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https://en.yumping.it/deals/hang-gliding/puglia-bari/hang-gliding-flight-with-video-alberobello-40-min--o48345 | 2022-12-06T11:50:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711077.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206092907-20221206122907-00646.warc.gz | 0.888201 | 243 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__207812534 | en | Hang gliding flight with video Alberobello 40 minSKU: 48345
Description of Hang gliding flight with video Alberobello 40 minDo you want to live a unique experience ? Book your hang gliding flight now!
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https://taarifa.rw/understanding-physics-of-hot-air-balloon/ | 2022-05-19T11:54:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662527626.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519105247-20220519135247-00184.warc.gz | 0.918425 | 1,569 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__119645400 | en | Rwanda has cultivated herself as a country of interesting surprises keeping her as a destination of interest from media, researchers, first time visitors and various fans.
From aligning with Arsenal football club, Paris Saint-Germain Football Club to introducing drones to facilitate the country’s health sector and many more others, this week Rwanda introduced hot air balloons onto offers for tourists at Akagera National Park.
“We are pleased to partner with Royal Balloon Rwanda to add yet another exciting product to Rwanda’s adventure tourism experiences,” said Clare Akamanzi, CEO of Rwanda Development Board.
For most Rwandans and other visitors, the hot air balloon may trigger so many questions on how they can really embrace it while visiting Akagera National Park.
Phyisics of hot air balloon
In simplistic terms, a hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant, since it has a lower density than the colder air outside the envelope. As with all aircraft, hot air balloons cannot fly beyond the atmosphere.
The principle behind hot air balloon physics is the Archimedes Principle which states that the buoyant force on a submerged object is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by the object.
For a hot air balloon, the upward buoyant force acting on it is equal to the weight of air displaced. The density of air is 1.2 kg per cubic meter; therefore to lift a balloon is going to be necessary to displace a great volume of air so its weight exceeds the weight of the envelope, plus the weight of passengers, and the upward force is greater than the downward force of gravity.
Also an object floating in water stays buoyant using the same principle as a hot air balloon.
As shown in the figure above, the center of buoyancy acts through point C, which is the centroid of the volume V of the object. This volume is equal to the displaced volume of the fluid. The upward buoyant force FB is equal to the weight of the displaced volume of fluid V.
For the object to remain in an unconditionally stable orientation (i.e. not rotate) the center of mass of the object G must be directly below point C.
This means that if the object were to be rotated by any amount, it will automatically rotate back to the original position where point G lies directly below point C. This is what is meant by unconditional stability.
For a hot air balloon, the upward buoyant force acting on it is equal to the weight (or mass) of the cooler surrounding air displaced by the hot air balloon.
Since the air inside the envelope is heated it is less dense than the surrounding air, which means that the buoyant force due to the cooler surrounding air is greater than the weight of the heated air inside the envelope.
And for lift to be generated, this buoyant force must exceed the weight of the heated air, plus the weight of the envelope, plus the weight of the gondola, plus the weight of passengers and equipment on board.
As a result, the hot air balloon will experience sufficient buoyant force to completely lift off the ground.
As shown in the figure below, the weight of the hot air balloon is more concentrated near the bottom of the balloon (at the location of passengers and equipment), so the center of mass G of the hot air balloon is always below the center of buoyancy C.
Therefore, the balloon is always stable during flight (i.e. it will always remain in the upright position).
Hot Air Balloon Physics – Operation
If the balloon operator wishes to lower the hot air balloon, he can either stop firing the burner, which causes the hot air in the envelope to cool (decreasing the buoyant force), or he opens a small vent at the top of the balloon envelope (via a control line).
This releases some of the hot air, which decreases the buoyant force, which also causes the balloon to descend.
To maintain a steady altitude, the balloon operator intermittently fires and turns off the burner once he reaches the approximate altitude he wants. This causes the balloon to ascend and descend (respectively).
This is the only way he can maintain an approximately constant altitude, since maintaining a strictly constant altitude by way of maintaining a net zero buoyant force (on the balloon) is practically impossible.
If the balloon operator wishes to move the balloon sideways (in a horizontal direction) he must know, ahead of time, the wind direction, which varies with altitude. So he simply raises or lowers the hot air balloon to the altitude corresponding to the wind direction he wants, which is the direction he wants the balloon to go.
The balloon stays inflated because the heated air inside the envelope creates a pressure greater than the surrounding air.
However, since the envelope has an opening at the bottom (above the location of the burner), the expanding hot air is allowed to escape, preventing a large pressure differential from developing.
This means that the pressure of the heated air inside the balloon ends up being only slightly greater than the cooler surrounding air pressure.
An efficient hot air balloon is one that minimizes the weight of the balloon components, such as the envelope, and on board equipment (such as the burner and propane fuel tanks).
This in turn minimizes the required temperature of the air inside the envelope needed to generate sufficient buoyant force to generate lift. Minimizing the required air temperature means that you minimize the burner energy needed, thereby reducing fuel use.
Hot Air Balloon Physics – Analysis
Let’s examine the physics of a hot air balloon using a sample calculation.
The heated air inside the envelope is at roughly the same pressure as the outside air. With this in mind we can calculate the density of the heated air at a given temperature, using the Ideal gas law, as follows:
P = ρRT
P is the absolute pressure of the gas, in Pa
ρ is the density of the gas, in kg/m3
R is the gas constant, in Joules/kg.K
T is the absolute temperature of the gas, in Kelvins (K)
Normal atmospheric pressure is approximately 101,300 Pa
The gas constant for dry air is 287 Joules/kg.K
The air inside the envelope is typically heated to an average temperature of about 100 degrees Celsius, which is 373 K
Substituting the above three values into the Ideal gas law equation and solving for ρ we get ρ = 0.946 kg/m3. This is the density of the heated air inside the envelope. Compare this to normal (ambient) air density which is approximately 1.2 kg/m3.
Next, for an average size balloon with an envelope volume of 2800 m3 we wish to determine the net upward buoyant force generated by the envelope.
The net buoyant force is defined here as the difference in density between the surrounding air and the heated air, multiplied by the envelope volume. Thus,
FB,net = (1.2−0.946)×2800 = 711 kg (1565 lb)
This is the net buoyant force pushing upwards on the heated air inside the envelope. The hot air balloon components (such as envelope, gondola, burner, fuel tanks, and passengers) can at most weigh 711 kg in order for the buoyant force to be able to completely lift the hot air balloon off the ground.
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https://www.aviation-engineer.com/aec-services/ | 2024-02-29T19:27:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474852.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229170737-20240229200737-00459.warc.gz | 0.879106 | 305 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__46537307 | en | AEC provides design, analysis, and FAA/DER approval of aircraft structures, interiors, and avionics & electrical systems.
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https://www.truthandaction.org/russian-su-27-flies-within-15-feet-us-air-force-reconnaissance-plane/ | 2022-11-30T03:16:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710719.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130024541-20221130054541-00859.warc.gz | 0.969167 | 217 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__20592404 | en | America's prestige amongst the international community has so eroded that our enemies now regularly harass our military at will.
With the capture of American sailors by Iran and subsequent groveling by the Obama administration, one should not be surprised that another hostile power has decided to take it's chances and antagonize us. Making matters worse is the fact that the nation in question is much, much more powerful than Iran.
Last Monday, a US Air Force reconnaissance plane was intercepted by a Russian jet over the Black Sea. The plane was flying over international waters, so the Russians had no reason to pick a fight with it. This was provocation, plain and simple, borne of a feckless Obama policy of appeasement and retreat abroad.
The Russian pilot apparently felt brave enough to fly as close as 15 feet away from the American plane, placing the two aircraft dangerously close to each other. Further showing his disregard for the American plane, the Russian made a hard sudden maneuver that destabilized the jet. It's a miracle no shots were fired.
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https://avpay.aero/company/flightsim-centre/product/supermarine-spitfire-flight-simulator-experiences-in-newcastle/ | 2023-12-01T04:14:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100264.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201021234-20231201051234-00151.warc.gz | 0.92347 | 625 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__48333134 | en | Supermarine Spitfire Flight Simulator Experiences in Newcastle
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The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force & other Allied countries before, during, & after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, using several wing configurations, & it was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft.
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https://new.nsf.gov/news/discovery-microbursts-leads-safer-air-travel | 2023-12-02T21:40:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100452.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202203800-20231202233800-00350.warc.gz | 0.955975 | 684 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__175503854 | en | Discovery of Microbursts Leads to Safer Air Travel
During a storm, powerful downdrafts of air can form, blasting towards the Earth with explosive force. Microbursts--drafts only several hundred yards wide--can gust at speeds approaching 150 miles per hour, and can be particularly dangerous for aircraft that are taking off or landing. Before the introduction of Doppler radar weather-detection systems at airports, scientists estimate that microbursts caused as many as 20 major airline accidents, resulting in over 500 deaths.
One of those accidents was the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 66 as it attempted to land at New York's JFK International Airport in June 1975. University of Chicago meteorologist Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita suspected that microbursts were behind the deadly accident. Fujita was a pioneer in the field of "mesometeorology"--the study of middle-sized weather phenomena such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Collaborating with his wife, Sumiko, he created the F0-F5 tornado severity scale in 1971. Later, as he flew over an area in the Midwest that had been devastated by an outbreak of tornadoes, Fujita noticed a starburst-like pattern in the uprooted trees and the observation led him to theorize about microbursts. The theory met with skepticism at first. Until the mid-1970s, most researchers believed that downdrafts would substantially weaken before reaching the ground and not pose a threat to aircraft. They blamed tornadoes and gust fronts as the primary causes of storm damage.
In 1977, NSF's Geosciences Directorate provided support for Fujita to conduct the NIMROD (Northern Illinois Meteorological Research on Downburst) project in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)--a laboratory for which NSF has been the primary sponsor since its inception in 1960. NIMROD field experiments took place in the spring and summer of 1978, using three Doppler radars and other equipment. NCAR researchers had recommended Doppler because they were finding it effective in "seeing" air motions within storms. On May 29, Fujita and NCAR's James W. Wilson recorded the first microburst observed on radar. What they saw confirmed Fujita's hypotheses. By NIMROD's end, about 50 microbursts had been detected.
NIMROD was followed by further NCAR collaborations with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and researchers at a number of universities. These included the Joint Airport Wind Shear (JAWS) project in Denver, Colorado, in 1982, the Microburst and Severe Thunderstorm (MIST) project near Huntsville, Alabama, in 1986, and the Convective INitiation and Downburst Experiment (CINDE) near Denver in 1987.
The collection and analysis of data developed through these efforts led to widespread agreement that microbursts exist. The findings helped convince the FAA and international aviation authorities to develop radar-warning systems to detect wind shear threats and to institute worldwide training programs. The FAA's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar was installed at major airports throughout the country, and pilots are now required to take microburst and wind-shear training courses and practice maneuvers in flight simulators.
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https://worldcrunch.com/yuri-gagarin-photograph | 2023-11-29T02:40:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100047.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129010302-20231129040302-00067.warc.gz | 0.968897 | 343 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__81988885 | en | Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet Air Force pilot and cosmonaut became the first human ever to travel into outer space on this day in 1961.
How long was Yuri Gagarin's space flight?
Yuri Gagarin's space flight on Vostok 1 lasted 108 minutes from launch to landing. During his flight, he orbited the Earth once, reaching a maximum altitude of about 200 miles (327 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.
How did Yuri Gagarin become the first human to travel into outer space?
Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, in the village of Klushino, Russia. He was selected as a cosmonaut candidate in 1960 and underwent rigorous training, including centrifuge tests, weightlessness simulations, and parachute jumps. On April 12, 1961, he was launched into space aboard Vostok 1 and orbited the Earth once before re-entering the atmosphere and parachuting to the ground. He died in a plane crash on March 27, 1968, during a routine training flight.
What were the reactions to Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight?
Yuri Gagarin's space flight was a major propaganda victory for the Soviet Union, which was engaged in a Cold War space race with the United States. The achievement was celebrated worldwide, and Gagarin became an international celebrity. His flight also inspired a generation of young people to pursue careers in science and engineering.
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https://www.carahsoft.com/ball-aerospace | 2024-04-12T13:57:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816024.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412132154-20240412162154-00769.warc.gz | 0.894708 | 238 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__28780469 | en | Ball Aerospace pioneers discoveries that enable our customers to perform beyond expectation and protect what matters most. Founded at the dawn of the space age as a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, we have built on our legacy of integrity, technical expertise and value to help customers Go Beyond – across solutions, partnerships and opportunities, both today and tomorrow.
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http://gerryanderson.wikia.com/wiki/Hawkeye | 2018-03-18T11:25:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257645613.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20180318110736-20180318130736-00614.warc.gz | 0.937819 | 226 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__218093231 | en | Hawkeye (real name: Hedley Howard Henderson III) is the pilot of the wing section of Hawkwing, the Terrahawks atmospheric fighter aircraft. His voice was provided by Jeremy Hitchen.
- Name: Lt. Hawkeye.
- Species: Human male.
- Birth details: 18th Feb 1998, United States.
- Nationality: American.
- Military rank: Lieutenant.
- Vehicles: Hawkwing (wing section)
- The son of a well respected politician and a highly skilled athlete.
- Hawkeye was named Hedley Howard Henderson at birth but an accident in later life resulted in his computer assisted eyesight.
- This razor sharp vision gave him his current nickname, Hawkeye.
- The 2016 Olympics saw Hawkeye winning the Gold medal for the Decathlon, he also holds world records in several sports.
- Hawkeye is a very strong and likeable person who can be relied on.
- Excelled in pilot training, Early Warning Attack Squadron, UN Combined Air Defence Squad, Task Force Unit Commander, holder of a World Gallantry Medal. | aerospace |
http://streetkids.ca/workout-for-children-on-the-lesson-of-the-russian-language/ | 2019-02-20T20:20:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247496080.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220190527-20190220212527-00268.warc.gz | 0.96924 | 649 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__194379725 | en | Easily clip, save workout for children on the lesson of the Russian language share what you find with family and friends. Easily download and save what you find. Aeroflot Airbus A310-300 F-OGQS CDG 1993. No evidence of a technical malfunction was found.
596, that was delivered new to Aeroflot on 11 December 1992. Russian International Airlines that was set up for serving routes to the Russian Far East and Southeast Asia. The captain of Flight 593 was Andrey Viktorovich Danilov, 40, who was hired by Aeroflot in November 1992. 33, who was hired by Aeroflot in October 1993. Relief pilot Kudrinsky was taking his two children on their first international flight, and they were brought to the cockpit while he was on duty. With the autopilot active, Kudrinsky, against regulations, let the children sit at the controls.
First, his daughter Yana took the pilot’s left front seat. Kudrinsky adjusted the autopilot’s heading to give her the impression that she was turning the plane, though she actually had no control of the aircraft. Shortly thereafter, Kudrinsky’s son Eldar occupied the pilot’s seat. The first to notice a problem was Eldar, who observed that the plane was banking right.
Shortly after, the flight path indicator changed to show the new flight path of the aircraft as it turned. Since the turn was continuous, the resulting predicted flight path drawn on screen was a 180-degree turn. The aircraft crashed with its landing gear up, and all passengers had been prepared for an emergency, as they were strapped into their seats. No distress calls were made prior to the crash. The airline originally denied that the children were in the cockpit. The Associated Press said that, according to the transcript, “the Russian crew almost succeeded in saving the plane”. All timestamps refer to the flight data recorder time, not GMT or local time.
2259 Kudrinsky: Is it turning by itself? 2266 Eldar: Is it going off-course? 2266 Makarov Could it be some kind of zone? 2269 Piskarev: Of course we have. The plane exceeds a 45-degree bank angle.
The g-forces increase, making it difficult for Kudrinsky to return to his seat. 2281 Kudrinsky: Left The other way! 2281 Makarov: Turn it, to the left! 2284 Eldar: I am turning it left! 2288 Piskarev: Can’t you see, or what? Altitude warnings, autopilot disengagement warnings, and stall warnings sound in quick succession.
The plane begins to descend at speeds of up to 1000 feet per second. 2298 Piskarev: To the left, There’s the ground! Piskarev pulls out of the dive, but over-corrects. The aircraft climbs almost vertically, and then starts to stall. The g-forces slightly decrease, enough for Eldar to get out of the captain’s seat. | aerospace |
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https://feindef.com/index.php/en/ficha-astorkia-aero-componets-en | 2023-02-07T07:58:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500392.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207071302-20230207101302-00441.warc.gz | 0.905921 | 479 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__104879695 | en | Astorkia is a company dedicated to the manufacture of complex components for the aeronautical sector, founded in 1989, has specialized in the know-how to offer the best solutions to customers. One of the hallmarks of Astorkia is the experience obtained with hard to cut materials, working mostly with materials such as INCO 718,INCO 625, Titanium or Jethete M190.
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- EMBRAER: Embraer 170, Embraer 190 | aerospace |
https://www.gaussteam.com/gauss-at-the-international-workshop-on-lean-satellite-standardization-2017-in-japan/ | 2023-02-06T11:45:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500339.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20230206113934-20230206143934-00583.warc.gz | 0.924831 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__304161282 | en | Nowadays small-sized satellites see their demand increase significantly and its market grow fast. GAUSS Srl, in its role of expert in the small satellites industry, is attending from January 16 to January 18, 2017 the International Workshop on Lean Satellite Standardization 2017.
The Workshop, held at the Kikai Shinko Kaikan of Tokyo (Japan) is organized by Kyushu Institute of Technology and Japan Space Systems, under the support of the National Space Policy Secretariat – Cabinet Office.
The event represents an occasion to open a forum to discuss about lean satellites standards and related issues (such as concept, projects, testing etc..).
The aim of the Workshop is to enhance information in the field of lean satellites requirements promoting the activities useful to their standardization. “Lean satellites” have the main characteristics of being innovative, low-cost, with fast-delivery structures, mechanisms and technology.
Marta Massimiani, a member of the Company GAUSS, has given a presentation on GAUSS perspective related to lean satellites standardization, sharing its first-hand experience in the field (for instance the case of UniSat-6). | aerospace |
https://averagedrone.my/favourite-model/dji-spark/item-spark | 2018-02-24T13:52:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815812.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224132508-20180224152508-00201.warc.gz | 0.734619 | 130 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__185106583 | en | Video transmission range of up to 1.2mi (2km). Max speed of up to 31 mph (50 kph) in Sport Mode.
16 min flight time.* 12 intelligent protection functions. Check flight time left in real-time.
Overview Powerful propulsion with a foldable, easy to mount, and durable design. Highlights Foldable and light.Push type design allows for quick mounting and detaching. In the Box 4730S Propeller Pair × 1 Specifications Diameter × Thread Pitch: 4.7×3.0 inch (11.94×7.62 cm)Weight (single one): 2.5 g | aerospace |
http://www.amarcexperience.com/ui/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=213 | 2023-12-02T18:32:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100448.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202172159-20231202202159-00316.warc.gz | 0.970506 | 605 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__75743138 | en | AMARG, or the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (previously known as AMARC, the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center), is a joint service facility managed by the US Air Force Material Command located in the city of Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Often referred to as 'The Boneyard', AMARG is an aerospace storage and maintenance facility adjoining Davis-Monthan Air Force Base which provides a service to all branches of the US military (Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and Army), as well as other national agencies.
Typically controlling over 4,200 aircraft as well as many other types of military equipment, AMARG works very hard in promoting itself as not just a 'Boneyard' and takes every opportunity in explaining how it operates its cost effective, tax saving operations. Many of the stored aircraft can be returned to an operational status in a short period of time and there is a continual process of anti-corrosion and re-preservation work which keeps the aircraft in a stable condition during their stay.
The reason the Boneyard reference exists is due to other work that AMARG carries out, that of reclamation of spare parts and the eventual disposal of spent airframes. The facility can be divided into two distinct areas, the RIT (Reclamation Insurance Type) area located to the east side of Kolb Road is littered with aircraft in various states of completeness. The junkyard appearance belies the fact that these aircraft are controlled by a process of careful part reclamation, both to a schedule and to ad-hoc requests. On careful examination many of these aircraft can be seen re-sealed to protect the remaining components from the dirt and heat.
There are many times that aircraft from the RIT area leave AMARG to become instructional aircraft, targets on Army or Air Force ranges, museum exhibits or display pieces, although most end up being smelted down into ingots by nearby metal processors.
Over the years AMARG has also been heavily involved in the elimination of B-52 Stratofortresses under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and were also responsible for the eliminiation of 445 Ground Launch Cruise Missiles (GLCM) and their launchers under the INF Treaty.
In more recent times AMARG has become more involved in depot repair, maintenance and modification work on types such as the A-10 Thunderbolt and C-130 Hercules. Of particular note is AMARG's work on the A-10 "Hog Up" program which is expected to extend their life in the Air Force fleet to 2028, and the commencement of Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM) overhauls of C-130s, the first of which was completed on February 20th, 2009. Another example of depot-level maintenance was the mandatory checks and repairs that AMARG carried out to 84 A-10 following the discovery of wing cracks in the fleet at the end of 2008. | aerospace |
https://blogs.oracle.com/JeffV/entry/first_launch | 2016-07-24T05:36:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257823947.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071023-00120-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.961516 | 542 | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-30__0__168817893 | en | By Jeff Victor-Oracle on Sep 24, 2007
I blogged about my
Vulcanite earlier this year. This rocket is 53" tall
(4.5 ft, 135 cm) and weighs 32 oz (2 pounds, about 1 kg) before adding a motor.
I painted it orange and black to make it more visible against blue sky or
My goals for this rocket include:
- determining that it is flight worthy
- obtaining my Level 1 certification
- gaining experience with high-power motors
- flying a rocket to one mile (1.6 km) altitude
- if it seems that the rocket will survive Mach 1, attempt to do so
The results were gratifying.
|(When I take pictures of a launch,
I press the shutter as soon as I see any vertical movement, which
resulted in a well-composed picture. At least it did this time...)
According to the on-board altimeter I added, it flew to 1,584 feet (480 m). More importantly, it flew almost perfectly straight up, and the 24-inch parachute returned it safely to Earth not far away from the launch rail. However, it seems that the delay I chose - the time before the parachute is ejected - was not long enough. With the correct delay, the rocket would have flown higher.
|Beaming with success, I decided that the next launch would begin to test
the limits of this rocket. I chose an I218R - an 8-inch (20 cm) motor with
almost twice the total impulse of the previous motor. (Think of total impulse
as the total force exerted while the motor is burning.) Even though I knew
it would fly much higher, the wind was very light that day, so I
didn't expect to walk far to recover it.
With this motor, the Vulcanite flew to 4,469 feet (1.35 km)! Also impressive was its maximum speed: over 500 MPH (800 km/h). You can see that in the picture to the right: I have an itchy shutter finger, but the rocket launched so fast I missed it entirely!
Unfortunately, although the nose cone ejected properly, the parachute never came out. The two ends of the rocket, connected by an elastic cord, fell over 4,000 feet to the ground. Fortunately, the launch area was an empty corn field with large clods of dirt which had been softened by rain the day before. The only damage was a partial crack in one plywood fin. A little sanding, some new epoxy, and it should fly again.
To one mile? | aerospace |
https://123movies.care/movies/stunt-pilot-1939-4340894H/ | 2024-02-29T01:05:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474775.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229003536-20240229033536-00563.warc.gz | 0.884507 | 248 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__55896000 | en | Watch stunt pilot 123Movies. The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.
- Genre: Crime, Adventure
- Country: United States
- Director: George Waggner
- Cast: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Jason Robards Sr., Pat O'Malley, George Meeker, Wesley Barry, George Cleveland, John Daheim, Tod Sterling, Mary Field, Buddy Cox, Forrest Taylor, David Newell, Carleton Young, Ray Turner, Jack Kirk, Monte Rawlins, Jack Hendricks, Charles Morton, Wally West, | aerospace |
https://www.ohscanada.com/forestry-contractors-on-helicopter-that-crashed-killing-2-near-prince-george-b-c/?custnum=@%7Bcustomer_id%7D@&title=Driving%20a%20message%20of%20hope:%20CRH%20Canada%20takes%20safety%20communications%20on%20the%20road&utm_source=OHS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=@%7Btrack_id%7D@ | 2024-02-23T09:54:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474377.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223085439-20240223115439-00005.warc.gz | 0.974506 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__8008100 | en | Forestry contractors on helicopter that crashed, killing 2 near Prince George, B.C.
Health & Safety Aviation Safety british columbia Forestry Helicopter
Forest products firm Canfor says hired contractors on their way to conduct field survey work for the company were on board a helicopter that crashed outside Prince George, B.C., killing two and injuring four.
Emergency crews were called just before 8 a.m. Tuesday after the helicopter crashed near Purden Lake off Highway 16, with six people on board.
Canfor says in a statement issued Wednesday that the survey crew, the helicopter and its pilot were contracted for field work, but the company would not reveal the contracting firm nor the helicopter’s owner.
Michelle Ward, Canfor’s vice-president of corporate communications, says the company is “deeply saddened” by the crash that killed two people.
Ward says Canfor is mourning the deaths of the contracted workers, and offers condolences to the friends and family for the lives that “were heartbreakingly cut short.”
Transportation Safety Board spokesman Liam MacDonald says the board’s investigators were scheduled to arrive at the scene of the crash on Wednesday. | aerospace |
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https://wvhgc.org/rolls-royce-hits-megawatt-milestone-for-its-hybrid-electric-aircraft-system/ | 2022-05-20T18:03:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662533972.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220520160139-20220520190139-00380.warc.gz | 0.950069 | 1,152 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__5912011 | en | Rolls-Royce hits megawatt milestone for its hybrid-electric aircraft system
Preparing for explosive growth in the electrification of mobility, British engineering giant Rolls-Royce is developing various all-electric and hybrid-electric drive systems for aircraft. In one of its most-watched hybrid-electric aerodynamic propulsion and power systems programs, work is underway to develop a formidable system that could power future megawatt-scale aircraft. In December, the program scored a notable triumph just weeks after initial testing began.
Rolls-Royce’s Power Generation System 1 demonstrator in December delivered over a megawatt of power just weeks after testing began on the newly refurbished 108 test bed in Bristol, UK . Tests are continuing with the objective of reaching up to 2.5 MW. Courtesy of Rolls-Royce
On Dec. 7, the company said its Power Generating System 1 (PGS1) delivered more than one megawatt of electricity to its newly refurbished 108 test bed in Bristol, UK (Figure 4) . The milestone is a “great achievement” for the system, which was designed with a capacity of 2.5 MW, noted Adam Newman, chief project engineer at Rolls-Royce’s Aviation Futures. “Our generator is about the size of a beer keg, but it has already produced enough electricity to continuously power around 1,000 homes, which really takes the technology to new levels.”
The most powerful flying generator in the world
The triumph is particularly significant for Rolls-Royce because the PGS1 demonstrator stems from the E-Fan X technology demonstrator project, which Rolls-Royce has begun to develop jointly with aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus. The pioneering E-Fan X project involved removing a single engine from an Avro RJ100 aircraft (a 100-seat regional jet) and replacing it with a hybrid electric propulsion system powered by an AE2100 gas turbine, 2 .5 MW and a battery system. But while Rolls-Royce and Airbus had hoped the system would become “the most powerful flying generator in the world”, the E-Fan X partnership concluded in 2021 “when both parties agreed that it was not no need to create a real aircraft for the test flight”. says Rolls-Royce.
Rolls-Royce, however, continued development of the 2.5 MW generator, continuing work at its bespoke factory in Trondheim, Norway. “As future hybrid-electric aircraft opportunities emerge in the megawatt class and above, we want to be as prepared as possible to offer an off-the-shelf solution,” Newman said.
The PGS1 project started in June 2021 with testing of the AE2100 motor element, specialized controls and the thermal management system. The company then brought in a fully operational generator and 3,000 volt power electronics.
Main challenges: weight management and thermal management
“The challenge with this type of hybrid technology at this power level is really weight and thermal management. Batteries weigh more than kerosene, and once you add the cables, power electronics and cooling systems for each component, you also have the inevitable increased complexity,” explained Riona Armesmith, chief engineer of the Rolls-Royce Hybrid Electric Propulsion project. “So we need to make the PGS1 as light, reliable and easy to use as possible. And if we can do that, we’ll be in a great position, with a fully integrated, ground-tested heat and power management system. This means that whenever someone comes up with a concept for a hybrid or all-electric aircraft that requires megawatt power, we’ll be good to go.
The company says the PGS1 program will be a key part of its sustainability strategy, which includes developing innovative power and propulsion systems, as well as improving gas turbine performance and promoting energy efficiency. use of sustainable aviation fuels. Rolls-Royce also has several kilowatt initiatives underway. In November 2021, his “Spirit of Innovation” aircraft developed as part of his “Accelerating the Electrification of Flight” project reached a top speed of 387.4 miles per hour, possibly marking a record for the all-electric vehicle the fastest in the world. In another project, Rolls-Royce will fly an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle – essentially a four-person flying taxi – which will feature a 100 kW class electric propulsion unit.
According to the company, the electrification of mobility is a promising new frontier that could help reshape aircraft design. All-electric and hybrid-electric drive systems allow aircraft to fly with power from renewable resources or fuel cells instead of using only fossil fuels, and make new aircraft designs possible, a he declared. “Electric technology will allow us to increase aircraft efficiency, reduce aircraft emissions and fuel burn, and build aircraft with ultra-low noise levels and new short take-off and landing capabilities. and vertical.”
Much progress has already been made, the company noted. “Light sport and trainer aircraft are already flying electrically today. Commuter-class electric planes and air taxis are on the way, and we’re aiming to see the first all-electric plane carrying people and cargo by mid-decade. The company recognizes that this is a bold vision. “But it’s worth doing for a connected future that protects our planet’s environment for generations to come,” he said. | aerospace |
https://dronelab.co.nz/sky-conqueror-1080p-gps-follow-me-drone.html | 2019-12-13T04:58:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540548544.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20191213043650-20191213071650-00046.warc.gz | 0.856921 | 337 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__87622657 | en | The NEW Sky Conqueror has landed at Dronelab! This amazing compact drone is a brilliant piece of kit that will enthrall even the most avid drone fanatic. The 1080p camera makes some awesome quality photos and videos. With its GPS and Altitude Hold capabilities this model is an absolute dream to pilot and is surprisingly super responsive. Return to home functions also add that extra level of security so you can fly with peace of mind knowing your drone can safely fly back at the press of a button. If you are looking to get into drones or drone flying and do not have much experience then this is the model for you, although even experienced of pilots will also find this to be a great piece of kit.
Description: 4CH 2.4G Mid Quadcopter with 1080P WIFI wide angle 120° camera and GPS & FOLLOW ME functions
Product Size: 19 x 19 x 6cm
Lithium-Ion Battery Included: 7.6V 750mAh
Flying Time: 15-18 minutes
Charging Time: 130 minutes
Flying Distance: 150-250 meters
WIFI transmission Distance: 100-150 meters
Transmitter Battery: 1.5V*4（AAA）(not included)
Functions: Move forward/backward, Fly up/down, Turn left/right, Light, Gyro, 360Flip, 40%/60%/100% Flight control, Camera, Video, WiFi Control, Settable waypoint and altitude (Waypoint flight), Auto takeoff/landing, Follow me mode, Orbiting, WIFI Real-Time Video Transmission. | aerospace |
http://www1.ayrshire.ac.uk/event-folder/mission-discovery/ | 2017-05-28T01:09:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609404.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528004908-20170528024908-00291.warc.gz | 0.949134 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__153360382 | en | The space dust has now settled on Ayrshire’s first ever Mission Discovery programme and what an event it was.
200 Ayrshire secondary school pupils and college students came together for the week-long space school, where they worked in teams to create space experiments.
Under the guidance of the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) team that included former NASA astronaut Michael Foale CBE, they challenged themselves to think creatively and work as part of a cohesive team.
We are excited to announce the release of dates for Mission Discovery 2017 which will be taking place between 19-23rd of June. Following the success of previous years, the programme will be filled with science projects, competitions and inspiring industry speakers to bring visitors closer to space-knowledge.
More details about the event will be revealed soon, so keep an eye on the Ayrshire College website! | aerospace |
https://teletype.in/@chrisharris/5ml1tQpoR | 2021-06-15T16:14:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487621450.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20210615145601-20210615175601-00212.warc.gz | 0.829528 | 919 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__478581 | en | Crystal Market Research adds 'Military Trainer Aircraft' Market 2020 reports to its Advanced database. It is an intensive investigation of crucial components of the markets, for example, drivers, development openings, challenges, restrictions, ebb and flow and up and coming patterns, SWOT examination, and a lot more among other market influencers and key data. After thoroughly dissecting these market parameters, the data is introduced in an extremely sorted out way that obviously makes reference to the development possibilities of the Military Trainer Aircraft market during the conjecture time frame.
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https://www.bmw2002faq.com/gallery/image/6090-5-turbos-racing-at-dingo-gap/ | 2021-07-25T05:15:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046151638.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20210725045638-20210725075638-00288.warc.gz | 0.956454 | 174 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__191051822 | en | This look back at a dune that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover previously drove across is now used as a racetrack by some BMW 2002 Turbos.
This image was taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the 1994th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 5, 2018). Here the cars charge across an opening called "Dingo Gap." This view is looking eastward.
The rover had driven over the dune three days earlier, to lay out the path for this excursion’s race. For scale, the distance across each of the parallel wheel tracks is about 9 feet (2.7 meters), providing quite a narrow and challenging path for the 2002s. As can be seen in this image, the cars frequently become airborne in the red planet’s lower gravity. | aerospace |
https://247careerhub.com/artemis-1-mission-launch-date-preparation-explained/ | 2024-04-19T15:51:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817438.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419141145-20240419171145-00663.warc.gz | 0.951851 | 804 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__176080746 | en | NASA’s Artemis program has had all sorts of delays since its inception in 2017, but the Artemis I mission finally has set a launch date (all goes well, weather permitting) and the space community is elated. NASA’s Artemis I is the program’s first mission to test new technology that will eventually put man — and woman — on the moon in a renewed era of space exploration. Apollo’s twin sister Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt, is the emblem of the highly anticipated expeditions back to Earth’s satellite. Of course, there will always be unexpected delays and challenges when something is the first. However, when it comes to space, as former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver wrote in her new book Escaping Gravity, it is best to take the time and resources necessary to give a mission the best chance for success. While every setback has pushed up the overall cost of the Artemis program, it will be a massive advancement for space exploration that promises to reap its price in benefits.
The technological features of the Artemis project are the Space Launch System (SLS) super heavy-lift rocket that will send astronauts to the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, which according to NASA, has a unique design to navigate, communicate, and operate in a deep space environment. Artemis I will be an uncrewed test flight meant to demonstrate the safety of the mission architecture and prepare all systems for Artemis II, which will carry astronauts to the moon’s orbit. Then in 2025, make a lunar landing with the Artemis III crew.
The SLS core stage and Orion capsule began their journey at NASA’s Michoud building facility in New Orleans East. Then they moved to Kennedy’s Space Center to start the infamous Wet Dress Rehearsals as well as the integrated testing checklist. The SLS has had a total of four WDR test attempts. The third attempt resulted in a hazardous hydrogen leak, and the megarocket had to be rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs. The fourth and final attempt on June 20 was deemed successful by NASA and Boeing teams, which allowed them to suggest Aug. 29, Sept. 2 and 5 as interim dates for the long-awaited launch. While these dates are not set in stone, it is the closest NASA has been to an Artemis I countdown. Of course, it will all depend on operations going smoothly from here on and staying clear of inclement weather.
Between now and August, NASA and its contractors need to follow a series of steps before fully committing to the announced launch period. First, technicians are testing the newly replaced seals on the quick disconnect of the tail service mast umbilical to rule out any additional leaks. Engineers will then install the flight batteries for the core stage. Next, three manikins will serve as the ‘crew’ to help measure radiation, vibration, and acceleration data through the Orion Crew Survival System suits. Commander Moonikin Campos is named after Arturo Campos, a key player in the safe return of Apollo 13 back to Earth. Next, two remaining phantom manikins will be installed, Helga and Zohar, named by the German Aerospace Center and the Israel Space Agency. Finally, a few weeks before launch, the teams at NASA will start the Flight Termination Systems operations, which consist of calibrating booster safe and arm devices and replacing the command receiver decoders with the flight units.
If all of the above goes according to plan, NASA teams would be ready to declare either ‘go’ or ‘no go.’ This would be approximately a week before the interim date of Aug. 29. The other two dates, Sept. 2 and 5, are in case of last-minute unfavorable weather conditions. If unsuccessful, NASA would have to postpone to a later launch period. But so far, the hopes are high for the massive rocket and the future of the Artemis mission. | aerospace |
https://www.rdu.com/aircraft-spotting/ | 2023-12-03T14:05:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203125921-20231203155921-00804.warc.gz | 0.927517 | 1,035 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__74168792 | en | Aircraft Spotting At Raleigh-Durham International Airport
Aircraft spotting refers to the hobby of observing, tracking and photographing aircraft operations and, when done safely and responsibly, can be a great way for members of the public to experience the excitement of day-to-day operations at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority has adopted a set of rules for members of the public wishing to engage in plane spotting at RDU. These rules are designed to ensure the safety and security of all airport users, while also creating a friendly and inviting environment for members of the aircraft spotting community to enjoy this hobby.
Visitors to RDU may enjoy plane spotting on campus in two authorized locations: RDU’s Observation Park during open hours and atop the airport’s central parking deck. Please complete and submit the request form below if you plan to spot from the parking deck. (While permission is not required to visit and take photography at Observation Park, we always appreciate the heads-up.)
Aircraft Spotting Rules
- The Authority requires aircraft spotters to receive written approval from Airport Operations to spot from the top floor of the central parking deck by submitting an aircraft spotting form at least 48 hours prior to arriving at RDU. This notification must be accomplished by filling out the online form on this page that provides basic information about the individual(s) who will be engaged in aircraft spotting. The information contained in the notification will be made available to Airport Operations and Law Enforcement personnel. In the event this request cannot be accommodated, Airport Operations will notify the aircraft spotter who made the request (Note:you do not need to submit written notice to spot aircraft at Observation Park).
- Aircraft spotters will at all times remain in publicly accessible, non-secure areas of the airport. Aircraft spotters are not permitted to access areas of the airport that are restricted or require security access, unless under escort by properly badged Airport Operations or Law Enforcement personnel.
- Aircraft spotters shall at all times maintain courteous and respectful behavior towards all airport users and staff. Even when providing notification of their activity at RDU, aircraft spotters may be approached by RDU Operations or Law Enforcement personnel to inquire about their activity. This is for the safety of all airport users, and may be in response to specific security matters or events that warrant such interaction.
- Aircraft spotters shall adhere to the directions of Airport Operations or Law Enforcement personnel. Due to the dynamic nature of a commercial airport such as RDU, there may be times where, for the safety of aircraft spotters and other airport users, spotting activity may be restricted or prohibited.
- Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles, whether for photography or other reasons, require written permission from the president and CEO prior to use at RDU in accordance with Airport Rules and Regulations.
- The Airport Rules and Regulations shall take precedent over any and all rules referenced on this page, should they be in conflict.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will RDU Law Enforcement approach me if I have filled out the online notification form?
Possibly. While the online form is intended to provide RDU Operations and Law Enforcement with information identifying aircraft spotters at RDU, there may be times when Operations or Law Enforcement personnel need to reach out to spotters directly. Do not be alarmed – this is normal in the day-to-day operation of a dynamic environment like RDU. The safety and security of everyone at RDU is our number-one priority.
Where should I go to get the best pictures?
RDU authorizes plane spotting in two locations at the airport: Observation Park and the top of the ParkRDU Central garage between Terminals 1 and 2. Both locations offer great views of RDU’s airfield.
How can I get more information about aircraft activity at RDU?
Websites such as FlightAware.com can provide you with scheduled flight information. RDU also benefits from an active aircraft spotter community connected via social media, which allows spotters to engage with others actively involved in aircraft spotting at RDU.
How do I notify the Airport if I spot anything that seems out of the ordinary, or presents a safety or security concern?
RDU appreciates aircraft spotters notifying the airport of any unusual or potentially dangerous activity. Please contact the Raleigh-Durham International Airport Communications Center at (919) 840-7510 for non-emergency matters. For emergency matters, call the Airport Communications Center at (919) 840-2111, or dial 911.
Can I submit photos to the airport for official use?
We love sharing great aircraft photos on our website and with our social media followers, including on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Aircraft spotters may submit photos for consideration to email@example.com. Please include non-watermarked images along with how you would like to be credited for attribution. The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority reserves the right to use photo submissions for commercial and non-commercial usage with attribution. | aerospace |
http://trasksdad.com/PopsProgress/EventLog2.html | 2020-02-24T03:04:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145869.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224010150-20200224040150-00483.warc.gz | 0.964769 | 596 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__67542378 | en | |EAST MOOR||7/6/42||.||No. 158 Squadron established at East Moor. CONVERSION FLIGHT formed.||.|
|.||The Conversion Flight was established and flying training commenced at East Moor under S/Ldr. Wilkerson, D.F.C. There were still a number of aircrew however at Marston Moor who were carrying out their conversion training at the Station. The first night flying flight was made on June 17th and by that date the Squadron had reached an advanced state of training. Night flying practice was again carried out on June 20th.|
Fourteen aircraft carried out air to air firing with 1484 T.T.Flight from Driffield on June 23rd-24th.
|24/6/42||.||Demonstration of Halifax Dinghy Drill carried out.|
|25/6/42||.||Operations ordered for 14 aircraft. This included one aircraft from the Conversion Flight.
Weather :- Mainly cloudy. Risk of slight rain, otherwise fair. Visibility was over 10 miles except near towns.
Raid Nos. 188-198
Ops. Order No. 1
|26/6/42||.||Of the 14 aircraft detailed to attack BREMEN under Ops. Order No. 1 three failed to start owing to technical failures. Eleven took off for the raid but owing to 10/10ths. cloud over the Target Aea only one or two saw anything of the Target. A/C - "L" was badly shot up by an enemy fighter but managed to attack what is believed to be Oldenburg. It returned safely to base. A/C = "N" force landed in the sea off Scarborough owing to shortage of fuel. None of the crew was injured.
Altogether there were 1007 A/C and 53 Intruders operating.
Weather :- Mist patches locally at first otherwise fine, becoming fair to cloudy late this afternoon.
|27/6/42||.||Weather :- Mainly fair.|
|28/6/42||.||Air to Air Firing carried out over Filey Range. Weather :-Mainly cloudy with slight local rain or drizzle at first.|
|29/6/42||.||Training and Cross Country Flights carried out. One aircraft carried out a night cross country flight. Weather :- Mainly fair.|
|30/6/42||.||Four details were arranged for night cross country flights, but these were cancelled owing to bad weather at the last moment. Circuits and bumps were carried out. W/Cdr. P. Stevens, DFC. proceeded on 48 hours leave. S/Ldr. Hewitt assumed command. Weather :- Mainly fair or cloudy. Vis. :- 3-6 miles|
Back to Operations.
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http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/asem/2010/00000081/00000009/art00005 | 2017-06-28T11:55:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323604.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628101910-20170628121910-00672.warc.gz | 0.94122 | 605 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__17910598 | en | Aircraft Type and Other Risk Factors for Spinal Disorders: Data from 19,673 Military Cockpit Aircrew
Abstract:Hermes EDA, Webb TS, Wells TS. Aircraft type and other risk factors for spinal disorders: data from 19,673 military cockpit aircrew. Aviat Space Environ Med 2010; 81:850–6.
Introduction: Many assume that exposure to flight in high-performance aircraft (HPA) or rotary wing aircraft (RWA) increases the risk of spinal disorders compared to other fixed wing aircraft (FWA). However, this association has yet to be confirmed. This study explores the relationship between flight in different aircraft and the development of lumbar and cervical spine disorders. Methods: The flight records of 19,673 U.S. Air Force (USAF) cockpit aircrew officers were examined for entries with a spinal disorder diagnosis in an existing aircrew health information database. Univariate and multivariate analyses were employed to examine the association between aircraft type, other variables, and spinal disorders. Results: In stratified analysis of HPA and FWA, but not RWA categories, statistically significant unadjusted associations were observed between flight hours and cervical [HPA: odds ratio (OR) = 2.80, FWA: OR = 4.73] and lumbar disorders (HPA: OR = 2.46, FWA: OR = 3.01). After adjustment for birth year in a stratified multivariate analysis, these associations were no longer statistically significant. In all three aircraft types, statistically significant adjusted associations were observed between older birth year category and both cervical (HPA: OR = 3.82, FWA: OR = 5.88) and lumbar disorders (HPA: OR = 4.16, RWA: OR = 2.96, FWA: OR = 2.39). Discussion: The risk produced by exposure to HPA, RWA, or FWA as measured by flight hours may be overshadowed by that produced by birth year, which was the strongest predictor for spinal disorders in this study. Future endeavors should more closely examine the association between age and accrual of flight hours in various aircraft types in order to accurately direct preventive measures.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 2010-09-01
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https://lonelybrand.com/blog/nasa-social-media-marketing/ | 2023-09-23T08:04:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506480.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923062631-20230923092631-00459.warc.gz | 0.94464 | 434 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__147928479 | en | If you’ve been spending a lot of time on social media lately, you might have noticed an interesting trend. In addition to the usual puppy, baby, and meal pictures, more and more people are sharing science content. One of the main sources of the science content filling your feed is NASA. How does an organization comprised of supposedly stodgy scientists and engineers dominate social?
Here are a few ways that NASA does social media right.
As a 56-year-old organization dedicated to science and exploration, NASA has an enormous amount of truly unique content. Through social, NASA deploys content like pictures of the Earth taken from space, and video from Mars that is meant to inspire its fans. NASA taps into our aspirational nature as a way to engage fans and build awareness.
Genuinely Funny Social Media
The Mars Curiosity Rover has its own Twitter account, @MarsCuriosity, and if you aren’t following it, you really should. The Rover tweets funny posts about its travels on the Red Planet as well as pictures and video that it has taken. In this way, Curiosity has built up a following of 1.57 million people. Many brands try to be funny. Very few succeed. NASA, believe it or not, is one of them.
Being Everywhere They Need to Be
5.2 million likes on Facebook. 6.73 million Twitter followers. 410,560 YouTube subscribers. And that’s just for their main NASA accounts. NASA also maintains a number of specialized accounts. (Like the Curiosity Rover Twitter account.)Wherever they may have fans, NASA has a presence online. Wherever they have a presence online, NASA takes the time to develop a substantial, engaged following that would be the envy of any social media marketer.
In addition to developing their own incredible content, NASA works with other individuals and organizations on content that is of mutual interest. Stephen Colbert, Angry Birds, Star Wars, Star Trek- NASA has a ton of popular partners helping them make great content.
To learn about other science-related brands that dominate social media, click here. | aerospace |
https://progfu.com/lean-green-flying-machines-spread-their-wings-in-paris-heralding-a-transportation-revolution/ | 2023-12-10T17:54:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102612.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210155147-20231210185147-00037.warc.gz | 0.943975 | 1,290 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__316943747 | en | LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Just a dot on the horizon at first, the electric-powered spacecraft, astonishingly quiet as a bug, buzzes through Paris and traffic before landing him in a gentle downward hover with the Eiffel Tower, the city’s signature zinc-grey roof. So, if all goes according to plan, a new page in the history of aviation could be written.
years later Dreamy, but not always believable, tales of soaring, pollution-free skies. Electric taxis, the aviation industry is now gearing up to deliver the future that is just around the corner.
The Paris region is planning small electric flying taxis to operate on multiple routes when hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. next summer. Unless China’s aviation regulator It beat Paris to the punch by approving a pilotless taxi for two passengers under development in Paris. Germany’s Volocopter, an up-and-coming operator in the French capital, could become the first company to commercially taxi if approved by European regulators.
Volocopter CEO Dirk Hoke, former chief executive of aerospace giant Airbus, has VVIPs in mind as his first Parisian passengers. None other than Emmanuel Macron, President of France.
“It’s going to be pretty amazing,” Hawke said at this week’s Paris Air Show, where he and other electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) developers vied with industry heavyweights for attention.
“He believes in innovation in urban air mobility,” Hoke said of Macron. “That would be a strong signal for Europe to see its president blown away.”
But whether or not Macron is aboard, these pioneering first flights will be just a small step in a nascent industry that needs to take giant leaps forward before flying taxis drive their competitors off the ground.
Battery technology limitations Since they limit the range and number of paying passengers they can carry, eVTOL hops may not be short and cheap to begin with.
While the vision of simply expanding and surpassing city traffic is appealing, it also depends on advances in airspace management. The eVTOL manufacturer aims to deploy its fleet over the next decade on more niche routes and cities for luxury passengers, including French Liberia. But it takes a technological leap to keep flying taxis from colliding with each other, and everything else that is already crowding the skies or expected to pick up very large numbers of them, including millions of drones.
Archer Aviation Inc.’s Billy Nolen said they would start with existing helicopter routes first, “continue to expand using AI, and use machine learning to ensure the airspace can handle it.” Newark’s Liberty Airport in 2025. The Archer is a slick electric four-seater prototype that can be reached by train in under 10 minutes, or an hour in an old fashioned taxi.
Nolen was previously the head of the Federal Aviation Administration., a U.S. regulatory agency that was already working with NASA on technology to safely separate flying taxis during their tenure at the agency. Just as Paris uses the Olympic Games to test flying taxis, Nolen believes that the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will be It gives the industry another target to aim for, demonstrating that it is possible to fly more and more passengers safely, cleanly and cheaply.
“By 2028 we will have hundreds, if not thousands, of eVTOLs,” he told The Associated Press at the Paris show.
The hopeful “tiny” experiment using the Volocopter for the Paris Olympics is a “great one”. We salute them,” he added. “But after 2028, we will see full deployment in major cities around the world.”
But even at a time the industry describes as a revolutionary new era beginning in the city that sparked the French Revolution in 1789, some aviation analysts are not accepting the vision that eVTOLs will easily become an affordable, ubiquitous, and convenient alternative. Welcome to the not too distant future.
And even among the eVTOL developers who were optimistic about the industry’s prospects at the Paris show, some predicted that their competitors would run out of money before they even had a prototype on the market.
Morgan Stanley analysts estimate the industry will be worth $1 trillion by 2040 and $9 trillion by 2050, due to advances in battery and propulsion technology. Analysts say almost everything will come after 2035. This is because it is difficult to obtain new aircraft certification from US and European regulators.
Richard Aboulafia of AeroDynamic Advisory, an aerospace consulting firm, said, “The idea of mass urban traffic remains a glamorous fantasy of the 1950s.”
“The real problem is still that ordinary people like you and me do not have routine or exclusive access to $4 million vehicles. You and I can take an air taxi now. It’s called a helicopter.”
Nonetheless, the electric taxis that the Olympians fly through the skies of Paris are going to be faster, higher and stronger, so they can have surprising power. Volocopter hopes so.
One of five planned Olympic routes will land in the heart of the city on a refurbished floating platform above the Seine.. Developers point out that ridesharing apps and e-scooters have also given the impression that many customers are out of the ordinary. And, as with any such technology, some are betting that early adopters of flying taxis will entice others to try them too.
“It will be a whole new experience for people,” said Hoke, CEO of Volocopter. “But after 20 years, someone looks back at what has changed based on that and calls it a revolution. And I think we are on the edge of the next revolution.”
AP Aviation writer David Koenig contributed from Dallas.
More AP coverage of the Paris Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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http://corduroyplanet.blogspot.com/2012/01/quick-phobosgrunt-update-6.html | 2018-07-16T08:47:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589237.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716080356-20180716100356-00037.warc.gz | 0.908439 | 227 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__207430541 | en | I walked down the street a hundred yards, and stood in my neighbor's driveway where the forest gave way to a large swath of the Southwestern sky. At the appointed minute, the Mag.1.3 satellite came racing overhead. The spacecraft continued to the SSE, disappearing into the twilight. No twinkling, flashing, dimming or intensifying was observed. The probe seemed to be flying straight and true.
This morning, @ralfvandebergh tweeted a link to his astrophotographs on Space Safety Magazine that show Phobos/Grunt traveling in a low drag attitude. This is the favored attitude to avoid orbital decay, but in this configuration the solar panels don't track the Sun. The resulting lack of power generation must have bedeviled efforts to contact the spacecraft.
|Astrophoto: Ralf Vandebergh|
@PhG_Reentry tweets the latest reentry estimate: "Still tracking for 17 January ± 2 days solar flux still reducing"
CorduroyPlanet's Phobos/GruntWatch will go LIVE when the time comes...Stay tuned! | aerospace |
https://ugetube.com/watch/ukraine-update-oct-5-2022_fAgpUm8ekxJvsym.html | 2023-10-01T01:40:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510734.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001005750-20231001035750-00787.warc.gz | 0.940394 | 774 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__96862923 | en | Ukraine Update Oct 5, 2022
SITREP in Novorossiya and Donbass.
⚡️ Russian Aerospace Forces have neutralized the headquarters of Eastern Air Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) at south-western suburb of Dnepropetrovsk.
💥 Missile attacks have been launched at the concentration areas of the units from 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the AFU near Dvurechnaya, Petropavlovka and Kupyansk (Kharkov region) at Kupyansk direction.
◽️ The attacks have resulted in the elimination of up to 100 servicemen, including foreign mercenaries and 16 units of military equipment.
💥 Massive fire attack has been launched at the units from 66th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU and 2 provisional bases of nationalist groups near Torskoye at Krasny Liman direction.
◽️ The attack has resulted in the elimination of over 120 nationalists and 14 units of armored equipment.
💥 Missile attack launched at the manpower and equipment of 54th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU near Grigorovka at Lisichansk direction has resulted in the elimination of up to 90 servicemen, 3 tanks and 6 armored vehicles.
💥 Missile attacks have been launched at a munitions depot of 65th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU near Zaporozhye, as well as the manufacturing workshops for aircraft reparation at Motor Sich plant.
◽️ The attacks have resulted in the elimination of over 15 tons of ordnance, including projectiles for U.S.-manufactured HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, as well as 2 Ukrainian Mi-24 combat helicopters.
💥 Attacks launched by Russian Aerospace Forces at the units from 24th Mechanized, 17th Tank and 128 Mountain Assault brigades of the AFU deployed near Belaya Krinitsa, Arkhangelskoye, Lyubimovka and Zolotaya Balka have resulted in the elimination of 9 tanks, 12 infantry combat vehicles, 20 motor vehicles and up to 250 servicemen.
💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralized 5 AFU command posts near Kharkov, Kramatorsk (Donetsk People's Republic), Nikopol (Dnepropetrovsk region), Zelyony Gai (Kherson region) and Bereznegovatoye (Nikolayev region), as well as 43 artillery units, 157 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
◽️ 5 missile, artillery armament and munitions depots have been destroyed near Torskoye, Malinovka, Zhelannoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Dimitrovo (Zaporozhye region) and Shevchenkovo (Nikolayev region).
◽️ 1 Buk-M1 air defense missile system has been destroyed near Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
◽️ 1 radar for S-300 air defense missile has been destroyed near Aleksandrovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
💥 Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 Ukrainian Su-25 near Toretsky (Donetsk People's Republic) and 1 Su-24 of Ukrainian Air Force near Belaya Krinitsa (Kherson region).
◽️ 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles have been shot down near Rovenki (Lugansk People's Republic).
◽️ Moreover, 9 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MRLS have been destroyed in air near Kherson region
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http://inae.in/expert-search/index.php/v-narayanan | 2017-03-30T20:32:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218203515.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322213003-00516-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.761883 | 790 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__26289139 | en | Dr V NARAYANAN
Deputy Director- Cryogenic Propulsion Engines & Stage Entity & Project Director-C25 Cryogenic Project, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Thiruvananthapuram
Areas of Interest:
Design of Cryogenic & Semi Cryogenic Propulsion System Specifically Cycle analysis, Thrust & Mixture ratio control system design, start & shut off sequence development, Mathamatical modelling and Performance prediction, Engine level development & qualification plan finalization and Test data & flight data analysis. .
Cryogenic & Semi cryogenic Rocket Propulsion, Project Management for Cryo Stage Realisation
Propulsion Systems for Launch vehicles, Missiles and Air crafts .
Sector Associated With:
Sectors Interested to Offer Service:
Educational / Academic institutions, Industry (Private), Industry (PSUs), R&D Organizations, Government (including funding agencies)
Major Professional Contributions:
Joined (ISRO) in 1984 and worked in the solid propulsion systems for four years. For the last 28 years working in Cryogenic & Semi Cryogenic Propulsion Systems Development. Contributed in the experimental studies carried out on various cryogenic propulsion systems using Liquid Oxygen and Liquid hydrogen. Made significant contributions in the development of indigenous Cryogenic Upper stage engine for the GSLV MkII vehicle. Contributed in CE20 Cryogenic Engine design and development for GSLV MKIII vehicle. Also contributed in the design of high thrust (2000 kN) LOX-Kerosene semi cryogenic engine for future launch vehicles of ISRO. .
- Associate Vehicle Director (Cryo) GSLV-D5/GSAT-14 Mission
- Deputy Director-Cryogenic Propulsion Engines & Stage Entity
- Project Director-C25 Cryogenic Project,
- Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Thiruvananthapuram
* Cryogenic Propulsion Design
* cryo engine Mathamatical modelling & performance prediction
* Engine cycle analysis
* Engine start & shut off sequence development
* Failure analysis of Cryogenic Propulsion System
* Test data analysis.
Liquid Propulsion systems Centre,
Indian Space Research Organisation,
Thiruvananthapuram - 695 547
Phone : 0471-2567387
Mobile : 09446981119
Fax : 0471-2567712
- AMIE, Mechanical Engineering, 1987, Institution of Engineers
- M.Tech, Cryogenic Engineering, 1989, IIT- Kharagpur
- Ph.D, Aerospace Engineering, 2000, IIT- Kharagpur
Awards and Major Professional Recognitions
- "MC Joshi Award", National Cryogenic Council, 1999
- "Scroll of Merit" National Cryogenic Symposium, 1999
- "ASI Gold Medal", Astronautical Society of India, for outstanding contribution in Cryogenic Engine development for ISRO, 2004
- "ISRO Merit Award' for contribution in realization and static test of cryogenic upper stage, 2008
- Best technical paper award from Aeronautical society of india for the the paper presented in the National Propulsion Conference in the year 2012
- ISRO Professional Excellence Award in the year 2012
- ISRO team award for the successful flight testing on Indian Cryogenic stage, 2014.
- ISRO Team award for GSLV-Mk III Experimental mission in the year 2014.
- Leader of the team which was given the Team award for Indian Cryogenic Stage Development from High Energy Material Society of India (HEMSI) in the year 2014.
- The paper on CE20 Cryo engine development presented in IAC Toronto (Canada) in 2014 was selected as the best paper.
INAE Section Affiliated VII: Aerospace Engineering
Year of Election to Fellowship: 2015
Year of Birth: 1964 | aerospace |
https://www.simulshop.com/product/fsx-missions-klm-b777-300/ | 2023-12-03T18:44:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203161435-20231203191435-00290.warc.gz | 0.806686 | 1,002 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__75280843 | en | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands with headquarter in Amstelveen and hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group, and is a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. KLM was founded in 1919 amd it is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name. KLM operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to 145 destinations.
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https://nsjonline.com/article/2017/05/nasa-mission-to-sun/ | 2020-10-21T19:17:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107877420.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021180646-20201021210646-00164.warc.gz | 0.943321 | 577 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__29918198 | en | CHICAGO – In an historic moment at the University of Chicago on Wednesday, NASA announced that the U.S. will launch humanity’s first mission to a star. The Parker Solar Probe, named in honor of Dr. Eugene Parker, an American astrophysicist credited with developing the concept of solar wind, is scheduled to fly directly into our sun’s atmosphere next summer. “It’s a mission of extremes,” a video tells visitors to a website set up to allow the public to track the mission. “The space craft will plunge through the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, and fly closer to the sun’s surface than any spacecraft in history.” Over the course of seven years, the Parker Solar Probe will orbit the sun 24 times at speeds reaching 450,000 miles per hour. With gravitational assistance from Venus, each orbit will allow the probe to get a little closer to the sun. The final orbit is expected to swoop within 3.83 million miles of the sun’s surface, facing extreme heat and radiation at temperatures that well exceed 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Remarkably, the payload of the probe is expect to remain at room temperature throughout the mission.Parker, 89, joined NASA leaders on Wednesday to discuss the groundbreaking mission named after him. “The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before,” said Parker. “It’s very exciting that we’ll finally get a look. One would like to have some more detailed measurements of what’s going on in the solar wind. I’m sure that there will be some surprises. There always are.”According to the NASA website, the primary science goals for the mission are to trace the flow of energy and to explore what accelerates solar wind in order to help better predict space weather.The probe is on track for launch during a 20-day window that opens July 31, 2018. The mission is part of NASA’s “Living With a Star” program to explore aspects of our solar system that directly affect life on Earth.
DURHAM – President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs visited a local VA Hospital in North Carolina on Friday as part of a nationwide effort to improve patient care and seek […]
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https://trichyairport.in/srilankan-airlines/ | 2023-11-29T21:53:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100146.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129204528-20231129234528-00564.warc.gz | 0.838974 | 548 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__113144063 | en | About srilankan airline flights from Tiruchirappalli
- SriLankan Airlines is the only airline flying nonstop from Tiruchirappalli to Colombo.
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- The earliest flight departs at 09:40 from Tiruchirappalli and arrives at 10:40 at Colombo.
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Srilankan airline destinations in Tiruchirappalli
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Colombu Airport Contact :
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Bandaranaike International Airport,
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UL Policy for all destinations. Each piece of hand baggage must weigh no more than 7 kg and measure no more than a total of 115cm (l+h+w). In Economy Class, passengers are allowed one piece of hand baggage. In Business Class, passengers are allowed 2 pieces of hand baggage.
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1 Weight Concept – luggage rule provides a maximum total weight of luggage that must not be exceeded without paying an overweight baggage fee. For routings excluding destined to / from North, Central and South America (Applicable concept for baggage is weight concept). Majority of our flights are operated outside the North, Central and South American region and for those flights weight concept is applicable based on the International Air transport Association (IATA) regulations.
2 Piece Concept – luggage rules are when an airline allows a specified number of bags to be checked in, with specified size and weight limits for each bag. For routings destined to/from North, Central and South America. (Applicable concept for baggage is piece concept). In the North, Central and South American region SriLankan Airlines operate with code share and interline partners from and to USA and Canada. | aerospace |
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/person-injured-after-frontier-airlines-plane-evacuated/ | 2024-04-23T04:04:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818464.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423033153-20240423063153-00651.warc.gz | 0.953156 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__112690863 | en | OAN’s Abril Elfi
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A person has been injured after a Frontier Airlines plane had to be evacuated due to a “strong odor.”
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“Yesterday evening, as Flight 1759 was in the boarding process at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a strong odor was detected throughout the aircraft. As a matter of precaution, the captain issued an evacuation notice,” Frontier Airlines told FOX Business in a statement. “Passengers exited the aircraft via both the jet bridge and evacuation slides. Initial reports indicate that no visible smoke or fire was observed,” the airline added. “All passengers will be re-accommodated on alternate flights.”
Local reports stated that a passenger who evacuated the flight was transported to a local medical facility after suffering from minor injuries due to a fall.
One paganger told Queen City News that before the lights went out, they noticed an odor coming from the Airbus A321neo.
“We extend our sincere apologies and concern for those impacted and are investigating the cause of the incident,” Frontier Airlines also said, noting that the plane had 226 passengers onboard.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the crew “reported the smell of smoke in the cabin,” and it will be investigating the incident.
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http://www.duncanaviation.aero/airframe/global.php | 2015-10-04T09:08:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443736673081.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001215753-00197-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.821841 | 294 | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-40__0__55044810 | en | Bombardier Global Airframe Service & Support
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https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/nation-world/2013/05/11/spacewalk-planned-to-fix-station/9184571007/ | 2023-06-03T18:00:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649302.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603165228-20230603195228-00764.warc.gz | 0.95844 | 337 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__223808065 | en | Spacewalk planned to fix station leak
WASHINGTON — Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system of the International Space Station.
The leak in a cooling system was discovered Thursday when ‘‘snowflakes’’ of ammonia were seen flying away from the station. Engineers on Earth were up overnight plotting an impromptu spacewalk.
Spacewalks are rarely done on such short notice, but the space agency wanted to check out the leak before all the ammonia escaped and also to take advantage of a spacewalking crew member who is about to return home.
Officials emphasized that the six-member crew is not in danger and the outpost has plenty of power, even though the leak forced NASA to shut off the power channel from one of eight solar panels that supply electricity to the station.
It can operate fine with only seven electrical channels, space station program manager Michael Suffredini said Friday. Power from the affected panel was re-routed to the other seven systems.
Suffredini said the chief suspect for the leak is space junk hitting a cooling tube, but he said the area had a slow small leak for many years that suddenly accelerated on Thursday.
‘‘You’re talking a very, very, very small hole,’’ Suffredini said at a NASA news conference.
NASA hopes the leak is in a small pump box. During the six-hour spacewalk on Saturday morning, U.S. astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn will replace the 260-pound box with a nearby spare. | aerospace |
http://lists.herald.co.uk/pipermail/lois-bujold/2019-December/202894.html | 2020-04-06T07:21:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371620338.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20200406070848-20200406101348-00125.warc.gz | 0.959398 | 224 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__236428222 | en | [LMB] very OT: australia, was: Fanfic Ivan
wembleyware at gmail.com
Fri Dec 20 10:17:52 GMT 2019
With a total population of 24.6 million people, it boils down to cost. We share lots of facilities with the US and Canada as the fire seasons are during opposite times of the year.
> On 20 Dec 2019, at 6:05 pm, markus baur <baur at chello.at> wrote:
> but that is not an australian aircraft (it says coulson on its side and Coulson is a canadian company)
> which leads me to suspect that the fixed wing aircraft australia uses are all charted for the occasion (which tends to be more expensive and reduces reaction speed in case of an early fire season - it also reduced the amount of local area trainnig the aircaft crews can do and also interface training with ground crews, that having aircraft on station throughout the year would allow)
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http://www.ktoo.org/2013/09/18/new-private-spacecraft-set-for-mission-to-resupply-space-station/ | 2016-12-03T13:41:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698540932.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170900-00254-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.922326 | 170 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__26709484 | en | The SpaceX Dragon may have gotten there first, but Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft is set to become the second private robotic ship to dock with the International Space Station after a Wednesday launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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- Juneau police reported five people injured in a four-vehicle accident on Egan Drive at Fred Meyer.
- A state economist said the oil and gas industry is shrinking fast, but it could bottom out soon.
- Tlingit battle helmets were designed to inspire fear. The thick, wooden head armor carried imagery of strong warriors, fierce animals or revered ancestors.
- After loss of tax credit payments from the state and construction delays, a Cook Inlet oil company asks for help. | aerospace |
https://www.nruns.com/aktuelles-presse/unternehmensmeldungen/2013/09/19/nruns-professionals-auf-der-sec-t-conference-in-stockholm.html | 2014-04-19T09:24:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537097.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00653-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95135 | 492 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__157044839 | en | 12.-13.Sept 2013 Hugo Teso: Aviation Security - Ground Service Providers
Friday, 13th of September, 2013, Hugo Teso, a security researcher who works with n.runs professionals, the consulting part of n.runs AG, presented new findings regarding the aviation security research he has been conducting during the last years.
Following the research presented on April this year at HITB Amsterdam, Teso exposed during SEC-T conference in Stockholm an update on this topic focusing on the security vulnerabilities he found affecting the Ground Service Providers (GSP) that would allow him to establish two way communication with aircrafts worldwide, either in flight or on ground.
The GSP are companies that offer, among others, data link communication services to airlines and any other aviation industry related companies. Companies such as ARINC, SITA or Honeywell sell different data link services that can be accessed via all kind of modern interfaces. Web and mobile applications, desktops clients, servers or even cloud services are offered in order to gain customers and make their daily work easier.
Although those new technologies, when applied to aviation communications, can greatly enhance those companies workflow, they also expose all kinds of aviation technologies to a broad new range of attacks by connecting them to an inherent insecure environment such as Internet.
Teso highlighted those vulnerabilities during the SEC-T conference by analyzing some of the data link products of the main GSP. Vulnerabilities affecting those products were demonstrated and tools were used to illustrate how it is possible to exploit them in order to harvest valid credentials and use them to be able to contact airplanes worldwide.
The results of this new research, when applied to the previous findings, drastically decrease the complexity of a theoretical attack scenario against aircrafts. Previously to this work, a complex hardware and software environment was necessary in order to be able to establish communication with the airplanes. After applying the new vulnerabilities found to the existing framework, this environment is simplified by using common standard technologies such as web applications and mobile applications.
The addition of new, modern internet and mobile based technologies to the aviation industry can greatly increase efficiency and speed to aviation management processes, but those new technologies come with a new range of security issues that have to be carefully considered and secured prior to its deployment on production environments. Safety is not security, and although those new technologies can increase aviation safety, they dramatically increase insecurity if not implemented and handled in a responsible manner. | aerospace |
https://www.gaia.bb/content/construction-starts-civil-aviation-department-building | 2022-08-12T20:31:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00493.warc.gz | 0.907627 | 469 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__75219335 | en | Barbados Travel Protocols
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CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON A CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT BUILDING
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, April 04th, 2014 - A comprehensive restructuring of the Civil Aviation Department is in the works. It will see the establishment of two separate entities as part of government’s long-term plan for the department.
Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Richard Sealy, made this disclosure during the official ground breaking ceremony to commence construction of the new Civil Aviation Building at Charnocks, Christ Church recently.
The Minister said the regulatory entity will be a statutory organisation that will function as the Barbados Civil Aviation Authority; while the operational entity will remain under the purview of the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport, and “will consist of air navigation services together with the Barbados Civil Aviation Training Centre”.
The purpose of the restructuring, Mr. Sealy said, was to ensure that Barbados attained compliance with the International Civil Aviation Authority Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices contained in the 18 annexes of the Chicago Convention and the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) International Aviation Assessment Audit. The restructuring will pave the way for Barbados to move from the present Category Two to Category One status.
“This is a big part of what the international organisations are asking for. We can’t, in essence, have an entity regulating itself, so we had to do that separation. The Ministry has presented its case for upgrading and establishing, at the very least, key posts that will allow Barbados to fill these basic requirements of ICAO and also the Federal Aviation Administration, as we work towards a ‘full scale’ review to meet the expectations of ICAO and FAA as well as current trends in civil aviation,” Mr. Sealy added.
The new building, which is expected to cost over $10 million dollars, will be completed in 14 months.
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https://www.controldesign.com/management/workforce/news/11304332/florida-space-coast-consortium-welcomes-first-apprentices | 2023-11-28T17:31:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099892.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128151412-20231128181412-00314.warc.gz | 0.954792 | 727 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__136726294 | en | The Space Coast Consortium Apprenticeship Program is an industry-driven apprenticeship program led by a group of advanced manufacturing companies operating on the Space Coast. It recently formally welcomed its first nine students into the two-year program at a formal event attended by government and business leaders, including Governor Ron DeSantis, Frank DiBello, president and CEO of Space Florida, Dr. James Richey, president of Eastern Florida State College and Thomas Lichtenberger, CEO of Festo Didactic.
Kai Schmidt, HR Director, OneWeb Satellites (2nd from left); Thomas Lichtenberger, President & CEO, Festo Didactic (1st from right); Marshall Heard, President, SpaceTEC (3rd from left); and Governor Ron DeSantis (9th from left) were in attendance.
Under the program, student apprentices will attend classes at Eastern Florida State two days a week and will work on the manufacturing floors of participating companies, including OneWeb Satellites, RUAG Space, Rocket Crafters and Knights Armament, three days a week. By mixing classroom learning with on-site learning, students will graduate with real, immediately marketable skills.
The program will develop mechatronics technicians in the first cohort of the program and, in the coming year, strives to also develop fiber composite technicians and advanced CNC/DNC machinists.
Upon graduation, students will earn apprenticeship certifications, as well as a two-year associate degree from Eastern Florida State College.
The consortium approach to the apprenticeship program is the first of its kind in Florida and comes only weeks after Governor DeSantis visited the Space Coast to sign CS/HB 7071, a broad workforce education bill that includes a number of provisions enhancing apprenticeship programs in Florida.
The consortium was formed in 2017 by Kai Schmidt, human resources director of OneWeb Satellites and Bryan Kamm, founder and principal of Kamm Consulting, to address a shortage of highly skilled advanced manufacturing workforce on the Space Coast.
Having recently relocated to Florida from Germany, Schmidt says he understands first-hand how similar programs are critical to Germany’s manufacturing prowess.
Kamm likewise had experience with the German model and saw how it could not only help with his own mission to staff up technology company RUAG’s new Titusville factory but could benefit the region as a whole.
"The Space Coast is an area where the future is being staged in advanced manufacturing for commercial space, aerospace, aircraft and defense industries," said Kamm. "This area has seen its highs and lows during past space programs. Now, in order for these companies to supply their workforce with the technical skills required for the future, they are looking ahead to assure they remain competitive to build a more sustainable and stronger future economy."
In February, SCCAP received full approval from FDOE as a state-registered apprenticeship program and today will become only the second entity in the United States to implement Festo Didactics’ Mechatronics Apprenticeship Program Partners (MAP2).
"MAP2 expansion in Florida marks an important milestone for industrial education,” said Thomas Lichtenberger, CEO of Festo Didactic, North America. "We couldn’t be more proud to partner with SCCAP and Eastern Florida State College. The support and visionary implementation from Governor DeSantis and state legislators will catalyze Industry 4.0 career-readiness, giving students a competitive edge and critical exposure to jobs of the future."
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https://www.ruag.com/en/news/ruag-aviation-and-dassault-aviation-celebrate-25-years-mutual-success | 2020-09-19T05:53:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400190270.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919044311-20200919074311-00589.warc.gz | 0.930023 | 225 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__136642838 | en | RUAG Aviation is an Authorised Service Centre for virtually all types of Dassault Falcon aircraft. The company possesses the broadest range of type ratings of all Dassault Authorised Falcon Service Centres, offering a comprehensive range of solutions. These include maintenance, repair and overhaul services, exterior painting, cabin interior design and refurbishment as well as cabin and cockpit system upgrades and modifications.
In recognition of the longstanding partnership between the two companies, a ceremony was held at EBACE 2013 yesterday in which Dassault Aviation presented RUAG Aviation with an official token of appreciation.
“RUAG Aviation is proud of our strong bond with Dassault – while there are many challenges that can arise over 25 years, our relationship with Dassault has always been steady and mutually rewarding,” said Bernd Heinrich, General Manager Site Geneva, RUAG Aviation. “We look forward to many more years of further collaboration and mutual development.”
RUAG Aviation is a certified Part 21J EASA Design Organisation, Part 21G EASA Production Organisation and Part 145 EASA Maintenance Organisation. | aerospace |
https://storiescover.com/designer-bayraktar-showed-the-first-photos-of-the-new-model-of-the-drone/ | 2024-04-23T09:08:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00356.warc.gz | 0.934852 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__116793975 | en | Turkish designer, creator of a series of famous Bayraktar drones Selcuk Bayraktar shared photos of the new model.
Bayraktar Kızılelma posted the first pictures of the finished UAV on Twitter.
“The first photos of Bayraktar Kızılelma after painting,” Bayraktar wrote.
The new model of military drone, among other improvements, has a minimum runway length: the UAV is able to launch from the deck of a light aircraft carrier.
Bayraktar was created in the mid-2000s by Turkish designer Selcuk Bayraktar. These are made in Turkey. Equipped with radars, missiles, cameras. They work in the upper atmosphere, where most fighters do not reach. Bayraktar is considered a state-of-the-art weapon of the 21st century that no one can impress. It is these drones that cause the greatest damage to Russian mercenaries, destroying the most modern Russian weapons. | aerospace |
https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/propulsion-systems/info-ddc.html | 2019-10-23T08:11:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987829507.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023071040-20191023094540-00368.warc.gz | 0.919905 | 1,179 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__84447647 | en | a UDMH = Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine a UDMH = Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine the weight of the oxidizer carried. As shown by Equation (4.12a), the launcher weight ratio is only a function of the carried oxidizer-to-fuel ratio and the weight ratio is determined by the propellant combination. From the propellant combinations in Table 4.5, the value of Wfuel/OWE for the different rocket propellant combinations was calculated and given in Table 4.6. Note that hydrogen carries the least fuel per OWE. With an oxidizer-to-fuel ratio of 6, that means the propellant load is 7.3 times the OWE. The hydrocarbons are five times greater and with an oxidizer to fuel ratio about 2.35, the propellant load is 17 times the OWE. The hypergolic propellants propellant load ranges from 19 to 20 times OWE. From Table 4.6 you can see why one of the famous Russian rocket designers, V. P. Glushko, chose the room temperature liquid UDMH and N2O4 for Proton and the submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
The importance of this relationship is that with minimal information a reasonable estimate of the fuel and propellant weight compared with OWE is available. Hydrogen provides the least weight ratio to orbit. Because the density of hydrogen is low, the volume required is the greatest.
The weight ratio is decreasing because the oxidizer weight is decreasing as a direct result of the oxidizer-to-fuel ratio. So from Figure 4.23, using hydrogen fuel, an all-rocket engine can reach orbital speed and altitude with a weight ratio of 8.1. An airbreathing rocket (AB rocket) or KLIN cycle can do the same with a weight ratio about 5.5. A combined cycle rocket/scramjet with a weight ratio of 4.5 to 4.0, and an ACES has weight ratio of 3.0 or less. So an airbreathing launcher has the potential to reduce the mass ratio to orbit by 60%. It is clear that results in a significantly smaller launcher, both in weight and size, and presumably also less expensive. To achieve this operationally, the design goal must be, "reduce the carried oxidizer''. It is more difficult if not impossible to achieve this progression of propulsion systems with fuels other than hydrogen. Methane is a cryogenic fuel, but it does not have the thermal capacity to liquefy or deeply cool air, so the hydrocarbon equivalent of a LACE or deeply cooled cycle is not possible. Ramjet/scramjet engine are possible with most of the liquid fuels, although for hydrocarbons the decomposition into free carbon will limit the temperature, and therefore the maximum speed is limited by the hydrocarbon thermal decomposition.
Examining the operational regions for each cycle concept we can make several observations.
(1) Chemical rocket, air augmented rocket and ram rocket maintain essentially a constant oxidizer-to-fuel ratio, with the weight ratio to achieve orbit decreasing because of the increased thrust produced by the air ejector system. For a vehicle for a rocket OWE equal to 76 metric tons and assuming the OWE of other propulsion systems at 76 t (plus any differential weight for the propulsion system), the TOGW for the three systems is:
WR O/F TOGW Savingsa
Air augmented rocket 7.50
Ram rocket 6.50
a With respect to an all-rocket SSTO launcher.
For the same liftoff weight of 616 t the payload for the three systems is 7.0, 6.0, and 15.4 tons respectively. As is usually the case for the air augmented rocket, the increased system weight is not offset by the increase in thrust unless the oxygen in the secondary air is burned. For the ram rocket the payload is more than doubled. The ram rocket is not any kind of technology challenge, as many afterburning turbojet engines have ejector nozzles (such as the mentioned Saab J-35 Viggen). The ram rocket is a simple way to increase payload to orbit using the same rocket engine, or to reduce the size and cost of the rocket engines for a fixed payload.
(2) LACE rocket, deeply cooled rocket and cooled turbojet-rocket (KLIN cycle) are other propulsion system concepts that build onto the basic rocket engine for increased performance. This propulsion system creates an airbreathing rocket operating to about Mach 5.5. All of the hardware required for the thermo-dynamic processing of the air has been built in one form or another over the last 45 years. No differentiation in weight is made for the liquid air cycle versus the deeply cooled. Historical data suggests that these two systems are essentially equal in total system weight. One of authors (PC) saw a 1 m3 liquid hydrogen/air heat exchanger operate for 1 min at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1988 at outside air conditions of 38°C and 90% relative humidity without any water condensation on the heat exchanger tubes. The runtime was short because the container capturing the liquid air was overflowing and running down the ramp. So again this is not a technology issue, but (rather disappointingly) simply a decision-to-proceed issue. The KLIN cycle has the advantage of thrust for landing without the operation of a heat exchanger to provide the rocket with airbreathing capability. For a rocket vehicle with OWE equal to 76 metric tons and assuming the same OWE for other propulsion systems plus any system-specific differential, the TOGW for the two systems is:
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https://spark.iop.org/different-orbits | 2024-02-22T14:26:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473819.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222125841-20240222155841-00637.warc.gz | 0.917555 | 280 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__157143652 | en | Physics Narrative for 11-14
Geostationary and polar orbits
Satellites can operate in several different types of Earth orbit. A geostationary orbit is one in which the satellite is always in the same position with respect to the rotating Earth. The satellite orbits at an elevation of approximately 35 831 km, because that produces an orbital period (time for one orbit) equal to the period of rotation of the Earth (23 hour, 56 minute, 4.09 second).
By orbiting at the same rate, in the same direction as the Earth (synchronous with respect to the rotation of the Earth), the satellite appears stationary from the Earth's surface. The big problem with geostationary satellites is that there is only one distance from the Earth where they can orbit while maintaining the same position above the Earth's surface. Given that there are now over 22 000 satellites in orbit around the Earth, this geostationary orbit is getting highly crowded and there is great competition for space.
Other satellites are in polar orbits. On every circuit of the Earth, a polar satellite travels over both the North and South poles. Polar satellites do not remain above the same spot on the Earth's surface and the data they provide is usually only updated once per orbit as they pass across the ground control station on the Earth – approximately once every 90 minutes in most cases. | aerospace |
https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/blog/my-long-distance-relationship-with-spitzer | 2024-04-21T12:06:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817765.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421101951-20240421131951-00361.warc.gz | 0.964757 | 422 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__195076927 | en | By Nari Hwangpo | February 20th, 2020
About six years ago, I was fortunate to have been given a chance to join the Spitzer Operations team. I had two jobs on Spitzer: sequencing and flight control. At the time, I was also working as a systems engineer on other missions/projects, including the Near Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (NEOWISE) and the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) -- the Mars lander. Having multiple roles on a project was pretty rare at the time. They had a nickname for me, The Phantom, because I didn’t stay in one place for too long.
As a sequence engineer, I modeled sequences that are timed spacecraft commands containing all the spacecraft and ground activities. These sequences would get translated into an uplinkable form and would get radiated to the spacecraft by the flight controller, so I did both, which was extremely exciting.
Spitzer utilized three different Deep Space Network (DSN) stations that are located in Goldstone, California, Canberra, Australia, and Madrid, Spain. The stations would be determined depending on where the spacecraft was in orbit. I could never forget the nights where it would be just me and the spacecraft, sending and receiving data. You can say that Spitzer and I had a long distance relationship.
During my time on Spitzer, one of the memorable discoveries is the seven Earth-like planets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 system. This exoplanet system is about 40 light-years away and three are in the habitable zone where liquid water might be found.
I’m very grateful for my time on Spitzer. The knowledge and experience I’ve gained from this remarkable mission gave me other opportunities at JPL. Currently, I’m part of a new generation of engineers and scientists that will send the first spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The spacecraft, Europa Clipper, will investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life. | aerospace |
https://flyairshare.com.au/blog/ | 2019-10-22T06:43:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987803441.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022053647-20191022081147-00469.warc.gz | 0.905702 | 97 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__65552486 | en | The AirShare Blog: everything you need to know about scenic flights, helicopter rides and bucket list flying experiences. This is where to find all the latest information and hottest flight experiences across Australia! Find out the latest AirShare updates and plans in the pipeline.
Follow AirShare along the path to creating a ridesharing platform for scenic and point-to-point flights across Australia. The AirShare Blog features project updates and developments with insights as to movements in the General Aviation industry. | aerospace |
https://teg.com/case-study/lessor-aircraft-kits-doa-poa-collaboration/ | 2024-03-04T17:21:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476464.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304165127-20240304195127-00265.warc.gz | 0.962008 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__7331428 | en | Lessor – Aircraft Kits, DOA-POA collaboration
A lease transition was taking place which required interior modification to the aircraft. In the last few days of this transition, it transpired that the interior supplier did not send enough rod assemblies with the aircraft set. The new lease was due to take effect 4 days later. The airline and leasing company required this missing part to be delivered urgently so the lease agreement could proceed.
The Part 21(J) organisation involved in designing the modification approached TEG, seeking a rapid response. The DOA-POA Arrangement Agreement was signed, and work commenced immediately. The parts were delivered within the 4-day window.
TEG issued EASA Form 1 for the parts supplied. No delay occurred in the handover of the aircraft. It was a success for the lessor, DOA, and MRO. | aerospace |
http://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-responds-to-plane-crash-460-miles-off-pt-reyes/2015/08/14/ | 2017-04-29T21:25:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123590.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00544-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.959958 | 355 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__228079133 | en | ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Coast Guard is searching for the pilot of a plane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean approximately 460 miles off Pt. Reyes late Thursday night.
At 7:40 p.m. Thursday the 11th Coast Guard District received a report from the U.S. Northern Command that a civilian experimental type Lancair aircraft departed from Palmdale with one person aboard was not responding to communications, and was heading out to sea.
The 11th District issued a SafetyNet and an Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System alert to notify mariners of the situation and ask their assistance in locating the aircraft and its pilot. In coordination with NORTHCOM, the Coast Guard diverted an Air Force KC-135 and two F-16 aircrews along with a Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento aircrew in the search effort. The HC-130 aircrew observed the aircraft crash into the water at 10:39 p.m.
The F-16 crews were able to fly near the aircraft but could not get a response from the pilot. Later the HC-130 aircrew was approximately three mles behind the experimental aircraft when they observed it crash into the ocean at approximately 10:39 p.m.
The KC-135 dropped a sonar buoy, and the HC-130 aircrew dropped two self-locating data marking buoys and a life raft; however, all air crews have reported seeing no signs of the pilot.
The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Neptun responded to the AMVER alert and is currently assisting search efforts.
The Coast Guard is working closely with NORTHCOM and its AMVER partner vessels to locate the aircraft and its pilot.
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the incident. | aerospace |
https://www.ultracamp.com/info/sessiondetail.aspx?idCamp=162&campCode=GLS&idSession=426460 | 2023-12-05T05:22:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100545.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205041842-20231205071842-00752.warc.gz | 0.848319 | 95 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__13201903 | en | Are NASA engineers designing rockets with the best shape and structure? Follow their engineering process to decide for yourself! Create, build, and improve your own rocket designs, and have a BLAST!
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https://security.world/tag/echoguard/ | 2023-12-03T06:52:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100489.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203062445-20231203092445-00327.warc.gz | 0.925566 | 374 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__244143314 | en | Echodyne announced that its EchoGuard radar has been selected by Security Radar Integrators as its preferred 3D radar sensor for C-UAS security solutions. The radar is recognized in the industry as the best-performing sensor in its class and is a critical component for UAS detection, tracking, classification, and identification in multi-sensor systems. Echodyne’s breakthrough MESA™ technology delivers a high-performance radar in a compact, solid-state, commercially-priced format.
Echodyne announces that it has received approval from the FCC for widespread deployment of its EchoGuard radar for radiolocation and radionavigation in the United States. The FCC equipment authorization allows the radar to be used throughout the United States for ground and airspace surveillance applications that detect and track potential security threats with high accuracy and for ground-based airspace management applications that ensure safe navigation of commercial drone missions.
Echodyne announces the immediate availability of the EchoGuard Rapid Deployment Kit for surveilling borders, securing critical infrastructure perimeters and temporary events, and enhancing situational awareness. Echodynes innovative MESA™ technology and powerful software deliver the leading performance of electronically scanning array (ESA) radar in a compact, lightweight, solid-state format for the very first time.
Echodyne announced that its security radar, EchoGuard, has been selected by Black Sage Technologies, Inc. as the preferred radar sensor for mid-range C-UAS security solutions. The radar is recognized in the industry as the best-performing sensor in its class and is a critical component for UAS detection, tracking, classification, and identification in multi-sensor arrays. Echodyne’s breakthrough MESA™ technology creates a small ESA radar with high-fidelity data output with excellent range, detection and tracking accuracy. | aerospace |
https://zingstrom.wordpress.com/robert-m-engstro/ | 2022-12-09T08:02:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711394.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209080025-20221209110025-00308.warc.gz | 0.959281 | 174 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__249733788 | en | A graduate of the University of Arizona, he holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism, with honors. He was an editor for The Tombstone Epitaph, and owner/editor, reporter and photographer for The Casas Adobes Courier in Tucson.
A resident of Arizona who lived in the Florence area from 1975 until 2011, before moving back to North Dakota. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and grew up in Wahpeton, N.D.
As a professional aviator, he has more than 14,000 hours flight time in fixed-wing airplane types ranging from Piper J-3s to Douglas DC-3s, and a variety of turbo-prop aircraft. His flight experience includes research and development flying for geophysical surveys, parachute testing, military and civilian skydiving and parachute training, and television and movie work. | aerospace |
http://inventions.umich.edu/technologies/6205_software-for-modeling-material-response-to-heat-transfer | 2019-11-21T05:39:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670731.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121050543-20191121074543-00456.warc.gz | 0.809008 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__128817832 | en | The software provides the capability to analyze the response of a material to high levels of heat transfer.
The software is written in modular form, allowing great flexibility in simulating different materials and different geometries.
- Analysis of thermal protection systems of missiles
- Analysis of thermal protection systems of spacecraft entering planetary atmospheres
- Analysis of of thermal protection systems of rocket nozzles
- Flexible, modular software with many options
- Developed to interact with computational fluid dynamic (CFD) codes | aerospace |
http://j-access.in/aerospace-and-defense-industry/ | 2024-04-24T16:36:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819668.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424143432-20240424173432-00006.warc.gz | 0.91689 | 726 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__82941184 | en | The otherwise agile aerospace and defense industry has lately been facing challenges keeping up with the evolving digital landscape. Amidst the highly dynamic technology environment, the industry continues to grapple with operational challenges, including cost control, regulatory compliance, supply chain management, and implementation of digital strategies. Plural Technology serves this industry with its expertise in technologies like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), RPA, AI ML, Advanced analytics, IoT, Big Data. Here’s an overview of some of our contributions to the aerospace and defense sector.
Managing the complex and numerous product configurations across the aerospace and defense industry constitutes a significant challenge. PLM benefits the industry in various ways. Some of them we’ve worked upon include the below.
How PLM implementation significantly reduced costs for Multidisciplinary Missile Systems Laboratory
Digital twins help create virtual models of aircraft and defense systems to simulate their behavior and performance in various operating conditions. They prove advantageous across various critical dimensions of the aerospace space sector, including the following.
Simulate system behavior under various operating conditions and optimize the design accordingly.
Identify potential issues much before they surface, thus reducing downtime, increasing aircraft availability and enhancing safety.
Optimize aircraft performance by enabling operators to adjust settings and make changes per simulations that digital twins generate.
Provide realistic training and simulation scenarios to enhance safety, reduce training costs and provide employees with experience working under a safe and controlled environment.
AI, with its intelligence and capabilities can help aerospace players overcome various challenges and make significant improvements across multiple areas. Some of them include aircraft design optimization, increased fuel efficiency, improved supply chain management, better customer experiences, threat identification and many more. AI’s applications in aerospace will evolve with time, as the technology unfolds itself.
Like AI, ML will also have a unique role to play in bettering the aerospace industry. Some applications can include structural health monitoring, autonomous flight, enhanced flight control and navigation, satellite image analysis, and others.
As the aerospace industry moves towards automation and adopting more digitized solutions to increase efficiency, robotic process automation (RPA) will play a more valuable role. RPA can help expedite production, enhance product quality and ensure compliance through rule-based and smart bot-driven manufacturing. It can help aerospace players produce more and better in fewer resources.
Using big data analytics can help the aerospace industry benefit from the massive amount of data it generates. Furthermore, analyzing it can help reduce costs, enhance system efficiency, improve performance and augment safety standards. It can also contribute to better predictive maintenance, logistics planning and quality control.
The IoT is transforming aerospace by making flying safer, more efficient, and comfortable. IoT can help aerospace industry players achieve valuable insights into their operational performance, optimize various workflows and make informed decisions that help augment performance standards, fulfill customer needs and perform in a more competent manner.
Plural Technology brings extensive expertise in the deployment of state-of-the-art technologies to the aerospace and defense sector. Committed to leading digital transformation, our mission is to empower the industry by augmenting productivity and delivering tangible outcomes. Leveraging strategic implementation of advanced solutions, we are dedicated to elevating operational efficiency and driving innovation within the sector.
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https://www.gbtribune.com/news/local-news/education/great-bend-student-completes-kansas-cosmosphere-and-space-center-program/ | 2023-10-02T00:51:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510942.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002001302-20231002031302-00842.warc.gz | 0.930869 | 771 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__96985946 | en | Wyatt Smith of Great Bend, son of Craig Smith, graduated from Space 301 of Kansas Adventures in Outer Space (KAOS) June 11 at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. Wyatt will be entering grade 10 at Ellinwood High School this fall.
The week-long astronaut camp is for students entering grades 9-12 and emphasizes teamwork, leadership, and problem solving. Developed by Cosmosphere staff, KAOS is a nationally-recognized camp that motivates campers to seek careers in science or aerospace-related industries. This camp builds on knowledge gained from Space 101 and Space 201.
Space 301 campers spend two days at the Cosmosphere, then travel to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas for further training. While there, campers tour the former and current Mission Control Centers and Building 9, which houses NASA’s space shuttle trainers and the International Space Station mock-up. KAOS campers also tour the vacuum chamber and the Neutral Buoyancy Labs 6.2-million-gallon pool, where astronauts train for work in microgravity. Both of these facilities were used in the movie Armageddon.
Before traveling to Houston, campers train at the Cosmosphere in the 4-G Centrifuge and in the multi-axis trainer. The campers training at the Cosmosphere culminates in an advanced mission aboard the Cosmospheres Falcon III, the most realistic space shuttle simulator outside of NASA.
The centrifuge is a rotating device that tests peoples reactions to forces encountered during launch and reentry; the multi-axis trainer spins riders 360 degrees in multiple axes while simulating tumble-type maneuvers that could be encountered in spaceflight; the Falcon III simulates launch, orbit, satellite deployment, reentry and landing.
This is just one of the Cosmospheres educational camps. For more information about this or other camps, call the education coordinator at 800.397.0330, ext. 323, or visit www.cosmo.org. The Cosmosphere is located at 1100 N. Plum, Hutchinson, Kan.
The Cosmosphere offers camp programs for students as young as those going into second grade, and on through high school age. Camps are available for adults, including some for intergenerational learning that grandparents or parents as young as 40 can attend with their children or grandchildren. Camp experiences are also offered for groups, including schools who want a program designed just for them, and corporate team building. The Cosmosphere also has programs designed specifically for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Webelos.
The Cosmospheres Kansas Adventures in Outer Space (KAOS) (formerly the Future Astronaut Training Program) has five levels. Space 101 and 201 are held at the Cosmosphere and nearby areas; Space 301 is held at the Cosmosphere for two days and then at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas for two days; and Space 401 is held at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for all five days; Space 501 is open to all ages, including adults, and focuses on visits to commercial space facilities in California. For more information call 800-397-0330, ext. 323.
The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to Honoring the Past and Inspiring the Future of Space Exploration. Educating people from around the globe, the Cosmosphere boasts the Hall of Space museum, the most significant collection of U.S. and Russian space artifacts in the world; the Justice Planetarium, a dome-shaped classroom where attendants learn about astronomy; Dr. Goddards Lab, a live demonstration of early rocket technology; the Carey IMAX Dome Theater, one of the first ones built in the world; and a multitude of special events and programs. | aerospace |
https://vrzone.com/articles/not-sure-if-next-gen-airbus-a350-xwb-or-flight-simulator/16970.html | 2020-10-23T21:38:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107865665.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20201023204939-20201023234939-00324.warc.gz | 0.951228 | 592 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__117726331 | en | Airbus is slowly but certainly bringing the next generation aircraft to the skies. The A350 XWB flying prototype (MSN1) recently received its glass cockpit i.e. next-gen controls. The systems were fired on for the first time couple of days ago, with more information about the history slowly coming out.
Slowly but certainly, Airbus is working on completing the first flying prototype of its next generation aircraft, the Airbus A350 XWB (eXtra Wide Body). Right now, there are two aircrafts being assembled, one of which will never take on the sky, as it will be destroyed (static airframe, MSN5000). The second aircraft dubbed MSN1 should take flight at the beginning of 2013. Just like the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380, the development of A350 XWB isn’t going without a hitch. The company pushed back the entry into the service by six months so far, mostly due to mechanical issues.
We received a picture from Airbus SAS with the completed the work on the flight instrumentation deck and powered the system for the very first time. As you can see on the picture below, the progress on the cockpit is doing just fine. The plane maker decided to drop the multiple 10 inch flight deck of the Airbus A380 with a contemporary high-resolution 15" displays and change the system from 2004 to 2011-class hardware.
The displays are replaceable alongside with the computer system, reducing the cost should a system break down. Intersystem redundancies should prevent the sunshade cockpit, e.g. when glass cockpit stops operating due to a computer failure or a power outage (we've heard of few cases when the primary displays went offline and the crew was reduced to manual IFR – Instrument Flight Rules). Since its introduction in 1980s, there was around 50 or so reports that EFIS (Electronic Flight Instrumentation System) failed during flight, which is a miniscule amount when you compare to the over 20,000 planes with glass cockpit taking off and landing hundreds of thousands of times in a single day, transporting millions of people.
For those interested, these systems actually use components from PCs (yo won't find many aircraft-grade certified smartphone/tablet-class processors…for now), such as AMD or Intel processors, as well as graphics processors from NVIDIA and AMD. We have requested information from the systems manufacturer to receive more information about certified parts, given that previous generation used NVIDIA Quadro NVS (GeForce FX 5200-class, NV3X parts). Even though the NV3x class hardware (launched in 2002) was criticized in the PC world for high operating temperature and not substantial performance, industry-grade parts served perfectly as the replacement for 3dfx VSA-100 chips which were the first PC-originating graphics processors to end up in the airline industry.
Sometimes, delays are a good thing. | aerospace |
http://m.4029tv.com/news/Sheriff-Plane-makes-emergency-landing/17371514 | 2014-07-31T05:53:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510272584.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011752-00428-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.970779 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__167941108 | en | Sheriff: Plane makes emergency landing
Updated On: Nov 12 2012 11:37:31 AM CST
Crawford County Sheriff Ron Brown said a plane took off from the Fort Smith airport and made an emergency landing shortly after reported problems.
Brown said the pilot landed on Highway 59 near Barling.
Arkansas State Police are at the scene of the incident. Police said that once the plane is inspected by officials with the Federal Aviation Administration the highway will be closed down for the plane to take off.
Brown says no one was injured in the emergency landing.
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https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/travis-air-force-crews-on-standby-to-help-with-hurricane-florence/103-594844800 | 2020-11-25T20:14:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141184123.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20201125183823-20201125213823-00306.warc.gz | 0.932612 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__84189646 | en | Four Critical Care Air Transport Teams stationed at Travis Air Force Base are currently on standby to head to the East Coast.
"Like an ICU in the sky, CCATTs assist in transporting critical patients to higher levels of care," according to the Travis Air Force base Twitter account.
Crews will be transporting a mobile medical facility to Scott Air Force Base in Southern Illinois.
They'll also be on standby to offer medical evacuation aid to victims injured during Hurricane Florence.
United States military crews can treat patients in the air and deliver them anywhere in the world within 18-hours. | aerospace |
http://everythingexperiential.businessworld.in/article/Being-a-pilot-in-these-uncertain-times-Raghav-Pandey-Air-Asia-Captain/10-08-2020-307057/ | 2020-09-25T01:58:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400221382.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924230319-20200925020319-00149.warc.gz | 0.964655 | 1,766 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__1575901 | en | Being a pilot in these uncertain times: Raghav Pandey, Air Asia Captain
It is definitely the toughest time for the airline industry and its employees since the time aviation is used for commercial activity, writes Pandey.
Being an airline pilot for the last 10 years. My pilot journey started back in 2008 when I went to San Francisco California for my pilot training. Back then I was a young 18 year old full of energy ready to start training for my dream job of an airline pilot. I started my training on a Cessna C-172 which is the most famous trainer aircraft in the world. Little idea I had about this pilot training but one thing I had already imagined to be in that airline pilot uniform and fly the big jets.
My training took approximately 8 months to finish and I obtained my American FAA commercial pilot license. Next step was to fly back to India and obtain Indian CPL after clearing a few exams like navigation, meteorology & air regulations which makes you eligible to apply for airlines in India and join as a first officer so-called co-pilot.
Though the recession of 2008 already started to show the effect on Indian market, there were negligible amounts of jobs for a fresh pilot without any previous experience. Thanks to Indigo’s order of 100 + 180 Airbus jets I was hired as a junior first officer in 2011. After that there was no looking back in my airline pilot career.
After a few thousand hours of experience on airbus modern jet I became a commander at the age of 24 on an Airbus A-320. It was a dream come true for me to become a captain at such a young age.
I was flying the most modern 100 million dollar jet for my living. Flying to domestic & international destinations where I have never been before. The best part about flying is the bird eye view of cities, mountains, rivers, oceans, international borders, MT Everest and many more beautiful scenic views.
Airline pilot’s life is very different from any person with a ground job or any 9-5 job. Over here I will just speak out of my experience which is 9 years as airline pilot in Airlines in India and total of 13 years in aviation.
So let’s come to what are the good things and bad things related to this profession, positives and negatives.
Let me start with the points of which are critical for an aircraft pilot:
1. It is a high risk job. Definitely it is. Any mistakes made there are no retakes. Any kind of error on pilots' part which is also commonly known as pilot error directly affects the safety of the passenger, crew and the freight and other human life and infrastructure around.
2. It is also one of the most stressful jobs in the world. Google searches for the most stressful jobs in the world, and an airline pilot Job will pop up in top 3. Reason is that you are incharge of a very advanced and sophisticated machine with a few hundred lives at 36000 feet and the complete responsibility is vested in you.
Whether it’s increasing air traffic and maintaining a proper distance with other airplanes, avoiding large weather cells which are every year becoming more unpredictable due to global warming, new age drones. I remember well, a few years back there was a drone spotted near the airport and I was about to take off waiting on the runway in Delhi when the complete Delhi airspace was shut down for a good 45 minutes. I had to shut down both engines on the runway as the delay was not determined. After the Indian airforce cleared the airspace for operation we got permission to takeoff.
Every takeoff and landing is different for the reason the ever changing weather patterns, wind conditions, wind shears, rain, busy airfields, bird activity, bad visibility and so on, the list is exhaustive. Fun fact-- the time when we start the engines till 10000 feet after takeoff and while coming in for landing from 10000 feet till the engines are shut, this period is called sterile cockpit. That means nobody disturbs pilots during those times as the workload is the highest and it's a very critical time too.
3. Learn to stay away from your loved ones. The nature of the job always keeps you on the move. For the last one decade, I have hardly spent any festivals at home with my family. You have to plan your complete year well in advance as your life depends on monthly flying rosters.
4. Your sleep pattern goes for a toss because today you can be flying a very early morning flight, tomorrow maybe afternoon and next day even an all-nighter, in aviation terms called red eye flights. Due to this ever changing routine comes health problems. So you have to really take care of your health on priority. The best I do to maintain that is a good balanced diet and my gym workouts without giving it a miss.
I think these are the major drawbacks of this profession. Now let’s come to the exciting part. The good part about an airline pilot profession:
1. That amazing feeling of flying. That feeling of being at control of a powerful jet engine aircraft. It’s a very different feeling all together. Not like most of the other jobs in the world. Personally speaking when I fly I forget about all the worries of the world and my complete attention is towards the joy of flying and of course with responsibility which goes without saying. And of course who doesn’t love pilot uniforms. The respect comes from within.
2. Also a good part about this job is the money. You are paid quite decently as compared to any other profession, especially the starting salary and the growth is also fast thanks to ever growing Indian aviation and world aviation markets. World is becoming a small place with more people wanting to travel and so many airlines serving that purpose. You can have a good lifestyle very early in your life which is also a dream for a lot of young professionals.
3. People generally spend a good chunk of their money on travelling. Myself being a pilot is actually paid by the airlines for travelling the world. And also your immediate family members get the benefit or discounted tickets.
4. Last but not the least, who wouldn’t enjoy the bird eye view of the world from their office. I always tell the young pilots who fly with me that it’s more than 10 years in this profession I still enjoy everyday as much as I did back then. Every takeoff and landing is different and exciting. Beautiful uninterrupted views of sunrise, sunsets,mountains, beautiful weather phenomena, oceans, waterfall it’s all so beautiful.
So coming to the global Pandemic Covid-19 and how this has affected the aviation industry in India and around the world.
As we are all aware that airlines all around the world have taken early and the biggest impact from Covid-19 Pandemic.
Lot of airlines have already filed for bankruptcy, a lot of airline employees have already lost jobs and a lot of them have been put on leave without pay.
There have been salary reductions throughout the industry.
Reason is simple: Aviation has always been a difficult industry to make profits due to expensive turbine fuel cost, cost of aircraft lease, airport and parking charges, heavy cost of training of employees and competitive pricing of ticketing with the entry of low-cost airlines players.
Specifically talking about Indian aviation the airlines in India have not been flying passengers for the last 60 days approx due government guidelines during lockdown.
Airlines will only make money when these aircraft are in air with passengers and cargo. For an airline there is no option of work from home ( on a lighter note ).
With the new norms in place for social distancing, I doubt that you can fill up the aircraft to its maximum capacity with passengers. And to make profit in a particular sector, you need a certain amount of occupancy, below which you will rather make a loss.
It is definitely the toughest time for the airline industry and its employees since the time aviation is used for commercial activity.
International borders have been sealed and the tourism industry has taken the biggest downfall. The only hope for Indian aviation is that India domestically has a very large passenger traffic, if we are able to resume daily domestic flights with limited restriction, and some help from the government, there is a chance of revival. For international airlines like Emirates, Qatar, Etihad, etc there all the flights are to international destinations which will depend on the countries whether they will open the airspace for international airlines or not.
The situation for airlines and tourism all around the world will start to improve only after antidote / vaccine for Covid-19 is found.
Around The World | aerospace |
https://amyshirateitel.medium.com/america-spying-with-the-corona-satellites-d1d9a6e0e1f?source=post_page-----d1d9a6e0e1f-------------------------------- | 2021-06-19T02:10:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487643380.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20210619020602-20210619050602-00287.warc.gz | 0.963873 | 6,479 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__62071415 | en | After Gary Powers’s U-2 was downed on May 1, 1960, it became impossible for the United States to continue photographing the Soviet Union. But the need for Soviet intelligence didn’t change — it remained paramount to American national security to know what was happening beyond the Iron Curtain. Luckily for the United States, there was a new technology ready to take over the job of aerial reconnaissance within months of the Powers’ Incident: the Corona spy satellites.
This is part of my Cold War aerial espionage series. Part 1 about the U-2 plane’s genesis is here. Part 2 about the political challenge of deciding to fly it is here. Part 3 focussing on the Gary Powers Incident is here.
Eyes in the Sky
The Second World War saw rocketry mature as a technology, namely with the V-2 program in Germany. In the immediate post-war years, both the United States and the Soviet Union imported V-2 scientists to harness the new knowledge. The United States managed to import some of the German program’s foremost minds, including Wernher von Braun, who brought literal train cars full of V-2 parts and plans stateside with him. American engineers were thus able to rebuild the V-2 while learning about the technology, and in 1946, a team at the White Sands Proving Ground launched one carrying a camera. That V-2 captured the first image of the Earth from space. Photography from above the atmosphere was somewhat literally on the horizon. That same year, the RAND corporation undertook a feasibility study of orbiting satellites for data collection.
Rocketry became a primary technological focus in the United States in the late 40s and into the 1950s, and most of the funding came in developing this technology for national defence. The emphasis was on developing Intermediate-Range and Intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to points around the globe, essentially building up an arsenal against potential aggression from the Soviet Union. This work led to three notable programs: the Redstone IRBM being developed by Wernher von Braun’s team now at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, the US Air Force’s Atlas ICBM, and the Navy’s Vanguard sounding rocket.
While the military branches pursued various missile programs, RAND continued to study and develop the idea of reconnaissance satellites. In 1953, the program was transferred to the US Air Force’s Air Research and Development Command, bringing the idea firmly under the military umbrella. It was good timing. Almost coincident with the Air Force taking over the satellite program, the Air Force’s Scientific Advisory Board gave the Atlas missile a high priority status. The Atlas’ development had implications for satellites: if the missile could carry a warhead across the ocean, it would also be powerful enough to carry something smaller into orbit. In essence, the thrust to send a warhead across the Earth could be harnessed for an orbital trajectory with a less massive payload. The same could be said of the Redstone and Vanguard rockets, too — both could theoretically carry payloads into space.
The link between missiles and spaceflight found various outlets, but the one we’re interested in for this story comes in 1955 when General Operational Requirement №80 gave the objective of providing continuous surveillance of preselected areas of enemy territory. The idea of a satellite surveillance program fell under the Air Force’s Ballistic Missile Division.
Two years earlier in the fall of 1953, the CIA had begun pursuing a high-altitude reconnaissance plane. The Air Force officially taking on a satellite program now marked a shift in overhead reconnaissance in the United States.
The State of the Art
Traditional forms of espionage using human operatives became impossible after the Iron Curtain came down, shutting off communication with Eastern Europe. What WWII-era photography the Americans had was badly outdated. Better intelligence was necessary to manage the mounting Cold War, and the only way to look past the Iron Curtain was to go overtop of it. If a plane could fly high enough to avoid radar detection, which would also put it well out of range of intercepting missiles, it could fly into Soviet airspace to photograph missile and bomber sites without being seen.
That plane was the U-2. It was designed by Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed team to be invisible and invincible, but came with a time limit. Even before the plane started flying, CIA program managers knew it was only a matter of time before this cutting-edge technology became obsolete. Including Special Assistant for Planning and Coordination, Richard M. Bissell, the CIA’s leading advocate of technical over human intelligence gathering. He gave the U-2 two years of overflights before the Soviets would know enough about it to build defences against it.
The U-2 didn’t get two years of invisibility. It didn’t even get two flights. Hervey Stockman left the base in Wiesbaden on July 4, 1956, and flew over Poznan, Poland, Belorussia, then headed north towards Leningrad before flying over the Soviet Baltic states. Carmine Vito followed a similar path the next day but flew further east, going more than 200 km past Moscow. Soviet radar picked up both flights almost immediately, and though it seemed the Soviet fighters couldn’t track the U-2s well enough to intercept them, the plane was no longer a secret.
That same month — July 1956 — the Air Force approved a satellite development program called Weapons System (WS) 117L. Four months later, the prime contract was awarded to the Lockheed Missile and Space Company.
WS-117L to Corona
WS-117L was originally conceived as a program to explore and implement reconnaissance satellites for national security. The idea was to house various electronic intelligence (ELINT) and imagery intelligence (IMINT) setups within a single system housed in the Lockheed upper stage that eventually became known as the Agena. And unlike the U-2 program that returned film to be developed then analyzed, WS-117L aimed for near-realtime data with the E-1 and E-2 systems. The best available technology at the time was television cameras, but they were too slow to image anything from orbit properly. To bypass the lag of TV cameras, the E-1 and E-2 systems used a regular film camera to photograph sites of interest from orbit. That film would be stored and developed on board the Agena, and once processed, scanning cameras would image the film and relay the images back to Earth.
Like the U-2 program, WS-117L gave Eisenhower pause. Though he was keen on a technology that would return intelligence without violating Soviet airspace, he was also keen to keep the military out of space.
Eisenhower’s resolve on this point was strengthened after the Soviets launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The small satellite beeped from orbit, but it raised fears among the American people that the Soviets were spying from space. Experts knew the satellite itself was harmless and that the real worry was the R-7 launch vehicle’s power. The R-7 that launched 184 pounds into orbit could launch something heavier across the Earth, like a nuclear warhead from Russian to the United States. Sputnik pushed America’s nascent space efforts forward and also bred fears over the Soviet’s missile powers. The question had been over the bomber gap when the U-2 started flying. Now it was over the missile gap.
U-2 overflights were ongoing when the President’s Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities sent its semiannual report on October 24, 1957. It listed two technologies then under development to gather data on Soviet technologies: a new manned high-altitude plane with a smaller radar cross-section than the U-2 and an unmanned reconnaissance satellite system.
Eisenhower gravitated to satellites over continued overflights. On October 28, he asked Secretary of defence Charles Wilson and Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles for a status report on this nascent technology. The report ended up being a verbal one to avoid any written records falling into the wrong hands, and in the months that followed, more in-person meetings shaped the program. Major players agreed that the WS-117L photographic subsystem represented the best chance of success and should thus be separated into a standalone program called Corona. While early talks were still underway, a new agency joined the discussion. The Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPA — which is the precursor to modern-day DARPA — was established on February 7, 1958, and was immediately granted authority over military space projects.
An ARPA directive on February 28 and the CIA’s assuming responsibility for security arrangements around WS-117L in March finalized Corona’s separation. It was now a program to develop a mid-sized satellite that would launch on a Thor-Agena stack; Thor would be first stage and Agena the second stage that would also house the imaging system. Like the U-2, it was officially a joint CIA/ARPA/Air Force program, though it developed into more of an ARPA/CIA program with Air Force support. Special Assistant to DCI Allen Dulles for planning and development, Richard Bissell, and Brigadier General Osmond Ritland were the prominent management voices representing the CIA and US Air Force respectively. From the start, the program was marked by civility. None of the organizations involved wanted credit; they all just wanted to get the job done. WS-117L, meanwhile, lived on under the Air Force umbrella.
Corona took shape as it developed into a dedicated, standalone program. One of the first things to go was the goal of near-realtime imaging. While scanning the photographs was viable, relaying them to Earth was not. The bandwidth for this transfer was beyond the limits of technology at the time. So planners started considering an alternate method. The near-realtime goal became a separate project called SAMOS. Corona took shape as a stop-gap while technology caught up, and the interim solution was physical film recovery.
With this decision made, planners focussed on the actual spacecraft. In March of 1958, Lockheed presented a spin-stabilized football-shaped payload design to its counterparts — the CIA, the Air Force, the Ballistic Missile Division, General Electric, and Fairchild, the company building the camera. But the arrangement soon changed. The Itek company was building a new camera that Bissell was more excited about than the Fairchild design, even though it eschewed the spin-stabilization system for a 3-axis stabilization system. Bissell eventually changed Corona’s camera system, abandoning Fairchild as a contractor. To lessen the financial blow, Fairchild was brought on as the subcontractor to Itek.
The camera hardware was designed to be part of the Agena, meaning the stage had to alter its attitude to point the camera at its target. As the film was exposed, it would spool into an onboard bucket, properly called the reentry vehicle. Once the full load of film was exposed and spooled, it was time for reentry. The Agena would pitch down through 60 degrees to put the satellite in retrofire orientation. The retrorockets would fire, then the satellite recovery vehicle would separate from the Agena. Spin-stabilization rockets would maintain the recovery vehicle’s attitude as it fell through the atmosphere, through the retro-rocket thrust cone separation and heat shield and parachute cover deployment.
Once the recovery vehicle reached thick enough atmosphere, the drogue parachute would deploy, followed by the main chute that would slow its fall in a designated recovery area over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. And here’s where the decision to recover the film gets really tricky. To avoid the film falling into the wrong hands, the primary recovery method called for a pilot to fly a C-119 or a C-130 aircraft over the top to descending capsule and snag the parachute or its shrouds with a trapeze-like hook suspended below the fuselage. If the pilot missed, the recovery vehicle was designed to float long enough for backup crews to fish it out of the water, but not so long that a foreign ship could find it. The capsules would eventually sink, burying the intelligence with them.
In theory, this recovery method was simple, but it proved difficult in practice. When the 6593rd Test squadron practiced catching descending payloads mid-air, pilots only recovered 49 of the first 74 drops. A different type of parachute saw four out of 15 drops recovered. Eleven drops with yet another kind of chute saw only five recoveries. Regardless of the parachute type, the recovery rate was low, but that wasn’t all. On average, it took one-and-a-half passes to snag the chute, which meant even the successful recoveries weren’t smooth. Issues were chalked up to crew inexperience, but the canisters’ fast fall rate made it a hard method to learn. Still another kind of chute was eventually developed with a slow enough sink rate for a reasonable chance of air recovery, bringing some reliability to the method.
The in-flight and recovery sorted, the final program consideration was getting Corona into orbit. For the Corona satellites to cover Soviet territory, they needed to launch into a near-polar orbit, which meant the missions couldn’t start at the Air Force’s Cape Canaveral launch site that was perfect for equatorial launches. The best launch location for Corona turned out to be near Arguelo, California, a site that not only facilitated polar launches, rockets launching southward went safely over the Pacific Ocean. It was great for range safety. The location was perfect, but the site didn’t exist. A new facility would have to be built at Cooke Air Force Base, which was renamed Vandenberg AFB in October of 1958. There was only one lingering challenge with the launch location: the Southern Pacific railroad passed close to the base. The workaround was setting launch windows around the train schedule, even if it meant a break in rail traffic was just a few minutes.
These major decisions made, Corona’s final configuration was sent to White House Chief of Staff Andrew Goodpaster on April 16, 1958. He passed it to Eisenhower, who approved the program; the official record was a handwritten note on the back of an envelope taken by General Charles Pearre Cabell, the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.
Hiding in Plain Sight
The last challenge was figuring out the cover story for Corona since there was no way people wouldn’t notice rockets flying over the California coast.
The WS-117L program wasn’t a public secret; it wasn’t openly talked about, but it wasn’t highly classified, either. Managers knew linking Corona to WS-117L at all would both draw unwanted attention to the government reconnaissance programs and reveal the satellite’s true nature. The solution lay in the nation’s very public space program. On December 3, 1958, a press release announced the Discoverer and Sentry programs, which were Corona and SAMOS, respectively. The public was told that both programs would be exploring space, environmental conditions, and launching biomedical specimens, and that ARPA would participate by developing radiometric payloads. Corona was thus disassociated from Sentry/Samos and protected by Discoverer.
With all the pieces falling into place, the first Corona design review came on May 14, 1958, and the design was frozen on July 26. Already the first launch tentatively on the books for mid-1959. As part of the lead-up, the Vandenberg launch site was finished. This Air Force operational missile training site became home to the 672nd strategic missile squadron working specifically with the Thor missiles. Manufacturing and other program personnel were all moved to the area as they prepared to launch from California and recover the film near Hawaii.
Getting off the Ground
The Thor-Agena program supporting Corona got off to a rocky start, which was par for the course for rocketry in the late 1950s. But even for the 1950s, Corona had a lot of growing pains.
On January 21, 1959, the first Thor-Agena mission, and the first launch from Vandenberg, was aborted t-minus 60 minutes. Power was applied to test the Agena’s hydraulic system, triggering the explosive bolts connecting it to Thor boosted. The ullage motors fired, and the Agena settled into its fairing, sustaining significant damage. This failure was never given a formal designation — much like how the Soviets hid their launch failures with non-consecutive mission designations.
That was the first of many problematic attempted launches. By the end of 1959, the program had experienced one misfire, three orbit insertion failures, two high eccentric orbit, one premature ejection, three partial or complete camera failures, one retrorocket malfunction, one temperature failure in the payload bay, and failures of both the camera and the capsule return method. These specific failures were all symptomatic of larger, more serious issues that would continue to affect the program if left unaddressed. A Corona panel finally met to discuss the extensive list.
The launch profile explained the orbit insertions problems. The Thor-Agena stack demanded the Thor burn all its fuel rather than having the engine cut off at a predetermined pointed velocity. This inaccurate profile introduced the potential for trajectory variations that could compound when the Agena fired. A more powerful Agena with lighter instruments would help remedy the problem, but in the meantime, engineers had to literally shave off weight with a file and tin snippers to keep the stack’s mass low enough for the correct launch profile meant.
One issue behind the camera failures was the film. It was designed to operate in an unpressurized cabin, a decision made to save weight, but the vacuum caused the acetate base film to tear, which in turn caused the camera to jam. A new, more durable polyester film solved that problem. Cabin temperature was another cause of camera failure. Again to keep mass down, the camera’s cabin was heated purely through passive thermal control — the Sun provided natural heating. But it wasn’t stable; early missions saw a huge variety of inboard temperatures. An interim solution with a minimal weight penalty was adding thermal paint.
The spin stabilization rockets explained problems with the capsule’s return: they tended to explode rather than fire. Changing to a cold gas system promised to solve the problem. A more challenging problem to solve with recovery was getting the recovery vehicle to come down in the recovery zone. A one-second delay in firing the retrorockets translated to a five-mile difference in landing site, and that was a huge error when a pilot had to snag the falling payload’s parachute.
Adding to the Corona team’s mounting stresses in solving these issues was the Navy’s success with its own satellite program. On June 22, 1960, the Navy launched a successful Galactic Radiation Background Experiment — GRAB — satellite that carried an electronic intelligence or ELINT system that gathered information on Soviet air defence radars. Corona, meanwhile, needed “qualification, requalification, and multiple testing of component parts” before more missions could resume, but there was no question of cancelling the program. Problems aside, the satellites were getting into orbit, and while GRAB could detect radar, it couldn’t photograph airfields or missile locations.
To give the Corona research and development team time to solve the bevy of issues, a stand-down was in effect from November 20, 1959, to February 4, 1960 when the ninth Discoverer mission launched. This one also failed to achieve orbit.
Discoverer 10 launched on February 19, 1960, and though it was the first time film was recovered from a mission, it was in a way that made no one happy. The Thor booster fishtailed and was destroyed by range safety after 52 seconds. The payload was picked up nearby by a crew in a jeep. By April 1960, there had been eleven launches in and not a single success, forcing another stand down to make time for more troubleshooting. The next mission, a diagnostic flight for Discoverer 12, saw the Agena fail to reach orbit.
The need for viable intelligence increased as the failures piled up. As the Soviets launched increasingly sophisticated and heavy payloads, fear over the nation’s missile arsenal increased. The perceived missile gap took centre stage in 1960, becoming one of the key points in the Presidential race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Meanwhile, President Eisenhower decided to take a decisive step and authorized an audacious and extremely risky U-2 Soviet overflight.
That flight took off early in the morning on May 1 ended with Gary Powers’s U-2 being downed deep over the Soviet Union. Soviet overflights were officially finished, and there was still no information about the nation’s true military capability. GRAB satellites couldn’t image missile installations. The Sentry system was still under development but far in the future. Corona had to work.
Discoverer 13 launched on August 10, 1960, a repeat of the diagnostic flight, and it all finally worked. Almost. The capsule came down outside the primary recovery area and was out of the ocean, but it was nevertheless a tremendous win for the program. The mission was widely celebrated under the Discoverer cover story. News photos showed the Ocean recovery, and Eisenhower displayed the capsule and flag it had carried to the press. Finally, Discoverer 13 was definitive proof that the Corona system worked. Even though this mission had no film on board, it proved orbital espionage was a viable option. The New York Times also saw that potential writing in the August 12 issue that flight’s technological advances could surely be used for spying from space.
Coming to Fruition
On August 17, the show trial over Gary Powers’ flight ended. He was found guilty of espionage, and his sentence was ten years deprivation of liberty. On August 18, Discoverer 14 launched on the first complete Corona mission.
The mission wasn’t without its problems. The Agena had to use a lot of fuel to correct its orientation once in orbit. But once this was done, the full 18 feet of film was exposed. The bucket was ejected, and Captain Harold E. Mitchell piloting a C-119 snagged it on his third pass over the falling payload.
The film was delivered to Photographic Interpretation Centre for development and analysis. The resolution was much lower than photographs returned from U-2 flights, and some images had strange artifacts like plus/minus density bars related to onboard fluid leaks and some marks caused by the actual Corona electrostatic discharge from the Sun. But issues aside, the intelligence was outstanding. This one mission had covered more territory than all the U-2 missions combined, some 1.5 million square miles of Soviet land, airfields and 26 new Surface-to-Air missile sites. It even covered areas unreachable by the U-2 with its 24-inch focal length camera that resolved objects as small as 40 feet across, allowing analysts to count individual bombers at airfields. It also photographed missile locations. In one mission, Corona had disproved the existence of a missile gap.
And this was just the beginning.
The Discoverer 14 camera was retroactively given the security designation of Keyhole 1 or KH-1, and there were other, more sophisticated cameras were coming out of the WS-117L program for later missions. This raised the issue of managing all the incoming intelligence not just from Corona but the other programs as well — GRAB and SAMOS. To pull together the growing amount of data, the CIA and Department of Defense jointly established the National Reconnaissance Program on September 6, 1961, as the umbrella organization to manage all military and government espionage programs, which also included the still-nascent A-12/Oxcart/SR-71 spy plane. The office was co-directed by Undersecretary of the Air Force Dr. Joseph Charyk and Richard Bissell working out of the Pentagon.
The next missions in the Corona series were a mix of partial successes and failures but saw one major step forward with Discoverer 18. Launched on December 10, 1960, this mission debuted the larger Agena B stage that was able to support longer missions with more film, in this case, 39 pounds feeding into the updated KH-2 camera. The images from this flight resolved objects as small as 35 feet across, confirming results of earlier missions.
Updating the State of the Art
As the program continued, the camera technology went through upgrades that meant later missions yielded better results.
On the heels of the KH-2 camera was the KH-3, a new model with minor enhancements. This version debuted on August 30, 1961, as the payload of Discoverer 29. But analysts needed better imagery, and stereoscopic imagery to really understand the Soviet missile sites they were photographing. Using the available technology, engineers achieved this goal by combining two KH-3 cameras into a single Agena payload: one pointing forward and the other aft, photographing a swath 15 degrees from vertical in both directions. The resulting images aligned created a stereo look at that swath of ground. This became the MURAL variant and the camera system known as KH-4. This system added a new index camera to take small scale photographs to simplify terrain identification.
But before KH-4 could launch, its numeric successor, KH-5, flew; it flew even before KH-3. KH-5 was called ARGON. Its first launch on February 17, 1961, was the first of several failures. There were twelve ARGON missions, only five of which worked.
MURAL ultimately became Corona’s workhorse, with later iterations increasing its yield. The KH-4a and KH-4b variants doubled the film supply to 160 pounds with a maximum resolution of objects five to six feet across. The uprated KH-4 system also used two buckets, which meant one film reel could be jettisoned and returned while the other remained in orbit working. Doubling the return from one flight was a serious boon to the program. Fifty-two KH-4a systems launched, returning 94 buckets between 1963–1969. The KH-4b system returned 32 buckets over 17 launches between 1967–1972.
Even as these better cameras found success, analysts wanted more resolution. In June of 1963, a new system called LANYARD launched, also known as KH-6, a camera system designed to resolve objects just one foot across. KH-6 was a version of the SAMOS system, one of the original designs under the WS-117L research program. KH-6 attempted to aim its optics independently rather than maneuvering the whole spacecraft with a dedicated roll joint covering 192 nautical miles across the length of the spacecraft’s flight path. But the cameras could only adjust 200 times per mission, and it was slow; it took three seconds to move each 15-degree increment and 30 seconds to move from one extreme to the other. LANYARD only launched three times and never yielded the results engineers and analysts had hoped to see.
While ARGON, Lanyard, and MURAL were under development, so was a proper successor to Corona. But CIA experts ultimately decided it would be cheaper and more efficient to continue developing Corona’s capabilities than undertaking an entirely new program.
Corona After Discoverer
The Agena upper stage failed on the Discoverer 37 mission in January of 1962, marking an unceremonious end of the Discoverer program; the cover story had simply run out. The next Corona mission launched on April 18, 1962, and was openly part of a secret CIA program. Other versions continued flying, too, including MURAL, which saw twenty-six missions before its final flight on December 21, 1963; twenty of them were recovered, all but one by air snatch. Of the six that failed, two were launch failures, one didn’t reenter correctly, and three sank.
The later iterations kept launching with various improvements. In 1963, a cluster of smaller rockets was strapped to the Thor booster, increasing its power at launch. The SAMOS system with a longer focal length made for better pics. Some missions flew low over target areas for the sake of resolving details, necessitating new orbital adjustment systems to compensate for the rapid decay that came with these lower orbits.
There were also some new elements to the continued reconnaissance missions. Infrared film limited dependence on daylight, but there remained no way to get around cloud cover. The CIA and Air Force needed better ability to track clouds. On June 21, 1961, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force initiated a Defense Meteorological Satellites Program to support Corona with better weather data. By October 1962, meteorological satellites had paid immense dividends to the program.
As the 1960s drew to a close, there was again talk of a new system to replace Corona entirely, KH-9. KH-9, sometimes referred to as Big Bird, was an updated system that also came out of WS-117L, marrying a mapping camera with high-resolution cameras. Between 1971 and 1986, nineteen HEXAGON missions covered 877 million square miles of land still using the Corona-style film return system. They arguably gathered the best-ever images of the Earth from space.
The year after KH-9 first launched, the Corona program was officially cancelled; it came to an end in 1972. In its 12 years, the program had a pretty astounding life. What was meant to be a short interim program lasted far longer than anyone had planned, gathering crucial Cold War intelligence that helped multiple Presidents shape international politics while navigating the Cold War. In total, the Corona family of satellites returned more than 100,000 images and 2.1 million feet of film over 39,000 separate reels. This system that some have called an “assemblage of objects designed to replace the U-2” made immeasurable contributions to US reconnaissance.
The only thing Corona couldn’t do was realize the dream of near-real-time satellite imaging. This was finally achieved in the late 1970s with electronic film-optical readout technology developed under the NRO’s Project B Office. It used a charge-coupled device that modern digital cameras use.
Of course, satellite imagery from space didn’t stop with KH-9. Satellites photographing the Earth have become exceptionally commonplace.
Sources, in addition to those linked in the text: Declassified WS-117L Records from NRO; Index, Declassified WS117L, SAMOS, and SENTRY Records via NRO; Corona Fact Sheet NRO; “Corona Comes in From the Cold” by Theresa Foley, Air Force Magazine 1995; Corona Reconnaissance Satellite via DARPA; USGS Declassified Satellite Data; Corona Pioneers via NRO; “Corona: America’s First Satellites Program” Kevin C. Ruffner ed. CIA History Staff; “What We Officially Know: Fifteen Years of Satellite Declassification” by Jeffrey A. Charlston in Quest v.17 n.3 2010. | aerospace |
https://aerospace-weekly.com/2020/04/25/the-united-states-u-s-space-force-plants-its-inaugural-seed-of-eighty-six-86-commissioned-officers-from-the-u-s-air-force-academy-class-of-2020/ | 2023-02-03T23:14:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500076.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203221113-20230204011113-00761.warc.gz | 0.95255 | 726 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__203363983 | en | The United States (U.S) SPACE FORCE Plants Its Inaugural Seed of Eighty-Six (86) Commissioned Officers ReSourced From The U.S. Air Force Academy Class Of 2020.
“Vice President Mike Pence was in attendance at the event and congratulated the entire graduating class.
“Two years ago, President Trump laid out a bold vision for American leadership in space,” said Pence. “Last December, the president made that vision a reality when he put his signature on a historic law that created the six branch of our armed forces, the United States Space Force. I am proud to stand here today as 86 members of the Air Force Academy’s class of 2020 will commission as the first company grade officers of the Space Force.””
“The Space Force leadership team Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations, and Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, senior enlisted advisor, welcomed the new space professionals with excitement.
“The class of 2020 will go down in history as the very first class to commission officers directly into the U.S. Space Force,” said Raymond. “I couldn’t be more excited for you and for us. Although we have 16,000 Active Duty Airmen and civilians assigned to the Space Force officially on the Space Force scrolls, you are numbers 3 through 88.”
“You are our future, and I need you to be bold as you will build this service from the ground up,” said Raymond as he specifically addressed the new lieutenants. “You will help define our warfighting culture, build the Space Force as the first digital service, and lay the foundation of a service that is innovative and can go fast in order to stay ahead of a significant and growing threat,” he added.”
“The 86 newest members of the Space Force will fill a variety of roles, the majority of whom are assigned to the space operations career field and will be moving to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin undergraduate space training. The remaining members are assigned to a variety of career fields, such as cyberspace operations, intelligence, developmental engineer and acquisitions manager, and will go to their respective initial skills training locations across the country. Upon completion of training, all 86 will be assigned to a Space Force unit.”
“Created by an act of Congress, the Space Force came into existence Dec. 20, 2019, with a mandate to organize, train and equip a force that protects U.S. and allied interests in space. It must also be able to provide space capabilities to the joint force through the combatant commands.”
“Over the next 18 months it will define its organizational structure and move personnel into the service through military transfers and accessions, and civilian new hires and assignments. As military transfers are complete, there will be roughly 6,500 military personnel in the Space Force while approximately 3,500 civilians will remain Department of Air Force civilians assigned to the new service. In addition, there will be around 6,000 Air Force personnel, military and civilian, assigned to the Space Force to provide the base operational support functions such as medical, logistics, personnel, finance, and security forces.”
“The next step in personnel planning begins May 1, when currently serving active-duty Airmen eligible to transfer to the Space Force will be able to volunteer to do so, with transfers expected to begin around Sept. 1, 2020.” | aerospace |
https://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part34-5-FAR.shtml | 2018-11-14T07:08:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741660.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20181114062005-20181114084005-00408.warc.gz | 0.863102 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__139611508 | en | Sec. 34.5 — Special test procedures.
The Administrator or the Administrator of the EPA may, upon written application by a manufacturer or operator of aircraft or aircraft engines, approve test procedures for any aircraft or aircraft engine that is not susceptible to satisfactory testing by the procedures set forth herein. Prior to taking action on any such application, the Administrator or the Administrator of the EPA shall consult with the other.
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http://cdmfc.org/html/stanpit.html | 2018-06-24T18:45:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867050.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624180240-20180624200240-00143.warc.gz | 0.947514 | 250 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__58288693 | en | Stanpit Recreation Ground.
C&DMFC fly this site exclusively, by licence with the Council, (since 1966!). Members may fly electric helicopters, fixed wing electic power models and gliders.
Helicopters and fixed wing power must not be flown outside the recreation ground boundaries. Gliders may use a bungee for launch but at present must also not fly outside the recreation area boundaries.
There are two Bylaws – one for the recreation ground, the other for Stanpit Marsh. The BMFA are contesting the second Bylaw and the Chairman is representing the club. (The Christchurch Borough Sports Council agree that flying over the Marsh is acceptable with a Glider, but tbis has not yet been ratified).
REMEMBER. Stanpit is a public area and under the CAA 658, article 74 & 73 we have an obligation to avoid people, structures, roads and aircraft including paragliders at all times.
The local Council has some plans to make the most of the area, including enlarging the car park. More details are on the map below.
Our Flight Line is roughly where it says “Central Green Space” - this will be retained in the changes. | aerospace |
https://www.flightexplorer.com/products/flightdirect/flightdirect.aspx | 2023-09-22T09:11:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506339.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922070214-20230922100214-00074.warc.gz | 0.85021 | 245 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__322764482 | en | Flight Direct is an Application Programming Interface (API) that provides you with access to raw, real-time aircraft data in a clean, efficient, and easy-to-handle format for use in your existing in-house systems. Flight Direct handles all communications via the Internet with the Flight Explorer Data Centers, allowing you to leverage Flight Explorer’s extensive data processing expertise, reliability and data sources. With Flight Direct you can forget about the intricacies of flight data processing and consolidation, and focus on your task of making use of the data to enhance your internal operations.
| ||Flight data is delivered in real-time.|
| ||Data is available for an individual airport or the entire Flight Explorer public data set (private data sets are available to authorized customers).|
| ||Basic arrival and departure information is available in addition to aircraft positional data.|
| ||Integrate real-time flight data with your in house applications and systems.|
| ||Use real-time flight data to create an in house Flight Information Display System (FIDS) or supplement existing FIDS data with real-time flight status.| | aerospace |
http://aircraftrecognition.co.uk/start.html | 2018-03-21T04:55:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647576.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20180321043531-20180321063531-00396.warc.gz | 0.958045 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__147491814 | en | Ok so teaching you how to improve your aircraft recognition skill is not going to be easy! In fact it will take a lot of time, commitment and dedication. Different people have different levels of knowledge depending on their experiences, so right now please choose a difficulty based on your level of knowledge you feel is right... Or you could click here to go to the interactive aicraft parts page. Select a part and learn more about it and how it can be used to recognise aircraft!
Aircraft Recognition for...
On each page you will find a some information about the aircraft, specifications, tips on how to recognise the aircraft and a few pictures of the aircraft.
I don't know too many aircraft but would like to learn more. I know that the two largest commercial airline builder competitors are Boeing and Airbus. I do not know their aircraft. Beginners will be taken to the commercial aircraft section.
I know a fair bit of aircraft but still need to expand on my knowledge. My knowledge in the commercial section is up to standard. I need to expand my knowledge into military aircraft.
I consider myself to have a good understanding in aircraft recognition. My skills are of advanced level and I am aware of many commercial and military aircraft. I need to expand my knowledge in helicopters.
Are you an air cadet looking to improve your skills? Got an upcoming competition? Find tips and advice here! | aerospace |
https://enrichment.kaust.edu.sa/wep2015/schedule/session/2582/bella-gaia-a-closing-evening-gala-performance/ | 2022-08-10T02:29:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00052.warc.gz | 0.868973 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__62258511 | en | DescriptionBELLA GAIA is an awe-inspiring live multimedia performance fusing stunning NASA visualizations of Earth from Space with live music and dance from around the world. The award winning BELLA GAIA successfully simulates the Overview Effect from space flight and illuminates the connections between natural systems and human activities through an immersive storytelling method threaded by an orbiting flight path from the International Space Station. BELLA GAIA transforms complex scientific data into an accessible audio-visual experience to expand public understanding of global challenges we face and inspires audiences to act as stewards for our shared resources.
Kenji Williams is the founder and director of the world-renowned musicial multimedia show Bella Gaia.
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https://trulytimes.com/white-house-f-35-flyby-a-special-surprise-for-polish-president.html | 2019-08-23T09:25:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027318243.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20190823083811-20190823105811-00057.warc.gz | 0.940618 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__134703183 | en | President Donald Trump welcomed Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday with a certain physical look by the F-35 fighter plane at the White Home.
“It definitely arrived really close to a halt above the White Residence,” Trump explained, about the F-35 flyby, commenting on its flight skills. “It’s an outstanding challenge.”
President Duda has agreed to obtain about 30 of the planes for its air drive.
The plane flew more than Washington, DC, from Maritime Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina, according to reviews. | aerospace |
http://www.britishaviation-ptp.com/b/bla.html | 2024-04-21T05:49:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421040323-20240421070323-00296.warc.gz | 0.972389 | 215 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141787401 | en | British Light Aircraft Company Ltd
In 2004, BLA, of Liss, Hampshire, a subsidiary of
Aviation Group International Ltd, acquired from FLS Aerospace the rights to two British-designed light aeroplanes, originally built as the Trago Mills SAH-1 Sprint and Edglely Optica.
The Optica observation aircraft was to have been manufactured as the BLA Dragonfly, but by 2007 these plans
were in abeyance in order to concentrate on the second design, the SAH-1 Sprint, which was being marketed as the BLA
In 2007, BLA was constructing a 835 m² plant at Henstridge, Somerset, as a finishing and
distribution centre for Redwings. These plans had been halted by mid-2007 and by 2008 the design rights for both aircraft
had been aquired by AeroElvira. The company was disolved in 2009.
- Jane's All the World's | aerospace |
https://www.uakron.edu/engineering/about-us/people-directory/profile.dot?u=a10 | 2020-05-26T11:01:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347390755.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526081547-20200526111547-00388.warc.gz | 0.917938 | 163 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__38379278 | en | Dr. Heather Oravec
Dr. Oravec is a Research Associate Professor stationed at the NASA Glenn Research Center. She has worked for NASA Glenn Research Center since 2009 and she joined UA in 2010. She is the recipient of the 2017 NASA Space Flight Awareness Team award, in recognition of excellent contributions as a valued team member in support of NASA's human spaceflight programs. She was also recognized with the 2016 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Propulsion Best Paper.
Advanced aerospace seals, low-leakage seal technologies, high temperature seals, extraterrestrial soil mechanics, extraterrestrial surface mobility
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University 2009
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University 2006
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, Cleveland State University 2004 | aerospace |
https://www.marinelink.com/news/unmanned-israeli-surface363888.aspx | 2018-03-20T15:24:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647498.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320150533-20180320170533-00373.warc.gz | 0.894973 | 237 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__209372701 | en | Israeli Unmanned Surface Vessel to Debut at Defexpo 2014
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will be participating in this year's military systems exhibition in India - Defexpo 2014 - Land, Naval & Internal Homeland Security says company CEO & President Joseph Weiss.
In the field of Homeland Security (HLS) and protection of maritime economic exclusion zones (EEZ), IAI says it will be presenting an unmanned surface vessel (USV), which supports a wide range of applications for HLS and EEZ protection, including harbor security, patrol of coastal and territorial waters, surface security, electronic warfare, coastal and offshore platform and infrastructure protection (including oil rigs and pipelines).
In this sector, the company will also be presenting integrated maritime systems including UAVs, sensors, radars, and command and control systems.
About Israel Aerospace Industries
Israel Aerospace Industries, Ltd. (IAI), formerly known as Israel Aircraft Industries, is Israel's largest industrial exporter and a leading supplier for the defense and commercial markets. IAI provides unique and cost-effective technological solutions for a broad spectrum of needs in space, air, land, sea and homeland defense, | aerospace |
https://catalog.cpp.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=65&ent_oid=5456&returnto=5344 | 2023-12-08T14:22:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100745.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208112926-20231208142926-00889.warc.gz | 0.923308 | 844 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__154531749 | en | Ali R. Ahmadi, Chair
Frank O. Chandler
Todd D. Coburn
Steven K. Dobbs
|Donald L. Edberg
The Aerospace Engineering Department offers an Aerospace Engineering program leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.
The Aerospace Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the General Criteria and the Program Criteria for Aerospace and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.
The vision of the Aerospace Engineering Department is to produce nationally recognized aerospace graduates who can contribute to achievements in national defense, space exploration, commercial aerospace, aeronautics, and academia.
The mission of the Aerospace Engineering Program is to provide an education by hands-on application of theory to produce graduates for a diverse society who can contribute immediately, effectively and ethically to the development of aerospace products and possess the educational foundations for their career growth in industry, and academia, with innovation and leadership.
Traditionally the aerospace engineer has been involved with the design and development of high-speed vehicles such as aircraft, missiles and spacecraft. Over the years this list has evolved to include ocean vessels and high-speed land vehicles as well. The extreme environments in which these vehicles operate have dictated the construction of the most complex engineering systems devised by man and require integration and application of such disparate fields as aerodynamics and heat transfer, structural mechanics, control system theory and vehicle dynamics using systems engineering processes. Often the aerospace engineer is confronted with problems that cannot be fully defined but, in spite of this, require imaginative and sophisticated solutions.
The graduates of Aerospace Engineering will be practicing professionals who exhibit these Program Educational Objectives:
- Demonstrate their knowledge of aerodynamics, aerospace materials, aircraft and spacecraft structures, aircraft and space propulsion, flight mechanics, stability and control systems, orbital mechanics, space environment, attitude determination and control, telecommunications, and design competence of aircraft and spacecraft using systems engineering principles;
- Apply hands-on application of theory in laboratory, field experience and independent study opportunities involving teamwork and exposure to modern engineering analytical and computational tools;
- Utilize a comprehensive educational foundation that emphasizes application-based analysis and problem-solving, exposure to open-ended problems and engineering while fostering teamwork, communication skills, innovation, leadership, lifelong learning skills and individual ethnical professionalism in graduate studies and careers in aerospace engineering.
Students desiring to major in Aerospace Engineering should have a particularly high aptitude for science and mathematics, and incoming freshmen should have taken substantial college preparatory courses in these disciplines in high school. Incoming transfer students should have completed at least one year of college calculus and one year of college physics (with laboratory) prior to beginning the program at Cal Poly Pomona. The community college student planning to transfer into this department should consult a school counselor or department to determine which courses meet the program requirements.
The Student Outcomes at the time of graduation are:
- An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problem by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
- An ability of apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration for public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
- An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
- An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impacts of engineering solutions in global, economics, environmental, and societal contexts.
- An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plans tasks, and meet objectives.
- An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions.
- An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
Aerospace engineering students are encouraged to become active in the student branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a national society organized for the advancement of aerospace knowledge. Qualified students are invited to join the student chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau, the national aerospace engineering honor society. | aerospace |
http://whotv.com/2012/12/11/crash-report-plane-crash-details-released/ | 2018-05-23T14:57:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865679.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180523141759-20180523161759-00257.warc.gz | 0.952501 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__81521967 | en | CRASH REPORT: Plane Crash Details Released
A newly released report sheds more light on a plane crash that killed two people.
The plane crashed in Correctionville, in northwest Iowa on a foggy night in early December.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the plane hit some trees before crashing to the ground.
The planes two passengers, 53-year-old Lee Schroeder of Oto and 55-year-old James Smith of Correctionville were killed.
The pilot, 70-year-old Gaylen Knaack of Correctionville is hospitalized in Nebraska.
The NTSB says prior to the crash, Knaack told air traffic controllers he had the airstrip in sight. | aerospace |
https://northropgrunmaninnovationsystems.dejobs.org/huntsville-al/sr-it-engineer-irbm-program/10302371538E450EB046C2DD60F260F7/job/ | 2018-09-21T04:05:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156780.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20180921033529-20180921053929-00267.warc.gz | 0.894509 | 982 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__105431119 | en | Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Sr I&T Engineer - IRBM Program in Huntsville, Alabama
Sr I&T Engineer - IRBM Program
Categories: Engineering and Sciences
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. Our main products include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons, armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Perform analysis, design, or test of one or more moderately complex or portions of complex materials, structural components, and functional systems of company products. Generally work from preliminary studies developed by higher graded engineers. Analyze requirements for materials, structural component, or functional systems. Select applicable analytical data from previous products, determine the technical principles involved, mathematically define the problem and compute the engineering characteristics consistent with the specifications, design needs and requirements of other portions of the product. Release results as design data after review by higher graded engineer. Develop original ideas and elaborate on preliminary design concepts. Evaluate completed design with supervisor and other technical groups and make modification necessary to achieve the most ideal design. Develop and coordinate the conduct of test programs requires to evaluate design work.
Northrop Grumman is currently seeking an experienced Sr. I&T Engineer to provide support as part of our Systems Engineering Integration & Test team in our Huntsville, AL office.
Role Description & Responsibilities:
The Sr. I&T Engineer will serve in a support role for the IRBM/ICBM Program requiring the candidate to function in a dynamic multi-disciplinary environment.
Daily responsibilities require direct contact with launch vehicle flight hardware and solid rocket motors.
The Sr. I&T Engineer will support development/maintenance/execution of the concept of operation for all integration and test activities from development through launch.
Specific duties may include:
Hands on testing at a systems level.
Developing and maintaining processes and procedures for the assembly and test of launch vehicle systems.
Coordinating integration activities with supervisors, program engineers and various customer organizations.
Incorporating design changes on work in process or completed assemblies; documenting and dispositioning hardware discrepancies and pursuing root cause and corrective actions.
Designing and developing tooling to aid in the integration and test process.
Evaluating and implementing Lean solutions to decrease cycle times.
Hands on integration experience with multiple sub-systems or components is required.
The successful candidate will be able to work independently and complete assigned tasks with minimal direct supervision
A strong experienced-based and academic foundation in Systems Engineering fundamentals is desired.
Experience with Northrop Grumman LVD SEIT standards/guidelines and expectations is desired.
Experience with external customer interfacing (meetings, presentation, negotiation) is desired.
System testing and launch operations experience is desired.
Experience working with operational hazards such as propulsive devices, pressurized systems, overhead lifting, high voltage systems is desired.
Skills to write test procedures and review test data to ensure that hardware is tested properly and has passed all required tests.
Education and Experience
Requires BS in Engineering & 4 years or Masters in Engineering & 2 years.
Candidate must have a DoD Secret level security clearance which generally requires US Citizenship as a prerequisite.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visitwww.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
Job Type:Full Time
Desired Travel:less than 25%
Years of Experience:3-5 Years | aerospace |
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2014/02/26/esa-successfully-tests-spanish-radar-for-finding-space-junk/ | 2016-12-07T22:20:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542250.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00250-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.93786 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__167420630 | en | The European Space Agency, or ESA, said it successfully tested a prototype radar system in Santorcaz, a town located 30 kilometers (18 miles) outside Madrid, designed to find space junk that could damage military, commercial and civilian satellites.
"This new sensor - active since last November - has key technologies for detecting low-orbit space debris and marks an important step toward operational radars," the ESA said in a statement.
The prototype detected "objects of around one meter" and represents progress in refining the technology it uses, but its current results would be insufficient for developing any eventual detection system for objects with a size of about 10 centimeters, the ESA said.
Spain's Indra Espacio and Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques, or FHR, received a contract worth 4.7 million euros ($6.4 million) in 2010 to develop the system.
The project uses a monostatic radar base, a system that has only one station that emits electromagnetic energy at a target and then analyzes the signal it receives.
The ESA awarded a contract for a similar system last year to France's ONERA and five industrial partners from Spain, France and Switzerland.
The system being developed by ONERA and its partners is bistatic, sending a continuous signal from one station and receiving the return signal at another.
The ESA plans to evaluate the data from both radar systems.
Scientists estimate that about 700,000 small pieces of space debris are orbiting the Earth, threatening maritime navigation, communications, television and weather satellites. EFE | aerospace |
http://sibagraphics.com/utilities/newsfeeds/nasa-breaking-news/ | 2019-11-19T11:23:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670135.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20191119093744-20191119121744-00241.warc.gz | 0.840309 | 562 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__9993022 | en | NASA Breaking News
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Station Commander Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency conducts repairs, while attached to the Canadarm during the first spacewalk to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
NASA Highlights Science on 19th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Space Station
on November 18, 2019 at 9:43 pm
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 20, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.
New Companies Join Growing Ranks of NASA Partners for Artemis Program
on November 18, 2019 at 9:00 pm
NASA has added five American companies to the pool of vendors that will be eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the Moon through the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
NASA to Announce Additional Commercial Moon Delivery Providers
on November 15, 2019 at 9:00 pm
NASA will host a media teleconference at 4:30 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 18, to announce additional American companies joining the competitive pool for delivery services to the surface of the Moon through the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) project.
Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Ames Research Center, Discuss Lunar Exploration
on November 12, 2019 at 10:11 pm
Vice President Mike Pence, along with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, will visit NASA's Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley Thursday, Nov. 14, to discuss the role the center will play in the agency’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon.
Media Invited to Artemis Day, Unveiling of Moon Mission Rocket Stage
on November 12, 2019 at 6:11 pm
Media and social media influencers are invited to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Monday, Dec. 9, for Artemis Day: Michoud/Stennis.
NASA TV Coverage Set for Complex Spacewalks, Briefings
on November 7, 2019 at 5:13 pm
Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for a series of complex spacewalks this month and next to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a cosmic ray detector.
Boeing’s Starliner Completes Pad Abort Test for Commercial Crew
on November 4, 2019 at 3:28 pm
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed a critical safety milestone on Monday in an end-to-end test of its abort system. | aerospace |
https://www.raiderreview.org/2022/09/14/artemis-i-launch/ | 2023-10-04T16:47:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511386.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004152134-20231004182134-00336.warc.gz | 0.946816 | 482 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__115246300 | en | Going Back to the Moon? So What!?
By Santiago Mendez, Anthony Palumbo and Kenneth Jones II
NASA plans to go back to the moon after nearly 30 years, but why? Why go back to the moon now? We’ve already gone there before, so what is so special about going to the moon this time? What’s the main reason? NASA wants to return to the moon to further expand our knowledge for upcoming Mars missions, particularly the first manned mission to Mars.
This rocket will be NASA’s strongest rocket to date since the Saturn V rocket from the 60s. Standing at a whopping 322 feet tall, the rocket weighs 5.75 million pounds. The rockets are the size of a typical skyscraper one might see in a big city. With their enormous size comes a large price tag, as it takes researchers time and money to conduct just a single mission. This is where Artemis I comes in; launching a rocket from the moon requires less fuel and money due to the difference in gravity. This opens many opportunities to load more supplies on the rocket that, on Earth, wouldn’t be possible. This moon mission could be related to the making of a base on the Moon for the Mars mission in the coming years. This option is favored by NASA for future Mars missions. According to NASA, “Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a long-term human presence at the Moon for decades to come.”
The rocket was set to be launched on August 29th, 2022, but was delayed due to engine malfunctions. The new launch date was set to be on September 3rd, with high hopes from the NASA team to start this mission. Unfortunately, problems with leaks in the rocket’s fuel system have once again delayed the launch. A new launch date will be scheduled between September 19 to October 4. This launch will open more opportunities for Artemis II to come into reality. According to NASA, “Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a stepping stone on the way to Mars.” So, for now, the public will have to wait patiently for this Artemis’ launch and the beginning of a new era for space travel. | aerospace |
https://stateimpact.npr.org/idaho/2013/06/27/boise-airport-to-add-non-stop-flight-to-san-diego/ | 2024-02-24T13:31:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474533.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224112548-20240224142548-00485.warc.gz | 0.898695 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__53542037 | en | The Boise airport will add a new non-stop flight to its list beginning this fall. Daily, non-stop service from Boise to San Diego starts Nov. 1.
Boise’s midsize airport has been hit hard by flight cuts over the last couple of years. But over the last few months, the airport has brought in a handful of new flights, and a new airline — Allegiant.
Air travelers now have 17 non-stop destination options, Alaska Airline’s new San Diego flight will make 18. | aerospace |
https://tmro.tv/2016/09/07/pad-anomaly-updates-upcoming-launches-spacepod-090716/ | 2022-01-22T18:36:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303868.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122164421-20220122194421-00119.warc.gz | 0.90344 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__77522048 | en | Pad Anomaly Updates and Upcoming Launches – SpacePod 09/07/16
Less than a week after the loss of the Amos-6 satellite, we still don’t know why the Falcon 9 exploded, but we know what some of the outcome is for the satellite owner, Israel’s Spacecom. Also there are lots of exciting rocket launches coming up very soon.
Link to Spacecom Q&A: http://spacenews.com/qa-spacecom-ceo-it-took-a-minute-to-realize-the-guys-under-the-smoke-are-us/
TMRO Space Pods are crowd funded shows. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/spacepod for information, goals and reward levels. Don’t forget to check out our weekly live show campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/tmro | aerospace |
https://icrontech.com/de/kunde/tei/ | 2020-10-27T00:18:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107892710.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026234045-20201027024045-00704.warc.gz | 0.951113 | 211 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__194012592 | en | TUSAS Engine Industries Inc. (TEI) is an incorporated company established in 1985 as a joint venture of Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TAI), General Electric (GE), Turkish Armed Forces Foundation (TAFF) and Turkish Aeronautical Association (TAA). TEI has become an international manufacturer and a global design center with the high quality products and services it offers to aviation industry, and it consistently moves forward step by step every day, accomplishing its corporate goals. TEI produced and delivered its first engine and engine parts in 1987, and since then, it has transferred manufacturing, assembly and testing technology of aircraft engine parts and modules to our country and also proved its success in global markets with its reliable, high quality production that meets international standards.
Today, TEI continues its operations within this framework, focusing its investments and initiatives on its main fields of activity, which are:
1. Parts and Module Manufacturing
2. Engine Assembly and Testing & Engine Maintenance,Repair and Overhaul
3. Engine Design and Product Development | aerospace |
https://qsstudy.com/a-piece-of-space-junk-has-damaged-part-of-the-international-space-station/ | 2023-12-03T05:31:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100484.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203030948-20231203060948-00464.warc.gz | 0.957619 | 435 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__248498884 | en | The component known as Canadarm2 is still in operation, although the fact that the space’s garbage is now a major problem and likely to cause catastrophic damage serves as a glossy reminder. A tiny spacecraft has crashed into a robotic arm attached to the International Space Station (ISS). In a blog post, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – which designed Canadarm2 – announced that the damage first noticed during a regular inspection on May 12.
The wreckage hit on the ISS was too small, it could not track, yet the metal of the arm was traveling fast enough to pierce the outer layer. “Canada 2 continues to conduct planned activities,” the CSA said. “The damage is limited to a small portion of the arm boom and heat blanket.” The arm currently scheduled to complete a number of tasks, including moving a robot called the Dextre into position so that it can replace a faulty power switchbox.
With the introduction of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the amount of fabricated debris in low-Earth orbit has been increasing since the beginning of the space age. Even after more than 60 years, the number of invisible objects in our orbit has greatly exceeded the number of active satellites. According to the CSA, “More than 23,000 objects of softball or larger size have been tracked 24/7 to detect possible collisions with satellites and ISS.”
Yet as these items shrink and fragment, they produce small debris that cannot tracked, creating a significant risk for all future space travel and activities. The European Space Agency says most of these tiny fragments created because of the remaining fuel and battery explosions left on the spacecraft, with about 12.5 million such incidents occurring each year. More objects are currently stuck in our orbit.
Although these fragments may be smaller, the speed at which they traveled enabled them to perforate satellites and other spacecraft, which is why calls for stricter rules to limit the amount of space debris are on the rise. The CSA, meanwhile, says it will continue to work closely with NASA to determine the full extent of the damage caused by Canadarm2. | aerospace |
https://buildfreeresume.com/cover-letter-examples/drone-pilot-cover-letter/ | 2024-04-15T05:12:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816942.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415045222-20240415075222-00467.warc.gz | 0.937839 | 791 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__189269820 | en | When applying for a job as a drone pilot, a well-crafted cover letter can make a significant difference in the hiring process. This document allows you to showcase your skills, experience, and passion for drones, setting you apart from other applicants. A drone pilot cover letter should be concise, professional, and highlight your qualifications that specifically relate to the job you are applying for.
Cover Letter Example #1
Dear Hiring Manager,
I am writing to express my interest in the drone pilot position at ABC Drone Services. With a strong background in drone operation and a passion for aerial photography, I believe I would make a valuable addition to your team.
As a certified Part 107 drone pilot, I have extensive experience in piloting various types of drones, including both fixed-wing and multi-rotor models. I have successfully completed numerous commercial drone projects, ranging from real estate photography to agricultural mapping. My technical skills in operating advanced drone systems, such as autonomous flight planning and obstacle avoidance, would allow me to contribute to the safe and efficient utilization of drones in your organization.
In addition to my technical expertise, I also possess a keen eye for capturing stunning aerial imagery. Over the years, I have honed my skills in aerial photography and videography, making sure to deliver high-quality and visually striking results to my clients. I am confident that my creative vision and attention to detail would be an asset to ABC Drone Services.
I am thrilled about the opportunity to join a leading drone services provider such as yours and contribute to the advancement of aerial technologies in various industries. Thank you for considering my application. I have attached my resume for your review, and I look forward to discussing how my skills and experience align with your company’s needs.
Cover Letter Example #2
Dear Hiring Manager,
I am excited to apply for the drone pilot position at XYZ Aerial Solutions. With a strong passion for drones and extensive experience in flight operations, I am confident that I would be a valuable asset to your team.
As a highly skilled drone pilot with over three years of experience, I have logged more than 500 hours of flight time across various industries, including agriculture, construction, and filmmaking. I am well-versed in pre-flight planning, airspace regulations, and maintaining safe operating procedures during missions. With excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions, I can execute complex drone projects with precision and efficiency.
Throughout my career, I have developed expertise in aerial surveying and mapping using advanced software and equipment. I have successfully collaborated with surveying teams to collect, process, and analyze aerial data for infrastructure planning and environmental assessments. My proficiency in using cutting-edge drone technology, such as LiDAR and thermal imaging, enables me to provide accurate and actionable data to clients.
Furthermore, I am FAA Part 107 certified and hold a remote pilot certificate. I am committed to continued learning and staying updated on the latest industry practices and regulations to ensure the highest level of safety and compliance in all flight operations.
I believe that my skills and experience align perfectly with the requirements of the drone pilot position at XYZ Aerial Solutions. I have attached my resume for your consideration, and I welcome the opportunity to discuss in person how I can contribute to your organization’s success.
Thank you for considering my application.
A well-crafted cover letter can be the key to securing a drone pilot position. By showcasing your skills, experience, and passion for drones, you can capture the attention of hiring managers and stand out from other applicants. Remember to tailor your cover letter to the specific job you are applying for, showcasing how your qualifications meet the needs of the organization. With a compelling cover letter, you can increase your chances of landing your dream job as a drone pilot. | aerospace |
https://www.konaequity.com/company/edelweiss-air-4848558254/ | 2021-05-16T06:46:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989690.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20210516044552-20210516074552-00328.warc.gz | 0.880776 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__191657633 | en | Edelweiss Air in Zrich, Zurich
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Edelweiss Air AG is a Swiss leisure airline and the sister company of Swiss International Air Lines.
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https://lf.tuke.sk/wps/portal/lf/pre-verejnost/spravy/Esa-fly-a-rocket | 2024-04-20T07:17:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817491.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420060257-20240420090257-00794.warc.gz | 0.957047 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__114047578 | en | Faculty students have the opportunity to participate in activities organized by other institutions operating in the field of aviation and space technologies as part of their studies. One of the students who participated in the activities of the European Space Agency (ESA) is Ladislav Révay, who is a participant in the Fly a Rocket! program. It is a program that is the result of cooperation between the ESA Education Office, Andøya Space Education and the Norwegian Space Agency (Norsk Romsenter). It gives undergraduate university students the opportunity to learn about rocketry and participate in the inaugural student rocket campaign.
In addition to this program, ESA also offers other options for university students: | aerospace |
https://www.apextee.com/stephen-colbert-will-host-virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-unity-launch-on-sunday/ | 2022-09-30T12:16:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335469.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930113830-20220930143830-00601.warc.gz | 0.923292 | 599 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__109305944 | en | Richard Branson’s spaceflight is shaping as much as be fairly a star-studded affair.
The billionaire entrepreneur is scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo car on Sunday (July 11). You can watch webcast protection of the take a look at mission here at Space.com courtesy of Virgin Galactic or directly via the company, starting at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
And it’s best to watch, even when you’re not a giant space fan, as a result of the webcast will be hosted by Stephen Colbert.
Colbert got here into the duties in a considerably slapdash trend. On Thursday (July 8), he tweeted congratulations to Branson and joked that his invitation to the massive occasion will need to have gone straight to his spam folder. Branson replied with a livestream-hosting provide, and Colbert responded, “I’m in! BLAST OFF!”
I’m in! BLAST OFF! #Unity22 pic.twitter.com/v2nXFLe7PAJuly 8, 2021
Colbert will be joined by the singer Khalid, who will premiere a music throughout the webcast; Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield; and science communicator Kellie Gerardi, Virgin Galactic said via Twitter on Friday (July 9).
Sunday’s mission, which departs from Spaceport America in New Mexico, will be Unity’s fourth take a look at flight to suborbital space. The different three occurred in December 2018, February 2019 and May of this year.
The six-passenger, two-pilot Unity takes off below the wings of a provider plane often known as VMS Eve. At an altitude of about 50,000 ft (15,000 meters), Eve drops Unity, which then fires up its onboard rocket motor and powers itself to suborbital space.
Unity is within the last phases of its test-flight program. If all goes nicely with Sunday’s flight and some extra within the fall, the spaceliner will be clear to start industrial operations early subsequent year, Virgin Galactic representatives have mentioned.
Virgin Galactic’s chief competitor within the suborbital space tourism business, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, is gearing up for a giant flight of its personal this month. Bezos and three different folks, together with pioneering aviator Wally Funk, are scheduled to launch July 20 on the primary crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital car. No phrase but on who will host that webcast.
Mike Wall is the creator of “Out There” (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a guide concerning the seek for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook. | aerospace |
https://anti-drone.eu/products/radar-systems/harrier-drone-surveillance-radar.html | 2024-02-24T05:06:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474523.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224044749-20240224074749-00559.warc.gz | 0.905213 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__198451171 | en | Have any questions?
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The drone surveillance radar proves exceptional performance with extended detection ranges for drones of different sizes:
- Micro UAVs (DJ Phantom class) — 4-6 km
- Medium (Raven class) — 7-11 km
- Large (Global Hawk class) — 26-48 km
The drone detection performance of the Harrier drone surveillance radar can be significantly increased by using Video Surveillance Systems, RF Detectors and UAV Detection Sensors. | aerospace |
https://takeoffwithguru.com/air-india-ladies-san-francisco-bengaluru/ | 2022-12-01T03:05:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710789.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20221201021257-20221201051257-00695.warc.gz | 0.95361 | 455 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__79529444 | en | Air India’s inaugural service from San Francisco-Bengaluru is in the air – and the world’s first non-stop flight between the US West Coast and south India is being flown by an all-female crew.
New service is Air India’s longest route
With a distance of just under 14,000km, Air India’s new service between Bengaluru and San Francisco is Air India’s longest route (and one of the longest in the world).
The inaugural flight from San Francisco is currently in the air and is expected to arrive in Bengaluru in the early hours of Monday morning. It will take around 17 hours and will involve flying over the North Pole.
In command of the flight are an all female cockpit crew: captains Zoya Aggarwal, Papagari Thanmai, Akansha Sonaware and Shivani Manhas. They are joined by the airline’s executive director of flight safety, captain Nivedita Bhasin – another lady.
The flight is being operated by a 12-year-old Boeing 777-200LR, registration VT-ALG and marked with the name ‘Kerala’ on the exterior and painted with the Mahatma Gandhi motif.
The plane has a seating capacity of 238 seats, with eight in first class, 35 in business class and 195 in economy. Besides the cockpit crew, there are 12 cabin crew on board.
It looks like there were some festivities on the ground before departure in San Fransisco, with a cake being cut by the crew, and a ribbon cut on the air bridge.
Captain Zoya Aggarwal, leading the crew, has more than 8,000 flying hours under her belt, including 10 years’ command and 2,500 hours on the Boeing 777. Air India claims to have the highest ratio of female employees of any airline in the world.
The airline operates non-stop flights from Delhi to New York, Newark, Washington DC, San Francisco and Chicago and from Mumbai to Newark and New York.
Air India also plans to start its first ever non-stop service between Hyderabad and Chicago on January 15, 2021.
Congratulations, Air India! | aerospace |
https://www.wgbh.org/news/2015-03-24/16-years-after-its-inception-goresat-set-for-launch-soon | 2024-04-17T19:10:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817171.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417173445-20240417203445-00529.warc.gz | 0.959903 | 501 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__18751924 | en | Update 6:10 p.m. ET Launch Scrubbed
At t-minus 2 minutes and 26 seconds to launch, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed due to an issue with the system used to track the rocket. The team will review the issue and calculate the next available launch window in order to reschedule.
Our original post continues below:
If all goes according to plan, at 6:10 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 will lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying aloft the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, that got its start in 1998.
Then-Vice President Gore was fascinated by the Apollo views of Earth from space and thought that having a camera pointed at our planet might cause us to look at it a bit differently.
So, Gore proposed a satellite that would focus a camera back on the Earth from L1, or Lagrangian Point No. 1. L1 is about 930,000 miles away, where the gravitational forces of the Earth and Sun are in equipoise. A spacecraft parked there will remain on station indefinitely. (If you're a fan of the mathematics behind orbital mechanics, here you go).
But, as NPR's Joe Palca reported on Friday: "then Gore lost an election to George W. Bush. The new Republican president and the Republicans in Congress weren't interested in Democrat Gore's pet project. They mockingly called it 'GoreSat.'"
The satellite, then known as Triana, was mothballed. In 2009, however, it was revived, renamed and repurposed as a weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
DSCOVR, which still has Gore's camera aboard, "is not meant to provide the next generation of technology," Mary Kicza, who retired in July as NOAA's assistant administrator for satellite and information services at the agency's Silver Spring, Maryland headquarters, a few miles from Goddard, is quoted by Air& Space as saying. "It was the lowest-cost, lowest-risk option for meeting our requirements."
One more thing: SpaceX will make a second attempt to land the Falcon 9's spent booster stage on a seaborne platform. Their first attempt, last month, was in the words of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk "Close, but no cigar."
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. | aerospace |
http://adelaidemovements.blogspot.com/2016/03/global-express-se-rmt-makes-visit.html | 2018-10-18T12:39:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511806.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20181018105742-20181018131242-00072.warc.gz | 0.949618 | 92 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__170061847 | en | (File photo of SE-RMT on its visit to Adelaide last year) Photo by Stefan P (Copyright 2016)
Global Express SE-RMT arrived ex. Singapore at 14.50hrs. After night stopping in Adelaide the aircraft departed to Sydney at 18.30hrs bound for Sydney.
This was RMT's 2nd visit to Adelaide in the space of 1 year. The aircraft visited Adelaide back on 4/7/15. | aerospace |
http://droneonthemoon.com/goolrc-rc-receiver-and-transmitter-mc8b-2-4g-8ch-remote-control-transmitter-mc8re-9ch-receiver-for-rc-drone-quadcopter-aircraft-helicopter-multicopter-car-boat/ | 2019-12-13T02:55:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540548537.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20191213020114-20191213044114-00067.warc.gz | 0.778128 | 509 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__157370565 | en | (as of Dec 04,2019 10:50:01 UTC – Details)
Product name: MC8B 2.4G 8CH Transmitter
Size: 180 * 170 * 50mm
RF range: 2405MHz—2479MHz
RF power: less than 100mW
Channel bandswidth: 500KHz
Working voltage: 4.2-6V
Modulation mode: FSK
Signal output: 8 PWM signals and 1 SBUS signals
Power: 4 * 6V 1.5AA (Not include)
Analog and external power supply: YES
Adopt the latest FHSS mode in line with European standards
Certificate: FCC, CE_RED
Low voltage alarm mode: LED indicator and buzzer alarm at the same time (according to battery type in the system)
Internal software support: CH5—CH8, arbitrary replacement of settings and CH1–CH8 signal detection
Internal software support: M1 and M2 throttle swap (double return), can set the flight time, the main screen to build a lock, a factory reset
Product name: MC8RE Receiver
Antenna length: 110mm
Output channel: 8 PWM signal channels and 1 SBUS signal channel
Reception frequency: 2401MHZ-2479MHZ
Application: MC8A, MC8B remote control, fixed wing models, UAV, helicopter models, trams and tanker models, ship models.
Size: 42 * 28 * 12mm
Note: There could be some deviations due to manual measurement, thank you for your attention
Package size: 22 * 21.5 * 10.5cm / 8.66 * 8.46 * 4.13in
Package weight: 662g / 1.46lb
Gift box package
1 * MC8B 2.4G 8CH Transmitter
1 * MC8RE ReceiverLow voltage alarm mode: LED indicator and buzzer alarm at the same time. Supply analog and external power, LCD displays Chinese and English menu.
The receiver wide voltage design (DV 2V-9V) supports 8 PWM signals and 1SBUS signals.
Helicopter function: support 90 degree, 120 degree CCPM and gyro sensitivity adjustment.
The classical neutral knob is fine tuned to facilitate quick switching of the platform and attitude.
The 8 channel full function remote controller is suitable for fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and multi axis aircraft. | aerospace |
https://st-josephs.islington.sch.uk/reception-take-a-trip-to-space/ | 2023-09-22T09:16:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506339.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922070214-20230922100214-00725.warc.gz | 0.97591 | 107 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__157956905 | en | Today we were visited by a mobile planetarium. Reception became space explorers as we took a trip in a space shuttle. We had a closer look at all of the planets in the solar system before diving into one of the moon’s craters!
We even met an astronaut on the International Space Station who told us about how he eats and sleeps in space. Did you know astronauts have special space pyjamas and sleeping bags?
It was then time to head back into the space shuttle and travel back to Earth. | aerospace |
https://buttonvilleflyingclub.com/Classifieds/11606268 | 2023-06-04T17:15:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650201.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604161111-20230604191111-00718.warc.gz | 0.918765 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__159303276 | en | Two existing partners (C172 experience of about 500 hrs) looking for additional 1-2 partners to buy either a 2006+ 182 Skylane with G1000 autopilot and the usual niceties, or a DA40 NG with G1000 NXi and Jet-A/diesel suited engine.
As Canadian registered planes of this stock are few and far in between, hence the need for all potential partners to be aligned on the typical mission , budget and the planes to target. This will enable us to move quickly when a plane of interest does become available. Open to sourcing the desired aircraft from the US too if the new partners agree to that approach. Call me at 647.612.3747 if interested in exploring. Thanks | aerospace |
https://jetamore.com/2016/08/22/pilots-view-landing-a-boeing-787/ | 2017-10-22T02:49:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825057.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022022540-20171022042540-00839.warc.gz | 0.922019 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__291738639 | en | This video from Cockpit View takes us aboard a Boeing 787 on final approach to Stockholm (ARN). Note the passage of sunlight across the ultramodern glass cockpit. The videographer was snapping stills while filming, which explains the “stopping” effect. Once the aircraft touches the ground, we get a full blast of the “flat tire” sound as the aircraft slows down. As a passenger, I have always found this somewhat disconcerting! 🙂
You can find more videos from this videographer on You Tube and and Facebook. | aerospace |
https://www.tcc.fl.edu/College/TypeOfCareer/Pages/Aviation-Maintenance-Technician.aspx | 2015-04-18T03:23:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246633512.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045713-00145-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.943678 | 609 | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-18__0__50343381 | en | Aviation Maintenance Technician
Aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and technicians repair and perform scheduled maintenance on airplanes and helicopters. They also inspect airplanes and helicopters as required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Today’s airplanes are highly complex machines that require reliable parts and service to fly safely. To keep an airplane in peak operating condition, aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and technicians do scheduled maintenance, make repairs, and complete inspections. Some mechanics work on many different types of aircraft, such as jets, propeller-driven airplanes, and helicopters. Others specialize in one section of a particular type of aircraft, such as the engine, hydraulics, or electrical system of a jet. In small, independent repair shops, mechanics usually inspect and repair many different types of aircraft.
Maintenance mechanics specialize in preventive maintenance and inspect aircraft. Every aircraft must be inspected regularly. The schedule for inspection may be based on hours flown, days since the last inspection, trips flown, or a combination of these factors. Maintenance mechanics inspect aircraft engines, landing gear, instruments, brakes, air conditioning systems, and other parts. They use precision instruments to measure wear and replace worn out parts. In planes equipped with aircraft monitoring systems, mechanics can gather valuable diagnostic information from electronic consoles. After completing all repairs, mechanics must test the equipment to ensure that it works properly. Mechanics also must keep records of all maintenance that they do on an aircraft.
Mechanics and technicians work in hangars, in repair stations, or on airfields. They must often meet strict deadlines to maintain flight schedules. At the same time, they must maintain safety standards, and doing both can cause stress. Most mechanics and technicians work near major airports. Airline mechanics often work outside, on the airfield, while repair and corporate mechanics work in climate-controlled shops. Civilian mechanics employed by the U.S. Armed Forces work on military installations. Mechanics often lift heavy objects, handle dangerous chemicals, or operate large power tools. They frequently stand, lie, or kneel in awkward positions and may work on scaffolds or ladders. Noise and vibrations are common when engines are being tested, so ear protection is necessary. Because airline mechanics work outside, they must often endure hot and cold temperatures. Although their work is not inherently dangerous, aircraft mechanics and service technicians experience rates of injuries and illnesses that are higher than the average across all occupations. Mechanics and technicians usually work full time on rotating 8-hour shifts. Overtime and weekend work is common. Day shifts are usually reserved for mechanics with the most seniority.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of aircraft mechanics and avionics technicians is projected to grow 6 percent between 2010 and 2020, slower than the average for all occupations. Modest employment growth is expected as air travel gradually increases over the coming decade. However, as airlines increasingly outsource maintenance work to other countries, employment growth is expected to be limited.
Career information courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook. | aerospace |
https://catchenglish.ru/teksty/teksty-dlya-8-go-klassa/our-solar-system-where-we-live.html | 2020-10-01T19:52:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402131986.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001174918-20201001204918-00491.warc.gz | 0.956892 | 309 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__288685599 | en | When you look at the sky at night you can see millions of stars, which are known as the Milky Way. Our Sun is one of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy. More than a million Earth-sized planets could fit into the Sun.
The Earth and the other planets in our solar system orbit the Sun and get light and heat from it. It takes eight minutes for light to travel from the Sun to Earth, five and a half hours for it to reach Pluto and more than four years to reach the next star, Alpha Centuria.
Each planet moves on its own orbit around the Sun. It takes the Earth one year to go around the Sun and it takes Pluto 248 Earth-years to do the same.
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. Venus spins the opposite way to the Earth, so the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. The next planet is ours. It’s the only planet that we know has life — maybe there is life on another planet but we don’t know yet. Mars is like a bright red star. Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system and has fifteen more moons than the Earth. To reach it from the Earth you have to go through the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter. Saturn looks beautiful with its coloured rings, but it is very cold and has lots of strong storms. The last three planets are Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Pluto is the farthest. They are all part of our solar system. | aerospace |
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