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The South African Air Force has placed an order for the procurement of a 30mm Aden gun and gun pod with British-based Aircraft Equipment International (AEI) Systems. The contract, placed Thursday, is worth just over R2 million.
The Aden is carried on the BAE Systems Hawk Mk120 lead-in fighter trainer, 24 of which are operated by 85 Combat Flying School at Air Force Base Makhado in Limpopo. The first two were delivered on May 24, 2006 and the last by the end of August 2008. The aircraft does not carry an internal cannon and the 30mm Aden is instead carried in a centreline pod. A number of these pods and cannon were acquired as part of the R7.2 billion Project Winchester.
Thursday’s order follows on two smaller spares orders in 2008 and 2009.
Procurement of 30 mm Aden gun and gun pod equipment
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30 mm Aden cannon spares and gun pod spares for the Hawk aircraft
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30 mm Aden Cannon spares
ETMG/2008/143 9 Oct 2008 R1 021 319,66 AEI Systems | Yes |
I always try to remind my readers, from time to time, about certain aviators who contributed their life to aviation. This week I want to revisit the article I posted on a very unique and accomplished Aviator/Aviation Pioneer….Bob Hoover. Below is a tribute written by the NY Times and after that is a video of Bob talking about his career. The video is a little long but well worth your time.
Bob Hoover, a pilot who escaped Nazi captivity in a stolen plane, tested supersonic aircraft with his friend Chuck Yeager, barnstormed the world as a breathtaking stunt performer and became, by wide consensus, an American aviation legend, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 94.
At a World War II air base in the Mediterranean, he wrote, he terrified senior pilots who had been lording it over him by flying a P-40 fighter under a bridge while they were standing on it. At an international aerobatic competition in Moscow in 1966, he put on a thrilling though unauthorized display, flying upside down and executing spectacular loops in a Yakovlev-18.
By his account, the stunt upset his Soviet hosts, and he escaped K.G.B. custody afterward only because of the intervention of a mildly inebriated Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. The two had struck up a friendship.
Indeed, Mr. Hoover could trace the history of aviation, to the dawn of the space age, by the men he came to know: Orville Wright and Charles Lindbergh, General Doolittle and the World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, and the astronauts Walter Schirra and Neil Armstrong as well as General Yeager and Colonel Gagarin.
Mr. Hoover’s trademark maneuver on the show circuit was a death-defying plunge with both engines cut off; he would use the hurtling momentum to pull the plane up into a loop at the last possible moment.
But his stunts were not foolhardy. Each involved painstaking preparation and rational calculation of risk. “A great many former friends of mine are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins too close,” he once said.
Mr. Kaplan, of the National Aviation Hall of Fame, said of Mr. Hoover, “You do not survive the life he lived without discipline and caution.”
His favorite plane in the 1950s and ’60s was “Old Yeller,” a P-51 Mustang fighter painted bright yellow. Mr. Hoover sometimes shunned flight suits to perform in a business suit (less trouble for the undertaker in case of an accident, he once said) and a trademark Panama straw hat.
He once invited a crew from the ABC program “That’s Incredible!” to film him in action, pouring a glass of iced tea with one hand while he rolled his plane 360 degrees with the other.
Robert Anderson Hoover was born on Jan. 24, 1922, in Nashville. His father, Leroy, worked for a paper company while his mother, Bessie, kept house. Bob started to fly as a teenager, “working 16 hours in a grocery store to earn 15 minutes of flight time,” as he told an audience of young admirers.
He soon taught himself the loops and hand rolls of aerobatics, enlisted in the Tennessee National Guard and received orders to Army Pilot Training School.
With the onset of World War II, he was sent to England as a flight instructor for the Royal Air Force. The Army Air Forces later assigned him to Casablanca, Morocco, where he tested newly assembled and repaired planes and ferried them to the front. Valued as an operations officer, he was nevertheless hungry to fight and, through persistence, persuaded his commanders to grant him combat duty.
“I can hit a target upside down or right side up,” he said he told a general.
As a pilot with the 52nd Fighter Group, based in Corsica, Mr. Hoover, a lieutenant, flew 58 successful missions before his Spitfire fighter was shot down by the Luftwaffe in February 1944. He spent 16 months in Stalag Luft I, a prisoner of war camp in Germany reserved for Allied pilots.
Mr. Hoover and a friend escaped from the camp in the chaotic final days of the war, according to his memoir. Commandeering an aircraft from a deserted Nazi base, he flew it to freedom in the newly liberated Netherlands, only to be chased by pitchfork-wielding Dutch farmers enraged by the plane’s German markings.
He remained in the military after the war as a test pilot based at Wright Field in Ohio (now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). There, with jet-propulsion planes replacing propeller aircraft, he took on the dangerous duty of working out kinks in workhorses like the F-80 fighter.
Mr. Yeager was also a test pilot there, and in the fall of 1945 they became friends after getting into a spontaneous mock dogfight that ended in a draw. They were soon performing in air shows around the country.
Both men were recruited to train together at Muroc Field (later named Edwards Air Force Base) in California to fly the Bell Aircraft X-1, the rocket plane that broke the sound barrier in October 1947 over the Mojave Desert.
Mr. Hoover might well have gotten the call to pilot the plane if his rambunctious streak had not undone him, Mr. Kaplan said. Earlier that year, he had buzzed a civilian airport in Springfield, Ohio, in an experimental military jet as a favor to a friend; the friend wanted his relatives in the area to think that he was flying the aircraft.
Commanders discovered the episode, and Mr. Hoover was relegated to flying the “chase” plane during the X-1 test flights, making observations and taking photographs, while Mr. Yeager made history.
After leaving the Air Force (the successor to the Army Air Forces), Mr. Hoover became a test pilot for General Motors and then North American Aviation, a Los Angeles-based military contractor that later merged with Rockwell-Standard.
He stayed with the company through the 1980s. But as the pace of jet innovation slowed, he became a roving ambassador and showman, flying North American planes at air shows around the world and taking part in a documentary film, “Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project.”
Mr. Hoover was one of the most honored pilots in American history. His military awards alone include the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Soldier’s Medal of Valor, the Air Medal with Clusters, the Purple Heart and the French Croix de Guerre. In 2007 he received the National Air and Space Museum Trophy, the museum’s highest honor.
Mr. Hoover’s wife, Colleen, died recently. They had lived for many years in the Los Angeles area. Survivors include a son, a daughter and several grandchildren.
Mr. Hoover flew well into his 80s, but not before clashing with the authorities when he was 72, in 1994, when medical examiners from the Federal Aviation Administration declared him unfit to fly, saying that his “cognitive abilities” had diminished.
Mr. Hoover quickly recertified himself in Australia and began a legal battle back home, led by the defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who had befriended Mr. Hoover through a mutual love for flying helicopters.
Mr. Hoover emerged victorious 18 months later, and his United States license was restored. His campaign found support among fans who wrote thousands of letters. At the Oshkosh Fly-In and Air Show in Wisconsin, posters were displayed everywhere saying, “Let Bob Fly.”
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The aerospace industry is about to see a new era of commercial space travel, and this time around, the company is planning for everyone. Instead of going up in expensive rockets like Blue Origin or SpaceX, startups such as Space Perspective plan on taking capsules attached by large balloons into the stratosphere where they can provide inexpensive transportation that might be more appealing than other options available currently.
Space Tourism Without The Hefty Price Tag
Space Perspective offers the first space tourism experience that anyone can afford, and they’re doing it with a company name straight out of science fiction. “We firmly believe that Space Perspective is going to become the most accessible way for travelers around this planet,” says board member Anton Brevde from Prime Movers Lab (PML).
“We are confident that space tourism will soon become more accessible than ever with the introduction of Space Perspective,” said Brevde. “The company has already secured millions in funding and is working hard towards their goal: to make it possible for everyone who wants adventure outside this world’s atmosphere.”
Innovation: The Key To Accessibility
Space Perspective has always been an innovator. They’re the first company to design and build a stratospheric balloon system that features capsules for eight passengers, with pilots. With this funding they will be able to complete development on their new Spaceship Neptune – which is sure make history in its own right. But there’s even more happening here… Space Perspective doesn’t expect to need any additional capital injection before commercial flights are expected.
Taver MacCallum, co-chief executive of Space Perspective said: “It really shows the level of investor confidence that we have. Being fully funded by essentially your original investor base is a huge vote of confidence.”
Space Perspective has already performed its first uncrewed high-altitude balloon flight, taking a full-size, but not full-weight mockup to an altitude of 33 kilometers. The company plans on spending the next year working on developing both system components and procedures for launching their project which MacCallum says will take advantage “of this new hybrid approach in aerospace engineering that allows us to not only test hardware, but also software.”
In late 2023, SpaceX will begin testing their new crewed vehicle with open-ended plans for test flights. In 2024 the first astronauts are expected to board one of these vehicles and fly them into orbit.
Adventure Without The Price Tag
It’s not every day that you get the opportunity to fly over 50 miles up in space. That is why Space Perspective has already collected 475 bookings, each secured with a deposit of $ 10-25K depending on how fast passengers board their plane. The total cost for seats range from 125k all way down to just one dollar. For people who prefer more insurance, but still want some adventure – ballooning could be an appropriate choice; however they won’t experience anything like weightlessness or any high altitude opportunities whatsoever because these trips only go so far above ground level before coming back towards earth again.
But Space Perspective promises to offer a spectacular view of the curvature of Earth and darkness in space with its 6-hour ride. According to their plan, at 12 mph for 2 hours it will gradually rise before gliding apogee where you can enjoy your time up there as well as descending slowly before splashdown. You’ll be one lucky person who gets scooped up by ship’s crew like NASA does when they retrieve capsules from other space launches.
A Similar Experience To Commercial Flight?
A first-class commercial flight of today’s major airlines is more like a Space Perspective ballooning experience. Customers will have access to WiFi and bars and there is no special training required, according to a company spokesperson. In fact, preflight safety briefings would be similar to what you can experience on any current commercial airline.
The draw of more accessible space travel is big business. According to reports commissioned from leading international management consultancy firms, the total addressable market for this industry could be worth up $250 billion or even higher with potential growth rates at 10% annually over an initial period until 2028 when they estimate that number will reach about half a trillion dollars.
Keep following us here as we continue to cover the latest news and developments in the world of commercialized space tourism. | Yes |
Could the seismic fingerprint of dust devils detected on Earth be used to decipher the tiny tornadoes racing across the Martian surface?
By combining high-resolution observations of Mars dune ripples and comparing them with sand dunes on Earth, scientists are beginning to understand how surface winds influence the Red Planet.
Check out where 'The Martian's' Mark Watney was moving around in the fictional tale, using real photographs of Mars.
Once again the world is abuzz about water on Mars -- what's the fuss about this time?
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has spotted its roving buddy Curiosity on the Martian landscape, but the rover seems to be missing its tell-tale tracks in the red planet's dirt.
After Curiosity dramatically touched down on Mars in 2012, it kicked up some dirt that still hasn't faded from view.
Like a coworker looking over her shoulder in the office, Curiosity has a Martian colleague checking up on her progress from high above.
Here today, gone tomorrow; a bright layer of frost lining a crater wall is vanquished by the springtime sun -- and seen by a NASA Mars satellite high overhead.
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There has been more foo-faw going on with the KC-X tanker competition in the past week, largely overshadowed by the first flight of the Boeing 787. Supporters of Northrop Grumman met with Pentagon officials to urge that changes be made in the Draft RFP to assure a fair and open competition.
As soon as this became public, supporters of Boeing did the same.
Update: Defense News just published this article detailing the continuing problems Boeing has with the KC-767 Italian tanker, including the centerline hose-and-drogue problems we previously exclusively revealed in this column.
With Boeing and Northrop Grumman still in the Q&A stage with the USAF in advance of a Final Request for Proposals in the KC-X competition, we predict that Boeing will offer the KC-767 and not the KC-777.
Update, September 28: DOD Buzz reports Boeing is going to offer two bids, one each for the KC-767 and KC-777. Here is the link. We think this is a brilliant move.
Here is the link to the RFP. We’ll add information after we’ve read it, which will take all weekend. One thing we did find right away: the USAF is asking for field performance data on runways 6,000 ft to 15,000 ft. This means the Boeing 777 isn’t zapped on this criteria; the 2006 RFP required 7,000 ft. runways. The Systems Requirements document does include a 7,000 ft. runway requirement. SRD document pg. 26, 22.214.171.124.1.
On another requirement from the 2006 competition: spare engines had to be transportable in the C-130 cargo plane. A 777 GE 90 wouldn’t fit; this requirement has been changed to the C-17. The C-17 has an 18-foot wide cargo bay; the GE-90 is slightly over 10 ft wide (bare engine, without nacelle). SDR pg. 40, 126.96.36.199.1.
Here is Boeing’s statement, issued upon receipt of the DRFP:
“Our next step is to conduct a detailed review of the document. We want to understand how requirements will be defined and prioritized and how the proposals will be evaluated. That information will help us decide which plane to offer or whether to offer both planes. We appreciate that there will be frequent, open discussion with the U.S. Air Force as we go forward. Both the Air Force and the American taxpayer will benefit from the tanker options we can offer. Boeing has a KC-7A7 ‘family of tankers’ available to meet the warfighter’s requirements. Whether it’s the agile, flexible 767-based tanker or the large 777-based tanker, Boeing will deliver a combat-ready tanker with maximum capability at the lowest cost.”
What is noteworthy is the reference to offering the KC-767 and the KC-777. This is contrary to stated DOD intent to buy only one airplane. This is something we suggested Boeing do for the 2006 competition on the theory it would checkmate the Northrop bid. While we think the 777 is too big for the KC-X competition, a dual-offer by Boeing simply cannot be matched by Northrop.
Northrop believes its KC-30 is the right-sized aircraft in the sweet spot.
Here is Northrop’s statement:
“Northrop Grumman applauds the Defense Department and U.S. Air Force for re-starting the effort to replace its Eisenhower-era KC-135 aerial refueling tankers, and the company is looking forward to competing for and winning the contract again.
“Northrop Grumman will review the draft RFP and provide the U.S. Air Force with comments on the draft in short order. We will defer further public comments until we have completed our review.”
Here is the synopsis as publish on the Business Opportunity website.
Update, Sept. 17: While looking for something else we came across this old item from Forbes magazine in 2004-5, when Boeing was temporarily led by the late Lew Platt following the fall from grace of former CEO Harry Stonecipher.
Platt, then the chairman and CEO, had this to say about the start of the KC-X competition then. It sounds like what we are hearing today:
Faces In The News
Boeing’s Platt Cheers Airbus, Says CEO Search Narrows
Chris Noon, 06.15.05, 1:49 PM ET
NEW YORK – Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology:
Boeing (nyse: BA – news – people ) Chairman Lewis Platt plays hard, but fair. Despite the trans-Atlantic spat over subsidies, Platt doesn’t think Airbus should be frozen out of bidding for U.S. military contracts. “What I’m looking for is a level playing field. Part of that means they should be able to compete for business in the United States,” he was quoted as saying in The Associated Press. EADS, which owns about 80% of Airbus, may be disqualified from bidding on a U.S. Air Force contract for refuelling tankers because of a House of Representatives amendment barring the Pentagon from purchasing goods from any foreign companies receiving government subsidies. Brussels countered Washington’s complaint against Airbus subsidies last month with one of its own.
Aviation Week has a long story on the tanker that explains why cargo capability is desired.
Update, September 16: IAG has a 15 minute podcast with Boeing’s Bill Barksdale on the KC-7A7 program.
Separately, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Boeing/WA) and some 45 Members of Congress call on the USAF to consider the WTO findings in the competition for the KC-X contract, and Murray calls on President Obama to penalize Airbus and the KC-30 tanker for the WTO finding. The Members of Congress say the prospect of awarding the contract to Northrop Grumman (Airbus) would reward illegal action.
Don’t these guys get it? (Obviously not.) When (not if, in conventional wisdom) the WTO also finds Boeing benefited from illegal aid, what the devil will these Members of Congress say then?
As for Murray’s call for Obama to act now, Patty needs to read the WTO rules: Article 23 specifically prohibits premature imposition of penalties. Premature means before the case is over, and the case won’t be over until a final report is issued and any appeals are concluded. We know the EU will appeal and we fully expect the USTR to appeal findings on complaints that weren’t upheld. It will be years before these are completed. In the meantime, it would be illegal under WTO rules for the US to adopt any penalties.
On the one hand, Sen. Murray wants to slam Airbus and Northrop for illegal activities. On the other, she wants to do this before the WTO rules say you can, an action that would be illegal. Sen. Murray can’t have it both ways.
Update, September 15: Flight International reports that Boeing is considering moving its tanker finishing work out of Wichita (KS) in order to lower the price. We can’t help but wonder what US Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Boeing/KS) and Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Boeing/KS), two of Boeing’s most hyperbolic tanker supporters, might say about this.
Flight also reports in the same piece that Boeing is going to get very aggressive on pricing, having lost on this point to Northrop Grumman and the Airbus-based KC-30. This is going to be watched very closely by Northrop and EADS, because during the Round 2 USAF debrief, the companies noted that their pricing was shared with Boeing lawyers and they fear this sensitive information will put them at a competitive disadvantage in this round.
We had asked Boeing about this at the time, and Boeing’s tanker team told us the pricing information stopped with the Boeing legal team, precisely because of the proprietary nature of this information. Northrop and EADS aren’t convinced (they haven’t seen any proof on this point one way or the other) and could take action if they come to believe Boeing has an unfair advantage in this round.
Boeing is wasting no time kicking off its campaign to win Round 3 of the KC-X tanker competition.
This Reuters story says Boeing won’t get fancy in its proposed KC-777 or KC-767 (marketed, for the moment, under the generic name KC-7A7, until Boeing understands what the US Air Force wants and then decides which tanker to offer). Boeing won’t offer a tanker based on its proposed KC-767 Advanced Tanker, the so-called Frankentanker that was offered in Round 2 as a paper concept combining major components from the 767-200, 767-300 and 767-400.
Update, 6:00PM Paris Time:
By now readers probably have seen the news from the Air Show on this topic: Boeing is prepared to offer either a 777-based tanker or a 767-based tanker, depending on the RFP requirements. Bloomberg News has a good summary of the IDS briefing on this topic. It may be found here. As far as the factual reporting goes, we don’t have anything to add to the Bloomberg piece. There is a full tanker briefing tomorrow, at which the media has been promised more detail.
Barring any more downpours like we had today to further dampen the spirits of aviation, we will be there..
This is the second in a series of articles from the EADS Media Day and the Paris Air show….
There was an interesting buzz at the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards dinner on the eve of the launch of the Paris Air Show.
Word was circulating that Boeing will announce at its Integrated Defense Systems briefing at 11 am June 15 that the company is prepared to offer the USAF a tanker based on the 777-200F should the new Draft Request for Proposals outline requirements for a larger medium tanker than Boeing’s previous KC-767-200AT offering. | Yes |
(Bloomberg) -- Airbus SE firmed up an order for 100 single-aisle aircraft from Avolon, the aircraft leasing company owned by China’s HNA Group Co.
Avolon signed a memorandum of understanding for the order, valued at $11.5 billion before customary discounts, at the Farnborough Air Show in July. It consists of 75 A320neo aircraft and 25 of the larger A321neos, the lessor said in an emailed statement Friday.
The planes are due to be delivered from 2023 onward. With the deal, Avolon’s orderbook with Airbus increased to over 220 single-aisle aircraft and 45 widebody jets, it said in the statement.
HNA, the Chinese conglomerate that’s reversing a global acquisition spree, is examining options for its Avolon, Bloomberg News reported in August, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The Chinese group has sounded out potential buyers for a stake in the business or some of Avolon’s aircraft, said the people.
--With assistance from Benjamin Katz.
To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Dong Lyu in Beijing at [email protected]
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Anand Krishnamoorthy at [email protected], Anthony Palazzo
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<div>Amazon co-founder and CEO says the launch is still "years" away, but Jeff Bezos hinted at his ambitious plans for Amazon's delivery drones.<br><br><br><a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/234567315081/u/197/f/677907/c/35493/s/4906dd70/sc/23/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/234567315081/u/197/f/677907/c/35493/s/4906dd70/sc/23/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"></a><br><br><a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/234567315081/u/197/f/677907/c/35493/s/4906dd70/sc/23/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/234567315081/u/197/f/677907/c/35493/s/4906dd70/sc/23/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"></a><br><br><a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/234567315081/u/197/f/677907/c/35493/s/4906dd70/sc/23/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/234567315081/u/197/f/677907/c/35493/s/4906dd70/sc/23/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://rss.cnn.com/c/35493/f/677907/s/4906dd70/sc/23/mf.gif" border="0"></div>
Amazon asks FAA to test delivery drones
Amazon delivery drones are still “years” away, but CEO Jeff Bezos said someday they will be “as common as seeing a mail truck.”
Bezos told the Telegraph in London that the biggest hurdle Prime Air has to clear isn’t related to technology, but regulators.
He said U.K. regulators have been among the most accommodating to his plans to take Amazon deliveries to the sky.
“U.K. regulatory agencies have been very advanced” and “encouraging,” Bezos said.
He added that U.S. regulators are “catching up.” The FAA said in March that it would allow Amazon to test drones.
Last month, Amazon(AMZN, Tech30) said it wants air space to be designated specifically for commercial drones so it can do speedy deliveries.
Related: Amazon’s culture is ‘purposeful Darwinism,’ investigation finds
Related: Amazon wants a piece of the sky
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The F-104 Starfighter was a revolutionary design with short razor-sharp wings. It was the first aircraft to be able to maintain Mach 2 not just in short bursts. The Starfighter shattered speed and rate of climb records that still are impressive today. This extremely high speed earned the plane the nickname “The Missile With A Man In It”. Because of financial considerations 15 or more countries purchased the F-104. The Starfighter flew with the USAF in 1958 and the last airplane was decommissioned in Italy in 2004.
F-104G Starfighter was built by Fokker under license from Lockheed. F-104G D-8114 c/n 683-8114 Fokker factory number 1056 was delivered on October 2, 1963 and over the years served with the 323, 322, 311, 311/312, 311, 312 squadrons before being removed from service on June 18, 1984. With the arrival of the F-16 most of the F-104 aircraft were sent to Turkey or Greece with some being kept for air frame training, towing and displays. D-8114 was eventually saved and taken to Volkel Airbase where it is under going restoration. | Yes |
Bombardier adds BizAv service facility in Saudi Arabia
Dec. 9, 2014, Dubai, U.A.E. - Bombardier Business Aircraft today announced the recent addition of Arabasco as an Authorized Service Facility (ASF) for Challenger 605 aircraft customers based in or flying to Saudi Arabia.
December 9, 2014 By Carey Fredericks
Under the ASF agreement, Arabasco will offer Bombardier Business Aircraft customers a full range of maintenance services from its 2,921 square meter (approximately 31,446 square feet) maintenance facility located at the Private Aviation Terminal of King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The facility, which has been providing maintenance on business aircraft for 32 years, is certified by the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Bermuda Department of Civil Aviation and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands and employs over 40 people.
“This agreement will provide our Challenger 605 aircraft customers across Saudi Arabia and the surrounding countries with greater access to quality and first-class customer support in their own backyards,” said Eric Martel, President, Bombardier Business Aircraft. “Arabasco has a solid knowledge of our Challenger aircraft, as well as over three decades of maintenance experience, and we are confident they will meet the needs of our customers in the region.”
“This authorization firmly strengthens Arabasco’s position as the premier provider of aircraft maintenance services in Saudi Arabia,” said HRH Prince Abdullah Bin Turki Al Saud, Chairman of Arabasco. “It is one of the several steps Arabasco has taken throughout its history in supporting business jet customers in the Kingdom.”
There are 100 Bombardier Business Aircraft in the Middle East. Arabasco will join a network of more than 50 ASFs worldwide and work in close collaboration with Bombardier’s maintenance network of service centres and ASFs in the same time zone, as well as its network of parts hubs and depots.
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The report itself stops short of any final conclusions, which are not expected to be made public until early next year. But initial findings highlighted by investigators indicate that the two co-pilots in the cockpit at the time the plane ran into trouble had never been trained to fly the aircraft in manual mode, nor had they been instructed how to promptly recognize and respond to a malfunction of their speed sensors at high altitude — both crucial skills that experts say should have helped them to avert disaster.The report nevertheless fails to address the central mystery of the event: how, despite the persistent sounding of the stall warning alarm, none of the pilots thought "stall" or suggested that the pilot in command drop the nose:
As abruptly as the plane climbed — at 7,000 feet per minute, more than twice the rate at take-off — its recorded speed declined, dropping almost instantaneously from 275 knots to 60 knots, the minimum valid velocity recognized by the plane’s computers.
A stall warning sounded twice. The pilots tried several times to call the captain back from his rest area. However, the investigators noted, “neither of the pilots made any reference to the stall warning” — a departure from standard industry procedures. “Neither of the pilots formally identified the stall situation,” they added.
About a minute later, the captain returned to the cockpit. The plane’s airspeed readings continued to fluctuate wildly. Meanwhile, its nose was pointing upward from the airstream at about 16 degrees — far beyond the maximum angle of around 5 degrees that is considered to be safe at high altitudes, where the air is thin.
But the pilots could not know this, the report said, because that information — known as the angle of attack — is not directly displayed in the cockpit.
As the plane plunged toward the sea at vertical speed of nearly 11,000 feet per minute, its angle of attack continued to increase, at one point exceeding 40 degrees.
Investigators recommended Friday that air safety regulators worldwide consider requiring jet manufacturers to include an angle of attack indicator “directly accessible to pilots.” | Yes |
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Rock West Composites Ships First Set of
Solar Array Substrate/Back-Up Structure Assemblies for the DiskSat Program
Rock West Composites announces that this month it shipped the first four solar array substrate/back-up structure assemblies to The Aerospace Corporation in support of the DiskSat Program. The company, whose engineering team consulted on the substrate and assembly design, used their space-grade, off-the-shelf STRATO™ panels to reduce cost and lead times, plus met positional tolerances of 0.010”-0.020” without costly assembly fixtures.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2023 – Rock West Composites (RWC) delivered four combination solar array substrate/back-up structure assemblies to The Aerospace Corporation in support of the DiskSat Program this month. DiskSat is a NASA-funded technology demonstration program that seeks to verify the performance and deployment method of this new small-spacecraft platform. The disk-shaped satellite design has the potential to revolutionize smaller space missions through its high power, large aperture form factor that fits in the circular cross-section of a rocket fairing. By using its own off-the-shelf, space-grade STRATO products, RWC was able to significantly reduce lead time and cost, while helping define structural properties to support the mission’s innovations. If successful, follow-on missions are possible, and other prime contractors may look to use a similar form factor for volumetric and weight efficiencies.
Providing additional services for this build-to-print program, the RWC engineering team consulted on the design including layup, material selection, insert design, bonding methods, and manufacturing strategy. RWC used its own product, the STRATOSubstrate™ LEO class, to ensure a cost-effective solar array substrate. The team used an insert design that allowed for self-fixturing to a tight tolerance, avoiding a costly assembly fixture. The tolerances on the in-plane and out-of-plane inserts match to a global datum scheme, and tolerances were on the order of 0.010-0.020” positional.
The use of STRATOSubstrate LEO panel blanks significantly reduced raw material and blank lead time. STRATOSubstrate LEO class panels use HR40/NB321 unidirectional prepreg, NB301 film adhesive, perforated aluminum honeycomb core, and 0.002” HN Kapton. The inserts for the deliverable were BR-127 primed aluminum bonded with EA9394. The final assembly measures approximately one meter in diameter and 25 centimeters in thickness.
“Saving our customer cost and lead time for this innovative and game-changing program by using our STRATOSubstrate LEO class of panels is exactly why we developed the STRATO product line,” said Jeremy Senne, RWC’s Space Segment Director. “We are excited about the potential for this new form factor in the exploration of space.”
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The company’s vision is to “make the magic of composite technologies accessible to the world” by executing flawlessly and providing customers a competitive advantage, all while making it easy to buy. Rock West Composites has locations in San Diego, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Baja California, Mexico.
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ISS Update commentator Lynnette Madison interviews Joel Maganza, Test Director, about thermal vacuum chambers and unmanned and human-testing with the Suitport. Questions? Ask us on Twitter @NASA_Johnson and include the hashtag #askStation. For the latest news about the space station, visit http://www.nasa.gov/station. | Yes |
MOJAVE, Calif., Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Commercial spaceflight is entering the main stream and looking (and smelling) quite good!
United Kingdom-based Unilever Group and Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) announced a 22 flight purchase on XCOR Aerospace's Lynx® Mark II suborbital spacecraft for Unilever's space-themed AXEApollo™ campaign for the AXE® brand of men's cologne, body spray, shower gels and other personal care products.
Unilever will award the first flight to a lucky winner selected from a drawing just after the Super Bowl on February 3rd, and the 21 other winners will come from a year long, 60 country promotional campaign. That larger campaign includes a 100+ person December 2013 space camp for early stage winners in Orlando called the AXE Apollo™ Space Academy (A.A.S.A.). The campaign also includes legendary Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin and a 30 second Super Bowl advertisement. For a chance to win, register at www.AXEApollo.com.
"When a global brand leader like Unilever makes a significant commitment to a product like our Lynx®, it is a clear sign that commercial spaceflight has entered the main stream of worldwide commerce and truly is the Next Big Thing," stated Andrew Nelson, Chief Operating Officer of XCOR Aerospace, "Expect to keep seeing more good news from SXC as they ramp up in 2013!"
About XCOR Aerospace (www.xcor.com): XCOR Aerospace is based in Mojave, California. It is creating a new Research and Development Center in Midland, Texas and operational base at Cape Canaveral, Florida. XCOR® builds safer, reliable and reusable rocket-powered vehicles, rocket engines, advanced non-flammable composites and rocket piston pumps. XCOR® works with aerospace prime contractors and governments on major propulsion systems, while also building Lynx® a piloted, two-seat, fully reusable liquid rocket-powered vehicle that takes-off and lands horizontally. The Lynx® family of vehicles serves three primary roles including: research & scientific missions, private spaceflight, and micro-satellite launch (only on the Lynx Mark III). Lynx production models (designated Lynx Mark II) are designed to be robust, multi-mission (research / scientific or private spaceflight) commercial vehicles capable of flying to 100+ km in altitude up to four times per day. Flights may be purchased from www.spacexc.com. Lynx vehicles are also available to customers in the free world on a wet lease basis.
XCOR® and Lynx® are registered trademarks of XCOR Aerospace, Inc.
AXE® is a registered trademark of Unilever Group.
SOURCE XCOR Aerospace | Yes |
On 8 September, Russian fighter jets again intercept NATO’s reconnaissance planes approaching the Russian border over the Barents Sea.
The Russian National Defense Control Center reported Tuesday that a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet of the Northern Fleet was scrambled to escort a Norwegian Orion patrol aircraft. Also, Su-27 fighters were scrambled to escort U.S. Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft and a Swedish Air Force Gulfstream reconnaissance aircraft.
According to the center, Russian airspace control systems detected an aerial targets over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea approaching Russia’s state border.
NATO’s surveillance missions next to Russian borders have soared by more than 30% compared to 2019, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told reporters on Saturday.
“The North Atlantic Alliance’s nations have recently intensified their intelligence activities. The intensity of use of NATO surveillance aircraft close to Russian borders has increased by more than 30% in comparison to last year. There were 87 flights last August and now there are about 120,” Shoigu said.
The minister said that on August 23 through September 2, the Russian Aerospace Forces scrambled their jets at least ten times to intercept spy planes over the Baltic, Barents and Black Seas.
On Saturday, the Northern Fleet’s MiG-31 fighters were scrambled to intercept the Orion maritime patrol aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Air Force for the third day in a row. On Friday, the Russian radars detected three B-52H strategic bombers of the US Air Force, which were approaching Russia’s sovereign airspace in the south. Four Su-27 and four Su-30 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the bombers over the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. | Yes |
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Oct 9 — CNSA, Launch Long March 2D / VRSS 2, Jiuquan, China: Long March 2D rocket to launch 2nd Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite VRSS 2 built by China to collect imagery of Earth for Venezuela for scientific research, national security, disaster response applications; 12:00 local time.
Oct 9 — JAXA, Launch H-2A / Michibiki 4, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan: Japan H-2A rocket to launch Michibiki 4 navigation spacecraft, the fourth in Quasi-Zenith Satellite System.
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Outer Space Treaty Celebrates Golden Jubilee As Many See New Era of Commercial Opportunities Rising
| Oct 9 — SpaceX, Launch Falcon 9 / Iridium Next 21-30, Vandenberg AFB CA: SpaceX to launch 10 Iridium Next satellites aboard Falcon 9; launch 06:30 PDT.
Oct 9-11 — Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA), JAXA, ICG, Jakarta, Indonesia: 9th Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA) Conference: Next Generation Multi-GNSS Resilient Solutions for Sustainable Development.
Oct 9-12 — Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech, W. M. Keck Foundation, Pasadena CA: Accessing the Subsurface Oceans of Icy Worlds.
Oct 9-12 — NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech, Pasadena CA: Conference: Know Thy Star – Know Thy Planet – Assessing the Relevance of Ground-based High Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Host Stars.
Oct 9-13 — Russia Space Research Institute – IKI, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Moscow, Russia: 8th Moscow Solar System Symposium; focusing on Moon, Mars and Venus research and missions Mars Express, Venus Express, Luna-Glob, Luna-Resource, ExoMars 2016, ExoMars 2020.
Oct 9 — Southern Taurids Meteor Shower Peak: Appearing to radiate from constellation Taurus, Taurids are associated with Comet Encke and offer about 7 meteors per hour and travel at ~28 km/s.
Oct 9 — Moon: 0.60° N of Aldebaran, 08:00.
Oct 9 — Apollo Asteroid 2017 SZ11: Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU).
NET Oct — Boeing Company, TBD: Boeing CST-100 Starliner to undergo pad abort test this month.
Oct 3-31 — National Geographic, Multiple Locations USA: NASA Astronaut Terry Virts tour from NY to CA for book signing “View from Above” featuring foreword by Buzz Aldrin and 300 photographs.
Oct 4-10 — World Space Week Association, Global: World Space Week 2017; to celebrate international contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition; Oct 4 is 60th observation of 1st Space mission Sputnik One launched by Soviet Union 1957; Oct 10 is 50th observation of Outer Space Treaty going into effect 1967.
Oct 10 — ISS, Expedition 53 U.S. EVA #45, 330-435-km LEO: Commander Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei to perform second of three 6.5-hour spacewalks to replace one of two latching end effectors on the tip of Canadarm2, lubricate new component and replace cameras at two locations on station truss; live coverage available.
Oct 10 — United Nations Outer Space Treaty (OST) 50th Observation, Worldwide: OST framework to address legal questions for capabilities and activities in Space entered into force by United Nations General Assembly on this day in 1967; evolving / unfolding regulations include commercial space activities, private space stations, habitats on Moon, asteroid mining, contamination of celestial bodies.
Oct 10 — British Interplanetary Society, London, United Kingdom: Symposium: 50 Years of the UN Space Treaty – Looking Back, Looking Forward.
Oct 10 — TMT Observatory Corporation, Pasadena CA: TMT Board Meeting.
Oct 10-11 — Air & Space Academy, Toulouse, France: International Conference on The Climate Needs Space.
Oct 10-12 — IEEE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: 5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WISEE 2017); brings together NASA, CSA, ESA, other space agencies with aerospace and space defense industries and academic researchers.
Oct 10-12 — Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, Columbia MD: Annual Meeting of LEAG: Activities Enabled by Getting to the Lunar Surface.
Oct 10 — Moon: 4.8° S of M35 cluster, 22:00.
Oct 10 — Apollo Asteroid 2014 DQ: Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU).
Oct 11 — Foothill College, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, SETI, Ames Research Center, NASA, Los Altos Hills CA: Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series: Will the 21st Century be the Time We Discover Life Beyond Earth? by Jill Tarter of SETI, 19:00.
Oct 11-12 — ISPCS, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Las Cruces NM: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight 2017 (ISPCS 2017): Go For Purpose.
Oct 11 — Moon: 1.5° N. of asteroid 8 Flora, 14:00.
Oct 11 — Aten Asteroid 2017 SB20: Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU).
Oct 11 — Apollo Asteroid 2007 DM41: Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU).
Oct 12 — Roscosmos State Corporation, Launch Soyuz / Progress 68P (MS-07), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Russia Soyuz rocket to launch Progress 68P resupply ship to ISS.
Oct 12-13 — Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, Columbia MD: Back to the Moon Workshop; bringing together stakeholders from industry, commerce, government, and academia to explore making a lunar return with humans an affordable reality in the near future.
Oct 12 — Apollo Asteroid 2012 TC4: Near-Earth Flyby (0.0003 AU); NASA to test its asteroid detection and tracking capabilities.
Oct 12 — Moon: At last quarter, 02:26; 12.8° S of Castor, 06:00; 9.2° S of Pollux, 11:00.
Oct 12 — Apollo Asteroid 2017 RV1: Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU).
Oct 13 — Eurockot, Launch Rockot / Sentinel 5p, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia: Eurockot Rockot to launch Sentinel 5 Precursor Earth observation satellite for European Space Agency and European Commission.
Oct 13 — Stanford on the Moon, Space Age Publishing Company, Stanford CA: Stanford on the Moon Conference 2017 featuring a panel discussion “Who Will Win the GLXP?”, presentation “First Woman on the Moon” and Stanford on the Moon Alumni Club, Advisory Committee and Endowment Fund; 15:00-17:00 during 2017 Stanford Reunion Homecoming Weekend.
Oct 13 — Royal Astronomical Society, London, United Kingdom: Royal Astronomical Society Ordinary Meeting; Meeting: Science of Primitive Asteroid Sample Return Missions.
Oct 13 — Space Center Houston, Houston TX: Lunch with an Astronaut, Rick Hieb, adult US$69.95.
Oct 13 — Moon: 2.6° S of Beehive Cluster, 10:00.
Oct 13 — Mercury: 2.7° NNE of Spica, 10:00.
Oct 13 — Aten Asteroid 2005 TE49: Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU).
Oct 13 — Apollo Asteroid 2014 UR116: Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU).
Oct 14 — Apollo Asteroid 2016 UO41: Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU).
Oct 15-19 — Inter-Islamic Network on Space Sciences & Technology (ISNET), Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre (RJGC), Amman, Jordan: ISNET/RJGC Workshop on CUBESAT TECHNOLOGIES: Its Design and Development.
Oct 15-20 — American Astronomical Society, Provo UT: Division for Planetary Sciences; at Utah Valley Convention Center.
Oct 15-20 — Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, ESA, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany: 7th International Fermi Symposium.
Oct 15 — Moon: 0.20° N of Regulus, 01:00.
Oct 15 — Apollo Asteroid 2013 UM9: Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU). | Yes |
On June 11, two AirAsia India A320 aircraft en route from Delhi to Srinagar returned to Delhi in less than six hours after experiencing a technical issue in the air. According to a passenger on the flight, the Delhi-Srinagar flight I5-712 took off from the Delhi airport at around 11.55 a.m. on an A320 aircraft with the registration number VT-APJ.
According to the passenger, after the jet had been in the air for roughly half an hour, the captain declared that the plane (VT-APJ) had hit a technical issue. According to the passenger, the VT-APJ aircraft arrived at Delhi airport safely at around 1:45 p.m. with all passengers on board. According to the passenger, the airline arranged for another A320 aircraft with the registration number VT-RED to execute the I5-712 flight so that the stranded passengers could be transported to Srinagar.
The pilot informed that this aircraft (VT-RED) had suffered a technical glitch and would have to return to the Delhi airport shortly after the second plane took off, according to the passenger. At roughly 5:30 p.m., the VT-RED aircraft successfully returned to Delhi airport with the passengers.
The airline then told the passengers that they can either cancel their flight and get a refund, or they can book another flight within the next 30 days, the passenger stated. When asked about this incident, an AirAsia India spokesperson said, "AirAsia India confirms that flight from Delhi to Srinagar had to return to Delhi on account of a technical snag. The aircraft is being operated after rectification of the snag to recover continuity of operations to and from Srinagar."
"We regret the inconvenience and disruption to the travel plans of our guests and reaffirm our commitment to safety in all our operations," the spokesperson noted. Airbus, which manufactures A320 aircraft, did not respond to PTI's request for a statement on this matter. | Yes |
The landing happened around 7:30 p.m. after the pilot of a Beech G33 aircraft bound for John Wayne Airport reported the trouble.
The plane landed smoothly on the freeway, just south of the Del Mar Avenue offramp, according to the California Highway Patrol.
*Update* experienced Pilot performs emergency landing safely on NB 55 at Del Mar. pic.twitter.com/jDYM3nneoc— Costa Mesa FD (@CMFD_PIO) January 29, 2018
It was unclear how many people were on the plane, but no one onboard was injured, authorities said. No one on the freeway was injured.
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the incident. | Yes |
With hundreds dead, investigators are examining whether the crashes were caused by the same automated system.
• In October, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first fatal accident involving a 737 Max. 189 people died.
• On March 10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, involving the same Max jet model, also crashed minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board.
“The more we know, the more we realize what we don’t know.”
— John Cox, an aviation consultant and former 737 pilot.
Max planes have been grounded around the world, jeopardizing a major moneymaker for Boeing.
• After the Ethiopian Airlines crash, aviation regulators, starting with those in China, grounded the Max. Governments around the world quickly followed suit, and many prohibited the Max jet from flying in their airspace altogether.
• The Max, which airlines first began flying in 2017, makes up a relatively small portion of the global aircraft fleet, so disruptions to most flight schedules have been minimal. But carriers like Southwest and American Airlines have had to adjust their schedules in some cases through August to account for the grounding.
• Boeing has thousands of unfilled Max orders, which add up to billions of dollars in revenue in the coming years. But in the first quarter of this year, its revenue slumped and orders for the plane sharply dropped off.
“We don’t have to have 300-plus people die every time to find out that something is unreliable.”
— A shareholder at Boeing’s first annual meeting after the crashes.
• There have been two types of Max jets in operation, with two more on the way. While there are many models of the 737, the automated system in question is only on the Max.
• Boeing’s woes aren’t limited to the Max: the company is also facing scrutiny over the production of its 787s.
The Max is a legacy of the 737’s past, built on decades-old systems.
• The 737 was first developed in the 1960s and all versions of the plane since have had several common characteristics.
• The Max was a product of a corporate tit-for-tat between Boeing and its rival, Airbus. Boeing developed the plane — a single-aisle jet that seats about 200 passengers — to fly farther and more efficiently than other 737s.
• The Max has larger engines, which alter the planes aerodynamics and make it more likely to stall in some flight conditions. Boeing developed an automatic system, known as MCAS, that pushes the plane’s nose down in some circumstances in order to stabilize the aircraft.
How the MCAS system was designed to work:
• Many pilots did not know that the system even existed. As some have begun training on MCAS scenarios in simulators, they learned that Lion Air pilots had as little as 40 seconds to identify the problem and recover the plane from its nosedive.
• In the wake of the accidents, the company has been working on a software update for the system, which the F.A.A. and other regulators need to review before it can be implemented.
• MCAS was originally controlled by one of two so-called angle of attack sensors, which are mounted on the plane’s exterior to monitor its position in the sky. That information has been used by the flight control computer to determine the risk of a stall.
• In late April, weeks after the Ethiopia crash, the company said an alert, which was supposed to inform pilots when the two sensors on the plane disagreed, was not functioning as intended. The alert, intended to be “stand-alone,” worked only if airlines had bought an optional feature that showed readings from those sensors on displays in the cockpit.
Boeing’s close relationship with the F.A.A. is being scrutinized, as is the company’s design for the anti-stall system.
• The Federal Aviation Administration, which is perennially understaffed, has long delegated some of its responsibilities to companies that it regulates, including Boeing. Some Boeing employees were partly responsible for certifying the Max as airworthy.
• The Justice Department, the Department of Transportation and other agencies have opened inquiries into the crash and Boeing’s relationship with the F.A.A.
“Boeing and the F.A.A. have had an almost symbiotic relationship. The relationship is too cozy.”
— Michael Dreikorn, an aviation safety expert who previously worked in a safety oversight role at the F.A.A.
• Investigators in Ethiopia said the pilots on that flight repeatedly used procedures outlined by Boeing to disengage the system, but the plane still wound up in an unrecoverable nose-dive.
• The software update is taking longer than expected to roll out, which means that the planes are likely to be grounded for the foreseeable future. | Yes |
The Russian Navy has received new visual and optical interference stations known as 5P-42 "Filin".
A video of the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft of the Russian Air Force "pushing" a NATO fighter jet away from the plane of the Special Flight Unit "Rossiya" has gone viral on Russian social media.
The head of Russian Technologies, Sergei Chemezov, clarified the fate of anti-aircraft guided missiles that Russia was supposed to deliver to China
About 95% of Putin's Address to the Federal Assembly was devoted to social issues, but he also spoke about Russia's military power, her state-of-the-art weapons, and did not miss a chance to intimidate the United States.
The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Michael Calvey, the founder of Baring Vostok investment fund, on allegations of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles from Vostochny Bank. Calvey will be held in custody until April 13 | Yes |
If you've ever worried that humanity will ever wipe itself out so completely that there'll be no record of our civilization for aliens to discover, you can now rest (somewhat) easy.
Even if we blow everything on Earth to smithereens tomorrow, there will likely still be a library of 30,000 books, 5,000 languages, plus a complete copy of Wikipedia, somewhere on the moon.
The only problem: We don't know exactly where.
The library is a project of the Arch Foundation, the same company that gave Elon Musk a test copy of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy to put aboard his spacebound Tesla Roadster.
The Arch Lunar Library contains 100GB, or 30 million pages of text and pictures, literally embedded in 25 nickel disks in the tiniest type you can possibly imagine. You don't need anything more specialized than a microscope to read it, and the etchings should survive for billions of years.
This library was supposed to be delivered to the surface of the moon — specifically, the Sea of Serenity — by Israel's Beresheet Mission last week. The bad news: After a glitch that turned its engine off and on again at the worst possible moment, the Beresheet lander smashed into the moon at 300 miles per hour.
The good news: Those disks were designed to be indestructible. And the Arch Foundation is all but certain its payload survived the crash.
The landing was a little bumpier than expected, but airplane black boxes survive stronger impacts, and our disc is less breakable. Small, light objects, like our 100 gram library, do better in impacts. It was probably thrown a few km away - a 30 million page frisbee on the moon.
— Arch Mission Foundation (@archmission) April 12, 2019
“We have either installed the first library on the moon," says Arch Mission co-founder Nova Spivack, "or we have installed the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon."
The Foundation isn't giving up on its lost moon library — and it wants your help in locating it. Spivack's team has put together an open Google Doc with all the technical specs of the library alongside all details of the crash provided by SpaceIL, the Israeli nonprofit behind Beresheet. (SpaceIL collaborated with aerospace manufacturer Israel Aerospace Industries and Israel Space Agency, Israel's NASA, on the lander.)
It's a math problem, basically, though one unlike any you ever encountered in school: If a spacecraft carrying a 100 gram object crashes on the moon at 300 miles an hour, how far away will that object land?
As the saying goes, “never let a crash on the moon get in the way of a great treasure hunt"
— Nova Spivack (@novaspivack) April 14, 2019
Already one aerospace engineer has suggested that the impact crater should be large enough for the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to spot — though it's unlikely to be able to pick out anything as tiny as the little library that could.
SpaceIL has already announced that a second Beresheet mission will be attempted, perhaps with another library on board. In the meantime, as Spivack notes, "when you look at the Moon from now on, realize there is a lost library there containing Wikipedia, 30,000 books, 5,000 languages, and the history of the world."
Not to mention a recipe for some pretty good queso. | Yes |
04.01.10 - NASA set out on a monumental journey with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990. Since then, it has captured the minds and imaginations of people around the world.
04.01.10 - Fifty years ago, the world's first weather satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., opening a new and exciting dimension in weather forecasting. Leaders from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, hailed the milestone as an example of a strong agency partnership and commitment to flying the best Earth observation satellites today and in the future.
03.31.10 - The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has returned the first pictures of locations on the Red Planet suggested by the public.
03.30.10 - NASA has awarded contracts to eight aerospace firms for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III spacecraft and related services.
03.29.10 - NASA will exercise a one-year extension option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corporation in Lanham, Md., to provide supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
03.26.10 - News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Discovery.
03.26.10 - Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a launch at 6:21 a.m. EDT on April 5 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
03.26.10 - NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide space propulsion systems technologies in support of research and technology development activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
03.26.10 - NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide air-breathing engine technologies in support of aerospace propulsion research and technology development activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
03.25.10 - NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has awarded a contract to A2 Research, JV, of Huntsville, Ala., to provide technical laboratory services at the center.
03.25.10 - NASA selected four high school teams as finalists in the Balloonsat High Altitude Flight competition. Their experiments will be the payload aboard a NASA weather balloon that will launch May 25-27.
03.24.10 - NASA has contracted with ERC Inc., of Huntsville, Ala., for space technology research and development activities at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
03.24.10 - NASA Flight Directors Richard Jones and Ron Spencer are available for live satellite interviews beginning March 30 at 6 a.m. CDT.
03.23.10 - NASA managers will hold a news conference on Friday, March 26, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
03.18.10 - NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.
03.18.10 - NASA EDGE, an award-winning talk show known for offbeat, funny and informative behind-the-scene stories about the space agency, will celebrate Sun-Earth Day 2010, with a live webcast about our sun and its effects on Earth.
03.18.10 - Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
03.12.10 - NASA has selected Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., to provide civil and environmental design, engineering and other professional services.
03.12.10 - NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to participate in the fourth annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition.
03.11.10 - NASA Television will cover the landing of two current International Space Station crew members and the launch of three upcoming station residents later in March and April. | Yes |
It is the fastest aircraft among the turbo prop with speed upto 265 Knots. It is powered by Twin Pratt & Whitney turbo-prop engines, and has AC pressurized cabin. It’s hard-won reputation is based on performance, quality and reliability.
The aircraft has executive lounge seating arrangement—4 seats facing each other with table in between and 5 separate seats. The crew consists of 2 pilots. | Yes |
|Ed White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee|
On this day in 1967, a fire broke out during a routine test of the Apollo 1 space craft, resulting in the deaths of crew members Roger B. Chaffee, Edward H. White, and Virgil "Gus" Grissom. Chaffee was a newcomer to the space program, but it has been rumored that he was one of the pilots who took surveillance photos leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ed White was the first American to walk in space during the Gemini 4 mission. And Gus Grissom was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts who was widely considered the top pick to be the first man to walk on the moon, had the fire not taken his life and the lives of his crew.
So give a moment of silence and remembrance for three men who were great pilots, great astronauts, and great Americans. | Yes |
Russia´s Interstate Aviation Committee and the federal Investigative Committee have supported the crash inquiry of an Ilyushin Il-76 transport that vanished while conducting firefighting operations in the Irkutsk region, the committees said.
Search teams in Siberia have found the wreckage of the flight and according to the Russian emergency situations ministry, the aircraft, discovered on July 3, has been destroyed.
The ministry has not indicated whether there are any survivors among the 10 crew on board the jet when it disappeared on 1 July. It states that the wreckage is located in the Kachugsky district in the southern part of the Irkutsk oblast.
The ministry says the aircraft was found on the slope of a hill, some 9km east-south-east of a village called Ribniy Uyan, by teams from the ministry´s specialised mobile rescue division Centrospas as well as the Russian aerial forestry protection service.
The Investigative Committee says the aircraft departed from an airport in the Usolsky district, in the far south of the Irkutsk oblast, on 1 July, in order to attend the Kachugsky wildfires. | Yes |
- Daily Zen
With a deep interest in space industry from an early age, Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000. It is a private-funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company based in Washington. The mission of the company – “reduce the cost of access to space’ and that of the company’s owner – “preserve the Earth”.
Possessing a personal wealth of $130 billion, Jeff Bezos eyes to conquest Earth’s own satellite, Moon. He envisions lunar settlement a reality to happen as soon as in about hundred years. With a conversation with Geek Wire’s Alan Boyle at the Space Development Conference in Los Angeles, the Amazon founder spoke at length about his kind of lunar village.
His idea of lunar settlement revolves around shifting heavy industries to the moon so as to conserve the Earth’s resources for the human civilization. “The Earth is not a very good place to do heavy industry. It’s convenient for us right now,” Bezos explained. “But in the not-too-distant future — I’m talking decades, maybe 100 years — it’ll start to be easier to do a lot of the things that we currently do on Earth in space because we’ll have so much energy.”
In long term, he visualizes a “millions of people working in space, possibly in hollowed-out asteroids.”
In his words, creating a lunar manufacturing base is a no-brainer. His space company, Blue Origin is working with NASA and European Space Agency to build a community on the moon.
“We will have to leave this planet,” Bezos spoke. “We’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better. We’ll come and go, and the people who want to stay will stay.” Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder.
However, he announced that even if the public-private partnership would not work out, he will take this mission further on his own. And he will do everything that needs to be done to realize this dream.
Blue Origin has planned to build its Blue Moon lander in partnership with NASA. “By the way, we will do that, even if NASA doesn’t do it,” Bezos said. “We’ll do it eventually. We could do it a lot faster through a partnership.”
“It’s almost like somebody set this up for us,” Bezos said. He said it in context of things getting discovered naturally step by step. First, the ambition of human species was to explore the space beyond the Earth. In July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the Moon. Gradually, scientists and researchers started sending more rockets to the lunar orbit for further exploration.
Now the scope of the lunar mission has enlarged. In fact, scientists are digging deep into everything that the Moon has to offer. They have found out parts of water ice near lunar poles which can be converted into drinkable water, breathable air and used as propellant to fuel rockets. So, this is the time that Jeff Bezos is passionate about.
Adding to the water resource, Bezos pointed out that that the moon has an unlimited source of solar energy too. Both the energy components make the moon suitable for setting up a base for heavy industries and human colonization.
The e-commerce giant founder also loved the concept of European Space Agency, known as the Moon Village.
“The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other. That way … you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‘I’m out of eggs, what have you got?’ … Obviously I’m being silly with the eggs, but there would be real things, like, ‘Could I have some oxygen?’” Jeff Bezos speaking at the International Space Development Conference.
Just as Elon Musk is launching short flights by 2019, with a center of focus on Mars, Jeff Bezos new target is to reach Moon. He is hopeful to turn something concrete in this direction by mid-2020. | Yes |
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unnamed passenger filmed the hovering lights - which appear to be in a
saucer-shaped formation - as his flight from Greece approached Cardiff, | Yes |
Man’s fascination with flight can be seen in the 17,000-odd airliners winging through the skies. Modern airliners are 70 per cent more efficient than when they first flew half a century ago. But their CO2 emissions contribute significantly to global warming. So plane-makers are constantly balancing issues of fuel burn, noise and emissions, to design ‘green’, better planes. This is easier said than done. Reducing noise pollution, for instance, increases an aircraft’s weight and drag, which means more fuel consumption — ergo, more CO2. But biofuels can make engines more efficient and less polluting. As can advanced air traffic control systems that allow speedy take-offs, and reduce the in-flight waiting time that force aircraft to circle and waste fuel.
Last week, Boeing signalled a revolution in aviation by unveiling the world’s first ‘green’ passenger jet: the 787 Dreamliner. It uses lighter plastic composites, instead of aluminium, in its fuselage so that it needs less energy to fly. This cuts fuel consumption by 20 per cent, and the plane emits 20 per cent less greenhouse gases. These materials also help it maintain a cabin pressure of around 6,000 feet — 2,000 feet less than in other planes — increasing passenger comfort. Serrated ‘chevrons’ on the engines dramatically lower cabin noise, while advanced gaseous filtration technology increases cabin humidity, preventing symptoms associated with dryness.
So how will the world fly into the future? Just as birds use different feathers on their wings to control flight, aircraft wings of the future could change and adapt to varying flight conditions. They could mimic the way birds land, cutting fuel and runway space required. Airliners are also getting bigger and faster. The mammoth Airbus A 380 carries up to 800 passengers and flies more than 8,000 miles without refuelling. Nasa’s reusable space plane, X-43, flies at more than 10 times the speed of sound on an air-breathing ‘scramjet’ engine, before rocket motors boost it into space.
Space? Yes, look at the Martian atmosphere: despite being thin, it is still ‘flyable’ for solar-powered aircraft like Nasa’s ‘entomopter’ (which flies like an insect by rapidly flapping its wings). Such craft could also fly on Venus and in the upper reaches of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. In fact, low gravity, a dense atmosphere, and low temperatures make Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, the best place in our solar system to fly! Barnstorming, anyone? | Yes |
The three-month grounding of Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner aircraft is expected to be rescinded as early as today.
The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to announce that Boeing has demonstrated that redesigned batteries on the 787 are safe, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The agency grounded all domestic Dreamliner aircraft in mid-January following several overheating incidents involving the aircraft’s lithium ion batteries. European regulators soon joined the grounding, and the Journal reports they are expected to follow suit if the FAA lifts the order.
Boeing made internal enhancements, including a new protective metal container, to prevent fires and remove smoke or toxic fumes from the aircraft.
Chicago-based Boeing (NYSE: BA) is losing an estimated $50 million a week while the Dreamliners are grounded.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security, based in Hazelwood, is a $32 billion business with 14,730 local employees. Engineers in Hazelwood helped design the Dreamliner. | Yes |
Ball Aerospace Opens Huntsville Office
February 21, 2007
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has opened an office here to anchor its pursuit of the Instrument Unit contract for the Ares I launch vehicle, as well as strengthen the company's ongoing NASA and defense programs.
"Huntsville has long been home to an important customer base for Ball Aerospace, dating back to the Skylab program of the early 1970s," said David L. Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Ball Aerospace. "Between NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal, our technologies have contributed to numerous programs and accomplishments. As the Huntsville area continues to grow in importance, it makes sense for us to be closer to our customers in the region."
Ball Aerospace is pursing a contract to provide integration and production support to NASA for the Ares I Instrument Unit. The Ares I launch vehicle will launch the Orion Crew Vehicle, the spacecraft currently being designed to replace the space shuttle after its retirement in 2010. Ares I, and the follow-on Ares V vehicle, are key elements of NASA's return to the moon. The company is lead mission integrator for Discovery missions such as Deep Impact and Kepler. Ball Aerospace also provides key defense technologies such as pointing, acquisition and tracking for missile defense, sensor systems, and engineering support services for the U.S. military.
Ball is a key RF antenna provider for a broad variety of army missile programs, and supports U.S. Army aviation with critical mission enhancements that include delivery of more than 600 silicon vidicon cameras and an upgraded solid-state replacement camera. Ball Aerospace is also under contract to build phased arrays for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.
Ball Aerospace has approximately $24 million in business in the Huntsville area with suppliers that include: Axsys Technologies, Inc., AZ Technology, SEA Wire & Cable Inc, Technical Micronics Control, and the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and many others. These suppliers work with Ball Aerospace on such programs as Kepler, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope 2008 servicing mission, and the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.
Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging products and owns Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Ball reported 2006 sales of $6.6 billion and employs 15,500 people.
This release contains "forward-looking" statements concerning future events and financial performance. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "estimates" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Key risks and uncertainties are summarized in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Exhibit 99.2 in our Form 10-K, which are available at our Web site and at http://www.sec.gov/. Factors that might affect our packaging segments include fluctuation in consumer and customer demand and preferences; availability and cost of raw materials, including recent significant increases in resin, steel, aluminum and energy costs, and the ability to pass such increases on to customers; competitive packaging availability, pricing and substitution; changes in climate and weather; crop yields; industry productive capacity and competitive activity; failure to achieve anticipated productivity improvements or production cost reductions, including those associated with our beverage can end project; the German mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws; changes in major customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major customer or supplier; and changes in foreign exchange rates, tax rates and activities of foreign subsidiaries. Factors that might affect our aerospace segment include: funding, authorization, availability and returns of government and commercial contracts; and delays, extensions and technical uncertainties affecting segment contracts. Factors that might affect the company as a whole include those listed plus: accounting changes; successful or unsuccessful acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures; integration of recently acquired businesses; regulatory action or laws including tax, environmental and workplace safety; governmental investigations; technological developments and innovations; goodwill impairment; antitrust, patent and other litigation; strikes; labor cost changes; rates of return projected and earned on assets of the company's defined benefit retirement plans; pension changes; reduced cash flow; interest rates affecting our debt; and changes to unaudited results due to statutory audits or other effects.
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CONTACT: Roz Brown of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.,
Web site: http://www.ballaerospace.com/ | Yes |
04 May 2012, 12:04 PM ET
Starting from the surface of the morning star and ending with a view from above Earth. The transit will become reality for human eyes on June 5, 2012 for the last time until 2117.
30 April 2012, 03:58 PM ET
From 2000 to 2010, NASA’s Terra satellite measured a 1% drop in cloud height. This could be a naturally occurring defense against global warming. But the study’s period is too short to know for sure. Brit Trogen explains what's next.
26 April 2012, 10:21 AM ET
India's radar surveillance satellite Risat 1 is designed to meet national security needs.
24 April 2012, 01:29 PM ET
Ireland and the UK glow beneath the sunrise and the Aurora Borealis in this space wallpaper from the International Space Station.
21 April 2012, 01:43 PM ET
Show how you think NASA science has changed how we look at our home.
20 April 2012, 01:06 PM ET
Satellites see greening of trees.
17 April 2012, 02:52 PM ET
Astronaut image shows glow of Russian capital at night.
04 April 2012, 07:00 AM ET
A rotating cast of temporary minimoons join the iconic body beloved by poets and romantics.
03 April 2012, 11:41 AM ET
The photo shows the southern lights and New Zealand below two Russian spaceships.
30 March 2012, 10:09 AM ET
Dutch astronaut André Kuipers is taking Earth Hour into space.
26 March 2012, 10:51 AM ET
Crater was photographed by an astronaut on the International Space Station.
26 March 2012, 08:09 AM ET
When the Full Moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth, we get a "Supermoon' also known as the Perigee Full Moon. The full Moon appeared about 14% larger and 30% brighter than others on May 5, 2012.
21 March 2012, 09:30 AM ET
The solar system's innermost planet continues to confound and intrigue scientists.
16 March 2012, 05:57 PM ET
Ireland's mild climate makes it lush with vegetation.
16 March 2012, 09:03 AM ET
During its slow fly-by of Jupiter, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured imagery of wave motion in the fast-moving jet streams that are a signature of the gas giant.
15 March 2012, 09:49 AM ET
NASA's Aqua satellite spotted this unusual cloud pattern.
12 March 2012, 01:06 PM ET
Seafloor features were known to amp up waves near coasts, but also affect them out at sea.
06 March 2012, 07:00 AM ET
The eruptions are caused by discontinuities in the solar wind.
05 March 2012, 03:15 PM ET
As the solar wind flows around Venus, it creates similar space weather effects as it does near Earth.
01 March 2012, 02:01 PM ET
Our planet's history is more complicated than once thought.
01 March 2012, 11:48 AM ET
The Italian peninsula can clearly be seen in this gorgeous night view.
29 February 2012, 09:48 AM ET
Europe's Very Large Telescope captured this time-lapsed imagery of the crescent Moon illuminated by the phenomenon called earthshine. Sunlight bouncing off the Earth in the direction of the moon creates this surreal view.
27 February 2012, 11:38 AM ET
Several large metropolitan cities along the U.S. East Coast are easily recognizable.
23 February 2012, 02:39 PM ET
On February 13th, 2012, NASA's All-Sky camera in Georgia captured this meteor burning up in the night sky. There have multiple sighting of these slow moving space rocks this month, some of which made it as far as 31 miles above the Earth's surface.
14 February 2012, 01:44 PM ET
The sun may have started out 2 to 5 percent more massive than it is now.
09 February 2012, 04:43 PM ET
Russian scientists have drilled 13,000 feet below Antarctica to the Lake Vostok, sealed off to the world for at least 14 million years, and if life can be found there, it may be possible in similar conditions on Europa and Enceladus.
03 February 2012, 12:11 PM ET
NASA's Suomi NPP satellite is snapping amazing views of Earth from space, but there's a secret to the photos.
02 February 2012, 08:00 PM ET
The view of our planet from orbit can't be beat.
30 January 2012, 02:03 PM ET
Space station astronauts caught this stunning panoramic view of nighttime in Europe.
28 January 2012, 04:48 AM ET
Spectacular space images filled the last week of January, including one stunning photo from NASA's newest Earth-watching satellite and a brilliant image of a shooting star soaring over castle ruins.
25 January 2012, 02:36 PM ET
A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP in this amazing space wallpaper.
25 January 2012, 02:13 PM ET
NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite has sent back a stunning image of our home planet.
20 January 2012, 11:44 AM ET
On January 19th, 2012, the Sun produced an M3-class solar flare and the ensuing coronal mass ejection was pointed towards Earth. Fierce geomagnetic storms are possible when it reaches the planet on January 21st.
19 January 2012, 04:07 PM ET
While flying over a stormy Africa, astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured stunning imagery of the Milky Way and the comet that lived.
18 January 2012, 11:23 AM ET
The image taken by a DigitalGlobe satellite shows the vast cruise ship as it appears from space.
18 January 2012, 09:31 AM ET
The tilt of the Earth's axis and it's variation in speed causes the graceful pattern. | Yes |
India needs 1,750 new passenger and cargo aircraft in next 20 years: Airbus
March 9, 2018: According to Airbus latest India market forecast, India will need 1,750 new passenger and cargo aircraft over next 20 years to meet an exponential rise in both passenger and freight traffic.
To meet this growth, India will have to procure 1,320 new single-aisle aircraft and 430 wide-body aircraft valued at $255 billion.
According to Airbus, most of the air traffic growth is expected to be driven by the fast expanding economy, rising wealth, urbanization and ambitious government-backed regional connectivity programmes.
By 2036, Indians will each make four times as many flights as today. As a result, traffic serving the Indian market is expected to grow 8.1 percent every year, over the next 20 years, which is almost twice as fast as the world average of 4.4 percent.
The domestic traffic is expected to grow five-and-half times over the next 20 years, reaching the current level of the USA domestic traffic, thereby making it one of the world’s fastest growing markets, said Airbus.
"Make in India is at the heart of our strategy. Airbus has the largest footprint in India compared to any International aircraft manufacturer. Our sourcing volume has grown 16 times over the last ten years, and it currently stands at over $550 million annually,” said Srinivasan Dwarakanath, president, Airbus Commercial Aircraft in India.
India is set to become the world’s third largest aviation market by 2020, and Airbus is well positioned to partner its growth with its backlog orders of over 530 aircraft till date.
The overall product line of Airbus comprises best-selling A320 Family in the single aisle market, A330 and A330neo, A350 XWB in the mid-size widebody category and the flagship A380 in the large aircraft segment.
In the freight market, Airbus currently offers the new-build A330-200F and the passenger-to-freighter (A330P2F) programme. | Yes |
- Press Release
- August 12, 2022
XCOR EZ-Rocket Performs Touch-and-Go; First Time Ever for Rocket Powered Airplane
XCOR Aerospace announced that its
rocket engine test-bed, the XCOR EZ-Rocket, successfully performed a
“touch-and-go” maneuver, yesterday, Monday, June 24, at their test facility at
the Mojave Airport in Mojave, CA. The “touch-and-go” maneuver was the first
time ever for a rocket-powered airplane.
The EZ-Rocket took off at 7:40 am and as XCOR test pilot Dick Rutan flew
over the Mojave Airport he shut down both engines in flight. Rutan then
brought the plane in to a power-off landing on runway 30, touched down and
rolled along the runway for several hundred feet. Rutan reignited the engines
and took off, completing the “touch-and-go”. The tenth flight of the
EZ-Rocket lasted seven minutes 47 seconds and reached an altitude of 5,850 ft.
“Being able to perform a ‘touch-and-go’ further demonstrates our goal of
safe and routine rocket-powered vehicle operation,” said Jeff Greason, XCOR’s
CEO. “If you are going to fly with any kind of regularity you need to be able
to safely abort a landing. The ability to reignite the engines and change
your initial landing dramatically increases the safety of the vehicle allowing
more routine operations. The EZ-Rocket’s ‘touch-and-go’ helps demonstrate our
XCOR’s test pilot, Dick Rutan, Lt. Col. USAF Ret., will be inducted into
the National Aviation Hall of Fame this summer. Rutan is a decorated combat
pilot and is world renowned for the non-stop, round the world Voyager flight.
The EZ-Rocket is America’s first privately built, liquid fueled, rocket
powered airplane and has set major milestones demonstrating routine operations
of a rocket-powered vehicle. XCOR will demonstrate the EZ-Rocket during
AirVenture 2002 in Oshkosh, WI. ( http://www.airventure.org /)
XCOR Aerospace is a California corporation located in Mojave, California.
The company is in the business of developing and producing safe, reliable and
reusable rocket engines and rocket powered vehicles. | Yes |
NASA's newest Earth-studying satellite, Glory, is ready to launch tomorrow (Feb. 23), but only after an unusually quick fix by the firm Honeybee Robotics. The New York-based company was able to design, test and provide a substitute part for the satellite in eight weeks.
"It was really a remarkable turnaround time for a component like this," said Greg Rahal, lead mechanical engineer for Orbital Sciences Corp., which built Glory.
Glory is a $424.1 million, 1,160-pound spacecraft (525 kilograms) with instruments aimed at studying how energy from the sun, as well as atmospheric particles called aerosols, affect Earth's climate.
The satellite's planned launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard an Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket has been delayed repeatedly, most recently in October 2010 when Orbital Sciences discovered a problem in a device connected to the satellite's solar arrays.
The problem was a faulty slip ring module, a mechanism that takes electricity produced by the spacecraft's solar panels and conducts it back across a drive that allows the solar arrays to be rotated.
Some of the spacecraft's parts had been built for an earlier satellite, so the malfunction "was probably a cause of age and wear," Rahal said.
Orbital Sciences called around to see if any robotics companies had an identical unit sitting on a shelf that could be substituted for the broken part, Kiel Davis, president of Honeybee Robotics, recalled.
"We told Orbital that, hey, we didn't have anything on the shelf, but we've got this guy here on staff that happens to be an expert in this area, and we could try to build you something from scratch in about eight weeks," Davis told SPACE.com.
That kind of timescale is unheard-of in the typical process of building spacecraft mechanisms, Davis said.
"They were skeptical at first but they gave us a shot," he said. "We ended up delivering a brand new twist capsule eight weeks later."
Honeybee's expert in question was the firm's chief engineer, Ron Hayes, who specializes in slip ring modules and related devices called twist capsules. The robotics firm convinced Orbital that a twist capsule was the best bet to replace the broken part, and it embarked on a whirlwind quest to design, build and test the substitute. The company ended up building four identical mechanisms and delivering them to Orbital.
"I think we worked probably four straight weekends – we were flat out for a while," Davis said."For something to be starting from a conceptual sketch to go to fully qualified hardware in eight weeks, I don't know if it's ever been done before."
Orbital's Rahal confirmed that the process was incredibly quick.
"It took tight coordination between Honeybee and Orbital and the other interfaces that we have to deal with, and Honeybee had some really good engineers on it," he said.
Ready for launch
The gadget has been integrated into Glory after going through rigorous testing, including being strapped onto a vibration table to make sure it could withstand the stresses of launch.
"It's been working perfectly," Rahal said. "We shipped it out to the launch site right after the new year, and everything has gone really well since we got there."
The rest of the satellite was designed, built and tested at Orbital Science's Dulles, Va., satellite production facility.
Once the spacecraft is operational, the mission will be managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
NASA hopes Glory will help solve a significant riddle in climate science: Just how exactly do aerosols interact with the rest of the atmosphere to affect climate?
"Glory has the potential to offer a critical view of aerosols that we have never had from space before," said Glory's deputy project scientist Ellsworth Welton in a release.
The satellite also will work in concert with other NASA climate spacecraft by joining a formation called the Afternoon Constellation.This fleet of satellites, referred to as "the A Train," will provide continuous observations of our planet's land, ocean and atmosphere to build an integrated picture for researchers to analyze.
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Clara Moskowitz is a science and space writer who joined the Space.com team in 2008 and served as Assistant Managing Editor from 2011 to 2013. Clara has a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She covers everything from astronomy to human spaceflight and once aced a NASTAR suborbital spaceflight training program for space missions. Clara is currently Associate Editor of Scientific American. To see her latest project is, follow Clara on Twitter. | Yes |
Nanaimo airport is a great place to learn to fly. Less congestion and quick taxi to the runways ensure that you spend more time in the air and less time on the ground. We have very short transit times to our training areas, making your training very efficient and very cost effective. The airport is also a quick flight away from Victoria’s busier Class C airspace. CYCD is a Class E airport with Flight Services Station that provides traffic and weather advisories to pilots. | Yes |
Rocket should be visible from N.C. coast after Friday afternoon launch
Friday Update: The launch of the ULA OFT-2 mission for NASA and Boeing has been delayed. The combined NASA, Boeing and ULA teams are working to determine the next launch attempt. Officials said the earliest available launch opportunity is 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3.
• Rocket: Atlas V N22
• Mission: Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, Orbital Flight Test-2
• Launch Date and Time: TBD
• Launch Location: Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
The rocket launching an uncrewed spacecraft at 2:53 p.m. Friday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida should be visible from the North Carolina coast within seconds of its launch time.
The space launch provider, United Launch Alliance, or ULA, provided a visibility map showing best times along the eastern seaboard to spot the rocket. Based on the map, visibility in North Carolina will be about 240 seconds, or 4 minutes, from launch.
Shining a light on two of our most dedicated supporters: Thank you to John and Nancy and all our CRO Press Club members for their support that makes our reporting possible.
The ULA Atlas V rocket was readied at Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex-41 Thursday for Friday’s launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on the Orbital Flight Test-2 in support of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
NASA will provide coverage of the prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency’s Boeing OFT-2 mission to the International Space Station. Starliner is expected to arrive at the space station for docking about 24 hours after launch with more than 400 pounds of NASA cargo and crew supplies.
Coverage of the Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Mission to the International Space Station will begin at 2 p.m. and a post-launch news conference is scheduled for 4 p.m., but that time could change.
This is the second uncrewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner. Rosie the Rocketeer, Boeing’s anthropometric test device, will be commanding the ship.
The mission will test the end-to-end capabilities of Starliner from launch to docking, atmospheric re-entry, and a desert landing in the western United States. OFT-2 will provide valuable data that will help NASA certify Boeing’s crew transportation system to carry astronauts to and from the space station.
Starliner also will test its vision-based navigation system to autonomously dock with the space station. Docking is scheduled for 3:06 p.m. Saturday, about 24 hours after launch.
After a successful docking, Starliner will spend five to 10 days aboard the orbiting laboratory before returning to Earth in the western United States. The spacecraft will return with more than 550 pounds of cargo, including reusable Nitrogen Oxygen Recharge System tanks that provide breathable air to station crew members.
As long as Starliner’s second uncrewed mission meets all necessary objectives, NASA and Boeing will look for opportunities toward the end of this year to fly Starliner’s first crewed mission to the space station, the Crew Flight Test, with NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, Nicole Mann, and Mike Fincke on board, according to NASA. | Yes |
The subcommittee drafts the Senate's version of NASA's annual appropriation, and the full Appropriations Committee is where the Senate decides where it wants America's space dollars to go.
The ranking minority position puts Shelby in line to chair the subcommittee if Republicans retake the Senate in 2014. But until then, NASA has another person who understands its issues at the top. Chairwoman of the science subcommittee is Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), who has NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in her state. Also on the science subcommittee is Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., whose state is home to hundreds of aerospace and defense workers living just across the state line from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
Shelby is also a member of the Appropriations Committee's subcommittees on defense and energy and water development. The defense subcommittee gives him influence over military spending of the kind that has expanded the Army's Huntsville role in recent years. Alexander also sits on the defense subcommittee.
Shelby's final appropriations seat is on the subcommittee for labor, health and human services and education.
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Panavia Tornado GR1, ZA374 / BS056, National Museum of the United States Air Force
This picture is © Chris England and may not be used or published without permission.
Construction Number: BS056
Code Number: ZD374 / CN / Miss Behavin'
Model Panavia Tornado GR1
Photographer: Chris England
Date Taken: 26/09/2007
In 617 Sqn markings, and carrying the incorrect serial ZD374. When the RAF Tornados were deployed to Saudi Arabia during Operation Granby they were hastily camouflaged and re-marked, and in the rush to get ZA374 ready and deployed for combat, the time-pressed maintenance crews unintentionally marked it as ZD374. The error was never corrected. The aircraft was donated to the USAF Museum by the RAF in October 2002. | Yes |
Drone Pilot flys near airliner
An illegal drone flight near McCarren Airport in Las Vegas could have been disastrous! Watch the video HERE. The FAA will be coming down hard on those that threaten manned flights and those that continue to fly illegally (Including those in Grand Junction). Nuff said. #FAARegulations #FAA
Is flying a drone over private property Illegal?
The short answer: NO.The National Airspace System (NAS) is the airspace, navigation facilities and airports of the United States along with their associated information, services, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, personnel and equipment. It includes components shared jointly with the military. It is one of the most complex aviation systems in the world and services air travel in the United States and over large portions of the world's oceans. A flight through the | Yes |
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There is very limited parking, only about 4 or 5 cars as there is just a lay-by on the narrow lane
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 18/01/2020. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location. | Yes |
Ahead Of Christmas, SpaceX Delivers Smoked Turkey, Beans, Mice & Worms To Astronauts Aboard Space Station
The most important part of any festival is the food and astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be a part of the celebrations even at an altitude of 408 kilometres from Earth.
A SpaceX delivery, full of Christmas goodies arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, following a slight delay caused by a communication drop-out.
The bolted-down Dragon capsule holds everything the station astronauts need for Christmas dinner, as well as mice and worms for science experiments, and more than 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of station equipment.
The holiday food includes smoked turkey, green bean casserole, candied yams, cranberry sauce and fruitcake. There also are shortbread and butter cookies, with tubes of icing for decorating.
Three of the space station residents will be on board for Christmas; the other three will return to Earth on December 20. Until then, the station is home to two Americans, two Russians, one Canadian and Gerst, who is German.
It is the second space station visit for this recycled Dragon; it was there last year, too.
The first-stage booster used in Wednesday's launch is back at port, after landing at sea instead of Cape Canaveral. SpaceX towed the booster to shore for possible future reuse, as well as for an investigation into what went wrong.
SpaceX has been making station shipments for NASA since 2012. This is its 16th delivery under contract.
Two other supply ships are attached to the space station: One Russian and the other sent by NASA's other commercial shipper, Northrop Grumman.
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Start a conversation, not a fire. Post with kindness. | Yes |
China’s state run Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) has resolved with the defense sector to improve the market entry mechanism for military products.
SASTIND will actively build an exchange platform as well as pilot projects to improve the efficiency of private companies undertaking military product manufacturing, said Long Hongshan, chief engineer with SASTIND, People's Daily reported on Monday.
At present, private enterprises account for more than two-thirds of the companies that have licenses for scientific research and production of weapons and equipment, and some are playing an increasingly important role in state-of-the-art technologies like micro and small-scale unmanned systems, said the report.
In addition, more than 2,000 aviation technologies have been developed in the national economy, it said.
However, China's military-civilian integration has not yet reached a profound level, and it still encounters structural and policy problems, Long said. Currently, ideas and policies haven't kept up with the integration process, and resource sharing has not reached a desirable level.
The central government's steering role should be brought into full play in boosting military-civilian integration.
China launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier to begin sea trials on Sunday, which will likely be delivered to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy by this year end, according to reports in state news media. The aircraft carrier, as yet unnamed, set out to sea from a port outside the Dalian Shipyard to begin its first sea trial
Chinas Su-35 fighter jets along with H-6K bombers participated in Bashi Channel patrol in combat training and testing toprovide a deterrence to ‘Taiwan independence forces, a Chinese military expert said. "The island patrol revealed that China's Su-35 fighter jets are combat-ready
China has received the last batch of military equipment of the first regimental set of S-400 missile defense systems from Russia. "The last batch of military equipment for the first regimental set of S-400 systems has been delivered by sea from Ust-Luga, the Leningrad Region, to China," a military-diplomatic source was quoted as saying by
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) released a video on Tuesday showcasing a new long-range bomber for the first time to the public during the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the group, local media reports. Song Zhongping, a military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times on Tuesday that the aircraft is possibly a new long-range bomber “H-20”, similar to the US B-2 stealth bomber
The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has deployed its stealth fighter jet, J-20, to sea areas for combat training. "The J-20 has conducted a combat training mission in sea areas for the first time, and this has further strengthened the comprehensive combat capability of the PLA Air Force," PLA air force spokesperson Shen Jinke was quoted as saying by
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A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, in advance of his participation in a panel discussing the role of science in the coming age of space exploration. Logsdon is perhaps the world's foremost expert on space policy, and he shared his thoughts on NASA's shuttle succession plans, the roles of science and exploration in space-based activities, and what he sees as Planetary Resource's real end-game. What follows is the first of two installments.
Wired: So what exactly is space policy?
Logsdon: Space policy is the set of principles and decisions that decides what goes on with our activities in space, most clearly manifested in budget allocations. But it’s not only budget allocations – for example, the congressional prohibition against any cooperation with China is a form of space policy. There’s a congressman from Virginia who chairs NASA’s appropriation subcommittee named Frank Wolf, and he’s written it into the NASA bills. He doesn’t like China’s human rights record, but the leverage he has is NASA. Another example is what the Department of Defense has done in adapting the policy of what it would take to qualify to launch national security payloads. Right now there’s an exclusive deal with the United Launch Alliance, but this change opens the window for SpaceX in particular, and also other companies.
Wired: We’re currently in the middle of a transition from the Space Shuttle to…something else. How does this gap in NASA’s human spaceflight capability compare with other moments in the agency’s past?
Logsdon: After the last lunar flight, in December of 1972, there were only two more human flights until the shuttle started in 1981, so it was a nine-year gap. There was an explicit acceptance of a gap in human spaceflight while we developed a new system, and that’s parallel to now, it’s just that the government is not in total control of developing that new system. NASA recently announced that the commercial crew system, which would use private spacecraft to get people to the space station, might be ready to start testing in 2015, so it will theoretically be a shorter gap than before the Shuttle.
Wired: What’s the current manned spaceflight agenda for NASA?
Logsdon: It’s totally confused, and there are lots of components to that. Between now and at least 2020, the destination for humans is the space station. We’re currently buying seats to the space station from the Russians, and Congress in its final days passed a extension to the policy that allows for that arrangement. There’s a bill called the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Non-Proliferation Act, which forbids the US from dealing with these countries, but there’s an exception written in so that NASA can buy seats from Russia. That exception has been extended until 2020. It’s a hedge against the possibility that none of the commercial crew providers will be successful. | Yes |
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Russia’s state-owned United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has announced that the MC-21 single-aisle airliner has cleared lightning tests.
“A complex of tests on the impact of lightning on the elements of the empennage and wing of the MC-21 aircraft, made from domestic composite materials, has been completed,” UAC said in an official statement on October 14.
Lightning often hits protruding parts of an aircraft’s fuselage or wing, causing damage. When a lightning strike moves along an airplane, it can cause “swept stroke” damage. It can also damage composite airplane structures if protection finish is not applied, properly designed, or adequate. This damage is often in the form of burnt paint, damaged fiber, and composite layer removal.
Most aircraft skins consist primarily of aluminum, which conducts electricity very well. In order to avoid serious damage, aircraft manufacturers add a metallic mesh, sandwiched between the composite material and the paint.
UAC added that the tests were carried out as part of obtaining approval of the main change to the MC-21 type certificate. During the tests, materials were obtained for the issuance of evidentiary documentation confirming the compliance of the wing and tail made of domestic materials with all the requirements of aviation regulations in terms of lightning protection. | Yes |
The Joint Program Office (JPO) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter at Patuxent River, Md. expects to receive an analysis by Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the next several weeks on whether the program’s Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) is feasible.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, the program executive officer for the F-35 JPO, told an Apr. 22 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) Tactical Air and Land Forces panel and the HASC Readiness panel that the JPO had sought the universities’ counsel this year.
A big challenge to DoD approval of F-35 full-rate production has been JSE testing, which is to assess how the F-35 will fare against advanced threats. A delay in that testing has pushed back the full-rate production decision, and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said in February that the completion of such testing is “long overdue” (Defense Daily, Feb. 24). The JPO has said that it now expects the completion of JSE testing by the end of next year.
On Apr. 22, Fick said that the JPO expects by the end of this month or early May to receive the universities’ JSE assesment “to make sure we’re not asking for something that’s impossible.”
“It’s very easy to make things look right on the screen,” he testified. “It’s a lot different to make sure that all of the software operational flight programs are responding appropriately, that all of the signals are processed by the radar or the radar simulator appropriately because it’s really those interactions under the hood that are the things that are important with this very complex weapons system.”
The program established JSE for F-35 initial operational test and evaluation some five years ago after the program decided to take over work on the simulation environment from Lockheed Martin.
“What we’ve discovered is that integrating the F-35 aircraft and all of the blue and red aircraft and the ground and airborne threats into that environment, along with all of the weapons that they use in numbers that are operationally representative of the theater we’re trying to synthetically create, is a very daunting problem,” Fick testified on Apr. 22 in response to questions on JSE from Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), the ranking member of the HASC Tactical Air and Land Forces panel.
“It’s a very challenging problem to do that integration in a way that allows us to take open air flight test data, bring it into that environment and prove to ourselves that in that synthetic environment I can exactly duplicate what I would have seen in open air,” he said. “It’s that verification and validation process that gives us the ability to use that for initial operational test and evaluation.”
Some JSE delay is associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, as the program encountered difficulties with personnel working in close-space, classified settings on JSE, Fick said.
Asked by Hartzler what the program will do, if the universities’ analysis finds JSE to be infeasible, Fick replied that “I don’t think that’s going to be the case, but I think we would need to have to have a serious conversation with the [Pentagon] director of operational test and evaluation about whether he still feels those 64 final runs in our initial operational test and evaluation program need to continue to be executed.”
The F-35 program is facing a number of issues, including engine removals because of the lack of depot maintenance capacity, delays in Tech Refresh 3 (TR3) hardware that may be $450 million over budget, and more than $1.2 trillion in projected sustainment costs laid out in a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, F-35 Sustainment: Enhanced Attention to and Oversight of Affordability Are Needed.
“If this program continues to fail to significantly control and reduce actual and projected sustainment costs, we may need to invest in other, more affordable programs and backfill an operational shortfall of potentially over 800 tactical fighters,” Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J), the chairman of the HASC Tactical Air and Land Forces panel, said at the start of the Apr. 22 hearing. “The Tactical Air and Land [Forces] subcommittee has been supportive of this program in the past, but as we’ve said many times, we don’t have unlimited resources, as we chase this elusive affordability of the program, and, given the overall affordability concerns that exist within the program, I would not support any request for additional aircraft beyond what is contained in this year’s president’s budget request.”
The TR3 hardware is to enable the aircraft’s Block 4 capabilities so that the F-35 take on “near peer” adversaries, Russia and China.
Lockheed Martin has said that it is working with L3Harris Technologies [LHX] to resolve the TR3 issues.
Under TR3, Elbit Systems of America [ELST] is providing the F-35 Panoramic Cockpit Display (PCD), while L3 Harris is providing the PCD-Electronic Unit (PCD-EU), the display’s computer. L3Harris has provided more than 1,000 larger PCDs for the F-35 in Tech Refresh 2 and earlier.
In 2017, Lockheed Martin chose L3Harris to supply the F-35’s PCD-EU and the F-35’s Aircraft Memory System (AMS) for TR3. AMS is to provide solid-state mass storage for the plane’s avionics subsystems. | Yes |
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The space advocacy group supporting the human exploration of Mars, Mars Society, is collaborating with virtual reality (VR) companies to launch a crowdfunding campaign for MarsVR. It is a project that aims to create a VR simulation of the Red Planet. The goal of the campaign, which is hosted on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, is to raise $100,000 for the project over the next six weeks.
“What we hope to demonstrate in our VR program is a new way of exploring Mars, one which could bring millions of people into the game, in terms of participating directly in the exploration of the Red Planet,” stated Mars Society representatives.
According to the Mars Society, the aim for MarsVR is to be utilized by the “public and future space explorers,” for “both public outreach within STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] programs in schools and museums and to train analog astronauts at the Mars Society’s real-life Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) located in the Utah desert.”
MDRS is a research facility that enables analog astronauts to take part in simulated space missions, living, working, and researching as if they are on Mars. Through this VR experience, researchers could come close to a realistic experience for life on the neighboring planet.
It is only the second time that the public has been given access to the facility as the contributors will be allowed to spend time at MDRS. Nevertheless, it comes with a hefty price tag as you would need to shell out $2,500 for a single-day experience and $5,000 for a 3 day, 2-night stay as a crew member.
If this experiment bears fruitful results, the Mars Society plans to release the application as a free download on the digital video game distribution platform Steam.
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So what exactly causes this long, feathery cloud to form? An airplane!
When a plane flies through a layer of altocumulus clouds, it can trigger a reaction that converts super-cooled water droplets into ice crystals.
The ice crystals fan outward in feathery wisps, almost like the wake of a boat in water.
Eventually the ice crystals fall thru the sky, melt, and evaporate before reaching the ground, leaving behind what looks like a long canal cut out of the clouds.
Numerous canal clouds over Texas and Louisiana were captured by a NASA satellite on January 29, 2007. You can see the long streaks left behind by air traffic, as well as "hole punch" clouds created by planes that ascended to higher altitudes. | Yes |
Weather: scattered clouds -> clear
The Full Moon passed in front of the planet Mars at this location on December 07, 2022. This occulation is special because Mars is a day from opposition with its disk as large as it will appear this year at 17" (arc secs) in diameter.
This image shows the scene a minute before Mars was covered by the Moon. Mars is the bright red dot at lower center. The predicted occulation times for Denver were: disappearance - 7:44 PM and reappearance - 8:48 PM. All times are in MST.
50 seconds later Mars is half way covered up.
64 minutes later Mars reappears.
50 seconds later the occulation is over. | Yes |
SphereBot UAV does the dangerous job of powerline inspection
At a conference hosted by the Sacramento California Student Branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a team led by Rebecca Wingo who came up with the idea of this sphere like robot, impressed everyone present there. This semi-autonomous robot is specifically built for assisting personnel who have to inspect power lines which is quite a risky task considering the volume of electricity passing through those lines. Add to that the distance at which these power lines are installed, almost 100 feet off the ground. No doubting that so many personnel have succumb to the dangers that come with this tedious task.
To overcome these woes, SphereBot flies up to the power line, makes all the inspections and provides a real time feed of all that it can see back to the control station. SphereBot has an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) that keeps the robot stable and an onboard computer controls all the flying elements like servo motors.
The project is also about deploying a Line Crawler that is controlled by a Raspberry Pi computer and microcontroller for faster data acquisition.
Currently the team is making efforts to design a carbon fiber frame for the SphereBot which will make it robust and light-weight, fit for other genre of missions too.
Just want add that this flying robot looks very similar to the flying RC Space Ball which is just another high-tech toy for the geek kids. | Yes |
Not the first time that has been done, either. The USAF, Hughes and Boeing made a very specialised version of the RC-135 with a gigantic radar replacing a large section of the forward fuselage. Designated the RC-135E "Rivet Amber", the aircraft was lost under somewhat mysterious circumstances in 1969 - it is thought that Rivet Amber suffered a massive structural failure originating from somewhere near the radome cutout.On the side of the plane? I guess. :?
Originally designated C-135B-II, project name Lisa Ann, the RC-135E Rivet Amber was a one-of-a-kind aircraft equipped with a large Hughes Aircraft phased-array radar system. Originally delivered as a C-135B, 62-4137 operated from Shemya Air Force Station, Alaska. Its operations were performed in concert with the RC-135S Rivet Ball aircraft (see below). The radar system alone weighed over 35,000 pounds and cost over USD$35 million (1960 dollars), making Rivet Amber both the heaviest C-135-derivative aircraft flying and the most expensive Air Force aircraft for its time. The radiation generated by the radar was sufficient to be a health hazard to the crew, and both ends of the radar compartment were shielded by thick lead bulkheads. This prevented the forward and aft crew areas from having direct contact after boarding the aircraft. The system could track an object the size of a soccer ball from a distance of 300 miles (480 km), and its mission was to monitor Soviet ballistic missile testing in the reentry phase. The power requirement for the phased array radar was enormous, necessitating an additional power supply. This took the form of a podded General Electric J-85 turbojet engine in a pod under the left inboard wing section, driving a generator dedicated to mission equipment. On the opposite wing in the same location was a podded heat exchanger to permit cooling of the massive electronic components onboard the aircraft. This configuration has led to the mistaken impression that the aircraft had six engines. On June 5, 1969, Rivet Amber was lost on a ferry flight from Shemya to Eielson, and no trace of the aircraft or its crew was ever found.
Would probably be pointless to record that with a built-in camera mic :lol: I sense lots of distorted noise.I wish my camera recorded sound too, because 45 seconds after launch, the wave of sound and power hit us like a freight train. Was certainly a humbling experience...
You might be surprised. I recorded a really loud Foo Fighters concert on my iPhone and the audio turned out perfect: http://www.viper007bond.com/2011/03/17/foo-fighters-live-in-austin-for-sxswi-2011/Would probably be pointless to record that with a built-in camera mic :lol: I sense lots of distorted noise.
It's not just the felt volume. Small microphones fail to deliver the movement necessary to record loud, lower sound. You can observe the same with your iPhone videos - the speech range and up works well, while the lower band is all but missing. All the thundering he felt would be gone.You might be surprised. I recorded a really loud Foo Fighters concert on my iPhone and the audio turned out perfect: http://www.viper007bond.com/2011/03/17/foo-fighters-live-in-austin-for-sxswi-2011/
Okay, so a rocket is a bit louder than a concert but still.... :lol:
That's pretty much what I had in mind. The small microphone (and the circuits behind it, probably) is overwhelmed by the sound.Example of a video of a 747 passing overhead recorded on my phone. The sounds becomes totally distorted (and this is during the approach, with the engines nowhere near full power).
Of course... i would want some nice muffled, directional mics to record it, but no matter what, you?d never be able to convey the FEELING of the sound from that thing. its certainly moving a LOT of air!!Would probably be pointless to record that with a built-in camera mic :lol: I sense lots of distorted noise.
Now that is good news both for aviation safety and the families of those lost, who will be able to find out what happened.BEA Website said:A330-203, registered F-GZCP
16 May 2011 briefing
Following operations to open, extract, clean and dry the memory cards from the flight recorders, BEA Safety Investigators were able to download the data over the weekend.
These operations were filmed and recorded in their entirety. This was done in the presence of two German investigators from BFU, an American investigator from NTSB, two British investigators from AAIB and two Brazilian investigators from CENIPA, as well as an officer from the French judicial police and a court expert.
These downloads gathered all of the data from the Flight Data recorder (FDR), as well as the whole recording of the last two hours of the flight from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR).
In the framework of the safety investigation directed by the BEA, all of this data will now be subjected to detailed in-depth analysis.
This work will take several weeks, after which a further interim report will be written and then published during the summer.
Was about 11.5 miles away and was shooting with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi + EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS... If only I had the 100-400mm L-glass that I rented for the original launch date! Oh well, got one more launch left to make that count!Beautiful shots! How far were you from the launch site, and what lens? | Yes |
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Forty-eight hours after two Nigerian Airforce Pilots lost their lives in the fatal Alpha jet accident which crashed in Mali, the names of the victims of the crash have been released.
The crash occurred close to Niamey, the Malian Capital city.
The Nigerian Airforce authority on Tuesday gave the names the pilots as Squadron Leader Benjamin Ado and Flying Officer Ayuba Layelmenson.
Both of them were young men with one survived by a child, while the other officer was a bachelor.
The release of the names of the officers came as the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, paid condolence visits to families of both officers in Kaduna and Kainji.
A statement by Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, Director of Air Force Public Relations said: “Following the unfortunate Alpha Jet accident of yesterday, the Nigerian Air Force has released the names of the two pilots that died in the aircraft in Niamey.
“The officers are Squadron Leader Benjamin Ben Ado and Flying Officer Ayuba Joab Layelmenson.
“Ado hailed from Konchisha Local Government Area of Benue State and was a member of the 50th Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy.
“Flying Officer Layelmenson hailed from Azare in Shongom Local Government Area of Gombe State and was a member of the 57th Regular Course.
“He graduated from Hellenic Air Force Academy in July 2011 and was commissioned as pilot officer.”
“He was an instructor pilot and has flown many aircraft types in the inventory of the Nigerian Air Force as well as Pakistan and the United states. The senior officer was married and blessed with a child.
The Nigerian fighter jet, which was part of those taking part in the military operations against al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants in Mali crashed in the western region of Niger Republic, killing its two crew members.
The incident marked the first casualties in Mali for Nigerian troops, which form the largest contingent in a West African regional force participating in the French-led campaign to drive Islamist rebels from the country’s desert north.
Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, spokesman for the Nigerian Air Force, said the plane was an Alpha jet stationed in Niger as part of a Nigerian squadron supporting the mission in Mali.
“An investigation is going on to find out what happened. They were on a normal routine flight about 60 km (37 miles) west of Niamey when something happened,” Anas said.
Asked if there was any evidence of anti-aircraft fire, he said: “We don’t know but it was inside Nigerien territory.”
A Niger security source said the jet crashed near Dargol in the Tillabery region which borders Mali.
“The plane was not shot at. It was not in enemy territory so for now we are looking at maybe a mechanical problem,” another security official from Niger, who asked not to be identified, said. | Yes |
The new air freight division of the CMA CGM Group, a French container transportation and shipping company, has just completed its first cargo flight between Europe and the United States. Based at Liege Airport (LGG), the global shipping giant flew its recently acquired Airbus A330-200F from LGG to Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) on March 13.
The aircraft, registration number OO-CMA, is the first of four second-hand freighters that CMA CGM is buying for its new air cargo division, aptly named CMA CGM AIR CARGO. Because of the huge demand for air freight, rather than waiting to purchase new aircraft, the planes were acquired from Qatar Airways Cargo. Likewise, rather than waiting to get its Air Operators Certificate (AOC), CMA CGM AIR CARGO’s aircraft will be operating under Air Belgiums AOC.
Under its plan of offering daily flights from one of the most strategically placed logistics airports in Europe, CMA CGM AIR CARGO says it offers customers the following benefits:
- Unbeatable transit times for urgent shipments
- Connections from Europe to Chicago with intermodal connections in several regions
- Fast and agile solutions to meet all customer’s needs.
Why Liege Airport?
With its strategic location at the heart of the Amsterdam-Paris-Frankfurt golden triangle, Liege Airport handles 73% of all European air freight. Located less than a day’s drive from most European cities, Liege Airport is easily accessed by a superb network of uncongested motorways. While focusing primarily on air freight, the Liege airport operators can offer the facilities and prices that other airports cannot match.
CMA CGM AIR CARGO also chose Air Belgium to operate its aircraft because its CEO Niky Terzakis used to be the boss at Liege Aiport-based TNT Airlines. So not only does Niky Terzakis know how to run an airline, but he also understands air freight logistics.
Liege Airport is happy with CMA CGM
When talking about CMA CGM Groups decision to base its aircraft at Liege Airport, CEO of Liege Airport Frédéric Jacquet is quoted by Belgium aviation website Aviation24.be of saying:
“We are really proud to be hosting a world-renowned group such as CMA CGM as it develops its cargo operations. A French family group that draws on the expertise of a Belgian company such as Air Belgium, works with Sabena Aerospace for its maintenance, and bases its aircraft at Liege Airport: what we have here is three companies coming together with the same overall ambition to grow and develop.
“The selection of Liege Airport shows once again not only that it has a prominent place in the world of cargo, but also and above all that it is playing an important role in a multimodal vision of logistics. We are delighted to welcome CMA CGM to Liège and to be partners in their projects.”
Liege Airport is playing a vital role
While acting as a vital link in delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) worldwide to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Liege Airport saw a 24% increase in cargo than 2019, with 1,120,643 metric tons passing through the facility. Liege Airport now hopes to play a vital role in the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines around the world.
CMA CGM AIR CARGO expects the second of its four Airbus A330-200F to begin regular flights between Liege and the United States in the coming days.
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MANILA – The Philippine Navy (PN)'s first missile frigate, BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), is now qualified to land and receive on its flight deck the AgustaWestland AW-159 "Wildcat" helicopter, which is the ship's partner in locating and hunting down hostile submarines.
"Traversing the path of fleet interoperability, Team FF-150 held deck landing qualification (DLQ) together with the ASW (anti-submarine warfare) 'Wildcat' Helicopter AW-159 (NH-441) last 09 August 2022," the ship said on its Facebook page Thursday night.
The DLQ is a part of a series of flight deck operations to further test and improve existing procedures, check connectivity, system integration, and leveling of officers, pilots, sailors, and aircrew on flight operations.
Before the actual deck landing, the ship's crew and flight crew of the anti-submarine helicopter squadron had a series of lectures and workshops to ensure the preparedness and safety of personnel and flight deck equipment.
"This activity marks the beginning of warfare interoperability operations between our air and surface assets which compliments the detection and engagement capability of both units," it added. The activity concluded safely with no casualties and any faults from both platforms.
"As our Navy gears towards development and modernization, we ensure that our personnel (are) aligned with this innovation to sustain and adapt to the fast and growing naval warfare technology and optimize our assets to their full capability," it added.
The PN's two AW-159 anti-submarine helicopters were delivered on May 7, 2019, and commissioned on June 17 of the same year.
The aircaft were acquired for PHP5.4 billion including its munition, mission essential equipment, and integrated logistic support.
They can also be armed with rockets, machine guns, missiles, torpedoes, and depth charges and fitted with modern sonar systems for tracking down submarines.
The AW-159s were acquired to complement the Jose Rizal-class frigates' ASW capabilities.
Meanwhile, the Naval Task Group (NTG) 80.5 conducted a "medical evacuation" (MEDEVAC) and "no radio drill' (NORDO) aboard BRP Antonio Luna (FF-151) while en route to Guam shortly after its month-long participation in the "Rim of the Pacific" (RIMPAC) last August 10.
The medical team facilitated the activity which involved the AugustWestland AW-109 helicopter as a platform for air transportation of the patient and the medical team.
The drill simulated the treatment and evacuation of a crew with a fractured leg.
As the ship immediately announced flight quarters for the helicopter pilots and crew to be ready and prepared for the air transportation, the medical team was administering first aid to the patient prior to the airlift to the nearest hospital.
During the NORDO, the AW-109 helicopter executed low pass flying and flashing of lights to indicate a signal for no radio communications while on air.
The ship also hoisted its flag to convey the intention received from the helicopter and the deck status during flight quarters.
The MEDEVAC and NORDO are among the drills regularly done aboard the naval ship to prepare the personnel in times of emergency situations, especially while underway. (PNA) | Yes |
NAAA works to support the agricultural aviation industry which is made up of small businesses and pilots that use aircraft to aid farmers in producing a safe, affordable and abundant supply of food, fiber and biofuel, in addition to protecting forestry and controlling health-threatening pests.
FIVE FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AERIAL APPLICATION AND UAVS: Over the last few years, NAAA has consistently needed to set the record straight about inaccurate and/or misleading claims made about how unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology can act as a wholesale replacement to manned aircraft applying crop protection products. NAAA believes UAV application technologies can be a valuable tool for growers by complementing manned aircraft by spraying plots of land not suitable for manned aircraft to treat. It is vital, however, for those desiring aerial application services to know the facts about the capabilities of manned aircraft and UAVs before making financial decisions. Here are five facts regarding the more commonly repeated inaccurate claims about manned aerial application. Read More
NAAA UPDATES CHECKLIST FOR PILOTS SUBJECT TO THE DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM TARGETING AN AG AIRCRAFT- In response to recent shooting threats and incidents this year, NAAA updated its checklist of actions operators and pilots can take in the event someone threatens to or discharges a firearm at their aircraft. NAAA has now updated that checklist to cite the specific federal laws that are violated when someone shoots, or threatens to shoot, an aircraft. Read More
MARK AND LOG TOWERS TODAY TO AVOID LIABILITY AND COMPLY WITH UPCOMING FAA REGULATIONS - Many landowners and farmers might not be aware that due to provisions in both the FAA Extension, Safety and Security Act of 2016 and the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, towers between 50 and 200 feet tall with an above-ground base of less than 10 feet in diameter in rural areas are legally required to be marked and/or logged in a database the FAA is currently developing. Previously, no towers under 200 feet were subject to any federal marking requirements. Read More.
2019 NAAA OPERATOR SURVEY REPORT RELEASED TO MEMBERS: NAAA is pleased to announce that its 2019 Aerial Application Industry Survey Operator Report is available for members to download. The survey is chockful of key statistics showing the healthy status of the U.S. aerial application industry. Read More
SIX CUSTOMIZABLE PRESS RELEASES AVAILABLE TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT AG AVIATION ACTIVITIES IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY: With the 2019 aerial application season underway or soon to be underway in different parts of the country, NAAA has prepared a customizable press release that members can use to call attention to the fact that ag aircraft will soon be a common sight as ag pilots assist local farmers during the new growing season. Read More
NAAA ISSUES NATIONAL PRESS RELEASE URGING SAFE UAV OPERATIONS AROUND AG AIRCRAFT THIS GROWING SEASON: With over 1 million UAVs registered with the FAA, NAAA has reached out to local and national agricultural and aviation outlets reminding UAV users to be mindful of low-flying ag aircraft as we approach the busy 2019 growing season. Read More
NAAA NOW OFFERING LEGAL SERVICES ON FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION LAWS TO OPERATOR AND PILOT MEMBERS: To continuously improve upon its service to the aerial application industry, NAAA has entered into an agreement to provide legal-consulting services to its aerial application operator and pilot members on federal transportation issues. Read More
NAAA CAUTIONS HOBBYIST AND PROFESSIONAL UAS OPERATORS TO BE MINDFUL OF LOW-FLYING AGRICULTURAL AIRCRAFT THIS GROWING SEASON: With more than 1 million UAVs registered with the FAA, it is vitally important for UAV operators to be aware of agricultural aircraft operations this growing season. Read More
NAAA AD ENCOURAGES GROWERS TO LEARN BEFORE THEY LEASE TO WIND ENERGY COMPANIES: NAAA has created a new ad that encourages landowners and growers to consider all the facts and potential ramifications before they lease their property to a wind energy entity. The ad is available to members in a variety of sizes and colors to place in their local newspapers and ag publications. Read more
VIDEO AND NARRATIVE UNDERSCORING TOWER MARKING’S EFFECTIVENESS AVAILABLE: NAAA is making available video showing the challenge low-level agricultural pilots have in seeing unmarked towers and the difference in visibility if those towers are marked and lighted. The video was provided to NAAA with permission by Roger Dreyer and Karen Allen. Read more
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Rapid near-optimal aerospace plane trajectory generation and guidance
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a novel approach in terrain following (TF) flight using fuzzy logic. The fuzzy controller as presented in this work decides where and how the aircraft needs to change its altitude. The fast decision‐making nature of this method promises real‐time applications even for tough terrains in terms of shape and peculiarities. The method could. A fundamental aspect of autonomous vehicle guidance is planning trajectories. Historically, two fields have contributed to trajectory or motion planning methods: robotics and dynamics and control. The former typically have a stronger focus on computational issues and real-time robot control, while the latter emphasize the dynamic behavior and more specific aspects of trajectory .
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Richard G. Cobb is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering with over 35 years of aerospace experience. Over the past, 18 years at AFIT, he has taught graduate level courses in satellite design, optimal control, trajectory optimization, system identification and spacecraft control.
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International airlines have scaled back their operations in Venezuela amid a dispute over dollar payments with the government, a report here say.
Ultimas Noticias said 11 of the 26 airlines operating in the country have either reduced the frequency of their flights or are using smaller aircraft to service Venezuelan routes.
Monday's report linked the shrinkage to the government's failure to reimburse airlines some $US3.7 billion ($A4.14 billion), according to the International Air Transport Association.
In Venezuela, airlines are required to sell tickets in bolivars under an arrangement in which the government later converts the local currency to US dollars.
But IATA says the government has made no dollar payments to the airlines since October.
Tony Tyler, who heads IATA, last Wednesday said: "Airlines certainly cannot sustain operations indefinitely if they can't get paid".
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro responded on Saturday, warning airlines of "severe measures" if they reduced their operations.
"The company that leaves the country will not return while we hold power," Maduro said.
Ultimas Noticias said Aruba-based Tiara Air had reduced the number of seats on offer by 78 per cent, while Colombia's Avianca has cut its by 66 per cent.
Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia, Air Europe, American Airlines, Air Canada, Copa and Lan Peru have reduced the frequency of their flights or the size of their aircraft flying Venezuelan routes, with the drop in available seats ranging from 15 to 35 per cent, the report said. | Yes |
7 Malaysian satellites still in GEO orbit are no longer active
Most of you are aware that Malaysia has satellites. Well, do you know how many there are and are still functioning? Our government launched a total of nine satellites into space, but seven of them are no longer in active operation.
According to Harian Metro, the Malaysian Space Agency (MySA) has announced that these seven Malaysian satellites are now inactive and are considered in their end-of-life phase. This leaves two more functional satellites that are still active in orbit - Measat-3A and Measat-3B. For your info, these are communication satellites that provide services to many countries in the world.
Malaysia is now working with other countries to remove inactive satellites or space debris from orbit. This is to prevent these dead objects from interfering with the operation of other active satellites. A plan is to use Japanese technology to launch satellites into orbit to retrieve the old satellites or install rockets to propel them out of geosynchronous orbit.
Moreover, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) and MySA are developing a blueprint on national space exploration called Malaysia Space-X 2030. This blueprint includes a 10-year plan for the "Program Pembangunan Satelit Penderiaan Jauh Negara" (PJPJN) or National Remote Sensing Satellite Development Program, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) infrastructure, and increased research capacity.
Pretty interesting news and not something the average Malaysian might know about. But what do you think about the news? Let us know in the comments, and stay tuned to TechNave for more interesting tech news. | Yes |
Several airlines have announced cancelations of flights set to depart on Christmas Day due to the surge nationwide in COVID-19 cases after canceling hundreds of flights on Christmas Eve.
Nearly 700 flights in, to or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday while more than 3,600 were delayed. Hundreds more were canceled Saturday morning.
Update 8:15 a.m. EST Dec. 25: As of Saturday morning, airlines had canceled more than 850 Christmas Day flights while over 420 others were delayed, according to a tally from flight tracking site FlightAware.
Delta Air Lines canceled just over 280 flights, amounting to 24% of its schedule, according to FlightAware. United Air Lines canceled nearly 240 flights while JetBlue Airways canceled 120 and American Airlines canceled 88.
Update 11:52 p.m. EST Dec. 24: Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines confirmed late Friday that flight cancellations will continue through the weekend after airlines across the country were forced to ground flights, WSB-TV reported.
According to the airline, as many as 200 additional flights may be canceled on Christmas Day, and another 150 Sunday are expected to be canceled. as well, the TV station reported.
Delta officials attributed the flight disruptions to a combination of the omicron variant of the coronavirus impacting staffing levels and inclement weather across certain regions of the country, WSB-TV reported.
Update 11:14 p.m. EST Dec. 24: By 11 p.m. Friday, 681 Christmas Eve flights had been canceled and more than 3,325 other have been delayed according to a tally from flight tracking site FlightAware.
Of those figures, nearly 380 JetBlue Airways flights were delayed, representing about 37% of the airline’s scheduled flights. The carrier also canceled 75 flights, according to FlightAware.
Meanwhile, United Airlines’ cancellations saw a slight uptick to 198, while delayed flights increased to 298, or roughly 15% of the carrier’s scheduled flights; American Airlines canceled only 23 flights but delayed 348 fights, or roughly 13% of its departures; and Delta Air Lines canceled 173 flights and delayed another another 204, according to FlightAware.
Update 7:02 p.m. EST Dec. 24: By 7 p.m. Friday, 655 Christmas Eve flights had been canceled and more than 2,800 other have been delayed according to a tally from flight tracking site FlightAware.
More than 320 JetBlue Airways flights were delayed, representing about 31% of the airline’s scheduled flights. The carrier also canceled 78 flights, according to FlightAware.
Meanwhile, United Airlines’ cancellations held steady at 192 but delayed flights increased to 246, or roughly 13% of the carrier’s scheduled flights; American Airlines canceled only 18 flights but delayed 293 fights, or roughly 11% of its departures; and Delta Air Lines canceled 171 flights and delayed another another 174, according to FlightAware.
Update 3:45 p.m. EST Dec. 24: As of Friday afternoon, more than 2,100 Christmas Eve flights have been delayed while 625 others were canceled in, to or out of the U.S., according to a tally from flight tracking site FlightAware.
More than 260 JetBlue Airways flights were delayed, accounting for 26% of the airline’s schedule. The company also canceled 72 flights, according to FlightAware.
About 10% of United Airlines flights — just under 190 — were canceled while another 10% — just over 190 — were delayed Friday afternoon. Delta Air Lines also canceled 167 flights while delaying almost 140 others were delayed, according to FlightAware.
Nearly 400 flights set to take off on Christmas Day in, to or from the U.S. have also been canceled, the site reported.
Update 3 p.m. EST Dec. 24: More than 600 flights have been canceled to or from the U.S. on Christmas Eve amid staffing issues cased by an increase in COVID-19 cases caused by the arrival of the omicron variant.
According to the flight tracking site FlightAware, United Airlines had canceled nearly 190 flights by 3 p.m., amounting to 10% of its schedule. Delta Air Lines canceled 8% of its schedule, or 166 flights, while JetBlue Airways canceled 72 flights — 7% of its schedule.
The cancellations come on top of the cancellation of 375 Christmas Day flights as of 3 p.m., according to FlightAware.
Update 1:55 p.m. EST Dec. 24: Nearly 590 flights leaving from or departing to the U.S. have been canceled on Christmas Eve and more than 315 have been canceled for Christmas Day, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
As of Friday afternoon, nearly 1,660 flights were also delayed nationwide, FlightAware reported. JetBlue Airways reported 220 delayed flights, amounting to about 21% of its schedule, according to FlightAware,
Update 12:30 p.m. EST Dec. 24: Airlines continue to cancel more flights set for takeoff on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day in or to the U.S., according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
As of 12:30 p.m., 535 flights had been canceled while 1,325 were delayed on Friday. An additional 272 flights were canceled for Saturday, according to FlightAware, including 121 Delta Air Lines and 93 United Airlines flights.
Update 11:20 a.m. EST Dec. 24: The number of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day flights being canceled by airlines in the U.S. has risen to more than 510 on Christmas Eve and nearly 240 on Christmas Day, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
Nearly 1,000 flights departing from or to the U.S. were also delayed Friday, FlightAware reported.
Update 10:30 a.m. EST Dec. 24: Airlines have canceled 225 Christmas Day flights in or to the United States as of Friday morning, adding to the nearly 500 cancelations reported on Christmas Eve, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
Delta Air Lines canceled nearly 105 flights as of 10:30 a.m. while United Airlines canceled 68, FlightAware reported. JetBlue Airways has also canceled six flights.
Update 10:05 a.m. EST Dec. 24: As of Friday morning, 475 flights within, into or out of the United States have been canceled, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.
United Airlines canceled 173 flights while Delta Air Lines canceled 141, according to FlightAware. JetBlue canceled 53 flights, Alaska Airlines canceled 11 and American Airlines canceled 10, the site reported.
The cancellations come as airlines across the globe grapple with the impact of a recent surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the recently identified omicron variant. As of Friday morning, more than 2,000 flights were canceled worldwide, according to FlightAware.
Update 11:30 p.m. EST Dec. 23: JetBlue and Allegiant also announced flight cancellations for Friday flights, The New York Times reported.
Meanwhile, United Airlines spokesperson Joshua Freed said it remained a possibility that flights would be canceled on Christmas Day.
“We are really managing this day by day,” Freed told the Times. “There may be some more flight cancellations for Saturday. It’s possible.”
Update 10:16 p.m. EST Dec. 23: As of 9:20 p.m. EST, Delta Air Lines has canceled 84 flights on Christmas Day while United Airlines has canceled 28, according to USA Today.
Neither airline has confirmed the Christmas Day cancellations.
Update 10:02 p.m. EST Dec. 23: Later Thursday, Delta Air Lines announced that it had canceled 93 flights. Alaska Airlines also announced it had canceled 17 flights nationwide on Thursday.
“Delta teams have exhausted all options and resources — including rerouting and substitutions of aircraft and crews to cover scheduled flying — before canceling around 90 flights for Friday,” Delta said in a statement. “We apologize to our customers for the delay in their holiday travel plans. Delta people are working hard to get them to where they need to be as quickly and as safely as possible on the next available flight.”
The 93 cancellations represent 4% of Delta’s total flight schedule, CNN reported.
Alaska Airlines also released a statement, saying “The COVID-19 virus is once again on the rise around the nation, this time with the omicron variant. Going into December, we increased the number of employees for reserve positions to prepare for a very busy travel period.”
“However, some of them have reported that they may have been exposed to the virus. Those employees, working in various locations, are following our protocols and quarantining at home.”
Additional cancellations were possible Friday “during this dynamic situation,” Alaska Airlines said in a statement.
Original report: United Airlines announced Thursday that it has canceled more than 100 Christmas Eve flights due to the surge in COVID-19 cases.
In a statement, United said COVID-19 cases, particularly an uptick in the omicron variant, have caused staffing concerns.
“The nationwide spike in omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation,” the airline said in a statement. “As a result, we’ve unfortunately had to cancel some flights and are notifying impacted customers in advance of them coming to the airport.
“We’re sorry for the disruption and are working hard to rebook as many people as possible and get them on their way for the holidays.”
The flight cancellations were confirmed by FlightAware, a flight-tracking site.
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Yesterday we reported on the mass exodus from Hawaii of many of Hawaiian Airlines’ planes ahead of Hurricane Douglas. The airline’s Airbus A330s and A321s headed off to the west coast of the US to rest their wings safely.
However, its fleet of 18 Boeing 717s, which the airline uses extensively on its inter-island services, were unable to make the trip due to lack of range. As such, they were stored safely in Kona, where the storm was predicted to be less severe.
But what about when these aircraft do need to get back to the mainland, for example, for maintenance checks? And how were they delivered in the first place? We thought we’d take a look at the interesting solution for ferrying short-range Boeing 717s such a long way across the Pacific.
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A very Pacific problem
Short-range aircraft are frequently delivered across the Atlantic with no problem at all. Small Airbus and Boeing aircraft make the trip, thanks to the very easterly port of St Johns in Canada and the part-way placement of Keflavik in Iceland. Greenland is also en route, and Irish airports there to receive the plane on the other side.
However, going across the other ocean, the Pacific, does not provide so many places to stop off. Flying from the US to Asia in a smaller plane is fraught with difficulties, so much so, pilots will often choose to go the long way around and fly across Europe to complete the delivery.
This is not an option when delivering aircraft to Hawaii. AvGeekery describes this as “one of the hardest places to make an aircraft delivery” because there is no alternative airport between the coast of the USA and the island itself.
The shortest distance from mainland US to Hawaii is from San Francisco to Hilo. It’s over 2,300 miles, and there’s nothing in between the two waypoints but the big blue sea. This makes ferrying the Boeing 717 back to the mainland something of a challenge for Hawaiian Airlines.
How do they do it?
The range of the 717 is published at 1,647 miles. With no passengers or bags on board, this would likely be extended a little. However, it’s cutting it very fine, and strong headwinds or unexpected issues could leave the pilots in a sticky situation.
Hawaiian could ferry them to the mainland by sea, but they’re a bit too big to travel by barge in one piece. Plus, this would take a very long time, and it wouldn’t be practical to have the 717 out of action for so long.
As such, Hawaiian came up with a novel solution. To ferry the 717s for painting, maintenance, or other reasons, they install temporary extra fuel tanks onboard. These are installed in the passenger compartment of the 717, requiring seats to be removed for the journey. With these onboard, the trip can be undertaken with no concerns.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced
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The FAA's supplemental type certificate for the Cobham EFIS pertains to larger-model aircraft, as well as the Cessna Citation 501 business jet.
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The Government has announced changes to the Renters (Reform) Bill to protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of homes for tenants. It has tabled amendments to make it illegal for landlords and agents to have blanket bans on renting to people who receive benefits or who have children – ensuring families aren’t discriminated against
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US Navy finds downed C-2a Greyhound aircraft in Philippine Sea
The US Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) team has successfully located a C-2a Greyhound aircraft that crashed in the Philippine Sea near Japan.
The C-2A aircraft was carrying 11 crew and passengers when it crashed. Eight personnel were recovered immediately by US Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC 12).
For the next three days, Ronald Reagan led combined search and rescue for three sailors with the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF), covering almost 3,400 square kilometres before ending the search.
Initially delayed by poor weather conditions, the team deployed the TPL-25 pinger locator to optimal search depths of 915 metres above the ocean floor on December 29.
After marking the aircraft’s location, the search team returned to port.
The C-2A rests at a depth of about 5638 metres, making the salvage phase of this operation the deepest recovery attempt of an aircraft to date.
In coming weeks, the team will return to the site with a side-scan-sonar (SSS) and remote operated vehicle (ROV) to map the debris field and attach heavy lines for lifting the aircraft to the surface.
Despite very challenging conditions, every effort will be made to recover the aircraft and its fallen sailors.
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Forty-year old Jared Hodge dreamed of becoming a pilot since the age of six-years old. Hodge’s parents often took him to airshows at a young age, which sparked his interest in aviation and he never looked back.
He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Aviation Management and Professional Flight from Auburn University. While at Auburn, Hodge said he gained significant exposure to the aviation industry. “They taught me how to fly. I went there with only 5 hours of flying time.”
Hodge interned for Atlantic Southeast Airlines while at Auburn. He says that they showed him how to prepare for a career as a pilot. After graduating, Hodge accepted his first job as a flight instructor at a flight school in Pensacola, Florida. He later went to his hometown in Mobile, Alabama to fly private jets for Charter Services, Inc. After that, he went back to Atlantic Southeast Airlines as a commercial pilot for about six years.
In 2010, Hodge joined Delta Airlines. He now holds a position as a captain, flying Airbus A319, A320, and A321. Hodge, an African-American male, is the first pilot in his family. He says that mentorship played a key role in his success.
“I built a network where I was able to ask people about their career journeys in the aviation field, their mistakes and what they did to help them succeed. Majority of my mentors were pilots, flight instructors…people who I made a connection with through internships.”
Hodge advises aspiring pilots to stay motivated, focused, and surround themselves with a supportive network.
“Aviation is so expensive. The cost of flight training kicks out people from getting into the industry, but having a network of people can really help because when the financial burden comes the network of people that you build can give advice on how to save money on flight training or tell you where to go to get quality flight training.”
The high costs of training in the aviation industry is one barrier that disproportionately affects minorities. Hodge continues to make an effort to promote diversity within the industry.
“People are recognizing that hiring people of color to be pilots, mechanics, flight attendants, air traffic controllers benefits not only the work group but the company in so many different ways.”
He encourages young pilots to obtain a variety of skills because it can open the door to many different opportunities. “Until I did my internship, I didn’t realize pilots could be managers of other teams or manage flight operations and fly. There are so many opportunities that a pilot has at an airline or any other company that doesn’t involve just being a pilot.”
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Here is an example of the WWII-era US Navy Aircraft Direct Reading Magnetic Compass Mark IX, as used in the seaplanes PBY Catalina and PBM Mariner Patrol Bombers.
The compass was illuminated electrically via bulb mounted in a small compartment over the compass itself. Inside the same compartment is access to the direction compensating screws, used to calibrate the compass.
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Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN) organized ‘NIMJN Talk: Aviation Safety’ on February 10, 2023. This talk program was based on the recent aviation disaster in Nepal. A total of 25 journalists participated in the event.
The main objective of the program was to help journalists gain insights into Nepal’s aviation sector, its safety records, aviation disaster, and its investigations. Captain Yuvraj Kumar Bhattarai, a retired senior pilot of Nepal Airlines spoke on the following topics with his own professional experience:
- Aviation-related disasters: human vs mechanical errors
- Role and importance of Crew/Company Resource Management in aviation safety
- Rules, policies, standards, and practices followed by Nepal according to Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, and International Civil Aviation Organization
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On Feb. 7, 1984, during the Space Shuttle Challenger’s STS-41B mission, NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless II made the first, untethered, free flight spacewalk in the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Did you see this? Space X not only reuses rockets it can land them at the same time!
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Blue Origin, the space exploration and rocket company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has completed what it is claiming to be the most critical launch test in the company’s history. Blue Origin, the company which aims to send humans to space using its popular crew capsule with large windows, has successfully tested the most challenging launch and the return of its crew capsule.
Having achieved success in this trial, the company is likely to put the rocket into operation by the end of this year. The flight to space could launch as soon as next year. The entire episode was shared using a live YouTube video which attracted nearly 20,000 viewers. You can also watch everything from nearly 35 minutes prior the lift-off to the time when the rocket and the capsule returned successfully to the ground using the video below.
This was the ninth time that the New Shepard rocket booster was launched by Blue Origins and its third voyage outside the Earth’s atmosphere. Both the capsule and the rocket are reusable and will compete against SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon capsule. This was also the highest (389,846 feet) the rocket had reached so far.
The current test was conducted with Blue Origin’s test dummy named Mannequin Skywalker who was strapped to the chair and was used to study the impact of gravity. The capsule also carried experiments and payloads on behalf of NASA including one meant for testing Wi-Fi in space.
The entire mission took place nearly 11 minutes to be executed while the capsule reached a maximum speed of 2,236mph (~3,600kmph). It was critical as it was intended to test what happens to the capsule and the rocket in case of an emergency abort. The company did not talk much about the timeline for allowing humans to be a part of the experiment or how many more trial launches will be conducted before the service is commercially available, but we hope to see Blue Origin transporting humans to space in 2019. | Yes |
A day after watching Pratt & Whitney’s PW1500G engines lifting Bombardier’s new CSeries airliner for its long-awaited first flight on September 16, Pratt & Whitney Canada president John Saabas told AIN that the new turbofan’s PurePower technology PW800 cousin will soon be delivering the same step change in operating efficiency and low noise to the business aviation sector.
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The term game-changer is grossly overused in aviation, but few would dispute that the arrival on the market of Pratt & Whitney Canada’s PT6 turboprop 50 years ago this year did indeed change the engine game. The breakthrough technology that allowed this innovative turboprop to displace the piston and radial engines of the day was P&WC’s combination of the “free-turbine” and “reverse-flow” inlets.
As it seeks to prolong the legacy of its 50-year-old PT6 engine dynasty, Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is laying plans to refresh the epic product range at the top, middle and lower ends. Speaking with AIN ahead of this week’s NBAA show, P&WC president John Saabas confirmed that the manufacturer intends to cap the PT6 portfolio with a 2,000-shp version of the turboprop but indicated it is not yet ready to target a specific launch date.
Safran Microturbo’s new e-APU60 auxiliary power unit is set to enter service by year-end on AgustaWestland’s new AW189 helicopter. Currently, the company had delivered 10 production APUs to the rotorcraft manufacturer and now it is pursuing other business aircraft applications, including small- and medium-sized jets and other rotorcraft.
Williams leads turbofans, Honeywell tops t-props
GE Aviation has reached agreements with IHI of Japan and Techspace Aero (Safran) to become joint-venture partners on GE’s new Passport engine, which will power the Bombardier Global 7000 and 8000. Under the agreements, IHI and Techspace Aero will be responsible for more than 37 percent of the Passport engine–IHI for the low-pressure turbine module, aerodrive systems, fan hub frame and aft fan case; and Techspace Aero for the booster module, lubricant tank and pump and the heat exchangers. Engine certification is expected in 2015.
Engine maker Pratt & Whitney Canada (Stand 2009) is here at LABACE to highlight its engine support capabilities, which are primarily handled through the local service center at Sorocaba in the São Paulo region. Established in 1999, the Sorocaba facility is part of the global PWC support network, reporting to the West Virginia overhaul and service center, but is particularly involved in supporting the more than 2,000 PWC engines that are operational in Brazil.
As esperanças da aviação executiva para os famosos países do BRIC (Brasil, Rússia, Índia e China) foram de certa forma abaladas por destinos econômicos variados envolvendo todos do grupo, mas eles continuam a ser foco de otimismo no longo prazo. Na próxima edição do Global Business Aviation Forecast, publicação anual da Honeywell Aerospace, a ser divulgada na mostra NBAA em outubro, a gigante da indústria se coloca entre os otimistas e parece confirmar uma continuação no crescimento do mercado latino-americano.
Business aviation’s hopes for the famous BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) were somewhat dented last year by mixed economic fortunes across the board, but they continue to be the focus of long-term optimism.
Fifty years after delivering its very first engine to Beechcraft, Pratt & Whitney Canada celebrated another milestone yesterday by delivering to Beechcraft at EAA AirVenture the 80,000th PT6 turboprop, in this case a -60A variant that powers the King Air 350i. “As we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of this iconic engine,” said P&WC president John Saabas, “we are proud to share this important moment with Beechcraft, which was the first customer to select the PT6.” The PT6 has since become the most popular engine in all aviation market segments. | Yes |
Smart Glide™ Technology System Limitations
Smart Glide is an emergency assistance feature that provides the pilot with information during a loss of power emergency. This feature is intended to be used in emergency and training situations only. Smart Glide does not land the airplane and is not a substitute for proper planning and training. When able, Smart Glide technology directs the aircraft to a suitable airport nearby for landing based upon a variety of conditions, including, but not limited to, weather, distance from current position, terrain and runway type. The airport list for Smart Glide, which is subject to update at any time, is comprised of any suitable airports within an estimated glide range based on the manufacturer's published glide ratio and current aircraft glide performance. The airport list only contains airports that are found in the active navigation database. Smart Glide technology may not be able to locate an airport within glide range for aircraft that are flying at a low altitude and/or located in remote areas or over large bodies of water. Smart Glide is not available after takeoff before reaching 1000' above ground level and cannot be activated above 36,000' MSL. Smart Glide may not function without an adequate source of electrical power during a loss of engine power. Smart Glide also requires the Garmin avionics systems to be in operation for the feature to operate properly. | Yes |
The world’s biggest aircraft manufacturers and airlines are in town.
They're here for the Dubai Airshow, which kicks off on Sunday at Al Maktoum International airport.
The five-day show is expected to see billions of dollars worth of deals being carried out with heavyweights like Airbus and Boeing battling for orders.
But with the ongoing grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max and a sluggish global economy, experts say it's unlikely that there will be a record number of deals signed this week.
However, there is expected to be an increased focus this year on defence manufacturing and future technology like artificial intelligence.
More than 1,300 companies will have some kind of presence at the Dubai Airshow, which takes place every two years.
His Excellency Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Director-General of the UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority told ARN News that the event has evolved over the years. | Yes |
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Flyover is a flight simulation reconnaissance game. The objective is to fly over the targets, controlling the plane with the a and d keys, and take a picture (p key), avoiding the hazards and return the drone plane back to the landing strip. | Yes |
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A company have shown off a drone-like flying vehicle they call CopterPack.
The Australian outfit showed a pilot able to take off from a standing position and hover in a controlled manner above a beach. So far, the company are keeping stats secret on flying speed and height, as well as cost for a production model.
A representative named Matt told Cover-Images.com: "Early last year I came up with the idea to build a backpack helicopter and experience a very unique kind of flight. The aircraft utilises a self-levelling autopilot with two ducted fans for propulsion and the lightweight airframe is constructed from carbon fibre honeycomb.
"The cool thing about this aircraft is that your body becomes a part of the aircraft, and the custom autopilot makes it easy to control similar to a drone.
"The aircraft is currently in the early trial stage of development. The next step for CopterPack is to develop and test a version of the aircraft that has mechanical and electronic redundancy."
Matt also explained how to pilot the vehicle: "There is a throttle lever for the right hand and a 3-axis joystick for the left hand. The aircraft moves in the direction that you tilt the joystick. If the pilot lets go of the joystick, the autopilot will level the aircraft." | Yes |
Greg Paxton came to NASA 10 years after working with electronics systems in the United States Navy for more than seven years. He also worked for the United States Army where he developed software for and maintained fixed- and rotary-wing simulators and support systems at Ft. Rucker, AL for the Directorate of Training, Doctrine and Simulation.
At NASA Greg has operated three scientific payloads on-orbit, including SAGE III Meteor-3M for 10 years. In his role with SAGE III on ISS, he designs, develops, and implements operations software, plans and procedures for ground testing, on-orbit testing, and operation of scientific payloads.
Greg works with engineers, scientists, management, and a variety of other developers.
“It’s exciting to work with people that are all very good at what they do,” he said. “I also simply enjoy the work. Planning, writing software, and resolving difficult issues make it a joy to come to work on Monday morning.”
One of Greg’s most memorable accomplishments so far was the successful launch and commissioning of SABER on the TIMED mission.
“When I arrived one month prior to launch, it was a steep learning curve with a lot of hard work, but we were able to get the payload commissioned on time. SABER has been collecting excellent scientific data for over 10 years now,” he said. “It is really satisfying being a part of something like that.”
Greg is currently the Ground Systems Lead for the SAGE III payload on the ISS and would like to be part of developing and building a multi-mission operations center at Langley Research Center. | Yes |
For the sixth time in June 2020, U.S. military jets have intercepted Russian military aircraft near Alaska.
The incident occurred Saturday, when four Russian reconnaissance aircraft lingered for eight hours in the Alaskan Aerospace Defense Identification Zone. American F-22s intercepted the planes, which stayed out of U.S. and Canadian airspace but did come within 65 miles of Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
On Wednesday, Russian planes were within 50 miles of the islands. Since 2007, U.S. military aircraft have intercepted Russian aircraft an average of seven times yearly, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command. | Yes |
The quadrotor drones have tools onboard to help them move around and plan paths, like laser-range finders which can estimate the drone’s position. Rather than downloading GPS data and using this to navigate, the drones form their own 3D maps by surveying the terrain and using algorithms to recognize areas that are already mapped. The data is displayed as a visual map in which unexplored areas are dark and already explored areas are grey, with trees shown as blocks of blue or green depending on their height. When several of these drones are used in concert, their data can be combined in a ground station which weaves all of the terrain information together to produce one large 3D map that can then be used by rescuers to locate lost hikers.
The next step in getting the drones ready for use is to equip them with object detection which they could use to tag the location of a hiker once they are found. Then the emergency services could use this location information to plan a rescue. The drones could essentially take over time-consuming searches, as Yulun Tian, a graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, explained in a statement: “Essentially, we’re replacing humans with a fleet of drones to make the search part of the search-and-rescue process more efficient.”
In a real-world demonstration, the drones were able to map a 215 square foot area each and to successfully fuse their data into one collaborative map. See the drones in action in the video below:
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The ongoing search for the missing Malaysian airlines flight is a powerful reminder of technological limitations
Amidst all the coverage of the missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370 – and the varying speculations about what actually happened – there’s been one constant: a shared astonishment that in our increasingly small, increasingly connected world, something as large, and as bristling with technology as a commercial airliner can simply disappear from the sky.
The tragic incident – and our collective unease at the apparent lack of an explanation – has been a reminder of how much we expect from our technology, and perhaps how much we take it for granted.
For the friends and relatives of the passengers aboard the aircraft, the official conclusion that the plane crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean offers little in the way of closure. That will only come when – or if – the aircraft is recovered and the reasons for the crash are established.
But for the rest of us – the emergence of verifiable satellite data does at least represent the beginning of a return to a more familiar world, a world where technology supplies the answers.
However as the search for the aircraft enters its next phase and authorities consider the prospect of scouring the sea-bed for signs of the missing aircraft, we could soon encounter a fresh reminder of our technological limits.
As The Engineer learned at the recent Oceanology conference (held in London earlier this month) the seabed is our planet’s last unexplored wilderness. As one delegate told me, plumbing its depths and addressing the huge navigation and communication problems this presents, has more in common with space exploration than any other area of engineering.
And although the capabilities of today’s subsea systems are truly remarkable, it’s by no means a given that they will be able to locate the missing aircraft any time soon. As another expert remarked, the search corridor is so wide, that it could take years to examine the surrounding sea-bed in any detail.
Look out for the next issue of The Engineer for an in-depth look at autonomous underwater vehicle technology. | Yes |
JAKARTA: Indonesia's air accident investigator is probing whether a problem with the autothrottle system, which controls engine power automatically, contributed to the Sriwijaya Air crash on Jan 9 that killed 62 people, an official said on Friday (Jan 22).
National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) investigator Nurcayho Utomo said a problem with the Boeing 737-500's autothrottle system was reported after a flight a few days earlier.
"There was a report of malfunction on the autothrottle a couple of days before to the technician in the maintenance log, but we do not know what kind of problem," he told Reuters. "If we find the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) we can hear the discussion between the pilots, what they talked about and we will know what is the problem."
It remains unclear whether a problem with the autothrottle system contributed to the crash, Utomo said, adding he could not recall any other issues raised in the maintenance log.
It is acceptable for a plane to fly with an autothrottle system that is not working because pilots can control it manually instead, he said.
Sriwijaya said it was unable to comment on technical matters involving the investigation before an official statement was made by KNKT.
A preliminary report is expected to be issued within 30 days of the crash, in line with international standards.
The plane's flight data recorder (FDR) has been recovered and read by investigators but an underwater search for the CVR's memory unit at the crash site in the Java Sea is continuing.
The memory unit apparently broke away from other parts of the voice recorder during the crash. Divers retrieved its battered casing and cover last week near the location where the flight data recorder was recovered three days after the accident.
Citing sources close to the investigation, the Wall Street Journal on Thursday reported the FDR data showed the autothrottle system was not operating properly on one of the plane's engines as it climbed on departure from Jakarta.
Instead of shutting off the system, the FDR indicated the pilots tried to get the stuck throttle to function, the Wall Street Journal said. That could create significant differences in power between engines, making the jet harder to control.
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Except for the CVR, authorities have ended the search for remaining victims and debris.
"After much consideration, we have to close the search and rescue operation today," Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi told reporters on Thursday.
"However, we are committed to continue efforts to find the cockpit voice recorder."
The government will provide a ship to take relatives to the crash site for a memorial ceremony on Friday morning, Sumadi said.
So far, 43 victims have been identified from more than 300 body bags containing human remains sent to the National Police’s disaster victim identification unit. | Yes |
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This narrative is part of a longer one of personal reminiscences of my experiences in the RCAF during the Second World War and only concerns my operational tour flying Beaufighters with 177 Squadron, Royal Air Force, in Southeast Asia from early March 1944 until the end of the year. Preceding the operational tour I had spent two years training and waiting in Canada and the United Kingdom. During operational training at East Fortune near Edinburgh flying Beaufighter lis, I was crewed with Flight Sergeant A.J. Aldham, a reserved, slim, blonde Englishman as Observer (i.e. Navigator-wireless operator-gunner). Alf quickly established his capability as a navigator and good companion in the as yet poorly understood game of war. Following a second stage of operational training of Beaufighter Is and Vis at Catfoss near Hull, Yorkshire, we picked up a new Beaufighter X from the factory at Filton, tested it, and then flew it to India on a reinforcement flight. We were surprised on arrival at Karachi on 1 September 1943 to find we were separated from the aircraft. We were then left to languish in an aircrew pool until December when we were assigned to the Southeast Asia Air Command Communications Squadron. Here we put in three months flying lesser VIPs about India until we were posted to 177 at the beginning of March.
Brown, A. Sutherland "Indian Days and Burmese Nights: Flying Beaufighters in Southeast Asia with 177 RAF Squadron." Canadian Military History 4, 2 (1995) | Yes |
TBO within the aviation industry is a common acronym that experienced pilots know stands for Time Between Overhaul. If you are new to flying, here's the gist of it: every piston engine plane is rated to fly safely for a certain number of hours. That is to say, the manufacturer of the aircraft engine believes the plane can fly for say, 2,000 hours or more before an overhaul on the engine is required. When it's time for an overhaul, a seasoned professional will repair or replace key parts within the aircraft engine in order to make sure that it's safe to fly for the next 2,000 hours. Here are some tips to keep in mind if you are a new pilot who is not used to keeping track of your plane's TBO.
Start By Educating Yourself on Your Specific Engine Type and TBO Number
Every plane and aircraft engine is different. Some plane engines will be able to fly longer without needing an overhaul. Start by researching what the manufacturer of your current plane recommends when it comes to Time Between Overhaul. You will likely be logging your hours in the plane anyway, especially as a new pilot, but make sure to keep an eye on this number as the plane gets closer and closer to its next recommended overhaul.
Keep Up with Oil Changes and Other Maintenance
Here's the most important part of that TBO number that's provided by your aircraft engine's manufacturer. The manufacturer believes that the plane can go that many hours between overhauls when regular maintenance is provided between flights. In other words, you need to keep up with your aircraft's oil changes and other small maintenance tasks on a regular basis. If you forget to change the oil or make other maintenance mistakes, your plane engine could suffer additional wear and tear and it won't be able to make it to the TBO number. Be honest with yourself: if you know you haven't done a great job of providing regular maintenance for your plane, you should opt for an engine overhaul sooner rather than later as your number of hours in the sky begins to climb.
Get the Overhaul Done By a Seasoned Professional
The best way to maximize your TBO is to get each overhaul done by an experienced company. By using only officially approved parts for the aircraft engine and installing them carefully and efficiently, you can have full confidence that your plane will be able to stay safe in the skies until your next TBO number arrives. Contact a company that specializes in aircraft engine overhaul today for more information | Yes |
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What Is The James Webb Space Telescope And When Will First Images Get Released?
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Ten billion dollars and a couple of decades in the making, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most complex space telescopes constructed to date.
What's special about the Webb telescope is its ability to detect objects in much longer wavelengths than the Hubble, the first major optical space telescope.
Its upgraded infrared resolution and sensitivity allows it to view celestial objects too old, distant, or faint to have been captured before, promising to fill our critical gap in knowledge between the Big Bang and the earliest galaxies.
In its first decade of operation, the JWST will study the solar system, directly image exoplanets, and photograph the first galaxies.
To showcase the telescope's potential, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will soon make public a set of 'first-light' images that it's captured so far: a taster of what we'll see during its expected 20+ years in space.
"One of those images on July 12 will be the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken...farther than humanity has ever looked before," said NASA administrator Bill Nelson during a media briefing last week.
When Will The First Images Be Released?
US President Joe Biden is set to unveil one of the first images on July 11 at 5pm ET.
The first-light images will be released gradually on July 12 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 GMT), when NASA will release the images one by one during a televised broadcast.
After the live stream is over, see everything in one place on NASA's website. | Yes |
Some of the most iconic fighter planes from the past 100 years are to go on display in Glasgow this summer as part of celebrations marking the centenary of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The RAF100 Aircraft Tour will visit Glasgow Science Centre over the weekend of Friday, August 31st until Sunday, September 2nd; allowing families and enthusiasts alike to get up close with a selection of full-size aircraft from throughout the RAF's illustrious history.
From the First World War to the present day, visitors will have the chance to see aircraft including the Sopwith Snipe, historic Spitfire, Harrier 'jump jet' and the latest F35 Lightning, complete with crews in period uniform.
The free event will be supported by an interactive Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) exhibition, with a focus on aviation and aerospace activities, aimed at engaging young people. Air Force personnel and industry partners from a variety of specialisms will be on hand to answer questions and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.
In addition to Glasgow, the RAF100 Aircraft Tour is also visiting Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle in Northern Ireland over the coming months.
The RAF celebrated its 100th birthday on April 1st this year, with centenary celebrations and a programme of special events extending until the end of November. The centrepiece of RAF100 will take place on Tuesday, July 10th with a service in London's Westminster Abbey, followed by a parade in The Mall and a spectacular flypast over Buckingham Palace. There will also be an RAF theme at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August.
Welcoming the announcement of the Glasgow event, Scotland's most senior airman, Air Vice-Marshal Ross Paterson, said: "Scotland and its people have made a huge contribution to the Royal Air Force. This event commemorates that history, celebrates the role that the RAF plays in keeping the people of this nation safe and will inspire a new generation to take up careers in military or civilian aerospace."
The Glasgow leg of the RAF100 Aircraft Tour is being delivered in partnership with Glasgow Science Centre and Glasgow City Council.
Dr Stephen Breslin, Chief Executive of Glasgow Science Centre, added: "GSC is delighted to be working with the RAF during their centenary celebrations by helping to bring this iconic event to Scotland. Visitors will have the chance to get up close to a range of aircraft covering the RAF's history from WW1, to WW2, to the Cold War, to the modern age! As well as the display outside GSC, visitors can also explore the world of engineering through an exciting programme of workshops and activities.
"It is vitally important that we ignite an interest in and help young people discover the pleasure and relevance of STEM. This is key to helping them develop the skills they need to create fulfilling and prosperous futures for themselves. The RAF100 aircraft tour is an interactive and engaging way to demonstrate how exciting, varied and rewarding a STEM career can be."
Glasgow's Lord Provost, Councillor Eva Bolander, said: "I'm delighted that Glasgow is involved in the RAF100 celebrations. After all, Glaswegian Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson, an early pioneer of flight, recognised the military value of aircraft while serving as an intelligence officer during the Boer War. This largely forgotten founding father of the RAF led the Royal Flying Corps in World War One.
"I know this centenary tour will attract huge interest from local families and visitors, across the generations, keen to see some of the service's most iconic aircraft up close and personal. It's also a unique opportunity to highlight the history of the RAF and its role today; including the exciting employment opportunities and career paths available to young people interested in the aviation and STEM sectors."
For more information, visit www.raf.mod.uk/raf100 and follow #RAFAircraftTour and #RAF100 on social media. | Yes |
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