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http://www.aberdeennews.com/topic/science-technology/space-programs/13008000.topic?page=6 | 2013-05-25T14:24:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705956263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120556-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.910485 | 850 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__78412359 | en | Displaying items 61-72 of 3032 » View aberdeennews.com items only< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11-253 Next >
Orbital Sciences Corp. will delay the summer demonstration flight of its Cygnus cargo ship due to technical and scheduling factors, a spokesman said Tuesday. The ship, designed to ferry supplies to the International Space Station, had been scheduled...
A climate scientist once targeted by state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli over his research will be guest lecturer at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton on Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. As part of the center’s Sigma Series forum on science and...
The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum has been taking the Glenn L. Martin Company rocket age history on the road to Harford County. Thanks to support from the Dresher Foundation, the museum is offering its outreach STEM education program "From Sand...
A climate scientist once targeted by state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli over his research will be guest lecturer at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton on Tuesday. Michael E. Mann will speak at 7:30 p.m. on "The Hockey Stick and the Climate...
Fergus Falls Daily Journal, Minn.As a freelance photographer, he's taken shots of subjects around the world. This May, he'll be taking his passion even farther. Dan Broten will travel to Russia to photograph Vining native Karen Nyberg has she launches to the International Space Station...
Albuquerque JournalThe deadline is approaching for application to the state's first naturalist program for middle-school students. Bernalillo County Open Space, working with master naturalists, will host the 2013 Junior Naturalist Summer Camp in July. The deadline to turn...
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's annual open house allows space geeks and budding young scientists a rare peek inside the missions behind the La Cañada Flintridge facility. But the popular event, scheduled for June 8 and 9, has been canceled because of...
Bracing for “significant impacts” to funding for public outreach programs next year, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided to cancel its hugely popular open house in June. The cost savings? Roughly $400,000 for the two-day event. The...
Talk about roaming charges. NASA has launched three smartphones into orbit as part of a low-budget, experimental satellite program that uses off-the-shelf components. The three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones are circling Earth at an altitude of...
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured what space scientists called potentially the "comet of the century", Comet ISON, as it speeds toward Earth at 47,000 mph. The comet, technically known as C/2012 S1, will pass within 1.1 million miles of Earth...
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ReporterA successful launch from a NASA spaceport in eastern Virginia is a pivotal moment for Virginia and the commercial space industry. The unmanned rocket blasted off from Wallops Island Sunday afternoon. With the test flight, Orbital Sciences Corporation...
Spot the International Space Station moving across the night sky this week. Chances arise the next three nights, but the best viewing opportunity Wednesday is possible to coincide with rain and thunderstorms. Look tonight at 8:59 p.m., Tuesday at 9:45...
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https://www.fraport-slovenija.si/en/company/presentation/ | 2019-12-09T05:38:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540517557.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20191209041847-20191209065847-00465.warc.gz | 0.879183 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__77322124 | en | We provide connectivity by creating inspiring and customer friendly experience.
Our vision is to be:
1. Efficient and prime-quality regional gateway.
2. Exciting retail experience platform.
3. Major air cargo airport in the region.
4. Leading skills academy of aviation industry.
Strategic pillars in the 2017 to 2025 period
To accomplish its mission and vision, the management of the company set four strategic pillars to be developed in the next seven years, namely:
1 Aviation (airport services and ground handling);
2 Commercial services;
4 Fraport Aviation Academy. | aerospace |
https://droneprohub.com/how-to-track-a-drone-operator/ | 2024-04-24T00:36:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818835.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423223805-20240424013805-00651.warc.gz | 0.92835 | 1,086 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__164181892 | en | Drones have become increasingly popular, and privacy and safety problems have also increased. Many drone operators follow the FAA’s regulations, but it is not uncommon for rogue operators to violate the law or fly their drones in restricted airspace. The question arose here about how to track a drone operator.
Well, there are many ways to track a drone operator, like through technology and GPS devices or radio frequency detection systems that can pinpoint the location of a drone.
However, tracking down a rogue drone operator can be challenging. It requires expertise and specialized equipment, which may only be available to some.
That said, authorities and civilians must understand the importance of monitoring these unmanned aerial vehicles to ensure public safety and protect personal privacy.
So if you’re interested in learning more about how you can track down a rogue drone operator or want tips on preventing unauthorized flights, keep reading!
What is Drone Operation?
Drone operation involves using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform various tasks, from capturing stunning aerial footage to conducting search and rescue missions.
However, with great power comes great responsibility, so drone operators must adhere to specific regulations and guidelines.
Before operating a drone, you should be aware of all the legal requirements in their area regarding drones. Includes obtaining necessary permits if the law requires and following FAA regulations that govern airspace usage and safety.
Knowing a drone’s technical aspects can help an operator ensure safe take-off and landing. The operator must also have excellent spatial awareness skills while flying it.
Understanding the capabilities of different types of drones can aid an operator in choosing the right equipment for specific tasks.
For example, some drones have thermal imaging cameras for surveillance or search-and-rescue operations.
Why track a drone operator?
By tracking a drone operator, you can monitor their flight path and ensure they’re not flying into restricted airspace or endangering people on the ground. It also allows for accountability for any accidents or incidents during the flight.
But beyond safety concerns, tracking a drone operator can also provide valuable data for businesses utilizing drones for commercial purposes.
Companies can improve efficiency and optimize operations by monitoring flight patterns and collecting information on weather conditions and other factors.
How to track a drone operator?
You track a drone operator by following these steps:
Radio Frequency Identification
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology might be the solution. RFID is an electronic system that uses radio waves to identify and track objects, including drones.
To use RFID technology, attach an RFID tag to your drone. Then set up an RFID reader at the location where you want to monitor air traffic.
The reader will communicate with the tag on your drone and provide real-time data about its position, altitude, speed, and more.
RFID tags come in various shapes and sizes – some are as small and- making them ideal for tracking drones without affecting their performance or flight capabilities.
RFID technology has many applications beyond just tracking drones; it’s used in everything from inventory management to access control systems at events.
It offers a reliable and efficient way to manage assets remotely while keeping track of their whereabouts.
Global Positioning System (GPS).
GPS technology allows you to locate and monitor the movement of drones in real time. You can keep track of its location, altitude, speed, and direction by attaching a small GPS unit to your drone.
To use this method effectively, you need access to reliable GPS tracking software or apps that can help you visualize the data collected by your GPS device. There are numerous options available online at varying price points.
Once installed on your drone(s), activate the GPS feature before take-off. This will enable you to obtain accurate information about its current location throughout its flight path.
Cellular network tracking
Cellular network tracking. This method involves the cellular network’s signals to triangulate the location of the drone and its controller.
You will need access to specialized software or apps that can connect with cellular networks to utilize this method.
Once connected, these tools will scan for nearby cell towers and their signals, which they can use to determine an approximate location for any device connected to those towers.
This technique works best in areas with good cell coverage since it relies on the solid signal strength from multiple cell towers.
It’s also important to note that this method may provide more than precise coordinates but a general area where the drone may be located.
Cellular network tracking has many practical applications beyond just locating rogue drones, such as helping search and rescue teams find lost hikers or assisting law enforcement agencies in tracking down criminals on the run.
Frequently Asked Questions
Conclusion (How to track a drone operator)
Tracking a drone operator has become much easier with RFID, GPS, and cellular network tracking.
These reliable and accurate methods make them the preferred option for those looking to track their drone operators.
Additionally, they make it less of a hassle than manual tracking methods, as they can be done remotely without physically locating or finding a person.
These tools make monitoring drones more efficient and effective than ever. I hope you understand how to track a drone operator and you track a drone operator easily. Please comment below about this article and give missing points that need to be covered. | aerospace |
https://balidiscovery.com/batik-air-daily-between-bali-singapore/?_gl=1*cclh74*_ga*MjAyOTk3NTc0My4xNjgyNjYxNDY2*_up*MQ.. | 2023-12-04T16:36:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100531.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204151108-20231204181108-00734.warc.gz | 0.821767 | 625 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__231086126 | en | Lion Air‘s full-service subsidiary Batik Air commenced a new daily service between Denpasar, Bali, and Singapore on Friday, 07 April 2023.
Quoted by Kompas.com, the Strategic Corporate Communication Manager for Batik Air, Danang Mandala Prihantoro, said: “The launch of the Bali-Singapore route by Batik Air provides a choice to tourist travelers wanting to visit Bali or Singapore.
The schedule of the new Batik Air service:
- DPS – SIN ID-7135 Depart 13:25 Arrive 18:25
- SIN – DPS ID-7134 Depart 16:00 Arrive 18:25
During the peak Idul Fitri travel period from 13 until 30 April 2023, Batik Air is providing 109,200 direct seats to Bali on the following flights
Bali (DPS)-Jakarta (CGK): 33.696 seats
Bali (DPS)-Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma (HLP): 11.232 seats
Bali (DPS)-Labuan Bajo (LBJ): 11.232 seats
Bali (DPS)-Kuala Lumpur (using Batik Air Malaysia): 16.848 seats
Bali (DPS)-Sydney (SYD): 5.616 seats
Bali (DPS)-Brisbane (BNE) (using Batik Air Malaysia): 5.616 seats
Bali (DPS)-Melbourne (MEL): 5.616 seats
Bali (DPS)-Perth (PER): 5.616 seats
Bali (DPS)-Bangkok Don Mueang (DMK): 5.616 seats
Bali (DPS)-Singapura (SIN): 5.616 seats
Bali (DPS)-Dili, Timor Leste (DIL): 2.496 seats
Batik Air operates the following aircraft:
- Boeing 737-800NG with 12 business class seats and 150 economy seats
- Airbus 320-300 with 12 business class seats and 144 economy seats
Batik Air flights are equipped with free onboard entertainment on demand and entertainment that can be accessed from personal handphones and tablet devices supported by Tripper ©.
The inaugural flight BTK 7135, using a Boeing 737-800NG departed to Singapore with 141 passengers.
The return flight departed Singapore at 18:00 local time.
The Bali- Singapore route is now served by 6 airlines providing around 30 flights per day.
Data available for the month of March reveals 922 flights flying between Singapore and Bali.
For Q1 of 2023, Bali immigration recorded 50,731 Singaporean citizens landing on the island of Bali.
As Bali recovers from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Bali is connected to the world with 27 international flights flown by 32 airlines.
Stay Informed on Bali Tourism-Related News: Subscribe to Bali Update | aerospace |
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1941/oct/16/liquid-milk-supplies | 2019-05-20T06:38:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255773.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520061847-20190520083847-00551.warc.gz | 0.949213 | 90 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__100318382 | en | § Sir R. Gower
asked the Secretary of State for Air to what extent liquid milk is now refused to Royal Air Force pilots and milk substitutes supplied; and whether he is satisfied that this policy does not affect the physical or mental efficiency of pilots?
§ Sir A. Sinclair
Supplies of liquid milk are made available for operational crews when recommended by station medical officers. The last part of the Question does not, therefore, arise. | aerospace |
http://defense-update.com/20111217_israel-air-force-invites-foreign-air-forces-to-a-multi-national-air-exercise-in-2013.html | 2015-11-27T08:12:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398448389.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205408-00123-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.947214 | 385 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__104456871 | en | The Israeli and Italian Air Forces on Friday completed a two-week joint training exercise involving fighter jets from both nations. The exercise involved pilots flying F-16A, F-16C and F-15Is from three Israeli squadrons, pitted against Italian Air Force pilots flying Eurofighter Typhoons and Panavia Tornado strike fighters. (Photos: courtesy of Nehemia Gershuni.) This was the second the Italian Air Force is conducting with the Israel Air Force in the Airbase in , near Eilat, flying over the Israeli air/ground and air/air training range in the southern Negev desert. A similar exercise took place two months ago at the Italian Air Force at the Decimomannu Airbase in Sardinia.
Israel operates ansquadron flying F-16s from the base in Ovda. For the recent exercise the squadron doubled the number of aircraft operated against the visiting aircraft, adding F-15I and F-16C fighter planes from northern IAF bases. A large instrumented combat range located north of the base is scattered with targets simulating active surface-to-air missile sites, radar emitters and electronic warfare threats realistically represented surface based threats and targets, offering modern strike fighters an excellent training environment.
The exchange is beneficial for the Israel Air Force as it offers the Israeli opportunities an important opportunity to train in, against unfamiliar combat aircraft they could meet at war. It also opens vast and unfamiliar training areas for the Israeli pilots, in neighboring countries, offering the Israeli pilots realistic and challenging missions at extended ranges – missions they canot perform realistically over their small home land.
For foreign air forces the training in Israel and with the reputable Israel Air Force provides an opportunity for pilots to gain unique experience in more realistic combat conditions they are used to in their training areas, particularly concerning electronic combat, self protection and engagement of surface-to-air weapons. | aerospace |
https://explorers.org/events/detail/chapter_event_texas | 2017-04-24T07:26:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119120.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00589-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.922721 | 1,908 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__266689643 | en | Spring 2012 Dinner Meeting
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Drinks - 6:00 p.m.
Dinner - 7:00 p.m.
50th Anniversary of the NASA Mercury 7 'AURORA 7'
Featuring Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Commander (USN Ret.)
The Spring meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club will be on Saturday June 23, 2012 at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake, near the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Houston, Texas.
Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake
3000 NASA Parkway, Houston, Texas
The Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club has secured a block of rooms for our weekend event at the Hilton, at a special rate of $109.00 per night.
Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake
3000 NASA Parkway, Houston, Texas
The cost of the dinner is $100.00 per person. The attire for the evening is black tie optional (Military Uniform, Unique Attire or Native Fashion encouraged). There will be an open bar prior to dinner with libations available for all from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
The Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club is proud to host an event honoring Commander Scott Carpenter, USN (Ret) and the 50th anniversary of his historic flight of MA-7.
We will look back at the events which took place at the dawn of American Manned Space Flight, highlighting the second US orbital flight of Mercury MA-7, more famously known as Aurora 7. Carpenter's MA-7 flight launched from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with Scott snuggly seated in his custom contoured couch of spacecraft #18 atop Atlas booster 107-D on 24 May, 1962 at 07:45:16 EST. Aurora 7 completed three orbits during the 4:55:57 duration flight. The primary focus of the flight was science. Experiments included the first study of liquids in weightlessness and Earth photography. Carpenters flight plan workload was in fact the most aggressive until well into the Gemini Program. Scott went on to become an aquanaut on SEALAB II (1965), and SEALAB III (1969) and is credited with being the first person to explore both of humanities great remaining frontiers, the ocean and space "The New Ocean".
The event will be held in Houston, adjacent to NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), home of US Astronauts and Mission Control. The program will not only look back through the experiences of Commander Carpenter, it will look forward to the future of human space flight, with an emphasis on the procedures and technologies emerging to enable further exploration of space.
We will tour the facilities and labs of JSC, and celebrate the amazing life of Scott Carpenter and his historic achievements in space and ocean exploration. The hope is to inspire the attendees, celebrate the Mercury program, and indeed all of NASA's 50 year effort in human space flight, and stimulate the broader community by demonstrating a positive means to develop and maintain the will to continue our efforts in keeping our US human space flight program viable and active now and into the future.
NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)is not merely the home of Mission Control, but also one of the key facilities furthering human exploration of space. As part of the event, on Saturday a tour is being arranged (12:00 pm to 3:00 pm) through the JSC and crew training facilities. The tour will include, at a minimum, the Mission Control complex, and the Sonney Carter Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), the training facility for Extravehicular Activity (EVA) where astronauts are able to simulate zero-g conditions encountered in space flight. Also of special interest is the new BOEING CST-100 Crew Module Mockup. This is the NASA Commercial Crew capsule currently being developed for USA access to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and for delivery of astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). Very, Very Cool!!
In attendance will be members of the National and Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club, members of the Houston chapter of the AIAA, and 7 lucky Eagle Scouts from the Houston area. We also offer standing invitations to all US astronauts, past and present, so that they may take part in our celebration of 50 years of human space flight, and Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 space flight of May 1962.
The executive committee of The Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club is proud to present the following panel for the banquet, representing some of the most outstanding astronauts, explorers, and scientists in America and the World.
As Co-Master of Ceremonies will be Dr. John 'Jack' B. Bacon, Ph.D. Jack has been a "Real Rocket Scientist" with NASA for 22 years. He is the Chief Systems Integration Engineer for the ISS, and NASA liaison to the Russian space program and the ISS. Jack is also on the founding board of directors of the Science National Honor Society, a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a Fellow of The Explorers Club, FN'00.
In addition, we have Brigadier General Charles 'Charlie' M. Duke, Jr., USAF (Ret), Lunar Module Pilot "Orion" of Apollo 16. General Duke was launched from Cape Kennedy on 16 April, 1972 onboard Command Module "Casper" destined to be the 10th man to walk on the moon. Charlie would land with Commander John Young in the Descartes Highlands aboard LM "Orion" and make three EVA's totaling more than 20 hours, including the second use of the Lunar Rover Vehicle (LRV) which took the moon explorers 16.6 miles around the lunar surface. Apollo 16 returned to Earth, splashing down in the South Pacific 27 April, 1972, mission accomplished.
Further, we have Captain Christopher J. Ferguson, USN (Ret), Commander of STS-135 'Atlantis', the last space flight of the Shuttle Program. Ferguson launched with his crew of three other astronauts including Sandy Magnus, Mission Specialist, on 8 July, 2011, and returned to Kennedy Space center on 21 July, 2011. The landing ended the US Shuttle Orbiter Program. Chris also had flights aboard STS-115 'Atlantis' as Pilot, and STS-126 'Endeavour' as Commander. Ferguson currently works at BOEING as Director of Crew and Mission Operations for the CST-100 Commercial Crew Transportation System.
The ultimate goal of this event is to celebrate the achievements of the first American space program, Mercury, the astronauts, both past and present, and the results of our nations efforts to continue to put humans in space and keep them there for scientific research and the advancement of technologies in support of permanent human space habitation. In addition, we want to acknowledge the ability of our nation to achieve such great feats when we direct our will towards such a worthy task. Further more, we hope to inspire all humanity towards a productive and peaceful future.
The presence of these American Space Heroes will inspire the attendees, celebrate the accomplishments of the Mercury program, and all of NASA's efforts over the last 50 years. Our hope is to stimulate the broader community by demonstrating a positive means to maintain the political will to continue American human space flight and keep it viable and active now and into the future--To Infinity and beyond, Ad Astra!!
As is evident by the statements above, the executives and Board of Director's, of The Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club have received several requests asking how donors may contribute to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a fund established by Scott Carpenter and the original seven Mercury astronauts nearly 50 years ago. So we will have a very special ASF Cocktail Party, which will be held at the amazing Memorabilia Hall of the Space Center Houston (SCH) from 7:30 to 9:00 PM on Friday, June 22, 2012, and will be invitation only. Scott Carpenter will be there in person to shake your hand.
Here's how you can secure your invitation. JSC has limited us to 100 guests maximum, so be sure to secure your invitation early. We can accept any contributions of $10 or more, but for a donation of $100 you will receive one invitation to the ASF Cocktail Party. For a donation of $200 two invitations; and for a donation of $250 or more, you will receive four ASF invitations. We greatly appreciate contributions of any amount for this worthy cause. Please make a separate check out to the "Texas Chapter/The Explorers Club" and write ASF in the memo space. Please note that both The Explorers Club and the ASF are 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, so your contribution is tax deductible.
ALL HANDS ON DECK!!
We look forward to seeing you at the 50th Anniversary celebration of Scott Carpenter's Flight of Aurora 7, JSC, Houston,Texas, on June 23, 2012.
Texas Chapter of
The Explorers Club, to:
John Holder, Program Chairman
11502 Pradera Dr.
Austin, TX 78759-4524
Holder contact information: Telephone: 512/331-1011
Cell (for June 22-23-24): 512/699-9642 | aerospace |
https://www.exodus-space.com/news/exodus-space-selected-as-deep-tech-pioneer-by-hello-tomorrow/ | 2023-02-07T17:42:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500628.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207170138-20230207200138-00803.warc.gz | 0.91752 | 404 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__192173893 | en | Exodus Space selected as a Deep Tech Pioneer
by Hello Tomorrow
November 6, 2019 – Paris, France
Hello Tomorrow, a global organization dedicated to leveraging deep technologies to solve world challenges announced its list of Deep Tech Pioneers for 2020. These are companies that are making a huge impact to help solve some of our greatest challenges. Selected among more than 5,000 startups from 128 different countries that applied to the Global Challenge, Exodus Space was selected within its NewSpace category.
We are really excited to be recognized as a Deep Tech Pioneer for our efforts in developing our Exodus Space AstroClipper. We look forward to participating at the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit in Paris this March 2020. – Frank Trevino CMO
Our Exodus Space AstroClipper is transforming access to space as a fully reusable and efficient, AI-driven horizontal take-off and landing spaceplane to make access to space efficient, affordable, safe and sustainable for the benefit of all humanity. We can land and take-off from any spaceport runway around the world and will eventually create a human-rated version.
At Exodus Space, we realize the greatest challenge of space is getting there. The costs are enormous, the risk is high and current approaches are not sustainable. Our goal is to make space affordable and thus more accessible.
The more we bring the cost down, the more opportunities we have to access space. The more we access space, the more we can accomplish with science and technology to help address the challenges we face as a society.
Exodus Space is excited to share its vision to make space efficient, affordable, sustainable and safe with its new AstroClipper family of spaceplanes designed for horizontal take-off and landing from spaceports around the world. From cargo payload transport, satellite launch, debris collection, lunar transfer, crew transport and intercontinental trips, the AstroClipper offers innovative aerodynamic in-line staging, fuel-efficient supersonic engines, advanced lightweight materials and embedded artificial intelligence technologies. | aerospace |
https://english.jagran.com/world/iran-blames-misalignment-of-radar-bad-communication-for-ukranian-jet-shootdown-that-killed-176-people-onboard-10013899 | 2020-08-13T12:11:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738982.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813103121-20200813133121-00335.warc.gz | 0.977579 | 445 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__52583313 | en | Iran blames misalignment of radar, bad communication for Ukranian jet shootdown that killed 176 people onboard
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Pointing at the “misalignment of radar”, Iranian investigators have blamed an air defence unit's radar system and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders that led to the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian Jet airliner in January which killed 176 people.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation released the report months after the crash happened on Saturday. The report which was presented as a factual report and not a final report on the accident investigation that issued a clarification on the matter, stated, “A failure occurred due to a human error in following the procedure" for aligning the radar, causing a "107-degree error" in the system.”
The CAO document further read, “This error "initiated a hazard chain" that saw further errors committed in the minutes before the plane was shot down.”
However, it was several days later that the Islamic Republic admitted that Iranian forces accidentally shot down the Kiev-bound plane, which led to the killing of all 176 people on board.
The CAO document also said that, although erroneous information was available to the radar system operator on the aircraft's trajectory, he could have identified his target as an airliner, but instead there was a "wrong identification".
In the report, It is also noted that the first of the two missiles that were launched at the aircraft was fired by a defence unit operator who had acted "without receiving any response from the Coordination Center" on which he depended whereas the second missile was fired 30 seconds later after it observed the continuity of trajectory of the detected target.
On January 8, A Ukraine International Airlines jetliner, named Flight 752, was struck by two missiles and crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran's main airport on the same night when Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting US soldiers in Iraq.
Those strikes were launched by the Islamic Republic in response to the American drone strike that earlier killed Guard General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.
(With Inputs from Agency)
Posted By: Simran Babbar | aerospace |
https://www.skytechinc.com/news-events/piper-announces-m600-ultimate-care-program | 2023-06-01T01:34:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647525.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601010402-20230601040402-00182.warc.gz | 0.946397 | 96 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__560953 | en | Piper has just announced their new maintenance program, making it an even BETTER time to purchase! Take delivery of select new Piper M600, and receive complimentary enrollment in the Piper M600 Ultimate Care program, providing scheduled maintenance to your aircraft.
• Coverage includes aircraft inspections for the first 5 years OR 1,000 hours of operation, whichever occurs first.
• Buyer must take delivery by December 31, 2018 to be eligible
Click here to read the announcement from Piper | aerospace |
https://www.gamefront.com/forums/fh-off-topic/saenger-amerika-bomber | 2020-04-08T09:37:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371810807.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20200408072713-20200408103213-00382.warc.gz | 0.957526 | 553 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__17634984 | en | today's episode of Fuzzy's WWII-era silliness is about Dr. Eugen Saenger's concept for the "Amerika Bomber", a suborbital rocket-fuelled plane designed to be launched in Germany, "skip" along the atmosphere, drop a BFB ("big f***ing bomb") "somewhere" on a certain big country on the other side of the Atlantic, and glide back to the Vaterland.
The thing never really got anywhere beyond the model-in-the-wind-tunnel stage thanks to resistance from the Luftwaffe, as well as the fact that it was wayyyy ahead of its time, but nonetheless the idea is kind of nifty, as it ties in nicely with the whole Nazi UFOs thing, more on which in another instalment.
Cutaway drawing of the Amerika Bomber:
A model photo of the Amerika Bomber over New York
More info on this and other exotic WWII experimental aircraft at http://www.luft46.com/
I want one!
I want one too, where can we purchase such a awesome aircraft, mister fuzzybunny?!
By the way, does anyone like these posts? If so, I have tons more material and links to similar esoterica that I can do on a sort-of daily basis...
That's great, you should make a topic dedicated to all those strange weapons of war :D
Yes that was one of those secret projects the Germans had at that time. But this one was also one of those (like others such as the Horten Ho 229 used as a base for the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber) used by the Americans to build their own new aircrafts. As I saw on History Channel this Saenger Amerika Bomber was the starting base for the present time and well-known Space Shuttle. It seems there were various versions of the Sänger: In this picture of the Projekt X 31 Sänger you can clearly notice the Space Shuttle similarities:
US Space Shuttle:
War coninues into 1950s...expands onto a new frontier: Space. Royal space navy etc. I like steampunk.
I want that plane for an eastern egg. Of course it would be useless and you would end up out of bounds in less than 10 secs :lol: . Or maybe just make it so its engine explodes once you start them. It would be a prototype after all ;)
That thing was way a too ahead of its time. The Nazis would have needed to keep fightig until 2000....:rolleyes:
I doubt its possible to do these even with modern technologies :uhm: | aerospace |
https://www.bop.gov/resources/news/201911115_drones.jsp | 2023-11-29T11:03:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100081.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129105306-20231129135306-00531.warc.gz | 0.924787 | 349 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__258602158 | en | (BOP) - The Bureau's Office of Security Technology (OST), in coordination with the Department of Justice, has solicited and obtained authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for restricted airspace above 55 additional Bureau sites. Effective November 7, 2019, the FAA has restricted drone flights up to 400 feet over a total of 109 Bureau facilities. These protections are the result of the continued efforts of the BOP and the Department of Justice to address the security threat posed by drones. While the FAA flight restrictions do not prevent overflights, they establish fair warning for careless and uniformed drone operators who violate the flight restrictions and subject those operators to civil and/or criminal penalties.
It is a federal crime to shoot any aircraft, including drones, out of the sky. The Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act included provisions granting the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice the authority to track, intercept and destroy drones deemed to be a "credible threat" to people or federal facilities.
Regulations regarding implementation of the new law are forthcoming; until the regulations are published, staff should continue to report all sightings of drones using Form BP-A0583, Report of Incident. Any contraband dropped by a drone should be confiscated and an investigation should ensue. Drones that are recovered should be shipped immediately to the Central Office's Intelligence Section Cellphone Forensic Lab to be analyzed.
The Bureau continues to face security threats posed by the use of drones, including for the purpose of introducing contraband (narcotics, cellphones, SIM cards, etc.) inside our secure facilities. These FAA flight restrictions are part of the Bureau's ongoing efforts to maintain safe and secure facilities and protect inmates, staff and the public. | aerospace |
http://csg-isr.com/company/background-facts/?s= | 2019-01-22T07:53:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583831770.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190122074945-20190122100945-00015.warc.gz | 0.910967 | 238 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__188808579 | en | Since establishing in 2009, CSG has grown from a small ISR consulting firm into a remote sensing and ISR center of excellence, delivering top tier tools, technology, and capabilities to a variety of customers worldwide. Our team of highly skilled professionals can be found supporting technology innovators in Silicon Valley, specialized U.S. Government agencies in the capital region, and DOD missions in multiple overseas countries. As we expand our aperture to include new regions and customers, we continue to deliver the same integrity, personalized service, and fundamental value as our consultant beginnings. Our goal is simple, to improve our customer’s capabilities by delivering the best operational and analytic talent our industry has to offer. CSG FACTS
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- Extensive experience conducting 1st, 2nd, and 3rd phase IMINT, MASINT, & FMV PED. | aerospace |
https://indyness.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/large-aircraft-go-bye-bye/ | 2018-04-22T12:42:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945596.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422115536-20180422135536-00228.warc.gz | 0.960876 | 389 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__183044002 | en | Air travel just keeps getting worse and worse. Are people going to travel without cell phones, laptops, and wristwatches? Uh, no. Folks will find alternatives to large commercial flights.
I anticipate that fewer people will fly. Vacationers will stay closer to home. Businesspeople will have more virtual meetings. I also believe there’ll be an increase in the use of smaller, private jets. Boeing and Bombardier have created new personal jets. Wealthy people will either buy or timeshare these jets. I expect that those businesspeople and vacationers who have to fly will use smaller, chartered planes.
No matter how it shakes loose, less people are going to use large, commercial airliners. The price to fly is going to increase dramatically. As fewer people fly these larger aircraft, airlines will have to raise prices. As prices rise, folks will look for alternatives where they don’t have to wait as long. Many people will be willing to pay several thousand dollars to fly from the Midwest to the West coast to avoid the hassle of flying on a large aircraft. Those who aren’t willing to pay will either wait in line in the airport or forgo the trip.
It’ll be interesting to see how the government reacts to the changing market of airline travel. They’ve already demonstrated that they’re willing to bail out the large carriers. It’s such a huge waste of money. The market is going to move towards privately owned jets, timeshared jets, and smaller aircraft in general.
I hate to fly. I hated to fly long before the security changed. Now, I absolutely hate it even more. I’m perfectly happy to never fly on a large commercial aircraft again. If the nature of my work or personal life was such that I had to fly on a regular basis, I’d change it. | aerospace |
http://www.wildfire-productions.com/atd-homemade/ | 2022-10-02T22:12:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337360.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002212623-20221003002623-00664.warc.gz | 0.915184 | 685 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__99895542 | en | Homemade Flight Simulators
"For the past 2 years our group has been converting TWA 727-231 / N52310 into a fixed base home flight simulator for private use."
747-200 Cockpit Procedure Trainer
"At the school I once took class, there is a CPT in the basement, which was a gift from the KLM."
"The A320 Project is an online documentation of the construction of a full scale A320 Flight Training Device with visuals made from a combination of real parts, custom made parts, brain power and sweat!"
James' Virtual Flightdeck (737simguy)
"My Flight Deck is actually the forward section of Boeing 737-130."
Mario Aguirre's 737 Flight Training Device
"Este equipo puede ser utilizado para la familiarización con el 737y sus sistemas a un bajo costo,puede resultar útil para la adaptacion a Jet,al vuelo por instrumentos,LOFT y CRM."
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"My sim days started back in 1965 when I was 13 years old. I made a very crude 707 cockpit in my room."
Matt's Multi-Mission Military Simulator
"Revealing the technical side of a home cockpit project." Matt's second WEB site has a lot more information. Matt's "Basement Tour" is a must see.
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"I must admit that up until it was sitting in my driveway, I really didn't believe that I'd managed to get an F-15 cockpit."
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"Ever since the age of 15, I have dreamt of building my own personal flight simulator. That dream became a reality when I purchased a retired Continental Boeing 737-100 flight deck. Since then, I've been busy converting the aircraft into a fixed base simulator."
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"In 1998 I began the design and construction of my 747-400 simulator. (With Motion)"
Michael_Davey (soon to be) F-4 Simulator
"It is in storage at the moment pending finding a place to restore it."
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"Originally I had a generic fighter cockpit which I was quite pleased with. People would ask me what aircraft it was supposed to be and I would tell them that it was not anything in particular, so I decided to pull the old one down and rebuild it as a F4."
Walter's F-4D Simulator
"Walter's problem is he lives in a fairly small apartment, and this thing needs a room with a HIGH ceiling!"
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http://tacourseworkapnz.comicbookstores.us/space-elevator-research-paper.html | 2018-08-15T19:01:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210249.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815181003-20180815201003-00263.warc.gz | 0.909892 | 777 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__89577172 | en | Space elevator enthusiasts discuss he estimates that a space elevator will cost $15 billion in research and after reading a paper about space elevators. Putting a new spin on space elevators fans of sci-fi author arthur c clarke know and love his 1979 classic novel, the fountains of paradise the plot centers on efforts of a visionary structural engineer in the 22nd century, dr vannevar morgan, to construct a space elevator connecting the surface of the earth with a satellite in geostationary. At google x, a clandestine lab that many employees do not know exists, engineers and robotics experts are tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas that eventually might not seem so far-fetched. Scientists at penn state university in the us released a research paper last month that of a space elevator, envisioning a space station.
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https://www.airlinesanddestinations.com/aircraft/air-astana-to-expand-central-asia-network-with-deliveries-of-embraer-190s/ | 2021-07-29T18:08:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153892.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729172022-20210729202022-00505.warc.gz | 0.905269 | 521 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__92066069 | en | Kazakhstan’s flag carrier Air Astana will launch new international routes within Central Asia in 2012 with its growing fleet of Embraer 190s.
Upon the delivery of three more Embraer 190s during the second quarter of 2012, Air Astana will start operating new international services from Astana to Mongolia’s capital Ulan Bator and Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent; from Almaty to Kazan in Russia; and from Atyrau to Moscow.
Air Astana began operating its first Embraer 190 in April 2011. The three Embraer 190s it currently flies operate international routes to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan; Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan; Samara in Russia; and nine domestic routes.
“Air Astana’s strategic plan to develop a network of services serving destinations in Central Asia, southern Russia and western China from hubs in Almaty and Astana has been a tremendous success over the past three years, says Peter Foster, president of Air Astana. “Popularity of the services has been further boosted following the introduction [of the] Embraer 190 aircraft on the network earlier this year and passengers can now look forward more new destinations in 2012.”
Air Astana says it selected the Embraer 190 for its advanced design, passenger comfort and operating efficiency, the type offering low maintenance costs and fuel burn. In Air Astana service, the Embraer 190 is configured in a two class, 98 seat configuration and has a maximum range of 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles).
Air Astana currently operates 26 aircraft, among them two Boeing 767-300ERs, five Boeing 757-200s, 10 Airbus A320-family jets, three Embraer 190s and six Fokker 50 turboprops.
The airline placed an order for four new Boeing 767-300ERs and three Boeing 787-8s earlier this month. Air Astana serves 23 domestic and 31 international destinations.
Air Astana is a full member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the only airline in Kazakhstan certified to perform aircraft maintenance to European standard EASA/Part 145. In September 2011, Air Astana passed its third IATA Operational Safety Audit, without any negative findings.
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https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/blog/2021/12/pioneering-innovation-throughout-the-space-industry-with-SOLIDWORKS/ | 2023-12-11T11:48:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00022.warc.gz | 0.950693 | 679 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__92135187 | en | Tuesday December 14, 2021 at 8:30am
Industries are undergoing a state of transformation and disruption across all sectors, and the space industry is no exception. UK-based start-up, Oxford Space Systems, is paving the way for new satellite and antenna technology innovations.
Oxford Space Systems (OSS) is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex, and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
“The space industry is changing very rapidly from the big bus 6-tonne geostationary orbit satellites to low Earth orbit. Satellites that are maybe the size of a shoebox. It's a revolution in the way the space industry works.” - Sean Sutcliffe, Co-Founder and CEO at Oxford Space Systems.
To infinity and beyond with SOLIDWORKS
In order to validate their concept and begin to consider manufacture and production, Oxford Space Systems began using SOLIDWORKS for conceptual designs, Visualize for modelling, and Simulation to analyse the design in its required conditions, along with PDM for secure, streamlined CAD data management. "Using SOLIDWORKS allows us to design, build and simulate the deployment of our products."
– States Sean.
For Vincent, however, using SOLIDWORKS was a no brainer when it came to choosing a solution that is technically capable of delivering high-end CAD designs as well as seamless integration and communication with various suppliers.
“It's [SOLIDWORKS] is our software of choice as it's affordable and widely used throughout the industry, supporting with compatibility. - Functionality that comes with SOLIDWORKS, the compatibility with other software and the supporting tools such as the PDM." - Vincent Fraux, Co-Founder and Technical Specialist at Oxford Space Systems.
With Success Comes the Demand for Scale
Having completed their conceptual design phase, Oxford Space Systems is now looking forward to the engineering and production phases, with a conscious note on the need for batch production. A shift like this identifies the need for start-ups like OSS to scale up. Using SOLIDWORKS makes scalability simple and seamless.
Support for every step of the journey
The Solid solutions team pride themselves on supporting customers from their very first venture, through to expanding and managing their own supply chain, with Oxford Space Systems, it was no different.
“Solid Solutions has great support, and they're always available. If I have a problem, right now on my workstation and SOLIDWORKS is doing something funny. I just need to call the number, and someone will answer in a few seconds and then they can connect to my machine, have a look and help me solve the problem live, so that's really great.” - Vincent explains.
In addition to software support, Oxford Space Systems have benefited from some expert training sessions led by Solid Solutions, to help up-skill their workforce.
“We have a range of engineers from those who are just starting out their careers through to those who are extremely experienced, so bringing that skill level up by allowing the training whether it's for our own super users or through support is a vital part of personal development for all our engineers.” | aerospace |
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/orbital-sciences-corp/antares-launch-postponed-24-hours/ | 2017-04-29T19:29:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123560.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00196-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.951699 | 369 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__257499763 | en | Antares launch postponed 24 hours
The launch of Orbital ATK’s Antares 230 rocket will have to wait another 24 hours. The company announced a ground support equipment cable did not perform as expected during the pre-launch check out.
“We have spares on hand and rework procedures are in process,” a spokesperson for Wallops Flight Facility said in an email. “The Antares and Cygnus teams are not currently working any technical issues with the rocket or the spacecraft.”
The new launch time is scheduled for 7:40 p.m. EDT (23:40 GMT) Oct. 17 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A.
When it does take to the skies, it will send the OA-5 Cygnus cargo ship, named S.S. Alan Poindexter, toward the International Space Station. It will arrive at the orbiting outpost Sunday, Oct. 23. On board is 5,300 pounds (2,400 kilograms) of supplies for the Expedition 49 and 50 crews.
Derek Richardson is a student studying mass media with an emphasis in contemporary journalism at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He is currently the managing editor of the student run newspaper, the Washburn Review. He also writes a blog, called Orbital Velocity, about the space station. His passion for space ignited when he watched space shuttle Discovery leap to space on Oct. 29, 1998. He saw his first in-person launch on July 8, 2011 when the space shuttle launched for the final time. Today, this fervor has accelerated toward orbit and shows no signs of slowing down. After dabbling in math and engineering courses in college, he soon realized that his true calling was communicating to others about space exploration and spreading that passion. | aerospace |
https://www.rewards-insiders.marriott.com/thread/16684 | 2017-03-26T20:48:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189252.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00661-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.964328 | 764 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__290674967 | en | New Airline Ticket Fees Coming
The 9/11 security fee on airline tickets is going up on July 1. The increase was mandated by Congress in last year's budget compromise. Currently, the fee is $2.50 per segment, with a cap of $5 per one-way trip or $10 per round-trip. The new fee is $5.60 per one-way trip, but with no cap -- meaning that the fee would need to be paid on itineraries involving multiple stops, long connection time, or stopovers (a four-hour break in the whether voluntary or due to airline scheduling). Taking two flights to a destinations with a four-hour connection, for example, will trigger $11.20 in fees. A portion of the increased fee is being allocated to the general fund for deficit reduction. Fees collected prior to July 1 are used exclusively to defray the cost of security.
Our systems are outdated and we are behind many countries who are using GPS instead of radar which is supposed to be safer and allow planes to fly closer together. If they are going to raise fees, they should use that money to update our systems as to put it in the general fund.
The Federal Aviation Administration is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar upgrade of the nation's air traffic control system. The new system is called the Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen. It will be highly automated. It will rely on GPS instead of radar to locate planes, and it is designed to allow air traffic controllers and pilots to pack more planes, helicopters and eventually drones into our skies.
GPS has been used for years for navigation on airplanes, it is not a new program at all. Using advanced systems in ATC has been under testing for at least four years now and is operational in places like PHL, IAH and a few other locations. The system is ADS-B and in terms of ATC use it will provide surveillance in areas that currently do not have RADAR coverage for any number of reasons. ADS-B to be used to the maximum requires equipment on the airplane as well as in the ATC facility....every airplane will be required to meet the equipage mandate by 2020 in order to operate within the airspace.
ADS-B and enhanced software also provides a one second update over the usual five second update terminal ATC facilities have operated with for years and years. Enroute controllers have a 12 second update which seems like forever to those of us that worked in terminal facilities. ADS-B is still in it's infancy yet will provide many benefits including the ability for the pilot to receive enhanced weather information, aircraft to aircraft data however; reduction of ATC separation standards will not be achieved until the FAA and industry move aggressively toward that goal.
NextGEN is a nice buzz word and will be very beneficial IF all will allow it to be used to the fullest. Automation both on the flight deck and inside the control room must be utilized in order to reach the maximum capability of the program.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Excellent thread californian.
Excellent reporting IAHFLYR. If only media outlets would report that infomation. I have seen very short pieces on NBC nightly news in the past but they only talk about the overall system and planes flying closer together and near misses. They don't talk about automation, faster information transmission, weather updates, none of it. Thank you for the info!
ks77, happy to be of help, well sometime!
Had I not been on the national test team I would have no clue about some of this so I consider myself very luck to have been a part of making a difference or should make a difference if they would pick up implementation. | aerospace |
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/56756 | 2017-07-20T18:36:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423320.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170720181829-20170720201829-00539.warc.gz | 0.953091 | 257 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__32123209 | en | British Airway's Biofuel Awaiting UK Approval: Report
Author: Caroline Copley
LONDON - The biofuel made from municipal waste that will account for a small proportion of British Airway's jet fuel from 2014, has yet to pass regulatory approval in Britain, according to the Guardian.
The British airline said on Monday it had signed a deal to purchase all the "sustainable jet fuel" that U.S.-based biofuel company Solena Group could produce from a plant expected to be sited in London and operational from 2014.
But the DStan department in the Ministry of Defense which regulates aviation fuel in Britain, wants to conduct further tests to make sure the biofuel does not compromise aircraft safety and performance, the paper said.
A spokesman for the British Airways said safety remained the airline's highest priority.
"Fischer Tropsch fuel has already been certified in the U.S. ... for use in a 50/50 blend with petroleum jet fuel and we anticipate that the UK's Defense Standards agency will follow suit," the spokesman said in a statement.
British Airways said it aimed to obtain 10 percent of all its jet fuel from this waste-to-energy process by 2050.
(Editing by Richard Chang) | aerospace |
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/the-mercury-thirteen-cleared-the-way-for-women-in-the-united-states-space-program-148757825/609030.html | 2024-04-22T03:58:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818072.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422020223-20240422050223-00377.warc.gz | 0.96723 | 1,757 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__14884560 | en | STEVE EMBER: I’m Steve Ember.
BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a program in the nineteen sixties to train women as astronauts. Today they are known as the Mercury 13. They never reached their goal of spaceflight. But they led the way for other American women to travel into space.
STEVE EMBER: In nineteen fifty-nine the United States was involved in a space race with the former Soviet Union. The Soviets had surprised the world by launching the first satellite. Sputnik One was launched into orbit on October fourth, nineteen fifty-seven. Suddenly, the United States appeared to be behind in an important area of technology.
As a result, President Dwight Eisenhower formed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in nineteen fifty-eight.
By April seventh, nineteen fifty-nine NASA introduced the first American astronauts. They were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Shirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton. They were known as the Mercury Seven.
BARBARA KLEIN: In the fall of that year, William Randolph Lovelace was attending a meeting of the Air Force Association in Miami, Florida. Doctor Lovelace was deeply involved in the effort to put Americans into space. He served on NASA's Special Committee on Life Sciences. Astronaut candidates had been put through tests at his medical center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Doctor Lovelace and Air Force Brigadier General Donald Flickinger wondered if women could be trained as astronauts. General Flickinger had designed the space flight tests for the astronaut candidates. He also knew that the Russians had plans to launch a woman into space.
The two men met with Jerrie Cobb, a twenty-eight year-old pilot. They thought Miz Cobb would make a good female astronaut candidate. They invited her to Doctor Lovelace's medical research center in Albuquerque for tests.
STEVE EMBER: Jerrie Cobb went to Doctor Lovelace's medical center in February of nineteen sixty. She spent one week receiving the same series of tests that the Mercury Seven astronauts faced.
The tests included a general physical examination and X-rays. Some tests involved electric shock. Other tests pushed the body to its physical limits. Yet another test required freezing the inner ear with ice water to test for the condition of vertigo. The doctors also measured brain waves. They performed a total of seventy-five tests on Jerrie Cobb.
BARBARA KLEIN: Jerrie Cobb had one unusual test on a machine called the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility, or MASTIF. The MASTIF was in NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. This special machine could move a person in three different directions almost at the same time. It was designed to test a pilot's ability to control a spacecraft under severe conditions. Jerrie Cobb passed the test.
STEVE EMBER: During her tests, Jerrie Cobb knew that if she failed the first level of astronaut training no other women would be tested. By August, the results of the tests were complete. Doctor Lovelace was fully satisfied that Jerrie Cobb had scored similarly to the Mercury Seven astronauts. He even noted that Miz Cobb required less oxygen than the average male astronaut. Jerrie Cobb's success meant that more female candidates were needed for more tests.
BARBARA KLEIN: Jerrie Cobb helped Doctor Lovelace and General Flickinger chose female astronaut candidates. She searched among members of the international woman's aviation group, the Ninety-Nines, based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Miz Cobb worked hard to develop a list of good candidates by August, nineteen sixty-one. Twenty-five other women pilots were chosen and tested at Doctor Lovelace's research center. Candidates had to have flown an airplane for more than one thousand hours. Generally, they were required to be in their early thirties. And they had to be in good physical health.
STEVE EMBER: Not all the women invited to Albuquerque passed Doctor Lovelace's tests. After the first level of testing only thirteen remained, including Jerrie Cobb. The youngest among them was twenty-one-year-old Wally Funk who was also a competitive skier. Forty-year-old Jane Hart was the oldest. She was married to Senator Philip Hart of Michigan. She also flew helicopters.
Other members of the group were Myrtle Cagle, twin sisters Jan and Marion Dietrich, Jean Hixson and Gene Nora Stumbough Jessen. Also included were Irene Leverton, Bernice Steadman, Sara Gorelick Ratley, Jerri Sloan Truhill and Rhea Hurrle Woltman.
These women would be known as the Mercury 13. They had passed the first level of tests that the Mercury Seven astronauts faced. They now wanted to progress to the next level.
BARBARA KLEIN: Not all the Mercury 13 women took the next level of testing. For the Mercury Seven male astronauts, psychological and space flight testing took place at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. However, NASA would not permit testing to be done on the women at that base.
Only Jerrie Cobb, Wally Funk and Rhea Woltman would receive special psychiatric testing for space fitness in Oklahoma City.
At the same time, Doctor Lovelace began plans for flight training the candidates. The United States Naval School of Aviation Medicine agreed to test Jerrie Cobb for ten days in Pensacola, Florida.
Jerrie Cobb passed a series of tests meant for Navy pilots and astronauts. She would be the only one of the Mercury 13 to successfully complete all the tests that Mercury Seven astronauts took. She would also be the only one who had the chance to do so.
STEVE EMBER: Doctor Lovelace had made plans to test the other women in the group at Pensacola. After a delay, September eighteenth was chosen as the day for flight-testing to begin. But it never took place. The women received telegram messages saying the tests had been cancelled four days before they were to begin.
The Navy wanted NASA to approve the training. NASA resisted the idea. Jerrie Cobb and Jane Hart immediately tried to get the testing restarted. Their efforts led to a committee hearing in Congress. But the women found little support.
Astronaut John Glenn spoke to the committee. He said: "The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order." Glenn later said that he would not oppose a female astronaut program. But he saw no requirement for one.
BARBARA KLEIN: After two days of hearings, members of Congress had heard enough. They would do nothing to change NASA's decision not to train women for spaceflight.
But the answer about women in space came less than one year after those congressional hearings. On June sixteenth, nineteen sixty-three, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. She orbited the Earth forty-eight times and spent almost three days in space.
STEVE EMBER: The Mercury 13 women were never officially part of the NASA space program. But their willingness to undergo testing to be astronauts and their performance in those tests showed that women could go into space.
It was not until nineteen eighty-three that Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. Sixteen years later, Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. She invited the surviving members of the Mercury 13 to attend the launch. Seven women were able to attend.
On May twelfth, two thousand seven, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh also honored these women. The university gave honorary doctor of science degrees to the eight surviving members of the Mercury 13. The university said it was honoring the spirit and efforts of this special group of women.
BARBARA KLEIN: This program was written and produced by Mario Ritter. I’m Barbara Klein.
STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. You can read and listen to this program on our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com. Join us again next week for Explorations in VOA Special English. | aerospace |
http://www.rotorandwing.com/2008/01/01/rotor-wing-rotorcraft-report-v-22-flying-aerial-scout-missions-quietly-in-iraq/ | 2018-07-16T12:55:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589270.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716115452-20180716135452-00246.warc.gz | 0.954363 | 521 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__154940497 | en | MILITARY | UTILITY
U.S. Marine Corps leaders have been mum on the V-22 since 10 were deployed to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq three months ago, in part because of what they consider a cheap and outdated shot at the Osprey in a major news magazine. But the commandant has shared some info.
Gen. James Conway, meeting with reporters at the Pentagon in early December, said the Bell Helicopter/Boeing MV-22Bs of Marine Medium Tilt-Rotor Sqdn. 263 (VMM-263), the "Thunder Chickens," had begun flying aerial scout missions in support of raids in Al Anbar province.
Raids in the province have become less frequent, he conceded, but added the Ospreys are demonstrating one of their advantages.
"The 22 is very quiet," Conway said. "It’s an added advantage when it comes to getting troops on the ground without hearing a helicopter coming from a couple miles out."
He also said the Thunder Chickens’ aircraft have maintenance rates "about where we would want them to be."
The Osprey’s mission profile "is precisely that of the aircraft it’s replacing" — the Boeing CH-46E and the Sikorsky Aircraft CH-53D. "They’re doing everything those airplanes do, except they’re doing it three times faster."
Stateside, the Naval Air Systems Command ordered flight restrictions on Ospreys following the investigation on an in-flight on one on Nov. 6. Specifically, crews were ordered to turn off the engine air particle separator on their aircraft.
Investigators believe the nacelle fire that prompted the Osprey crew to make an emergency landing in North Carolina was caused by problems with the engine air particle separator. The fire caused about $1 million worth of damage to the aircraft. Bell and Boeing are producing kits to modify the system and eliminate the problem.
The separator is essentially a blower that clears debris out of the air paths to the V-22’s Rolls-Royce AE1107C Liberty engines. When the separator system fails and stops suddenly, however, it can temporarily overload the hydraulic system that drives it. That shock is known to weaken hydraulic lines and lead to cracking and leaks. High-pressure hydraulic dumps into a hot engine nacelle is a known cause of serious fires on the V-22.
The Ospreys in Iraq were modified before they were deployed. | aerospace |
https://www.aviationconsumer.com/aircraftreviews/cubcrafters-nxcub-ready-made-stol-star/ | 2024-04-23T21:46:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00590.warc.gz | 0.947251 | 3,000 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__95378787 | en | There’s a certain mystique attached to tailwheel airplanes, as in only real pilots fly airplanes with the third wheel where it’s supposed to be. No modern aircraft company has exploited this more than CubCrafters, whose refinement of the sturdy Piper Super Cub has ushered in the era of the hot rod taildragger.
That’s what the company’s Carbon Cub is and what the polished and yet more powerful XCub represents. But evidently, tailwheel and high performance become mutually exclusive at the rarified edges of maximum performance landings and takeoffs and—gasp!—a nosewheel airplane just does it better.
That’s the theory behind CubCrafters slapping a nosewheel on the XCub, morphing it into a revisitation of Piper’s market-expanding Tri-Pacer, the Rodney Dangerfield of ragwing airplanes. The NXCub is currently in the final throes of certification and if CubCrafters is right, it will expand the buyer pool substantially, assuming that the $400,000 price tag isn’t over the top for a rag-and-tube two-place airplane. After flying the airplane, dyed-in-the-wool taildragger pilots will have to hitch up their britches and admit the NX will do things that the tailwheel version won’t. Where the two approach parity in runway performance, the NX allows the pilot to do the deed with less agita and, admit it, less skill and a lower likelihood of balling the thing up in a ditch.
ALL IN THE PLAN
The XCub appeared in 2016 as essentially a Part 23 certified version of the Carbon Cub, which CubCrafters had developed as a popular LSA. To meet the cert requirements, it had an additional 300 pounds of mostly structural additions and a bigger engine, the Lycoming parallel-valve O-360 rather than the ASTM Titan O-340 used in the Carbon Cub. Despite its high price, the XCub has been a modestly strong seller, although displaced recently by kit versions of the Carbon Cub, whose place in the LSA market has faded.
The XCub program was an expensive one for CubCrafters and from day one, says company founder Jim Richmond, the idea had been to offer a nosegear version of the airplane, something that hasn’t been done for a certified airplane since Piper converted the Pacer in 1951.
“We decided that we wanted an airplane we could convert to nosewheel, tailwheel, straight floats, amphibious floats and skis. So when we went through the certification process, we did all of those load cases,“ Richmond says. After the XCub was certified and in production, CubCrafters picked up with the nosegear version and has been progressing apace. But the COVID-19 pandemic has put the project about two years behind due to FAA delays. (The version I flew was a fast-build kit experimental.)
The payoff? Same as it was for Piper. “There are approximately seven pilots who are comfortable in a nosewheel airplane for every one comfortable in a tailwheel airplane. So, yeah, it’s got to affect sales on some level,” Richmond says.
If the demand is there, CubCrafters can’t yet meet it because of COVID-19-induced supply chain shortfalls. “We can’t get engines and props. We’re over a year behind on deliveries. Whether or not we could increase that, the short answer is we could. We can’t get engines and props any faster,” Richmond adds.
Thus far, sales of the X versus the NXCub have been about 50-50, but all of the NXs have been factory-assist fast builds.
TAIL VS. NOSE
Outwardly, there isn’t much difference between the tailwheel and nosegear version of the airplane. In fact, according to Brad Damm, CubCrafters’ sales and marketing VP, the airplane can be bought with a quick-change option that allows converting the airplane from nosegear to tailwheel and back again, which two people can do in a half day. The basic XCub price is $390,000, with the NX at $400,000. The floats add $70,000 and the IFR panel brings it to $430,000.
When the tailwheel airplane is converted to the nosegear—or delivered that way—the main gear is placed 16 ¾ inches aft and the wheel axle line is shifted back almost 32 inches. The main legs are spring aluminum, but the legacy A-arm gear is also still available. The gear leaf mounts outside the fuselage, not through a box structure as is typical of many airplanes. When the gear is aft, the mount slot for the tailwheel version is covered by a fairing, so the whole thing looks finished. The fairing also carries a step for getting into the airplane. You need it if the airplane has the big tundra tires.
At the tail, the wheel and control cabling come off to be replaced by a sturdy steel skid and given the way the airplane is flown—at least the way I flew it—you need it. You can really haul back on the stick for a sporty deck angle and the skid will definitely drag. At the other end of the airplane is a trusswork for the nosegear that’s just as sturdy.
It mounts on its own tubular truss structure placed as far forward as possible, just barely behind the prop arc. It has something unusual for nosewheels: trailing link suspension. This is more commonly used in retractables and is prized for its ability to smooth landing touchdowns. On the NXCub, it helps absorb the hard touchdowns you can do with this airplane routinely. More on that in a moment.
The nosewheel is full castering so you steer with brakes at slow speed when the rudder doesn’t have enough bite. It swivels through 95 degrees on each side so with the NX’s powerful Grove or Beringer brakes, sharp taxi turns match the taildragger’s radius. And you can’t put the airplane on its nose if you get greedy with the pedals.
The nosewheel has another trick. It has a removal pin that, when withdrawn, allows the wheel to pivot through 360 degrees, so you can push the airplane backward and steer it without need for a towbar, just what you’re gonna want in the outback.
There’s no free lunch on the weight. Damm said the nosewheel structure and wheel add about 40 pounds of additional weight and that biases the center of gravity slightly forward, by about two inches over the taildragger version. The example I flew had an 894-pound useful load, so it can afford the minor hit on payload. With 49 gallons of fuel aboard, that leaves 600 pounds for people and stuff. Basically, it’s a two-person outback machine with 200 pounds for gear or another hundred if you don’t have to fly far. Lemhi County airport in Idaho, for example, is 30 or 40 miles from a cluster of popular outback airports. The NXCub might as well have the names of them stenciled on the cowling.
Most outback utility airplanes are closer to Jeeps than Jaguars: rough interiors, minimal instruments and creature comforts packed in the tent bag in the back, if there are any at all. As with the XCub, the NX is just the opposite. It’s well appointed with leather seats and an especially comfortable throne up front. The rear seat is a sling-type that’s removable to open up the entire area for baggage. If a solo camping trip is envisioned, you can carry 32 gallons of fuel and 500 pounds of gear. Bring the generator and cappuccino machine.
There are nice little details, like side pockets for sunglasses and maps, if you still use paper topo charts. There’s an iPad holder for the rear passenger to ward off terminal boredom as the stunning snowy peaks stream by the windows. It can, of course, Bluetooth to the avionics.
And on that count, there are two packages. One is a basic panel with a Garmin aera 796, Trig comm radio, intercom and transponder. No one will get this; they’ll all want the Garmin G3X package with integrated comm and probably the backup attitude gyro and Garmin GMC-307 autopilot. One thing lacking here is that the NX is not IFR certified, at least in the Part 23 version.
Certification is pending, but will probably be this year sometime if the FAA catches up from its COVID-19 delays. The EAB version—certainly a viable choice in the fast-build program—can be flown IFR if the owner deems it desirable. (I would.) It will need an IFR-approved navigator, such as Garmin’s GTN series.
First, let me get this out the way. I never liked the looks of the Tri-Pacer and I don’t feel any different about the NXCub. The XCub from whence it comes is as stylish a taildragger as the Stinson Reliant or Spartan Executive. When a thing looks right to the eye, it just does and when you monkey with it visually, it can’t look anything but wrong. That said, a Caterpillar D-9 is no beauty queen either, but its form distills from its function.
It’s the same with the NXCub. I would have never guessed that its performance—or at least one aspect of it—would be so transformed by the addition of a nosewheel. Part of that accrues from the power provided by a custom Lycoming IO-390 at 215 HP. (See the sidebar for details on the engine.) It has 35 more horsepower than the XCub, which is itself generously powered.
With big tundra tires and that nosewheel hanging down, the NX is not a fast airplane, but it’s pretty quick for a Cub. Down low with everything forward, it will cruise at 145 MPH, but burning 14 gallons per hour. That’s not an especially economical or practical power setting, so at 65 percent power, expect more like 120 MPH at 8 to 9 gallons for a 600-mile still air range. I doubt if the airplane would be flown much on legs that long.
Still in the experimental status, the NXCub has but a sketchy POH and little useful data to draw from, especially with regard to published takeoff and landing data. Suffice to say by empirical determination, the data for both of these is … short. Really, really short. For takeoff, Brad Damm had me haul back on the stick and firewall it. There’s sufficient power there to just yank the airplane off the runway along its thrust vector and drag it into the air without trying very hard in a hundred feet or so, I’d guess.
Pitch the nose down a little and it accelerates into a brisk climb. In fact, I got quite a bit behind it because I’m used to a J-3’s anemic climb rate. I was blowing through pattern altitude before the turn to crosswind.
Landings were similarly adrenaline pumping. On the ground, Damm had sat on the tail and dropped the nose for me to demonstrate that the nosegear could take anything I could throw at it. So a perfectly acceptable landing technique is to cram the airplane down on the mains and stand on the brakes. I did this on a grass runway, so no fear of flat spotting the tires. But before I tried that, I had done slow flight and a stall series, hunting for the indicated stall. It occurred around 33 MPH indicated, with no discernible break. You can force a break with a dose of power and a high pitch rate transition.
So I should have been flying the approaches as slow as 43 MPH, but I never got it quite that low. More like 55. Even at that, dropping the nosewheel and locking the brakes produced a satisfyingly short landing. Valdez, here I come. “We were able to have competent pilots but who weren’t familiar with the Idaho backcountry … to be entirely comfortable going into some of the more challenging strips,” Damm told me. I would be, too, even at high density altitude, given the NX’s surplus power. At 8000 feet density altitude, it would still be capable of 140 HP, I’d estimate. You’d have to watch the weight, but the airplane would be quite capable in those conditions.
Given its semi-frumpy looks, I was prepared to hate the NXCub. And while I’ll never like the looks of it, it’s undeniably an envelope expander—both for the airplane and for the pilot. Considering the aesthetic limitations of such a change, CubCrafters’ solution is clean, unobtrusive and more functional than I would have imagined possible. The nosewheel engineering is thoughtful and elegant.
If a $400,000 two-place airplane is within the budgetary range, which would I buy, the taildragger or the nosegear? This turns out to be not such a simple decision. If I were doing the serious backcountry flying the airplane is intended for—including carrying all the gear into rough, remote strips—it’s a no-brainer to go with the NX. Not only will it perform better than the XCub, it will do so requiring less skill and with more tolerance for lack thereof.
But if I did that sort of flying only occasionally or not at all, I’d go with the taildragger version. As I said in the July 2016 report, it’s a refined, comfortable tailwheel airplane with good performance and good looks, too. Of course, if money is no object, you can have it all: Buy both the nosegear and the tailwheel conversion, floats and skis. That will push the whole deal over a half million, but the payoff would be the most flexible airplane for pure fun on the planet. | aerospace |
https://www.royalgazette.com/environment/news/article/20101202/london-flight-disrupted-as-snow-closes-uk-airport/ | 2023-10-04T10:46:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511364.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004084230-20231004114230-00263.warc.gz | 0.975218 | 321 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__177430912 | en | London flight disrupted as snow closes UK airport
Bermuda passengers bound for London on British Airways yesterday had their flight delayed for several hours because of heavy snowfall in the UK.
A flight into Bermuda from Gatwick Airport was cancelled yesterday after the facility was closed by the weather.
LF Wade International general manager Aaron Adderly said British Airways arranged for an empty plane to fly from Heathrow to the Island to ensure passengers were able to travel to the UK as scheduled.
Due to continued bad weather the flight was repeatedly delayed. It began its return flight from Bermuda last night at 10.55pm.
According to the Gatwick Airport website, the runway was scheduled to stay closed until 10 this morning due to severe weather conditions.
A statement on the site reads: “There will be significant disruption, delays and cancellations [Thursday] and passengers should not set out for the airport before checking with their airline for the latest information.”
More than 15cm of snow fell in some areas, which caused the closure of 4,000 schools and several UK airports, including London Gatwick and Edinburgh.
Temperatures fell to around 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit in the Scottish highlands, while iced roads caused traffic gridlock throughout the nation.
Forecasts suggest the weather could get worse before it gets better, with another 10cm of snow possible overnight. Temperatures in the South East UK were predicted to hover around freezing level today.
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The Last Shuttle Launch for Discovery
The space shuttle Discovery safely lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida today at 4:53 p.m. EST. It’s on the way to the International Space Station for its 39th flight since the first launch of this orbiter in 1984. The crew members are accompanying a space station module, various spare parts and experiments, and will have the first human-like robot in space as part of the mission.
This is the last mission for space shuttle Discovery, capping a long career of safe access to space. The next launch, of space shuttle Endeavor, is scheduled for April 1. The final shuttle launch should occur in June, when Atlantis is lofted into orbit for a final space station run.
Planet Formation Caught in the Act?
About 330 years ago a massive star exploded and sent a burst of material out through space. That remnant material, called Cassiopeia A by astronomers, is rushing out from what’s left of the star — a highly dense object called a neutron star. Astronomers have been studying this neutron star for years, particularly with the Chandra X-ray Satellite. They’ve found that it is cooling off, which was unexpected. Two new papers by independent research teams show that this cooling is likely caused by a neutron superfluid forming in its central regions, the first direct evidence for this bizarre state of matter in the core of a neutron star.
The inset shows an artist’s impression of the neutron star at the center of Cas A. The different colored layers in the cutout region show the crust (orange), the core (red), where densities are much higher, and the part of the core where the neutrons are thought to be in a superfluid state (inner red ball). The blue rays emanating from the center of the star represent the copious numbers of neutrinos — nearly massless, weakly interacting particles — that are created as the core temperature falls below a critical level and a neutron superfluid is formed, a process that began about 100 years ago as observed from Earth. These neutrinos escape from the star, taking energy with them and causing the star to cool much more rapidly.
This new research has allowed the teams to place the first observational constraints on a range of properties of superfluid material in neutron stars. The critical temperature was constrained to between one half a billion to just under a billion degrees Celsius. A wide region of the neutron star is expected to be forming a neutron superfluid as observed now, and to fully explain the rapid cooling, the protons in the neutron star must have formed a superfluid even earlier after the explosion. Because they are charged particles, the protons also form a superconductor.
Using a model that has been constrained by the Chandra observations, the future behavior of the neutron star has been predicted . The rapid cooling is expected to continue for a few decades and then it should slow down. | aerospace |
https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=239311 | 2020-09-18T08:52:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187354.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918061627-20200918091627-00429.warc.gz | 0.94355 | 446 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__98920078 | en | Experience a refreshed way to fly
Singapore Airlines, has been the epitome of luxurious flight experience all over the world. With a fleet size of 137 and connecting 62 destinations worldwide.
Singapore Airlines has recently upgraded their aircraft for the Dhaka-Singapore flight to the new generation Airbus A350-900. This medium-haul carbon fiber enforced aircraft is already becoming the first choice for almost all the leading carriers globally for its lightweight and environment friendliness.
This new aircraft is expected to provide the passengers of the Dhaka-Singapore route with comfort never before experienced in flights operating to or from Bangladesh. The A350-900 is a truly state-of-the-art new generation aircraft with the incorporation of advanced in-flight controls, systems, and wing design. These developments have a genuine impact in terms of safety, maintenance, and efficiency, meaning that the aircraft reduces its fuel burn significantly - generating savings and reducing its environmental impact.
Teamed with the best-in-class Singapore Airlines hospitality, the Airbus A350-900 promises to be the zenith of comfort above ground. The Business Class seats have been manufactured by Stelia Aerospace and have been arranged in a forward-facing configuration to provide every customer direct aisle access. With each seat able to recline directly into a 76" fully-flat bed, Business Class customers can rest in more comfort with a customized level of privacy.
On the other hand, the new Economy Class seats have been designed and built by RECARO and also offers customers an enhanced in-flight experience. They have an ergonomically-designed contour backrest that provides greater comfort and a six-way adjustable headrest with foldable wings to provide more neck support.
The Singapore Airlines A350-900 will be fitted with the latest Thales AVANT inflight entertainment system designed with a new user interface that offers a more intuitive user experience and navigation options. The passengers will also be privy to an array of delectable cuisines prepared to satisfy the taste buds like never before. And the high-speed in-flight WiFi will enable passengers to stay connected with the rest of the world as if they had never left the ground. | aerospace |
https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/113664/Raytheon_Launches_Compact_GaN-based_AESA_Radar | 2022-01-17T11:06:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300533.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117091246-20220117121246-00498.warc.gz | 0.93686 | 348 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__65725308 | en | Raytheon Launches Compact GaN-based AESA Radar
Advanced radar capability at one third the weight and half the cost
Raytheon Intelligence & Space has introducedan affordable, lightweight and compact GaN-based Active Electronically Scanned Array, or AESA, radar. It harnesses the capability of a heavyweight AESA fire control radar in its lightest form factor ever - at a fraction of the cost.
“Our compact AESA radar offers advanced capability in an innovative design that gives our customers more radar options,” said Eric Ditmars, vice president, Secure Sensor Solutions, Raytheon Intelligence & Space. “We've developed an affordable, lightweight, compact radar that can be optimized for platforms in air, on sea and land, without sacrificing capability.”
At just over 100 pounds, the new compact radar is a third of the weight of most modern AESA radars and costs about half as much as typical fire control radars. It combines the power of GaN technology with an innovative packaging of its digital receiver/exciter and processor called CHIRP, and a unique air-cooled design to deliver Gen 4-plus performance.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space AESA radars have combat-proven reliability with more than 1 million flight hours. Their open architecture design allows for rapid upgrades while keeping operational and maintenance costs low. The first operational AESA radar was developed by the former Raytheon Company for the F-15C Eagle with the first systems in the air by December 2000.
The compact AESA radar system was developed by a cross-Raytheon Technologies team based in Tucson, Arizona, and El Segundo, California. | aerospace |
https://imodeler.com/2016/11/camouflage-markings-mcdonnell-f2h-banshee/ | 2022-09-26T02:07:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334644.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220926020051-20220926050051-00237.warc.gz | 0.974031 | 602 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__8439452 | en | Camouflage & Markings – McDonnell F2H Banshee
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In late 1944, US Navy ordered three carrier-based jet fighters, the Vought XF6U-1 Pirate, the McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom, and the North American XFJ-1 Fury. It was hoped that these three fighters would be available in time for Operation Olympic/Coronet, the invasion of Japan which was planned for May of 1946.
As it was, the prototype The first XF2H-1 made its maiden flight in January 1947. Too late to take part in World War II, it arrived in time to become one of the primary American fighters used during the Korean War.
56 production F2H-1s were delivered between August 1948 and August 1949. They were identical to the prototype except for the elimination of the tailplane dihedral. The first operational unit to receive the Banshee was VF-171 based at NAS Cecil Field in Florida.
The service life of the F2H-1 was relatively brief. F2H-1s were soon transferred to Reserve units as the more capable F2H-2 became available. A total of 364 units were built, the first being delivered in the winter of 1949 and the last in May of 1952.
There were three variants on the basic F2H-2 theme--the F2H-2B, the F2H-2P, and the F2H-2N. These were produced in parallel with the basic F2H-2. The F2H-2B was a nuclear strike version of the F2H-2 with some strengthened wings so that the aircraft could carry a 1650-lb Mk 7 or a 3230 lb Mk 8 nuclear bomb underneath the port wing.
The F2H-2P was an unarmed photo reconnaissance version, with a widened and longer nose to provide space for six vertical and oblique cameras. For night photography, a container for 20 flash cartridges could be carried underneath each wing. A total of 89 F2H-2Ps were built.
The F2H-2N was the single-seat night-fighter. It too had a longer but differently shaped nose which housed an AN/APS-19 radar set. Only a small batch was produced, 14 machines in total.
The F2H-2 Banshee was delivered to the following Navy and Marine Corps squadrons: VF-11, VF-12, VF-22, VF-62, VF-171, VF-172, VMF-122, VMF-214, VMF-224, and VMJ-1. The Banshees served off various US carriers at the Korean waters between 1951 and 1953.
All profiles included in this article have been contributed by Mr Rick Kent. Used by permission
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https://www.big-library.net/2946/common-software-for-drones/ | 2024-04-18T23:48:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00259.warc.gz | 0.93267 | 588 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__204712530 | en | Drones are more than propellers, GPS and high resolution cameras. They come equipped with complex software solutions to aid users in controlling the drone and collecting data. UAV software is usually represented on the smartphone and another part of the software is placed inside the drone itself. The software that’s installed on smartphone could integrate with Google Earth to better calculate precise positioning based on the existing maps. There are many features that can be included on the user-side of the software. As an example, the smartphone app may allow users to set up a flight plan. It can be saved inside the app, so users can repeat the route as many times as they want. This should save plenty of effort and time.
The drone may also include a flight simulator software that can be installed on PC or smartphone. For new drone users, this is a good tool for learning how to control the flying device. They can start to learn lifting off and landing the drone, without potentially harming it, due to rough landing or crash. The flight simulator should include more difficult scenarios, such as maneuvering between trees and buildings. Users should know how to deal with emergency situations, such as during sudden rain or strong winds. Here are other types of drone software that you should know:
- Precise positioning: Precise positioning is crucial when you control the drone. These machines have limited flight time and you need to be productive due to the limited battery life. Precise positioning software may allow you to tell the drone to a spot based on GPS and Google Earth maps.
- Flight planning: With flight planning software, drone users could program a proper flight plan ensure productive and safe operation. It’s as easy as pointing on a position on Google Maps. Users can choose multiple waypoints and their GPS coordinates will be recorded. This software is useful for beginners with inadequate piloting skills.
- Real time flying: It’s almost similar to the flight planning software, except that users can do it at real time. After the drone lifts off and gains proper altitude, users can tap on any point on the map and drone will fly to the new destination. Change of directions can be performed at any time and it’s also a useful feature for beginners.
- Flight data analysis: This feature is available if the drone has a flight data recorder module that records status information and different variables. The software will decode data that it receives from the drone and process them into something that users can easily read and understand. The raw data can be recorded in the memory card for later processing or transmitted real time to the remote control unit.
- Telemetric data visualization: Telemetric data can be quite complicated, but they can be visualized using a special program. The output should be line diagrams that are easy to understand, as well as some important values. These data should be useful for optimizing future flights to improve productivity. | aerospace |
https://ame-net.com/nasa-sets-artemis-next-launch-attempt-for-wednesday/ | 2022-12-05T16:56:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711042.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205164659-20221205194659-00824.warc.gz | 0.979833 | 784 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__2906748 | en | It would be the third time NASA has attempted to send Orion’s crew capsule, with no one on board, into orbit around the moon, as part of a campaign, known as the Artemis program, to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface. Two previous launch efforts were postponed due to mechanical issues.
Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for exploration systems development, told reporters that wind speed at the pad as Hurricane Nicole hit the Florida coast on Thursday did not exceed the limits the rocket was designed for, and although there was some minor damage, such as bits of putty that serve as putty that come off, none of this would force NASA to delay again.
“We design it to be out there,” he said. “And if we didn’t design it to be out there in bad weather, we picked the wrong launch point, and we should design the vehicle better.”
NASA has suffered all sorts of setbacks trying to get its SLS rocket off the ground, adding to the long saga of a program born a decade ago. Launch attempts in August and September were marred by faulty engine sensor readings and persistent hydrogen leaks. Then, when NASA officials said they were confident they had finally ironed out all the issues, they were forced to return the rocket to its assembly building when Hurricane Ian approached the peninsula. from Florida in September.
They returned the rocket to its pedestal at Kennedy Space Center last week, saying they did not believe the storm that became Hurricane Nicole would materialize into a storm that could threaten the vehicle, which officials say NASA, is designed to withstand wind gusts of 85 mph. As the storm strengthened and approached, NASA leaders decided to keep the SLS on the pad – a move meteorologists criticized.
“We took the decision to keep Orion and SLS on the launch pad very seriously, reviewing the data in front of us and making the best decision possible with high uncertainty to predict the four-day weather forecast,” NASA said. in a statement Thursday. “With the unexpected change in forecast, the return to the Vehicle Assembly Building was deemed too risky in high winds, and the team decided the launch pad was the safest place for the rocket to confront. storm.”
In a statement Friday, AccuWeather criticized the move, saying its meteorologists had “warned of a 60% chance wind gusts could reach up to 85 mph or more near Kennedy Space Center.”
The decision to keep the rocket on the pad “raises serious questions about NASA’s procedures for weather hazard mitigation and preparedness based on available forecasts, particularly over the weekend, given that several days’ notice is required to return the rocket safely to the VAB”. said Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist.
Free said that by the time it was clear the storm could indeed threaten the Space Coast, it was too late to roll it back, a process that can take half a day and add more wear and tear to the vehicle, especially by strong winds.
“We obviously wouldn’t have wanted to stay there,” he said. “The best place for the vehicle in this kind of [conditions] is the VAB. But we couldn’t come back to the VAB and be safe.
He added that if the agency had known last week that the storm was going to become a hurricane, “we probably would have stayed in the VAB. I think it’s safe to say.
If the Artemis I mission succeeds in sending Orion safely to the moon and back, NASA intends to follow it up with Artemis II, a lunar orbit flight with astronauts. This flight is now scheduled for 2024, with a human landing on the surface as early as 2025. | aerospace |
https://www.tipsynipper.com/welcome-to-the-nipper-blog-page/ | 2023-11-30T20:55:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100232.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130193829-20231130223829-00173.warc.gz | 0.954864 | 105 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__188602891 | en | The purpose of this page is allow owners to share their daily experiences of flying their aircraft, and perhaps add a picture of the trip too. Tell us about your flight, be it a local bimble or an epic journey.
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https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/2217996-Oops-2 | 2020-10-28T21:16:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107900860.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028191655-20201028221655-00014.warc.gz | 0.941653 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__74687798 | en | A gravitational pondering.
One day a flying saucer crash-landed on parkland in a built up area on earth. A passing youth, thinking the spacecraft a frisbee, picked it up and hurled it into the air. This new momentum restarted the engines that had stalled and caused the crash.
Unfortunately, the extreme gravitational forces induced by the lad’s throw had smeared the tiny alien cosmonauts against the interior of the saucer.
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https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/3rdcaves2020/ | 2023-11-29T04:49:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100056.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129041834-20231129071834-00642.warc.gz | 0.90296 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__205821517 | en | Conference Location and Dates
We are happy to announce the 3rd International Planetary Caves Conference scheduled for February 18–21, 2020 at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Building 263 Presentation Room, 6220 Culebra Rd, San Antonio, Texas.
Purpose and Scope
During the last decade, caves and subterranean features have been discovered on nearly every planetary surface as the spatial resolution of spacecraft instrumentation has markedly improved. To date, planetary scientists have identified more than 200 lunar and several thousand martian cave-like features. These features allow us to access and examine subsurface without costly deep-drilling payloads. Moreover, caves provide potential habitats for life, including future human habitation on the Moon and Mars.
Cave-like features on Mars formed from volcanic processes, tectonic processes, or both. Together, these features represent significant void space in the subsurface. Pit crater chains, lateral cave entrances, and skylight entrances represent potential access to the deep subsurface enabling us to address key questions about subsurface habitability and biosignature potential. These caves may also host significant water ice deposits for human consumption and for potentially generating hydrogen fuel to return humans to Earth.
The 3rd International Planetary Caves Conference captures advances in the current state of the art cave exploration and continues the exchange of knowledge and ideas between scientists and engineers for future cave missions. Topics include:
- Lunar and martian cave-like features
- Types of speleogenic features that may be encountered on other planetary bodies
- The potential to search for subterranean volatiles and determine subsurface habitability
- Robotic access and exploration
- The astrobiology potential of planetary subsurface environments
- Technologies required for human habitation
Additionally, the conference will provide a forum to discuss the longer-term objective of developing a strategy for research and robotic exploration of caves across the solar system. | aerospace |
https://www.claylacy.com/company/news-views/corporate/san-fernando-valley-business-journal-interview-with-clay-lacy/ | 2023-12-09T10:45:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100909.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209103523-20231209133523-00119.warc.gz | 0.976704 | 732 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__58581794 | en | San Fernando Valley Business Journal Interview with Clay Lacy
“7 OVER SEVENTY” | Interview with Clay Lacy by MARK MADLER
San Fernando Valley Business Journal | January 12, 2015
Clay Lacy | 82 | Chief Executive Clay Lacy Aviation, Van Nuys
Clay Lacy’s love affair with airplanes began as a young boy growing up in Wichita, Kan. where he started flying at 12 years old.
Seventy years later, the love affair is as strong as ever.
At an age when most people have settled into retirement, Lacy, 82, puts in about 30 hours a week at the aircraft charter and management firm bearing his name at Van Nuys Airport. And even when away from the business, it remains on his mind.
“I still like being associated with airplanes,” Lacy said. “I still fly, and I wouldn’t be doing it as much if I retired.”
In a career that started in the 1950s, there isn’t a phase in aviation that Lacy hasn’t been involved with.
He’s flown commercial and military planes; set records in air racing; piloted the first flights of five aircraft; was a pioneer in business aviation in the San Fernando Valley by bringing the first Lear jet to Van Nuys Airport in 1964 when working for a distributor of the aircraft; and developed an expertise in aerial photography for feature films and commercials.
He started Clay Lacy Aviation in 1968 as a charter operator and now has a fleet of nine owned aircraft and another 66 under management. These planes range from small jets such as Citations and Lears seating six to eight passengers to larger Gulfstream and Falcon jets that can accommodate between 11 and 14. In addition to Van Nuys, the company maintains hangar and office space at Boeing Field in Seattle and operates from three airports in California and Colorado.
Staying actively involved with the company into his 80s, Lacy, said, makes him feel younger than he really is. If there is a downside it is not being as mobile as when he was younger.
“It is not as easy to climb around on airplanes as it used to be,” Lacy said.
He also doesn’t spend as much time doing paperwork in the office. And he has cut back significantly the hours he gets behind the controls of a plane. In his 20s and 30s, he was flying 120 hours to 140 hours a month. Nowadays, it is just a fraction of that.
“Now I just fly when I have a reason,” Lacy said. “I rarely go out to fly in a pattern just to be in the air.”
For anyone who wants to continue working past 65, Lacy recommended just doing it. There is no reason not to except for maybe any physical constraints. Working out business problems, he believes, should be as easy at 80 or 85 as at 25 years, or perhaps even easier because of having experience to fall back on.
For his contributions to aviation, Lacy has been honored by the National Business Aviation Association, the Federal Aviation Administration, and inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Yet for all those accolades, Lacy said the best advice he’s received is not to take yourself too seriously.
“The world changes and people change,” Lacy said. “You need to keep an open mind and enjoy it.”
– Mark R. Madler | aerospace |
https://agencequebecpresse.photoshelter.com/image/I0000gW1_JRWcZF8 | 2023-06-08T05:00:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654097.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608035801-20230608065801-00706.warc.gz | 0.819591 | 79 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__297075143 | en | Gaza New York, Jan 22, 2001
continental Airline Boeing 737 airplanes get ready for an international flight at Newark Airport (New Jersey, USA) Terminal C on January 22nd, 2001.
As of Feb 3rd 2001, Continental is rumored to buy Delta Airlines in the near future.
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https://www.digglicious.com/admission-essay-guides/do-aircraft-mechanics-make-a-lot-of-money/ | 2022-11-27T02:46:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710155.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127005113-20221127035113-00631.warc.gz | 0.933891 | 411 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__7546799 | en | Do aircraft mechanics make a lot of money?
Being paid like a professional. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual wage for aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and technicians was close to $67,000 in 2020. Even the lowest 10% in the field were paid nearly $40,000, and the highest paid topped six figures.
What airline pays the most for aircraft mechanic?
Top 10 Highest-Paying Aircraft Mechanics Companies
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How much does an aircraft mechanic make at United Airlines?
Average United Airlines Aircraft Mechanic yearly pay in the United States is approximately $67,162, which is 26% above the national average.
Can aircraft mechanics make 100k?
Typically, a well-established jet A&P mechanic can make anywhere from $76,618 to $99,117 per year. As a general aviation mechanic (one not working on large jets), you can expect to earn around $50,000 a year, according to salary.com.
Are airplane mechanics in demand?
Job Outlook Overall employment of aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and technicians is projected to grow 11 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations.
How much does a Southwest Airlines Mechanic make?
The typical Southwest Airlines Aircraft Mechanic salary is $109,331 per year. Aircraft Mechanic salaries at Southwest Airlines can range from $68,569 – $122,083 per year.
Is being an aircraft mechanic worth it?
Because A&P Mechanics are in such high demand and have such an important role in the aviation industry, they actually make really good money. According to salary.com, the average salary of an A&P Mechanic working on jets is $87,000 a year. | aerospace |
https://nakka-rocketry.net/engine1.html | 2021-11-29T09:19:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358702.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129074202-20211129104202-00192.warc.gz | 0.928173 | 1,880 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__47397078 | en | The idea for the B-200 rocket motor (Fig. 1) was conceived in 1973 (originally as the B-III motor), with the intent of developing a motor utilizing KN-Sucrose propellant that would be used for powering rockets suitable for testing parachute deployment methods. The aim was to boost the rocket to a sufficient height to provide a reliable test of the parachute system, yet not so high that a failure to deploy the parachute would mean total loss of the rocket. A reasonable height was considered to be between 1000 - 2000 feet (300 - 600 metres).
Although the B-200 was originally designed for the KN-Sucrose propellant, the substitution of KN-Dextrose propellant has recently been investigated and proven by a successful static test firing and subsequent rocket flight.
Figure 1 -- B-200 Rocket motor components
The thrust function for this motor powered by KN-Sucrose is shown in Figure 2a below, achieving a maximum thrust of 260 pounds (1157 Newtons), and a total thrust time of 0.38 seconds. This performance graph was based on results from a static test of the motor (AST-17). The total impulse is 65 lb-sec (288 N-s), which fits it into an "H" class designation. The high thrust combined with a short burn time provides for very quick acceleration of the rocket, which is beneficial for providing rapid aerodynamic stability of the rocket vehicle after departing the launch guide-rod. The propellant grain is "free-standing", which means that it fits loosely within the casing (not case-bonded). Burning is completely unrestricted, such that the grain burns on both inner and outer diametrical surfaces, as well as both ends. This burning characteristic was chosen to avoid structural loading of the grain, as would be the scenario with a case-bonded grain, a particularly important consideration considering the high modulus (stress / strain), brittle nature of the propellant.
This motor is capable of boosting a 3 inch (7.6 cm) diameter rocket, with a mass of 4.5 lbs (2 kg), to an altitude approaching 2000 feet (600 metre) (this was typical of the rockets which I launched). If the rocket diameter is reduced to 2 inch (5 cm), the same rocket powered by the B-200 motor would achieve a peak altitude of close to 1/2 mile (0.8 km).
Figure 2a -- B-200 delivered performance graph
Figure 2b -- Graph of Kn and propellant web thickness as a function of web regression
Figure 2c -- Comparison of theoretical performance for the Sucrose v.s. Dextrose propellant
The B-200 nozzle is a conical profile, convergent-divergent, supersonic type. It has a 30 degree convergence half-angle, and a 12 degree divergence half-angle, and has an area expansion ratio of 8.0. It is machined from a single piece of hot-rolled (HR) or cold-rolled (CR) mild steel bar stock (typically C1018), with polished inside flow surfaces. Of particular importance is the throat region, being the most critical with regard to motor performance. The nozzle contour is rounded at the throat to avoid sharp discontinuities * in profile. The nozzle has a groove machined around the outer perimeter of the convergent section, to provide a recess for the nozzle retention screws. Six 1/4 inch hi-strength set screws, which engage into threaded holes in the casing, retain the nozzle. The nozzle is not normally removed once installed (propellant is loaded at the head end). To reduce leakage between the nozzle and casing, the casing is rolled around its circumference (after insertion of the nozzle) utilizing a customized tool which effectively reduces the casing diameter locally, providing a nearly gas-tight seal. This tool is essentially the same as a constictor tool, as used in HVAC applications. More recently, coating the nozzle and filling the groove with silicone RTV has been used to further minimize gas leakage.
* to reduce shock losses, as well as to provide a more gradual acceleration of the exhaust gases, important to prevent particle velocity lag associated with two-phase flow.
Figure 3 -- Details of B-200 nozzle
The casing is made from seam welded steel tubing, specifically, 1-1/4" Electrical Metallic Tubing (EMT), also referred to as "thin-walled conduit". This particular tubing has the minor disadvantage of being zinc coated, which would tend to blister when the motor is fired, as the exterior casing surface briefly reaches a temperature of about 800 deg.F. (430 C.) at some locations. I generally would turn down the casing (using a metal lathe) to remove the zinc coating, and to reduce the wall thickness to 0.060 inches. This thickness still provides for a safety factor of 1.5 based on hoop stress at MEOP (Maximum Expected Operating Pressure, 1600 psi) compared with the ultimate strength of the material. This wall thickness also ensures no permanent deformation (yielding) of the casing under operating pressure.
Figure 4 -- B-200 Motor casing dimensions
The motor head (Fig. 5) is basically a pressure bulkhead which, together with the gaskets, serves as a closure to seal the combustion gases within the motor to generate the pressure required to produce thrust. The head is not directly attached to the casing, rather, it is retained by the safety shear pin assembly. It is subjected to the full force associated with the combustion chamber pressure acting over it’s area., and since the shear pin spans across the middle of the head, the head is subjected to bending stresses. To reduce weight, the head is hollowed out at the centre, yet around the perimeter, it is sufficiently thick to act as a piston, and to provide bending stiffness. The head is machined from a piece of cold-rolled (CR) steel bar.
Figure 5 -- Details of B-200 head
The gaskets, which are installed directly behind the head, serve the important function of sealing the front of motor to prevent excessive gas seepage. The gaskets, of which there are typically four installed, are discs cut from asbestos laden heat-resistant gasket material, of the type used for sealing high pressure, high temperature water pumps. The gasket material has a thickness of 1/16 inch (1.6 mm). These are cut to size of a diameter slightly greater than the inside diameter of the casing, and are carefully installed after insertion of the grain. The gaskets are installed by “dishing” the middle portion (concave downward) into the casing. The head is then installed, pushing the gaskets down such that they butt against the head in the final installed position. In this manner, when the motor pressurizes upon firing, the pressure forces the gaskets flat against the head, subsequently forcing the perimeter edges of the gasket tightly against the casing wall. More recently, coating the gasket perimeter with silicone RTV has been used to further minimize gas leakage.
Safety Shear Pin Assembly
The purpose of the shear pin assembly is to retain the motor head. The safety shear pins are designed to shear at a motor pressure below that required to burst the motor casing. This is to allow for a controlled release of the high pressure combustion gases through the front of the motor if for some reason the pressure gets abnormally high (such a scenario may be a cracked propellant grain or obstructed flow at the nozzle). The pins consist of two Grade 5 (70 ksi shear strength) 3/16 inch diameter machine screws which connect at a threaded coupler.
Figure 6 -- Details of B-200 Safety Shear Pin assembly
The B-200 motor was originally designed to be powered by KN-Sucrose propellant. More recently, however, KN-Dextrose propellant has been successfully used instead.
Propellant grain shown with an earlier B-200 Motor
Due to the short burn time, and owing to the combustion temperature of the propellant (at 65/35 O/F ratio) being tolerably less than the melting point of mild steel, no erosion of the B-200 nozzle occurs, even though the throat region gets red hot during firing. As such, the B-200 motor nozzle is indefinitely reusable. The motor casing also fares well, with the wall stress being sufficiently below the yield point of the material to avert permanent deformation. Generally, some bearing related damage occurs, over time, at the nozzle retention screws, or at the shear pin holes. As such, I’ve found that the casings needed to be replaced after about ten firings. Due to the highly water soluble nature of the propellant combustion residue, cleaning of the motor is simple, requiring merely a bath in hot water and a brush to scrub away the combustion residue.
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https://www.pv-tech.org/space_systems_loral_awards_high-efficiency_solar-cell_supply_contract_to_em/ | 2021-07-29T02:05:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153814.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729011903-20210729041903-00153.warc.gz | 0.945117 | 280 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__239014090 | en | Space Systems/Loral has signed a long-term supply agreement with Emcore for high-efficiency, multijunction solar cells to be used in SS/L’s spacecraft programs. The new contract between the two companies, which have worked together for more than 10 years, runs from 2009-2014. The photovoltaic cells will be manufactured at Emcore’s production facilities in Albuquerque, NM.
Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.
“Emcore’s photovoltaics division continues to grow at a rapid pace and has recently secured more than a dozen new production programs for fully integrated space solar panels as well as solar cells,” according to Hong Hou, company president/CEO. “Emcore remains committed to manufacturing the highest quality, best performing solar cells and panels in the industry. Satellite manufacturers and solar array integrators continue to rely on Emcore as an independent supply source that meets all of their satellite power needs.”
Emcore says it is the largest manufacturer of highly efficient radiation-hard solar cells for space power applications. With beginning-of-life conversion efficiencies of 30% and the option for a patented, onboard monolithic bypass diode, the company’s multijunction cells provide the some of the highest power outputs to interplanetary spacecrafts and earth-orbiting satellites. | aerospace |
https://www.globalcapital.com/article/b1f3qq4787gjz3/cdb-aviation-lands-first-unsecured-syndicated-loan | 2020-05-31T04:00:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347410745.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20200531023023-20200531053023-00176.warc.gz | 0.946076 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__193816709 | en | CDB Aviation lands first unsecured syndicated loan
Ireland’s CDB Aviation has signed its first unsecured syndicated loan, as the aircraft leasing company continues its drive to diversify its funding sources.
CDB Aviation, a 100% subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co, has signed a $525m five year facility.
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https://weatherinhungary.com/a-new-weather-satellite-on-the-way-to-cover-the-west-coast-time/ | 2022-07-05T04:03:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104512702.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220705022909-20220705052909-00592.warc.gz | 0.918011 | 551 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__63738990 | en | The third in a series of four advanced weather satellites was launched Tuesday afternoon from Cape Canaveral. Part of the GOES-R Series (R, S, T, U), the GOES-T satellite will provide consistent coverage of the western United States and most of the Pacific Ocean.
The first in this series, GOES-R, was launched in 2017 and currently monitors eastern North America and the Atlantic Ocean, having been renamed GOES-16 and known colloquially as GOES-East .
GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. These satellites are in geostationary orbit, 22,300 miles above the earth. This positioning allows satellites to circle the Earth at the same speed as the planet rotates on its axis, so they can monitor the same location on Earth without interruption.
With Tuesday’s successful launch, the satellite continues toward its orbital position. Once there, it will be renamed GOES-18 and undergo testing of its systems. After these checks, it will migrate to its position over the Pacific Ocean, taking the moniker GOES-West in early 2023.
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The current satellite in the GOES-West position (GOES-17) will continue to operate as a backup. It suffered from a small cooling problem shortly after reaching orbit in 2018. Although this satellite is not in danger, the new satellite will provide better coverage.
Data from these satellites feeds weather computer simulations, which increase the accuracy of long-range forecasts. In addition to providing higher resolution atmospheric data in time and space, it is the first series of satellites to contain an illumination mapper, improving forecasts over the ocean where lightning detection on the ground is rare at best. Even more critical for the western United States, lightning data from these satellites can often detect the start of a wildfire, long before it is observed on the ground.
NOAA and NASA play a role in building the satellite, setting it up, and distributing the data. NOAA oversees the GOES-R program through an integrated NOAA-NASA office, manages the ground system, operates the satellites, and distributes their data to users worldwide. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center oversees the acquisition of the GOES-R spacecraft and instruments.
The final satellite in the series, GOES-U, is scheduled for launch in the spring of 2024. As the lifespan of these satellites is limited, NOAA is working with NASA on the next-generation geostationary satellite mission called GeoXO for the 2030s.
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https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/spacex-challenges-faa-report-on-starlink-debris-risk-calls-analysis-flawed/ | 2023-12-05T08:06:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100550.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205073336-20231205103336-00216.warc.gz | 0.953386 | 433 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__252863294 | en | SpaceX has engaged in a dispute with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over a report to Congress that raised concerns about the risk of Starlink satellite debris falling to Earth. The aerospace company alleges that the FAA relied on a flawed analysis that inaccurately characterizes the reentry disposal risks associated with its Starlink satellites.
The FAA’s report, released last week, focused on the potential dangers posed by debris from proposed large constellations of satellites in low Earth orbit. SpaceX, in response, has requested the FAA to correct its report, claiming that the analysis is deeply flawed and based on erroneous assumptions.
One of the primary issues raised by SpaceX is that the FAA’s debris estimates were derived from a 23-year-old study that examined satellites made from different materials than the Starlink satellites. SpaceX asserts that its satellites are designed to fully burn up upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, leaving no debris behind. According to SpaceX, it has already deorbited 325 of its satellites since February 2020 without any reported incidents of debris reaching the ground. (via SpaceNews)
The FAA’s report also included an analysis from Aerospace Corporation, which suggested a risk of falling debris from Starlink satellites. According to the Aerospace analysis, if debris were to survive reentry, the probability of an aircraft collision would increase significantly as satellite constellations grow larger.
SpaceX strongly criticized Aerospace’s methodology, claiming that it omitted critical factors and relied on outdated studies related to satellite constellations. SpaceX also pointed out that the analysis did not consider other satellite systems like Amazon’s Project Kuiper, OneWeb, or those being developed by China, suggesting that the FAA and Aerospace unfairly singled out Starlink.
In response to the FAA’s report, SpaceX highlighted its success rate in post-mission disposal, which exceeds 99%. The company argued that this crucial fact was overlooked in both the FAA’s report and the Aerospace analysis.
The FAA is currently reviewing SpaceX’s letter, while Aerospace Corporation is in communication with SpaceX and other stakeholders to update the data. | aerospace |
https://cypher9ja.com/man-causes-panic-by-climbing-plane-on-airport-runway/ | 2020-04-08T04:28:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371810617.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20200408041431-20200408071931-00293.warc.gz | 0.962088 | 233 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__107746889 | en | Man causes panic by climbing plane on airport runwayJuly 20, 2019
It took security agents more than 30 minutes to respond to the scene and arrest the man.
An aircraft was grounded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos after an unidentified man mounted the plane on the runway.
The Azman Airline aircraft was at the airport’s holding bay expecting clearance for take-off to Port Harcourt when the incident occurred.
A passenger on the plane raised alarm on social media about how the man ran from the bush to the aircraft with a bag he later dropped inside one of its engine.
“So our flight was taxing on the runway and about taking off when this man shows up running towards the moving aircraft from the bush.
“The pilot and a few passengers spotted him running towards the aircraft and the pilot immediately slowed down and quickly put off the engine.
“The guy approaches the plane with gloves and starts walking around and under the aircraft holding a bag which he dropped inside the engine,” the passenger, Otto Orondaam, narrated on his Instagram account (otto_orondaam). | aerospace |
https://www.bestinflight.net/faq/how-to-transport-an-airplane.html | 2022-12-05T13:34:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711017.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205132617-20221205162617-00615.warc.gz | 0.953163 | 1,056 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__106533918 | en | - Transport of aircraft. Shipping your aircraft may be accomplished in a number of different manners. One option is to totally disassemble it and pack it up in a shipping container. In addition, it will be partially disassembled before being loaded onto a semi-truck trailer.
- 1 How are aircraft transported?
- 2 Can you transport a plane on a trailer?
- 3 How much does it cost to ship an airplane?
- 4 How do planes get from factory to airport?
- 5 What are the 3 types of air transportation?
- 6 What is the largest transport plane?
- 7 Can you ship a plane?
- 8 How do you transport a fuselage?
- 9 How do you ship plane parts?
- 10 How much does it cost to ship a helicopter?
- 11 Where are Aeroplanes parked?
- 12 Do planes have WiFi?
How are aircraft transported?
Cargo aircraft or freighters are fixed-wing aircraft designed or converted for the transportation of goods rather than passengers, and are typically equipped with one or more large doors for loading cargo. They are also referred to as freight aircraft, freighters, airlifters, or cargo jets, depending on the country in which they are registered.
Can you transport a plane on a trailer?
Choosing the Right Trailer for Your Transportation Needs Make absolutely certain that the trailer is equipped with an air-ride suspension system before purchasing it. As long as a semi-truck trailer is utilized to carry your aircraft, and your plane is only partially dismantled and does not exceed 65 feet in length, you may expect inexpensive shipping costs.
How much does it cost to ship an airplane?
Small prop-powered passenger planes cost $1,000 to $5,000, whereas bigger jet-powered private planes may cost several tens of thousands of dollars each hour or per mile flown. Consult with an expert car shipping firm that specializes in moving airplanes to find out more information.
How do planes get from factory to airport?
After signing a delivery certificate with Boeing, the airline customer, and the engine manufacturer, Boeing hands over the plane’s keys to the airline as a token of their appreciation. It is then flown directly from its delivery location to the airport serving the airline’s headquarters city or key maintenance facility.
What are the 3 types of air transportation?
Various modes of air transportation are available.
- Aeroplanes, helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps, and gliders are some of the modes of transportation available.
What is the largest transport plane?
What is the name of the world’s largest cargo plane?
- The Antonov An-225 is a genuine monster of the sky, measuring 290 feet in wingspan and 275 feet in length (88 by 84 meters). This massive airliner, known as the “Mriya” or I in Ukrainian (which means “dream”), has been in commercial service since 2001.
Can you ship a plane?
The Antonov An-225 is a genuine monster of the sky, measuring 290 feet in length and 275 feet in wingspan (88 by 84 meters). It has been in commercial service since 2001, and is known as the “Mriya” or I in Ukrainian (which means “dream” in English).
How do you transport a fuselage?
The fuselage and wings will be transported on flatbeds that are distinct from one another. The shipping business may be required to flag the large shipment and dispatch police officers as well as pilot vehicles after the load has been secured. Alternative options include disassembling the aircraft into smaller pieces and transporting them on pallets using a semi-truck.
How do you ship plane parts?
When it comes to freight shipping aviation parts, there are several options. You might send airplane components by rail or via air freight, for example. Truckload shipment, on the other hand, may be the most cost-effective means of exporting airplane parts. Transporting goods by truckload is a pleasant voyage that does not include the jarring of railcars or the high cost of air shipment.
How much does it cost to ship a helicopter?
Taken into account, however, it is more likely that you will spend between $500 and $600 every flight hour………………………………………………….
Where are Aeroplanes parked?
In aviation, a hangar is a closed building structure that is used to store aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are constructed of a variety of materials, including metal, wood, and concrete. A ‘hangar’ is a big structure that is often used to store airplanes.
Do planes have WiFi?
WiFi on aircraft allows you to use your gadgets with an internet connection exactly as you would on the ground, but with the flight mode switched on instead of off. Air-to-ground connectivity and satellite connectivity are the two types of technologies available for in-flight WiFi networking. Unlike cell phones, which use a mobile data network to communicate, an air-to-ground system uses a ground-based system to communicate. | aerospace |
https://www.impactlab.com/tag/space-access/ | 2024-03-02T14:04:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475825.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302120344-20240302150344-00687.warc.gz | 0.918667 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__190630691 | en | Launch sends Rocket Lab to lead in global space competition
Six satellites carried into low orbit from sheep farm launchCheap, quick access to space has officially arrived — and in some serious style.On a late Sunday afternoon in New Zealand, Rocket Lab successfully launched its third rocket. Dozens of employees gathered at the company’s headquarters in Auckland clad in Rocket Lab’s black-and-red colors and let out a series of primordial screams as the rocket took off, flew into space and dropped its satellite payload into orbit. Continue reading… “Rocket launch in New Zealand brings quick, cheap space access”
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http://amanocreativestudio.com/works_detail.php?l=2&m=0&id=24 | 2022-12-04T04:40:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710962.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20221204040114-20221204070114-00596.warc.gz | 0.916896 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__59022376 | en | ARDBEG SPACE EVENT
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ARDBERG SPACE EVENT was held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. ARDBERG is the first whisky in space. It was matured in a whisky barrel in zero gravity at the International Space Station and returned to Earth in 2014.
The success of the Islay malt whisky traveling to space and back was celebrated in 10 major cities throughout the world and the very first event was held in Tokyo. The Chief Distiller, Dr. Bill Lumsden, introduced the single Islay malt whisky at the event. | aerospace |
https://www.dochub.com/fillable-form/50417-af-form-66 | 2023-02-01T22:06:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499953.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201211725-20230202001725-00338.warc.gz | 0.920718 | 230 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__124231670 | en | People also ask
What is a form 3215?
VA Form 3215 "Application of Service Representative for Placement on Mailing List"
Where would one find a repository of Department of the Air Force publications and forms?
Electronic DD, OF, and SF forms are available from the DoD Website (http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/forms/index.htm).
What is the purpose of AF?
The mission of the United States Air Force is to fly, fight and win - airpower anytime, anywhere.
What is an AF form 422?
AF Form 422 - Notice of AF Members Qualification Status: With NO restrictions and validated within the last 60 days from the date your application is received. Form must indicate member does not have a deployment restriction (Code 31) or is undergoing an MEB (Code 37).
What is an Air Force Form 7?
U.S. Air Force - United States Air Force Academy. USAFA Form 7 "Nomination for Academic Appointment to Senior Instructor/Assistant Professor - Teaching"
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https://technologiya.ru/en/news/1834 | 2023-02-03T19:16:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500074.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203185547-20230203215547-00720.warc.gz | 0.942817 | 417 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__290455890 | en | Traditional structure of the thermal control system radiator is an assembly with aluminum alloy skins. ORPE Technologiya specialists, together with specialists from NPO Lavochkin, proposed to produce the skins for the Arktika-M radiator from heat-conducting carbon fiber with increased thermal conductivity and stiffness. Thermal and strength analysis were carried out, and technology was developed for bonding carbon fiber composite skins to metal radiator pipes operating in a constant temperature difference mode. As a result, the use of highly-thermal-conductive carbon fiber composite instead of traditional aluminum alloys for the production of the skins made it possible to reduce the weight of the radiator without compromising the design reliability by more than 15%. This engineering design solution was implemented for the first time in the world.
“Composite materials with unique properties can significantly reduce the weight of spacecraft elements and increase its payload. Our specialists are constantly working on expanding the possibilities of using composites for the production of space equipment. The production of a new generation of solar cell carriers, which are among the lightest in the world, has already been launched. Other enterprises of the chemical industry holding of the Rostec State Corporation are also developing products for the space industry. For example, the enterprises of the holding are currently working on the creation of heat-conducting carbon fibers from domestic raw materials with the characteristics necessary for the production of rocket and space products", noted Andrei Silkin, Director General of ORPE Technologiya.
The Arktika-M satellite, developed by NPO Lavochkin that was launched into the calculated orbit on February 28, 2021 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, became the first spacecraft of the Arktika highly elliptical hydrometeorological space system. The satellite provides round-the-clock continuous monitoring of the northern territory of the Russian Federation and the seas of the Arctic Ocean. Mass of the satellite is 2.2 tons and the estimated service life is 5-7 years. Launches of several more satellites of this series are planned for the future. | aerospace |
https://soviet-star-union.fandom.com/wiki/I-3A_Lance_Fighter | 2020-09-30T03:53:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402101163.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930013009-20200930043009-00537.warc.gz | 0.972777 | 367 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__292358578 | en | The I-3A lance fighter is the main aerospace fighter design used by the war fleets of the Soviet Star Union.
Developed by the Mikoyan Design Bureau, the I-3A lance fighter is a well-armed heavy interceptor design and the most common type of strike craft found within the Soviet warfleet. Able to operate in both outer space and planetary atmosphere, it is a versatile, reliable design that is easy to pilot and maintain.
Built primarily for speed and acceleration, the I-3A is a long, sleek fighter with a very small frontal and lateral profile, which makes it very difficult to accurately target. Despite the advanced technologies which go into the manufacture of this fighter, the I-3A is a relatively simple design which has been described as a "cockpit strapped to an engine and an FTL unit, with guns sticking out the front". Although it is a very fast fighter, its heavy armor and profile give it a disadvantage in maneuverability, especially during atmospheric flight.
Its primary armament is a pair of plasma lances, which make up half of the ship's length, but the I-3A is also equipped with a trio of light automatic coilguns with a high rate of fire (two on the wings, one on the underside). In addition, the I-3A is also fitted with a pair of missile tubes, located under the cockpit.
The I-3A lance fighter is powered by a small onboard nuclear fusion reactor and it has a large Mikoyan S-980 fusion torch for propulsion, which gives it its impressive speed and acceleration. It is also outfitted with a Warp Drive for short-distance FTL travel, enabling it to also perform scouting missions, although it only carries enough supplies for a maximum of four days. | aerospace |
https://www.coolingzone.com/index.php?read=1596&onmag=true&type=marketing | 2019-05-23T15:42:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257259.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523143923-20190523165923-00451.warc.gz | 0.901922 | 315 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__207740846 | en | By Josh Perry, Editor
Researchers from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) Small Satellite Student Society (KSat e. V.) aboard the International Space Station have begun studying fluid movement using the power of magnets rather than pumps with mechanical, moving parts, as a means of minimizing the risk of mechanical failures on long space missions.
The PAPELL investigation team from the KSat e. V., which is conducting a study of ferrofluids in microgravity. (University of Stuttgart)
The PAPELL experiment uses ferrofluids, which contain small iron-oxide particles that can be magnetized, and electromagnetic fields that move the ferrofluids through various conditions. Sensors and cameras are monitoring the movement.
According to the report from NASA, “Reliable, efficient pumping and other fluid transportation tasks are particularly important in the design of next-generation space vehicles. The ability to move fluids smoothly from one place to another in microgravity could eliminate many potential wrinkles in space exploration.”
Researchers are exploring whether microgravity will increase or decrease a magnetic pump’s performance and the exact behavior of liquid in these conditions.
“In addition to advancing the technology for design of this new class of pumps in space, PAPELL may help solve other space-based fluid transport problems,” the article added. “A low-wear, low-vibration, and low-maintenance pumping system could improve the performance and expected lifetime of space stations, satellites and space telescopes.” | aerospace |
https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/2T3Ee/ | 2021-01-17T06:58:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703509973.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20210117051021-20210117081021-00429.warc.gz | 0.971577 | 661 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__143899815 | en | To end 2016, we want to share with you some of our favorite interviews with favorite Solid Gold Satellite Sisters. This week, we bring you Commander Eileen Collins. When the space shuttle Columbia blasted off on July 23, 1999, pilot Eileen Collins became NASA's first female shuttle commander.SynopsisIn 1990, Eileen Collins was only the second woman to graduate as a test pilot and be selected as a NASA astronaut. She became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle mission during the Discovery's rendezvous with the Mir space station in 1995. By 1999, she had logged 419 hours in space and was given command of the space shuttle Columbia, another first for a woman.Early Life and EducationLike Amelia Earhart, Valentina Tereshkova (a Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space, in 1963), and Sally Ride (the first American woman in space, in 1983), Collins has become a pioneer in the world of aviation, as the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.From the time she was very young, Eileen Marie Collins wanted to be a pilot. She earned an associate's degree in science from Corning Community College in New York and a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Syracuse University in 1978. After college, Collins enrolled in the pilot training course at Oklahoma's Vance Air Force Base; her class was one of the first at the base to include women. She completed the course in 1979 and then stayed on at Vance for three years as an instructor.In 1983, Collins was transferred to Travis Air Force Base in California, where she flew C-141 cargo planes as part of various military and humanitarian missions all over the world. She received an M.S. degree in operations research from Stanford University in 1986 and an M.A. in space systems management from Webster University in 1989. That same year, she was accepted at the competitive Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, also in California. In 1990, she became only the second woman to graduate as a test pilot and was selected to be an astronaut by NASA.First Female AstronautIn February 1995, after several years of training with NASA, Collins became the first female astronaut to pilot a space shuttle mission, she served as second-in-command of the shuttle Discovery during its unprecedented rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. In 1996, she took time off to give birth to a daughter, with her husband Pat Youngs, a former Air Force pilot who works for Delta Airlines. A year later, in May 1997, Collins piloted her second mission, on the shuttle Atlantis, during its delivery of 7,000 pounds of equipment to Mir.Collins had logged 419 hours in space by the time she was chosen by NASA to become its first female shuttle commander. The shuttle Columbia, under Collins' command, made history on July 23, 1999, when it blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to the deployment of a $1.5 billion telescope into earth's orbit.In 2005, Collins retired from the Air Force and in 2006 from NASA. Since her retirement, Collins has received numerous awards and honors, including induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame and inclusion on the Encyclopedia Britannica's list of 300 Women Who Changed the World. | aerospace |
https://shreeagt.com/drone-community-platforms | 2024-04-15T18:53:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817014.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415174104-20240415204104-00668.warc.gz | 0.865553 | 1,033 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__77399664 | en | Drones are a new technology that is valuable in practically every industry, including journalism, search and rescue operations, inspections, agriculture, and filmmaking. We provide enterprise drone management software solutions to clients worldwide as a leading drone software development business in India. To create unique drone software solutions that precisely meet your business needs, our talented professionals can analyze all of your business requirements. We provide agricultural drone mapping software that can convert data into real-time aerial maps and provide reverse logic georeferencing. To deal with the weeds and insects on the land, farmers will retrieve and save digital photographs for analysis and reporting.
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In the creation of our software, we incorporate the most recent Indoor Positioning System technology. Our development of 3D positioning systems enables drone navigation using germicidal C-band ultraviolet (UVC). Hospitals, public transit, schools, and other institutions employ our indoor drone software, which also offers disinfection and sanitation software solutions.
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Climate change, new machinery, changes in legislation, crop variety, increasing yield, growing field sizes and scientific discoveries, they’re all obstacles for the agricultural industry. How can EO help solve these challenges? | aerospace |
https://travelsquadpodcast.com/episode-13-how-to-survive-a-long-haul-flight | 2022-07-04T06:10:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104354651.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704050055-20220704080055-00743.warc.gz | 0.912222 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__154809885 | en | AIRDATE OCTOBER 15, 2019
The Squad is taking you on board a long haul flight and giving you all the tips to survive it.
Episode 13 dishes out the all the tips and advice for surviving a long haul flight. We’ve had travel days lasting over 35 hours to get to some destinations, but these tips could be used even for domestic flights that only last a few hours.
-What to do before the flight
-What to wear on the flight
-How to get better service from the flight crew
-Things to do on the plane - entertainment, stretching, eating, drinking
What to pack in your personal bag:
-Snacks and drinks (so important!)
-Extra clothes & underwear
-Things you need to make the flight more comfortable | aerospace |
https://www.reddit.com/user/TastyOxidizer/ | 2019-06-19T06:48:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998923.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619063711-20190619085711-00063.warc.gz | 0.943112 | 368 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__158129027 | en | Get into LEO and set the moon as a target. A glowing part will show up on the orbit. Fast foreword until you are inside of the transfer window and burn prograde (in the direction of your orbit). Burn until you have an encounter with the moon. Fast foreword until your rocket is in the moons sphere of influence, and at the peristalsis, burn retro-grade (opposite of the direction of your orbit). Burn until you are in orbit with the moon. Then keep burning until you have a collision course with the moon. At about 25k km, burn and scrub off velocity. At 2k km, you should have scrubbed off enough to land. Landing legs can handle roughly 10 m/s speed, so make sure you’re below that when you make contact.
Wow, your landing legs must be pretty solid
I think he meant 10 m/s
I know, it was a bad joke
Why is the arrow of your rocket pointed backwards on the map? Also, that’s a perfect orbit I gotta take notee
I guess the game sees the direction which the capsule is facing, so the arrow points backward (the capsule on this rocket is mounted backward). It happens a lot when you have too complex builds
This was BP right? Looks too good to be true
You mean BP editing? Then yeah, I did edit the code to get my first stage looking like the real one
Kinda looks like the LOPG. Beautiful!
And yes, I disabled drag on the first part of the flight, because it prevented me from getting over 100 m/s
Then I think you might need a better design
I'm not good enough to build an aerodynamically efficient rocket which is esthetically pleasant
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https://www.yvr.ca/en/blog/2015/air-canada-announces-direct-to-dublin | 2020-02-19T12:38:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875144150.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20200219122958-20200219152958-00504.warc.gz | 0.929203 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__89875381 | en | Passengers flying from YVR next summer will have yet another new destination to choose from when Air Canada commences its thrice-weekly service to Dublin, Ireland. Air Canada recently announced the new non-stop service, which will operate between June 10 and October 8, 2016.
New routes at YVR mean more jobs for British Columbians. As a result of Air Canada’s new seasonal, non-stop flights to Dublin, 37 jobs will be created at YVR and in nearby hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions. In addition, the new service will contribute $2.6 million to the B.C.’s gross domestic product.
The Vancouver-Dublin flights will be operated by Air Canada’s leisure airline, Air Canada rouge, with Boeing 767-300ER aircraft featuring premium and economy cabins. Flights are timed to optimize connectivity to and from Air Canada’s extensive West Coast network through the airlines’ hub at YVR.Flights from Dublin will depart at 11:35 a.m. and arrive in Vancouver at 1:35 p.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; flights from Vancouver will depart at 3:05 p.m. and arrive in Dublin the next day at 8:35 a.m. Air Canada is offering special introductory fares to promote the new Irish route; details are available on www.aircanada.com | aerospace |
https://www.rajiasacademy.com/current-affairs/mission-defspace/ | 2023-02-02T10:40:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500017.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202101933-20230202131933-00765.warc.gz | 0.904662 | 325 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__207611775 | en | Prime Minister Modi formally inaugurated DefExpo 2022 at Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. At the ongoing DefExpo, he launched the ‘Mission DefSpace’.
The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone for the Deesa airfield in Gujarat which will be a forward Air Force base. It is close to the border from Pakistan and will respond to any misadventure on the Western border.
About the ‘Mission DefSpace’ –
- The mission aims to develop innovative solutions for the Defence Forces in the domain of space through startups and industry.
- In other words, this new initiative would enable the industry to offer solutions to the armed forces for future offensive and defensive requirements.
- Importance of this mission —
- Space technology assumes significance as it is shaping new definitions of India’s generous space diplomacy, giving rise to new possibilities.
- There are more than 60 developing countries with whom India is sharing its space science. SAARC satellite is an example of this.
- By next year, 10 ASEAN countries will also get real-time access to India’s satellite data.
- Space technology is also necessary for supporting maritime trade and activities.
- Today’s armed forces rely on Space technology. Space technology has been extensively used by private as well as commercial domains.
- In modern warfare, armed forces have been using space technology for fighting wars.
- Experts believe, in any future war, the new domains of warfare will include Space and Cyber. | aerospace |
https://djsaviation.net/boeing-spirit-aerosystems-have-quality-problems/ | 2024-04-23T20:10:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00417.warc.gz | 0.959403 | 459 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__43426582 | en | The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed what has been known for some time following a lengthy audit: Boeing and its suppliers have quality problems.
In its audit that spanned six weeks, the FAA says it identified not just one but multiple instances when the companies of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems failed to comply with manufacturing and quality control requirements laid out to them.
The FAA initiated this audit following the door blowout incident at the top of the calendar year. While an isolated incident occurred, it did result in 737-9 jets being parked. During the grounding period and preliminary inspections, further loose bolts were uncovered, thus raising concerns about the manufacturing process.
Details of the manufacturing processes and Boeing’s non-compliance with these are being made public as the FAA attempts to be as transparent as possible.
As part of a response to the audit, Boeing is forced to compile a lengthy turnaround plan that’ll address concerns from a host of investigations.
Ultimately, the hope is that these quality issues, which are becoming more and more persistent, can stop. The FAA says they’re ultimately systemic quality control issues and must right their wrongs to ensure long-term stability.
The FAA, airline customers and the flying public know that what’s occurred over the last half a decade can’t continue, and the hope is through these thorough audits, investigations, expert panels and much more Boeing will have everything possible to move forward positively.
Holding Boeing accountable is something else the FAA ensures it must do. Already, the regulator has halted any production increases planned by Boeing for its 737 line. A temporary suspension is essential as increases could jeopardise the turnaround plan being implemented at the plane maker.
Additionally, the FAA in a new statement says it’s exploring a third party being using to indepentely review quality systems while also having an onsite precense at several Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems facilities long into the future.
Several analysts and onlookers have questions the FAA’s position to allow these quality slips to continue, despite knowing the track record of the plane maker. However, the regulator’s focus remains on ensuring Boeing is held accountable, and change is made. | aerospace |
https://www.dggv.de/e-publikationen/can-ree-enriched-carbonatites-be-mapped-from-space/ | 2024-03-03T14:50:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476396.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303142747-20240303172747-00606.warc.gz | 0.894121 | 302 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__147258477 | en | Rare Earth elements (REE) belong to the most strategic materials of the 21st century with steadily growing economic importance. PRISMA, the hyperspectral satellite data, is used for the very first time to test its capability of detecting REE contents from space using distinct subtle diagnostic spectral absorption features of REE. The PRISMA hyperspectral sensor acquired 234 spectral bands over VNIR/SWIR optical regions (400–2500 nm) of the electromagnetic spectrum at a spatial resolution of 30 m and a spectral resolution ranging from 11 to 15 nm. The carbonatite occurences within the Ondoto area in North Namibia were selected as the test site. To detect the REE-related diagnostic spectral absorption parameters (absorption wavelength position and depth) the in-house toolbox (QUANTools) developed at the Czech Geological Survey was tested and four absorption features placed within 700–900 nm range were found to correlate with the carbonatites containing high loads of REE. As a result, three perspective carbonatite areas were identified as the most promising, with one site validated using the laboratory geochemical data from collected samples. The results showed a good correlation between the high REE loads mapped using PRISMA data and the ground truth data highlighting the future potential of state-of-the-art satellite hyperspectral data to explore REE deposits using contactless Earth Observation data and methods.
Funded by the Czech Science Foundation project 19-29124X. | aerospace |
https://travelbizmonitor.com/airasia-india-likely-to-get-nod-for-international-flying-rights-soon/ | 2023-06-10T04:39:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656963.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610030340-20230610060340-00245.warc.gz | 0.931935 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__193898449 | en | AirAsia India likely to get nod for international flying rights soon
With AirAsia India getting close to obtaining international flying rights, conglomerate Tata Sons, will in the near future, have four airlines with permits for overseas operations. At present, only Vistara operates on international routes.
The development assumes significance since Tata Sons’ subsidiary Talace is expected to soon acquire Air India and Air India Express after conclusion of the share purchase agreement (SPA) with the Centre.
Both Air India and Air India Express operate international flights. Recently, AirAsia India, in which Tatas own a majority stake, received security clearance to operate international flights, said industry insiders.
Nevertheless, many procedures with the country’s Civil Aviation Ministry and the regulator still remain to be fulfilled before the airline commences international operations.
These procedures include obtaining permissions for scheduling, slotting, and training. According to industry insiders, these steps might take anywhere up to 2-6 months to fulfil.
However, they pointed out that even after obtaining all the permissions, the airline might not fly abroad in the near future, due to the ongoing pandemic.
The Bengaluru-headquartered airline is a joint venture between Tata Sons and AirAsia Investment Ltd. Commencing operations on June 12, 2014, it flies over 240 direct and connecting routes across India with a fleet of 28 aircraft. (Source FPJ) | aerospace |
https://webnewsweekly.com/2022/09/02/nasa-artemis-i-sls-orion-spacecraft-launch-attempt-today-how-to-watch-livestream/ | 2023-12-02T03:00:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00166.warc.gz | 0.947675 | 634 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__126674441 | en | NASA is ready for its second attempt at launching the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on September 3. On August 29, when Artemis I was initially supposed to embark on its journey to the Moon and back, the launch controllers were unable to cool down the four RS-25 rocket engines, according to NASA. This led to the launch being halted, and being rescheduled once the issues were resolved. The launch coverage will be initiated by NASA at 5:45am EDT (3:15pm IST) and the launch will take place a few hours later.
Artemis I is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida at 2:17 pm ET, or 11:47pm IST. After the lift off, the Jettison Rocket Boosters will detach, and later the main engine will cut off. The SLS rocket will go around the Earth, and then leave the planet’s orbit for the Moon.
Then, the Orion’s thrusters will push the capsule towards Earth’s only natural satellite, bringing it about 100km close to the Moon’s surface. During the mission, Orion will travel about 64,400km beyond the Moon and then back to Earth. The Orion will be carrying a simulated crew of one male and two female mannequins with sensors to measure radiation levels in the spacecraft.
How to watch Artemis I launch
The Artemis I launch window opens at 2:17 pm ET at the launch site, and viewers in India can tune in at 11:47pm IST. You can also watch the launch from the embedded player below.
You can also watch the Artemis I launch to the moon in 360-degree VR via Facebook, organised by Felix&Paul Studios. The VR stream will begin 90 minutes prior to the launch. The VR livestream will be hosted by retired astronauts Karen Nyberg and Doug Hurley on Meta’s Quest headsets.
What went wrong on August 29?
After the launch was halted on August 29, Rachel Kraft, communications specialist at NASA, said that the Artemis I launch director halted the launch attempt as the launch controllers were unable to maintain the ideal temperature for the RS-25 engines during the launch.
The SLS rocket was safe and stable when the Artemis I launch was halted, the space agency had stated at the time.
Artemis I’s new launch schedule
On September 3, NASA will begin the coverage of the Artemis I launch to the moon at 5:45am EDT (3:15pm IST) with tanking operations to load propellant into the SLS rocket.
The launch countdown will resume at the opening of a 2.5 hour-long built-in hold, which will begin at 4:37am EDT (2:07pm IST).
At 12:15pm EDT (9:45pm IST), full lunar coverage will begin, covering the translunar injection and spacecraft separation. At 6pm EDT (September 4, 3:30am), NASA will hold a post-launch news conference after about an hour the launch coverage ends. | aerospace |
http://www.dailyaddaa.com/india-news/have-a-look-at-the-images-taken-by-chandrayaan-2s-orbiter-high-resolution-camera-1547371.html | 2020-08-08T11:05:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737645.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808110257-20200808140257-00156.warc.gz | 0.903084 | 457 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__35224194 | en | coronavirus update indiaas on : 07 August 2020 15:00 GMT+5:30
Have A Look At The Images Taken by Chandrayaan 2's Orbiter High Resolution Camera
Have a look at the images taken by Chandrayaan2's Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC).
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- October 04, 2019 23:57 IST
Have A Look At The Images Taken by Chandrayaan 2's Orbiter High-Resolution Camera
New Delhi: ISRO released shared pictures of the Moon's surface taken by a high-resolution camera onboard Chandrayaan-2. ISRO said the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera gives very high spatial resolution images of the Moon.
Chandrayaan-2's high-resolution camera onboard took a picture of a part of the Boguslawsky crater, located on the Moon's south pole. The camera also took close up images of the lunar surface in which several small craters and boulders are clearly seen.
ISRO said that "With a spatial resolution of 25 cm from a 100km orbit and a swath of 3km, the Orbiter High-resolution camera provides the sharpest images ever from a lunar orbiter platform. OHRC is an important new tool for lunar topographic studies of select regions."
On Thursday ISRO said that Chandrayaan-2's Orbiter payload CLASS, in its first few days of observation, detected charged particles and their intensity variations on the lunar soil.
With its ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission, India hopes to uncover mysteries of the Moon's less explored south pole.
Lunar lander Vikram, one of three components of the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, had been scheduled to soft-land on the Moon last month but stopped transmitting 2.1 km from the surface.
NASA has said that Chandrayaan-2 captured images of the lunar region where lander Vikram made an unsuccessful attempt to soft-land. The US space agency said that the images were captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft during its flyby on September 17.
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https://www.onwar.com/weapons/aircraft/planes/AIDC-F-CK-1-Ching-kuo.html | 2018-09-24T07:51:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267160233.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20180924070508-20180924090908-00377.warc.gz | 0.953759 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__11012600 | en | The AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo, commonly known as the Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), is a Taiwanese air superiority jet fighter with multirole capability named after Chiang Ching-kuo, the late President of the Republic of China. The aircraft made its first flight in 1989. It entered active service with the Republic of China Air Force in 1994, and all 130 production aircraft had been manufactured by 1999.
The IDF program was initiated when the United States refused to sell F-20 Tigershark and F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters to Taiwan following diplomatic pressure from the People's Republic of China. Taiwan therefore decided to develop an advanced indigenous jet fighter. The IDF jet fighter project was designed and built by the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) based in Taichung, Taiwan, with some assistance from American defense corporations. | aerospace |
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1261362 | 2017-11-24T13:24:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934808133.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124123222-20171124143222-00239.warc.gz | 0.916585 | 484 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__954449 | en | WASHINGTON – NASA said Wednesday (March 14) it has successfully demonstrated the ability to repair satellites in orbit using robotic tools.
An experiment about the International Space Station last week demonstrated the ability of Canada’s robotic arm to perform what the space agency called “precise satellite-serving tasks in space.” NASA also touted the demonstration as a milestone for using the space station as a technology test bed.
In a statement, NASA said the Canadian Space Agency’s 12-foot (3.7-meter) Dextre robotic arm was able to repair an external space station module. The experiment demonstrated the ability to use robotic tools to refuel and repair orbiting satellites.
Before launch, technicians pump fuel into satellites through a valve that is then sealed and covered. NASA said the space station experiment that ran from March 7-9 demonstrated that the remote-controlled robotic arm could remove a cover and seal on a space station module similar to those used on satellites.
Canada's Dextre robotic arm on the International Space Station
According to NASA, “Dextre successfully retrieved and inspected [module] tools, released safety launch locks on tool adapters, and used an [module] tool to cut extremely thin satellite lock wire.” The robotic arm succeeded in cutting two separate “lock wires” 20 thousands of an inch (0.5 millimeters) in diameter using a special wire cutter tool. The tool was then used to severe the wires with only a few millimeters of clearance.
“This wire-cutting activity is a prerequisite to removing and servicing various satellite parts during any future in-orbit missions,” the space agency said.
The refueling demonstration will be completed in May when the robotic arm completes the removal of the gas fittings.
NASA officials predicted that the successful repair demonstration could lead to future robotic missions, including repairs, refueling and repositioning of satellites.
Growing concerns about space junk have prompted NASA and other space agencies to come up with new ways to decommission satellites before they fall back to Earth. In February, the Swiss Space Center announced its CleanSpace One project
intended to begin cleaning up some of the “space junk” orbiting the Earth.
Collisions between space debris and satellites could worsen the problem.
NASA estimates there are about 19,000 objects larger than 10 cm orbiting the Earth. | aerospace |
https://www.copilotseo.com/navigating-torrential-sunny-skies-and-no-wind/ | 2023-09-29T10:48:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510501.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929090526-20230929120526-00591.warc.gz | 0.980889 | 1,089 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__193467116 | en | I started getting back into flying about a year ago. Flying is time consuming and expensive, so getting back into wasn’t simply deciding on getting back into an old hobby, it was a decision that took time and strategy because ultimately I need to make the money I spend on flying back.
A decade ago I was flight instructing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I was learning to fly bigger and faster aircraft and basically working like any pilot destined for an airline job, with one exception. I felt like I could never take the plunge to fly full time because I was so worried about money and my job “day” job paid decently. My “day” job was actually an overnight job in Albuquerque that I’d get off work from at 7am then drive an hour to Santa Fe to flight instruct. Any misery that you’re imagining isn’t a quarter of how I actually felt toward the end of the week. On some days I’d have to pull over on I-25 and sleep for 15-minutes just to ensure I’d make it to the airport.
At any rate, when I had to choose between the stability of my overnight editorial job or flying I chose the path that I already had a steady paycheck and health insurance at. So, that’s how Copilot eventually was founded. You can take airplanes away from a pilot, but you can’t take the freedom of flight away from him.
My path to flying again, I decided, needed to begin with me renewing my flight instructor certificate (CFI). It was more symbolic than anything since I renew it every two years and it never lapsed. I used the online courses as a jumping off point for the bookwork involved with flying. I renewed my CFI in July, got my medical certificate and took a couple of flights with an instructor before my flight review was complete and I was legal to fly again! Now it was the last day of July and I was ready to make my first solo flight in a decade.
I took off on a cloudy but still hot summer day. The windsock lay limp as I pushed the throttle forward in the Cessna 172. I was just going to go around the pattern a few times and treat it like my first solo, which is just three times around the pattern. I still didn’t know the area well, and it was evening before I even left for the airport. Before I could get around the pattern one time a storm came out of nowhere and all of a sudden there was a 30 knot crosswind on an east/west runway. The storm had come right out of the north. There was no convective activity, and the clouds were still well above legal clearance for visual flight rules (VFR) flying so the online weather report I was looking at looked innocent enough.
To make a long story short, I lived to tell the tale. I flew around in the rain for an hour before the storm drifted off and I was able to land. Like any memorable flight or work day as a marketer, there was something to be learned from it and luckily my lesson didn’t end up as an accident report for others to learn from.
Fast forward five months later. While my investment hasn’t started paying off yet, my last two flights have been on beautiful afternoons with snowcapped peaks fading into the dark blue of the winter sky a few miles west of my route. From 3,000 feet above the ground (AGL) we could see all the way across the Denver metro area to the south and into Wyoming toward the north. The winds were non-existent to the point that a challenge was figuring out which runway to take off from. Any pilot, from their first solo on could have gotten the plane up and down those two days. So what were the lessons on those flights?
I took my kids up one at a time on those flights. The first was my 9-year old son’s turn, then the next flight my 7-year old daughter’s. Flying solo, or even with a student, or even passengers, the thought of mortality doesn’t come up a lot. Even on the aforementioned flight in July it never occurred to me that I wouldn’t land. The next level of flying isn’t always a bigger plane or a new job, sometimes it’s the cargo you have and the baggage you’d leave behind if you didn’t land.
Yes, I realize this is a marketing blog and I need to reign it in and relate it to something useful to my audience. Copilot Marketing, Content and SEO is as big of a leap for my family as taking our kids flying. I understand marketing and business just like I understand aerodynamics and V-speeds. But, I also know that I wouldn’t take the risk without the confidence to be successful.
For those of you that tuned in to see how Dottie is growing, this is what she is becoming…
But her guardian instincts are beginning to kick in. This bone is actually the shin of an intruder from a couple nights ago…
At least that’s what she told me.
Good dog, Dottie. | aerospace |
http://world.24-my.info/nasa-replaced-the-head-of-the-program-of-manned-space-flight/ | 2023-09-27T05:06:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510259.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927035329-20230927065329-00072.warc.gz | 0.945598 | 274 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__206619972 | en | The new head will oversee the landing on the moon two American astronauts.
The national Directorate of the USA on Aeronautics (NASA) announced the change of the head of the program of manned space flight. They became Kathy Lueders, formerly head of the NASA program for the development of private manned spacecraft to deliver astronauts to the ISS, Commercial Crew Program, reports dw.com.
On the appointment of Lueders on the new post was announced by the head of NASA Jim Breidenstein the evening of 12 June.
The predecessor of the Luders on this post Douglas Loverro resigned a few days before sending to the ISS’s newest manned spacecraft Crew Dragon, developed by SpaceX Elon musk. The decision Loverro was a surprise, and neither he nor NASA has not made any explanation. After the departure of Loverro exactly Lueders took over the management of the Crew Dragon launch with two astronauts on Board – Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley</b>.
Kathy Lueders is working at NASA since 1992. In her duties in his new post will include preparation of the return to the Land of Behnken and Hurley. It will also lead the implementation of the program for landing on the moon in 2024, two American astronauts – the first ever women and one man, as highlighted in the draft programme. | aerospace |
http://www.aame.in/2012/07/ballistic-missile-defense-shield-system.html | 2013-05-19T02:16:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.919368 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__204044822 | en | Infographic depicting NATO's protective Ballistic Missile Defence umbrella over Europe. Similar protection starting to be implemented in India too.
NATO has initiated its plans to bring all member countries under a Ballistic Missile Defence shield. Titled, 'European Phased Adaptive Approach [E.P.A.A.]', the plan envisages bringing Europe under a protective cover in stages, extending beyond 2020. Interdiction would be performed by the American RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 [SM-3] system, with tracking & guidance provided by multiple satellites & earth-based radars. While presently located on-board ship-based systems, plans are afoot to deploy onshore versions of this hit-to-kill, non-explosive Kinetic Energy based missile.
This illustration, below, depicts deployment plans & functioning of the shield against the threat of an incoming missile.
Click on the image to view it in larger size
A more descriptive illustration of the interception process
System layout of the SM-3 interceptor
It was announced recently, in India, that the cities of Mumbai & New Delhi, too would soon be brought under a protective Ballistic Missile Defence [BMD] umbrella. India's indigenous BMD shield is pivoted around two interceptor missiles - the Prithvi Air Defence [P.A.D] missile for Exoatmospheric interception & the Advanced Air Defence [A.A.D] missile for Endoatmospheric interception of incoming missiles. In due course of time, more cities of India would be progressively brought under such a protective umbrella, with further improvements being made in the system itself, also. | aerospace |
https://techhq.com/2018/05/new-us-regulations-on-drone-testing-will-spur-business-innovations/ | 2024-04-22T11:52:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818293.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422113340-20240422143340-00831.warc.gz | 0.948381 | 756 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__48957934 | en | New US regulations on drone testing will spur business innovations
Businesses in the US are set to gain more freedom to experiment with drones after the government have loosened regulations.
US transportation secretary Elain Chao announced on Wednesday that several state and local governments were to be involved in the drone testing programmes, with the creation of 10 light-touch regulatory zones for companies to test drone services.
The introduction of the test zones means faster approval for experiments that could lead to powerful use-cases of drones such as carrying medical supplies, inspecting building sites, and even the transportation of humans.
“Our country is on the verge of the most significant new development in aviation since the emergence of the jet age,” Chao said at a press conference.
“We’ve got to create a path forward for the safe integration of drones if our country is to remain a global aviation leader and reap the safety and economic benefits drones have to offer,” she added.
In each of the testing zones, which range from California to rural Kansas, drones are able to be tested in ways that are not permitted elsewhere in the country. This includes flying drones over people at night and outside of a pilot’s line of sight.
The announcement of the new testing project is part of The Integration Pilot Program announced in November.
Drone companies will be matched with state or local governments in the journey to develop the technology in various areas. In Florida, for instance, drones will be used to survey the mosquito population.
.@USDOT and the #FAA congratulate Lee County, Florida on being selected for the #DronePilot program. They will help advance #safe #drone integration through the development of low-altitude applications to control mosquito populations. https://t.co/p0LDtfWzbx #FlySafe pic.twitter.com/3HZEDIHGdQ
— The FAA (@FAANews) May 9, 2018
These loosened regulations seem to be a response to the complaints of many businesses in the US of the current regulations inhibiting innovation in the field. Many big names such as Amazon has resorted to carrying out their drone testing procedures in the UK.
But now it seems that the US government has adopted a fresh new way of thinking about the flying technology, which is sure to spur more exciting and powerful applications.
.@MAAPUAS Director Mark Blanks: #Drones are a unique form of #aviation and interact with everyday life in a way manned aircraft don’t. Our focus is to ensure that these interactions are positive and #safe for the public. #DronePilot #FlySafe
— The FAA (@FAANews) May 9, 2018
The business uses of drones have really accelerated in the past year. The aircraft technology is being leveraged in many innovative ways including helping real estate agents provide potential buyers with aerial views of properties, building companies using drones for site inspection, as well as the potential for retailers to soon deliver your goods to your door in an instant.
The number of jobs that will be created as a result of the integration of drones into US airspace is said to be around 70,000 within the first three years. According to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a drone lobby group, roughly half of these jobs will be in the manufacturing space.
“Drones are a part of our aviation future,” Chao said at an event in Washington DC.
“This is vital to making sure America reaps the important benefits of this new technology. That includes saving lives, creating new jobs and strengthening our country’s competitiveness.”
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The airport was originally built for the Vietnamese Air Force use. After reunification of Vietnam in 1975 the Hanoi Noi Bai airport became an international public airport while continuing to serve for military purposes. A new international Terminal 1 was announced in 1995 and put into operation in October 2001.
Hanoi Airport is operated by Northern Airport Authority (NAA)
Noi Bai IATA airport code is HAN and ICAO code is VVNB
Located at 21°13?16?N, 105°48?26?E, 39 feet (12 meters) above sea level, Hanoi International Airport is located 28 miles (45 km) north of Hanoi city center.
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Runway 11R/29L - 12,466 feet, 3,800 meters long - Concrete | aerospace |
http://lido-dtp.ac.uk/project_dirs/abstracts2015/37.html | 2019-03-24T09:05:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203409.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20190324083551-20190324105551-00021.warc.gz | 0.712408 | 383 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__146765960 | en | Challenges facing astronauts will increase as human space flight progresses from periods aboard Earth orbiters to voyages into deep space. Microgravity induces physiological deconditioning, resulting in bone mineral density loss and atrophy of skeletal and postural muscles. We are evaluating a compression suit designed to replicate terrestrial gravity-loading parameters. The skin is under stress from the compressive forces of the suit and we must ensure the garment does not promote skin infections. We will evaluate qualitative, quantitative and temporal aspects of changes to the skin microbiota induced by suit wear on Earth and aboard the International Space Station.
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https://www.arcunia.com/en/pre-order/7081-skymark-airlines-boeing-737-800wl-hanshin-tigers-ja73nr-ew2738010.html | 2022-01-28T16:16:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320306301.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128152530-20220128182530-00519.warc.gz | 0.677395 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__7776547 | en | Skymark Airlines Boeing 737-800wl "Hanshin Tigers - JA73NR" EW2738010
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Manufacturer; JC Wings
Airliner; Skymark Airlines
Country/Continent; Japan, Asia
Type & registration; Boeing 737-800wl “JA73NR”
Number of units produced; Limited production worldwide.
Remarks; "Hanshin Tigers" color and rolling gears
Dimensions (approx.); Length: 19.75cm Width: 17.15cm | aerospace |
https://omgbulletin.com/technology/283397.html | 2022-12-08T23:22:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711368.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20221208215156-20221209005156-00270.warc.gz | 0.932806 | 473 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__127573112 | en | The popular flying taxi hopes to start operating in 2024 after a successful initial test in Rome. They hope the vehicle will reduce travel time in the Italian capital.
Like a sci-fi movie, the first flying taxi this Thursday Conducted official tests in Rome, Italy and flew with a crew on board This new means of transport is expected to enter operation in the next two years.
Vehicle called “Electric Air Taxi” announced last year vertical take-off and landing prototype which connects the capital city center with Fiumicino Airport in 20 minutes.
Volocopter ready for takeoff
German urban air mobility pioneer Volocopter is preparing to take off its electric air taxi. pic.twitter.com/7Bepi8KRYC
— DW Spanish (@dw_espanol) May 3, 2021
This transport receives the title of Volocopter, they guarantee. Emission free They also point out that it is designed for high-speed airliners.
Flying Taxi this Thursday Flew 40 meters at 40 kilometers per hour for 5 minutes organizers of the initiative Atlantia, UrbanV and Rome Airports explained in a statement.
The future of air taxis and aircraft
Rome will be one of the first capitals to launch this new mode of transportation. Commencement of service in 2024 This encourages candidature for the 2030 World Expo within the framework of the 2025 Jubilee.
“Today’s event will serve as a pioneer in the testing and implementation of advanced air mobility in Italy, as well as Urban transport is becoming more sustainable and fluid. ” said Marco Troncone, CEO of Rome Airports.
They also unveiled the country’s first vertiport in Fiumicino.this is A vertical runway designed to host various types of tests both flight and ground operations.
The airport’s infrastructure occupies an area of approximately 5,500 square meters and is designed to ensure compatibility with the major vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL in English acronym).
Atlantia’s president, Giampiero Massolo, said his aim was to “open the service to the public in Fiumicino. Before rolling out to other airports we have invested in by 2024.” | aerospace |
https://didyouknowstuff.com/on-february-10-2009-two-communications-satellites-accidentally-collided-above-the-taymyr-peninsula-in-siberia | 2023-09-26T02:48:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510130.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926011608-20230926041608-00693.warc.gz | 0.953133 | 322 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__229724927 | en | Did You Know?
On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites accidentally collided above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.
On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites—the active commercial Iridium 33 and the derelict Russian military Kosmos-2251—accidentally collided at a speed of 11,700 m/s (26,000 mph; 42,000 km/h) and an altitude of 789 kilometres (490 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia. It was the first time a hypervelocity collision occurred between two satellites – until then, all accidental hypervelocity collisions had involved a satellite and a piece of space debris.
Kosmos-2251 was a 950-kilogram (2,100 lb) Russian Strela military communications satellite owned by the Russian Space Forces. It was launched on a Russian Cosmos-3M carrier rocket on June 16, 1993. It had been deactivated prior to the collision, and remained in orbit as space debris. Iridium 33 was a 560-kilogram (1,200 lb) US-built commercial satellite and was part of the Iridium constellation of 66 communications satellites owned by Iridium Communications. It was launched on September 14, 1997, atop a Russian Proton rocket.
The collision occurred at 16:56 UTC and destroyed both the Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251. The Iridium satellite was operational at the time of the collision. Kosmos-2251 had gone out of service in 1995. It had no propulsion system, and was no longer actively controlled. | aerospace |
https://southernoregonbusiness.com/apollo-50-new-perspectives/ | 2023-09-25T07:25:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506686.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925051501-20230925081501-00667.warc.gz | 0.97362 | 1,276 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__36451266 | en | Apollo 50: New Perspectives
Small Steps to a Giant Leap at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum’
By Dan Ruby, Executive Director
I was born the year that the twin Voyager spacecraft began their audacious journey to the cosmos, so I missed the world-gripping excitement of Apollo. I grew up with the Shuttle program throughout the ‘80s, ‘90s, and early-aughts, so my affection for space exploration was complex; my vivid childhood memory was not of watching Neil Armstrong leap on the Moon, nor of streaming lon Musk’s SpaceX rockets landing themselves on drone ships, but of seeing the Challenger explode, with teacher Christa McAuliffe onboard, broadcast live on a TV set in my 4th-grade classroom. I was either too early or too late.
Still, the Universe outside our thin atmosphere is inherently intriguing, and I ended up in a career as an astronomy educator and planetary researcher. Through NASA-funded projects with students and teachers, I discovered that space is an amazingly effective lens through which to view science, technology, engineering, and math. I made annual visits over a decade to the US Space & Rocket Center in Hunstville, AL, where the mighty Saturn V rockets were created as the brainchild of Werner Von Braun, and through those trips, I developed a special appreciation of Apollo as a unique focal point in the history of humanity. The manned Moon landings were not just the most ambitious geology field trip ever, though they were definitely that. They were not just the culmination of one of the largest and most complex engineering projects to date, though they were definitely that. They were not just the first time humans had seen the blue marble of planet Earth as a fragile whole, causing a transformational shift toward understanding our globe as a unified system, though they were definitely that. They were not just an example of highly-trained, exceptionally-skilled astronauts pushing the envelope of what is physically possible, though they were definitely that. They were not just a stunning instance of hundreds of thousands of individuals, working for countless companies across myriad industries, coming together as a finely-tuned team to support a common goal, though they were definitely that. They were not just the crystallization of a singular vision fueled by unprecedented resources, though they were that. Lastly, they were not just the inspiration for an entire generation to become scientists and engineers, equipped with the optimism that comes from knowing anything is possible, though they were definitely that too.
The Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972 (or 1974 and 1975 if we include Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz, respectively) were all of these things, plus more to many millions who shared the milestone moments with family and friends. For all of these reasons, it was important for us at the Museum to do something for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions, beginning with the date that Man first stepped on the lunar surface.
In late 2018, ScienceWorks had the opportunity to acquire one of three Apollo-era mission control consoles from NASA, and we were fortunate to be awarded the historic piece that is now central to our exhibit. Being a hands-on museum to our core, we knew we couldn’t just put it on static display; being the Rogue Valley, of course we had volunteers with the skill and expertise to restore it to functionality, and so Colin White and Sean Curry from our Science Advisory Board spent hundreds of hours painstakingly building something that is functional, touchable, and honors history. Our particular console was first used during Gemini 4, with the first American spacewalk, and last used during STS-47, launching the first African-American woman to space in the 50th Shuttle flight.
Once we had that part of the puzzle, our exhibit plans evolved exponentially; let by curator Steve Utt, our shop director Leo Palombo designed and built a full-size lunar lander simulator whose realism and attention to detail exceeds those found anywhere else in the world. We borrowed the storied wind tunnel model artifact of the Saturn 1B rocket from North Medford High School, thanks to stellar planetarium teacher Robert Black, to help tell the story. Sculptor Chris Wunderlich built amazingly-accurate large-scale models of the Command and Service Module and Lunar Module spacecraft that served as reliable lifeboats for the astronauts on their half-million-mile roundtrip journeys. It is a beautiful exhibit, and it does exactly what we hoped it would: it gives people new perspectives on the meaning of Apollo, 50 years later, by placing them at ground zero for the monumental achievement. It places you at the command of Mission Control, working through real-time challenges that faced the teams; it places you in the pilot’s position of precise machinery firsthand. Unlike the original, it’s equally open to women and people of color. It reconnects people who were alive at the time to their memories of their experience, and it inspires young people to imagine what it might be like for them to shepherd spacecraft to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, or to explore an extraterrestrial landscape.
For our team at ScienceWorks, it was an analog of the iterative design process of the Apollo program; we were successful under extreme deadlines and tight budget constraints, and we accomplished more than we anticipated. Toward our new shared vision for the Museum, it combines artifacts with simulation for an immersive experience, and begins to include guests as a part of our testing process; we have been continually refining and updating the exhibit based on feedback.
We are proud of the exhibit and excited for Southern Oregon to see it as part of our new directions, as we aim to be a champion of science for a region that stretches coast to the Cascades, and a showcase of innovation. We invite you to check it out through September—we’ll conclude celebrations of Apollo 50 with International Space Week in early October, and then move many of the components from our experimental Da Vinci’s Garage space to a permanent home in the Museum.
Our hours for September will be:
11 am to 6 pm, Wednesday through Sunday
Admission will be half price for the month, as the featured gallery will be closed for Wild Music deinstallation and Sportsology installation. | aerospace |
https://www.icao.int/annual-report-2014/Pages/progress-on-icaos-strategic-objectives-security-and-facilitation-symposium-on-innovation.aspx | 2024-04-22T19:36:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818337.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422175900-20240422205900-00612.warc.gz | 0.928912 | 361 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__87536174 | en | Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness in Security Measures
Symposium on Innovation in Aviation Security
Air Cargo Security and Facilitation
Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness in Facilitation Measures
Facilitation (FAL) Regional Seminars
ICAO Traveller Identification Programme (TRIP)
Universal Security Audit Programme (USAP)
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ICAO held its first-ever Symposium on Innovation in Aviation Security, from 21 to 23 October, at ICAO Headquarters in order to foster a dialogue among States, industry and academia about security innovation. Attended by more than 350 people representing 67 States and 13 international organizations, this Symposium helped achieve a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities ahead, and highlighted the importance of collaboration among aviation security stakeholders in identifying emerging threats as well as new and innovative processes and technologies to thwart those threats.
The panel discussions identified political factors, commerce and economic factors, science and scientific methods as playing a critical role in innovation. The event highlighted that innovation is not just about technology but rather about optimizing all elements of current security systems including people, human factors, policy and regulation; and it was further recognized that innovations in aviation security could be readily transferred through closer collaboration amongst States and within the aviation community.
During the event, the numerous participants conveyed a clear message that leveraging innovative solutions is critical to the development of future aviation security systems that are not only more efficient, effective and sustainable, but also provide passengers with an improved travel experience. Throughout the many insightful presentations, panelists and participants were able to share their experiences in applying innovative concepts, approaches and technologies with the goal of enhancing aviation security in all respects. | aerospace |
https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/news/2021/12/top-innovations-of-2021 | 2024-02-23T19:24:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474445.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223185223-20240223215223-00255.warc.gz | 0.92161 | 1,757 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__210904420 | en | Top Innovations of 2021
These breakthrough technologies are game-changers in sustainability, health, travel and beyond.
Advancements in science and technology shaped life in 2021.
As we continue to imagine what the future could look like in a changing world, take a look at the top innovations of the year.
A recycling process to tackle plastics
Plastic waste is filling up our landfills, waterways and rivers – or it’s being incinerated.
But not all plastics can be recycled with the current process, mechanical recycling.
UpCycle, developed by Honeywell UOP, is a new recycling process technology that can reduce the carbon footprint of plastic waste handling typically by more than 50%, compared to conventional incineration and landfilling.
Why it’s innovative: The new advanced or chemical recycling process takes plastic waste that can’t be recycled by current technology and breaks it down to a recycled polymer feedstock (RPF). The feedstock can then be used to manufacture new, high-quality plastics that can be used in food packaging, pharmaceutical products and medical devices, with the goal of enabling a circular plastics economy.
A cockpit that’s connected
A major upgrade for aircraft cockpits is on the horizon.
For pilots and crew, preparing for a flight can take up ample time before takeoff, and a dashboard full of traditional radar and analog displays only give pilots so many ways to look at – and out – of their aircraft.
Our new avionics system, Honeywell Anthem, gives pilots and crews access to the data they need for more efficient takeoffs and smarter flights with digital displays that mimic the quality of smartphone screens.
Why it's innovative: The traditional cockpit is built for commercial aircraft, business jets and rotorcraft (like helicopters). Honeywell Anthem is the first cloud-connected cockpit system designed for those aircraft, as well as low-flying, urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft. It’s already set to be used in Vertical Aerospace’s piloted, zero-emissions electric battery-powered aircraft, and in the six-passenger Lilium Jet, which takes off and lands vertically.
AI to detect methane leaks
Methane is about 80 times more powerful at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, according to the UN Environment Programme – and leaks from natural gas systems are among the top source of methane emissions caused by human activity, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Why it’s innovative: Historically, manual methods are used to detect gas leaks – including sending people to detect natural gas leaks when they occur and using handheld equipment to conduct inspections. Now, the use of infrared hyperspectral capabilities – technology that detects invisible gasses like methane – and artificial intelligence (AI), more efficiently detects when and where leaks occur, and which leaks are most dangerous.
Technologies helping drones soar
When powered by batteries and existing technology like line-of-sight radio links, small drones can only fly so long.
Enter our Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) solutions, a set of systems including our hydrogen fuel cells, which operate silently last up to three times longer than batteries; electronically powered multipurpose radar; inertial measurement units (IMU), an array of electronics that informs an aircraft’s system with precise navigation information; and the UAV Satcom – the world’s smallest and lightest satellite communications system that lets pilots view their drone’s cameras and download data.
Why it’s innovative: BVLOS technologies let small drones fly up to three times longer than with existing technologies – and with less human intervention. This can allow small aerial vehicles to carry more, travel farther and fly faster.
A cutting-edge face mask
Why it’s innovative: The first-of-its-kind face mask doubles as a piece of wearable technology equipped with Bluetooth capabilities. Built with dual 3-speed fans and designed to fit HEPA filters, the mask also was designed with noise-cancelling audio and microphone features and LED lights. There’s even a place for wearers to dock their earbuds.
Using quantum computing to protect from cybersecurity threats
This year, the Honeywell System Model H1 became the first quantum computer to pass the Quantum Volume 1024 benchmark, a metric IBM introduced to determine quantum computing capacity.
Now, the trapped-ion quantum computing technology has a new application called Quantum Origin, which can generate strong encryption keys – a string of characters used to secure data – created by Quantinuum, the company formed when our quantum computing business, formerly known as Honeywell Quantum Solutions, merged with Cambridge Quantum.
Why it’s innovative: As our world becomes more connected, cybercriminals are outsmarting current technology meant to protect our devices. Quantum Origin uses quantum mechanics to create random, unpredictable data for encryption keys that are more advanced than what today’s classical computers could produce. Quantum Origin is also a cloud-based platform, so it can be integrated into existing systems used to generate encryption keys.
First passenger flight powered by 100% SAF takes off
Why it's innovative: Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), an alternative to conventional, petroleum-based jet fuel, is helping the aviation industry reduce its carbon footprint. SAF is made by converting already available materials, including mustard seeds, soybeans, non-edible oils and sustainable biomass, into a drop-in replacement crude oil.
SAF can be combined with conventional jet fuel to power aircraft, but United Airlines’ flight in December from Chicago to Washington, DC – which operated using 100% SAF, produced by Honeywell UOP’s EcofiningTM technology, in the right engine – marked a milestone. Soon, more flights will be powered by SAF.
A mass vaccination clinic powered by software
In January, about 5,000 people a day got their first COVID-19 vaccines by attending a mass vaccination clinic held at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The effort, which was supported by Honeywell, Atrium Health, Tepper Sports & Entertainment and the State of North Carolina, and backed by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, enabled patients to get inoculated from their parked cars. Existing technologies were put to new use to help manage the flow of thousands of patients each day heading into the venue to get vaccinated.
Why it’s innovative: Barcode technology and QR codes helped both onsite leaders and clinical staff screen patients and document patient information before and during the mass vaccination clinic. Honeywell’s Artificial Intelligence Pro-Watch Software was also used to help leaders monitor queues for the Charlotte Motor Speedway mass vaccination clinic and other mass vaccination events in Charlotte.
World’s most powerful telescope set to make history
The James Webb Telescope – named after the administrator who led NASA in its Apollo era – is the most advanced space telescope built in the history of space, and it’s been in development for more than 30 years.
A partnership between NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, the James Webb Space Telescope is planned to launch into space to look further into the universe’s past than any telescope has ever measured. Honeywell’s Aerospace engineers contributed the Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) technologies to the telescope, which are designed to help Webb point precisely and capture high-quality images in space.
Why it’s innovative: The Webb Telescope’s predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched in 1990, could peer 500 million years into the universe’s history. With the Webb Telescope, which is about 100 times stronger than Hubble, scientists can obtain a more detailed look at the cosmos than ever before.
Visibility to air quality risk
The importance of maintaining safe air quality indoors isn’t going away anytime soon. With Transmission Risk Air Monitor, small- to medium-sized indoor spaces like classrooms, restaurants and offices can be monitored for CO2 levels in real-time. This makes it easier to detect conditions that may increase the risk of exposure to airborne viral transmission.
Why it’s innovative: Powered by CO2, temperature and humidity sensors, the risk alert system illuminates in green, yellow and red to alert potential changes in air quality in a mobile app and online dashboard. This means that you don’t have to be present to check in on a room’s air quality. | aerospace |
https://www.indiatoday.in/topic/pilot-in-command?page=150 | 2021-05-17T05:08:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991557.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20210517023244-20210517053244-00632.warc.gz | 0.950313 | 832 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__65497331 | en | Four young women of Punjab are pushing the boundaries of the sport that they are pursuing with passion.
Updated : January 4, 2010, 10:30 am
Osama bin Laden. A Wall Street crash with Main Street casualties. The Internet. The iPhone. India Shining. T-20 triumphalism. A decade begun in the shadowof Y2K that saw India coming of age on the global stage. But if the post-liberalisation decade taught the nation that growth is possible with social justice, in the next 10years, it has to find the tenacity to stay on course to meet the revolution of perceived possibilities.
Updated : December 28, 2009, 11:00 am
The pilot of a Jet Airways plane pressed the throttle button so hard that it caused a jet blast, damaging an Air India flight.
Updated : December 28, 2009, 8:47 am
The early aviation players may have failed but they started a revolution.
Updated : December 25, 2009, 10:23 am
The IAF today strongly rebutted reports that an internal probe had given a "clean chit" to its pilots involved in the mishap of the President's helicopter at Bhubaneswar airport and blamed ground staff for the incident.
Updated : December 13, 2009, 10:22 pm
The Indian Air Force has instituted a Court of Inquiry into an incident when the rotor blades of a helicopter carrying President Pratibha Patil hit a shed at the Bhubaneshwar airport today.
Updated : December 9, 2009, 8:29 pm
Lives of 100 passengers on board a Jet Airways flight were endangered when a check pilot triggered an emergency situation mid-air to test the pilot's ability to handle it in a shocking incident that could have led to a crash.
Updated : December 2, 2009, 9:16 pm
On October 20, the Jet flight from Delhi to Mumbai was preparing to land when its navigation and landing aids malfunctioned.
Updated : December 2, 2009, 8:58 pm
The entire fleet of India's frontline Sukhoi-30MKI fighter aircraft has been grounded for precautionary checks following Monday's crash of one of the jets in Rajasthan.
Updated : December 2, 2009, 3:21 pm
President Pratibha Patil, who on Wednesday became the first woman head of state to fly in a frontline, multi-role fighter jet aircraft, described her Sukhoi-30 flight as a "wonderful and unique experience."
Updated : November 25, 2009, 3:41 pm
President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday made history by taking off in a frontline Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet aircraft from the air force base here, becoming the first woman head of state to fly in a warplane.
Updated : November 25, 2009, 2:45 pm
The entry of women as fighter pilots in Indian Air Force is under discussion at a "very high" level, Air Chief Marshal P V Naik said here today.
Updated : November 24, 2009, 10:52 pm
President Pratibha Patil is "medically fit" to fly in a frontline Sukhoi fighter aircraft, but would undertake the sortie only if found fit on the day of the flight, IAF chief P V Naik said today.
Updated : November 13, 2009, 1:16 pm
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik today flew to Pathankot air base in Punjab on a transport aircraft flown by his son Sqn Ldr V P Naik to interact with personnel from 26 Squadron in which both served.
Updated : October 30, 2009, 11:45 pm
With the Air India ( AI) pilots threatening to go on strike again, a
rattled airline management has stepped up efforts to arrange for more
funds from banks to pay the salaries, flying allowance and productivity
linked incentive ( PLI) to its employees, which has been held up.
Updated : October 30, 2009, 9:19 am | aerospace |
https://www.auvsi.org/industry-news/dji-seeking-partners-uas-integration-pilot-program | 2018-10-18T19:26:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511897.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20181018173140-20181018194640-00416.warc.gz | 0.941231 | 391 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__136873485 | en | DJI seeking partners for UAS Integration Pilot Program
DJI is looking to partner with state, local and tribal governments that are applying to take part in the FAA’s recently launched UAS Integration Pilot Program, which will provide opportunities for government and industry to experiment with advanced UAS operations and test new forms of airspace management.
Governments that are interested in participating in the UAS Integration Pilot Program have been asked by the FAA to work with UAS operators and manufacturers in their applications to be part of the pilot program.
With this in mind, DJI is inviting those governments to consider partnering with DJI, so that the “expertise and collaborative vitality” of their programs can be enhanced.
“DJI has worked for years with government officials around the world to help develop reasonable, safety-enhancing public policies while keeping open the pathways to innovation,” says Brendan Schulman, DJI Vice President of Policy and Legal Affairs.
“We would very much value the opportunity to work with U.S. state, local and tribal governments to develop smart and comprehensive strategies for expanding how drones can benefit their constituents while properly managing their integration into the airspace.”
Through a partnership, DJI says that it will offer significant equipment and expertise including, but not limited to, its UAS equipment, its new AeroScope “electronic license plate” technology, and access to DJI’s User Community.
DJI says that it welcomes other ideas for how it can “contribute to ambitious Integration Pilot Program proposals.”
Governments that are interested in working with DJI on a proposal should send a brief description of an anticipated proposal, along with contact information, to [email protected].
Governments interested in participating in the UAS Integration Pilot Program are required to submit a notice of intent by Nov. 28. | aerospace |
https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/news/faa-wants-us-dhc-3-operators-to-conduct-inspections-following-fatal-accident-100788309/ | 2023-02-01T07:10:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499911.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201045500-20230201075500-00828.warc.gz | 0.931911 | 425 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__10582710 | en | By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it was contacting De Havilland Canada DHC-3 operators in the United States to ensure they conduct inspections recommended by the manufacturer after a fatal crash in Washington state killed 10 last month.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) earlier issued an "urgent safety recommendation" asking the FAA and Transport Canada to take "immediate action" to require all operators of DHC-3 seaplanes to conduct an immediate one-time inspection of the horizontal stabilizer actuator lock ring in accordance with the instructions from Viking Air Ltd.
In September, a DHC-3 entered a nose-down near-vertical descent and crashed into Mutiny Bay, Washington. NTSB investigators found the horizontal stabilizer actuator, part of the airplane's pitch trim control system, had separated into two pieces.
Transport Canada said its "aviation safety experts are reviewing the United States National Transportation Safety Board recommendation carefully and will not hesitate to take immediate actions regarding the aircraft to ensure public safety."
A letter from Viking Air Ltd on Wednesday reviewed by Reuters recommended "aircraft operators and maintainers inspect the stabilizer actuator and verify that the lock ring is present and correctly installed." NTSB wants FAA and Transport Canada to mandate the inspections.
"Immediate action needs to be taken to inspect the actuator of DHC-3 airplanes, of which 40% operate in the United States, to prevent a similar tragedy from happening," NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a statement.
The FAA said there are about 68 DHC-3 planes registered in the United States. Viking owns the manufacturing rights to the DHC-3 but does not build it.
Viking Air said it "continues to support the NTSB in their ongoing investigation" and noted it had issued the letter to operators. The FAA said it could take additional action based on any additional actions the Canadian authorities take.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Richard Pullin) | aerospace |
http://financefollow.com/2017/09/with-indian-rocket-launch-failure-2017-seeing-a-higher-accident-rate/ | 2018-05-21T12:42:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864186.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521122245-20180521142245-00382.warc.gz | 0.958306 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__102717291 | en | On Thursday, the Indian space agency, ISRO, suffered a rare failure when its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle failed to launch a navigation satellite into its proper orbit. It was the first failure of the workhorse launch vehicle, which is capable of lifting about four tons to low Earth orbit, in two decades.
So far, the Indian space agency has yet to say too much about the cause of the failure. Officials have confirmed that the payload fairing did not detach properly from the rocket after launch. This is the protective shroud around the satellite that protects it during the ride through the atmosphere. During brief moments of the webcast, the satellite could be seen trying to separate inside the fairing.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle flies about half a dozen times a year, and in recent years, operators of small satellites have booked flights on the Indian rocket due to its lower cost (approximately $15 million) and reliability. Earlier this year, for example, the Indian rocket launched dozens of small commercial satellites at the same time. The payload lost Thursday was the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System 1H satellite. | aerospace |
https://www.f-16.net/f-22-news-article4254.html | 2022-08-13T18:03:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00647.warc.gz | 0.979126 | 348 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__17431203 | en | November 20, 2010 (by Lieven Dewitte) - The U.S. Air Force confirmed on Friday that the F-22 Raptor pilot that crashed in Alaska earlier this week during a night time training mission perished in the accident.
Air Force officials initially had held out hope that the pilot, Captain Jeffrey Haney, might have ejected from the plane and survived Tuesday night's crash.
"Based on evidence recovered from the crash site, and after two days of extensive aerial and ground search efforts, we know that Captain Haney did not eject from the aircraft prior to impact," Colonel Jack McMullen, commander of the Air Force 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, said in a statement.
Search teams at the wreckage site, about 100 miles north of Anchorage, found part of Haney's ejection seat and several items the pilot wore during the flight, McMullen said.
"Sadly, we can no longer consider this a search and rescue operation but must now focus on recovery operations," he said.
Haney was married with two children. He joined the Air Force in 2003 and has been at the Anchorage base for 4 1/2 years.
The F-22 took off Tuesday from the joint Air Force and Army base for a training run.
The jet and a second F-22 practised "intercepts" and were nearing completion of the exercise when one aircraft disappeared from ground radar tracking and from communications with the other F-22 at 19:40h local Tuesday.
An air search had been ongoing, with searchers looking for any sign of a parachute or a fire the pilot might have started had he been able to eject from the plane. | aerospace |
https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/4331 | 2022-10-02T22:02:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337360.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002212623-20221003002623-00627.warc.gz | 0.962378 | 186 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__185011258 | en | Wing Commander Moreshwar Waman Tilak was commissioned in the Flying Branch of the Indian Air Force in August, 1952. After serving with a number of Squadrons, he was given training as a Flying Instructor and Test Pilot. He has been serving as a Test Pilot on deputation with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited since October, 1962.
He has been actively associated with the development and flight testing of Marut and Kiran aircraft in different phases of production at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. His personal contribution towards development of these aircraft is of an outstanding nature. Out of a total of 1970 hours of test flying done by him, 857 flights comprising 538 hours was on prototype testing. Often working beyond the call of duty, he has displayed exemplary courage and outstanding professional skill.
Wing Commander Moreshwar Waman Tilak has thus rendered distinguished service of an exceptional order. | aerospace |
https://neuck.com/canada/spacex-is-set-up-for-its-first-box-on-friday-2019/ | 2019-10-20T19:05:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986718918.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20191020183709-20191020211209-00445.warc.gz | 0.952475 | 439 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__15849092 | en | Again of a successful airship campaign in 2018, which included a 21-minute record, SpaceX has a & # 39; Return to the Friday launchpad for his first mission of the new year. The startup window will open at 10:31 AM ET (3:31 PM UTC).
This is the 8th and SpaceX final event to stop 75 new news communications for Iridium. For this purpose, SpaceX will send 10 of the Iridium AIR AIR troops to the low polar orbit of Earth.
Initially started for her & # 39; This mission was announced in September, and launched the Telstar tune 18 into the nose to move geography. It circulated at sea seaside constraint in a relatively high level in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This time, the rocket will try to land on the droneship Read the Guidelines based in the Pacific Ocean.
In all, this should be a mission for SpaceX, without a crazy flying profile or experimental exams. After that, the Falcon 9 rocket has been running to & # 39; This estimation is seven times earlier, and its first "certified" is in the sense that it has gone once.
It is not expected to have SpaceX a & # 39; try to pay recovery revival, as the company still has a & # 39; fulfilling its approach to doing so. As well as analyzing data from previous concerts, SpaceX is a unique opportunity from a helicopter off the California coast and its location. Try to catch the boat Mr StevenNext Post Earlier this week, some companies left out instead of getting caught of one of these tests.
After 18 missions in 2017 and 21 confidence in 2018, how many rocays do not have to launch SpaceX will be the one that will; targeted in 2019. However, it is a reasonable commitment that its company has a " try 16 to 20 Falcon hands 9 and twice to Falcon Heavy.
A webcast for a Friday morning start-up effort should start 15 minutes before opening the startup window. Should weather (60% chance of favorable situations) or a technical case that can trigger an attempt, SpaceX's backup window is available on Saturday morning at 15:25 PM UTC. | aerospace |
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/86/320 | 2022-08-12T03:17:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00548.warc.gz | 0.966135 | 627 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__112603114 | en | This extremely historically significant World War II A-2 flight jacket showcases two all African-American fighter squadron emblems, the 100th Fighter Squadron and 302nd Fighter Squadron. In all there were only four African-American fighter squadrons to enter combat in World War II, and they trace their origins to the original Tuskegee Airmen. The term Tuskegee Airmen references African-American U.S. Army Air Forces servicemen, not just pilots, who fought in World War II. All were trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field and Tuskegee Institute near Tuskegee, Alabama. There were only 922 pilots, and they were the first African-American military aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces. The 100th FS and 302nd FS were part of the famed 332nd Fighter Group, better known as “The Redtails.” The crimson painted vertical stabilizers of the aircraft earned the unit the nickname. As an all African-American unit, “The Redtails” not only fought Nazism but also American prejudice. These were courageous men who had to overcome their own military establishment's belief that African-Americans were unable to become pilots as they were inferior to white Americans. The Tuskegee Airmen flew over 15,000 individual sorties in the European and Mediterranean Theater of Operations and earned an impressive record that paved the way for integration of the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948. In fact, the 332nd FG was one of the USAAF’s most successful and most decorated units to come out of World War II. The legacy of the 302nd FS continues to this day as it was reactivated as part of the 477th Fighter Group at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, in 2007 to become the Air Force Reserve Command’s first unit equipped with the F-22 Raptor. Also in 2007, the 100th FS was re-designated and replaced the 160th FS of the Alabama Air National Guard. The return of the 100th as a fighter squadron honored the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen that began in the state. The size 34 jacket was made by Bronco Manufacturing Co. (contract no. W33-38AC-176) and has a Talon zipper. The left chest features a pilot wing embossed on leather above a wonderful embroidered 302nd FS patch depicting a flying devil. On the right chest is a multi-color leather 100th FS patch depicting a winged panther sitting on top of a world globe. Emblems on both shoulders have been removed. Provenance: The Putnam Green/Sycamore Collection
Good. The cuffs and waist band show wear and repairs. The leather shows age and wear. The 100th FS patch is well worn. The 302nd FS patch mostly retains tight stitching and is a fine example of an embroidery squadron emblem. A great opportunity to acquire a World War II A-2 flight jacket with not one but two famed Tuskegee Airmen squadron patches! | aerospace |
https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/reference-centre/exemptions-canadian-aviation-regulations-cars/exemption-subsection-6021281-canadian-aviation-regulations-3 | 2022-10-05T06:40:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337537.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005042446-20221005072446-00447.warc.gz | 0.910692 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__265936593 | en | Pursuant to subsection 5.9(2) of the Aeronautics Act, and after having determined that this exemption is in the public interest and is not likely to affect aviation safety, I hereby exempt the pilot-in-command of an IFR aircraft from the requirements set out in subsection 602.128(1) of the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs), subject to the conditions specified in this exemption.
Subsection 602.128(1) of the CARs stipulates that no pilot-in-command of an IFR aircraft shall conduct an instrument approach procedure except in accordance with the minima specified in the Canada Air Pilot or the route and approach inventory.
The purpose of this exemption is to allow the pilot-in-command of an IFR aircraft to conduct instrument approach procedures using minima specified in the Restricted Canada Air Pilot.
This exemption applies to the pilots-in-command of IFR aircraft operated pursuant to an air operator certificate, a foreign air operator certificate or a private operator certificate.
For the purpose of this exemption:
"Restricted Canada Air Pilot" - means an aeronautical information publication that contains information on instrument procedures and that is published under the authority of the Minister of Transport.
This exemption is subject to the following conditions:
- When conducting an instrument approach procedure published in the Restricted Canada Air Pilot, the pilot-in-command shall:
- be employed by an air operator or a private operator who holds the appropriate operations specification for the instrument approach procedure being flown;
- conduct the instrument approach in accordance with the published minima; and
- comply with the conditions specified in the Operations Specification and with any conditions included with the published instrument approach procedure.
- When not conducting an instrument approach procedure in accordance with the minima specified in the Restricted Canada Air Pilot, the pilot-in-command of an IFR aircraft shall continue to meet the requirements of subsection 602.128(1) of the CARs by conducting an instrument approach procedure to the minima that are contained in the Canada Air Pilot.
This exemption is in effect until the earliest of the following:
- September 1st, 2009 at 23:59 EDT;
- the date on which any of the conditions set out in this exemption is breached; or
- the date on which the exemption is cancelled by the Minister, in writing, where he is of the opinion that it is no longer in the public interest, or that it is likely to affect aviation safety.
DATED at Ottawa, Canada this 9th day of September, 2008, on behalf of the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
“Original signed by Merlin Preuss 34 “ on September 9th, 2008
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https://geo-matching.com/photogrammetric-imagery-processing-software?page=4 | 2018-12-19T15:28:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376832559.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20181219151124-20181219173124-00598.warc.gz | 0.895022 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__103692382 | en | Photogrammetry is the process of using overlapping aerial images to extract exact ground positions. With Photogrammetric Imagery Processing Software this process is automated and delivers a variety of products such as maps, orthophotos, point clouds and three-dimensional models.
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http://www.oneidadispatch.com/lifestyle/20140902/steven-tofte-named-commander-of-752nd-operations-support-squadron | 2018-05-25T12:59:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867092.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525121739-20180525141739-00250.warc.gz | 0.948835 | 138 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__97791673 | en | Air Force Lt. Col. Steven E. Tofte has assumed command of 752nd Operations Support Squadron during a ceremony held June 6 at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.
Tofte is the son of Marguerite P. and George V. Tofte of Sherrill.
He is a 1991 graduate of Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1997 from University of Nebraska at Omaha.
The 752nd OSS provides combat readiness functions and staff support for two combat coded air control squadrons. Before taking command, Tofte served as the 752nd OSS director of operations. | aerospace |
https://mm.smartfares.com/airlines/buddha-air-U4 | 2024-04-20T04:48:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817474.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420025340-20240420055340-00779.warc.gz | 0.952179 | 229 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__167946485 | en | About Buddha Air
Buddha Air is an airline based in Nepal, which was founded in 1997. The airline operates domestic as well as international services to 12 destinations in India and Nepal from its hub at the Tribhuvan International Airport. It is the largest airline operator in Nepal that connects the country to India and several more parts of the world. The airline mainly flies to large towns and cities in Nepal, linking Kathmandu with ten destinations and Varanasi of India. Buddha Air also regulates mountain flights from Kathmandu to the Everest range.
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Buddha Air aims at providing best in-flight amenities to all its passengers. The services provided by the airline include newspaper, cold drinks, and light snacks for Nepalgunj, Bhadrapur and Dhangadi flights.
The Web Check-In facility was not available with Buddha Air; when this page was last updated. | aerospace |
https://eastlothianatwar.co.uk/page-6/Air%20Accidents.html | 2024-04-20T14:02:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00527.warc.gz | 0.978909 | 1,913 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__124414418 | en | The Hawker Typhoon
The first flight of a production Typhoon was in May 1941, a little over a year after the prototype's first flight in February 1940. The Hawker Typhoon was to become a formidable aircraft in due course, particularly at low level, but in the scramble to build Spitfires, Hurricanes and other aircraft types needed immediately, the Typhoon came well down the priority list for the overburdened production lines.
An additional brake upon the development and production of the Typhoon, lay in the persistence of some serious design faults, the most deadly being a weakness at the point where the main fuselage was attached to the tail unit. A number of pilots lost their lives as the tail could sheer off when subjected to severe stresses, for example, during the pull out from dives. In fact, one of the test pilots, Ken Seth-Smith, was killed in August 1942, when his aircraft broke up in flight. The loss of DN364 in East Lothian was an example of this very problem.
197 Squadron had formed at RAF Turnhouse but had moved on to Drem in November 1943. It was stationed at Drem till 28th March 1943. It received its first batch of Typhoons on the 28th November from a contract for three hundred Typhoon Ib's which had been built by the Gloster Aircraft Company at its facility at Hucclecote in Gloucestershire. During its time at Drem, the squadron lost four Typhoons: DN313; DN364; DN365 and DN366.
Sergeant Cecil Francis Beechey, 656761 RAF, a member of 197 Squadron, took off at 16.15 hrs from RAF Drem on a forty-five minute local flight in perfectly good weather conditions. His aircraft was fuelled and fully armed with his four cannon loaded and Beechey was experienced on this type of aircraft. This was probably a training flight, perhaps designed to simply test run the aircraft or to familiarise himself further with the type. Sergeant Beechey had no designated task to perform. Normal radio contact was made at 16.20 hrs but nothing more was heard from him.
Around 16.35 hrs witnesses on the ground around East Linton heard an aircraft diving through the cloud at 762 m (2,500 feet). John W. Steele was an eye-witness of what then happened. He wrote:
"About 16.35 hrs on the 28th January 1943, many of us in East Linton had just finished work and were returning home when we became aware of a Hawker Typhoon roughly over Smeaton. Suddenly we heard a bang and the tail section of the aircraft parted company with the main fuselage. The tail fluttered to the ground like a leaf while the main part of the plane plunged straight down and crashed into a brick shed in Kingsburgh Gardens, killing the pilot and Kingsburgh employee John McDonald. The whole scene was a blazing inferno with burning fire and exploding ammunition."
[My apologies for the poor quality of this photo. Perhaps someone out there has a better one?]
Very few civilians were killed in air accidents in East Lothian during the war: those at Beech Hill, David Mathieson at Ferny Ness and John. It was sheer bad luck in all cases.
The official report
Fighter Command's Accident Investigation branch paid close attention to this crash and it corroborated John Steele's account when it reported that: "…several witnesses had their attention drawn by the engine note to an aircraft which broke cloud in a dive at about 2,500 feet (762 m). It was seen to pull out of the dive but this was immediately followed by a cracking noise, a distinct nose down change of trim and the separation of the tail unit.
The Accident Investigation report on the 4th March concluded that the pilot was in good health and experienced, that the weather was fine and that there was "No evidence…to suggest that there had been any fault or neglect in maintenance, workmanship or material."
Showing that attention was still being paid to the design of the Typhoon, the report stated that: "The cause of the accident appears to have been a failure in the neighbourhood of the transport joint, and investigation into the stresses to which this part is subjected in flight is proceeding."
Indicating the force involved in the crash, the report described how: "The scattered parts were found along a line running approximately downwind to the north-east from the main wreckage over a distance of over one and a half miles."
As a result of the evidence gathered at accidents like this one, the Typhoon's tail was strengthened by fixing metal plates all round the weak area near the tail.
The loss of other 197 Squadron Typhoons
Three days before 197 Squadron became officially operational, Flying Officer Auriol Stephen Nutcombe Gould, 124422 RAFVR, took off from Drem to fly cross country to RAF Heathfield, an airfield close to RAF Prestwick and not far from the town of Ayr. He was twenty-one years old. He does not appear to have flown there in a direct line but, either deliberately or by accident, flew due west and, some miles beyond Glasgow, he flew into Queenside Muir in Renfrewshire. The hills there are similar to the Lammermuirs and only rise to some 453 m (1,551 feet). However, on this day they were completely hidden in mist and rain. Eyewitnesses reported hearing the aircraft approaching in the mist and heard the sounds of the crash. P/O Gould is buried in South Queensferry cemetery.
Typhoon DN313 - lost 14 February 1943
Frenchman Flying Officer Roger Bokobza, 124377 RAFVR took off on a night training flight from Drem. He was twenty-one years old and not long married to Evelyn Valerie Bokobza. At 02.14 hrs he contacted his base by RT but, in the short time it took for Flying Control at Drem to reply, he had flown into the high ground above Hall's Farm. This lies some three kilometres south-east of Stenton, East Lothian, and is on the very edge of the eastern Lammermuir Hills.
The station's accident report stated that he had disregarded safety heights and had made an error in navigation. This bald explanation, however, was tempered by the inclusion of references to a '…possible failure of radio,' and that 'Flying Control Drem should have told Flying Control East Fortune of the failure of Drem occult [sic] at 00.30 hrs.' The report admitted that the '..Radio control was not efficient [?] should have been told about occult [sic].' Readers may have a better understanding of the word 'occult' in this context. Please let me know if you do.
The crash site is close to the Q Site at Halls Farm.
Roger Bokobza was buried in Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery and his gravestone was inscribed:
"Sa mort a déchiré nos coeurs,
On ne peut t'oublier.
Adieu, enfant cheri, adoré."
Typhoon DN366 - lost 14 February 1943
On the very same day as F/O Bokobza crashed, if a few hours later and in daylight, Sergeant Pilot Jack Bowler, 657896 RAF, took off from Drem on a training flight. Sgt Bowler was twenty-eight years old and was married to Mollie CM Bowler. The station's Accident Report noted the time as 14.05 hrs and stated that the:
"A/c flew into rising ground. …Pilot entered cloud in a turn at [a] dangerously low altitude. Instead of straightening out and climbing to a safe height, he continued in a shallow turning dive from which there was no room to recover on breaking cloud." It later continued: "Pilot lost control in low cloud. Pilot was inexperienced on type in cloud flying."
Sgt Pilot Bowler hit the ground some 500 yards from Fasney Cottage, deep in the Lammermuir Hills on the Gifford to Longformacus Road. As the photographs below show, wreckage still remains at the site.
During training and until they gained sufficient experience, pilots found it difficult to fly the Typhoon (and similarly many other types) in cloud. The Accident Report noted this danger and made recommendations for changes. The Report continued:
"[It is recommended] pilots be warned of difficulty they may find in turning Typhoon a/c accurately in cloud at first and told how to straighten them up and climb to safe ht." The O/C 197 Sq and the Air Officer Commanding both agreed with this suggested improvement in training instructions. As the Report concluded: "Action taken in effort to prevent recurrence of this type of accident on Typhoons."
Sergeant Jack Bowler is buried in South Hayling (St Mary's) Cemetery on Hayling Island near Portsmouth.
Site of Sgt Bowler's crash near Fasney Cottage, Lammermuirs.
[Photograph courtesy of Glenda Linton]
More detailed photographs of the remains of Sgt Bowler's Typhoon, Fasney Cottage
[Photographs courtesy of Glenda Linton] | aerospace |
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Version Info: This is the ARF+ version for pilots who wish to install their own power system. All primary electronics including servos and landing gear come pre-installed, just add your own power system (EDF, motor, and ESC) to begin flying.
The A-4 Skyhawk commands a beloved place in aviation history. Designed by the famed Ed Heinemann for Douglas Aircraft in the 1950s, the A-4 was optimized as a multi-role aircraft that used its low weight, high maneuverability, and straightforward reliability to lethal advantage. The Skyhawk’s nearly 70 year history of distinguished service and its continued operation to this day is testament to the timelessness of “Heinemann’s Hotrod.”
To honor this beloved aircraft we proudly offer the Freewing 80mm A-4E/F Skyhawk! The biggest mass produced foam electric A-4 in the world. Nearly the same scale as Freewing’s popular MiG-21, Freewing’s A-4 is part of our “big 80” series and like the MiG-21 was designed to accommodate a wide range of battery sizes. See the comparison photo with our Freewing twin 80mm F-14 to get a sense of the A-4’s overall displacement!
The Freewing 80mm A-4E/F Skyhawk features all new fold-and-twist retracts, with durable aluminum trailing link struts for confident operation on rough grass runways. Removable wings, flexible wing wire harnesses, and a magnetic nose cone enable quick takedown for easy transportation. In addition to the A-4’s overall scale profile fidelity, other scale details include plastic split flaps, plastic arrestor hook and cannon barrels, and plastic intakes. A complete ordnance package is also included, featuring detachable magnetic fuel tanks and AGM-12 Bullpup missiles and outer pylons, and a removable refueling probe. The ultimate in convenience, only twelve screws and one glue joint complete the primary assembly of the aircraft. Brass ball links, reliable control hardware, and digital servos provide positive control as you dominate the skies in your ‘Scooter’!
Adding to the model’s visual versatility, the later version avionics “hump” is also included! Attach this magnetic “hump” onto the fuselage’s upper spine to change between two variants of the Skyhawk. Two complete waterslide decal sets are also included, depicting a US Navy A-4 from VA-22 and a US Marines A-4 from VMA-311. Fly either of these with pride, or personalize you’re A-4 with another livery of your choosing! We partner with Callie-Graphics.com for professional custom decals.
We recommend the Freewing 80mm A-4E/F Skyhawk for Intermediate pilots and above with prior experience on other Freewing 80mm EDF jets, operating on paved or short cut grass runways. Flying with full ordnance and the avionics hump gives pilots a different experience than flying fully clean, so we encourage pilots to try all configurations. We prefer flying without the draggy fuel tanks, but with the Bullpup missiles, both for “cool” factor and for orientation. In the air, the Freewing A-4 is a balance between the Freewing F-86 and the Freewing Mirage –easy to fly yet quick to disappear! Like a typical delta wing, the A-4 bleeds speed in turns, and has a very fast and axial roll rate. See the manual for flap-to-elevator mixing to bring in your Skyhawk slow and slightly nose high for perfect landings every time!
Visit the Official Freewing A-4E/F Skyhawk Discussion Thread on HobbySquawk.com for additional photos, videos, reviews, and customer Q&A.
- Includes magnetic Avionics “Hump” to alternate between -E and -F variants
- Optimized wing design allows for stability both in slow and high speeds
- Magnetic fuel tanks and AGM-12 Bullpup missiles
- All New Rotating Retracts with Trailing Link Struts
- Removable wings and stabilizers for convenient transport
- Removable nose cone and refueling probe
- Plastic Split Flaps
- Includes waterslide decals for US NAVY VA-22 “Fighting Redcocks” and US MARINES VMA-311 “Tomcats”
- Freewing A-4E/F Skyhawk 80mm EDF Jet - ARF PLUS
- Servos and electronic landing gear pre-installed
- Brushless motor, EDF unit and ESC (see specifications for details)
- 6 Channel Radio - Select a minimum 6 channel radio from our Radio Collection
- 6 Channel Receiver - Select a minimum 6 channel receiver from our Receiver Collection
- 6 Cell 22.2V 4000 or 5000 mAh LiPo Battery with EC5 connector - We recommend EPR50006
- 6 Cell Compatible Battery Charger - Select a minimum 6 cell (6S) charger from our Charger Collection
940mm / 37in.
1430mm / 56.29in.
2200g / 78oz including missiles/tanks, without battery
CG (Center of Gravity)
195mm from the leading edge of the wing at the root
Recommended Power System
3530-1850Kv Brushless Outrunner Motor (recommended)
Recommended Electronic Speed Control
100A ESC, 5A BEC, EC5 Connector (recommended)
Recommended Propeller / EDF
80mm Metal EDF with 12 Blade Fan (recommended)
Electronic retractable main gear and steerable nose gear with all metal shock absorbing struts
6S 22.2V 5000mAh LiPo with EC5 Connector
Nylon reinforced hinges
Outdoor, 300+ foot paved runway or short manicured grass
Product Spare Parts | aerospace |
https://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov/example-53.html | 2019-02-22T12:09:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247517815.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222114817-20190222140817-00004.warc.gz | 0.882533 | 95 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__195272687 | en | Application #53. Unsteady Space Shuttle Cable Tray Analysis
Contributed by Russ Rausch, NASA Langley
Time-accurate transonic computation done to predict shedding frequency as a function of Mach number in support of the shuttle Return to Flight program.
The geometry represents a cable tray that runs along the side of the booster.
This material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. | aerospace |
https://spectra-aerodef.com/capabilities/ | 2024-04-16T22:48:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817112.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416222403-20240417012403-00816.warc.gz | 0.867819 | 189 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__73487717 | en | When it matters most, Spectra is your trusted solutions provider.
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- The Spectra family of companies’ leading-edge technologies have been fielded on some of the most demanding platforms worldwide with performance exceeding customer expectations. When it matters most, Spectra is your trusted solutions provider. | aerospace |
https://ops.group/blog/its-raining-space-junk-over-europe/ | 2023-11-28T09:37:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099281.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128083443-20231128113443-00853.warc.gz | 0.964015 | 398 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__81184897 | en | Update July 31: Space debris from a rocket launch in China last week splashed down harmlessly in the Indian Ocean on July 30. It made headlines for a few reasons – it was very large, was on an uncontrolled trajectory, and could have landed in Western Europe. Future launches may carry the same risks – the next one is planned for October.
Something big this way falls.
A large bit of space junk is due to re-enter, and so far they aren’t exactly sure where.
The Space Junk.
It is part of the Long March CZ-5B – the core stage of the rocket launched July 24 to send models of the Chinese Space Station up into space.
This hefty lump of junk is actually one of the biggest bits to ever re-enter, weighing in at an impressive 17 to 23 tonnes and measuring 53 meters. That’s after bits have burnt off…
It is due to fall back around July 30 or July 31.
It is being tracked by the EUSST (EU Space Surveillance and Tracking) agency which you can visit here.
Here is the current re-entry window. The latest is saying Sunday July 31 at 1107z (but with a +/- 29 hour uncertainty window which is about 38 orbits).
And here is the current re-entry track…
It is predicted to most likely effect parts of Southern Europe – Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain being the most likely “fall” areas. Again, as it falls closer, this will be narrowed down.
Are we worried?
Not really. They’re tracking it and as it gets closer and a clear idea of where it will fall is available, Notams on airspace closures will be issued.
Here is the EASA SIB with all their information and advice to date on it.
More on the topic:
- More: Rocket Debris in Bodø | aerospace |
https://scroll.in/latest/1036042/gaganyaan-mission-isro-to-begin-test-flights-from-february-2023 | 2024-03-01T18:50:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475422.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301161412-20240301191412-00679.warc.gz | 0.956447 | 414 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__171338744 | en | The Indian Space Research Organisation will begin a series of test flights for its Gaganyaan mission from February 2023, R Umamaheshwaran, the director of the agency’s Human Space Flight Centre said on Thursday, reported PTI.
Under the Gaganyaan mission, India aims to send a space flight carrying three astronauts to a Low Earth Orbit for three days. It will be India’s first manned mission to space.
Umamaheshwaran said that the space agency is planning to deploy the Chinook helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft for testing the crew module, which will carry the astronauts.
“The crew module, where the astronauts are supposed to sit and fly, is completed and the fabrication work is on,” Umamaheshwaran said, according to PTI. “Within six months, we will get the crew module.”
He said that the design of the Environment Control System, which will ensure ambient living conditions for astronauts while orbiting the earth, has also been completed by scientists.
“We have to provide oxygen, remove carbon dioxide, remove humidity, maintain temperature and also ensure there is no fire hazard,” Umamaheshwaran said. “This is a very complex technology which no country would give us.”
Umamaheshwaran added that the task of designing the crew module and environment control system was challenging as one had to keep in mind the comfort of astronauts during their re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere when the temperature outside the space capsule could reach over 2,000 degrees Celsius.
He also said that the four candidates shortlisted for the mission have completed their exercises in Russia and are undergoing further training in Bengaluru.
The Gaganyaan mission was initially planned to be launched in 2022 but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The maiden spaceflight is now expected by the end of 2024 or early 2025, according to PTI. | aerospace |
http://www.bushradionews.blogspot.com/2010/04/volcanic-ash-cloud-costing-airlines.html | 2013-05-25T02:45:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705352205/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115552-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.912588 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__24718710 | en | Volcanic ash cloud costing airlines millionns a day
By Kim Saulse
17 April 2010
Air traffic disruptions resulting from the volcanic ash cloud hanging over Europe is costing the International Air Transport Association more than R15 million a day.
The Association has set up a crisis centre in Montreal that is working closely with European air navigation services.
Spokesperson Anthony Concil says aside from lost revenue, airlines will also accrue additional costs for rerouting their aircraft and reimbursing stranded passengers. | aerospace |
https://en.antaranews.com/news/77419/sriwijaya-air-orders-22-planes?utm_source=antaranews&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=related_news | 2021-09-22T17:37:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057371.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922163121-20210922193121-00052.warc.gz | 0.959632 | 226 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__211300147 | en | The planes consisted of 12 Boeing 737-500s, five Boeing 737-800 NGs and five Embraer E-190s, PT Sriwijaya Air President Director Chandra Lie said.
"The addition of planes will serve as the company`s strength to realize its commitment to upholding safety and services," he said in a written statement.
The arrival of new airplanes to replace aging ones would strengthen the airline`s fleet to expand its flight routes, he said.
"The arrival of Boeing 737-500s at the end of the first quarter of 2012 will serve as a milestone for us to make a significant change in which customers will enjoy Sriwijaya Air`s new services which will be more interesting and have special values for customers," he said.
The Boeing 737-500s would serve both business and economic class passengers, he said.
The introduction of business-class seats would make Sriwijaya Air an airline with new services, namely two classes in one flight, he said.
Sriwijaya Air is currently operating a total of 30 airplanes of different types. | aerospace |
https://www.wiley.law/alert-UAS_Alert_An_Overview_of_the_FAAs_New_Part_107_Waiver_Process | 2024-02-23T03:10:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474360.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223021632-20240223051632-00512.warc.gz | 0.943316 | 1,634 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__206907408 | en | An Overview of the FAA’s New Part 107 Waiver Process
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has begun granting waivers of its recently-adopted small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) rules (Part 107) pursuant to a new waiver process rolled out when the rules became effective in August of this year. The majority of the waivers granted thus far authorize night time UAS flights, and set forth common conditions that will be applicable to all waiver recipients.
The Waiver Process
When the FAA adopted the Part 107 rules, it established a mechanism for waiver of specific provisions to allow for “additional operating flexibility” and provide “a bridging mechanism for new and emerging technologies” between FAA rulemakings on UAS operations. The FAA explained that the issuance of a waiver would require a finding by the Administrator that the proposed operations “can safely be conducted under the terms of a certificate of waiver.” The agency’s intention was that the waiver process would be more streamlined and quicker than the legacy Section 333 exemption process used to authorize commercial UAS operations prior to the adoption of Part 107.
Thus far, the agency appears to be meeting its goal of offering a streamlined process. The application form itself is a key example. The agency has established a simple online form for waiver applications, which went live upon adoption of the rules on August 29, 2016. The form requires the applicant to designate a person responsible for the safety of operations conducted under the waiver, and requests information about the pilot, aircraft, waiver duration, and location, if the request is site-specific. The form provides a box for a narrative description of the purpose of the operation and method by which the proposed operation can be conducted safely.
The First Series of Granted Waivers
The FAA has issued more than three dozen certificates of waiver or authorization (COA) through the new online waiver process, the vast majority of which provide relief from Section 107.29 to enable night time operations. The agency appears to be imposing a standard set of conditions for night time flights:
- All operations under the waiver must use one or more visual observer (VO);
- Prior to conducting operations covered by the waiver, the Responsible Person listed on the waiver must ensure the remote pilot-in-command (PIC) and VO are trained, as described in the waiver application, to recognize and overcome visual illusions caused by darkness, and understand physiological conditions which may degrade night vision. This training must be documented and must be presented for inspection upon request from the Administrator or an authorized representative;
- The remote PIC and VO must ensure the area of operation is sufficiently illuminated to allow both the remote PIC and VO to identify people or obstacles on the ground, or the remote PIC and VO must conduct a daytime site assessment prior to conducting operations covered by the waiver, noting any hazards or obstructions;
- The UAS must be equipped with lighted anti-collision lighting visible from a distance of no less than three statute miles. The remote PIC may reduce the intensity of the anti-collision lighting if he or she determines that, because of operating conditions, it would be in the interest of safety to do so; and
- In addition to the requirements of § 107.51(b), the UAS must not fly higher than 200 feet above any structure’s immediate uppermost limit.
In addition, the new COAs list a series of “common provisions” that will be applicable to all waiver recipients regardless of the rule waived:
- The waiver may not be combined with any other waiver(s), authorizations(s), or exemption(s) without specific authorization from the FAA;
- The FAA has the authority to cancel or delay any or all flight operations if the safety of persons or property on the ground or in the air, are in jeopardy or there is a violation of the terms of the waiver;
- Operations under the waiver are to be conducted in Class G airspace only unless specific airspace authorization or waiver is received from the FAA in accordance with § 107.41;
- A copy of the waiver must be available during UAS operations conducted pursuant to the waiver;
- The Responsible Person listed on the waiver must maintain a current list of pilots by name and remote pilot certificate number used in the Waiver holder’s operations. This list must be presented for inspection upon request from the Administrator or an authorized representative; and
- The Responsible Person listed on the waiver must maintain a current list of small UAS by registration number(s) used in the Waiver holder’s operations. This list must be presented for inspection upon request from the Administrator or an authorized representative.
Entities looking to operate UAS beyond the bounds of the Part 107 rules should monitor the FAA’s list of granted waivers to determine if other applicants have received the desired relief. Although the FAA does not publish the applications submitted by waiver recipients, the FAA does publish the resulting COAs, which can provide guidance about the types of safety measures and precautions that should be included in a waiver application to enable the agency to make the requisite safety findings. In addition, the FAA’s website indicates that the agency will provide a list of standard conditions for waivers from specific Part 107 rules, though this guidance has not yet been posted.
To the extent an entity seeks authorization from a provision the agency has not yet waived, the entity should endeavor to identify appropriate safety measures and fully describe them in the application. The FAA’s waiver instructions provide that request for waiver from a given rule should address all of the performance standards the FAA has identified for that rule. The agency may ask for additional information in response to a waiver request, and the FAA has indicated that a failure to respond to such a request within 30 days will result in a withdrawal of the application. Waiver processing times will vary depending on the complexity of the request, but the FAA has said it will “strive to respond” to all requests within 90 days.
The following Part 107 provisions are waivable:
- Operation from a moving vehicle or aircraft (§ 107.25)
- Daylight operation (§ 107.29)
- Visual line of sight aircraft operation (§ 107.31)
- Visual observer (§ 107.33)
- Operation of multiple small UAS (§ 107.35)
- Yielding the right of way (§ 107.37(a))
- Operation over people (§ 107.39)
- Operation in certain airspace (§ 107.41)
- Operating limitations for small UAS (§ 107.51)
Other Forms of Relief
In addition to waivers, the online waiver application form enables entities to request authorization to operate in classes of airspace not permitted by Part 107. This section of the application is designed to provide a simplified mechanism for Section 107.41, which provides that “[n]o person may operate a small unmanned aircraft in Class B, Class C, or Class D airspace or within the lateral boundaries of the surface area of Class E airspace designated for an airport unless that person has prior authorization from Air Traffic Control (ATC).”
The FAA also will continue to work through remaining Section 333 petitions that were pending as of effective date of the Part 107 rules. Where a pending petition’s proposed operations could be conducted under Part 107, the FAA closed the docket and took no further action. Where the operations required a waiver of Part 107, the FAA planned to process the petition as if it were a waiver request submitted pursuant to the new waiver process. The FAA has processed several dozen Section 333 petitions as waiver requests since the Part 107 rules became effective, many of which requested authorization for night time flight.
Entities looking to perform UAS operations that cannot be conducted under a Part 107 waiver can still seek authorization pursuant to the legacy Section 333 exemption process. Any pending Section 333 petitions that fall into this category will continue to be processed as Section 333 petitions. | aerospace |
http://whalesinspace.com/2013/04/18/nasa-to-announce-it-has-found-aliens-maybe/ | 2017-12-17T17:42:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948597295.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217171653-20171217193653-00368.warc.gz | 0.843897 | 301 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__191501169 | en | In March of 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft with the specific mission of cataloging planets that could possibly be a home to extraterrestrial life. On Thursday April 18th, 2013, NASA will announce something…
“The centuries-old quest for other worlds like our Earth has been rejuvenated by the intense excitement and popular interest surrounding the discovery of hundreds of planets orbiting other stars,” NASA says in the Kepler section of its Web site. “The challenge now is to find terrestrial planets.”
NASA is holding a Kepler briefing at 11 a.m. PT on Thursday. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and on UStream. The agency will also host a moderated Web chat with Kepler Deputy Project Scientist Nick Gautier of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. During the briefing, people can submit questions to the Kepler scientists via Twitter with the hashtag #AskNASA
The briefing participants include:
— Paul Hertz, astrophysics director, NASA Headquarters, Washington
— Roger Hunter, Kepler project manager, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
— William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator, Ames Research Center
— Thomas Barclay, Kepler scientist, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, Calif.
— Lisa Kaltenegger, research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, and research associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass. | aerospace |
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/year-in-review/plasma-measurement-and-hypersonic-flight-testing-among-developments/ | 2024-04-16T06:06:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00826.warc.gz | 0.906875 | 772 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__96645382 | en | Plasma measurement and hypersonic flight testing among developments
By AARON BRANDIS, JONATHAN BURT AND CHARLES BERSBACH|December 2020
The Thermophysics Technical Committee promotes the study and application of mechanisms involved in thermal energy transfer and storage in gases, liquids and solids.
In August, GE Aviation delivered its custom F414-GE-100 engine for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology, or QueSST, low-boom supersonic demonstrator aircraft to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Developed through a collaborative effort between Lockheed Martin and NASA, the aircraft will test technologies for sonic boom reduction, which would be applicable to supersonic over-land flight by commercial aircraft. Following a critical design review in 2019, development and analysis of the X-59’s thermal management systems continued through 2020. The design includes an aft deck of the fuselage under the engine nozzle to help reduce sonic boom noise from the nozzle plume. This aft deck configuration presents challenges in thermal loads on the structure due to extended operation of the afterburner over that structure. Over the past year, Lockheed Martin and NASA independently assessed the thermal loads with high-fidelity computational tools with comparable results. This analysis provided information to ensure the design of the aft deck will be robust to the various operating environment rigors of high-altitude supersonic flight.
On March 19, the U.S. Department of Defense completed a test of a hypersonic glide body at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. During the test flight, the Missile Defense Agency monitored and gathered tracking data from the flight experiment that will inform its ongoing development of defenses against hypersonic weapons. This event is a milestone toward the department’s goal of fielding hypersonic war-fighting capabilities in the early to mid-2020s. The common hypersonic glide body will be made up of the weapon’s warhead, guidance system, cabling and thermal protection shield. Additionally, in September, DARPA and the U.S. Air Force announced completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept and said they are ready to proceed to free flight testing. Army Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood, who oversees the Army’s rapid development of hypersonics, directed energy and space capabilities, said in August during a virtual briefing as part of the Space and Missile Defense Symposium that the Defense Department plans several more flight tests in 2021.
In March, researchers of the High Enthalpy Flow Diagnostics Group, or HEFDiG, at the University of Stuttgart in Germany utilized light field deconvolution, a technique developed for microscope applications, to provide true 3D measurements in high-enthalpy plasma flows. The method is based on using a plenoptic camera, which can capture additional directional information on the light rays emitted by the plasma and allows researchers to effectively look inside or through the plasma. One of the experiments imaged fluorescent liquid being dropped in a small water pool. The results from this experiment illustrate how the light field deconvolution technique can image fluid flows without any entrained discrete particles, as other methods require. The measurements demonstrated at HEFDiG show that time-accurate, fully 3D-resolved plasma measurements can be made, enabling the analysis of complex interactions, instabilities or uniformity with only one signal exposure from one camera. Having such data would advance the use of high-enthalpy arcjet-driven plasma facilities to improve thermophysics models without having to make assumptions about the state and uniformity of the flow.
Contributors: Jay Brandon, Martin Eberhart and Stefan Loehle | aerospace |
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