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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183523/?ref_=nm_flmg_ardp_29 | 2017-01-21T18:49:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00572-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.958256 | 577 | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__33339988 | en | When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting a unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
In 2020, a crew of astronauts has been prepared for a two-year international mission in Mars. Jim McConnell, Woody Blake and his wife Terri Fisher, Luke Graham and Phil Ohlmyer are best friends and Jim lost his chance to land on Mars when his beloved wife Maggie McConnell died. The team of four astronauts land on Mars but a mysterious storm kills three of them and only Luke survives. A rescue team with Woody in command and Jim, Terri and Phil heads to the red planet and discovers that only Luke has survived. Their further investigation shows that the storm that killed the three other astronauts was artificial and created to protect a Face that lies on Mars. What might be the intriguing Face? Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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I thought this movie was GREAT! People are forgetting the fact that they are seeing a MOVIE! And this movie Rocks (The mind). This movie is for the hardcore Sci-Fi fans, like myself. Yep, I like seeing space, space stations, planets, aliens and stuff other people might find boring.
I thought is was facinating that the base camp on Mars was so close to the "Mars Face". Of all the places that NASA has sent probes (in real life) they seem to be going to the wrong areas. It's like someone from another planet sending probes to the North or South pole on Earth and expecting to find life or signs of life there. I'm not implying that there really is something up there on Mars but just thinking from the scientific side of reality of what if?
I read and heard all the negative reviews on this movie and I had to set them aside and see it for myself, and I'm glad I did. My girlfriend was upset that I didn't take her to see it and I'm kinda sad that I didn't. Maybe next time.
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http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/15/1439236/SpaceX-Dragon-As-Mars-Science-Lander/insightful-comments | 2015-07-31T03:20:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042988048.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002308-00051-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.948783 | 167 | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-32__0__173538952 | en | from the get-your-dragon-to-mars dept.
FleaPlus writes "Besides using the SpaceX Dragon capsule to deliver supplies to the ISS this year and astronauts in following years, the company wants to use Dragon as a platform for propulsively landing science payloads on Mars and other planets. Combined with their upcoming Falcon Heavy rocket, 'a single Dragon mission could land with more payload than has been delivered to Mars cumulatively in history.' According to CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX is working with NASA's Ames Research Center on a mission design concept that could launch in as early as 5-6 years."
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http://andhra-pradesh-tourism-guide.blogspot.com/2009_05_04_archive.html | 2017-04-29T15:23:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123530.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00144-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.722346 | 524 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__80649971 | en | List of International Airlines in India, International Airlines Operating in India
There are a number of India international airlines. The main international airlines of India are given below:
The government of India owns air India. This national flag carrier airline of India has its main base in Mumbai. The other hubs of Air India are New Delhi and Chennai. It also provides cargo services worldwide. It is one of the two state-owned airlines in the country, the other one is Indian Airlines.
Based in New Delhi, Air Sahara is a privately owned airline. It got international flying rights some time back only.
Indian Airlines is the second state owned airline. It is primarily a domestic airline. But, it operates internationally also. It is based in New Delhi.
Jet Airways is another privately owned airline operating in the international sector also. This airline also got international flying rights some time back only.
Other International Airlines Operating in India
- Aeroflot (http://www.aeroflotlax.com/flights.htm)
- Biman Bangladesh (http://www.bimanair.com)
- Firstair (http://www.firstair.ca)
- North West (http://www.nwa.com)
- Swiss Air (http://www.swissair.com)
- Air Canada (http://www.aircanada.ca/home.html)
- Czech Airlines (http://www.csa.cz/en/czechia/cz_home.htm)
- Gulf Air (http://www.gulfairco.com/index/index.asp)
- Necon (http://www.neconair.com/)
- Singapore International Airlines (http://www.singaporeair.com)
- Air France (http://www.airfrance.com)
- Cathay Pacific (http://www.cathaypacific.com/cpa/en_INTL/homepage)
- JAL (http://www.jal.co.jp/en/)
- Royal air
- South African Airways (http://ww2.flysaa.com/saa_home.html)
- Cyper (http://www.kthy.net/kthyen/html/index.htm)
- Royal Jordanian
- Air Mauritius
- Druk Air
- United Airlines
- Asiana Airlines
- Egypt Air
- Kuwait Airways
- Austrian Airlines
- Pakistan International Airlines
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http://dupaperzzgo.taxiservicecharleston.us/benefits-of-being-an-aerospae-engineer.html | 2018-10-17T22:23:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511314.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20181017220358-20181018001858-00031.warc.gz | 0.956777 | 937 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__242266003 | en | Help invent and build a spacecraft for the first manned mission to mars nasa photo of planet mars and its atmosphere design airplane wings that change shape to enhance maneuverability model of a new airplane with flexible wings undergoing testing design satellite phone technology so that data can be sent and. The chartered engineer registry aims to provide professional recognition to qualified engineers across all sectors particularly, for ies members who are engineers in sectors of engineering that do not require them to be registered as professional engineers being registered as a chartered engineer (singapore) will be an. Table of contents 1 job description 2 salary 3 requirements 4 pros and cons 5 what is the job like 6 is this right for me 7 related careers in this career summary, you will find read more about what does an aerospace engineer really do at work and what is it like being and working as one. Flexible, bendable, foldable, rollable, and stretchable electronics are reaching into various sectors and are being integrated into a variety of products, including wearables, medical applications, aerospace applications, and the internet of things flexible electronics have been developed using, for example, semiconductor. Key benefits precision engineering in the west midlands - gaugemaster key features aerospace tooling and aerospace components manufacturers, gaugemaster believe that working with us is a sound choice for any business looking to benefit from edm wirecut, capillary drill, jigs, fixtures and gauges, or any other.
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https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/12/327745/israel-claims-birds-not-syria-took-down-96-million-f-35-fighter-jet/ | 2021-05-17T19:45:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243992440.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210517180757-20210517210757-00097.warc.gz | 0.956524 | 1,014 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__927250 | en | Was it a missile, was it a plane? Israel says it was birds that grounded its F-35 worth $96 million.
Rabat – Israel had to issue an embarrassing statement after reports that a Soviet-era missile battery hit its most advanced jet fighter, the F-35. Israel’s most cherished piece of military equipment suffered irreparable damage as Israel attempted to intimidate Russia.
The F-35 is the most advanced US-built stealth fighter on the market today, and Israel’s pride and joy. Israel is employing its army of lobbyists in Washington, D.C. to prevent its new “allies” from purchasing the F-35 as it fears it will lose its military advantage in the region, something the US has promised to maintain.
The much-hyped jet has been at the center of geopolitical tensions in the region. But an embarrassing saga, kept quiet since 2017, is raising questions about the aircraft that costs $96 million per plane, according to former Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
On October 16, 2017, Israel planned a power play to send a message to Russia while the Russian federation’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Tel Aviv. As Shoigu met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s air force ordered one of its brand-new F-35 fighters jets to bomb Syria.
The message was simple: Whatever Shoigu and Netanyahu might discuss, Israel would continue to reserve the right to bomb its neighbors with impunity. Striking Russia’s close ally Syria on the same day as the meeting aimed to project Israeli military strength and diplomatic immunity.
Israel’s F-35 attacked two Syrian air defense batteries, alleged retaliation for Syrian firing at Israeli spy planes flying over Syria. Israel presented the operation as an unmitigated success. Yet as time passed and more details became clear, the embarrassing truth became apparent. During the operation, Israel’s $80 million F-35 returned damaged beyond repair.
The mission cost Israel one of the nine F-35 fighters it had at the time, a painful price for destroying two of Syria’s cheap Soviet-era surface-to-air (SAM) batteries.
The embarrassing story behind Israel’s damaged F-35 has become a point of discussion after South Front, a news site focused on Russia’s military in Syria, made a remarkable claim. The publication alleged that Israel’s F-35 plane was hit by a Russian SAM battery.
Countries that participated in the development of the F-35 have long feared Russia’s state-of-the-art S-400 missile systems for its alleged capabilities to “learn” the F-35’s stealth tricks and take down the fighter. Yet on October 16, a missile from a Syrian Soviet-era S-200 hit the most advanced military jet in the US and Israel’s arsenal, according to South Front.
Following the Israeli operation on October 16, the Syrian defense ministry released a statement announcing that it had “directly hit one of the jets, forcing [Israeli aircraft] to retreat.” If Syria’s assertion is correct, a SAM battery developed in the 1960s would have hit the latest piece of US military tech that has cost the US an eye-watering $1.5 trillion to develop.
If an outdated cold-war era Syrian missile battery did indeed target and hit Israel’s F-35, it could break the near-mythical reputation of the US and Israel’s famous new jet.
Israel’s foreign ministry had to rapidly do damage control following the claims by South Front and Syria’s defense ministry.
Its response attempts to dispel the rumor of a Soviet-era SAM battery taking down Israel’s flagship F-35 plane. Yet the Israeli explanation is possibly more embarrassing than even the claims made.
Israel claims it was not a Soviet-era missile that took down its F-35; instead, it says a “bird strike” two weeks prior took down its expensive military kit. A “bird strike” is a common threat to aviation and refers simply to a plane hitting birds in its flight path.
Whether it was indeed birds or an outdated Russian missile that damaged Israel’s F-35, the embarrassing story calls into question the durability of the country’s most prized military. Israel has committed to spending billions to expand its fleet of F-35 jets to 50 units while the US uses the plane as bait for Gulf countries to consider normalization agreements with Israel.
Whether it was a bird or a missile that took down Israel’s F-35, the tale is likely to lift some of the myth around the F-35, and possibly impact sales of the US jet that it envisions will be the anchor of its military capabilities for years to come. | aerospace |
https://www.xyzanews.com/too-hot-to-fly/ | 2021-10-27T12:53:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588153.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027115745-20211027145745-00427.warc.gz | 0.949414 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__282548951 | en | If you’re a pilot, you need to consider a lot things before taking off. Are all parts of the plane working properly? Is the runway clear? Are weather conditions safe? Now add another question to the mix: is it too hot? That’s right—as temperatures across the globe increase (remember global warming?), flights are starting to get canceled. Recently, flights in Phoenix, Arizona, were canceled due to record-high temperatures.
Why? Let’s take a quick trip to science class. When it’s hot, air is thinner or less dense, so there is less air beneath the wings of airplanes to help with takeoff. With us so far? Good. In extremely hot conditions, aircrafts have to work harder. They need a longer runway and more air conditioning before takeoff, all of which can get pretty expensive. The Phoenix flights, for example? They were rescheduled to take off later in the day because it’s cooler then.
But airplanes take off in other parts of the world where the weather can be much hotter than the summers in Phoenix, right? You’re right! Departure flights from those areas tend to be scheduled for early mornings or late afternoons. Some experts point to global warming as a reason why certain areas are experiencing extreme heat. As a result, airlines must deal with a problem in these areas that they never had to before: scheduling flights around extremely hot weather!
For now, might we suggest an early morning flight or an evening flight? Hey, you might even get to watch a beautiful sunrise or sunset from the sky that way! | aerospace |
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/humanfactors/ | 2016-10-01T15:43:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738663010.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173743-00265-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.902187 | 245 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__196196376 | en | Carla Hackworth, Ph.D., Manager
Under the guidance of the Federal Air Surgeon, the Aerospace Human Factors Research Division at the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute conducts research that focuses on improving individual system effectiveness, efficiency, and safety. Located at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, a major emphasis of the division is its focus on improving human performance through enhanced equipment design. Interface design, organizational effectiveness, and validation of selection procedures are among the factors investigated at the facility.
General Aviation and Air Traffic Control are two of the broad interest areas of the researchers in the division. Some of the researchers use simulators to test hypotheses and conduct experiments. Conducting experiments in a laboratory environment allows the researchers to control the factors they wish to investigate. Furthermore, research is also conducted at actual worksites, with the focus being on field and observational studies.
Within Aerospace Human Factors Research, there are two laboratories, the Flight Deck Human Factors Research Laboratory and the NAS Human Factors Safety Research Laboratory, that conduct research, and five active simulators to support that research.
- Aerospace Human Factors Research Division Brochure (PDF, 2 MB)
- Contact the Division Manager about Aerospace Human Factors Research | aerospace |
http://orangefm.com.ng/israeli-fighter-jet-crashes-in-syrian-offensive-on-iranian-targets/ | 2019-02-21T03:14:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247499009.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20190221031117-20190221053117-00156.warc.gz | 0.979605 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__221038120 | en | An Israeli fighter jet has crashed amid Syrian anti-aircraft fire after an offensive against Iranian targets in Syria, the Israeli military says.
The two pilots ejected and parachuted to safety in Israel and were later taken to hospital.
Israel said its aircraft, an F-16 jet, was carrying out strikes in response to the launch of a drone into Israeli territory. The drone was intercepted.
Red alert sirens sounded in areas of northern Israel and the Golan Heights.
Residents reported hearing a number of explosions and heavy aerial activity in the area near Israel’s borders with Jordan and Syria. | aerospace |
https://www.sayinstitute.eu/news/entrepreneurship-is-not-rocket-science-or-is-it/ | 2023-09-27T05:05:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510259.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927035329-20230927065329-00072.warc.gz | 0.916065 | 322 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__39175476 | en | ASCenSIon is advancing Space Access Capabilities with TU Dresden, the European Union and ESCP Business School
The Chair of Space Systems at TU Dresden runs the ASCenSIon project. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. ASCenSIon stands for “Advancing Space Access Capabilities – Reusability and Multiple Satellite Injection”. The acronym exemplifies the core objective of the project: cutting edge space access research.
In particular, ASCenSIon deals with launcher systems that are (partially) reusable and capable of injecting multiple payloads into multiple orbits. The purpose of the project is to develop a programme that focuses on several specific areas of cutting edge space access research. The network aims to provide design concepts as well as to identify and advance critical technologies to prove their feasibility .
Scientists to Accompany the Space Sector
As the space sector rapidly changes and a multitude of diverse space actors emerge, a new class of space scientists is necessary. Hence, ASCenSIon trains 15 Early Stage Researchers from all over Europe. Their aim is to become leaders in the European effort of utilising space. These researchers will not only be excellent specialists in their domain. They will also have a deep understanding of the complexity, multidisciplinary and internationality of launcher development.
They will advance a variety of technologies with both computational and experimental techniques that ensure efficient processes and reliable results. We as Jean-Baptiste Say Institute of ESCP Business School are thrilled to advance their entrepreneurship skills and support their endeavours. | aerospace |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382870/Gabrielle-Giffords-second-trip-Mark-Kelly-command-delayed-Endeavour-shuttle-launch.html | 2018-08-17T03:01:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221211664.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817025907-20180817045907-00321.warc.gz | 0.973445 | 1,411 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__107255491 | en | Gabrielle Giffords WILL make second trip to Florida to see her husband command the delayed Endeavour launch
- Congresswoman who was shot is determined to make the journey
- Obama's trip to Cape Canaveral was a one-off; he won't be going back
Ready to travel: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, pictured in January, wants to return to Florida
Gabrielle Giffords is determined to return to Florida to watch her astronaut husband lead the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour.
A spokesman for the Arizona Representative said on Monday that his boss is just awaiting word on when the flight will be rescheduled.
Miss Giffords had travelled from Houston to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch, which was scheduled for last Friday but was delayed because of a technical problem.
The launch is off until at least Sunday.
Giffords returned to the Houston rehab hospital where she's being treated after being shot in the head while meeting constituents.
She was one of 13 people wounded in the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson. Six others were killed.
Jared Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 federal charges.
Miss Giffords was left disappointed by last Friday's postponement, but at least she did get to meet the President Obama.
He pressed on with his trip to Kennedy Space Centre despite Endeavour's issues, meeting with Miss Giffords first before joining her husband Commander Mark Kelly and his crew during a tour of the Orbiter Processing Facility, where Atlantis is being prepared for a June 28 launch.
The President first met Rep Giffords when she was still in hospital after the shooting in Tucson on January 8.
Giffords arrived in Cape Canaveral last Wednesday to attend the launch in what was the first time she has been seen in public since the attempt on her life.
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Keep smiling: Despite the postponement, President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle enjoy a chat with the astronauts of the space shuttle Endeavour including mission commander Mark Kelly, right
An extraordinary video showing shot Miss Giffords making her painful way up a flight of stairs into
the plane that took her to Cape Canaveral was aired by ABC.
The congresswoman is still having difficulty using the right side of her body - but her left side was strong enough to pull herself up the steps one by one.
The video shows her pausing on each step, grasping the railing with her left hand as she pulls the right side of her body up behind her. Although she was followed closely by an aide, she appeared to be making the climb on her own.
A few giant steps: Gabrielle Giffords slowly makes her way on to the plane on her way to the cancelled space shuttle launch last Friday
The footage is tangible proof of Mrs Giffords' miraculous recovery since she was shot in the head at a political rally in Tucson on January 8.
The six astronauts are still technically in quarantine, meaning that contact with other people is limited to protect them from illnesses that could later develop and lay them low while on orbit. But close relatives, excluding children, have been cleared by doctors to spend the coming days with them while they await further news of Nasa's next move.
Tour: President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, their daughters Sasha and Malia, and Astronaut Janet Kavandi, walk under the landing gear from beneath the nose of Space Shuttle Atlantis
The president's wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, nine, accompanied him on the tour. The children were 'excited to be missing school,' said the president, who also joked when an onlooker coughed: 'Don't go getting my astronauts sick.'
Some workers, however, expressed bitterness at the president's arrival, holding him responsible for the cancellation of the shuttle's successor, a programme known as Constellation, and the resulting loss of their jobs.
'It's ironic that he'd come here, considering he's the one who's killed us off,' said one.
Up close: U.S. President Barack Obama and his daughter, Shasha, look at the landing gear for the space shuttle Atlantis while touring the Orbiter Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center
Ready for lift-off? Not quite: Shuttle Endeavour sitting on launch pad 39A during final preparations for the aborted launch at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, last Friday
Endeavour had fuelled and the six astronauts were heading to the launch pad when the countdown was halted, about three and a half hours before the 3.47pm lift-off. NASA's silver-coloured astrovan did a U-turn at the launch control centre and returned them to crew quarters.
One of the two prime heaters for a fuel line feeding one of Endeavour's three auxiliary power units failed and another heater was acting up.
Both main heaters need to be operating for redundancy. The power units provide hydraulic pressure to the main engines at liftoff and to the rudder and speed brake during landing.
The short appeared to be in a switchbox or an electrical line leading to it.
Devoted: Gabrielle and Mark at their 2007 wedding. She's determined to attend the final Endeavour launch
It would have been the first time in NASA history that a sitting president
and his family witnessed a launch, Mr Obama is not planning to return.
As many as 700,000 spectators had been expected to crowd nearby coastal communities. For days, police were warning of massive traffic delays. After Endeavour, there's only one more space shuttle flight — by Atlantis — before NASA ends the 30-year-old programme and retires the fleet to museums.
Endeavour's upcoming mission to the International Space Station is the last in its 19-year history. It will deliver a $2 billion physics experiment.
The shuttle — the youngest in the fleet — was built to replace Challenger, destroyed during liftoff in 1986, and made its maiden voyage in 1992.
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http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2013/02/25/Boeing-buys-microprocessor-firm-Acalis/UPI-34681361820593/ | 2013-05-21T09:11:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699812416/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102332-00079-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.952829 | 336 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__73568407 | en | ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Boeing has acquired a U.S. microprocessor business whose products will enhance the protection of aircraft systems against information-assurance attacks.
The business acquired, Acalis, has headquarters in California. It was purchased from CPU Technology Inc. Financial and other terms of the transaction weren't disclosed.
"Acalis provides security-on-a-chip that can help defend the manned and unmanned aircraft we build at Boeing today and in the future for customers around the world," said Chris Chadwick, president of Boeing Military Aircraft.
"With these processors onboard (the aircraft), warfighters can complete their missions and not be sidelined by malware, cloning and other cyberthreats against the aircraft's systems."
Boeing said Acalis, which has a workforce of 40 people, will be integrated into its Military Aircraft's Global Strike division.
"Acquiring Acalis continues the company's strategy of increasing Boeing's vertical depth to better differentiate its offerings and provide long-term value for its global aerospace and defense customers," Boeing said.
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NEW DELHI, May 20 (UPI) --The US Department of Energy's conditional approval a Texas liquefied natural gas terminal to export to nations that do not have a free trade agreement with the United States is seen as a potential boost for India's energy security.
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 20 (UPI) --Sweden's Saab is upgrading its bid for Brazil's FX-2 jet fighter purchase plan, even as it weighs challenges from rivals Boeing and France's Dassault. | aerospace |
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/19866-fil-asian-airways-launches-flights-to-tablas-masbate | 2017-04-29T19:19:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123560.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00491-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.942556 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__134413384 | en | Fil-Asian Airways (Zamboanga) reportedly launched operations on June 22 with flights between Manila Ninoy Aquino Int'l and Tablas and Masbate. As successor to Mid-Sea Express (Cebu), Fil-Asian plans to roll out an island-hopping service including flights to Marinduque effective July 12, with Cebu to Cotabato and Tandag, and Cotabatu to Zamboanga due from August 12. Thereafter, Cebu to Tagbilaran, Tagbilaran to Davao and Davao to Manado (Indonesia) are expected to launch from September 13. Service is conducted with a YS-11. Fil-Asian is the only scheduled operator of the type worldwide. | aerospace |
https://www.horbiter.com/en/flash-news-the-omega-speedmaster-skywalker-x-33-solar-impulse/ | 2021-10-24T00:28:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585828.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023224247-20211024014247-00383.warc.gz | 0.906385 | 385 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__91305125 | en | The Omega Speedmaster Skywalker X-33 Solar Impulse - Flash News
Next March, at Abu Dhabi, the Solar Impulse 2 will be the first solar aircraft ever to take off and round the globe. This project, that was officially launched in 2003 by the pilot Bertrand Piccard, has been supported by Omega since 2006. From then onwards, Omega has supplied the Solar Impulse's team with a test bench and other devices to further develop the project.
Today, just one month ahead of the aircraft's take off, Omega has unveiled the Omega Speedmaster Skywalker X-33 Solar Impulse, dedicated to this amazing mission. Inspired by the Speedmaster Skywalker X-33 unveiled at Baselworld 2014, the Omega Speedmaster Skywalker X 33 Solar Impulse features a Grade 2 Titanium 45mm wide case and a bezel with a blue ceramic inlay covered with green Super-Luminova.
It is an analog-digital timepiece powered by a multifunction quartz caliber, the 5619, that displays hour, minutes and seconds in three different timezones simultaneously, has 3 alarms, is a chronograph and last but not least boasts a perpetual calendar with day, date, month, year and week.
It has, in addition, the PET (phased elapsed time) and the MET (mission elapsed time) functions to help pilots calculate the time elapsed from the start of the mission. The Omega Speedmaster Skywalker X-33 Solar Impulse has been certified by the ESA (European Space Agency) and will be made in a limited edition of 1924 pieces (thus celebrating the year of the first ever flight around the globe) and comes with a blue and green polyammide strap. It will retail for 4700€.
For further info please visit the official Omega website.
(Photo credit: courtesy of Omega Watches)
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https://www.aircraftfmc.com/aircraft-paint/ | 2023-06-09T00:59:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655244.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609000217-20230609030217-00075.warc.gz | 0.902196 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__210955349 | en | Home > Available Modifications
For military applications, FMC can apply a paint color and design that matches your current military aircraft profile or retain the original paint color.
The original Aircraft Paint: CARC (Chemical Agent Resistant Coating) is a two-component polyurethane paint (defined in MIL-C-46168) used as a finishing coat on military combat equipment since 1985.
Our design team will create a digital design based on your sketch or construct a digital design with you. Once a digital design is approved, it is released to the paint shop to apply. | aerospace |
https://aerospace.honeywell.com/en/press-release-listing/2016/april/honeywell-extends-relationship-with-jetcity-engineering | 2019-09-16T02:14:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572471.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190916015552-20190916041552-00000.warc.gz | 0.918252 | 894 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__110126062 | en | SHANGHAI, April 13, 2016 – Honeywell Aerospace (NYSE: HON) has signed a dealership agreement with JetCity Engineering Pty Ltd, the maintenance, repair and overhaul division of an Australian air charter company that owns, operates and maintains its own fleet of luxury jets. The new deal extends the existing relationship between Honeywell and JetCity from a supplier and customer relationship to a dealership. The extended relationship will provide business jet operators with a cost-saving, time-saving and practical solution to access Honeywell’s aftermarket services.
“The addition of this dealership with JetCity will further assist us in achieving the common goal of providing our customers in the region with an exceptional experience,” said Andy Gill, senior director, Asia Pacific, Business and General Aviation, Honeywell Aerospace. “The dealership also provides us with more opportunities through a secondary base at Tullamarine where we did not have a presence previously.”
The new dealership with JetCity provides business jet operators with a service center close to home, which will help save operators’ time while reducing costs related to flying between airports for upgrades and maintenance. JetCity is well-placed with market access to support both aircraft equipment upgrades and line maintenance equipment sales at both Essendon Airport and Tullamarine International Airport.
As the only fixed-based operator (FBO) at Melbourne’s Tullamarine International Airport and also providing an FBO and maintenance, repair and overhaul station at Essendon Airport, JetCity services approximately 350 business aircraft per year. The new dealership agreement with JetCity expands Honeywell’s aftermarket service presence within the Australia and New Zealand region.
“As business aviation fleet movements within the region increase, especially for foreign-based airplanes, our customers need more aftermarket support for Honeywell products,” said Lorne Cole, managing director, JetCity. “Because we are a partner to Honeywell, operators benefit from access to Honeywell’s aftermarket services closer to home or flight destination, reducing the impact in terms of cost and time while increasing the ease of fleet maintenance.”
Honeywell has a strong business aviation aftermarket and OEM footprint across the Asia Pacific region consisting of 43 dealers and service centers that serve a fleet of over 850 business aviation aircraft. After becoming a Honeywell dealership, JetCity, as a non-OEM-owned service center, will be able to accommodate needs not met by other OEM aviation service and consulting centers. This will provide increased support for operators and facilitate industry growth in Asia Pacific.
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https://www.turdef.com/article/lockheed-martin-will-manufacture-12-more-mh-60r-seahawks-for-the-ran | 2023-05-29T22:50:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644913.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529205037-20230529235037-00323.warc.gz | 0.913279 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__1425608 | en | Lockheed Martin will manufacture 12 more MH-60R SEAHAWKS for the RAN
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The 12 new MH-60R aircraft will form a common fleet of maritime helicopters supporting all of the RAN’s air-capable platforms as part of the Australian Government’s Project SEA 9100 Phase 1 (Improved Embarked Logistics Support Helicopter Capability).
“The additional 12 MH-60R SEAHAWK aircraft is a testament to the Royal Australian Navy’s commitment to providing their service men and women the right aircraft for their mission needs,” said Capt. Todd Evans, program manager for the US Navy’s H-60 multi-mission helicopters.
The RAN was the first international navy to choose the MH-60R helicopter, purchasing 24 units between 2013 and 2016. | aerospace |
https://www.today.com/video/plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-florida-after-bomb-threat-570630211548 | 2017-09-22T04:42:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818688208.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922041015-20170922061015-00412.warc.gz | 0.978603 | 72 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__131465790 | en | November 20th, 2015
Plane makes emergency landing in Florida after bomb threat
A Spirit Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Thursday night due to a bomb threat. The flight from Fort Lauderdale to Minneapolis was in the air for about 15 minutes when the crew was forced to turn around. A man was taken into custody and hauled off the plane. | aerospace |
http://www.silverstonegroup.com/risk-management/industry-specialization/aviation/sucess-outcome.html | 2014-10-24T11:17:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119645866.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030045-00127-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966505 | 250 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__22457891 | en | A large Midwest helicopter operator was a new client of SilverStone Group’s Aviation division. This client was challenged by the insurance policy requirements that affected third-party recurrent training for flight crews in his turbine fleet. The requirement increased the organization’s financial burden due to the cost of outside training but, more importantly, left the organization short-staffed because pilot training was conducted offsite.
SilverStone Group’s Aviation Team was asked to design solutions. Working with the client, we conducted a detailed review of the in-house training programs and the manuals used for maintaining regulatory compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration.
In-depth research was completed on the manufacturers’ approved training programs of third-party vendors. With our Aviation Team’s knowledge and experience, we generated a detailed report giving accurate comparisons between our clients’ training and that of the manufacturers and third parties.
We approached the insurance carrier with our report, which showed that our client’s annual training procedures equaled and, in many cases, exceeded those offered by the manufacturers.
Our advocacy resulted in carrier approval of our clients’ training program to meet the annual training requirements for the policy, saving both time and cost for the client. | aerospace |
http://zymora-tech.com/blog/category/news/ | 2017-10-20T05:08:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823731.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020044747-20171020064747-00294.warc.gz | 0.945963 | 367 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__202517667 | en | It is with the utmost sadness from the Zymora team to hear about the news of Malaysian Airline flight MH370. Our deepest condolences to the families, friends and loved ones of the passengers and crew of this flight.
We appreciate the global help in this Search and Rescue (SAR) operation for flight MH370. Many nations have lend their hands in this difficult time to help each other to put together a difficult Search and Rescue operation.
We join in the prayers and mourning of everyone on this very sad evening.
During this difficult time, we would like to urge all to be mindful and respectful to those friends and families of those onboard flight MH370. Please do not spread any doubtful news on the social media like Facebook or Twitter, and be respectful for the comments you made.
Social media is a powerful medium, and it can be used for greater good or be used to spread rumours like virus. So please verify whatever you read are from reliable sources before you click that “Share” and “Post” button.
On March 8, 2014 (Saturday) at 0230 (GMT+8), Malaysia Airline (MAS) flight MH370 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crews, departing from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (China), has gone missing somewhere around Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. It has gone off from the radar and communication with the plane was not available.
As of writing, it has been more than 36 hours and there is still no news about flight MH370.
Australia, US, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines and China have joined Malaysia in the Search and Rescue operation to locate flight MH370 and offer rescue operation if indeed flight MH370 has crashed.
Our prayers are with those onboard flight MH370 and their friends and families as well. | aerospace |
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/southcentral/2010/09/01/112938.htm | 2023-02-06T10:00:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500334.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230206082428-20230206112428-00779.warc.gz | 0.978881 | 483 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__168809351 | en | Three crew members were killed early on Aug. 31 when the medical helicopter they were aboard crashed in central Arkansas.
The Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter was flying to pick up a traffic accident victim when it went down near the Scotland community in Van Buren County at about 4:30 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.
“They were flying under (visual flight rules),” Lunsford said. “It doesn’t appear they were talking to any air traffic controllers at the time.”
No patients were aboard the Bell 206 aircraft.
The helicopter, built in 1978, was registered to Air Evac EMS Inc., based in West Plains, Mo.
Air Evac spokeswoman Julie Heavrin said the immediate family members of the crew had been notified and that the names would be released later, after friends and other family could be told of the deaths.
Air Evac Lifeteam President and CEO Seth Myers said in a news release that the helicopter was equipped with night vision gear.
“This is a tragic day for us here at Air Evac Lifeteam,” Myers said. “These were members of our family and we are devastated at this loss. Our focus at this time is on providing support for the family and friends of these crew members.”
Investigators from the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were traveling to the crash site, Lunsford said, who is based in the FAA’s regional office in Fort Worth, Texas.
Lunsford said there apparently was no distress call and the cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known.
Scotland is about 80 miles north of Little Rock in central Arkansas.
Air Evac has experienced several fatal crashes in recent years.
In 2008, an Air Evac helicopter crashed in an Indiana cornfield killing three people. In 2007, another three-member crew was killed when an Air Evac helicopter crashed in Colbert County, Ala.
In 2006, an Air Evac helicopter crashed in Gentry in northwest Arkansas, killing the three-member crew.
Last month, an Air Evac helicopter made a forced landing near Tulsa, Okla., after the aircraft’s hydraulics failed. No one was hurt.
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http://www.compositesworld.com/news/gkn-aerospace-project-aims-to-automate-aircraft-wing-assembly | 2017-04-28T17:54:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123046.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00281-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.904228 | 443 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__35717018 | en | GKN Aerospace (Redditch, Worcestershire, U.K.) reported on Feb. 12 that it is leading a project under the U.K. Structures Technology Maturity (STeM) program that aims to automate the assembly of aircraft structures with the goal of creating consistently high-quality wing structures 30 percent faster than is possible today.
This STeM program is based on an advanced winglet as the demonstrator component, using this to progress a range of innovative assembly technologies. The complete assembly tooling and robotic strategy for the winglet has been developed by GKN Aerospace in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at Sheffield University and NIKON Metrology. Designed to be generic and therefore equally applicable to many future aircraft wing and fuselage structures, the process uses many emerging automated and robotic techniques that, as well as speeding assembly, will provide a consistent end product.
Richard Oldfield, technical director, GKN Aerospace, comments: “ As an industry we must step up production rates to meet future demand whilst ensuring the structures we design and build meet ever-more demanding aircraft performance requirements. This STeM project is enabling GKN Aerospace and our partners to evolve and assess a number of promising assembly technologies and processes that could give us the performance, tolerances, affordability and integrity we will need in the coming decades.”
Among the novel processes being progressed through this STeM program are lightweight fixturing, reconfigurable tooling, automated part positioning, assisted deposition of sealant, metrology assisted robotics, lightweight drilling heads, lightweight fastening heads for single-sided fasteners, automated scanning for accurate countersink drilling and automated fastener inspection.
The aim of the STeM project is to support new concepts in wing structure and manufacturing that enable expansion of the boundaries of aerodynamic performance and contribute to securing work in the U.K. for next-generation aircraft. GKN Aerospace leads the STeM Advanced Winglet project, with Bombardier, Spirit AeroSystems and GE partnering.
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http://idioknowledge.blogspot.com/2015/07/what-do-you-need-to-go-to-space.html | 2018-07-20T06:29:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591543.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720061052-20180720081052-00339.warc.gz | 0.94585 | 3,430 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__207061592 | en | What Do You Need to Go to Space
So, you want to take a short trip into space? Seems easy enough – hop in your rocket, aim it at space and lift off, right? If you want to survive, it will take a little more planning than that. Luckily, we're here to help.
Space is inhospitable to humans. It's too cold, has nothing for us to breathe, and requires high velocity to reach and maintain orbit. The worst part is probably the return trip. Re-entry will subject your spaceship (and you) to extremes of temperature and force that are difficult to overcome. Before you get started on your own space flight, go through our handy checklist to make sure you've got the bare essentials.
Capsule. This is your tiny chariot of the gods, the throne from which you'll survey the heavens from orbit. In reality, it will be a cramped canister that will be, in turn, too cold and too hot. If you want to really trim your budget, you can make the whole thing one giant sphere of aluminum alloy. That's how Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, did it.
Insulation. Space is cold. To be more accurate, space has no temperature at all, since it's a vacuum. The amount of insulation you need depends on how long you want to hang out in space. The minimum is some kind of thermal blanket lining the inside of your capsule. This will keep you from freezing while in space and also mitigate some of the heat of re-entry.
Oxygen. The cheapest method uses potassium superoxide (KO2), which, through a chemical reaction removes carbon dioxide and adds oxygen to the capsule's atmosphere. If your capsule is not airtight (many American space capsules were designed to allow slow, steady leakage), you'll need pressurized air to maintain pressure and breathable atmosphere. Some emergency pressurized oxygen bottles are probably a good idea – 20 pounds of oxygen will be enough to get you through a short emergency. Just be careful around the pure oxygen.
Rocket. Now that you've got a capsule with a reasonable chance of supporting human life, ever so briefly, in space, you have to get it to space. Mount the capsule on top of a large rocket. If you want to fly old-school, you'll need roughly 300,000 pounds of hydrazine/dinitrogen tetroxide rocket fuel, which is scary stuff, but at least it can be safely stored at normal temperatures. If you're being safety conscious, modern solid fuel like the space shuttle's Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant is a better choice.
Control systems. Your capsule may have its own on-board control rockets, or be temporarily attached to a control module. You'll need a way to orient the craft for re-entry and rockets to fire at the right time to send it into re-entry. You can use pre-programmed on-board computers, let the ground crew handle it, or put it into the pilot's hands. Don't scrimp here. Too steep of a re-entry angle and you'll burn up. To shallow and you'll bounce off the atmosphere and careen off into space. "Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong…"
Re-entry. When you re-enter the atmosphere, your capsule will be moving at around Mach 25. The "bow" of your capsule creates a shockwave of super compressed gases, and that compression heats them up tremendously, to over 4,500 degrees F (2,500 C). You might assume a streamlined shape would be best, but it turns out that a blunt, wide object pushes the shockwave ahead of itself, keeping the heated gases a little farther away. That's why Vostok capsules were spherical (they were wide and blunt from any re-entry angle) and Gemini and Apollo capsules were cone-shaped (they re-entered wide end first). Even so, the capsule is going to experience a lot of heat. The cheapest heat shield for a one-time mission is ablative, usually made of beryllium or a metal alloy. The shield gradually chars and burns away, sacrificing itself so that you can reach the Earth. If you've got the R&D budget, ceramics work very well and have better insulating properties. Finally, don't forget a sturdy internal frame and well-anchored seat belts. You'll be pulling 3 Gs or more (Gagarin reportedly remained conscious under 8 Gs of deceleration).
Landing. The parachute/sea touchdown method seemed to work pretty reliably for the Americans. The Russians always had trouble with their landings – Gagarin's capsule left a crater, though luckily he'd ejected and came down with his own parachute. Don't overlook this aspect. It would be a shame to mess things up at this point in the mission.
Plan B. Don't expect everything to go smoothly. Somewhere along the way, there will be a problem or a unforeseen circumstance. Carry extra food, water and oxygen. Install a backup computer system (they're so small and light these days). Make sure the pilot is trained to engineer solutions or take over control systems if necessary. And fold your own parachute.
If you're planning a trip to space, you'd better take a few things along. Actually, you'll need more than a few things -- you'll need everything a human being needs to survive in an environment that lacks food, water, air, room to move and gravity. Unless you're planning to be outside the solar system, your space ship should provide protection from solar radiation. If you're taking a long trip, bring something to keep yourself occupied.
A Space Ship
- Firstly, whether it's a suit that fits around your body or a larger vehicle that gives you some freedom of movement, you need a space ship if you're going into space. Humans can only survive for about 15 seconds in the vacuum of space without a protective shell, and even if they could survive longer, they would quickly receive a fatal dose of radiation from the sun. An efficient spaceship like the International Space Station reuses 93 percent of the waste water generated by its occupants, converting it into either clean water or oxygen. It also jettisons flammable waste gases, such as hydrogen and methane, into space.
Food and Water
- Every astronaut needs a personal supply of water. Water is a fundamental necessity, not only to keep the body alive, but to keep it clean, and it's an essential additive for the foods that accompany astronauts into space, which are dehydrated. Preferred space foods are those that don't crumble -- weightless crumbs get in everyone's way and can clog up instruments. Astronauts who stay in space for an extended period need a variety of foods for a balanced diet, and because weightlessness dulls the sense of taste, many prefer spicy ones.
Hygiene and Health Supplies
- Personal hygiene is just as important in space as it is on Earth; astronauts on the ISS can take showers, but they usually do it with a sponge. In addition, they use soap and shampoo that work without water. Each astronaut has a personal toothbrush and toothpaste, because a toothache can be a real problem when no dentist is available. To counteract the atrophying effect of weightlessness on the leg and lower back muscles, anyone going to space for an extended period needs exercise machines; the astronauts on the ISS use a cycle ergometer, treadmill or Advanced Resistive Exercise Device for at least two hours a day.
Music and Relaxation
- If musical instruments aren't on your A-list of space supplies, you should rethink your list. Psychologists have found that listening to and playing music help maintain a sense of normalcy and connection to Earth-bound life. The ISS astronauts have guitars, a flute, a saxophone and other instruments available for jamming and recording in space. You may be able to entertain yourself by watching water droplets float around in the zero-gravity environment, but when that novelty wears off, you'll be happy you packed a collection of books, CDs and an Internet-capable computer so you can stay in touch with people on the ground.
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For one year in college I had the job of my dreams—working as an intern at the NASA Ames Research Center. Even though my day was full of grunt work like scheduling appointments, running experiments, and maintaining a database of research participants, I was honored to part of an organization that I believed in so deeply. Interning at NASA felt like the closest I would get to the final frontier and I savored it till the end.
The coolest part of the internship was getting to learn about the psychology of space exploration. While my team was responsible for human-machine interfaces (like the redesigned Space Shuttle glass cockpit), they also taught me what it takes to keep astronauts alive in space (beyond the obvious stuff like oxygen and radiation shields). Since we’re all eagerly awaiting Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, a film about survival in space, I thought this would be a great time to revisit NASA’s lessons about space travel—build an effective team, create Earth-like conditions, and develop rapid brain and behavioral feedback.
1) Build An Effective Team
The multinational crew of the Columbia STS-107 tragedy was one of the most diverse in NASA's history. Image by NASA.
After overcoming Earth's gravity and the vacuum of space, the next biggest challenge astronauts face is being part of an effective team. Imagine being stuck in a cramped area with a small group of people for a long period of time without any privacy or escape. No, it's not prison—this is what space exploration feels like. Astronauts work in suffocatingly small spaces, have very stressful schedules, and rely on each other to get their jobs done. Small conflicts between the crew can quickly escalate into serious life threatening problems. Living and working well together, despite differences in personalities and perspectives, isn’t a lofty goal – it’s critical to survival in space.
NASA takes team building very seriously. Much of the research from NASA’s National Space Biomedical Research Institute has focused on team cohesion. We now know that mixed gender crews work better than all male or female crews (at least in remote research facilities, the military, and NASA). When it comes to multinational crews, the biggest barrier to cohesion is working with machines and procedures that are unfamiliar. This can be easily overcome if different nations work together when designing machines, developing procedures, and training their crew.
Based on these findings, NASA created a comprehensive team training program. Using classes, simulations, and virtual reality, NASA trains astronauts to effectively communicate with one another, work across cultures, make decisions, take care of each other, lead and follow, manage conflict, and deal with unexpected situations in space. Probably the most important part of the training is the subtle stuff that comes along the way—the crews get a chance to spend time together before missions, get to know each other, create a common language, and develop trust for one another.
Space agencies have done a pretty good job of building effective teams for Apollo, Space Shuttle, Mir, and International Space Station missions. But these missions have had the benefit of regular communication with Earth, support from ground crews, and shorter durations. The real challenge will be sending a team to Mars where communication with Earth will be delayed and the flight there and back could take years.
2) Create Earth-like Conditions
There's not much room for sunlight in the ISS. Image by NASA.
Our biology developed to survive within Earth's atmosphere and gravity. That's why spaceships have ample supplies of oxygen and why astronauts spend so much of their day exercising.
The same is true of our psychology—it developed to function on Earth, not in the vacuum of space. This becomes a major problem for our internal clock—the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The SCN regulates circadian rhythms, which wake us up in the morning and make us sleepy at night. Because the SCN is located right next to the optic nerve, sunlight has a big impact on it. The more sunlight gets into your eyes, the more alert you feel. As the sun sets and our surroundings become dark, the SCN gets your body ready for bed.
The problem with space exploration is astronauts don’t get the same exposure to sunlight and darkness that they’re used to on Earth. Take the International Space Station—it orbits the Earth every 90 minutes with varying exposure to sunlight. The SCN isn’t built for a 90-minute orbit; it's used to a 24-hour cycle. Being on the International Space Station is kinda like having perpetual jet lag. Combine that with the loud sounds of machinery and it’s no wonder so many astronauts suffer from insomnia and chronic drowsiness during simulations and space missions.
Insomnia and drowsiness is a huge problem for anyone operating machinery. Driving a car while drowsy is just as bad as driving drunk. You can imagine how much of a problem this would cause astronauts working with multimillion-dollar equipment in life-threatening situations.
The solution is replicating as many Earth-like conditions as possible. NASA plans to replace the International Space Station’s fluorescent lights with a new LED system that creates blue, white, and red light. A combination of these colors creates light that’s similar to what we get on Earth during mornings, afternoons, and evenings. Then, mission control will time the lighting to correspond with a 24-hour cycle. It’s a similar solution to light boxes which are used to treat seasonal depression.
3) Develop Rapid Brain and Behavioral Feedback
Sensors, like those in this space suit, will one day include brain and behavioral measures. Image by NASA.
We get a lot of feedback from the people we interact with every day. Coming home from a rough day at work, our loved ones might ask us how we’re doing and give us an opportunity to vent about whatever happened that day. This type of feedback helps us maintain good mental health. Improving awareness of our thoughts and feelings is also a major goal of all effective psychotherapies.
This type of feedback is rare in space. Sure, the crew might notice some changes in your mood, but what if they are also experiencing the same problems as you? They could also be the source of your frustration, leading you to isolate yourself. Some of the sleep research I discussed earlier has already shown that astronauts think they feel better than mission control's data indicates.
This is why NASA is developing remote brain and behavioral feedback systems to augment the current monitoring of an astronaut’s physiology. The goal is for ground crews to intervene with problems in space before they impact mission goals or compromise team cohesion. A group of psychologists are developing tools to measure interpersonal behaviors between crew members. Heart-rate, speech, and distance between crew members will be monitored using a badge. Ground teams will be alerted if there are altercations between the crew or if anyone is isolating themselves. Psychologists have also developed a psychomotor vigilance test that measures mood and depression. Saliva tests and facial recognition software can also be used to measure an astronaut’s stress and mood. All of this information will one day be integrated with computer software that can provide remote therapy to help astronauts get back on track.
Building team cohesion, creating Earth-like conditions, and rapid feedback systems are important to survival in space. But it’s not enough to just survive. Space exploration is a deeply moving experience for many astronauts. They spend most of their free time in awe of the Earth (just look at these beautiful photographs from astronaut Chris Hadfield or watch his heartfelt goodbye to the International Space Station). Some astronauts return to Earth completely changed by what they saw in space. I wonder what would happen if we could all experience space flight and see our pale blue dot from the vastness of space?
This is why I love NASA. It represents the most optimistic branch of our government—an organization solely dedicated to exploration, science, and helping humans thrive in the most impossible situations. I hope Gravity will increase our appreciation for the resiliency of astronauts and the awesome enterprise that is human space exploration.
I’ve barely scratched the surface of space psychology. For much more check out NASA’s free ebook, The Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective. | aerospace |
https://www.mckinneyonline.com/wellness/mckinney-pilot-thomas-thornton-wins-national-award/ | 2019-11-13T10:29:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667177.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113090217-20191113114217-00441.warc.gz | 0.954351 | 532 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__109370828 | en | WASHINGTON, D.C. — At its annual Pilot Assistance Forum, the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) recognized three members for their extraordinary service in leading pilot health and wellness programs for their pilot groups. ALPA awarded Delta Air Lines First Officer Thomas Thornton of McKinney with one of its most prestigious honors, the Pilot Assistance Award. Presidential Citations were presented to PSA Capt. Heather Ducimo and United Airlines Capt. Craig Korsgard for their outstanding contributions.
ALPA president Capt. Tim Canoll remarked that these three pilots help distinguish the union’s Pilot Assistance program as among the best in the industry. Pilot Assistance volunteers actively promote the airline piloting profession, unselfishly giving their time and energy to help their peers when they need help the most.
“True to ALPA’s Code of Ethics, First Officer Thornton conducts himself both on duty and off in such a way as to instill and merit the confidence and respect of his crew, his fellow employees, and his associates within the profession. We are pleased to recognize First Officer Thornton’s dedication to ensuring that pilots maintain a healthy career track with this year’s Pilot Assistance Award,” said Capt. Canoll.
Through his work on ALPA’s Professional Standards Committee, First Officer Thornton led the team that transformed the committees at Northwest and Delta Air Lines, resulting in vastly improved procedures when engaging with management. This in turn resulted in much better service for all Delta pilots.
In the Presidential Citations presentation, Capt. Canoll recognized Capt. Ducimo and Capt. Korsgard for their leadership, dedication, compassion, and integrity. “Capt. Ducimo’s tireless devotion to her fellow pilots has made PSA pilots stronger. Her efforts helped to reboot PSA’s Pilot Assistance Committee and ensured that no pilot ever felt alone when dealing with personal issues,” Canoll said.
“Combining resources after an airline merger is no easy task, but Capt. Korsgard was a crucial component in merging Pilot Assistance programs after the United/Continental merger. He has been instrumental in helping pilots access various resources available and, combined with his involvement in the Employee Assistance Program, has proven invaluable to many pilots and their families,” added Canoll.
Founded in 1931, ALPA is the world’s largest pilot union, representing more than 51,000 pilots at 30 airlines in the United States and Canada. Visit the ALPA website at alpa.org or follow us on Twitter @WeAreALPA. | aerospace |
https://www.somagnews.com/a-new-system-has-been-designed-that-can-destroy-dangerous-asteroids-approaching-earth-within-hours/ | 2022-07-03T11:45:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104240553.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703104037-20220703134037-00588.warc.gz | 0.960002 | 734 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__139852383 | en | A new system has been designed that can protect our planet from asteroids. With the new system, it was claimed that asteroids could be destroyed in just days or even hours depending on their size.
Asteroids have the potential to wipe out all life on Earth and even destroy the planet, just like the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Fortunately, however, technology and science have advanced a lot since the dinosaurs were wiped out millions of years ago.
We now have technologies that scan the sky to detect potentially dangerous asteroids for Earth. Of course, it’s not just about detecting asteroids: As those of you who watched the movie Don’t Look Up will remember, if we were to detect an asteroid on a collision course with our planet, we probably wouldn’t have enough time to respond to it. That’s why NASA is conducting research for a defense system that can destroy an asteroid that could destroy the Earth days or weeks before.
Existing asteroid-destroying systems remain ‘inadequate’
NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program has detected 28,000 celestial bodies so far; however, detecting these objects alone is not enough. If we are going to detect a huge asteroid heading towards our planet, we need systems to defend ourselves to get rid of it. NASA’s DART mission is working on exactly this right now. It aims to change the direction of the asteroid named Didymos B, which does not pose any threat to the Earth with its DART mission, for testing purposes.
However, there is a problem that for this method to work, we need to know about the existence of the asteroid months or even years ago. Considering that our discovery of asteroids is usually only after huge rocks get close to our planet, this means that the DART system is insufficient at some point.
Here, the new Terminal Defense method for Humanity named ‘Pi’ aims to eliminate this time problem. Designed by Philip Lubin, an engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara, the project, unlike DART, aims to “destroy” the asteroid rather than deflect it.
With the Pi system, it is aimed to destroy asteroids in a much shorter time.
Pi is based on the principle of firing a series of small sticks at the asteroid and breaking the asteroid into much smaller pieces that will burn harmlessly in Earth’s atmosphere. Depending on the size of the asteroid, these piercing rods could be sent in 10 x 10 arrays each with a mass of 100 kg (220 lb) or in 50 x 50 arrays of 40 kg (88 lb) each, launching several waves of missiles at an asteroid, and the system’s nuclear It is stated that it can be strengthened with weapons. On the other hand, Lubin notes that the Pi can be deployed to the Moon in order to reach the target quickly.
According to Lubin’s calculations, a 50-meter asteroid could be stopped only five hours before it hit the Earth; It is stated that the destruction of a 100-meter asteroid can be destroyed within 1 day. It is even claimed that it will take 10 days to destroy the 370-meter-long Apophis asteroid, which is expected to pass by the Earth in 2029 and that conspiracy theorists claim will bring the end of the world.
Of course, it should be noted that the Pi system is still just a concept. However, as NASA’s interest in the project increases, Pi may be of great importance for the defense of our planet in the future. | aerospace |
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blended wing body | aerospace |
https://www.floridaairtours.com/shopping.php?task=getlist&cat=5 | 2021-06-13T10:40:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487608702.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613100830-20210613130830-00572.warc.gz | 0.852062 | 744 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__161227077 | en | Florida Air Tours Gift Shop - Biplanes Gift Certificates
Give the gift of an exciting open-cockpit biplane tour.
Give a gift they will remember for a lifetime! Our open-cockpit biplane tours make an unforgettable gift to that special someone (or two!) Our gift certificates are sold on a “per flight” basis, so they may be redeemed for a tour with one or two passengers.
GIFT CERTIFICATES ARE VALID FOR A TOUR WITH ONE OR TWO PASSENGERS
THE BIPLANE CARRIES A MAXIMUM OF TWO PASSENGERS (PLUS PILOT)
SINGLE PASSENGERS HAVE THE OPTION OF ACTUALLY MANEUVERING THE CONTROLS AND FLYING THE AIRPLANE!
MAXIMUM COMBINED WEIGHT OF ALL PASSENGERS (NOT INCLUDING PILOT) OF 500LBS
GIFT CERTIFICATES EXPIRE AFTER 1-YEAR - NO EXCEPTIONS
NORMAL CANCELLATION POLICIES APPLY TO GIFT CERTIFICATE BOOKINGS
RECIPIENTS CAN OPT FOR A LONGER TOUR OR ADD UPGRADES AND THE VALUE OF THE CERTIFICATE WILL BE APPLIED
PLEASE NOTE: TOUR DURATION INCLUDES GROUND TAXI TIME – FLIGHT DURATION IS THE TIME ALOFT
The perfect gift for a quick introduction to open-cockpit flying! The pilot will demonstrate taxi, takeoff, and landing the way it was done in the “golden age” of aviation. This is our shortest tour, however once airborne you will get a birds-eye view of the local area.
Tour duration: 15 minutes (includes ground taxi time) Tour distance: 10 miles Flight duration: 6-9 minutes
This value-priced tour heads away from the airport area and takes in a few more local sights. It makes a great gift for those desiring a shorter time aloft while still being treated to an amazing open-cockpit adventure.
Tour duration: 20 minutes (includes ground taxi time) Tour distance: 20 miles Flight duration: 12 to 14 minutes
Our most popular tour is sure to amaze and impress! This enthralling gift of flight offers unsurpassed views of the local sights and provides enough time aloft to really soak up the open-cockpit experience.
Tour duration: 25-minutes (includes ground taxi time) Tour distance: 20-miles Flight duration: 17 to 20-minutes
For those looking for even more air time and more sights, this is the perfect gift! This tour offers over half-an-hour aloft and will be sure to satisfy everyone with a sense of adventure and love of flying. They will experience a true aerial adventure, just like it was in the golden age of aviation.
Tour duration: 40 minutes (includes ground taxi time) Tour distance: 50 miles Flight duration: 30 to 35 minutes
Give a gift of the ultimate flying experience. This tour encompasses the very best of all our tours in one magnificent flight. See the majestic and splendid landscape, ecosystems and wildlife of Central Florida! This is a "true wind-in-your hair" and "become one with the skies" adventure and is guaranteed to impress even the most "hard to satisfy" person. This tour flies over the St. Johns River, NASA Space Shuttle Runway low pass, Port Canaveral, and Beaches.
Tour duration: 1 hour (includes ground taxi time) Tour distance: 75 miles Flight duration: 45-50 minutes | aerospace |
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/a310/ | 2017-10-19T12:34:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823284.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019122155-20171019142155-00701.warc.gz | 0.941186 | 897 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__184593890 | en | 255 Airbus A310-300 twin-engine wide-bodied airliners have been built since 1983. The A310 is in service worldwide with airlines including Air India, Aeroflot, Air Calin, Cyprus Airways. Czech Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Air Afrique, Pakistan International Airlines and SATA. The aircraft is also in service with the Air Forces of Belgium, Germany and France and with the Defence Force of Canada.
Versions include the basic A310-200, the longer range A310-300 (introduced in 1985), a cargo version (over 100 have been converted) and the MRTT multi-role tanker transport, a military tanker version which has been ordered by the German Air Force (first delivery was in December 2003) and the Canadian Air Force (first delivery in October 2004).
Production of the A310 aircraft ceased in July 2007. 255 aircraft have been delivered. Five aircraft for Iraqi Airways remain on the Airbus order book but were never built.
Airbus Industrie is a consortium formed by EADS and BAE Systems. EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, was formed by a merger of Aerospatiale-Matra of France, Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace of Germany and CASA of Spain (former members of Airbus). In October 2006, BAE Systems completed the sale of its shareholding to EADS, which is now the sole owner of Airbus.
The aircraft has a shorter fuselage than the A300 aircraft but the same 5.64m fuselage diameter. The A310 is a 200 seater aircraft with low operating costs. The large fuselage diameter allows the aircraft to carry industry-standard LD3 cargo containers side by side underfloor.
The aircraft has an advanced digital flight deck built by EADS France (formerly Aerospatiale Matra) and accommodating the pilot and co-pilot. The flight deck displays include an aircraft monitoring system, flight guidance, navigation and engine, management and monitoring.
The flight deck also houses the Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS) and a flight data recorder. The aircraft's digital automatic flight control system contains a flight control computer, a thrust control computer and a duplicated augmentation computer. The flight control computer provides autopilot, flight director and speed reference functions.
The aircraft is of mainly high-strength aluminium alloy construction with some sections of carbon fibre- or glass fibre-reinforced plastic composites.
The wide-bodied cabin is very quiet and can accommodate six to nine abreast seating in a double-aisle layout. There are four passenger doors at the port and starboard side to the front and rear of the cabin. A typical two-class seating arrangement accommodates 220 passengers.
The cabin and flight deck are air conditioned using power from a ground unit, from engine compressed air or from the aircraft's auxiliary power unit.
The aircraft's safety features include system redundancy. The aircraft operates three fully independent hydraulic systems operating simultaneously with fully independent circuits and with fire-resistant hydraulic fluid. If any circuit were to fail then full flight control of the aircraft is retained.
The Honeywell 331-250 auxiliary power unit can be started and operated throughout the flight of the aircraft. Two electrical generators are engine driven and a third generator is driven by the auxiliary power unit. Each of the three generators has sufficient power capacity to operate all the aircraft's systems and equipment for sustained safe flight.
The aircraft is fitted with either two Pratt & Whitney PW4152 or General Electric CF6-80C2A2 engines. The engine pylons built by EADS France are compatible with all the engine options offered.
The A310-300 is the extended-range version of the A310 aircraft and has extra fuel capacity in the tailplane trim tank. The total fuel capacity is 61,070l. There are two refuelling points, one on the outer section undersurface of each wing.
The typical long-range cruise speed is Mach 0.80 and the range with the maximum number of passengers is 8,050km. New advanced technology wings with reduced span and area were developed for the A310 and the delta shaped vertical wingtip fences reduce aerodynamic drag and increase the aircraft's fuel efficiency.
The aircraft is fitted with hydraulically operated tricycle-type landing gear. With double wheels and Messier Bugatti anti-skid carbon brakes. | aerospace |
http://komonews.com/news/local/boeing-787-diverted-to-seattle-after-reported-mechanical-issue | 2016-05-28T10:13:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277592.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00109-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.975178 | 211 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__136316707 | en | The plane landed safely at Sea-Tac Airport just after 4 p.m.
A United Airlines spokesman said Flight 139 with 210 passengers on board was diverted after an indication of a problem with an oil filter and they are working to accommodate stranded passengers.
Flight tracking site FlightAware.com says the plane took off from Denver at 4:37 p.m. MDT and had made it to about the northern tip of Vancouver Island before turning around and heading for Seattle. A photo taken from inside the plane by Chris Seewald showed what he says was the airline dumping fuel over the Pacific Ocean in preparation for the landing into Seattle:
The incident comes on the same day that Boeing announced it was starting work on a stretched-out version of its 787 Dreamliner jet, in the hope of reigniting interest in the aircraft after battery-related problems.
Boeing announced the formal launch of its 787-10 program at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday and says it already has commitments from several customers, including United Airlines. | aerospace |
https://theferrarigroup.com/kickoff-of-the-prototype-assembly-phase-for-the-new-boeing-787-max/ | 2022-10-06T10:45:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337803.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006092601-20221006122601-00419.warc.gz | 0.957842 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__65535197 | en | Boeing’s web site indicates that the commercial aerospace producer has begun the prototype build of its first 737 MAX jetliner, a key milestone in upgrading the product family. The web site features an informative video indicating how the wing is assembled as well as this photo of the loaded 737 MAX wing skin panels and stringers within the new panel assembly line that uses automation to drill holes and install fasteners in the upper and lower wing panels.
The 737 model lineup is Boeing’s most important volume airliner in generating cash flow and profits and has been in continuous production since 1966. The 737 MAX was designed to incorporate the latest technology which includes CFM International LEAP-1B engines, advanced technology winglets and other improvements. The new single-aisle airplane is marketed as delivering 20 percent lower fuel use than the first Next-Generation 737s and the lowest operating costs in its class. To date, the 737 MAX has attracted 2,720 orders from 57 customers worldwide.
The GM of the 737 MAX program indicates that the wing assembly for the first test aircraft began production on May 29, as planned several years ago. The prototype aircraft is scheduled to undergo final assembly in September with its initial test flight planned in early 2016.
The announced launch customer is Southwest Airlines, which anticipates delivery in the third quarter of 2017. | aerospace |
https://www.wowessays.com/free-samples/good-essay-on-bird-flight/ | 2023-03-20T09:57:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943471.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230320083513-20230320113513-00658.warc.gz | 0.951006 | 1,878 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__155679529 | en | Comparison of flight mechanic propeller driven air planes and birds
Both birds and airplanes have a requirement that they must overcome the force of gravity in order to make flights. Due their weight difference, airplanes and birds differ in power requirement for flying. The power to bring balance between the lift and gravity, drag and thrust such that any flying object can fly comfortably varies as power the weight of these objects. Depending on the power capability of birds and airplanes there are limits for weight requirements for these objects. Airplanes require powerful engines to fly their heavy weight. Most commonly heavy airplanes use jet engines to fly the heavy jets. Birds utilize their hot metabolic blood nature to assist them in propelling their heavy bodies.
The mechanics of birds and airplanes to facilitate flying involves creation lift and thrust. To achieve flying in airplanes the wings provide lift while the propeller generates thrust. In birds, thrust and lift is achieved by flapping of wings. Continuous flapping of wings is use to change shape and deform elastically throughout the wing stroke. Bird’s wings provide dual action for flying as the flapping contributes to both overcoming drag and gravity. Gravity is counteracted by lift whereas drag is managed by thrust or propulsion. In airplanes, propellers are used to derive thrust. Rotating wings and jet engines are used to force air backwards. Jet engines achieve this by generating hot air whose expansion is used to push air backwards as explained by Bernoulli’s effect. It is thus clear that birds counteract both drag and gravity through a dual action of flapping wings whereas in airplanes the effects are achieved separately through propellers and jet engine. Lift is achieved through the movement of the wings of birds or those of the airplanes through the air rather than the air moving over the wings. The air that moves over the trailing end of the wings of birds and planes is directed downwards vertically. The downwards force of the air through the opposite and equal action forces produces the raising effect (lift) of the bird or the plane. The effect applies to both birds and planes.
A description of the forces and mechanisms that provide lift and propulsion in birds
The bird’s powered flight is important control of wing, tail feathers. This assists the birds to overcome gravity, and the air resistance as the birds moves its body upwards. Birds overcome the strong winds, light breezes and changes in the density pressure through the regular adjustments to maintain steady and level flight. Wings maintain the lift force mechanism is a mechanism that birds have to overcome the forces of gravity. Lift is a force that is produced by the action of flow on the wing. The lift force mechanism occurs because the air below the wings has lower pressure as compared above them. This makes birds to overcome the force of gravity and thus birds are now able to fly.
Another mechanism is the mechanism where birds obtain force, which propels them both vertically and forward. This possible because the force used to lift them is generated at an angle of ninety degrees to the flow of air. The wings are modified to in a cross-section, tapering from the leading age to trailing age. Flapping mechanism also, help birds to fly. As bird wings flap this creates a propulsion force which help birds fly as the propulsion force lift the birds. The birds through flapping of their wings dually generate the counteracting forces of both gravity and drag. The presence of ideal fluids which do not have viscosity, this fluid for example traps air making the movement difficult. Absence of the fluid makes the bird and thus able to fly easily.
Hovering is another mechanism which makes birds to fly. The birds that fly have high aspect ratio wings that are adapted to speed flying. Hovering generate lift through flapping of the wing by birds. The flapping mechanism demands less energy because the birds are able to use the force generated by air and thus bird can easily fly. Large birds which hover for long time fly into a headwind, allowing them to remain stationary in relationship to the ground.
The propulsion and thrust are two mechanisms which help birds overcome both drag and gravity forces. The drag is overcome by lift through flapping of wings while drag is overcome by propulsion or thrust. Thrust is generated by wings through flapping which propel the birds upward. When thrust and gravity are overcome the birds are able to fly.
Adaptation of birds to flight
Birds specially use their wings exquisitely to propel their body against the pulling back force known as gravity. As birds or airplanes move up, they face many different forces that include resistance from strongly moving winds as they go into higher attitudes, intensely light breezes that alter the density of the air requiring more force to overcome it. To ensure less energy usage by birds and minimal fuel is combustion by airplanes.
The wings of birds modified at the front in a sharp edged manner to ensure they cut through the dense air with lots of and less energy usage. The feathers have tips at the end and relatively light to give the birds ease of flipping for long distances. This helps the birds fly without quick exhaustion. The wings are very flexible in terms of opening and closing and are longer than the central body. This characteristic helps the bird to easily balance on air, turn on very sharp angles and stop abruptly in case of emergency. The same fact applies on airplanes too. Their streamlined body shapes allow air to pass above in high speeds, which reduces the force of gravity exerted on their bodies. This forms a lift making the force needed to overcome the resistance minimal.
As Bernoulli’s theorem states, a reduction in the cross-sectional area of a tube directly causes an increase in the fluids velocity and a decrease in the pressure they exact. The birds’ legs are modified in a manner that after take-off, they can easily fold inwards to reduce the amount of resistance by blocking the wind. Airplanes also have the same set up of which its landing tires fold out during landing to increase resistance against the air to help in ease of stopping.
Most of the birds have hollow, or their bones are strutted, or we can also refer them to be spongy bones. Most of this bones are pneumatic hence contain air sac which enable most of the birds to have little weight for easy flight and enable them float in the air.
Most of the bones in birds among them including the vertebrae are fused and this provide a rigid
Skeleton that is very important adaptation for flights of the birds.
As another way to reduce weight most of the birds have reduction in some bones. Unlike animals other in birds other bones are difficult to find in birds. These bones that birds lack include lack of teeth, and most of bird species especially the ones that fly do not have the tail bone.
Presences of feathers in all the bird species also help reduce the weight and enable birds to fly. Feathers in birds have more than the function of making the bird light .they also well adapted for insulation of the birds’ body, that is they protect the birds against heat loss and also for most of aerodynamics in birds. This includes the activity that enables the birds to fly in the air.
Other adaptation for flight includes the urogenital adaptations. Some of these adaptations include all the bird species do not have urinary and this makes them to excrete uric acid that enables the birds’ species to conserve water. All the species of birds lay egg. Most of the adult females persists only the left ovary and these help in weight reduction. The sexual Organ in both the sex of birds are enlarged and are only functional during the mating period after which there is always gonads regress. Most of the bird species have endothermic that is they always have very high body temperature that is between 40 to 43 degrees centigrade. Most of the body biochemical process are always very high at high temperature and hence there is rapid and to great extent sustainable production of power for flight.
In birds there digestion is fast and provide and very efficient and from this their body system acquire the power they require to fuel their metabolism. The birds have a very large and well developed breast muscle. Their power down stroke of their wings is more or about to 40% of their total weight of their body. They also have the keeled sternum that enables them to attach their high volume flight muscles. Their heart is chambered enable well circulatory system that nourishes the muscles with blood. They also have a well developed circulatory system that enables the birds to supplied oxygen to muscles.
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https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/07/nasas-next-50-years.html | 2022-09-25T21:46:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334596.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925193816-20220925223816-00184.warc.gz | 0.952957 | 386 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__98372365 | en | Robert Zubrin in The New Atlantis:
NASA deserves a lot of credit. A space agency funded by 4 percent of the world’s population, it is responsible for launching 100 percent of the rovers that have ever wheeled on Mars; all the probes that have visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto; nearly all the major space telescopes; and all the people who have ever walked on the Moon. But while its robotic planetary exploration and space astronomy programs continue to produce epic results, for nearly half a century its human spaceflight effort has been stuck in low Earth orbit.
The reason for this is simple: NASA’s space science programs accomplish a lot because they are mission-driven. In contrast, the human spaceflight program has allowed itself to become constituency-driven (or, to put it less charitably, vendor-driven). In consequence, the space science programs spend money in order to do things, while the human spaceflight program does things in order to spend money. Thus, the efforts of the science programs are focused and directed, while those of the human spaceflight program are purposeless and entropic.
This was not always so. During the Apollo period, NASA’s human spaceflight program was strongly mission-driven. We did not go to the Moon because there were three random constituency-backed programs to develop Saturn V boosters, command modules, and lunar excursion vehicles, which luckily happened to fit together, and which needed something to do to justify their funding. Rather, we had a clear goal — sending humans to the Moon within a decade — from which we derived a mission plan, which then dictated vehicle designs, which in turn defined necessary technology developments. That’s why the elements of the flight hardware set all fit together. But in the period since, with no clear mission, things have worked the other way. | aerospace |
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The Wall of Names, there are 40 panels, one for each passenger and crew member. on the top of the hill is the Visitors Center. The walkway is the actual flight of the plane and is lit up at night. The plane flew over the area of the Visitors Center and then over this area where the Wall of Name is and crashed in the field behind where I'm standing. | aerospace |
https://northkidolina.com/celebrate-apollo-11s-50th-anniversary/ | 2020-04-01T10:58:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370505730.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401100029-20200401130029-00089.warc.gz | 0.918543 | 1,935 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__127725938 | en | Half a century ago this month, the Apollo 11 astronauts took one “small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” July is filled with big and small celebrations and space-related events in honor of that historic occasion. Do you know of more? Let us know here.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Lab Open House
Museum of Natural History in Raleigh
Saturday, July 20, 2019, 12pm-4pm
Check out the Apollo landing sites on the Moon with new OpenSpace software and learn how you can use it to explore the Universe. The Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Lab will have interactive tours of lunar terrain where the samples were collected by Apollo astronauts
First Man in the Museum Park
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh
Saturday, July 20, 2019, 8:30pm (gates open at 7pm)
(2018) Directed by Damien Chazelle. Written by Josh Singer. 141 min. PG-13. Discover the truth behind the headlines in this biopic depicting the career of Neil Armstrong from Project Gemini to the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Armstrong suffered hardship and tragedy before his triumphant “giant leap for mankind” took him into legend.
One Giant Leap Festival
North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh
Saturday, July 20, 2019, 11am – 4pm
This indoor and outdoor celebration will feature hands-on crafts, demonstrations, and activities—including a virtual-reality lab where you can “travel” to space and be on the moon; and a bungee-jumping station where you, too, can experience weightlessness, like real astronauts.
Life and Science Museum in Durham
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 to Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Your mission—should you choose to accept it—explore Mercury and Apollo-era artifacts and Aerospace exhibit with a special scavenger hunt. Zoom around the moon on the Science on a Sphere exhibit and watch historic footage from Apollo 11. Visit this summer’s special temporary exhibits: Sun, Earth, Universe, a new exhibition from NASA and the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) and photographs taken by the astronauts who landed on the Moon.
Carolina Skies: Lunar Landing Edition
Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill
“Carolina Skies” takes Morehead visitors on a guided tour of the nighttime sky as it appears on the at very night above North Carolina. Visitors learn how to identify celestial objects visible to the naked eye and how to find the cardinal directions using celestial signposts. They learn about the legends and myths created by ancient cultures to explain the astronomical phenomena observed by those cultures. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Carolina Skies shows in Summer 2019 will additionally feature some highlights of the mission and how astronauts from the Apollo program were trained in celestial navigation right here at Morehead!
Moon Landing 50th Anniversary
Eno River State Park, Friday, July 19, 2019, 8pm
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with crafts related to the Apollo 11 mission and other night-sky-related crafts. The park will provide small snacks and drinks as well as star gazing maps if there is clear weather.
One Giant Leap: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11
West Point on the Eno, Saturday, July 26, 2019, 8:00pm-10:00pm RESCHEDULED FROM JULY 20
On July 20th, 1969 Neal Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. Join Durham Parks and Recreation 50 years later for an evening of fun and learning! Visit the Environmental Education Pavilion to meet with NASA ambassadors and other local experts to learn about what it took to get to the moon, and take in views of the night sky from the meadow! This event is free and open to all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Reading Space Book Club for Rising 5th to 8th Graders: I Love You, Michael Collins
Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill
NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador Tina Coyne-Smith will lead discussions of Lauren Baratz-Logsted’s historical fiction novel, I Love You, Michael Collins. The group will approach the book in four sessions with various themes. Kids may join for all sessions or individual ones. The themes for the discussion are:
Saturday, July 19 at 4pm: Apollo 11 and Michael Collins
Saturday, July 26 at 4pm: Friendship
Saturday, August 9 at 4pm: Solitude
Saturday, August 16 at 4pm: Roles of Women and Men
About I Love You, Michael Collins:
It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie’s class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. All the girls write to Neil Armstrong (“So cute!”) and all the boys write to Buzz Aldrin (“So cool!”). Only Mamie writes to Michael Collins, the astronaut who will come so close but never achieve everyone else’s dream of walking on the moon, because he is the one who must stay with the ship. After school ends, Mamie keeps writing to Michael Collins, taking comfort in telling someone about what’s going on with her family as, one by one, they leave the house thinking that someone else is taking care of her — until she is all alone except for her cat and her best friend, Buster. And as the date of the launch nears, Mamie can’t help but wonder: Does no one stay with the ship anymore? With I Love You, Michael Collins, Lauren Baratz-Logsted has created a heartwarming story about family and being true to yourself.
Chapel Hill Public Library
To The Moon Movie Series
- Monday, July 15 at 6pm – The Dish: The true story of a group of oddball scientists who man a satellite dish on a remote Australian sheep farm.that’s the world’s only hope for receiving the historic images of man’s first steps on the moon.
- Tuesday, July 16 at 6pm – Apollo 11: Never-before-seen footage and take you straight into the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission as astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins embark on a historic trip to the moon.
- Wednesday, July 17 at 6pm- First Man: Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in A visceral, first-person account, that explores the sacrifices and the cost on Armstrong and on the nation of one of the most dangerous missions in history.
- Thursday, July 18 at 6pm – For All Mankind: Composed of actual NASA footage of missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back in the 60s & 70s.
Space Explorers Book Club
Do you love to read about space? Learn more about the universe around us by checking out some of our favorite out-of-this-world reads and join us for a spacetastic activity! Pre-registration required.
July 11 at 3pm (rising grades 1-3) and 4pm (rising grades 4-6)
July 25 at 3pm (rising grades 1-3) and 4pm (rising grades 4-6)
August 8 at 3pm (rising grades 1-3) and 4pm (rising grades 4-6)
Finding Harry Potter in the Stars with NASA Space Ambassador Tina Coyne-Smith
Wednesday, July 31 at 2pm and 4pm
Did you know that almost two dozen Harry Potter characters bear names of stars? Join us to find out all about them! (There will be spoilers!) Space is limited, pre-register here! Recommended for ages 6+.
Bright Star Theatre: One Small Step: The Real-Life Journey to Outer Space
Thursday, August 1 at 2pm and 4pm
This tale marks the history of flight and space travel from the ancient tale of Icarus, to the first flights of the Wright Brothers on the beaches at Kitty Hawk, to the Great Space Race of the 1960s and beyond! Your young pilots and astronauts will be thrilled to learn about the real life characters that took One Small Step! Recommended for ages 4+.
Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough
Thursday, July 11 at 4pm
Explore our amazing solar system through observations and hands-on astronomy activities.
East Regional Library in Durham
Global Rocket Launch
Tuesday, July 16 at 4pm
Launching rockets to honor the Apollo 11 anniversary & celebrate Summer Reading! For all ages, outdoors. Please register.
Stanford L. Warren Branch Library in Durham
Walking on the Moon
Tuesday, July 23 at 1pm
What’s it like to travel in space? With the help of some volunteers, kids will learn what it’s like to explore space and the space technology used on earth today! For elementary schoolers.
Southwest Regional Library in Durham
Tuesday, July 23 at 3pm
Make a little moon that can fit in your pocket! For Ages 7+. Registration required.
Thursday, August 1 at 4pm
Make a little galaxy that can fit in your pocket! For Ages 7+. Registration required. | aerospace |
http://bhxflightguide.blogspot.com/2013/02/sunday-17-february-2013.html | 2018-06-20T13:15:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863519.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620124346-20180620144346-00587.warc.gz | 0.911116 | 104 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__60353224 | en | Air Transat Airbus A330-243 C-GTSN made a brief morning visit when it arrived
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Crop Copter got its start building purpose built UAV’s for the farm. We have continued that tradition with our Commercial UAV’s. Our commercial UAV offering are designed to be used on a daily basis with a high level of accuracy and repeatably in harsh environments. We utilize a combination of leading edge UAV technology, sensors and software to help our customers make timely decisions in the field. More than just data collectors, our commercial solutions are developed with the purpose of evolving precision agriculture into decision agriculture. | aerospace |
https://www.fnad.info/2021/04/rocket-report-spacex-to-build-huge-launch-tower-branson-sells-virgin-stock/ | 2021-05-07T19:36:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988802.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20210507181103-20210507211103-00581.warc.gz | 0.903958 | 497 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__148986607 | en | Welcome to Edition 3.41 of the Rocket Report! As always there is plenty of news in the world of launch, and this week we have several stories about heavy lift vehicles. Perhaps most interesting, SpaceX has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to press ahead with construction of a large tower for its Starship Launch System. As always, we welcome reader submissions , and if you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar. Blue Origin completes final step before crew mission . On Wednesday morning, in West Texas, Blue Origin flew its New Shepard-15 mission on a suborbital flight to test its vehicle for passengers. Two people even climbed into the vehicle before the launch to test the ingress procedures, but they exited before the launch took place. The mission was another success, with both the booster and capsule making a feathery landing. Time for humans … It’s widely expected that the company’s next flight will carry… Read full this story
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Rocket Report: SpaceX to build huge launch tower, Branson sells Virgin stock have 324 words, post on arstechnica.com at April 16, 2021. This is cached page on The World Articles. If you want remove this page, please contact us. | aerospace |
http://skydream.su/news/21-the-head-of-the-aircraft-corporation-mikhail-pogosyan-is-leaving-his-post.html | 2018-12-17T15:35:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376828507.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20181217135323-20181217161323-00380.warc.gz | 0.955333 | 1,242 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__233121119 | en | The head of the Aircraft Corporation Mikhail Pogosyan, is leaving his post
The head of the Aircraft Corporation Mikhail Pogosyan, is leaving his post. He will retain only place Designer General Corporation. The main reason for the resignation Pogosyan could be a claim to the Sukhoi Superjet 100 project, as well as the intention of the authorities to provide greater consolidation in the aviation industry, including with respect to the Aircraft Corporation and "Rostec."
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Yuri Slusar head the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) instead of Mikhail Pogosyan, who is still retain the position of General Designer of the corporation. "Given the fact that today the KLA is overloaded with new topics - both in combat aircraft, transport, military transport, a long-range aircraft, and civilian - decided to strengthen the division and position of CEO and chief designer", - explained Manturov (quoted by TASS).
Russia and China will create a wide-body aircraft That we should build the plane
Russia and China together will create a new wide-body aircraft. The guide Aircraft Corporation hope that the new ship will be able to compete with the US ... →
The first priority will be to develop Slusar civil aircraft and enhanced cooperation with aviation enterprises "Rostec."
The Board of Directors will consider the KLA early termination of office of the current general director Mikhail Pogosyan January 16. On the same day will be elected the new head of the company.
Rumors of a possible resignation Poghosyan went from December 2014, when a number of media, citing sources in the aviation industry spread information that the head of the
Aircraft Corporation has signed a letter of resignation on their own. But then the press service of the Aircraft Corporation denied this information.
"Care Boghossian may be associated with a lack of administrative support in government circles - said" Gazeta.ru "editor in chief of the branch of the agency" Airport "Oleg Panteleyev. - With regard to the results of the
Aircraft Corporation over the past year, they are quite positive: revenues grew aircraft were delivered to customers on time. "
Previously, January 12, the Aircraft Corporation has announced that in 2014 the KLA has shipped, including in the framework of state defense order, 124 warplanes and 37 civilian aircraft, increasing revenue from 220 billion to 285 billion rubles.
Reason for leaving Pogosyan to another position could become complaints about the Sukhoi Superjet 100 project, say two sources "Gazeta.ru" in the aviation industry and confirms a person close to the Aircraft Corporation.
Short-haul Sukhoi Superjet 100 is almost the only Russian project of civil aircraft, which have reached the stage of commercial exploitation. Initiated the construction of a new civil aircraft performed personally Poghosyan.
The plane passed all stages, from design to start commercial operation for 11 years. He started to be developed in 2000. By October 2008 SSJ100 held a series of factory tests and was submitted for certification Interstate Aviation Committee. Three years later, in April 2011, the first production Sukhoi SuperJet 100 was referred to the operation of the Armenian airline Armavia.
After the start of commercial operation of the
Aircraft Corporation leadership has stated that it will take another year or two, in order to "cure childhood diseases", but the completion of the aircraft took longer than planned.
Satisfactory individual experts and officials, and the share of foreign components in the finished plane. Many details of the ship, including the engine, developed and procured from foreign aircraft manufacturers. As a result, the share of imported parts in the assembly was over 60%.
The authorities are lobbying Russian-made aircraft
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Development of the aircraft from the ground up, and problems with his promotion to the international market affected the "health" of the manufacturer Superjet 100 - "Sukhoi Civil Aircraft", a subsidiary of UAC. In 2013, the government was forced to urgently seek ways to stabilize financial companies. As a result, the GSS received aid package from VEB under the conversion of the loan. In December 2014 the government issued state guarantees for the project SSJ-100 for $ 600 million, which will allow the GSS to draw a loan for that amount in the Savings Bank.
«C Pogosyan departure from the post of head of the corporation in the aircraft manufacturing industry is likely to consolidate large, - says Oleg Panteleev. - UAC is closer to "Rostec" headed by Sergei Chemezov. Prior to this structure, the two are actually competing with each other. Possible increase in the number of components in the Russian aircraft UAC, although fundamental changes in terms of the product line is not going to happen. "
"This consolidation is to some extent logical, given that the aviation industry depends on the budget and create competition there is inappropriate, but guarantees the use of funds and lack of competition does not. Slyusarev, is likely to be the conductor of the program of the aviation industry in the Aircraft Corporation. "
The new head of the Aircraft Corporation Yuri Slusar has experience in the aviation industry. Prior to 2003, Slyusar worked in private companies, from 2003 to 2007, he was Commercial Director aircraft manufacturer of "Rosvertolet" part of the holding "Russian Helicopters". From 2005 to 2009 he worked in the committee Helicopter Programs engineering group "Oboronprom". In 2009 Slyusar moved to the Ministry of Industry. Since May 2012, he served as Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Among its tasks is to coordinate and control of the Department of Aviation and electronic industry, the formation and implementation of public policies in these areas. Slyusar also oversaw the development, production and testing of aircraft and the creation of new aviation technology. | aerospace |
https://www.finsmes.com/2017/09/lilium-raises-90m-in-series-b-funding.html | 2023-06-03T18:11:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649302.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603165228-20230603195228-00034.warc.gz | 0.939583 | 315 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__156850360 | en | Lilium, a Munich, Germany-based developer of a five-seat electric jet, raised $90M in Series B funding.
– LGT, an international private banking and asset management group;
– Atomico; and
– Obvious Ventures.
The company, which has raised more than $100m in total funding, intends to use the funds for the development of the five-seat Lilium Jet that will fly commercially, as well as to grow the current team of more than 70.
Led by Daniel Wiegand, co-founder and CEO, Lilium is developing the Lilium Jet, a Low Noise, High Speed, Emission Free five seat jet, which will be able to travel at up to 300 km per hour for one hour on a single charge. The Lilium Jet consists of a rigid winged body with 12 flaps. Each one carries three electric jet engines. Depending on the flight mode, the flaps tilt from a vertical into a horizontal position. At take-off, all flaps are tilted vertical, so that the engines can lift the aircraft. Once airborne, the flaps gradually tilt into a horizontal position, leading the aircraft to accelerate. When they have reached complete horizontal position, all lift necessary to stay aloft is provided by the wings as on a conventional airplane.
In April, a full size prototype successfully performed its most complicated manoeuvre – transitioning between hover mode and horizontal flight. | aerospace |
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Grob G-115B HB-UGA
Photo of the Grob G-115B flight trainer aircraft, here seen at an airfield in Switzerland. It is a basic trainer and was taken into production in 1999. Amongst its primary users is the RAF.
For more details and another photo of the Grob G-115, see picture #819
Photo by Keith Philpott, text by Marcel Gommers
Picture added on 09 February 2009 | aerospace |
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FPP017 - Desert Storm MiG Kill
We've all heard 'war is hell.' But this week on the Fighter Pilot Podcast, we hear it from a new perspective: that of a young pilot, new to the fleet and the F/A-18, who finds himself fighting far from home in the fog of war, on the heels of the death of a beloved squadron mate.
Climb aboard as retired US Navy Captain Nick "Mongo" Mongillo tells the riveting story of his downing an Iraqi MiG-21 on day one of Desert Storm. Live the experience as you hear the actual in-flight audio, then dissect it to learn what each call meant then, and how times have changed now.
|Jun 11, 2018|
FPP016a Bonus Episode - FB Live Listener Question Replay
A replay of the June 5 Facebook Live listener question session with episode 5 guest Fitz "Dud" Lee.
|Jun 06, 2018|
FPP016 - The Airboss
On this episode, retired US Navy Vice Admiral Mike "Shoe" Shoemaker, whose last tour on active duty was Commander, Naval Air Forces, joins us to discuss the current state and future of naval aviation. We touch on several high-level strategic issues and spend several minutes answering listener questions.
Opening and closing bumper music provided by Jaime Lopez (www.rantam.com)
|Jun 01, 2018|
FPP015 - Night Carrier Landings
On this episode, US Navy lieutenant commander and former landing signal officer Tra Calisch joins us to wrap up our 5-part mini-series on aircraft carrier operations with a discussion on what is universally agreed upon to be the single most difficult feat of aviation: landing a high performance jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier at night. We also discuss marshaling and arrival procedures and what happens when the ship starts pitching up and down in rough seas (hint: it isn't fun).
In the listener question segment I explain what survival gear is in an F/A-18's ejection seat pan, why aircraft fuel levels are measured by weight instead of volume, and what was my favorite aerial tanker to refuel from--among other topics.
Check out our YouTube playlist for a few examples on night carrier landings.
|May 21, 2018|
FPP014 - Day Carrier Landings (part 2)
Meatball – lineup – angle of attack.
Nothing matters more to a fixed-wing naval pilot during the final 17 seconds of a landing on an aircraft carrier than those three parameters. But what is a “meatball”? Why is lineup so important and why does it require continuous corrections to maintain? What happens if the landing aircraft’s angle of attack is too far off one way or the other?
This week, US Navy Commander Jack “Farva” Curtis returns to answer these questions, and much more, while wrapping up our discussion on daytime carrier landings begun in episode 13 (and in fact, if you have not listened to that episode you will certainly want to do so prior to consuming this one).
Next week, we will wrap up our carrier operations mini-series with what even astronauts say is the hardest thing they have ever done: night landings.
|May 11, 2018|
FPP013 - Day Carrier Landings (part 1)
Landing a high-performance jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier is arguably the most difficult and challenging task any pilot will ever face, and it is what distinguishes US Naval aviators from all other military aircrew. In what effectively amounts to a “controlled crash” onto the flight deck, a 44,000-pound aircraft traveling 140 mph engages a 1.5-inch steel cable and is brought to a halt in less than 200 feet. The feat requires the combined efforts of hundreds of sailors above and below decks, and the assistance of fellow pilots to ensure the pilot landing does so safely.
The fact that they do—hundreds of times a day somewhere around the world—is a testament to their skill and professionalism.
On this episode, US Navy Commander Jack “Farva” Curtis, EA-18G pilot and former air wing landing signal officer, joins us to begin a discussion on the procedures and equipment involved in daytime carrier landings. We discuss the “Case 1 stack” and aircraft arrival procedures, as well as the arresting gear cables and equipment involved in bringing an aircraft to a (relatively) uneventful stop. Check out our YouTube playlist for a compilation of videos showing some of the people and equipment involved.
The listener question segment this week is a replay of a recent Facebook Live session with episode 1 guest Brian “Sunshine” Sinclair, who returns to help explain what a ‘VX’ squadron is, why the US Air Force is dealing with pilot shortages, and whether “compartmentalization” is a trained skill.
|May 01, 2018|
FPP012 - Aircraft Carriers (part 2)
This week we continue where we left off the previous episode with US Navy Captain Eric Anduze: discussing what the various flight deck jersey colors mean and then how a catapult launch works--including the hardware that makes it possible and what happens in an emergency.
If you missed Aircraft Carriers part 1, definitely go back and listen to episode 11 before listening to part 2. Next week we will talk about daytime landings on these massive floating cities. Stay tuned!
|Apr 21, 2018|
FPP011 - Aircraft Carriers (part 1)
The nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier: the largest, most lethal warship to ever sail the high seas. And the U.S. has eleven of them, each equipped with a myriad of combat aircraft--together they can cover 2/3 of the earth's surface and strike most of the remaining third, all in the name of enforcing freedom of navigation on the world's seas and implementing America's resolve anywhere it is needed.
This week, on the first installment of a multi-part series exploring aircraft carriers and air operations on them, former USS Carl Vinson 'Big XO' Captain Eric, "Pappy" Anduze, US Navy, joins us to explain just how big these carriers are, how fast they go, and how operations safely take place in the hangar bay and on the flight deck.
In the announcements section we touch briefly on the recent spate of fatal mishaps in the U.S. and introduce our new Patreon page, which offers exclusive content to this show's cherished supporters (and a big shout out to Mikko Veijalainen and Bill Horvath for leading the charge!). During the Q&A segment we discuss whether a passion for aviation is required to be a fighter pilot, the different visors aircrew wear, more callsign questions, and how aircrew (male, specifically) "take care of business" in flight.
Stay tuned for more on aircraft carriers over the next several episodes!
|Apr 11, 2018|
Intermission - FB Live Q&A Highlights
We've been at it pretty steadily since launching on January 1st and the kids have been on spring break this past week--so we're taking a little pause from our normal programming routine. However, we didn't want to go completely dark so here are highlights from the two Facebook Live sessions that took place earlier this month. If you already caught those then there's nothing new here, although they are lightly edited for content and relevance.
|Apr 01, 2018|
FPP010 - Maintenance
When we observe military aircraft in flight--be it at an airshow or during the flyover of a sporting event--most of us, most of the time, think nothing of the immense behind-the-scenes costs and effort required to make and keep those aircraft flying. From normal servicing and upkeep to the repair or replacement of major aircraft components, the required resources can often reach dozens of man-hours and tens of thousands of dollars per flight hour, especially as technologically-advanced military aircraft age.
Here to help us understand these costs, on this episode, is Major Dave "Chucky" Chown of the Royal Canadian Air Force. As our first non-US guest, Dave spends a few minutes sharing details on the RCAF and some of its missions before diving into a thorough discussion on aircraft maintenance, with the F/A-18 Hornet as the main reference. Prepare to be amazed at the resources you never knew were required, and forever change the way you observe military aircraft in flight.
|Mar 21, 2018|
FPP009 - Vietnam Ace
On May 10, 1972, US Navy lieutenants Randy "Duke" Cunningham and Bill "Willy D" Driscoll launched from the aircraft carrier Constellation in an F-4 Phantom, callsign Showtime 100, on what should have been a "routine" flak suppression mission over North Vietnam. Instead, the strike force was jumped by dozens of enemy fighters and in the ensuing melee Duke and Willy D downed their third, fourth, and fifth MiGs, becoming the Navy's only aces of the conflict. But the eventful missions was far from over as Showtime 100 never made it back to the "Connie...."
Hear the rest of Willy D's captivating story along with the lifelong lessons he drew from both his combat experiences and subsequent interviews with dozens of other air combat aces around the world. Then find out how he turned those lessons into riveting talks and presentations to improve the performance of a variety of audiences from TOPGUN classes to Fortune 500 executives.
|Mar 11, 2018|
FPP008 - Aircraft Nomenclature
Ever notice that a B-52 Stratofortress is a bomber, an F-14 Tomcat is a fighter, and a T-45 Goshawk is a trainer? What a coincidence!
...well, not really. And it's also no coincidence either that we call the Chinese J-8 fighter and Russian Tu-160 bomber the FINBACK and BLACKJACK, respectively.
On this episode, retired US Navy lieutenant commander Josh Larson helps explain the alphanumeric naming conventions used to describe US, European, Russian, and Chinese warplanes. Be sure to stick around until the very end of the episode, after the flyby, to learn the designation of the airplane we all know as Air Force 1.
In the announcements we mention the Wings Over South Texas airshow featuring the US Navy Blue Angels at NAS Kingsville, March 24-25, 2018. During the Q&A segment, listener Wolfgang from Germany asks whether anyone has ever stolen a military jet for a short trip. Click here to read about the time a young US Marine decided to take an A-4 Skyhawk out for a joyride--at night!
|Mar 01, 2018|
FPP007 - TOPGUN vs Top Gun
TOPGUN – aka the US Navy Fighter Weapons School. An institution that develops and provides graduate-level strike-fighter tactics.
Top Gun – A 1986 American romantic military action drama motion picture starring Tom Cruise.
Although they may sound the same and the latter is loosely based on the former, the fact is TOPGUN the school and Top Gun the movie otherwise have very little in common. But that's okay--a movie based too closely on how things really are would be mind-numbingly boring!
On this episode, US Navy Commander Andy Mariner, the TOPGUN commanding officer, joins us to describe how the school came to be, how it operates today, and what it's like there for both students and instructors.
|Feb 21, 2018|
FPP006 - Pulling Gs
On this episode, US Navy aerospace operational physiologist Commander Susan Jay explains how flying high-performance jet aircraft takes a toll on the human body.
We discuss pulling Gs, air sickness, decompression sickness, trapped gas, and spatial disorientation.
Check out the FPP006 - Pulling Gs playlist on our YouTube channel for footage of pilots struggling to control G forces in a centrifuge.
|Feb 11, 2018|
FPP005 - Aerial Refueling
In this episode, retired US Navy Captain Fitz "Dud" Lee explains how and why military aircraft refuel in flight, and which aircraft are capable of doing so.
Why also share a few "sea stories" of how managing aerial tankers is vital to aircraft carrier flight operations.
|Feb 01, 2018|
FPP004 - Ejection Seats
In this episode we take an in-depth look at ejection seats: a brief history, how they work, how aircrew inspect them before flight, and why--in multi-place aircraft--it is important to have the 'Eject Select' switch in the proper position.
Our guest wraps the discussion with a riveting description of the time an ejection seat saved his life from a doomed F-14 Tomcat.
|Jan 21, 2018|
FPP003 - Flight Clothing and Equipment
In this episode, US Navy Lieutenant Commander Aaron "Vern" Vernallis explains the flight clothing and equipment F/A-18 aircrews wear in flight. We go inside-out, bottom-to-top, discussing flight suits, boots, g-suits, torso harnesses, survival vests, helmets, and more.
Hard to visualize on a radio show? Yup. Check out our 5-minute YouTube video where Vern demonstrates donning the gear we discuss on the show.
|Jan 10, 2018|
FPP002 - Callsigns
On this episode, US Navy Captain Brian “Ferg” Fergusson and I talk callsigns–those whimsical, often juvenile nicknames many military aviators go by instead of their real names when flying and on the ground.
Only in the movies do fighter pilots end up with cool callsigns like “Viper”, “Iceman”, or “Maverick”. In the real world, callsigns are generally plays on names (e.g. “Notso” Sharp), reflective of a pilot’s physical resemblance to some well-known character (“Shrek” Olsen), or the result of a mistake the pilot made at some point in his or her career (“Skids” Pennington). Callsigns are at times derogatory, and frequently not politically correct, but they are almost always funny.
Ferg and I discuss how callsigns are assigned, whether they ever change, and why it’s actually a good thing when a new fighter pilot despises a newly-assigned callsign.
|Jan 04, 2018|
FPP001 - What is a 'Fighter Pilot'?
In this inaugural episode of The Fighter Pilot Podcast, US Navy Commander Brian “Sunshine” Sinclair and I sit down to answer the question, what is a ‘fighter pilot’? We discuss what a fighter pilot is, some characteristics typical of most fighter pilots, and the various paths to become one.
We also debunk cliché Hollywood stereotypes while discussing what a fighter pilot is not.
Towards the end of the show we discuss a few of the jets used in civilian organizations, including the F-21 Kfir and Hawker Hunter flown by ATAC, and the Super Tucano. Click on each to learn a bit more.
|Jan 03, 2018|
FPP000 - Introduction
Welcome to The Fighter Pilot Podcast!
In this short initial episode, I introduce myself and explain how and why this show came about. I also describe a few features of the show—expected frequency, length, episode structure, and more.
Much of this information can also be found on the website’s About page.
|Jan 02, 2018| | aerospace |
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Researchers attached to DARTeC are currently operating with marketplace on projects to reimagine what airports and airways seem like put up-Covid-19, and driving forward innovations in digital airspace and airport infrastructure that will aid the British isles get to its concentrate on of web zero carbon emissions.
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https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-xs/news/busch-ashton-lewis-jr-visits-nasa-space-center/ | 2017-09-25T08:59:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818690376.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170925074036-20170925094036-00105.warc.gz | 0.974931 | 665 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__155729507 | en | Lewis, Jr. Flying High After Visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center Homestead, FL (November 13, 2003) -- NASCAR Busch Series driver, Ashton Lewis, Jr., got a behind-the-scenes look at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL on ...
Lewis, Jr. Flying High After Visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Homestead, FL (November 13, 2003) -- NASCAR Busch Series driver, Ashton Lewis, Jr., got a behind-the-scenes look at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL on Wednesday, a visit which allowed the driver an overall view of the inner workings of NASA's space shuttle program.
The daylong tour began with the opportunity to actually sit behind the controls inside the space shuttle Atlantis' cockpit. Prior to entering the highly sensitive area, Lewis, Jr. was required to take an air shower and dress in a blue "bunny suit" to protect the area from any foreign debris. Once inside, Lewis, Jr. was shown the flight controls and how they are used during a launch.
"Of course this was my favorite part of the day," said Lewis, Jr. "It was just amazing. They showed me how all of the controls worked and demonstrated step-by-step how they are used during launch. I consider myself to be very knowledgeable from an engineering standpoint, but actually seeing all of the technology that NASA has at their disposal - I was completely awestruck."
Next, Lewis, Jr. was taken to the building where NASA houses the engines for the space shuttle program. As soon as he walked inside the building Lewis, Jr. received quite a surprise when he discovered that his guide was a former classmate from Old Dominion University. A technology buff, Lewis, Jr. had a lot of questions regarding the $46 million engines and how they work to get the space shuttle off the ground and into space.
"Each week, our engines produce somewhere around 650 horsepower on average," said Lewis, Jr. "The engines on the space shuttle produce about 800,000 horsepower for the six-minute flight into space. That amount of power and how it must feel to be in a machine under that amount of power, is hard for me to comprehend."
The next stop on the tour was to visit the NASA Crawler, a 17-million pound vehicle and launch platform that delivers the spacecraft to the shuttle pad. Then it was on to the launch pad where Lewis, Jr. was taken along the same route as the astronauts when boarding the shuttle.
"What surprised me most was the overall size of this operation," said Lewis, Jr. "From the size of the equipment to the parts used to the number of people it takes to make this program a success. It really is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen and experienced.
I am so grateful to NASA for their hospitality," added Lewis, Jr. "This was the experience of a lifetime for me. I have always been fascinated by NASA and what they have been able to accomplish. Being able to see how the space shuttle program operates and the amount of technology and hard work that goes behind it just leaves me that much more awed and appreciative for what the men and women at NASA do every day." | aerospace |
https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/dassault-announces-2018-falcon-regional-mo-seminar-schedule/ | 2022-07-07T00:40:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104683020.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707002618-20220707032618-00585.warc.gz | 0.913998 | 463 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__99592853 | en | February 9, 2018 (Saint-Cloud, France). Dassault’s 2018 Falcon Maintenance & Operations (M&O) Seminars will kick off April 4 simultaneously in Paris, France and Denver, Colorado.
The seminars will travel to eight cities across North and South America, Europe and Asia and will conclude in Chicago, Illinois, on May 17.
Last year, Dassault welcomed more than 1,700 attendees to the worldwide M&O seminar series, where Falcon customers had multiple opportunities to hear from company and partner specialists, explore a wide range of technical and flight ops topics and interact with top aviation industry vendors.
“Each spring, M&Os around the world provide us with crucial insights that allow us to continuously improve the Falcon customer experience,” said Jacques Chauvet, SVP, Worldwide Customer Service. “Meeting our customers face to face and exchanging ideas and information at these seminars is immensely valuable for our customers, our partners and our company.”
As in previous editions, this year’s M&O Series will provide in-depth information on Dassault’s latest products and services, including new performance software and app solutions, as well as the popular Falcon Response portfolio of AOG support services.
Model-specific and general technical sessions will be interactive, covering topics ranging from troubleshooting to reliability improvements and STC updates. Dedicated pilot sessions led by the Falcon Pilot Support Team will keep flight crews abreast of the latest developments in flight operations.
With over 1,200 customers in 90 countries operating more than 2,100 Falcon aircraft of many different types, customer needs vary widely. Great lengths are taken to ensure that seminar content is relevant to each Falcon operator. Every year the company solicits feedback from its Operator Advisory Board and surveys operators around the world for suggestions on topics they would like to see addressed.
2018 Falcon M&O Seminar Dates and Locations:
• April 4-5: Paris, France
• April 4: Denver, Colorado
• April 17: West Palm Beach, Florida
• April 18: Shanghai, China
• April 26: Dallas, Texas
• May 9: Sao Paulo, Brazil
• May 15: Mahwah, New Jersey
• May 17: Chicago, Illinois | aerospace |
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2018/07/10/spaceil-announces-plan-launch-lunar-lander-december/ | 2021-01-22T13:32:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703529331.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210122113332-20210122143332-00704.warc.gz | 0.942903 | 212 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__96836908 | en | SpaceIL, a former team in the defunct-but-resurrected-without-a-sponsor-or-any-prize-money Google Lunar X Prize, has announced plans to launch a landing vehicle to the moon in December with a landing date of Feb. 13, 2019.
The Times of Israel reports the team is working with state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and that the Israeli government will be paying for 10 percent of the mission cost.
SpaceIL plans to launch the spacecraft as a secondary payload aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster. After it lands, the 600-kg (1,323 lb.) vehicle will unfurl an Israeli flag, photograph its surroundings and measure the moon’s magnetic field. The surface mission will be completed in two days.
The lander will not be carrying a rover capable of traveling 500 meters across the surface. This was one of the requirements of the decade-long Google Lunar X Prize, which ended in March without no one claiming the $10 million first prize. | aerospace |
https://www.techstorm.tv/read-this-before-you-fly-a-drone/ | 2020-08-08T08:48:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737319.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808080642-20200808110642-00318.warc.gz | 0.919661 | 781 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__55517231 | en | New drone laws are being enforced in Singapore and here is
what you need to know
No longer exclusive to the military, drones
are now flown by hobbyists and film makers alike. With the drone community
growing in all parts of the globe, so have the number of mishaps, pranks and
Take for an example, in January a drone
which landed on the lawn of one of the most protected areas in the world, the
White House in America. Another example a little closer to Asia, would be that
a drone landed on the roof of Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office carrying
chemicals in April this year. Although the chemicals it carried were not potentially
hazardous, it only goes to show that drones of any size can be a potential
In keeping up with the growing number of
drone operators and the increase of pranks and security infringements taking
place internationally, a Bill has been passed in Singapore to enforce
restrictive laws on drones – effective 1st June 2015.
Here’s the essential four rules to live by
to steer clear of drone-trouble.
Altitude and Weight Restrictions
Generally the news affect more commercial
drones rather than hobbyist. For drone hobbyist, this might not be affecting
you as much as those who utilise drones commercially. The new law states that
in order to fly a drone higher than 61m above mean sea level and commercial
purposes require a permit granted from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
Aside from just restricting the altitude,
operators need a permit if they are flying a drone that weighs more than 7kg.
This will most likely only apply to those flying the drone for commercial
purposes as most have cameras or additional gadgets attached – whereas drones
flown by hobbyist do not.
No Fly Zones
The Singapore government will release a detailed
list of restricted areas that a drone is not allowed to fly without a permit –
these locations would include airports, army camps and Istana (official
residence of the President of the Republic of Singapore). A detailed list is
expected to be published closer to the date of the law being enforced. In
addition, as there is a possibility of drones losing its signal when in flight
due to interference from other signals, drones are banned within a 5km radius
from any aerodromes in Singapore.
Flying a Drone for a Special Event
As with all the other new rulings, a permit
needs to be obtained from the CAAS. This includes those flying a drone equipped
with a camera for an outdoor wedding photo shoot or for any personal
You Break It, You Pay It
The laws will be effective in Singapore
st June 2015 onwards. Penalties for breaching any of the
regulations carry a maximum fine of S$20 000, a jail time of one year or both.
However, stiffer penalties will be enforced if a drone is found to carry
dangerous items like weapons or chemicals – this would then carry a fine of up
to S$100 000 and a jail term of up to five years.
In general, most laws will not apply to
hobbyists but more for those who are either extreme drone hobbyists or those
who utilise drones for commercial purposes. These bigger drones pose a safety
threat when they lose their signal and make a crash landing. Just remember
these simple four pointers when thinking about purchasing a drone or flying one
in Singapore to remain clear of drone-trouble!
By Geralyne Kaye Ong / May 19, 2015 4:30PM
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http://imagespaceinc.com/rogsys/p/2015/06/ | 2017-11-23T20:40:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806939.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123195711-20171123215711-00429.warc.gz | 0.908314 | 438 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__41166454 | en | Lee Hutchinson writes an interesting piece: I’ve spent the past four nights sitting in the darkened cockpit of a fictional but mostly plausible spaceship. For an hour or two at a time, I busily turn knobs, flip switches, and watch gauges. Every once in a great while, I’ll very slowly fly a few hundred meters […]
PC Gamer were kind enough to give RogSys an early look; and while they had nice things to say they were careful not to over-hype its current state. In the proud tradition of realism-obsessed flight simulators, Rogue System models individual components and their parent systems, right down to coolant pumps and electrical breakers. Unlike high-fidelity […]
Ann Arbor, MI (Jun 12, 2015) – Image Space Incorporated (ISI) and Digits Crossed Interactive (DCI) today announced that hardcore space simulation ‘Rogue System’ is now available to the public, adding a uniquely study-sim-like challenger to the recently resurgent space game genre. Rogue System offers true orbital mechanics using proper Newtonian physics, with excruciatingly detailed […]
Rogue System now available on Early Access!
Concept art and early info for the “Flying Fox” space ship…
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https://roselawgroupreporter.com/2022/04/casa-grande-airport-traffic-on-the-rise/ | 2022-07-02T05:13:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103984681.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702040603-20220702070603-00250.warc.gz | 0.953596 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__91911791 | en | By Jodie Newell | Pinal Central
CASA GRANDE — If you ask Casa Grande Municipal Airport Manager David Reffner about the current volume of air traffic, he’ll tell you it’s as “busy as a beehive.”
Reffner told PinalCentral the current usage of the airport is on the uptake with a variety of aircraft and aviation-related activities using the facility. Demand for aircraft hangar space is at a premium with around 40 people signed up on a waiting list.
“We’re a very busy little airport for being a general aviation airport,” he said. “A lot of it stems from the instrument landing system that we have in place. It’s a very attractive facility for flight schools to come and practice instrument training here.” | aerospace |
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20020221/NEWS02/20004634/ual-to-bring-back-1-200-attendants | 2019-09-17T16:31:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573098.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190917161045-20190917183045-00003.warc.gz | 0.886375 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__41630542 | en | UAL Corp.'s United Airlines will recall 1,200 laid-off flight attendants to deal with an April flight schedule that adds 127 flights, the company said Thursday.
UAL to bring back 1,200 attendants
With the announcement, Elk Grove Township-based United has hired back 2,000 of the 2,700 flight attendants it let go last fall after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The 1,200 flight attendants will return to duty on April 1.
Most of the flight attendants (435) will be based in Chicago.
Last fall, about 5,700 flight attendants left United Airlines through voluntary resignations and layoffs. The company now has about 21,000 flight attendants on staff. | aerospace |
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The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers. Since December 1968, the KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC.Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The management of the two entities work very closely together, share resources, and even own facilities on each other's property.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-man crews during that time, and major operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory, Earth observation, and hundreds of experiments.
Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built for the Apollo program and later modified for the Space Shuttle program.
Though the first Apollo flights and all Project Mercury and Project Gemini flights took off from CCAFS, the launches were managed by KSC and its previous organization, the Launch Operations Directorate.Starting with the fourth Gemini mission, the NASA launch control center in Florida (Mercury Control Center, later the Launch Control Center) began handing off control of the vehicle to the Mission Control Center in Houston, shortly after liftoff; in prior missions it held control throughout the entire mission.
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights, and six successful flights by astronauts. The program, which took its name from Roman mythology, cost $2.2 billion adjusted for inflation. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot.
Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program. Conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, Gemini started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten Gemini crews flew low Earth orbit (LEO) missions during 1965 and 1966, putting the United States in the lead during the Cold War Space Race against the Soviet Union.
The Mercury Control Center provided control and coordination of all activities associated with the NASA's Project Mercury flight operation as well as the first Project Gemini flight, Gemini 3. It was located on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station near Launch Complex 14.
Additionally, the center manages launch of robotic and commercial crew missions and researches food production and In-Situ Resource Utilization for off-Earth exploration.Since 2010, the center has worked to become a multi-user spaceport through industry partnerships, even adding a new launch pad (LC-39C) in 2015.
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy to seaport for ships or airport for aircraft. The word spaceport, and even more so cosmodrome, has traditionally been used for sites capable of launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth or on interplanetary trajectories. However, rocket launch sites for purely sub-orbital flights are sometimes called spaceports, as in recent years new and proposed sites for suborbital human flights have been frequently referred to or named 'spaceports'. Space stations and proposed future bases on the moon are sometimes called spaceports, in particular if intended as a base for further journeys.
There are about 700 facilities and buildings grouped across the center's 144,000 acres (580 km2). Among the unique facilities at KSC are the 525-foot (160 m) tall Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking NASA's largest rockets, the Launch Control Center, which conducts space launches at KSC, the Operations and Checkout Building, which houses the astronauts dormitories and suit-up area, a Space Station factory, and a 3-mile (4.8 km) long Shuttle Landing Facility. There is also a Visitor Complex open to the public on site.
The VehicleAssembly Building, or VAB, is the large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), designed to assemble the large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V and the Space Shuttle; and stack them vertically onto the Mobile Launch Platform and crawler transporter. The future Space Launch System (SLS) will also be assembled there.
The Launch Control Center (LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. The LCC handles all American space flights with human crews. Attached to the southeast corner of the Vehicle Assembly Building, the LCC contains offices; telemetry, tracking, and instrumentation equipment; the automated Launch Processing System; and four firing rooms.
The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building is a historic building on Merritt Island, Florida, United States. The five-story structure is in the Industrial Area of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Its facilities include the crew quarter dormitories for astronauts, and suit-up preparations prior to their flights. The other facility is a large spacecraft workshop used for manufacturing and checking activities on crewed spacecraft. On January 21, 2000, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The military had been performing launch operations since 1949 at what would become Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. In December 1959, the Department of Defense transferred 5,000 personnel and the Missile Firing Laboratory to NASA to become the Launch Operations Directorate under NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing.
The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DoD is the largest employer in the world, with nearly 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2016. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and Reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Huntsville, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program. Marshall has been the lead center for the Space Shuttle main propulsion and external tank; payloads and related crew training; International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; computers, networks, and information management; and the Space Launch System (SLS). Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, MSFC is named in honor of Army General George Marshall.
President John F. Kennedy's 1961 goal of a crewed lunar landing by 1970 required an expansion of launch operations. On July 1, 1962, the Launch Operations Directorate was separated from MSFC to become the Launch Operations Center (LOC). Also, Cape Canaveral was inadequate to host the new launch facility design required for the mammoth 363-foot (111 m) tall, 7,500,000-pound-force (33,000 kN) thrust Saturn V rocket, which would be assembled vertically in a large hangar and transported on a mobile platform to one of several launch pads. Therefore, the decision was made to build a new LOC site located adjacent to Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by initials JFK and Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
Saturn V was an American human-rated super heavy-lift launch vehicle used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. The three-stage liquid-propellant expendable rocket was developed to support the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon and was later used to launch Skylab, the first American space station.
NASA began land acquisition in 1962, buying title to 131 square miles (340 km2) and negotiating with the state of Florida for an additional 87 square miles (230 km2). The major buildings in KSC's Industrial Area were designed by architect Charles Luckman. Construction began in November 1962, and Kennedy visited the site twice in 1962, and again just a week before his assassination on November 22, 1963.
On November 29, 1963, the facility was given its current name by President Lyndon B. Johnson under Executive Order 11129.Johnson's order joined both the civilian LOC and the military Cape Canaveral station ("the facilities of Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range") under the designation "John F. Kennedy Space Center", spawning some confusion joining the two in the public mind. NASA Administrator James E. Webb clarified this by issuing a directive stating the Kennedy Space Center name applied only to the LOC, while the Air Force issued a general order renaming the military launch site Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.
Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Miami and Jacksonville on Florida's Space Coast, due east of Orlando. It is 34 miles (55 km) long and roughly six miles (9.7 km) wide, covering 219 square miles (570 km2).
KSC is a major central Florida tourist destination and is approximately one hour's drive from the Orlando area. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers public tours of the center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Because much of the installation is a restricted area and only nine percent of the land is developed, the site also serves as an important wildlife sanctuary; Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore are other features of the area. Center workers can encounter bald eagles, American alligators, wild boars, eastern diamondback rattlesnakes, the endangered Florida panther [ citation needed ] and Florida manatees.
From 1967 through 1973, there were 13 Saturn V launches, including the ten remaining Apollo missions after Apollo 7. The first of two uncrewed flights, Apollo 4 (Apollo-Saturn 501) on November 9, 1967, was also the first rocket launch from KSC. The Saturn V's first crewed launch on December 21, 1968 was Apollo 8's lunar orbiting mission. The next two missions tested the Lunar Module: Apollo 9 (Earth orbit) and Apollo 10 (lunar orbit). Apollo 11, launched from Pad A on July 16, 1969, made the first Moon landing on July 20. Apollo 12 followed four months later. From 1970 to 1972, the Apollo program concluded at KSC with the launches of missions 13 through 17.
On May 14, 1973, the last Saturn V launch put the Skylab space station in orbit from Pad 39A. By this time, the Cape Kennedy pads 34 and 37 used for the Saturn IB were decommissioned, so Pad 39B was modified to accommodate the Saturn IB, and used to launch three crewed missions to Skylab that year, as well as the final Apollo spacecraft for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
As the Space Shuttle was being designed, NASA received proposals for building alternative launch-and-landing sites at locations other than KSC, which demanded study. KSC had important advantages, including: its existing facilities; location on the Intracoastal Waterway; and its southern latitude, which gives a velocity advantage to missions launched in easterly near-equatorial orbits. Disadvantages included: its inability to safely launch military missions into polar orbit, since spent boosters would be likely to fall on the Carolinas or Cuba; corrosion from the salt air; and frequent cloudy or stormy weather. Although building a new site at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was seriously considered, NASA announced its decision in April 1972 to use KSC for the shuttle.Since the Shuttle could not be landed automatically or by remote control, the launch of Columbia on April 12, 1981 for its first orbital mission STS-1, was NASA's first crewed launch of a vehicle that had not been tested in prior uncrewed launches.
In 1976, the VAB's south parking area was the site of Third Century America, a science and technology display commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial. Concurrent with this event, the U.S. flag was painted on the south side of the VAB. During the late 1970s, LC-39 was reconfigured to support the Space Shuttle. Two Orbiter Processing Facilities were built near the VAB as hangars with a third added in the 1980s.
KSC's 2.9-mile (4.7 km) Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) was the orbiters' primary end-of-mission landing site, although the first KSC landing did not take place until the tenth flight, when Challenger completed STS-41-B on February 11, 1984; the primary landing site until then was Edwards Air Force Base in California, subsequently used as a backup landing site. The SLF also provided a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) abort option, which was not utilized. The SLF is among the longest runways in the world.
After 24 successful shuttle flights, Challenger was torn apart 73 seconds after the launch of STS-51-L on January 28, 1986; the first shuttle launch from Pad 39B and the first U.S. crewed launch failure, killing the seven crew members. An O-ring seal in the right booster rocket failed at liftoff, leading to subsequent structural failures. Flights resumed on September 29, 1988 with STS-26 after modifications to many aspects of the shuttle program.
On February 1, 2003, Columbia and her crew of seven were lost during re-entry over Texas during the STS-107 mission (the 113th shuttle flight); a vehicle breakup triggered by damage sustained during launch from Pad 39A on January 16, when a piece of foam insulation from the orbiter's external fuel tank struck the orbiter's left wing. During reentry, the damage created a hole allowing hot gases to melt the wing structure. Like the Challenger disaster, the resulting investigation and modifications interrupted shuttle flight operations at KSC for more than two years until the STS-114 launch on July 26, 2005.
The shuttle program experienced five main engine shutdowns at LC-39, all within four seconds before launch; and one Abort to Orbit, STS-51-F on July 29, 1985. Shuttle missions during nearly 30 years of operations included deploying satellites and interplanetary probes, conducting space science and technology experiments, visits to the Russian MIR space station, construction and servicing of the International Space Station, deployment and servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope and serving as a space laboratory. The shuttle was retired from service in July 2011 after 135 launches.
On October 28, 2009, the Ares I-X launch from Pad 39B was the first uncrewed launch from KSC since the Skylab workshop in 1973.
Beginning in 1958, NASA and military worked side by side on robotic mission launches (previously referred to as unmanned),cooperating as they broke ground in the field. In the early 1960s, NASA had as many as two robotic mission launches a month. The frequent number of flights allowed for quick evolution of the vehicles, as engineers gathered data, learned from anomalies and implemented upgrades. In 1963, with the intent of KSC ELV work focusing on the ground support equipment and facilities, a separate Atlas/Centaur organization was formed under NASA's Lewis Center (now Glenn Research Center (GRC)), taking that responsibility from the Launch Operations Center (aka KSC).
Though almost all robotics missions launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), KSC "oversaw the final assembly and testing of rockets as they arrived at the Cape."In 1965, KSC's Unmanned Launch Operations directorate became responsible all NASA uncrewed launch operations, including those at Vandenberg Air Force Base. From the 1950s to 1978, KSC chose the rocket and payload processing facilities for all robotic missions launching in the U.S., overseeing their near launch processing and checkout. In addition to government missions, KSC performed this service for commercial and foreign missions also, though non-U.S. government entities provided reimbursement. NASA also funded CCAFS launch pad maintenance and launch vehicle improvements.
All this changed with the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984, after which NASA only coordinated its own and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ELV launches. Companies were able to "operate their own launch vehicles"and utilize NASA's launch facilities. Payload processing handled by private firms also started to occur outside of KSC. Reagan's 1988 space policy furthered the movement of this work from KSC to commercial companies. That same year, launch complexes on CCAFS started transferring from NASA to air force management.
In the 1990s, though KSC was not performing the hands-on ELV work, engineers still maintained understanding of ELVs and had contracts allowing them insight in the vehicles so they could provide knowledgeable oversight. KSC also worked on ELV research and analysis and the contractors were able to utilize KSC personnel as a resource for technical issues. KSC, with the payload and launch vehicle industries, developed advances in automation of the ELV launch and ground operations for the purpose of enabling competitiveness of U.S. rockets against the global market.
In 1998, the Launch Services Program (LSP) formed at KSC, pulling together programs (and personnel) that already existed at KSC, GRC, Goddard Space Flight Center, and more to manage the launch of NASA and NOAA robotic missions. CCAFS and VAFB are the primary launch sites for LSP missions, though other sites are occasionally used. LSP payloads such as the Mars Science Laboratory have been processed at KSC before being transferred to a launch pad on CCAFS.
As the International Space Station modules design began in the early 1990s, KSC began to work with other NASA centers and international partners to prepare for processing prior to launch on board the Space Shuttles. KSC utilized its hands-on experience processing the 22 Spacelab missions in the Operations and Checkout Building to gather expectations of ISS processing. These experiences were incorporated into the design of the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF), which began construction in 1991. The Space Station Directorate formed in 1996. KSC personnel were embedded at station module factories for insight into their processes.
From 1997 to 2007, KSC planned and performed on the ground integration tests and checkouts of station modules: three Multi-Element Integration Testing (MEIT) sessions and the Integration Systems Test (IST). Numerous issues were found and corrected that would have been difficult to nearly impossible to do on-orbit.
Today KSC continues to process ISS payloads from across the world prior to launch along with developing its own experiments for on orbit.The proposed Lunar Gateway would be manufactured and processed at the Space Station Processing Facility.
The following are current programs and initiatives at Kennedy Space Center:
The KSC Industrial Area, where many of the center's support facilities are located, is 5 miles (8 km) south of LC-39. It includes the Headquarters Building, the Operations and Checkout Building and the Central Instrumentation Facility. The astronaut crew quarters are in the O&C; before it was completed, the astronaut crew quarters were located in Hangar S at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex (now CCAFS). Located as KSC was the Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station (MILA), a key radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex.
Facilities at the Kennedy Space Center are directly related to its mission to launch and recover missions. Facilities are available to prepare and maintain spacecraft and payloads for flight.The Headquarters (HQ) Building houses offices for the Center Director, library, film and photo archives, a print shop and security. A new Headquarters Building is under construction as a part of the Central Campus consolidation and the first phase is expected to be complete in 2017.
The center operated its own 17-mile (27 km) short-line railroad. This operation was discontinued in 2015, with the sale of its final two locomotives. A third had already been donated to a museum. The line was costing $1.3 million annually to maintain.
Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) was originally built for the Saturn V, the largest and most powerful operational launch vehicle in history, for the Apollo crewed Moon landing program. Since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, LC-39 has been used to launch every NASA human space flight, including Skylab (1973), the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975), and the Space Shuttle program (1981–2011).
Since December 1968, all launch operations have been conducted from launch pads A and B at LC-39. Both pads are on the ocean, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the VAB. From 1969 to 1972, LC-39 was the departure point for all six Apollo crewed Moon landing missions using the Saturn V, and was used from 1981 to 2011 for all Space Shuttle launches.
Human missions to the Moon required the large three-stage Saturn V rocket, which was 363 feet (111 meters) tall and 33 feet (10 meters) in diameter. At KSC, Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) was built on Merritt Island to accommodate the new rocket. Construction of the $800 million project began in November 1962. LC-39 pads A and B were completed by October 1965 (planned Pads C, D and E were canceled), the VAB was completed in June 1965, and the infrastructure by late 1966.
The complex includes:
As a part of promoting commercial space industry growth in the area and the overall center as a multi-user spaceport,KSC leases some of its properties. Here are some major examples:
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by Delaware North since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight. Bus tours of KSC originate from here. The complex also includes the separate Apollo/Saturn V Center, north of the VAB and the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, six miles west near Titusville. There were 1.5 million visitors in 2009. It had some 700 employees.
It was announced on May 29, 2015 that the Astronaut Hall of Fame exhibit would be moved from its current location to another location within the Visitor Complex to make room for an upcoming high-tech attraction entitled "Heroes and Legends". The attraction, to be designed by Orlando-based design firm Falcon's Treehouse, is slated to open sometime late 2016.
In March 2016, the visitor center unveiled the new location of the iconic countdown clock at the complex's entrance; previously, the clock was located with a flagpole at the press site. The clock was originally built and installed in 1969 and listed with the flagpole in the National Register of Historic Places in January 2000.In 2019, NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program, and the launch of Apollo 10 on May 18. In summer of 2019, Lunar Module 9 (LM-9) will be relocated to the Apollo/Saturn V Center as part of an initiative to rededicate the center and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program.
NASA lists the following Historic Districts at KSC; each district has multiple associated facilities:
There are 24 historic properties outside of these historic districts, including the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Vehicle Assembly Building, Crawlerway, and Operations and Checkout Building.KSC has one National Historic Landmark, 78 National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) listed or eligible sites, and 100 Archaeological Sites.
Florida's peninsular shape and temperature contrasts between land and ocean provide ideal conditions for electrical storms, earning Central Florida the reputation as "lightning capital of the United States".This makes extensive lightning protection and detection systems necessary to protect employees, structures and spacecraft on launch pads. On November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 was struck by lightning just after lift-off from Pad 39A, but the flight continued safely. The most powerful lightning strike recorded at KSC occurred at LC-39B on August 25, 2006, while shuttle Atlantis was being prepared for STS-115. NASA managers were initially concerned that the lightning strike caused damage to Atlantis, but none was found.
On September 7, 2004, Hurricane Frances directly hit the area with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and gusts up to 94 miles per hour (151 km/h), the most damaging storm to date. The Vehicle Assembly Building lost 1,000 exterior panels, each 3.9 feet (1.2 m) x 9.8 feet (3.0 m) in size. This exposed 39,800 sq ft (3,700 m2) of the building to the elements. Damage occurred to the south and east sides of the VAB. The shuttle's Thermal Protection System Facility suffered extensive damage. The roof was partially torn off and the interior suffered water damage. Several rockets on display in the center were toppled. Further damage to KSC was caused by Hurricane Wilma in October 2005.
Since KSC's formation, ten NASA officials have served as directors, including three former astronauts (Crippen, Bridges and Cabana):
|Dr. Kurt H. Debus||July 1962||November 1974|
|Lee R. Scherer||January 19, 1975||September 2, 1979|
|Richard G. Smith||September 26, 1979||August 2, 1986|
|Forrest S. McCartney||August 31, 1987||December 31, 1991|
|Robert L. Crippen||January 1992||January 1995|
|Jay F. Honeycutt||January 1995||March 2, 1997|
|Roy D. Bridges, Jr.||March 2, 1997||August 9, 2003|
|James W. Kennedy||August 9, 2003||January 2007|
|William W. Parsons||January 2007||October 2008|
|Robert D. Cabana||October 2008||present|
When KSC separated from Marshall Space Flight Center in July 1962, it took 375 employees with it.
In May 1965, KSC had 7,000 employees and contractors move from rented space in Cocoa Beach to the new Merritt Island facilities. The peak number of persons working on center was 26,000 in 1968 (3,000 were civil servants). In 1970, President Nixon announced intent to reduce cost of space operations and major cuts occurred at KSC. By 1974, KSC's workforce was down to 10,000 employees (2,408 civil servants).
A total of 13,100 people worked at the center as of 2011. Approximately 2,100 are employees of the federal government; the rest are contractors.The average annual salary for an on-site worker in 2008 was $77,235.
The end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, preceded by the cancellation of Constellation Program in 2010, produced a significant downsizing of the KSC workforce similar to that experienced at the end of the Apollo program in 1972. As part of this downsizing, 6,000 contractors lost their jobs at the Center during 2010 and 2011.
In addition to being frequently featured in documentaries, Kennedy Space Center has been portrayed on film many times. Some studio movies have even gained access and filmed scenes within the gates of the space center. If extras are needed in those scenes, space center employees are recruited (employees use personal time during filming). Films with scenes at KSC include:
Several television shows have had KSC as one of the primary settings, though not necessarily with any scenes filmed on center:
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official name, Space Transportation System (STS), was taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development.
STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the fourth shuttle launch since the Challenger Disaster and the first shuttle mission since the disaster to have a female astronaut on board. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 4 May 1989, and landed four days later on 8 May. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.
STS-38 was a Space Shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 37th shuttle mission, and carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense. It was the 7th flight for Atlantis and the 7th flight dedicated to the Department of Defense. The mission was a 4-day mission that traveled more than 2 million miles and completed 79 revolutions. Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility's runway 33. The launch was originally scheduled for July 1990, but was rescheduled due to a hydrogen leak found on Space ShuttleColumbia during the STS-35 countdown. During a rollback to the Orbiter Processing Facility Atlantis was damaged during a hail storm. The eventual launch date of 15 November 1990 was set due to a payload problem. The launch window was between 18:30 and 22:30 EST. The launch occurred at 18:48 EST.
STS-39 was the twelfth mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary purpose of the mission was to conduct a variety of payload experiments for the Department of Defense.
An Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) was one of three hangars where U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights. All three such facilities, OPF-1, OPF-2 and OPF-3, were located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at Launch Complex 39.
The Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) is one of three two-story steel structures used by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center to support the Space Shuttle stack throughout the build-up and launch process: during assembly at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), while being transported to Launch Pads 39A and B, and as the vehicle's launch platform. NASA's three MLPs were originally constructed as Mobile Launchers (ML) for the Apollo program to launch the Saturn V rockets in the 1960s and 1970s, and remained in service through the end of the Shuttle program in 2011 with alterations.
Miguel Rodríguez is the Chief of the Integration Office of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Management Office.
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, shows, two IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport. "Space Shuttle Atlantis" is home to the real Space Shuttle Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated ride into space. The center also provides astronaut training experiences, including a multi-axial chair and Mars Base simulator. The visitor complex also has daily presentations from a veteran NASA astronaut. A bus tour, included with admission, encompasses the separate Apollo/Saturn V Center. There were 1.7 million visitors to the visitor complex in 2016.
Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is a launch pad and support area. The site was originally developed for the Titan III and MOL, which was cancelled before construction of SLC-6 was complete. The complex was later rebuilt to serve as the west coast launch site for the Space Shuttle, but went unused due to budget, safety and political considerations. The pad was subsequently used for several Athena launches before being modified to support the Delta IV launch vehicle family, which have used the pad since 2006.
STS-132 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on 16 May 2010. STS-132 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 14 May 2010. The primary payload was the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module, along with an Integrated Cargo Carrier-Vertical Light Deployable (ICC-VLD). Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center on 26 May 2010.
The Launch Complex 39 Press Site is a news media facility at Launch Complex 39 at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Merritt Island, Florida where journalists have observed every U.S. crewed space launch since Apollo 8 in 1968. The site is just south of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB); 3 miles (4.8 km) west-southwest of Pad A, and 3.4 miles (5.4 km) southwest of Pad B.
The Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station, known in NASA parlance as MILA, was a radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex located on 61 acres (0.25 km2) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The name MILA was an acronym for the "Merritt Island Launch Annex" to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which was how the site was referred to when spacecraft launches were primarily originating from the adjacent military installation. MILA's arrays of antennas provided various communications and data services between spacecraft and NASA centers, as well as tracked and ranged moving spacecraft. In its final years, it served as the primary voice and data link during the first 7½ minutes of Space Shuttle launches, and the final 13 minutes of shuttle landings at KSC. Though it occupied land at KSC, MILA was operated and managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center.
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The report mostly echos the details released last week by Senior NTSB Investigator Ralph Hicks, who spoke to the members of the media on Aug. 16, a day after the plane crash.
The report states that according to airport surveillance footage, the plane bounced twice before continuing airborne down the runway until it touched down for a third time with approximately 1,000 feet of paved surface left.
The video then showed the right main landing gear collapse and the outboard section of the right wing make contact with the runway. The plane then left the runway, going through an open area of grass, down an embankment, through a chain-linked fence, back up an embankment before coming to rest on the edge of Tennessee Highway 91.
The pilots’ account of the crash was consistent with the video footage reviewed by the NTSB. In addition, the pilots indicated that after the second bounce, they attempted a go-around. However, the airplane didn’t react as expected and they landed straight-ahead on the runway and couldn’t stop the airplane prior to it leaving the runway.
No major injuries were sustained in the crash, though the NTSB report indicates that Earnhardt, his wife Amy and daughter Isla all suffered minor injuries. The pilots escaped unharmed.
Earnhardt confirmed Thursday that he still plans to race next week at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway in the NASCAR Xfinity Series despite suffering from bruising to his back as a result of the plane crash.
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https://mobility21.cmu.edu/first-gate-to-gate-autonomous-airplane-flight/ | 2023-11-30T03:46:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00536.warc.gz | 0.939368 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__113949577 | en | The company, Xwing, is setting out to introduce autonomous technology for regional air cargo, an overlooked space in the global race for autonomy but, with its sub-500 mile predictable routes and significant commercial importance, an intriguing entry point for autonomous air travel. Xwing is betting it can gain ground amid growing unmet logistics demand using its human-operated software stack that seamlessly integrates with existing aircraft to enable regional pilotless flight. ..
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Xwing’s entry into the market seems well-timed. New reports show a global gap of 34,000 open pilot positions by 2025. Logistics are also strained with growing demand for fast delivery. | aerospace |
http://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-handley-page-hp70-halifax-viii-studham | 2020-06-04T04:04:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347439019.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20200604032435-20200604062435-00023.warc.gz | 0.93103 | 163 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__49790942 | en | Date & Time: May 23, 1948
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On approach to RAF Bovingdon, the aircraft became unstable and the captain was forced to attempt an emergency landing. The aircraft crash landed in a field located in Studham, about 11 km north of the airbase. While all five occupants were unhurt, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. It was completing a cargo flight from Valencia, Spain, with a load of apricots.
It is believed that the loss of control on approach was caused by the cargo that shifted, causing the CofG to move, necessitating an emergency landing. | aerospace |
https://highmica.com/application/application-of-mica-in-aviation-aerospace-and-military.html | 2024-02-29T02:24:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474775.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229003536-20240229033536-00705.warc.gz | 0.922437 | 353 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__36155929 | en | In aviation, mica is often used to make sealing rings, thermal insulation materials and heat-resistant materials. Mica’s high temperature and oxidation resistance properties make it ideal for aerospace engines, such as turbofan engines and rocket engines. Mica is also used in the manufacture of electrical insulation materials for aircraft because it has excellent insulation properties, and at the same time, mica has excellent high-temperature resistance and oxidation resistance, which can maintain the stability of material properties under high-temperature conditions, thereby prolonging the service life of the equipment.
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https://commercialdroneservices.co | 2024-02-23T05:57:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00506.warc.gz | 0.925986 | 263 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__167902799 | en | CDS Inc. provides mapping, inspection, data collection and marketing to a variety of industries. As experts in the industry, CDS provides end-to-end solutions focusing on process, safety and delivering our clients insights.
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https://www.bramptonflightcentre.com/product/4-patch-royal-canadian-air-force-flight-jacket-blue/ | 2020-04-05T06:32:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370529375.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405053120-20200405083120-00387.warc.gz | 0.913469 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__237527338 | en | - Inspired by the flight jackets worn by past Canadian aviators, this infant and children sized Up and Away Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Flight Jacket will be sure to make your young pilot feel like the real thing.
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Note: This jacket is tapered (like the real pilot jackets since there is not a lot of extra room in the cockpit), and is close fitting. If a loose fit is desired, please order the next larger size. | aerospace |
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/news/a22960/air-force-plane-eating-bacteria/ | 2023-04-02T11:47:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950528.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230402105054-20230402135054-00415.warc.gz | 0.952084 | 620 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__160770176 | en | The Air Force is aging. "We have the oldest aircraft fleet we have ever had, 27 years old on average," Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James pointedly observed at this week's annual Air Force Association Conference. Age is a creating a variety of challenges for USAF airplanes including corrosion.
In the past, the Air Force has worried mostly about the damage from environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and salt water. But materials specialists at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently have come to realize that organic contaminants—mold, mildew, fungi, bacteria—corrode aircraft surfaces more seriously than they had thought. Corrosion caused by living organisms is generated by moisture, humidity, human contact and by the increasing use of drop-in biofuels, and the microbes they bring with them are for all intents and purposes, eating airplanes. While the Air Force spends approximately $6 billion annually on corrosion issues, up to $1.2 billion of that could be spent on microbiologically-influenced corrosion.
"Microorganisms can eat away at surface materials, and some of the worst areas affected are tight, hard-to-reach areas that maintainers have difficulty disinfecting," said AFRL Biological Materials and Processing team leader Wendy Goodson.
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Goodson's team has looked into adapting the Joint Biological Agent Decontamination System (JBADS), developed for chemical warfare decontamination, for use in disinfecting airplanes for corrosion prevention. JBADS is an environmentally controlled enclosure in which an entire aircraft can be heated to temperatures of up to 180 degrees F. They're essentially cooking an F-16. This approach could temporarily rid the plane of biocontaminants, even internal structures inaccessible to maintenance crews. JBADS is to be implemented by 2017 for chemical warfare applications.
AFRL research also indicated that the military's increasing use of biofuels brings its own corrosion problem. Processed from organic materials like vegetable oils and animal fats, biofuels provide a host in which microbes thrive. Their presence can create fuel fouling, fuel degradation, and material degradation. Testing has shown that microbes immediately begin affecting steel and other structural materials in fuel tanks.
Currently the Air Force power-washes fuel storage tanks. But that can't remove every trace of microbial matter, Goodson says, adding that microorganisms begin re-infecting the next batch of fuel as soon as it's introduced into the tank. The AFRL team is likewise working to adapt JBADS for use with storage tanks, teaming its disinfection properties with cleaning.
In addition to the use of biofuels, the Air Force's drive to go green is introducing more environmentally-friendly aircraft coatings which may bring microbes along for the ride too. Human contact may transmit microbes as well, but AFRL researchers aren't confident enough of its impact to recommend that maintainers use gloves or take other measures when working on aircraft.
We'll be watching to see if the Air Force can beat its tiniest enemy. | aerospace |
https://www.piclife.com/pilot-insurance-news/flight-safety-news/florida-air-show-ends-in-fatal-accident-800474638 | 2022-06-27T02:29:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103324665.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627012807-20220627042807-00022.warc.gz | 0.971846 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__157302158 | en | Florida air show ends in fatal accident
March 30, 2011, 08:13 pm
The Wings Over Flagler air show on Saturday, March 26, ended in the death of William E. "Wild Bill" Walker, according to AVweb.
Walker was a member of the Red Thunder demonstration team, the source says. He was reportedly attempting to pull out of a maneuver with his aircraft when the Yak-52 failed and crashed into the ground. The aircraft was in formation at the time with five other planes when the accident happened.
"He was in a dive when he was supposed to pull, and he didn't pull out for some reason," Roy Sieger, director of the Flagler County Airport, told the Jacksonville News Journal "They did everything by the book, but unfortunately it's one of the drawbacks to this business."
This incident is one of a number of recent air show incidents, including the South Padre Air Fiesta, where Kyle and Amanda Franklin were injured, and a Texas air show, where Anita Perry, wife of Texas Governor Rick Perry, was on an aircraft that experienced an engine fire.
However, of the group, the Wings Over Flagler airshow is the only one to result in a fatality.
Pilots sometimes face unexpected hazards in flight and, despite following all the proper procedures, a fatal accident may occur. This uncertainty of the safety of aviation reinforces the importance of pilot life insurance, to provide for the families of pilots who lose their loved ones in an unforeseeable accident.
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With simple and economical construction, the Avro Vulcan has a high enjoyment-to-cost ratio. Little time investment is needed to get it from a flat foam board to a good-flying model.
I was recently introduced to the world of flat-foam flying, and I’ve found it much like trying to eat just one potato chip. After constructing and flying two manufacturer-produced flat-foam airplanes (one Depron and the other foam board), I wondered what else might lend itself to a flat-foam presentation. Noting that many flat-foam jet-like models take their inspiration from modern-day fighter aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor, the F-15 Eagle, and the Russian MiG series, I began looking at an earlier era of jet aircraft—particularly those designed during the Cold War era, spurred along by the new nuclear age. Scanning the aircraft of that time brought me to the Avro Vulcan (now called the Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan) and its delta-wing planform that lends itself well to mid-fuselage motor placement in a pusher configuration.
Development of the full-scale Vulcan began back in 1947, shortly after World War II. The nuclear age required an entirely different platform for high-altitude delivery of nuclear ordnance. Built to mission specifications, the Vulcan went through several iterations before arriving at the “kinked-and-drooped” wing shape of the production version.
Using several three-views and photos of the prototype, I sketched a model that would fit a 99-foot wingspan onto two 30 x 20-inch sheets of 3/16-inch polystyrene foam core board. I used inexpensive paper-backed foam board rather than the more costly Depron. This generic 6mm foam board could be purchased for roughly $1 per sheet at Dollar Tree or craft-supply stores.
The airplane could be powered by an inexpensive outrunner motor and ESC, making it a low-cost project with a minimal time investment that still provides the illusion of a jet aircraft in the air.
Although the word scale and the phrase “flat-foam construction” are not mutually exclusive terms, their relationship can be described as loose at best. Flat foamies provide a scalelike impression in the air, achieved with a minimal investment of effort, time, and money.
Free plans for the Avro Vulcan can be downloaded at www.ModelAviation.com. Two sheets of 6mm foam board, a 2826/10 size motor (or similar), a 35-amp ESC, a 7 x 4 electric propeller, two 9-gram servos, a hot glue gun, and 5-minute epoxy will get you on your way to putting your own Vulcan in the air in no more than a couple of evenings. Any radio with elevon mixing capabilities will work as the control unit for the airplane.
All foam parts should be carefully cut out before assembly begins. A disposable #11 scalpel was the perfect tool for cutting cleanly through the foam board laminate, but a sharp #11 hobby knife blade will suffice.
Make sure that you make all cuts with the knife held vertically. If you happen to cut an edge that ends up slightly slanted, it can be quickly squared using a T-bar sander faced with medium-grade sandpaper. Two characteristics of foam board that make it attractive are that it cuts like butter, and if you mess up a piece, you can easily and economically cut another one!
Use the following sequenced assembly process as a checklist as you complete of your Avro Vulcan.
1) You will need to back each template with lightweight poster board. Any type of rubber cement or spray adhesive can be used to attach the patterns to the poster board.
After they are glued down, the final template shapes can be cut out with scissors and a hobby knife. After the templates have been made, trace all of the parts onto the foam board using a soft lead pencil. A pencil is recommended for tracing around the parts because you can erase it if you stray from the template lines.
The modestly priced powertrain chosen was a Turnigy 2826/10 1,400 Kv motor, a HobbyKing 35-amp ESC, and an APC electric propeller. The 6 x 4 propeller shown was later change to a 7 x 4 for greater efficiency. The 3S batteries, ranging from 1,000 to 1,300 mAh, require only a slight shifting of position on their hook-and-loop mounts to achieve the required CG.
There are only five fuselage pieces. Use 5-minute epoxy to laminate the bottom fuselage center pieces. Although only one wiring hole is shown in the photo, the plans template has additional wiring crossover holes.
2) Place the bottom front plate flat on your work surface and apply a bead of hot glue to the top of one outside edge. You need to work quickly before it sets up. Stand one of the fuselage side rails on edge and attach it to the bottom front plate at the notch. Repeat for the other rail. The rails should be squarely installed so they will align with the outside edges of the propeller clearance slot in the wing. You might want to use a scrap piece of foam board as a spacer at the back of the rails to ensure they maintain a constant width from front to back.
Step 2 The fuselage front bottom plate is hot glued into the notches of the two fuselage side rails. An extra bead of hot glue will increase its strength.
3) Epoxy the bottom curved fuselage center pieces together to make a double-thickness laminated fuselage former. Apply a thin coat of epoxy to one side and keep the two pieces aligned while the epoxy cures.
4) Place a piece of waxed paper on your work surface large enough to extend beyond the joint in the two wing pieces. Spread a thin bead of 5-minute epoxy on the rear of the front wing piece and slide it into contact with the main wing panel. If any epoxy oozes out of either side, wipe it off immediately using a dry paper towel. Weight the two pieces down to keep them flat, and allow the joint to cure.
Step 4 The wing is constructed from two pieces epoxied together and weighted to maintain a flat, warp-free flying surface. Sheets of 6mm foam larger than the 30 x 20-inch foam specified in the text will allow you to cut out the wing in one piece.
5) Mark a centerline in pencil on the top and bottom of the wing, using a long straightedge. These two lines will be the reference points for joining the remaining parts to the completed wing panel. If you need to enlarge the cutout to use a larger motor and firewall, now would be the time to do it.
6) Glue the laminated fuselage former to the bottom centerline of the wing with hot glue, reinforcing it with additional beads of glue on both sides.
Step 6 The bottom fuselage center laminate is glued to the bottom of the wing using a centerline drawn as suggested in the construction notes. A bead of glue should be applied to the full length of the joint on both sides.
7) Place the fuselage side rails and bottom front piece unit over the bottom of the wing and mark a line on each side for their respective locations. Glue the unit in place by running a bead of glue down the lines you marked and placing a bead of glue into the notch in the laminated fuselage former. Reglue the side rail joints on the inside and outside for additional strength.
Step 7 The front bottom plate and fuselage side rail assembly fits into the notch in the fuselage center laminate and the rails are glued to the bottom of the wing. An extra bead of glue should be added to the wing/rail joints on both sides.
Step 8 After cutting out the main wing panel, the ailerons can be separated using a steel-edge ruler and a scalpel or sharp hobby knife with a #11 blade.
The top of each elevon is hinged with a strip of Blenderm tape across the full length of the piece.
The elevon is then bent flat over the top of the wing and two pieces of Blenderm tape are placed 90° to the wing/elevon joint, spaced at an even distance from each end. Note that the elevon’s LE has been sanded to a triangular or chisel shape to allow the joint to bend and not bind against the back edge of the wing.
8) Turn the wing over so the top side is facing up. Sand the bottom of each elevon to a wedge shape to taper the leading edge (LE). Hinge the pieces with a piece of 3M Blenderm tape or Scotch Magic Mending Tape placed over the top seam of each elevon and wing joint.
Fold both elevator/aileron pieces back flat against the wing surface. Put two pieces of tape at right angles to the elevon and wing seam on each side, spacing out the tape for strength and flexibility.
9) Glue the front top piece (cockpit area) of the fuselage in place, reinforcing it with additional beads of glue on the side. Now glue the rudder piece in place in back of the propeller clearance slot. Make sure it is both vertically and horizontally straight, and then add an additional bead of glue along each side seam.
10) The final fuselage piece is the bottom fairing aft of the propeller slot and directly beneath the rudder. This piece adds strength to the aft fuselage tail cone. Because it is well away from the propeller, it can be used as a grip for launching the airplane. It should receive an extra bead of glue on both sides.
Step 10 The rudder and the bottom fuselage piece both have a notch at the front to clear the propeller spinner. The tapered tail cone shapes add strength to the aft end so it can be gripped to launch the airplane.
11) I found it easiest to bolt the motor to the motor mount and then install the entire unit to the cruciform mounting surface using 5-minute epoxy. The epoxy allows tweaking during the curing process to make sure the thrustline remains at 0-0. After the epoxy sets up, I used a second coat to build up fillets between the back of the motor mount and the foam board cruciform.
Step 11 The motor mount is glued in place using 5-minute epoxy. A second coat is applied to build up a fillet all around the back of the motor mount where it joins the fuselage/ wing juncture. It’s easiest to epoxy the complete assembly in place in order to assure a 0-0 thrust angle.
The area between the main laminated fuselage former and the fuselage side rails on both sides allows ample space to mount the receiver, ESC, and battery using industrial-grade hook-and-loop material. It’s easiest to do a mockup of the layout before attaching the hook-and-loop material.
Radio Installation This view shows the placement of the receiver and servos. The ESC is mounted under the front bottom plate, with the battery attached to the side of the fuselage as far forward as necessary to achieve the CG.
Hot gluing it to the foam board works better than trying to use the self-sticking variety. The cutouts in the main fuselage former allow the wires to be moved to whichever side of the fuselage is required.
It’s wise to move the ESC as far forward as the length of the motor wires allows, to achieve proper center of gravity (CG) without needing to place the battery too far out on the nose area.
The two 9-gram servos are slipped into their respective cutouts and hot glued in place. Center the servos before attaching the pushrods to them and to the control horns. GWS servo keepers, along with Du-Bro Micro Control Horns and Micro E/Z Links, work well with the .047-inch music wire pushrods. The control horns should align with the servo arms. I drilled pilot holes for the control horn pins and used foam-safe CA glue to lock them in place.
Because I was using my trusty Futaba T6J transmitter and R2006GS receiver, it was simply a matter of going through approximately five screens to set up the elevon mix. My starting point for initial test flights was 80% control throws and 40% exponential.
Servo Installation The servos are hot glued in place and the control horns are glued in place using foam-safe CA. A Dubro mini-keeper is used to lock the pushrods to the control horns.
Preparing for Flight
After the electronics were installed, I finished the model in the color scheme and markings of the prototype high-altitude Avro Vulcan—an easy task because the airplane was all white with few markings! I did a Google search for “Royal Air Force roundels” to find the fuselage and wing roundels. I printed them on plain paper and used spray adhesive to attach them to the foam board. All other markings were cut from MonoKote trim sheet and adhered to the foam board as you can see in the photos.
Markings for this version of the Vulcan are minimal. The cockpit markings are from a MonoKote trim sheet and the RAF roundels were printed and attached with Elmer’s spray adhesive.
Foam board does not like moisture—including high humidity—so you might want to seal it. Some modelers have found that Minwax oil-based polyurethane (not the water-based formula) works well.
The delta-wing planform is distinctive in the air, providing the in-flight illusion of a complex, scalelike Vulcan bomber.
One of our club members had success with brushing Minwax on and wiping it off with paper towels before it dried. He then sprayed his airplane with rattle-can paint without causing any warping. Sealing in such a manner would have to be done after the airplane is constructed because hot glue won’t stick to Minwax polyurethane.
Although the model presented here doesn’t have any finish on it, the later low-altitude version of the Avro Vulcan has a striking green and gray camouflage scheme that could be applied after sealing the foam board.
I used a 3S 1,000 mAh battery for my first flights with the prototype, moving the battery forward as needed to attain the CG, and checking all of the control throws to make sure they were equal and moving in the correct direction.
Make sure the motor is turning in the right direction by removing the propeller and attaching a small piece of double-sided masking tape to the motor shaft. Slowly run the throttle lever up. If it’s rotating backward, simply switch any two of the motor wires in their ESC sockets. When reinstalling the propeller, the pitch numbers on the front of the propeller should be facing the motor case to achieve the greatest efficiency.
The Avro Vulcan in Flight
Control surface deflections were set to 1/2 inch up and down, and the airplane was launched with roughly four clicks of up-elevator to indicate which way it needed to go. That proved to be the right amount, with some of the up-elevator removed when the desired airspeed was reached.
The tailcone in back of the rudder was intended as a convenient object to grip to launch the Avro Vulcan with your hand aft of the propeller and out of harm’s way. Using that technique, the model can be pointed upward at approximately 45°. When the motor is brought up to nearly full power, the model will simply leave your hand with no need to throw it.
The Vulcan’s glide is slower than walking pace with no tendency to tip stall. Note the nose-up angle of attack and the position of the elevons as it sets up for a landing.
From the first launch, it proved to be a stable, fully acrobatic model capable of achieving high speeds and less-than-walking-speed landing approaches. It never showed a tendency to tip stall. When it was throttled back to stall speed in the air, it dropped its nose slightly and mushed straight ahead. It is a comfortable, visually exciting airplane while in the air.
I want to thank fellow club member Paul Phillips for his steady hand at the controls so I could capture flight photos, and Chase Watkins for his construction techniques that I adapted to the Avro Vulcan to make it a lightweight, but sturdy design.
I’m pleased with this foam-board project. Given its minimal cost and quick construction, I think you will be, too. | aerospace |
http://www.anna.aero/2014/04/16/transavia-com-france-grows-orly-base-seven-new-routes/ | 2018-06-22T13:07:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864482.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622123642-20180622143642-00483.warc.gz | 0.863363 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__31946411 | en | Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport welcomed transavia.com France’s service from Paris Orly on 12 April. The flight crew, cabin crew and airport staff, led by Mrs Asiyat Khasanova (ISG Commercial Aviation Director), celebrated the event inside the aircraft.
- transavia.com France has significantly expanded its operations from its Paris Orly (ORY) base with the launch of seven new routes to seven different countries. Most of the routes will be operated solely by the airline’s own 737-800s, but some frequencies on some routes will be operated by A320s that are being leased from Air France. Competition is provided on five of the seven routes, with easyJet providing the alternative on three of them. This summer transavia.com France will be offering over 50% more weekly flights from Orly than last summer.
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https://netoqeguwowozy.eduevazquez.com/ldef-satellite-radiation-study-book-26124td.php | 2021-08-02T02:50:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154302.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802012641-20210802042641-00685.warc.gz | 0.891416 | 860 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__136997445 | en | by SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Technical Information Servic4e, distributor in Prospect, Tenn, [Washington, DC, Springfield, Va .
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The basic objective of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of present models and computational methods for defining the ionizing radiation environment for spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) by making comparisons with radiation measurements made on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) satellite, which was recovered after almost six years. The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) was a NASA scientific research satellite within NASA's ERBE (Earth Radiation Budget Experiment) Research Program - a three-satellite mission, designed to investigate the Earth 's radiation budget It also carried an instrument that studied stratospheric aerosol and gases.. ERBS was launched on October 5, by the Space Shuttle Challenger during the Operator: NASA. In January , the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), after five-and-one half years orbiting Earth, was retrieved during the STS space shuttle mission and returned to . 4. SUMMARY A detailed 3D mass model of the LDEF spacecraft and on board experiments was generated for ionizing radiation analyses. This model allows shielding effects to be accurately accounted for in predictions made to compare with LDEF radiation measure- ments and in related assessments of environment model by: 2.
LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) In the early days of the spaceage, researchers recognized the potential of the planned Space Shuttle to deliver a payload to space, leave it there, and on a separate mission, retrieve the payload and return it to Earth for measurements. Get this from a library! LDEF satellite radiation analyses: final report, contract no. NAS [T W Armstrong; B L Colborn; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.]. The exposure of human beings to ionizing radiation from natural sources is a continuing and inescapable feature of life on earth. A large number of natural radioactivity measurements were. radiation belt of the Earth." 3. Single event effects due to high-energy (> 10 MeV) protons and heavier ions generated, for example, in solar flares and in coronal mass ejection (CME) shock fronts." 4. Total dosage effects caused by cumulative charged particle radiation received by spacecraft." 5.
Based on measurements of the impact craters on the LDEF satellite, the rate of accretion of cosmic dust on the present-day Earth is estimated to be 4 ± 2 × 10 10 g/yr (Love and Brownlee, ). A somewhat higher infall rate of 7 to 25 × 10 10 g/yr has recently been estimated from osmium isotopes (Sharma et al., ). Direct measurements of the flux of micrometeorites reaching Earth's. The purpose of the present contribution is to study in details the effects of antenna radiation reaction on the orbital elements of the Global Position System (GPS) satellite class BLOCK IIR in a MEO orbit, whose communication system operates with quadrifilar helix antenna arrays and, as a second case, the communication satellite INTELSAT Cited by: 3. LDEF was a cylindrical satellite, deployed into a low Earth orbit by Challenger mission STSC in April LDEF was returned to Earth aboard Columbia in January MISSE: The Materials International Space Station Experiment is an ongoing series of experiments that tests how samples and specimens react to exposure to the space environment. CCD Radiation Effects and Test Issues for Satellite Designers Review Draft Prepared by Cheryl J. Marshall (NASA-GSFC) and Paul W. Marshall (NASA-GSFC Multi-Engineering Disciplinary Support Contract Task ) 6 October, This work is sponsored by the NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging (NEPP). | aerospace |
https://www.podplay.com/podcasts/insideair-552324/episodes/helicopter-pilot-training-and-earning-those-wings-67087215 | 2021-10-16T13:00:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323584567.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016105157-20211016135157-00142.warc.gz | 0.956183 | 80 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__203842437 | en | Learning to fly a helicopter is notoriously challenging, so what does it take to earn your pilot’s wings? We asked one of the RAF’s most recent graduates from No. 1 Flying Training School at RAF Shawbury. Our correspondent is Flight Sergeant Gemma Bibby.
InsideAIR is produced for the Royal Air Force by RAF Media Reserves. Theme music by RAF Music Services. | aerospace |
https://www.geoworks.sg/settings/archives/december-2020/geoworks-german-geotech-volocopter-to-launch-flying-taxis-in-singapore-in-next-3-years | 2021-04-10T21:59:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038059348.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20210410210053-20210411000053-00390.warc.gz | 0.926761 | 514 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__219136772 | en | Home > Settings > Archives > December 2020 > GeoWorks' German GeoTech Volocopter to launch flying taxis in Singapore in next 3 years
GeoWorks' German GeoTech Volocopter to launch flying taxis in Singapore in next 3 years
Expect autonomous air taxis flying soon in Singapore, helmed by GeoWorks' German GeoTech, Volocopter GmbH! German aviation start-up Volocopter on Wednesday (Dec 9) announced its commitment to launch air taxi services in Singapore, following two years of "close collaboration" with the city.
“Singapore is renowned for its leading role in adapting and living new technologies. Our successful cooperation with EDB, MOT, and CAAS on our previous flight has shown that there is no better place in Asia to launch our electric air taxi services than in Singapore,” says Florian Reuter, CEO of Volocopter. “The city’s research institutes conducting R&D play an integral part in this. Topics like route validation for autonomous operations, material science, and research regarding battery technology are very important for our long-term business success.”
“Urban Air Mobility is an emerging area within the broader mobility sector, which we have identified as a growth industry for Singapore,” said Mr. Tan Kong Hwee, Executive Vice President, EDB. “Singapore is an important regional testbed for autonomous cars, electric vehicles, and Urban Air Mobility, including the successful test flight by Volocopter in 2019. We are glad that Volocopter has chosen Singapore to anchor its commercial and R&D activities. This will help build new capabilities for our mobility ecosystem and create many exciting opportunities for Singapore.”
The partnership will also look into a feasibility study with Grab to offer airborne rides. The two will look into the most suitable cities and routes to deploy air taxis, evaluate the best-use cases and explore the possibility of joint flight tests.
Read the full article on Straits Times here.
Volocopter, the pioneer in Urban Air Mobility (UAM), is cooperating with Lufthansa Industry Solutions, building Volocopter’s proprietary intelligent and integrated “Urban Air Mobility Software Platform” that will run on Microsoft Azure: VoloIQ. It offers complete digital visibility of the complex UAM ecosystem in real-time. VoloIQ is the digital backbone for enabling the whole Volocopter Urban Air Mobility Services ecosystem and serves as the brain for our air taxi services. | aerospace |
http://nar.org/site/virtual-openmeet/rules/ | 2024-04-15T22:26:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817033.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415205332-20240415235332-00303.warc.gz | 0.898654 | 1,686 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__42210594 | en | Events: Events include variants of the five standard World Cup events plus S2/P (precision fragile payload). Some changes are made to impulse to reduce performance and allow the use of smaller flying fields:
- S4A – rocket glider duration
- S6A – streamer duration
- S9A – gyrocopter duration
- S8D – R/C rocket glider duration
- S7 – scale (simplified judging)
- S2/P – precision fragile payload
Schedule: Flights may be flown from 21 August through 18 October. Final results and winners will be announced on Wednesday, 21 October. S7 Scale entrants should note the unique dates for that event.
Rules: Flights must comply with the 2020 Edition (effective 1-Jan-2020) of the FAI Sporting Code for Space Models (except as noted) and the appropriate safety code as issued by each participant’s National Aero Club. For participants in those countries that do not have a published safety code, we recommend the use of the National Association of Rocketry Model Rocket Safety Code.
Motors: Flights must use motors approved by their National Aero Club. Participants in the United States shall use only NAR contest-certified motors.
Official Flights: All flights in an individual event must be completed within the same calendar day. The participant may make those flights at any time during that calendar day. Flight results should be reported as soon as possible, and in no case longer than 48 hours after the flight attempt All flights shall be reported no later than 19 October 2020, 2359 CDT.
Duration Timing: You may time your own model. Standard timing rules apply except that duration flights do not need to be returned. Binoculars may be used.
Model Dimensions: Models shall comply with the dimensions listed in the FAI Sporting Code for Space Models.
Altimeters: You may process your own altimeter results. Use of NAR contest approved altimeter is required. The Adrel BMP altimeters used widely in FAI competition are on this list of approved devices. The altimeter list may be found here.
Eligibility: The goal of the World Space Modeling Virtual Open Meet is to be as inclusive as possible. Participants do not need to be NAR members or possess an FAI license. NAR or FAI numbers are not required on models.
- Name, nationality, and NAR/FAI number of flyer (if entrant is a member)
- Date and launch site location
- Motor(s) used
- For duration events, report the duration of each flight
- For S2/P, report the raw altitude reported by the altimeter, the altimeter type, and the temperature. During data entry, we will adjust the altitude for temperature effects per the FAI EDIC procedures.
- For S7 (scale) , an entry form, data pack, and photos of the entry must be submitted. S7 Scale entry forms, data packs, and model photographs may be submitted via Dropbox (preferred) or email. Contact James Duffy ([email protected]) for a Dropbox link. A short video of a successful flight must be posted to YouTube and a link provided.
Flight results should be reported as soon as possible, and in no case longer than 48 hours after the flight attempt All flights shall be reported no later than 19 October 2020, 23:59 CDT.
Results: Results will be posted to the World Space Modeling Virtual Open Meet contest web site as they are received. Final results and awards will be announced on Wednesday, 21 October, 2020.
Event Managers: James Duffy ([email protected]) will be the Contest Director, and Mike Nowak ([email protected]) will serve as Sport Director for this remote, virtual contest. Contact them regarding questions or suggestions about this contest.
Disclaimer: This World Space Modeling Virtual Open Meet contest is not an official NAR or FAI contest event. It is simply a fun event to help practice our competition skills, foster fellowship, and encourage further activity in FAI Spacemodeling.
Expanded rules for duration events (S4 rocket glider, S6 streamer, S9 gyrocopter)
- Three rounds will be flown, just like a typical World Cup contest.
- Max times for these rounds will be 180 seconds.
- If a flyer scores max flights of 180 seconds in each of these three rounds, they should then fly an additional tiebreaking “flyoff” round. This flight should be timed to completion, with no maximum time limit.
Expanded rules for S8D RC Rocket Glider
Because of the unique nature of a distributed, remote contest, the practice of flying in working groups and normalizing scores for each group cannot be used. Instead, this event will be flown using simplified rounds, much like S4, S6, and S9.
- Three rounds will be flown.
- Max times for these rounds will be 300 seconds.
- If a flyer scores max flights of 300 seconds in each of these three rounds, they should then fly an additional tiebreaking “flyoff” round. This flight should be timed to completion, with no maximum time limit.
- There will be no precision landing task for this event.
Expanded rules for S7 Scale
There are unique challenges associated with a remote scale contest, especially the subjective static judging. Unlike the other events, there will be two separate participation windows for S7 Scale, a “Static” window during which the entries will be judged, and a “Flight” window during which participants may submit the results of their flight attempts.
For Static judging:
- Each competitor must submit the following:
- Because the models cannot be measured by the judges, each entry will receive the maximum points available for dimensional accuracy.
- The window for submitting data for Static judging will extend from 21 August through 6 September, 2359 CDT. During this period, entrants will submit their entry form, data pack, and photographs.
- Beginning 7 September, the judges will begin their evaluations of the entries. Results of their deliberations will be posted 20 September.
For Flight judging:
- Each entrant shall record a video of a successful flight and post a video to YouTube of that flight.
- Each entrant must submit an S7 Flight Form detailing the results of that flight, including a link to the YouTube video.
- Entrants may submit their flight judging forms and video links starting 21 September.
To recap, the timeline for the World Space Modeling Virtual Open Meet S7 Scale event:
- Friday, 21 August until Sunday, 6 September at 2359 CDT: S7 entry form and data pack may be submitted to contest director
- Monday, 7 September through Sunday, 20 September: static judging window
- Sunday, 20 September (evening): static results posted
- Monday, 21 September: entrants may submit flight reports and video links
Expanded rules for S2/P
S2/P will be run as specified in the FAI Sporting Code for Space Models (Rule 6.2). Countries that participate in TARC may note that the rules for S2/P and TARC are very similar, with some minor changes.
- Target altitude is 300 meters.
- Target duration for each round is one minute.
- Reporting altitude results depend on the type of altimeter used:
- Adrel BMP altimeters: the user should enter the local air temperature into the Adrel read-out software. The Adrel software will apply the temperature correction to the altitude data. The user should report the temperature-corrected results from the Adrel software.
- All other altimeters: the user should report the as-read altitude and the local air temperature. When the data is received by the contest officials, the altitude will be corrected for temperature effects per the FAI EDIC procedures.
- Each flyer must complete three rounds with the same egg. The egg is not checked until the third round is completed. | aerospace |
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/southwest-cancels-300-flights-as-planes-inspected-after-hole-found-in-fuselage.html | 2021-12-04T08:17:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362952.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20211204063651-20211204093651-00533.warc.gz | 0.964198 | 596 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__153639797 | en | Southwest cancels 300 flights to inspect planes after fuselage cracks open on Sacramento-bound flight
Southwest Airlines announced it was canceling hundreds of flights Saturday as inspectors look at their jets after a flight from Phoenix to Sacramento suffered a rapid loss of cabin pressure due to a hole in the top of the fuselage.
"Southwest expects to cancel approximately 300 flights today to accommodate the inspections," the airline said in a statement. "Customers may experience sporadic delays of up to two hours on some flights today. Customers should check the status of their particular flight or rebook their trip on southwest.com before heading to the airport."
Southwest said inspections involve 79 Boeing 737 aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating, and Boeing is assisting in the inspections.
Officials said the inspections would last several days, and that they were looking for any indications that other planes were suffering from "aircraft skin fatigue."
In the Friday incident, Southwest said a flight attendant suffered a minor injury during the steep descent, but no passengers were hurt on aborted Flight 812.
But some passengers told various media organizations that the injuries were more serious.
Several passengers told the Sacramento Bee that a flight attendant suffered a head wound and that he and several other passengers lost consciousness. Passenger Christine Ziegler, 44, told the Bee she could see the flight attendant was bleeding from the head.
The Boeing 737 landed safely at 4:07 p.m. at Yuma International Airport, according to the FAA. The pilot "made a rapid, controlled descent" from 36,000 feet to 11,000 feet after the loss of cabin pressure.
"Just unreal. All of a sudden there's like a little explosion. Sounded like an explosion at least. All of a sudden there's a sunroof in the middle of the plane. A big, old hole. You see daylight running through it," passenger David Smith told KCRA-TV.
On her Twitter feed, Shawna Malvini Redden, who identified herself as a passenger on the plane, posted photos of other passengers wearing oxygen masks dangling from the cabin ceiling.
"Loss of cabin pressure, hands down the scariest experience of my life," she wrote.
Firetrucks from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma met the flight, but no rescue was necessary, said Gen Grosse, corporate account manager for the Yuma County Airport Authority.
Upon landing, "the flight crew discovered a hole in the top of the aircraft," Southwest said in a news release.
"You can see daylight through it," passenger Brenda Reese told KCRA. Reese also said a few passengers passed out when they had trouble getting oxygen from their masks.
Flight attendants were "amazing" in helping everyone out, she said.
Passengers said they cheered when the plane landed.
--Michael Finnegan and Shelby Grad
Photos: Associated Press | aerospace |
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/connor-williams/2014/07/17/howard-stern-fan-fools-msnbcs-krystal-ball-air-youre-dumb | 2023-01-30T04:24:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499801.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130034805-20230130064805-00079.warc.gz | 0.978124 | 337 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__73466198 | en | Even after all these years, some people still fall for Howard Stern’s tricks. Reacting to the plane crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, MSNBC’s The Cycle supposedly brought on U.S. Staff Sergeant Michael Boyd. He claimed to have seen the missile in the air hit the plane. Suffice it to say, Krystal Ball’s interview did not go as planned.
Ball led off by asking “Boyd” what he saw on the ground in Ukraine. He responded: " Well, I was looking out the window and I saw a projectile flying through the sky and it would appear that the plane was shot down by a blast of wind from Howard Stern’s ass." [MP3 audio here; video below]
Not seeming to hear the comment, Ball continued the interview. “So it would appear that the plane was shot down. Can you tell us anything more from your military training of what sort of missile system that may have been coming from?” The man replied with an attack on Ball: “Well, you’re a dumbass, aren’t you?”
Ball, finally realizing that this was all a petty prank, ended the interview: “I’m sorry, sir? Alright, we’re gonna take a quick break and we’ll be back with all the latest, next.”
After the break, The Cycle co-host apologized to her viewers: “If you were listening prior to the break, we thought that we had an eyewitness on the scene, that individual was obviously not actually an eyewitness.” | aerospace |
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No expense was ever spared on maintenance, which was only performed exclusively by the Citation Service Centers or MSU. Rated 9 of 10. The Flight Training Award, according to AOPA data, puts BVFS within the top 4% flight schools in the USA and the top 1% of flight. Advanced Display Technology. – Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. Cessna brand is officially called as Cessna Aircraft Company, is a general aviation aircrafts manufacturing company based in the United States. The Cessna Citation Service Center is a branch of the Cessna Aircraft Company, which manufactures one of the most complete lines of aircraft in the world. Newer Cessna 208B Caravan aircraft have the factory TKS anti-icing fluid tank located in the belly pod. Foreign Repair Approval. As a Cessna Service Station, Mid Island Air is prepared to help satisfy your aircraft service needs with: Trained Technicians: Our service facility personnel are trained by FlightSafety International using factory-approved training programs which means knowledgeable technicians will be maintaining your aircraft. A 17-year tradition continues in New Orleans, LA, with hundreds of Cirrus aircraft arriving to attend the COPA annual meeting, trade show, educational seminars, and social events. The following is offered: Aircraft Manufacturing - In Sacramento there are 13 other Aircraft Manufacturing. As the sole Cessna Pilot Center at Van Nuys Airport we have partnered with the leading manufacturer of Flight Training Aircraft equipped with the latest technology including Garmin Glass Panel Avionics. Cessna's parent company, Textron, posted a loss of US$8M in the first quarter of 2010, largely driven by continuing low sales at Cessna, which were down 44%. Our experienced technicians are just as familiar with your Cessna 172 or 210 as they are your Cessna Caravan. Find 132 listings related to Cessna Citation Service Center in Mesa on YP. Through this partnership, CESCOM is a division of CAMP Systems and is the Exclusive Factory Endorsed Maintenance Program for Cessna aircraft. Aircraft Spruce supplies components for a wide variety of homebuilt aircraft including the Lancair, Vans Aircraft, Cozy, Starduster and Europa, as well as factory built parts for Cessna, Piper, Beech, and Mooney. 1946 Globe Swift GC-1B $ 39,500. The first Mobile Service Unit truck is in service, based at the San Antonio Cessna Citation Service Center. University Air Center maintains Multi-engine Jets, Very Light Jets, and Single Engine piston aircraft. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. Find 3 listings related to Cessna Service Center in San Antonio on YP. Search aircraft for sale for free! 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With an improved graphical interface, more powerful hardware, higher resolution displays, added functionality to improve situational awareness, and optional wireless technology, managing the flight deck has never been easier. We can exchange your unit for a duplicate. This establishment is involved in Aircraft Repair as well as other possible related aspects and functions of Aircraft Repair. Embraer Authorized Service Center capabilities at Washington Dulles (IAD). Learn to Fly with Mid Island Flight School ! We have been providing flight training to L. For our export customers, we also offer Form 8130-3 with EASA Dual Release. SERVICE BULLETIN. • Routine Engine Maintenance • Inspections • Factory Warranty Claims and Support • Upgrades. Cessna is closing its Toledo, Ohio Citation service center at the end of this month “due to reduced customer operations in the region,” according to a spokeswoman. Newer Cessna 208B Caravan aircraft have the factory TKS anti-icing fluid tank located in the belly pod. Join The Adventure. Mid Island Air Service, Inc. From the Sport Pilot Training through the ATP, our flight instruction is top notch. It looks like this kit plane also offers a similar rack. Troutdale Aircraft Services is a full-service, high-quality aircraft maintenance and repair facility at the Portland Troutdale Airport. The Mesa Citation Service Center is part of Cessna's global network of company-owned service centers. Request Info Details. Citation Business Jets. Categories listed in: AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE SERVICE,REPAIR CESSNA ACCESSORIES CESSNA AIRCRAFT CESSNA PARTS FBO - FIXED BASE OPERATIONS. No expense was ever spared on maintenance, which was only performed exclusively by the Citation Service Centers or MSU. has been the leader in Cessna 337 sales for over 20 years. The United States Air Force commissioned Cessna to build a military variant to replace the O-1 Bird Dog in. A jet quicker than any other civil airplane flying (525ktas) resulted. 42 kB - downloaded 37 times. If you’ve got your private pilot’s license and are ready to earn your instrument rating, Lanier Flight Center is the Cessna Pilot Center that can help. Cessna Orlndo Citation Service Center 4134 Bear Rd Orlando FL 32827. The M2 is the entry level jet that pilots have been asking for. The Cessna 402 proved to be the clear winner, and the Cessna 401 version was dropped after six years. The 180 was originally heralded by Cessna's marketing folks as "the businessman's airplane," but the airplane quickly gained a reputation for solid dependability and utility in the back country. When you own a Cirrus aircraft you become part of a family where world-class service and support is our number one priority. Domestic and International clients since 1998 with more than 38 years of experience in corporate aviation. NOTE: All visual depictions contained within this document, including screen. The centre offers comprehensive services for citation jets including upgrades, repairs, maintenance, overhaul and parts support. Cessna remains the only business aviation or general aviation manufacturer that has publicly committed to switching to these batteries as a power source on aircraft and after the reintroduction on the CJ4 the batteries are being added to the larger Citation aircraft such as the new X and the Sovereign. Reims-Cessna FRA150L Aerobat. White Plains, NY (May 9, 2012) — AutoPower ®, Safe Flight’s Automatic Throttle System (ATS) is expected to receive Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification this summer, through the efforts of the Cessna Citation Service Center in Wichita, Kansas. 1973 C-414 TT:aprox 5700. Our experienced technicians are just as familiar with your Cessna 172 or 210 as they are your Cessna Caravan. Opening New Runways for You. Located in the heart of the Hudson Valley, Atlantic Aviation SWF is the FBO that serves all your aircraft needs. Twin booms extend aft of the wings to the vertical stabilizers, with the rear engine between them. Conveniently located in a high-tech campus on Marathahalli-Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, our hotel places you in India’s Silicon Valley with quick access to Bagmane Tech Park and Embassy Tech Village. Details of Cessna Zurich Citation Service Center GmbH in Kloten (Address, Telephone number, P. As a Cessna Service Center, we provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance as well as off-site AOG services to Cessna Citation aircraft. Cessna Citation European Service Center S. A free inside look at Cessna salary trends based on 284 salaries wages for 151 jobs at Cessna. McFarlane Aviation Products designs and manufactures thousands of different quality FAA-PMA parts for Cessna, Piper, Grumman, Beechcraft and Ag Cat aircraft. Reliable Jet Maintenance is a Premier Aircraft Services Company Providing Parts, AOG Services, Gulfstream Maintenance, Cessna Aircraft Maintenance & Much More!. Compare price and specifications of all Cessna 172 models in our listings. View Cessna Zurich Citation Service Center Gmbh's profile on PureMRO. American Aviation has offered a superior level of service to pilots and planes since 1979. New York Citation Service Center FBO Info & Fuel Prices at New York Stewart Intl (KSWF) - 18455679210 - 3 Express Drive Stewart International Airport Newburgh, New York 12550. Parts manuals Cessna 340 rev 2 tr 2. Wipaire ® is most often known as being the leading designer and manufacturer of Wipline ® floats. Cessna Service Center. The items in boldface are computed values. The center will provide maintenance for Citation. Rainier Flight Service offers more than 20 aircraft to choose from, making us one of the largest flight training providers in the Pacific Northwest. Business Aviation Service by Atlas Air Service + Augsburg Air Service Since 1970 we have been known for competence and quality in business aviation services. Our aircraft are maintained to the highest standards by a reputable Cirrus and Cessna Service Center. Transportation Department in Washington, D. Polar Service Centers is the nation's largest network of commercial parts and repair facilities dedicated to the tank trailer and tank truck industry. N6193L – 1980 Cessna 152; N25269 – 1977 Cessna 152; Cessna 172 Series. I'm Caitlin and welcome to my blog Cessna Chick which is all about my pilot's training and. 1975 Cessna 421B. Yelp is a fun and easy way to find, recommend and talk about what's great and not so great in Greensboro and beyond. The Cessna 210 Centurion is a six-seat, high-performance, retractable-gear, single-engine, high-wing general aviation aircraft which was first flown in January 1957 and produced by Cessna until 1986. | aerospace |
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JAXA has said it will use unmanned probes to study the possible use of materials on the moon as well as its environment, which could pave the way for future manned missions.
JAXA is expected to brief a government panel on the project with the aim of securing funding for mission preparations from the budget for fiscal 2016, which begins next April, the sources said.
The mission involves the experimental Smart Lander for Investigating Moon and would represent Japan’s first lunar exploration attempt since JAXA launched an unmanned orbiter in 2007.
SLIM is likely to be launched on an Epsilon advanced rocket, the sources said.
The SLIM mission is aimed at establishing a method for pinpoint landings that would make it possible to approach a target area with a level of accuracy ranging in the hundreds of meters.
In 2013, a Chinese probe made the world’s first soft landing on the moon in nearly 40 years, joining both the United States and the former Soviet Union as the only countries to achieve the feat.
Only the United States has achieved a manned moon landing.
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Japan aims to achieve moon landing in FY2018
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is moving forward with a plan to land an unmanned probe on the moon's surface by as early as fiscal 2018, sources said.
This would make Japan the fourth nation to achieve the feat, following the former Soviet Union, the United States and China.
A moon landing could be a stepping stone toward future explorations of Mars. As part of the mission, the space agency would like to develop high-precision soft landing technology, the sources said.
The plan calls for launching a "SLIM" probe using an Epsilon solid-fuel rocket in fiscal 2018 or 2019. SLIM stands for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon.
JAXA presented its plan Monday to an expert panel that included officials from the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.
If approved by the government's space policy committee, the science ministry would likely request funding for the project in its budgetary requests for next fiscal year. Development is expected to cost from ¥10 billion to ¥15 billion, the sources said.
Past moon probes have deviated from their landing targets by several kilometers. But with the SLIM probe, JAXA hopes to achieve a soft landing within about 100 meters of the target site.
Japan launched the Kaguya lunar orbiter, which photographed craters and other features of the moon's surface, in 2007.
The upcoming mission aims to have the SLIM probe photograph the lunar surface just before landing to determine its location based on geographical features and use data from Kaguya to increase its landing precision.
Kaguya discovered a shaft on the lunar surface 60 to 70 meters in diameter and 80 to 90 meters deep that could serve as a site for a future moon base.
The shaft is also a potential landing site for the SLIM probe, the sources said.
In addition to serving as a stepping stone for future Mars missions, a moon landing creates opportunities to find deposits.
China is the most recent country to achieve a lunar landing, doing so in 2013.
Russia, which was the first to do so back in the 1960s, hopes to carry out more missions, and India is aiming to execute a moon landing in the next few years.
Japan showed its prowess in advanced landing technology with the Hayabusa unmanned probe, which landed on the asteroid Itokawa. Cutting-edge technology to collect samples and transport them back to Earth was also developed for Hayabusa.
However, such technology was designed for Itokawa's extremely low gravity environment. The stronger gravitational pull of the moon - about one-sixth of Earth's - could require different technology for controlling the probe.
Landing on the moon could present similar conditions to those on Mars.
In addition to the SLIM probe, a Japanese private-sector team is planning to send a lunar rover to the moon by the end of next year. This mission plans to use a moon rocket and landing craft built by a US company.Speech | aerospace |
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The new 2014 Aviation Calendars are here and we've got some great new titles in addition to your old favorites! Filled with s... These globally renowned, authoritative and comprehensive references are the standards in their fields, providing exhaustive t... | aerospace |
https://forums.space.com/threads/satellite-spots-iran-missile-attack-aftermath-from-space.28992/ | 2023-06-05T16:15:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652149.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605153700-20230605183700-00136.warc.gz | 0.983456 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__297560558 | en | So the reason nobody was hurt was because everyone had left. Not because of super precision targeting (like in the dessert )missing everyone CNN. DOD could have sent an anti-missile ship offshore, if enough range to shoot down the missiles soon after launch. Or send fighter planes and use their a-a missiles to shoot down soon after launch. Maybe even cannon. That Gatling 20mm cannon was something else. In the Vietnam War an F-4 shot down 4 Migs on 1 flight. I was at Ubon, Thailand and they named the plane the Gunner I think. I do not remember working on it, but I may have. So even an old F-4 could have shot these missiles down. Either IR Sidewinder or radar Sparrow I think. I think it could carry 8 + 1 Gatling. Timing would be critical, but if they quit, just reset. If they had, these buildings would not have been damaged. The F-4 had ECM and chaff, so I think could have made it. Today DOD could have used a longer range radar missile.I think the Phoenix is 100mi! | aerospace |
https://www.ruta-patagonia.com/Tour-Detalle.php?t=284370P1 | 2023-03-25T20:08:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945372.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325191930-20230325221930-00553.warc.gz | 0.890833 | 1,101 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__107360741 | en | Kennedy Space Center Adventure with Transport from Orlando
#1 Outdoor Activity Provider in Orlando on TripAdvisor. When you want to immerse yourself completely in the space center vibe, this is the adventure for you! Hop on board and take your space exploration a step further with all that Kennedy Space Center has to offer. With hands on exhibits, astronaut encounters, behind the scene bus tours, the awe inspiring Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit and so much more you'll be left feeling like you were really out of this world!Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this productStop At:
NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Space Commerce Way, Merritt Island, FL 32899
Welcome to the home of One Small Step for Man. In simple terms, this is one of the most essential – and thrilling – attractions in Florida, and it is as real as it comes in terms of a dynamic, visceral place to visit.
Not only does the Space Center offer the past, present and future of the space program, it puts visitors front and center in the whole experience like never before. Seeing is believing, and you will believe you have been transported to the cutting edge of space exploration through a series of hands-on exhibits, movies, and presentations, including a daily Astronaut Encounter with one of the modern heroes of NASA’s operations.
In route your licensed and certified guide will tell you all about the Visitors Complex. Listen as they share fun facts and the rich history that has made KSC and Cape Canaveral what it is today. They’ll also give you insider tips and the best way to circumnavigate the park for the rest of the day.
Duration: 8 hoursStop At:
Apollo/Saturn V Center, Kennedy Pkwy N, Titusville, FL 32780, USA
Then it's off to the signature Bus Tour that provides a complete overview of the full extent of the vast spread of operations, including the massive Vehicle Assembly Building, Launch Complex 39B, and the Apollo/Saturn V Center, with its recreated moon landing and awesome full-size Saturn V rocket.
*subject KSC availability
Duration: 2 hoursStop At:
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, Astronaut Training Experience Center Space Commerce Way Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island, FL 32953
There is SO much to see here, you will definitely need all day to take it all in. With additional options such as Dine with an Astronaut, The Ultimate Space Package, or adding a Airboat ride through Florida wetlands, we have the perfect way to indulge your inner astronaut!
The KSC is fully 60 miles from Orlando, so take the strain out of the journey and you can enjoy the experience to the max – the IMAX.
Duration: 1 hourStop At:
Space Shuttle Atlantis, 405 Nasa Parkway West Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island, FL 32953
Back at the main Visitor Complex, you should definitely make a beeline for the hugely impressive Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit, with its moving and emotional presentation of one of the four surviving orbiters, as well as take a ride on the riveting Shuttle Launch Experience, a clever simulator with the inside track on what it feels like to blast off from the Space Center.
You can also visit the Heroes & Legends center (including the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame), soak up the grandeur of the IMAX Theater with its eye-popping large-screen movies, and wander the Rocket Garden.
Duration: 1 hour
"Service animals allowed"
"Most travelers can participate"
"Face masks required for travelers in public areas"
"Face masks required for guides in public areas"
"Face masks provided for travelers"
"Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff"
"Social distancing enforced throughout experience"
"Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas"
"Gear/equipment sanitized between use"
"Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized"
"Guides required to regularly wash hands"
"Regular temperature checks for staff"
"Temperature checks for travelers upon arrival"
"Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms"
"Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons"
"This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund"
"This tour/activity will have a maximum of 55 travelers"
"Confirmation will be received at time of booking"
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Duração: 12 Hours
Ponto de partida:
1: Margaritaville Resort Orlando, 8000 Fins Up Cir, Kissimmee, FL 34747, USA
2: Golden Corral Buffet & Grill, 8707 Vineland Ave, Orlando, FL 32821, USA
3: Orlando Starflyer, 8265 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819, USA
Cancelamentos e reembolsos:
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience. | aerospace |
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/claude-piantadosi/mankind-beyond-earth/print/ | 2021-01-16T05:28:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703500028.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20210116044418-20210116074418-00639.warc.gz | 0.933477 | 364 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__247067392 | en | The director of Duke University's Environmental Laboratory offers an exciting evaluation of the potential for colonizing Mars by the end of the century.
Piantadosi (The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments, 2003) reviews the history of the space program, with special emphasis on the biological challenges of human space exploration in a zero-gravity environment. In his view, establishing a manned moon base is a critical first step. “To get to Mars,” he writes, “astronauts must function in deep space for years and will face huge challenges in doing so.” While the moon is readily accessible, a population living on Mars would face the significant constraints imposed by distance and orbital mechanics. A Mars-based society would need to be self-sufficient, with fail-safe life-support systems in place (even a temporary loss of power would be catastrophic.) Further, colonists on the moon or Mars would face increased exposure to cosmic radiation, the loss of bone and muscle density, and possible challenges to their cardiovascular and immune systems. Despite the lower cost and reduced risk of the unmanned space program, Piantadosi believes that America (“the unquestioned leader in space since Project Apollo”) should also maintain its commitment to manned space exploration in order to keep its technological edge. While robots on the moon are already gathering important scientific information, only humans have the flexibility and imagination to allow scientists to pursue the unexpected. The author also considers the prospect of going beyond Mars to colonize the outer planets and beyond in the foreseeable future. He puts forth the lesson that the difficulties involved offer “the best incentives we have to take the best possible care of Spaceship Earth.”
An important book by a visionary with his feet planted on the ground. | aerospace |
https://www.helicopterinvestor.com/news/101346/hi-uplift-bell-525-relentless-aims-to-quench-demand-for-medium-lift/ | 2024-04-21T07:50:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421071342-20240421101342-00522.warc.gz | 0.933396 | 1,437 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__162003 | en | HI Uplift: Bell 525 Relentless aims to quench demand for medium lift
Relentless is a popular name – from energy drinks to US warships (and even a 24th century Star Trek patrol vessel). Another chapter is opening for this heroic name with the first commercial order for Bell’s 525 Relentless super-medium helicopter. Can it carve out a legendary career in resurgent offshore markets and elsewhere?
The first order – from oil and gas giant Equinor, which recently opened the aircraft’s sales book with a booking for 10 aircraft – must be a welcome relief. The Bell 525 was launched at Heli-Expo 2012 in Dallas and completed its maiden flight on July 1st, 2015. The manufacturer is still working towards Bell 525 FAA certification. And the global pandemic has caused significant delays.
Bell certainly sees the sale as a landmark transaction. The manufacturer’s chief commercial officer Danny Maldonado tells us: “Bell’s agreement with Equinor is an exciting step closer in its path to bring the Bell 525’s revolutionary technology and capabilities to North Sea offshore operations.”
Maldonado described the 525 as a step-change in technology for the rotorcraft industry and “foundationally different” from any other offshore helicopter available today. It’s a clean sheet design shaped by an offshore customer advisory panel. A key requirement was to address the rigorous safety requirements of the industry.
“For example, the main rotor gear box design uses separation, redundancy and low speed gears to create a safer gearbox capable of passing the EASA one-hour Loss of Lubrication Test,” says Maldonado. “Additionally, the fly-by-wire control architecture acts as a full-time autopilot, which reduces pilot workload and fatigue through every phase of flight.”
Transport up to 20 passengers
The aircraft incorporates fly-by-wire flight controls and is powered by two General Electric CT7-2F1 turboshaft engines. They deliver a maximum speed of 190mph (306km/h) and a range of 644 miles (1,037km). It has the capacity to transport up to 20 passengers or a useful load of 8,200lbs (3,700kg). By the end of last year, the manufacturer’s test fleet of four aircraft had logged well over a combined total of 3,000 hours of flight testing.
A key part of the manufacturer’s pitch is the aircraft’s sustainability performance. It is said to offer significant benefits in supporting the oil and gas industry’s sustainability objectives by consuming 30% less fuel per hour of operation than the heavy class helicopters that fly offshore today on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Bell is currently exploring the benefits of SAF across its commercial production aircraft, with the Bell 525 already completing a number of SAF-fuelled flights.
So, what persuaded oil giant Equinor to invest in the Bell 525? First, the reason for its purchase. The company plans to deploy the aircraft – alongside five new Leonardo AW189 aircraft – for passenger transport on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Both feature technological innovations in terms of helicopter safety, reduced CO2 emissions, pilot support systems, passenger comfort and external noise reduction, according to Equinor.
The new aircraft will supplement the existing fleet of Sikorsky S-92s. “All three helicopter models meet stringent safety requirements. By increasing from one to three helicopter models on the NCS we get more flexibility and regularity,” said Kjetil Hove, executive vice president, Exploration & Production Norway, Equinor.
‘Safe and efficient logistics’
Ørjan Kvelvane, senior vice president for joint operations support at Equinor: “We depend on safe and efficient logistics operations to maintain a high activity level on the NCS well into the future. The new models feature technological improvements in terms of pilot support systems, passenger comfort and noise reduction.”
All Equinor unions, including the safety delegates, had endorsed the helicopters’ selection, according to the company. (Top safety standards have never been more important after the fatal crash last month of a search and rescue (SAR) S-92 helicopter off the Norwegian coast, operated by Bristow on behalf of the oil company).
The 10 Relentless helicopters placed with Equinor can certainly look forward to a full flight programme. Each year the company transports 160,000 offshore employees to and from the Norwegian Continental Shelf with transfers totalling more than 24,000 flight hours. Annual landings on Equinor-operated installations in the area amount to about 16,000.
Bell’s path to its first commercial 525 sale to Equinor was eased by Norwegian Aviation and Defense Group (NADG), which represented the manufacturer in Norway. Its chief executive Ole Petter Bakken said: “Bell has delivered aircraft and reliable services for more than 30 years to Norwegian operators, both in the government and commercial spheres, and will continue to do the same to the Norwegian Continental Shelf and the energy sector. We are looking forward to developing this further with Equinor.”
Production of the Bell 525 production is ramping up at the manufacturer’s Amarillo Assembly Center. Offshore-configured aircraft are expected to roll off the Texas production line later this year. Equinor expects to receive four Bell 525s in 2026, with the additional six aircraft delivered between 2027-2030. The financial terms of the deal remain confidential.
After a long wait for a launch customer, Maldonado sums up the Bell 525’s intended industry appeal like this: “The Bell 525 technology provides a generational leap forward and will revolutionise offshore oil and gas operations by providing enhanced safety capabilities, reliability and optimised operations.”
Meanwhile, there’s no doubting the Bell 525’s legendary name. But will it quench demand for medium lift in offshore and other markets? Since the major oil companies generally judge 10 years to be the primary mission life of offshore helicopters, why not make a date to find out by checking back with Helicopter Investor on Tuesday March 21st 2034?
HI Uplift Dashboard: Helicopters for sale
- Total for sale/lease: 312 – one more than last week
- Percentage for sale/lease: 4.15
- Absorption rate: 5.2
- Total fleet: 7,524 – three more than last week.
- Total for sale/lease: 409 – the same as last week
- Percentage for sale/lease: 3.54
- Absorption rate: 3.91
- Total fleet: 11,569 – three more than last week.
Source: AMSTAT, March 21st, 2024. | aerospace |
http://pine-needles.blogspot.com/2006/12/nasa-gemini-anniversary.html | 2018-04-22T18:22:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945637.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422174026-20180422194026-00506.warc.gz | 0.98218 | 107 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__16738976 | en | NASA published this image of Gemini VI taken by the Gemini VII capsule rushing to do the first manned rendezvous in its image of the day series. The Gemini flights in the 60's were the training missions to prepare for the Apollo lunar atttempts.
I remember watching all of these missions on TV from takeoff to splashdown. We even listened to them on the radio. It was better than any science fiction because it was real. As much as I like Star Trek, I think we need to do more in real space. | aerospace |
https://www.newsy.com/stories/nasa-releases-flyover-video-of-pluto-and-its-moon/ | 2022-07-03T10:45:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104240553.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703104037-20220703134037-00618.warc.gz | 0.919451 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__131718480 | en | Two years ago, NASA took its first close-up images of Pluto. Now, the space agency is giving us a new view of the distant dwarf planet.
Using actual images and data from the New Horizons craft, NASA created stunning videos of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
The videos highlight Pluto's incredible surface features, complete with craters, mountains and canyons.
In January 2019, it's set to reach 2014 MU69 — a long name for a small object in the Kuiper Belt.
Because the Kuiper Belt gets so little light from the sun, NASA believes MU69 is a frozen snapshot of what that part of the solar system was like when it was born 4.6 billion years ago. | aerospace |
https://starlust.org/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-the-sun/ | 2023-09-21T23:33:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506045.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921210007-20230922000007-00873.warc.gz | 0.926681 | 3,762 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__65728552 | en | How Long Does it Take to Get to The Sun?
Last Updated: August 18, 2023
When we consider other astronomical objects in our solar system, it’s hard to forget the Sun, that massive ball of gas that keeps us from spinning into empty space and lights our day as the familiar yellow/ white ball that could be covered with your thumb. But, how long would it take to get there? Let’s dive into the various factors to determine how long it would take to travel to the Sun!
When calculating travel time you use two basic measurements: the distance and the speed of the vehicle. The average distance from Earth to the Sun — called an astronomical unit or AU— is 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 kilometers).
However, just as it is here on Earth, travel time highly depends on the route you take and a variety of other factors.
There are typically four factors when considering a more precise flight duration to any astronomical object:
- Whether or not the spacecraft is sent to other celestial objects either for scientific studies and/or gravity assist using a slingshot flight maneuver. While a quick flyby mainly for a gravity assist will dramatically increase speed and decrease travel time, time spent studying that planetary system becomes a little more complicated in terms of its actual impact on average velocity and travel time.
- The launch vehicle capabilities as much of the speed of the aircraft (disregarding gravity assists and thruster adjustments) will be determined by the speed the rocket can attain after escaping Earth’s gravity, which requires a minimum of 7 miles/ 11.2 kilometers per second (25,000 mph or just over 40,000 km/ hr) just to reach Earth’s escape velocity. As a baseline, the Apollo spacecraft reached a speed of 8 km/sec.
- Slowing down requires time by either reverse-firing thrusters in space or utilizing atmospheric re-entry if landing. A flyby will be shorter than an orbit insertion (which is the best we can do for the Sun and many other destinations like our gas giants) or landing on the surface of an object like a moon. Even more so than other destinations, a significant amount of effort, time, and fuel is spent on NOT being sucked into the Sun (unless that is the goal). The Sun is the biggest thing around, holding everything in the Solar System in place. Its gravitational pull is massive.
- An astronomical destination is not a fixed point in space like a house since it is constantly moving. Planets and other objects in the solar system move around the Sun and the Sun moves around the galaxy (we are never truly still). So, we can’t only plan to reach the end destination based on the distance when we launch, but where it will be by the time we reach it. This calculation also has to be done for any gravity assists that will be planned along the trip.
While theoretical flight plans are helpful, what real flight plans can we compare to better understand more realistic travel times to the Sun?
Past missions to the Sun
Many of the spacecraft that study the Sun do not go to the Sun. For example, while the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is the longest-running solar observatory to date, it sits at LaGrange Point 1, not even halfway to the Sun from Earth as it provides an uninterrupted view of the Sun.
However, we have sent five missions to the Sun.
Helios-A and Helios-B (renamed Helios 1 and Helios 2 after launch) were a pair of probes launched into orbit around the Sun to study our star. It was a joint venture between German Aerospace Center (DLR) and NASA. The project set a maximum speed record for spacecraft of 157,078 mph (252,792 km/h or 70,220 m/s).
Helios-A was launched on the first operational flight of the Titan IIIE rocket and the same procedure was used for Helios-B. There were several instrumental issues for Helios-A so multiple adjustments were made to Helios-B to address these concerns. Today they are no longer functional, but remain in orbit around the Sun. Below are key mission events:
December 10, 1974
Helios-A/ Helios 1 launch
Late February 1975
28,900,000 miles (46,500,000 km) from the Sun
September 21, 1975
Temperatures of 270 F (132 C) affected certain instruments
February 10, 1986
last telemetry data received
After other instrumental failures
January 15, 1976
Helios-B/ Helios 2 launch
April 17, 1976
1,900,000 miles (3,000,000 km) closer to the Sun than Helios-A at a record distance of 26,987,000 mi (43.432 million km), closer than the orbit of Mercury, at a record heliocentric speed of 70 kilometres per second (250,000 km/h; 160,000 mph)
March 3, 1980
Radio transceiver on Helios-B failed
January 7, 1981
stop command was sent
to prevent possible radio interference during future missions
Helios-A took less than three months from launch to the first perihelion while Helios-B took just about three months. Neither used flybys.
Ulysses was a joint ESA-NASA mission designed to study and explore the solar poles in three dimensions. The mission originally planned to utilize two spacecraft, one from ESA and one from NASA, each of which would have flown over opposite poles and was dubbed the International Solar Polar Mission (ISPM). However, NASA canceled its spacecraft and instead focused on providing instruments, the launch vehicle, and communications and tracking.
Ulysses completed nearly three complete orbits of the Sun during more than 18 years in service and was the first mission to survey the space environment above and below the poles of our Sun. The 818-pound (371-kilogram) Ulysses spacecraft launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Oct. 6, 1990
Escape velocity was about 10 miles per second (15.4 kilometers per second), higher than had been achieved by either of the Voyagers or Pioneers, and the fastest velocity ever achieved by a human-made object at the time
July 8, 1991
Feb 8, 1992
Arrived at Jupiter
Ulysses became the fifth spacecraft to reach Jupiter (for 17-day observation and gravity assist)
Entered Sun’s solar pole region of space
Jun 26-Nov 6, 1994
Observations of Sun’s south pole
March 5, 1995
Passed Solar Equator
Jun 19 and Sep 30, 1995
Passed over Sun’s north polar regions
Mar 12, 1995
Closest approach to Sun (about 124 million miles or 200 million kilometers)
Oct 1, 1995
ESA extended Ulysses’ mission and renamed it Second Solar Orbit
September 2000-January 2001
Second pass over South Pole
second pass over North Pole (during the Sun’s peak of its 11-year cycle)
Mission extended again
Aphelion observations of Jupiter
4th extension mission of solar poles
Jun 30, 2009
Loss of contact with spacecraft
From launch in October 1990 to the beginning of observations in June 1994, Ulysses took 3 years and 8 months, though many count it reaching the region of space around it a year earlier.
It’s also important to remember its closest approach was in March 1995 so we have to consider what qualifies as “arriving at the Sun”. Ulysses first did a gravity assist at Jupiter, accounting for the extended time period.
Parker Solar Probe
Often known as the mission to “touch the Sun”, Parker Solar Probe is focused on revolutionizing our understanding of our star over the course of 24 orbits around the Sun. The Solar Probe Plus Spacecraft at 1,510 pounds (685 kilograms) at launch sat on top of a Delta IV-Heavy with Upper Stage launch vehicle.
The mission’s route will utilize seven Venus flybys over nearly seven years to gradually shrink its orbit around the Sun. Check out this animation of the Parker Solar Probe’s orbits around the Sun.
Below are key dates in the mission, separated by year for easier reading. Note that perihelion means the point in an orbit that is closest to the Sun (think “peri” like perimeter or perilous or p for proximity) while aphelion is the point in an orbit that is furthest away.
Aug. 12, 2018
Oct. 3, 2018
1st Venus Venus Flyby
Nov. 5, 2018
January 19, 2019
January 20, 2019
Second Orbit Begins
April 4, 2019
September 1, 2019
December 26, 2019
Venus Flyby #2
January 29, 2020
June 7, 2020:
July 11, 2020:
Venus Flyby #3
September 27, 2020
January 17, 2021
February 20, 2021
Venus Flyby #4
April 29, 2021
August 9, 2021
October 16, 2021
Venus Flyby #5
November 21, 2021
Dec. 14, 2021
flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields
the first time in history, a spacecraft had touched the Sun
February 25, 2022
June 1, 2022
September 6, 2022
December 11, 2022
March 17, 2023
June 22, 2023
August 21, 2023
Venus Flyby #6
Coming up in just a few days as of this publication!
September 27, 2023
December 29, 2023
March 30, 2024
June 30, 2024
September 30, 2024
November 6, 2024:
Venus Flyby #7
Final Venus Flyby
December 24, 2024
First Close Approach
March 22, 2025
June 19, 2025
In August 2023, Parker’s current speed is about 32,508 mph (52,315 kph) and since it is currently heading toward Venus for its sixth flyby, its current distance from the Sun is quite far: at over 69,191,441 miles (111,352,830 km).
At its closest approach in 2025, it will come as close as 3.83 million miles (6.16 million kilometers) to the Sun, a tenth of the orbit of Mercury, (on average, about 36 million miles from the Sun), and about seven times closer than the current record holder (the Helios 2 spacecraft, which came within 27 million miles in 1976).
At this point, it will zip around the Sun at approximately 430,000 mph (700,000 kph), fast enough to travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in one second. Its orbit will be 88 days. 8.92 miles per second (14.35 km/s)
The first perihelion was achieved only three months after launch, even including a Venus flyby in contrast to the Helios crafts.
Solar Orbiter is a joint ESA and NASA mission delving into the conundrum of how the Sun creates and controls the ever-changing space environment throughout our solar system by studying the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles and magnetic fields blown out to over twice the distance to Pluto.
Over the course of 22 orbits around the Sun, it is traveling as close as 26 million miles (42 million km) from the Sun to study the magnetic fields, waves, energetic particles, and plasma escaping the Sun. It launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket, utilized multiple gravity assists from Earth and Venus, and then about 3.5 years later entered an elliptical orbit around the Sun, completing one revolution every 168 days.
It is using gravity assists from Venus and Earth to gradually lift itself out of the ecliptic plane that all the planets lie in up to an angle of about 24 degrees above the solar equator (33 degrees if the extended mission is approved) to capture the first images of the poles from high latitudes. It can hover over specific spots when it almost matches the Sun’s rate of rotation at its fastest speed.
Together with Parker Solar Probe, they are providing never before seen data to help us better understand our star.
Feb. 9/10, 2020
Delayed a few times from an original July 2017 estimate
Late May/ eary June 2020
Crossed through tails of Comet ATLAS
1st perihelion; Captured the closest images of the Sun ever taken
Within 48,000,000 miles (77,000,000 km) of the Sun
1st images released
1st Venus flyby
Closest approach within 0.5 AU, about 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) of the Sun
August 9, 2021
BepiColombo also did a Venus flyby just 33 hours later, making it the first “double Venus flyby”
November 27, 2021
Earth flyby and Routine science operations/ main mission began
Second perihelion; Highest resolution image of the Sun’s full disc and corona ever taken
Third Venus flyby; Solves the magnetic switchback (sudden reversals in the magnetic field of solar wind) mystery
Closest Approach within 0.3 AU
Venus gravity assist
First Solar polar pass
Venus gravity assist; expected start of extended mission
Solar Polar Pass
Venus gravity assist
Solar Polar Pass
Venus gravity assist
Solar Polar Pass
Venus gravity assist
From launch to first perihelion, Solar Orbiter took 4 months to arrive at the Sun.
General Estimate for Probes
As we have seen, you can reach 1st perihelion in orbit in 3 months, even with a Venus flyby. Subsequent gravity assists over months and even years are typically used to get closer and closer without getting sucked into the star.
What about humans traveling to the Sun? It’s important to note that currently there is no safe way to send a crewed mission to the Sun or even Mercury. The temperatures and radiation threats are too high. In completely theoretical terms, the fastest that humans have ever traveled in space is 24,791 mph (39,897 km/ hr), which was achieved by the returning Apollo 10 astronauts in May 1969. At that speed, we could theoretically reach the Sun in about 155 days or about five months, but that wouldn’t include the time needed to slow down.
In terms of light speed, light from the sun takes about 8 minutes and twenty seconds to reach the Earth, so if in the future we could travel at the speed of light, which the current understanding of physics says is an impossibility for anything besides light, it would take less than 8 and a half minutes.
The Sun sits about 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 kilometers) away. The calculation for how long it would take to get there is highly dependent on the speed achieved, the route, the number of “stops”, the number of gravity assists, and the approach procedure in which we slow down. Do we go straight to the Sun or utilize gravity-assist maneuvers from other planets, especially to save on fuel?
Based on past and current missions to our star, it takes probes about 3-4 months to “arrive” at a first perihelion in orbit. However, subsequent gravity assists are often utilized to get us closer and closer. It is important to remember that crewed missions to the Sun are not considered viable due to radiation concerns (even Mercury is a no-go for humans), but who knows what innovations the future may hold? Perhaps someday in the future, we can protect astronauts in a spacecraft enough to have them visit inside Mercury’s orbit or even closer to the Sun.
Sarah Hoffschwelle is a freelance writer who covers a combination of topics including astronomy, general science and STEM, self-development, art, and societal commentary. In the past, Sarah worked in educational nonprofits providing free-choice learning experiences for audiences ages 2-99. As a lifelong space nerd, she loves sharing the universe with others through her words. She currently writes on Medium at https://medium.com/@sarah-marie and authors self-help and children’s books. | aerospace |
https://www.yqqlm.com/2020/07/china-and-the-united-states-are-competing-for-the-international-military-drone-market-and-chinese-drones-areattractive/ | 2020-10-22T09:53:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107879362.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022082653-20201022112653-00156.warc.gz | 0.944647 | 831 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__1953544 | en | China and the United States are competing for the international military drone market, and Chinese drones are”attractive”
The Spanish global website published an article by Ivan Jimenez on July 13th, claiming to be in the world of military drones, China is becoming the main competitor of the United States. This year, the Trump administration has begun to take measures to reinterpret the Missile Technology Control Agreement. This move is largely to “recover lost land” in countries that choose to purchase Chinese drones. The article is excerpted as follows:People have become accustomed to news that U.S. drones are fighting members of armed groups. The names of American-made attacking drones such as MQ-9″Reaper” and MQ-1″Predator” have long been known to the public in international news. But in fact,
Let’s take a look at the specific case. The debut of Chinese drones on overseas battlefields dates back to 2015, and Iraq has been the dominant UAV in the United States. At that time, the Baghdad government used Chinese drones to attack the”Islamic State” position in the north of the country.
The use of Chinese drones by countries such as the UAE and Iraq is not rumored. This was interpreted as a change in the international military drone market. Enrique Luhan, a professor of political science at the University of Barcelona, pointed out that before the emergence of Chinese drones, the export of military drones has been”led by the United States and Israel.” According to the export data of military drones provided by the US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),
Lu Han pointed out that since the late 1990s, China’s weapons industry has begun a modernization process. This is the first reason for the rapid development of Chinese drone development. He said:”The weapons and equipment exported by China are technically as reliable as those of Western countries.”
Profile picture:US Air Force MQ-9″Death” attack drone flying with bombs. (US Air Force official website)
The export”king” of Chinese military drones is CH-5 (“Rainbow”-5) type. It is a strong contender for the U.S. MQ-9″Reaper” and the Israeli”Heron” TP drone.
According to CSIS data, the price of CH-5 is about 8 million US dollars, which is only half of the US”Reaper” drone. Therefore, although the technical indicators of Chinese drones are slightly lower, the excellent price-performance ratio makes Chinese products an attractive option for foreign military procurement.
Before China began to emerge in the international drone market, the United States and Israel have been reluctant to sell their military potential drone products to countries because they are worried that political turmoil in some countries will lead to U.S. or Israeli drone systems fall into the hands of potential enemies.
One of the countries that the United States refused to export was Iraq. It was in 2015 that Baghdad turned to Beijing and purchased three CH-4Bs (Rainbow-4B, models before”Rainbow”-5).
Profile picture:China’s”Rainbow”-5 attack type drone. (U.S. Yahoo News website)
In addition to some doubts about potential allies, compared with other military equipment, the United States has also been more restricted in the export of drones. The Missile Technology Control Agreement restricts the export of US drones in terms of range and load.
China’s strength in this market has prompted Washington to consider changing its concept of exporting military drones.
This year, the Trump administration has begun to take measures to reinterpret the Missile Technology Control Agreement. This move is largely to”recover lost ground” in countries that choose to buy Chinese drones.
Column editor:Qin Hong Text editor:Lu Xiaochuan Title source:Xinhua News Agency Photo editor:Zhu Xuan | aerospace |
http://forum.talknightlife.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17324&start=20 | 2013-05-26T03:50:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.984212 | 607 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__54808749 | en | TechJunkie wrote:I'm still trying, and failing, to learn more about how a stall could be caused by excessive speed at a flat angle of attack. I must have misunderstood something at some point because that doesn't seem possible.
A stall is when airflow separates from the wing. Jet aircraft (and some WWII fighters) also have what's called a "critical Mach number," which, for stall discussion purposes, refers to the speed where the shockwave ahead of the wing moves back onto the wing and begins to disrupt the airflow, and eventually, if speed continues to increase, will cause airflow to separate from the wing.
If you look at the bottom wing in this graphic, you see that the aircraft is only doing M.80, but the airflow over the top of the wing is moving as high as M1.0 and starting to separate from the wing.
If you want to know WHY the airflow separates, there's some pretty serious JPL-level Fluid dynamics behind it that are way over my head.
It can happen at a very low or even a zero angle of attack. The approach to both conditions (low-speed and high-speed stall) feels exactly the same to the pilot. It begins as very light ripples of turbulence, then increasingly larger bumps...then, depending on the aircraft, very violent shaking and loss of control.
The WWII Hawker Tempest, Typhoon, and the Lockheed P-38 all had problems with this because pilots would roll into a steep dive and their speed would increase to the point that the tail surfaces would stall out and there was no way for them to pull out of the dive. The P-38 would get "control reversal," which means exactly what it says...you turn the wheel to the left, you go right. Not what you want to see when you're screaming toward the Earth at 500kts. They lost a bunch of aircraft before they figured out what was happening.
Modern transport category aircraft are required to not exhibit any violent reactions during a stall, but that requires engineers to design a wing that is less fuel efficient than it otherwise could be. So, as you might guess, they are designed to meet the regulations, but not much more. I don't really recall if they are required to meet the "no violent reaction" standard on the high-speed side though. They might, I just don't remember.
In this Air France accident, the guy apparently thought he was facing a high-speed stall situation since he was getting "the onset of boundary layer separation" which is engineering terminology for "shaking like hell," AND his indicated
airspeed was steadily increasing (assuming this pitot system failure was like every other one I've ever seen), even though in fact his speed was decreasing due to his own actions.
So that's why I assume
he keep trying to pull the nose up to stop the speed increase he was seeing and prevent an impending loss of control...so he thought. | aerospace |
https://turkeyeasytravel.com/are-there-any-flights-from-the-uk-to-istanbul | 2021-09-19T23:17:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056902.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20210919220343-20210920010343-00013.warc.gz | 0.864073 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__40994807 | en | Are there any flights from the uk to istanbul?
- The airport takes its name from Istanbul's first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and is a hub for Turkish Airlines. What are the main UK departure airports that fly to Istanbul? At Flight Centre, our range of flights from the UK to Istanbul depart from London Heathrow and Newcastle and are available with British Airways.
2hr 45min to 2hr 55min Frankfurt (FRA) to Istanbul Ataturk (IST) by a nonstop flight operated by THY Turkish Airlines or Lufthansa. 2hr 55min Frankfurt (FRA) to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen (SAW) by a nonstop flight operated by Sunexpress Air or Pegasus Hava Tasimacilig.
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http://artistastronaut.com/possum.html | 2022-08-09T04:10:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570901.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809033952-20220809063952-00415.warc.gz | 0.815633 | 1,037 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__127440176 | en | Project PoSSUMPolar Suborbital Science Upper Mesosphere
Dr. Pell graduated from Polar Suborbital Science Upper Mesosphere [PoSSUM] Scientist-Astronaut Class 1601 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University on 12 April 2016 (Cosmonaut Day). PoSSUM is the acronym for Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere. PoSSUM evolved from a NASA-sponsored flight opportunity granted in March 2012 for three technology maturation flights of PoSSUM instrumentation including the video camera, IR, and WFI instrument. The purpose of the PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Qualification program is to provide an immersive educational experience which will give background and an understanding of how to fly the PoSSUM Noctilucent Cloud Tomography mission. The international aeronomy community, as well as various EPO and outreach partners, supports PoSSUM as a flagship EPO program. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) hosts the only accredited practical astronautical program. PoSSUM Astronaut-Candidates receive initial training to fly the PoSSUM tomography mission at ERAU. They have designed the instrumentation and mission around the XCOR Lynx Mark II vehicle, however PoSSUM will be able to fly on other vehicles and is not committing to any flight provider until flight tests validate the vehicles fit for purpose. PoSSUM also exclusively manages the microgravity spacesuit evaluation program with Final Frontier Design. PoSSUM members are actively involved in spacesuit technology development efforts, instrumentation development for the PoSSUM imagery experiments in Antarctica, and PoSSUM educational and outreach programs.
In this short film, PoSSUM Artist-Astronaut Candidate Dr. Sarah Jane Pell is wearing a Suborbital IVA Space Suit and operating the PoSSUM-CAM during Suborbital Flight. The XCOR Lynx Mark II vehicle travels to a total perigee of 103km above Earth. The Final Frontier Suborbital IVA (intra-vehicular activity) Space Suit Team dress in PoSSUM Artist-Astronaut Candidate Dr Sarah Jane Pell, who operates the PoSSUM-CAM while flying with PoSSUM Simulator Pilot Chris Nguyen, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. Filmed and produced by Pell, Bending Horizons April 2016. PoSSUM Suborbital Spaceflight Simulation program produced by Vasco Ribeiro. Thanks to Cinema Raven and pilot Christopher Nguyen. #BendingHorizons #ArtistAstronaut #ProjectPoSSUM #FinalFrontierDesigns #SubOrbital #SpaceSuit #Flight #Aeronautics #PoSSUM-CAM #clouds #tomography #imaging #ERAU @sarahjanepell @aquabatics @bendinghorizons sarahjanepell.com projectpossum.org. finalfrontierdesigns.com All rights reserved.
Victoria University supported Dr. Pell's flights to participate in the Project PoSSUM Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere Qualification program in Daytona Beach, Florida May-April 2016. #VictoriaUniversity #VUAlumni #VUCentenary #BendingHorizons #ArtistAstronaut #ProjectPoSSUM #Suborbital #Astronaut @sarahjanepell @aquabatics @bendinghorizons @projectpossum
PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Class 1601
Hampton Black (US), Alex Garcia Burgos (RU/US), Ahmed Farid, Tom Foltz (US), Rui Miguel Marques Moura (PT), Major Michael Parkhill (US), Anima Patil-Sabale (US), Dr. Sarah Jane Pell (AU), Brien Posey (US), Andreea Radulescu (RO/CA), Omar Samra (EG), Dr. Erik Seedhouse (CA), Dustin Wallace (US).
It was great working with Dr. Jason Reimuller, Astronaut Nicole Stott, Astronaut Dr. Don Pettit, Dr. Jancy McPhee, Nicholas Carlstrom, Dr. Paul Buza, Nikolay Moiseev, Virgil Calejesan, Dr. Eric Seedhouse, Michael Marco, Tim Plunkett, Alan, Van Wampler, Parker Rice, Chris Nguyen, and ERAU staff.
Final note: PoSSUM cannot commit or promise flights to Astronaut-Candidates; however, PoSSUM is vested in the long-term success of its members and graduates. PoSSUM actively engages grantors and sponsors to support its research objectives, some of which will be used to subsidize flight opportunities. The media story is also a marketable asset that we use to seek further funding. Project PoSSUM, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation, therefore contributions to PoSSUM-sponsored flights that support the PoSSUM mission are tax deductable. | aerospace |
http://blog.qei.org.au/scientists/love-science-also-love-aeroplanes/ | 2018-01-20T08:44:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084889542.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20180120083038-20180120103038-00533.warc.gz | 0.961869 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__41059649 | en | I love science but I also love…
As a boy, my dad designed model aeroplanes for me, I built them and we both used to fly them. Later, as a student, I flew models with a friend and his father – who only had one eye. His frequent navigational mishaps taught me never to underestimate the value of two good working eyes, particularly with regard to distance perception!
I’m still fascinated by the concept of flight and have been very fortunate to fly in a number of different types of aircraft including: aerobatics in a Tiger Moth, a hot air balloon, a glider, a helicopter, a sea-plane, a hovercraft (does that count???) and sky diving in none of the above. Unfortunately, I’ll never be able to add Concorde to my list.
Associate Professor Nigel Barnett is a senior scientist at the Queensland Eye Institute. Read his Scientists of QEI feature here. | aerospace |
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/keyword/emergency-landing/featured/5 | 2015-03-27T02:15:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131293580.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172133-00014-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.97524 | 1,132 | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-14__0__97969627 | en | February 1, 2009 |
NEW DELHI: An aircraft of private airline Indigo on a scheduled flight from Goa to New Delhi made an emergency landing this evening here after its pilot reported to the Air Traffic Control(ATC) that one passenger was misbehaving and creating trouble. The aircraft(Flt No E-664) moved to the isolation bay at the IGIA airport after it landed around 5.30 PM. Security and aviation sources said the ATC was informed by the pilot about an unruly passenger allegedly creating trouble.
December 4, 2010 |
MOSCOW: Russian news agencies says a passenger jet with 155 people on board has skidded off the runway at Moscow airport after its engines failed, killing one person and injuring eight. The news agencies say the Dagestan Airlines Soviet-built Tu-154 was forced to make an emergency landing at Domodedovo Airport on Saturday. The agencies quoted emergency officials as saying one person had died and eight injured. The cause of the engine failure was under investigation.
February 5, 2004 |
CHENNAI: Two Colombo-bound flights made emergency landing in Chennai on Wednesday as the runway of the Colombo airport was closed after an air crash near the Colombo airport, according to airport sources. The Singapore-Colombo and the New Delhi-Colombo flight landed in Chennai one after the other late tonight, the sources said. Over 600 passengers of the two aircraft were being accommodated in hotels after emigration clearance, the sources said. The planes were likely to leave Chennai for Colombo on Thursday morning, the sources said.
March 25, 2010 |
KOLKATA: A Bangkok-bound Thai Airways plane with 248 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the airport here. The Thai Airways plane, TG-318, landed under emergency conditions at the NSC Bose International Airport last midnight after a technical snag was detected, airport sources said today. The passengers were off-loaded and repair work was undertaken, they said, adding the plane was going from Mumbai to Bangkok. Another Thai Airways plane is scheduled to come from Bangkok to take the passengers back.
April 2, 2004 |
NEW DELHI: A Gulf Air passenger plane made an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here Friday morning after one of its engines failed. Just before the GA-133 Dubai-Delhi flight was about to land, a snag was detected prompting the pilot to send a distress message to the Air Traffic Control at 8.15 a.m., police and airport sources said. Full emergency was declared with fire tenders and ambulances rushing to the tarmac, they said. The plane landed safely at 8.23 a.m., the sources said.
April 3, 2012 |
ISLAMABAD: A special aircraft carrying Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and several federal ministers made an emergency landing today shortly after taking off from a military airbase in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi . The aircraft, which was going to Sukkur in Sindh province, returned to Chaklala airbase shortly after take-off and made an emergency landing as it had developed technical problems, TV news channels quoted...
October 15, 2007 |
NAGPUR: A Jet Airways plane carrying Australian and Indian cricketers made an emergency landing here after it was hit by a bird 10 minutes after take off this morning. Five blades of the second engine of the Nagpur-Mumbai flight were damaged by the bird-hit, airport sources said. The flight made an emergency landing within ten minutes of take off due to the technical snag, the sources said adding all passengers were safe. The team members were later accommodated in a city hotel close to the airport and the flight was grounded.
May 24, 2013 |
LONDON: A British Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing today at London's Heathrow Airport after one of the engines of the aircraft caught fire, forcing authorities to briefly shut down the airport, Europe's busiest. The incident is not believed to be terror related and all passengers and crew have been safely evacuated from the plane, which was earlier spotted flying over central London with flames bellowing from its tail. "The BA762, Heathrow to Oslo service, returned back to Heathrow shortly after take-off due to a technical fault" said the British Airways in a statement.
October 2, 2010 |
KOCHI: An Air India 901 Kochi-Kozhikode-Riyadh flight with 197 passengers and 12 crew made an emergency landing here soon after takeoff from Kozhikode early today as smoke was detected in the cabin, airport sources said. The smoke was noticed about 30 minutes after the flight left for Riyadh from Kozhikode airport at 6.35 AM, they said, adding the pilot immediately diverted the aircraft to Kochi and landed safely in full emergency at 8.20 AM. All passengers have been shifted to a nearby hotel, they said.
November 17, 2009 |
KOLKATA: A Bangalore-bound Jetlite aircraft carrying 150 passengers and four crew members on Tuesday had a close shave when it suffered a bird-hit shortly after takeoff and landed in emergency conditions at the airport here. All passengers and the crew were safe, airport sources said. The Jetlite flight S2364, which took off from the NSC Bose International Airport at 5:15 pm returned just 15 minutes later after a problem developed in the engine following the bird-hit, the sources said. | aerospace |
https://flights.expedia.com/alitalia-flights-from-san-jose-sjo-to-atlanta-atl/ | 2019-05-20T16:37:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256082.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520162024-20190520184024-00332.warc.gz | 0.886299 | 384 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__36334031 | en | Planning your next big trip? We offer all kinds of information regarding Alitalia flights from San Jose to Atlanta. Whether you’re looking for flight schedules or the most popular routes, you’ll find it right here. Check out our lists below to finalize your travel plans today.
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https://devsummit.arm.com/en/speakers/207 | 2021-10-26T20:11:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587926.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026200738-20211026230738-00680.warc.gz | 0.974236 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__94861973 | en | Angel started his career as a U.S. Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience includes military/space-lift operations, software development, and SRE/DevOPs engineering.
He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems security, and management.
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Arm architectures are increasingly popular and are becoming widely adopted by teams and organizations. As this adoption grows, developers and organizations must ensure their software and services are... | aerospace |
https://www.maconhomepress.com/articles/3893/view | 2024-03-02T16:16:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475833.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302152131-20240302182131-00378.warc.gz | 0.953398 | 570 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__145827794 | en | Macon Native Receives Top Honors in Air Force’s ICBM Community
1st Lieutenant Ben Nelson recently competed in Global Strike Challenge (GSC) which is the world's premier bomber, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, helicopter operations and security forces competition with units from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard. In this competition, Nelson and his crew partner were placed in abnormal and difficult simulations to see how they would leverage their knowledge and training as Nuclear and Missile Operations Officers. Earlier this week, Global Strike Command hosted the 2023 GSC Score Posting at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. Nelson (among other competitors) attended the score posting where they met the Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, General Thomas A. Bussiere along with the Air Force’s senior most enlisted leader, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, JoAnne S. Bass.
Lt Nelson and his crew partner were awarded the Neary Trophy which is for the Best EWO Score amongst all three missile wings in the United States: Minot AFB, FE Warren AFB, and Malmstrom AFB. They were one of nine ICBM crews that competed. EWO stands for Emergency War Orders which encompasses the launching, terminating, or targeting of nuclear missiles.
Finally, Nelson and his crew partner contributed to the overall score for “Best ICBM Wing in the Nation.” This competition compiles the scores and performances from missile maintenance, security forces, helicopter operations, and ICBM operations which go toward the top award, The Blanchard Trophy. For the fifth competition in a row (held every two years), Nelson’s home base, Malmstrom AFB in Montana, won The Blanchard Trophy for Best ICBM Wing in the United States.
Lt Nelson and his crew partner represented their home squadron, the 12th Missile Squadron, in the competition. The Near Trophy has been won by the 12th Missile Squadron for two consecutive competitions and will now be featured for two more years in the squadron’s office back in Montana.
Headline picture is of Team Malmstrom receiving the Blanchard Trophy for Best ICBM Wing in the United States. Nelson is pictured on the left with the red hat. Lt Ben Nelson is the son of Mark and Lori Nelson of Macon, Missouri.
Global Strike Command is home to two of the three legs of our nation’s nuclear triad (ICBMs and Bombers). For more information on Global Strike Challenge, visit the following link: https://www.afgsc.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Article/1759297/global-strike-challenge-2023/
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https://aerocrewnews.com/education-2/safetywx/squall-line/what-type-of-icing-is-on-the-plane/ | 2024-02-27T06:09:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474671.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227053544-20240227083544-00392.warc.gz | 0.925223 | 583 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__48662336 | en | Icing is a triple threat that impacts the aerodynamics, performance, and handling of an aircraft. While the threats of icing are reviewed and examined during pilot certification and training, the types of icing, associated environmental conditions and their impacts are worth re-visiting.
Aerodynamics: Wing contamination could include snow, ice, and frost that adversely affect the aircraft by reducing lift and increasing drag. At rotation speed (Vr), the aircraft may not be generating sufficient lift for takeoff and the wings are susceptible to stalling without the early warning typically provided by stall-warning devices, such as an angle of attack (AoA) indicator, that are calibrated for an uncontaminated wing. Asymmetric wing contamination could result in a roll upset.
Performance: The performance penalties in icing conditions are quite straightforward and include the following: longer takeoff and landing distances, and slower climb rates. Icing of the stator vanes may result in compressor stalls and ingestion of ice particles could damage fan blades and compressor blades that may eventually result in engine failure. Finally, bleed air for heating, de-ice and anti-ice applications reduce the maximum available thrust.
Handling: An aircraft with a contaminated wing will respond differently to flight-control inputs and the flight crew will likely experience the “startle effect.” Contaminants, including de-icing fluid residue, are also capable of sliding into gaps in the wings, horizontal/vertical stabilizers and flight controls (e.g., ailerons, elevators, and rudder). Upon freezing, these contaminants may jam and restrict the free and full range of motion of a flight control surface.
Prior to departure and during ground de-icing operations, the type of precipitation (e.g., rain, freezing rain, sleet, or snow) impacts the hold-over times (HOTs) after the application of the de-icing fluid. Pilots should carefully review HOTs and monitor the environmental conditions during de-icing operations, taxi and prior to takeoff. Pilots are encouraged to exit the departure queue and return for another application of de-icing fluid when approaching the HOT limits. As a reminder, HOTs begin at the start of the de-icing operation. The FAA Holdover Time Guidelines Winter 2023-2024 provides official HOT guidelines for different types of de-icing fluids, temperature ranges and precipitation type.
During climb, cruise and descent segments of flight, the vertical temperature profile of the atmosphere, among others, determines the nature of precipitation an aircraft will encounter. (See Get Out! You’re on Thin Ice). A careful review of weather fronts and forecasts with altitude/route selection will help pilots avoid the hazards posed by icing conditions. If the icing conditions are overwhelming the aircrafts de-ice and anti-icing equipment, it is imperative to immediately exit these conditions. | aerospace |
https://hfmodeling.kitmaker.net/user.php?op=userinfo&uname=Tobar | 2021-01-15T20:41:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703496947.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20210115194851-20210115224851-00299.warc.gz | 0.929198 | 105 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__182244175 | en | Arizona, United StatesUSERNAME: Tobar
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https://www.diyphotography.net/faa-restricts-drones-statue-liberty-nine-major-landmarks/ | 2024-04-22T00:01:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818067.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421225303-20240422015303-00617.warc.gz | 0.934735 | 521 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__84669382 | en | FAA restricts drones over Statue of Liberty and nine other major landmarks
FAA has announced that they are restricting drone flights over 10 major landmarks in the U.S. As stated, they are concerned about unauthorized drone operations over these landmarks, so they are imposing restrictions. From October 5, 2017, drone operators will not be able to fly their aircraft over 10 Department of the Interior (DOI) sites. The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and Hoover Dam are some of the landmarks where the drone use will be prohibited from now on.
As noted on the FAA’s website, The FAA and DOI have agreed to restrict drone flights up to 400 feet within the lateral boundaries of the following sites:
- Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York, NY
- Boston National Historical Park (U.S.S. Constitution), Boston, MA
- Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA
- Folsom Dam; Folsom, CA
- Glen Canyon Dam; Lake Powell, AZ
- Grand Coulee Dam; Grand Coulee, WA
- Hoover Dam; Boulder City, NV
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; St. Louis, MO
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial; Keystone, SD
- Shasta Dam; Shasta Lake, CA
The flights over these sites are forbidden up to 400 feet. But, keep in mind that flying above this altitude is also against the FAA rules. They have created an interactive map to show the users the restricted areas, and the link to them is also added to their B4UFLY mobile app. Drone operators who violate these restrictions may face civil penalties and even criminal charges.
As FAA states, this is the first time they’ve placed airspace restrictions for drones over DOI landmarks. They have placed similar airspace restrictions over military bases, and they currently remain in place.
Despite the prohibition, there are a few exceptions that permit the drone flights over the landmarks in question. FAA writes that they must be coordinated with the individual facility and/or the FAA. However, they don’t give any further details about what it takes to get the permission.
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https://www.fortworthaviationmuseum.com/event/4th-annual-hops-and-props-festival/ | 2019-02-21T14:28:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247504790.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20190221132217-20190221154217-00168.warc.gz | 0.880501 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__37590707 | en | 5th Annual Hops and Props Festival
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Announcing the 5th Annual
Hops and Props Festival!
In April we will hold our 5th aircraft fly-in and craft beer festival with, music, food, and fun.
Airplane and helicopter rides will also be available.
We will be featuring beer flights again on the “Southern Cross” vintage C-47 military transport.
Flights are scheduled for 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 PM Details on the ticket page.
Below is the information for the 2019 Hops and Props.
More info as plans develop.
Save the date: April 27, 2019!
Our 2019 theme is “Cleared Hot!” in recognition of the dedication of our Air Force night O-2 Skymaster and our Marine Corps OV-10 Bronco Forward Air Control airplanes.
Here are our brewers for 2019, so far!
Beer Flights Again!
We will also be featuring beer flights again this year on “Southern Cross” a C-47 vintage military transport. Flights are scheduled for 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 PM. Details are coming soon.
Epic Helicopter will be selling rides again this year also.
Early Bird Tickets will be available later this month!
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Finding 2-1. Range safety personnel and procedures have well protected people and property. In the history of the U.S. space program, no members of the general public or launch site workers have been killed or seriously injured during a launch accident.
Risk Management Approaches to Safety
Primary Recommendation on EWR 127-1. AFSPC should simplify EWR 127-1 so that all requirements are performance based and consistent with both established risk standards for space launch (e.g., Ec of 30 × 10−6) and objective industry standards. The process of revising EWR 127-1 should include the following steps:
Eliminate requirements that cannot be validated.
Remove all design solutions from EWR 127-1.
Establish a range user’s handbook or other controlled document to capture lessons learned and design solutions recognized by the ranges as acceptable means of compliance. (Requirements should be retained in EWR 127-1.)
Form a joint government/industry team to establish procedures for periodically updating EWR 127-1 and ensuring that future requirements are performance based.
Converge the modeling and analysis approaches, tools, assumptions, and operational procedures used at the Western and Eastern Ranges.
Finding 3-1. AFSPC has transferred responsibility to AFMC for development, developmental testing and evaluation, and sustaining engineering of range safety ground systems. Organizational responsibilities for many other range safety processes and procedures, however, are inconsistent with the current memorandum of agreement between AFSPC and AFMC on spacelift roles and responsibilities. In addition to the operational workforce, each AFSPC range safety office also has an engineering workforce that establishes flight safety system design and testing requirements and certifies that flight safety systems meet safety requirements at the component, subsystem, and system levels. These acquisition-like functions overlap the responsibilities of AFMC.
Finding 3-2. The complete transfer of range safety development, developmental testing and evaluation, and sustaining engineering to AFMC would, if properly implemented, increase efficiency and reduce costs without compromising safety by eliminating overlapping responsibilities between the ranges and AFMC, by minimizing differences in range safety policies and procedures applicable to the Western and Eastern Ranges, and by enabling users to deal with a single office when seeking approval to use new or modified systems on both ranges.
Primary Recommendation on Roles and Responsibilities. The Air Force should fully implement the memorandum of agreement between AFSPC and AFMC on spacelift roles and responsibilities. This would consolidate within AFMC the acquisition-like functions related to safety that are now performed by AFSPC organizations at the Eastern and Western Ranges. These functions include developmental testing and evaluation, sustaining engineering, and certifying that system designs meet safety requirements. To manage the safety aspects of the acquisition-like functions specified in the memorandum of agreement, AFMC should establish an independent safety office. Operational responsibilities, such as generating safety requirements, operational testing and evaluation, and all prelaunch and launch safety operational functions, would be retained by AFSPC.
Recommendation 3-1. AFSPC should issue an Air Force Instruction addressing the certification of flight safety systems for commercial, civil, and military launches at the Western or Eastern Range. The instruction should include a description of interfaces among responsible organizations, such as AFSPC, AFMC, FAA, NASA, and commercial contractors.
Finding 3-3. A collective risk standard (i.e., a casualty expectation, or Ec) of 30 x 10-6 per launch for members of the general public is consistent with the risk standards of many other fields in which the public is involuntarily exposed to risk, both domestically and internationally.
Primary Recommendation on Risk Management. AFSPC should define objective, consistent risk standards (e.g., casualty expectation, Ec, of 30 × 10−6 and individual risk, Pc, of 1 × 10−6) and use them as the basis for range safety decisions. Safety procedures based on risk avoidance should be replaced with procedures consistent with the risk management philosophy specified by EWR 127-1. Destruct lines and flight termination system requirements should be defined and implemented in a way that is directly traceable to accepted risk standards.
Finding 3-4. At the Eastern Range, the downrange location of gates and destruct lines and current requirements for downrange coverage by flight termination, telemetry, and tracking systems are not directly related to accepted risk standards (e.g., Ec of 30 × 10−6 or Pc of 1 × 10−6) but to a risk-avoidance policy that discourages the overflight of inhabited landmasses whenever possible. The Western Range implements this policy by constraining the azimuth of orbital launches.
Finding 3-5. Moving the Africa gates uprange has the potential to reduce the cost of safety-related downrange assets, decrease the complexity of range safety operations, and reduce launch holds and delays. Moving the Africa gates to within the reach of uprange flight termination, telemetry, and tracking systems is not likely to increase Ec significantly or violate established limits. No known international agreements would preclude moving the gates. Thus, in terms of range safety there is no clear justification for retaining downrange assets at Antigua and Ascension. It may also be feasible to move other gates uprange and further reduce the need for downrange facilities.
Primary Recommendation on Africa Gates. While other requirements may exist, from the perspective of launch range safety the Air Force should move the Africa gates to within the limits of uprange flight termination and tracking systems; eliminate the use of assets in Antigua and Ascension for range safety support; and conduct a detailed technical assessment to validate the feasibility of moving other gates uprange. If other requirements for downrange tracking exist, AFSPC should validate those requirements and reexamine this recommendation in light of the additional requirements.
Recommendation 3-2. AFSPC should identify and correct unwarranted conservatism in analytical models and verify that modeling and analytical methods are properly implemented. Periodic, independent reviews should be conducted to ensure that the level of modeling detail is appropriate given the accuracy of model inputs and assumptions.
Finding 3-6. The overall modeling and analysis approaches at the Eastern and Western Ranges are similar, but there are some significant differences in analytical tools, assumptions, and operational procedures. These include differences in analysis software packages, methods of defining ship exclusion zones, and displays for monitoring the launch vehicle trajectory. The differences may increase costs because of overlap or duplication of effort in developing models, software, and hardware for the two ranges.
Flight Safety Requirements
Recommendation 4-1. As a matter of good engineering practice, the requirement for two independent sources of tracking data should be retained, and the accuracy of telemetered inertial guidance data should be verified after launch. AFSPC should clarify EWR 127-1 to specify that telemetered inertial guidance data can serve as one of the two sources of tracking data.
Finding 4-1. For space launches, an onboard GPS receiver tracking system would be more versatile and have lower total life-cycle costs than GPS translator or radar tracking systems.
Finding 4-2. Real-time GPS tracking systems have an overall cost and performance advantage over the single-object radar network that has been the workhorse on both the Eastern and Western Ranges for many years. Implementation of a GPS tracking system would increase users’ recurring and nonrecurring costs in the short term, but it would benefit users in the long term by increasing operational flexibility. A GPS tracking system would also yield long-term costs savings for the ranges.
Primary Recommendation on GPS Receivers. AFSPC should deploy a GPS receiver tracking system as the baseline range tracking system for space launch vehicles. The transition to GPS-based tracking should be completed as rapidly as feasible.
Finding 4-3. Upgrades to onboard tracking systems currently in use and to new systems, such as GPS receivers,
are relatively costly for individual users. Each user currently must develop or acquire hardware, prove that it meets safety requirements, demonstrate its compatibility with range support equipment, provide for qualification and acceptance testing, and support confidence checks in the final countdown.
Recommendation 4-2. AFSPC should form a range-industry team to define performance requirements and technical specifications for the onboard elements of a GPS receiver tracking system, including cost, weight, size, and power limitations, and to establish user requirements during the transition from radar to GPS-based tracking systems. A cost-shared government/industry project should be established for the development and qualification testing of common end-user equipment. Range users should pay for the recurring costs of onboard hardware.
Finding 4-4. With the incorporation of onboard GPS receivers, semiautonomous and fully autonomous flight termination systems would become technically feasible. These systems might substantially reduce range support costs, but additional research and testing is needed to resolve outstanding issues and quantify the likely benefits.
Finding 5-1. A limit of 1 × 10−5 for individual ship-hit probability, Pi, is reasonable and consistent with an Ec of 30 × 10−6. However, the use of collective risk in the Eastern Range ship exclusion process is not consistent with either the corresponding Western Range process or accepted guidelines for the evacuation of hazard areas, which are both based on individual risk. Aircraft avoidance criterion are not specified by EWR 127-1, are applied differently at the Eastern and Western Ranges, and are not supported by analyses showing that they are consistent with other range safety criteria.
Primary Recommendation on Risk Standards for Aircraft and Ships. AFSPC should apply the individual ship-hit criterion, Pi, of 1 × 10−6 to the ship exclusion process at the Eastern Range in the same way it is used at the Western Range. EWR 127-1 should be modified to specify an aircraft-hit Pi limit of 1 × 10−6 (properly calculated to include the probability of impact for very small pieces of debris). Prior to each launch, the range should establish aircraft hazard areas (based on the aircraft Pi) and buffer zones (for uncontrolled aircraft in the vicinity of the hazard area). Launches should be allowed to proceed as long as no intruder aircraft are in the hazard area or buffer zone.
Recommendation 5-1. AFSPC should determine maximum-acceptable blast overpressure limits and apply these limits to ship-hit calculations at both the Western and Eastern Ranges.
Finding 5-2. Detecting marine and aircraft intruders earlier and shortening the time required to clear them from the launch area would reduce disruptions, costs, and risks associated with launch holds and scrubs, especially at the Eastern Range where intruders are more of a problem.
Recommendation 5-2. AFSPC should expeditiously improve range surveillance and interdiction capabilities, as follows:
Use commercial aircraft equipped with suitable surveillance, navigation, communications, and image recording systems in place of military aircraft.
Implement the proposed Cape Canaveral Range Surveillance System (CRaSS) for surveillance and clearing of aircraft intruders at the Eastern Range.
Finding 5-3. Current guidelines and procedures for notifying operators of general aviation aircraft and small boats of active launch hazard areas do not prevent incursions, especially at the Eastern Range.
Recommendation 5-3. AFSPC should improve the launch communications and notification process, as follows:
Make greater use of public media, such as newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, the Internet, notices at public marinas and general aviation airports, and aviation and marine weather broadcasts.
Modify signs, lights, and other warning devices at marinas and along the coast, as necessary.
Inform the public on the extent of safe viewing areas to discourage operators of small boats and aircraft from encroaching on hazard areas.
Recommendation 5-4. In combination with efforts to improve surveillance and interdiction capabilities and the public notification process, AFSPC should aggressively enforce restrictions against intruders at both ranges to encourage compliance with launch notifications. In cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and other regulatory and law enforcement agencies, AFSPC should initiate administrative and regulatory changes to facilitate enforcement action against intruders who were afforded ample, timely launch notifications. | aerospace |
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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/norsk-titanium-3d-prints-worlds-first-approved-structural-titanium-components-commercial-flight-110497/?utm_content=buffer5ce99&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer | 2023-11-30T13:05:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100227.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130130218-20231130160218-00324.warc.gz | 0.923189 | 625 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__232967902 | en | Norwegian aerospace additive manufacturing specialists Norsk Titanium AS, has released details of a parts order from multinational aircraft corporation Boeing (NYSE: BA). According to Norsk, the ordered components will make the Boeing 787 Dreamliner the “first commercial airplane to fly with certified additive-manufactured titanium parts in structural applications.”
A “new and creative way” of producing metal parts
The titanium Dreamliner parts were 3D printed using Norsk’s proprietary Rapid Plasma Deposition™ process, where a wire feedstock is melted in a build area containing argon gas. Building layer by layer, the Rapid Plasma Deposition™ method produces a near-net-shape which is up to 80% complete before post-processing is undertaken.
John Byrne, Vice President of Airplane Materials and Structures at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, commented on the method saying,
From the outset, the 787 has been the hallmark of innovation and efficiency. We are always looking at the latest technologies to drive cost reduction, performance and value to our customers and Norsk Titanium’s RPD™ capability fits the bill in a new and creative way.
Honored with FAA approval
Testing for FAA approval of Norsk Titanium’s parts was completed in February 2017, assuring their “airworthiness”. According to FAA documentation, this can broken down into to two conditions:
- “The aircraft must conform to its type design.” i.e. parts are consistent with the parameters previously decided in the type certificate (TC) which covers all the different parts of the plane.
- “The aircraft must be in a condition for safe operation.” Taking into account corrosion of materials, cracks caused by air pressure and reaction to elemental stresses.
Warren M. Boley, Jr., President & Chief Executive Officer at Norsk Titanium said,
We are proud to take this historical step with a great aerospace innovator like Boeing. The Norsk Titanium team will continue to expand the portfolio of components supplied to Boeing meeting stringent certification requirements. It is an honor to earn FAA approval for these structural parts.
An additive manufacturing strategy
At Defence IQ’s Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace, Defense and Space conference our editor-in-chief gained insight into Boeing’s additive manufacturing strategy from Leo Christodoulou, Director of Structures and Materials, Enterprise Operations and Technology. At the conference Christodoulou, commented that “AM will dominate tooling”, and that “I’m not going to stick around for someone’s dream to come true, we just have to do it”.
In metal additive for aerospace, there have also be significant effort into production of high-stress components, such as SpaceX’s 3D printed SuperDraco thrusters, and copper thrust chambers from Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Featured image shows a bed of additive-manufactured titanium components for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Photo via Norsk Titanium | aerospace |
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