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https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE9A80C020131109 | 2019-01-23T18:07:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547584336901.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190123172047-20190123194047-00151.warc.gz | 0.961045 | 452 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__63669663 | en | NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Air India Ltd AIN.UL plans to upgrade the software in all its 10 Boeing (BA.N) 787 Dreamliner jets from December, saying that the process will not lead to the planes being grounded for long.
The 787 has suffered a series of glitches since it was introduced two years ago, including overheating batteries that prompted regulators to ground the entire global fleet in January. Flights resumed in April.
Other glitches have included a recent windshield crack, and earlier a body panel falling off a 787 operated by Air India, developments that are still under investigation. Air India is the only Indian carrier to operate the Dreamliner.
Boeing and Air India have previously said the recent incidents with Air India Dreamliners did not pose a safety risk to passengers.
An Air India spokesman in New Delhi said there was “no problem” with their Dreamliner jets and that the software upgrade was a routine process.
“Software upgrade is a continuous process” said the spokesman, adding the upgraded software will be installed when the planes are on the ground for two-to-three days for regular maintenance checks.
The carrier will not ground aircraft specifically for upgrading the software as that will hit operations, he said, and that engineers will upgrade one aircraft after the other to help continue normal services.
Boeing said in a statement it would begin in December “the incorporation of service bulletins to enhance the in-service performance of Air India’s 787 fleet”, without specifying what that would involve.
“The scheduled downtime for the planes will vary airplane to airplane,” an India-based spokeswoman for the U.S. planemaker said.
The Economic Times newspaper said earlier on Saturday that Air India was planning to ground all its Dreamliner 787 planes to replace parts and upgrade software. The Air India spokesman told Reuters only the software would be upgraded.
Air India, one of the initial customers of the Dreamliner, has total 27 of the planes on order, of which it has taken delivery of 10. The tenth aircraft arrived in India this week.
Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Louise Heavens | aerospace |
http://cnjonline.com/2006/12/04/memorial-fund-for-pilots-family-established/ | 2016-12-07T16:33:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542217.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00374-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.93345 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__103249966 | en | By CNJ Staff
A memorial fund has been set up for the family of Air Force pilot Troy Gilbert, whose F-16 jet crashed Nov. 27 in Iraq. Maj. Gilbert’s wife, Ginger, is a Clovis native.
Donations may be dropped off at Bank of Clovis, 300 Main St., or the Clovis News Journal and Portales News-Tribune offices, 521 Pile St. in Clovis and 101 E. First in Portales.
Donations for the non-profit memorial fund also are being raised in Arizona, where the pilot was stationed at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. The jet he was flying was from a Cannon Air Force Base squadron. | aerospace |
https://bestshotaircraft.com/ | 2019-01-19T08:41:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583662863.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20190119074836-20190119100836-00440.warc.gz | 0.875839 | 195 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__210807440 | en | Welcome on Best Shot Aircraft – “The Easy Way to Fly High”
- World Economic Forum 2019
Like every year for the annual meeting in Davos will be different swiss Airport involved. During the meeting Zürich Airport, Dübendorf AFB, Sankt Gallen-Altenrhein Airport and Samedan Airport will host all the aircraft of the delegations that will be present in Davos.
For the defense of the airspace over the Davos region, Switzerland will use its McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet which will take off from the Payerne AFB (the Sion Airport, “dormant” Sion AFB, will be used as a reserve). From Emmen AFB could take off the Swiss Drone RUAG ADS95 “Ranger”.
This new page on our internet site will inform you about the calendar of the most famous world aerobatics teams. | aerospace |
http://missionconvergence.org/list/control | 2018-12-17T05:46:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376828318.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20181217042727-20181217064727-00015.warc.gz | 0.944073 | 740 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__5297248 | en | The U.S. space Agency plans to launch a probe, equipped with a solar sail. He will leave earth orbit and go to the distant asteroid due to the pressure of sunlight. Like the ships of the discoverers of the 15th century, in 2018, a small space probe will unfurl the sail and start a journey to a faraway asteroid, marking the beginning of a new phase in space exploration.
The idea of using solar sails for space flight was proposed almost a hundred years ago, Soviet rocketry pioneer Friedrich Zander. It was based on the fact that Photons of light can exert pressure on the illuminated surface, giving him his momentum. Therefore, if you expand behind the ship a giant mirror, his speed will gradually increase without using fuel.
However, the first experimental devices were established only at the very end of the twentieth century. This is because space sailboats should be very easy, and their embodiment in life became possible only after the emergence of a truly compact electronics. Continue reading
Future space tourists are already thinking about what it would be like to have sex in zero gravity. However, scientists hasten to cool the ardor of the lovers: sex in space could harm the health.
Future space tourists are already thinking about what it would be like to have sex in a vacuum. However, scientists hasten to cool the ardor of lovers.
According to biologists, to conceive a child in extraterrestrial environments will most likely not succeed. Space hostile to earthly love, the scientists shrug. Moreover, they say that sex in space could cause irreparable harm to human health. These words are confirmed experimentally. However, I was involved in a potentially dangerous study not people, and plants.
Their cells are damaged when the gravity changes, proved the researchers. In particular, when too high or too low gravity to the negative impact of exposed pollen tube is the vegetative cell of the male zarostka in flowering plants. Gravitational changes are not the best way affect its development and functioning.
In addition, the space environment is threatened intracellular circulation of the plant. Continue reading
Only three years left until that happy moment when the first space tourist from Earth will be in lunar orbit. To launch travelers into space will be from Baikonur.
The British company “Excalibur Almaz” announced at the meeting in London of the European conference on space tourism, a detailed plan of the tour to the moon. In 2015 the first space tourists “Excalibur” will be transported to the launch vehicle “Soyuz-FG” from Baikonur first on earth space station and then a lunar orbit. There are travelers from a distance of 1000 kilometers will be able to look at the dark side of earth’s satellite. All the journey will take eight months.
But flight preparation begins long before the start. The tourists intending to explore the moon at close range, will not only have to pay for a ticket $ 150 million, but also undergo special training. I will not fly professional astronauts to control the spacecraft have their own.
Interestingly, to launch tourists to the moon “Excalibur Almaz” will be the good old Soviet engineering. The company bought in Russia four used capsules and two space stations “Almaz”. Each capsule is placed three tourist, and to use it 15 time. So “Excalibur Almaz” will be able to send to the moon 180 space tourists, and then, suddenly, a new ship will come up, or will buy in Russia more of the older capsules. Continue reading | aerospace |
https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/blue-origin-space-flight-ticket-auctions-for-28-million-winner-will-be-identified-in-a-few-weeks | 2024-04-19T08:10:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817382.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419074959-20240419104959-00367.warc.gz | 0.968437 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__111293445 | en | The price for this flight is astronomical. One person paid $28 million to travel to space with the Bezos brothers.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to take his rocket company's first passenger flight to space. He invited his brother to join him, and a third seat was auctioned off.
Bidding opened at $4.8 million and quickly surpassed $20 million in the first few minutes of the auction on Saturday. The proceeds from the auction go to Blue Origin's education-focused nonprofit, Club for the Future.
Blue Origin says that person will be publicly identified in a few weeks.
There's one spot left on the rocket, which is slated to launch July 20. No word who will take this last seat.
The Blue Origin New Shepard rocket has flown more than a dozen successful test flights without passengers, rising more than 340,000 feet off the surface of Earth. | aerospace |
https://linkybird.com/2013/11/14/easa-allows-use-of-electronic-devices-on-board/ | 2018-05-27T05:06:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794868003.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527044401-20180527064401-00174.warc.gz | 0.923919 | 490 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__63773177 | en | The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will publish by the end of November 2013 guidance which will extend to all phases of flight the possibility to use personal electronic devices (PED) such as tablets, smartphones, e-readers and mp3 players as long as the devices are in ‘Flight Mode’ or ‘Airplane Mode’. Current EASA guidance allows the use of PED on aircraft, except during taxiing, take-off and landing. Bulky PED such as laptop computers will need to be stowed during taxiing, take-off and landing.
“This is a major step in the process of expanding the freedom to use personal electronic devices on-board aircraft without compromise in safety” said Patrick Ky, EASA Executive Director.
The changes above will be applicable to aircraft operated by European airlines. With the new guidance an airline, following its own assessment, will be able to allow passengers to use their PED in ‘Flight Mode’ during all phases of flight.
In the long term, the Agency is looking at new ways to certify the use of mobile phones on-board aircraft to make phone calls. EASA recognises the wide proliferation of personal electronic devices and the wish of the travelling public to use them everywhere.
The aim of the Agency is to ensure safe and harmonised use of PED on-board aircraft operated by European airlines. Safety is EASA’s priority; it is important that passengers continue to listen to the safety briefings conducted by the crew and follow their instructions
- EASA allows use of Electronic Devices on board (rudypont.be)
- EASA: devices in Flight Mode are fine by us at ‘all phases of flight’ (mobot.net)
- EASA Approves Use of Electronics During All Phases of Flights for European Airlines (iClarified.com)
- Europe allows full flight gadget use (bbc.co.uk)
- Europe To Remove Gadgets Restrictions On Flights By The End Of November (geeky-gadgets.com)
- Fly and play smartphone (ttrweekly.com)
- EU to allow electronic devices on planes (skynews.com.au)
- EU will allow electronic devices on planes (sbs.com.au) | aerospace |
http://apod.lunexit.it/?archive=550 | 2020-09-19T17:39:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192783.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919173334-20200919203334-00694.warc.gz | 0.942583 | 202 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__255527664 | en | This frame, taken by the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter on March 16, 2013, during its 49.920th orbit around the Red Planet, shows us a sinuous Unnamed Channel located in the Southern Hemisphere's Martian Region known as Terra Sabaea, near Hella Planitia.
Latitude (centered): 26,7588° South
Longitude (centered): 59,0897° East
Captured: March, 16th, 2013
This frame (which is an Original Mars Odyssey Orbiter b/w frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 17092) has been additionally processed, magnified, contrast enhanced and then colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter and then looked down, towards the Surface of Mars), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. | aerospace |
https://www.aerotechcenter.org/blank-3 | 2022-12-04T09:31:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710968.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20221204072040-20221204102040-00836.warc.gz | 0.914313 | 508 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__172345444 | en | MAKE A DIFFERENCE TODAY BY DONATING TO OUR KICKSTARTER!
Giving kids a free ride in a small airplane is just the beginning!
Our MISSION is to introduce and inspire kids in the world of aviation. The A.C.T. (Aeronautical Center of Technology) and the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Chapter 1354, based in Greenwood, Indiana, have been working with local schools for over 10 years and has recently been given the opportunity to expand our Young Eagles program.
We currently building an Aeronautical Center of Technology at the Indy South/Greenwood airport to serve 5th through 12th grade students that are interested in aviation.
BUT WE NEED HELP! We need to furnish the new building with tools and supplies to give kids a hands-on learning experience.
Your contribution will help us purchase the following items:
A Redbird Advanced Training Device (an FAA-approved flight simulator)
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Technology supplies and 3-D printers.
Hand tools and supplies to assist the high-school age students to build an actual Vans RV-12 airplane kit with the help of a certified airframe and powerplant (A&P) mechanic
Through the use of these tools, these kids will learn many of the necessary skills for a career in aviation--all before graduating high school. With your help, we can educate the next generation of aviation enthusiasts and get them on the direct path to a flying career.
Please donate to our cause today for a brighter future for the kids in our community interested in aviation. Help our program take flight!
*We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax deductible organization.
VOLUNTEER AT A.C.T.
Ever since EAA’s creation, volunteers have been our heart and soul. Volunteers from all over the world have helped make EAA a recognized leader in the aviation community.
"A huge THANKS to EAA, their members, contributors and all aviation enthusiasts who make this possible."
Join us and be a part of this tradition of excellence, while helping us continue to provide high quality programs and services to our members and visitors. | aerospace |
https://edubourse.com/finance-actualites-actu-78705/ | 2022-08-14T18:30:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00165.warc.gz | 0.938441 | 755 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__197032022 | en | Eurocopter’s newest lightweight single engine helicopter – the EC130 T2 – is completing a two-week demo tour in several European countries to demonstrate its exceptional capabilities for aerial work and heavy lifting operations in mountainous and low altitude environments.
Unveiled at Heli Expo 2012 in Dallas, where it registered a total of 105 bookings, the new version of the EC130 light helicopter was awarded EASA certification in May of 2012 and FAA certification on July of 2012. The first EC130 T2 was delivered last week to Maverick Aviation Group, a leader in the Las Vegas and Grand Canyon tourism industry, which placed an order for 50 of the newly enhanced aircraft.
The EC130 T2 demo tour, which kicked off in Evian (France) on September 27, will allow the new aircraft to show off its performances for clients and operators through flight demonstrations in Switzerland, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden before finishing up the tour in Norway on October 15.
On average, some 50 customers per day will have the opportunity to fly onboard the new EC130 T2, the latest version of the proven EC130. The demonstrations will permit commercial customers from various market segments to discover the enhanced flight characteristics of the new aircraft, and special attention will be paid to showcase the capabilities of the EC130 T2 to perform aerial and utility work as well as passenger transportations in mountainous areas (Swiss and Italian Alps) as well as in low altitude conditions (Nordic countries).
This demo tour provides a unique occasion for aerial work operators to test the outstanding operational performances of the latest member of the Ecureuil family, which features an upgraded gearbox and a new Turbomeca Arriel 2D engine, providing 10 percent more average power than the engine used in the previous EC130 B4 version. Performance improvements for the EC130 T2 include a higher maximum gross takeoff weight (2,500 kg for internal loads and 3,050 kg when carrying external loads) and a speed increase of up to 10 knots.
Several guest pilots will be able to take the controls of the EC130 T2 side-by-side with Eurocopter pilot Olivier Gensse, where they will be able to experience the extraordinary lift capacity of the new aircraft’s aerial/utility work configuration, which features a cargo swing able to lift up to 1,500 kg.
Customers will also have the chance to experience the increased versatility and enhanced comfort of the EC130 T2 upgraded version, which provides improved air ventilation with an optional powerful air conditioning, an efficient anti-vibration system and ease of access thanks to its two sliding doors.
Established in 1992, the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group is a division of EADS, a world leader in aerospace and defense-related services. The Eurocopter Group employs approximately 20,000 people. In 2011, Eurocopter confirmed its position as the world’s number one helicopter manufacturer with a turnover of 5.4 billion Euros, orders for 457 new helicopters and a 43 percent market share in the civil and parapublic sectors. Overall, the Group’s helicopters account for 33 percent of the worldwide civil and parapublic fleet. Eurocopter’s strong international presence is ensured by its subsidiaries and participations in 21 countries. Eurocopter’s worldwide network of service centers, training facilities, distributors and certified agents supports some 2,900 customers. There are currently more than 11,300 Eurocopter helicopters in service in 149 countries. Eurocopter offers the most comprehensive civil and military helicopter range in the world and is fully committed to safety as the most important aspect of its business. | aerospace |
https://www.thepostoakhotel.com/offers/packages/nasa-package/ | 2021-08-01T20:35:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154219.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20210801190212-20210801220212-00692.warc.gz | 0.890553 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__3451922 | en | From a private-lead tour to back-to-earth spa treatments, experience an out-of-this-world adventure found nowhere else in Texas.
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- Exclusive Space Center experience for two*
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Venture on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Johnson Space Center with access to areas only a select few have experienced before:
- Round trip helicopter transportation over the Houston skyline to and from Ellington Field
- View spacecrafts that have flown into orbit
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- Exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the original NASA 905 shuttle carrier aircraft
- An up-close look at the astronaut training facility
- Experience the historic Mission Control Room, where the first guided moon landing in 1969 took place
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Just like the unpredictability of space, the reset of the journey is up to you. The trip of a life time starting at $10,000.
For more information or to reserve the Space Center Houston Package, please call 346.227.5002. | aerospace |
https://kanbim.shop/us-air-force/ | 2023-04-01T04:16:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949701.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401032604-20230401062604-00173.warc.gz | 0.958451 | 1,337 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__275900537 | en | Showing 1–20 of 107 results
U.S. Air Force academy
The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) provides education and training for future leaders of the U.S. Air Force. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USAFA has about 4,000 cadets who train each summer for either active duty or national defense service upon graduation. It is the world’s only undergraduate military academy and remains a family-oriented community with more than 50,000 graduates serving in roles as diverse as astronaut and aviator to soldier, diplomat and scientist.”
U.S. Air Force recruiting
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the four military branches of the United States Department of Defense and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The USAF is organized into five major components: active duty, Guard/Reserve, Air National Guard/Reserve, civil service and civilian personnel, numbered Air Force1 (AF1).As an independent service branch it is governed by currently applicable federal law, Title 10 U.S.C., § 176a
U.S. Air Force bases
The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services. In practice, the term “military” has often been used interchangeably with “armed forces”. The Air Force executes its mission through 16,500 service members in more than 1,200 active duty aircraft, 780 civilian employees and roughly 1,000 U.S. Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard personnel located at nearly 200 bases around the world
U.S. Air Force ranks
U.S. Air Force ranks are the same ranks used in the United States Air Force, Army and Marines, for commissioned officers and enlisted service members. Officers hold their rank as long as they continue to serve in the best interests of their country. The table below shows a summary of the different grades and pay rates for enlisted men and women.
U.S. Air Force logo
The u.s. air force uniform was designed as an alternative to the standard army uniform, incorporating many different aspects of service life into a single suit of clothing. The ulyanovsk coat, named after Mikhail L’vovich Ulyanovskiy (1826–80), is representative of this effort.
U.S. Air Force uniform
The USAF uniform is designed to be worn by personnel of the United States Air Force, made up of two parts: the Class A and B uniforms (black-and-white uniforms) and the Flight or Dress uniform. The first official uniform was introduced in 1949 with a slim-cut flight suit design. A new design was adopted on December 6, 1966, with numerous changes in trim and waist features. However, these modifications were not well received because of their apparent lack of utility for most airmen’s duties.
U.S. Air Force museum
The United States Air Force Museum is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio and is a part of the National Museum of the United States Air Force. It was opened to the public in 1976. The interactive museum features many aircraft types from World War I through Cold War, including historic planes, rockets, and bombers. All are on display for visitors.
U.S. Air Force planes
The United States Air Force (USAF) is a military service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed military services. Established in 1907 as an independent service, the USAF was a separate organization until it was disbanded and became a direct report to the Secretary of Defense in 1947. It is the oldest active duty aviation service, having been established during World War I —along with the present-day U.S. Army Air Force —as an independent combatant arm of the newly formed Army after being separate from both the Navy and Marines during World War II. As of 2017, it has over 400 aircraft in its active inventory, with more than 1.300 stationed at various locations worldwide
U.S. Air Force song
The United States Air Force Song (commonly known as the Air Force Anthem), also known as the USAF Hymn, was written by Bernard R. Gibb in 1959. It was adopted by the United States Air Force in 1960, and has become a classic in American popular culture.
U.S. Air Force bases map
The U.S. Air Force Map is a map of United States Air Force bases, including military installations and other areas, owned officially or unofficially by the United States Air Force, located in both military and non-military locations throughout the world. The largest U.S. Air Force base website, Air Forcebaseinfo.com offers detailed information on United States Military Bases and how to get to them, such as lodging and other useful travel information.
U.S. Air Force reserve
The U.S. Air Force Reserve is an active-duty component of the United States Air Force. Like the Army Reserve and Army National Guard, the Air Force Reserve’s mission is to “provide strategic and theater military tactical airlift, aerial port and communications support, aeromedical evacuation, atmospheric campaign support and civil engineering assistance.” The Air Force Reserve was created in 1920 as the 87th Pursuit Squadron at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
U.S. Air Force aircraft
U.S Air Force aircraft range from strategic bombers to transports and fighters. The USAF also has a wide variety of support aircraft including helicopters and tanker/transport aircraft. All types are built at the Boeing plant in Seattle, Washington (B-52 Stratofortress; X-32A Omegawave; KC-135 Stratotankers), Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington (C-17 Globemasters; KC-10 Extenders), Palmdale, California (B-1 Lancer) or Orlando, Florida (B-2 Spirit).
U.S. Air Force thunderbirds
The Thunderbirds was the official name of the U.S. Air Force demonstration squadron based at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, United States. It was active from 1962 to 1994, flying the F-105 Thunderchief, a supersonic fighter-bomber aircraft used in air exercises and ground support operations throughout the world. | aerospace |
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=lot&storyid=96908&source=2 | 2017-04-28T08:26:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122886.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00579-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.93295 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__112352342 | en | The NWS Chicago/Romeoville Doppler Radar (KLOT) will remain offline today. While the radar is able to function, there remains significant calibration errors that result in a degradation of the radar data. Parts have been ordered to correct this issue. This is tied to a lightning strike to the facility which occurred on August 31st.
Alternate nearby radar locations can be found below, including FAA radar data:
FAA Terminal Doppler Weather Radars (TDWR): | aerospace |
http://www.sagem.com/spip.php?rubrique8&lang=en | 2015-01-26T04:17:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115858171.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161058-00235-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.896758 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__71136671 | en | Sagem offers two types of solutions to main systems manufacturers, integrators, industrialists and contractors. On the one hand, reliable, high-performance inertial navigation systems and devices and on the other hand, a wide range of high-performance, multifunctional thermal cameras. Both solution types are based on Sagem’s renowned leadership, experience and expertise.
Inertial navigation systems and devices
For main systems manufacturers, integrators, industrialists and contractors, Sagem has developed inertial solutions combining extreme reliability and very low-level noise. Complete navigation systems, navigation units, gyroscopic functions or inertial measurement units, these solutions are all predominantly based on Sagem’s expertise in the field of gyroscopy: including Dynamically Turned (DTG), Fiber Optic (FOG), Ring Laser (RLG), Hemispheric Resonator (HRG), or vibrating gyroscopes, etc.
Multifunctional, thermal cameras
Sagem designs and manufactures a wide range of multifunctional thermal cameras for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), industrialists, integrators and observation, fire control or sight systems manufacturers for land, naval or airborne applications. | aerospace |
https://www.rheaheraldnews.com/news/article_88dd8fb0-02ee-11e4-89c9-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=story | 2021-11-27T10:50:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358180.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127103444-20211127133444-00326.warc.gz | 0.960312 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__63485002 | en | The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration recently awarded the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award to Robinson Manufacturing Company Inc. Chief Pilot Richard Hash.
The award recognizes and honors those aviators who have contributed and maintained safe operations for 50 or more years of aeronautical experience as an aviator.
It is granted “in appreciation for your dedicated service, technical expertise, professionalism and many outstanding contributions to further the cause of aviation safety.”
Further, the award “acknowledges exemplary service, devotion to aviation safety, recognition by your peers, and the appreciation of countless pilots to whom you showed the way.”
Hash began his flying career in the U.S. Navy, soloing a Navy T-34A Trainer on March 5, 1964. Commissioned as an ensign in January 1964, he was promoted to lieutenant commander in July 1972.
While in the Navy, he obtained his civilian commercial pilots license with single, multiengine land aircraft and instrument rating endorsements. He holds a current flight instructor certificate, which he first qualified for in 1966 with Gold Seal endorsement.
He is also a ground instructor and has accumulated over 13,000 flight hours, including pilot in command time in over 47 aircraft, all accident and violation free.
As president of Executive Airways Inc. at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tenn., from 1968 to 1976, he and other company pilots flew air charter, air freight, air ambulance and gave flight instruction totaling over 20,000 hours, all accident and violation free.
He has trained many pilots, with dozens going on to fly for the airlines, corporations and the military. He has been chief pilot for Robinson Manufacturing Company Inc. in Dayton for 30 years and currently pilots their Cessna Conquest II twin-engine turboprop.
He has flight experience in the entire United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and numerous Pacific countries.
Hash graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1976 and maintains a law office in Maryville, Tenn. He practices in the field of family law, personal injury and in aviation law where he has testified as an expert witness in several aircraft accident cases and has represented airlines and pilots in FAA and National Transportation Safety Board Proceedings and in other litigation.
His passion is safe flying and helping aspiring pilots. | aerospace |
http://alcoopershomecountry.blogspot.com/2010/01/golden-age-of-flying-boats.html | 2018-07-16T18:08:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589417.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716174032-20180716194032-00192.warc.gz | 0.973998 | 892 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__126245210 | en | PART ONE OF TWO
In the years between the two great World Wars, aviation rapidly came of age, and as ever more powerful aircraft engines became available, the potential of commercial air travel became a driving force in all of the industrial nations. Crossing the Atlantic by the fastest seagoing passenger liners of the day was still a five-day affair, and the vastness of the Pacific defied easy solution for all but the most committed. As technologies brought together larger air frames and matching power plants, multi-engine aircraft made it more and more profitable to establish regular passenger service between major cities, and commercial carriers began to serve the traveling public as well as to transport mail and cargo.
The oceans still presented a barrier to that growth. To carry sufficient fuel to feed two, three or four hungry engines for a three or four thousand mile flight, and enough passengers to make it feasible in the first place meant larger airplanes. And industry had long since been capable of building those. The problem was that not many destinations possessed runways of sufficient length and engineering standards to accommodate them.
Seaplanes of one kind or another had been around since the very earliest days of aviation history; usually float planes on pontoons, or even amphibians which had the virtue of being able to land and take off on either land or water, and a handful of manufacturers had continued to pursue these duel-capability craft. The “flying boat”, however, was a creature unique in both design and operation. It was built around a fuselage which was basically a water-tight hull, much like that of a sea-going ship. Moreover, a true flying “boat” obviated the need for land-based runways and their associated operational costs.
By the dawning of the 1930s, Italy’s Savoia-Marchetti, and Germany’s Dornier were well along with designs no longer inhibited by the constraints of such considerations, and an American dreamer named Juan Trippe was already thinking about an airline operation without borders. Trippe envisioned a world-wide airline system which would offer regular scheduled service across the Atlantic, down the coast of Central and South America, and even to the far-flung Pacific frontier – all built around a fleet of yet-to-be-built flying boats offering a level of customer luxury rivaling sea-going ocean liners.
One of the first aircraft designers to be captivated by this idea was an immigrant from Russia named Igor Sikorsky, who had escaped the 1917 revolution, and who had been experimenting with seaplanes. It was Sikorsky’s S-40 which became the first true “flying boat” in the stable of famous aircraft which would make Juan Trippe’s Pan American World Airline company a commercial pace-setter for decades to come.
Story has it that it was on an early demonstration flight when Trippe was talking to his guest, Charles Lindbergh aboard the new S-40, that the plan for using the log books of old clipper ship captains from the age of sail in setting up a navigation system arose. From that moment on, PanAm would name each of its yet-to-be-born trans-oceanic flying boats “Clippers”.
Besides Sikorsky, the Martin Company and the infant Seattle-based Boeing Company would be asked to submit designs and bids. Martin won the bidding competition with their model 130 (which they underbid, to their eventual misfortune). Thus the first “clipper”, the famous China Clipper was a Martin 130, inaugurating mail service to Manila, Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island and Guam under the command of Captain Edwin C. Musick, in November, 1935. In October of 1936, the same “Clipper” would carry passengers in unprecedented luxury along the same route while the whole world watched. The first nine passengers each paid $1,438.20 in 1936 dollars for the round trip. That same year Humphrey Bogart and Pat O’Brian starred in a film named for the famous flying boat.
The original Sikorsky S-42 with its distinctive twin rudders, soon to be eclipsed by history and the coming of the mighty Boeing 314 flying boat, which stars in PART II of this story. | aerospace |
https://rc.runryder.com/t139989p1/ | 2018-06-18T19:31:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860776.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618183714-20180618203714-00615.warc.gz | 0.947188 | 267 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__114543105 | en | My Posts: All Forum Topic
Flying with the Voyager 50 today, everything was sweet.
All of a sudden at about 45 feet, we see something fall off the heli after hitting the tail blades and breaking to pieces.
I hit hold and auto'ed in.
It turns out that it was the vertical fin.
Hmmmm. I know I locktited that thing down.
BTW, I am using the HG tail case for JR helis.
SO anyway, I check everything out and decide that I need to fly more, so I refuel and take he up again without a tail fin.
Two tanks in, all of a sudden I lose tail and have to hit hold again to drop safely.
This time, the double bb pitch control mech. had literally stripped out of the HG tail gear case.
That was it for the day.
NOW, all I can figure is that I have some sort of high frequency vibration in the tail that caused these two failures.
Before I do complete post mort, what do you guys think I should look for? What's the most likely cause for this type of vibration?
I'll have a bit of time tomorrow to sort through things.
PS: I have the same question posted in the JR forum for model specific answers | aerospace |
http://uhaulsupergraphics.tumblr.com/tagged/Science | 2013-05-19T22:39:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698104521/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095504-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.94455 | 295 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__12354261 | en | SpaceX rocket makes history with space station flyby
The flyby gave SpaceX’s Dragon capsule an opportunity to test its navigation and communications instruments.
Today in 1543 Copernicus published his proof of a sun-centered Universe. There is still so much for us to learn about the stars! Radio telescopes are one of the ways that we peer into the rest of the Universe.
Today in 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space and has brought us so many breathtaking images since then. Learn More
Another Fun Firefly fact: Fireflies talk to each other with light. Learn More (Hint you have to click the lights on the webpage to find these fun facts!)
Fun Firefly Fact: Fireflies contain two chemicals essential for making the light: luciferin (a substrate) and luciferase (an enzyme). Learn More Firefly Facts Here
In 1983, The telescope is named after renowned American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble. Learn More
Hubble was designed to see the heavens 10x more clearly than any telescope on Earth. There are hundreds of breathtaking images from Hubble. Do you have a favorite? Learn More
Hubble was designed to see the heavens 10x more clearly than any telescope on Earth. Learn More
Did you know our Maryland Graphic is dedicated to the Hubble? President Eisenhower signed the Space Act in 1958 which prompted the formation of NASA and its first space flight and astronomical research facility in Greenbelt, Maryland. Learn More | aerospace |
http://www.erinruth.com/company | 2022-09-25T16:57:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334591.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925162915-20220925192915-00626.warc.gz | 0.956144 | 286 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__125005061 | en | Jiangsu Pomlead Ibling Technology Co., Ltd. is a joint venture with Jiangsu Pomlead Co., Ltd. The company is committed to be the one-stop wheel solution provider for global customers.
The company cooperates with Francolin, a well-known Engineer in the industry with more than 40 years of R & D and manufacturing experience. Francolin was introduced to engineering early with his father designing and engineering engine parts and propulsion systems for the aerospace industry. He also worked in aerospace as an engineer for 10 years before becoming involved in metal spinning R&D and production for automotive wheels. Taking advanced spinning technology, the company produces and sells two-pieces and three-pieces rims which are used in cars, off-road vehicles and other vehicles.
Relying on the technical strength and professional know how on lightweight forged aluminum wheels & components from the parent company of Pomlead, Ibling can also provide forged aluminum wheels and parts for various commercial vehicles, passenger vehicles, aerospace, rail transit and other special fields all over the world.
IBling is the combination of the two words “I “and “Bling” with implied meaning of “Chasing dreams and Shining on the stage”.
We look forward to serving customers around the world through high-quality products, reasonable prices and fast delivery, and to providing unique added value to the development of customers and partners. | aerospace |
https://www.space.gov.au/about-agency/publications/statement-intent-between-australian-space-agency-and-thales-australia | 2024-04-15T15:11:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817002.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415142720-20240415172720-00534.warc.gz | 0.917829 | 1,209 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__140728135 | en | The Australian Space Agency and Thales Australia signed a statement of intent to mutually identify key areas of investment as well as potential research, development and commercial opportunities.
Thales Australia Executive and Australian Space Agency Executive
Read the full statement
The Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Australian Space Agency, part of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, hereinafter referred to as “the Agency” and represented by Mr Anthony Murfett, Deputy Head, Australian Space Agency, and Thales Australia Pty Ltd, represented by Mr Gary Dawson, Vice President Strategy; and Thales Alenia Space France, represented by Mr Benoît Broudy, Vice President Navigation Domain; Thales Alenia Space and Thales Australia, hereinafter collectively referred to as "Thales”;
- Recalling that the Australian Civil Space Strategy 2019-2028 is a framework for the development and growth of the Australian space industry over ten years, underpinned by four strategic pillars: International; National; Responsible; and Inspire. Under these pillars the strategy endeavours to help realise opportunities and address challenges by opening doors internationally; increasing national space capability; promoting responsible regulation, risk and space culture; and building the future workforce. The Strategy sets a path for the Agency to triple the size of Australia’s space sector to $12 billion and create another 20,000 jobs by 2030;
- Recalling that the Agency's purpose is to transform and grow a globally respected Australian space industry that lifts the broader economy, inspires and improves the lives of Australians – underpinned by strong international and national engagement;
- Recalling that the Agency has seven National Civil Space Priority Areas including communications technologies and services; position, navigation and timing infrastructure; space situational awareness and debris monitoring; leapfrog research and development; Earth observation services; robotics and automation on Earth and in space; and access to space;
- Recalling that the Agency’s responsibilities include: whole-of-government coordination of Australia's civil space sector matters, providing primary civil space policy and strategic advice to the Australian Government, supporting the growth of our national space industry and the use of space across the broader economy, leading international civil space engagement, administering space activities legislation and completing our international obligations, and inspiring both the Australian community and the next generation of space entrepreneurs;
- Recalling that Thales is part of a global organisation with operations on all continents serving five major markets, all of them of vital importance for our societies: space, aerospace, ground transportation, defence and security;
- Recalling that Thales’ strategic purpose in the space sector is to design, deliver and operate satellite-based systems that help its customers to position and connect anyone or anything, everywhere, help observe our planet, and help optimize the use of our planet's – and our solar system’s – resources. Thales believes in space as humankind’s new horizon, which will build a better, more sustainable life on Earth;
- Acknowledging that the Agency and Thales share the objective of enhancing the capability and international competitiveness of Australian industry and research & development as well as promoting investments in space capabilities and capacities, that will support smart growth and highly qualified jobs as well as improving the day-to-day lives of all Australians through innovative products and services;
- Acknowledging that the Agency is an Australian government agency that is committed to open, transparent and significant industry engagement;
- Acknowledging that Thales has a proven history of delivering complex systems in Australia and around the world in the Air, Land, Sea and Space domains. Thales will leverage its global experience in designing, delivering and operating space related systems in the areas of telecommunications; earth observation; positioning, navigation & timing; science & space exploration; and space infrastructure & transport to support the objectives of the Australian Civil Space Strategy;
Through this Statement, Thales acknowledges the following current areas of strategic interest and growth, potential new areas of collaboration and support for education and training which are of interest to the nation.
- Thales is the current supplier of Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) systems to France, Korea and Africa. Opportunities for Thales could include exploring the application of global SBAS services across the broader economy, and developing Australian technology and capability as the Government continues its ongoing open investment in SBAS
- Thales will look to develop technology and capability to support local ground stations and terminals in support of the telecommunications; Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Earth observation.
- In conjunction with the University of Western Australia and the University of South Australia, Thales will develop enhanced secure and robust space-based communications technologies and capabilities for civilian and military purposes. Thales will explore the industrialisation of these capabilities with Australian companies and include these capabilities in the Thales global supply chain.
- Build on Thales’s growing investment in research and development with the Smart Satellite Cooperative Research Centre (SmartSat CRC), and other local academic universities, with the intent to commercialise capabilities and include these capabilities in the Thales global supply chain.
- Thales understands the importance of growing the capabilities and capacity of the Australian workforce to meet the future needs of the growing space economy. Thales continues to contribute to STEM and community awareness programs focused on aerospace and space, like the Creativity in Engineering, Science and Technology (CREST) and Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools (SMiS) programs with CSIRO, International Group on Earth Observation Week and the International Group on Global Satellite Positioning Services. Thales will look to explore opportunities to maintain and grow the support for education and community awareness programs including opportunities for internships and staff exchange programs to support the growth of Australia’s national space capabilities.
This Statement constitutes the expression of both Parties' intention to continue discussions. This Statement does not create legal obligations between the Parties and does not establish the obligation to enter into a certain agreement. | aerospace |
https://www.pjsgroup.com/news-blog/private-jet-industry/supplemental-lift/ | 2023-09-30T03:05:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510575.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930014147-20230930044147-00184.warc.gz | 0.938303 | 560 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__313408429 | en | Whether personally or corporate-owned, aircraft owners know that their aircraft is not always available or ready for flight at a moment’s notice. When this occurs, instead of relying on other in-house or commercial travel options, owners can leverage “supplemental lift” to substitute travel with another private aircraft.
With a supplemental lift program in place, owners can access an aircraft when theirs is unavailable without a long-term commitment to a secondary aircraft or the hassles of commercial aviation.
When Do You Need Supplemental Lift?
There are many scenarios in which an aircraft owner would need to supplement lift by chartering an aircraft. Here are a few examples that we see the most:
- Aircraft Maintenance — Your aircraft is undergoing routine or unexpected maintenance. This could also include refurbishments or upgrades to keep your aircraft up to date with the latest technology, furnishings and needed conveniences. Major cosmetic or mechanical work can take several months to complete, rendering an aircraft fully out of commission.
- Alternate Mission Details — No two trips are alike, and when the scope of your project or travel needs change, owning an aircraft not suited for these needs will cost your business time and money. For example, your trip may call for a different size aircraft (either larger or smaller) due to passenger count, flight distance or destination with an airstrip not suitable for your aircraft size. Or maybe the executive is heading out for a golf tournament and needs more room for clubs and luggage. These needs may be infrequent enough that occasional supplemental lift is the most cost-effective solution.
- Overlapping Usage Requests — Depending on the size of your corporation or the VIPs who need access to your aircraft, you may run into multiple usage requests that overlap. Both requests might be a high priority and critical to your business. So, instead of lending travel permissions to one or the other, lean on supplemental charter options to keep business running smoothly.
- Supplementing Fractional Ownership — Yes, fractional owners sometimes need supplemental lift too. Even with access to a fractionally shared aircraft, chartering provides additional convenience and flexibility, particularly in terms of aircraft size and flight distance capabilities. Adding a few hours of flight time per year through charter is far less costly than accruing overfly charges for usage outside of the annually contracted maximum flight hours.
Choosing A Supplemental Lift Provider
Now that you understand the benefits of supplemental lift, you can choose a provider. Keep in mind that not all providers of private aviation are alike. We recommend considering the company’s pilot qualifications, safety standards and emergency response capabilities before engaging in a supplemental lift program.
Consult with a PJS representative for support on vetting supplemental lift for your corporate travel program. | aerospace |
http://globalmilitaryreview.blogspot.com/2011/04/chinese-j-20-mighty-dragon-is-fifth.html | 2018-06-24T05:32:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866358.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624044127-20180624064127-00167.warc.gz | 0.948077 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__128931532 | en | Chinese J-20 Mighty Dragon is a 5th generation stealth fighter jet powered by twin-engine. It is being developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).
J-20 Mighty Dragon flew for the first time on 11th of January 2011 and it is likely to be ready for induction in the PLAAF by 2017 to 2018.
The J-20 Mighty Dragon is a typical 5th generation aircraft optimized for the stealth and is powered by twin-engine aircraft, it appears to be comparable the Russian Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA and US Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
Chinese fighter jets use a pair of all-moving tailfins and twin ventral stabilizing fins. J-20 uses a forward fuselage similar in shape to that of American best fighter jet F-22 and have DSI air intake along with one-piece frameless canopy.
It has a internal weapon bay in belly of the aircraft for WVRAAM and BVRAAM. It also has two smaller weapon bays behind the air inlets for WVRAAM. | aerospace |
http://sseproject.eu/global/news | 2022-01-28T05:23:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305420.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128043801-20220128073801-00601.warc.gz | 0.915981 | 84 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__74875366 | en | There are no plans to launch astronauts anytime soon. China and Russia have invited international partners to join them in building a moon base but revealed they don't plan to send astronauts to the moon in the next decade.
Rocket blasts off carrying first Chinese crew to new space station. Astronauts install new rollout solar panels on International Space Station. Coronal mass ejections and cosmic ray observations at Syowa Station in the Antarctic. | aerospace |
http://internationalreaction.com/nasa-will-consider-adding-crew-to-next-gen-rockets-debut-launch/ | 2020-09-18T20:55:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188841.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918190514-20200918220514-00269.warc.gz | 0.946504 | 845 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__169604124 | en | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA will take about a month to consider how most additional time, income and risk would be combined to a entrance moody of a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket if a two-member organisation was aboard, officials pronounced today.
The launch, called Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), is now scheduled to be a initial exam moody of a SLS booster, that will send an uncrewed Orion capsule into low space. Under a existent plan, a organisation would fly aboard a Orion/SLS complement on a EM-2 goal in 2021.
The Trump administration has asked NASA to demeanour during possibly adding crewmembers to a EM-1 moody or advancing a launch of EM-2, Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate director for tellurian scrutiny and operations, told reporters during a news discussion now (Feb. 24). [Photos: NASA’s Space Launch System for Deep Space Flights]
Moving adult a date of EM-2 is not possibly given of changes that have to be done to a SLS launch height to accommodate a taller upper-stage engine that NASA skeleton to have in place for that mission, NASA officials pronounced during a news conference.
Gerstenmaier pronounced he also destined his group to demeanour usually during options that would take about one year or reduction to implement, so that a crewed EM-1 moody could launch in 2019.
“I felt that if we went most over 2019, afterwards we competence as good fly EM-2 and indeed do a (plan) we’re on,” Gerstenmaier said.
The Orion booster has not been entirely upgraded to support tellurian passengers given a first exam moody in Dec 2014 (atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket). Gerstenmaier pronounced he has no guess on a additional costs of adding life support, an cancel complement and other hardware that would be indispensable for EM-1 to fly with a crew.
“This investigate will establish how most additional time is indispensable … to supplement organisation to EM-1,” Gerstenmaier said. “We will unequivocally have a [later launch date]. We also commend we’ll need to supplement some additional funding.”
The impending goal would have a two-member organisation fly in an Orion plug on an eight- to nine-day goal around a moon, identical to a moody of Apollo 8 in 1968.
NASA’s eccentric Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel pronounced in a meeting Thursday (Feb. 23) that a reasons for carrying astronauts fly on EM-1 contingency be constrained adequate to overrule a additional cost, report and reserve risks.
“We are not proposing what a outcome of NASA’s comment should be,” Patricia Sanders, president of a Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, pronounced during a meeting. “But in a assessment, we strongly advise that NASA delicately and carefully import a value tender for drifting organisation on EM-1.”
Flying astronauts on a rocket’s entrance moody would be a depart from NASA precedence. Only one prior spacecraft, the space shuttle, done a initial moody with organisation aboard, and that was launched regulating a well-tested Saturn V rocket.
“The space convey unequivocally wasn’t built to be flown unmanned, and we would have had to do an awful lot to make that happen,” former wanderer Bob Crippen, a commander on a initial convey flight, pronounced in an talk with Space.com.
As a swift car re-entering a atmosphere during 25 times a speed of sound, a space convey was a distant bigger technological jump than a Orion capsule, Gerstenmaier noted.
“This is still pulling a pouch in some areas, though it’s not as large a step technology-wise as what we indeed did in a box of a shuttle,” he said. “We will be really discreet about what we go do. We will do a right thing.” | aerospace |
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http://www.nickcook.net/meeting-russian-cosmonaut-gennady-padalka/ | 2022-06-25T22:44:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103036176.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625220543-20220626010543-00251.warc.gz | 0.954583 | 4,306 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__84716594 | en | Gennady Padalka is the very definition of starman. The Russian cosmonaut has commanded the International Space Station (ISS) four times, completed 10 spacewalks, flown to the MIR space station, celebrated 4 birthdays in space and with 5 spaceflights, he’s spent 879 days in space, more time in space than anybody else. Thanks to the team at Space Lectures, he’s in the UK for the first time and I am meeting the Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.
A talk from a Russian astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut, is a rare thing in the UK. Gennady Padalka takes to the stage to command a lecture with reserved authority, speaking English in front of an audience of hundreds. For most people public speaking is worse than the fear of death, but public speaking a second language in front of hundred of others does not faze Gennady Padalka. What else would you expect from the man who has spent more time than anyone else in space and commanded the ISS four times. He is the right stuff.
Most of the audiences Russian is ‘parshivyy‘ паршивый – lousy, so thankfully, Gennady Padalka is presenting his talk in English with seldom seen videos that help to explain life in space. With his strong Russian accent and my poor hearing, I’ve attempted to capture some of his talk elements below.
Thank you very much for inviting me, my first visit in England. I’m staying here two days and surrounded by people interested in space exploration and live in this country. This is a special occasion as well because in a few days it will be the anniversary of the first launch in space in 1961. I remember the first spacewalk, the first step on the moon. My generation was motivated by these events. I would like to tell you about what we are doing in space now. We have the ISS, 14 countries taking part from european Space Agency, Russia, USA , Canada, Japan and Great Britain. Recently Tim Peake was on ISS, I trained a lot with him but didn’t fly with him.
In my presentation I will tell you how life is arranged in space, launches, landings, EVA, science experiments, meals in space, sports, our planet and at the end will give a fly round of the International Space Station. My last mission was with astronaut Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko who I flew with for 6 months. Right now we can only fly in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft up and down from the ISS. Space X and other companies are expect to test new spacecraft that will increase our reliability and possibilities.
Our Sokol spacesuit, we use only for launch and landing, just to save the crew maybe with fire or depression. We don’t live onboard the ISS with this suit, you cant live 6 months in a spacesuit, we wear just regular garments, tee shirts, shorts, flight suit etc. Two days before the launch we have a rocket rollout event with a rocket on top of an old train to the launchpad. The same launchpad Yuri Gagarin launched nearly 60 years ago. The rocket, about 3 hours before launch, we are suited with ventilation unit. The Sokol suit has rubber inside and gets very hot especially in the summertime. We then report to the state commission and then take to our seats.
The module inside is a very cramped compartment but we’re only using the spacecraft to reach the space station. It takes between 6 hours to 2 days depending on ballistics data. You can see we are harnessed in securely for emergency situations. Last October we had an abort situation and the crew landed pretty fast without orbital insertion. On launch to take off it takes us about 9 minutes, 525 seconds. The rocket on the outside is covered in ice, one component of the rocket fuel is liquid oxygen with a temperature of -180 degrees. This ice will fall off as the rocket launches. Inside, you don’t hear the noise, just feel the shaking. 9 minutes and we’re in space.
The ISS is a small space town, approximately 110 metres with 15 modules, the other truss length about 70 metres. The span of the solar array is about 50 metres. The total pressurised habitable modules volumes is about 900 metres, comparable with 12 buses. A very big station, sometimes working together, we see each other only at the table.
The Soyuz approaches the docking port, very slow speed of about 10 cm per second. After docking we get a little bit of time to equalise pressure and then we can open the hatches and the Soyuz cres can transfer to the station. It’s an exciting event, not only for the station crew but also for the newcomers. it’s easy to tell apart the old crew and the new ones because the new ones all have shorter hair.
There are two types of spacesuits, Russian and American, both are very good, each have advantages and disadvantages as for operation, service, reliability, both are very good. They are very bulky, weigh about 200 kg, the thermal control system is very good because on the shadow side we have -120 degrees celsius and on the sunny side we have +120 degrees celsius but we feel nothing and it’s pretty comfortable inside.
We do have a lot of training on the ground, we use the hydrolab, like in Houston where they have the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. Why water? Because its the most appropriate environment to imitate weightlessness. In water we can weight out our spacesuit, hardware and then train. We are assisted by divers, have hoses connected to us so we have oxygen and ventilation inside.
The inner blue suit, the so called LCVG, liquid cooled ventilation garment provides a comfortable atmosphere inside the spacesuit and helps us to adjust to a comfortable temperature. This suit has a lot of tubes full of water which provides a comfortable temperature. The American suit consists of three parts and the Russian suit has two parts. The Russian suit (Orlan) has a special door inside. it’s not easy to get inside, it gets tedious but we have no choice.
When we are outside, everything is tethered with specialist hooks, we have to keep track of everything, especially when translating from one worksite to another worksite, and in case of emergencies where we have to grab our wrench very fast. Thanks to very good lights on the helmets, we can work at night as well. We use the robotic arm (SRMS) where we can translate astronauts and some hardware, we also used the handrails. You can see our planet beneath us, a beautiful blue planet. What do we see in space on the sunny side? Nothing, its just like a black wall, black nothingness. On the shadow side, millions of stars.
When we have a six person crew, we always have two Soyuz docked to the space station, using them like a rescue boat in case of emergency like a fire or depressurisation, so we can get in there, depressurise to get rid of the fire or if depressurisation, get our suits on, close the hatches and undock to save the crew.
In space we have a lot of stressful events and we have to train people to be stress resistant, so some try freefall parachute jumping while performing a logical task, a mathematical task or some other task. It can be a real stressful situation and its just to train stress resistance as a kind of preparation.
Physical sport in space. The space environment and weightlessness cause many alterations in the body, bone loss, muscle atrophy etc. To lessen the impact we have to exercise 2.5 hours everyday. We have a treadmill, cycle and a resistance device which looks like across bar or weightlifter. It’s not easy in space but there is a special harness so we can then train our muscles. Our upper body is pretty well trained but our legs are more vulnerable to muscle atrophy. We can then bench press, shoulder press etc. It can be very tedious but we understand that without this we cannot go into space.
There are a lot of science experiments, biology, biotechnology, human research, physical science and alot of education programmes. Ultra sound experiments to check medical examinations and for clinical science. We can also measure our weight in space with a special device that measures the frequency of our oscillations with very high accuracy.
We have biological experiments, greenhouse, they don’t have soil but a special fabric that is used to transport water to the plants. We can grow peas, radish, sunflower etc. All samples of science experiments like blood, urine, saliva and some plants are then deep freezed in our refrigerator to about -90 degrees. For some science experiments we need to protect from the habitable atmosphere and avoid contamination which is why some experiments are done inside an isolated gloved box.
Everybody on the ISS has a personal sleep station, 4 crew quarters in the US segment and 2 in the Russian segment. There is a secure sleeping bag that straps you down, everyone has private sleep station. You still have hygiene procedures, same as on the ground, get up shave, wash, clean hair, cut your hair. Tim Kopra, American Army boy was the best barber in space, cut everybody’s hair and his own. our haircutting machine is connected to our vacuum cleaner hose to remove all the hair from the station atmosphere.
All astronauts and cosmonauts have a sense of humour. I didn’t trust him, this is my hair.
The morning routine usually takes around 15-20 minutes. For the newcomer much longer. Every cosmonaut/astronaut has his blue box, where you select before launch your favourite toothpaste, shaving cream etc. We have no shower or bath but a lot of towels and napkins which you can wet etc. Shaving is very controlled, not so fast, don’t want to spread water drops. You can add some water to your hair, add some shampoo and very slowly have to spread this on our hair. We then have to remove this using towels. All towels must be dried because we are using this water from the atmosphere again. We have a special system for producing water, renewable water, not just water from the atmosphere but even urine as well.
What type of spacecraft do we have? We have cargo spacecraft called Dragon from Space X. We can use the unique robot arm designed by the Canadian space agency we can grab it from one docking port to another. Great combination of our technologies which compliment and supplement each other tremendously and it’s a great contribution from the Canadian space agency. We also have the Russina Progress module, we have ATV, an ESA spacecraft, HTV is a Japanese spacecraft. The Japanese spacecraft has solar arrays deployed around the spacecraft body which increases reliability.
The spacecraft are full of supplies in special containers and we have some days to unload these and transport to the ISS and then load the trash. Spaceflight is not always romantic, not always science experiments or looking through the window at the beautiful view of our planet. There are a lot of routine and tedious jobs, clean the space station, prepare the food etc.
We do have a beautiful view of the planet, lots of great views, a lot of colours, undertones, nature is a great painter creating such masterpieces. The aurora is spectacular, in the southern hemisphere the aurora has green colours, in the northern hemisphere it has a purple colour. Very spectacular especially when you have an EVA and its underneath your legs, it’s beautiful. Sunset and sunrise, we have 16 orbits, takes 30-40 seconds for a sunrise or a sunset. Sometimes we have 2-3 weeks in a so called solar orbit, i’ts a sunny orbit and we have no sunset. Its not a good period of time for the ISS because we have no good possibility to radiate the excess heat from the space station. it depends on the relative position of our orbit and the ecliptic. We fly at an altitude of about 400 km and our planet is not a small ball, its a very big ball. We have to take care of our planet and avoid technological problems.
Towards the end of my mission, we had an official handover ceremony to Scott Kelly, from one commander to another. We take our seats and then after undocking, after about 3 orbits, about 4.5 hours, we are on the ground. we have a deorbit burn, at an an altitude of about 150 km, we have separation, at 10km we have drag chute deployment. After parachute deployment, we are escorted by the rescue team of helicopters and aircraft. We have soft landing jets, so called soft landing jets, there is no soft landing. We have medical check when we land, I don’t say that I feel good , I get motion sickness but it’s tolerable.5 hours after landing, we are then back in Star City.
Thank you very much for your attention, after my presentation I’m sure you are all experts for life in space. If you have questions, I am ready to answer.
Questions from the audience
My question goes back to the days of Space Station Mir, when American astronaut first started visiting, it became apparent they became paid by wage and yet the Russian cosmonauts only got paid for the activities they carried out, so if a spacewalk got cancelled, you didn’t get paid, is that still the situation today?
That was for us as well, we both got paid. The happiest man in space is the cosmonaut because we get to fly in space and on the ground you can’t. As for space tourists, they have to pay.
Did you meet your hero Yuri Gagarin?
I was born in the 60’s, I was not motivated by Yuri Gagarin, I was motivated by an event, like a first launch, first spacewalk, first step on the moon but as for a hero, he was everybody’s hero, at that time I considered myself as a hero because when I was meeting children for example, that my childhood, my life was endless, but really our time is limited and you shouldn’t have a hero. Everybody is born with talent, if you have a hero, you try to imitate his life, but seems to me a waste of time, you don’t live in someone else’s steps. Everybody can be something, a great teacher, nobel prize winner, everybody has talent and different abilities, so have a goal and reach it. I was motivated by events.
You said you have to adapt when you go to space, you have to adapt when you come back to gravity, which of these is more difficult?
More difficult for me from my perspective is adapting to the gravity because, from everybodies perspective, is when flying in space with weightlessness, it can take a few minutes or some days, I had no problem. But when getting gravity again, it was more complicated for me due to muscle atrophy despite the fact that I trained a lot, everyday for 2.5 hours, it was still difficult. But it takes about 2 weeks maximum. We have a rule for how many days spent in space, you have to spend as many days on the ground.
Do you believe in life on other planets and have you ever seen anything that you cannot explain that makes you believe there is life on other planets?
I don’t believe in aliens, I do believe in life maybe somewhere else, exoplanets. Believe me, nobody knocked on the ISS. I did recently speak to astrobiologists who currently have two theories, one that that we do have life on exoplanets. We’ve discovered 4000 exoplanets, measured those with the same stars like our sun, and form this 4000, came to only 700. They then decided to measure distance, so they have the same temperature as us, and from this 700 we have only 300 planets between -20 up to +25. They then selected all the exoplanets with the same inner structure, inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. From this 4000 exoplanets, we got only 15. The closest one is about 100 light years. The other theory is because we have only had 1 big bang, we only have 1 universe, only 1 evolution and only 1 civilisation. Who knows, time will tell. But nobody knocked on the door.
When you were on the ISS, did you all know each others languages or did you only speak one language to each other?
For all partners, only English language. At the beginning of the space station assembly, we had two main partners, Russia and US and right now all astronauts are flying onboard Soyuz spacecraft and our requirement is to study Russian and English, we have flight procedures, one page in Russian, one page in English. On the ISS, only English. When we communicate with MCC (Mission Control Centre), Houston, in English, with Moscow, in Russian. We study each others but English is the main language.
I’ve always wondered about the landing in Soyuz, you have a hard landing on the ground and then gravity. What is that like?
Its not easy to come back when faced with the gravity. From 100-80 kn up, you can feel small gravity which gets bigger and bigger and for me the sensation was as if hundred of kilograms on my chest.
Have you ever been involved in any kind of emergency situation and do you still take a wee on the back wheel of the van as Yuri Gagarin did on his first flight?
It seems to me that spaceflight is an emergency situation. Some tiny issues, every crew is faced with this, but I didn’t have this. We have had in our history emergency situations, fire and depressurisation but right now all partners are very well trained. To separate the fire we have some fire extinguishers, special procedures, a lot of information to memorise and special procedures to isolate modules in case of depressure like if a micrometeorite causes a hole. But we are very well trained, perhaps that is why we have no issue or big problem because we are ready. As for the tyres, yes, that’s our tradition otherwise the rocket will not launch.
How does it feel to be in anti gravity?
Like a bird, flying. Its very good but as I mentioned its very aggressive, its no effort to push and fly.Like a monkey, sometimes we are using our legs just to secure ourselves. But is is very harmful for our bodies, especially for muscles and bone loss. We have to be ready to resolve this problem, especially when we want to go to Mars and beyond, it’s very complicated.
Would you like to have seen Russia continue to develop the Buran spacecraft and are there any plans to replace Soyuz or just keep updating it?
Buran and Space Shuttle are like Father and Son, they are identical. But as for the US side, all their modules and ll our partners modules, they have no service systems, like motion control. They are brought up in space in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle and was in big demand. As for the Russian side, all our modules now, like on this space station, they fly in space themselves because the have jets, engine, motion control systems and no need to use Buran. We created Buran but had no job for Buran. Maybe it was out mistake, who knows. It’s a different approach for US and Russia.
Space Lectures have again attracted top space talent, I’ve always wanted to get a Russian view on space. Meeting Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has been a blast.
My other astronaut visits:
Meeting astronaut Rick Mastracchio
Meeting Bruce McCandless from the first untethered spacewalk
Meeting the Moonwalker Charlie Duke from Apollo 16
Meeting Tom Cruise’s Middle Finger & Top Gun Shuttle Astronaut Scott Altman
The Twins Paradox – Meeting the twin Astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly
Gemini and Apollo 10 Astronaut Tom Stafford
Apollo 8, Apollo 13 and Gemini Astronaut Jim Lovell
Apollo 7 Astronaut Walt Cunningham
Space Shuttle Astronaut Eileen Collins
Meeting Fred Haise from Apollo 13
Meeting Astronaut Ken Mattingly of Apollo 13 and Apollo 16
Meeting the Moonwalker Alan Bean from Apollo 12
Meeting Apollo, Skylab and Shuttle astronauts at CosmicCon | aerospace |
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https://isnewstime.com/nasa-asteroid-sample-mission-renamed-osiris-apex/ | 2024-02-21T20:51:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00686.warc.gz | 0.899539 | 1,313 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__36634651 | en | In September 2021, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer) mission successfully brought a sample of asteroid Bennu back to Earth after a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey. However, instead of retiring the spacecraft, NASA embarked on a new mission to explore asteroid Apophis. This article will delve into the details of this new mission, now known as OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Apophis Explorer), and discuss the scientific significance of studying Apophis.
Apophis: A Rare Opportunity
NASA chose Apophis as the destination for the OSIRIS-APEX mission due to its unique characteristics and its close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029. Apophis, an “S-type” asteroid composed of silicate materials and nickel-iron, differs significantly from the carbon-rich “C-type” Bennu.
During its close encounter in 2029, Apophis will come within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of Earth’s surface. Although there is no risk of impact during this encounter or in the foreseeable future, the proximity of Apophis presents an incredible opportunity for scientific study. This close approach is a rare event, occurring only once every 7,500 years for asteroids of Apophis’ size, which is approximately 367 yards across (about 340 meters).
The OSIRIS-APEX mission aims to study Apophis immediately after its close pass, enabling scientists to observe how its surface changes due to interactions with Earth’s gravity. This encounter will alter Apophis’ orbit and affect the length of its 30.6-hour day. It may also trigger quakes and landslides on the asteroid’s surface, providing insights into its internal structure and composition.
By investigating Apophis, scientists hope to gain a deeper understanding of processes involved in planet formation. Tidal forces and the accumulation of rubble pile material, which OSIRIS-APEX will study during the mission, play crucial roles in the formation of planets and can shed light on the evolution of our solar system.
Moreover, Apophis is representative of many potentially hazardous asteroids, most of which are also S-types. Consequently, the knowledge gained from studying Apophis will contribute to NASA’s planetary defense research, which aims to develop strategies for mitigating potential asteroid impacts.
OSIRIS-APEX: Travel Itinerary
OSIRIS-APEX is expected to arrive at Apophis on April 13, 2029, approximately two weeks before the asteroid’s close encounter with Earth. Leading up to this arrival, the spacecraft’s cameras will capture images of Apophis as it catches up to the asteroid. Earth-based telescopes will also closely observe Apophis during this period. However, Apophis will be too close to the Sun in the sky immediately after the close encounter, making ground-based observations challenging. Therefore, OSIRIS-APEX will be crucial in detecting and analyzing any changes triggered by the close encounter.
During its 18-month proximity to Apophis, OSIRIS-APEX will conduct various scientific investigations similar to those performed during the OSIRIS-REx mission at Bennu. The spacecraft will use its suite of instruments, including imagers, spectrometers, and a laser altimeter, to map the asteroid’s surface and analyze its chemical composition.
In a remarkable maneuver reminiscent of the OSIRIS-REx mission, OSIRIS-APEX will approach within 16 feet of Apophis’ surface and fire its thrusters downward. This action will stir up rocks and dust, allowing scientists to examine the material beneath the asteroid’s surface.
While the rendezvous with Apophis is still several years away, the spacecraft will undergo several close passes to the Sun and utilize gravity assistance from Earth to adjust its trajectory for the April 2029 arrival.
NASA’s decision to rename the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as OSIRIS-APEX and send it on a new mission to explore asteroid Apophis demonstrates the agency’s commitment to maximizing the scientific potential of its space missions. By taking advantage of Apophis’ close approach to Earth, OSIRIS-APEX will provide valuable insights into the processes involved in planet formation and the composition of asteroids.
The observations and data collected during the OSIRIS-APEX mission will expand our understanding of the solar system’s origins and contribute to NASA’s planetary defense efforts. As the spacecraft embarks on this new journey, scientists and researchers eagerly anticipate the surprises and knowledge that await them.
The OSIRIS-APEX mission is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, with the University of Arizona leading the science team and mission planning. Lockheed Martin Space built the spacecraft, and Goddard and KinetX Aerospace are responsible for navigation. International collaborations include the Canadian Space Agency’s laser altimeter instrument and scientific collaboration with JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission. OSIRIS-APEX is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
In summary, the OSIRIS-APEX mission represents an exciting new chapter in NASA’s exploration of asteroids. By studying asteroid Apophis during its close approach to Earth in 2029, scientists hope to uncover valuable insights into planet formation and improve our understanding of potentially hazardous asteroids. The mission’s findings will contribute to planetary defense research and pave the way for future space exploration endeavors. As OSIRIS-APEX embarks on its journey, the scientific community eagerly anticipates the discoveries that lie ahead.
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http://vought.org/products/html/riley.html | 2018-01-24T03:41:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084893300.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180124030651-20180124050651-00378.warc.gz | 0.944524 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__224459444 | en | The Riley Twin was a conversion of the well-known four-seat Navion into a twin-engine aircraft. The Riley Aircraft Company completed the first conversion in April 1952, and the type received its Approved Type Certificate early in 1953.
Temco began production of the Riley Twin in April 1953 under a contract with the Riley Aircraft Company. In December 1953, Temco purchased the exclusive engineering and conversion rights for the Riley Twin.
In 1954 Temco introduced an improved version of the Riley Twin, the prototype flying for the first time on September 1, 1954. The new conversion had 170-horsepower Lycoming engines. The first production aircraft flew on February 23, 1955
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https://tryhelicopter.com/tours/melbourne-city-brighton-beach-boxes-helicopter-tour | 2024-04-24T19:10:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00536.warc.gz | 0.852871 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__15695627 | en | Melbourne City & Brighton Beach Boxes Helicopter Tour
Experience a 30 minute helicopter tour that combines the amazing aerial views over Melbourne CBD and the iconic beaches of Port Phillip Bay.
You will lift off from the helipad at Essendon Airport and fly past skyscrapers lining the CBD. Your pilot will then cruise low and slow down the coast flying over St Kilda, the iconic Brighton Beach Boxes and even a sunken submarine from World War 1 at Sandringham Marina.
On your return helicopter flight path, spot popular landmarks such as Luna Park, the Formula 1 Grand Prix Circuit at Albert Park and the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) with aerial views of the Yarra River, Flinders Street Station and Federation Square in Melbourne’s CBD.
This scenic helicopter flight is ideal for celebrating a special occasion like a birthday or anniversary and will be an experience you share with your partner or family for years to come. | aerospace |
https://www.uschinashipping.com/article/differences-and-precautions-for-air-shipping.html | 2024-03-02T11:15:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475806.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302084508-20240302114508-00584.warc.gz | 0.962628 | 399 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__148858418 | en | Generally, there are two ways of air shipping as we all know now. One is to carry the cargo by air, or the other is to carry the cargo on the belly of the passenger plane. But sometimes passenger planes also have aircraft cargo warehouses, but because of space restrictions, the cargo warehouse is only about 150 cubic meters, which is generally used to check luggage and transport small cargo.
The first is a cargo aircraft that was already manufactured, and a cargo aircraft converted from a passenger aircraft. Remove the seats and the on-board service facilities such as the kitchen, install the rails and other cargo space required facilities, and then become the cargo plane. Generally, there are very few civil aircraft designed for cargo transportation, and most of the cargo aircraft are generally converted from retired passenger aircraft. Passenger and cargo aircraft. The first half is for passengers, and the second half is cargo space.
The difference between air shipping and passenger aircraft, passenger aircraft can take small cargo, and cargo aircraft can take large cargo. There are few passenger aircraft cabins. Small cargo can be considered for bulk cargo, and cargo with larger pallets is recommended. Huge door design
Passenger planes have more boarding hatches and escape hatches, while cargo planes are equipped with fewer boarding gates, and are replaced by larger cargo hatches, which are distributed in the front and rear cargo holds, and the lower cargo holds. More than 2 meters, more than 3 meters wide for cargo loading.
For passenger cargo transportation, baggage trailers are used to transport checked baggage from the terminal to the apron, and then the luggage is transported to the aircraft by a luggage conveyor. The entire cabin of the cargo plane is used to store cargo so it is different from the passenger plane in terms of loading. The cargo loading of the cargo plane mainly uses a lifting platform truck. After the cargo is delivered to the height of the door, the rollers on the platform transport the cargo into the aircraft cabin. | aerospace |
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/pakistan-international-airlines-staff-sacrifices-goat-to-keep-flight-safe-and-secure | 2018-10-15T20:18:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583509690.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20181015184452-20181015205952-00420.warc.gz | 0.960231 | 535 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__204725557 | en | Well, here’s a new take on air security. Dismantle all that TSA apparatus and stock airports with black goats! Imagine how safe and secure you would feel crossing the tarmac to board that flight and spotting the goat’s carcass and the blood flowing out. Now way could that plane possibly crash now!
Seriously, this highlights the fact that the West is facing now, and will increasingly face in the future, a clash of two vastly different views of the world and of reality itself. To think that Western countries can admit large numbers of people with such an enormously different mindset and that there will be no civil strife or upheaval is naive. And no, I don’t think that every Muslim migrant thinks that sacrificing a black goat will keep an air flight safe. But to assume that this incident is not indicative of a massively different perspective and worldview would likewise be naive.
“PIA: on a wing and a prayer,” by Mohammad Asghar, Dawn, December 18, 2016:
RAWALPINDI: In an effort to seek divine intervention to keep a flight safe and secure, staff of the Pakistan International Airlines sacrificed a black goat for ‘sadqa’ near an ATR-42 aircraft after it was given clearance for take-off from the Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Sunday.
Later the plane left for Multan, making it the first ATR-42 aircraft to be pressed into service since the start of shakedown tests on all such aircraft in the wake of an air crash near Havelian on Dec 7.
According to a spokesman for the national flag carrier, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had decided to ground the ATR-42 fleet until all its aircraft had been subjected to the shakedown tests and cleared for flight operations.
The grounding of the ATR fleet had badly affected the PIA’s flights to and from cities and towns like Gwadar, Turbat, Panjgur, Moenjodaro, Zhob, Bahawalpur, D.G. Khan, Chitral and Gilgit.
The people wishing to board flights in these cities and towns had been advised to check status of their flights from the PIA Call Centre, at 111-786-786, before leaving for the airports.
The process for carrying out the shakedown tests of the ATR aircraft is still continuing, according to a source.
The CAA staff and personnel of the PIA’s quality control department are taking part in the process under which each of the aircraft will be examined thoroughly…. | aerospace |
https://qrosscheck-learning.com/courses/piper-m500-meridian-aircraft-system-training/ | 2024-04-24T18:13:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00200.warc.gz | 0.94989 | 245 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__77754347 | en | Piper M500 (Meridian) Aircraft System Training - CBT
This Aircraft System Training is an interactive e-learning course. The course is developed for pilots initial and recurrent training. It provides system training by illustrations, photos, audio and text. It is divided in chapters with multiple choice question to ensure that the pilot reach the target knowledge. After completion a course completion certificate will be sent automatically.
Duration: 16 hours
ABOUT THE COURSE
The course covers all aircraft systems and it’s based on the M500 with some differences to the older versions of the Meridian. It is an extremely efficient way of learning the Piper M500, loaded with illustrations and hands-on training with the aircraft systems.
The avionics specifics such as Garmin 1000 is available free of charge and not included in this course.
Performance, Weight, and Balance, as well as walk around, is to be dealt with by the training provider for the specific aircraft used for training.
License duration: 180 days
You will have 180 days access to the course, you can review the course as many times as you like. License extension? If you for any reason need additional time just get in contact with us. | aerospace |
https://www.northamptonairport.com/planes/gobosh-g700s | 2018-01-24T01:53:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084892892.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180124010853-20180124030853-00666.warc.gz | 0.963783 | 171 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__125831765 | en | Gobosh G700S (AERO AT-4) – an all metal aircraft – is in fact an LSA version of European AERO AT-3 aircraft.
The aircraft was designed as the affordable basic trainer with superb aerodynamics high performance, good handling and exceptional flight characteristics.
In 1993 two prototypes of AT-3 were built; first designated for the full spectrum of in flight test, the second for the static test.
The prototype of AT-3 has flown over 2000 hours in basic training missions. All flight data, pilotage and strength characteristics were checked in the tests during full scale certification process according to European joint aviation regulations (part JAR-VLA). In January 2005 the aero AT-3 R100 has received its EASA type certificate.
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https://www.roadrider.com.au/travel-stories/ural-goes-solar/ | 2023-12-04T20:31:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100534.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204182901-20231204212901-00076.warc.gz | 0.926124 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__247069966 | en | The retro-style Russian-made Ural is finally entering the space age with a limited edition model named after the combined USA-USSR Shu le-Mir space program. The Ural Mir even features a solar panel to bolster the battery to run auxiliary items such as phones, GPS and music players. It also features a sidecar windshield and a custom tonneau cover that uses reflective insulation like a space capsule and can be used as a rescue thermal blanket. And they’ve also included the wrench in an accessible position!
I’ll let the Russians explain further because their press release is hilarious: “Travel in deep space is filled with the unknown, so we’ve secured an emergency repair wrench onboard, complete with an embedded QR code for very special ‘when all else fails’ emergency repair instructions. 2014 LE Ural — the only motorcycle that comes with the solar panel, the wrench and Lev Andropov’s problem-solving method.”
Only 20 two-wheel-drive, right-sidechair units are being made and all are destined for the USA. Ural Australia spokesman Jonathon Taylor confirms we won’t be getting any here. | aerospace |
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Are you intrigued by taking your remote-controlled (RC) plane to the skies but concerned about breaking the bank? Fear not, as we delve into the exciting world of affordable RC planes tailored for beginners. Whether you’re a newcomer to the hobby or a seasoned enthusiast looking for budget-friendly options, this article is your guide to getting started with RC planes without emptying your wallet.
Quick Tips for Beginners:
- Start Small: As a beginner, opt for trainer planes or park flyers designed for novice pilots. These models typically offer stability and easy handling, making them ideal for learning the basics of RC flying.
- Research Thoroughly: Allocate some time to explore various remote-controlled (RC) plane models, examining their characteristics and customer feedback to identify the most suitable option that aligns with your budget and skill level.
- Join a Community: Connect with local RC flying clubs or online forums to seek advice, share experiences, and learn from experienced hobbyists. Community support can be invaluable, especially when starting.
- Invest Wisely: While affordability is important, prioritize quality and durability when choosing an RC plane. Look for models that offer good value for money and are built to withstand crashes and rough landings.
Now, let’s dive deeper into the world of affordable RC planes for beginners and explore everything you need to know to kickstart your aerial adventures.
Understanding RC Planes
Before we delve into specific models, let’s take a moment to understand what RC planes are and how they work. Remote-controlled aircraft, or RC planes, are miniature flying machines controlled remotely by a pilot on the ground using a handheld transmitter.
Various RC planes are available, ranging from simple gliders to high-performance aerobatic models. For beginners, it’s essential to choose a plane that is designed explicitly for novice pilots. Trainer planes and park flyers are famous for beginners due to their stability, forgiving flight characteristics, and ease of control.
When selecting an RC plane for beginners, consider factors such as wingspan, wing loading, and overall size. Smaller planes with lightweight construction are generally easier to fly and less intimidating for beginners. Additionally, look for models with built-in stabilization features like gyroscopes or SAFE (Sensor Assisted Flight Envelope) technology, which can help prevent crashes and make learning to fly more enjoyable.
Factors to Consider When Buying RC Planes
As a beginner, it’s essential to consider several factors when purchasing your first RC plane. Here are some key considerations to keep in mind:
- Budget: Establish your financial plan and adhere to it. Fortunately, plenty of affordable RC plane options are available for beginners, so you don’t have to break the bank to get started.
- Features: Look for beginner-friendly features such as durable construction, easy assembly, and stable flight characteristics. Some models may also come with additional accessories like batteries, chargers, and spare parts, saving you money in the long run.
- Skill Level: Choose an RC plane that matches your skill level and flying experience. Although choosing advanced models equipped with high-speed capabilities and aerobatic maneuvers might be alluring, newcomers should prioritize honing their fundamental skills before advancing to more complex flying techniques.
Affordable RC Planes for Beginners
Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s explore some affordable RC plane options for beginners:
- HobbyZone Champ: The HobbyZone Champ is popular for beginners due to its durable construction, stable flight characteristics, and beginner-friendly features. With its lightweight design and built-in SAFE technology, the Champ is easy to fly and perfect for novice pilots.
- E-flite Apprentice S 15e: The E-flite Apprentice S 15e is a versatile and beginner-friendly RC plane designed for novice pilots seeking a reliable, easy-to-fly aircraft.
- Volantex TrainStar Exchange: The Volantex TrainStar Exchange is a versatile trainer plane explicitly designed for beginners. Its durable EPO foam construction can withstand minor crashes and rough landings, making it ideal for novice pilots. The TrainStar Exchange has a powerful brushless motor and a reliable 2.4GHz radio system for stable and responsive control. With its gentle flight characteristics and forgiving handling, this RC plane is perfect for learning the basics of RC flying. The TrainStar Exchange is priced competitively, making it an excellent value for beginners looking to get started in the hobby without breaking the bank.
- Flyzone Sensei FS: The Flyzone Sensei FS is another excellent option for beginners seeking a capable and affordable RC plane. This ready-to-fly trainer features a durable Z-foam construction and a high-wing design for added stability and ease of control. The Sensei FS has a powerful brushless motor, a user-friendly Tactic TTX600 6-channel transmitter, and a built-in flight stabilization system for smooth and predictable flight performance. With its gentle stall characteristics and responsive controls, the Sensei FS is an excellent choice for beginners looking to progress from basic maneuvers to more advanced flying techniques. The Sensei FS offers superb value for its price, making it a popular choice among novice pilots.
- Dynam HawkSky V2: The Dynam HawkSky V2 is a beginner-friendly RC plane with exceptional performance and versatility at an affordable price point. This high-wing glider features a lightweight EPO foam construction and a powerful brushless motor for impressive flight performance and aerobatic capabilities. The HawkSky V2 has a 4-channel radio system, a 6-axis gyro stabilization system, and optional FPV (First Person View) compatibility for an immersive flying experience. With its stable flight characteristics and easy assembly, the HawkSky V2 is an excellent choice for beginners looking to take their RC flying skills to the next level. Despite its advanced features, the HawkSky V2 is competitively priced, making it an attractive option for budget-conscious pilots.
These additional RC plane options offer a range of features, performance capabilities, and price points to suit the needs and preferences of beginner pilots. If you’re looking for a cost-effective method to start your journey into remote-controlled (RC) flying, numerous options are available to cater to your requirements. These options range from simple trainer planes to advanced models capable of performing aerobatics.
Tips for Saving Money on RC Plane Equipment
In addition to affordable RC planes, there are several ways to save money on equipment and accessories:
- Buy Used: Consider purchasing used RC planes or equipment from reputable sellers to save money on upfront costs. Just scrutinize the items before purchasing to ensure they’re in good condition.
- Shop Online: Use online retailers and marketplaces to compare prices and find the best deals on RC plane equipment and accessories. Look for discounts, promotions, and bundle deals to maximize your savings.
- DIY Options: Get creative and explore DIY options for building or customizing your RC planes and equipment. Many cost-effective solutions are available for resourceful hobbyists, from homemade chargers to DIY repair kits.
Learning to Fly RC Planes:
Becoming proficient in flying control (RC) planes requires dedication and patience, which involves a learning curve and practice. However, with consistent effort and perseverance, one can master piloting these small-scale aircraft. Here’s how you can progress from novice to proficient pilot:
- Join a Local Flying Club: Becoming a member of a nearby RC flying club stands out as one of the most effective approaches for novices to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of RC flying. These clubs often have experienced members willing to offer newcomers guidance, support, and hands-on training. Additionally, flying clubs provide access to flying fields and facilities, which can make learning to fly safer and more enjoyable. Look for clubs in your area through online directories, social media groups, or hobby shops specializing in RC aviation.
- Use Simulator Programs: Simulator programs are invaluable tools for beginners to practice flying RC planes virtually. These simulations mimic actual flying situations, offering pilots a platform to refine their abilities without the potential dangers of aircraft accidents or damage. Many simulator programs provide a variety of aircraft models, flight scenarios, and training exercises to help beginners improve their flying proficiency. Some popular RC flight simulator programs include RealFlight, Phoenix RC, and AeroSIM RC. Invest in a quality simulator program and a compatible controller to maximize your training experience.
- Start with Basic Flying Techniques: As a beginner, focus on mastering the fundamental flying techniques before attempting more advanced maneuvers. Practice basic maneuvers such as takeoffs, landings, turns, and altitude control in a controlled and gradual manner. Start flying in an open area with plenty of space to maneuver and avoid obstacles. Take your time to build confidence and proficiency with these essential skills before progressing to more challenging maneuvers.
- Seek Online Resources and Tutorials: Use online resources and tutorials to supplement your learning and gain valuable insights into RC flying techniques. Countless websites, forums, and YouTube channels are dedicated to RC aviation, offering a wealth of information, tips, and tutorials for beginners. Watch instructional videos, read articles, and engage with online communities to learn from experienced pilots and enthusiasts. Some reputable online resources for RC flying include RCGroups, FliteTest, and RC Universe.
- Attend Workshops and Training Sessions: Many RC flying clubs and hobby shops offer workshops, training sessions, and events specifically tailored for beginners. These events provide hands-on instruction, demonstrations, and interactive learning opportunities to help beginners get started in RC flying. Attend local workshops and training sessions to learn from experienced instructors, ask questions, and connect with other novice pilots. These events can be invaluable for building confidence, improving skills, and networking with fellow enthusiasts.
By taking advantage of these tips and resources, beginners can quickly accelerate their learning curve and become proficient RC pilots. Remember to practice regularly, stay patient and persistent, and, most importantly, have fun exploring the skies with your RC plane!
Maintenance and Care Tips
Regular upkeep is crucial to extending the longevity of your RC aircraft and maintaining peak performance. Here’s a guide to routine maintenance checks, storage tips, and troubleshooting common issues:
Routine Maintenance Checks:
- Pre-flight Inspection: Conduct a thorough pre-flight inspection before each flight to ensure your RC plane is in good condition. Inspect for any noticeable harm, screws that are loose or absent, and ensure that all parts are securely fastened in place.
- Control Surface Alignment: Verify that all control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, rudder) are aligned correctly and move freely without binding. Adjust control linkages as needed to ensure smooth and precise control response.
- Battery Check: Inspect the battery for any signs of damage, swelling, or leakage. Ensure the battery is ultimately charged and adequately fitted into the aircraft. Monitor battery voltage levels during flight and avoid over-discharging to prevent damage to the battery.
- Propeller Inspection: Examine the propeller for any chips, cracks, or imbalances. Replace damaged propellers promptly to avoid vibration and potential damage to the motor and airframe.
- Motor and Electronics: Check the motor, ESC (Electronic Speed Controller), and other electronic components for signs of overheating or malfunction. Clean the motor and ESC cooling vents regularly to prevent overheating and ensure efficient operation.
- Landing Gear and Wheels: Inspect the landing gear and wheels for wear and tear and ensure they are adequately secured to the aircraft. Lubricate wheel bearings as needed to maintain smooth operation during takeoffs and landings.
- Dry and Cool Environment: Store your RC plane in a dry, relaxed environment away from direct sunlight, moisture, and extreme temperatures. Avoid storing the aircraft in a hot car or humid garage, as prolonged exposure to heat and humidity can damage electronic components and degrade foam materials.
- Proper Disassembly: If storing the RC plane for an extended period, consider disassembling the wings, tail, and other removable components to reduce the risk of damage during storage—store components in a protective case or box to prevent dust accumulation and physical harm.
- Battery Care: Store LiPo (Lithium Polymer) batteries at room temperature in a fireproof LiPo bag or container to minimize the risk of fire or explosion. Ensure batteries are stored at the correct voltage (approximately 3.8V per cell) to maintain longevity.
- Propeller Removal: Remove the propeller from the aircraft when not in use to prevent accidental damage or injury. Store propellers in a safe place away from children and pets.
- Covering or Dust Protection: Consider using a protective covering or dust sheet for your RC plane when storing it. This can help shield it from dust, debris, and accidental damage. Ensure that whatever cover you use allows adequate ventilation to prevent moisture buildup.
Troubleshooting Common Issues:
- Loss of Control: If you experience a loss of control during flight, immediately reduce the throttle and attempt to regain control by gently adjusting the control surfaces. Check for interference from nearby electronic devices or radio signal blockages and adjust your flying location if necessary.
- Battery Issues: Check the battery connection and voltage levels if your RC plane experiences sudden power loss or erratic behavior. Replace the battery if it’s damaged, depleted, or nearing the end of its lifespan. Avoid overcharging or over-discharging LiPo batteries to prevent damage and prolong their longevity.
- Motor or ESC Problems: If you encounter motor or ESC (Electronic Speed Controller) issues such as overheating, erratic behavior, or loss of power, inspect the motor and ESC for signs of damage or malfunction. Remove any dirt or debris obstructing the motor and ESC (Electronic Speed Controller) cooling vents, and make sure there’s unimpeded airflow to avoid overheating issues. Replace damaged components as needed and consider upgrading to a higher-quality motor or ESC for improved reliability.
- Structural Damage: After an aircraft experiences a crash or a rough landing, it is crucial to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the aircraft to identify any indications of structural harm, such as bent or broken components, fractures, or delamination. Repair damaged areas promptly using appropriate adhesive or reinforcement materials to prevent further damage and maintain structural integrity.
- Radio Interference: If you experience radio interference or glitches during flight, check for nearby sources of interference, such as power lines, Wi-Fi routers, or other RC transmitters operating on the same frequency. Fly in an open area away from potential sources of interference, or consider using a different frequency or channel to minimize signal conflicts.
By following these maintenance tips, storage guidelines, and troubleshooting strategies, you can prolong the lifespan of your RC planes and enjoy many hours of trouble-free flying fun!
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|Durable construction, beginner-friendly
|Volantex TrainStar Exchange
|Versatile trainer, forgiving flight characteristics
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|Dynam HawkSky V2
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|HobbyZone Sport Cub S 2
|Replica of the iconic Cub, SAFE technology
|FMS Easy Trainer 800
|Beginner-friendly, durable EPO foam construction
|Dromida Twin Explorer
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Starting your venture into remote control (RC) planes as a novice can bring excitement and fulfillment. With the proper guidance, dedication, and passion for flying, you can master the art of piloting these miniature aircraft and unlock a world of endless possibilities in the skies.
As you progress in your RC flying endeavors, it’s crucial to uphold patience, perseverance, and readiness to glean insights from achievements and challenges encountered during the journey. Each flight offers valuable lessons and opportunities for growth, whether refining your flying technique, troubleshooting technical issues, or exploring new flying locations and experiences.
Along the way, don’t hesitate to seek support and camaraderie from fellow RC enthusiasts, whether it’s through local flying clubs, online communities, or flying events and workshops. Sharing experiences, exchanging tips and advice, and celebrating achievements together can enhance your enjoyment of the hobby and foster lifelong friendships.
Above all, remember to have fun and embrace the wonder and adventure of flying RC planes. Whether you’re soaring through the clear blue skies, performing aerobatic maneuvers, or exploring new landscapes from above, cherish each moment and savor the joy of flight.
So, take to the skies confidently, unleash your creativity, and let your imagination soar with your RC plane. Your adventure has just started, and there are endless possibilities for what you can accomplish as a dedicated and enthusiastic RC pilot. Happy flying!
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This NASA Research Announcement (NRA), entitled “Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion-2023 (SpaceTech-REDDI-2023)” is the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) umbrella NRA solicitation.
The Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is dedicated to developing transformative, cross-cutting technologies that enable NASA’s missions while also supporting commercial and other government agencies’ needs where appropriate. The Space Technology account supports the Administration's priorities of developing new technologies to enable human and robotic exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond and enhancing research and development to contribute to U.S. leadership in space technology. Through STMD, NASA invests in high-risk, high-reward activities across the technology development spectrum through partnerships with academia, entrepreneurs, and small and large businesses.
Proposals for space technology research, development, and demonstration in support of STMD will be solicited through Appendices under this umbrella solicitation as technology topics are defined and funding is made available for new opportunities. See STMD solicitation URL https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/solicitations for anticipated releases. Release of Appendices is subject to availability of appropriated funds and may change. Additional Appendices may be issued throughout the year as needed.
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This specific Appendix is titled Early Stage Innovations (ESI) and is one of five calls for proposals from STMD’s Space Technology Research Grants (STRG) Program. Early Career Faculty (ECF), Space Technology Research Institutes (STRI), NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO), and Lunar Surface Technology Research (LuSTR) Opportunities appear as Appendix B1, Appendix B3, Appendix B4, and Appendix B5, respectively, under the SpaceTech-REDDI NRA.
This Appendix seeks proposals on specific space technologies that are currently at low Technology Readiness Levels (TRL). Investment in innovative low-TRL research increases knowledge and capabilities in response to new questions and requirements, stimulates innovation, and allows more creative solutions to problems constrained by schedule and budget. Moreover, it is investment in fundamental research activities that has historically benefited the Nation on a broader basis, generating new industries and spin-off applications.
Our Nation’s universities couple fundamental research with education, encouraging a culture of innovation based on the discovery of knowledge. Universities are, therefore, ideally positioned to conduct fundamental space technology research and to diffuse newly found knowledge into society at large through graduate students and industry, government, and other partnerships. STMD investments in space technology research at U.S. universities promote the continued leadership of our universities as an international symbol of the country's scientific innovation, engineering creativity, and technological skill. These investments also create, fortify, and nurture the talent base of highly skilled engineers, scientists, and technologists to improve America’s technological and economic competitiveness.
The ESI Appendix challenges universities to examine the theoretical feasibility of new ideas and approaches that are critical to making science, space travel, and exploration more effective, affordable, and sustainable. It is the intent of the STRG Program and this Early Stage Innovations opportunity to foster interactions between NASA and the awarded university Principal Investigators (PIs)/teams. Therefore, interaction with NASA researchers should be expected while conducting space technology research under these awards.
Step A Proposals Due: June 28, 2023
This Appendix solicits proposals for studying visionary, yet credible, advanced concepts in the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. NIAC’s goal is to “Change the Possible” in aerospace and aeronautics missions. The NIAC Program supports innovative research through Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III awards. This Appendix focuses only on Phase I proposal requirements and award information; future Appendices will be released for Phase II and Phase III opportunities. Proposers are advised that changes to this Appendix have been incorporated to clarify evaluation criteria and required proposal content. In addition, prospective proposers should review previously funded NIAC studies to ensure planned submissions are not duplicative of previously funded work.
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program focuses on early-stage feasibility studies of visionary concepts that address national government and commercial aerospace goals. Concepts are solicited from any field of study that offers a radically different approach or disruptive innovation that may significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic science and exploration missions.
The NIAC Program supports innovative research through multiple phases of study. Phase I awards are for efforts up to nine months funded at up to $175,000 per award to explore the overall feasibility and viability of visionary concepts. Phase II awards are for efforts up to two years with total funding of up to $600,000 per award to further develop the most promising Phase I concepts, and to explore potential infusion options within and beyond NASA. Concepts should be sufficiently well developed at the end of Phase II to seek follow on development funds from other NASA programs, external government programs, or commercial partners. However, in rare instances there may be a compelling need for the strategic investment of additional NIAC funds to further advance Phase II concepts with clearly defined transition paths into other NASA, government, or commercial programs. Phase III awards are designed to meet this need, with the anticipated selection of no more than one new award per year. Phase III studies will be funded for a maximum duration of two years at a total funding level of up to $2,000,000 per award. NIAC will later release separate REsearch, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion (REDDI) NRA Appendices soliciting Phase II and Phase III proposals, respectively. NIAC will allow sufficient time for eligible Phase I Fellows awarded in this solicitation to apply for Phase II follow-on support of up to two more years of study and development.
To the greatest extent practicable, participation will be open to all categories of U.S. and non-U.S. organizations, including educational, industry, nonprofit institutions, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and other Government agencies. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs), veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs), HUBZone small businesses, and women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) are encouraged to apply. Individual Appendices may identify specific eligibility limitations that apply to that relevant opportunity.
Unless Appendices specify additional information or provide limitations on the number of proposals that may be submitted by an organization, there is no restriction on the number of proposals that an organization may submit in response to an Appendix or on teaming arrangements for any one proposal. Each proposal must be a separate, standalone, complete document for evaluation purposes. | aerospace |
https://artemis.tudelft.nl/event/colloquium-icee-space-registration-mandatory/ | 2024-04-19T14:26:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817438.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419141145-20240419171145-00460.warc.gz | 0.879254 | 288 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__86523116 | en | - This event has passed.
Colloquium: ICEE Space (registration mandatory)
20/10/2022 @ 14:00 - 15:00 CESTFree
ICEE Space is an international space test, research, and development start-up for future human space exploration. Multi-planetary civilisation is a long-term ambition that will only be achievable with technical and social innovation alike. As space missions are costly, time-consuming, and involve a high risk, analogous missions on Earth have sprung out to be an alternative to re-create what astronauts will experience in space. The Construction of a Habitat inside a Lunar Analogue Lavatube in ICEland (CHILL-ICE) campaign is the flagship analogue mission of ICEE.Space and focuses on testing robotics, habitat in extreme environments, space suit design and human performance. Its latest campaign took place last August 2022 where a selected crew of 3 analogue astronauts lived for 7 days 130 metres inside a lavatube to assess their suitability for long term settlement. With these campaigns, ICEE.Space makes space exploration more accessible for research, industry, and space enthusiasts alike. It allows to discover more about our planet, and beyond – from into the Earth to into the universe.
This event is for:
All students and staff | aerospace |
http://www.saukvalley.com/2012/09/06/nasa-dawn-spacecraft-traveling-to-dwarf-planet/ayol1or/ | 2013-05-21T18:29:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700380063/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103300-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.933868 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__85990772 | en | NASA Dawn spacecraft traveling to dwarf planet
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Next and final stop: The biggest object in the asteroid belt.
After spending a year gazing at a giant asteroid, NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Wednesday began the cruise toward an even bigger target — a voyage that will take nearly three years.
Ground controllers received a signal from Dawn that it successfully spiraled away from the asteroid Vesta and was headed toward the dwarf planet Ceres.
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http://www.diyatvusa.com/2017/05/17/teen-in-india-has-developed-worlds-smallest-satellite-for-nasa/ | 2017-10-22T15:44:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825308.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022150946-20171022170946-00633.warc.gz | 0.907399 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__282745783 | en | Teen in India has developed world’s smallest satellite for NASA
SAN FRANCISCO (Diya TV) — When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launches the world’s smallest satellite, named KalamSat, on June 21, it will be the first mission in history to pilot the experiment by an Indian student.
Eighteen-year-old Rifath Sharook from Tamil Nadu’s town of Pallapatti developed the satellite, which weighs a mere 64 grams.
Named after India’s former president and nuclear scientist APJ Abdul Kalam, the satellite will be launched from a NASA facility on Wallops Island in Virginia. Sharook’s project, the first to be manufactured via 3D printing, was selected by the U.S. space authority in its “Cubes in Space” competition program. The project aims to take the performance of new technology to space.
Sharook said the launch will send the satellite into a sub-orbital flight, the mission will last an estimated 240 minutes. KalamSat will operate for 12 minutes in a micro-gravity environment of space. “The main role of the satellite will be to demonstrate the performance of 3D-printed carbon fiber,” he told the Times of India. | aerospace |
https://www.c2st.org/event/nasas-future-forum-the-history-and-future-of-space-exploration/ | 2022-08-15T13:01:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572174.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815115129-20220815145129-00078.warc.gz | 0.877336 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__138369244 | en | In Celebration of NASA’s 50th Anniversary, National Aeronautics Space Administration and Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum invited all to participate in a unique day of activities, discussions and exhibitry.
Participants joined NASA leadership, astronauts, scientists and engineers along with local business, technology and academic leaders and local, state and federal officials to discuss the role of space exploration in advancing science, engineering, technology, education and the economy that benefits your community and the nation. The program also featured an exciting preview of NASA’s Constellation Program – America’s return to the Moon and beyond.
Co-Hosted by: Boeing, Museum of Science and Industry, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Economic Club of Chicago, Illinois Space Grant Consortium, C2ST
All Day Event
Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago | aerospace |
http://astronemma.tumblr.com/post/58371204597/nasa-rover-gets-movie-as-a-mars-moon-passes | 2014-09-23T08:17:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657138086.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011218-00185-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.834555 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__142273975 | en | NASA Rover Gets Movie as a Mars Moon Passes Another
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. Large craters on Phobos are clearly visible in these images from the surface of Mars. No previous images from missions on the surface have caught one moon eclipsing the other.
Read more via NASA.gov | aerospace |
http://news.airwise.com/freight_news.html | 2013-12-13T15:15:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164950517/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204134910-00022-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.955571 | 427 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__113206107 | en | December 5, 2013
Nigeria's Abuja airport has been closed since Wednesday night after a Saudi Arabian cargo plane veered off the runway.
December 6, 2013
Airbus and Boeing look set for a photo finish in their annual order race this year, but Airbus was well in front of its rival in the first 11 months as negotiators work out the small print of major deals clinched at the Dubai Airshow.
November 20, 2013
Air Canada and Cargojet are looking at an alliance both within their host country and internationally.
November 19, 2013
Lufthansa Cargo's new freighters may deliver more than 5 percent capacity growth in 2014 if this year's "hint" of an upturn takes hold but otherwise they will just replace old aircraft, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.
November 18, 2013
Shanghai International Airport, China's biggest airport operator by market value, saw cargo volumes at its Pudong airport increase in October for the first time in nine months as a new free trade zone boosted trade.
November 17, 2013
Qatar Airways has placed an order for five Airbus A330 freighters as it expands its cargo business.
November 12, 2013
Global Aviation, the largest commercial provider of charter air transportation for the US military, filed for bankruptcy protection early on Tuesday, just months after emerging out of its prior reorganization process.
November 8, 2013
Boeing has handed over to Lufthansa its first 777F freighter after the aircraft maker had to carry out last-minute repairs to the left wing, a spokesman for Lufthansa's cargo unit said on Friday.
October 29, 2013
Boeing has delayed the delivery of Lufthansa's first 777F freighter, just a few days before it was due to land amid ceremony in Frankfurt, while the aircraft maker carries out minor repairs to the left wing.
October 11, 2013
Swissport said on Friday it had bought a 10 percent stake in each of Scandinavian airline SAS's three ground handling companies. | aerospace |
http://www.alexiagiordano.com/2019/general/all-regarding-how-to-take-care-of-technique-air-drone/ | 2019-12-14T15:27:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541281438.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214150439-20191214174439-00525.warc.gz | 0.957715 | 527 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__51394964 | en | Drones happen to be utilized by most people and tend to be a great deal well versed in controlling it. While discovering regarding the best way to traveling the drone, then it’s essential on studying following oversees.
The roll utilized in it will be employed to roll the drones in a choice of proper or remaining and then for this the correct adhere will likely be used typically used on the hand held handheld control. The pitch from the drones is going to be considered to lean the drones which element is conducted by moving the stay shifting backwards and forwards. The yaw with this can be used for rotating the drone in a selection of proper or remaining route. This is achieved by transferring the still left important in the direction of right or kept. It can help the initial to alter the route within the drone. Every one of these about moving drones in proper or left option, but should you be looking to move your drone downward or higher, then for that you can use the throttle. To manage previously listed stuff, the lower will probably be utilized. In the event you desire to adjust the whole volume of products, then it may be done through the help of the control buttons about the handheld management.
Despite the fact that finding out how to functionality some tactic air drone reviews, just for this at first you have to be grasp in managing the drone, right before you should assume responsibility past flying for leisurely purpose. Operating the drone would be exactly like touring, in begin this can be very hard work, but when you are knowledgeable you simply will not believe you just before. What is important that must be keep in mind is the fact, you needed to push the stick very carefully for many softer motions of drones. At first if you want operate the drone, you need to mainly begin it by relocating the drones a little in all of the route. Understanding the handles and also discover how these are generally functioning ought to be the important denote journey this piece of equipment easily.
The distant system is also referred to as transmitter and this is actually the only issue, which will allow you to control your drones and travel it in ways for you to do it. The transmitter brand is the perfect 1, since this transmits the signs to drone as soon as you need to shift then struck to stick the control secrets. You can make your drone to travel very easily simply by using the keep along with the key in handheld management. Despite the fact that initially, you are hoping to boost your drone while using remote control, you could discover the drone can lean from a single way to yet another and in addition movements in desired direction. | aerospace |
http://iawa.org/nbaa-connect-march-2017/ | 2018-01-23T01:34:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891705.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123012644-20180123032644-00427.warc.gz | 0.959184 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__127808804 | en | Three IAWA members, Ellyn Slow, Melissa Harder and Sharon Holahan, presented an Insurance Panel at the NBAA Tax, Registration and Legal conference in Bonita Springs on March 6th, 2017. Attendees were from the Banking, Operations, Regulatory and Legal sectors of the Business Aviation Industry.
IAWA also sponsored an IAWA connect that was attended by 15 women attending the conference. All noted that the female attendance at this conference far surpassed the number of women that had attended the conference in the past.
Thank you to our sponsor!
Ellyn Slow Consulting, LLC specializes in aviation risk management focusing on analyzing and reviewing insurance policies, contracts and emergency response plans. Ellyn has 32 years of experience in the general aviation industry and is a recognized leader for creating the first Hull and Liability Insurance Policy for fractional ownership and the most comprehensive Global Emergency Response Plan for NetJets, Inc. Both of Ellyn’s innovative programs became the approved models for the entire general aviation industry. As President of Ellyn Slow Consulting, Ellyn currently advises private business aviation companies in mitigating their risks. www.ellynslowconsulting.com | aerospace |
http://core-ap.co.uk/christine-farrell | 2017-11-23T20:23:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806939.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123195711-20171123215711-00487.warc.gz | 0.943431 | 192 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__156531064 | en | Christine Farrell PPL(H) CPL(H) BA MLitt AFBPsS CPsychol EAAP CertEd
Christine is a helicopter pilot with private and commercial licences and is a member of the British Women's Pilot Association with over 1500 hours flying experience gained in Europe and Australia. She is a Chartered Organisational Psychologist and an Accredited Human Factors Specialist with membership of the European Association for Aviation Psychology and Associate Fellow membership of the British Psychological Society. Her knowledge of helicopter operations is broad, given the research for her book "Helicopter Operations - Pilots Perspectives". She established two successful helicopter operations in Australia and was approved by its Civil Aviation Safety Authority as Chief Pilot for both organisations. With twin careers in Organisational Psychology and Rotary Aviation she has extensive consultancy, aviation and training experience and has special interests in organisational culture, aviation human factors, psychological assessment, team building, performance management and aviation safety. | aerospace |
http://www.progressiveair.org/blog/archives/06-2011 | 2024-04-19T11:40:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00558.warc.gz | 0.925717 | 510 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__31079731 | en | The FAA amended 14 CFR 67.401 (Special Issuance of Medical certificates). Paragraph (j) now states that for a pilot who holds a Special Issuance Authorization letter or a Statement of Demonstrated Ability, that letter "...must be in that person's physical possession or readily accessible in the aircraft." The rule was implemented by the FAA Flight Standards Division primarily to be in compliance with ICAO standards. For pilots flying internationally this means that you may be asked to produce your Special Issuance Authorization letter (and any Statement of Demonstrated Ability) in addition to a current medical certificate.
Pilots with questions about this regulatory requirement should call their AME to discuss implications for their personal situation.
Beginning March 2011, FAA aircraft registration certificates have a three-year expiration date. Operators will have to renew certificates based upon the month of expiration. A full chart of the aircraft re-registration schedule can found by clicking here.
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If we were flying from this area of High pressure to this area of Low pressures, in general, how would the weather change?
(Using a Prog Chart). Show me a Cold front, how about a Warm front. In general, describe the types of weather associated with these type of fronts.
If the temp is 8 degrees "C" on the surface, at what altitude will the freezing level be at?
I noticed the temp & dew point are within 1 degree and the winds are calm on the latest METAR. What type of weather phenomenom could occure?
Making sense of IFR GPS operations Are you training for the instrument rating? You’ll soon find that while there’s no doubt that technology can help us become safer pilots, learning that technology can be a daunting task. When it comes to using your GPS for instrument flight, the middle of a cloud is no place to fumble with making sense of the buttons and which ones you need to push. Let the Air Safety Institute put you on the right path to understanding it all with the GPS for IFR Operations online safety course. | aerospace |
https://stemgeeks.net/undefined/@bluerobo/rocket-labs-21st-mission-live-29072021-0600-utc | 2021-10-19T15:54:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585270.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019140046-20211019170046-00490.warc.gz | 0.885527 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__229587316 | en | The mission is called It’s a Little Chile Up Here and delivers a classified payload for the United States Space Force to low-earth orbit.
The launch takes place at Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.
There will be no recovery attempt this time. Especially because the last mission failed and resulted in a loss of mission. The second stage engine was gimballed into an extreme position and resulted in the stage spinning out of control.
Here is Scott Manley: Rocket Lab's 20th Launch Spins Out Of Control After Successful Booster Flight.
Why it's interesting:
- 21th launch of the Electron rocket by Rocket Lab
- The engines are 3D printed
- Fuel pumps are battery powered.
- The stages are built out of carbon composite material.
Where to watch:
- 15 minutes before launch: Rocket Lab
Check your local time of launch at: www.timeanddate.com
Useful links to stay up to date on launches:
Spaceflightnow.com: Launch Schedule
Everyday Astronaut: Prelaunch Previews
NASA Spaceflight nasaspacefight.com | aerospace |
https://www.aurorachamber.org/tag/buckley-afb/ | 2024-04-14T06:59:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816875.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414064633-20240414094633-00341.warc.gz | 0.958475 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__176491815 | en | More than 120 people attended September’s Defense Council meeting at the Aerospace Data Facility Colorado on Buckley Air Force Base.
October’s Defense Council was hosted by the 140th Wing, Colorado Air National Guard (COANG), Buckley AFB, CO, with breakfast sponsored
The June 2017 Defense Council featured a panel of members from the contracting community, who shared tips about doing business with the government. Members
In place of the regularly scheduled Defense Council meeting, the State of the Base was held on Wednesday, Jan. 18.
Colonel David Miller Jr., Commander of the 460th Space Wing & Buckley AFB Installation Commander addressed community leaders at the
November’s Defense Council was hosted by the 460th Space Wing, Buckley AFB. Colonel David Miller, 460 SW Commander and Buckley
October’s Defense Council was hosted by the Colorado National Guard at the Joint Forces Headquarters in Centennial. Major General Mike
More than 110 people attended the Defense Council meeting on Thurs, September 22, 2016. The entire event was perfectly orchestrated | aerospace |
http://militarypower.wikidot.com/condor | 2017-04-27T06:56:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121893.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00058-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.909104 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__63838651 | en | Military aircraft and equipment
- AGM-53 Condor, an American air-to-surface missile
- Antonov An-124, a Russian/Soviet transport aircraft (NATO reporting name "Condor")
- C-30 Condor, an American transport
- Focke-Wulf Fw 200, a German aircraft used for long range maritime patrol and reconnaissance during World War II
- Condor missile, 1,500 km range missile developed by Argentina
- Condor (APC), a German armored personnel carrier, best known for its use by Malaysian forces.
- Stoeger Condor, a type of shotgun.
- RU-38 Twin Condor covert reconnaissance aircraft
- Condor Legion, a Nazi military unit which intervened on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War
- HMH-464 - United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron known as the Condors.
- Operation Condor has been the codename of a number of military operations, one of them: Operation Condor, a campaign of assassination and "counter-terrorism" by right-wing military governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the mid-1970s
- RM Condor, the home base of 45 Commando, Royal Marines situated in Arbroath on the east coast of Scotland
- USS Condor-Bird Class Minelayer under construction at the end of World War I but not completed due to the ending of hostilities.
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https://lompocrecord.com/news/local/spacex-falcon-rocket-rumbles-over-central-coast-carries-satellites-into/article_915dfa21-9f67-5a8c-b404-95443c7c8a7d.html | 2018-06-23T19:35:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865181.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623190945-20180623210945-00476.warc.gz | 0.935821 | 569 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__29589265 | en | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent a bright orb of light streaking through the morning sky over the Central Coast prior to sunrise Monday as part of an ongoing mission the company describes as “one of the largest tech upgrades in history.”
The predawn launch, which rattled homes and set off car alarms throughout the Lompoc Valley, began at 5:37 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex-4. The rocket carried with it the third set of 10 satellites for Iridium, a company that specializes in mobile voice and data satellite communications.
About seven and a half minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s first stage was successfully landed on SpaceX’s “Just Read the Instructions” droneship in the Pacific Ocean. With the landing, the company will be able to reuse the booster in a future launch.
The primary mission for the launch was the third stage in the replacement of the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation, which is described by Iridium and SpaceX as the world’s largest commercial network of low-Earth orbit satellites.
All 10 satellites were deployed from the rocket's second stage Monday about an hour and 12 minutes after the initial launch. SpaceX reported just after 7:50 a.m. that Iridium had acquired "healthy signals" from each of the satellites.
Col. Michael S. Hough, commander of the 30th Space Wing at VAFB, was the space launch commander for the mission.
"This is the fourth Falcon 9 and the third Iridium NEXT launch in 2017 from Vandenberg," Hough said. "This launch continues to highlight the extraordinary level of teamwork and precision that exists between Team Vandenberg and SpaceX."
SpaceX is set to carry 75 of the 81 Iridium satellites in the constellation over the course of eight Falcon 9 launches.
“The process of replacing the satellites one-by-one in a constellation of this size and scale has never been completed before,” read a portion of a release from SpaceX ahead of Monday’s launch.
Among the services that will be enabled by the Iridium NEXT satellites will be Iridium Certus, the company’s next-generation communications platform. Iridium Certus, according to SpaceX, will deliver faster speeds for Iridium's vast network of partners that provide services for aviation, maritime, terrestrial and government organizations, and the Internet of Things, which are physical devices embedded with network connectivity.
“A service of this quality and value is unprecedented in the industry, and is poised to disrupt the current market status quo,” read the SpaceX release.
With three of the Iridium NEXT launches now completed, the next five are slated to take place by mid-2018, according to SpaceX. | aerospace |
http://progress-index.com/news/nasa-to-join-research-facility-in-prince-george-1.1509641 | 2014-08-21T06:17:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500815050.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021335-00169-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.896298 | 449 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__193988017 | en | NASA to join research facility in Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE - NASA will soon be making a footprint in Prince George County.
NASA Langley Research Center recently announced that it will join the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing as a government member.
CCAM is a research-based collaboration between the University of Virginia, Virginia State University, Virginia Tech and manufacturing companies worldwide.
Member companies drive research at the public-private research partnership in the areas of surface engineering and manufacturing systems.
In a statement, CCAM said that NASA's addition will speed the process of bringing novel technologies to the market sooner.
"Our collaboration with CCAM will combine the strengths of NASA in basic science and applications critical to aeronautics and space exploration, with the proven advanced manufacturing engineering and technology capabilities of the CCAm membership," Lesa Roe, NASA Langley's director, said in a statement.
Research will take place at the CCAM in Prince George as well as at NASA Langley Reserach Center in Hampton.
"These developments will have broad ranging impacts critical to NASA and industry, including the ability to strengthen composites and fortify alloys and metals, and improve manufactured fuselages, space vehicle equipment, satellite components and other equipment," Armand F. Lauzon Jr., chairman of the CCAM board, said in a statement.
Currently, about 50 student interns work alongside university faculty and CCAM scientists at CCAM and labs around the state.
CCAM is located in Prince George County on the 1,000-acre Rolls-Royce Crosspointe Campus. The facility is a stone's throw away from the Rolls Royce jet engine components plant.
CCAM industry partners include Canon Virginia Inc., Chromalloy, Newport News Shipbuilding, Rolls-Royce, Sandvik Coromant, Siemens, Sulzer Metco, Aerojet, Hermle Machine Co., Mitutoyo, TurboCombustor Technology Inc., Buehler, Cool Clean Technologies, GF AgieCharmilles, and Blaser Swisslube.
- Vanessa Remmers can be reached at 804-722-5155 or email@example.com. | aerospace |
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/advanced-aerospace-technology-news.1591523/ | 2022-06-28T00:57:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103344783.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627225823-20220628015823-00559.warc.gz | 0.952809 | 2,063 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__123196285 | en | NASA is claiming a breakthrough in quiet supersonic aircraft, with successful windtunnel tests of designs that combine low sonic boom and low cruise drag - characteristics once thought to be mutually exclusive.
Commenting on the completion of boom and performance tests by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASA Supersonic Fixed Wing project manager Peter Coen says: “This is a breakthrough. It’s the first time we have taken a design representative of a small supersonic airliner and shown we can change the configuration in a way that is compatible with high efficiency and have a sonic signature than is not a boom.”
The trick is in the shaping of the airframe to tailor the shockwaves so that they produce a sinusoidal pressure signature at the ground, rather than the abrupt N-wave shape of a traditional "double-bang" sonic boom. Instead of powerful bow and aft shockwaves, the aim is to generate lots of smaller shocks along the airframe that attenuate more quickly as they travel through the atmosphere. Boeing's model (above) shows the result of all that subtle shaping.
Boeing's design for a 202ft-long, 30-passenger supersonic airliner acheived a boom level of 81PLdB at Mach 1.8 in NASA Ames' 9 x 7ft tunnel. Lockheed's design for a 230ft-long, 81-passenger trijet (below) achieved 79PLdB at Mach 1.6. NASA's goal is 85PLdB. "That's 25dB less than Concorde and 20dB less than the best we achieved under HSR [NASA's High Speed Research program]," Coen says.
Airbus will likely (very) soon announce the A320 NEO for which the PW GTF seems a likely candidate. This aircraft will form the backbone of NB sales for the next 10 years.
The A320 will be succeeded by a new narrowbody when substantial technological advances have been made and the market situation demands so. Last year a few possible configurations for the Aircraft dubbed A30X have been released.
The two concepts with engine above the aft fuselage have been studied in various european research programs during the last decade. The third concpet shows a more radical redesign. It seems this concept is newer, Airbus used this summer for discussing future designs, produced additional models and graphics.
Although these are concepts only, I think a few interesting design directions become visible.
Wings: long slim clean, laminar flow wings most OEMS are looking after.
Engines: no open rotors but a more conventional ducted variant (although we do not know what’s inside). This concpet would indicate the industry isn't confident open rotor like promoted by RR will become feasible..
Airbus is studying the A2, a Mach 8 hypersonic aircraft:Сталин;100236092 said:Where's airbus with supersonic flight?!?!
It would require both a powerful engine that could take the aircraft over open water at incredibly high speeds while being able to fly more slowly over land to avoid sonic boom noise issues. The aircraft is in very early stages.Airbus Mach 8 Hydrogen Hypersonic Airliner on the Drawing Board
If the European Union has its way they will in the not to far future a hydrogen-fueled hypersonic aircraft. The European Space Agency just got $14.5 million in a second round of funding from the EU to study the idea of developing A2, a hydrogen-fueled hypersonic aircraft that might travel at an incredible speed of Mach 5.5. They're studying what it would take to build an aircraft so fast that you could fly from Brussels to Sydney in 4.6 hours. Sheesh, that's 10,407 miles. There's even talk of an engine that could propel the craft to Mach 8. This rocket plane makes the Mach 2 of the Concorde seem glacially slow.
The trick here is to develop a special engine they're calling Scimitar, capable of thrusting the craft to those rocket-like speeds. It will be a rocket engine with a turbo compressor added, without needing liquid oxygen like those used in the boosters that send spacecraft into orbit. Such an engine is also capable of slower flight, allowing the aircraft to fly over land where supersonic speeds aren't permitted because of sonic booms.
http://www.spiegel.de/international...f-faster-greener-space-concorde-a-769435.htmlAirbus Dreams of Faster, Greener Space Concorde
Airbus has a new dream, and its name is ZEHST (Zero Emission High Supersonic Transport). Design plans detail a "hypersonic" commercial jet that can carry up to 100 passengers while cruising at 4,200 kilometers per hour (2,600 miles per hour) at an altitude of 32 kilometers (20 miles). The ambitious project is meant to fill the void in air travel left when the legendary Concorde was retired from service in late 2003. But its developers have another goal in mind as well -- combining three different types of propulsion systems to make it considerably more eco-friendly than its predecessor.
Since 2006, engineers at EADS, the aerospace group that owns the airplane manufacturer Airbus, have been working on the design for French and Japanese clients. During a presentation delivered Sunday, one day ahead of the Paris Air Show opening at the Le Bourget airport, EADS CEO Louis Gallois stressed that all technical problems related to the project are solvable, but that it could still take 30 to 40 years before this vision became a reality. "We're not talking about a product that we launch in the next few years," Gallois said, according to news agency Reuters. "We have to see security, integration of different technologies, how man reacts to it."
The A2 Hypersonic airliner is a byproduct of the Skylon Spaceplane ProjectСталин;100267274 said:Since they are being supported by The European Space Agency, wouldn't they be able to travel into space? All we'd need then would be some colony on Mars or the Moon for it to fly to...
Boeing is heavily immersed in defense space, something that could later yield civillian transoprts, but has shunned commercial space endeavours which are highly risky, capital-intensive and subject to difficult and untested market conditions. There is no doubt that they are watching SpaceX and Virgin Galactic closely.Сталин;100305051 said:Its interesting how all these new companies plan to build such spacecraft while, Airbus and Boeing don't seem to have any space traveling dreams.
Boeing are equal partners of United Launch Alliance, with Lockheed Martin. They've been selling launches to nasa and other companies for years.Сталин;100305051 said:Its interesting how all these new companies plan to build such spacecraft while, Airbus and Boeing don't seem to have any space traveling dreams.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...r-71-blackbird-and-it-is-gorgeous/?tid=pm_popBY BRIAN FUNG
November 1 at 10:58 am
The SR-71, arguably the country's most recognizable spy plane after the U-2, was retired in 1998 . . . .
More than a decade after the last SR-71 was decommissioned, Lockheed Martin has unveiled the gorgeous-looking SR-72. It flies just as far and twice as fast as its predecessor — and, in a twist, it's now lethal, according to Aviationweek:
The SR-72 is being designed with strike capability in mind. “We would envision a role with over-flight ISR, as well as missiles,” Leland says. Being launched from a Mach 6 platform, the weapons would not require a booster, significantly reducing weight. The higher speed of the SR-72 would also give it the ability to detect and strike more agile targets. “Even with the -SR-71, at Mach 3, there was still time to notify that the plane was coming, but at Mach 6, there is no reaction time to hide a mobile target. It is unavoidable ISR,” he adds.
The jet accelerates by way of a two-part system. A conventional jet turbine helps boost the aircraft up to Mach 3, at which point a specialized ramjet takes over and pushes the plane even faster into hypersonic mode.
From Lockheed's mock-ups, there doesn't appear to be a bubble for the pilot — which suggests a windowless cockpit or fantasies about a future unmanned version of the plane . . . .
I can't imagine what psychopaths would have "fantasies" about murdering people with something that could be used so greatly to help people.which suggests a windowless cockpit or fantasies about a future unmanned version of the plane . . . .
The Concorde was in the past, with aged technologies. I believe that with new and efficient technologies, a hypersonic passenger plane is possible, although it would need to use a very inexpensive fuel. Concord failed because its fuel costs where so high, and not many people could afford flying on them, therefore if the fuel it uses is biofuel that's cheap, or another source of energy, it would be possible. The government spends millions on these planes, and yet they are never used, except maybe once or twice if a war happens but that's unlikely. It would be the same as dumping millions into water and not getting it back. The government could invest in carrying passengers for free rather than having these for a war that will never happen.Hypersonic planes simply don't work economically in civilian aviation. The Concord proved that.
Meanwhile, what nation are you thinking of that doesn't want any planes that "murder" people? Certainly not Russia or Germany. | aerospace |
http://johnglennmbci.blogspot.com/2015/01/nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong-when.html | 2018-07-23T08:01:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676595531.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723071245-20180723091245-00123.warc.gz | 0.951016 | 917 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__129029240 | en | WELCOME TO FLIGHT 007.
This is a fully automated flight. The only flight crew on board are the Flight Attendants. Computers will fly the plane, so relax and enjoy the first fully computer-controlled flight.
Rest assured that nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go …
When we surrender to technology
Following the disappearance of AirAsia Flight 8501 some people are comparing the loss to the crash of Air France Flight 447 and speculating that a technology failure coupled with pilot error might be the cause for both crashes.
"Pilot error" actually translates for those speculating, to lack of pilot training. In the case of the Air France Airbus A330, it is known that the flight deck crew failed to work together, that they made bad decisions that, in the end, put the plane into the Atlantic.
Air France Flight 447 went down after entering a storm that, according to information provided by the recovered "black box," caused the air speed pitot to freeze up, cancelling auto-pilot and apparently causing instrument failure.
AirAsia Flight 8501, an Airbus A320, also flew into a storm before disappearing into the sea.
While the Air France disaster is directly attributable to lack of air crew training and dependence on technology, the same can be said for the air crew of the Asiana Flight 214 that crashed its Boeing 777-200 short of the runway at San Francisco International. According to reports, the auto-pilot went off and the flight crew was insufficiently trained to make adjustments to airspeed and altitude to avoid the crash.
Common problem When flying in environments where there is no reference to the ground - above clouds, in storms, at night - humans often are disoriented and lose their sense of attitude (up, down; left, right). Pilots train to depend on instruments to maintain the aircraft's attitude. If the instruments fail . . .
On the other hand
When flight crews ARE thoroughly trained, when something goes wrong, the plane still is brought down safely.
Not so long ago the pilot of US Air Flight 1549, one Chesley B. Sullenberger III, managed a safe landing in the Hudson River after his plane lost power due to birds being sucked into the Airbus A320-214's two engines.
Sullenberger flew gliders, and later trained others, during his freshman year at the Air Force Academy. While in the Air Force, he was a member of an aircraft accident investigation board
Back in 1983, Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767-233 ran out of fuel before reaching its Edmonton destination.
The pilot, Captain Robert Pearson, was an experienced glider pilot, so he was familiar with flying techniques almost never used by commercial pilots.
According to the Wikipedia entry, The 767 was one of the first airliners to include an Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS), which operated on the electricity generated by the aircraft's jet engines. With both engines stopped, the system went dead, leaving only a few basic battery-powered emergency flight instruments. While these provided sufficient information with which to land the aircraft, a vertical speed indicator—that would indicate the rate at which the aircraft was descending and therefore how long it could glide unpowered—was not among them.
First Officer Maurice Quintal began to calculate whether they could reach Winnipeg. He used the altitude from one of the mechanical backup instruments, while the distance traveled was supplied by the air traffic controllers in Winnipeg, measuring the distance the aircraft's echo moved on their radar screens.
The bottom line for the Air Canada flight was a powerless landing on a drag strip at a former Canadian Air Force Base in Gimli.
As an aside, Sullenberger's Airbus 320 and Pearson's Boeing 767 have glide paths of "about" 15:1 ( the aircraft drops one foot for ever 15 feet forward). That varies by weight of the vehicle, but typically large jets fly at 30,000 feet or higher; at a 15:1 ratio - you do the math.
While the above applies to air travel, training to handle events when technology fails is a requirement for almost all endeavors. From simple things: the electricity is off or the phone won't work, to critical things like brakes failing on a vehicle or a mechanical failure on a production line, people need to know what to do and feel confident in doing what is necessary. That comes only from training, training, and more training. | aerospace |
https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/virtual-planetarium-takes-you-to-the-middle-of-planets-northern-lights-and-satellites | 2023-05-29T17:46:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644907.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529173312-20230529203312-00119.warc.gz | 0.882936 | 227 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__216860565 | en | Time: 20 August to 12 September 2021, 12pm–7 p.m. daily
Place: Helsinki Central Library Oodi, Kuutio space, 2nd floor
Sustainable space tourism will soon be available to everyone when the Aalto University’s Spacewalk exhibition opens in Kuutio, Helsinki Central Library Oodi.
For more than ten years, Aalto University researchers have been carrying out computer simulations that are used in the research of space weather in the solar system and in the development of different space technologies. The simulations play a major role in utilising the observations of the BepiColombo Mercury probe and the MarsExpress Mars probe.
In Kuutio, exhibition guests can admire simulations with VR glasses. It's like a spacewalk around planets, asteroids and satellites. The controls can be used to move around and click to see additional information about the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, the northern lights or the Suomi 100 satellite. A space soundscape has also been created in the planetarium for this purpose and it highlights the special features of the solar system. | aerospace |
https://trainwithcae.com/e-learning-courses/learjet-40-45-lpv-waas-training/ | 2021-08-04T05:55:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154796.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20210804045226-20210804075226-00563.warc.gz | 0.805734 | 160 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__161690656 | en | Learjet 40/45 LPV/WAAS Training
The LPV/WAAS training course presents the Learjet 40/45 FMS 4.1 and GPS upgrades.
The update introduces satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) navigation to support the new category of approach, approach procedures with vertical guidance (APV). The LPV/SBAS update improves runway access as LPV enables lower minimas to support landing during periods of reduced visibility.
Demonstrations are used to illustrate LPV approach procedures.
Upon completion of this course, the student will describe the system updates, controls and indications for LPV and WAAS capable aircraft.
– Flight management system
– Glossary of terms
– WAAS advantages
– GNSS configuration
– LPV approaches | aerospace |
https://www.cafmusiccity.org/ | 2024-04-13T01:23:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816465.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412225756-20240413015756-00898.warc.gz | 0.961565 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__134647491 | en | CAF Music City Wing
The Commemorative Air Force Music City Wing operates out of the Lebanon Municipal Airport (M54) just east of Nashville, TN.
Our Wing was formed in 2021. Currently we operate two aircraft, a PT-19, commonly referred to as “The Cradle of Heroes.” and a North American Aviation T-6 "Texan" used by the Navy as an SNJ-4.
The CAF has more than 12,000 members and a fleet of more than 180 airplanes. The fleet contains American aircraft and select foreign aircraft from military conflicts since World War II. | aerospace |
http://ruf.s33.xrea.com/spacex-capsule-initiates-series-of-manoeuvres-to-lower-altitude-for-landing/?lang=pt | 2021-10-23T21:57:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585768.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023193319-20211023223319-00652.warc.gz | 0.941925 | 1,333 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__179940371 | en | What is the launch time today for SpaceX Inspiration4 in Florida?
After spending about two days in orbit aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule, conducting scientific research, enjoying a few meals, interacting with people on Earth, and even placing a sports bet from space, the spacecraft has begun a series of manoeuvres to lower orbit for landing.
The team is currently flying in an orbit 565km above the Earth after circling around the planet several times at heights of 585km and 575km, SpaceX noted.
The crew has experienced over 25 sunrises and 25 sunsets since they’ve been in space.
They will fall back down to Earth after spending 3 days in space, landing in the ocean for a splashdown.
If the mission is a success, it will mark a major step forward for space tourism, and for Elon Musk e SpaceX’s plans to make it accessible to anyone with the money to fund a rocket and spacecraft to carry them to orbit.
The Inspiration4 crew is scheduled to return to Earth at 7:06 PM. EDT on Saturday.
The Dragon spacecraft would perform a series of maneuvers to lower to an altitude of about 365km today and line up with the landing site in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, SpaceX tweeted.
Bezos and Musk friendly over Inspiration4 success
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have been falling out recently, mostly over the contracts won by Musk’s SpaceX to take astronauts to the Moon, which Bezos has attempted to get back for his own Blue Origin through legal processes. Musk has repeatedly mocked Bezos.
The Inspiration4 mission is also a reminder of how much further along with space tourism SpaceX is than Blue Origin. Bezos’s trip to space was much hyped, but he barely touched the edge; it doesn’t have the capability for anything like the three-day trip that Inspiration4 represents.
They appear to have found common cause, Contudo, no (perhaps questionable) belief that this very expensive trip is a journey towards making space availlable to everyone.
The inspiration4 crew has so far completed over 15 orbits during their first day in space.
Over the course of the last 24 horas, the astronauts have conducted a set of science experiments, answered questions from patients at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and even made a historic first sports bet from outer space.
Where will Inspiration4 land?
When the craft re-enters the atmosphere, two ‘drogue’ parachutes will be deployed, followed by four main canopies to alleviate the fall.
Atualmente, it is unclear where exactly the craft will descent, but it is planned to fall into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida on 19 September at one of several possible landing sites. It will be a “soft water landing”, where hopefully no damage to the craft will occur.
The Inspiration4 crew interacted from space with patients from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Mission’s “chief medical officer” Hayley Arceneaux is a bone cancer survivor turned St. Jude physicians’ assistant.
The crew have also brought some personal items inside the craft.
Hayley Arceneaux brought a photograph of herself aged 10, when she was enduring bone cancer treatment, while Jared Isaacman is taking custom dragon pendants made for the trip. Christopher Sembroski is taking two pints that belonged to his mother-in-law’s great-grandmother, and Sian Proctor is taking a commemorative coin from Guam, given to her by her parents.
As well as the Kings of Leon’s song, other items on board Inspiration4 include:
- Inspiration4 mission jackets featuring unique artwork by St. Jude patients, and original artwork by the Inspiration4 crew members, that were created by Space for Art Foundation co-founders artist Ian Cion and retired Nasa astronaut Nicole Stott, and handmade by spacesuit replica artist Ryan Nagata.
- 66 pounds of hops that, upon return, will be used to brew an out-of-this world beer by the brewers of Samuel Adams.
- A Fisher Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Space Pen & Coin Set containing a piece of material from Apollo 11.
- A ukulele from Martin Guitar that crew member Chris Sembroski will play in space.
- 50 art NFTs from 50 different artists will be auctioned on Origin Protocol’s NFT platform in collaboration with Subtractive, including an NFT that crew member Dr. Sian Proctor will bring into space that was also a piece of physical art that previously travelled to the Mariana Trench, making it the first piece of art that went to the furthest ocean depths and then into orbit.
- A handful of plastic and plush STEM toys based on the five characters from the popular animated STEM series, “Space Racers.”
- A mini-astronaut plush that will be delivered to the winning bidder with an original collar designed by renowned artist Romero Britto.
- The recent Time magazine with cover feature of the four crew members that they will autograph after the SpaceX Dragon capsule returns.
- IWC Schaffhausen has designed and donated four unique, space-themed Pilot’s Watch Chronographs representing the mission’s values of Leadership, Hope, Generosity and Prosperity.
- Customized Montblanc StarWalker Writing Instruments and stationeries for the crew to write about their journey in space.
The Kings of Leon’s NFT
Also on the Inspiration4 mission is a non-fungible token by the band Kings of Leon, a never-before-released performance of the song Time in Disguise from the band’s newest album.
“We’re honored to participate in this historic journey in an effort to raise money for St. Jude, and we’re sending all our best to the crew of Inspiration4”, the band said in a statement.
SpaceX breached a new Dragon altitude record at a circular orbit of 585 quilômetros, higher than both the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope – e 10 kilometres higher than the private space company initially planned.
This was the view from Inspiration4’s Dragon capsule cupola as it left the Earth | aerospace |
https://thedefencenews.com/newsletter-signup-about-us-resource-library-more-special-features-air-land-naval-space-networks-cyber-all-domain-congress-pentagon-global-search-for-featured-modern-day-marine-paris-air-s/ | 2024-02-26T13:14:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226130305-20240226160305-00332.warc.gz | 0.947803 | 1,849 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__117409904 | en | The robotic arms built by the Naval Research Laboratory to be carried on a SpaceLogistics Mission Robotic Vehicle are designed to operate “autonomously” to do “inspection, orbital adjustment, repair and upgrade” missions on spacecraft “that were not designed to be grappled,” Bill Vincent, the lab’s program manager, told Breaking Defense.
With recently completed ground testing and a new commercial client, the public-private partnership between the Pentagon’s far-future research agency and Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics to develop a robotic vehicle to physically repair ailing satellites is moving toward launch in early 2025, according to officials involved.
“There’s a lot of folks who say robotics has been around for a long time. The challenge is space-based robotics,” Robert Hauge, Space Logistics’ president, told Breaking Defense. “This is really, really hard.”
Under the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the US Naval Research Laboratory to develop the robotic payload, which includes two next-generation robotic arms, multiple robotic tools, cameras for navigation and accompanying software.
The lab has wrapped up three critical developmental milestones as of last month, program manager Bill Vincent told Breaking Defense. “We completed environmental testing… of our second robotic arm system. … We also finished flight qualification testing of our flight software suite that controls and operates the payload. And we finished some performance testing on our robotics testbed.”
Vincent explained that the new, highly dexterous robotic arms are many leaps ahead of the Canadarm used by astronauts on the International Space Station, in that they are designed to operate “autonomously” to do “inspection, orbital adjustment, repair and upgrade” missions on spacecraft “that were not designed to be grappled.” Thus, the system “requires a lot of software and a lot of algorithms” alongside the new hardware.
“All of the avionics and all of the electronics and all of the software and algorithms that are needed to actually execute that mission go well beyond what’s what anybody’s arm does,” he said.
Once all the ground testing is successfully completed, DARPA then will provide that payload for free to SpaceLogistics, which in turn will mate it on their own spacecraft, called the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), developed solely with company funds. Further, SpaceLogistics is paying for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9. The MRV will undertake a series of tests on the robotic arm for DARPA under the RSGS mission.
The MRV is being designed to stay on orbit for 10 years, scooting around in space from one repair job to the next, Hauge said.
He added that “the first robotic arm has actually been mechanically installed onto the spacecraft now. So, I mean, it’s real flight hardware.”
The first missions for the MRV, which will begin in 2026, will be installing what the company refers to as “propulsion jet packs” called Mission Extension Pods on commercial satellites. The pods, which carry electronic propulsion engines and will be controlled by the customers who buy them, can provide six years of life extension for a typical 2,000 kilogram satellite in geosynchronous orbit, according to SpaceLogistics.
While the pods are not funded by DARPA under the RSGS mission, their operations will also provide DARPA and the Space Force with a de facto demo of what they can do, Hauge explained, because the “Venn diagram” of capabilities that the company needs to master for commercial customers significantly “overlaps” expressed military needs.
Intelsat “historically [has] always been a leader in new areas, and they’re absolutely the leader as a customer. And they’re seeing the value of in space servicing. So, it’s an important partnership that we have with them,” Hauge said.
Intelsat in 2020 was the customer for SpaceLogistic’s first-of-a-kind commercial satellite servicing mission using a predecessor to the current pods, called the Mission Extension Vehicle-1, to extend the life of one of its defunct satellites by providing propulsion. A year later, a second vehicle docked with an active Intelsat bird to extend its life by five years.
Australian satellite operator Optus announced last February that it too would buy one of the new pods.
The pods and the MRV will be launched into low Earth orbit, and then need to use their own propulsion systems to make their way to geosynchronous orbit some 36,000 kilometers above the Earth, Hauge explained.
“The Mission Extension Pods will take on the order of 10 months or so to get to orbit, and the MRV will be more on the order of about a year of orbit raising just because of the mass of that spacecraft,” he said.
“Those three pods will get distributed next to their clients — their commercial clients, the Optus and the two Intelsat satellites, and then we’ll take the MRV and we’ll go install some capabilities that DARPA wants to see, for example, the ability to grasp spacecraft and be able to go install that [pod] onto a client — all those are capabilities that DARPA wants to see.”
But the US government is “interested in other capabilities as well” beyond just life-extension, Hauge stressed, noting that there is a “lot of interest now” in “space mobility and logistics” — a new term of art within the Space Force and US Space Command for allowing spacecraft to maneuver in space, rapidly and often, over a long period of time.
“The US is making a major push to make their newer satellites more resilient. We’re coming along saying, ‘There’s another alternative here, which is we can actually extend and enhance the spacecraft that you’ve got,’” Hauge said.
For example, he noted, SpaceLogistics could swap out the current electronic propulsion systems on the Mission Extension Pods and replace them with chemical propulsion engines, to provide “higher thrust to be able to move a big spacecraft more quickly.” Further, the Mission Extension Pods could be used to strap new capabilities onto an existing satellite. “We could host … a space domain awareness sensor. We could host countermeasures,” Hauge said.
He added that the company’s plan for the future is to be able to upgrade pods already in use by customer satellite.
“Let’s say you had some ‘protect and defend’ capabilities on an existing government satellite. We could come back three, four or five years later, and come up to that satellite, take the old one off and put a new one and now you’ve got the next generation of capabilities,” he said.
Finally, Hauge said that SpaceLogistics is working with the Space Force, and doing self-funded research to develop satellite “interfaces” that would allow direct repairs, rather than simply “strapping on” a pod.
“If a spacecraft in the future actually had a port for power and data, you move out of the realm of a pod that gets launched and spend nine months orbit raising and so forth. I now could take literally a box. I could put the payload inside that box with a solar array and just up a battery to keep it warm. I put that on a ride share. It goes up to [geosynchronous orbit]. It might be there for days, weeks or months. It doesn’t really matter; it depends on the client. The MRV now comes along and grasps this box, brings that box over to that geo[synchronous] spacecraft, and plugs it in. We could replace a bus component, we could replace a payload component, we can replace countermeasures,” he said.
“That’s really where we want to take this market with the MRV. And let me be more specific. Because the reason I say box is, I don’t need big solar arrays. I don’t need big batteries. I don’t need star trackers. I don’t need GPS. I don’t need flight computers. I don’t need rendezvous and proximity sensors. I bring all those costs down to just hosting the payload itself. And that’s where we think the real benefit to the government and commercial customers will be out there in the future,” Hauge said. | aerospace |
http://www.warbirdforum.com/secret.htm | 2017-04-28T12:11:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122955.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00438-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.991088 | 2,385 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__225504744 | en | REPORT ON NO. 21 AND NO. 453 RAAF SQUADRONS
1. For the purpose of clarity this report is divided into three periods, with a Pre-Japanese War Period, the Malayan/Singapore Campaign, and the Post Singapore Period. While there is little cheerful reading in this report it should be borne in mind that the period covered was one when we suffered a set-back, and much of the matter therefore, concerns our inadequacy of the time.
2. I arrived by air from the United Kingdom at RAAF Station Sembawang on the 4th October, 1941, and after an interview with the AOC [commander], Air Vice Marshal Pulford, I took command of No. 453 RAAF Squadron which was equipped with Buffalo aircraft. Also on the station were the RAAF Headquarters and No. 8 RAAF Squadron (Hudsons) and No. 21 RAAF Squadron (Buffalos). I was amazed to notice amongst many of the Australian personnel on the Station the prevalent dislike that some of them bore for the English--Englishmen were spoken of as "Pommies" with an air of contempt. I did not pay a great deal of attention to this, but it was this that grew into the strong dislike for RAF administration later in the war. It should be noted in turn that RAF personnel elsewhere ostracised the Australians.
3. This matter was aggravated by the obvious and to my mind unwarranted dislike that the Fighter Group controller, Group Captain Rice, had for the two Australian Fighter Squadrons, and this was later a distinct fillip to inducing a lack of confidence in both Nos. 21 and 453 Fighter Squadrons in the controlling of the air campaign. I believe the crux of this matter lay between my Station Commander, Group Captain McCauley RAAF, and Group Captain Rice RAF, and centred I believe on the question of whose Headquarters should have control of my two Squadrons. Whatever the cause, however, this imposed a strain on me as CO of 453 Squadron and later as Tactical Command[er] of the two Fighter Squadrons, and ... it resulted in Fighter Group Headquarters taking practically no interest in us and our equipment and organisation. It may explain the situation that arose from this, when I say that when we were later expected to operate in defence of Singapore, the Fighter Group were unable to control us at first, because a normal fighter dispersal ops. with telephones, an elementary requirement, had not been laid on. This method of conducting warfare is bound to affect units adversely and is most unfair on the Squadron Commanders, who have enough to do without having to convince regularly both pilots and men that the Higher Command are doing their best.
4. The aircrew personnel of No. 453 Squadron with the exception of the two Flight Commanders, Flight Lieutenant Grace and Flight Lieutenant Vanderfield, were pilots straight from PTS [pilot training school], and some of them told me when I questioned them, that they had no desire to be fighter pilots and had been given no choice in the matter. The officers consisted of two Flight Commanders who had very little experience in operations and very little in Service matters, and also three Pilot Officers who came from the same PTS, and were of the same seniority as the Sergeant Pilots--besides these there were the Adjutant, Flight Lieutenant Wells, and the Engineer Officer, Pilot Officer Pannial. The ground crews were entirely Australian with the exception of nine WT [wireless telegraphy or radio] operators who were ex-RAF.
5. No. 21 Squadron was a regular Australian squadron and was commanded by Squadron Leader Allshorn RAAF. Though I had no control of this squadron until after the war started with Japan, I was responsible for teaching them their fighter tactics and air drill, as none of their pilots had any operational experience.
6. The Pilots of both Squadrons were put through their OT [illegible] Squadron operational training in a remarkably short time. Everyone was extremely keen and the units well knit. On the occasion of the AOC's inspection, Air Vice Marshal Pulford said he was extremely pleased with the advance of the units, and Group Captain McCauley RAAF Station Commander expressed the progress made as an unprecedented personal achievement. I say this because I feel sure Captain McCauley realized the gulf of feeling lying between the Australians and the English that had to be bridged.
7. About six weeks after my arrival in Singapore I realized that war with Japan was highly probable, and I approached the AOC in order to change some of the pilots in my Squadron--I hoped to obtain in place [of them] some experienced officers who were more suited for fighters. I was instructed by him to fly to Australia where I was to try to get some more pilots, unfortunately I was unable to achieve any results and I was told that any available experienced pilots were required to form a Higher OTU in Australia in June of the following year.
8. At this stage the Japanese war commenced and I immediately returned to Singapore.
9. I returned to Singapore on about the 19th December to find that two thirds of the pilots of the Squadron had been sent to Northern Malaya to assist No. 21 Squadron which had not fared too well on its own. [21 Sq. was caught on the ground on 8 Dec, and when it retreated next day only six aircraft could be made airworthy. Four of these were shot down on 10 Dec.] I was instructed by Group Captain Rice (Fighter Group) to go up and pull the two units together, and I understood from him that the morale of the two squadrons was very poor. (Group Captain McCauley was away on a tour of the Middle East at that period.)
10. I flew up to Ipoh the next day with the remaining pilots and aircraft. I found on arrival that the morale of both Squadrons had dropped. Both units had suffered some losses and the Officer, Flight Lieutenant Vigors who had come from Kallang to command No. 453 in my absence had been shot down in flames on his first sortie.
11. Several matters required immediate attention, but the most serious was the considerable losses we were suffering [to] our irreplacable aircraft, that were being destroyed on the ground, and I decided that if we were to be able to operate at all at the end of another seven days we must stop this heavy drain on our numbers.
12. The landing ground position was disastrous for fighter operations. There was only one landing ground and that was at Ipoh, the surrounding country was jungle, rubber [plantation], or mountainous, and we had no facilities for airfield strip construction. Ipoh airfield consisted of a usable strip with another at right angles to it at the North end, but which was too small for any but the lightest types of aircraft. A narrow Macadam taxi track led off from the usable strip and off this track lay the dispersal pens. However, there were no pens [revetments] and also no other possible means of dispersing the aircraft on the strip itself owing to the Japanese ground straffing tactics, and our only alternative was to have to the aircraft either in the air or along the taxi track in their dispersal pens as we had no warning system.
13. The taxi track to the dispersal pens was exceedingly narrow and [illegible; I think he's saying they needed an erk to guide each wingtip]; furthermore the aircraft which had become bogged through running a wheel off the track it was necessary for all pilots to excercise extreme care; as many of the pens were a remarkably long way distant at the end of this winding track it was nearly impossible to get a flight or Squadron onto the strip for take-off in less than 20 minutes, by which time it would have been too late to intercept any enemy aircraft.
14. The airfield was located in the valley and if no air cover was in the air while the aircraft prepared for take-off, Japanese fighters or bombers, signalled by spies located in the nearby hills, would attack our aircraft when they were on the ground or taking off. Furthermore almost invariably when our aircraft were landing, Japanese aircraft attacked if no top cover was available, in any case they usually attacked the top cover when it attempted to land.
15. This problem was discussed with Wing Commander Forbes[?] the Officer Commanding NOR Group and I proposed that the only solution to operating from Ipoh lay in some form of warning system. This was agreed and I was instructed to prepare a fighter ops. system.
16. A crude observer system was available which theoretically gave us reasonable cover. However, there were practically no signal specialists available to us, and very little equipment, we had to rely on asking the assistance from the local AA [anti-aircraft artillery] Unit for our telephone equipment. The telephones which literally must have been some of the first that were ever made were totally unreliable. The observer system which I had to use had been organized by fighter ops Kallang, and under it we were unable to get reports on approaching enemy aircraft direct from the observer posts, but got them through the Railway Station Master at Kuala Lumpur. Owing to the delays attendant on this system we usually got our warnings that the Japanese were 40 miles away just as the raid was on. I had with me in the ops. room the Colonel Commanding the local AA Unit and we occasionally got helpful information from him on approaching enemy raiders. Considerable delays were experienced however, through the telephone lines which ran through the jungle being cut either by 5th columnists [Japanese collaborators] of whom there were plenty, or by bombing.
17. As soon as the operations system was completed I tried to instruct the four Flight Commanders so that they could take a turn at controlling in order to relieve me, but they had no knowledge of controlling units and they needed supervision if we were to intercept any raiders. Unfortunately the day after the completion of the ops. system, the Army lost ground and we [lost] our observer posts.
18. During the two days that were necessary to construct the fighter control system, including the provision of a suitable ground station, as there was none up to that time, I arranged for a constant cover of four aircraft from each of the two Squadrons throughout daylight. This was expensive as we anticipated, on engine hours, but as we were not attacked once during that period it gave us two days valuable respite in which to reorganise and repair the aircraft.
19. The need for reorganisation was considerable. The Aircraft of the two Squadrons were being serviced by the ground crews of only No. 21 Squadron [since only the aircraft of 453 Sq. had moved up to Ipoh]. This Unit's ground crew strength was totally inadequate for one Squadron, let alone two, and the vast majority of guns in the aircraft would not fire, because of the rust which the troops had not had time to clean off. I had signalled to Singapore for Armourers from my own Squadron as soon as I had reached Ipoh, and these men had arrived before we retreated from the airfield, and had improved the guns considerably before we left. Inspections were also not being done and the aircraft were rapidly becoming unreliable. The ex civil Airline engines on the Buffalos were quite unsuited to the treatment they were getting in combat and on the ground, and many developed serious loss of [illegible, but probably intending "loss of oil" or "loss of power"]. | aerospace |
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https://chonk.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/inside-a-wind-tunnel/ | 2018-04-20T18:01:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125944677.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420174802-20180420194802-00360.warc.gz | 0.98592 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__26509718 | en | Paris-based photographer Laurent Thion, recently photographed ONERA’s S1Ch Wind Tunnel, which was the biggest in France until the end of WWII. Iit was here that planes such as the Caravelle and Concorde were tested, as well as the first ‘delta wing’ airplane cars and the Volkswagen. French skiing champion Jen-Claude Killy also used the wind tunnel.
Although this tunnel is no longer in use, it was recently saved from destruction and is now classified as an historic building. This wind tunnel was built between 1932 and 1934 and it made possible the testing of a real plane of 12m, with ignited engine and pilot on board. The wind tunnel is 120m in length and 25m high. | aerospace |
https://computertalkradio.com/2024/02/private-us-moon-lander-still-working-after-breaking-leg-and-falling-but-not-for-long/ | 2024-04-14T02:05:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00502.warc.gz | 0.977694 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__139087876 | en | Last week, we reported that, Intuitive Machines spacecraft, Odysseus, had landed on the moon. This week, we found it was a rough landing, where it broke a leg upon touching down near the moon’s south pole. It then tipped over, making it hard to communicate and maintain power. Despite the mishap, the lander was still operational for a short while, thanks to solar power, but was expected to lose contact due to the harsh lunar night. The mission is still considered a success by NASA, as the experiments are still working, and there is hope for survival of the lunar night. NASA feels the overall progress shows potential for future commercial moon landings.
The first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon broke a leg at touchdown before falling over, according to company officials who said Wednesday it was on the verge of losing power. | aerospace |
https://www.brasovtourism.app/en/places/paragliding-brasov-vomwnfngxwd8ig | 2024-02-25T05:26:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474581.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225035809-20240225065809-00776.warc.gz | 0.92145 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__200686048 | en | '' The tandem flight is the closest flight to the birds. Decolation is fast and easy, all you have to do is take a few steps. "
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Normally, without acrobatics, tandem paragliding is a slow flight, like birds.
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If you want, ask for an acrobatic descent and our pilots will do a series of acrobatics maneuvers specific to this sport. | aerospace |
https://ispaceschool.com/parents/ | 2024-03-03T09:18:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476211.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303075134-20240303105134-00169.warc.gz | 0.893761 | 153 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__114329117 | en | The iSpace School program is a online space education interdisciplinary program for kids, prepared together with professionals from Space industry, and Academia from different nationalities, Navigate 9 topics such as: Astronauts, Mars, Space Medicine, Earth, Satellites, Rockets, Space Tourist, and Life in Space.
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https://www.change.org/p/transport-canada-lower-the-minimum-age-to-apply-for-an-sfoc | 2019-07-19T03:33:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525974.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20190719032721-20190719054721-00369.warc.gz | 0.959578 | 364 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__67841083 | en | Lower the minimum age to apply for a SFOC
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We want to lower the age of the application to fly a drone commercially, because drones are more accessible than ever and younger ages have the ability to fly them commercially as well as the ever standing issue of the fact that people need jobs at that age. One way of doing so is contacting Transport Canada with a certain amount of signatures which can be acquired by the drone pilots of Canada.
The lowering the age of the commercial drone license will not only bring jobs to younger people it will give recognition to the drone community. This will then create even more jobs because even more businesses will be interested in drone delivery and other types of using drones as a commercial vehicle e.g. they wrap it to show the company logo.
Even if this petition will not get enough signatures they should at least specify the age you have to be at the top of the certificate application. This will then stop people from wasting their time and then decide not to take the test. Which will save time and people will wait until they are the correct age.
The U.S have a restriction of 16 years old and this is what we believe is the best age to start flying. This is because at the age of 16 you can drive a car and therefore you should be able to drive a smaller vehicle with a remote control commercially. In the U.S FAA part 107 is the equivalent to the Special Flight Operations Certificate and the age for the commercial drone flying is 16.
This overall is to lower the age of drone flying by 2 years.
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https://ballgurus.com/event-hubble-space-telescope-launch-exploring-the-universe-like-never-before/ | 2024-02-28T16:44:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474737.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228143955-20240228173955-00583.warc.gz | 0.921034 | 679 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__209453025 | en | In April 1990, a momentous event took place that would forever change our understanding of the universe and our place within it. The highly anticipated launch of the Hubble Space Telescope signaled the beginning of a new era in astronomical research, promising to provide us with unprecedented views of distant galaxies, stars, and celestial phenomena. As the majestic telescope soared into the heavens, it carried the hopes and dreams of astronomers, scientists, and enthusiasts alike, ready to unveil the mysteries of the cosmos and ignite our collective imagination.
Under the clear skies of Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope embarked on its interstellar journey, mounted aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The tension was palpable as the countdown clock ticked relentlessly towards liftoff, marking an ambitious chapter in humanity’s quest to uncover the secrets of the universe. With its pristine mirror and advanced scientific instruments, Hubble was destined to revolutionize our understanding of space, enabling us to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before.
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Soon after deployment, however, scientists realized that Hubble’s initial images were plagued by an unexpected flaw. The flaw was traced back to a minuscule but critical error in the curvature of its primary mirror, rendering its images blurry and significantly reducing its capabilities. This setback, which left the astronomical community disheartened, threatened to derail the extraordinary potential that Hubble had promised.
Determined not to let this setback undermine the telescope’s purpose, a team of exceptional engineers and scientists, led by NASA, embarked on a collaborative effort to rectify the optical aberration. In December 1993, after meticulous planning and daring execution, a crew of astronauts embarked on the first Hubble servicing mission. Over the course of several spacewalks, they installed corrective optics, restoring Hubble’s vision to its intended perfection. The refurbishment was a resounding success, effectively transforming Hubble into the remarkable instrument it was always meant to be.
From that moment on, the Hubble Space Telescope embarked on a mission that pushed the boundaries of our understanding. It unveiled magnificent images of colliding galaxies, gargantuan black holes, and distant nebulae, stunning the world with its breathtaking visualizations. With every click of its shutter, Hubble transported us to the deepest recesses of the universe, offering a glimpse into the intricate tapestry of celestial wonders and sparking a sense of awe and wonder among scientists and the general public alike.
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http://inb-english.forumotion.com/t113-top-ten-flying-cars | 2017-05-22T21:27:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607120.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522211031-20170522231031-00614.warc.gz | 0.947313 | 1,046 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__10239489 | en | 1 Top ten flying cars! on Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:43 am
For more than five decades, science fiction has been tormenting us with hallucination of in-the-air roadways and hastily choreographing sports car-like flying cars. A number of businesses have been hunting the reverie for such a long time.
NASA’s PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) Challenge could do a great job to chase the wild dream. To kindle rapid modernism and advancement in PAV performance, NASA has funded $2,000,000 in cash prizes for the PAV flight competition.
Here is a list of some of the flying cars, including some vehicles that have taken a voyage in the air while some are waiting to do the same in the near future.
1. Mad Ludwig’s flying car
Unfortunately, this ingenious man King Ludwig II of Bavaria was declared insane 10 June, 1886 and was deposed. And now, after around 120 years after his death, scientists are saying that he was a one of the pioneers of flight. Now, aeronautical specialists have found hiss drawings of the flying peacock car out and re-established them on computer.
2. Aerocar International’s Aerocar
Dubbed the Taylor Aerocar, the American roadable aircraft was built in 1949 by Moulton Taylor. The Aerocar III, which was the final model built by Taylor was colored red had had silver wings.
3. PAL-V: Personal Air and Land Vehicle
PAL-V Europe BV aims to build everybody’s dream in mobility, a full-fledged flying and full-fledged driving vehicle. Excerpt from the company’s page:
Steer it like a car and it banks like a motorcycle. It sounds deceivingly simple. And it truly is. At the heart of the PAL-V lies the Dynamic Vehicle Control (DVC™) system which automatically adjusts the tilt angle of the cockpit to the speed and acceleration of the vehicle enabling a plane-like ’tilting before cornering’.
4. Moller M200X flying car
The M200X was invented by Moller back in the year 1989, which has now been taken to the air 200 times and can go as high as 50 feet.
5. Skycar M400: Moller’s latest design
The dream flying machine is one of its kind personal vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicle that can cruise at a maximum speed of 375 MPH at 13,200 ft.
The asking price of a Skycar is estimated to be about $1 million, but we can hope it to get as low as $60,000 when it will be mass produced.
6. Macro SkyRider X2R
How about going 200 miles in a mere 45 minutes? The enthralling new aero car SkyRider X2R developed by Macro industries can do the same.
The unique vehicle is said to be available in five years after receiving investment funding. They say that it could cost somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million per unit.
7. Urban X-Hawk: The Revolutionary, Modular, VTOL Aircraft
From the company: X-Hawk is a ‘rotorless’ Vertical-Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft. To be more precise, it is an aircraft that has the VTOL capability of a helicopter.
X-Hawk, in its air ambulance configuration offers a revolutionary capacity for emergency rescue teams to reach their destination quickly, in spite of practical obstacles or complex landscapes.
8. Terrafugia Transition
The Terrafugia’s road-able aircraft Transition, priced supposedly at $148,000, comes with foldable wings and can fly and drive on road with perfection. It is expected to be ready for production by 2009 with a working prototype available in 2008.
�LaBiche Aerospace FSC-1TM
The LaBiche Aerospace FSC-1TM is a real treat for those who want to soar high in the sky with its sleek folding design and hair-raising speeds. The wings and rear propeller automatically vanish inside the car while you are busy setting the street on fire. The LaBiche flies at a mind-blowing speed of 275 mph. All do-it-yourself freaks would love to grab the build-it-yourself kit that costs $175,000.
�MIT student’s roadable aircraft
Carl Dietrich, a MIT aeronautical-engineering student shows a new spin on the concept of flying cars and has christened his tempting vehicle ‘roadable aircraft.’ He hopes to make this concept meet realism by 2010 and the price tag attached to it will be about $150,000.
It really looks quite exhilarating. You could be flying over the traffic jams at a swift speed within a few years from now. But, such flying cars will be the cup of tea for uber-rich only. | aerospace |
http://www.iaps.inaf.it/2022/09/08/near-earth-asteroids-risks-and-opportunities/ | 2023-06-10T04:51:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656963.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610030340-20230610060340-00403.warc.gz | 0.911388 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__78593262 | en | 13 Luglio, 2022, ore 11:00
Speaker: Davide Perna da Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Abstract: The proximity of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) allows us to investigate the physical properties of small bodies down to the decameter-scale. A dedicated space mission to such small NEAs will be key to shed light on accretion mechanisms that took place in the protoplanetary disk. Extended ground-based observations will be also fundamental to fully characterize the physical diversity of the NEA population, whose discovery rate is exponentially growing in recent years. Besides its relevance for our understanding of solar system and planetary science, NEA investigation is also essential to increase our capacity of mitigating the asteroid threat of collision with the Earth. Some recent work and future perspectives related to the science of NEAs will be presented and discussed. | aerospace |
http://www.geont.ru/pappilon-gww-1l.php | 2023-02-07T07:43:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500392.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207071302-20230207101302-00456.warc.gz | 0.853858 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__218524156 | en | GWW-1L, Native Explorer Tour
- Operational: Daily Departures excluding December 25
- Check-In: Grand Canyon West Terminal
DESCRIPTION AND INFORMATION:
Visitors at the West Rim can now enjoy the excitement of a Grand Canyon Scenic Airlines flight over the canyon’s extraordinary landmarks. This air tour departs from the Grand Canyon West air terminal. Passengers will enjoy breathtaking views above the famous Skywalk Bridge, Guano Point, and other points of interest within Grand Canyon West. Narration during the flight will provide interesting facts and the history of this ancient landmark. Passengers will return to the air terminal to continue their day of exploration at Grand Canyon West. Included in this package is access to the park's shuttle to multiple points on the rim of the canyon.
- FLIGHT TIME
Approximately 20-minute flight over Grand Canyon West
- Includes: GCW Legacy Entrance with shuttle access to multiple overlook points on the rim | aerospace |
http://english4aviation.tumblr.com/ | 2014-10-22T15:22:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507447421.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005727-00347-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.852913 | 442 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__74263838 | en | Seaplane Truck Launch
Boeing 314 Clipper, PanAm
Air Canada 143 - The Gimli Glide
“John, in low-fuel situations pilots are often reluctant to declare an emergency and they’ll use the term minimum fuel. Is Minimum fuel going to get you on the ground any faster?”
“No. Minimum fuel will not, and that’s very important to understand. It is not a declaration of an emergency. It’s merely a statement that is saying that you cannot accept any holding or other delays. It also means to ATC that you do have enough fuel to make it to your destination.”
Student Pilot reporting a fuel problem
edited audio from www.liveatc.net
Fuel Exhaustion - No usable fuel remains on the aircraft; run out of fuel.
Fuel Starvation - Usable fuel remains on the aircraft, but it is not available to the engines.
Fuel Contamination - Any foreign substance (water, oil, ice, dirt, sand, bugs) in the correct type of fuel for the given powerplant(s).
Wrong Fuel - Fuel supplied to the powerplant(s) is incorrect (e.g.: Jet A into a piston powerplant; 80 octane into a powerplant requiring 100 octane).
Argus-IS, the world’s highest resolution video surveillance platform
What’s the definition of level bust?
What are the results of level bust?
Picture from Hindsight Magazine 10 – Winter 2009 (Eurocontrol)
Boeing X Airbus
Ilyushin IL-18 - RTO (rejected take off)
a) overrun on take off
b) overrun on landing
c) directional control
d) undershoot on landing
e) wrong runway use
On 24th December 2000, a Hawaiian Airlines DC10 overran the runway at Tahiti after landing long on a wet runway having encountered crosswinds and turbulence on approach in thunderstorms.
UAL 930 Heavy - Lightning Strike
pilot - air traffic controller interaction taken from www.liveatc.net | aerospace |
http://www.centertechnews.com/2014/08/hoverbike-as-worlds-first-flying-motorcycle-in-history.html | 2017-03-30T04:48:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218191986.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212951-00432-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.971785 | 586 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__207607223 | en | Meet the Hoverbike, the world’s first flying motorcycle in history. The Hoverbike is a combination of a helicopter and a motorbike developed by Chris Malloy’s team. Ever heard of it? We used to see flying bikes or cars only in sci-fi movies, now it could become a reality.
“Hoverbike is a revolution in aviation, designed to do what a helicopter does, but cost less and do so better,” said Malloy. Soon people would be able to afford this sleek ride. Now that they had announced their success in reaching their initial goal of funds, they would be able to start building a manned Hoverbike. They plan to make it cheaper than a helicopter, easier to use and make it a trend in aviation.
According to Malloy, they are in the final construction stages of the latest manned prototype of Hoverbike, and in a few months they will start flight testing. After the successful completion of test flights they will build a final engineering prototype for submission to aviation certification authorities.
The good news is they are actually seeling their 1/3rd scale drone. At first, they built this drone just to prove the concept of the possibility of a full-sized Hoverbike and then they realized how much it does. It could fly by itself, on a pre-determined flight path, return to home, loiter, follow and more!
As seen in their promotional video below, you can even use it for delivering, putting out fire with water without going near the flames and carry messages. You can easily fold it into a third of its size and out it in its specially made backpack. The bag has padded walls that is also great for other sport equipments. They are selling 1/3rd scale drones to gather more funds for their project.
Their vision for this flying bike was summarized when they said ,“Its low cost and practical size lends itself to search and rescue, precision farming and cattle mustering, first-responder emergency services and cargo insertion of up to 120kg (265lbs) into confined spaces. We believe it would be ideal for ski and mountain rescue, airborne logistics and time-sensitive personnel insertion/extraction during major disasters.”
If you would donate, you might have a chance to own a prototype for free. Just donate and email a reason why you would like this bike. When the reach their goal of $1,100,000 USD, they would give a prototype to the best response they would receive. Not bad right? Actually, it sounds like a great deal.
We now live at a time when technology can make dreams reality. Since the first successful plane of the Wright brothers, we have now reach this far and still moving forward for this Hoverbike as the World’s First Flying Motorcycle in History. Reference: hover-bike, YouTube | aerospace |
https://www.spaceleer.com/articles/7-all-about-blue-origin-step-by-step-ferociously/ | 2020-09-25T17:58:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400227524.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925150904-20200925180904-00018.warc.gz | 0.970635 | 918 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__269062420 | en | Blue Origin, the name that refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, an Internet entrepreneur, with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company comes with a motto "Gradatim Ferociter" in Latin, that when translated simply means "Step by Step, Ferociously". Blue Origin is developing a variety of technologies, with a focus on rocket-powered Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicles for access to suborbital and orbital space. Blue Origin also comes with a long-term vision of making an increase in the number of people that fly into space in order to enable humans to continue their exploration towards the solar system.
What Does Blue Origin do?
In the year 2000 shortly after Bezos was credited with the title of the Time's Person of the Year for his work on the Internet he turned his focus to space and very secretively founded a company called The Blue Origin, which aimed at developing a vertical-landing rocket ship and vertical-takeoff that could transfer its passengers into suborbital space.
The somewhat secretive space company is currently working on a suborbital crew capsule and is also developing technologies that will help enable private human access to space with the goal to increase reliability and dramatically lower costs as well. It is impossible to overstate or ignore the significance of Blue Origin’s achievement as this very Reusable rocket technology will reduce the cost of going to space by a huge factor as till date space travel has been prohibitively expensive. " Space travel has been very expensive as It involves the equivalent of throwing away and replacing a passenger jet after every flight." Says Bezoz. While Blue Origin is involved with a suborbital rocket, the achievement claimed by Blue Origin is still an enormous step taken forward in making space travel affordable and available to a huge mass. Blue Origin is employing an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital flight, with each step of its development, building on its previous work.
Blue Origin is also involved in conducting tests under NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which intends to bring into space new private American crewed vehicles. (Space Exploration Technologies, which is also known as SpaceX and is developing the Dragon spacecraft, is also known to be a beneficiary of the program.
When we come to talk about its aims, future plans and all that it is working on currently,
The aim of the company was to launch a spacecraft called New Shepard, a ship that was named after the first American to fly in space in 1961-Alan Shepard. The spacecraft has a propulsion section that boosts the ship for the first 2.5 minutes of flight as well as a crew module in addition that can hold three or more astronauts.
It is also credited with many launch Vehicles a few among which include: Blue Origin's First Flight Test Vehicle- Charon(2005), Goddard, Also known as PM1(2006), New Shephard Suborbital System. It is also involved with Rocket Engine Development like BE-3, BE-3U, BE-4, Pusher escape motor.
Moving on. towards what is aims to do in the near future and what are its long terms plans, As stated by Blue Origin- The company's long-term goal is to do orbital flights, with the use of reusable first stage instead of one that is expendable. "Each mammoth vehicle that is thrown away after a single use contributes to the staggering cost of spaceflight," the company said.
The company also further, plans in the launching of New Glenn orbital launch vehicle- The launch vehicle, whose the design work on the vehicle began in 2012, is a 7.0-metre (23 ft)-diameter, two- or three-stage orbital launch vehicle that is expected to launch before 2020. The first stage that is reusable just like the New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle that preceded it. will be powered by seven BE-4 engines, that are designed and manufactured by Blue Origin itself. The second stage, and an optional third stage for some flights are both intended to be expendable.
The high-level specifications for the vehicle were publicly announced in the year 2016.
What's left to see is if Blue Origin succeeds in its mission of reducing space cost on a broad scale as Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin have now shone a light on the path forward in the same context.
Official Link: Blue Origin | aerospace |
https://billsinternetsafety.blogspot.com/2011/10/usaf-drones-infected-by-computer-virus.html | 2018-07-20T22:25:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591837.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720213434-20180720233434-00017.warc.gz | 0.958645 | 228 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__202162663 | en | Monday, October 10, 2011
USAF drones infected by a computer virus; related to protests? to Assange?
This little story is irresistible. RedOrbit reports that US Air Force drones, similar to those used by the CIA for hits against terrorists overseas, have been infected by a computer virus. So far, effectiveness of operations has not been affected, and classified information has not leaked. This sounds like a “proof of concept”. The link is here.
The original story was by Noah Shachtman on Wired, here. Curiously, this story hung in Windows 7 IE 9 with a “long running script”, for me at least (disable scripts before viewing).
Could this drone infiltration be related to Julian Assange’s group, to “Anonymous”, etc?
Or could it relate to the “presence” of CIA drone models at many “Occupy” demonstrations recently, or attempts by activists to break in to the Air and Space Museum Saturday where a drone model was on exhibit?
Webroot ran the tweet on the story today. | aerospace |
https://www.intrexcorp.com/high-precision-machine-shop/ | 2024-04-17T06:32:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817144.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417044411-20240417074411-00374.warc.gz | 0.888068 | 546 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__151853374 | en | High Precision Machine Shop
At Intrex Aerospace, our focus is on critical–to–quality machined components for aerospace, defense, and space. We can offer a complete solution for your precision machined components. Our 30+ years of experience producing machined parts, our state-of-the-art capital equipment, and our enterprise-quality management system, integrated with our Epicor ERP/MRP system, can manage the most complex supply chain demands.
Intrex Aerospace has the capability to administer the most challenging outsourcing program demands. As a high-precision machine shop, we have over 20 years of experience in Integrated Logistical Supply Chain Management. Our qualified supply chain staff, combined with our Epicor integrated ERP system, provides the manufacturing technologies and business processes needed to make our customers’ program outsourcing successful. Our Program Management system operates on the principle that Intrex will assume the responsibility on behalf of our partners to coordinate the supply chain, manage risk, and implement systems for quality and delivery to our customers’ specific needs and requirements.
Multi-Axis Machining for Complex Aerospace and Defense Parts from Intrex Aerospace
Multi-axis machining for aerospace projects requires an experienced and reliable partner like Intrex Aerospace that can produce quality tight-tolerance components. As an ISO 9001 and AS9100 certified aerospace manufacturer, we have the facility, experience, and quality control systems necessary to produce the high-quality precision machined components the aerospace, defense, and space industries require.
Our high-precision machine shop has multiple CNC multi-axis machines (vertical and horizontal centers, and 5-axis CNC turning lathes). The multi-axis machines can reduce the need for multiple setups, reducing the chance for error stack up. Our 5-axis simultaneous machining capability allows us to produce complex machined shapes.
Intrex Aerospace Provides Superior Quality Control for Component Manufacturing
Precision manufacturing for aerospace and defense components requires careful quality control. At Intrex Aerospace, we have a quality assurance process that provides our customers with detailed information on the steps we take to ensure the quality throughout production. We’ve invested in a quality management software package, which is integrated with our Epicor system. This software allows us to track a range of quality control metrics, such as CPk and SPCs. We can also use it to generate reports that allow our customers to see how we’ve improved quality and reduced waste throughout the production of their precision components.
Our quality assurance process and demand management through the Epicor system allow us to maintain a PPM well below the industry standard, with an on-time delivery rate of 98+%. | aerospace |
https://www.avianaviation.com/en/multi-engine-rating | 2023-10-04T10:45:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511364.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004084230-20231004114230-00679.warc.gz | 0.953623 | 773 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__140122829 | en | Another stage that comes to a head during the flight training process of pilot candidates who aspire to work as airline pilots is the Multi-Engine Rating. The Multi-Engine Rating is an authorization that will be registered into your license as a result of multi-engine aircraft flight training. So it is not a type of pilot license. To obtain a multi-engine piston aircraft flight authorization, you must complete the Multi-Engine Class Rating - MEP CR flight training in a flight training organization authorized by the General Directorate of Civil Aviation - DGCA and accomplish the check ride.
We'll expand on the topic by defining what a piston engine airplane is, which is one of the numerous aviation terms that have entered our lives as a result of pilot training. Aircraft engines are classified according to their intended function. Apart from piston engines, aircraft engines include turboprop, turboshaft, turbojet, turbofan, and thermojet among the aircraft engine types.
Aircraft engine types used in airplanes vary depending on their purposes and performance requirements. While the Boeing 737 aircraft's engine is a jet engine, the Cessna 172 aircraft's engine is a piston aircraft engine, commonly known as a propeller aircraft engine.
The piston aircraft engine, which is commonly used for training and hobby purposes, is similar to the engines found in conventional automobiles. Aircraft engines have evolved into jet engines in response to the evolution and high-performance necessities of aviation. However, piston engines are still utilized in small planes and trainer planes that don't need high performance. Piston aircraft engine maintenance is easy and inexpensive to maintain, and one of their biggest advantages is their low fuel consumption.
To work for an airline company, you must have a CPL license with a Multi-Engine Instrument Rating authorization that is valid for at least six months. ME-IR is a type of authorization that can be registered to your existing pilot license. To begin multi-engine instrument flight training, you must have a minimum multi-engine class rating registered PPL license.
The Multi-Engine Class Rating course combines 6 hours of practical flying training with theoretical instruction on specific aerodynamic characteristics in multi-engine aircraft flight. The training, which includes a check ride, takes about two weeks. Pilots who have completed their training and passed this check ride are qualified to fly multi-engine planes in VMC (Visual Meteorological Conditions).
One of the most enjoyable and challenging aspects of the flight training phase is multi-engine aircraft class rating training. Although it is a short-term flight training module, it is challenging due to factors such as integrating twin-engine aircraft aerodynamic characteristics, variations in the aircraft control system, and the doubled set of flight instruments.
Because flying a multi-engine plane increases your workload, you'll be handling the checklist after accomplishing as many procedures in the cockpit as feasible from memory. As a result, you should study diligently throughout this part of flight training, expanding your theoretical knowledge and practicing it several times before the flights.
Because flying a multi-engine aircraft is more expensive than flying a single-engine aircraft, if you fail the check ride or the progress check flight during the training phase, you will be faced with costly retraining.
You must meet the following requirements before beginning multi-engine airplane class rating training:
The ME CR authorization will be registered into your license if you complete the Multi-Engine Class Rating instruction and pass the check ride. After your pilot license has been granted the ME CR authorization, you can begin training for the Multi-Engine Instrument Rating.
In order to start MEP CR - MEP Class Rating training, you must have performed a minimum of 70 hours of PIC flight.
In order to start MEP IR - MEP Instrument Rating training, you must have performed a minimum of 70 hours of PIC flight. | aerospace |
https://whynotburnbooks.com/2020/04 | 2020-08-10T22:33:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738699.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20200810205824-20200810235824-00035.warc.gz | 0.969475 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__91652059 | en | There are many traits and skills that make up a professional pilot. In order for a pilot to become successful in their career, it is very helpful that they possess the necessary traits and skills. This may not be something that people can just adopt. This is rather natural. These traits are either apart of a person’s personality or they are not.
Communication is one of the biggest skills that pilots need to have to get the job done. 80 percent of flight accidents are a result of poor communication from the pilot. This is usually pilot-controller communication and should always give a purpose, and state when, where, what and how. Accurate information needs to be given at all times such as traffic and weather information. If there are any active emergencies, this information needs to be properly communicated for the safety of the flight and landing.
Pilots need to possess situational awareness. Pilots should always have a precise mental picture of all flight conditions, and location. If there are any other factors that can possibly have an effect on the safety of the flight, pilots should be able to recognize them immediately. They should always be aware of their … Read More | aerospace |
https://www.knowledge-share.eu/en/patent/nova-nonlinear-vibrations-of-assemblies/ | 2023-09-29T09:59:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510501.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929090526-20230929120526-00384.warc.gz | 0.893388 | 375 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__271654746 | en | NOVA (NoNlinear Vibrations of assEMblies)
NOVA is an engineering software, based on a set of novel models and algorithms, aimed at structural dynamic analysis of mechanical components – mainly, but not only – in aerospace and turbomachinery industries. In particular, NOVA is developed for efficient and accurate prediction of the nonlinear vibratory response of mechanical assemblies (e.g. bladed disks in gas turbines/aero-engines) coupled with friction joints.
In turbomachinery applications, high cycle fatigue (HCF) failure of turbine/compressor blades due to high vibration amplitudes at resonance is one of the main concerns in their design stage. To suppress excessive vibrations in the blades and prevent HCF, dry friction damping has been widely incorporated into the design of bladed disks. Motivated by the turbomachinery community’s need for practical design tools that can account for realistic operating conditions (e.g. consideration of friction damping), NOVA enables designers and analysts to perform efficient nonlinear forced response analysis of mechanical assemblies with friction interfaces.
- Non-linear dynamic analysis of bladed discs in the aerospace and turbomachinery industries (for example in aircraft engines or gas turbines);
- Linear dynamic analyzes (in the absence of friction interfaces) or for non-linear dynamic analyzes (in the presence of friction interfaces such as bolted joints, flange joints, …).
- Realistic forced response predictions of bladed disks with friction interfaces and structural mistuning effects;
- Efficient computation of nonlinear forced response levels in frequency domain, rather than time domain. Note that, frequency domain solution techniques are not available in commercial Finite Element (FE) software, and ad-hoc codes are needed. | aerospace |
http://www.likecool.com/Aerocar_N103D_Flying_Plane_Car_Single_Engine_Auto_Fly--Other--Car.html | 2013-05-22T04:20:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701314683/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104834-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.908742 | 75 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__135240965 | en | Today you will see this a 1956 Flying Plane Car! Yes, it is plane and car! I can't believe that the Flying Plane Car is already producted in 1956. Now this Aerocar N103D Flying Plane Car Single Engine Auto Fly is available in the ebay for $3,500,000. Wow, the Cool Flying plane car design from 1956. | aerospace |
http://spacearchitect.org/2018/11/ | 2020-04-02T18:32:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370507738.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200402173940-20200402203940-00302.warc.gz | 0.92138 | 477 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__159014471 | en | The accompanying presentation for the recent AIAA Space Architecture Webinar can be found below.
The webinar course was prepared and conducted by SATC member Brand Griffin. It contains a vast amount of relevant information and guidance for anyone involved in any aspect of weightless space architecture or would like to gain an understanding of the importance of designing space habitats for human neutral body posture.
“Building Beyond: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Architecture in Space” was a panel discussion comprising architects, artists, authors, scientists, and engineers speaking about the expanding roles their disciplines are finding in the field of space architecture. Emerging cultural and economic forces are opening aerospace design to more diverse participants and viewpoints, and especially to integrators with skills to collaborate across disciplines. Opportunities and incentives for space architects are increasing, especially in the crossover between space habitation system development and applying lessons learned from space projects and technologies to help development of sustainable, autonomous, and ecosystem-integrated projects on Earth.
The session was held the evening before the Opening Ceremony of the 69th International Astronautical Congress, convenient for arriving delegates and serving as a stimulating introduction to the scope of space architecture and start to the week. Attendance was noteworthy, about 100, with wide-ranging Q&A followed by informal dialogue, fellowship, and refreshments.
Space Architect Barbara Imhof described multiple collaborative projects with designers, engineers, and scientists: expandable habitat prototypes, Antarctic greenhouses, and sintering of lunar regolith. Engineer Daniel Schubert expanded on the role of the broad team that created the antarctic greenhouse project, now in operation, aimed at developing lessons for growing plant life in space. Biologist and Artist Angelo Vermeulen summarized multidisciplinary studies on starship concepts, projecting a visionary future of ecosystems in space. Architect Jan Dierckx from Foster+Partners discussed how their work on autonomous 3D printing for Mars and smart habitation has helped keep the firm at the forefront of advanced Earth construction. Author, Engineer, and Space Architect Brent Sherwood put architects’ unique skills into the context of interdisciplinary design of space systems, and described the long view of human expansion into space. Through lively discussion about their work and the state of space design, the panel highlighted the enthusiasm, interest, and opportunities for multiple disciplines working together on the verge of building beyond. | aerospace |
http://www.srilankacourse.com/aviation-courses-in-sri-lanka/ | 2018-02-22T13:06:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814105.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180222120939-20180222140939-00734.warc.gz | 0.888686 | 497 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__126080673 | en | There are several types of pilot licences in aviation industry and Commercial Pilot Licence is one of the main type of pilot aviation courses in sri lanka. After completion of this program there is test carry out the commercial pilot license test with Civil Aviation Authority approved examiner. After the successful completion this aviation courses in sri lanka and by complete the exams candidate will be authorized to act as Pilot-In-Command (PIC) of an aircraft in an airline or with another commercial operator.
Entrance Requirement to get Commercial Pilot Licence :
- Applicant Need to get pass G.C.E Ordinary Level exam with 6 passes including credit pass for Mathematics, Science and English.
- There is a medical examination which should pass by approved by the civil aviation authority.
- Age not less than 18 years
- Should pass ATPL Theory examinations
There are very few institute which conduct aviation related education in Sri Lanka and following are the three institutes which conduct Commercial Pilot Licence Course.
1. Commercial Pilot Licence with Instrument Rating Integrated at Asian Aviation Center
Asian Aviation Center (AAC) is leading institute which conduct Aviation Courses in Sri Lanka. Commercial Pilot Licence is one of the most famous program of this institute.
Duration of the Program : 12-14 Months
Number of Flying Hours : Minimum 180 hrs
Asian Aviation Center (AAC)
No 14 ,
Trelawney Place ,
Tel: +94 11 4 979779, +94 77 3102010
2. Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) at Skyline Aviation
Skyline Aviation is also famous private education institute which famous for their aviation based programs. Following are the course details of commercial pilot license which conduct under this institute.
Duration of the Program : 12 Months
Number of Flying Hours : All necessary ground instructions and approximately 150 flying hours can be completed within 12 months
New Airport Road ,
Tel: +94 11 4 210300, +94 11 4 2635600
3. Commercial Pilot License (CPL) at Fairway Aviation Academy
Fairway Aviation is one of the new institute which conduct aviation based programs in Sri Lanka. Apart of Commercial pilot license they also conduct several aviation based courses in Sri Lanka.
Duration of Program : 12 Months
New Airport Road ,
Tel: +94 11 7 586 586, +94 77 4445830
Web : http://www.faa.lk | aerospace |
https://news.hamslive.com/world/afghan-air-force-helicopters-helicopters-collide-15-people-killed/ | 2021-05-06T01:19:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988724.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20210505234449-20210506024449-00208.warc.gz | 0.977415 | 169 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__185681681 | en | Afghan Air Force helicopters helicopters collide, 15 people killed
Two Afghan Air Force helicopters crashed when they were taking down the command and carrying the injured security forces.
Kabul: At least 15 people were killed when two army helicopters collided in Nawa district of Helmand province in Afghanistan.
Tola News quoted security forces sources as saying that two Afghani Air Force helicopters collided with each other in Nawa district of South Helmand on Tuesday night. At least 15 people have died in this accident.
According to sources, the accident took place when helicopters were taking down the command and carrying the injured security forces. Another source said that eight people have died in this accident.
The Ministry of Defence has not commented on the incident. Provincial Governor spokesman Omar Zwak has confirmed the accident in Nawa district but has not given details. | aerospace |
https://digpu.com/business-and-finance/civil-air-navigation-conference | 2024-03-05T08:24:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948223038.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305060427-20240305090427-00749.warc.gz | 0.932458 | 696 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__91327597 | en | Think Global, Collaborate Regional, Accomplish Local theme for Civil air navigation sector conference
Issues of significance that are seen as shaping the future of the aviation industry in India is up for deliberations at the three-day Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) conclave. The CANSO conference that got underway in Goa, is also taking up for discussion the ways and means of turning the Complete Air Traffic System (CATS) Global Council’s vision for the skies of 2045 into reality.
With “Think Global, Collaborate Regional, Accomplish Local” being chosen as the theme for this year’s conference, the three-day affair has the participation civil air navigation sector delegates and exhibitors from the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation is the global voice of the air traffic management (ATM) industry, and its members, who include air navigation service providers, airspace users and operators, manufacturers and aviation industry suppliers, support over 90 percent of the world’s air traffic. The organization looks on global Air Traffic Management performance by connecting with the industry to share knowledge, expertise and innovation.
Going by a government communication, Poh Theen Soh, CANSO Director, Asia Pacific Affairs, has been quoted saying that the recovery of air travel has made it imperative to look beyond Covid-19 and to the future. Building on that CATS vision, Asia Pacific Air Navigation Service Providers is expected to step up collaboration and tackle key areas such as sustainability, by embracing and exploiting technology.
Sharing knowledge, expertise and innovation
The Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation conference also has as its agenda discussions on digitalisation and automation as key enablers in delivering CANSO’s vision for future skies. Delegates will also be able to view first-hand some of the cutting-edge technology that will help modernise Air Traffic Management in the region.
According to Simon Hocquard, Director General, CANSO, improving efficiency and creating a more scalable, sustainable and resilient system has never been more urgent for the industry. In this regard, CANSO is looking forward to collaborating with colleagues across the region to raise the bar in Air Traffic Management.
“Airports Authority of India is very honoured to be hosting this year’s event as we strongly believe that this will not only benefit the entire region’s aviation industry, but also will enhance the civil aviation of India through the exchange of knowledge and cooperation, said Sanjeev Kumar, Chairman, Airports Authority of India.
Civil air navigation meet seen as significant
The conference has a range of speakers, including Dr Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister of Goa; General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd.), Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation; Simon Hocquard, Director General, CANSO and Rajiv Bansal, Secretary of Civil Aviation among others.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is a major participant in at the conclave. Responsible for the provision of Air Navigation Services over the Indian continental airspace and adjoining oceanic airspace delegated to India by ICAO, the AAI also functions as the major airport operator in India, responsible for management of 133 Airports which include 24 International Airports, 78 Domestic Airports, 10 Custom Airports and 21 Civil Enclaves. | aerospace |
https://northanger.livejournal.com/400207.html | 2021-10-25T17:21:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587719.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025154225-20211025184225-00391.warc.gz | 0.876341 | 2,492 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__179970167 | en | STS-128 Discovery (OV-103)
Landing Date: Sept. 11
Landing Time: 8:53 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: EDW - Runway 22
[RTF-1]-STS-114 Discovery • [RTF-2]-STS-121 Discovery
-STS-115 Atlantis • -STS-116 Discovery • -STS-117 Atlantis
-STS-118 Endeavour • -STS-120 Discovery • -STS-122 Atlantis
-STS-123 Endeavour • -STS-124 Discovery • -STS-126 Endeavour
-STS-119 Discovery • -STS-125 Atlantis • -STS-127 Endeavour
-STS-128 Discovery • -STS-129 Atlantis • -STS-130 Endeavour
-STS-131 Discovery • -STS-132 Atlantis • -STS-133 Endeavour
DISCOVERY CREW WAKE UP (begins FD 15 :: Orbit #212 :: 09:29AM EDT)
DEORBIT PREPARATIONS BEGIN (Orbit #214 :: 12:49PM EDT)
PAYLOAD BAY DOOR CLOSING (Orbit #215 :: 02:01PM EDT)
1ST KSC OPPORTUNITY DEORBIT BURN (Orbit #217 :: 4:41PM EDT)
MILA C-BAND RADAR ACQUISITION OF DISCOVERY (Orbit #217 :: 5:35PM EDT)
1ST KSC OPPORTUNITY LANDING (Orbit #217 :: 5:48PM EDT)
2ND KSC OPPORTUNITY DEORBIT BURN (Orbit #218 :: 6:17PM EDT)
2ND KSC OPPORTUNITY LANDING (Orbit #218 :: 7:23PM EDT)
1ST EDW OPPORTUNITY DEORBIT BURN (Orbit #219 :: 7:47PM EDT)
1ST EDW OPPORTUNITY LANDING (Orbit #219 :: 8:53PM EDT)
2ND EDW OPPORTUNITY DEORBIT BURN (Orbit #220 :: 9:23PM EDT)
2ND EDW OPPORTUNITY LANDING (Orbit #220 :: 10:28PM EDT)
POST-LANDING NEWS CONFERENCE (NET L+2 HRS)
Discovery Ready for Landing :: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:50:40 PM PDT :: Space shuttle Discovery underwent the Flight Control System checkout and Reaction Control System hotfire using all the primary jets. A piece of debris jarred loose from the shuttle during the checkout, though it was determined not to be a piece of the thermal protection system. Late inspection results cleared the Discovery's wing leading edge and nose cap and the shuttle is ready for landing. Thursday's landing opportunities begin with a planned deorbit burn at 5:59 p.m. EDT and a daylight landing at 7:05 p.m. The next opportunity is one hour after sunset with the deorbit burn at 7:36 p.m. EDT and a landing at 8:42 p.m. EDT.
Possible Engine Firing to Avoid Debris; Landing Scheduled Today :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:05:52 AM PDT :: Ground crews are trying to determine whether an orbital adjustment engine firing is needed to move space shuttle Discovery out of the path of a piece of orbital debris. If needed, the burn will be executed at 12:02 p.m. EDT. Thursday's landing opportunities begin with a planned deorbit burn at 5:59 p.m. EDT and a daylight landing at 7:05 p.m. The next opportunity is one hour after sunset with the deorbit burn at 7:36 p.m. EDT and a landing at 8:42 p.m. EDT.
Discovery to Perform Orbital Adjustment Burn :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:59:26 AM PDT :: Today's wakeup song was "Good Day Sunshine" by the Beatles, played for Pilot Kevin Ford at 10:59 a.m. EDT. Space shuttle Discovery will perform an orbital adjustment burn at 12:02 p.m. to avoid an unidentified piece of debris. The latest tracking data indicates that the debris will move in and out of the conjunction box around Discovery. The first time it would move within the box would be at about 12:55 p.m. Although unclear, the object is believed to be from the mission's third spacewalk. After the maneuver, the debris will no longer be an issue. This move will not have an impact on the shuttle's deorbit burn times scheduled for today, which begin with a planned deorbit burn at 5:59 p.m. and a daylight landing at 7:05 p.m. The next opportunity is one hour after sunset with the deorbit burn at 7:36 p.m. and a landing at 8:42 p.m.
Discovery Performs Orbital Adjustment Burn :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:08:20 AM PDT :: Space shuttle Discovery performed an orbital adjustment burn at 12:02 p.m. EDT to avoid an unidentified piece of debris. Although unclear, the object is believed to be from the mission's third spacewalk.
Payload Bay Doors Closed :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:04:19 PM PDT :: The STS-128 crew has closed Discovery’s payload bay doors. The weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center are being closely monitored.
Dynamic Weather Closely Watched :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:57:33 PM PDT :: The weather at the Kennedy Space Center is being monitored for a planned deorbit burn at 5:57 p.m. EDT and a daylight landing at 7:04 p.m. The second opportunity is one hour after sunset with the deorbit burn at 7:35 p.m. and a landing at 8:40 p.m.
Crew to Begin Fluid Loading, Suiting Up :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:04:24 PM PDT :: Mission control has given the crew a "go" to start fluid loading. It involves drinking large amounts of liquids and salt tablets to help readapt to gravity. The astronauts also are beginning to get into their launch/landing pressurized suits. Flight controllers continue to closely watch the weather, which is considered very dynamic. Currently, we are observed and forecast NO GO for the first landing opportunity at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility tonight. Because of the debris avoidance maneuver conducted this afternoon, the deorbit burn now would be at 5:57 p.m. EDT for a landing at 7:04 p.m.
First Landing Opportunity Waved Off :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:25:38 PM PDT :: The weather forecast is "no go" today for the first landing opportunity at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If the weather cooperates for the second Kennedy landing opportunity tonight, the deorbit burn would occur at 7:35 p.m. EDT with landing at 8:40 p.m.
Second Landing Opportunity Waved Off :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:28:51 PM PDT :: With the weather not cooperating Thursday for a second landing opportunity at Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery will stay in orbit another day.
No Go for KSC Landing Today :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:35:53 PM PDT :: The weather forecast is "no go" for tonight's second landing opportunity at Kennedy Space Center because of the threat of rain and thunderstorms near the Shuttle Landing Facility. Entry Flight Director Richard Jones and his team are now looking at the weather forecast for a Kennedy landing tomorrow. Edwards Air Force Base in California also will be activated for possible landing possibilities.
Friday's Landing Outlook :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:15:22 PM PDT :: The STS-128 crew has been informed that Edwards Air Force Base will be activated for landing opportunities Friday. The weather at Kennedy Space Center Friday is forecast to be dynamic again. Weather at Edwards for Friday looks good.
Friday's Landing Strategy :: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:14:02 PM PDT :: Capcom Eric Boe informed the crew that if weather looks unfavorable for Friday’s first Kennedy Space Center landing opportunity, the entry team will focus early on the 2nd landing opportunity. If weather prevents landing on the 2nd Kennedy opportunity, Boe said the shuttle will land Friday at Edwards Air Force Base.
Kennedy Landings Waved off, Discovery to Land at Edwards :: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:42:59 PM PDT :: Mission Control has decided to target Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for today's landing since the weather at Kennedy is unstable. The deorbit burn is timelined to begin at 7:47 p.m. EDT for an 8:53 p.m. landing at Edwards. The burn lasts three to four minutes, slowing Discovery enough to begin its descent.
Flawless Landing Caps Great Mission, Officials Say :: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:07:06 PM PDT :: "It was great to get Discovery home, back on Earth," Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses said about an hour after the shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California to end the STS-128 mission. "The orbiter performed almost flawlessly (during the mission)." It will take about a week for technicians at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to ready the shuttle for its flight across the country on the top of a modified 747, STS-128 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko said. The seven astronauts have left the shuttle and are expected to look around the bottom of the shuttle while it sits on the runway shortly.
Sturckow: Crew, Discovery 'Great' After Landing :: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:58:07 PM PDT :: Space shuttle Discovery touched down at Edwards Air Force Base In California on Friday to end a 14-day mission to the International Space Station dedicated to outfitting the orbital laboratory with new experiments, science equipment, supplies and other gear the six people living on the station will need. Unacceptable weather conditions at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday and Friday forced the detour by Discovery to the West Coast. "We're very happy to be back on land here in California," STS-128 Commander Rick "C.J." Sturckow said after the astronauts got off the shuttle and surveyed their craft. "It was a great mission and we just want to thank everybody for their support." The crew of seven astronauts, including former station resident Tim Kopra, will fly to their training base at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday. Meanwhile, technicians at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, adjacent to Edwards, will take about a week to get the spacecraft ready for its cross-country flight back to Kennedy atop a modified 747.
STS-128 MCC Status Report #29 :: 09.11.09 - Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew landed at 7:53 p.m. CDT Friday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., capping off a 14-day mission to deliver supplies and research facilities to the International Space Station and its six-person crew.
STS-128 Clock :: Landed: Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, 08:53 p.m. EDT • Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, California • Mission Elapsed Time: 13 days, 20 hours, 53 minutes, 45 seconds § Official Landing Times :: Main gear touchdown: 8:53:25 p.m. EDT • Nose gear touchdown: 8:53:34 p.m. EDT • Wheels stop: 8:54:35 p.m. EDT • Total miles: more than 5.7 million
• [Max-Q] STS-128: Into The Night •
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https://blog.chungyc.org/2009/09/ | 2021-10-27T14:31:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588153.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027115745-20211027145745-00208.warc.gz | 0.971589 | 587 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__126030428 | en | The MESSENGER spacecraft has just made its third flyby of Mercury, passing over just 228 kilometers away from the surface. It takes a lot of energy to directly get from Earth orbit to Mercury orbit, so MESSENGER has been making multiple flybys of Mercury. During each flyby, the planet is used as a gravity assist so that the spacecraft can achieve Mercury orbit with much less fuel. This is the final flyby of Mercury, and MESSENGER will start orbiting Mercury and studying the planet in March, 2011.
Now that MESSENGER has made its third flyby, we just need to wait for the spacecraft to send the data and have it processed for more cool images of Mercury ...
LCROSS was going to crash into crater Cabeus A. But after analyzing data from spacecraft such as the LRO, the Lunar Prospector, Chandrayaan-1, and Kaguya, the impact site for LCROSS has been changed to Cabeus (proper), a bigger crater close to Cabeus A. This determination was made because the hydrogen content and terrain suggests that crashing into Cabeus rather than into its satellite crater would give the best chance of observing water in the resulting plume.
The Clementine and Lunar Prospector spacecraft had detected lots of hydrogen on the Moon, which strongly argued for the existence of water. Traces of water was also found in moon rocks brought back by the Apollo mission. However, the detected hydrogen might have been from sources other than water or could just be unattached protons from the solar wind that somehow managed to stick to the Moon, and the water in the moon rocks might have been from contamination when they were brought back to Earth, so the existence of water on the Moon has continued to be in question.
As part of the International Year of Astronomy, some people came up with the idea of the Galileoscope™, which would be a telescope cheap enough to provide for every child. And at $20 per scope, it really is quite affordable. If you had wanted a telescope but couldn't afford one, this might be a nice one to have. And even if you don't want or need one, you could donate $15 per scope for children around the world to help promote science education. In fact, I have just donated funds for a couple myself.
The Planck spacecraft launched in May will give us much more detailed maps of the cosmic microwave background than ever before. So it is good news that its first light survey over a narrow strip through the sky indicates that its instruments are all working very well. The first light survey would probably not give us any exiting scientific results, but its success bodes well for its future. We could be looking towards tremendous discoveries in cosmology after the end of 2012, which is when Planck's data from the cosmic microwave background will be released. | aerospace |
http://www.castanet.net/news/What-s-Up/119217/Drone-clearing-the-air | 2017-03-28T21:35:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189903.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00561-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.986127 | 477 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__156350269 | en | Some media are reporting we put aircraft at risk by flying a drone over a forest fire in Peachland. That is not the case, they are not reporting the facts.
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- The helicopter was finished for the day - I confirmed with the team leader of the forestry crew working the fire that there would be no more flights over the area
- There were no fixed wing craft on the fire
- The fire was in mop-up stage, no need for any more flights when the fire is out
- It was only a .25 hectare fire
- I informed a forest firefighter that I would be taking the drone up and he said he looked forward to seeing the video
- I shot the helicopter, from the ground, making its drops. Then it was called off and the forestry crew moved in
- I was beside the forest firefighters shooting them as they put out hot spots
- It was an hour after the helicopter left when I brought out the drone
- The drone was in a black case that I was carrying with me while I talked to the ground crew. I walked down a road, in clear sight of the firefighters, to unpack and launch the drone
- I had the drone up for about a minute, hovering just above the treetops. When I was told they still had a 'no fly zone' over the fire, I landed the drone immediately
- We do not fly directly over anyone with the drone. If it were to crash we don't ever want to hit anyone. We shoot off to the side of a situation or in front or behind it to avoid human contact
- Castanet was the only media company at the fire
After I brought the drone down, the forestry worker thanked me and then he asked me a number of questions about the drone. He said he could see how having one might help them to locate hot spots and dangerous trees while they attack a fire.
It was a good lesson. Now we know that even if planes and helicopters are called off, there is still a no fly zone over forest fires and we will not be sending the drone up.
We will never put lives at risk for a shot from the air.
Trevor Rockliffe, Castanet News Editor. | aerospace |
http://ketzer.com/original_movie_props/EM_shuttle_p.html | 2021-09-17T09:24:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780055632.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20210917090202-20210917120202-00712.warc.gz | 0.91894 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__141855169 | en | Enemy Mine original ILM shuttle model movie prop model miniature
This is a prototype space shuttle model from Wolfgang Petersen's "Enemy Mine", built at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).
The space shuttle model is made from fiberglass and has panels that pop off to reveal mounting ports for photography.
The model was designed by production designer Jon Bunker at www.jonbunker.co.uk
Since Petersen did not like the design of the space shuttle, it was not used in the final version of the film.
This exact model can be seen in Cinefex magazine issue #25.
Visit yourprops.com for more movie props and costumes from Enemy Mine. | aerospace |
http://www.tmro.tv/2009/12/18/douglas-mallette-author-of-turning-point-2-38/ | 2014-11-24T17:34:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400380948.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123300-00094-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.90818 | 223 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__170250621 | en | What a fantastic interview to close out the year! Douglas Mallette is the author of “Turning Point” and joins us to talk about what we can do to better advocate space. What it we made not one but FOUR more Apollo sized space programs in the US? What impact does space have on our economy and quality of life?
Help start a new space UnConference! SpaceUp needs your help to raise $2,000 before the first of the year! They are almost half way there now and every little bit helps.
In space news we had a couple of breaking items such as rumors of the Obama Administration shutting down the Ares I program and going with a ‘Heavy Lifter’ program. Ares V? Other? Real or just rumor?
XCOR won a contract with South Korea for sub orbital flights. They plan on being able to launch around the same time Virgin Galactic is slated to launch. Can they pull it off?
Other misc news about rovers and landers we have on Mars. This is the last epicsode of 2009, enjoy! | aerospace |
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The onboard radar malfunctioned earlier than the terminal part provoke maneuver, but the crew used onboard backup procedures to calculate the maneuvers. A rerendezvous was achieved at sixty six hours forty minutes ground elapsed time, and the crew then prepared for reentry. Rendezvous was achieved at three hours forty six minutes ground elapsed time, docking 28 minutes later. Five maneuvers completed the spacecraft/GATV rendezvous at 1 hour 25 minutes floor elapsed time, and the two autos docked nine minutes later. Except for particular attention given to verifying all spacecraft techniques due to the lightning strikes, the activities throughout earth-orbit checkout, translunar injection, and translunar coast were similar to those of Apollo 10 and Apollo 11.During the translunar coast astronauts Conrad and Bean transferred to the LM one-half hour earlier than planned so as to acquire full Tv coverage via the Goldstone monitoring station. | aerospace |
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Sansisco D15 Mini Drone for Kids and Beginners with 1080P FPV Camera Remote Control
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Foldable and Easy to Carry: Sansisco offers the perfect solution for indoor and outdoor flights. The D15 mini drone is foldable and lightweight, making it super easy to carry. You can simply put it in your bag and go and have a great flight time. Fold (4.4*1.89*1.77in)/Unfold (6.73*5.59*1.77in)
SYMA X600W Foldable Drone with 1080P HD FPV Camera for Adults
RC Quadcopter for Kids Beginners, with Headless Mode, Altitude Hold, 3D Flip, Custom Route and One Key Start
Safe and Long Flight Time: Features with 4 propeller guards to ensure a safe flight, and 2 rechargeable and powerful batteries support up to 24-min flying. Perfect as a gift or for your own indulgent pleasure.
ZENFOLT REMOTE ZENFOLT Drone with Camera for Adults
WiFi 1080P HD Camera FPV Live Video, RC Quadcopter Kids Toys Gifts for Beginner with Gravity Sensor, Waypoints Functions, Headless Mode, One Key Take Off/Landing, Altitude hold
Gravity Control and Headless Mode: The built-in G-sensor design makes it easier for beginners and even pros to control the drone by adjusting the vertical and horizontal position with your smartphone via the App. Better control of the drone is also provided using the apps headless mode, especially when the drone is out of sight.
AutoJoy Club Foldable Drone for Kids Adults Beginners with WiFi 1080P HD Camera FPV Live Video
Remote Control Quadcopters Toys Gifts for Boys Girls with Altitude Hold, Gravity Sensor, Waypoint Functions, Headless Mode, One Key Take Off/Landing Start Speed Adjustment,
[Gravity Control and Headless Mode] The built-in G-sensor design makes it easier for beginners and even pros to control the drone by adjusting the vertical and horizontal position with your smartphone via the App. Better control of the drone is also provided using the apps headless mode, especially when the drone is out of sight.
SANROCK Drones with Camera for Kids Adults
WiFi 1080P HD Live Video FPV Drone for Beginners, Toys Gifts for Boys Girls, RC Quadcopter Helicopter, 2 Batteries, Gravity Control, Gesture Control, 3D Flips, Waypoints Functions, Headless Mode, Altitude Hold,
Intelligent and FunGravity control makes it easier for beginners to control the drone by adjusting the position of your smartphone via the App. Gesture control makes selfie so easy, simply pose V sign or rise your fist, the drone will take photos or videos. Waypoints fly allows you maximum control of the drones flight, drawing a path on phone screen, the drone will fly along the route you set. 3D Flips makes flight attractive even for the drone newbies. | aerospace |
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https://www.peaktraveltime.com/president-biden-talks-supersonic-journey-in-ten-years-flightglobal/ | 2021-04-10T14:29:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038057142.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20210410134715-20210410164715-00045.warc.gz | 0.948286 | 477 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__180638156 | en | President Joe Biden has raised the potential for supersonic civilian planes flying throughout the skies of the world over the subsequent ten years.
Biden talked about supersonic flight throughout an April 7 press briefing associated to his infrastructure enchancment plan.
He hasn't stated whether or not or how his administration intends to additional assist supersonic progress, and a broad evaluate of Biden's infrastructure proposal, launched by the White Home, is mindless. point out of supersonic jets.
Nevertheless, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration are already engaged on supersonic tasks, as are a number of American producers.
“The following ten years… we're going to speak about industrial airplanes flying at… supersonic speeds,” Biden says.
"If we determined to do it," such a aircraft would "fly 2,100 miles per hour," he provides.
Biden's schedule just about traces up with plans set out by numerous US corporations engaged on the event of supersonic jets.
Aerion Supersonic, for instance, is growing a supersonic enterprise jet referred to as the AS2 which it hopes will carry passengers in 2027.
One other firm, Growth, goals to fly its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator this 12 months and develop a supersonic airliner referred to as the Overture that may make its maiden flight in 2026.
NASA has supported supersonic progress by its Low Arrow Flight Demonstration Mission – a NASA-Lockheed Martin effort to develop a supersonic check aircraft with a muffled sonic increase. This plane, referred to as the X-59, is on monitor for its maiden flight in the summertime of 2022, based on NASA.
The company then plans to make use of the X-59 to judge the silent increase design in a bid to assist the FAA clear civilian supersonic flight, which the regulator has successfully banned since 1973.
The FAA has already begun work on drafting laws for a brand new class of supersonic civilian jets. In January, the FAA finalized a rule meant to facilitate the method by which Airmen receive clearances to conduct supersonic flight checks.
Final 12 months, the FAA proposed a rule to set noise requirements – solely on take-off and touchdown – for civilian supersonic plane. | aerospace |
https://www.designnominees.com/games/space-looper | 2024-02-28T00:10:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227220707-20240228010707-00183.warc.gz | 0.851465 | 83 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__15095555 | en | Space Looper is a casual space based endless runner with fun gravity mechanics.
Fling your rocket ship into space and master the force of gravity to propel your rocket ship across the endless universe!
Randomly generated planets, asteroids, and black holes guarantee a fresh challenge every time.
High score leaderboard for intergalactic bragging rights.
Utilize time dilation to aim for the perfect trajectory. | aerospace |
https://www.lumichat.com/en/news/2018/0628/175583.html | 2021-03-02T20:15:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178364764.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302190916-20210302220916-00081.warc.gz | 0.920116 | 1,314 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__20744079 | en | 2017 FAI World Fly-in Expo will be held on Nov.4-7, 2017 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, the first ever in China and will be hosted onwards.
WFE is acronym for 2017 FAI World Fly-in Expo. Its aims are to enrich air sport competitive events, build big air sport brand competitions, satisfy audiences’ demand of more air sports events, promote local social and economic development, contribute to the sports-power building of the country. WFE has been listed in the AERO SPORTS INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT PLAN, jointly issued by nine state ministries including the General Administration of Sports and the State Development and Reform Commission. WFE is the keynote event of Aero Sport Federation of China ( ASFC) of its 13th Five-year Plan. Our goal is to make WFE a world’s first rate and China’s No. 1 international air sport Gala of multiple function and loved by the world air sport enthusiasts, becoming platforms of international general aviation aircraft distribution, R & D experiment, economic and trade activities, international air sports cultural exchange and youth science and patriotism education. In the long run, WFE will be acted as a platform and extended outbound in the purpose to develop Wuhan’s general aviation industry. The city commits itself to build general aviation industry chain and set a model of win-win integration of air sport and urban development.
Four parties jointly play host to the WFE, namely FAI, ASFC, Wuhan Municipal People’s Government and Hubei Provincial Sport Bureau. WFE will be organized by Wuhan Economic and Technical Developing Zone (Hannan District Government) and Wuhan Sport Bureau. Theme of WFE is described as “The vast sky, we fly together”.
WFE will last four days staging three units everyday from morning till night composed of air shows, competitions and experience during each unit. The site of WFE locates in General Aviation Airport at Wuhan Economic and Technology Developing Zone (Hannan District).
The scale of 2017 FAI World Fly-in Expo is quite large with 788 aircrafts, among them 588 will be used for air show and 200 for exhibition. More than 1000 pilots, athletes, coaches, referees will take part in the show and competitions, among them about 100 from overseas, 30 countries. FAI and some NACs will send officials to attend WFE. Exhibition attendees will amount to 100, mainly from general aviation companies and other related industry federations, clubs and enterprises.
WFE comprises 6 parts of air show, competitions, record-setting, welfare plus interaction experience, exhibition and forum. Air show will be made up of eight items and 30 disciplines which are aerobatic flying, powered hang gliding, air balloon, indoor skydiving, paramotor, rotorcraft, air model and UAV. Attractive disciplines will include formation flying, air typing, sky media, fairy sky diving, flag fluttering, formation sky diving, turbo aircraft of air modeling, hot air balloon burner parada, paramotor and UAV lighting flying. Besides the air sports, concerts will be conducted in the evenings.
Competitions will include three international competitions namely China International Air Balloon Open, International Paramotor Invitation, International Skydiving Championship and two national competitions named as National UAV Professional Technical Talents Grand Prix and Innovative Aircraft Challenge. The National UAV Professional Talents Grand Prix will be jointly organized by General Administration of Sport, All-China Federation of Trade Unions and All China Sports Federation. The Innovative Aircraft Challenge is a competition made to encourage the spirit of innovation among the people. Athletes and their works will be solicited online and results will be decided by voting. Novel aircrafts can be seen and will be exhibited during period of WFE.
There are two record-making events. One is 100 wedding ceremony in balloons trying to set a new Guinness record. The other one is paramotors launch together trying to set a new national record (the present national record is 67 paramotors).
Welfare plus Interaction Experience include, “The sky is broad, let’s fly together” welfare event, Champion signature activity, Ballooning, Wind tunnel, VR, Simulated flight, Boilerplate, Air modeling and Paper airplanes.
Two exhibitions will be held during WFE, one is indoor, the other is outdoor. The two exhibitions consist of eight parts, of which the indoor area covers 20,000 square meters that can hold 100 exhibitors, while the outdoor area covers 60,000 square meters which can exhibit more than 200 aircrafts.
Besides of above events, FAI meeting attended by its officials and Air Sports Industry Summit will also be constituted to the WFE.
As a comprehensive event, WFE will be presented with strong sense of spectatorship, experience, international involvement and close bound of the local social and economic development. From the air sport point of view, WFE is characterized of highest specification, largest scale and the most colorful contents.
Overall, WFE 2017 is elaborately designed with colorful contents and will become the most visual and astounding air sport spectacle in China.
2017 FAI World Fly-in Expo will be held on Nov.4-7, 2017 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, the first ever in China and will be hosted onwards. WFE is acronym for 2017 FAI World Fly-in Expo. Its aims are to enr
The first edition of the FAI World Fly-in Expo (WFE) will be held from 4 to 7 November 2017 in Wuhan, China. The event promises to be a mega-event with more than 1000 pilots, athletes, coaches and refe
A convite da Aero Sports Federation of China e do Governo da China por intermédio do seu Delegado FAI | Andy Chau… A CAB foi representar o Brasil no evento FAI World Fly-In EXPO entre os dias 3 a 7
China International Hot Air Balloon Tournament, International Paramotor Invitational Championships, and International Skydiving Championship winners crowned
100 couples simultaneously got married in the hot-air balloons in central China last Monday has set a new world record for the most people exchanging wedding vows in the air, according to the Guinness | aerospace |
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