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https://www.heraldstandard.com/news/applause/dominique-flagg-applause/article_69e5ba02-7705-11e9-9433-eb2a9a0427fd.html
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Dominique A. Flagg graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Flagg is a daughter of Bridget B. Flagg of Rumford, Maine. She is a 2016 graduate of Belle Vernon Area High School.
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https://www.amundsendavislaw.com/professionals-Jack-Harrington
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Jack’s passion for flying led him to a career in aviation law that now spans almost 30 years. He is an experienced pilot and holds a pilot certificate with airplane and single-engine land and sea, multiengine and instrument airplane ratings and has authorized experimental ratings for the L-39 and T-28 aircraft.
Jack directs the legal and business needs of several major aviation companies, representing individuals and air carriers in FAA administrative law matters. He also provides Congressional representation to a national aviation association. He assists clients with aviation defense, FAA Regulatory Compliance, FAA Administrative Law, NTSB Aviation Accident Management, e-discovery, aviation risk management and government litigation.
Membership & Involvement
- Alternate Dispute Resolution Board Member: Aviation Insurance Association
- Alternate Dispute Resolution Section Member: American Bar Association
- Member: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
- Board of Directors; Governance and Safety Committees: Experimental Aircraft Association
- Past President, Member Board of Directors; Member of Government Committee: EAA Warbirds of America
- Selected to The Best Lawyers in America© in Aviation Law: 2023
Resources & Insights
- EAA; Webcast,
- 2018 The National Warbird Operator Conference; Houston, TX, February 15-18, 2018
- 15th Annual Great Lakes Aviation ConferenceLansing, MI,
The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1986
Northern Illinois University, M.S., 1978, Education (Spanish)
Northern Illinois University, B.A., 1973, Spanish
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http://rusaviatrade.ru/en/about-company/
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The limited liability company «RusAviaTrade»— is a modern, dynamically developping company, providing the whole spectrum of services containing sales, servicing and exploitation assistance of helicopter vehicles.
Our key directions areas follows:
— cooperation with helicopter implementators and producers in respect of updating the available helicopters up to the Customer’s demands;
— the full technical servicing of the purchased helicopters;
— assistance with logistic and customs issues considering the delivery of the helicopter aerotechnics and renewal;
— provision of complex educational programs for flying teams and technologists both on the Russian and Customer’s territory;
— the organization and carrying out of air show on the International aviation exhibitions and airshows. RusAviaTrade company is the exclusive agent of Svetlana Kapanina in the European and Asian-Pacific regions.
We are ready to support and assist our clients on all stages during the helicopter aerotechnics usage period in order to provide fail-safety and secure exploitation.
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http://aeroassembliesindia.com/aerostructures-assemblies-india-aai-achieves-as9100c-certification-for-manufacturing-of-aerostructure-assemblies-and-sub-assemblies/
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Belgaum, September 25, 2014 – Aerostructures Assemblies India Pvt Ltd (AAI), a joint venture between Aequs and Saab, has achieved AS9100C certification for its manufacturing facility located in the Aequs SEZ, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. Achieving this international Aircraft, Space and Defence (AS&D) industry standard signifies that AAI’s manufacturing of aerostructure assemblies and sub-assemblies meets stringent quality management standards.
“Achieving AS9100C certification reflects our commitment to delivering products of the highest levels of quality, safety and reliability to our customers in the aerospace industry,” said Aravind Melligeri, Chairman and CEO, Aequs. “We have embraced the AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS) standard to drive accountability and continuous improvement throughout our manufacturing processes.”
AS9100C fully incorporates the ISO 9001:2008 requirements and adds nearly 100 additional requirements specific to quality, reliability and safety for aerospace manufacturing. The certification process entails a rigorous and comprehensive on-site audit as well as follow-up monitoring by accredited third-party examiners.
“We see many opportunities in the Indian defence sector and Saab in partnership with Aequs is committed to helping our customers thrive in today’s challenging aerospace environment,” said Lars Jensen, Managing Director of Saab’s Aerostructures business unit. “AAI is a strategic partner for Saab in India and the new AS9100C certification proves our ability and determination to serve local as well as global customers.”
On 21st February, 2014 AAI became the first manufacturer in India to deliver structural assemblies for the Airbus A380 aircraft. AAI delivered the first batch to Saab in Linkoping (Sweden). Saab in turn delivered the assemblies to Airbus in Filton (UK) as part of the mid and outer leading edge wing section of the A380 aircraft. The manufacturing processes associated with these assemblies are classified as “Special Processes” and only Airbus approved suppliers are authorized to manufacture these parts.
About Saab Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security. Saab has operations and employees on all continents and constantly develops, adopts and improves new technology to meet customers’ changing needs. More information is available at: http://www.saabgroup.com
About Aerostructures Assemblies India Pvt Ltd Aerostructures Assemblies India (AAI) is a joint venture between Aequs and Saab of Sweden and is located in Aequs SEZ, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. The company specializes in build-to-print assemblies for commercial and aerospace aircrafts. Operations started in 2013 and the first assemblies shipped out in 2014. More information is available at: http://www.aeroassembliesindia.com
About Aequs Aequs (formerly QuEST Global Manufacturing) specializes in precision machining, sheet metal fabrication, assembly, forging, and special processing for the aerospace, automotive, and oil & gas industries. Customers include Airbus, UTAS, Eaton, Baker Hughes, Halliburton, and Bosch.
The Aequs manufacturing facilities are located in Bangalore, Belgaum, and Houston. The Belgaum facilities are located in Aequs SEZ, India’s first precision engineering special economic zone. Aequs SEZ has developed into an integrated aerospace manufacturing ecosystem that houses several interrelated capabilities that are either unavailable in India or are difficult to come by in one location. More information is available at: http://www.aequs.com
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https://www.sei.cmu.edu/about/people/profile.cfm?id=firesmith_13897
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Senior Member of Technical Staff
Support Navy and other Government program offices acquire software-intensive systems by providing practical guidance (e.g., with regard to requirements engineering and system/software architectures). Take part in Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) between the Government Program Office and Defense Contractors. Develop and maintain new technologies such as methods for engineering safety and security requirements as well as assessing the quality of system requirements and architectures.
Developer of the QUality Assessment of software-intensive System Architectures and Requirements (QUASAR) method. Founding Chair of the OPEN Process Framework Repository Organization (www.opfro.org). Chair of the International Requirements for High-Assurance Systems (RHAS) Workshop and the International OTS-Based Development Methods (IOTSDM) Workshop. Author of 6 books (www.donald-firesmith.com/Firesmith/Books.html) and dozens of articles (www.donald-firesmith.com/Firesmith/Articles.html). Currently completing a book titled Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems. Extensive experience in process engineering, requirements engineering, architecture engineering, and object technology.
Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS)
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R)
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A gas turbine aircraft engine with power variability is provided. The gas turbine aircraft engine comprises a compressor and a turbine mounted on a common shaft, and, a continuously variable transmission coupled to the shaft for transmitting power to a propulsion load.
1. A gas turbine aircraft engine with power variability comprising: an engine case;a single spool comprising a compressor and a turbine mounted on a common shaft inside the engine case;a propulsion load selected from a group comprising of: a fan and a propeller; anda continuously variable transmission provided between the single spool and the propulsion load, the continuously variable transmission being coupled to the shaft within the engine case for transmitting power to the propulsion load, the continuously variable transmission being operable to vary ...
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29 Nov 2013
(HONG KONG) Twelve Dragonair cadet pilots from Hong Kong’s first Multi-crew Pilot’s Licence (MPL) programme were honoured at a graduation ceremony today. The ceremony took place at the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (HKCAD) Headquarters and was officiated by Captain Peter Sanderson, Dragonair’s General Manager Operations, and Mr Norman Lo Shung-man, Director-General of Civil Aviation.
Dragonair has been at the forefront of pilot training in Hong Kong for close to three decades. It was the first local airline to launch its own cadet pilot recruitment and training programme back in the 1980s, and in 2011 it introduced the MPL programme - the first of its kind in Hong Kong - in partnership with CAE Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) and with the formal approval of the HKCAD.
The 12 graduates went through a comprehensive training programme which started off with a ground school training module in Hong Kong, followed by flying training at the CAE/OAA training school in Melbourne. The cadets then returned to Hong Kong to undergo simulator flying training before receiving their wings and embarking on an exciting new career.
Commending the graduates on their achievement, Captain Sanderson said: “You should rightfully feel a great sense of pride at what you have achieved, both individually and collectively. The MPL training you have gone through takes advantage of a modern approach to better equip pilots to handle the new generation of modern jet aircraft that we operate. MPL applies the ‘train like you fly’ philosophy, where pilots are trained to operate as part of an airline crew right from the beginning of the programme.”
Speaking at the graduation ceremony, Mr Norman Lo said: “I would like to congratulate all the graduates for successfully completing this pioneering MPL programme. Being one of those selected to go through this very demanding pilot training programme, you have also made yourselves as part of the aviation history in Hong Kong. Throughout the course, you have acquired the professional aeronautical knowledge as well as all the competencies of a professional pilot in multi-crew aircraft through a new set of training methodologies.”
MPL was approved by ICAO in 2006 as an effective new way to train airline pilots. The training programme focuses on the core competencies required by pilots of modern jet airplanes, emphasising the multi-crew operation aspect from the outset. MPL provides airlines with the opportunity to train people directly for co-pilot duties.
Another focus of the programme is on the interpersonal skills and attitude, specifically in the areas of communication, leadership, teamwork, workload management, situational awareness and structured decision making, that an airline pilot will require throughout his or her career.
Preparations for the introduction of MPL took more than a year and involved three parties working closely together: Dragonair as the airline operator, HKCAD as the regulatory body and CAE/OAA as the flying training organisation.
“I would like to express my thanks to my team who helped evolve this vision,” said Captain Sanderson. “Thanks also to HKCAD for their patience and hard work putting all the rules and regulations in place, and to CAE/OAA for the significant input in the development stages. Without all this great effort by different parties, Hong Kong’s first MPL course would not have become a reality.”
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https://california18.com/nasa-launches-dart-mission-to-crash-a-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid-in-2022/1700112021/
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At dawn this Wednesday (24), NASA launched the first mission that will try to divert an asteroid from its orbit, to test a technology that, in the future, can be used to protect the Earth from possible dangerous space rocks. This is the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (or just the acronym “DART”), launched with a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX at 03:21 GMT. The launch took place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
At 4:17 am, DART separated from the rocket’s second stage and, after a few minutes, the mission operators received the first telemetry data from the spacecraft, starting the process of guiding it to a safe position to release its solar panels. About two hours later, the spacecraft has completed the full deployment of the panels, which will power it and the Evolutionary Xenon Thruster — Commercial (NEXT-C) engine, one of the technologies that will be tested for applications in future missions.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
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The purpose of the DART mission is to go to the Didymos asteroid system to collide with Dimorphos, an asteroid approximately 160 m in diameter that orbits Didymos, at 780 m, to try to deflect him. This method is known as “kinetic impact” and, as the small Dimorphos orbits Didymos at a relative speed much lower than that of the pair as it travels around the Sun, the impact is expected to cause a small change in the asteroid’s motion, which may be measured by telescopes on the ground.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 24, 2021
In addition to showing whether a spacecraft can autonomously follow a target asteroid to intentionally collide with it, the mission will result in important data for scientists to prepare to deal with potentially dangerous space rocks. Furthermore, DART takes with it the LICIACube, an Italian cubesat that will be released shortly before impact to capture images.
Lindley Johnson, director of planetary defense at NASA, explains that astronomers have yet to find any asteroids that pose significant threats to Earth, but they are still looking for them. “The DART mission is an aspect of NASA’s work to prepare Earth if we ever have to face a dangerous asteroid,” she said. It is worth noting that the asteroids from the Didymos system are not dangerous for our planet.
Below, you can check the complete transmission of the release:
The next steps of the DART mission
After launch, the mission now enters the commissioning period. This stage lasts approximately 30 days, and mission members will use it to check the status of the ship’s systems and the DRACO instrument (“Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation”). According to Elena Adams, a systems engineer at the mission, they hope to use it in about eight days to take the first photos.
After 20 days of travel, the mission team will activate the NEXT-C engine, an ion propulsion system that can be used for future missions. Despite not being the ship’s main propulsion system, the NEXT-C will be used in tests under space conditions. As it travels to its target, the DRACO camera will make the first recordings of the Didymos system approximately 30 days before impact; when 10 days remain, DART will release the LICIACube satellite.
DART is expected to collide with Dimorphos in late September or early October 2022 to change its orbit around Didymos. If all goes well, the spacecraft is expected to crash into Dimorphos at around 24,000 km/h, when the system is about 11 million kilometers from Earth. The advantage of this distance is that the rocks will be at the closest point to us in their elliptical orbit, allowing astronomers to analyze the change and see how the kinetic impact fared should the method need to be used again in the future.
As early as October 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) is expected to launch the Hera mission, which will investigate the “crime scene” after the impact. In addition to checking what DART has achieved, Hera could help astronomers learn more about Didymos and Dimorphos, whose shape, mass and composition data remain a mystery.
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https://www.dailysabah.com/defense/2019/04/02/17-local-firms-to-attend-south-americas-largest-defense-expo
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Turkey is set to attend the 12th Latin America Aero and Defense expo, scheduled for April 2-5 in Brazil, with 17 companies under the leadership of the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB).
Considered to be the largest defense industry expo in South America, the LAAD expo will be held in Rio de Janeiro with the participation of defense and security industry representatives and official delegations of various nations, a statement by the SSB said.
LAAD, which is held every two years and is the biggest defense fair in Latin America, was held with 450 international companies and more than 37,00 participants in 2017.
Turkey will join LAAD 2019 with 17 companies under SSB leadership. Turkish companies will be introducing and promoting their products and services to all participants and to Latin American countries in particular.
During the fair, armored vehicle platforms, various unmanned land and air vehicles, marine systems, weapon systems, electronic systems, ammunition, simulators, military textile products and logistic support products produced by Turkish defense industry firms will be showcased.
In the meantime, domestically-made ATAK T129 Tactical Attack and Reconnaissance Helicopter, which will also be on display during the fair, performed its first flight demonstration at the Forte Ricardo Kirk Army Aviation Command in Taubate last week. The flight demonstration was hosted by Brazilian Army Aviation Cmdr. Carlos Waldyr Aguira. The Turkish official delegation plans to hold talks with other participant country delegations.
Developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ/TAI), the ATAK is a new generation, tandem, two-seat, twin-engine helicopter specifically designed for attack and reconnaissance.
Developed from the combat-proven AgustaWestland A129CBT, the aircraft incorporates a new system philosophy with a new engine - the LHTEC CTS 800-4A - new avionics, sight systems and weapons, a modified airframe, an updated drive train and a new tail rotor.
Meanwhile, according to the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) data, the export performance of the Turkish defense industry in 2018 increased by 17 percent compared to 2017. The industry broke its previous record of $1.7 billion in November and hit $2.03 billion last year.
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http://earsc.org/news/canadian-space-agency-csa-investing-in-nine-contribution-agreements-earth-observation
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This will be accomplished through nine contribution agreements that will support Research and Development (R&D) in the field of space technologies. This initiative will also build capacity in Canadian industry and increase the use of radar data, to serve various sectors of the economy. This is a joint venture between the Canadian Government and private industry, as each project selected will receive funding of less than $100,000 while the company is to cover at least 25 percent of the total project value. The R&D conducted will seek to address Canada’s domestic needs in areas such as; security, maritime surveillance, agriculture, environmental protection, river and ice cover monitoring and land movement.
In the newly issued Canada’s Space Policy Framework, the Canadian Government underlines the fact that space yields more commercial opportunities than ever. “Positioning the Private Sector at the Forefront of Space Activities” and “Developing and maintaining Excellence in Key Capabilities” have been identified as two of its core principles. This initiative embodies the spirit of the Space Policy Framework.
- The Contribution Agreements were awarded following an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) issued in November 2013
- This Announcement of Opportunity was issued by the CSA’s Earth Observation Applications Development Program
- The CSA received a total of 11 eligible proposals from Canadian industry
- Each Contribution Agreement is valid for a period of 18 months
The Canadian Space Agency infosite may be accessed at http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/
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Moon landing Hoax assassinations
Apollo Astronaut Was Murdered, Son
February 11, 1999
Virgil I. "Gus” Grissom, the astronaut slated to be the first man to walk on the moon, was murdered, his son has charged in the Feb. 16 edition of Star magazine.
In another stunning development, a lead NASA investigator has charged that the agency engaged in a cover-up of the true cause of the catastrophe that killed Grissom and two other astronauts.
The tabloid exclusive by Steve Herz reports that Scott Grissom, 48, has gone public with the family’s long-held belief that their father was purposefully killed during Apollo I.
The Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo I mission was a simulated launch in preparation for an actual lunar flight.
NASA concluded that the Apollo I deaths of Grissom, as well as astronauts Edward H. White and Roger Chafee, were the result of an explosive fire that burst from the pure oxygen atmosphere of the space capsule. NASA investigators could not identify what caused the spark, but wrote the catastrophe off as an accident.
"My father’s death was no accident. He was murdered,” Grissom, a commercial pilot, told Star.
Grissom said he recently was granted access to the charred capsule and discovered a "fabricated” metal plate located behind a control panel switch. The switch controlled the capsules’ electrical power source from an outside source to the ship’s batteries. Grissom argues that the placement of the metal plate was an act of sabotage. When one of the astronauts toggled the switch to transfer power to the ship’s batteries, a spark was created that ignited a fireball.
Clark Mac Donald, a McDonnell-Douglas engineer hired by NASA to investigate the fire, offered corroborating evidence. Breaking more than three decades of silence, Mac Donald says he determined that an electrical short caused by the changeover to battery power had sparked the fire.
He says that NASA destroyed his report and interview tapes in an effort to stem public criticism of the space program.
"I have agonized for 31 years about revealing the truth, but I didn’t want to hurt NASA’s image or cause trouble,” Mac Donald told the paper. "But I can’t let one more day go by without the truth being known.”
Grissom’s widow, Betty, now 71, told Star she agrees with her son’s claim that her husband had been murdered.
"I believe Scott has found the key piece of evidence to prove NASA knew all along what really happened but covered up to protect funding for the race to the moon.”
Scott Grissom told Star that the motive for his father’s killing may have been related to NASA’s desire not have his father be the first man to walk on the moon because of criticism leveled at Grissom in 1961 after his Mercury capsule, Liberty 7, sunk in the Atlantic.
Critics of Grissom, including novelist Tom Wolfe, have claimed the astronaut panicked when his space capsule landed in the ocean, and he prematurely pulled an explosive charge to open the ship’s hatch, causing it to sink.
Fellow astronauts, however, gave Grissom the benefit of the doubt for several reasons. Grissom was a decorated Korean War pilot who had flown nearly 100 combat missions. He was a courageous man not known to panic.
There was also evidence that the explosive device on the hatch could accidentally blow without being pulled -- a fact that led NASA to remove such devices from future spacecraft.
Also, had Grissom pulled the explosive release on the hatch, his hand or arm should have had powder and bruise marks. Neither were found.
Grissom, one of the original Mercury seven, was the senior astronaut when the Apollo missions began.
Among the astronauts, Grissom was the most critical of the problem-plagued Apollo program, and the main Apollo contractor, North American Aviation.
Shortly before his death, Grissom had taken a large lemon and hung it around the space capsule as the press looked on. He had suggested publicly that the project could never be accomplished on time.
The Associated Press reported, "‘Pretty slim’ was the way [Grissom] put his Apollo’s chances of meeting its mission requirements.”
The Grissom family had reason to doubt the official NASA ruling from the beginning. Even before Apollo I, Grissom had received death threats which his family believed emanated from within the space program.
The threats were serious enough that he was put under Secret Service protection and had been moved from his home to a secure safehouse.
According to his wife, Grissom had warned her that "if there is ever a serious accident in the space program, it’s likely to be me.”
The Apollo I disaster led to a series of congressional hearings into the incident and NASA. During the hearings, one launch pad inspector, Thomas Baron, sharply criticized NASA's handling of the incident and testified that the astronauts attempted to escape the capsule earlier than officially claimed.
Baron was fired soon after giving the testimony, and died, along with his wife, when his car was struck by a train. Authorities ruled the deaths as suicide.
During the congressional hearings, Sen. Walter Mondale questioned the efficacy of manned space programs. Manned space flights were opposed by many of the leading space scientists at the time, including Drs. James Van Allen and Thomas Gold.
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The naval variant of Rafale (Rafale-M) displayed its operational capabilities at the shore-based take a look at the facility at INS Hansa, the naval airbase in the state recently. This comes against the scene of the Navy’s arrange to procure fighter jets that it’ll operate from Vikrant, that is probably going to be commissioned in August.
In Sep 2016, India had signed an associate degree inter-governmental agreement with France for the acquisition of thirty-six Rafale fighters for the Indian Air Force at a value of around 59,000 crore rupees.
By early Jan this year, thirty-three Rafale aircraft had already been delivered to the IAF by Dassault Aviation, the plane’s maker. In 2019, the then IAF Vice Chief of Air Staff, Marshal RKS Bhadauria, had aforesaid that the Rafale would be a “game-changer” for the air force.
Various defence specialists have additionally gone on the record to mention that the induction of the Rafale provides the IAF capabilities that its 2 primary adversaries, the air forces of West Pakistan and China, cannot match at this date.
So, what’s so special regarding Rafale’s capabilities? The Rafale is a twin-jet fighter craft, and it’s variants that may operate from each base of operations onto land and an aircraft carrier.
in keeping with Dassault Aviation, the aircraft has verified its operational value throughout combat in Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, Al-Iraq, and Syria. Fitted with avionics, radars and weapon systems, the Rafale may be ahead of the F-16s that West Pakistan uses or perhaps China’s JF-20 — a fifth-generation concealment aircraft.
The Rafale is additionally equipped with a good vary of sensors, that Dassault describes as being sensible and discrete. 1st and foremost, the craft has the one factor that’s associate degree absolute should for any 4.5 generation combat jet, a lively Electronically Scanned Array, or AESA, measuring instrument.
With increased situational awareness thanks to earlier detection and trailing of multiple targets, an AESA radar may be a large improve from the previous generation of mechanical scanning radars.
Net-centric capability, knowledge fusion software package and a secure electric circuit are the opposite necessary assets that the jet has. In fact, Rafale’s “multi-sensor data fusion” method is a key capability highlighted by Dassault.
With a range of 3,700 km, Rafale additionally comes with a bunch of advanced weapons. European missile maker MBDA’s Meteor on the far side visibility air-to-air missile, Scalp aircraft and transparent substance weapons system are the mainstay of the weapons package of the Rafale jets.
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SAS builds safe, efficient maintenance stands for regional jets as well as those for large commercial aircraft. Here’s an example of a multipurpose stand built for PSA Airlines being used to access the windshield and front cabin, as well as the engine and tail areas. We provide stands for Embraer E175 and 190 and Bombardier CRJ 700 aircraft, the most popular planes in use for regional routes that may encompass up to 45,000 domestic flights each month.
Because they offer cost-savings, access to smaller markets, and efficiently feed the hub networks, regional jets remain a key component of the industry and are expected grow significantly over the next 10 years. Embraer projects adding up to 5,500 new planes worth $350 billion over that period. (Regional jets are usually defined as those with 100 or fewer seats although that number may be inching up as airlines look for a greater balance of size/economy.)
At SAS, we are proud to be working with PSA and look to extend our presence in the regional jet market, knowing all those aircraft need quality, consistent maintenance and the equipment to accomplish that job.
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Blue skies on a golden planet, and two of our solar system's greatest extremes – Saturn is a planet of contrasts and surprises.
This image, one of 77 photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, shows the diminutive moon Mimas transiting across Saturn's northern latitudes, with long shadows cast by the planet's rings.
Michael Benson created the image using data returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Saturn usually appears golden in images, as its thick clouds are predominantly yellow. So scientists were surprised when Cassini returned images of its northern hemisphere showing a blue sky.
The blue sky is caused by a process known as Rayleigh scattering: the scattering of sunlight by molecules in a planet's atmosphere. The effect is more pronounced with short-wavelength light, and increases with the angle of scattering, giving Saturn a blue hue at its northernmost latitudes.
Benson's image also captures the two extremes of size for planet-like bodies.
Saturn's satellite Mimas is the smallest known planetary-mass object: a body large enough to have become rounded under the force of its own gravity. If Mimas were any smaller, its gravity would be too weak to shape it into a sphere.
In contrast, Saturn is one of our solar system's giants - of all the bodies orbiting our sun, only Jupiter is larger.
If Saturn were 40% larger, it would be similar in size to the smallest star discovered, OGLE-TR-122.
Stars begin to burn when the dense hydrogen inside them, pressurized under gravity, begins to turn into helium through nuclear reactions.
Eleonora Rosatone, exhibition designer for Otherworlds, discusses the staggering scale of space and the inspiration behind her design for the exhibition.
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Join the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory and NASA at a Destination Station event in Boston next week to learn about the groundbreaking research and development taking place on our nation’s only orbiting laboratory.
Together with the NASA Program Science Office, the ISS National Laboratory travels to cities across the U.S. as part of Destination Station, a free event for the public to learn about the ISS, find out about research opportunities onboard the space station, and interact with astronauts and scientists. In addition to bringing awareness to the exciting activities taking place on the ISS, Destination Station events also provide an opportunity for the ISS National Laboratory and NASA to meet with local companies and state representatives to discuss how this one-of-a-kind facility can be leveraged for powerful space-based research and development not possible on the ground.
The Boston Destination Station event will be held at Boston University on Thursday, September 19, 2019. At the event, hear from NASA astronaut Dr. Richard M. Linnehan, who will share what it’s like to live and work in space. Additionally, LambdaVision CEO Dr. Nicole L. Wagner, will talk about her experience conducting research on the ISS National Laboratory to improve the manufacturing process of a retinal implant capable of restoring vision to patients on Earth with retinal degeneration.
Prior to the Destination Station event, on Wednesday, September 18, IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will team up with the ISS National Laboratory and NASA to host a live research pitch competition on “The Future of AI Meets the Future of Space.” At the event, held during the MIT-IBM AI Watson Lab’s second annual AI Research Week conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, attendees can watch selected researchers and students pitch project ideas involving the ISS and artificial intelligence (AI) to a panel of space and AI experts. The winning ideas could be considered for an upcoming flight experiment on the ISS.
For more information about Destination Station outreach and some of the many ISS National Laboratory partnerships and investigations that have stemmed from Destination Station events, see the ISS360 article “Destination Station Outreach Increases Accessibility of the ISS.”
When: Thursday, September 19, 2019, 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
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Working for ASL Airlines Ireland is an opportunity to become a part of a unique airline, working with a dedicated and experienced team of people, offering a diverse range of services to the greater Aviation arena.
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If you are actually flying from Doha, Qatar to Islamabad, Pakistan or if you are just curious to know the flight time between Doha and Islamabad, this page will give you the information you are looking for.
Flight time from Doha to Islamabad is 3 hours 20 minutes
Non-Stop flight duration from DOH to ISB is 3 hours 20 minutes (Operated by Qatar Airways)
Distance from Doha to Islamabad is approximately 2280 kilometers.
Flights from Doha to Islamabad • Airlines & Flight Duration
Flights operated by major airlines departing from Doha arrive at Islamabad International Airport, the major airport in Islamabad
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DOH ➝ ISB
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Flight time from Doha to Islamabad via Abu Dhabi • DOH to ISB via AUH
Flight duration from Doha Airport to Islamabad International Airport via Abu Dhabi International Airport, United Arab Emirates on Etihad Airways flight is 7 hours 20 minutes
DOH to AUH 1 hr 15 mins
AUH Waiting Time 2 hrs 40 mins
AUH to ISB 3 hrs 25 mins
|Total Duration: 7 hrs 20 mins|
Flight time from Doha to Islamabad via Manama • DOH to ISB via BAH
Flight duration from Doha Airport to Islamabad International Airport via Bahrain International Airport, Bahrain on Gulf Air Bahrain flight is 7 hours 35 minutes
DOH to BAH 45 mins
BAH Waiting Time 3 hrs 30 mins
BAH to ISB 3 hrs 20 mins
|Total Duration: 7 hrs 35 mins|
How long does it take to fly from Doha to Islamabad?
Non-stop flight time from Doha to Islamabad is around 3 hours 30 minutes.
Fastest one-stop flight between Doha and Islamabad takes close to 5 hours . However, some airlines could take as long as 27 hours based on the stopover destination and waiting duration.
This is the average non-stop flight time from Doha to Islamabad.
Apparantly, connecting flights and direct flights with stopover take longer time than non-stop flights. In such cases, Doha - Islamabad flight time depend on the layover destination specified by your airline or the one you choose while booking your ticket.
Waiting time at intermediate airports could be anywhere between 1 hr to 23 hrs .
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Flight time from Doha, Qatar to airports near Islamabad, Pakistan
Direct flight and one stop flight time from Doha Airport, Doha to airports nearest to Islamabad is given in the table below
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Lahore, Alama Iqbal International Airport
DOH - LHE
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Peshawar, Peshawar Airport
DOH - PEW
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Airlines operating flights between Doha and Islamabad
Doha time is 2 hours behind Islamabad
Current time in Doha, Qatar : Sun, 18 Feb, 2018,
Current time in Islamabad, Pakistan :, Sun, 18 Feb, 2018,
DOH to ISB Flight - Doha Airport to Islamabad Airport Flight Route Map
Location of Doha Airport & Islamabad Airport is given below. Click the map to view Doha to Islamabad flight path and travel direction.
Find flying time from Doha Airport or Doha or any other airport or city in Qatar to various other destinations around the world using this flight time calculator.
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- New York, NY, Downtown Manhattan H/p Airport
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Globalpundits, Inc. specializes in providing Information Technology and Nuclear experts who help clients complete critical projects and intiatives under budget and on time. These assignments include project management, custom software development, SAP, web development, to engineering design, and technical support services. Our consultants/employees have an average of eighteen years of experience and are typically on an assignment for twelve to twenty four months. Globalpundits delivers the expertise and experience of large company but with the services and benefits of a Small Business.
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Yesterday’s event might just change the future in travel.
And we were lucky enough to cater it.
The “Your Flight DNA” event took place at the Virgin Galactic Hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Richard Branson shared his space travel enterprise with 680 guests, or shall we say, potential future astronauts.
Guests heard Branson, pilots, and the original visionaries speak about this exciting progress in out-of-this-world travel as they marveled at the Space Ship Two and White Knight Two , the crafts that plan to be the universe’s first commercial airline.
We all truly enjoyed our “behind the hangar” experience.
Of course, inside of the hangar where the event took place was top secret, so we are unable to share that experience with you through photos. However, here are some behind the scenes photos.
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For those balloon pilots that fly or desire to fly at Chatfield State Park, you will be greeted with beautiful views, typically favorable flying conditions, and ample opportunities to enjoy splash and dashes in nearby Chatfield Reservoir.
To fly at Chatfield, you must have your balloon registered with the Division of Parks, which requires filling out an application.
If you are coming from out of town and planning on flying the Chatfield area, please email us and a club member will assist you in securing your permit.
Balloonists wishing to operate commercially (providing balloon rides for a fee) must, in addition, apply for a Special Use Permit per Parks Board Regulation No. 100-b-10(b), meet the State’s minimum insurance requirements and pay an additional permit fee. It will be unlawful for any balloonist to sell rides on balloons that launch or land within the boundaries of Chatfield State Park without a Special Use Permit.
There are several red zones and sensitive areas in the Chatfield area, where a minimum altitude of three hundred feet must be maintained at all times. Please maintain minimum altitudes and avoid landing in marked red zones at all times.
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https://survivalmagazine.org/news/america-last-biden-regime-officially-announces-additional-2-1-billion-security-assistance-for-ukraine/
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Pentagon spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters at a briefing Friday that a significant new package of security assistance will be donated to Ukraine.
“Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces a significant new package of security assistance for Ukraine,” Gen. Ryder said during the press conference on the Chinese spy balloon. “This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $425 million, as well as $1.75 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds.”
“The Presidential Drawdown is the thirty-first such drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine,” he continued.
Gen. Ryder said that the US has given $32 billion to Ukraine since 2014 and 29.3 billion during the Biden regime.
“In total, the US. Has now committed $32 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since 2014 and 29.3 billion since Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion nearly one year ago this month,” he said.
More from the press release:
Today’s announcement includes critical air defense capabilities to help Ukraine defend its people, as well as armored infantry vehicles and more equipment that Ukraine is using so effectively, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, artillery ammunition, and conventional and long-range rockets for U.S.-provided HIMARS. The specific capabilities include:
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
- Additional 155mm artillery rounds;
- Additional 120mm mortar rounds;
- 190 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights and associated ammunition to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems;
- 181 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles;
- 250 Javelin anti-armor systems;
- 2,000 anti-armor rockets;
- Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
- Demolitions munitions;
- Cold weather gear, helmets, and other field equipment.
Under USAI, the DoD will provide Ukraine with:
- Two HAWK air defense firing units;
- Anti-aircraft guns and ammunition;
- Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s air defense systems;
- Equipment to sustain Ukraine’s existing air defense capabilities;
- Air defense generators;
- Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems;
- Four air surveillance radars;
- 20 counter-mortar radars;
- Spare parts for counter-artillery radars;
- Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems;
- Precision-guided rockets;
- Secure communications equipment;
- Medical supplies;
- Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.
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https://www.aeronantiques.com/en/flight-flying-pilot-helmets/634-complete-flying-helmet-oxygen-mask-goggles-set-us-army-air-force-pilot-wwii.html
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Complete Flying Helmet Oxygen Mask Goggles Set US Army Air Force Pilot WWII
Complete US Army Air Force pilot leather flying helmet, goggles & mask display, circa 1944-45. Leather flying helmet is A-11 type, size "MEDIUM", made by SELBY SHOE with ANB-H-1 headphones made by SHURE BROTHERS complete with cord and PL-55 jack. Oxygen mask hook. ARMY AIR FORCE stamps inside and out. Oxygen mask is a A-14 size MEDIUM dated 7-45, complete with microphone, cord and plug. Flying goggles are the AN-6530 pattern made by AMERICAN OPTICAL. Matching set in excellent condition with display bust.
At Aeronantiques.com, you'll find a full range of rare, authentic and decorative items and collectables related to military and commercial aviation but also vintage automobilia. Through our website you will find uniforms, flight and flying helmets from the early aviation days, WWI, WWII, jet age, Vietnam and Gulf War era. Flight coveralls, oxygen masks, ejection seat, wooden or aluminum propellers. Aeronantiques is proposing rare artifacts for collectors and enthusiasts. All our items are original and have been made in compliance with the US ARMY AIR FORCE, US AIR FORCE, LUFTWAFFE, ROYAL AIR FORCE or Armée de l'Air. Our flight jackets and flying accessories are special and unique. They are stylish and could be worn for a vintage look, in the spirit of the Jet Age era, the Right Stuff or Top Gun.
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https://www.ttgweb.com/singapore-airlines-schedules-worlds-first-airbus-a380-flight/
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Singapore Airlines has scheduled the world’s first flight of the Airbus A380, flight SQ380 to Sydney, Australia on Thursday, October 25th, with a return flight on Friday, October 26th. Seats on the flight will be sold at auction on eBay, with all proceeds going to charity. Regular service between Sydney and Singapore will begin soon after.
Airbus will deliver the first A380 aircraft to Singapore Airlines on October 15th in Toulouse, France. The plane will then be flown to Changi Airport in Singapore, the world’s first home airport for the A380. The time between the plane’s arrival in Singapore and the charity flight will be used for flight and ground crew familiarization.
After the auction, one third of the proceeds will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders. Local charities in Singapore and Sydney will benefit from the remainder, with one-third going to Singapore’s Community Chest. The remaining third will be shared by two Sydney hospitals, the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
The eBay auction starts on August 27th and will continue through September 10th. Seats spread across both the outbound and return legs will be sold progressively through the time period and final bid dates will be staggered. The plane has 471 seats in Economy, Business, and Suites classes. Seats in all three will be available in the auction. Bids are for one-way tickets, so two bids will be required to fly both legs on the first flight of the A380. Bidding will be for single, double, and multiple seats.
Each bidder will require a free eBay user ID and the names and passport numbers of the passengers. Bidders on Business Class and Suite Class seats, and anyone bidding over $1000 US dollars in the Economy Class must be pre-qualified. Requiring pre-qualification avoids having prices pushed up by spurious bidders. Bidders can submit pre-qualification information online. Auctionwire, the auction management agency for this event, has set up several methods for pre-qualifying and providing security deposits.
Singapore Airlines Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Chew Choon Seng, said “We are overwhelmed by the support of the community — from all over the world — for the charity auction. And I would like to thank the many partners and service providers that have followed the lead of our fuel supplier, ExxonMobil, and eBay, in donating their services for the First Flight’s charitable causes.”
For information on packages, pre-qualification, and obtaining an eBay user ID, visit www.singaporeair.com/a380.
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http://www.madisongov.net/single-post/2016/09/12/us-unprepared-for-space-war
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US Unprepared for Space War
The key mission for the US space program is to fight war, but because much of US space infrastructure was developed in an era "when space was considered a benign environment, little thought was given to system protection or defense," said Brig. Gen. Stephen Whiting Friday in Washington, D.C. Speaking at an AFA Mitchell Institute event, Whiting said as a result the US is unprepared to protect and defend its space assets. "Today the US space enterprise is not resilient enough to successfully prosecute or even survive a high-end conflict that extends into space," Whiting said. Calling US space programs "absolutely foundational and indelible to the American way of war," Whiting discussed a plan that would "provide the United States with space capabilities that can help deter a war from extending into space and to ensure that we prevail" if one ever does. Central to that vision would be the move from a technology replacement model focused on "functional availability"—or the lifecycle and maintenance of a satellite—to one of "resilience capacity," where decisions are made based upon the ability of systems to defend themselves from potential attack.
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https://redstickschools.org/school/helix-aviation-academy/
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Helix Aviation Academy offers unique pathways to opportunity that do not exist elsewhere in the city.
Helix Aviation Academy incorporates aviation content into the core curricula, preparing students for a more immersive and industry-focused experience.
At This School
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More information on student performance available at louisianaschools.com.
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https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/124528/could-someone-help-me-identify-what-this-piece-of-film-might-be-used-for
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There's a third choice that is even more likely than the two presented in another answer: It was originally created to be part of a press kit that, for whatever reason, never made it into one.
During the Apollo program NASA distributed a large number of press kits following each Moon flight that contained copies and enlargements of images from the mission in an attempt to keep public interest high in the space program and, more specifically, to motivate citizens to encourage their Congressmen and Senators to support continued funding of NASA's planned missions into the 1970s and beyond. Over time, many of these enlarged transparencies distributed to the press have been mistaken for "original" images by folks who find them.
At the time, 4X5 inches was a standard size for use in newspaper and magazine publishing that could be used at "contact size" by the lithographers who created the plates needed to print the materials on web presses. No large format cameras flew aboard any of the Apollo missions. The largest negative size used on Apollo flights was for the modified Hasselblad 500 EL Medium Format cameras that used 70mm MF film (not to be confused with the differently sized 70mm movie print film that used images shot on 65mm wide film with an additional 5mm on the edge for soundtrack information). The NASA version of the 500 EL flown on Apollo flights used a film gate size of 56 x 56 millimeters (2.2 x 2.2 inches).
A little background:
By the late 1960s and early 1970s NASA was already beginning to feel the pinch of Congress losing interest in the space program and hearing rumblings about reduced funding in the very near future once the Apollo program was concluded. This reflected the perception that most of the public was no longer enamored by the space program in the way they had been during most of the 1960s following President John F. Kennedy's challenge to the nation in 1961 to dedicate itself to the goal "... before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth."
For many in the U.S. political leadership, the "race to the moon" was more about proving technical superiority in space vs. the Soviet Union than it was about anything to do with science. To them, it was primarily another battle in the Cold War rather than an opportunity to expand the bounds of science. Once the U.S. had demonstrated that it could "beat" the Russians in space by being the first, and as it turned out, only (so far), country to perform successful manned missions to the Moon they cared very little about the scientific benefits of manned lunar missions.
After the successful Apollo 11 mission of landing men on the moon and returning them safely to the Earth was accomplished in July, 1969 and repeated a few months later by Apollo 12 the American public also began to quickly lose interest. The Apollo 13 launch, a mere nine months after Apollo 11, was not even broadcast live on most of the major TV networks in the U.S. Only after an in-flight emergency that forced the crew and mission team to abort the lunar landing and also placed the lives of the three astronauts on board in serious jeopardy did the public pay much attention to the Apollo 13 flight.
The Apollo program had the last three scheduled flights cancelled. Apollo 20 was cancelled right around the time of the Apollo 11 flight to save a Saturn V to be used for the upcoming Skylab mission that placed the United States' first orbiting "space station" in LEO. The Cold war implications of such a feat could not be ignored by anyone in the world. Shortly thereafter, Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were cancelled by Congressional budget cuts.
These cancelled flights could have been some of the most productive, in terms of scientific inquiry and gaining knowledge about the Moon and its origins, of the entire program. Instead of six planned J-type missions, defined as "extensive scientific investigation of the Moon on lunar surface and from lunar orbit", NASA was only allowed to fly three: Apollo 15, 16, and 17.
Apollo 11 was designated a G-type mission. It's primary purpose was to demonstrate we could safely land on the Moon and return to Earth.
Apollo 12, 13, and 14 were H-type missions that were also primarily proof of concept flights to show that landings could be made at precise targets. NASA defined H-type missions as "Precision manned lunar landing demonstration and systematic lunar exploration." Apollo 12 and Apollo 14 did much less, compared to later flights, of investigative science concentrated on answering specific questions about the chosen landing sites. Of course Apollo 13 had to abort their landing after an oxygen tank supplying a fuel cell in the Service Module ruptured while en route to the moon.
Between H-type and J-type missions, there was also a defined I-type mission that was described as "Reserved for lunar survey missions" that was never assigned a flight nor flown.
There were 15 Saturn V¹ launch vehicles ordered and delivered by NASA's contractors. This was in addition to the Saturn I, Saturn I-Block I, and Saturn IB flights used to test various components of the Saturn system and components of the Apollo spacecraft in unmanned Earth orbit flights. The first two Saturn V flights, also unmanned, were used to certify the Saturn V's rating for manned spaceflight. These were Apollo 4 and Apollo 6. Apollo 1, which never flew after the tragic fire during a pad test that killed three astronauts, and Apollo 7, which was a low Earth orbit flight used to certify the Block II version of the CSM, used Saturn IB launch vehicles.
After the two successful unmanned Saturn V certification flights, thirteen launch vehicles remained available.
One launched Apollo 9, which was a D-type mission in Earth orbit that included a manned flight test of the Lunar Module to separate from the CSM, fly into a different orbit, and then rendezvous with the CSM.
Three were used as the launch vehicles for circumlunar flights that did not end in a landing on the lunar surface. Apollo 8 flew without a Lunar Module for a "Command and service module manned flight demonstration in lunar orbit." Apollo 10 included a powered descent and ascent in the LM that came within eight nautical miles (14 km) of the lunar surface in order to demonstrate the ability to perform Lunar Orbit Rendezvous with the CSM following a descent from lunar orbit. Apollo 13 was a planned H-type mission but the lunar landing was not attempted due to the in-flight emergency that disabled the CSM and required using the LM as a "lifeboat" to keep the three astronauts on board alive for several days during the return trip to Earth.
Six of the Saturn V launch vehicles were used for manned lunar landings.
Of the remaining three, one was used to put Skylab into low Earth orbit and the remaining two were never launched. Along with the Saturn V Dynamic Test Article (SA-500D), which was not one of the 15 flight rated Saturn V systems produced, but was basically a 98% complete Saturn V prototype that was used for ground based vibration testing early in the program, the parts of the remaining two Completed Saturn V launch vehicles were mixed and matched and placed on public display at:
- Kennedy Space Center (a/k/a Cape Canaveral) in Florida
- Johnson Space Center (a/k/a Mission Control) in Texas
- The Alabama Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama which is adjacent to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center where the entire Saturn system was designed and engineered by Werner von Braun's team.
There have been numerous debates and speculations from fans of the Apollo program as to which parts at which location are "most authentic" and were once flight rated and which are from the SA-500D Dynamic Test Article. Most of the F-1 and J-2 engines installed in these vehicles were test fired during the Apollo program, as were all engines prior to being installed on launch vehicles that actually flew missions. They are not, however, necessarily the original engines that were initially installed on each one. There are also other surplus F-1 and J-2 engines used during the development phase of the Saturn V system that are on display at these three facilities as well as other various museums. The vast majority of these were test fired shortly after their manufacture in order to be flight certified.
Here are a few photos of the Saturn V on display in Huntsville.
The "business end" of the SI-C first stage with its five F1 engines that produced a combined 7.5 million pounds of thrust (3.4M kg).
The S-II second stage and its five J-2 engines
The third stage with a single J-2 engine. The third stages were initially used to complete placement of the vehicles in Earth orbit before shutting down. For circumlunar flights, after several orbits of the Earth during which systems aboard the CSM and LM were checked-out, its J-2 engine was then fired again to place the Apollo CSM and LM into a trans-lunar injection trajectory.
An example of the Rocketdyne J-2 engine that powered the S-II second stage and S-IVB third stage of the Saturn V is in the foreground on the left. It produced up to 294,000 pounds of thrust. The engine in the background to the right is a mighty Rocketdyne F-1 with only the upper half of its exhaust cone attached.
¹ All of the Saturn launch vehicles used Roman numerals in their designations. The Saturn V used the Roman numeral "V" and was pronounced "Saturn Five". The Saturn I series used the Roman numeral "I" (an upper case "i", not a lower case "L" or the numeral "1") and was pronounced "Saturn One". Unfortunately, the font used by this site does not allow the display of proper Roman Numerals. The Apollo mission numbers, on the other hand, officially used Arabic numerals, though most of the mission patches (7, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 17) did use Roman numerals to represent the mission number. Apollo 8 used neither a Roman nor Arabic numeral, but showed a flight path that formed a "figure eight" around the Earth and Moon. The rest (1, 11, 15, and 16) used Arabic numerals on their mission patches.
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https://www.sssasthevoice.org/air-traffic-january
| 2022-11-30T17:33:12 |
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The Government Shutdown ended on Friday, January 25, lasting for 5 weeks. With the shutdown lasting so long it started to affect more than just the people who work for the government. Due to there not being enough air traffic controllers flights were cancelled because of the possibility of unsafe landings.
The delays impacted flights from Florida to all way the Boston. According to the New York Times, some airports like JFK, and Newark continued to keep their flights going as long as the destination remained open. The delays in Laguardia airport in Queens New York completely closed the runway off for arriving flights because there was so much traffic on the runway from not enough traffic controllers.
The Federal Aviation Administration began to issue warnings that it may have been unsafe for planes to be traveling because of the lack of eyes that were watching the air traffic. The staffing of air traffic controllers was an issue even before the shutdown, so the shutdown hurt the industry even more. The New York Times states that, The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said that the amount of air traffic controllers is currently at a 30-year low for the amount of certified air traffic controllers.
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SIMBA (Sun-earth IMBAlance)
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SIMBA (Sun-earth IMBAlance)
ESA’s SIMBA CubeSat is a tiny mission with a big ambition: to measure one of the fundamental drivers of climate change in a new way. The 3U CubeSat will turn from Earth to space to the Sun and back again, to calculate our planet’s overall energy budget. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
“This is the kind of scientific instrument we’d otherwise place on a full-size satellite platform,” explains Stijn Nevens, Simba principal investigator at RMI.
“But if we can make this work on a smaller, cheaper CubeSat, then we might be able to build and fly multiple versions of this instrument in the future, to cover the entire planet for the equivalent cost of a single traditional mission. That is important because the variable we aim to measure is crucial.
“The main origin of climate change is that an increasing amount of heat from the Sun is being retained within the atmospheric system. To quantify that directly we need to measure how much solar energy Earth is receiving – we call this the total solar irradiance – then how much of this is being reflected by the Earth’s surface and atmosphere, or being radiated out as longer-wavelength heat energy.
“Subtracting the second from the first, we end up with a figure for Earth’s radiation budget – the amount of energy our planet holds onto rather than reflects or radiates away.
“We already have a class of instruments to measure irradiated energy, called radiometers, which convert it into electrical power for measuring purposes. Downward-looking radiometers are flying for instance on Europe’s Meteosat satellites in geostationary orbit, as well as the US family of CERES instruments in lower orbits. Then there are Sunward-facing radiometers on satellites like SOHO and PROBA-2.
“But while their results have high relative accuracy, they require a lot of additional modelling to take account of factors such as diurnal differences and surface variations. They accordingly come with a large margin of error, while the instruments themselves possess inherent biases. For sharper climate change modelling we need to do better.”
SIMBA is a 3U CubeSat with dimensions of 30 x 10 x 10 cm and with a mass of 4 kg. The satellite was to be originally part of the QB50 constellation, but eventually dropped out.
The SIMBA nanosatellite consists of 3 main building blocks:
• Satellite generic functions (avionics), specified by RMI, and assembled by ISIS (Innovative Solutions In Space BV, Delft, The Netherlands.
• ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control System) of the Catholic University of Leuven.
• Payload, developed by RMI.
Simba is equipped with a specially-developed CubeSat-optimized ADCS, contributed by the University of Leuven. This includes an experimental star tracker camera to fix its position against the star constellations in the sky and ‘reaction wheels’ whose shifting rate of spin cause the nanosatellite to shift its attitude in reaction.
Dr. Nevens adds: “This ADCS will give Simba a pointing accuracy of 0.1 degrees, which also enhances the overall accuracy of our data. We will achieve traceability, being able to know precisely where and at what we are looking at any one time.”
Passenger payloads (53) of the Vega rideshare mission
Arianespace has realized the first European “rideshare” mission for small satellites, with 53 satellites onboard the Vega launcher for 21 customers from 13 different countries. With this new SSMS (Small Spacecraft Mission Service) shared launch concept, Arianespace demonstrates its ability to respond – in an innovative and competitive manner – to institutional and commercial requirements of the growing market for small satellites. The total satellite launch mass was 1,327 kg. 7)
With the demonstration of its new SSMS service, Arianespace is strengthening its position in the growing market for small satellites. This service will soon be supplemented by the MLS (Multi Launch Service) – a similar offer available on Ariane 6, allowing Arianespace to increase the number of affordable launch opportunities for small satellites and constellations.
• ESAIL is a maritime microsatellite with a mass of 112 kg for AIS (Automatic Identification System) ship tracking operated by exactEarth. It was built by a European manufacturing team led by the satellite prime contractor Luxspace. ESAIL features an enhanced multiple antenna-receiver configuration for global detection of AIS messages and high-resolution spectrum capture, which will enable the demonstration of advanced future services such as VDES (VHF Data Exchange System) message reception. 8)
• Lemur-2, eight 3U CubeSats built by Spire Global Inc., San Francisco, CA . These satellites carry two payloads for meteorology and ship traffic tracking. The payloads are: STRATOS GPS radio occultation payload and the SENSE AIS payload.
• TriSat is a 3U CubeSat (5 kg) imaging mission led by the University of Maribor, Slovenia. The mission is focused on remote sensing by incorporating a miniaturized multispectral optical payload as the primary instrument, providing affordable multispectral Earth observation in up to 20 non-overlapping bands in NIR-SWIR (Near to Short Wave Infrared) spectrum.
• The launch integrator company Spaceflight Inc. of Seattle WA is providing its services for four different customers with a total of 28 satellites. These are:
a) NewSat-6 (also written as ÑuSat-6), is a low Earth orbit commercial remote sensing microsatellite (43.5 kg) designed and manufactured by Satellogic S.A. with HQs in Argentina, a vertically integrated geospatial analytics company that is building the first Earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution. This is Satellogic’s 11th spacecraft in orbit, equipped with multispectral and hyperspectral imaging capabilities and it will be added to the company’s growing satellite constellation.
b) 14 Flock-4v, 3U CubeSats, next-generation SuperDove satellites of Planet Inc., San Francisco, they will join its constellation of 150 Earth-imaging spacecraft.
c) SpaceBEE, 12 (.25U) picosatellites of Swarm Technology which provide affordable global connectivity.
d) Tyvak-0171, an undisclosed minisatellite of Tyvak, developed by Maxar with a mass of 138 kg.
e) Planet Inc. of San Francisco launches a total of 26 Flock 4v SuperDoves on this mission. They will be split into two batches on the same launch: 14 of them will be housed inside and deployed from ISL’s QuadPack deployers and the remaining 12 will be deployed from D-Orbit’s InOrbit Now (ION) freeflying deployment platform. 9)
f) Athena, a communications minisatellite mission (138 kg) of PointView Tech LLC, a subsidiary of Facebook. The objective is to provide broadband access (internet connectivity) to unserved and underserved areas throughout the world.
g) AMICalSat, a 2U CubeSat, an educational mission, developed by CSUG (University of Grenoble Alpes, France) and MSU-SINP (Lomonosov Moscow State University-Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russia). The objective is to take pictures of the Northern light in order to reconstruct the particle precipitation into the polar atmosphere. The payload is a very compact, ultra-sensitive wide filed imager (f=23mm, aperture f/1.4). Firstly, AMICal Sat will observe auroras using nadir pointing, i.e. by determining the center of the Earth to map and link the geographical position of the auroral oval and its internal structures with solar activity. Secondly, the CubeSat will perform image capture ‘in limbo’ through tangential orientation with the Earth to capture the vertical profile of the auroras and match an altitude to their various emissions.
h) PICASSO, a 3U CubeSat mission (mass of 3.8 kg) developed for ESA ( European Space Agency) led by BISA (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy), in collaboration with VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd, Clyde Space Ltd. (UK) and the CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège), Belgium. The goal is to develop and operate a scientific 3U CubeSat.
i) GHGSat-C1 of GHGSat Inc., Montreal, Canada, is the first of two nanosatellites (~16 kg) as the commercial follow-on to the GHGSat-D (CLAIRE) demonstration satellite developed and launched by UTIAS/SFL of Toronto in 2016. GHGSat monitors industries greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality gas (AQG) emissions, including: oil & gas, power generation, mining, pulp & paper, pipelines (natural gas), landfill, chemicals, metals & aluminum, cement, agriculture, and transportation.
j) NEMO-HD of SPACE-SI (Slovenian Center of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies) is a microsatellite (65 kg) developed at UTIAS/SFL of Toronto, Canada in cooperation with SPACE-SI. The NEMO-HD (Next-generation Earth Monitoring and Observation-High Definition) satellite is a high precision interactive remote sensing mission for acquiring multispectral images and real time HD video.
k) FSSCat (Federated Satellite Systems on Cat) is the winner of the 2017 Copernicus Master “ESA Sentinel Small Satellite Challenge (S3)”. Proposed by the Universitat Politèctica de Catalunya (UPC) and developed by a consortium composed of UPC (ES), Deimos Engenharia (PT), Golbriak Space (EE), COSINE (NL) and Tyvak International (IT).
l) Phi-Sat-1 (Φ-Sat-1) is the first on-board ESA initiative (6U CubeSat) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) promoted by the Φ Department of the Earth Observation Directorate and implemented as an enhancement of the FSSCat mission. Among mission objectives, scientific goals are Polar Ice and Snow monitoring, soil moisture monitoring, terrain classification and terrain change detection (i.e. hazard detection and monitoring, water quality), while technological goals are optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) demonstration.
m) The RTAFSAT-1 (Royal Thai Air Force Satellite-1) mission, also referred to as NAPA-1, is a 6U CubeSat, the first remote sensing CubeSat mission for Thailand. The satellite will carry out an Earth Observation Demonstration mission with SCS Gecko Camera and Simera TriScape-100 payloads; the designed lifetime is 3 years.
n) DIDO-3, a commercial 3U CubeSat mission of SpacePharma. The objective is to gather data by researching the effects of a microgravity environment on biological materials. SpacePharma from Israel will be on board of SSMS POC with DIDO-3 Nanosatellite to perform biological experiments under Microgravity for several customers involved in pharmaceutical business, supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Israeli Space Agency (ISA). Dido-3 will be monitored from the Ground Station developed by SpacePharma in Switzerland.
o) SIMBA (Sun-Earth Imbalance), a 3U CubeSat mission led by the Royal Meteorological Institute Belgium, The objective is to measure the TSI (Total Solar Irradiance) and Earth Radiation Budget climate variables with a miniaturized radiometer instrument. This mission will help in the study of global warming. This science mission will have a design lifetime of 3 years and the satellite performances will be monitored from a ground station located in The Netherlands.
p) TARS-1, a 6U CubeSat of Kepler Communications, developed at ÅAC Clyde Space for IoT (Internet of Things) applications. TARS-1 features deployable solar arrays, software defined radios (SDR), a narrowband communications payload and high gain antennas.
q) OSM-1 Cicero, the first nanosatellite developed in Monaco by OSM (Orbital Solutions Monaco engineers, a 6U CubeSat with a mass of ~10 kg) based on the Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems design. OSM plans to build nanosatellites to gather environment and climate data.
r) TTU100, a 1U CubeSat developed at the Tallin University of Technology, Estonia. The objective is to test earth observation cameras and high-speed X-band communications. It will perform remote sensing in the visible and IR electromagnetic spectrum.
• UPMSat-2 (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Satellite-2), a demonstration microsatellite (45 kg) of IRD-UPM.
The SIMBA 3U CubeSat was launched as a passenger payload at 01:51 UTC, 03:51 CEST on 3 September, 2020 (22:51 local time on 2 September in Kourou).The launch vehicle was the VEGA SSMS (Small Spacecraft Mission Service) Proof Of Concept flight. 6)
Sun-synchronous orbit; target orbit for the 7 microsatellites: altitude of 515 km, inclination of 97.45º; target orbit for the 46 nanosatellites: altitude of 530 km, inclination = 97.51º. The nominal mission duration (from liftoff to separation of the 53 satellites) is: 1 hour, 44 minutes and 56 seconds.
The idea with SIMBA is to achieve a high absolute accuracy by employing the same instrument for the very first time to measure irradiance from both the Sun and Earth. The CubeSat will turn from our planet to deep space – for calibration purposes – then to our parent star.
“We’re using a broadband, wild field of view instrument, meaning we’re measuring the total outgoing flux from the whole Earth,” adds Dr. Nevens. “Simba is based on a cavity radiometer, which is basically an internal space on the other side of a very small hole, totally painted black. We are measuring how that cavity warms up.
“Imagine a house with central heating that you want to keep warm. On a summer day you don’t have to do any heating, but on a winter’s day you’ll lose a lot of heat and need to actively warm it. So we’ll be measuring how much extra energy we need to put in to maintain a fixed temperature.
“To get our baseline we’ll begin the mission by looking down at Earth for a long time, to see what temperature it stabilizes at. Then we’ll swivel out to deep space, just a few degrees from absolute zero, to learn the maximum level of heat we need to apply to keep it there. Then we will turn to the Sun in turn, measuring the amount of radiation coming in.”
SIMBA Measurement Concept
The SIMBA Sun-Earth measurement concept is illustrated in Figure 4. In order to be able to measure the small imbalance which is believed to be driving climate change – of the order of 0.5 W/m2 – the difference between the incoming solar radiation – of the order of 340.5 W/m2 – and the outgoing terrestrial radiation – of the order of 340 W/m2 has to be measured. When the incoming and outgoing radiation are measured by separate instruments – as is the traditional approach – the small imbalance to be measured will be overwhelmed by the sum of the calibration errors of the separate sun and earth measurements. The new approach proposed by Simba is to measure with the same instrument the Sun and the Earth radiation, such that in principle the instrument calibration error is the same for the Sun and for the Earth measurement and cancels in the differential Sun-Earth measurement.
Even with this differential sun-earth measurement concept, several challenges remain in order to have an accurate intercalibration of the sun-earth measurements:
1) The Sun is almost a point source covering an angle of 0.5°, compared to the earth which covers a large field of view of 140° when viewed from horizon to horizon from a low earth orbit. Therefore Simba will need a wide field of view with a uniform angular sensitivity. As main SIMBA sensor we choose a wide field of view cavity radiometer, as has been used on the Nimbus-6, and -7 and ERBE satellites.
2) The Sun's surface is approximately a blackbody of 5800 K, emitting SW (ShortWave) radiation with wavelengths up to 4 µm. The Earth is approximately a blackbody of 300 K, emitting LW (LongWave) radiation above 4 µm. At night the Earth leaving radiation is only LW radiation, during the day it is composed of both SW reflected solar radiation and LW emitted thermal radiation. The SIMBA cavity needs to have a flat spectral response. As auxiliary sensors for the separation of Earth's SW and LW radiation, black and white flat spectral sensors are foreseen. The black sensor will absorb SW and LW radiation, the white sensor will mainly absorb LW radiation.
3) The Earth-leaving radiation is highly variable in space and in time due to the daily weather variation. Therefore the SIMBA MSF (Main Sensor Face), containing the cavity radiometer, will be pointed nearly continuously towards Earth, in order to maximize the Earth sampling. Only sporadically, e.g. once every three months, the MSF will be pointed towards the sun for a solar calibration. As the solar variation is well known (Figure 5), such a sporadic sampling of the sun is in principle sufficient. The SIMBA pointing modes are illustrated in Figure 6. During nadir pointing, the MSF is pointed towards Earth. During zenith pointing, the satellite is flipped over by 180°, and the MSF is seeing deep space for calibration at night, and sees the sun sweeping trough its field of view during the day, allowing a basic solar measurement. In a dedicated solar pointing mode, the angle of the MSF relative to the sun is kept fixed, for an improved solar calibration. As auxiliary sensors, the project foresees a second set of black and white sensors on the face opposite the MSF, and a wide angle visible camera on the MSF. The former allows solar and deep space calibration measurements during nadir pointing, the latter allows a high resolution characterization of the reflected solar radiation.
4) The diurnal cycle of the radiation, which is particularly strong in the tropics, is only sampled twice per day from LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The full sampling of the diurnal cycle combined with global measurements requires sampling with a constellation of satellites. While such a constellation would be expensive and slow to put in place with conventional satellite programs – e.g. the NASA ERBE program - it becomes feasible thanks to the relatively low cost and fast CubeSat approach. To measure the Earth radiation imbalance with a constellation of satellites is the long-term goal of the freshly started RMIB SIMBA program, to be compared with the measurement of the Solar Constant that was achieved in a 30 year program starting with the first RMIB space flight in 1983. The first SIMBA satellite to fly with QB50 in 2016 is intended as the technology demonstrator satellite of the SIMBA program.
1) ”Simba CubeSat to swivel from Earth to Sun to help track climate change,” ESA Enabling & Support, 15 June 2020, URL: http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology
2) Tjorven Delabie, ”SIMBA Sun Earth Imbalance mission,” KU Leuven, November 2015, URL: http://be-space.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SIMBA_Delabie.pdf
3) S. Dewitte, A. Chevalier, E. Janssen, N. Clerbaux, M. Meftah, A. Irbah,T. Delabie, O. Karatekin, “The Sun‐Earth Imbalance Radiometer for a Direct Measurement of the Net Heating of the Earth,” Proceedings of the 4S (Small Satellites Systems and Services) Symposium, Port Petro, Majorca Island, Spain, May 26-30, 2014
4) Steven Dewitte, “Long term solar changes and their effect on Earth,” STCE (Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence) Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, May 19, 2014
5) Steven Dewitte, “Radiation Measurements at the RMIB - Past, Present and Future,” September 27, 2013, URL: http://centenary.meteo.be/meteo/view/en/11939750-Dewitte.html
6) ”Vega return to flight proves new rideshare service,” ESA Enabling & Support, 3 September 2020, URL: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation
7) ”With Vega, Arianespace successfully performs the first European mission to launch multiple small satellites,” Arianespace Press Release, 3 September 2020, URL: https://www.arianespace.com
9) Mike Safyan, ”Planet’s First Launch of 2020: 26 SuperDoves on a Vega,” Planet, 13 February 2020, URL: https://www.planet.com/pulse/planets-first-launch-of-2020-26-superdoves-on-a-vega/
The information compiled and edited in this article was provided by Herbert J. Kramer from his documentation of: ”Observation of the Earth and Its Environment: Survey of Missions and Sensors” (Springer Verlag) as well as many other sources after the publication of the 4th edition in 2002. - Comments and corrections to this article are always welcome for further updates ([email protected]).
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International Russian airline, Transaero Airlines awarded GA Telesis Engine Services Oy an exclusive 10 year contract valued at up to $500 million to provide engine repair and overhaul services for Transaero's sixty-two General Electric CF6-80C2 engines for their Boeing 767 and Boeing 747 fleets.
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Airbus and Boeing both won pledges for big purchases of long-haul, wide-body jets Monday, as the Paris Air Show got off to a robust if rainy start.
Honeywell and Safran have completed the first major phase of testing of their electric green taxiing system , and will make the first public demonstration of the technology, installed on an Airbus A320 aircraft , during the 50th International Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget Airport this week.
Airbus SAS is set to win an order for more than 10 A380 double-decker airliners from leasing company Doric Asset Finance Ltd., people familiar with the transaction said.
Engine makers for next-generation Airbus and Boeing narrow-body jets stepped up their war of words on Sunday, claiming their new power plants will burn less fuel than current models plus last longer without maintenance and create less noise than their rival's.
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Etihad Airways' maiden flight to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, has landed on schedule at the city's Nikola Tesla Airport.
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TO the cheers and whoops of thousands of spectators, the world's newest airliner, the Airbus A350 XWB, lifted off on its maiden test flight from Toulouse airport in France.
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NASA visualizes a year of carbon dioxide emissions
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The Republic XP-72, an experimental high-performance fighter aircraft, emerged during World War II from the Republic Aviation Corporation. It never reached full-scale production, but the XP-72 remains memorable for its remarkable design, potent engine, and outstanding potential as a combat aircraft. This article explores the history of the Republic XP-72, its development, and the reasons behind its eventual cancellation.
Development and Design
Republic Aviation Corporation developed the XP-72 as an advanced version of the successful P-47 Thunderbolt fighter. The P-47 was an extremely effective aircraft, celebrated for its ruggedness, firepower, and ability to endure significant damage while continuing to operate. However, as World War II advanced, the need for a faster and more powerful fighter to keep up with the technological advancements of enemy aircraft became evident.
In response to this need, Republic Aviation Corporation initiated the XP-72 project in 1943, aiming to create a high-altitude interceptor that would outperform the P-47. Alexander Kartveli, the chief engineer at Republic Aviation, supervised the project and based the aircraft on the P-47D airframe, implementing several major modifications to enhance its capabilities.
The most significant change involved installing a powerful Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major engine. Capable of generating a staggering 3,500 horsepower, this 28-cylinder, four-row radial engine necessitated a lengthened and widened fuselage for the XP-72. The wings also required strengthening to withstand the increased stress. Furthermore, the XP-72 featured an advanced contra-rotating propeller system to reduce torque and enhance maneuverability.
The XP-72’s impressive armament consisted of either six 0.50-caliber machine guns or four 20mm cannons. The aircraft’s high speed, combined with its substantial firepower, rendered it a formidable adversary for any enemy aircraft it might confront.
Testing and Performance
In February 1944, the first XP-72 prototype took flight, with subsequent tests showing that the aircraft met or exceeded many design goals. It exhibited a top speed of 490 mph (789 km/h) at 25,000 feet (7,620 meters), significantly faster than the P-47 and numerous other contemporary fighters. The XP-72’s climb rate and service ceiling were also exceptional, making it an extremely capable interceptor.
Cancellation and Legacy
Despite its outstanding performance, the XP-72 project ultimately faced cancellation in 1944 due to several contributing factors: The emergence of jet-powered aircraft like the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and the Messerschmitt Me 262 indicated a transition in fighter technology. The XP-72, although advanced for its time, remained a propeller-driven aircraft and quickly fell behind the times.
The high demand for the R-4360 engine in other aircraft, such as the Boeing B-50 Superfortress and the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, strained engine production, leaving little capacity for additional XP-72 manufacturing. The conclusion of World War II in 1945 diminished the need for a high-performance interceptor, as the threat from enemy aircraft significantly decreased.
Even though the Republic XP-72 never achieved full-scale production, its development offered valuable insights into the design of high-performance propeller-driven aircraft. Its groundbreaking features, including the contra-rotating propeller system and the powerful R-4360 engine, played a crucial role in shaping the development of other aircraft during and after the war.
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Construction Number: 10335
Model Douglas C-54A Skymaster
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To N3454 November 1968 with International Aviation Development. Registration cancelled in 1986 but suspected to have been broken up some time before that. Image from the late Ron Roberts collection.
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Home' Asian Aviation : AAV March 2011. Contents Aviation Awards Asia
MAS Engineering & Maintenance
For the past 30 years, Malaysia Airlines' MAS
Engineering & Maintenance division has ser ved the
Kuala Lumpur-based ag carrier and more than 100
other customers, o ering high-quality services at low
The list of third-party customers includes major
airlines such as Air France, Air India, Air New Zealand,
Air Atlanta Icelandic, AirAsia, Alitalia, Air Mauritius,
AWAS, Brussels Airlines, Garuda, GECAS, Jet Airways,
China United Airlines, Continental Airlines, KLM,
Kenya Airways, Monarch Airlines, Nok Air, Qantas
Airways, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Spice Jet, ai Airways
International, Lu hansa and many others.
The MRO ser vice provider offers airframe
maintenance ser vices and modifications tailored to
customers' requirements -- ranging from A, B, C and D
checks for aircra types Boeing 737 Classic and Next-
Generation, 747, 767 and 777 models, and Airbus A320,
A330 and A340 jetliners, as well as turboprops such as
the ATR 42/72 and Fokker 50.
In addition to standard heavy maintenance checks,
the company also o ers ageing aircra programmes,
corrosion-prevention programmes, passenger-to-
freighter (PTF) conversions for B737-300/-400 aircra ,
blended winglet installation, VIP cabin refurbishment,
lap-joint modi cations, cabin and cockpit upgrades.
Since it started operations in 1972, the MRO provider
has obtained maintenance approval from European, US
and 12 other overseas aviation authorities. e company
operates seven widebody maintenance bays, seven
narrowbody bays and one regional-aircra bay.
Engine ser vices are o ered for: General Electric CF6;
Pratt & Whitney JT8D and JT9D; and Rolls-Royce
RB211 and Trent 800.
MTU Maintenance Zhuhai
Located in the Zhuhai Free Trade Zone, MTU
Maintenance Zhuhai is a 50-50 joint venture of MTU
Aero Engines and China Southern Airlines, China's largest
carrier. It comes equipped with a high-tech machine pool
and a highly modern test cell accommodating engines
with thrust ratings up to 150,000lbf.
e location specialises in maintenance, repair and
overhaul of International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-A5
and CFM International CFM56-3, -5B and -7 engines.
In the Chinese market, the shop has become the market
leader in V2500 and CFM56 engine repairs.
Covering an area of 156,000 square meters, the facility
is located in close proximity to Hong Kong and Macau,
improves MTU's access to the booming Chinese market.
For China Southern and other airlines in China and
elsewhere in Asia, the shop provides access to a highly
exible provider of state-of-the-art commercial engine
services, helping airlines reduce costs and shorten
Having started operations in January 2003, MTU
Maintenance Zhuhai brings quality overhaul and
repair ser vices for V2500 and CFM56 engines to the
doorstep of airlines in China and elsewhere in Asia. e
maintenance shop repairs around 200 engines annually
and boosts that number to 300 over time.
SIA Engineering (SIAEC), together with its 25 joint
ventures and subsidiaries across nine countries, forms
the SIAEC Group, o ering extensive aircra MRO
capabilities to more than 85 international airlines from
around the world.
With certi cations from more than 20 airworthiness
authorities -- including those of China, Europe, India,
Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand and the US --
SIAEC's six hangars and 22 in-house workshops in
Singapore provide complete MRO services to major
airline customers from four continents.
Services include line and base maintenance up to
D-check, major and minor airframe modifications
including passenger-to -freighter conversions, cabin
refurbishment, painting and non-destructive testing.
The company also offers engine and component
maintenance and overhaul.
The main aircraft types serviced include Airbus
A300-600, A310, A319, A320, A321, Boeing 747, 767
and 777. Engine types include Rolls-Royce Trent 700,
800 and 900, Pratt & Whitney JT9D and PW4000 and
The company's 17 component, engine and
modi cations joint ventures, formed together with the
world's leading engine and component manufacturers,
further deepen its service o ering.
At Singapore's Changi Airport, SIAEC provides
line maintenance ser vices to more than 60 airlines
passing through Singapore, ensuring punctuality for
all its customers' ight departures. Beyond Singapore,
the company's growing network of line-maintenance
support extends to airports in Australia, the USA,
Hong Kong , Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
SR Technics is a global provider of MRO ser vices for
aircra , engines and components.
e company is owned by a United Arab Emirates
consortium comprising Dubai Aerospace Enterprise,
Mubadala Development and Istithmar. Apart from its
head o ce in Zurich, SR Technics has bases in Dublin
and London Stansted, with a presence in Bahrain, Hong
Kong and Shanghai among other locations, as well as
sales o ces in Hong Kong , Dubai and Mumbai.
SR Technics provides services to about 500 airlines
worldwide, with key Asia-Paci c customers including
Cathay Pacific Air ways, Thai Airways and Virgin
Atlantic. e company's Zurich base alone has nine
widebody and seven narrowbody maintenance bays,
o ering B-, C- and D-checks, modi cations, interiors,
components and a paint shop.
Aircra types ser viced include : Airbus A300, A320
family and A330/340; Boeing 737, 747, 757, 767, 777
and MD-11; Fokker 100; and McDonnell Douglas
DC-10. SR also services CFM International, General
Electric and Pratt & Whitney engines.
MRO award nominee Lufthansa Technik
Philippines is based in Manila.
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|Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras|
Georgia Tech Aerospace Engineering professor Panagiotis Tsiotras is part of a multi-disciplinary team that has recently been approved by NASA to pursue a four-year research project to improve the performance of autonomous systems on advanced air mobility (AAM) missions.
Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation is the name of the project that received $8 million in funding through NASA's University Leadership Initiative (ULI) program. The entire project will be headed up by Stanford University and will also include collaborations with researchers from the University of New Mexico, Hampton University, the University of California, Berkeley,Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and United Technologies Research Center Inc. Assured Autonomy is one of five collaborative teams approved for the 2020 round of the ULI - a NASA program that tasks universities with developing substantive investigations that address one of the agency's research thrusts.
All of the student researchers involved in the ULI teams are expected to gain critical experience leading a multidisciplinary team made up of partners from other universities and industry, especially representing those who traditionally have not applied their skills to aviation problems.
Joining Tsiotras will be Georgia Tech College of Computing professor, Dr. Frank Dellaert. Their team will take a deep dive into the development of tools that ensure machine learning in autonomous systems used by unmanned AAM aircraft work as expected in real-time. The team will also well as to employ fault detection and recovery methods if they do not, particularly in situations involving taxiing, landing and collision avoidance.
The Assured Autonomy ULI project will develop new algorithms for fail-safe integration of (machine) learning components and related algorithms in aviation systems with high confidence and assurances of safety. The Georgia Tech team will be primarily responsible for improved integration of perception and planning modules in the autonomy architecture. They will also employ the quantification and mitigation of uncertainty for failure detection, identification, and recovery during planning tasks,
“In the past several years there has been a proliferation of (machine) learning algorithms that have shown tremendous success in a variety of pattern recognition tasks," said Tsiotras. "Incorporating these learning-enabled-methods within feedback loops to control safety-critical autonomous systems in aviation --such as aircraft, helicopters, and air-taxis -- has a huge potential, but also poses major challenges. Aviation systems have to operate at extreme safety margins and guarantees - much beyond of what is possible using current machine learning algorithms."
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Pitch Black – 18 (PB-18), biennia multinational air exercise hosted by Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) concluded recently Darwin, Australia. It was the largest Pitch Black ever conducted by Australia, which saw participation of 16 nations and more than 140 aircraft, the current edition. India’s Participation: In this edition of exercise, Indian Air Force (IAF) ..
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This site contributed one of the articles in the series on using an underground nuclear blast to launch large unmanned and cheap payloads into space.
A Mars sample return mission is examined at robot explorers
Discovery helps peole understand the size and scale of the Universe.
Astroengine looks at the first steps to artificial life.
Centauri Dreams considers "What if the Keppler Mission discovers that Earth-like worlds are common ?"
Meet some of the cast of the new Star Trek movie at a babe in the universe. [Chris Pine and Zack Pinto]
Check out the Carnival of Space 94 at the Planetary Society blog for a lot more
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Start Location: 17 Wing Fitness and Recreation Centre (680 Whytewold Rd)
Half Marathon and 10km Run Map
5 km Run and 3 km Family Fun Run Map
The following services will be available along each route:
- Course markers
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All race routes feature the flight line static displays of RCAF aircraft and equipment. Participants are welcomed to stop and visit the displays either during or on completion of their timed event.
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Wings of Power
WW II Heavy Bombers and Jets
Reviewed by Farmboyzim
The folks at Shockwave Productions have put that incredible "Absolute Realism" technology into high and heavy gear with their product, Wings of Power - WW II Heavy Bombers and Jets"!
This is the second product that I have reviewed from these folks, so I was ready for that "absolute realism" this time around! The first product from the Wings of Power line that I had the great pleasure in reviewing
was their P-51 Mustang, which was
Avro Lancaster B
Focke-Wulf Ta-183 "Huckebein"
The developers of the Wings of Power aircraft suggest that you find a training manual for the specific aircraft that you want to know more about, and use it to learn to fly the Wings of Power aircraft properly. That's right! The real manual should be used for these aircraft! How much more realism do you want? The manual that is included, which in itself is very impressive, covers the basic flight parameters of each of the aircraft in the product, enough to get you up and flying without burning up the engines! It's also is rich in historical facts about these aircraft! There are abbreviated checklists, copies of official government documents concerning various aspects of the aircraft and panel information with well displayed graphics. The manual is 158 pages long but is not so technical that the beginning aviator wouldn't be able to understand it. It is well written and very interesting to read, not at all a dry technical manual, filled with statistical info that you need an engineering degree to comprehend! I was very impressed
a definite eye opener! Here I thought I knew how to fly a prop job pretty good! I was humbled! The performance of the aircraft took me by surprise to say the least! I can now say that I can confidently cope with the difference in flight dynamics between the Wings of Power aircraft and your standard fare of WW II aircraft. I've learned a lot from flying these aircraft, so not only is it fun, itís an interesting technological/historical lesson about some very fine and unusual aircraft.
Let me explain here about that term "Absolute Realism", or AB, that I've been throwing around. This is a term that describes a new type of development that provides just what it says, absolute realism to your flying experience. My first taste of this realism was with their P-51. In short, I loaded the file, took a quick look-see at the manual, hopped into the aircraft, gave her the gas, and promptly lost control of the aircraft. This was the product that cured me of not looking through manuals a bit more extensively before gunning them down the runway!
AB goes beyond the point of just reproducing a few specific performance dynamics, such as top speed, max climb rate, stall speeds, etc. They go quite a few steps further and provide you with an aircraft simulation that will represent an almost unlimited amount of conditions throughout your flight. As the pilot of these aircraft, you must choose proper altitudes, manifold pressures, prop speeds, flap settings, etc, and as you make these choices, the aircraft will perform exactly as it would in real life, base on what your inputs are as pilot in command! This is a big part of the overall enjoyment of flying these aircraft. REALISM!!!
Avro Lancaster B
with the manual, as I am a big fan of products that come with a decent manual printed and ready to be referenced. They also gave it a very nice looking cover and an official look with various statements like "For Official Use Only" and such! Big points in the manual category gang! Now, onto the aircraft. Here's what you get:
Arado Ar 234 Blitz
"A Bit Of Lace"
"Doc's Deadly Rose"
Heinkel He 162 A
As you can see, there are a number of popular and unusual aircraft that are included in this product. The exterior models of each are extremely detailed, right down to the nose art depicted on some of the aircraft (big nose art fan here!). All control surfaces work in a very smooth and realistic way, including the landing gear, with its smooth operation, deploying and retracting. The detail of these working surfaces is also extremely well done. The models of the aircraft are superbly done, with authentic paint jobs depicting the liveries of the real aircraft. One would think, that with all the detail that's added with these models that the frame rate of the sim would take a beating. This is not the case with these models! I was very surprised when I turned up the clouds and a few of the other details settings and noticed only minimal performance change. I think you'll be surprised also when you run this add on and get the looks and the performance that some dream about! You know, if you're dreaming about CPU performance at night, you really have to get out more often!
Detail is extended to areas such as the views from outside the aircraft. Note the detail of the Arado's cockpit from the external view. Wiring, back of panel, and pilot are very well done and adds immensely to the overall realistic look of the aircraft. The external working surfaces that were mentioned earlier can be seen in action with the landing gear of the Arado and the bomb bay doors on the B17. Here's a great example of that detail on the inside of the aircraft from the outside. Bombs are racked, ready and waiting, with surface details of the interior of the bay also detailed! Bombs are for looks only! Go fire up your combat sim if you get that urge! You'll see this detail in all the bombers, as well as the jets. Some of the aircraft have that shiny, new plane look, while others show the wear
and tear that flying mission after mission can have on an aircraft. The developers have also added some very cool effects, such as smoke from engine starts, and enhanced "spark-ability" (for lack of another word at the moment!) of the effects of belly landing the aircraft in emergency situations! You can see in the pictures below, a couple of shots belly landing in the Lancaster. The Chief is going to be pretty upset about the paint job! But ya know what? Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing! Gee, have you heard that one before!?! In case you decide you know better, and try flying these beasts without the use of the information that's provided (an unwise move), there are newly enhanced effects for
that inevitable smack with good old mother earth! After being unable to recover from a stall that ended up in my impersonation of a lawn dart, I had a first hand look at the effects! There were also some skid mark effects from the belly landing, but they faded after a bit. Very cool effect indeed! These shots really don't do the effects justice. My first situations of losing control and stalling were mostly on take off. Let
The interior of each of the aircraft are just as detailed as the exteriors. There are some objects that you may notice a polygon or two, but it certainly does not detract from the overall great looks of the aircraft! Flight decks have a very authentic look. Almost to the point that you can smell the canvas seats! Ah! The smell of new canvas! That takes me back! I found that the panels were easily read, especially with my new contacts! Each of the sub panels are also very authentic looking and very workable. The percentage of workable avionics versus "eye candy" is probably around 60/40, give or take, leaning in favor of a majority of workable knobs, switches, and buttons. I found it quite fun and educational to fly these old aircraft with the authentic panels. No FMC's will be found here! You have to eyeball those gauges constantly! Here you thought it would be a boring flight over the Atlantic with nothing to do! The virtual cockpit views are just as clear and readable as the 2D views, and quite enjoyable to fly from, as everything that's workable in the 2D is, for the most part, workable in the VC.
why these avionics were used, but I am certainly not complaining! It gave me more time to focus on manifold pressures, prop rpm's, and climb rates! Functions of the C-1 Auto Pilot are covered within the manual, with all functions nicely labeled.
Here's an abundance of shots of the various aircraft's cockpits, VC's, and sub panels:
Autopilot systems were most authentic in the B17, Lancaster, and the B29, which utilize the C-1 Automatic Flight Control System. These are not complicated avionics to figure out, as everything is fairly to the point. The other aircraft sport a more modern avionics stack, which was fine by me! There's plenty of authenticity already spread about. May as well spring for an updated avionics package for a couple of the aircraft! The auto-pilot in these updated versions works the same as the default avionics in MSFS2004. I'm not sure
Let's cover the aircraft in this package in a bit more detail:
The Avro Lancaster B Mk.III / Mk. I "Special" was Britain's primary punch for their nighttime bombing missions. Utilized as a low-level bomber, it carried up to 14,000 pounds of ordnance. Famous for its roll in the "Dam Buster's" missions, it carried special cylindrical bombs used to destroy dams. A stripped down version was able to carry a single "Grand Slam" bomb, weighing in at 22,000 pounds. Not as heavily armed as the B17 and carrying less defensive armament and equipment, crewed by seven, and not having to climb to the higher altitudes were the reasons they were able to carry more of a bomb load. Powered by the magical Merlin engines, by Rolls Royce, it was able to get off the
ground, using less runway. Performance fell off above 20,000 feet for lack of a turbo-supercharger. The aircraft handles well, and fly's itself right off the runway. Pilot Comment: "She's a steady, stable airplane that'll get you home if you treat her right." Hmmm...Sound familiar?
Those of us that are familiar with the roles that many types of aircraft have played in the war's over time know that they all have their own excellent (in most cases) attributes. But if you were to ask most people, enthusiasts of aviation or not, to name a bomber from WW II, most would probably say the B17 Flying Fortress, by Boeing. The aircraft went through various modifications that led to the B17G. With a range of 2000 miles, a speed of 287 mph, service ceiling of 35,800 feet (Brrrr!), 13 machine guns and four turbo charged 1200 hp engines; it's obvious why it was nicknamed the "Flying Fortress"! The B17 was a veteran of just about all of the US air campaigns, including those over North Africa and
the Middle East. Because of their role of daytime bombing, the B17 took severe losses from the Luftwaffe until air support was able to accompany them to the target and back home. Pilot Comment: The B17 was designed for 200-hour pilots who came straight from the farm (hey, what does he mean by that!) and into flight training. It was meant to be as easy to fly as a four - engine bomber could possible be. It's rugged, simple, and has a good temperament. It takes a lot to piss it off."
The only jet powered bomber to make it into action during WW II was the Arado Ar-234. As with many aircraft, it's role started out as one thing and developed into another, In the case of the Ar-234, it's initial role was that of a recon aircraft, but was later adapted for recon / bomber missions. It carried a 1,500 Kg compliment of bombs externally, and gave allied pilots fits of frustration trying to catch it, as it sped away using its turbo-jet engines. Nicknamed the Blitz (Lightening), it was sleek, fast, and handled as well as it looked. Future plans held the development of a variation that would have utilized four BMW engines, but the war ended before these designs came to be. Quite a bit of technical
C-1 Automatic Flight Control System
knowledge was gleaned from the captured aircraft after the war. Pilots Comment: "The Blitz was a wonderful aircraft to fly, with excellent handling and well harmonized controls". It did however, need quite a bit of runway for take off and landing, and was equipped with a para-brake.
The Consolidated B24 "Liberator" Model 32 was a very advanced aircraft for its time. The systems utilized in this aircraft were so advanced that the crew's required special, extensive training in their functions and teamwork was more important than ever. The feature that stood out most on this aircraft was the difference in the style of wing configuration, utilizing a high-aspect ratio Davis wing. The aircraft proved difficult to fly, marginally stable, and was usually flown with maxed out weights, which didn't help matters any. Trim control was essential or you'd find yourself meandering all about the wild blue! An unforgiving aircraft, it demanded a lot from its crew. It did its job effectively though,
thanks to the skills of the brave crews that flew them. 18,188 B24's were made, compared to 12,731 B17's and 7,366 Lancasterís. At the time that the manual was written, only one B24J remains flying cared for by the Collings Foundation out of Stowe, Massachusetts. It continues to tour the US and the team from Wings of Power had a chance to actually fly in this aircraft on two occasions, walking away with a deep respect for the crews that flew her. Pilots Comment: "You could always tell a Liberator pilot by the bulging biceps muscles in his left arm, from hauling on that yoke for 14 hours at a stretch".
The PB4Y-2, "Privateer" was the naval version of the B24, with had many different modifications from its army cousin. The first distinctive feature was the single, massive tail instead of the twin that was sported by the B24. It was also heavily armed, having multiple powered turrets and two waist-gunner positions. The most distinguishing difference though was its engines, not being turbo charged; it relied on its superchargers to gain altitude, which was a max of 12,000 feet. This was perfect for the task of maritime patrol however, along with low level shipping strikes. The endurance of the Privateer was incredible by the standards of the time. Missions of up to 18 hours were not uncommon, with a
range of up to 3,000 miles. Pilot Comments were the same for the PB4Y-2 Privateer as they were for the B24 Liberator.
The designs of the MiG-15 of the Korean war era were influenced by the Focke - Wulf Ta-183 "Huckebein", which was a very simple, single engine (within the fuselage), delta winged fighter, that only lived on paper, as it never was built. The Ta-183 is very fast, with speeds up to 600 mph, and highly maneuverable. It had a short combat radius of only 350 Km that would have been a handicap to its combat performance. The danger of "over-controlling" the aircraft at slower speeds exists, so care must be taken in landing and take off situations. This is another aircraft that needs a lot of runway to take off and land. Pilot Comment: "The Ta-183 would likely have handled very much like a Korean war
vintage jet fighter. With a projected top speed of nearly 600 mph at altitude, and a climb rate of nearly 6,000 feet per minute, the Ta-183 would have easily disposed of any piston engine fighter with its four cannons". That's an understatement!
The Boeing B29 "Super Fortress" was a long range, high altitude bomber that had quite a troubling start in its early days. The engines were prone to over heating and fires were common with disastrous results. It's like one of those fancy, well equipped cars of today, with all kinds of extras that unfortunately break down on a regular basis. The more complex, the more opportunity for problems, and this held true with the Super Fortress. Even so, the B29 was an incredible development in aircraft technology for its time, having a pressurized crew compartment, remote controlled gun positions, and it could carry a whopping 20,000 pounds of ordnance to the enemy and hopefully return home. Another
aircraft that usually took of at maximum loads, the B29 never really inspired the confidence that the B17 did with the crews. A failed engine at take off in the B 29 usually meant an emergency situation resulting in a crash. Thousands of Super Forts made the trip to the enemy and back however, and would have seen action in the European theater had the war gone on longer there. Pilot Comment: "The B29 responded quickly and accurately to the controls for such a large airplane. It was like the B17, it was a good aircraft to fly, but you had to watch those engines and keep them cool. That was something we didn't have to worry about on the B17. But we flew them anyway, and most of us made it back. We were just doing a job."
Here's an oddly cool looking aircraft, the He 162A "Salamander" (where did they get these names!). The Salamander was an effort made by the Germans in the latter part of the war to create what they called the "People's Fighter" (Volksjager). The aircraft was developed in an incredible short time of 69 days when its first test flight was conducted. A simple design that could be made by unskilled labor, it also used fewer strategic materials than most aircraft. Stuff was running short! The result was the Salamander that was actually quite fast, agile and lethal. The He 162A was plagued by the same shortcoming as the Ta-183 however, and that was a short combat radius. Because of the limited fuel
supply, the only option the Salamander had if enemy fighters showed up was to run. But again, the plane never saw combat, for the war had ended, and of course, production ceased. Pilot Comment: This plane is fast and agile with a good rate of climb. It has the quickest rate of roll and the lightest control touch of any aircraft of this type above 400 mph. It stalls predictably, but it requires an experienced, practiced touch on the controls, which are very responsive. It's easy to over-control this aircraft, and can be quite a challenge to take off and land. Treat it with respect."
This product has the distinction of being "The Highest Rated Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 add-on ever created"
(BASED ON ALL INDEPENDENT REVIEWS IN GAMERANKINGS DATABASE AS OF APRIL 2005) and I can surely see why! You should have at least a few hours under your belt with flying larger aircraft, and be familiar with the basic avionics of aircraft. This is a product though, that would be great learning tool, since the "Absolute Realism" that Wings of Power promises you will give you a new look at what you thought was proper flying techniques.
Well, I hope I didn't overload you on information like they did with the bomb loads on some of these aircraft! I just couldn't help but enjoy writing this review immensely, for historical aircraft, simming, and writing are some of my favorite hobbies. Besides that, this product gave me a lot to write about! About the only thing I could wish for was the ability to move to the various positions throughout the aircraft. But you're in these birds to fly them, not ride along as a passenger! The above information was referenced from the manual that comes with the product, and this is only a small taste of the invaluable information that it contains. The cost of the product is an unbelievable $28.99 plus $7.50 for shipping and handling to North America for the boxed CD-Rom version. I truly think this is one of the sweetest deals around! Extremely accurate renderings of aircraft with beautiful liveries, and a goodly number of them, I might add, frame rate friendliness in various resolutions...What more could you want? Especially if you're into these war birds like I am!
the plane do the work and fly itself off the runway. It will do it, smooth as silk! Try not to over control.
Pentium II 500 MHz or faster or an equivalent processor
At least 500 Mb of hard disc space
CD Rom Drive
Recommended to have a sound card
3D Graphics card
Windows 9x/2000 or better
DirectX 9 or higher
Installation of Wings of Power WW II Bombers and Jets was from a single CD, and was very simple and hassle free. It also did not take very long at all to install. After installation, the addition of a Wings of Power logo in the lower right corner of your start up splash screen appears, but it looks pretty good, so I left it!
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By WENDELL MINNICK |
TAIPEI — Just one month after China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was commissioned, photographs are appearing on the Internet of the Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark fighter jet operating over the ship.
The photographs have appeared on Chinese-language military blogs and government-run newspapers. The images show the J-15 flying just above the carrier deck, along with a photograph of a Changhe Z-8 search-and-rescue helicopter taking off from the deck.
“The latest imagery shows that China is continuing to progress toward a genuine carrier capacity, possibly with an initial operation capability around the middle of this decade,” said Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, U.K.
“Imagery of a prototype of the Shenyang J-15 show the aircraft being flown on practice final approaches and over-flying the deck, likely as part of the initial trials for carrier operation,” he said.
The J-15 is modeled on the Russian Sukhoi Su-33 carrier-based fighter and is being developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corp. China obtained a prototype Su-33 (T-10K-7) from Ukraine, said a new report by the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, “Shooting Star: China’s Military Machine in the 21st Century.” In 2009, China built the first prototype of the J-15 and outfitted it with the Shenyang WS-10A turbofan engine.
Though the photographs are surprising, none of the photos of the plane show a tailhook deployed, and all show the plane in the air behind the carrier’s ski jump, “so it clearly had not done a takeoff from the ship,” and “more likely a touch-and-go or fly-by,” said Roger Cliff, a China defense specialist for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Cliff said it will be several years before China has a carrier with a fully operational air wing, “although that is in part because they probably don’t have enough carrier-capable aircraft right now, and in part because the Liaoning isn’t big enough for a full wing of aircraft.”
When China begins carrying out flight operations at maximum operating tempo, launching and landing aircraft has to be a carefully choreographed operation, he said.
“If you want to get all your combat aircraft in the air at the same time, you have to be able to bring them up from the hangar deck and launch them in rapid succession,” Cliff said. “Otherwise, the first planes to take off will have burned through half their fuel by the time the last aircraft takes off. When the mission is complete, you have to be able to recover them one by one and get them out of the way before the last one runs out of gas.”
Then comes the demands of required maintenance, refueling and rearming the planes as quickly as possible, and “then things get really complicated if you are trying to launch and recover at the same time,” he said. “The less efficiently you do all this, the fewer sorties you generate, and the less effective combat power the carrier has. I’m sure they will master all that in time, though.”
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Uber has taken to the skies in the US offering helicopter flights to JKF Airport in New York, the service is only available to premium members until 7 October.
Uber Copter is now available for all riders, enabling people to seamlessly travel from Manhattan to JFK 🚁
The pilot is designed to generate learnings for a future all-electric Uber Air ride-sharing network. pic.twitter.com/oUtDSO67Zg
— Uber (@Uber) October 3, 2019
Flights cost from $200 per person for an eight minute helicopter flight to and from lower Manhattan helipad.
The Uber Copter or Uber Air are partnered with Boeing and will develop future aircraft and will be testing the service in other cities early in 2020.
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The Italian Air Force reached 1,000 flying hours on the Leonardo Finmeccanica T-346 this week. This milestone was celebrated by instructor pilots, students and other crew of 212 squadron at Lecce airbase in southern Italy.
The 1K hours were clocked since August 2014, when the first T-346 Masters arrived in Lecce. At first the type was used to train instructor pilots, who in turn started to use the jets to train student pilots in October 2015. The Italian Air Force uses the T-346 as a phase IV trainer, which prepares students for the the final step towards fast combat jets.
The first four Italian student have now completed phase IV training on the T-346. Meanwhile, Dutch pilots are also using the Italian made jet for training. A new version of the T-346, marked T-100, is being pitched as the next fast jet trainer for the US Air Force.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Engine Achieves EASA Type Certification
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has awarded engine type certification for the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB turbofan engine.
The Trent XWB will power the Airbus A350-800 and A350-900 variants. Airbus said it plans on launching the maiden flight of the A350-900 in the second half of 2013.
Airbus said the A350 XWB is on schedule to enter commercial service in 2014.
“These new engines together with the aircraft’s advanced aerodynamics and airframe technologies will bring our airline customers a 25 percent step-improvement in fuel efficiency,” said Didier Evrad, executive vice president at Airbus. More
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URBAN, Timothy J.
Research Associate, Center for Space Research
(512) 471-3585 (fax)
Dr. Urban's areas of interest are in geodesy, remote sensing, orbital mechanics, geodetic missions, and mission planning. He has worked with several radar and laser altimetry missions including ERS-1, ERS-2, TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, ICESat and ICESat-2. Key topics of interest are altimeter sensor corrections, measurement validation & calibration, and Earth science applications.
2013, Most Cited Article award, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAO) journal for DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.19.1-2.1(SA)
1998-1999, NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship
1991, Sigma Gamma Tau, National Aerospace Engineering Honor Society
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2000
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
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On the 17th and 18th of March 2015, the European Space Agency will hold a two day event on technologies for Space Debris Mitigation (SDM) and presenting CleanSat programme which promotes the evolution of LEO platforms for compliance with the SDM requirements. The event, coordinated by the ESA Clean Space office is planned as follows: - A Technical day on ‘deorbiting strategies’ (17/03/2015) - A CleanSat Workshop (18/03/2015) The Technical Day is focused on presenting and summarising European knowledge and technology developments in the areas of drag augmentation devices and solid rocket motors de-orbiting systems. The objective of the technical day is to shape recommendations for future research in this area through highly interactive sessions which are designed to produce actionable results. The CleanSat Workshop aims at involving the entire chain of European space sector in the preparation of the CleanSat programme. Space Debris Mitigation requirements are being enforced worldwide with a high impact on the design of LEO spacecraft. Developing products compliant with SDM will increase the competitiveness of the European industry on a global scale. CleanSat will be an efficient framework for the fast implementation of innovative technologies in upcoming LEO missions, promoting the development of common building blocks to stimulate the creation of shared supply chains, lowering development and recurrent costs. This workshop is an essential step to involve the whole European space sector in shaping the way forward for the evolution of the European LEO platforms. We offer the following opportunities associated with the event: - For the technical day - 17th of March 2015 (9:00 - 17:00): › Display exhibition material › Presentations are already selected. The audience is invited to attend the presentations and actively participating during the open discussions that will be held throughout the morning and afternoon sessions - For the CleanSat workshop - 18th of March 2015 (9:00 - 17:30): › Display exhibition material › Presentation of your technology for the sessions on technologies for space debris mitigation - 18th of March 2015 (13:00 - 15:00) › Open round table to discuss Clean Sat (15:00 – 17:00) If you would like to contribute to this event or would like further information, please contact: Jessica Delaval - [email protected] Please note that due to a restricted number of seats we might have to select participants. Priority will be given to people involved in the development of technologies for space debris mitigation.
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https://www.funfinder.co.nz/listings/hot-air-ballooning/
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Escape to a world of peace and tranquility. Hot Air Ballooning is a magical experience and…
Hot Air Ballooning is a one-of-a-kind adventure. New Zealand’s, Kiwi Balloon Company’s flights take place daily from…
Otago, Queenstown & Wanaka
Hot Air Balloon rides / flights with Sunrise Balloons take place in the valleys between Queenstown…
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https://www.dla.mil/AboutDLA/News/NewsArticleView/Article/1413225/lox-and-load-fuels-airmen-breathe-life-into-aviation/
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LOX and load Fuels Airmen breathe life into aviation
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Eric Fortenberry (left) and U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jerry Timmons, 673d Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels facilities technicians, take a sample of liquid oxygen at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 4, 2017. Oxygen is pressurized and cooled into a liquid state in order to transport it more efficiently from cryogenic tanks to JBER’s aircraft to provide fresh air to pilots in flight.
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This server is primarily for any active, retired, or veterans of the US Air Force as well as other military branches.
Welcome to r/AirForce! This server is primarily for any active, guard, reserve, retired, or veterans of the Air Force as well as our sister services and any civilians interested in joining. This is NOT a role-play server/gaming/Roblox server.
Server Purpose 🤝
Real Conversations, Real Connections 🗣️🤝
r/AirForce Discord is more than just a virtual space; it's a platform for authentic conversations and connections. Engage in discussions that matter to you, whether you're seeking advice, sharing experiences, or simply connecting with fellow Air Force enthusiasts. The server fosters an atmosphere of camaraderie, where individuals from various backgrounds within the Air Force community can come together to share insights, stories, and perspectives.
Inclusive Space for All Air Force Affiliations 🌐🎗️
This server caters to a broad spectrum of Air Force affiliations, including active-duty members, guard and reserve personnel, retirees, and veterans. Additionally, individuals from sister services who share a connection to the Air Force community are welcome. This inclusive approach creates a rich tapestry of experiences and insights, making r/AirForce Discord a valuable resource for anyone associated with or interested in the Air Force.
Not Just Military, but a Community 🏠❤️
While r/AirForce Discord acknowledges its military roots, it goes beyond the traditional military-focused servers. This is a community where individuals with diverse interests, backgrounds, and experiences can come together. Whether you're discussing career paths, seeking advice on military life, or simply engaging in casual conversations, r/AirForce Discord strives to be a home for all, fostering a sense of belonging within the broader Air Force community.
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Return to Aircraft Home Page
where you can select another license, email us, or see the Copyrights.
The 'wing' of a Para-Glider is actually two sheets of material with openings
along the front edge to inflate the wing into an aerodynamic shape. If the top
and bottom are different patterns or colours, light through the fabrics can
change the appearance as they change direction.
There are no G-xxxx license numbers on the canopies as seen on most aircraft and even Hang-gliders. The explanation is that ...
"A self-administering organisation is responsible for administering operational and airworthiness standards and for issuing pilot certificates."
Parachutes (as emergency equipment) don't require registration, and Para-gliders are sort of similar. We notice that Para-glider pilots sport an emergency parachute on their backs! Very sensible.
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Operations Planning, Training, and Integration
Operations Capabilities Include:
- Operations Concepts Development
- Schedule and Resource Analysis
- Operational Training and Audit
- Logistics Analysis
- Operations Requirements Definition
TGV Inc. has extensive experience in NASA human space flight operations, commercial GEO and LEO satellite operations, and commercial and military launch systems.
TGV personnel have also developed training plans for commercial satellite operators and trained astronauts for Shuttle and ISS missions.
Commercial launch operations experience includes DC-X, Sea Launch, Ariane, Proton, Delta, and Atlas Launch vehicles in both domestic and foreign facilities. TGV has planned remote launch and operations facilities, and developed hardware and procedures for processing and integrating commercial payloads into the launch vehicle flow.
With this experience base,TGV can provide complete operational planning, including training and personnel requirements, hardware and software system design, and on-site consulting.
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Valley of Ten Peaks, Canada. This beautiful creation of nature is located in the Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. As the name suggests, this valley consists of ten peaks and Moraine Lake flowing at their feet.
NASA's space shuttles are amazing flying machines. They launch like rocket, land like airplanes and then hit the hangar for a pit stop before turning around and doing it again. Now, nearly 30 years after the first space shuttle - Columbia - bla
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High speed winds during the parachute descent of the Perseverance rover were reconstructed
Scientists found Perseverance drifted across the surface of Jezero crater during the descent due to high-speed winds. Together, with international colleagues, they found the winds could be reproduced using high resolution atmospheric modelling. Most likely, this means the complex terrain at Jezero crater is helping to generate the high-speed winds. For example, in the modeling of the Earth's atmosphere, a resolution of about one kilometer is required so that the model can produce the fast winds generated by rugged terrain.
At one point during the parachute descent, starting from 12 km altitude, the maximum wind speed was found to be over 100 kph. However, due to the thin atmosphere of Mars, this equates to the force of a gentle breeze on Earth and has little impact on the parachute.
Scientists have effectively given the Martian atmospheric models, which are based on Earth models, a stress test and checked that they are working correctly. Scientific investigations made from the surface using Perseverance’s humidity and pressure sensors, which are based on FMI and Vaisala technology, can then benefit from a better understanding of the winds at the surface as well as those above it.
Senior Scientist Mark Paton, tel. 050 430 2984, [email protected]
Paton, M. D., Savijärvi, H., Harri, A. -M., Leino, J., Bertran, T., Viúdez-Moreiras, D., Lorenz, R. D., Newman, C., Inferred wind speed and direction during the descent and landing of Perseverance on Mars, Icarus, 415, 116045 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116045
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RexAir is the only Cirrus Training Center in Southwest Florida. Recognized by Cirrus Corporation, our professional staff of instructors take your training to the next level.
Whether you are a seasoned pilot looking to expand your flying experiences in a new Cirrus aircraft or someone who dreams of learning to fly in a new, technically advanced aircraft, RexAir Flight Training Center will tailor the instruction to you for a fantastic and exciting experience.
From the classroom to the boardroom, we know your time is valuable. We will work with your schedule, time constraints, and personal goals to either transition you to our Avidyne based SR-20, or to our High Performance, SR-22 Turbo, with Pespective avionics.
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https://u1news.com/watch-spacex-launch-49-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-jan-31/
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UPDATE Jan 30 at 12:15 PM EST: SpaceX has postponed this Starlink launch to Tuesday (January 31st) again. More time for pre-boot checks (opens in new tab). Liftoff is at 11:15 AM (EST 1615 GMT). This follows the previous delay from Sunday (29th January) to Monday morning (30th January) to Monday afternoon for the same reason.
SpaceX plans to launch another set of Starlink Broadband satellites into orbit on Tuesday (January 31), and you can watch it live.
Ah falcon 9 Rocket topped with 49 star link The spacecraft and a rideshare payload from Italian-based company D-Orbit are scheduled to take off from Space Force Station Vandenberg, California at 11:15 a.m. EST Tuesday (1615 GMT, California local time). 8:15).
If all goes according to plan, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth 8.5 minutes after takeoff and land on SpaceX’s Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be deployed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.
This will be the 7th launch and landing of this particular booster. SpaceX mission description (opens in new tab).
The rocket’s upper stage will continue to carry 50 payloads into low earth orbit. D-Orbit’s Ion Satellite Carrier Vehicle #9 (SCV009) is an orbital transfer craft capable of carrying a number of its own payloads approximately 58 minutes after launch. It’s unclear what payload her SCV009, which D-Orbit calls Eclectic Elena, is carrying on this mission.
If all goes according to plan, Falcon 9’s upper stage will deploy 49 Starlink satellites 1 hour and 17 minutes after launch.
SpaceX has already launched About 3,800 Starlink satellites (opens in new tab)The company has permission to loft 12,000 Internet spacecraft and is seeking approval to deploy about 30,000 more.
Monday’s takeoff will already be SpaceX’s seventh Starlink mission this year and third Starlink mission in 2023. 61 orbital launchesset last year.
Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 11:10am ET on January 29th with a new launch date of January 30th.The liftoff was he was scheduled for January 29th, but SpaceX has delayed things for him by a day. Complete pre-launch checkout (opens in new tab).
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Google Earth Alternatives
Google Earth is described as 'lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean' and is one of the leading apps in the Travel & Location category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Google Earth for a variety of platforms, including the Web, Windows, Android, iPhone and iPad. The best alternative is OpenStreetMap, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Google Earth are OsmAnd (Freemium, Open Source), Marble (Free, Open Source), HERE WeGo (Free) and NASA World Wind (Free, Open Source).
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Menzies Aviation Canada
Abbotsford , BC
The Ramp Agent is responsible for unloading and loading luggage, freight and cargo on and off commercial aircraft, in the outbound bag room and the baggage claim area. Driving and operating small specialized commercial vehicles. Position requires: heavy lifting, pushing, pulling, bending, stretching and frequent kneeling. Adheres to all standards, procedures ensuring all work is performed safely and is supported by following established procedures and protocols.
- Servicing Flair Airlines!
Main Accountabilities Include:
- Comfortably and continuously lift/move 70 lbs. of cargo and baggage on and off aircraft and transport it between aircraft, airport terminals and air cargo facilities.
- Performs aircraft Marshalling and Wing Walking
- Ensures safe operation and proper handling of passenger baggage, freight and mail
- Frequent bending, stretching push/pulling, stacking and kneeling in small confined locations.
- Operate motorized equipment including but not limited to belt loaders, tow tractors, baggage tractors, tow bars, ASU, GPU, vans, dollies, air stairs, loader
- Read and interpret aircraft weight and balance loading instructions, hazardous material identification labels, aircraft loading manifests, and baggage and cargo routing tags.
- Ensure tasks are performed in accordance with Company and Airline specific procedures and policies.
- Required to attend the mandatory training imposed by the Company and Airlines as per job role.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications and Experience:
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must be able to pass and maintain the DA AVOP issued by the Airport Authority (both written & practical).
- Must be able to push, pull, lift up to 70lbs when required.
- Must be able to speak, read, and write in English proficiently.
- Must have a valid Provincial driver’s license with a good driving record.
- Must be able to meet and maintain the security level required for this position.
- Must be available and flexible to work variable shifts including weekends and holidays if required.
- Work is done primarily outdoors. Must be comfortable working in all weather conditions, work is primarily outdoors.
- Reliability, our customer and your fellow employees rely on you.
Job Type: Part-time
- General Labour: 1 year (preferred)
- Day Shift (preferred)
- Night Shift (preferred)
- Overnight Shift (preferred)
If you have the skills and experience required for this position, please forward your resume to:
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Space Science Teacher Resources
Find Space Science educational ideas and activities
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Torrents, Droughts, and Twisters - Oh My!
What is causing the extreme weather happening around the planet? Middle and high schoolers read about climate change as a possible link to such phenomena. Then they form groups to discuss and research one of the types of weather events. They present their findings to the rest of the class and then rank how confident scientists seem to be about the links.
6th - 12th Science CCSS: Adaptable
Living in Space
Students explore space science by viewing a video in class. In this astronaut lesson, students identify the living habits of astronauts by researching the NASA website and observing a space science video in class. Students participate in a space exploration discussion and decide if they would like to be astronauts.
2nd - 5th Visual & Performing Arts
Space Pioneers: Major People Involved in Space Exploration
Students explore space science by researching the people involved with it. For this famous explorers lesson, students identify the first people to reach space such as John Glen, Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shephard. Students complete a space science quiz and view a PowerPoint presentation about space exploration.
3rd - 8th Math
Getting to Know Saturn: Moons, Rings, and Relationships
Young scholars identify the different objects that orbit Saturn. In this space science instructional activity, students plot the graph of orbital speed and distance. They explain why planets and asteroids remain in orbit around the sun.
7th - 8th Science
Flight of the Future/Space Flight
Young scholars explore space science by viewing videos on YouTube. In this moon landing lesson, students view clips of Neil Armstrong taking his first step on the moon and discuss the space race between the U.S. and Russia. Young scholars utilize graph paper to create a space related crossword puzzle using space science vocabulary.
4th - 7th Visual & Performing Arts
Getting to Know Saturn: The Saturn System
Students compare and contrast Earth and Saturn's planet features. In this space science lesson, students draw a diagram of the solar system and identify the different components. They complete a Saturn system scavenger hunt and Venn diagram after the activity.
7th - 8th Science
An Explorative Journey Through the Solar System
Young scholars explore space science by creating a planetary model in class. In this solar system lesson, students identify the many planets and moons that make up the solar system and decide on one entity in which to research. Young scholars create a construction model based on a specific planet and answer study questions about their topic.
5th - 8th English Language Arts
Stars in the Sky
Students inspect space science by creating an illustration. In this star identification lesson, students listen to a reading of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and complete an astronomy worksheet. Students utilize glitter and black paper to create an image which replicates the night sky.
4th - 5th Visual & Performing Arts
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Friday, January 30, 2009
May the force be with you...
Have you ever thought about flying in a balloon? I did, but I have to admit I never dared to do it, somehow those things feel a bit unsafe for me, I don't really like the idea of my life depending only on a balloon and the wind... THIS balloon though is something I would for sure not be able to resist :-) Nothing can go wrong as long as the force is with you!
Gepostet von Marcus Siepen unter 19:24
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Etihad Airways sets new records in commercial airline services in 2015 and expects to grow more in 2016
Etihad Airways, the national airline of theUnited Arab Emirates, delivered solid operational performance in 2015 by achieving continued growth in passenger and cargo volumes.
The airline carried 17.4 million passengers last year, a significant increase of 17 percent over 2014 levels, and operated 97,400 flights which covered 467 million kilometres. The growth in passenger demand continued to surpass the airline’s capacity increase, underscoring the strength of its long-term growth strategy.
In total, Etihad Airways carried more than 75 percent of the total passengers who travelled to and from Abu Dhabi International Airport in 2015. With the addition of the airline’s equity partners that operate flights into the UAE capital, the combined total rises to 84 percent of passenger traffic at Abu Dhabi International Airport.
James Hogan, Etihad Airways’ President and Chief Executive Officer, said: “In 2015, we were able to bring new competitive choice to millions of travellers, through our award-winning services and through the growing networks of our equity partners. No airline group is doing more to stimulate new competition in the aviation industry.”
Etihad Airways introduced six additional destinations to its global route network in 2015, with new flights toKolkata, Madrid, Edinburgh, Entebbe, Hong Kong, and Dar es Salaam, and a new direct service to Brisbane.
Last year also saw Etihad Airways’ fleet boosted with the deployment of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, which entered commercial service on routes to Washington DC, Zurich, Singapore and Brisbane. The Airbus A380 network was expanded with a second service to London Heathrow and new flights to Sydney and New York.
This year, the airline will commence its third daily A380 service to London Heathrow, and will add two new A380 destinations of Mumbai and Melbourne, while the Boeing 787 will start flying to five new cities, namely Düsseldorf, Perth, Shanghai, Istanbul and Johannesburg.
Etihad Airways increased frequencies on 16 existing routes across the world in 2015. These were Bangkok,Chennai, Dammam, Delhi, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Istanbul, Jeddah, Kochi, Kozhikode, Melbourne, Mumbai, Muscat, Seychelles, Tehran and Trivandrum.
Complementing its organic growth, the airline also expanded its codeshare and equity partnerships last year. These partnerships delivered more than five million passengers onto Etihad Airways’ flights, an increase of 43 percent over the 3.5 million passengers in 2014.
A new codeshare agreement was launched with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), while Etihad Airways’ existing codeshares with Air Serbia, American Airlines, flynas, Jet Airways, Korean Air, NIKI and S7 Airlines were significantly expanded. As a result, Etihad Airways now offers a combined passenger and cargo network of nearly 600 destinations through its 197 interline and 49 codeshare partnerships.
In April 2015, the airline obtained regulatory approval from Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation, FOCA, to finalise a 33.3 percent investment in the Swiss regional carrier, Darwin Airline.
In June, Darwin Airline, trading as Etihad Regional, became the latest addition to Etihad Airways’ equity partners network, which also includes airberlin, Air Serbia, Air Seychelles, Alitalia, Jet Airways and Virgin Australia. Etihad Airways’ equity partnerships represent the seventh largest global grouping of airlines, together flying more than 100 million guests.
Etihad Airways also reported strong cargo volumes for 2015, with 592,090 tonnes of freight and mail flown in total, a four percent increase year-on-year. The airline accounted for 88 percent of cargo imports, exports and transfers at Abu Dhabi International Airport last year.
During 2015, Etihad Cargo enhanced its global reach by offering bellyhold capacity on Etihad Airways’ six new passenger destinations, bringing to 96 the total number of passenger destinations on which cargo services are currently provided. Etihad Cargo also expanded its freighter services to several new markets including Dakar,Nouakchott and Douala, bringing the number of freighter-only destinations operated to 20.
Etihad Airways’ fleet consisted of 121 aircraft at the end of 2015 (+9 percent year-on-year), with an average age of 5.8 years – one of the youngest and most environmentally-friendly in the industry. The airline took delivery of 11 Airbus (four A380s, six A321s and one A320) and four Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft in 2015, while further leased capacity was also added.
To support the next phase of its global network expansion, Etihad Airways will receive 10 aircraft deliveries this year, including five Boeing 787-9s, three A380s and two Boeing 777-200 Freighters.
Mr Hogan said: “We enter 2016 with confidence as a stronger, more dynamic airline that will continue to support the evolution of Abu Dhabi as a global aviation hub.
“We continue to face challenges, not least the protectionism of the major American and European legacy carriers. We will continue to fight to bring new competitive choice to travellers around the world.”
About Etihad Airways
Etihad Airways began operations in 2003, and in 2015 carried 17.4 million passengers. From its Abu Dhabi base, Etihad Airways flies to or has announced plans to serve 116 passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. The airline has a fleet of around 120 Airbus and Boeing aircraft, with approximately 200 aircraft on firm order, including 66 Boeing 787s, 25 Boeing 777Xs, 62 Airbus A350s and five Airbus A380s.
Etihad Airways holds equity investments in airberlin, Air Serbia, Air Seychelles, Alitalia, Jet Airways, Virgin Australia, and Swiss-based Darwin Airline, trading as Etihad Regional. Etihad Airways, along with airberlin, Air Serbia, Air Seychelles, Alitalia, Etihad Regional, Jet Airways and NIKI, also participate in Etihad Airways Partners, a new brand that brings together like-minded airlines to offer customers more choice through improved networks and schedules and enhanced frequent flyer benefits. For more information, please visit: www.etihad.com
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Iranian President Raisi’s Renewed Emphasis on Space Is Likely to Create New Tensions
Western press reporting on the first 100 days of Iran’s new hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi, has naturally focused on his impact on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. But in Iran, officials refer to three, not two, “power-creating” (eghtedar-saz) industries: nuclear, missiles, and space. And it is space, more so than either nuclear or missiles, where Raisi has focused his early public efforts. And it is Iran’s moves in space that will probably present President Joe Biden with the first challenge of the post-nuclear deal era.
In his first 100 days, Raisi has moved to place his imprint by reinvigorating Iran’s space program, the results of which will be visible in the coming months and years. Raisi has now set in motion a process that will result in Iran launching more satellites in the coming year, unveiling new space launch vehicles, and breaking ground on a new space launch facility in southern Iran. These developments will understandably be interpreted by Western media in the context of Iran’s missile programs and the broader security situation. But it is important to understand that Iran is also deeply committed to the economic, military, and security uses of outer space.
The Biden administration will have to choose how to respond to Iran’s growing presence in space. Will the United States try to balance its legitimate concerns about proliferation with Iran’s right to access space? Or will it treat Iran as a pariah, hoping that vocal opposition to Iran’s space launches will somehow produce a different result than the same approach did with North Korea?
Raisi Moves to Revive Iran’s Space Programs
Raisi is very publicly attempting to reinvigorate an Iranian space program that has been struggling in recent years. His new communications minister has criticized the state of the space program left by his predecessor — he called it “sorrowful” and “backwards” and sacked the head of the Iranian Space Agency. Raisi chaired a meeting of the Supreme Space Council — the country’s highest-level space policymaking organization — which had not met for more than a decade. At that meeting, Raisi committed Iran to launching more satellites into low earth orbit and reaching geostationary orbit by 2026.
Iran has two space programs: a state space program and a parallel program run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The state space program is under Iran’s president, who chairs the Supreme Space Council. The council, in turn, oversees the Iranian Space Agency, which contracts with entities under the communications, defense, and science ministries — and increasingly, Iran’s private sector. We use the phrase “state” space program rather than “civilian” because Iran’s military is fully integrated into this program.
The Revolutionary Guard’s space program exists outside this structure — and outside of Raisi’s control — just as the guard corps itself reports directly to Iran’s Supreme Leader through the Armed Forces General Staff, not to Iran’s president or defense minister. The Revolutionary Guard has organized and implemented its own parallel efforts to develop launchers, satellites, and ground facilities for military purposes. The guard has described its space efforts as a “Super Project” (abar-perozheh) that integrates a complex of projects related to satellites, launchers, and satellite ground stations. To implement these efforts, the Revolutionary Guard manages its own parallel ecology of implementing organizations including research centers and a university.
The relationship between the state and the Revolutionary Guard’s space programs is captured by a term often used to describe American defense contractors — “competimates” (a portmanteau of “competitors” and “teammates”). These two programs mostly compete, for example in their efforts to develop space launch vehicles, but they also collaborate. Over time, the balance between competition and collaboration has shifted back and forth. The presence of the Aerospace Force commander — who oversees the Revolutionary Guard’s space efforts — at the recent meeting of the Supreme Space Council is one sign that the balance may be shifting in the direction of greater collaboration.
Iran’s state space program under Raisi is organized around two main goals: mastering the “space technology cycle” (charkheh-ye fanavari-e fazai) and sending “humans to space” (ensan be faza). The “space technology cycle” is by far the larger effort of the two. This encompasses Iran’s development of satellites and the space launch vehicles to deliver them to various space orbits. The space technology cycle also involves constructing facilities across the country to launch and control satellites and receive and exploit their data. The language of a “cycle” seems to be borrowed from the nuclear field, where Iran’s goal is to master the full nuclear fuel cycle. The conception is consistent with a regime that emphasizes self-sufficiency (khod-kafai) in the development of technology. The “humans-to-space” effort is far smaller, but very real, and is aiming to launch an Iranian astronaut to orbit onboard an Iranian launcher by 2032.
Iran’s goals under its state space program are longstanding and genuine. Iranian leaders see space, along with nuclear and missile capabilities, as important “power-creating” (eghtedar-saz) industries for Iran’s economy, military, and security. Iran’s official goal is to achieve “first place in the region” in terms of space capabilities. Iranian officials frequently emphasize joining what they call the “space club” of technologically advanced states. While Iran’s military is deeply involved in Iran’s space programs, it would be wrong to see the space program as a mere cover for Iran’s significant and very public missile programs.
‘A Surprising Number of Launches’
Iran has real goals in space. These goals include showing that Iran can, on a routine basis, place satellites in low earth orbit and operate them and placing Iran’s first satellite in a 36,000 kilometer geostationary orbit for civilian and military uses of remote sensing, communications, and navigation services. Iran’s goals require it to develop families of satellites and space launchers of increasing capability — including a giant launcher to use cryogenic rocket engines — and constructing a major new launch site at Chabahar along the country’s southeast coast.
The steps taken in the first 100 days of the Raisi presidency suggest we are likely to see Iranian attempts to make serious and rapid progress toward its space goals over the next year.
First, Raisi has emphasized that Iranian satellite launches must become routine, what he calls “stabilizing” (tasbit) Iran’s presence in low earth orbit. This means Iran will likely increase the launches of remote sensing and communications satellites using its Simorgh and Zoljanah space launch vehicles. One outcome of the Supreme Space Council meeting was a detailed launch schedule running through 1401 (the year ending in March 2023). Iran is currently building new satellites and has a backlog of older satellites awaiting launch. According to industry officials, the key “choke point” (galugah) has been “launching and launchers.” We also expect Iran to conduct test launches as part of launcher development and as incremental steps toward launching a satellite to geostationary orbit and launching an astronaut to low earth orbit. If it can overcome the launch problems it has experienced in recent years, Iran could conduct a surprising number of launches in the coming year.
Beyond launches, Iran will likely unveil new launch vehicles and satellites. Iran has already shown small-scale models of large liquid-fueled space launchers under development, like the Sarir and Soroush. Both the state and Revolutionary Guard space programs are developing solid-fueled space launchers as well. New satellites are likely to include imaging satellites for civilian and military purposes, with resolutions down to one meter.
Iran will also likely announce the construction of a new national launch site at Chabahar. Iran intends this site along the coast in southeastern Iran as the main location for future space launches — of both satellites and astronauts — due to its position near the equator, its proximity to the Indian Ocean for safe launch corridors, and the region’s small population.
The Revolutionary Guard is unlikely to leave the spotlight solely to the state space program. Iran’s draft national budget presented this month includes a line item for the guard’s Aerospace Force to accelerate (shetab-bakhshi) the development of its space industry. Though it is less transparent about the goals for its parallel space program, we expect the Revolutionary Guard to continue its development of solid-propellant space launch vehicles, an area of high concern for the West because a solid-propellant space launcher would be a far more plausible intercontinental-range ballistic missile than Iran’s liquid-propellant space launchers.
Resist the North Korea Approach
A series of high-profile Iranian steps in space — especially launches and the development of new space launchers — will attract significant public attention and likely generate international concern about how Iran’s space launch capabilities will further its development of ballistic missiles. Iranian officials are well aware of the international implications of these activities. Raisi has reportedly directed that Iran will announce such events only after the fact, probably to minimize foreign pressure and avoid embarrassment from failures.
The Biden administration will face an enormous temptation to depict these launches as provocative and to present Iran’s development of space launch capabilities as part of an effort by Tehran to develop the ability to strike the United States. With Iran’s military — including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — involved in Iran’s space efforts, that temptation is understandable. But the Biden administration should resist it.
No, Iran’s development of space capabilities is not a purely civilian endeavor. Space technologies such as satellites are inherently dual-use and Iran seeks to use space for the same reasons the United States does — for economic and military purposes.
According to Raisi, if Iran is not present in space, it will have to move on the “highway” (otoban) built by others. Many world leaders, especially in the developing world, would agree with this sentiment. Many are sympathetic to Iran’s ambitions in space and skeptical of efforts to keep the club of space-faring states exclusive. Around the world, most people see space as a realm of legitimate scientific, economic, and even military activity. States have a right to both explore and use outer space under the Outer Space Treaty and a right to self-defense under the U.N. charter. It is not possible to build a coalition around the idea that Iran has no right to access space, as Trump administration officials suggested, or to make the problem go away by sabotaging Iranian space activities, despite legitimate concern about how Iran’s growing space capabilities could strengthen its military. Most people around the world see space as primarily an arena for economic and scientific development for all, where some military activity necessarily occurs — not the other way around. There is no support internationally for dividing the world into space haves and have-nots the way the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty does with nuclear weapons nor for using the Missile Technology Control Regime to deny countries access to space.
With the coming collapse of the nuclear deal, the United States and its partners have a choice to make about dealing with Iran. One path is to declare Iran an international pariah, like North Korea, and seek to tighten economic sanctions until the regime abandons its nuclear, missile, and space ambitions or collapses. In this case, no negotiations are necessary. It is far from certain, however, that this path would force Iran to dismantle its space program or collapse the Islamic Republic any more than it ended North Korea’s weapons programs or the rule of the Kim family in North Korea. The Obama administration’s ill-fated 2012 “Leap Day Deal” with North Korea fell apart precisely because North Korea insisted on conducting a space launch. The United States balked, arguing that North Korea’s space program was nothing more than a cover for its missile ambitions. Perhaps that was correct. But the collapse of the deal did not stop North Korea from conducting that space launch, nor did the subsequent pressure prevent North Korea from building an intercontinental ballistic missile. And when North Korea did successfully test an intercontinental ballistic missile in 2017, it used a very different rocket than its space launcher.
The other path is to seek diplomatic settlements with Iran on a range of issues — including limits on the most concerning elements of the state and Revolutionary Guard space programs — attempting to reduce the tension in the Persian Gulf and between the two countries. But diplomatic agreements require accepting the continued existence of the Islamic Republic. And Iran, like many other countries around the world, believes that its long-term economic, military, and security well-being requires the development of the same space capabilities that the United States and other wealthy countries value so highly. Iran is committed to the development of its space capabilities for the same reasons the United States is. And like the nuclear fuel cycle, Iran is not going to abandon its space technology cycle under pressure or trade it in its entirety for sanctions relief — the space program has already weathered two decades of foreign pressure, sanctions, and trade controls. Instead, the United States will need to recognize Iran’s space program not simply as a stalking horse for growing missile capabilities, but as an outlet for Iran’s growing scientific and technological capabilities where limits can be negotiated.
Jim Lamson is a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Jeffrey Lewis is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, as well as a staff member at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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£2,750 ticket to ride: Seats in aerobatic jet planes on offer
ISLANDERS are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly over Jersey with the Breitling Jet Team during this week’s Air Display.
Twelve places are available to people who want to go up in one of the Aero L-39 Albatros jets, which when flying in formation are about three metres apart, travelling at up to 435mph.
Deputy Mike Higgins, the event’s organiser, described the opportunity as ‘unique’ and said that the idea would help to fund the display.
‘People can experience what it is like to fly in an aerobatic team – it is an experience unlike anything you can get. It is brilliant and just totally unreal,’ he said.
‘Each place will cost £2,750 and that money will go to the team, less some money that will go to the display, and those in the jets will probably do some formation flying around the Island – it will depend on air traffic control and the weather.
‘Anyone taking part will be paying the same amount as if they went to Dijon [the Breitling Jet’s home base], so it will save on transport and accommodation costs.’
In October, it was announced that the Red Arrows would not be able to take part in the 2019 display, as they had been booked to take part in a diplomatic tour of the USA and Canada.
Deputy Higgins said he stood by comments he made in April, when he said that the Breitling Jets were as good as their British counterparts.
‘I stand by that. Jacques Bothelin, the leader, has got more formation time than any military pilot – probably more than any pilot altogether,’ he said.
‘He has been with the Breitling Jets for 17 years – when it was Team Kalifa and Patrouille Adecco and he also flew for the Patrouille de France before that.
‘I have never seen two aeroplanes fly in formation like they did – it was almost as if they were glued together. The guys have got tremendous skill and they are some of the best pilots in the world.’
Anyone interested in securing a seat in one of the jets should visit bookitbee.com and search for ‘Jersey International Air Display – Fly a Jet with the Breitling Jet Team’.
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Polish companies in the next stage of the mission carried out by ESA
The mechanism designed by SENER Poland in the B1 phase of the mission e.Deorbit has won over a competing solution and has been selected by the European Space Agency for further development. SENER operates as part of a consortium led by Airbus, which includes two other entities from our country.
With each year, traffic in Earth orbit is increasing, but the threat to satelliteow and załog vehicleoin space constitute space junk. ESA wants to combat this problem, so as part of the initiative „Clean space” organizes a mission e.Deorbit, whichorej aims to remove the inactive Envisat satellite from orbit. It is the heaviest civilian unmanned satellite, weighing as much as 8.2 tons and, including the solar panel, measuring more than 25 meteroin length.
The clamping mechanism, designed by SENER Poland, will be used to capture Envisat after the so-called “shuttle” has been in place for three years. The chase satellite will pull it towards itself using a robotic arm. The engines will then be started and the satellites will be directed into the Earth’s atmosphere, where they will be partially burned and their remains will fall into the Pacific Ocean.
Mission e.Deorbit poses a major technological challenge due to the size of theow and the unknown rotation of Envisat’s. For this reason, ESA and national agencies are conducting numerous research and development projects. In 2016-2017, the work was carried out roThe project is being carried out in parallel by two competing international consortiums, led by ktorych OHB and Airbus fixed. For the next stage of the mission, ESA has already selected only one group, the one led by Airbus. It includes as many as three entities from our country – SENER Poland, the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences and GMV.
– In designing the clamping mechanism for the e mission.Deorbit has been challenged by the significant forces acting on the device during maneuveringoin and wymog high rigidity connection to Envisat. Precision is no less important – Indeed, the mechanism must catch the inactive satellite by the ring, whichory once connected it to the rocket carrying the – moAleksandra Bukała, General Director of SENER Poland.
It is estimated that wokoł Earth orbits tens of thousands of objectsoIn larger than 10 cm, which can threaten the safety of space missions, including manned. There are many times more smaller debris. The largest objects are primarily inactive satellites and gorne launch rocket components. Space agencies have only recently decided to combat the problem of orbiting debris. For example, all new ESA satellites must have systems that allow them to either deorbit or fly away on a „graveyard orbit”. However, the most serious problem remains objects lifted above the Earth in the past.
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Gwyn O’Flynn, Clark Ricketts
LEADING LAWYER DIRECTORY – Gwyn O’Flynn, Clark Ricketts
Gwyn O’Flynn is a partner at London legal firm Holland & Knight, which acquired transportation law firm Clark Ricketts LLP, where she focuses on the commercial aspects of aviation, including aircraft financing, management, leasing and sales.
“Be commercial: There is no point proposing wholly unfair and one-sided terms which are obviously going to be rejected by the other party. A little compromise is usually required from both sides in order to find a happy landing for both parties but starting from an unreasonable position does not set the stage for that compromise.
“Pick up the phone: Tone and intention can all too often be misinterpreted on e-mail and so, if any controversial issues arise, it can be best to start with an explanatory phone call before sending an e-mail, to follow an e-mail with a call or to simply discuss the issue by telephone in totality.
“Issues will always arise during the course of a transaction. The key is not to panic and not to over complicate simple issues or over analyse small issues.”
I had an interview scheduled with one of the larger London law firms in early 2000 for a paralegal position. Having little interview experience, the recruitment consultant sent me for an interview within the Aerospace Department of Willis Limited as preparation. I walked up the imposing steps of Ten Trinity Square, through the cavernous halls, into its ‘History of Aviation’ meeting room and never looked back. I took the job and then when I qualified as a solicitor, aviation was really the only destination for me.
Gwyn O’Flynn joined Clark Ricketts LLP in March 2008 having previously worked in the Legal Department of Willis Group Limited. She became a partner in 2012.
Before qualifying as a solicitor, Gwyn spent a number of years at Willis Limited in the Contracts and Leasing divison of its Aerospace Department working exclusively on aviation insurance matters, and as a result obtained a valuable understanding of commercial aviation transactions and the operation of the aviation market. Whilst at Willis Limited, Gwyn obtained an Advanced Diploma in Insurance from the Chartered Insurance Institute and was awarded the Aviation Insurance Association prize for her performance in the Aviation Insurance exam.
Gwyn advise banks, lessors and operators on finance and leasing issues, as well as maintenance and other aviation supplier companies on commercial contracts. In addition, Gwyn does a lot of corporate aircraft work advising private owners in connection with the operation, management, financing, sale and purchase of aircraft.
Gwyn concentrates on transactional work and the commercial aspects of aviation including aircraft financing, management, leasing and sales.
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Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11, 1937) is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as Pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as Commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October 1984. He was also a part of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test (SMEAT), ASTP support crew member, and the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) for the Space Shuttle. More about Bob Crippen
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If you’re an entrepreneur with space connected business ideas, you can now turn them into a commercial company, enjoying the following benefits:
- A two-year incubation programme
- 50K spark-funding for product and IP development
- Technical support from leading experts
- Access to the biggest technology network in Europe
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- Fundraising guidance and opportunities
ESA Belgian Space Solutions is the program for entrepreneurs with a connection to space. This means they either exploit space technology in a non space related business OR use a terrestrial technology and apply it to space. It is a nationwide program launched in 2018 and managed by Verhaert, in collaboration with Imec and Galaxia Space Innovation. Apply through contacting us.
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Helicopter Safety: Recommendations for Helicopter Industry
This booklet reprints in its entirety Part III, Safety Recommendations for the Helicopter Industry, from Helicopter Crash Litigation published by Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co., Inc. (Product Code #4912). The purpose of this separate printing is to make these recommendations more widely available in hopes that some will be implemented. Helicopter pilots are the easy and convenient scapegoat for almost every helicopter crash. But when those pilots are directed to undertake a mission at night with no night vision goggles (NVGs), no global positioning or terrain awareness and warning system, in blizzard conditions with howling winds, it is the operator or aircraft manufacturer which should shoulder much of the blame for an accident.
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NASA detected an asteroid that might impact Earth next year, therefore provoking long term chaos in the climate of our planet and deeply affecting the atmosphere. This might sound like a sci-fi movie scenario but it is actually closer to being real than people might think.
The asteroid is officially named “1998 OR2” and it has a diameter of about two and a half miles. According to the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies, it is set to fly past our planet at about 10am on April 29 2020. It is expected to fly at about 3.9 million miles from Earth, but a collision provoked by mitigating factors is still possible.
Possible reasons for a collision
One of the causes for a hypothetical collision is the Yarkovsky effect in which heat exerted from an internal object like a star can modify the spin of an asteroid and push it in a deadly collision course with our planet.
Another potential factor is the fact that the asteroid could pass throu
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), best known for creating the Internet, has advanced its plan to revolutionize communications between low-orbit satellite networks by selecting 11 teams to work on its space-based adaptive communications node program .
Known as Space-BACN, the project aims to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that will adapt to most standards for inter-satellite optical links and translate between different satellite constellations.
According to DARPA, Space-BACN would create an “Internet” of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, enabling seamless communications between military/government and commercial/civilian satellite constellations that are currently unable to communicate with each other.
The goal of the teams working on Phase 1 of the project, which will take 14 months to complete, will be to produce a preliminary design for a small-size, light-weight, low-power, low-cost (SWaP-C) flexible optical aperture. that couples single-mode fiber and a reconfigurable optical modem supporting up to 100 Gbps on a single wavelength, and a fully defined interface between system components.
Also to be developed in Phase 1 is the scheme for cross-constellation command and control, which will be demonstrated in a simulated environment.
The team focused on the SWaP-C optical aperture includes CACI, MBRYONICS and Mynaric. The team working on the optical modem includes II-VI Aerospace and Defense, Arizona State University and Intel Federal. The command and control team consists of five members: SpaceX, Telesat, SpaceLink, Viasat and Amazon’s Kuiper Government Solutions.
Upon completion of Phase 1, six of the teams will spend 18 months developing engineering design units of the optical terminal components, while the remaining five teams will refine the scheme to function in more demanding and dynamic scenarios.
Many commercial and social beneficiaries
Jim Dunstan, general counsel of TechFreedom, a technology advocacy group in Washington, DC, explained that satellite-to-satellite optical links are a new technology with no established link standards.
“I see the satellite industry as a whole as the big winner here, even more so than the end users, as the power – 100 watts – and price – $100,000 – for a user terminal will preclude widespread use of the technologies that will emerge from this program.” ‘ he told TechNewsWorld.
“What Space-BACN does, however, is bring all stakeholders into the same virtual space to work on much-needed standards and allows them to both receive government support for their research and leverage the work of other companies.” he continued.
“While a DARPA video appears to attempt to position space BACN similarly to what FirstNet has done with first responder communications – replacing a myriad of individual proprietary systems operating on different frequencies – I don’t think the analogy here is priceworthy and reasons of power,” he added.
However, DARPA projects have the opportunity to have a broader impact than might first appear. “There are many commercial and social beneficiaries that fall outside the formal focus of the program,” noted Arizona State University Professor Daniel Bliss, director of the Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures.
“The technologies that we’re going to develop are widely used for processing and communication,” he told TechNewsWorld. “Regarding the specific objectives of the program, we are demonstrating flexible, efficient and relatively low-cost optical communication technologies for the rapid deployment of various low-cost satellite systems.”
Reduce LEO costs
Existing operators of satellite constellations in non-geostationary orbit (NGSO), like Elon Musk’s Starlink network, could eventually benefit from Space-BACN, Dunstan noted.
“Optical connections are still one of the big price drivers of NGSO systems,” he said. “The radio side of things has pretty much been commodified. You can buy very sophisticated software defined radios [SDRs] very cheap.”
“Optical systems are still very expensive,” he continued, “so Space-BACN has an opportunity to reduce some of that cost, which will benefit all NGSO operators.”
“For existing and new LEO [Low Eart Orbit] We are enabling networks to connect legacy and yet to be defined optical communications links,” added Bliss. “We can translate between optical standards and implement new standards as they are being developed, possibly post-market.”
In assembling the teams for Space-BACN, DARPA attempted to ease tensions for many of the companies wanting to participate in the project.
“We intentionally made it as easy as possible to propose for our Space BACN requests because we wanted to tap into both established defense companies and the large pool of innovative small technology companies, many of whom do not have the time or resources to do so to figure out complicated government contracting processes,” Greg Kuperman, Space-BACN’s program manager, said in a statement.
“We have used other transactions and have been very happy with them [the] Diversity of organizations that responded and quality of proposals,” he added.
democratization of space
Dunston claimed that DARPA hit a “sweet spot” with the Space BACN program. “It cast a wide net and brought both very established and relatively new players to the table,” he said.
“It uses DARPA’s Other Transaction Authority [OTA] to avoid the high overhead of most government funding mechanisms,” he continued, “and 11 Phase I winners mean DARPA can take more risks and allow for some errors in the process without compromising the overall goal of the program.”
The ability of smaller companies to get involved in a project like Space-BACN reflects how the satellite industry is today. “In the past, it cost a fortune to build a satellite,” explains John Strand of Strand Consulting in Denmark. “Now we’re seeing small companies with limited funding developing satellites for narrow applications.”
“You can build satellites with off-the-shelf components just like you would build a custom computer,” he told TechNewsWorld. “So if you look at the number of companies in the satellite industry, it’s booming.”
“Space has historically been centralized by government,” he added. “What’s happening now with the space industry is that it’s been democratized because the cost of getting things into space has been dramatically reduced thanks to public-private partnerships.”
In its kickoff announcement for Space-BACN, DARPA said it hopes to establish seamless communications between military/government and commercial/civilian satellite constellations. That could be a future friction in the future of the program.
“That’s going to be the ultimate question — can you secure the military-civilian interface,” Dunstan said.
“Optical systems are less susceptible to interference due to their narrow beams. They may also be less prone to hacking, but that remains to be seen,” he continued. “I suspect that one of the reasons DARPA is so interested in this project is that it gives them insight into the security capabilities of these types of networks.”
“Certainly, DoD will not sign up for an interface between defense and civilian satellite systems that they cannot secure,” he added. “Given how much space communications traffic is currently flowing through civilian systems, I’d guess they’re pretty confident they can secure their side of the interface.”
Bliss acknowledged that direct application of commercial communications technology is not always a good idea. However, he noted, “Because of the flexibility we are developing, we are able to maximize the benefits of using commercial technologies while minimizing security risks.”
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Air Force error sent bids’ data to 2 rival firms
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force mistakenly gave rival companies sensitive information that contained each other’s confidential bids in a long-standing, multibillion dollar competition to build a new refueling tanker.
Chicago-based Boeing Co., and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, parent of Airbus, are in an intense competition for a $35 billion contract to build 179 new Air Force tankers based either on the Boeing 767 jetliner or the Airbus A330.
Boeing received detailed proprietary information about the EADS bid; corresponding information was given to EADS North America concerning the Boeing bid.
“It was a clerical error and involved a limited amount of source selection information,” Air Force spokesman Col. Les Kodlick said late Friday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Kodlick declined to be more specific about what information had been transmitted.
Source selection information is data critical to the Air Force’s decision on which bid to select and could include technical data about the competing aircraft as well as financial information. Defense News and The Seattle Times initially reported Friday on the Air Force’s mistake. The Times said the data included crucial pricing information on the competing bids.
Kodlick said the incident “will not delay” the awarding of the contract, which had been expected before year’s end, but recently had been postponed until early next year. Kodlick said the postponement was not related to the disclosure of proprietary data.
It was not clear what use — if any — the two companies made of the information they received, reportedly on a computer disk.
“As soon as it happened and they received” the information “they recognized the errors and contacted the Air Force contracting officers,” Kodlick said. He said the Air Force has taken steps “to make sure both companies have access to the same information.”
But if the information included price data, it could have an impact on each companies’ final bid proposal. Pricing has been a key issue in the competition. Last summer, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney expressed concern in a meeting with securities analysts that his company might be underbid by its European competitor.
The Air Force is reviewing how the disclosures occurred and was “taking steps that it doesn’t happen again,” Kodlick said.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who was briefed Friday on the incident, said it was “an inexcusable mishandling by the Air Force of very sensitive, proprietary data.”
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said in a statement she is “deeply concerned by the Air Force’s mishandling of proprietary information” about the tanker bids.
“This is a critical contract with serious consequences for our military and economy, and this mistake will further delay an award that has already been pushed back to allow an illegally subsidized company to compete,” Murray said.
Boeing did not immediately return AP calls for comment.
The Air Force needs to replace its KC-135 refueling tankers, which date to the 1950s. It has been trying to pick a company to make the new tanker since 2003. Although the initial contract award was expected to be $35 billion, replacing the entire fleet of old tankers could be worth up to $100 billion.
The competition had been intense between Boeing, the premier U.S. aircraft manufacturer, and EADS, the heavily subsidized European aircraft consortium.
The Pentagon had hoped to award the contract by last August after having extended the bidding deadline so that EADS could submit its revised bid. The deadline was extended to fall and now is expected early next year.
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The first suborbital test lauch succeeded on 1990 November 20 in Baikonur Cosmodrome. On 1994 December 26 Rockot brought its first satellite into Earth orbit. Eurockot Launch Services GmbH, a joint venture between EADS SPACE Transportation and the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, markets the rockets today, moving the launch site to Plesetsk. There, the first launch took place on 2000 May 16. Also the Russian space centre Svobodny has SS-19 launch silos, which can be modified for Rockots if required.
After a number of successful launches, on 2005 October 8 a Rockot carrying a European Space Agency satellite, CryoSat, the launch vehicle 2nd stage main engine was not shut down properly, resulting in a castrophic failure and automatic termination of the launch mission by the on-board computer, resulting in the loss of the payload.
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2023: A year of innovation and disruption in tech
It’s hard not to be wowed by the incredible innovations that human creativity and ingenuity have produced this past year.
From conversational AI to robots, from flying sports cars to electric flying craft, we have seen some of the most remarkable breakthroughs in history.
As 2023 comes to a close, let’s review some of the most fascinating and influential technology that made this year unforgettable…
Air taxis, flying sports cars and boats that glide above water: The changing technologies of transportation
There were also some fantastic innovations in transportation. We saw the world’s first fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxi receive airworthiness certification. A flying sports car called Switchblade takes its maiden flight and the Candela P-12, an electric boat, flies above the water.
Flying Sports Cars
Flying sports cars are the new thrill of personal transportation. They are sleek, powerful and versatile. They can travel on the road like a normal car or fly like a plane. They can switch between modes in seconds, using retractable wings and propellers.
Flying Switchblade sports car
One of the most innovative examples of flying sports cars is aircraft maker Samson Sky’s invention of the world’s first flying car, Switchblade. It can transform from a three-wheeled street-legal roadster to a two-seat aircraft in minutes. It has a retractable wing and tail that fold into the body when driving on the road. It can seat two people and has a luggage compartment that can fit two golf bags and/or two overnight bags. Recently, Switchblade completed its first flight in Moses Lake, Washington, at the Grant Country International Airport.
Kurt’s key takeaways
As we end 2023, technology is evolving more rapidly and with more profound effects than ever before. We have seen how artificial intelligence, robots, flying sportscars, taxis and boats are reshaping our reality and creating new possibilities, challenges and opportunities. As we look ahead to the future, we may wonder what else is possible. What tech will we be looking back on next year at this time?
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report
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I need to get to Brussels Airport for a Schengen flight that leaves at 7pm on a Sunday.
I'm probably going to aim for one of these trains (timings taken from Bahn.de)
Arr Dep Ghent 15:13 BRU 16:35 or De Panne 13:52 BRU 16:35 or Ghent 15:40 Brussels Midi 16:08 16:15 BRU 16:35
A few questions:
- Are these timings realistic for the flight in question?
- Are the trains likely to be on time?
- Is the transfer at Brussels Midi reasonable (I can run if needs be!)
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Pakistan successfully conducted its first flight test of surface-to-surface missile, Ababeel on Tuesday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR said in a statement.
In a Twitter message, ISPR Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor said that Ababeel missile has a range of 2,200 kilometres.
"The missile is capable of delivering multiple warheads using multiple independent re-entry vehicle (MIRV) technology. The test flight was aimed at validating various design and technical parameters of the weapon system," said the statement.
"The development of the Ababeel weapon system was aimed at ensuring survivability of Pakistan's ballistic missiles in the growing regional ballistic missile defence (BMD) environment."
A few days ago, Pakistan successfully conducted test of submarine-launched cruise missile Babur-III.
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RC-SF - 2010 (Vol-15-11 November)
Brand Kiona Publishing, Inc.
RC Sport Flyer's November 2010 issue includes: Leading Edge; Hot Products; Feature: Adrenaline Rush; How to: Micro Swith; Event: 50th GCRCC Flying Circus; Conversion: Cermark 1/6-scale Viper Jet; Engine Test: DLE 30; Plan: Yak 54; Column: Beginner's Corner; Reviews: TP-610C Battery, Heli-Max Comanche CX, Futaba WTR-7 FASST, Pheonix Flight Simulator, Blade MCX Tandem, ElectriFly Sopwith Camel, Parkzone F4U Corsair; plus Mystery Plane contest.
Authors: Richard Tacklind, Wil Byers, Carl Rich, Mike Hoffmeister, Scott Brownewell, John Dodge, Marcus Hubbard, Richard Kuns, Don Bailey, Richard Kuns, Rob Smith
RC Sport Flyer is an in-depth magazine for RC aircraft enthusiasts. It provides regular features, honest and informative reviews, instructional how-to articles, plans, drawings, huge photo spreads, and more. It is the trusted source for all model aviation enthusiasts. RC Sport Flyer has a worldwide distribution and average readership that approaches 40,000 readers per issue. Quite simply, RC Sport Flyer magazine is the industry leader.
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China wants to complete the construction of the Tiangong Space Station’s working by the end of this year.
The new report points out that Beijing not only wants its space station to be used for carrying out space research activities but also to generate Space Revenue which means that they are going to use their space station as a source of generating revenue,we are going to discuss how.
As the main directors of the Space program, China plans to open its own space station for commercial activities.
“The cosmic sector are going to be counseled to participate within the universe during a sort of ways in which, as before long because the space laboratory is completed and operated.” The senior designer of China’s airline program recently said China to Central Television.
(Also read China’s plan to finish its space station and break its own records)
(Also learn about Tianhe Core Module)
Recent Noticeable Developments
This year, China’s largest space contractor will head to the launch of two crew missions Shenzhou 14 and 15 and also two cargo space crafts and sending of two space modules or orbital plants all of these through six launches, for the completion of the Tiangong space station successfully.
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp(CASC) has revealed on social media that it intends to launch more than 40 launches, including six machines to complete the construction of the country’s space station.
The Tiangong space station is scheduled to operate in orbit for at least 10 years. It will handle a series of international trials in collaboration with the United Nations Office of Aviation, as well as potential foreign astronauts and additional modules in the coming years.
Entry is Private Companies in Space
Chinese launch companies have already begun to mention Tiangong Space Station as one of the potential business opportunities.
“It is vital to do to rent the primary step within the next generation bus vehicle to travel to the space station and the moon. In Tiangong Space Station,the equipment will be able to move the crew mission to deep space with a large version of the equipment”, said an official.
Chinese Space Agencies and New Companies are likely to work together. This announcement is the first sign that companies can participate in the project of the national space station,something similar to what NASA did in the past.
NASA had established a commercial cargo project company in 2005 to encourage the industry to provide access to the international space station to support the vision of an affordable Low-Earth Orbit research facility and space exploration.
( More on All About China’s Neoteric Tiangong Space Station here)
Growing Tussle Between China and the USA
In recent years, NASA has been exploring to make money using the ISS
NASA is also planning on giving a total of $ 400 million to four businesses in the fourth quarter of 2021,its main focus is to start independent and private space research stations.
NASA celebrated 20 years of astronauts living in the International Space Station in 2020. It also wants private enterprise to take part and deploy other free floating habitats in space at Low Earth Orbit(LEO) research Laboratories.
NASA spends about $4 billion a year on the International Space Station.The ISS also spends an additional $150 billion on research and other activities ,most of these expenses which was borne by America but Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada also contributed funds for this project.
According to some sources,NASA reported last year that it could save between $20 billion and $30 billion in costs through its commercial employee recruitment program.
China’s decision to start commercial operations on Tiangong, which will be the only space station to leave the ISS in 2030, is of great significance.
Participation of private players in space has always been on the minds of those within the country and globally. This shows the importance of the space sector in science and economic development.
Recently, the United States and its allies have begun to discuss extending the use of the ISS beyond 2030.
However, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the West’s reaction to it, Chairman Roscosmos threatened to remove Moscow from the project.
China also invited bulk cooperation in space station Operations.”Experimental opportunities are going to be taken a better look in China’s house laboratories in China. This is wonderful.” Zhou mentioned.
There will be a major face-off between China and the United States until the ISS is retired.But Beijing is highly optimistic about its commercial space ambitions once Tiangong is fully operational.
Why is China Trying to Make Space Revenue?
CMSA is actively promoting openness to China’s space laboratories and is open inside as well as international scientists and engineers.
Recent developments in the space sector has made space explorations lucrative and in the near future it is going to become more valuable with the coming of private individuals as it will lower the cost thus hopefully commercializing the space sector.
Thus, China has taken this opportunity to create hegemony in commercial space flight.
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Telecom satellites can offer a variety of services. Historically TV & Radio broadcast and newsgathering have dominated. New it is moving fast towards data transmission and network services like video streaming, data & internet for users on ground, one the move at land, sea and in the air. This enabled by new generations of satellite systems for High, Very High and Ultra High Throughput, HTS, VHTS and UHTS based systems.
The telecom satellites can orbit the earth in many types of orbit planes and inclinations, GEO, MEO, HEO and LEO. They vary in expected lifetime from 7 years in LEO to 21 years in GEO, and they come in different sizes and complexities. This leads to products adapted & optimized to the all the aspects of the applications. This challenges are met by the innovative teams of KONGSBERG, working closely with the satellite primes finding the optimum solution to the project needs.
A Telecom satellite, as any satellite, can be divided into two parts, the Payload and the Platform.
The Payload is the real reason for the satellite, as it enables the function and core use of the satellite. For telecom this is the signal repeater that receive weak signals from ground, performs some signal processing, amplifies the signals and re-transmit them to ground.
The platform is the “carrier” of the payload and controls the satellite. It
- gives the structure & mechanical strength for the satellite to withstand launch,
- receives Tele Commands to the onboard computer for controlling satellite and payload,
- transmits Telemetries from onboard computer to report the status of the satellite,
- supplies power through solar cell panels and power handling system
- enables attitude and orbital (position) control, and
- manages the satellites thermal behavior
KONGSBERG offers products for both telecom platforms and payloads.
1.1 Platform Products
Space Electronics supply Telemetry, Tracking and Command, TT&C, products like Telecommand Receivers and Telemetry Transmitters. A particular option that allows in orbit flexible frequency setting is a great success. Already in space operation, accepted by key satellite primes and operators, and to be launched on multiple programs in the near future. Read more on the TT&C products here.
Space Systems is specialized in mechanisms and can offer cost effective Solar Array Drive Mechanism (SADM) and Antenna Pointing Mechanism (APM).
The SADM ensures that solar arrays always face the sun for maximum energy harvest by a slow rotation movement, and at the same time transferring the electric energy into the satellite platform, making it available to the Payload and all related control functions. Read more about SADM here.
1.1.1 Space Systems offers APMs for both Inter Satellite Link and Data Down Link. The main function of the APM is to provide accurate and stable pointing as well as routing the RF signals. Read more about APM here.Payload Products
Our payload products fall into several categories or families.
- Single or multiple channel units with performing conversions between frequency bands. Such units typically contain a single or a dual frequency conversion, a channel filter, amplification and gain/dynamics control, local oscillator signal generation and a power supply. We have specialized on non-standard cross-band converters, between all standard bands, L- C- X- Ku- and Ka-bands and now moving to Q&V band
- Pre and Post- processors for the market of High and Very High Throughput Satellites [HTS & VHTS] market with advanced onboard digital signal processors [DSP]. Such analogue Pre- and Post-processing units, move, condition and feed the RF signal in/out of the DSP. The pre-and post-processors may be stand-alone units or assemblies, depending on the overall quantities per satellites and other technical details.
- Special Converters and converters assemblies for L&S-Band Mobile satellites, characterized by a high number of beams, thus a high number of converter channels. Such systems might have analogue or digital beamforming, implying different requirements and trade-offs for the frequency converters.
- All signal processing units heavily lean on the Space Electronics internal capabilities of world class SAW filters and an automated thin film hybrid line for highly integrated amplifiers and frequency converters.
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Image Credit & Copyright: Energia.
LAUNCH ALERT: Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 16:23 UTC (12:23 EDT) a Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket; ISS Progress 63P (63P) is slated to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) with supplies, hardware, fuel and water. ISS Progress 63-P is actually its designation through NASA & International Space Station (ISS) records as it’s the 63rd Progress vehicle to launch to the ISS. Roscosmos catalogs it as Progress MS-02.
Progress 63P/MS-02 will not be on the “Fast-Track” system of the 4 or 5-orbit, 6-hour launch to docking at the ISS. Instead they chose to go with the two-day procedure for detailed flight testing. Upon arrival to the ISS it will be docking with the aft port Zvezda “Star” Service Module (DOS-8) which should take place at approximately 18:01 UTC (14:01 EDT) on April 2.
NOTE: When SpaceX.s Dragon arrives in April it will be the first time since February 2011 that six spacecraft were parked at Station.
TSSKB-Progress Soyuz 2-1A Rocket: is a three-stage (sort of), medium lift rocket developed and manufactured by the Progress State Research and Production Rocket Space Center (TSsKB Progress). The 2-1A was introduced in 2004 and works alongside the Soyuz-U which currently delivers humans to the International Space Station (ISS). It’s actually derived from the Soyuz U rocket which is the most flown rocket in history with almost 800 launches. The Soyuz “Union” rocket family is the most used space launch system in history with more than 1700 launches and traces its roots back to 1957 in the form of the Soviet R7 missile.
FREGAT UPPER STAGE: You want precision? The Soyuz 2-1A can be fitted with the Fregat Upper Stage which is an autonomous stage that re-fire its S5.92 engine multiple times to assure proper trajectories. Fregat comes in 3 configurations for the Soyuz, the Fregat, Fregat-M and Fregat-MT with the MT being that larger of the two and thus, can carry more hypergolic propellant. The larger MT is 1.85 m in length and 3.4 m in diameter.
THIRD STAGE (Assembly 1): The third stage, which would really be a second stage on other rockets is 6.7 m in length and 2.6 m in diameter and is powered by a single RD-0110 engine in a four thrust chamber configuration. It utilizes Rocket propellant-1 (RP-1) fuel, Liquid Oxygen oxidizer (LOX) and burns for about 230 seconds.
SECOND STAGE (Core Unit): The core stage of the Soyuz is odd in the fact that it burns during the first and second stage of the rocket. As the rocket lifts off, it and the boosters work together as the first stage then after the strap on boosters are jettisoned the core stage continues to operate as the then second stage.
The core (1st & 2nd stage) stage is 27.8 m in length and 2.95 m in diameter and is powered by a single RD-108A engine in a four cruise thrust chamber configuration. It utilizes Kerosene fuel, Liquid Oxygen oxidizer (LOX) and burns for a total of about 280-290 seconds. Attitude control is powered by four Vernier thrusters.
FIRST STAGE/BOOSTERS (Lateral Assembly): The Soyuz is equipped with four strap-on boosters that are used in unison with the core stage during first stage flight. They are each 19.6 m in length and 2.68 m in diameter and are each powered by a single RD-107A engine four cruise thrust chamber configuration. They utilize Kerosene fuel, Liquid Oxygen oxidizer (LOX) and burn for approximately 118 seconds. Attitude control is powered by two Vernier thrusters.
NASA TV: www.nasa.gov/ntv
NASA TV Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
Energia MS-02 mission info: http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss47/progress_ms-02/photo_03-29.html
NASA Progress 63P mission info:
GENERAL ISS PAGES:
NASA’s HDEV 24hr LIVE streaming feed from the ISS: https://danspace77.com/2014/05/07/nasahdev-deliver-live-streaming-view-of-earth-from-the-iss/
NASA ISS main mission page: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/
ISS Main Twitter: https://twitter.com/Space_Station
ISS Research Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISS_Research
ISS CASIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISSCASIS?lang=en
ISS Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ISS
ISS CASIS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISSCASIS
ISS Instagram: http://instagram.com/iss
ISS CASIS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iss_casis/
NASA ISS multimedia pages: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/index.html
NASA ISS Photos (All the photos you will ever need from the ISS): http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/index.html
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Development and maintenance of atmospheric instrumentation on the FAAM BAe146 research aircraft, providing high quality scientific measurements.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Passive Bistatic Radar Based on VHF DVB-T Signal
Marek Płotka , Mateusz Piotr Malanowski , Piotr Jerzy Samczyński , Krzysztof Kulpa , Karol Abratkiewicz
AbstractThis paper presents the preliminary results of experiments utilizing the DVB-T signal transmitted in the VHF band to detect airborne targets in a passive coherent location (PCL) system. Thanks to the use of a commercial wideband transmitter working with a relatively long wavelength it is possible to obtain properties that are not available for higher frequency bands, such as UHF and microwave. Possibilities, such as foliage penetration while maintaining high resolution allow extended operational capabilities to be obtained. A system demonstrator performing such a task is presented in this paper along with processed results gathered during the measurement campaign. Thanks to a low-frequency operation, the radar hidden in the forest was able to detect an aircraft. The possibility of detection with radar hidden under foliage was compared to this obtained in the open field, which confirms the advantages and usability of the VHF DVB-T system as an illuminating signal for the PCL systems.
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After a six-month pilot project in Afghanistan got extended into a 33-month deployment that made 2,250 tons of deliveries, the two experimental aircraft have come home. Prime contractor Lockheed Martin is looking to the energy industry and — if export authorities approve — foreign military sales. Members of Congress have campaigned for K-MAX to become an official program of record for the US military, and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is now working with the Marine Corps on formal requirements and new concepts of operations, with demonstration flights likely next year. Lockheed is even planning a demonstration later this year in which the unmanned helicopter will work with unmanned trucks. For now, though, the two robocopters will sit in storage while humans study the deployment.
The crucial question for K-MAX is the same one as for so many other innovative items of equipment rushed into service in the last 13 grueling years: Is it just a useful niche capability for a war that’s almost over or something relevant to a range of future missions?
Drones have a nasty tendency to crash even in good conditions, and the Marines’ area of operations in southwestern Afghanistan was a brutal natural environment for aircraft: high altitudes, thin air, temperatures as high as 138 degrees Fahrenheit, and “a very fine dust that is constantly blowing, seems like 24 hours a day, [and] gets in the equipment,” said Maj. Kyle O’Connor, who led the first deployment in 2011.
But militarily, the Taliban and their allies had little anti-aircraft firepower and no ability to hack or jam the wireless links between K-MAX and its human operators. In Afghanistan, K-MAX mostly flew at night — the GPS-guided robot didn’t actually need to see — and too high for Taliban small-arms fire. In the grim new world where Russian-backed irregulars can shoot down a civilian airliner at 33,000 feet with a radar-guided missile, altitude and darkness are no longer a sure defense.
In Afghanistan, “we did accept risk,” said Navy Captain Patrick Smith, NAVAIR’s program manager. They addressed the threat by how they flew the aircraft — i.e. high and dark — rather than by adding self-defense systems or more robust communications links to what was intended, after all as an affordable proof-of-concept. As the Navy and Marines work out their requirements for a future unmanned cargo chopper, he said, they’ll address “electronic attack, cyber, small arms, heavy arms,” the whole range of potential threats.
The idea of sending unmanned cargo aircraft to Afghanistan was to have fewer humans driving trucks up and down IED-infested roads. The question in future conflicts is whether the robots themselves survive long enough to do the job. The challenge is either to make K-MAX’s successor significantly tougher for an affordable price — or to make it cheap enough to be expendable.
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Kenwood has donated two TM-D710GA transceivers to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, to update equipment both on the station and in thee training facility in Russia.
The ARRL reported that Kenwood's software manager presented the two
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Montreal in late June. The radios have undergone more than a year of NASA qualification
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The Red Arrows have suspended their display at today’s Bournemouth Air Festival due to an engine ‘problem’ message.
It comes after Red 6 reported ‘abnormal engine’ messages showing the plane being escorted to Bournemouth Airport just minutes after the team was posted.
The Red 1 squad member apologized to the crowd, but said safety could not be endangered.
Read more: Red Arrows statement after air festival display halted
Today’s appearance was the Red Arrows’ first appearance at this year’s four-day Air Festival.
— Red Arrows (@rafredarrows) September 1, 2022
It is hoped that the Red Arrows will resume their scheduled displays on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Red Arrows must leave at 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday then at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
Last weekend, the Red Arrows halted a display in Wales following a bird strike.
The demo team was scheduled to close the Rhyl Air Show on Sunday.
However, many viewers on social media reported hearing a bang or pop before one of the planes was forced to land early at Hawarden Airport, where the Red Arrows were based for the show.
Steve, the pilot @rafred_6 is a little shaken but good, thanks. His immediate actions carried out calmly and correctly with the support of his colleagues ensured a sure result. #Red arrows #team work #RhylAirShow2022 https://t.co/fMteBki3Mh
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In „Advanced Concepts for Space 4.0” Leopold Summerer will talk about the most unusual team of the European Union he leads – the group of genius scientists who look for technological solutions for the most complicated problems related to space exploration.
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View Full Version : Why have a Max Zero Fuel Mass?
Just wanted to know what the point of a maximum zero fuel mass was?
Cheers for any comments.:p
22nd Mar 2003, 06:51
With no fuel in the wings, certain aircraft can only take so much weight on the gear. Once the wings are fuelled, they provide a balance to the central fuselage mass, in effect lifting it, with the gear being the pivot, and the total load on all the gear is less. Sounds strange but once the wings are fuelled, more payload may be loaded. MZFW is a structural limit.
22nd Mar 2003, 08:53
Never come across an aircraft that allows more payload once the fuels on board when zfw limited.....
For interest, in addition on the 757 if the wing tanks are full, and fuel in the centre tank must be added to the zfw - that can make it very limiting !
Genghis the Engineer
22nd Mar 2003, 09:46
I know it mainly as a regulatory point to ensure that aircraft designers don't take the mickey for their own purposes and end up with an aircraft likely to be overloaded.
For passenger aircraft it's defined in parts 23 and 25 as the greater of MTOW minus 77kg (170lb) per seat, maximum oil, and minimum permitted equipment + 30 minutes fuel at MCP, or minimum flight crew, minimum equipment, and full fuel and oil.
For sports aircraft (at least here in the UK) it's defined as the greater of MTOW minus 86kg per seat, maximum oil and minimum permitted equipment + 1 hours fuel at MCP, or 86kg in the pilots seat, minimum equipment and full fuel and oil.
Some of the more high performance little aeroplanes that I deal with struggle to meet this, and when you think about it, you start to see the point. (Half the microlights in Germany have been grounded or made single seaters over the last couple of years because they've been taking the mickey (or whatever the German term for this is). When you consider that German manufacturers were building 2-seat aeroplanes with a 472kg MTOW and a ZFW around 310kg, you see a problem.
22nd Mar 2003, 12:10
My understanding of the max zero fuel weight is to prevent wing bending. If too much weight is concentrated in the fuselage then the wings will flex dramatically in flight. By placing fuel into the wings, the weight is distributed more evenly, there is not a concentration of mass in one area.
MZFW is a design limitation, to increase this weight designers would probably need stronger and heavier wing spars and attach points.
I agree with you, if I saw your post I wouldn't have put mine up.
I just missed yours by 2 minutes.
Thanks for the responses!
I was just wondering though, if you fill the wing tanks will this not allow a great MaxZfw?
Genghis the Engineer
22nd Mar 2003, 13:30
I think we're talking at cross-purposes slightly.
The regulatory point I made is, in my opinion still correct.
However, it is of-course a structural limit, and of-course it's about the ability of the wing structure (the root is not necessarily the weak point, that depends upon wing design - for example the weak point on a strutted wing such a a C172 is almost certainly the upper strut attachment area).
An aircraft will have an MTOW, which is a function of various design and regulatory requirements (including stall speed and undercarriage strength). The regulations will tell you what the highest MZFW may be as a function of that. They also define the minimum structural strength required at the worst case loading. Since the MZFW and MTOW define how heavy the fuselage can become, this defines how strong the wing structure has to be. The designer will come up with an MZFW value that meets the essential structural requirements, and which also meets the more arbritrary regulatory requirements.
When you get both right, the powers that be allow you to fly your aeroplane.
22nd Mar 2003, 13:36
OBK! It's a Maximum ZERO Fuel Mass. You have to remember that you will be using that fuel in the wings and towards the end of the flight, there will be very little left, causing the greatest strain on the wing roots.
Hit the nail on the head talking about wing bending relief. Any large metal structured aircraft airborne will always use the wing fuel closest to the fuselage first, leaving that closer to the wingtips as the last/reserve fuel. This is designed to counter the lift forces bending the wing upwards, which places a structural strain on the wing roots. The weight of the fuel closer to the wingtip counter-balances this upward bending.
The effect on the ground is that too much fuselage weight with no fuel in the wings places a strain (additional shearing structural load) on the gear and (bending shearing load) on the wing root structure.
Genghis the Engineer
22nd Mar 2003, 18:39
The regulatory requirements I'm talking about are mostly the design code used for original type certification.
I don't have a copy of part 25 (airliners) to hand, but quoting from JAR-23, which I do (extracting from 23.25)...
(a) The maximum weight is the highest weight at which ....
(a)(2) Assuming a weight of 77kg (170lb) for each occupant of each seat for normal and commuter category aeroplanes and 86kg (190lb) (unless otherwise placarded) for utility and aerobatic category aeroplanes, not less than the weight with -
(i) Each seat occupied, oil at full tank capacity, and at-least enough fuel for one-half hour of operation at rated maximum continuous power; or
(ii) The required minimum crew with fuel and oil to full tank capacity.
(Omissions and spelling mistakes mine, not the JAAs).
So this is where, for regulatory purposes, the MZFW concept comes from, although structural requirements in part C have to be met for this MZFW.
22nd Mar 2003, 19:56
I agree, in general terms, with what you said
Any large metal structured aircraft airborne will always use the wing fuel closest to the fuselage first
but always is generally a dangerous word to use.
There may be an over-riding reason why some types don't.
On my type, we use fuel from our reserve tip tanks early on, despite the loss of wing bending relief and adverse CG movement that this causes.
If we didn't, it would just boil off! ;)
23rd Mar 2003, 10:15
In level flight, the total gross weight is supported by the air load on the wings, the air load being an upward acting load and the gross weight ( weight of fuselage, fuel and wing) being a downward acting load.
Since the upward acting loads on the wings (gross weight) are greater tha those acting downwards (wing and fuel), bending moments and upward acting loads are produced at the wing roots.
Thus the wing joint load remains constant provided the weight of the fuselage and its contents is kept constant.
In other words the fuel, when carried in the wings, off-loads the wing to the same amount as it on-loads it.
23rd Mar 2003, 17:26
Yes, increasing mass in the fuselage increases wing root bending moment but increasing mass in the wing tanks does not - SO, when we FILL the wings and THEN start putting fuel into the centre tank WHY don't we have to reduce the ZFM by the mass of fuel loaded into the centre tank??
First correct answer on a postcard will WIN the editor's respect ;)
23rd Mar 2003, 18:26
In response to the 757 ZFM calculation, surely the tables assume that the centre tank is full as part of the ZFM, so any filling of this tank starts at ZFM less empty tank weight, closing to ZFM as tank is pressed up?
My logic can't see how the tank can be an addition to ZFM, as this would put the aircraft over the ZFM, regardless of whether this tank is used before tank to engine.
Is the centre tank therefore filled to the MTOW if needed, as otherwise offoading would be needed to remain within limits?
Look forward to the real answer.
24th Mar 2003, 03:18
Could this refer to the case where fuel is being "tankered" in the CWT and hence will not be burnt off prior to wing fuel???
24th Mar 2003, 10:05
If the CWT fuel is being tankered and not burnt off then (on the types I've flown) it should be considered to be part of the ZFM.
24th Mar 2003, 15:41
On the aircraft I fly CWT fuel is not inc in the ZFW. UNLESS you plan not to burn it first (ie the fuel is balast for the GofG).
I think the logic is that when the wings are full of fuel the spars can take a lot more load than at the end of the flight.
24th Mar 2003, 19:19
This string is becoming rather worrying, in that some of the posts are in danger of thoroughly confusing a good many readers who are preparing to take their JAR ATPL M&B exam.
Although some of the regulations quoted by Genghis include fuel, the zero fuel mass of an aircraft does not (normally) include any usable fuel.
Zero Fuel Mass (or Weight for non JAA readers) is the dry operating mass (basic aircraft plus equipment lubricants, food water, crew and their baggage, and non usable fuel), plus the traffic load (Passengers cargo and any non-revenue loads).
Zero fuel mass does not (normally) include any usable fuel. But if an aircraft is tankering extra centre tank fuel with no intention to use it on the currently planned flight, then this fuel becomes non-revenue load and hence should be considered to be part of the zero fuel mass.
The maximum zero fuel mass (MZFM) is one of the limiting values that must be considered when calculating how an aircraft may be loaded. In most aircraft the vast majority of the items listed in the zero fuel mass are contained in the fuselage. So increasing zero fuel mass increases the bending stresses on the wing roots. As stated in some of the previous posts, the principal reason for imposing a MZFM limit is to ensure that the wing bending moments do not become excessive.
The regulations quoted by Genghis appear to be specifying a minimum acceptable value for the MZFM. In effect they appear to be saying that an aircraft structure must at least be strong enough to carry either a full load of passengers plus a nominal amount off fuel, or no passengers plus a full load of fuel.
Readers who are preparing for their JAR ATPL M&B exam should note that remaining within the MZFM provides no guarantee that the other limits (MSTOM, PLLTOM, MSLM, PLLM, or MRM) will not be exceeded. This fact is demonstarted by the data for the MRJT1 in the CAP 696. MZFM(51300 Kg) + Total fuel capacity (16092 Kg) = 67392 Kg. MSTOM = 62800 Kg
29th Mar 2003, 02:10
I'm not sure you're right, Keith. My understanding is that aircraft that have belly fuel tanks as standard have the MZFM 'fudged' by the manufacturers to take account of this specifically to avoid distressing pilots with questions like 'Why do we have to take account of fuel in the Zero Fuel weight calculation?'. Some aircraft, particularly those that have been fitted in mid-life with extra fuselage tanks by somone other than the original manufacturer usually do have to take account of the centre line fuel in the ZFM calculation because the original certified limits won't have changed.
29th Mar 2003, 03:21
You may well be right Alex.
But the main point I was making was that for readers who are preparing to take the JAR ATPL M&B exam, all this talk about ZFM and MZFM including fuel, is potentially dangerous. The CAP is quite clear about what must be included in the ZFM and MZFM. The definitions given for both of these terms specifically exclude all usable fuel. It is of course quite possible (indeed highly probable) that the real world differs from JARATPLLAND.
I have searched my copy of JAR 25 for ZFM and MZFM definitions using the terms quoted by Genghis, but have found none. This does not of course mean that they do not exist, but simply that I have not found them.
My suggestion that fuel being tanked could be considered as non-revenue load and hence part of the traffic load, is simply an attempt to reconcile the definitions in the CAP and the comments made by contributors to this string, who have stated that their companies include such fuel in the ZFM.
Genghis the Engineer
29th Mar 2003, 06:41
I think the nearest in part 25 (this is from FAR not JAR, but they don't differ much) is...
Sec. 25.25 Weight limits.
(a) Maximum weights. Maximum weights corresponding to the airplane
operating conditions (such as ramp, ground or water taxi, takeoff, en route,
and landing), environmental conditions (such as altitude and temperature),
and loading conditions (such as zero fuel weight, center of gravity position
and weight distribution) must be established so that they are not more than--
(1) The highest weight selected by the applicant for the particular
(2) The highest weight at which compliance with each applicable structural
loading and flight requirement is shown, except that for airplanes equipped
with standby power rocket engines the maximum weight must not be more than
the highest weight established in accordance with Appendix E of this part; or
(3) The highest weight at which compliance is shown with the certification
requirements of Part 36 of this chapter.
(b) Minimum weight. The minimum weight (the lowest weight at which
compliance with each applicable requirement of this part is shown) must be
established so that it is not less than--
(1) The lowest weight selected by the applicant;
(2) The design minimum weight (the lowest weight at which compliance with
each structural loading condition of this part is shown); or
(3) The lowest weight at which compliance with each applicable flight
requirement is shown.
and the structural bit, which is to do with gust loadings...
(5) The following reference gust velocities apply:
(i) At the airplane design speed VC: Positive and negative gusts with
reference gust velocities of 56.0 ft/sec EAS must be considered at sea level.
The reference gust velocity may be reduced linearly from 56.0 ft/sec EAS at
sea level to 44.0 ft/sec EAS at 15000 feet. The reference gust velocity may
be further reduced linearly from 44.0 ft/sec EAS at 15000 feet to 26.0 ft/sec
EAS at 50000 feet.
(ii) At the airplane design speed VD: The reference gust velocity must be
0.5 times the value obtained under Sec. 25.341(a)(5)(i).
(6) The flight profile alleviation factor, Fg, must be increased linearly
from the sea level value to a value of 1.0 at the maximum operating altitude
defined in Sec. 25.1527. At sea level, the flight profile alleviation factor
is determined by the following equation:
Fg = 0.5 (Fgz + Fgm)
Fgz = 1 - ------------;
Fgm = (square root of : ) R2 Tan(Pi R1/4);
Maximum Landing Weight
R1 = -------------------------;
Maximum Take-off Weight
Maximum Zero Fuel Weight
R2 = ---------------------------;
Maximum Take-off Weight
Which seems more open ended than part 23, although I do like the idea of trying that rocket bit.
29th Mar 2003, 17:36
That is pretty close to what is stated in JAR 25.
But there is nothing here to indicate that ZFM or MZFM include any usable fuel. As stated in my previous post, I have searched JAR 25 and found nothing to indicate that usable fuel is part of the ZFM or MZFM. I have also searched the relevant section of the JAR OPS1 Manual and found nothing.
Genghis the Engineer
29th Mar 2003, 18:14
That was unfortunately the only reference to MZFM in all of FAR-25 (I have an electronically searchable copy, so I'm pretty certain about that), is there possibly anything in JAR-1 "definitions"?
29th Mar 2003, 23:51
Sadly (do I really mean that ???) I do not have access to a full set of JAR manuals, so I could not conduct an exhaustive search even if I wished to (which I do not).
But the inclusion of the words "zero fuel" in "Zero Fuel Mass" and in "Maximum Zero Fuel Mass" suggests that fuel should not be included. The definitions in the CAP 696 loading manual clearly state that these terms include no usable fuel.
Some of the posts in this string indicate that at least some operators include tanked fuel as part of the ZFM. Presumably these operators have modified Load & Trim Sheets which enable tanked fuel to be accounted for separately from fuel intended for the next planned flight.
Genghis the Engineer
31st Mar 2003, 02:08
Hard to disagree with you Keith. However, if you are desperately in need of some bedtime reading, the JAA docs are all downloadable from www.jaa.nl (select JARs, then "part 1").
HOMER SIMPSONS LOVECHILD
1st Apr 2003, 04:21
Reminds me of the great hoo-ha at the Spotty M when going "JAA".All reference to "weight" was deleted and the word "Mass" inserted.They called it "M-Day". Pedantic trainers took great delight in criticising any use of the word "weight"from then on in.
They could not really predict exactly when the gravity constant (and therefore any difference)under which we as an airline operated would be changing .Shell suit express to Mars anyone?.;)
1st Apr 2003, 06:05
What about this scenario:-
Boeing AD stipulates 1000lbs of fuel to be carried in CWT to avoid leaving Fuel pumps uncovered.
Would you as crew pass me (load controller) the following figures for a Loadsheet:
Ramp Fuel with the 1000lbs of fuel for the CWT included in this figure
Ramp Fuel plus the 1000lbs of fuel for the CWT to be included on the loadsheet as a Service Weight Adjustment.
I have not used option 2 before(most holiday flights take full wings + some CWT fuel), but I have seen some Big Airways 757 Load Messages that have used option 2.
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http://www.coloradospacenews.com/ball-aerospace-green-propellant-mission-featured-in-new-nasa-edge-episode/
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July 8, 2016 – NASA EDGE, the agency’s informative, engaging video podcast series, has produced an episode showcasing the Technology Demonstration Mission program’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission and Evolvable Cryogenics Project, or eCryo.
NASA EDGE visited GPIM researchers and project leads at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, in the spring of 2016. They also talked with eCryo engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Plum Brook Station test facilities in Sandusky, Ohio, where cryogenic propellant storage and transfer technologies are being studied.
The episode takes an inside look at “how these technologies may become an integral part of all future spaceflight missions,” NASA EDGE reported.
GPIM is a Technology Demonstration Mission made possible by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and draws upon a government-industry team of specialists. The GPIM marks the first time the United States will use a spacecraft to test the unique attributes of a high-performance, non-toxic, “green” fuel on orbit.
The propellant and new propulsion technology offer several advantages for future commercial, university, and government satellites, such as longer mission durations, additional maneuverability, increased payload space, and simplified launch processing.
“Green fuel is not only great in terms of handling and safety, it is also a very high-performance rocket fuel,” said Chris McLean, principal investigator for GPIM at Ball Aerospace. “It opens the mission trade space for expanded science operations and/or increased durations.”
GPIM is a technology demonstration mission managed by the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA. Ball Aerospace is leading the on-orbit test of a new Hydroxyl Ammonium Nitrate propellant blend, AF-M315E, developed by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base.
As the prime contractor and principal investigator, Ball collaborates with a team of co-investigators from Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Kennedy Space Center and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base, with additional mission support from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Kirtland Air Force Base on the GPIM project.
Three Department of Defense experimental payloads also will fly aboard the GPIM spacecraft, set for launch in early 2017 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in partnership with the Army Space and Missile Defense Command. The launch is part of the Air Force’s Space Test Program 2 (STP-2) mission. STP-2 also is scheduled to carry another NASA Technology Demonstration Missions payload, the Deep Space Atomic Clock.
Watch the new “Scalable Technologies” episode here:
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Rosetta Pulls Alongside Jupiter Family Comet: Student Space Science Projects
Now within twenty miles of its target comet, the Rosetta spacecraft may help provide information about the formation of the solar system and planet Earth. Students and classes can join scientists in the next year of Rosetta watching and, along the way, explore comets and space science through hands-on science projects.
When it comes to space science and astronomy science projects, things don't always move at light speed other than in the movies. Instead, some experiments, observations, and projects involving space take meticulous planning and possibly years of waiting and tracking before the end goal comes into sight or alignment.
Last month, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft finally arrived at its destination—a rendezvous with the Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet (Comet 67P). Launched in 2004, the Rosetta craft traveled for ten years, two of which it spent in hibernation to conserve energy, before pulling up alongside Comet 67P. Already spanning a decade, the mission has been an exercise in advance planning and a feat that required countless calculations, trajectory plans, and even multiple slingshot maneuvers from Earth's gravitational field.
In its final few months of approach, the ESA reports that Rosetta went through a series of ten rendezvous maneuvers to tweak the craft's trajectory and speed. Every adjustment had to be right on target for the Rosetta to successfully intersect with Comet 67P.
In a statement released by the ESA on August 6, 2014, Jean-Jacques Dordain, the Director General of the ESA, announced, "After ten years, five months and four days travelling towards our destination, looping around the Sun five times and clocking up 6.4 billion kilometres, we are delighted to announce finally 'we are here.'"
Reaching the comet and pulling up within range of its orbital path was a pivotal step for the Rosetta spacecraft mission—a make-or-break moment in the mission—but the Rosetta has still not completely locked itself into place. Flying a triangular shape near the comet, Rosetta will continue to get closer to Comet 67P until it is close enough to be pulled in by the gravitational force of Comet 67P, which sources say should happen when Rosetta reaches a distance of 6.2 miles from the comet.
As it hovers near Comet 67P, Rosetta will be mapping the comet's gravitational field and surface and scouting a location for dropping a lander onto the surface of the comet in November. Already, the Rosetta spacecraft has begun capturing close-up images of the comet, giving astronomers and scientists an unprecedented up-close look at the surface of a comet.
Closing In on New Answers
Comets, made up of ice and dust, are frozen vestiges of the formation of the solar system, and scientists are hoping that Rosetta will be able to help provide information and data to solve one of the oldest unanswered questions about the Earth—where did the water in the oceans on Earth come from? That comets are responsible for the oceans is one theory, and scientists are hoping Rosetta may be able to provide answers.
A decade after liftoff, Rosetta is finally in position and primed for the final and pivotal year of its mission. As Rosetta moves ever-closer to Comet 67P and, in November, drops its landing module, students and the science community alike will be eagerly watching to see what Rosetta discovers.
Student Space Science
Unlike members of the Rosetta team, students don't have ten years to plan and execute their science projects. For students interested in space science, the simple reality that space is "out there" can make it challenging to conduct a physical experiment.
A Career in Space Science and Engineering
Students interested in space science and astrophysics can learn more about possible STEM career paths in this interview with Blake Bullock, Civil Air and Space Director for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Trained first as an astrophysicist, Blake says her job lets her spend time thinking "about the future of science, technology, and aerospace innovation."
These kinds of data-driven investigations can be exciting for students and offer a taste of the kinds of real-world data analysis that many space scientists do. When possible, however, and especially for students in lower grades, hands-on projects that bring space science questions to life through everyday materials, models, and simulations may more effectively capture the attention of students with an emerging interest in space science.
Inspired by the school science project of Ashleigh (profiled in the Galactic Curiosity: Fifth Grade Student Charts a Science Course for the Stars story), the new Satellite Science: How Does Speed Affect Orbiting Altitude? astronomy project guides students in exploring, using cookie sheets and a variation of marble painting, the relationship between satellites and the gravitational pull of the object they orbit.
Tasked with the need for a tangible simulation to meet her school fair requirements, Ashleigh innovated an experiment to test questions she had about the Cassini satellite and Jupiter. In the new astronomy Science Buddies project based on Ashleigh's experiment, students set up and utilize a model to explore questions about the trajectory of satellites as they revolve around planets. With a homemade satellite launcher made from cardboard tubing, students put their model satellites into orbit and study the paint trails that mark different trajectories created by different simulations of gravitational pull.
Students can learn more about comets and satellites in the following Science Buddies Project Ideas:
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The International Space Station has a new viewing port. I thought I would celebrate with some gorgeous pictures. I really wish I had $20m – I would go tomorrow. (Hat tip IO9, also for their great tag line ‘We come from the future’. More NASA pics on Flickr).
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https://www.hipo.ro/locuri-de-munca/locuri_de_munca/88154/Assystem-Romania/Ground-Test-Documentation-Analyst-%E2%80%93-Aerospace
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Ground Test Documentation Analyst – Aerospace
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Assystem Technologies is an International Engineering and Innovation Consultancy with a presence in 20 countries and nearly 15,000 employees.
Assystem Romania is a subsidiary of Assystem Technologies and a key partner for the largest industrial engineering groups.
Founded in 1994, Assystem Romania has 1200 employees, with offices in Bucharest and Iasi.
Assystem's Romanian teams offer flexibility and skills, building on the Group's recognised expertise with local projects and international work sites.
Our specialties: Automotive, Aerospace, Infrastructure
Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering or similar.
Knowledge of electronics, hydraulics or pneumatics.
Good knowledge of English and French.
Proficiency with MS Office, VBA would be an asset.
Available for short international missions (3 months)
You will integrate an operational team dedicated to ground tests activities performed on different aircrafts
Analyse the electronic intervention cards for a series of ground tests on different aircrafts.
Verify the works performed by the suppliers and the compliance of the results.
Analyse the impacts of the interventions on the ground tests.
Draw up different reports regarding the tests and the associated results.
Request the suppliers to repeat the tests if needed.
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http://mil-embedded.com/news/avionics-development-contract-won-by-charles-stark-draper-laboratory-inc/
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Avionics development contract won by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc.
WASHINGTON. The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will provide development and operations support to the Engineering Directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston under the Advanced Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) and Avionics Technology Development and Analysis II contract valued at $38.7 million.
The avionics software suite will help guide the agency's next generation of human rated spacecraft on missions beyond low-Earth orbit, officials say.
Under contract, engineers will provide support services including research, design analysis, development simulation, integration, testing operation, and certification for advanced space systems.
The avionics and other software developed under this contract will be incorporated onto the International Space Station and Orion spacecraft. The work will also help future NASA science and exploration missions for manned and unmanned spacecraft.
The cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract will continue through March 2019 and includes provisions for two additional option years that can extend the work until March 2021.
Most of the work will be performed at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory facilities in Texas. Services may also be required at other NASA centers, contractor or subcontractor locations, or vendor facilities.
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The weightlessness of space makes it a unique place to conduct experiments that can’t be done on Earth, like growing perfect protein crystals, finding out how rat memory changes in zero G, and finding out what happens when you ring out a soaked washcloth.
This last, gripping experiment was the responsibility of Canadian astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield, but it was designed by two tenth grade students from Lockview High School in Fall River, Nova Scotia. The demonstration is now on YouTube, and it’s gone viral, averaging about a million views per day for five days. Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner designed the “Ring it out” experiment when their teacher, John Munro, challenged them to think how a microgravity environment might affect experiments. They hypothesized that the cloth would not drip in the weightlessness of space, but rather cling to the washcloth as it’s wrung.
This is pretty off-topic for us Hubbers, but who doesn’t like a well-formulated hypothesis clearly tested – it’s science at its finest. Of course, it’s in space too, which makes it that much cooler.
[Source: Canadian Space Agency via YouTube]
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BENNINGTON, Vt. — Search crews have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into the woods on Bald Mountain in Vermont’s Green Mountains, killing the pilot.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday the pilot was the only person on board the twin-engine propeller plane. He’s been identified as 31-year-old Ramsey Sampson Ah-Nee, of Manchester, Connecticut.
State police say they began the search at about 6 p.m. Sunday after the FAA reported it had lost radar contact with the plane. It was flying from Burlington, Vermont, to Oxford, Connecticut, when the crash happened.
Search teams located the wreckage just after 1 a.m. Monday in a heavily wooded area in the town of Woodford in the southwestern corner of the state.
State police say Ah-Nee had more than five years of aviation experience.
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https://thedefencespace.com/2023/10/08/chief-of-defence-staff-extends-greetings-to-air-warriors-veterans-their-families-on-92nd-indian-air-force-day/
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Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan has extended greetings and felicitation to all air warriors, veterans and their families on the 92nd Indian Air Force Day on October 08, 2023.
This momentous occasion marks nearly a century of unwavering dedication and unparalleled service of the IAF to the nation.
As we celebrate this milestone, we also pay homage to the bravehearts who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the nation.
Their courage, valour and dedication continue to inspire generations of Indians.
The IAF has played an important role in all wars fought by the country, undertaken punitive air strikes, extricated the Indian diaspora from conflict zones and provided relief through Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) missions within and beyond the borders.
The IAF has a rich history of regular and successful engagements in international air exercises with friendly countries.
It has adequately demonstrated interoperability with global Air Forces, thereby credibly establishing its capability to operate effectively in our immediate neighbourhood and also in our extended environment.
Further, the Indian Air Force has encouraged capability development through indigenous defence production under ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’.
An appreciable effort has been put in towards capacity enhancement of force multipliers in the form of Electronic Warfare, harnessing Space and Cyber capabilities to fight tomorrow’s war, Artificial Intelligence-based Decision Tools and systems incorporating the latest technology like Swarm Unmanned Munition Systems, an outcome of successful Mehar Baba Drone competition conceptualised by the IAF.
The IAF is poised to embrace the challenges of the 21st century, with a commitment to modernisation, innovation, and international cooperation.
On this 92nd Indian Air Force Day, let us all stand together in honouring the IAF and expressing our gratitude to the men and women who soar high to protect our skies and secure our future.
It will continue to be a symbol of our nation’s strength and resolve. May the IAF reach new heights of glory always.
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Helicopter flights in Greece
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492d Fighter Squadron Patch – Plastic Backing
A 10W x 10.5H cm(as 4″) squadron patch of the 492d Fighter Squadron with Plastic Backing.
World War II
Activated as a Southeastern Air District Army Air Corps training squadron, equipped with a variety of second-line aircraft, both single and twin engine, preparing its pilots and maintenance crews for eventual combat. After the Pearl Harbor Attack, the squadron flew antisubmarine patrols from, March–April 1942. Resumed aircrew training, many of the group’s members went on to serve in squadrons stationed in Europe and the Pacific theaters.
Eventually coming under the AAF III Fighter Command in 1944, trained replacement pilots with P-47 Thunderbolts, Converted in January 1944 to an operational fighter squadron with the end of RTU training. Deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), being assigned to the IX Fighter Command in England, March 1944.
Almost immediately after their arrival, the squadron began a rigorous training program, flying dive-bombing, glide bombing, night flying, low-level navigation, smoke laying, reconnaissance, and patrol convoy sorties. Over the next two months, the number of sorties steadily increased and the squadron flew its first combat mission on 20 April 1944—an uneventful fighter sweep of the occupied French coast.
Assisted the Normandy invasion by dropping bombs on bridges and gun positions, attacking rail lines and trains, and providing visual reconnaissance reports. Moved to France in mid-June 1944, supporting ground operations of Allied forces moving east across northern France throughout the war: primarily providing support for the United States First Army. Eventually was stationed in Occupied Germany on V-E Day.
On 5 July 1945, the squadron arrived in Laon, France. After a few weeks back in France the squadron received orders to return to the US. With many of the members separating at port, those remaining set up the headquarters at Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina and were programmed for deployment to Okinawa to take part in planned Invasion of Japan. Training discontinued after Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the sudden end of the Pacific War.
Two months later on 7 November 1945, the squadron inactivated as part of the massive postwar draw down.
492d Tactical Fighter Squadron – General Dynamics F-111F – 71-0886. Ribbon on tail is for taking part in the Operation El Dorado Canyon raid on Libya during April 1986.
Reactivated in 1952 as a NATO Fighter-Bomber squadron assigned to France. Equipped initially with F-84G Thunderjets, upgraded in 1954 to F-86F Sabre aircraft. conducted operational readiness exercises and tactical evaluations. Honing bombing and gunnery skills. The squadron frequently deployed to Wheelus AB, Libya for training.
Then in late 1956 the squadron upgraded to the F-100D Super Sabre. However the nuclear-weapon capable F-100 caused disagreements with France concerning atomic storage and custody issues within NATO, resulting in a decision to remove Air Force atomic-capable units from French soil. On 15 January 1960, the squadron and its host 48th TFW moved to RAF Lakenheath, UK.
Between 1960 and 1972 the squadron’s F-100 fleet maintained its readiness by participating in a number of USAFE and NATO exercises training to react to possible aggression from the Soviet Union. They underwent a series of NATO tactical evaluations. The squadron conducted several deployments to Turkey, Italy, Spain, and across the United Kingdom.
Beginning in late 1971 the squadron started its conversion to the McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II, with the aircraft being transferred from the 81st TFW at RAF Bentwaters. The conversion to the F-4D took several years, with the last F-100 departing in August 1974. With the arrival of the Phantoms, the F-4s adopted a common tail code of “LK”. This tail code lasted only a few months as in July and August 1972 the 48th TFW further recoded to “LN”.
The F-4’s service with squadron was short as operation “Ready Switch” transferred the F-4D assets to the 474th TFW at Nellis AFB Nevada. The 474th sent their General Dynamics F-111As to the 347th TFW at Mountain Home AFB Idaho, and the 347th sent their F-111Fs to Lakenheath in early 1977. Unlike the previous F-4 transition, the F-111 change took place quickly and without any significant problems. Almost immediately after changing aircraft, the squadron began a series of monthly exercises and deployments that took the Liberty Wing to Italy, Iran, Greece, and Pakistan.
The 494th also participated in Operation El Dorado Canyon, the air raid on Tripoli, Libya on 14 and 15 April 1986. It flew combat missions in Southwest Asia from, January–February 1991 as part of Operation Desert Storm.
In the midst of the organizational changes, the squadron switched aircraft again, exchanging the F-111s for the F-15E Strike Eagle in early February 1992. This continued to add to the previous 50 years of flying the air-to-ground mission with one of the most capable multi-role/air-to-ground jets in the current Air Force inventory.
The squadron participated in Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya in March 2011, along with numerous deployments to Southwest Asia supporting Air Expeditionary units as part of the ongoing Global War on Terrorism as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The Bowlers participated in a short deployment to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey in November 2015 in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. Accompanied by 493d Fighter Squadron, the F-15s were sent to enforce the sovereign air space of Turkey.
The Madhatters nickname While stationed at Chaumont Air Base, France, the Madhatters were seen wearing berets. Upon being relocated to England the squadron adopted the bowler hat, a traditional English hat with a rounded crown. The tradition of wearing the bowler hat has continued to present day despite the lack of official uniform regulations authorizing such wear. Despite the usual spelling of the “bowler” hat, the squadron uses the flight callsign “Bolars.”
The practice of adopting the headgear indicative of the various geographic regions the Bowlers are sent to has been continued. In Turkey, each deployed Madhatter had a blue fez hat.
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