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http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20080728X01118&ntsbno=OPS08IA011B&akey=2 | 2014-11-24T14:05:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400380638.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123300-00089-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957943 | 2,517 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__159332275 | en | On July 22, 2008, at 1247 central daylight time, American Eagle flight 4298 (EGF298), N624AE, an Embraer Regional Jet 145 (E145), was departing runway 32 left (32L) when it conflicted with N252RP, a Learjet 60 (LJ60) landing runway 9 right (9R) at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD), Chicago, Illinois. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) preliminary operational error report stated that the vertical separation between the two airplanes was approximately 200 feet. The E145 was a scheduled airline passenger flight operating under 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 121. The LJ60 was a business flight operating under 14 CFR Part 91. Both flights were operating on instrument flight rules flight plans. There were no injuries to the occupants and there was no damage to either airplane. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the incident. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
At 1243:09, the ORD tower local control 10 (LC-10) controller instructed the E145 pilots to taxi into position and hold on runway 32L at taxiway M. The LC-10 controller issued a wake turbulence advisory to the pilots and advised them to expect about a 2 1/2 minute delay before "we can getcha rollin". About 9 seconds later, the E145 pilots acknowledged the clearance. The runway 32L/taxiway M intersection is about 8,800 feet from the runway 9R final approach path.
At 1244:57, the LJ60 pilot contacted the north local controller (NLC)and reported over the runway 9R outer marker/final approach fix, located about 4.1 nautical miles from the approach end of the runway. About 5 seconds later, the NLC cleared the LJ60 pilots to land on runway 9R and advised them to "plan a left turn on runway 32R" during their landing roll. The LJ60 pilots acknowledged the clearance.
At 1245:27, the LC-10 controller cleared the E145 for takeoff stating, "…runway 32L at [taxiway] M, cleared for takeoff, turn right heading 330 [degrees]." At the time, the LJ60 was about 2.5 miles from the runway 9R runway threshold. About 4 seconds later, the E145 pilot acknowledged the takeoff clearance. At 1245:45, EGF298 commenced its takeoff roll.
On the west side of the tower cab, the north local monitor recognized the potential conflict between the E145 and LJ60 and said, "Stay low," to the controller working the LC-10 position.
About 1246:13, when the LJ60 was about 3/4 of a mile from runway 9R, the NLC instructed the LJ60 pilots to "…go around maintain 4,000 [feet msl]." The NLC issued these specific instructions because of the E145 traffic departing runway 32L. According to the LJ60 pilot-not-flying's (PNF) statement, he observed the E145 on runway 32L and told the LJ60 pilot flying (PF) "Climb, climb, there is an MD80 on takeoff roll on 32L."
At 1246:19, the LC-10 controller advised the E145 pilots to "…stay low…stay low traffic above you." The Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X) did not generate or display a visual or aural alert.
At 1246:26, according to radar data and ASDE-X radar replay, the LJ60 flew over runway 32L near taxiway T2. A review of the ASDE-X data radar data revealed that the closest recorded proximity occurred at this time, as the LJ60 passed with about 150 feet laterally and about 325 feet above the E145. About 13 seconds later, the NLC instructed LJ60 pilots to "Turn right heading 140 [degrees], contact Chicago departure control on 127.4." The pilots acknowledged the clearance.
At 1246:27, the LC-10 controller instructed E145 pilots to "Climb and maintain 5 [thousand feet], sorry about that." A few seconds later, the pilots acknowledge the clearance.
At 1246:43, the E145 pilots said, "…it was interesting." About 19 seconds later, the LC-10 controller instructed the E145 pilots, "Contact Chicago departure 125.4."
According to LJ60 PF's statement, "While on radar vectors for our planned arrival into ORD, we were being vectored on left traffic for runway 9R. We were given a steep decent and then a speed of 180 knots this indicated to us that we were going to be given a tight turn into final and a visual approach when we had identified the landing runway. This all happened as expected. After we gained sight of the landing runway, we were cleared for the visual approach and given speed our discretion, contact tower at LANSE intersection. At that point, I started slowing the airplane to allow the full landing configuration to be deployed. Upon crossing the final approach fix, we contacted the tower. We were cleared to land, told to roll out and turn left on runway 32 to taxi to Signature Aviation via taxiway LL. A few moments later in a calm voice, we were instructed to execute a go around and to climb to 4000 feet. At this point, the PNF identified the traffic on runway 32R and told me, "Climb, climb, there is an MD80 on takeoff roll on 32R." After the go around, we were given radar vectors for runway 4R and made an uneventful landing."
According to the LJ60 PNF's statement, "Upon initial contact with Chicago TRACON we were given our runway & approach assignments - vectors to runway 9R for a visual or ILS (Instrument Landing System). We crossed the ORD VOR [VHF Omnidirectional Range] at our assigned altitude 7,000 feet and departed heading 300 degrees for vectors. Subsequent clearances included speed reductions to 180 KIAS [knots indicated air speed], 4,000 feet, a base leg turn, another turn heading 140 degrees, instructed to report the field in sight for a visual approach, and to maintain 2,500 feet. Upon reporting the field "in sight" we were cleared for a visual approach to runway 9R & to contact the tower at or abeam LANSE with speed at our discretion. Passing LANSE on the glideslope, we contacted the tower. We were cleared to land runway 9R. A couple of brief questions concerning our runway exit point ensued and we were told to clear the runway with a left turn on Runway 32R. Final cockpit checks were completed and continued to monitor the approach. At some point, well before overflying Runway 32L, I noticed a plane rolling on runway 32L, which I expected to be a landing airplane but thought was very unusual. I've never seen anyone land on this runway - only takeoff. So I continued to monitor and noticed that the plane was indeed taking off because it wasn't decelerating. I was preparing to inform the pilot of the other plane because it was starting to rotate when the tower instructed us to execute a go-around via runway heading & to climb to 4,000 feet. I guess that our go-around was initiated from the glideslope approximately 1/4 [mile] or so prior to overflying Runway 32L. During the go-around maneuver, I advised the pilot to climb because the suspected conflicting airplane was taking off. We never received a TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) advisory - either alert or resolution during the go-around."
The E145 captain (who was the flying pilot) stated, "We were cleared for takeoff on 32L (taxiway M) heading 330. As I called gear up after rotating, I see a Learjet at 11 o'clock converging directly with our flight path. I immediately leveled the aircraft at 200 feet above the runway to avoid a collision and maintained runway heading. The tower issued an alert to level off. Two seconds later, as the Lear [jet] passed directly over our cockpit. I am estimating 600 feet separation. The controller apologized. We continued flight to Peoria (PIA), Illinois. The weather was CAVU [Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited] and the time was approximately 12:46 p.m. local (1746Z). Tower frequency was 132.7. No injuries were reported and flight attendant was informed what had occurred. I called ORD tower from PIA to find out what had happened. I spoke with the operations manager, she informed me it was a missed approach off runway 9R, and an investigation was pending. She said, "There was no paperwork I needed to do. I called my CPO [Chief Pilot's office] as well as dispatch and informed them of this event. My CPO was very knowledgeable and helpful to me and my crew."
The E145 first officer who was the pilot-not-flying stated, "Departing 32L from [taxiway] M, cleared for takeoff. Moments after rotation, tower instructed us to, "Stay low" or "Level off", unsure of exact phraseology. I am not sure if I responded on the radio or not… Simultaneously, I began looking for the reason of the request. From my vantage point, all I saw was an aircraft directly above us moving left to right at no more than 200 feet of separation vertically. The captain immediately initiated a level off at no more than 200 feet AGL until we were instructed to continue the climb. The tower apologized and continued working aircraft, handed us off to departure where the flight continued without further incident."
For the past 6 years, the ORD LC-10 controller had been appropriately certified and qualified to perform his assigned duties. He received his initial control tower operator's certificate on June 28, 1991 at Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
An automated surface observation system (ASOS) provides the official weather observation at the ORD airport. The reported weather 57 minutes before the incident was:
ORD routine weather report, 1151 CDT, wind 310 degrees at 7 knots, visibility 10 statute miles, few clouds at 2,800 feet [above ground level (AGL)], scattered clouds at 10,000 feet [AGL], temperature 26 degrees Celsius (C), dew point 18 degrees C, altimeter setting 29.93 inches of mercury.
WRECKAGE AND IMPACT INFORMATION
There was no damage reported to either aircraft.
ORD Airport information: ORD is located 14 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois. ORD serves airline, air taxi, general aviation and military aircraft. The annual air activity averages 958,643 operations per year. The airport has 12 runways: runways 14-32L/R, 9R-27L, 10/28 and 4-22L/R. Airport elevation was 668 feet. The runways involved in the incident were runway 14R/32L, which is 13,000 feet long and 200 feet wide with a runway surface consisting of an asphalt/grooved surface in fair condition and runway 9R/27L, which is 7967 feet long and 150 feet wide with a runway surface consisting of an asphalt/grooved surface in fair condition.
ORD Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) information: At the time of the incident, ORD ATCT was an ATC Level 12 towered airport, operational 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The ORD ATCT is 260 feet in height. It was centrally located on the airport. The LC10 position, located on the south side of the tower cab that has an external view of the runway 32L/9R intersections. The tower is equipped with digital radar and ASDE-X displays. ORD managers reported that the ASDE- X did not have crossing runway logic installed, and the ASDE-X did not alarm during the incident. | aerospace | 1 |
https://thepressunited.com/news/ukraine-saboteurs-raid-putins-doomsday-jet-base-blowing-up-two-warplanes-and-chopper-in-daring-black-ops-attack/ | 2023-12-01T16:10:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100290.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201151933-20231201181933-00224.warc.gz | 0.959022 | 1,032 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__280260340 | en | A DARING black ops raid hit two planes and a helicopter at a high security airfield just 20 miles from the Kremlin.
Satellite images appear to show damage to aircraft at Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow[/caption]
Saboteurs are said to have used explosives to attack two planes and a helicopter[/caption]
Putin’s ‘Flying Kremlin’ Il-80 war command jet is based at the high-security base[/caption]
Damage was inflicted on both an An-148 and Il-20 aircraft, as well as a Mi-28N helicopter, used earlier to down strike drones in the Moscow region.
Images released by Ukrainian intelligence have shown the extent of the damage.
Saboteurs had reportedly planted explosives in a major security breach at the air base, which is located 20 miles north west of Moscow.
The daring raid is said to have caused panic in the Kremlin as it is one of the airbases used to hold Putin’s distinctive Ilyushin-80 planes.
The so-called Doomsday Plane is designed to act as a command HQ to control a world war from the skies.
The Kremlin claim that the windowless Ilyushin Il-80 Maxdome can survive a nuclear blast, despite it being unable to prevent a daring band of thieves from breaking in almost three years ago.
In December 2020, the ‘”Doomsday” plane was raided by “gold robbers” as the airbase suffered a humiliating major security breach.
Some 39 pieces of radio equipment, containing gold and platinum, were stolen after a cargo hatch was cracked open.
It isn’t the only controversy surrounding the “Kremlin in the sky”, after its Victory Day parade flyover was cancelled at the 11th hour in May.
It was claimed “bad weather” was the reasoning behind the decision, despite blue sky and sun being visible in Moscow at the time.
Along with the Doomsday jet, the Chkalovsky Air Base also houses Russia’s most sensitive reconnaissance planes.
This week’s embarrassing attack was claimed by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine, although no damage was inflicted on the Il-60s.
Kyiv’s military intelligence stressed Chkalovsky is “carefully guarded” and released the following statement.
“The event caused quite a bit of hysteria in the higher [Russian] military corridors – government planes, so-called ‘Doomsday planes’ and special [reconnaissance] aircraft are based at the airfield.
“Unknown persons planted explosives and detonated an An-148 and Il-20 aircraft – both belong to the 354th special purpose aviation regiment at the airfield.”
The Mi-28N helicopter “which was actively involved in shooting down attack drones over the Moscow region” was also damaged.
Another report added: “The saboteurs planted explosives and blew up the An-148 and Il-20 aircraft, as well as the Mi-28N helicopter, which had previously been actively involved in shooting down attack drones over the Moscow region.”
The damage “will not allow them to be quickly restored”, however.
A second An-148 also suffered some damage.
The attack was two days ago but was only revealed today.
Nonetheless, the Ukrainian intelligence report has confirmed that measures are already underway to find the saboteurs.
They said: “Punitive authorities of the Russian Federation are conducting measures to find the saboteurs and limit the dissemination of information about the event in the local media”.
The attack comes after another recent disaster when an Su-34 supersonic fighter-bomber strike aircraft crashed in a region bordering Ukraine.
The two pilots survived after managing to eject in time, according to reports.
However, it represented another embarrassing loss for Russia as it became the tenth aircraft in Putin’s air force to crash this year.
The Russian defence ministry claimed that a “technical malfunction” caused “failure of the left side landing gear”.
The resulting footage from the crash showed the aircraft up in flames in a field.
It is said to have crashed in the Kashira district of the Voronezh region near Kolodezny village.
Voronezh is home to several military installations including Baltimor airfield, home base for the 47th Mixed Aviation Regiment.
An Mi-28N helicopter, used to deter strike drones in the Moscow region, was hit[/caption]
Damage was also inflicted on an An-148 aircraft in the high security airfield[/caption]
The private air base is located on the outskirts of Moscow[/caption]
Chkalovsky Air Base is supposed to be locked down with high security to protect Putin’s aircraft[/caption]
September 20, 2023 at 07:58PM
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http://getsocialwise.com/2/post/2014/02/why-chinas-moon-rover-needs-a-facebook-page.html | 2017-12-16T07:04:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948585297.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20171216065121-20171216091121-00017.warc.gz | 0.921853 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__91836628 | en | By Ini Augustine
China’s Yu-Tu, or Jade Rabbit, lunar rover vehicle finally drove onto the moon’s surface in December 2013. This is China’s first soft landing on the Earth’s satellite in almost four decades and marks a huge advancement in the country’s space program. The moon rover landing is a symbol of China’s technological advancement and its rising global stature. China is among the first three countries to successfully complete a lunar rover mission after the United States and the Soviet Union.
This moon rover landing is a milestone for the country because it is one of the regions where China planned to expand and grow. Another reason for this mission is to extract the moon’s resources because the moon is believed to hold Uranium, Titanium and other important mineral resources.
Why China Used Facebook for Moon Rover
Many have wondered why China chose to showcase its moon rover images on Facebook when they could have set up a separate website or used platforms like Instagram and Vine. The importance of the answer intensifies as Facebook is not available for use by the average Chinese internet user since the Gridwall blocks its access.
Aside from the obvious reason of showing the world how accomplished China has become, the following are some of the reasons Facebook was chosen instead of other more specialized virtual spaces. | aerospace | 1 |
http://workforcesolutions.stlcc.edu/aerospace-institute/ | 2015-03-29T12:25:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298529.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00123-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.85573 | 454 | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-14__0__91427720 | en | - The Incredibly Obvious Logic of Lean Manufacturing
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https://rdzphotographyblog.com/tag/space-ships/ | 2022-12-05T01:34:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711001.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205000525-20221205030525-00473.warc.gz | 0.968028 | 2,016 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__121033813 | en | The George C Marshall Space Flight Center is NASA’s largest complex, where rocketry and propulsion are researched and developed.
Tours are available with proper ID as it is located on Redstone Arsenal. The tour departs from the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Museum via a NASA bus.
The administration building is where Werner Von Braun and others made space travel possible.
Most manufacturing companies have displays of their products at their corporate headquarters and NASA is no different, only theirs are far more interesting than others.
A display of 3 of the engines greet visitors to the building.
While most people think ‘Houston’ when it comes to NASA Mission Control in reality there are three – Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Florida for ‘Launch Control’, and Huntsville for ‘Payload Control’.
Within this building are the staff that manages the day to day workings on the International Space Station.
The lobby of the building have models of the ISS and an astronaut at work.
A commonly used expression throughout NASA are ‘racks’. Each rack of equipment has specific roles, and teams of engineers are responsible for their rack.
The Payload Operations Center was amazingly small given the critical nature of their work. Just a handful of people are monitoring and managing the effort.
The structures that support the testing of rockets during development are known as ‘stands’. This is likely the most famous stand in the history of rocket development – The Redstone Interim Test Stand.
It was built in 1953 for just $25,000 out of materials scavenged from around the arsenal. They had to do it this way because the government wouldn’t give them any more money than that.
A total of 362 static rocket tests were completed here. Their budget was so low they took railroad tank cars that had been used to transport chemicals – cleaned them and buried them 300′ away from the test stand for their bunker to monitor the tests from.
Nearby you could see some of the much larger, much more expensive newer test stands.
One of the biggest challenges in long duration space flight is water. Because humans need water to survive, they had to come up with a way to conserve water in many ways one would not expect.
They have developed systems to recycle urine and washing water onboard that result in potable water.
The system is held in these three racks. The rotating distillation unit separate liquid from gases, then is sent to another unit for solid removals before the liquid go through a number of filtration’s that remove micro organisms.
They continue to research and develop even more efficient units, and the men’s room has a special urinal that they collect samples from for further testing – so I contributed to science.
As we rode around the complex we passed a number of interesting structures including this small, but very long wind tunnel.
Our final stop was the rocket park where they have examples of the various rockets used in space travel over the years.
While the museum portion was interesting, the additional tour of the Marshall Space Flight Center was by far the best part of the day.
The city of Huntsville, Alabama is located in the northern Alabama hills. For many years it was a cotton producing town like many others nearby. All that changed in the 1940s when the military started using a nearby arsenal for rocket development.
After the war many German engineers were relocated here and together with American engineers began developing rockets. The most famous of these engineers was Werner von Braun. This effort has lead to Huntsville’s nickname – The Rocket City.
Fortunately not all of the efforts in rocket development was for the military. This technology has allowed man to explore space.
As you approach the museum you can’t help but notice the massive Saturn V rocket.
Inside the museum there is a plethora of space related artifacts including Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s space suit.
The museum showcases the development of the equipment used in space flight including these early prototypes for gloves and boots.
One of the few items you can touch, a replica of the Apollo Lunar Rover is on display for inspection. The seats felt like cheap lawn chairs but served their purpose for the astronauts in their bulky space suits.
Apollo 13’s challenges have been made famous by Hollywood, but Huntsville has a couple of the components from the real space craft.
The museum has a couple of the early EVA (Extravehicular Activity) units.
Another large display has mock ups of the International Space Station.
When the space shuttle program was decommissioned there was a fierce competition amongst museums for the remaining shuttles. Huntsville did not get one of the four that actually flew in space, but they did get Pathfinder’.
This full scale simulator was built here in Huntsville and was used in the development of the facilities required for shuttle launches.
While the shuttle itself is a mock up, the fuel tanks and boosters are very much real.
A closer view of the Saturn V shows it’s massive size, with a height of 363′.
This mock up of the lunar lander on the moon’s surface is located outside near a couple of amusement rides. The rides are there to entertain the thousands of tweens and teens who come every year for Space Camp.
The outdoor exhibits are showing the wear of being in northern Alabama weather for the last 30-40 years.
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Skylab was the first space station used, having been launched in the 1970s. After just 6 years it was discontinued and eventually fell back to earth. While most of it was destroyed during re-entry, this large piece was recovered in the desert in Western Australia.
The Davidson Center has more examples of space suits.
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With family in town that has a strong interest in aviation, a day long visit to the Air Force Museum in Dayton was called for. For this visit I focused on the cool and quirky aircraft (and spacecraft).
We start with the horizontal stabilizer of Douglas VC-54C Skymaster with the name of ‘Sacred Cow’. It was the first presidential plane, serving FDR.
The Lockheed VC-140B JetStar was the first business jet produced in quantity for the civilian market.
Because of it’s smaller size it was sometimes referred to as Air Force One Half.
A view from the outside of the cockpit of the Independence.
Another look at the Sacred Cow. While it was state of the art, from this angle it looks like there were 100 pieces of aluminum cobbled together.
Not alien, just not useful.
Early Stealth – the Northrup Tacit Blue. While it was stealthy, it apparently was aerodynamically unstable.
Much of the day was spent checking out the quirky noses on many of the planes.
North American X-15A-2. One bad airplane – Built to fly high and fast it made 199 flights starting in 1959, and it speeds of 4520 MPH!
It was the world’s first piloted aircraft to reach hypersonic speeds, and allow the pilots to earn astronaut wings flying as high as 67 miles above the earth.
But then – they made spacecraft! A Gemini and Apollo.
Back to the quirky noses.
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The new downtown Cleveland Convention Center was the site of a Lego fan convention called BrickUniverse. This show featured a number of Lego artists, as well as vendors with a large collection of specialty pieces.
As we entered the hall we were greeted by Jonathan Lopes, who had a number of very large pieces. Jonathan, a San Diego resident who used to live in Brooklyn, which was featured extensively in his grouping.
Nearby was Lia Chan who specialized in Air & Space.
There were a number of ‘paintings’ made of Lego throughout the exhibit. The detail was amazing.
A 12′ long model of the USS Missouri had thousands of small sailors, as well as the table and dignitaries that signed the surrender terms ending World War II.
Displayed nearby was a large collection of famed military leaders.
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The Eiffel Tower.
Another of Lia’s pieces up close showing the details.
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EUCOM said in an 11 April press release that the THAAD system from the Fort Hood, Texas-based 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade from the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command would be integrated into the NATO ballistic missile defence (BMD) architecture during a limited period of scheduled maintenance and updates of the Aegis Ashore missile defence system in Deveselu, Romania.
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http://all-aero.com/index.php/component/content/article/53-planes-l-m-n-o/16927-mace-m-101-macerschmitt-mace-could-bee | 2017-04-29T19:30:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123560.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00258-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.970027 | 515 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__284538169 | en | Mace M-101 Macerschmitt / Could-Bee
The 1959 M-101 Macerschmitt aka Could-Bee, designed by Harvey Mace, was a single place cabin, low wing monoplane.
From the outset, Mace was determined to design and build it completely on his own. This was done, with the sole exception of the paint job — George Pereira helped with that. Final assembly and weight and balance were completed on July 14, 1959.
M-101 with tip ailerons
The first flight was to leave Sacramento Municipal Airport to proceed to an abandoned auxiliary field the following morning. Registered N352L, the M-101 first flew on 15 July 1959. The scrap pile tail wheel tire decided it had had enough. It didn't have adequate aileron control. The tip ailerons could have been made to work with a little more area, as they worked at higher speeds Mace had plans all laid out for conventionals, but all this took another two months.
M-101 with conventional ailerons
After more flights, Macess wife flew it and dropped a wing in with superficial damage. The dinged prop was shortened and repitched to 65 pitch, 65 in. diameter, which was a fair compromise prop, and in actual practice, by stop watch, the "Macerschmitt" does 139 mph at 2350 rpm.
It still climbs at 1000 ft/min. at 6000 ft. at normal climb power, and 650+/min. at 11,000 ft.
The adjustable seat was excellent, as well as the sliding canopy. The variable incidence adjustment proved unnecessary. The adjustable stabilizer is needed in this airplane to compensate for weight differences. The 3.5 degree incidence was helping the landing and takeoff speed.
Only the one was built.
Engine: Lycoming O-290, 125hp / 93 kW
Propeller: 65 in. dia/65 in. pitch, 2 blade
Wingspan: 16 ft 6 in / 5.03 m
Wing area: 65.5 sq. ft / 6.09 sq.m
Airfoil: NACA 0009
Length: 17 ft 9 in / 5.41 m
Gross weight: 1000 lb
Empty weight: 685 lb / 311 kg
Max speed: 170 mph
Cruise speed: 150 mph
Stall: 80 mph
ROC SL: 2000 fpm / 10 m/s
ROC 12,000 ft: 650+ fpm | aerospace | 1 |
https://warthunder.fandom.com/wiki/Ground_Attack | 2022-01-22T00:24:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00556.warc.gz | 0.977959 | 473 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__195917107 | en | One subclass of attack aircraft is ground-attack aircraft intended for air-to-ground use, and not for naval use.
Currently, attack helicopters are the primary choice in the ground attack role. Few fixed-wing designs are currently employed, as air forces tend to assign the task to the ubiquitous multi-role combat aircraft (sometimes described also as strike fighters). Notable exceptions include the American A-10 Thunderbolt II and the Russian Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot.
Germany was the first country to explore the possibilities of a dedicated ground attack aircraft. The first were the CL-class and the J-class, developed to drop bombs and eliminate large areas of troops, buildings, and tanks. They were put into service in the autumn of 1917, 3 years after the start of WWI. One of the earliest ground-attack aircraft was based on the Junkers J.I which utilized the "Bathtub" armour providing exceptional protection for the fuselage, engine, and crew. The British quickly caught onto the German's ground attack aircraft designs and started developing some of their own.
Soon, the idea of dedicated ground attack aircraft caught on in other countries.
The disorganizational effect that air strikes have on moving elements in many cases superseded the actual material loss caused. This was evidenced when loss of air supremacy in a theatre was often followed by movement restrictions such that motorized or mechanized units would not move at all during the day. Ostriches, in spite of this, were encouraged to bound under threat of air attack despite the great personal dangers encountered. The most notorious daytime bounding Ostrich was known as Persh Thompson. Persh made 37 daring and successful sorties before finally meeting his fitting end, just west of the Ruhr in March of 1945, when he received no less than 14 .50000 caliber armored piercing rounds to the neck, head, and torso, most of which were actually below ground during the attack.
Over the years many different types of ground attack aircraft were produced to eliminate all kinds of ground troops and heavy armour.
The types of dedicated ground attack aircraft: Army Co-operation aircraft, Light bomber, Dive bomber, Scout bomber and Fighter bomber.
In War Thunder
In War Thunder itself, Ground attack aircraft can be found for all nations. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.angelfire.com/falcon/african/airzimbabwe.html | 2022-07-02T08:51:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103989282.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702071223-20220702101223-00521.warc.gz | 0.957959 | 7,687 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__265228953 | en | The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has been
awarded a local company, Glowtrack Auctions a tender
to auction seven
passenger aircraft, Nehanda Radio has established.
(Note: Strange. Checked Glowtrack Auctions on Facebook, seems to be a cardealer. No images of any AZIM aircraft)
“Glowtrack Auctions business interactions led to the award of a tender
to sell used passenger aircrafts on behalf of
the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) targeting both the local and regional and even international buyers,”
read the statement.
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The company is tasked to ensure public participation in the scheduled auction event in compliance with the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act (PPDPA), sell 7 Civil Aviation Authority passenger aircrafts that have been marked for disposal through public auction and realise auction proceeds “that are either equal to or above reserve values for each aircraft.”
Contacted for comment, CAAZ Public Relations and Communications Manager Annajulia Hungwe admitted that the
seven passenger aircrafts were being sold.She also said that “the tender was advertised in public newspapers” before
Glowtrack Auctions won it.
Over the past ten years, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) has been frequently grounded due to losses and technical problems
The true workhorse Air Zimbabwe Boeing 737-200 Z-WPA "Mbuya Nehanda"
soon leaving Air Zimbabwe ....
Robert Mugabe International airport (HRE) Zimbabwe
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Air Zimbabwe 50-seater Embraer ERJLR 145 Z-WPQ msn 145373.
The Embraer E-145 is short range jet with capacity of 50 passengers and has arange of up to 2.873km.
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767-200 Z-WPF
AirZimbabwe’s oversized, uneconomical and aged Boeing 767-2NO Z-WPF "Chimanimani´s" destiny is not known but will probably operate on longhaule routes in the future.
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 737-200 Z-WPA "Mbuya Nehanda".
What had Air Zimbabwe to do without its only airworthy 737-200 Z-WPA. From the beginning in 1986/87 "They" were the "Triplets" WPA, Mbuya Nehanda, WPB, Great Zimbabwe and WPC Matojeni . WPB and Z-WPC are stored probably both at Harare even if Z-WPB was logged last VFA/BUQ to Bulawayo.
However, the aircraft that was delivered brand new to Air Zimbabwe in 1986 was slowed down by an expensive and lengthy D-Check. The airline's engineers and mechanics apparently used the corona lockdown phase productively. As local media report, they made the Z-WPA fit again with great effort over months of work.
Then she is said to have taken off in Harare for a three-hour test flight, which put a smile on everyone's lips. Thus, the 34-year-old jet, which bears the name of the national heroine Mbuya Nehanda, could face a whole series of more years of service - just like many other 737-200s around the globe.
The Boeing 737 is and will remain a long-runner. This is especially true for the "original version" 737-200, which with its slim, loud and extremely thirsty JT8D engines doesn’t really fit into the times, but whose services will continue to be in demand in the future.
Even if the number of flyable specimens will continue to decrease, there will be a few oases and for the legendary "thunder pig" for a long time to come. Mbuja Nehanda is equipping its 737-200 with glass cockpits and even wants to expand the sub-fleet. After all, with the right maintenance, 40 years is no age for an aircraft ...
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 777-200 Z-RGM msn 28428 stored at Addis Ababa. Media reports that air-
craft is available for lease
The Airbus A320 Z-WPM in a deplorable condition after the perils are parked because the ownership
conditions are not resolved.
Air Zimbabwe Xian MA 60 Z-WPK msn 2016. Status unknown.
Is there any chance for Air Zimbabwe to solve the owner-problem of the Airbus A320-214 Z-WPM and the three MA-60 aircraft that are stranded behind the airport hangar in Harare regarding ownerproblem and with lack of funds to make them serviceable again.
Note: Images presented in connection with events are only a vision in connection with the background of
formally came into being on 1 September 1967, when the Government of Rhodesia created Air Rhodesia Corporation
to succeed Air Rhodesia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Central African Airways Corporation (CAAC) that had
existed since 1951 as a domestic airline within Rhodesia.
Douglas C47 Dakota VP-YKA at Harare (Salisbury) Int airport 1959
Photo: Brian Robbins
Central African Airways (CAA) 1953-1964
Central African Airways (CAA) was a supranational airline corporation serving as flag carrierfor Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (respectively the present day countries of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi), which were organised as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation, from 1953 to 1963. Based in Salisbury, it offered an extensive network of domestic passenger and cargo flights, as well as international services to major cities in Southern and Central Africa, and a route to London. In 1960, CAA owned 15 aircraft and had 1,155 employees.
Air Rhodesia 1964
Boeing 707-025 VP-YNL at Harare (Salisbury) Int. airport 1977
Air Rhodesia fleet at the Salisbury Int. airport 1975
Photo: Robin DW Norton
Vickers Viscount 748 VP-YNC at Bulawayo airport, Rhodesia early 1970s.
Photo: John Wheatley
Air Rhodesia was the national airline of Rhodesia. Its head office was located on the property of Salisbury Airport Rhodesia.
Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia 1979 - 1980
The airline was formed as a subsidiary of Central African Airways (CAA) in June 1964, but became an independent corporation on 1 September 1967. It flew internal routes to Buffalo Range, Bulawayo, Fort Victoria, Kariba, and Victoria Falls. During the 1970s, it operated international flights to Johannesburg and Durban in South Africa; Beira, Vilanculos and Lourenço Marques in Mozambique; and Blantyre in Malawi.
Air Rhodesia's mainstay aircraft were Douglas DC-3, Dakotas, Vickers Viscount 700D turboprops and Boeing 720 jetliners, which were successfully purchased in April 1973 despite sanctions against the Rhodesian government. After the country was renamed, the airline became known as Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, before reforming as Air Zimbabwe in 1980.
Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia Boeing 720-025 VP-YMN at Salisbury/Harare Int Airport 1973
"Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia" became the short-lived in 1978. Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia ordered construction of a large new hangar in 1979. Thoughts imediately turned to reopening routes to destinations long closed to the airline as a result of sanctions.
Air Zimbabwe 1980 -
Air Zimbabwe was formed in April 1980 when the Republic of Zimbabwe was formed. Thoughts imediately turned to reopening routes to destinations long closed to the airline as a result of sanctions.
Boeing 720 VP-YNL at London/Gatwick Int airport. 1973
In the beginning, Air Zimbabwe operated Air Rhodesias/AirZimbabwe Rhodesia older fleet which was then grounded when the new carrier upgraded the fleet with new modern aircraft.
Services connecting Harare with South Africa (Durban and Johannesburg) had been operated before the country gained its independence. Scheduled services began on 2 April 1980 to London Gatwick with on the inheritated Boeing 720-025.
Boeing 707-330B Z-WKS at London Heathrow Int airport 1982. UK
The company leased a Boeing 707-330 from South African Airways until May 1981, when three Boeing 707 were bought from Lufthansa. That year, flights to Frankfurt were inaugurated. The airline recorded a ZWL 330,000 (£220,000) profit for the fiscal year that ended on 30 June 1980. The two (2) last Vickers Viscount 810-serie were purchased by DAN-Air, UK.
Boeing 707-330B Z-WKS Harare Int airport, Zimbabwe 1981.
Photo: Edward Wasbuton
During 1982, a service to Perth and Sydney commenced; it was run in cooperation with Qantas and flown with Qantas Boeing 747SP aircraft. In May that year, the Government directed Air Zimbabwe and the national freighter airline Affretair to merge their operations. The freighter company was eventually taken over by Air Zimbabwe in July 1983. The cargo carrier continued its operations under the Affretair brand. During 1983, Air Zimbabwe became a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) It also extended its regional routes to Gaborone, Lilongwe, Lusaka and Nairobi.
By March 1985, Air Zimbabwe had 1,443 employees and the fleet comprised five Boeing 707-320Bs and seven Viscount 700s. At this time, the airline flew domestic services linking Harare with Buffalo Range, Bulawayo, Gweru, Hwange National Park, Kariba, Masvingo and Victoria Falls, regional services to Blantyre, Durban,Gaborone, Johannesburg,Lusaka and Nairobi, and intercontinental flights to Athens, Frankfurt and London. The Harare–Perth–Sydney route offered using Qantas Boeing 747SP aircraft was flown in association with Air Zimbabwe.
Boeing 737-200 OY-APC prior delivery at Copenhagen Int airport, Denmark 1995
Photo: Peter Schmidt
The airline decided in 1985 to renew the fleet and replace the ageing Boeing 720 aircraft by ordering three factory-new Boeing 737-200 and meanwhile waiting for the new aircraft to arrive, Air Zimbabwe leased a Boeing 737-200 Z-NIL (OY-APS) on a short-term contract from Maersk Air, Denmark
In 1986 and the first of three owned Boeing 737-200s Z-WKA was phased in and put into service in December that year. The leased Boeing 737-200 was returned to the lessor when the contract expired. The second Z-WKB and third aircraft Z-WKS of the type were delivered in June and July 1987. The additional capacity permitted route extensions to Dar es Salaam, Manzini, Maputo and Mauritius.
Here comes Air Zimbabwe´s first Boeing 737-200/ADV, Z-WPA, c/n 23677.
Photo: Hannes Meyer
British Aerospace BAE-146 Z-WPD at Harare Int airport 1988, Zimbabwe
A BAe 146-200 was bought in 1987 for domestic routes. Also in 1987, the airline announced its intentions to acquire Ilyushin Il-62s and -86s and Yakovlev Yak-42s instead of Western-built aircraft. These plans never materialized and Air Zimbabwe placed an order for two Boeing 767-200s. With registration Z-WPE and named "Victoria Falls", the first Boeing 767-200ER entered the fleet in November 1989.
Boeing 767-20N/ER, Z-WPE msn 24713
The Boeing 707 was retired from serving long-haul routes shortly afterwards These aircraft were still used to cover regional routes. The Viscount was definitely withdrawn from service in November 1989.
Boeing 767-20N/ER, Z-WPF msn 24867
The airline phased in the second 767-200ER (Z-WPF, named "Chimanimani") in late 1990. Two Fokker 50s were ordered in April 1995; they were delivered a month later.
Destination map from when the clouds of unrest were far away
The first Boeing 767_300 Z-WPF in the new livery 1990.
Photo: Björn Düwel
Fokker 50, Z-WPH, c/n 20105
Two Fokker 50s, Z-WPG and Z-WPH were delivered in early 1995 on a 10-years intended lease, but unfortunately these aircraft were incapable of serving the "hot and high-destinations" with adequate payloads and were returned to the lessor.
Boeing 737-200 Z-WPA returning from Uganda Airlines 1999 after it had been leased for five years.
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 737-200, Z-WPB and Z-WPC at Vic Falls Int. airport Zimbabwe 2001
Photo: Eduardo Paz
Financial turmoil and service disruption 2004
In February 2004, it was revealed that the company had been temporarily suspended by the IATA over un-
Transportation China has been involved in all aspects of public transportation in Zimbabwe: road, rail and air. In 2004, Air Zimbabwe reached an agreement with the Chinese National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation for the acquisition of a long-haul plane (replacing one of their B767?).
At the same time Air Zimbabwe signed an agreement to buy two Xian MA-60 Air Zimbabwe has also be-
nefitted from Chinese generosity through the gift of an MA60 aircraft that the airline has been using on
local and regional routes. Apparently China made a ”buy two get one free deal
It was noted at the time that this was aimed at assisting tourism in Zimbabwe. Although there were initial reports of technical difficulties, these were largely unfounded.
Xian MA60 Z-WPK at Vic Falls Int. airport Zimbabwe
Air Zimbabwe, took delivery of two Chinese aircraft, Z-WPJ in August Z-WPK on 27th May, Z-WPJ on 24th August and Z-WPL on 23rd December.
Xian MA60 Z-WPK msn 0303 at Harare Int. airport Zimbabwe 2015.
Photo:African Airliners archive
In October 2006, the prices of Air Zimbabwe tickets increased up to 500%, partly due
to the inflation in
the country rising to over 1,000% at that time the Zimbabwean Central Bank stated that it could not cont-
inue supporting Air Zimbabwe and other money-losing state companies and partly because
was in need of foreign currency to pay for fuel, spare parts, and catering. A foreign exchange crisis in the
country led to the cancellation of the carrier's operations in late 2005, following the lack of hard currency
to pay for the fuel. In 2006, it was disclosed that passenger numbers had fallen from 1 million in 1999 to 23,000 in 2005.
Xian MA60 Z-WPL parked for service at Johannesburg Int.airport, SA 2006.
Photo: Ray Barber
Due to lack of spareparts at the homebase, the Xian MA-60 Z-WPL was flewn to Johannesburg for service in September and returned for operations a month later.
Xian MA60 2009
Photo: African Airliners archive
On 11th March 2009, Harare Int. airport. During the takeoff in night-conditions the Xian MA60 Z-WPJ hit warthogs the on runway and the left main gear collapsed. The plane skidded on runway and veered off. All passengers ceased but the aircraft got extensiv body-damage. The aircraft was extensiv damage to the aircraft. The plane was withdrawn from use (WFU)at Harare Int airport.
AirQuarius or Foster Aero Int Fokker F28 ZS-DRF msn 11239 at Lanseria 2010, SA
Photo: A J Best
This is interesting a Fokker F28-4000 ZS-DRF in Air Zimbabwe titles that has been seen for some weeks in September 2010 at Lanseria (homebase) and at Jo-burg. It must have been a kind of atempt - a proposal, leased it to AirZim 2010 for awhile or what?
In February 2011, the airline had to cancel all flights to Johannesburg due to unpaid debts to creditors at
the airport. Regional and domestic services were suspended for a short period in May, following both the grounding of its Boeing 737-200 fleet by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) over maintenance concerns.
Boeing 737-500 9J-ZJC msn 29074
Photo:African Airliners archive
Boeing 767-200 Z-WKF was the only of the two B767s in this nice livery.
Photo:African Airliners archive
Operations resumed in late May 2011 but in late June 2011, Air Zimbabwe was forced to return the leased Boeing 737-500 from Zambezi Airlines as it was unable to afford the leasing costs. The plane was leased to compensate the lack of equipment following the grounding of its Boeing 737-200 fleet. The aircraft was mainly used to operate the Harare–Johannesburg route. It was disclosed the company had to fly the route using one of their Boeing 767s.
Z-WPA is still flying!
Photo: Sam Chui
Informed sources told reporters that Air Zimbabwe’s long haul aircraft, a Boeing 767-200 known as Victoria Falls, was seized by American General Supplies upon landing at London’s Gatwick International Airport on Monday morning from Harare International Airport.
American General Suppliers secured a court injunction in the US that gave them the power to impound the aircraft over US$ 1, 2 million debts.
Photo:African Airliners Archive
In mid-June 2011, flights to London and South Africa were temporarily suspended because of a due debt with fuel suppliers. Owing both to the grounding of the 737-200 fleet and to fuel shortages in the country, domestic services were suspended and regional flights were operated on an irregular basis. The airline started regularizing medium- and short-haul operations in July, as it got clearance from the CAAZ to op-
erate one of its three grounded 737-200, the Z-WPA.
Operations were discontinued again in late July 2011, this time due to a pilots' strike, resuming in mid-September after a 50-day-long strike. Once again, overseas and domestic flights were temporarily stopped in early November 2011, this time owing to an unpaid debt with fuel providers Overseas routes resumed on 11 November. However, flights to the United Kingdom and South Africa were suspended in January 2012 over likely impoundments of the airline's aircraft for outstanding debts.
In May 2011, the airline was suspended from IATA's international financial and booking system over unpaid booking fees. It was announced in early November 2011 that the government would absorb a US$140 million debt in order to make the company more attractive to foreign investors. Already in December 2011, the carrier struggled to provide its regional and overseas services amid aircraft impoundments over unpaid debts.
Despite versions for the acquisition of new aircraft were officially declined in July 2011 owing to a precar-ious cash position. It was disclosed that the airline bought an Airbus A340-500 and an Airbus A320, both new, in August 2011. As of January 2012, there had been discrepant versions over the acquisition of the new Airbus aircraft, since the secretary of the Zimbabwean Ministry of Transport has denied the transaction.
In January 2012, the airline came under judicial management. Following a failed revival attempt, in which the pilots refused to resume domestic services over US$35 million in unpaid salaries and allowances, it was announced on 24 February 2012 that Air Zimbabwe would be grounded indefinitely. The Xian MA60 Z-WPL aircraft that had been flewn to Johannesburg in July 2006 has returned to Harare for storage and is presumed for sale
Air Zimbabwe Private LTD
In March of the same year, the government of Zimbabwe established Air Zimbabwe Private Limited as the new owner of the carrier after disbanding the airline's former parastatal owner Air Zimbabwe Holdings and absorbing a US$150 million debt. The airline resumed flying on a continuous basis in early May 2012, yet using a singel Boeing 737-200 aircraft and serving only three domestic destinations: Bulawayo, Harare and Victoria Falls and only for a short period of time until the grounding of the aircraft on 2 July 2012.
The airline was reactivated in late November 2012, with a reduced flight scheme serving the Harare–Johannesburg route. Reports indicated the carrier resumed domestic operations connecting Bulawayo, Harare and Victoria Falls, as well as the regional route to Johannesburg, on a daily basis service with the aged Boeing 737-200.
Air Zimbabwe was under pressure to renew and expand its fleet in the face of growing competition. The airline had to lease aircraft on short term grounds to service some of its routes from time to time. To boost the airline´s only Boeing 737-200 that had resumed operation last July 2012, the government was forced to find a lessor which had an aircraft suitable for Air Zimbabwe.
Air Zimbabwe was at this time offered to dry lease two Airbuses A320-214 to a cost of US$ 200.000 each from the aviation broker China Sonangol International (the same company that had caused problem for AirTanzania) with disputed leasing contract of an Airbus A320) through Isle of Man brokers SouthJet. This contract was probably not sanctioned by government, but only signed by the airline's representatives.
Airbus A320-214 Z-WPN msn 630 at Harare Int airport January 2013, Zimbabwe.
The Airbus A320 Z-WPM ( msn 630) (the former Air Tanzania 5H-MWH) and the second Airbus A320 Z-WPN (msn 1973) were part of a 2012 deal between China Sonangol International (Hong Kong Int'l) and the then Mugabe regime to help revive the debt-ridden state-owned airline. The deal was structured via a pair of IOM-based SPVs, SouthJet. The first dry leased Airbus A320-214 Z-WPM entered immediately the important service to Johannesburg, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls routes.
Airbus A320-214 Z-WPN msn 630 at Harare Int airport July2013 ,Zimbabwe.
The second Airbus A320-214 Z-WPN was operating only a short time for Air Zimbabwe but due to a heavy landing at O.R Tambo International Johannesburg the landing gear was damaged. After a thorough investigation, it was found that the aircraft had several serious technical defects in the aircraft frame in addition to the damaged landing gear but sources in the aviation industry said that Air Zimbabwe took the plane to SAA because it did not have technicians trained to service the Airbus.
The Airbus A320-214 Z-WPN at the workshop for undergoing investigation of the landing-gear.
The aircraft was towed to a parking place and it never came in service due to lack of funds to repair it. The aircraft was then stored stored at Johannesburg Int airport, South Africa and was written off in January 2018,
Embraer ERJ145 ZS-BBH at Harare Int airport, 2014, Zimbabwe
In 28 March, Air Zimbabwe decided to wet-lease a fifty seater Embraer E145 jet for an initial period of six month to cover up their aged Boeing 737-200 which was undergoing heavy maintenance. The Embraer145 was leased from Solenta SA in South Africa to operate the important Harare Bulawayo-Vic Fall-Harare route.
Soon a new scandal hit the Zimbabwean national, when it occurred that the wet-leased ERJ-145 from Solenta, SA was leased for an initial period of six months but had now expired, but Air Zimbabwe continued to operate the aircraft until June 2014. According to carrier, the decision to enter into an agreement with Solenta was made on the basis that it was more economical to operate an ERJ-145 jet on domestic flights primarily instead to operate their much bigger Boeing 767-200 which was costly to run service with a low cabin factor.
The government was probing Air Zimbabwe's leasing deal of a the Embraer 50-seat plane, amid fears the embattled airline has lost millions of dollars through a huge fixed monthly rental of $204 000 for the jet. Sources said that the airline tried in vain to lease directly the planes from their manufacturers because of sanctions against the country. Other sources said the similar jet could be hired for between US$80 000 and
$120 000 monthly.
For this tender deal Air Zimbabwe had to paid over $3 million and is still now owing aboutUS $ 800 000, which adds up to about US $4 million. That is enough to cover a quarter of the price of a "new Embraer". The cancellation of the lease with Solenta whose managing director is from Zimbabwe - hit Air Zimbabwe hard and forced the struggling airline to dramatically increase its fares because of using their bigger aircraft, the Boeing 767 and 737, which was more expensive to run and maintain. They also guzzled fuel.
Approximately 600 employees out of more than 1,000 had been laid off by late May 2013 as part of cost-cutting measures aimed at recapitalising the airline.The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority revealed in June 2013 that the airline's market share suffered a steep decrease in the year ending 31 December 2012, with a 0.8% participation in this period down from 27% in the same period of 2009.
Big African AirShow held in Harare at Charles Prince Airport
Stunning -Captain Joe Mpauri flys Air Zimbabwe B737-200 Z-WKB "Great Zimbabwe" just 10 feet over the ground,
In 2016, ministers secretly created a debt-free new national airline – Zimbabwe Airways – in the hope that it would be capacitated with airplanes and eventually rise from Air Zimbabwe’s ashes. The new airline collapsed after the plan was exposed, leaving Air Zimbabwe to take over negotiations to acquire two Boeing 777 aircraft from Malaysia and an Embraer ERJ 145 from the United States.
Air Zimbabwe had to lease on short contracts i.e Boeing 737s from Starair Cargo (here seen ai.e Boeing 737-500 ZS-SPU) when their own aircraft are grounded.
After takeoff from Bulawayo Int. airport the Xian MA60 Z-WPK lost the preassure and the gasmasks were released. The plane returned to Bulawayo and all survived. The plane was later flewn to Harare Int. airport and it is reported that the aircraf tis for sale.
In early 2017 Air Zimbabwe forced to hire planes to serve its routes as foreign currency shortages are delaying the acquisition of spare parts for its grounded fleet. This has resulted in long flight delays and cancellations in the past week.
Punctually at 12.30 on January 20, Z-RGM landed at Harare International Airport the ex Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 in the livery of "Zimbabwe Airways" now registered Z-RGM (as an honoar to the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe) at Harare in the livery of "Zimbabwe Airways".
Since the airline could not secure its AOC for operating the aircraftit was parkedat Harare International airport. Then the B777 was shipped back to Malaysia on 25 May before a new deal was confirmed by the Zimbabwean authorities.
In November 2018, it became known that Zimbabwe Airways lost one of the planes as, reportedly, the government never payed for it. An unnamed official from the Ministry of Transport confirmed to "ZimLive" that: "The original plan was to buy four of the seven retired aircraft, but we have so far managed to pay for two fully of them, and a third should be secured. The Malaysians sold off the fourth after payment dragged on".
Apparently, the third aircraft was not secured and on December 10, Malaysia Airlines delivered it to Wilmington Trust Company (U.S.). The second B777 aircraft remained stored in Kuala Lumpur, presumably awaiting delivery to Harare.
On 8 June 2018, it was reported that Air Zimbabwe has debts of more than $300 million and can no longer fly to most destinations due to threats by debtors to impound its
Aircraft. With mounting debt and only three of its aircraft operational, the airline was put under administration on 6 October 2018.
Despite the current flight ban in Europe, Air Zimbabwe continued to operate flights to Bulawayo, Victoria falls, Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam
with their remaining aging aircraft, a Boeing B737-200 and a Boeing B767-200. At the end of the year, the Boeing 737-200 was taken out of service for heavy duty services.
In July 2019, Air Zimbabwe came under fire when news emerged that the financially struggling airline is “missing” three aircraft, were “stolen” or “lost”.
Zimbabwe Airways Embraer ERJ145 N812HK msn 145373
The rumour emerged after the Auditor-General of Zimbabwe issued a disclaimer of opinion on June 20, 2019. In it, the auditor outlines that in 2011-2014 the airline operated three MA60 aircraft, but none of them were accounted for in the company’s financial statements. There were no documents or agreements regarding if the aircraft were sold or leased.
In response to the backlash, one of the airline’s spokesperson told the local media that Air Zimbabwe did not purchase the three MA60s but continued - “For state enterprises, government comes in from time to time to offer shareholder support”.
Thus, it is the government that should have the missing documents. Meanwhile, the aircraft are not missing and “anyone is free to come and see them”.
This statement from the airline's spokesman is contradictory with reference to the 2004 agreement between the Chinese National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation and Air Zimbabwe that the airline buys two MA-60s and then receives as an generous gift from the seller another aircraft.
A late shot from Googel Earth shows "dusty" aircraft parked in the backyard closed to the maintenance area.
Harare Int. airport location of parked aircraft
Zimbabwe government took delivery of an Embraer ERJ145 N812HK msn 145373 at Harare
Int'l on Tuesday, April 30 in the livery of the controversial start-up carrier Zimbabwe Airways.
The former Trans States Airlines twin-jet was ferried to Southern Africa from Kansas City Int'l via Gander, Reykjavik Kefla vik, Belfast International airport, North Ireland , Malta Int'l, and Aswan, Egypt. The acquisition of this aircraft plane was a part of efforts to revive the national airline, Air Zimbabwe."
Still in the end of december the Zimbabwean government had not jet obtained the ownership and crucial operating manual for the Embraer
Boeing 777-200 Z-RGM on its way to the apron,.
Photo:African Airliners Archive
In January the first ex Malaysia Airlines B777-200 with registration Z-RGM landed at Harare International airport.A delegation of participants from the government and the airline led by the country's Acting president and the airline's management a welcome ceremony was held. The President said in his speech "With this receipt of this Boeing 777 aircraft is clear testimony that we are taking concrete steps to capacitate our national airline so that it plays a role in promoting economic growth, creating jobs and facilitating international trade and tourism,” - further he continued “This initiative is therefore, part of our efforts towards the realisation of Vision 2030, as informed by our economic blueprint, the Transitional Stabilisation Programme.
The ownership of two A320s?
“This initiative is therefore, part of our efforts towards the realisation of Vision 2030, as informed by our economic blueprint, the Transitional Stabilisation Programme. Government remains committed to ensuring that our beloved national airline is restored to full functionality. That speech sounded very promising but there was another but
In April it was disclosed that the acquired B777 would be flown to Addis Ababa for positioning possible leasing out. Ethiopian Airlines had agreed to take possession of the aircraft maintain it until it will be leased to an airline that has shown interest in possibly leasing the aircraft on a two-year contract.
The second B777-200, Z-NBE was delivered to Air Zimbabwe in October the same year with the same destiny as Z-RGM. At the end of the year, no airline had yet signed an agreement with the lessor.
Still in the end of December the Zimbabwean government had not jet obtained the ownership and crucial operating manual
for the Embraer ERJ-145.
Air Zimbabwe A320-214 Z-WPM in front of Air Zimbabwe hangar at Harare International airport.
In June Air Zimbabwe was up in court to fight for ownership of two A320s. The two Airbus planeswere delivered to the carrier over seven years ago, but have barely been used yet.
Air Zimbabwe is in a tug of war with the Isle of Man company South Jet over two Airbus A320s. The aircrafts which are apparently parked up and not suitable for use right now, were acquired by the airline in 2012. However, the circumstances of the acquisition are muddy.
The carrier claims that the aircrafts were donated to the Government of Zimbabwe by authorities
The two Airbus A320-200s, registered Z-WPM and Z-WPN, we arranged to go to Zimbabwe in
a deal spearheaded by China Sonangol International. At the same time, the Chinese partner was looking to bail out the Mugabe regime and help revive the debt-laden national carrier.
The deal was brokered through two Isle of Man "special purpose vehicles", known as South Jet One and SouthJet Two. Z-WPM entered into active service for a while, but Z-WPN has been parked at Johannesburg O.R.Tambo since the start of 2014.
A320-200 Z-WPM cn 630 stored JNB
A320-211 Z-WPN cn 1973 stored HRE
B737-2NO/ADV Z-WPA cn 23677 in service
B737-2NO/ADV Z-WPB cn 23678 stripped for spareparts
B737-2NO/ADV Z-WPC cn 23679 stripped for spareparts
B767-2NO/ER Z-WPE cn 24867 engineless
B767-2NO/ER Z-WPF cn 24713 in service
B777-200/ER Z-RGM cn 28421 stored at HRE (for lease or sale)
B777-200/ER Z-NGB cn XXXXX stored at HRE (for lease or sale)
Bae 146-200 Z-WPD cn E2065 wfu HRE
Embraer ERJ 145 N812HK in service
Xian MA 60 Z-WPJ cn 302 damaged
Xian MA 60 Z-WPK cn 306 wfu stored
Xian MA 60 Z-WPL cn 304 wfu damaged
Behind the curtains
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 7372NO/ADV Z-WPC. The flightdeck stripped for spareparts.
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 7372NO/ADV Z-WPC. The cabin stripped for spareparts.
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http://www.krmg.com/news/local/see-restored-tulsa/p0hUkbW84p0AJYcuCMkIJJ/ | 2017-06-27T06:59:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321025.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627064714-20170627084714-00110.warc.gz | 0.925781 | 191 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__41034021 | en | World War II flying fortresses will be in Tulsa today through this weekend through the work of Commemorative Air Force out of Texas.
Two B-17's will be available for the public to get an upclose look at starting at noon today.
Of the original 12,731 B-17's built, only 9 are still able to fly today.
The Texas Raider and a PT-19 Trainer, Silver Ghost will be at Jones Riverside Airport until Sunday.
All planes will be open for public tours and people can talk to the flight crews for the entire weekend.
World War II Veterans and active duty service personnel can tour for free with their military ID.
The cost for the public is $10 for adults, $5 for children under age 12 or $20 for a family of five.
The planes will be located at the Christiansen Aviation Flight School at Jones Riverside Airport, 8767 Jack Bates Avenue in Tulsa. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flyjetaccess.com/blog-2/first-wing-flight-chief-flight-instructor-earns-distinguished-flight-instructor-title-from-aopa/ | 2023-12-05T01:11:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100540.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205010358-20231205040358-00732.warc.gz | 0.965775 | 418 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__133036317 | en | First Wing Flight Chief Flight Instructor and Cirrus Aircraft Platinum Flight Instructor Pat Gaston has been named a 2019 Distinguished Flight Instructor by AOPA: your freedom to fly.
The 2019 Flight Training Experience Survey received 7,585 complete responses. From that feedback, 972 flight schools and 1,876 flight instructors were reviewed by their customers. Awards were chosen for standout schools and for instructors with at least five independent reviews and consistently superior ratings.
Customers highlighted educational quality, customer service, information sharing, and community among the 51 distinguished flight schools and 53 distinguished instructors who comprised the top one-third of their region. A blind committee of industry experts awarded the top-scoring flight school and instructor in each of six regions—Eastern, Southern, Great Lakes, Central Southwest, Northwest Mountain, and Western Pacific. A seventh award was presented to the overall national award winner.
“Your students are the future of our community, and when you serve them well, you serve us all,” said AOPA You Can Fly Executive Director Elizabeth Tennyson. “Without great CFIs and flight schools, there would be no pilots. You teach, you motivate, you inspire. And for every would-be pilot who walks through the door, you make the difference between dreaming and doing.”
The awards help celebrate those who provide a customer experience that can elevate pilots of all levels, said Moser, who complimented the group of “amazing aviation educators.” The survey and accompanying awards are based on AOPA research that identified four characteristics that Moser said were critical to providing the best flight training experience: educational quality, customer focus, community, and information sharing. “While those areas may seem like common sense, it takes commitment and hard work to consistently deliver them to customers,” he said.
The 2019 survey results were used to select winners of the Flight Training Experience Awards which were presented during Redbird Migration, October 15-17, in Englewood, Colorado
The 2020 Flight Training Experience Survey will open in early summer. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.seeker.com/nasa-finds-cause-of-voyager-2-glitch-1765058919.html | 2023-12-07T07:21:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100650.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207054219-20231207084219-00258.warc.gz | 0.933263 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__42712628 | en | NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch
What a difference a bit makes. NASA engineers believe they have traced the cause of Voyager 2's gibberish to single bit in the spacecraft's memory.
What a difference a bit makes. NASA engineers believe they have traced the cause of Voyager 2′s gibberish to single flip of bit in the spacecraft's memory.
"A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1," said JPL's Veronia McGregor.
Voyager 2 left Earth on Aug. 20, 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn. It successfully finished that mission, then flew by Uranus and Neptune before heading into interstellar space.
Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, are both expected to enter interstellar space - the first human-made objects to do so - in the next five years.
Earlier this month, engineers suspended Voyager 2′s science measurements because of an unexpected problem in its communications stream. A glitch in the flight data system, which formats information for radioing to Earth, was believed to be the problem.
Engineers were able to replicate the glitch in a computer lab, showing that a single bit flip was responsible. NASA plans to reset Voyager's memory tomorrow.
The spacecraft is so far away it takes nearly 13 hours for a radio signal from Earth, traveling at the speed of light, to reach it, and another 13 hours to receive a response.
Image: Artist's rendering of Voyager 2 in the outer regions of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble around the solar system generated by the solar wind. Credit: NASA. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.thetruthdenied.com/news/2013/05/07/flight-trackers-do-chemtrail-planes-actually-show-up-on-aviation-tracking-devices/ | 2024-04-23T23:06:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818835.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423223805-20240424013805-00700.warc.gz | 0.925084 | 1,370 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__128276859 | en | Is it possible that Flight Trackers can spot every plane in the sky, including chemtrail and military planes, or are they unreliable?
In the past, you may have read something like this:
“I’m sure you already see where this is going. It is theoretically possible to identify every commercial plane you see overhead either by pointing your iPhone camera at it or locating it on the screen of your computer. If the debunkers are correct, we will find that planes spewing trails from horizon-to-horizon all will be identified as commercial craft, and what we see are merely normal contrails after all. On the other hand, if we find that commercial craft do not leave streaks from horizon to horizon but the ones that do are missing from the system … well, even the most die-hard skeptic would have to take a serious look at that.”
At first glance, it appears to be a good idea, but were you aware that any chemtrails debunker will not hesitate to suggest for us to track a plane with a flight tracker service? That got me thinking. Most likely it s because Flight tracker is not a 100% reliable source for tracking all planes. You see, FLIGHT TRACKER depends on aviation reports, and if the , let’s say pilot of a chemtrail plane wishes to remain invisible on a tracker, they simply do not report the flight.
“Flightradar24 would not exist if it weren’t for our data feeders. As a thank you, they all get access to a premium version of Flightradar24.com. We are also very grateful to the volunteers that update the airplane and route databases every day.”
“Flightradar24 shows live air traffic from around the world. The primary technology we use to receive flight information is called automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B).
In addition to ADS-B data, we also get data from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States. This data is based on radar data and includes all commercial air traffic in US and Canadian air space (i.e. not just planes with ADS-B transponders). Unlike the ADS-B data that is presented real-time, the FAA data is delayed by roughly 5 minutes due to FAA regulations. On the Flightradar24 map, all planes based on FAA data are orange.
Pay special attention to the following statement:
Common aircraft models that do not have an ADS-B transponder and are NOT visible on Flightradar24 :
(*show list of planes*)
There are also some older A300, A310, A320, B737, B747, B757, B767 aircraft flying without and ADS-B transponder, which make those aircraft invisible on Flightradar24.
Flightradar24 relies on volunteers around the world for the majority of our coverage. Find out how you can contribute.”
“Why can’t I see every plane?
By way of explanation we pick up ADS-B data transmitted by aircraft and received by ground base stations. Aircraft must be equipped with suitable transmission equipment for them to be detected by our receivers. Currently not all aircraft are equipped – Europe is currently well ahead of the US. Across the world countries are making ADS-B mandatory for most aircraft over the coming years so this will get better and better too.
Why can’t I see planes in my area?
We operate a growing network of our own equipment supported by data sharers across the globe. However we don’t yet have data for all locations. We are actively adding ADS-B feeds as fast as we can but please let us know if your area is missing and we’ll do our best to help. If you can share data, know of any data ADS-B data sources or would be interested in hosting equipment for us then please let us know.”
“Why do some aircraft appear with a BLOCKED tail number?
A BLOCKED tail number is an aircraft where the owner/operator has requested to have their tail number removed from display on flight tracking tools via the NBAA’s BARR (Blocked Aircraft Registration Request) program. To have your tail number BLOCKED, go to http://www.nbaa.org/@@wACoAAPQOwEA/asdi/.
Why can’t I track VFR flight, military flights, and certain non-US registered GA flights?
The FAA filters out military, non-US registered, and sensitive traffic. Other than that, you can track any IFR, VFR (with flight following requested), and Canadian registry GA flights.”
“Why don’t all flight trackers provide the same information?
To be useful to travellers and family members, flight trackers often have to fill in some of the gaps in the data from government sources, gate times, for example. There are other variables to consider. There is typically, but not always, a message sent to an air traffic control centre on departure. In the cases where that message is not sent, a flight tracker needs to make a best guess about the actual departure time. The same goes for arrival times. The methods that the various flight trackers use to guess vary – causing discrepancies in information provided by different flight tracker tools.”
A good explanation of how ADS-B work:
In conclusion, due to the inaccuracy of the flight tracker ,the observer of a chemtrail plane simply cannot trust the program, so keep taking those photos, keep sending them in, and please remember to date stamp your photos. Until we come up with a more trustworthy aviation tracker, it’s back to the drawing board for most of us!
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https://www.cheapflightsdeal.net/flights/dallas-fort-worth-international-airport-dfw/southampton-airport-sou/ | 2020-05-30T02:46:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347407001.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20200530005804-20200530035804-00156.warc.gz | 0.696571 | 551 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__59927332 | en | Atlanta to Southampton flight Atlanta to Dallas flight Los Angeles to Southampton flight Los Angeles to Dallas flight Chicago to Southampton flight Chicago to Dallas flight New York to Southampton flight New York to Dallas flight Denver to Southampton flight Denver to Dallas flight San Francisco to Southampton flight San Francisco to Dallas flight
IATA : SOU
ICAO : EGHI
Airport Type : Public
City : Southampton
State : EN
City Served : Eastleigh near Southampton
Country : United Kingdom
Country Code : GB
Continent : Europe
Time Zone : Europe/London
Latitude : 50.950725
Longitude : -1.361318
Elevation : 44 Feet
ADV - Ed Daein Airport - Ed Daein, Sudan - 19 miles
BBP - Bembridge Airport - Bembridge, United Kingdom - 22 miles
ODH - Royal Air Force Station - Odiham, United Kingdom - 27 miles
QUG - Goodwood - Chichester, United Kingdom - 27 miles
BOH - Bournemouth Airport - Bournemouth, United Kingdom - 31 miles
There are Few Direct/Connecting flight(s) operating from DFW to SOU. cheapflightsdeal.net provides you the cheapest flights deal round the World. From Dallas (Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport) to Southampton (Southampton Airport) total distancen is 4,720 miles.
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https://www.traveldailymedia.com/new-tourist-class-seats-created-for-short-haul-flights/ | 2021-03-03T20:52:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178367790.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210303200206-20210303230206-00035.warc.gz | 0.96422 | 389 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__203612285 | en | A new type of seat has been unveiled for Boeing 737 aircraft serving short-haul routes.
The “Tourist Class” seats, created by Lift by EnCore, are on display this week that the 2016 Hamburg Aircraft Interiors Expo in Germany. They have been created especially for the Boeing Sky Interior cabins on the B737 and B737 MAX aircraft, which are the mainstays of many low-cost carriers’ fleets.
According to EnCore, the slim-line seats are designed to “maximise passenger seating space, regardless of the pitch chosen by an airline”.
Tourist Class will be available for both new and existing aircraft, and the first seats are expected to be installed by mid-2017.
“We welcomed the opportunity to partner with Boeing to deliver a seat that perfectly complements the Boeing Sky Interior while setting the industry standard for comfort and reliability,” said Tom McFarland, owner & CEO of the EnCore group.
Alan Wittman, director of Boeing’s seat integration team, added; “A seat designed in such close collaboration with an airframer is an industry first. This collaboration will allow airlines and leasing companies to build on the success of the Boeing Sky Interior in a whole new way. It also means our customers will be able to better serve their customers and differentiate themselves in the marketplace.”
According to Encore, the new Tourist Class seats are designed to provide “an open and comfortable environment in the main cabin”. They have also been designed to be easily maintained and durable, “ensuring long-term comfort and reduced cost of ownership”.
Currently in the design and certification phase, Tourist Class seating could prove popular with LCCs such as Ryanair, Lion Air, SpiceJet and Norwegian Air Shuttle, which operate large fleets of B737s. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.flatpyramid.com/3d-models/vehicles-3d-models/aircraft/style/military/mq-1-predator/ | 2024-04-21T07:52:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421071342-20240421101342-00492.warc.gz | 0.957674 | 566 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__45092709 | en | The MQ-1 Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft. The MQ-1s primary mission is interdiction and conducting armed reconnaissance against critical, perishable targets. When the MQ-1 is not actively pursuing its primary mission, it acts as the Joint Forces Air Component Commander-owned theater asset for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition in support of the Joint Forces commander.
Model of the Mq1 Predator UAV with two Hellfire missiles.
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The MQ 1 predator is an American medium altitude and long-endurance, remotely pilot aircraft. An aerial vehicle which can fly without a pilot on board. MQ-1 predator was built by the american american and defense corporation company General Atomics, the aircraft was primarily used by the United States Air Force (USAF) and (CIA) Central Intelligence Agency.
MQ 1 predator was first created in the 1990s for the purpose of aerial reconnaissance and other military operations. MQ-1 took the first flight on 3 july 1994 and later introduced on 1 july 1995. United States Air Force has now retired the MQ 1 predator, but it is still used by the Italian Air Force, Turkish Air Force and Royal Morrocan Air Force.
From its first production in 1995, the MQ 1 was produced for 23 years and its manufacturing was closed in 2018. During this period 360 aircrafts were produced (285 RQ-1 and 75 MQ-1). By 2011 the total cost of the whole program is estimated to be US $2.38 billion and per unit cost of one aircraft is US$4.03 million.
During a flight the predator carries camera and other sensors with it. Later it was upgraded to carry the ammunition with it.
This is a 3D model of MQ 1 predator UAV with two hellfire missiles. The 3D model is completely polygonal and all the major components of the aircraft are named and placed in their respective group. Full texture and materials are included in our 3D model.
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https://www.flightpedia.org/flights-from-st-petersburg-to-ashgabat.html | 2018-03-19T16:51:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647003.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319155754-20180319175754-00452.warc.gz | 0.837787 | 139 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__227201083 | en | Flights from St Petersburg to Ashgabat (LED to ASB)
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The average distance from St Petersburg to Ashgabat is 3122 kilometers (equals to 1939 miles or 1685 nautical miles).
Your flight will departure from Pulkovo Airport, Russia and arrive on Ashgabat Airport, Turkmenistan. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.army.cz/en/ministry-of-defence/newsroom/news/czech-mil-mi-24v-helicopters-attract-well-deserved-attention-at-italian-blade-2015-exercise-112680 | 2018-11-21T10:19:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039747665.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20181121092625-20181121114625-00100.warc.gz | 0.950773 | 356 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__183712589 | en | Czech Mil Mi-24V helicopters attract well deserved attention at Italian Blade 2015 exercise
The Italian city of Viterbo recently hosted a two-week international coordination exercise, held under the auspices of the European Defence Agency. Helicopter crews, forward air controllers, and ground personnel from ten countries, in a joint exercise, demonstrated their skills in the support, planning and execution of mission flights.
The Czech Republic was the second largest participant in the exercise, with three Mil Mi-24V helicopters, pilots and support personnel from the 221st Helicopter Squadron based in Namest. The exercise, which ended last week, included mutually coordinated flight missions of international crews, close air support, air drops, and a number of air operations that helicopter crews may encounter during real-life combat. More than a thousand soldiers and 38 aircraft paticipated.
“The European Defence Agency makes a concerted effort to supplement training carried out within NATO. Italian Blade is the eighth exercise of this sort in which we have succeeded in eliminating the training and procedurial differences among participating teams. These helicopter exercises are focused on enhancing interoperability, standardisation of training procedures, mission planning and execution. ” said Milos Pecha, representative of the European Defence Agency.
The legendary Mi-24 (“Hind” in NATO code) clearly showed that it was not ready for the scrap heap. This all-purpose machine was capable to doing any type of task required of it. “The machine achieves a high performance level and transport capacity, and we are delighted with the interest from the other participants.” said Major Jan Vanicky, the pilot of the 221st Squadron, during a discussion regarding the Italian logistics support of the exercise.
July 15, 2015 | aerospace | 1 |
https://technosports.co.in/2021/11/22/rocket-fuel-from-space-debris-an-ambitious-project-seeks-to-develop-a-gas-station-in-space/ | 2021-12-09T12:31:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964364169.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20211209122503-20211209152503-00412.warc.gz | 0.95719 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__119008270 | en | Faced with the increase in the amount of debris from old spacecraft and satellites orbitinf our planet, the Australian firm Neumann Space, along with three other companies, has launched an ambitious joint project that seeks to reduce the amount of space debris, by recycling it and converting it into rocket fuel, as per reports from the Guardian
To achieve this goal, the company has partnered with the Japanese startup Astroscale, which has previously demonstrated the feasibility of using satellites to collect garbage in space, with the American company Nanorocks, which is responsible for developing technology to store and cut waste.
In orbit, as well as with Cislunar, which works on a foundry-based system to create metal rods.
As explained by the executive director of Neuman Space, Herve Astier, the propulsion device they have developed can use these rods as fuel; “The system ionizes the metal that creates thrust to move objects in orbit,” he explained.
Currently, efforts to solve the problem of space debris are focused on collecting it and taking it into the atmosphere to be burned; however, the consortium’s approach aims to take advantage of the waste without the need to transport it.
“It will be like developing a gas station in space,” Astier said. As per experts, due to the high speeds at which satellites orbit, close to the 28,000 kilometers per hour, a small screw or a speck of paint could cause great damage to the International Space Station, posing a great risk to astronauts and communication systems in general. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/proficiency/flight-training/takeoff-mistakes-the-critical-minute.html | 2015-11-28T20:32:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398453805.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205413-00344-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957787 | 1,231 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__128078132 | en | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Takeoff Mistakes: The Critical Minute
It all has to come together in the first 60 seconds, or the rest of the flight may not matter
Willett died in the first minute of flight out of Lakeland, Fla., back in the mid-’80s. He was loaded with ferry fuel for a trip to South America, and shortly after takeoff, the airplane was seen to pitch up, stall and nose straight in. Willett was probably killed on impact. We’ll never know for sure what happened to him, but it’s apparent something went very wrong during that critical first minute.
The initial 60 seconds after you push the throttle(s) up remain the riskiest part of any flight. Some pilots regard the landing as the acid test, but barring pilot error, the airplane has already proven its willingness to fly by that time. Each takeoff is a new test.
Instructors have been warning for years that many takeoff accidents are born during the preflight, long before the pilot even starts the engine. Though most pilots will agree that checklists can shortstop omissions in the cockpit, too many of us fail to use them during the preflight. You’ll notice I said “us.” Many aviators, this one included, have started engines with chocks still in place, or with one or more tiedown ropes still attached. Another common problem is pilots leaving pitot-tube or engine-intake covers in place, again easily avoided with a takeoff checklist.
In one instance, the pilot of an A36 Bonanza dragged a large piece of concrete to the run-up area, and actually initiated takeoff with the huge concrete block still attached. To the surprise of several witnesses, the airplane actually managed to stagger into the air before the huge block won the tug of war, pulled the tail down, and slammed the airplane back to the runway, collapsing the gear and totaling the airplane. The pilot was lucky to walk away.
An appropriate preflight is critical on all aircraft, but some owner/pilots who keep their aircraft in private hangars have a natural advantage. Not much can change between flights on hangared, private aircraft, whereas aircraft operated by a variety of rental pilots and stored outside can experience more adverse changes, and many of those won’t be noted on the squawk sheet.
Fly The Airplane First
Too many takeoff accidents don’t have to happen. Some of the most common of these devolve from a cabin or baggage door popping, a storm window coming unlatched (though most of those simply seal up tight from the inside), or an oil door suddenly arcing full open as the aircraft lifts off. The change in angle of attack and airflow often precipitates anything loose to open.
Rotation speed is one of the busiest times anyway, and the last thing you need when you’re initiating liftoff is an emergency that really isn’t one. Most aircraft manifest little or no aerodynamic reaction to an open door, but the noise and rush of air can deceive an unwary pilot into believing he has a real problem. The cardinal rule is to ALWAYS continue to fly the airplane first, and troubleshoot the problem second.
Sixty seconds without a critical failure is no guarantee of success on the flight, but if you’re smart enough to leave everything alone, it should provide a good hedge against problems. Gear and flap retraction might seem obvious exceptions, and most of the time, that’s true. Most of the time. Some manufacturers suggest you lose virtually nothing in climb by leaving takeoff flaps deployed, and there even are circumstances when quick gear retraction is inadvisable.
I was flying out of a near-7,000-foot-tall mountain strip recently on a gusty day, and someone on the Unicom alluded to possible wind shear. Forewarned, I didn’t immediately retract my Mooney’s landing gear when I had positive rate. Good thing. Climbing through 100 feet AGL, airspeed dropped by 20 knots, and the airplane began to sink back toward the runway. Fortunately, we didn’t descend all the way to the asphalt, but if we had, at least the wheels would still have been under me.
I’ve always followed the advice of an old instructor who once preached poetically, “When you push the throttles forward, don’t do nuthin’ but fly till there’s plenty of sky.” After you put the wheels to bed and streamline the underwing (assuming no wind shear), leave the power running at maximum for at least the next three to five minutes, and fuel pumps on if they’re required for takeoff. I leave pumps on for at least the first 3,000 feet. If the engine-driven pump fails and only the electric is available to maintain power, I’d rather discover that fact at 3,000 feet than in the first minute when a temporary lapse of power could be more critical.
On that score, it’s important to assure that the pump actually works well before you begin takeoff. On those airplanes that demand pumps for engine start, you have an obvious clue if the pump fails, but guarantee that it still works as you taxi out. On other airplanes, it may be more difficult to determine pump health.
One method of checking operation is looking for a spike in fuel pressure, though that’s often not definitive on airplanes with low pressure systems. A second method is to watch for an ammeter drop, though again, most pumps draw so little power, you may not see much change. Finally, you can simply listen for the sound of the pump, preferably at idle power.
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https://warriormaven.com/russia-ukraine/us-nato-russia-no-fly-zone-ukraine | 2022-10-02T00:05:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030336978.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001230322-20221002020322-00289.warc.gz | 0.967341 | 1,461 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__11685772 | en | While discussions about the merits and risks of implementing a “no-fly” zone above Ukraines are likely to be filling the halls at the Pentagon, senior DoD officials are reiterating that US forces will not fight in Ukraine.
Ukraine No-Fly Zone
Any move to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine would of course place the US and NATO on a direct collision course with Russia, a scenario which introduces the possibility of massive escalation into a US-NATO vs Russia great power world war. The risks involved with such a possibility are almost beyond imagination, given the scale, scope and global implications of such a conflict.
However, Russian attacks are killing children and innocent civilians with long-range air and missile strikes are now hitting apartment buildings, residential areas and Ukrainian government buildings, according to multiple media reports. Russian attacks appear to be about to escalate in potentially catastrophic ways and thousands of ordinary Ukrainian citizens are picking up weapons to fight invading Russians with remarkable tenacity.
Is the thought of actually pursuing a no-fly zone getting traction? There are a few interesting dynamics to consider, principally the seemingly significant advantage the US and NATO would likely have in the air. Assuming stealth aircraft could succeed in locating, destroying or eluding Russian air defenses, something which seems realistic, the circumstance in the air would seem to massively favor NATO.
The question may simply be one of numbers. Russian press reports consistently say that only about 12 5th-generation Su-57 stealth fighters have been built and that there are plans to add about 70 more in coming years. Even if the Su-57 were able to rival the F-35, and there is no real indication that it could, Russian 5th-gen aircraft would be operating at a massive deficit. The US alone operates hundreds of F-35s which, if joined by European counterparts, would seem to be capable of forming multiple expansive, multinational F-35 formations across a wide operational envelope to pursue air superiority.
Using long-range targeting sensors and precision-guided air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, F-35s might be able to see and destroy large numbers of Russian 4th generation fighter jets at safe standoff distances.
Should air supremacy be achieved, clearly advancing Russian ground forces would be extremely vulnerable and could potentially be disabled or completely eliminated from the air. Is there a US and global will to consider this option and take such an enormous risk? As long as Russia continues to murder children, it seems the possibility at least merits consideration.
Pentagon Says Ukrainian Air Space Still “Contested”
Alongside disturbing images of Russian missiles destroying apartment homes, killing civilians and government buildings in Ukraine and satellite images of a massive Russian convoy headed for Kyiv, there is a less visible, yet highly significant air war taking place in the sky. It is an air war which appears to be far more contested than some might have anticipated.
Senior Pentagon officials estimate that Russia is operating more than 75 aircraft over Ukraine, yet much is still unknown and Pentagon officials say the “airpace is actively contested every day."
“The airspace over Ukraine continues to be contested. The Russians do not have air superiority over the entire country but there are areas where they have more control than others, and the same goes for the Ukrainians,” a senior Pentagon official told reporters, according to a Pentagon transcript.
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The fact that the airspace is still contested seems somewhat surprising and does possibly speak to the confidence and resolve of Ukrainian pilots and fighter jets. Global Firepower's 2022 military assessments reveal a massive discrepancy between Russian and Ukrainian air power, listing Russia as operating 772 fighter jets compared with Ukraine at 69 fighter jets.
Why haven’t the Russian’s achieved air superiority? Russia is known to operate a large number of capable 4th-generation aircraft and Russian news reports say 12 5th-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jets have been built. Could Russia be using them?
One would think that Russia would seek to exploit its numerical advantage in the air, yet perhaps the smaller Ukrainian fighter jet force is outperforming Russian attackers, or perhaps Ukrainian air defenses are proving more effective than Russia may have anticipated.
A senior Pentagon official confirmed that Ukrainian air defenses were in fact working well, telling reporters that “Ukrainian air and missile defense systems remain viable, and intact, and engaged,”
The senior Pentagon official said the Russian have “lost some” fighter jets and that the Ukrainians have as well. The official said few specifics were available regarding the ongoing air war, and when asked by a reporter why the Russian convoy has not been attacked from the air, the official said the Russians may be protecting the convoy with air assets. The convoy certainly is a visible target as hundreds of vehicles are congested next to one another in rapid succession, offering aircraft a clear opportunity to strike.
“I can't tell you with certainty why this convoy hasn't been attacked. We have to assume that the Russians are aware that it is a very long convoy with a lot of vehicles and that they are going to be interested in trying to protect that as best they can, but I can't speak to the specifics of, you know, whether they have aircraft flying over it and what they're doing. But we have to assume that they have an interest in trying to protect it,” the official said.
Russia is likely to be protecting its convoy with its mobile, ultra modern SA-21 S-400 Surface to Air Missiles which first emerged in 2007. As mobile weapons, these SAMS give advancing Russian forces the ability to track and destroy enemy aircraft. Ukraine’s air defenses, by contrast, are listed by Global Firepower as being Soviet-era, 1980s built SA-15 Gauntlet systems. Russian air defenses are reported to be among the best in the world with digital networking, faster computer processing and multi-frequency tracking systems. Ukraine is also reported to be in possession of some Russian-built air defenses which appear to be working effectively.
Air power could clearly seem to be quite decisive in any kind of urban warfare scenario as clusters of fighters behind buildings or otherwise obscured from ground targeting systems might be more visible from the air. Also, precision guided bombs could be employed to pinpoint specific high-value target areas. However, Russia would likely need some measure of air superiority in order to exact this kind of impact upon Ukrainian cities, and the Pentagon says they simply do not have it. Are the Russians holding back air power? Or perhaps they are rattled by the tenacity and resolve of Ukrainian air warriors?
Kris Osborn is the defense editor for the National Interest and President of Warrior Maven - the Center for Military Modernization. Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army—Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has appeared as a guest military expert on Fox News, MSNBC, The Military Channel, and The History Channel. He also has a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. | aerospace | 1 |
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http://spacelaunchnews.blogspot.com/2010/04/final-flight-shuttle-atlantis-moves-to.html | 2017-04-30T14:49:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125654.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00034-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.945829 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__279852449 | en | Under the darkness of the Kennedy Space Center, the space shuttle Atlantis was moved out to her ocean side launch pad today in preparation for her final flight.
First motion of Atlantis' mobile launcher platform crawler was set at 11:31 pm EDT, on Wednesday night.
Moving at just under 1 mph, the nearly four mile journey out to launch pad 39-A took just six hours and thirty-two minutes, arriving at 6:03 am today.
Atlantis' journey to her launch pad was twice delayed due to thunderstorms and concerns for lightning in the area. A planned sunrise roll out on Wednesday was scrapped due to the crawler way being too wet, as one technician accessed.
Atlantis' crew of six arrived here at America's Spaceport on Tuesday to perform launch pad emergency drills, and perform a practice countdown on Friday.
The traditional dry-count will see commander Kenneth Ham, pilot Tony Antonelli, and mission specialists Michael Good, Garrett Reisman, Piers Sellers and Steve Bowen climb aboard the orbiter for a simulated engine cut-off.
Atlantis will lift-off on a 12 day mission to the International Space Station, with Russia's Mini-Research Module tucked in her payload bay.
This flight will also mark the thirty-second and final space flight by Atlantis.
Launch of NASA's 132nd space shuttle flight is tentatively scheduled for May 14 at 2:19 pm. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.spaglaw.com/blog/2023/08/bell-47g-5-helicopter-crash-in-mifflin-township-pennsylvania/ | 2024-04-22T01:13:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818067.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421225303-20240422015303-00313.warc.gz | 0.946904 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__142086026 | en | There was a helicopter crash in Mifflin Township, Pennsylvania on August 12, 2023. According to reports, a Bell 47G-5 helicopter crashed while cropdusting. The pilot, Theodore Farwell, was killed in the crash.
There have been a number of recent helicopter crashes across the country. A Bell 206 L4 helicopter crashed in the North Slope region of Alaska on July 20, 2023. A Bell 206B helicopter crashed in Preston County, West Virginia on July 21, 2023. A Bell UH-1H “Huey” helicopter crashed in Oakdale, Illinois on July 31, 2023. A Hughes 369 Delta helicopter crashed in Surry County, Virginia on August 5, 2023.
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/10/super-heavy-starship-moon-mission-needs-ten-ton-lander.html | 2019-11-13T05:17:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496665985.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113035916-20191113063916-00135.warc.gz | 0.952235 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__165818892 | en | Robert Zubrin indicates there is a need to stage the SpaceX Starship from low earth orbit or injection orbits for the moon and Mars. Missions to the moon would be far more efficient with a ten-ton lunar lander. This could be a mini-starship.
Mars mission should stage from the TMI (Trans Mars Injection) or low earth orbit.
The mini-Starship would look similar in size and shape to the Small Falcon Rocket. The Small Falcon Rocket was imagined a couple of years ago when Super Heavy Starship was called BFR. It would be similar size and possibly a bit smaller. It would fit inside the Starship and could be deployed from Starship.
Zubrin also mentions the problems of spreading large amounts of lunar material all over if there is attempt at landing the Starship on the moon. This would be a problem until there is landing pad made from lunar material turned into lunar concrete.
Brian Wang is a prolific business-oriented writer of emerging and disruptive technologies. He is known for insightful articles that combine business and technical analysis that catches the attention of the general public and is also useful for those in the industries. He is the sole author and writer of nextbigfuture.com, the top online science blog. He is also involved in angel investing and raising funds for breakthrough technology startup companies.
He gave the recent keynote presentation at Monte Jade event with a talk entitled the Future for You. He gave an annual update on molecular nanotechnology at Singularity University on nanotechnology, gave a TEDX talk on energy, and advises USC ASTE 527 (advanced space projects program). He has been interviewed for radio, professional organizations. podcasts and corporate events. He was recently interviewed by the radio program Steel on Steel on satellites and high altitude balloons that will track all movement in many parts of the USA.
He fundraises for various high impact technology companies and has worked in computer technology, insurance, healthcare and with corporate finance.
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https://www.travel-namibia.com/2022/08/21/first-of-a-kind-forum-to-pave-way-for-a-reimagined-aviation-sector/ | 2023-10-04T23:11:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511424.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004220037-20231005010037-00267.warc.gz | 0.912955 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__20505696 | en | Namibian Aviation and Connectivity Forum 2022 focused on how the country can re-emerge from the recent pandemic by building a resilient and sustainable aviation industry is scheduled to take place from 16 to 18 November.
Supported by Bank Windhoek, the Forum will seek solutions on how aviation can play a central role
in attaining national aspirations, such as the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP2) and National Development Plans (NDPs), and the national transport policy.
Officially launched on Thursday in Windhoek, the first-of-its-kind forum for the local aviation industry, will create a platform where key industry players and stakeholders share, tackle, rethink and put in motion ideas on cementing the aviation industry’s role as key to economic recovery and growth, as well as those aimed at resuscitating other ancillary industries such as tourism.
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Giovanni Aditya-Sandiputra, Indonesian student of Aircraft Engineering program, tells about the decision of study at MAI and Sport shooting club, where he found strength and support like in a family.
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At Moscow Aviation Institute, Ha Manh Thang teaches a sensory technologies course. He plans to stay in Russia for five years or more, write some manuals on teaching methods, and gain a degree of Associate Professor. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0410/dvenus.html | 2022-05-18T02:34:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662521041.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518021247-20220518051247-00138.warc.gz | 0.943389 | 1,475 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__22438995 | en | BRILLIANT Venus punctuates the evening sky this spring. But the planet shines even brighter at Magellan project headquarters. Narrow strips of high-resolution radar images of its surface adorn the walls of an analysis room. They reveal vivid details of an alien landscape that had been largely a cloud-shrouded mystery a year ago. When the Magellan spacecraft, which began mapping the planet last Sept. 15, finishes its primary radar mapping mission May 15, its managers expect that some 80 percent of that surface will be laid bare.
Scientists here at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages Magellan for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), are ecstatic at that prospect.
``We've been feeling around in the dark prior to this. Now we're getting data,'' says Kathi Beratan, a science support-team analyst. She adds, ``We're actually going to end up with a more complete data set [of the Venus surface] than we have of the Earth [where ocean bottoms are poorly known] in terms of the resolution of the data.''
Magellan science and mission design manager Thomas Thompson calls Magellan's ability to see geologic features ``which weren't even hinted at in previous data'' a ``major step forward'' in planetary science.
Those features include such surprises as sinuous, river-like channels that run for hundreds of kilometers and may be carved by the flow of highly liquid lava. They also include dome-like hills that may represent thick lava outflows.
And for Dr. Thompson, who is interested in craters, the big surprise was the fact that the craters seen so far ``all, basically, looked fresh.'' There seems to be no surface weathering going on.
Magellan's radar resolution - the ability to see detail - is some 10 times better than any surface view of Venus available before. Thick clouds, laced with sulfuric acid, cover the planet. But radar has a clear view.
Magellan images show surface features ranging in size from about 120 meters (390 feet) near the equator to 300 meters (980 feet) near the north pole. The finest detail American and Soviet radar scans have produced before this is 1,000 to 2,400 meters (0.7 to 1.5 miles) across.
The difference between Magellan's sharper view and that of early probes is comparable to the difference between scanning Earth and seeing that Mt. St. Helens is clearly a volcanic mountain and not being able to distinguish it from the blurred image of a meteorite crater.
Members of the mission team are also very pleased with the spacecraft. They see its glitches in a different perspective from the impression of a troubled mission that may be conveyed by recurring reports of mishaps. These include loss of one of the two tape recorders used to store data for later transmission and intermittent dropout of radio contact.
Thompson says that to him, ``Magellan looks absolutely super.'' Dr. Beratan observes: ``People hear about our problems. But they don't realize it's been a fabulously successful mission.''
Mission analyst Rob Lock explains that this success is due partly to the elaborate safeguards built into the spacecraft. He notes that ``anything like the kinds of problems we've had would have caused just about any other nation's spacecraft to go belly up.'' He says Magellan's fault-protection system and the contingency planning it represents has enabled the mission team to take these challenges in stride.
He describes this on-board fault-protection system as being ``almost as complex as the whole spacecraft'' itself. It includes whole sets of computer programs - and even whole computers - that monitor the spacecraft, take corrective action where possible, and call for help from Earth when needed. He explains that it takes ``eight to 10 years to design a mission like this,'' because no single failure or any two simultaneous failures are to be allowed to ruin it. ``So we spend a hundred million dollars on software to protect a half-billion-dollar mission,'' he says.
This ability to stumble and keep going has enabled Magellan nearly to complete its primary mission with loss of only a few percent of the planned data. Mission team members expect to recoup that loss later.
FOR unknown reasons, Venus rotates slowly in a sense opposite to Earth's spin. The sun rises in the west and the day is 243 Earth days long. Thus Magellan's overall mission is broken into cycles of 243 Earth days each.
This pattern allows the planet to make one complete turn under the orbiting spacecraft during each observing cycle. The first cycle, which ends May 15, is devoted to the so-called primary mission that aims to produce a global map of about 80 percent of the planet's surface.
It will take several more months to process the data and build up that global map.
But the images already in hand have given planetary scientists plenty to think about as they try to understand what is happening on a planetary surface with a temperature of 450 degrees C. (850 degrees F.) lying under a carbon-dioxide atmosphere at 90 times the surface air pressure on Earth.
Crater specialist Thompson explains that, for incoming meteorites, passage through that atmosphere ``is equivalent to the passage through a kilometer or so of solid rock in terms of mechanical forces.'' Many smaller projectiles never make it through. Only the shock wave they produce hits the ground. Some meteorites break up into impacting fragments like cluster bombs. Only big projectiles, measuring kilometers across, come through intact. Magellan images show evidence of all three cases.
A recent Jet Propulsion Laboratory announcement reports that Venus may be venting interior heat through volcanic features called coronae. These are circular or oval features up to more than a kilometer high surrounded by a ring of ridges and troughs.
Magellan project geologist Ellen Stofen says the high-resolution data ``have revealed many exiting new aspects of coronae'' that point to a volcanic nature.
While scientists scan each new image for more clues, mission planners look ahead to the next mission cycles. They plan to fill in the blanks of their map. Then, mission analyst Lock says, ``we're going to have freedom.'' Instead of being tied to a pre-arranged mapping schedule, they will be free to revisit interesting features, change radar aiming, and otherwise follow intriguing research leads.
They would like, eventually, to circularize Magellan's orbit. Right now, it is in an eliptical orbit that, by design, enables it to map at varying distances from the planet. There is no authority yet for such a radical orbit change. And there is no main rocket power to do it with. But there is enough maneuvering-thruster fuel available to allow Magellan to skim through the outer atmosphere and use aerobraking to go into a tight circular orbit.
``A circular orbit would allow us to get a very uniform data set and let us be much more clear and accurate,'' explains Beratan. This, then, is the ultimate dream of project scientists. As Thompson puts it, after the currently planned jobs are done, ``I think that's the greatest thing Magellan could do.'' | aerospace | 1 |
http://ec2-34-197-49-85.compute-1.amazonaws.com/2023/09/12/the-mars-rover-has-produced-enough-oxygen-to-last-ten-hours-for-a-small-dog-to-breathe/ | 2024-04-14T00:54:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00442.warc.gz | 0.920472 | 566 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__140362889 | en | We are getting closer to being able to live on the red planet thanks to an amazing achievement made by the Perseverance rover on Mars.
Breathing on Mars is now nearly difficult for humans.
Ninety-five percent of the atmosphere of the planet is composed of carbon dioxide, with the remaining three percent being nitrogen, one-sixth of it argon, and trace amounts of oxygen, carbon monoxide, water, methane, and other gases.
Mars has comparatively thin air in comparison to Earth.
Without a space helmet, your chances of surviving on the planet are barely two minutes, according to Science ABC.
However, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) was carried by the Perseverance rover when it landed on Mars.
This gadget, which is about the size of a microwave, has been used to investigate “potential methods for future explorers to produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for breathing and burning fuel.”
It is limited to one hour of operation per experiment, however it can produce up to 9.9 grams of oxygen every hour.
When MOXIE operated at maximum efficiency, it produced 12 grams of oxygen per hour.
NASA was far surpassed by this.
The MOXIE has produced enough oxygen during the course of the mission to last a small dog for ten hours since it began two years ago.
122 grams of the gas were produced from Mars’ atmosphere overall.
NASA’s director of technology demonstrations, Trudy Kortes, said in a statement, “We are proud to have supported a breakthrough technology like MOXIE that could turn local resources into useful products for future exploration missions.”
The demonstration of this technique under practical circumstances has brought us one step closer to a day when astronauts will be able to “live off the land” on the Red Planet.
On August 7, the MOXIE research conducted its last test. The researchers are expecting to extract the data and use it to advance the technology.
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy stated, “MOXIE’s outstanding performance demonstrates that it is feasible to extract oxygen from Mars’ atmosphere – oxygen that could help supply breathable air or rocket propellant to future astronauts.” “To build a long-term lunar presence, create a robust lunar economy, and enable an initial human exploration campaign to Mars, we must develop technologies that allow us to use resources on both the Moon and Mars.”
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https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/228253/mini-space-mission-launches-with-imperial/ | 2023-12-01T13:31:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100287.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201120231-20231201150231-00159.warc.gz | 0.913636 | 860 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__268253194 | en | The European Space Agency RadCube mission has launched with the aim of testing new technologies for monitoring potentially devastating space weather.
The RadCube mission is potentially the first step in a new era of monitoring space weather – the variations in the solar wind coming from the Sun, which can disrupt and damage satellites and infrastructure on Earth. On board is a miniature magnetometer instrument made at Imperial.
We can’t wait to get our first data back on what we hope will be a step-change in our ability to monitor space weather. Dr Jonathan Eastwood
RadCube is a ‘CubeSat’ mission - designed to use smaller, cheaper and lower-power components than traditional space missions. CubeSat spacecraft are typically constructed upon multiples of 10 × 10 × 10 cm cubes, and RadCube is made up of three of these base units.
Space weather is a significant threat to infrastructure resilience, as it can affect power grids, navigation, and radio communications. Space weather is listed on the UK National Risk Register, and is increasingly recognised as a major issue given the increasing role of advanced technologies in all aspects of everyday life.
The technologies in RadCube, if proven to work well in space, could be used in a range of future missions, such as constellations of multiple small satellites working together to measure the solar wind. A constellation of space weather satellites in near-Earth space would be invaluable for monitoring and forecasting space weather events, such as coronal mass ejections, solar flares, and geomagnetic storms.
Members of Imperial’s Department of Physics created a mini magnetometer instrument for RadCube called MAGIC – (MAGnetometer from Imperial College). MAGIC will measure disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by geomagnetic storms.
The individual detectors on MAGIC are less than a millimetre in size, and the total instrument sensor is only eight centimetres cubed, weighing in at just 23 grams. This is in comparison to the sophisticated magnetometers the lab builds for large and expensive space missions, such as the recent Solar Orbiter mission and the upcoming JUICE mission, which are much larger and weigh several kilograms.
The MAGIC instrument also uses less than a watt of power, compared to up to 20 watts for the larger instruments. While MAGIC is not as sensitive as these larger instruments, as it is much cheaper to build and uses far less power, the technology could be carried on several spacecraft working in tandem. In this way, the lower-quality data is compensated by a much larger volume of data.
In a pan-European consortium, the RadCube spacecraft was built and is operated by C3S LLC of Hungary, a cosmic radiation detector was constructed by the Centre for Energy Research in Hungary, and the MAGIC instrument will sit on the end of a boom constructed by Astronika in Poland.
Principal Investigator for the MAGIC instrument, Dr Jonathan Eastwood from the Department of Physics at Imperial, said: “I’m incredibly excited the mission is finally launching! The team has worked tirelessly through the lockdown to deliver the MAGIC instrument, and we can’t wait to get our first data back on what we hope will be a step-change in our ability to monitor space weather.”
The mission launched at around 02:47am (BST) on 17 August atop a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, an area of France in South America. RadCube is a ‘piggyback’ mission, meaning it hitched a rise to space as an ‘extra’ to a larger mission – in this case Airbus Defence and Space’s Pléiades Neo 4 Earth Observation satellite.
Imperial’s participation in RadCube is funded by the UK Space Agency via participation in the ESA General Support Technology Program (GSTP).
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http://blogs.challenger.org/ | 2016-10-25T22:43:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00355-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.910754 | 424 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__161618776 | en | An international team of aquanauts will travel again to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to simulate a visit to an asteroid in the 16th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).
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https://kvia.com/news/us-world/2020/01/16/5-key-questions-and-answers-about-the-delta-flight-that-doused-children-in-jet-fuel-in-la/ | 2020-08-04T20:45:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439735882.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20200804191142-20200804221142-00242.warc.gz | 0.962595 | 898 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__109350427 | en | A Delta plane that doused children at six Los Angeles schools with jet fuel this week left many puzzled on how such a maneuver happened in a populated area.
As federal officials investigate the incident that injured 60 people, here are the answers to key questions:
The Delta Air Lines flight was headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai on Tuesday when it experienced an engine problem shortly after takeoff. On its return to Los Angeles International Airport, it dumped its fuel, hitting several schools in its path.
Did the pilot notify air traffic control?
Air crews will typically notify air traffic control of an emergency and indicate they need to dump fuel, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Air traffic controllers direct the plane to the appropriate fuel-dumping area. But in this case, the pilots did not ask for approval before the fuel release, according to federal officials.
“A review of yesterday’s air traffic control communications shows the Delta Flight 89 crew did not tell air traffic control that they needed to dump fuel,” the FAA said in a statement Wednesday.
Delta declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation.
“The aircraft landed safely after a release of fuel, which was required as part of normal procedure to reach a safe landing weight,” the airline said.
What was wrong with the plane’s engine?
In audio of the conversation between a Delta pilot and an air traffic controller posted online, the pilot said the flight was returning to Los Angeles International Airport because one engine had compressor stalls. Compressor stalls affect the airflow.
The pilot described it as “not critical.”
“OK, so you don’t need to hold or dump fuel or anything like that?” the tower asked. The pilot said, “Uh, negative.”
After hearing the transmissions between the tower and the pilot, CNN aviation safety analyst David Soucie said there may have been a communication failure.
The air traffic controller should have asked the question about holding or dumping fuel without using the word “don’t,” and he should have repeated the questions, Soucie said.
The pilot said the engine was under control so he could have taken the plane over the Pacific Ocean to dump fuel or burn it off, said Soucie, a former FAA safety inspector.
Why do planes need to dump fuel?
There are maximum takeoff and landing weights for aircraft.
For a plane with full fuel tanks to land, it must dump the fuel to avoid potentially crashing upon landing, Soucie said. In this case, federal officials said the fuel dumping procedure did not occur at the optimal altitude that would have allowed the fuel to atomize properly.
While details on the Delta incident are unclear, Soucie said one theory is pilots may have forgotten to dump the fuel until the final approach while doing a pre-landing checklist and discovered the weight of the plane was too heavy. And rather than go around the airport again to drop elsewhere, they might have decided to dump it over land.
If a pilot decides to dump fuel, the air traffic controller has to assign the flight an altitude of at least 2,000 feet above the highest obstacle, according to federal officials.
“If you are in contact with an aircraft when it starts dumping fuel, inform other controllers and facilities which might be concerned. Facilities concerned shall broadcast an advisory on appropriate radio frequencies at 3-minute intervals until the dumping stops,” the FAA says.
How does the fuel dump process work?
There are special procedures on fuel dumps for aircraft operating in major US airports.
“These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomizes and disperses before it reaches the ground,” according to the FAA.
Had the plane been at 8,000 feet when the dump occurred, the fuel would never have hit the schools because it would be atomized after leaving the wings, Soucie said.
It is “very rare (fuel is dumped) at a lower altitude where it reaches the ground,” he said.
Those doused by the jet fuel were decontaminated with soap and water, and given gowns to wear. They did not need to be hospitalized.
All the jet fuel has since evaporated, and affected schools returned to normal schedules Wednesday. | aerospace | 1 |
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – Sidus Space announced its LizzieSat satellite has successfully launched and deployed to low Earth orbit as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission. Liftoff occurred at 2:05 p.m. PDT from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The successful deployment of LizzieSat signifies a monumental achievement for Sidus Space, marking its entrance into the next era of space technology and data services. To rewatch the live mission webcast, visit SPACEX.COM or SIDUSSPACE.COM.
“We are thrilled to announce the successful launch of our first LizzieSat satellite,” said Carol Craig, CEO at Sidus Space. “This accomplishment is a testament to the dedication, expertise, and collaboration of our team. LizzieSat epitomizes our commitment to pushing the boundaries of space technology and advancing our mission of Bringing Space Down to Earth.”
LizzieSat is positioned to revolutionize space-based data collection and analysis with its innovative Space Platform with a Purpose and FeatherEdge AI integration. This mission aims to broaden its customer base across military and commercial sectors, offering tailored intelligence solutions for industries such as defense, agriculture, maritime, and oil and gas.
As the LizzieSat mission progresses, Sidus Space remains steadfast in its commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions and pushing the frontiers of space technology and data collection. The company looks forward to upcoming missions, with LizzieSat-2 and LizzieSat-3 expected to launch on future SpaceX Rideshare missions.
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) is a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing; multi-disciplinary engineering services; satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations; and in-orbit support.
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Sidus Space has a mission of Bringing Space Down to Earth and a vision of enabling space flight heritage status for new technologies while delivering data and predictive analytics to domestic and global customers.
More than just a “Satellite-as-a-Service” provider, Sidus Space’s products and services are offered through its four business units: Space and Defense Hardware Manufacturing, Satellite Manufacturing and Payload Integration, Space-Based Data Solutions, and AI/ML Products and Services to support customers from concept to Low Earth Orbit and beyond. Sidus Space is ISO 9001:2015, AS9100 Rev. D certified, and ITAR registered. | aerospace | 1 |
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https://news.satnews.com/2021/06/29/a-first-for-ruag-space-as-the-company-is-awarded-an-afrl-contract-for-satellite-power-subsystems/ | 2022-05-23T08:36:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662556725.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220523071517-20220523101517-00520.warc.gz | 0.89562 | 848 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__179987361 | en | For AFRL, RUAG Space will develop a configurable Rapid Electronic Power Subsystem (Rapid EPS) for satellites that will dramatically cut the lead time and cost of the power subsystem. This project leverages aspects of RUAG Space’s overall Rapid EPS development and supports RUAG Space’s ability to supply Rapid EPS to the U.S. Government/DoD markets.
Initially, this effort began with discussions led by Niklas Boman, Product Group Spacecraft Director of Marketing and Sales, focused on securing RUAG Space’s involvement in the US government’s initiative to create a Resilient Space Structure for defense purposes. “This project is a decisive door opener for further projects with the U.S. Government,” said André Wall, CEO RUAG International.
AFRL controls the entire United States Air Force Science and Technology ecosystem and budget and it leads the discovery, development and delivery of warfighting technologies for US air, space and cyberspace forces. Electronic Power Subsystems are highly critical for the operation of satellites and AFRL expects the Rapid EPS concept to deliver a “radical improvement compared to existing technological approaches,” said Dr. Robert Walters, lead of the AFRL Advanced Space Power program.
“This project is a great example for a collaboration across different product units and countries”, said Luis De León Chardel, Executive Vice President a.i. at RUAG Space. “With this technology development program, we are ultimately targeting a new EPS subsystem offering. Moving up in the value chain by strengthening RUAG Space’s subsystem portfolio offering is a key pillar of our strategy.”
Program management will be led by Kellenie Lopez, Senior Project Manager based in Denver, under Mike Allen, Director of Electronic Systems. The program will be supported from both Product Unit Mechanism in Zurich headed by Oliver Kunz, with John Ransdell serving as Project Manager, and Product Unit Interface Electronics in Tampere, Finland, lead by Timo Hänninen, with Juha Kuitunen as Project Manager. Additionally, staff in Denver and Titusville, Florida, will provide engineering design and satellite manufacturing capability.
The Rapid EPS will be designed to enable rapid configuration and rapid delivery of systems in various sizes and, furthermore, at a cost point that makes reconstitution and upgrades for satellites in LEO an attractive proposition in comparison to the current systems that are typically highly optimized and the result of long, nonrecurring engineering-intensive projects. In addition to studies, the hardware deliverables consist of a Solar Array Regulator demonstrator and a Solar Array Wing demonstrator. Both products will be assembled and tested in Titusville, Florida.
According to Mathias Burkhalter, Team Leader of Systems Engineering at Product Unit Mechanism, “The study will help RUAG to ascertain the exact degree of modularity achievable with the currently developed modular components for the Solar Array Wing and show the gaps for the future modular roadmap.”
The photovoltaic array (PVA) will be sourced by the Titusville facility from RUAG’s consortium partner, SolAero Technologies, Inc., in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Finally, know-how and skills will be built up in the Titusville facility for future manufacturing of the needed solar array panels and assembly, integration and testing (AIT) of the complete Solar Array Wing (SAW) for US customers.
For each piece of this project, RUAG leverages innovations from previous research and development. Harri Myllymäki, Lead Engineer at Product Unit Interface Electronics, explains the degree of innovation and said, “For the Solar Array Regulator, this project overcomes limitations of previous developments for other missions by introducing a new level of configurability and flexibility in the design – yielding an ability to adapt to changing spacecraft requirements with reduced non-recurring costs and lead times.”
One of the ways this is achieved is through the modular design. The other is through the use of automotive grade Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components. | aerospace | 1 |
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It should improve flood and drought forecasts, and help researchers better understand how the climate is changing. British scientists have been asked to help set up the spacecraft using the Bristol Channel as a benchmark.
The UK researchers are putting a suite of sensors in the estuary to ground truth the observations made by the satellite as it flies overhead at an altitude of 890km.
Lift-off for the Swot mission occurred from California. A Falcon rocket took it skyward at 03:46 local time (11:46 GMT). Swot is led principally by Nasa and Cnes, the French space agency, with contributions from the UK and Canadian space agencies.
Anyhow it will be a few months before Swot comes fully into operation; its French-built Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) has long booms that must be unpacked first.
Once in position, the instrument's antennas will begin pulsing the Earth's surface, counting the time that reflections take to come back to the spacecraft. It's these echoes that allow Swot to make very precise determinations of height.
Essentially, the satellite will be imaging water bodies, assessing their rise and fall in detail and across a very wide swath. Swot is expected to help resolve all rivers at least 100m wide, and see all lakes larger than 6 hectares.
The amount of data from Swot on rivers and lakes will be orders of magnitude more than currently exists, said Nasa project scientist Dr Lee-Lueng Fu.
For instance, only 10s of 1,000s of lakes have been well surveyed. We'll be surveying millions of lakes.
For the ocean, Swot will see the bulges and depressions in the water surface associated with currents and eddies as small as 20km across. It's the swirling of water in eddies that pulls heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, tempering the impact of global warming.
The unprecedented information can also be used to improve our understanding of ocean circulation, and this then has the potential to yield important information for a wide range of industries like shipping, fishing, and even recreation, explained Ben Hamlington, a Nasa sea-level scientist.
We also know that small-scale features are responsible for transporting pollutants around the ocean and then to our coasts. Examples of this would be oil spills, or ocean debris following tsunamis.
Britain has put US$ 15m into the mission, most of which was spent in UK industry.
Dr Beth Greenaway, the head of Earth observation at the UK Space Agency, attended the launch in California, I am very proud to be representing the UK elements of the build - the part that provides the radar pulses through the instrument at never before seen frequencies. The UKSA's partnership with the French space agency, Cnes, enabled the engineers in Honeywell UK to build this complex duplexer.
But the British involvement also extends to the coming calibration and validation campaign in the Spring, which will check Swot is returning good information.
This will involve putting sensors in the Bristol Channel to make comparable observations as the spacecraft goes overhead. The estuary was chosen because it experiences sweeping variations in water height. It has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world.
Swot's going to give heights to within about 10cm. So, we've got to know the absolute elevation at ground level to a much higher accuracy, said Bristol University's Prof Paul Bates, who'll lead the campaign.
We've been going to tide gauges, sitting GPS stations on them, and then thinking about things like temperature, pressure, salinity - all those kinds of potential variables. And we'll end up with a network of very accurate water elevations around the estuary.
Prof Bates thinks Swot should have the ability to see the famous bore that periodically runs up the channel into the lower reaches of the River Severn. He plans to use the satellite data to pursue his interest in flood modeling.
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https://www.paulooimodelworks.com/mitsubishi-zero-a6m5c-zeke/ | 2023-04-02T03:15:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950373.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230402012805-20230402042805-00463.warc.gz | 0.965306 | 1,068 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__176623720 | en | The Zero is the ultimately symbol of Japanese WW2 military aviation. To many people, any Japanese fighter aircraft would be a “Zero” (even among the Japanese). This 1/48th scale Tamiya kit of the A6M5c portrays one of the final configurations of the famous fighter and incorporated many defensive features, like heavy armor plating to protect the pilot’s rear and self-sealing fuel tanks to prevent fires when struck by incendiary rounds. This Tamiya kit is a veteran from 1982 but the fit and amount of details made it a standard for many years until the Hasegawa kits came along and recently, Tamiya re-issued the Zeke in 1/48th scale format with all new tooling at 3 times the cost.
I augmented this classic with new photo-etched frets from Eduard’s Big Ed series. This package came with the interior details, exterior wheel wells, flap details and canopy masks. Although intended for the new Tamiya kit, the fit was good and with several minor modifications, worked just as well on the 1982 molds.
As usual, we start with the cockpit. Japanese aircraft interior from WW2 vary according to the aircraft manufacturer. In the case of the Zero, while Mitsubishi was the original manufacturer, by mid-war, Nakajima was also making the same aircraft for the JNAF. The interior color for Nakajima was an anti-corrosion blue lacquer applied over the bare metal, giving it a metallic blue color. I decide to adopt this color for variety and interest over the usual Mitsubishi middle green. The resulting Nakajima-built cockpit was a combination of green instrument panels and metallic blue walls. I also drilled out the holes on the metal bucket seat that came with the kit since this feature will be clearly seen after the cockpit has been sealed into the fuselage.
The other major operation was to cut out the underside flaps from the wings to install the flaps interior details. The panels were cut away very carefully using a scribing tool and then the edges lightly sanded. On the reverse set of wings, the inner surface also had to be sanded down with a machine tool to open up the space to house the wedge-shaped housing for the ribs.
The fuselage and wings came together easily with only minor gap-filling needed at the wing root. The next major assembly was the radial engine block. The kit’s parts did not have the cam rods that are normally found in newer kits. I added plastic rods to make those (all 28 of them), followed by the wire brackets and the main wire harness. By the time I was done with it, all that was missing was aviation fuel and spark plugs !!!
Then, the whole assembly gets hidden inside the cowling and all you get to see is a glimpse of the front side around the propeller spinner. For the cowling flaps, photo-etched panels were installed to replace the kit’s thicker parts. The 7 exhaust pipes are carefully positioned and test fitted against the fuselage to make sure that everything falls into place.
The whole fuselage is then under-coated with aluminum plate metalizer paint from Model Masters. This was then followed by Japanese Navy grey for the underside and then Japanese Navy Green (Mitsubishi), lightened by 20% White for the topside. The wheel wells and flaps were painted with metallic blue, similar to cockpit interior. After the paint has dried, I coated the whole aircraft with sealing varnish in preparation for decal application.
For the markings and color scheme, I chose the one with the most impressive white chevrons across the fuselage. This aircraft belonged to the 203rd Flying Group (Kokutai), Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force based in Ohmura Air Base on Kyushu. This unit was tasked with interception of B-29 formations approaching Japan from Saipan, as well as fleet interdiction during the Okinawa campaign. This particular aircraft was armed with two 60kg air-to-air rockets under the wings. The kit did not come with the decals for the 2 flanking red boxes seen on the wing. I searched my spare decals bin and garnered enough red decals to cut into the strips needed for making the boxes. After the decals, the whole aircraft was coated with another layer of varnish.
While the fuselage varnish cured, I finished the other details like the propeller and spinner and the rockets.
Now, onto the rest of the cast. I have included the figure of the pilot, the petty officer (crew chief) and one mechanic in the picture. After cleaning up the figures and removing the flash lines, I undercoat them in grey. At this moment, they would do fine for a Japanese zombie movie. Then I finish them in acrylic and oil paints and a final coating of Dullcote varnish.
After this, all the different pieces were arranged on the wooden plinth and this project is all ready for the collector who ordered it. For the rest of us, we have the following pictures of the project.
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https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/a-20/43-9436/folse.html | 2019-03-22T14:11:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202671.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190322135230-20190322161230-00076.warc.gz | 0.966631 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__216342481 | en | Assigned A-20G "Big Nig" 43-9436 that he nicknamed and had Damon Runyon style red-Indian character was painted on the left side of the nose. This aircraft force landed
on May 3, 1944 after a mission against Wewak piloted by 2nd Lt. Tom Reading.
Next, assigned another aircraft that he nicknamed "Big Nig II" after an June 16, 1944 mission A-20 "Big Nig II" was written off.
Finally he assigned a final A-20 that he nicknamed "Big Nig III" A-20G "Big Nig III" 43-21315.
In total, Folse flew 67 missions with 127 sorties.
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http://all-aero.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11023:the-butterfly-llc-aurora-butterfly-&catid=62 | 2017-04-24T22:55:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119995.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00303-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.894184 | 479 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__303369923 | en | The Butterfly LLC Aurora Butterfly
The Aurora Butterfly is centerline thrust and has a huge horizontal stabilizer.
The airframe materials kit has pre drilled locator holes that will have to be re drilled to size and some of the tubes will have to be cut to length. The kit is intended for the experimental category where you as the builder fabricate at least 51% of the kit for recreation and education. The cheek plates and various other parts are cut to shape and have undersized locator holes.
The front landing gear, landing gear support, joystick, and rotor head washer are made from 4130 Chrome Molly steel and they are heat-treated. All the parts are either powder coated or anodized in this kit. The tail is made using Kevlar.
The G-Force Magnum All Terrain Landing Gear has 16" of stroke and has been tested to absorb up to 500'/minute vertical descent without failure.
Components - Standard Aurora
The engine is a Rotax 912ULS with 100 HP.
Three blade Warp Drive propeller.
Inst: ASI, ALT & Engine Monitor (Stratomaster).
The seat tank holds 7.4 gallons of fuel.
The 912 Metro Launch System is included.
The G-Force All Terrain Magnum landing gear (7’ wide) is included.
The MLS Rotor Brake is included.
The Rotor Tachometer is included.
The Aerodynamic Step is included.
The Large Instrument Pod is included.
Pointed nose pod/step/windscreen
Front Wheel Pant
Rear wheel pants (set)
10 Gallon Reserve Fuel Tank
Airfoil strut fairings kit
Gyro Recovery System (parachute)
GFLG Extension Selector
Twin (5 gallon each) Aerodynamic Reserve Fuel Tanks
Heavy Duty front tire (6” wheel with 13” tall tire) and strut
Spring Damper System (on the pushrods)
Rotax 115 hp Turbocharged/Inter cooled engine.
Top Speed: >80 mph
Climb Rate: >1,000 ft/minute
Recommended pilot weight: Up to 275 lbs
Height: 8' 6 "
Length: 11' 2 "
Width: 84 "
Weight: 480 lbs. (standard kit) | aerospace | 1 |
https://hwww.jsfirm.com/SKY3D-LLC/22377/company-view | 2024-04-19T06:08:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817289.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419043820-20240419073820-00290.warc.gz | 0.879635 | 336 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__162501572 | en | About the Company
At Sky3D LLC we are currently seeking a motivated, detail oriented, individual that possesses an Airframe and Powerplant license with a current Inspection Authorization to perform light to heavy aircraft maintenance and restoration including:
Annual inspections, basic maintenance, airframe repairs, control surface rigging, powerplant swaps, STC installations, form 337 familiarity, basic to complex powerplant troubleshooting, basic to complex wiring task including running new wiring when needed in accordance with FAA AC43.13-1B/2B standards and practices, an understanding of MIL spec wiring and some avionics knowledge is a plus. Must have the ability to troubleshoot landing gear issues such as isolating hydraulic pump failures, faulty microswitch failures, gear rigging out of spec, faulty check valves.
This maintenance facility has most, if not all specialty tools needed, but as the mechanic you will be required to have your own set of properly maintained tools in a roll cab. A SNAP-ON or MATCO field rep will make weekly visits if requested.
Pre-employment drug screening is required and random drug screening is required.
Shop hours are M-F 8-5.
All maintenance practices performed at Sky3D LLC will be done in accordance with FAR part 91, FAA AC43.13-1B/2B.
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Beechcraft, Baron, Bonanza. | aerospace | 1 |
https://asc.army.mil/web/news-making-space-for-science/ | 2022-08-12T23:24:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571847.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812230927-20220813020927-00060.warc.gz | 0.94572 | 550 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__41367 | en | by Jacqueline M. Hames
Most of us have glanced up while we’re outside at night and wondered what that bright, star-like object moving across the sky might be. A plane? A satellite? Either are viable answers, but in this digital age, we can confirm through apps on our phones when it’s the International Space Station (ISS). Moving at about 17,500 miles per hour in orbit around Earth, the space station is home to an international crew tending a variety of science experiments, ranging from biology to physics. While some experiments are being conducted to determine the human body’s tolerance of space flight, or our technological ability to survive on a new planet, most of the experiments have one goal—to help advance science on Earth.
“I really want to emphasize the majority of what we do is for the benefit of those on Earth,” said Army Lt. Col. Anne McClain, a NASA astronaut and flight engineer for ISS Expedition 58 and 59. Microgravity provides a unique environment to conduct experiments that otherwise would fail on Earth.
“One [experiment] that I like to highlight is protein crystal growth. It is a good example of why … we have an international research laboratory in space,” McClain said. “Protein crystals are very fragile. They don’t grow well on Earth.” Protein crystals can sometimes grow incorrectly in the human body, which can be a cause of Parkinson’s disease, she explained. Earthbound researchers had not been able to grow these crystals large enough to understand their structure and their makeup, and therefore the treatment and blockage of the crystal growths.
The experiment, official known as Crystallization of LRRK2 Under Microgravity Conditions-2, or CASIS PCG 16, grew protein crystals of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 on the space station. The crew used larger sample wells than the previous iteration of the experiment, filled the wells during flight and monitored the crystals while they grew.
“We did imaging of their structures and we also studied them, protected them and flew them back to the researchers on Earth,” McClain said. “They grew enormously bigger than they would have on Earth, and that in itself accelerated the case of Parkinson’s research and treatment exponentially.”
So, the next time you see the ISS gliding across the sky, give it a little nod. It is a great international collaboration and marvelous feat of engineering, after all—and those aboard it are working for you.
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https://bestlifestylebuzz.com/lifestyle/man-hit-and-killed-by-airplane-in-russia-after-he-ran-onto-the-runway-to-avoid-deportation/ | 2021-01-25T09:58:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703565541.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125092143-20210125122143-00377.warc.gz | 0.986472 | 559 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__69943005 | en | A man was killed in a tragic accident after he was mowed down and killed by a Boeing 737 as it took off at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.
The 25-year-old man — identified as Albert Yepremyan — was deported from Spain and was going to his home country Armenia when he fled the terminal during a layover in Moscow, a Daily Mail report said.
Shortly before take off, the pilot operating the Athens-bound Boeing 737 flight reported that the aircraft has hit an “animal” on the runway at the Sheremetyevo airport runway. The aircraft suffered no damages and it was decided not to abort the flight because the systems did not detect or register any problems at the time of take off.
After the runway was inspected on November 20, a dead body, along with the man’s possessions, was found. The Russian Investigative Committee released a footage which shows the macabre torchlight search on the runway, the report said.
According to Russia’s Interfax news agency, the man was deported from Madrid on Tuesday, November 20 and was due to take a flight from Moscow to the Armenian capital Yerevan. Police in Moscow had been informed that the passenger had been deported from Madrid and the flight crew had reported that the man caused disturbances on the aircraft.
It was reported that the 25-year-old passenger attacked a male member of the cabin crew on the Madrid flight, an airport source said.
“As soon as the man left the plane in Moscow, his fate was unknown. He did not cross the border into Russia.”
Per another local report, the man — who had been residing in Barcelona — was on a terminal bus to be taken to the Yerevan bound flight when he escaped.
The Boeing 737 was later grounded after landing in Athens after some “biological material” was found on its wheels. Although no further details were provided about the aircraft in question, local reports said that the plane also received damage to its main body.
Following the tragic accident, the Russian Investigative Committee took to Twitter and said that the “the 25-year-old somehow ended up on the runway where a Boeing 737 plane inflicted deadly injuries on him during takeoff.”
Alexander Neradko — the head of Russia’s aviation watchdog — told Russian agencies that the “plane was operated by Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot”, per the Daily Mail.
In a video posted on Twitter, investigators said parts of the man’s coat and a shoelace were found among the fragments scattered on the runway. Per the report, no official criminal investigation has been launched yet.
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https://www.necn.com/news/local/maine/seaplane-crashes-into-maine-lake/18043/ | 2021-06-17T20:22:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487633444.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20210617192319-20210617222319-00577.warc.gz | 0.944872 | 99 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__127009495 | en | A pilot is safe after crash landing his seaplane in the water in Naples, Maine Sunday afternoon.
According to WCSH, the small Cessna careened into Brandy Pond, in the Sebago Lakes Region aroun 3:15 p.m.
The plane reportedly sustained significant damage, but its only occupant, the pilot, was able to swim away from the crash uninjured.
The latest news from around the state
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate this incident. | aerospace | 1 |
https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/05/05/cal-poly-students-skybarge-wins-drone-competition-drone-droneday/ | 2018-05-26T19:59:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867859.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526190648-20180526210648-00387.warc.gz | 0.935509 | 231 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__37240435 | en | A group of Cal Poly students built a drone made out of aluminum, PVC piping, steel and foam, which recently won a regional American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The team calls their drone SkyBarge. via The Tribune:
The challenge was to design a craft that could simulate a UAV firefighting operation.
The Cal Poly students’ craft negotiated an obstacle course by flying through hoops and dropping a sandbag on target before returning to its starting point within the allotted five minutes. It completed the mission in about 90 seconds.
The team beat out 14 other universities at the competition in the Bonderson Engineering building, where about 100 spectators gathered to watch.
Welcome to drone day on the Adafruit blog. Every Monday we deliver the latest news, products and more from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), quadcopter and drone communities. Drones can be used for video & photography (dronies), civil applications, policing, farming, firefighting, military and non-military security work, such as surveillance of pipelines. Previous posts can be found via the #drone tag and our drone / UAV categories. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.bba.aero/company/about-the-company/career/ | 2019-05-21T11:10:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256314.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521102417-20190521124417-00231.warc.gz | 0.905096 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__213312293 | en | Beechcraft Berlin aviation GmbH is growing!
Aircraft Mechanics / Avionics Technicians (m/w) / B1 / B2
We are one of the leading Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facilities in Europe, located in Berlin – Schönefeld. We are an EASA Part 145 authorized Maintenance Organization, an EASA Part 21J authorized Engineering Design Organization, an EASA Part M authorized CAMO+ and an FAA certified repair station.
Beechcraft Berlin aviation is currently recruiting experienced Aircraft Mechanics and Avionics Technicians (m/w) B1 / B2 with positions available for an immediate start.
Position responsibilities include:
• Execution of maintenance and repair tasks
• Conduct of airframe and engine functional checks
• Documentation of work performed in accordance with industry standards
• Inspection and certification of work performed on air frame systems and avionics systems
Beechcraft Berlin aviation offers:
• An interesting and rewarding work environment
• A dynamic and innovative workplace culture
• Opportunities for career and personal development in a growing business
If you are ready to take the next step in developing your aerospace career and join a growing business, Beechcraft Berlin aviation wants to hear from you. Please send your resume along with details of your available start date and salary expectations via e-mail to: email@example.com. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/syria/2018/syria-180809-presstv01.htm | 2021-09-17T21:58:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780055808.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20210917212307-20210918002307-00708.warc.gz | 0.970911 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__199158143 | en | Russia downs militant drone near Syria's Hmeimim airbase
Iran Press TV
Thu Aug 9, 2018 08:21PM
The Russian military has announced that its forces in Syria downed a drone flying near the airbase in the Syrian city of Hmeimim.
The RIA news agency reported Thursday that the drone, launched from territory controlled by Syrian militants, had been shut down after it targeted the airbase.
The airbase in the western Syrian province of Latakia has been hosting Russia's military forces and equipment since the country launched an operation in late 2015 to help Syria's fight against terror.
The Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said in a statement that operations at Hmeimim were not interrupted and there were no casualties or material damage due to the incident. It added that the unmanned aerial vehicle had been intercepted at a safe distance from the base.
"On August 9, the air defense systems of the Hmeimim airbase detected an aerial drone launched from the territory controlled by illegal armed groups in the north of Latakia province," read the statement.
There have been similar incidents in the past involving Russia's attack on drones from militant-controlled areas in northern Syria. The Russian Air Force destroyed one such drone last month and said it was flying in skies to the north of Latakia. Russian airspace control units also detected and downed drones of unknown origin in June, May and in April in the northeast of Hmeimim.
Russia is in Syria at the official request of the government in Damascus. Despite criticism from Western countries, the military presence has proven successful as it has helped the Syrian government retake many areas across the country from the grip of militants.
Russian authorities have announced that they will continue to be present in Syria until the Arab country is fully purged of terrorists.
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https://aamb.us/a-quarter-century-of-soaring-success/ | 2022-08-09T23:05:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00300.warc.gz | 0.961073 | 1,036 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__123504060 | en | The key to any successful mission requires a clear objective, smart strategy and a team of people pulling together to get the job done. These credentials were displayed in abundance over the last 25 years of the American Air Museum in Britain’s history.
In the 1980s, US Army Air Force veterans who had flown from Britain as young men during World War II began to realize that there was little left there to reflect the sacrifices they and their contemporaries had made 40 years earlier. They chose IWM Duxford to focus their efforts because its collection of American military aircraft had grown to become the largest of its kind outside of the United States, featuring notable types like the B-17 Flying Fortress and the P-47 Thunderbolt. From 1980, IWM Duxford had also showcased the first exhibition of its kind, dedicated to American forces in the UK.
Following a major transatlantic fundraising campaign, launched by Senator John Tower in 1989 and supported by politicians, military veterans and royalty, construction of the American Air Museum began at IWM Duxford with 78th Fighter Group veteran James Stokes breaking ground on September 8, 1995. The building, designed by Sir Norman Foster and Partners, began rising to its final shape, which took inspiration from aircraft skins, fighter jet cockpits and World War II blister hangars.
Installation of the aircraft began in the summer of 1996 and was completed in early 1997. Member support sustained progress, while work on the displays continued until the very day of the grand opening.
Her Majesty The Queen formally opened the American Air Museum to the public on August 1, 1997. It was a day of great celebration. But it was only the first chapter of the museum’s storied and unfolding history.
Sacrifices Worth Remembering
The American Air Museum stands as a memorial to the 30,000 members of the US Army Air Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice in the course of flying from Britain during World War II.
This purpose is embodied by the museum’s Roll of Honour, which displays their names and faces to visitors. Supporting it is the glimmering glass sculpture, Counting the Cost, which lines the route to the entrance. Comprised of 52 panels engraved with the outlines of 7,031 aircraft, the sculpture is a stirring representation of each aircraft missing in action on operations flown by American airmen from Britain.
Telling the story of the men and women whose lives were shaped by American airpower over a century of war, the museum also showcases over 850 artifacts, including equipment, uniforms and personal objects belonging to privates, presidents, Oscar winners, brain surgeons and rocket scientists. All which provide visitors with insight into the lives, sacrifices, hopes and fears of human experience of conflict.
These stories are set against the backdrop of the finest collection of American military aircraft outside the US. These include a C-47 Skytrain with D-Day service, the massive B-52 Stratofortress and the altitude-record-breaking SR-71 Blackbird. The newest addition is an MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, which flew 288 sorties in Afghanistan and extends the museum’s story into the present day.
A Grand Reopening
Sustained by members, the museum underwent an extensive redevelopment, completed in 2016. The newly transformed American Air Museum opened to the public on March 19, 2016. The people who made over a century of Anglo-American history now sit at the heart of the new, extended displays, which are supported by an impressive reconfiguration of the aircraft collection.
From James Waddell, the African American engineer who built airfields in Britain during World War II, to Kate Adie, the courageous female journalist who reported on F-111 operations while in the line of fire in Libya, visitors come face-to-face with those people whose stories are inextricably linked with the aircraft on display.
After all, no aircraft could ever be designed or built, let alone flown, without people. It is only fitting—indeed, essential—for people to have a starring role at the American Air Museum.
Over the Horizon
Propelled by your support, we are always looking for ways to improve our audiences’ experiences and better fulfill the mission of the American Air Museum in Britain.
Our groundbreaking website, americanairmuseum.com, is undergoing a major overhaul this summer to make it more user-friendly and ensure it remains the primary online resource for the US experience of the air war during World War II.
Watch your mail and email for updates on new programs and exhibits that your support helps realize. For now, raise a glass—or cup of tea—to toast yourself and the American Air Museum in Britain’s achievements over our first 25 years with doors open to the public!
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https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/245273/oldest-airlines-in-the-world-aviation-history-month/ | 2022-11-29T17:51:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710710.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20221129164449-20221129194449-00413.warc.gz | 0.950898 | 771 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__87207603 | en | To coincide with the event, Routesonline delved into the history of some of the world’s oldest airlines, and chose some of our favourite historical photos. Beginning with one of the first ever airlines (KLM), we took a look at the first 20 years of commercial aviation, and some of the airlines that were founded between 1920 and 1940.
KLM is the oldest running airline still operating under its original name. The airline was founded on October 7, 1919 as ‘Dutch Royal Airlines for the Netherlands and its Colonies’ (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën) – KLM. The first flight by the airline was piloted by Jerry Shaw and it flew from Croydon Airport, London to Amsterdam on May 7, 1920 in a leased De Havilland DH-16.
PH-AJU KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Douglas DC-2 [Image by KLM]
Qantas is Australia’s largest airline, and the second oldest airline in the world, founded in November 1920. In 1921, the airlines’ fleet consisted of two biplanes, one Avro 504K with a 100 horsepower water-cooled engine and a Royal Aircraft Factory BE2E with a 90 horsepower air-cooled engine. Qantas began to operate a scheduled airmail service in November 1922 between Charleville and Cloncurry, and this became the first scheduled air service for the airline. Qantas operated its first overseas passenger flight in February 1935 from Brisbane to Singapore using its four-engine DH86 aircraft.
Economy class cabin of a Qantas Boeing 747B in the early 1970s. [Image by Qantas]
Finnair, which was founded in 1923, is the fifth oldest airline in the world with continuous operation. The airline was originally founded under the name ‘Aero Yhtiö’ (Aero Company) which is where the airlines’ code ‘AY’ originates from. Aero took delivery of its first aircraft, a German-registered Junkers F 13 D-335, on 14 March 1924, and its maiden commercial flight was on 20 March 1924, when it carried 162 kilos of mail from Helsinki to Tallinn.
Finnair inauguration flight to London Heathrow airport August 29th, 1954. [Image by Finnair]
Czech Airlines was founded in 1923 as Czechoslovak State Airlines and completed its first transport from Prague to Bratislava on October 29 of the same year. On the 1st July 1930, CSA operated its first international flight with a Ford 5AT plane on from Prague to the Croatian capital, Zagreb. It was in 1937 when Czech Airlines introduced cabin attendants on board to improve the passenger experience.
Czech Airlines Tupolev Tu-104. [Image by Czech Airlines]
Icelandair was originally founded in 1937 under the name Flugfélag Akureyrar, before becoming grounded again in 1939 after a capsizing accident destroyed the airlines’ only aircraft. The airline was re-launched in 1940 under the name ‘Flugfélag Íslands’ but was often referred to as Iceland Airways for international purposes. The airline did not adopt its current name until 1979 when it merged with Loftleiðir.
Icelandair Pilots 1942. [Image by Icelandair]
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http://www.gamescore.com/cheatcodes/site/search/3827/PC%20-%20Windows/B-17%20Flying%20Fortress | 2018-12-09T19:27:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823009.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20181209185547-20181209211547-00484.warc.gz | 0.823122 | 461 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__100394003 | en | PC - Windows
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Success in B-17 revolves around taking care of and learning from your crew. Take time to notice how the computer-controlled gunners aim for the fast moving fighters and try to learn from their techniques. When you are being attacked, use Z and X to change to an enemy fighter, then SHIFT+F1 to see the battle from the fighter pilot's view. Make regular checks on the outside view to check your engines; if your co-pilot has been hit you don't get any warning. Fuel leaks can be critical to the success of a mission. If necessary you need to turn off an engine or two and drop out of formation to conserve fuel. If your engines are on fire point the nose at the ground and try diving at between 350-400 mph - this is useful in later levels when one fire extinguisher per engine isn't enough.
Make regular checks to ensure the crew is OK and that the guns aren't jammed - it's easy to miss messages in the heat of combat. Keep at least one pilot healthy because the plane can end up in a spin if it's in a turn when the pilot is hit, giving little time to bail out.
Make the radio operator send a MayDay message to improve your chances of survival when you're bailing out over the channel. Landing an engineless, bullet-ridden, flame-scorched B-17 after a mission is risky and difficult. Bail out over the channel to ensure mission success. Before landing, attempt to heal injured crew otherwise they are hospitalised. Having more than one crew member perform first aid on a casualty increases the chances of success.
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https://sen.com/news/iss-astronauts-celebrate-the-new-year-sixteen-times | 2019-03-26T08:08:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204885.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326075019-20190326101019-00463.warc.gz | 0.943242 | 599 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__116961209 | en | ISS astronauts celebrate the New Year sixteen times
Sen—As the Christmas excitement faded away, people started to focus on their New Year's Eve celebrations with friends. For astronauts aboard the International Space Station, this was no different, except for one twist—they had the unique opportunity to ring in 2015 a whopping 16 times as they orbited the Earth on board the International Space Station (ISS).
In a message downlink from the ISS, pre-recorded on 17 December, two US crew members, NASA's Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts, passed on their message to the world for a “happy, healthy, prosperous 2015”.
They explained how they would be passing over a country as its clocks chime midnight an amazing 16 times within one 24-hour period, and that they planned on joining in with the celebrations each time in their honour.
The ISS completes one orbit of the Earth every 92 minutes, travelling through space at an incredible 17,150 miles per hour (roughly 5 miles per second).
Both astronauts are currently aboard the ISS for Expedition 42, along with Russian cosmonauts Elena Serova, Alexander Samoukutyaev and Anton Shkaplerov, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, all of whom are flight engineers.
Barry “Butch” Wilmore has been on board the ISS since September 2014 and will return to Earth in March 2015, with this being his second visit to the Station. His first visit was on STS-129 in November 2009 to deliver over 13 tonnes of replacement parts for Station maintenance.
Terry Virts joined him in late November 2014 and will leave the station after Wilmore, in May 2015. This is also his second visit to the ISS, his first being with STS-130 in 2010 to deliver the Cupola—an observatory module consisting of seven windows that give a 360º view of the outside of the Station.
The crew of Expedition 42, from left, Russian cosmonaut Elena Serova, NASA commander Barry Wilmore, cosmonauts Alexander Samoukutyaev, Anton Shkaplerov, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford
Research projects during this mission will include looking at how cells grow and develop in a microgravity environment, with the aim of investigating the effects long-term spaceflight can have at a cellular level in living creatures. Using the results from this study, it is hoped that scientists will be able to develop a way to prevent the astronauts' immune systems from being degraded during future long-duration missions.
Another experiment that will be carried out during Expedition 42 is observing the composition and distribution of aerosols in Earth's atmosphere, which affect the climate, weather and human health, amongst other things. With this information, it may be possible to create models that predict climate change by investigating how Earth's atmosphere is evolving. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_fastest_jet_airplane | 2019-09-23T05:18:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514576047.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190923043830-20190923065830-00209.warc.gz | 0.969472 | 616 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__151393542 | en | What is the fastest jet airplane?
Officially, the fastest jet plane ever built is the SR-71 Blackbird, built by Lockheed. It was capable of speeds in excess of 3.5 mach (more than 2,200 miles per hour). It was decommissioned in 1998. No one knows for sure whether a faster plane exists, but many people suspect that the SR-91 -- if it actually exists -- is capable of speeds in 5-mach range.
The fastest known jet airplane is the SR-71 Blackbird. However faster aircraft have been flown by the U.S. military. But they are rocket powered and experimental which does not fall into your question of the fastest "jet" airplane. Currently the fastest commercial airliner is the Lockheed L-1011 with a listed maximum speed of .95 Mach. However, until it was retired the Concorde was the fastest (supersonic) commercial airliner.
Fastest production business jet class aircraft is the Cessna Citation X (model 750). Its maximum cruise speed is .92 Mach (although it's suspected that the aircraft has flown faster) ...Steve Fossett holds the US continental crossing record in a non-military aircraft with a Citation X in 2003, at an average speed of 726.83 mph.
The standing manned jet speed record is currently held by the SR-71, as posted. Experimental manned projects may have exceeded that, but have not been announced.
The scram jet is even faster. But the current crop are all small and unmanned. Scram jet engines don't work at less than the speed of sound. They have to be launched from supersonic aircraft or attached to the nose of a rocket booster to get the scram jet up to minimum operating speed. The Boeing X-43, which is NASA's unmanned scram jet project, recently hit 7,546 mph or mach 9.8 in a test run. There is a report that another scram jet neared mach 10, but did so with a gravity assisted dive.
(this is someone different) It is NASA's X-43B. I know because my dad helped make it.
(this is someone different again) Although the X-43B is the fastest airplanes there are other Supersonic and hypersonic airplanes including the XB-70 Valkyrie, Tu-360, and X-15, MiG-25R Foxbat-B, there may be many others but lots are kept unrevealed.
There was also a Rocket Plane Created by NASA that could reach mach 6 (6x the speed of sound)!
Estimates of the Blackbird's top speed vary, but its true
maximum has never been made public, and may remain in the dark for
decades. Credible estimates range from Mach 3.2 to Mach 3.5; I
suspect the truth holds an even larger number.
NASA has built a prototype jet that will hit Mach 9.6 - that makes the Lockheed fighter look like a little old lady. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.iflscience.com/image-of-saturn-pinpoints-the-spot-where-cassini-met-its-demise-46323 | 2024-02-22T01:09:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473598.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221234056-20240222024056-00403.warc.gz | 0.962971 | 565 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__26550488 | en | In case you missed the memo, Cassini is no more. Although it plunged through the Saturnian skies and fragmented into a million little pieces, the wealth of data it collected on its arduous, glorious journey will continue to lead to scientific papers, discoveries, and the occasional nostalgic, melancholic tear or two from space aficionados around the world.
Back in November, NASA unleashed a beautiful mosaic of images taken by Cassini, said to be its last ever shots before it met its dramatic doom. However, far from stopping there, NASA – almost grimly keen to show us the final few hours of the space probe’s deadly cascade in as much detail as possible – has set another image loose on the public.
Releasing a new image of Saturn’s night side, illuminated by sunlight reflected by its spectacular rings, a white oval adorns the image. This is where Cassini, driven to its own demise by those ruthless engineers at the venerable space agency, would ultimately pierce through the hazy clouds and begin pushing up the daisies on September 15, 2017.
This image, taken through a variety of spectral filters, is a composite, one that’s designed to look as much like the real thing as possible. They were taken on September 14 – less than a day before its personal apocalypse – at a distance of around 634,000 kilometers (394,000 miles) from Saturn.
Prior to its death, Cassini managed to build up a solid picture of the gas giant’s gravitational well and its enigmatic magnetic field, as well as helped to work out what the Solar System’s most aesthetically pleasing world is actually composed of. We also now have a better understanding of its satellites and its rings, particularly its inner slithers, which the spacecraft passed daringly close to multiple times during the appropriately named “Grand Finale” final mission stage.
Ending its 13-year-long exploration of the Saturnian system, and its 20-year-long overall journey through the shadows of space, the metal servant of humanity was purposefully piloted into the gas giant, ensuring that an accidental, contaminating crash onto one of its potentially habitable moons never took place.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) noted that, shortly after entering the atmosphere at breakneck speeds, it “burned up and disintegrated like a meteor”, a send-off many of us, we’re sure, would like when the time comes.
Don’t expect this image to be the last of Cassini, by the way. It sent back reams of data during its mission, which will be thoroughly perused through and analyzed for years, and decades, to come. | aerospace | 1 |
https://worldairlinenews.com/2018/11/14/allegiant-to-add-9-new-routes-from-sarasota-bradenton/ | 2019-07-20T16:55:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526536.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720153215-20190720175215-00166.warc.gz | 0.803719 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__56420893 | en | Allegiant Air is adding 9 new routes from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport for this winter/spring season.
Allegiant Air is also adding a new nonstop seasonal service between Louisville (Louisville International Airport – SDF) and New Orleans (Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport).
Starting on February 22, 2019 Sarasota-Bradenton passengers will be able to fly nonstop to Asheville, North Carolina, and Baltimore, Maryland.
Starting in April, 2019, the carrier will offer twice-weekly nonstop service to Syracuse, New York; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Nashville, Tennessee.
Top Copyright Photo: Allegiant Air Airbus A319-111 N317NV (msn 2477) LAX (Michael B. Ing). Image: 944028.
Allegiant aircraft slide show: | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.theflyonthewall.com/permalinks/entry.php/BA;LORLid1762981/BA;LORL-Communications-satellite-exports-legalized-NY-Times-reports?page=2 | 2014-03-09T13:39:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999678772/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060758-00020-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.860335 | 113 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__161578989 | en | Communications satellite exports legalized, NY Times reports U.S. satellite makers will now be able to export communications satellites for civilian use for the first time since 1999, according to the New York Times. President Obama recently signed legislation that overturns a 1999 ban on civilian exports of these satellites, the newspaper explained. Boeing (BA) and Loral Space & Communications (LORL) both manufacture satellites. Reference Link
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https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/two-pilots-survive-ejectionemergency-f15-airplane-landing-at-midamerica-st-louis-airport-50304.cfm?utm_source=riverbender&utm_medium=read_more | 2023-10-03T14:47:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511106.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003124522-20231003154522-00312.warc.gz | 0.96424 | 279 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__231347181 | en | MASCOUTAH – Two pilots survived an ejection and avoided a serious crash with an F-15 airplane at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The ejection occurred once the plane was on the runway. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries. One pilot was taken to a local hospital for observation, but has minor injuries.
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The Air Force released this statement in regard to the incident as follows:
“An F-15QA, recently accepted by the Air Force from the Boeing Corporation, departed the runway today at MidAmerica Airport, Ill. Two U.S. active-duty pilots who were on board ejected safely and received minor injuries. The aircraft was slated to be transferred to the Qatari Air Force through the Foreign Military Sales program. The incident is currently under investigation."
MidAmerica St. Louis Airport is a public-use airport located adjacent to Scott Air Force Base. It is located 14 miles east of the central business district of Belleville and 18 miles east of downtown St. Louis in St. Clair County. MidAmerica St. Louis is a secondary domestic passenger airport for the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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https://nbaa.org/flight-department-administration/aircraft-operating-ownership-options/nbaas-small-aircraft-exemption/ | 2020-02-23T13:22:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145774.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20200223123852-20200223153852-00341.warc.gz | 0.927279 | 428 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__78480015 | en | April 1, 2016
The FAA has approved a 12-month extension to NBAA’s Small Aircraft Exemption, allowing NBAA members that operate small aircraft to take advantage of the flexibility usually offered to operators of larger, turbine-powered aircraft. The latest extension conveys these benefits through March 31, 2017. “NBAA is pleased that the FAA has extended our long-established small aircraft exemption, a valuable tool for businesses utilizing smaller aircraft,” said Doug Carr, NBAA’s vice president of regulatory and international affairs. Learn more about NBAA’s Small Aircraft Exemption.
NBAA’s Small Aircraft Exemption allows operators of piston airplanes, small airplanes, and all helicopters to utilize the limited options for cost reimbursement permitted under Part 91, Subpart F of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs). This exemption has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and is only available to NBAA Members.
Common situations where cost sharing may be helpful include the transportation of a guest on the company aircraft or use of the aircraft by employees of a subsidiary company. In addition, the use of time sharing, interchange, and joint ownership agreements are permitted under Part 91, Subpart F.
Without the NBAA Small Aircraft Exemption, the cost sharing options available under Part 91, Subpart F are only available to aircraft that fall into one of the following groups:
- The aircraft has a maximum takeoff weight of over 12,500 pounds, or;
- The aircraft is a multi-engine turbojet aircraft (regardless of size), or;
- The aircraft is a fractional program aircraft (regardless of size)
The NBAA web site provides Members with further information on the conditions and limitations of the Exemption and a copy of the FAA letter granting the Exemption to NBAA, which must be carried on board the aircraft.
NBAA offers a comprehensive suite of benefits, services and products that give Member Companies of all types and sizes the tools they need to make the best use of their business aircraft. Learn more about NBAA Membership. | aerospace | 1 |
https://mabe.utk.edu/mabe-rocketry-team-finishes-third-in-2021-argonia-cup/ | 2021-12-08T07:12:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363445.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20211208053135-20211208083135-00185.warc.gz | 0.966864 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__198381680 | en | The University of Tennessee Rocket Top team competed in the annual Argonia Cup Collegiate Rocketry Competition, March 27-28 in Kansas. This was UT’s first time competing in the competition, and they did not disappoint, snagging third place out of seventeen teams from fifteen universities.
“We were blown away by our placement in the competition,” said Tyler Sundstrom, team leader and junior in UT’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE). “For our first year in the Argonia Cup, we could not have asked for a more astounding result. We wanted to make a name for the University of Tennessee out west, and that’s what we did.”
The goal of the competition was to challenge college students to design, build, and fly a rocket to at least 8,000 feet, then deploy a payload upon its descent. The payload then had to fly to a designated area on the launch site. The winner was decided by who landed the closest to the target area.
The UT team’s rocket flew 8,930 feet with the payload landing 3,115 feet away from the target.
Sundstrom and Abigail Digsby, also a junior in MABE and co-leader of the team, started forming the Rocket Top team at the beginning of the fall 2020 semester, and spent weeks recruiting through flyers, virtual outreach events, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Society of Women Engineers student organizations.
The team was made up of sixteen members, ranging from first-year students to juniors, with the majority being from MABE and majoring in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
“After winter break, we began construction,” said Sundstrom. “Overall, it took two-and-a-half months to have everything built, not including the entire first semester we spent designing.”
The team is already looking forward to next year’s Argonia Cup.
“We got our feet wet and now have a good feel for the competition,” said Sundstrom. “We will make sure all the teams know who the Vols are when we step away with that first-place trophy.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.robolab.in/rocket-launch-physics-explained/ | 2024-04-13T15:13:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816820.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413144933-20240413174933-00808.warc.gz | 0.915875 | 126 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__2976762 | en | How do Newton’s Laws apply to a rocket launch?
Using data from a simulation by Robert A. Braeunig, I present graphs of various measurements to explain Newton’s in the context of the multistage rocket Saturn V. In particular I explain how the g forces change for the astronauts as they ascend into orbit.
For those doing the NSW HSC, this video address the following dot point (though I do not specifically address LCM)
analyse the changing acceleration of a rocket during launch in terms of the:
– Law of Conservation of Momentum
– forces experienced by astronauts | aerospace | 1 |
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/payam-e-amirkabir.htm | 2023-09-28T13:58:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510412.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928130936-20230928160936-00339.warc.gz | 0.855163 | 388 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__169167372 | en | Payam-e Amirkabir, also known as AUTSAT (Amir Kabir University of Technology Satellite), was an Iranian microsatellite for remote sensing and store and forward communications built by the Amir Kabir University of Technology (AUT).
The satellite carried an imager with a ground resolution better than 40 m. A communications payload was also on board.
It has been designed by the resident scientists and researchers at AUT. AUT and Iran Aerospace Industries Organization signed a production agreement on AUTSAT satellite. The satellite’s total weight is 90 kilograms and can be used to assess damages inflicted by earthquakes, droughts and other natural disasters, contributing to the reduction of casualties. The satellite is also capable of surveying agricultural lands.
The satellite was launched on 15 January 2019 on a Simorgh rocket, but failed to reach orbit due to a failure of stage three of the launch vehicle.
|Type / Application:||Earth observation, store and forward communications|
|Operator:||Amir Kabir University of Technology|
|Contractors:||Amir Kabir University of Technology|
|Equipment:||Imager, store and forward communications payload|
|Configuration:||55 cm × 60 cm × 50 cm|
|Power:||Solar cells, batteries|
|Lifetime:||3 - 5 years|
|Orbit:||600 km, 55° (planned)|
|Payam-e Amirkabir (AUTSAT 1, Amir-Kabir 1)||2019-F01||15.01.2019||Sem LP-2||F||Simorgh| | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.stargate.lk/plane-on-fire-over-oz-city-caught-on-camera/ | 2023-09-30T13:55:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510676.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930113949-20230930143949-00100.warc.gz | 0.983143 | 275 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__120411633 | en | Skip to content
A 5plane passenger watched in horror as he filmed one of the jet’s wings on fire as he and more than 90 others flew over the city of Perth in Australia.
The flight had left Perth Airport and was heading towards Barrow Island when passengers spotted sparks flying from a left-side engine.
Below, some on the ground took pictures of the BAE 146 jet, with what looked like flames shooting from a wing and billowing smoke.
The plane, filled with mine workers, was forced to make a U-turn and carried out a successful emergency landing at the domestic airport, with no injuries.
Passenger Brad McCoy posted a video of the fire taken from his seat on his Facebook page, titled: “Part of my first plane crash.”
Another passenger Anthony Gelati told an Australian TV station: “All I saw is that it just got worse and worse as we were going along.”
Cobham Aviation Services said one of the plane’s four engines caught fire as it was climbing shortly after take off.
“When the fire was detected, the engine was shut down and the fire extinguished,” the company said in a statement.
“There were no injuries among the 92 passengers or two pilots and three cabin crew. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/reply/136/417478 | 2018-01-18T16:14:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887423.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118151122-20180118171122-00307.warc.gz | 0.762715 | 136 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__226065796 | en | Back to list
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eWeek: Boeing Says Laptop with Employee info Stolen
Nov 23 2005 06:47AM
Topi Ylinen (topi ylinen hushmail com)
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Boeing Says Laptop with Employee info Stolen
A laptop computer containing names, social security numbers and
other sensitive information of 161,000 current and former employees
of Boeing Co. was stolen recently, the U.S. aerospace manufac...
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https://www.hotrecentnews.com/news/device-air-berlin-fixed-for-outstanding-accou/31246 | 2023-12-07T17:14:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207153748-20231207183748-00785.warc.gz | 0.958041 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__261493354 | en | reykjavik - An Air Berlin Airbus A320 must remain at Reykjavik Airport for the sake of unpaid costs. The device arrived in Reykjavik from Düsseldorf on Tuesday, but the return flight was canceled this morning.
That reports Airlive. just. Air Berlin has an outstanding bill at Iceland Airport. The port fee has not been paid for the time being as a result of their bankruptcy, Isavia reports. The airport states that it has enabled staff to assist the stranded travelers. Air Berlin went bankrupt in August, but is still flying thanks to a bridge loan from the German government. At the end of next week, air Berlin stops flying. | aerospace | 1 |
http://aviation-training-guide.com/news-details/the-first-al42-flight-simulator-was-purchased-in-australia./273/ | 2018-10-15T13:33:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583509196.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20181015121848-20181015143348-00290.warc.gz | 0.945152 | 250 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__74947751 | en | A new ALSIM AL42 simulator will be delivered to Diamond Airline Academy next October.
The Diamond Airline Academy flight school is located in Melbourne, Australia. The AL42 simulator, the first sold in Australia, is a replica of the Diamond DA42 plane
Diamond Airline Academy is a new flight training centre opening in Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne later this year. The company is planning to work with one of the Airlines in China and provide training for their cadets. The AL42 simulator, configured with Thielert engine, will be used for procedural training and IFR.
Thanks to the report received from Alsim we are pleased to add the Fly-Coop Hungarian flight school in our directory.Mr. Peter Nagy, Fly Coop Deputy Head of Tra...Read more
We receive the press release of ALSIM Simulators on 10 September, in which the sales manager for Spain, Mr Nicolas de Lassus, expressed his pride in welcoming F...Read more
The Alsim ALX acquired by the IFA is an EASA CS-FSTD A-FNPT II MCC simulator, which allows to replace flight hours per simulated flight hours in the PPL, CPL-Ti...Read more | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/hoagland-images-lunar-ziggurat/ | 2021-07-30T01:01:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153899.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729234313-20210730024313-00506.warc.gz | 0.934478 | 355 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__180012175 | en | Hoagland Images: Lunar Ziggurat
The following images and information were provided by Richard C. Hoagland to accompany his news segment on the 7/20/12 show.
This startling section of Apollo photograph -- AS11-38-5564 -- was taken in lunar orbit by the crew of the first US Lunar Landing Mission, Apollo 11, July 20, 1969. It is an enlargement of what appears to be a massive "pyramid/ziggurat" ... built on the Farside of the Moon.
The second graphic is an Enterprise Mission composite of the Apollo 11 "ziggurat enlargement," and an annotated map view of the lunar Farside -- showing the approximate location of the "pyramid."
The fact that this massive, pyramidal, apparently artificial object (estimated to measure at least "a mile along each side, and to be roughly half-a-mile in height ...") is located almost EXACTLY opposite the Earth (near lunar longitude 180 degrees), seems highly significant; previous Enterprise studies of ancient pyramids on Earth has now confirmed that such massive, geometric structures function as passive, solid-state amplifiers for "torsion field energy." A possible use for such a massive pyramid on the Moon, "looking" at the Earth through the newly-discovered "metallic liquid core," could have been to study (in totally secrecy ...) the constantly changing Torsion Field Physics of the Earth ....
This and other analyses of the surprising effects of "torsion field physics" will be posted on EnterpriseMission.com shortly -- as part of an Enterprise analysis of the revolutionary torsion field changes which accompanied the recent (May 20th) "annular solar eclipse." | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.inverse.com/article/51698-spacex-elon-musk-hints-at-new-rocket-recovery-plan | 2023-03-22T08:43:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943809.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322082826-20230322112826-00557.warc.gz | 0.94744 | 492 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__147719228 | en | SpaceX: Elon Musk Hints at New Rocket Recovery Plan
SpaceX’s quest to reuse rockets took another step forward Tuesday. In a Twitter response to a fan question, CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is likely to be able to re-use the fairing protective shield after it’s landed in the ocean. The prospect is a big step forward for the company’s recovery technology, paving the way for future missions to Mars and beyond.
While SpaceX has almost perfected the art of recovering the rocket booster, costing around $46.5 million of the $62 million total construction costs for a Falcon 9, the $6 million fairing remains elusive. The company’s previous plan was to use a giant net on the back of an ocean ship, with Mr. Steven moving into position after launch. However, its attempt to catch the fairing failed earlier this month when it narrowly missed the net. Musk reassured his Twitter fans at the time that there’s “nothing wrong with a little swim” and they could fly again, but Musk has now gone further to suggest the net may not be necessary at all.
See more: Watch SpaceX Attempt a Record-Breaking Rocket Landing in the Pacific Ocean
Ditching the net would avoid one of SpaceX’s trickiest challenges. Mr. Steven was first deployed in February 2018, accompanies by a modified fairing designed to make it easier for the shield to glide to the mitt. Unfortunately it didn’t quite work out that way, missing its target by “a few hundred meters” off the coast of Southern California. In June, Musk announced plans to upgrade the net to a size four times larger, totaling 0.9 acres.
The ship came very close earlier this month, but the larger net was not quite enough. Fortunately, the upgrades to the fairing enabled a softer landing with parachutes slowing down the speed and thrusters guiding the fairing to a more suitable spot. It’s not quite the result the company was after, but Tuesday’s comments suggest its new approach may make the catcher’s mitt less necessary than before.
SpaceX plans to use rocket reusability technology to send a manned mission to Mars as soon as 2024, using liquid methane rocket propellant to refuel by harvesting resources from the Martian atmosphere.
Related video: SpaceX Falcon 9 Makes a Water Landing | aerospace | 1 |
http://hppr.org/post/texas-air-space-museum-wants-rescue-amarillo-s-historic-hangar | 2018-07-20T16:30:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591718.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720154756-20180720174756-00625.warc.gz | 0.968063 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__201791397 | en | Last week’s heavy rain damaged an important piece of Amarillo’s aviation past.
The English Field hangar, which opened in 1929 and was used for pilot training during World War II, was partially damaged by the downpour. As a result, the Texas Air and Space Museum has expressed interest in taking ownership of the site.
As The Amarillo Globe-News reports, museum president Ron Fernuik spoke at a meeting of the Amarillo City Council on Tuesday and said the Air and Space Museum was worried that the hangar’s poor condition would lead to its demolition if the museum didn’t step in to preserve it.
Members of the Amarillo City Council said they’d need some time to consider the proposal, but they assured the museum’s president that no one would destroy the English Field Hangar in the meantime. | aerospace | 1 |
http://skift.com/2013/03/05/faa-works-on-rule-forbidding-flight-crews-from-surfing-facebook-on-duty/ | 2013-12-13T02:52:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164834476/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204134714-00047-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.917755 | 171 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__6554772 | en | FAA considers rule forbidding flight crews from surfing Facebook on duty
The ruling would restrict flight crews’ use of mobile devices beyond critical points of flight departure and landing, but would prove difficult to enforce with crews 30,000 feet above the regulators.
Excerpt from The Hill
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it’s bringing regulations in line with the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 that Congress passed last February. That legislation called for a ban on flight crews using technology for personal use at their “duty stations.”
The rule “is intended to ensure that certain non-essential activities do not contribute to the challenge of task management on the flight deck or a loss of situational awareness due to attention to non-essential tasks,” the FAA wrote in the Federal Register document about the rules. | aerospace | 1 |
https://rchelicop.com/airplane/what-keeps-an-airplane-in-the-air.html | 2021-04-11T04:20:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038060927.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411030031-20210411060031-00314.warc.gz | 0.943271 | 866 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__198092515 | en | A plane’s engines are designed to move it forward at high speed. That makes air flow rapidly over the wings, which throw the air down toward the ground, generating an upward force called lift that overcomes the plane’s weight and holds it in the sky. … The wings force the air downward and that pushes the plane upward.
What force keeps an airplane in the air?
Weight is the force caused by gravity. Lift is the force that holds an airplane in the air. The wings create most of the lift used by airplanes.
What are those things that fly in the air?
These machines include aircraft such as airplanes, gliders, helicopters, autogyros, airships, balloons, ornithopters as well as spacecraft. Gliders are capable of unpowered flight.
Can airplanes stay still in the air?
Can an Airplane stand still in mid-air? Technically, it is possible for an airplane to hover for a few moments, but only in the rarest of circumstances. If weight and lift cancel each other out at the same exact time that thrust and drag cancel each other out, the plane would hover until one of these variables changed.
Can an airplane stay in the air without moving?
To stay in the air and sustain its flight, an aircraft needs to be moving forward. … If the plane stopped flying forward, it could not produce lift, an thus could not stay up, unlike the helicopter which uses a propeller to stay airborn.
How long can a plane stay in the air?
Planes can now fly for 21 hours non-stop.
Why do planes stop in mid air?
No a plane doesn’t stop in midair, planes need to keep moving forward to remain in the air (unless they are VTOL capable). What it can do is simply turn around or go over/under the obstruction. VTOL means vertical takeoff and landing. It essentially means they can hover in place like a helicopter.
How can a human fly naturally?
Humans will never fly by flapping our arms with wings attached, says Mark Drela, Terry J. … In theory, human legs do have enough strength to do this, but only if the wings’ span is large enough — at least 80 feet or so — and if they also weigh significantly less than the human.
What can fly without wings?
The answer to the “what flies without wings” riddle is “time”.
What is the most dangerous part of a flight?
Boeing research shows that takeoff and landing are statistically more dangerous than any other part of a flight. 49% of all fatal accidents happen during the final descent and landing phases of the average flight, while 14% of all fatal accidents happen during takeoff and initial climb.
Why do planes not freeze in the air?
On a colder object by water directly desublimating on its surface or on any object when air is saturated with water. Frost can form on a moving airplane, but only the second way. … However when you fly into a cloud in freezing temperature, the water droplets will freeze on the aircraft when they hit it.
Can a plane fly with one wing?
No, an airplane cannot fly with only one wing. In order for a plane to stay stable in air, it has to maintain balance. With only one wing, the weight is shifted to one side of the plane.
How long can a plane stay in the air without engines?
Flying at a typical altitude of 36,000 feet (about seven miles), an aircraft that loses both engines will be able to travel for another 70 miles before reaching the ground.
What happens if an airplane goes too high?
When the plane gets too high, there is insufficient oxygen to fuel the engines. “The air is less dense at altitude, so the engine can suck in less and less air per second as it goes higher and at some point the engine can no longer develop sufficient power to climb.” …
Can helicopters stop in mid air?
A helicopter that is flying forward can stop in mid-air and begin hovering very quickly. We’ll cover this signature maneuver next. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.momondo.com/flights/dublin/dallasfort-worth-intl-airport-dfw | 2021-10-16T04:53:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323583423.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016043926-20211016073926-00496.warc.gz | 0.871543 | 307 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__99855070 | en | |Best Price Found||$659||The best flight deal from Dublin to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport found on momondo in the last 72 hours is $659|
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The cheapest time of year to fly to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport from Dublin is November. Most expensive is August
Aer Lingus, American Airlines, and British Airways are the most popular carriers operating from Dublin to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport
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Flight attendant for first class is definitely not a morning person. Oh and the WiFi DID NOT WORK!
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A flight from Dublin to Dallas/Fort Worth will travel around 4460.4 mi. 22h 03m is a normal flight duration for this route. | aerospace | 1 |
https://blog.thepipingmart.com/grades/ams-7817-alloy-composition-properties-and-uses/ | 2024-04-20T07:21:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817491.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420060257-20240420090257-00343.warc.gz | 0.930285 | 765 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__24299270 | en | In the aerospace industry, materials are required to meet stringent quality standards for strength, durability, and reliability. AMS 7817 is one of the materials in question – but what exactly is it? In this blog post, we will dive deep into understanding AMS 7817. We will discuss its composition, physical and mechanical properties, uses, hardness, and heat treatment options. By the end of this article, you’ll clearly understand what AMS 7817 is and why it is so important in modern aerospace manufacturing.
What is AMS 7817?
AMs 7817 is a standard developed by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) that provides guidelines for designing, testing, and approval of mechanical fasteners in aerospace applications. The standard covers the materials and manufacturing processes used to create these fasteners and the tests required to ensure they meet strict performance criteria. The goal of AMS 7817 is to provide the reliability and safety of pins used in critical aerospace components, such as engines and landing gear. Compliance with this standard is necessary for achieving the essential quality and performance standards to meet the demanding requirements of the aerospace industry.
AMS 7817 Composition
AMS 7817 is a low-alloy steel composed of carbon, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, and nitrogen. The inclusion of molybdenum and nickel provides increased resistance to corrosion and enhances its tensile strength. In addition, the nitrogen content in AMS 7817 enhances mechanical properties such as toughness and fatigue resistance.
AMS 7817 Physical Properties
This material has a 7.85 g/cm³ density and a melting point of 1427 °C. The material also has a coefficient of thermal expansion of 12.1 µm/m°C, which means that its dimensions will change by 12.1 µm for every degree Celsius increase in temperature. The thermal conductivity of AMS 7817 is 21.5 W/mK, which is relatively low compared to other steels.
AMS 7817 Mechanical Properties
AMS 7817 has a yield strength of 470 MPa, a tensile strength of 950 MPa, and an elongation of 10%. The material also exhibits good impact toughness, making it suitable for structural and safety-critical applications such as aircraft landing gear.
AMS 7817 Uses
Due to its high strength and toughness, AMS 7817 is often used in the aerospace industry for structural components requiring high fatigue and corrosion resistance. Its application includes landing gear components, structural fasteners, and structural tubes.
AMS 7817 Hardness
AMS 7817 has a Rockwell hardness of 30 HRC. It can be heat treated to increase its hardness and wear resistance. This makes it ideal for use in components that undergo high levels of wear, such as aircraft wheels and brake parts.
AMS 7817 Heat treatment
AMS 7817 can be heat treated to increase its hardness and wear resistance. This process is done by heating the material to a specific temperature and quenching it in a suitable medium. It is then tempered at a lower temperature to give it the desired hardness and toughness.
With its high strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance, AMS 7817 is essential in aerospace and other industries such as oil and gas exploration. Its versatility makes it popular for various structural components requiring high fatigue and corrosion resistance. By understanding its properties and uses, manufacturers can make informed decisions regarding selecting materials for their applications, ultimately leading to safer and more reliable products.
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https://www.wrkf.org/2023-06-09/veteran-astronaut-peggy-whitson-says-more-private-space-flights-are-in-the-horizon | 2024-04-23T12:17:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818474.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423095619-20240423125619-00545.warc.gz | 0.977106 | 1,766 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__176076679 | en | Veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson says more private space flights are in the horizon
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
If you've ever traveled somewhere that left you so enthralled, you wanted to go back over and over, then you get how Peggy Whitson feels about space. Whitson is an astronaut, the first woman to command the International Space Station. She broke the American record for cumulative days in space - 665. Well, that was back in 2017. She told NPR that same year she was probably done but that she would miss it.
PEGGY WHITSON: Anyone that's ever gone to space is always wanting to go back. You get addicted to it.
KELLY: So addicted that last month, at age 63, she un-retired and signed on as commander of the Ax-2 mission for a private company, Axiom Space, where she works as the director of human spaceflight. On board with her - three paying passengers, including Rayyanah Barnawi and another Saudi astronaut. Peggy Whitson, welcome back to Earth.
WHITSON: Well, it's - I would say it's great to be back, but it was great to be up there, too. So it was a great experience all around.
KELLY: What made you say yes to this mission? - because you told us back in 2017 you thought you were done with going to space.
WHITSON: I thought I was done because I didn't think there would be opportunities. Luckily for me, Axiom Space had these opportunities become available, and I, of course, signed up with a jumping up and down kind of a response.
KELLY: Oh, really? Like, what was - they didn't have to pitch very hard to persuade you that you should sign on.
WHITSON: No, absolutely not.
KELLY: What appealed to you about - I mean, you've spent your career at NASA. What appealed to you about a private mission?
WHITSON: Space really is changing - you know, the character of space and how it is - exploration is occurring. You know, if you look at even the NASA missions going to the - returning to the moon, lots of different private space companies are involved in that process. And that includes Axiom Space, for instance, who are building the spacesuits that will be used by the NASA astronauts as they step on the moon again.
KELLY: It's so interesting. I was going to ask you, is the future of space exploration private? If I'm hearing you right, it's - you see it as a partnership, that public and private are going to have to work together going forward.
WHITSON: Oh, absolutely. I think it's a worldwide relationship of different companies and peoples. And that's what makes it such a special time to be a part of the mission because, you know, there are going to be many more opportunities in the future. And trying to expand that horizon as part of my initial steps here is a lot of fun for me to be making history in that kind of way.
KELLY: So talk to me about some of the work you did on this mission. I gather among the research projects that you and your crew worked on was one involving cancer cells. How did that go?
WHITSON: That was great. That was one I was involved with. But they were looking at different types of cancer cells. They like to use zero gravity because the cells grow a little bit more like they do in your body and maybe a little bit faster. And that helps them test things like drugs to prevent them or to reduce the effects of the growth in space. And so it was exciting for me to be a part of one of those studies. And, you know, as a life scientist, I really enjoyed, you know, the stem cell research and all the life sciences-type research that we were doing.
KELLY: I mentioned how deeply experienced you are. What is the weight of being in space and commanding crew members who are rookies, who've never been up there before?
KELLY: Well, I've actually flown before with numerous rookies. And, you know, it's actually, I think, kind of fun because you get to relive the experience of being there through their eyes. You know, it's like watching a young child experiencing something for the first time. And in my case, I get - I got to see on this mission three people experiencing space for the first time. So it was a lot of fun for me to relive my experience as well through them.
KELLY: Do you feel the wonder of it all over again, of looking down...
KELLY: ...And thinking, oh, my God, that's Earth.
WHITSON: Well, and just, you know, the wonder of, you know, learning how to fly in space, you know, float around and, you know, be effective and just that sheer joy of being able to move so easily and, in my mind, gracefully. I don't feel like I'm particularly graceful here on Earth (laughter).
KELLY: And then I want to ask about recovery now that you're back on Earth. You returned last week. Do you get jet lag? I'm thinking if I fly to Tokyo, it takes me a week to feel human again. What's it like coming home from space?
WHITSON: There was a little bit of, in essence, jet lag. We are on Greenwich Mean Time while we were in space. And so, you know, it's a five-hour difference between here and Central Time. And so, you know, there is a little bit of that jet lag going on, the - you know, those feelings of whether they're neuro-vestibular, you know, being a little bit off balance. Those to me seemed to recover much more quickly after this short flight than they did after my long flights. So I do think your body learns a little bit from it, and I do think duration makes a difference on the impacts.
KELLY: Is it true that your nickname is space ninja?
WHITSON: Yeah. My last space flight when I broke the U.S. record, Jack Fisher, my crewmate on board - he named me the space ninja.
KELLY: Is this a nickname you wear with pride?
WHITSON: Oh, yeah, actually. There could be a lot worse names. I think it's kind of a cool one.
KELLY: I would agree.
WHITSON: So I like it.
WHITSON: And he spent the whole mission trying to get the ground team to call me the space ninja. And so - and eventually they did.
KELLY: I mean, I'm asking in part because I remember when you talked to us before a few years ago, you were wrestling with seeing yourself as a role model. And I wonder, how about now? Does that mantle sit - rest a little easier?
WHITSON: Yeah, it does. And it was actually one of the things I shared with Rayyanah being the first Saudi woman in space. You know, I told her, hey; it's a short mission. You got to start owning this before you fly. And, you know, I tried to help her on what - the fact that she needed to actually embrace the fact that she is a role model and will be a huge role model in her country.
KELLY: Oh, that's interesting. So you're role modeling how to be a role model...
KELLY: ...For the next generation.
WHITSON: Because I struggled with that some, so I wanted to make sure she started off on the right foot.
KELLY: So I got to ask, are you done? Was that the last trip?
WHITSON: Not if I get another chance.
KELLY: I love it. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, thank you so much for being with us today, and welcome home.
WHITSON: All right. Thank you so much.
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https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/damage-mitigating-control-of-a-reusable-rocket-engine | 2022-07-03T02:16:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104209449.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703013155-20220703043155-00292.warc.gz | 0.903374 | 218 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__90451060 | en | This article presents a control concept for damage prediction and damage mitigation in reusable rocket engines for enhancement of structural durability. The key idea here is to achieve high performance without overstraining the mechanical structures so that 1) the functional lives of critical components are increased, resulting in enhanced safety, operational reliability, and availability; and 2) the plant (i.e., the rocket engine) can be inexpensively maintained, and safely and efficiently driven under different operating conditions. To thiseffect, dynamics of fatigue damage have been modeled in the continuous-time setting instead of the conventional cycle-based approach, and an optimal control policy is formulated by constraining the accumulated damage and its time derivative. Efficacy of the proposed damage mitigation concept is evaluated for life extension of the turbine blades of a bipropellant rocket engine via simulation experiments. The simulation results demonstrate the potential of increasing the structural durability of reusable rocket engines with no significant loss of performance.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Aerospace Engineering
- Fuel Technology
- Mechanical Engineering
- Space and Planetary Science | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.news9.com/story/60d2826733c8030bb453716c/rose-state-college-helping-fill-the-need-for-oklahomas-aerospace-engineers | 2022-08-18T23:19:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00377.warc.gz | 0.948255 | 424 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__181956859 | en | Aerospace is one of the fastest growing industries in Oklahoma. The need for engineers in this field is a top priority.
In the past two years, more than 25 aerospace companies have expanded operations, opened new operations, or relocated operations to Oklahoma, resulting in almost 4,000 new aerospace jobs.
There are currently more than 1,500 aerospace-related job openings in the Oklahoma City area, with a goal of adding 10,000 more to the state in the next five years.
Those jobs vacancies are expected to continue to grow with a high demand for engineers.
The Oklahoma Department of Commerce has recognized those needs and is working on solutions.
“We are actively brining more of the positions here. There’s never going to be a slowdown in the near future for the need of engineers in this industry,” Oklahoma Department of Commerce Aerospace & Defense Business Recruiter Ryan Tillison said.
Engineering talent is the most in-demand career in Oklahoma’s aerospace industry and the largest portion of the new jobs created over the last two years.
Rose State College and Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology have partnered to form a bridge program. Transitioning engineers from other industries to the aerospace industry.
“One goal of the program is to retain engineering talent in the state. The energy sector is cyclical, and up and down, relative to the Aerospace industry which is constantly growing.” Tillison said.
The average wage for aerospace engineers in Oklahoma ranges from $73,000 to over $104,000. The demand to fill the positions is so great, the state is offering tax incentives.
“The state has a unique incentive program called the engineer aerospace workforce tax credit. That not only benefits aerospace employers, but aerospace engineers that have an abet-accredited engineering degree,” Tillison explained.
Which provides a $5,000 personal income tax credit for 5 years.
Classes last six weeks and are Monday through Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The cost is $500. | aerospace | 1 |
http://ch.whu.edu.cn/cn/article/doi/10.13203/j.whugis20130819 | 2023-12-11T12:03:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00376.warc.gz | 0.896424 | 233 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__137725675 | en | Based on the present geometry delay models of GNSS-R (global navigation satellite systems reflectometry) spaceborne altimetry, dynamic error and parallel signal error are studied. Apart from analyzing the reasons causing these two errors, this paper gives the analytical expressions of both errors. In order to obtain the magnitudes of dynamic error and parallel signal error, this paper first utilizes a segment of actual experimental data from the satellites of UK-DMC (united kingdom disaster monitor constellation) to test the magnitudes of dynamic error and parallel error, getting both errors of this set of data. Furthermore, regarding CHAMP (challenging mini-satellite payload) and COSMIC (constellation observing system for meteorology, ionosphere and climate) satellites as the platforms of receivers, a host of simulated data are used to detect the magnitudes of both errors. The conclusion that these two errors can be as great as the meter level, which cannot be ignored in altimetry, is reached after considering the results of two kinds of experiments. Finally, a solution of using the precise orbits information of transmitter and receiver to adjust dynamic error and parallel signal error is proposed. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.whiteman.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/323964/whiteman-air-force-base/ | 2022-01-17T19:21:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300616.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117182124-20220117212124-00245.warc.gz | 0.961263 | 2,250 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__118600967 | en | In the Heartland, located two miles south of Knob Noster, Mo., just off U.S. Highway 50, Whiteman Air Force Base's name and roots stem from World War II.
During the U.S.' mobilization following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Whiteman AFB was activated on Aug. 6, 1942, as Sedalia Glider Base.
In November 1942, the installation became Sedalia Army Air Field and was assigned to the 12th Troop Carrier Command of the Army Air Force. The field served as a training site for glider tactics and paratroopers.
Assigned aircraft included the Douglas C-46s, C-47s and the Waco CG-4A glider. Following the end of the war in 1945, the base closed and most of the buildings were abandoned.
In August 1951, however, the base returned to life again and became a part of Strategic Air Command. SAC activated the 4224th Air Base Squadron to supervise the rehabilitation and construction of a new base, Sedalia AFB.
The 4224th continued its activities until Oct. 20, 1952, when it inactivated while turning over the base to the 340th Bombardment Wing. SAC scheduled the 340th to received the command's newest aircraft systems, the B-47 Stratojet and KC-97 tanker. Construction workers soon completed runway repairs and other projects in November 1953, paving the way for the arrival of the first B-47 in March 1954.
2nd Lieutenant George Whiteman
Whiteman Air Force Base is named in honor of 2nd Lt. George Whiteman, Air Corp, U. S. Army, who lost his life Dec. 7, 1941, while he was attempting to take off to defend Bellows Air Field, Oahu, Hawaii, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
George Allison Whiteman, the eldest of ten children of John and Earlie Whiteman, was born Oct. 12, 1919, at the Wilkerson farm near Longwood, Mo., in Pettis County. He graduated from Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia and attended the Rolla School of Mines in Rolla, Mo., prior to enlisting in the service in 1939.
In the spring of 1940, Whiteman received orders to report to Randolph Field, Texas, for training as an aviator. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps Nov. 15, 1940, and volunteered for duty in Hawaii early the following year.
As the sun rose over Oahu on the morning of Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began. Lieutenant Whiteman got to his P-40B aircraft at Bellows Field and had just lifted off the runway when a burst of enemy gunfire hit his cockpit, wounding him and throwing the plane out of control. The plane crashed and burned just off the end of the runway.
The news of Lieutenant Whiteman's death reached his family at 10:13 p.m. Dec. 7. In an interview with the Sedalia Democrat that evening, his mother, Earlie Whiteman, said: "It's hard to believe. It might have happened anytime, anywhere. We've got to sacrifice loved ones if we want to win this war." She gave the reporter a photograph of her son sitting in an aircraft with the inscription "Lucky, Lucky Me."
Lieutenant Whiteman is believed to be one of the first Airmen killed during the assault which marked the United States' entry into World War II. For his gallantry that day, he was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the Purple Heart, the American Defense Medal with a Foreign Service clasp, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign medal with one bronze star, and the World War II Victory Medal.
Another honor was bestowed on Lieutenant Whiteman 14 years after his death. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, informed Mrs. Whiteman on Aug. 24, 1955, that the recently reopened Sedalia Air Force Base would be renamed Whiteman Air Force Base in tribute to her son. The dedication and renaming ceremony took place on Dec. 3, 1955.
Construction on Whiteman continued throughout the 1950s. During this period, the Air Force built military family housing units as well as a base pool and gymnasium. However, a project on a much grander scale soon overshadowed this flurry of construction.
In June 1961, the Department of Defense chose Whiteman to host the fourth Minuteman ICBM wing. On Jan. 17, 1962, the firm of Morrison, Hardeman, Perrini, and Level received the prime contract for construction of hardened, underground launch facilities and 15 launch control centers. The project called for the excavation of 867,000 cubic yards of earth and rock.
The contractors used 168,000 yards of concrete, 25,355 tons of reinforcing steel and 15,120 tons of structural steel. In addition, the project called for the installation of a vast underground intersite cable network. If laid end to end in a straight line, this cable would stretch from Whiteman AFB to 100 miles beyond Los Angeles. Construction of the complex was officially completed in June 1964.
Before completion of the construction, SAC activated the 351st Strategic Missile Wing at Whiteman on Feb. 1, 1963. The 340th BMW gradually phased out operations during the same year with its remnants transferring to Bergstrom AFB, Texas, on Sept. 1, 1963.
After the mission change in 1963, life on Whiteman remained relatively stable throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Still, there were programs to continually update and improve the base's weapons systems.
Whiteman initially employed the Minuteman I weapons system until the mid-1960s when a force modernization program converted the Minuteman I to the Minuteman II. Throughout the ICBM's tenure at Whiteman, it went through a variety of modifications to keep it at the forefront of America's defense.
Several new buildings emerged from time to time as the base matured. However, with the beginning of the 1980s, a new construction phase started. New missile operations, maintenance and security police facilities as well as several enlisted dormitories marked the start of a new era.
Meanwhile, the base continued to lead the way. In the late 1980s, the 351st fielded the first female Minuteman missile crew, the first male and female Minuteman crew, and the first squadron commander to pull alert in the Minuteman system. Under the provisions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Minuteman II system was being inactivated.
Then came an announcement that would change Whiteman forever. On Jan. 5, 1987, Congressman Ike Skelton revealed that the first deployment of the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber would be at Whiteman. Beginning in 1988, a massive construction wave that created new buildings designed for B-2 operations, maintenance and support activities swept over the base.
On July 1, 1990, the 100th Air Division activated at Whiteman and assumed host responsibilities for the base. Accordingly, the 351st Combat Support Group and the 351st Security Police Group, along with their assigned units and the squadrons under the deputy commander for resource management, inactivated at Whiteman. Concurrently, the Air Force activated equivalent squadrons bearing the 800th designator to replace the inactivated 351st units.
Several months after the air division's activation, on Sept. 30, 1990, the 509th Bomb Wing moved its headquarters to Whiteman albeit in an unmanned and non-operational state.
However, the 100th AD's tenure at Whiteman did not last long as SAC inactivated the unit on July 26, 1991. Similarly, Whiteman's host unit responsibilities reverted to the 351st.
During the next two years, Whiteman's building infrastructure continued to grow as the arrival date of the first B-2 drew nearer. Meanwhile, another change developed in the Air Force.
With the end of the Cold War, the Air Force disestablished Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command and Military Air Command on June 1, 1992. In their place arose two new organizations, one of which was Air Combat Command, the 509th's newer, higher headquarters.
On April 1, 1993, the 509th returned to operational status when people from Detachment 509, the base's B-2 overseers for the past two years, were formally assigned to the wing. Then, on July 1, 1993, the 509th accepted the host responsibilities for Whiteman from the 351st and a new era dawned for the base. Several days later, on July 20, 1993, flying operations returned to the base after a 30-year hiatus when the first permanently assigned T-38 landed at Whiteman.
Then, on Dec. 17, 1993, the event that Whiteman had long awaited finally arrived. On that day, at approximately 2 p.m., a dark jet bomber swooped from the sky and landed on the Whiteman runway. Amid much fanfare, the first operational B-2, The Spirit of Missouri, had arrived. Less than a week later, on Dec. 22, 1993, Whiteman again made history as it generated the first B-2 sortie from the base.
On June 12, 1994, the base welcomed the 442nd Fighter Wing. The 442nd, an Air Force Reserve unit previously assigned to Richards-Gebaur AFB, Mo., transferred to Whiteman after the closure of that installation.
Yet, the 442nd was not really a newcomer to the base. On Sept. 1, 1943, the then-called 442nd Troop Carrier Group activated at Sedalia Army Air Field. It subsequently remained at the base until December 1943.
In 1995 the base also lost one of its long-time resident units. On July 31, 1995, the 351st Strategic Missile Wing officially inactivated, ending its 33-year association with Whiteman AFB.
In 2009, the 131st Fighter Wing, a Missouri Air National Guard Unit stationed at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, began transferring personnel to Whiteman to become the 131st Bomb Wing, the only Air Guard unit to fly the B-2 Spirit. The 131st BW brought its own ground and flight crews making Whiteman truly a Total Force Base.
Whiteman is also home to the Army National Guard 1-135th Attack Battalion and the Navy Reserve Maritime Expeditionary Security Division 13.
On February 1st, 2010, Whiteman was assigned to the Air Force's newest Major Command, Air Force Global Strike Command.
Throughout its history, the base has always been at the forefront of national defense. With the arrival of the first B-2 and the subsequent assignment of others, the future for the installation does, indeed, look bright for many years to come.
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https://www.armyrecognition.com/aad_2012_show_daily_news_pictures_video_uk/carl_zeiss_optronics_display_archer_z-150_pilot_helmet_mounted_display_and_sighting_systems_0909122.amp.html | 2023-01-27T18:14:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764495001.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20230127164242-20230127194242-00102.warc.gz | 0.865456 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__219212452 | en | Carl Zeiss Optronics display Archer Z-150 Pilot Helmet Mounted Display and Sighting Systems 0909122
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Carl Zeiss Optronics (CZ0) has launched a new version of its Archer Z-150 Helmet Mounted Display and Sighting System that can be utilised by aircrew flying fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters and will also be displayed during AAD 2012.
Archer Z-150 consists of two subsystems - a helmet mounted display (HMD) and optical head tracking system (OHTS) configured to fit onto standard aircrew helmets. The entire system only adds approximately 600 gram to the weight of the helmet.
“The Archer Z-150 is based on our combat-proven system that is already used by a number of air forces around the world,” says Ben Ash, Executive Business Development Manager of CZO. “It is a cost-effective solution because it can be configured to fit onto most standard helmets worn by pilots and aircrew.” | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.euroga.org/ | 2022-07-02T02:12:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103983398.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702010252-20220702040252-00395.warc.gz | 0.945368 | 561 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__6948395 | en | On street view on Google Earth!
Does anyone know if it is possible to order a Bose X service kit anymore, either from Bose or a third party? I have a set which get used as pax headsets and it would be nice to give them a refresh if possible (ear pieces and microphone screen).
I want to do NVFR training in my PA28 Arrow 200.
Does anyone have any experience in using own aircraft in EASA land for training? As far as I read, it needs to be registered to an ATO. But does that mean the aircraft is suddenly subject to commerical operations regulations in regards to engine overhaul etc.?
You could always file 2 flight plans, one ending at a particular point in space and the other starting at a different point in space. The only problem being that if you are crossing the France/Spanish border in the VFR section you would have to file a 3rd FPL .
Anyone who can help me?
I’m planning an IFR trip in june from EHRD (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) to EPMO (Warsaw Modlin aerodrome). If someone has any tips or tricks flying (VFR/IFR) in Poland I would love to hear them! Also a nice IFR aerodrome around Berlin to refuel and get a nice meal.
I am an US Pilot with instrument rating. I currently own an 2020 Cirrus SR 22 with total of 350 hours (300 in Cirrus SR22) and fly within the busy NY Bravo airspace. I have managed to find a rental 2005 Cirrus SR22 with Avidyne Avionics Garmin (430 without WASS). My plan would be to pick up the airplane near Paris then fly to south of France, Corsica, Sardinia and Ibiza. The idea of flying in Europe seems very excited however I am few concerns.
1. Is there much paperwork that need to be filled out when crossing over to different country? Covid forms, customs, immigration etc
2. I use Foreflight exclusively and prefer to use it in Europe. Is that sufficient or I should get familiar with other apps or websites such at Autorouter to file IFR?
3. Am I required to file IFR when cross borders into different countries.
4. Any GA friendly airport in South of france, Corsica, Sardinia and Ibiza.
Thank you in advance for any help!!
1. I bought my aircraft complete with a Trig TT31 (with the awful Twist and push interface)
2. I added ADSB out with a certified Trig TN72 – installed by an avionics wor… | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13144-space-shuttle-launch-likely-delayed-until-february/ | 2020-08-14T15:11:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739328.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20200814130401-20200814160401-00107.warc.gz | 0.958163 | 498 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__70639798 | en | Fixing what may be a design problem on the space shuttles will keep European and Japanese laboratory modules destined for the International Space Station grounded for weeks, NASA said on Thursday.
The agency rescheduled its first flight of the year for no earlier than 24 January but said a more realistic date for launching Europe’s Columbus laboratory aboard the shuttle Atlantis will be around 2 February, John Shannon, the deputy shuttle programme manager told reporters on a conference call.
“Everything has to go exactly right for us to make the 24th,” Shannon said.
The first part of Japan’s Kibo complex would then fly on shuttle Endeavour about five weeks later. It was originally set for launch on 14 February, a date that is no longer possible.
Launch attempts of Atlantis were postponed on 6 and 9 December due to erratic sensor readings in the spacecraft’s hydrogen fuel tank. NASA had hoped to try again on 10 January but decided late last month that it would need more time to fix the problem.
The sensors, which operate like dipsticks to gauge fuel levels, are part of an emergency system to cut off the shuttle’s three hydrogen-burning main engines if the tank runs dry because of a leak or other problem during the climb to orbit. Running the engines without fuel could cause their pumps to break and possibly trigger a catastrophic explosion.
NASA engineers decided the fuel sensor glitch resided in a plug-like connector that relays electrical signals from the sensors in the tank through wiring leading to the shuttle’s engine compartment. They removed the suspect part and took it to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama for analysis.
A modified connector plate, with soldered rather than plug-in components, will be installed this weekend even though inspections of the defective unit are not complete. If any surprises turn up, additional repairs may be needed. “If the problem is where we think it is, this will solve that,” Shannon said.
NASA also is considering filling the shuttle’s tank with fuel to test the repaired sensor circuits prior to launch, which would delay Atlantis’ flight to around 7 February.
NASA says there is still plenty of time for 12 missions to the space station as well as a 13th flight to service the Hubble Space Telescope before the shuttles are retired in 2010.
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https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/25china/ | 2024-04-22T22:27:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00531.warc.gz | 0.928687 | 454 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148702809 | en | NASA: China not invited to join space station program
BY STEPHEN CLARK
Posted: June 25, 2010
NASA says the International Space Station partner countries have not invited China to join the orbiting lab complex, dismissing a Russian news story proclaiming the Russian space agency contacted the rising space power about signing on to the project.
The news was posted Thursday on the website of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Roscosmos cited the Interfax news agency in the web posting.
The web update caused a stir in the United States, and NASA released a short statement denying the report.
"We checked and confirmed with the director of the Russian Federal Space Agency human space flight program that Russia has not issued an invitation to China to join the International Space Station Program," a NASA spokesperson said in a written statement provided to Spaceflight Now.
But leaders of the Russian space program and the European Space Agency have been open to Chinese participation in the international project.
During a Beijing speech last month, ESA's director-general expressed support for including China in the space station program. South Korea and India have also been included on the list of prospective space station partners.
In the original report posted on the Roscosmos web site, Perminov said Russia contacted China to ask if they were interested to join the space station program, saying the Soyuz spacecraft needs a backup for access to the complex once the space shuttle retires.
After the shuttle fleet stops flying, the Soyuz will be the only vehicle to carry residents to and from the orbiting lab until U.S. companies develop private capsules for the job. NASA hopes a commercial spacecraft is ready to transport humans by 2015.
China has not responded to Russia's overture, according to Perminov's quote in the Interfax report.
China's piloted Shenzhou capsule has launched with passengers three times since 2003, achieving a flight of nearly five days in 2005 and the Chinese program's first spacewalk in 2008.
As soon as next year, China will launch its own modest space station named Tiangong 1. Shenzhou crews will visit the small laboratory for short stays to conduct military and scientific experiments. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.rustourismnews.com/volotea-to-develop-a-hybrid-electric-aircraft/ | 2024-03-03T22:44:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476399.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303210414-20240304000414-00140.warc.gz | 0.929004 | 965 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__34170542 | en | Volotea has reached an agreement with DΔNTE Aeronautical to collaborate in the project to develop a hybrid-electric aircraft for transportation of passengers.
Volotea is partnering with DΔNTE on a long-term project for the configuration of a state-of-the-art hybrid-electric small aircraft suitable to operate small inexistent routes in the next decade.
The new aircraft will be eventually able to serve routes between small and mid-size communities, where traditional aircraft are not profitable and other transport alternatives are not available.
This environmentally friendly project is led by DΔNTE Aeronautical and in which, apart from Volotea, other renowned institutions like Instituto de Empresa in Spain, ALTRAN in Europe and University of Sydney and University of Adelaide in Australia are taking part.
This project intends to boost the economic development of rural environments and underserved touristic destinations constrained today by reduced transport alternatives.
Additionally, the new concept will reduce emissions significantly through the use of electric motors, fed by electricity stored by batteries or generated on board with a highly-efficient internal combustion engine.
Industry objectives like IATA´s reduction in net aviation CO2 emissions of 50% by 2050 (relative to 2005 levels) will only be possible by a change of paradigm. The introduction of alternative technologies to conventional jet engines and turbo propellers are key to achieve that goal.
“As part of our proactive environmental policy, Volotea will actively collaborate with DΔNTE Aeronautical in the development of this hybrid-electric aircraft, in order to support the reduction of carbon emissions and noise from aircraft operations. Volotea will provide DΔNTE with market analysis and technical data. Volotea engineers and commercial specialists have been appointed and made available to validate this market opportunity and provide technical support as well”, Carlos Muñoz, Founder and CEO of Volotea stated.
DΔNTE is an aerospace start-up with presence both in Spain and Australia, created to innovate in the aircraft industry with the integration of advanced manufacturing technologies, aerodynamics and electric power plants.
For that purpose, DΔNTE has commenced the design of a 19 to 35 passenger aircraft with all thrust provided by Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP), batteries for energy storage and an internal combustion turbo-generator working as “range extender”.
It is envisaged that this technology will allow the commercialization of future full electric aircraft. Although DΔNTE´s plans include a future retrofit to a battery only power-plant, this approach is not deemed commercially realistic until the 2030´s. Instead DΔNTE considers its hybrid solution will reduce fuel consumption and emissions more than 50% much sooner than that.
“If we want to make aviation more sustainable, we need to find the sweet spot between ambitious emissions reduction targets and realistic economic propositions. A full electric aircraft is a nice long term goal, but it will have very little impact in the near term if it is just a niche product for wealthy individuals. Electric powerplants with additional hybrid range extenders represent instead a real opportunity to reduce emissions drastically in the shorter term, because they enable a new market for door to door regional air transport with competitive costs. In DΔNTE we are developing the right technology, and Volotea is showing the drive and interest to make it a commercial reality”, Miguel Madinabeitia, co-founder of DΔNTE Aeronautical.
DΔNTE will work with Volotea to define the specifications of this future air passenger commuter to better adapt the aircraft to the most promising markets and routes where the new technology may be introduced in the future.
In order to validate the market opportunity, DΔNTE and Volotea will working closely and also with business schools like Instituto de Empresa in Spain or University of Adelaide in Australia, to estimate and size a new air transport segment that could be monetised and create thousands of jobs.
Upon the successful completion of this first phase, DΔNTE will enter into the detail design and manufacturing of a scaled prototype to be flight-tested as a prior step to its full industrialization and future commercialization. Volotea and DΔNTE expect their hybrid aircraft will be a commercial reality by mid next decade.
A preliminary configuration is already in place but DΔNTE will work in coming months with top aerospace renowned engineering and research organizations, like ALTRAN in Europe and University of Sydney in Australia to validate all the technical hypothesis and have a basic design that will underpin a future flight test phase. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/traffic-on-nigeria-8217-s-airspace-hits-over-500-daily/133513/ | 2016-02-11T08:46:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701161775.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193921-00104-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.975549 | 707 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__104734800 | en | Nnamdi Udoh, MD, NAMA
The Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that it guides over 500 aircraft through the nation’s airspace every day.
These, NAMA pointed out, excluded over fliers- that is, aircraft that pass Nigeria’s airspace to other destinations and helicopter operations which fly to the oil rig operations in the Niger Delta.
The Managing Director of the agency, Nnamdi Udoh, made this known when he explained the conditions of communication in the airspace.
Udoh said because of the heavy traffic that developed recently in the country, the agency was expanding the system for easy communication between the pilots and Air Traffic Controllers (ATC).
Reacting to the petition written by some controllers, who are the executive members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), he said that if communications in Nigeria’s airspace was not working as the controllers claimed, no flight would take off or land in any of Nigeria’s airports, adding that any pilot who dared operate aircraft in such airspace would lose his licence.
The NAMA boss, who spoke to newsmen in Lagos explained: “For record purposes, NAMA wants to use this opportunity and this platform to reassure Nigerians and all our airspace users, pilots and other stakeholders that the airspace is safe and will always be safe"
He observed that if some of the controllers claim that the communication system in the airspace was not working, it means that they have not been working in the last three months because without communication there is nothing the controllers would be doing. Besides, he wondered how an aircraft could have been flying during the same period if the airspace was not safe as no pilot would venture into the airspace without communication.
"If the report quoted Air Traffic Controllers, it means that, that Air Traffic Controllers have done no work in the last three months and are not supposed to be paid and how do aeroplanes fly in the last three months without communications system?" he queried.
Udoh however pointed out that the only challenge that was confronting the agency at the moment was its long-range frequency, which it has just introduced, insisting that there was no control tower that had a single challenge in terms of communication in the country at the moment.
To cope with this challenge the NAMA said it had embarked on the sectorialisation of the frequency by dividing it into two frequencies so that one frequency would handle the western part of the Lagos centre while the other part would handle the eastern part so that each sector would have a frequency of its own. This, they believe, would reduce the congestion.
Confirming the explanation of Udoh, the Director of Operations, NAMA, Alhaji Mukaila Solola, who is in charge of the controllers, said that the claim by the air traffic controllers that there was no communication in the airspace was a campaign of calumny, noting that such moves to tarnish the image of the agency and create unnecessary panic amongst the Nigerian travelling public was an attempt to intimidate the agency.
He added that when some of them were not included in foreign trips for training they become desperate.
“We have taken the bold steps to nip in the bud this campaign of calumny because it impacts on the nation negatively and we would further use this moment to reassure all stakeholders that the situation is definitely not what is portrayed by mischief makers," Solola said. | aerospace | 1 |
https://ourplnt.com/category/space-exploration/ | 2022-05-27T15:35:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662658761.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220527142854-20220527172854-00646.warc.gz | 0.92995 | 637 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__290681 | en | In an address to Congress on “Urgent National Needs” on May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States called for America to send astronauts to the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade.
Apollo 10, the fourth crewed mission in the Apollo program (NASA’s project to land humans on the moon), and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon was launched on On May 18, 1969.
On May 16, 1992, Space Shuttle Endeavour completed its maiden voyage and landed safely on runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert. It was the first use of a drag-chute for a Space Shuttle landing.
On May 5, 1961, American astronaut Alan Shepard (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) performed the first United States human spaceflight. It was also the first human-piloted spaceflight in the history of space exploration. Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly into space on April 12, 1961, wasn’t controlling the Vostok 1 spacecraft, it …
On April 19, 1971, the world’s first space station, Salyut 1 (DOS-1, also referred to in documents as “Product 17K” or No. 121) was launched into space by the Soviet Union.
On April 16, 1972, the huge, 363-feet (110.6 meters) tall Apollo 16 (Spacecraft 113/Lunar Module 11/Saturn V SA-511, see notes 1) space vehicle was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:54 p.m. EST. Crewed by Commander John W. Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke (see notes 2), and Command Module Pilot …
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly into space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 km/h (17,025 mph) with the flight lasting 108 minutes. Vostok’s reentry was controlled by a computer, and Gagarin wasn’t controlling the spacecraft, unlike the early U.S. human spaceflight …
On April 12, 1981, NASA launched the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1), into space. The first reusable orbiter, Space Shuttle Columbia orbited Earth 37 times on its maiden voyage and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later its launch.
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the Original Seven Mercury astronauts to the public, who are commonly known as the “Mercury Seven”. With Project Mercury, the United States gained its first experience in conducting human space missions that provided scientific and engineering knowledge for astronauts in space.
On April 3, 1966, Luna 10, a 1966 lunar robotic spacecraft in Soviet Union’s Luna Program (see notes 1) became the first artificial satellite to orbit another world the Moon. | aerospace | 1 |
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20010604X01067&ntsbno=MIA01LA147&akey=1 | 2014-11-22T10:32:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400377225.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123257-00148-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.97379 | 242 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__85886731 | en | On May 30, 2001, about 1545 eastern daylight time, a Russell Heyn Rans S-6, N448CH, registered to, and operated by a private owner, as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, crashed during takeoff/initial climb in Swainsboro, Georgia. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The private-rated pilot, the sole occupant of the aircraft, was not injured, and the aircraft was destroyed. The flight was originating at the time of the accident. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
The pilot stated that he was departing from a private grass strip, with a right quartering headwind of about 10 to 12 mph, and as he lifted off and started to climb, while at a height of about 60 feet, a strong wind gust got under the right wing and forced the aircraft hard to the left and the nose down. According to the pilot, the aircraft then collided with the ground, and was destroyed as a result of the impact. The pilot further stated that prior to the accident, there had been no mechanical failure or malfunction to the aircraft, or any of its systems. | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brighammccown/2013/07/07/asiana-214-crashes-at-san-francisco-what-happened/ | 2017-03-30T01:36:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218191444.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212951-00281-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.973057 | 613 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__72284341 | en | Full profile →'">
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For the more than 300 people aboard Asiana Flight 214, the ten-hour flight from Seoul, South Korea to San Francisco was by all accounts, a picture perfect flight. That of course all ended in the blink of an eye as the 777 wide-body jetliner owned and operated by South Korea’s Asiana Airlines lined up for its final approach to Runway 28 Left at the San Francisco International Airport after traveling almost all of the flight's 5,664 mile journey.
A few seconds later, the plane inexplicably suffered a catastrophic failure, its tail and landing gear shorn and the main passenger cabin coming to rest in the airport’s infield. Although 123 passengers escaped without significant injury, another 181 were hospitalized or treated at the scene for injuries and the crash left 2 dead. 49 remain in serious condition at area hospitals.
USA Today has reported that passenger Janghyung Lee told the paper that the aircraft rattled wildly before landing. What we do know is that the aircraft “landed short” meaning that its wheels touched down prematurely, well before the runway threshold line. No aircraft is supposed to land short of that line, and normal landings occur 500-1000 feet beyond that line.
Other passengers reported the aircraft failed to assume a nose up posture as is typical just prior to touchdown. Such an attitude is responsible for decreasing airspeed and arresting the descent rate so that the aircraft touches down in what is known as “ground effect.” When all goes well, the aircraft touchdown is smooth.
What is known is that Flight 214 experienced a “hard landing” short of the actual landing threshold. Although the area prior to the landing threshold is paved, this “under & overrun” is not always designed to handle the physical weight of such a massive aircraft. Moreover, the pilots themselves would have observed cockpit and runway visual aides informing them that they were approaching the runway along a glide path that would result in a short landing in what is commonly referred to as being “below glidepath.”
Aviation experts are generally withholding judgment until the aircraft’s black boxes have been analyzed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Late news from the NTSB revealed that although the pilot at the controls had only 43 hours in the 777, he had logged more than 10,000 hours. The NTSB also reported that the aircraft was traveling below its landing speed of approximately 137 knots when it crashed but said that it would not speculate as to whether the aircraft stalled. That said, several theories have already emerged on what might have happened. Based on reports pieced together thus far, pilot error is suspected, although other transportation safety experts tend to believe that the aircrafts electronic systems, especially the engine's electronic control units may also have played an issue. Here is a quick rundown of the various theories. | aerospace | 1 |
https://flights.expedia.com/flights-from-osaka-to-naha-itm-to-oka/ | 2015-10-09T12:23:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737929054.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221849-00068-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.869688 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-40__0__99623372 | en | Book your ITM to OKA flights with Expedia and find last-minute Osaka to Naha airfare. Expedia offers discount airfare on multiple airline carriers that fly direct and indirect routes between ITM and OKA, with new flight deals and promotions almost daily. When you book your next trip from Itami to Naha with Expedia, you can rest assured you’re getting great ticket prices and excellent service from one of the world’s most trusted travel providers.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4816323806131/WN_7GNM8zFdRNa5SM3Zm3Uk4A | 2021-10-15T23:22:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323583087.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20211015222918-20211016012918-00411.warc.gz | 0.923723 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__230502735 | en | Have you ever wondered about Aviation Insurance, and how it actually works? Do you have any burning questions that you have always wanted to ask? Then this panel discussion is for you!
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http://www.redorbit.com/topics/american-institute-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics/ | 2015-03-02T12:53:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936462762.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074102-00059-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.809775 | 288 | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-11__0__144656163 | en | Latest American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Stories
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https://infodol.com/nasa-probe-snaps-1-pictures-from-just-a-mile-over-the-asteroid-bennu-and-the-view-is-amazing/ | 2020-07-13T20:45:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657146845.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20200713194203-20200713224203-00301.warc.gz | 0.958637 | 395 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__63235870 | en | The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured these images of Bennu's South Pole on January 17th.
Credit: NASA / Goddard / University of Arizona / Lockheed Martin
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission runs around an asteroid closer than any spacecraft that ever brought a body ̵
The spacecraft threw around the asteroid, called Bennu, on December 31, after the team carefully mapped the object to design a safe path to the probe. It was a challenge, as Bennu is the smallest space rock ever tied.
But the dangerous maneuver has paid. OSIRIS-REX orbits about 1.6 km above the Bennus surface, giving its cameras a stunning view of the asteroid's rocky surface. Scientists believe that robust form is the result of Bennu forming from a bunch of rubies loosely clumped together. [The Greatest Asteroid Encounters of All Time!]
The two images shown here were taken by an instrument called NavCam, which is the main camera the team uses to control the spacecraft. The photos, which were fixed on January 17, show Bennu's South Pole.
Another recently released image of Bennu & # 39; s South Pole, taken while the spacecraft is preparing for circuits, was captured at a distance of about. 8 km (12 km) but still gives researchers a detailed picture of the surface topography.
This image was taken by another camera on the spacecraft, called MapCam, which is one of the probe's science instruments rather than a dedicated navigation camera. The main purpose is to photograph the asteroid in color and help the team choose where it will collect a sample to bring home to Earth for analysis.
The sampling process begins only in mid-2020 after the team has had plenty of time to study Bennu from all angles and make a well-informed decision on where to assemble the sample – partly informed by detailed observations of the surface block that could interfere with sampling equipment. | aerospace | 1 |
https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status_2009.html | 2018-10-23T06:57:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516117.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023065305-20181023090805-00020.warc.gz | 0.957861 | 1,311 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__34817743 | en | December 31, 2009 - Dawn Continues Thrusting and Completes Engineering Tests
Dawn thrust with its ion propulsion system for most of December and remains On course for Vesta. the spacecraft conducted a set of special activities during the week of November 30. The gamma-ray and neutron detector (GRaND), visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR), and science camera all were operated and verified to be healthy. “A measurement of the relative alignment of VIR and the science camera did not yield the desired data because of a conflict between commands within VIR, but the instrument remained healthy. The VIR commands are easily corrected, and the calibration will be executed early in 2010. Upgraded software was installed in the primary and backup cameras. Other spacecraft engineering activities were completed successfully as well.
November 30, 2009 - Dawn Completes Another Month of Interplanetary Thrusting
Dawn thrust with its ion propulsion system for most of November, pausing for less than half a day each week to point its main antenna to Earth.
The mission control team completed preparations for some special activities the spacecraft will execute in December (so check back next month to learn more!).
October 31, 2009 - Nearly in the Main Asteroid Belt, Dawn Continues Thrusting to Vesta
Dawn devoted most of the month continuing to thrust with its ion propulsion system. The spacecraft is healthy and making steady progress reshaping its orbit to rendezvous with Vesta. As it continues to climb away from the Sun, Dawn will reenter the main asteroid belt on November 13.
September 30, 2009 - Dawn Completes Second Year of Flight
Dawn passed its second anniversary of being in space on September 27. It spent most of the month continuing to thrust with its ion propulsion system. It has expended about 104 kilograms (230 pounds) of xenon in its 392 days of thrusting since launch. The effective change in speed so far is more than 2.6 kilometers per second (5800 miles per hour), far more than most spacecraft ever achieve with their propulsion systems.
August 31, 2009 - Dawn Maintains Steady Thrust to Vesta
Dawn devoted most of August to ion thrusting, as it will for most of the next two years leading to the rendezvous with Vesta. Controllers conducted routine maintenance on an ion thruster gimbal, reaction wheels, and gyroscopes this month.
August 3, 2009 - Dawn Spacecraft is Thrusting Nominally with the Ion Propulsion System (IPS)
The first Vesta scenario test executed successfully in the testbed last week, and the flight team reviewed the results. This test of a flight-like Vesta orbit sequence is an important step forward towards validation of the design and operations processes that will be used at Vesta.
July 30, 2009 - Dawn Continues Thrusting to Vesta
Dawn spent the month thrusting with its ion propulsion system. No special activities were conducted, allowing the spacecraft to devote as much time as possible to thrusting and permitting the operations team to engage in long-range planning for Vesta.
June 30, 2009 - Dawn Resumes Extended Thrusting
Dawn resumed its routine of long-duration thrusting with its ion propulsion system on June 8. The spacecraft is now following the same pattern it used for most of 2008, with only a single weekly interruption in thrusting to point the main antenna to Earth. Dawn had spent most of the time since October 31, 2008 coasting. In contrast, most of the time from now until arrival at Vesta will be devoted to thrusting.
May 25, 2009 - More Coasting Activities Completed
To verify that the software loaded in April could accomplish ion thrusting, the spacecraft executed two short thrust tests. Upon establishing that the software was performing well, engineers installed two copies in the backup computer and another copy in the backup location of the primary computer. Also this month, the xenon in part of the system to feed the propellant from the main tank to the thrusters was vented to space to allow mission controllers to calibrate pressure sensors.
April 30, 2009 - New Software Loaded to Main Spacecraft Computer
Mission controllers upgraded the software in the spacecraft's main computer this month. This was the first complete software replacement since November 2007. Running the new software required rebooting the computer, which puts Dawn into safe mode. The process of preparing the spacecraft, transmitting the software, rebooting, and recovering from safe mode all went extremely smoothly. Although the software was tested extensively before being radioed to the spacecraft, a short test of ion thrusting proved that no bugs were introduced that might interfere with this crucial capability.
On April 16, Dawn was at its closest distance to the Sun since last year. Now its elliptical orbit will carry it deeper into the solar system.
March 30, 2009 - Dawn Continues in Quiet Cruise
Dawn coasted quietly in its new orbit around the Sun this month. Controllers conducted some routine maintenance but devoted most of March to preparing for future special activities.
February 28, 2009 - Dawn Receives Gravity Assist from Mars
Dawn flew by Mars on February 17, successfully achieving the gravity assist it needed to help it reach the asteroid belt. The spacecraft passed less than 550 kilometers (340 miles) from the surface of the planet.
As Dawn was leaving Mars, fault detection software put the spacecraft into safe mode and canceled the bonus instrument calibrations. The cause was determined to be an inappropriate software response to an expected temporary loss of valid data from the spacecraft's star tracker in the vicinity of Mars.
The operations team subsequently commanded the spacecraft back to its normal configuration. In addition, they returned the bonus calibration data that had been transferred from the instruments to the main spacecraft computer prior to going to safe mode.
January 31, 2009 - Dawn on Course for Mars Gravity Assist
Engineers determined early this month that Dawn's trajectory to Mars is so good that the planned maneuver to fine tune it was not necessary. When Dawn flies by Mars on February 17, the planet's gravity will give the spacecraft a boost, helping it reach its targets in the asteroid belt.
The spacecraft has spent the month coasting with few activities occurring onboard. On January 20, the Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector was powered on so the instrument team could assess its health. The data it returned confirmed the unit is in good condition and operating normally. | aerospace | 1 |
https://ayaspaceprogram.com/ja-us | 2023-06-01T14:48:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647895.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601143134-20230601173134-00335.warc.gz | 0.925915 | 123 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__244693819 | en | Now the world that AYA dreamed of as a child has become reality.
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http://portaltotheuniverse.org/blogs/posts/view/636626/ | 2019-01-17T14:16:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583658981.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117123059-20190117145059-00505.warc.gz | 0.916571 | 293 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__80625193 | en | The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In over five decades of robotic exploration, NASA has sent orbiters, landers, rovers and even Cubesats to Mars. The space agency announced on Friday, May 11, 2018 that their next robotic mission to the Red Planet will carry a helicopter. The Mars Helicopter, a small autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission, scheduled to launch in July 2020, in a effort to demonstrate the viability of heavier-than-air vehicles on Mars.
“NASA has a proud history of firsts,” said NASA’s new Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “The idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet is thrilling. The Mars Helicopter holds much promise for our future science, discovery, and exploration missions to Mars.”
The Mars Helicopter began as a technology development program of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in August of 2013. Following four years of design, testing and re-design, the resulting rotorcraft weighs just under four pounds (1.8 kilograms) and is about the size of a softball. In order ... | aerospace | 1 |
https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-releases-new-details-on-mysterious-balloon-being-tracked-by-u-s-military-over-hawaii/ | 2024-02-29T22:59:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474853.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229202522-20240229232522-00124.warc.gz | 0.966246 | 724 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__100017964 | en | A balloon of unknown origin is being tracked by the U.S. military after it passed over Hawaii, according to a Pentagon spokesperson and other officials familiar with the developing situation.
The balloon is not believed to have flown over any sensitive facilities, and although its purpose remains unknown, the object does appear to possess a payload.
A Pentagon spokesperson speaking on background told The Debrief that the Department of Defense learned about the presence of the balloon late last week.
“Applying newly-established parameters for monitoring U.S. airspace, the Department of Defense and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) detected and observed April 28th an unmanned, balloon off the coast of Hawaii, floating at approximately 36,000 feet,” the official told The Debrief in an email.
“Ownership of the balloon is unknown, but there is no indication that it was maneuvering or being controlled by a foreign or adversarial actor,” the official added.
“The balloon did not transit directly over defense critical infrastructure or other U.S. Government sensitive sites, nor did it pose a military or physical threat to people on the ground,” the official also said, adding that while the balloon was operating within the same altitudes used by civil aviation, the object apparently posed no threat to any civilian or military aircraft over Hawaii.
The Debrief also reached out to military officials in Hawaii for comment, but they had not responded to our requests at the time of publication.
The presence of the balloon was first reported by NBC News, which cited three unnamed U.S. officials who were familiar with the matter.
Earlier on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters she did not have any information about the balloon and referred members of the media to the Department of Defense for further comment.
The aircraft does not appear to exhibit any signs of maneuverability like the Chinese surveillance balloon that passed over the United States in February, which Beijing maintained had merely been a weather airship. The balloon was shot down off the South Carolina coast several days after the Pentagon became aware of the object and began tracking it.
Details about debris collected from the Chinese balloon and its payload were discussed in top secret documents recently leaked online by a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, indicating that the balloon was capable of powering Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), a variety of active data collection that involves a sensor capable of producing its own energy, which then measures and records the amount that is reflected off the Earth.
Just days after the Chinese balloon incident, a series of incidents involving the downing of three objects by fighter jets over North America provided more questions than answers. To date, no videos or other imagery have been released of these incidents, and the aerial objects remain unidentified. However, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby previously said that U.S. officials acknowledged the possibility that the objects may have been commercial balloons.
The object currently being tracked by the U.S. military after it crossed over Hawaii in recent days, while positively identified as a balloon, is not believed to pose any threat to aviation or national security interests.
According to the Pentagon spokesperson The Debrief communicated with, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “concurred with the recommendation of his military commanders that no action need be taken against the balloon.”
“The balloon is now out of Hawaii’s airspace and territorial waters.”
“We will continue to track the balloon with the FAA,” the spokesperson added. | aerospace | 1 |
https://store.flightsim.com/Virtavia--F4D-Skyray-FSX-Steam-Edition-Main-Package_p_2676.html | 2023-12-06T15:25:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100599.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206130723-20231206160723-00133.warc.gz | 0.88516 | 475 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__217197422 | en | Virtavia F4D Skyray - FSX Steam EditionFor FSX Steam Edition only
Get the FSX version of the Virtavia - Douglas F4D Skyray FSX DVD Version here.
The Douglas Skyray was on the cutting edge of aircraft design when first conceived in 1947, after winning a competition for a delta-wing Navy fighter. In 1948, Douglas Aircraft contracted to build the F4D-1, with the first flight of a production model taking place in 1954. Known as the 'ten-minute killer', the aircraft broke five world records in the time-to-altitude category and exceeded Mach 1 in level flight. In 1953, the Skyray shared honors with North America's Super Sabre in being awarded the prestigious Collier Trophy. In the late 1950s, an F4D1-equipped squadron was recognized as the top interceptor squadron in the North American Air Defense Command, an area previously dominated by Air Force aircraft. In all, Douglas produced 421 Skyrays, including two XF4D prototypes. The last of the type left the El Segundo, California, plant in December, 1958. It was designated the F-6A in 1963 and served both Marine and Navy carrier squadrons until early 1964.
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- native FSX model available with all FSX features (bump mapping, self-shadowing, bloom etc)
- virtual cockpit with animations and mousable controls
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- automatic (on throttle) afterburner visual effect with corresponding performance boost
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http://www.themarysue.com/tag/mars/ | 2014-07-22T19:44:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997862711.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025742-00216-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.959799 | 94 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__138220501 | en | One giant leap for rover kind?
Getting humans to Mars is a goal NASA and other organizations hope to achieve in the near future, but what will we do when we get there? Why not drive around a bit? NASA has just the vehicle for the job with its omni-drive rover. It even has suit-ports so astronauts can hop out and check things out up close. I guess my only question is, hey NASA, can I borrow your car? | aerospace | 1 |
https://www.playnewsiq.com/date/2023-07-19 | 2024-04-18T22:44:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00383.warc.gz | 0.949515 | 462 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__48296816 | en | John Tully for The New York Times
According to a target letter sent by Special Counsel Jack Smith, for what reason is Donald Trump likely to face a second federal indictment?
According to a report by the Financial Times, why have millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees been mistakenly sent to Mali over the past decade?
The US military domain is “.mil” and the domain for the country of Mali is “.ml,” which has caused millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees to be sent to Mali due to typos. Mali is a Russian ally, and the typos have exposed unclassified, but sensitive information including passwords, medical records, and itineraries of military officers. The Department of Defense has now addressed the issue.
A judge has temporarily blocked the six-week abortion ban that Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law in this state.
The six-week abortion ban in Iowa was signed by Governor Kim Reynolds last Friday, and the temporary block by the judge allows access to safe and legal abortion up to 20 weeks while the court case progresses. The challenge was brought by the ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Emma Goldman clinic, and Planned Parenthood Medical Director Dr. Sarah Traxler.
What country recently launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission to put its first robotic spacecraft on the moon, a feat no country besides China has accomplished this century?
Chandrayaan means “moon craft” in Hindi, and the Chandrayaan-3 mission follows the unsuccessful Chandrayaan-2 mission that crashed four years ago. The US and China hope to send astronauts to the moon in the near-term, and Russia, Japan, and the US are scheduling robotic lunar missions as well. The Chandrayaan-3 landing attempt is scheduled for either Aug 23 or 24.
In a plan released yesterday, what futuristic technology does the FAA aim to introduce by 2028?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) introduced a plan to introduce air taxis by 2028, with limited operations as early as 2025. These small aircrafts can take off and land vertically, which could revolutionize transport in congested urban areas. Many are designed to be fully-electric, with some potentially using hydrogen or a hybrid approach. | aerospace | 1 |
https://alchetron.com/1999-Glasgow-Airport-Cessna-404-crash | 2021-12-02T04:38:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964361064.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20211202024322-20211202054322-00124.warc.gz | 0.949188 | 321 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__161855782 | en | Aircraft type Cessna 404 Titan
Number of deaths 8
Flight origin Glasgow Airport
Operator Edinburgh Air Charter
Date 2 September 1999
Destination Aberdeen Airport
Crew count 11
The 1999 Glasgow Airport Cessna 404 crash occurred on 3 September 1999.
The crash occurred on takeoff from Glasgow Airport. Involved in the crash was a Cessna 404 Titan aircraft registered as G-ILGW. Operated by Edinburgh Air Charter as Flight 3W (callsign Saltire 3 Whiskey) it was carrying aircraft cabin crew from holiday company Airtours and was on the way to Aberdeen Airport when the accident happened. The crew were travelling to Aberdeen to crew a holiday flight on a Boeing 757 to Parma. Eight people were killed in the accident and three survived.
The left engine failed and the commander feathered the right engine. Instead of attempting a crash landing, the commander attempted to return to Glasgow Airport without engine power and lost control while trying to make a right turn. The aircraft crashed and caught fire approximately one nautical mile from the airport. The aircraft was slightly overweight for the conditions. A report recommended engine inspections, more crash-worthy seats, and consideration to fitting aircraft like this with CVRs.
As a result of this accident an airworthiness directive was issued by the British Civil Aviation Authority in June 2000, requiring inspections of the starter adapters and crankshaft gears on Continental GTSIO-520 series engines. | aerospace | 1 |
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