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https://www.klx.com/Home/Story/ | 2018-11-20T11:56:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039746386.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20181120110505-20181120131741-00030.warc.gz | 0.925153 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__161190810 | en | Get More Information
1300 Corporate Center Way
Wellington, FL 33414
KLX Inc. provides mission-critical products and complex logistical solutions for customers who have high value assets in the aerospace and energy services markets. Throughout our legacy of growth, we've kept our commitment to dependable, high quality, just-in-time support for our customers because we understand that downtime comes at a high cost.
Over that time, we've evolved in order to respond to the needs of our stakeholders and to the tremendous growth and potential of our own company. Our latest evolution - the strategic spin-off of KLX from our founding company, B/E Aerospace - is yet another course we're charting to carry out our mission of excellence and to foster new possibilities for our customers, shareholders, and employees. As a separate entity, KLX is able to focus with even greater precision on our areas of specialty - distribution, logistics, and technical services - through our two business segments: KLX Aerospace Solutions and KLX Energy Services.
Our KLX Aerospace Solutions segment is the world's leading distributor and value-added service provider of aerospace fasteners and consumables. Here, we offer the broadest range of aerospace hardware and consumables and inventory management services worldwide for the commercial, business jet, and military markets. Our KLX Energy Services segment provides high-quality oilfield services and associated rental equipment for North America's oil and gas industry.
The KLX logo is a visual manifestation of our mission and purpose. Stronger when performing together, the multiple pieces align to form a singular entity. Like the "X" in our name, our two businesses intersect at the heart of what we do - we bring the best people and solutions together to meet and exceed the needs of those whom we serve.
This is the essence behind the KLX mission: to provide expert solutions propelled by passion and experience for continued momentum, both yours and ours. | aerospace |
https://nationaldaydirectory.com/nationaldays/national-aviation-day/ | 2023-03-29T00:17:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948900.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328232645-20230329022645-00481.warc.gz | 0.934543 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__172517652 | en | National Aviation Day - 2021-08-19
What is National Aviation Day?
The history of flight is a rich one, beginning in ancient civilisations such as China and Greece. Ancient Chinese weather experts invented the kite to examine weather patterns in the area and Leonardo da Vinci developed many ideas about flying machines and the physics surrounding them. In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright studied the physics and mechanics proposed by previous inventors and turned it into the world's first successful aeroplane. On December 17th of 1903, man flew for the first time, and has not stopped since. Aviation grows to new heights every year, with explorations all the way into space.
When is National Aviation Day?
On August 19th, we celebrate the marvel of flight with National Aviation Day.
History of National Aviation Day
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established National Aviation Day in 1939. The date of observance was chosen after Orville Wright's birthday on August 19th, 1871.
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https://jettingsystems.co.uk/indonesia-gets-new-osprey/ | 2024-04-12T10:57:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296815919.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412101354-20240412131354-00721.warc.gz | 0.942062 | 196 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__78627470 | en | Wiltshire-based airport equipment manufacturer, Jetting Systems, has recently provided a new runway rubber removal system to Kualanamu International Airport, near Medan, Indonesia.
Opened in 2013, Kualanamu International Airport is the second largest airport in Indonesia, and will eventually have a capacity of 50 million passengers/year. The airport currently has a single 3750m runway, two taxiways and 13,700 m2 of apron and cargo area.
The Osprey LA2200 that has been purchased by airport operator, PT Angkasa Pura II, removes the rubber deposits left on the runways by landing aircraft, which reduce the grip available to other aircraft. The vehicles are also used quickly and efficiently remove paint and clean ground-based airfield lights.
Pictured right: Simon Carling, welcoming Mr Johanes Sie, Owner and the team from our partner in Indonesia, PT Trikarya Abadi Prima. | aerospace |
https://www.hardwarespecialty.com/industry/military.shtml | 2022-05-18T07:36:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662521152.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518052503-20220518082503-00705.warc.gz | 0.858925 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__226355858 | en | Hardware Specialty has earned the status of “Certified
Supplier” with several of the world’s top military and commercial OEM’s.
Our ISO program dates to the early 1990’s, our Ships and Nuclear
programs date to the early 1970’s. Our Aerospace and Military programs date to the
early 1950’s and have been the foundation of our successful Quality Assurance operations.
All Hardware Specialty locations meet or exceed the requirements of the following:
AS9120 - Aerospace Standard (Marlborough, MA)
ISO 9001 - International Standards
ISO 14001 - International Standards (Blackwood, NJ)
Our product line offering includes key components such as: | aerospace |
https://whatifwedontdie.com/2020/08/05/good-heavens-the-heavens-are-under-attack/ | 2023-06-02T04:29:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648322.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602040003-20230602070003-00237.warc.gz | 0.950185 | 738 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__172473329 | en | Recent news reports tell us that Russia has just tested a space-to-space weapon. So, a weapon fired from one space object against another. This is a nightmare scenario for all people cherishing outer space as a place dedicated to peaceful use. But not only that. In fact, it jeopardises the interest of all human beings, because outer space belongs to us all.
Many discussions have taken place over the years about weapons in outer space, and fantasies like Reagan’s aborted Strategic Defence Initiative were put forward. However, discussions have intensified in the recent past, with bold and silly proclamations by President Trump about outer space as just another war-fighting domain and the creation of a ‘Space Force’ as a separate arm of the US military.
Until now, actual weapons related to outer space were limited to anti-satellite weapons launched from Earth or from an aircraft but targeting satellites in outer space. This is bad enough – and they were only tested. But space-to space weapons are an enormous escalation. Weapons in outer space itself will ensure that, indeed, outer space becomes a battlefield, with the consequence that the resulting masses of debris will make a number of important orbits useless for telecom and Earth Observation satellites. When the shooting starts, Elon Musk’s upcoming Starlink telecoms constellation will bleed and we can wave goodbye to the International Space Station or a possible successor.
Now, you could argue that as long as warring nations only make outer space useless for themselves then it is essentially the normal terrestrial war mode. However, because the destruction of just one satellite creates thousands of pieces of debris moving at up to 18,000 miles an hour, large parts of space will become unavailable to all nations when war in space breaks out. And there will be long-term detriment as well because debris stays in space for many years. All this runs counter to outer space being a province of all humankind as defined by the generally accepted Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Hence, war in outer space must be avoided. Placing weapons there in best Star Wars fashion will achieve the opposite.
That the Russian test has opened a fast track to make the province of all humankind an illusion is not only folly but means that transactional cost will go up now. Because space operators will try even more to harden their space hardware to mitigate the consequences of ultimate space warfare. We then enter the ‘screw-without-an-end’ scenario that we know all too well from arms races on Earth. Destructive ability will be sought countered by protective measures, only to trigger new destructive abilities, and so forth. All the while, those nations with no military ambitions in outer space will suffer and be sucked in.
It is easy to be cynical and conclude that the world will just take its evil turn, and that there is nothing we can do about it. But such defeatism is not warranted. As citizens we must protest what are in reality attacks on the shared province of humankind and insist that our governments resist the weaponisation of outer space. The lack of popular and political attention to the issue is the greatest ally of those wanting to mess up space.
When we speak up against the weaponisation of outer space, we will find that there is far more support for keeping outer space as a domain for peaceful use than meets the eye. A large number of nations has absolutely no interest in conflicts in outer space, but they must be woken from their Sleeping Beauty dreams! They must be brought to realise what a mortal threat to their short and long term interests the latest developments portend. That is our task as citizens! | aerospace |
https://thedailycoin.org/2020/09/29/how-china-russia-could-cripple-us-satellites-paralyze-the-us-military-economy-brandon-weichert-video/ | 2020-11-30T12:30:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141213431.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20201130100208-20201130130208-00264.warc.gz | 0.903517 | 173 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__179653299 | en | How China, Russia Could Cripple US Satellites & Paralyze the US Military & Economy—Brandon Weichert (Video)
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Russia and China have weaponized space and pulled far ahead of America in the space race, says geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert. “The Americans had better start playing catch up, otherwise, we will face a space Pearl Harbor,” Weichert said.
They already have the capacity to cripple American satellites, which would not only paralyze U.S. military operations. It would also prevent you from doing basic things like paying for gas with your credit card or getting directions on your GPS. | aerospace |
http://www.medeshivalley.com/2015/08/djibouti-relaunches-its-national-airline.html | 2018-09-25T21:01:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267162385.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20180925202648-20180925223048-00407.warc.gz | 0.940306 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__82840411 | en | The report said that Air Djibouti, which went bankrupt in 2002, recommenced flights on Monday with a cargo plane carrying six tonnes from Djibouti to Somalia, to Hargeisa, the capital of self-declared Somaliland.
The airline is reported to be backed by British company Cardiff Aviation, whose chairman is Dickinson, the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden and a Boeing 757 and 737 pilot and instructor.
Djibouti, a model of stability in an otherwise volatile region, lies on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a gateway to the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
The tiny country, which provides a vital port for landlocked neighbour Ethiopia, is also host to several foreign military bases, including those of the US, France and Japan. Now it has plans to become a regional hub for air cargo transport, to forward sea cargo arriving in its port. | aerospace |
https://www.aerosud.co.za/welded-assembly | 2024-04-14T09:58:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816879.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414095752-20240414125752-00020.warc.gz | 0.944711 | 117 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__101728870 | en | We have developed significant capability in Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding of thin walled aluminium as well as steels, including stainless steel. This capability covers both manual and robotic welding. Where required, all welding is inspected using non-destructive techniques performed by our partner African NDT.
Our two robotic welding cells provide significant capacity to absorb production rate increases. All welding performed is Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) as well as National Aerospace & Defence Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) approved. | aerospace |
https://www.intellibridge.us/trowbridge-trowbridge-awarded-new-contract-support-u-s-army/ | 2024-04-20T01:54:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00829.warc.gz | 0.919353 | 615 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35044138 | en | Company Will Provide Software Development and Database Administration
for Aircraft Maintenance Information Systems
McLean, VA — June 02, 2016 – Trowbridge & Trowbridge, LLC, a leading federal information systems and solutions provider, announced today that the company has been awarded a $3.2M contract to provide database administration, software development, and custom application services for the U.S. Army’s Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Maintenance Engineering Division (AEM). RDECOM AEM provides aviation engineering services in support of the Army and Department of Defense’s (DoD) rotary wing (helicopter) fleets.
Under the 5-year contract, Trowbridge will be responsible for management and maintenance of the database system that serves as the primary repository for Army helicopter maintenance engineering calls and orders worldwide. President and CEO Karen Trowbridge said, “These engineering documents are a critical component of the Army’s Airworthiness Certification process. This new contract provides a unique opportunity for us to directly support the Warfighters and their weapon systems.”
Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas, home to the largest rotary wing repair facility in the world. The Trowbridge team at this location developed the Engineering Support System database and has provided outstanding service in keeping the technology updated and meeting evolving and complex software and database requirements. “Our team has 35 combined years of experience supporting the customer’s mission to provide best-value solutions for the modification, repair, and overhaul of rotary wing components and aircraft,” said Chris Brandell, Trowbridge’s Chief Operating Officer. “We are honored to now be part of that legacy.”
This strategic win expands Trowbridge’s services within the DoD and provides a new prime contract supporting the Army. Trowbridge not only has significant Army experience with current contracts at various bases, but also has aviation professionals on staff who support the Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE), Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), and Naval Air Warfare (NAVAIR) Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (RDTE). These capabilities will enable Trowbridge to provide superior support for the custom applications and systems that enable the RDECOM AEM mission.
Trowbridge is an award-winning mid-tier contactor that is also certified as an economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business (EDWOSB) under its NIH CIO-SP3 SB, Alliant SB, and GSA Schedule 70 Prime contract vehicles. The company is CMMI-DEV Maturity Level 2 appraised with an ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified infrastructure, and provides system engineering, information technology, data center operations, cyber security, and unified communications services to Defense and Federal Civilian clients. For additional information, contact Ty Bachus at 571-298-8468, or firstname.lastname@example.org. | aerospace |
https://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/contract-awards/insitu-awarded-19-6m-for-afghanistan-scaneagle-procurement-service-operators/ | 2022-05-18T12:55:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662522270.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518115411-20220518145411-00279.warc.gz | 0.920856 | 215 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__48375748 | en | Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $19,611,424 for firm-fixed-price delivery order N6833517F0079 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N68335-16-G-0046) in support of the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
This order provides for the procurement of five ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs), spares, support equipment, field service representatives, operators to provide technical services, site surveys, site activations teams, and program management to sustain and operate the ScanEagle UASs within Afghanistan.
Work will be performed in Afghanistan (95 percent); and Bingen, Washington (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2018.
Afghan Security Forces funding in the amount of $19,611,424 is being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity. | aerospace |
http://moreau.us/ | 2014-03-08T18:33:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999657010/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060737-00093-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.97791 | 1,117 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__77243889 | en | Our visit to Cape Canaveral was for one reason only, to visit the Kennedy Space Center. We wanted to avoid any weekend crowds so I took Monday off work and after getting everyone started, we arrived around 9:30 AM with everyone fresh and ready for adventure. Jen and I both knew we had a long day ahead so we came prepped with treats, toys, liquids, and a heaping pile of patience.
We stood in line and picked up three tickets, Leona was free but Evelyn was charged the child rate. Not surprisingly, we passed through security and entered into the Rocket Garden where a dozen or so rockets stood erect, pointing towards the sky. Each rocket had a small description, which we tried to read, and there were interactive exhibits that the kids and adults enjoyed. You get to climb aboard Mercury-Redstone, Gemini and Apollo capsules and get an idea of the cramped quarters America’s astronaut pioneers endured.
After the Rocket Garden, we walked through the Space Center, visiting the Exploration Space where they were giving a very loud introduction into the future of Space exploration. Neither girl likes loud noises, so we wandered unattended through the back exhibits of the Exploration Space. There were many interesting things to read, but nothing to hold the attention of a two and four year-old.
The next place we visited was the Space Shuttle Atlantis complex. You know where it is the entire time you are in the center, you see the large fuel tank and booster rockets standing high. As you get closer to the complex, you walk underneath them and realize they are replicas, which diminishes the appeal, but it is still impressive how large they were.
Once inside the complex, you watch a four-minute movie about how the Space Shuttle program begun. They show the timeline using actors, re-enacting the program from conception to launch in the early 1980s. The theatre only has one row of bench seats in the rear, but the family sat on the floor. After the initial movie, you enter into another theatre, one with a rounded screen that encompasses the whole theatre. It starts showing the shuttles taking off, landing, shots from space, all quick snippets to bring up those childhood memories (for me at least) of how awesome the Space Shuttle program was. Finally, the screen goes transparent and in the background, you see the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
The whole theatre was to control how many people crowd into the room surrounding the Space Shuttle, but once inside you can spend as long as you want wandering around. We spent probably an hour, walking around the Atlantis looking at it in detail. Jen and I both were surprised to see the little heat shields up close and how delicate they look, although they deflect an immense amount of heat on re-entry.
There are plenty of mockups of the different components of the Space Shuttle. It was fun to watch the girls play inside of them, flipping switches at will. There was a real-life astronaut there, answering questions, providing insight into the challenges of space flight. As the girls played, I stood by and listened intently to him talking about being in space. Space flight seems effortless once you are up there, but he talked about how you have to always think ahead … thousands of miles pass by you ever second!
The rest of the complex was filled with fun activities for adults and kids. There was an anti-gravity slide which gives kids the sensation of weightlessness for a few milliseconds, Evelyn went down it twice and commented on the ‘air’ she got as we slide down. There was a scale replica of what it was like to crawl around in the space shuttle, including a crawl through a thirty-foot Plexiglas clear tube that was 50 feet in the air. Both of the girls enjoyed that crawl, I did not enjoy it as much but I am happy to report I survived.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis complex empties into a gift shop, where I let the girls choose their toy to remember the Kennedy Space Center by. Evelyn choose a replica of the Space Shuttle, fuel tanks, and booster rockets. It was a very cool toy, a bit expensive, but worth every penny. Leona choose the stuffed bear astronaut and the hard plastic Space Shuttle.
The girls were pretty worn down after our exploration so we stopped by for some lunch, hoping the food would recharge their energy and their attitudes. As we ate lunch we realized both the girls were pretty much done exploring, we had spent three hours exploring the Kennedy Space Center but agreed we could not spend any more time here without risking a meltdown. There was a ninety-minute bus tour that I was dying to go on, but we did not want to risk a repeat of the bus incident at Zion.
As we left, I was filled with happiness that I have to explore a place that has been on my bucket list since I was a little boy. It was amazing to see a place as sacred as Kennedy Space Center, the closest to space most American’s get to explore. I was disappointed the girls were not up for more exploring and I would consider coming back another day, but the entrance fee was nearly $150 for the whole family and I could not justify spending that for a bus tour.
I am glad we came and the next time we are in the Orlando area, we will make a day trip to Kennedy Space Center again. If you come to Disney World, you should book a day tour here as well. | aerospace |
http://calhountimes.com/view/full_story/20922259/article-Civil-Air-Patrol-looking-for-new-members--?instance=home_local_bullet_news | 2013-06-19T19:12:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.927315 | 208 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__65375500 | en | The Calhoun Composite Squadron #134 of the Civil Air Patrol-U.S. Air Force Auxiliary has openings for a safety officer, communications officer, and emergency services officer, among others.
Cadet slots (ages 12-17) are also open.
Civil Air Patrol members learn about aerospace topics, receive Air Force approved training, and emergency management procedures.
Members also participate in search and rescue missions and in disaster relief, among other duties.
If a plane goes down in north Georgia, the Air Patrol is called in to work with local Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) to help find the plane,” said Cpt. Hayden Collins of Calhoun Composite Squadron #134.
The Calhoun Composite Squadron meets at the Tom B. David Calhoun Airport on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
For more information please attend a meeting for orientation or contact Capt. Hayden Collins; firstname.lastname@example.org or visit Gocivilairpatrol.com | aerospace |
https://fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/deprima-switzerland-78.html | 2018-07-16T21:54:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589470.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716213101-20180716233101-00586.warc.gz | 0.966397 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__25512440 | en | Open doors for free to Lugano art galleries and museums in order to discover the places in town where art is the protagonist and participate to the many free events specially organized for the occasion.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is the government agency responsible for the space program of the United States of America and the civil and military aerospace research.
July 29, 1958 President Eisenhower signed the act of incorporation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which began its activities in October of that year. Von Braun became the director and the center occupying 7,000 people. The first NASA programs were focused on the possibility of human missions in space, under the pressure of competition between the U.S. and the USSR due to the cold war. The Mercury program was the first NASA program designed to determine whether the man could travel in space...read more | aerospace |
http://marsartifacts.tripod.com/mgsanomalies.html | 2019-06-18T19:00:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998813.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190618183446-20190618205446-00130.warc.gz | 0.947496 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__85542982 | en | Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) is the NASA contractor responsible for
designing and operating the Mars Orbital Camera (MOC) mounted on the Mars
Global Surveyor (MGS).
In the spring of 2000, after about three years imaging the surface, Micheal Malin finally uploaded over twenty-seven thousand of these MOC images on his web site. Then in October another thirty thousand were added to the web site. These are available to anyone on the internet at msss.com. MGS is still presently orbiting Mars and continues to return images.
Among the many unusual objects found in these images, faces tend to be
the most prevalent and profound. Most are very human in appearance. A
number of these are presented here for your inspection. In my opinion, certain images constitute absolute proof of artificiality. See for yourself. Click at left to inspect the images. | aerospace |
http://bestdata365.com/airlines-survive-by-carrying-cargo | 2020-09-30T21:50:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402128649.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930204041-20200930234041-00674.warc.gz | 0.959088 | 1,159 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__244719586 | en | Airlines 'survive' by carrying cargo
Late last month, Virgin Atlantic's VS251 landed at Heathrow Airport (UK) with 256 full seats but did not violate social spacing.
The seats, along with the luggage compartment, are filled with medical supplies. It was one of nine flights in which Virgin used a passenger plane to transport breathing apparatus, masks, gloves and other medical supplies between Shanghai and London. Of course, the flight has no passengers.
It is one of the vivid examples of how a pandemic radically changed the performance of the aviation industry. Airlines have long been carrying cargo with passengers but have never intended to use passenger planes to carry only cargo.
But that changed in March 2020, when thousands of flights were canceled because of Covid-19. Meanwhile, demand and prices for goods sent by aircraft soared, facilitating the reuse of idle passenger aircraft.
"Cargo helps planes take off and gives us hope of overcoming difficulties, instead of being shelved on the ground," said Dominic Kennedy, Virgin's Head of Freight Operations. know.
Cargo is loaded on passenger cabin in an aircraft. Photo: NYT
Earlier, Virgin had never used passenger aircraft to perform fully cargo flights. But now, they operate 90 flights per week, even after deep cuts in business. And Virgin is not the only company that has chosen to manage this when the aviation industry's future is uncertain.
In the US, one of the three largest airlines started operating freighter flights in March 2020. American Airlines has not done so for more than 3 decades. But now, they fly 40 flights a week.
Even Lufthansa (Germany) has long separated cargo operations from passengers now taking advantage of the opportunity by converting Airbus A330 passenger aircraft to cargo. Last month, the airline added a number of passenger air cargo flights to bring medical goods from China to Frankfurt.
The goods that people and businesses transport by air vary according to the season, but they are often expensive, perishable, urgently needed or some of all. These include items such as smartphones, auto parts, seafood, pharmaceuticals, mail, and fashion clothes. But a new commodity has appeared in recent months: medical supplies.
Facemasks, gloves, ventilators and the like "create the highest demand for large quantities of goods, but cannot say that other products and goods are no longer in need of transportation", Harald Gloy - Head of freight division of Lufthansa Cargo said.
Typically, about half of all air freight is operated by companies like UPS, FedEx and DHL. The other half is usually carried in the luggage compartment under the passenger seats. But this is not the usual time.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the reduction of most of the worldwide flights in March resulted in a 23% reduction in air freight. Meanwhile, the demand for goods by air reduced less, only 15%.
The gap between supply and demand, along with falling jet fuel prices, has caught the attention of airline executives. "This is a bright spot for the industry, because it is the only segment that is active and generates revenue of any size," said Alexandre de Juniac, head of the International Air Transport Association.
Worldwide, the average price for transporting a kilogram of air freight was US $ 3.63 last month, up 65% from March 2020, according to WorldACD, a provider of aggregated logistics data. transferred from 70 member firms. This is the highest increase recorded and the largest monthly increase since WorldACD began collecting data in January 2008.
Freight prices from Asia have skyrocketed, due to the demand for medical supplies manufactured in factories there, according to WorldACD. But when the global economy is going down, the demand for goods and freight can drop rapidly.
Until then, passenger airlines will continue to offer cargo flights, and IATA is calling on governments around the globe to help more. In particular, the association urges governments to quickly approve cargo flights, exempt crews from quarantine and help airlines find places to handle cargo and rest for the crew.
In the US, airlines like Lufthansa are slow to use passenger cabs to transport cargo, as they are awaiting approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. Last month, the agency outlined the steps the airline should take to use that space safely.
Cargo is transported out of the passenger cabin of the Lufthansa aircraft. Photo: NYT
In Lufthansa, every cargo flight has three flight attendants, compared with 15 on the passenger flight. They are there to make sure the cargo does not move during the flight or catch fire. "The lower level has a fire detection system in the cabin, unlike the passenger compartment because passengers will often observe the abnormality," said Harald Gloy.
However, converting passenger aircraft to transport cargo is not easy. Decades ago, Lufthansa tested using Boeing 737 aircraft to transport daytime passengers and cargo at night. They proceed by removing seats every day. In the end, they found it too troublesome and not worth doing.
"Obviously, this is not only economically unsustainable, but also technical and operational," commented Harald Gloy. However, these days, using passenger planes to transport goods is a possible measure, bringing a little hope for carriers.
"Lack of capacity is a temporary problem. The crisis will affect the transport of goods by air with the same level as other industries," said Alexandre de Juniac.
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https://ichynichy.com/no-dream-is-too-high-life-lessons-from-a-man-who-walked-on-the-moon/ | 2021-01-20T10:33:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703519984.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20210120085204-20210120115204-00212.warc.gz | 0.949457 | 3,650 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__244975005 | en | Always maintain your spirit of adventure. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man in space to first men on the moon. He stays fit, energetic, and fascinated with life. Beloved american hero and astronaut buzz aldrin reflects on the wisdom, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered—both in outer space and on earth—through his event-filled life, guiding principles, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation.
No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon #ad - For his 80th birthday, Buzz went diving in the Galapagos and hitched a ride on a whale shark. How he learned to be proud of being the second man on the moon. No dream is too high is a beautiful memento, a thought-provoking set of ideas, and a new opportunity for Buzz Aldrin to connect with the masses of people who recognize his unique place in human history.
No dream is too high whittles down buzz aldrin's event-filled life into a short list of principles he values, each illustrated by fascinating anecdotes and memories, such as: · Second comes right after first. Look for opportunities, not obstacles.
Return to EarthOpen Road Media #ad - As aldrin puts it, “i traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before. Return to earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator, ” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people.
Return to Earth #ad - . With that splash, aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him.
Apollo 11 astronaut buzz aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun.
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in SpaceSt. Martin's Press #ad - Written with new york times bestselling author don davis, the last Man on the Moon is the astronaut story never before told - about the fear, love and sacrifice demanded of the few men who dared to reach beyond the heavens for the biggest prize of all - the Moon. His career spanned the entire gemini and apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to the moment when he left man's last footprint on the Moon as commander of Apollo 17.
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space #ad - Between those two historic events lay more adventures than an ordinary person could imagine as Cernan repeatedly put his life, his family and everything he held dear on the altar of an obsessive desire. The basis of the 2014 award-winning feature-length documentary! A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers.
Eugene cernan was a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight.
Carrying the Fire: 50th Anniversary EditionFarrar, Straus and Giroux #ad - Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the apollo 11 journey to the moonThe years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events—technical and spiritual—of our lifetime.
Carrying the Fire: 50th Anniversary Edition #ad - In carrying the fire, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, Collins conveys, and humor of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force, presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, through his days as a test pilot, to his Apollo 11 space walk, light, and movement from someone who has seen the fragile earth from the other side of the moon.
First Man: The Life of Neil A. ArmstrongSimon & Schuster #ad - In first man, the personal, technological, epic, and iconic blend to form the portrait of a great but reluctant hero who will forever be known as history’s most famous space traveler. These milestones made it seem, as armstrong’s mother Viola memorably put it, “as if from the very moment he was born—farther back still—that our son was somehow destined for the Apollo 11 mission.
For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Armstrong’s storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, Hansen asserts, paid in kind by his wife and children. He was also—as James R. For the forty-five years since the Moon landing, his religious beliefs, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, and his private life.
In a riveting narrative filled with revelations, hansen vividly recreates Armstrong’s career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative transatmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space.
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong #ad - Upon his return to earth, Armstrong was honored and celebrated for his monumental achievement. Hansen reveals in this fascinating and important biography—misunderstood. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, this “magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century” Publishers Weekly, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, starred review is an unparalleled biography of an American icon.
In a penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. Armstrong’s accomplishments as engineer, test pilot, and astronaut have long been a matter of record, but Hansen’s unprecedented access to private documents and unpublished sources and his interviews with more than 125 subjects including more than fifty hours with Armstrong himself yield this first in-depth analysis of an elusive American celebrity still renowned the world over.
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space ExplorationNational Geographic #ad - President as rousing as jfk’s promise to reach the moon by the end of the 1960s—an audacious, inspiring goal-and a unified vision for space exploration. Celebrated astronaut, development, science, brilliant engineer, bestselling author, commerce, Aldrin believes it is not only possibly but vital to America’s future to keep pushing the space frontier outward for the sake of exploration, and security.
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration #ad - . What we need, he argues, is a commitment by the U. S. Can astronauts reach mars by 2035? Absolutely, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon. In mission to mars, aldrin plots that trajectory, stressing that American-led space exploration is essential to the economic and technological vitality of the nation and the world.
Do you dare to dream big? Then join Aldrin in his thought provoking and inspiring Mission to Mars.
Neil Armstrong: A Life of FlightThomas Dunne Books #ad - The book is full of never-before-seen photos and personal details written down for the first time, his relationships with the other astronauts, including what Armstrong really felt when he took that first step on the moon, what life in NASA was like, and what he felt the future of space exploration should be.
As the only reporter to have covered all 166 American astronaut flights and moon landings Jay knows these events intimately. Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil's life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend – Jay Barbree.
Working from 50 years of conversations he had with neil, interviews, NASA spaceflight transcripts, from notes, and remembrances of those Armstrong trusted, family, Barbree writes about Neil's three passions – flight, and friends. Neil armstrong himself said, "Barbree is history's most experienced space journalist.
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight #ad - . Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Together neil and jay discussed everything, from his love of flying, to the war years, and of course his time in space. This is the inside story of neil armstrong from the time he flew combat missions in the Korean War and then flew a rocket plane called the X-15 to the edge of space, to when he saved his Gemini 8 by flying the first emergency return from Earth orbit and then flew Apollo-Eleven to the moon's Sea of Tranquility.
He is exceptionally well qualified to recall and write the events and emotions of our time.
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the MoonCrown Archetype #ad - We’re number one on the runway. The flight of apollo 11 made aldrin one of the most famous persons on our planet, yet few people know the rest of this true American hero’s story. Understand. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history.
The twin demons of depression and alcoholism emerged–the first of which Aldrin confronted early and publicly, and the second of which he met with denial until it nearly killed him. Forty years ago, minutes after neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth.
He burned through two marriages, his Air Force career came to an inglorious end, and he found himself selling cars for a living when he wasn’t drunkenly wrecking them. As an adventure story, a searing memoir of self-destruction and self-renewal, and as a visionary rallying cry to once again set our course for Mars and beyond, Magnificent Desolation is the thoroughly human story of a genuine hero.
From the glory of being part of the mission that fulfilled president Kennedy’s challenge to reach the moon before the decade was out, Aldrin returned home to an Air Force career stripped of purpose or direction, other than as a public relations tool that NASA put to relentless use in a seemingly nonstop world tour.
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon #ad - In magnificent desolation, aldrin not only gives us a harrowing first-person account of the lunar landing that came within seconds of failure and the ultimate insider’s view of life as one of the superstars of America’s space program, he also opens up with remarkable candor about his more personal trials–and eventual triumphs–back on Earth.
. In the years since, millions more have had their Earth-centric perspective unalterably changed by the iconic photograph of Aldrin standing on the surface of the moon, the blackness of space behind him and his fellow explorer and the Eagle reflected in his visor.
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the MoonHenry Holt and Co. #ad - The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.
And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another.
The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on christmas eve, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. The full story of apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—Jim Lovell’s co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13—can do it justice.
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon #ad - But when frank borman, jim lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad.
"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to TodayHarperCollins e-books #ad - From sputnik to the international Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. Barbree also shows how much the space program and its press coverage have changed over time. Live from cape canaveral’ encapsulates the most technically exciting half century in history. Neil armstrongsome fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia.
He shares affectionate portraits of astronauts as well as some of his fellow journalists and tells some very funny behind-the-scenes stories—many involving astronaut pranks. Warm and perceptive, he reminds us just how thrilling the great moments of the space race were and why America fell in love with its heroic, sometimes larger-than-life astronauts.
"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today #ad - In "live from cape canaveral, " barbree—the only reporter who has covered every mission flown by astronauts—offers his unique perspective on the space program. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, right outside Cape Canaveral, Florida, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled as often as they soared.
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGBRandom House #ad - A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. Laced with startling revelations—about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA and KGB, covert operations in Berlin and Prague, double and triple agents, and the fateful autumn of 1989—The Main Enemy is history at its action-packed best.
. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. Bearden was called back to washington after the soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and was made chief of the Soviet/East Euro-pean Division—just in time to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe, and the implosion of the Soviet Union.
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB #ad - The clandestine operations they masterminded took them from the sewers of moscow to the back streets of Baghdad, but the action centers on Washington, from Cairo and Havana to Prague and Berlin, one by one, starting in the infamous "Year of the Spy"—when, the CIA’s agents in Moscow began to be killed, up through to the very last man.
Behind the scenes with the cia's covert operations in afghanistan, and for the first time he reveals here what he did and whom America backed, Milt Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets, and why. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose through the ranks to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War. | aerospace |
http://www.visualnews.com/tag/exploration/ | 2014-04-19T08:13:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609536300.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005216-00098-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.943905 | 1,058 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__161501408 | en | The South Pole is the uttermost end of the Earth, and it has been over a century since anyone has tried to retrace the ill-fated steps of Captain Robert Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition. – the 1,800-mile return journey from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole on foot. British adventurers Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere have set out to complete the longest unsupported polar journey in history, the Scott Expedition, along the same route Scott succumbed to in 1912. The men are now in the final week of hauling their heavy sleds across the coldest, windiest, most inhospitable place in the world – and they’ve been doing it for more than a quarter of a year. [Read more...]
On the surface, it would seem that new frontiers have been just about exhausted on Earth… but sometimes you just have to look deeper. The world’s oceans are vast, covering 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and containing 97 percent of the water… yet only about 5 percent of the ocean and its depths have been explored. The Neptune Canada project is aiming to change that. By filling us in with real-time video and data direct from the far reaches of the sea floor, the project launched in 2009 is already helping scientists understand mysteries of the deep – and they’re doing it with the help of people like you. [Read more...]
A rich space tourist who earlier payed $20 million to visit the International Space Station, is now working to promote an even more ambitious project – a manned flyby around the planet Mars in 2018. Much like the Apollo 10 mission which proceeded the famous Apollo landing, this mission would be only intended to make a quick flyby of the red planet, in fact only spending about 10 hours at its closest point 100,000km above the planets surface. [Read more...]
It’s exciting that in recent years a host of serious projects are being launched, directed at the goal of colonizing another planet in the solar system. From the groundbreaking Curiosity rover exploring the surface of Mars, to the reality TV funded Mars One project, the world is pushing hard to put the first permanent inhabitants on the surface of another world. Now Enrico Dini, the inventor of a massive 3D printer called D-Shape, is teaming up with the European Space Agency and building innovator Foster + Partners in an attempt to solve one of the most challenging aspects of colonizing another planet: lifting a heavy habitat off earth and getting it there. [Read more...]
Would you volunteer for a one-way trip to Mars, never again to return to the Earth? That is the proposition the non-profit organization Mars One is putting forth for a group of 4 brave people with a distinct lack of nostalgia for old Mother Earth. Once on the red planet, they will establish a habitable, sustainable outpost designed to receive additional astronauts every two years. If the plan works, we will see Mars being colonized by as early as 2023… that’s 10 short years people! [Read more...]
Since 1981 the Space Shuttle has been rocketing astronauts and important scientific projects out of the Earths atmosphere and into weightless space. Tomorrow at 11:26 a.m. EDT, the Shuttle Atlantis makes the 135th and final Space Shuttle flight, delivering a resupply to the International Space Station and ending the now 30 year old Shuttle program. To comemorate the launch we bring you a fun infographic about the sheer size of the behemoth orbiter vehicle and the distances it has traveled. [Read more...]
Taken in 1915, these fantastic pictures are from the dawn of color photography, and from an astounding event during the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.” Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew where in the midst of one of the most incredible expeditions and subsequent survival stories of the last century… and managed to photograph much of it in color.
Filmed without permission or permits, Steve Duncan goes urban spelunking to find the hidden treasures under New York City. Followed by his brave cameraman, Duncan explores beautiful closed off subway tunnels from bygone era’s, the first underground sewer for the city and interviews the people that inhabit the dark place. See the beautiful photos he’s taken of his many adventures at undercity.org. [Read more...]
Six years before the world’s first manned space flight, Walt Disney released a television series that predicted their vision for the future. The 1955 program, “Man and the Moon,” stunned viewers with it’s innovative and beautiful vision of lunar space flight; even today, the rich graphical work of this series is absolutely astounding. We are pleased to bring you a remixed, modern-day version of this film, as well as two others from the same series, set to electronic beats.
Recently Disney has increased their online presence with an exclusive YouTube channel and Twitter account. Through these forms of media, Disney is reaching out to fans in a way that even the creators of “Man on the Moon” would have never thought possible. | aerospace |
http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/teaching/projects/2005_06/ao2924/applications.html | 2014-04-19T04:21:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535775.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00085-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.920975 | 308 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__26809279 | en | The Applications of Pendulums
There are a number of real-life physical systems where the pendulum is the underlying mechanism. Lets examine some examples.
i) The human body. Walking is often likened to the motion of two coupled pendula where the supported leg is analogous to an inverted pendulum with the suspension point on the ground and the swinging leg analogous to a damped pendulum. As humans learn to walk, control of this system is developed and research suggests that individuals favour a step frequency and step length which minimises their expenditure of energy. The variables of step length and frequency are essentially parameters of the modelled system. Although such a model is a significant simplification of human motion, the pendulum remains the fundamental mechanism in walking.
ii) Rocket Science. When a space rocket is launched, in order to control its trajectory, the rocket itself must be kept accurately balanced in line with the direction of thrust. This is typically implemented using a thrust vector control system whereby corrective bursts are fired during the ascent from a set of gimballed control thrusters at the base of the rocket. This system is analogous to a forced pendulum in three-dimensional space. The explicit forcing, a physical external force exerted on the system, is provided by the set of control thrusters that stabilise the pendulum in the inverted position. Again, this is a simplification of the entire dynamics of a space shuttle launch, but the classical engineering problem of balancing an inverted pendulum plays a key role in controlling the rocket. | aerospace |
http://www.eaglelensphotography.com/faq/ | 2018-01-22T00:32:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084890928.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20180121234728-20180122014728-00178.warc.gz | 0.951194 | 800 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__87935690 | en | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle/Unmanned Aerial System. Multi-rotor drones which are operated via a transmitter remote. They are far more maneuverable and safe than manned aircraft and can get within 10 feet of the subject matter.
Our smallest quad-rotor and mid-sized hex-rotor drones use GoPro camera rigs, which is perfect for capturing close-up action shots and interiors. This provides full HD footage at 1080p and up to 120fps. The quad is also equipped with propeller guards to protect property and people alike.
Our larger octo-rotor carries a Canon 5D Mark III, the standard in video DSLRs. It is best for high-end productions that require professional-quality aerial footage.
Commercial UAS usage is such a new industry that the policies for governing them are still being established. The FAA is actively working towards regulating and certifying pilots and drones flying in the National Airspace (NAS) for commercial purposes; however, their policies are not yet codified into official law as they apply to UAS.
As long as our pilots keep our UAS’ within what is known as “Class G” or “unregulated” airspace, they remain covered and permitted under previously existing legislation relating to model aircraft. Generally this means staying under 400 feet, and away from any airports or other aerial activities. As long as we stay within our ceiling and operate our systems safely, we are cleared for takeoff.
In keeping with the above answer, just because we are allowed to fly, that legality is not a license to put people in harm’s way. Our pilots are seasoned and responsible operators with experience on an array of equipment, and have created some safe yet incredible, innovative shots, flying in locales ranging from a kayak race on the Mystic River to an indoor rock-climbing gym. While some drone operators try to fly and operate the camera at the same time, we use a dedicated pilot in addition to a camera operator, so as to allow the pilot total focus on maintaining a safe flight and the cameraman the ability to compose the best shots possible. Additionally, for indoor footage, our quad-copter is outfitted with rotor guards for extra protection.
We’ve set a self-imposed limit of 2km (1.2 miles) from the transmitter. If the copter exceeds that limit, it will automatically return to the takeoff location. We like to maintain a visual of the drone at all times and fly accordingly, depending on visibility.
We use LiPo rechargeable batteries to power our copters. Each battery lasts approximately 10-15 minutes. A battery change only takes 2 minutes and we always bring multiple batteries to each shoot and recharge during flights as long as there is an outlet nearby.
Yes, we are insured by one of the few leaders in the industry who specialize in covering UAS’ for liability and damage. We are also insured with a standard photography/videography policy. If you decide to book us, we will be happy to provide you with any documentation.
We have multiple cameras, capable of time lapse and slow-motion, a full lens kit and stabilization equipment to give you high-quality films of events, landscapes, promos, real estate properties and more. Want a live HD streaming of an event? We do that too! We do all of our editing in-house to give you a consistent level of professionalism and quality and prefer to intersperse aerial shots with ground coverage to tell the full story of a place or event.
We are located in San Diego, California and service all of Southern California. That being said, we LOVE to travel! If you want to get us on a project that is requires a plane or a long drive then all we ask is that you pay travel and lodging expenses. We are great at finding deals and do not charge a premium for this. | aerospace |
https://www.espi.or.at/News-Archive/espi-on-innovation-in-research-europe | 2018-04-22T16:32:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945624.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422154522-20180422174522-00086.warc.gz | 0.788828 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__225033758 | en | Yearbook on Space Policy 2016
“Space for Sustainable Development”
For further details: Click here
ESPI Report 62: “The Governance of Galileo”
Space 2030 and Space 4.0:
Synergies for capacity building in the XXI century
3 February 2018, ESPI Vienna
Download the programme here
Space for Sustainable Development
19th European Interparliamentary Space Conference
5-7 November 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
Plenary Session Resolution
2 October 2013. The latest issue of Research Europe contains an article by ESPI director Peter Hulsroj on the need for more, and more radical, innovation in the space field in general and in Europe in particular.
The article by Peter Hulsroj seeks to explain how high-cost countries such as the European ones can only hope to keep a place at the top-table of space if they can innovate much faster than low-cost competitors. The article can be found here: http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article&articleId=1338361
Download: ESPI report 43 "Space and the Processes of Innovation"
ESPI - European Space Policy Institute Schwarzenbergplatz 6 Entrance: Zaunergasse 1-3 A-1030 Vienna Phone +43 1 718 11 18 -0 Fax +43 1 718 11 18 -99 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.org | aerospace |
http://myjournalcourier.com/news/98351/virden-grad-named-an-air-force-commander | 2016-09-25T07:11:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660158.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00284-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.974288 | 314 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__175860682 | en | VIRDEN — The son of a Virden couple has been named wing commander at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
Col. Darren R. Cole, son of Charlot and Kendall Cole of Virden, took command July 7 during a ceremony attended by his parents and his sister, Claudine Wargel, and nephew, Kinser Wargel of Clinton.
Cole formerly served as chief of war planning and policy at Headquarters Air Force at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. In that position, he managed all Air Force global force management assignment, apportionment and allocation actions and associated information systems. In addition, he was responsible for all Air Force air expeditionary force policy and reserve component mobilization policy and execution.
Cole graduated from Virden High School in 1988 and was commissioned in 1992 as a graduate of the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Illinois. He earned his pilot wings at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas, and was assigned as a C-141B pilot. He has served in a variety of positions within squadron, group, wing, air staff and combatant command levels. He deployed three times in the Global War on Terrorism.
Prior to serving as chief of war planning and policy, he served as commander of the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group in Kabul, Afghanistan. There, he commanded 390 joint and coalition personnel who advised the Afghan Air Force’s premier Kabul Air Wing in combat aviation operations, aircraft maintenance, mission support and leadership. | aerospace |
http://waicol.digi.school.nz/year09/2018/CullenMaia/ | 2023-12-11T11:53:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00211.warc.gz | 0.879998 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__305536175 | en | Hot air balloons are amazing. They can defy gravity and look cool doing it.
but how do hot air balloons stay up in the air and float along the sky?
This is how.
Hot air balloons use heat to rise off the ground. Hot air balloons float
because the air trapped inside the balloon is heated by a flame or burner,
making the air outside of the balloon more dense. Heat rises so the hot air
inside the balloon lifts the balloon up because the air outside is colder.
The parts of a hot air balloon are:
The basket or gondola
The basket is where the passengers ride,baskets protect the passengers
and are lightweight and flexible. The burner is over the passengers heads
and makes a huge flame to heat the air inside the balloon.the envelope is the
colorful fabric(balloon) bag that holds the hot air. | aerospace |
https://www.arrasfilmfestival.com/eastern-selection-2017/salyut-7/?lang=en | 2023-12-02T16:24:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00611.warc.gz | 0.899544 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__278672366 | en | by Klim Chipenko (Russie, 2017, 2h01, vostf)
starring Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Pavel Derevianko, Aleksandr Samoïlenko, Maria Mironova, Oksana Fandera, Liubov Aksionova
Salyut-7 was orbiting Earth when it suddenly stopped responding to signals from Ground Control. The fall of the station would not only damage the image of the country, but also bring about tragedy. To prevent a catastrophe, two astronauts will need to reach the station and repair the breakdown. However, no one has ever docked with an uncontrolled machine in space before. It’s the most complicated mission in the history of space navigation. | aerospace |
https://english.arthasarokar.com/2023/04/air-flights-affected-due-to-adverse-weather.html | 2024-04-18T01:41:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817184.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417235906-20240418025906-00285.warc.gz | 0.98543 | 239 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__110315822 | en | Domestic flights have been generally affected due to adverse weather. Flights to Pokhara, Bharatpur, Tumlingtar among the destinations were hampered due to poor visibility, the Tribhuvan International Airport Office said.
TIA Office spokesperson Teknath Sitaula said flights have been completely affected in three domestic destinations including Pokhara. Flight to Simara has opened some minutes back. The flight to Pokhara, Bharatpur and Tumlingtar has not yet opened.
Although flights could not be conducted to three destinations until now, they were operated to some destinations with the clearing up of the weather. TIA Office said 115 flights have been scheduled towards the domestic sector today.
The flights have been affected due to the increased air pollution at various places of the country including in Kathmandu since three days. Air flight to Pokhara was affected on Friday and Saturday as well.
Sitaula said although the flights towards the international sector were generally affected in the morning, they are taking place regularly now. An aircraft of the Qatar Airways had to hold for about two hours as it made mis-approach. | aerospace |
https://www.precisionag.com/systems-management/guidance/gps-satellite-upgrades-good-news-for-ag/ | 2018-09-21T19:36:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267157503.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180921190509-20180921210909-00141.warc.gz | 0.949254 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__39708549 | en | Perspective At 8:10 am on October 4, the Boeing GPS IIF satellite was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center, which will replace an aging GPS satellite that first hit the skies in 1993.
This event might go otherwise unnoticed with all the political wrangling going on in the news, but it’s really pretty exciting for all of us who depend on global positioning in our work, and who have a vested interest in the assurance of its upkeep.
I asked some friends at Trimble to provide perspective on the launch, and they are equally pumped about it.
“Over the last decade GPS technology has helped users increase productivity, improve efficiency, and lower costs,” said Erik Arvesen, vice president of Trimble’s Agriculture Division. “The continued modernization of the GPS system with the new generation of Block IIF satellites promises to take these benefits a step further. With the third Block IIF satellite now launching, we expect to see improved accuracy and higher reliability in GNSS positioning, which will provide exciting new benefits for the agricultural community. And as more Block IIF satellites are launched, the benefits to farmers will continue to increase.”
So as you’re cruising through the field in your combine/harvester/picker this fall (and hopefully keeping your hands off the wheel until you hit the turn row), you can take comfort that the performance and maintenance of the GPS system is getting the attention it so richly deserves. | aerospace |
http://chesapeakesearey.com/performance/ | 2017-12-18T16:34:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948618633.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20171218161254-20171218183254-00155.warc.gz | 0.926242 | 538 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__245004925 | en | Chesapeake Searey offers training through Chesapeake Sport Pilot, the premier light sport flight school in the country. Having first opened its door in 2007, Chesapeake Sport Pilot has since provided nearly 20,000 hours of light sport training and rentals. Chesapeake Sport Pilot’s staff is composed of experienced and dedicated staff, each of whom average nearly 10,000 hours of flight time.
All of Chesapeake Searey’s flight instructors are accredited through the Searey Flight Instructor Association. Not only does this assure that our instructors meet the highest level of quality but that training provided through them counts towards significant insurance discounts should the purchase of a Searey be in your future.
Chesapeake Searey’s training plane is specially designed and equipped for flight training. It is uniquely built for maximum useful load which allows us to offer seaplane ratings for pilots up to 230lbs and transition training for pilots up to 250lbs.
Transition Training – Chesapeake Sport Pilot offers Searey transition training accredited through the Searey Flight Instructors Association in our Searey. Our instructors also independently offer training in customer provided Seareys that are purchased through Chesapeake Searey.
COURSE TIME AND COST
No prior experience: 13.5 Flight hours, approximate cost is $5000
Tail-wheel endorsed or seaplane rated: 10.5 Flight hours
Recurrency training: 4 Flight hours
In order to complete the course with minimal time and cost, pilots are encouraged (but not required) to become current in a light sport airplane before beginning the course.
Seaplane Ratings and Tailwheel Endorsements – Chesapeake Sport Pilot offers seaplane ratings from light sport through commercial add-on our Searey. We also offer tailwheel endorsements on our Searey.
Flight Reviews – There is no better way to complete a flight review than by learning to fly a Searey. We offer flight reviews on our Searey for pilots of any certificate level who hold and airplane single engine land or sea rating. Please call for an individualized estimate of training time and cost.
Light Sport Initial Airplane Ratings – Having provided nearly 20,000 hours of light sport training and rentals, is the industry leader in sport pilot training. Chesapeake Sport Pilot is happy to provide initial sport, recreational, or private pilots ratings on any of their land airplanes. Chesapeake Sport Pilot can tailor a concentrated training course to meet your needs and is happy to transition you to the Searey upon completion of your initial airplane rating. Please call for an individualized estimate of training time and cost. | aerospace |
https://thecricketlounge.com/2015/08/video-ms-dhoni-completes-1st-parachute-jump-from-indian-air-force-aircraft/ | 2022-08-19T09:06:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573630.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819070211-20220819100211-00780.warc.gz | 0.973619 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__32619935 | en | Indian cricket ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni completed his first parachute jump from an Indian Air Force aircraft on Wednesday as part of his training with the Territorial Army.
Dhoni, who has been undergoing training at the Paratroopers Training School (PTS) since August 6, jumped with a canopy static line parachute from an AN32 aircraft and touched down at the Malpura dropping zone near Agra. He has to undertake four more jumps from 10,000 feet, including one at night, to be a qualified parajumper.
VIDEO: MS Dhoni completes 1st parachute jump from Indian Air Force aircraft
Dhoni, an honorary lieutenant colonel in 106 Parachute Regiment of the Territorial Army (TA), decided to undergo the drill to justify his rank.
Before the jump, the ace cricketer underwent two weeks of classroom lessons followed by basic toughening exercises along with fellow paratrooper trainees. The classroom lectures were on basic techniques of para-jumping followed by toughening exercises to help prepare the body for the jerks and jolts involved in jumping off an aircraft with a parachute. | aerospace |
http://www.barberlife.com/read-blog/146922_aircraft-refurbishing-market-manufacturers-share-cagr-outlook-global-industry-an.html | 2023-06-09T12:29:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656675.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609100535-20230609130535-00198.warc.gz | 0.890197 | 1,006 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__143711126 | en | Aircraft refurbishing market manufacturers Size is expected to reach USD 4.9 Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 5.4% during 2020-2030.
The method of renovating the cabin interior, installing new facilities, and making required changes to an aircraft, to improve the comfort and provide a world-class experience to the passengers, is known as aircraft refurbishing. This does not only comprise interior modifications but also, exterior modifications, aerodynamic modifications, and other upgrades.
The factors driving the growth of the market are thee rising need to modify aircraft interiors and increasing demand for narrow body aircraft. However, a major challenge to this market growth is the high initial investment required for aircraft refurbishing.
Various airline businesses are currently concentrating their efforts on improving cabin interiors and giving passengers a world-class experience, increasing their brand value. This is due to airline companies' increased desire to provide luxury services, which necessitates the refurbishment of commercial and VIP cabins. This dramatic growth surge is ascribed to many factors, including airlines and business jet owners retrofitting their aircraft in a quicker time frame than in the early days of civil aviation. The many forms of work that comprise the full process of a chain of comprehensive conversions or cabin refurbishing will be the future of this aircraft refurbishing market CAGR. Aircraft manufacturers or owners typically outsource these works to institutes known as the completion centre.
The key players in the aircraft refurbishing market manufacturers are AAR (U.S.), Air France Industries KLM EM (France), Ascent Aviation Services (U.S.), GKN (UK), Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company (China), Jamco America Inc. (U.S.), JCB Aero (France), Lufthansa Technik (Germany), SIA Engineering Company (Singapore), and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. (Singapore).
This study provides an overview of the global aircraft refurbishing market manufacturers, tracking three market segments across five regions. The report studies the key players, providing a five-year annual trend analysis that highlights market size, volume, and share in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East Africa, and Latin America. The report also provides a forecast, focusing on the market opportunities for the next five years in each region. The study segments the global Aircraft refurbishing market manufacturers by aircraft type, refurbishing type, application, and region.
Partial or Complete Refurbishing
In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity System
Passenger to Freighter
Commercial Cabin Refurbishing
VIP Cabin Refurbishing
Middle East Africa
The aircraft refurbishing market data in Europe is expected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period. This growth is attributed to the increasing demand for aircraft refurbishing in this region during the forecast period. Moreover, countries such as the U.K, Germany, and France are expected to contribute to the growth of the regional Aircraft refurbishing market manufacturers.
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https://business.smdailypress.com/smdailypress/article/kisspr-2023-9-25-leading-online-ground-school-av8-prep-launches-new-and-improved-website | 2023-12-02T19:08:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100448.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202172159-20231202202159-00586.warc.gz | 0.94716 | 612 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__179057338 | en | AV8 Prep, a leading online ground school, launches its new and improved website featuring all the courses it offers and information on private pilot license, pilot license cost, drone piloting, drone certification, and much more. All courses feature high-quality content, including well-designed and detailed videos, interactive animations and quizzes, simulation effects, and graphic-rich content, all produced in the in-house studio. The courses are offered by experienced instructors who guide the trainees through the online materials based on their specialty.
AV8 Prep online ground school is a top-class, user-friendly online platform that is super easy to navigate. The course material is clearly organized so trainees can access their desired material instantly. They can also track their progress with the course completion. What sets the AV8 platform apart is its exclusive content, including Tower Talk, FAR Chat, Private Pilot Diary, and AV8Live, which have taken the online ground school training to a whole new level.
The school has the utmost confidence in its training programs. If the trainees do not pass the private pilot license or drone certification exam, they will get a full refund of the course. The school is confident that students who go through its course material and follow the program will pass the written exam on the first attempt. Here at this revolutionary online ground school, the courses are presented by a team of instructors with over 50,000 hours of flight experience. This experience helps trainees become a pilot with the best people behind them. There are several courses to choose from, including Part 107 Drone License, Private Pilot Ground School, Instrument, Commercial, Flight Instructor, and Private Pilot Diary.
Those looking for a top-notch aviation school should look no further than AV8, as it provides best-in-class pilot training, a private pilot license, a drone piloting course, and drone certification. The online ground school prepares individuals in such a way that they score 90% or higher on the AV8 Prep final exam. Its AV8 Live is a virtual training platform that allows students to interact with the instructor. The 90-minute sessions would cover topics about the specific model in the course. The live sessions are available 7 days a week, depending on what course an individual enrolls in. Anyone who signs up for the AV8Live program can attend the sessions. They just have to make a reservation and submit their queries beforehand.
To learn more, visit https://www.av8prep.com.
About AV8 Prep
AV8 Prep is the #1 trusted resource for online flight training in the US. It offers an online pilot ground school program, and the courses are taught by experienced instructors using high-quality content, such as well-designed videos, animations, quizzes, and simulations, backed by graphic-rich content produced at its studio.
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Release ID: 747511 | aerospace |
https://www.ezaccomodation.com/a-space-travel-agency-can-offer-the-experience-of-a-lifetime/ | 2023-05-28T05:58:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643585.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528051321-20230528081321-00406.warc.gz | 0.972847 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__106200807 | en | A Space Travel Agency can Offer the Experience of a Lifetime
Who hasn’t dreamed at least once in their lives about travelling to outer space? Until recent years, this was something that most people could only dream about, and never expect to ever actually be able to do. But, technology is moving along at a great pace, and it won’t be long before the average person is able to take a trip into outer space, or at least to the edges of outer space. For now, there is an experience that is the next best thing to the real thing, and that is a simulated flight to outer space, which is so much like the real thing that people who take part forget that they are still firmly on the earth.
McCabe World Travel is like a space travel agency, offering people the opportunity to take the same type of training that NASA astronauts take. At the NASTAR Center, people can take part in flight training, and this is the only commercial use facility of its kind in the world. It offers the higher performance human centrifuge, which gives people a realistic sense of how space travel feels, but they are in a safe environment and not actually in outer space. This training simulator is designed to be like a real cockpit module, and it offers real-world displays, as well as surround sound and control systems. | aerospace |
https://copyrights.co.jp/en/property/nasa/ | 2023-12-05T13:05:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100551.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205105136-20231205135136-00885.warc.gz | 0.926805 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__23301307 | en | NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was founded in 1958, following the passing of the National Aeronautics and Space Act by the US Congress. With the purpose of non-military space research, this independent government agency has undertaken a number of efforts, including the Apollo Project, planetary exploration, and space shuttle missions.
NASA intends to celebrate their 60th birthday by landing the first woman astronaut on the moon in 2024. This will be a pivotal event in our lifetime! Additionally, as we enter the ‘golden age of space exploration’, global media coverage focuses on NASA more than ever due to the continued activities of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Horizon, and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. Copyrights Asia can now provide merchandisers with unique collections of NASA painting, illustrations, mission patches, exclusive designs and complete support for each design. | aerospace |
http://cktaeroengines.com/ckt-240tsd-engine/ | 2023-05-29T13:02:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644855.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529105815-20230529135815-00319.warc.gz | 0.872132 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__146676094 | en | Check back here regularly to find out what’s going on with the CKT-240 TSD ENGINE.
A 4 cylinder horizontally opposed diesel engine with 4 valves per cylinder, Water cooled, fitted with turbocharger, Supercharger, intercoolers and FADEC engine management with single power control lever. This engine has been developed with economy in mind and will be a major breakthrough for pilots looking for a high performance engine that delivers savings both in cost and consumption of fuel.
At 100% Maximum Fast Economy Maximum
take off continuous cruise cruise endurance
POWER 240 hp 210 hp 180 hp 160 hp 140 hp
FULL POWER IS AVAILABLE TO 25,000 FEET
The weight is equivalent to a typical lycoming 0-360 engine. (final weght to be advised)
OPERATING COSTS Compared with Avgas fuelled engines, diesel fuel savings of 40 – 45% by volume can be made, and diesel fuel costs approximately 50% of Avgas depending on location. Cruise flight at 160hp consumes 24 litres/hour (6.3 US gallons/hour).
ENGINE PACKAGE A full firewall forward assembly complete with engine mounting frame, propeller and pitch controller.
APPLICATIONS The engine is suitable for Glasair I, II, III and Sportsman. Vans 7,8.10,14. Lancair Legacy, Backcountry Super Cub as well as all experimental aircraft suited to Lycoming 4 engines.
FUEL This modern diesel engine can be fuelled by diesel fuel, Jet A1 or Gasoil. | aerospace |
http://myefound.org/classes/ | 2018-12-18T19:24:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376829568.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20181218184418-20181218210416-00040.warc.gz | 0.932667 | 584 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__37912690 | en | 2017 Summer Class
TECHNOLOGY BOOTCAMP – INNOVATIVE DRONE EXPLORATION
Grade: G9-12 (entering this fall)
Max Enroll: 12
Tuition*: $350/Student or bring a friend for $600/ two students
Drones are the future and the future is NOW!
Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) which are aircrafts without a human pilot on board. From their origins in the military, drones are now highly demanded in many other areas; agriculture, archeology, survey, filmmaking and etc. – just about anything. Companies such as Amazon and Google are testing ways to deliver packages via drone in the future. The Teal Group, a market research company, reported the world spent about $4 billion on UAVs in 2015 and projects UAV spending will increase to more than $14 billion by 2024. Now is the perfect time for young people to get involved in this growing industry!
At mYe, we believe the best way to learn something, is just “Do it”! This program has been designed to encourage teamwork, curiosity, critical thinking, courage, and creativity. During this Bootcamp, the students will work with their teammates (3-4 students/team) to build a drone from SCRATCH! Through hands-on activities, the students will get exposure to drone safety and regulation, assembly, configuration, flight modes, programming and scripting. At the end of the workshop, students will program their drone for performing simulation UAV competition tasks.
With the booming development of UAV technologies, this course is surely going to help students build a good foundation for entering UAV competitions or pursuing UAV for future career.
It’s time to take off and build critical 21st century STEAM skills –join us!
About the instructor:
Mr. Gu is a Mechatronics Engineer working for a big three company’s R&D Center. During his spare time, he has created various innovative projects, like: UAV (he has created more than 50 drones), motorcycle, Autonomous lawnmower, 3D printed products, and many other high tech gadgets. Please visit his YouTube Channel for examples: https://www.youtube.com/user/Zeranmega.
- Previous experience in programming is required. Java and C are preferred
- Previous experience in Robotics is plus.
- Good teamwork ethics
Required devices: A laptop with a mouse
*Students will be divided into 3-4 people teams. In-class material will be provided. If students would like to take the drone home, please contact mYe for parts pricing.
August 5, 12, 19, and 26:
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
2125 Butterfield Drive
Troy, Michigan 48084 | aerospace |
https://businessgoa.in/kineco-kaman-goa-based-isro-supplier-celebrates-the-victory-of-chandrayaan-3-mission/ | 2023-12-02T15:04:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00371.warc.gz | 0.962642 | 462 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__27392766 | en | The Chandrayaan-3 mission which has had everyone holding their breaths and feeling jittery for days, was finally successful with the Vikram lander’s triumph descent onto the moon. While the victory brought pride and happiness to everyone across India, the success of the mission hit harder for those contributing to the mission quite literally.
Around 400 companies are known to supply the national space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), with parts required for their missions. Of these, is Kineco Kaman, a company located in Pilerne-Goa. The firm’s employees were elevated with the historic success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission and many were brought to tears by it.
The employees were said to have stayed back beyond their shifts in order to collectively watch as ISRO initiated the Automatic Landing Sequence (ALS) for the moon lander, Vikram.
The Goan company provided four flight-critical components for the LVM-3 Mk4 vehicle utilised for the Chandrayaan-3 mission. These are the equipment bay shroud assembly, ITSC closure plates, composite wire tunnel and bottom plate assembly, and carbon fiber-reinforced polymer FSA casings. While this equipment did not make it to the moon, the employees of Kineco Kaman diligently hoped for the mission to bear fruit.
Moreover, the news of the crash of the Russian lunar lander mission, Luna 25, had the Goan crew working on the composite parts for the Chandrayaan-3 mission concerned. “The entire team was tense after seeing what happened with Russia’s mission. We had been tense for the past four days,” said Avanish Dwivedi, Kineco Kaman’s Vice-President for Customer Relationships and Company Secretary.
However, the mission’s success was an incredible moment and one full of relief for the crew. “I think it is a very emotional moment for the country, having reached this milestone, and for us for contributing to this mission from Goa. It is an exceedingly proud moment,” added Shekhar Sardessai, Founder of the Kineco Group and Chairman and Managing Director of Kineco Kaman Composites. | aerospace |
http://www.tourtexas.com/content.cfm?ID=396 | 2015-01-27T16:52:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115860277.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161100-00090-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.867457 | 460 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__71326973 | en | Wings Over Houston Airshow
The 30th annual Wings Over Houston Airshow takes flight Saturday, November 1 & Sunday November 2, 2014 at Ellington Airport with thrilling aerial performances, aerobatics, demonstrations and displays. A great event for the entire family!
We’re excited to announce that the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will headline the event along with the C-130 known as Fat Albert. Returning to the Airshow is the undisputable #1 jet exhibition vehicle in the world, the FlashFire “Shockwave” Jet Truck.
New this year in honor of our Vietnam Veterans we will feature a full blown Vietnam War re-enactment with aircraft from the Commemorative Air Force; Vietnam War Flight Museum; Colling’s Foundation; ground reenactments by the National USA Forces Museum and the Sixth Cavalry Historical Association. Expect to see Huey’s, fighters, bombers, jets duals, explosions, smoke and fire in the “near real” demonstration.
The Wings Over Houston Airshow returning favorites include the always popular Tora! Tora! Tora! re-enactment of the World War II air power attack on Pearl Harbor, CAF Airpower demonstration. Fans will also be treated to top tier civilian performance by Team Oracle, Sean D. Tucker, Team Brietling, Embry-Riddle, Ellington’s own Texas Flying Legends and Lonestar Flight Museum will thrill the crowds with flying performances.
|Wings Over Houston Airshow|
Returning again this year is the CAF’s Red Tail Project, an interactive theatre and display featuring the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Other highlights of the 2014 Wings Over Houston Airshow include the “Legends & Heroes Autograph Tent”, military vehicles, aircraft displays, interactive displays from NASA, police and fire department displays, a children’s carnival area including rock walls, exhilarating aircraft simulator rides, and cockpit photo opportunities.
Wings Over Houston Airshow offers our fans the best aviation demonstrations and exhibits each year.
Visit our website, by clicking on the buttons above or below, for updates as scheduling is subject to change. | aerospace |
http://commentarama.blogspot.com/2012/04/good-day-in-new-york-city.html | 2017-05-23T12:27:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607636.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523122457-20170523142457-00063.warc.gz | 0.974418 | 464 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__47817608 | en | Watching the Shuttle piggybacked onto a NASA 747 swoop through lower Manhattan glistening in the sunshine made me giddy as a schoolgirl and proud to be an American.
Yes, I am a child of the "Space Age". I remember watching with silent anticipation as numerous astronauts blasted off into space and being giddy at the final countdown as we all shouted "Blast Off" as the giant thrusters hurled these brave men into orbit. Knowing how important these events were to our young American minds, my elementary teachers brought small black and white televisions into the classroom, the lights were turned off, and we were allowed to watch the events unfold live before our very eyes. All other broadcasting ceased while these brave men risked their lives hurling themselves atop a giant Saturn V rocket. These men were our heroes - real heroes. President Kennedy, President Johnson, and, yes, President Nixon encouraged us to reach for the stars and every little boy wanted to be an astronaut (and even little girls too!). We were told that we were in a race for the future of the world and whoever wins would dominate. Who would win this race - the evil Russians or the Good Americans? These men and their rocketships were the key to a secure world for freedom loving people everywhere.
Twelve years after watching Neil Armstrong step on the Moon, once again I was sitting in a darkened room watching a small black and white television with the same child-like anticipation waiting for the Space Shuttle Columbia to make its first touchdown ushering a new era of space flight. It was still breathtaking. Since then we have had SkyLab, the International Space Station, unmanned flights to Mars, and the Hubble telescope which have all allowed us to see further into space with each new achievement and the benefits to mankind have been numerous.
We were indoctrinated as young children of the '60's to believe that we were the greatest nation on Earth and that we could achieve great things if we worked together. What our country has achieved though the space program with all the astronauts, scientists, engineers, and medical personnel is something that no head of state or politician has ever achieved without a war - global cooperation for the benefit of all mankind. It may be the indoctrination talking, but that makes me pretty darn proud to be an American. | aerospace |
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Then it happened again and they realised there was a link and suspected the rudder motor servo malfunctioning but couldn’t prove it. When it happened for a third time in 1996 the plane survived and made a normal landing but now they had a crew who had survived.Because Eastwind Flight 517 had landed safely, the NTSB was also able to perform tests on a plane that had experienced problems similar to the accident aircraft.
In addition, because the pilots of Flight 517 had survived, the NTSB was able to interview them and gain additional information on their experience. The flight’s captain told the NTSB in a post-accident interview that they had not encountered any turbulence during the flight, and that, during their landing descent, he felt the rudder “kick” or “bump” even though neither pilot had moved the rudder pedals.
When the plane abruptly rolled to the right, the captain applied left aileron and attempted to move the rudder, but the rudder pedal controls felt stiffer than normal and did not seem to respond to his input. When his flight control inputs did not immediately resolve the roll upset, he also advanced the throttle of the right engine in an effort to compensate.
On March 24, 1999, after a four-year investigation, the NTSB issued its probable cause finding for Flight 427. The NTSB concluded that the probable cause of the Flight 427 crash was rudder reversal due to the PCU servo malfunction.Two years later, the NTSB published an amended accident report for Flight 585 that found the same probable cause for that accident as well.
As a result of the NTSB’s findings, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered that the servo valves be replaced on all 737s by November 12, 2002. The FAA also ordered new training protocols for pilots to handle in an unexpected movement of flight controls.
I recently made a documentary for Discovery Channel about the story of this fascinating mystery.
We shot dramatic recreations of all three flights, the crashes and the investigation. This gave me the opportunity to interview the actual investigators and the surviving pilot in the US, visit the site of the Baltimore crash, interview relatives of people who had died in the crashes including the pilot, the members of the NTSB team and aviation experts.
It was the most complicated edit I have worked on and keeping three separate stories spinning in chunks throughout was challenging.
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Use an orange and some wire to make a model of Space City.
Because Space City is 35,700 km above the Earth it is helpful to have a model to understand where it is.
The Maxwell Empire Books have Space City as an important part of life and industry on Earth. The Space Elevators are also important in moving material and people between Space City and the Earth’s surface.
To watch the movie about making the model click on the image.
You will insert straight lengths of wire, the Space Elevators, into an orange, and attach a circle of wire, the Space City, to them.
Choose an orange that has a nice spherical shape.
Because Space City is above the equator carefully draw an equator.
Space City is 2.8 diameters above the Earth.
Measure the diameter of your orange.
Calculate the distance of Space City from the surface of your orange.
e.g. If your diameter is 5cm your Space City will be 5 x 2.8 = 14cm above the surface of your orange.
You can see that Space City will be the radius of your orange plus 14cm from the middle of your orange.
That is r = 14 + 2.5 = 16.5cm
You need this radius to calculate the length of Space City for an orange with a diameter of 5cm.
Circumference = 2πr = 2 x 3.14 x 16.5 = 103.6cm
So Space City for an orange with a diameter of 5cm will be 104cm long.
Remember there are ten thousand 25km long segments in Space City; that is Space City above the Earth is 250,000km long. You cannot have a representative sample segment that is one ten thousandth of 104cm because it will be only 0.0104cm long. So your segment example will not be to scale. You could use 1cm long lengths cut from a plastic straw.
You will support your Space City with Space Elevators rising from the equator at the margins of the land masses.
On your orange draw Africa, America, etc.
Your Space Elevators will be at the margins of the land over water and Space City will be at the 14cm mark for your 5cm diameter orange with the Space Elevators longer.
Insert your Space Elevators in your orange so they are vertical and mark 14cm from the surface.
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The SDO has three instruments. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager studies the magnetic field on the Sun’s surface. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly is designed to study the solar corona, taking images 1.3 solar diameters in multiple wavelengths. The Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment is designed to investigate the varying spectrum of the Sun’s radiant energy and its interaction with the environment.
The goal of the SDO is to combine the data from these three instruments to improve our understanding of the solar physics that drives activity in the Sun’s atmosphere, which in turn drives space weather in the heliosphere and on the surface of planets. | aerospace |
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A U.S. plane made an emergency landing Tuesday after the pilot began to shout warning of the presence of Al Qaeda bomb on board, before being calmed by passengers, officials and informed about the local press.
ABC news reported that JetBlue Pilot Clayton Osbon, who had been flying commercially for 20 years, started flipping changes on the plane in a strange way on that Tuesday flight. His co-pilot secured him from the cockpit due to the strange conduct
The JetBlue flight from New York was going to Las Vegas had to be diverted to Amarillo, Texas, after an incident the airline explained by a medical problem of the master.
The captain was a bathroom just outside the cabin and when he left, he began to shout “Iraq, Al Qaeda, terrorism, let’s all fall,” confided the Globe-News, Amarillo.
“It was a little scary, I was quite beside himself,” said Heid Karg passenger told CNN. “When they were trying to calm him (…) had to hold him and a group of male passengers rushed to the front of the plane to catch him.”
Schonzeit Gabriel, who was sitting in the third row, told Globe-News: “He started screaming about Al Qaeda and the possibility of a bomb on the plane and Iraq and Iran and how we were going to fall all.”
“Another captain, who was traveling but was not on duty, entered the cabin and landed in Amarillo, taking charge of the crew,” said a statement from JetBlue.
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https://staminc.com/military-tube-bending-2/the-latest-innovations-in-aircraft-design/ | 2023-02-07T18:16:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500628.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207170138-20230207200138-00542.warc.gz | 0.956658 | 582 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__62963537 | en | The Latest Innovations in Aircraft Design
If you’ve traveled in an airplane recently, you probably didn’t notice anything different from the last time you flew (aside from the seats maybe seeming smaller). But the field of aviation is always changing, and there are a number of exciting developments happening in aircraft design.
Flexible Aircraft Wings
While you probably won’t see flexible aircraft wings on your next flight, this is a new innovation on the horizon. NASA has been working on the technology and has successfully conducted dozens of test flights already. The technology would allow aircraft wings to rotate -2 degrees one way and up to 30 degrees the other way. The advance aims to improve fuel efficiency, with current estimates suggesting a 12% decrease in the amount of fuel consumed. The new wings would also reduce the amount of drag, making the newer aircraft slightly quieter for those on the ground.
New De-Icing Coatings
Dealing with ice is a critical part of aircraft maintenance. If no action is taken, ice can easily build up on the wings. This causes the craft to become heavier and unbalanced, and changes the aerodynamics of the structure.
Current de-icing liquids are applied on the ground between flights to remove ice build-ups. But newer anti-ice gel coatings are being developed to prevent the ice from adhering to the surface of plane in the first place. These anti-icing coatings are more environmentally friendly than common de-icers, and could be a more permanent coating solution that would require fewer treatments over time.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
UAVs, or drones, have been around for a while now, but the technology surrounding them continues to get more advanced. Remote-controlled aircraft don’t have the same shock and awe factor they once did, but new design concepts are certainly worthy of attention.
BAE Systems has been working with students at Cranfield University to design an aircraft that can switch between fixed-wing flight and rotary-wing flight. Imagine an airplane that can function as a helicopter: two completely different structures that are both capable of flight. Combining the two structures offers unmatched flexibility when it comes to take-off, landing, and in-air maneuvering.
The current application seems to be military-based, but it will be interesting to see how this concept will develop over time and how it will change the field of aerospace.
More on the Horizon
This is all just a sampling of the research and development going on in aircraft design and maintenance. With an industry that has applications ranging from consumer travel, to logistics, to military, there are many opportunities for advancement in the aerospace sector.
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Most areas of Britain have an air ambulance service, the majority of them helicopters controlled by commercial firms and funded by charitable trusts. In total, there are 18 air ambulance charities in England and Wales, with 30 helicopters owned or under lease from commercial companies. In addition, some air ambulances from the UK are fixed wing aircraft, owned and run by private companies such as us at IAS Medical. The Scottish Ambulance Service is the only government funded air ambulance service in the UK, with both rotary and fixed wing aircraft.
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Mangalyaan-2 ("Mars-craft", from Sanskrit: मंगल mangal, "Mars" and यान yān, "craft, vehicle"), is India's second interplanetary mission planned for launch to Mars by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). As per some reports emerged, the mission was to be an orbiter to Mars proposed for “Vikram lander descent was as planned and normal performance observed up to an altitude of km.
Subsequently communications from lander to ground station was lost. The data is being analysed. Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (MOM 2), also called Mangalyaan-2 ("Mars-craft", from Sanskrit: मंगल mangal, "Mars" and यान yān, "craft, vehicle"), is India's second interplanetary mission planned by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
However, in a recorded interview in OctoberVSSC director has indicated possibility of inclusion of a lander and rover. Update: Mangalyaan's Main Engine Test Fired, Maven In Orbit Posted by samzenpus on Monday Septem @AM from the all-systems-are-go dept. William Robinson writes Before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter Mars orbit, Indian Space Research Organization. | aerospace |
https://www.careerdescriptions.org/aerospace-engineer-career-description.html | 2023-12-01T22:17:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100308.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201215122-20231202005122-00691.warc.gz | 0.928251 | 571 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__76141058 | en | Aerospace Engineer Job Profile and Description
An aerospace engineer has to design, develop, and present aerospace engineering goods such as rockets and helicopters, jet planes, missiles, military aircraft products, etc. The engineer is to work on various technologies that define aerospace designs and their advancements in sectors such as aviation, military and defense, etc. Often an aerospace engineer is required to design or implement the construction and operation of commercial air-transport and such vehicles.
The field of aerospace engineering does not only contain design and construction of vehicles, it also finds important application in establishing communication and networks across different regions and often across country borders; hence an aerospace engineer must have thorough knowledge and practical idea of all the underlying concepts.
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- The job of an aerospace engineer requires him to provide fresh ideas for developing effective aerospace designs and efficiently implement them into proper structural forms.
- An aerospace engineer must be well aware of the technologies that rule the system and work on them to develop newer means of devices and vehicles of ariel nature.
- Various inventions and newer strategies require the atmosphere as a medium and aerospace engineers are responsible for creating such designs in the best possible manner.
- An aerospace engineer must be well aware of the instruments and techniques, and provide proper guidance to the team in some specific aerospace project.
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https://amsterdamtime.com/us-offers-inexperienced-gentle-to-f-16-coaching-for-ukrainian-pilots/112029/ | 2023-06-06T06:32:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652235.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606045924-20230606075924-00489.warc.gz | 0.95782 | 210 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__113072725 | en | US President Biden permits Ukrainian pilots to be skilled to fly F-16 fighter jets. A senior official of the US authorities stated this on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima. A choice is anticipated to be made afterward whether or not or to not ship the fighter jets to Ukraine.
The coaching is deliberate to happen in Europe and to begin within the coming weeks. Whereas these workout routines are underway, additional choices needs to be made within the coming months about who, if any, will provide the units, what number of might go to Ukraine and when that might occur, Biden is alleged to have informed different world leaders on the G7 summit. .
Ukrainian president Zelensky has been asking Western nations for F-16 fighter jets for a while, together with the Netherlands. Thus far he has not acquired a optimistic reply, however Prime Minister Rutte, amongst others, has already stated that supplying the plane to Ukraine is “not a taboo” so far as he’s involved. | aerospace |
https://rootly.com/blog/the-incident-review-4-incidents-in-outer-space | 2023-11-28T19:23:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099942.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128183116-20231128213116-00619.warc.gz | 0.94804 | 1,141 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__193713373 | en | Managing incidents like network outages and server failures is tough enough when they happen in a data center.
But when those failures occur in outer space, the challenges can become stratospheric. When you can’t rely on conventional monitoring and management tools, and even physical access is impossible, you need to think more creatively about incident management.
With that reality in mind, here’s a look at incidents and reliability challenges that have occurred in outer space, and what SREs stand to learn from them.
Computer failure on the Hubble Telescope
Deployed in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been snapping pictures and collecting other data from outer space for decades.
But that all stopped in mid-June, when the telescope’s “payload computer,” which manages data collection devices, stopped responding.
At first, NASA engineers attempted the most generic of mitigations: They simply rebooted the computer. That resolved the issue briefly, but it recurred shortly after.
As of press time, engineers are still investigating the incident, although NASA reports that it thinks hardware failure is likely at fault. If the failed computer can’t be brought back online, the telescope can default to a backup computer that was installed in 2009, but hasn’t actually been used in production.
From a reliability management perspective, this incident is interesting in that it reflects both foresight and lack of planning on NASA’s part. The fact that NASA installed a backup computer is great, and it may well turn out to be critical for keeping the $4.6 billion telescope operational. Having a backup system already in place is especially important in this context because planning a space mission to deploy a new replacement computer could take years.
On the other hand, the assessment process that engineers have followed to troubleshoot problems with the primary computer seems a bit slow and disorganized. It doesn’t appear that NASA had a playbook in place for working through an incident like this.
Of course, when you’re dealing with a totally unique device like the Hubble Telescope, you can’t expect a playbook for everything.
When the power goes out in space
When the power fails in your data center, you can fall back to generators.
None of these incidents turned out to be fatal to Space Station crew members or cause permanent damage. But they did disrupt many of the Station’s operations. For example, the 2019 incident prevented a SpaceX cargo device from launching as scheduled.
Recurring power issues have also contributed to calls for the Space Station to be decommissioned, although its future seems to be safe for now.
While SREs no doubt wish that the Space Station had a more reliable power supply, you can’t really fault engineers on this point. It’s not as if power generation in space is easy (the Space Station uses solar panels, but they are managed by complex infrastructure that is prone to failure), and when something does go wrong, obtaining the supplies to fix it is no simple task. But these are the types of reliability issues that will need to be solved if humans are ever to conquer the final frontier of space definitively.
Latency in space
Minimizing network latency is hard enough when your users are just hundreds of miles from your data center.
But what if they’re 22,000 miles away, as is the case for astronauts in orbit? You end up with some pretty big latency issues, it turns out, due to the sheer physical distance that packets must travel to power communications between Earth and devices like the Space Station.
The good news is that Internet bandwidth, apparently, is relatively good in space -- so good that astronauts can video chat with their families. It’s just ping times that are bad.
This is a challenge that NASA is already working to solve by switching to a laser-based connectivity system, which will deliver much lower latency rates than the satellite-based system astronauts currently use. But until then, space remains a prime reminder that even when bandwidth is excellent, latency problems can lead to a pretty poor end-user experience.
The lights go out on the Mars Rover
Opportunity, a Mars rover launched in 2004, used a pretty obvious strategy for generating power: Solar panels. For years, those panels kept Opportunity happily roving across Mars’s surface, collecting all manner of scientific data.
But in 2018, something happened that engineers hadn’t fully counted on: A major dust storm caused the device’s solar panels to fail. Although system architects had planned for this event by programming the rover to go into hibernation mode in the event of power failure, Opportunity never woke back up. In 2019, NASA officially declared the mission over.
To be sure, Opportunity had a good run, and it’s hard to plan for every type of incident that may threaten operations when you’re dealing with a device roaming across the Red Planet. Still, one might wish that the rover had been designed to be just a little more robust in the event of a major dust storm.
Incidents in outer space may seem like the stuff of science fiction -- and they are, for most SREs. But for engineers tasked with managing those systems that humans have deployed into orbit or other planets, incident response is just as important as it would be in any earthly setting.
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http://www.militarybios.com/biography/BrigadierGeneralLouisGGriffin.html | 2019-03-19T05:39:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201904.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319052517-20190319074517-00396.warc.gz | 0.980973 | 607 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__91604016 | en | Retired Feb. 1, 1970. Died Jan. 26, 1996.
Brigadier General Louis G. Griffin is commander, 63rd Military Airlift Wing (Military Airlift Command), Norton Air Force Base, Calif.
General Griffin was born in Anderson, S.C., in 1918. He attended Anderson Boys High School and Clemson College, Clemson, S.C. He began his military career in 1939, when he entered the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In November of that year, he graduated from flight training, was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to Maxwell Field, Ala., as an instructor.
He was assigned to Randolph Field, Texas, from April 1942 to January 1944 as a group commander and director of flying. For the next three months he served in the European Theater of Operations in England. From May 1944 until February 1945, he was group commander of the Single Engine Fighter Instructor School, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. For the next year he was director of flying, Air Force Central Instructor School, Waco, Texas.
He next was assigned to Italy as executive officer and then as commander of the 62d Troop Carrier Group at Naples and later Pisa.
From January 1948 to July 1950, he served as commander of the 501st Maintenance and Supply Group, then the 3841st Maintenance and Supply Group and later the 3851st Air Base Group at Craig Air Force Base, Ala. During this period, he attended and graduated in 1949 from the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
In July 1950 he was reassigned to Headquarters Third Air Force in England where he served as chief of Plans Development Branch and then deputy chief of staff, plans, where he remained until June 1953.
For the next three years General Griffin was assigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force as chief of Programs Division and later deputy chief of staff, installations. He attended the Air War College during 1956-1957 and upon graduation remained at the Air University as secretary and chief of staff of the Air Command and Staff School for two years. From July 1959 to August 1960, he was deputy of Plans and Evaluation at the Air War College.
He then attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., and upon graduation in August 1960 was assigned to the Military Air Transport Service as vice commander of the 1502d Air Transport Wing, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. He assumed command of the wing in April 1962.
In August 1964, he was assigned as chief of staff, Western Transport Air Force (MATS), Travis Air Force Base, Calif. General Griffin was assigned to Military Airlift Command headquarters in 1966 as deputy chief of staff, Personnel. He assumed his present duties as commander, 63rd Military Airlift Wing in August 1968.
He is a command pilot and his military decorations include the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters and the commendation ribbon with oak leaf cluster. | aerospace |
http://www.screensaversplanet.com/windows/slideshow/space/intl-space-station.html | 2013-12-09T22:15:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164000828/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133320-00008-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.903867 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__206573981 | en | Intl. Space Station
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- Start the install program by double-clicking on the intlspacestation.exe file you downloaded.
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- Click "Start" to begin installating the Internation Space Station screensaver. This will take a few seconds, after which you can click "Next" again, folowed by "Exit" to quit the install program.
- The Screen Saver Settings panel will now open, where you will find that this is now your default screensaver.
- If "International Space Station" is not among your other screensavers, you may have to re-initiate the install program with elevated access rights. You can do so by right-clicking on the intlspacestation.exe file and selecting "Run as administator". Then repeat the above steps. | aerospace |
http://shhomeworkmtvb.tiami.us/analysis-of-airline-industry-in-india.html | 2018-10-23T04:02:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516003.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023023542-20181023045042-00405.warc.gz | 0.926556 | 776 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__52486433 | en | Analysis of airline industry in india
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The two exchange options available for aircraft are the exchange plus repair model and the flat rate exchange model. In the exchange plus repair model, if components or aviation parts become faulty, operators can exchange the defective part for a refurbished/serviceable one from the aircraft parts manufacturer, a designated maintenance facility, or a third-party supplier. The flat rate exchange model manages aircraft parts and components. Here is a fixed flat rate for exchanging faulty aviation parts with serviceable ones. | aerospace |
https://moneywisemoms.com/udvar-hazy-center/ | 2022-12-01T23:21:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710870.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20221201221914-20221202011914-00010.warc.gz | 0.957618 | 481 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__258082400 | en | The Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, is a companion museum to the National Air & Space Museum in downtown Washington, DC. Since Udvar-Hazy is out in the suburbs, you avoid the huge crowd downtown on the Mall, just one of the reasons we enjoy it so much (or maybe that's just me). When my twins were toddlers, they loved looking UP–up at the colorful hang gliders, parachutes, and planes hanging from the ceiling. Now that they're older, they love learning how pilots control a plane and seeing all the history from hot air balloons to space travel.
Museum admission is free, but parking is $15. Parking is free if you arrive after 4:00pm (but keep in mind that the museum closes at 5:30 most days–check the website for extended hours). There is also an IMAX Theater, Planetarium and flight simulators with fees, but it's easy to have a great trip to Udvar-Hazy without spending any money besides parking.
On this last trip, we spent a lot of time seeing the Ultralight aircraft. My kids were fascinated with them. We also got to see the Space Shuttle Discovery, which we had seen flying over the DC area back in April 2012 when it came to Udvar-Hazy to stay permanently. Visiting the Human Spaceflight section is interesting with children, since they will never experience the wonder and news of space travel the way previous generations have (since NASA has retired the shuttle program).
Unique to the Udvar-Hazy Center is its Observation Tower. Take the elevator up and revel in the 360-degree views for miles around. We had a nice clear day, so we could see planes taking off and landing at Dulles International Airport close by. It was a stunning view, and it's capitvating to both kids and adults. Other favorite parts, according to my kids, were the Blackbird (my son), the Wright Brothers planes (twin A) and the Close Encounter model, where you can search for R2D2 and other items (twin B). And, not a highlight (because of its history), but they do have the actual Enola Gay on display. This is not a “lesser” museum than the downtown location. I hope you'll visit! | aerospace |
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?434277-el-cheapo-satellite&p=3988649&postcount=1 | 2013-12-06T06:02:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163049631/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131729-00080-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938662 | 1,152 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__149611085 | en | or rather minisatellite.look whats made of,and whats running off...crickey,i could build one out of whats in me garbage can at the moment...or almost
Butane Fuel Propels Nanosatellites
By Lee Siegel
posted: 02:46 pm ET
22 August 2000
LOGAN, Utah Using the same butane fuel found in cigarette lighters, the smallest propulsion system to fly in space will help a soccer ball-sized "nanosatellite" rendezvous with another spacecraft late this year.
After considering various thruster propellants, designers chose butane, so "in the end, we flew a Bic lighter in space, " said Jeffrey Ward, managing director of Britains Surrey Satellite Technology, Ltd. "It shows you can build small propulsion systems that are cheap and can work."
Building the 1-pound (450-gram) thruster system for $15,000 with off-the-shelf parts "brings us one step closer to swarms of nanosatellites performing cooperative missions" while flying in formation, he added.
Butane is not ignited by the newfangled thruster, but instead vaporizes "like gas coming out of a spray can," Ward said. The propulsion system is aboard the 14-pound (6.5-kilogram) SNAP 1 satellite, which was launched June 28 on a COSMOS rocket that blasted off from Russias Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The rocket also carried the 110-pound (50-kilogram) Tsinghua 1 microsatellite and a much larger search-and-rescue satellite that is part of a joint U.S.-Russian system to detect beacons from downed aircraft and ships in trouble, Ward said.
This 1-pound, butane-powered thruster is used to maneuver the SNAP 1 nanosatellite.
The thruster was tested for the first time for 100 milliseconds on August 15, then for three seconds on August 16, when it raised SNAP 1s orbit by 164 feet (50 meters), he said.
Ward said the thruster will fire 30 more times during the coming weeks so SNAP 1 can rendezvous in November with Tsinghua 1, a microsatellite developed by Surrey and by Chinas Tsinghua Aerospace Research Center.
The entire propulsion system carries a mere 1.15 ounces (32.6 grams) of butane, Ward said.
He called SNAP 1 "the smallest propulsive satellite thats ever been flown" and the thruster "the smaller propulsion system ever flown."
One of the propulsion systems unusual features is that its fuel "tank" is not tank-shaped, but instead is made of $25 worth of triangular-shaped coils of titanium alloy tubing.
Ward spoke Monday as Utah State University and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics opened the 14th annual Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah. The meeting, which runs through Thursday, drew nearly 500 people from universities, space agencies, space contractors and the military.
The new propulsion system "is innovative," said Robert Meurer, the meetings technical chairman and a senior director of Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Virginia. "When we start to truly get into building constellations of nanosatellites, it will take these kinds of innovative, somewhat outside-the-box ideas to make it work."
SNAP 1 the Surrey Nanosatellite Applications Platform satellite "is about the size of a soccer ball" and was designed, built and launched in only seven months, said Ward, whose company is a commercial-satellite-building arm of the University of Surrey.
The tiny satellite was designed to demonstrate how nanosatellites can be used to rendezvous with and inspect other satellites, and to test technologies for rendezvous and for swarms of nanosatellites to fly in formation, he added.
SNAP 1 is supposed to take pictures of Tsinghua 1. Ward said the idea is to use cameras on nanosatellites to inspect other satellites to confirm deployments of solar panels, instruments and antennas; identify the causes of malfunctions; or simply for surveillance purposes.
The propulsion system will raise SNAP 1s orbit so Tsinghua 1 can catch up with it. Then SNAP 1 is to move within 330 feet (100 meters) of the other satellite.
"In the end, we flew a Bic lighter in space."
But the technology is so new that "if we get anywhere near it, it will be a big success," Ward said.
Because SNAP 1 had to be built quickly and cheaply, the propulsion fuel had to be loaded in Surrey before the satellite was shipped to Russia for launch.
The safety of butane
Hydrazine and ammonia were considered too toxic, although ammonia might be used in future systems, Ward said. Nitrogen or xenon gas could not be used because high pressure was required to store enough of those gases, and the off-the-shelf thruster parts could handle only low pressures.
That left propane or butane as possible thruster propellants because the required amounts could be carried on a tiny satellite at low pressures, Ward said. Butane was chosen for its safety.
Butane is a decidedly low-tech way to power nanosatellite thrusters. Ward said engineers believe that in the future, the ideal thrusters for tiny satellites will either be powered by ion propulsion, by microthrusters, which are like integrated circuits with tiny explosives, or by micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) which are extremely tiny, fuel-containing thrusters. | aerospace |
https://www.kissimmeepaving.com/kissimmee-fl-is-an-oasis-of-fun/ | 2024-04-22T03:37:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818072.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422020223-20240422050223-00725.warc.gz | 0.918032 | 322 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__69822215 | en | Thrilling Tours in Kissimmee, FL
Kissimmee is an excellent town for thrill-seekers. Thanks to the many outdoor activities and tour providers who make this possible. For more than adrenaline fun, you may want to consider some of these spots. More about Kissimmee, FL can be seen here.
Stallion 51 is a warplane lover’s dream: It offers rides in dual cockpit/dual control P-51 Mustangs and T-6 Texans, allowing passengers not only the opportunity to fly in a heritage aircraft but also to help fly it. The owners and staff of Stallion 51 are experts in historical aircraft and aviation and have warbirds that they show at airshows all across North America. Click here to read about Kissimmee, FL is a Historic Town.
Thompson Aire offers sunrise flights seven days a week over the Kissimmee and Orlando area, while Captain Thompson explains what you see from the air. Unlike other commercial balloon companies that squash up to 20 people into one gondola, rides with Thompson Aire allow only 4 to 6 persons per flight.
Warbird Adventures gives heritage aircraft lovers the chance to fly one of the most historically significant warplanes: The T-6 Texan. Would-be aviators are put in the front seat of the Texan, with a certified pilot operating the rear controls. It is the rider’s choice to have a straight and level flight or to try daring aerobatic maneuvers. | aerospace |
https://cmschamber.ning.com/events/krosslink-meeting | 2020-09-21T16:55:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400201826.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20200921143722-20200921173722-00057.warc.gz | 0.887523 | 257 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__185166616 | en | Krosslink Expert Speaker Session
Thursday, March 3, 6:00-7:30pm
Starting a new business, or thinking about it?
Then come to the Krosslink meeting and learn about a FREE community support network that can help you grow your business. Please tell your friends who have home-based businesses that they are welcome to come and receive some free advice and support!
SPEAKER: George Charles Allen
President & CEO of AeroVenture Institute (AVI), George Charles Allen is an experienced leader, pilot, aviation executive, award-winning entrepreneur, aerospace educator and space scientist. AVI's mission is to re-ignite the spirit of imaginative, entrepreneurial, and scientific innovation from aviation to space exploration for students of all ages and ambitions. Connecting classroom science to real-world applications in the aerospace industry, he creates exciting and indelible learning opportunities.
Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30 Networking
6:30 - 7:00 Speaker
7:00 - 7:30 Q&A Session
Jacob Edwards Library, 236 Main Street, Southbridge
KROSSLINK ENTREPRENEUR GREENHOUSE
A collaborative venture between the Public Libraries & www.Krosslink.org | aerospace |
http://flow.unist.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=sub1_6 | 2020-12-05T05:32:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141746320.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20201205044004-20201205074004-00038.warc.gz | 0.939937 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__55687 | en | Aerodynamics of Coaxial Propellers in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard (Wikipedia). Compared to manned aircraft with fixed-wing, UAVs have often utilized propellers (rotary-wing) to obtain lift force for several reasons. In this study, we have examined aerodynamic characteristics of coaxial propellers and provide aerodyanamic advantages of the coaxial propellers, compared to a single propeller.
[Figure 1] CFD analysis for a single propeller
[Figure 2] CFD analysis for a coaxial propeller | aerospace |
https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/About | 2019-11-14T23:42:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668544.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20191114232502-20191115020502-00392.warc.gz | 0.940785 | 1,063 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__37398323 | en | Thanks for checking out my website. My name is John Kraus; I’m a spaceflight photographer from Satellite Beach, Florida.
Living on the Space Coast my entire life, I've always recognized my community's heritage as America's premiere gateway to space, but when I started photography in early 2015 — basically on a whim — my drive to capture rocket launches greatly increased my appreciation for the immense preparation, coordination, and engineering prowess required to conduct spaceflight operations, as well as the meticulous attention to detail required to capture the perfect moment in one still frame. I treasure dearly the opportunity to share the wonders of spaceflight with individuals around the world who are otherwise unaware about what's occurring in the world of space. Awareness, education, and inspiration are the three things I aspire to bring to those who view my photographs.
After my first year of photography, my work was noticed by a space news media outlet at Cape Canaveral, and in February 2016, I was granted an opportunity to cover a launch on-site as an accredited launch photojournalist. Starting then, I worked under AmericaSpace, and I've continued covering launches as a freelance photographer in the time since.
Photographing rocket launches full-time is an untraditional career — and it's made possible in part thanks to my Patreon supporters. Patreon is a platform on which individuals can make small financial contributions to creators on a monthly basis, enabling people to pursue their passions full-time. My patrons can access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, extensive write-ups about my imagery, and digital downloads of my photos. If you enjoy what I do and appreciate the effort that goes into my work, considering signing up; the base tier is only $2/month.
Along with other credentialed members of the media, I am typically able to set up cameras at launch facilities to capture closeup views of rocket launches. My cameras are sound-triggered and must take images without human intervention, as humans can be severely injured or even killed at the same distances from which my cameras operate. While press access enables creation of stunning, detailed photographs, I frequently photograph launches off-site to take advantage of the beautiful scenery the Space Coast has to offer. I've also traveled across the country to cover multiple launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
I was honored to speak at Kennedy Space Center's 46th annual Space Congress in June 2019, partaking in the "Launching Leaders" panel, sharing my personal story and photography history with a wide variety of individuals in the industry.
In late 2018 and into 2019, I've began working with camera manufacturer Hasselblad to create modern-day spaceflight imagery [1, 2] using medium format Hasselblad cameras -- a fitting pairing: Hasselblad's cameras were used to create some of humanity's most iconic images during the Apollo lunar missions fifty years ago.
At a September 2018 SpaceX launch, I was accompanied by VICE News, who produced an HBO special detailing my coverage of the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission, at which I waded into swamp waters north of Cape Canaveral to make one of my favorites images to date. The final piece is available on YouTube.
In July 2018, I had the pleasure of working for Launcher, a New York-based rocketry startup building a commercial small satellite launch vehicle. During my week in New York, I created specialized imagery for the company of its rocket engine's static test fires in Long Island, as well as photographs of the Launcher team and facilities.
Put on display in September 2017, one of my most popular photos is printed two-stories-tall in the lobby of United Launch Alliance's headquarters in Centennial, Colorado.
I was honored to volunteer for Buzz Aldrin’s ShareSpace Foundation in July 2017, working as an event photographer at the ShareSpace Foundation Apollo 11 Gala at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, which commemorated the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.
CLIENTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND FEATURES:
United Launch Alliance company headquarters: Two-story-tall image mural
Aviation Week 2018 Photo Contest: Overall winner, "Best of Best" award
VICE News, HBO special: October 1, 2018
Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, cover: July 2018
Aviation Week magazine, cover: February 2018
CNBC online feature: April 2018
National Geographic online feature: July 2016
National Geographic online article on rocket launches: January 2019
International Astronautical Congress 2018: Presentation by SpaceX VP Hans Koenigsmann
Space Florida: Mid-2018 company brochure
ALSO SEEN IN:
WIRED.com, Daily Mail, PetaPixel [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], Fstoppers, Observer, Digital Photography Review, Inverse.com [1, 2], DigitalRev Bokeh, Resource Magazine Online, Fast Co Design, MyModernMet, WIRED magazine, Condé Nast magazine, Condé Nast Traveller magazine, Digital Photo magazine, Pro Photographer Magazine, "Tähdet ja avaruus" (Stars and Space, a Finnish astronomy magazine) | aerospace |
https://santabarbara.cap.gov/join/prospective-cadet-members | 2023-09-21T19:38:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506029.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921174008-20230921204008-00326.warc.gz | 0.964406 | 809 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__168079613 | en | Prospective Cadet Members
Thank you for taking interest in our squadron. Kids can join from ages 12-18 and can stay a cadet until they are 21 years old. In the Cadet Program, we offer teens a new perspective of aviation as well as getting a glimpse of the military. Since Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary to the U.S Air force, teens get to learn all about aerospace from fundamentals of flight all they way to astronomy. Cadets, do get to fly as well which makes the program fun. Cadets get to fly in a small airplane (Cessna 182) and get hands on flying for 1.5 hours. Our cadets get to fly around the Santa Ynez area and also along the Santa Barbara coast.
Not only do they get to learn about aviation, they get hands on learning with the assembly of STEM kits (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). There are many STEM kits out there like, robotics, model rocketry, cyber patriot, etc. Currently, our squadron is finishing the model rocketry kit, where they have to assemble 3 rockets but learn about rocket history. The third rocket is a group built rocket that is a medium size rocket and after completing all the rockets, we get to launch them. Also, on the side, we are doing Cyber Patriot which is a program offered by the Air force, that allows teens to learn how to maintain security integrity on a computer. Today, Cyber Security is a demanding field with many employment opportunities.
If teens are looking at maybe going into the military after high school, the Civil Air Patrol program would be a great start to get a feel of what its like to be in the military. The Civil Air Patrol is part of the Air force total force, so we practice Air force customs. Cadets get to wear air force uniforms such as Air force Blues and Airman Battle Uniforms. Cadets must uphold their standards to wear their uniform as it is a privilege to wear the Air force uniform. With that, they must make sure the uniform looks well kept and worn according to uniform regulations. They will learn to build character and also they will learn how to lead others by following current cadets who are Non Commission Officers who dedicate their time to teach cadets and make sure they are on the right path. “Learning to follow is the beginning of leadership” is the statement for cadets to base their leadership skills on.
Cadets have ranks starting with Airman Basic all the way to Colonel which is an officer position. While they go through each rank they are learning and becoming better leaders. There are 5 phases of cadet leadership. They are called milestones. Two of the most important milestones are the Billy Mitchell and Spaatz Awards. Those who achieve the Mitchell award are promoted to the officer position of Second Lieutenant and this creates the opportunity for the cadet to receive scholarships and a higher military rank if they join the military. Those who receive the Spaatz Award which is the pinnacle of the cadet phases are nationally recognized by higher education, industry and the military. Only 10% of all national cadets make it to the Spaatz award but a majority earn the Mitchell award. Those who enlist in the military and have received the Mitchell Award, will become one rank higher than the others after boot camp.
Overall the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program offers a life changing experience for teens and opens up a lot of career opportunities once they become adults. Our Squadron meets every Tuesday from 6pm-8:30pm and meets once a month for an activity on a Saturday. If you are interested please let me know so I can schedule a visits to our squadron. If you have any other questions, please email me at email@example.com and I will get back to you ASAP.
First Lieutenant Tyler Epley
Deputy Commander for Cadets
Santa Barbara Squadron 131
Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary | aerospace |
http://niceinfo.wikia.com/wiki/Batavia | 2017-07-23T04:53:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424247.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20170723042657-20170723062657-00576.warc.gz | 0.959553 | 160 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__157367276 | en | Batavia Air (PT. Metro Batavia) is an airline based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It operates domestic flights to around 30 destinations and international services to Singapore, China and Malaysia. Its main base is Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta. Batavia Air is listed in category 1 by Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority for airline safety quality.
The airline was established in 2001 and started operations in January 2002. Originally known as Metro Batavia, it started operations with a wet-leased Fokker F27 aircraft from Sempati Air. It launched scheduled services from Jakarta to Pontianak in January 2002. It is owned by PT Metro Batavia. Since June 2010 the airline has been taken off the list of banned carriers from flying into EU airspace (Safety authorized by EU). | aerospace |
https://lediabete.net/2022/07/25/delta-air-lines-orders-100-boeing-737-max-planes/ | 2022-12-02T14:08:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710902.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202114800-20221202144800-00796.warc.gz | 0.948306 | 525 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__23503094 | en | Delta Air Lines orders 100 Boeing 737 Max planes
Delta Air Lines said on Monday that it planned to buy 100 of the largest variant of Boeing’s 737 Max, even as Boeing races to secure regulatory approval for that version of the jet by the end of the year.
The order is Delta’s first for the Max and a boon for Boeing. A nearly two-year global ban on the plane, prompted by two fatal crashes, contributed to Boeing’s slipping behind in a competition for orders against its rival Airbus. In late 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration allowed two midsize versions of the plane — the Max 8 and Max 9 — to fly again once certain fixes were made.
Delta’s order is for the Max 10, the biggest variant of the plane. If Boeing is unable to secure regulatory approval for the plane by a December deadline, it will have to make significant changes to flight deck alert systems under a recently passed law, unless Congress intervenes. That would eliminate a key selling point of the plane: its similarity with other Max variants, which would eliminate the need for pilots to be trained separately for each model of the plane.
Delta expects to receive the first deliveries of the plane in 2025. At list prices, the order is valued at nearly $13.5 billion, though Boeing typically discounts such large orders.
In an interview this month with Aviation Week, Boeing’s chief executive, Dave Calhoun, said he was optimistic that Boeing would be able to proceed without a flight deck overhaul, but signaled an openness to canceling the Max 10 if not. Delta said in a statement that it had “adequate protection in place” in case of any delay in the expected certification of the Max 10, including shifting to a different Max model.
Delta said the order, which includes an option for an additional 30 planes, served its long-term strategy. The Max 10 is expected to deliver “economic benefits” because of its ability to carry more passengers on a given trip and will be 20 percent to 30 percent more fuel efficient than the planes it will replace, the airline said. Nearly a third of the seats on the Max 10 will be in first class or Delta Comfort+, serving the airline’s focus on premium travel.
“The Boeing 737-10 will be an important addition to Delta’s fleet as we shape a more sustainable future for air travel, with an elevated customer experience, improved fuel efficiency and best-in-class performance,” Ed Bastian, Delta’s chief executive, said. | aerospace |
https://sustainautomotive.com/2017/06/08/the-ultimate-recycling-program-oh-and-mars/ | 2017-12-14T00:28:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948532873.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20171214000736-20171214020736-00001.warc.gz | 0.964088 | 706 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__56476113 | en | Elon Musk is known to be an innovator – with companies like Zip2, X.com (which became PayPal), Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, SolarCity, and many other companies that offer not always new, but mostly revolutionary products. Today we look at SpaceX:
Elon Musk wanted, and still wants, to go to Mars. Most people that want to go to another planet simply write a book, or build their own imaginary space-faring civilizations as they dose off to sleep. But not Elon. Especially since he has more money than he could otherwise use. Of course, when he founded SpaceX, he was merely a multi-millionaire, not a billionaire.
He founded SpaceX with only US$100million (plus other investments) of his own money, which is the kind of investment I would dream of for my own company, but is pretty much nothing when your main service is taking things on one-way trips into sub-orbit. That aside, Musk also juggled Tesla and SpaceX at times when neither company was doing overly well, and yet managed to save both from bankruptcy. He even keeps both companies from going under despite massive losses – no small feat by any measure.
SpaceX survives today as one of the only independent launch companies in the world, with their only non-government-backed competitor being Arianespace in France. SpaceX has revolutionized the space exploration industry, with a recycled Falcon 9 rocket launching into space later this month. Many of the technologies used by SpaceX are not in fact new technologies, but simply reusable.
The Falcon 9 allows clients to launch satellites for a fraction of the cost, because the rocket is not expended after its first launch, but rather, is fully reusable. Sadly, it isn’t electric. Awesome as that would be, ion propulsion isn’t quite there for atmospheric launch yet.
Coming on the agenda of SpaceX is the first manned mission to Mars; and they aren’t the only company that is working on it either. The space race is back on, as Digital Trends reporter Bill Roberson puts it. The prize: a big ball of rust with little atmosphere floating in a gigantic vacuum chamber. This is like the 80’s sci-fi movie Weird Science if all of the characters were congressmen and crazy billionaires…
Anyway, the technology that will ultimately make manned space flights to Mars possible is the reusable rockets made by SpaceX and other, similar products, with current rockets likely becoming the platform on which a manned Mars-bound spaceship is built. There is one sticking point on Elon Musk’s idea; terraforming.
Musk has said on multiple occasions that in order to make Mars safe for human colonisation, one would need to drop thermonuclear weapons on the poles. A spokesperson for NASA said “We are also committed to promoting exploration of the solar system in a way that protects explored environments as they exist in their natural state.” according to the LA Times, and many scientists have disagreed with Musk on other grounds, too.
There remains work to be done, and even if it never happens, research into colonising the Red Planet will continue to fascinate future generations. Efforts made in our age may even inspire people at a time when technology is a little more accommodating…
It would be great to get some discussion going in the comments below, so feel free to leave your thoughts. Don’t forget to subscribe! | aerospace |
https://gulfair.sniperhire.net/gulfair/VacancyDetail.aspx?VacancyID=163677 | 2024-02-20T23:25:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473347.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240220211055-20240221001055-00280.warc.gz | 0.912571 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__209363444 | en | GF1046 - AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR
Bahrain - Head Quarter
Post holder is required to perform all routine and non routine maintenace tasks on all the current and future fleet in accordance with aircraft approved maintenace schedule and aircraft approved docummentation and strictly adhere to authority rules and regualtions.
He/She will be whenever required to support the recovery of AOG situations and to maintain Company and 3rd party aircraft in accordance with the approved maintenance schedule using approved methods and procedures.
• Perform Routine & Non Routine maintenance on Companys fleets & Third party aircraft as per BCAA Regulations & Company Requirements. Supervise assigned Technicians whilst performing their duties. Certify for all work perfomed
• He is required to obtain company certification authorization to qualify him to certify routine & non routine maintenace tasks on company fleets within the scope of his company approval.
• Whenever required he will obtain the required certification authorization to certify work perfomed on third Party aircrafts.
• Perform duties when deemed necessary at short notice accompany aircraft for the purposes of carrying out routine & non – routine maintenance tasks.
• Perform any task operationally deemed necessary to maintain the fleet in an airworthy condition.
• Attend training as per company requirements, sit company technical boards for obtaining Aircraft Type Certification.
• Whenever required by the company to perform technical representation at facilities outside the home base.
• Maintain self read & write continuation training.
• Travel when required for the recovery of aircraft during an AOG situation
• Strictly adhere to company staff & safety rules & regulations
• Adhere and comply with Aircraft approved maintenance documents when performing all maintenance tasks and acquaint self with all the safety related precautions to avoid personal injuries or damages to aircraft structures and systems.
• Ensure proper tools and equipments used for aircraft maintenance are in servicable and safe condition at all times. Report any faulty tool or equipment to the Duty manager.
• Ensure unservicable tools / equipments are identified, isolated and attach with a unserviable tag.
• As part of maintenance practices ensure all tools used are registered to ensure removal on task completion.
• Adhere to Airside safety rules and regulations in regard to driving and work areas.
• Adher to the Company policy and procedures as laid down in the Technical Publications i.e. TIM, MOE etc..
• Must maintain a high level of self descipline and respect towards his superiors instruction
• Whenever operationally required, the company will train him to perfom some specilized tasks like boroscope on company fleet engines , structure assesment/ repair and others.
• Whenever necessary he will be required to deputise for the Duty manager during his absense on vacation, sickness or training.
• Ensure that all tools including mechanics tool boxes contents are checked before and after each task carried out on the aircraft. CRS must be signed only when all tools are accounted for.
Minimum of 7 years experience in aviation maintenance and 3-5 years as fully qualified certifying engineer.
Holder of a valid AME license recogonisaised to BCAA and Gulf Air QA, endorsed with Type rating on two of company aircraft, must be Computer literate, Fluency in reading, writing and speaking English.
Must have completed a recogonised aircraft engineers apprentiship / Formal training
Note: you will be required to attach the following:
1. Resume / CV
2. Copy of proof qualification
3. Passport copy | aerospace |
http://odysseusontherocks.blogspot.com/2012/01/russians-life-on-venus.html | 2018-05-25T18:37:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867173.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525180646-20180525200646-00498.warc.gz | 0.948501 | 272 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__67384814 | en | MOSCOW: Several objects resembling living beings were detected on photographs taken by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission, says an article published in the Solar System Research magazine.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences published a research that analysed the photographs from the Venus mission made by a Soviet landing probe, Venus-13, in 1982.
The photographs feature several objects, which Ksanfomaliti said, resembled a "disk", a "black flap" and a "scorpion".
All of them "emerge, fluctuate and disappear", the scientist said, referring to their changing location on different photographs and traces on the ground.
There are many fine scientists in Russia. But this strains credulity. As I understand, it back during the space race days, the Soviet Union bet that Venus, rather than Mars would be the more interesting neighbor planet to explore. Sadly the common belief that venus might be a warm wet everglade proved false.Venus proved to be a place of almost volcanic heat, so one after another space probe melted on delivery. Life's likelihood of existing in something like a poisonous kiln is extremely unlikely.
But the scientist did see something. Perhaps given the noted Russian penchant for ballet, it was the Fire Bird! | aerospace |
https://morrispsych.com/evaluations/aviation/ | 2024-02-27T07:33:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474671.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227053544-20240227083544-00265.warc.gz | 0.944547 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__120917338 | en | Aviation neuropsychology focuses on the unique psychological factors associated with meeting the demands of various aspects of aviation, including piloting and air traffic control. These evaluations also take into account the federal standards and criteria necessary for medical certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Dr. Dan DaSilva has extensive experience in aviation neuropsychology as an evaluator, is a consultant to the Federal Air Surgeon of the FAA and all major US airlines, a frequent lecturer on the assessment of aircrew and controllers, and provides supervision to those seeking training in the field of aerospace neuropsychology. He is well versed in FAA standards for all medical certification classes as defined by the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs).
He is a CogScreen-AE provider and a beta tester for the new AE2 platform. He is a HIMS trained neuropsychologist and frequent speaker at the annual HIMS conferences and annual Aerospace Psychology Seminar. Dr. DaSilva has also served on and led task forces focused on the development and modification of FAA neuropsychological assessment specifications. He has also been accepted by the National Transportation Safety Board as qualified to provide expert testimony in aviation neuropsychology at NTSB hearings. | aerospace |
http://www.dubaiaerospace.com/dae_press/press/dae_changes.html | 2013-06-19T20:10:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709101476/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125821-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.950128 | 299 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__21563393 | en | Dubai, U.A.E., 29 June 2011 – Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Ltd. announced today that the CEO of its Capital division, Mr. Robert Genise, had left the Company to fulfill his desire to be involved in a more entrepreneurial venture. “We thank him for his many contributions and wish him well in his endeavors,” said DAE Managing Director Khalifa H. AlDaboos.
“We will take this opportunity to consolidate the management of this business in Dubai. The business will report to the COO of DAE, and will be managed in a more integrated manner with the rest of DAE. The bench strength of our management will allow us to provide continuity of service to our global customers and suppliers,” added Khalifa AlDaboos.
“Supported by our shareholders, DAE has built a successful aircraft leasing business with clients in 14 countries and aircraft assets in excess of $2 billion. We are committed to delivering excellence to our customers, suppliers and providers of credit,” added Khalifa AlDaboos.
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Ltd is a globally recognized aerospace company specializing in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, aircraft completions and aircraft leasing. The Company is headquartered in Dubai and operates in four continents and employs over 4,000 people. More information can be found on the company's web site at www.dubaiaerospace.com | aerospace |
http://rpa-kaktus.ru/20mm-pipe-clamp-hj-1100p-carbon-fiber-retractable-landing-gear-skid-set-for-s800-s800-evo-multicopters/ | 2018-03-25T03:43:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257651780.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180325025050-20180325045050-00511.warc.gz | 0.657253 | 145 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__225781901 | en | HJ450 quadcopter frame kit: Support KK MK MWC FF KK. Shaft distance: 450mm Recommend: Motor: F4006 A2208 A2212 800KV~1100KV brushless motor. ESC: 15~25A ESC. Battery: 1800~3600mAh 3S Lipo battery. Propeller: 11*47 propeller. Transmitter: 5CH or 6CH DX6I. Carbon fiber landing gear: Universal and elegant design suitable for most quadcopter / hexacopter / octacopter. Has space for wireless AV transmitter battery and PTZ FPV camera. With multifunction landing skid. With battery strap tie and Velcro. | aerospace |
http://atgizmos.com/yizhan-i8h-0-3mp-camera-2-4g-6aixs-gyro-rc-quadcopter/ | 2019-12-13T17:09:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540564599.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20191213150805-20191213174805-00151.warc.gz | 0.781036 | 469 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__115899596 | en | YiZhan just presented the I8H With 0.3MP Camera 2.4G 6Axis Gyro RC Quadcopter.
Here’s a round up:
Brand Name: YiZhan
Item Name: 2.4G 6 Axis RC Quadcopter
Item NO.: I8H
Gyro: 6 axis
Control Distance: About 300m
Charger Time: About 150mins
Flight Time: 8mins
Battery: 7.4V 1200mAh 30C,JST Plug (included)
Remote Control: 3 x AA battery (not included)
Quadcopter Flighting Weight : 280g
Quadcopter Size: 48cm * 48cm * 16cm
Color Box Size: 44.8 cm * 12.4 cm * 28.8 cm
With Altitude hold mode
In altitude hold mode, the quadcopter maintains a consistent altitude while allowing roll, pitch, and yaw to be controlled normally
With WiFi 0.3MP camera
can transmit the live image to your phone.
With Headless Mode
no need to adjust the position of aircraft before flying .
I8H can perform 360°flips/rolls (forward/backward, left/right)
6-Axis gyro quad-rotorcraft flight
strong stability, can easily implement various flight movements, easier to control.
2.4G technology adopted for anti-interference,
even more than one quadcopter is flying at the same time they will not interfere with each other.
Battery Protection & LED
YiZhan I8H is equipped with a battery protection module to protect and prevent overcharging the battery. I8H is outfitted with multi-color LED lights, making the flight more spectacular especially in the dark
1 x YiZhan I8H RC Quadcopter
1 x 0.3MP WiFi Camera
1 x Transmitter
1 x 7.4V 1200mAh 30C Battery(JST Plug)
1 x charger
4 x Propeller Cover
4 x Landing Gear
4 x Propeller（2 X CW 2 X CCW）
1 x Phone Holder
1 x Screwdriver
1 x English Manual | aerospace |
https://www.quadcities.com/articles/family/have-some-adventures-in-space-at-the-putnam/ | 2020-11-28T04:52:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195069.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128040731-20201128070731-00053.warc.gz | 0.898076 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__193594250 | en | Have Some Adventures In Space At The Putnam
If you are looking for a free and family-friendly educational event this weekend, then make plans to head to the Putnam Museum!
This weekend only, the NASA Journey to Tomorrow Trailer will be on-site in the parking lot of the Putnam Museum, visiting from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio! This traveling exhibit is a fun-filled interactive experience with learning stations and engaging activities. The exhibit also features an actual genuine moon rock artifact returned to Earth by the crew of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission.
Adventures in Space weekend will take place in the Putnam’s Grand Lobby, as well. The Giant Screen will also be playing a variety of shows (regular documentary admission does apply).
All of the Adventure in Space activities are FREE to visitors! Here are the exhibit hours:
Oct 20 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Oct 21 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Oct 22 12-5 p.m.
For questions or more information about this weekend event, contact Brittany Glass at firstname.lastname@example.org or (563) 336-7290.
Head to the Putnam Museum this weekend for an out of this world experience! | aerospace |
http://sowethereyet.blogspot.com/2017/03/going-back-in-time.html | 2018-12-11T06:46:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823588.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20181211061718-20181211083218-00301.warc.gz | 0.9818 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__182750387 | en | I've started research into my book about the Wasp helicopter. I've been going through old copies of 'Cockpit' and 'Flight Deck' magazine which the RN produced over the time of the aircraft. 'Cockpit' is the RN Flight Safety magazine and still in production ot this day. I've got some great articles for the book and next week I will be seeing Mr David Gibbings who helped me out with the Lynx book. As a Westland Flight engineer, he was in the first Lynx to fly and I've now just discovered that he was in the second ever Wasp flight some years previously. He is an archivist for Westland now and should be a fount of all knowledge.
The early days of rotary wing flight in the RN are fascinating and there were many experiments tried out before a final design was settled on. I intend to cover quite a deal of this in the book as it explains how the Wasp ended up as it did. Some interesting photos:
Not quite a Wasp yet but the first aircraft to conduct sea trials. Note the undercarriage which has flat plates attached to the skids - using air bled from the engine these could act like little hovercraft or actually suck the aircraft down onto the deack.
Not a Wasp at all but another early prototype that was actually quite successful but too small for the RN in the end (the Fairey Ultralight). It used little jets at the tip of each rotor blade to power the rotors rather than a gearbox. It didn't succeed but one wonders why no one has resurrected the idea. | aerospace |
http://womenofcommercialdrones.org/about | 2019-10-14T00:06:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986648343.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20191013221144-20191014004144-00493.warc.gz | 0.941279 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__164719981 | en | Women of Commercial Drones serves as a forum to come together to discuss challenges, share achievements and collaborate on ways to help mentor professionals and younger generations of women.
Commercial drone development and sales are on the rise, but the number of women in leadership positions, whether in the drone industry or more generally in technology, is not. With a specific focus on women interested in commercial enterprise/business with drones, we want to encourage women to be bold in pursuit of their careers in this market. The commercial drone industry will benefit as a result of increased gender diversity. Let's elevate the conversation and have some fun supporting each other! | aerospace |
https://fanedusaxofixeraj.vivasushibarvancouver.com/sp-100-power-system-conceptual-design-for-lunar-base-applications-book-8601tm.php | 2022-12-10T01:34:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711637.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20221210005738-20221210035738-00736.warc.gz | 0.855601 | 1,893 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__67001334 | en | 3 edition of SP-100 power system conceptual design for lunar base applications found in the catalog.
SP-100 power system conceptual design for lunar base applications
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http://freshprinceoftheblog.com/2018/08/09/surf-air-expands-and-celebrates-five-years-with-membership-upgrades/ | 2019-04-25T18:37:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578732961.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20190425173951-20190425195951-00006.warc.gz | 0.959316 | 439 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__188886489 | en | Surf Air is one of those companies reserved for the rich and famous. It is a charter flight company based out of Santa Monica, California. The company started five years ago to give wealthy Californians the opportunity to charter their own flights to various California-based destinations. Members could arrange for a flight from LAX to Lake Tahoe, Santa Barbara or San Fransisco for the weekend while skipping security lines at the airport.
Members of Surf Air are allowed to charter their own flights using the airline’s fleet. It’s almost like you are renting or leasing your own private plane for the afternoon. Now members have more access to the world than ever as Surf Air has announced expansion to 20 different European cities. These cities include Nice, Brussels, Munich, Zürich, Milan and Luxembourg. So, if you want to fly on your own plane to Munich for the weekend, you can do so as a member of Surf Air.
Now the California-based airline is announcing free membership upgrades for all of its customers to celebrate a five year anniversary. Surf Air has announced a new way to board the plane at LAX airport. Construction is now complete on The Private Suite LAX which gives members the easiest boarding procedure possible. It’s a private terminal with its own security force and customs enforcement. Members do not have to wait in lines, shuffle through crowds or be hassled by security. Instead, they are driven straight to their plane on the tarmac while their bags are handled for them.
Surf Air also wants its powerful customers to have great networking opportunities. That’s why they have partnered with Founders Card which allows customers deep business networking opportunities with over 25,000 different business people, entrepreneurs and innovators.
The California-based airline has also announced another partnership with Blade Air. Blade is essentially Surf Air for the New York City-area. The company runs helicopters and seaplanes out of Manhattan to destinations like East Hampton, Newport and Nantucket. This partnership will also allow Surf Air customers access to Blade’s seven different luxury suites across its airport network in the northeastern United States.
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https://www.futurescope.co/hexh2o-pro-v2-quadh2o/ | 2023-02-03T01:11:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500041.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202232251-20230203022251-00382.warc.gz | 0.942723 | 1,742 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__278178611 | en | What We Have Covered in This Article
- 1 HEXH2O Pro V2: an all-terrain drone from QuadH2O
- 2 Features of the HEXH2O Pro V2
- 3 Price and availability
Last Updated on January 6, 2020 by Editor Futurescope
Now the age of the drone is a continuous evolution where the renowned brands continue to position themselves in the market, while the new ones try to make themselves known with interesting proposals. The British company QuadH2O, is one of them because it is devoted to the manufacture of unmanned waterproof aircraft. Soon to present to its latest model designed for professionals, the HEXH2O Pro V2.
It is considered by being the most powerful and resistant in its category. This is because its use is intended for experienced users looking for exclusivity or an equipment for inspections. Therefore, it has an application with advanced functions and a high-performance remote control for precise handling.
The most interesting thing is that the new QuadH2O drone has built-in DJI systems and accessories. Its purpose is to combine the best of both worlds to provide greater reliability. Some of its highlights are its camera with 4K technology and the flight controller DJI Naza N3. The HEXH2O Pro V2 has promising features and today we will analyze them in this post.
HEXH2O Pro V2: an all-terrain drone from QuadH2O
In 2012, the British company QuadH2O started in the unmanned aircraft industry for beginners and professionals. However, the firm took an important step because its equipment is water-resistant to fly in the rain and navigate the water without problems.
The HEXH2O Pro V2 has such skills to become a drone with full functions. Its high power is due to its body made of epoxy fiber to be resistant against extreme climates. It also has six built-in propellers to achieve fast flight speeds and a floating system to land on water.
In addition, a DJI Zenmuse X3 camera with transparent cover to prevent contact with water is located on the front of the device. It can be moved in different directions to capture high resolution aerial or aquatic photographs and record videos in 4K.
The new HEXH2O Pro V2 professional model has advanced features and a high-performance remote control. These functions are offered by an application that allows controlling the configurations of the aircraft and the camera. In this way, they are operated from the remote control where the settings are displayed on the screen and transmits an effective signal of up to 5km.
Features of the HEXH2O Pro V2
As we mentioned earlier, the equipment is the most powerful in its category, due to its internal body and system. It has integrated a double battery of 8000mAh that allows you to fly for 30 minutes. In addition, it can reach a top speed of up to 56km / h thanks to the 350KV propulsion system.
Its high performance and reliability is concentrated primarily in the flight controller, DJI Naza N3. Its purpose is to control the flight of the aircraft because it detects any failure. It also has a vibration damping system for greater stability.
Highly resistant body
The body of the HEXH2O Pro V2 is made of epoxy fiber to be resistant against extreme climates. Thanks to its waterproof cover you can fly in the rain and navigate the water without problems.
Its body is made up of six propellers and six folding arms to store it in a practical way. Meanwhile, in the lower part is located a floating system, that is to say, two buoys so that it floats on the water.
In addition, on the front side the camera is protected with a transparent cover to avoid contact with water. Notably, the camera can move down to record images of marine life.
This model has a size of 740 x 240 x 650mm and a weight of 1450 gr. Its robust appearance offers the capacity to withstand strong winds of up to 25mph and to load a maximum weight of 2kg.
DJI Zenmuse X3
From the beginning of the company has maintained a close relationship with the recognized DJI. This is due to the integration of systems and accessories of DJI to enhance the performance of aircraft. However, this time QuadH2O decides to innovate with the HEXH2O Pro V2 with the addition of new elements.
The first is a DJI Zenmuse X3 camera suspended on a three-axis cardan protected with a transparent cover. It has a 1 / 2.3 “CMOS sensor of 12.4 megapixels, which records images with higher quality compared to the other cameras of the previous models.
Also, the 20mm wide angle generates a wide viewing angle of 94 °, ideal for aerial or aquatic photography. Nevertheless, its main capacity is the recording of videos in 4K to 30fps. In this way, it guarantees videos with excellent resolution and sharp thanks to the gimbal system to compensate for any movement.
Another favorable aspect of this system is that it allows the camera to move from top to bottom and sideways. Thus, the user can photograph or record videos from different perspectives, either during the flight or when the drone is floating on the water.
DJI Lightbridge 2
The second DJI element that is included in the new unmanned aircraft is the Lightbridge 2 remote control. This control is characterized by being the most powerful of the firm, due to its precision and resolution.
With the DJI Lightbridge 2 you can manage the speed, altitude, drone addresses and configure the advanced functions. It also facilitates the visualization of flight or submarine from the screen of a smartphone or tablet in Full HD resolution.
On the other hand, its design is simple to have two levers, an on / off button and a customizable button. Its high efficiency is in the upper edge where there are a series of buttons and two scrolls for a more precise handling of both the equipment and the camera. In addition, it has a built-in USB port, mini HDMI, 3G-SDI and a micro USB.
With respect to its high power is reflected in the 2.4GHz signal transmission. The drone is able to receive the signal up to a maximum distance of 5km for the user to explore without limits. Undoubtedly, it is an important aspect to carry out professional inspections, scientific investigations, searches, rescues, etc.
The precise handling of the HEXH2O Pro V2 is not only due to its remote control, but also by the DJI Go application. The app offers advanced features to ensure safe flight and detailed control of your settings.
Thanks to it you can view the images in real time in high definition from the screen of a smartphone or tablet. In addition, it displays information about battery status and signal strength.
However, his most outstanding tool for this professional unmanned aircraft are manual controls for the camera. In this way, the user can easily manage the picture settings while the aircraft is flying or navigating. In addition, you have other options to have a safe control as takeoff and automatic landing, and Return to home.
+ Specialist in professional inspections
+ Camera DJI Zenmuse X3
+ Videos in 4K
+ Three-axis gimbal system
+ DJI Lightbridge 2 Remote Control
+ Body resistant to extreme weather conditions
+ Floating system
+ DJI Go application with advanced features (available for iOS and Android)
+ Can fly for 30 minutes
+ 2kg maximum load system
+ Reaches a top speed of 56km / h
+ Resist strong winds up to 25mph
+ Double battery
+ High management knowledge is required.
+ It can float in the water, but not submerge
+ High price
Price and availability
The HEXH2O Pro V2 will be available starting March 31, 2017 and will cost approximately $ 6500 USD. If you are interested in this incredible professional aircraft you can log on to quadh2o.com
The equipment is synonymous of high technology for being powerful, resistant and versatile. Undoubtedly, it becomes an innovative drone for professionals because of the wide use options.
Do you know anyone who needs the HEXH2O Pro V2? | aerospace |
https://www.extramonetaryaffair.com/2023/05/downfall-of-gofirst.html | 2024-04-14T11:52:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816879.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414095752-20240414125752-00886.warc.gz | 0.977535 | 606 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__89964448 | en | DOWNFALL OF GOFIRST
The competition in the aviation sector of India is increasing while different new players are entering the market. On the other hand, some old players are showing downfall and bankruptcy. Recently one of the very popular names in India's aviation sector - GoFirst, has filed for insolvency. The Wadia group-owned airlines have filed an application for voluntary insolvency resolution proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal.
The airline confirmed earlier today that all flights would be cancelled for three days, from May 3 to May 5, due to weather. After Go First made the decision to cancel flights for three days, the aviation regulator DGCA gave the airline a show cause notice. The airline has been ordered to submit information on the measures taken to lessen the inconvenience to passengers who had tickets for the cancelled flights, as well as a plan of action to operate flights in accordance with the authorised schedule beginning on May 5, 2023.
The reason behind the downfall -
The reason behind the downfall of this airline is not the same as previous airlines like Kingfisher. Previously different aviation companies failed to achieve success because of a lack of proper understanding of the sector or unbearable losses. But the case for GoFirst is different. They have blamed the US aerospace company - Pratt and Whitney for their downfall. According to the company, they have to suffer this loss because of the number of failed engines sent by the US aerospace company. These disputed engine problems led to the company grounding 25 of its aircrafts as of May 1, 2023. The percentage of grounded flights due to problems in the engines of the company has increased from 7% in December 2019 to 31% in December 2020 to 50% in December 2022. The airline has also seen a lot of instability due to frequent changes in the CEO of the company. The company was previously also known for paying irregularly to the vendors and the staff.
The course of action -
According to different sources, the lenders of the airline were unaware of the insolvency filing. The future course of action of the airline will be discussed after all the lenders have a meeting. The cash flow of the airline had to face a serious problem as the airlines grounded more than half of their fleets because of the faulty engines supplied by Pratt and Whitney. The engine used to support their Airbus A230 neo aircrafts. The airline is trying to make a good comeback as it has started its search for a strategic investor in the company and has also found out some potential investors.
The company used to have a market share of 6.9 percent of the total Indian aviation sector, and previously the number was around 9%. According to the current market share, the company used to fly 28,000 to 30,000 passengers every day, and this creates a potential risk of prices shooting up. The downfall of the airline company is also raising questions about the role of the Director General of Civil Aviation as it is the regulating agency of this sector.
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https://www.digital-vision.nl/rosette-spaceship-essay-case-study-17/ | 2019-07-16T18:13:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524685.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716180842-20190716202842-00177.warc.gz | 0.933042 | 1,338 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__104823758 | en | Rosette Spaceship Essay Case study The cardstock “Rosette Spaceship” is a worthwhile example of a strong essay at formal in addition to physical science.
The actual Rosette spaceship refers to a distinctive and magnificent vision that later for 10 years. Rosette spaceship mission required to orbit, land, and also probe some comet. Euro Space Firm launched Arschfotze Spaceship upon March a couple of, 2004 (Sharp 1). Arschfotze Spaceship landed on a comet on Sept. 6, 2014 (Sharp 1). Currently, analysts on Arschrosette Spaceship will be studying the actual comet while using aim of creating the start of daily life on Earth.
The Arschrosette Spaceship assignment sought in order to pursue, orbit, and land on the spinning comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Jet Space Laboratory 1). Moreover, the very mission was to analyze often the comet’s nucleus and terminate from nearby proximity (European Space Organization 1). The very Rosette Spaceship sought to research the changes in any season simply because 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko termination the inner solar-system (Jet Space Laboratory 1).
The Arschfotze spaceship would probably finish often the mission through pursuing, orbiting, and executing a soft bringing on the heading 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mission will accompany 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko into the inside solar system. The actual 11 recources included in Arschfotze Spaceship would probably establish how 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko kinds its coma and tails (Sharp 1). Moreover, often the 11 assets would identify chemical communications inside the comet. They would also show what sort of comet interacts with gravity, radiation, and also solar blowing wind (Sharp 1). To achieve this, the very Rosette would definitely explore often the composition and even atmosphere with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Sharp 1).
Rosette spaceship is the earliest spaceship for you to pursue, orbit, and land on a turning comet (European Space Organization 1). The main Rosette spaceship is more classy and dependable compared to some other exploring spaceship. Rosette spaceship involves special science this analyzes the actual solar system and also investigates the main role connected with comets on the origin of life (European Space Firm 1). Additionally, it will be the primary mission to research a comet’s nucleus, longest tail, and result from close selection (European Space Agency 1). The Arschrosette spaceship turns into the first quest to come with a comet into the solar system and get high-resolution imagery (Sharp 1).
Orion Spaceship Essay Example
The paper “Orion Spaceship” is really a worthy example of an essay on basic and bodily science.
Orion spaceship is built along with the purpose of choosing human beings further than they have vanished before. It can carry a new crew of four to explore the room, offer unexpected capability, and also sustain the main crew affiliates when they are travelling into room or space. The spacecraft was released by (NASA) NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION on May 24th, 2011 (NASA 1).
Orion launched atop Delta 4 rocket being a test. It was done regarding Dec 123helpme.me 5, 2014, using the main object being to attempt the security with the spacecraft. Moreover, the establish evaluated often the re-entry models. These include avionics, attitude control, heat defend, and even parachutes (NASA 1). In the meantime, Orion is to be used in exploring the asteroids and Mars. The spacecraft was developed as a reaction to the main accident regarding Space Taxi Columbia. Consequently , it will make Visions to get Space Query.
The design as well as technology put to use make Orion are more advanced. However , that borrows it has the design through Apollo Get Module. One of the few specifics which make it better than the previous spacecraft is that often the life help, propulsion, together with thermal safety systems are usually upgraded any moment a new technological innovation comes up. Therefore , it results in space just for improvement (NASA 1). It’s given NASA an opportunity to look for new technology in order to help the current solutions.
In the future, the main spacecraft is actually expected to launch a heavy-lift rocket which happens to be known as Room or space Launch Structure. This will be one of the many powerful rockets to be made by NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) (NASA 1). This will find a way to send persons to new destinations. Nevertheless this will not occur until 2021.
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Often the paper “Interior Design Theory” is a great example of an essay on pattern and solutions. Since immemorial interior brands have obtained a particular way of decorating dwellings. This appears to conform to particular standards which often create rapport in designing houses by different worldwide are all striving. Though makers may use different colors and behaviours, the clusters portray quite a few similarities in their appearance. The size of decorations spent on interior brands expresses personal values and private feelings within the current or simply past situations.
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The nature of layouts used by indoors designers really should correspond to design themselves. Due to the fact many people are convinced certain structures should be developed in a particular strategy.
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On 11 August 2005, IPSTAR roared into orbit and the satellite industry was not the same again. The launch of the IPSTAR broadband satellite, to this day 15 years ago exactly, marked the introduction of broadband satellite services in Asia Pacific.
With IPSTAR, Thaicom was the first operator in the world to develop and launch a High Throughput Satellite (HTS). In the years to come IPSTAR would connect hundreds of thousands of users in underserved and unserved areas across Asia Pacific to broadband internet. IPSTAR has been the region’s leading broadband satellite platform, underlining Thaicom’s innovative and pioneering role in the satellite industry. IPSTAR was built by US-based Space Systems Loral, the satellite manufacturer who developed and designed the satellite’s core technologies.
At the time of launch, IPSTAR was the heaviest commercial GEO satellite ever orbited with a launch mass of nearly 6,500 kg. It was also the first satellite to achieve a maximum 45 Gbps of bandwidth capacity.
ENTER BROADBAND SATELLITE
Designed for high-speed, two-way broadband communication over an IP platform, IPSTAR was designed to provide coverage over most of Asia Pacific via multiple, narrowly focused spot beams. The IPSTAR system is capable of maximizing the available frequency for transmission and increases bandwidth by a factor of twenty when compared to traditional Ku-band satellites, resulting in more efficient operations and serving the growing demand for high-speed broadband internet access and data.
IPSTAR was designed from the ground up as a new generation of satellite that can serve both internet backbone connection to fiber optic cables for ISPs and as a last-mile broadband internet service to consumers. The IPSTAR system’s switching and routing capabilities are located in the gateway and network control centers on the ground, allowing to upgrade all electronics and software from earth with cost effectiveness in mind.
IPSTAR low cost user terminals and increased bandwidth could successfully compete more effectively with terrestrial broadband solutions such as Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), Cable Modem and Fixed Wireless, while retaining the key satellite advantages of large coverage, and fast and flexible service deployment. Vast footprint coverage and in on-the-ground infrastructure in different countries of the region were advantages for the IPSTAR satellite system.
Traditional satellite technology utilizes a broad single beam to cover entire continents and regions. With narrowly focused spot beams and frequency reuse, IPSTAR is capable of maximizing the available frequency for transmission. With its 45 Gbps, it has 20 times more bandwidth capacity compared to traditional Ku-band satellites. High power levels in combination with high-gain antennas and high levels of frequency reuse via multiple spot beam antennas enable IPSTAR to providing data and internet services to rural areas for the first time on a nationwide scale.
EMPOWERING ASIA PACIFIC
Before the launch of IPSTAR, high-speed access to data or information services was virtually non-existent in the rural and remote areas of the region. For the past 15 years, IPSTAR has had a successful track record of providing the region’s telecom industry, businesses, homes and government administrations with cost-effective satellite broadband connectivity and services. Whether empowering school children through access to online learning materials in Thailand, expanding cellular networks in Japan, or providing reliable broadband connectivity at sea in Australia, since its launch IPSTAR has helped remove distance barriers in Asia Pacific like no other satellite platform.
IPSTAR’s footprint stretches across Australia and New Zealand, China, India, Japan and South-East Asia. At its peak, more than 200,000 user terminals were deployed in the region to provide people living and operating in rural and remote areas with high speed internet access. IPSTAR was designed to serve 10 million subscribers in 18 countries of the region.
HIGH THROUGHPUT SATELLITE LEGACY CONTINUED
The satellite market has changed dramatically since the launch of IPSTAR and the emergence of High Throughput Satellites (HTS)—but despite much smaller satellites being launched into low earth and medium earth orbits nowadays, GEO stationary HTS are here to stay and the increased demand for data and anywhere, anytime connectivity show no sign of slowing down anytime soon, signaling a very bright future for HTS.
Moving forward, HTS enabled services including cellular backhaul, maritime, and mobility, as well as services for the government and oil & gas markets are providing interesting opportunities for HTS. Looking at these opportunities it is clear that even after 15 years, HTS continues to be relevant. Even more efficient and technologically advanced HTS will continue the legacy of IPSTAR.
The next generation of satellite services will enable new business cases and higher service levels. In the near future, the emergence of the Internet of Things along with bandwidth hungry data applications will support the emergence of new HTS systems or Very-High Throughput Satellites (VHTS).
VHTS will have a tremendous impact through providing comprehensive coverage at lower costs along with compelling end-to-end solutions to satisfy the increasing demand for data acting as the driving force. Future HTS systems will continue to impact people living in Asia Pacific, ultimately helping to improve their lives and helping to meet the bandwidth demands of data applications alongside the low earth orbit (LEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellations being launched.
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Qatar has been flying the route Berlin-Doha for ten years.
On 5 November, Qatar celebrated its tenth anniversary at Berlin Tegel Airport.
In 2005, the airline’s first flight took off from Berlin Tegel to Doha, an Airbus A319LR with a seating capacity of 110 passengers. As the route was in high demand, Qatar Airways soon doubled capacity and began flying an Airbus A300-600 (224 seats) in 2006. In February 2008, the number of flights was increased from the initial four a week to one a day. Qatar Airways has been flying an Airbus A330-200 once a day from Berlin Tegel since 15 December 2013.
Qatar Airways offers its passengers outstanding transit services at its hub in Doha. Destinations in Asia, Australia and Africa are especially accessible from Hamad International Airport in Doha.
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https://theconchnews.com/space-force-to-land-first-american-on-the-sun-says-trump/ | 2019-08-26T01:07:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027330913.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20190826000512-20190826022512-00099.warc.gz | 0.926019 | 254 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__182972815 | en | Space Force to land first American on the sun says Trump
US President Donald Trump has pledged Space Force will land an American on the sun by the end of his Presidency.
According to Trump, Space Force, billed as a brand new branch of the US military will undertake a mission to the sun within ‘months’. The mission, according to Trump, is the first step in setting up a military base in the event of interstellar war.
In a recent press statement, the President said:
“I can’t wait to see the first American set foot on the sun. And don’t worry, we will even bring some sun rocks back to prove the mission’s success to the Fake News.”
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Trump envisages the sun to become the next US state and sees the sun as a potential resort destination.
“Texas will no longer be the lone star state. With its hot temperatures, I can see the sun being the Mar-a-Lago of the solar system. Melania and I plan to visit very soon believe me. It’s the perfect natural setting for golf courses and the most beautiful hotels in the universe,” he said. | aerospace |
http://fat-cloud.com/the-best-gift-to-give-a-kid-this-holiday-season/ | 2020-01-17T17:09:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250589861.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200117152059-20200117180059-00049.warc.gz | 0.98292 | 144 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__57583503 | en | We thought the Air Hogs Supernova, an interactive drone you control with your hands, would be too tough for our six-year-old son to play with. We were wrong. A few minutes after it came out of the box, the Supernova was flying around our living room, with his little hands chasing after it, trying to regain control. Within a week, he could hover the drone in his palm, looking like a happy little magician before laughing and shooting it up in the air.
While the Supernova does take some time to get used to, it doesn’t have the same steep and frustrating learning curve of most small drones, which are typically tougher to control than the big ones. | aerospace |
https://godsrbored.blogspot.com/2010/04/space-shuttle-through-service-to.html | 2020-05-26T23:59:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347391923.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526222359-20200527012359-00575.warc.gz | 0.977443 | 342 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__56659338 | en | Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," with malice toward nuns and charity toward owls!
Just kidding about nuns. I've never had much dealing with them. I think overall they must be a good lot, with some exceptions of course. They must save a bundle by not ever needing marriage counseling. Talk about a situation where the husband is always right!
Ah. As you see, we at "The Gods Are Bored" are back in the bad saddle and ready to rumble. It's spring break this week, and that means a new post every day! Oh joy!
Just now I dropped the Spare off at high school. I was listening to the news radio, and honestly, here's what the guy said:
"The space shuttle Discovery just made a successful launch. Where is it going? Stay tuned to find out!"
I guess I should have stayed tuned, because I've been under the impression that the space shuttle goes into space. But heck, I could be wrong. Maybe its destination this time was Disney World. Maybe it's going to do a flyover of Paramus, NJ and then land in the Hudson Valley. Could be that those astronauts needed to get to Kansas ASAP, and the space shuttle was just sitting there, all fueled up with nowhere to go.
I know that these news stations all use teasers to get us through the commercials. As teasers go, promising us that we soon will learn the destination of a recently lifted-off space shuttle was sucky at best.
Gosh. Do you think the Space Shuttle Discovery is actually headed for Olympus? That would be awesome!
Maybe I should have stayed tuned. | aerospace |
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Taking Flight: Getting Started with Drone Photography & Cinematography
These days we can’t watch any TV program, film or commercial without seeing work made using drones. You no longer need to hire a helicopter pilot to shoot aerial photographs or motion video. Thankfully capturing aerial imagery with a drone is easier and more accessible than ever before but knowing where to start can be difficult.
In this comprehensive two-day class, photographer and drone pilot Dirk Dallas will demonstrate how to fly and capture photos and videos using drones. He’ll also teach you about the drone rules, drone dos and don’ts, and production/post-production tips and techniques to help you take your creativity to the next level. Attendees will also get hands-on experience piloting and photographing from the air.
Dirk will also explain his preferences for which drones to fly, as well as the drone to buy with any budget, the differences between various camera-integrated and camera attached drones (Go-Pros or small digital cameras) and more professional options.
NOTE: A one-day condensed version of this workshop will be offered on Thursday, May 11th. The primary difference is in the two-day class, there will be more lecture time as well as hands-on shooting with the drones for attendees. The one-day class, designed to be more introductory in nature, will offer the same lectures, but will be limited to demonstrations of flying and shooting techniques.
Dirk is a photographer, filmmaker, professor of digital media and the host of AdoramaTV’s web series “From Where I Drone with Dirk Dallas.” He is a leader in the drone photography movement having founded FromWhereIDrone.com, a leading drone photography and cinematography website. His photography has been featured in art galleries such as the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Southern California, THE NWBLK in San Francisco, One Arts Plaza in Dallas and The MMS Gallery in Philadelphia. Some of Dirk’s clients include MINI, Nike, Toyota, Disney, Starbucks, Ford, American Express, Uber and Sea-Doo. | aerospace |
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Today, we focus on the pilot flight suit worn by those who fly high-altitude aircraft like the venerable ER-2. The ER-2 is the civilian version of the military’s U-2 spy plane, a sixty-year-old aircraft design that has a reputation for being a handful to fly. NASA, of course, doesn’t spy. Instead, the ER-2 flies at the edge of space, roughly 70,000 feet above the Earth, to, according to NASA’s website, “scan shorelines, measure water levels, help fight forest fires, profile the atmosphere, assess flood damage, and sample the stratosphere.” But just because it’s being used for science doesn’t make the ER-2 any easier to fly. Last year while visiting Dryden, Doug heard test pilot Nils Larson say of the aircraft, “If you’re having a bad day and the U-2’s having a bad day, it can be a BAD DAY.”
At that altitude and with a partially pressurized cockpit, the pilot needs to wear a suit that is, according to NASA’s Josh Graham, 80% the same as the orange launch-and-reentry suits worn by space shuttle astronauts. The differences between these flight suits and spacesuits lie mainly in the neck area and oxygen system. If the ER-2 pilot didn’t have such a suit, the lack of pressure at 65,000 feet would cause his blood to boil. Looking at the flight suit he brought for demonstration, Graham said, “This is somebody’s father. They need to come home.”
Each pilot is issued two of these suits, at a cost of $300,000 apiece, along with one helmet, which adds another $100,000 to the price of the outfit. The suit itself weighs thirty-five pounds and comes in thirteen standard sizes, though Graham pointed to a pilot standing behind us and said that he gets a special suit because he’s especially tall.
All the current suits—NASA’s flight suits and spacesuits—are handmade by the David Clark Company in Massachusetts. Each suit takes six to eight months to complete. The suit works in layers. The layer we see is yellow, but Graham unhitched the helmet and peeled back the outer layer so that we could view the layer of mesh, hand-woven hundred-pound fishing line. These outfits are designed to hold up with a tear as long as three inches or with a quarter-sized hole.
The David Clark Company also made the Gemini spacesuits, which were used for extravehicular activity in which, according to Michael Collins in Carrying the Fire, “oxygen came from the spacecraft via an umbilical, and then went through a chest pack.” Apollo spacesuits were made by the International Latex Corporation, or ILC, and had an “oxygen supply from a back pack.” Of ILC’s work, which applies to David Clark’s work as well, the book Spacesuit says the following: “similar to sewing a bra or girdle,” “unprecedented precision,” “highly regulated,” “elaborate process,” and “the delicate art of their collective synthesis.”
Collins played a crucial role with the Apollo suits: “My job was to monitor the development of all this equipment, to make sure that it was coming along all right, that it was going to be safe and practical to use, and that it would please the other guys in the astronaut office.” Though NASA’s ER-2 flight suits are already well developed, Joshua Graham does this sort of overseeing for aircraft operations, making sure each suit is ready to go.
One of the facets of NASA’s social media program that we enjoy is the opportunity to rub shoulders with other aviation and space nerds. While visiting the Space Coast to participate in a Tweetup and watch the GRAIL twins launch in 2011, Doug met the granddaughter of a woman who had worked as part of the team that assembled the Apollo spacesuits.
As we were examining the flight suit up close last week, Graham pointed out the small whiffle ball attached to a tether on the front of the get-up. When the flight suit initially inflates, it poofs up. This raises the helmet so that the pilot can’t see. He feels around the front of his suit to find the plastic ball, which he pulls down. This simple action readjusts the neck of the suit and helmet, and he’s ready to zoom.
Some of the flights are long, and no one wants a hungry, woozy pilot. But the pilot can’t take off his helmet to grab a bite to eat. Instead, his helmet has a feeding hole, and food—the sample we saw was caffeinated chocolate pudding (which sounds very useful)—is packed in tubes with stiff straws attached. The pilot can jab the straw into the hole in his helmet and suck the snack down.
Other human needs are also likely to occur on long flights, so the suit is also designed with a device like a condom connected to a tube, which the pilot wears so that he can relieve himself at any time. Graham didn’t discuss what the women pilots do, and earlier in the day, a NASA representative indicated that NASA currently had no women test pilots. What we didn’t know was that pilots must carefully control what Graham referred to as “number two.” If a pilot feels the need to defecate during a mission, he must declare an inflight emergency and return home as fast as he safely can. NASA doesn’t want to encourage a poop that costs $300,000.
Toward the end of our time in this section of the tour of the hangar at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility (DAOF, or day off), Doug asked Graham about the clunky spurs on the back of the suit’s boots. Graham responded that this aircraft is the only one that still uses hooks and cables in its ejection seat. The spurs hook to cables to pull his feet to the seat and keep his limbs from flailing during ejection. Then, at 14,000-16,000 feet, the pilot can cut the cable and parachute down safely.
The planes are cool. The ER-2 is fascinating because it flies incredibly high. The science is important. The ER-2 and its predecessor have been collecting data since the early 1970s, sampling the stratosphere and mapping large forest fires. Last week’s flight suit demonstration reminded us that the people are crucial to NASA’s Airborne Science Program.
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A clear and consistent message was delivered at both the #DrydenSocial and last fall’s GRAIL Tweetup: NASA wants to use social media to help spread the word of its achievements. To that end, NASA trots out its best and brightest to address event attendees and then mixes in the kind of moments that only NASA can deliver.
To that end, the morning session of the May 4th NASA Social event at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) offered a broad overview of Dryden’s historical and continuing role in aeronautics research. David McBride, Center Director for DFRC and Christian Gelzer, Chief Historian, provided a wealth of contextual information in the day’s first two talks.
The wonderful Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and whose book, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier, Anna has just finished reading, has been making some interesting comparisons regarding NASA’s budget of late. According to Tyson (watch the video HERE), the $850 billion spent on TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, is greater than NASA’s budget for the fifty-plus years that NASA has been in existence.
In no particular order, here are some the achievements that NASA’s budget has funded in that five-decade span:
• the Hubble Space Telescope and its associated increase in our understanding of the universe;
• a significant portion of the International Space Station (ISS);
• the Space Transportation System (the shuttle) that carried Hubble and the ISS’s pieces into orbit;
• deep space probes such as the Voyagers, planetary landers and rovers such as Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity;
• myriad Earth-orbiting satellites that have taught us much about our planet’s weather, composition, and history;
• and of course, the Apollo program and the astronauts who landed on the moon.
Note that all of these scientific and engineering achievements have something to do with space. Space is sexy, space gets people’s attention.
That said, the first A in NASA is for Aeronautics. In recent years, aeronautics has been a remarkably small piece of NASA’s little pie. In his introduction to the NASA Social #DrydenSocial attendees, David McBride, Dryden’s Director, pointed out that aeronautics research receives about 2.5% of NASA’s roughly $18 billion dollar budget in any given year. Those monies go towards funding the four dedicated NASA Aeronautics Research Centers: Langley, Glenn, Ames, and Dryden. At the end of that quickly narrowing financial funnel, Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) receives less than 1% of NASA’s budget.
It turns out, however, that the first A in NASA is a really important part of the United States’ overall economic picture. McBride indicated that the manufacture of aircraft and its associated industries were the single greatest positive contributor to the U.S. balance of trade. NASA’s own web pages put the scope of aviation’s influence in the U.S. economy as follows:
“Aviation generates more than $400 billion in direct economic activity, supports more than 650,000 jobs and accommodates more than 600 million passengers every year in the United States.”
At last fall’s GRAIL Tweetup, Charlie Bolden also addressed the importance of aeronautics, when he said that he would like a part of his legacy as NASA Administrator to include leaving funding for aeronautics research on a “upward trend” in order to return NASA to its traditional status as the “premier aeronautics research organization in the world.”
The technical talks at #DrydenSocial started with engineer Ed Haering, who is a superstar in the world of supersonic booms. Haering’s presentation covered work that has been done at DFRC to mitigate—sshhh!—supersonic booms. Because commercial aircraft are prohibited from flying over land at supersonic speeds (this was a huge problem for Concorde), this research is imperative if we’re ever to see another supersonic transport aircraft. The Lofty duo actually had the opportunity to see some of Ed’s work up close and personal when we visited Valiant Air Command in Titusville, Florida. Valiant is the home of the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) aircraft, a test aircraft on which Haering worked at Dryden. As its name suggest, the SSBD successfully demonstrated that a sonic boom could be shaped to reduce its impact, and by impact, we mean noise.
On the heels of Haering’s talk was an opportunity head outside and experience a sonic boom firsthand. Shortly after the #DrydenSocial attendees were led outside for a photograph beneath the wings of the X-1E, an F-18 flew overhead accompanied by the telltale crack of a sonic boom. Moments after that, the same F-18 treated us to a loud-and-low flyby.
In a day of artifacts and factoids, one that would have made a great impression on Anna, had she been there too, concerned the front of Dryden’s administration building. As we gathered around the X-1E, one of the handlers assigned to our group related that the front of the administration building had stood in for the NASA’s offices in I Dream of Jeannie. (If you want to read more about I Dream of Jeannie, click HERE.)
For Doug, though, the artifact that made the greatest impression was the insect-like Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV, in the photo above) which was located in a nearby hangar. The M2-F2 lifting body, used to validate the design of the space shuttles and located in the same storage space as the LLRV was a close second.
GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest (Part 10), Next Stop: The Moon! December 31, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Science, Space Exploration.
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In September, Doug spent five days on the Space Coast participating the NASA Tweetup for GRAIL, the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory. We covered this launch extensively (HERE is the link for all GRAIL-tagged posts, or click on the GRAIL title in the tag cloud in the sidebar).
Suffice it to say, as with attending most rocket launches, schedules don’t really mean much. Launch windows are set, but if everything doesn’t line up in those seconds, there’s usually the next day. After two delays, the Delta-II rocket launched on Saturday, September 10. Doug was there to capture some amazing images (see the launch photos HERE).
Today, that mission enters a new phase. At 1:21 PST, the first of the GRAIL twins, GRAIL-A (the mission requires two mirror-twin satellites, A and B) begins a 40-minute lunar orbit insertion burn that will leave the 440 lb satellite in an elliptical orbit over the lunar surface. Think surfboard shaped, with your back foot as the Moon and the satellite tracing the shape of the board. The back of the board, or the lowest point in the orbit is known as perigee, and the front of the board, or highest point in the orbit is known as apogee. (We really have gone all SoCal.)
GRAIL-B will start its 39-minute lunar orbit insertion burn tomorrow at 2:05 PST. Over the next several weeks, each satellite will undergo twenty separate corrections to leave them in the circular orbit (34 miles high, or roughly the distance from Naperville to Chicago) necessary for the science phase, which begins in March. At that time, the spacecraft will map the Moon’s gravitational gradient. During the science phase, the separation between the two craft will vary from 62 to 140 miles.
Considering the investment, both in the number of decades and the dollars (and rubles, euros, yen, yuan, and rupees—Russia alone has sent twenty missions to the Moon), that we have made in understanding our planet’s lone natural satellite, we still have shocking gaps in our knowledge about our nearest neighbor in the heavens. Fundamental questions such as why the light and dark sides of the moon are so completely different (the dark isn’t just dark because sunlight doesn’t reach it, but is actually made of different materials than the light side) remain only partially answered at best. If all goes well for the GRAIL twins, in the very near future we will begin to address a host of questions regarding the Moon. GRAIL principal investigator Maria Zuber estimates that the science mission of GRAIL will increase our knowledge about the Moon’s light side by a hundred times and the dark side by a thousand times. (If you read our earlier post this week HERE, you know this means we will be increasing our knowledge about the light side by two orders of magnitude and the dark by three).
Doug’s trip to the GRAIL NASATweetup was just one of our four (yes, four!) separate trips to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the Space Coast in 2011. Reflecting on those trips reminds us what a remarkable year this was for us. It also points out the futility of attempting to predict the future. A year ago today, we certainly were kicking around the idea of heading back to the Space Coast to catch one of the final space shuttle launches, but we knew we’d miss the February launch of Discovery because of our work schedules so we weren’t sure what our opportunities might be. We knew we had to go back, and we remain grateful that Chapman University recognized what the subsequent trips might mean for us.
As we conclude 2011, we wish all our readers and followers a happy new year. Look up at the Moon tonight—you won’t be the only one peering at it—and imagine a great year opening before all of us.
Writing Apart, Writing Together October 19, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Collaboration, Space Exploration, Writing.
Tags: Computers, GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest, GRAILTweetup
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Recently, we wrote about the relationship between our collaborative writing projects (writing together) and our individual writing projects (writing apart) as well as what happens when we have written together while being physically apart. You can read “Writing Together, Writing Apart” HERE.
We’re learning some lessons as we make our way into our second year of blogging, lessons that apply to the other big projects we write together and especially separately. One thing we’ve come to recognize is the importance of daily writing, or at least putting a hand on the project every day. On the busiest days, that may mean merely sharing a link to Lofty Ambitions on Facebook, grasping for the least little connection to a daily practice.
Part of what explains why we’ve been able to write this blog is that we committed to a regular weekly schedule that established habits to support that schedule. At first, that meant a collaborative post every Wednesday. Then, we started doing occasional additional posts, usually when the news or an event anniversary triggered an idea. Later, we added guest bogs and, more recently, video interviews. The regularity and the schedule’s predictability keep our minds on the project. We discuss the blog when we take an evening walk, we pitch and outline new topics over beers at a local watering hole, and we dissect previous posts, especially our series posts, looking for something important we might have missed or something worth expanding. Our blog writing is on our minds every day, and we’re planning, drafting, or revising more days than not.
This summer posed particular problems for our regular pace and the way we like to collaborate. Anna was away at Sewanee Writers’ Conference for two weeks, then Doug traveled to the Space Coast for almost a week to see the GRAIL launch. No evening walks, no brainstorming together over beers. Particularly disconcerting was the time change, so that when we talked on the phone, we each were in a different part of the day. When Anna called home before bed from Sewanee, Doug was heading out for a run. When Doug called home from Titusville after drafting a post, Anna was eating dinner. Not only did writing apart mean we were physically separated, but also that our mindsets were not synced up in the day’s arc.
All our previous trips to the Space Coast had been together. This time, Doug had been chosen for the official GRAIL Tweetup, and Anna couldn’t miss the second week of the semester. This Florida trip was different than merely writing while apart, as we’d done when Anna was at Sewanee. At the Space Coast, we’d already established routines together. We had shared memories there. We’d used our four trips to Florida to learn how to be better collaborators, to be in sync and productive. But this time, we had to write together on a specific, unfolding topic far from each other: the GRAIL launch.
Before Doug left, we had outlined a plan for our series, “GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest,” but that outline changed daily as news developed and we thought of additional content. The outline made us feel better and served as a necessary safety net, but the end result doesn’t match the initial plan for the series.
Doug had to gather the bulk of the content by himself for several posts. Anna had to trust that a post would show up for her to revise and that she wouldn’t have questions about what something meant. Doug had to trust that whatever he sent would be revised and posted while he slept. We gritted our teeth and believed that it would all make sense in the end, and we’re pretty sure it did.
While Doug was attending the GRAIL launch by himself, it wasn’t as if he was working alone. Doug relied on range of social media tools (after all, he was attending a Tweetup) in a greater capacity than ever before, so he drew from a virtual community. For our previous trips to the Space Coast, we attended the shuttle launches as members of the media, and we relied heavily on face-to-face interactions with our colleagues in the News Center and Annex. Although many members of the press are also social media mavens, some are still catching up or even ignoring social media technologies (in one memorable exchange, Doug tutored a press corps member on the relationship between Twitter, Tweetups, and NASA’s social media strategy). Given the nature of a NASA Tweetup, with its 150 actual attendees and hundreds of other interested observers tweeting about the GRAIL launch and related activities, Doug was able to stay current with Space Coast information and events. And we were able to keep up with each other day to day, each of us leaving virtual crumbs for the other to follow.
Doug’s GRAIL work also was heavily influenced by our new iPad. Our previous divide-and-conquer methodology gave us the flexibility to send one of us out to an event or to sniff out news tidbits while the other stayed with the laptops and continued working. We finally took the plunge on iPad for this go-it-alone trip, and it worked well. Now we find ourselves using the iPad for research and writing every day. The iPad isn’t a substitute for our paper notebooks or our Mac laptops, but it makes it easier to keep our hands on our writing projects every day. A daily writing practice is difficult to maintain, so if a device makes it feel a bit easier or a bit closer to one’s fingertips, that’s good.
Mostly importantly, though, Doug’s work habits were shaped by years of being a researcher and a student: show up, pay attention, and take damned good notes. That’s really what a daily writing practice means: show up, stay focused, and get some words on the page.
Since Doug’s return from the Space Coast, we’ve returned to our more usual patterns for writing the blog. We’ve learned, though, that one of us can sometimes take the lead and run with an idea without brainstorming together first. This method offers a certain kind of collaboration and conversation, but we don’t want to take turns post by post. We don’t want to take a break or lose momentum. We don’t write any blog posts completely separately, in part because we have our own individual projects outside of the blog for writing separately (we’ll write more soon about working on our individual projects). But it’s good to know we could take turns in a pinch.
Our blogger habits—talking things through with each other, sharing outlines and drafts, writing very much together through the process—keep the blog on our minds day to day and make this large, ongoing project easier. That’s a lesson for our individual projects as well. Habits of daily attention make large projects easier.
Interview: Jeffrey Rudolph October 10, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Science, Space Exploration, Video Interviews.
Tags: GRAILTweetup, I Remember California, Museums & Archives, Serendipity, Space Shuttle
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Bright and early tomorrow morning, we’ll face L.A.-area traffic to make our way to the California Science Center, the future home of space shuttle Endeavour. At a ceremony on October 11, 2011, the title for the orbiter will be turned over to the science museum.
Only four orbiters exist, and only three of those flew actual missions in space. On April 12, 2011, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden announced that one of those workhorses would return to the place it was built, Southern California. By the time we traveled to the Space Coast to see Endeavour’s not-launch and then launch, we knew that orbiter would end up in our back yard.
Who knows when the space shuttle will actually get here? The space isn’t ready yet, and Endeavour will need to travel farther than any of the others to its museum home. But the title transfer is an important step, and we want to be there. If all goes well, we’ll share the rundown in our regular Wednesday post. You can also click HERE (launch photos) and HERE (our tour with Stephanie Stilson) for our previous up-close-and-personal looks at Endeavour.
We already know that astronaut Mark Kelly is among five STS-134 astronauts (for our STS-134 crew overview, click HERE) expected to be present at Tuesday’s title transfer. Mark Kelly, the commander of Endeavour’s last mission, retired from NASA on October 1. His retirement ceremony was held last Thursday in Washington, DC, where Representative Gabrielle Giffords (Kelly’s wife) and Vice President Joe Biden joined the celebration. We’ve written about Mark Kelly before (click HERE and HERE).
Of course, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, an official from NASA, and the head of the California Science Center will be part of the ceremony too. Oddly, STS-134 crew member Greg Chamitoff isn’t listed in the press information about the event, even though he has family in Southern California. In fact, he’s said before that some rides at Disneyland are rougher than a space shuttle launch. Maybe Chamitoff is still in Australia as a guest of the University of Sydney (click HERE to see his lecture there about STS-134).
When we were at Kennedy Space Center this past spring, we interviewed Jeffrey Rudolph, President and CEO of the California Science Center, about Endeavour’s future homecoming. In a bit of serendipity, one of the qualities of the universe that we most value, Doug had a chance to interview Kimberly Guodace during the GRAIL Tweetup. In some amiable chit-chat after that interview, Doug mentioned that we had written a series about Endeavour and STS-134 and that, as a part of that series, we had videorecorded an interview with Jeffrey Rudolph. Kim, who became a Lofty Ambitions guest blogger (click HERE for that post), chimed in that she had guided Jeffrey Rudolph through his tour of Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center. Coincidence? Absolutely, and not at all. We share that video interview of Rudolph today as part of our ongoing interview series on the second and fourth Mondays of every month.
GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest (Part 9) September 21, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Science, Space Exploration.
Tags: GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest, GRAILTweetup, Museums & Archives, Nuclear Weapons
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“We organize information on maps in order to see our knowledge in a new way. As a result, maps suggest explanations; and while explanations reassure us, they also inspire us to ask more questions, consider other possibilities.” – Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi
Less than two weeks ago, NASA was launching GRAIL toward the Moon for its mapping mission. This Friday, just two days from now, a NASA weather satellite is expected to come hurling down through Earth’s atmosphere. All this has us thinking about what’s up there circling here and there without us taking much notice.
When Doug first applied to be a part of the NASA Tweetup for the GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) mission, we didn’t know all that much about the science objectives for GRAIL. We thought it would be another opportunity to hang out with like-minded space nerds on the Space Coast. We knew our experience of watching the last two shuttle launches couldn’t be repeated, but a rocket launch would continue to amaze us. Very quickly, we learned more about the GRAIL mission and were delighted to see that it aligned with some long-standing interests that had little to do with the rocket.
Much science proceeds by increments. An experiment confirms a theory, and that hard-won information spawns new questions, new ideas to investigate. The researchers carry out this work, passing down data and lore through laboratory lineages.
The Dean of Leatherby Libraries, Doug’s boss, was a Map Librarian earlier in her career. Not long ago, Doug earned a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from CalState-Fullerton, a move the library thought might prove useful. Even earlier, during his Ph.D., Doug had worked on a GIS-like system, a software tool that converts data into a map-based, or geographical, representation. You can’t study maps, map-making, and GIS for very long before you run into concepts like coordinate systems, GPS, and geodetics (sometimes also referred to as geodesy).
As a scientific endeavor, geodetics concerns itself with measuring our Earth. The science has moved well past its historical priority of trying to determine our planet’s diameter and shape. In 2002, GRAIL’s predecessor as a scientific tool, GRACE, opened new directions in Earth Science by producing the most accurate map of the Earth’s gravitational field ever created. One direct outcome of GRACE’s gravitational map is a much better understanding of how the earth’s ice caps and oceans respond to the gravitational field. In turn, this understanding will allow other earth scientists, in particular oceanographers and environmental scientists, to develop more accurate models of the earth’s hydrological cycle. In the same fashion, the gravity map that is created based on the data to be obtained by GRAIL about the Moon will be used to determine structural information about that orbiting mass, information such as what kind of core the moon possesses, whether it is solid or molten.
In one of those lovely coincidences that turn up time and again since starting Lofty Ambitions, the first geodetic satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 17 (LC 17), the same site from which Doug saw GRAIL launch almost two weeks ago. Even better, that first geodetic satellite was named Anna.
ANNA arose as a collaboration between the nation’s military and its civilian aerospace agency. In fact, the name derives from the initials of involved groups: Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force. As you can imagine, there’s some debate about the positioning of each group’s name in the palindrome acronym, but that’s the order that the New York Times reported on November 1, 1962, the day after its launch.
Like GRAIL, ANNA was in fact two satellites, ANNA 1-A and ANNA 1-B. ANNA 1-A was launched on May 10, 1962, but failed to reach orbit after its second stage didn’t fire. ANNA 1-B was successfully launched on Halloween of 1962, after being delayed by the Cuban missile crisis because of Cape Canaveral’s proximity to Cuba. Again, like GRAIL, ANNA was launched on a member of the Delta family of rockets, Thor. In many ways, GRAIL and ANNA serve as bookends for LC 17. Although ANNA wasn’t the first Delta-powered science satellite launched from LC 17, it was one of the first. GRAIL was the last. There will be no more Delta launches from LC 17. That launch pad is being taken out of service.
ANNA’s primary science tool was a series of four enormously powerful strobe lights (8M candlepower) arrayed on its spherical body. The lights flashed in a prescribed sequence in response to radio signals broadcast from Earth-side stations. Photographs taken of the flashes from known positions on the earth against a background of known stars allowed scientists to determine the location of new positions via triangulation.
John Finney’s 1962 New York Times article indicates that the ANNA mission was the focus of a controversy over the desires of civilian scientists to make the mission data public and the military’s requirement for secrecy: “At one point, the military established secrecy for the project on the ground that the geodetic information provided by the satellite on intercontinental distances would permit more accurate aiming of Soviet ballistic missiles.” Later, it was decided that Soviet nuclear warheads of the era were already powerful enough that the improvements made in targeting via the new geodetic data probably wouldn’t make much difference.
During the Cold War, accurately measuring distances over the skin of the earth was a significant military endeavor. We first came into contact with this project last year at an exhibit called “Mapping the Earth During the Cold War” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. We were struck by the notion of scientists whose aim was to measure the Earth’s distances—its shape, it gravity, the distance relationship of places—all in an effort to make better targeting algorithms for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. These scientists were, in effect, getting to know the Earth deeply in order that they could destroy it.
ANNA is still up there, endlessly orbiting the Earth, though she no longer flashes in acknowledgement of a received message.
To see the news story about ANNA’s launch, click HERE.
Guest Blog: Kimberly Guodace September 19, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Guest Blogs, Space Exploration.
Tags: GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest, GRAILTweetup, Space Shuttle
Doug met today’s guest blogger during his trip to the Space Coast for “GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest.” We featured her in Part 7 of our ongoing series about GRAIL (see that HERE) because we were captivated by her knowledge of the space shuttle program and her commitment, from childhood, to space exploration. But we also wanted Kim to talk about her life and career in her own words, an example of the ways we heard many space shuttle workers talk about their jobs even as they faced layoffs.
THE DREAMS THAT YOU DARE TO DREAM
Growing up as a child in Philadelphia, there was little talk of the space program. But for a young girl who saw the first launch of the Space Shuttle on the local news on April 12, 1981, I knew what I wanted to do with my life. Working on the space shuttle became my goal. Over the next fifteen years, everything I did was geared toward becoming an engineer and working at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). From the time I was eight years old, I knew that working on the shuttle would require a strong math and science background. With the encouragement of my teachers throughout grade school and high school, as well as putting my own mind to it, I obtained the confidence to know that I would one day succeed in my childhood goal of working on the space shuttle.
After graduating high school, I moved to Florida to attend Florida Institute of Technology, a school founded in 1958 for the engineers at KSC to obtain their master’s degrees. I knew this was the school for me. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and began my career at KSC the following year as an Avionics/Orbiter Electrical Engineer.
During my time at KSC, I became a Fuel Cell Engineer, working on the shuttle fuel cell and potable/waste water systems. In 2004, I transitioned to Launch Site Integration Engineer for Endeavour, working as a liaison between Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers to disseminate technical issues between the Systems Specialists and NASA Management. During my fifteen-year career at KSC, I was living my dream.
Today, we live in a world full of smart phones, social media, and video games. Flying humans into space became seemingly routine to the general public. It is anything but routine, as we saw with Challenger and Columbia. The engineers, scientists, and technicians who work on the shuttles have always been dedicated to flying men and women into space safely. It takes dedication and love of the job to work on the shuttles, making the shuttle workers a community, even akin to a family.
Working on the shuttle had its ups and downs, as with anything in life. When I was thirteen and Challenger exploded, I told my mom that if it was ever up to me, that would never, ever happen again. When I was twenty-three, I started my career working on the shuttle ,and, in 2003, an accident did happen again: we lost Columbia. For three-and-a-half weeks in Corsicana, I trudged through the fields, swamps, and forests of Eastern Texas searching for pieces of my beloved Columbia. To see the thousands of people from around the country who helped us bring our family (the astronauts who perished) and our baby (Columbia) home was an experience I will treasure for the rest of my life.
Of course, there were the triumphs too. During my career, there were 54 successful launches of the space shuttle, successes in which I had a part (no matter how small or large). I met the most wonderful people in the world, who remain my family. I was able to travel to California (to support landings) and to Texas (to support missions) and so much more. As the Orbiter Element Vehicle Engineer, I was given the honor of presenting at final Flight Readiness Review for Endeavour (an honor that was given previously only to the Vehicle Manager).
With the shuttle program complete, the United States has no way to fly human into space other than to rely on our Russian partners. That being said, commercial corporations have been tasked to create the next-generation launch system. Today’s younger generation will design, build, test, and fly these new space transportation vehicles. They are the ones who now look up to the sky and dream of working on the future of spaceflight in this country, just as I did when I was a child.
My career with the United States Space Shuttle Program has been a dream come true and even more. I am honored every day to say that I was part of the greatest program in the world and to have worked with the greatest people in the world. I look forward to working with whatever the United States has planned for us to get our men and women flying again in space.
GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest (Part 8) September 14, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Space Exploration.
Tags: GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest, GRAILTweetup, Museums & Archives, Nuclear Weapons, Space Shuttle
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As part of the GRAIL Tweetup activities, Doug, armed with our trusty digital camera, toured Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where United Space Alliance launches the Atlas V, the descendent of the earlier versions of Atlas rockets of the 1960s. Before the Atlas V came along, Titan rockets, with payloads like the Viking probes to Mars and the Voyager probes off to even farther away, burst into the air from this complex. Even before that, the first launch at LC-41 was in late 1965. But the complex has long since been overhauled to accommodate this century’s bigger Atlas V rocket launch needs.
In addition to the launch pad itself at LC-41, the complex includes numerous buildings. The Vertical Integration Building (VIF), which stands 292 feet tall, was completed in 2000 and serves as the site where Atlas V rockets can be stacked on the Mobile Launch Platform with a huge crane. Recent practice, as also demonstrated by Launch Complex 39 used by the space shuttle program, allows for one rocket to be on the pad ready for launch while another is in the VIF getting ready for the big dance. This process, instead of assembling the whole contraption on the pad, allows launches to occur more often.
The Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC) brings together various operations that had previously been spread around in different facilities. Sitting just over four miles from the launch pad, the control center manages the countdown. This building can also house rocket stages for storage or testing. Multiple rockets can be processed there simultaneously, thereby allowing for efficient scheduling of launches.
Atlas rockets have a rich history. Originally designed to carry nuclear warheads, the Atlas was adapted for manned spaceflight. On November 29, 1961, Enos, a chimpanzee, rode into space on mission Mercury-Atlas 5. The first four American astronauts to orbit Earth—John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, and Gordo Cooper—lifted off atop Atlas rockets.
Something that we enjoy about being on the Space Coast is the palpable sense of history even as we feel thoroughly in the now that surrounds a launch date. It’s one thing to watch a space shuttle launch. It’s another thing to walk where the country’s first space travelers strode and flew into the sky. Each might be merely small anecdotes, but they are not snippets of history without connections to each other and to us. Instead, in part because the physical places of assembly buildings and launch pads is there to be seen and felt, these experiences are all part of the same larger story. Some artifacts on the Cape exist on display, but many of the artifacts, some of which have been transformed, remain in use. Below, we include two videos (not our own), one of Mercury-Atlas 6, launched from LC-41 on February 20, 1962, and the other of GRAIL, launched on September 10 of this year.
GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest (Part 7) September 11, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Space Exploration.
Tags: GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest, GRAILTweetup, Museums & Archives, Space Shuttle
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We’ve said it before (like HERE and HERE), and we’ll say it here again: Science writing isn’t only about the experiments and technology. It’s about the story and the people. The people we’ve met during our travels to the Space Coast have been amazing. Our latest geek connection is with Kimberly Guodace, a shuttle vehicle engineer until recently.
As part of the massive layoffs that mark the end of the space shuttle program, Kimberly Guodace was let go from her job at United Space Alliance just 9 weeks short of completing 15 years of work for NASA. In the current economy, nightly news reports and daily articles reveal the bitterness (with good reason) of the laid-off and the jobless. Somewhere on the Space Coast, we’re sure that there are some angry and disenchanted space workers. But after weeks of on-the-record interviews and informal chats with laid-off shuttle veterans, what we have found is optimism and pride at having worked on a program of national significance, people who fervidly believe in America’s future in space, whether it’s carried out by commercial companies like SpaceX or NASA.
Fifteen years ago, Kimberly Guodace began her career as an engineer working on the shuttle’s electrical systems and control panels. She spent half her time then near or in the orbiters. After that, she moved to fuel cells and potable water systems, including the shuttle’s potty. Her more recent responsibilities, which emerged from her years of intimate engineering knowledge of the orbiters, included serving as a go-between or translator between engineers and administrators. She beamed when telling our busload of Tweeple about helping to oversee the installation of two miles of wire in Endeavour—or 105, as the engineers refer to their orbiters by their number designation—for its wireless video system. This past year, knowing that shuttle was coming to a close, she did her best to be near or in Endeavour’s bay every single workday.
One time, NASA needed “suited subjects” for a flight safety test. Kim donned an orange Launch Entry Suit that astronauts wear. Her six-hour participation in the test ended with an emergency exit procedure during which the fire suppression system was on, dousing her with water and adding an additional twenty or thirty pounds to the suit. An exhausting experience she’d not want to trade.
Years earlier, on April 12, 1981, when she was just eight years old, Kim recalls that the first space shuttle launch, STS-1, was the third story on the local Philadelphia (her home town) news: “I said to my mom, that’s what I want to do when I grow up.” A few years later, when she watched the news about the Challenger accident, she said, “If it’s up to me, that’ll never ever happen again.”
Of course, an accident did happen again. In 2003, Columbia disintegrated as it reentered Earth’s atmosphere. By then, Kimberly Guodace was part of the space shuttle program. She did 5-½ weeks of recovery work, looking for debris of Columbia near Corsicana, Texas.
Kimberly Guodace has sat in the pilot and copilot seat on every orbiter except Challenger. We’ve heard astronauts say that the orbiters are flawless and like new, and Guodace agrees, “They are pristine.” She points out that they each have their nicks and scrapes, but she says, if she were sitting on the wing, “I would eat off of them.”
Our video interviews with shuttle astronauts also indicate that there’s disagreement as to whether all the orbiters are exactly the same or whether they are each distinct. To Kim, “Columbia was like parent. She was aged.” Discovery, she describes as an older sister and, as do many at NASA, as a workhorse. Kim says that Atlantis was the quiet child in the brood and didn’t get into much trouble.
Endeavour, Kimberly Guodace says, is “my baby.” OV-105 is the orbiter with which Kim spent the most time, in which she had fun just being in the bay. In response to a question about what mementos of the space shuttle program she and her co-workers kept, she said they took no secret keepsakes. Stealing government property like that would be a felony so she doubts any employees swiped mementos. Instead, she claims her memories. And at her NASA crewmates’ request, she shot more than 5000 photographs of Endeavour last year to document 105’s final flow.
Surely, Kim is not thrilled to have lost the job that she began preparing for at eight years of age, but since her layoff, she’s become a NASA docent. She showed up on Saturday morning (after getting up at 2:00a.m.) to serve as a guide for the NASA Tweetup participants on what was indeed launch day for GRAIL. That’s how Doug met her and heard about her lifelong dream of working on the shuttle. Evan after being let go from her job, even as the orbiters are being prepared to become museum artifacts, Kimberly Guodace is still at it.
After a decade-and-a-half career on the frontlines of space systems engineering and an education that includes a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, two M.S. degrees in areas related to space systems, and beginning a Ph.D. in Space Physics, she’s ready to shift gears. She’s making plans to transition to Public Relations, in part to engage with the public on the importance of science and engineering education.
Another tweep on the Tweetup bus asked Kim, what’s next? Kim answered that she gets this question quite a bit, and her answer is to shrug her shoulders. She doesn’t know what the future of United States human spaceflight will be. That said, she has made her own plan for the future: to visit each of the remaining orbiters in their museum homes every year. She says, “Not going to let my babies go.”
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GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest (LAUNCH PHOTOS!) September 10, 2011Posted by Lofty Ambitions in Space Exploration.
Tags: Biology, GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest, GRAILTweetup
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This morning, GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) launched aboard a Delta II Heavy rocket at 9:08:52a.m. Doug stood across the water from Launch Pad 17B of Cape Canaveral Air Force Base. Here are our photographs to prove it!
TO READ the previous segments in this series, “GRAIL: Another Lofty Quest,” click on the following links: | aerospace |
http://www.ashdale-consulting.com/news/ryanair-passengers-brace-for-new-bag-rules/ | 2019-03-22T19:15:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202688.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190322180106-20190322202106-00534.warc.gz | 0.937022 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__58499803 | en | Ryanair passengers brace for new bag rules
Only those paying £6/€6 for priority boarding will be able to take a small suitcase of up to 10kg in the cabin.
That option is cheaper than the £8/€8 charge to check in a 10kg bag.
Ryanair says the changes – the second this year – are intended to reduce flight delays.
The problem faced by the Irish carrier – along with many other airlines – is the lack of overhead locker space on the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320 aircraft used for short-haul routes.
Gerald Khoo, an analyst at Liberum, says Ryanair planes have room for about 90 “wheelie” suitcases, considerably fewer than the 189 passengers it can hold.
As the airline’s flights are on average 95% full, there clearly isn’t enough space for everyone’s luggage.
“They are effectively rationing scarce capacity and saying if you want that space in the cabin, then you have to pay for it,” Mr Khoo says. | aerospace |
https://www.jss.jaxa.jp/en/h3/ | 2023-03-30T04:44:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949097.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330035241-20230330065241-00452.warc.gz | 0.931882 | 738 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__281158307 | en | H3 Launch Vehicle
Aeroacoustic Simulation of H3 Launch Vehicle at Lift-off
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is applied to analyze generation and propagation of acoustic wave generated from Japanese new flagship launch vehicle, H3, at lift-off. Exhaust jets of clustered liquid rocket engines and solid boosters are visualized by volume rendering of the temperature field. Acoustic field is shown by the pressure fluctuation, and it is found that the acoustic wave returns to the launch vehicle.
Large-eddy Simulation of Lift-off Plume Acoustics Using High-order Unstructured Flux-reconstruction Method
In order to quantitatively predict the acoustic environment at launch vehicle lift-off, it is necessary to accurately simulate the turbulent flow and the acoustic field around the complex geometry of the launch facility. To satisfy the requirement, we have developed a novel high-order unstructured grid solver based on the flux-reconstruction (FR) method, which has flexibility to complex geometries and superior resolution for multi-scale vortices and broad-band sound waves.
Aiming for understanding the effect of different engine configurations on the lift-off acoustics for the H3 launch vehicle, we conducted large-eddy simulation of the exhaust jet from the clustered first-stage engines and its interaction with the launch pad.
The clustered three-nozzles case is presented here. To predict the maximum acoustic load at lift-off, elevation of the launch vehicle was changed by making use of the overset-grid technique without re-meshing the entire computational domain. Since the data transfer between the grids is minimal (only the face values are needed for the FR method instead of multi-layer fringe points), the present approach is suitable for scalable parallel computation.
Movie of the numerical simulation of H3 Launch Vehicle launch pad
Arrangement of Rocket Engines on Jet Flow inside Launch Pad of H3 Launch Vehicle
Numerical study is conducted to clarify the effect of rocket engine arrangement on jet flow inside launch pad for Japanese H3 launch vehicle. First stage of the H3 launch vehicle consists in liquid-propellant engines at the center, and solid boosters.
In the configuration having three liquid-propellant engines, it is revealed that the hot jet blows up to the upstream of the flame duct due to the interaction between jet flows. It also turns out that the hot jet blows up if the solid boosters are located lateral direction and interfere the jet from the liquid-propellant engine. The arrangement of the engines should be carefully selected to redirect the hot jets to the downstream of the flame duct safely.
Configuration of Case1, Case2, and Case3 compares the arrangement of two solid boosters. They are located laterally in Case1, while they are set parallel to the flame duct direction. In Cas3, four solid boosters are installed in all the directions.
Jet flow from liquid and solid engines is shown by red-colored, and green-colored iso-surfaces at mass fraction=0.1.
In Case1, the jet flow from the liquid rocket engine interacts with the jet from the solid booster located laterally, and then, pushed back to upstream of the flame duct.
In Case2, the jet flow from the liquid and solid rocket engines goes downstream smoothly. It is found that the solid boosters should be installed so as not to interfere with the jet flow from the liquid engines at the center.
Result of Case3 indicates that jet flow from both of the engines goes downstream without any mutual interference.
More information about H3 Launch Vehicle | aerospace |
https://usaknows.com/2021/01/14/spacexs-dragon-cargo-ship-makes-first-atlantic-splashdown/ | 2021-01-20T17:13:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703521139.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20210120151257-20210120181257-00193.warc.gz | 0.918356 | 1,601 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__160013531 | en | The spaceship autonomously undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday, January 12 after a 36 day stay attached to the orbiting laboratory.
Among the experiments on the ship are a crate of Bordeaux wine, live mice, and 3D printed buds that could one-day produce human organs from stem cells.
This photo provided by NASA shows SpaceX’s Dragon undocking from International Space Station on Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Previous SpaceX dragon cargo missions finished with a parachute assisted splashdown in the Pacific, but this new version of the spaceship is designed to land closer to the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This is where the space agency processes scientific experiments carried out on board the ISS – so its splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
SpaceX Dragon is designed to be a reusable spacecraft that can safely deliver Equipment and cargo to the ISS as well as return science experiments back to Earth.
‘The upgraded cargo Dragon capsule used for this mission contains double the powered locker availability of previous capsules, allowing for a significant increase in the research that can be delivered back to scientists,’ NASA said.
‘Some scientists will get their research returned quickly, four to nine hours after splashdown.’
This is the first time science experiments from the space station have been able to return via Florida since the Space Shuttle stopped operating in 2011.
This image shows some of the cargo that was loaded onto the Dragon ship as it first headed to the ISS last year. It can hold more in cold storage than the original Dragon
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins poses next to storage in the SpaceX CRS-9 cargo Dragon spacecraft in 2016. The new cargo spacecraft has more powered locker space, enabling additional cold stowage space
To get back to the Earth, the experiments had to travel by capsule, helicopter, boat, plane, and car before making their way back to the researchers who designed them.
‘I am excited to finally see science returning here again because we can get these time sensitive experiments into the lab faster than ever,’ says Kennedy Space Center utilisation project manager Jennifer Wahlberg.
‘Sending science up to space and then receiving it again on the runway was definitely something in the shuttle days that we really took pride in, and being able to rejoin that process is great.’
As the spacecraft returns to Earth, the experiments start to experience the effects of gravity again, NASA explained in a blog post.
There is quite a process involved in getting the experiments from the floating capsule back to universities, companies, and other institutions.
NASA described the process, saying: ‘After a SpaceX boat scoops the capsule out of the water, a waiting team pulls time-critical science out of the spacecraft and loads it onto a waiting helicopter.
‘The helicopter will deliver this science to shore a few hours after splashdown. Any remaining scientific cargo will come back either in a second helicopter load or stay aboard the boat and be removed at the port.’
The helicopter will land the experiments at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), previously used for space shuttle return activities.
Then a team will move most of the cargo to the Kennedy Space Center Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) by truck, where science teams will be waiting.
‘We are going to have a parade of researchers ready at Kennedy Space Center waiting to receive samples,’ said Kennedy’s Research Integration Office utilisation flight lead Mary Walsh.
The spaceship left the international space station on Tuesday and after some delays finally made splashdown of the Gulf of Mexico in the Atlantic Ocean this morning
There is a lot involved in returning science experiments back to scientists, this includes shipping it via boat, helicopter and car
Traditionally used to prepare experiments for launch to space, the SSPF is home to world-class laboratories that provide the tools and workspace to immediately take data and analyse samples, the space agency explained.
‘The scientists will take a quick look to get initial results and then ship it back to their home bases,’ says Wahlberg.
‘The benefit of being able to observe the science earlier is the ability to negate any gravitational effects on the research after it has been in space.’
From the hub at Kennedy Space Center, the science samples and experiments will head around the globe to California, Texas, Massachusetts, Japan, and more.
The large amount of science returning to Earth on this mission is possible thanks to upgrades to the SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft, which has double the powered locker capability of the company’s previous capsules.
The Rodent Research Hardware System is one experiment returning to Earth – it includes three modules: (left) habitat, (center) transporter, and (right) animal access unit
Another experiment saw a case of wine sent to the ISS to age in orbit over a year – it will be tasted in February and studied for changes in bubble content
On return, it can support up to 12 powered lockers, enabling transport of more cold cargo and power for additional payloads.
‘The old capsule was like a cream filled doughnut. You packed everything around the walls, and then in the middle we put a big giant stack of bags,’ said Walsh.
‘This upgraded cargo Dragon is more like a three-story house. You put stuff in the basement, then you pack that second story, then you go upstairs and pack the third story. So it’s really different from a design perspective.’
The next SpaceX Dragon cargo mission will be in May, and the crew Dragon capsule currently docked with the space station is due to return its four person crew in May.
Before that another crew Dragon spaceship will launch in March to send another four astronauts up to the orbiting laboratory.
Experiments returning from the ISS: The start of a 3-D printed heart, live mice, and bacteria
Cardinal Heart, which studies how changes in gravity affect cardiovascular cells at the cellular and tissue level using 3D engineered heart tissues, a type of tissue chip.
Results could provide new understanding of heart problems on Earth, help identify new treatments, and support development of screening measures to predict cardiovascular risk prior to spaceflight.
Space Organogenesis, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency study which demonstrates the growth of 3D organ buds from human stem cells in order to analyse changes in gene expression.
Results from this investigation could show advantages of using microgravity for cutting-edge developments in regenerative medicine and may contribute to the establishment of technologies needed to create artificial organs.
The Bacterial Adhesion and Corrosion experiment, which identifies the bacterial genes used during biofilm growth, examines whether biofilms can corrode stainless steel, and evaluates the effectiveness of disinfectants.
This investigation could provide insight into better ways to control and remove resistant biofilms, contributing to the success of future long-duration spaceflights.
Fiber Optic Production, which includes the return of experimental optical fibres created in microgravity using a blend of zirconium, barium, lanthanum, sodium, and aluminium.
The return of the fibres, called ZBLAN in reference to the chemical formula, will help verify experimental studies that suggest fibres created in space should exhibit far superior qualities to those produced on Earth.
Rodent Research-23, which involves the return of live mice. This experiment studies the function of arteries, veins, and lymphatic structures in the eye and changes in the retina before and after spaceflight.
The aim is to clarify whether these changes impair visual function. At least 40 per cent of astronauts experience vision impairment known as Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome (SANS) on long-duration spaceflights, which could adversely affect mission success. | aerospace |
http://www.appshrink.com/application-press-releases/dragon-spacex-cargo-spacecraft-traceable-with-star-walk-and-solar-walk/ | 2018-04-24T18:25:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947033.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180424174351-20180424194351-00577.warc.gz | 0.868087 | 730 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__187408143 | en | Alexandria, Virginia – Vito Technology Inc. is happy to announce that in the result of their collaboration with SpaceX, the launch of Dragon cargo spacecraft will be shown in Solar Walk 3D Solar System and Star Walk Stargazing Guide for iOS. iPhone and iPad users of the Walk apps will be the first to follow satellite orbital trajectory in real time, view spacecraft model in great detail and read information on the spacecraft and launch.
Dragon is a free-flying, reusable spacecraft being developed by SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Initiated internally by SpaceX in 2005, the Dragon spacecraft is made up of a pressurized capsule and unpressurized trunk used for Earth to LEO transport of pressurized cargo, unpressurized cargo, and/or crew members. – SpaceX.com
Solar Walk will be the first iOS application to display the 3D model of the commercially launched spacecraft on iOS. It will display Dragon’s position on the Earth’s orbit in real time as if viewed from space. Star Walk’s augmented reality feature will help viewers on the Earth spot the spacecraft over their current location or show its accurate position at any given time.
Solar Walk is an interactive 3D Solar System model with 10 planets (including a dwarf planet Pluto), 20 moons of the planets, 10 satellites orbiting the Earth, over 100 of the biggest stars, and hundreds of named places on the Moon, Mars, Earth and Venus. The Time Machine feature lets users speed up time backwards or forwards, moving planets and satellites according to their real trajectories.
Star Walk allows users to easily locate and identify 20,000 objects in the night sky. The 360-degree, Multi-Touch star map displays 3D spinning models of constellations, stars, planets, satellites and galaxies currently overhead from anywhere on Earth. With the latest update, users can enjoy unprecedented graphics and interactivity, achieved with the iSight camera and Retina display on the new iPad.
The Star Walk and Solar Walk Apps are available for $4.99 (iPad) and $2.99 (iPhone, iPod touch) from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at the AppStore.
* U.S. English, Russian, Chinese Simple (HANS), German, Italian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Dutch, Korean, Chinese Traditional, and Arabic
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* 120 MB
Pricing and Availability:
Solar Walk – 3D Solar System model 1.9.5 is $2.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category. Star Walk – 5 Stars Astronomy Guide 5.7.4 is $2.99 and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
Based in Alexandria, Virginia, Vito Technology Inc. is headed by CEO Victor Toporkov and has developed an impressive portfolio of products for Windows Mobile since it entered the mobile software market in 2001. The company’s latest endeavors include iOS and Web 2.0 software development. Vito Technology won an Apple Design Award in 2010 for its Star Walk for iPad app. The company consists of two departments: Research & Development Department and Marketing Department with 30 employees in total. Copyright (C) 2011 Vito Technology Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod, and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. | aerospace |
http://ryansppl.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-lesson.html | 2018-06-22T15:00:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864546.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622143142-20180622163142-00576.warc.gz | 0.975525 | 1,280 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__97145535 | en | I had my first lesson with East Coast Aero Club one late afternoon after work last week. I've been meaning to post about it but I've been busy reading textbooks and playing with flight simulators (more on that in a later post). Lauren just mentioned this blog on Will-the-Thrill, though, so it's time to update.
After getting to Hanscom a bit before sunset, I spent some time filling out paperwork and meeting with a senior certified flight instructor (CFI). My CFI has thousands of flight instruction hours under her belt, has been teaching at ECAC for over five years, and came well-recommended by the staff. We spent about 20 minutes waiting for a warm airplane to return to the field for my flight and talked about my reasons for wanting to fly (nothing deep here: it looks fun), my prior experience (countless hours of Microsoft Flight Simulator 4, back in 8th grade on the ol' 386; nothing since), and my plans for pursuing a license. Depending on funding and free time, some people will push through the licensing process in several months, often flying 2 or 3 times a week. Given the family commitments, full-time job, and part-time teaching gigs that eat up a lot of my free time, I am hoping to fly once a week, at which the whole process will probably take closer to a full year. Living less than 5 minutes from the airport makes fitting in lessons easier; so does having an amazing and extremely patient wife. (Thanks again, Laur! I owe you big time for this one)
Because of the late hour of the flight, this was more of an introduction to the aircraft than a very formal first lesson. My CFI led me through an initial tour of the aircraft that I'll likely be flying over the course of my lessons, a 1999 Piper Warrior 4-seater (PA28-161). We performed a pre-flight inspection of the aircraft and went over the basic controls and displays in the cockpit. After that, it was my turn to taxi us to the runway. For those who have never been, Hanscom is a relatively large airfield, with two intersecting runways, nestled under the western edge of Logan's airspace. All flights are under control of a tower, which means that each aircraft has to request clearance to perform take off and landing operations (as opposed to smaller fields where aircraft simply broadcast their intentions on a common frequency that everyone is monitoring). My CFI spoke with the tower and we were directed to runway 29, where we were next in line for takeoff.
Taxiing is a very interesting thing. Speed of the aircraft is regulated by increasing or decreasing the throttle lever, which isn't too different from driving (although done by hand, not by foot), but the similarities end there. During taxiing the throttle is left at a fixed position that puts the aircraft at the constant pace of a "brisk walk" and steering is controlled not by the use of the yoke--which sits there in front of you, like a steering wheel, SCREAMING to be turned--but through the rudder pedals on the floor. Let's just say that suppressing 15 years of driving experience is incredibly difficult in this situation. Before we started moving my CFI suggested I keep my hands firmly in my lap to resist the temptation to grab the flight controls and turn them to stay on course as we followed the yellow taxi lines across the airport. I did my best, but on several occasions my hands shot to the controls on their own accord, although to my credit I caught myself at the last second each time. ("No hands!" comments from my CFI probably didn't hurt).
Once we reached the area before the runway, we performed our run-up checklist to make sure everything was working properly and then pointed the plan down the long strip. After a check-in with the tower, my CFI told me to release the brakes and smoothly increase the throttle and we began traveling down the runway, picking up speed. With her coaching, I pulled gently back on the stabilator controls and we lifted smoothly off the runway - I was flying!!
We slowly climbed, maintaining the runway heading and traveling west from the airport, out towards 495. The highway is a nice visual landmark for the Boston airspace and ECAC's practice area is west of it, just north of what used to be the Ft. Devens army base. In a matter of minutes, we had flown to the practice area and an altitude of 3000 feet. During the transit, my CFI had me get a feel for the aileron (left/right roll), stabilator (up/down pitch), and rudder (left/right turn, or yaw) controls, as well as the elevator trim control, which is used to relive pressure from the yoke so you can maintain a constant airspeed without constantly pulling back or pushing forward on the controls. Once we were in the practice area, I spent a bit of time getting a feel for ascending and descending maneuvers, as well as "coordinated flight," where the left/right rudder pedal controls are used in conjunction with the ailerons to mitigate side-slipping. By this point, the sun had been down for a bit and it was beginning to get dark. We turned back for the airport, which my CFI helped me find (you'd think they would be easier to see from the air, even from a distance). We entered the airport pattern and my CFI took us in for a night landing on runway 29. We made an amazingly gently landing (I only have commercial airliners to compare this to and it is SO much slower in a small plane), taxied back to the terminal, performed our post-flight checklist, and covered the plane for the night. Once we were back in the office, I picked up the official student kit, which includes my very own flight log. I filled in the front page with owner information and proudly handed it to my CFI, who logged the flight time and the major maneuvers we practiced. All said and done, I now have 1.5 hours of logged flight time to my name and am one huge step closer towards earning that private pilot's license. Now the real training begins... | aerospace |
http://physicsguide.blogspot.com/2006/04/bullet-shaped-scramjet-put-to-test.html | 2018-06-19T19:44:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863119.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619193031-20180619213031-00486.warc.gz | 0.964949 | 144 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__31056672 | en | Saturday, April 01, 2006
Bullet-shaped scramjet put to the test
The HyShot team from UQ have tested a new version of their SCRAMjet engine (an engine designed to burn fuel passing through it at supersonic speeds). This test flight is believed to have reached speeds of Mach 7.
March 30th 2006: The HyShot™ IV experimental scramjet test has been conducted today at the Woomera range, 500km north of Adelaide, South Australia at about 1.10pm local time (CDT).
“The rocket launch looked as expected. We had another clean liftoff,” Associate Professor Michael Smart of the UQ HyShot team said. | aerospace |
http://acemodel.co.kr/shop/goods/goods_view.php?goodsno=2735&category= | 2019-08-21T00:31:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315695.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821001802-20190821023802-00168.warc.gz | 0.842429 | 1,415 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__7707984 | en | 자동착륙기능이 포함되여있어 왕초보라도 날리수있는 비행기입니다.또한 비행실력에 따라 초급형/중급형/상급형 세가지모드로 조종가능합니다.자동착륙기능(버튼하나로 자동컨틀)외 홀딩 패턴기능(버튼하나로 자동으로 파이럿주위를 맴돌아 비행합니다 ) 그리고 신기한기능중하나는 "가상장벽기능"입니다.즉 비행기가 보이지않을정도로 너무 멀리비행을 방지해주는 기능입니다.
GPS 기능은 완벽한것이 아닙니다. 도움을 주기위한 도구이오니 착오 없으시
기바라며 또한 GPS 기상또는 천재지변으로 인한 문제가 발생 할수 있는점을 유의 하시어 사용하시기 바랍니다.
The HobbyZone Champ S+ RTF Electric Airplane is perfect for new pilots. Whether you’ve never flown RC before or you got your first taste of flying with a multirotor drone, the revolutionary HobbyZone®Champ S+ RTF makes it easier than ever to learn to fly an RC airplane. That’s because it’s equipped with Horizon Hobby’s exclusive SAFE® Plus technology providing the same kind of self-leveling stability and GPS guidance used in advanced drones that can cost thousands of dollars or more. SAFE Plus drone technology can land the airplane for you, keep you from flying too far away, and even lets you virtually "pause" the flight and circle by itself on command. SAFE Plus also includes three flight modes that allow you to learn at your own pace by preventing you from over-controlling the airplane and allowing you to perform basic aerobatic maneuvers when you're ready.
AutoLand:When activated, the advanced AutoLand function puts the Champ S+ on a stabilized approach to autonomously land near the takeoff point. When flying in rougher conditions, you can provide some directional guidance and let the system do the rest to execute a safe landing.
Holding Pattern:Push a button, and the Champ S+ will automatically fly to a point near its takeoff location and circle at an altitude of approximately 65 feet. Once the command is cancelled, you have full control of the aircraft and can continue to fly.
Virtual Fence:It's easy to accidentally let an RC airplane get too far away, but with Virtual Fence worry no more because it creates a virtual boundary the airplane won't fly past. When the Champ S+ encounters the Virtual Fence, it automatically turns around inside the boundary and wags the wings letting you know you have control again.
Panic Recovery:If you ever lose control of the Champ S+, just switch to beginner mode and release the control sticks. SAFE® Plus technology will return the aircraft to level flight.
Flight Envelope Protection:Pitch and roll limits keep the Champ S+ from entering into extreme flight attitudes and conditions.
AS3X®:Works automatically to stabilize the Champ S+ with the sophistication of 3-axis gyros to help battle the influence of turbulence on windy days.
Exclusive SAFE®Plus drone technology from Horizon Hobby
3 Flight modes - Beginner, Intermediate, and Experienced
Innovative AutoLand technology lands the airplane by itself
With Panic Recovery, stable flight is resumed by simply releasing the sticks
Holding Pattern allows you to pause your flight with the push of a button
Virtual Fence keeps you from flying too far away
Durable and lightweight construction so no FAA registration is required
FPV ready using the compatible camera (SPMVA2500) and headset (SPMVR1100) or monitor (SPMVM430) sold separately
280mAh 2S 7.4V 30C LiPo battery providing up to 12+ minutes of flying time
Powerful 2S brushless power system
Specifications: Wingspan: 27.3" (694mm) Overall Length: 18.2" (462mm) Wing Area: 114.5 sq in (738.8 sq cm) Flying Weight: 3.7oz (105g) Motor Size: 180 brushless Radio: Included Servos: Included CG (center of gravity): 1.1-1.4 in. (29-35mm) back from the leading edge Prop Size: 5 x 2.75 Speed Control: Included Recommended Battery: 7.4V 280mAh 2S Landing Gear: Yes | aerospace |
https://dirs.info/find/mix/0?q=%22Buttigieg's%22 | 2023-12-02T01:16:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00045.warc.gz | 0.921415 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__263665422 | en | A near miss between a Southwest Airlines flight and a private jet has kickstarted two investigations.
A Cessna jet was cleared to land on the same runway where a Southwest plane was taking off, per Reuters.
A near miss between a Southwest Airlines flight and a private jet where the two planes came within 100 feet of one another on a San Diego runway has sparked investigations from two US authorities.
The pilot captaining the Cessna jet aborted the landing after receiving an alert from the plane's surface surveillance system, the FAA said.
The Cessna jet passed over Southwest's Boeing 737 by around 100 feet, Reuters reported, citing a source briefed on the matter.
Southwest Airlines, Cessna, Reuters, Morning, Federal Aviation Authority, FAA, National Transportation, San Diego International Airport, Boeing, NTSB, Southwest, Transport | aerospace |
https://vluftfahrt.de/artikel/super_connie.html | 2024-04-16T05:12:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00304.warc.gz | 0.945641 | 899 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__136039431 | en | Fly Connie Fly!
Complete the 1957 Lockheed Super Constellation.
"Return of a Legend" wrote Lufthansa when in December 2007, they made a bold decision to restore a 1957 Lockheed Super Constellation. This marked the beginning of a worldwide unique project to restore this historic aircraft. An aircraft not destined to be parked in a museum but rather an aircraft which would become a flying monument to honor its legacy.
The L-1649 “Starliner” was the passenger plane that had mastered the North Atlantic in regular non-stop service between the United States and Europe until eventually being replaced by the jet age. With its unique triple-tail and four Wright R-3350 Turbo-Compound radial engines, it was the most advanced propliner ever built. Only 44 of the “Super Stars” rolled out of the Lockheed factory and took-off from the Burbank Airport in California and there's not a single airworthy example of this aircraft flying anywhere in the world today.
Since 2008 hundreds of professionals, both paid and volunteer, have been doing the restoration work at the Auburn-Lewiston Airport purpose built hanger in Auburn, Maine, USA. The aircraft structure has been completely overhauled from the ground up. Aircraft systems and components have been inspected and overhauled by FAA certified specialist workshops, both in-house and off-site. The engines and nacelles, propellers, and landing gear are all overhauled and ready to be installed and flown.
This particular airframe, formerly owned and operated by American companies such as Trans World Airlines and Alaska Airlines, among others, was last flown as a cargo plane and needed original passenger doors re-fitted. So Lufthansa installed the “Konrad Adenauer Door” from a former Lufthansa Super Connie located down in South Africa. German Chancellor Adenauer used that aircraft (and that door!) in his journeys to foreign countries.
As of 2017, the Starliner project was about 85% complete. It could fly once again about a year from now if the work in Auburn is allowed to continue. She would be available to the world public as the only surviving example of the Lockheed L-1649 Super Constellation in existence.
For nearly 10 years, aviation professionals and enthusiasts, and former and future passengers, have accompanied the prosperity of this project, eagerly awaiting the maiden flight of, what has been referred to as, the most beautiful passenger aircraft ever built.
On March 15, an article in the Lewiston-Auburn Newspaper “Sun Journal” announced that the project in Auburn would be shutdown. Lufthansa Technik wants to separate the wings from the fuselage, box up all of the parts and ship everything to Germany.
Aviation experts agree that stopping the project now and separating the fuselage and wing will most likely mean that the most elaborate aircraft restoration project in the world will never take flight again. Dismantling and moving the project would entail costs that could be used to complete the restoration.
Aviation enthusiasts all over the world! Please support this call to the Lufthansa management to complete this project in Auburn and make this unique flying monument available for the public to enjoy.
Dear Mr. Spohr (Chairman Deutsche Lufthansa AG),
Dear Doctor Kley (Chairman Supervisory Board Deutsche Lufthansa AG)
We the undersigned ask you to please reconsider your "stop work" decision and to leave the Lufthansa Starliner Project in Auburn, Maine to be made airworthy again.
Your commitment and that of the many participants and sponsors to this globally unique project has earned the highest respect of the aviation community worldwide. Both Lufthansa and Lufthansa Technik have again proved their dedication to uphold the highest standards within the industry.
Finish the Super Star Constellation in Auburn.
Your experts are there.
Preserve this unique cultural asset of aviation and associated aviation companies, especially that of Deutsche Lufthansa.
Let the public enjoy viewing and possibly flying on the the only airworthy “Starliner” Constellation in the world.
Please don't clip her wings.
Let this bird fly!
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https://moxicentral.com/forums/topic/announcer-voice-chips-in-space/ | 2023-09-28T04:14:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510358.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928031105-20230928061105-00129.warc.gz | 0.934678 | 517 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__77201850 | en | Stephen Riffle 10/26/2022 at 12:25 pm
In 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong made history as the first person to walk on the moon. As he put his left foot onto the ground, he said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
For more than half a century, NASA has been exploring space and making discoveries that not only impact our planet and the universe, but all of humankind. In 2000, NASA along with other space agencies, opened the International Space Station (ISS), which is home to the U.S. National Laboratory (ISS National Lab). This world-class lab focuses on advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies, to make research breakthroughs not possible on Earth – to “boldly go where no man has before” (for all of you Trekkies!).
Part of the biomedical research underway on the ISS is the Tissue-Chips in Space initiative sponsored by NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The ISS National Lab provides an environment where researchers can study human health and diseases in microgravity, allowing them to isolate the effects of gravity from other factors that can impact cell function.
While in space, astronauts experience physiological changes that often reverse when they return to Earth. To mimic this, various types of tissue and organ chips, such as bone/cartilage, bone marrow, heart, kidney, lung and intestine, as well as those that model the immune system and blood/brain barrier (BBB), have been used to study the effects of microgravity on the human body. Currently, Brain-Chips are on board the space station to investigate the differences in cytokine production, BBB permeability and morphology that are involved in brain physiology, as well as disease and drug response. This summer, muscle and immune chips arrived at the lab to examine how microgravity impacts muscle loss and the relationship between immune aging and healing.
I’m curious to hear what you think of this far-out research. What kind of chips would you send to space and what would you hope to learn?
Stephen Riffle 10/26/2022 at 12:27 pm
Also, forgot to mention that last week I stumbled onto this paper while putting together a research roundup: Check it out and lmk if it prompts any thoughts, scientific or otherwise.
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