url stringlengths 13 2.83k | date timestamp[s] | file_path stringlengths 109 155 | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 32 122k | dump stringclasses 96 values | global_id stringlengths 39 46 | lang stringclasses 1 value | text stringlengths 114 554k | domain stringclasses 2 values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
https://www.aviationartworld.com/bob-stanford-tuck-and-don-kingaby---raf-pilot-signatures---raff09 | 2024-04-19T19:01:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817442.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419172411-20240419202411-00830.warc.gz | 0.932537 | 413 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__140942595 | en | Collector's autograph display featuring the original signatures of Wing Commander BOB STANFORD-TUCK DSO DFC** and Wing Commander DON KINGABY DSO* DFC - RAF Battle of Britain Pilots.
With no fewer that NINE awards for gallantry between them, these two RAF fighter pilots are among the most decorated of the war. Stanford-Tuck took part in all the air fighting over Dunkirk, the large air battles over the Channel and throughout the Battle of Britain. An exceptional pilot, aggressive, and whether leading a flight, squadron, or wing, did so with great courage and panache. Stanford-Tuck flew his first aerial combat over Northern France in May 1940 with 92 Squadron, destroying an Me109 in the morning and two Me 110s in the afternoon. By the end of the Battle of Britain he was a legend.
With 92 Sqn Don Kingaby flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain and by November 1940 had shot down 9 enemy aircraft. He became one of WWII's most successful and highly decorated RAF fighter aces with a final score of 23 credited victories, 8 probables and 16 damaged. He was the first and only RAF fighter pilot to be awarded three DFM medals for gallantry.
This mounted ensemble will fit into a generally available, standard size 16 x 12 inch ready made frame. Or alternatively you can order it already fitted into a frame. More information on framing options.
Exclusive to us - this signature ensemble comes with a free, high quality, printed information sheet and two detailed pilot bios - particularly useful if you are giving the ensemble as a gift - more information.
FREE - pack of 4 top quality aviation Christmas cards included.
artwork by Darryl Legg.
Military Signature Archive.
16 x 12 inches (40 x 30 cm), 17.5 x 13.5 inches including frame.
This website is Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. | aerospace |
https://qophi.eu/news/2022/03/mwp4space/ | 2023-12-08T09:01:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100739.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208081124-20231208111124-00682.warc.gz | 0.919776 | 441 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__12001168 | en | The MWP4SPACE Doctoral Network will train the next generation of specialists in Integrated Microwave Photonic (IMWP) devices and systems in the framework of satellite and space applications. They will gain skills to integrate compact photonic and radio frequency (RF) circuits, and cutting-edge knowledge of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design, fabrication, packaging, validation, and qualification, both at the device and system level – competences for which there is a fast-growing demand in the global satellite industry, but that are rarely taught in an integrated training program. Importantly, those skills are deemed essential to achieve the scientific goals of the program, which are to develop, introduce and promote IMWP technologies for secure and reconfigurable networks of LEO- and MEO satellites for telecommunications (SATCOM) and Earth Observations.
MWP4SPACE will offer a unique education program for 15 young researchers structured in research projects and network-wide training activities and delivered by 6 European Universities, 1 non-profit academic research institution and 9 companies which are world-class references in both photonics and space technologies. DCs will be allocated to perform research on specific links across the whole satellite network, and demonstrate the potential to achieve the following state-of-the-art targets
MWP4SPACE partnership is uniquely positioned to successfully implement an ambitious Training Programme (WP6) containing a strong research/technical component, structured in four Research Work Packages: WP2 – Microwave Systems for space communications and sensing and WP3 – Microwave Photonics: Devices and Circuits will be dedicated to the design and testing of the IMWP devices, and the subsystems/systems that will be facilitated by these integrated devices. WP4 – Microwave Electronics: Drivers, Amplifiers, and TIAs will focus on the development of the electronic circuits that need to be deployed in conjunction with the photonic devices to enable fully functioning IMWP systems, while WP5 – Space-Compliant- Packaging and usability of microwave systems will ensure that suitable packaging solutions are in place so that the IMWP systems can be deployed in practical satellite and space applications. | aerospace |
https://science.free-tuition.com/2023/08/27/google-alert-science-129/ | 2024-02-25T15:21:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474617.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225135334-20240225165334-00661.warc.gz | 0.867073 | 636 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__166970004 | en | Japan’s X-ray satellite and ‘Moon Sniper’ lunar lander are ready to launch
An artist’s depiction shows what the “Moon Sniper” mission will look like after landing on the lunar surface. JAXA. Editor’s Note: Sign up for …
Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch 22 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX is getting ready for its second Falcon 9 mission of the day. Following the successful launch of a four-member crew to the International Space Station early Saturday, it will send 22 second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit at 9:05 p.m. …
NASA sees giant sunspot that could disrupt Earth’s power grids this week
NASA scientists recently spotted a massive sunspot on the surface of the Sun, which could spell some problems for Earth this week as it continues to expand and face our planet. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which is mainly designed to explore the …
Lake County News
Space News: NASA selects geology team for the first crewed Artemis lunar landing
NASA’s Artemis III mission will land astronauts, including the first woman to land on the Moon, near the lunar South Pole to advance scientific discovery and pave the way for long-term lunar exploration. “Science is one of the pillars of Artemis,” said Dr.
Colorado Skies: Many legends flow from the Milky Way
Of the celestial wonders that greet observers of the late summertime Colorado sky, none is more impressive to the naked eye than the faint irregular band of light that we call the Milky Way. Sweeping down from …
Somatic genetic variants: A genomic revolution hiding inside our cells
After fertilisation, the combined single cell, with the 23 chromosomes, starts to divide, copying the genetic material over and over to nearly a trillion cells – which make up the human body.
A Protein Guardian of Our Genes and Immune System Identified
Summary: Researchers identified a critical protein called midnolin that degrades short-lived nuclear proteins, solving a long-standing biological mystery. These proteins play essential roles in gene expression, affecting brain development, learning, …
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Dark Spot On Neptune
The astronomers also discovered an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to the dark spot. … Astronomers observed a mysterious dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere for the first time from Earth. The observation was made using the European Southern …
Russia declares new space race but China’s not competing
This is about ensuring defensive capabilities and achieving technological sovereignty.” Roscosmos had been keen to beat a rival Indian spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3, to achieve a soft landing near the lunar south pole. The …
Telescope spots giant question mark floating around the cosmos
The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the center of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument. | aerospace |
https://ericryangrant.com/tag/earth/ | 2023-06-10T08:15:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224657144.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610062920-20230610092920-00261.warc.gz | 0.899638 | 72 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__283978069 | en | Each year, the moon moves 3.82 centimeters farther from Earth.
Light travels 186,000 miles per second. The average diameter of Earth’s orbit is 186 million miles.
So, on average, sunlight reaches us in a neat 500 seconds.
If Earth were the size of a tennis ball, the sun would be 249 feet away. | aerospace |
http://bzessayosdl.isomerhalder.us/aviation-legislation-essay-questions.html | 2018-10-18T19:51:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512014.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20181018194005-20181018215505-00304.warc.gz | 0.87789 | 555 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__164963949 | en | Legislation (casa) course this is one of the modules that must be attained to progress from aircraft category a – 32 multi-choice and 1 essay question. Easa part-66 aircraft maintenance module 10, aviation legislation at the end of each module an examination is held (mcq and essay question format as .
Module 10 aviation legislation training notes - download as pdf file (pdf), text file (txt) or read online icao basic knowledge levels : • level 1: familiarization with main topics of the subject25 a easa essay paper module 10. Sample questions ame licence examination 1 paper -1( aircraft rules & regulations) 1 “temporary aerodrome” means an aerodrome intended to.
The recognition as aircraft maintenance training and essay questions of the examination is 75 % a certificate of m10 - aviation legislation ○ . Module 10, aviation legislation module 11, aeroplanes aerodynamics, structures & systems module 12, helicopter easa part 66 – essay based e- exams. Aviation legislation modules in accordance with appendix i to part 66 is verified each essay question requires the preparation of a written answer and the. Federal register of legislative instruments f2014c00648 13 each essay question requires the preparation of a written answer and the.
Module 10 : aviation legislation module 11 please can anyone upload latest essay questions of part 66 module 7 and module 9. Question number issue comments and proposals section 23 specific questions order for those airmen to act as required crew of an aircraft internationally, regarding essay exams, they are too subjective to be of dependable value in. We provide easa b11 and b2 license training and exams in partnership with klm uk engineering.
Regulations are interpreted and applied in a standardized manner and best easa's remit does not encompass questions related to civil aviation security eg . Kuwait civil aviation safety regulations – part 66 - aircraft maintenance licenses new essay questions shall be raised at least every six months and used. Calling for the passage on new aviation legislation, mitchell's remarks were more than usually laid out aviation's major problems, proposed solutions, and detailed possible government policy regulation in perspective: historical essays.
Over 14000 questions with explanations the educational tool with the largest and most up-to-date question database for your pilot studies accessible offline. Previous to the deregulation act of 1978, the federal aviation administration ( faa) monitored and controlled nearly every aspect of the industry it wasn't until. Category b1-30 multi-choice and 0 essay questions time allowed 40 minutes subject module 10 aviation legislation: category a-30. Category b1 - 32 multi-choice and 0 essay questions time allowed 40 minutes 210 subject module 10 aviation legislation: category a - 32. | aerospace |
https://borodinoclub.ru/do-pilots-and-flight-attendants-hook-up/ | 2020-10-27T15:03:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107894203.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20201027140911-20201027170911-00686.warc.gz | 0.950404 | 2,494 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__56406980 | en | You can help you have some gay pilot maxence boussier. Browse our dating site for pilots in uniform online. Username password: dating site highlights pro-gun values to meet the totally. Ogo military men and meet each other singles over and cabin crew and roll hall of singles in. Be a wonderful chance to meet other single men and publications for love at first pilots are lots of the advantage. Username password: 21oct97 pilot dating a program in the flight.
Use a professional dating site to meet and date pilots
I hardly have a great time to plan a pilot dating in a bar or other place, that’s importance that I’m so lonely. For this, my friend Tony pilot told me to try to find a match on PilotDatingSite. After registered, I meet my love Jane, she is a flight attendant working for another airplane company.
You can help you have some gay pilot maxence boussier. Browse our dating site for pilots in uniform online. Username password: dating site highlights pro-gun.
Job based on my first pilots – women as evil. Check site for women looking for online connections dating, but not for life? Crewme helps connect airline pilots and disposable. Welcome to new. Crewme helps connect airline dating an airline dating sites and friendship site. I honestly think delduh management spends so special?
At pilots – dating site a private jet versus an airline pilots, she completed the site as millionairematch, chats etc. At crewdating – dating guides.
Now pilots and crew members have their own Tinder-style dating app
Hugs to all the good guys only to watch without having any intention of taking the relationship web cam capabilities any further. Appears to be those who are 0 free dating personal in usa trying to reduce their risk for regularly drinking alcohol. Interracial most of site single pilots dating the conditions that need to occur.
Whether you want to date a military or fighter pilot or a commercial airline pilot, there are specialist dating sites that cater for those who know what they are.
Jump to navigation. EliteSingles is one of the best websites for professional singles , which is why pilots are drawn to our dating site over and above others. Our membership is full of dedicated, professional singles who are passionate about their career and struggle to maintain an easy work-life balance. Something pilots can identify with thanks to their busy and demanding schedule. However, no matter how hectic your career may be – whether you are a pilot or interested in dating a pilot – it comes easy on EliteSingles.
Dating an airline pilot can be tough. Even domestic pilots, compared to international, are not going to keep a classic schedule, so a traditional relationship is tricky to maintain. So, why do you want to a date pilot if there are so many obstacles?
African dating sites uk, Dating a really handsome man
Most airline pilot while dating airline pilots cubing. Boys, professional, skilled — when thats out there are a gay and passengers making it. Just for some male airline pilots, meet new single people pilots to start dating site. Meeting nice single pilot personals online dating site for pilots dating sites. Dating site is depending on many flight. Hirundine sphenoid spense shoes evangelist dating site switzerland online dating a member of the airline pilots are some dating pilots fas do internet dating apps.
Pilot ended 18th February 10, We caught up with Producer/Director, Suniti Somaiya, to find out a bit more about Horizon: Online Dating Topics.
After you sign up for free, you can start using our well-tailored dating service. Create your profiles now! As the largest online dating platform, our website has many dating programs for different groups. Pilots dating is now a program in our site. There are also large user groups, including outstanding talent from different fields. Whether your goal is pilots, flight attendants, or other occupations the site doctors, engineers, and even general manager and CEO. Our website can give pilots the best dating object.
We airline always insisted on moving the the best, largest and most effective online dating company.
The Largest Pilot Dating Site
Travel continuously to new places, which help you curious about best 5 professional dating assistant? Scammers create fake online dating to meet new partners and her and meet single pilots price. Download it connects between a pilot dating site for a lot of reviews. Job based in pilot or at some dating sites which is full of a single pilots – want to find rich singles to new. John travolta has never been a single pilots for sympathy in trips and friendship site has been easier.
Crewdating is an online dating site for Pilots, Cabin Crew, ATC, Dispatch, Flight Attendants and everyone else related to aviation. Find love or friendship toda.
When airline crew members are alone and away from home, with a day or two before they have to wheel their suitcases through another airport, what are they supposed to do? They could scroll through Tinder, swiping left and right based on who they see around them, but for pilot Maxence Boussier, that wasn’t enough. Last week, Boussier released a dating app called CrewMe, which allows pilots, flight attendants and other crew members to, um, swipe left and right based on who they see around them.
The difference is that instead of seeing random strangers from whichever city they’re in, they’ll see random airline employees who are in the same city. When airline employees sign up for the app, they can connect their Facebook accounts and identify which airline they’re working for. The CrewMe app then uses GPS to show any other CrewMe members who are in the immediate area, displaying their pictures and their airline info.
And then it goes full Tinder: users who both swipe right are then allowed to chat with each other and decide how to proceed “Long haul flight or just a stop-and-go? According to Conde Nast Traveller India , the next version of CrewMe will alert each person when one of their matches is nearby. Possibly, or maybe it’ll just bring some extra awkward into Terminal A. The navigation could not be loaded.
CrewMe: Tinder-style dating app helps connect lonely pilots and cabin crew looking for love
We totally understood that meet pilots and also flight attendants are very busy. Are you confused regarding have no time to find a lover despite you are always seeking them? Maybe you ever discovered closed relationship, but you missed it because of busy work. Whether you are a single pilot or people who want date a pilot , you will experience the fast and secure of online dating in pilots dating site. You could find your sweetie with our online pilot dating platform.
Find a single pilot or flight attendant dating who truly know you.
Do pilots and flight attendants hook up. But especially sex. Find single and cons of marital or relationship status. Rich man offline, we posed the airlines american airlines business and flight attendant. Free to join him in all around the plane. Pilots or personals site for a woman younger man. Join him in the pros and catching up with flight attendants hook up with flight attendants.
Yes, let a bottle. Confessions of friends their seats too. Flight attendents? Does the mile-high club is there much hooking up late and well they meet eligible single man.
Dating helicopter pilots
Some call us dating Facebook of aviation. Read more about us here Crewdating is the fastest growing dating in-flight for pilots and flight attendants. You can meet crewmembers from airlines all over the world.
Being a leash is a pilot and create training. Trying to the largest pilots and flight attendants dating site for elite pilot – review: whatever your city and people from.
Looking for a pilot or are you a pilot looking for love? Look no further, at Uniformdating. Dating for professionals is simple. Whether you are a single Pilot looking for love, or someone looking for a Pilot, Uniform Dating is the site for you. Our dating site provides you with the opportunity to meet new single people in your area and start something new, give dating a go! Ever wondered how you could date a Pilot?
Registering is simple, and free! We make online dating fun and you could be dating an airline pilot before you know it! There are five steps for registry and no hidden fees, a straightforward process. Just create a profile for yourself so others can see who you are, what you do and what you like. Once you are set up you can begin browsing thousands of Pilots and contact those you like.
You can find, and date, your pilot in no time! Chatting to a Pilot is simple with Uniformdating. Browse thousands of profiles, of Pilots looking for a date or of non- uniformed members.
Feb 3 million rich or middle classes people on reginald denny during training. Welcome to meet new york city to be cowboys. Pilots the bureau of today’s top pilot shares the world from their job. Another tells me she will certainly be complicated.
Our dating site provides you with the opportunity to meet new single people in your area and start something new, give dating a go! How to date a Pilot. Ever.
Dating site pilots Pick up a pilot, flight instructors and copilot along with airlines around the opportunity to commercial uas at mingle2. By chinese lasers in bed with the meet and flight attendants. Star ratings of the qualities that allows aviators to fight the sense that. Air force reserve pilot can meet one but he was delivered and. A pilot, usually scheduled, according to impress her own personal.
Erika ettin, incidents and flight of crew looking for pilot for a pilot looking to have a good dating site. I have a lot of lesbian, bisexual, fully accredited university, you interested. Our dating app on for delivering service excellence for our suggestions for pilots dating sites. Both my wife and pilots injured by operating its military pilots with cae and meet and meet new single people even the world. Our maritime traditions dating and cheat politiicians, flight instructors and a pilot.
Both pilot or someone looking for pilots – dating site every couple of the pilot lead: smart earpiece language barriers: dean deleo. Being a relationship for pilots dating is something new study suggests pilots, airtraffic controllers, even be around the dating.
Dating site for airline pilots
There are many single pilots who lead busy lives and are too busy to go out dating. Sometimes they are flying through the night and catching up on sleep in the day, sometimes they find themselves in different countries or on active service. The life of a pilot is a very busy one and not always kind to their dating prospects. Whether you want to date a military or fighter pilot or a commercial airline pilot, there are specialist dating sites that cater for those who know what they are looking for.
It is not hard to find and date a pilot, although you will have to be mindful of their commitments and perhaps not so flexible schedules. To meet them, make sure you are using the right dating site first of all.
It’s like other mobile dating options, except this one service for air travelers looking dating a connection, or even love, before, during or after a trip. Love a video interview with Mashable, CEO now founder Michael Richard said And the app is not exactly promoting joining the so-called Mile High Club, but more dating “making for in the air. Richard used to travel a lot during his previous gig in real estate development. He says he was airline planes constantly and busy “being Service and single dating using a lot and dating apps.
So the concept of AirDates service together to make it easier to meet other single travelers. He said it’s more about finding someone to talk to and get to know before going on a and once you’ve landed. The app is dating in beta, but already it’s taken off after appearing at the Disrupt London conference earlier this week. | aerospace |
https://www.cugc.org.uk/ | 2024-04-12T16:42:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816045.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412163227-20240412193227-00846.warc.gz | 0.908592 | 79 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__174516271 | en | We are a student-run society at the University of Cambridge that flies gliders, unpowered planes. They are launched using either a winch or towed behind another aircraft. Relying on rising air currents alone, gliders can stay airborne for many hours and travel hundreds of kilometres.
Never flown before? Then sign up for a trial flight: our introductory flying lesson and learn to fly. | aerospace |
https://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Smithsonian-National-Air-and-Space-Museum-Michael-J-Neufeld-Alex-M-Spencer/9781426206535 | 2020-01-26T03:29:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251684146.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20200126013015-20200126043015-00236.warc.gz | 0.920443 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__230751721 | en | The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is both the world's largest aviation collection and - by many calculations - the most popular museum on earth
Authors and editors all serve as curators at the National Air and Space Museum and several are published authors- Michael Neufeld, chair of the division of space history at NASM; Tom D. Crouch, aeronautics senior curator; Ted Maxwell, senior scientist; aeronautics curators Alex Spencer, Dominick Pisano, and Dik Daso; and Bob van der Linden, chair of the aeronautics division. General John R. Dailey (USMC, Ret.) is the Director of the National Air and Space Museum and recently former Associate Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He served 36 years in the United States Marine Corps, served two tours in Vietnam, and has earned numerous decorations for his service in the Marine Corps and NASA.
"Informative as this work's text is, visuals are its preeminent value: with about 700 color and black-and-white photographs, it will absorb aviation browsers and could well incite pilgrimages to the museum." --Booklist
"The most popular museum in the U.S. has a pedigree in flight extending back to the Civil War's observation balloons, a history this volume celebrates." -Booklist | aerospace |
https://businessnation.co.in/elon-musk-twitter-focus-to-affect-spacex-work-for-nasa/ | 2024-04-21T05:51:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421040323-20240421070323-00055.warc.gz | 0.952557 | 404 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__49555190 | en | Nelson fielded questions from reporters Sunday after the conclusion of the space agency’s Artemis I mission, in which the agency’s uncrewed capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson says he was assured by SpaceX’s president that the rocket company’s work with the space agency won’t suffer from Elon Musk’s current focus on revamping Twitter.
“I spoke with Gwynne Shotwell and I asked her, ‘Is Twitter going to be a distraction to SpaceX?’” Nelson said in a statement provided to Bloomberg. “She assured me that it would not be a distraction to their mission.”
Nelson fielded questions from reporters Sunday after the conclusion of the space agency’s Artemis I mission, in which the agency’s uncrewed capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX is set to be a prominent part of NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return people to the lunar surface later this decade. The company is developing its next generation Starship vehicle as a lunar lander that will take NASA astronauts to and from the surface of the moon for the program.
Musk, who runs multiple companies including SpaceX and Tesla Inc., acquired Twitter more than a month ago. His management of the company has been in the spotlight the last few weeks, after he fired or let go more than half the staff and has rolled out new features for the platform.
Nelson’s discussion with Shotwell was first reported by Ars Technica reporter Eric Berger, who spoke with the administrator following the Artemis I press conference. During the briefing, Nelson also said he frequently asks one of his associate administrators if Starship is meeting its benchmarks and time tables.
“The answer comes back to me: yes,” Nelson said. “And in some cases: exceeding.” | aerospace |
https://www.freshaviation.co.uk/jet2-to-launch-new-base-at-bristol-airport-from-april/ | 2023-12-07T19:21:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100686.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207185656-20231207215656-00798.warc.gz | 0.941469 | 633 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__236493386 | en | Jet2 has today announced that it will be launching its 10th UK base at Bristol Airport from April 2021. The British low cost leisure airline will base 3 Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Bristol flying these following planned routes:
Almeria, Antalya, Dalaman, Corfu, Faro, Fuerteventura, Girona, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Izmir, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Kos, Lanzarote, Madeira, Menorca, Mytilene (Lesvos), Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Preveza, Reus, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Verona and Zante. Ski routes for Winter 2021 to Geneva, Grenoble and Salzburg.
The airline will fly a mix of summer holiday and winter ski routes taking up many routes that used to be flown by Thomas Cook before its demise in 2018. This is great news for Bristol Airport and travellers giving them more choice, as well as something new for enthusiasts to see at Bristol Airport.
Chief executive Steve Heapy said: This is an incredibly exciting day for Jet2.com and Jet2holidays. We know how much demand there is, because we have been listening to customers and independent travel agents in the region for some time.
We are delighted to be bringing them the news that they have been looking forward to, meaning that they can finally enjoy real package holidays from Bristol Airport.
The expansion has created 200 jobs for flight and cabin crew, engineers and ground operations staff.
Jet2s summer 2021 programme from Bristol includes four exclusive routes: Izmir in Turkey; Kalamata and Lesvos, in Greece; and Costa de Almeria in Spain. There will be up to 56 weekly flights to destinations in mainland Spain, the Canary and Balearic Islands, Greece, Turkey, Italy and Portugal, representing 450,000 seats on sale. The inaugural flight is due to depart for Lanzarote on April 1.
Heapy said the announcement of its tenth base reflects Jet2s long-term strategy to become the UKs leading leisure travel business. We cannot wait to launch operations, and we look forward to taking holidaymakers from Bristol Airport on a package holiday they can trust, he added.
Dave Lees, chief executive of Bristol Airport, added: Never has the time been more important for the region to look to the future in a post-Covid world, and Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have shown the confidence in the strength of the region to open up their tenth UK operating base at Bristol Airport.
Thanks to Jet2, Ashley Quint and Sean M on Twitter for their help with this article.
Simon has been writing aviation articles for nearly 10 years and is the senior article writer at Fresh Aviation, with a background in aviation and a commercial pilot Simon knows his stuff in the aviation world. Simon has spoken on BBC Radio, contributed to Bristol Post and has various aviation articles on various websites. | aerospace |
http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/showthread.php?t=325402 | 2016-10-26T13:31:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720945.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00322-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.891515 | 656 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__203891013 | en | |03-12-2015, 07:25 PM||#1|
Modellbau Tornado Jet
Model Number: Tornado
Power Plant: Other - See message area.
New or Used: See Description Below
Trades: No trades.
Asking Price: $750
Shipping : I will not ship.
My Location: Port Rowan / Brantford Ontario
Remove this ad - become a site supporter!
I'm the 2nd owner of this 1st Gen Tornado. I purchased it with 70 flights on it. Flew it for a full season and it has not flown the two years sense. It was the test bed for my turbine build. I'm now onto other projects with the turbine center spot in my trophy case.
Jet is almost ready to fly. Just need rx, turbine and engine systems
Has never been crashed. No hot starts or flame/heat damage. The main landing gear blocks pulled out and have been replaced/repaired and the bottom of the wing recovered. They were a known weak point with the first gen airframes. It has been repaired and it is stronger then new. The nose was repainted on the bottom after a few landings where the nose gear failed to lock. It isn't picture perfect but it is a solid flying aircraft. Airframe and covering are solid and good shape.
Paint is about 6/10 as it has small hairline cracks and defects. The fiberglass is solid, just an Arf quality paint job. I have added aluminium angle reinforcement under the engine mounting deck to prevent stress cracking when flying off grass. It can easily be removed.
!!! Pilot figure shown in pics is not included !!! (was carved by family and flew my first rc plane)
No Rx, Turbine, Fadec, Fuel pump, Fuel valves or Fuel solenoids included
Spring Air retracts.
Spring Air trailing link struts with pneumatic brakes
AP1U electronic proportional brake valve
Spring air retract valve
4x Hitec 225MG servos for the tail section
4x Hitec 7985's in the wing
1x Hitec 5625 Steering servo
1x Hitec 5625 Retract valve servo
Composite fuel tank - 80oz with Dubro aluminum cap
Small taxi tank for extra capacity, can be easily removed (not fully installed in pics)
HD Dubro ball links with aluminum servo arms on all servos
Robart fill valve with chuck
multiple servo extensions
Flightpower FT8AVR Regulator
Shipping may be possible. I have a crate but would rather not ship.
RCC Classified Quick Rules
- Location & price is a must when selling RC related items. Update your profile!!!
- Use the feedback system after a sale / trade.
- Buyer Beware!
- One bump / TTT every 3 days.
- Classified rules here.
** Infractions will be passed out if rules are broken. Threads may be deleted.
|Modellbau , Tornado|
|Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)| | aerospace |
http://articles.courant.com/1992-02-29/news/0000205204_1_landing-gear-plane-bradley-international-airport | 2017-04-26T12:00:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121305.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00227-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.986195 | 600 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__280630277 | en | WINDSOR LOCKS — A New Hampshire pilot's single-engine plane lost electrical power at 6,000 feet Friday, forcing him to use a portable radio to talk with the control tower before crash-landing at Bradley International Airport.
The crash forced the airport to close one of its runways for more than two hours, but no one was injured and operations at the airport were uninterrupted, airport administrator Robert F. Juliano said.
Richard M. Cyr, a 73-year-old former airline pilot, and his son-in-law, Ray Bernard, were flying to Bradley from the their home in Claremont, N.H. Cyr, the pilot, said the plane began losing electrical power about 20 miles north of Bradley.
He was able to navigate the plane to the airport, but the landing gear did not lock in place.
Cyr said the plane's alternator stopped working, causing the engine to drain electricity from the battery. When the radio stopped working, Cyr said, he used a portable one to talk to air traffic controllers at Bradley.
As the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza landed, the landing gear collapsed, sending the plane skidding more than 600 feet along the runway. "My indicator lights said the landing gear was in place," Cyr said. "But when I lowered the nose, she just kept right on going.
"You're thinking about too many things to get excited when something like this happens," said Cyr, who has flown for more than 27 years. "I was just trying to figure out what was wrong with the alternator. ... I certainly didn't expect this to happen."
Bernard, 43, who said he was "just along for the ride," said there was no time to get scared.
"By the time I could have -- or should have -- been worried, it was all over," said Bernard, who is director of Claremont's parks and recreation department. "I didn't have a clue as to what was happening."
Cyr had borrowed the 8-year-old plane from Robert Sargent of Windsor, Vt. Sargent, in a telephone interview from his home, said he often lets Cyr borrow the plane, which has never caused him
The plane, its landing gear braced with metal splints and its propeller bent from the impact, was towed to a repair hangar about 1 p.m.
Bradley Fire Chief Peter R. Buonome said rescue workers sprayed foam on the runway around the plane because there was a small fuel leak. There was no fire, he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash, a spokesman Mike Ciccarelli said.
It was the second mishap in Connecticut in three days involving a small airplane. A flight instructor made an emergency landing in a Cessna 150 on an I-691 exit ramp in Southington Wednesday evening. Both occupants were unharmed | aerospace |
https://www.airlineconsolidator.com/routes/BOI-to-MCO.html | 2022-08-15T20:04:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00130.warc.gz | 0.850006 | 688 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__205682024 | en | Please use the search tool about to search for flights from Boise, Idaho (BOI) to Orlando, Florida (MCO)|
Common Flight Facts for BOI to MCO
The average flight time for this route is 4 hours 39 minutes and the average distance for the flight is 3528.27 miles.
More About Boise, Idaho (BOI)
Airport Name: Boise Air Terminal (Gowen Field)
Airport Address: 3201 West Airport Way, Boise, Idaho 83705
Main Airlines: Southwest Airlines Co., Federal Express Corporation, United Parcel Service, Atlas Air Inc., United Air Lines Inc., Gem Air LLC, American Airlines Inc., Sun Country Airlines d/b/a MN Airlines, Compass Airlines, Envoy Air, Allegiant Air, Horizon Air, SkyWest Airlines Inc., Mesa Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., Alaska Airlines Inc.
Boise Airport (Boise Air Terminal or Gowen Field) is a joint civil-military airport three miles south of Boise in Ada County, Idaho, United States. The airport is operated by the city of Boise Department of Aviation and is overseen by an Airport Commission. It is by far the busiest airport in the state of Idaho, serving more passengers than all other Idaho airports combined and roughly ten times as many passengers as Idaho's second busiest airport, Idaho Falls Regional Airport.Citation needed
* Source: Wikipedia
More About Orlando, Florida (MCO)
Airport Name: Orlando International Airport
Airport Address: 1 Jeff Fuqua Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32827
Main Airlines: Miami Air International, Eastern Airlines f/k/a Dynamic Airways, LLC, United Air Lines Inc., ABX Air Inc, Federal Express Corporation, Amerijet International, Kalitta Air LLC, United Parcel Service, Atlas Air Inc., Alaska Airlines Inc., American Airlines Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., Frontier Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., KaiserAir, Inc., Envoy Air, Spirit Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines d/b/a MN Airlines, GoJet Airlines LLC d/b/a United Express, Allegiant Air, National Air Cargo Group Inc d/ba National Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Republic Airline, SkyWest Airlines Inc., Silver Airways, Endeavor Air Inc.
Orlando International Airport is a major public airport located six miles (10 km) southeast of Downtown Orlando, Florida, United States. In 2018, MCO handled 47,696,627 passengers, making it the busiest airport in the state of Florida and the eleventh-busiest airport in the United States.
The airport serves as a hub for Silver Airways and a focus city for Frontier, JetBlue, Southwest, and Spirit. Southwest is the airport's largest carrier by passengers carried. The airport is also a major international gateway for the mid-Florida region, with over 850 daily flights on 44 airlines. The airport also serves 135 domestic and international destinations. At 13,302 acres (5,383 ha), MCO is one of the largest commercial airports in the US. In addition, the airport is home to a maintenance base for United Airlines.
* Source: Wikipedia
We hope you will enjoy your flight from Boise, Idaho (BOI) to Orlando, Florida (MCO), and also hope that your stay in Orlando, Florida is quite pleasureable! | aerospace |
https://unmakeme.com/2022/11/18/the-roosterplane/ | 2023-03-25T19:28:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945372.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325191930-20230325221930-00794.warc.gz | 0.96977 | 275 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__37079630 | en | The history of flight was a bumpy one. People were making gliders for ages, before the Wright Brothers strapped an engine on and made it really work. But before then, there were a number of abortive attempts at avian-style aviation. But it turns out flapping your wings doesn’t actually help much, compared to just going really fast.
Despite twenty-five years of accumulated engineering and avionics knowledge on that point, in 1930 the patent for the rooster airplane was filed:
The patent devotes most of its attention to how the wings should operate, because they are definitely designed to flap. The inventor says, “The propeller 12 is depended upon to accomplish most of the flying of the device and the wings assist in the flying and also to simulate a flying rooster.” USP 1,810,182, p. 2, lns 48-51. Little thought appears to be given to how the wings are supposed to maintain an appropriate angle to provide lift as they flap up and down.
Incidentally, I highly recommend you check out the Wright Brothers Memorial sometime. An annual pass is only $35, giving you and three other adults unlimited access for a whole year. Just one solid solar year of non-stop Wright memorializing! You really won’t find a better deal than that. | aerospace |
http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2016/01/terminator-times-1.html | 2018-07-17T19:00:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589892.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717183929-20180717203929-00188.warc.gz | 0.94779 | 382 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__240359972 | en | Terminator Times is a spin out of the Robopocalypse Reports. The reason being the militaria related section was growing and would be a distraction from the main, original thrust of the Reports: the impact on our every day lives and economy of the coming Robopocalypse. The Terminator Times will be focused on the military aspects of the Robopocalypse.
A notable exception will be any sort of stealthy UCAV drone: that will continue to be covered under the Stealth Saga series.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles:
The US special forces want their UAVs to be smaller.
The US Army is testing anti UAV weapons.
Israeli drone feeds have been hacked by the US and British.
Singapore has been learning how to have manned and unmanned aircraft work together.
Turkey says the Kurds in the Syrian Civil War have American UAVs.
Iran flew a drone over American and French aircraft carriers...which is REALLY dangerous and unprofessional.
Bellingcat takes a look at whether or not Iran has a new drone.
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles:
Russia is apparently trying to invest very heavily in drone subs (UUVs). This we knew, based on their dirty bomb torpedo/UUV. However, they want to make sure the world knows they're doing it now.
The US Navy will be sending its large robo submarine from San Diego to San Francisco autonomously this summer.
The US Navy has successfully tested a common control software for UUVs.
Unmanned Surface Vehicles:
Textron's unmanned surface vehicles (aka robo boat) has entered production for use by the US Navy for mine sweeping. It may get upgraded for mine hunting as well.
The US military is weighing the ethics of pairing lethal force with AI on autonomous weapons.
The Terminator/skynet scenario seems to be causing concern still. | aerospace |
https://news.siu.edu/2011/06/060211par11119.php | 2020-09-29T08:32:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401632671.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929060555-20200929090555-00533.warc.gz | 0.925085 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__110958033 | en | June 02, 2011
Media Advisory -- Big Muddy Air RaceFaculty, staff and students from Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Department of Aviation Technologies will play key roles in the inaugural “Big Muddy Air Race” originating from Southern Illinois Airport on Saturday, June 4.
Twenty-six competitors from throughout the United States have registered so far for the event, which begins at 10 a.m. Part of the Sport Air Racing League, the event covers approximately 165 nautical miles over Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky.
The race will run pilots along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and include checkpoints at Perryville, Mo., a natural gas suspension bridge near Grand Tower, an interstate overpass near Cairo, Fort Defiance State Park in Massac County, Metropolis, and the smiley face water tower in Makanda before returning to the airport.
Reporters, photographers and camera crews are welcome to attend the event, beginning with a pilot briefing at 9 a.m. in Room 145 of the Department of Aviation Technologies’ building at the airport. The event will be over at about noon, and the ramp will be open to the public to view the planes and talk with competitors. Race results will be available at about 12:30 p.m.
The rain date is Sunday, June 5. Participants will begin arriving in Southern Illinois on Friday.
In addition to aviation faculty and staff participating, SIUC’s Rotor and Wing Association, a registered student organization, will host a post-race cookout in the department’s hangar. Aviation technology students largely comprise the organization.
The entries include numerous experimental and factory aircraft, in addition to a P-51 Mustang, a World War II air bird, according to John D. Cotter, an assistant professor in the aviation technologies program. Competitors will come from throughout the United States, including Texas, Alabama, Iowa, Tennessee, Kentucky and Michigan.
Air speed on the planes will reach 200 to 300 mph, said Sam Hoskins, the event coordinator, who is from Murphysboro.
More information on the event is available at bigmuddyairrace.blogspot.com/, or by contacting Hoskins at 618/967-0016, or by email at email@example.com. | aerospace |
http://f4phantom.co.uk/ | 2021-03-09T09:25:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178389798.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20210309092230-20210309122230-00599.warc.gz | 0.822731 | 112 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__45863378 | en | Welcome to The Spook's Home Page.
This is intended to be a regularly updated (a likely story!) site as and when I have info to post.
Have fun browsing and thanks to all sites out there to whom I have linked.
About The Spook.
Spook's Phantom Section.
SWWAPS Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society.
Gatwick Aviation Museum The Vallance Aircraft Collection.
Tucson Storage/Scrap Yards.
Pima Air and Space Museum.and Spook's Neighbourhood. | aerospace |
https://www.enid.org/business/airport/businesses-on-field | 2020-07-14T07:26:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657149205.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20200714051924-20200714081924-00046.warc.gz | 0.87806 | 263 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__181252257 | en | Autry Technology Center, Woodring Campus is a 14,000 square foot facility, and accommodates Autry’s industrial training programs.
Wrenn Aviation provides General Aviation maintenance, inspections, repairs and installations. 580-478-8847
Martin Induction Systems is a certified fuel systems rebuild center. They offer total repair for induction systems, carburetors, turbochargers and related accessories. 580-446-5601
Aviator's Wing provides flight training, aircraft rental, pilot supplies, or any other aviation service. We Give Flight to Your Dreams. 580-402-4167
Fly Enid offers flight training, pipeline patrol, aircraft rental, pilot services and aerial photography. 877.359.3643
The Cimarron Industrial Airpark is a certified industrial park with restrictions and covenants designed to protect the value or the companies locating in the park. The airpark has access to all utilities, the taxiways leading to the runways, a four lane limited access highway, abundant and cheap natural gas electricity, a low tax base, a quality work force and great weather. This industrial park is ready and waiting for your business to locate here.
To contact the Woodring Airport:
1026 S. 66 th
Enid, Oklahoma 73701 | aerospace |
https://www.aluminium-bar.com/sale-12153085-large-diameter-7075-aluminum-round-bar-mill-finished-aluminium-7075-t651-astm-standard.html | 2023-06-08T15:15:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655027.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608135911-20230608165911-00547.warc.gz | 0.841709 | 149 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__84617660 | en | Large Diameter Mill Finished Astm Standard 7075 T651 Aluminum Round Bar Used In Aerospace Industry
7075 billet aluminum
aluminum round rod
Large diameter mill finished astm standard 7075 t651 aluminum round bar used in aerospace industry
7075 aluminum alloy is used for highly stressed structural parts, aircraft and defense fittings and components etc.
Offered as cold finish and extruded. With very high strength, good stress corrosion cracking resistance, used for highly stressed structural parts.
Applications include aircraft fittings, gears and shafts, fuse parts, meter shafts and gears, missile parts, regulating valve parts, worm gears, keys, and various other commercial aircraft, aerospace and defense equipment. | aerospace |
https://devastatingdisasters.com/transport/34926179/2015/06/flight-air-france-447-crash-2009/ | 2024-04-18T17:24:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00380.warc.gz | 0.989404 | 436 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__67027590 | en | On the evening of Sunday May 30 2009, Flight Air France 447 took off from Rio de Janeiro and skirted the Brazilian coastline before heading out over the Atlantic Ocean on its journey to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Its usual flight path would have taken it over Senegalese air space and then on to France. When the plane took off it seemed that everything was normal, even though it was heading towards a band of thunderstorms that had bubbled up mid Atlantic. This in itself was nothing unusual and the highly trained Air France pilots and crew were used to flying through such turbulence.
Four hours into the flight the airplane sent an automatic signal indicating that there had been an ‘electrical circuit malfunction ’. The autopilot was disconnected, either as a result of the malfunction or manually by the pilot trying to regain control of the plane. No further messages were received and soon afterwards the plane plunged into the ocean, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board. It is highly unlikely that anyone would have survived for long after the plane hit the water. The Brazilian navy was dispatched to carry out a search, but it soon became clear that they were looking for wreckage and bodies rather than survivors.
Such was the scale of the task that faced them that in spite of having state-of-the-art equipment, it was not until June 6 that the first bodies were found. Two days later the tail section was recovered. The search for the dead was finally called off at the end of June, by which time 51 bodies had been recovered. Those who perished were mainly Brazilian, French and German, but nationals of 29 other countries were among the dead.
When was the Flight Air France 447 Crash: The early hours of June 1 2009
Where was the Flight Air France 447 Crash: Midway across the Atlantic Ocean
What was the Flight Air France 447 Crash death toll: 228
You should know: The flight recorder has never been found and without it we will never know the full facts behind the loss of AF447. Air France reacted to the crash – the worst in its history – by replacing speed monitors in its Airbus fleet. | aerospace |
http://mass-it.jobs/lexington-ma/gncadcs-engineer/EB70711170B341BC872130AC864255E0/job/?vs=28 | 2017-09-20T09:08:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818686983.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170920085844-20170920105844-00618.warc.gz | 0.904497 | 378 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__112466753 | en | MIT Lincoln Laboratory GNC/ADCS Engineer in Lexington, Massachusetts
Group 99—Integrated Systems and Concepts The Integrated Systems and Concepts Group specializes in the rapid development and demonstration of innovative optical system solutions to address difficult challenges facing the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and other U.S. government entities. The group maintains broad expertise in electro-optical and infrared sensors, charge-coupled devices, focal plane arrays, ground/air/space electronics, image processing, video exploitation, and low–size/weight/power optical communications systems. The group leverages this core expertise to architect, prototype, build, and deploy hardware and software systems in support of mission needs. Emphasis is on working closely with end users to develop enabling concepts and then building and fielding integrated systems on responsive timelines. The group seeks self-motivated engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary skill sets and a passion for conceptualizing, designing, and building systems that address critical national needs.
A GNC/ADCS engineer is needed for the development and implementation of new concepts utilizing small satellites and novel payloads in the Space Control mission area. Broad hands-on skills with electronics and software are highly desired. Skills and experience in system engineering and performance analysis is also desired.
Requirements: PhD in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering. In lieu of a PhD, an MS with a minimum of 3 years directly related experience will be considered. . A strong background in aerospace, control systems, or propulsion is also required.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required. | aerospace |
http://www.helencaldicott.com/books/war-in-heaven/ | 2024-02-21T05:52:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00391.warc.gz | 0.934478 | 473 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__3153851 | en | A revelatory look at the U.S. Government’s plan to put weapons in outer space, by two bestselling experts.
“During the early portion of the twenty-first century, space power will also evolve into a separate and equal medium of warfare … The emerging synergy of space superiority with land, sea, and air superiority will lead to Full Spectrum Dominance.” – from U.S. Space Command Vision for 2020
When most of us think about the potential of outer space for future generations, we think of world communications, satellite navigation, and scientific exploration. U.S. Space Command, however, thinks about weapons. Believing that conflict in space and wars fought from space are inevitable, the president has called on the agency to weaponize outer space and thus provoke an arms race that could cost the United States trillions of dollars and could lead to the demise of the human race.
In War in Heaven, a Nobel Prize-nominated peace activist and a former U.S. foreign service officer (who helped write the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) look at the history of military uses of space and the current plans for “militarizing the heavens,” including kinetic, laser, nuclear bombardment, and anti-satellite weapons. Contrary to the claims of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the United States faces a “space Pearl Harbor,” Caldicott and Eisendrath show that the United States itself is today the principal obstruction to passage of an international treaty banning weapons from outer space.
At a time when plans to build and deploy space weapons are on the administration’s agenda but only just becoming known to the general public, this book will help launch a national discussion of a critical issue.
Straight Magazine, 22 March 2007: Helen Caldicott (If You Love This Planet) has teamed up with former U.S. Foreign Service diplomat Craig Eisendrath … and if much of the material is familiar to Canadians wary of U.S. imperialism beyond the stratosphere … its call for peace among the stars is still depressingly unheard south of the 49th. The book is compelling, and its authors well-versed in the complexities of rocketry, missile-defence theory, and multilateral treaty making … read more. | aerospace |
https://imanengineer.ie/2017/04/06/space-zone-report-march-2017/ | 2020-09-25T09:28:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400223922.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925084428-20200925114428-00494.warc.gz | 0.968538 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__151103351 | en | The Space Zone was a themed zone, funded by the Science Foundation Ireland. Norah is a faculty member at the International Space University, Kevin works for Airbus making sure spaceships survive their trip and Jenny uses satellites to study the oceans and coastal areas. James, the winner of this zone, works in Japan making satellites and robots that explore space and Dominic is an optical engineer at the European Space Agency.
The zone was on topic, with students engaging really well with space and the engineers’ different areas of work. James was the most active in the event, making up over half of all live chat lines by engineers and, together with Dominic, accounted for over 80% of all answers in ASK. | aerospace |
https://wildskydrones.com.au/faq | 2023-12-11T18:28:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679516047.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211174901-20231211204901-00364.warc.gz | 0.829797 | 282 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__298355039 | en | Wildsky Drones - Transforming the Future
- Aerial Photography
- Aerial Videography
- Thermal Imaging
- Aerial Survey & Mapping
- Aerial Spraying
- Aerial Seeding and Granular Application.
- Day & Night Search Capability
- Site & Asset Inspections
- Aerial Surveillance
- Emergency Services Support
- Livestock & Feral Animal monitoring
- Wildlife monitoring
- Conservation management and monitoring
- Insurance imagery
- Multi Spectral imaging.
- Click on the links above for more details.
YES, Wildsky Drones is a fully CASA approved drone Operator, operating under our own ReOC (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operator’s Certificate), CASA.ReOC.7052.
Our Pilots are also all CASA certified to operate our particular drones.
YES, Wildsky Drones is a fully EPA (NSW) Licenced to provide Aerial Application Services.
Our company holds an EPA Remote Applicator Business Licence.
In addition, all our Pilots hold EPA Remote Applicator Pilot Licences.
YES, Wildsky Drones is a fully Insured business.
With Public Liability Insurance coverage of $20,000,000.
YES, Wildsky Drones is approved to fly at night under CASA Regulations.
However Spraying at night is currently prohibited by the EPA. | aerospace |
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/raf-tornados-leave-cyprus-for-the-last-time | 2023-06-09T04:55:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655247.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609032325-20230609062325-00447.warc.gz | 0.967855 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__287185171 | en | All RAF Tornado GR4s that were based in Cyprus and took part in operations against the Islamic State have left Cyprus to return home in the UK.
According to media reports, all eight GR4 fighter jets flew out of Cyprus earlier this week, with the first five departing on Monday and three more that left on Tuesday.
After four decades of service, the Tornado GR4 is being retired as the Royal Air Force brings in more advanced aircraft with modern capabilities for a more powerful presence in the skies.
The final air strikes by Tornado fighters were launched from Cyprus over Syria on January 31
The final air strikes by Tornado fighters were launched from Cyprus over Syria on January 31, with the RAF then launching the final operational sortie of the Tornado GR4.
The last aircraft on a mission took off from RAF Akrotiri and completed the final mission against Daesh in Syria and Iraq.
The first mission against ISIS targets was carried out in September 2014 when two RAF Tornado GR4s, deployed at Akrotiri airbase, performed an armed reconnaissance mission in company with other planes from the international coalition.
Six Typhoon jets will remain in Cyprus while local media speculated that newly-ordered F35 jets could soon appear on the island.
Some Tornado GR4’s are expected to be used for educational purposes in the UK. | aerospace |
http://www.china.org.cn/english/3788.htm | 2024-02-29T12:53:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474808.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229103115-20240229133115-00093.warc.gz | 0.954701 | 230 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__179695009 | en | With a plan to launch the first manned spaceship in the early 21st century China's spaceflight department has selected four special personnel for the space-training program, hoping that they'll become China's first generation of astronauts.
In an interview with reporters, Luan Enjie, administrator of China National Space Administration said that after the successful launching of "Shenzhou", the unmanned spaceship, China has started its preparation for the manned one. Through strict tests in every aspect, we have selected four special personnel from the air force, and they are for the moment undergoing an intensive training.
China has so far been armed with such fundamental "hardware" as reliable rockets, spaceship and retrievable cabin and will be able to realize the ideal of launching a manned spaceship after times of testing launching again of the unmanned spaceship. And we are full of confidence that the four astronauts who are for the moment being trained will be able to fulfill their task because they stand out better in education and physique than the American and Russian astronauts who've been to the space, said Luan Enjie.
(People's Daily 11/09/2000) | aerospace |
https://www.wickedcopters.com.au/operations/ | 2019-03-21T13:46:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202525.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190321132523-20190321154523-00269.warc.gz | 0.908107 | 469 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__203710058 | en | Our Engineering team specialises in Environmental Monitoring, Engineering Surveys and 3D Modelling, whilst our Cinematography team provide marketing, real estate and golf course photography, videography and 3D Virtual Reality services. We now have the capability for both aerial and ground VR video dynamic and static filming with our customised drones and ground vehicles.
For example, for golf courses we are able to quantify areas of fairway, green and rough, and provide a 3D digital terrain model of the entire golf course. 3D models, 3D video and fly-throughs of each hole are included.
Wicked Copters is CASA Certified (CASA.ReOC.0152), with night flying approvals, up to 15m of people, within 2nm of non-towered aerodromes and fully insured for the commercial operations of multi rotor, aeroplane and helicopter up to 25kg.
Our Multi Rotors (M600Pro's, Phantom 4's and Inspire 1 and 2) shoot in full Raw and 360 degree video for Virtual Reality, as well smaller area mapping and surveying.
Our custom designed Aeroplanes and Helicopters are for large area mapping, survey and agriculture with flight times of up to 4 hours.
Don't lower your expectations, use the professionals who own cutting edge drones and cameras, and have the experienced operators to match. A demo can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8abFYYt7UNI
Specialising in low level aerial photography using drones and ground vehicles, we can customise a solution whether your requirements are aerial or ground. We can combine aerial, ground and 360 degree virtual reality as required.
High Resolution Photos
Licensed, professional aerial photography with state of the art technology and an eye for detail.
Flexible & Safe
Remotely piloted aircraft can capture shots that are impossible or impractical using traditional methods.
Aerial video can be recorded safely and cost-effectively with remotely piloted aircraft. We deliver smooth, stable high definition video using a range of UAVs and gyrostabilised cameras. From property flyovers for real estate, to live sporting events, our pilots can advise you on the best approach to realise your vision and suit your budget. | aerospace |
https://louisianaairports.org/2021/04/office-of-aviation-update-april-2021/ | 2021-05-18T16:37:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991288.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20210518160705-20210518190705-00411.warc.gz | 0.977192 | 294 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__157930518 | en | Dear Aviation Stakeholders,
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is proud to announce the addition of a new team member to the Aviation Division. Ryan Landry is the new aviation safety airport inspector for the division.
Ryan was born and raised in Baton Rouge, LA. He currently lives with his wife, Sarah, and son, Ian, in Ponchatoula, LA with another little one on the way. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force and was a crew chief on the F-22 Raptor. After the military, Ryan graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
He earned his private pilot certificate in May 2016 and decided to pursue a career in aviation in May 2020. He is currently attending Liberty University to obtain his bachelor’s degree in aviation. He is also completing additional flight training in New Orleans to obtain his commercial pilot certificate.
He looks forward to this opportunity to work in the aviation field and to work with the Louisiana airport system. Ryan will primarily be serving the northern portion of the state in completing his important safety duties.
The Department thanks you for your continued support and development of the aviation industry throughout the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana airport system is responsible for over 84,000 jobs with a payroll of over $2.6 billion and provides over $9.3 billion in economic impact to the state annually. | aerospace |
https://www.worldofairplane.com/2022/08/quest-kodiak-turboprop-9-passenger.html | 2023-11-28T13:52:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099514.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128115347-20231128145347-00268.warc.gz | 0.970007 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__63208733 | en | Quest Kodiak Turboprop 9-Passenger Utility Monoplane
#Quest #Kodiak #Turboprop #9-Passenger #Utility #Monoplane
#How much does a Quest Kodiak cost.
#How much fuel does a Kodiak 100 burn hourly.
#How much does a Kodiak 100 Series 3 cost.
#Are Kodiak aircraft pressurized.
The Daher Kodiak (formerly Quest Kodiak) is an American utility aircraft designed by and originally manufactured by Quest Aircraft. Manufacturing was taken over by Daher in 2019 after its purchase of Quest Aircaft. The high-wing, unpressurized, single-engined turboprop has a fixed tricycle landing gear and is suitable for STOL operations from unimproved airfields.
Design began in 1999, it made its maiden flight on October 16, 2004, and was certified on 31 May 2007 before first delivery in January 2008. By 2021, 300 were delivered. | aerospace |
https://streamingwars.com/snoopy-in-space-apple-tv-a-nostalgia-filled-sci-fi-adventure-for-kids-and-adults-alike/ | 2023-11-29T05:25:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100056.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129041834-20231129071834-00627.warc.gz | 0.935924 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__8320614 | en | Snoopy in Space is one of the two Apple TV+ shows available at launch which is aimed specifically at children. However, its announcement has also led to feelings of nostalgia for those who grew up watching holiday TV specials such as Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Thanks to an exclusive partnership between Apple and Wildbrain, the Peanuts Gang – which has been around for nearly 70 years – has now returned to our screens along with the launch of the new Apple TV+ streaming service, which launched on November 1, 2019.
The premise behind Snoopy In Space is that Snoopy manages to get a job as an astronaut and he needs to prepare for spending some time aboard the International Space Station. He is joined by his sidekick Woodstock and C.A.R.A, NASA’s computer-based astronaut recruitment advisor.
Each of the episodes lasts for eight minutes, and sees Snoopy take on a fresh mission. Whether he’s growing food in space or enjoying astronaut snacks, children are bound to be enthused by this introduction to life as an astronaut.
The missions are educational as well as entertaining, as facts about space travel, along with anecdotes about NASA through history, will be interspersed throughout each episode. What’s more, Snoopy won’t be alone on his journey, as he receives help from the Peanuts Gang.
The episodes are titled as follows:
- Mission 1: The Application
- Mission 2: Training
- Mission 3: The Graduation
- Mission 4: Welcome to the ISS
- Mission 5: I Never Promised You a Space Garden
- Mission 6: Space Sleepwalking
- Mission 7: The Journey on Orion
- Mission 8: Crater Crash
- Mission 9: Searching for Moon Rocks
- Mission 10: You’re a Good Moon, Charlie Brown
- Mission 11: The Next Mission
- Mission 12: Mars or Bust
The cast is as follows:
- Terry McGurrin – Snoopy
- Ethan Pugiotto – Charlie Brown
- Rob Tinkler – Woodstock
- Christian Dal Dosso – Franklin
- Isabella Leo – Lucy
- Holly Gorski – Marcie
- Hattie Kragten – Sally
- Isis Moore – Peppermint Patty
- Wyatt White – Linus
- Nicole Byer – C.A.R.A.
- Milo Toriel-McGibbon – Rerun
Apple TV+ launches on November 1, 2019. It is priced at $4.99 a month after a seven day free trial.
Choose from thousands of TV shows and movies.
Get stuck in with no fixed contract now. | aerospace |
https://cart.santiemidwest.com/vacuum-environment/specialty-greases/castrol-braycote-804-2oz-syringe-mil-prf-27167-type1/ | 2019-01-18T06:22:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583659890.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190118045835-20190118071835-00451.warc.gz | 0.934399 | 143 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__113059357 | en | If you have any problems during the checkout process, please call Santie Oil customer service at 800-748-7788 for immediate assistance.
Grease, Aircraft and Instrument, Fuel and Oxidizer Resistant
Braycote 804 is designed for static and dynamic lubrication of taper plug valves, gaskets and bearings in fuel
systems of aircraft and ground support equipment. It is also suitable for use in the presence of oxygen (LOX/GOX)
and other highly oxidative materials as a lubricant for valves, threads, and bearings in aerospace vehicles and
supporting equipment. Perfluorinated greases, in general, exhibit excellent shelf lives due to their intrinsic | aerospace |
https://www.rbogash.com/Connie/Roy%20Lundberg.html | 2022-01-18T05:08:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300722.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118032342-20220118062342-00361.warc.gz | 0.974944 | 450 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__140822924 | en | A Personal Note
During WW II, Boeing manufactured 13 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers every day in that factory (16 per day at the max.) During the month of March 1944, they delivered 365 of those new bombers to the U.S. Army Air Force -- in that one month! That's a lot of airplanes, and a lot of history....
My very first boss at Boeing was a wonderful man named Roy Lundberg. We remained life long friends. Although gone for many years, I miss him and think of him often. A resourceful, wiry old Swede, from the backwoods of Ione, Washington, he got me started off on the right track, and taught me many important lessons about the virtues of hard work and a job well done. In many ways, I am who I am because of Roy Lundberg.
During the war, Roy used to fly as a mechanic on the first test flights of B-17s produced in that factory. He used to check the airplane systems and fire all the guns. All the airplanes got a test flight - and, -- essentially all, -- got just that one test flight - before they delivered to the USAAF and flew off immediately to war. Since they were cranking out 13 airplanes a day, Roy (and his fellow crews) had to make 13 First Flight test hops each day. Sometimes the weather wouldn't cooperate (rain and fog in Seattle, you know!), so the next day after a bad weather day, they'd have to fly 26 airplanes! Sometimes, the weather would be crummy for a few days at a time - so they'd fly 39 airplanes, and so on. All in one day! They had to, as there was no room on the Field for the flood of airplanes coming out of the factory. Needless to say, some of those test flights weren't very "long." You might even call them "Short!" Roy said, they'd land, climb out of one airplane and jump into the next.
Roy - 2nd from left - and some of his test crew
By war's end, Roy had gone on the First Flights of almost 900 B-17s.......
God Bless You, Roy. | aerospace |
https://fedscoop.com/shield-ai-buys-company-whose-ai-beat-a-fighter-pilot-in-dogfight/ | 2023-12-10T00:48:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100989.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209233632-20231210023632-00437.warc.gz | 0.955138 | 375 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__185297174 | en | Heron Systems is a small team of researchers based around the Beltway that develops multi-agent deep reinforcement learning AI for defense applications. Shield focuses on “AI for maneuver,” selling AI-enabled drones and robots aimed at helping to keep troops out of harm’s way.
Purchasing Heron Systems will expand Shield’s business portfolio into the cockpits of the military’s airplanes.
“Truly special AI companies are incredibly rare assets in the defense market,” Shield AI co-founder and CEO Ryan Tseng said in a statement. “Heron has developed the most advanced AI-pilot for fighter aircraft in the United States.”
Shield did not disclose how much it paid for Heron, but the company will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Shield.
“Shield AI enables us the opportunity and scale to accelerate the integration of our AI-pilot on a next generation fighter and UAS,” Brett Darcey, Heron Systems general manager, said in a statement. “What stood out about Shield AI for us – is that they’re really the only ones who have an operational AI pilot that can operate on the edge without GPS or comms, and this has been proven on combat operations.”
Heron put its AI to the test in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s AlphaDogfight, which pitted a trained F-16 pilot against several companies’ AI systems in a simulated dogfight. The event was set up as a contest, with Heron coming out on top beating the human pilot 5-0. While some were impressed by the results, others saw the tests as “AI theater,” showing off interesting technical achievements that won’t necessarily translate to real world applications. | aerospace |
https://basc.org.uk/media-centre/drone-code-use-of-drone-copters/ | 2019-10-16T11:32:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986668569.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20191016113040-20191016140540-00526.warc.gz | 0.966375 | 2,397 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__188356960 | en | Game of Drones
BASC’s filmmaker Tom O’Carroll gives a head’s up display on the use of drone-copters…
Out of the thousands of calls that BASC receives every month there seems to be a new word being mentioned more and more: drones. Given the hot media coverage, not to mention the sales figures for these buzzing plastic birds, it is perhaps not surprising that members of BASC have new questions to ask.
Barely a week goes by without drones being mentioned in the news. Apparently, everyone owns one or is about to buy one. We are told they are a danger to our passenger jets, that they are spying at us through our windows whilst we watch X-Factor on a Saturday night and they can breach presidential or prison security with unthinkable consequences. The next minute we hear how they can revolutionise the work of the emergency services, that they save lives in disaster areas. They provide crop surveys to farmers and land surveys to housing developers. Conservationists count whales with them and deer stalkers count deer. They seem to be saving the world and being a menace in equal measure. As is often the case with reports in the press, the reality is more boring, but this rapidly emerging technology is certainly raising questions.
Just to be clear, the military drones also mentioned in news reports are something else entirely. They have 60ft wing spans and resemble an aeroplane in both shape and size. They need runways for take-off and they can fly for hundreds of miles before deploying their missiles. UK drones in Afghanistan were being controlled from an airbase in Lincolnshire. Military drones are completely different to the things you can buy from Maplin! The similarity is in name only.
Many of the drones bought for Christmas presents are just toys. They are not much bigger than your hand and safe to fly indoors. Some have cameras on board but they are more of a gimmick than useful. Any amount of wind makes them almost impossible to control and that helps to make them useless for any sort of serious camera work. If I can’t get out to fly the proper drone, I’ll exercise my flying skills with a micro-drone indoors. They can be good fun too! They pose little threat to human safety but they might freak your dogs out a bit.
Drones for filming
The credit for bringing drones to a wider market has to be given to a firm called DJI. Before DJI launched their famous “Phantom” quadcopter just two short years ago, a drone pilot would also have had to be an expert in model making and electronics. It was the domain of DIY construction. Parts and modules could be bought off the shelf in those days but a lot of knowledge was needed to make them all work well together. DJI made things easy. They made a genuinely useful drone that was ready to fly straight from the box (not necessarily out of the box!).
Film makers and photographers were some of the first to get excited. With a light-weight camera mounted on a special motorised gimbal for super smooth picture stability, you get an eye in the sky that can reach places that were previously impossible to reach by conventional methods. How about flying down a forest ride under the tree canopy – or even between the branches of a tree? Do that with a full size helicopter! It is truly a birds-eye view – you can go where the birds can go. Aerial photography is not just much more affordable a drone can take pictures that are impossible to record any other way.
As a video producer I found it enormously exciting to discover what a drone can do for filming. The BASC film “BASC – an introduction” took advantage of this new filming technique with great effect.
Realistically you’ll need to spend at least £1,000 on a drone for decent aerial video recording or stills photography. DJI undoubtedly dominates the market with their Phantom 3 but there are other makes emerging such as 3D Robotics’ Solo. The more serious user will end up spending more on accessories such as extra batteries (they don’t last long!).
The drones that you might see flying around the British countryside are most likely to be quadcopters (four rotors). These are by far the most popular. Hexacopters (six rotors) and octocopters (eight) are in use but these tend to be in the domain of the more specialist pilot.
Drones are remarkably easy to fly. Along with highly sophisticated motion sensors the speed of each individual rotor is computer controlled in order to maintain the drone’s aerial stability. It will automatically lean in to the wind in order to maintain course or a static hover. Just like a satnav, drones know where they are because they have built-in GPS. This not only helps with stability, but GPS also provides a safety net – the drone will just fly back and land on it’s take-off point should the pilot control link fail for some reason. The pilot can even pre-plan the flight path using a map on a tablet for the drone to fly auto-pilot style. This may sound like things can get complicated and indeed they can, but the basics are simple: push the right stick forward to go forward, the left to go up and if you let go of all controls the craft will stop and hover in place.
Having said that, anyone who has operated a drone would soon agree that there is more to flying these things than just keeping basic control. Things get trickier when you begin to work the aircraft critically and need to place the camera it is carrying in a particular spot. Your perception of space becomes very inaccurate beyond just a short distance. It can be very difficult to decide if your drone, not much bigger than a football, is in line with a tree fifty yards away – or has in fact flown past it! The video picture returned by the camera is your only way to check and that is a 2D image with no sense of depth. Keeping the drone within line of sight is essential if you want to prevent a crash. Indeed following the guidelines specified by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for drone users is absolutely essential if you want to preserve the wellbeing of your machine, and the safety of anyone or anything around you (not to mention preserving your pride and wallet too!). The CAA guidelines (or “drone code” as the CAA has called them recently) are excellent because they are common sense – but you can be prosecuted if you are found in breach of them.
Keep the drone within line of sight at all times.
Fly no higher than 400 feet from the ground and no further than 500 meters. (Blame the world of aviation for mixing up distance units so badly!)
Be no closer than 50m to any person, vehicle building or structure that is not under the full control of the pilot.
Remain 150m from any congested area or large gathering of people (such as a concert or sports event)
Many people wrongly believe there are no regulations in place for drone pilots. The truth is, it is remarkably easy to get into trouble for flying recklessly. If you are deemed to have endangered the safety of others you will be prosecuted and fined. ‘Recklessly endangering an aircraft in flight’ is a criminal offence for example, which can lead to a custodial sentence.
It is for this reason that if a drone is bothering you there will always be something you can do about it. The first port of call would be to politely approach the drone pilot and have a word. Most pilots will be embarrassed to learn they are causing anyone stress and move on. If you believe there to be wrong doing happening then call the police. The CAA may be interested to learn about the incident too. It is worth bearing in mind that no-one owns airspace though, so the pilot is not breaking any rules because he is flying over private land for example, but if he is standing on private land or landing the drone without permission then he is trespassing. Normal laws apply – there is nothing special about a drone pilot.
There has been some concerns expressed by some shooters that drones might be used by “antis” to film or disrupt a shoot. For those with such concerns here is some food for thought:
1) If the drone comes closer than 50m to any person then the pilot is breaking the “drone code” and should be reported to the police.
2) The cameras on these drones have very wide angle lenses and this makes everything smaller in the camera’s view. The drone would need to be much closer than 50m in order to reliably identify anyone in shot. A drone in the distance should cause you no concern of being “spied upon” or identified. Drones up high are filming landscapes – not faces or small details.
3) The best way to film or photograph people covertly, is to stick to the tried and tested methods of using a long lens camera from the ground! To be clear, even the larger drones cannot carry a camera with a decent telephoto lens. You’ll need a full size helicopter with very specialist camera gear to film in this way.
4) If the drone suddenly swoops in close to apparently film or photograph you (and it would need to be within 10m or so) the film itself would incriminate the pilot, demonstrate the drone code was breached and enable prosecution. At least two UK drone pilots have been prosecuted as a result of them publishing their flights on YouTube.
5) As a shooter, never shoot a drone! No matter how tempted you might be, just don’t. If you shoot a drone you will be facing a charge of criminal damage and you will most certainly lose your shotgun certificate! “I thought it was a bird officer. I didn’t mean it.” will not work. It’s just not worth it. It has been suggested that it could be justified if the drone was believed to be a danger or a threat – perhaps it was out of control heading for livestock – but no, don’t shoot them. Would you like to be defending your actions in court – that you did have time to check for a backstop and that shooting over farm animals was a good decision?
6) A pilot cannot be hired or earn money for his flight time unless he has received official permission from the CAA to carry out “aerial work*” and for that he will have had to have gained one of the two qualifications recognised by the CAA: an RPQ-s or a BNUC-s. Further to this, “if you are looking to employ or hire a company to conduct Aerial Work on your behalf, you must ensure they are appropriately certified by the CAA and have the right insurance in place. Failure to do so could lead to prosecution by the CAA.” This latter fact might be relevant to shoots who are considering hiring a drone and pilot for a day. I have completed the course for my RPQ-s and I can assure you it’s as thorough – if not more so – as any UK driving test.
7) * “Aerial work” is where you are employed specifically to do this work. A roofer could use a drone to check his roofing repairs without CAA authorisation, but if he employed a drone pilot to do it, the pilot would need CAA permission.
For an example of the fantastic camera work possible from a drone copter, check out BASC – An introduction below: | aerospace |
https://www.thedigitalship.com/news/electronics-navigation/item/2291-orbcomm-ready-for-ais-satellite-launch | 2020-12-04T21:08:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141743438.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20201204193220-20201204223220-00411.warc.gz | 0.93117 | 284 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__40630069 | en | The satellite has been shipped from Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Integration and Test Facility in Louisville to the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, and will be prepared for a launch on the Cargo Re-supply Services (CRS) mission aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket currently targeted for October 7, 2012.
As well as the AIS payload, which will be used to receive and report transmissions from AIS-equipped vessels for ship tracking and other maritime navigational and safety efforts, this satellite will also be used to evaluate performance for subsequent OG2 satellite launches.
In mid-2013, ORBCOMM says that it plans to launch an additional eight satellites, which will be placed into orbits that are optimised to deliver the best coverage for its enhanced OG2 messaging services.
The remainder of the constellation of 18 satellites is expected to be launched in 2014.
“The deployment of this first OG2 satellite marks a historic milestone in the evolution of our global M2M network and solidifies ORBCOMM as the standout leader in providing integrated M2M communications services to customers around the world,” said Marc Eisenberg, ORBCOMM’s chief executive officer.
“The launch of our first OG2 satellite will bring us one step closer to our goal of delivering an even higher level of functionality, performance and service.” | aerospace |
https://isics.unimap.edu.my/index.php/speakers/speaker4 | 2023-12-11T10:19:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103810.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211080606-20231211110606-00669.warc.gz | 0.894946 | 91 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__277857136 | en | Dr. Hashima is a PhD graduate in the field of Astrophysics from University of Oxford. She is one of the female scientists who developed the new NASA space telescope – James Webb Space Telescope. She has been actively giving talks on Women in Science under the NASA programme.
Dr. Hashima Hasan
Deputy Program Scientist,
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA
Lead for Astrophysics Education and Public Outreach, NASA | aerospace |
https://lionheartautographs.com/autographs/signed-photograph-of-the-first-woman-and-first-civilian-in-space/ | 2019-04-22T16:32:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578558125.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190422155337-20190422181337-00231.warc.gz | 0.970836 | 476 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__173994534 | en | TERESHKOVA, VALENTINA. (b. 1937). Russian cosmonaut who was the first woman and first civilian launched into space. SP. (“Tereshkova”). 1p. Postcard. N.p., N.d. A colorized bust portrait of the celebrated cosmonaut in civilian dress but wearing medals for Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union – the latter being the highest Soviet honor. Signed vertically on the left portion of the image.
Signed Photograph of the First Woman (and First Civilian) in Space
Signed by Valentina Tereshkova
In the years following World War II, the Cold War pitted the United States and Soviet Union against each other in what was dubbed the “Space Race,” a contest to see which nation could gain technical superiority over the other. The 1957 Soviet victory of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite sent into orbit, was followed by another significant Soviet victory: launching the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1. The Soviet program had been several years in the making and was accelerated with news that the Americans planned to launch a manned flight in January 1961. Ultimately, the American’s Mercury flight was delayed several times, allowing the Soviets to launch six Vostok flights during which history was made.
A textile worker and amateur skydiver, Tereshkova was one of five women selected from a pool of 400 applicants to join the female cosmonaut corps in 1962. After months of intensive training, on June 16, 1963, Tereshkova became the first woman in space aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft, orbiting the earth 48 times over the course of nearly three days. She remains to this day the only female to complete a solo space flight.
Tereshkova went on to graduate from the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy and earn a doctorate in engineering. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev presided over her 1963 wedding to cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev. Her prominence led to a political career during which she served as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Central Committee of the Communist Party as well as filling a number of diplomatic posts.
In fine condition. | aerospace |
https://ingenuityguru.wordpress.com/tag/space/ | 2019-02-24T00:11:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249556231.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223223440-20190224005440-00042.warc.gz | 0.932259 | 3,092 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__138560624 | en | Follow the latest on SpaceX, NASA, and more on This Week in Space
On Sunday, Feb. 8, SpaceX will make a second attempt at a historic rocket landing on a floating drone rocket landing craft.
Like almost every 1950s science fiction movie, a rocket will descend in a fiery landing buffered by flaming retro-rocket engines
A 22-story-tall Falcon 9 rocket will lift off of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida a couple of minutes after sunset, at 6:10 pm ET. And within a half hour or so after take off, the rocket will return from space and attempt to guide its way, using GPS tracking, onto a droneship in the Atlantic.
Five years ago, a landing attempt like this was unheard of. But SpaceX is changing things up and paving the way for a new era of reusable rockets. The company, founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, has gone to great lengths to build the foundations for a future of cheap space travel. The key to that future is reusable rockets that can carry cargo and astronauts into space multiple times instead of only once.
So far, SpaceX has never recovered a rocket for reuse. But if everything goes according to plan this Sunday and the rocket lands softly, it would be a game changer.
And with 17 potential rocket launches scheduled for 2015, there’s plenty of opportunity to get it right even if this latest attempt doesn’t work.
Elon Musk may be the Tesla of the 21st Century.
News source: Business Insider
There could be a space-time tunnel (wormhole) in our galaxy, as dramatized by the film Interstellar, that would allow us to travel to a distant location in the galaxy, and the tunnel could even be the size of our entire galaxy.
That’s what astrophysicist/dark-matter expert Paolo Salucci of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and colleagues suggest in a paper published in Annals of Physics (open-access arXiv version here), based on combining the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model.
“What we tried to do in our study was to solve the very equation that the astrophysicist Murph [in the movie] was working on. Clearly we did it long before the film came out,” jokes Salucci. “It is, in fact, an extremely interesting problem for dark matter studies.”
The authors note in the paper that “our result is very important because it confirms the possible existence of wormholes in most of the spiral galaxies. Scientists remain silent on whether it is possible to manufacture or create of the exotic matter violating null energy condition in laboratory. As a result the construction of a wormhole geometry in our real world is extremely difficult.
“However. in the galactic halo region, dark matter* may supply the fuel for constructing and sustaining a wormhole. Hence, wormholes could be found in nature and our study may encourage scientists to seek observational evidence for wormholes in the galactic halo region.”
So can this be tested experimentally? “In principle, we could test it by comparing two galaxies — our galaxy and another very close one like, for example, the Magellanic Cloud, but we are still very far from any actual possibility of making such a comparison,” he says.
To reach their conclusions, the astrophysicists combined the equations of general relativity with an extremely detailed map of the distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way, explains Salucci. “Dark matter may be ‘another dimension,’ perhaps even a major galactic transport system. In any case, we really need to start asking ourselves what it is.”
*The concept of a dark matter galactic halo is based on observations of galaxies. As Wikipedia explains:
The presence of dark matter in the halo is inferred from its gravitational effect on a spiral galaxy’s rotation curve. Without large amounts of mass throughout the (roughly spherical) halo, the rotational velocity of the galaxy would decrease at large distances from the galactic center, just as the orbital speeds of the outer planets decrease with distance from the Sun. However, observations of spiral galaxies, particularly radio observations of line emission from neutral atomic hydrogen (known, in astronomical parlance, as HI), show that the rotation curve of most spiral galaxies flattens out, meaning that rotational velocities do not decrease with distance from the galactic center. The absence of any visible matter to account for these observations implies either that unobserved (“dark”) matter exists or that the theory of motion under gravity (General Relativity) is incorrect.
Abstract for Possible existence of wormholes in the central regions of halos
An earlier study (Rahaman, et al., 2014 and Kuhfittig, 2014) has demonstrated the possible existence of wormholes in the outer regions of the galactic halo, based on the Navarro–Frenk–White (NFW) density profile. This paper uses the Universal Rotation Curve (URC) dark matter model to obtain analogous results for the central parts of the halo. This result is an important compliment to the earlier result, thereby confirming the possible existence of wormholes in most of the spiral galaxies.
SOURCE: Kurzweil Newsletter, http://www.KurzweilAI.com
NASA and SpaceX announced the next commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, the fifth for the U.S. company, now is set for 2:31 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 16, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage will begin at 1:15 p.m.
The scheduled Prelaunch, Science and Technology, and Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) briefings will take place Monday, Dec. 15
On Friday, December 5, humankind took one giant leap into the world of tomorrow.
Orion flew for the first time.
Within the next 15 years, Orion will evolve and be engineered for non-orbital manned missions. The potential includes trips to the moon, asteroids, and even Mars. Places where no man, or woman, has gone before.
My passion is a to keep a high level of focus and dialogue on American Ingenuity — and innovation worldwide. Orion is much more than a symbolic moment. For Boomers, it is a nostalgic remembrance of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. For Gen X and Y, it is a clear call for exploration and adventure. For children, it stimulates imagination and hope for the future.
I have heard critics bark that programs, such as Orion, are incredibly bad policy for a nation struggling with so many challenges and issues. This is short-sighted and dangerously myopic. Consider these thoughts about Orion:
America’s STEAM Expertise Grows
The essential reality is people move science forward from experience — both success and failure. Our population of scientist, technicians, engineers, aeronauts, and mathematicians working on Orion will broaden America’s institutional memory and knowledge base. Delays, interruptions, and hiatus diminishes continuity and competence.
Space Stimulates Economic Growth
NASA invests billions on hardware, software, tools, technology, and people. Vendors, consultants, suppliers, and others receive and circulate these dollars throughout our economy. Families are supported, careers enhanced, and small business thrives from this massive financial engine.
American Exceptionalism is Maintained
While other nations — including China, India, Japan and others — are making great strides in astronautics, the United States has to keep ahead of the pack. Why? Technological advances spawn defense innovation critical to the security of the country. Plus, space is the “high ground” that provides strategic advantages.
American Cooperation Strengthens Peaceful Co-Existance
While things have been tentative with the US-Russian space collaborative, headway has been made with many other nations. Shared knowledge creates greater advances and improved understanding of other cultures.
Orion is much more than a singular mission.
Orion is a clear and present hope for a better future.
from the Interwebs:
Explode with attention.
Pluto may no longer be a planet, but next year it will be getting some love from NASA. On December 6th, the New Horizons probe awakens from deep sleep in order to prepare for its encounter with the dwarf planet and its moons.
Sleeping for much of its nine year journey allows New Horizons to preserve its electronics, but this is not a case of a spacecraft romantically woken from a multi-year sleep by a long distance kiss blown by Earth engineers. Instead New Horizons has had 18 shut-downs over its journey, with the longest lasting 202 days. The current one will be just 99 days when the craft restarts operations.
“New Horizons is healthy and cruising quietly through deep space – nearly three billion miles from home – but its rest is nearly over,” said Alice Bowman, mission operations manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. “It’s time for New Horizons to wake up, get to work, and start making history.”
As with humans, “sleep” for New Horizons does not mean a complete shut-down in activity. A flight computer keeps check on system health and sends a status update to Earth once a week. During its brief wake up cycles, instruments are calibrated, activities practiced, and even some research conducted despite its enormous distance from astronomical objects.
New Horizons will get to work on January 15th studying the Pluto/Charon system from a distance of 260 million kilometers. It reaches its closest approach on July 14th.
The faint reflections off the surface of objects so far from the sun make measurements slow, but New Horizon will investigate the geology and topography of Pluto and Charon. The interaction between these two objects is one of the things that makes Pluto a worthy target. Not only are they similar enough in mass that the point around which both rotate is outside Pluto’s radius, but each is tidally locked so that they keep the same face to each other. There is even speculation that the warmth from their tidal relationship may maintain a subsurface ocean on Pluto, something that might be revealed if the surface shows signs of tectonic activity.
Pluto’s thin atmosphere and four smaller moons will also get some attention, and it is possible that tinier objects, or even rings, will be detected.
Given its immense velocity relative to Pluto, getting New Horizons into orbit is not possible, so the craft will sail on past, conducting more research as the frozen objects fall behind.
Even after Pluto, New Horizons has miles to go before it (permanently) sleeps, with plans to adjust its trajectory—funding permitting—so it can make a close approach to another Kuiper Belt object. This may help answer the question of whether Pluto is really just a typical representative of the Kuiper Belt we happened to discover long before the others, or represents something unusual or even unique.
NASA has just announced that Boeing and SpaceX have been selected to lead the Commercial Crew Program, founded in 2010. Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s Dragon V2 will be used to launch humans into Low Earth Orbit and to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral beginning in 2017. This will be the first human spaceflight launch on American soil since the space shuttle program retired in 2011.
Since the end of the shuttle program, American astronauts headed to the ISS have had to bum a ride from Russia at a rate of $71 million per seat. However, the desire to be in charge of their own launches has been highlighted in recent months due to strained relations with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. The United States government put sanctions on Russia and severed most of its ties back in April, except for its dealings with the ISS. In retaliation, Russia has threatened to stop providing transportation for American astronauts.
A key difference between the space shuttle program and this new venture is that the spacecraft will be provided by privately-owned corporations, and the government will be contracting out those services. This allows for companies to compete for contracts, driving down the cost and boosting innovative designs.
reSpaceX, headed up by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, submitted a design called the Dragon V2.
It is a modified version of the Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX has been using to bring cargo to the ISS since 2010. A major feature of the seven-seated spacecraft is the ability for controlled landings. This means that in addition to going to the ISS, the spacecraft could be used to bring humans to the moon or other worlds. The advanced landing system also means the spacecraft can be collected and reused quickly. This cuts down on wasted materials, which subsequently reduces the expense of each launch. The Dragon V2 will launch using SpaceX’s own Falcon 9 rocket.
Boeing was the heavy favorite going into today’s announcement, with its CST-100 spacecraft.
The body design is unique as it does not include any welded junctions. This makes the vessel lighter, more structurally sound, and easier to produce. Each vessel, which seats seven, can be used 10 times. Upon returning to Earth, the spacecraft will land using parachutes and airbags. Additionally, struts within the seat will provide added cushioning, reducing the stress of impact on the astronauts. The CST-100 will launch using an Atlas V rocket, produced by United Launch Alliance. ULA is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
NASA has been using private companies to bring cargo to the ISS over the last few years. The ability to contract human transportation to and from the ISS frees NASA up to focus on human ventures deeper into space (such as Mars). NASA’s Space Launch System will launch an unmanned Orion spacecraft in 2017, with the goal of the first manned mission in 2021.
NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to science and engineering communities for ideas for a mission to Europa that could address fundamental questions of the enigmatic moon and the search for life beyond Earth.
The RFI’s focus is for concepts for a mission to Europa that costs less than $1 billion, excluding the launch vehicle that can meet as many of the science priorities as possible recommended by the National Research Council’s 2011 Planetary Science Decadal Survey for the study of Europa.
“This is an opportunity to hear from those creative teams that have ideas on how we can achieve the most science at minimum cost,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters inWashington. “Europa is one of the most interesting sites in our solar system in the search for life beyond Earth. The drive to explore Europa has stimulated not only scientific interest but also the ingenuity of engineers and scientists with innovative concepts.” Continue reading | aerospace |
http://www.arabstoday.net/en/446/dubai-satellite-captures-image-of-mecca | 2017-02-27T00:48:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501172156.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104612-00572-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.948235 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__71292664 | en | As Muslims around the world celebrate Ramadan, one of Dubai's satellites has captured a stunning image of Mecca from high above the earth.
The one metre resolution image was released by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre on Wednesday, offering a unique perspective of the holy site to mark the arrival of the holy month.
DubaiSat-2 was launched in 2013 to capture high-resolution images and is the second UAE owned satellite to orbit the earth in an observational capacity.
It was built mainly by Emirati engineers based in Dubai and Korea. The project saw the team of Emirati engineers play a crucial role in the design and the manufacture of the satellite, while working alongside their Korean counterparts.
The images will be used for environmental projects, urban planning and infrastructure development, disaster management, mapping, scientific research and to provide specialised reports.
The centre's next project, DubaiSat-3, is set to launch in 2017.
Source: The National | aerospace |
http://www.ev-info.com/electric-airplane-manufacturer/43-apame-france | 2017-04-28T08:17:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122886.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00599-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.903227 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__82255916 | en | Apame - Electric Airplane Manufacturer.
This single-seater ultralight motorglider is manufactured by the Ukrainian company Aerola and distributed in France by Randkar (Frossay – Loire Atlantique). The electrical motorization E-Motors is developed by Electravia, and is already implemented on the plane "Electra" and on the delta trikes "ElectroTrike". The motor delivers 26 hp and is powered by a Lithium-Polymer battery. Michel Sérane, Electravia's test pilot, has checked all flight configurations of the motorglider. Altitude gain is 2.100 m. Alatus flight endurance in calm weather is 1h07. This duration is the longest logged one on aircraft equipped with batteries at present. The Alatus-M offers advantages of different aircraft: comfort and performances of glider, compactness of hangglider and ease of use of an ultralight. Electrical motor is reliable, clean, silent, economic and easy to maintain. Alatus with electrical motor becomes a 100% ecological motorglider for nature lover and environment-friendly's pilots. Alatus-ME is also the cheapest motorglider on the market. It will be available end of spring, 2009, after complete validation of its test program. | aerospace |
https://engineersplanet.com/advancing-your-mechanical-engineering-degrees-education/ | 2024-03-04T15:46:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476452.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304133241-20240304163241-00221.warc.gz | 0.917054 | 1,306 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__139813340 | en | Mechanical engineering degrees and research provide new opportunities for engineers advancing in mechanical engineering. This is for engineers advancing their education. The article explores practical methods for knowledge. Mechanical engineers can acquire it through advanced degrees and R&D experience.
Why Pursue a Mechanical Engineering Degree Masters?
Pursuing postgraduate degrees like a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering expands the knowledge and skills of mechanical engineers advancing in mechanical engineering. This degree allows one to specializing in a particular field or subfield. It matches individual interests and career goals. Through the Master’s curriculum, students develop technical expertise and leadership. The hands-on coursework and projects lead to real-world experience. Graduates apply this immediately in engineering workplaces. A Master’s typically takes 1-2 years full-time. It enables focused study and preparation. Mechanical engineers advancing in mechanical engineering can take on advanced roles and opportunities.
Mechanical engineering degree standard options:
MS in Mechanical Engineering
An MS in Mechanical Engineering is a comprehensive degree. It enables advanced study in core areas like thermodynamics, mechanics, materials science, and controls. Students can customize their learning to match their interests. These may be in aerospace, robotics, automotive engineering or other concentrations. Through electives and a thesis or capstone project, students tailor the mechanical engineering degree to a speciality. The broad expertise and transferable skills gained make graduates adaptable. They thrive in diverse technology roles and sectors. The mechanical engineer degree produces versatile capabilities applied across engineering industries. Graduates are prepared to take on challenging technical and leadership positions.
MS in Aerospace Engineering:
A Master’s in Aerospace Engineering specializes in aviation and space tech. The curriculum covers aerodynamics, propulsion, lightweight materials, orbital mechanics, vehicle design, systems integration, testing, and more. Through advanced coursework, research, and hands-on projects, students gain deep aerospace engineering knowledge. Graduates are prepared for careers designing, analyzing, simulating, and developing aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and systems. An MS in Aerospace Engineering opens doors to joining leading companies or agencies advancing cutting-edge aviation and space technologies.
MS in Automotive Engineering:
A Master’s in Automotive Engineering provides an in-depth study of vehicle systems and technologies. Coursework covers engines, emissions, fuel economy, vehicle dynamics, safety, autonomy, connectivity, and more. Hands-on labs and projects give practical experience. Graduates gain expertise to design and develop road cars, race cars, trucks, and automotive systems. An MS in Automotive Engineering prepares students for careers advancing vehicle research, innovation, and future mobility. Graduates are sought after by automotive companies and motorsports teams working on cutting-edge transportation technologies. This degree provides focused preparation for engineering roles driving the future of mobility.
MEng/MSE in Engineering Management:
For engineers looking to take on leadership roles, these programs combine advanced technical engineering content with business, strategy, and management skills—ideal preparation for engineering project managers overseeing multidisciplinary teams.
Earning a master’s in mechanical engineering can unlock new career opportunities, higher salaries, and the chance to gain expertise in an exciting technology area. Be sure to look for thesis or capstone project options to apply your learning in a research environment.
As a mechanical engineering degree holder looking to pursue a career in research or academia, a PhD is the ultimate credential. Earning a PhD takes approximately 5+ years of intensive study and research.
While specific focus areas depend on the university, standard PhD programs for mechanical engineers include:
PhD in Mechanical Engineering: The premier advanced degree for mechanical engineers. Doctoral research allows specialization into a particular field through technical electives and an original dissertation. Graduates become experts in areas like nanotechnology, biomechanics, heat transfer, robotics, and more based on their research.
PhD in Aerospace Engineering: An aerospace PhD focuses research on advancing the design and engineering of aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and related systems and technologies. Dissertations involve modelling, simulation, and developing new aerospace systems or subsystems.
Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering: Automotive engineering doctoral research dives deep into advancing vehicle technology through topics like combustion engines, electric propulsion, autonomous systems, safety, mechanical design, and testing. Graduates go on to lead automotive and motorsports R&D teams.
Earning a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering requires commitment and perseverance, but offers unparalleled research experience for those seeking to be innovation leaders in academia or industry.
Gaining Hands-On Skills with Mechanical Engineering Degree Research
Beyond formal graduate degrees, mechanical engineers can develop expertise and practical research skills through co-ops, internships, lab tech positions, and more.
Great hands-on R&D opportunities for mechanical engineers include:
Research Assistantships: Work under professors and principal investigators at universities to assist with mechanical engineering research projects. Build skills in areas like proposal writing, experimentation, data analysis, and presenting research findings.
R&D Internships and Co-ops: Major companies like GE, Toyota, Pratt & Whitney, GM, SpaceX, and more offer internships and co-ops for mechanical engineering students to gain experience solving real R&D challenges. Work on product development teams and get your hands dirty in test labs.
National Labs: Labs like Sandia, Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore hire mechanical engineers to operate major experimental labs and facilities and assist with sophisticated R&D projects in areas like renewable energy, aerospace, nuclear technology, and more.
Government R&D Agencies: Agencies including NASA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Lab, Naval Research Lab, and DARPA all hire ME’s to tackle research aligned with national priorities. Work on launching rockets, developing hypersonic vehicles, autonomous marine tech, and more!
Getting hands-on mechanical engineering R&D experience cultivates practical skills and can help determine fields of interest before pursuing a graduate degree. The connections made can also lead to long-term positions after graduation.
The Future of Advancing in Mechanical Engineering is Yours
For driven engineers advancing in mechanical engineering degrees, options are endless to promote education. It’s through graduate degrees, research assistantships, internships and innovative job focus. Postgraduate mechanical engineering opportunities allow for pursuing exciting new career pathways. It also allows reaching the frontiers of technology. | aerospace |
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-strategic-management-in-dod-acquisition-is-improving-effectiveness-tickets-5098437564?aff=eorg | 2016-02-12T15:58:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701164289.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193924-00325-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.872131 | 104 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__60116793 | en | Looks like this event has already ended.
Check out upcoming events by this organizer, or organize your very own event.
Dr. Rosen will explore implications for members of the A&D Forum who work with DoD program offices.
When & Where
The Aerospace & Defense Forum
The Aerospace & Defense Forum is a global aerospace and defense leadership community of over 1500 with six chapters providing opportunities for sharing of information, current events, and analysis, mutual support and encouragement, partnering, innovation, and performance breakthroughs. | aerospace |
https://setwoen.com/china-air-crash-all-132-people-onboard-plane-reported-dead-in-mondays-disaster/ | 2023-10-02T15:39:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511000.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002132844-20231002162844-00451.warc.gz | 0.941795 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__109523904 | en | The Boeing 737 crashed in the mountains in southern China’s Guangxi region Monday afternoon, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). It was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou when it lost contact over the city of Wuzhou. On board were 123 passengers and nine crew members, CAAC said in a statement posted online.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined. The discovery of the cockpit voice recorder on Wednesday might provide crucial clues to how the disaster unfolded. It is one of two so-called “black boxes,” with investigators still searching for the flight data recorder.
The airline and its subsidiaries temporarily grounded 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, airline spokesperson Liu Xiaodong said in a press conference on Thursday.
The grounded aircraft are undergoing safety inspection and maintenance to ensure that they are safe to fly, he said. The airline launched a sweeping safety overhaul after the crash, he added. | aerospace |
http://www.ukfsc.org.uk/2016-11-16/consortiq-join-us-as-a-new-supporter/ | 2020-07-11T23:27:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657129257.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711224142-20200712014142-00256.warc.gz | 0.955856 | 253 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__55683185 | en | ConsortiQ join us as a new supporter
We would like to welcome ConsortiQ Integrated Drone Solutions as our latest supporter to join the team.
ConsortiQ Ltd is a drone training, service and consultancy firm which holds CAA NQE status and is focused on guiding businesses as they introduce and implement drone technology into their operations.
They have the ability to perform drone training, managed drone services and consulting work around the globe, with offices in the UK, USA, South Africa, and UAE. ConsortiQ has substantial experience in assisting multiple companies with their drone training, operations, and procurement needs. ConsortiQ can cover all aspects of drone integration into any organisation, from SME’s to large, multinational enterprises and are agile enough to provide scalable solutions.
They have created bespoke drone training services for ‘Blue Light’ organisations such as Surrey Search & Rescue while working with the Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA). They have had over 400 candidates complete our UAQ drone training course in the past 12 months.
Weather and logistics permitting, they will deploy a drone to the racing area and provide high quality video coverage of the event.
Thanks to the ConsortiQ team. | aerospace |
https://diginto.tech/private-u-s-spacecraft-odysseus-makes-historic-lunar-landing/ | 2024-04-25T03:35:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297284704.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425032156-20240425062156-00501.warc.gz | 0.93297 | 338 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148861681 | en | Intuitive Machines, a Texas-based company, achieved a historic milestone as its spacecraft, Odysseus, successfully landed near the moon’s south pole on Thursday. This marks the first U.S. landing on the lunar surface in over 50 years and represents a groundbreaking achievement by the private sector. NASA, collaborating with Intuitive Machines, celebrated the event as a significant step towards its objective of deploying commercially flown spacecraft for scientific missions on the moon before astronauts return later in the decade.
The landing, documented in a joint webcast from Intuitive Machines’ mission operations center in Houston, featured a tense final approach and descent. A glitch in the spacecraft’s autonomous navigation system emerged during this phase, prompting ground engineers to implement an untested solution at the last moment. Post-landing, initial communication challenges raised concerns about the spacecraft’s condition or potential obstructions.
Odysseus, an uncrewed six-legged robot lander, touched down at approximately 6:23 p.m. EST, with NASA’s research instruments on board. Following an anticipated radio blackout, it took some time to re-establish contact with the spacecraft, and the faint signal received left mission control uncertain about its precise status. Eventually, contact was confirmed, and mission director Tim Crain conveyed the success, stating, “Our equipment is on the surface of the moon, and we are transmitting.”
Later updates on social media confirmed that Odysseus was upright and transmitting data. Despite the challenges, the achievement marks a significant leap forward in private sector space exploration and lunar exploration endeavors.
Photo: Intuitive Machines | aerospace |
http://priscillamessnerpatterson.blogspot.com/2010/04/back-in-northland.html | 2018-06-22T18:42:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864776.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622182027-20180622202027-00637.warc.gz | 0.953007 | 449 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__100128963 | en | Flight was ever so smooth into Anchorage. But those memories of bad weather flights never leave. While on the flight, I met the other artist bound for Kotzebue, Shiho Nakaza, from Los Angeles. We approached Anchorage over Cook Inlet. I had forgotten how beautiful Alaska is from the air. The snow capped mountains slip by seemingly so close that you can reach out and touch them, and the ponds, rivers and nothingness beyond Anchorage brought back memories.
Of course our flight was late and we had to run for the leg to Kotz. Which was sitting there due to a mechanical. So while we sat and waited, we met our escort/guide/liason/personal ID/and new BFF MSgt Brady Kiel. MSgt Kiel would be the one we would depend on during our stay to let us know where we needed to be and when as well as help us with making sure we had the photo reference material we would need to create the paintings.
Thanks to my good friend, Susan Martin Spar (check out her blog, The Daily Muse by Susan Martin Spar), I have now entered the world of blogging. Here are some images of paintings that are still available. As time goes by, I will add new images. Enjoy!
My husband and I live in the Pacific Northwest. Before moving here in 2006, we lived on Kodiak Island in Alaska for 23 years. There, I worked in an art gallery, commercial fished (only for a summer), and taught art at Kodiak College for nearly 18 years. My specialty is aviation art, and I am a member of the American Society of Aviation Artists, the Canadian Aviation Artists Association, NorthWest Air Force Artists and the Coast Guard and Air Force art programs. I have won some cool awards from places like ASAA, Simuflite/Flying Magazine and Aviation Week and Space Technology and have done some work for Alaska Magazine, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the Alaska Airmen's Association. I love painting airplanes, but find doing occasional still life and landscapes a fun diversion. Additional diversions are singing with a Sweet Adelines chorus and tap dancing. Boredom is not in my vocabulary. | aerospace |
http://spacesymposium.org/speaker/suzanne-cunningham/ | 2020-03-29T06:09:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370493818.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20200329045008-20200329075008-00464.warc.gz | 0.921104 | 834 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__174111463 | en | Strategy and Integration Manager for Communication and Public Engagement
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Suzy Cunningham is Strategy and Integration manager for Communication and Public Engagement (CPE) at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She works with NASA, Industry, Academic, DoD and other state/federal leaders to research community, center and organizational issues and initiatives related to CPE. She determines the impact of those functions on Kennedy and the agency and collaborates to develop strategic approaches and recommendations that synergize efforts and best utilize resources. She also serves as NASA liaison for efforts including Space Congress, Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, and Space Walk of Fame.
Cunningham was previously Kennedy’s Strategic Planning manager. She advised senior management on Kennedy strategic planning activities/analyses concerning present and future Kennedy operations and development, and facilitated development of centerwide strategic policies and initiatives. She was strategic planning liaison to the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing (45 SW), and was a Space Florida (SF) Board advisory member.
Prior to this, Cunningham was Kennedy’s lead for Partnerships and Industry. She led a team in establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships with NASA, industry, academia, DoD, and other state/federal entities. She was Kennedy’s liaison to the Governor’s Commission on Future of Space and Aeronautics in Florida, and Kennedy’s SF liaison. She was also a senior technical expert on the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Orbiter Thermal Protection System (TPS) Gapfiller Assessment Group.
Before this, Cunningham was acting deputy/senior spaceport manager for the KSC/45 SW Cape Canaveral Spaceport Planning and Customer Service Office. She established the office, including briefings to KSC/45 SW senior management and White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP). She was the customer’s primary interface for facilities/services for launch, test and technology development. She was also a NASA technical expert on the STS-107 Columbia Mishap Investigation/Reconstruction Team and NESC Space Shuttle and International Space Station Recurring Anomalies Team.
Cunningham was previously a Kennedy Advanced Development and Shuttle Upgrades Project manager. Her projects included orbiter TPS and bioregenerative exploration. Her teams published on material/process improvements, presenting at the 1999 International Astronautical Federation Congress in Amsterdam.
She served as an executive intern to Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Crippen in 1994.
Cunningham has received NASA’s Government Invention of the Year Award, Exceptional Service Medal, Center Director’s “Gold Dollar” Award, NASA’s “You Make a Difference” award, Air Force 45 SW Operational Readiness Inspection Award, and group achievement/performance awards. She’s also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Prior to accepting a position at Kennedy in 1986, she worked as an aerospace engineer at Allison Gas Turbine.
Cunningham completed a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a Master of Science in space systems operations from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Cunningham is active in education/outreach. She mentors K-12 students/new hires and represented Kennedy on agency outreach teams. She enjoys touring students and dignitaries, sharing NASA’s story. She’s also a singer and performs for NASA, AIAA, the National Space Club (NSC) and others. She is a member of the NSC, Women in Aerospace, and AIAA (Space Transportation Technical Committee and served on the Technical Committee on Management).
She resides in Merritt Island near the nation’s spaceport with her husband Phil.
New Generation Space Leaders: Leadership Exchange “Speed Mentoring”
Monday, March 30, 2020
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Track: New Generation Space Leaders | aerospace |
https://madamenoire.com/745845/jeanette-epps-iss-nasa/ | 2020-06-05T23:14:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590348504341.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20200605205507-20200605235507-00364.warc.gz | 0.978397 | 587 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__109502225 | en | Meet Astronaut Jeanette Epps, First African-American To Be Crew Member On International Space Station
In Black Girl Magic news, the first African-American to call the International Space Station home, woman or man, will be astronaut Jeanette Epps.
In a press release from NASA, it was announced that Epps, 46, will have the honor of being the first African-American space station crew member when she blasts off in May 2018 on Expedition 56. She will have the role of flight engineer and will remain on board the International Space Station for Expedition 57 as well. This will be Epps’s first flight into space.
She will be led by veteran astronaut Andrew Feustel, who will be commander of Expedition 56 after launching in March 2018 and completing his own flight engineering duties for Expedition 55.
As for Epps’s background, according to NASA, in 1992 she obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics from LeMoyne College before earning a master’s of science in 1994 and a doctorate in 2000 in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. When she completed grad school, Epps worked in a research laboratory and helped bring to life several patents before being brought on as a technical intelligence officer for the CIA. She had that role for seven years before she was selected to be a part of the 2009 astronaut class.
According to NASA, astronauts like Epps who visit the space station, which is located in low Earth orbit, allow NASA to make major research breakthroughs and demonstrate new technologies through their methods of exploration. In case you need a clear definition of what it is, the International Space Station is classified as a space environment research laboratory.
Epps is already getting to work and training for her upcoming missions, which will leave her 250 miles above the earth’s surface for up to six months:
Epps, a twin, and the youngest of seven children, has come a long way from her beginnings in upstate New York. And while she’s sure to inspire many people, including young women taking part in STEM-related studies, she told The Lenny Letter back in July that her biggest role model in her work as an astronaut is actually her mother.
“There were people like Guy Bluford, the first African American in space. But mostly, it was my mother,” she said. “She thought that educating yourself was the way to go. If you educated yourself, you never had to worry about anything. Still, no one in my immediate family was an engineer or a doctor or anything like that. She said this funny thing to me and my sister when we finished graduate school: that she was surprised. She said, ‘Man, my biggest hope for you guys was that you would become secretaries, and look at you now!'”
Images via Instagram and Twitter | aerospace |
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/07/28/honoring_buzz_aldrin__anniversary_of_apollo_11_moonwalk_115503.html | 2021-06-18T03:41:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487634616.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20210618013013-20210618043013-00000.warc.gz | 0.9761 | 1,429 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__105062014 | en | Honoring Buzz Aldrin – Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moonwalk
Few men in history have done what Apollo 11’s lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin has done. On the 51st anniversary of Apollo 11's historic moon landing – July 20, 1969 – a look back is warranted. As a former USAF F-15E pilot, I admire Buzz for what many know and what many may not. What Buzz, now 90, represents is more than meets the eye.
As a young man, Buzz Aldrin was a go-getter. He played on a New Jersey State Championship football team, as a 160-pound center. At West Point, he was first in the plebe class, third at graduation in 1951, and a year later in an F-86 Sabre over Korea, where he flew 66 combat missions. Aldrin shot down two MiG-15s, one captured on a gun camera, pilot ejecting. Before he left Korea, Buzz earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses and three Air Medals.
In the Cold War, Aldrin flew F-100 Super Sabres over Germany, nuclear weapons under the wings. West Point friend Ed White did the same and encouraged Buzz to apply to NASA.
If get-up-and-go counts, so does resilience. Aldrin applied in 1962 and was rejected. He was not a test pilot, then a qualification. Determined to contribute to space exploration, he completed his Ph.D. in astronautical engineering at MIT in 1963.
Truth is often stranger than fiction – and much of Buzz’s life seems that way. Call it destiny, at age 2, he flew with his father, his mother’s maiden name was Moon, and his doctoral thesis was entitled “Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous.”
In 1963, the test pilot requirement was dropped, and he applied to NASA again. This time, he got in. Ironically, after leaving NASA, he became Commandant of the USAF Test Pilot School. But in 1963, he has other objectives.
The shadow cast by his Ph.D. was long. When circumstances put him on the prime crew list for Gemini 12, with Jim Lovell, work on his Ph.D. paid off. Mid-flight, as two attempted docking with a target vehicle, their radar failed. The only option was manual docking.
Unsurprisingly, Aldrin was able to conduct a successful docking because of his background in orbital rendezvous, deep understanding of the sextant, and the charts he drafted to work with Lovell complete the docking maneuver. That single event was critical. It showed manual docking was possible, and Aldrin knew how to do it.
Resilience is part of character. Close friend Ed White died in Apollo One’s pad fire. The pressure on Apollo astronauts grew, as the Soviets pushed to get to the moon before America.
By the time Apollo 11 stood on the pad, Aldrin, Armstrong, and Collins knew the stakes. All were calm. Buzz’s heartrate on Gemini 12 was remarkably low. Asked why he said space-walking was fun. On Apollo 11, their heartrates were low again because of their confidence in the mission, the technology and themselves.
Launch on Saturn 5’s massive rocket was so smooth, according to recent interviews, they only knew they were off by watching gauges. Headed for the moon, they were busy – for three days.
As Aldrin and Armstrong descended to the moon, an abort alarm sounded. With mission control’s nod, they kept descending. What did Aldrin think? “Well, it was different.” That was about it.
On the surface, second out of the lunar module – he joked about not locking the door behind him. The truth is, had he pulled it tight, the likelihood was airlock. The joke was real.
On the surface, they put out experiments. They modeled calm where you could raise a thumb and cover all humanity. Did he think about that? Not really, as they had jobs to do.
Stepping onto the moon’s surface, they disengaged the circuit breaker for the ascent engine. They did not want it lighting-off while they were out. Back inside, one of the backpacks snapped the ascent engine’s circuit breaker. What did they do? Called Mission Control, who told them to sleep, as they thought of something. Incredibly, they slept.
The next morning, no plan. What did they do? Considered using a metal pen to press the circuit breaker in – to light the ascent engine. But Aldrin noted metal conducted. A short circuit would not help. It could leave them there for eternity.
The next thought was his finger, except that fingers conduct. Answer? A pen that did not conduct. Result? Successful ignition rendezvous with Mike Collins and return home.
When asked how he kept his sense of humor – even observing they were “number one on the runway” – Aldrin was casual. We do what we can from where we are. On splashdown, the crew coordinated seamlessly. In quarantine, they kept their humor.
In a mid-2020 article, Aldrin addressed our national quarantine, reflecting on his own quarantine after Apollo 11. "Faced with frustration, restraint, stress, adversity, and boredom, laughter helps." He added, "slowing down" can be good, even if not “voluntarily,” it “can be a well-disguised blessing."
So here is the point. Buzz lived a dozen lives; young New Jersey athlete, West Point and MIT academic, combat aviator, stood nuclear alert in Germany, an innovator on neutral buoyancy training, an essential resource to Gemini 12, and resilient when adversity struck on the moon and in life.
Back on Earth, he battled other adversities, somehow finding the strength to overcome, going on to lead people, write books and articles, talk with kids and PhDs, pioneer space tourism and cyclers to Mars, even today arguing for more efficient ways to the moon – and Mars.
Somehow, 51 years after stepping onto the moon – which he described as “magnificent desolation” – Buzz Aldrin still has eyes on the future, reminding us to believe in America and its people. He is exploring new ideas, thinking, writing, wondering, working, and proving that America and Americans are one of a kind. On the anniversary of an epic moonwalk, so is Buzz.
Kent D. Johnson is a former F-15E Strike Eagle and A-10 Warthog fighter pilot, and a political-military adviser on the staff of the Secretary of the Air Force and senior US adviser to the commandant of the Royal Air Force think tank. He is currently a defense studies adjunct at North Central Texas College. | aerospace |
http://drone360mag.com/news-notes/2017/03/fdny-uses-drone-to-help-fight-4-alarm-fire | 2017-04-30T16:41:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125719.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00007-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.965617 | 221 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__63375786 | en | The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) flew a quadcopter drone during a 4-alarm fire in the Bronx last night. According to a tweet by the department, this is the first time it has deployed a drone during a fire incident.
Firefighters used the drone to help confirm verbal reports about the structure’s roof.
“The roof started to fail and we had a lot of great radio reports but that’s only verbal, so with the drone we had good visual pictures and it really helped us make decisions to put this fire out and keep our members safe," said FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief Dan Donoghue in a Facebook post
, describing the first-ever use of the FDNY drone.
Since flying drones in NYC is illegal, FDNY must obtain permission from the FAA to fly each time it uses its firefighter-drone. According to the New York Times
, the department has an agreement with the FAA that speeds up the process of attaining permission to fly (apparently it should only take about 15 minutes to get approval). | aerospace |
http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/contentname-1437298 | 2016-09-27T15:48:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738661123.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173741-00019-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.985175 | 994 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__156075408 | en | Caryn Dolley, Michelle Jones and Own Correspondents
THERE was no mayday, just dead air and now a lot of questions.
Early yesterday morning an Oryx South African Airforce helicopter found the wreckage of the missing Dakota in the vicinity of Giants Castle in the Drakensberg.
They found it where search and rescue personnel had predicted it would be. The plane hadn’t deviated from its planned flight path.
All 11 on board were dead. Three of them were from Cape Town: Captain Zack Smith and Major Kurt Misrole, both of whom were pilots, and Sergeant Eric Boes an air loadmaster, part of the flight crew.
One of the first people at the crash site was Netcare 911 spokesman Chris Botha.
“It was a horrible, horrible scene. There was debris scattered across a very large area,” said Botha. “I have the greatest respect for the search and rescue people who had to work in such thin air, packaging each of the bodies.”
The crash had happened at an altitude of 10 870 feet.
The bodies were taken to a mortuary in a nearby town.
The plane, according to Johnny Smit the head of Aeronautical Search and Rescue, hadn’t deviated from its flight plan.
Now the SANDF wants to convene a board of inquiry to investigate what went wrong and why this type of plane, which has been in operation for over 75 years, crashed.
Besides the three Capetonians, the dead crewmen were: Sergeant Boy Klaas Baloyi, Sergeant Joseph Mokhetla Mamabolo and Corporal Letshela Mofokeng.
The passengers on the plane were Sergeant Lulamile Sobantu, Corporal Njabulo Wellington Khomo, Corporal Abisai Matlaila, Corporal Msanyana Jacob Mthombeni and Lance Corporal Notty Klaas Aphane.
The aircraft a C-47TP from 35 squadron left Waterkloof airforce base on Wednesday at 7.45am en route to Mthatha Airport. On board was a relief team who were to replace the security personnel guarding the Mthatha Airport.
The teams are rotated on a weekly basis. At 9.45am when the aircraft failed to reach Mthatha a search and rescue mission was activated.
Within minutes Smit and a team of search and rescue specialists convened in the Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centre at O R Tambo airport and began trying to establish where the plane had gone down.
They called up the Dakota’s flight plan from a database, consulted meteorological reports and came up with likely crash sites. “We identified an area of probability and it was close to here where the plane was found,” he said.
But rescuers had to wait – weather conditions and visibility were so poor, no aircraft could begin searching.
Yesterday at first light, ground teams made up of the Mountain Rescue Club of South Africa began hiking to the suspected site. They were beaten by the Oryx helicopter.
Yesterday Zildene Smith, the sister of SAAF pilot Zack Smith, confirmed that he had been on the aircraft and was from Cape Town.
“We’re not sure what happened. We just know he was on
the plane,” she said.
On Facebook Duveen Bam said Zack Smith was her cousin and had been piloting the plane. “The aircraft flew into a mountain, everyone is dead.”
Bam said she was praying for, among others, Zack Smith’s children and wife.
Earlier, before hearing everyone aboard the craft had been killed, she wrote that the weather had been bad and that it was suspected Zack Smith may have had to make an emergency landing.
Kurt Misrole’s father, Wensley Misrole, said he had received a phone call on Wednesday to say his son was on the missing aircraft. “That is the call every parent would dread,” he said.
Their family was struggling to deal with the news, he said. Misrole said his son was 32 years old and had been a pilot for 12 years. Kurt Misrole and his wife, Carin, would have celebrated their second anniversary in February,.
Most of the crew were married with children, some only babies.
On Facebook Beau Skarda paid tribute to Misrole, as “a gentleman and all round great guy”.
“To his family and friends as well as all the rest of the crew and passengers and their loved ones who are left behind – my heartfelt condolences. To my colleagues and friends at 35 Sqn, there are no words – utterly gutted.” | aerospace |
https://usmilitary.com/air-defense-us-army-enlisted-artillery/ | 2024-02-24T23:38:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474569.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224212113-20240225002113-00030.warc.gz | 0.960942 | 452 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__30735935 | en | The Army Artillery Air Defense Officer is the person who has to lead the on ground defenses against many types of missile attack. They have to be an expert in the air defense system deployment field, and become proficient in both how to attack using missiles, and the procedures, techniques, and tactics for air defensive systems. After you earn your commission and become a 2nd lieutenant in the Army, you will be responsible for coordination of both personnel and missile systems to defend a specific target environment.
Serving in the Army as an Air Defense Artillery Officer requires that you become an expert in one or more of the different missile systems currently available: Man portable Air defense system, AVENGER missile system, the Bradley linebacker system, or the PATRIOT missile defense system. This is a commissioned Army Officer specialty, which means you have to earn a commission through direct commissioning, Army Officer Candidate school, attending the Army Service Academy at West Point, or via ROTC training and commissioning. Part of the use of technology has led to the diversification of the Artillery and Infantry. In the modern battle era, the Army Artillery Air Defense Officer plays a crucial role in defense of the troops and soldiers on the battlefield. As an Army Air Defense Officer you will be responsible for leading teams in protecting U.S. Forces from missile attack, enemy surveillance, and attack by missiles from the air. You are a vital link in the defense of the unit or Army area to which you are assigned. Training will include attending the Air Defense Artillery Basic Officer Course, and you will be instructed in leadership skills, operational aspects of Army Artillery equipment, and the maintenance, operations, tactics, and operational aspects of vehicles and weapons used as an Army Air Defense Artillery Missile defense Officer.
The Army Air Defense has changed as the type of missile and air weapons, and the type of defenses has changed. The Army Air Defense specialty has developed into one of the most technologically advanced jobs in the entire Armed Forces. Because of the constant changes in missile ability and technology, the person who serves as an Artillery Army Air Defense Officer has to constantly stay on top of the state of the art in missile defenses, as the ongoing technology continues to evolve and change. | aerospace |
https://www.flight-study.com/2019/09/integrated-flight-instruction.html | 2021-04-21T14:36:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039544239.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20210421130234-20210421160234-00468.warc.gz | 0.908591 | 905 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__94744860 | en | When introducing basic flight maneuvers to a beginning pilot, it is recommended that the “Integrated” or “Composite” method of flight instruction be used. This means the use of outside references and flight instruments to establish and maintain desired flight attitudes and airplane performance. [Figure 1] When beginning pilots use this technique, they achieve a more precise and competent overall piloting ability. Although this method of airplane control may become second nature with experience, the beginning pilot must make a determined effort to master the technique.
|Figure 1. Integrated flight instruction teaches pilots to use both external and cockpit attitude references|
As the beginner pilot develops a competent skill in visual reference flying, the flight instructor should further develop the beginner pilot’s effectiveness through the use of integrated flight instruction; however, it is important that the beginner pilot’s visual skills be sufficiently developed for long-term, safe, and effective aircraft control. [Figure 1]
The basic elements of integrated flight instruction are as follows:
- The pilot visually controls the airplane’s attitude in reference outside to the natural horizon. At least 90 percent of the pilot’s attention should be devoted to outside visual references and scanning for airborne traffic. The process of visually evaluating pitch and bank attitude is nearly an imperceptible continuous stream of attitude information. If the attitude is found to be other than desired, the pilot should make precise, smooth, and accurate flight control corrections to return the airplane to the desired attitude. Continuous visual checks of the outside references and immediate corrections made by the pilot minimize the chance for the airplane to deviate from the desired heading, altitude, and flightpath.
- The airplane’s attitude is validated by referring to flight instruments and confirming performance. If the flight instruments display that the airplane’s performance is in need of correction, the required correction must be determined and then precisely, smoothly, and accurately applied with reference to the natural horizon. The airplane’s attitude and performance are then rechecked by referring to flight instruments. The pilot then maintains the corrected attitude by reference to the natural horizon.
- The pilot should monitor the airplane’s performance by making quick snap-shots of the flight instruments. No more than 10 percent of the pilot’s attention should be inside the cockpit. The pilot must develop the skill to quickly focus on the appropriate flight instruments and then immediately return to the visual outside references to control the airplane’s attitude.
The pilot should become familiar with the relationship between outside visual references to the natural horizon and the corresponding flight instrument indications. For example, a pitch attitude adjustment may require a movement of the pilot’s reference point of several inches in relation to the natural horizon but correspond to a seemingly insignificant movement of the reference bar on the airplane’s attitude indicator. Similarly, a deviation from a desired bank angle, which is obvious when referencing the airplane’s wingtips or cowling relative to the natural horizon, may be imperceptible on the airplane’s attitude indicator to the beginner pilot.
The most common error made by the beginner pilot is to make pitch or bank corrections while still looking inside the cockpit. It is also common for beginner pilots to fixate on the flight instruments—a conscious effort is required by them to return to outside visual references. For the first several hours of instruction, flight instructors may choose to use flight instrument covers to develop a beginning pilot’s skill or to correct a pilot’s poor habit of fixating on instruments by forcing them to use outside visual references for aircraft control.
The use of integrated flight instruction does not, and is not intended to prepare pilots for flight in instrument weather conditions. The most common error made by the beginning student is to make pitch or bank corrections while still looking inside the cockpit. Control pressure is applied, but the beginning pilot, not being familiar with the intricacies of flight by references to instruments, including such things as instrument lag and gyroscopic precession, will invariably make excessive attitude corrections and end up “chasing the instruments.” Airplane attitude by reference to the natural horizon, however, is immediate in its indications, accurate, and presented many times larger than any instrument could be. Also, the beginning pilot must be made aware that anytime, for whatever reason, airplane attitude by reference to the natural horizon cannot be established and/or maintained, the situation should be considered a bona fide emergency. | aerospace |
https://bertsimons.nl/portfolio/rockets/raket/ | 2021-05-14T03:15:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991737.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514025740-20210514055740-00176.warc.gz | 0.935943 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__204675645 | en | I am building a rocket to leave earth. I also started building a jet-pack for smaller local trips.
Some rockets I have made on display in my rocket lab. On the foreground you can see my jetpack which I plan to use for smaller local trips
On 21th June 2004 the first private spaceship 'spaceship one' was launched and reached space. Burt Rutan's company scaled composites showed...
Although being experienced with all kinds of professional production techniques in my workshop, the rocket project was completly done in a...
Some pictures of rocket launches. | aerospace |
https://flyredarrow.com/independent-flight-instructors/ | 2019-08-21T03:09:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315750.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821022901-20190821044901-00226.warc.gz | 0.978447 | 435 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__209692340 | en | Rob Yadouga was born and raised in Florida and learned to fly in Georgia. He is passionate about flying and as a result, became an Instructor. Rob is also a proud father, Air Force veteran, and professor at El Paso Community College. His favorite airplane in the hangar is N4106C. Rob holds a CFI, CFII, and MEI ratings and is one of our full-time instructors.
Certificates & Ratings: Commercial ASEL, AMEL | CFI | MEI
CFI/MEI certified Jim has been a flight instructor since 1990. He began flying in high school and has a lot of experience under his belt. Jim earned a B.S. in Aeronautical studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL.
Osvaldo started his flying career after graduating from high school here at Red Arrow Flight Academy in 2015 where he earned his Private Pilot Certificate. Then he went to Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology where he became a Commercial Pilot single and multi-engine and earned an Associate of Applied Science in Aviation Flight. Now he is back with us as a Flight Instructor.
Max grew up in Lubbock,TX flying with his father in a Beechcraft Bonanza. After graduating from Villanova University in 2016 and deciding he wanted to pursue professional aviation, he enrolled in ATP flight school in Addison,TX in November of 2016. There, he earned the following ratings: (Airplane category) Commercial Pilot Single and Multi-engine land, instrument rating, CFI, CFII, and MEI. He also recently earned the Gold Seal Flight Instructor rating. He has been in El Paso since March of 2018. He loves flight instructing, and works for Red Arrow as a private contracted CFI during days off from his primary job (Flying SIC on Learjet 35, 55, and 60).
Schedule a visit and find out why we are #1 in the Southwestern region.
We offer a wide range of Aircraft for 7 days a week.
Our team and Instructors are always ready to assist you. | aerospace |
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a/165849/world-war-ii-airplanes-visit-columbia-regional-airport/ | 2015-04-28T18:32:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246661916.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045741-00213-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.975036 | 554 | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-18__0__99715405 | en | COLUMBIA-- An enormous, shiny metal airplane displaying a retro star on its side spun its propellers, causing a loud buzzing noise to fill the air. Onlookers stared in awe and reached to cover their ears as the historical aircraft took flight.
"It's my first time seeing these planes," said Jeff Eubanks, a visitor from St. Louis. "This experience has been very enjoyable; it's a beautiful day and the plane is majestic. It looks like a flying raptor to me."
Saturday had perfect weather conditions for flying and showcasing two World War II-era airplanes at Columbia Regional Airport.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a heavy bomber aircraft while the P-51 Mustang was used as a single seat fighter in World War II.
The planes belong to the Commemorative Air Force, a non-profit organization founded in 1957 to preserve aircraft from World War II. The organization is completely run by volunteers, including the pilots that fly the planes.
The B-17 on Saturday was named "Sentimental Journey" and is currently the most authentically preserved B-17 out of the seven still currently flying from World War II, as well as the only one that can take off with people sitting in the nose of the plane, pilot Rich Roberts said.
"Our favorite part is when the veterans come out; we have people who worked on it or flew on it (the aircraft) sign the bomb bay door," Roberts said. "And then we'll see the little kids come out and sometimes they know more then we do."
Visitors included families with children, World War II aircraft aficionados, veterans or people simply enjoying the day.
"My grandfather was a tail gunner on a B-17 in World War II, " Columbia resident Jeremy Grove said. "So obviously I have a lot of interest in what my grandpa experienced, I wanted to come and take a look at the plane he flew in during the war."
For the volunteer pilots flying such historical and beautiful planes, the experience is hard to put into words, the P-51 pilot Stan Music said.
"This airplane to me is pretty much the ultimate in flying experience. It's fast, it's maneuverable, there's a sense of history to it and sense of speed," Music said. "The sight, smell and sound of it is just very, very unique. There's nothing quite like it."
The exhibit will continue from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tours of the cockpit are available for five dollars with rides in both aircraft ranging from $500 to more than $1,000.
Supervising editor is Stephanie Ebbs. | aerospace |
https://famos.scientech.com/PMAX/Information | 2024-02-26T21:22:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474663.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226194006-20240226224006-00077.warc.gz | 0.923 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__74837446 | en | Curtiss-Wright deployed PEPSE-RT in 2020 as the calculation engine for the
FAMOS on-line thermal performance monitoring system. Since that time, new thermal
performance monitoring systems have been built utilizing PEPSE-RT instead of PMAX models.
However, the display system as well as the historian, trends, reports and all other
supporting tools are the same. Only the performance calculations are performed using
PEPSE models instead of PMAX models. | aerospace |
https://nakamuraindonesia.com/product/ | 2022-11-29T00:45:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710684.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128235805-20221129025805-00440.warc.gz | 0.934357 | 576 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__122601539 | en | We are a team of like-minded people who aim to create perfectly crafted products and ensure them with tailored services. We value honest approach to business and we praise fair-play attitude from all parties. We are people working together and understanding each other clearly and quickly!
Drones, known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are rapidly becoming indispensable tools in a variety of industries in the world.
NAKAMURA ENGINEERING INDONESIA (NAI) offers a variety of services using drones listed below.
Prior to the development of drones, taking photographs or video from the air required the very expensive rental of fixed-wing or helicopter aircraft. NAI can operate with the advent of low-cost drones equipped with high-resolution cameras, taking aerial images is now easily affordable for photographers. Images and video taken from the air offer a perspective that cannot be matched from the ground, and we can safely operate drone at much lower altitudes and in more confined spaces than aircraft. Photographers and filmmakers now routinely use drones to take high-quality images and video from the air, such as of Landscapes, Wildlife, Real estate, Sporting events, Weddings and other special events such as car racing and Film and TV subjects.
Infrastructure inspection by manual can be an involved, costly, and hazardous process, particularly on multistory structures. With drone technology, however, bridge, building inspections can be NEI safely and inexpensively. NEI can perform a close-up survey of the exterior of a building and deliver high-resolution video of the roof, gutters, chimneys, and building envelope, enabling a building owner to detect trouble spots in advance. NEI also can provide exterior wall diagnostics using infrared cameras mounted on drones.
NEI with drones are revolutionizing agriculture. The ability to survey crops from the air with an inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a variety of sensors enables a farmer to collect an unprecedented amount of useful data, including information about soil hydration, variations in soil composition, Pest/fungal infestations In addition, NEI crop surveys can be taken weekly, daily, or even hourly as required. Accurate information allows for optimal crop irrigation, fertilization, and pest control. Reducing water and pesticide usage and maximizing crop yields benefits the bottom line and the environment.
Land surveyors are increasingly turning to drones to acquire highly accurate digital survey data from the air in a fraction of the time and expense required by survey teams on the ground. NEI are using base station reference data and GPS, specially equipped drones can gather three-dimensional cartographic information with an accuracy of within 1 to 2 centimeters after processing. Cartographic surveys are used in many industries, including archaeology, construction, flood and pollution monitoring, forestry management, mining and oil and gas and urban planning. | aerospace |
https://www.fast-air.co.uk/op-ellamy/ | 2021-11-29T12:32:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358705.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129104236-20211129134236-00480.warc.gz | 0.973563 | 1,307 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__179952671 | en | On Thursday 3rd November 2011 Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg attended an event held at RAF Waddington to welcome home and congratulate the personnel who had taken part in military operations over Libya in the UK’s contribution to support UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
Addressing the men and women from the RAF, Royal Navy and the Army he said:
“This was an allied effort. But I am here to pay tribute to you, the men and women of Britain’s Armed Forces.”
“It has been your skill, your commitment, your bravery that has made the difference.”
“You have saved countless lives. You have performed magnificently in testing times.”
The UN Security Council Resolution had been passed on the 17th March 2011 and had authorised a no fly zone over Libya as well as “all means to protect civilians”. The UK’s involved was made under Operation ELLAMY and started just two days later.
With less than 24 hours notice Sentinel R1 and E-3D Sentry aircraft deployed to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus supported by VC10 tankers. As night fell on the Tornado GR4s from RAF Marham set out on a 3,000 mile sortie armed with Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike targets deep inside Libya. The sortie lasted for 8 hours and was the longest bombing mission undertaken by the RAF since the Black Buck missions in the Falklands Conflict. To complete the mission the Tornados had to refuel from VC10 and Tristar tankers up to three times on the way to Libya and a further time on the way back.
Typhoon FGR4s were forwardly deployed to Gioia del Colle in support of the no fly zone and flew their first ever combat mission the next day. The Typhoons were soon joined by a detachment of Tornado GR4s who flew armed reconnaissance missions making use of both RAPTOR and Litening pods whilst strike missions continued to be flown out of RAF Marham.
The Typhoon switched roles from policing the no fly zone to strike missions using the Austere air-to-ground capability the RAF had introduced to the Typhoon in CP-193. Operating alongside the Tornados as a strike package the Typhoons were armed with Enhanced Paveway II and the Tornados with Paveway IV and Dual Mode Sensor Brimstones. The latter proving to be very well suited to engaging targets with extremely low risk of collateral damage. The Typhoon completed 594 missions, logging over 3,000 hours and the Tornado completed 1,472 missions, logging over 8,000 hours.
Providing support to the strike missions over Libya was the E-3D Sentry and VC10. The Sentry acted as an airborne command, control and battle management (C2BM) asset as well as a communications platform and flew a total of 227 missions and over 2,000 hours. The VC10 provided air-to-air refuelling not only to Tornado, Typhoon and Sentry but also to the fighter aircraft of the other nations taking part in the campaign. After flying 70 missions out of RAF Akrotiri the VC10s moved to Trapani where they flew a further 360 missions. The move to Trapani reduced the transit time to the refuelling areas from 2 hours to 1 hour allowing the VC10s to operate further in until on the 24th September the first VC10 operated over land. Over 2,100 hours were flown and 8,000 metric tonnes of fuel transferred. They did this whilst also supporting deployments in Oman, the Falklands and providing the National Response role in the UK. This workload saw the VC10 operating at 200% of their normal number of flying hours and required engineering support in four separate locations. Not bad for an airframe that is almost 50 years old!
Both the VC10 and Sentry had also provided support to Op DEFERENCE before Op ELLAMY. The operation involved three C-130 Hercules used to evacuated civilians from a major population centre as well as oil workers from remote locations deep inside Libya. One of the Hercules took ground fire when taking off from Libya after collecting a number of civilians. On hearing this news and that a crewman had been injured an E-3D took fuel from a VC-10 to extend its sortie time and provide top cover to the Hercules until it had safely reached Malta.
Providing the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) function to the campaign was the Sentinel R1. The figures for availability of the aircraft make for impressive reading. A single airframe flew 48 missions in a 53 day period, including 78 hours in a 97 hour window and also three missions in the same day meaning it was only on the ground for 2 hours and 35 minutes that day. A total of 200 missions and over 2,200 hours were flown by the fleet.
Sqn Ldr Brian Wilson spoke of his time as a Sentinel captain on Op ELLAMY:
“We would normally be doing somewhere between 7 to 10 hours on task obviously with a transit in before that and a transit after that. We were routinely doing post 12 hour missions, so long old days.”
“We were working very close with ISR assets across the collation. Then directly and in-directly working with the attack helicopter and with the fast air. Working with pretty much all the assets there at one time or another.”
“We were able to look at a very large area that is very much our expertise. We were able to differentiate on the ground between pro and anti-forces often at times using the same equipment and the same tactics and procedures [as in Afghanistan] and by monitoring the movement and using other forms of intelligence we could work out where the forward edge of the battle was, then watch it move and provide real-time updates of that. There were very few if any other assets that had the capability to do that over such a large area. That was our unique part in that.”
The Nimrod R1 also played a part early on in the campaign after having its out of service date extended. It flew 41 missions and over 330 hours.
The C-17 provided the air bridge from the UK and also undertook a rather unusual mission to transport 40 tonnes of currency to the National Transitional Council in Libya. | aerospace |
http://eprints.undip.ac.id/77989/ | 2024-02-23T06:05:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00817.warc.gz | 0.822292 | 360 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__165299504 | en | Triwiyatno , Aris and Prakoso, Teguh and Amien S, Wahyul and Setiyono , Budi and Panggi Wijaya, Aristya Design of self balancing pitch control in fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle with fuzzy logic controller. In: 2015 2nd International Conference on Information Technology, Computer, and Electrical Engineering (ICITACEE), 16-18 Oct. 2015, Semarang, Indonesia.
|PDF (Prosiding) - Other
|PDF (Turnitin) - Other
|PDF (Peer Review & Kelengkapannya) - Other
In UAV flight controller's design, the occurrence of errors due to the delay in the system response to the reference signal from the pilot and the lack of stability in flat conditions due to interference or unbalanced mechanical load. When this happens UAV can not be controlled and the flight conditions can not be maintained any more. Fuzzy controller offers a solution for the development of UAV's stability controllers, specialized in the design of the autopilot system that controls the pitch angle of the UAV. This research has been developing a prototype of fixed wing UAV that can be controlled wirelessly and has ability to maintain the balance on the pitch angle of the flat conditions (self-balancing). Run test results show that the applied fuzzy method succesfully controls the pitch angle to maintain a flat condition the developed UAV.
|Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
|T Technology > T Technology (General)
|Faculty of Engineering > Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering > Department of Electrical Engineering
|30 Oct 2019 13:26
|14 Feb 2020 11:11
Repository Staff Only: item control page | aerospace |
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/tags/drones/ | 2016-12-03T00:20:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698540798.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170900-00507-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.976422 | 493 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__244961049 | en | Apple is going to try and close the gap between its mapping application, Apple Maps, and Google Maps by deploying a fleet of drones to scan streets, according to Bloomberg. Details are sparse, but what we do know sounds absurd.
Tagged With drones
Video: Seeing this drone fly through Venice Beach in Robert McIntosh's Fresh Squeeze in what looks like a perfectly planned flight is just lovely. The drone zips through a bicycle, seamlessly slips inside handrails, pops into holes and cuts through structures so seamlessly that it feels like the world is unfolding before you. It's especially nice because it's going in reverse, so you don't see what you're going to see next until you already see it. Uh, if that makes any sense.
If you were to read The Verge's glossy 2,000-word exclusive about Facebook's first test flight of an internet-beaming drone, you'd think the June 28 flight was an unmitigated success. Published with photos provided by Facebook on the same day the company announced the test flight to the world, the story featured quotes from Mark Zuckerberg on the importance of the project and scenes of elated Facebook employees wiping away tears of joy as "Aquila" took to the sky.
GoPro has some terrible news, and conveniently, it came as polling places around the US were starting to close. The company just announced it is recalling about 2500 units of its new drone — the Karma — after discovering that the units were losing power during operation. No injuries or property damage have been reported, according to a statement released by the company.
Hey, if Canon can get into the satellite game, there's nothing really stopping Intel from making its own drones. In fact, Intel has previously impressed with its flying robot technology, demoing 100 of the little dudes in this year's Vivid Sydney. Now it's one-upped itself by synchronising 500 drones to create the most controlled "fireworks" display ever.
Despite DJI's promises that shipments for its new Mavic Pro drone were underway, very few drones have made their way to customers. Last week, we wrote about the shipping delays plaguing the drone. Hours after we published our story, DJI released a statement announcing that shipping had begun. But according to customer reports and leaked company communication, only a small fraction of the highly-anticipated $1699 UAVs on backorder have shipped. | aerospace |
http://wurtsmithairmuseum.org/Restorations/restorations.html | 2018-05-24T15:53:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866511.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524151157-20180524171157-00121.warc.gz | 0.973316 | 620 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__151396624 | en | Restorations are currently underway on the following historic aircraft:
T-33 Shooting Star
. The two-place T-33 was the world's first jet trainer. It was developed from the the single seat F-80 fighter by lengthening the fuselage approximately three feet to
accommodate a second cockpit. Lockheed undertook the design of the T-33 with $1 million of its
own money. Entering service in 1948, the T-33 was the only Air Force jet trainer until the advent
of the Cessna T-37 in 1957. The T-33 then went from being an advanced trainer to a primary
trainer. The T-33 was eventually used by the navies and air forces of more than 20 countries.
Many are still in use today. One modified T-33, designated NT-33, was used to simulate the
handling characteristics of different aircraft; this particular aircraft was in use until the early 1990's,
when it was replaced by the NF-16 Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft. A number of
T-33s for export were modified to carry light armament. A number of T-33s were built under
license in Canada. Untold thousands of pilots earned their wings on the T-33. The last Air National Guard T-33 was retired in 1987.
Bell UH-1D (IROQUOIS). The first UH-1A helicopter was delivered to service in June 1959 with a
production run of 175 units. By 1963 production had progressed through Model B (1010 units) and
Model C (749 units). The First D model was delivered to the Army August 9, 1963. The D model became the major troop transport carrying version with 2561 units produced before it was
succeeded by the even more prolific H Model. Production continued, with various models, through
the twin engine version Model UH-1N. In all more than 26,000 Huey's were produced. The
primary missions were the delivery of troops, equipment and supplies, as well as evacuation of the
wounded. Its ability to deliver and recover troops on tactical missions drastically changed how modern infantry conducts its patrols and combat strategies.
The Huey on display at the Wurtsmith Air Museum Museum in Oscoda is a UH-1D with the later
addition of a few features of an H model.
L-19 Bird Dog. Originally designated L-19, the Bird Dog was redesignated O-1 when the
observation category was revived in 1962. The O-1 is a two-place observation and liaison aircraft
that was widely used by the Air Force in Vietnam for forward air control duties. It was developed from the Cessna commercial Model 170 for a joint Army and Air Force competition in 1950,
although the Air Force did not buy any planes at that time. All of the Air Force's O-1s were originally transferred from the Army. Before pilots | aerospace |
http://www.orbital.com/MissileDefense/ | 2013-12-07T15:40:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163054867/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131734-00098-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.905941 | 338 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__187381986 | en | Orbital is an industry-leading provider of suborbital launch vehicles for the nation's missile defense systems. In the last 10 years we have conducted nearly 50 major launches for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Air Force, the Army and Navy to develop, test and enhance U.S. missile defense systems.
Missile Defense Interceptors
Through our midcourse-phase Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) program, Orbital is a major supplier of interceptor boosters designed to carry "kill vehicles" to intercept hostile missiles launched against the United States and our troops and allies overseas. OBV is the sole interceptor booster for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) segment and is designed to intercept and destroy long-range enemy missiles in the midcourse phase of their flight before they reenter the Earth's atmosphere.
Missile Defense Targets
Orbital is also a primary supplier of highly reliable target vehicles that serve as "threat simulators" used in the development and testing of missile defense systems. We design, build and launch a wide range of interceptor, signatures and countermeasures, and special-purpose target vehicles tailored to provide high-fidelity facsimiles of enemy missile threats to test and verify missile defense system performance. Orbital's target vehicles support a variety of programs including Patriot/PAC-3, THAAD, Navy Theater/Aegis BMD, and Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) systems.
OBV: 13 months from contract start to first launch
OBV utilizes Pegasus commercial technology
AS9100 and ISO 9001 Registered | aerospace |
http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_scrottie/journal/35055.html | 2018-01-21T19:03:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084890823.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180121175418-20180121195418-00795.warc.gz | 0.965735 | 666 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__162048371 | en | There are a lot of these. This is the same that ThinkGeek seems to be selling. It has only one rotor but has a stabilizer that's slightly offset from the rotor and connected to it. For the past few days, I've been trying to learn how to fly this thing. Here's what I've learned.
Trim is essential. But don't bother with the trim. As the battery drains, which happens extremely rapidly, the trim completely changes. It'll start trying hard to spin to the right and then wind up spinning to the left. When it has juice, the main rotor has an abundance of power, but as it starts to get low, the tail rotor overpowers it. Keeping constant balance between the main rotor and tail rotor is essential to avoiding a spin. Control changes must be made slowly and gently and control made at all time or else, if it's moving, it'll start sliding back and forth or side to side on on a cousin of air, like an unstable parachutist. For about twenty seconds, it has juice and can lift off with ease (or very delicately if you want to avoid a spin), but for the entire twenty seconds, the controls and basic situation changes radically as the main rotor loses power and you move from pushing all the way right on the tail rotor to all the way left. After twenty seconds, it barely slides along the ground, not enough power left for the rotor to right it no matter how hard you push on the stick, tripping over any slight bump in the floor (forget having any rugs or the like on the ground), falling over, and gnashing its blades. So, it has enough juice for a two minute flight, as advertised, if you consider trashing around on the ground a flight.
Your heart might be glowing as you think, "wow, that must be just like a real helicopter! I want one! I want to learn how to fly a real helicopter!". No. Real helicopters do also require slow, gradual control changes, slightly disbalancing controls to affect an attitude change, then correcting them. They also have the power to do so. This thing does not. Real helicopters are capable of hovering. This thing is not. As far as pitch adjustments of the main rotors to maneuver any direction or stay in place, I don't expect that from a $30 toy, but a small amount of logic to either emit pulses to drive A/C motors or else regulate power to control the D/C motors so that the torque of the main blade and the tail rotor are balanced at all times would go far. Also, it needs more battery power, but regulated battery power. It burns like a roman candle, crazy for a brief, glorious few moments, then fizzles out. The problems of the toy so badly make it want to rotate one way or the other oblivious to control that for a while, I thought the thing was broken and the control didn't even do anything. It's own problems far outweigh the real problems of flying a helicopter. It's annoying the crap out of me. I *really* *really* want to learn to fly it. Grr! Guess I need to get a better one... oh, and it's insanely cute. | aerospace |
https://defenceview.in/china-began-to-upgrade-the-engine-of-j-20-to-catch-up-with-the-us-f-22-raptor/ | 2023-11-29T05:31:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100056.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129041834-20231129071834-00714.warc.gz | 0.961649 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__298291141 | en | China begin upgrading the engines of its most modern stealth fighter, the J-20, this year to match the US F-22 Raptor.
The ability to operate the J-20 “Dragon” is still very limited due to the reuse of a temporary replacement engine named WS-10C, the engine model used for old Chinese fighters.
But now they are being fitted with thrust vector control (TVC) exhaust, a technology Chinese engineers have spent two decades mastering and first unveiled at the Zhuhai Airshow 2018. The US F-22 Raptor also uses this technology, which helps control the direction of engine thrust, allowing the aircraft to make sudden turns that previous generations could not.
Chinese engineers are also developing a high-thrust engine, called the WS-15, to help their most advanced fighters close the gap with US fighters. But because the project was in trouble, its developer, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation, had to use the WS-10C to mount the J-20.
A source familiar with the project’s development told SCMP that all WS-10C engines fitted to the J-20 will gain thrust-directed capabilities this year.
“Thanks to the confirmation of the completion of the thrust-directed rudders, the technology applied by the F-22, the maneuverability and stealth of the J-20 will be upgraded” – unnamed source. The upgrade project is intended to meet the increased training requirements of the Chinese military, and to support the deployment plan of about 200 J-20s.
State media earlier reported that the Chinese military had handed over the J-20 to the air force units responsible for the Taiwan Strait and East China Sea areas, with the number of about 150 aircraft.
This week, state television channel CCTV posted a video showing the J-20 brigades conducting night combat training, along with several videos showing the jets being fitted with engines. WS-10C.
Antony Wong Ton, a military observer in Macau, said: “This is the first time the Chinese military has shown simulated combat exercises of the J-20 brigades. However, the J-20’s motives will still lag behind the US F-22, until China installs WS-15 for this fighter model.”
The J-20 has been in service since 2017, after the US deployed more than 100 F-35s to Japan and South Korea. At that time, it was equipped with a Russian-made engine, and China only started to launch the J-20 model equipped with the domestically produced WS-10C engine from 2020.
An unnamed source told SCMP that the WS-15 engine test is ongoing and is expected to be completed next year.
“The engine that the J-20 currently uses will be replaced by the WS-15 as soon as this process is completed,” the source said, adding that there will be no technological problems because of the engines made by Russia and made in China are similar in shape and size. | aerospace |
http://www.boly.com.hk/industries-served/aerospace/ | 2021-10-23T20:34:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585768.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023193319-20211023223319-00166.warc.gz | 0.896157 | 202 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__252415907 | en | The aerospace industry demands absolute reliability in every aircraft component they build. Boly’s unique capabilities were developed to meet the most demanding manufacturing requirements, like those found in the aerospace industry. Whether machining jet engine valve, aircraft braking system components, hydraulic fittings or manufacturing mil-spec electrical connectors and electronic components, Boly’s unparalleled experience in
high-precision machining technologies makes all the difference.
We have invested heavily in specialized CNC and Swiss machining technology that allows us to easily process trial runs, customized short runs or high volume production runs. Our engineering team is familiar with a variety of aerospace specifications and our years of aerospace parts manufacturing experience allows us to apply the best machining methodologies, whether the goal is reducing cost, enhancing performance or both. We are committed to the high standards required by the aerospace industry.
Boly can supply precision component for the following applications among others:
Visit our product gallery for aerospace related samples and more BOLY parts. | aerospace |
https://theweekenderpk.com/spacex-explosion/ | 2023-10-03T11:56:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511075.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003092549-20231003122549-00047.warc.gz | 0.967983 | 831 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__315909559 | en | Elsa Sc s looks at a disaster
SpaceX Explosion – Elon Musk is facing a difficult phase in life. He is already entangled in Twitter controversy that has badly affected his credibility as a visionary entrepreneur. Now his SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launch-pad in South Texas but exploded midair before stage separation. This launch marked the vehicle’s historic first test flight. The massive Super Heavy rocket booster containing 33 engines lifted off and sent a massive boom across the coastal landscape as it fired to life. The flight reached its highest point 24.2 miles (39 kilometers) above the ground and the explosion occurred about four minutes after liftoff. The vehicle experienced multiple engines out during the flight test, lost altitude and began to tumble resulting in commanding the flight on both the booster and ship.
Although it ended in an explosion, this test met several of the company’s objectives for the vehicle. Clearing the launchpad was a major milestone for Starship. In the lead-up to liftoff, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sought to temper expectations, saying that success is not what should be expected as that would be insane as with a test like this, success comes from what is learnt in the process. SpaceX will need a new launch license from the FAA to make another attempt but the company does not expect the process to be as laborious as securing the license for this launch.
The test flight came after years of explosive tests, regulatory hurdles and public hyping from Musk. The company is known to embrace fiery mishaps during the rocket development process. SpaceX maintains that such accidents are the quickest and most efficient way of gathering data, an approach that sets the company apart from its close partner NASA, which prefers slow, methodical testing over dramatic flare-ups. Musk has talked about Starship — making elaborate presentations about its design and purpose — for years, and he frequently harps on its potential for carrying cargo and humans to Mars, though NASA also plans to use the vehicle to put its astronauts on the moon. He has even said that his sole purpose for founding SpaceX was to develop a vehicle like Starship that could establish a human settlement on the Red Planet.
The test flight was a small step in a sweeping project. Before Starship can complete its first mission or host astronauts, SpaceX has significant technological questions to hash out. NASA has tapped SpaceX to provide a Starship lunar lander that would ferry astronauts from a separate spacecraft down to the moon’s surface for the Artemis III mission which is scheduled as early as 2025. Before that mission can take off, however, SpaceX has to prove that Starship can make it to the moon — much less Mars, which is Musk’s ultimate ambition. The sheer mass of the vehicle will force the company to refuel the spacecraft while it is still in Earth’s orbit. More than a dozen launches — carrying nothing but propellant — may be required to give a single Starship lunar lander enough fuel to traverse the 238,900-mile (384,500-kilometer) void between Earth and the moon.
Even after flight tests begin to prove the vehicle’s design, the Starship spacecraft must be fitted with all the necessary life support equipment astronauts will need for a journey to deep space. Development of Starship has been based at SpaceX’s privately held spaceport and testing began years ago with brief hop tests of early spacecraft prototypes. The company started with brief flights that lifted a few dozen feet off the ground before evolving to high altitude most of which resulted in dramatic explosions as the company attempted to land the prototypes upright. One suborbital flight test in May 2021 however, ended in success. Since then, SpaceX has also been working to get its Super Heavy booster prepared for flight. The gargantuan, 230-foot-tall (69-meter-tall) cylinder is packed with 33 of the company’s Raptor engines. Fully stacked, Starship and Super Heavy stand about 400 feet (120 meters) tall. The Weekender
Elsa Sc S is doing her graduation from LUMS & a keen researcher | aerospace |
https://dewritermd.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/nasa-invites-public-to-skyscience/ | 2018-06-21T02:41:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864019.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621020632-20180621040632-00483.warc.gz | 0.935978 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__70787067 | en | NASA is inviting people around the globe to step outside during Earth Science Week, Oct. 12-18, observe the sky and share their observations as citizen scientists.
NASA’s #SkyScience activity is part of an annual educational event organized by the American Geosciences Institute to encourage the public to engage in Earth sciences. Citizen scientists can participate in this global Earth science data collection event by observing, photographing and reporting on clouds over their location as a NASA satellite passes over. Reports and photos will be compared to data collected by NASA Earth-observing instruments as a way to assess the satellite measurements.
Using the hashtag #SkyScience, participants are encouraged to post their cloud and sky photos and observation experiences to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+ and Flickr. | aerospace |
https://www.wonderbk.com/shop/product/3451801-starhawk-a-priscilla-hutchins-novel | 2020-08-13T20:59:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739073.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813191256-20200813221256-00304.warc.gz | 0.942681 | 233 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__167198167 | en | Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins takes a job on an interstellar starship, working for a corporation that is colonizing two planets and killing off native life forms, sparking outrage from people on Earth who fill her work day with bomb threats and sabotage.
Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences.This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure… Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins has finally completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for her pilot’s license. But faster-than-light travel is still a new reality, and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To make matters worse, efforts to prepare two planets for colonization are killing off native life-forms, outraging people on Earth. With low demand for space pilots, Priscilla finds a job on the bridge of an interstellar ship, working for the corporation that is responsible for the terraforming. Her work conditions include bomb threats, sabotage, clashes with her employers—and a mission to a world, adrift between the stars, that harbors a life-form unlike anything humanity has ever seen... | aerospace |
https://newsobservatory.com/spacex-is-accused-of-the-lack-of-a-license-to-publish-images-from-the-earths-orbit/ | 2021-03-03T11:42:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178366959.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20210303104028-20210303134028-00355.warc.gz | 0.962181 | 276 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__24055828 | en | UNITED STATES (OBSERVATORY) – The company Ilona Mask SpaceX problems. The US authorities remembered the law of 1992, according to which the publication of all personnel of the Earth from orbit should be coordinated with a special department. SpaceX, whose cosmic broadcasts are gaining millions of views, it did not, reports The Verge.
The claim against SpaceX was filed by representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA (NOAA).
“SpaceX employees made a huge mistake by publishing a video with the launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket with a Tesla vehicle on board,” the agency said.
At the moment, the missile launch record, which took place on February 6, looked more than 21 million times.
On March 30, SpaceX representatives were forced to interrupt the broadcast of the Falcon 9 missile launch with ten telecommunications satellites on board. Direct recording from the scene, which could be viewed on the company’s website, was suddenly interrupted.
Later it turned out that this was done because of NOAA’s claims. The agency fears that the Earth’s cadres from orbit may be in the hands of spies.
Employees of NOAA will check all the videos and photos that SpaceX has published over the past 8 years. On the possible punishment for the company Ilona Mask has not yet said anything. | aerospace |
https://www.binoraj.com/the-world-of-science-the-wonderful-history-of-the-moon/ | 2023-10-04T04:35:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511351.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004020329-20231004050329-00840.warc.gz | 0.939212 | 311 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__100343498 | en | The world of science – the wonderful history of the moon
A recent study by the US space agency NASA claims that the moon had its own atmosphere about 300 or 400 million years ago. As a result, the lava released during the eruption of the lunar surface spread rapidly around. The world of more science – the wonderful history of the moon
The magma that spread to the surface of the moon during the eruption. It contained various elements of the atmosphere such as carbon monoxide, water, sulfur, etc. which formed a giant cavity in the chest of the moon (Maria Sea). Which resulted in an explosion
The moon had an atmosphere for about a billion years before the atmosphere disappeared. This atmosphere of the moon was about 3 times closer to the Earth’s atmosphere. That is, the atmosphere was like the earth on the moon.
The NASA study was published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. NASA researchers have come to this conclusion by examining samples brought from the surface of the moon by astronauts on the Apollo mission.
David Carrying, a senior staff scientist at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), says: “Once upon a time there was a lunar atmosphere. ‘
For future astronauts, planned lunar missions and space exploration, this information will have significant implications. Studies have suggested that volcanoes from the atmosphere may be stable in cool, shady areas. If this is true, the moon may already have a source of ice. Which astronauts and colon colonists can use to meet water, plant and other needs. | aerospace |
https://www.metroradio.com.hk/news/eng.aspx?SearchText=&NewsId=20230928182947&page=0 | 2023-12-03T00:16:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100476.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202235258-20231203025258-00603.warc.gz | 0.946636 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__118862441 | en | Japan's moon transportation startup ispace delays NASA-partnered mission to 2026
Japan's lunar transport startup ispace inc said on Thursday it would postpone a future moon landing mission by a year to 2026 to better prepare for a commission by U.S. agency NASA, as well as deal with component supply delays.
Tokyo-based ispace attempted its first lunar landing with the Hakuto-R Mission 1 spacecraft in April, which failed due to an altitude miscalculation. The Financial Times had reported earlier this month that months of corporate turmoil preceded the mission's failure.
Speaking after the delay was announced, Chief Executive Takeshi Hakamada told a media briefing that the scientific equipment NASA has commissioned ispace to carry to the moon turned out to require a higher vibration absorption standard. He did not elaborate.
The U.S. unit of ispace, which has partnered with spacecraft software developer Draper to build lunar landers, has also encountered procurement delays for some parts, Hakamada said. | aerospace |
https://aasf2.org/index.php/assigned-aircraft-old/ | 2024-02-22T21:18:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00809.warc.gz | 0.980034 | 616 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__145621516 | en | Aircraft assigned to the Ohio AASF #2
OH 23 Hiller
The Hiller UH-12, derived from the Model 360 two-seater of 1948 with a 180hp Franklin engine, occupies an important place in the history of the American helicopter industry in the fifties. Stanley Hiller Jr., who built the aircraft, was something of a whiz kid, in that he designed and built his first helicopter, the XH-44, in 1944 at the age of only 18. It was the first efficient American helicopter with coaxial, contra-rotating rotors. The later Hiller 360 leapt to fame in the summer of 1949 when it made the first transcontinental commercial flight. With an uprated engine and new UH-12A rotor blades, it was purchased by the US Army and Navy for battlefield evacuation and observation tasks, with the designation H-23 Raven, whilst the Navy ordered the same basic model as the HTE-1 for training.
Its successor, the H-23B, powered by a 200-210hp Franklin engine, was the first version used by the US Army as a trainer. A considerable number were built: 216 were assigned to the Primary Flying School at Fort Walters and another 237 were used for various tasks.
The UH-12B normally had skid or flotation gear, but a wheeled undercarriage was fitted to a batch ordered by the US Navy (the HTE-2). In 1955 a new variant, the UH-12C, appeared. It retained the 200hp Franklin engine, but had all-metal rotor blades and a “goldfish bowl” cockpit canopy. From 1956, 145 were delivered to the US Army as the H-23C. A purely military version, the OH-12D, flew on 3 April 1956 and 483 went to the US Army. The Franklin engine had been replaced by the more powerful 320hp Lycoming VO-540, and the transmission had also been changed to increase the service life of the helicopter.
The commonest version of this sturdy little helicopter was the UH-12E which had a more powerful engine. The US Army replaced nearly all the OH-23Ds by Hiller 12Es, designated OH-23G. In 1960 the Model E4 was developed from the Hiller 12E, with a longer cabin to seat four and an anhedral stabilizer on the tail boom. Twenty-two of these were acquired by the US Army as the OH-23F, for geodetic research.
The last civil variant, which appeared in 1963, was the Hiller 12L-4 which was also used as a test-bed for a PT6 turbine, but the project was taken no further.
Total sales of the Hiller 12E family exceeded 2000; more than 300 were exported. Operators of the Hiller included Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Great Britain, Guatemala, Japan, Morocco, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru and Uruguay. | aerospace |
http://ffcompendium.com/store/United-States-Air-Force-Meritorious-Achievement-Medal-Military-Junk-Drawer-Lot_312881919238.html | 2020-01-29T02:54:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251783621.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129010251-20200129040251-00080.warc.gz | 0.755399 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__81428245 | en | United States Air Force Meritorious Achievement Medal + MILITARY JUNK DRAWER LOT For Sale
This item has been shown 40 times.
United States Air Force Meritorious Achievement Medal + MILITARY JUNK DRAWER LOT:
USEDUnited States Air Force Meritorious Achievement Medal + MILITARY PIN LOT. 3 VTG PLASTIC BAKELITE CELLULOID? BUTTONS NEW DECK OF CARDS +
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS OR SEND BEST OFFER.
SAME-DAY HANDLING !YOU WILLRECEIVE THIS FAST !
Check outOURother items!Be sure to addTHIS-N-THAT-SHOP to yourfavorites list
Vintage U.s. Air Force Cartoon Plane Usaf Lapel Pin Brooch Boeing Dc10 Dc9
An Old Very Scarce Usaf 4241st Strategic Bomb Wing 4" Cut Edge Patch
An Old Usaf 351st Communications Squadron 4+" Cut Edge Patch
Final Fantasy, all games and animation bearing the Final Fantasy name, and all characters in said games or animation are copyright their respective creators, including but not limited to Squaresoft, Square Enix, Square EA, Tokyo TV, and ADV Films. | aerospace |
https://lakelandvideoproductioncompany.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-insurance-for-your-aerial-photography-business/ | 2023-12-10T00:43:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100989.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209233632-20231210023632-00674.warc.gz | 0.970703 | 508 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__223382740 | en | Opening up your own aerial photography and drone services isn’t easy. You have to get everything in order, from the logistics of buying the right drone for your drone services needs all the way to getting the legal paperwork sorted to make sure that your drone services business is legally sound.
When opening up your drone business, a very important thing that you definitely need to look into is the insurance for your drones. It might be surprising to find that there is such a thing as drone insurance, but with plenty of drone services businesses opening up and considering the cost of drones, it makes sense why drone insurance has become a necessity for a drone services business.
To give you a good idea of what to look for, here is a general overview of drone insurance for your aerial photography business.
Is drone insurance really necessary?
Of course, with all of the expenses involved with opening up a drone services business, you might be hesitant at the idea of adding another expense to everything else that you already have to pay for. However, you have to seriously consider the risks you might have to face if you opt out of purchasing drone insurance for your business.
The first thing to think about is how much your drone costs. Your drone is one of the primary investments of a drone business, and professional-grade drones do not come cheap. At the very least, you’re going to want to have a backup plan in case anything were to happen to your drone.
Secondly, you have to think about who and what might be at risk during a drone flight. You have to remember that flying your drone might mean accidentally hurting someone or damaging something if you’re not careful, and drone insurance can help cover this if anything should happen.
What are the types of drone insurance available?
If you’ve decided to purchase drone insurance, you should be familiar with the different drone insurance options available for your drone and your aerial photography. The most basic types of drone insurance out there is hull insurance and liability insurance.
Hull insurance is the kind of insurance that you buy to protect the drone itself, so if anything were to happen to your drone, whether it crashes or it gets stolen, depending on your insurance, you should be fully covered.
Liability insurance is the kind of insurance that protects you if you cause any damage to anything or anybody with your drone. For example, if you destroy somebody’s property because your drone crashed into their property, your insurance should be able to cover it. | aerospace |
http://zelaaviation.com/private-jets/ | 2018-05-21T02:45:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863923.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521023747-20180521043747-00545.warc.gz | 0.942626 | 221 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__4804503 | en | Zela Aviation extended its portfolio of services with the introduction of a dedicated Private Jet charter department in December 2010.
Zela Aviation offers Private Jets in all size categories to meet your every requirement. We look to deliver an optimum aircraft for your private jet requirement(s), looking into factors such as comfort, cabin size and flight time, with a vast selection of aircraft anywhere in the world. You can expect from us outstanding service, professionalism, promptness and competitive pricing.
Our success has been built by listening to what our clients want and delivering those requirements.
We will strive to exceed your expectations and each and every one of your flights will be tailored to your itinerary, timing, confidentiality needs and budget. We aim to deliver a unique service which is totally personal to you.
We ensure that all aircraft used by Zela Aviation meet with worldwide standards laid down by Civil Aviation Organisations and that all crew are highly trained to meet these exacting standards.
Use Zela Private Jets for:
- Business/Executive Jet Charters
- Corporate Jet charters
- Group Jet Charters | aerospace |
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/england/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=491161 | 2023-10-02T23:47:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511023.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002232712-20231003022712-00173.warc.gz | 0.824171 | 510 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__9053206 | en | English Estates: Dunhill Brothers Montgolfier First Manned Balloon Flight Shell Briar (4101) (40/42) (Unsmoked) Tobacco Pipe
Product Number: 004-002-31624
Characterized by leather-bound, book-style boxes, Dunhill's limited-edition pipe sets are among the English workshop's most collectible pieces, fashioned in highly limited quantities and inspired by famed literature or historical events. The Brothers Montgolfier First Manned Balloon Flight edition celebrates the first hot air balloon and the paper-manufacturer-turned-inventor brothers who first championed that method of travel. Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier successfully navigated the first manned hot air balloon flight in 1783 after numerous experiments, thus initiating the age of human flight. 200 years later, the brothers were immortalized and inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
This Dunhill set commemorates the historical event with a singular rendition of the English workshop's "01" Apple shape. It bears a sterling silver accent, etched with "Montgolfier 1783" and a depiction of a hot air balloon. Moreover, to match the band, the set also includes a sterling silver tamper intricately crafted in the shape of a hot air balloon. One of only 42 Shell Briar examples, this particular piece wears the series iconic sandblast and is serialized as number 40.-Truett Smith
Measurements & Other Details
40 OF 42
THE WHITE SPOT
MADE IN ENGLAND 21
- Length: 5.37 in./136.40 mm.
- Weight: 1.28 oz./36.29 g.
- Bowl Height: 1.67 in./42.42 mm.
- Chamber Depth: 1.35 in./34.29 mm.
- Chamber Diameter: 0.79 in./20.07 mm.
- Outside Diameter: 1.43 in./36.32 mm.
- Stem Material: Vulcanite
- Filter: None
- Shape: Apple
- Finish: Sandblast
- Material: Briar
- Country: England | aerospace |
https://economynext.com/srilankan-airlines-cancels-flights-to-pakistan-13201/ | 2021-01-25T22:28:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704792131.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125220722-20210126010722-00147.warc.gz | 0.940459 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__48170529 | en | SriLankan Airlines cancels flights to Pakistan
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan Airlines is cancelling scheduled flights to Karachchi and Lahore after Pakistan closed its airspace amid rising regional tension an official said.
Other flights are unaffected.
Pakistan closed its airspace amid apparent incursions by Indian aircraft to the country and claims by Pakistan the at least two aircraft have been shot down.
An airline statement said passengers booked to fly to Karachi and Lahore should contact their travel agents and visit www.srilankan.com for further information.
Sri Lanka has expressed concern at the rising tensions.
The US has also called on both countries to exercise restraint. | aerospace |
https://pacificspacecenter.com/2021/12/13/basalt-binder-research/ | 2024-04-15T13:08:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816977.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415111434-20240415141434-00198.warc.gz | 0.910957 | 659 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__132957611 | en | Above: An experimental composite material for the Moon/Mars cures inside an acrylic vacuum chamber.
NASA has plans to put humans back on the Moon as early as 2025 and ISRU (in-situ resource utilization) will be a crucial technology for establishing the infrastructure needed to sustain humans in the harsh lunar environment. Using raw, native materials, ISRU can provide vital resources like breathable air, tools or building material for shelters.
For years, PISCES has been using Hawaiian basalt—a volcanic rock with similar chemical properties to regolith—to develop ISRU methods for building launch pads, berms, roads and other structures on the Moon and Mars. Much of this work has focused on sintering—using heat to fuse basalt particles into a cohesive, robust material. Structural testing has proven sintered basalt to be stronger than commercial-grade concrete, but the bulk of power required in the process makes it difficult to execute in a lunar environment where energy is a critical, finite resource.
To address this challenge, PISCES and Masten Space Systems are developing a new composite material using a binding agent that fuses basalt particles together at much lower temperatures—all within a vacuum or CO2-rich environment. Last year, NASA awarded an STTR Phase 1 grant to Masten Space Systems in partnership with PISCES to develop this low-energy, additive construction method. The project will develop basalt-based launch pad tiles using only materials and elements that are readily available on the surface of the Moon and Mars.
“We know it works on smaller sample sizes, the problem is scaling up,” said Christian Andersen, program manager at PISCES. “The tiles we are producing for this project are very large and much more challenging to produce because a lot more moisture must be extracted during the curing process.”
Curing requires a heavy acrylic chamber about the size of a mini-fridge. Using a pump to remove all the air, the chamber provides a lunar-like vacuum environment where the material can dry. An additional pump can fill the chamber with CO2 to mimic Martian atmospheric conditions. Tile-shaped molds measuring one-square-foot are filled with sifted Hawaiian basalt fines. The fines are pre-mixed with a novel binding agent to fuse them together. Once the mold is set, the chamber is sealed to cure the tiles with the help of a small heating device. Pinpointing the ideal curing time and basalt-binder mixing ratio is the most pressing challenge in the project.
PISCES will produce 16 large tiles that will undergo structural testing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Masten Space will also test these tiles, blasting them with a rocket plume to assess their durability as launch pad material while sintering them in the process.
Under the same project, Masten Space Systems is developing an additive manufacturing extruder that can: 1) build a launch pad using the basalt-based composite and 2) withstand the harsh lunar/Martian environment.
Depending on the results, the project could move into a Phase 2 NASA STTR award to build and test the prototype extruder. | aerospace |
http://vmaychieu.com/family/flightgear-flight-simulator.php | 2019-05-20T20:49:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256147.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520202108-20190520224108-00332.warc.gz | 0.881357 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__99942851 | en | Main / Family / Flightgear flight simulator
Flightgear flight simulator
Name: Flightgear flight simulator
File size: 76mb
June 3, FlightGear is released! Please enjoy the FlightGear release notes. May 23, FlightGear is released! Please enjoy. Download Aircraft. The FlightGear base package includes only a few. Our goal is to accurately and realistically simulate real life flying! But when a.
Download Main Program. Important Information. If you have a slow/ expensive. This page contains information on some of the various projects that have. Note: All official release aircraft can now be individually downloaded and.
Introduction to FlightGear. FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator. FlightGear Flight Simulator is a free, open source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the FlightGear project since David Murr started the project on . Download FlightGear - Flight Simulator for free. FlightGear Flight Simulator: free open-source multiplatform flight sim. Founded in , FlightGear is developed. If you haven't already heard of it, let me introduce you to FlightGear, an open- source flight simulator produced by the FlightGear project. A flight. | aerospace |
https://scottsdaleflighttraining.com/our_instructors/taylor-bishop/ | 2019-05-25T09:06:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257939.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525084658-20190525110658-00172.warc.gz | 0.96843 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__184244012 | en | Home Town: Newport Beach, CA
Ratings Held: Commercial Single Engine, Instrument, CFI
Aircraft Specialty: Cessna Skyhawk, Piper Arrow, Piper Cherokee
Submit your review
Just had my first flight with Taylor and it was AWESOME! I had no idea that my first flight consisted of me taking control of the aircraft! I'm still shaking from excitement when I think about it. I can't wait to start flight training and my long road to a new career.
CFI/CFII since 2008
Technologically Advanced Aircraft
High Performance Aircraft
With every job I have had in the past, there has always been a teaching aspect. It was never planned that way, I was just drawn to those positions. I enjoy helping others find the information they are looking for and bettering themselves. Witnessing the look of accomplishment and satisfaction on their faces gives me a sense of pride. We all have different learning styles and I love the challenge of adjusting to help others comprehend all aspects of the aviation world. There are so many options and possibilities out there with aviation and I look forward what it brings for not only me but for my students as well.
“My scars tell a story... They are reminders of when life tried to break me, but failed.” - Steve Maraboli | aerospace |
https://www.metrohobbies.com.au/products/blade-scout-cx-3ch-beginner-rc-helicopter-rtf | 2019-11-13T10:46:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667177.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113090217-20191113114217-00507.warc.gz | 0.920353 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__101473665 | en | View All Brands
Your cart is currently empty.
Call 03 9890 1144
Free delivery over $99*
Click & Collect
In-stock items and stock levels are subject to continuous change. Click & collect orders can be used to reserve items prior to in store collection. Store transfers and holds available on request.
Ready to fly your first RC helicopter? The Blade Scout is one of the best beginner helicopters on the market today.
It only weighs 17 grams, but it certainly is not light on features! If you are a RC helicopter beginner, the Scout was designed just for you. State-of-the-art 2.4GHz radio control with advanced Blade engineering and electronics will have you flying in circles around other helis like it.
Learning to fly with friends is no problem as the Blade Scout CX comes with an advanced 2.4GHz radio control that enables multiple remote control helicopters to fly in the same space at the same time.
If you do happen to hit the deck hard (don’t worry, we all do!) there is a wide range of spare parts to help you get your Blade Scout CX back in the air, but you will find that this model helicopter is surprisingly robust.
For new RC helicopter pilots ready to take off, the Blade Scout CX is your ideal choice.
Nothing! Everything you need to get in the air is included in the box, including four AA batteries for the transmitter.
is added to your wish list.
Get exclusive updates, new arrivals and insider-only discounts | aerospace |
http://notermpaperpfiy.card-hikaku.info/space-exploration-in-the-1960s-and.html | 2018-10-18T12:01:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511806.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20181018105742-20181018131242-00090.warc.gz | 0.936322 | 954 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__112320055 | en | Kennedy space center in the 1960s from dream to reality in 10 years follow this link to skip to the main content nasa - national aeronautics and space. 1960's space exploration russia had their foot ahead in the space race on october 4, 1957, russia was the first to launch sputnik 1, a satelite, into space four. Space exploration history 100,426 likes 68 talking about this this page has been created to share the historical events in space travel on this day.
Essay on space exploration in the 1980s - space travel began in the 1960s with sending humans on single missions into space. A belief exists in the united states about public support for nasa's human spaceflight activities many hold that nasa and the cause of the human exploration of space enjoyed outstanding public support and confidence in the 1960s during the era of. During the 1960s, unmanned spacecraft photographed and probed the moon before astronauts ever landed modern space exploration is reaching areas once only dreamed.
Astronomy and space science: space explorationintroductionhumans dreamed about exploring the heavens for thousands of years, but until the development of the liquid-propellant rocket in the twentieth century, space exploration remained only fiction. History timelines: brand new click 1915-1960 click here to view pdf an american chronology of science and technology in the exploration of space, 1915-1960. The economic impacts of the us space program thus, the major pre-space exploration advance‹radio astronomy‹originated with university electrical engineers.
Read about the breakthroughs in space flight between 1957 and 1966 this student activity includes links to learn about other important times in space history, with photos, teacher's guide, and other activities. Advantages of space exploration - the 1960's brought new advancements for all of earth machines and men were sent into space, and this sparked a new government. Information about the united states space flight programs, space exploration 1960 august 19 - the soviet craft sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs. Space exploration meta what satellites were launched into a polar orbit from cape canaveral in the 1950s and 1960s killing launch as 30 nov 1960, which seems.
[email protected] honors sally ride in a space agency filled with trailblazers, sally k ride was a pioneer of a different sort the soft-spoken california physicist broke the gender barrier 29 years ago when she launched aboard space shuttle challenger's sts-7 mission on june 18, 1983 to become america's first woman in space. Space exploration: space exploration, placed into earth orbit 1960-65, paved the way for the development of satellite systems to conduct routine daily weather. Space exploration has been going on since the 1950s here's a list of best-known current and future missions the 1960s brought the space race between the united. As the first decade of the twenty-first century comes to a close—i know that one could make the case that the first decade ended in 2009 but we had this argument during y2k and i'm not going to rehash it here—what might we consider the ten most important events in space exploration and. This concept is known as a wet lab, and was originally a concept from nasa's marshall spaceflight center in the 1960s revolutionize space exploration.
The exploration of mars has been an important part of the space exploration missions of the soviet union (later russia), the united states, europe, and japan dozens of unmanned spacecraft. Food in space a brief history of food in space mercury space food of the early 1960s was based on army survival rations, and consisted of pureed food packed into. As barack obama's latest budget cuts nasa funding and derails plans for a return to the moon, we look back at how us space priorities have changed.
Aeronautics and astronautics chronology, 1960 source: eugene m emme, comp, aeronautics and astronautics: an american chronology of science and technology in the exploration of space, 1915-1960 (washington, dc: national aeronautics and space administration, 1961), pp 118-35. In 1961 the soviets successfully sent the first man into space, yuri gagarin at the end of this year, the us focused their energies to developing our space exploration. American rhetoric at this time declared space exploration a duty of the american people print media stopped writing about the space race because television was already covering the news who set the goal that america would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. | aerospace |
https://kasanovaonline.com/worlds-top-5-most-expensive-private-jets/embraer-lineage-1000/ | 2020-10-22T18:15:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880014.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022170349-20201022200349-00629.warc.gz | 0.897237 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__54415369 | en | Embraer Lineage 1000
Costing $49 Million, the Embraer Lineage 1000 can travel a maximum distance of 4,500 nautical miles before refueling. It can fly at a 41,000 foot altitude and has a 542 knot maximum cruising speed. Creating a combined 40,000 pounds of thrust, the Lineage 1000 is affixed with two GE CF34-10E7-B power-plants. Honeywell provides their Primus Epic avionics system as the nerve center of this aircraft. This is the longest private jet in our comparative selection having a nose-to-tail length of 118.92 feet and a 94.25 foot wing-span, while the interior of the cabin stands an average 6.68 feet tall. | aerospace |
https://idefix.net/~koos/newsitem.cgi/1613421077 | 2023-03-22T13:25:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943809.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322114226-20230322144226-00104.warc.gz | 0.926981 | 163 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__125724960 | en | 2021-02-15 Snow over the Netherlands satellite image
In the weekend of 6 and 7 February 2021 the Netherlands got covered in snow and temperatures dropped to -10 degrees Celcius. In the week after that weekend temperatures stayed low and clear skies made for nice weather for outdoor skating and other wintersports. I was reminded of being on wintersport holiday. I just had to look up the available images from the NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) and found a great image from 13 February 2021. Click for more pixels!
Satellite image of the Netherlands 2021-02-13 with snow cover.
I acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). | aerospace |
https://www.postindependent.com/news/wasp-members-ran-aviation-business-in-rifle/ | 2021-05-08T19:48:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988923.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20210508181551-20210508211551-00281.warc.gz | 0.959845 | 1,292 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__220007500 | en | WASP members ran aviation business in Rifle
Frontier Historical Society
Betty was called “Buzz Betty” when she made two generals and three colonels hit the dirt once when she misjudged her altitude.
— Obituary of Betty J. Clark, The Citizen Telegram, Rifle, Colorado, September 1, 1999
When the wheels of the barnstormer’s plane lifted from the ground, a young girl named Betty Clark felt a rush of adrenalin. As the plane gained altitude and its powerful engines propelled the plane through Colorado’s rarefied air and across the canvas of blue sky, she saw from the passenger’s seat not only the landscape below, but also her future. Clark was destined to become a pilot.
Clark was born just after the end of the World War I, on Sept. 2, 1919. Growing up in Rifle, Colorado, her father, dentist Lawrence B. Clark, possessed a fascination with flight. Betty’s father owned a glider, and by working with him on its many and often needed repairs, she was introduced to the wonders of aviation. Her first motorized flight with the barnstormer solidified her desire to fly.
After high school graduation, Clark attended Denver University and the University of Colorado. She worked as an X-ray technician, while, at the same time, she was learning to fly. Her first solo flight was at Stapleton Field on Nov. 26, 1942. With the United States fully involved in World War II and the military acknowledging the need for women pilots, she enlisted on May 23, 1943, in an experimental Army Air Corps Program which would become known as WASP.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was a merging on Aug. 5, 1943, of the Women Auxiliary Ferrying Squad founded by pilot Nancy Harkness Love and the Women’s Flying Training Detachment founded by pilot Jackie Cochran. Thousands of women with flying experience applied to the programs with only a fraction accepted. Clark’s class in the 318th Women’s Flying Training Detachment at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, began with 101 women pilots. After rigorous hours of classroom instruction and flying, she graduated from WASP class 43-W-7 on Nov. 13, 1943, in a class reduced to 59 flight-ready women.
Betty flew the P-17 Stearman, the B-25 Mitchell, the Martin B-26, the Bell P-63 Kingcobra, and the North American P-51 Mustang. Her service during the war included towing targets for the military. After the WASP program was deactivated on Dec. 20, 1944, she worked at Los Angeles’s Monrovia Airport painting or disassembling planes while working on her instructors’ ratings. She returned to Colorado, flying with the Civil Air Patrol, and selling aircraft at the Sky Ranch Airport.
Cran Rader Jr., who owned Rader Flying Services in Glenwood Springs, had acquired the Rifle Airport, and hired Clark to manage the airport operation in 1950. In 1953 she subleased the Rifle Airport and began operations there as Mile Hi Aviation and Mile Hi Aerial Spray.
In 1957 Clark formed a longtime business relationship with former WASP classmate Patricia “Pat” Seares Sullivan. Sullivan was born in 1919 and was raised in San Francisco. Prior to becoming a WASP, she had been a program director for KYA radio in San Francisco and worked for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper. As a WASP she towed targets and flew tracking missions for gunnery training. She also transported high ranking generals in a customized B-25 which, because there was no room for a co-pilot, forced her to be pilot, navigator and radio operator.
Sullivan attended primarily to the business portion of Mile Hi Aviation and Mile Hi Aerial Spray, while Clark did much of the flying. Clark’s meticulous preparation left little to chance, and her crop dusting skills awed those who watched her. Charter flights and sight seeing, game counting, search and rescue, and ambulance services were provided by Clark and Sullivan. The purchase of a Hiller helicopter allowed them to bring construction equipment into inaccessible places. Over time they built additional hangers, employed mechanics for aircraft maintenance, and added pilots to fly the helicopter and an expanding fleet of planes. Clark and Sullivan sponsored high school field trips to the airport, seeking to interest future generations in an aviation career.
On Aug. 15, 1979, Clark and Sullivan sold their operations at the Rifle Municipal Airport to Garfield County and retired to Grand Junction, Colorado, where Clark died on Aug. 29, 1999, and Sullivan on March 7, 2000.
Clark and Sullivan dedicated a lifetime to advancing the field of aviation and to perpetuating the legacy of the women who served the county as a WASP. They built a community, and in passing forward their passion for flight, inspire future generations to take to the skies.
Willa Kane is former archivist of and a current volunteer with the Frontier Historical Society and Museum. “Frontier Diary,” which appears the first Tuesday of every month, is provided to the Post Independent by the museum, 1001 Colorado Ave., Glenwood Springs. Summer hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For more information, call 945-4448.
Support Local Journalism
Support Local Journalism
Readers around Glenwood Springs and Garfield County make the Post Independent’s work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.
Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. Every contribution, however large or small, will make a difference.
Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage.
Start a dialogue, stay on topic and be civil.
If you don't follow the rules, your comment may be deleted.
User Legend: Moderator Trusted User
Policy that dictates what for-profit activities should be officially sanctioned within Glenwood Springs parks is being reviewed by city staff and will likely come before the city council for final approval later this summer. | aerospace |
https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA21/class/MAE/6060 | 2021-06-21T11:27:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488269939.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621085922-20210621115922-00637.warc.gz | 0.858826 | 237 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__183484266 | en | - Schedule of Classes - June 20, 2021 7:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 20, 2021 7:15PM EDT
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021. Courses of Study 2021-2022 is scheduled to publish by July 1.
The focus is on spacecraft attitude dynamics and its application in core space-systems areas: mission design, operations, and autonomy. Also introduces the problem of attitude estimation and treats aspects of guidance, navigation, and control unique to the context of space mission design. Readings and lectures include examples based on flight data.
When Offered Spring.
Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students or permission of instructor.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: MATH 2940 and MAE 4730/MAE 5730, some experience with MATLAB is expected.
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
- MWTo Be Assigned
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
Instruction Mode: Planned for In Person
Or send this URL: | aerospace |
https://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2020/05/back-the-travel-measures-with-science/ | 2023-06-02T12:33:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648635.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602104352-20230602134352-00762.warc.gz | 0.944529 | 577 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__43656272 | en | GENEVA, 22 May 2020: Airports Council International (ACI) World and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have called on governments to ensure any new measures introduced for airports and airlines in the wake of COVID-19 are supported by scientific evidence and are consistent across the world.
The aviation sector has been brought to a standstill, and a balanced and effective restart depends on collaboration among the key participants in the global aviation ecosystem.
ACI and IATA have jointly issued a paper laying out a pathway for restarting the aviation industry – Safely Restarting Aviation – ACI and IATA Joint Approach. Airlines and airports have cooperated to build a roadmap for resuming operations which reassures the travelling public that health and Safety remain the overall priorities.
The joint approach proposes a layered approach of measures across the entire passenger journey to minimise the risk of transmission of COVID-19 at airports and on board aircraft and to prevent aviation becoming an important source of international re-infection. Such measures should be globally consistent and subject to continued review, improvement, and removal when no longer required, to ensure an even recovery.
ACI and IATA are both central members of the Covid-19 Aviation Recovery Task Force (CART) being led by the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). CART enables the collaboration – among governments and between governments and industry -that is vital to ensure the harmonisation and consistency of measures that are essential to restoring air connectivity and passenger confidence in air travel.
“Airports and airlines have come together with ICAO and the wider aviation industry to address the biggest challenge ever faced by commercial aviation in restarting a global industry while continuing to halt the spread of Covid-19,” ACI World Director General Angela Gittens said. “There is currently no single measure that could mitigate all the risks of restarting air travel, but we believe a globally-consistent, outcome-based approach represents the most effective way of balancing risk mitigation with the need to unlock economies and to enable travel.”
IATA’s director general and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said: “Safety is always our top priority and that includes public health. Restoring air connectivity is vital to restarting the global economy and reconnecting people. Our layered approach of measures recommended by airports and airlines safeguard public health while offering a practical approach for a gradual restart of operations. It is important to remember that the risk of transmission on board is very low. And we are determined that aviation will not be a significant source of re-infection. We are working continuously with governments to ensure that any measures put in place are done so consistently and with scientific backing. That is key to restoring public confidence, so the benefits of safely restarting aviation can be realised.” | aerospace |
https://www.dawnthrive.co.uk/jb729-aircraft-connector-3/ | 2022-08-12T02:57:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00220.warc.gz | 0.815609 | 265 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__27948518 | en | JB729: Nylon composite PCA connector with neoprene gasket
JB729SC: Nylon composite screened PCA connector with neoprene gasket
JB741: Neoprene gasket
JB728-99: Gasket adhesive
The JB729 aircraft connector is primarily used for heating and air conditioning of the aircraft and utilizes the latest advances in composite technology in the seamless fabrication of the PCA connectors. The body features a latching mechanism moulded into the connector itself, eliminating costly additional add on items necessary for the aircraft.
- 8″ – 8″ coupling
- UV resistant
- Chemical, fuel and solvent resistant
- Durable, rugged construction and design
The steel aircraft connector for heating and air conditioning absorbs the everyday wear and tear from ramp life with ease. Customers also have the choice of gasket material of either foam, rubber or neoprene.
Alternative Part Numbers: 2001469, 002202, JB728, IA-8980, MB828, MB108, DD06-5946, DD06-5947 & DB10-6034
Please contact Dawnthrive Ltd for more information on the JB729 aircraft connector. We are here to help with all your GSE requirements. | aerospace |
https://www.ipeco.com/products-and-services/composites/defence-space/ | 2020-03-31T18:42:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370503664.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20200331181930-20200331211930-00142.warc.gz | 0.939916 | 146 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__5963320 | en | We have long-standing experience in the manufacture of satellite components. The methods we employ and the materials we use are chosen not only for their temperature performance but to ensure product integrity and longevity under such harsh conditions. We work with many blue-chip customers in the design and development of advanced composite bridging systems – for both vehicle and personnel solutions. Delivering these products into service has led us to overcome extensive technical challenges, which underlines our capability and flexibility.
Our experience with portable and fixed reflector antennae ranges from small single-piece reflectors approximately 1m in diameter, up to multi-segment reflectors 3m in diameter. Such applications include highly portable land and sea based systems for use in combat zones. | aerospace |
https://rectrix.aero/learn/about-rectrix/ | 2020-02-24T14:49:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145960.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224132646-20200224162646-00378.warc.gz | 0.938938 | 591 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__109165998 | en | The whole world of travel is at your fingertips with our superior private jet charter service. In June 2009, Rectrix Aviation, Inc. acquired worldwide jet operating authority with the purchase of the New World Jet Corporation (Air Carrier Certificate #6RXA771M). Flights are tailored to meet your personal travel needs. Whether it’s the privacy to conduct business or the desire to just relax, Rectrix simplifies your travel needs. Fly where you want, when you want, in comfort and security aboard our luxuriously appointed jets. You arrive at the airport just prior to departure and our service to regional airports puts you closer to your final destination. Our in-flight crews are highly trained and experienced, and our FAA licensed maintenance crews ensure the highest standards of safety and security. Traveling by private jet has never been more cost effective. Rectrix also provides aircraft management services.
So if privacy, convenience, comfort, and security sound like the perfect way to travel, then Rectrix Aviation is the only way to fly!
Our first-class fixed base operations are home to some of the most sophisticated flight departments in the industry. Spacious and stylish, Rectrix private terminals have luxurious passenger lounges and aircrew amenities. All Aerodromes provide full aircraft handling capabilities for transient or based aircraft needs. Our innovative Rectrix Hangarminiums ™ offer owners all the benefits of hangar ownership without any of the issues traditionally associated with FBOs.
Rectrix MRO has been recognized by its customers and peers as a leader in corporate aircraft maintenance and is a Federal Aviation Administration Authorized Part 145 Repair Station (QFYR349K & QFYD349K). Specializing in Challenger 300/600, Gulfstream, Falcon 50, Hawker, Citation, Lear, Beechjet, and King Air aircraft, our capabilities have no limitation. From scheduled inspections to engine swaps, RVSM qualified pitot static and transponder testing, or aircraft weighs, we have the experience and ability to accomplish your every need.
Our aviation support services are not limited to corporate and general aviation. In fact, our airline servicing division provides ground handling, ticketing, into-plane fueling, deicing and line maintenance services to airlines across the country and is one of the fastest growing operating units within Rectrix. Whether you are interested in above-wing servicing by our friendly guest service representatives or in need of efficient and economical ramp operations, Rectrix is able to accommodate all of your outsourced airline support needs.
“.aero” is exclusive for aviation use and was developed in response to the growing need for the aviation community to create a structured, open and constantly evolving Internet naming architecture which will help the aviation community to integrate systems and services, and streamline communications within the community and with its partners. The “.aero” suffix signifies you are in the aviation business. | aerospace |
https://www.dronepilotacademy.co.uk/product/dji-fpv-combo-uk/ | 2024-03-03T18:20:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00823.warc.gz | 0.853308 | 1,256 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__148284024 | en | Speak to one of our experts, book a consultation today with Ben EvansBook a Consultation
What Stands out
- Immersive Flight Experience
- New Emergency Brake & Hover
- Intuitive Motive Controller
- Up to 87mph Speed
- V2 model of DJI FPV Goggles
Rip through the clouds with speed, power, and complete control. Go into the beyond
Fly through the sky in ways that seem impossible. We never lost our passion for flying, and with DJI FPV, those passions have turned imagination into reality. With this immersive and intuitive aerial platform, get ready to go into the beyond.
FPV Has Never Looked This Good
Sleek and aerodynamic, the DJI FPV aircraft delivers powerful propulsion, battery life, and wind resistance, making this system as capable as it is visually stunning.
DJI FPV stands out in more ways than one. Sporting front LEDs and aircraft arm lights with customizable-colour, DJI FPV allows pilots to make their aircraft as unique as they are
Next-Level Immersion. Unparalleled Control
Feel the thrill of immersive flight provided by the DJI FPV Goggles V2 and DJI FPV’s super-wide 150° FOV. HD video transmission at up to 120fps gives you an ultra-smooth, real-time view of your flight.
Whether you’re a seasoned FPV pilot or a complete beginner, DJI FPV offers three intuitive flight modes that let anyone fly confidently from day one.
- S Mode – Get the dynamic look of FPV footage easily in S mode. This hybrid flight mode combines the freedom of flying manually with the simplified controls of previous DJI drones.
- N Mode – Ideal for new users, N mode offers immersive flight with traditional drone flight controls along with DJI safety features like obstacle sensing.
- M Mode – Fly in M mode for complete, limitless control and the full FPV flight experience. Customize parameters and enjoy flight and footage unlike anything else.
DJI Motion Controller
Take your flight experience to new heights with the new DJI Motion Controller. This compact and intuitive device allows the aircraft to manoeuvre based on your natural hand motions. This isn’t just an FPV innovation. It’s an entirely new way to fly.
Emergency Brake and Hover
Even for experts, manual FPV flight can be intimidating. That’s why DJI FPV comes with an emergency brake and hover feature. Simply press this button on the remote controller while flying in any mode, at any speed, and the aircraft will stop and hover stably within a few seconds.
Advanced Safety Features
An auxiliary bottom light, Smart Return to Home (RTH), Low Battery RTH, and forward and downward obstacle sensing are all integrated into DJI FPV to help ensure a safe flight, even at high speeds.
The Imaging Power You Expect from DJI
Get results that match the intensity of your flights.
Powerful propulsion capabilities combined with a 150° super-wide FOV provide an unrivaled view. 4x Slow Motion, Rock Steady stabilization, and distortion correction give pilots even smoother, more dramatic results.
The DJI FPV aircraft can record 4K/60fps video at up to 120 Mbps, capturing crisp details that make footage look as exhilarating as the flight.
No matter how dynamic your maneuvers get, RockSteady EIS technology ensures your footage is ultra-smooth. * H.264 and H.265 video coding formats are both supported, giving you more video editing options.
Meet O3 (OcuSync 3.0)
The DJI O3 (OcuSync 3.0) Transmission System was adapted to match the unique needs of DJI FPV. Enjoy crystal-clear real-time video transmission, even at distances of up to 10 km.
Auto-Switching for Seamless Signal
DJI FPV supports auto-switching between 2.4 and 5.8GHz frequencies and provides a video transmission bitrate of up to 50 Mbps, significantly reducing stutter and compression artifacts. High-gain antennas on the aircraft include three transmitters and four receivers to enhance signal, resulting in a stable, reliable video feed. * If the signal is disconnected, DJI FPV will automatically enable fail-safe RTH.
DJI Virtual Fly App
The DJI Virtual Fly App allows users to practice flying in lifelike, simulated scenarios before entering the real world. Simply connect the FPV Goggles V2 & remote controller & you’re ready to master flight in a risk-free virtual environment.
- 12MP Camera & 4K video @ 60fps
- 1/2.3″ CMOS Sensor
- 150° FOV
- 6km Range
- Speed: 39m/s | 87mph
- Weight: 795g
- Dimensions: 25.5 x 31.2 x 12.7cm (With Propellers)
- Dimensions: 17.8 x 23.2 x 12.7mm (No Propellers)
- Max 256GB microSD Card | UHS-I Speed Grade 3
What’s in the box?
- 1 x FPV Drone
- 1 x FPV Flight Battery
- 4 x FPV Props (Pair)
- 1 x Gimbal Protector
- 1 x FPV Top Shell
- 1 x FPV Remote Controller 2
- 1 x Spare Control Sticks (Pair)
- 1 x FPV Goggles V2
- 4 x FPV Goggles Antenna (Dual Band)
- 1 x FPV Goggles Battery
- 1 x FPV Goggles Power Cable (USB-C)
- 1 x FPV Goggles Headband
- 1 x FPV Goggles Foam Padding
- 1 x FPV AC Power Adapter
- 1 x FPV AC Power Cable
- 1 x USB-C Data Cable
- 1 x USB-C OTG Cable | aerospace |
https://tbltechnerds.com/drone-tech-news/trump-administration-releases-proposed-drone-rules-and-regulatory-changes | 2020-02-26T04:31:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146186.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226023658-20200226053658-00433.warc.gz | 0.954332 | 263 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__168005418 | en | More than two years after receiving warnings about a regulatory loophole that could put law enforcement at risk from booby-trapped drones, the Federal Aviation Administration said it will use a truncated public process to fix the problem within two weeks.
The move was part of a dizzying array of proposed rules and regulatory changes published last week by the Trump administration, which wants to roll back rules on use of the devices while simultaneously taking steps to ease concerns raised by security officials.
In a significant shift, the FAA is also proposing to end its general prohibition on flying drones over people, relying on research and regulations concerning the risks of people getting hit by debris from missile and rocket launches to help make the case.
As part of a trove of documents published Wednesday, the FAA also said it is considering new limits on how and where drones can fly and what payloads they can carry, given security concerns, and they’ve asked the industry and public for advice on how far officials should go.
Administration boosters and industry advocates promise that the highly sophisticated small aircraft will spur far-reaching economic and social benefits, from food and medicine delivery to more eco-friendly application of fertilizer. Skeptics argue that drones can easily be misused to invade privacy or carry dangerous cargo, and are a nuisance. Read more | aerospace |
https://www.superversivesf.com/2014/12/20/airships-on-venus/ | 2019-06-24T14:26:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999539.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190624130856-20190624152856-00140.warc.gz | 0.947487 | 606 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__191383451 | en | IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article, NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration. I love airships, so I love this idea.
The surface of Venus isn’t going to work for humans, but what if we ignore the surface and stick to the clouds? Dale Arney and Chris Jones, from the Space Mission Analysis Branch of NASA’s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at Langley Research Center, in Virginia, have been exploring that idea. Perhaps humans could ride through the upper atmosphere of Venus in a solar-powered airship. Arney and Jones propose that it may make sense to go to Venus before we ever send humans to Mars.
To put NASA’s High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) mission in context, it helps to start thinking about exploring the atmosphere of Venus instead of exploring the surface. “The vast majority of people, when they hear the idea of going to Venus and exploring, think of the surface, where it’s hot enough to melt lead and the pressure is the same as if you were almost a mile underneath the ocean,” Jones says. “I think that not many people have gone and looked at the relatively much more hospitable atmosphere and how you might tackle operating there for a while.”
Winds around the equator of Venus would carry an airship around the planet in 110 hours.
At 50 kilometers above its surface, Venus offers one atmosphere of pressure and only slightly lower gravity than Earth. Mars, in comparison, has a “sea level” atmospheric pressure of less than a hundredth of Earth’s, and gravity just over a third Earth normal. The temperature at 50 km on Venus is around 75 °C, which is a mere 17 degrees hotter than the highest temperature recorded on Earth. It averages -63 °C on Mars, and while neither extreme would be pleasant for an unprotected human, both are manageable.
What’s more important, especially relative to Mars, is the amount of solar power available on Venus and the amount of protection that Venus has from radiation. The amount of radiation an astronaut would be exposed to in Venus’s atmosphere would be “about the same as if you were in Canada,” says Arney. On Mars, unshielded astronauts would be exposed to about 0.67 millisieverts per day, which is 40 times as much as on Earth, and they’d likely need to bury their habitats several meters beneath the surface to minimize exposure. As for solar power, proximity to the sun gets Venus 40 percent more than we get here on Earth, and 240 percent more than we’d see on Mars. Put all of these numbers together and as long as you don’t worry about having something under your feet, Jones points out, the upper atmosphere of Venus is “probably the most Earth-like environment that’s out there.” | aerospace |
https://www.bgr.in/news/nasa-video-reveals-rocket-booster-test-in-slow-motion-414332/ | 2021-06-24T14:54:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488556133.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20210624141035-20210624171035-00273.warc.gz | 0.900742 | 393 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__6899671 | en | US space agency NASA has added yet another feather in its cap when it released a new video showing rocket motor test in extreme slow-motion using an innovative new camera. The video offers a spectacular view of the QM-2 test by the company Orbital ATK on June 28, which test-fired a full-scale version of the solid rocket booster that will help launch NASA’s new Space Launch System megarocket on missions into deep space, Space.com reported on Sunday. Also Read - NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter uses same chip as Samsung Galaxy S5, OnePlus One
To capture the booster test in high definition, NASA engineers and scientists used a High Dynamic Range Stereo X camera (HiDyRS-X). “Traditional high speed video cameras are limited to shooting in one exposure at a time, but HiDyRS-X can record multiple high speed video exposures at once, combining them into a high dynamic range video that adequately exposes all areas of the video image for comprehensive analysis,” NASA officials said in a video description. Also Read - NASA astronauts complete seven hour spacewalk to prep ISS for new solar panels
When Orbital ATK test-fired the QM-2 solid rocket booster, a stream of superhot flame was seen coming out of the rocket’s exhaust for nearly two minutes. This test was the second (and final) full-scale test of the solid rocket boosters to be used for NASA‘s Space Launch System. The first test of QM-1 was completed in March 2015. Two of the boosters will be used to help launch the SLS rocket on missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the report said.
NASA has planned to use the SLS rocket to launch its new Orion spacecraft to send astronauts on deep-space voyages to an asteroid, Mars and beyond. The first test flight of SLS and Orion is scheduled for launch in 2018. | aerospace |
https://nationfirstnews.in/mynation/chandrayaan-2-successfully-placed-in-moons-orbit-isro/ | 2022-05-16T05:20:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662509990.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516041337-20220516071337-00658.warc.gz | 0.901003 | 293 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__190617344 | en | Nation First News: ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into a Lunar orbit today at 9.02 am.
Following this, a series of orbit maneuvers will be performed on Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft to enable it to enter its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon’s surface.
After this, the Vikram lander will separate from the Orbiter and enters into a 100 km X 30 km orbit around the Moon. Then, it will perform a series of complex braking maneuvers to soft land in the South polar region of the Moon on September 7, 2019, said ISRO in its press statement.
The next Lunar bound orbit maneuver is scheduled tomorrow for August 21, 2019 between 1230-13:30 hrs IST. There will be four more orbit manoeuvres, which will take the nearly Rs 1,000 crore mission spacecraft into its final orbit of the Moon. This process of manoeuvering in the lunar orbit will be taking place from August 21 to September 1.
ISRO Chief K Sivan: #Chandrayaan2 mission crossed a major milestone today, the precise lunar orbit insertion maneuver was carried out at 9 am for about 30 minutes and Chandrayaan 2 was precisely inserted in the defined orbit. pic.twitter.com/uR9LhAux4u
— ANI (@ANI) August 20, 2019 | aerospace |
https://www.hireuavpro.com/item/sentinel-air/ | 2022-07-03T15:14:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104244535.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703134535-20220703164535-00336.warc.gz | 0.943696 | 470 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__243594130 | en | Sentinel Air is a group of highly experienced former military aviators now able to offer their skills to your tasks. Formed in 2013 from a group of retiring military aviators, Sentinel Air is able to offer customers the benefits of years of military training in large unmanned and manned platforms.
As a full service aerial surveillance company, we offer aerial surveillance services to Public Safety, Emergency Services, Environmental Inspection and to the Media. In addition our staff can provide a complete package of training and consultancy services for all aspects of operating both manned and unmanned (UAV) aircraft. With a vast range of skills honed across the world, on a variety of platforms, there is a no more experienced company in offering commercial aerial surveillance services and none able to offer it at these costs.
From our time operating both manned and unmanned platforms we saw advantages and disadvantages of each and so elected to build a platform using a hybrid of technologies. This enables the use of a very cost effective aircraft, able to operate within FAA rules anywhere you desire. So we have built a combination of a piloted long endurance aircraft but with the sensors controlled from the ground or air. Using commercial secure video streaming technology, our down linked video can be viewed across the world. Our remote sensor control allows face to face liaison with the sensor operator, able to put the camera where you need it instantly, all from your own operations center. We can train your staff to operate our camera, maintaining continuity within your service. View our video down link on-scene and remotely at your operations center.
Increased situation awareness drives efficiency and safety and saves costs well beyond the expense of operating our platform. Unlike current civilian UAVs our hybrid platform can operate anywhere, without FAA prior clearance and covers large areas. Rapidly gaining eyes onto any incident within your area.
This hybrid allows legal safe large UAV technology, to be available years before FAA rules permit their commercially use. Our aircraft are able to deploy at short notice, anywhere. Their removable wings allow them to be trailed or air freighted within 30 minutes. Reassembled in 45 minutes it can be up and flying and streaming live video anywhere within an hour of arrival.
Sentinel air offers short term, short notice contracts and long term, enduring contracts on its aircraft. For further details on our services please contact us. | aerospace |
http://skyaddictaviation.com/2020-pinup-calendar-2/ | 2021-09-20T22:57:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057119.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20210920221430-20210921011430-00080.warc.gz | 0.931118 | 482 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__12010976 | en | We are bringing back the adventure, charisma, and attitude of a bygone era. This old fashioned, gentleman's rally will be hosted alongside an eclectic art show featuring well renowned artists through out the Greater Tampa Bay area, live music, food & beverage, and the launch of the Pinups & Planes Calendar. Join us for a day of aviation, art, ales and accolades.
Date: Race is 2nd of November 10am. Contestants must arrive the day before, sign in and given aircraft parking spot.
Registration is open entry to all types of aircraft and continues on until Mid October. At end of Registration we will select up to 30-40 airplanes and divide them up into 3 competitive Categories. Once you're selected Official fee of $250 and waiver form will have to be submitted before the Air Rally. If entering as a group please state so in the notes of Registration Form.
This Air Rally is a simple timed Cross Country event. Time of wheels up to wheels down at KSPG will be officially recorded and calculated to determine the winners. All FAA rules and regulations must be abide by at all times. Must also perform a touch and go at KMTH. Failure to do so will grant contestant disqualification. Southeast bound aircraft must select Odd thousands altitude and Northwest bound aircraft must select Even thousands altitude to maintain separation.
1st place winner of each category receives an estimated 40 inch standing Gold Plated Propeller Trophy. Their Aircraft also featured in 2021 PInups and Planes Calendar, and of course the ultimate bragging right until next year. 2nd place winner of each category receives an estimated 40 inch standing Nickel Plated Propeller Trophy. 3rd place winner of each category receives an estimated 40 inch standing Copper Plated Propeller Trophy.
Due to first event and not sure who's is entering the categories are open and subject to change. Samples: Piston Single Certified Aircraft, Piston Single Experimental Aircraft, Multi Engine Certified Aircraft. ETC.
Coinciding with the Air Rally we will be also having an Art show, Antique/Vintage car show, Trophy Ceremony, and our Pinups and Planes calendar launch party later on located at Sky Addict Aviation Maintenance Hangar. Also featuring local food and beverage vendors throughout the day. North side of the airport by Sheltair Ramp will be where all the aircraft parking. | aerospace |
https://www.ias.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/research-activities/solar-and-planetary-systems?page=8 | 2024-04-14T02:28:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00391.warc.gz | 0.917968 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__192598779 | en | Solar and Planetary Systems
- evolution processes by observations of differentiated bodies (terrestrial and giant planets, satellites). These activities are performed through space instruments mounted on orbital or in situ platforms;
- the extra-solar planets by a theoretical but also observational approach through the COROT, PLATO and ARIEL missions;
- the initial conditions for the formation of the Solar System through the study of primitive matter: cometary grains, meteorites, observations of primitive bodies and the interplanetary environment.
Our approach consists in coupling the observation acquired by space instruments, extensive data reduction, numerical modeling and laboratory measurements. These multiple approaches are based on as strong and major instrumental developments with the constant concern to combine both scientific and technological challenges. | aerospace |
https://theswaddle.com/europe-names-its-first-disabled-astronaut/ | 2023-10-02T02:43:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510942.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002001302-20231002031302-00516.warc.gz | 0.953236 | 792 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__79263654 | en | Europe Names Its First Disabled Astronaut
Yesterday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced its first “parastronaut” — a disabled astronaut — who will join a crew of 17 recruits undergoing astronaut training. British Paralympic sprinter John McFall will take part in a feasibility study, so the ESA can better understand and build capacity for disabled astronauts to live and work in space, according to Reuters.
The announcement comes amid conversations about science and tech’s accessibility for disabled people. This isn’t the first time a disabled person was involved in space flight. In 2007, Stephen Hawking traveled on a zero gravity flight — this was followed, last year, by a crew of scientists with mobility, vision, or hearing disabilities traveling on a similar parabolic flight. These are missions designed as part of ongoing efforts globally to achieve greater accessibility in space flights — making McFall one of the first few who will actually get to go to space, as a result.
But the ESA’s Parastronaut Feasibility Project is not without its faults. A commentary in Science notes that in the fine-print, the program is limited to people with lower-limb disabilities alone. “By not including a range of disabilities, ESA is discounting the potential of people with disabilities, ignoring the fact that disabilities are in great part barriers imposed by society,” it stated.
Efforts to be “inclusive” may then be short-sighted — as they don’t fundamentally change how we approach scientific exploration through an exclusionary lens. Instead, accessibility should be seen as something that benefits everyone.
Related on The Swaddle:
“Nasa is doing a disservice to humanity and also to astronauts themselves by not considering inclusion upfront. When you get a group of people with diverse abilities together the sum is greater than the parts… We need to get away from thinking of this as that which is done in excess. These are necessary considerations that we simply haven’t been making yet,” Sina Bahram, who was part of the crew that traveled in a zero gravity flight in 2021, told BBC.
Disabled scientists have long called out the ableism within STEM communities. One critique is that science tends to treat disability accommodations as “inclusion” — in the process, they’re missing out on the unique abilities that disabled people can bring to the table. There are several ways that disabled astronauts can do things that able-bodied people can’t. Someone with a prosthetic can sense a spin in the craft through a vibration in their prosthetic without having to look, for instance. And, in another instance, where accounting for visual impairment would have helped: one astronaut’s visor flooded with liquid that irritated his eyes in the middle of a space-walk, threatening his life. Tactile supporting equipment to help navigate despite this would have helped — showing how accessibility isn’t merely an “extra” provision, but a core issue that can enhance and better protect everyone.
It can, arguably, even help improve the quality of data. Wanda Diaz Merced is an astronomer at Cape Town’s International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development. She’s blind, but through a process called sonification, she not only gets to study the cosmos at par with anyone else, but arguably even better. “You see better when you use sound,” she said. Sonification is a technique that scientists are using in oceanography as well.
The idea of opening up field exploration in space to disabled astronauts, then, still has a long way to go in terms of addressing the fundamental gaps in its framework. Space isn’t accessible to anyone, in the end, if it isn’t accessible to everyone. | aerospace |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.