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https://worldinfostore.com/american-airlines-bucks-50-seater-industry-trend/ | 2022-12-08T02:37:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711232.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20221208014204-20221208044204-00525.warc.gz | 0.946036 | 1,177 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__126299003 | en | American Airways (AA, Dallas/Fort Value) is bucking an industry-wide pattern to retire 50-seater single-cabin plane and is re-introducing CRJ200s on no less than ten home routes subsequent yr in partnership with its regional capability supplier Air Wisconsin ( ZW, Appleton) flying underneath the American Eagle model.
Based on schedules knowledge at hand confirmed by an American Airways spokesperson, the next routes from Chicago O’Hare will once more see the smaller metropolis hoppers from April 2023: Appleton, Flint, Dayton James M. Cox, Cedar Rapids, Omaha Eppley, Huntsville, Kalamazoo, Manhattan, Milwaukee Common Mitchell, and Waterloo.
This comes as Air Wisconsin switches again from United Airways (UA, Chicago O’Hare) – which is phasing out single-cabin 50-seat E145s and CRJ-200s by 2026 – to American Airways early subsequent yr underneath a brand new five-year capability buy settlement. Beneath its phrases, Air Wisconsin could deploy as much as sixty CRJ-200s underneath the American Eagle model, beginning with forty phased in month-to-month from March 2023 till October 2023. Based on the ch-aviation fleets superior module, Air Wisconsin owns sixty-three CRJ200LRs and one CRJ200ER.
In April 2020, American Airways had introduced the retirement of all CRJ200s operated by regional companion PSA Airways.
Additionally in 2020, Delta Air Strains (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) introduced it could section out its 125 CRJ-200s flying underneath the Delta Connection model by the tip of 2023. The choice types a part of Delta’s fleet simplification technique, supposed to modernize and streamline the corporate’s fleet, improve the client expertise, and generate value financial savings.
Knowledge compiled by the Regional Airline Affiliation (RAA) exhibits the variety of 50-seat CRJ200s flown by US carriers declined by greater than 60% between 2008 and 2020 as airways elevated their flying in dual-class 70 to 76-seat regional plane. The variety of E135s, E140s, and E145s with 37 to 50 seats declined by 40%.
The pattern additionally follows a extreme scarcity of skilled captains on regional airways leading to US mainline carriers reducing out smaller routes to give attention to higher-yield dual-class flying. American Airways was pressured to chop out Dubuque (Iowa) and Toledo Specific (Ohio) from Chicago due to the pilot scarcity at capability supplier Envoy Air (MQ, Dallas/Fort Value), which may now be reinstated with Air Wisconsin, studies The Factors Man.
The RAA says the continuing pilot scarcity has led to diminished or misplaced air service at 76% of US airports, in response to revealed schedule knowledge for October 2022 in comparison with the identical 2019 interval. “This interprets to greater than 500 regional plane parked with out pilots to fly them and an related air service retraction at 324 communities,” mentioned RAA chief government Faye Malarkey Black. “Fourteen airports have misplaced all scheduled industrial air service – a quantity that’s nonetheless rising.” The US airline sector is in need of 8,000 pilots.“We’re on the precipice of a wholesale collapse of small group air service,” she warned.
The way forward for 50-seat single-cabin flying was hotly mentioned on the RAA Leaders Convention in Washington DC earlier this yr. Sentiments have been expressed that the present scenario was cyclical and offered a chance to re-visit group providers with smaller plane and do it extra sustainably as new inexperienced applied sciences come on-line. “What do airways do in response to a scarcity of pilots? They fly fewer flights in greater plane. I see a chance coming that may permit us to return and repeat what we did a few years in the past and that might require new plane coming on-line from the producers,” commented CommuteAir (C5, Cleveland Hopkins) Govt Chairman John Sullivan.
Suggestions from MHIRJ Aviation Vice President Ross Mitchell was that airways would return their 50-seat plane to service if they may discover pilots to fly them. “The one benefit that 50-seaters have immediately is that they’re all just about paid for. That helps lots as pilot wages go up. So 50-seaters could be in service however for the shortage of pilots, and if we get pilots , they are going to be again in service, serving small communities,” he mentioned.
Others agreed to the demand for 50-seaters continued to exist as they offered the frequencies that saved small communities related. A brief-term answer of eradicating seats and working paid-for plane underneath Half 135 certification [not subject to the FAA 1,500-hour flight rule imposed on Part 121 operators] was mooted by Republic Airways President and Chief Govt Officer Bryan Bedford. An identical plan has already been actioned by SkyWest Airways, which is migrating about twenty CRJ200s retrofitted with 30-seats to its SkyWest Constitution (CW) subsidiary by Summer season 2023.
The convention additionally heard that within the first 14 months of the pandemic, regional plane flying was monitoring higher than narrowbody flying. Nonetheless, round July 2021, regional plane block hours began to say no and have been in a gradual decline ever since. Damaged down by class, the decline is pushed primarily by the 19 to 50-seater class, whereas 70-seater plane and narrowbodies proceed to realize home market share. | aerospace |
https://qtelegram.com/video-russian-military-aircraft-set-off-for-kazakhstan/5436/ | 2023-03-28T04:34:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948765.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328042424-20230328072424-00336.warc.gz | 0.892027 | 117 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__86424483 | en | Video: Russian military aircraft set off for Kazakhstan
January 6, 2022 | News | No Comments|
Russian military aircraft with paratroopers departed for Kazakhstan.
-transport aviation (An-124 and Il-76) of the Russian Aerospace Forces recently moved from the Moscow region in the direction of the designated airbases of the Central Military District or Kazakhstan, another Il-76MD is on its way to Belarus '', & ndash; The Operative Line Telegram channel reports.
Russian paratroopers left for Kazakhstan as part of the CSTO peacekeeping mission. | aerospace |
https://www.speroforum.com/a/LAEPFLSLLB45/81259-Trumps-visit-yields-benefits-for-US-and-Israel | 2019-02-22T00:43:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247511573.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20190221233437-20190222015437-00291.warc.gz | 0.95701 | 420 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__13937992 | en | Poland is expected to sign a huge arms deal with the United States that is worth up to $7.6 billion. The deal with Raytheon will mean that Poland will purchase eight Patriot missile defense systems by the end of 2017. Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz of Poland said on Thursday during President Donald Trump’s visit to Warsaw, “A memorandum was signed tonight that the US government has agreed to sell Poland Patriot missiles in the most modern configuration.” The deal is expected to be finalized in November.
The missiles will be Made in Israel, however. Israel’s SkyCeptor missiles cost $450,000 rather than the $4.5 million each Patriot interceptor costs. Poland reportedly insisted on the Israeli make. The Israeli-made missiles are also known as “David’s Sling.” Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is expected to earn about $1 billion from the deal.
However, Poland is expected to buy a small number of interceptor missiles Made in America, thus allowing for earlier deployment of the missile systems. Work is being done to integrate the American and Israeli components. Poland will thus become the first export client of the David Sling's interceptor missile.
The European Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) by American Lockheed Martin, lost their bid.
Israel’s David Sling missile systems, however, were barred by Washington from bidding on the deal even though David’s Sling missiles themselves will be used. Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) Arrow system was also barred from bidding in the Polish tender. Because the US funded the development of both Israel systems, the Trump administration did not approve their export to Warsaw.
NATO-member Poland has sought to upgrade and modernize its armed forces in response to the annexation of Crimea by its traditional enemy, Russia. The Patriot system, with the SkyCeptor missile, will be able to intercept aircraft, heavy rockets, and ballistic missiles at a range of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles). | aerospace |
http://avia.superforum.fr/t997-les-perspectives-des-loueurs-pour-2010-et-au-dela | 2019-12-07T10:06:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540497022.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20191207082632-20191207110632-00457.warc.gz | 0.780672 | 901 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__119736392 | en | Sous le lien,
Un article intéressant pour mettre des flottes en face des principaux loueurs... et des noms également au delà d'ILFC ou de GECAS...
Perhaps the single most shocking civil aviation news of 2009 was that while the financial world - and the real economy, very much including the airline business - went into meltdown, Airbus and Boeing between them set an all-time record for airliner deliveries at 979 units.
While there was much concern last year about whether enough finance could be raised during a credit crisis to pay for all the aircraft coming off the assembly lines, the so-called "finance gap" was, ultimately, kept closed.
The spectre of a finance gap remains cause for some concern. And, lessors and airlines have begun to worry that fleet residual values could be hammered by the combination of a soft economy and the likelihood that Airbus and Boeing might imminently launch upgraded versions of their A320 and 737 narrowbodies.
So, for its Aircraft Finance 2010 special report, Flightglobal's Commercial Aviation Online asked appraisers for their views on the key events driving the market.
Avitas asset valuation vice- president Doug Kelly likes the first flight of the Boeing 787 as the top event of 2009: "Despite all the delays and production problems, the 787 Dreamliner will no doubt be a huge success for Boeing and a game-changer for the industry."
But an alternative view comes from Collateral Verifications vice-president Gueric Dechavanne: "The most important event is more of a non-event: none of the major leasing companies, such as ILFC, CIT, RBS, etc were actually sold to outside investors.
"This says a lot about what investors think of the risk and potential volatility that can take place during downturns."
As for 2010, Kelly says the defining events will be "bankruptcies, mergers and the sale of ILFC". While many observers believe ILFC's parent, the troubled insurance giant AIG, to be holding off selling its leasing company until it can get a better price, Kelly says the sticking point might be potential buyers "waiting for the financial markets to improve so they can get a reasonable return on their money before consummating a deal".
He adds: "The Japan Airlines bankruptcy and its plans to phase out its Boeing 747-400s over three years will have a big impact on the market."
Kelly also expects Airbus and Boeing to repond positively to a push by Air France and Southwest for a formal launch of A320 and 737 re-engining programmes.
Dechavanne anticipates "major aircraft orders from several of the US carriers" and IBA senior analyst Alice Gondry expects values and lease rates to stabilise by the end of 2010, but warns that spring is crucial, as airlines discover "whether or not they have enough cash to ride out the storm".
She adds that first 787 deliveries should give the industry some momentum, while putting downward pressure on prices of older competitors such as 767.
However, Fintech Aviation Services managing director Oliver Stuart-Menteth is more cautious. He notes: "The major events in 2010 will be continued deferrals and increased cancellations of Boeing and Airbus orders as airlines realise that traffic is not going to recover as fast as corporate planning had forecasted, continued consolidation amongst flag carriers and continued renaissance of the turboprop in the 50- to 70-seat market."
Notamment pour les illustrations (non reproduite ici pour le moment) les tableaux sont instructifs.
Le point essentiel de l'article :
Plusieurs des gros loueurs sont en vente dont ILFC
Aucun n'a trouvé preneur... dévoilant ainsi le scepticisme des investisseurs sur cette activité et les risques qui y sont liés en cette
Intéressant de voir aussi qu'en nombre d'avions Boeing est plus concerné par le leasing... en valeur c'est une égalité entre les 2... Il doit y avoir des A380 en Leasing ; ) et en face pas encore de 787... et pour cause | aerospace |
https://radiantplumbing.com/blog/space-plumbers/ | 2023-12-03T09:57:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100499.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203094028-20231203124028-00612.warc.gz | 0.906897 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__107994067 | en | When I think of my children’s future, there are a few carers that any parent could be proud of. We all have this American ideal in mind. You know, astronauts, doctors, the president, and of course plumbers. Well, some lucky guys get to do it all. Take for instance Nicholas J. M. Patrick, and Robert Behnken. These guys are United States astronauts, Ph.D, and now Space Plumbers. Not too bad, I’ll bet there are some proud moms out there. Well they got the opportunity to do a space walk, and do some plumbing on the space station. How cool is that? News reports on space plumbing.
(This really does sound like a job for Radiant Man)
This an interesting link that explains how some of the plumbing works in space. Very interesting what the lack of gravity can do to your system, and design. Brad Casebier Radiant Plumbing Service Austin Texas | aerospace |
https://www.airwaysaviation.com/post/airways-aviation-announces-funding-scheme-for-pilot-training | 2024-04-22T03:50:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818072.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422020223-20240422050223-00570.warc.gz | 0.921762 | 761 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__30063511 | en | Oxford, June 08, 2016: Global pilot training academy Airways Aviation is now offering a funding scheme for people wishing to train as a pilot in the UK and Spain, through an arrangement with BBVA.
BBVA's flight training loan scheme is a secured funding option and offers those interested in an aviation career a bespoke solution to finance pilot training.
Ian Cooper, Airways Aviation, CEO, says:
“The cost of pilot training is often a barrier that stops many people from pursuing their dream career and we are proud to offer alternative finance options for our students embarking on their pilot training with Airways Aviation. Our arrangement with BBVA opens up the world of aviation to a greater number of students, allowing them to take control of their flight training pathway and allows us to remove one of the obstacles on the route to becoming a professional pilot.”
Simon Brown, a current student at Airways Aviation, began his training before the scheme was introduced and sees it as an ideal flexible finance opportunity to help others pursue their dreams. Brown says:
“It’s my ultimate passion and dream to fly as a career and for a lot of people, including myself, finance is the biggest hurdle you have to overcome in order to commit to the course. I wish that the BBVA funding scheme had been available with Airways Aviation at the time I applied.
“Of course, you have to pay for the training course, but it doesn’t stop there. After that you’ve then got a type-rating for some airlines, so you’ve got that additional financial burden as well as the living costs whilst studying, so flexible financing packages that are available to improve your personal cash flow are certainly beneficial.”
Maria Jesus Suarez, BBVA Branch Manager Canary Wharf, says:
“BBVA is excited to announce that it has negotiated an arrangement with Airways Aviation for potential funding options for cadet pilots. We are looking forward to working with Airways Aviation on this exciting initiative.”
BBVA funding is open to eligible students who qualify for admission into the Airways Aviation Elite Pathways Programme (EPP) and who satisfy BBVA’s lending criteria and affordability assessment. The EPP is an EASA approved, fully integrated airline training programme.
For further details and to discuss a personalised funding/training agreement, please contact our Sales team on 01865 587 370 or visit www.bbvauk.com/personal-banking/mortgages-and-loans/loans/pilot-training-mortgages/ .
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http://vintageaircraftmuseum.org/join-us/membership/ | 2018-06-24T06:54:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866888.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624063553-20180624083553-00271.warc.gz | 0.924511 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__105564815 | en | Membership, donations and volunteering supports our mission to connect people to the golden age of pre & post WWII aircraft through preserving, restoring, sharing and flying vintage aircraft.
Your membership will help us grow our education programs, develop our museum displays and continue our ability to maintain, restore and share the amazing aircraft that formed the backbone of general aviation for decades.
The North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum is not a museum about static displays. We are a living dynamic museum and our aircraft fly on a regular basis. Our members enjoy benefits including invitations to fly days and restoration seminars, as well as opportunities to fly in museum aircraft and enjoy a weekend stay in our hangar apartment.
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and contributions and donations are tax deductible.
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http://www.theknowledgeworld.com/rc-airplane-design/Howto-takecare-RC-Airplane-Propeller.htm | 2020-02-19T06:55:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875144058.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20200219061325-20200219091325-00467.warc.gz | 0.914651 | 393 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__8230927 | en | Propellers are one of the most important part
of your RC Airplane. Even if you have the best
engine you can't fly the airplane without a
propeller, right but, propellers are also the
most fragile part of your RC Airplanes.
They get easily broken during landing and takeoffs. If they get loose when they attached to the engine. They can easily injure someone because the engine is running at very high rpm's. Most rc airplanes with a tail dragger configuration suffer from broken propellers all too often. Or even if you fly a conventional rc airplane, some debris like stone could easily shatter your propellers.
Checking for Loose Propeller
So, before you start flying your RC Airplane, it is important to keep in mind the following instructions when it comes to rc airplane propellers.
Check if your propeller is not loosely attached to the engine. A loose propeller could easily injure someone or shatter to pieces causing damage to your model airplane.
Checking the Propeller for Debris or Damage
After landing your RC Airplane, check to see if there is any sort of damage on your propeller. If you see that some part of the propeller is broken, has suffered damage from debris you should immediately replace it.
Balancing the Propeller
Properly balance the propeller. You should lift the propeller from the center point to see if either side is heavy or not. A non-balanced propeller won't give you better performance and would bleed out some performance out of your RC Airplane engine. If you see that propeller is not balanced, you can apply paint to either side to make it heavy and balance the propeller. Yes, paint has weight and most modelers use this technique to balance there rc airplane propellers. Remove dust and clean the propeller with a cotton cloth or a fabric before your next flight. | aerospace |
https://ilke.exactly4u.info/product/1185979 | 2019-08-21T17:55:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027316150.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821174152-20190821200152-00319.warc.gz | 0.892744 | 282 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__58579080 | en | Ultrawings PS VR Game (PS4)118/5979
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Ultrawings is an aerial-themed, open world flight game for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. In Ultrawings, you'll pilot multiple aircraft to complete a variety of missions across an island-themed world, with supported flat-screen and VR versions. Earn virtual money which can then be spent on new airports and aircraft, Pilot 4 distinctive aircraft using your virtual hands for an unparalleled flight experience.
Release date: 12 April 2019.
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Earn virtual money which can then be spent on new airports and aircraft.
Pilot 4 distinctive aircraft using your virtual hands for an unparalleled flight experience.
Pop balloons, take photos, perform landings, fly through score rings, and take on air races.
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https://norwaytoday.info/ukategorisert/avinor-70-sas-flights-canceled-on-wednesday/ | 2022-08-18T08:02:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00591.warc.gz | 0.954348 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__18551666 | en | So far today, 70 flights to and from Norway have been canceled as a result of the SAS strike, which ended on Tuesday.
Around 900 SAS pilots went on strike on Monday, July 4, and since then, 2,497 flights to and from Norway have been canceled. The strike ended on Tuesday, July 19, but it will still take time before traffic returns to normal.
Of the 70 canceled flights today, 50 were domestic, 18 were within the Schengen area, and two were international flights outside the Schengen area.
Nine flights have already been canceled on Thursday.
Canceled flights per airport
This is the distribution of canceled departures from Norwegian airports so far today:
* Oslo: 25
* Bergen: 7
* Stavanger: 6
* Bodø: 5
* Tromsø: 5
* Trondheim: 4
* Alta: 2
* Harstad / Narvik: 2
* Ålesund: 1
* Bardufoss: 1
* Kristiansand: 1
* Kristiansund: 1
Source: © NTB Scanpix / #Norway Today / #NorwayTodayNews
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https://www.aerlex.com/2nd-annual-private-aviation-seminar-series-sept-16-oct-7-oct-28-2010-at-the-regency-club-los-angeles-california/ | 2023-09-29T10:26:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510501.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929090526-20230929120526-00294.warc.gz | 0.918836 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__160880237 | en | Do you own an aircraft? Are you planning to purchase or sell an aircraft? Do you want to understand the range of travel options available today from jet cards and charter to fractional and whole aircraft? Don’t miss this annual series of complimentary aviation seminars, hosted by leading experts in the fields of aviation law, aircraft financing, brokerage, management and charter, fractional ownership and taxation.
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https://perceptiveavionics.com/about-us/ | 2023-12-01T10:19:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100286.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201084429-20231201114429-00256.warc.gz | 0.942664 | 602 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__160698982 | en | Our Climate-controlled facilities provide ample room for short and long-term projects. Our shop includes top-of-the-line equipment and maintains high standards of cleanliness. We have two hangars: KRNH 16-1 serves as our headquarters while hangar 14-11 provides extra room as our expansion facility.
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https://epdatech.com/elements-of-propulsion-gas-turbines-and-rockets/ | 2024-02-21T05:01:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00079.warc.gz | 0.919365 | 366 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__188704608 | en | Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines and Rockets 2nd Edition.
Preface: this undergraduate text provides an introduction to the fundamentals of gas turbine engines and jet propulsion. These basic elements determine the behavior, design, and operation of the jet engines and chemical rocket motors used for propulsion. The text contains sufficient material for two sequential courses in propulsion: an introductory course in jet propulsion and a gas turbine engine components course. It is based on one- and two-course sequences taught at four universities over the past 25 years. The author has also used this text for a course on turbomachinery.
The outstanding historical foreword by Hans yon Ohain (the German inventor of the jet engine) gives a unique perspective on the first 50 years of jet propulsion. His account of past development work is highlighted by his early experiences. He concludes with predictions of future developments.
The text gives examples of existing designs and typical values of design parameters. Many example problems are included in this text to help the student see the application of a concept after it is introduced. Problems are included at the end of each chapter that emphasize those particular principles. Two extensive design problems for the preliminary selection and design of a gas turbine engine cycle are included. Several turbomachinery design problems are also included.
The text material is divided into five parts:
1) Introduction to aircraft and rocket propulsion (Chapter 1),
2) Review of fundamentals (Chapter 2),
3) Rocket propulsion (Chapter 3),
4) Analysis and performance of airbreathing propulsion systems (Chapters 4-8),
5) Analysis and design of gas turbine engine components (Chapters 9 and 10).
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https://blog.privatefly.com/10-rules-of-private-jet-iquette | 2023-10-03T21:27:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511220.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003192425-20231003222425-00005.warc.gz | 0.938638 | 1,088 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__161189662 | en | 10 rules of private jet-iquette
Our industry has introduced a number of COVID-safe processes. Private jet charter aircraft are undergoing even greater disinfection between flights; there are distancing protocols between crew and passengers; and using the clean and quiet private terminals (FBOs) already means no queues or waiting times on the ground (sometimes you can even drive directly to the aircraft steps).
But on a lighter note, what about the other unspoken etiquette ‘rules’ of private jet travel? To be honest, it’s hard to go far wrong. A private jet flight is far more relaxed than many people think, and totally geared around the customer.
However if you’re a first time private flyer (and we’re flying many at the moment), here are a few tips about the social dos & don’ts of private jet travel.
1) What (not) to wear?
There’s no need to be too overdressed on a leisure trip. Private jet fashion is all about not trying too hard. Or at least not looking like you have. So be comfortable. And if you’re travelling on business, the usual dress code applies.
2) Be careful with photos and social media
If you’re flying with your own family, snap away and enjoy the experience. But if you’re travelling with others, always check first before you share images or names of other passengers – they may not want their travel arrangements made public.
3) Let your host board the aircraft first
If you’re a guest and it’s your first time on a jet, it might be best to hang back at the aircraft steps. Your host will probably have a favourite seat, and you don’t want to make this your first and last invitation.
To familiarise yourself with the interior layout of your private jet, find out what type of aircraft you’re flying on and search online (or ask one of our experts who can tell you).
4) Be demanding (but polite)
Ask upfront for anything that will make your trip more enjoyable – whether it’s dietary requirements for you (or your children or pets), your favourite wine or newspaper, or decorations for a special occasion. It’s a bespoke flying experience, so make it your own.
5) No need to switch off devices
You can use your own devices freely onboard a private jet so there’s no need to switch off. Some aircraft have WiFi, although in Europe this is currently more common on larger jets – so you don’t need to lose connection while you fly. Although we know that many clients appreciate the ability to relax and take a break.
6) Pets can fly too
You can take your pets in the cabin on a private jet if you’ve arranged this beforehand, but make sure they’ve been groomed first. Dog hair or muddy paws on the seats are best avoided.
7) Don’t be afraid to talk to your pilots
In private aviation your Captain and First Officer (we only offer charter on aircraft with two pilots) are there both to fly the aircraft and to provide you with a great experience and service.
Although they are currently keeping their distance in line with COVID-19 protocols, they are happy to answer questions and talk to you about the aircraft and the route. So don’t be afraid to ask.
You can tip your pilot if you think they did a good job, it’s not expected but it’s quite normal and the crew will appreciate the gesture.
8) Disappear quickly after landing
After your private jet lands, you don’t want to be hanging around at the airport. The point of private jet travel is to be whisked away as quickly as possible. Our Client Services team can arrange a seamless car or helicopter transfer to meet you on landing.
Or if you forgot to arrange a car, your pilot can radio ahead and order one for you.
9) Practice good bathroom manners
The vast majority of private jets have an enclosed bathroom onboard. All are kept scrupulously clean and maintained (with extra cleaning now in place due to COVID-19) and some are very spacious and luxurious. But if you’re taking a short flight, we’d recommend visiting the bathroom in the FBO beforehand.
In most small and medium aircraft, the toilet is a relatively small space and while it’s there to be used as necessary, you might want to avoid needing to, particularly if you are with business colleagues.
Our expert team can advise you on the bathroom facilities and layouts on different types of private jet aircraft.
10) No need to carry your own bags
Your crew or the airport ground staff will take care of your luggage – don’t worry it’s in good hands.
This is not expected from the passenger, and the crew will know best how to stow your luggage to ensure your safety.
Some aircraft have large holds, others have less room on board. So if you are planning to travel with lots of luggage make sure you’ve confirmed this beforehand. Our team can help you decide which aircraft is best suited to your requirements. | aerospace |
https://www.4pluspublications.com/en/produkt/mkm144019-heinkel-he-219a-2-uhu-night-hunter/ | 2023-12-08T11:57:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100745.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208112926-20231208142926-00090.warc.gz | 0.941671 | 384 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__227219717 | en | The He 219 Uhu was a German heavy night fighter, employing a number of the then novel radar and antennae equipment, and was the first operational military aircraft to be fitted with ejection seats. After protracted development the prototype flew in November 1942. The first production variant was the He 219A-2/R1 night fighter, equipped with four cannons in the ventral tray, two guns in the wings and another two as a “Schräge Musik” installation behind the cockpit. It was a two-seat, all-metal monoplane powered by two Daimler-Benz DB 603 in-line piston engines. A total of 85 He 219A-2s were built, while two more major variants were later also produced.
Although the He 219 was a capable fighter, it saw only limited service; had they been available in quantity, they might have had a significant effect on the strategic night bombing offensive of the Allied forces carried in the latter half of the war.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) He 219A-2, G9+DH (W.Nr. 290004), I./NJG 1, Luftwaffe, Paderborn airfield, Germany, April 1945
2) He 219A-2, G9+MK (W.Nr. 290010), 2./NJG 1, Luftwaffe, Münster-Handorf airfield, Germany, November 1944
3) He 219A-2, D5+BL (W.Nr. 290126), 3./NJG 3, Luftwaffe, Grøve airfield, Denmark, May 1945
4) He 219A-2, “AIR MINISTRY 20”, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Royal Air Force, Farnborough airfield, U.K., summer 1945 | aerospace |
https://skydanceimaging.com/red-cat-subsidiary-teal-drones-opens-u-s-manufacturing-facility-suas-news-the-business-of-drones/?doing_wp_cron=1680342983.4060699939727783203125 | 2023-04-01T09:56:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949958.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401094611-20230401124611-00547.warc.gz | 0.950614 | 480 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__237880315 | en | Red Cat subsidiary TEAL Drones opens U.S. manufacturing facility – sUAS News – The Business of Drones
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) (“Red Cat” or the “Company”), a hardware-enabled software provider to the drone industry, announces today that its TEAL Drones subsidiary has opened its new U.S.-based manufacturing facility located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“After closing the Teal drone acquisition less than two months ago, our investment to scale production of the Golden Eagle is ready to fly and generate revenue,” commented Jeffrey Thompson, Red Cat’s Chief Executive Officer. “The teal team has built a world-class made in USA manufacturing facility that will change the entire drone industry landscape.”
Teal Drones’ new 13,000+ square foot facility will be substantially focused on quality standards-based processing and manufacturing and will scale the operation to full capacity over the coming months. The facility also enables the expansion of TEAL’s talented team. The factory is currently functional, and Teal is beginning to immediately fulfil orders out of the new facility. The team is also working to advance the factory’s automation capability to ensure world-class, scalable quality.
About Red Cat Holdings, Inc.
Red Cat provides products, services and solutions to the drone industry through its four wholly-owned subsidiaries. Fat Shark Holdings is the leading provider of First Person View (FPV) video goggles to the drone industry. Rotor Riot, LLC is a leader in the sale of FPV drones and equipment, primarily to the consumer marketplace through its digital storefront located at www.rotorriot.com. Rotor Riot enjoys high visibility in social media through its Facebook page and its sponsorship of a professional drone racing team that has won numerous championships. Skypersonic provides software and hardware solutions that enable drones to complete inspection services in locations where GPS is not available, yet still record and transmit data even while being operated from thousands of miles away. Red Cat Propware is developing a Software-as-a-Solution (“SaaS”) platform to provide drone flight data analytics and storage, as well as diagnostic products and services. Learn more at https://www.redcatholdings.com/. | aerospace |
http://wpde.com/news/local/pilots-jets-from-shaw-77th-back-from-afghanistan-08-14-2015?id=888841 | 2017-09-21T05:36:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818687642.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20170921044627-20170921064627-00007.warc.gz | 0.936484 | 171 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__62537598 | en | Pilots, jets from Shaw 77th back from Afghanistan
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:29:51 GMT —
About two dozen pilots and F-16 Fighting Falcon jets from the 77th Fighter Squadron are back home at Shaw Air Force Base after a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt. Alexandria Mosness said the pilots and aircraft of the unit dubbed "The Gamblers" returned Tuesday afternoon.
The unit suffered the loss of one of its pilots, Capt. James Steel, three weeks ago when his F-16 crashed in Afghanistan. Steel was returning to the base in Kandahar from a close air support mission for ground troops.
Remaining members of the Gambler Aircraft Maintenance unit and the 20th Operations Support Squadron are returning later this week.
Mosness says a memorial for Steel is scheduled for April 30. | aerospace |
https://www.hoyerforcongress.com/press-releases/hoyer-visits-nasas-goddard-space-flight-center-0 | 2022-07-01T20:07:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103945490.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220701185955-20220701215955-00416.warc.gz | 0.954857 | 243 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__245400808 | en | Hoyer Visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
November 6, 2019
GREENBELT, MD - This morning, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to receive an update on the different missions of the Center, including the James Webb Space Telescope and the RESTORE-L Mission.
"Ensuring NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has the resources it needs to effectively continue its ongoing missions remains a top priority of mine in Congress," said Congressman Hoyer. "I appreciated the opportunity to visit the facility today and receive an update on the many critical missions the employees at Goddard are focused on, including the James Webb Space Telescope and the RESTORE-L Mission. The hardworking federal employees and contractors who work at Goddard are doing critically important work to improve our understanding of Earth and the universe around us, and we must continue to support the work they do."
"I've worked hard to combat efforts by the Trump Administration to zero out funding for many of Goddard's missions and will continue to do so," continued Congressman Hoyer. "I was glad to meet with Goddard employees this morning to reaffirm my commitment to supporting their missions." | aerospace |
https://vietreader.com/business/46226-airbus-training-center-at-vietjet-to-offer-a320-type-rating-courses.html | 2023-03-22T15:53:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943845.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322145537-20230322175537-00109.warc.gz | 0.940946 | 594 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__13016350 | en | Airbus Training Center at Vietjet to offer A320 type-rating courses
Representatives of Vietjet and the Airbus Vietnam Training Center pose for a group photo - PHOTO: COURTESY OF VIETJET
HCMC – The Airbus Vietnam Training Center (AVTC) has received regulatory approvals by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for the provision of A320 type-rating courses.
AVTC owns two A320 full-flight simulators and two A320 flight-training devices, which are located at the Vietjet Aviation Academy in HCMC and are operated by Airbus and Vietjet.
The facilities are currently used primarily by Vietjet for recurrent and instructor training. AVTC has plans to install a third simulator to meet Vietjet’s increasing pilot training needs.
Each A320 type-rating course will last over a six-week period and AVTC expects to train up to eight pilots each month.
“We are here to meet Vietjet’s pilot training needs. We are pleased to support Vietjet as it continues to invest in its future through the latest training services,” said William Tauzin, General Manager of AVTC.
Luong The Phuc, Vietjet vice president of training, said, “We congratulate AVTC on receiving these important regulatory approvals. The Vietjet Aviation Academy is a comprehensive training facility to train pilots, cabin crew, engineers and aviation staff, for not only Vietjet but also our regional peers.”
Besides the simulators and flight-training devices from Airbus, the academy is also equipped with cabin simulators, emergency training facilities and Olympic-standard wave pools, he added.
Housed within the Vietjet Training Academy, the Airbus-managed AVTC was established in October 2018 under an agreement between Airbus and Vietjet. Airbus brings its processes, tools and expertise to provide state-of-the-art training devices as well as its internationally recognized course content. Besides A320 type-rating training, AVTC also provides other flight training services such as instructor courses.
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https://gaminghybrid.com/news/2022/04/26/microsoft-flight-simulator-releases-famous-flyer-2-the-granville-brothers-gee-bee-model-z-and-model-r-2/ | 2022-06-25T17:58:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103036077.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625160220-20220625190220-00411.warc.gz | 0.929221 | 636 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__161106575 | en | Thompson Trophy- winning traditional racing aircrafts of the Golden Age of Air Racing, now offered in the Microsoft Flight Simulator market.
The Microsoft Flight Simulator group is delighted to reveal their most current release in the Famous Flyers series of airplane, the Gee Bee Model Z and Model R-2 Super Sportster, single-engine, single-seat racing monoplanes created and constructed by Granville Brothers Aircraft ofthe United States The business (“Gee Bee” is a phonetic representation of the initials GB) produced a couple of various versions of the style, significantlythe Model Z and the Model R-2 Each is unique, and each is considered a historical excellent of the Golden Age of Flight due to its special appearances and blazingly quick efficiency.
Urged on by early successes with their “Sportster” race airplane of the late 1920s, the Granville Brothers produced their very first Super Sportster, the Model Z, to race at the Thompson Trophy pylon race at the National Air Races at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1931. The brothers, 5 in all, pressed the limitations of airplane innovation at that time to squeeze every possible drop of speed out of their style, consisting of among the very first usages of a wind tunnel. The result was a racing legend with a big fuselage, straight primary wing, conventional tail system, and a cockpit situated simply forward of the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer, maybe the Super Sportster’s most significant quality. Powered by a 9-cylinder Wasp Junior radial engine, the Model Z ended up in top place at the 1931 Thompson Trophy and motivated the Granville Brothers to produce even quicker Super Sportsters.
The Model R-2, constructed for the 1932 National Air Races, was constructed based upon the Model Z and looks practically similar, the main distinctions being that the R-2 has a somewhat longer fuselage and wing. During the 1932 races, the R-2 put 4th in the cross-country Bendix Trophy Race and 5th in the Thompson Trophy Race.
The Microsoft Flight Simulator variations of the Model Z and the R-2 have actually been thoroughly recreated by Carenado to mirror the visual and efficiency spirit of these Famous Flyers for sim users. They are offered today as a package for PC and Xbox for $14.99, solely in the in-sim market. Download now and get ready for an aerial speed experience unlike any other!
Microsoft Flight Simulator is offered for Xbox Series X|S and PC with Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Windows, and Steam, and on Xbox One and supported smart phones, tablets, and lower-spec PCs by means ofXbox Cloud Gaming For the most current info on Microsoft Flight Simulator,stay tuned to @MSFSOfficial on Twitter
Microsoft Flight Simulator
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Microsoft Flight Simulator is the next generation of among the most precious simulation franchises. From light aircrafts to wide-body jets, fly extremely detailed and sensational airplane in an extremely practical world. Create your flight strategy and fly anywhere on the world. Enjoy flying day or night and deal with practical, tough weather. | aerospace |
http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/showthread.php?s=bf4a8e3dc97e0f76682345c03892c30b&t=79194&page=528 | 2015-11-29T10:31:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398457697.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205417-00002-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931327 | 68 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__58193023 | en | Originally Posted by EXTREME FLIGHT
bluefear and Todua 77, both of you guys are describing classic tail heavy conditions. A change in longitudinal thrust line is not recommended. Shift gear forward and re-trim the aircraft.
It's amazing aircraft, i like this plane and the rest is just minor issues. | aerospace |
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2835208/Airbus-delivers-strong-profits-despite-delays-A400M-transport-aircraft.html | 2021-05-09T17:10:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989006.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20210509153220-20210509183220-00607.warc.gz | 0.940048 | 563 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__17327614 | en | Airbus delivers strong profits despite delays to A400M transport aircraft
Airbus beat expectations with stronger than-expected third-quarter profits but this was overshadowed by further delays to its A400M transport aircraft.
The European aerospace giant, which employs more than 12,000 in the UK, including 6,000 at its wing factory in Broughton, North Wales, and 6,000 at Filton, Bristol, said nine-month operating profits before one-off items rose 12 per cent to £2.07billion.
Finance director Harald Wilhelm said the commercial aerospace industry continued to weather economic uncertainty as airlines order more efficient new jets, bringing in a slew of deposits that contributed to surprisingly strong cashflow.
Airbus A400M: The new transport aircraft has already been used by the French air force in Mali
He told Reuters: ‘There is a very healthy booking situation and very healthy backlog.’
Airbus reaffirmed its forecasts for the full-year, but warned about the possible impact of new production and delivery delays on Europe’s largest defence project, the A400M. It cost £16billion to develop the cargo and troop carrier for seven European NATO nations but delays and cost overruns prompted a £2.8bilion public bailout in 2010.
The A400M has already been on operations with the French air force in Mali, but Airbus said there had been delays in adding advanced features on later aircraft, some of which will have to be retrofitted.
The first A400M for the Royal Air Force is due to be delivered to RAF Brize Norton shortly.
Airbus also said it was on track to deliver the first of its A350 passenger jets in the fourth quarter, a wide-bodied aircraft designed to compete with rival Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.
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https://www.aeroexpo.co.uk/news/advanced-tactics-unveils-at-transporter-flying-car/ | 2022-06-30T14:14:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103821173.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630122857-20220630152857-00377.warc.gz | 0.950408 | 540 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__70827431 | en | Advanced Tactics unveils AT Transporter flying car
Advanced Tactics Inc. (ATI) has announced the development of a low-cost modular flying car, designed to be capable of autonomous logistical operations.
Known as the AT Transporter, the flying car builds off ATI’s AT Black Knight Transformer vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flying/driving vehicle technology demonstrator, and the company has said it will be ready for sale in 2018.
Powered by eight aircraft engines and one Volkswagen car engine, the multicopter AT Black Knight Transformer first flew in March 2014 after having completed driving tests in December 2013. ATI has now put the aircraft for sale on eBay (with bidding set to end on Nov. 2) to raise funding to finish the prototype development and testing of the AT Transporter.
The AT Transporter is powered by four aircraft engines with propellers and a low voltage electrical system, and is capable of delivering payloads of up to 1,200 pounds in a detachable three- to six-person passenger/cargo pod. ATI said the aircraft has a maximum speed of over 200 m.p.h. and a maximum operating range of 500 to 700 nautical miles.
An illustration of the proposed production version of the AT Transporter. ATI believes the aircraft will prove particularly useful in disaster relief missions. ATI Illustration
The company added that the aircraft can refuel at conventional gas stations, would be capable of being maintained by a trained truck or auto mechanic, and that its autonomous flight system was as simple as those found on existing quadcopters.
ATI believes the aircraft will be well suited for disaster relief operations, including cargo and personnel delivery and evacuation.
The three-passenger AT Transporter is expected to cost around $249,000, and a six-passenger version around $395,000. Both vehicles can perform the same missions but with different payloads, ATI said, adding that flights above 20,000 feet would be possible with turbocharged engines.
The AT Black Knight Transformer is being auctioned by ATI on eBay, and the manufacturer hopes to use the money raise to fund development of the AT Transporter. ATI Photo
As for the sale of the AT Black Knight Transformer Technology Demonstrator, ATI is offering potential buyers two options. The first is to purchase it in “as is” condition with the original flying and driving equipment included, but with the understanding that the vehicle must not be flown. The second option is to buy it and supply ATI with $1-2 million to upgrade the vehicle’s electronics, engines and propellers, and perform airframe modifications. | aerospace |
https://www.myamcat.com/jobs/description/scientistengineer-job-for-fresher-in-satish-dhawan-space-centre-shar-in-nellore/3387 | 2022-12-03T05:17:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710924.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203043643-20221203073643-00361.warc.gz | 0.889972 | 701 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__216356242 | en | Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR at Sriharikota is one of the best-known names among the Spaceports of the World today. India's Space vehicles fly from here giving an assured access to Space for indigenous satellites as well as commercial satellites. Diverse kinds of Space missions with remote sensing, communications, and scientific satellites are accomplished from here. The Space Centre, which was popularly known as SHAR (Sriharikota Range), was renamed as 'Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR' on September 5,2002, in the fond memory of Prof. Satish Dhawan, former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Last Date : 05 June 2015
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Candidates are not required to send the confirmatory copy. However, the on-line application has to be invariably followed up with a copy of "No Objection Certificate" from the employer concerned in respect of those applicants who are employed under Central/State Government/Public Sector Undertakings /Autonomous Bodies, duly indicating the name, the post for which applied/post No. and Regn. No. on the reverse of the NOC and which should be sent within 10 days of registering the on-line application and in any case not later than 15.06.2015 by Ordianary Post to: Administrative Officer, Recruitment Section, Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR Sriharikota-524124, SPSR Nellore Dist, AP.
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https://sciencedatacloud.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/personal-jetpack/ | 2018-07-19T15:24:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591140.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719144851-20180719164851-00118.warc.gz | 0.913087 | 298 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__262249261 | en | Martin Aircraft, New Zealand
The jetpack, which Martin Aircraft calls a „motorbike in the sky,“ is made of a carbon fiber composite with a bit of Kevlar for the rotor. A gasoline engine drives ducted fans that produce enough thrust to lift the one-person aircraft into a vertical takeoff and enable sustained flight before a vertical landing (in a 2011 test, the jetpack stayed aloft, with a dummy on-board, for more than seven minutes — a record). Fortunately for those of us accustomed to getting from home to work and back with our feet on the ground, it comes equipped with a ballistic parachute system. The company‘s latest prototype, the P12, is the first model to gain Civil Aviation Authority certification for manned flight. „Changing the position of the ducts has vastly improved the jetpack‘s performance, especially its maneuverability,“ says the company, which has been testing this prototype via remote control. The P12 can climb more than half a mile and travel at a speed of about 43 mph. The New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority says test flights of the P12 will be subject to strict safety requirements, and that flights will not be allowed to go higher than 20 feet above the ground or 25 feet above water. Should the manned tests help lead to futuristic-style jetpack travel, a particular country‘s regulations will determine whether drivers need a pilot‘s license to fly one. | aerospace |
https://arabnewsexpress.com/dhl-express-mena-increases-regional-fleet-capacity-with-7-new-boeing-767-300fs/ | 2024-03-03T23:18:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476399.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303210414-20240304000414-00506.warc.gz | 0.918667 | 734 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__401992 | en | Manama, Apr. 25 (BNA): DHL Express MENA announced the expansion of its regional aviation fleet with the addition of seven new Boeing 767-300F freighters scheduled to be inducted starting this month and gradually during the course of 2021.
This marks another milestone in the logistic company’s efforts to enhance its regional aviation network with modern, cost effective and reliable aircraft, and improve its air capability to better support the region’s logistical demands while supporting its GoGreen 2050 Mission.
The technologically-advanced, energy-efficient planes, which will be based out of DHL’s regional aviation headquarters in Bahrain, have been converted from passenger to freighter configuration by Boeing, to fit the needs of DHL Express and meet the rising demand for express services.
“We are excited to introduce our new Boeing 767-300F freighters to the regional DHL Express air network,” Nour Suliman, CEO of DHL Express MENA said.
“This investment reiterates our focus on continuously deploying innovative solutions and technologies to meet customer demands. Based on our performance in 2020, where we saw historic peaks in cross-border eCommerce volumes both globally and in the region, we anticipate this trend to continue, and our enhanced air capacities will enable us to handle the increased demand for delivery expertise in time-definite express shipments,” he added.
“The new planes will support our objective to maintain a well-connected regional network and optimize our operations whilst simultaneously improving our environmental footprint in line with our zero-emissions strategy”.
The addition of the new planes will increase DHL’s overall load capacity by over 33%, and will be used to service existing high-demand lanes across the GCC, extended Middle East, Africa & Indian Subcontinent which house some of DHL’s key commercial partners. The planes offer a 24% increased payload and are fitted with Winglets, resulting in a 5% reduction in fuel burn and CO2 emissions, as compared to the B767-200F, enabling DHL to fly eco-friendlier and more cost-efficiently.
“The new aircraft will greatly contribute to enhancing our reach and service across key markets in the region such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Lebanon, Jordan, East Africa and on our Asian lanes amongst others”, explained Richard Gale, Head of DHL Aviation Middle East and Africa.
“The freighter type is one of the world’s most efficient, and boasts the lowest direct operating costs and best payload configuration, making it an ideal fit in the midsized freighter market. The average aircraft age of the B767-300F fleet acquired by DHL is 18 years, almost 20 years younger than our current B767-200F fleet, thereby offering operational continuity into the next decade. The proven versatility of these planes will ensure we further deliver the best quality service possible to our customers through greater speed, reliability and efficiency, while simultaneously contributing to our environmental objectives which aim to reduce all logistics-related emissions to zero by 2050”.
Investments in strengthening DHL’s MENA air network continue to form part of the company’s wider strategy to enhance its capabilities in this region and better service high demand destinations. In the past 6 years, DHL has almost doubled its regional aviation touch points and boosted international flights to over 175 per week, consistently increasing load capacities to vital trade links to cater to customer needs for better cross-regional and global connectivity.
Source: Bahrain News Agency | aerospace |
https://nats.modelaircraft.org/discipline/control-line-racing?page=3 | 2023-02-03T04:32:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500042.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203024018-20230203054018-00486.warc.gz | 0.942053 | 442 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__121548979 | en | There are several classes of CL Racing, but the idea is the same for all: finish the designated number of laps before the competition. Those who turn in the fastest preliminary heats advance to longer feature races. Two or more entries fly at the same time. This is a team event, with each team consisting of a pilot and one or two people serving as a pit crew. Upon the “go” signal, the pit crew starts the engine and releases the aircraft. One or more pit stops for fuel are required in each race. Many of the aircraft are equipped with shutoffs, so the pilots can land whenever the team decides. Other elaborate equipment is designed to speed up the mandatory pit stops. Watch for quick landings and fast restarts. There are many classes of CL Racing, including Mouse Race, Goodyear (Scale), Rat Race, Slow Rat Race, and FAI Team Race, in which participants compete at a world-class level.
AMA looks forward to hosting a fun and safe Nats this year at the International Aeromodeling Center (IAC)! Today, we have new developments to announce for Nats 2020.
After careful deliberation, the AMA Executive Council has agreed to not cancel the 2020 Outdoor Nats. This decision is aligned with state and federal guidelines for events concerning COVID-19.
The 2020 AMA Nats will take place to the extent that individual Nats organizers plan and conduct their respective events. Additional safety measures will be in place to protect our members, staff, and community. Nats participants and visitors to the International Aeromdeling Center will have limited access to AMA facilities and should anticipate a scaled-back Nats experience.
Do you ever wonder how particular Nats events work and what preparation goes into the aircraft being flown? Now you can find out with our summer series, Nats Demystified. How do Control Line pilots keep the lines untangled?
Do you ever wonder how particular Nats events work and what preparation goes into the aircraft being flown? Now you can find out with our summer series, Nats Demystified. First up, how do Control Line handles work? | aerospace |
http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/LIW/20081028.html | 2023-06-06T23:08:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653183.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606214755-20230607004755-00441.warc.gz | 0.85737 | 700 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__203239654 | en | Featured Image - 10/28/2008
Messier and Messier A: Unique Impact Craters
Two of the most unusual lunar impact craters on the Moon lie just east
of the Apollo 11 landing site (AS15-M-2045; Figure 1). Messier is an
unusual elliptical crater with a very distinctive "butterfly" ejecta
pattern. Nearby Messier A is actually a complex structure called a
"doublet" crater, or two small circular craters in close proximity to one
Figure 1. Northwestern Mare Fecunditatis.
The positions of unusual impact craters Messier and Messier
A are highlighted. [Apollo Metric Frame AS15-M-2405 (NASA/JSC/Arizona State
In order to better understand the crater forming process, scientists
fired miniature asteroids into lunar-like targets. Real asteroids hit the
Moon at fantastically high speeds, greater than 16 km per second (or
35,000 miles per hour). The vertical gun facility at the
NASA Ames Research Center provided the best opportunity to simulate these
high-energy events. One type of experiment involved tilting the gun
at a very steep angle. As the angle of impact got steeper and
steeper, scientists saw no change from the typical circular crater.
Finally, when the angle was grazing (or less than 15° from the horizon)
elliptical, rather than circular, craters formed. Additional ray
patterns were seen to spread out like butterfly wings at these extreme
impact angles. The high-velocity gun experiments led scientists to
the hypothesis that Messier formed as a result of a low-angle impact.
The origin of Messier A is more enigmatic. It is possible that
Messier A formed in the same impact event as Messier, but questions
about the origins of the doublet crater feature exist. Suggestions
for the doublet include an impact near a pre-existing crater or the
near-simultaneous impact of two small pieces that broke off from the
same projectile that formed Messier. Messier and Messier A are
complex features, and geologic investigation of this region by human
explorers will clearly be required to determine how Messier A formed.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Camera, launching aboard the United States' Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter spacecraft in early 2009, will photograph craters like
these on the lunar surface at 0.5m/pixel. These new high-resolution images
will help us to not only improve our understanding of lunar craters,
but will also let lunar scientists plan the exploration traverses that will be
performed by the next generation of lunar explorers near interesting
features like Messier and Messier A.
For more information:
Apollo over the Moon: The View From Orbit (1978) NASA SP-362,
B. Ray Hawke et al. (2004) The origin of lunar crater rays,
Icarus, 170, 1, pp. 1-16 (read the PSRD summary here)
D. E. Gault and J. A. Wedekind (1978) Experimental studies of
oblique impact, Proc. Lun. Planet. Sci. Conf. 9th, p. 3843-3875. | aerospace |
https://thaxtedscouts.org.uk/carver-scouts/ | 2024-04-14T18:08:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414161724-20240414191724-00534.warc.gz | 0.956236 | 847 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__196393759 | en | Carver Scouts… like normal scouts only better!
We now have two troops based at Carver Barracks the Mighty Apache troop which meets on a Thursday and the Awesome Wildcat troop which meets on a Tuesday
These are our Air Scout Troop and are easily recognised in their distinctive blue shirts.
Air Scouts, also known as Aviation Scouts or Air Explorer Scouts, engage in activities and experiences related to aviation, aerospace, and flight. These specialised scout groups focus on providing young individuals with opportunities to explore and learn about the world of aviation, while also developing important life skills.
Air Scouts often participate in a variety of activities that encompass both theoretical knowledge and practical experiences. Here are some examples of what Air Scouts typically do:
1. Aviation Education: Air Scouts learn about the principles of flight, aircraft design, navigation, meteorology, and aviation history. They may attend workshops, seminars, and guest lectures by aviation professionals to gain a deeper understanding of the field.
2. Flight Training: Air Scouts have the opportunity to take flight lessons and experience the thrill of being in the cockpit. They may learn to fly gliders, small aircraft, or even participate in flight simulators to gain hands-on experience.
3. Model Building: Air Scouts often engage in model building, constructing and flying model planes, helicopters, and rockets. This helps them understand aerodynamics, engineering principles, and the intricacies of flight.
4. Air Shows and Exhibitions: Air Scouts frequently visit air shows, aviation museums, and exhibitions to witness various aircraft, meet pilots, and learn about the history and advancements in aviation. These outings provide inspiration and a chance to explore different career paths within the aviation industry.
5. Adventure training and Camping: Air Scouts also partake in traditional scouting activities such as camping, hiking, and orienteering. These activities promote teamwork, leadership, and outdoor skills while fostering a sense of adventure and exploration.
6. Community Service: Air Scouts often engage in community service projects related to aviation. This may involve participating in air search and rescue exercises, assisting with air traffic control simulations, or organising aviation-themed events to raise awareness and promote aviation safety. Air Scouts have the unique opportunity to develop a range of skills including leadership, teamwork, problem-solving, and communication. Additionally, they gain a deep appreciation for aviation and may even pursue careers in the field, such as pilots, engineers, air traffic controllers, or aircraft mechanics.
Overall, Air Scouts provide an exciting and educational platform for young individuals to explore the world of aviation and develop a lifelong passion for flight
Participation rather than meeting set standards is the key approach, and there are a number of Challenges awards and activity badges that Scouts can gain during their time in the section to recognise their achievements. Scouts aim to build and develop young people’s confidence, sense of adventure and outdoor skills, as well as encouraging them to explore their beliefs and attitudes and be creative. It offers them the independence to put these skills into practice at camps and trips away.
Being outdoors is important and half the Programme is given over to taking part in both the traditional Scouting skills, such as camping, survival and cooking as well as the wide range of adventurous activities, anything from kayaking to hiking and bike riding. Air Scouts also take part in activities based on air activities including the chance to fly!
We run an annual week-long camp where the scouts travel further afield to places such as Wales and Cumbria, where the week consists of traditional scouting camping skills such as lighting fires, building hammocks, and using Scouts survival skills learned.
Most Scouts move up from our two Cub Packs, although if you are new to Scouting you can still join us.
We are always looking for parent help on evenings and activities so if you would like to get involved as a helper or even becoming a Leader then please get in touch online or speak to Rory or Steve.
But Where Do We Put Our Badges?
What Have We Got Planned?
Troop Forum- St George
Number parents required:
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http://hawksland.com/2017/03/hawksland-completes-first-phase-middle-east-defence-mro-clients-capability-transfer-programme/ | 2017-12-14T10:16:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948543611.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20171214093947-20171214113947-00408.warc.gz | 0.934349 | 471 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__195105832 | en | Hawksland’s Programme Management team have just completed the first phase in programme planning for the transfer of defence MRO capabilities from multiple air bases and maintenance centres to a brand new purpose built MRO facility at its client facility in the Middle East.
The new MRO facility needs to be able to maintain over 500 military aircraft across 40+ different platforms. Hawksland put together a highly experienced team of Defence MRO, facilities and operational management experts and developed a comprehensive project management proposal convincing its client that Hawksland were the team of choice to be awarded the assignment. After security and ITAR clearance the team embarked on a comprehensive programme of evaluating the current state of existing operations, capabilities and capacities across multiple locations. Auditing each piece of major MRO and back-shop equipment and logging the entire inventory of tools and capabilities requiring transfer the Hawksland team put together an integrated master project plan for the capability transfer. This included development of a logistics transfer plan, new facilities capability plan as well as interfacing with each project stakeholder responsible for each of the new facilities main functions. Hawksland were also requested during this phase to submit a Forward & Depth white paper identifying the MRO needs of the country’s Air Force in various different fleet deployment missions.
In the next phase of work Hawksland are required to assess each air base in further depth, identify the forward load requirement of the organisation during its black-out transfer period and ensure buffer stocks and advanced maintenance requirements are scheduled. In addition, Hawksland will look into ‘leaning-out’ existing MRO value-streams and manage the complete transfer of all capabilities until commissioned and certified at the new facility.
Engaged to Programme Direct the A350 XWB Programme, Hawksland were highly professional and capable in setting up and managing programme in a very complex environment. A joy to work with and will always deliver results and happy customers.Jaap VonkProcurement DirectorFokker Technologies
Highly experienced professionals. Hawksland Associates provide great value in business execution issues. Reporting and presentation capabilities are top classThomas RubbensVice President ProcurementStork B.V.
Hawksland Associates are proven experts in aerospace and defence. They deliver excellent results at great value.Dr Jens FranzeckVice President A400MAirbus Group | aerospace |
http://www.sanfoundry.com/best-reference-books-state-space-methods-flight-vehicles/ | 2017-04-23T17:40:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118740.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00644-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.879636 | 564 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__247971000 | en | There are lots of great material on State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles subject in the internet, buts its always a challenge to figure out a ready list of top books on State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles that one can refer to immediately. Even though online materials are good, but nothing can beat the depth of coverage that a book can offer. Hence, we researched the list of State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles books which are used by students worldwide and came up with top 10 Book Recommendations on State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles subject. These books can be used as a great starting point for anyone studying State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles and can also be used as a ready reference for Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate programs.
Most of these State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles books are also in the best-seller lists in Amazon website. We have added a brief description of these best books and have also included direct links to Amazon site (as affiliate). This allows anyone to directly visit the site and order printed copies of these best books.
Here is the full list of best reference books on State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles.
|1. “Control System Design – An Introduction to State-space Methods” by Friedland B.|
|2. “Linear Control System Analysis and Design: Conventional and Modern” by J.J.D”azzo and C.H. Houpis|
|3. “Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight” by Etkin B|
|4. ” Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module ” by Thomas J. Kelly|
|5. ” Automatic Control of Atmospheric and Space Flight Vehicles: Design and Analysis with MATLAB ” by Ashish Tewari|
|6. ” Advanced Control of Aircraft, Spacecraft and Rockets ” by Ashish Tewari|
|7. ” The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft Design ” by Alan C. Tribble|
|8. ” Radiometric Tracking Techniques for Deep-Space Navigation ” by Catherine L. Thornton and James S. Border|
|9. ” Conceptual Shape Optimization of Entry Vehicles: Applied to Capsules and Winged Fuselage Vehicles (Springer Aerospace Technology) ” by Dominic Dirkx and Erwin Mooij|
|10. ” Methods for Developing Spacecraft Water Expsoure Guidelines ” by Subcommittee on Spacecraft Water Exposure Guidelines and Committee on Toxicology|
If any more book needs to be added to the list of best books on State Space Methods for Flight Vehicles Subject, please let us know.
Sanfoundry Global Education & Learning Series – Best Reference Books! | aerospace |
https://www.altaonline.com/culture/product-reviews/a40118153/inversion-space-delivery-startup/ | 2023-06-03T21:06:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649343.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603201228-20230603231228-00434.warc.gz | 0.952182 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__53056652 | en | Would you believe there’s a startup in California that thinks space is the answer to speeding up delivery times? Inversion Space, cofounded by a 23-year-old college dropout, is, in fact, real. The company’s goal is to launch capsules of stuff (medical supplies, artificial organs, even pizza) into orbit, where they’d remain until needed somewhere on Earth, at which point, the products would descend via parachute, landing within a 10-mile radius of their desired destination. Providing supplies quickly in this way sounds incredibly efficient, but Domino’s pizzas falling from the sky? It seems almost too good to be true. •
This article appears in the Summer 2022 issue of Alta Journal. | aerospace |
https://www.motusimaging.com/post/does-size-matter | 2024-04-16T04:49:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00231.warc.gz | 0.95344 | 707 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__130873006 | en | When it comes to drone technology?
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
We are asked a lot whether the size of your drone matters; if some of the smaller drones available can satisfy clients and produce commercial grade results?
When it comes to answering this, we must take many factors into account, and we are going to look at some of these factors briefly here.
This is one of the factors we all must consider even if our budget is large, it still plays an important part. If you’re just starting out in the drone industry you have think about where most of your work is going to come from, spending the entire budget on the biggest drone might not be the best idea when you could purchase two that could cover a wider variety of work possibilities.
Are you licensed?
In Australia you can fly up to a 2kg drone commercially without needing a remote pilots license, there are quite a few limitations though by going down this route, but many people have made a successful business by choosing this option. If you wanted to fly a bigger drone over 2kg you are going to need a remote pilot’s license and a remote operator’s certificate from CASA. After this, for even bigger drones, you will need to have your license endorsed much like you do for a vehicle or an aircraft.
What work are you planning on doing?
This should be considered from the get-go. If you are planning on doing large survey works then a larger drone should be considered as not only does it save you time but the level of detail that some of the larger payloads attached can give, are far superior to the smaller drones.
Quite the interesting topic, clients may not know as much as you when it comes to drones and drone technologies, when you arrive on site to perform your first job and out comes the Mavic platform some clients may be taken aback, not realising which version with what camera you may have. In this instance size can matter!
As you would expect a smaller drone platform is not going to be as stable or even flyable in stronger winds, so picking the right drone for the conditions is paramount.
Location location location
Some locations will require permits to operate and the only way to obtain these permits is with the correct licensing and endorsements as mentioned earlier in this post, in this instance the size of your drone is unimportant. Also, a point worth noting is that a larger drone always attracts a lot more attention from the public, this can be good but can also have a negative effect on your operations.
We have just touched on six topics briefly when it comes to the question of “does size matter?”, there are other topics, which we will return to, however in summary:
When it comes to drone size it is primarily a case of selecting the right tool for the job. For instance, if you have a large inspection to complete best to take a drone capable of completing the inspection to the highest quality possible, in the fastest time, taking the location weather and your skill level into account.
Just remember drones are tools not toys! This must be considered when planning and carrying out jobs.
If you’re interested in the drone industry and what this incredible technology can do, check out this paper we have written on drone inspections versus rope access inspections | aerospace |
https://joluu.com/zimbabwe/nasa-will-send-its-roaming-destiny-to-a-martian-delta-to-look-for-signs-of-old-life/ | 2022-05-22T23:47:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662550298.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220522220714-20220523010714-00699.warc.gz | 0.961104 | 1,117 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__203001437 | en | NASA scientists chose to plan their next explorer on Mars in 2020 – on the Red Planet – into an area that could be an old river delta. The spacecraft will aim to touch the Jezero Crater, a habitable space billions of years ago. NASA drew special attention to investigate this point; One day, samples collected by rover can be returned to the World for study.
This new rover is the last of NASA's 2012 debut in Mars. This robot explores an area known as the Gale Crater in Mars, which was a wetting point in the past much more than it has been today. I've learned a lot about a little slice of Mars in the last six years of curiosity. He found organic matter in the Mars soil and detected methane – a gas that lived here in the world. However, with the new Mars 2020 explorer, NASA is finally hoping to answer a long burning question: did biological life really survive on the surface of Mars?
To solve this, Mars 2020 was designed to be the first step of what is known as the Mars example return mission. In the Jezero Crater, the robot will reveal evidence of past life on Mars and reveal rock samples that can store these materials on surface caches. Later, at an unknown date, NASA will launch a second mission to Red Planet to gather samples of Mars 2020 and bring them back to Earth. Thus, we can examine these Mars rocks in our own advanced laboratories to understand what the old Mars looks like.
A Mars example return mission is currently one of the top priorities of the planet science community. Also, the withdrawal is an incredibly difficult task. To get samples from Mars, NASA will need a set of sophisticated technologies, including a rocket that can stand on the surface of the Red Planet. In this way, the samples will be able to escape the gravity of Mars and have enough energy to travel back to our planet in space.
Until now, NASA has no plans to figure out how to make Mars 2020 samples from Mars, but the space agency hopes to launch this follow-up mission in the late 2020s, and this is going back to Earth a little earlier. 2030 & # 39; s in. "I don't have any updates today," said Thomas Zurbuchen, managing director of NASA's Science Mission. ”Business continues.“
But first, Mars 2020 will choose the most compelling examples for further research on the roaming. To find the perfect place for this, NASA experts and other planetary scientists met in a series of four workshops over the past four years. They managed to narrow the landing zone by more than 60 possible options. The Jezero Crater was one of the four finalists in the northern hemisphere of the planet. And ultimately because of the potential for inclusion of ancient biosignates – because of the signs of life long – won.
Perhaps the most attractive aspect of the Jezero Crater was the fact that it once housed the flowing waters. An asteroid impact may have carved out the site and created a crater of 28 miles wide and 1,600 feet deep. Scientists believe that the crater was filled with water 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago. There is a delta within the crater, a delta that tells the researchers that water flows into the lake, precipitates and other materials are precipitated along the way. As the lakes are quite habitable in the world, Jezero makes the Crater an attractive option. And the flowing water also increases the likelihood that the microbes or other life will be transported to the area and trapped. Ken Farley, a project expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2020, said, "Delta has been stored for billions of years since the existence of this lake, and is a good place for proof of life later protected." . Press conference.
Jezero Crater is also home to interesting and diverse rocks that make it a great place to explore from a geological point of view. The most exciting one is thought to have at least five different rock types known as carbonate. This type of rock consists of interactions between water, rocks and gases in atmospheres such as carbon dioxide. Carbonates could hold clues as to what the ancient Mars atmosphere was billions of years ago. And it can also be another place where microbes develop – separate from the lake.
While Jezero Crater has some great features for research, the area is not the best place to descend a spacecraft. There are many rocks and rocks, cliffs and depressions in the area, which will be a challenge for a vehicle that needs to be touched gently. The Mars 2020 mobile vehicle, however, includes a mechanism such as a rope known as a sky-crane, which will be equipped with a sophisticated landing routine such as its predecessor, and will slowly lower the ground into the vehicle. Engineers have also been able to refine their landing systems in recent years, so that the spacecraft can avoid fluctuating areas, according to NASA.
There are too many improvements to be made to prepare the Mars 2020 navigator for the launch. In July of 2020, there was a landing in 2020 with a robot to move on top of an Atlas V rocket. Meanwhile, NASA focuses on landing. another the spacecraft on Mars this week – a robot called InSight that will sit on the surface of the Red Planet and explore the world's interior. InSight has traveled to Mars since its launch in May and is scheduled to go ashore on Monday (November 26th). | aerospace |
http://hnn.historynewsnetwork.org/article/151794 | 2020-06-01T13:34:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347417746.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200601113849-20200601143849-00297.warc.gz | 0.9272 | 243 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__196086229 | en | Forgotten aviation pioneer’s aircraft to take to the air once moreBreaking News
tags: Telegraph (UK), Wales, Wright Brothers, aviation, flight
If it had not been for a crushingly bad stroke of luck, Christopher Carlyon would likely be remembered as one of aviation’s greatest pioneers.
As it was, the colliery worker from south Wales became one of history’s nearly men when a storm smashed his experimental aircraft before its first major flight, robbing him of a place in the record books.
More than 100 years on though, his biplane is being built from scratch finally to take to the skies – or at least 10ft off the ground – and ensure Carlyon gets the recognition he deserves....
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http://jdasolutions.aero/blog/george-romanski/ | 2021-10-16T02:30:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323583408.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016013436-20211016043436-00342.warc.gz | 0.942565 | 771 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__231030319 | en | FAA Chief Scientific & Technical Advisor (CSTA) for Aircraft Computer Software
While the Congressional critics on the Hill and the privatization advocates are harping on the FAA’s inability to manage the complexities of its technology missions, it would be reasonable to expect that its communications would be quick to announce when new impressive talent has joined the team. It seems odd that the first news of such a human talent acquisition comes from a company lamenting the loss of its founder.
On August 29, Verocel, Inc. of Westford MA issued a press release that that Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer George Romanski will be leaving the company effective September 15, 2017 to assume the prestigious and safety critical role of Federal Aviation Administration as Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor (CSTA) for Aircraft Computer Software. With his experience with his company, Romanski will be on top of industry’s technology developments, and identify techniques, standards, and research results that the FAA will apply in certificating aircraft systems which provide a high-level of assurance of human-rated software functioning.
CSTA is an executive level position established by FAA Order 8000.80A, a program which is intended to “build and maintain a cadre of specialized technical experts of worldwide reputation who:
- are at the forefront of scientific and technological activities related to FAA research and development efforts;
- influence the research agendas of U.S. and foreign aviation industries, military, academia, and other research institutions;
- interact with and assist other U.S. Government agencies and foreign civil aviation authorities in technology-related issues.”
The new CSTA has been involved in software development for the past 45 years. His work has focused on compilers, cross compilers, run-time systems, and tools for embedded real-time applications. Since 1992, he has concentrated on software for safety critical applications and safety critical verification. Romanski at the FAA will bring experience in providing complete verification support, gap analysis, and support to augment existing materials, as well as expertise in independent testing services.
As the founder of his company, he insisted that he and his team stayed at the forefront of verification issues by chairing and belonging to a number of committees and standards bodies. He felt that this activity helped Verocel influence the constantly-evolving safety standards. Again, relevant to his CSTA future that work made him aware of proposed changes even before they are official.
Romanski’s participation in the following lined him up for the FAA’s new certification approach:
SC-205 (RTCA) – Software Considerations (DO-178C/DO-278A/DO-248C/DO-178C Supplements)
SC-190 (RTCA)– Application Guidelines for RTCA DO-178B/ED-12B (Software)
UCSWG (OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE)- Unmanned air systems, Control Segment, Working Group. Vice Chair – Safety and Security Certification Sub Group
FACE – Future Airborne Capability Environment
Streamlined Certification Processes working group
The FAA has established a new strategy for certification and Dorenda Baker has made it clear that collaboration with industry standard organizations, in particular ASTM and RTCA, will be essential to that initiative. Mr. Romanski’s resume makes him a perfect occupant of the CSTA for Aircraft Computer Software.
The FAA communications organization should adopt the philosophy espoused by the great PR man of the Gashouse Gang, Jerome Herman Dean (a/k/a Dizzy Dean, HOF 1953) when he said:
It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.
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http://www.avolon.aero/index.php | 2014-04-18T03:07:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609532480.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005212-00499-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.827998 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__91847054 | en | The Avolon team has both breadth and depth of expertise, with a combined experience of over 300 years trading in the aircraft leasing sector. The team has an extensive network of senior industry relationships with airlines, manufacturers, investors and aviation banks worldwide.
15 Apr, 2014Avolon delivers a Boeing 737-800 NG to Lion Air
11 Apr, 2014Avolon issues 2014 Q1 Trading Update
07 Apr, 2014Avolon wins Finance Dublin ‘Debt Capital Markets’ Deal of the Year Award 2014
26 Mar, 2014Avolon hosts first Technical Webinar to discuss Managing the Maintenance of Aircraft on Operating Leases | aerospace |
https://new.twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/88?autostart=false | 2024-02-25T01:35:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474573.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225003942-20240225033942-00634.warc.gz | 0.887801 | 477 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__204097790 | en | A lot of cool space stuff has occurred since the dawn of the Space Age, and a lot of it lives overhead right now. This week, Rod and Tariq run through their favorite space missions and top moments in the exploration of the final frontier. As usual, it may not be quite what you expect... but we'll be sure to toss in an extra Bad Space Joke to keep you satisfied. Join us!
- SpaceX’s Starship rocket ready for launch attempt on November 19 after repairs. The world’s largest rocket could finally reach orbit after delays.
- Chinese rocket stage likely caused mysterious Moon crater in 2022, study finds. The lunar impact was traced back to a Long March 3C rocket body.
- ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket on track for inaugural launch in December, could land lunar probe on Moon. The new rocket’s first mission will carry a commercial moon lander.
Main Topic: Thanksgiving Special - What We’re Grateful For in Space
- Rod recalls being inspired as a child by 1950s visions of space exploration in magazines by Wernher von Braun.
- Tariq shares how going to space camp multiple times as a teen sparked his interest.
- Rod vividly recounts watching the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission on Christmas 1968.
- Tariq talks about space shuttle mission STS-126 coinciding with his daughter’s birth.
- Rod details the 1970s Skylab missions and astronauts fixing the damaged station.
- Tariq expresses gratitude for astronaut Mike Massimino’s Hubble repair work and public outreach.
- Rod reminisces about witnessing the first Viking Mars lander images in 1976.
- Tariq highlights Cassini’s Huygens probe revealing mysteries of Saturn’s moon Titan.
- Rod emotionally recounts being present for Cassini’s final plunge into Saturn in 2017.
- The hosts share favorite comments from listeners about the space events they are most grateful for, from the Apollo coverage on network TV to the recent Artemis and Webb missions.
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space.
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https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/general-discussion-172/topic/general-news-nov-22-24377/ | 2024-02-22T05:06:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00496.warc.gz | 0.947063 | 846 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__175752038 | en | Nov 22, 18 / Sag 18, 02 16:12 UTC
General News: Nov 22 ¶
A top Washington defence think-tank has calculated how much it should roughly cost for the cheapest way for U.S. President Donald Trump to boost American space combat options by 2020, as promised.
Trump would like the "Space Force" to become the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, committed to making sure Americans have military capabilities to fight wars in outer space.
However, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) projected this week that the five-year cost would come to an extra $1.5 billion to $2.7 billion in addition to the Department of Defense's present spending.
The cost is based on whether the government chooses to incorporate a Space Corps division into the Air Force, creates a separate but lean Space Force "lite" or sets up a more expansive Space Force "heavy."
In all three cases, the price seems feasible to Todd Harrison, director of defence budget analysis at CSIS.
In other news, the 404-day clock to connect, verify, and test the first integrated Orion spacecraft for its flight to the Moon began earlier this month after the European Service Module (ESM) arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. All of the necessary Orion hardware for Exploration Mission-1 is in the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building at KSC for the first time, where prime contractor Lockheed Martin will complete the assembly.
No time was wasted by technicians in unpacking the ESM and beginning preparations to mate the U.S.-built Crew Module Adapter (CMA) to the top of the module straight away.
The completion of assembly and checkout of the first integrated Orion is on the schedule. This is a series of tests of the new vehicle in Ohio, and final work back at KSC to hand it over to Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) for launch processing.
ESM Flight Model-1 (FM-1) arrived at KSC onboard an Antonov An-124 aircraft inside a transportation container, with the jumbo jet touching down at the Shuttle Landing Facility on November 6th.
Furthermore, a new project led by the ESA is looking into the ways that 3-D printing could be used to craft and run a habitat on the moon, cutting the dependency on Earth for logistics. For example, almost everything such as building materials, solar panels, equipment, tools, clothes, and even nutrients and ingredients for food could be 3-D printed – as detailed in a new video.
Space agencies around the globe are looking into the idea of a lunar base as the next step for human space exploration. 3-D printing could be the technology that makes it happen.
The goal would be to live off the land as much as possible, by printing as many structures, items and spares out of lunar regolith as they could, or by using and reusing materials brought for the mission, rather than continue to depend on the long, expensive supply line from Earth.
Finally, Jan. 7 is now the date for the launch of the first commercial crew test flight, an uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that will begin a series of high-stakes missions over the next year, according to NASA.
In a statement on Nov 21, NASA explained that the Falcon 9 launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a mission designated Demo-1 is slated for Jan. 7 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, the former Apollo and shuttle pad that SpaceX has renovated to support launches of its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy vehicles, particularly, crewed Falcon 9 missions.
During that mission, the Crew Dragon spacecraft, also called Dragon 2, will fly a mission to the International Space Station as a way to test the systems of the vehicle. It will be the first orbital flight for the vehicle, and will not hold any passengers.
Do you think an American Space force is necessary? Why or why not? Do you think the American public would want the government to spend their money on that?
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http://www.wkbw.com/news/New-Mission-for-Base-184085991.html?vid=a | 2014-10-24T11:30:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119645866.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030045-00193-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.955025 | 242 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__134154734 | en | NIAGARA FALLS, NY (WKBW) - The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station will be getting a new mission involving Drones. They are unmanned planes that are much cheaper than other military aircraft. They are run by remote control.
This comes after the U.S. Senate and House Joint Committee approved a bill to allow the base to fly Drones. The base will be the remote control center, responsible for flying the planes in battle. The Drones require no manpower so it makes it safe for flight crews.
Congressman Brian Higgins commented on the new mission back in November.
"There are a number of facilities across the nation that the flying Drone project can got to but they are going to be in Niagara Falls because we prepared for this transition," Higgins said.
Without a new mission, the Niagara Falls Air Guard was at risk of being eliminated due to Defense Department cutbacks. The bill will also save some of the cargo planes that fly out of Niagara Falls but it is unclear how many at this time.
This bill will is likely to pass both the House and Senate. It should be on the President's desk for approval by the end of the week. | aerospace |
http://www.eos.unh.edu/news/indiv_news.shtml?NEWS_ID=901 | 2018-11-19T21:32:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039746112.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20181119212731-20181119233854-00018.warc.gz | 0.918871 | 949 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__168497402 | en | Contact: Stephen Knipstein |
Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
April 20, 2007
DURHAM, N.H.-- The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, in cooperation with NASA and with participation from mission scientists at the University of New Hampshire, will provide New Hampshire residents with their first opportunity to see high definition, three-dimensional images of the Sun. NASA is making the first images available at 11 AM, on Monday, April 23rd, and the Planetarium will host a 3-D viewing event.
The images will be shown on the Planetarium's, high definition, plasma screen and visitors will be given 3-D glasses, postcards, and posters. Also in the exhibit hall at 11 AM, Planetarium visitors will be able to watch the live NASA press conference unveiling the images.
NASA's twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft give scientists their first images of the Sun in three dimensions. The new view will improve space weather forecasting and greatly aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics.
Research associate professor Antoinette "Toni" Galvin of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) and the Department of Physics is chief scientist for the UNH-built instrument.
"The STEREO mission is providing remarkable images and measurements that will help us understand the connection between eruptive events on the Sun and subsequent space weather at Earth," Galvin says.
Previous Sun imager missions provided only flat, two-dimensional views of coronal mass ejections or CMEs exploding from the Sun, and sampled only over a narrow "pie slice" of particles limited by the small angle of separation between spacecraft orbiting near the Earth.
Says Galvin, "The STEREO mission, with a full complement of both remote imagers and instruments making measurements of the solar wind itself, and with the two observatories drifting apart from the Earth and from each other, is providing us a new global perspective. It is a very exciting time not only for space physicists, but also for the general public. Space weather is everybody's business."
Participating in Monday's event will be two of the mission's co-investigators from the UNH Space Science Center. Research scientist Mark Popecki and research associate professor Charles Farrugia will be on hand to discuss the mission, the SSC role, and to answer questions.
Popecki is an expert on STEREO Mission operations and data for the Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) instrument on board the STEREO spacecraft. Designed and built at EOS, the complex instrument samples the solar wind and suprathermal particles as they stream away from the Sun at a speed of millions of miles per hour. Farrugia is an expert on interplanetary coronal mass ejections or ICMEs, which are what the coronal mass ejections become once they leave the Sun, and has also studied how ICMEs interact with earth's magnetic field to create "space weather."
STEREO is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program. This two-year mission will provide a unique and revolutionary view of the Sun-Earth System. The two nearly identical observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - will trace the flow of energy and matter from the Sun to Earth as well as reveal the 3-D structure of CMEs and help us understand why they happen.
The STEREO spacecraft were launched on October 25, 2006, and on January 21 completed a series of complex maneuvers, including flying by the moon, to position the spacecraft in their mission orbits. The two observatories are orbiting the sun and will further separate from each other by approximately 45 degrees per year. Just as the slight offset between your eyes provides you with depth perception, this separation of the spacecraft allows them to take 3-D images and particle measurements of the sun.
Located in Concord, NH, the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium is New Hampshire's official memorial to Christa McAuliffe. Since its opening in 1990, the Planetarium has been fulfilling its mission to educate, excite and entertain learners of all ages in the sciences and humanities by actively engaging them in the exploration of astronomy and space science. For more information, contact the Planetarium at 603-271-STAR or visit the website at www.starhop.com.
For more information on the STEREO mission go to: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/newsroom.shtml | aerospace |
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This includes full high definition (HD) creative video and photography for marketing or broadcast great for content producers or estate agents. Also technical work can be undertaken for building, structure and landscape surveys (2D or 3D) great for surveyors, architects, roofing contractors, and the general building community. In the past, where only expensive scaffolding or inconvenient cherry pickers could get these pictures now, using drone technology, Overdrones can quickly get the images you need. In addition Overdrones, with its experience and thorough flight planning procedures, is able to safely operate in challenging environments such as highly regulated aviation airspace, sensitive heritage sites, urban or city environments - and can cope with variable weather conditions.
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https://trendsline.info/nasa-orion-eft-1-chp/ | 2021-01-23T04:27:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703533863.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210123032629-20210123062629-00001.warc.gz | 0.960368 | 606 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__18737879 | en | The Orion crew module (CM) is a reusable transportation capsule that provides a habitat for the crew, provides storage for consumables and research instruments, and contains the docking port for crew transfers. The crew module is the only part of the Orion that returns to Earth after each mission and is a 57. 5° truncated cone shape with a blunt spherical aft end, 5. 02 meters (16 ft 6 in) in diameter and 3. 3 meters (10 ft 10 in) in length, with a mass of about 8. 5 metric tons (19,000 lb). It was manufactured by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It will have 50% more volume than the Apollo capsule and will carry four to six astronauts. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for the Orion crew module. Avcoat, which is composed of silica fibers with a resin in a honeycomb made of fiberglass and phenolic resin, was formerly used on the Apollo missions and on the Space Shuttle orbiter for early flights.
The existence of such powerful roaring winds kicking up violent and powerful dust storms suggests that the underlying sand can be set in motion, too, and that the giant dunes covering Titan's equatorial regions are still active and continually changing. Discovered on March 31, 2005, by a team of planetary scientists led by Dr. Michael E. Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Makemake was initially dubbed 2005 FY 9, when Dr. Brown and his colleagues, announced its discovery on July 29, 2005. The team of astronomers had used Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego to make their discovery of this icy dwarf planet, that was later given the minor-planet number of 136472. Makemake was classified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in July 2008. Dr. Brown's team of astronomers had originally planned to delay announcing their discoveries of the bright, icy denizens of the Kuiper Belt--Makemake and its sister world Eris--until additional calculations and observations were complete. However, they went on to announce them both on July 29, 2005, when the discovery of Haumea--another large icy denizen of the outer limits of our Solar System that they had been watching--was announced amidst considerable controversy on July 27, 2005, by a different team of planetary scientists from Spain. Despite this oddball moon's many exotic attributes, it actually sports one of the most Earth-like surfaces in our Solar System. Titan may also experience volcanic activity, but its volcanoes would erupt with different ingredients than the molten-rock lava that shoots out from the volcanoes of Earth. In dramatic contrast to what occurs on our own planet, Titan's volcanoes erupt icy water "lava" (cryovolcanism). Titan's entire alien surface has been sculpted by gushing methane and ethane, which carves river channels, and fills its enormous great lakes with liquid natural gas. | aerospace |
https://maia.my/2021/11/24/boeing-ba-secures-deal-worth-9b-for-737-max-airplanes/ | 2023-10-04T22:31:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511424.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004220037-20231005010037-00864.warc.gz | 0.921286 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__65430814 | en | The Boeing Company BA recently clinched an order for 72 737-800BCF airplanes from Akasa Air, a brand of SNV Aviation, at the Dubai Airshow. Valued at nearly $9 billion, the deal provides an opportunity to Boeing to expand its presence in India, one of the fastest growing aviation markets.
The order comprises two variants from Boeing’s 737 Max family of aircrafts, the 737-8 and the high-capacity 737-8-200. This marks Akasa Air’s first airplane order in a bid to operate its new airline services in India. The new fleet of 737 is anticipated to take flight from summer 2022. Read more | aerospace |
https://abc.nl/book-details/picturing-the-space-shuttle/@9781683402053 | 2024-03-01T11:38:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475238.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301093751-20240301123751-00277.warc.gz | 0.839685 | 130 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__97290636 | en | Login to your ABC account
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https://kingmanairfest.com/faqs | 2022-10-03T19:05:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337428.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003164901-20221003194901-00162.warc.gz | 0.948579 | 92 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__285036751 | en | The AirFest is a fly-in and open house, not a formal air show. The main difference is that the airport will remain open for normal flight operations throughout the day.
We will not have any aerobatic exhibitions during the event.
There will be plenty of flying including a variety of vintage and warbird aircraft. The RedStar Pilots formation clinic will also be in progress and flights of four or more aircraft will be conducting multiple missions. | aerospace |
https://star-planete.net/how-much-money-goes-into-space-exploration/ | 2024-04-18T01:58:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817184.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417235906-20240418025906-00739.warc.gz | 0.960287 | 1,963 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__122103244 | en | For the past 50 years, Americans have poured money into space exploration in order to win the Cold War and prove that America can compete with its rivals. The result has been many tangible and intangible benefits, including the development of technologies that have benefited society in countless ways.
One of the most significant is the creation of a “space industrial economy.” That economy is now beginning to blossom and will be generating trillions in wealth in decades to come. NASA’s efforts to develop technology for a space-based economy are a major part of the agency’s budget.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA is the federal government agency responsible for space exploration and aeronautics research. The agency has a diverse workforce of civil servants, contractors, academia, and international and commercial partners who work together to explore, discover, and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.
While Americans generally view NASA with positive eyes, many are concerned about the agency’s spending. Two-in-ten believe the nation spends too little on space exploration, and three-in-ten think it is adequate.
Those concerns can be partially addressed by making sure the money NASA spends on space exploration is spent wisely. For one, research conducted in space often helps improve the health of those on Earth. It is also used to develop technologies that could lead to new jobs and businesses, as well as a stronger economy.
For example, NASA invented the kidney dialysis machine, which has since become a popular medical device. It has also helped develop CAT scanners, which have since led to a number of other technologies and products that help people live better lives on Earth.
In addition, NASA ensures that inventions in space are not lost by having them turn into practical uses on the ground – these are known as spinoffs. These spinoffs help detect breast cancer, protect firefighters, nourish newborns, and much more.
It is estimated that about 2,000 of these NASA spinoffs have created or improved a product or service, resulting in more than a trillion dollars in economic output in 2018. This is just one of the ways that space exploration helps strengthen our country’s economy.
Another reason why NASA needs to increase its space exploration budget is that it is essential for the future of our planet. Climate change is causing severe problems on Earth, and we need to find solutions.
The agency has recently started investing heavily in the development of a space tug to help deorbit the International Space Station, as well as a lunar-orbiting outpost called Gateway. In addition, it has invested in a Mars sample return project to send pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth. These missions are crucial to understanding how Earth and the Solar System came to be.
European Space Agency (ESA)
The European Space Agency (ESA) aims to fund space exploration, rocket launches and Europe’s participation in planetary research. It is a budget-based agency, and the money it receives is the sum of contributions from its member states.
The amount of money that the ESA receives is not a fixed figure; it varies over time and depends on the economy. The agency’s budget has two main categories:’mandatory’ programmes, which all member states contribute to on a scale based on their GNP; and ‘optional’ programmes, which some members choose not to participate in.
For example, ESA has a’mandatory’ programme for Earth observation and research, whereas its ‘optional’ programmes are based on what the Member States decide to finance, such as satellite navigation or the International Space Station.
In the case of Earth observation, ESA’s mandatory programme includes missions such as Vigil to monitor solar activity; Hera, which will perform a detailed post-impact survey of the Dimorphos asteroid; and the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit. The ‘optional’ programmes include telecommunications, the International Space Station and microgravity research.
While ESA has never developed its own manned spacecraft, it pays for seats on the American and Russian craft, and it plans to send a crewed mission to Mars as soon as possible. It is also developing a “large logistics lander” that will be able to carry 1.9 tons (1.7 metric tonnes) of cargo to the moon’s surface and a service module that will provide propulsion, navigation and life-support for NASA’s Orion space capsule.
With a new budget in place, the ESA is set to strengthen its Ariane 6 and Vega-C launchers; complete the development of a reusable Space Rider that can stay in low Earth orbit for longer than two months before being sent back to the ground; and develop a green hydrogen system that will fuel the launchers at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana with the goal of reducing carbon emissions from the production process. The agency will also continue its work on a European secure connectivity satellite constellation called Iris that will be able to provide always-on-everywhere connectivity to all of Europe by 2027.
Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos)
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, is a major player in the space industry. It has operated the Soviet-era Mir space station and is involved in the International Space Station (ISS) project. The agency also provides launch services for other nations and is a significant developer of satellites, especially Earth-observing ones.
The Russian government is putting a lot of money into space exploration, including launching astronomy and Earth observation satellites. The agency plans to send up a series of satellites to survey the planet’s oceans and study solar winds. It has also set up a new lunar research center and signed several agreements with China to collaborate on future lunar missions.
However, a recent budget cut has forced Roscosmos to rethink its long-term plan. Its 10-year strategy, known as the Federal Space Program or FKP-2025, was originally aimed to spend 3.4 trillion rubles ($47 billion) on space projects.
But as the economic crisis hit Russia, a broader readjustment of government spending across all sectors shaved the proposed budget by 41 percent to 2 trillion rubles, and a few long-term projects were eliminated altogether. As a result, the state-run space corporation will only get 1.4 trillion rubles to spend on space programs through 2021, Komarov said.
This is a very big cut for a company that has been struggling with economic problems and Western sanctions since the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The agency is also dealing with a number of issues related to its Vostochny cosmodrome, which opened in 2016 and is expected to replace the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Despite these problems, the Russian space agency has remained committed to the ISS and manned space flight. It has also been involved in a variety of other space programs, such as commercial satellite launches and space tourism.
The agency has a history of making changes to its mission to keep it from becoming obsolete and to ensure that it stays on track for its goals. It is currently developing a new generation of Soyuz spacecraft, which will enable it to carry cosmonauts to the moon and other destinations in the future. Eventually, Roscosmos hopes to develop a Mars-bound vehicle, as well.
Private Space Companies
Private space companies are private companies that build and launch satellites, resupply the International Space Station, and provide space tourism services. Over the last decade, these companies have grown in size and influence, eroding governments’ long-held monopoly on space exploration.
Many of these companies are privately funded and owned by individuals, but some are backed by large corporations. Some of these corporations have been in business for years, while others were founded in the past decade.
The private sector is currently in an active competition to become the dominant force in the commercial space industry. This trend is fueled by new technologies and lower costs, which make it possible for anyone with the money to fly into orbit.
These companies are also looking to build stations in orbit that will house humans and their supplies. They’re primarily interested in doing this for NASA, but they also believe that there will be strong demand from other countries with space ambitions for their own private stations.
For example, China’s civil space program has been growing at an incredible rate this decade. The country now has 78 commercial space companies operating under a policy directive issued in 2014. These companies are developing satellite manufacturing, launching vehicles, and supplying the space station.
One company specializes in the development of space-for-space technology and is working on a spacecraft that can autonomously dock with the ISS. This would help the space agency cut down on its expenses and allow it to focus on other missions.
Other private companies are building small satellites that can be used by researchers and universities. They’re also building smaller rockets that are less expensive to operate than the larger ones that are used by governments.
These smaller rockets can carry a smaller amount of cargo than the larger ones, which allows them to be launched more frequently and at lower cost. These are a great option for smaller companies who want to send satellites into space.
As the cost of flying into orbit falls, more people are becoming interested in it. This has led to a growing number of space companies offering to take people into orbit on suborbital flights. These companies, such as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, have already sold dozens of tickets for their suborbital spacecraft. | aerospace |
https://www.alreporter.com/2018/07/27/committee-passes-brooks-amendment/ | 2022-01-18T13:15:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300849.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118122602-20220118152602-00700.warc.gz | 0.929458 | 836 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__24613841 | en | Tuesday, Congressman Mo Brooks’, R-Huntsville, bipartisan amendment was approved by a committee.
The amendment passed a substitute to S. 141, the Space Weather Research and Forecasting Act by the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee in a voice vote.
Rep. Brooks partnered with Congressman Ed Perlmutter, D-Colorado, to offer this amendment, which replaces and Brooks says, “improves” the text of the Senate passed Space Weather Research and Forecasting Act.
Congressman Brooks said, “Thank you Mr. Chairman for bringing this legislation and the Perlmutter-Brooks amendment in the nature of a substitute up for committee consideration today. Space weather is an important issue because the consequences of a severe space weather event can be far-reaching and disastrous. The Perlmutter-Brooks amendment helps to establish a formal space weather observation and forecasting architecture that, hopefully, will help mitigate the harmful consequences of space weather to life and property on Earth and in space.”
“Space weather is a collection of physical processes, beginning at the Sun with solar winds and ultimately affecting human activities on Earth and in space,” Rep. Brooks said. “Solar winds and their interaction with Earth’s atmosphere are not as understood as they should be. Fortunately, numerous people and organizations are changing this. Scientists and engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, in my district, have been at the forefront of this vital research for many years. Under the Perlmutter-Brooks amendment, their research will not only continue, but improve so as to help advance the nation’s space weather knowledge to where it needs to be.”
Brooks thanked Rep. Perlmutter, for his leadership on space weather and his partnership on this amendment.
The legislation designates the National Space Council and a new National Committee for Space Weather Observation and Forecasting with space weather research and forecasting responsibilities along with the academic community and the commercial sector.
“Space weather events can cause great damage to our infrastructure and our economy,” said Perlmutter. “Colorado’s research community and federal laboratories stand ready to enhance our understanding of space weather events and improve our forecasting abilities. This legislation will better coordinate federal research investments with our operational forecasters who provide warnings to those impacted by weather events and ensure our academic and commercial partners are working hand in hand to improve space weather forecasting.”
The legislation requires that the National Space Council establish national priorities for space weather within six months of enactment. It also requires the newly created National Committee for Space Weather Observation and Forecasting to develop a National Space Weather Plan within nine months of enactment to implement those national priorities and delineate appropriate roles among the federal agencies involved in space weather. The Office of Science and Technology Policy will be required to develop a National Space Weather Research Roadmap within one year of enactment to plan federal space weather research. Rep. Perlmutter’s office says that together these three tasks will encourage more collaboration between federal agencies, the academic community, and the commercial sector and build upon the National Space Weather Strategy and National Space Weather Action Plan released in 2015. The legislation also creates a pilot program for the purchase and validation of commercial sector space weather data to determine the ability of forecasters to incorporate this data into their models and forecasts. The bill encourages the sharing of information between the research community and operational forecasters to improve new technologies, models and forecasts.
“Given the growing national importance and reliance on technology, it is critical we expand our scientific understanding of the interactions between the sun and Earth so we can improve forecasting and mitigate the effects of space weather events,” said Congressman Perlmutter.
Lloyds of London estimates that a worst-case scenario space weather event could cost up to $2.6 trillion and impact as many as 40 million people by causing outages at electric utilities, disrupting GPS and communication networks and forcing airlines to reroute air traffic.
Congressman Mo Brooks represents Huntsville, which is the home of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. | aerospace |
https://strategicdefenceintelligence.blog/2017/03/27/northrops-bacn-completes-10000-combat-missions-with-usaf/ | 2018-01-23T21:32:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084892699.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123211127-20180123231127-00529.warc.gz | 0.901097 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__35060434 | en | Northrop Grumman’s battlefield airborne communications node (BACN) has successfully completed 10,000 combat missions with the US Air Force (USAF).
The high-altitude, airborne gateway has been designed to translate and distribute voice communications, video, imagery and other battle space information from numerous sources.
BACN uses a suite of computers and radio systems to bridge and extend communications among disparate users and different data link networks.
Combined with four E-11A manned systems and three Northrop Grumman EQ-4B Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems, the BACN has supported missions in Southwest Asia.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems communications business vice-president Jeannie Hilger said: “This is a significant milestone as the BACN system continues to demonstrate it is absolutely indispensable to our war fighters in the execution of their missions.
“Airborne Gateways greatly increase situational awareness and command and control, capabilities that are equally critical for joint and coalition operations.”
The BACN facilitates better command and control coordination between soldiers and commanders. It provides persistent connectivity to execute a number of missions, including airdrops and overall air operations.
Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for developing, deploying, operating and sustaining BACN in support of US Central Command.
The company also maintains the BACN E-11A aircraft platforms. | aerospace |
http://sarahwarrenband.com/zeroavia-complete-first-high-power-ground-tests-of-new-19-seat-zero-emission-aviation-powertrain/ | 2022-01-28T22:15:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320306346.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128212503-20220129002503-00101.warc.gz | 0.930807 | 408 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__51896288 | en | ZeroAvia has completed the first high-power ground tests of their new 19 seat, zero-emission aviation powertrain system in California. This is a significant milestone for ZeroAvia as they continue to develop this revolutionary aircraft engine that will allow planes to fly without producing any emissions. The new 19 seat powertrain system is a key part of their plan to advance the development and commercialization of their low-carbon aviation technologies. This ground test enabled ZeroAvia’s flight-intent 600kW powertrain to demonstrate its capability to provide high power, long life cycle, and low emissions.
The test also allowed ZeroAvia to verify the safety and stability of the new engine under critical start and stop conditions. ZeroAvia believes that for the aircraft industry to succeed in meeting emission targets, planes will need much shorter flight times and higher frequency operations with large but economical capacity aircraft. ZeroAvia plans on achieving this by creating a new aviation powertrain system that will enable the use of clean electric energy in aviation. The test was performed on a replica UAV powertrain system without its core gas generator. The purpose of this first ground test was to show that ZeroAvia’s 19 seat aviation powertrain can provide high-power, long life cycle, and low emissions.
Additional tests will now follow as they continue to validate their new propulsion system. ZeroAvia’s propulsion powertrain is a critical component in their plan to develop and commercialize ultra-clean, zero-emission aircraft and electric drones. The system includes an innovative gas generator, an advanced energy storage system, and power electronics that will allow planes to fly without producing any emissions. This was a significant milestone in ZeroAvia’s development of the world’s first fully-electric 19 seat aviation powertrain, and they will now use this experience to move onto the next phase, starting with additional high-power testing and then ultimately transitioning to flight testing of a full-scale 19 seat powertrain system. | aerospace |
http://seekingalpha.com/news/1491651 | 2015-07-06T20:00:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098808.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00306-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.932874 | 255 | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-27__0__59724634 | en | - Boeing (BA) machinists approve a labor contract that gives up some pension benefits in order to secure assembly of the new 777X airplane for the Seattle area, solidifying the company's presence in the region.
- Had the workers rejected the offer, Boeing would have considered making the successor to the 777 widebody jet elsewhere, and had received offers from 22 states interested in hosting the new factory; instead, the company says "the future of Boeing in the Puget Sound region has never looked brighter."
- The vote approving the eight-year contract was 51%-49%.
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https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/argentina-urges-brazil-to-promote-south-american-space-agency/ | 2021-04-18T23:28:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038862159.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418224306-20210419014306-00032.warc.gz | 0.957026 | 1,698 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__104709519 | en | Argentina Urges Brazil to Promote South American Space Agency
By Dialogo September 09, 2011
Argentine Defense Minister Arturo Puricelli has proposed the establishment of a South American Space Agency along the lines of the highly successful European Space Agency — an idea enthusiastically supported by Brazil.
Puricelli made his suggestion at an Aug. 30 defense seminar in São Paulo. He argued that the initiative is very much tied to both countries’ defense since, in the future, much more territory will be controlled and protected from space.
“Our communications are dependent on the provision of services that are provided by satellites from other countries in other regions, and we must join forces to access space through a South American Space Agency,” explained Puricelli, taking part in the first meeting between Argentine and Brazilian defense ministers since Celso Amorim replaced Nelson Jobim on Aug. 8 as Brazil’s top defense official.
The Aug. 30 seminar, titled “National Defense Transformation,” was part of a year-long series of conferences to promote Brazil’s first national white paper on defense. In fact, Puricelli said that Brazilian aerospace capabilities are fundamental to this project.
“What is stopping us?” he asked panelists. “The challenge for our ministries is to create a South American space plan and have our own satellites by 2025. South America has a lot to defend.”
Despite the fact that space initiatives fall under the domain of their countries’ respective space agencies, both defense ministers are now promoting the cause as a matter of national defense. Amorim said that Brazil considers the initiative positive and appropriate as “it would contribute to trust among South American countries, transforming them into a security community.”
In 2005, the late Argentine President Nestor Kirchner signed a decree declaring space technology advancement a state policy and a national priority. Since then, the Argentine Space Development Program has promoted the idea of a South American Space Agency similar to the 18-member ESA, which is based in Paris and has an annual budget of around $5.6 billion.
By comparison, Argentina’s National Space Plan 2004-15 has earmarked around $240 million for investments in science and technology.
Both Argentina and Brazil have advanced in aerospace research and development over the past decade. Argentina, in particular, has done so with considerable cooperation from the United States.
“We’re going to see a lot of this type of collaboration between Argentina and Brazil, though it will only work as long as Argentina avoids the mistakes of the past when it would pull out from joint projects early, claiming budgetary constraints,” said Andrei Serbin Pont, a regional defense specialist and the communications coordinator of CRIES [Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales], a regional non-governmental organization.
“Such was the case with Brazil´s nuclear submarines, which it was originally going to develop together with Argentina but later chose France owing to its neighbor’s problems in accessing the necessary funds,” Serbin Pont explained. “I think, however, we can be more optimistic about cooperation in the space industry because it’s a sector that is receiving a lot of attention and funding by the government.”
Dr. Fabián Calle, an Argentine defense specialist and professor at Catholic and Di Tella universities in Buenos Aires, seconded that opinion. “The sector is experiencing a renaissance under the Kirchner governments and is well-financed and supported personally by President Cristina Fernández,” he said.
Serbin Pont explained: “In both Argentina and Brazil, the strategy of modernizing the armed forces has gone hand-in-hand with the development of national defense industries. In Brazil, lots of funding has accompanied the strategy. That has not always been the case in Argentina, with the exception of INVAP, the Rio Negro-based state-run company, which has strong, defense technology-related projects.”
Serbin Pont said that Brazil has much clearer strategic guidelines as set out in its 2008 National Defense Strategy, which will be elaborated on in an upcoming defense white paper due out early next year. Argentina, on the other hand, is experiencing a period of reflection and change in an attempt to make its armed forces more efficient and competitive.
“The traditional conflict hypothesis doesn’t exist anymore. Instead, these countries are focused on protecting national territory and their natural resources,” he said. “All the branches of Argentina’s armed forces are in some way working to protect natural resources. Its navy, for example, has an important role in patrolling the country’s exclusive economic zone, reserved for Argentina by international maritime law but often violated by rogue international fishermen.”
Brazil, on the other hand, has clearly laid out its three priority areas for territorial surveillance: the dense Amazon rainforest, the so-called Blue Amazon off the northern Brazilian coast, and the South Atlantic, where it found vast, deepwater oil reserves in 2007.
While all regional satellites are intended for civilian use, they could always be used for defense purposes if necessary. “They are dual-purpose technologies in the sense that they would work for both civilian and military purposes. If the need arose, which is very improbable, they could be used for territorial defense,” explained Calle.
Brazil has had a tumultuous experience trying to put its locally designed rockets into orbit. As a result, it has yet to launch a satellite into orbit on its own, and has suffered several setbacks with three satellite launch failures. The latest, in August 2003, ended in an explosion of a VLS-1 rocket at its Alcântara Launch Centre, killing 21 people. The accident delayed Brazil’s space program, in large part because many of the dead were scientists and engineers who had worked on the program.
In collaboration with NASA, Argentina’s space agency, CONAE, has successfully launched four SAC earth satellites since the mid-1990s. The SAC-series satellites are primarily intended to garner information from Argentina and neighboring countries about productive activities related to the sea, soil, water, geology, climate, environmental monitoring, natural resources and mapping. The latest, known as SAC-D, was built by INVAP and launched from the United States this June. Like Brazil, however, it has yet to launch into orbit a satellite independently.
While the South American Space Agency remains an Argentine dream for now, it appears evident that Brazil wants to work with Argentina. A joint space program would add to existing cooperative ventures including the MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission in Haiti, the manufacture of aircraft in Argentina’s Córdoba province, and the production of the Gaucho — a light 4x4 multi-terrain vehicle that can be transported by air and intended to equip the armies of both countries.
In a Sept. 5 talk given at the National Defense College in Buenos Aires, Amorim declared that Argentina is Brazil’s most important strategic partner. He said his country aims for a “peaceful, but not a defenseless” region with “dissuasion capabilities” to protect South America’s natural resources including water, food, biodiversity and the environment.
At that event, he and Puricelli also ratified their countries’ commitment to maintaining the South Atlantic as a nuclear-free zone. Amorim noted that “for Brazil, nothing has been more important than rapprochement with Argentina, overcoming historical rivalries.”
And if they reach an agreement, when will they implement it? Are they going to do it? Please respond to me. Excellent,if it is true. An example is given by UNASUR. There should exist a South American space agency. First of all, investments in education (Brazil seems to be following a correct path with the approval of 10% of its GDP for education during the next 10 years), followed by investment in science and technology I hope that everything works alright. We (South-Americans) must be united, and stop with those silly rivalries regarding soccer. | aerospace |
https://capetownspacesociety.org.za/announcement/lasers-lunar-missions-and-legacies/ | 2023-11-30T16:24:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100229.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130161920-20231130191920-00507.warc.gz | 0.959013 | 4,027 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__190640233 | en | Lasers, Lunar Missions and Legacies – Hal Walker Jr.’s journey from the U.S. Navy to NASA to global educator.
In the 1960s, during the height of the Cold War and the space race, power-electronics technician Hildreth “Hal” Walker Jr. was selected to become KORAD Laser System’s field operations manager for the U.S. Apollo 11 Lunar Laser-Ranging Experiment (LURE). On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Neil Armstrong placed a 10 x 10 array of corner-cube retro-reflectors on the surface of the moon. With the array in place, the race was on between teams from the United States and the uninvited Soviet Union – each firing weapons-grade ruby lasers at the same reflectors – to hit that target and detect a return signal, and become the first nation to measure the distance to the moon with a pulse of laser photons.
Enlisted as an electrician’s mate, Walker had plenty of opportunities to refine his teenage passion for electronic tinkering into a fully professional set of advanced skills.
On 1 August 1969, after 12 days of engineering and logistical challenges and many errant laser shots, Walker, a former U.S. Navy electrician’s mate, was the key man on station at Lick Observatory in California manning his team’s 1.2-GW ruby-crystal laser. On that day, he fired KORAD’s laser at the moon and received a successful ranging signal – thus beating the Soviets to the punch, and earning Walker a place in engineering history.
Walker’s success with the LURE experiment is not where his story ends – or, for that matter, where it begins. Walker had a passion for science and technology from an early age and he continued to share his passion with others through his work as a global educator.
Ray guns, carriers and aircraft
Little did six-year old Hal Walker Jr. know that the “Buck Rogers” toy ray-gun given to him by his father in 1939 would lead him to a lifetime career in power electronics and laser-beam technology. Although the toy ray-gun only made a metal grinding noise and emitted harmless sparks, young Hal was curious enough to disassemble his favorite toy to learn the magic of the mechanisms inside. His interest in machinery and electronics was further stirred up during regular visits to the neighborhood vacuum-cleaner repair shop, where he watched his childhood friend’s father carefully disassemble, diagnose and repair the innovative contraptions.
But before Walker, an African-American man born in segregated Louisiana, could make it to the big leagues of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) missions, he had a lot of hard-knocks learning to do and adversity to overcome. His mother had become estranged from his father and later remarried; the new family moved to Los Angeles, California, where Hal would enter junior high school. In shop class, Hal’s instructor, Mr. Dietz, recognized his aptitude and work ethic, and encouraged him to expand his craftsman’s skills. Fellow students in Hal’s neighborhood shared his enthusiasm for amateur science, engineering and mechanics, collaborating on projects such as building small motors and crystal oscillator radios.
By 1951 Hal Walker had graduated from high school and, with local jobs hard to come by and the Korean War underway, he enlisted in the Navy – a critical first step in his lengthy career in power electronics and leading-edge engineering. Walker was stationed aboard the USS Rendova, an aircraft carrier originally commissioned near the end of World War II but newly recommissioned for the Korean conflict. Enlisted as an electrician’s mate, Walker had plenty of opportunities to refine his teenage passion for electronic tinkering into a fully professional set of advanced skills. In particular, Walker became a specialist in the safety and operational aspects of high-voltage and high-powered generators, motors and related machinery, like those found in Rendova’s power plant, aircraft elevators and radar systems.
At the end of his naval service in 1955, Walker was eligible, under the U.S. government’s G.I. Bill, to attend college. He enrolled in electrical engineering classes at Los Angeles City College which is where he met a recruiter from Douglas Aircraft Company looking for candidates to work on the installation and maintenance of radar systems for its new carrier-based A3D Skywarrior strategic bomber. Unlike the propeller-powered Corsair aircraft on board the Rendova, the Skywarrior was a jet-powered aircraft designed for operation from the new Forrestal-class of supercarriers.
Thus Walker’s on-the-job training and work ethic continued to earn him ever-higher levels of engineering skills and recognition. With the winding down of the Korean War, however, and layoffs at Douglas Aircraft, Walker was soon unemployed again and thrust into a competitive, sink-or-swim job market.
Sputnik launches a space race
Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union had escalated after the conclusion of World War II and continued to worsen through and beyond the Korean War. When the Soviet Union launched the radio-beacon satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957 – with a low-earth-orbiting trajectory over the United States and visible by any observer on the ground with binoculars – the threat of a nuclear bomb was paramount in the minds of American citizens, politicians and the military. The United States had dropped nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945 during World War If, so by 1957 the technological advances demonstrated by Sputnik made the prospect of Soviet launched nuclear warfare very real in the minds of the U.S. population. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, despite publicly assuaging fears by down-playing the significance of Sputnik, very quickly declared that the United States must respond with “resourcefulness and vigor, by accelerating its own science and engineering efforts in space technology and establishing U.S. space-based military capabilities. By February 1958, Eisenhower had created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and, by July 1958, its civilian counterpart, NASA.
The scientific and engineering achievement of LURE – which aimed at using lasers to precisely measure the distance between the Earth and the moon held huge potential strategic value, both military and commercial.
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), formed after World War I to commercialize radio technology used in that war, continued to serve as a military contractor through World War II and beyond. Not so coincidentally, then the only real-time signal recording of Sputnik l’s radio beacon as it flew over the United States was made by RCA. Soon after, RCA ramped up its development of launch-checkout and missile-guidance systems for the Atlas rocket platform.
RCA’s sudden interest in boosting its rocket work created an opportunity for the young Hal Walker. He saw an employment ad from RCA that called for contract workers with electrical engineering experience and military clearance. Walker now found himself working as a field engineer on intercontinental ballistic missile systems (ICBMs).
Watching the Soviets from Alaska
In addition to ICBM launch platforms, RCA was the general contractor to the U.S. Air Force for the 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS). There were three BMEWS stations, each with the objective of detecting Soviet missile launches via radar: Site I in Thule, Greenland; Site II in Cape Clear, Alaska; and Site III in Fylingdales Moor, England.
Walker was fully engaged in ICBM projects when he received an unsolicited invite from RCA headquarters in New Jersey to join the BMEWS team. The invitation was a testament to Walker’s advanced engineering experience and the high marks for job performance that he’d been accumulating since he first joined the Navy. After additional psychiatric testing and security clearances, Walker was selected to join a team of about 1,500 personnel dispatched to the Clear Station, where he would spend the next 18 months working on the world’s most advanced radar, computer and power electronics systems.
The BMEWS radar and computerized trajectory analysis systems utilized the latest electronics components and mathematical algorithms to calculate the Doppler shift, pattern recognition, and time-of-flight of the powerful radio waves generated by BMEWS and reflected off incoming targets. Ultimately the goal was not only to quickly detect incoming missiles, but to be able to orchestrate a defensive anti-missile response with precisely controlled launching, pointing, interception and destructive power. When Walker’s BMEWS contract was complete, he was once again out of work. He spent his time between high-tech projects working at short-term manual labor jobs, and by performing as a very capable jazz musician.
Neither odd-jobs nor jazz performances, though, paid much; so the appeal of power electronics and high-profile military projects continued to keep Walker on the hunt for new opportunities.
Landing a man – and an array – on the moon
Even as Walker was upping his technical game on these military projects, the political space race between the United States and the Soviet Union continued. On 12 April 1961, the Soviets once again bested the United States, becoming the first country to put a human, Yuri Gagarin, in Earth orbit. A U.S. astronaut, Alan Shepard, became the second human in space less than a month later, on 5 May.
Barely three weeks after that, John F. Kennedy, who had succeeded Eisenhower as U.S. president, made a celebrated address to Congress that probably did more to accelerate the
pace of the new science, engineering and aerospace-driven economy than ever before: “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space.”
Work on NASAs manned space programs continued, now built around Kennedy’s lunar vision. John Glenn Jr. orbited Earth in the Friendship 7 capsule in 1962, followed by the flights of astronauts Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra Jr. and L. Gordon Cooper in1963. The two-man flights of the Gemini program were next, followed by the three-man Apollo flights that would ultimately lead to a successful landing of humans on the moon.
In evaluating science experiments for the Apollo 11 mission, NASA opted to include an Earth moon ranging project called the Lunar Laser-Ranging Experiment (LURE) based on high powered ruby-crystal lasers. The scientific and engineering achievement of LURE-which aimed at using lasers to precisely measure the distance between the Earth and the moon held huge potential strategic value, both military and commercial. Two contractors were chosen to create the high-powered laser systems that would serve as the Earth-bound component of the LURE project: Spacerays Corporation and KORAD Laser Systems.
To build a gigawatt-power laser suitable for the LURE project KORAD began a search for a team of people with expertise in materials, manufacturing, and high-voltage and high-powered electronics. Because of his power-electronics testing and manufacturing expertise, Hal Walker became one of those team members, and was soon designated KORAD’s field operations manager for the Apollo 11 LURE project.
The Eagle has landed
On 20 |uly 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. entered the moon’s orbit in the command service module (CSM), Columbia. Armstrong and Aldrin would then make their way into the mission’s lunar excursion module (LEM), the Eagle, and begin their legendary descent to the surface. Packed away in the LEM was the moon-based component of the LURE project the 10 x 10 corner-cube retro-reflector array. Among other tasks on the moon, Armstrong and Aldrin would place the reflector array in the desolate plain of ihe Sea of Tranquility, after which they would return to the LEM to launch and rendezvous with Collins in the orbiting CSM. Once the astronauts had left the lunar surface the LURE array was cleared for targeting by Walker’s team of scientists and engineers and their gigawatt laser back on Earth.
Four U.S.-based teams equipped with high-powered lasers then began a painstaking search for the minuscule retro-reflector target nearly a quarter-million miles away-the array’s exact coordinates in the Sea of Tranquility being unknown.
The teams, each armed with a laser system, were stationed at McDonald Observatory in Texas, Mount Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii, and two laser teams at Lick Observatory in California. Walker’s KORAD team was at Lick, along with a competing laser-ranging team from Spacerays. Each KORAD laser system had a unique set of challenges due to the developmental nature of the technology so it was not a simple matter of firing at will to hit the retro-reflector on the moon.
It soon became apparent to the U.S. scientists scrutinizing the Sea of Tranquility, however, that someone else on Earth was also firing ruby-red beams at the moon and attempting to hit the LURE array. Those rogue laser shots, it turned out were from a team of Soviet scientists, who hoped to achieve an end run around the U.S. groups. There was, of course, no way to stop the Soviet team from trying-but as Walker reports, the American teams were told in no uncertain terms by their NASA and DARPA sponsors, “Don’t let the Soviets hit our mirrors!” The race was on between the lunar laser-ranging teams.
A technological triumph
In the end” success depended less on chance than on technological readiness. Some teams encountered catastrophic equipment failures due to the high-powered nanosecond pulses, which literally broke down the molecular structure of the air around the equipment, complete with thunderous bangs and fried electronics. System-design thresholds and even sabotage were also claimed as sources of failure. In other cases, with beam-widths at the surface of the moon dispersed as wide as 7 km, there was just not enough transmitted energy to produce a recognizable signal from the few photons that returned to the Earth.
Success came at last to Walker and his team in the early morning hours of 1 August 1969. A few days earlier, Walker’s team’s laser had experienced its own catastrophic failure and had to be replaced with a unit from KORAD’s labs in Santa Monica, 350 miles south of Lick Observatory.
Hal himself raced down Mount Hamilton in a rented car to get to KORAD, pick up the replacement parts, then return to Lick and get the equipment installed and operational for the next round of shots.
The entire team involved in the project-from Earth to the moon and back had launched a new era of science, engineering and aerospace.
Sure enough, on that fateful day, Hal Walker and his principal science and engineering colleagues from Wesleyan University, James Faller and Irvin Winer, dialed up the power on their crystal-ruby laser, which operated at the brilliant red wavelength of 694.3 nm. The KORAD laser produced 12 J of energy delivered in a 10-NS pulse, yielding 1.2 GW of photonic power. A little over 2.4 seconds later, the round-trip signal was positively recognized by Walker’s team! The entire team involved in the project – from Earth to the moon and
back – had launched a new era of science, engineering and aerospace.
Global education, global legacies
Walker would soon move from KORAD to the Hughes Aircraft Company’s Electro-Optical and Data Systems Group, where he would ultimately retire after a long career in laser-based systems and advanced technology. In retirement, his professional career would serve as the foundation for what has become his most important legacy: inspiring the next generation of young men and women to explore and discover, to learn and to innovate in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Teaching the next generation
ln 1995, Hal Walker gave presentation for school children called “Lasers and Electromobiles: The Wave of the 21st Century,” at the Smithsonian lnstitution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of lnvention and lnnovation in Washington, D.C., USA. During his talk, students participated in demonstrations of how lasers are used to make music in a CD player, measure the distance to the moon, carry voices over telephone wires, and help doctors heal sick patients. The presentation and demonstrations are saved in the Smithsonian archives under “lnnovative Lives: Hal Walker, The Coherent Light of Persistence.”
In 1991, Walker and his wife, Dr. Bettye Davis Walker, a former K-12 school principal, university professor and researcher, co-founded the A-MAN International STEM Discovery Center in Inglewood, California. A-MAN specializes in after-school STEM programs for children in the greater Los Angeles area. In 1997, as part of a youth education expedition to South Africa, the Walkers had the opportunity to meet president Nelson Mandela. Impressed with their work, Mandela invited the Walkers to extend their A-MAN programs to his country, which they did.
The A-MAN program now includes more than a dozen STEM centers. Still very active in their early 80’s, Hal and Bettye Walker continue to expand their A-MAN programs in the United States and to travel annually to South Africa to open new A-MAN schools, collaborating with the South African National Space Agency and the Ministries of Education and Commerce. True to the mission of science and engineering exploration, the Walkers are still working with NASA and the Jet Propulsions Labs as “solar-system ambassadors” for youth education and outreach programs conducted through their A-MAN centers, and more recently through their new project, the Hal and Bettye Walker Center for Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Economic Development.
Author – Brian J. Hagerty
– published in Optics & Photonics News
Brian J. Hagerty (Brian@CopernicaInstitute.com) is executive director of the Copernica Institute and chair of education activities for IEEE Region 6. He also serves on the board of the Hal & Bettye Walker Center for Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Economic Development.
References and Resources
> J. Faller et al.”Laser beam directed at the lunar retro-reflector array:
Observations of the first returns,” Science 166, 99 (1969).
> P.L. Bender et al. “The lunar laser ranging experiment,” Science 182,
> R. Waters.”The Hal Walker Story,” and “History Making Lunar Ranging,”in Maiman’s lnvention of the Laser: How Science Fiction Became Reality, CreateSpace lndependent Publishing Platform (2013). | aerospace |
http://syntheticapertureradar.com/maxar-wins-3-8m-defense-innovation-research-program-dirp-in-part-for-radar/ | 2020-06-02T07:45:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347423915.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20200602064854-20200602094854-00263.warc.gz | 0.878432 | 599 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__177755706 | en | RICHMOND, BC, Dec. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), today announced it was awarded four contracts under the Defence Innovation Research Program (DIRP) with a combined total value of CA$3.8 million. The DIRP supports Canada’s long-term commitment to respond to the scientific and technological needs of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces. The objective of this latest DIRP initiative is to help to define the technologies and capabilities for future follow-on RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) spacecraft and ground segment exploitation systems.
MDA’s projects include:
- Augmenting Canada’s Maritime Surveillance Capability with Complementary EO/IR Information Products: MDA will advance how optical satellite data and hyperspectral imagery complements Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data in strategic maritime and coastal surveillance applications. Improving Canada’s ability to identify and classify vessels and monitor port and other littoral vessel traffic activities by providing timely information to relevant agencies for threat assessment and action.
- Persistent Multi-Sensor Land Surveillance and Change Monitoring: MDA seeks to leverage the complementarity of Optical and SAR satellite image stacks to better identify and monitor changes over large areas of land. The expected benefits include more persistent and operational all-weather monitoring capabilities and very high change classification accuracy. To achieve these benefits the project will leverage new technologies such as Deep Learning and exploit the availability of large satellite image archives. The applications are far ranging and are expected to provide actionable intelligence to DND as well as to civil agencies.
- SAR Big Data Analytics: Petabytes of information-rich RADARSAT data exists in archives. MDA seeks to understand and demonstrate how big data analytics, Deep Learning in particular, can be applied to large archives of SAR imagery to better extract meaningful geospatial information to support actionable decision-making.
- Complementary EO/IR Payload to RCM: Working with Canadian industry partners, MDA explores the technical readiness and mission value of using Electro-Optical Infrared sensors to strengthen the value of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission follow-on for the surveillance of land, maritime and defence applications at a global scale. By combining, SAR and Electro-Optical Infrared sensors Canada is able to leverage the weather independent observation capabilities of SAR with finer feature discrimination of thermal, hyperspectral, or multispectral sensing for improved day and night global surveillance.
“These awards are an exciting opportunity for MDA to explore new synergies of combining Synthetic Aperture Radar with innovative technologies such as optical sensors and Deep Learning,” said Mike Greenley, group president of MDA. “The research programs have recently commenced and will continue over the next two years.” | aerospace |
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/17/content_281987.htm | 2023-12-03T17:48:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203161435-20231203191435-00097.warc.gz | 0.943622 | 608 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__311543712 | en | 'My other car is a helicopter'
( 2003-11-17 08:40) (China Daily)
Shanghai businessman Li Linhai is planning his first flight in his new helicopter above the Huangpu River.
Li has achieved a long-cherished dream. No, he's no Yang Liwei - he won't be in Earth orbit - but his spirits might as well be.
He is believed to be the first buyer of light plane for private use on the Chinese mainland.
He got the nod from the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China to purchase a 4-seat Robinson R-44 helicopter worth 4 million yuan (US$482,000) in early September from a US manufacturer. The chopper is expected to arrive in Shanghai this week.
He will fly his new helicopter to take business trips or even visit friends or relatives in other cities, Li said.
Following Li, Luo Xiaoping, a businessman in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province in the country's northwest, has also filed an order to a US aeroplane seller, according to a Xi'an-based China Business View report.
Luo, who is being trained in Guangzhou General Aviation Company in South China's Guangdong Province for a pilot's licence, has planned to spend 6 to 8 million yuan (US$723,000 to US$964,000) on a light plane.
According to 38-year-old Luo, he will spend 200,000 yuan (US$24,100) on the cost of flight training.
Although the cost is still high, around 2,000 yuan (US$241) per hour, the number of people who want to receive flight training has been on the rise, Guangzhou Baiyun General Aviation Company officials said.
To meet the demand for new private pilots, China aviation authorities are mapping out regulations on the application for the purchase of planes and for take-off procedures, according to Li Yongqi, a spokesman.
In order to assure flying safety, Li said a series of strict examinations for pilots will be implemented.
Analysts say private planes will provide vast business opportunities. Ni Zhuping, a vice-general engineer at China Aviation Industry Corporation II, said there is a vast market for light planes in the country and more than 10,000 will be needed in the next 10 years.
But experts warned that there is a long way to go for the development of private planes.
Deng Taizhong, director of sales for the Harbin Aircraft Industry Group, said the cost on the purchase and overhaul of planes and flight training is so high that most individuals can't afford planes or training.
In the meantime, low-altitude flying is not permitted, which constitutes another obstacle to the take-off of the private planes, he said.
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https://turkeytelegraph.com/world/to-be-able-to-land-safely-after-breakdown-airbus-makes-kerosene-over-forest-h11255.html | 2023-05-30T14:26:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645810.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530131531-20230530161531-00530.warc.gz | 0.945241 | 597 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__18670801 | en | Mainz – due to technical problems, an aircraft has drained 40 tonnes of kerosene above forest (Rhineland-Palatinate).
On machine, image information was a Lufthansa Airbus A380. The pilots of Lufthansa flight LH 440 on Way to Houston (USA) noticed problems with landing gear shortly after start on Tuesday morning at 10 and decide to return to Frankfurt.More on topic
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It is a frightening fuel breakdown: Two Airbus A380 aircraft have drained kerosene in middle of Hamburg. The fuel was raining on city!
In order to be able to land safely, aircraft had to lose weight and dropped about 40 tonnes of fuel via Rhineland-Palatinate before machine landed safely again in Frankfurt about an hour later.
Picture clarifies most important questions about incident:Also interesting
Why is fuel dumping allowed at all?
each aircraft has a maximum landing weight determined according to type. If machine is heavier, it could be unstable and undercarriage would be too heavily loaded, passengers, crew and aircraft itself would be at risk. Therefore, fuel dumping is necessary and allowed in emergencies. "This is about human life. That is why we must give pilots opportunity to turn ir laps through most unpopulated areas in order to drain fuel, "said a spokeswoman for German Air traffic control (DFS). What is procedure?
In an emergency such as now at LH 440, controllers of DFS carry out machine in consultation with cockpit crew at a minimum of 6000 feet (approximately 1829 meters) or higher and preferably uninhabited area with little air traffic. When pilot gets release, he pushes fuel dump button in cockpit and leaves fuel. How often does this happen?
according to German air traffic control, so-called "fuel dumping" in first half of year 2017 alone about 187 tonnes of kerosene in Germany, nearly 260 tonnes of fuel was left behind. This sounds a lot, but it is still a very rare process: in approximately three million flight movements per year in Germany, re are between 20 and 40 cases annually. Or areas used in "fuel dumping" are in Germany, Eifel, Oderwald, Sauerland, Westerwald and North Sea. Is fuel dumping dangerous for humans and environment?
Among experts worldwide controversial is how much kerosene in "fuel dumping" in air is fogged up to harmlessness and how much on ground comes up. The Rhineland-Palatinate Committee on Economic and Transport will deal with risks of decomposed kerosene for health and environment on 18 October.
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https://vipgrup.info/?p=5892 | 2023-03-31T15:42:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949644.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331144941-20230331174941-00162.warc.gz | 0.941947 | 677 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__48093592 | en | A group of NASA scientists discovered the face of a bear in an unexpected rock formation on the surface of Mars.
The HiRISE high-resolution camera that the University of Arizona operates on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission has obtained this image of the red planet that resembles the face of a bear.
In the orbital photograph, taken on December 12, 2022, it actually presents a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular fracture pattern (the head).
The circular fracture pattern could be due to deposit settlement on top of a buried impact crater. Perhaps the nose is a volcanic or mud vent and the deposit could be lava or mud flows? the camera team wondered in a statement.
“Maybe just smile and bear it,” added the University of Arizona.
On December 24, the lander insight from NASA he felt the ground shake unusually. registered a “Marsism” of magnitude 4, that only scientists determined that it was due to the impact of a meteorite and not a telluric movement typical of a rocky planet.
The researchers determined that the quake was due to a meteorite impact when they detected a huge new crater and compared before and after images captured by the probe. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) from NASA orbiting Mars. Offering a rare chance to see a huge impact shake the Martian soil, the event and its effects are detailed in two scientific papers published yesterday in the peer-reviewed journal Science.
The impact of a meteorite is estimated to it is one of the largest seen on Mars since NASA began exploring the cosmos. In addition, the strike knocked out boulder-sized chunks of ice buried closer to the Martian equator than ever before, a discovery with implications for NASA’s future plans to send roving astronauts to the Red Planet.
It is estimated that the meteoroid measured from 5 to 12 meters. This is small enough to have burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, but not in the thin atmosphere of Mars, which is only 1% denser than our planet’s. The impact, in a region called Amazonis Planitia, opened a crater approximately 150 meters wide and 21 meters deep. Part of the ejecta thrown by the impact flew up to 37 kilometers away.
According to the NPR medium, this is not the first time that scientists have found photos of the exterior of the Earth with a strange resemblance to entities on this planet.
In 1997, scientists discovered a large rock on Mars that they named Pooh Bear. And in 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft detected a plateau that resembled a human face, nearly two miles from end to end, in a region of Mars called Cydonia.
Also in Similar structures have also been found on the Moon thanks to the help of the Chinese rover Yutu 2which revealed what appeared to be a cube-shaped object, dubbed as “mystery cabin”. Ultimately, it ended up being a simple rock in which the reflection of light and perspective also came into action to give the sensation of something elsecommented the AS medium.
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https://www.mokimotor.de/hometext-english/ | 2022-08-09T03:55:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570901.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809033952-20220809063952-00210.warc.gz | 0.953314 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__182037814 | en | MOKI – THE radial engine
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Continuing the long tradition of the traditional MOKI brand already known from the days of tethered flying, pure 2-stroke model aircraft engines for gasoline operation in the range of single cylinder, in-line and boxer engines were developed and manufactured already at the end of the 1980s through the close cooperation with AIRWORLD Modellbau. A new milestone was set in 1996 with the development, testing and production of a 5 cylinder 4-stroke radial engine with 215 cc displacement and an output of 13 HP.
To ensure the high quality standard of our engines, we still manufacture exclusively in the EU. Our engineers and experts have many years of experience, which they bring to CNC production as well as manual work in small series production.
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Convincing by reliability, easy handling, outstanding performance and the characteristic sound, the MOKI radial engine is indispensable for the dedicated model pilot and lover of scale models. | aerospace |
https://archive.journal.com.ph/news/provincial/aircraft-wreckage-found-mindoro | 2021-05-16T07:57:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243992516.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20210516075201-20210516105201-00091.warc.gz | 0.963492 | 225 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__145298408 | en | THE wreckage of Beechcraft Baron 55 (BE55) trainer aircraft that has been reported missing after its take off Friday morning at San Jose Airport was located 43.52 km, south of Mindoro.
According to Eric Apolonio, spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), the search and rescue team reported to CAAP Operation Center that one of its aircrafts, a Cessna Caravan seaplane, found a bag with identification of the pilot in command, Capt. Jose Nelson Yapparcon.
He said further search revealed that six small and big debris of the missing aircraft, which was operated by Orient Aviation Corporation, was found floating at 12:06 p.m.
Apolonio said the whereabouts of the two passengers of the ill-fated aircraft, Capt. Yapparcon and student pilot Saudi national Abdullah Alsharif, cannot be ascertained yet.
CAAP Aircraft Accident Investigation and Inquiry Board (AAIIB) investigators were immediately dispatched at the crash site to conduct investigation and determine the cause of the incident, he added. | aerospace |
https://www.aiaa-lalv.org/serena-quach-member-spotlight-oct-14-2019/ | 2021-11-27T17:20:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358208.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127163427-20211127193427-00564.warc.gz | 0.926464 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__99766707 | en | Northrop Grumman & AIAA LA-LV
Serena is an Electromechanical Engineer in the Mechanisms and Deployable Products department at Northrop Grumman.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and a second bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).
Serena was an Integration and Test intern at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and worked on the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) as well as the EGSE for the Mars 2020 Cruise and Descent Stage.
While pursing her second bachelor’s at CSULB, she was the Chair of the AIAA CSULB student chapter and was a member of the Beach Launch Team. | aerospace |
https://westsussexrecordofficeblog.com/2016/10/28/pashley-bi-plane-at-shoreham-airfield-july-1914-am625315/ | 2023-05-29T19:24:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644907.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529173312-20230529203312-00703.warc.gz | 0.984813 | 475 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__18471817 | en | Chosen by Katherine Slay, member of staff
This photograph shows Eric Pashley flying a bi-plane on the day he won the Shell Trophy at Shoreham in July 1914. In the foreground are the parked vehicles of some of those who had come to watch the flying race.
Powered flight was still in its infancy at this time; the first documented powered flight in an aeroplane had been by Orville Wright in the United States in December 1903, less than 11 years earlier. It lasted for 12 seconds and covered a distance of 37 metres.
Cecil and Eric Pashley were brothers, and pioneer British aviators. Cecil learned to fly in 1908, and was granted an Aviation Certificate (number 106) by the Royal Aero Club in July 1911 when he was 20. Eric’s was issued two months later (number 139) when he was 19.
From Brooklands in Surrey, Cecil and Eric transferred their base to Shoreham in 1913. Eric was commissioned in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War; he died in a flying accident on 17 March 1917, aged just 24.
In the earliest photographs in the collection, the pilot is shown sitting in a wooden structure which was little more than an open box with the aircraft engine mounted at the back, very different to modern aeroplanes.
There was considerable public interest in aeroplanes, which were still a novelty. The Henry Farman plane which landed on Bognor beach when the tide was out draw a large crowd of onlookers.
In the 1920s Cecil and F G Miles started a flying school and joyriding business at Shoreham, the Gnat Aero Company. This later split into the South Coast Flying Club and the Southern Aero Club.
Cecil held a pilot’s licence for more than 50 years, and trained many people to fly, both civilians and service personnel. He was commissioned in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during World War 2, was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1944, and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1948. Cecil died in 1969 and a road at Shoreham Airport is named after him.
The Pashley collection of log books, letters, photographs and ephemera is catalogued as AM625 and comprises around 400 items. | aerospace |
http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?230-Acklington | 2015-11-30T02:35:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398460942.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205420-00113-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.920984 | 103 | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__167208920 | en | Is it a Gaydon hanger? Looks like it might be.
Like the one at RAF Machrihanish http://www.dreamlandresort.com/black_pr ... _trip.html
Dont think they where built at many RAF bases, RAF Wittering, RAF Coningsby, RAF Valley, RAF Macrihanish, RAF Gaydon and now it seems Aklington?
Anyone know anyother places the Gaydon was built
Was Aklington a large base? | aerospace |
http://www.northwestaircraft.com/ | 2017-04-25T18:16:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120844.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00380-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.856958 | 163 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__276936913 | en | Northwest Aircraft Maintenance, Inc.
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https://religiopoliticaltalk.com/sukhoi-russian-su-24-fly-30-feet-over-navy-ship/ | 2022-08-15T10:37:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00222.warc.gz | 0.965442 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__127235568 | en | In one of the most aggressive actions in recent memory, Russian warplanes conducted “simulated attacks” on the a U.S. Navy vessel in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, repeatedly flying within 30 feet of the ship, according to a defense official.
Sailors aboard the destroyer Donald Cook said the aircraft flew low enough to create wake in the sea waters surrounding the ship, and the ship’s commanding officer said the incident was “unsafe and unprofessional,” the defense official said.
“This was more aggressive than anything we’ve seen in some time,” according to the defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because U.S. officials have not officially disclosed the incidents.
Sailors aboard the ship described the Sukhoi Russian Su-24 as “wings clean,” meaning there were no visible bombs or armaments on the aircraft, the defense official said.
The nature of the overflight as a “simulated attack” may violate a 1973 treaty between the U.S. and Russia that specifically prohibits this type of maneuver, the defense official said…..
A United States Navy Destroyer operating in international waters in the Baltic Sea experienced several close interactions by Russian aircraft on April 11 and 12. USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) encountered multiple, aggressive flight maneuvers by Russian aircraft that were performed within close proximity of the ship. | aerospace |
http://swashplate.co.uk/ehbg-v17/ch30s07.html | 2018-01-19T17:01:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084888077.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119164824-20180119184824-00457.warc.gz | 0.900332 | 717 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__70501331 | en | You may want to use a brushless motor with an existing 3-in-1 controller without converting the helicopter to separate electronics. There are a few different ways to do this.
Note: A 4-in-1 controller is the same as a 3-in-1 controller with a receiver, so these techniques will work with a 4-in-1 controller as well.
A brushless main motor ESC can be added to an brushed 3-in-1 controller by simply using a Y-lead servo connector on the throttle channel. This will allow both the 3-in-1 and brushless motor controller to receive the throttle signal. This will not work for a brushless tail motor because a Y-lead on the rudder channel will bypass the revo mixing capability of the 3-in-1 controller.
A PowerZone adapter board converts a brushed motor signal back into a servo signal (variable width pulse) so the brushless ESC can plug into the PowerZone. This works for a brushless main and tail motors, although a Y-lead is much cheaper for a brushless main motor. However, if the 4-in-1 board has both the receiver and controller on a single board, then using a PowerZone may be easier than trying to trace the receiver's throttle channel to connect a servo connector.
Search the RCgroups micro heli forum for more info on the PowerZone.
If you are using a six or more channel transmitter, then channel 5 should be unused when using the 4-in-1 board. You can slave the unused channel 5 to the throttle channel (usually channel 3) and connect the brushless motor ESC to channel 5 on the receiver.
You can add a heading hold gyro to a brushed 3-in-1 controller by using a heading hold gyro (without remote gain), and a tail ESC. You will need to rewire the electronics as follows:
The throttle channel will go to the 3-in-1 board, and the main motor will still be controlled by the 3-in-1 board.
The rudder channel will now go to the heading hold gyro, and the tail motor ESC will plug into the heading hold gyro.
Basically, you will only use the 3-in-1 board as a main motor ESC, and all other functions will be handled by the other components.
If you are using a brushed 3-in-1 controller, then you can use a PowerZone board to convert the brushed tail motor output into a servo signal, then you can plug a brushless motor controller into the PowerZone board.
Otherwise, if you are already using separates, then just replace the brushed tail motor ESC with a brushless tail motor ESC.
If you are using a heading hold gyro and you replace a brushed tail motor with a brushless tail motor, then the tail will probably wag very badly because the brushless tail motor will generate more thrust than the brushed tail motor.
If this occurs, you will need to trim the tail rotor to reduce the tail rotor thrust. You should trim the tips of the tail rotor instead of the trailing edge of the tail rotor, because this will create a more efficient tail rotor (smaller rotor with more pitch is more efficient at generating static thrust than a larger rotor with less pitch).
Be sure to trim the tail rotor in small steps and test the tail rotor thrust by flying the heli to ensure you do not trim too much from the tail rotor. | aerospace |
https://peaktutors.com/2018/02/20/on-this-day-in-space-feb-20-1962-john-glenn-becomes-1st-american-to-orbit-earth/ | 2020-09-19T06:59:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400190270.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919044311-20200919074311-00501.warc.gz | 0.869683 | 78 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__226241718 | en | On February 20, 1962, NASA launched John Glenn on Friendship 7 to send the first American astronaut into orbit for the first time. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.
On This Day In Space! Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn Becomes 1st American to Orbit Earth
by Space.com | Feb 20, 2018 | Uncategorized | | aerospace |
https://www.prodrone.com/archives/1330/ | 2023-12-07T23:31:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100705.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207221604-20231208011604-00232.warc.gz | 0.886226 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__17743041 | en | Prodrone Co., Ltd. will be participating in the international drone exposition, InterDrone 2016 held in Las Vegas on September 7th until 9th.
At our companies booth (No.901), the world’s first drones for industry use will be announced along with a display of the various cutting-edge technologies and solutions. We look forward to seeing everyone there.
Place: Paris Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
Date: September 7th to 9th, 2016
Official Site: http://www.interdrone.com/ | aerospace |
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2014/07/17/lukes-f-fighter-jets-resume-flying/12821103/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin= | 2016-05-24T18:48:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049272823.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002112-00167-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957516 | 286 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__75473730 | en | Luke Air Force Base's F-35 fighter jets thundered into the sky above Glendale twice Thursday after the Air Force lifted an order that had kept the jets grounded for more than three weeks.
Luke pilots took the base's two F-35 Lightning II jets for 75-minute spins largely over the Barry M. Goldwater Range, a 2,600-square-mile training range in southern Arizona between Tucson and Yuma, Thursday morning.
Two other pilots took the jets out again for similar runs in the afternoon.
The pilots conducted basic handling maneuvers and simulated ground attacks in ideal weather conditions, said Lt. Col. Michael "Jeb" Ebner, commander of Luke's 61st Fighter Squadron.
"Guys have been itching to get back in the air, no doubt. So today was a great day just to do our primary mission — flying airplanes," said Ebner, who flew one jet in the morning run.
The Pentagon grounded the entire fleet of more than 100 F-35s, which are used by the Air Force, Marines and Navy, after an engine fire in an Air Force version of the jet as it was preparing for takeoff in Florida on June 23.
Investigators determined that fan blades rubbing against their housing in the engine of the jet at Eglin Air Force Base caused the fire.
Luke is projected to be the largest F-35 pilot-training base worldwide. | aerospace |
https://www.barcelonadronecenter.com/uav-courses/ | 2021-04-19T18:35:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038916163.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20210419173508-20210419203508-00237.warc.gz | 0.926185 | 546 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__42260802 | en | COVID-19 WARNING: All trainings will be hosted with the maximum protection measures. BCN Drone Center will provide masks, gloves and antiseptic gel. Practical sessions will be conducted in groups of 3. Theoretical sessions will be taught in seats separated >2m.
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The course helped me progress into the application of drones in agri by having an overview of various technical aspects, having up to date information in the industry, being able to understand the real terms with very well balanced demonstration sessions.
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It is a place where knowledge and skills are fused to model one to a competent pilot and an operator of drones. With highly endowed instructors, and lots of training hours both on the simulator and practically flying one is all that is required to transform any enthusiastic drone pilot to an excellent one. A true pioneer of UAS and champion for its future
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Private pilot, holds a bachelor in aviation and electronic systems, and is the business development manager at Micasense. | aerospace |
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/interact/handson.html | 2019-03-24T22:10:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203493.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20190324210143-20190324232143-00305.warc.gz | 0.931897 | 345 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__132344850 | en | findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are
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To MARS with MER - GET INVOLVED!
Hands-on activities for home, school, and science center
One of the most exciting things about missions to Mars is that many key aspects of what NASA researchers and engineers are doing can be simulated in simple hands-on activities that are both lots of fun, and deeply informative. Here are some of our favorites, as well as links to many more, developed by NASA and other researchers.
Activities 1-5 relate to the rockets used to launch the Mars Exploration Rovers, the relative size and position of Earth and Mars in the solar system, landing safely on the surface of the Red Planet, and operating on that surface using a combination of human instructions and robotic intelligence. You'll see many of these activities, or similar ones, implemented on camera during COUNTDOWN TO MARS: if you've got questions about how to make them work--at home, in school, or in other informal science settings--sign up for discuss-mars, and ask away! (Classroom teachers: you can find more formal versions of these activities by checking out EDUCATORS.) We'd love to hear your feedback and comments.
Rovers from Junk (rolling round the Red Planet)
Pizza boxes, yogurt containers, empty toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, and a crutch are some of the materials we've found that make great rovers. Try this activity and let us know what you found were the best materials. | aerospace |
https://www.afhistory.org/events/ | 2022-09-25T22:52:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334620.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925225000-20220926015000-00037.warc.gz | 0.902435 | 418 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__270889715 | en | Each year, the Foundation sponsors several events that highlight our mission of preserving the history and traditions of American aviation and space capabilities. In recent years, these have included symposiums, oral history presentations, and our annual Awards Banquet.
June 1, 2022
Doolittle Awards Presentation
Location: Air Force Memorial (Arlington, VA)
Time: 3:30 PM
The Air Force Historical Foundation’s James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle Award was established to recognize a unit that has displayed bravery, determination, discipline, esprit de corps, and superior management of joint operations while accomplishing its mission under extremely difficult and hazardous conditions in multiple conflicts, and thus has made a sustained, significant contribution to Air Force history.
This year’s award winner is the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota.
The event is open to the public, and there is no charge to attend the ceremony.
June 1, 2022
Annual Awards Banquet
Army Navy Country Club (Arlington VA)
Cocktail Hour: 5 PM, Dinner/Banquet: 6 PM
The Air Force Historical Foundation’s Annual Awards were established to honor specific individuals and units dedicated to the making and documentation of U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force history.
This year’s award winners will include General John W. Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force (General Carl A. “Tooey” Spaatz Award); Dr. Daniel L. Haulman (Major General I.B. Holley Award); and the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth AFB (General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle Award).
We will also be honoring our Air Power History Literary Award winners.
The Annual Awards Banquet is open to the public for a cost of $75 per ticket for Members and $95 per ticket for Non-Members. Attire for the evening is service dress/business formal. | aerospace |
https://www.altitude-university.com/blog/drone-license-101-most-frequently-asked-questions | 2022-05-28T01:37:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663011588.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528000300-20220528030300-00433.warc.gz | 0.939098 | 1,105 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__192338497 | en | If you’ve landed on this page, you are probably interested in gaining some additional insight into the process of acquiring your Drone License (Part 107 Certification). If so, you’ve landed in the right place! We will be discussing everything from Registering Your Drone to Frequently Asked Questions we get asked daily about taking the Part 107 Test and acquiring your Drone License.
Friendly Reminder: You must have the FAA registration certificate in your possession when flying, and are required to show it to any federal, state, or local law enforcement officer. Additionally, if you are selling your drone be sure to unregister the aircraft within your FAA DroneZone Account.
The first thing you will want to do is visit https://faadronezone.faa.gov/#/register
UAV’s flown not as model aircraft must be registered individually by the owner. Each registration is only $5, so it will not break the bank to be an aerial pilot.
The Federal Aviation Administration requires those interested in Flying Drones Commercially to pass the Part 107 Exam. You do not need a part 107 License to fly drones recreationally. However, those interested in acquiring a Part 107 Certification must demonstrate knowledge through a 60 question multiple-choice test administered by the FAA.
Students are encouraged to go through the Altitude Part 107 Test Prep course at his/her own speed, however, the FAA estimates that the average time it takes to study the material needed to pass the test is around 15- 20 hours of studying.
If you are over the age of 16 you are eligible to acquire your Drone License. Additionally, you must be able to read, speak, write, and understand English. The FAA just wants to ensure that you are both physically and mentally capable of operating a small UAS.
To recap, if you are over the age of 16, able to understand English, and are mentally capable of passing the 60 question exam, then you are more than eligible to take the Part 107 Exam and receive your Drone license.
Be sure to take a look at our Part 107 Test Prep Course to ensure you are prepared!
The Part 107 Exam is $150, and you pay online or over the phone when you schedule your test day at an FAA Approved Testing Center.
Certificate holders must pass a recurrent knowledge test every two years. The good news is, our Part 107 Test Prep gives you lifetime access to the course, so you don’t have to worry about purchasing a test prep course every 2 years.
There are a variety of different commercial applications covered in Part 107, including Public-Private Partnerships, Research Projects, Photography, Aerial Surveying & Inspection, Professional Sports Photography among a variety of other non-recreational projects.
The FAA has done a great job in establishing airspace requirements and restrictions that are to be followed when flying in the National Airspace. There are a variety of No-Drone Zones in restricted airspace that protect areas like National Parks, Government Facilities and flying directly over people. With a Part 107 Drone License, you will now have the skills to communicate with the FAA and Air Traffic Control to allow yourself more freedom when flying your drone in questionable airspaces.
Waivers are special permissions the FAA issues to authorize certain types of UAS operations not covered under the Part 107 rule. Learn more about applying for waivers to part 107.
If you already have a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA), you can continue to fly under those COA requirements until it expires. Section 333 exemption holders may operate under the terms of their exemptions and COAs until they expire. Public aircraft operators such as law enforcement agencies, state or local governments, or public universities may continue to operate under the terms of their COAs.
If you don't already have a Section 333 exemption and associated COA, and you are not conducting a public aircraft operation, you probably don't need one now that Part 107 is out. Civil UAS operations flown under the new rules do not require the UAS operator to get a COA.
Waiver processing times will vary depending on the complexity of the request. We encourage applicants to submit waiver requests well in advance of when they need a waiver – 90 days is strongly encouraged. Applicants will be notified via email about the outcome of their waiver processing.
This has been the Top 10 Most frequently asked questions surrounding the Part 107 Certification. Sign up for our Test Prep Course today at altitudepart107.com to get started making money flying drones today!
Until August 29, 2016 the rules and regulations in the U.S. were mostly unstructured in terms of the legality of flying UAV’s. Since then, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made many strides in making flying drones legal and far safer.
The Altitude University Online Part 107 Course is a test prep course aimed to help drone enthusiasts pass the exam and acquire their FAA Remote Pilot's Certificate (better known as Part 107 License) that will allow you to legally make money flying drones.
The program has been created by Brandon Trentalange who is one of the most popular entrepreneurs in the drone industry. He has over 6+ years of experience flying drones as a professional drone pilot, has consulted top corporations like NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Syngenta, and helped over 2,000+ drone operators start a career in the industry. | aerospace |
https://social.tucson.com/chinas-yutu-2-rover-still-rolling-after-nearly-4-years-on-moons-far-side/ | 2022-10-06T06:57:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337731.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006061224-20221006091224-00583.warc.gz | 0.946098 | 403 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__124569591 | en | The initial robots ever to land safely on the other side of the moon are quietly continuing their work, in accordance with a rare update on the mission.
China’s Chang’e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover set down in Von Krmn Crater back January 2019 and also have been undertaking science and exploration objectives since.
There have been too little reports on the progress of the pair lately, but a mission update coinciding with the Chinese calendar’s Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, reveals that is well with the solar-powered craft.
The six-wheeled, roughly 309-pound (140 kilograms) Yutu 2 has accumulated nearly 4,265 feet (1,300 meters) of driving in its roughly 3.5 years on the other side of the moon, based on the update from CCTV (opens in new tab). Its journey in addition has been spotted from orbit by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The rover posesses panoramic camera, with which it infamously spotted that which was initially referred to as a “mystery hut” but ended up being a rabbit-shaped rock. Yutu 2 can be built with a lunar penetrating radar, an infrared imaging spectrometer and a neutral atom detector co-developed with Sweden, and contains made numerous interesting findings on the other side of the moon.
The lander also carries science instruments and contains contributed to your knowledge of the far side of the moon.
As the lunar far side never faces Earth, China sent a relay satellite, named Queqiao, out right into a special orbit beyond the moon, and can bounce signals between your Chang’e 4 spacecraft and the planet earth.
China’s next lunar mission is likely to be Chang’e 6. The spacecraft will try to collect samples from the far side of the moon and can also need Queqiao or another satellite to talk to Earth. | aerospace |
https://www.flashtechnology.com/elmendorf-air-force-base/ | 2024-04-20T13:22:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00279.warc.gz | 0.959965 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__51381692 | en | Elmendorf Air Force Base – Anchorage, Alaska
Elmendorf AFB was established in June 1940 by the US army and transferred to the US Air Force in March 1959. It is the largest base in the state of Alaska.
Located at 62 degrees northern latitude, the base experiences 22 nights of complete darkness each winter, 80″ of annual snowfall and as low as -40 degrees C. Due to its remoteness and the extreme environment, power is a major concern.
Elmendorf was the first United States Air Force Base to trial our solar airfield lights in 2002. Solar lighting provided a solution that was easy to deploy, low-cost, reliable and maintenance-free. Solar taxiway edge lights were used to mark the engine warm-up ramp used for C-130 and F-16 take-offs and to delineate the apron for C-130 transport aircraft. Solar apron edge lights were also used to guide fighter aircraft into hangars for routine maintenance and storage. | aerospace |
https://aib.gov.ng/aib-n-ncat-rekindle-synergy-on-capacity-building-for-aviation-development-2/ | 2024-04-19T20:57:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817455.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419203449-20240419233449-00629.warc.gz | 0.964699 | 803 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__142562337 | en | AIB-N, NCAT REKINDLE SYNERGY ON CAPACITY BUILDING FOR AVIATION DEVELOPMENT
The Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB-N) and the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria (NCAT) have reaffirmed their commitment to stronger collaboration in the area of capacity development and other aviation industry projects.
The Bureau has also announced that it will launch its world-class training facility that will be the first in Africa before the end of 2023.
The Commissioner/CEO, AIB-N Mr. Akin Olateru disclosed this on Wednesday when the Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria (NCAT), Capt. Alkali Modibbo and his top management team paid him a courtesy call at the AIB corporate head office in Abuja.
The two aviation agencies also discussed areas of mutual benefits and collaboration that would further improve aviation safety and development.
In his opening remarks, the NCAT Rector, Capt. Moddibo said it is significant that continuous synergy is maintained among associate agencies, considering the global challenges facing the aviation industry that requires tremendous innovation and dedication.
The Commissioner said the AIB-N Training Centre located close to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Abuja is about 90 percent completed and should be ready at about the third quarter of 2022.
“AIB is setting up a training school which is the first of its kind in the history of Africa. That will be the first. It is a welcomed initiative. We have been talking to NCAT among great institutions in the world that teach aircraft accident investigation courses. We have worked on a curriculum and we will want us to revisit that because the training school is about 90 percent completed” he stated.
He also said the essence of the facility is to deepen training as AIB-N prioritises manpower development adding that the NCAT visit will deepen their collaboration on training.
The AIB-N Commissioner urged the NCAT to create a platform for training all non-technical personnel of the aviation industry on aviation awareness appreciation programme
Said Olateru: “This visit is in the spirit of collaboration. Training is extremely important in any organisation and that is what makes the organisation grow. Training is what has been central to what we do. So far, in the AIB, we have trained 48 of our staff at NCAT. Before the end of this year, we will be training 16 of our staff to have a private pilot license (PPL). The programme is starting February 14th this year. So far, we have trained 17 of our aircraft engineers at NCAT. We are currently having nine of our of staff on students review.”
“We have trained two of our air traffic controllers and two dispatchers at NCAT. Recently, one of the new units we set up, the Command and-Control Centre also had seven staff trained on radiotelephony. So, it is a partnership that is growing” he noted.
Olateru urged the States and Federal Government to be sponsoring students in NCAT as they used to do adding that this would enable children of poor background to benefit from NCAT training services.
Modibbo also said AIB-N’s commitment to acquiring modern facilities and manpower development resonates positively with NCAT adding that NCAT has been re-equipping to remain at the forefront in aviation education.
The Rector urged for more patronage from AIB-N even as he appreciated the synergy between the two agencies in the area of capacity development.
The Rector also stressed the efforts being made by the aviation college to enhance security in its campus adding that more than 40armed security operatives have been deployed to man the institution’s security system.
According to him both the Kaduna State and the Federal Government were working hard to ensure adequate security in the area. | aerospace |
https://newsghana.com.gh/spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-with-53-starlink-satellites/ | 2022-05-18T10:45:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662521883.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518083841-20220518113841-00795.warc.gz | 0.888071 | 106 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__24576679 | en | SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space with 53 Starlink satellites, the space company said Saturday.
“Deployment of 53 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX tweeted.
The rocket’s first stage landed on a droneship, the company said.
Falcon 9 is partially reusable. Several of SpaceX fist-stage bosters have been launched into space more than once.
Starlink satellites, operated by SpaceX, offer internet coverage in several countries via a beta-test program. | aerospace |
https://www.autoinvent.pl/en/autoinvent-system-presented-during-military-exercises-recognition-22-of-10th-swietokrzyska-brigade-of-territorial-defence-forace-and-3rd-radio-engineering-battalion-in-sandomier/ | 2024-03-03T10:18:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476211.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303075134-20240303105134-00289.warc.gz | 0.9326 | 255 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__98073647 | en | 29 September 2022
AutoInvent System presented during military exercises “Recognition-22” of 10th Świętokrzyska Brigade of Territorial Defence Forace and 3rd radio-engineering battalion in Sandomierz
The AutoInvent System, during the “Recognition-22” exercise at the Nowa Dęba Military Training Center in the Lipa region on September 12-16, was used for visual protection of the radar station. The AutoInvent System automates the monitoring using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) after replacing the measuring head with an appropriate observation head. A dedicated interface for the operator has been developed for the purposes of monitoring. Visual protection missions are carried out automatically accordingly to a flight plan prepared in advance, which may be interrupted by the operator if a threat is detected. In such a case, the operator can stop the UAV at any point on the route and direct it to the area of the detected threat. After observing the selected location, the UAV can continue the mission or return to the autonomous landing spot build on a trailer, intended for charging and storing the UAV as well as enabling communication, transmission and processing of data after the flight. | aerospace |
https://www.sibf.jp/en/honda-gp/ | 2023-12-11T03:41:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103464.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211013452-20231211043452-00083.warc.gz | 0.8553 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__62266331 | en | Hot Air Balloon Honda Grand Prix
2023 Hot Air Balloon Honda Grand Prix
Hot Air Balloon Grand Prix Management Organization（Air-B）
Honda Motor Co. Ltd
Japan Aeronautic Association（JAA）
【Rd.1】 Saku Balloon Festival 2023
May 3 (Wed)～5 (Fri), 2023Chikuma Riv. Sports Koryu Hiroba, Saku City, NAGANO [MAP]
【Rd.2】 Ichinoseki・Hiraizumi Balloon Festival 2023
Oct. 13 (Fri) ～ 15 (Sun), 2023
Ichinoseki Mizube Plaza, Ichinoseki City, IWATE [MAP]
【Rd.3】 2023 Saga International Balloon Fiesta
Nov. 1 (Wed) ～ 5 (Sun), 2023 Kase Riverbed, Saga City, SAGA [MAP]
【Rd.Final】 Tochigi-city Watarase Balloon Race 2023
Dec. 1 (Fri) ～ 3 (Sun), 2023
Fujioka Watarase Undo Park, Tochigi City, TOCHIGI [MAP]
*Schedules are subject to change.
What is 'Hot Air Balloon Grand Prix'?
Current 'Hot Air Balloon Honda Grand Prix' has started as the 4th round of '1993 Japan Grand Prix'. In 1995, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. became one of the sponsors and it is renamed as 'Hot Air Balloon Honda Grand Prix'. In 1998, when the next year of FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Saga for the 2nd time, 'Hot Air Balloon World Honda Grand Prix' which were including domestic and overseas competitions, started then, and the domestic competitions were renamed 'Hot Air Balloon Japan Honda Grand Prix'.
In Saga, the first domestic grand prix in 1993 was held and World Honda Gran Prix was also held in 2001.
'Hot Air Balloon Honda Grand Prix' was closed with good fame in 2006, and its title has been altered to 'Hot Air Balloon Honda Grand Prix' , which has been held up to now.
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http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Viper_(RDM) | 2013-12-08T12:18:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163065409/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131745-00085-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.921451 | 760 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__117238133 | en | From Battlestar Wiki, the free, open content Battlestar Galactica encyclopedia and episode guide
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The Viper is the Colonial Fleet's primary space superiority fighter/attack craft, serving the fleet in both Cylon engagements. It dates back to Caprica before the formation of the Government of the Twelve Colonies when Vipers were primarily atmospheric aircraft.
Atmospheric Vipers in the form of propeller aircraft and jet-powered aircraft are utilized on Caprica decades before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Equipped with DRADIS technology, these early Viper jets are popular with holoband users, available for flight simulations in the virtual world (CAP: "The Imperfections of Memory"). Earlier Vipers are also appear in the popular hacked environment, New Cap City (CAP: "There is Another Sky", "The Imperfections of Memory", "Ghosts in the Machine").
The Viper Mark II is the Colonial Fleet's mainstay fighter during the First Cylon War, serving with distinction throughout that conflict. Subsequently retired and replaced with newer models, Mark IIs survive into the modern era in museums - an entire squadron on display aboard the museum ship battlestar Galactica - and rusting in shipyards (TRS: Miniseries). Ten years into the First Cylon War the Viper Mark III was also put into service.
By the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the Viper Mark VII has taken up the mantle of the Mark II. However, due to its advanced construction and computer system, the standard Mark VII is vulnerable to the Cylon computer virus (TRS: Miniseries).
The Viper is designed to operate in both space and atmospheric conditions.
In space flight, the Viper is highly maneuverable, dangerously so in inexperienced hands. Reaction control system (RCS) thrusters for rapid and flexible attitude control, a cluster of 3 main thrusters for high acceleration, and retractable reverse thrusters housed in both port and starboard cowlings for some degree of deceleration can subject the pilot to punishing g-forces. Its retractable landing struts can be magnetized to secure the Viper on metal decks and surfaces in zero gravity.
In atmospheric flight, Vipers consume more Tylium fuel than in the vacuum of space. Once in an atmosphere, the engines must run continuously to maintain sufficient airflow over the wing lifting surfaces. Depending on the composition of the atmosphere itself, this can place severe strain on the Viper's engines (TRS: "You Can't Go Home Again"). In addition to greater fuel consumption, the high wing load (i.e. small wing area relative to weight) may compromise the Viper's overall maneuverability. Because the smaller wing surfaces generate less lift, higher speeds are needed to stay aloft. The fighter's RCS thrusters might partially compensate for this.
Viper cockpits are pressurized and heated, and pilots wear flight suits which, along with a breathing pack housed within the back, provide full life support should ejection be required (TRS: "You Can't Go Home Again)". In atmospheric ejections, the seat jettisons automatically once clear of the Viper, exposing a parachute which is deployed at a safe altitude (TRS: "Act of Contrition", "Razor").
Viper cockpits are also hardened against radiation, including a canopy made of a radiation-resistant glass and is capable of protecting a pilot against radiation levels that would kill a healthy human in 30 seconds (Blood and Chrome)
Because of the stamina required to operate Vipers, battlestars have a specialized weight room where the pilots maintain their physical condition. | aerospace |
https://www.paragonflight.com/recreational/instrument-pilot-rating.html | 2024-02-26T00:16:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474649.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225234904-20240226024904-00002.warc.gz | 0.921772 | 461 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__145568599 | en | The instrument rating (or IFR for short) is typically the next step after you complete your private pilot certificate (PPL). This entire training course focuses on learning to safely fly the aircraft utilizing the aircraft avionics, radios, communication and navigation equipment alone.
Because weather is unpredictable, it is almost essential to have an instrument rating if you plan to fly long distances, at night or cross-country often. As a private pilot, you are restricted to flying under VFR rules (looking out the windows) and therefore are limited when you can fly. An instrument pilot is able to fly in less than perfect weather and through clouds using the aircraft’s precision guidance instrumentation.
Our instrument training curriculum is FAA Part 141 approved. This means our program has met the highest training standards designated by the Federal Aviation Administration. As a bonus, FAA approval also allows our students to enjoy fewer required flight hours, with the average student completing the training 35-45 hours of flight time.
Optionally, the student can elect to use our Level 5 FTD simulator to substitute up to 40% of their flight lessons (14 flight hours). That’s a significant cost savings.
Each student’s IFR program is custom developed to meet their personal needs, goals and lifestyle.
Our IFR course is divided into three stages integrating simulator, flight and academic lessons.
- Stage 1: Emphasizes basic IFR flight operations. The student will learn precision airplane attitude control by instrument reference and gain greater competence in the use of navigations systems.
- Stage 2: Introduce and train the student in holding patterns and instrument approaches, including circling and missed approach procedures. The student will learn to correctly perform holding patterns and accurate instrument approaches using full and partial panel techniques.
- Stage 3: Introduce the student to IFR cross-country procedures and to increase the student’s proficiency to the level required of an instrument rated pilot.
Our training instrument courses are specifically designed for Technically Advanced Aircraft (TAA). Our entire fleet is designated TAA and feature the Garmin G1000 “glass cockpit” avionics package. By training in a technically advanced aircraft under a FAA Part 141 syllabus you are ensured to get the most advanced flight training available. | aerospace |
http://www.hotfrog.co.nz/business/waikato/taupo/izardair/scenic-flights-26251 | 2017-03-01T20:44:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501174276.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104614-00117-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.80703 | 146 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__169205979 | en | Take to the skies with an aerial adventure
over the world’s largest crater, Lake Taupo.
Experience the majestic Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu Volcanoes up close and
personal. Live the excitement of flying above the exceptional scenery rich
landscape of New Zealand.
Izardair provides professional, safe and memorable journeys for people
from all over the world. Our highly experienced, knowledgeable pilots provide
in-flight commentaries offering lots of local information, legends and history
as you travel on one of our exciting journeys. We can take you to the Tongariro
National Park, Mt Tarawera, White Island or an interesting birds-eye view over | aerospace |
https://procommun.com/2022/05/news/business-news/dgca-starts-probe-into-durgapur-flight-turbulence-spicejet-says-flyers-were-told-to-remain-seated/ | 2022-08-14T01:41:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00423.warc.gz | 0.961563 | 527 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__39106551 | en | In the wake of a severe turbulence incident involving SpiceJet’s Mumbai-Durgapur flight on May 2, 2022, the aviation regulator DGCA has put together a multidisciplinary investigation team.
SpiceJet’s Mumbai-Durgapur flight said on Monday had the seat belt sign-on, and crew members made multiple announcements asking passengers to remain seated.
Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said, “The turbulence encountered by a flight while landing in Durgapur, and the damage caused to the passengers is unfortunate. The DGCA has deputed a team to investigate the incident,”
The turbulence encountered by a flight while landing in Durgapur, and the damage caused to the passengers is unfortunate. The @DGCAIndia has deputed a team to investigate the incident. The matter is being dealt with utmost seriousness & deftness.
— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) May 2, 2022
The matter is being dealt with utmost seriousness and deftness, he said.
“More details on the cause(s) will be shared once the investigation is completed,” Scindia noted.
A total of 15 people – 12 passengers and three cabin crew members were injured in this flight due to severe turbulence, said officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
DGCA chief Arun Kumar told PTI, “We have deputed a multidisciplinary team to carry out regulatory investigation (into this incident).”
On Monday, a SpiceJet spokesperson said, “Eleven passengers travelling on SpiceJet flight SG-945 from Mumbai to Durgapur on May 1, which encountered severe turbulence during descent which unfortunately resulted in injuries to a few passengers, were hospitalised.”
Eight of those hospitalised have been discharged so far, the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said it is providing all possible help to the injured.
“The seat belt sign was on when the aircraft encountered turbulence. Multiple announcements were made by the pilots and the crew instructed passengers to remain seated and keep their seat belt fastened,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Due to severe turbulence, injuries were caused to a few passengers, the spokesperson noted.
“Timely medical assistance was provided upon arrival,” the spokesperson added.
(With Inputs from PTI)
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https://www.simcoders.com/2017/09/20/training-pilots-together-uncertifiedpilot/ | 2024-04-12T18:19:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816045.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412163227-20240412193227-00201.warc.gz | 0.959096 | 1,406 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__202684415 | en | Introducing Tim Post, aka UncertifiedPilot
Among others, Tim shared his experience with us. He provided great feedback while testing REP for the Cessna 172 and he is now our partner in spreading the word of aviation training with X-Plane.
Here is his story.
Hi Tim, welcome to Simcoders. Could you tell us a bit about your mission and story?
Hi, Claudio. Absolutely, it’s my pleasure to be here.
I believe we all long to be student pilots. That is why I love to demonstrate the thrill and opportunity of home flight simulation to develop real-world flight skills. I do so by live streaming my own VFR and IFR flight simulator training to Twitch. I call myself the UncertifiedPilot.
My story began about two years ago. I learned that home flight simulation software had greatly evolved since the last time I used it. Airplanes had become more realistic, weather engines had become more complex, and live ATC had become available. To me, home flight simulation had matured and was calling me back. This time, for keeps.
As a teenager, I always dreamt about flying my own little Skyhawk someday, across challenging weather and scenic landscapes, while sounding like a pro on the radios. Given the opportunity that modern-day flight simulation now offered for flight training, I decided to teach myself to become the best Instrument Rated simpilot I could be.
I built myself a home flight simulator cockpit on the basis of a Cessna Skyhawk 172 model, bought myself a new high-end computer with flight controls, installed the most advanced flight simulator software I could get my hands on, and started practicing real-world VFR and IFR flight procedures by King Schools, Sporty’s and AOPA.
In addition, I decided to live stream my every training flight to Twitch, hoping to find same-spirited simpilots who would perhaps be willing to help me advance my training. I found them. And they began to help me.
What started as a cute project, surprisingly, grew into a popular VFR and IFR video training series that today attracts simpilots and real-world pilots from around the world. I recently completed my VFR flight training, I taught my girlfriend to fly and have since began my Instrument Rating training.
I’m having a blast and have set my sights on earning my Private Pilot License in the near future.
We too have been watching your flight training episodes since the beginning. We love your character and your excitement about flight simulator training. Just to be clear to our readers who do not yet know about Twitch, what is it about?
Twitch is a website where you can watch others play video games, live, and for free. Anyone with a decent internet connection can stream to Twitch.
And because you are watching live video feeds, you can chat with these ‘streamers’ while they play their favorite games and you can chat with others who watch the stream with you. In a way, Twitch offers live television on the web, but tailored specifically around video gaming and online community building.
What value does Twitch bring to the flight simulation community?
In recent years, simpilots too have started to stream their flights to Twitch. Some simpilots have attracted thousands of followers who have come to enjoy watching their flights every time they go live.
New online communities of simpilots arise at Twitch that subscribe to their favorite simpilots and come to learn about the joy of home flight simulation through watching their live streams. Many viewers buddy-up and fly together. Or feel inspired to start to stream their own flights to Twitch too.
In my view, Twitch is the next big thing in the world of flight simulation. We seem to be getting less interested in merely reading about flight simulation on the forums and more interested in meeting the simpilots who bring life to their flight simulation practice. The hobby is getting more social. Very exciting times, I think.
What distinguishes you from other simpilots?
Well, opposed to most, I don’t fly to impress my viewers with my understanding and skills of flight. Rather, I fly to inspire my viewers about the excitement of not knowing how to fly yet. To show the joy of challenging oneself to fly better each day, to find inspiration from failing at times, and to find gratification in taking time to carefully master the many aspects of flying. It’s being an uncertified, student pilot that fuels me to fly.
I have little interest in flying big airliners that basically fly themselves on autopilot for hours on end. At Twitch, and I think in the flight simulation community at large too, I perceive most simpilots to be autopilot programmers first and aviators second. Most times at Twitch you will only find static Airbus or Boeing cockpit feeds where actually little flying is happening. Also, very little learning. Yet, some of these simpilots manage to attract hundreds of live viewers.
Instead, I love flying a rusty Skyhawk, by hand and by the book, and always in purpose of challenging myself to learn something new. To improve my flying and to expand my intellectual horizons as a result of it. To me, the thrill of flight simulation is not so much about ‘flying a plane’ but rather about learning to fly a plane. Flying VFR with steam gauges, around crowded Charlie and Delta class airspace, with live ATC, is most gratifying and challenging to me.
So no matter what time you jump aboard one of my live streams, I’m always learning. It’s exciting to me to see what power my growth mindset has in sparking others to learn to fly as well. I feel grateful to be able to give back to our community this way.
We are very proud to have you as a partner. From your perspective, what added value does Simcoders bring to your journey as a simpilot?
I’m a student pilot. That means that I’m all about the excitement of learning to fly. The Reality Expansion Pack by Simcoders is made for us student pilots. It provides me with ever more opportunity to master and enjoy the intricate skills of flying small GA aircraft. You have brought my Skyhawk to life.
It excites me to see Simcoders enabling flight simulator training this way. That is why I feel as proud to team-up with Simcoders and together promote the thrill and opportunity of modern-day home flight simulation to develop real-world flight skills.
Thank you, Tim, for sharing your experience with us and our readers. We’re all supporting you in your amazing adventure in the virtual skies of X-Plane! | aerospace |
https://wiki.control.fel.cvut.cz/mediawiki/index.php/Dp_441_en | 2021-05-12T01:56:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991693.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20210512004850-20210512034850-00544.warc.gz | 0.907507 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__117230719 | en | Dp 441 en
Stabilization and control of unmanned quadcopter
Author: Jiřinec Tomáš
Recent development in the fields of MEMS sensors, miniature, energy efficient and very powerful microcontrollers and microprocessors has given the opportunity to build small autonomous flying vehicles. This thesis is studying one type of these vehicles, so called quadrotor. The quadrotor is flying vehicle similar to helicopter but having four rotors which are situated in one plane. Each propeller is actuated by an independently controlled motor. This feature allows to control Euler angles of the quadrotor such as yaw, pitch and roll thus giving the possibility to control quadrotor's position and velocity. The CTU Department of Cybernetics bought such a quadrotor prototype called Linkquad. The goal is to use this prototype for indoor flights using camera vision as a navigation reference. Unfortunately the prototype has no autonomous control loops implemented. The focal point of this thesis is design of a control law for the already mentioned prototype. This leads to other tasks such as an identification of the models 's parameters, creating mathematical nonlinear model, linearization of this model in certain trim points, design and testing of the linear controller and finally implementation and testing using the real system.
- Tomáš Jiřinec, mailto:email@example.com | aerospace |
http://fabacademy.org/2018/labs/fablabamsterdam/students/hanna-lakk/ | 2021-10-25T14:03:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587711.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025123123-20211025153123-00447.warc.gz | 0.935382 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__67371852 | en | The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is the biggest establishment of the European Space Agency (ESA). With its numerous lab facilities and test centre it is responsible for the technical preparation and management of ESA's space projects by providing technical support to ESA’s satellite, space exploration and human spaceflight activities. One of the recent plans of ESA is to set up a Fab Lab at the premises of ESTEC for the employees, partners from industry and academia, space start-ups and the local community. In that way ESA hopes to bring in diverse and innovative ideas for the space related projects, provide a facility for fast prototyping and digital manufacturing, and strengthen collaboration between ESA and the community outside. Working as a space architect at ESTEC one of my responsibilities includes managing the establishment of this lab, which is why I am following Fab Academy 2018 in Amsterdam to gain more insight into the various activities and possibilities of a Fab Labs. Read more about my background here. | aerospace |
http://translib.blogspot.com/2007/10/dreamlike-dreamliner-disaster-continues.html | 2018-06-22T13:28:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864482.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622123642-20180622143642-00408.warc.gz | 0.965296 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__196432531 | en | Both NPR and the prestigious New York Times are reporting today on the new six month delay for Boeing's new 787 'Dreamliner' aircraft. Boeing's original announcement is here. This new delay supplements a host of other concerns, as outlined in the Times article:
Earlier this year, Boeing warned that a worldwide shortage of fasteners that hold the plane’s fuselage, wing and tail sections together was slowing down assembly of the first test aircraft. Last month, the company said that in addition to the fastener shortage, Boeing and its production partners had run into unanticipated snags involving the availability of certain specialized parts for the plane as well as the programming of its flight-control software. Mike Bair, general manager of the 787 program, conceded at the time that these problems had added “increased risk” that there would be delivery delays.
Could Dan Rather's spurious reporting record on George Bush's sterling past finally be vindicated through his predicted failure of the Dreamliner's fuselage? | aerospace |
https://en.apa.az/infrastructure/norilsk-ufa-baku-flights-to-launch-in-october-292027 | 2023-12-06T11:30:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100593.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206095331-20231206125331-00166.warc.gz | 0.933813 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__231753363 | en | Russian airline NordStar has started to sell tickets on Norilsk-Ufa-Baku flights, APA-Economics reports citing the Company.
The flights on the aforementioned route will start on October 27. The flights from Norilsk to Ufa will be carried out on Fridays at 11:30 with local time every week, while the flights in the opposite direction will be fulfilled on Sundays at 01:10 every week.
The passengers will be able to fly from Ufa to Baku on Fridays. The flights will be implemented by Boeing 737-800 plane at 15:30 with local time, while in the opposite direction at 19:00.
The flight from Baku to Ufa lasts for 3 hours | aerospace |
https://www.breakingnewsturkey.com/tech/turkey-to-use-drones-for-delivering-goods | 2024-04-12T21:22:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816070.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412194614-20240412224614-00511.warc.gz | 0.909431 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__64433402 | en | Turkey is setting up infrastructure for the delivery of goods by drones.
The Turkish General Directorate of Civil Aviation (SHGM) is developing a management model to authorize drones to operate for civilian purposes.
This model aims to use Turkish civil airspace effectively, safely, and efficiently.
It will centrally monitor the movement of air corridors of more than 50,000 drones.
Once the plan is smoothed out, test flights will be conducted between two hospitals in Istanbul.
The drones will carry lightweight medicines until June 6.
They can also be used to collect blood samples and supply vaccines in hard-to-reach locations. | aerospace |
https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/500781 | 2019-10-15T19:27:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986660231.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20191015182235-20191015205735-00247.warc.gz | 0.917651 | 586 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__82654434 | en | NBC Evening News for Tuesday, Sep 26, 1978
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(Studio) New information on San Diego plane collision/crash noted; possibility that another Cessna plane was in area and that jet pilot saw wrong Cessna in acknowledging warning of air controllers reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(San Diego, California) Investigators' attempts to piece planes together stated. [MAN - describes part of plane.] Diagram shown and details given of speculation with regard to collision of 2 planes. Preparation for landing by Pacific Southwest Airlines flight today mentioned. Control tower tapes of warning to Cessna and garbled response noted. Amateur photographer's photo, printed in "San Diego Union" newspaper, described. [National Trans. Safety Board spokesperson Philip HOGUE - discusses tower clearances given PSA flight and lack of' any given Cessna.] Hogue's meeting with San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson mentioned. Contd. search and recovery efforts reported Upcoming public hearing on crash and safety of San Diego airport stated. Lindbergh Field mentioned.
REPORTER: Don Oliver (KCST-TV news film, San Diego)
(Studio) Present dependence of pilots on own viewing, with help from ground control, in sighting other planes stated. Airline pilots' demands for electronic warning system reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Federal Aviation Administration development of airborne collision avoidance system noted. Testimony to House hearing by airline pilots that system doesn't work and that Federal Aviation Administration still plans to cause pilot to have to watch for self stated. [Airline Pilots Association president John O'DONNELL - says accidents will continue as long as this method is used.] [Representative Toby MOFFETT - thinks it incredible that airline passengers' safety is left to man looking out window.] [O'DONNELL - says Federal Aviation Administration won't move until certain number of people have been killed.] Pilots' assessment that FAA-developed anticollision system wouldn't have saved Monday's crash because it's not useful in busy area reported O'Donnell's call for resignation of Federal Aviation Administration chief Langhorne Bond mentioned. [BOND - says air- or ground-based system dispute has gone on for some time and that FAA is-working on system to be used in both places.] Pilots' response to this given.
REPORTER: James Polk
(Studio) Investigator Philip Hogue's report of calm with which Pacific Southwest Airlines pilot said plane was going down and answer from tower described.
REPORTER: John Chancellor | aerospace |
https://sap.io/discrete-industries/ | 2023-09-26T21:59:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510225.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926211344-20230927001344-00100.warc.gz | 0.892789 | 92 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__19408320 | en | Aerospace & Defense
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Deliver personalized mobility at scale and as a service through a customer-centric ecosystem. | aerospace |
https://www.thedailybeast.com/endeavour-departs-cape-canaveral | 2023-09-29T00:06:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510462.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928230810-20230929020810-00805.warc.gz | 0.930109 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__305142071 | en | Space shuttle Endeavour took off from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday—though while bolted to the top of a jumbo jet. Endeavour, NASA’s youngest space shuttle, flew to Houston, where it will stay overnight before heading to Los Angeles. Once in California, it will eventually become an exhibit at the California Space Center. Endeavour debuted in 1992 and it flew 128 million miles, before it was retired last year along with the rest of the shuttle fleet.
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https://www.dronewatch.eu/implementing-regulation-2021-664-on-the-u-space-regulatory-framework-published/ | 2024-02-22T14:01:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473819.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222125841-20240222155841-00137.warc.gz | 0.938009 | 841 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__176560274 | en | On April 23, the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/664 of April 22, 2021 was published on a regulatory framework for U-Space that will allow the start of the U2 phase of provision of services with drones within the U -Space for drones.
This regulation represents a great advance for the development of drones “U-space is a way of responding to the growth of UAS operations in European airspace”, adding “A U-space regulation must guarantee equitable access to operators of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to airspace in a profitable way through a competitive services market ”, that is, it is the step towards the widespread use of drones as one more element of airspace and, in Consequently, the take-off of this technology.
The entry into force of this regulation has required several regulatory modifications through Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/665 of April 22, 2021, which modifies Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373 as regards regarding the requirements for air traffic management / air navigation service providers and other functions of the air traffic management network in designated U-Space airspace in controlled airspace and the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/666 of the Commission of April 22, 2021 amending Regulation (EU) No. 923/2012 as regards the requirements for manned aviation operating in U-Space airspace (Relevant text for EEA purposes)
What is U-space?
U-space is the name that the European Union has given to the project that involves the creation of its own UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) system, which has already been developed since 2017 and which is expected to be gradually implemented in the future. European airspace, including cities.
A UTM system is a set of methods, processes and tools with which to coordinate the air traffic of unmanned aircraft with that of manned aircraft. The system creates a series of processes and tools that allow the circulation of drones in the most automated and safe way possible in areas where coordination is necessary, either with other drones such as air traffic (ATC – Air Traffic Control) or other authorities.
Initially, the objective is to coordinate the use of these aircraft in low altitude airspace (up to 120 meters above ground level), limiting for the moment to those considered small (up to a maximum of 25 kg of takeoff weight).
A UTM system must allow the coordination of the country’s air authority, who will launch in real time the restrictions it considers at all times, with the drone operators, who will be responsible for complying with said restrictions. The objective, in addition, is to avoid saturating the air authority with a large number of requests for both information and permits, so the UTM system must be able to automate this type of task with the operators.
The objective of a UTM system, in addition to guaranteeing safety, is not to collapse the air authorities in charge of managing airspace due to the increase in the use of drones.
That is why the publication for consultation of the new draft on the U-space Framework represents a very important step in the development and facilitation of drones in Europe.
In the following video posted by SESAR Joint Undertaking, you can see how it will work. You can also refer to our background article about U-space.
The development phases of U-Space are four:
- Phase U1: Initial and basic services of the U-space, to highlight both the registration and the electronic identification as well as the geofencing system).
- Phase U2: Initial U-space services for flight management. This includes the creation of a system for flight planning, permit approval, monitoring and conventional interaction with air traffic control (ATC).
- Phase U3: Support services for more complex situations within the U-space system, such as automation for the resolution of conflicts between aircraft that interfere with each other, as well as obstacle detection and avoidance functionalities.
- Phase U4: Implementation of all U-space services, including high levels of process automation and interconnection between aircraft, pilots, authorities and other responsible and interested parties. | aerospace |
https://www.weasyl.com/~xcytilinsk/submissions/1738859/lejendairidan-airlock-boarding-system-wip-part-1 | 2019-10-23T02:59:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987828425.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023015841-20191023043341-00467.warc.gz | 0.960924 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__59716585 | en | 2 February 2019 at 07:49:21 MST
Some progress on a umbilical system which will interconnect spacecraft with the space station above the planet Lejendairida. I haven't started on the station its self yet but I figured I'd start with a smaller component and work my way from there.
It still needs some work with materials and textures and the airlock doors aren't all there yet. The final space station will be connected to a huge space elevator sort of thing. | aerospace |
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