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https://vekdaily.com/space-is-our-common-home | 2020-09-29T06:19:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401632671.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929060555-20200929090555-00691.warc.gz | 0.937252 | 1,268 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__10300537 | en | Recently, an exhibition titled “For the sake of peace and progress!” has been opened in the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow. It commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP,) the first U.S.-Soviet joint space venture. The exhibition introduces the history of international cooperation in the exploration of near-Earth space.
The exhibition presents items from the depositaries of the Museum of Cosmonautics and the documents from the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation.
Visitors have a chance to see the artifacts related to the flight of the USSR and US spacecraft under the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. There are authentic items from the mission, historical photographs, newspapers, commemorative medals, mission chevrons, applied art objects, as well as space posters dedicated to the Intercosmos program – the space program designed to help the Soviet Union's allies with manned and unmanned space missions. In addition, the display presents photos from the First World Exhibition of Interplanetary Spacecrafts and Mechanisms, held in Moscow in 1927, as well as a portrait sculpture of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the first exhibit that the Museum of Cosmonautics entered in its collection register.
Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov before boarding the Soyuz-19 spacecraft. Baikonur. July 15, 1975. In his left hand A.Leonov keeps onboard instructions that can be seen at the exhibition. Photo by A.Pushkaryov. From the holdings of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow.
“Space exploration is possible only in partnership and with the help of joint efforts of all countries,” Natalia Artyukhina, the museum director, said in an interview with wek.ru. “We hold regular meetings with astronauts from all over the world. We are glad to highlight international projects at exhibitions and in the permanent exposition of the museum. That is why I would like to draw the visitors' attention to the exhibits of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project from the permanent exposition. It includes flight clothing of space crews, items that were onboard and the androgynous peripheral docking system of the Soyuz spacecraft (APAS), which was developed specially for this flight. Visitors will have a chance to take photos sitting on the bench with space symbols on it. It was donated to the museum to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project by astronaut Thomas Stafford, the commander of the US spacecraft.”
The second version of the logo for the ASTP project
Made by R. McCall
Created on the basis of the painting ‘Meeting in Space’ by astronaut A.Leonov. The USSR, 1973. From the holdings of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow.
The exhibition “For the sake of peace and progress!” consists of three sections – the First World Exhibition of Interplanetary Spacecrafts and Mechanisms in 1927, the Intercosmos program, and the Apollo–Soyuz experimental flight.
The First World Exhibition of Interplanetary Spacecraft and Mechanisms became the first experience of international cooperation. It was held in Moscow in 1927. At this exhibition, inventors from different countries shared their experience in designing equipment for flights to distant worlds. Mostly, the ideas seemed sci-fi-esque, but just 30 years later, the first artificial satellite heralded the space era. The issue of space exploration by joint efforts of different countries for the benefit of all humanity was put on the agenda. The photographs of the First World Exhibition of Interplanetary Spacecrafts and Mechanisms became the main exhibits.
The Intercosmos program brought together scientists from the USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Cuba, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Vietnam. The flight of astronauts from these countries on Soviet spacecraft was the highlight of the program. In total, the citizens of nine Soviet bloc countries worked upon it from 1977 to 1982. Later, the scientists from France, India, Syria and Afghanistan joined this program. The posters from different countries, medals and mission patches are main exhibits there.
The first international docking mission under the Soyuz-Apollo Test Project was of high historic significance. The joint flight showed that cooperation between the USSR and the US in the segment of space exploration can be effective and fruitful. The legendary handshake in orbit in July 1975 laid a secure foundation for joint work on the International Space Station in the 21st century.
Onboard instructions for joint operations of the Soyuz-Apollo spacecraft. Book No. 2 (transfers). 1975. From the holdings of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow.
Visitors of the exhibition will get familiarized with unique exhibits of that memorable docking. These are, for example, ‘Onboard instructions on joint operations. Book No. 2 (transfers)’, a sky rocket from the ground emergency kit, a part of the spaceship's standard set, with the autograph of Alexey Leonov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union and the USSR pilot astronaut. In addition, there is the transition cable from the transmitter of the Soyuz-19 spaceship. It was used during the Apollo–Soyuz experimental flight. For the first time a fragment of the burned polyethylene-terephthalate shell, removed from the outer surface of the US Apollo ship will be presented to the public. It was given as a gift to the museum by US astronaut Thomas Stafford.
Sky rocket and ammunition box from the standard astronaut kit from the Soyuz-19 ship. With an autograph of astronaut A. Leonov. The USSR, 1975. From the holdings of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow.
Memorabilia with a fragment of the burned polyethylene-terephthalate shell, removed from the outer surface of the US Apollo ship. Donated to the Museum of Cosmonautics by astronaut Thomas Stafford in 2015. From the holdings of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow.
The exhibition will run until September 6, 2020. | aerospace |
https://www.mingtai-alum.com/aluminum-plate/54359518.html | 2019-12-15T15:37:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541308604.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20191215145836-20191215173836-00027.warc.gz | 0.801231 | 355 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__127511412 | en | Henan Mingtai Al. Industrial Co., Ltd.
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https://airinsight.com/alaskas-a321neos/ | 2023-06-10T01:54:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656869.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609233952-20230610023952-00408.warc.gz | 0.963451 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__209067620 | en | Alaska has formally announced its intent to streamline its fleet to only deploy Boeing 737s and Embraer E175s. This means removing its Dash8s and A321neos. Alaska will thereby remove the last aircraft in its fleet registered with “VA” meaning the final removal of Virgin America.
There are ten A321neos at Alaksa as this table lists and all ten are leased.
These A321neos are CFM LEAP powered and are in high demand. The lessors can be confident these aircraft will be returned in good condition and as we see from delivery dates, these aircraft are still newish. These aircraft will almost certainly find operators as this model is in high demand.
ch-Aviation lists these active operators of this model. Given the paucity of delivery slots of the A321neo, the ten coming into the market will be seen by many of these operators as an opportunity. Russian operators excepted.
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https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1046512 | 2021-06-21T07:45:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488268274.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621055537-20210621085537-00304.warc.gz | 0.97543 | 74 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__209518341 | en | I made this composing of several images I took myself. It's an asteroid flying somewhere in the vast nothingness of space, far away in space and time... I hope you like it!
Feel free to use it as wallpaper for your desktop. I made it in super HD resolution (3400x2200), thus its intended to use on very big screens. Enjoy | aerospace |
https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=937104 | 2020-09-27T11:43:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400274441.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927085848-20200927115848-00417.warc.gz | 0.986412 | 621 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__56464684 | en | Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:03 pm
Inquest verdict now published.
This from the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich
Pilot who crashed his plane near Old Buckenham airfield, near Attleborough, not fit to be flying, inquest told
By DAVID BALE
A pilot whose light aircraft crashed and burst into flames near a south Norfolk airfield was physically and mentally unfit to fly on the day of his fatal accident, an inquest heard.
Pavel Sedlacek, 66, died from multiple injuries after his aircraft crashed nose-down into a field at Puddleduck Farm on his way to Old Buckenham Airfield on May 9 last year where maintenance work on his Mooney M20B aircraft was scheduled to take place.
The Czech Republic national, who lived in Dornbirn, Austria, left Biberach Airport, in southern Germany, in the early afternoon, on May 9. After requesting airfield details from Old Buckenham, he landed unexpectedly at Tibenham Airfield, at about 5.30pm, where he was seen to be in a “disturbed” state.
David Cross told the inquest that he was tending his sheep at a nearby farm, at about 6pm, when he saw the aircraft flying overhead, seconds before it crashed.
He said: “It was approaching very low. It went over the farmyard and the pilot went to throttle the engine up, then the plane stalled. It disappeared behind trees and then I saw a puff of smoke.”
Mr Cross rushed to the scene but the plane had burst into flames and Mr Sedlacek was pronounced dead at the scene.
Philip Morgan, ground manager at Tibenham airfield, said Mr Sedlacek landed the plane on the wrong runway and came in very fast, bouncing about five times. He said: “When he got out the plane he was very hot and sweaty. He said the brakes did not appear to be working and he was also talking about family problems. He appeared to be in a disturbed state, and we advised him not to fly on to Old Buckenham airfield, but we could not stop him.”
John McMillan, a senior inspector with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, said the plane had no technical defects. But his fellow inspector Kenneth Fairbank said that, judging by Mr Sedlacek’s airmanship on the day and reports of his flying skills from Germany, it was doubtful that he was in a fit state to be flying an aircraft on that day.
Recording a verdict of accidental death at yesterday’s Norwich inquest, Norfolk coroner William Armstrong said: “Clearly from
the expert evidence given, his flying ability and standard of airmanship appear to have been questionable.
“We do not know what he was intending, but all evidence points towards him not being fit to be flying on that day, whether through competence, or more likely, through his psychological state of mind.” | aerospace |
https://www.easemytrip.com/flight-schedule/kolkata-ahmedabad.html | 2022-01-20T18:01:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302355.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120160411-20220120190411-00323.warc.gz | 0.892331 | 436 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__154477443 | en | Today Best Fare
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https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/ | 2022-01-24T11:07:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304528.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124094120-20220124124120-00182.warc.gz | 0.903763 | 267 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__3656487 | en | A unique mission concept known as Interstellar Probe would venture beyond the solar system and probe our neighborhood environment.
Astronomers may have found a second Neptune-size exomoon hidden in the retired Kepler space telescope’s data.
This week astronomers have announced the completion of the largest 3D map of galaxies across the cosmos, plus exquisite radio observations show what happens when a stellar intruder interrupts planet formation.
The plumes erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus may originate in slush in the moon's icy crust rather than its deep, subsurface ocean.
Supernovae that carved out the Local Bubble, a cavity around the Sun, have also triggered star formation at the bubble's edges.
The James Webb Space Telescope has unfolded its primary mirror, marking the end of the deployment phase for the observatory.
A stream of stars scattered across 15 degrees of sky was once part of a globular cluster torn apart by our galaxy’s gravity. The stars represent some of the oldest in the Milky Way.
Its sunshield now in place, the James Webb Space Telescope is unfolding by the numbers while en route to its new home.
As the calendar flips to a new year, the night sky brims with bright stars, planets, and a potential meteor shower to help you celebrate. | aerospace |
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http://vawg.cap.gov/c-17-flight-july-2016/ | 2017-03-26T16:54:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189244.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00567-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.956087 | 753 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__178423918 | en | MARTINSBURG, West Virginia –
50 Civil Air Patrol (CAP) members flew on a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft courtesy of the 167th Airlift Wing, West Virginia Air National Guard on Friday, July 22, 2016.
Colonel Shaun Perkowski, the installation commander, met with the group before the flight launched, thanking the members for their volunteer service and shared about his Air Force career. Captain Jacob Bixler presented the Virginia Wing Civil Air Patrol coin as a token of appreciation for approving the flight. Members consisted of personnel from both Virginia and West Virginia Wings.
The orientation flight departed from the base and flew deep into southern West Virginia before looping back around to Martinsburg. Cadets were permitted to walk around the aircraft and also sat briefly in the cockpit and chatted with the pilots during the flight. A select few cadets experienced the take off and landings from the cockpit (tactical landings were exercised by the pilots for training).
Captain Jacob Bixler, Deputy Commander for Winchester Composite Squadron, helped coordinate the activity. Along with his volunteer service in CAP, he serves with the 167th Airlift Wing as a Cyber Transport Apprentice and Base Communications Planner in the 167th Communications Flight.
After landing, the group enjoyed lunch in the dining facility while listening to Chief Master Sergeant Jeffrey Gengler, the base fire chief, and the base’s Command Chief, Chief Master Sergeant Ronald Glazer, Sr., share their experiences in the Air National Guard. Various units from the installation also shared with the cadets the duties and responsibilities of their career fields with table displays. Chief Glazer commented, “Seeing our nation’s future leaders in the room gave me pause, as the cadets listened to my words of encouragement for them to succeed. Moments like these are precious to me. I’m able to show off our wing while trying to influence young men and women as they consider military service as a possible career, and a path to pay for college.”
The activity was a great experience for the cadets that attended. Various cadets shared that the activity was the “best” activity they did all summer, while others thought of it as one of the best experiences they’ve had in CAP thus far.
Civil Air Patrol, the longtime all-volunteer U.S. Air Force auxiliary, is the newest member of the Air Force’s Total Force, which consists of regular Air Force, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, along with Air Force retired military and civilian employees. CAP, in its Total Force role, operates a fleet of 550 aircraft and performs about 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and is credited by the AFRCC with saving an average of 78 lives annually. Civil Air Patrol’s 56,000 members nationwide also perform homeland security, disaster relief and drug interdiction missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. Its members additionally play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to more than 24,000 young people currently participating in the CAP cadet program. Performing missions for America for the past 75 years, CAP received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2014 in honor of the heroic efforts of its World War II veterans. CAP also participates in Wreaths Across America, an initiative to remember, honor and teach about the sacrifices of U.S. military veterans. Visit www.capvolunteernow.com for more information.
Contact info: Jacob Bixler – [email protected] | aerospace |
https://www.newsday.com/business/bae-systems-wins-12-3-million-contract-for-aircraft-antennae-1.13767256 | 2019-11-17T21:03:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496669276.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20191117192728-20191117220728-00183.warc.gz | 0.949315 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__37399210 | en | BAE Systems Inc.’s Greenlawn unit has been awarded a $12.3 million contract for up to 265 antenna units on single-seat F/A-18A jets, the Department of Defense announced.
The U.S. Navy made an initial allocation of $1.7 million for fiscal 2016 and 2017 under the fixed-price contract, which was not put out for competitive bids.
John Fusco, director of combat identification products and systems, said current staffing is adequate to complete the antenna contract, but that the Greenlawn unit, with about 650 employees, recently had 28 job openings, primarily for engineers.
“We’re looking for systems engineers, hardware engineers, software engineers, mechanical engineers,” he said.
Multi-mission F/A-18A Hornet aircraft can be based on aircraft carriers and can carry air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons as well as electronic warfare gear. Hornets can operate as fighters or attack aircraft.
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Patuxent River, Maryland, assigned the contract.
The Greenlawn unit is expected to complete the project in June 2022.
BAE Systems PLC, the parent of BAE Systems Inc., is based in London and Farnborough, United Kingdom. | aerospace |
https://lithuaniatribune.com/lithuania-based-nato-jets-alerted-once-by-russian-plane-last-week/ | 2023-06-07T12:30:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653764.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607111017-20230607141017-00285.warc.gz | 0.949545 | 199 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__257833138 | en | On July 7, fighter jets took off from the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai to identify and accompany a Russian military transporter Il-76 flying in the international airspace from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad region.
The aircraft was flying without a pre-filled flight plan but with its transponder switched on and it was also maintaining radio communication. Lithuania’s airspace was not violated, the ministry said.
Meanwhile The Associated Press reported last week that a Russian transporter An-26 violated Estonia’s airspace on Thursday.
According to Estonia’s Foreign Ministry, the Russian plane entered the country’s airspace near the Island of Vaindloo without prior permission and spent in Estonia’s airspace less then a minute.
In Lithuania, NATO’s Baltic air policing missions is being carried out by Norwegian and Italian contingents and also a British contingent is stationed in Estonia and a Belgian one in Poland.
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http://www.dvice.com/archives/2013/01/nasa-could-fund.php | 2014-12-29T13:57:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447563009.126/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185923-00041-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.952841 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__74854606 | en | Next time you and I have to worry about an asteroid hurtling through space toward our precious Earth, it may be NASA's fault. (Or China's.) The agency, which is looking beyond orbit to asteroids and Mars, is weighing a plan that would bring a space rock to us for convenient study rather than have manned explorers brave deep space.
The proposal by the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California involves sending a robotic spacecraft out to ferry an asteroid back this way, snaring it in the moon's orbit. A captive asteroid would be a lot easier to pick apart and study, not to mention land on. It wouldn't be astronomically expensive, either: at $2.6 billion, the plan's cost lands in the same ballpark as the Curiosity rover. All this could happen sometime in the 2020s, according to the plan.
For starters, the minds at the Keck Institute are picturing a small rock, maybe some 20 feet wide, which could be captured in a bag and towed back to Earth. Even still, the craft's proposed method of ion propulsion would mean a six to 10-year round trip.
Asteroids represent more than just a milestone target for NASA; they could provide valuable resources and a wealth of science if we ever figure out how to corral and mine the suckers. | aerospace |
https://aboughalymotors.com/subaru-delivers-1000th-center-wing-section-for-the-boeing-787-dreamliner | 2024-02-24T04:49:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474523.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224044749-20240224074749-00767.warc.gz | 0.935957 | 324 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__73375606 | en | SUBARU delivers 1,000th Center Wing Section for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
SUBARU announced that its Aerospace Company delivered the 1,000th Center Wing Section*1 for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Boeing on January 2nd, 2020.
The 787 Dreamliner is the world first jetliner to apply carbon composite materials to the primary structures.
SUBARU has been participating in the 787 program since the very early stage of its development and is responsible for design and production of the carbon fiber composite Center Wing section and integration with the Main Landing Gear Wheel Wells. The Center Wing Section is the section where the wings are attached to the fuselage sections, while it is containing fuel.
SUBARU achieved this major milestone after 12 years and 11 months since its first delivery of the Center Wing Section to Boeing in January 10th, 2007.
To celebrate the delivery, SUBARU held a delivery ceremony at Handa Plant on December 18, 2019 with the attendance of honored guests including leaders from Boeing.
At its Handa plant, SUBARU also develops and manufactures center wing sections for the Boeing 777 and 777X, as well as the P-1 maritime patrol aircraft and the C-2, cargo transport aircraft for the Japan Ministry of Defense.
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*1: A delivery configuration to Boeing, integrated the Center Wing box and the Main Landing Gear Wheel Wells. | aerospace |
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2019/11/08/flight-diverted-from-akron-canton/2316189007/ | 2023-03-25T14:56:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945333.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325130029-20230325160029-00155.warc.gz | 0.955365 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__18948041 | en | Flight diverted from Akron-Canton to Cleveland Hopkins
A spokeswoman for Akron-Canton Airport said Friday that there were no issues at the Green airport causing a flight from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to divert to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Thursday.
United Flight 5488, operating as Skywest 5488, left the gate at Chicago seven minutes early at 5:43 p.m. Thursday and took off at 6 p.m.
But the plane diverted to the Cleveland airport after developing mechanical issues. It had been scheduled to land at Akron-Canton.
Lisa Dalpiaz, director of marketing and air service development for CAK, said that the airport was operating normally.
A flight path shows the plane approach Akron-Canton before turning north to Cleveland Hopkins. A flight track log indicates the plane was diverted about 8:20 p.m.
“I can tell you that at Akron-Canton Airport, our runways were open,” Dalpiaz said. “Everything at the airport was OK.”
Dalpiaz referred further inquiries about the Skywest flight to United Airlines.
Todd F. Payne, chief of marketing and air service development for Cleveland Hopkins, said the flight landed safely at the airport at 8:21 p.m. Thursday.
Payne said airlines will sometimes divert to airports where they have a larger maintenance staff.
“It’s not unusual for them to come here,” he said. “They have two hangars in Cleveland.”
United Airlines did not respond to a phone inquiry about the incident.
Alan Ashworth can be reached at 330-996-3859 or emailed at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @newsalanbeaconjournal. | aerospace |
http://scihi.org/gustave-whitehead/ | 2023-11-28T16:19:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099892.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128151412-20231128181412-00426.warc.gz | 0.977549 | 2,300 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__235001774 | en | On January 1, 1874, German-born aviation pioneer Gustav Albin Weißkopf was born. He emigrated from Germany to the United States and called himself Gustave Whitehead. He designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines between 1897 and 1915. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead’s own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright Brothers in 1903.
Gustav Weißkopf – Background and Education
Gustav Weißkopf was born in 1874 as the second of seven children of the married couple Karl Ernst Weißkopf (1848-1887) and Babette née Wittmann (1849-1886) in Leutershausen, Bavaria. His parents had married six months before his birth, and the couple’s first child was his sister Eva Babetta, born in 1871. His father came from Ansbach, his mother from Colmberg. In 1886, the mother Babette Weißkopf died at age of only 37 after the family had moved to Höchst am Main (today part of Frankfurt am Main). The father Karl Ernst Weißkopf died shortly after in 1887. The siblings were separated, and Gustav came to live with his grandparents in Ansbach along with his brother Karl. Gustav Weißkopf initially began an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in 1887, but broke it off and was apprenticed to a locksmith instead. He also broke off this apprenticeship in the first year, this time because he went away from Ansbach without permission in 1889. From June to August 1889, he worked as a day laborer in Höchst am Main.
Becoming Gustave Whitehead
Little is known about his further life until he became traceable again eight years later in the USA. He presumably emigrated to Porto Alegre in Brazil. After trying his hand for a short time in the then completely undeveloped interior, he came to Rio de Janeiro. Probably around the year 1895 he immigrated to the USA in an unknown way. Gustav Weißkopf never renounced his German citizenship or applied for or accepted another citizenship. In the USA he wrote his name adapted to the English language “Gustave Whitehead“. According to his own statements, he worked for a time as a crew member on sailing ships before immigrating to the USA. In Brazil, he built and flew gliders, according to his statements. He said he observed the flight of condors in Chile and albatrosses at Cape Horn. He had caught one of these birds in order to study their wingspan and their relation to weight. According to his statements, he returned to Germany once again to meet Otto Lilienthal and to become his collaborator and student.
The Boston Aeronautical Society
Weißkopf’s life can be documented again for the first time in 1897. In the two previous years, the Boston Aeronautical Society had endeavored to bring Lilienthal, who was world-famous at the time, to Boston, where he was to give lectures and practical flying lessons. After Lilienthal’s death in August 1896, the Boston Aeronautical Society decided instead to have a Lilienthal glider rebuilt. Gustav Weißkopf was hired for this task probably because of his alleged experience in building and flying gliders in Brazil and his alleged collaboration with Otto Lilienthal. Gustav Weißkopf built two gliders in the service of the Aeronautical Society, both of which were unfit for flight. As a result, he was dismissed and left Boston. He went to New York, where he found work in a factory making sporting goods and toys. After his marriage in 1897, Weisskopf moved with his family via Baltimore and Johnstown in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh in 1899, where he found work in a coal mine.
Here he befriended fellow worker Louis Darvarich, who helped him build airplanes. Darvarich stated in an affidavit dated July 19, 1934, that he had flown with Whitehead: “It was either in April or May 1899 that I was present and flew with Mr. Whitehead (Weisskopf), who succeeded in getting his steam engine powered machine off the ground. The flight, at a height of about 8 meters, extended for about a mile. It took place in Pittsburgh with Mr. Whitehead’s monoplane. We failed to fly around a three-story building, and when the plane crashed, I was badly burned by the steam, because I had heated the boiler. Because of that, I had to spend several weeks in the hospital. I remember the flight clearly. Mr. Whitehead was unhurt, for he had been sitting in the front part of the machine and had steered it from there.” A New York newspaper carried an interview with Whitehead in 1901 in which he mentioned this flight.
The Flying Machine
In 1900, Gustav Weißkopf had settled in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and worked as a night watchman for the Willmot&Hobbs company, which gave him enough time during the day to pursue his interest in designing and building flying machines with engines of his own design. He was able to meet the aviation enthusiast Stanley Y. Beach and his father, the editor of Scientific American, Frederick C. Beach, to financially support his efforts. He recruited helpers from the neighborhood. In the Minneapolis Journal of July 26, 1901, Weisskopf reported a first flight in an unmanned machine he had built on May 3, 1901, unfolding its wings of bamboo cane and cotton, starting its two propeller-driven second engine, and two subsequent flights with 220 pounds of ballast instead of crew, ultimately more than 12 feet high and a half-mile wide. The wing and tailplane of design No. 21 were similar in shape to those used by Lilienthal. In addition, No. 21 had a kind of boat hull, fitted with a home-made 10-horsepower engine for the landing gear and a 20-horsepower engine for the two propellers. The tail fin pivoted up and down as an elevator. The aircraft had no rudder or ailerons. For rotation about the yaw axis, it was possibly intended to operate the two propellers at different speeds.
Manned Motor Powered Flight
On August 18, 1901, the Sunday Bridgeport Herald reported on an unmanned flight with 220 pounds of ballast and a subsequent first manned powered flight by Weißkopf with a soft landing after half a mile on the previous Wednesday, August 14, 1901. Riding on the road with wings folded on its 30 cm high wooden disc wheels, the machine is certified to have reached a speed of about 45 km/h. As eyewitnesses present on the spot at Fairfield, the author, who is not named, mentions, besides himself and the pilot Weißkopf, his two assistants James Dickie and Andrew Celli.
Founding a Factory
In the fall of 1901, Weisskopf received $10,000 in capital from New York entrepreneur Herman Linde and established an airplane factory where he planned to manufacture light and powerful aircraft engines in particular. The St. Louis Republic quoted Weisskopf on November 18, 1901, as saying that his backer and he could have an airplane on the market in a few months. However, in January 1902, the partnership broke up. Linde took over the aircraft factory and in 1904 made it known that he would build a self-launching aircraft. In the spring of 1902, Gustav Weißkopf announced that on January 26, he had made two successful flights of almost two miles and seven miles in a new airplane that he had christened No. 22. No photo of No. 22 is known. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the aircraft. In the ten years following these alleged flights of two and seven miles respectively, Gustav Weißkopf never again succeeded in reproducing this supposed performance, although he still built numerous aircraft and made many unsuccessful takeoff attempts.
The End of Whitehead’s Entrepreneurship
In 1910, Stanley Beach ended Weißkopf’s many years of financial support. Looking back, he later gave as the reason that Weißkopf had never succeeded in building a self-launching aircraft by 1910. In 1911, Weisskopf received $5,000 from a contractor to design and build an engine for testing an early version of a helicopter. After the engine failed to perform as promised, his client sued Weisskopf for repayment. Since Weißkopf was insolvent, he was seized in 1912, which meant the end of his independence.
After losing his company, Weisskopf worked as a factory worker in Bridgeport until his death. Weisskopf died of a heart attack at his home on October 10, 1927. That Weißkopf’s 1901 powered flight has remained controversial to this day is due to the paucity of sources, the lack of a photograph of the flying machine, and numerous inconsistencies in existing sources. Weisskopf’s many years of involvement with flying machines and the construction of working aircraft engines are evident. Even intensive research since 1937, however, has not been able to definitively determine the boundary between truth and fiction to this day.
Tom Crouch, The Strange Case of Gustave Whitehead,
References and Further Reading:
- The Wright Brothers Invented the Aviation Age, SciHi Blog
- Otto Lilienthal, the Glider King, SciHi Blog
- Ship that will fly like a bird may soon be placed on the market. In: New York Telegram, 19. November 1901, p. 10; Scan in: gustave-whitehead.com.
- Library of Congress: A Flying Machine that flies a little. In: The Minneapolis Journal. 26. Juli 1901
- Flying. In: Bridgeport Herald. Volume 9, Nr. 567, 18. August 1901, S. 5 , via Google News
- Gustave Whitehead’s Flying Machines
- Gustave Whitehead – What Did He Do?
- Delear, Frank (March 1996), “Gustave Whitehead and the First-Flight Controversy”, Aviation History, Weider History Group, pp. 1–10
- Brinchman, Susan O’Dwyer (2015). Gustave Whitehead: First in Flight. Apex Educational Media.
- The German Aviation Pioneer Museum Gustav Weißkopf
- Gustave Whitehead at Wikidata
- Tom Crouch, The Strange Case of Gustave Whitehead, at the Engineers’ Club in Dayton, Ohio , 24. June 2013, via youtube
- Timeline of Aviation Pioneers born before 1880, via Wikidata and DBpedia | aerospace |
https://mashup.tecnologia.world/2018/07/18/view-are-living-blue-origin-subjects-its-rocket-to-superior-altitude-escape-examination/ | 2019-05-22T03:17:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256724.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522022933-20190522044933-00064.warc.gz | 0.953199 | 507 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__138482399 | en | As it proceeds to development toward human flights, Blue Origin will accomplish a further perhaps dangerous uncrewed examination currently of its New Shepard rocket and spacecraft. Despite the fact that it has not still presented facts, the firm states it will fly “a superior altitude escape motor test—pushing the rocket to its restrictions.” The examination is scheduled to begin at ten am EDT (fourteen:00 UTC) at the company’s West Texas launch web site.
This is the ninth examination of the reusable New Shepard system and the 3rd in which it has bundled business payloads on its quick suborbital flights. This time, the firm is also flying a suite of resources from Blue Origin personnel as a portion of its inside “Fly My Stuff” program. (It is unclear at this stage specifically how “abort examination” and “payload” in good shape collectively in the very same mission—presumably the superior altitude abort will be adopted by the New Shepard spacecraft urgent to orbit, but we are not specifically certain. Blue Origin will have more facts about specifically what is actually heading on when its webcast commences.)
This is not the initially superior-power examination of New Shepard. In Oct, 2016, the firm done a reduced altitude in-flight escape examination when engineers intentionally activated the spacecraft’s launch abort system at about 45 seconds immediately after launch and an altitude of sixteen,000 ft. This kind of devices are made to fireplace speedily and independent the crew capsule from the booster through an unexpected emergency.
The rocket was not made to endure an in-flight escape and was slammed with 70,000 lbs . of off-axis force and scorching exhaust. But although the examination was done at Max-Q—that is, the window of time through which the automobile is topic to the highest mechanical and aerodynamic stress—the propulsion module did not break aside. That rocket is now portion of a highway present and will at some point go to a museum.
Assuming good results Wednesday, the aerospace firm founded by Jeff Bezos seems to be acquiring closer to traveling humans into place on New Shepard. Organization officers say “examination travellers” could go into place late this year, with paying customers taking flights in 2019. There is speculation that Bezos himself, the world’s richest particular person, will be among the the initially folks to fly on New Shepard.
The webcast down below should begin about 20 minutes before the examination commences. | aerospace |
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems, referred to colloquially as “drones,” are entering our airspace at rapid rates as companies look to drone delivery to promote cost savings, greater efficiency, and worker safety. In a new primer, Technology and Innovation Policy Analyst Joshua Levine discusses how the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has traditionally regulated airspace, the current state of federal drone regulation, and recent scholarship on how to promote commercial drone adoption while protecting private property rights and valuable airspace.
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https://pragnews.com/meet-anil-menon-india-origin-astronaut-selected-by-nasa-for-its-next-mission/ | 2022-01-25T11:27:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304810.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125100035-20220125130035-00233.warc.gz | 0.927752 | 409 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__182216907 | en | Washington DC: India-Origin, Nasa-turned SpaceX flight surgeon Anil Menon is among the ten astronauts chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to work for its future human mission to the moon and then to Mars.
NASA chose the 45-year-old from over 12,000 applicants to work for the project. Apart from Anil, the 2021 astronaut class includes six men and four women, who NASA administrator Bill Nelson introduced on Monday during an event at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“Meet the newest group of future @NASA_Astronauts We’re introducing our next class of astronaut candidates, who will begin training in January.” NASA tweeted.
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The candidates will begin two years of training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in January. The other nine candidates accompanying Anil Menon were Major Nichole Ayers, Maj. Marcos Berrios, Maj. (retired.) Luke Delaney, Lt. Cmdr. Jessica Wittner, Lt. Deniz Burnham, Cmdr. Jack Hathaway, Christopher Williams, Christina Birch and Andre Douglas.
Soon after the completion, NASA will assign the candidates to missions involved in performing research abroad the space station and deep-space mission to destinations, including the Moon on NASA’s Orion Spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.
All you want to know about Anil Menon:
Born to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants, Anil Menon is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force and was the first flight surgeon of Elon Musk company SpaceX, where he started its medical programme and helped prepare for the company’s first human flights. He served as NASA’s crew flight surgeon for various expeditions on the International Space Station before this.
Menon is married to Anna Menon, who works at SpaceX as the lead space operations engineer, and they have two children. | aerospace |
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https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2021/08/12/indian-space-research-organisation-fails-to-put-earth-observation-satellite-in-space | 2022-08-16T10:58:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00762.warc.gz | 0.955101 | 605 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__89717874 | en | GSLV-F10, an Earth Observation satellite, takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on Thursday. AP
An Indian rocket, first Geo-Imaging Satellite-1 (GISAT-1) renamed as Earth observation Satellite-03 (EOS-03), seems to have been jinxed from the start as it failed in its attempt Thursday to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time images used to monitor cyclones and other potential natural disasters.
A technical fault occurred in the third and final ignition stage shortly after the rocket was launched from the space center in Sriharikota in southern India, the country's space agency said.
In a setback for the country's space programme, the satellite was to be geostationary, meaning it would orbit in sync with the Earth and remain over a fixed position. But while the liftoff was smooth, the rocket failed in its final phase, the Indian Space Research Organisation said.
India's earth observation satellite EOS-03 lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Reuters
It would provide images of cloud bursts and thunderstorms and obtain data for agriculture, forestry and marine purposes.
The space agency did not disclose what would happen to the rocket and satellite after the ignition failure.
A US-based astronomer Jonathan McDowell said the satellite and the rocket probably fell into the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand.
India has built a reputation as a maker of earth imaging satellites and the ability to launch them into low orbits at a fraction of the cost of Western agencies.
But over the past several years, it has moved into the more lucrative area of launching heavier geostationary satellites that are used for communications and meteorology.
India lost contact with its unmanned spacecraft just before it was due to land on the Moon on Saturday, in a blow to the country’s ambitious low-cost lunar programme.
India lost contact with a spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon on Saturday, its space agency said, in a setback for the nation’s ambitious plans to become the first country to probe the unexplored lunar south pole.
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The unit is designed to “eject” and “fly” away from the crash site, to survive the terminal velocity of fall, to float on water indefinitely, and would be equipped with satellite technology for immediate location of crash impact site. The earliest CVRs used analog wire recordinglater replaced by analog magnetic tape.
As of [update] it is an FAA requirement that the recording duration is a minimum of two hours. Retrieved April 8, Unconscious made euorcae theatrical presentation of a play called Charlie Victor Romeo with a script based on transcripts from CVR voice recordings of nine aircraft emergencies.
On December 28,Indonesia AirAsia Flighten route from SurabayaIndonesia, to Singaporecrashed eurocad bad weather, killing all passengers and seven crew on board. Very often, the digital system will include Built-In Test Equipment which records information about the operation of the system. This is typically achieved by recording the signals of the microphones and earphones of the pilots’ headsets and of an area microphone euurocae the roof of the cockpit. | aerospace |
https://flightattendant.pro/supplemental-pay/ | 2021-09-28T04:43:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780060201.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20210928032425-20210928062425-00413.warc.gz | 0.946101 | 361 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__216797252 | en | Flight Attendant Supplemental Pay Glossary
Domestic Flight Leader Lead Pay F1: Also referred to as “Lead Flight Attendant”, “Flight Service Leader”, “Lead position”, “First Flight Attendant” or “F1”. This compensation is for the flight attendant who has been awarded or assigned a specific position, usually located at the front of the aircraft. This position comes with additional responsibilities such as facilitating the crew briefing, checking the uniform appearance of the crew, verifying the presence and validity of required items, reviewing the service level for the flight and providing work guidance. Most major airlines train all the flight attendants for this position which is then awarded by seniority. The rate of pay for this position ranges from $1.00-$3.35 depending on the airline and size of the aircraft.
Domestic Per Diem: Pay for each hour a flight attendant is away from base. This includes time on duty, including all time spent waiting, time traveling as well all time off duty while on layover. Generally per diem will begin at the time of check in and end 15 to 30 minutes after the arrival of the last flight for that specific trip. All flight attendants at all major airlines receive per diem which is the second main component of compensation since it adds up quickly. The rate of pay for domestic per diem ranges from $1.90 to $2.50.
Last updated on 10/21/2018
This comparison is provided for informational purposes only. Some components of pay may come with stipulations that aren’t listed. We rely on fellow flight attendants to ensure the information being provided is as accurate as possible. If something is missing or you have a correction please contact us. | aerospace |
http://www.eoaluminum.com/news/the-difference-between-ordinary-aluminum-alloy-7438596.html | 2019-01-22T20:42:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583874494.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20190122202547-20190122224547-00276.warc.gz | 0.908671 | 259 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__168705704 | en | The Difference Between Ordinary Aluminum Alloy And Aerospace Aluminum Alloy
Aerospace aluminum is an ultra-high strength deformation of aluminum alloy, is currently widely used in the aviation industry. It has good mechanical and processing performance, good solution after the plastic treatment, heat treatment to strengthen the effect is good, generally at 150 ℃ (or even higher) below the high strength, good toughness, is the ideal structural materials.
Aircraft with aluminum and ordinary aluminum compared to the strength, hardness, toughness, fatigue resistance, plastic has a higher demand. As the aviation aluminum light weight, light weight effect is significant, has replaced steel and occupy the dominant position of the current aviation materials. Aviation equipment on the aluminum requirements are higher, is an important high-end aluminum application market.
There are many kinds of aluminum alloy used in aircraft. (3024,2017,2A12, etc.) and ultra-high strength of the 7 series (7075,7475,7050,7A04, etc.), in addition to some of the 5 series (5A06), the United States and the United States, , 5052, 5086, etc.) and 6 series (6061,6082, etc.) and a small amount of other series of aluminum. | aerospace |
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Three-airports-ready-to-take-off-in-Haryana/articleshow/15937320.cms | 2015-05-24T15:14:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928019.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00157-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.936455 | 1,017 | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-22__0__86728793 | en | CHANDIGARH/KARNAL: Haryana will soon take wings. The state is set to have its first ever domestic flight connectivity with two civil airports and a cargo airport approved by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), 100 years after the first commercial flight flew between Karachi and Delhi in the then united India in 1912.
Speaking exclusively to TOI, Rohtak Congress MP Deepender Hooda shared the aviation plans for his state where people for years have only derived a vicarious pleasure of watching the big jets flying over them to the neighbouring airports in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab.
"The state government had moved the proposal to the Union civil aviation ministry for three airports in Haryana. Two of these will handle domestic flights while the third will be a cargo airport" Hooda told TOI at the Haryana CM residence in the state capital.
The two domestic airports will be built in Karnal and Hisar while the cargo airport will come up at Rohtak.
The plan to open the airports were discussed in a meeting between Haryana CM and union civil aviation minister Ajit Singh on July 27 in Delhi.
The Karnal airport will function from the existing aerodrome at the Flying Club, which has been running since 1967.
Although the club's operations were expanded by merging it with Hisar Aviation Club and Pinjore Aviation Club in 1999 but the aerodrome could never double up as a civil enclave.
Its small runway with just 3000 feet length and 150 feet width could only see pilots flying small planes such as 4-seater Cessna 172 (3), 2-seater Cessna 152 (3), Piper Cherokee (1) and Pushpak (1).
"The runway is now being extended to 4500 feet in the first phase and then up to 6000 feet. Once complete, it will easily accomodate ATR Turboprops and jets. The first phase has already begun" said state civil aviation secretary Raminder Jakhu.
The length of runway at the Hisar aerodrome is 4000 feet, which will be extended to 6000 feet.
Both Hisar and Karnal have recently upgraded their night-flying operations with conventional aids such as Goose Net Flares (GNFs), non-directional beacons and aerodrome beacons.
Process of runway electrification through state's PWD (Building & Roads) agency at the Karnal aerodrome has also begun after DGCA gave approval for night flying in July this year.
The choice of locations for civil airports has been a combination of factors -- inlcuding Karnal's development as educational hub, and Hisas as transit route for industrialists.
Kalpana Chawla, who had become the first Indian-born woman astronaut in 1997 when she flew as a mission specialist on thespace shuttle Columbia , was born in Karnal and studied in a local school up to class X.
The cargo airport at Meham in Rohtak has been chosen only for its industrial significance.
Once operational, the cargo airport will attract its business from the upcoming Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) which will cover 29,362 square kilometres area, accounting for about 66.4 per cent of Haryana.
Its domestic and international operations will be facilitated by Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corp (HSIIDC).
Nearly 2,770 acres of land has been offered to the central government to set this airport.
"Displacement of population would be assessed and would be taken care of as per the rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) policy of the Haryana government" said Rajeev Arora, MD, HSIIDC.
Airports in North IndiaHimachal Pradesh (3): Shimla, Kullu, Dhara Punjab (2): Amritsar, Ludhiana Chandigarh Jammu &Kashmir (3): Jammu, Leh, Srinagar
Haryana's upcoming Airports Location: Karnal Flying Club Existing Runway: 3000 feet Aircraft capability: 2 to 15 seater Extended Runway(Phase 1): 4500 feet New aircraft capability: Only ATR Turboprops
Location: Hisar Flying Club Existing Runway: 4000 feet Aircraft capability: Some ATR Turboprops Extended Runway: 6000 feet New Aircraft cability: All major Boeings and Airbus
Location: Meham, Rohtak New Runway: 6000 feet Aircraft capability: Boeing Navigational Aids Needed: D-VOR: Doppler VHF omnidirectional radio range) is a type of radio navigation system for aircraft to help the pilot know the location he is at. ILS: Onstrument landing system (ILS) is a ground-based instrument approach system that provides precision guidance to an aircraft approaching and landing on a runway. | aerospace |
https://maritimemaunder.blogspot.com/2017/08/its-hurrican-season-again.html | 2022-08-18T15:58:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573242.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818154820-20220818184820-00337.warc.gz | 0.951722 | 745 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__170445041 | en | We at Maritime Maunder thought our readers might like to know a bit more about the "early warning system" - namely the "Hurricane Hunters" who fly straight into the storms to get up close and personal with the winds, the track, and the information necessary to warn the affected areas about their chances of a hit, direct or otherwise.
Meet Flight Director Jessica Williams, (USAF) who serves on NOAA's Lockheed WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream IV-SP hurricane hunter planes.
Jessica Williams has always thirsted for an understanding about the environment in which we live. As a high school senior deciding on a college, she had the foresight to pursue her interest in weather and the atmosphere. Her compass pointed her to Penn State University. There, Williams joined the United States Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. Her studies at Penn State concluded with a bachelor's of science degree in meteorology. She bolstered her resume with a master's of science degree in geographic information science from Northwest Missouri State University.
Here's her ride:
When flying on a mission to investigate a tropical cyclone, Williams is responsible for ensuring that the aircraft to which she is assigned is safely navigated through the storm and all the necessary data is collected.
The work, however, begins well before “wheels up.” Mission preparation involves collecting mission objectives from researchers and reviewing operational directives. “From this, we put together a tentative flight plan to accomplish these objectives,” says Williams. “I study the weather pattern, forecasts, and any potential weather hazards based on my training and experience, for the time period and locations we’ll be flying in and around.” She later disseminates this information to the crew in the pre-flight briefing.
Safety is paramount and once airborne, Williams is buckled in for what can be more than an eight-hour flight. “My eyes are on the radars at all times first and foremost, and secondly the data we’re collecting, which gets transmitted to the National Hurricane Center and often ingested into forecast models,” she says.
Here's what she sees outside her window!
Into the storm
As one can imagine, working with hurricanes is anything but predictable. “Flight tracks, plans and objectives often change in flight, so we need to be prepared to discuss whether these changes are safe,” says Williams.
The idea of safely surveying hurricanes almost seems like a contradiction, but the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center team has made it standard operating procedure.
“This means flying right through the eyewall, which contains intense updrafts and downdrafts, extreme precipitation, lightning and often hail,” says Williams. Pre-flight training is essential to preparing the crew for these high-risk environments. “With knowledge of the storm dynamics, an understanding of aviation radar, and lots of experience from the crew we avoid these more dangerous areas.”
Close to home
The focus of her work sometimes can hit pretty close to home, most recently with Hurricane Matthew, “with the track coming so close to Florida and many of us having family and friends on the East Coast.” But she says it’s worth it, especially knowing how quickly the data she and her fellow Hurricane Hunters collect can directly affect people’s lives.
So, Jesssica Williams, Maritime Maunder salutes you and your team of Hurricane Hunters, thanks you for your service, and we hope you have an uneventful season!
Until next time, | aerospace |
https://mynewsla.com/business/2017/07/03/spacex-good-news-bad-news-1st-re-use-of-dragon-and-aborted-launch/ | 2022-08-09T14:35:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00772.warc.gz | 0.959155 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__177041522 | en | SpaceX’s first-ever reused Dragon capsule successfully returned Monday from a supply mission to the International Space Station, splashing safely down in the Pacific Ocean.
The Hawthorne-based aerospace firm launched the spaceship in early June and spent 30 days in space. The mission marked the first re-flight of a Dragon capsule that had already flown to space once before. The capsule previously flew a mission in September-October 2014.
The Dragon spent 28 days docked to the International Space Station, delivering several thousand pounds of scientific experiments and equipment to the space station and returned to Earth with some of those experiment results.
Standing down today due to a violation of abort criteria, vehicle/payload in good health, next launch opportunity tomorrow, July 4th!
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 4, 2017
The company’s work day was expected to continue later Monday with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida — delivering Intelsat 35e, a commercial communications satellite, into orbit.
But just 10 seconds before launch, the takeoff was scrubbed. It was the second delay in the mission. The launch was originally scheduled to take place Sunday night, but was delayed for a computer issue.
It was not immediately clear when the company would attempt the launch again, but it could be Tuesday.
— City News Service | aerospace |
http://www.dailypaul.com/275524/united-airlines-pulls-boeing-787-out-of-service-until-june-5?page=1 | 2014-12-20T00:55:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769305.158/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00162-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.945096 | 186 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__3573115 | en | United Airlines Pulls Boeing 787 Out of Service Until June 5Submitted by emalvini on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 21:18
United Airlines Pulls Boeing 787 Out of Service Until June 5
By W.J. Hennigan
February 21, 2013, 3:22 p.m.
With the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, United Airlines said it is keeping the beleaguered aircraft off its flight schedule through June 5.
“We are taking the 787 out of our schedule through June 5, except for Denver-Narita, which will tentatively launch on May 12,” said Christen David, a spokeswoman for the airline.
United, the only U.S. carrier that has 787s in its fleet, has six of the planes. Boeing has delivered 50 787s to eight airlines worldwide. | aerospace |
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/02/05/new-jersey-man-arrested-after-he-flies-drone-into-empire-state-building | 2021-12-08T10:07:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363465.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20211208083545-20211208113545-00309.warc.gz | 0.977422 | 256 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__6333900 | en | A New Jersey man was arrested Thursday evening after his drone crashed into the 40th floor of the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan.
Police said the man, 29-year-old Sean Riddle, was flying the aircraft to get some ariel footage of the city, but he suddenly lost control of the aircraft. Once it hit the Empire State Building, the drone fell to a landing on the 35th floor, according to WNBC-TV.
After realizing his drone had crashed into the building, Riddle went inside the building's lobby and asked security personnel for his drone back. Instead, they called police. Riddle was arrested on the scene.
While waiting for the drone, Riddle tweeted his situation: "filming w/drone, now its stuck on the empire state building....w/security."
WNBC also reported that the incident brought a significant police and FBI presence to the building, only as a precaution.
Riddle faces charges of "reckless endangerment and aviation in and over the city," according to Reuters.
No one was injured in the incident.
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http://sciencefactory.org/dome-shows/astronaut | 2017-04-29T13:17:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123491.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00297-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.900254 | 105 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__162497446 | en | This exciting fulldome show takes you from Earth into outer space, and beyond. What training do astronauts need? What dangers do astronauts face? What does it take to live on the space station? Presented in stunning high-definition 180-degree full dome video and explosive surround sound, Astronaut takes you out of this world!
Astronaut is a production of the National Space Center, distributed by SkyScan, Inc. Astronaut at the Science Factory is made possible by the Eugene Active 20-30 Club. | aerospace |
https://simviation.com/1/browse-Props-62-112 | 2023-12-04T19:19:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100534.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204182901-20231204212901-00342.warc.gz | 0.903925 | 1,209 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__221259755 | en | 2.45Mb (416 downloads)
URSS Navy colours repaint for AN-2V Floatplane. FS2004/FSX. This is a repaint in URSS Navy colours of Tim Conrad's wonderful AN-2V 'annushka' floatplane. These are textures only.
Posted Dec 25, 2012 22:29 by Enrique Medal
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Default Cessna 172 Coventry Aeroplane Club Textures. As flown from Coventry Airport (UK) in the 1970's & 1980,s.
Posted Dec 24, 2012 07:24 by Peter Russell
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Air Koryo (North Korea) Ilyushin IL-18 with clickable virtual cockpit (VC). Air Koryo is the national airline of North Korea, and is one of the few airlines still operating the classic Soviet IL-18. This package allows you to experience a realistic aircraft/airline combination that is still in use today. Entire aircraft included. Excellent model by Edgar Giunart. Air Koryo repaint by kilocharlie1.
Posted Dec 24, 2012 05:50 by kilocharlie1
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FSX Port-Over DeHavilland Dash 7 - Not Compatible with FS2004 by Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas, Mike Kelly, Bernt Stolle, Tom Falley, and sounds by Nigel Richards. Final beta testing by members of Sim-Outhouse. (incl model updates) Pkg incl 3 models, custom panel and gauges, custom sounds, two Flight Model options, and 7 liveries with more available for separate downloads. With backing from the Canadian government, de Havilland Canada began in late 1972 the development of a larger capacity short/medium range Short-Take-Off-and-Land (STOL) transport that would provide the higher standards of comfort to be found in much larger airliners. Designated DHC-7, and later named Dash-7, the first of two pre-production aircraft (C-GNBX-X) made its maiden flight on 27 March 1975. The first production aircraft (C-GNBX-X) was flown on 20 May 1977 and about 47 are in service still today.
Posted Dec 23, 2012 11:06 by Milton Shupe
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The Optica, designed by John Edgley and built by Brooklands Aerospace, had an unusual configuration with a fully glazed forward cabin seating three across. Full animations, 3D gauges and Baked Textures. By Craig Richardson @ www.Classicwings.net Flight Model by Pam Brooker.
Posted Dec 22, 2012 12:41 by uploader
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FSX added views for Avia-56 from Milton Shupe, Nigel Richards, John Smith, and James Banks with help from SOH members (Requires Requires Av56ms.zip). The camera definitions provides 4 aircraft- and 4 cabin views. They show the best spots for the detailed interior for the passenger- and especially for the amazing cargo-version. I have lifted the rear contact points for water of the Amphibium. Please check it out. Configuration by Erwin Welker
Posted Dec 19, 2012 07:14 by Erwin Welker
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FSX added views for Avia-57 from Milton Shupe, Nigel Richards, John Smith, and James Banks with help from SOH members (Requires Requires Avia57Pkg.zip). The camera definitions provides 4 aircraft views and 5 cabin views. They show the best spots for the detailed interior for the passenger- and especially for the amazing cargo-version. Configuration by Erwin Welker
Posted Dec 17, 2012 06:05 by Erwin Welker
24.84Mb (4679 downloads)
FSX/FS2004 Fairchild/Dornier Metro III SA 227 AC Veravia Cargo. The SX-BMM is one of the four Metroliners of the Hellenic Air Cargo Company Ver-Avia located at Eleytherios Venizelos, Athens International Airport, Greece. This beautiful model is the creation of designer Mike Stone. The FS2004 model adopted for FSX. All Animated parts,2D panel (no VC). Textures are in Bmp format so they work also in FS2004. Repaint by Hellenic Aircraft /Yiannis Katehis Tsetsas 2012
Posted Dec 16, 2012 18:09 by YIANNIS KATEHIS TSETSAS
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FSX Basler BT-67 skis version repaint textures for the Australian registered Antarctic Aeroshare Consortium, Mawson Station, Antarctica. For the wonderful Jahn-Fuernkaess-Metzger-Naegele Basler BT-67, which you must have previously installed in FSX. Wearing her coat of many colors, VH-JLT flies for an assembly of 20 different nations in partnership with universities, polar alumni associations, and industry giants to name but a few, in order to satisfy the AAC motto "Many Missions, One Goal". Screenshots enclosed, Easy installation. By Tom Tiedman.
Posted Dec 15, 2012 11:55 by Tom Tiedman
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FSXA - Fly Synthesis Texan Club 550 LSA This is an italian built low-wing light sport aircraft made of composite materials. It offers good visibility, excellent handling, and is a pleasure to fly. It's low speed capabilities make it an ideal aircraft for small airstrips.
Posted Dec 15, 2012 03:30 by Massimo Taccoli | aerospace |
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2015/03/09/michigan-state-police-gets-ok-use-drone/24654161/ | 2023-03-23T11:09:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945144.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323100829-20230323130829-00449.warc.gz | 0.962879 | 697 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__236666341 | en | State police gets OK to use drones in investigations
The Michigan State Police aviation unit has grown by one.
On Monday, the state police said it received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration on Feb. 25 to fly an unmanned aircraft system or drone to support public safety efforts. The state police was given permission to fly its Aeryon SkyRanger as well as provide drone services for other police agencies in the state.
This makes the state police the first police agency in the nation with statewide authorization to deploy an aerial drone to photograph vehicle crash scenes and give a bird’s-eye view of other emergency situations. The FAA has granted licenses to fly unmanned aerial vehicles only to a handful of municipal police agencies across the country.
The drone is expected to reduce the time required to survey and reconstruct major crash scenes like the 193-vehicle pileup that shut down a section of Interstate 94 between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek in January.
It took two days to reopen the highway after the pileup, in part because crash investigators had to take detailed measurements and photos of the scene before they could begin clearing the wreckage of passenger vehicles and commercial trucks, said Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, commander of the Michigan State Police. Ontario Provincial Police reports up to an 87 percent reduction in the time for its drones to photograph and reconstruct crash areas.
On March 3, the Michigan State Police drone was flown over a fire investigation near Jenison, collecting both video and photographs of the structure to help investigators determine the origin and cause of the fire.
The video and photos revealed hotspots, helping firefighters figure out where the fire was still smoldering, said 1st Lt. Chris Bush, commander of field support and aviation at the Michigan State Police.
“In the future, you can fly it over that and relay (that information) to the fire department,” Bush told The Detroit News on Monday.
The State Police aviation unit, which has use of two helicopters and one fixed wing aircraft, first purchased an Aeryon SkyRanger for $158,000 in September 2013 based on its high evaluations for safety, capability and reliability. It was purchased with a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The state police and the FAA have since worked together to meet all safety and training requirements, as well as to develop police and procedures for the use of the equipment.
The state police and FAA have established strict polices regarding the operation of the drone, including:
■ The drone must always be flown by a two-person crew, with one acting as the pilot and the other as a safety observer.
■ The pilot must be FAA certified.
■ The unmanned aircraft system must remain below 400 feet and always be within line of sight of the crew.
■ It can’t be flown near airports.
Drones also have natural limitations. They can only handle light rain. And the Aeryon SkyRanger is limited to flying in winds of 40 mph, but can handle gusts of up to 55 mph, Bush said.
Michigan State Police officials envision eventually having multiple drones stationed around the state for emergency response. But the first drone will be located at the Lansing airport.
“We’re not sure where it's going to take us,” Bush said.
Staff Writer Chad Livengood contributed. | aerospace |
https://alexanderking.co/film-tv/the-away-mission/ | 2024-04-15T14:59:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817002.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415142720-20240415172720-00020.warc.gz | 0.902061 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__173044266 | en | The Away Mission is the story of a couple of hapless spacemen stranded on a hostile planet with only their meagre wits.
I wanted to do something epic and orchestral for the main titles, and I think I hit the mark. It’s a nice juxtaposition with the madcap hi-jinks the crew get up to. The end titles was a blippy piece of electronica I hoped would get viewers clicking the ‘next episode’ button. I also provided incidental music and a snippet of space jazz-funk, unexpectedly making me the world’s leading supplier of space jazz-funk. | aerospace |
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2016/05/02/people-are-apparently-upset-that-were-giving-russia-money-for-rocket-engines-n233207 | 2023-12-09T15:14:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100912.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209134916-20231209164916-00634.warc.gz | 0.96341 | 768 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__167890030 | en | Brian Sikma at The Resurgent has some less than cheerful news this week about US plans to continue purchasing rocket engines from Russia for America’s space launch needs. In the short term we’re talking about a dozen and a half engines with a price tag of more than half a billion dollars. Given our current relationship with the Russians and their use of, er… other engines to play games with our Navy, it’s understandable that some folks are upset about this boon for Vladimir Putin.
The United States Air Force will continue to rely on Russian built rocket engines to loft satellites into orbit thanks to a decision by the House Armed Services Committee early Thursday morning. Originally, the Air Force wanted 9 Russian-made engines for satellite launches in the near future, but in a voice vote reported by The Hill, Republican Congressman Mike Coffman of Colorado got the committee to approve the purchase of 18 engines for a total price tag of $540 million.
Why U.S. taxpayers are sending $540 million to a Russian defense company controlled (both politically and financially) by Vladimir Putin at time when Russian actions have increased tensions between the two nations is a bit complicated. A politically well-connected joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, two aerospace and defense contracting giants, currently builds rockets that are contracted with the Air Force for satellite launch missions. United Launch Alliance, as the venture is known, uses Russian engines in its Atlas V rocket.
Sikma goes on to note that some in Congress, such as Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), are arguing that the principle of free markets demands we keep purchasing from the Russians just to promote competition. That argument is rather sad to say the least. I’m all for free market capitalism, but generally only so far as it promotes American businesses and interests. Yet the same argument is being made to ask why we aren’t simply leaning on SpaceX and their Dragon ships to deliver our satellites into space.
This is, as Brian initially describes it, a complicated question, but not exactly in the same way he claims. First of all, SpaceX is doing some great work and I personally cheer for them. The future of space exploration may wind up resting largely on the private sector or, at a minimum, some form of hybrid partnership between the government and companies such as that. They’ve accomplished great things in launching resupply missions for the International Space Station and they seem to be advancing by leaps and bounds. But at the same time, it’s worth noting that they haven’t exactly reached the point of having a flawless record yet. Keep in mind that it was only last summer when we watched one of their launches explode and disintegrate in spectacular fashion moments after lifting off. Only a few months ago another one tipped over, crashed and burned while attempting a vertical landing. They are clearly getting to the point of viability, but there’s a steep learning curve in that game and we need something as reliable as possible, particuarly considering what every satellite costs to develop, build and put into orbit.
The other, perhaps more uncomfortable factor is that there’s only just so far that we can push the Russians right now on the space technology front. We decided to bench our shuttle fleet with no replacement in sight and if we want to continue putting astronauts on the space station or get involved in any other low orbit work, Putin is pretty much the only game in town. If we start shutting off his sales in the space program area, there’s really nothing stopping him from saying there are no seats available on the next launch. That may be an ugly reality, but we put ourselves in this position and until we get another reusable personnel launch vehicle in operation we’re pretty much stuck. | aerospace |
https://chesslodge.blogspot.com/2009/02/earth-vs-space-match.html | 2017-04-29T03:26:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123270.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00584-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.909807 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__216635828 | en | NASA and the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) are teaming up to host the first public chess match between astronaut Greg Chamitoff, in orbit aboard the International Space Station, and the public. Key players in the game, set to begin on Monday, Sept. 29, will be the kindergarten through third grade U.S. Chess Championship Team and its chess club teammates from Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash.Read more
The K-3 champions will select up to four possible moves each time it is Earth's turn, and then the public will vote on which move will be made. NASA will transmit the winning move to Chamitoff, who will respond. The USCF will facilitate the match on its web site at: www.uschess.org/nasa2008
A curious fact is that Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko are aboard the Space Station together with Greg. Sergei Volkov is also the name of a strong Russian Grandmaster. | aerospace |
https://www.kuam.com/story/14645134/nasa-gives-bordallo-guam-flag-from-space | 2019-06-17T17:14:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998513.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190617163111-20190617185111-00482.warc.gz | 0.93641 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__8089399 | en | NASA gives Bordallo Guam flag from space
by Nick Delgado
Guam - Three pilots with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) met with Guam delegate Madeleine Bordallo to present to her a Guam flag that the crew took on a recent space mission. The crew aboard the Discovery space shuttle recently completed the 35th mission to the International space station where they delivered a new permanent module and external stowage platform along with other supplies and equipment.
Congresswoman Bordallo who met with Mission specialist Stephen Bowen last year requested he bring a Guam flag with him on his next space mission as a tribute to the late CDR William McCool. McCool attended middle and high school on Guam, and during a space mission aboard the Columbia back in 2003, his shuttle was destroyed during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
The Guam flag will now be put on display at the McCool elementary middle school on Naval Base Guam. | aerospace |
https://qrznow.com/d-star-one-communication-amateur-radio-satellite/ | 2020-11-26T06:56:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141186761.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20201126055652-20201126085652-00529.warc.gz | 0.905652 | 620 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__127439551 | en | D-Star ONE (DP1GOS) halfduplex repeater & beacon frequencies:
Uplink: 437,325MHz / Downlink: 435,525MHz RF-Power: 800mW
D-Star One is a 3U CubeSat which is equipped with four identical radio modules with D-Star capabilities, all being operated in a half-duplex mode.
Two modules are used for telemetry and telecomand and operate on identical frequencies. Telemetry can be received on 435,7 MHz, the format will be disclosed after launch. Both modules receive, and both modules answer. To prevent information loss, they answer after each other. So each telemetry frame is repeated twice. Both modules have a D-Star Voice-Message Beacon, but it is only activated for one module during LEOP. The Beacon is repeated once in a minute.
The other two modules are dedicated to the radio amateur community. Both modules have the same frequencies, so one of them will be powered down as long as the other one shows no degradation effects. The downlink frequency is 435.525 MHz and the uplink frequency is 437.325 MHz. Also here half-duplex mode is applied. The modules are configured to work as D-Star repeaters, so they retranslate the received d-star frames on the downlink frequency. They also have a D-Star voice beacon signal.
All modules are operated in a power save mode. This means that they are in idle for 40 seconds and then in receive mode for 20 seconds. Once a signal has been received, the modules switch to receive mode for five minutes. So it might be necessary to „ping“ the satellite a couple of times until an answer is received.
D-Star ONE is the first private german CubeSat and the first D-Star communication spacecraft wordwide.
D-Star ONE will be launched on November 28, 2017 from Vostochny launch site jointly with the Meteor-M №2-1 mission of the Russian State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS.
Final launch preparations are currently being performed.
The D-Star ONE spacecraft have been delivered on the Vostochny launch side.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704211704575140081449754638 | 2016-10-23T03:19:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719139.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00273-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.981796 | 865 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__123650648 | en | Dubbed "The Flying Flapper" by newspapers that followed her every feat, Elinor Smith set aviation records for endurance, height and speed at a young age.
Ms. Smith, who died Friday at age 98, was one of the last survivors of aviation's early barnstorming days. She flew with such legends as Amelia Earhart and James Doolittle. She recalled Charles Lindbergh seeing her off from Roosevelt Field in 1928 on her most notorious exploit, flying under four of New York City's East River bridges.
It seemed Ms. Smith was born to fly. When she was age 6, her father, vaudeville star Tom Smith, tied her blond braids together and put her in a sight-seeing biplane that took off from a Long Island potato field not far from her home in Freeport, N.Y. "What I cannot forget is the view," Ms. Smith wrote in a 1980 memoir. She added, "I knew that my future in airplanes and flying was as inevitable as the freckles on my nose."
Along with French and piano lessons typical for a well-off girl, Ms. Smith studied aeronautics. By age 10, she had learned to take the controls, aided by wooden blocks attached to the rudder pedals of a Curtiss Jenny. She soloed at age 15, and at 16 became among the youngest pilots licensed up to that time, her license signed by Orville Wright. Ms. Smith nearly lost the license a year later thanks to the bridge stunt—another flyer had his suspended by the Commerce Department after he crashed into another East River bridge.
On a dare, Ms. Smith studied the four suspension bridges and did her stunt one Sunday morning in October. She headed south in her Waco 9 biplane, dodging ships while flying beneath the Queensboro, Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges. She finished by flying sideways beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and then circled the Statue of Liberty twice.
Mayor Jimmy Walker was so charmed when he met the young aviatrix that he volunteered to smooth things over with the Commerce Department. Ms. Smith was back flying within days, now a celebrity. "I got the letter of reprimand with a little personal note," she wrote in her memoir, "asking for my autograph by return mail."
Over the next few years, Ms. Smith would set numerous records, spurred on by a handful of other aviatrices, including Ms. Earhart, Bobbi Trout, and Pancho Barnes. All were trumpeted by the media. Ms. Smith's "Flying Flapper" moniker was matched by "The Flying Cashier" and "The Flying Salesgirl." Each strove to break free of the pack.
"That's how you got jobs, by setting records," said Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum. "Women had to take what they could get since careers in the military were closed to them."
Ms. Smith set several endurance records, and once flew so high in an attempt to set the altitude record that she blacked out above 30,000 feet.
"When I came to, I was in a power dive right into the Hempstead Reservoir," but averted a crash, she told writer Laura Muha in the 2000 book "Takeoff! How Long Island Inspired America to Fly."
Ms. Smith's feats aloft—all well publicized—got her jobs piloting for the Irvin Air Chute Co., maker of parachutes, and as a test pilot for the Fairchild Aviation Corp. She also worked for several years as an aviation commentator for NBC radio.
Married without publicity in 1933 to New York lawyer and politician Patrick Sullivan, Ms. Smith retired a few years later to concentrate on raising a family. She gave lectures on the history of flight and on aviatrix fashion, something many of the early female fliers were expert in.
She occasionally returned to flying when invited to air shows, and had the chance to pilot training jets in the 1950s. In 2000, she flew the Space Shuttle flight simulator, and managed to successful land after crashing on her first try.
Write to Stephen Miller at [email protected] | aerospace |
https://dspace.aus.edu:8443/xmlui/handle/11073/130 | 2020-04-03T07:04:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370510352.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20200403061648-20200403091648-00077.warc.gz | 0.942203 | 320 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__189941374 | en | A Master of Science Thesis in Mechatronics Submitted by Amer Al-Radaideh Entitled, "Guidance, Control and Trajectory Tracking of Small Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's)," April 2009. Available are both Soft and Hard Copies of the Thesis.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) have gained increasing considerations due to their low cost and increased autonomy. A large number of applications in the military and civilian fields. The present work considers a low level flight control algorithms (auto-pilot) to improve the guidance, path following and trajectory tracking capabilities of the low speed fixed wing AUS-UAV. In addition, this investigation aims the development and building of fully functioning test-bed UAV platform. The test-bed includes an enhanced hardware in the loop simulation "HILS" system to facilitate the development and evaluation of the ability of the flight control systems (FCS) of the AUS-UAV to follow prescribed trajectories. At the end of this thesis, the AUS-UAV was modelled using ground based numerical modelling for the aerodynamic coefficients in the early phases. Then, the aerodynamic coefficients estimation was enhanced using flight test based identification. The engine and actuator were also identified. Furthermore, a trajectory tracking algorithm was designed, implemented and evaluated using HILS. The avionics unit was also designed, calibrated and tested. Finally, flight test were conducted using Krestal autopilot to experiment with flight testing and compare the performance with our avionics unit HILS results. | aerospace |
https://giantscalenews.com/threads/dual-gas-tanks.1764/page-2 | 2022-01-18T01:07:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300658.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118002226-20220118032226-00303.warc.gz | 0.935457 | 337 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__52073717 | en | I got mine from Aerographix, like all my gear.
Red Aero RC also carries Viton line. I even think McMaster carries it as well......
Did you have to move the tanks backwards to get the CG correct?Doing this since 2013, first I was skeptic but when I flew with it it gave me a whole different perspective about dual fuel tank.
Since that day this is the setup I've been using.
The key here is to conect them in PARALLEL.
I'm flying with MVVS 175, so the 50 oz was never taken in consideration, the 2 x 32 oz 4Titude fuel tank, solved the problem, now with 64 oz of fuel, the plane needs to beg me to land...
Pros, 64 oz of fuel, more than 16 min of flying IMAC.
The fuel is not bashing the tank walls, in big tanks it can be a problem, you need sections like in trucks.
2 tanks, 200%
Flexibility in the installing process, narrow places, you can split the tanks.
2 small tanks keeps less empty space when the fuel is drained
Everything is doubled, hoses, T pins etc...
When you fill the tanks, one is always getting full first, unless you pinch it to let the other one be fueled to the top (about 2-4 oz of gap)
I see the pictures and miss ya'all Bryan !
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https://dronetechuav.co.uk/product/oksea-distant-management-drone-for-aduts-children-mini-foldable-rc-drone-quadcopter-with-altitude-maintain-mode-no-digital-camera-black/ | 2021-03-01T03:43:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178361849.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20210301030155-20210301060155-00389.warc.gz | 0.750284 | 341 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__69446857 | en | (as of Aug 09,2020 19:23:44 UTC – Details)
➤Quadcopter Weight: 25g (FAA Registration NOT Required).
➤Drone Dimensions: 130x130x32MM
➤Flying time: 7-8 mins.
➤Charging time: about 50 mins.
➤Transmitter Operation Range: about 50 meters.
➤1 x Drone(Without camera)
➤1 x 2.4GHz Transmitter.
➤1 x 3.7V 450mAh Li-Po Batteries.
➤1 x USB Charging Cable.
➤4 x Spare Replacement Blades.
➤4 x Blade Protectors
➤1 x Instruction Manual.
★ Easy to Play: One Key Takeoff/Landing allows for easier operations, you will not have to worry about orientation and with the simple press of a button your drone will rise and land, perfect for beginners.
★ Won’t Lose Direction: In Headless Mode, you can fly the drone without worrying about what direction it is facing, especially when the drone is far away.
★ Having Fun: A Key 360° 4-Ways Flip(left,right,forward,backward), Continuous Roll For Perfect Action And Wonderful Performance.which makes the drone easier to play.
★ To prevent from losing your drone: The one-key return feature of this drone ensures you never have to worry about losing this drone. Wherever you are flying, hit the one-key return button and it will return straight to you. | aerospace |
https://aviationturkey.com/en/content/avoidable-showstoppers-during-aircraft-transitions-510 | 2023-11-30T17:04:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100229.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130161920-20231130191920-00135.warc.gz | 0.943409 | 2,009 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__307099181 | en | The most important issues before starting an aircraft transition project for the parties are to have a clear understanding of their asset status and the status of the records. Starting a project blind will mostly cause long delays and budget risk exposure due to penalties and additional maintenance costs.
An aircraft transition requires good preparation in a timely manner. The lessee needs to know the exact lease return conditions, which are agreed upon during lease agreement execution, and compare the current Status of the aircraft, its parts, and related documents against these return conditions. The gaps between the lease return conditions and the current condition of the aircraft and its parts will be the basis of the aircraft transition layover work package. The more the lessee knows about these gaps, the less risk will be faced during the aircraft transition phase and unexpected costs will be reduced or avoided altogether.
The following issues are the most common hurdles which jeopardize the time plan and budget plan during an aircraft transition.
Engine and APU condition
Engines are the most-costly part of an aircraft asset. Therefore, special attention needs to be given to the physical condition and performance condition of the engine.
A pre-Borescope Inspection can be a precautionary action to see the physical status of the engine and an APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) and provides the lessee with the ability to adjust the works scope accordingly. This can save valuable time, since if an engine fails during the acceptance Borescope Inspection at the end of the layover, it will cause a significant delay from one month to six months depending on if the repair can be completed onsite or in the engine shop.
Engine health monitoring is a non-avoidable part of modern Maintenance programs and needs to be followed carefully. Even a certain Performance level allows the continuation of engine operation, but it may be not acceptable to the owner of the asset during lease return. Mostly lease return conditions define a minimum Exhaust Gas Temperature Margin (EGTM) level. EGTM is the difference between the peak EGT reached during take-off and the certified max EGT, which is used to evaluate and follow engine health and possible time on-wing. The Operator follows the EGTM trend to see the health condition of the engine to calculate the engine replacement time and take the necessary action according to this projection. During the lease Return this parameter is an important indication whether the engine will be accepted or failed. Engine performance deterioration rate can be reduced with periodical engine washes during the operation period, but if the remaining EGTM is becoming too low or below the contractual level, a possible performance Shop visit needs to be considered before starting the Transition period.
Another important issue is the usage of Part Manufacturer Approval (PMA) Parts especially on Engine and APUs, but not limited. Parts Manufacturer Approval is an FAA design and production approval for aircraft parts which allows them to be installed to the aircraft and for its parts to be used as alternatives to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) parts. The usage of such certified PMA parts can save the operator costs during the time of operation, but the lease contracts usually don’t allow the use of PMA parts without any exception or don’t allow the usage of PMA parts for critical Systems such as the engine and APUs. Principally, using PMA parts during operation on a leased Aircraft or engine is subject to lessors approval, but mostly this is not allowed and during the lease return the lessee operator needs to prove the non-usage of PMA parts with a statement. If an Operator uses PMA parts in their operation, these parts most probably would need to be replaced by OEM parts before the lease return, which causes additional costs.
Life-limited part Back to Birth (LLP BtB) issues
A life-limited part (LLP) is a part with a hard limitation mostly limited to flight Cycles but rarely also Flight Hours or calendar days. LLPs are mostly installed on Engines, APUs and Landing Gears.
Airlines are using more and more used LLPs as a replacement of an LLP which has reached the approved limit. The Operator calculates the remaining operation time of the asset and the required minimum LLP life during the lease Return and sources the appropriate LLP from the secondhand market. Installing used LLPs have a big cost saving potential comparing to installing new LLPs which will cause high costs and give away the unused life-limit of the parts. The increased usage of used LLPs has caused a significant increase in the focus on LLP BtB Documentation.
Aircraft documentation is inspected in detail during the delivery and redelivery processes with special attention place on LLPs and their trace to birth (manufacture). Airlines are responsible for the safety of flight and they need to ensure that documentation meets airworthiness standards. Additionally such documentation is considered to be very important by the lessors and aircraft owners as it can have a significant impact on asset value and marketability of the aircraft or its parts such as Engine, APU, Landing Gear or the LLP as a standalone part.
The Problems begin mostly due to the differences between aviation regulation requirements vs. industry requirements considered to be commercial LLP transactions. Aviation regulations typically require an operator to know the current life status of its LLPs. However, to know the current status of the LLP is not sufficient for industry LLP transactions and the lessor or owner of the asset requires the full BtB traceability of each installed LLP such as all the removal installation Data, accumulated cycles and categories, incident/accident clearances, ownership status of the LLP from the time of birth up to the current transaction time.
Since this issue is becoming more and more important during the aircraft transition process, the IATA Aircraft Leasing Technical Group prepared Guidance Material and Best Practices for Life-Limited Parts traceability in June 2020. This document helps industry professionals to better understand and have a guideline to follow during lease preparation. Beside the definitions the document provides a lot of information about the necessary documentation, considering different scenarios of transactions and some templates for the LLP Documentation.
To avoid any unexpectedly surprises the lessee operators need to check the LLP BtB traceability critically before they agree to buy and install subject LLPs. Furthermore, a BtB traceability review needs to be performed after each Shop visit and before the Aircraft transition process. A lack of proof about the birth traceability can lead to a number of unwelcomed financial repercussions.
Aircraft Structural condition
An aircraft can have many operators in its entire lifetime, and during operations structural damages will occur, where some of them are within limits as per the Structure Repair Manuals (SRM) and can be left as is, and some of them are beyond the limits and need to be repaired as per the Structure Repair Manual or Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)s instructions. All these events need to be documented in a proper way and must be listed in a Dent and Buckle, Repair chart. All the necessary documentation with necessary information such as the Structure Defect Reports, SRM extracts, Material Information, Work Orders, required Nondestructive Test (NDT) inspection Reports, OEM instructions etc. must be kept in proper order assigned to each Structure Item.
The operators should update these documents continuously during asset operation and performing a full structural assessment of the aircraft is highly recommended in an appropriate Layover mostly within C Checks prior to the Lease return layover. This will help to expose any gaps between the current existing structural damages, repairs, and the respective Documents. This can allow time for the operator to search for the missing documentation from the historical records. If a lack of documentation is discovered for an existing repair during the lease return process, the end result may end up being a requirement to remove the existing repair and perform it again which causes unnecessary costs and time delays for the transaction target.
The IATAs Guidance Material and Best Practices for Aircraft Leases Annex V provides valuable information about Structural Repair files and it can be used as a Guideline during the preparation of Structural Repair files.
Aircraft Cabin condition
It is typical for Aircraft Cabins to undergo some refurbishment, cabin layout changes during the change of operators or during the lease term of one operator. These cabin layout changes are mostly performed with OEM Service Bulletins or Design Organization Approved (such as EASA Part 21 Approval) Change Bulletins. These changes need to be documented very well and the spare parts need to be secured for continuous operation. Aircraft cabins usually suffer damage due to heavy usage and the fact that they are being kept within an operator’s standard which is not always the industry standard. Cabin material is mostly subject to long lead times, up to 6 months. This will cause delays on the aircraft transition layover since the parts are almost never delivered within the layover period. Cabin defects depend on the category, as cosmetic or if it is an airworthiness issue it may delay the entire Transition process or at least it has a financial impact in the form of compensation during the acceptance process.
The Operators need to have a continuous overview on the Cabin status and maintenance firstly for their commercial appearance to the passengers and for the lease return process. Therefore, a dedicated cabin team can have more control over the status of the aircraft cabin on the entire fleet and can order the required parts in advance of the aircraft transition layovers to avoid unnecessary delays in the process.
The core interest of Operators is to operate the aircraft safely and cost efficiently, therefore they often concentrate more on daily operational requirements and tend to ignore or not pay sufficient attention to the lease return conditions in a proactive and timely manner. A professional team experienced in the aircraft transition management can help to prepare the aircraft and its records for the Lease return without any daily operational stress. Investing in proper preparation can save extra expenditures, time, and stress | aerospace |
https://www.commonwealthleaders.org/Pamela-Craig-NSadcomm | 2022-05-26T01:53:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662595559.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526004200-20220526034200-00690.warc.gz | 0.961065 | 334 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__79150643 | en | Director, Financial Services, Jazz Aviation LP
Pamela Craig is the Director, Financial Services at Jazz Aviation LP. Employed by Jazz for 15 years, Pamela is responsible for the oversight of financial reporting, planning/budgeting, and financial systems. While at Jazz Pamela has been a key member of labour bargaining and major vendor contract negotiating teams. Pamela is a member of Women in Aerospace and is a Mentor in the Jazz mentorship program. Pamela is honored to work for a company that has been recognized for several consecutive years as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers 2019, one of Canada's top employers for young people 2020, one of Nova Scotia's top employers 2020, and one of Atlantic Canada's top employers in 2020.
Jazz Aviation LP has a strong history in Canadian aviation with its roots going back to the 1930s. Jazz is owned by Chorus Aviation Inc. (TSX: CHR). Chorus' vision is to deliver regional aviation to the world. As the largest regional carrier in Canada, Jazz has a proven track record of industry leadership and exceptional customer service and has leveraged that strength to deliver value to all its stakeholders. Jazz, under the Air Canada Express brand, operates more flights and flies to more Canadian destinations than any other airline, and has a workforce of approximately 5,000 professionals, highly experienced in the challenging and complex nature of regional operations.
Pamela represented Jazz, the aviation industry and Canada in the 2015 Caribbean-Canada Emerging Leaders Dialogue. A firm believer in the experiences and lessons that the ELD provide, as an Alumni, Pamela wishes to aid in its continued success. | aerospace |
https://www.travelweekly.com.au/tag/space-travel/ | 2022-07-02T13:45:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104141372.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702131941-20220702161941-00567.warc.gz | 0.893057 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__229621479 | en | Amazon founder Jeff Bezos blasts off into space for Blue Origin’s first commercial flight
In the latest instalment of ‘Billionaires Blasting off into Space’, we bring you Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Aussie dad one step closer to space travel dream after Richard Branson’s rocket trip
There is no doubt that this man’s fave song would be Elton John’s “Rocket Man”. It’s probably his ringtone, too.
Virgin Galactic aims to make space tourism a reality by the end of 2019
Travel Weekly’s editor has set up a GoFundMe page for a Virgin Galactic ticket. He’s remaining optimistic despite having only received 50 cents for his $349,000 target.
Luxury space hotels could be a reality much sooner than we thought
Pack you’re things, we’re going to space! That is if we can manage to scrape together over $12 million. Might have to settle for watching E.T on repeat instead…
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https://droneaircraftplus.com/goolrc-syma-x8hg-8-0mp-hd-camera-drone-with-altitude-hold/ | 2019-06-18T14:54:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998755.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190618143417-20190618165417-00259.warc.gz | 0.903617 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__105995128 | en | The Quadcopter is amazing and is perfect for a beginner. Easy to fly, powerful, great range, I can control it further away than I care to fly it. Installed rotor guards and have found it to survive several crashes with no problems.
This is a fantastic quad copter for the money. It takes excellent photos and videos and has a few cool features like headless mode and 360 ° inversion. If you’re recording or not which is pretty good, Flight time seems to be right around 10 minutes or so depending on. If it’s a bit windy out, the X8HG is much more stable than the X5C and can be flown even. It’s exactly the same size (almost the same body) as the DJI Phantom drone. Of course, this one is a mere toy compared to the Phantom. But, hey, it doesn’t cost near as much either. This one, the X8HG has stronger motors than the other X8 models and a better camera. It uses the same batteries and controller. It looks much cooler with the paint job.
Headless mode help you take off: Usually, people need to adjust the direction before flying,but now headless mode simplify the flying process, by using Headless, no need to adjust the position of aircraft before flying,the direction will be the same as your remote controller.
Amazing 3D flips: This drone can perform the 360 degree flips roll with one key, you will just think”what a amazing function!”while your performance attracting everyone’s eyeballs. it is very easy to use even for the beginner.
Camera pixel: 8.0MP
Resolution: 1920 * 1080P
Function: forward/backward, up/down, left/right, sideward flight, hovering, 3D flips, H/L speed, headless mode
Controller mode: Mode 2
Remote distance: About 100m
Charging time: About 180mins
Action time: About 6-8 minutes
Quadcopter battery: 7.4V 2000mAh Li-po battery
Please feel free to contact us by email directly when any problem happens to you. No matter how serious the problem is, we will try our best to help you fix the problem, and make you satisfied with our service, don’t worry. All emails will be replied in 24 hours, we will deal with your problem as soon as possible.
Tips for beginner:
1. Please read the instruction manual carefully before flying the drone. RC drone is not a toy ,the suitable age is above 14 years old.
2. Matching the drone and controller successfully and installing the propellers on right position ,otherwise the drone will not take off.
3. If the drone is flying to on side dramatically or spinning while hovering ,please switch off the power of both controller and drone and then match the drone and controller again.
4. Avoiding overcharging and excessive discharging the battery | aerospace |
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Giving a big boost to its defence surveillance capabilities, India today successfully launched an all-weather Israeli-built spy satellite that will help security agencies keep a vigil on the country’s borders. Indian space agency ISRO’s workhorse, PSLV-C12 rocket soared majestically into a clear sky at 6.45 am from the spaceport in Sriharikota and placed its first [...]
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.: Providing up-to-the-minute data to the in-theater commander can act as the tipping point to achieve success on the battlefield, and demonstrating that capability has been planned for the Tactical Satellite-3′s upcoming, year-long mission. Serving as the spacecraft’s primary payload, the Advanced Responsive Tactically-Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer, or ARTEMIS, will deliver [...]
Washington: The US government has endorsed a plan to build a new generation of spy satellites, although funding to boost the Pentagon’s imaging capacity still needs congressional approval. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Tuesday that his agency and the Department of Defense had finalized a plan to modernize the fleet of US observation [...]
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.: Air Force Space Command officials, in partnership with Lockheed Martin representatives, unveiled a one-quarter scale model of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite here April 1 during a ceremony in the AFSPC headquarters building. “It is phenomenally important to us and the warfighting team to get these satellites on orbit [...]
Washington: The US military on Sunday disputed North Korea’s claim that it had launched a satellite into space, saying “the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean.””Stage one of the missile fell into the Sea of Japan,” the North American Aerospace Defense Command and US Northern Command said in their brief account of the North [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION: An Air Force team successfully launched a new-generation military communication satellite from here April 3 at 8:31 p.m. (EDT) when an Atlas V rocket carried a Wideband Global Satellite Communication satellite into space. These satellites are designed to provide high-capacity communications to U.S. military forces. It will augment and eventually replace the [...]
Washington DC: TS2 Satellite Technologies’ network in Iraq and Afghanistan has over 15 thousand military users of local broadband satellite connections. TS2 specializes in providing global satellite communication services in areas with poor telecommunications infrastructure. Its basic transmission medium is a two way transfer of data which provides not only the Internet access and transfer [...] | aerospace |
https://rotormedia.com/mars-helicopter-forges-new-frontiers/ | 2023-10-01T19:34:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510924.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001173415-20231001203415-00767.warc.gz | 0.937928 | 4,228 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__206586028 | en | Ingenuity more than lives up to its name, in accomplishments, design, and promise for the future of rotorcraft on Earth—and beyond.
On Apr. 19, 2021, the helicopter Ingenuity completed the first powered controlled flight on a planet other than Earth when it lifted off the surface of Mars. The historic achievement proves what fearless engineering, inventive designs, and groundbreaking materials can achieve. But the feat is another example of how rotorcraft can be the right ship for the right mission, on Earth and in space, as well.
During its debut flight that April, Ingenuity, also known as the Mars Helicopter, smoothly rose 10 ft., hovered, and then gently lowered its four legs back on the planet’s rust-hued soil. More-ambitious flights followed shortly after.
“Truly a milestone in the history of aviation” is how Jim Viola, HAI president and CEO, describes the event. “I look forward to seeing the kind of applications that industry can devise for a helicopter that’s capable of flight at 100,000 ft. here on Earth.”
Now that Ingenuity has provided proof of concept, future Mars rotorcraft will prove their worth by closing the gap between orbiters and rovers and exploiting the inherent advantages of aviation in the exploration of Mars.
“Orbiters can’t resolve surface features less than 3 ft.,” notes Ben Pipenberg, lead engineer for the Ingenuity project at AeroVironment, the NASA contractor that designed and built the Mars Helicopter’s earlier prototypes and most of the major components of Ingenuity, including its blades and landing gear. “Rovers are good but slow,” he says. “A helicopter can cover in a few minutes what a rover covers in a few years.”
Birth of a Superstar
To really appreciate Ingenuity’s accomplishments, one needs to look behind the scenes at its creation.
Since 2014, numerous prototype helicopters have been built and put through the wringer in punishing tests simulating a rocket’s launch from Earth, the unforgiving environment of space, and the harsh conditions on Mars. The need to function in extreme environments drove Ingenuity’s design, a project for which NASA budgeted $85 million.
“A rocket launch is a violent event, particularly for a helicopter,” Pipenberg says. “There’s lots of high- and low-frequency vibration. The helicopter is a pretty brittle piece of hardware compared to the 2,200-lb. rover [Perseverance],” about the size of a compact car.
A delicate aircraft, Ingenuity is just 19 in. tall and weighs about 4 lb. Its two 4-ft. counterrotating blades whisk the ship through a mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere that’s only 1% as dense as Earth’s. That’s like taking off from a heliport sitting atop five Denalis, the highest mountain peak in North America at 20,310 ft., stacked atop each other, or about 100,000 ft. At that altitude, there’s hardly any air for helicopter blades to push against.
AeroVironment, a California-based manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), solved that problem by making an advanced, light, super-strong blade for Ingenuity. The blade can withstand the tremendous rotational force needed to generate sufficient lift to fly in the thin Martian atmosphere.
Ingenuity’s two counterrotating blades spin at nearly 2,500 rpm, compared with about 370 rpm to produce the same lift on Earth. The blades also feature molded carbon components, a foam interior, and a paper-thin skin of carbon fibers placed 45 degrees to the blades’ chords. The breakthrough design results in a stiffer blade that resists twisting. Additionally, a 16-degree twist built into the blades allows for easier hovering.
Ingenuity’s swashplate is the same as that of a conventional helicopter. The cyclic and collective controls are sealed against dust and moved by servos that receive commands from the aircraft’s computer. The whole shaft is driven by a brushless DC motor in which a ring of magnets revolves around fixed coils, just the opposite of how a standard electric motor runs. “The arrangement gives Ingenuity’s motor higher torque and greater power with less draw on the battery,” Pipenberg explains.
A six-cell lithium-ion battery powers the helicopter, and about 60% of the electricity is used to keep certain parts of the aircraft warm. A solar panel on top of Ingenuity keeps the battery charged. Some components, such as the servos, can be warmed on command depending on the expected weather, while the avionics box is automatically kept warm at night.
And it all worked better than expected. “Our helicopter is even more robust than we had hoped,” says Joshua Ravich, Ingenuity’s mechanical engineering lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). “The power system we fretted over for years is providing more than enough energy to keep our heaters going at night and to fly during the day.”
Like a hand fitting the right glove, everything about Ingenuity centered on building the aircraft to fit into the underside of the Perseverance rover. “It’s very tight, and we had to be sure it wouldn’t interfere with the rover’s mission,” Pipenberg notes. The landing gear folds up, and a special deployment system developed by Lockheed Martin gently unfolds Ingenuity until it stands upright on the Martian soil. Deployment takes six days.
Anything but Conventional
Temperatures on Mars presented a special challenge to maintaining the helicopter. The planet can get brutally cold at night, with temperatures easily plunging to -130°F, making conventional oils useless. “They would just solidify,” says Pipenberg.
Then there’s the mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere. While CO2 won’t affect aircraft performance, it does change the performance of lubricants, which are crucial to unheated components, such as the landing gear’s leg joints.
“Oxidation is slow, water vapor is low, so lubricants act differently [on Mars],” Pipenberg says. “Graphite [a dry lubricant] becomes extremely abrasive. Other dry lubricants such as molybdenum disulfide work really well on Mars.”
Ingenuity’s frame, along with its booms, yokes, trusses, and fittings, uses the latest unconventional materials to meet the high bar of space travel. “Advanced composites are absolutely required to do a mission like this,” Pipenberg says.
These exotic and continually evolving materials are mostly carbon fibers packing up to three times the strength and stiffness of steel and held together with a variety of specially designed resins and tapes. They’re rigid as well as inert, meaning they don’t secrete even the most minuscule chemicals or gases, which are emitted more readily in a vacuumlike space.
“Outgassing clouds camera lenses, creates corrosion, and clogs sensors,” says Sean Johnson, thermoset product manager at Toray Advanced Composites, which provided advanced composites for Ingenuity. Astroquartz is another unusual material and is used on the rover. “These are fibers that are woven into a fabric to cover and protect antennas with minimal signal interference,” he adds.
A variety of layered composite tapes is used to reinforce and strengthen the blades. “You can have a surface that’s very thin but with a large number of plies to reduce stress,” says Johnson.
Materials used to build the helicopter, Johnson adds, must be able to withstand extreme vibration and extreme temperatures and resist contamination, radiation, and microcracking. The constant cycle of extreme heat and cold in space can cause some materials to suffer very fine cracks that can lead to structural failure.
Materials from Toray Advanced Composites have been used in every Mars rover. “We have a nearly 30-year history in space programs,” Johnson says. “Our products have even left the solar system on [NASA’s] New Horizons spacecraft [launched in 2006, primarily to study Pluto].”
Ingenuity not only has set new benchmarks in rotorcraft aviation; it’s pushed the envelope in space-vehicle manufacturing, as well. “There’s an aversion to taking risks in manufacturing, especially in aerospace,” Pipenberg points out. “NASA allowed for this to be a high-risk program. We needed to figure out what we didn’t know. Ingenuity is really an appropriate name.”
The AeroVironment team also traded convention for increased efficiency. “We had our engineers building the hardware, [eliminating] a layer of manufacturing,” says Pipenberg. “This allowed us to move quickly, reduce errors, and improve communication.”
There’s an upside to high-risk missions like Ingenuity that rely on “space-qualified” off-the-shelf components, parts that have already met certain standards and have a proven performance record. Using those materials saves time and money and minimizes loss in case the mission fails, explains JPL’s Ravich.
“This avoids all the testing you need for a part to be space qualified,” Ravich says. “The screening is already done.” Ravich says almost everything except Ingenuity’s framework and structural connections are off the shelf.
A few distributors for the Ingenuity project are household names; others are better known in aerospace circles. Among the major components and vendors: battery, Sony Group; radio, LS Research; servos, Maxon; inclinometer, Murata Manufacturing; inertia measurement units (accelerometers and gyroscopes), Bosch; navigation processor, Qualcomm; cameras, Sunny Optical Technology; and altimeter, Garmin.
“The off-the-shelf components for our guidance and navigation systems are doing great, as is our rotor system,” Ravich adds. “You name it, and it’s doing just fine or better.”
“Nerve-Wracking” Flight Tests
Constructing Ingenuity was only half the battle. The helicopter needed to survive a battery of several hundred grueling flight tests, as well.
In one test that simulated the vibrations of a rocket launch, the helicopter was secured to a platform on which it shuddered into a blur, sustaining up to a crushing 60 G of force for a split second. In another experiment, Ingenuity was placed in a liquid nitrogen chamber and cooled to below -200°F to see if its components continued to work. An oven test recorded the same observations at temperatures exceeding 200°. Wind-tunnel tests revealed the aircraft could withstand winds up to 20 kt.
Ingenuity’s ability to automatically avoid obstacles using its camera was also evaluated in a large, circular room where dozens of X-shaped strips of tape were stuck to the floor to simulate rocks. The helicopter was required to identify and navigate away from these “barriers” in locating a safe landing spot.
Contamination control played an important role during testing, and that meant keeping everything squeaky clean. “We don’t want anything hitching a ride,” says Pipenberg about why a sterile environment is critical. Bringing microbes or other particulate Earth life to the Red Planet would jeopardize NASA’s search for Martian life.
“The Ingenuity team did everything to test the helicopter on Earth,” adds MiMi Aung, engineer and Ingenuity’s project manager at JPL. “It will be another way to explore other worlds.”
“Nerve-wracking,” is how Pipenberg describes the tests. “There was less than a 5% margin for error and there are thousands of ways to fail. The flight looks uneventful, but when it’s 173 million to 211 million miles away, depending on the elliptical orbits of the two planets, every second was very stressful for the whole operations team. Everything must work perfectly.”
And it did. The tests were so complete that nothing was overlooked, giving the team confidence the hardware would work as expected. “There were no surprises on the Mars flights,” Pipenberg says.
A Journey Two Decades in the Making
Ingenuity’s first flight on Mars concluded a long journey that began in 2003 when a team at the University of Maryland produced a design for flying a helicopter on the planet for NASA, recalls Anubhav Datta, associate professor of aerospace engineering at the school. “The Mars Helicopter is similar [to that first one]—two rotors with two blades,” he says.
But then progress stalled. “Nothing happened,” Datta says. “It was entirely and singularly a JPL effort to procure the funding and convince management that this was a project of national aspiration and impact.”
The project didn’t move ahead until 2015, when NASA asked Datta to work with AeroVironment to help design and stress-test the blades.
“Since [NASA’s] Viking [Project, the first US mission to land a spacecraft safely on Mars and return images of the surface to Earth, in the late 1970s], we’ve been spending less and less on Mars missions and science and technology,” Datta says. “Big Science requires the right timing, the right money, the right politics, the right people, and the right technology. Most of today’s challenges revolve around the first three. The US has been and remains inherently strong on the last two.”
Ingenuity’s success inspired NASA to draw parallels to the Wright brothers’ first flight, in 1903.
“We’ve been thinking for so long about having our Wright brothers moment on Mars, and here it is,” says Aung. “We’ll celebrate our success and then take a cue from Orville and Wilbur regarding what to do next. History shows they got back to work, and so will we.”
To immortalize that moment when the first successful powered flight occurred, NASA removed a small piece of fabric from the wing of the Wright Flyer and glued it to Ingenuity’s solar panel before its trip to Mars. In another fitting tribute, the agency officially named the spot on Mars where the helicopter lifted off Wright Brothers Field. The 33-by-33-ft. plot is now recognized by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Ingenuity Is Just the Beginning
As Ingenuity performs more-ambitious flights on Mars, its success represents just the first step in exploring the planet by helicopter. NASA is planning a second generation of larger, more capable rotorcraft down the road that will lead the way in further space exploration.
The agency will use nontraditional blades (for greater tip speeds), advanced batteries, and more-powerful motors. Eventually, the most advanced class of helicopters may exceed 50 lb., according to engineers at JPL.
These rotorcraft will operate independently from a rover and will likely have their own ground stations. Utilizing the inherent advantages of flight, they’ll cover more ground and explore areas rovers can’t reach, fetching rock, soil, and ice samples for study. Three more helicopters are on the drawing board, two of them coaxial and the third a hexacopter—which, as its name implies, sports six rotors—to mostly support rovers and landers, according to the NASA report “An Advanced Mars Helicopter Design.”
The next helicopter will weigh 10 lb. and have the same blade diameter as the 4-lb. Ingenuity. After that, NASA will take an even bigger leap, with a 44 pounder sporting a 5½-ft. blade diameter. A hexacopter, also weighing 44 lb., will finally fly on Mars. Each of its blades will measure 3 ft. long. Unlike Ingenuity, which has no payload capacity, the advanced helicopters are expected to have payloads of at least 3 lb. each.
After Mars, NASA is scheduled to send Dragonfly, a 10-ft., 990-lb., nuclear-powered rotorcraft the size of a car, to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The launch is scheduled for 2027, and it will take about nine years for the aircraft to reach Titan, which has an atmosphere four times thicker than Earth’s.
Whereas Ingenuity had to be designed with care in order to fly in the thin Martian atmosphere, Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity will make for easier flying than on Mars. Titan’s diameter is 3,200 miles compared with the Earth’s moon, at 2,100 miles.
“It’s remarkable to think of this rotorcraft flying miles and miles across the organic sand dunes of Saturn’s largest moon,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, in a statement. “Dragonfly will visit a world filled with a wide variety of organic compounds, which are the building blocks of life.”
Flying From the Right Seat 170 Million Miles Away
When Ingenuity flies, Håvard Grip is at the controls. A NASA research technologist, Grip is the agency’s Mars pilot and has been with the program since it began in 2013.
Grip actually helped design and test Ingenuity’s control system and points to the many parallels to flying conventional helicopters. Much of his work, for example, centers on aeronautical decision-making.
“We plan each flight,” says Grip, who’s also a private airplane pilot. “There’s overlap to a standard flight plan. You have to know the aircraft and its performance and evaluate the environment.”
Before each flight, Grip goes through a flight risk assessment, just like any other pilot flying on Earth would do. He checks weather, winds, and density altitude. He studies the terrain Ingenuity will be flying over and considers potential landing spots in case there’s a problem. He then applies that information to Ingenuity’s performance graphs. The graphs show the requirements to accomplish quality takeoffs and landings, how Ingenuity will perform in turns, and how the aircraft will perform at altitudes and distances. With that information, Grip is now able to create a flight profile. The scenario is entered into a computer and shown graphically, or the whole trip can be simulated before it’s sent to the Perseverance rover, which then relays it to Ingenuity.
Grip also makes good use of checklists before and after a flight. “We focus on the things that matter, and we have extensive checklists,” he says.
As Ingenuity is a technology demonstrator, Grip’s role is more test pilot than pilot. Pressing the helicopter toward more-demanding flights is the only way to learn the ropes of flying on Mars. “This is an experimental aircraft, so we’re not concerned with staying within the envelope,” he explains. “Here [at NASA], we push it.”
Because of the radio transmission lag time between Earth and Mars, Grip isn’t flying in real time, but he is capturing flight data, such as rotor speed, altitude, the performance of the cyclic and collective, and all data captured by Ingenuity’s camera. NASA plans to send additional rotorcraft to Mars, but until then, Grip is the first extraterrestrial, REALLY remote pilot. | aerospace |
http://www.guagepilot.com/category/flight-schools/ | 2020-05-26T02:32:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347390442.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526015239-20200526045239-00473.warc.gz | 0.943202 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__77615647 | en | Here's what it takes to complete the training course that is now a prerequisite for becoming an airline pilot.
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The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s (AOPA) You Can Fly initiative has opened the 2018 Flight Training Experience Survey. It will remain online until Aug. 13. Each year, AOPA requests feedback from recent student pilots and pilots who have received instruction within the last year about their experiences and the quality of instruction from flight […]
Flight schools need to adapt to the culture of younger generations to fill the ever-increasing demand for pilots, speakers at a recently flight school conference said. At the Flight School Association of North America (FSANA) Operator’s Conference, speakers noted two conflicting statistics facing the industry: The number of pilots needed by the aviation industry in […] | aerospace |
https://simnews.co/2021/02/20/weather-force-2020/ | 2021-02-25T01:51:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178350706.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210225012257-20210225042257-00305.warc.gz | 0.865525 | 256 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__121086132 | en | Weather Force 2020 is a METAR-Based Dynamic Real-Time Weather Engine for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator. By utilizing inter-process communication with the simulator via fine granular control, you will experience automated, dynamic, and smooth weather transitions from real-world reporting METAR stations. Weather Force also includes a wide range of proprietary dynamic, changing (non-static) weather scenarios. These scenarios are unlike the static weather presets that ship with Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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Lyndonville Air Force Station, Vermont – Here is a quick run down on an interesting abandoned Air Force radar station in New England. Yes, you read correctly, an abandoned radar station in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.
In 1955 the US Air Force built the North Concord Radar Station on East Mountain (3,439 ft) in East Haven, Vermont. The name was changed to Lyndonville Air Force Station in 1962 and closed in 1963.
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Phineas P Gage, Vermont – If your travels ever take you to Cavendish, Vermont and you enjoy oddities, here is one worth checking out. Located in the downtown section of Cavendish is a plaque bolted to a boulder in memory of Phineas P Gage, who was known as the "Man With a Metal Rod in His Head". | aerospace |
https://www.midcanadamod.com/news/canadian-first-mid-canada-mod-center-installs-collins-aerospace-pro-line-fusion-integrated-avionics-system-in-bombardier-challenger-604/ | 2023-09-21T18:24:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506029.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921174008-20230921204008-00871.warc.gz | 0.887354 | 942 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__17381268 | en | CANADIAN FIRST: Mid-Canada Mod Center Installs Collins Aerospace Pro Line Fusion Integrated Avionics System in Bombardier Challenger 604
Flight deck modifications improve situational awareness, reduce pilot workload and address CRT display obsolescence
TORONTO — 18 October 2022 — Mid-Canada Mod Center (MC2) has upgraded the flight deck of a legacy Bombardier Challenger 604 with a Collins Aerospace Proline Fusion® Integrated Avionics System. The flight deck modifications, fulfilled for Chartright Air Group, improve situational awareness and reduce pilot workload, while addressing the obsolescence of the legacy CRT displays. The newly modernized flight deck offers capabilities comparable to todays’ more modern aircraft. Additionally, Mid-Canada Mod Center installed a Gogo AVANCE L5 cabin connectivity system with a Supplemental Type Certificate developed specifically for this aircraft type.
“The challenge with older aircraft like this Challenger 604 is that the flight deck’s CRTs can no longer be repaired and are now obsolete,” said Bill Arsenault, president of Mid-Canada Mod Center. “Replacing them with modern, high-resolution displays gives pilots a more intelligent and efficient workspace, strengthens aircraft safety and addresses the obsolescence issue.”
The Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics system has many features to strengthen safety and improve efficiency for every mission. These include: synthetic vision, touch screen interactive maps, multi-scan weather radar with advanced predictive threat assessment, advanced Flight Management System, localizer performance with vertical guidance, FANS-1/A capabilities for more efficient North Atlantic Ocean routes and continental digital ATC comms, plus CPDLC communication capability for flights within Europe.
“Mid-Canada Mod Center is extremely proud to have completed this flight deck alongside Chartright Air Group’s 96-month airframe inspection with the support of Collins Aerospace,” Arsenault continued. “Together, we have accomplished many great modernizations, but this installation first—a Pro Line Fusion system on a Canadian-registered aircraft—is particularly rewarding. We were also delighted to add new cabin Wi-Fi capabilities with Gogo’s AVANCE L5 cabin connectivity system, which included developing an STC with our partner, ADS. Ensuring passengers and crew can stay connected and productive in flight is essential these days.”
“The Collins Pro Line Fusion integrated avionics system is designed with maximum flexibility for aftermarket installations on aircraft like this Challenger 604,” said David Ufen, associate director of sales for Business and Regional Avionics at Collins Aerospace. “A Fusion upgrade, such as the one performed by Mid-Canada Mod Center, not only complies with airspace modernization requirements to extend and enhance the operational lives of aging aircraft, but provides pilots enhanced safety, reliability and greater situational awareness.”
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At MC2 (AMO # 59-97), we help extend the operational lifespan of business, commercial, government and military, special mission and rotary-wing aircraft, focusing on safety and efficiency. Authorized dealers for all major avionics manufacturers, our comprehensive capabilities include flight deck and cabin avionics-systems design and certification, installation, modification kits, repairs and 24/7 AOG service. We are a Transport Canada CAR 561 approved manufacturer with a far-reaching avionics background. Our specialties include advanced flight displays, ADS-B, NextGen, SBAS FMS with LP/LPV, cabin entertainment and connectivity, including Satcom and Wi-Fi applications. With ADS, our engineering, design and certification partner, we offer fully integrated services to a broad range of turbofan business aircraft, legacy Boeing and other regional aircraft. Our headquarters are at Canada’s Lester B Pearson International Airport (CYYZ), and we have a second facility at Region of Waterloo International Airport (CYKF). Visit www.midcanadamod.com to learn more.
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https://airpoweree.iqpc.com/downloads/exclusive-content-mt | 2018-12-16T17:09:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827963.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216165437-20181216191437-00364.warc.gz | 0.925279 | 145 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__32626377 | en | In an effort to meet NATO requirements and deter Russian aggression, Eastern European Air Forces are embarking on extensive modernisation projects. Download our exclusive map of the region to see updates on various nations' military flight training aircraft and programmes.
Defence IQ spoke exclusively to Colonel Rejman, Deputy Commander 21st Air Force Base, Czech Air Force about the key priorities and challenges being faced in regard to both live and simulation flight training in the Czech Republic.
Read this article to find out how the chairman of this year's Military Flight Training Eastern Europe conference is involved in this endeavour.
Released ahead of this year's Military Flight Training Eastern Europe conference. Find out more about the giant leaps being achieved by European trainer developers... | aerospace |
https://www.gov.im/categories/business-and-industries/civil-aviation-administration-caa/personnel-licensing/?iomg-device=Mobile | 2024-02-26T11:26:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474659.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226094435-20240226124435-00697.warc.gz | 0.935735 | 668 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__137136992 | en | The Isle of Man Civil Aviation Administration does not issue any personnel licenses. However, in accordance with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) requirements, we validate certain personnel licenses issued by other States.
Isle of Man Registered Aircraft
Flight crew and maintenance engineers for Isle of Man registered aircraft must hold a licence validation issued by the Isle of Man Aircraft Registry.
For further details see the Isle of Man Aircraft Registry website.
The Isle of Man Civil Aviation Administration has 'No Operational Objection' to holders of UK issued flight crew and pilot licences validated by the Isle of Man who have made a UK CAA Pilot Medical Declaration acting as flight crew of Isle of Man registered aircraft operating:
- to, from and within the UK and Isle of Man; or
- outside the UK or Isle of Man subject to the flight crew obtaining the permission of the relevant authority for that airspace;
subject to such flights being conducted in accordance with the privileges and any other conditions imposed by the UK CAA.
For further information see Letter of No Operational Objection – UK CAA Pilot Medical Declarations.
Isle of Man Air Traffic Controllers (ATCO)
Persons acting as ATCO and student ATCO in the Isle of Man must hold an ATCO or Student ATCO licence granted by the UK CAA.
Flight Crew of Aircraft Registered Elsewhere than the Isle of Man
For flights of an aircraft within the Isle of Man, a person must not act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in a country other than the Isle of Man unless:
- for private flights - that person is the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered
- for commercial air transport or aerial work - that person is the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered or the State of the operator;
Although the following licences and associated privileges do not satisfy in full the relevant minimum standards established under the Chicago Convention, the IOM CAA, considers these licences to be an appropriate licence for the purposes of acting as a member of the flight crew of a private flight of an aircraft within the Isle of Man:
- UK issued National Private Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes) (NPPL(A)) and National Private Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters) (NPPL(H));
- UK issued Part FCL Light Aircraft Pilot Licence (LAPL);
- EASA issued Part FCL LAPL; or
- those UK issued flight crew or pilot licences that are: held by a person who has made a Pilot Medical Declaration (PMD); or, that include the Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) or Instrument Rating (Restricted) (IR(R)) national ratings
The holder of a licence that is endorsed to the effect that its holder does not satisfy in full the relevant minimum standards established under the Chicago Convention, must not act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft in or over the Isle of Man except in accordance with a permission granted by the Department. The above licenses are permitted as such by: Permission 2023/112 . | aerospace |
http://www.qrz.com/db/KK4JBY | 2016-10-01T10:23:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738662705.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173742-00203-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.880182 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__23652320 | en | Huntsville, Alabama, otherwise known as the ROCKET CITY,is home to the Marshall Space Flight Center. It's major contribution to the space program was the development of the Saturn boosters that put man on the moon followed by the development of the engines for the Space Shuttle. Today it is the hub for distributing the payload science data recieved from the International Space Station to all our International Partners and principle investigators around the world. I am priviliged to work here.
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https://feelthere.com/shop/airplanes/e-jets-series-embraer-170-and-190/ | 2023-10-01T07:44:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510810.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001073649-20231001103649-00179.warc.gz | 0.830298 | 910 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__26667802 | en | E-Jets Series Embraer 170 and 190
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The Embraer 170/190 range of airliners are an entirely new family of aircraft, with state-of-the-art avionics, fly-by-wire technology, superior cabin comfort and extraordinary and uncompromising performance.
Highly detailed Embraer 170/190 with Lineage 1000 as a BONUS
Fly up to 120 passengers with a range of over 2,400 Nm
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Ultra-realistic dual FMS
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- Highly detailed Embraer 170 and 190 with as BONUS the Lineage 1000, the luxury version of the Embraer 190
- Flight Simulator X viewpoints: Gear, Wing, Cabin,…
- Jetways and luggage trucks connection animations (FSX only).
- Detailed interiors (economy/business class) feature superb details, including seats, plasma screens, catering and a luxury interior for the Lineage 1000
- Embark and be welcomed and served by a nice animated flight attendant
- 19 International airlines including official Embraer house livery
- 76 McPhat Studios liveries (Deluxe Pack)
- Realistic flight dynamics created and tested by active Embraer pilot and based on manufacturer specifications.
- Truly immersive sound experience with the real plane digitized sounds: engine, APU, batteries, air conditioning, passenger signs, clicks,…
- Numerous animations: hydraulic suspension, flaps, slats, spoilerons, speed brakes, thrust reversers, landing gear, passengers door, cargo hatches, opening cockpit windows,…
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- Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) and warnings and caution messages
- TCAS II: Traffic avoidance with audio-visual Traffic Advisory and Resolution Advisory system
- Pop up instrument EFIS screens for multi-monitor displays
- Screen resolutions from 1024×768 to 1600×1200 (!) for a perfect instrument readability
- About all systems simulated: electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, pressurization system, bleed air, air conditioning, two generators/engines, FADEC with ATTCS function, test system,…
- Computerized Management System called Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) (optimizes engine operation during all phases of the flight and, in turn, reduces fuel consumption and maintenance costs).
- Very accurate Auto Pilot with overspeed and stall recovery systems, just like the real thing!
- APU sequences fully simulated and linked to fuel consumption: follow the correct procedures to avoid dry fuel tanks during flight!
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- Ultra-realistic and very complete dual FMS with Vertical Glide Path Mode and Coupled LNAV / VNAV
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http://www.akbizmag.com/Telecom-Tech/With-Drones-Dashing-Off-Shelves-New-Rules-to-Know/ | 2018-07-20T14:38:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591683.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720135213-20180720155213-00153.warc.gz | 0.937685 | 478 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__148604506 | en | With Drones Dashing Off Shelves, New Rules to Know
Hughes highlights safety guidelines and FAA registration
Dec. 23, 2015, Palmer, Alaska – Drones are flying off the shelves and landing under Christmas trees throughout America, including in Alaska. Different sources estimate that between 400,000 to 1,000,000 recreational drones will be purchased in the United States by Christmas. Because as many as 1 million more drones will be in our skies, Representative Shelley Hughes (R-11 Greater Palmer), wants parents and new drone owners to understand the new FAA requirements and guidelines to ensure safe and appropriate use of these new holiday gifts.
Hughes urges new drone owners to review the short and user-friendly booklet written by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Legislative Task Force: Alaska’s Drone Operator Safety and Privacy Guidelines. “It’s important for pilots and other Alaskans to know the safety and privacy rules for UAS. The Guidelines are easy to read and illustrated so that younger pilots can learn what is safe and considerate when flying their new toys,” said Hughes.
Hughes suggested a tip for parents. “If you’re putting a drone under your Christmas tree, consider printing a copy of the guidelines that you can find at www.alaskadrones.org. We want to make sure Alaskans on the ground and in the skies are safe,” said Hughes.
A new FAA rule is requiring all drone users to register their equipment or face penalties. “Drones are great fun, but owners now have a new responsibility to register their UAS, effective this month.” advises Hughes. The good news is that if an owner registers a small drone before Jan. 20, 2016, it is FREE. Registration after that date requires a $5 fee.
Go to https://registermyuas.faa.gov/ to begin the registration process.
Representative Hughes wishes all operators holiday fun with their drones. “Before you fly please remember to keep your UAS under 400 feet, away from traffic and crowds, and more than five miles away from an airport unless you have contacted the airport first,” said Hughes. “May each of you and your families have a very Merry Christmas and safe flying in the New Year.” | aerospace |
http://www.internationalaircharter.com/articles/small-private-passenger-plane_r150984.htm | 2017-04-28T23:46:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123102.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00597-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.911518 | 1,193 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__247432968 | en | how much is landing fee in langkawi for a private cessna?, seckerson benifet, san antonio de cabrutica, scanner codes for braxton, zabrata, the best thing about paraguay, pittsburgh to wakitupu airport, &esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0cfcqfjac&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/airports/pennsylvan, &esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0cgyqfjad&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/articles/does-one-d, shikabe airport japan, what kind of jets does drummond coal have, ad damazin city sudan, &esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0cgoqfjai&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/airports/west-virgi, fontechio airport, &esrc=s&source=web&cd=15&ved=0cfgqfjaeoao&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/airports/baja-c , sikorsky s76b interior pictures, villamil richest family, www.doubi earpot, jalgaon airport images, planes that use flying rocks, does vellore have an airport, maicao, super luxury private jet aircraft, &esrc=s&source=web&cd=20&ved=0cgsqfjajoao&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/articles/air-va, jalgaon airport details, air vication hack, &esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=6&ved=0chiqfjaf&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/airports/riya, &esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0ciabebywcq&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/articles/rosabra, flight from lucenec slovakia airport, &esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0cfcqfjaa&url=http://www.internationalaircharter.com/articles/airjetfly_
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The difference relating to commercial travel and private jet charter, settles down to apples and oranges. There is a great difference in the sort of advantage that each offers - one huge variation is opulence. But, lately, private jet charters have turn out to be financially affordable, by people who would like to fly, without a lot of restraints and who posess time constraints. The market, growing gas costs and federal regulations, have a great deal regarding with larger overhead, which highly influences the commercial airline industry's accomplishment or collapse. Private jet travel and commercial flight fees have almost come to terms with one other, making it a traveler's pick of travel.
Another nice plus for private jet travel is privacy. When you book a private aircraft, in essence, you have rented that aircraft for your personal travel. Private plane rentals offers the flexibility to design your own schedule, thus, highly lowering your travel time. Due to the popularity of private jet travel, airports in the U.S. and around the world, have parking reservations for private carriers.
Regrettably, as a result of these different jet changes, there has been a rise in air prices and checked baggage prices. Commercial airlines are attempting to assist buyers with these prices, by asserting a one time annual fee that will cover additional baggage on each flight, rather than flyers paying for extras at the time of travel. Consumer protection groups have petitioned that airlines are made to more quickly tell travelers concerning flight delays and cancellations. Airline ticket seller can no longer market fees that are not the full fare. Advertising for one-way tickets must be more clearly defined. So, there are online places that alert people when there is a good deal on flights and are providing new ways to track bargain fares. A lot of people watch dog air fare web sites, are gunning for consumer membership. Pretty much all of these travel sites give some kind of fare alert service, via e-mail notification, i.e., Tweet alerts, Smartphone apps. In this method, buyers can currently select the routes they would like to track and how they wish to be notified.
When a corporate company travels they usually use a private jet to charter their executives. A lot of big name businesses use private jet services because it is more convenient. The corporate executives don't have to wait in long airport lines to check in. They don't need to check their bags in before they board. A lot of big name companies have their own private jets and they hire a pilot to charter them around when they have to go to other airports. A jet charter flight is more comfortable for the executives because there is more room in a private jet. A private jet has more amenities than a commercial flight does. The bathrooms on a private jet are usually cleaner than the ones on a commercial flight. There are not a lot of passengers on a private jet like there is on a commercial flight.
Here is a crimp in private jet charter, flying. Gathering momentum versus a legislation that might greatly hamper private aircraft rentals, is the Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP). This proposed regulation directly targets private plane rentals, joining them to the national security rules for all air voyages. If the LASP is accepted,a couple of the alterations will involve: | aerospace |
http://rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/books/WBAbook/ | 2024-04-14T10:50:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816879.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414095752-20240414125752-00252.warc.gz | 0.78913 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__85884772 | en | |Peter Ladkin ,
Technische Fakultät, Universität Bielefeld
|Karsten Loer ,
BAe Dependable Computing Systems Center,
University of York, UK
This book explains the Why-Because Analysis Method of incidents with complex systems, WBA, working through an aviation example, with formal proof. Informal applications of WBA to some well-known aviation accidents involving computers are also given.This is superceded by chapters 11 to 25 of Causal System Analysis.
This is a draft manuscript and is for private viewing only. All rights are reserved by the authors. | aerospace |
http://www.skystef.be/regi/OO-AUD.htm | 2022-11-27T04:58:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710192.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127041342-20221127071342-00871.warc.gz | 0.968956 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__225124557 | en | SkyStef's aviation page
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Description: this second hand Cessna of Abelag Aviation came in the Belgian register on July 16 1982, here seen at its home base. On June 22 1989 it went on to Charleroi based Sports-Loisirs. On January 14 1994 it was cancelled to Air Wemindji as "C-GAWZ" where, after a couple of changes in ownership in Canada, it had a write-off ten years later. | aerospace |
https://westsidepeoplemag.com/russia-says-ukrainian-terrorist-act-thwarted-in-moscow/ | 2023-10-04T15:49:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511386.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004152134-20231004182134-00003.warc.gz | 0.975995 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__224014614 | en | Russia said on Monday it had “neutralized” two Ukrainian drones in Moscow overnight, saying it had foiled a “terrorist act” by Kiev in the Russian capital.
“On the morning of July 24, an attempt by the Kiev regime to commit a terrorist act using two drones (located) on objects within the borders of the city of Moscow was stopped,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“Two Ukrainian drones were neutralized and crashed. “There is no loss of life,” he said.
According to TASS, one of the drones fell on Komsomolsky Prospekt near the Russian Defense Ministry, while the other hit a commercial center on Likacheva Street, near one of Moscow’s main ring boulevards.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the drone strikes hit “non-residential” buildings around 4 a.m. local time (0100 GMT).
He said emergency services were called to the scene and there were no injuries.
RIA Novosti news agency released video footage of the business center, where some damage can be seen at the top of the high-rise building.
The road leading to it is closed.
Moscow has been the subject of several drone attacks this year, including one that hit the Kremlin in May.
Earlier this month, Russia said it shot down five Ukrainian drones that disrupted Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport. | aerospace |
https://www.commandoveterans.org/847_Naval_Air_Sqn | 2021-09-27T11:11:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780058415.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20210927090448-20210927120448-00684.warc.gz | 0.832537 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__31898488 | en | 847 Naval Air Squadron
Transcript of Royal Marines Routine Orders 105/95
Re-designation of 3 Cdo Bde Air Sqn RM as 847 Naval Air Squadron (R)
1. 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron Royal Marines will be formally incorporated into the Naval Air Command on Friday 1 Sep 95 and be re-designated 847 Naval Air Squadron.
2. The Squadron will continue to operate Army Lynx and Gazelle aircraft until the introduction of the Attack Helicopter into Army Air Corps Service.
Thereafter it will continue in the light utility role in support of 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines.
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http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/hudson_plane_crash_hero_honore.html | 2016-10-22T07:20:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718840.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00196-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.955924 | 167 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__207339632 | en | Mayor Michael Bloomberg has presented pilot Chesley Sullenberger and his crew with keys to the city.
Bloomberg calls them "five real American heroes."
Sullenberger stressed that, while he's gotten a lot of the credit, it was a team effort. He praised the crew, emergency responders and the passengers.
Sullenberger ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the frigid Hudson River when a flock of birds disabled the plane's engines on Jan. 15. All 155 people aboard survived.
Bloomberg says that day "could have been one of our most tragic, but became one of our most triumphant."
He says a miracle was made possible by the crew's years of experience and training.
Bloomberg told them: "Thank you for sparing our city and so many families from an awful tragedy." | aerospace |
https://www.figgypuddingart.com/products/celestial-buddies-earth-buddy-little-earth-space-plush | 2024-04-25T11:39:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297292879.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425094819-20240425124819-00333.warc.gz | 0.848218 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__92421025 | en | Designed to match our home planet's landscape, Earth Buddy depicts the awe-inspiring traits of our blue planet's surface. Earthy joined the SpaceX Crew Dragon and spent over 500 days aboard the International Space Station!
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https://www.connectedeconomics.com/2023/11/21/the-925-to-mars-is-leaving-from-stand-1/ | 2024-04-15T22:58:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817033.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415205332-20240415235332-00160.warc.gz | 0.95384 | 636 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__88167638 | en | The space sector is changing. If the rapid development continues, will we soon think of rockets as just another part of the transport system?
Elon Musk’s giant new rocket just flew again. A monster of engineering, it is also a colossal milestone in the developing global commercial space sector and intended for service to and from Mars. SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has already undertaken 84 missions so far this year, and almost all have seen the boosters land and get refurbished for reuse. Most people don’t even get excited about these weekly technological marvels anymore. Crewed commercial missions to ISS are now routine. China has a manned space station in orbit to rival the ISS and commercial ones are in development. There are around 7,000 operational satellites in orbit.
But the launch market remains thin. SpaceX dominates heavy lift and competitors like Blue Origin, ULA and ArianneGroup seem a long way behind. When (if?) SpaceX’s new Starship enters commercial service, it may cement SpaceX’s dominance for another decade.
Smaller rockets are more of a mixed bag with some promising startups – some of which have even successfully flown. Rocket Lab from New Zealand lead the pack and now have launch facilities in the USA as well. Only a handful of others have managed to reach orbit, but there are many still in the race. Meanwhile states are developing and launching new vehicles – particularly India and China.
UK aspirations are high – but modest compared to the global market. Six new spaceports are in development and the first domestic launch in January from Cornwall showed that UK infrastructure and regulation can work – even if Virgin’s rocket failed. With designs on launching smaller orbital rockets or making suborbital flights, domestic rocket companies are quietly making steady progress like Skyrora in Scotland, while imported rockets from companies like ABL and HyImpulse are also planning to launch from the UK soon. When Connected Economics worked on the business plan for Spaceport Cornwall back in 2017, the hope was for tens of launches a year by now. That may happen in future but still looks a long way off.
So where does all of this leave us? I spend about half my time on space and half on transport and other infrastructure. I’ve been waiting for signs of these markets converging as commercial rocket technology matured. Cost reductions are happening, and you can now book a slot for your satellite on scheduled ‘ride share‘ missions – the closest we have to a space ‘bus’. All this is still a long way from the science fiction future of bustling spaceports. There are plenty of examples of things moving in the opposite direction with lack of competition partly driving vertical integration. Companies like Rocket Lab think they can grab value by combining launch with a wider space systems business.
So when will we see rockets becoming just another work-a-day part of our logistics and transport system? For the space economy to take off it needs to accelerate competition to keep downward pressure on costs across the spectrum of launch systems. Your bus to Mars is coming, but not any time soon. | aerospace |
https://kancolle.fandom.com/wiki/Type_1_Fighter_Hayabusa_Model_II | 2022-08-12T06:46:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00269.warc.gz | 0.916108 | 1,056 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__147034627 | en | Type 1 Fighter Hayabusa Model II
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The most mass-produced main fighter aircraft for the Army, the Type 1 fighter "Hayabusa"; this is the improved Model II.
Despite its airframe looking similar to the Navy's Type 0 Fighter, being bulletproof was kept in mind for this aircraft. It continued to fight wildly until the end of the battle on each front, despite being old-fashioned.
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An improved version of the Type 1 Fighter Hayabusa Mark I series, the Mark II series was fitted with a Nakajima Ha-115 engine, shorter and stronger wings equipped with racks for two 200 L drop tanks or two 250 kg bombs, the canopy's height was slightly increased, a reflex sight was added, two 12.7 mm Ho-103 machine guns were installed. Due to complaints by pilots, armor plating for the pilot's head and back, and rubber-coated self-sealing fuel tanks were added, the latter being replaced by 3-layer rubber bladder, 8mm core with 2mm oil-proof lamination. Other improvements included the addition of radio equipment. Although the Mark I series dominated the early part of the war, by the time the Mark II series entered production, it was already outclassed by newer Allied aircraft. Despite this, its easy to fly controls and nimbleness allowed it to be the IJA's most successful and common plane throughout the war.
- Allied engineers were able to rebuild a complete Mark II fighter out of wrecked planes, which was then test flown by Allied pilots. They too liked the Hayabusa's easy handling, extreme maneuverability, turning and low speed handling. Learning from this, pilots were advised to avoid combat with the Hayabusa at low speeds.
- The Allied reporting name was "Oscar" but it was often called the "Army Zero" by American pilots. This was due to the close resemblance to the IJN's Zero Fighter.
- Allied aviators frequently mistakenly reported having fought "Zeros" in areas where there were no Navy fighters.
- The Nakajima Ki-43 is notable for being the only successful fighter aircraft with a truly forward-swept wing, although the forward sweep of its leading edge is nearly unnoticeable.
- Other forward-swept wing aircraft of the time included the Belyayev DB-LK, Junkers Ju 287 and forward-swept variants of the P-51 Mustang, the Bell X-1, and the Douglas D-558-1, etc.
- 40 years after the war, the only successful technology demonstrators (regarding military applications) for forward-swept wing aircraft are the American Grumman X-29 and the Russian Sukhoi Su-47.
- The plane's name originates from the last digit of the imperial year 2601 (1941), when it entered service with the Imperial Army, one year after the Zero's debut in the Imperial Navy. Hayabusa means "Peregrine Falcon".
- The 64th Squadron was the first air group to receive the aircraft and one of two to fly it.
- Nakajima Ki-43 - Wikipedia
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https://www.jibology.co.uk/ | 2021-04-14T07:18:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038077336.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20210414064832-20210414094832-00061.warc.gz | 0.920155 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__82985272 | en | Welcome to Jibology Ltd
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https://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29895.htm | 2023-12-04T09:18:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100527.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204083733-20231204113733-00675.warc.gz | 0.96869 | 4,947 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__298172233 | en | D.James Westland aircraft since 1915 (Putnam)
During the final months of the 1914-18 War the Air Ministry was already giving thought to its postwar aircraft requirements and preparing some detailed specifications. Among these was RAF Type IIIA for a two-seat fighter-reconnaissance aircraft. It was intended as a replacement for the highly effective Bristol F.2B Fighter - the 'Brisfit' - which was still a comparatively new design having entered service with the Royal Flying Corps in April 1917. The Type IIIA specification called for a much improved performance, particularly in the time-to-height and service ceiling; however, the armament remained the same as the F.2B, being two fixed forward-firing guns and one gun on a Scarff ring mounting in the rear cockpit. The most unfortunate aspect was the preferred use of the ABC Dragonfly engine, a nine-cylinder radial engine designed, like the earlier Wasp which powered the Wagtail, by Granville Bradshaw. The Dragonfly proved to be a disaster in almost every way. It was claimed to produce 340 hp and weigh 600 lb but never, at any stage, delivered more than 295 hp and weighed 656 lb; moreover, it rapidly overheated having what was described as 'probably the worst example of air cooling in a production aircraft engine’. Of most importance was its designed running speed which happened to be the critical torsional vibration frequency of the crankshaft which regularly broke after a few hours running.
It was around the Dragonfly that three manufacturers designed and built prototypes, in various quantities, to meet the Type IIIA requirement. They were the Austin Motor Co which produced the Greyhound, Bristol Aeroplane Co with the Badger and Westland which scaled up its earlier single-seat Wagtail to create the two-seat Weasel.
Designed by Robert Bruce and Arthur Davenport, the Weasel was of similar construction to the Wagtail having a wooden girder type fuselage of rectangular cross-section with spruce longerons and spacer struts, the latter being tapered to fit into square steel cups bolted to the longerons. This structure was internally wire braced. Forward of the front cockpit the fuselage was plywood covered with fabric covering on the remainder; however, a small rectangular area on each side of the observer' cockpit was left uncovered to provide a 'window'. The strut-braced tail unit, which had the Westland-patented variable-incidence tailplane gear, was of similar wire-braced wooden construction and also was fabric covered. The engine mounting ring was carried on an extension of the longerons which was internally wire braced, while the complete nose section of the fuselage had removable metal panels to provide access to the engine and to the fuel and oil tanks. The engine's cylinder heads protruded through holes in the nose cowl and the Dragonfly turned a 9 ft 9 in diameter two-blade fixed-pitch wooden propeller. The fabric-covered two-bay biplane wings were built up around two ash spars with cross-braced drag struts and three-ply cut-out ribs with spruce flanges. The eight interplane struts were of streamline section spruce and, like the four centre-section support struts, were all wire cross-braced. Constant-chord ailerons were fitted to each of the four wings. As in the Wagtail, although the centre-section was smaller in span, there was an angular cut-out in its trailing edge and in that of the lower wings' trailing edge; in addition five ribs were omitted in the centre-section aft of the main spar leaving an uncovered opening above the pilot's cockpit. The two fixed forward-firing synchronised Vickers .303 in machine-guns were carried in troughs in the top of the front fuselage, with provision for one, or two, Lewis guns of similar caliber to be carried on a Scarff ring mounting in the observer's cockpit. Spruce V main undercarriage legs with a cross-axle having enclosed bungee rubber shock absorbers were used with a tailskid. A wind-driven generator was mounted on the port rear main leg. An unusual visual feature of the Weasel was the manner in which the upper and lower wings appeared to be splayed away from each other; in fact, the upper wing had 5 deg dihedral from the flat centre-section while the lower wing had no dihedral. Oxygen bottles with some 3 hours supply for the two crew and electrical heating equipment were carried in the fuselage.
An order for three Weasel prototypes was placed in April 1918 with construction starting almost immediately, but forthcoming events cast their shadows over the work with the first of a number of delays in delivery of the engine. In 'the event the war was ended when the first Weasel, serialled F2912, was flown for the first time by Capt Stuart Keep during late November 1918.
Preliminary flight trials were punctuated by continuous problems with the engine, both on the ground and in the air. One incident, which could have had serious results for Westland, occurred when Stuart Keep was flying the Weasel with Robert Bruce in the observer's cockpit and the engine failed a long way from the aerodrome. Bruce immediately leaned out of the cockpit and cranked the starter magneto which was fitted on the starboard side of the fuselage, but the Dragonfly refused to start. Fortunately, the Weasel had sufficient altitude to glide back to the aerodrome, brushing through the top of the boundary hedge en route to a dead-stick landing. While company trial with this first prototype continued into the early months of 1919, construction of the second and third aircraft proceeded at a steady pace. During May F2912 went to the AEE at Martlesham Heath for 'airframe and Dragonfly motor' tests. These included some handling checks during which the lateral control was criticised. Meanwhile, as a result of the failures of the Dragonfly, it was decided to replace it with a 350 hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar II engine, the first airframe to be modified being the third prototype F2914 which went to Martlesham Heath during June 1922. Among airframe modifications was the fitting of horn-balanced ailerons and rudder.
While construction of the second and third Weasels had been proceeding, in August 1919, Westland received an order for a fourth aircraft to be powered by a Jaguar II. By this time all development testing of the disastrous Dragonfly had been abandoned and the production of military aircraft cut to a trickle; thus, Westland was aware that a production order for Weasel was unlikely to be placed. Nevertheless, flying with the four prototypes continued at Yeovil and at Martlesham Heath, at which latter location the Weasels made appearances until November 1924, when F2914, the third prototype was there. During November 1919 F2912, the first prototype, caught fire in the air while allegedly powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Lynx; however, it pilot, Flt Lt A H Orlebar, managed to sideslip to the ground and crash land where the fire was extinguished, the aircraft being written off charge in the following March.
By mid-summer of that year, all the Weasels had been handed over to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough where they were being used for flight testing engine and various equipment. Although this work may have appeared mundane compared with operational flying, there was the interest of fitting and flying, in J6577, the exciting new Bristol Jupiter II radial engine which, in September 1921 was the first engine to pass the Air Ministry's type-test by delivering 400 hp at 1,625 rpm. However, there were installation problems, particularly with the Jupiter' valve gear which not only had some teething problems with its push rod which had automatic compensation for cylinder expansion, but also proved vulnerable to icing which topped the engine when tested in climbs to altitude during the winter month. To overcome this latter snag the RAE made some wind-tunnel investigations with a number of different shaped 'helmets' to fit over the Jupiter's exposed cylinder heads, and later test flew the Weasel with this modified cowling. There were moment of glory too, the first on 24 June, 1922, when the Jupiter-powered Weasel appeared in the New Types Park at the third Royal Air Force Pageant at Hendon. However, on 11 July J6577 caught fire in the air while at AEE, crashed and burnt out. F2914 was a 'New Type' at Hendon on 30 June, 1923, but, with F2913, flew at the RAE until written off charge in 1925 and 1924 respectively.
Description: Two-seat biplane fighter. Wood/metal construction with fabric, wood and metal covering.
Accommodation: Pilot and observer/gunner in open cockpits.
Powerplant: One 340 hp ABC Dragonfly nine-cylinder air-cooled normally-aspirated radial engine driving a 9 ft 9 in diameter two-blade wooden propeller (F2912). One 350 hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar II fourteen-cylinder two-row normally-aspirated air-cooled radial engine (F2912 and F2914). One 400 hp Bristol Jupiter II nine-cylinder normally-aspirated air-cooled radial engine (F2913 and J6577).
Armament: Two fixed synchronised Vickers .303 in forward-firing machine-gun in troughs in the top of the front fuselage with Aldis and ring-and-bead sights, and one, or two, Lewis .303 in machine-gun on a Scarff mounting in the rear cockpit.
Dimensions: Span 35 ft 6 in; length 24 ft 10 in; height 10 ft 1 in; wing area 36 sq ft.
Weights: Empty 1,626 lb; loaded 3,046 lb.
Performance: Maximum speed 120 mph at sea level; landing speed 56 mph; service ceiling 22,100 ft.
Production: Four Weasel built by Westland Aircraft Work, Yeovil, Somerset, during 1918-19.
P.Lewis The British Fighter since 1912 (Putnam)
The Westland designers Bruce and Davenport were responsible for a two-seat fighter reconnaissance biplane which the West Country firm completed towards the end of 1918. Called the Weasel, the machine was of typical two-bay layout but was one of the unlucky types to have the unreliable A.B.C. Dragonfly 1 engine of 320 h.p. Two Vickers guns were provided for the pilot and the observer used a single Lewis on a Scarff ring. The Weasel was quite successful in flight trials but the four built spent their lives in experimental work only.
F.Mason The British Fighter since 1912 (Putnam)
First flown at about the time of the Armistice, the Westland Weasel was one of almost a dozen aircraft whose future - or, more accurately, the lack of it - was compromised by the failure of Granville Bradshaw’s ABC Dragonfly engine.
The two-seat, two-bay Weasel biplane was designed by Robert Bruce and Arthur Davenport during the summer of 1918 in response to the RAF Type IIIA Specification which called for a successor to the Bristol F.2B Fighter which was expected, under wartime conditions, to be due for replacement during 1919-20. Like the Wagtail, the Weasel possessed no dihedral on the lower wings, but pronounced dihedral on the upper planes. The pilot’s cockpit was located below the rear spar of the upper wing, necessitating an inter-spar aperture in the wing centresection above his head for upward view; being well staggered, the lower wing was sufficiently far aft to give the pilot a good view forward and downwards for landing. Generous trailing-edge cutouts were provided on both upper and lower wings which were both fitted with ailerons. The tailplane incidence was adjustable in flight.
Choice of the Dragonfly engine - recommended, it should be said, by the Air Ministry - proved unfortunate, to say the least. Not only was it found to be almost ten per cent heavier than forecast by the manufacturer, but was thirteen per cent down on power. The cylinder finning proved wholly inadequate for cooling, resulting in constant overheating. More serious was the frequent failure of crankshafts (presumably due to fatique) as it was discovered that the engine’s designed running speed coincided with the crankshaft’s critical vibration frequency in torsion.
Three prototype Weasels were ordered on 3 May 1918, and F2912 was flown in November by Capt Stuart Keep. Little or no further flying was done during the next four or five months while alterations were made in the forward fuselage to take account of the unexpectedly heavy engine. F2913 flew in June and F2914 in September.
The first Weasel underwent preliminary trials at Martlesham Heath in May to establish its handling characteristics with the revised c.g., but was destroyed during November in a forced landing following an engine fire; the pilot, Flt Lt Augustus Henry Orlebar afc was unhurt. (Some records suggest that the aircraft was fitted with an Armstrong Siddeley Lynx engine at the time).
After discontinuation of the Dragonfly engine’s development, all efforts to suit the Weasel for an active Service role were abandoned late in 1919. Instead, the two remaining original prototypes were confined to the development of other engines. F2913 was fitted with a Bristol Jupiter IV radial engine in 1921, and continued flying at the RAE until January 1924, being written off charge in October that year.
F2914 also had a long and varied life, suffering but surviving a number of forced landings. In 1920 its fin and rudder were redesigned to incorporate a horn-balanced rudder; beginning in November it underwent some further alteration and emerged in January 1922, powered by a 350hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar II two-row radial engine, appearing in this form in the New Types Park at the RAF Hendon Pageant on 24 June, and again at the 1923 Display. A Jaguar III was fitted in November 1923, and F2914 continued flying at Farnborough until 9 April 1925.
A fourth Weasel prototype had been ordered from Westland on 29 August 1919 under the designation Mark II, designed to the new D of R Type 2 Specification. Powered at the outset by a 450hp Cosmos Jupiter II radial, this aircraft, J6577, first flew in March 1920, but in July appeared at Martlesham with a Jaguar II engine. A year later this was replaced by a 436hp Jupiter IV. J6577 differed from the earlier prototypes in being fitted with horn-balanced ailerons.
The fate of this aeroplane is something of a mystery. After appearing in the New Types Park at Hendon in June 1922, it is said that J6577 crashed near Martlesham Heath following a fire in the air, and was burned out. Several records, however, show that this aircraft was flying at Martlesham in 1923, and the accompanying Air Ministry photograph is date-stamped 20 August 1923; moreover the aircraft as depicted appears to be fitted with heat-exchanger muffs on the exhaust pipes of the type developed by Bristol early in 1923.
The data table refers to the Weasel Mk I with Dragonfly engine.
Type: Single-engine, single-seat, two-bay biplane fighter.
Manufacturer: The Westland Aircraft Works, Yeovil, Somerset.
Air Ministry Specifications: RAF Type IIIA of 1918, and D of R Type 2 of 1919.
Powerplant: One 320hp ABC Dragonfly I; also 350hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar II, 450hp Cosmos Jupiter II, 436hp Bristol Jupiter IV, and possibly Armstrong Siddeley Lynx.
Dimensions: Span, 35ft 6in; length, 24ft 10in; height, 10ft 1in; wing area, 368 sq ft.
Weights: Tare, 1,867lb; all-up, 3,071lb.
Performance: Max speed 130.5 mph at sea level; climb to 10,000ft, 10 min; ceiling, 20,700ft.
Armament: Two synchronized 0.303in Vickers machine guns on front fuselage decking, and one Lewis gun with Scarff ring on rear cockpit.
Prototypes: Four, F2912-F2914 (Mk Is) and J6577 (Mk II). No production.
W.Green, G.Swanborough The Complete Book of Fighters
WESTLAND WEASEL UK
In April 1918, Westland gained a three-prototype contract for a two-seat fighter-reconnaissance aircraft that was designed to provide a successor to the Bristol F.2b fighter. In configuration, the new fighter, to which the name Weasel was given, closely resembled a scaled-up Wagtail. The pilot was located beneath the trailing edge of the upper wing, with the observer/ gunner close behind, with a single 0.303-in (7,7-mm) Lewis gun on a Scarff ring. Two fixed and synchronised forward-firing Vickers guns of the same calibre were provided for the pilot. The Weasel had a two-spar wooden wing and a wire-braced wooden fuselage, with fabric covering for all but the ply-covered front fuselage. In common with the competing Austin Greyhound and Bristol Badger, the Weasel was powered by the 320 hp ABC Dragonfly nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, which (like the ABC Wasp in the Wagtail) proved so unsatisfactory as to rule out any possibility of production, even if the ending of World War I had not removed the urgency from the requirement. Flight testing did not begin until November 1918 and a Weasel went to Martlesham Heath in April the following year, followed by the third prototype in November. Subsequently, two of the Weasels were used for engine development at the RAE Farnborough, one being re- engined with a 385 hp Cosmos Jupiter II nine-cylinder radial and the other with a 350 hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar II 14-cylinder radial. A Jupiter II was also used to power a fourth Weasel, which was ordered in August 1919 and delivered in 1920 with full armament, although also used primarily for engine development. The following data refer to the Dragonfly-powered Weasel.
Max speed, 130 mph (210 km/h) at 6,500 ft (1980 m).
Time to 10,000 ft (3 050 m), 10 min.
Service ceiling, 20,700 ft (6310 m).
Empty weight, 1,867 lb (847 kg).
Loaded weight, 3,071 lb (1393 kg).
Span, 35 ft 6 in (10,82 m).
Length, 24 ft 10 in (7,56 m).
Height, 10 ft 1 in (3,07 m).
Wing area, 368 sq ft (34,19 m2).
J.Bruce British Aeroplanes 1914-1918 (Putnam)
BUT for the Armistice and the unreliability of the A.B.C. Dragonfly engine, the Westland Weasel would have been competitive with the Austin Greyhound and Bristol Badger as a replacement for the Bristol F.2B.
The Weasel appeared late in 1918, bearing a strong family resemblance to the little Wagtail. It was a two-bay equal-span biplane with a flat lower wing and pronounced dihedral on the upper. The pilot sat under the rear spar of the centre-section, in which a large cut-out gave him an upward view. Twin Vickers guns, mounted in troughs on top of the fuselage, were fitted; and the deep rear cockpit gave the observer comfortable use of his Scarff ring-mounting. Oxygen was carried, and electrical heating equipment was provided.
The construction of the airframe was typical of the period: plywood and fabric covered a wire-braced wooden structure. The incidence of the tailplane could be altered from the cockpit.
The Weasel handled well and was quite a promising aircraft. Owing to the failure of the Dragonfly engine production of the Weasel was not considered, but the prototypes were later used as flying test-beds at the R.A.E., and provided a considerable amount of useful information. The Weasel F.2914, originally powered by a Dragonfly, was later fitted with a 350 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar II (engine No. A.S. 21/26502). All armament was removed, and an enlarged fin and horn-balanced rudder were fitted.
The 400 h.p. Bristol Jupiter II was installed in J.6577, which also had an enlarged fin and balanced rudder. This, the last Weasel, also had horn-balanced ailerons and retained its armament. The Jupiter and Jaguar-powered Weasels were still flying in 1923.
Manufacturers: The Westland Aircraft Works, Yeovil, Somerset.
Power: 320 h.p. A.B.C. Dragonfly I. Experimental installations of the 350 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar II and the 400 h.p. Bristol Jupiter II were made after the war.
Dimensions: Span: 35 ft 6 in. Length: 24 ft 10 in. Height: 10 ft 1 in. Chord: 5 ft 6 in. Stagger: 1 ft 11 in. Dihedral: upper 5°, lower nil. Incidence: 2°.
Areas: Wings: 368 sq ft.
Weights and Performance: No. of Trial Report: M.264. Date of Trial Report: September, 1919. Type of airscrew used on trial: A.B.8973. Weight empty: 1,867 lb. Military load: 334 lb. Crew: 360 lb. Fuel and oil: 510 lb. Loaded: 3,071 lb. Maximum speed at 6,500 ft: 130-5 m.p.h.; at 10,000 ft: 129-5 m.p.h.; at 15,000 ft: 122-5 m.p.h. Climb to 6,500 ft: 5 min 50 sec; to 10,000 ft: 10 min; to 15,000 ft: 19 min. Service ceiling: 20,700 ft.
Armament: Two fixed, forward-firing Vickers machine-guns on top of the fuselage in front of the pilot’s cockpit; one Lewis machine-gun on Scarff ring-mounting on rear cockpit.
Production: Four Weasels were built.
Serial Numbers: F.2912-F.2914. J.6577.
H.King Armament of British Aircraft (Putnam)
Weasel. The Weasel was built in 1918 as a specialised two-seat fighter. It had much in common with the Wagtail, including the mounting of the two Vickers guns, though these were somewhat recessed and fired through short troughs. When a Jupiter engine was installed the guns were faired in to the fuselage and fired through longer, deeper troughs. The case chutes were some distance down the fuselage sides. There were Aldis and ring-and-bead sights. The gunner was close behind the pilot and had a Scar ff ring-mounting for twin Lewis guns. Below the ring on each side of the fuselage was a 'window', or uncovered fuselage section. | aerospace |
https://mashable.com/2015/08/22/sun-plasma-eiffel-tower/ | 2021-05-06T04:46:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988725.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210506023918-20210506053918-00170.warc.gz | 0.880188 | 299 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__184639532 | en | Just think of it as the city of lights taking up residency on the big light in the sky.
NASA's sun-gazing Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite caught sight of an Eiffel Tower-shaped burst of hot plasma shooting out from the sun earlier this week.
The plume of plasma, which is much larger than Earth, wiggled above the sun for about two days from Aug. 17 to 19.
"At times, its shape resembled the Eiffel Tower," NASA said in a statement.
"Other lesser plumes and streams of particles can be seen dancing above the solar surface as well."
Photographer Göran Strand actually caught sight of an Eiffel Tower-shaped solar prominence a couple days before NASA released the new Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the plasma burst.
— Göran Strand (@Astrofotografen) August 17, 2015
NASA also captured a video of the Parisian-looking solar prominence swirling above the sun.
Sometimes, when solar prominences erupt, the sun can release a burst of super-hot solar plasma into space.
If powerful enough and directed toward Earth, these bursts of escaped material, called solar mass ejections, can bombard the planet's upper atmosphere, creating auroras when these charged solar particles interact with neutral particles above the planet's surface.
These "solar storms," if extreme enough, can sometimes create ill effects for the electrical grid system or satellites in space. | aerospace |
https://vertipedia.vtol.org/aircraft/getAircraft/aircraftID/16 | 2023-12-01T22:05:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100308.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201215122-20231202005122-00894.warc.gz | 0.901168 | 136 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__246552522 | en | Operated by the United States Air Force during the late– and post–Vietnam-War era, the HH-53 "Super Jolly Green Giant" was used for combat search and rescue (CSAR) missions. SOmetimes referred to as 'Super Jolly Green Giant'.
By the glossary definition, with a Useful Load of 18676 lb (8471 kg), the calculated Empty Weight is approximately 10580 kg.
VTOL type: Helicopter
Lift devices: 1 Single main rotor
Dedicated control device: 1 Tail rotor
Crew required: 2 in Side-by-side arrangement
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https://hunting4gadgets.com/qa/quick-answer-what-is-the-smallest-satellite-in-space.html | 2021-04-11T20:57:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038065492.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411204008-20210411234008-00203.warc.gz | 0.940699 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__29632034 | en | What is the name of the smallest satellite?
KalamSatKalamSat, the lightest and smallest satellite, designed by an 18-year-old boy from Tamil Nadu in India, is a femtosatellite.
Rifath Sharook, from the town of Pallapatti, broke a global space record by launching the lightest satellite in the world..
Which is the smallest satellite in the universe?
The tiny satellite, named after Abdul Kalam, was flown by a Nasa sounding rocket and the lift-off was from the space agency’s Wallop Island facility around 3pm (IST). Kalamsat was the only Indian payload in the mission.
How big is a small satellite?
A small satellite, miniaturized satellite, or smallsat is a satellite of low mass and size, usually under 500 kg (1,100 lb). While all such satellites can be referred to as “small”, different classifications are used to categorize them based on mass.
How big is a satellite in space?
Size varies. Communication satellites can be as big as a small school bus and weigh up to 6 tons, the Federal Communications Commission says. Most weigh a few tons or less. Some that are used briefly are 4 inch cubes and weigh about 2 pounds.
What is the biggest satellite in space?
TerreStar-1PARIS – The largest commercial satellite ever built – the massive TerreStar-1 – launched into space on Wednesday, riding a European-built rocket into orbit.
Which is the heaviest satellite in the world?
GSAT-11Weighing about 5854 kg, GSAT-11 is the heaviest satellite built by ISRO. GSAT-11 is the fore-runner in the series of advanced communication satellites with multi-spot beam antenna coverage over Indian mainland and Islands. | aerospace |
https://www.dronecage.io/faq | 2021-10-19T08:36:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585246.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019074128-20211019104128-00142.warc.gz | 0.911561 | 308 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__70788053 | en | Frequently asked questions
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https://www.verticalmag.com/press-releases/extex-engineered-products-partners-with-midwest-aerospace/ | 2019-12-09T16:04:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540519149.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20191209145254-20191209173254-00123.warc.gz | 0.951049 | 165 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__99351628 | en | The 2019 Vertical Photo Contest, Synergy Flight School, SAF Group, flying the Bristol Sycamore, on-demand helicopter market focus & more!
EXTEX Engineered Products has announced its signed representation agreement with Midwest Aerospace, LTD and its subsidiaries. This partnership will allow EXTEX to deliver additional aftermarket solutions for multiple platforms to the global market.
Founded in 1989, Midwest Aerospace is a family-owned business dealing in hard-to-find aviation components that support a range of military and commercial aircraft and related systems. By partnering with Midwest Aerospace, EXTEX will be able to offer a larger catalog of aviation products to the global market at reduced cost.
EXTEX Engineered Products, located in Gilbert, Arizona, designs and supplies high precision aftermarket aerospace replacement parts for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. | aerospace |
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/AEAT-01-2018-0024/full/html | 2020-04-06T09:51:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371620338.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20200406070848-20200406101348-00555.warc.gz | 0.884817 | 499 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__224967705 | en | The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of conflict-resolution algorithms between Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) and conventional aircraft. The goal of the conflict-resolution algorithm is to estimate the minimum protection distance (MPD) which is required to avoid a potential conflict.
The conflict-resolution algorithms calculate the last location at which an RPAS must start climbing to avoid a separation minima infringement. The RPAS maneuvers to prevent the conventional aircraft based on the kinematic equations. The approach selects two parameters to model the conflict-geometry: the path-intersection angle and the Rate of Climb (ROCD).
Results confirmed that the aircraft pair flying in opposition was the worst scenario because the MPD reached its maximum value. The best value of the MPD is about 12 Nautical Miles to ensure a safe resolution of a potential conflict. Besides, variations of the ROCD concluded that the relation between the ROCD and the MPD is not proportional.
The primary limitation is that the conflict-resolution algorithms are designed in a theoretical framework without bearing in mind other factors such as communications, navigation capacity, wind and pilot errors among others. Further work should introduce these concepts to determine how the MPD varies and affects air traffic safety. Moreover, the relation between an ROCD requirement and the MPD will have an impact on regulations.
The non-linear relation between the MPD and the ROCD could be the pillar to define a standardized MPD in the future for RPAS systematic integration. To accomplish this standard, RPAS could have to fulfil a requirement of minimum ROCD until a specified flight level.
This paper is the first approach to quantify the Minimum Protection Distance between RPAS and conventional aircraft, and it can serve the aeronautical community to define new navigation requirements for RPAS.
Pérez-Castán, J., Gómez Comendador, F., Rodríguez-Sanz, Á., Arnaldo Valdés, R. and Torrecilla, J. (2019), "Conflict-resolution algorithms for RPAS in non-segregated airspace", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 91 No. 2, pp. 366-372. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-01-2018-0024Download as .RIS
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https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2023/12/05/remains-found-in-wreck-of-us-military-plane-crash-off-japan/ | 2024-02-21T05:47:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00551.warc.gz | 0.982193 | 386 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__58560389 | en | The Air Force said on Monday morning that debris and the remains of five missing crew members had been discovered by a search team looking into the tragic crash of a US military aircraft in the waters near Japan last week.
A Japanese and American diving team discovered “remains” and wreckage, according to a statement released by the Air Force Special Operations Command on Monday. According to the statement, divers located the craft’s fuselage along with five corpses and recovered two of the dead, while also attempting to recover the remaining members of the crew.
Eight crew members were on board the Osprey CV-22B “tiltrotor” when it crashed on November 29 close to the island of Yakushima.
“Today (Monday), the combined Japanese and United States teams… had a breakthrough when their surface ships and dive teams were able to locate remains along with the main fuselage of the aircraft wreckage,” the US Air Force said in a statement.
“The dive teams were able to confirm five additional crew members from the original team of eight that were involved with the crash,” it said. “Currently two crew members of the five located today have been successfully recovered by the attending teams. There is an ongoing combined effort to recover the remaining crew members from the wreckage.”
The Osprey, a fixed-wing turboprop plane with helicopter-like capabilities, has been involved in several catastrophic crashes.
Three US Marines lost their lives in a mishap in northern Australia in August, while four more lost their lives in another disaster in Norway during NATO training operations 2021. Nineteen Marines perished in 2000 when an Osprey crashed during training in Arizona, and three more Marines lost their lives in 2017 when another Osprey crashed off the north coast of Australia.
So far, none of the bodies discovered on Monday have been identified. | aerospace |
http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ams+klm | 2014-10-21T02:28:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507443869.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005723-00349-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.976798 | 94 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__80418316 | en | For quite some time I log the planes I travel on. I would very much like to log planes I took before I start logging plane registration numbers. Is there any way to know which Boeing 747-300 I ...
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https://www.goerie.com/story/news/nation-world/2015/01/11/drone-revolution-draws-near-but/24718783007/ | 2023-06-02T22:51:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648858.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602204755-20230602234755-00221.warc.gz | 0.939264 | 798 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__145301286 | en | Drone revolution draws near, but big obstacles remain
BOULEVARD, Calif. -- The drones are coming.
Not as flying deliverymen that bring diapers, books or soup cans to your home, a vision put forth by Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos to much fanfare a little more than a year ago.
Instead, drones will help spray crops, inspect high-voltage power lines and hover over movie sets to provide directors with new vantage points. They will work for insurance companies, real estate agencies, ski resorts and other businesses.
Eventually. For now, this all remains theoretical. Except for a few locations, U.S. airspace is closed to commercial drones. Regulators say the danger is too great, and they want to go slow easing unmanned aircraft into the already crowded skies.
Advocates of the young drone industry complain that the long wait is keeping them grounded. Big-money investors are generally staying away, waiting for clear government guidelines. And the blanket flight prohibition has prevented companies from advancing the technology. That includes developing sophisticated collision-avoidance systems or finding ways for the aircraft to navigate without human help.
"Most of these drones have very limited safety features," said Maryanna Saenko, of science and technology consultancy Lux Research. If one crashes, "it's a four- or five-pound brick coming out of the sky."
Some of the most ambitious drone ideas, like Amazon's delivery system, will probably have to wait on regulatory hurdles. First, drones will tackle the hard-to-do jobs, the dangerous industrial tasks.
FIRST ADOPTERS: To see the potential of drones, go to a plateau in the Southern California desert covered with cactuses and brush. There, Teena Deering, a former Navy helicopter pilot who later taught drone warfare, is testing the idea of using unmanned aircraft to inspect power lines.
With a few quick movements of a wireless controller -- the type used for model airplanes -- Deering sends a 1-pound drone racing into the sky around a 165-foot tower. Live video streams back from the drone, showing her the condition of the lines.
Normally, the remote lines are inspected by helicopter, a difficult job that costs $1,200 an hour. San Diego Gas and Electric thinks that drones might be a cheaper, faster way.
FARMERS: Perhaps the biggest industry ripe for drone use is farming. With the help of GPS mapping, drones can survey an entire farm, find bugs or soil that is too dry or too low in nutrients and then send the exact coordinates back to a tractor that will apply pesticide, water or fertilizer only to areas in need.
Farmers aren't expected to buy the costly drones themselves but will hire new services for specific jobs.
HOBBYISTS: While companies wait, more hobbyists are putting drones in the skies. Many can be operated with an iPhone or Android smart phone. Some cost just $300. French company Parrot has sold 670,000 drones worldwide in just the past four years.
The problem is that today's aircraft lack brains. They must either be controlled remotely by a pilot or fly a predetermined route.
Technology that senses obstacles and avoids them isn't proven. Battery life is limited. And questions remain about hackers or terrorists intercepting them.
DELIVERY BY DRONE: Amazon said its drone delivery service could someday get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less. Through its Prime Air service, Amazon aims to have drones flying 50 mph and capable of carrying up to 5 pounds.
"They will become as normal as seeing delivery trucks driving down the street," said Paul Misner, global vice president of public policy.
But drones aren't intended to supersede planes and trucks, said Anita Gupta, of German delivery company Deutsche Post DHL.
"It doesn't replace the solid network we have developed for our ground transportation," Gupta said. | aerospace |
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17493/russia-says-january-5th-attack-on-its-syrian-air-base-was-by-a-swarm-of-drones | 2023-06-07T12:06:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653764.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607111017-20230607141017-00073.warc.gz | 0.969643 | 1,255 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__195849081 | en | Russia Says January 5th Attack On Its Syrian Air Base Was By A Swarm Of Drones
It seems that the age of drone swarms has arrived, and that’s a terrifying reality to comprehend.
Last Saturday I wrote about how Russia's Khmeimim Air Base in Syria seemed to be coming under increasingly frequent attack in recent days, and noted that reports were streaming out of the area of a possible weaponized drone assault on the outpost that had occurred overnight between January 5th and 6th. All this came after another attack killed two soldiers and damaged aircraft on the airfield on New Years Eve, as well as other reported attacks in between and in the days prior. Now the Russian Ministry of Defense has detailed just how unique the attack on the night of January 5th-6th actually was, and it offers a bleak and sobering preview of what I have been saying for years would be a future reality of warfare—the age of the militarized small drone swarm.
Russia's Ministry of Defense made the following press release early on January 8th, 2017:
Security system of the Russian Khmeimim air base and Russian Naval CSS point in the city of Tartus successfully warded off a terrorist attack with massive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through the night of 5th – 6th January, 2018.
As evening fell, the Russia air defence forces detected 13 unidentified small-size air targets at a significant distance approaching the Russian military bases.
Ten assault drones were approaching the Khmeimim air base, and another three – the CSS point in Tartus.
Six small-size air targets were intercepted and taken under control by the Russian EW units. Three of them were landed on the controlled area outside the base, and another three UAVs exploded as they touched the ground.
Seven UAVs were eliminated by the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile complexes operated by the Russian air defence units on 24-hours alert.
The Russian bases did not suffer any casualties or damages.
The Khmeimim air base and Russian Naval CSS point in Tartus are functioning on a scheduled basis.
Currently, the Russian military experts are analyzing the construction, technical filling and improvised explosives of the captured UAVs.
Having decoded the data recorded on the UAVs, the specialists found out the launch site.
It was the first time when terrorists applied a massed drone aircraft attack launched at a range of more than 50 km using modern GPS guidance system. Technical examination of the drones showed that such attacks could have been made by terrorists at a distance of about 100 kilometers.
Engineering decisions applied by terrorists while attacks on the Russian objects in Syria could be received from one of countries with high-technological capabilities of satellite navigation and remote dropping control of professionally assembled improvised explosive devices in assigned coordinates. All drones of terrorists are fitted with pressure transducers and altitude control servo-actuators.
Terrorists’ aircraft-type drones carried explosive devices with foreign detonating fuses.
The Russian specialists are determining supply channels, through which terrorists had received the technologies and devices, as well as examining type and origin of explosive compounds used in the IEDs.
The fact of usage of strike aircraft-type drones by terrorists is the evidence that militants have received technologies to carry out terrorist attacks using such UAVs in any country."
First off, it's interesting Russia is providing all this information on a threat to its own base. Who knows how accurate some of these details really are, but if the number of drones launched at the facility is anywhere near correct, it would seem to be the first self-contained, large scale, coordinated, standoff drone assault on a fixed installation like this. Also of note is the stated range of these drones—over 60 miles. That means they could be launched from well outside regime controlled territory, which makes countering them at their source extremely challenging.
On the other hand, Russia could have specifically inserted this detail in its release to make it seem as if the nearby area around the base remains totally uncontested and not subject to a deteriorating security situation. Beyond the drone, rocket, and artillery threat, the Russian Air Force apparently sees shoulder-fired SAMs also as a threat in the immediate area, which points to the possibility that Russia is operating in a more troubled neighborhood than what the Ministry of Defense and the Assad regime commonly let on.
Russia's statement also insinuates that whoever is launching these drones, whether they are an anti-Assad rebel force or a terror related group, is getting some sort of external help in creating these improvised guided missiles of sorts. We'll have to see where this road leads and if Russia begins to allude more clearly to the possibility that state actors may have some kind of a hand in these attacks.
With modified tactics, these drones, which use GPS autopilot to make their attack runs, pose the risk of wreaking continuous havoc on Russia's air operations in Syria. Considering the air base remains highly active, it's not as if a Pantsir-S1 can just open up firing or launching missiles without regard to other aircraft operating in and around the air base. Also those cannon rounds aren't likely the self destructing type so they are going to land somewhere, as are at least parts of its missiles.
But regardless of the direct implications this new tactic has on Russia's Syrian operation, it does give us our first glimpses of a new age in modern warfare—one where dense swarms of low-cost drones armed with high-explosives will be able to wreak havoc on targets. Russian defenses, and those of other countries for that matter, may be able to fend off a handful of these improvised drones executing a very loosely coordinated attack, but a near peer-state competitor could field a much denser, more nimble, adaptable, and networked force. And as we have mentioned before, there is no known kinetic defense to counter such an attack.
It seems that the age of drone swarms has arrived, and that's a terrifying reality to comprehend.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5619046&page=1 | 2018-04-24T21:51:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947328.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180424202213-20180424222213-00145.warc.gz | 0.968256 | 420 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__119383308 | en | Pilots around the country expressed outrage and concern today about the safety of their planes following an incident where a TSA inspector, conducting a spot security check, used sensitive instrument probes as a handhold to climb onto parked aircraft at Chicago's O'Hare airport. As reported on ABCNews.com, the incident led to the grounding of nine American Eagle planes, causing a ripple effect that delayed 40 flights throughout the day.
Today pilots weighed in with hundreds of complaints on internet aviation forums over whether TSA inspectors were properly qualified to conduct such airplane safety checks, according to Jim Campbell of Aero-News Network, a widely-read aviation industry news service. Campbell said he received over 600 e-mails from worried pilots and other aviation workers.
"This was and is a deadly serious issue," one e-mailer wrote. "I envision something like a TSA inspector trying to remove a prop lock as part of a security check and imparting a stress fracture into a blade."
TSA maintained that its agents are qualified to perform security inspections of parked airplanes. "Our inspectors are extensively trained over what their responsbility entails," TSA spokesperson Elio Montenegro told ABCNews.com. However, Montenegro said he did not know if inspectors received detailed training on aircraft flight systems.
Many pilots today expressed skepticism that TSA inspectors are properly trained. "Their job is to screen baggage and people," wrote an e-mailer. "How the TSA can train their inspectors on every single different style and type of airplane is a question many would like answered. Flight attendants and pilots go to school for months just to learn one specific make and model... but TSA inspectors can apparently walk onto ANY aircraft at ANY time and know exactly what belongs and what doesn't."
Given the sensitivity of the equipment affected by yesterday's incident, Campbell said TSA's security program could have deadly consequences. "I flat out predict that if this continues, an aircraft will be brought down," said Campbell.
Eric Longabardi is a freelance journalist who is a frequent contributor to the ABCNews.com investigative page. | aerospace |
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-22/u-dot-s-dot-airlines-cancel-all-flights-to-israel-for-24-hours | 2017-06-26T23:22:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00357.warc.gz | 0.948053 | 462 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__190140965 | en | U.S. Airlines Cancel All Flights to Israel for 24 HoursBy
Danger from missiles has prompted U.S. airlines to scrap flights to Israel. The move comes after the Federal Aviation Administration told U.S. airlines on Tuesday to stop flying to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport for 24 hours after a rocket strike landed about one mile from the airport on Tuesday morning. The order applies only to U.S. carriers.
Delta Air Lines and United suspended flights to Tel Aviv to ensure passengers’ safety as the conflict between Israel and Hamas grinds on, with rockets fired from Gaza countered in the skies by missiles fromIsrael’s Iron Dome defense system. American Airlines also canceled its Tuesday night flight from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv. “We are monitoring the situation,” American spokesman Casey Norton said.
Delta diverted Flight 468 to Paris on Tuesday after reports of “a rocket or associated debris” near Ben Gurion International Airport, the company said in a statement. The flight, a Boeing 747 with 273 passengers and 17 crew members, departed New York just before midnight and was scheduled to land in Israel at 5 p.m. local time. The flight was over Italy when Delta redirected the jet to Charles de Gaulle Airport, near Paris.
United Airlines has two daily flights from Newark, N.J., to Tel Aviv, which the company said will not operate until further notice. “We are working with government officials to ensure the safety of our customers and our employees and will continue to evaluate the situation,” Chicago-based United said in a statement.
The FAA’s decision spurred several international carriers, including Air France, Air Canada, Lufthansa and SAS Scandinavian, to cancel their flights to Tel Aviv scheduled late Tuesday and Wednesday. Korean Air suspended its flights last week, citing the security situation in Israel.
Concern over missiles has increased since the July 17 shoot-down of a Malaysia Airlines flight that was cruising at 33,000 feet over Ukraine. The U.S. and U.K. say evidence points to an anti-aircraft missile fired from the eastern edge of the country, which is controlled by Russian-backed rebels. The rebels have denied downing the Boeing 777. | aerospace |
https://en.photographymag.tn/can-you-fly-mavic-pro-2-in-rain-3/ | 2022-12-05T18:07:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711042.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205164659-20221205194659-00864.warc.gz | 0.869505 | 1,765 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__186209483 | en | But, many retailers and manufacturers can be quite vague with regard to the exact particulars of drones and their capabilities. So, can you fly a Mavic Pro in the rain? It’s not advised to fly a Mavic Pro in the rain as this will have adverse negative repercussions for longevity and functionality of the drone..
Is the Mavic 2 waterproof?
So, no the DJI Mavic Pro is not waterproof.
How far can the DJI Mavic 2 fly?
How far can the Mavic 2 fly? Thanks to the new OcuSync 2.0 transmission system, you can fly the Mavic 2 up to 8km (approx. 5 miles) away when there is no interference or obstacles between the aircraft and the remote controller.
How far can the Mavic 2 fly?
DJI Mavic Pro 2 & Mavic 2 Zoom have a range of nearly 5 miles (8 km) and that should be more than enough for everyone.
How long can the Mavic 2 fly?
How far can DJI drones fly?
|DJI Drone Model||Controller Range (miles)||Flight Time (minutes)|
|Mavic Mini 2||6.2||31|
|Mavic 2 Pro||11||31|
|Mavic 2 Zoom||11||31|
|Mavic Air 2||11.5||34|
How long do DJI drones last?
This DJI drone can last up to two years, depending on several factors. These factors include how often it is flown, the flight’s aggressiveness, how it is stored and maintained, and most importantly, the weather conditions you fly it in.
How do I extend my drone range?
You can boost your drone’s WiFi signal by setting up a WiFi repeater system. The sole purpose of a repeater is to take in a signal, amplify it, and then retransmit it. This considerably increases drone range.
What DJI drone can fly the farthest?
With up to 10 km transmission distance and 34 minutes of flight time, Mavic Air 2 is the longest range DJI drone currently available.
How much can a Mavic 2 lift? The Mavic 2 Pro, weighing 907 grams lifted 1,137 grams, for an index of 1.24. But the Mavic Air 2 was the clear winner. At 570 grams, it was able to hoist an additional 830 grams, for a whopping power index of 1.43.
How high can a DJI Mavic 2 fly?
The Mavic Air 2 has a maximum altitude of 1500 ft. The max altitude can be adjusted in the Safety tab in the Setting menu. But 400m is a little over 1200ft and that greatly exceeds flight operation which is capped at 120m or 400ft without special clearance.
Which drone has longest range?
The Autel Evo 2 is the longest range drone on this list, beating even the DJI Mavic 2 drone by 1km in declared range (although i haven’t personally tested the max range as I have with the Mavic 2).
How much weight can a Mavic Air 2 carry?
|Mavic Air 2 drone payload||Mavic 2 Pro/Zoom drone payload|
|Max Loading Weight||500g||500g|
|Standby Time||About 12 hrs||About 12 hrs|
|Charging Time||Less than 60 minutes||Less than 60 minutes|
How far can DJI Air 2S fly from controller?
According to DJI, the Air 2S can fly a maximum distance of 7.5 miles (12 km) and a maximum height of 3.1 miles (5 km).
What is the best fishing drone to buy?
The best drones for fishing in 2022
- DJI Air 2S. A powerful consumer drone with all the visual power needed.
- PowerVision PowerEgg X Wizard. A 4K drone which can walk on water and survive a splash.
- SwellPro SplashDrone 4. A drone built to survive the ocean and drop bait.
- DJI Mini SE.
- Potensic D68.
- SwellPRO Spry+
How much water can a drone carry? We hypothesize that each drone can carry from 5 to 50 L of water.
Can the DJI Air 2S fly at night? Since the DJI Air 2S has navigational lights and can be outfitted with a strobe kit, you can safely fly the drone at night. If you’re a commercial drone pilot, you must have your Part 107 license. Both commercial and recreational drone pilots must pass free night flying training.
Can the DJI Air 2S fly in the rain? We do not recommend flying the unit in snow and during rain as this might cause some issues on the unit. You may check the image below for the recommended temperature for the DJI Mavic Air 2. Thank you for your understanding and support.
How high can a DJI Mavic go?
I have Mavic mini and with higher altitude then more the range i can achieve. Safe legal altitude to avoid trouble with the law:122 meters/400 feet/133.34 yds. Max altitude for most dji drones. Be careful up here or you could get in lots of trouble:500 meters/1640 feet/547 yds.
Can you fly drone without WiFi?
A drone can fly without WiFi or cell service. Access to the internet is only required when downloading a program for your drone or doing a system update. Once the download is complete, the internet is no longer needed. However, some drone features are enhanced with WiFi or cell service.
Can I fly Mavic air in rain?
DJI Mavic Air 2
And while the Mavic Air 2 is not meant to be flown in the rain, it may be able to handle a little bit of light rain better than some of the other DJI drones since it doesn’t have a lot of openings where rainwater can easily enter.
What drone can fly the longest?
Top 10 Drones with Longest Flight Time for 2021
|DJI Phantom 3 Standard||25min||8.2 pounds|
|DJI Phantom 3 Pro||23min||9.2 pounds|
|3DR Solo||22min||3.3 pounds|
|Yuneec Q500+||22min||2.5 pounds|
• May 6, 2022
Can Mavic Air 2 follow you?
The Mavic Air 2 drone uses ActiveTrack 3.0 to follow you while filming at the same time. The Mavic Air 2 follow you mode also detects and avoids obstacles while tracking. Parallel: The Mavic Air 2 will follow you at a constant angle from the side. This works in all 3 flight modes.
What happens if DJI loses signal?
If your DJI drone loses connection with the controller for more than 11 seconds, the failsafe RTH mode will be enabled automatically and the drone will return to the preset home point. If the GPS signal is also lost, the drone will hover, then land in place instead of returning to home.
What happens if a drone goes out of range?
When a drone goes out of range, one of 3 things can happen: return to home, hover on the spot, fly away, or land on the spot. Most GPS drones (DJI) are set to return home automatically when they lose signal.
Can I fly my drone out of sight? When you are flying a drone, FAA regulations state that you must keep your drone in visual line of sight at all times. The exception for recreational flyers is the use of a visual observer. Commercial drone pilots can apply for a Part 107 waiver if they need to fly beyond visual line of sight.
Do you need a license to fly DJI Air 2S?
I just traded in my Air 2 for the 2S. A: If you fly recreationally (for no other purpose than flying for recreation) you need to take the TRUST test and get a certificate. If you fly for any other reason you need to go through FAS Part 107 testing and certification. There is no radio licensing involved. | aerospace |
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https://adityaramanathan.com/2017/10/24/iaf-still-sceptical-about-russian-5th-generation-fighter/ | 2020-09-18T19:55:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188841.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918190514-20200918220514-00493.warc.gz | 0.953093 | 536 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__35253974 | en | The Indian Air Force remains may yet choose to exit from the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) programme with Russia, according to a story in Defense News.
Senior members of the air force told the Ministry of Defence the FGFA ‘does not meet desired requirements like U.S. F-35 fighter type capabilities,’ the story says, citing an anonymous IAF official.
The anonymous official notes two perceived shortcomings with the FGFA. One, the aircraft’s design isn’t stealthy enough and would need a major revamp to become less visible. Two, it lacks a modular engine, which makes maintenance more complicated and expensive. It also effectively makes the IAF dependent on the Russian manufacturer.
While there’s no standardised definition for fifth generation aircraft, they usually incorporate stealth features, are capable of sustained supersonic flight, and have better sensor and self-protection features than their fourth generation predecessors.
The FGFA programme is a joint venture between Russia’s Sukhoi Design Bureau and India’s HAL. The Russians have already built prototype aircraft for the programme under the name PAK-FA.
India also has a second fifth generation warplane programme, the DRDO-run Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), which is still in early stages.
The IAF has expressed misgivings about the FGFA programme for years. In September, India Today reported concerns among air force officials that are similar to those noted in the Defense News story.
These grumblings have come even after a government-appointed panel recommended in July that the programme be continued.
Earlier this year, Russian analyst Franz-Stefan Grady pointed out that a key concern for the IAF remained technology transfer: ‘India wants a guarantee that it will be able to upgrade the fighter jet in the future without Russian support, which would require Moscow sharing source codes (sensitive computer code that controls the fighter jet’s various systems — the key to an aircraft’s electronic brains).’
Grady also noted that ever since Russia slashed its acquisition plan for the aircraft from 250 to 18-24 in 2015, many in the IAF have become sceptical about its prospects.
None of this means India is going to exit the programme just yet. As Grady observes, the publicly aired misgivings ‘are likely intended to strengthen India’s bargaining position vis-à-vis Russia in the current round of negotiations.’
Earlier in the month, this blog reported that China had commissioned its fifth generation warplane, the J-20A. | aerospace |
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/?ImageID=1527&NewsInfo=59C884BFF2B8E0EDCEDD15F64B98BC57A54F95914A0C7ADCCB554DFEA8DEC38AC68BDDC1EBDCC157DF5D93E0DCE3960CC8CCD317DA4110F5C60ACCC81F66CE2B01D3E64ADD05DAB1864D029C989064 | 2017-01-20T20:06:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00214-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.689645 | 656 | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__144045762 | en | 01.10.2017 Mars 2020 Rover - Artist's Concept
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Twelve-Meter-Wide Crater Excavates Ice on MarsThis 12-meter-wide (39-foot-wide) crater in mid-latitude northern Mars was created by an impact that occurred between July 3, 2004, and June 28, 2008, as bracketed by before-and-after images not shown here. The images shown here were taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 19, 2008, (left) and on Jan. 8, 2009. Each image is 35 meters (115 feet) across.
The impact that dug the crater excavated water ice from below the surface. It is the bright material visible in this pair of images. This crater is at 46.16 degrees north latitude, 188.51 degrees east longitude.
These images are subframes of full-frame images that are available online at at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_010861_2265 and http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_011494_2265.
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https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-presses-customs-and-border-protection-commissioner-to-partner-with-uas-test-sites | 2023-11-28T19:45:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099942.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128183116-20231128213116-00270.warc.gz | 0.920193 | 883 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__191420982 | en | Hoeven Presses Customs and Border Protection Commissioner to Partner with UAS Test Sites
Senator Highlights Advantage of Grand Forks Test Site to Integrate UAS, Enhance Northern Border Security
WASHINGTON – In a letter to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske last week, Senator John Hoeven pressed CBP to partner with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unmanned aerial system (UAS) test sites as CBP develops UAS technology. Grand Forks was designated as one of FAA’s six UAS test sites in December 2013.
“As home to one of the six FAA test sites, Grand Forks is a premier hub for UAS technology and training and an ideal location for CBP to pursue its goal of integrating small UAS into their operations,” Hoeven said. “That’s why we’ve asked CBP to take advantage of the extensive resources and expertise offered by these test sites, including Grand Forks.”
The letter references a Hoeven-sponsored provision included in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding legislation, passed this June by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, of which Senator Hoeven is a member. This provision encourages DHS to coordinate its UAS research with the FAA’s six national test sites to ensure that whatever new technology the agency develops conforms to the operational and safety standards the sites develop to integrate UAS into the National Airspace, ultimately resulting in DHS-sponsored flights at the test sites. CBP currently operates the Predator-B aircraft out of Grand Forks to perform security missions along the nation’s northern border.
The text of the letter follows:
July 22, 2014
R. Gil Kerlikowske, Commissioner
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection
1300 Pennsylvania Av. NW
Washington DC, 20229
Dear Commissioner Kerlikowske:
The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a successful track record of deploying unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology. CBP flights out of North Dakota’s Grand Forks Air Force Base enhance the security of our northern border and demonstrate the growing potential of UAS technology to provide cost-effective solutions to problems in a variety of areas. In fact, due to the success of CBP’s UAS operations, I understand that the Bureau faces increasing demand to employ UAS across its range of customs and border activities.
To keep up with increased demand, CBP will need to develop new capabilities, particularly in the area of small UAS. I believe that the most cost-effective way for CBP to develop small UAS technology will come by taking advantage of the UAS test sites recently designated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The six sites, including one adjacent to Grand Forks Air Force Base, are intended to develop and validate the technology required to integrate UAS into the national airspace (NAS). As such, they provide a unique test bed for CBP to explore and enhance its UAS work while advancing the FAA’s airspace integration objectives.
The importance of such interagency cooperation is reflected in language I included in the Senate Appropriations Committee’s report to accompany the Fiscal Year 2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill, encouraging DHS “to use the FAA’s six test sites to meet its goal of enabling and enhancing small UAS access to the NAS and to ensure that new technologies developed through the Department’s air based technology research meet the operational and safety standards the FAA will develop at the test sites.”
I therefore hope that CBP, in recognition of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s emphasis on interagency cooperation for UAS integration, will take advantage of the North Dakota test site that is essentially co-located with CBP’s northern UAS hub. Such efforts will accelerate the development of technology CBP will need to meet increasing demand, will be cost effective and greatly benefit the national effort to integrate UAS into the NAS.
Please keep me informed of your efforts to work with the test sites consistent with the language in the committee report, and please let me know how I can assist CBP to advance its UAS mission.
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https://olatorera.com/aviation-top-5-nigerian-airlines-operating-the-oldest-fleet-of-aircraft-in-africa/ | 2023-12-08T09:33:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100739.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208081124-20231208111124-00070.warc.gz | 0.96716 | 1,025 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__275679457 | en | Nigeria has had a series of unfortunate domestic plane crashes which have claimed thousands of lives over the years prompting many to question why several domestic flights have gone down within a short period of time. It is quite sad that thousands of innocent people had to die to finally awaken the issue of the gross incompetence of the Nigerian aviation system. It has been revealed that Nigeria’s commercial airlines are operating the oldest fleet of aircraft in the whole of Africa which is quite frightening to know.
Most of these aircrafts which are mostly Tokunbo/second-hand aircraft, are either due for retirement or should have already been retired and taken out of service at least some years earlier. The factors which determine the retirement of aeroplanes bother around pressurisation cycles, hours of flights and fuel efficiency. It is quite appalling to know that despite having a structured aviation agency in place Nigerian airlines still freely operate such old planes which are very much apparent but yet nothing is done about them. These old planes, most of which have been used for over two decades could end up malfunctioning leading to fatalities the country cannot afford to have again. Although, experts have said the age of Nigerian planes is not an issue, the history of plane crashes in the country cannot easily be ignored in that regard and it is only right that the Nigerian federal government takes it more seriously. A recent study ordered by the International Air Transport Association IATA and conducted by SGI Aviation stated that the average retirement age of a freighter aircraft is 32.5 years and that of a passenger aircraft 25.1 years.
Below are top 5 Nigerian airlines still operating the oldest aircraft found across the whole of Africa:
- Dana Airlines has the oldest fleet of aircraft with its youngest delivered in October 2014 now 22.3 years old while its oldest is 28.1 years old. Dana airline which had one of the most horrific plane crash in Nigeria’s aviation history on the 3rd of June, 2012 claiming 153 lives in total still managed to resume operations again still running the same old planes within the country.
- Air Peace Airlines which is currently one of Nigeria’s top leading airlines has 20 aircraft that averages 19 years. Thirteen of its Boeing 737 have an average age of 22.3 years, two of its Boeing 777an average age of 18.1 years, and two of its Boeing 737-500 fall between 25 and 26 years old.
- Medview Airlines has a 16.7 years old Boeing 777-200(5N-BVY), a 23.6 years old Boeing 767, and three Boeing 737-400 with an average age of 20.9 years.
- Aero Contractors which is controlled by AMCON and Nigeria’s oldest airline with a peerless safety record has nine Boeing 737 aircraft’s with an average age of 26.5 years and two 17.8 years De Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8 planes.
- Azman Air Services has two Boeing 737-300 and two Boeing 737-500 with an average of 20.9 years.
- Nigeria’s Arik Air which has been ranked the safest airline in the country has the youngest fleet of 23 aircraft which were all bought new and all have an average age of 11 years. They include four Bombardier CRJ-900 planes that are now 12.6 years old, one Bombardier CRJ-1000 now five years old, a 10.4-year-old Airbus A340 and thirteen Boeing 737 with an average age of 12.1 years.
In comparison with some of the top airlines in Africa, Ethiopia Airlines which is the largest in Africa has a total number of 104 aircraft which include an average age of 3.4 years, 5.2 years, 7.9 years, 1.4 years, 5.4 years old and its oldest at 16.3 years old. Kenya Airways has 39 aircraft’s with an average age of 6.8 years. South Africa Airways fleets have an average age of 11 years with its oldest being three 27.5 years old, while Rwandair’s 13 aircraft are at an average age of 7.1 years.
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https://www.tsi-mag.com/20-june-2020-new-smyrna-beach-florida/ | 2024-04-24T23:01:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819971.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424205851-20240424235851-00312.warc.gz | 0.988418 | 120 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__70492571 | en | Robert Stienstra, 22, was discovered at New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport attempting to steal an aircraft. Officers found him sitting in the right-hand seat of the aircraft. Upon being discovered, Stienstra asked the officers if they knew how to fly before jumping from the emergency exit. Stienstra later claimed he had bought the aircraft and was going to fly to California to see his girlfriend. Before attempting to steal the aircraft, Stienstra stole a vehicle and drove it to the airport. He was carrying 500 grams of marijuana, as well as a pocketknife and a laptop. | aerospace |
http://suek.com/media/news/suek-introduces-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-for-geological-surveillance-in-kuzbass/ | 2020-06-06T18:20:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590348517506.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20200606155701-20200606185701-00159.warc.gz | 0.944 | 471 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__161602487 | en | SUEK purchased six unmanned aerial vehicles with various modifications intended for aerial photography during surveying operations for its Kuzbass facilities.
The decision to develop the company's fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles was made after the test of aerial photography at SUEK's open-pit mines in the Krasnoyarsk region and Buryatia. After analysing the accuracy and detail of 3D terrain models obtained using unmanned aerial vehicles, SUEK concluded that this technology could be used for surveying and land management in mining.
In August 2018, the Aerial Surveying Office was established as part of the technical directorate in Kuzbass. Today, the Office is equipped with two Russian-made unmanned vehicles capable of making aerial photographs at a height up to one kilometre, with a flight duration of 2.5 and 4 hours, respectively. SUEK's fleet also includes 4 compact DJI drones,GNSS receiver making it possible to receive and process signals from all navigation satellite systems that exist today. This device enables surveyors to locate unmanned aerial vehicles during aerial photography.
Simultaneously with the procurement of equipment and staff training, the Office made major efforts to satisfy the requirements of the mandatory registration of unmanned aerial vehicles with the Federal Air Transport Agency, to ensure compliance with legislative norms and rules governing the use of the Russian airspace, the process of aerial photography and the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles.
As practice shows, such technology helps the company solve a whole range of issues related to open-pit mining, such as evaluating the size of coal storage facilities, monitoring hazardous situations, updating topographic plans of work areas and surrounding territories and monitoring the use of company land including actual use of allotted land, use for intended purpose, reclamation, demolition control in buffer zones and property stock-taking.
“First of all, unmanned aerial vehicles improve the efficiency and safety of surveying measurements and the accuracy of necessary calculations,” says Anatoly Meshkov, Technical Director of SUEK-Kuzbass. “We can now remotely control mining operations at almost any point and build digital enterprise models. Essentially, this is another step towards creating a 'digital underground mine' and a 'digital open-pit mine' to obtain the maximum amount of data for highly efficient management of coal production processes.” | aerospace |
https://mauinow.com/2014/04/23/faa-proposes-547500-civil-penalty-against-hawaiian-airlines/ | 2022-01-17T18:29:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300616.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117182124-20220117212124-00473.warc.gz | 0.959734 | 487 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__39137285 | en | FAA Proposes $547,500 Civil Penalty Against Hawaiian Airlines
By Wendy Osher
A $547,500 Civil Penalty is being proposed against Hawaiian Airlines for allegedly operating a Boeing 767-300 that was not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations.
The allegations were brought by the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration for alleged non compliance with an Airworthiness Directive that requires inspections of certain engine thrust reverser components.
The FAA alleges Hawaiian operated the aircraft “thousands of times” when it was not in compliance, according to a press release issued last week.
“The purpose of the Airworthiness Directive was to prevent a portion of the thrust reverser from coming off in flight, which could cause a rapid decompression of the aircraft,” the press release stated.
The FAA said the discovery was made during a July 2012 inspection, in which they discovered that some of the airlines records, “erroneously showed the Airworthiness Directive did not apply to one of its Boeing 767 aircraft.”
The FAA alleges Hawaiian operated the aircraft more than 5,000 times, between July 2004 and July 2012 when it was allegedly out of compliance, and 14 additional passenger flights after the carrier had been alerted of the records discrepancy.
Representatives with Hawaiian Airlines tell Maui Now that they do not comment on pending litigation, and stated, “Hawaiian’s first commitment is always to safety.” Airline representatives also confirmed that they requested an informal conference with the FAA to discuss the matter.
Under the Airworthiness Directive, airlines are required to have initial and repetitive inspections of components “to detect damage and wear, and corrective actions if necessary.”
The FAA did not specify what routes were assigned to the particular craft in question.
According to information posted on the company website, Hawaiian Airlines operates wide-body, twin-aisle Boeing 767-300 aircraft between Honolulu and Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Seattle, Phoenix in the US; Fukuoka and Sendai, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Brisbane, Australia; Papeete, Tahiti; and Pago Pago, American Samoa.
The airline was also operating B767 routes with service between Kahului, Maui and San Jose, Oakland and Seattle, according to information contained in a non-related November 2013 press release. | aerospace |
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/USAIR+EXPRESS+TO+INAUGURATE+NONSTOP+SERVICE+FROM+CHARLOTTE+TO...-a012212839 | 2017-09-21T05:19:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818687642.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20170921044627-20170921064627-00254.warc.gz | 0.864594 | 733 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__87714027 | en | USAIR EXPRESS TO INAUGURATE NONSTOP SERVICE FROM CHARLOTTE TO EVANSVILLE, IND.
USAIR EXPRESS TO INAUGURATE NONSTOP SERVICE FROM CHARLOTTE TO EVANSVILLE, IND. CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- USAir Express will inaugurate new nonstop service from Charlotte to Evansville, Ind., and from Charlotte to Shenandoah Valley, Va., on June 1. Two USAir Express daily roundtrips to Evansville will be operated by CCAIR, Inc., of Charlotte, using 37-passenger Boeing DeHavilland DASH-8 prop-jet aircraft. Two new USAir Express roundtrips to Shenandoah Valley will be operated by CCAIR with 19-passenger Jetstream 31 prop-jet aircraft. "These new markets from Charlotte will offer USAir Express travelers new flight opportunities," said CCAIR President and CEO Ken Gann. "Evansville will become the most westerly destination served by CCAIR, showing the strong development of our route network and the growth of the USAir Express system." Gann emphasized that the DASH-8 aircraft used on the Evansville service is "the newest, most modern aircraft in the CCAIR fleet. It features state-of-the-art avionics and navigation equipment as well as a traffic alert and collision avoidance system." Gann noted that the aircraft offers passengers the comfort of a "stand-up cabin, overhead storage bins, two-by-two seating on both sides of the center aisle, front galley and lavatory." Crew members include a captain, first officer and flight attendant. New USAir Express flights will depart Charlotte for Evansville at 3:50 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., arriving Evansville at 4:45 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. Flights will depart Evansville at 6:25 a.m. and 6:15 p.m., arriving Charlotte at 9:15 a.m. and 9:05 p.m. (Flight times reflect time zone differences). USAir Express flights to Shenandoah Valley will depart Charlotte at 8:30 a.m. and 3:50 p.m., arriving Shenandoah Valley at 9:50 a.m. and 5:10 p.m. Flights from Shenandoah Valley will depart for Charlotte at 10:20 a.m. and 2:55 p.m., arriving Charlotte at 11:40 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. On June 1, CCAIR will also add two daily roundtrips from Charlotte to Montgomery, Ala., supplementing the two USAir jet daily roundtrips in this market. -0- 5/6/92 R /CONTACT: Ken Gann, president and CEO, CCAIR, 704-359-8990/ (U) CO: USAir ST: North Carolina, Indiana IN: AIR SU: PDT
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http://vko.va.ngb.army.mil/virginiaguard/news/july2009/224thwrapup.html | 2017-10-22T22:45:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825473.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022222745-20171023002745-00348.warc.gz | 0.975367 | 1,109 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__200053155 | en | July 28, 2009
Virginia aviation unit completes joint exercise
By Sgt. Andrew H. Owen
Virginia Guard Public Affairs
SANDSTON, Va. — Soldiers of the Sandston-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment returned to home station July 23 alongside Airmen of the 200th Weather Flight after conducting their two-week annual training at Fort McCoy, Wisc.
Blackhawk helicopters from 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment supported air assault missions during exercise Global Patriot '09 in Fort McCoy Wisconsin. The pilots flew several missions inserting and extracting Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 158th Cavalry Squadron of the Maryland National Guard. (Photo by Sgt. Andrew H. Owen, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)
While in Wisconsin the Soldiers and Airmen participated in a joint exercise known as Global Patriot. According to Capt. Aaron Loy, the exercise is an Air Force-generated mission that focused a lot of attention on homeland defense training. While the battalion was at Fort McCoy, its Soldiers focused their attention toward wartime, mission-based training with the 29th Combat Aviation Brigade during the exercise.
The two weeks spent working in the joint environment was helpful to the unit from both a readiness standpoint, by giving Soldiers the opportunity to hone their individual military occupational specialties, as well as from a unit preparedness standpoint, by allowing the battalion the opportunity to rehearse the mobilization process.
“It met my commander goals and objectives for the annual training period, which included focus on individual MOS-proficiency training nested with collective unit training in a joint environment,” said Lt. Col. James Ring, battalion commander. “It also included exercising both unit preparation for a deployment, unit movement, unit arrival at an intermediate staging base and then going through a full RSOI [reception, staging, onward movement, integration].
They began their unit movement stage more than two weeks ago when they started to posture the battalion from both of its states and then began staging their personnel, equipment and aircraft for load out and transportation to Wisconsin by land and by air.
“What replicated that [RSOI] for us included both air and line haul movement of the battalion from both Virginia and Maryland,” said Ring. “It included C-5 and C-17 movement of personnel and equipment, to include load out of UH-60 aircraft from both Virginia and Maryland.”
“Then also going through upon arrival at a simulated theater location to reassemble the unit and go through mandatory briefings, environmental training, and then on to conducting the mission.”
During the exercise the Soldiers in the battalion were able to focus on their specific aviation missions as an air assault battalion. They focused on their wartime mission as well as their homeland defense and support to civil authorities missions.
Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment arrive at Richmond International Airport July 23 following annual training at Fort McCoy, Wisc. (Photo by Sgt. Andrew H. Owen)
“The 2nd of the 224th is an air assault battalion, which means we are medium-lift, which is defined by a medium utility helicopter such as a UH-60,” said Ring. “Being Air Assault means we do a full spectrum of medium lift missions, to include tactical insertion, extraction of personnel and equipment in a combat environment.”
“Also we focused on other unit specific tasks such as aerial resupply, CASEVAC [casualty evacuation], and aerial command and control,” Ring said. “Basically, all of those mission essential tasks that we have as a battalion, we were able to exercise during Patriot ’09.”
“Patriot ’09 afforded us the opportunity to perform those mission essential tasks under a joint and international environment.”
During the exercise, the pilots and the crew chiefs were supporting the infantry battalions through insertion and extraction exercises, and assisting medical personnel with CASEVAC operations. Meanwhile, the flight companies were also being supported internally by their maintenance company, their headquarters company, as well as their forward support company.
“While it’s easy to look at an air assault battalion and focus simply on our 30 UH-60 helicopters,” said Ring, “the reality is that for those helicopters and aircrews to go out and conduct their mission takes a substantial support group behind that.”
The forward support company provided the majority of the planning and coordination of their movement, which included the staging of their containers, the staging of their vehicles and aircraft, according to Ring. They also coordinated the ground movement of equipment
“They basically, feed the battalion, fuel the battalion and they resupply the battalion as far as movement,” he said. “So it’s a critical function of the battalion.”
Company D of the battalion provided maintenance to the air crews while the headquarters company provided the battalion staff. The staff exercised the commander’s command and control while providing communications as well as administrative support.
“The training value at the company level was outstanding,” said Maj. Keith Nunnally, battalion operations officer. “All in all, it was a great experience for most of the Soldiers involved. Anytime they can get training in their MOS, it’s a positive experience.” | aerospace |
http://www.fkm.uitm.edu.my/jmeche/index.php/journal/volume-9/volume-9-no-1/113-vol-9-no-1 | 2013-05-24T10:35:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704590423/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114310-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.721776 | 1,798 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__124732360 | en | Longitudinal Static Stability of a Blended Wing-Body Unmanned Aircraft with Canard as Longitudinal Control Surface
Rizal E. M. Nasir
Flight Tech. & Test Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia.
Blended wing-body (BWB) aircraft, while having good aerodynamic efficiency, is hampered with issues related to its flight stability and control. To ensure longitudinal stability, a control canard is incorporated on Baseline-II E-2 BWB design. Mathematical representations of aerodynamic characteristics and stick-fixed trim flight stability, and analyses on the influence of some parameters to trim flight of this BWB aircraft with a control canard are highlighted and discussed. Baseline-II E-2 BWB aircraft is statically stable in longitudinal direction. However, this is true only for flight within low angles of attack. Mathematical models of trim flight parameters established here produces plots that have good agreement with plots of trim flight parameters found directly from wind tunnel experiments. Large static margin demands large positive canard angle for trim flight while agility can be achieved by moving the CG closer to aircraft’s neutral point. The best static margin for Baseline-II E-2 BWB is chosen based on the best lift-to-drag ratio attainable during trim flight.
Keywords: Flight Stability, Blended Wing-Body, Canard
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https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2022/07/22/supply-chain-woes-are-still-pummeling-american-and-united-airlines-with-pillows-blankets-plastic-cups-and-even-food-in-short-supply/ | 2023-03-28T12:40:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948858.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328104523-20230328134523-00028.warc.gz | 0.946107 | 696 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__169437247 | en | American Airlines’ chief operating officer David Seymour warned during a conference call to discuss the carrier’s second quarter financial results on Thursday that supply chains across the aviation industry remained “tight”
Those supply chain issues are snarling up the delivery of some new aircraft from Airbus and Boeing and presenting headaches for engineers trying to source spare parts for airplanes when things go wrong.
So far, AA says it’s on top of those big-ticket issues but supply chain woes continue to cause a flood of smaller headaches for the Dallas Fort Worth-based airline pretty much every day, according to chief executive Robert Isom.
“There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t have issues provisioning our aircraft with pillows, blankets, plastic cups, food. At various times we have issues with fueling,” Isom told Bloomberg journalist Mary Schlangenstein during the same conference call.
“There’s just a myriad of things that all have to come together to put an aircraft in the air,” Isom continued. “The supply chain for aircraft parts is one thing we monitor closely, but there’s all these others things that we really are dependent on.”
“Aviation touches just a broad swathe of the economy and we need it to get back to working well,” Isom warned.
It’s not just American Airlines that is facing a daily struggle to get passenger-leasing provisions onboard its aircraft. Flight attendants at United Airlines have been complaining for months about the carrier’s inability to get catering supplies onto jets in time.
There’s no guarantee that items “taken for granted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic” will onboard your next flight, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) cautions.
“These issues have affected us on numerous fronts, from catering supplies, to aircraft comfort items such as blankets or headphones,” the union warned back in February.
Earlier this month, the union said things still hadn’t improved much with uniform items becoming another victim of the supply chain chaos. What makes that issue particularly insulting for United’s flight attendants is the fact the airline is now clamping down on uniform ‘non-compliance’ issues.
Of course, it’s not just American and United who are feeling the effects of the post-pandemic supply chain mess. The problems are being felt across the industry, both domestically and internationally.
Last October, British Airways ordered flight attendants to start rationing orange juice because the airline was struggling to source the drink from its normal supplier. Linen and bedding have also been in short supply and, for a while, even Champagne was being rationed.
Mateusz Maszczynski honed his skills as an international flight attendant at the most prominent airline in the Middle East and has been flying throughout the COVID-19 pandemic for a well-known European airline. Matt is passionate about the aviation industry and has become an expert in passenger experience and human-centric stories. Always keeping an ear close to the ground, Matt's industry insights, analysis and news coverage is frequently relied upon by some of the biggest names in journalism.
“Supply chain issues” is the new catchall excuse for poor planning. | aerospace |
https://knowledgecollege.co.in/indian-navy-to-receive-three-mh-60-romeo-helicopters-from-the-us-in-july/ | 2022-01-21T05:37:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302723.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121040956-20220121070956-00433.warc.gz | 0.951486 | 402 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__71479863 | en | Indian Navy will receive the first set of three of the 24 MH-60 ‘Romeo’ multi-role helicopters from the US in July this year. India and the US had inked a deal worth $2.4 billion (Rs 16,516 crore) in February 2020 to buy 24 MH-60 Romeo helicopters from Lockheed Martin.
The first batch of Indian pilots has reached the US for training on the helicopters that are scheduled to arrive in India in July 2022. The pilots would undergo training first in the Pensacola in Florida, US, and then in San Diego in California, US.
MH-60 ‘Romeo’: Key points
The MH-60 Romeo helicopters would be equipped with multi-mode radars and night vision devices, and they would be armed with Hellfire missiles, torpedoes, and precision-guided weaponry.
The MH-60 helicopters have been designed to operate from cruisers, aircraft carriers destroyers, and frigates. MH-60 helicopters are built to target submarines, ships, and conduct search and rescue operations at sea. The MH-60 will replace Sea Kings.
Indian Navy also inducted three indigenously-built advanced light helicopters ALH MK-III
The Indian Navy on June 7, 2021, inducted three indigenously-built advanced light helicopters ALH MK-III. The helicopters ALH MK-III will be used for coastal security and maritime reconnaissance.
The ALH MK-III helicopters have been made by the Centre-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The three ALH MK-III were inducted at the Indian Naval Station (INS) Dega, Eastern Naval Command (ENC) in Visakhapatnam.
ALH MK-III helicopters are equipped with electro-optical equipment and modern surveillance radar which aids in maritime reconnaissance and offers long-range search and rescue. ALH MK-III is also armed with a heavy machine gun. | aerospace |
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What is the lunar landing?
The lunar landing was a giant event in history, it’s the thing that shaped our lives, the thing that shaped HUMANITY… It was… A rocket. Yeah, a rocket that went to space. Many people were over the moon (please excuse the pun) but it was a great thing at the time.
The people on the space ship:
The people were Neil Armstrong ,Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, and Micheal Collins. these were the brave men that travelled to the moon.Buzz and Armstrong brought back 48.5Ib of material including 50 rocks samples of lunar soil and rock.
Apollo 11 was the first flight to send people to the Moon. It was done by NASA, the America space group. It went up to space on 16 July 1969, carrying three astronauts: Neil, Buzz and Michael. On 20 July 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon, while Collins stayed in orbit around the Moon.
The flight was part of the space race. It finished the plan set by John Kennedy in 1961 to “land a man on the moon, and return him safely to the Earth”, before the 1960s.
It was the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 mission to reach the 13 September 1959, however they did not succeed. One of the most famous astronauts Buzz Aldrin was the FIRST man on the MOON on 20th July 1969. The Moon is 238 ,855 miles away from Earth !!! Also, it takes three days to go up to the Moon. Another cool fact is that there is no gravity in space.
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Apollo 11 was the first rocket to actually reach and land on the moon successfully. The huge rocket had three people on it known as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. The world wouldn’t be the same without this event. It has shaped the face of HUMANITY. This amazing event took place on Sunday the 20th July 1996.
On the 20th of July 1969, three amazing astronauts went up to the moon. This is a day that no one will ever forget on Apollo 11. Their names were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Neil went up into space and stepped on the moon while Michael Collins stayed in the space ship. Buzz also went on the moon with Neil. Things to do there – it is not always fun but bouncing around is really fun. It may get boring after a while though.
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first manufactured object to reach the surface of the Moon was the soviets union’s Lunar 2 mission, on 13 September 1959.
Apollo 11 was the first flight to send people to the moon. It was done by, NASA the America space group. It went up to space on 16 July 1969, carrying three astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. On 20 July 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon, while Collins stayed in orbit around the Moon.
The flight was part of the space race. It finished the plan set by john f in 1963 to “land a man on the moon, and return him safely to the Earth”, before the in 1960 ended.
Apollo 11 is the historic mission of a man on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Micheal Collins, Buzz Aldrin and NASA were part of the job. It took place on 24th July 1969. The rocket ship that took them there was the Lunar Module Eagle.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the American flag on the moon but when they were on their way back the rockets power made the flag fly away.
The first food eaten on the moon was a communion wafer .
Buzz Aldrin’s pen saved the mission
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Neptune is the 9th planet in our Solar System. It is also the windiest planet in our Solar System, as it can reach wind speeds of 2173 mph. Inside, on the core, Neptune can reach up to 7000 degrees (Celsius) but outside on the surface it can get to -219 degrees (Celsius).
When an Astronomer, Galeo, first discovered it in 1636 he thought it was a star, because of its slow orbit. In 1845 some other mathematical Astronomers discovered it and finally qualified it as a Planet.
A few days ago, we has a visit from a member of Anglian Water called Richard. He taught us about how water is cleaned and transfered into our home. Each table had cube-shapes buckets and we had to put random thing in there like cotton buds, washing powder, water, dehydrated urine and other things. It looked like dirty coke or SUPER dirty chocolate milkshake! He also told us a story about A puppy being flushed down the toilet. We had a worksheet similar to the picture above, where we had to stick in the paragraphs that tell you about what happens and you have to stick them in the right places. Well, I have to leave now. If you want me to tell you the Puppy story, ask me. Bye. | aerospace |
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