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https://www.afrso.com/focus-areas/automation-and-robotics/ | 2022-12-03T16:43:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710933.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203143925-20221203173925-00268.warc.gz | 0.900156 | 585 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__168910121 | en | The Rapid Sustainment Office is working to accelerate readiness, reduce manual labor, and decrease costs for processes essential to the operation and sustainment of the Air Force through the use of Robotic Process Automation.
We apply automation and robotics to eliminate maintenance tasks that are repetitive, manpower-intensive, or hazardous, making it possible to accomplish these tasks safely and efficiently with a high degree of accuracy.
This system uses a powerful laser stripping tool and state-of-the-art robots to remove paint and coatings from aircraft automatically. The system provides a reliable, environmentally friendly alternative to the current chemical, blast media, or hand sanding removal methods.
We are working with IBC Materials & Technologies to implement fast and environmentally friendly paint removal process based on IBC’s Plasma Electrolytic De-Paint technology that will provide significant time, cost and environmental savings.
IBC Materials & Technologies - awarded prototype contract at RSO Pitch Day
We are working with Invoke to develop a software product where bots mimic human interaction with systems and applications through existing user interfaces.
There are many manual and repetitive processes throughout the Air Force, exacerbated by the hundreds of legacy systems in use. Invoke’s Robotics Process Automation solution will not only automate these manual activities, it will digitize this process data, helping to overcome one of the main challenges to implementing artificial intelligence.
Invoke Public Sector - awarded prototype contract at RSO Pitch Day
We are working with C360 to advance the visual control feedback for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robots. Notably, this technology will enable better control of unmanned systems – particularly those required upon to operate in congest regions – such as urban landscapes. It will be an ideal technology to augment remote tele-operational control, and the work that we are completing concerning data compression and real-time stream will enable advanced training or over watch efforts for teams on the ground.
C360 Technologies, Inc. - awarded prototype contract at RSO Pitch Day
The Air Force spends billions of dollars per year manually drilling out rivets for aircraft repair and inspection. Wilder Systems’ agile manufacturing robot automates the most labor intensive and error prone processes regarding rivet drill out. It uses high precision lasers and computer vision to repeatably locate rivets to thousandths of an inch without deviation from center. This will decrease manual labor costs, increase quality, and increase aircraft uptime by utilizing advanced technologies to reduce total operation time with flawless mechanical precision.
Wilder Systems LLC - awarded prototype contract at RSO Pitch Day
Whether you are a tech company with a big idea for the sustainment of Air Force systems or an Air Force or other military/government organization looking to get involved, the RSO wants to hear from you! Please fill out and submit our form, and we will put you in touch with the right person. | aerospace |
https://aviassist.org/shop/safety-in-african-aviation-siaa-conference/ | 2021-10-16T17:26:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323584913.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016170013-20211016200013-00245.warc.gz | 0.925319 | 340 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__256387730 | en | Safety in African Aviation (SiAA) 2021
Safety in African Aviation (SiAA) conference 19 November & 7 December 2021
We’ll help you keep your focus on safety as more planes gradually return to the skies and to our airports. With lower volumes of traffic, our industry risks losing safety proficiency. Let’s share ideas and best practices on how to ‘Build Back Safer’ – on safety management, human factors & Crew Resource Management, aviation mental health or ground operations safety. SiAA 2021, the 8th edition of this event, will be held as a virtual conference with speakers and guests from Africa and the rest of the world. Tune in as a host of distinguished speakers will lead the way in aviation safety transformation. Win great prizes, get up to date with the latest best practices and news from African aviation and listen to great stories. Thanks to our great sponsors, we can keep the registration fee at only US$9 pp
Your conference of fee US$ 9 (US$7 with the Early bird registration before the 17th of October) fee INCLUDES:
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https://www.trtworld.com/asia/us-air-force-human-remains-found-in-landing-gear-of-flight-from-kabul-49267 | 2022-05-17T01:13:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662515466.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516235937-20220517025937-00641.warc.gz | 0.953202 | 621 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__55182523 | en | Video on social media showed hundreds of people running alongside the huge craft and clambering onto it as it rolled along a runway and what appears to be at least two Afghans plummeting from an airborne C-17 transport.
The US Air Force said that it is investigating the circumstances surrounding human remains that have been found in the wheel well of one of its C-17s that flew out of Kabul amid the chaos of the Taliban taking over the Afghan capital.
Images circulated on social media earlier this week of Afghans desperate to leave Kabul rushing toward a C-17 and clinging to its side. A separate video showed what appeared to be two people falling from a military plane as it flew out of Kabul.
In a statement, the Air Force said that a C-17 aircraft landed at Kabul's airport on Monday and was surrounded by hundreds of Afghan civilians.
"Faced with a rapidly deteriorating security situation around the aircraft, the C-17 crew decided to depart the airfield as quickly as possible," the statement said.
It added that the Air Force's office of Special Investigation was reviewing information about the aircraft and the "loss of civilian lives - to include video documentation and the source of social media posts."
Over 600 Afghans crammed into US cargo plane
More than 600 Afghan men, women and children, crouching and crammed up against each other on the floor of a US military plane, left Kabul.
A photograph showing the Afghan civilians - some clutching luggage, others bottle-feeding infants - on the C-17 cargo aircraft has gone viral on social media.
A US official told Reuters about 640 people clambered onto the flight from Kabul on Sunday, when thousands of people desperate to flee the country surged to the airport in the Afghan capital.
"The unusually high number of passengers was the result of a dynamic security environment that necessitated quick decision making by the crew which ultimately ensured these passengers were quickly taken outside the country," the official said.
According to the manufacturer, Boeing, the C-17 Globemaster III can carry 134 passengers, including 54 on side seats and 80 on pallets on the floor.
New aviation milestones!!— Shantanu Nandan Sharma (@shantanunandan2) August 17, 2021
US evacuated some 640 Afghans from Kabul, to Qatar on Aug 15.
Possibly the most people ever flown in C-17 military cargo plane. pic.twitter.com/pBOgyjBWCM
Taliban's rapid takeover
The Taliban's rapid conquest of Kabul followed US President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw US forces after 20 years of war - the nation's longest - that he described as costing more than $1 trillion.
The speed at which Afghan cities fell, in days rather than the months predicted by US intelligence, and fear of a Taliban crackdown on freedom of speech and human rights, especially women's rights, have sparked criticism.
In a televised address on Monday afternoon Biden defended his decision, blaming the Taliban's takeover on Afghan political leaders who fled the country and the Afghan army's unwillingness to fight. | aerospace |
https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/GT/proceedings/GT1985/79382/V001T03A056/235933 | 2019-10-24T02:04:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987838289.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20191024012613-20191024040113-00484.warc.gz | 0.936974 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__60481076 | en | Using five-hole pitot tubes, detailed flow measurements were made before, within and after a low-speed three-dimensional turbine stator blade row to obtain quantitative information on the aerodynamic loss mechanism. Qualitative flow visualization tests and endwall static pressure measurements were also made.
An analysis of the tests revealed that many vortical flows promote loss generation. Within a large part of the cascade, a major loss process could be explained simply as the migration of boundary layer low energy fluids from surrounding walls (endwalls and blade surfaces) to the blade suction surface near the trailing edge. On the other hand, complexity exists after the cascade and in the vortical flows near the trailing edge. The strong trailing shedding vortices affect upstream flow fields within the cascade. Detailed flow surveys within the cascade under the effects of blade tip leakage flows are also included. | aerospace |
https://fergyaero.com/gallery.html | 2023-09-28T11:18:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510387.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928095004-20230928125004-00577.warc.gz | 0.896407 | 89 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__54569039 | en | Context is crucial. Specialist knowledge is vital - and paradoxically commonplace. To deliver actionable insight, it must fit into a robust view of the overall aerospace manufacture & support ecosystem.
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http://www.lamonitor.com/content/date-mars | 2017-01-16T13:19:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279176.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.903712 | 484 | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__38236461 | en | - Special Sections
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A laser instrument made in Los Alamos and meant for Mars has completed the first leg of its journey — over land — to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Next year, the instrument called the ChemCam will be on the Red Planet, helping to find out what elements are in Mars’ rocks and soil from a distance of 23 feet from Curiosity, the new rover.
“ChemCam will act as a geochemical observatory, providing composition data to understand if Mars was, is, or will be a habitable world. It will also help the rover team pick the most promising targets on which to use the rover’s other instruments,” said Sylvestre Maurice, the French lead for the instrument.
At JPL, ChemCan will be installed on Curiosity.
The ChemCam instrument was conceived, designed and built by a U.S.-French team, led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, , CNES and the CESR at the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse.
ChemCam is the first instrument of its kind.
“We brought together a lot of new ideas to make this instrument a reality,” said Roger Wiens, the instrument’s principal investigator, from Los Alamos. The way it works, ChemCan fires pulses of laser light at potentially distant targets using a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), to measure the chemical content of the target samples.
The laser beam vaporizes a pinhead-sized area on the target. A spectral analyzer then peers at the flash of light from the vaporized sample.
The Curiosity rover is by far the biggest and most capable robot ever destined for Mars.
It is nuclear powered and, at a weight of more than 1984 pounds is about the size of a small car.
The capsule that will be used to carry the rover into the Mars atmosphere is even larger than the Apollo capsule that housed three astronauts for missions to the Moon.
ChemCam is one of 10 instrument packages on the rover. The other instruments are capable of identifying minerals, sniffing out organic materials, observing the weather and radiation environment, and drilling several centimeters into the Martian rocks.
Curiosity is set for launch from Florida in November of 2011 and will arrive at Mars in August 2012. | aerospace |
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https://fellinis.com.au/2021/02/17/the-last-plane-at-tegel-airport-has-survived-hijackers-and-cold-war/ | 2024-02-25T05:41:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474581.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225035809-20240225065809-00143.warc.gz | 0.965314 | 2,453 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__66453230 | en | On September 6, 1970, four flights heading from Europe to New York were hijacked in a coordinated action by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP). Two of the aircraft wound up landing in Jordan on a desert airstrip called Dawson’s Field. Another was diverted to Cairo. Intense hostage negotiations followed.
The pilot of the fourth plane, El Al Flight 219, managed to subdue the two hijackers on board by sending the aircraft into a nosedive 20 minutes after taking off from Amsterdam. One of the hijackers, Nicaraguan-American Sandinista Patrick Argüello, was shot and killed by an air marshal. The second, Leila Khaled, who had already hijacked TWA Flight 840 a year earlier, was overpowered and arrested. During the attack, Argüello critically injured flight attendant Shlomo Vidor. Seeking speedy medical attention for the injured attendant, pilot Uri Bar-Lev disregarded instructions to re-route to Tel Aviv and landed safely in London.
The Boeing 707 from that fateful flight is today parked in the far southwest corner of Berlin’s recently shuttered Tegel “Otto Lilienthal” Airport. One of the plane’s passenger doors hangs off its hinges. Two sets of boarding stairs in similarly bad shape are lined up neatly adjacent to the aircraft. Mold grows over its mid-century livery, which marks the plane as a Lufthansa 707, not El Al. This curious tableau is clearly visible from the other side of the razor wire-topped fence separating the end of the airport from a trail at the edge of the Jungfernheide forest. The plane is historic for several reasons, but its days are numbered.
After the foiled attack, and prior to winding up in the Deutsches Technikmuseum’s possession, the plane returned to normal operation. At the time, hijackings were much more common than they are now—between 1968 and 1972, there were 326 attempted hijackings worldwide. The aircraft remained part of the fleet until April 1984, when it was leased to another Israeli airline, Arkia, until July 1986. Then it was sold back to Boeing in September of that year. “From what I understand,” emails Stanley Morais, El Al’s acting director of international affairs, “Boeing gave it to Lufthansa as a gift celebrating 30 years of working together (in a sort of retro livery) and Lufthansa gifted it to the aviation museum in Berlin.”
Heiko Triesch, the aerospace curator at the Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology), says Boeing gave the former El Al 707 to Lufthansa so the German airline could use it as a prop in honoring the company’s 1926 Berlin origins. “Lufthansa wanted to place a symbol somewhere that they were both interested in Berlin and founded there,” Triesch explains. During the Cold War, Lufthansa was barred from operating in the city of its founding. Because West Berlin was entirely surrounded by East Germany, the city’s three airports, Tegel, Tempelhof, and Gatow, were connected to the rest of the West only by strictly controlled air corridors. French, British, and American airlines were the only commercial operators allowed to fly in or out.
Upon receiving this regift from Boeing, Lufthansa Technik repainted the plane in the airline’s post-war livery, then scrupulously covered it up to sneak the craft into West Berlin. American pilots flew the plane to Tegel from Frankfurt undercover in 1987. For years, the Boeing 707 was proudly displayed as a gate guard, “so the first thing you saw when you flew from Berlin was a Lufthansa plane painted in their 1950s design,” Triesch says.
After the Wall came down and Berlin was reunified, the plane, like much of the city’s infrastructure, met with rapid change. Lufthansa could now operate in the city, and a renovation project in front of Tegel meant the Boeing 707 was in the way. Triesch thinks the plane was moved from its plum position to its current area—under a stand of pine trees, far from view of the airport buildings—in the late ‘90s or 2000. The 707 was used for a while as a training site for fire brigades and special police forces, but otherwise, the aircraft has been left to the elements. This despite Triesch mandating that, for the sake of preservation, “you always have to keep an airplane under a roof.” Today, the 707’s exterior draws observers as much for its derelict condition and unlikely parking spot as it does for its out-of-production status and retro paint job.
The Deutsches Technikmuseum owns multiple other historically significant aircraft including a Candy Bomber, one of the iconic Douglas DC-3’s used to parachute little packages of sweets to West Berlin children during the Berlin Air Lift. By comparison, the Boeing 707 is not a particularly high-value museum object. “It was a gift we did not want to get, but eventually, we had to take it,” Triesch says. With the plane no longer certified to fly and the prestige of its former parking spot in front of Tegel wiped away by changing history, the 707 quickly became a hassle nobody has been able or inclined to deal with. Triesch estimated the cost of disassembling and trucking it to the museum’s storage at another former Berlin airport, Tempelhof. That alone would be around 100,000€; adding on a restoration project puts it in the millions. The museum’s contract with Lufthansa stipulates the airline cover certain associated costs, and though they were previously “always generous when we asked them for support, in the current situation, every cent they can save, they’re saving,” Triesch says.
The aircraft’s fate is also contingent on a specter of Berlin’s present-day history: gentrification. The city once known for its creative, counterculture squats loses more of them to developers every year. In October 2020, 1,500 police evicted the 30-year-old queer, anarchofeminist squat Liebig 34 in a widely criticized action that reportedly cost the city at least a million euros. Across town, Berlin’s new airport, BER, opened on October 31 (eight years late and billions of euros over budget). Tegel officially closed eight days later. The former airport is currently slated for redevelopment as a mixed-use residential and commercial project. The airplane is a derelict curiosity, and it has to go. “What we thought was, why not repaint the airplane and keep it at Tegel, as a monument to the airport?” says Triesch. “But everybody’s very afraid that it might in the future cost a lot of money, so nobody’s willing to keep it.”
Not that Berliners with a personal connection to the airplane haven’t tried. Helge Schill, the Tegel fire department’s former Watch Commander and currently the Area Manager of Training and Education for the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport’s fire department, has run practice exercises on the aircraft since 1998. Given that the plane is a huge part of Tegel’s history, he tells me over email, “most former employees think the machine belongs back in front of the airport, to commemorate the history of the airport and that of the machine.” The firefighter mentions that neither his preservation proposal, for his department to personally tow the plane to a Bundeswehr site north of Tegel, nor that of the airport’s police force, which would have seen the plane removed to their own private training area, was workable, due to the costs and effort involved.
“If you have something in the basement, nobody is aware of it and nobody takes care of it,” Triesch says. “But there are two different aspects here. The first is that the airplane is visible from the fence of the airport, and the second is that the 707 is an iconic airplane.” There’s also a third issue at stake regarding the cult interest in this particular 707—its home, Tegel, has long had its own devoted fans. The airport is petite, built around a unique hexagonal main terminal, and nestled in a residential area fairly close to the city center. Even without a ticket, Tegel offered an observation deck for avid planespotters. One of them, Tommy Pfeiffer, an aviation journalist who lives just a few minutes away, has been monitoring the Boeing 707’s condition for years. “For me, it is not a symbol for Berlin, [but] a symbol of the revolution in air travel in the 1960s, from piston planes to the Jet Age,” he says. “Such an iconic plane should always be kept in some way if possible.” Citing other recent issues, like the new BER airport’s years-late opening and its location outside Berlin’s city limits, Pfeiffer sees the lack of support for the aircraft’s preservation as yet another aviation-related failure of local politics.
He recently met up with some of his fellow Tegel planespotters in the Jungfernheide woods to capture their last shots of the aircraft in the snow. The group plans to meet again, he tells me, to “document the last days of the B707, when she will be dismantled, and [we] will quietly say goodbye to this legendary quad jet.” For Pfeiffer, who was able to visit the interior of the Boeing 707 years ago, before “the bad condition of the airframe and the toxic fumes inside the cabin made it too dangerous,” the loss of the plane is an unfortunate loss for the broader history of flight. “Seeing the plane myself, fading away for over a decade, is incredibly sad. The B707 is an iconic plane that changed the way of air travel in the early 1960s.”
The Boeing 707’s removal will take place by the end of April 2021. The Deutsches Technikmuseum plans to retain sections of the cabin’s interior, and is currently deciding whether it can afford to take any larger parts, like an engine or a vertical stabilizer. The rest will be scrapped and recycled. Even fans of the aircraft seem resigned to its dismantling, since, as Triesch reports, “We were contacted by people who would like to get a part, but there’s nobody writing us, ‘You are crazy, you have to save the airplane.’” But there’s a glimmer of hope for once airborne odds and ends. “What we’re hoping we can do is take smaller parts, like a door or a window frame, and put those up for auction. I’d like to see this happen, because everybody who’s enthusiastic about the 707 can save a part from it.” Chunks of the Berlin Wall have ended up in locales as far-flung as Manila’s Museum of the Philippines and Usain Bolt’s training camp in Jamaica. It’s too late to keep the last plane at Tegel intact, but with some luck, it too might get a second life around the globe. | aerospace |
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The successful 30-minute first test flight marks a major milestone for the CH-53K program and Sikorsky, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
The Marine Corps expects to spend $29 billion to buy 200 of the new helicopters in coming years, with an initial squadron slated to be ready for combat use by 2019. Officials say the new helicopters will be far more powerful, easier to maintain and easier to fly.
The new helicopter will carry three times as much as the current aging CH-53E helicopter in challenging high altitude and heat, about 27,000 pounds (12,247 kg) versus 9,000 pounds (4,082 kg) for the older model.
"This is a key step toward fielding this brand-new capability," Marine Corps Colonel Hank Vanderborght told reporters after the flight. He said the aircraft would give the Marine Corps greater ability to move cargo from ship to shore and participate in disaster relief missions.
Lockheed Martin Corp is expected to complete its $9 billion takeover of Sikorsky by late October or early November.
Vanderborght said he did not expect the takeover to affect the program.
The newly designed K-model has roughly the same footprint as the E-model but has a far larger inside loading space, which will enable Marines to load palettes of equipment and gear directly from cargo planes onto the helicopters.
Vanderborght said the gear box problem would likely result in a five-month delay in the expected start of production of the new helicopters until January 2017. | aerospace |
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In aircraft maintenance, the primary objective is to ensure realization of the inherent (design) safety and reliability levels of the aircraft. It is intended to restore safety and reliability to the inherent levels when deterioration has occurred. In this talk, we show that advanced methods in statistical reliability may be used to assess the impact of preventive maintenance and set the framework of a real-time decision making process capable of integrating sensor feeds with results from analysis of field data. We illustrate how we may utilize statistics to protect customer interest, steer the industry toward standardization of business processes, assist engineers and business groups establish program goals as well as business objectives, provide solutions, and guide Boeing reliability programs to comply with regulatory requirements. | aerospace |
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In this 100+ pages publication by EagleAviation, the modeler will enjoy around 420 photographs that cover the entire famous jet including the external details, the cockpit, the radar, the avionics, the engines and engine bays, maintenance panels as well as various weapons used. Photos from the jet’s new upgrades such as Conformal Fuel Tanks (CFTs) and F-16D dorsal spine are also included.
As it is designed to be the modelers’ best guide for the F-16, a lot of panoramic and close up photos revealing interesting and less photographed angles of the jet are included. Additional photos regarding F-16’s CFTs as well as ordnance in service with many Air Forces around the world such as AIM-120C, AIM-9M, AIM-2000 IRIS-T, GBU-24/10, AGM-88 as well as AGM-154C JSOW can also be found in this magnificent photo manual.
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Hellenic Air Force at its best! Action photography aboard the fighters of Fighter Weapons School, the Hellenic “Top Gun”! 120 thrilling pages of fighter and helicopter operations for the most advanced training unit in the Hellenic Air Force. F-16s, F-15s, Mirage 2000s, F-4s, RF-4s, Super Pumas, Apaches and many more illustrated with dynamic action photography. Take the hot seat with some of the best pilots in the globe and relive aerial encounters at 45,000ft, or fly down low on the deck to strike enemy air defenses! Escort helicopters over hostile waters and attack warships over the Aegean!
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Un libro ilustrado épico que conmemora los 60 años del Escuadrón 340 presentado con fotografía dinámica, perfiles de color y textos autorizados. En las 86 páginas a todo color, el libro de tapa dura muestra las operaciones de la unidad de ataque nocturno más dedicada de la Fuerza Aérea Helénica.
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Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) built and operates the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Mars Color Imager (MARCI) and Context Camera (CTX). MSSS also built and operated the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). In addition, MSSS built the Mars Odyssey (ODY) Thermal Emission Imaging Spectrometer (THEMIS) Visible (VIS) camera subsystem, which shares optics with the thermal infrared instrument and is operated at Arizona State University (ASU). MSSS also built the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and has delivered four science cameras for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to Jupiter. Currently, MSSS is working on a second set of cameras for the Curiosity rover and developing the Mars Global Imaging Experiment (MAGIE) camera for a joint ESA/NASA Mars Orbiter mission launching in 2016. | aerospace |
https://whitepccase.com/2022/05/08/smallest-drone/ | 2022-05-20T10:36:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662531779.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220520093441-20220520123441-00631.warc.gz | 0.85821 | 2,911 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__178411607 | en | We have consulted experts who are with ease versed in smallest drone and can encourage you locate the best. With amazing features you haven’t heard before, we have selected the highest environment product. Our team has filtered higher than 100+ products to have enough money you the summit 10 list of best smallest drone.
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- 1080P HD FPV Camera Drone: Mini drone equipped with 90°manual adjustable 1080P HD Wi-Fi camera to take better aerial photos and videos; In addition, with FPV transmission, you can see fabulous scenery in live videos on the app and share it on social media with ease.
- Best Drone Toy for Kids: Fly this kids drone is magically simple, just tap the One Key Start/Landing button to start the fly; There are different speed switch, 3-speed modes help the beginners to find his/her way. Altitude hold can maintain the drone at a certain height, which makes it so easy to control and take high quality footage, suitable for kids and beginners.
- Safe Design & Long Flying Time: Features with low power alarm, emergency stop, and 4 propeller guards to ensure a safe flight of the drone. The extra set of batteries that is included, 2 rechargeable and powerful batteries support up to 18-21 mins, charge safer and fly longer.
- Multiple Fun Flights Mode and Voice Gesture Control: FPV drone can perform impressive 3D flip; Drawing a unique flight path on your smartphone, it will allow you maximum control of the drone's flight. Control the drone with simple voice comments like “ Fly” “ land”; Post a V sign or palm in front of the camera, the drone can automatically take photos or video.
- Advanced Flight Function: The kids drones have 3 control modes: remote controller/APP/voice control. Using the App can experience gravity sense mode, altitude hold mode and headless mode, which is the best choice for kids and the beginners.
- Easy to use：With the help of One-key Start and the Altitude Hold, HT02 Golden can take off and hover at a certain height to offer convenience to novice users. The Headless mode will help pilots control the drone more easily.
- Convenient to Carry: The size of HT02 Golden is 70*48*35 mm and it’s extremely lightweight, which makes the drone can be stored in its controller. And the pocket-size design saves space for your bag, allowing you to take it conveniently.
- Triple flight time: HT02 Golden accompanies with 3 batteries, which aims at extending the exciting flight to 24 minutes. Moreover, these Modular Batteries are much safer to use.
- Multiple Fun and Tricks: The fascinating 3D Flips can be realized effortlessly with the advanced flying control system. 3 Speed Modes enable the novice pilots practice the flying skills step by step.
- Security and Protection: The case of HT02 Golden is made out of nontoxic plastic material and it comes with a pair of propeller guards which can perfectly decreases the impact of the collision and avoids body injury in the course of playing. In addition, the HT02 Golden is a great treat in the Christmas/Birthday/Thanksgiving/other holiday party, classroom game or family gathering.
- Suitable for: Ages 14+
- Model on Hubsan H111
- 6-axis design makes the gyroscope adjustable, promoting flying stability
- Flight time will be up to 4-8 minutes,3-level adjustable speed flip function
- Low voltage alarm
- HD Pictures and Live Videos:V2 equipped with 720P HD Wi-Fi camera to take better aerial photos and videos; with FPV transmission, you can see the sky from a live video feed through smartphone app
- 30 Mins Flight Time ：Features with low power alarm, Emergency stop, and 4 propeller guards to ensure a safe flight,The drone accompanied with 3 removable and chargeable batteries, triples the flight time up to 30 minutes. A perfect gift to enhance enjoyment and heighten satisfaction!
- Drone for Kids: Fly V2 is magically simple, just tap the One Key Start/Landing button to start the fly; Altitude Hold can maintain the drone at a certain height, which makes it so easy to control and take high quality footage
- 3D Flips and Waypoints Fly: Pushing the control sticks inwards to perform an impressive flip; Drawing a flight course on your smartphone, the drone will fly accordingly, add funs to your flight.
- Multiple Control Modes：You can draw a path on your smartphone, the drone will fly following the path accordingly. The kids drones have 3 control modes: remote /APP/voice control. gravity sense mode,trajectory flight,voice control etc. You can control the drone with simple voice like“Take off”etc.
- 【30 Mins Flight Time 】4DV2 accompanies with 3 batteries, which aims at extending the exciting flight to 28 minutes. Moreover, these Modular Batteries are much safer to use.
- 【Multiple Fun and Tricks】With the help of One-key Start and the Altitude Hold, V2 can take off and hover at a certain height to offer convenience to novice users. The Headless mode will help pilots control the drone more easily.
- 【3D Flips and fly】: New and interesting function. The drone can do 360° circle and fly at high speeds, offering you a special and exciting feeling.
- 【One Key Take off / Landing】Drone automatically hovers at a set altitude after take-off and before landing making it easy to control and maneuver, especially for beginners who are not yet skilled.
- 【Mini size&free flight】Compact, lightweight design, our drone can fly between bookcases, tables and so on. Even you can take it out just in your pocket. Will be the best gift for Christmas, children's birthdays, new year and holidays
- Small Drone for Kids and Adults: upgraded with multi features, more stable and more suitable for kids and novice users. Ideal drone toy as a birthday or holiday gift.
- One Key Take-off and Landing function: allow beginner to easy to fly the drone without any skill. One Touch Down function is most important to protect the drone when it is out of control or low battery power, the drone will fly down slowly and land on the ground automatically before the motors stopping.
- Hover / Altitude Hold Mode: Drone altitude specified a flight mode. Beginners easy to manipulate.
- Headless Mode makes easier flight: Once the fuselage direction can not be recognized, it can enter headless mode so as to continue the flight.
- One key 360° roll, continuous roll for perfect action and wonderful performance. Designed LED lights are fitted for night flight possibilities, leaving a beautiful landscape in the night sky.
- Syma X20 Mini Drone is the newest drone upgraded with multi features, this 6-Axis gyro quad-rotorcraft flight can easily achieve various flight movements, and easier to control. More stable and more suitable for kids or beginners. This mini drone is very suitable for indoor playing.
- Headless Mode makes easier flight: Once the fuselage direction can not be recognized, it can enter headless mode so as to continue the flight. It helps the beginner to get the hang of directional control within several minutes.
- One Key Take off / Landing: one button press automatically taking off or landing, remote control quadcopter will take off or go back to the position where it took off. It helps to protect the drone when it is out of control or low battery power.
- Altitude Hold: Auto hovering is an altitude holding technology that lets the flying drone stabilize and suspend in mid-air automatically, even when you let go of the controls.
- 360°Stunt Flip: A key 360°roll, continuous roll for perfect action and wonderful performance. With the colorful flashing light, keep your aircraft flying excellently at night.
- Improved auto hover allows easier control in between commands
- Eight one-touch stunts are visually impressive
- Auto launch and land for one-button stationary hover and a gentle landing
- Dual flight mode provides choice of Auto and manual mode
- 【UP YOUR GAME】: The Mavic Air 2 camera drone takes power and portability to the next level. It combines a powerful camera with intelligent shooting modes for stunning results. Push your imagination to its limits because aerial photography has never been this easy.
- 【NEXT-LEVEL CONTENT】: Capture impressive 48MP photos with a 1/2-inch CMOS sensor while the 3-axis gimbal provides 4K/60fps video. The secret to incredible HDR video is a high-performance Quad Bayer image sensor. OcuSync 2.0 has a video transmission distance of up to 6.2mi / 10 km and can also deliver 1080p FHD resolution livestream directly from the drone’s camera.
- 【IMPROVED FLIGHT】: An impressive flight time of up to 34 minutes allows you to pull off epic, fast-paced shots. Obstacle sensing in three directions makes it extra convenient for beginners and improves safety for your Mavic Air 2.
- 【INTELLIGENT TRACKING】: Mavic Air 2 features intuitive shooting functions that make aerial photography easier than ever. Spotlight 2.0 keeps the camera locked on a subject while you fly freely. ActiveTrack 3.0 keeps subjects centered. POI 3.0 tracks moving subjects like people and vehicles.
- 【APP COMPATIBILITY】: The DJI Fly app requires iOS v10.0, Android v6.0, or above. Compatible devices include: iPhone (11 Pro Max, 11 Pro, 11, XS Max, XS, XR, X, 8 Plus, 8, 7 Plus, 7, 6s Plus, 6s, 6 Plus, 6), iPad Pro (9.7’’), iPad Air 2 (9.7’’), iPad mini 4 (8’’), iPad Pro (10.5’’), iPad Pro 2018 11’’, iPad Pro 12.9’’, Samsung Galaxy (S20, S10+, S10, S9+, S9, S8+, S8, S7 edge, S7, S6, Note10+, Note9, Note8), Huawei (P30 Pro, P30, P20, P10, Mate 30 Pro, Mate 20 Pro, Mate 10, nova 5, nova 4, nova 3e, nova 2, Honor 8X, 10, 9, 20 Pro, Magic 2, Mi 8, MIX 2S, MIX 2, Redmi Note 5, Oppo Find X, R15, Vivo NEX, X27, X21, X20A, OnePlus 7, 6T, 5, Pixel 3 XL, 2 XL, 2, LG V20, LG G6, Sony Xpeial 1.
- 【PACK LIGHT, FLY FREE】: at less than 249 g, it weighs about as much as an apple and fits in the palm of your hand. compact and convenient, this small drone is your ideal travel companion, transforming how you capture your favorite memories.
- 【3-AXIS GIMBAL WITH 4K CAMERA】: a 12mp camera in the sky delivers content guaranteed to impress. along with 4k/30fps video and a 3-axis motorized gimbal, mini 2 ensures stunning image quality that is consistently smooth no matter how adventurous your piloting gets.
- 【OCUSYNC 2.0 VIDEO TRANSMISSION】: mini 2 supports up to 10km of hd video transmission and has excellent anti-interference capabilities, giving you the ability to fly farther and see clearer.
- 【POWERFUL PERFORMANCE】: with a max battery life of 31 minutes, dji mini 2 grants more than enough time to compose the perfect shot. mini 2 can resist level 5 winds and take off at a max altitude of 4,000 meters, so your footage is stable even when flying along a windy coastline or high above an alpine forest.
- 【4X ZOOM】: there’s no need to get so close for your dream shot. 4x digital zoom makes it safer and more convenient when transitioning between shots of varying distance and composition. Operating Frequency 2.400-2.4835 GHz, 5.725-5.850 GHz
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https://focuswashington.com/2020/01/27/spacex-postpones-3rd-starlink-launch/ | 2020-02-24T02:32:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145869.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224010150-20200224040150-00499.warc.gz | 0.934724 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__178927126 | en | SpaceX has postponed Tuesday’s scheduled launch from Cape Canaveral due to poor weather in the recovery area, according to a SpaceX spokesperson, Space.com reports.
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday morning for the Starlink 3 rocket launch.
The launch is targeted for 9:06 a.m. ET.
The launch has also been postponed on Thursday and Monday due to inclement weather forecast in the recovery area.
Starlink 3 will carry the fourth batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.
After liftoff, SpaceX will attempt to recover the first-stage booster engine on a drone ship ‘Of Course, I Still Love You’ stationed out in the Atlantic.
The launch comes off the heels of a successful abort test launch the Crew Dragon capsule.
The launch served as one of the final steps before SpaceX and NASA can send astronauts back into space. They simulated what would happen during a disaster, as the Dragon crew capsule separated from the Falcon 9 rocket and deployed parachutes for a gentle splashdown.
Given the success of the test, the chief engineer/designer of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that it is probable that the first crewed launch will occur in the second quarter of 2020. However, NASA still needs to decide if this mission will be for a shorter or longer duration, as this will affect the launch date. | aerospace |
https://www.investors.com/research/ibd-industry-themes/boeings-latest-buy-may-give-it-flying-taxis-robotic-pilots/ | 2018-01-16T13:11:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886436.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116125134-20180116145134-00040.warc.gz | 0.960308 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__154840906 | en | Boeing (BA) announced Thursday it would buy Aurora Flight Sciences as the company looks toward more autonomous applications for aircraft, but the acquisition may hint at details about a new commercial plane being considered.
XThe aerospace giant is considering building a new midmarket plane that analysts have dubbed the "797." If Boeing goes ahead with it, the plane will help the company compete against Airbus' (EADSY) A321neo, which has allowed airlines to open new routes that aren't accessible with smaller planes and aren't profitable with larger ones.
Earlier this year, Boeing said it was looking at a "hybrid" cross-section that would cut the amount of cargo space, and the Aurora acquisition would provide some technical know-how on unconventional designs.
Aurora has worked on innovative aircraft designs and along with United Technologies' (UTX) Pratt & Whitney unit, helped build a so-called double bubble fuselage for NASA.
The design features smaller wings that lower fuel consumption, and the engines are placed at the back of the fuselage to reduce the amount of thrust needed.
When asked if Boeing would consider a design like this, Chief Technical Officer Greg Hyslop told reporters in a conference call Thursday that the company always evaluates future airframe ideas.
While he declined to comment on the midmarket plane, he added that one design Boeing is looking at is a blended-wing body, which lacks any division between the wings and body of the plane.
Boeing shares closed up 1.2% at 258.89 on the stock market today, near the high end of its buy range, which maxes out at 258.92. U.S.-listed shares of Airbus slipped 0.6%, and United Tech edged up 0.5%.
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Terms of the Aurora deal weren't disclosed, but Boeing said it wouldn't impact its financial guidance.
The companies aren't expecting pushback from the Defense Department or other regulators and hope the deal will close by the end of the year.
Aurora has been a longtime partner with Boeing and the companies worked together on rapid prototyping for military and commercial applications.
Other innovations Aurora could bring include advances in sensing technology, artificial intelligence and other areas around autonomous flight to "make an already safe airplane even safer," Hyslop said.
Aurora built a robotic co-pilot that has flown a Boeing 737 flight simulator. Boeing is considering more artificial intelligence applications to help with a pilot shortage.
"The combined strength and innovation of our teams will advance the development of autonomy for our commercial and military systems," Hyslop said in a press release. "Together, these talented teams will open new markets with transformational technologies."
One of those new markets could be air taxis that zip customers around crowded cities. In April, Aurora flew an air taxi prototype with vertical takeoff and landing technology and plans to deliver 50 to Uber Elevate, the ride-sharing company's flying car enterprise, by 2020.
Aurora also is currently building a hybrid-electric plane for the Defense Department along with Honeywell (HON) and Rolls-Royce.
Aurora has built 30 autonomous vehicles since it was founded in 1989 and is working on improving perception, machine learning and flight-control systems for its autonomous technology. | aerospace |
https://www.spacecapital.com/publications/space-investment-quarterly-q4-2022 | 2023-01-31T19:14:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499890.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131190543-20230131220543-00470.warc.gz | 0.950207 | 301 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__96451625 | en | Space technologies are playing an increasingly important role in the global economy:
- With another $4.7B invested into 85 space companies in Q4, there has now been $272.3B of equity investment into 1,791 unique companies in the space economy over the past 10 years
- With investment up 159% Q/Q, the market may have hit bottom in Q3 2022, which was the lowest quarter for investment in the Space Economy since Q4 2013.
- Despite the market downturn, SpaceX was a clear outlier raising $2.0B of fresh capital in 2022, the company’s second largest annual raise. With $6.3B invested in 2022, Infrastructure saw its third largest year on record, with SpaceX accounting for 32% of the total.
- In line with history, geopolitics will continue to be a driver of growth in the Space Economy going forward. National Security Space is now one of the fastest growing areas of the DoD budget and the 2023 Space Force budget of $26B ($1.7B more than requested) is now larger than that of NASA’s ($25B), for the first time.
- Emerging Industries constitutes just 1% of all investment in the Space Economy over the past decade. Despite a 63% decline in investment in the category Y/Y, with $0.5B of investment, primarily in Stations, 2022 was the second largest year for investment in these emerging markets. | aerospace |
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/f-18-hornet/ | 2014-08-23T13:34:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500826025.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021346-00106-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.899766 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__214235275 | en | MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s the kind of air plane ride that’s not for the faint of heart.
The U.S Navy Blue Angels gave me a once in a life time ride in an F-18 Hornet, and it was an unforgettable experience. 273 more words
Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy offered a glimpse of the future of carrier aviation on Aug. 17 by conducting a series of cooperative flights from the aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, using an X-47B Unmanned Air System (UCAS) and an F/A-18 Hornet, the company stated in a news release. 327 more words
The F/A-18 and EA-18G Program Office (PMA-265) announced today a contract award to Boeing for 44 F/A-18 Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft over the next two years, according to U.S. 328 more words | aerospace |
https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/11/drones-have-still-got-long-way-go/ | 2023-10-03T20:57:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511220.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003192425-20231003222425-00624.warc.gz | 0.933394 | 340 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__280687143 | en | Drones have still got a long way to go
Could drones solve some of Africa’s infrastructure problems? Afrotech, a Swiss company, seems to think so.
Transporting smaller cargo through the skies via drones, for instance, could be cheaper than investing in railways or roads right away. So starting next year the company will test cargo drones that can carry small packages across 50 miles.
The idea isn’t that unusual, says Matthew Wall, a technology and business reporter for BBC who’s covering Afrotech. “There are already these quadcopter drones … These are these helicopter-style drones which can carry small packages.”
They can also be programmed to pick up small packages, he added.
But, it would take a while for this to happen over long distances. For one, we don’t have the battery technology to power drones for more than 50 miles. And the drones themselves aren’t strong or light enough to transport most cargo.
“That’s going to take some ten years at least I think before we see these things across the skies,” said Wall.
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https://www.livingcosmos.com/earth-vs-saturn/ | 2023-11-29T14:19:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100112.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129141108-20231129171108-00773.warc.gz | 0.903912 | 1,510 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__281986685 | en | Earth vs Saturn – two fascinating planets. Let’s explore their similarities and differences in depth. We hope to not only satisfy your curiosity about our home planet, but also provide valuable insights into the sixth planet from the sun!
Saturn vs Earth
Let’s start with Earth. We’ll explore Earth’s unique features, such as its size, composition, atmosphere, and more.
Size and Structure
The Earth is classified as a terrestrial planet due to its solid surface composed mainly of rock and metal. The Earth has a diameter of 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles), ranking it fifth in size among the planets in our solar system.
Layers of Earth:
- Lithosphere: Rigid outer layer consisting primarily of silicate rocks.
- Asthenosphere: Plastic-like upper mantle made up mostly of peridotite minerals.
- Outer Core: Liquid iron-nickel alloy surrounding the inner core.
- Inner Core: Solid iron-nickel sphere with temperatures reaching up to 5,700°C (10,260°F).
The atmosphere of Earth is crucial for sustaining life on our planet, supplying oxygen to breathe and shielding us from damaging solar radiation.
Composed mainly of nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), trace amounts (0.04%) of carbon dioxide and other gasses like argon, water vapor, and methane are also present.
- Troposphere: Extends up to 8-15 km (5-9 miles) above the Earth’s surface; contains weather systems.
- Stratosphere: Ranges from 15-50 km (9-31 miles); includes the ozone layer which absorbs harmful UV radiation.
- Mesosphere: Spans from 50-85 km (31-53 miles); meteors burn up in this layer due to friction with air molecules.
- Thermosphere: Stretches from 85-600 km (53-372 miles); temperatures can reach over 2,500°C (4,530°F).
- Exosphere: Outermost layer extending beyond thermosphere; merges into interplanetary space.
2. Saturn: An Overview
Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is known for its stunning rings and massive size.
How Big is Saturn Compared to Earth?
Saturn has an impressive diameter of approximately 120,536 kilometers (74,898 miles), making it the second-largest planet in our solar system after Jupiter. Its volume is so vast that about 764 Earth-sized planets could fit inside.
Saturn’s mass is only a tiny fraction of its enormous size, with the total being roughly 95 times that of Earth given its mostly gaseous composition.
The majority of Saturn’s makeup consists of hydrogen (96%) with a small percentage being helium (3%). The remaining 1% includes trace amounts of methane, ammonia ice crystals as well as water vapor which contribute to the planet’s unique appearance.
Atmosphere and Climate
The atmosphere on Saturn features several layers composed mainly of hydrogen and helium gasses along with some trace elements such as ammonia or water vapor mentioned earlier.
These layers are responsible for creating distinct bands visible across the surface similar to those seen on Jupiter but less pronounced.
- Troposphere – This layer extends up to around 200 km above the surface where temperatures range between -185°C (-301°F) at cloud tops down towards warmer regions near the core reaching up around +135°C (+275°F).
- Stratosphere – This layer spans from the troposphere up to around 500 km above Saturn’s surface. It contains trace amounts of hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane, which contribute to its hazy appearance.
- Thermosphere – the outermost atmospheric layer extending beyond 1,000 km (620 miles) above Saturn’s surface, can reach temperatures up to 800°C (1,472°F).
Saturn experiences powerful storms that are driven by rapid winds reaching speeds of over 1,800 kilometers per hour (1,118 miles per hour). These wind patterns create a banded appearance on the planet’s surface with alternating jet streams moving in opposite directions.
Rings and Moons
The most striking feature of Saturn is undoubtedly its ring system, which consists primarily of ice particles ranging in size from tiny grains to massive chunks several meters across. There are seven main rings designated A through G along with numerous fainter ones discovered more recently.
In addition to its iconic rings, Saturn boasts an impressive collection of at least 83 known moons including Titan – one of the largest moons in our solar system and larger than Mercury.
Comparing Earth and Saturn
In this section, we will compare and contrast the two planets in terms of their size, composition, atmosphere, and other characteristics.
Saturn Size vs Earth
- Diameter: The diameter of Earth is approximately 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles), while Saturn’s equatorial diameter is about 120,536 kilometers (74,898 miles). This makes Saturn nearly ten times larger than Earth.
- Mass: Despite its larger size compared to Earth’s mass at around six septillion kilograms or one trillion pounds; Saturn has a lower density which results in it being only ninety-five times more massive than our planet.
- Rings: One significant difference between the two planets is that Saturn’s rings, made primarily of ice particles with some rock debris mixed in, are not found on Earth.
- Solid vs Gas Giants: Earth belongs to the rocky terrestrial planets group whereas Saturn takes place among gas giants as the sixth planet from the sun. Earth has a hard outer shell made up of rock and metal, while Saturn is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with no solid exterior.
- Dense Atmosphere: Earth’s atmosphere consists mostly of nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), with trace amounts of other gasses. In contrast, Saturn’s dense atmosphere is predominantly composed of hydrogen (96%) and helium (3%), along with traces of methane, ammonia, water vapor, and other compounds.
- Auroras: Both planets experience auroras caused by solar wind particles interacting with their magnetic fields but they appear differently on each planet due to the differences in atmospheric composition. On Earth, we see greenish-blue hues while Saturn’s auroras are ultraviolet light that can only be seen through special instruments.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the key similarities and differences between Saturn and Earth?
Both Saturn and Earth come with atmospheres, magnetic fields, and seasons.
However, they differ in size, composition, temperature, atmospheric pressure, gravity strength, the number of moons (62 for Saturn vs 1 for Earth), day length (10.7 hours on Saturn vs 24 hours on Earth), and their distance from the Sun (Saturn is about 9 times farther than Earth).
Why is Saturn so different from Earth?
Saturn’s differences stem from its location in the solar system as a gas giant with lower-density materials like hydrogen and helium dominating its composition.
Its lower temperatures and greater distance from the Sun (compared to Earth’s rocky surface & closer proximity to the Sun) result in unique characteristics such as vast ring systems. | aerospace |
https://electricalcars.net/175293/what-does-no-engine-brake-mean | 2022-10-06T07:41:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337731.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006061224-20221006091224-00474.warc.gz | 0.970978 | 377 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__129019796 | en | what does no engine brake mean?
This is a discussion on what no engine brake means, with the initial post.
There are many variations of this acronym. For example, "NO" may also be used to stand for "None". No engine brake is a legal concept that allows aircraft to continue flight when they do not have sufficient power on one of their engines. The aircraft would still be able to maneuver and could land safely without having to perform an emergency landing.
This can be noted by the phrase "No Engine Brake" found on some aviation warning placards. The warning is designed to let flight crews know that the aircraft may have difficulty decelerating fully and quickly on the runway.
If one engine of an aircraft has failed, it does not necessarily mean that it will be necessary for the cockpit to declare NO ENGINE BRAKE. This depends on several factors, including what the aircraft is carrying (pilots must take into account FAR's maximum gross landing weight). Additionally, other factors include whether or not a pilot will be able to land on a runway which has adequate length and surface conditions.
One engine flying typically becomes necessary in two situations: when an aircraft is flying over water or when an aircraft has lost power over land.
If an aircraft is flying over water and the passengers are aware of this and decide to evacuate the aircraft, they will run out of the plane, leaving their seat belts fastened. Due to aerodynamic forces, they may not be able to open their doors. In cases where this happens (and there is a fire), they may not be able to get out because they can't get out quickly enough by using their own strength. If a passenger cannot get out, then the flight crew should immediately declare NO ENGINE BRAKE so that it doesn't crash into the water with everyone still in it. | aerospace |
https://www.grsg.org.uk/agnieszka-soszynska-2 | 2024-04-13T22:51:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00259.warc.gz | 0.865521 | 397 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__47524842 | en | GRSG Conference 2022: Orbit to Outcrop
Poster Title: Detection of geothermal anomalies using thermal remote sensing data from ECOSTRESS sensor
Author: Agnieszka Soszynska
Remote sensing techniques can significantly enhance early exploration of geothermally active areas. Until now, researchers mostly used either daytime or nighttime imagery from Sun-synchronous satellite sensors, which is not optimal for detection of geothermal anomalies, due to thermal inertia of surfaces and inhomogeneity in solar irradiance in hilly terrain. ECOSTRESS sensor installed on the International Space Station (ISS) can acquire imagery at different times of day and night, creating a great opportunity for remote sensing of geothermal anomalies.
The special orbit of the ISS enables acquisition of images at optimal times, which minimizes the effects of thermal inertia differences. In our research, we tested the feasibility of ECOSTRESS data to detect geothermal anomalies in Olkaria, Kenya. We used nighttime Land Surface Temperature data for anomaly detection, and validated the results with data obtained from field work, as well as auxiliary datasets.
We developed a kernel method with statistics-based thresholding. The proposed method allows an automated adaption of the threshold if a geothermal anomaly comprises bigger part of the kernel. Thus, the method is adaptable to different geographic regions and characteristics of geothermal anomalies. The spatial patterns in our detection map mirror the spatial patterns of the validation datasets, which suggests reliability of the method. In the validation process, our method achieved 78.4\% overall accuracy.
The main sources of errors for geothermal anomaly detection lay in image quality, and thermal inertia of the surfaces. Noise, image artefacts, sharpness of the image, as well as georeferencing errors contribute to omission and commission errors. Additionally, differences in heat decay of surfaces can cause false positive detections, and further investigation is needed in this subject. | aerospace |
http://ifpnews.com/tag/iran-national-airlines-corporation/ | 2017-06-27T05:12:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320995.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627050500-20170627070500-00703.warc.gz | 0.933674 | 174 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__64759757 | en | Home Tags Iran National Airlines Corporation
Tag: Iran National Airlines Corporation
Iran Aseman Airlines has signed a Minute of Agreement (MOA) with the American plane giant Boeing to purchase 60 B737-Max passenger jets worth more than $5 billion based on catalogue prices.
Iran Air has reportedly received the first Airbus A321 passenger plane it had purchased from the giant airplane manufacturer Airbus in a deal that ended decades of sanctions against Iran’s aviation industry.
Foreign companies are willing to sell their air navigation products to Iran following nuclear talks between Tehran and P5+1.
Foreign Airlines are willing to make a comeback to Iran’s sky which offers solace to airlines flying away from war-torn areas.
HOMA has announced the company will offer 70 per cent discount to the international publishers participating in the upcoming Tehran International Book Fair. | aerospace |
http://www.theblackvault.com/m/news/browse/popular?page=62&per_page=14 | 2014-09-03T00:13:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535923940.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909030335-00014-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.899852 | 398 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__90555827 | en | The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored or withheld for reasons of national security
Since last year’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s massive communications data dragnets, the spy agency has been inundated with requests
Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water.
A University of Colorado Boulder research center will launch two payloads aboard Orbital Sciences Corp.’s commercial Cygnus spacecraft
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured new images of the dancing auroral lights at Saturn’s north pole.
Elite U.S. Marines arrived in the Libyan capital more than 23 hours after the deadly Sept. 11 assault on a diplomatic mission in the city of Benghazi began
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the passing of original Mercury astronaut Malcom Scott Carpenter
For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth science missions will be launched into space in the same year, opening new and improved remote eyes to monitor our changing planet.
What might look like a colossal jet shooting away from a galaxy turns out to be an illusion.
Dismounted Soldiers carrying full battle gear are pushed to their physical limits.
While others speak of curbing intelligence surveillance activities, the Defense Science Board argues in a new report that the U.S. government should expand and accelerate
VINELAND — The truth is out there, and it may have been found in Vineland.
Despite statements by Vice President Joe Biden, the State Department is about to begin formal negotiations over the extension of U.S. troops past 2014
Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA’s new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate
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https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/100877188805861541 | 2019-07-22T04:16:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195527474.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722030952-20190722052952-00336.warc.gz | 0.968492 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__114469835 | en | Catching up on what happened with the Soyuz launch failure. The rocket failed and the crew vehicle had to separate and do a ballistic descent to emergency landing in Kazakhstan.
Capture of the moment of anomaly from launch stream, via goon spaceflight thread: https://i.imgur.com/AoLWTHI.gifv -- that white puff of vapor sure looks like a LOX tank rupturing.
2 crew members riding are safe; NASA astronaut on board was Nick Hague, rookie from the astro class of 2013. This was going to be his first spaceflight, poor guy.
Meanwhile there's only one Soyuz currently docked to station, it's only good till December, and Soyuz launches will be grounded till well after that, so they're probably going to have to bring down the current crew and leave the station abandoned for the first time in 17 years.
BTW the current Soyuz has a hole in it.
@brownpau Oof that guy's going to have some PTSD about that.
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http://www.planetarydefenders.org/?p=325 | 2013-06-19T10:04:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708664942/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125104-00083-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.970556 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__36649276 | en | We’re totally late to the party, but we wanted to toss up a huge CONGRATULATIONS to the B612 Foundation!
B612 has announced the first privately funded deep space mission, which you can read all about in their official press release on their website. Their Sentinel Mission is ‘a space-based infrared survey mission to discover and catalog 90% of the asteroids larger than 140 meters in Earth’s region of the solar system.’
Being that we’re totally into defending the planet from NEOs, we are fully in support of their efforts and our entire team here is very excited to see this project’s progression. We highly encourage those who are concerned about the defense of our planet to support B612 Foundation in their endeavors, as we know we will be.
We had to admit though, the nerds in us were all jealous that these guys have a way more awesome telescope than we do… | aerospace |
https://bookclubbabble.com/mary-robinette-kowals-lady-astronaut-books-a-winning-series/ | 2023-12-09T09:25:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100873.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209071722-20231209101722-00701.warc.gz | 0.926088 | 284 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__223941664 | en | Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series ticks off every box for me – a strong female protagonist, the space program, alternate history, and just enough of humanity’s shadow side to create nail biting, believable conflict.
When a meteorite hits off the east coast of the United States, world-wide devastation follows. Once the immediate emergency is managed, scientists quickly realize that although the strike didn’t initially destroy the planet, it was, in fact, an extinction level event. Predictions indicate Earth will be uninhabitable in just a few generations. The space program kicks into high gear with single-minded focus – we’ve got to get off our home world and colonize elsewhere!
1950’s gender roles create frustration for protagonist Elma York. A WASP pilot during WWII, now a mathematician crunching numbers for the space program (think Hidden Figures), Elma is more than qualified to go to space and is willing to do what it takes to get there.
When The Calculating Stars, first book in the Lady Astronaut series, won a well-deserved Hugo award this past summer, I knew I had to read it. In fact, I chose it as my own book club selection, and my widely-read, discerning pals raved about it. From our book club to yours, we enthusiastically recommend these books! | aerospace |
https://www.alaskainjury.com/2014/09/12/plane-crash-in-atigun-pass-injures-4/ | 2024-02-21T04:23:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00891.warc.gz | 0.978208 | 611 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__149121784 | en | A sightseeing tour by plane can be a memorable and special experience. Wild northern Alaska is perfect for sightseeing flights as you admire the isolated landscape and the stunning views. However, a crash can lead to serious injuries and leave victims with little chance of recovering compensation.
Officials confirmed that a sightseeing flight crashed recently near the Atigun Pass.
The Navion L-17A was carrying three Canadian passengers and one pilot from Fairbanks, Alaska, and was confirmed to have crashed about 400 feet away from the Atigun Pass summit at around 1:45 p .m. by the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska Office.
The crash site was approximately 20 miles south of Pump Station 4, operated by Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Employees at the station saw the crash and were the first ones to raise the alarm. Alyeska Pipeline spokeswoman Michelle Egan said that medics from multiple pumps were dispatched and a helicopter was flown in from Pump Station 4.
Due to the remoteness of the pipeline stations, they are often equipped to handle any type of emergency situation and the occasional vehicle accident is not unheard of, although plane crashes are far less common. The pump station responders controlled the rescue of the three passengers and pilot and transported them to Galbraith Lake Airport. From there, they were transported further and one passenger was flown directly to Fairbanks for treatment.
Forest Kirst, a 57-year-old from Fairbanks, was piloting the plane. He was transported to Anchorage for treatment. His three passengers were Darrell Spencer, 66, Marcene Nason, 65, and Daphne McCann, 57. They all lived in New Brunswick, Canada, and were transported to Vancouver where they received treatment. All four were said to be in a stable condition.
According to the flight plan filed by the operators, Fairbanks-based Kirst Aviation, the plane was supposed to head from Fairbanks to Bettles, then to Deadhorse and onto Barter Island before making a direct return to Fairbanks. Kirst Aviation was unavailable for comment.
Johnson could not speculate about what had caused the crash as investigators had not spoken with the pilot.
Plane Crash Statistics
While plane crashes are not nearly as common as vehicle crashes, private planes do have a much higher crash rate than commercial jets. While commercial airliners have only 4.03 fatalities per million flight hours, private aircraft have 22.43 or more than five times as many. This is often because commercial airline pilots are required to adhere to so many regulations that safety is a much greater priority, while private pilots have more leniency.
It is also true that commercial airline pilots are required to go through much more stringent training than private pilots, who often fly after a relatively brief training period.
What Do I Do If I Am Injured In A Plane Crash?
If you are injured in a plane crash, contact Barber and Associates, LLC in Anchorage immediately. You may be entitled to compensation, including medical bill payment and lost wage reimbursement. | aerospace |
https://houldsworth.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/building-an-f450-quadcopter-setting-up-flight-modes/ | 2023-06-04T17:11:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650201.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604161111-20230604191111-00347.warc.gz | 0.964878 | 277 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__120338064 | en | After the first flight there were a couple of obvious items that needed to be addressed. More flight modes and getting rid of the wobble.
First the flight modes.
I had only figured out how to set up the controller to allow for two different flight modes (stabilze and altitude hold). With so many modes available on the APM this seemed like a shame. It took a while but by carefully following the instructions on this page I was finally able to get myself up to six flight modes by using a combination of 2-way and 3-way switches.
Along the way I had an epiphany that the controller sends out frequencies (or something that can be counted) and that the APM looks for values from the different input channels being in ranges (because it isn’t exact). So a value between 1,231 and 1,360 (for example) can be assigned to a particular flight mode.
Great! A mystery solved. Now all those calibration movements make sense.
Not only did I manage to assign the six flight modes, but on the extended tuning I was able to assign Channel 7 to a switch on my controller that would automatically tell the quad to land. This has been a real life saver because even when it starts going crazy, switching to land will calm it down and bring it down to Earth better than I can do. | aerospace |
http://bwpaperarik.supervillaino.us/space-exploration-speech-informative.html | 2018-08-15T18:26:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210249.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815181003-20180815201003-00370.warc.gz | 0.920602 | 724 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__6466489 | en | A really cool blog about science & space further establishes the underlying premise of his speech, that of a new era for exploration or informative. Persuasive speech good morning so, while space exploration is expensive, it is not nearly as expensive as many of the other expenses that the government has. Transcript of comm107 - space exploration persuasive speech space exploration.
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https://www.artofit.org/2021/04/07/times-latest-cover-is-a-drone-photo-of-958-drones-2/ | 2023-03-21T23:05:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943747.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321225117-20230322015117-00614.warc.gz | 0.893862 | 171 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__135712586 | en | For TIME’s June 11, 2018 cover, the first ever shot by a drone, the magazine worked with Intel’s Drone Light Show team, Astraeus Aerial Cinema Systems and L.A. Drones—plus 958 drones set to display a precise shade of red, and another one to hold a camera in the air at just the right angle.
The result was one of the biggest drone shows ever produced in the U.S. For those interested you can read all of the featured stories found in TIME’s special report on “The Drone Age” here.
In the behind-the-scenes video embedded below you can see how the team achieved the impressive feat.[PetaPixel via reddit]
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https://en.spress.net/why-did-the-first-flight-astronaut-sit-by-the-windownetizen-i-did-the-same-for-the-first-time-on-a-plane/ | 2023-05-29T11:43:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644855.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529105815-20230529135815-00492.warc.gz | 0.928537 | 904 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__80067332 | en | At 9:22 on June 17, 2021, Beijing time, the Long March 2 F Yao 12 carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou 12 manned spacecraft was ignited and launched, and successfully sent three astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo into space .
At 18:48 on June 17, 2021, Beijing time, astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo entered the Tianhe core capsule successively, and the Chinese entered their own space station for the first time.
It can be seen from the picture sent back from the launch that Nie Haisheng is sitting in the middle position, and Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo are sitting on the right and left respectively.
Astronaut Tang Hongbo was flying for the first time.
Many netizens saw Tang Hongbo sitting by the window, and someone commented: “I did the same for the first time on a plane.”
So, what kind of work would you be in charge of sitting by the window? In the process of piercing the cabin, how do they divide the work?
Why did the first flight astronaut sit by the window?
According to Liu Weibo, deputy chief designer of the Astronaut System of the Astronaut Center, their seats are related to the work they are responsible for, and they can work together effectively in the narrow space of the spacecraft.
As the commander, Nie Haisheng sits in the middle seat, which is convenient for giving instructions; Liu Boming’s task is to assist the pilot of the spacecraft. Because the portable command board that needs to be operated is installed on the right side, Liu Boming sits on the right side of Nie Haisheng; Arranged on the left side of the window.
In the process of piercing the cabin, how do the astronauts divide the work?
After the three astronauts enter the core module, they need to cross the four doors between the two spacecraft.
According to reports, during the process of penetrating the cabin, the astronauts need to constantly communicate with the ground to judge the pressurization of the spacecraft. Tang Hongbo was in charge of this communication, so he stayed in the return cabin until the end.
Nie Haisheng is responsible for opening the hatch and setting the status.
Liu Weibo said that this is a very important process, especially the process of opening the door of the return cabin to enter the orbital cabin after the docking is locked.
In addition, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming had to change from wearing pressure suits to daily work clothes, and then restore the orbital cabin camera set in the front door to its original position.
At the same time, because it is necessary to record the specific status of the first docking channel established and leave the data for future reference, Liu Boming will also carry out camera work while assisting Nie Haisheng.
Why do the hatches need to be manual? Can’t it be automatic?
Regarding this question, Yang Yuguang, a researcher at the Second Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology and vice chairman of the Space Transportation Committee of the International Astronautical Federation, said that this is a very complicated process in terms of the atmospheric environment.
The pressure of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and some harmful gases must not exceed the allowable value. At the same time, the humidity must be controlled within a certain range. The premise is that the pressure is the same. Otherwise, either the door cannot be opened, or the door opens extremely fast, which may harm the astronaut. Therefore, the astronaut needs to manually open the balance valve on the door to establish a small passage and connect the two The cabins are connected, and after the pressures become consistent, they can be opened to penetrate the cabins.
From a demand point of view, Yang Yuguang pointed out that there is no need to open the door automatically, because the movement of penetrating the capsule can only happen when the astronaut is on the spot. It is completely possible to open the door manually, but it is unnecessary to open the door automatically.
Source: Central Broadcasting Network
Original title: “Why do astronauts on the first flight sit by the window? Netizen: It’s like the first time I fly by plane”
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https://www.dliflc.edu/administration/new-academic-leadership/dean-of-students/ | 2020-04-10T17:34:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370511408.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20200410173109-20200410203609-00386.warc.gz | 0.929794 | 750 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__101638179 | en | Dean of Students
Lt. Col. Paul Choi
Lt. Col. Paul Choi is the Dean of Students, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, California. He is responsible for adjudicating on out of ordinary student issues in support of leadership objectives.
After becoming a U.S. citizen in 1999, Lt. Col. Choi was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant after completing U.S. Air Force Officer Training School in 2000. He served in program management, cyber research, signals intelligence, logistics planning, and Allied armaments planning roles. His support to NATO include various Steadfast exercises as well as Cyber Coalition challenges which incorporated Partners for Peace states.
He is both a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Project Management Professional.
He is married to the former Rebecca Simonsen of Oregon, and has two sons.
- 1998 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.
- 2003 Masters of Arts in Computer Resource Information Management, Webster University, St Louis, MO
- 2006 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, AL
- 2010 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
- 2012 Army Command and General Staff College, by correspondence
- 2013 Joint and Combined Warfare School, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA
- 2015 Air War College, by correspondence
- March 2000-2004, Logistics Manager, Acquisition Security Manager, and Ground Systems Manager, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, CA
- June 2004-September 2008, Program Manager, E-8 Communications and E-3 Avionics Systems, Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom AFB, MA
- October 2008 – September 2011, Deputy Division Chief and Flight Commander, Detachment 1, 318th Information Operations Group, Fort George G. Meade, MD
- October 2011-April 2013, Air Logistics Planner, Allied Force Command Heidelberg, Campbell Barracks, Germany
- April 2013 – June 2013, Student, Joint and Combined Warfare School, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA
- July 2013 – May 2016, Defense Planner, Allied Command Transformation Staff Element Europe, Mons, Belgium
- June 2016 – June 2018, Chief, Standardization and Evaluation, Commandant of Cadets, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO
- July 2018 – December 2018, Strategic Assessments Lead, NORAD/USNORTHCOM J8, Peterson AFB, CO
- January 2019 – Present, Dean of Students, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, CA
SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS
- October 2011 – April 2013, Air Logistics Planner, Allied Force Command Heidelberg, Campbell Barracks, Germany, as a Major
- July 2013 – May 2016, Defense Planner, Allied Command Transformation Staff Element Europe, Mons, Belgium, as a Major and Lieutenant Colonel
- July 2018 – December 2018, Strategic Assessments Lead, NORAD/USNORTHCOM J8, Peterson AFB, CO, as a Lieutenant Colonel
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
- Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster
- Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster
- Joint Service Commendation Medal
- Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster
- Joint Service Achievement Medal
- Air Force Achievement Medal
EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
- Second Lieutenant March 3, 2000
- First Lieutenant March 3, 2002
- Captain March 3, 2004
- Major October 1, 2010
- Lieutenant Colonel February 1, 2016
(Current as of May 2019) | aerospace |
https://www.peacepalacelibrary.nl/2013/04/asteroids-coming-in-at-collision-course/ | 2020-04-01T02:03:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370505359.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401003422-20200401033422-00283.warc.gz | 0.939387 | 1,222 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__86771767 | en | How to handle an incoming asteroid? What does Don Quijote have to do with it? Movies like "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" make it seem so easy. But in reality there are many technological, legal and political obstacles to cope with. From 15-19 April, 2013, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) will hold its third Planetary Defence Conference “Gathering for Impact!” in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. This location, just a couple of miles away from the Barringer Crater, seems the perfect place for the international community to discuss many aspects of the near-Earth object (NEO) threats and opportunites.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has chartered a Science Definition Team to study what should be done to find near-Earth objects less than 1 kilometer in size. Although further research had to be done, this team concluded in a 2007 report that while impacts by these smaller objects would not be expected to cause global devastation, impacts on land and the tsunamis resulting from ocean impacts could still cause massive regional damage and still pose a significant long-term hazard.
NASA has developed a Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to observe our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids. Last update is a recent study about 99942 Apophis, a 325-meter diameter near-Earth asteroid that has been the focus of considerable attention after it was found in December 2004 to have a significant probability of Earth impact in April 2029. Out of many options to encounter an incoming asteroid - a protecting shield, a magnifying lens on solar energy, a conventional rocket engine, ion beam shepherd, etc. - I would like to highlight three.
A method using a large heavy unmanned spacecraft hovering over an asteroid to gravitationally pull the latter into a non-threatening orbit. The spacecraft and the asteroid mutually attract one another. If the spacecraft counters the force towards the asteroid by, e.g., an ion thruster, the net effect is that the asteroid is accelerated towards the spacecraft and thus slightly deflected from its orbit. A technical obstacle will be to fuel the unmanned spacecraft for many years. If there are a few years left until the asteroids impact, it's a method worth trying.
According to former astronaut Rusty Schweickart, the gravitational tractor method is controversial because during the process of changing an asteroid's trajectory the point on Earth where it could most likely hit would be slowly shifted across different countries. It means that the threat for the entire planet would be minimized at the cost of some specific states' security. In Schweickart's opinion, choosing the way the asteroid should be "dragged" would be a tough diplomatic decision. In my opinion the decision to let an asteroid hit the Earth should not be a diplomatic or political issue at all, the matter where the likely impact: Kalahari desert, Philadelphia or Pyongyang. The long-term global hazards of an impact will potentially damage all mankind.
Kinetic impactors have been proposed to prevent an asteroid impact by intentionally ramming it to alter its course away from Earth (so-called billiard ball method). A mission concept of this type, named “Don Quijote” was developed in 2005 in the European Space Agency (ESA) Concurrent Design Facility (CDF). The Don Quijote mission proposed to deflect the asteroid Apophis using two separate probes, one that would ram the asteroid at over 48,000 kilometers per hour, and another that would orbit Apophis to monitor the effects of the impact, see video.
Technically, a nuclear bomb could obliterate a smaller asteroid, but it's not these smaller entities that pose a threat to Earth's safety. The asteroids that would be really worrisome -- those larger than 1,312 feet (400 meters) -- wouldn't be easily wiped out by such a bomb. Sure, great hunks of one might break off, but not enough to neutralize the danger. A 2007 NASA report indicated that planting a nuclear bomb on or under the surface of an asteroid would most likely cause it to fracture into several pieces -- and large pieces of an even larger asteroid can still be pretty dangerous if they're hurtling toward the Earth. Besides, apart from satellites, there's more space debris flying around the earth orbit and throughout outer space to worry about.
Nuclear weapons have been explicitly outlawed in space since the Partial Test Ban Treaty was negotiated in 1963. Sending a nuclear weapon into space to hit an asteroid would require modifying the treaty. According to United Nations General Assembly resolution 1884 (XVIII) of 17 October 1963, it is not allowed to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station them in outer space in any other manner. This principle relates to outer space as a whole, i.e., including the Moon and other celestial bodies. In conjunction with the 1963 Moscow Treaty, which was the product of the same period of détente, and which prohibited, inter alia, any nuclear weapons test explosions or any other nuclear explosions beyond the limits of the atmosphere “including outer space”, the Outer Space Treaty established an immense denuclearized area surrounding the planet Earth. The use of nuclear devices is still an international issue and will need to be addressed by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. The 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty technically bans nuclear weapons in space too.
In conclusion, there are many options to talk about and discuss during the forthcoming Planetary Defence Conference. Maybe a combination of options is imaginable too, like the kinetic impact approach and/or the gravitation method in combination with a shield to protect the Earth from incoming asteroids. I hope nuclear weapons in outer space will not be necessary at all and if so, used as a last resort. In the end, human mankind does not want to end up like the dinosaurs. | aerospace |
https://breathingsystems.us/2-man-air-control-console/ | 2018-03-20T03:41:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647280.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320033158-20180320053158-00398.warc.gz | 0.910266 | 93 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__4498896 | en | The Life Support System design is based on the aerospace principle of Fail-Safe technology to protect the lives of flight crews. The Life Support System Model 5002 Air Console controls the breathing air to two helmet assemblies. The system is user-friendly and highly reliable. It is equipped with sonic alarms and light indicators for additional user safetly.
Maintenance and repairs should be carried out by certified personnel trained by Breathing Systems Inc., Pensacola, Florida. | aerospace |
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070113560A1/en | 2018-03-22T16:32:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647892.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322151300-20180322171300-00374.warc.gz | 0.896358 | 5,053 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__87263595 | en | BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to gas turbine engine combustion systems, and more particularly, to methods and apparatus for controlling the operation of the combustion systems.
Gas turbine engines typically include a compressor section, a combustor section, and at least one turbine section. The compressor discharge air is channeled into the combustor where fuel is injected, mixed and burned. The combustion gases are then channeled to the turbine which extracts energy from the combustion gases.
Gas turbine engine combustion systems must operate over a wide range of flow, pressure temperature and fuel/air ratio operating conditions. Controlling combustor performance is required to achieve and maintain satisfactory overall gas turbine engine operation and to achieve acceptable emissions levels, the main concern being NOx and CO levels.
One class of gas turbine combustors achieve low NOx emissions levels by employing lean premixed combustion wherein the fuel and an excess of air that is required to burn all the fuel are mixed prior to combustion to control and limit thermal NOx production. This class of combustors, often referred to as Dry Low NOx (DLN) combustors requires more careful management of combustion conditions to achieve stable operation, acceptable NOx and CO emissions while remaining free of pressure oscillations called dynamics usually related to the combination of acoustics and unsteady energy release of the combustion process. Such systems often require multiple independently controlled fuel injection points or fuel nozzles in each of one or more parallel identical combustors to allow gas turbine operation from start-up through full load. Furthermore, such DLN combustion systems often function well over a relatively narrow range of fuel injector pressure ratio and said pressure ratio is a function of fuel flow rate, fuel passage flow area, gas turbine cycle pressures before and after the fuel nozzles. Such pressure ratio limits are managed by selection of the correct fuel nozzle passage areas and regulation of the fuel flows to the several fuel nozzle groups. The correct fuel nozzle passage areas are based on the actual fuel properties which are nominally assumed to be constant.
Historically, pipeline natural gas composition in general and specifically its Modified Wobbe Index has varied only slightly. The Modified Wobbe Index (MWI) is proportional to the lower heating value in units of btu/scf and inversely proportional to the square root of the product of the specific gravity of the fuel relative to air and the fuel temperature in degrees Rankine. Fuel nozzle gas areas are sized for a limited range of fuel MWI, typically less than about plus or minus five percent of the design value, and for gas turbine with Dry Low NOx combustion systems with multiple fuel injection points, the gas turbine combustion system is set up with fuel distribution schedules such that the fuel splits among the various injection points vary with machine operating conditions. For some DLN combustion systems, if fuel properties change by a value of more than about plus or minus two percent in MWI, it is necessary to make fuel schedule adjustments while monitoring both emissions and combustion dynamics levels. Such fuel schedule adjustments is called “tuning” and is a process requires technicians to set up special instrumentation and may take a day or longer to accomplish. Furthermore, when the fuel supplied to a specific gas turbine installation is from more than one source which are of different compositions and resulting MWI, it is necessary to “retuning” the fuel split schedules and, prior to the invention disclosed herein must repeated for fuel supply switch. Furthermore, any blend of the two or more fuels is the equivalent of another fuel composition and as a result a variable blend of the fuels cannot be tolerated prior to the subject invention.
In addition, gas turbine engine efficiency can be improved by employing an available source of heat such as low energy steam or water to preheat the fuel gas entering the gas turbine combustor. For gas turbines employing heated gas load up time may depend on the time required to generate hot water in the initially cool heat recovery steam generator to heat the fuel gas to a minimum required level. Until the fuel gas reaches the required temperature and consequently the required MWI, some combustor designs are unable to operate in the low NOx combustion mode. If the minimum acceptable gas temperature level can be reduced, which corresponds to raising the maximum permissible MWI value, gas turbine operations are improved and total emissions reduced by shortened load up times.
- BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Specifically, it is desirable to permit a larger variation in gas fuel composition, temperature and resulting MWI, while maintaining low emissions and combustion dynamics levels within predetermined limits. Operation outside of the design MWI range can for some of the DLN combustion systems result in combustion dynamics levels (noise due to oscillatory combustion process) that is large enough to shorten the maintenance intervals or even cause hardware damage and forced outages.
In one embodiment, a gas turbine engine is coupled by a drive shaft to an electrical generator as the principle gas turbine load. In this embodiment a gas turbine engine includes at least one combustor that includes a plurality of fuel injection nozzles configured to inject fuel into the combustor(s) at a plurality of different location in each combustor and wherein the different injection nozzles are supplied by fuel from more than one gas flow control valve. The gas turbine engine system includes a control system including a plurality of sensors positioned about the gas turbine engine system and configured to measure flow, pressure, temperature or other parameters to establish engine operating state, a processor programmed to receive the afore mentioned parameters plus a signal indicative of the MWI of the fuel to automatically control a fuel split among the fuel injection nozzles according to the engine state and the signal indicative of the fuel MWI. Typically the fuel split is varied only according to the engine state which varies with load and ambient temperature, pressure and humidity such that the fuel splits follows one or more schedules based on engine state. In this embodiment, the fuel split schedule is automatically adjusted according to the parameter indicating fuel MWI.
In another embodiment, a method of operating a gas turbine engine includes determining the heating value and specific gravity of the fuel and computing the resulting the MWI. In other respects this embodiment is the same as that embodiment described above.
In yet another embodiment, the fuel parameter indicating MWI or the actual MWI is determined prior to a fuel heater. In this embodiment, the control system compares the design MWI vs. the indicated MWI prior to the fuel heater and raises the fuel temperature to cause it to have an MWI value equal to the design MWI.
In still another embodiment, a method of operating a gas turbine engine includes determining a first fuel split schedule at a first MWI value by employing the tuning process, modifying the first fuel MWI a second fuel MWI by changing the fuel temperature and then determining a second fuel split schedule at the second fuel MWI value. Then during normal operation without technicians monitoring emissions or combustion dynamics the fuel properties and resulting MWI is continuously determined and the fuel split that is applied is determined by a functional relationship of the first and second fuel split schedules.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In another embodiment, the gas turbine control system continuously receives fuel properties sufficient to calculate fuel MWI and maintains fuel temperature compatible with the improved efficiency of higher inlet fuel temperatures and modulates fuel splits in the fashion indicated in the fourth embodiment.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a gas turbine engine system;
FIG. 2 is a graph of Modified Wobbe Index (MWI) versus fuel gas temperature for an exemplary range of operation of the gas turbine engine shown in FIG. 1; and
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an exemplary method of automatically compensating for variable fuel gas properties for combustion gas turbines with dry low NOx combustion systems such as the gas turbine engine system shown in FIG. 1.
While the methods and apparatus are herein described in the context of a gas turbine engine used in an industrial environment, it is contemplated that the method and apparatus described herein may find utility in other combustion turbine systems applications including, but not limited to, turbines installed in aircraft. In addition, the principles and teachings set forth herein are applicable to gas turbine engines using a variety of combustible fuels such as, but not limited to, natural gas, gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, and jet fuel. The description hereinbelow is therefore set forth only by way of illustration, rather than limitation.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a gas turbine engine system 10 including a compressor 12, a combustor 14, a turbine 16 drivingly coupled to compressor 12, the gas turbine engine managed by a combination of operator commands and a control system 18. An inlet system 20 channels ambient air to the compressor inlet guide vanes 21 which by modulation with actuator 26 regulates amount of air to compressor 12. An exhaust system 22 channels combustion gases from the outlet of turbine 16 through, for example, sound absorbing, heat recovery and possibly other emissions control devices. Turbine 16 may drive a generator 24 that produces electrical power or any other type of mechanical load.
The operation of the gas turbine engine system 10 may be monitored by several sensors 26 detecting various conditions of compressor 12, turbine 16, generator 24 and ambient environment. For example, sensors 26 may monitor ambient temperature, pressure and humidity surrounding gas turbine engine system 10, compressor discharge pressure and temperature, turbine exhaust gas temperature, and other pressure and temperature measurements within the gas turbine engine. Sensors 26 may also comprise flow sensors, speed sensors, flame detector sensors, valve position sensors, guide vane angle sensors, and other sensors that sense various parameters relative to the operation of gas turbine engine system 10. As used herein, “parameters” refer to physical properties whose values can be used to define the operating conditions of gas turbine engine system 10, such as temperatures, pressures, and fluid flows at defined locations.
In addition to the above mentioned sensors 26 there is one or more sensors to monitor or measure fuel properties sufficient to determine fuel MWI prior to or after the optional fuel heater. The determination of a parameter representative of the fuel MWI such as only fuel temperature for fixed fuel properties is a requirement in order to employ the subject invention.
A fuel controller 28 responds to commands from the control system 18 to regulate the fuel flowing from a fuel supply to the combustor(s) 14, and the fuel splits to multiple fuel nozzle injectors located within each of the combustor(s) 14. Fuel control system 28 may also be directed by the controller 18 to select the type of fuel or a mix of fuels for the combustor if more than one fuel is available. The fuel controller 28 may be a separate unit or may be a component of control system 18.
Control system 18 may be a computer system having a processor(s) that executes programs to control the operation of the gas turbine using sensor inputs and instructions from human operators. The programs executed by the control system 18 may include scheduling algorithms for regulating fuel flow and fuel splits to combustor(s) 14. The commands generated by the control system cause actuators in the fuel controller 28 to regulate the flow and fuel splits and type of fuel flowing to the combustors; adjust inlet guide vanes 21 on the compressor, and activate other control settings on the gas turbine.
Control system 18 regulates the gas turbine based, in part, on algorithms stored in computer memory of the controller. These algorithms enable control system 18 to maintain the combustor firing temperature to within predefined temperature limits and to maintain the turbine exhaust NOx and CO emissions to below predefined limits. The algorithms have inputs for parameter variables for ambient air conditions, inlet pressure loss and turbine exhaust back pressure, fuel flow, compressor discharge pressure and exhaust temperature. The combustor 14 may be a DLN combustion system. Control system 18 may be programmed and modified to control the fuel splits for the DLN combustion system according to predetermined fuel split schedules modified by a tuning process which occur at roughly one year intervals to optimize emissions and combustion dynamics.
The schedules and algorithms executed by control system 18 accommodate variations the afore mentioned parameters which affect firing temperature, NOx, CO, combustor dynamics at part-load through full load gas turbine operating conditions. Control system 18 continuously manages fuel splits with ambient conditions and measured machine parameters. Control system 18 applies algorithms to achieve desired turbine exhaust temperature and compressor discharge pressure by modulating compressor airflow with inlet guide vane angle. Combustor fuel splits are set by the tuning process to satisfy performance objectives while complying with operability boundaries of the gas turbine. All said control functions have a goal to optimize operability, reliability, and availability of the gas turbine.
The fuel controller 28 regulate fuel to two or more injector groups in each combustor to allow modulation of fuel splits, modes of operation, emissions, and combustion dynamics levels versus an array of measured machine parameters through sensors 26. By modulating fuel splits among the several fuel gas control valves, emissions and dynamics are optimized over the machine load range. Fuel split modulation depends primarily on a calculated parameter, called combustion reference temperature, which is a function of machine exhaust temperature, compressor discharge pressure and other continuously monitored machine parameters.
Sensors 26 include at least one fuel property sensor used to determine a parameter indicative of fuel MWI or properties needed to compute MWI. An optional fuel heater 32 may be employed to raise fuel temperature and regulate fuel to achieve either a desired temperature for efficiency reasons and/or a fuel temperature to achieve a desired fuel MWI.
is a graph 300
of Modified Wobbe Index (MWI) versus fuel gas temperature for an exemplary range of operation of gas turbine engine 10
(shown in FIG. 1
). By selecting the appropriate fuel injection system gas turbine engines can be set up to operate with fuel gases having a relatively wide range of heating values, but the amount of variation that a specific fuel system design can accommodate is limited. The fuel nozzles are designed to operate within a limited range of pressure ratios and changes in heating value and fuel gas temperature are accommodated for by increasing or decreasing the fuel nozzle gas passage area. A measure of the interchangeability of different gas fuels for a given system design is a calculated parameter called the Modified Wobbe Index (MWI). MWI represents a measure of the energy injected into the combustor for a given upstream and downstream pressure across a given fuel nozzle gas orifice and is calculated using the fuel lower heating value, the specific gravity with respect to air and the fuel temperature. The mathematical definition is as follows:
- MWI represents the Modified Wobbe Index,
- LHV represents the fuel lower heating value, (Btu/scf),
- SGgas represents the specific gravity of the fuel gas with respect to air, and
- Tgas represents the fuel gas temperature in degrees Rankine.
As used herein, LHV represents the heat produced by combustion of one unit of a substance under conditions such that all water in the products remains in the form of vapor. The allowable MWI range for gas turbine engine 10 is established to ensure that predetermined fuel nozzle pressure ratios are substantially maintained during all combustion/turbine modes of operation. If two different fuel gas compositions have the same MWI, the pressure drop in a given fuel system will be the same for both gases. The MWI is thus an indication of energy flow in the system at the same gas pressures and pressure drops. When multiple gas fuels are supplied and/or if variable fuel temperatures result in a MWI that exceed the 5% limitation, independent fuel gas trains, which could include control valves, manifolds and fuel nozzles, may be required for non DLN combustion systems. For Dry Low NOX (DLN) systems, an alternate control method may be required to ensure that the predetermined fuel nozzle pressure ratios are met. An accurate analysis of all gas fuels, along with fuel gas temperature time profiles may also be evaluated.
Graph 300 includes an x-axis 302 graduated in units of temperature and a y-axis 304 graduated in units of MWI. A dashed line 306 represents a nominal MWI design value for gas turbine engine 10. Line 308 represents a high MWI allowable value and line 310 represents a low MWI allowable value for gas turbine engine 10. An allowable range 312 between lines 308 and lines 310 permits specifications for the fuel system to be determined. In the exemplary embodiment, allowable range 312 is illustrated as being about ±5.0%. Such a range is typical among gas turbine engine found in industry. However, such a range may be too restrictive for gas turbine engines using a variety of possible fuels. For example, a gas turbine engine designed for operation using natural gas fuel may operate outside of allowable range 312 when an alternative fuel, such as liquefied natural gas, which may originate from a different geographical location and have a different MWI value, for example, a higher MWI value.
Fuels may exhibit a characteristic MWI versus Temperature curve such as a curve 314 that represents the MWI versus Temperature for a fuel, such as natural gas. A curve 316 represents the MWI versus Temperature for liquefied natural gas. Because the MWI of the fuels represented by curves 314 and 316 decreases as the fuel temperature increases (MWI is proportional to the inverse square root of the absolute temperature of the fuel gas), curves 314 and 316 both have a negative slope. This characteristic permits the MWI of the fuel to be modified using waste heat from the combustion process to regeneratively heat the incoming fuel to reduce the MWI of a fuel that would otherwise have a MWI value that exceeded allowable range 312.
The incoming fuel temperature is also limited by a range of temperatures, for example, an upper limit for fuel temperature is represented by a line 318, and a lower limit for fuel temperature is represented by a line 320. Auxiliary equipment associated with gas turbine engine 10 is used to maintain the incoming fuel temperature in a target range 322 for the fuel gas temperature. Accordingly, an operational window 324 of gas turbine engine 10 is defined by MWI range 312 and temperature range 322. A fuel gas with an MWI value represented by curve 314 would be able to meet MWI range 312 for all temperatures within temperature range 322. However, a fuel gas with an MWI value represented by curve 314 would not be able to meet MWI range 312 for all temperatures within temperature range 322. For example, a fuel gas such as a liquefied natural gas or a combination of natural gas and liquefied natural gas would not be able to operate in the full range of window 324 without exceeding range 312 and/or 322.
Automatically modulating fuel gas splits in combustor 26 using measured or calculated fuel gas MWI as a parameter is used to increase the range of possible fuel MWI while maintaining acceptable emissions and combustion dynamics levels. Specifically, the fuel split schedules are determined by on site tuning with near minimum MWI (or maximum fuel gas temperature) and then a second set of schedules are determined by operational testing at or slightly below the maximum intended MWI or minimum intended fuel gas temperature. For MWI values between the high and the low MWI values, the applied fuel splits can be interpolated, for example, linearly, between the high and low MWI limits and maintain both acceptable emissions and combustion dynamics, and for MWI values outside the high and the low MWI values, the applied fuel splits can be extrapolated from the high or low MWI limits. Optimally, only one of the fuel split schedules need be modulated with MWI but two schedules can be modulated if necessary. Due to a large range of actual power plant conditions and the expected gas property range, the allowable variation in gas MWI can be considerable from machine to machine, site to site. In one embodiment, the algorithm for modifying the fuel split schedules operates in real-time to receive the input data from the sensors, process the input data, compute outputs to the fuel valves, and apply those outputs. As used herein, real-time refers to outcomes occurring at a substantially short period after a change in the inputs affecting the outcome, for example, computational calculations. In the exemplary embodiment, calculations are updated in real-time with a periodicity determined by the scan time of the control system and clock speed of the processor.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an exemplary method 400 of automatically compensating for variable fuel gas properties for combustion gas turbines with dry low NOx combustion systems. Method 400 includes determining 402 a first fuel split setting at a first fuel parameter value. During a phase of operation a user such as a maintenance technician and/or field engineer controls the MWI of the fuel by adjusting the temperature of the fuel incoming to gas turbine engine 10. Typically raising the temperature lowers the MWI and lowering the temperature tends to increase MWI. While the MWI is held at a selected value, gas turbine engine 10 is tuned to an optimal operating configuration for emissions and combustion dynamics levels. One of the parameters including in the adjustment of fuel flowing to each of the plurality of injection points on combustor 14. The MWI is modified 404 by changing the temperature of the fuel from a first temperature value to a second temperature value. Generally this is accomplished by changing the temperature of the fuel, but may also be affected by changing the heating value of the fuel such as by mixing the incoming streams of fuels with different heating values. A second fuel split setting is determined 406 at the second value of MWI by tuning gas turbine engine 10 to an optimal operating configuration for emissions and combustion dynamics levels at the second value of MWI and noting the proportion of fuel that is being directed to each fuel injection point on the combustors. A fuel split schedule is determined 408 using the determined first and second fuel split settings. Because the MWI versus fuel temperature curves are approximately linear in range 322 a linear interpolation between the fuel split settings at the first and second values of MWI permits an accurate fuel split schedule to be calculated for each value of MWI measured during operation of gas turbine engine 10. For values of MWI outside the first and second values of MWI a linear extrapolation is calculated. In other embodiments, methods of interpolation and extrapolation are used. The determined fuel split schedule is applied 410 to control fuel flow to at least one of the combustors. The fuel split schedule is determined in real-time while the gas turbine engine is supplying electrical energy to an electrical load. During all modes of operation of gas turbine engine 10, control system 22 receives signals indicative of the current fuel split settings for each combustor and of the MWI and temperature of the incoming fuel. From such settings, control system 22 determines if the current fuel split settings match the determined fuel split schedule for the current fuel MWI and temperature.
The at least one fuel property sensor is used to determine a parameter representative of a current fuel MWI or determine an actual current fuel MWI in “real time” and/or continuously. New fuel split values for the first and second fuel split schedules are determined based on measured and calculated gas turbine parameters and current fuel MWI according to a predetermined mathematical relationship such as linear interpolation or extrapolation. A fuel temperature target is achieved using control of the fuel heater to raise or lower fuel temperature to an optimum level concurrent with fuel split adjustments made according to the continuously determined fuel MWI values as described above.
The above-described methods and apparatus provide a cost-effective and reliable means for automatically and continuously modulating gas fuel pre-heat temperature and combustor fuel distribution parameters to permit a relatively large variation in the fuel composition. More specifically, the methods facilitate operation with a relatively large variation in fuels and extant gas fuel pre-heater temperature for heavy duty combustion gas turbines fitted with low NOx emissions combustion systems. As a result, the methods and apparatus described herein facilitate gas turbine engine operation in a cost-effective and reliable manner.
Exemplary methods and apparatus for monitoring the heating value of a gas turbine engine fuel and controlling the fuel split schedule for fuel supplied to the gas turbine engine combustors are described above in detail. The apparatus illustrated is not limited to the specific embodiments described herein, but rather, components of each may be utilized independently and separately from other components described herein. Each system component can also be used in combination with other system components.
A technical effect of the method and apparatus is to provide a system that automatically and continuously modulates gas fuel pre-heat temperature and combustor fuel distribution parameters to permit a relatively large variation in the fuel composition for use in the gas turbine engine.
While the invention has been described in terms of various specific embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the claims. | aerospace |
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Hi, Runway 37 is being launched:
(1) to address the lack of interest of people in big cities (especially New York) in obtaining a pilot license due to how time consuming and difficult it is to get out to an airport conducive to GA training,
(2) to employ a modern approach to flight training and maintaining currency by using GA-appropriate flight simulator technology to facilitate learning, help people reach proficiency much quicker, reduce drop out rates substantially, increase emergency preparedness and reduce cost, and
(3) to strengthen the pilot community by providing a hub and community center for pilots and people interested in General aviation in the heart of the city.
Take a look at the following link for a description of the project and the opportunity to contribute to its success.
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Gordon Scott, Three Wars, an American Warrior
Gordon served served with the 78th Fighter Squadron in Hawaii flying a number of fighter aircraft including P-40s and P-47. He was shipped out to Iwo Jima with the 78th with their P-51D Mustangs. For the first few days after arriving, they flew air to ground support at Iwo for the US Marines. In April 0f 45 as B-29 they began very long range (VLR) fighter sweeps over Japan and as escorts on bombing missions to mainland Japan. The 78th was the first land based fighter squadron to fly combat missions over mainland Japan. The account of Gordon's last mission and being forced to ditch on the 4th of July 1945 is linked here.
Gordon later served as a F-86 Sabre pilot in the Korean war. His third and final war was Viet Nam where he was a squadron Commander of F-4 Phantoms, and later Deputy of Operations of a Fighter Wing flying missions north to Hanoi from Viet Nam and Thailand. He retired from the USAF in 1972 as a Colonel. He attended a 78th FS reunion in Hawaii from 2-8 Dec 2006.
Efforts are being made by numerous groups to raise funds and recover his P-51D "Sparkin Eyes" from the lake in Japan it has rested in for over 61 years. If the recovery is successful, the plans are to restore it for eventual public display at the Pacific Aviation Museum at Ford Island
Former 78th FS Squadron Mates Jerry Yellin and Gordon Scott at the Halona "Blow Hole" on Oahu in Dec 2006.
They hadn't seen one another since a combat mission briefing over 61 years ago on Iwo Jima when Gordon was blown out of the sky over Japan and had to ditch his P-51 in a lake. Jerry published his book "Of War and Weddings, A Legacy of Two Fathers" in 1995. It is available at amazon.com.
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http://www.176wg.ang.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=1604 | 2016-07-25T20:01:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824345.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00315-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95473 | 5,591 | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-30__0__48025160 | en | 101. I’ve never heard of the Air National Guard. What exactly are you hiring?An Air National Guard pilot / navigator is an officer and pilot or navigator in the Air Force component of the National Guard. If selected you will attend the Air Force's Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training / Undergraduate Navigator Training (hereinafter referred to as Undergraduate Flight Training, or UFT), as applicable. Upon completion of training you will return to the Wing that hired you and fly their aircraft. You will incur a part-time obligation ("one weekend a month, two weeks a year") to the Air National Guard, during which time you will be expected to maintain your currency in your aircraft.
Here are some links with general information about the Air National Guard. Current as of 19 April 2009:
102. Who is eligible to apply?The minimum eligibility requirements to be an officer and aviator in the Air National Guard include:
A completed bachelor's degree (any major) from an accredited college or university
Be younger than "approximately" 28 at the time of application (see Question #117, "What's the age limit to apply?")
Good moral character
Meet medical standards
Be a U.S. citizen
Qualifying test scores on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test
To be competitive for a pilot slot you need to have actual experience flying an aircraft. Completing your private pilot's license is highly recommended. With little or no actual flying time, you will most likely be considered only for a navigator position.
103. Why can’t I just go the recruiter and sign up for a pilot slot?You will certainly be working with the recruiter during the process. However, by regulation each Air Guard Wing Commander has the authority to establish his/her own process for rated (flying) officer selection.
There are a couple reasons for this. First, these slots are competitive, and a board provides us the opportunity for quantitative and qualitative comparison of candidates. Second, it allows representation from all the aircraft squadrons--a representative from each aircraft will be sitting on the board. Third, we are selecting the future leaders of the Alaska Air National Guard: we set aside the extra time and effort to coordinate a board in order to maximize our chances of making the best choice.
Bottom Line: If you are not already a rated officer, the AKANG UFT Selection Board is the ONLY way to be selected for flight school by the Alaska Air Guard.
104. How long is the training?Undergraduate Flight Training lasts approximately for one year. After that, you enter specialized training for your aircraft; all told, training can last over two years, depending on your aircraft.
105. Do I have to go to Basic Training?If you are not already a commissioned U.S. military officer, you will go to the Academy of Military Science, where upon graduation you will receive a commission as a second lieutenant in the Reserve of the Air Force. The course is six weeks long and takes place at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in Knoxville Tennessee. In the near future the course will be moved to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama.
106. Is this a paying job?Yes. Here's a quote from www.goang.com, accessed 19 April 2009:
"Compensation: Air Guard members receive monthly paychecks for their service, as well as a number of other pecuniary benefits. Members can rely on insurance coverage, and those choosing to contribute can take advantage of Thrift Savings [a contributory retirement account similar to a 401k/403b] as well. Upon accomplishing the necessary years of service and age requirements, you will be eligible to receive retirement benefits, and all of your previous military time will count towards it."
In addition to the "one weekend a month, two weeks a year" paid training opportunities provided by the Air National Guard, the National Guard funds additional training periods specifically for the purpose of maintaining flight currency. Currently 12 flying training periods a quarter are authorized, for a total of 48 a year.
Here's a link to a pay chart for a "drill weekend", the "one weekend a month" of service you can expect to perform once a month. This link was current as of 19 April 2009:
107. Do I have to take any standardized tests?Yes. You have to take the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) as well as the Test of Basic Aviation Skills (TBAS), formerly known as the BAT test. The Air Force AFOQT is an SAT-style test, and is a prerequisite to taking the TBAS. The AFOQT can only be taken twice, the most recent scores are used.
If you are in the military, schedule AFOQT testing through your base training office. If you are not in the military contact your nearest Air Guard recruiter to schedule testing.
To find a recruiter you can visit http://www.goang.com or call 1 (800) TO-GO-ANG. To contact recruiters at the 176th Wing, in Anchorage call (907) 249-1282; outside Anchorage, call us toll-free at 1-800-642-6228.
For TBAS testing in Alaska, contact UAA AFROTC at 786-7266. You will need a driver's license, AFOQT scores, and a copy of your logbook if you have flying experience. Outside of Alaska, refer to https://pcsm.aetc.af.mil/ for your nearest testing location.
Historically one of the holdups for the application package has been the AFOQT and TBAS. Plan on an approximate two week lead time (actual lead times may be even longer at your testing location) to schedule the AFOQT, and another two weeks to receive your scores. The AFOQT is a prerequisite for the TBAS. Therefore, obtaining a TBAS score can be a six-week, or even longer, process--plan accordingly.
You can find information and discussion on testing on websites such as https://pcsm.aetc.af.mil/, www.baseops.net, and www.wantscheck.com.
108. What’s a PCSM score?The Pilot Candidate Selection Method (PCSM) is a tool used to predict the ability of a prospective pilot candidate to complete the first portion of Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). The score is on a scale of 1-99, with 99 being the best. The PCSM score is not an all-inclusive pilot selection tool; it is one part of the entire board selection process. The scale remains the same with the new TBAS test.
To get a PCSM score you must complete the Test of Basic Aviation Skills (TBAS), and the Air Force Officer Qualification Test (AFOQT). Once these two steps are completed and the scores received by the PCSM Program Office, a PCSM score will be calculated.
Visit the program website at https://pcsm.aetc.af.mil/.
109. At what rank will I be hired?Unless you are already a commissioned U.S. military officer, all initial hires will be made in the grade of Second Lieutenant.
110. Are any of these jobs full-time jobs?No, these are all part-time jobs. However, as full-time jobs become available and you are eligible, you can certainly apply. There is no established timeline as to when full-time jobs become available; it depends on the squadron and the manning situation.
111. Can I work beyond the minimum and make the Air Guard my primary source of income?Yes, but the opportunities vary with the specific aircraft you fly as well as with other variables. There is no obligation on the part of the National Guard Bureau to provide additional paid opportunities beyond the 12 drill weekends, two weeks of "annual training", and 48 additional flight training periods in a year. Historically, many of our aviators have been able to work a significant portion of the year, but "past performance is no guarantee" of future work opportunity beyond the minimum.
112. Can I live out of state and commute to Alaska?There is no requirement on where you maintain your residency, except in the case of Search and Rescue or tanker alert crews when they are on call. However, it would probably be very difficult to maintain your currency and progress in your career if you don't live near the unit. It takes years to become an effective aircrew member, and flying is a perishable skill. Additionally, you will be expected to pursue advanced mission qualifications which are built on a foundation of strong basic mission skills. For these reasons it is not advisable to plan on living out of state.
113. Are you really hiring for 5 different kinds of aircraft on one board?Yes, the Alaska Air National Guard operates the C-130, HC-130, C-17, HH-60 at Anchorage International Airport and the KC-135 at Eielson AFB. If you are selected to meet our board, you can be potentially selected to fly any one of these aircraft.
113b. What about the F-22? How do I fly the F-22 for the Reserves?The Alaska Air National Guard does not operate or select for the F-22. The Air Force Reserve has its own selection process. Navigate to http://afreserve.com/ for more information.
114. What’s a “combined” selection board?The Alaska Air National Guard contains two flying Wings (organizations), one in Anchorage, and one at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks. While each Wing is entitled to hold separate selection boards, leaders from both Wings have decided to merge their processes to (1) offer candidates a wider range of options, and (2) provide a centralized opportunity for the Alaska Air Guard to select its future leaders.
115. How do you decide who gets what aircraft?Every effort is made to take personal preference into consideration. A representative from each aircraft will be on the board. The goal of the board is to select the most qualified applicants and place them in the aircraft that they want to fly so that they remain in the Alaska Air National Guard for their entire career- ideally 20+ years.
By meeting the board you are not obligated to accept a job offer--if you are offered an airframe you are not interested in accepting, you have an opportunity to decline.
116. Can I trade my slot with another candidate who wants to trade with me?No. If you were selected it was to meet a specific allocation; once the board disbands, decisions are final.
117. What’s the age limit to apply?By regulation you have to be younger than age 30 on the first day of flight school. Because our board hires for training quotas that will occur approximately 18+ months in the future you need to be younger than 28 when you meet the board.
117a. Well I know I'm going to be too old. How do I start the age waiver process?Age waivers will be initiated only for those applicants who have met the board and have been selected for flight training, not before.
Also see Question 130: "I heard the Air Guard can grant age/Total Federal Commissioned Service waivers. How do I get one?"
118. I heard I have to enlist in the Air Guard before I can go to flight school. Is this a trick to trap me in the military?No, if you are not already in the military, and we hire you for flight school, you will be "enlisted for the purposes of commissioning." This is required so we can start processing you for flight school. You DO NOT have to go to enlisted basic training, and if you end up not going to flight school for some reason, you have the option of getting out with no commitment.
119. What if I get hired and then find out I am medically or otherwise ineligible for flight training—do I have an obligation to the military?No. You have a choice of getting out with no obligation or staying in if you want to.
120. What is my obligation if I am hired?Bear in mind these regulations change, but currently pilots owe ten years of service to the Air National Guard upon completion of flight school (the day you receive your wings) and navigators owe six years. You will be asked to sign an "Understanding of Military Service Obligation" before you are sent off to flight school. In other words, you will be made aware of exactly when the obligation starts, and for how long it is.
121. When does my obligation actually start?Once all the paperwork is done and a flight school date is identified for you, you will be asked to sign an "Understanding of Military Service Obligation" shortly before you are sent off to flight school. In other words, you will be made aware of exactly when the obligation starts, and for how long it is.
122. What if I wash out of flight school? Am I stuck in the military?No. You were hired to fill a specific vacancy. If you want to leave the military at that point, you can do so.
123. What will my duties be?Initially your primary duty will be flying: gaining experience in your aircraft. As time goes by you will be offered opportunities to take on increasing responsibility in duties related to running and leading a flying Wing. Examples include: scheduling, training, weapons and tactics, standardization and evaluation, Search and Rescue duty officer, and more.
124. Why do you guys hold a hiring board for a job that doesn’t start until more than a year and a half later?Because of the lengthy process to bring you into the military as a rated (flying) officer. To get ready to go to flight school, several things have to happen: you have to pass a flight physical, initiate security clearance paperwork and complete quite a bit of paperwork to apply for a commission (become an officer). The flight physical has to route through quite a few offices, and typically takes months to be approved even if there are no questions or problems. Once it's been ascertained that you are medically eligible to be placed on flight status, you have to assemble a "commissioning package", basically establishing that you are eligible to become an officer and that you have been offered a job which requires that you be an officer. That takes extensive coordination as well. Additionally, the security clearance process typically takes several months. All these items have to clear their respective approval channels before our base training office can look for a flight school class for you.
For those applicants that are already in the military, with a security clearance, the process is generally much faster.
It bears pointing out that if you are selected, it is to your benefit to complete all the items as quickly as possible. Once you're cleared as a viable flight school candidate you will be placed in the next available course. That can be sooner than the 18 months that we plan for if other units are not getting their candidates processed as quickly as we do. Fallout slots occur when another Guard unit, or the Air Force, is unable to fill a flight training allocation (a "seat" in flight school). Rather than let it go unfilled, they usually ask around to check for units that have flight candidates ready to go on short notice. If you want to go to flight school as soon as possible, get your package completed as soon as you can to maximize your chances of being on hand to take advantage of a fallout class date. However, you are not obligated to accept a short-notice school date.
125. I submitted my application two months ago and I haven’t heard anything. Why does it take so long to review my application and get back to me? Because we're coordinating a combined selection board between two different organizations (the 176th Wing in Anchorage and the 168th Air Refueling Wing at Eielson AFB), we have to pool the applications together, review them, contact candidates to verify information or clarify questions on their applications, and hold meetings to discuss who will be invited to interview. Many of the people involved in this process are themselves aviators, and some of them are not full-time Guard members, so scheduling meetings is by itself a challenge, not to mention the challenges of coordinating between geographically separate locations. Your understanding during this process is very much appreciated.
126. Why is the application deadline so far from the board date?In addition to the lengthy process of reviewing applications, we strive to give at least one month's notice of invitation to interview so that out-of-state applicants have a fair chance of securing travel arrangements to Alaska.
130. What are the vision requirements?Bear in mind that medical standards are subject to change. At the time of writing, for pilot uncorrected vision must be 20/70, correctable to 20/20. For navigator, uncorrected must be 20/200, correctable to 20/20.
A note about PRK and LASIK: ANY eye surgery requires a waiver. Currently, only PRK is approved by the Air Force for unrestricted aviation duty. Consider the following information from http://airforcemedicine.afms.mil/sg_newswire/nov_02/LASIK.htm, accessed on 19 April 2009:
"USAF policy currently disallows RK completely. The procedure involves making eight to 16 radial incisions in the cornea to flatten its radius of curvature. It has largely been abandoned because of potential side effects.
"PRK and LASIK are allowed with waivers under very specific conditions. For instance, PRK is waiverable for entry into the Air Force including aviator and special duty career fields providing certain criteria are met. However, the Air Force has limited the number of student pilots who can undergo PRK. LASIK still remains a disqualifier for all aviation and special duty programs. However, it can be waived for accession and into certain other career fields not involving aviation and special duties."
Again, this information is subject to change.
Also, you should know that if you get surgery, you cannot initiate a flight physical for ONE YEAR after the surgery. This has implications for processing your paperwork should you become selected. For example, if you get surgery around the same time that you interview for the board, you cannot even begin your processing until a year later. Remember, the reason the board is held so far out from your training date is because it really does take a long time to accomplish all the paperwork. By regulation we can't start the rest of your paperwork until your flight physical is completed and approved. In other words, we can't start the first step of a roughly year-long process until the year after your surgery has expired.
If you delay that process by one year you realistically might not be able to meet the training window you were hired for. We can't "hang on" to your flight school allocation past that window. Talk with someone first if you are considering surgery which could affect your availability for the training window.
131. I heard you only hire folks that are already in the unit/have a commercial pilot’s license/have a master’s degree/have a relative in the unit…There is no typical profile. We strive to hire based on the "whole person" concept. If we hire you, it's because we think you'll be a good officer and aviator, and will contribute to the long-term benefit of the Alaska Air National Guard. Unit members do have an advantage since they have an established track record working with us, but by no means are they guaranteed to be selected. Alaska residents also enjoy an advantage over non-residents since they have shown that they have adapted to the challenges of living here. However, we rarely get enough unit members or even Alaska residents to fill all of our positions so we have always hired applicants from other states.
132. How many slots do you have?It depends on the manning situation in each squadron, as well as the allocation of school slots from the National Guard Bureau. Typically, we hire one pilot candidate for each aircraft, so 5 pilots, and one to two navigators.
133. How much flying will I do?Once you complete training, you will be expected--and provided the opportunity--to maintain currency in your aircraft. In addition to the "one weekend a month, two weeks a year" commitment to the Air National Guard, the National Guard funds additional training periods specifically for aircrew for the purpose of maintaining flight currency. Currently 12 flying training periods a quarter are authorized, for a total of 48 a year. This translates into roughly one flight a week.
Other opportunities occasionally occur, such as taking trips to haul cargo, take part in an exercise, or to hold search and rescue alert. These additional opportunities depend on the squadron and on funding sources.
134. I’m an Army Warrant Officer helicopter pilot. How do I become an Air Force pilot?There are two possibilities: (1) you can apply to transfer to the 210th Rescue Squadron as a helicopter-only pilot (you don't have to meet the UFT board, but can't apply for transfer to a fixed-wing position later), or (2) apply to UFT board for fixed wing training.
Case 1 (apply for transfer to 210th): You still have to meet the age limit to become an Air Force officer (younger than 35), and you will need to attend the Academy of Military Science (officer basic training) to receive a commission in the Air Guard. If you apply to transfer to the 210th Rescue Squadron as a helicopter-only pilot, be advised that applications are only considered as vacancies become available.
To ask about this option, send an introductory e-mail to [email protected]
If you come into the 210th as a helicopter-only pilot and decide later you want to be a fixed-wing pilot, it is not impossible, but a vacancy must be available and you will have to complete Undergraduate Pilot Training. This scenario occurs only very rarely.
Case 2 (apply for fixed-wing UFT): You fall in the same category of everyone else applying for UFT. You will need to meet the age limit for UFT (younger than 28 at the time of application). You will also need to attend the Academy of Military Science to receive your commission in the Air Guard. If you are selected for fixed-wing pilot training you will go through the identical pipeline of Undergraduate Pilot Training as any other selectee.
135. I'm an Army Warrant Officer. In the Army I can apply for a commission without going to OCS. Warrant Officers by definition have commissions. Are you SURE I have to attend AMS? Yes.
Reference: ANGI 36-2005, "APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS IN THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD OF THE UNITED STATES AND AS RESERVES OF THE AIR FORCE", 15 March 2005:
"3.9.2. Warrant officers must attend AMS and will be enlisted in the grade of Staff Sergeant (E5), or highest enlisted grade held whichever is higher."
136. I’m on Active Duty. Will you guys help me out with Palace Chase so I can go to pilot training?No. We do not initiate Palace Chase on anyone's behalf. You have to be available to provide enough time to inprocess into the Alaska Air Guard (approximately six months to a year) and to go to flight training for the specified fiscal year.
137. Were your units affected by BRAC?BRAC is the Base Realignment and Closure process used by Congress to realign the force structure and facilities of the Department of Defense to better posture it for future missions. The 168th was not affected, although there were some changes made to the active duty units at Eielson. The 176th Wing will move from Kulis ANG Base at Anchorage International Airport to Elmendorf AFB on the north side of Anchorage. The 144th Airlift Squadron will also gain 4 C-130s and form an associate unit with an active duty squadron also flying the same C-130's. The move and gaining the additional aircraft will be completed by the end of September 2011.
138. I'm a Navy/Army/Marine Corps/USCG officer--I don't have to take the AFOQT do I?Yes. If you were transferring to a non-rated Air Force job you would not be required to take the AFOQT. However, officer applicants from other branches of the service are required to take the AFOQT if they are applying for flight training.
Reference: AFI 36-2005, "APPOINTMENT IN COMMISSIONED GRADES AND DESIGNATION AND ASSIGNMENT IN PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES -- RESERVE OF THE AIR FORCE AND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE," 19 May 2003, 184.108.40.206.2.
139. I'm an Air Force/Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard fixed-wing military Pilot/Aviator/NFO/RIO/Navigator/CSO/WSO/EWO. How do I join your unit?You send an introductory e-mail to [email protected]. This e-mail goes directly to the inbox of the DO's of each flying squadron. As vacancies become available they will review their e-mails and potentially contact you. There is no established timeline as to how often vacancies become available.
990. Any other advice?The ideal candidate possesses two traits: the capacity to be a military officer, and the ability to make it through some challenging flight training.
Start learning about what it means to be a military officer and consider whether you have established a track record of leadership. Additionally, flight experience can make you more competitive.
Finally, because we are offering 5 different aircraft, learn about the differences between them. Each aircraft has its own "community" and mission, so one of the most important things you can do to prepare for the interview is finding out which mission you are most interested in. Not only can you distinguish yourself in the interview by being educated about the organization you're applying to, but it's more likely we can match you with a mission you'll enjoy--hopefully for 20+ years in the Alaska Air National Guard.
999. UFT DisclaimerDISCLAIMER: This information represents a good faith effort to explain the Alaska Air National Guard Undergraduate Flight Training selection process and criteria. However, this should NOT be considered a source document for specific regulations--the information reflects regulations which are subject to change. If any information contained in this document conflicts with Air Force/Air National Guard/other pertinent regulations, the regulations will always take precedence. Any reference to an external website does not constitute endorsement by the Alaska Air National Guard. | aerospace |
https://www.indianagazette.com/news/print.php?article=17702997 | 2017-06-23T10:28:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320049.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623100455-20170623120455-00048.warc.gz | 0.97421 | 1,056 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__155165515 | en | SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Investigators are trying to understand whether automated cockpit equipment Asiana flight 214’s pilots say they were relying on to control the airliner’s speed may have contributed to the plane’s dangerously low and slow approach just before it crashed.
New details in the accident investigation that were revealed Tuesday by National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman were not conclusive about the cause of Saturday’s crash, but they raised potential areas of focus: Was there a mistake made in setting the automatic speed control, did it malfunction or were the pilots not fully aware of what the plane was doing?
One of the most puzzling aspects of the crash has been why the wide-body Boeing 777 jet came in far too low and slow, clipping its landing gear and then its tail on a rocky seawall just short the runway. The crash killed two of the 307 people and injured scores of others, most not seriously.
Among those injured were two flight attendants in the back of the plane, who survived despite being thrown onto the runway when the plane slammed into the seawall and the tail broke off.
The autothrottle was set for 157 mph and the pilots assumed it was controlling the plane’s airspeed, Hersman said. However, the autothrottle was only “armed” or ready for activation, she said.
Hersman said the pilot at the controls, identified by Korean authorities as Lee Gang-guk, was only about halfway through his training on the Boeing 777 and it was his first time landing that type of aircraft at the San Francisco airport. And the co-pilot, identified as Lee Jeong-Min, was on his first trip as a flight instructor.
In the 777, turning the autothrottle on is a two-step process — first it is armed, then it is engaged, Boeing pilots said. Hersman didn’t say whether the Asiana’s autothrottle was engaged.
Bob Coffman, an American Airlines captain who has flown 777s, said the only way he could think of for the Asiana plane to slow as quickly as the NTSB has described would be if somehow the autothrottle had shifted into the idle mode.
“There is no way to get from a normal airspeed and normal position at 500 feet to an abnormally slow airspeed at 300 feet unless there wasn’t enough thrust either deliberately or inadvertently,” he said.
Only moments before the crash did the training captain realize the autothrottle wasn’t controlling the plane’s speed, Hersman said.
“This is one of the two hallmarks of complexity and challenge in the industry right now,” said Doug Moss, an Airbus A320 pilot for a major U.S. airline and an aviation safety consultant in Torrance, Calif. “It’s automation confusion because from what Deborah Hersman said, it appears very likely the pilots were confused as to what autothrottle and pitch mode the airplane was in. It’s very likely they believed the autothrottles were on when in fact they were only armed.”
Their last-second efforts to rev the plane back up and abort the landing failed, although numerous survivors report hearing the engines roar just before impact.
“We just seemed to be flying in way too low. Last couple seconds before it happened the engines really revved into high gear. Just waaah! Like the captain was saying ‘oh no, we gotta get out of here.’ And then, boom! The back end just lifted up, just really jolted everybody in their seats,” said crash survivor Elliot Stone, who owns a martial arts studio in Scotts Valley.
A final determination on the cause of the crash is months away, and Hersman cautioned against drawing any conclusions based on the information revealed so far: Seven seconds before impact, someone in the cockpit asked for more speed after apparently noticing that the jet was flying far slower than its recommended landing speed. A few seconds later, the yoke began to vibrate violently, an automatic warning telling the pilot the plane is losing lift and in imminent danger of an aerodynamic stall. One and a half seconds before impact came a command to abort the landing.
By Tuesday afternoon, NTSB interviews with three pilots were complete and the fourth was under way.
In addition, authorities were reviewing the initial rescue efforts after fire officials acknowledged that one of their trucks might have run over one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the crash. The students, Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan, were part of a larger group headed for a Christian summer camp with dozens of classmates.
Asiana President Yoon Young-doo arrived in San Francisco from South Korea on Tuesday morning, fighting his way through a pack of journalists outside customs.
He met with and apologized to injured passengers, family members and survivors. But Yoon said he can’t meet with the Asiana pilots because no outside contact with them is allowed until the investigation is completed. | aerospace |
https://www.vectorcast.com/news/embedded-software-testing-news/avionics-aerospace-and-defense-software-news/embedded-software | 2019-08-23T05:56:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317847.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190823041746-20190823063746-00101.warc.gz | 0.911078 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__207166329 | en | According to a recent press release, Lockheed Martin has successfully completed the software testing to validate that its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) can be launched from any MK 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) by making slight modifications to software on the existing shipboard equipment.
To ensure the systems can coexist, LRASM and Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS), MK 41 VLS and MK-114 booster hardware with modified software executed simulated missions and provided electrical interfaces and data transfers needed to successfully prepare and launch LRASMs.
Glenn Kuller, Vice President of Advanced and Special Programs at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, said in the release, "This recent test demonstrates the low-risk and low-cost of launching LRASM from a ship, and was made possible by a cross-company team effort. This program success helps pave the way for rapid fielding of a surface launch capability, meeting our warfighters' critical needs."
The LRASM is an autonomous, precision-guided anti-ship standoff missile designed to meet the weapon needs of U.S. Navy and Air Force Warfighters. Later in 2014, there will be two surface-launch demonstrations with a LRASM vertically launched from the Desert Ship at White Sands Missile Range, transitioning to controlled flight and target area impact.
Embedded software tests to ensure LRASM can be successfully launched from MK 41 Vertical Launch Systems through slight software modifications have been completed, preparing the missile for launch demonstrations in 2014, according to the Lockheed Martin press release. | aerospace |
https://www.arribatrends.com/news/watch-live-nasas-perseverance-rover-landing-on-mars/ | 2023-09-26T12:14:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510208.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926111439-20230926141439-00373.warc.gz | 0.776772 | 130 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__231660087 | en | The NASA’s (National Aeronautics Space Administration) Mars mission is about to land on the Jezero crater on the Mars surface. Attempting the most difficult landing ever on the red planet world’s eyes are touted towards the world’s leader of the space tech.
Facing the signal delay of 11 minutes and 22 seconds, the ground control will be facing the seven minutes of terror at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
NASA’s Mars mission live on NASA’s YouTube channel:
Mission Control Live: NASA Lands Perseverance Mars Rover (clean feed); | aerospace |
http://www.orbitalprojects.net/about-us/ | 2018-02-25T15:27:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816647.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20180225150214-20180225170214-00152.warc.gz | 0.898158 | 804 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__188677103 | en | Welcome to Orbital Projects South Pacific
At Orbital Projects, we believe that our future advancement in space is dependent on the active encouragement of young people to pursue careers in science and space related fields. With increasing multinational collaboration in space exploration and the advent of private space enterprises, active participation in space exploration is a reality for people of all nationalities.
Utilizing one of the largest privately held archives of spaceflight information in Australia and the resources of the NASA Education and History programs, Orbital Projects aims to increase awareness of space exploration amongst young people through the provision of authoritative educational and outreach programs to schools, community, corporate and media outlets across Australia, the South Pacific and the United States.
Who we are…
Orbital Projects founder Scott Pooke is a Tasmanian born Space Historian who has comprehensively documented the history of the American space program specializing in the Apollo lunar landings and the Space Shuttle program.
Scott has undertaken six extended study and lecture tours to research institutions and NASA facilities across the United States examining in detail every facet of America’s space program from its origins to the present day with a particular emphasis on Australia’s contribution to America’s achievements in space.
Through these tours, Scott has gained a unique insight into the inner workings of the NASA space program and a reputation for thoroughness in the field of spaceflight history.
Scott has traveled over 24,000 KM’s on Greyhound buses to locations across the United States documenting over 90% of America’s flown space hardware from the Vanguard satellite to the Space Shuttle and been granted special access to many original and historic space facilities.
On his most recent tour in 2011, Scott traveled to the Kennedy Space Center to witness the final landing of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS 133 and the final roll out of Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS 134.
In December 2013, Scott traveled to the South Australian desert to find and document the Island Lagoon Tracking Station, NASA’s first Deep Space Tracking Station outside of the United States.
Selections of Scott’s images documenting America’s space history may be viewed in our Image Gallery.
Scott has conducted media interviews related to NASA activities for ABC Radio National, ABC Local radio, 4BC Brisbane, 6PR Perth, 2UE Sydney and KHOU CBS Television in Houston. In July 2012, Scott provided live commentary for the landing of the Curiosity Rover on the Martian surface to radio audiences across Australia and New Zealand. A selection of previous interviews is available in our sound Gallery.
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https://www.gii.co.jp/report/moi597225-global-military-airborne-collision-avoidance.html | 2019-01-19T04:22:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583662124.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190119034320-20190119060320-00523.warc.gz | 0.732493 | 1,072 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__111172975 | en | 世界の軍用空中衝突回避システム（ACAS）市場：種類（レーダー、TCAS、PCAS、 FLARM、GPWS、TAWS、合成視野、OCAS）、地域別 - 市場予測と分析（2018年〜2023年）
Global Military Airborne Collision Avoidance System Market - Growth, Trends and Forecast (2018 - 2023)
|発行||Mordor Intelligence LLP||商品コード||597225|
|出版日||ページ情報||英文 105 Pages
|世界の軍用空中衝突回避システム（ACAS）市場：種類（レーダー、TCAS、PCAS、 FLARM、GPWS、TAWS、合成視野、OCAS）、地域別 - 市場予測と分析（2018年〜2023年） Global Military Airborne Collision Avoidance System Market - Growth, Trends and Forecast (2018 - 2023)|
|出版日: 2018年04月18日||ページ情報: 英文 105 Pages||
The Military Airborne Collision Avoidance System Market is expected to record a CAGR of about 5%, during the forecast period. Since most military aircraft operate in hazardous conditions, the chances of mid-air collisions and fatal accidents are very high. This has compelled military forces to adopt sophisticated airborne collision avoidance systems as they help to improve the operational safety and efficiency of such aircraft. Additionally, factors such as the implementation of stringent regulatory norms set by the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation and Standardized European Rules of the Air (SERA) will necessitate the implementation of such systems to ensure basic flight safety rules.
Consequently, military forces from across the globe are using UAVs for long-range missions. Since the implementation of airborne collision avoidance system is mandatory in UAVs, an increase in the adoption of UAVs during the forecast period will necessitate the implementation of such systems as they help to improve the operational safety and life of UAVs.
Growing Technological Advancements in the Market
The ongoing technological innovations have resulted in the development of surveillance drones and multi-rotor aircraft to get real-time visual inputs from the sky. However, these aircraft need to be flown safely and maintain safe distance from commercial aircraft. The airborne collision avoidance systems help in controlling the unmanned drones from mid-air collisions with commercial aircraft, thus, aiding the demand for airborne collision avoidance systems in the military, globally.
As the demand for military airborne collision avoidance systems is directly related to military airborne accidents and other mishaps, the concern for airborne collision avoidance systems is more in the market, thus, driving the demand for military airborne collision avoidance systems.
The North American region is expected to witness promising growth, owing to the growing adoption of military drones for surveillance applications. Moreover, the region includes countries, such as the United States and Canada, who invest heavily in maintaining their defense capabilities. Hence, the region is expected to dominate the market during the forecast period (2018 - 2023). Europe is expected to follow North America regarding revenue market share. European region includes countries, like the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, who are upgrading their surveillance capability based on the rising terrorist activities in this region. Moreover, Asia-Pacific region is expected to have the third largest market. The rising economic condition in countries, such as India and China, is expected to drive the demand significantly in the future.
Major Players: HONEYWELL AEROSPACE, AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, ROCKWELL COLLINS, amongst others.
Key Developments in the Market
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https://www.insidehook.com/sports/see-the-most-incredible-photo-from-college-footballs-best-game | 2023-12-04T10:42:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100527.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204083733-20231204113733-00460.warc.gz | 0.942962 | 174 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__194863536 | en | Aerial photographer Mark Holtzman captured the moment a B-2 Spirit from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whitman Air Force Base flew over the 2018 Rose Bowl Game on Monday night, according to the Aviationist. Holtzman, who is an accomplished aerial photographer and pilot, told admirers on Twitter that he was in a Cessna 206 airplane flying above the stadium at approximately 5,000 feet as the bomber flew over. Take a look at the insane photo below.
This amazing shot of the Rose Bowl & of the Stealth Bomber flyover yesterday was taken by Mark Holtzman of @westcoastaerial. Taken with his Canon 5dmk3 camera from a Cessna 206 going 100 miles per hour! pic.twitter.com/ciK88PSoqw
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 2, 2018 | aerospace |
https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i31/EPA-readies-regulate-aircraft-CO2.html?sc=230901_cenymal_eng_slot2_cen | 2024-04-12T12:29:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296815919.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412101354-20240412131354-00257.warc.gz | 0.956839 | 225 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__199512415 | en | The U.S. took the first step toward regulating carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft last week when the Environmental Protection Agency determined that these releases endanger the health and welfare of current and future generations. EPA’s move establishes the reasoning for Clean Air Act standards for CO emissions from aircraft. Domestic and international flights originating in the U.S. account for 3% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the agency. EPA’s expected CO2 regulations would affect aircraft as small as the Embraer E170 and as large as commercial jetliners including the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747. The agency doesn’t indicate what those future emission standards might be. However, EPA points out that it and the Federal Aviation Administration traditionally work through the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to help establish international emission standards for aircraft. Then, EPA issues U.S. standards that are at least as strict as those set by ICAO, the United Nations’ aviation agency. ICAO is expected to approve CO2 standards for aircraft in October and formally adopt them in March 2017. | aerospace |
https://www.3dprintingbusiness.directory/company-category/space/ | 2022-01-19T16:54:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301475.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119155216-20220119185216-00151.warc.gz | 0.926784 | 696 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__190947609 | en | Built from decades of radiation physics research and experiments overseen by NASA and ESA, CSC’s Multifunctional Shielding Polymer (MSPTM) not only stops a majority of damaging solar particle and electromagnetic radiation, but significantly mitigates the damage potential of notoriously energetic Galactic Cosmic Rays.
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https://afternoonheadlines.com/chandrayaan-3-gets-a-launch-date-on-the-13th-of-july-at-230-pm-54808/ | 2024-04-17T15:37:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817158.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417142102-20240417172102-00861.warc.gz | 0.948742 | 330 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__145348223 | en | Chandrayaan-3 gets a launch date on the 13th of July at 2:30 pm
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has approved the launch date of Chandrayaan-3, which is slated to be released on the 13th of July at 2:30 pm. This will be considered as India’s third lunar mission, which is a great step towards exploring space and analyzing it for further effective matters.
After Chandrayaan-2’s disheartening experience in 2019, the upcoming project is viewed with utmost optimism by the scientists. Chandrayaan-3’s success with provide us with a better understanding of the moon, while also fulfilling its main objective to show the safe landing on the lunar surface and activate a robot rover.
The launch is held at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, which will be released with the help of the GSLV Mark 3 launch vehicle. The mission is estimated to budget around Rs 615 crore.
Chandrayaan-3 has gone through several tests for checking any risks before the launch ceremony and has been validated by the officials to ensure a successful mission ahead. All the mistakes that had occurred during the previous mission have been taken into consideration and steps have been taken to refrain from repeating the same errors.
One key element is introduced to Chandrayaan-3 and that is the composition of the Spectro-polarimetry of the Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload. This instrument will focus on gathering information regarding the spectral and polarimetry dimensions of planet Earth. | aerospace |
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https://www.wxii12.com/article/plane-crashes-pilot-sent-to-hospital/9123258 | 2021-05-17T09:39:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243992159.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210517084550-20210517114550-00014.warc.gz | 0.983042 | 134 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__36775133 | en | Plane crashes, pilot sent to hospital
Just before 2 p.m. Sunday, officials say, a call came in about a small plane crashing at Mt. Airy Airport.
The crash happened about 30 yards off the runway.
The pilot was the only person on board and he was taken to Baptist Hospital, where is he expected to be OK.
Officials are not releasing his name yet, but do know that he is 65 years old.
Airport officials are on the scene right now and have reported the incident to the Federal Aviation Administration.
As of now, it is unknown if the pilot was landing or taking off when the accident happened. | aerospace |
https://www.flyinglady.com/pete-zaccagnino/ | 2022-12-04T11:59:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710972.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20221204104311-20221204134311-00315.warc.gz | 0.95799 | 552 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__43643179 | en | Champion air racer, aviation engineer and author settles down with Flying Lady at the end of a high-speed day
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Pete Zaccagnino was dubbed “the Fastest Man at Reno” and for good reason! He’s an Aviation Hall of Fame pilot, 4-time Air Racing Gold Champion, has flown over 23,000 hours in more than 270 aircraft, flight tested more than 685, and even built three of his own.
Pete loves his adventure at top speed, having won the Gold Championship in the Jet class at 509mph! He has turned “pushing the envelope” into a personal philosophy and a successful career. He’s a humble but proud aviator, focused on the safety of his fellow pilots. As the president and chief pilot of High Performance Aircraft Training/Testing Inc. (HPAT), a company that tests the limits of today’s sophisticated aircraft to help pilots fly smarter and more safely, Zaccagnino gets to apply his “see-what-we-can-do” attitude daily. “Instead of looking at reasons why you can’t do something,” he explains, “we find out how you can make it happen.”
Clearly, a seasoned adventurer, Pete recently authored his first book: Relevant: A Military Thriller Inspired by True Events, which details his wild real-life experiences being held at gunpoint in Pakistan, unjustly detained by Nigerian authorities, and preventing children from getting kidnapped in Guatemala. He’s produced films for Discovery Channel and Smithsonian, and is featured on the popular “Dangerous Flights.” When not flying or at work on his creative projects, Pete is an avid skier and loves most outdoor activities.
“I’m always doing many things at once,” he says happily. Whether it’s flight testing, engineering a new design or modification, or developing new business, Zaccagnino is always ready for the next move. “I never want to wait for others to do something first, when I know I can do it.”
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https://www.imcdataworks.com/download-center/application-notes/ultra-light-helicopter-flight-tests/ | 2020-07-14T04:02:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657147917.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20200714020904-20200714050904-00409.warc.gz | 0.951673 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__109810891 | en | Solution for data acquisition & analysis - applied by CURTI Costruzioni Meccaniche Spa
CURTI’s two-seater helicopter is manufactured in Castel Bolognese, Italy, headquarters of the CURTI industrial group, a family run business with more than 40 years of experience in the defense and aerospace subcontracting and co-engineering.
The safety rescue system development, validation and product launch phases of this project were co-financed by the EU, under the SME Instrument, Horizon 2020.
Being the only Italian-guided consortium that had made it into the winners list of 16 funded projects, the project features one of the few ultra-light helicopters in the world driven by a turbine engine – lighter, reliable, and with less vibration than traditional piston engines.
The project is developed in close cooperation, as far as engineering and development are concerned, with CURTI partner company Hypertec Solutions, an engineering company of the CURTI Group, which operates in the aerospace industry and is also active in motor sports, oil and gas, energy and automation sectors.
The manufacture of flight parts completely checked and verified with control systems forms part of the know-how of the company - including the use of light-weight alloys, titanium and composites, thus reducing the take-off weight to 450 kg.
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https://thetrendingtimes.com/asteroid-or2-looks-like-wearing-a-face-mask-in-recently-released-images/4881/ | 2021-05-14T23:20:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991829.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514214157-20210515004157-00350.warc.gz | 0.93592 | 435 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__110547925 | en | Recently an odd-shaped asteroid was spotted by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The space object, dubbed 1998 OR2, appears to ‘wear a face mask.’ The picture of the ‘masked’ space rock was published on April 23. Asteroid OR2 will approach Earth on April 29, and it will be almost 16 times farther than the distance to the Moon. The asteroid doesn’t represent a threat at all, and astronomers predicted another visit in 2079.
The Masked Asteroid OR2 Will Pass Earth Soon
Astronomers witness before some of the strangest space objects’ shapes, such as a tumbling dice or a hippo. The blurred imagery offers many chances for active imaginations to kick in. But, according to the National Science Foundation, asteroid 1998 OR2 is unique, and it has been called a PHO (Potentially Hazardous Object). This category of cosmic feature doesn’t represent an immediate threat to us.
They’re usually approximately 150 meters and fly within 5 miles of our planet’s orbit. Therefore, discoveries similar to those made at the Arecibo Observatory are utilized to find out their next trajectories. Scientists will have, too, more answers when it comes to how dangerous an asteroid could be.
Asteroid OR2 Is Not a Threat
“Although this asteroid is not projected to impact Earth, it is important to understand the characteristics of these types of objects to improve impact-risk mitigation technologies,” detailed Anne Virkki, the head of the Arecibo Observatory’s Planetary Radar.
The radar measurements are also significant because scientists might find out more where the space object will be in the future, including its future visits to Earth.
Asteroid OR2 was monitored since April 13. The team of researchers will continue to gather information until April 23 when it will no longer be noticeable from the Arecibo Observatory. 1998 OR2 is for sure quite the oddity, but as long as it doesn’t pose any danger, we continue to admire the masked-asteroid. | aerospace |
https://myburbank.com/laser-pointed-at-jet-plane-and-police-helicopter/ | 2022-08-17T17:35:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00001.warc.gz | 0.973235 | 569 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__66008152 | en | An 18 year-old man from North Hollywood was arrested Thursday night, after a private jet making a landing at Bob Hope Airport, and a police helicopter looking for the suspect, were hit with a laser.
The incident began when a Cessna Citation twin-engine private jet was landing on the East/West runway at Bob Hope Airport. The pilots were hit with a laser as they were on close final approach, about a half-mile from the runway. When the plane arrived at Million Air, 2800 N. Clybourn Ave., they flagged down an Airport Police officer and reported the incident.
The Airport police contacted the Burbank Police Department. The Burbank Police helicopter was not in service, but the Pasadena Police Department’s PD-One helicopter was on patrol and responded, as did an airship from the Los Angeles Police Department. While in the area west of the airport in North Hollywood, the Pasadena helicopter was also hit by a laser being pointed at them from the ground. Using their high-tech radar system, the officers on board the helicopter were able to lock onto the location and pinpoint a house where the laser was coming from. The pilot and observer apparently escaped injury. Lasers pointed at aircraft can temporarily blind a pilot, and can cause serious eye injury.
Ground units from the Airport, Burbank, and Los Angeles Police Departments converged on the 6400 block of Bakman Ave. The suspect’s location is just north of Victory Blvd., and one block east of Tujunga Ave. in North Hollywood. The area is just south of the landing pattern for the airport. Airport Police officers contacted the residents of the home that the helicopter had pinpointed. The 18 year-old son of the home’s owners admitted to officers that he was the one pointing the laser. Officers confiscated a laser and booked it into evidence.
The unidentified teen was placed under arrest, and taken to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Station for booking. Pointing a laser at an aircraft is a felony, and as of January 1, of this year, it is also a federal crime.
This incident bears a chillingly eerie similarity to the scenario used in the Emergency Exercise that was held at Bob Hope Airport on March 20. In the drill, a passenger jet is on close final approach to the runway, when someone on the ground shines a laser at the plane, blinding the pilots. The plane makes a hard landing, partially collapsing the nose gear, and causing the plane to veer off the runway and crashing into a construction site before exploding and bursting into flames. In the drill, 15 people are killed and 50 injured. In the real thing Thursday night, Airport Police report that no one was injured
Note: Ross A. Benson contributed to the writing of this story. | aerospace |
https://exploredia.com/top-10-helicopters-of-the-future/ | 2019-05-19T13:06:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232254882.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519121502-20190519143502-00078.warc.gz | 0.954037 | 1,185 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__28382972 | en | The helicopter and the airplane got together and had a baby–and the U.S. military is commissioning hundreds of them to transport soldiers. NASA is experimenting with
All of these are part of the exciting future of the helicopter. It’s long been considered only the province of news traffic reporters, military extractions, and medical emergencies. But that could be changing, soon, as these top helicopters of the future reach development and eventually, the general public.
10. SB-1 Defiant
This Sikorsky model helicopter is being built for the U.S. military, which has long suffered from obsolete helicopters, some of them having served since the 1960s. But this new model incorporates every possible innovation that’s taken place in the last fifty years, like pusher propellers that raise its top horizontal speed.
9. V-280 Valor
This is another helicopter originally designed for the U.S. military, but one which will see practical applications in the medical field–and possibly even in civilian transport–once it reaches the general public. Conceived as a slimmer, sleeker–and faster–version of the famous V-22 Osprey (the one mounted with rotating propellers that double as rotors for vertical landing and takeoff). The military has also planned an attack helicopter version of this beast, armed with a significant load of missiles.
8. DARPA/Boeing DiscRotor
You might be fooled when first looking at this particular model because it looks more like a luxury Learjet outfitted with a giant radar dish than it does like a helicopter. But there’s a good reason for its rather odd appearance: it uses rotors for vertical takeoff and landing. But unlike other craft that then rotate their rotors to a horizontal position, and use them as propellers, this future helicopter model retracts its rotors into a hard-shell casing that then serves as the plane’s wings, generating the lift to keep it in the sky as it’s propelled forward by twin jet engines mounted on the fuselage.
7. Shadow Hawk UAV
Any post about future helicopters–or future aircraft of any kind–is never complete without at least some mention of drones–unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. The Shadowhawk UAV is the latest and greatest in the parade of ever-more-advanced drones tracking pirates on the seas and aiding police here at home. Weighing in at 50 pounds total, and capable of carrying lasers, thermal imaging equipment, and even grenade launchers, it’s a sure sign that unmanned air travel is destined to play a big part among the aircraft of the future.
The mysterious-sounding name fits this Sikorsky helicopter well. Featuring twin rotors as well as a push propeller–that enabled it to break the worldwide helicopter speed record when it clocked an impressive 299 miles per hour–it uses all of the latest helicopter technology. It was, however, sadly only conceived as a concept craft, and is unlikely to see major production in either the military or civilian fields. However, future helicopters based on this design could very well see heavy usage in both arenas in the near future.
5. Eurocopter X3
One of the few helicopters on this list not specifically designed for the military–at least originally–the X3 features a similar design to that of the X-2 (but don’t be fooled; they’re made by two different companies and the designs aren’t really related–they don’t even look alike). It uses both rotors and propellers, powered by twin engines, that give this ‘copter incredibly fast vertical and horizontal speed. It flies as fast as any normal turboprop plane, but remains stable in vertical takeoff and landing, so no fancy computer programs are necessary to keep it airborne.
4. The Mosquito Helicopter
This is a truly outlandish design–and one that has yet to see even a concept craft built. Conceived by eccentric designer Cikrac Dragan, it crosses the helicopter, the four-prop drone, and a motorcycle all together. The pilot sits on a chair suspended between three vertical propellers. The pilot is in the open air, and the craft’s structure is made primarily of metal bars, reducing its weight. This craft could have significant uses for personal transportation and in military applications–if it’s ever built.
3. Igarashi Single Seat Helicopter
Another design featuring a tiny helicopter, built to accommodate only a single person, this copter has yet to see production. Perhaps this is due to a lack of military backing, but as air travel becomes more ubiquitous and personalized, there may indeed be demand for such a vehicle as this.
2. Blue Edge
This helicopter is based on a design unveiled by Eurocopter at a recent future helicopter expo. It’s part of the industry-wide quest towards something called “whisper mode,” in which the characteristically deafening sound of a helicopter’s rotors are reduced to a mere three or four decibels–an important factor if helicopters of the future are to become a major part of personal travel in the future.
1. Urban Aeronautics X-Hawk VTOL
It’s a flying car. Yeah, you heard that right: a flying car. Utilizing rotors built into the structure of the craft, it actually resembles something Luke Skywalker would drive around in. It was conceived as a way to rescue people from the upper floors of burning buildings, and to deliver soldiers to hard-to-reach areas, even for helicopters. It should begin production sometime in the next few years. | aerospace |
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The video above is of NASA astronaut Colonel Mike Hopkins, currently on the International Space Station, showing the student designed tape dispencer in action.. in space!
The astronaut demonstrates how the device can be operated with one hand at the 1:12 mark, and gives a shout out to Windsor High School at the 2:40 mark. While multiple schools contributed to the overall design during the process, the seat track attachment innovation that alows for one-handed use came directly out of Mr. Ricci and his students' Technology Education classroom. An exerpt from a NASA email is below:
"... the outstanding accomplishment by Mr. Ricci and his Windsor High School HUNCH students who not only designed, but also fabricated and documented an incredibly designed tape dispenser and seat track attachment for the ISS. This project truly took a team effort, and the excellent results are sincerely appreciated by the astronauts onboard the ISS. "
WHS Technology Education Engineering students, under the leadership of their one-of-a-kind teacher Dustin Ricci, worked with NASA engineers and astronauts to develop hardware for use on the International Space Station.
Recently, the autonomous rocket launched out of Florida carrying some of that student-designed hardware, including a locker they helped design that they signed in a ceremony here at WHS last year. It docked with the ISS about 24 hours later (the first rocket to ever self-dock!) delivering the student work to the astronauts living onboard.
The successful NASA/SpaceX Rocket Launch, with important connections to our WHS students and faculty is a spectacular culmination of their hard work. Congrats to Mr. Ricci and his students on this amazing achievement! | aerospace |
https://www.etracfinalmile.com/blog/your-guide-to-drone-deliveries/ | 2020-11-28T08:40:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195198.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128070431-20201128100431-00163.warc.gz | 0.949052 | 673 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__44237517 | en | Are drones taking jobs or improving operations? Eyes have been on the sky for final mile delivery for decades. Drone delivery is now a reality in many large cities, but opponents of the new technology are claiming that it’s taking peoples’ jobs, not being well regulated and impacting the public’s safety.
Is it possible, though, that the pros outweigh the cons? Is it time to look at drone delivery as a solution to your business?
Drones have come a long way in recent years. The FAA now allows the use of “civil” drones. In order to use a civil drone for your business, you must register the drone with the FAA and the person flying the drone must pass an FAA examination.
You can read more about the FAA requirements for commercial drone operators here.
In addition to FAA requirements, your state likely has their own set of requirements. We recommend contacting your Department of Transportation and local government officials to learn more.
Just like vehicles, there are dozens of types of drones available on the marketplace. For your final mile business, delivery drones are going to be the best fit.
Delivery drones are specially equipped to delivery small goods Typically they have some sort of carrying mechanism under them to transport the goods.
Many drones can carry about 4 kg for roughly 15-20 minutes or 5-7 miles, however the weight and dimensions that each drone can transport will vary with the model, as well as it’s flight time.
For an overview on a few final mile delivery drones currently on the market and where to find them, check out this article on Drone Lab.
Less Street Traffic
If you live in an urban area like Atlanta, you know the impact a few less cars on the road can have. While some final mile delivery options like UberEats and Lyft are putting more cars on the road, using drones for some deliveries could take cars off the road.
Better for the Environment
Many drones are battery powered, eliminating the carbon emissions that a final mile vehicle would emit. Because they do not run off gas, you’re also able to hedge your company from the volatility of gasoline prices.
Faster Delivery Times
UPS partnered with Matternet, a Swedish company who has mastered drone deliveries in their country, to bring medical specimen delivery to the U.S. They launched their program in March at Wake Forest Hospital in North Carolina.
By switching over to drone deliveries, UPS was able to cut their delivery time down to just minutes, a fraction of the time it took with a driver.
Hedging Against the Driver Shortage
The demand for final mile deliveries is increasing, and the number of drivers available is decreasing. Multiple drone deliveries are able to be managed by one remote worker, opening the marketplace to many other kinds of workers.
Drones in Use
Several companies are successfully using drones for their final mile deliveries today. See the list below to learn what has worked for them and how it might apply to your business:
- UPS and Matternet use drones for medical specimen deliveries.
- Amazon Prime Air may be one of the most famous drone users.
- Zipline launched the first commercial drone delivery company in Rwanda, delivering blood.
Is your business ready to use drones in the final mile? | aerospace |
https://arsa.org/blue-ridge-ccs-dyen-awarded-instructor-of-the-year/ | 2022-11-26T08:11:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446706285.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20221126080725-20221126110725-00501.warc.gz | 0.890624 | 350 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__277606586 | en | On April 15, Blue Ridge Community College Aviation Maintenance Technology Program Associate Professor Fred Dyen was awarded the Ivan D. Livi Aviation Maintenance Educator of the Year Award presented at the annual Aviation Technician Education Council (ATEC) Conference. The award recognizes long-term outstanding performance of an aviation maintenance technology instructor who has had a direct impact on students.
Dyen has nearly 27 years of experience teaching at Part 147 programs across the country and is currently pursuing his PhD in instructional design and technology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
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On Nov. 8, ARSA Executive Vice President Christian Klein spoke at Purdue University’s inaugural National Aviation Symposium. Klein headlined a panel on national industry workforce demand, presenting on trends in…Read More
On Nov. 17, ARSA Vice President of Operations Brett Levanto joined an engagement session hosted by the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) soliciting input on improving participation…Read More
On Nov. 15, the FAA hosted a webinar on the Maintenance Implementation Procedures (MIP) and Maintenance Agreement Guidance (MAG) established between the United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US). The…Read More
ARSA has taken back control of its periodical distribution and advertising sales. After 15 years of partnership with Multiview, Inc., the association’s team is now in full command…Read More | aerospace |
http://portaltotheuniverse.org/blogs/posts/view/704707/ | 2020-05-30T18:08:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347410284.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20200530165307-20200530195307-00063.warc.gz | 0.946833 | 295 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__4661337 | en | Space isn’t really so empty as we might think. There are planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and rings. And dust. Beyond our local neighborhood, there’s also gas, lots of it. And, of course, we get the errant comet or asteroid from another solar system, like the newly found 2I/Borisov.
Earlier this year, an amateur astronomer named Gennadiy Borisov was out observing. On August 30, he found something that looked like a comet. He reported his find in a notification to the IAU. Other observers went to work looking at it, too. Using their observations, the IAU Minor Planet Center came up with a preliminary orbit. It turns out this thing isn’t just any comet. It’s coming from outside the solar system. Its official designation means it’s the second interstellar object and it was discovered by Borisov.
2I/Borisov is Hyperbolic!
This alien comet is in a hyperbolic orbit. That means its origin is from outside the solar system and it will (unless captured gravitationally by the Sun (unlikely), end up sailing right through our planetary system and back out to interstellar space. A hyperbolic orbit is not a “closed” orbit. That is, it isn’t an ellipse (like a squashed egg) It’s ... | aerospace |
https://defencenewsclub.1site.co.in/2018/02/20/tejas-a-best-in-class-aircraft-drdo-chief/ | 2019-07-16T10:27:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524522.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716095720-20190716121720-00340.warc.gz | 0.938084 | 637 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__73504795 | en | Tejas, India’s home-grown Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), has emerged among the best in class aircraft, providing flight stability even under extreme unstable conditions says S Christopher, Chairman, Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). This has been achieved thorough indigenous technology and developments.
In addition, Tejas has rules-based Artificial Intelligence incorporated into its Flight Control System (FCS), he said at the third International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), International Conference on Advances in Control & Optimisation of Dynamical Systems (ACODS 2018) here. The FCS provides the pilot ‘carefree handling’. However, flight limits cannot be exceeded, which at lower speeds on aircraft such as the MiG-23/27 or Jaguar, results in the loss of the aircraft. The Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bengaluru, and HAL have been involved in the development of Tejas.
However, it has posed challenges for pilots in controlling its longitudinally unstable airframe, which escalates rapidly any disturbance of even a small magnitude. A major challenge that has resulted in delays and long gestation for the Tejas development programme.
Christopher, who is also Secretary, Department of Defence R&D, said to add more features and capabilities, continuous R&D has been taken up in the are of AI. Control systems have wide applications varying from aircraft and submarines to missiles. To meet the growing requirements of aerospace and defence projects, there is a need to develop innovative guidance schemes and control algorithms, he added.
Futuristic weapon systems will be smart, intelligent, complex and technologically advanced, he added. More than 500 scientists, academicians, industry partners and students are taking part in the conference being organised by DRDO. In his address, G Satheesh Reddy, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and DG (Missiles & Strategic Systems), said miniaturised avionics and smart sensors will be the backbone for futuristic aerospace and defence systems. Hence, there is an urgent need to create infrastructure and train a resource pool to develop algorithms for control and guidance to take aerospace vehicles such as fighter aircraft, missiles and launch vehicles into the next generation.
N.V. Kadam and S.K. Ray, former senior scientists of the APJ Kalam Missile Complex, were felicitated for their lifetime contributions in the field of control and guidance. Frank Allgower, President, IFAC Austria (Stuttgart University, Germany), addressed the inaugural function. Many globally renowned Control and Guidance experts including P.K. Menon, Chairman & CEO, Optimal Synthesis Inc., Reza Moheimani, University of Texas, Sarah Spurgeon, University College of London, and Min-Jea Tahk, Korea Advanced Institute of S&T will be delivering the plenary and invited talks during the international conference.
Source:- The Hindu
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https://skysupplyusa.com/gleim-online-ground-school-flight-ground-instructor/ | 2022-11-27T11:12:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710237.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127105736-20221127135736-00862.warc.gz | 0.736724 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__201327269 | en | Gleim Online Ground School - Flight/Ground Instructor
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https://rostechnologiesblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/integrated-structure-in-space-device-engineering-to-be-open-to-collaboration-with-private-companies/ | 2018-03-24T18:01:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257650764.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20180324171404-20180324191404-00264.warc.gz | 0.907785 | 199 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__62951446 | en | Integrated Structure in Space Device Engineering to Be Open to Collaboration with Private Companies
The integrated structure of horizontal type planned to be set up in the Russian Space Device Engineering, will develop different forms of cooperation with private enterprises, General Director of JSC “Russian Space Systems” Andrey Tyulin said to “Interfax-AVN”.
“We do not rule out participation in the project of private companies. If we see that we have with any private company a close cooperation and without it we will not realize the serious long-term project for the benefit of the customer, then we consider the question of cooperation up to the inclusion in the union,” A.Tyulin said, commenting on plans to reform the industry.
Responding to a question about the composition of a future integrated structure, A.Tyulin said it will be “the main enterprises of Space Device Engineering, those who produce avionics for spacecraft and space systems.” | aerospace |
https://preflight.dynonavionics.com/2007/09/world-record-flight-using-dynon-avionics.html | 2024-04-15T19:09:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817014.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415174104-20240415204104-00116.warc.gz | 0.928534 | 124 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__200672527 | en | A Flight Design CTsw flown by Indian Air Force Wing Commanders and Squadron Leaders Rahul Monga and Anil Kumar completed a round-the-world flight in 79 days involving 19 countries. This is believed to be a new world record for this class of aircraft. The CTsw was equipped with Dynon’s EFIS-D100 and EMS-D120 avionics.
It’s exciting to see enterprising individuals undertaking global conquests in Experimental and Light Sport type aircraft. Dynon congratulates Rahul Monga and Anil Kumar as well as the folks at Flight Design for this great achievement. | aerospace |
https://newsbulletin247.com/world/318261.html | 2023-06-08T11:26:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654871.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608103815-20230608133815-00568.warc.gz | 0.938875 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__176310453 | en | Russian jets trying to provoke US jets into dogfights over Syria, top US officials confirm
“The Russians seek air battles” warn US officials, revealing that Russian fighters are trying to engage US fighters over Syria.
On April 19, the US Central Command released video of Russian fighter jets intercepting US aircraft over Syria on two separate occasions, as tensions continue to escalate between the two countries. One video shows infrared footage of a Russian Su-35 intercepting a US vessel.
A second, lower-quality video, shot on April 2, shows what US forces say is “a Russian Su-35 conducting an unsafe and unprofessional interception with a US F-16.”
Russian jets are trying to provoke US aircraft into dogfights over Syria, top US officials have confirmed. US military chiefs have told their pilots not to respond to the provocations, but admit that the dangerous maneuvers are deeply disturbing.
Moscow and Washington have a direct “de-escalation line,” set up to avoid any incidents, with direct communication between the two sides, but since early March, Russian aircraft have violated de-escalation protocols a total of 85 times, an official told CNN on Saturday — including of flying too close to international coalition bases.
There are 26 cases in which Russian warplanes flew over US and international coalition positions in Syria. US officials on April 2 and April 18 released videos showing Russian jets coming dangerously close to their planes.
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https://flyinginireland.com/2021/08/seraph-aviation-group-places-737-with-joy-air-in-china/ | 2022-12-09T01:41:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711376.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209011720-20221209041720-00364.warc.gz | 0.952471 | 293 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__106677749 | en | Published on August 31st, 2021 | by Mark Dwyer0
Seraph Aviation Group places 737 with Joy Air in China
Seraph Aviation Group, the specialised aviation asset manager headquartered in Dublin, has announced that it has successfully placed one B737-800 with Joy Air in the People’s Republic of China. David Butler, Chief Executive, Seraph Aviation Group said: “We are delighted to have secured Joy Air as a new airline customer and are proud of our achievement to deliver an aircraft into China during the Covid pandemic. We look forward to commencing a long and positive relationship with Joy Air and we wish the airline well as it introduces the aircraft into service this month.”
Seraph Aviation Group is a dedicated Aviation Asset Manager and Financial Advisor. The Group focuses on originating and managing aircraft investments for third parties, with expertise in managing a wide range of aviation assets throughout their life cycle and arranging aviation-related financing. Seraph Aviation Group is headquartered in Dublin with offices in Stamford, CT, USA, and London.
Joy Air is a Xi’an state-owned airline that was launched by China Aviation Industry Group in 2008 and has been controlled by Xi`an Aerospace Investment Co., Ltd. since November 2018. Joy Air’s main base is Xi’an, the capital city of the central province of Shaanxi, famous for its international tourist destination of the Terracotta Warriors archaeological site. | aerospace |
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2010/12763.php | 2023-09-29T16:49:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510520.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929154432-20230929184432-00799.warc.gz | 0.933629 | 97 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__200245083 | en | NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (November 5, 2010)Naval Air Station Patuxent River issued a noise advisory for communities surrounding the Outlying Landing Field (OLF) at Webster Field in St. Inigoes. Navy officials warn that residents may experience increased noise levels November 8 through the 13th.
Low-level jet aircraft flight operations are required offshore of OLF Webster Field in order to conduct aircraft calibration testing. Some Saturday operations may be required. | aerospace |
https://www.shapeways.com/product/EK8G84GJP/1-300-fisher-xp-75-eagle?optionId=59246106&li=more-from-shop | 2023-09-25T08:55:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233508959.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925083430-20230925113430-00245.warc.gz | 0.961577 | 139 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__192797232 | en | American experimental high altitude fighter design from 1942. To speed up development the design utilised various of-the-shelf airframe components together with a new 24-cylinder engine mounted behind the pilot driving contra-rotating propellors. The combination of mis-mathched aerodynamics and unproven engine was not a happy one and performance was disappointing.
By the time the XP-75 was flyable the US needed a long-range escort more than a high altitude interceptor and the entire design was revised as the XP-75A which appeared very similar but included many detail changes. The success of the Mustang removed the need for the Eagle and the project was cancelled in late 1944. | aerospace |
http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/modelling-human-pilot-using-fuzzy/6836 | 2017-04-28T06:14:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122865.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00174-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95257 | 134 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__15174364 | en | This chapter discusses the possibility to model the control behaviour of a human pilot by fuzzy logic control. For this investigation a special flight task is considered, the ILS tracking task, and an evaluation pilot has to perform this task in a ground based flight simulator. During the ILS tracking task all necessary flight data are stored in a database and additionally the pilot commands are recorded. The development of the described fuzzy controller (the fuzzy pilot) is based on cognitive analysis by evaluating the recorded flight data with the associated pilot comments. Finally the fuzzy pilot is compared with the human pilot and it can be verified that the fuzzy pilot and the human pilot are based on the same control concept. | aerospace |
https://uberant.com/article/1314361-special-mission-aircraft-market-global-size-growth-and-research-analysis-2030/ | 2024-02-23T00:12:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473871.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222225655-20240223015655-00682.warc.gz | 0.91133 | 696 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__64067793 | en | Special Mission Aircraft Market Global Size, Growth and Research Analysis 2030
Posted by Vedika on March 14th, 2021
At an estimated value of over USD 13.62 billion in 2019, the Global Special Mission Aircraft Market is predicted to thrive at a CAGR of 9.7% and valued at over USD 33.55 billion over the forecast year 2020-2030.
Special mission aircraft are specifically developed to commence an over-battlefield role by using advanced onboard equipment. Majorly, this class of aircrafts consist of fighter aircrafts, interceptor fighters, and troop transports. These aircrafts are provided with several capabilities to carry out missions such as to release a missile, rocket, or other aircraft payloads.
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Top Companies: Safran SA, FLIR Systems Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, L3 Technologies, QinetiQ Group Plc, Leidos Holdings Inc., Leonardo SpA, Viking Air Ltd, Textron Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, Saab Group, Raytheon Company, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (IAI), Field Aviation, The Boeing Company, Airbus Group, Cirrus Aircraft Corporation, Bombardier Inc and others.
The global special mission aircraft market share is segmented on the basis of type and geography. On the basis of type, the market is categorized into Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR), Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA), Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C), Anti-Surface Warfare & Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Search & Rescue (SAR), and refueling. Geographic fragmentation and analysis of each segment includes regions comprising North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Rest of the World.
In terms of geography, North America held major share of the market in 2019. This is due to the fact that the U.S. is one of the largest developers, exporters, and operators of special mission aircraft around the globe. For instance, the prominent key players such as the Boeing Company, Textron Inc., Honeywell Aerospace, Inc., Collins Aerospace, and UTC Aerospace Systems are headquartered in the U.S. However, Asia-pacific is expected to experience fastest growth owing to surge in territorial disputes in Eastern Asia and increased defense expenditure by several economies in the region.
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http://indiafirstepaper.com/2020/11/27/big-leap-spacex-launches-4-astronauts-to-the-international-space-station/ | 2021-04-22T13:15:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039610090.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20210422130245-20210422160245-00547.warc.gz | 0.945717 | 568 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__87822484 | en | Taking a new step in the field of space research and exploration, SpaceX launched in collaboration with NASA four astronauts into space aboard a Tesla-manufactured space shuttle. This was the first full-fledged mission to be undertaken in privately owned vehicle. The exploration mission has taken Crew Dragon Resilience Team aboard the Falcon 9 space vehicle. The team includes Mike Hopkins (a US Air Force colonel), Shannon Walker (physicist), Victor Glover (a rookie astronaut) and Soichi Noguchi (a Japanese astronaut).
Ahead of launch, the astronauts’ families came to the Kennedy Space Centre to wave goodbyes and wishing them luck on their historic space mission. The mission was launched under the joint supervision of NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in the absence of Tesla Inc’s Chief Executive Officer and innovator Elon Musk.
The capsule that has taken the astronauts to space has been named Resilience in order to symbolise humankind’s relentless quest for progress despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lift-off of the Resilience shuttle occurred at Cape Canaveral and was successful after many tests and trials that were undertaken by NASA and SpaceX to ensure that the first manned space mission in a privately owned vehicle is a success. The space flight reached the International Space Station on November 16 and the astronauts are expected to stay at the ISS until spring next year.
The success of the first privately owned taxi flight to space has given hope to NASA for its plans of starting operational flights to the International Space Station through which astronauts will be able to take flights to space in a very short amount of time. With this initiative, the space will no more be alien to people and the world will be able to make long strides in the field of space exploration.
Giving the public access to the inside images of the 27 and half hours of space flight, SpaceX transmitted images from inside the Dragon capsule that showed the crew of the Resilience on their seats, doing just fine on the capsule. US President-Elect Joe Biden responded to the historic mission by hailing the mission as a testament to the power of science and the power of human ingenuity and determination.
The Falcon 9 rocket, designed by Tesla Inc., is the first spacecraft to be certified by NASA after the Space Shuttle program of NASA 40 years ago. The Space Shuttle Program was shelved by NASA in 2011 after it was deemed unsafe and unaffordable for space travel. NASA collaborated with SpaceX and Boeing for designing space shuttles after this and the Falcon 9 emerged as the first privately designed and owned space shuttle to be launched into space.
Following the successful completion of the Resilience’s maiden space flight, SpaceX is planning to launch two more crewed flights next year for NASA. | aerospace |
https://twigaaero.com/product/ground-support-equipment-operational-risk-assessment/ | 2022-01-28T23:28:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320306346.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128212503-20220129002503-00066.warc.gz | 0.895352 | 188 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__13324639 | en | Ground Support Equipment & Operational Risk Assessment
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We do everything King Air and this includes out of phase items that typically are sub contracted out by our competitors. Phase inspections either to the requirements of the OEM maintenance programme or to EASA and Isle of Man approved for aircraft that are supported under commercial air transport operations (CAT). Quality inspection standards and workmanship which is trusted, reliable and fair provides reliability from our trained working team. The out of phase inspections for our client base are normally pre planned prior to input to enhance turn times and should the need to rectify discrepancies that have been found during routine servicing, our access to huge inventory of spare parts enables our customers a peace of mind knowing that their aircraft can be efficiently returned to service in a timely manner.
MCA Aviation's workshops provides support to our customers and third party customers such as other King Air maintenance providers. Our workshops are approved for landing gear overhaul, inspection, repair and servicing. Our battery overhaul bays provide support for all types of King Air battery and emergency power supplies and being on site this one stop shop proactive approach minimises downtime and saves you money. We offer alternate means of simply exchanging your landing gear when due and possibly facing higher than normal exchange and bill back costs - Yes, the unforeseen bill backs some two months later! With your landing gear you could even view it in our workshops through the stripping, inspection, repair and rebuild process. Our trained technicians provide the highest level of quality and a trouble free reliable 6 year use of an MCA Aviation FAA and EASA certified strip inspection/overhaul with an exceptional economical cost and value for money.
Recognised in Europe as a proactive company providing innovative solutions to our customers and new customers alike, MCA Aviation through our base maintenance facility provide upgrade needs including airworthiness directives, service bulletin modifications, baggage capacity solutions, performance upgrades and performance enhancements. We are one of the most experienced Aviation companies in our industry with years of experience with our North American partners and suppliers. | aerospace |
http://smlatex.cn/Jovany7319 | 2020-01-20T06:25:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250597458.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20200120052454-20200120080454-00252.warc.gz | 0.899262 | 456 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__76863505 | en | The crew. Found this at the bottom of a box. Don’t think it was ever used by @NASA. #TBT @TheRealBuzz pic.twitter.com/ZXINsWPcix— Michael Collins (@AstroMCollins) June 13, 2019 Tags NASA Space No, I’m headed to Mars.Thanks for the question, Sam! #AskMichaelCollins pic.twitter.com/8E84AZz3QH— Michael Collins (@AstroMCollins) June 12, 2019 National Selfie Day: Striking space selfies snapped beyond Earth Michael Collins found this photo in a box. NASA Share your voice The timing for the photo’s reemergence is perfect as we head toward the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in July. Collins has been very active on Twitter, recently saying he wouldn’t return to the moon if given the chance because he’s instead heading for Mars. It shows his enthusiasm for space hasn’t waned in the decades since he traveled to the moon. How NASA got to the moon, and its plans to go back See Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit all fixed up 15 Photos 0 “The crew. Found this at the bottom of a box. Don’t think it was ever used by NASA,” Collins wrote. This exact photo doesn’t seem to appear on the NASA website, but you can find other poses from the same shoot.The photo shows Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin off to one side and Collins with his arm casually reaching over a large mock-up of the moon. Collins’ signature runs across the top. Post a comment To the Moon It’s customary for NASA astronauts to snap a few glamour photos ahead of a big mission, and it didn’t get much bigger than 1969’s Apollo 11 mission to land humans on the moon. Command module pilot Michael Collins rediscovered an old photo of his famous crew and shared it on Twitter on Thursday. More on Apollo 11 Sci-Tech This story is part of To the Moon, a series exploring humanity’s first journey to the lunar surface and our future living and working on the moon. | aerospace |
https://treepony.com/american-astronaut-eileen-marie-collins/ | 2018-07-21T15:34:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592636.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721145209-20180721165209-00482.warc.gz | 0.962251 | 214 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__110193472 | en | Previously published in Examiner
Part 30 of the female astronaut series
Women have penetrated almost every field and some women made the lists of firsts long before the USA. This series will concentrate on female astronauts. The astronauts are Russian, American, British, French, Japanese, South Korean and Canadian. Julie Payette is our home-grown Montreal born astronaut.
Eileen Marie Collins – astronaut and Air Force Colonel
In 1978, she graduated with a BS from Syracuse University followed by a master of science degree in Operations Research in 1986 from Stanford University. She also obtained a master of arts degree in space systems management from Webster University in 1989.
Collins was the first female commander and first female pilot of a spacecraft in 1995. Collins retired from NASA in 2006 to spend time with her family. An issue that all women have to face. Sometimes some jobs are just too demanding and women have to take off time to see their children grow up.
Eileen Marie Collins has many honors and awards among which was her induction to the National Women’s Hall of Fame. | aerospace |
https://www.alza.co.uk/playseat-air-force-d2905393.htm | 2017-04-27T17:06:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122619.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00124-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.933249 | 252 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__311237919 | en | |Price incl. VAT||£347.90|
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The actual seat with a strong steel frame, which gives when playing flight simulators great stability and robustness. Three mounting surface for controls such as joystick, throttle, rams etc. Seat Playseat Air Foce is used by the air enthusiasts and professional pilots.
The actual, authentic seat with a strong steel frame, which offers great stability and robustness when playing flight simulators. Three surfaces for the installation of controls such as joystick, throttle, rams etc. are available. The playseat Air Foce is used by the flight enthusiasts and professional pilots.
This patented chair is extra strong, lightweight and has a coated tubular steel frame. It has a high profile headrest with ultra-thick foam. The playseat also has a folding technology, that allows to lower the seat back by moving a lever and it can be returned immediately back to the fully upright position.
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http://toyeenbalogun.blogspot.com/2018/08/stolen-alaska-airlines-plane-that.html | 2019-04-22T16:44:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578558125.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190422155337-20190422180329-00081.warc.gz | 0.972128 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__7034748 | en | Saturday, 11 August 2018
Stolen Alaska Airlines plane that halted air traffic in Seattle crashes with only rogue pilot on board
All air traffic at Seattle International Airport was grounded after an employee stole an Alaska Airlines plane and took off.
F-15 fighter jets were called in to monitor the situation as air traffic control attempted to talk him down. SeaTac authorities later confirmed the plane crashed with only the pilot aboard.
Family of 29 y.o man, Richard Russell who stole & crashed Alaska Airlines plane speaks out.
Posted by Oluwatoyin Balogun at 13:19 | aerospace |
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch10-3.html | 2020-10-28T23:17:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107902038.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028221148-20201029011148-00451.warc.gz | 0.959898 | 1,149 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__208424168 | en | The block II version of Saturn I (SA-5 through SA-10) represented a sizable increase in launch requirements over block I. Additional RF links, calibrations, and systems tests in the two-stage rocket nearly doubled launch checkout time. [see table 1, chapter 2-1]
The greatest change in the block II rocket was the addition of a hydrogen-fueled second stage. Douglas Aircraft Corporation had won the contract for the S-IV stage in April 1960, five months after NASA adopted the Silverstein Committee's recommendation to use liquid hydrogen in the Saturn's upper stages. The 13-meter stage had six Pratt & Whitney RL-10 engines, the same power plant that NASA intended to use in the Centaur rocket. Confidence in the S-IV stage originally stemmed from expectations that Centaur tests would prove the effectiveness of the engine long before SA-5. As things worked out, the first successful Centaur launch came in November 1963, more than two years behind schedule and only two months ahead of the SA-5 launch.
SA-5 differed in other ways from its Saturn predecessors. Engineers had increased the 340,500-kilogram capacity of the S-1 first stage by more than 31%. Each H-1 engine had been uprated to its intended 836,600 newtons, giving that stage its full thrust. Marshall had also attached eight fins to the base of the S-1 stage, four stubby fins and four longer ones that extended 2.7 meters from the rocket. These provided additional aerodynamic stability (a decision prompted by possible use in the Dyna Soar program). The guidance and control instruments for both stages flew in an experimental instrumentation unit above the S-IV stage. The payload for SA-5 was a Jupiter nosecone.24
The postlaunch celebration for SA-4 was barely over when Hans Gruene's Launch Vehicle Operations team turned its attention to the block II series. The first order of business was fitting LC-37B with a dummy SA-5 vehicle. The dummy stages were erected and mechanical support equipment tests completed by the end of April 1963. In the first two propellant flow tests, the transfer system kept the hydrogen below 20 kelvins (-253 degrees C). Chemical analysis revealed contaminants, but the liquid hydrogen cleared up on the third test, saving the launch team a detailed investigation. There were a number of routine problems such as leaking LOX lines, freezing LOX vent valves, and inoperative gauges. Only one major change was required, a modification of the baffles in the S-1 stage LOX tank. There was time for this since the SA-5 launch date had been moved from August to December.25 After the wet tests were completed in late June, NASA flew the S-IV dummy stage back to California aboard a modified B-377 aircraft.*
The Pregnant Guppy, a modified B-377 aircraft used to airlift Saturn stages, July 1963.
Gruene's launch team erected the Saturn booster on 23 August and during the next 30 days performed mechanical system tests, calibrations for the instruments, and telemetry and RF tests. The only serious difficulty was one that apartment dwellers can appreciate - four service structure elevators that were frequently out of order and usually crowded. In the upper levels of the 90-meter-high, open structure, elevator cables were exposed to rain and wind. Maintenance problems were inevitable. In September 1963 the combined load of facilities contractors (outfitting the service structure) and SA-5 launch technicians strained the elevators' capacity. Gruene informed Debus on the 12th that "elevator usage is now critical and may become intolerable when checkout activities require more personnel."26 Gruene hoped to finish outfitting the service structure after the normal workday to alleviate the problem.
In Sacramento, Douglas engineers completed four weeks of poststatic checkout of the S-IV on 10 September. The second stage was removed from its test stand, loaded aboard the B-377, and flown to Cape Canaveral. Douglas personnel gave the stage a thorough inspection, including the use of a sound probe to detect debonding of tank insulation. The probe was moved back and forth over the outer surface of the stage, its signal reflecting back from the inner side of the tank skin into the probe's sensing device. An oscilloscope showed both the output signal and the echo. Welds or any other irregularities stood out clearly. Heavy winds and rain that struck the Cape the following week did not halt S-IV activities in hangar AF. However, out on pad 37B the telephones failed, the service structure elevators were temporarily shut down, and the launch team lost three days of work.27
Transporting the SA-5 first stage to pad 37B.
Erecting SA-5. The live S-IV stage is being lowered into position, replacing the dummy spacer, which is on the ground (left).
Operations reached a hectic pace in mid-October. After the S-IV stage was erected on the 11th, Robert Moser's office revised the launch schedule to give Douglas a week longer for S-IV checkout and modifications and a combined LOX-LH2 tanking test. Moser maintained the 6 December launch date by compressing the time allowed for launch vehicle tests in November. Even with the extra week, Douglas found the test requirements more than it could handle in a 16-hour day. On 17 October the California firm asked for around-the-clock operations until the propulsion tests were completed. Gruene, hard pressed to support the S-IV stage operations, reluctantly agreed.28 | aerospace |
https://www.mapsofworld.com/calendar-events/world-news/13-dead-in-helicopter-crash-in-norway | 2020-09-27T01:48:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400249545.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926231818-20200927021818-00057.warc.gz | 0.980169 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__173060261 | en | 13 dead in helicopter crash in Norway
April 30 , 2016
A helicopter crash west of the Norwegian city of Bergen killed all thirteen on board. The helicopter, Eurocopter (EC) 225 L Super Puma, faces a flight ban by the Norway’s civil aviation authority. The servicing of the helicopter was due and had been delayed twice in 2015. The helicopter was flying from the Gullfaks oil field to Bergen in the North Sea. The passengers were working for different organizations but were on a common assignment for Statoil, an oil company. After the crash, Statoil has suspended oil production at the Gullfaks to support the rescue operations. | aerospace |
http://thegreatcanadianmodelbuilderswebpage.blogspot.com/2013/01/tie-advanced-x1-fighters-composite.html | 2018-07-20T06:36:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591543.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720061052-20180720081052-00328.warc.gz | 0.683509 | 83 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__120624843 | en | Wednesday, January 16, 2013
TIE Advanced X1 Fighters Composite
Here is my composite image of AMT/ERTL 1/36 scale TIE Advanced X1 Fighters from the Star Wars universe flying in formation against a star filled sky.
Images of the model can be seen here.
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https://www.ticra.com/ticra-wins-esa-contract-to-develop-a-frequency-selective-surface-for-telecom-applications/ | 2019-06-19T08:56:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998943.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619083757-20190619105757-00227.warc.gz | 0.90245 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__67987440 | en | TICRA wins ESA contract to develop a frequency selective surface for telecom applications
TICRA has been selected by ESA to develop a frequency selective surface (FSS) to be used in antenna systems for multiple spot beam applications.
There is a general trend towards the use of multiple spot beam coverages to increase the satellite system capacity. Currently, state-of-the-art multiple spot beam payloads employ three or four reflectors to produce the necessary number of beams. This occupies significant space on the spacecraft and solutions to reduce the number of antennas onboard the spacecraft is of great interest.
By using an FSS as a subreflector in a dual-reflector antenna system, it is possible to cover a full transmit/receive multiple beam coverage with only one main reflector. The objective of this project is to develop such an FSS subreflector.
TICRA will be responsible for all radio frequency related tasks such as the design and analysis of the reflector system, including the FSS subreflector.
The project is under the ARTES Advanced Technology programme and is expected to be completed in 2020. For more information about the project, please contact our Product Lead for Periodic Structures Min Zhou via email [email protected].
About ARTES Advanced Technology programme
ARTES Advanced Technology (ARTES AT) is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) main programme for preparatory development of satellite communications, and it covers long-term R&D activities. The programme is concerned with the early stages of development of systems and exploitation of new and promising technologies for satellite communications.
Through ARTES AT, ESA supports the exploitation of new and promising technologies into equipment in order for the industry to be able to offer state-of-the-art equipment and systems at competitive prices in the long-term. ARTES AT encompasses activities related to the development of subsystems and equipment for satellite communications. | aerospace |
https://vatpac.org/tags/raafv/ | 2022-01-17T16:59:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300574.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117151834-20220117181834-00035.warc.gz | 0.861297 | 1,837 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__98976993 | en | Search the Community
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1. INTRODUCTION: 1.1 Elements of RAAFvirtual.org (VSOA) and Virtual United States Navy (VSOA)will be conducting a wide range of military/formation flying training in the airspace surrounding RAAFv Base TIndal. 1.2 Training period begins on the 27th September 2019 and will self-cancel on 9th November 2019 as follows: Airspaces will be active for the duration of the NOTAM period 1.3 The Training will involve F/A18, E737, KC30A, C17A, C130/C30J, C27J, B350, P8, F22, F35 and PC-21 aircraft operating from RAAFv Base Tindal. 2. AIRSPACE ACTIVATION 2.1 For the duration of the NOTAM, activity is anticipated for the entire time period as set out in 1.2. 2.2 The following Temporary Modified Restricted and AAR, AEW&C airspace are established at Tindal (YPTN), and will be activated by NOTAM: a. YPTN/R249 CONDITIONAL STATUS: RA1 (Primary) MILITARY FLYING LATERAL LIMITS: Limits are Setout by airspace outline in Appendix VERTICAL LIMITS: 10000-NOTAM HOURS OF ACTIVITY: NOTAM CONTROLLING AUTHORITY: VATPAC b. YPTN/R225 (A, B, C, D, & F) CONDITIONAL STATUS: RA2 (Primary) MILITARY FLYING LATERAL LIMITS: Limits are Setout by airspace outline in Appendix VERTICAL LIMITS: 9500 – F600 HOURS OF ACTIVITY: NOTAM CONTROLLING AUTHORITY: VATPAC c. YPTN/R226 (A & B) CONDITIONAL STATUS: RA2 (Transit) MILITARY FLYING LATERAL LIMITS: Limits are Setout by airspace outline in Appendix VERTICAL LIMITS: 9500 – NOTAM HOURS OF ACTIVITY: NOTAM CONTROLLING AUTHORITY: VATPAC d. YPTN/R264 CONDITIONAL STATUS: RA2 (Primary/AAR/AWACS) MILITARY FLYING LATERAL LIMITS: Limits are Setout by airspace outline in Appendix VERTICAL LIMITS: NOTAM- NOTAM HOURS OF ACTIVITY: 5000-F400 CONTROLLING AUTHORITY: VATPAC d. YPDN/R230 CONDITIONAL STATUS: RA2 (Transit) MILITARY FLYING LATERAL LIMITS: Limits are Setout by airspace outline in Appendix VERTICAL LIMITS: 5000 – F400 HOURS OF ACTIVITY: NOTAM CONTROLLING AUTHORITY: VATPAC 3. AIRSPACE ACTIVATION TIMING. 3.1 Training Sorties are planned to take place as set out in 1.2 of this NOTAM 4. FLIGHT PLANNING AND ROUTE LIMITATIONS. 4.1 All waypoints inside exercise lateral boundaries will be available above FL400 during the exercise. 4.2 Upper limits are set out in section 2.0 of this NOTAM 5. PROCEDURES 5.1 Military pilots are present in the activated Restricted Areas (VSOA in flight plan remarks) 5.1.1 Pilots: If unable to conduct flights without transiting the Restricted Areas at or above the levels in para 4.1 BN-TRT_CTR active: contact Brisbane Centre on 133.200 who will coordinate with the Range Controller to arrange access – note rerouting may be required to avoid an area with RA2 or RA3 Conditional Status. BN-TRT_CTR not active: contact the Range Controller (via private message). 5.1.2 Range Controller: If access is required, contact the Range Controller callsign in the following order: WGTL***, BUCK***, COLT*** 5.2 Military pilots are not present in the activated Restricted Areas 5.2.1 Pilots and ATC: There are no restrictions on accessing the activated Restricted Areas. 6. MILITARY AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS 6.1 High speed military jet & turboprop aircraft will be on random tracks without communications within all exercise airspace. Traffic information will not be provided to or about exercise aircraft operating in exercise area. (Intentions may be handed to ATC by the flight lead on a flight by flight basis) 6.2 Aircraft operating out of Tindal (YPTN) will operate on the appropriate CTAF channels when ATC is not online. 6.3 Aircraft operating out if Darwin(YPDN) will operate on the appropriate Freq if ATC is online Otherwise aircraft to monitor UNICOM. 6.4 When outside CTAF areas, military aircraft will tune UNICOM until established within active restricted airspace. Upon entering active restricted airspace military aircraft will be virtually NOCOM. (See para 5.4) 6.5 Regardless of the phase of flight, military aircraft will endeavour to monitor UNICOM text (122.800) for mutual separation when ATC is offline. 6.6 The below list outlines the civil frequencies that military aircraft will operate on when outside of restricted airspace. Location Frequency YPTN TWR: 119.700 YPTN APP: 120.950 All Other (UNICOM) 7. PRIORITIES 7.1 During exercise activity periods, access to the exercise airspace may not be available due to high density/high energy military operations. 7.2 Every endeavour will be made to adjust exercise activities and minimize delays to facilitate transit of civil aircraft. 8. CANCELLATION 8.1 This NOTAM will self-cancel on the date set out in 1.2 9. DISTRIBUTION 9.1 VATPAC Forums/Website 9.2 RAAFvirtual Forums/Website 10. CONTACTS 10.1 VATPAC Operations 10.2 vAVM Ashley Carlson - RAAFv – [email protected] Appendix Exercise Area –
NOTAM: Letter of Agreement Between RAAFv and VATSIM Australia Pacific 1. INTRODUCTION RAAFv and VATSIM Australia Pacific have ratified a Letter of Agreement that defines the release of restricted airspace within VATPAC to RAAFv during operational periods. This letter of agreement is supplementary to VATSIM and Regional documents and does not replace or override VATSIM Policy. Document: RAAFv VATPAC LOA 2. DETAILS Background RAAFv conducts operations that utilise restricted airspace within the designated airspace assigned to VATPAC by the CoR. In the past, the release of this airspace has not been formally documented and has been at the discretion of the Director Operations. Additionally, procedures pertaining to the responsibilities of AEWAC pilots, civil aircraft and civil controllers has not been documented during the activation of RA's. Document Summary Provides definition to restricted airspace and it states, these include Activated, Active and Inactive. Defines who an AEWAC pilot is and how pilots can identify them. Defines the release of controlling authority from VATPAC controllers to AEWAC Controllers. Provides operational procedures and requirements of controllers for handling aircraft travelling into and out of RA's Area's of Potential Confusion AEWAC Pilots are NOT controllers, they are aircraft which are connected to the network via a pilot client and maybe utilising a radar scope which is proxied. RA's are not entirely restricted to military aircraft. There are different categories of restricted areas which determine whether civilian aircraft can transit. To find the category of an active RA, consult the NOTAM pertaining to the operation. See this post for clarification: here When an RA is active and an AEWAC pilot is within its boundaries, pilots shall contact the AEWAC pilot. If a pilot is unaware of the active RA, the AEWAC pilot shall make contact with the civilian pilot. In addition to this, AEWAC pilots may give aircraft and alternate route/level which avoids the active RA. However, aircraft may deem this operationally unviable in which the AEWAC pilot shall manage military traffic around the civilian aircraft. ATC may be unaware of this LOA. In the event that a civilian controller is unaware, the AEWAC pilot shall provide a link to the LOA and the civilian controller shall comply with the details set out within the document. In the event the controller continues to be non-compliant, use the .wallop command to call a supervisor and cite the link to this post and the LOA. 3. AUTHORITY VATPAC Board of Directors 4. CANCELLATION This LOA shall remain active unless notification is provided in the NOTAM forum. | aerospace |
https://business-gurus.com/2018/03/23/saudi-airspace-used-by-air-india-to-fly-into-israel-a-first-in-70-years/ | 2019-02-16T09:27:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480240.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216085312-20190216111312-00448.warc.gz | 0.969807 | 596 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__33471661 | en | As an Air India flight from New Delhi landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, history was made as this is the first time that a commercial flight has been allowed into Israel through Saudi Arabia as the Middle eastern country opened up its skies to Israel.
A diplomatic shift for Riyadh was reflected by the measure as the Air India flight 139 landed in Israel through Saudi Arabia. According to Israel, this shift in the policy of Riyadh has been driven by a sense of shared concern about the rising influence of Iran in the region.
“This is a really historic day that follows two years of very, very intensive work,” Israeli tourism minister Yariv Levin said in a radio interview. Ticket prices would be reduced and travel time has been shortened by two hours for a flight from India because of the use of Saudi airspace, he added.
Israel is not recognized by Saudi Arabia which is the birthplace of Islam and also has the holiest shrines of Islam.
Granting of the Air India plane overflight rights has not been confirmed formally by Riyadh. It is yet not clear whether any of the Israeli commercial airlines would be allowed to make use of the Saudi airspace even though the shift in policy by Riyadh marked an end to a ban on using of Saudi airspace for all flights flying to or from Israel since the last 70 years.
According to the Flightradar monitoring app, the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner came within 60 km (37 miles) of the Saudi capital Riyadh as the flight flew over Saudi airspace at an altitude of 40,000 feet and it took about three hours for fly across it. The flight then flew over Jordan and the through the occupied West Bank and finally into Israel.
According to Flightradar, the airliner had earlier flown over Oman. The country also does not recognize Israel and there were no comments from Oman either. Its Indian competitor now has an unfair advantage, said Israel’s flag carrier which is still not allowed to make use of the Saudi route.
Levin said that he was confident that El Al would eventually be allowed to use Saudi airspace, during an interview on Israel’s Army Radio.
“You know, they said the Saudis wouldn’t let any flight pass. So here, the Saudis are permitting it. It is a process, I think. Ultimately this (El Al overflights) will happen too,” he said.
Israel is in further talks with Singapore Airlines and another from the Philippines for the possibility of any other foreign airlines being allowed to make use of the route to Tel Aviv used by Air India, he said.
“They are certainly showing readiness and desire to fly to Israel, and I don’t know if they will also receive permission like the Indian airline,” he said. Singapore Airlines did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Saudi officials could not immediately be reached.
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http://www.123rf.com/photo_15537322_busines-person-and-plane-on-the-background-against-cloudy-sky.html | 2015-07-03T08:20:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095806.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00235-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.79765 | 195 | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-27__0__25891029 | en | a view though an airplane window..
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https://electricmotorglider.com/2014/03/03/tail-cam-complete-flight/ | 2023-09-26T18:42:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510219.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926175325-20230926205325-00027.warc.gz | 0.912996 | 145 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__261761131 | en | Tail Cam Complete Flight
This video is a simple single shot camera mounted on the vertical stabilizer near the rudder. But shows the perspective of the tow vehicle and the tow rope. We have made several videos utilizing this position the camera checking the aft fuselage for flutter and ballooning of the rear fairing as well as identifying the interaction of the propeller blades in the static condition. In this video the propeller blades are actually held close to the motor using a rubber band. On other videos with the propeller blades left to float free the bottom blade doesn’t possess enough drag to even streamline the blade completely. If the blades are positioned to either side they will streamline with the motor. | aerospace |
https://loganspace.com/news/news-last-years-gatwick-drone-attack-involved-at-least-two-drones-say-police-loganspace/ | 2023-09-23T08:30:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506480.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923062631-20230923092631-00044.warc.gz | 0.963595 | 643 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__78447268 | en | A necessary drone incident at the UK’s 2nd industry airportlast 365 dayscontinues to baffle police.
Final December a series of drone sightings strategyGatwick Airportprompted chaos as ratings of flights had been grounded and thousands of travellers had their holiday plans disrupted.
The incident, which took blueprint all the contrivance through a high trip back and forth length earlier than Christmas, ended in the airport being closed for 30 hours, disrupting 1,000 flights and better than 140,000 passengers.
This day Sussex Police contain released an replace on their multi-month investigation into who became working the drones — with thin findings, announcing they contain got “recognized, researched and ruled out 96 of us ‘of ardour’”.
Even supposing they’renow obviousthat drones played a half within the disruption. The tale confirms that no longer no longer as a lot as two drones had been inviting. The police are also convinced the perpetrator or perpetrators had detailed data of the airport.
“The police investigation has centred on 129 separate sightings of drone task, 109 of these from credible witnesses extinct to working in a posh airport atmosphere including a pilot, airport workers and airport police,” the flexibility writes.
“Learn about statements expose task took blueprint in ‘groupings’ at some stage within the three days on 12 separate situations, varying in length from between seven and 45 minutes. On six of these situations, witnesses clearly saw two drones working concurrently.”
“The incident became no longer deemed fear-connected and there isn’t a evidence to imply it became either issue-sponsored, campaign or ardour-community led. No extra arrests contain been made,” it adds.
The policing operation all the contrivance through the disruption and subsequent investigation has cost £790,000 to this level.
Sussex Police is drawing a line below its investigation at this level, announcing with out contemporary data coming to gentle “there will not be any extra life like lines of enquiry at the present”.
Quickly after the Gatwick debacle drone maker DJI alsoas a lot as this level its geofencing machine at some stage in Europe.
A total UK drone invoice — meant to toughen police powers to curb drone misuse, and which could well bear protection on flight data notification programs — has remained stalled.
In a ‘future of drones’talepublished at the initiate of this 365 days ministers acknowledged they meant to declare the invoice ahead this 365 days. However the authorities is snappily working out of parliamentary time to produce so.
It had already made provision to introduce mandatory drone registration.
From November 30 this could well also bea lawful requirement for all UK drone operators to register, besides to for drone pilots to full an on-line pilot competency test.
Whereas Sussex Police contain ruled out the Gatwick drone incident being connected to a campaign or ardour-community, earlier this month an environmental community attempted to shut down Heathrow the exercise of toy drones flown at head high within the lawful restriction zone. | aerospace |
https://me.vt.edu/content/me_vt_edu/en/people/advisory-board/sparks-john.html | 2022-10-05T04:54:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337537.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005042446-20221005072446-00462.warc.gz | 0.903525 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__291777270 | en | John F. Sparks
Program Director, Engineering and Technology Programs
Dr. John F. Sparks is a Program Director at Aerojet Rocketdyne and has program management responsibility for early development and advanced technology programs. Aerojet Rocketdyne is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader providing propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense, strategic, tactical missile and armaments areas in support of domestic and international markets. Dr. Sparks has Bachelor (1974), Masters (1976), and Ph.D (1981) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. In addition to his membership on the Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board, Dr. Sparks heads the College of Engineering Advisory Board Legislative Committee. Dr. Sparks is the College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus for 2014. | aerospace |
https://observerdesk.com/who-has-walked-on-the-moon-facts-and-names/ | 2023-03-24T16:50:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945287.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324144746-20230324174746-00459.warc.gz | 0.975903 | 498 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__5559581 | en | About 60 missions have been sent to the Moon. But only 12 astronauts, all of the members of NASA space mission, walked on the moon.
The Apollo 11 mission, with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, reached the moon for the first time and is undoubtedly the most remembered by all those who were able to experience these space trips live. Armstrong’s famous phrase, ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’, remains today in everyone’s memory.
However, there are 11 other names along with Neil Armstrong who has walked on the moon, although many of them are not so well known. Here we do remember the men who have walked on the Moon.
Neil Armstrong – The leader of the Apollo 11 mission, he was the first man to set foot on the Moon.
Buzz Aldrin – He also arrived on Apollo 11 as he was the lunar module pilot and companion of Armstrong onthe moonwalk.
Charles Conrad – He was a member of the Apollo 12 mission that reached the moon on November 19, 1969.
Alan Bean – He was a lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission and is among the astronauts who walked the moon.
Alan Shepard – He held the record for being the first NASA astronaut to fly into space in 1961. Ten years later, in February 1971, he reached the Moon on Apollo 14.Edgar Mitchell – He was a pilot of the Apollo 15 spacecraft and walked on the moon
David Scott – He was a command pilot on the Apollo 9 mission and had the pleasure of stepping on lunar soil with Apollo 15.
James Irwin – He was a member of the Apollo 15 mission that landed on Hadley-Apennine.
John Young – He manned Apollo 16 and also the Space Shuttle. In addition to being one of the few men who walked on the moon, he became famous for being the only one who took a beef sandwich into a spaceship.Charles Duke – He was part of the Apollo 16 mission, one of the most fruitful due to the amount of research he carried out. Duke walked into Descartes Crater.
Eugene Cernan – He was the commander of Apollo 17 that arrived at the moon on December 13, 1972.
Harrison Schmitt – This doctor of Geology was the first scientist to walk on the Moon and he spent a good time taking and analyzing samples of the lunar soil. | aerospace |
https://moda-tamshi.com/qa/quick-answer-which-apollo-blew-up-on-take-off.html | 2021-04-16T17:51:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038088245.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20210416161217-20210416191217-00183.warc.gz | 0.964368 | 1,617 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__1403385 | en | - What happens to your body if you die in space?
- How did the Challenger crew actually die?
- How many dead bodies are floating in space?
- Did they recover the bodies of the Challenger crew?
- What really happened on Apollo 13?
- Who died on the Apollo 13?
- Did the Apollo 1 crew die instantly?
- Can you fart in space?
- Did the Apollo 13 crew die?
- How accurate is the movie Apollo 13?
- Has anyone died in the moon?
- Who died on Apollo 1?
- Which Apollo blew up after takeoff?
- Did Apollo 1 astronauts burn to death?
- Did Apollo 13 really take 4 minutes?
- Has anyone been lost in space?
- Who did Jack Swigert replace on Apollo 13?
- Did Jim Lovell’s wife really lose her wedding ring?
- Were the Challenger astronauts still alive when they hit the ocean?
- What 3 astronauts died in fire?
- Which rocket blew up on take off?
What happens to your body if you die in space?
If you do die in space, your body will not decompose in the normal way, since there is no oxygen.
If you were near a source of heat, your body would mummify; if you were not, it would freeze.
If your body was sealed in a space suit, it would decompose, but only for as long as the oxygen lasted..
How did the Challenger crew actually die?
The crew would have been torn from their seats and killed instantly by the extreme impact force. … the forces to which the crew were exposed during Orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and.
How many dead bodies are floating in space?
However, of the roughly 550 people who have so far ventured into space, only three have actually died there. Bringing the universe to your door.
Did they recover the bodies of the Challenger crew?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today that it had recovered remains of each of the seven Challenger astronauts and had finished its operations to retrieve the wreckage of the space shuttle’s crew compartment from the ocean floor. In a statement released at the Kennedy Space Center, Rear Adm.
What really happened on Apollo 13?
Apollo 13 was to be the third mission to land on the Moon. An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the spacecraft during flight and the crew were forced to orbit the Moon and return to the Earth without landing.
Who died on the Apollo 13?
Jack SwigertLovell, Haise and Jack Swigert, a last-minute fill-in who died in 1982, were almost to the moon when they heard a bang and felt a shudder. One of two oxygen tanks had burst in the spacecraft’s service module.
Did the Apollo 1 crew die instantly?
He didn’t succeed. Then, as Chaffee attempted to communicate with ground control, White and Grissom evidently died while working to open the inner hatch. Later, physicians concluded the crew died from asphyxia due to inhalation of toxic gases from the fire. They almost certainly had gone unconscious before dying.
Can you fart in space?
But if you’re an astronaut, every fart is a ticking time bomb. The gases in farts are flammable, which can quickly become a problem in a tiny pressurized capsule in the middle of space where your fart gases have no where to go.
Did the Apollo 13 crew die?
Had Apollo 13’s accident occurred on the return voyage, with the LM already jettisoned, the astronauts would have died, as they would have following an explosion in lunar orbit, including one while Lovell and Haise walked on the Moon.
How accurate is the movie Apollo 13?
Is the Apollo 13 movie accurate? In reality, apart from one or two small details, the movie is extremely accurate. That is one of the reasons it was so successful, both with the public and critics, as well as NASA astronauts who attended the premiere.
Has anyone died in the moon?
As earlier divulged, while the Apollo missions never had any fatalities, there were some fatal accidents that happened during preparations.
Who died on Apollo 1?
One of the worst tragedies in the history of spaceflight occurred on January 27, 1967 when the crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module during a preflight test at Cape Canaveral.
Which Apollo blew up after takeoff?
28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after blasting off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, killing all seven astronauts on board — including New Hampshire educator Christa McAuliffe, a civilian who had been selected to fly via NASA’s “Teacher in Space” program.
Did Apollo 1 astronauts burn to death?
It has been 50 years since the Apollo 1 fire killed Roger Chaffee at Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 in Florida. Chaffee, along with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Ed White II, died on Jan. 27, 1967, when a blaze erupted in their command module during preflight testing.
Did Apollo 13 really take 4 minutes?
According to the mission log maintained by Gene Kranz, the Apollo 13 re-entry blackout lasted around 6 minutes, beginning at 142:39 and ending at 142:45, and was 1 minute 27 seconds longer than had been predicted. Communications blackouts for re-entry are not solely confined to entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
Has anyone been lost in space?
Soyuz 1 dooms cosmonaut: The first fatal accident in a space mission befell Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, whose problem-plagued Soyuz 1 capsule crashed onto Russian soil in 1967. … The resulting drop in pressure also exposed the crew to the vacuum of space — the only human beings to ever experience such a fate.
Who did Jack Swigert replace on Apollo 13?
Thomas K.Swigert was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 7 mission. Mr. Swigert was next assigned to the Apollo 13 backup crew and subsequently called upon to replace prime crewman Thomas K.
Did Jim Lovell’s wife really lose her wedding ring?
In the film, we see Jim Lovell’s wife lose her wedding ring down the shower drain. Marilyn Lovell says that this happened in real life, saying, “To me, it felt like the worst omen of all” but she was later able to get the ring back (AMC).
Were the Challenger astronauts still alive when they hit the ocean?
After Challenger was torn apart, the pieces continued upward from their own momentum, reaching a peak altitude of 65,000 feet before arching back down into the water. The cabin hit the surface 2 minutes and 45 seconds after breakup, and all investigations indicate the crew was still alive until then.
What 3 astronauts died in fire?
During a preflight test for what was to be the first manned Apollo mission, a fire claimed the lives of three U.S. astronauts; Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. After the disaster, the mission was officially designated Apollo 1.
Which rocket blew up on take off?
space shuttle ChallengerThe space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. | aerospace |
https://www.maggiemaesbooks.com/products/the-moon-discover-the-mysteries-of-earths-closest-neighbour-by-buxner-releases-on-11-1-22 | 2024-04-17T06:59:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817144.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417044411-20240417074411-00817.warc.gz | 0.879031 | 227 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__67265742 | en | The Moon : Discover the Mysteries of Earth's Closest Neighbour by Buxner
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The perfect introduction for young readers who want to learn about Earth’s closest neighbor,The Book of the Mooncovers the entire subject in thrilling detail. Featuring breakdowns of the moon’s formation and geography, the lunar phases, a history of NASA’s Apollo missions, the moon’s effect on Earth’s tides and nocturnal animals, its place in our mythology, recent scientific discoveries, and so much more. Packed with eye-popping facts and photography, this is the perfect book for space lovers everywhere.
Boasting up-to-date images from space agencies such as NASA and ESA, combined with bold illustrations, information panels, timelines, and diagrams that help demystify and explain the wonder of the moon, this is the perfect book for young readers. | aerospace |
http://english.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/china-military-news/2016-06/21/content_7112202.htm | 2020-10-26T18:18:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107891624.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026175019-20201026205019-00525.warc.gz | 0.937893 | 308 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__220475216 | en | ZHENZHOU, June 21 (ChinaMil) -- A confrontation drill involving commanding organs of an air defense brigade under the PLA Army concluded in the Air Defense Force Academy in Zhenzhou, capital city of central China's Henan Province on Sunday.
In this drill code-named "Firepower-2016 Zhenzhou A", commanding officers of an air defense brigade forming the "Red Army", had fierce confrontations with the "Blue Army" consisting of instructors, cadets from the Air Defense Force Academy, army aviation and electronic warfare units.
According to the staff headquarters of the PLA Army, the "Firepower-2016 Zhenzhou A" was the first confrontation drill involving command organs of air defense brigades in the first stage of the range-based cross-region training exercise of the PLA Army's air defense force.
The "Red Army" and the "Blue Army" were engaged in rounds of confrontations of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, jamming and anti-jamming, strike and counter strike, air-landing and anti-air-landing without pre-plans or instructions of the directing board.
Chief director Zhao Tianxiang of the "Firepower-2016 Zhenzhou" confrontation drills series told PLA Daily, the five air defense brigades to participate in the confrontation drills have been decided by drawing lots.
After the commanding confrontation drills, the five brigades will be toughened one by one in drills involving real troops and real ammunitions. | aerospace |
http://sabre-pilots.org/classics/v14f86f.htm | 2017-04-30T16:41:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125719.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00624-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.989142 | 1,452 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__62751458 | en | I graduated from pilot training (Class 52-F) in 1952 at Bryan Air Force Base in Texas. I next went to Nellis Air Force Base for fighter gunnery training in the F-86A. What a wonderful experience it was for me as a 22 year old to be flying the most sophisticated fighter aircraft of the time! My most memorable experience at Nellis as a student pilot was flying a mock intercept mission one day and having Jimmy Jabara and Iven Kincheloe (Korean War aces, then Instructors) as our leaders in two four-man flights. We really made the F-86A do every-thing it was capable of, and then more! As I remember it, I was just happy to land in one piece that day!
From Nellis, it was on to Korea in late December 1952. I arrived In Suwon where I found myself attached to the 80th Fighter-Bomber Squadron with the 8th FIghter-Bomber Wing. I remember being initially disappointed as the 80th was the only squadron in Korea still flying F-80s. My disappointment was shortlived however when I found that the 80th was flying many more combat missions than the 35th and 36th Squadrons. They were busy with training missions after having recently converted from F80s to F-86s. Fortunately, I was able to fly 34 combat missions in the old F-80 Shooting Star during the period of January to April 1953. All these missions were air-to-ground, and many were in support of ground operations along the demilitarized zone. Targets were often bridges, rail yards, and tank and artillery implacements. Ordnance included 500 and 1,000 pound bombs, rockets and napalm. My most noteworthy action during this time occurred on April24 when I flew five combat missions in one 24 hour period. It was amazing how well our ground crews could turn our aircraft around for repeated missions. I remember Bob Buhrow and Art Violette were able to fly six combat missions on this day for a record which might still stand!
Our F-86Fs arrived on May I for our squadron, and the last F-80s to fly in combat were retired. I flew 58 additional combat missions in the F-86F. What a joy to get back in the F-86! When our 24 brand new F-86Fs arrived, each had logged only ten hours or so of flight time. Just enough trial flight time at North American, then a boat ride to Japan and a flight to Korea! We were like kids with new toys! The '86F proved to be an effective fighter-bomber with the ability to get into and away from a target with much more speed than the F-80. Our element of surprise was a big advantage. The F-8F was also a very stable gun platform. The F-86Fs aerodynamics with full ordnance did not seem inhibited, and the "F" model became a real workhorse for air-to-ground work.
My most memorable mission flying the F-86F came on June 13, 1953. It was my 53rd combat mission, and by now I was a flight leader. Reporting to the flight line that morning, full of confidence and cockiness I guess, I noticed the name "Stone" had been filled In as the Number Four man in my flight. Not knowing anyone in my squadron named Stone. I figured it must be a "new" head. Upon inquiring, I was told that Brigadier General Stone, the base commander, had signed on for the flight that morning! What had been confidence soon turned into nervousness and anxlety. What was a 22 year old doing leading a Genral into combat??! Our target for that day was the railroad marshalling yards in the Wonsan Valley. I had never been there before, and I was told by our intelligence section that it was heavily defended with anti-aircraft batteries. My concern was more with the General's safety than about my ability. At our preflight briefing, General Stone was full of questions, as he had flown infrequently, and seemed rather unsure of himself
. Our flight at 15,000 feet to the target area was uneventful. We were carrying two 500 pound bombs under each wing, and we were prepared to dive in a trail formation and then reform at 10,000 feet for our flight home. While I was busily engaged in identif'ying the target and talking with a T-6 spotter plane, I was amazed at the amount of ack-ack fire randomly put up at us as we circled our target. Characteristically, the first Sabre into a target usually surprises the defenders so that their return fire is often quite a distance behind the divebombing plane. As the second man comes in, the return fire is closer but still behind the plane, and so on until the fourth man comes in. By this time the ack-ack begins to zero in, and it becomes a hairy ride for the fourth plane. So it was again that day. I attracted a tremendous amount of fire as our first man in, but the bursts of smoke were well behind my flight path. As I pulled off the target at about 500 feet and started to climb, zig-zagging all the way, I could see a pattern of intense groundfire. The second and third Sabres were being closely targeted, but they toggled their bombs away and climbed up safely. General Stone seemed to wait a little too long before starting his dive. When he did, he encountered as much ack-ack fire as I have ever seen. I was now up to 4,000 feet, and I remember saying to myself, "Please let him make it. "Fortunately he made it down and off the target safely, and he rejoined our flight for the trip home. The third and fourth planes took some superficial hits In the process. I was immensely relieved. I will never forget the look on the General's face as he expressed his happiness to me with getting back in one piece. I felt great when he sald we had all done a good job.
With 92 combat missions and the end of hostilities In Korea by July 1953, I was allowed R&R in Japan. I later spent two and a half years as an instructor in F-86s at Nellis. Our job during this post-war era in 1954 and 1955 was to train NATO pilots to fly the F-86F. They then went back to their countries and retrained others.
The F-86F was the fastest jet to fly at the time, and it was also one of the safest and most forgiving. I can honestly say that my time as a young 22 year old flying the F-86F Sabre was the most satisfying period in my life.
No portion of this article may be used or reprinted without permission from the President of the F-86 Sabre Pilots Association or the editor of Sabre Jet Classics magazine.
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