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https://www.theaviator.co.nz/product-page/f-14-tomcat-backseat-experience-30-minutes
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Want to experience some real military flying without the pressure of doing it yourself?
Jump into the back seat of an F-14 Tomcat and let one of our experienced pilots take you on a joy ride youl'll never forget. Tag along on carrier landings, air to air combat, nap of the earth (low level) flying or simply enjoy a scenic flight over some stunning landscapes.
Check out our F-14 Tomcat Experience plus Passenger flight option if you'd like to have your own back seat passenger.
Please note - this experience does not include use of the Motion Flight Simulator.
Restrictions - A weight restriction of 115kg applies and the 'pilot' and passenger must be physically able to climb into an aircraft cockpit.
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Here are today’s headlines…
- NASA is sending a robotic geologist to Mars to dig super deep
- Conspiracy theorist: You can’t fall off flat Earth edge due to ‘Pac-Man effect’
- Wanna Save the World? Let’s Prevent Catastrophic Asteroid Strikes
- The ESA’s new Mars orbiter just snapped its very first photo, and it’s gorgeous
- Yes, Earth’s magnetic poles can flip. But they probably won’t anytime soon.
- Scientists create life without egg or sperm
- Space Burials Aren’t the Legacy We Want to Leave
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https://theculturecurators.com/flying-to-the-future-the-airbus-hydrogen-fueled-zeroe-zero-emissions-passenger-plane-concept/
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Ready or not, the future is upon us. The good folks over at Airbus are back in the news, teasing plans of their ideas for the future of flight. The company recently revealed plans to venture into an alternative fuel source for their planes. The ZEROe program features three planes that will use hybrid turbofan engines that use liquid hydrogen at its fuel source.
The European aerospace corporation posed the three new concepts to reduce the carbon footprint in air travel. The turbofan engines will be paired with an electronic propulsion system, generating electricity that runs alongside the gas turbine.
The first design is a Blended-Wing Body aircraft (BWB), which can carry 100-200 passengers up to 1,000 miles. The second is an Airbus short-haul Turboprop concept capable of carrying up to 100 passengers up to 1,000 miles. The third and final concept features a Turbofan with an extended wingspan. This aircraft can take 100-200 passengers up to 2,000 miles.
Airbus commented that hydrogen “holds exceptional promise as a clean aviation fuel and is likely to be a solution for aerospace and many other industries to meet their climate-neutral targets.” Word is that we expect a working example as early as 2035.
Check out the concepts in the images and head over to Airbus to find out more immediately. In the meantime, keep it locked with The Culture Curators for more travel news coming very soon.
Photos via Airbus
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Leyes actualizadas sobre drones en Irlanda en 2023: Todo lo que necesita saber
As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, become increasingly popular, it’s important to be aware of the regulations surrounding their use. In this post, we’ll look at the drone laws in Ireland governing drones and UAVs.
So whether you’re a hobbyist or considering using drones for commercial purposes, this post will provide you with all the information you need to stay within the law.
Drones are becoming increasingly popular, both for personal and commercial use. However, there are strict laws in place governing the uso de drones in Ireland.
All drone pilots must be registered with the Irish Aviation Authority, and drones must be operated in accordance with the rules set out by the Authority. Anyone who fails to comply with these regulations may be liable for prosecution.
- General Drone Laws in Ireland (2024)
- Operational Categories in European Union
- Irish Aviation Authority (IAA)
- Agencia Europea de Seguridad Aérea (AESA)
- Registrarse como operador de drones
- Permit for Drone
- Things to Remember If You are a Foreign Operator
General Drone Laws in Ireland (2024)
The following are the regulations you must adhere to when operating a drone in Ireland:
- Drones may fly no higher than 50 meters (170 feet) from the ground in the Open category and up to 120 meters (400 feet) high in the Specific category.
- The drone must always be within your line of sight, and you should never fly further than 500 meters away.
- Keep a safe distance from populated areas when flying.
- To ensure the safety of those living near our construction sites, we maintain a buffer zone of one kilometer around all residences.
- An isolated structure, person, vehicle, animal, or object must be kept at a distance of 500 meters unless the owner/occupier gives consent.
- Never fly close to airports or heliports. For safety, always maintain a distance of at least eight kilometers from airports and three kilometers from heliports.
- No se puede volar un dron de noche.
- No flying is allowed over, within a certain proximity of, military installations, public utility installations, archaeological sites, or public or private facilities.
Lea también: Leyes de drones en Polonia: reglas a seguir
Operational Categories in European Union
The European Union has divided drones into three categories based on their weight and intended purpose.
Open-category drones are those that can be flown without special authority approval as long they adhere to some general safety requirements.
These include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that weigh less than 25 kg and aren’t being used for commercial purposes. Although a permit isn’t necessary to fly these tipos de drones, pilots must still obey the EASA’s set rules and regulations.
More and more people in the European Union are using drones daily for many reasons. Open-category drones have become increasingly popular because they offer many advantages, such as being affordable, easy to use, and versatile.
Not to mention, open-category drones are usually deemed more ” user-friendly” than other unmanned craft. Despite the challenges of operating a drone in the EU, it’s evident that these aircraft will have a big impact on aviation and transport down the line.
The specific category is usually seen as more restrictive than the open category. It’s worth noting that not every commercial activity is allowed under this latter heading.
For instance, you can’t use a specific-category drone to photograph or film people against their will. There are also a number of other restrictions related to the use of these drones, so anyone wanting to operate one should consult with EASA first.
A specific-category drone is one that necessitates explicit permission from the authorities for it to take flight. These drones lie in the weight range of 25kg and 150kg and can be used for commercial purposes. Prior to flying one of these drones, you must first procure a permit from the EASA.
A certified category drone is a safe choice for anyone purchasing and operating an unmanned aircraft. The EASA has different certification programs that cover various types of drones, so it’s essential to check with the agency before buying or flying one of these devices.
Drones that have been certified-category are held to different safety standards set by the EASA. In order to fly one of these drones para uso comercial purposes, you must first obtain a permit from the EASA. These types of drones weigh more than 150kg.
Lea también: Nuevas leyes sobre drones en Italia
Irish Aviation Authority (IAA)
En Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is the national aviation authority for the Republic of Ireland. It is responsible for regulating civil aviation in the country and promoting the development of a safe, efficient, and sustainable aviation sector.
The IAA provides a number of services to the aviation industry, including air traffic control, aeronautical information services, and aviation safety oversight. The IAA also manages drones and drone operators in accordance with Irish law.
In recent years, the IAA has introduced a number of initiatives to support the growth of the drone industry in Ireland, including a registration system for drones and an online portal for drone operators.
Agencia Europea de Seguridad Aérea (AESA)
EASA is a top-notch aviation safety organization that sets and enforces safety standards across Europe’s entire aviation industry. Not only do these standards make sure passengers have enjoyable, safe journeys, but they also enhance the skills of pilots and other aviation professionals.
The EASA also has comprehensive regulations for using and operating drones, providing all citizens with an extra layer of safety. In addition, the agency offers pilot courses and certifications designed to ensure those flying drones can do so safely and responsibly.
Overall, the use of drones is increasing in popularity throughout Ireland as authorities work to make sure they’re safe to operate. The various categories set by the EASA and IAA help provide a framework for drone pilots to follow while ensuring every flight is conducted with care and caution.
With the right training and experience, operators can enjoy the incredible benefits of flying unmanned aircraft for recreational or commercial purposes.
Lea también: Nuevas leyes sobre drones en Venezuela
Registrarse como operador de drones
You must register with the government if your drone weighs over 250 grams or has a camera. Follow this quick and easy guide to register on the IAA’s digital platform MySRS. The registration fee for operators is €30, and it lasts for two years.
Account creation on MySRS
First, sign up using your email. Then verify your identity to help us streamline future interactions; you only have to do this once.
The online training module is free and only takes around 15 minutes to complete. You watch a brief video and then answer 40 straightforward questions. After successful completion, you will be given a “Proof of Online Training” certificate.
You now have to register as a Drone Operator instead of just the drone under the new regulations. Essentially, you become a miniature drone airline! Remember that this doesn’t give you permission to fly the drone yet. Depending on factors such as your drone’s size or what type of flying you want to do, completing online training may be all that is required from you, or additional training might be necessary, similar to how it works for pilots.
Remote Pilot Competency
If your drone weighs more than a certain amount, or you want to do specific kinds of flying, you will need an extra pilot competency certificate. You can apply for this training on MySRS, but you’ll have to go to a designated UAS training organization (DUTO) in order to finish the program.
Drone Operator ID for companies
If your commercial company owns drones, every staff member who flies the drone(s) must have an operator’s ID. Additionally, those members should take online training courses and earn pilot competency certificates based on the types of operations being conducted. To get started, have your administrator create a MySRS account.
Verification of a company
In order to get an operator ID number for your company, you must first verify your company through MySRS. Once you log in, fill out and submit the form that states you are a valid company representative wishing to access IAA services.
Registration for Operator ID
After your company is verified, you can then apply and obtain an Operator ID for the company. As an operator, the company is responsible for ensuring that any staff flying the drone have sufficient competencies (this may mean they need to obtain a Remote Pilot Competency).
Lea también: Nuevas leyes de drones en Nueva Jersey
Permit for Drone
The process to get a drone permit in Ireland is not complicated. Go to the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) site and register your device.
Drones that weigh more than 1kg but aren’t bigger than 25kg have to be logged with CAA. Note that light drones must also be registered if flown more than 15 meters off the ground.
If you are 16 years or older, registering online is a breeze. Upon registration, a 5 Euro processing fee must be paid via credit card. Before you attempt to register for a drone permit to fly in Ireland, please confirm that you meet the necessary requirements:
- Valid drone insurance policy.
- A remote licencia de piloto.
- Your personal information and contact details.
- List your drone’s model, serial number, and type.
Things to Remember If You are a Foreign Operator
If this is your first time flying a drone in an EU country and you are coming from a non-EU country, you MUST register as an Operator. After you register, you will be given an Operator Registration number.
This number MUST be attached to your drone for identification purposes. If you have more than one drone, each must display the same registration number.
You cannot fly in any NO-FLY ZONES, and you must maintain a distance of 8km away or more from airports or heliports. If you have already conducted business in another EU country before entering Ireland, you will not need to register again. You only need to register with the first non-EU country where you conduct flights.
Unless you are a citizen of an EU country, if you want to fly your drone in Ireland, you must have a Remote Pilot Certificate delivered from an EU nation. You can obtain your A1/A3 Certificate by enrolling with the online Remote Pilot School.
Those who want to fly a drone in the ‘Open’ category under subcategories A1/A3 must complete an online training and exam. You will need to score a 75% or higher to pass, and you are allowed 3 total attempts.
Upon successfully completing your exam, you will be awarded a remote pilot certificate that is valid for 5 years. Always keep your Remote Pilot Certificate on you when operating a drone in Ireland and present it to authorities if requested.
Lea también: Leyes actualizadas sobre drones en Indonesia
In conclusion, the EASA provides guidelines for drone operators in the European Union. These include regulations related to open-category, specific-category, and certified-category drones.
The agency also has safety requirements that must be followed at all times when operating an unmanned aircraft. It’s important to check with the EASA before purchasing or flying a drone, as failure to do so could result in penalties and fines.
At the end of the day, you should always remember to fly safely and responsibly for everyone’s sake. Hope this article was helpful. For any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments and share this article.
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The privately owned SpaceX Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station a day later than expected due to a thruster problem.
Repairs are underway and flight controllers are making good progress fixing a problem with the orbiting Dragon capsule.
Visit Mars. That’s the insanely ambitious plan that Dennis Tito, who was the first private space traveler a little less than 12 years ago, will announce in more detail next week.
An unmanned space capsule carrying medical samples from the International Space Station is back on Earth.
The eagle has landed or, in this case, the Dragon has been snagged. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station snared the SpaceX’s commercial supply ship Dragon Wednesday morning after a two and a half day flight from Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket roared into space Sunday evening from Cape Canaveral carrying a Dragon capsule packed with supplies for the International Space Station.
Rain could delay Sunday’s planned launch of a privately owned rocket with a space station cargo ship named Dragon.
The first commercial space vehicle to dock with the International Space Station, launched from Florida earlier this week, finally delivered the groceries Saturday morning when it was opened by space station crew members and its cargo was transferred aboard.
It’s the start of a new era in space technology. Friday, the first-ever private spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station, making history as the first commercial delivery in orbit.
The SpaceX rocket, the world’s first private supply ship, took part in a crucial fly-by Thursday near the International Space Station.
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U.S. Air Force Kicking off Nationwide Flyover in Cape Coral
June 26, 2023
The United States Air Force is kicking off its nationwide flyover tour Tuesday, June 27, and its first stop is the Cape Coral Bridge around 11:15 a.m.
The public is invited to observe the flyover celebrating 100 years of aerial refueling excellence. Visit Bernice Braden Park, 2051 Cape Coral Parkway E, for the best views of this historic flight.The flyover features the KC-135 Stratotanker from MacDill Air Force Base, making its way to the first location in Cape Coral. The flight route will be visible from landmarks in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
On June 27, 1923, U.S. Army Air Service aviators made history when they passed gasoline through a hose from one aircraft to another, completing the first aerial refueling. One hundred years later, the United States Air Force celebrates the tenacity and innovative will still thriving in servicemembers today.Please contact Capt. Danielle Hudson at [email protected] or 813-828-2217 for further information.
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Electronic Flight Bags (EFB)
There are specific regulations for Electronic Flight Bags (EFB) that came into effect in Europe in July 2019.
What's an EFB?
An Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) is a system used by flight crew, on the flight deck of an aircraft, for storing, updating, displaying and processing information to support flight operations or flight crew duties. The most common EFB applications are hosting the operations manual, displaying maps and charts and making mass and balance and performance calculations.
EFBs are classified according to the device used (hardware), which may be installed or portable and the applications (software), which may be 'Type A' or 'Type B'.
EFB hardware is classified as either ‘installed’ or ‘portable’.
Installed EFBs are part of the aircraft and are, therefore, certified as part of the aircraft airworthiness approval.
Portable EFBs are not part of the aircraft and can be used away from the flight deck, but they may be connected to the aircraft by (for example) a power supply or data connection.
Portable EFBs may be mounted in the flight deck. This might be using a mounting that’s part of the aircraft equipment or another ‘viewable storage device’. If the EFB is to be used during ‘critical phases of flight’, for example, display of charts used during taxi, take-off, approach or landing, then it should be visible within 90 degrees of the pilot’s line of sight; it shouldn’t interfere with controls or impede the pilots view of aircraft instruments or the view outside the aircraft. It should be easy to remove the EFB (in case it catches fire). If the EFB is only used for short periods, such as making a landing performance calculation, it may be handheld and returned to a stowage when not in use.
FlyPad Tray viewable storage device
The applications (software) on an EFB are classified according to their function. Applications whose misuse or malfunction has no safety effect are ‘Type A’, other applications are ‘Type B’. Any application that replaces avionics or aircraft systems displays or is used to communicate with ATC cannot be classified as an EFB application (these systems are subject to airworthiness certification).
Type A applications include reporting forms, passenger information, flight and duty rest calculators, display of certificates and documents (except for safety-related documents used in-flight).
Type B applications are those that are used in-flight for operational purposes. These include:
display of maps and charts, e.g. Jeppesen FD, LIDO etc.
displaying safety-related manuals and documents in-flight, e.g. the operations manual, QRH, FCOM, weather information, the operational flight plan, NOTAMs etc.
performance and mass and balance calculations, e.g. Boeing OPT, Airbus LPC, iPreFlight, performance GURU etc.
What are the requirements for using an EFB?
Operators using an EFB should make a risk assessment and have procedures for managing the EFB.
The risk assessment should cover everything that could go wrong with the EFB, such as power failure, data loss, mechanical damage, fire etc. Where the risk (probability x severity) of a particular consequence is unacceptable, the operator needs to describe how the risks will be managed. These risk mitigations might include pre-flight checks, carrying extra devices or paper back-ups, new fire procedures etc. There are specific requirements for assessing the risks associated with power sources for the EFB, batteries, connecting cables, electromagnetic interference and rapid decompression.
EFB procedures should describe how the applications are used and how the data is controlled, for example, updating maps and charts or performance data. Procedures should be documented, either in the operations manual or a separate EFB manual and flight crew should be trained according to those procedures. There should be an ‘EFB Administrator’ who is primarily responsible for ensuring that the correct versions of software and data are available and that no unauthorised software is installed.
Is an approval required?
Commercial Air Transport operators using ‘Type B’ applications must have approval from the competent authority. The approval is shown on the operations specification document (OpSpec) and lists the approved applications and (for portable EFBs) the hardware. Other operators (non-commercial and specialised) do not require approval but should still complete a risk assessment and procedures.
How do we get an EFB approval?
To get approval for EFB Type B applications, an operator must provide the competent authority with the risk assessment and procedures described above. For new EFB applications, an operator will also need to carry out an ‘operational demonstration’. This is typically six months of operation with a paper backup available. The demonstration needs to show that the EFB application is as good as the paper-based system and, of course, the operational demonstration and its results need to be fully documented.
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On May 23, 2017, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer took an urgent and unplanned spacewalk to replace a broken data relay box outside of the International Space Station. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.
For centuries, humans have wondered, Are we alone? and What is the universe made of? Scientists will tackle these exact questions in two documentaries, part of the new, six-episode PBS series "Nova Wonders."
On May 3, 1986, NASA attempted to launch a new weather satellite called GOES-G for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but the rocket malfunctioned in mid-air. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.
On May 1, 1949, Neptune's moon Nereid was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. This was the second of 14 moons discovered at Neptune. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.
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(WASHINGTON POST) Craig Whitlock — On Sunday, a swarm of small rogue drones disrupted air traffic across the country on a scale previously unseen in U.S. skies.
At 8:51 a.m., a white drone startled the pilot of a JetBlue flight, appearing off its left wing moments before it landed at Los Angeles International Airport. Five hours later, a quadcopter whizzed underneath an Allegiant Air flight as it approached the same runway. Elsewhere in California, pilots of light aircraft reported narrowly dodging drones in San Jose and La Verne.
In Washington, a Cessna pilot reported a drone cruising at 1,500 feet in highly restricted airspace over the nation’s capital, forcing the U.S. military to scramble fighter jets as a precaution. In Louisville, a silver-and-white drone almost collided with a training aircraft. In Chicago, United Airlines Flight 970 reported seeing a drone pass by at an altitude of 3,500 feet.
All told, 12 episodes were recorded Sunday of small drones interfering with airplanes or coming too close to airports, including other incidents in New Mexico, Texas, Illinois, Florida and North Carolina, according to previously undisclosed reports filed with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Before last year, close encounters with rogue drones were unheard of. But as a result of a sales boom, small, largely unregulated remote-control aircraft are clogging U.S. airspace, snarling air traffic and giving the FAA fits.
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Air India passenger flights to take off from Agra in October next
Agra: In a good news for all those who miss air travel in Agra, the Air India passenger planes will begin to take off from the Kheria Air Force Station in the Uttar Pradesh city on October 1 next.
Furthermore, a meeting will soon be held between the airport authority and airlines to discuss about the connectivity of Agra flights with other cities of the country. The authority will also approach the private airlines to start their services at the Kheria Air Force Station informing them about the traffic management as well as passenger facilities being offered by the former.
- A meeting between a consultative committee and Airport Authority of India (AAI) was held at the Kheria Air Force Station on Saturday last.
- AAI director Prabhakar Mishra informed the committee about the flights and ongoing work at the airport.
- According to Mishra, 55.29 acres of land, between the air force station boundary and Highway–39, is likely to be acquired by the UP government.
- The government is planning to build an enclave on this land.
- The enclave will be constructed by the state government itself taking the technical support of AAI.
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Chairs DeFazio and Larsen Announce Hearing on Mitigating Aviation Noise
Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Aviation Noise: Measuring Progress in Addressing Community Concerns.”
During this hearing, members will examine the continued effects of aviation noise and the implementation of the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act. Members will hear testimony from the Federal Aviation Administration, Government Accountability Office, and other aviation professionals.
More information about the hearing, including a witness list and a livestream, can be found here once available.
The Subcommittee on Aviation Hearing on:
“Aviation Noise: Measuring Progress in Addressing Community Concerns”
Thursday, March 17, 2022
10:00 a.m. EDT
2167 Rayburn House Office Building and virtually
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August 5, 2020 – U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft along with an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft take off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska. The aircraft flew as part of unit training to maintain mission readiness and combat lethality.
U.S. Air Force video by Airman Mario Calabro
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https://lonestarflight.org/hall-of-fame/usto-schultz/
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WWII Pilot and Founding Father of JetBlue Airways
I want your life at home to be better because you worked at JetBlue.
A native of Marion, Texas, Usto Schulz entered the Army Air Force in 1943 and won his wings as a multi-engine pilot. He served as the Engineering Officer at Hondo AAF, before being sent to Ladd Field, Alaska as a cold weather test pilot. Leaving the Army in 1947, Schulz spent the next ten years flying for Arctic Pacific Air and Wien Alaska Airlines before joining the Civil Aeronautics Administration; the forerunner of the FAA. During his time with the CAA and FAA, he was an air carrier inspector, a pilot certification instructor and spearheaded numerous flight safety initiatives. Schulz became a consultant in 1975, helping airlines obtain FAA certification. In 1992 Schulz became one of the “founding fathers” of JetBlue Airways consulting on aircraft selection, guiding the airline through certification and establishing its service focused culture. After serving as JetBlue’s Vice President of Safety, Usto Schulz retired in 2005.
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AISSat-1 celebrates six months of success on-orbit, first nanosatellite with high performance pointing
The seven-kilogram Norwegian ship tracking satellite, AISSat-1, designed and built by SFL for the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment celebrated six months of successful operations in orbit today. AISSat-1 was launched on 12 July 2010 aboard PSLV-C15. Within one day after launch, the satellite was detecting ships over Norwegian waters and a press release was issued with data from space. “The satellite was collecting Automatic Identification System (AIS) data very soon after launch and before all its systems had been fully commissioned,” says Alex Beattie, SFL’s Project Manager for AISSat-1. “We are extremely pleased at the overall performance of this satellite.”
In the months following launch, all the systems of the satellite were successfully commissioned, including its three-axis attitude control system that enables inertial pointing to within 1 to 2 degrees. The full pointing control demonstrated by AISSat-1 is likely the first time that such pointing performance has been demonstrated on a sub-10 kilogram satellite, or AISSAT-1 first pictures“nanosatellite.” AISSat-1 is based on SFL’s Generic Nanosatellite Bus (GNB), a seven-kilogram, 20x20x20cm satellite that will be the enabling platform for several upcoming missions, including BRITE Constellation and CanX-4&5. “The ability to point our nanosatellites with high accuracy and precision opens the door to many new applications that weren’t previously possible,” remarks Dr. Robert E. Zee, SFL Director. “The pointing capabilities of the GNB, now demonstrated on orbit by AISSat-1 represent an unprecedented milestone achievement for nanosatellites. These tiny satellites are no longer simply for educational missions, but are now able to accomplish targeted missions with miniature instruments at low cost.”
The GNB is also the foundation for the larger NEMO (Nanosatellite for Earth Monitoring and Observation) bus that SFL is developing for clients who want more mass, volume, power and data. The NEMO bus enables 15-kilogram missions with up to 9kg and 45W of peak power available to payloads. The first NEMO mission is an aerosol monitoring mission, NEMO-AM, for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). NEMO is largely based on the heritage components of the GNB. The AISSat-1 accomplishment was therefore an important milestone for the NEMO program.
AISSat-1 was officially “handed over” to the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment late last year. The satellite is presently controlled by Norway using its ground station at Svalbard. SFL continues to provide technical support as needed for the mission. AISSat-1 was recently voted Norway’s top technological achievement for 2010.
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A great utility turbo charged piston engine twin. The Piper Chieftain-350 has been servicing rural Australia for years and will continue to be the backbone of light, commercial transport for the foreseeable future.
Many of Australia’s Regional Airlines owe their initial success to the Piper Chieftain. It is recognised as a reliable cost effective, commuter and charter aircraft with good range, medium speed and good payload capabilities.
Available country wide, and ideal for remote rural airports, the Chieftain is hard to beat for regional charter flights.
Contact [email protected] 1300 JETCORP (1300 538 267) Within Australia/ Mob-Cell +61 402 095 737/+61 2 8084 8809 [International]
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https://www.technologynewstracking.com/european-space-agency-starts-hibernation-studies-on-space-travel.html
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ESA wants to use hybridization in manned space missions that will be part of the Future Technology Advisory Panel in the future. Even a research group was established for this purpose. The agency also explores and takes into account many different hybridization efforts.
The space agency looks at other studies and technologies, but also explores how this technology will impact the task. The Mars task, which consists of a team of six people, is considered for this task. As part of this theoretical mission, the team will travel to Mars and return to our planet five years later.
Robin Biesbroek, who works at the Simultaneous Design Facility of the European Space Agency, made a statement about the hybridization work. Robin, spacecraft architecture to adjust, provide logistics, to protect against radiation, fuel consumption and general task design, they said.
Robin Biesbroek continued his explanation of how an astronaut team could best get into hybridization and what they could do in case of emergency. In addition, how human safety is ensured and even how psychological effects of hibernation will be included in these studies.
After all these works, ESA drew up a draft of this living space and prepared a road map to get people to hybridize on their way to Mars in 20 years. According to the team’s work, the use of hybridization in the tasks helps to reduce the total mass of the vehicle by one third.
Hibernation also reduces the need for food and water needs outside the vehicle mass. Each astronaut on the spaceship will now have one soft capsule instead of a separate living space. These capsules can be transformed into a cabinet at any time when the astronaut wakes up.
Binance Closes Trading 2-4 Hours Tomorrow
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A 13 page research paper that examines the affects of
computer assisted design and manufacturing methodologies on the aircraft and aerospace industry. The writer demonstrates how computers have revolutionized the process of designing and manufacturing new aircraft. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Name of Research Paper File: D0_Planeman.wps
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https://droneconference.org/2013/08/macarthur-foundation-supports-drones-aerial-robotics-conference/
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MacArthur’s support enables us to bring robotics, technology and legal professionals from all over the globe to take part in this three-day event in New York City.
DARC is a “big think” space to explore the proliferation of flying robots. Call them UAVs, UAS, RPAs or drones—there will be many more of them in the sky in the coming years.
DARC will inspire wonderment, future shock, and long-range thinking about the automation of our skies. It’s for anyone who has an interest in technology and the law.
At the same time, DARC a practical, outcomes-focused event—a think-tank, of sorts—to shape how drones will be integrated into civilian airspace. From airspace regulations, to privacy, to ethics, to economics, to engineering and best practices in application design, DARC is a place where roboticists can rub shoulders with regulators; reporters can explore the frontiers of remotely piloted aircraft; and legal scholars can collaborate on new frameworks for fundamental rights (and much more!).
- On October 11th, join us at the Skirball Center for a diverse slate of talks and panels about cutting edge aerial robotics & contemporary issues around drones. Stick around for an evening of live flying robots demos.
- On October 12th, join us at NYU Law School for over 30 interactive sessions full of learning, planning, information sharing and networking around drones and drone issues.
- On October 13th, join us at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program for a day of informal hacking, building and tinkering with DIY drones and drone software.
We are grateful to the MacArthur Foundation for enabling this forum and making it possible to convene such a diverse group of stakeholders.
Register soon to join us at the Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference in New York City. Space is limited.
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https://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/hal-is-going-to-ready-123-hawk-trainers-a-year-ahead-of-schedule/
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In a proud moment for all Indians and a boost for Modi’s flagship ‘Make In India’ initiative, Hindustan Aeronutics Limited(HAL) is set to roll out it’s locally made combat version of the Hawk aircraft for export by February 2017, as reported by the Economic Times.
HAL is set to deliver all 123 aircraft to the two services a year ahead of schedule, opening up capacity at its line. The Combat Hawk is at present being developed jointly with BAE, it’s original manufacturer.
A senior official involved with the project speaking to Economic Times said, “The aim is to demonstrate the aircraft by the next Aero India show that is to take place in 2017. The project is on track. There is a strong demand for such an aircraft,”
“Combat Hawk” involves fitting air-to-air missiles and air-to-ground guns besides rockets and bombs to the aircraft which is currently used as trainer aircraft for fighter pilots before they enter an actual fighter jet.
HAL had last year signed an MoU with BAE Systems UK for upgradation of Hawk Mk132, development of Combat Hawk for Indian and export markets and maintenance solutions for supporting Jaguar and Hawk fleet. The aircraft has the capabilities to be used as a ground attack aircraft or for air defence.
(With Inputs from PTI)
(Feature Image Source: Twitter | @ETDefence)
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2 IAF pilots dead in Mirage crash in Bengaluru
Two senior pilots of the Indian Air Force IAF died on Friday after a Mirage2000 fighter crashed on a test sortie at a military airport in the citys eastern suburb, a Defence Ministry official said
Bengaluru:Two senior pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) died on Friday after a Mirage-2000 fighter crashed on a test sortie at a military airport in the city's eastern suburb, a Defence Ministry official said.
"Two IAF pilots died of fatal injuries after a Mirage-2000 trainer aircraft crashed at the HAL airport in Bengaluru," said the official in a statement here.
The pilots were identified as Squadron Leader Sameer Abrol and Squadron Leader Siddarth Negi.
"The aircraft was on an acceptance sortie after upgrade by the HAL. Investigation on the cause of the accident is being ordered. Further details are awaited," added the statement.
The state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) makes and upgrades aircraft for training and combat operations of the IAF as the country's sole defence behemoth. It also maintains and operates the military airport in the city.
The crash took place around 10.30 a.m.," a HAL official told IANS earlier.
HAL also operates the military airport with the IAF and other state-run defence and aerospace agencies like DRDO and ADA.
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https://www.nevadatravel.net/event/pahrump-hot-air-balloon-festival/
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Pahrump Hot Air Balloon Festival
February 22 - February 24
The Pahrump Balloon Festival brings together more than 20 hot air balloon pilots from the western states. Bring the family to enjoy hot air balloon rides, music and entertainment, great food and arts and crafts! There will also be a hot air balloon glow show the evening of Friday, Feb. 23 and Saturday, Feb. 24, where more than a dozen balloons will illuminate the area as they are synchronize their balloons to music.
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https://www.breakinglatest.news/health/three-european-astronauts-on-the-moon-the-collaboration-between-esa-and-nasa-is-strengthened/
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Three European astronauts aboard the Gateway, the station in cislunar orbit already in development (also in Italy), a framework agreement for a strategic partnership in earth system science and the US support for the ExoMars mission, directed to Mars and originally conceived as a Russian-European collaboration. A support, in light of the international situation, which could save the mission from definitive cancellation. And then the possibility, although still without a precise date, to see the first “European footprints on the Moon”.
These are the salient facts of the partnership between NASA and the European Space Agency that emerged a few hours ago in a press conference at Estec, following the ESA Council hosted in the Netherlands since yesterday. In the presence of the director general of ESA, Josef Aschbacher, of the council chair Anna Rathsman, of the administrator of NASA, Bill Nelson, and of his deputy, the former astronaut Pamela Melroy, the link between the United States and Europe was reaffirmed. be, beyond the sky, “stronger than ever. And it will intensify ”repeated Aschbacher several times.
From the James Webb Telescope, the largest (and most expensive) space observatory ever built, launched last December 25 in orbit, to the Artemis lunar program, which in 2025 should bring the first (American) woman and the next man to the selene surface; from the involvement of private companies to Earth observation, the areas evoked during the conference as well as those of the effective realization of the Euro-US collaboration were different. Starting with the Earth sciences: the two agencies intend to lead a global response to climate change, by monitoring our planet with joint efforts in observations, research and applications. Unprecedented, the strategic partnership sets the standard for future international collaboration and ensures that satellite data from Earth observation is used to best effect. Topics include observation systems to ensure constant monitoring, collaboration on policy and exploitation of information. “With leadership on both sides of the Atlantic more committed than ever to addressing this problem,” commented Aschbacher, “ESA and NASA have a historic and further opportunity to make space an integral part of the solution when it comes to of climate change mitigation “.
Peace mission for AstroSamantha: “In space with the Russians. Maybe we will take a walk together”
by Elena Dusi
“We are proud to have been invited to the ESA Council” answered Nelson and Melroy “and we are here to reiterate that our collaboration with ESA is and will be increasingly solid, renewing a relationship already signed in 2010”. Formal statements aside, the possibility of the first ever European astronaut setting foot on the Moon was discussed – “space is complex” commented Nelson when questioned on the matter, “we can guarantee right now that it will happen, but today it would be premature to confirm in which mission the Europeans will descend to the lunar surface “-, therefore the role of ESA in the construction of the Gateway was recognized, to which Europe contributes by creating the Esprit Refueling Module and the habitable module I-Hab, and in that of a satellite system for communication and lunar navigation. “Our relationship points beyond the next frontier,” added Aschbacher, evoking Mars Sample Return, the mission that will allow, at the beginning of the next decade, to bring precious samples of Martian rock back to Earth.
It is inevitable, however, not to glimpse in the invitation of the NASA executives to the ESA Council and in the press conference also the desire to reaffirm a space alliance with very, very terrestrial political subtexts.
“The collaboration of astronauts in orbit, including Samantha Cristoforetti, with Russian cosmonauts demonstrates an exceptional professionalism”, Nelson wanted to clarify, “even that between the control centers of the International Space Station, in Houston and Moscow, is not suffering any consequences and this despite the dramatic situation in Ukraine ”.
A situation that “has repercussions in most of our programs”, however, specified Aschbacher, recalling precisely the stop suffered by ExoMars, whose departure was scheduled for September. Not only in the case of the Martian mission, Russia was in fact responsible for part of the technological supply and materials, as well as several launches with the Soyuz from the European spaceport of Kourou.
“This is why new collaborations are being defined, with the aim of mitigating the consequences of the war and honoring agendas and commitments”. For example, in fact, again the Martian mission, on which ESA has been working for over ten years: “In deepening our partnership in the exploration of the Red Planet”, he then reassured Nelson “NASA is determining the best way to support our European friends in the ExoMars mission “. Meanwhile, the two agencies will continue to work together to refine the Mars Sample Return architecture. “Overall, we want to get the best scientific return from our collective investments, on both sides of the Atlantic,” Aschbacher said.
ESA member states will further discuss the way forward for Rosalind Franklin, the ExoMars rover, during the July Council meeting. Furthermore, the imminent debut of the new European launchers, the Ariane 6 by the end of the year, and the Vega C, on 7 July, will make it possible to make up for part of the momentary Russian lump sum. “We will emerge stronger than ever from this crisis” commented Aschbacher, “we will aim for greater autonomy, while honoring our role as reliable partners. We will talk about this in the Council of member countries, scheduled for next November ”.
The app to land on the Moon in virtual reality
by Matteo Marini
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OK. So yesterday was the 50th anniversary of that stunning achievement, the first landing on the Moon’s surface by American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It’s been marked, justifiably, by TV news, documentaries and specials all around the world, generating a renewed interest in space exploration. Next stop Mars, I guess (and hope). And later on, perhaps, a certain golden planet…
Coming up next weekend, there’s a local art exhibition in the village of Aberdour which I intend to enter. In honour of the first Moon landing, the theme of the exhibition is space. I was going to do a small painting of the Apollo 11 rocket leaving Earth’s atmosphere. Sadly, that didn’t work out… the blackness of outer space went blotchy, and not in a good way. So, I had a little rethink, and decided to take the space theme literally. I’d paint space itself – a nebula maybe, with colours showing though. Or a galaxy far, far away.
That sort of thing is easy enough in watercolour. All you have to do is to let the paints blend wetly on the paper while taking care to preserve some white areas. Once the paper was dry, I dotted on lots of stars of varying sizes and brightness, using white gouache. The effect wasn’t bad but something else was needed to catch the eye. I made a circle stencil out of a piece of card and gently sponged out a circular patch of paint. Hey presto, in moments I had a planet floating in outer space. I coloured it with Quinacridone Gold and Neutral Tint and it was finished.
Whichever way round
This is the first painting I’ve produced – disregarding my signature – that would look all right whichever way round you look it. After all, in space there is no “up”.
Golden Planet is now the painting’s title. Here’s to the memory of Neil Armstrong. Not forgetting Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Brave men, all.
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Ground Operations: The Unsung Heroes Behind Airline Success
- The Significance of Ground Operations
- Perspectives on Ground Operations
- Enhancing Ground Operations Efficiency
- Additional Resources
In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the world of ground operations and shed light on the crucial role played by these unsung heroes in ensuring the success of airlines. We will address the various aspects of ground operations, including their significance, responsibilities, challenges, and contributions. By the end of this article, readers will gain a thorough understanding of the critical role played by ground operations in the aviation industry.
The Significance of Ground Operations
The importance of ground operations in the aviation industry:
- Efficient ground operations have a significant impact on airline performance, customer satisfaction, and profitability.
Responsibilities of Ground Operations Staff
The diverse responsibilities of ground operations staff:
- Ground operations staff are responsible for a wide range of tasks, such as baggage handling, aircraft grooming, fueling, catering, and passenger services.
- The importance of each responsibility directly affects the overall passenger experience.
Challenges Faced in Ground Operations
The challenges encountered in ground operations:
- Ground operations teams face hurdles such as adverse weather conditions, security protocols, time constraints, and operational complexities.
- Strategies are employed to overcome these challenges and ensure smooth operations.
Innovations and Technological Advancements in Ground Operations
Advancements and innovations in ground operations:
- Ground operations have seen a revolution in recent years with the use of automation, artificial intelligence, and data analytics.
- These technologies enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and mitigate risks.
Perspectives on Ground Operations
Perspectives on ground operations from different stakeholders:
- Viewpoints from airlines, passengers, ground staff, and regulatory authorities.
- Expectations, concerns, and suggestions related to ground operations.
Debate and Controversies surrounding Ground Operations
Debates and controversies surrounding ground operations:
- Ongoing disputes or controversies related to ground operations, such as labor rights, handling of hazardous materials, or environmental impact.
- Providing a balanced view of different perspectives and potential solutions to address these issues.
Enhancing Ground Operations Efficiency
Strategies for enhancing ground operations efficiency:
- Best practices and strategies employed by airlines and ground operations teams to optimize efficiency and productivity.
- Exploring the role of effective planning, training, collaboration, and continuous improvement in streamlining ground operations processes.
Recommendations for Airlines and Ground Operations Professionals
Recommendations for airlines and ground operations professionals:
- Actionable recommendations to enhance performance and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
- Importance of investing in employee training, embracing technology, and fostering a culture of operational excellence.
References and additional resources:
- List of credible references, articles, books, and websites for further information about ground operations.
- Resources that offer valuable insights into the topic.
Industry Associations and Organizations
Industry associations and organizations:
- Relevant industry associations and organizations focusing on ground operations.
- Providing links to their websites for further resources, networking opportunities, and industry updates.
In conclusion, ground operations play a pivotal role in the smooth functioning and success of airlines. From ensuring passenger safety and satisfaction to optimizing operational efficiency, ground operations are the backbone of the aviation industry. By understanding the scope, challenges, and perspectives related to ground operations, airlines and ground operations professionals can strive towards continuous improvement and deliver exceptional service.
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Columbia Helicopters – an aircraft manufacturing and operator company based in Aurora has been conducting Flight Training out of the Madras Airport.
You may have noticed the red and white tandem rotor helicopters flying over the Warm Springs Reservation and other areas in Central Oregon.
There are two helicopters conducting flight training exercises in the region with Central Oregon weather and conditions ideal for training.
Columbia Helicopters specialize in heavy lifting.
Some of the training being conducted is in support of a food program project in the West African country of Burkina Faso where there is an ongoing struggle with acute food insecurity. Helicopters are used to transport life-saving food and nutrition assistance.
The helicopter flight training, based at Madras Airport, is expected to continue for several more weeks.
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“Kirara” safely returns from the ISS !
SpX-27 Cargo Dragon with our "Kirara" onboard left the International Space Station (ISS) on April 15, and splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico the next day. Today, “Kirara” was shipped from the Kennedy Space Center and is scheduled to arrive in Japan this week. Next week, we will start returning samples of space experiments to researchers and students. We are looking forward to seeing the results of the experiment!
Kirara floating on board the ISS
Our "Kirara 4" mission was introduced on the website of the European Space Agency!
“Kirara” was launched to the International Space Station
Kirara will be launched to the ISS in March 2023
Calling for samples of Kirara#4 to be launched in January 2023
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British Military Aviation in 1914
A ‘Concentration Camp’ for Royal Flying Corps (RFC) Squadrons takes place
at Netheravon. The programme of the camp included trials and experiments,
lectures, discussions and tactical exercises.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating
a chain of events that led directly to the outbreak of the First World
The Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps is reorganised to become the
Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
A Royal review of the Fleet takes at place at Spithead during 18-22 July
1914. As part of the review, a flight of naval aeroplanes manoeuvred over
the Fleet, providing the new Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) with its first
opportunity to demonstrate the manner in which aircraft could be employed
in naval operations. 17 seaplanes and 4 airships also took part in the
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) begins to move to a war footing. Royal
Naval Air Service seaplanes are urgently mustered at the naval airfields
at Eastchurch on the Isle of Grain (and its advanced bases at Westgate
and Clacton), Felixstowe and Yarmouth, to be ready to commence coastal
patrols in the event of war. Royal Naval Air Service aeroplanes were grouped
at Eastchurch, with the exception of three aeroplanes despatched to Felixstowe
and one to Yarmouth. Two airships were allotted to Kingsnorth.
The first United Kingdom aerial torpedo is dropped. The 810 pound Whitehead
torpedo is released by Squadron Commander A.M. Longmore from Short seaplane
Instructions are issued with regard to the war role of the Royal Naval
Air Service (RNAS). The Royal Naval Air Service was to be confined to
protecting vulnerable points from attacks by hostile aircraft and scouting
and patrol duties were to be considered secondary. All aircraft were to
be kept ready for action.
Germany declares war on Russia.
Germany demands right of passage for her armies through Belgium.
Germany declares war on France.
Britain declares war on Germany, with effect from 2300hrs.
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
German Army Zeppelins succeed in their first wartime operation over Belgium.
France declares war on Austria-Hungary.
declares war on Austria-Hungary.
On August 13, Nos. 2, 3 and 4 Squadrons flew from Dover to Amiens and
on the following day, No.5 Squadron flew from Southampton to Boulogne.
Subsequently, all of the Royal Flying Corps squadrons were concentrated
at Amiens in support the British Expeditionary Force. The flying squadrons
were later transferred to Maubeuge aerodrome.
Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson KCB DSO assumes command of the
Royal Flying Corps in the field. At this time, the Royal Flying Corps
on the Continent mustered some 105 officers, 63 aeroplanes and 95 vehicles.
Flying training commences for the first four officers of the Australian
Army Corps to attend the Australian Army Corps’ Central Flying School
in Point Cooke.
Captain P. Joubert de le Ferte, in a Blériot of No.3 Squadron,
and Lieutenant G.W. Mapplebeck in a Royal Aircraft Factory BE2c of No.4
Squadron take-off from Maubeuge at 0930hrs to carry out the first Royal
Flying Corps reconnaissance flights of the First World War. Neither sortie
was particularly successful, as both pilots lost their way and failed
to locate either the enemy or the Belgian Army, whose respective whereabouts
they had been asked to ascertain.
The first successful Royal Flying Corps aerial reconnaissance is completed
when German Army troop columns are located near Tervueren and Wavre.
Sergeant-Major D.S. Jillings, an observer serving with No.2 Squadron Royal
Flying Corps, becomes the first British serviceman to be wounded in an
aeroplane when his aircraft was hit by ground fire during a reconnaissance
sortie over advancing German columns.
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) fly twelve reconnaissance sorties. One of
these observed German movements that indicated the right flank of the
German advance through Belgium would turn the left flank of the British
Expeditionary Force position at Mons.
An Avro of No.5 Squadron becomes the first British aircraft to be lost
in action, when shot down by rifle fire over Belgium. Lieutenant V. Waterfall
and Lieutenant C.G.G. Bayly were killed.
Japan declares war on Germany.
H.C. Jackson and Lieutenant E.L. Conran of No.3 Squadron made the first
British bombing attack while flying over Lessines at 1130hrs. They aimed
a single bomb at three German aircraft on the ground. It exploded wide
of the mark.
The first British aerial victory of the First World War is achieved, when
a German Taube aircraft is forced to land by three aircraft of No.2 Squadron.
One of the British aircraft also landed, and the crew chased the German
crew into nearby woods. They then set fire to the German aircraft before
taking off again.
The first Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) unit arrives on the Continent.
The Eastchurch Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service, under the command
of Commander C.R. Samson, is transferred to Ostend and the squadron is
subsequently re-deployed to Dunkirk. The Eastchurch Squadron was renamed
No.3 Squadron RNAS on 1 September 1914.
The first recorded effective British bombing attack is undertaken by Lieutenant
L.A. Strange of No.5 Squadron. He dropped a home-made petrol bomb on a
German truck near Mons. The vehicle swerved off the road and caught fire.
The blazing petrol also caught the following truck which also caught fire.
Royal Flying Corps reconnaissance reports to Field Marshal Sir John French
the new south-easterly and easterly direction of march of General von
Kluck’s German First Army. The information is passed to the French Commander-in-Chief,
General Joffre who realised that von Kluck’s movement would expose his
flank to the French armies near Paris. He ordered the counter-attack that
led to the Battle of the Marne. Joffre later said that “The British
Flying Corps had played a prominent, in fact a vital part, in watching
and following this all-important movement on which so much depended. Thanks
to the aviators he had been kept accurately and constantly informed of
Kluck’s movements. To them he owed the certainty which had enabled him
to make his plans in good time.”
The counterstroke on the Marne prevented the quick victory that Germany
sought in the West. As a consequence, Germany was faced with a war on
2 fronts with forces potentially much stronger than herself.
The first use of air photography and wireless telegraphy for artillery
observation in combat takes place during Battle of the Aisne.
The Canadian Aviation Corps is formed with two officers and one aircraft,
a Burgess-Dunne biplane.
A modified Maurice Farman two-seat pusher biplane of No.5 Squadron, the
first Royal Flying Corps aircraft in France to carry a machine gun, is
flown across the Channel. However, rifles and revolvers continued to form
the primary armament of Royal Flying Corps aircraft well into the summer
The first British air attack on Germany takes place when four aircraft
are despatched to attack the Zeppelin sheds at Dusseldorf and Cologne.
Due to poor weather conditions, only one, a Sopwith three-seater of No.1
Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, flown by Flight Lieutenant C H Collett,
reached its designated target. Three bombs were dropped on the shed at
Dusseldorf, one fell short and two failed to explode.
Lieutenants D.S. Lewis and B.T. James use airborne radio for the first
time in warfare. Both members of No.4 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, were
involved in directing an artillery shoot from the air during the 1st Battle
of the Aisne. Their radio log begins “A very little short. Fire!
Fire!” And ends 40 minutes later with “I am coming home now”.
The first British aerial propaganda raid is undertaken by Lieutenant Colonel
Swinton. The leaflets were printed by the Continental Daily Mail in Paris
and attempted to convince the German soldier that he was facing imminent
The German cruiser Königsberg is sighted in the Rufiji Delta in German
East Africa. A Militaryian Curtiss flying boat was requisitioned by the
Admiralty and deployed from South Africa to the area to locate the cruiser;
this was replaced by a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane unit from February
1915. However, effective action against the ship proved impossible until
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) begins to employ maps with a ‘gridded’ reference
system, using letters and numbers, allowing accurate communication from
aircraft to artillery of enemy positions pinpointed to within a few yards.
Previous maps had no common grid. Shortly afterwards a ‘clock code’ was
introduced, allowing rapid corrections of the fall of artillery rounds
first successful British air attack on Germany takes place, when two Sopwith
Tabloids of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) attack Zeppelin airship
sheds at Dusseldorf and Cologne. Squadron Commander D.A. Spenser-Grey
failed to locate the sheds and bombed Cologne railway station as an alternative.
Flight Lieutenant R.G. Marix bombed the Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf, destroying
both the shed and Zeppelin L9.
The Royal Flying Corps suffers its first fatalities due to ‘friendly fire’.
Lieutenant C.G. Hosking and Captain T. Crean of No.4 Squadron were killed
when their Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 was shot down by British ground
fire over Poperinghe.
Russia declares war on Turkey.
A Royal Flying Corps (RFC) detachment, drawn from officers of the Indian
Central Flying School, and equipped with three Maurice Farman aircraft,
leaves the United Kingdom en route to Egypt to support Indian Army units
guarding the Suez Canal. The detachment arrived at Alexandria on 17 November.
On arrival in Egypt, the detachment acquired a further 2 Henri Farman
aircraft from Heliopolis and two Maurice Farmans, together with a Royal
Aircraft Factory BE2, from India. The detachment was based at Ismailia.
Britain & Turkey are in state of war.
The first enemy aircraft is shot down by a British aircraft. Lieutenants
L.A. Strange and F.G. Small in an Avro biplane of No.5 Squadron engaged
a German Albatros. The Avro was fitted with a machine gun in spite of
orders for Strange to desist from machinegun experiments. Two drums were
emptied into the enemy aircraft, which made a forced landing behind Allied
lines near Neuve-Église. The two German crew members were uninjured
and were captured by the British aviators who landed nearby. The Albatros
had been hit 20 times by the British fire.
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) is re-organised into wings, effectively decentralising
the Service. Wings were henceforth to be attached to Army Corps. The Military
Wing was abolished and the Farnborough Squadrons, Depot, Aircraft Park
and Record Office were regrouped as the Administrative Wing, under the
command of Lieutenant Colonel E.B. Ashmore.
The first British fighter aircraft, the Vickers EB5 Gunbus, enters service
with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener decrees that expansion plans to increase
the Royal Flying Corps to 30 squadrons are too modest and doubles the
planned strength to 60 squadrons.
The British roundel is adopted for aircraft identification.
first confirmed attempt to attack the United Kingdom by air takes place.
A Friedrichshafen FF29 floatplane of the German Navy’s See Flieger Abteilung
1 (Seaplane Unit No.1) dropped two bombs on Dover Harbour, both of which
fell into the sea.
The first successful bombing attack on a target in the United Kingdom
takes place. Following an attempted attack on 21 December, a second Friedrichshafen
FF29 floatplane of See Flieger Abteilung 1 (Seaplane Unit No.1) dropped
a single 22 pound bomb, which blew a crater 10 feet wide and 4 feet deep
in the garden of a Dover resident. There were no casualties. Although
two British aircraft were scrambled in response to the attack, the aircraft
was not intercepted.
The first enemy aircraft is intercepted over the United Kingdom. During
an attempted attack on the London dock area, a Friedrichshafen FF29 floatplane
of See Flieger Abteilung 1 (Seaplane Unit No.1) was intercepted over Erith
by a Royal Flying Corps Vickers Gunbus based at Joyce Green. During the
subsequent pursuit, the FF29 released 2 bombs, which landed in a field
near Cliffe railway station. The Gunbus crew broke off their attack when
the aircraft’s solitary Vickers-Maxim machine gun jammed and although
damaged, the FF29 succeeded in returning to base.
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Day two was an insanely fun day. We all agree that this project is even more fun than we thought it would be. We logged a lot of time flying and crashing the hexcopter today. Side note: I am, hands down, the worst pilot in the family. You won't see me at the controls on competition day.
I will say that the DJI F550 is one tough little copter. We've abused it pretty thoroughly and the only damage it's taken is some scrapes and chips on the propellers. There are a couple of new propeller sets on order.
Spinning Out of ControlAs we left off from the previous night, we had a copter that would just spin around every time we took off. Our first guess was that it was a transmitter calibration problem, but that checked out fine. Is it possible that there is a trim setting in the autopilot that was off? Our research turned up nothing. Alex finally figured out that our motors were rotating backwards from what the autopilot expected. The diagram below shows the correct configuration, we had fixed the motor numbers but had not noticed that each pair was rotating exactly backwards from what the Pixhawk expected. Another silly mistake, but we're learning!
After rewiring our motors - yet again! - controlled flight was finally achieved. This was an exciting milestone and we all took turns flying our new creation.
After a few very small, very controlled flights around our living room, we took it out to the back yard so we could get some elevation. This allowed the younger, more dextrous members of the team to get some real flight time in. I guess we can no longer claim that all that video game playing is a complete waste of time. If you've never flown a quadcopter, I highly, highly recommend it. So much fun.
We then spent some time testing out the stabilize, loiter, and land modes that we bound to a switch on our transmitter. Stabilize mode attempts to keep the copter level but otherwise gives you complete control. Loiter mode attempts to maintain the copter's current altitude and position. It turns out that you can still control the copter and move it around in this mode, but it's quite a bit less sensitive to control input from the joysticks. This mode was the easiest for me to fly. Land mode, as you'd expect, just executes a soft landing and it does a remarkably good job. The altitude sensor seems very accurate, which will make maneuvering around the obstacles on the AVC course a bit easier.
On to AutonomousThe next step was to add our GPS unit to the copter and connect it to the autopilot. We really need to mount it on a platform above the electronics, but for this prototype we just zip-tied it to the quad base. This may have hampered our accuracy somewhat and probably led to a crash that you'll see in the video below.
We elected to recalibrate our compass since the GPS receiver has its own, although this may have not been necessary. Matt then initialized the flight planning software by setting the home location, adjusting the altitude down to a safe testing height (no higher than our backyard fence) and creating a flight plan. He also replaced loiter mode with autonomous mode on our transmitter switch so we could take the copter in and out of autonomous mode with the flip of a switch in case of emergency.
Matt's first flight plan was to manually takeoff, engage auto mode, go to a waypoint and loiter, and then re-engage manual flight and land. As mentioned previously, it turned out that our GPS receiver really isn't accurate enough to reliably navigate a space as small as our back yard. It may be a problem with our compass, the magnetic declination settings, or maybe we're getting some interference with our GPS receiver. Classifying this problem is on our task list for future investigation.
Eventually we worked around the accuracy issue and progressed to a flight plan with full autonomous take off, proceeding through two waypoints in our backyard, and a fully autonomous landing. Check out this video for the day's highlights!
Tomorrow's objective will be to fly to a waypoint and drop a tennis ball from the hexcopter and return to the start point for landing - our first real mission simulation for the AVC! Check back tomorrow to see how we do.
Next: Day Three
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Telespazio transfers the Payload Data Processing System of the European Copernicus programme’s Sentinel-3 satellites to public cloud
(4 March 2021 - Telespazio) Telespazio has successfully migrated the data processing infrastructure of the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-3 mission to the commercial cloud. In the past, these activities took place in a physical infrastructure hosted at three different sites in Europe.
In recent days, ESA has given go-ahead for the Sentinel-3 mission's a switch-off of the physical scientific data processing infrastructure. The switch-off has been confirmed after an observation period lasting one month, on which the two infrastructures (physical and cloud) have been jointly operated. Telespazio has managed the entire design, development, qualification and roll-down to operation of the data processing system, adapting it to the new technologies and ensuring the best possible performance from a cloud platform. The migration process was approached by consecutive steps, starting from migration of the acquisition systems to migration of the various data processing centres.
The two Sentinel-3 mission satellites, launched in 2016 and 2018, belong to the European Copernicus programme to monitor the Earth’s environment managed by the ESA and the European Commission. When fully operational the mission, for which Telespazio is responsible for the operations, maintenance and development of the ground segment for data processing, will comprise 4 satellites (for which the prime construction contractor is Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%) equipped with systems to monitor the oceans, the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface. Among these the SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer), developed by Leonardo, will provide valuable meteorological and climatological support. The Sentinel-3 ground segment is capable of providing products in real time, just 3 hours after data acquisition by the on-board instruments.
The transfer of the Sentinel-3 mission's entire ground segment to the public cloud enables an optimisation of its computing resources by around 40 per cent, increasing the system’s reliability and resilience while ensuring that all users have the same amount of time to access information.
Telespazio's role within Copernicus
Leonardo, together with the Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space joint ventures, is one of the main industrial partners in the Copernicus programme with activities including the construction of satellites (Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor for the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 constellations), important payloads and equipment, and the supply of services and applications.
In particular, Telespazio has taken part in the construction, maintenance and evolution of the Payload Data Ground Segments (PDGS) for the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 missions, of the Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-5P Mission Control Systems, and of the infrastructure for accessing the earth observation products of the Copernicus missions (CSCDA/CDS, Copernicus Space Component Data Access/Coordinated Data Access System).
Telespazio has also created PRISM, an evolution of the CDS system that is entirely available in the commercial cloud and totally integrated with the ESA’s Sentinel missions, with the Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellites, and with the other missions linked to the Copernicus programme. PRISM activities are managed by an international consortium led by Telespazio that also includes - among others - Serco, ONDA DIAS, OVH, Intecs, and Werum.
In the operational sector Telespazio provides its own personnel to support ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre of the ESA, during the pre- and post-launch phases of the Sentinel satellites, as well as data acquisition for the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites from the Matera Space Centre operated by e-GEOS, a company owned by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%).
In the field of services Telespazio is active – through its e-GEOS, GAF and Telespazio subsidiaries - in emergency management, in land and maritime security management, in land resources management, and in monitoring climate change through contracts with delegated European Agencies. Finally, Telespazio supplies the Copernicus programme with Earth observation data relating to the Copernicus Contributing Missions, COSMO-SKYMED and IRS.
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https://politics.mn/unusual-the-pilots-of-the-plane-fall-asleep-in-mid-air-and-forget-to-land/
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Two Ethiopian Airlines pilots fell asleep on a flight from Kenya to Ethiopia. They missed the landing.
The story is very unique. Published in Dinamani New Zealand Herald, two pilots of a plane fell asleep during the flight. Flight ET343, connecting Khartoum (Kenya) to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, missed landing earlier this week.
What happened on the plane?
As the Boeing 737 approached the international airport, warnings were triggered. But the said flight has not yet started the landing procedure. At this time, The pilots fell asleep and the autopilot system kept the plane at 37,000 feet (ie 11,200m). Back then, nobody knew what was going on in the cockpit except those involved. Air traffic control attempted to contact the crew but was unsuccessful.
The autopilot disengaged after the plane flew over the runway it was supposed to land on. This was an alarm that woke up both pilots. Off Awaking again, and perhaps surprisingly, the latter was able to maneuver the plane and land on the runway. 25 minutes lateAccording to information from Daily New Zealand Herald.
Pilot fatigue, a known hazard
Fear more than evil, No one was hurt And the plane landed safely. Also SThe question is, according to aviation expert Alex Macherus LPilot fatigue is far from a new problem. It reflects “One of the major threats to international aviation security”, He tweeted this Friday, August 19.
In depth on the incident on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737, Africa’s largest airline #ET343 By the time it reached its destination, Addis Ababa, it was still at 37,000 feet
— Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir) August 18, 2022
Boeing 737 It was on the runway for about 2.5 hours before taking off for its next flight.
“Proud social media buff. Unapologetic web scholar. Internet guru. Lifelong music junkie. Travel specialist.”
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http://home.earthlink.net/~elainel/
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Model Horse Performance:
- English Saddle Fit (broken images, may fix eventually)
I currently work for and cofounded Cognitivity, a company devoted to providing enterprise e-learning software and document mamagement.
I also worked on the Mars Observer Camera. The spare, renamed the Mars Orbital Camera, is aboard Mars Global Surveyor. You can see its first picture of Mars from cruise, taken to coincide with the landing of Mars Pathfinder. Since then, there have been several more pictures taken, including one of the infamous "Face" and some terrific pictures that suggest there may be liquid water on Mars in the recent past.
Hanging out with friends in Fresno.
You can send me email at elainel at earthlink dot net.
Last updated 6/17/03. Copyright 1999-2003 Elaine Lindelef.
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https://www.discoveryeducation.com/learn/explorespace/
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Perseverance, NASA’s most advanced rover, is continuing NASA’s investigation of the Red Planet and your students are invited to join the mission!
After its exciting launch on July 30, 2020, Perseverance touched down on Mars February 18, 2021. To commemorate this momentous occasion, we’re teaming up with NASA to bring you a special livestream event! Take this opportunity to engage students across the STEM fields with insights into the Mars mission, live footage of the landing, and ready-to-use activities and resources from our Explore Space with NASA channel.
Join us for this special event! Students will meet the members of the Perseverance mission control team and the students who named the rover, get an inside look at the mission overview, and celebrate the live landing with NASA and others around the world.
We’ve curated a variety of resources and content to help engage your students, including:
For our Canada partners, please click here to access these resources.
Connect Students to #CountdownToMars with NASA’s Mars 2020 STEM Toolkit! You’ll have access to prelaunch and launch activities, student engagement tools, and resources for students to learn all about the Perseverance mission to Mars and the Red Planet.
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https://swfound.org/events/2011/2011-space-generation-congress
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2011 Space Generation Congress
When: Thursday, September 29, 2011
to Saturday, October 1, 2011
Where: Cape Town, South Africa
The Space Generation Congress (SGC) is SGAC's annual conference that brings together top young minds from around the world to focus on key space topics. The Congress takes place in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress. This year, Secure World Foundation is partnering a session with SGAC entitled "Integrating Space Technology into Society: Overcoming Societal, Political, Economic, and Logistical Roadblocks."
Attendance for SGC is competitive and limited to 100 or fewer. SGAC aims to select a diverse group of dedicated university students and young professionals in the space sector. SGC 2010 had 101 attendees from 40 different countries, with delegates representing organisations that included: NASA, ESA, KAIST, Lockheed Martin, X Prize Foundation, Stanford University, Beihang University, and Leiden University's Institute of International Air and Space Law.
The aim of the SGC is threefold:
First, to strengthen the international network of the Space Generation Advisory Council. From the perspective of the individual delegate, many of whom come from developing countries, it is a chance to interact and engage with the incoming generation of space policy professionals from all over the world. From the perspective of the Space Generation Advisory Council, it allows us to consolidate our international links in order to best represent and facilitate the voice of the next space generation.
Second, to examine and consider key questions facing the space and international community (at large) and to provide input from the next generation of space professionals.
Third, to allow tomorrow's space sector leaders to grow their network and to also have the opportunity to interact with today's space leaders.
- Working group sessions are a key part of the Congress. Each delegate is assigned to one of five groups.
- The groups in the break-out sessions discuss a pertinent space topic in one of the five themes: Industry, Agency, Society, Exploration, and Outreach. The preliminary conclusions of each group are presented to the rest of the delegates on the last afternoon of SGC and the final conclusions are written into reports that are presented at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), and other conferences around the world in the year following the Congress.
- This year the Secure World Foundation, in partnership with SGAC, will lead the Society session of the Congress entitled "Integrating Space Technology into Society: Overcoming Societal, Political, Economic, and Logistical Roadblocks."
- Watch Dr. Ray Williamson as he addresses the congress as a Spot Light Society Session Speaker
- Read Dr. Williamson's presentation now.
For more information click here.
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https://flapsblog.com/2012/04/02/north-korea-watch-here-we-go-again-with-missile-launch/
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This DigitalGlobe satellite image, obtained on March 30, shows Tongch’ang-ni Launch Facility on North Korea’s northwest coast. A rocket launch, purportedly to put a satellite into orbit, is set for sometime between April 12-16 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding president Kim Il-Sung
The Pentagon recently activated its global missile shield in anticipation of North Korea’s launch of a long-range missile, according to defense officials.
The measures include stepped-up electronic monitoring, deployment of missile interceptor ships, and activation of radar networks to areas near the Korean peninsula and western Pacific.
Three interceptor ships near Japan and the Philippines, as well as U.S.-based interceptors, are ready to shoot down the North Korean missile if space-, land-, and sea-based sensors determine its flight path is targeted at the United States or U.S. allies, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Obama administration will regard any launch by North Korea as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions regardless of whether the North Koreans claim the rocket test is for space launch purposes, the officials said. The technology and rocketry used for a space launch is nearly identical to that used with ballistic missiles that carry a warhead, they said.
Also, because the payload or warhead of the test launch cannot be determined prior to launch, the Obama administration decided to activate the missile defense system.
According to U.S. officials, current intelligence assessments indicate the North Korean missile will be launched from a base called Tongchang-ri, located on a west coast peninsula north of Pyongyang between April 12 and April 15.
The Obama Administration has rightly activated the shield and remember when Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats came out against the system and ridiculed President Ronald Reagan.
“This premise, that one day Kim Jong Il or someone will wake up one morning and say ‘Aha, San Francisco!’ is specious,” Senator Joe Biden told AP in May 2001.
Meanwhile in the Senate, Carl Levin (D., Mich.) offered in June to cut off funds for the ground-based interceptor program that Mr. Bush recently activated in Alaska in anticipation of the North Korean launch. Mr. Levin wants to stop new interceptors from being built, but Senate Republicans wouldn’t bring his proposal up for a vote. Mr. Levin has been waging his own private war against missile defenses for a generation, to the point of outflanking Russian objections on the political left.
In May 2001 the Boston Herald‘s Woodlief wrote that John Kerry “wants to croak the hugely costly nuclear missile defense system.” And just one day before the 9/11 attacks Joe Biden (D., Del.) gave a National Press Club speech outlining Democrat opposition to national missile defense.
In May 2001, John Kerry himself outlined some of these arguments on Meet the Press by saying that he wanted “a very limited…highly verifiable and mutually agreed-upon (missile) defense system.” And he complained about the cost. “We’ve already spent $68 billion and have almost nothing to show for it,” noted Kerry.
On May 3, 2001, John Kerry called national missile defense a “mythology” on Don Imus’s radio show.
On June 14, 2001, John Kerry told Hardball‘s Chris Matthews that a “missile shield that could defend the United States against any incoming missile is a fantasy, it is too expensive, it won’t work, and that’s what people believe will drive an arms race.”
If it had been left to them, there would be NO missile shield.
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https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/pilot-locked-co-pilot-out-cockpit-3821598
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A pilot locked his co-pilot out of the cockpit during a flight after there was "some tension" between the pair.
They were flying from Perth to Auckland according to a report on the incident that described there as being "some tension" between them.
Friction started between them when the co-pilot took a long time to take part in a drug and alcohol test, delaying the flight for 13 minutes.
Once the plane was airborn, the co-pilot went for a comfort break and a coffee with a member of the cabin crew.
When he went back to the cockpit, however, he could not get in through the door so asked the cabin crew to call him on the internal phones.
Errol Burtenshaw, Air New Zealand's manager of operational integrity and safety, told Stuff.co.nz: "The first officer became concerned that the captain did not answer the calls and used an alternative entry method to gain access.
"Naturally, cabin crew operating the flight were concerned about the inability to contact the captain and became quite anxious."
A report has now been submitted to New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority and the captain and first officer were both stood down for a short time.
Mr Burtenshaw added that the captain said he was approaching a navigational waypoint that needed his concentration and he thought the person calling him was a crew member, not his co-pilot.
He concluded: "Safety and security are paramount and non-negotiable for Air New Zealand. This issue on NZ176 is unfortunate and both pilots have learned a valuable lesson around the need to communicate better with peers."
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Balloon-borne EXperiment for University Students.
The REXUS/BEXUS programme is realised under a bilateral Agency Agreement between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB). The Swedish share of the payload has been made available to students from other European countries through a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).
EuroLaunch, a cooperation between the Esrange Space Center of SSC and the Mobile Rocket Base (MORABA) of DLR, is responsible for the campaign management and operations of the launch vehicles. Experts from ESA, SSC and DLR provide technical support to the student teams throughout the project.
||Esrange Space Center
||BX21 launched October 7 at 09:31 UTC 2015
BX20 launched October 10 at 09:17 UTC
| BEXUS 20 Payload
||High Altitude Codmic Ray Detector
-University of Antwerp, Belgium
||Collection Of Stratospheric aerosol PArticles for a better understanding of the development of Polar Stratospheric Clouds
- TU Darmstadt, Germany
||Cosmic Partcile Telescope
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
- Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Germany
||FREon Decay Experiment
-University of Wroclaw, Poland
||Smartphone Platform for Acquisition of Data Experiment
- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
||INflatable TEXtile based antenna systems and structures
- TU Dresden, Germany
Read more aboute the experiment on: BEXUS- 20/21
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The on-going global financial crisis has had a sweeping impact throughout the world, and few industries have been harder his than aviation. There was a marked drop in demand for air travel last year, forcing many airlines to reevaluate their short to mid-term fleet requirements.
According to Zagat’s 2009 Airline Survey, one-third of the frequent travelers surveyed reported traveling less last year, with only 7% traveling more.
Despite the challenging market, however, US plane maker Boeing managed to meet its 2009 target, delivering 481 craft. It has a backlog of 3,375 planes and received 263 gross and 142 net commercial orders in the year.
The Next-Generation 737 continued to be the most popular model, with 372 deliveries registered. The highly anticipated 787 Dreamliner took its first flight in mid-December. The first delivery is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of this year.
“2009 was not without its challenges but it also was a year of exciting achievements for our company and our industry,” says Jim Albaugh, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO. “With signs of economic recovery emerging in 2010, we look forward to better days ahead.”
Pictured: Lion Air of Indonesia takes delivery of Boeing craft
Photo Courtesy of Boeing
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https://hwww.jsfirm.com/Selkirk-Mountain-Helicopters-Ltd/9295/company-view
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Selkirk Mountain Helicopters Ltd.
Po Box 2968
530 Westside Rd
About the Company
Heliskiing, drill Moves, Mountain flying and Class D
Supported ManufacturersEurocopter and Bell
JSfirm.com continues to be the fastest-growing aviation and aerospace job website with resume database access and has exclusively served the aviation industry for over 20 years. It is a free service for job seekers and an out-of-this-world place for aviation companies to post jobs and search resumes.
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http://www.gadgetgestures.com/tag/maven
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A while back we talked about the July Supermoon and today it’s time we share with you some very exciting news about the NASA Maven Explorer and how it arrived at its destination.
It took the NASA Maven Explorer one year to complete the 442 million-mile trip to Mars from Earth and on Sunday night, it finally fired its breaks and entered Mars’ orbit. The NASA Maven Explorer isn’t supposed to land on the Red Planet, but it is supposed to do its exploring from the orbit.
Bruce Jakosky, Maven’s chief investigator, confirmed the news:
I think my heart’s about ready to start again. All I can say at this point is, ‘We’re in orbit at Mars, guys!’
The NASA Maven Explorer is the first mission dedicated solely to study the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. The total amount of money that was put in this mission is an impressive $671 million.
Maven is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission; the craft is as long as a school bus and it will spend around one Earth year (half a Mars year) to study and collect data about the planet. The lowest it will descend will be 78 miles above the surface.
Scientists have always been interested in Mars because they believe the planet could cold clues about Earth’s own evolution. It’s also fascinating how the Red Planet went from being warm and wet to cold and dry. The NASA Maven Explorer could very well be the mission that will finally find evidence of life on Mars.
The Maven was launched from Cape Canaveral last November and it is the 10th U.S. mission for the Red Planet.
What are your thoughts on this news? Are you exciting about the NASA Maven Explorer on Mars? Do you think it will find some evidence of life while on Mars? Share your thoughts in the section below.
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https://www.mistysbigadventure.co.uk/what-is-the-best-drone-cheap-out-there-on-the-market-2017-review/
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Buying the best drone cheap is essential for you and we know.
It isn’t always the case that you would buy drone cheap so repeatedly so you have to pick the most ideal one.
Check out our rundown beneath for best drone cheap that you can find on the web.
Editor’s Rating : 9.9 out of 10
Light, durable air frame which prolongs flight time effectively.Flight time will be up to 4-8 minutes. Powered by a piece of rechargeable 3.7V 100mAh lithium battery (Included)
Editor’s Rating : 9.1 out of 10
0.3MP HD camera: Capture and record every beautiful and unforgettable moment.4-Axis Structure – This quadcopter structure allows for more flexible and rapid movement in the air during flight. Able to fly indoor and outdoor and is wind-resistent.
Editor’s Rating : 9.5 out of 10
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http://twinjet.co.uk/aircraft-sales/aircraft-for-sale/
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Aircraft for sale
AIRCRAFT FOR SALE
- One Augusta Bell Utility Helicopter AB 212 MSN 5557 plus a spare parts package in serviceable condition from AB212 MSN 5558. Make Offer for immediate delivery.
- A 2008 Challenger 300 EASA registered.
RECENTLY SOLD AIRCRAFT
- 22.03.2019 Citation Bravo MSN 550-1102 Registration AP-BHD
- 16.05.2019 Citation CJ2+ aircraft MSN 525A-046
- 30.12.2019 Citation Mustang MSN 510-0283 Registration G-XAVB
- 21.03.2022 Citation XLS G-OJER
If you are considering selling your aircraft and would like an appraisal of your aircraft and an assessment of current market values, please give us a call. We have a proven track record, so put us to the test!
For more information about any of these aircraft opportunities, please call John Keeble on +44 (0) 1582 733615 or email [email protected]
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Adirondack Balloon Flights
Glens Falls , NY 12801
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Fly with Phil Jackson, the regions premier balloon ride pilot with over 30 years and 3000 flights of experience. Specializing in Private and Small Group flights. Romantic Private Flights for 2, Private or Shared Space Flights for 3-4. (518)793-6342
Experience the first form of flight, which dates back to 1783 in Paris. Float on gentle air currents beneath the colorful canopy of a hot air balloon. Discover magnificent views of the Adirondack - Lake George - Saratoga Springs Region, and the feeling of escape and freedom that only a hot air balloon ride can give. Join me for a unique, unforgettable good time.
The views are breathtaking
You have the option to reserve a balloon for a romantic Private Flight for Two, organize a Private Group Flight for up to 4 family and friends that want to fly together, or share space on a Small Group Flight with like minded folks seeking "high adventure". Our in-flight service includes a champagne toast or other beverage, snacks, and, in-flight pictures of you on your memorable hot air balloon ride with us.
Peace... Tranquility... Awe....
We strive to make your hot air balloon flight with us a memorable experience. I know you will appreciate the level of service that we offer, and my more than 30 years of experience and professionalism. For additional information, click on my website hot link below, and check-out the pictures I take on our hot air balloon rides, and comments from some of the folks who have been hot air ballooning with us. Thank you for your consideration, I hope to see you soon.
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P-Tn has provided aerial photography services to clients for over four decades, using airplanes, helicopters, blimps, and now . . . DRONES!
Yes, We DRONE! . . . Yes, We DRONE! . . . Yes, We DRONE! . . . and, YES, We DRONE!
Aerial imaging using UAS – Unmanned Aerial Systems [Drones or Quadcopters] is a rapidly growing new technology, and P-Tn is expanding dramatically in this arena. Our FAA Certified Pilots employ DRONES for both still-frame capture and HI-DEF or 4K Drone Aerial Imaging. Our UAS aerial services have eclipsed our traditional aircraft shooting, especially for construction & real estate development documentation, and the advantages of dramatic low-altitude aerials of your project will provide more detailed information and greater impact for marketing efforts, so don’t hesitate to call and have a chat with one of our pilots. We are insured and operate within FAA regulations to deliver safe and productive aerial imagery assignments. Let’s be frank – Professional pilots are a must for any drone flights that are related to business in any way. Don’t end up the target of $10k fines from the FAA for flying without a license – or for HIRING an unlicensed UAS Pilot! Download a valuable dose of reality on the subject by reading our PDF entitled DRONE MYTHS.
P-Tn handles all imagery post-production, whether it is finishing of digital files, online posting or downloading, file preparation for quality wall display prints & enlargements, or professional video editing for social media posts and marketing-quality promotional videos. Here are some aerial imaging options;
For Architecture Engineering Construction clients, we deliver interactive UAS-Drone Aerial Progress Reporting that provides detailed site information.
P-Tn360-UAS(drone) AERIAL PANORAMAS
Open with an aerial view facing NORTH – click and drag anywhere in the image & navigate to see the entire site below!
UAS-DRONE AERIAL Progress Reporting
Marketing-quality video showing still photos and video footage of site and construction activities.
UAS-DRONE AERIAL 2D3D MAPPING & MODELING
Highly detailed site mapping with elevation and vegetation analysis, plus measuring capabilities and 3-dimensional viewing options.
We cut our teeth on photography using conventional aircraft and professional pilots. Drones are now considered the best platform for nearly ALL aerial imaging needs. We have years of experience in fixed-wing aircraft employing professional pilots to insure timely flights and quality still photography; helicopter flights were an option for obtaining low(er) altitude compositions for certain marketing applications, but drone aerial imaging can almost always accomplish superior results without our FAA Certified Pilots ever leaving the ground.
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53rd WRS tests new satellite communication capabilities
Representatives from R4 Integration Inc. in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., lift a satellite antenna from its storage bin to install it onto a WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., Oct. 12, 2021. The antenna is part of a satellite communications system designed to provide more efficient data transmission capabilities during 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron missions into tropical disturbances. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kristen Pittman)
Staff Sgt. Kristen Pittman
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Report Indexes : by Event Date by Location by Shape by Posting Date
|National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report|
|Occurred : 4/25/2013 20:30 (Entered as : 04/25/13 20:30)
Reported: 4/25/2013 9:49:22 PM 21:49
Location: Conway, AR
Duration: 1-2 minutes
Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
|Circle of steady, white light seen near Conway, AR.
My roommate and I watched some kind of UFO fly over our house. It flew slowly, and there are almost no clouds in the sky, so we could see it pretty clearly. It took 10-20 seconds to go behind the tree next to the house, then another 30-60 to disappear into the cloud-haze on the horizon on the other side (moving NE to SW, toward the city).
It wasn’t blinking like the normal aircraft we get flying over (we’re in a military flight training path), and it made no noise. It also flew in a really erratic way, always tending to the SW but zig-zagging a little. We both commented that it looked “wobbly.” It was just a steady, round, bright white light with what appeared to be some kind of mist or haze around it. We could see the stars around it clearly, but this light looked foggy, even though it was large and not behind any clouds.
Less than 2 minutes later, two helicopters flew over. One came from the NE, almost along the path the UFO took, and the other came from somewhere to the west. It was just over the horizon, behind the hill, and I couldn’t see it for more than a couple of seconds at a time. Both were flying really low, really fast, and they appeared to converge on the area where we’d last seen the light. Although the UFO had disappeared into the clouds, we were able to see the blinking lights from the helicopters until they flew behind tree cover.
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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=nt4ptu3t43u4apfoukb5qabu54&topic=37828.0
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Why refuel satellites? Why not let the "Restore-L" instead tug the satellite with its own engine? It should be much easier and safer and one doesn't need to care about what fuel type the satellite originally had.
Because a "tug" isn't needed. No "engine" is need. The propellant is for attitude control. Attaching another spacecraft is not that simple. The mass properties of the stack is different. The attached spacecraft would interfere with look angles of sensors and instruments. It would require sending commands to two spacecraft to point and take data.
Hubble is pointed with reaction wheels and was boosted to higher altitude by the space shuttle. Wouldn't that be applicable to many satellites in LEO, but with a small tug in place of the shuttle? During satellite operations the tug could be undocked and at standby nearby until next orbital correction is needed, or go off to another servicing mission.
What about designing satellites such that its fuel tank with thrusters is replaceable? When it is getting empty, it is undocked and discarded while a tug brings a new identical fuel tank with thrusters to replace it. No need then to transfer fuel in microgravity.
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https://selangorjournal.my/2022/09/mbi-ge-malaysia-launch-aerospace-apprentice-programme-for-youths/
| 2022-09-28T06:34:35 |
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By Siti Rohaizah Zainal
SHAH ALAM, Sept 19 — The Menteri Besar Selangor (Incorporated) or MBI has collaborated with GE Engine Services Malaysia Sdn Bhd (GE Malaysia) to launch the Selangor Aerospace Apprentice Programme.
Its chief executive officer Norita Mohd Sidek said the programme would also involve the Human Resource Development Division of the Selangor State Secretary (BPSM SUK).
She said through the collaboration, MBI sought to discover and strengthen youth participation in the aerospace industry in order to support the development of a talent pool or a sustainable workforce within the sector in Selangor.
“To further boost the aerospace industry to greater heights in the future, we aim to address the issues at its source, which is the challenge to attract enough talents to work in the sector.
“Therefore, we have collaborated with GE Malaysia and BPSM SUK to provide on-the-job training to more than 50 apprentices.
“The programme covers engine maintenance training and technical engineering in the mechanical and electrical system,” she said in a statement.
Norita said that most of the sessions will take place at the GE Malaysia training facility, while some will also be held in other GE locations across the world.
“Apart from that, we also partnered with 10 other aerospace companies that are based in Selangor such as Spirit AeroSystems Malaysia Sdn Bhd.
“MBI also has established a partnership with a local company to set up the Selangor Skills Framework Platform (SSFP), a one-stop centre that offers access to job skill requirements and career paths to empower and utilise the industry’s strength,” she said.
On September 8, the partnership between MBI and GE Malaysia was launched during the Selangor Aviation Show 2022 at the Skypark Regional Aviation Centre in Subang.
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https://www.dc-aviation.com/en/aktuelles/meldungen/DCAF_FBO.php
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DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF) was awarded Fixed Base Operator (FBO) of the Year 2018 at the Transport and Logistics Middle East Excellence Awards 2018, held recently in Dubai.
Dubai, UAE, November 20, 2018: DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF) was awarded Fixed Base Operator (FBO) of the Year 2018 at the Transport and Logistics Middle East Excellence Awards 2018, held recently in Dubai.
The awards were hosted by Dubai Airports and DP World and was attended by representatives from the government and private sectors in transportation, aviation and logistics. According to the organizers, DCAF was given the award due to the company’s efficiency, smoothness of process and response time, as well as offering an all-around brilliant consultancy service that factors in the needs of the modern customer. Other factors which were considered included exceptional readiness, reliability, flexibility and safety offering a genuine service without compromise.
Holger Ostheimer, Managing Director, DC Aviation Al-Futtaim said, “I would like to thank our clients and partners for trusting in us and our team, whose unwavering commitment has helped us provide our customers with world-class service.”
Michael Kuhn, CEO, DC Aviation Group added, “We always put the customer front and centre of everything we do. This is ingrained in the company’s DNA and winning this award is a recognition for our continuous efforts to improve our services.”
DCAF’s core areas of business include Aircraft Management, Maintenance, FBO and Ground handling services as well as Business jet charter. For more information on DCAF’s hangar and services, please visit www.dc-aviation.ae or call +971 4 870 1800.
DC Aviation Group
DC Aviation emerged in 2007 from the former DaimlerChrysler Aviation, a DaimlerChrysler AG subsidiary that was founded in 1998. With branches in Dubai, Zurich, Malta, Moscow and Paris, its international presence keeps growing steadily. During its 20-year corporate history, DC Aviation has acquired comprehensive experience in aircraft management. Today, DC Aviation offers a complete portfolio ranging from aircraft management through aircraft charter to the maintenance of business jets and handling services. Its fleet includes the Cessna Citation XLS+, long distance jets like the Gulfstream G650 and large-cabin jets like the Airbus 319 CJ. In March 2016, DC Aviation expanded its operating license to include the commercial use of helicopters.
Over 300 highly qualified staff members stand ready for you.
We fly you to over 500 destinations worldwide.
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India’s Jet Airways is to rebrand its two low-cost subsidiaries, JetLite and Jet Airways Konnect, as JetKonnect from 25th March 2012, with a new website going live the following day.
All aircraft of the two carriers will be given JetKonnect livery, while cabin crew will adopt the same uniform as those of Jet Airways.
That’s nice. Jet Airways uniforms are nicer and one low-cost (ish) brand would be less confusing for passengers. I’ve travelled with 9W few times and really liked them.
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https://bandwidthblog.co.za/2020/08/05/watch-the-spacex-starship-prototype-fly/
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After SpaceX’s successful docking with the ISS with astronauts in tow, Elon Musk said that their top priority from now on would be Starship. The company has now successfully flown and landed a full-sized prototype of the vehicle for the first time.
The prototype was still missing its nose cone, which is not important for this initial test, of course. Some have called it in its current state the “flying water tower.” It flew at SpaceX’s Boca Chica premises in Texas. According to Elon Musk, the next steps include several more short hops before going “high altitude” with body flaps attached.
The SN5 capsule is powered by a single Raptor engine, which sent the prototype about 150m into the air and brought it back to Earth safely.
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EDUCATE • INSPIRE • HONOR
The Commemorative Air Force has several locations of airbases, wings, squadrons and other unit types.
Learn more about one of the most comprehensive warbird collections in the world.
See the Collection
You need not be a pilot or veteran to join the CAF. Colonel Membership is open to all men and women, ages 18 and older. Cadet membership is open to ages 12-23.
Synch your watches and prepare for upcoming CAF events.
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Many of our aircraft are available for a Living History Flight Experience
The CAF was founded to find and preserve World War II-era combat aircraft for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
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JB Andrews (September 20, 2022) - Over the past weekend, several CAF aircraft flew to Washington D.C. to participate in the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the U.S. Air Force at Joint Base Andrews Air and...
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Pasadena, CA (Sept. 27, 2022) - Five women see their dreams in flight excel with I Hart Flying Foundation as part of its five-year anniversary celebration. The Industry Connect themed scholarship opportunity...
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PEACHTREE CITY, GA (Sept. 28, 2022) – WWII Veteran Dick Miralles slid into the gunner’s seat of the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber almost as easily as he did 80 years ago in the South Pacific. Miralles, 98, was...
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Funafuti, Tuvalu (September 28, 2022) - A combined contingent from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), and United States Marine Corps (USMC) have located 22...
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U.S. Air Force Survival Handbook: The Portable and Essential Guide to Staying Alive (US Army Survival) (Paperback)
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Here is the Official US Air Force guide to staying alive in survival situations—first aid, concealment, survival at sea, building shelter, finding food and water, and more!
This Air Force handbook was written to help pilots who find themselves in hostile environments. While it is designed for use in formal Air Force training, it is also useful for the general reader seeking a comprehensive and complete manual of outdoor survival techniques. Any US Army survival kit would also benefit from this handbook.
Among other pieces of professional and expert advice, the US Air Force Survival Handbook tells readers about:
- Finding your way without a map
- First aid for illness and injury
- Finding food and water
- Building a fire
- Concealment techniques
- Using ropes and tying knots
- Survival at sea
- Signaling for help
- Animal tracking
- Predicting the weather
- Building shelters
Released on the 70th anniversary of the US Air Force, this book outlines specific survival threats found in many different types of terrain and how to survive them. It is invaluable to all who enjoy the outdoors and anyone who seeks insight into the training tactics of the US Air Force.
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In the build-up of 40 hours of intsrument flying time as a preparation to my Instrument Rating, I need to perform a long navigation flight of > 250 NM, whereby three airports with three instrument approaches need to be visited. In order to safe some money, I combined this long nav trip with some night flying requirements which I didn’t had yet: 5 take-offs and landings at night, and a 50 NM navigation trip at night. Mind you that night starts at 1 hour after sunset, and that is already really dark!
My three legs where:
- Lille Lesquin (LFQQ) to Southend east of London (EGMC)
- Southend to Le Touquet (Paris Plage … wow) in France (LFAT)
- Le Touquet back to Lille, and I performed this leg in darkness.
My father joined me in the back of the aircraft as official photographer, while Hans, my instrument flight instructor, pretended as if he was a normal passenger, making the experience as realistic as possible… and what an experience it was ! Hans taught me to do a proper passenger briefing, and later I included this standard briefing on my checklist for I’d never forget it.
We took off VFR from runway 20 at Lille to become IFR and join the Traca 2 West Standard Instrument Departure towards the British Isles.
Once over the Channel, we switched to London Control who gave us a direct Southend NDB, a nice shortcut vis-a-vis our filed route. The NOTAMs called for an unserviceable radar at Southend, so all instrument procedures were to be performed completely, without extra coverage of radar. On top, it was very busy at Southend with various VFR and IFR flights mixed in the non-radar controlled airspace.
After holding over Southend NDB, I was cleared to join the downwind procedure. My father spotted a twin engine aircraft at our altitude in our opposite direction! Both of us made the proper turn to the right at the proper time. During the procedure, I would have busted my altitude twice if Hans wouldn’t have reminded me … It taught me that operating autopilots at different airplane without proper training is not a good thing to do. I am used to an autopilot which automatically rounds off the airplane at the selected altitude (in Flight Simulator), turning me sloppy on following up my cleared altitude. The aircraft I flew with that day, only has an attitude hold … the pilot has to manually round off the airplane at the selected speed.
In Southend, I was taught how to perform a fast turn-around, style EasyJet: refueling, paying the fees, doing a sanitary stop …
While turning around at Southend, the runways changed direction, and we took off from runway 6 to make a right turn towards Detling VOR. From there, we got a direct Dover VOR, although we filed for Lydd VOR to make our way across the channel towards Le Touquet. We climbed FL090, and finally received a direct LFAT. At Le Touquet, we were thrown in the hold again. After one tour, we were cleared for the ILS rwy 14 procedure with a circle-to-land on rwy 32. Hans had to remind me to use the circle-to-land minimums, instead of the straight-in … everybody knows this, but under the hood and under some stress, such basic things can be forgotten … another lesson learned!
At Le Touquet airport, it was already very quiet as we were probably the last arriving aircraft of the day. No fast turn-around here as we had all the time to wait for we needed darkness to conduct our night NAV flight. We had lovely Moules-Frites, and as the airport closed while we had dinner, we had to jump the fence behind the restaurant in order to get back on the tarmac.
Having no active control tower, we made blind calls and took off from runway 32 VFR. We picked up our IFR clearance immediately from Lille Approach, and did a lovely quiet and uneventful night IFR flight towards Lille airport.
At Lille, we were cleared for the ILS rwy 26 approach in which I busted my altitude again… That one costed me a crate of Orval beer to my instructor for I should never forget this anymore :-p
Once at circuit height, I could take off my foggles and I performed 5 take-offs and landings at night, bringing my total onto 10 in my flying career, the bare minimum for night flight priviliges as per American FAA rules.
This flight was probably at the same time the most demanding, the most technical, the most interesting and the most stressful flight so far … and oh boy, I learned so much out of it, which is the purpose anyhow !
Having now about 35 hrs of instrument flying time under my belt, and having done the long IFR navigation flight, I am on a straight line towards my practical test for my instrument rating !
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[SpamCop-Social] Re: We've lost another shuttle
Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:03:19 -0500
> Or not let any shuttle launch without a robot arm. One of the crew had done
> a study last year (the irony) of doing just such an inspection of the belly
> without an arm to lift him there. Conclusion: It would take more time than
> they carry oxygen for, and that was just to get there and come back, let
> alone actually attempt any kind of repair.
Not even have an airhose that goes along the same line with a tether to provide
some extra air?
> The "fix", IMHO, is for 1) keeping the foam/ice from falling off the main
> tank in the first place (if that's what caused the damage), and 2) actually
> get the "flying camera" being looked at for the ISS into production, so if
> there's any fears of tile damage the crew can look for it, and at least has
> the chance to abandon ship at the ISS. For all we know a relatively small
> micro-meteriorite or piece of space junk skimmed/bounced/struck the shuttle
> and tore up some tiles. Wouldn't surprise me a bit, and nobody onboard would
> notice it even happened.
The investigations seems to be trailing away from the foam as the root cause.
(However it is to note that the foam composition have changed from its
original.. but that may not mean much. Additionally, the onboard sensors
register something strange if the damage occured sometime during lift off?) It
appears they are moving toward a case of space junk slamming into the wing
(unnoticed) before landing.
> As far as how long it will be until we fly again......it has to be within a
> year or so. Russia only has enough rockets to keep the ISS supplied for
> another year (it will take 2 years to start up the production line again),
> and if we have to abandon it the ISS it will fall apart. More than half of
> the ISS crew's time is taken up doing maintenance.
Plus it looks like it costs more for using the Russian rockets to boost supplies
and equipment up there anyways. (Mentioned that each Soyuz/Progress rocket can
ferry up 3 tons of payload, where the shuttle can do 30 tons of payload and get
to its destination faster.)
> Space flight is, and always will be, inherently risky, regardless of how
> safe we try to make it. All we can do is raise the odds a bit.......
It will never be 100% safe.. the costs would bankrupt any entity. The best one
can do is to minimize the risks by making practical changes.
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Ok, you have spent a few days "flying" on a rc flight simulator and now you are ready to go live. One of the best ways to learn the ins and outs of flying rc model planes is to work with an experienced pilot as an instructor who can show you the ropes. Once you have chosen an instructor you have a couple of options on how you work with them.
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One option is to use the old fashioned approach where the instructor starts off with the controls and can pass the transmitter over to you to allow you to take control of the aircraft. Typically the instructor will first go through take off, basic flight maneuvers, and landing as he explains to you what he is doing with the controls and how he expects the aircraft to react as he moves the controls for the throttle, rudder, ailerons, elevators, landing flaps, etc.
The next step would be for the instructor to get the aircraft airborne and into a stable flight pattern and then hand the transmitter to you as he provides verbal instructions to you to maneuver the aircraft. If you begin to get into trouble with the plane the instructor retakes control of the transmitter. Obviously this approach has a few drawbacks - having to pass the transmitter back and forth can be cumbersome and at times too slow.
A "buddy box" solves this problem and is one of the best tools available to the novice pilot to allow both an experienced pilot and you to have access to the controls on your model plane at the same time. Most buddy boxes are set up so that the instructor is in control of the transmitter and can quickly allow you to control the plane or can take back control if necessary. With a buddy box system you actually have two separate transmitters that can send signals to the aircraft. The two transmitters are typically joined together by a cable and the instructor has a spring loaded switch that he pushes that allows your transmitter to take control. As soon as the instructor releases the switch his transmitter is on control again.
More sophisticated buddy boxes allow the instructor to maintain control of some channels, each channel controlling a specific component on the model plane, like the throttle for example, and the student to control other channels. This is a particularly effective way of teaching a novice pilot to fly because you can begin by having control of the "easier" aspects of flying the plane while the instructor maintains control of the more sophisticated controls.
Within the RC flying community there is debate on whether using a buddy box is the best way for an instructor to teach a student pilot how to fly. Some pilots believe that learning to fly a RC model plane is best taught by having the student learn the "feel" of the stick so they can do the right stick movements to get out of a bad situation or make a good landing. So the argument is that the student doesn’t really get the feel of the right movement when it is critical because the senior pilot bails him out. But for my money, if my choices are it takes me a little longer to learn to fly, or I watch my $500 investment dive into the ground – well, you can make your own choice...
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DNA: Analysis of ISRO's space programme 'Gaganyaan'
Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) new space programme is to send human beings to space, this programme will be called Gaganyaan. However, before sending humans into space, ISRO will be sending a humanoid robot named 'Vyom Mitra' by the end of this year. The humanoid will be the first Indian passenger to Space. The ambitious Gaganyaan mission was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech in 2018. In this segment of DNA, we bring to you a detailed analysis of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) new space programme Gaganyaan.
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Helicopter Training Flight @ Dekalb-Peachtree airport, Atlanta. I wish I could have recorded the Control tower audio, but that would have been next to impossible ...
Bad Landing That Nearly Goes Wrong! Robinson R22 Helicopter
That was too close for comfort!
Greatest Ever: Helicopters - Robinson R22
Helicopter with the number 2 spot on the Discovery show Greatest Ever: Helicopters.
Helicopter Flight Controls
Introduction to Helicopter Flight Controls, demonstrated in a Robinson R22 Helicopter, covering collective, cyclic, and anti-torque pedals. Produced by ...
Robinson R44 Raven detailed helicopter review and flight
Take a close look and flight in Robinson Aircraft Companies popular R44 Raven. A piston powered 4 seat helicopter This is a long review so you can jump ...
It is absolutely amazing what these people can do with a Robinson R22 helicopter!
SFAR 73 Awareness Training for Robinson R22 and R44 Helicopters (Updated Version)
Robinson R22 and R44 Helicopter SFAR 73 Awareness Training. Required ground training before a pilot can manipulate the flight controls of an R22 or R44 ...
Robinson R22 helicopter Slow Mo Autorotation to the ground.
Helicopter lesson : Robinson R22 Start-up
Helicopter pilot, Gabe Henrie, walks through the R22 helicopter start-up process with student, Jen Gomes.
R22 Helicopter Training #15 BACKYARD LAND!!!
In this lesson: NEW: BACKYARD LANDING!! Starts at around 42:52 different Helicopter (Autos much differently) CONTINUING: Straight-In Autos, Hover Autos If ...
Robinson R-22 start up procedures...
My instructor going through the start up procedures/checklist, lightening fast. She's GOOD!
R-22 start up and take off
Don't crash your helicopter! Autorotation in a Robinson R22
Clip from a helicopter instructional video - AUTOROTATION - How to land a helicopter in the event of a power failure. Excellent video, very useful and informative ...
Robinson R22 Beta flyby and landing
Hillsboro Aviation flew one of their R22 Betas over for career day. The pilot, head mechanic, and manager of Hillsboro Aviation all came and answered ...
R22 - Preflight
Jonathan Curto's first solo in the Robinson R22 Helicopter at Auburn airport WA 7/28/12
Jonathan's first and second solo flights at S50 Auburn Airport WA.
GoPro Flying a Robinson R22 - Helicopter Flying & Hover Lesson
My first flight in a Robinson R22 Beta II. This video is of a basic, one hour helicopter flying lesson. It is the first class in piloting a rotor wing aircraft that all pilots ...
Part 5 - How to Preflight a Robinson R22 Helicopter
Join the Heli Network Facebook Page This is a video on how to preflight a Robinson R22 helicopter. I used the do and verify method of using a checklist, where I ...
Robinson vs Enstrom Which Helicopter Would You Pick?
Helicopter Ground School https://www.helicopterground.com Robinson helicopter, Enstrom helicopter, which are you going to pick? Hello, I'm Kenny Keller, the ...
Robinson R22 Cuttingedge helicopter autorotation
High quality internal video of Robinson R22 carrying out an autorotation from 2000 feet above City of Derry Airport. Video shot on handheld Panasonic Minidv ...
Height Velocity Diagram Robinson R22 Helicopter Online Ground School
Height Velocity Diagram http://HelicopterGround.com Robinson Helicopters R-22 Helicopter Performance Section We have updated The Robinson R-22 ...
Robinson R22 Autorotation with Instruction
Really Great step by Step Autorotation Guide.
Helicopter Towbar for Robinson Helicopters (R22, R44, R66)
Tow your Robinson securely using your tractor or golf cart with this smartly designed tow bar or as a hand-held tow bar. The attachment device is included.
EHS 2012 - Robinson R-22 demonstration flight
European Helicopter Show is a very special event for helicopter fans. This occasion was held in Hradec Králové Aiport, Czech Republic. The host is Delta ...
Tim Tucker about Robinson R44 / R22 Helicopter Performance Pad by Gyronimo
The Robinson R66/R44/R22 Performance Pads calculate Weight and Balance and Performance (OGE/IGE) and also Maximum Continuous Power, Vne etc.
Landing on an Extremely Small Dock in a Robinson R22
Cool approach to a very small dock in a Robinson R22 For more cool pictures and videos make sure to visit https://www.
#1 Robinson R22 Preflight Helicopter Training Video Online Ground School
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Destination Space: Making Science Fiction a Reality
Author: Kenny Kemp
Publisher: Virgin Books
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Award-winning writer and journalist Kenny Kemp goes in search of the paying passengers who will make history on the first commercial flight into space. They will be able to experience weightlessness, witness the curvature of the Earth and have a unique view of the Universe seen only by astronauts. Detailing their arduous training and how their bodies will be affected in space, to the science, business and politics behind this incredible breakthrough, Destination Space describes just the beginning of an amazing adventure . . .
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http://www.papercraftsquare.com/wing-commander-a-17-broadsword-heavy-bomber-free-paper-model-download.html
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This paper model is an A-17 Broadsword Heavy Bomber, a fictional spacecraft found in the Wing Commander, which is a media franchise consisting of space combat simulation video games from Origin Systems, Inc., an animated television series, a feature film, a collectible card game, a series of novels, and action figures. The papercraft was created by Pericles Lopes Gomide.
In the fictional Wing Commander universe, The A-17 Broadsword Bomber was a bomber that featured in Origin Systems' Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi. The Broadsword was manufactured by Douglas Aerospace and was put into service for the Terran Confederation in the year 2635.
In Joan's Fighting Spacecraft (2664.128 update), the Broadsword is the heaviest "fighter" in service with the Confederation military and is classified as a "Heavy Bomber." Origin had designed the bomber, which masses in the area of 100 tons, has very durable armor, powerful shields, and three defensive turrets. These bombers have eight missile hard points with four stressed for anti-capital ship torpedoes. Unlike most smaller craft, the Broadsword bomber mounts a jump drive. In Wing Commander II, Christopher Blair uses this bomber several times, including long-distance assignments requiring jumps to other starsystems.
In the game, the primary complaint by players regarding the Broadsword is the bombers overall relatively slow speed which causes the pilot to have to spend more time on the battlefield and is prone to attacks by the enemy. Origin had designed the bomber to have this weakness and had added three dual neutron gun turrets on the sides and rear of the bomber and three forward firing mass driver cannons mounted in the bomber's nose. The turrets equipped on the bomber can also be used as a tractor beam to haul in ejected pilots or other items such as small satellites and debris. [Source: wikia]
You can download the papercraft model here: Wing Commander - A-17 Broadsword Heavy Bomber Free Paper Model Download [Wing Commander II Color]
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https://paxex.aero/2019/11/india-inflight-connectivity-full-fleet/
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The race to bring the first aircraft online in India took an interesting turn in recent weeks. While SpiceJet has talked about its plans to add the GX Aviation system from Inmarsat to its new 737 MAX aircraft other players have been less public about their efforts. But installations are underway to deliver a fleet-wide solution, potentially within a year.
About Seth Miller
Seth Miller has over a decade of experience covering the airline industry. With a strong focus on passenger experience, Seth also has deep knowledge of inflight connectivity and loyalty programs. He is widely respected as an unbiased commentator on the aviation industry.
He is frequently consulted on innovations in passenger experience by airlines and technology providers.
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https://fijitimes-prod.eu-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/japanese-aircraft-stop-over-to-strengthen-ties/
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Japanese aircraft stop-over to strengthen ties
4 March, 2019, 3:35 pm
CREW on board the Japan Air Self Defense Force’s C-2 Transport Aircraft arrived in Fiji today.
The aircraft is on route to Japan and is stopping over in Fiji in a bid to promote and strengthen defense ties.
Speaking at the welcoming, Japanese Ambassador to Fiji Masahiro Omura said the visit would further promote harmony and friendship with Fiji.
He said further visits from Japan’s defense forces was planned in the coming months.
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https://newzhook.com/story/9478
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Kashmiri girl wants to be first Indian woman to fly fighter planes
Ayesha Aziz from Kashmir has received her commercial license and wants to fly a MIG-29 fighter jet.
The 21-year-old will soon become the youngest Indian girl to pilot the fighter jet. Ayesha will fly the jet from the Sokul airbase in Russia.
Ayesha received her student pilot license from Bombay Flying Club when she was 16 years old. She then went on to complete a two-month advanced space-training course at the American space agency, NASA.
Ayesha says she is inspired by Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams. Her family members support her career choices and are very proud of her.
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http://www.firsttoyreviews.com/simtoo-drone-gives-simple-operation-safe-journey-stable-shooting-and-longer-flight/
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Simtoo Drone is a special quadcopter. It is the first one adopting foldable design, together with a compact size of 25*20*6cm and comparably light weight of 1kg, it is easy to carry to everywhere. When it folds, it is just like a fierce insect, standby at anytime.
Simple operations always shorten the distance between a drone and the user. Simtoo Drone comes with some features to make it easy to control for users. The first one is the GPS band control. With this function, you just need one key to let your drone take off and land, no skills and experience required. Besides, Simtoo Drone also features auto follow me. As soon as you start this function, it is possible to fly your drone free your hands. Meanwhile, this function is perfect to use on aerial photography especially when you are doing extreme sports. In addition, position holding also helps us to achieve a stable shooting effect.
Simtoo Drone is with multiple and high configurations. It has built-in altimer to auto measure its flight height and remain at a safe height. The inside compass ensures the drone accurately and quickly carry out your directional order. The U BLO X 6 GPS lets you know the exact location of your beloved plane. All these combine to assure of a safe flight for you.
Beyond that, you can also possess a longer flight time with Simtoo Drone. Powered by 5500mAh large capacity battery, 30- minute flight time lets you fully enjoy the aerial experience. For the latest official price and full specs see the product page.
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News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.
The former LightSquared telecom network is accused of GPS interference again, but this time under a new company name, Ligado Networks.
Helicopter specialist Erickson is developing software aimed at making wildland firefighting more effective and efficient.
As many as 21 Sikorsky VH-92As are expected to serve as replacements to the presidential helicopter fleet.
Italy's Leonardo saw first quarter earnings decline, mainly on the civil side of its business, including helicopters, ATR airliners, and aerostructures.
Israel Aerospace Industries said its robot UV-C light unit could move inside aircraft cabins, eliminating viruses and germs from exposed surfaces.
Following FAA approval, Luminaerospace hopes to ramp up production of replacement taxiway light covers that help pilots interpret taxiway boundaries.
Spirit AeroSystems has signed a 10-year agreement with utility provider Evergy for its Wichita plan to receive all its electricity from a Kansas wind farm.
Foresight Aerospace's Sustainable Aviation and Urban Air Mobility conference will include eVTOL program leaders, regulators and technology specialists.
New Seastar starts test flight campaign in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
GE Aviation blames the latest furlough on the "unprecedented" impact of Covid-19 on the commercial aviation industry.
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https://geosat.space/geosat-unveils-new-brand-identity/
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GEOSAT UNVEILS NEW BRAND IDENTITY
From now on, GEOSAT has a new visual and graphic identity in line with the rapid and auspicious development that the space sector itself is currently experiencing worldwide.
LISBON, 25 SEPTEMBER 2023. GEOSAT announces the launch of its future constellation of Earth Observation satellites, thus reinforcing its exclusive position in Europe as one of the only two European companies with very high-resolution satellites. By 2025, GEOSAT intends to launch 11 new High and Very High-Resolution satellites.
As a result of this new phase that GEOSAT is approaching, the Earth Observation company has adopted a new global brand communication strategy, which materializes in a new visual and graphic identity and an evolution in the tone of communication. The renewal is intended to mark the Earth Observation Company’s new phase of growth, in line with the rapid and auspicious development that the space sector itself is currently experiencing worldwide.
This ambitious, future-focused vision was the starting point for the concept that underpins the current rebranding. With GEOSAT’s new image we want to convey a company that is strong, agile and innovative, but also more accessible and human, more reliable and coherent. The logo, made up of two elements – a typeface and an icon – represents the symbiosis between nature and technology, by synthesizing and translating our planet (as a circle) and the satellite (as a square) into a geometric shape.
The icon is born from the dialogue between the planet and the satellites, symbolizing the interaction between the planet and people, people and satellites, almost like a magnifying glass that deepens and widens the human gaze so that, with the right technology – in this case space and Earth observation technology – it can further expand the idea of space as the last frontier of knowledge that is crystallized in our collective imagination.
The other half of the logo, represented by the word GEOSAT, was designed to form a unique and recognizable typographic block. The balance between the characters gives it a solid, coherent profile and aims to elevate brand communication by conveying rigor and precision.
The color palette chosen represents the logic and vision behind our entire brand. It consists of two main colors: tangerine red and black. Tangerine red reflects our bold, contemporary, and innovative side, enhanced by the color’s vibrancy and freshness. Black reflects our classic and sober side, in a clear allusion to the current transition between Space (scientific research) and New Space (business).
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https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/media/supermarine-spitfire-mk-vc.2538/
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Shown here is Spitfire Mk.VC, (BR202). This was the first Spitfire to be fitted to carry the 773 litre (170 Imp gal) slipper tank, the lack of ground clearance beeng evident in this view. With a further 132 litre (29 Imp gal) tank in the fuselage behind the pilot's seat, total fuel load was 1,291 litres (284 Imp gal). Trials carried out at Boscombe Down in August 1942 showed range to be 2,615 Km (1,625 miles) at 4,572 m (15,000 ft). Take-off run was 530 m (580 yards).
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https://www.65degreesnorth.co.uk/news/antarctica-bound-
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Antarctica Bound!!Published Monday, 9th January 2017
The team have boarded their plane and are Antarctica bound!
The Russian Ilyushin IL-76 TD will fly them over 3000km to one of the coldest, most hostile and remote continents on our planet.
The IL-76 was originally conceived for delivering heavy machinery to remote, poorly-serviced areas of the USSR and is capable of coping with the worst weather conditions likely to be experienced in Siberia and the Soviet Union’s Arctic regions (information courtesy of ALE)
The flight will take 4 1/4 hours and will land on the ice runway at Union Glacier: an intensely blue, dense glacier ice which is formed when snow falls onto the glacier, is compacted and recrystallizes.
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Why is emirates airlines not a member of any of the leading airline alliances like star, one world or sky team. Emirates successstory southwest airlines co story emirates is ranked fourth in the world when it comes to revenue and has four-stars from skytrax. Search results for “the mission of southwest airlines is dedication to the highest quality of customer service delivered with a. Every child deserves protection from disease every child deserves to live without pain the emirates airline foundation aims to provide healthcare to children in need through projects like the emirates friendship hospital ship in bangladesh and various projects in africa, india, sri lanka and beyond.
The so-called emirates business model is the business model that lies at the heart of emirates's many airlines have accused emirates of having an unfair. Objectives vision and mission vision and mission emirates financial towers, north tower, 12th floor, offices 1201,1202 & 1203. Manage your booking, choose seats and meals - emirates united arab emirates. Appendix – details of emirates mars mission science objectives the emirates mars mission probe will advance human that no other missions have.
Emirates airline embarks on 'modest restructuring' as growth slows emirates airlines aircrafts are seen at dubai international airport emirates, including. Airbus regional headquarters is in dubai, also home to emirates airlines airbus pursues humanitarian objectives and also search and rescue missions. As airlines launch a record number of new airline pricing and high growth = strategy + tactics emirates has established itself by offering a better product.
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Permanent mission of the united arab emirates to the united nations by strengthening its partnership with the commission and meeting the objectives of the. Emirates emirates is one of the world’s fastest growing airlines based in dubai, emirates connects people all over the world to a network of emirates group. United global performance commitment united is committed to maintaining its operational reliability in comparison to american airlines and delta air lines. Hr profile: emirates airline flying high sophia panayiotou is senior vice president of hr business support at emirates airline in dubai, uae panayiotou, originally from the united kingdom, was educated at the university of westminster and worked in london before moving to dubai.
Click inside to find the most current samsung electronics mission statement online the mission is evaluated using our unique framework. Vision to maintain recognition internationally as being one of the leading organisations, in the business of providing aviation and security related services and to set the benchmark for this service within the aviation industry. Our mission delivering proportionate regulation to the private security industry to reduce criminality and improve standards under the private security industry act 2001.
The student center menu accounting emirates airlines will be a systematic management body helps in the effective accomplishment of organizational objectives. Delta air lines | skymiles - what's delta's mission statement and shown much greater losses, including major european and asian airlines.
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Pilot error is looking to be the cause of the 2009 crash into the Atlantic that killed all 228 people on board. The authorities won't say that conclusively, but a report released by French investigators suggest a confused cockpit, as pilots tried dealing with their stalled-out Airbus A330. As has been theorized, the problems originated with malfunctioning airspeed probes that led to the disconnection of the autopilot and the loss of various piloting protection systems. In other words, they were on their own - and after a second stall warning, the pilot at the controls did something inexplicable: He pulled up the jet's nose, thus worsening the stall (imagine a plane almost halfway up to vertical at an airspeed of about 100 miles per hours, far too slow for the plane to keep flying). Anybody who has taken flying lessons knows that when there is any doubt about having enough airspeed, you are supposed to push the nose down. That's why the actions are so weird. The jet fell at a rate of 10,000 feet a minute, or roughly 15 stories a second. Complicating matters was that the captain was on a rest break when the problem first developed. From the WSJ:
The report paints a somewhat unflattering picture of a seemingly confused cockpit, with the crew making extreme inputs to their flight controls and the engines spooling up to full power and later the thrust levers being pulled back to idle. At one point, according to the report, both pilots sitting in front of the controls tried to put in simultaneous commands. The plane only accepts one of them.
Here's some perspective from Wil Hylton's recent article on the crash in the NYT magazine:
During the period of manual control, the margin of error is thin. For a passenger jet like the A330, the ideal cruising speed is about 560 miles per hour. If you go much faster, the center of lift moves back on the wing, pushing the nose down and increasing velocity, until you soon approach the speed of sound. At that point, shockwaves develop on the wings, interrupting the flow of air and reducing lift. The nose of the plane then gets forced into a dive that the pilot may not be able to pull out of. Then again, if you go too slow, the airplane stalls and falls. A plane must maintain a minimum speed to generate lift, and the higher it travels, the faster it must go. At 35,000 feet, the gap between too fast and too slow narrows ever closer. Pilots call it coffin corner.
The pilot of a jumbo jet told Business Insider more information is needed to determine precisely what happened, but that today's report suggests an extraordinary set of circumstances:
With the autopilot off, they would be doing everything they could to recover the plane. They knew the airspeed was slow - that is why they had the throttles at max. Unfortunately, the plane was probably already stalled or close to it at this point. And with severe turbulence it wouldn't take much to stall the plane out. Should they have been able to recover the plane (in those conditions) I don't know. With the nose up 40 degrees it's difficult to say. How effective were the elevators if at all. I'm sure a computer program could determine this but in the heat of the moment who knows. I didn't read where the other pilot attempted to take control of the aircraft until the very end - probably because the flying pilot capitulated suggesting to me that the non-flying pilot would have been doing the same thing. Interestingly, with the aircraft nose up 40 degrees I'm curious how the Captain even got back into the cockpit. Couldn't have been easy.
The most gruesome thought, of course, is what did the passengers know and when did they know it? From Hylton's piece:
After a while, [Dr. Francisco Sarmento, the doctor who presided over the Flight 447 autopsies], flipped off the projector and pushed away from the table in his chair. "Ninety percent of the passengers had fractures in the arms and legs," he said. "Many of them also had trauma in the chest, in the abdomen, in the cranium. We didn't find anybody burned." He leaned forward in his seat and wrapped his arms around his knees. "They were like this," he said, holding the crash position and looking into my eyes. Then he sat up quickly and held his hand flat above the table. "When they hit," he said, slamming it down, "fractures. I believe the pilot tried to land in the water. This is consistent with the fractures. But when the bodies arrived, the lungs were already in a state of decomposition. We didn't have conditions to see if anyone drowned." This hung in the air for a moment as I considered what he was suggesting. "So it's possible that some of them were still alive?" I asked. Sarmento nodded. "Most died on impact," he said. "Some could have survived."
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Thursday, 3 January 2013
Government To Acquire Planes For Domestic Operators.
TO boost domestic flights and cushion the effects of high airfares in the country, the Federal Government said it would soon acquire 30 aircraft, just as plans have reached advanced stage to remove abandoned aircraft in the country’s airports.
The General Manager, Corporate Communications, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Dati Yakubu, revealed this Wednesday in Benin- City, stating that the Federal Government would purchase the aircraft through the aviation fund being managed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bank of Industry (BoI).
He said direct disbursement of funds was being abused hence the Federal Government decided to acquire the aircraft and hand them over to local airline operators. According to Yakubu, “the issue of assisting domestic carriers is important and that is why the Federal Government removed tariffs and taxes on aviation spare parts.
“This is to help domestic airlines operate profitably and make it attractive for investors because spare parts are a major cost component in the aviation industry.”
He reiterated government’s commitment to making the country’s aviation industry a hub in the African continent. On abandoned planes across airports in the country, he said: “We have given the ultimatum for the owners of abandoned aircraft to remove them because they constitute menace to our airspace and airports.
“They are dangers to the flying publics because they may be places where these birds could hide. We have also discovered that some of the aircraft have litigation issues around them, some of them were used as collateral for loans.
“Such things are being handled by our legal department and as soon as those issues are resolved, the planes will be moved. We also try to advise owners that there are several creative ways in which they can use them. We are in the age of recycling and they are built with plastics and metals and that can be done profitably.
“But definitely, when the period we give elapses, FAAN will take action to ensure that we clear our spaces of abandoned aircraft because it does not fit into the aviation master-plan.”.......
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This dramatic footage shows the heart-stopping moment a family of deer had a near miss with two Typhoon fighter jets.
The animals were spotted darting across the runway at a Royal Air Force station after waiting for the perfect moment to cross.
All three roe deer escaped unharmed from their close encounter with the planes - which have a staggering top speed of 1,550 mph.
Aviation enthusiast James Feneley, 52, captured the moment at RAF Coningsby, Lincs. last Friday (15 May).
The animals were seen earlier in the morning exploring the base.
James said: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw them, they must have got through a fence somehow.
“They came out just as the Typhoons were taxiing out to take off.
“I think the deer came as a bit of a shock to the pilots themselves.”
According to James security staff were later able to help the deer out of the fenced off base.
Driver James has been interested in aircraft for 40 years and started photographing planes in 1984.
He said: “I usually go to Coningsby when they are night flying which is one week every month.”
RAF Coningsby was opened in 1941 and served as an RAF Bomber Command station until the early 1960s.
Now it is the training station for Typhoon pilots and is one of two RAF Quick Reaction Alert Stations which protect UK airspace.
It is home to two front-line, combat-ready squadrons with almost 3,000 people working on site.
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Aircraft Lightning or Electrostatic Discharge Encounters
Lightning strikes and ESD are the most reported weather-related aviation incidents. All types of
aircraft are susceptible to lightning strikes and ESD. Aircraft have been struck by lightning or
experienced ESD at altitudes ranging from the surface to at least 43,000 feet.
Most lightning strikes occur when aircraft are operating in one or more of the following
Within 8°C of the freezing level.
Within approximately 5000 feet of the freezing level.
In precipitation, including snow.
In some turbulence.
Not all these conditions need to occur for a lightning strike or an
ESD to take place.
Lightning strikes have varied effects on aircraft and aircrews (Figure 4-5). Usually the structural
damage is minor, but it has the potential to be severe. Normally, it will only interrupt electrical
circuits, causing damage to aircraft electrical systems, instruments, avionics, or radar.
Figure 4-5 Lightning Hazards
Catastrophic fuel ignition can occur under certain conditions. In non-pressurized fuel tanks, a
mixture of vaporized fuel and air fills the space above the liquid fuel. The proper ratio of fuel
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An airport spokesman says a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to San Diego that was diverted to Albuquerque, N.M. on Sunday has been cleared to take off again after authorities investigated a "potential security threat."
Albuquerque International Sunport spokesman Daniel Jiron says the 107 passengers aboard the flight were interviewed, as was the crew. He says passengers will be allowed to continue their trip.
Jiron has declined to specify what the nature of the potential threat was. FBI spokesman Frank Fisher also declined to clarify.
The flight was diverted at 10 a.m. MDT. Jiron says it was cleared to fly again around 12:30 p.m. but doesn't know what time the plane would take off.
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This image, a color view of the northwestern rim of the 32-mile-wide Degas crater on Mercury, is just one of the most recent images to come in from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. It has been in orbit around Mercury since March 18 – just under three months – and already its findings have revolutionized what we know about the innermost planet in our solar system.
MESSENGER has not only taken thousands of high-resolution images of Mercury’s surface from its new vantage point in orbit but has also measured the planet’s topographical chemical composition, mapped its magnetic field and studied the energetic particles in its magnetosphere. Ultimately this treasure trove of data is painting a picture of Mercury that was never before possible; the planet’s unique personality is developing more and more under the scrutiny of MESSENGER. Although heavily cratered, Mercury is not like our Moon; although possessing a magnetic field, Mercury is not like Earth. It definitely is its own world, and we are just now beginning to scratch the surface of what’s to be learned about its history.
“We are assembling a global overview of the nature and workings of Mercury for the first time, and many of our earlier ideas are being cast aside as new observations lead to new insights. Our primary mission has another three Mercury years to run, and we can expect more surprises as our solar system’s innermost planet reveals its long-held secrets.”
– Sean Solomon, MESSENGER Principal Investigator
New images and findings from MESSENGER were presented during a NASA press conference on June 16… that conference can be watched in its entirety below:
Many of these new findings fill in key blanks regarding the topography of Mercury, while others challenge previous concepts of how the planet formed… while others open up new questions entirely.
“One mystery has been answered, only to be replaced by another, but that is how science works.”
– Project Scientist Ralph McNutt, APL
Read the press release on the MESSENGER mission site here.
Image credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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Some links to products and partners on this website will earn an affiliate commission.
Green aviation is not about flying less, but about flying better (and possibly more)…
In 2019, Airbus celebrated its 50th anniversary by redefining its role in society by pledging to become a pioneer in sustainable aerospace for a united world. At the 2021 Airbus Summit in Toulouse, the contours of this ambitious goal began to become visible, with a number of sessions on the wide range of topics and challenges in the wake of the industry’s decarbonising efforts.
The meeting brought together aviation experts, managers of airlines and other stakeholders for a two-day meeting to discuss how this industry, of such crucial importance to the world economy, can manage its transition to zero-emission operations.The key technologies that are emerging are electric planes, hybrid engines involving various hydrogen-based technologies and, of course, sustainable aviation fuels.
The conference clearly demonstrated the scope of today’s innovative thinking, but also the likely feasibility of many of these new technologies. In fact, Airbus is committed to producing a hydrogen-powered passenger aircraft by 2035 – but that also means that the (optimistic) timescale is in the order of 10-20 years.
So given the pressing climate challenge and the growing public pressure to act, what can we do now? And how do we deal with the social trend of “flight shame”, rooted in growing public concern? It has meanwhile been mentioned that low-cost carriers in particular play a problematic role in this context. ”Not so,” says Johan Lundgren, easyJet CEO:
”Many people do not fully realise how important air travel is, because they’ve always had it. EasyJet is the embodiment of democratization of air travel, which used to be the privilege of the wealthy. Reducing flights by imposing levies and restricting the movement of peoples’ air travel mobility e.g. by public pressure will only increase social inequality, but not provide the solution to the world’s transportation needs…The solution is clearly to make flying sustainable and keep the huge benefits of air travel.”
Cutting emissions by optimising air operations
In Europe, the long-term goal of realising the Single European Sky is still far from becoming a reality. Here, the problems are not really technological, but rather regulatory, political and organisational.
Lundgren argues: “It’s appalling that we haven’t seen progress in this area”, estimating that a company like easyJet could immediately achieve a saving of 15% in fuel – and thus greenhouse gas emissions – simply by implementing European Single Sky air traffic management. But how to achieve this long coveted goal? “Give Eurocontrol a stronger mandate,” is Lundgren’s answer.
Currently, the technical aspects of the Single European Sky idea are being evaluated by SESAR, a public-private partnership organised as a joint venture with Airbus, Alenia Aermacchi, Eurocontrol, DFS, the European Commission and others. A 2-year demonstration project called Albatross is looking at ways to optimise flight, and the results seem impressive. Laurent Lafontan, Air France Captain and Flight Operations Technical Development SVP, has been heavily involved in this project. Lafontan says:
“Our tests show that if just 1 % of the incoming Air France traffic into Paris Charles de Gaulle could follow optimized flight procedures like continuous descent, we could save 10,000 tonnes of fuel and 3,000 hours of flying time per year.”
Another aspect is the need for fleet renewal. After all, a brand-new Airbus A321Neo is capable of delivering a fuel-efficiency per seat of 2 litres per 100 km.
“Air France is in the middle of a fleet renewal program with A350 and A220 planes. With this measure alone, we reduce our carbon footprint by 25%. However, only 10 % of the aircraft in service today in the world are based on the latest fuel-efficient technologies,” Lafontan points out.
Of course, we must not forget about sustainable aviation fuels. Airlines are testing this option today, albeit with relatively small amounts of biofuel. However, an aircraft such as the new Airbus A350 is already certified to fly on a 50/50 fuel mixture, and Airbus expects approval to operate this type with 100% renewable biofuel. So what is missing? The fuel. Which emphasizes that the green transition in aviation can not be solved by individual actors.
Another area in the fight against global warming is CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration), ie. physical removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and underground storage:
“It works, but in the end, hydrogen-based solutions will prevail, so it is a question of whether we should invest heavily in CCS to remove CO2, which with these new technologies will no longer be there,” says Johan Lundgren. “We are going to use hydrogen-based technologies. There are several technological possibilities, and none of them should be ruled out. But what is really needed is a holistic view of how to achieve net-zero emissions. It must involve everyone – aircraft manufacturers, airlines, airports, governments and all the other players in the aviation industry”.
Johan Lundgren, CEO of easyJet.
Urban air travel – a new market?
On Tuesday, the first day of the conference, Airbus took the opportunity to announce a new four-seater battery-powered eVTOL rotor aircraft named City Airbus NextGen for flights in urban environments.
It is projected to have a range 80 km and a cruise speed of 120 km/h. A prototype will be ready to fly in 2023, with certification hoped for in 2025. Eventually the aim is to enable self-piloted autonomous flights. This is a new market and Airbus plans to test the waters regarding urban air mobility with partners and pilot activities initially in Paris and Munich.
Cover photo: Airbus Executive VP for Corporate Affairs, Julie Kitcher, opens Airbus 2021 Summit (Photo BongoPlanes)
Article written by Claus Madsen.
Claus’ interest in aviation goes back to his early youth, partly as a child airline passenger, partly when he took flying lessons in gliders and single-engine aircraft. In his professional life, he has traveled heavily across the world – especially to and in Europe, the Americas, but also to Asia, Australia and Africa – for year-long periods of time with two international trips per week, earning him elite status with several airlines since 1995. He has lived in Denmark, Germany and England.
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11 Sep : The effort to design and develop a Multirole Transport Aircraft (MTA) by India and Russia received a significant boost with the signing of shareholders agreement for setting up of a joint venture company, here last night.
A Joint Venture will now be formed between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and the Russian Partners namely United Aircraft Corporation & Rosoboronexport to Co-develop and Co-produce Multirole Transport Aircraft (MTA).
MTA is a 15-20 tonne payload capacity Aircraft which would meet the requirement of the Indian Air Force and the Russian Air Force. The project has been approved by both the Government of India and the Government of Russian Federation.
The main features of MTA are: Maximum take-off weight 65 tonnes, Payload Capacity 15-20 tonnes, Cruise Speed 800 kmph, Range 2500-2700 km, Service ceiling 12 km. The Aircraft will have two engines, state of the art features such as fly-by-wire, full authority digital engine control, modern avionics and glass cockpit.
The total development cost is around US $ 600.70 million (approx Rs.2900 crores) to be equally shared by both the sides. It is planned to manufacture 205 aircraft with 50:50 work share between HAL and the Russian partners.
A Joint Venture Company (JVC) is being established with its headquarters at Bangalore, India for executing the MTA project in which HAL and Russian participants will have equal shareholding.
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Introducing the 100 mph xCraft Rogue.
The xCraft Rogue is a revolutionary new drone that flies unlike anything else on the market. Featuring a powerful rear "booster" motor, the Rogue can achieve speeds exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h)! It can fly like a regular racer, but with the flip of a switch, the Rogue kicks in it's booster motor and rocks your world at ludicrous speeds!
The innovative Rogue is a blast to fly and can hold its own with the fastest FPV racers on the market. This means a flying experience unlike anything you’ve ever been a part of.
Our developers spent countless hours flying and refining the Rogue, making it the fastest racing drone available.
With several different product packages to choose from, whether you are a seasoned pro and just need a Frame Kit or are new to the racing scene and need a complete “Noob” package, we’ll get you flying FPV at blazing speeds in no time!
Be one of the first to fly this game-changing racing drone!
Frame Kit - $99.95
This frame kit includes all custom CNC'd carbon fiber and hardware to build your own Rogue Racer.
Rogue Power Pack- $299.95
Battery-4S, 1300mAh, 65C
Motors-(Quad) 2300KV, (Pusher) 2550KV
Flight Controller-SP F3
ESCs-PowerCube: ESC’s + PDB: (Quad) 12A 5V BEC, (Pusher) 30A
Audio/Video transmitter-5645-5945MHz, 200mW
Antenna-5.8GHz RHCP, omni-directional
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You’ll get the Rogue, ready to bind with your Taranis X9D radio. Just pair the radio to the receiver and you’re good to go.
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For those who just can’t wait to get the Rogue into the air, the RTF package includes the Rogue, a Taranis X9D radio, and a 4S, 1300mAh, 65C battery.
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So, you want to start FPV racing from scratch? This “Noob” package includes everything you’ll need to race like the pros!
Package includes everything in the RTF package plus:
• FPV goggles- Fat Shark Teleporter V5, 5.8GHz, 7CH NexWave RF Receiver
• 2 Extra prop sets - 5040 tri-blade plastic propellers
• 2 batteries- 4S, 1300 mAh, 65C
• AC Lipo Battery charger
We’ve got you covered with everything you’ll need to start racing for the gold, and winning!
Unique carbon fiber shell - 3mm thick arms for durability
Camera - RunCam Swift
Battery - 4S, 1300mAh, 65C (recommended)
Motors - (Hover) 1806-2300KV, (Pusher) 2206-2550KV
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Audio/Video transmitter - 32 or 40 CH, 200mW
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Yikes! Plane makes emergency landing after man’s body odor allegedly caused passengers to vomit, faint
Company spokesperson refers to it as a health issue
A Transavia Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday after several passengers started to vomit and slip into unconsciousness. The plane was on its way from Amsterdam to Gran Canaria when it seems an unnamed man’s body odor overwhelmed the other passengers on the flight.
“It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks,” a passenger named Piet van Haut explained to the U.K.’s Mirror. “Several passengers got sick and had to puke.”
The flight crew reportedly tried to quarantine the man’s stench in the bathroom. But after the attempt failed, the pilot made an emergency stop in southern Portugal, where the man was escorted off the plane and placed on an airport bus.
It is unknown whether the man suffers from any medical conditions.
A spokesman for Transavia Airlines told the Mirror: “The aeroplane diverted because of medical reasons, but it is indeed right that he smelled quite a bit.”
However, in an official statement provided to Fox News, there’s no mention of the passenger’s body odor.
“We can confirm that on May 29th a stopover of flight HV5666 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Amsterdam) has taken place on Faro (Portugal),” wrote a company spokesperson. “This was a precautionary measure in relation to a passenger for medical reasons.”
The company spokesperson added, “Due to privacy legislation, however, we cannot not disclose details about individual cases. What we can say is that our crew has acted correctly and carefully in accordance with the applicable procedures.”
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NASA and Boeing have penciled in a launch date in February for the primary piloted take a look at flight of the Starliner industrial crew capsule, permitting time to implement fixes on the spacecraft after an unpiloted demo to the International Space Station earlier this yr.
The CST-100 Starliner spacecraft’s first flight to the station launched May 19 from Cape Canaveral on prime of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The capsule docked with the station May 20, then undocked and returned to Earth for a parachute-assisted touchdown in New Mexico on May 25.
The uncrewed demonstration mission, often called Orbital Flight Test-2, was “very successful,” based on Mark Nappi, Boeing’s vice chairman and supervisor for the Starliner program.
A earlier orbital take a look at flight, referred to as OFT-1, ended prematurely in 2019 attributable to a software program downside that stored the capsule from reaching the area station.
Boeing has constructed two reusable Starliner crew modules, that are fitted with new service modules for attain mission. The crew module that flew on the OFT-1 mission in 2019 will fly once more on the Crew Flight Test, and spacecraft from the OFT-2 mission will probably be reused on the primary of six operational Starliner crew rotation missions.
Nappi stated Boeing is finishing a closing report for NASA on the outcomes from the OFT-2 mission, which had 222 flight take a look at goals to show out the spacecraft earlier than the subsequent mission — often called the Crew Flight Test — flies with astronauts.
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, a veteran U.S. Navy take a look at pilot, area shuttle pilot, and area station commander, will command the Starliner Crew Flight Test. He will probably be joined by NASA crewmate Sunita Williams, additionally a former Navy take a look at pilot. The Starliner astronauts will spend about eight days on the area station on the Crew Flight Test mission.
NASA and Boeing officers stated after the OFT-2 mission in May that groups on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida had been on observe to be prepared for Starliner’s Crew Flight Test by the top of December. Officials determined to make some minor modifications to the spacecraft earlier than the Crew Flight Test after extra opinions of the efficiency of the OFT-2 mission.
“We looked at all those systems, or areas that we needed to go do a little more more work on the system, and we plugged that into the plan, and that’s what moved us out by about a month or five weeks or so,” Nappi stated.
“We knew that we were going to learn something from the (OFT-2) flight, and there was likely going to be some what I would call fine-tuning that we would need to do to make the system work better, and more like the design was intended,” Nappi stated.
Boeing and NASA engineers recognized 4 areas for “minimal” modifications on the Crew Flight Test spacecraft.
One of these areas includes the spacecraft’s Orbital Maneuvering and Attitude Control thrusters. Two of the 20 OMAC engines on the OFT-2 mission shut down early throughout the spacecraft’s orbit insertion burn simply after launch. The different engines compensated for the issue with none important impacts to the remainder of the flight.
Nappi stated investigators decided particles within the propulsion system probably induced the issue with the OMAC engines. Technicians have inspected the spacecraft for the Crew Flight Test to ensure its propulsion system is freed from any related particles.
Several smaller Reaction Control System, or RCS, thrusters additionally stopped working throughout the Starliner spacecraft’s rendezvous with the station. Nappi stated the most definitely reason for that downside concerned “low inlet pressures and some manifold pressure dynamics that delayed the sensor responses.”
That subject might be resolved by introducing a “very small change” to tweak timing and tolerance settings within the propulsion system, Nappi stated.
The RCS and OMAC engines had been on the Starliner service module, which burned up throughout re-entry into the environment.
Boeing can be eradicating some pointless filters from cooling loops on the spacecraft’s thermal management system after excessive pump pressures had been detected throughout the OFT-2 mission.
“We’ve determined that that was due to a restriction of flow through some of the (coolant) lines,” Nappi stated. “We found there were some filters in the system that we’ve determined are not required, so we’ve removed those filters to alleviate that problem from happening in the future.”
The Starliner spacecraft’s Vision-based, Electro-Optical Sensor Tracking Assembly, or VESTA, rendezvous sensors carried out effectively throughout the capsule’s closing strategy to the area station. The VESTA sensors feed place and closure fee knowledge to the Starliner’s flight laptop to autonomously information the spacecraft in for docking.
The rendezvous navigation system generated extra knowledge than anticipated throughout the OFT-2 docking sequence. Boeing is updating the Starliner’s flight software program load to accommodate the elevated knowledge feeding into the flight laptop throughout the rendezvous with the area station.
“All this work has been planned into our schedules, and we’ve determined the launch readiness date in the February timeframe,” Nappi stated.
The crew module for the Crew Flight Test, named “Calypso,” will probably be linked with its service module within the November timeframe at Boeing’s Starliner manufacturing facility and refurbishment facility on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The up to date software program revision, mission planning, and crew coaching can be on observe to be full in time for a launch date in February, Nappi stated.
Running years late, Boeing’s Starliner program will give NASA a second U.S. spacecraft able to ferrying crews to and from the area station.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launched with astronauts for the primary time in May 2020. Seven Dragon crew missions have launched so far, together with 5 NASA-contracted missions to the area station. NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX in 2014 to finish improvement of their industrial crew automobiles.
Assuming the Starliner Crew Flight Test is efficiently accomplished in early 2023, NASA hopes to fly the primary operational sick-month Starliner crew rotation mission with a workforce of 4 astronauts within the fall of 2023.
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has launched station crews at roughly six-month intervals since 2020. Once Boeing’s capsule is licensed for long-duration missions, the Starliner and Dragon spaceships will alternate on the area station schedule, with every firm launching NASA crews as soon as per yr.
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There are plans to start running test flights of the ‘hypersonic’ jet in the mid-2020s.
Developers are working on a “hypersonic” jet engine that could see commuters flying from Sydney to London in four hours, and London to New York in one. It’s called a SABRE—that is, Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine—and it allows planes to hit speeds of Mach 5.4 (6400 kilometres per hour). Hence the “hypersonic” moniker: whereas “supersonic” refers to a rate of travel that simply exceeds the speed of sound, “hypersonic” speeds typically exceed it five or six times over.
The hybrid hydrogen-oxygen engine is also way greener and cheaper than current air travel, The Telegraph reports, and will give aircraft the potential to fly in space.
“[SABREs] are simply going to revolutionise the way we travel around the globe, and into orbit,” said the engine’s developer, UK-based aerospace manufacturer Reaction Engines. “SABRE can be scaled in size to provide different levels of thrust for different applications which is crucial to our success—it’s going to enable a whole generation of air and space vehicles.”
It’s thought that the hybrid jet engine will allow for the development of so-called spaceplanes—vehicles that can fly like aircraft in Earth’s atmosphere and move like spacecraft in the vacuum of space—which will be able to take off horizontally, hit eye-watering speeds for intercontinental commuting, and switch to rocket mode for space travel at a whopping Mach 25 (30,000 kilometres per hour).
It’s still very much in the trial stage, but the Reaction Engines team reportedly hopes to get test flights off the ground in the next five or six years, with the view of commencing commercial flights some time in the 2030s.
“The main thing with SABRE is it’s like a hybrid of a rocket engine and an aero engine, so it allows a rocket to breathe air,” Reaction Engines’ Shaun Driscoll told the UK Space Conference earlier this week. “Rockets really haven’t progressed in 70 years, whereas aero engines have become very efficient. So, if you can combine an aero engine and a rocket you can have a very lightweight efficient propulsion system and basically create a spaceplane.
“The physics checks out but the challenge is building a test regime.”
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Jake and Anthony are in DC for IAC 2019 and that means it’s a great opportunity to explore the National Air and Space Museum! Come join us to explore all the wonders Udvar-Hazy holds, including Space Shuttle Discovery.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy
Chantilly, VA 20151
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We have come a long way from the time Leonardo Da Vinci created the first design of a machine in 1480, which was, back then, described as the ‘aerial screw’. That was the beginning of a new evolution. Many designs and models were developed on the concept ever since. But it was in 1939 the first working model of The Helicopter took its first flight. It was designed by Mr. Igor I. Sikorsky and ever since the developments and utilities of the helicopters only increased.
One of the main utilities that the helicopters were being used for was for transportation of goods which required the hovering feature of the helicopters. Hovering is, indeed, one of the main features that separate the helicopters from the fixed-wing aircrafts. However, traditionally, heavy-lift helicopters have been trying to maintain balance between the hover performance and forward speed. The forward speed gets compromised if the hover is to be improved and vice-versa.
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., in June 2005, announced plans to solve this issue with the X2 Technology™. It refers to a suite of technologies Sikorsky will apply to achieve new levels of speed and performance in coaxial helicopters.
This technology includes an integrated Fly-by-Wire system that allows the engine/rotor/propulsor system to operate efficiently, with full control of rotor rpm throughout the flight envelope, high lift-to-drag rigid blades, low drag hub fairings, and Active Vibration Control. In addition, the aircraft will be used as a ‘flying wind tunnel’ to determine the main rotor to propulsor aerodynamic interaction, shaft angle optimization for performance, and blade tip clearance for a range of maneuvers. This will allow optimization of the X2 TECHNOLOGY™ suite for future products.
Aiming to achieve the highest speed ever recorded for a helicopter, the X2 Technology demonstrator combines an integrated suite of technologies intended to advance the state-of-the-art, counterrotating coaxial rotor helicopter. It is designed to demonstrate a helicopter can cruise comfortably at 250 knots while retaining such desirable attributes as excellent low speed handling, efficient hovering, and a seamless and simple transition to high speed.
Among the innovative technologies the X2 Technology demonstrator employs are the Fly-by-wire flight controls, Counter-rotating rigid rotor blades, Hub drag reduction, Active vibration control and an Integrated auxiliary propulsion system.
Sikorsky selected the term X2 Technology in order to: describe a class of helicopters with a coaxial design and to describe the multiplying effects (2X, or times 2) of applying a suite of modern technologies to coaxial helicopters. These technologies include new rotor blade designs, advanced flight control laws, transmissions with greater horsepower to weight performance and the ability to seamlessly transfer power from the main rotor to the aft propulser, and active vibration control.
The X2 Technology program, based at the Sikorsky Development Flight Center in Florida, to date has achieved a maximum test flight speed of 106 knots. Sikorsky has won much recognition for this concept which could change the dynamics of the helicopters across the world.
..:: India Strategic ::.. DefExpo India 2010: Sikorskys X-2 Technology
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La Quinta, CA, August 18, 2010 — Desert Jet, the Palm Springs area’s leading aircraft management and private jet charter company, has announced that Rob Wilson, Director of Operations, has obtained the industry’s highest recognition by passing a rigorous examination administered by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA).
Out of the 8,000 plus companies represented by the NBAA, only 142 individuals have passed the Certified Aviation Manager (CAM) Exam. NBAA’s Certified Aviation Manager (CAM) program recognizes professionals qualified to lead flight departments and companies that utilize business aircraft, as well as professionals that manage aircraft for aircraft charter and management companies. The CAM designation provides industry recognition of those individuals who are qualified to provide business aviation-related services such aircraft charter, aircraft sales and acquisition representation, and consulting services on all matters related to the operation of business aircraft. Wilson is now one of only a handful of professionals in California that are designated as a Certified Aviation Manager by the NBAA.
Applicants for the CAM designation must first qualify to take the exam through a review of the applicant’s job experience, education, professional licenses, and participation in professional development activities. Typically, a CAM will have several decades of experience in aviation, the highest level licensing granted by the Federal Aviation Administration, one or more academic degrees as well as significant participation in aviation industry events.
Wilson is now the third Desert Jet team member to have earned the CAM designation, making Desert Jet the only aircraft charter and management company in the world to have three NBAA Certified Aviation Managers on staff. Desert Jet is also the only aircraft management company that allows only Certified Aviation Managers to manage clients’ multi-million dollar assets.
“We are proud of Rob’s accomplishment in earning the CAM designation” said Denise Wilson, President and CEO of Desert Jet. “We fully support NBAA’s efforts in formalizing a standard that all aircraft managers should strive to achieve. We feel our clients deserve the highest levels of management services available and that this designation will help potential clients choose their next aircraft management company.”
About Desert Jet
Desert Jet is an aircraft charter and management company based in the Palm Springs area of California, operating a fleet of jet charter aircraft with a nationwide network of specially-selected and carefully screened private jet charter aircraft available. Desert Jet is one of the first jet charter providers in the world to become IS-BAO certified and is the only management company with three National Business Aviation Association designated Certified Aviation Managers on staff. Desert Jet’s pilots are the most experienced and well-trained pilots in the industry, with an average flight time of over 8000 hours and perfect safety records.
For more information visit the Desert Jet website at www.desertjet.com or contact (800) 381-JETS.
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There is a lot more water on the moon than previously believed, according to an analysis of NASA data being published Friday, a finding that may bolster the case for a manned base on the lunar surface.
The discovery grew out of an audacious experiment last year, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration slammed a spent-fuel rocket into a lunar crater at 5,600 miles an hour, and then used a pair of orbiting satellites to analyze the debris thrown off by the impact. They discovered that the crater contained water in the form of ice, plus a host of other resources, including hydrogen, ammonia, methane, mercury, sodium and silver.
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In our Ask a Pilot series, pilot Spencer Marker answers one of your aviation-related questions each week. See past installments here and submit your own to [email protected].
Hey Spencer. Do pilots have regular routes they fly?
Hey, Dave. Thanks for writing in this week. This is a question pilots and flight attendants alike get on a regular basis. The short answer is: No, we do not have regular routes. We can fly any number of routes in a given month. An airline’s mechanism to schedule pilots and flight attendants is complicated and crewmembers themselves are responsible for selecting a schedule that meets their needs every month. So, I’ll explain a little about how we are assigned the flights we operate.
Trips are single- or multi-day flight sequences assigned to a flight crewmember. Some can be as short as a single day (we call these day trips or day lines) while others can take pilots away for up to two weeks and to destinations all over the world.
Included in these trips are a series of layovers that provide accommodations for crew members on nights away from home. These may be as short as 10 hours or as long as several days, depending on the needs of the airline.
Trips can vary and a pilot often flies to a wide variety of destinations. At the company I work for, one group of pilots can work domestic flights and international flights on a single trip. Being a primarily domestic pilot, my schedule still varies in its duration and layovers from week to week.
Pilots receive their trips for the month through a process called bidding. Bidding is how pilots request a schedule based on their individual needs. This way, a pilot can receive the days off they want, the trips they would like to fly and/or the layovers they prefer. This process then awards pilots their schedules based on seniority. Essentially, senior pilots’ preferences are awarded first then so on, down the line. Selecting a schedule for the month usually occurs around the middle of the previous month; i.e. bidding for a July schedule takes place in the middle of June.
Bidding is accomplished in two ways; line bidding or preferential bidding. Line bidding occurs when the airline creates a number of pre-made schedules, or lines, for the entire upcoming month. Pilots simply choose a schedule that best fits their and their families’ needs. Senior pilots only need to select a couple of schedules, while more junior pilots pick their ideal schedule and several back-ups, in case their first choices are awarded to more senior aviators.
Preferential bidding is different from line bidding in that there are no pre-made schedules. Instead, pilots will submit their preferences into the computer. This way a custom schedule can be generated based on a pilot’s preferences.
Pilots wanting to layover in Cancun can submit that as a preference. Similarly, pilots who wish to only fly day trips (single day sequences) can submit that as a preference. Much like in line bidding, the company creates these schedules based on seniority. So while a senior pilot may end up with their perfect schedule, a newer pilot to the airline may be assigned trips that they may not want.
It is possible, if a pilot is senior enough, to work only one type of route for the month. However, this is very rare.
To sum up
Thanks for the excellent question, Dave. Your question is a great one and is probably the one I receive most often flying the line. To this day, my loved ones still wonder how I am assigned the schedule I work every month, so I hope I was able to clear up a little of the mystery of a pilot’s life at work and answer your question.
Thanks again for your question! And if you have a burning aviation question or something you would like cleared up, drop us a line at [email protected] to get your question featured in an upcoming Ask a Pilot column.
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Too true! Flying a Diamond DA-40 is challenging, but I'm sure it's comparatively easier than others.
I just came back from Oshkosh and the DA-42 light twin was on display. That is a nice aircraft and not that hard to fly, even with little twin engine experience.
Excellent! I'm very close to the 42, and see them anytime I fly. (I'll fly one soon)
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https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2017/01/09/1292612/iran-keeps-kazakh-jetliner-out-of-harm-s-way-after-coalition-warning
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Iran Keeps Kazakh Jetliner Out of Harm’s Way after Coalition Warning
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Air Defense helped a UAE-bound passenger plane belonging to Kazakhstan to get through a potentially dangerous condition after a US-led coalition warship in the Persian Gulf gave warnings to the civil aircraft, commanders said.
According to Iran’s Air Defense Commander Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, the incident took place during a recent military exercise staged in Iran’s southern areas.
During the drill, codenamed Defenders of Velayat Skies 7, the Iranian Air Defense helped the Kazakh airplane keep to the flight path and head for its destination safely after the coalition warship gave it warnings and received no response, the commander explained.
At a press conference on Monday, Air Defense Lieutenant Commander General Alireza Elhami gave more details of the incident, including the Kazakh flight, its itinerary and the time of the encounter.
After leaving Iran’s airspace, the Kazakh plane received warnings from a “foreign military vessel” in the Persian Gulf, but the pilot did not respond, the Iranian general explained.
After three unheeded warnings, the commander added, Iran’s Air Defense stepped in and introduced the passenger plane to the coalition warship on compassionate grounds.
A transcript of the conversation between the military vessel and Iran’s “Persian Gulf radar”, obtained by Tasnim, shows the military vessel telling the plane “you are approaching to coalition warship operating to international waters. Request establish communication and identify yourself!”
As there was no response from the plane, the Iranian forces sent a message to the coalition warship, saying, “The aircraft you are warning is a commercial aircraft with call sign KAZ4751 departing from UAAA (Almaty International Airport) to destination OMDW (Al Maktoum International Airport).”
The coalition warship thanked the Iranian radar at the end of the contact, the transcripts show.
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06.21.2017 A.I. laser targeting
06.01.2017 Diagram of Lake Stratification on Mars
03.21.2017 Break in Raised Tread on Curiosity Wheel
02.27.2017 Swirling Dust in Gale Crater, Mars, Sol 1613
02.27.2017 Dust Devil Passes Near Martian Sand Dune
02.27.2017 Sand Moving Under Curiosity, One Day to Next
12.13.2016 Now and Long Ago at Gale Crater, Mars
12.13.2016 Where's Boron? Mars Rover Detects It
10.03.2016 Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Murray Buttes'
10.03.2016 Butte 'M9a' in 'Murray Buttes' on Mars
09.19.2016 Ribbon Cutting
09.09.2016 Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 5)
09.09.2016 Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 4)
09.09.2016 Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 3)
09.09.2016 Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 2)
09.09.2016 Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 1)
08.26.2016 Out-of-this-World Records
03.30.2016 Erisa Hines
03.30.2016 Buzz Aldrin
02.12.2016 Women in Science
02.09.2016 Adam Steltzner, a JPL engineer
01.27.2016 Night Close-up of Martian Sand Grains
01.27.2016 Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune
12.17.2015 Alteration Effects at Gale and Gusev Craters
12.17.2015 Full-Circle View Near 'Marias Pass' on Mars
Curiosity Mars Rover's Shadow After Long Backward DriveNASA's Curiosity Mars rover caught its own shadow in this image taken just after completing a drive of 329 feet (100.3 meters) on the 547th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Feb. 18, 2014). The drive was the mission's first use of driving backward for more than short-distance positioning. Techniques for long drives in reverse with Curiosity have been developed with testing on Earth as one way to reduce wear and tear to the rover's aluminum wheels when crossing terrain with sharp rocks. The Sol 547 drive made first use of the technique on smoother terrain. The ground the rover crossed is relatively free of sharp rocks. It has some linear patterns in the ground, as evident in the parallel features slanting from lower left toward upper right in this image.
The image was taken with the left-eye camera of Curiosity's stereo Navigation Camera (Navcam).
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover and Navcam.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Maxwell's House 76
Recorded: June 10, 2010
Published: June 12, 2010
- Aviation in the news
- Speed X [sic] and Falcon 9
- The actual name of the company is "SpaceX" or "Space Exploration Technologies", and was originally one of the competitors for the X Prize won by Scaled Composites with SpaceShipOne. SpaceX Website
- Founder of SpaceX is Elon Musk, founder of PayPal and current CEO of Tesla Motors.
- SpaceX has a 1.6 billion dollar contract to provide unmanned cargo transport to the International Space Station.
- Initially, SpaceX only spoke of cargo carrying (the bulk of the NASA contract) in reference to Falcon 9. Curiously, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has always had a window in the door. The company is now much more up-front about future crew carrying capabilities of the Dragon spacecraft.
- Will we go to Mars?
- Errata in 73…Runway 36 not 00.
- Errata…50,000 BTU not 500,000 BTU
- What is Pilot-in-Command…
- Gyroscope in the new iPhone 4…
- Attending EAA AirVenture (Oshkosh)...
- Airfoils…to Bernoulli or not to Bernoulli
- Depends on speed
- Depends on density
- Reynolds numbers
- No simple model
- Model for pilots
- Angle of attack
- Not at one speed
- Some buffet before stalling
- Some break suddenly
- Know what the warning signs are for the specific aircraft that you are flying.
- Know how rain effects you wing
- Avoid iceing.
- Flying floats…
- How to fly floats
- Soft field T.O. and LDGs
- T.O. technique…optimum attitude
- One speed…55 mph for the Cessna 185
- Flap settings…20 degrees
- Power approach
- Landing too fast…flip the plane.
- Movie “Mother Lode”
- Art Scholl (please include URL for video shown on show)
- NSB comments…two movie cameras make the investigation much easier.
- I went to Lake Lovely Water four times before I landed the first time.
- Most landing areas are very long.
- Where to fly floats
- High Altitude lakes…landing distance…takeoff distance
- Preparation for float flying
- Reading water
- Floatplanes have no brakes or reverse…some exceptions
- Mountain air currents
- You need to take everything you need for survival. No one is going to help you any time soon.
- Survival kit
- Sleeping bag
- First Aide
- Adventures flying floats
- Six lakes within 30 mins flying from Vancouver.
- SouthEast Alaska…
- Forrest Service Cabins
- 3 days
- Six months in advance
- Big Goat Lake
- Friendly people in Alaska
- Juneau Alaska…Tarbox family
- Petersburg…Very helpful people
- Ketchikan…Friendly float pilots
- Forrest Service Cabins
Lift from Flow Turning - first of several pages from NASA's Glenn Research Center, describing correct and incorrect theories of lift. After perusing, click the "Next" button at the bottom of the page to get to the first "incorrect" page. There are five pages in the sequence in all, including this first one.
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Aircraft wake vortex is a pair of strong counter-rotating vortices and has attracted considerable attention in various fields including aviation safety and atmospheric physics. The characteristics and detection of wake vortex act as the basis for both behavior prediction as well as hazard assessment. This paper provides a short survey of the characteristics and detection researches. Initially, the wake vortex is classified as clear-air wake vortex (i.e., wake turbulence and contrail) and precipitation wake vortex (i.e., under rainy, foggy or snowy condition). Subsequently, the dynamics and scattering are introduced, and the main verdicts are: the radar (radio detection and ranging) scattering of wake vortex is relatively weak under clear air conditions, but the Lidar (Light detection and ranging) scattering is appreciable owing to the presence of particles such as aerosols. Wake vortices under precipitation conditions and contrails possess relatively good radar reflectivity owing the strong scattering characteristics of precipitation droplets and ice crystals. Furthermore, we have introduced a joint detection scheme of Lidar and radar for wake vortex along with parameter-retrieval algorithms. Finally, we have presented our conclusions and intended future research.
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AuthorToole, Michael T.
KeywordsTheater Missile Defense
test and evaluation
live flight testing
modeling and simulation
phenomenology data collection
System Integration Test
Sealite Beam Director
High Energy Laser
National Test Facility
Airborne Surveillance Testbed
Rapid Optical Beam Sensing system
distributed interactive simulation
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RightsCopyright © International Foundation for Telemetering
Collection InformationProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection.
AbstractSince the Gulf War, there has been significant interest in Theater Missile Defense (TMD) resulting in funding growth from tens of millions of dollars at the time of the Gulf War to $1.7 Billion in 1994. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) has developed a Theater Missile Defense test and evaluation program that will assess technological feasibility and the degree to which system functionality and performance meet technical and operational requirements. The complexity of the TMD program necessitates a comprehensive test program which includes flight testing, ground testing, and modeling and simulation. This article will provide and overview the requirements and capabilities needed to satisfy these requirements. The data processing, and telemetry communities will play a major role in providing the expertise to support the development of the nation’s future Theater Missile Defense capabilities.
SponsorsInternational Foundation for Telemetering
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Solving the Amelia Earhart Mystery
Originally aired: Wednesday, July 4, 2012
An expedition is setting sail from Hawaii today with the hopes of finally solving the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. We talk to the man leading the expedition. Ric Gillespie is executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.
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The magneto is a type of electric generator that uses magnets to generate an electric current. Magnetos have traditionally been used in aviation piston engines, keeping the ignition separate from the batter and charging system, keeping the engine running in case the battery fails.
Aviation machinist’s mate Dorothy Wuester is using a paint brush to work on the magneto in the engine machine shop. Today’s entry in our series of photographs of WAVES at work in the Naval aviation was taken at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station in September 1943.
The photograph comes from the national archives.
Los Al is close by me… While it is now a joint base, it is wonderful to see how it helped in our war effort back then.
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The European Space Agency ESA is going with them JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) for the first time on an exploration tour into the outermost solar system. The researchers assume that Jupiter’s moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto harbor oceans below their surface and now want to investigate these potential habitats more closely. The Graz instrument is part of a magnetic sensor system that works together with the Imperial College London and the TU Braunschweig was built for precisely this scientific question.
45,000 working hours in Graz
“During the development period of more than five years, 21 technicians and physicists have invested more than 45,000 working hours in the timely completion of the worldwide unique sensor unit,” emphasizes Werner Magnes, deputy director and head of the magnetometer group at ÖAWInstitute, the excellent teamwork between the two Graz institutions. “In the past few years we have experienced many ups and downs, mastered a number of technical difficulties and tested many new design details for the inhospitable Jupiter environment,” adds Roland Lammegger, project manager at the Institute for Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology.
Start of a 12 year journey
A 12-year journey began with the delivery of the aircraft to the project partner in London: After several test stations in Europe, the satellite launch in French Guiana in June 2022 and numerous planetary fly-bys, the Graz magnetometer will reach the Jupiter system in January 2030, and finally in September To enter the orbit of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in 2032.
Further information on the JUICE mission and the Graz reference magnetometer can be found here on the OeAW website and in the press release from TU Graz for the start of the project in 2015.
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There's a new arrival in the multibillion-dollar business of blasting rockets into space.
Rocket Lab, a California-based startup, carried out a launch from New Zealand over the weekend that it said put three small satellites in orbit.
The successful mission is a significant win for the burgeoning private space industry. For most of space travel history, launches have been the work of governments -- but now businesses are increasingly stepping in.
"Today marks the beginning of a new era in commercial access to space," said Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck. He highlighted that the company carried out just one test launch of its Electron rocket before this one, which took place Sunday afternoon, New Zealand time.
"Reaching orbit on a second test flight is significant on its own, but successfully deploying customer payloads so early in a new rocket program is almost unprecedented," he said.
Rocket Lab built its own launchpad on New Zealand's North Island rather than paying to use existing space industry infrastructure.
The company said it already has another five of its 17-meter-long Electron rockets in production and is aiming to do another launch in the early part of this year.
It plans to eventually carry out 50 launches per year -- almost one every week.
Rocket Lab was founded more than 10 years ago by Beck, a New Zealand aerospace engineer. The company's backers include U.S. aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and several venture capital firms.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket specializes in putting big satellites in orbit, such as those used by the military and telecoms providers.
Rocket Lab's much smaller Electron is for launching so-called SmallSats, some of which can be as small as a loaf of bread, according to Brad Tucker, an astrophysics professor at the Australian National University.
Smaller satellites are a fast-growing business in the space industry.
"They are quicker to build ... can respond quicker to jumps in technology development, and since they are smaller they therefore require less fuel to get them into orbit," Tucker said.
They can be used for capturing real-time images of what's happening back down on Earth.
The customers for this launch were Spire, a weather and ship tracking company, and Planet, a startup focused on Earth-imaging satellites.
Frequent, low-cost launches are now in high demand -- and more firms are looking to get in on the action.
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit and other startups, like Vector Space Systems, are also hoping to offer inexpensive launches for small satellites.
"Nowadays, a few people with a space dream are able to quickly turn it into reality," Tucker said. "It's an exciting time for us all."
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https://aryavarthnews.com/world-news/pakistans-air-safety-rating-downgraded-by-us-aviation-regulator-faa/
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has downgraded Pakistan’s air safety rating after the agency raised concerns about pilot certifications. The decision, disclosed on an FAA spreadsheet dated July 15 that was posted on an agency website and confirmed by an agency official, means the U.S. air safety agency determined Pakistan does not achieve international standards and now has a Category 2 rating.
Pakistan last month grounded almost a third of its pilots after discovering they may have falsified their qualifications. The Pakistani embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The new rating means Pakistan airlines could be subject to additional inspections at U.S. airports and could not add additional flights.
A company spokesman told Reuters last week the airline was planning to expand the current special flights arrangements to re-initiate a regular schedule from Pakistan to the United States to provide direct flights.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation said it has revoked permission for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to conduct charter flights to the United States.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has suspended PIA’s authorization to fly to the bloc for six months in a blow to the carrier’s operations. Pakistan’s grounding of pilots with dubious credentials followed the crash of a PIA jet in May that killed 97 people.
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First Business News Portal in English from Nepal
KATHMANDU: A technical team of the European Union (EU) has made positive observations about Nepal’s aviation safety following an audit of Nepal’s entire aviation safety sector.
A technical operation team of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) of the EU arrived in Nepal and carried out the audit from October 7 to 9. The three-member technical team of the EASA is scheduled to submit its report to Nepal on October 28, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said.
CAAN would respond to the issues pointed out in the report.
Spokesperson for CAAN, Jagannath Niraula expressed the confidence that the EU would remove Nepal from its air safety list since the technical team was positive about Nepal’s aviation safety adding that the team has studied and interacted about the progress Nepal made in the area of aviation safety.
“CAAN would respond to the issues raised in the report and the final decision to remove Nepal from EU’s air safety list would be decided once the final report is submitted to the EU,” according to Spokesperson Niraula.
The EU has kept Nepal on its air safety list for the past one decade due to which the airline companies registered in Nepal are not allowed to operate flights to EU member states. As a result the aircraft of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) and Himalaya Airlines are not allowed to conduct their flights to the EU sky but the aircraft from EU member states could use Nepal’s sky in an accessible manner.
Niraula claimed that the technical team is satisfied after the technical studies and consultations with CAAN officials.
The EU technical team carried out its audit based on different aspects including International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) audit report that puts Nepal above the global average, Civil Aviation (Investigation of Accident) Regulation passed from the Council of Ministers and others.
CAAN stated that the EU technical team conducted its assessment on eight areas including legislation, personal licensing, flight operation, accident investigation, air navigation services, aerodrome and ground aides and others.
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In this month‘s edition of Science Journal: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Tomáš Rousek, a Czech spaceship architect who is going where no Czech has gone before, to NASA, the asteroids, Mars and beyond.
28-year-old Tomáš Rousek aims high in his work – he has redesigned Prague on Mars, conceived an orbiting lunar hotel and a moon module that makes building material out of moondust, and most recently his design for a ship using artificial gravity and a defunct International Space Station was rated the most innovative idea of a NASA conference called Explore Now. When he came to our studio this week I talked to him, among other things, about how one becomes a space a space architect.
“I started by doing futuristic architecture. We did an exhibition on visions of the future of architecture in Prague, how it could evolve in the next 200 years, up to the vision of a New Prague on Mars, which was like a colony on the surface of Mars. And when I was deciding what to do with the rest of my life the best thing seemed to be the biggest challenge, which was to help with space exploration and help get people to Mars.”
Well tell us about the project that NASA was interested in. I believe it’s a ship proposed for travel to the asteroid belt, it has a rotating kind of arm that would provide gravity? Can you tell me more?
“This proposal was designed for a near-Earth object – not the asteroid belt but one of the nearest asteroids. The spacecraft consists of two parts. One is the habitat and the other is the propulsion module. Once you get the trajectory to the asteroid you can detach the two parts, which are connected by Kevlar strings, Kevlar tethers...”
These are very strong strings of metal is it?
“It should be more like a carbon-based material, the best would be carbon nanotubes, but we have to wait a bit for this...”
And long enough carbon nanotubes cannot be made yet...
“Actually they’ve started producing them in endless strings, so now it’s becoming a reality.”
So what was it exactly about your project that NASA appreciated?
“This particular project was based on an idea of my colleague Brian Wilcox, together we designed a mission that showed the potential of artificial gravity utilisation and the potential of using part of the International Space Station. It’s possible for example to detach one module that would be connected using new hardware and boost it to the asteroid. It was a vision of what can be done with the space station at the end of its lifetime. It would be assembled at the space station and would then be disconnected. Then after the mission it would go back to the ISS – because it can’t go directly through the atmosphere, you have to get the astronauts back to the ISS before they can go back to Earth via common spaceships used for that purpose.
The rotational idea for artificial gravity is not anything new, we know that from the film 2001 for example...
“Yes, I love the film, that’s something you have to see many times when you are a scientist. Actually I have seen NASA’s official redesign of the spacecraft used in the movie to go to Jupiter, they really showed the flaws of the design.”
So you were actually inspired by this movie.
“Yeah of course, I like the movie. Actually the idea was first presented 100 years ago by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who was the father of rocket science. He was actually a high school teacher in Russia and invented half of the things that rocket science is based on, and one of them was artificial gravity.”
Is your proposal intended for a hypothetical mission or are there any missions currently planned that it would be used for?
“Actually this is for a real mission, because after the Constellation moon flight programme was cancelled everybody wanted to go directly to Mars, but it was impossible due to the current state of technology and funding. So in recent times NASA experts have been working on a new proposal to go to near-Earth objects, to asteroids. It was published one week ago and it really is a mission to an asteroid using new small, space exploration vehicles for two people, for example, and new infrastructure.”
So you can actually hope that you will see your plans come to fruition and actually be constructed?
“Not in this format as it was designed. But the real proposal done by other teams has similar features.”
You may be surprised to learn that I am also a spacecraft designer...
“Really? That’s cool.”
Really. I stopped when I was 13, and my work dealt primarily with improving on the starship Enterprise. You’re fulfilling the dream of many, many boys. Was this a love of yours when you were a child as well?
“Of course, I wanted to redesign the whole planet and start building space colonies and so on. And you get a bit disappointed that it doesn’t go as fast as you would like in the beginning. But this is something that you can really dedicate several lifetimes to.”
“I was always trying to combine commercial design work for example with things that were non-commercial but helping to improve something. And I tried to balance that in my life, I started a company for architecture and design, A-ETC.net and at the same time with friends I was organising futuristic architecture exhibitions. After studying at the college of architecture in Prague I got into the International Space University in Strasbourg and I got a scholarship from the European Space Agency to cover half of the fees. So thanks to this I was able to study space architecture, to travel all around Europe and America to see how rockets and satellites are built nowadays.
I understand you have some interesting projects coming up. You have a lunar module and hotel.
“Yes, it’s a lunar module and orbiting hotel. In the case of the module, it’s based on the technology of 3D printing with the lunar soil, using robotic technology that heats up the soil and actually bakes an entire habitat. It’s an emerging technology that would make it possible to build whole cities on the moon just thanks to solar power for example. If we had something like this on the Earth it would be totally excellent! And the other project is an orbital hotel that is the idea of Ondřej Doule, and both of these projects will be presented next week at the big space congress to be held here in Prague.”
When you come up with an idea and a design for something like a lunar hotel, you present it at a conference and where does it go from there? I mean, so far 100% of such ideas have ended up in a filing cabinet somewhere.
“Well with space architecture things are still very much in their beginnings, we are still in the first centuries of space exploration. It’s something that you can put into a file cabinet and people in 50 years will take it out and use it somewhere. So in these cases it’s not aimed so much at being directly applied in reality. But for example this lunar habitat was designed when this Constellation programme in the USA was at full speed, and the proposal worked very well with the infrastructure that America was planning. The leaders of the architectural teamed liked the module very much. So if we were to go to the moon it would be one of the designs that might be considered, because it effectively used the technologies they were developing. For example, now they are asking for new funding to test this technology and this lunar module is an example of the potential of that technology. So it’s used for research.”
It’s amazing, it shows all the children out there you really can make a living drawing spaceships and lunar hotels.
“Everyone is talking about space tourism and so on, and it’s a really important thing for the development of the whole plant. With these first pioneers who pay for a ticket to get to space, just to see the horizon on a short, sub-orbital flight, once hundreds of thousands of people start stepping into space then it will be possible to build more and more ships, to start a similar process like there was with aviation, when at the beginning it was a suicidal discipline and then it was for a long time only for the richest people. It used to be very risky and now it is safer to fly by Boeing than to cross the street here in Prague. So I feel it is like the same development.”
That was space architect Tomáš Rousek ending that edition of Science Journal.
The episode featured today was first broadcast on September 26, 2010.
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