pier in Los Angeles, California. “We’re talking about flying in the flight path.”
You may not yet see drones every day, but if society figures it out, one day you will. Drones are already beginning to revolutionize medical transplants, carbon emissions, and, one day, circumventing automobile traffic via air taxis.
For that to become a reality, we must work to circumvent ignorance and disregard toward safe flying practices. Because when it comes to a careless or conscientious drone operator, the difference can be life or death.
Drones in dangerous proximity to aircraft is a common headline. Frankfurt, Gatwick, Dubai, Heathrow, Dublin, and Newark all headlined news in the last five months for near-misses—most notably Gatwick, which shut down for 30 hours, affected 100,000 passengers, and cost airlines over $60M.
There are over 1 million registered drones in the United States, and estimates double when it comes to unregistered ones. The drone airspace today is similar to the US when commercial aviation was burgeoning and there was no Air Traffic Control. For drones, there is no system in place to identify and authorize who’s flying drones, where they’re doing it, and why. So there’s an inherent risk to what flies above us.
What’s the root of drone threats?
Most drones aren’t threats, but the ones that do pose risk can appear harmless. Though terrorists and criminal actors have and will continue to use drones for malicious reasons, the most pressing risk today comes from ignorant or flippant drone operators. Russ Butler, Vice President of Security for the San Francisco 49ers and Levi Stadium, reinforced this sentiment at ISC West—the largest security conference in the world—when speaking to the unauthorized drone incursions above Levi Stadium: “Truthfully, the bulk of those numbers are hobby fliers that are either clueless or careless,” said Butler.
Some operators simply don’t know the rules of flying. But this is quickly changing. It is now mandatory to take a quiz and register drones with the Federal Aviation Administration. Others may know the rules, but disregard them, think they’re committing a victimless crime—not anticipating the destruction of a drone colliding with an airplane, or losing power over a stadium, or falling onto a nuclear plant.
While the cost of collateral damage due to near misses has been proven, simulations are the only indicator for what would happen if a drone were to actually collide with a jet. Considering birds cause $600M of damage to aircraft per year, the reality of a drone colliding with a plane could be fatal.
So, there are millions of drones out there, any of which could be problematic if flown cluelessly near airports, stadiums, and in other restricted airspace.
Is there a solution?
A number of new companies have taken a counter-drone approach by focusing on stopping drones at any cost: with net guns, drones, or barrage jammers that disrupt innocent signals nearby the isolated threat. But WhiteFox sees the future of regulating drones as drone airspace management--a comprehensive network of intelligent RF products that detect, identify and authorize drones digitally and automatically, with the capability of selectively mitigating bad or unknowingly dangerous actors, when needed.
One key element that will add trust to the drone airspace is a digital identification of drones system that securely provides identity to each drone and its operator. Today, drone operators are required to print out their FAA ID number and tape it to their drone, a system that can’t last due to its lack for true accountability and security.
In a way, WhiteFox and other leading companies together are priming themselves to be the Air Traffic Control for the lower, drone airspace.
Los Angeles with NBC
Though the airspace was restricted to drones due to its close proximity to LAX, WhiteFox data gathered before the segment had demonstrated that the area was a consistently popular place to fly drones, regardless.
So, WhiteFox headed to Los Angeles to survey the airspace near LAX. With NBC Correspondent Richard Engel, WhiteFox CEO Luke Fox, and WhiteFox Strategic Advisor Brett Velicovich, the team set up its flagship product, DroneFox Mobile, in Venice near the pier.
And within minutes, a drone was detected flying in restricted airspace merely 3 nautical miles from the nearest airplane. Using proprietary algorithms to analyze the airspace, DroneFox detects drones via the communications link between drones and their operators.
This was the first time an operator was caught on live television flying a drone in restricted airspace. Engel and Velicovich gleaned the operator’s location from DroneFox and approached the operator.
Why was he flying so close to an air strip? Did he know what he was doing was illegal?
Click here to find out via the full NBC story. | aerospace |
https://ktelegram.com/than-closed-the-skies-over-iran-for-companies-and-passengers/50430/ | 2020-08-15T01:08:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439740423.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815005453-20200815035453-00190.warc.gz | 0.940992 | 1,158 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__81622335 | en | Because of the ban on flights, carriers had to develop new routes.
Russian and foreign airlines have decided to change their routes in the Persian Gulf area after the incident under the Tehran of the crash of a Ukrainian plane, which coincided with a rocket attack by Iran on US bases in Iraq. Who will bring problems and damages?
On 8 January, the airline “Ukraine International airlines” crashed on departure from Tehran to Kiev. All 176 passengers and crew members died. The final cause of the disaster is unknown.
The morning of January 9, the national security Council of Ukraine has listed the basic version of the plane crash in Tehran: the defeat of the anti-aircraft missile, terrorist attack or explosion of the engine for technical reasons. The day of the crash, the representative of the Iranian authorities denied the possibility that the emergency aircraft might be related to a direct rocket hit.
According to the preliminary report of the civil aviation Organization of Iran, after takeoff, the aircraft was registered a certain technical problem, because of this the ship was going back to the airport. However, the pilots did not report these problems. The user “MAU” stated that no comments on the technical condition of the plane. Despite the lack of definitive conclusions, a Russian airline decided not to fly over the region. The more relevant the recommendations distributed by the Federal air transport Agency.
A few hours after the plane crash in Tehran the Federal air transport Agency sent to the Russian airlines the recommendation not to fly over the territory of Iran, Iraq, the Persian and Oman gulfs. Also on Friday, January 10, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov, who oversees the transport sector will hold a meeting on the issue of flights to the middle East.
Through the region serviced by flights from Russia to popular resorts, such as in Dubai and in Goa. The airline responded quickly to the instructions of the aviation authorities.
In S7 bi-Bi-si said that “take into account requirements of the Federal air transport Agency”. Alternative routes began to develop in the “Ural airlines”. New traffic patterns for their flights prepared in the “Aeroflot”, “Victory” and “UTair”.
How companies are changing routes?
The route UTair Makhachkala – Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) will now take over Egypt and Cyprus. On the evening of 8 January, the company agreed on a new traffic plan with the aviation authorities of Cyprus and was waiting for confirmation from Egypt and the Federal air transport Agency.
“Azur Air” has prepared alternative routes to resorts in UAE, Maldives, India and Sri Lanka.
Planes from Moscow to Dubai will fly via Tashkent. This company explained three-hour flight delay from Dubai to Tyumen on the morning of 9 January. According to the service Flightradar, plane do not fly over Iran.
Flightradar data shows that some of the flights on the first day took place on the territory of the region. For example, flights Dubai – Moscow the morning of January 9 was flying over the territory of Iran. Flew over the country on the evening of 8 January and the flight Moscow – Goa airlines “Air Azur”.
The loss of time and money
A change of routes may lead to higher prices for tickets. The need to fly around the airspace of Iran and Iraq will increase the cost of fuel, said the press Secretary of the Russian Union of travel industry Irina Tyurina (quoted by “RIA Novosti”).
Themselves flights can be more time-consuming. The “Rossiya airlines” flight from Vnukovo to Goa will increase by 16 minutes, the company said. Another flight of Saint Petersburg – Sharjah (UAE) on January 9 will be performed with technical landing in Sochi airport to refuel. Flight time will be increased by 1 hour 42 minutes. Flight Yekaterinburg – Sharjah will also increase by 1 hour 21 minutes, the report said “Russia”.
One hour of flight, aircraft type Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 costs around 10 thousand dollars an hour of flying larger A330 costs about 15 thousand dollars, was estimated to “Kommersant”.
Win airline from the Middle East
Flights over the region was interrupted not only by Russian companies. On the evening of 8 January, the European aviation safety Agency (EASA) has advised airlines not to fly over Iraqi airspace. The regulator called this a precautionary measure in connection with the situation in the middle East.
The Federal aviation administration, the U.S. banned American airlines flying over the territory of Iran, Iraq and the Gulf countries even before the crash. The restrictions associated with missile strikes on US military bases in Iraq.
Restrictions imposed aviation authorities and carriers from Ukraine, Belarus, Singapore, Malaysia, China and other countries. This will affect the flights from Russia – for example, flights from Kazan to Abu Dhabi through from Ashgabat Turkmen airlines will be suspended until the end of January.
Carriers will continue to fly the old routes, explains Bi-bi-si, the Director of the Agency “AviaPort” Oleg Panteleev. For example, it companies from the Gulf countries. In these companies, the tickets can be cheaper, the expert believes.
“There are always passengers, for which the decisive factor is the price,” he explains. The companies that will adjust routes, not only increase costs, but may be fewer customers. | aerospace |
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/pilot-talk/after-the-accident-vintage-cargo-hauler-ditches-in-the-atlantic/ | 2023-11-30T23:35:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100258.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130225634-20231201015634-00078.warc.gz | 0.981339 | 2,799 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__233530202 | en | I‘m going to begin this story by letting you know up front what’s usually reserved for the end: the important takeaway that could someday save your life and maybe the lives of others. It’s simply that if there’s an anomaly you don’t fully understand and can’t seem to correct, don’t hesitate to land at the nearest suitable airport and then try to find the solution to the problem. I’ve long considered that principle to be a building block in the foundation of a safe flight. The National Transportation Safety Board certainly agreed, at least with respect to the flight of a General Dynamics Convair 340, a ’40s-era airliner that had been converted into a cargo hauler, designated the C-131B, which was operating that day as a charter flight, Conquest Air 504.
While on a return flight from Nassau to Miami on the day of the accident, Feb. 8, 2019, the aircraft lost power in both engines, and the captain was forced to ditch the big twin in the Atlantic Ocean. The captain was fatally injured, but the first officer survived and provided some chilling details of what happened.
Conquest Air is a cargo airline with offices in Miami Lakes, Florida, and Nassau, in the Bahamas, that provides daily service between Miami and Nassau and service as needed to Freeport, Abaco and other Caribbean locations. The C131B was manufactured in 1955 and had tricycle landing gear and three seats. Its certificated maximum gross weight was 47,000 pounds. The airplane was powered by two Pratt & Whitney R2800CB3 double-row radial engines rated at 2,400 horsepower apiece. The R2800 series design dates from 1939. Those engines have 18 cylinders, are air-cooled and weigh more than a ton.
At the time of the accident, the airplane had just over 12,701 hours. Its last annual inspection had been signed off on the day before the accident.
The airplane had departed Lynden Pindling International Airport (MYNN) in Nassau at 11:13 a.m. on a return flight to Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (KOPF) in Miami. An instrument flight plan had been filed, but conditions were VFR. The airplane had flown to MYNN earlier that morning. The accident was at about 12:16 p.m.
The 68-year-old captain held an ATP certificate for single-engine and multi-engine land airplanes and instruments, with type ratings in the Boeing 727, 737, Convair 240, 340 and 440, and LR-JET (Learjet). His first-class FAA medical certificate was current, and the airline reported he had 23,000 hours of total time, with 725 hours in the accident type.
The first officer, 28 years old, had a commercial certificate with airplane single-engine and multi-engine land airplane and instrument ratings. He had a second-in-command type rating for the Convairs. He had a first-class medical certificate and, according to the airline, 650 hours of total time with 305 in type.
The first officer provided a statement to the NTSB and a few days later was interviewed over the phone by an NTSB investigator. He said that when he first got to the airport in Miami on the morning of the accident, the cargo for the outbound flight to Nassau had not yet been loaded, and he sent a text to advise the captain so that he could notify customs that they would be delayed.
The first officer said that he preflighted the airplane and ran the checklist covering the first flight of the day, and everything seemed OK. There were about 900 gallons of fuel on board, with the first officer indicating each engine burned about 100 gallons per hour. He said he met with the airline’s maintenance director, reviewed aircraft logs and other paperwork, signed a release and went back to the aircraft to complete a weight and balance form.
Once the cargo had been fully loaded, the first officer secured the rear of the fuselage, pulled the chocks and assumed his seat. He completed engine checks as called for by the captain and called for the IFR clearance. He said they pulled out of the company ramp to where they could perform a run-up.
The first officer said that with everything looking good, they called for the taxi clearance and proceeded to Runway 9L. After being cleared for takeoff, takeoff power of 53-inches manifold pressure and 2,700 rpm was set. The captain was the flying pilot.
The first officer said that he called the airspeed indicator as coming alive at 40 knots and at 80 knots and acknowledged that the captain had the controls for liftoff. The first officer called out when a positive rate of climb had been obtained, and the gear could be brought up. At 400 feet MSL, the captain called for flaps to be raised and power to be reduced to 48 inches and 2,600 rpm. By about 800 feet, the climb checks had been completed, and the captain called for power to be reduced to 38 inches and 2,400 rpm.
The first officer said that when the airplane had reached its cruise altitude of 7,000 feet, the captain leveled off and called for the cruise checklist. The first officer brought the throttles back to 30 inches manifold pressure and tried to set the the prop for 2,000 rpm. The first officer told the NTSB investigator that when he moved the propeller control switch on the panel, the rpm on the left propeller became stuck at 2,400 rpm. He said that he was able to move the electric toggle switch physically, but there was no movement on the gauge that displayed propeller rpm.
He said that he pulled out the airplane’s Quick Reference Handbook to see if there was any guidance but couldn’t find anything. He said that when he pulled up the aircraft manual on his iPad, he found an entry calling for a reset of the propeller control’s circuit breaker. He pulled the circuit breaker and reset it twice, but it made no difference. He said the captain then set the right engine and prop so they matched the left side.
They continued to Nassau for an uneventful landing. Once on the ground, the captain asked the first officer to send a text message to maintenance at KOPF, but the text did not go through. According to the first officer, the captain told him not to worry about it, and if they couldn’t get the propeller control to reset when they did their runup prior to flying back, they’d just wait there for maintenance.
After unloading at MYNN, both the captain and first officer did walkarounds. According to what the first officer told the NTSB investigator, both engines started fine, and both propellers were cycled. Both of the prop control switches worked, and they observed movement on the rpm gauges. Since the props now seemed to be working, they decided to go ahead with the flight and got their IFR clearance. The first officer was the flying pilot.
Everything was normal until they reached 4,000 feet, and the left propeller again became stuck at 2,400 rpm. The captain reset the circuit breaker, and the prop went to 2,700 rpm and could not be moved from that setting. The captain took control of the airplane and told the first officer to try to reset the circuit breaker. The first officer did it, but there was no effect. The captain reduced power and got the right engine to 30 inches and 2,000 rpm, but the left engine remained at 2,400 rpm. The first officer did not know what the left side manifold pressure was at the time.
The first officer said that at this point, he told the captain that they needed to turn back to Nassau. According to the first officer, the captain said he’d experienced this before, and all they needed to do was keep the power on the left side reduced, and they should cancel their IFR flight plan and go VFR at 4,500 feet.
“We continued the flight with no incident until passing Bimini, where the captain called for a gentle VFR descent to KOPF,” wrote the first officer in his statement. They had left 4,500 feet and started a slow descent, with a target of 1,500 feet.
“All engine instruments indicated normally when all of a sudden the right engine began to surge and lose power,” the first officer wrote. He said that he looked out and saw puffs of white smoke coming from the back of the engine. The light that warns of low fuel pressure came on, and the fuel gauge began to fluctuate. The captain turned on the fuel boost pump, pushed the mixture full forward and worked the throttle, but nothing changed. The engine began to backfire and shake violently with variations in rpm, manifold pressure, BMRP (brake mean effective pressure), fuel flow and fuel pressure. He said that they ran the emergency checklist for engine failure and put the mixture in the cutoff position and feathered the engine.
“Moments later, the left engine began to surge and shake violently, with variations in the BMEP, fuel pressure and fuel flow indications as well as variations in rpm and manifold pressure. At this point, the captain tried to get control of the left engine; meanwhile, I declared an emergency over the radio,” the first officer wrote. As the airplane descended, the captain started maneuvering for a water landing.
The captain was looking outside of the airplane and trying to maneuver to land on the backside of the water’s swells while still flying in a westerly direction toward shore, the first officer told the NTSB’s investigator on the phone.
“I started preparing to ditch,” the first officer wrote in his statement. “I put on my four-point harness, and scooted my seat back. I held onto the yoke with my left hand, then braced with my right hand on the dash. The impact threw me forward, smashing my head and the rest of my body into the yoke, center console, instrument panel and glare shield. I felt the aircraft come to a rocking halt. I pushed myself away from the instrumental panel and realized my seat had broken from the impact. I unbuckled my four-point harness and turned my head to see the captain unconscious slumped over the yoke.”
The impact with the water was severe, and the fuselage split open. The left wing broke off and eventually washed ashore.
The first officer said that got him out of his seat and moved over to the captain, yelling his name while simultaneously shaking his arm and trying to get him to respond.
“By this time, the water was rising above my chest,” the first officer wrote. “I tried to get him out of his seat, but he was too heavy for me to lift. Unable to help him, I proceeded to kick the cockpit door open, as the water level from the cockpit and the fuselage equalized back to chest deep. I immediately noticed the tail of the aircraft was missing.”
The first officer said he located the still-collapsed life raft floating in the water and wrapped his arms around it. He took a deep breath and started swimming toward the opening at the rear where the tail had broken off.
“Once I was free, I inflated the life raft and climbed into the raft, and after locating the survival pouch, I grabbed the flare gun, loaded one cartridge and looked around for nearby boats or aircraft. Above me, I saw a multi-engine propeller aircraft several thousand feet above. I aimed near the aircraft and fired the first round. I emptied the cartridge, reloaded and secured the trigger to prevent an accidental misfire. I then started taking inventory of supplies and securing them to the raft. Several minutes later, I was rescued by the United States Coast Guard.”
The first officer was pulled to safety on board a Coast Guard helicopter that had been flying nearby on a training mission. He was taken to a trauma center in Miami for treatment.
The main wreckage was not recovered from the ocean, about 13 miles from Florida, preventing investigators from trying to find physical evidence of what had gone wrong.
The NTSB quoted Conquest Air as saying the flight crew should have landed as soon as practical after the first sign of a mechanical issue, which the Safety Board said means they should have diverted to the closest airport when the control for the left propeller stopped working. The Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was the captain’s decision to continue the flight with a malfunctioning left engine propeller control and the subsequent loss of engine power on both engines for undetermined reasons, which resulted in ditching into the ocean. Contributing to the accident was the first officer’s failure to challenge the captain’s decision to continue with the flight.
All of which brings us back to what I said in the beginning about a takeaway from this accident. Even though the vast majority of us will never fly a Convair C131B, regardless of what we’re flying, if there’s an elusive problem unfolding, don’t hesitate to head for the nearest suitable airport. Or, as a savvy flight instructor once impressed upon me, “It’s much better to be down here wishing you were up there than to be up there wishing you were down here.” | aerospace |
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APP: il banco prova del volo
Aircraft Performance Program (APP) è stato inizialmente concepito nel 1981 dalla ALR Aerospace, in associazione con la RUAG Aerospace Defence Technology, come un banco prova per lo studio delle prestazioni ottenibili dai veivoli secondo le modifiche suggerite dalla loro esperienza di costruttori di aeroplani leggeri, addestratori e caccia. Oggi APP è distribuito dalla DARcorporation e si è evoluto fino a diventare il prodotto leader di mercato per testare le prestazioni dei velivoli ancora in fase di progetto.
Aircraft Performance Program (APP) computes the complete range of performance parameters over a user-specified range of altitudes, speeds and other variables. The program is designed for simplicity and flexibility in its use and provides the user with useful quick-look (evaluate) functions for the examination of a wide variety of data (e.g. thrust, fuel flow, lift, drag, SEP, turn rate, etc.).
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A mission manager supports mission compilation and definition. Over 25 mission segments may be combined in any order for a full mission profile calculation. An optimizer routine evaluates the maximum range, maximum endurance and maximum operating range. Mission progress for user defined time steps and output parameters are printed to a spreadsheet and visualized with charts.
More than 60 output parameters are available for performance and mission evaluation. The output format can be changed without re-computation. Charts and spreadsheets may be copied directly into any Microsoft document or saved to file. For increased flexibility, the spreadsheets are compatible with MS Excel file format.
Aircraft Performance Program (APP) is a valuable tool for small design teams and large aerospace companies. APP will produce quick assessments without having to resort to internal, and very expensive, computer programs. Operators, research establishments, universities, government agencies and air forces will use it as a very cost-effective tool by avoiding expensive and lengthy subcontracting in many phases of their work.
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Aircraft Performance Program (APP) includes six aircraft examples and is recommended for Commercial Aerospace & Engineering Companies, Government Offices and Aeronautical Engineering Universities. APP is the perfect solution for:
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Computation Types of Performance
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DARcorporation uses the WIBU-Systems WIBU-KEY Copy Protection concept for the Aircraft Performance Program (APP) licensing. The WIBU-KEY concept consists of a WIBU-BOX and the WIBU software. APP is only available as a Floating License: Software is accessible from multiple computers, but limited to the number of licenses purchased. The WIBU-Key does not need to be attached to the local computer where APP is started. All computers running APP must be able to access the license server.
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https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/15-best-states-for-airline-pilots-copilots-and-flight-engineers-576418/ | 2023-06-02T05:48:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648322.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602040003-20230602070003-00119.warc.gz | 0.960537 | 566 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__49376065 | en | If you are a pilot looking to find your perfect new home state, take a look at our list of the 15 best states for airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers.
So, what exactly do airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers do? In short, they fly the airplanes that get us from place to place safely. Though much of modern airline flight has become automated, these professionals must remain vigilant in order to alter routes or avoid obstacles to keep their passengers and cargo safe.
Becoming an airline pilot requires a great deal of education and training. While some positions require a degree or several years of collegiate education, training is more of a focus for prospective pilots. Pilots-in-training are required to undergo 250 intense and goal-specific hours as a private pilot before they can become licensed. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary of an airline pilot is about $127,820 per year. Not only must you be able to meet these training requirements, but you must also pass very strict mental and physical tests. For instance, you must be in peak physical health and have perfect vision. Work as a pilot is always unpredictable. Hours can be all of the place, weather can impact your entire week, and you have to act as a PR person for unhappy passengers.
If you are interested in working in a slightly different field, you can also check our list of 25 best states for aircraft mechanics and service technicians.
Deciding which states qualify as the best states for airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers is not a simple task. Different factors matter more to different people. We decided to consult the Bureau of Labor Statistics for information on the average mean wage and the number of employed airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers in each state. We then sourced information on the cost of living index from Missouri Economic Research And Information Center. Considering all of these factors, we were able to sort our list.
It is not enough for a state to simply have a high average salary. It must also be considered that the number of working professionals in this field in the state may affect the number of job positions that are open to newcomers. On the other side of that argument, more employed airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers points to the possibility of a more steady stream of work available. The cost of living index can also not be considered alone. It is great to have a low cost of living, but this only matters if your salary is also not super low. A low cost of living paired with a high salary is the most advantageous situation. States falling into this category made the top of our list.
Without further ado, here is our list of 15 best states for airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers. | aerospace |
https://aais.org.sg/aog-conference-asia-pacific-9-10-may-2018/ | 2022-06-30T16:35:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103850139.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630153307-20220630183307-00079.warc.gz | 0.934409 | 259 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__182990584 | en | Organised by MNX Global Logistics Singapore and supported by Association of Aerospace Industries (Singapore), the inaugural AOG Conference Asia Pacific was held from 9 to 10 May 2018 at the Swissotel Merchant Court, Singapore. As the sister conference to the successful AOG Conference Americas, the conference is dedicated to Airline AOG Professionals, allowing them to network with fellow AOG professionals; learn best practices, new technologies, industry issues and share information on how other airlines work to fulfill their AOG requirements; and engage with vendors and OEMs focused on supporting airline critical AOG needs.
The event attracted participation from 21 airlines, nine sponsors and exhibitors, including AOG support teams from aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus and Boeing, as well as suppliers and service providers like AJW, Unical Aviation, Global Airtech, Magellan, GA Telesis and GE Capital Aviation Services. Apart from a tour of SIA Engineering Company and a Host Airline Presentation by Singapore Airlines, AAIS’ Assistant Honorary Secretary, Mr Chow Kok Wah delivered a Keynote Address on Singapore’s Emerging Capabilities Supporting Global AOG at the conference. The conference also featured other speakers and panelists from Boeing, Airbus, Lufthansa Technik and AJW. | aerospace |
https://www.nexga.com/ | 2023-06-10T14:30:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224657720.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610131939-20230610161939-00648.warc.gz | 0.910246 | 576 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__259859764 | en | About NexGA Aircraft Inc.
- NexGA Aircraft, Inc., formerly known as Columbia Resale, Inc. is an independent aircraft sales company focused on selling the latest generation pre-flown aircraft for the General Aviation community. With experience in aircraft sales ranging from trainer aircraft through corporate jets, NexGA is uniquely qualified to assist in aircraft acquisition, brokerage and management for pilots as they move from a training aircraft through the light jet market.
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https://www.wernews.com/boeing-reports-another-loss-states-2021-inflection-point/ | 2021-05-05T21:49:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988696.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20210505203909-20210505233909-00623.warc.gz | 0.963769 | 657 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__22439371 | en | Boeing reported another quarterly loss on Wednesday amidst continued weak point in business aviation, however said a rebound was within sight with the return of the 737 MAX to service and coronavirus vaccines.
The aerospace giant, which has been in crisis mode given that March 2019 when regulators grounded limit for 20 months, reported a $537 million loss in the first quarter, its sixth quarter in a row in the red.
” While the global pandemic continues to challenge the total market environment, we see 2021 as a crucial inflection point for our market as vaccine circulation speeds up and we collaborate throughout federal government and market to assist make it possible for a robust healing,” said President Dave Calhoun in a news release.
” In general, we made crucial strides this quarter, and we need to stay diligent as we navigate through this worldwide pandemic together.”
The aerospace giant, which sealed significant agreements to build 737 MAX with airline companies throughout the duration, indicated lower deliveries of its larger 787 “Dreamliner” airplanes as a drag in the quarter.
Boeing resumed deliveries on the 787 in March following a suspension last fall to address production issues. But lower Dreamliner shipments were a factor in the 10 percent drop in revenues to $15.2 billion compared to the year-ago duration.
United States regulators at the Federal Air travel Adminstration approved the MAX to resume service in November. Since that time, Boeing has actually provided more than 85 MAX aircraft and 21 airlines have returned the airplane to their fleets, Boeing stated.
Boeing reported another quarterly loss however said coronavirus vaccines and the return of the 737 MAX to service meant it was at an “inflection point” AFP/ Olivier DOULIERY
But previously this month, Boeing alerted 16 airlines of an electrical problem with the jets, resulting in the grounding of more than 100 MAX aircrafts worldwide.
Calhoun said Boeing is “finalizing the strategies and documents” over a process to return those MAX planes to service. After the FAA authorizes the process “we expect the work to take a couple of days per plane,” he said.
The elimination of these MAX aircrafts from service has actually had actually restricted effect on Boeing’s airline company consumers so far since travel levels are still depressed due to Covid-19.
However the head of Southwest Airlines, a key Boeing consumer, last week said the issue requires to be resolved quickly since travel will quickly considerably pick up.
Calhoun,64, was named CEO in December 2019 as the business reeled from the scandal over the MAX.
Last week, Boeing revealed that it raised the retirement age for Calhoun to 70, keeping him in the corner office possibly through 2028.
Boeing reported operating profits of $405 million in the quarter in its defense, area and security business, but the results in that department were dented by a $318 million hit in one-time expenses of a military jet linked to “Covid-19 impacts and performance problems at an essential supplier,” Boeing said.
Shares of Boeing fell 1.4 percent to $239.20 in pre-market trading. | aerospace |
https://globalnewseveryday.com/elon-musk-posts-starship-raptor-rocket-engine-test/ | 2019-02-18T20:17:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247488374.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20190218200135-20190218222135-00414.warc.gz | 0.944684 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__174825568 | en | “So proud of the great work by @SpaceX,” he tweeted.
The text firing occurred at the SpaceX test area in McGregor, Texas, according to GeekWire. The website pointed out that Musk’s company intends on making a version of the rocket that has 440,000 pounds of thrust.
CNet reported that Musk’s goal is to pair the Starship with a super heavy rocket that will use up to 31 of these Raptor engines and eventually transport passengers to Mars.
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https://studentpilot.com/2012/06/07/first-ifr-solo-by-keith-vitense/ | 2023-09-25T21:01:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510085.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925183615-20230925213615-00554.warc.gz | 0.991315 | 1,329 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__16290092 | en | Yesterday was forecast to be a beautiful, sunny day – so I decided a little flight in my Mooney would be ideal. I also referee football, and have developed a superstition about flying over the football field that I would be working at in the playoffs, which also factored into my decision. Unfortunately, the weather remained much worse than forecast, and the ceiling was reported (AWOS) to be overcast at about 1100 ft. VFR flight to the FB field was out for me, but I decided that it would be a good idea to get some actual IFR time. I had logged a little over 2 hours of actual during my training, but I really wanted to see what it was like to be in the clouds by myself. With a reported ceiling of 1100 ft this seemed like one of the better times to try, since I would be in the clouds to start any local approaches, but would break out fairly quickly on both the VOR and the ILS approach I planned on flying.
I called FSS to get a current briefing and to file my first IFR flight plan using my name in the pilot’s box. Since I was departing from a non-towered field I also confirmed that I would be able to pick up my clearance with the local Approach Control (I had also talked to Approach on the phone earlier to confirm the procedure they used to deliver a clearance on the land-line). The drive to the airport is about 1/2 hour, and I found that as I got closer to the airport I started to get a little bit more nervous – probably more nervous than I was before my first solo (of course, I was pretty calm before my first solo, but that was a post about 2 years ago :-)). I got to the airport, preflighted the plane, pulled it out of the hangar, and then walked over to the car phone to pick up my clearance. I was given the clearance ‘as filed’ with a slight change in the altitude I had requested – also given the release and void time with a 20 minute window, which I thought was pretty generous. It was now show time! Went back to the airplane, performed the in-cockpit portion of the preflight, and made sure that the approach plates that I would need were marked and available. I use the bound NOS charts, so I rubber banded the first approach open and placed it on the strangely empty seat beside me. Started the engine, set up the radios (both NAV and COM), and had time for a leisurely run-up since I still had a couple of minutes before my release time. Double checked everything, and began the back taxi to the end of 35 for the takeoff roll. I reached the end of the runway right at the release time, so it was simply a 180 to line up and push in the power.
Liftoff was just like all of the hundreds of other takeoffs that I have done. I did make sure to get the airplane stabilized before I ws into the clouds. Unfortunately, I found that my assigned altitude was right at the base of the cloud layer (a little higher than forecast), but a request for higher put me solidly into the clouds. I was somewhat suprised at how calm I was – the drill that I had been following for umpteen hours in my plane had a very calming effect on me. I reached my new altitude, and although I was still in the clouds I could tell that I was very close to the top of the layer, since the clouds were very light and occasionally I got a peek at the blue sky above. The first approach was a VOR approch – one that I had flown countless times during my training. This was an approach that my instructor and I had always flown ‘own navigation’, so it became (for me) much easier to fly the approach with radar vectors. I didn’t really have a case of vertigo; however, if you had asked me what direction we were flying without use of the compass/DG I would have sworn that we were 120 degrees from the direction we were actually travelling. The ceiling over here was a little lower than the departure ceiling, so I didn’t break out until I had started my descent past the FAF. The contrast between the flight conditions and the ground conditions to me was the most incredible! What was a sunny day up top was a dreary day on the runway. I did a t’n’g, and went back up into the clouds to head to the next airport for the ILS approach.
This time I broke out of the bases before I reached the FAF, but I was still flirting with the wispy stuff, so I stayed with approach until the handoff to the tower, and then still flew the procedure – with a full stop landing to pick up fuel.
I guess the most important lesson was that I learned I really can do this! I knew intellectually that it should be no problem, but this flight really helped me to understand this at a gut level. After my poor performance (my standards) on my checkride I think that I had to get back on the horse and prove to myself that I could do this. I also found during my checkride that I had a tendancy to over-control, and I was able to work on this tendancy during my flight yesterday. All-in-all it was a tremendous learning experience for me, and it was one that I had to face alone. There was no way in this world that I was going to take anyone up with me the first time that I was completely responsible for the safe outcome of the flight – just in case there really were demons up there!
If you’ve made it to the end, I just want to say thanks for reading / listening. I may be wrong, but I don’t believe most people can appreciate the feelings that a flight of this type can evoke; I believe that to truly understand you have to have been in a similar situation. Maybe it was your first flight, your first solo, or perhaps the first time you flew with a passenger. Maybe it was some milestone that I have yet to reach. But I do believe that my feelings are in no way totally unique – because if they were flying would not have become the addiction that it has for so many of us! | aerospace |
https://flightstar.com/company/press/2012/03/flightstar-named-bombardier-learjet-authorized-service-facility.html | 2022-05-17T02:16:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662515466.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516235937-20220517025937-00567.warc.gz | 0.912019 | 514 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__323882561 | en | Flightstar Named Bombardier Learjet Authorized Service Facility
CHAMPAIGN, IL, March 13, 2012 - The Flightstar Corporation is proud to announce they have been named a factory authorized Line Maintenance Facility (LMF) for the Bombardier Learjet 40 and 45 series of aircraft. Flightstar joins a network of over 50 Bombardier service facilities in 21 countries, consisting of factory Authorized Service Facilities (ASF’s) and Line Maintenance Facilities (LMF’s) catering to the service needs of Bombardier business aircraft.
“We are very proud to join the Bombardier service team” said Flightstar President Bill Giannetti. “We now perform warranty repairs, service bulletins and all required periodic inspections on Lear 40 and 45 model aircraft. After maintaining our own jet fleet for over 25 years, Flightstar’s maintenance team is extremely well versed on getting the job done on time and on budget. And, as an operator of four Lear 45 aircraft ourselves, we are able to bring that experience to table for our customers.”
Flightstar is an award winning FAA Certificated Repair Station and Class IV maintenance facility with full airframe, engine and avionics capability. With state of the art maintenance facilities, factory-trained technicians and a wide spectrum of service capabilities including AOG services, Flightstar provides top quality aircraft maintenance to business aircraft operators.
About Flightstar Corporation
Founded in 1978, Flightstar is an aviation service organization located at the University of Illinois-Willard Airport in Champaign, Illinois (KCMI). With over 112,000 square feet of hangar space, the company offers a wide range of services including a full-service fixed base operation (FBO), airline and general aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul operations (MRO),avionics sales with installation and repair, and world-wide executive jet charter with full aircraft management services. Flightstar proudly serves as a Bombardier Authorized Service Facility (ASF) for the Learjet 40, 45, 70, and 75 series of aircraft. Additionally, Flightstar operates as a Honeywell Authorized Service Center for the TFE731 series, HTF7000 and Honeywell APU.
With over 140 team members, Flightstar prides itself on providing world-class aviation services delivered with a Midwestern work ethic and highly personalized customer service. To learn more about us, visit www.FLIGHTSTAR.com or call (800)-747-4777. | aerospace |
https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/heres-how-many-people-paid-450-000-for-virgin-galactics-edge-of-space-flight.272113/ | 2022-12-06T05:07:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711069.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206024911-20221206054911-00779.warc.gz | 0.956722 | 514 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__48141151 | en | Posts: 8,324 +103
In brief: Virgin Galactic has revealed that 100 people have bought tickets for its suborbital spaceplane since the price jumped to $450,000 in the summer. That takes the total number of passenger reservations for its space tourism trips to 700—300 fewer than its target of 1,000 sales.
The reservation figures were listed in Virgin Galactic’s third-quarter earnings report (via The Verge) released yesterday. It shows that 600 people paid $250,000 for a ticket to the edge of space before they went back on sale with the price increase during the summer.
Another 100 people have purchased tickets at that $450,000 price, which is more than the company expected in the timeframe. “We’re selling tickets ahead of the pace we planned,” said Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier. “The pricing strategy we announced last quarter has been well received.”
The tickets were offered to anyone who had paid a $1,000 deposit; they will be available more generally to those who inquired about Virgin space flights early next year.
A month before the company restarted selling tickets, Virgin founder Richard Branson beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos in the race to leave Earth by taking part in the Unity 22 mission that evaluated the Virgin Galactic Astronaut Experience. It prompted Bezos’ firm to throw some shade by reminding people that Virgin’s craft isn’t actually reaching space.
From the beginning, New Shepard was designed to fly above the Kármán line so none of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name. For 96% of the world’s population, space begins 100 km up at the internationally recognized Kármán line. pic.twitter.com/QRoufBIrUJ— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) July 9, 2021
Branson's trip wasn't totally smooth: it deviated from its flight path while returning to Earth, leading to the FAA temporarily grounding the company.
Virgin Galactic plans to launch passengers 55 miles off Earth near the end of 2022. Flights were initially scheduled for the middle of next year, but Virgin said it needs more time for a planned vehicle enhancement and modification program involving the VSS Unity spaceship and VMS Eve carrier mothership.
Virgin notes that it generated $2.6 million in revenue during Q3, though total losses reached $48 million. That’s still better than the $94 million loss it suffered in Q2. | aerospace |
https://mediainnovationstudio.org/2020/02/20/uclan-and-pcc-invite-key-stakeholders-for-aerial-uptake/ | 2023-12-11T13:16:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00558.warc.gz | 0.953171 | 374 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__226509525 | en | KEY PLAYERS from around Lancashire were brought together in January to discuss the future of drone technology development across the region, and the potential research, skills, economic and social benefit it could have.
Underpinning this approach would be to create a shared vision of Lancashire as a national and international leader of drone technology development. This vision would include trailblazing use case – such as search and rescue, delivering essential medical supplies or other life-saving scenarios – that could benefit the public as well as UAV firms.
Representatives who attended the session included UAV SMEs, large aerospace firms, research and development, local government and drone operators met at the University of Central Lancashire’s Engineering Innovation Centre.
The day was kicked off by Professor Darren Ansell, aerospace and space lead at UCLan, and John Crellin, head of city development at Preston City Council.
Conversations during the workshop focussed on the best way to develop drone capacity, and what barriers may be faced.
Barriers ranged from a lack of coordination and collaboration at a local level, limited funding and concerns around public perceptions of drone use.
The group centred around a number of concepts for charting a path forward. These included a joined-up strategy – uniting policymakers, industry and academia.
Participants also felt a coordinated public engagement campaign was needed to better convey how drones could make a real and positive impact in people’s lives and the broader economy.
Underpinning all this work should be a strong regional strategy and identity. One participant explained that in the future: “Lancashire [will be] seen as one of the most important regions in the UK (and Europe) for the development and testing of UAVs as part of a wider economic development cluster.” | aerospace |
http://www.executive-helishares.com/ | 2020-04-09T15:50:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371861991.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20200409154025-20200409184525-00497.warc.gz | 0.925467 | 310 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__142735133 | en | Helinet Aviation and Briles Wing & Helicopter, Inc. have now joined together to become the premier helicopter charter operator on the West Coast. With its fleet of five Agusta 109 twin engine helicopters along with additional and versitile aircraft including the Sikorsky S76 and the Airbus AS355 Twinstar, Helinet has a solution for your helicopter transportation needs. Selecting the right helicopter charter company presents somewhat of a challenge to the occasional user. But for our regular clients such as Google, Nascar, Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Disney and other Fortune 500 companies, there is no other choice. We own and operate the largest fleet of state of the art twin engine helicopters available for hire in the United States. We provide an equivalent level of safety and service as our clients' own corporate flight departments making our service the premier choice for the highest quality and reliability. Thank you for considering Helinet for your helicopter transportation requirements. Please feel free to call us for a quote.
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https://flight-report.com/en/report/50789/malaysia-airlines-mh0053-osaka-kix-kuala-lumpur-kul | 2022-06-28T16:16:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103556871.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628142305-20220628172305-00696.warc.gz | 0.837254 | 931 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__22253490 | en | The airline with the best average rating is Malaysia Airlines with 7.5/10.
The average flight time is 6 hours and 57 minutes.More information
Hello, its Aaron from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its a great pleasure for me to share my flight from Osaka to Kuala Lumpur last year onboard our country's flag carrier, Malaysia Airlines. Please bear with my mistakes when u are reading this report. Happy Reading.
Note.1: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Malaysia Airlines has suspended Osaka services from March 2020 and will resume in 2021.
.2: This flight is operated by Airbus A330-300 due to the larger Airbus A350-900XWB is being temporarily assigned to the
MH122/123 KUL- SYD-KUL service
Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō, colloquially known as Kankū (関空)) (IATA: KIX, ICAO: RJBB) is an international airport located on an artificial island (Kankūjima (関空島)) in the middle of Osaka Bay.
Operator: Malaysia Airlines (MH/MAS)
Flight number: MH0053
Flight callsign: MAS53
Departure: Osaka Kansai International Airport (KIX/RJBB)
Arrival: Kuala Lumpur Intl Airport (KUL/WMKK)
Scheduled Time Departure :0955Hrs (JST)
Actual Time Departure :1020Hrs (JST)
Scheduled Time Arrival:1555Hrs (GMT+8)
Actual Time Arrival: 1555Hrs (GMT+8)
Flight time 6h 43min
Departure gate 13
Arrival gate C23
V2 speed :170Knts
Max altitude gained :43000feet
Load factor :C27Y223
Operator: Malaysia Airlines(MH/MAS)
Construction Number (MSN): 1336
Aircraft Type: Airbus A330-323X
First Flight 10 Jul 2012
Delivered :30 Jul 2012
Powerplant:2x PW PW4170
Test Reg :F-WWTY
Check in counter for Malaysia Airlines flight 53 bound for Kuala Lumpur was opened at 0600 JST (3 hours prior flight departure.)
After security, I was given the chance to roam around the terminal. Here are some pictures.
China Airlines Airbus A330-301 (B-18301) bound for Taipei Taoyuan as CI0159
Singapore Airlines Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (9V-SCN) arriving from Singapore as SQ0618
This plane is fitted with Stelia Symphony in Business Class and Recaro CL3710 in Eco.
Air France fifth Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (F-HRBE) departing for Paris Charles-De-Gaulle (CDG) as AF0291
This Airframe is fitted with Zodiac Cirrus in Business Class, Zodiac Airgo for Premium Eco and Z300 seat for Economy class.
Boarding started on time with priorities respected
View of the forward Economy section
We pushed back 30 minutes later due to cargo loading. Takeoff from KIX via rwy 06R.
Once we have reached a cruising altitude of 32000feet, brunch was served with an entrée choice of :
Japanese: Grilled Fish with Rice and Vegetables
Malaysian: Chicken Curry with Rice and Vegetables
Both main courses were served with:
Appetizer: Mixed Vegetables
Soba: Cold Noodles
Dessert: Assorted Japanese Fruits.
Pre-arrival meals consist of Meji Ice Cream and Muffins were also served approx 2 hours before landing. Sorry for the unavailability of pictures.
We have landed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport bang on time at 1555 hours GMT+8.
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Flight MH53 was clearly above Malaysia Airlines' usual standards. Hoping for more in the next flight to London in 2021. | aerospace |
https://officerspulse.com/lca-tejas-mk2/ | 2023-12-01T22:30:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100308.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201215122-20231202005122-00564.warc.gz | 0.932488 | 447 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__102163862 | en | Features of LCA Mk2
- The aircraft features enhanced range and endurance including an onboard oxygen generation system, which is being integrated for the first time.
- Heavy weapons of the class of Scalp, Crystal Maze and Spice-2000 will also be integrated on the Mk2.
- The LCA-Mk2 will be a heavier and much more capable aircraft than the current LCA variants.
- The Mk2 is 1,350 mm longer featuring canards and can carry a payload of 6,500 kg compared to 3,500 kg the LCA can carry.
- The Mk2 will be powered by a more powerful GE-414 engine.
About LCA- Tejas
- Tejas is India’s first light fighter aircraft designed and manufactured in the country. It’s a single-seat, single-engine supersonic multirole light fighter aircraft.
- Its configuration is largely geared on mobility and agility.
- It was designed to replace the Mig 21 fighter jets, which were getting old.
- The Aeronautical Development Agency, which is part of the Department of Defence Research and Development, designed it. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, a government-owned company, produced the plane .
- To make handling easier, the plane has a computerised fly-by-wire flight control system. This allows the pilot to focus on other tasks (especially mission-critical tasks) without having to worry about the plane deviating from its flying route.
- It can travel at a top speed of Mach 1.8
- Mach is used as a unit of measurement in stating the speed of a moving object in relation to the speed of sound.
- The aircraft has a range of 3,000 kilometres.
- In its class, it is the lightest, smallest, multi-role supersonic fighter aircraft.
- Designed to carry a variety of precision-guided air-to-air and air-to-surface weaponry.
- Capability for air-to-air refuelling.
Why in News:
- DRDO targets 2027 to complete development and flight testing of LCA-Mk2 | aerospace |
https://shop.sovietvisuals.com/products/vostok-1961-shirt | 2018-12-11T00:09:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823516.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210233803-20181211015303-00039.warc.gz | 0.83727 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__245707212 | en | Vostok Spaceship 1961 Shirt
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The Male model is wearing a size M. He's 6.2 feet (190 cm) tall, chest circumference 37.7" (96 cm), waist circumference 33.4" (85 cm). | aerospace |
https://a470soaring.blogspot.com/2017/02/l213-progress-18th-feb.html | 2023-03-24T02:29:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945242.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324020038-20230324050038-00104.warc.gz | 0.971539 | 249 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__172907414 | en | So work has progressed on the fuselage and the Hitec elevator servo was fitted. However, it only lasted about a minute before it failed. So I have now fitted a KST M320 servo, which is much better quality, faster, more torque etc.
The rudder was the next thing to be fitted.
With the closed loop pull pull linkage attached
Rudder servo and pull pull mount with arm fitted but wires not connected yet. That will not be done until I've carried out a few other tasks first.
Then I had to do some geometry and work out where the pull pull wires will exit the fuselage. The cross marks the spot.
So my next job is to plug in the wing servo's for centring, and then I have some work to do cutting away some of the TE of the wing where the flap meets it, as currently the flaps do not drop far enough to be effective for braking. So it needs to be as per the picture below.
And talking of braking, this is what I have to do to the spoilers on my model
And that's it for now. Catch you all soon.
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http://avionics.nau.edu.ua/en/kafedra/admission.html | 2017-08-24T06:57:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886133042.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824062820-20170824082820-00255.warc.gz | 0.924808 | 339 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__25569089 | en | You hold in your hands an invitation to join one of the most prestigious majors "Avionics".
Modern aircraft - very complex engineering structures that connect cities, countries, continents through thousands ofcelestial roads.
Their extreme complexity can be explained,first of all,by fact that they are autonomous objects that fulfill their direct tasks - transporting people, mail and cargo, the implementation of aviation operations apart from the usual operating conditions of Earth.
The main thing in the aircraft – is its computerized and highly automated equipment, which allows the flights at any altitudes, during day and night, in bad weather, at any latitude, and continuous monitoring of the flight modes, and resolvescomplicated chanllenges of control and orientation in the air ocean.
Achievements of almost all fields of knowledge and new high-capacity technologies are used in the creation and maintenance of this complex equipment.
High speeds, unusual conditions, complex aviation equipment requir a high level of human knowledge and skills, courage, and sometimes unconventional solutions, clarity and decisiveness of actions, hardness and persistence in achieving goals, professional skills.
Since time immemorial, people have dreamed of the sky. Passionate desire of man to rise to the sky reflected in mythology and folklore of many nations. The right to implement this primordial dream of man is given to you, my dear friend. For this purpose you just need to choose the direction of the most advanced aviation major, what we are waiting for in the avionics department and the university admission committee.
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https://kidsbookaday.com/2016/03/24/the-wrong-wrights-secret-smithsonian-adventures-by-steve-hockensmith-and-chris-kientz-illustrated-by-lee-nielsen/ | 2021-09-16T22:59:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780053759.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20210916204111-20210916234111-00176.warc.gz | 0.947326 | 284 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__156476810 | en | Published by Smithsonian Books
Summary: Four kids are awarded a trip to the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum for winning the district science fair. When they get there, they discover that, instead of airplanes, the exhibit halls are filled with hot air balloons and dirigibles. They’ve accidentally stumbled into an alternate reality, and before you can say “Kitty Hawk”, they are whisked back in time to a crucial point in aviation history. On a windy day in 1909, the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and Thomas Scott Baldwin demonstrated their flying machines. Only the Wright brothers were successful, and this led to greater financial support for the airplane, and less for the other types of aircraft. The kids, with the help of Katherine Wright (Orville and Wilbur’s sister) are able to defeat other time travelers who are trying to help Curtiss and Baldwin, and secure the Wrights’ place in history. When they return to the present, the airplanes are back in place at the Air and Space Museum. 64 pages; grades 3-6
Pros: History, time travel, and science are pleasantly mingled in this graphic novel, which is apparently the first in a series published by the Smithsonian.
Cons: Some of the time travel seemed a little too “Scooby Doo” and not particularly well thought-out. | aerospace |
http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2006-08-02/news/26956205_1_student-pilot-united-airlines-pilot-young-eagle-flights | 2017-03-29T13:33:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190295.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00532-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.97381 | 732 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__39060505 | en | LAPORTE A less-inspired student pilot would have given up. But not Rich Dugger. Even though he suffered with a bad bout of air sickness after his first flight lesson, he showed up for a second one. He flew solo less than two weeks later in 1982. Even though Dugger threw up in his flight instructor's plane during that first lesson, Bill Beach didn't hesitate to take his motivated student up in an aircraft again. "Rich showed up every day at 7:30 a.m.," Beach said. "That's when the air is most often cool and calm for flying. "He is the most dedicated pilot I've ever known. He's overcome airsickness." Having a cool and calm flight instructor was helpful, Dugger recalled. The two pilots from LaPorte have formed a close friendship throughout the years. Both are LaPorte Aero Club Inc. board of director members. Beach retired as LaPorte Municipal Airport manager in 1993. "I've been promoted to an air bum," he said, with a laugh. It's hard to keep pilots with an affinity for flying away from the airport. Dugger eventually purchased a 1966 Cessna 172. What the 55-year-old pilot wants the public to know is that aviation is not a rich man's endeavor. It's an affordable hobby. Beach wholeheartedly agrees. "Many airplanes are older than the pilots who fly them," he said. If maintained well, airplaness are a great investment, he added. Becoming grounded is the major pitfall of piloting. "There are only two things that can keep an airplane on the ground," Dugger commented. "And that is gravity and wives." With that thought in mind, pilots founded LaPorte Aero Club in 1976 to provide social activities for family members. "The guys wanted to include their wives, so that they would be more tolerant of pilots being airport bums," Dugger said. The organization, composed of 65 sportsman pilots, active and retired airline pilots, is celebrating its 30th year of promoting aviation in LaPorte County. Bud Ledgerwood, and his wife, Pattie, of Union Mills, were the "steering force behind the club's formation," Beach said. Other founding members included Ed Volk, James Fleming, Robert Rhodes, Richard McEnterfer, all of LaPorte; and former LaPortean turned Texan, Stan Kremp. The club's president is Neil Straub from LaPorte. Members pitched in labor and building materials to construct a clubhouse in 1992 on the east side of LaPorte Municipal Airport. They provide no-cost, introductory education flights to youngsters ages 7 to 17 through the Young Eagle Flights program.The club sponsors two annual scholarships to students pursuing aviation-related careers. Successful professional pilots, including Wendy Shaffner, of Los Angeles, began their aviation training with Beach at the local airport. Shaffner, daughter of Reece and Lois Shaffner, of Mill Creek, has been a United Airlines pilot for 13 years, her father said. Beach flew PBY Catalina seaplanes while on patrol for enemy submarines in the Caribbean and over New Guinea during World War II. These days, Beach is on a mission to invite the public to attend LaPorte Aero Club's pancake breakfast Aug. 13 at LaPorte Municipal Airport, 2341 South Indiana 39, LaPorte. For further information, call the club at (219) 362-2016, or visit the organization's Web site at www.laporteaeroclub.org. | aerospace |
https://www.dover.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2002896255/ | 2022-08-11T23:13:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00090.warc.gz | 0.891158 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__874997 | en | Senior Airman Madelyn Renda, 436th Health Care Operations Squadron emergency medical technician, secures a mannequin to a stretcher after it was removed from a fuel cell during an exercise at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Nov. 18, 2021.Team Dover Airmen and civilians from six squadrons across the base participated in the exercise simulating the rescue of an unresponsive Airman from a confined space. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mauricio Campino)
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https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/pub/features/whos-who/13767 | 2020-11-29T23:14:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141203418.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20201129214615-20201130004615-00291.warc.gz | 0.925616 | 656 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__46702704 | en | NASA is helping to lead an international effort to upgrade the systems that supply crucial location information and earth science measurements. Stephen Merkowitz, the project manager of NASA's space geodesy initiative at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the budget and schedule for the upgraded ground station that will help serve satellites of the future.
NASA Tech Briefs: What is NASA's international geodesy initiative?
Stephen Merkowitz: NASA currently offers a network of space geodetic ground stations that do Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), satellite laser ranging (SLR), and [global navigation satellite system] GNSS or GPS tracking. The new space geodesy project will develop and implement the next-generation systems. The current systems are 20-30 years old. One of the primary drivers for upgrading the system is sea-level measurement, where you would like to be able to make those measurements at the millimeter level and have them be stable over the years, so you can do repeated measurements.
NTB: What is Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)?
Merkowitz: VLBI is a system of radio telescopes that observe distant quasars, astronomical bodies that are very far away from Earth. They’re so far away that their position in the sky is relatively stable. We can use them as a stable reference system, and we do this by observing these quasars with a number of radio telescopes all over the globe. NASA operates a few, but we do need the global community to do this, and they’ll observe the same quasar simultaneously. So in a sense you can think of all of these little telescopes acting together as one big telescope. You also get baseline information between the telescopes when you’re doing the same observation, which allows you to determine the orientation of the Earth in space.
NTB: How does the satellite ranging system work?
Merkowitz: We can determine the distance to the satellites that we observe to roughly a centimeter, sometimes slightly better than that. The newer systems will be about an order magnitude better, doing millimeter-level tracking. They’ll be able to [work with] many more sources: different satellites and satellites at higher altitudes and during the daytime. Probably most importantly, from a cost perspective, is that these systems will be much more autonomous than the current system.
NTB: What is your favorite part of the job?
Merkowitz: I come from a background of precision measurement, and I really enjoy when I go out to the prototype station—particularly at night when the satellite ranging system is operating. You can see the laser going up to the satellites, and you see the telescope moving and the laser moving with it, and while you can’t see the return light coming back from the satellite, you imagine this light is going up into space, bouncing off a satellite, and coming back. We’re receiving it and measuring the position of that satellite to millimeters, and that is a very impressive thing. I always enjoy going out to the site and seeing the hardware operating.
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http://www.skyfender.com/military-combat-attack-aircraft-airplane-fighter-jets-planes/Boeing%20E-4%20Advanced%20Airborne%20Command%20Post-military-aircraft-plane-jet.html | 2017-05-01T06:11:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917127681.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031207-00435-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966268 | 807 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__102387523 | en | Boeing E-4 Command Post Military Aircraft
The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post, with a project name of "Nightwatch", is an aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). To create the E-4 series, four Boeing 747-200 airframes were specially modified to serve as a survivable mobile command post for the National Command Authority, namely the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and successors.
The E-4B is designed to survive an EMP with systems intact, and has state-of-the-art direct fire countermeasures. The E-4B uses analog instruments because they are less susceptible to an EMP. The E-4B is capable of operating with a crew of 48 to 112 people, the largest crew of any aircraft in US Air Force history. With in-flight refueling it is capable of remaining airborne for a considerable period (limited only by consumption of the engines' lubricants). In a test flight for endurance, the aircraft remained airborne and fully operational for 35.4 hours. It takes two fully loaded KC-135 tankers to fully refuel an E-4B.
The E-4 fleet was originally deployed in 1974, when it was termed National Emergency Airborne Command Post or NEACP (often pronounced "kneecap"). The aircraft was to provide a survivable platform to conduct war operations in the event of a nuclear attack. Early in the operations of the E-4, the media dubbed the aircraft as "the doomsday planes".
The aircraft were originally stationed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, so that the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense could access them quickly in the event of an emergency. The origin of the name "Nightwatch" comes from the richly detailed Rembrandt painting of the same name depicting local townsfolk protecting a town and was selected by the Squadron's first commanding officer. Later, the aircraft were moved to Offutt Air Force Base where they would be safer from attack. Until 1994, one E-4B was stationed at Andrews Air Force Base at all times so the President could easily board it in times of world crisis.
When a President boards the E-4, its call sign becomes "Air Force One". (NEACP aircraft originally used the static callsign "Silver Dollar"; this callsign faded from use when daily callsigns were put in use.) The E-4B also serves as the Secretary of Defense's preferred means of transportation when traveling outside the United States. The spacious interior and sophisticated communications capability provided by the aircraft allow the Secretary's senior staff to work for the duration of the mission.
All E-4s were converted to B-models by 1985. With the adoption of two highly-modified Boeing 747-200Bs (known as VC-25A in Air Force parlance) to serve as Air Force One in 1989, and the end of the Cold War, the need for NEACP diminished. In 1994, NEACP began to be known as NAOC, and it took on a new responsibility: ferrying Federal Emergency Management Agency crews to natural disaster sites and serving as a temporary command post on the ground until facilities could be built on site. Evidently no E-4B was employed during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster of 2005, though one E-4B was used by FEMA following Hurricane Opal in 1995. The "cocked" or "on alert" E-4B is manned 24 hours a day with a watch crew on board guarding all communications systems awaiting a launch order (klaxon launch). Those crew members not on watch would be in the alert barracks, gymnasium, or at other base facilities. The 24 hour alert status at Andrews AFB ended when President Clinton ordered the aircraft to remain at Offutt unless needed, though relief crews remain based at Andrews and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. One E-4B is kept on alert at all times. | aerospace |
https://thenewspacedaily.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/spacex-falcon-9-returns-to-duty-delivers-satellites-lands-safely/ | 2018-05-28T05:25:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794871918.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180528044215-20180528064215-00391.warc.gz | 0.919072 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__184920020 | en | SpaceX Falcon 9 Returns to Duty, Delivers Satellites, Lands Safely
SpaceX achieved three significant objectives tonight: the return to flight of its Falcon 9 rocket, the successful delivery of 11 ORBCOMM OG-2 communications satellites to orbit, and a historic landing of the rocket’s first stage back to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), FL. SpaceX is not the first to return a rocket or spacecraft to land on Earth, but it is the first private company to conduct a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) of a rocket on an orbital (rather than suborbital) trajectory successfully.
This was the first flight of a Falcon 9 since a June 28, 2015 failure. The rocket launched today is an upgraded version with a number of improvements, including the use of supercooled liquid oxygen that provides additional thrust.
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https://kashmirobserver.net/2019/01/10/iran-made-rockets-will-take-new-satellites-into-orbit-in-coming-weeks-rouhani/ | 2021-09-21T20:38:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057227.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20210921191451-20210921221451-00547.warc.gz | 0.951974 | 504 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__230040675 | en | TEHRAN Irans President Hassan Rouhani says domestically-manufactured rockets will carry two new satellites into orbit in the coming weeks.
Rouhani made the remarks during a ceremony held to commemorate the second passing anniversary of former president and chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran on Thursday.
Rouhani said, Missiles are our defensive tool and we are proud of it, adding, In the coming weeks, we will send two new satellites into space using our domestically-built rockets.
He also described Irans defense power and technology achievements as relics of Ayatollah Hashemi.
Last November, Deputy Defense Minister General Qassem Taqizadeh announced that Iran would launch three satellites into space on various orbits within a few months.
Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that Irans planned launch of space rockets and missiles breaches Security Council Resolution 2231 that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal.
Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed Pompeos claim, saying Washington has already violated that resolution and thus cannot lecture Tehran on it.
The top Iranian diplomat was referring to Washingtons unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in defiance of international objections.
Since its JCPOA exit, the administration of US President Donald Trump has unleashed its toughest ever sanctions against Iran. It has also warned of severe penalties for companies that evade the bans and engage in business dealings with the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said recently that new Iranian satellites had successfully passed pre-launch tests.
A satellite with the resolution of 1,000 meters was due to be manufactured through international cooperation 10 years ago, but they (international partners) didnt cooperate with Iran, he tweeted.
The program was changed and the production of a domestically-made satellite with a 25 times higher resolution was prolonged, but it was made to serve in agricultural, environmental and water management fields, he added.
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http://parschimera.blogspot.com/2007/05/ | 2018-07-18T01:04:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589980.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718002426-20180718022426-00402.warc.gz | 0.922623 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__215233894 | en | Sunday, 27 May 2007
Extensive research and development by CTI and eAc has yielded a high tech, low cost rocket motor alternative to the current solid propellant rocket motor. Hybrid motors have several safety advantages over solids. The fuel and oxidizer are isolated from each other until just before ignition, thus eliminating the requirement for a low explosive permit during transportation and storage of rocket motors. HyperTEK® hybrid propulsion system uses a remote fill/fire launch system as well as 100% pyrotechnic free ignition system.
HyperTEK® flight motors consist of three major parts: the oxidizer tank, the injector bell and the fuel grain. The fuel grain is molded from thermoplastic and has an insert-molded silica/phenolic nozzle. This monolithic grain functions as both the fuel and the combustion chamber. Complicated assembly of a reloadable system has been eliminated by incorporating the fuel, nozzle and motor case into one injection molded component. The fuel grain simply screws onto the injector bell prior to flight and the spent fuel grain is unscrewed and disposed of after each flight. J and Original L motors include an injector bell with field interchangeable injector orifices for tailoring the time/thrust profile to the needs of the rocket. Potential applications include small sounding rockets, RATO boosters and more.
Saturday, 26 May 2007
Project Chimera has its own BLOG, this BLOG, but it also has a Zoho Notebook project space, which includes many notebook pages. These pages will expand, and cover different aspects of the design and the project. Over time, I'll be sharing these pages with you so that you can participate. Right now, the most important page is the Design Issues Log (a Google Spreadsheet) and the Research Links (del.icio.us).
Chimera Zoho Project Notebook
Chimera Design Issues Log
Chimera Document Library
You will need a Zoho Account (free) and a Google Account (free) in order to use the Chimera pages and tools. And I recommend getting your own del.icio.us page.
PARS has begun the initial research phase of Project Chimera, code name for hybrid.
Chimera is an attempt, by PARS, to design, build, test and fly, a hybrid rocket rocket motor. It could take years. The first step is some serious learning and research.
The most common hybrid configuration is a rocket engine composed of an inert solid oxidising propellant (for example a plastic) lining a combustion chamber into which an inert gaseous propellant (for example NOX) is injected so as to undergo a strong exothermic reaction to produce hot gas that is emitted through a De Laval nozzle for propulsive purposes. Designing and building such a rocket is non trivial.
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https://www.kidzeegame.com/brand/cheerson | 2018-10-21T17:25:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514162.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20181021161035-20181021182535-00044.warc.gz | 0.666838 | 166 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__68933613 | en | Save on CHEERSON products at kidzeegame.com. Hurry! Limited time offers. Offers valid only while supplies last.
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https://longroom.com/discussion/1670286/boeing-employee-instant-messages-suggest-planemaker-misled-faa-on-737-max | 2019-12-15T03:51:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541301014.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20191215015215-20191215043215-00162.warc.gz | 0.847251 | 316 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__27688337 | en | Click For Photo: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/10/18/19/19896840-0-image-a-6_1571421950622.jpgClick For Video: https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2019/07/01/4939250227010684135/1024x576_MP4_4939250227010684135.mp4
Shocking instant messages between two Boeing employees suggest that the company misled the FAA about a key safety system on the troubled 737 Max, sources briefed on the matter said.
Boeing on Thursday alerted the FAA about the troubling messages from 2016 — though according to the federal agency the company waited months to disclose them.
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Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson demanded an explanation from Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg in a letter on Friday.
The content of the 2016 messages isn't clear, but FAA says they characterize 'certain communications with the FAA during the original certification of the 737 MAX in 2016.'
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The FAA said it found the messages 'concerning' and 'is reviewing this information to determine what action is appropriate.'
The letter said that Boeing was aware of the troubling instant messages, but the company waited months to disclose them.
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https://usmilitarypower.com/2018/09/19/heres-why-the-air-force-wont-buy-the-f-15x-or-new-f-22-raptor/ | 2023-12-07T17:41:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207153748-20231207183748-00225.warc.gz | 0.854661 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__13821187 | en | The United States Air Force has no interest in purchasing either Boeing’s advanced fourth-generation F-15X version of the aging Eagle. Nor does the service have any plans to revive the stealthy fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in either its original configuration or in a modified form with avionics from the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Instead the priority for the Air Force is to produce as many F-35s as it can to increase the proportion of fifth-generation fighters in its fleet while it continue to explore next-generation technologies for the future air superiority mission.
More at: http://bit.ly/f-15x-and-new-f-22-raptor
Candlepower by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) | aerospace |
https://books-about.info/211658049-scrittori-francesi-del-xxi-secolo-robert-redeker-enrico-d-orleans-luigi-perin-michel-houellebecq-jean-marie-gustave-le-clezio-eric-emmanuel-schmitt-serge-quadruppani-serge-by-fonte-wikipedia.html | 2017-11-24T12:48:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934808133.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124123222-20171124143222-00007.warc.gz | 0.820928 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__150492536 | en | At that time, Valentin Strelkin worked at the transmitting site head of the laboratory. Commissioning of the transmitters, provided they manage to transmit the command post position. And March 27, 1972-horizon radar prototype was the first time in the history of the world lokatorostroeniya automatically detect the launch of ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The distance was not so great and for such a powerful radar. Therefore, of the 26 transmitters were put into operation only 5. night received its first warning of missile launches from Baikonur. However, the night launch from the Baikonur radar for some reason not found. But after the second warning goal was discovered and defined by its trajectory.
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https://www.uavos.com/products/fixed-wing-uavs/sat-i/ | 2023-10-05T03:21:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511717.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20231005012006-20231005042006-00732.warc.gz | 0.897464 | 181 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__154868836 | en | Solar-Powered SAT-i aircraft can perform
a continuous flight throughout
the daylight hours
The SAT-i is a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft with full automatic takeoff, landing and mission modes.
Take-off is hand-launched UAV but the mission and the landing are performed in automatic mode with a touchdown accuracy of about 100 m on a 200m long landing zone.
Diagnostics, flight mission planning and remote control can be performed through the wireless network connection.
Command link: up to 60 km
Video transmission: up to 60 km (optional)
The Iridium backup command link is of unlimited range.
- Video surveillance and monitoring
- NDVI index agroculture
- Payload (max. 0.6 kg)
- Radio link relay | aerospace |
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/08/20/2-planes-crash-in-midair-over-hammonton-municipal-airport/ | 2018-05-22T14:17:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864790.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522131652-20180522151652-00260.warc.gz | 0.954344 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__16686349 | en | HAMMONTON, N.J. (CBS) – Two planes collided in midair over Hammonton Municipal Airport Saturday afternoon, killing one of the pilots, according to a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Arlene Salac of the FAA said two general aviation planes hit each other a little after 1 p.m. in a designated airspace along Academy Drive while performing aerobatic maneuvers. Salac said one of the pilots was killed as a result of the collision, but a second pilot was able to eject from the plane safely.
Police have identified the deceased pilot as David Mitchell. There is no word yet on the identity of the second pilot.
Hammonton fire and police continue to investigate this case. Stay with CBS Philly as this story develops. | aerospace |
https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/the-big-e-fair/stem-students-make-contact-with-astronauts-on-the-international-space-station/ | 2022-12-01T20:07:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710869.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20221201185801-20221201215801-00343.warc.gz | 0.960755 | 397 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__164375557 | en | WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – It was a big moment at The Big E Tuesday for a select group of young STEM students who made contact with astronauts on the International Space Station.
It was an out of this world experience that was months in the making for students from New England Sci-Tech. They conducted a live space-chat with astronauts on the International Space Station, 260 miles above the Earth.
“The space station has to be flying over one of our ground stations… this one happened to be in Belgium,” said Bob Phinney, President of New England Sci-Tech. He told 22News, “The time was just perfect. So the students got exactly ten minutes to get up and talk.”
And those ten minutes were not wasted. The STEM students of the ARRIS program were prepared with an array of questions about life in space.
“All the new opportunities that there are about new discoveries, new planets, and even new life,” said 11-year-old Harish Sathishkaumar.
Jack Warren told 22News, “What fascinates me the most is the unknown…. There is just so much to learn!”
“So I asked what part of the astronaut training program was most mentally or physically strenuous? It takes a lot of work to be an astronaut,” said Mei Dasgupta.
And taking an interest in space, science, and math is what leaders of the ARRIS program hope they continue to see among students.
“The best thing about this work is that we probably changed one or two lives today,” said Fred Kimmer, a mentor for the ARRIS program. “The biggest takeaway from this momentous day; always to reach for the stars.”
Schools can apply for the ARRIS program. For more information, click here. | aerospace |
https://www.rosieriveters.com/dr_ellen_ochoa | 2022-07-04T09:15:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104364750.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704080332-20220704110332-00765.warc.gz | 0.947835 | 541 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__212424270 | en | Dr. Ellen Ochoa, a veteran astronaut, is the 11th director of the Johnson Space Center. Prior to being named director in 2012, she served the center as deputy director for five years.
Ochoa is JSC's first Hispanic director, and its second female director. Dr. Carolyn L. Huntoon served as JSC director from 1994-95.
Ochoa, who considers La Mesa, Calif., to be her hometown, became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1993. She has flown in space four times, logging nearly 1,000 hours in orbit. Prior to her astronaut career, she was a research engineer and inventor, with three patents for optical systems. She is honored to have four schools named for her: the Ellen Ochoa Middle School in Pasco, Wash., the Ellen Ochoa Learning Center in Cudahy, Calif., the Ellen Ochoa STEM Academy at Ben Milam Elementary in Grand Prairie, Texas and the Amino Ellen Ochoa Charter Middle School in Los Angeles.
Ochoa earned a bachelor's degree in physics from San Diego State University and a master's degree and doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.
As a doctoral student at Stanford, and later as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and NASA Ames Research Center in California, Ochoa investigated optical systems for performing information processing. She is a co-inventor on three patents for an optical inspection system, an optical object recognition method, and a method for noise removal in images.
At Ames, she managed the Intelligent Systems Technology Branch before being selected as an astronaut in 1990. She flew on shuttle missions STS-56 in 1993, STS-66 in 1994, STS-96 in 1999, and STS-110 in 2002, logging a total of 978 hours in space.
She became deputy director of flight crew operations at Johnson in December 2002 and director of flight crew operations in September 2006.
Ochoa has been recognized with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal, Exceptional Service Medal, Outstanding Leadership Medal, and four Space Flight Medals. She also is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Harvard Foundation Science Award, Women in Aerospace Outstanding Achievement Award, The Hispanic Engineer Albert Baez Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution to Humanity, the Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award, and San Diego State University Alumna of the Year.
She is married to Coe Fulmar Miles of Molalla, Ore. They have two children.
This profile originally appeared on NASA.gov. | aerospace |
https://www.thebetterindia.com/38363/isro-gsat15-communication-satellite/ | 2023-09-25T03:58:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506676.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925015430-20230925045430-00670.warc.gz | 0.907448 | 448 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__203503748 | en | On November 11, at 3:04 am, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched an indigenously made communications satellite GSAT-15, from the Kourou spaceport in French Guyana.
At exactly 3:04 am on November 11, at the Kourou spaceport in distant French Guyana in South America, the Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) gave India it’s Diwali gift. It successfully launched an indigeneously made communications satellite GSAT-15, using one of the world’s largest rockets – the Ariane-5.
Then, after a flight of 43 minutes and 24 seconds, GSAT-15 separated from the Ariane 5 upper stage in an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). The ISRO Master Control Facility at Hassan, Karnataka, took over the command and control of GSAT-15 after its separation from the launch vehicle.
An Arabsat communications satellite also accompanied the GSAT-15 on the same launch.
Made at a cost of Rs. 278 crores, the GSAT-15 satellite weighs 3164 kg. With 24 transponders in the ku band, GSAT-15’s primary role will be to boost direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting.
Photo source: www.satellitetoday.com
It will also enhance the GPS-aided augmented navigation (GAGAN) payload operating in L1 and L5 bands, which will help in aircraft navigation. GSAT-15 also provides a replacement for the Ku-band capacity of INSAT-3A and INSAT-4B satellites, which are getting ready to retire. GSAT-15 has a life of 12 years.
Currently, India has a shortage of transponders in space. The Indian satellite system is only able to handle a third of the required capacity, with the rest being leased from foreign satellite companies.
“The launch of GSAT-15 will be one more step towards further strengthening the satellite navigation infrastructure and sustaining the communication infrastructure in the country,” said ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar. | aerospace |
https://beyondearthlyskies.blogspot.com/2013/10/mountains-on-titan.html | 2024-04-17T09:28:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00294.warc.gz | 0.925787 | 797 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__180929192 | en | Titan is by far the largest moon in orbit around Saturn and the 2nd largest moon in the Solar System. It has a diameter of 5,152 km, making it nearly 1.5 times the size of Earth's Moon. Titan has a thick atmosphere and opaque haze layers obscure its entire surface. From inside out, the bulk of Titan is believed to be comprised of a partially differentiated interior of rock and ice, a high pressure ice layer (consisting of ice III, V, and VI), a subsurface ocean of liquid water and an outer ice I shell. Ice III, V, and VI are high pressure phases of ice which do not occur naturally on Earth. Ice I is basically normal ice and all naturally occurring ice on Earth is ice I.
Figure 1: Saturn’s fourth-largest moon, Dione, can be seen through the haze of the planet’s largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from an image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
Figure 2: Artist’s concept showing a possible scenario for the internal structure of Titan, as suggested by data from the Cassini spacecraft.
A thermal model of the interior of Titan developed by Mitri et al. (2010) show that the long term cooling of Titan can cause a global volume contraction of ~0.01. As Titan cools, the base of its subsurface ocean would freeze onto the top of its high pressure ice layer while the top of its subsurface ocean would freeze onto the underside of its outer ice I shell. Because high pressure ice is a lot denser than liquid water (~10 to 30 percent denser) and ice I is only marginally less dense than liquid water (<10 percent less dense), the gradual freezing of Titan's subsurface ocean into high pressure ice and ice I would cause an overall reduction in the volume of Titan.
It seems that the presence or absence of a high pressure ice layer in the interior of an object can determine whether or not it will undergo global contraction or expansion during cooling. For example, the interior of Jupiter's moon Europa is comprised of a rocky interior, an overlying subsurface ocean and an outer ice I shell. Unlike Titan, Europa does not have a high pressure ice layer. Since its outer ice I shell has a lower density than the underlying subsurface liquid water ocean (i.e. water is less dense than ice), the long term cooling of Europa will cause the outer ice I shell to thicken and result in overall global volume expansion.
Figure 3: A model of the topography produced by the contractional deformation of Titan's icy lithosphere. (Mitri et al., 2010)
Figure 4: Cassini radar imagery showing three elongated radar bright features that may be fold ridges formed from the contractional deformation of Titan's icy lithosphere. A topographic profile across one of the ridges (black rectangle) show that it has a height of 1,930 m. (Mitri et al., 2010)
The global volume contraction of Titan leads to contractional deformation of Titan's icy lithosphere, producing fold features (i.e. mountains). These fold features can reach topographic heights of up to several kilometres, especially so if Titan underwent more rapid cooling in the early Solar System and thereby experienced more contraction. The radar instrument on the Cassini spacecraft has imaged mountainous topography on Titan that is consistent with fold features produced by the contractional deformation of Titan's icy lithosphere. Perhaps, such a contractional deformation process may have formed most of Titan's mountains.
Mitri et al., “Mountains on Titan: Modelling and Observations”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 115, Issue E10, October 2010 | aerospace |
https://spaceflight-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Basic_Builds?mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile | 2022-07-03T06:18:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104215790.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703043548-20220703073548-00368.warc.gz | 0.942632 | 84 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__218947709 | en | This page is dedicated for showing players' rocket and payload designs. Players can submit designs in the comments, and they'll be added into one or two of the slideshows accordingly. If you are interested in knowing how to design a new rocket, visit Rocket Construction.
|Spacecraft & Payloads
This section contains player-made satellites, landers and other payloads. | aerospace |
https://www.global-aero.com/space-insurance-update-enabling-a-rapidly-evolving-industry/ | 2024-02-23T16:09:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474440.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223153350-20240223183350-00569.warc.gz | 0.937106 | 518 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__99411880 | en | Space Insurance Update: Enabling a Rapidly Evolving Industry
The space market has been very competitive over the last 15 years and we have seen a dramatic fall in premium rates.
In the last two years, there have been at least three large claims, such as last July’s failure of a Vega launch vehicle carrying an Earth observation spacecraft for the United Arab Emirates—one of the largest single losses at EUR368 million. Other recent total losses include Chinasat-18 (USD250 million) and Worldview-4 (USD183 million).
The Changing Space Insurance Landscape
Fifteen years ago, the annual market premium allowed for three maximum-value total losses before profitability waned. By contrast, the entire 2018 market premium was only 70% of the maximum single exposure. This imbalance proved to be unsustainable given the loss experience, and not only are premium rates rising again now, but certain coverage restrictions are returning under space policies.
More Challenges on the Horizon
Recently in the commercial geostationary orbit (GEO) communication satellite market, which has been the mainstay of the space insurance market in the last 35 years, orders have declined. However, the rapidly changing demand in satellite applications has led the space industry to move from large GEO communications satellites to new concepts and technologies.
The new-generation GEO spacecraft use electric propulsion for orbit raising. This technology allows for larger payloads, more onboard digital processing and more flexibility. Constellations of smaller spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO) is another industry trend.
We have already seen the launch of the first six OneWeb spacecraft with the rest of their initial constellation of 600 satellites to be launched soon. SpaceX has also launched 60 of their 30,000-spacecraft constellation, Starlink.
In response, over 100 start-up companies are entering the small launch vehicle market. The traditional launch services providers such as United Launch Alliance, Arianespace and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are also developing new launch vehicles to compete with SpaceX and Blue Origin.
With commercial passenger sub-orbital launches imminent, human spaceflight will become more commonplace. The “NewSpace” arena also has projects ranging from active debris removal and artificial shooting stars missions to lunar gateway and space hotel concepts as well as human lunar and Mars missions.
Space insurance has always been an enabler of new projects, providing both hull and liability coverages. Despite the market and technical challenges, space insurers will continue to support the industry going forward. | aerospace |
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20120614/SPACE/306140038/ | 2015-11-26T01:21:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398446286.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205406-00000-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.948184 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__120977649 | en | 07/16/09--Titusville--Amanda Stratford, FLORIDA TODAY-- Sam Beddingfield, 75, Titusville
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Space industry pioneer Sam Beddingfield, whose career spanned from Project Mercury to the shuttle program, died Wednesday.
He was 78.
Beddingfield, who lived in Titusville, joined NASA in 1959 at the urging of Gus Grissom, whom he'd flown with at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Grissom became one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, and he thought Beddingfield, an aeronautical engineer, should work in the space industry, too. As the story goes, Beddingfield said, "I don't know anything about space," recalled Charlie Mars, president of the U.S. Space Walk of Fame ... | aerospace |
https://nexgits.com/portfolio/gcs-skypotter-display/ | 2024-04-18T10:10:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418093630-20240418123630-00812.warc.gz | 0.90637 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__157695896 | en | // AR – VR / Simulator
Real-time drone data visualization for ground control.
We have designed an outstanding user interface and user experience for our drone simulator in Unity3D and also designed the project architecture and class structure using the MVVM model. We have implemented a serial port connection between the drone and the GCS Skypotter simulator, which allows for real-time data transfer without delays and also important feature implemented is streaming video using a serial port, using third-party plugins.
In summary, we have developed a drone simulator with an outstanding UI/UX, a well-designed project architecture, and the ability to transmit data and stream video in real-time. | aerospace |
https://kwhi.com/bellville-native-and-bride-killed-in-helicopter-crash/ | 2019-05-23T18:42:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257361.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523184048-20190523210048-00116.warc.gz | 0.97569 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__36658529 | en | A helicopter crash claimed the lives of two newlyweds, including a Bellville native, Saturday.
Will Byler of Bellville and his wife, Bailee Ackerman Byler, a native of Orangefield, were killed when the helicopter departing their wedding crashed north of Uvalde.
Uvalde Police confirmed they received a call from an aviation monitoring center around midnight Saturday notifying them of a possible down aircraft north of Uvalde County.
Several agencies aided police in their search for the aircraft, which police say was found shortly after sunrise Sunday morning.
Both Will and Bailee Byler were members of the rodeo team at Sam Houston State, where they were seniors.
DPS and the Federal Aviation Administration continue to investigate the crash scene. | aerospace |
https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=4438 | 2023-09-23T10:30:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506480.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923094750-20230923124750-00725.warc.gz | 0.852467 | 453 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__60597458 | en | |Title:||Gemini : steps to the Moon|
|Authors:||David J. Shayler|
|Publisher:||New York, NY : Springer, 2001|
|Series:||Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences|
|ISBN / ISSN / EAN :||978-1-85233-405-5|
|Bibliography note:||Includes bibliographical references and index|
|Subjects:||Project Gemini (U.S.)|
In May 1961 President John F. Kennedy promised the American people that there would be a manned Moon landing by the end of the decade -but at this time the longest that any astronaut had spent in space was 15 minutes. In his speech, Kennedy spoke of the mammoth efforts needed to achieve this goal, in commitment, funds and technology.
"Gemini: steps to the Moon" is the story of the second phase of that effort, from the perspective of the engineers, flight controllers and astronauts who were involved. It follows the development of the program from its earliest days to the splashdown of the final mission in November 1966. David Shayler documents the growing mastery of the essential challenges of extended duration flight, rendezvous and docking, space-walking and the creation of an experienced team of astronauts and flight controllers.
Drawing upon air-to-ground commentary, as well as interviews and personal recollections, the "bridge to Apollo" is constructed chapter by exciting chapter.
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|009065||TL789.8.U6G4.S53 2001||Book||ISU Library||Main collection||Available| | aerospace |
https://militaryedge.org/articles/france-eyeing-anti-ship-missile-sales-kuwait-helo-order/ | 2020-09-22T19:26:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400206763.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922192512-20200922222512-00107.warc.gz | 0.95 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__154184230 | en | France stands ready to supply Kuwait with anti-ship missiles to arm the Caracal military transport helicopter the Gulf nation has just ordered from Airbus Helicopters, a French defense official said Aug. 10.
A certification of fitting the weapon on the platform, and Kuwait funding the request, would allow the deal to be done. “We would do it,” said the official, who declined to be named.
Kuwait has a specific requirement for airborne missiles for use against fast offshore boats. Such a need emerged in negotiations for a recent order of the Eurofighter Typhoon. […] | aerospace |
http://web.wt.net/~markgoll/rse7.htm | 2015-11-26T00:14:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398446286.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205406-00110-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.946848 | 586 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__149928288 | en | Rocket Science for Earthlings
a continuing series for the gravitationally impaired.
REENTRY HEATING OR HOW NOT TO FRY YOUR TAIL HEAT. This is the second half of my discussion on reentry. The heat generated by a vehicle reentering the Earth's atmosphere is equal to the reduction of the vehicle's kinetic energy produced by the drag. If you know how fast a vehicle is slowing down, and what it's mass is and it's frontal area are, you can approximately calculate how much heat is developed. The air close to any vehicle passing rapidly through the atmosphere is heated due to friction and compression. In the upper atmosphere, this heating is due to the molecules of the air impacting directly on the vehicle's surface. This heating occurs at the surface of the vehicle. Half of the heat energy is radiated away and half is absorbed by the vehicle.
In the lower atmosphere, a boundary layer of slow moving air forms just above the surface of the vehicle. The heating now occurs just above the surface of the vehicle in the region where the boundary layer, the air right next to the vehicle skin that is moving slowly, interacts with the high velocity air stream. However, because the point of heating is in the boundary layer not on the vehicle's surface, and the air is heated to an opaque luminous plasma, a very large portion of the heat is radiated away before it reaches the vehicle. The absorbed heat can be reduced by a factor of ten. The primary point to remember of course is that the total kinetic energy of the vehicle is converted to heat, the question is, where do you want to develop, absorb, and radiate that heat.
The earliest nuclear reentry systems used very heavy blunt copper disks ahead of the warhead to absorb the heat. The X-17 program developed light weight ablative reentry systems. It is rumored that the Soviets used plywood for their early reentry heat shields. In the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, small dense reentry capsules penetrated rapidly and deeply into the atmosphere to decelerate at high Gees in the lower atmosphere, thereby using a boundary layer to reduce the amount of heat absorbed by the vehicle. Later, several studies were done to design light weight large area reentry canopies which would decelerate slowly at high altitudes, none of these systems has been flown yet, but the Space Shuttles use their large wing areas to loose some of their energy in the upper atmosphere. "The Space Handbook" a text printed for Air Force officers, presents a good rule of thumb method to calculate reentry heating. (see the reading list on my web page, http://web.wt.net/~markgoll/) I'm going to try to work this into my reentry1.bas computer program to provide a general idea of the heat energy acting on a reentry vehicle. | aerospace |
http://kaidpatterson.com/nasa.html | 2018-05-23T04:44:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865450.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180523043959-20180523063959-00206.warc.gz | 0.954375 | 1,220 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__6913246 | en | Accomplishments at NASA
was a aerospace software
engineer, who developed software for the
analyzed aircraft wing characteristics
against air turbulence for aerial
refueling and acrobatic formations.
The program was also used to
modify the wing foil fences on the
Boeing 747 and the Space Shuttle Transporter
Kai Patterson's responsibilities also
included analyzing the
Thermal Protective System (TPS) Tiles for he
Space Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis.
Kai Patterson developed software
evaluate the thermal dispersion of the
heat shields, their expansion and stress
under extreme aerodynamic conditions
before comparing the results at the wind
tunnel facility located at NASA Langley,
in Hampton Virginia.
NASA Story and Inspiration
Kai Patterson desired to become an
astronaut from the time he was a young
child. As a teenager, he joined
the United Airlines Future Aviation
Program, held at Newark International
Airport for high school students.
"When I was a teenager a teacher gave me
a book called the
Fundamentals of Aviation and Space
which I read from cover to cover for
years, until the book fell apart".
Kai Patterson attended Hampton University
because of their Student-NASA Program,
before Hampton University had an
aeronautical or aerospace engineering
program. To supplement that
aviation courses not offered at Hampton
University, Kai Patterson attended
Indiana University to take aviation
courses. "I would read every issue
Aviation Week and Space Technology
magazine from cover to cover at the
library, while attending college".
After returning back to Hampton
University from Indiana State
University, and having been selected
United States Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class
- Aviation Program
Kai Patterson was denied entry into the
Hampton University Student-NASA Program.
Because he was listed as a mathematics
major at Hampton University, the head of
the Mathematics Department needed to
approved Kai Patterson's application for
the NASA Program, but refused. "I
could not believe that I was refused
admission into the program". "I
had studied aviation on my own since a
child, and was not going to let one
person's decision determine my future".
After being denied acceptance into the
Student-NASA Program, Kai Patterson
contacted NASA's human resources
department and explained that he had
been selected into USMC Platoon Leader
Class Program with an Aviation Option,
which meant that Kai Patterson had a
flight contract to become a pilot in the
United States Marine Corps.
Kai Patterson already completed the two
Officer Candidate School
summer training program requirements and
was receiving flight lessons, which were
being paid for by the Marine Corps.
At the time he spoke with the person in
Human Resources, he did not think very
much was going to come out of the call,
and concluded the call was a waist of
time. "I applied to work in the
kitchen cafeteria at Hampton University
for the school year and the summer".
Kai Patterson's NASA Mentor, Lee
A week later, Kai Patterson received a
call from a gentleman at NASA's Langley
Research Center by
the name of
"Mr. Person told me that he was a NASA
test pilot engineer that one of the
first people to every fly the Kestrel,
which was the first version of the
Harrier". "He told me that he was
a former Marine Corps Pilot and arranged
for me to spend a full day taking a tour
of the entire NASA Langley Research
A few days later Kai Patterson was
picked up by a blue government vehicle
with yellow "NASA" letters on the side
door and was provided with a tour of the
facility, where he was taken to several
departments, introduced and interviewed
for a position. "I interviewed
with a man by the name of
Dr. Bruce Holmes,
who asked me questions about
concepts that I studied for years".
"Fate would have it, his
questions came directly from the that
old Fundamentals of Aviation and Space
Technology book that I had read from
cover to cover many times".
"Dr. Bruce Holmes had a copy of the book
in his office that I spotted from
several books on his book shelf".
"Although I previously provided the
hyperlink to an older edition of the
book, both of our editions had a black
cover with the Apollo rocket on the
cover, more recently developed concepts
"I blew through the answers, met with
some software engineers to confirm that
I could write code and the rest was
history". "It turns out that D.
Bruce Homes was a leading researcher and
developer of the concept of Laminar
Kai Patterson was hired directly by
NASA, and made more than three (3) times
what the Student-NASA Program paid.
"It was the greatest blessing because
although I needed the money, I would
have worked for free to get the experience
that I received at NASA". Kai
Patterson spent most of his lunch breaks
at Langley's video center, where he
would watch documentaries on each of
NASA's space projects. "I worked
full time as a aeronautical and
aerospace software developer, and credit
my first computer development experience
to NASA". "At the time, I did not
realize that my mentor
Lee Person would become one of
aviation's greatest test pilots".
"Mr. Person took me under his wing
(literally), because I was in the
Marine Corps Aviation Program. I hope one day he "Google's his name,
sees my website, goes to my
page and reconnects with me". | aerospace |
http://www.pax-intl.com/industry-news/ifec-and-interiors/2013/03/06/british-airways-awards-maccarthy-aviation-galley-refurbishment-contract/ | 2020-07-10T06:04:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655906214.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20200710050953-20200710080953-00050.warc.gz | 0.94109 | 387 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__130109004 | en | British Airways awards MacCarthy Aviation galley refurbishment contract
MacCarthy Aviation has been awarded another contract with British Airways to refurbish three more ship sets of galleys for Boeing 767 aircraft. The airline is currently carrying out a refresh of the majority of its 767 fleet and the contract awarded to MacCarthy consists of galley refurbishments on long haul configured aircraft.
The work package consists of; deep cleaning, replacement of any damaged parts, a change of décor, repainting of the entire units and continuity checks and bonding, all within a ten day turnaround time. The contract will commence in April 2013 with the refurbishment work being carried out at MacCarthy Aviation’s facility near Gatwick Airport.
“This contract awarded to MacCarthy Aviation underlines our competitive pricing and focus on quality and delivery. Working with British Airways is a huge honour and we look forward to continuing our working relationship,” explains Mark Radford, Sales & Marketing Director, MacCarthy Aviation in a recent press release from the company.
“We are seeing more and more twin aisle work, especially B767 aircraft, coming through our factory for galley and lavatory reconfiguration, refurbishment and uplift. 2013 will be another busy year with a healthy order-book of galley refurbishment, lavatory upgrade and VIP interior work.”
MacCarthy Aviation Holdings Ltd is an aircraft interiors company specialising the design, manufacture and refurbishment of aircraft seating, galleys, lavatories, stowage’s and baby seats. Based in Surrey, England, McCarthy Aviation employs 90 full time staff and has an annual turnover of over £8million. With global customers including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Sri Lankan Airways, MacCarthy Aviation are EASA approved for the design production and manufacture of aircraft interiors and components. | aerospace |
https://healtheals.com/19-interesting-facts-about-spacesuits-to-stir-your-curiosity/ | 2019-12-09T06:11:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540517557.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20191209041847-20191209065847-00461.warc.gz | 0.942211 | 1,186 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__55124939 | en | A spacesuit presents protection, consolation, and favorable surroundings for a living being to live on and paintings in the outer area. Let us find out what are the remarkable properties of a spacesuit which facilitates an astronaut to survive in the area.
Did You Know?
NASA’s new spacesuit seems exactly like Buzz Lightyear’s from the film Toy Story
In wintry weather, you put on sweaters, gloves, mufflers, overcoats, warm inner put on, boots, and what now not, simply to preserve yourself heat and guarded against the harsh, bloodless winds and cold surroundings. Now, consider the challenges an astronaut faces in space, where there may be no air, no safety from bloodless and warmth, and no gravity to maintain his ft on the floor. In space, someone can die in 15 seconds because of the lack of oxygen. The fluid inside the body can boil and then freeze, as there may be no air strain. This boiling fluid may additionally bring about organ enlargement. The astronaut will be exposed to radiation, cosmic rays, charged debris emitted from the Sun, and extreme temperatures. This is the cause why an astronaut desires a spacesuit.
A spacesuit continues situations similar to the Earth and gives him with necessities to continue to exist, like oxygen, cooling structures, heating structures, water, and so on. These fits are pressurized with air which maintains the frame stress. Let us discover a number of the most thrilling information about a spacesuit, inside the following paragraphs.
Interesting Spacesuit Facts
Space isn’t favorable to maintain life. Hence, spacesuits are in particular designed not handiest to assist astronauts to continue to exist, however also carry out experiments in the area. The spacesuits that we see today have undergone various changes and improvements, to the point that human beings can survive and paintings outdoor the trip for up to 8 hours!
★ Spacesuits have been to begin with made for air force pilots who flew jet aircraft, to cope with low atmospheric stress and absence of oxygen at excessive altitudes.
★ A spacesuit protects an astronaut from severe temperatures encountered in space. The temperatures may go right down to as little as -250ºF or as high as 250ºF.
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★ The first spacesuit worn by way of a human in the area was the Soviet SK-1 match, in 1961. Whereas, NASA’s first spacesuit become worn just one month later at some point of the Mercury program in the same 12 months.
★ For the Apollo software, specialized boots were included in the spacesuits which have been designed to stroll on the rocky floor.
★ The Apollo spacesuit was a one-piece fit. It changed into custom-tailor-made for each astronaut, and they used to enter the healthy from the returned.
★ Each prime group of the Apollo mission had three suits: one for flight, one for schooling, and one for the flight back up. The backup 3-man team had suits each: one for flight and one for schooling.
★ Space Shuttle Program has a special orange spacesuit that’s worn in the commute on the time of launch and touchdown, for you to spot the astronauts in case of any mishap.
★ A spacesuit without the astronaut in it weighs around 280 kilos at the ground. However, an area it is weightless.
★ The spacesuit this is donned whilst operating or on foot out of doors, the commute is white in color. This enables mirror warmness and the Sun’s rays which can raise the temperature to extra than 275ºF.
★ Even with the useful resource of a helper, an astronaut takes more than an hour to wear a spacesuit, inclusive of the special undergarments.
★ In order to get adapted to the natural oxygen and lower stress of a spacesuit, astronauts must spend approximately an hour in the suit before going outdoor the spacecraft.
★ Shuttle spacesuit substances consist of ortho-cloth, aluminized mylar, neoprene-covered nylon, dacron, urethane-lined nylon, tricot, nylon/spandex, chrome steel, and excessive-power composite substances.
★ Putting a spacesuit on is called ‘wearing’ the in shape, and removing it’s far called ‘doffing’.
★ A spacesuit has an inbuilt urine collection tool.
★ Spacesuits have a hose that’s attached to the spacecraft which contains air and water and additionally prevents the astronauts from floating away in the area.
★ It has a liquid cooling and airflow gadget inside the spacesuit.
★ The helmet has two visors. A clear one which seals the in shape in order that no air goes out, and a darkish one to shield the eyes from daylight. Before the spacewalk, the helmet is handled with an anti-fog compound.
★ The helmet has a camera mounted on it which allows different station scientists to look what an astronaut can see inside the area.
★ A spacesuit may be connected to a unit referred to as Manned Maneuvering Unit or MMU, with which an astronaut can freely pass in the area. This unit has 24 small rockets that help circulate freely. It has a control at the armrest to transport and direct.
Till now, best three international locations have marked their presence in the area; Russia, China, and the USA. They have their very own variations of spacesuit which might be high-quit and perfect for a spacewalk. Changes and development are nevertheless being made to enhance the spacesuit for better enjoy and superior protection.
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https://darkhorsehobbies.com/wings-of-glory-ww1-tabletop-miniatures-game-airplane-packs-models/wings-of-glory-ww1-sopwith-triplane-dallas-airplane-pack-379.html | 2020-02-27T10:53:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146681.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20200227094720-20200227124720-00065.warc.gz | 0.924291 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__191829181 | en | The Sopwith Triplane was a British single seat fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company. Pilots nicknamed it the Tripehound or simply the Tripe. The Triplane became operational with the Royal Naval Air Service in early 1917 and was immediately successful. It was flown by a number of famous aces, such as Raymond Collishaw, Roderic Stanley Dallas and Robert Alexander Little.
Read more about the history of this airplane in these two articles: Part 1 and Part 2
- One 1/144 scale model
- Flight stand with game stats
- Altitude stands
- Airplane card
- Maneuver cards
- Box Size: 3.54 x 3.94 x 1.97 in (9 x 10 x 5 cm)
- Box Weight: ~ 3.5 oz (0.1 kg)
Designed to be used with the popular air combat game system created by Andrea Angiolino and Pier Giorgio Paglia, each WW1 Wings of Glory® Airplane Pack is a ready-to-play model, painted and assembled, 100% compatible with any other WW1 Wings of Glory game product. In each pack you will find all you need to play with the airplane: a special base with gaming stats, a variable altitude flying stand, and a specific deck of maneuver cards. | aerospace |
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel"
Our Commitment to Sustainable Options
As aviation leaders, our business is to bring people, cultures, and economies together. We recognize the need for dynamic, new innovation to help reduce aircraft greenhouse gas emissions beyond existing advances, while continuing to increase the socioeconomic good that air transport provides to the world.
Whilst we recognize the need to drive further efficiency gains through technological solutions and operational efficiencies, we also have an opportunity to deliver significant environmental and social benefits as we seek to lower the carbon intensity of our fuels overall by supporting the development, certification, and commercial use of lower carbon renewable fuels, derived from environmentally and socially sustainable sources.
Therefore, we, the undersigned air carriers and other aviation industry organizations declare our commitment to advance the development, certification, and commercial use of drop-in sustainable aviation fuels. Collectively, we represent, approximately 33% of commercial aviation fuel demand, and in assessing the sustainability and commercial use of a bio-derived aviation fuel, the following considerations at a minimum should be addressed by verifiable means:
- Jet fuel plant sources should be developed in a manner which is non-competitive with food and where biodiversity impacts are minimized; in addition, the cultivation of those plant sources should not jeopardize drinking water supplies.
- Total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from plant growth, harvesting, processing, and end-use should be significantly reduced compared to those associated with fuels form fossil sources.
- In developing economies, development projects should include provisions for outcomes that improve socioeconomic conditions for small-scale farmers who rely on agriculture to feed them and their families, and that do not require the involuntary displacement of local populations.
- High conservation value areas and native eco-systems should not be cleared and converted for jet fuel plant source development.
These criteria should be consistent with, and complementary to emerging internationally-recognized standards such as those being developed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials.
We agree to work with leading organizations and individuals in the biofuels arena, not limited to the aviation industry, to develop a world-leading fact base on sustainable aviation fuels, which will:
- Provide a body of peer-reviewed research and best practices, including fuel lifecycle emissions assessments, which will support the practical application of common sustainability criteria to the development, certification, and commercial use of sustainable aviation fuels.
- We will work in conjunction with the report of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels as a basis for sustainability research and certification efforts. The Working Group will identify and research feedstock-specific sustainability indicators and criteria to contribute to the Roundtable.
- Support the development of government policies which promote the development, certification, and commercial use of sustainable, lower carbon aviation fuels
We are committed to working in partnership where appropriate with governments, other industries and representatives of civil society on credible and feasible actions in response to global climate change concerns and other socioeconomic challenges.
We strongly encourage other aviation industry participants to join us in working together to help accelerate the development, certification, and commercial use of environmentally and socially sustainable aviation fuel. | aerospace |
https://www.montebiancodroni.it/en/rent-freefly-alta-x/ | 2023-05-28T13:50:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528114832-20230528144832-00156.warc.gz | 0.895387 | 448 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__6566850 | en | RENT FREEFLY ALTA X
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It offers 6k 17:9 (6144×3240) max resolution with 16 stops of dynamic range, 120 fps in 2k, RedCode Raw in three available qualities, HQ, MQ, LQ Proress.
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Noteworthy are its manageability, ensured by a minimal footprint (a cube of four inches side) and its lightness (less than 1 kg). | aerospace |
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/aviation/sky-talk-blog/article51409860.html | 2018-04-19T11:21:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125936914.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20180419110948-20180419130948-00541.warc.gz | 0.864592 | 99 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__190044450 | en | The latest airline, travel and aerospace news. If it flies, we're on it.
By Andrea Ahles
December 27, 2015 05:30 AM
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http://funnydoom.com/skydive-from-18-miles-above-the-earth/ | 2014-07-25T05:24:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997893859.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025813-00197-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931027 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__131060762 | en | Skydive from 18 MILES above the Earth
Published on July 26th, 2012 | by FunnyDoom Stuff
Skydiver 'Fearless' Felix Baumgartner today leapt into the stratosphere more than 18 miles above the Earth - nearly three times higher than cruising jetliners.
He jump from 90,000ft during the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos over Roswell, New Mexico
It's a personal best for Mr Baumgartner, who is aiming for a record breaking parachute jump from 23 miles next month. He hopes to go supersonic, breaking the speed of sound with just his body. | aerospace |
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/airline/thomas-cook-airlines/1630706/ | 2013-12-19T16:56:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1387345765796/warc/CC-MAIN-20131218054925-00021-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.970446 | 474 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__153561807 | en | Newest Review: ... usually fly long haul and fly with the slightly 'posher' airlines such as Malaysia Airlines and these airlines tend to have things such as ... more
0/10 for flights. 0/10 for customer service
Thomas Cook Airlines
Author Name: emoparty
Thomas Cook Airlines
Disadvantages: Delayed flights, Poor customer service
Me and my partner recently went on a skiing holiday with Neilson (the ski package company of Thomas Cook). Although the actual holiday was fine the flights were absolutely terrible. The outbound flight was delayed by 3 hours and the return flight was delayed by 13 HOURS. During this time in spent in the airport the 250 passengers were given a single bottle of water and what can only be described as uneatable mush. We therefore spent an additional £55 of our own money on meals in the airport.
TC made no effort to ensure that the flight delay was minimised (the flight duration was only 1.5 hours, so another plane could have potentially have been despatched 11.5 hours prior to when we finally took off). When we finally arrived back in the middle of the night, TC would not help any passengers who had missed their train get home, so we spent an additional £70 on a taxi home.
After writing to TC on 3 occasions (and each time waiting over 3 weeks for what can be described as 'template' reply) they offered a mere apology and 'Hoped we would consider flying with them again soon'.
I discourage anyone from flying with TC or any TC brands, as the service you are likely to receive will probably be terrible!!!
Summary: Never again will we fly with Thomas Cook - They almost went bust for a reason
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- Delta? That's a much higher grade than they deserve
- Not bad, but certainly not the premium brand they make themselves out to be.
- very comfortable flight experience
- China Southern Airlines - so-so short haul flight
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https://upliftingfamilies.com/journal/mgpki.php?id=antonov-500-2012-0df265 | 2021-04-18T13:49:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038492417.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418133614-20210418163614-00474.warc.gz | 0.92727 | 1,110 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__268433567 | en | Air Company “Antonov Airlines” provides services for charter flights from all Ukrainian airports and all over the world using the AN-74T airplane. Although Yuri states that the plane is Russian, Antonov is actually Ukranian. To ensure equal distribution of the load over the cargo hold floor according to a concept developed by Antonov engineers, a special transport frame was designed and manufactured in Switzerland. Only the biggest aircraft in the world, AN-225, was capable of the task. AN-22 «Antei» – propeller-driven aircraft. If you're still enjoying this website and would like to help us continue being the BEST site on the Internet for your aviation screenshot needs, please consider donating. The wheel had to be urgently delivered from Kharkiv in Ukraine to Tashkent, Uzbekistan for construction of the Tash-Kumyr Hydroelectric Power Station. As this is set in 2012, it wouldn't be an anachronism except the deliveries were pushed back until 2013. On September 22, 1993, AN-124-100 Ruslan of Antonov Airlines transported a SIEMENS generator stator weighing 124 tons from Frankfurt in Germany to New-Delhi, India. During their flight, Sasha and Gordon prepared to refuel in Hawaii as they did not have enough fuel, but the entire islands of Hawaii were engulfed in lava and Sasha decided that they are going to make a water landing in South China Sea. During the operation, Antonov Airlines set another Guinness World Record for transporting the heaviest cargo (plus equipment) of 146 tons. Antonov Airlines operate the unique AN-225 Mriya – the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world. Antonov Airlines set the record together with Kyiv Producer Center Boyko, the main art exhibition organizer in AN-225. Antonov Airlines is the ANTONOV company’s subdivision that specializes in international cargo transportation.The airlines’ fleet includes one AN-225 Mriya, seven AN-124-100 Ruslans, one AN-22 Antei, two AN-12s one AN-26 and one AN-74T. Upgrades are done and editing is back on! It made its first flight on December 21, 1988. After the flight, the development of specialised loading equipment for the AN-124 aircraft began. In the late afternoon hours of December 21st 2012, Las Vegas was in ruins due to a massive earthquake (of an unknown magnitude) hitting the area, creating numerous canyons. This huge four-engine turboprop is the world's largest propeller-driven aircraft, holding a series of world records that are likely to remain unsurpassed. 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In summer 2018, Antonov Airlines successfully completed a series of 12 An-225 flights, becoming the largest project by number of flights and total payload ever carried in the commercial history of AN-225. But the aircraft managed to do that”. The AN-74T airplane meets all airworthiness requirements for civil airplanes, which are extended on AN-74 base airplane. With a total weight of 182 tons comprising the frame and connections, the transformer duly became the second heaviest single-piece cargo ever carried by air, and the heaviest in Americas. After the earthquake came to a halt, Las Vegas' population struggled to survive while numerous ambulance tend to injured survivors and the earthquake also caught Yuri Karpov's plane stuck in a crack. Because of largeness of the cargo door with width of 2.4 m and a special ramp-door installed on the airplane, it is possible to perform convenient loading from both the ground and a truck bed thus facilitating airplane loading and unloading. 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The GEOINT tradecraft is evolving within the aviation industry through the introduction of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System
Black Cape’s Abe Usher and percipient.ai’s Balan Ayyar provide an overview on current trends in AI/ML ahead of USGIF’s Geospatial Community Forum Nov. 16–18.
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https://kqueue.org/blog/2020/08/19/mars-retrograde/ | 2023-09-25T09:08:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233508959.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925083430-20230925113430-00111.warc.gz | 0.938019 | 124 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__303611270 | en | There is a Mars retrograde this year, from September 9 to November 13. Mars appears to move backwards as Earth overtakes Mars. Below is a plot of its positions in the sky using d3.js. It also includes Jupiter and Saturn retrogrades, both from mid May to mid September.
As described in the earlier posts Mars close approach in 2016 and Mars or UFO, the coordinates of the planets (Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) are computed via a small program using NASA’s SPICE toolkit, and the coordinates of the stars are retrieved from Wikipedia (e.g., Pisces). | aerospace |
https://secretldn.com/new-concorde-passengers-london-new-york-3-hours/ | 2023-05-30T20:42:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646144.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530194919-20230530224919-00565.warc.gz | 0.920597 | 195 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__248771438 | en | In a project worth a massive £290m (so far), NASA are developing a supersonic plane that could take us from London to New York in just THREE hours.
Tests have begun on the new supersonic jet, known as QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Transport), that will travel twice as fast as a regular commercial jet. Though dubbed the ‘new Concorde’, the jet will be much quieter than the original model, so noise pollution won’t be a problem. It’s also set to soar way above the regular cruising altitude of 30,000ft, reaching heights of around 55,000ft.
If everything goes to plan, NASA and Lockheed Martin reckon test flights could start as early as 2021. So, rather than the usual 7 to 8 hour flight time, we could soon be whizzing over to the Big Apple in just 180 minutes…
Photo credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin | aerospace |
https://emergencyservicestimes.com/devon-air-ambulance-buys-new-helicopter/ | 2023-09-30T06:00:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510603.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930050118-20230930080118-00321.warc.gz | 0.961353 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__173432228 | en | Devon Air Ambulance prides itself on being a dynamic and forward-thinking charity, committed to providing the very best patient care and ensuring the service continues to grow and improve. The exciting next step in this development took place on 16 August, with the purchase of a new Airbus H145 helicopter, which will be on duty from the service’s Exeter airbase from mid-2020. The contract was signed at Sidmouth RFC’s training ground in Sidford, chosen as it is only a few miles away from Sidbury, where Devon Air Ambulance’s founder Ann Ralli and her family lived.
Ann set up the Devon Air Ambulance charity after her son Ceri died, due to injuries sustained when knocked from his bicycle. Ann asked at hospital what could have saved her son, and was told the quicker a patient receives urgent medical treatment, the better their chance of survival. Ann didn’t want any other family to go through what hers had.
The existing helicopter, which is already ‘night flight ready’ and operates up until midnight every day, will replace the charity’s older aircraft, currently flying from its North Devon airbase, near Umberleigh.
Heléna Holt, CEO of Devon Air Ambulance, said “We aim to replace our helicopters, on average, every 10 years. We have undertaken extensive research into what would be the best helicopter to meet our current, and future, operational needs. We are fortunate that we have some extremely knowledgeable flight operations and clinical staff, who have been fully engaged over the past 18 months looking at all the options available to us, not only for the airframe itself, but also the state-of-the-art interior and medical equipment we can carry.
“The H145 has significantly more accessible cabin space than our current EC135s and this extra size gives us greater capacity and flexibility as we continue to enhance the service we can offer to our patients.
“An added benefit is that our existing Exeter aircraft will move to work out of our North Devon airbase, thereby meaning that both our aircraft will be capable of flying into the hours of darkness when we look to extending this part of our service.”
Devon Air Ambulance owns its current two aircraft. The new aircraft purchase will cost in the region of €8.5m, but this will be offset by the onward sale of the older helicopter, G-DVAA.
Ian Payne, Flight Operations Director for Devon Air Ambulance, added, “We are looking forward to welcoming the H145, registration G-DAAS, in 2020. A successful, mature product, H145 is manufactured by the same organisation as our EC135s so in addition to operational performance we will be able to build further upon the strong working relationship with Airbus developed over many years. As a result, there are clear opportunities for future fleet harmonisation bringing efficiencies in operational planning, logistic and engineering support, training and aircraft safety.” | aerospace |
https://nathalieveratv.com/tag/cal-poly/ | 2023-03-27T19:51:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948684.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327185741-20230327215741-00433.warc.gz | 0.942978 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__71107503 | en | Tag: cal poly
Stalking Awareness Month: Cal Poly educating students on how to protect themselves
One in six women, and one in 19 men have been stalked at one point in their life time, according to the California Victim Compensation Board. Victims tend to be college-aged, and at Cal Poly, university advocates are hosting a series of events this month aimed at educating, and preventing this behavior.
Making science fiction into science fact: Bill Nye, Cal Poly team up to deploy unique spacecraft
Scientists are pushing the limits of space exploration –and they’re doing it on the Central Coast. The solar-powered spacecraft LightSail 2 CubeSat was successfully deployed from Cal Poly on Tuesday. The operation is a game changer for the future in space. | aerospace |
https://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/it-is-u-s-air-and-sea-power-that-deters-north-korea/ | 2024-02-23T10:36:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474377.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223085439-20240223115439-00000.warc.gz | 0.957441 | 998 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__69037259 | en | For more than half a century there has been the modern military version of a gunfighters’ standoff on the Korean Peninsula. On the northern side of the border is an army of nearly one million with heavy mechanized formations and tens of thousands of artillery pieces and rocket launchers pointed at Seoul, the capitol of the Republic of Korea (ROK). Seoul is home to 10 million people or 20 percent of South Korea’s population (if you consider the entire Seoul Capital Region, it is 50 percent of its population). On the southern side of the border there is the ROK military of 600,000 and some 28,000 Americans who are part of the U.S. Forces Korea. Doesn’t seem like a stable balance of forces, even before one considers North Korea’s nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles.
What provides the balance and deters North Korea is U.S. air and naval power. This point was made very clear a couple of weeks ago when two U.S. B-2 bombers conducted a non-stop practice mission from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri to South Korea and back again. Subsequently, Air Force B-52s out of Guam have been conducting practice missions near South Korea. The U.S. also sent several of its prized F-22 fighters to the peninsula as a reminder to the North that its obsolescent air defense network could be penetrated readily. Despite what seems as a first strike advantage, the North Korean leadership is well aware of the air and naval power that the U.S. could bring to bear relatively rapidly in the event Pyongyang initiated hostilities.
The lessons from Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) are illustrative with respect to what air and naval power can achieve against a Soviet-style conventional military. The Iraqi military in 1991 was very similar in size and composition to the forces North Korea has today. If anything, Baghdad’s military was the more modern of the two. Yet, the coalition’s air armada was able to rapidly seize air dominance and destroy most of Iraq’s fixed military infrastructure and a significant portion of its military assets. This feat was accomplished with only a handful of stealthy aircraft, the F-117, and a limited number of precision munitions. Twelve years later, in OIF, coalition air superiority was such a given that Saddam Hussein ordered his Air Force to bury their surviving aircraft. Moreover, the percentage of ordnance delivered that consisted of so-called “smart bombs” had increased from around 6 percent to nearly 70 percent. The Navy launched some 288 Tomahawk cruise missiles in 1991 and more than 700 in OIF.
Fast forward another decade. The power resident in U.S. air and naval forces has only increased. The U.S. now has some 200 stealthy aircraft that could operate from day one in contested airspace over North Korea. The entire U.S. strategic bomber fleet of more than 100 aircraft, can deliver a range of conventional standoff precision munitions. The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fleets of F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 E/F tactical aircraft can deliver a similar suite of munitions. U.S. airborne electronic warfare capabilities have been enhanced by the addition of the EA-18G Growler. Also, the U.S. Navy deploys many hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles, including the new, longer range Block IV, aboard virtually all its surface combatants and attack submarines. During the Libyan campaign, one U.S. submarine fired 90 sea-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles. This vast arsenal of aerial platforms and weapons would be able to reach virtually any target in North Korea.
The window is further closing on North Korea’s ability to threaten its neighbors to the south. In this time period, the U.S., Japan and, possibly, South Korea, will acquire the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The advanced KC-46 aerial refueling tanker will enter the U.S. fleet in significant numbers. If defense budgets can be sustained at a reasonable level, the Air Force will begin to acquire a new strategic bomber. Advanced, stealthy, long-range air-delivered weapons will also be developed and deployed. As a consequence, the U.S. ability to hit both harder and faster will increase even as the North’s military power erodes.
In the event of war, Seoul would without question suffer enormous damage and casualties would be high. However, North Korean leaders must be aware that the U.S., together with its allies, has the air and naval power to rapidly achieve air dominance and destroy its conventional forces, military infrastructure and logistics networks. It is the ability to hold at risk those assets which the North values by conventional means that is the bedrock of deterrence on the Korean peninsula.
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https://justhelicopters.com/Articles-and-News/Industry-Wide-News/Article/176059/Bell-Celebrates-505th-Bell-505-Delivery | 2023-12-04T16:07:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100531.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204151108-20231204181108-00608.warc.gz | 0.921455 | 877 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__14098197 | en | Bell Textron Canada Ltd. hosts historic program milestone
Mirabel, QC (Nov. 20, 2023) – Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced today the delivery of the 505th Bell 505 aircraft to North America based operator, Austin Claborn. The aircraft will be configured for corporate transportation.
“To mark this historic program milestone, Bell wanted to ensure the 505th delivery was a memorable event for our many employees that have worked on this program, our suppliers and our Bell 505 customers,” said Lane Evans, director, North America Sales. “The Bell 505 was designed to provide customers with unmatched cost-of-operations and performance for its value. Mr. Claborn has been a Bell 505 operator since 2021 and with the upgrade to the latest platform variant, Bell is proud the aircraft continues to live up to our customer’s expectations.”
Certified by Transport Canada in 2016, the Bell 505 is one of Bell’s fastest growing commercial programs to date. The aircraft’s fleet has surpassed more than 185,000 flight hours with aircraft operating on six continents worldwide.
“The Bell 505 has been nothing short of fantastic for us,” said Austin Claborn. “The technology in the cockpit makes the aircraft incredibly reliable and easy to fly. The team at Bell has been exemplary in their dedication to customer service and we couldn’t be more excited to be a part of the 505th delivery.”
The delivery ceremony took place at the Bell Textron Canada Ltd. facility in Mirabel, Quebec where more than 1,400 highly skilled employees are responsible for Bell’s current commercial production line, including the Bell 505, Bell 407GXi, Bell 429 and SUBARU Bell 412EPX. To date, the company has built and delivered more than 5,800 commercial helicopters.
With a speed of 125 knots (232 km/h) and useful load of 1,500 pounds (680 kg), the Bell 505 is Bell’s new five-seat aircraft designed for performance, efficiency and reliability using advanced avionics technology. It incorporates proven dynamic components, advanced aerodynamic design, a dual channel FADEC Safran Arrius 2R engine and best-in-class value.
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https://pilotweb.aero/news/rotax-912-turns-25-video-6244766/ | 2024-03-02T17:10:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475833.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302152131-20240302182131-00555.warc.gz | 0.943517 | 135 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__205649414 | en | BRP is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the its Rotax 912 engine.
To mark the anniversary the company will be organizing a Rotax Fly-In, which will take place on 5-7 June 2014 at the airport in Wels, Upper Austria. This will be run in cooperation with the Aero Club Weisse Moewe Wels.
The company started the production of aircraft engines in the year 1973. The first certified aircraft engine was delivered in 1975.
One of the highlights of the fly-in will be a visit to the BRP facility in Gunskirchen where Rotax engines are developed and manufactured. More information will follow soon. | aerospace |
https://www.aero-mag.com/10th-year-of-bahrain-international-airshow-set-to-be-celebrated | 2022-08-18T03:39:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00263.warc.gz | 0.931074 | 491 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__78150345 | en | Bahrain is preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS), taking place 9-11 November 2022, with a host of new features and programmes.
Harnessing a growth mindset, BIAS has undertaken a period of significant investment. With a 10-year track record of success, the 2022 airshow will include enhanced features across the three-day event, creating more opportunities for business, networking, growth and knowledge sharing.
Organised by the Bahrain Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications and the Royal Bahraini Airforce in association with Farnborough International, BIAS has been designed to reflect aerospace and defence industry demands and will harness global expertise to provide thought leadership. The show aims to engage, retain and grow its world-class delegation programme, providing exhibitors with a personal opportunity to network with high-level VIP decision-makers.
With a conference lineup that will discuss the future of airports and airlines, women in aviation, Cargo and Logistics and the Space industry, the 2022 edition of BIAS will see globally renowned organisations gather at the Middle East’s gateway to the Gulf to plan for the future.
The growth in air passenger and cargo traffic in the Middle East is expected to outperform those in all other regions in the world by 2032. To support this growth and regional focus, the 2022 airshow will see the launch of the Cargo Hub to facilitate the development of new partnerships and business connections, as well as share insight from industry-leading professionals and exhibitors.
With over 140 companies expected to exhibit across the defence, space, business and aviation sectors, the boutique aerospace event offers visitors the opportunity to strengthen existing business connections and meet key with global senior decision-makers and stakeholders of aerospace businesses.
Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed, the Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications said: “Throughout the uncertainty of the last two years, Bahrain’s agile response to the crisis enabled the Kingdom to remain a constant presence across global sectors, and we are looking forward to welcoming everyone back in November this year.
“We’re proud to have established BIAS as a key event in the aerospace and defence calendar and we aim to build upon the success of the 2018 instalment, which saw more than 54,000 trade visitors, 11 of the top 15 global aerospace companies attending and over $5 billion worth of aerospace orders and commitments confirmed across the three days.” | aerospace |
https://community.pix4d.com/t/circular-missions/5158 | 2019-10-22T19:50:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987823061.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022182744-20191022210244-00006.warc.gz | 0.918638 | 336 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__27047992 | en | Hi Is there going to be an update to fly circular missions as a grid with the Phantom 3 Advanced?
You can use ‘DJI GO – Intelligent Flight Mode’ as walk around.
Do these points upload into Pix4D with the same accuracy.
Not sure about accuracy. Check this post:
Thank you very much
We do not know yet when a circular mission will be implemented for DJI drones. It is still at the experimental stage for Bebop 2 since circular missions require more attention because of eventual obstacles in the flight track. Bebop 2 is lighter. We are obviously thinking about implementing something similar for DJI drones but it will take some time.
In the meantime, you can still use the Free Flight Mission of Pix4Dcapture and manually fly the drone around a point of interest (POI). Images are captured given a space interval (vertical / horizontal distance), meaning the user does not need to trigger the camera shutter but has to manually control the drone. Free flight recommendations: https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/203081219
Note that a double grid mission was implemented on iOS. This is similar to the grid mission but the camera angle will change during the flight and the second grid allows to capture more facades of buildings for instance. This might be a good alternative depending on what you want to achieve.
To update the answer: circular missions are available on both iOS and Android. More about that here: https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/209960726 | aerospace |
https://www.eedesignit.com/category/aerospace-and-defence/air/ | 2017-05-27T06:06:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608870.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527055922-20170527075922-00007.warc.gz | 0.908301 | 194 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__152484225 | en | A small four-rotor surveillance helicopter that can be carried in a small pouch and launched from the palm of a…
The US Marine Corps is testing disposable autonomous gliders that could deliver supplies to troops.
A spacecraft has landed in Florida after orbiting the Earth since May 2015.
It's no Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Uber, Lyft, Grab and Hailo have conquered the on-ground, app-based, taxi service. Lilium wants to command the sky.
The TACAD (TACtical Air Delivery) glider is a prototype for an unpowered disposable delivery drone.
3D printed titanium parts are first structural airplane components approved by the FAA, and could save Boeing…
Jeff Bezos shows off the capsule for the tourists he plans to take into space in the next few years.
A new Discovery vehicle with a tailor-made communications drone for search and rescue.
Electronics ban on some US-bound flights | aerospace |
https://evenswindon.co.uk/year-1-space-themed-wow-day-05-01-18/ | 2022-07-07T13:18:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104692018.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707124050-20220707154050-00241.warc.gz | 0.989797 | 120 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__68423518 | en | On Friday 5th January, year 1 had their space themed WOW day to start their topic. We had lots of fun learning all about space and the planets. We then created some lovely drawings of the planets. After break, we were very lucky to have a visitor come in to talk to us. Helen Sharman, the first British woman in space came to talk to us and tell us more about space. She then showed us some training activities to do and let us try some food astronauts might eat up in space. We then finished the day by graduating as junior astronauts and celebrating with Helen. | aerospace |
https://2news4.com/the-kepler-space-telescope-is-officially-dead.html | 2023-09-28T07:25:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510368.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928063033-20230928093033-00324.warc.gz | 0.96555 | 661 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__254104071 | en | NASA’s planet-searching space telescope is out of fuel. The premier Kepler space telescope is unable to search for planets that orbit other stars which ended the 9 and a half year mission. NASA’s officials announced the unfortunate news on 30 October 2018.
“Due to fuel exhaustion, the world-renowned spacecraft has unfortunately reached the end of its life,” stated Charlie Sobeck, a NASA project system engineer situated in Moffett Field, Calif. “Although this is an unfortunate event, we are quite satisfied with this remarkable machine.”
The discoveries made by the Kepler space telescope managed to change the way astronomers think when it comes to planets in other solar systems. Prior to the launch of the spacecraft in 2009, there were only 350 known exoplanets existing in the galaxy, and most of them were about the size of Jupiter.
As of 30 October 2018, there are over 3,800 exoplanets, and the Kepler space telescope managed to discover 2,720 of them. The Kepler spacecraft located planets in all configurations, shapes, and sizes: seven planets orbiting one star, planets with two suns, planets that orbit at jaunty angles, and planets that are much older than Earth. “Some planets were formed when the galaxy was created,” said William Borucki, who was the principal advisor for Kepler before he decided to retire in 2015. “Can you imagine what life is like on these planets?”
What’s even more impressive is that astronomers believe that each of the hundreds of billions of stars found in the Milky Way have a minimum of one planet and the temperatures and sizes of these exoplanets might be friendly to life.
The space telescope was initially launched in 2009. Towards the end of 2017, Kepler managed to discover over 2,500 planets. These planets range in sizes with some comparable to Earth while others are the size of Neptune and Jupiter and larger.
The Kepler space telescope was previously declared dead. In 2013, the famous spacecraft lost the use of one of its four reaction wheels. These wheels assist the spacecraft to point steadily at a certain patch of the sky. The consistent pointing was vital for Kepler’s planet-searching strategy. It initially seemed that the quest was over.
However, engineers managed to revive the space telescope with a brand-new observing mode, known as K2. It utilised the pressure of sunlight on the solar panels of Kepler to ensure it keeps pointing straight. “I always believed it was a space telescope that could,” stated Jessie Dotson, a project scientist situated at NASA Ames. “Kepler always did what we asked and more. That’s phenomenal to have in a scape telescope.”
The official end of Kepler occurred two weeks ago when the fuel pressure decreased by 75% in a matter of hours. Prior to shutting down, the space telescope managed to transmit all remaining data to Earth. Although it’s the end of Kepler, TESS will certainly take its place as the next planet-searching telescope which was launched in April 2018.
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Douglas DC-3 Airplane, N34
- Also Known As: Douglas serial 33359 also Navy BuNO 99856
|Douglas Aircraft Company
|Built as a TC-47B for the US Navy by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|N34 is withdrawn from flight inspection and assigned to a training program in Oklahoma City, retired in 1983
|DC-3 N34 is flown to Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport, Amarillo, Texas
The Douglas DC-3, N34, is a monoplane aircraft built as a TC-47B in 1945 for the U.S. Navy by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It has seen continuous use since then, first as a Navy airplane and later as a transport airplane associated with the Federal Aviation Administration's safety inspection program. The Douglas DC-3, N34 is representative of an aircraft type that revolutionized the commercial airline industry and made a significant contribution to the evolution of military aviation during World War II. First designed and built in the mid-1930s, the first DC-3 flew on December 17, 1935, exactly 32 years after the Wright brothers made the first powered airplane flight. More than 10000 DC-3s were manufactured but only 410 are still registered in the United States, making this airplane a rare survivor of a once common aircraft type. Registered in at least 159 separate countries, the DC-3s were utilized in a vast array of duties from luxury transcontinental passenger transports to crop spraying. General features of Douglas DC-3s include all metal fuselage and cantilevered low wing, all metal vertical and horizontal stabilizer, two reciprocating radial engines, fabric covered control surfaces (ailerons, rudder and elevators) and two main landing gear consisting of wheels and tail wheel. The all-aluminum metal low wing was built in three sections with the stub-wing center section integrated into the lower fuselage; it supports the engines, nacelles and landing gear on each side of the fuselage.
Completed in 1945 near the end of World War II, the Navy used the Douglas DC-3, N34 at various worldwide locations as a transport airplane. Among the assignments were London, Rome, Naples, Paris, Algiers, Frankfort, Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm, Dublin, Cairo, Kuwait and Baghdad. Later converted to a R4D-6, it was assigned to the U.S. Navy Utility Transport Squadron Four (VRU-Four) from February 26, 1947 until March 1949 when it was detached from the squadron and returned to the US On April 8, 1947, N34 nosed over in the mud while being taxied out of the only parking area available in London, and both engines had to be changed. While not officially assigned to the Berlin Airlift (1948-1949), it is highly probable that N34 flew into Berlin in support of Operation VITTLES, as most airplanes in the area during that time were pressed into support of the airlift operation. Sometime prior to 1956 the airplane was put into storage by the Navy.
The Navy loaned the airplane, along with four other DC-3s, to the Civil Aviation Administration (CAA), later the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The initial FAA assignment as a flight inspection airplane was to the Southwest Region in Fort Worth, Texas, and later to various other FAA regions. This airplane was operational and photographed with its first CAA livery paint scheme on the ramp at Oakland in August 1958. The airplane retains the same equipment, furnishings and arrangement that were originally installed in 1957. - NPS
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https://sparkpilots.com/tags/wilkes-county-nc/ | 2023-09-28T01:17:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510334.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927235044-20230928025044-00019.warc.gz | 0.977297 | 62 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__327065264 | en | Hoping to find another Spark pilot or other drone pilots in Wilkes County. I also fly scratch built planes as well. I hope to find a large area to fly in this area. I cannot afford to join a club so I am on my own here. I hope someone nearby reads this and responds. | aerospace |
http://www.hvpress.net/news/135/ARTICLE/12134/2013-02-27.html | 2017-04-27T14:40:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122174.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00384-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.943197 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__109921649 | en | Air Force Airman 1st Class Stephanie Vargas graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Vargas is the daughter of Theresa Ramos-Villega of Waverly Street, Yonkers, and niece of Luz Rios of Weeks Avenue, Bronx.
She is a 2004 graduate of John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 2011 from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. | aerospace |
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/aircraft/private-aircraft/beechcraft-king-air-c100-v13 | 2022-08-18T17:31:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573242.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818154820-20220818184820-00448.warc.gz | 0.967477 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__78760410 | en | This high poly model is build very near to scale and is within a couple of percent of the actual dimensions. It has a detailed exterior including radio antennas and pitot tubes. Landing gear have been finished with a moderate amount of detail too. The model is fully textured and comes with all materials and textures. In addition this model comes with animateable ailerons, flaps, elevators, rudder, landing gear, landing gear doors and propellers. The model is available in several different formats for immediate downloading here. We are providing the Beechcraft C100 3d model in a range of liveries for your selection.
The Beechcraft King air was developed in the early 1960s. The King air aircraft is a twin-engine pressurized turboprop aircraft. It has outsold all other competitors combined in the market. Many were specifically equipped for military service with Japanese and US military forces. You can find some of these aircraft in our library with military colors. See U-6 and C-6 aircraft. | aerospace |
https://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/projects/m2020-scheduler/ | 2024-02-24T00:09:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474470.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223221041-20240224011041-00427.warc.gz | 0.915695 | 457 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__86889497 | en | BackgroundThe Mars 2020 rover is scheduled for launch in the summer of 2020 and arrival at Mars in February 2021. The current plan is to have an onboard scheduler help the rover independently adapt to execution variances on the surface of Mars, enabling the rover to operate more efficiently. Specifically, if activities finish earlier or later than expected, the onboard scheduler will allow the rover to extend or add activities to perform more science, or delay activities to be performed later.
ProblemEfficiently operating a rover on the surface of Mars is challenging. Two factors combine to make this job particularly difficult: 1) communication opportunities are limited, 2) certain aspects of rover performance are difficult to predict. With limited communications, the rover must be given instructions on what to do for one or more Martian days at a time. In addition, the duration of many rover activities can be hard to predict, which leads to unpredictable energy use. Traditionally, conservatism is used to keep the rover safe and healthy. This approach, however can lead to a measurable loss in rover productivity. To regain some of this productivity, the Mars 2020 mission is prototyping the use of onboard scheduling software. The primary objective of this software is to identify and utilize opportunities that arise when actual rover performance is more efficient than the original, conservative prediction.
ImpactAn analysis of Mars Science Laboratory operations [Gaines et al. 2016] indicates that significant onboard resources are made available during execution that cannot be used due to current rovers inability to change the uploaded schedule. If an onboard scheduler can leverage such resources, it can significantly improve rover productivity.
StatusStatus as of December 2022 is as follows.
1. Post landing, post checkout (Summer 2021): Copilot used in ground operations to automatically schedule wake/sleep and preheat activities with manually planned fixed time Master/Submaster (MSM) primary activities.
2. November 2021: Constraint-based planning (CBP) enabled in ground operations. CBP can automatically schedule (eg find times) for primary (science and engineering) activities. These activities are uplinked as fixed time MSM activities.
3. Onboard automated scheduling currently projected for Summer 2023 operations.
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https://safestructuredesigns.com/3284-2/ | 2023-06-09T13:43:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656737.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609132648-20230609162648-00658.warc.gz | 0.962143 | 305 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__268011152 | en | PRESS RELEASE MAY 3, 2016
S.A.F.E. Structure Designs, a fully woman-owned company specializing in the custom design, engineering and manufacturing of safe aircraft access platforms, fall protection platforms and maintenance support equipment, has announced its newest addition to its team, Next Stage Engineering LLC (NSE). The need to keep aircraft operational is imperative, budget cuts and economic pressures are a real issue mechanics face. To maintain its commitment to customers of having high quality products at the most competitive pricing found on the market, S.A.F.E. has focused on the importance of aligning with a highly skilled design and engineering team, NSE. NSE is an established mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering firm supporting its customers with engineering, modeling and simulation, research and development, design and analysis services. NSE uses the latest technology and techniques to keep the creative flow between the engineers and S.A.F.E.’s clients.
“This effort is to assure that S.A.F.E. maintains its position as an extremely efficient and lean business while maintaining its promise of the highest quality products,” said Dina Gorby, S.A.F.E. owner and CEO. “S.A.F.E. will be able to produce expert level design and engineering services with an unprecedented turnaround time. This is just another way to assure our customers will enjoy working with our S.A.F.E. team.” | aerospace |
https://pararesearchers.org/index.php/ufos/52-ufo-2001/177-kanata-on- | 2022-12-04T02:18:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710953.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20221204004054-20221204034054-00781.warc.gz | 0.966456 | 217 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__146578108 | en | August 25, 2001, 10:02 AM.
There was a clear blue sky on August 25, 2001, as the witness and his wife drove north and noticed a high flying jet plane leaving a contrail at 10:02 AM. One minute later they saw another craft moving northeast without making a contrail. It was moving just too fast and too high to be a glider or small airplane. It looked like a perfectly cylindrical metallic object with a quasi-transparent dome shape attached to the top similar in texture to what you can see when the moon is barely visible during the day. There was a variable haze surrounding the object the fast moving object. As the object came overhead the witness laughed to himself and realized the shape of the object was just like a UFO portrayed in a B movie. Comparing the UFO with a helicopter flying over the witness felt the UFO was the size of a big commercial jet. He is an amateur astronomer and has a Master degree in engineering.
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http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/7057/preparing-a-prototype | 2017-05-22T15:38:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463605188.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522151715-20170522171715-00616.warc.gz | 0.935065 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__241878971 | en | Preparing a Prototype
North Carolina-based Avjet Biotech Inc. has announced the selection of Boulder, Colo.-based Continental Technologies LLC to establish its pre-prototype laboratory system, prototype aviation biofuel facility and commercial aviation biofuel refinery. Continental Technologies has experience designing, fabricating, installing and operating refineries and other processing systems.
“Our agreement with Continental Technologies will produce plans, specifications, schematics and equipment designs that we can implement at other small, distributive refineries across the globe,” says Marty Oliver, president of ABI. “Continental’s knowledge, support and years of experience will help Avjet become the turnkey provider for organizations that need small, distributive refineries.”
According to Avjet Biotech, it has delved a unique, patented refining technique that utilizes a thermal catalytic process to refine triglycerides into aviation fuels. The technology, referred to as the RWR System, is currently under development for sale as a small distributive refining system. The company’s subsidiary Red Wolf Refining has already been approached by potential customers regarding sublicenses.
“We are pleased to take this next step forward to see the laboratory scale facility built on the N.C. State University campus,” says Don Evans, chairman and CEO of ABI. “As our facilities grow into three stages of production scale, we will be able to provide aviation biofuels that will benefit the military and commercial aviation biofuel demands worldwide.” —Erin Voegele | aerospace |
https://www.asap-aviationprocurement.com/aircraft-antenna-parts/rfq/comant/ci420-221/ | 2023-09-23T15:26:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506481.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923130827-20230923160827-00804.warc.gz | 0.883555 | 451 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__192583625 | en | Get the Best Quote for Aircraft Antenna Part Number CI420-221 by Comant
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https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geo/ | 2023-05-30T01:08:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644915.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530000715-20230530030715-00469.warc.gz | 0.767975 | 613 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__160220154 | en | Wikipedia describes a geosynchronous orbit (GSO) as an orbit around the Earth with an orbital period of one sidereal day, intentionally matching the Earth’s sidereal rotation period (approximately 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds).
The synchronization of rotation and orbital period means that, for an observer on the surface of the Earth, an object in geosynchronous orbit returns to exactly the same position in the sky after a period of one sidereal day. Over the course of a day, the object’s position in the sky traces out a path, typically in the form of an analemma, whose precise characteristics depend on the orbit’s inclination and eccentricity.
A special case of geosynchronous orbit is the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) which is a circular geosynchronous orbit at zero inclination (that is, directly above the equator). A satellite in a geostationary orbit appears stationary, always at the same point in the sky, to ground observers. This means the ground station antennas do not have to move, but can be pointed permanently at the fixed location in the sky where the satellite appears.
Qatar’s Es’hail 2 geostationary satellite will carry amateur radio transponders that could link amateurs from Brazil to India. The satellite is expected to launch by the end of 2018 and will be positioned at 25.5 degrees East.
Es’hail 2 will carry two “Phase 4” amateur radio transponders operating in the 2400 MHz and 10450 MHz bands. A 250 kHz bandwidth linear transponder intended for conventional analogue operations and an 8 MHz bandwidth transponder for experimental digital modulation schemes and DVB amateur television.
Linear transponder 2400.050 - 2400.300 MHz Uplink 10489.550 - 10489.800 MHz Downlink
Wideband digital transponder 2401.500 - 2409.500 MHz Uplink 10491.000 - 10499.000 MHz Downlink
Further information on the Es’hail 2 satellite
What Is a Geosynchronous Orbit? http://www.space.com/29222-geosynchronous-orbit.html
NASA Three classes of orbit http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsCatalog/page2.php
AMSAT-NA Opportunity for Rideshare to Geosynchronous Orbit http://www.amsat.org/?p=4058
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https://indianexpresss.in/very-short-essay-on-space-travel/ | 2023-01-31T23:50:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499891.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131222253-20230201012253-00754.warc.gz | 0.961918 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__270486156 | en | Very Short Essay on Space Travel
The travel to outer space refers to Space Travel. The history of advance of science is the story of marvelous discoveries and inventions, each one more extra-ordinary than the others. Man has, since the beginning, been very curious to know everything. He has been successful in flying in the sky like birds and also in fathoming the sea. Now he is curious to know about things above the earth, i.e. the heaven, the stars, the planets, and the satellites. He wants to know about space and the solar world.
Space scientists have invented rockets that move through space at an enormously swift speed. They travel so fast that within a short time they reach beyond the gravitational pull of the earth and pass into limitless space. Space scientists of many countries have launched missiles that move at the speed of thousands of kilometers per hour.
The knowledge of astronomy, physics, etc. has enabled man to know much about stars and planet, their behavior, their motions, etc.
The year 1969 was remarkable when Neil Armstrong, Edwin, and Collins set their feet on the moon on 20th July. The name of the spaceflight was ‘Apollo 11’. The day was a memorable day in space travel. Neil Armstrong and his two companions walked on the surface of the moon for about two hours and brought many valuable specimens. They made the whole world wonder-struck. | aerospace |
https://research.utk.edu/oried/2018/04/26/ore-to-host-vice-commander-of-afrl/ | 2023-12-01T18:57:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100304.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201183432-20231201213432-00559.warc.gz | 0.943854 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__222339619 | en | The Office of Research and Engagement will host Colonel Elena Oberg, Vice Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), during her visit UT to share information about AFRL’s new Science & Technology 2030 initiative, including current and future research opportunities with the Air Force, Tuesday, May 1.
Launched in September 2017 by Secretary of the US Air Force Heather Wilson, the 2030 initiative is in preparation of a new science and technology strategy that begins with outreach events like Oberg’s. AFRL has scheduled several such events at universities around the country to listen to “cutting-edge science and technology ideas for basic and applied research, as well as ideas on best practices to support innovative research organizations.”
Oberg’s presentation is open to faculty and graduate students. Those interested in attending her presentation can register here.
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http://www.solarnavigator.net/steve_fossett_longest_non_stop_flight.htm | 2023-06-05T07:06:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224651325.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605053432-20230605083432-00008.warc.gz | 0.972465 | 1,941 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__284118843 | en | GLOBAL FLYER - LONGEST MANNED FLIGHT - 11 February 2006
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Pilot Steve Fossett has stretched his wings again by completing the longest nonstop flight in aviation history Saturday just before making a dramatic emergency landing at an airport 100 miles outside of London.
almost ran out of runway when taking off in Florida.
High over India, turbulence came close to breaking the
plane apart. Minutes away from his scheduled landing, a
power failure forced an emergency descent. Yet despite
these ordeals, aviator Steve Fossett has clocked up
another record: the longest ever non-stop flight.
Once aloft, the GlobalFlyer was hindered by a weak jet stream across America and the Atlantic and severe turbulence over Asia, which threatened to damage the lightweight craft. The trip was also a physical challenge for Fossett. Temperatures topped 50 °C at times, and he had little sleep during the 76
Fighting through sleep deprivation, severe turbulence and a last gasp emergency landing, Steve Fossett broke the record for the longest nonstop flight in aviation history. The 61-year-old adventurer piloted his lightweight experimental plane, Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer, to set a new record of 26,389 miles in about 76 hours despite a complete electronic failure that threatened to turn his glorious return into a nightmare.
Fossett put emergency landing procedures into action when a generator light started to flash upon his descent. The mechanical crisis forced him to land Saturday at Bournemouth International Airport, in southern England, instead of his planned landing point in nearby Kent, where hundreds of well wishers were gathered to greet him. “He burst two tires on landing and the poor Global Flyer had to be dragged off the runway,” said Steve Ridgeway, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, the company sponsoring Fossett's record bid.
Ground control confirmed Fossett had broken the distance record of 24,987 miles as his plane flew over Shannon, Ireland, after crossing the Atlantic, his ground team said.
That eclipsed the 1986 record set by the lightweight Voyager aircraft, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. It also beats the balloon record of 25,361 miles set in 1999 by the Breitling Orbiter 3.
Fossett arrived at Kent International Airport on a private jet alongside the billionaire Virgin Atlantic owner Sir Richard Branson, where he was greeted by his wife, Peggy, and rapturous applause from the assembled crowd. Stepping onto the tarmac, dressed in his silver flight suit, he spoke of his delight and relief at completing the flight. He said he realized he was in trouble when he began his descent for Kent and a light came on indicating the plane's generator had failed, prompting him to put emergency procedures in place.
“I was really lucky to make it here today, there was a lot going on. The tension of the final part really took it out of me, but I will be fine in the morning,” he told reporters. The finale was one of several episodes that nearly doomed his 3˝-day voyage. During takeoff Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, his plane lost about 750 pounds of fuel in a leak – and he nearly ran out of runway. “I had to pull up with all my might” to get the plane in the air before the end of the airstrip.
Severe turbulence over India “almost broke the plane apart,” he said, forcing him to strap on a parachute. After the news conference he was presented with the Guinness World Record for the longest flight in history. Branson, who was beaming with pride throughout the conference, said Fossett's record was a superhuman effort. “He's just flown further than man, or woman, has ever flown,” said Branson. “He has had pretty much no sleep since he set off from Kennedy a few days ago, and he has been through an incredible amount.”
Fossett already holds the record for flying solo around the globe in a balloon and for being the first person to circle the globe solo in a plane without stopping or refueling. That flight last year lasted 67 hours and was hampered by a fuel leak. A fuel leak delayed Fossett's scheduled takeoff from Tuesday to Wednesday and the plane's ventilation system malfunctioned midway through the trip, causing temperatures in the cockpit to rise to as much as 130 degrees. Fossett was forced to drink a large part of his water supply earlier than planned because of the heat, his flight team said.
While in the air, Fossett took power naps no longer than 10 minutes each and drank a steady diet of milkshakes. His plane was equipped with a parachute pack holding a one-man raft and a satellite rescue beacon. The generator of Fossett's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer failed just miles from his destination of Kent International Airport, which meant a total electrical breakdown, according to the GlobalFlyer Web site.
Fossett, 61, the American millionaire adventurer who made history last year with the first solo nonstop flight around the world, set this record by traveling 26,389.3 miles and was in flight for 76 hours 45 minutes before landing at about 5 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
He surpassed his goal of covering 26,160 miles in about 80 hours. The prior record was 25,361 miles, set in 1999 by the Breitling Orbiter balloon. By comparison, Fossett's round-the-world flight in March 2005 covered just less than 23,000 miles.
The specially designed ultralight GlobalFlye - with a wingspan as wide as an 11-story building is tall - lifted off Wednesday morning from the 15,000-foot space shuttle landing runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Fossett flew a full trip eastward around the world before crossing the Atlantic a second time on the last leg. He took the plane to an altitude of about 45,000 feet to take advantage of the high-speed jetstream flowing west to east over the Northern Hemisphere.
The veteran aviator was forced to make an emergency Mayday call through to Bournemouth International Airport and was given a short landing window. "If we didn't get him down in fifteen minutes, he would have had to have ditched the plane," Virgin Atlantic Chief Executive Steve Ridgeway said, according the Global Flyer site.
The generator failure occurred just after his billionaire friend and sponsor Richard Branson had called Fossett to congratulate him on his record, which he broke when be flew over Shannon, Ireland, the site said. "On landing, Steve burst two tires, and his windscreen was iced up so much that he couldn't see even meters in front of him," according to the site. "Not only all that, but he had only 200 pounds of fuel left, which, if he had continued, may well have turned into another emergency!" "We told him he had to land alive," said Branson, who flew behind Fossett in a chase plane on the final leg. "He actually had to land alive, because if he didn't land alive he wouldn't get the record."
In addition to the generator problem, GlobalFlyer's ventilation system malfunctioned midway through the trip, causing temperatures in the 7-foot cockpit to rise as much as 130 degrees. He also contended with severe turbulence over India. After a medical check-up, Fossett flew from Bournemouth to Kent, arriving at about 6:30 p.m. GMT in his private jet with Branson. After nearly four days existing on nothing but milkshakes, Fossett toasted his achievement with champagne. Asked what he would do next, he said simply: "Catch up on some sleep."
Steve completed the longest non-stop flight in aviation history with an emergency landing, flying 42,468 km in about 76 hours but stopping early because of mechanical problems.
Ground control said Fossett, 61, broke the airplane distance record of 40,210 km while his lightweight experimental plane was flying over Shannon, Ireland. He was then forced to land the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer at Bournemouth International Airport, in southern England, instead of at a military air strip in nearby Kent because of generator problems. "He burst two tires on landing and the poor Global Flyer had to be dragged off the runway," said Steve Ridgeway, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, the company sponsoring Fossett's record bid.
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