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http://www.jobslg.com/indian-airforce-afcat-ekt-test-2017/ | 2017-07-28T04:28:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549436330.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170728042439-20170728062439-00484.warc.gz | 0.881506 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__68312284 | en | Job Role: Engineer (Core, Non-IT)
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http://zhangzhan.work/2019/10/10/virtual-reality-martian-greenhouse.html | 2020-07-10T16:37:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655911092.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20200710144305-20200710174305-00053.warc.gz | 0.86444 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__174660113 | en | Virtual Reality Martian Greenhouse
Virtual Reality Martian Greenhouse is a project initiated by Mars Planets Research and Innovation Institute and Politecnico Di Milano. The project aims at designing and developing the Virtual Reality (VR) simulation of an inflatable modular greenhouse featuring the growing method of hydroponics built in Unity. Technical details were taken into account during the design process to simulate a reliable Martian greenhouse. The use of VR technology allows us to create an immersive simulation of a Mars habitat highlighting its greenhouse overcoming the limitation of physical locations. Wearing the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) while holding Oculus Rift Touch Controllers, Mars exploration enthusiasts could experience the highly interactive and realistic environment, and astronauts soon to be on the Mars mission could be trained better on the subject of operating and maintaining the greenhouse on Mars with the implementation of an interactive controlling and monitoring system for the plantations inside the greenhouse.
Collaborators: Alessandro Ceriani and Francesca Bruno
Special shoutouts to Mr. Antonio Del Mastro, President of Mars Planet, for providing hardware and Martian insights; Prof. Giandomenico Caruso & his Ph.D students, Yuan & Federico for ensuring our access to the iDrive Lab at Politecnico di Milano; Unity/VR content creators/YouTubers out there and VR enthusiasts for their selfless contribution to building a community full of shared knowledge and skills that everyone can benefit from. | aerospace |
https://jmdcustomhomes.com/archives/171 | 2021-09-22T20:46:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057388.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922193630-20210922223630-00279.warc.gz | 0.960785 | 598 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__113396308 | en | Private jet travel is booming and airlines are scrambling to get the business moving.
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For this list, we’ve taken a look at the most expensive private jet flights for domestic flights in the US, including prices for private flights and private cabin suites.
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Private jets can range from a private private jet to a private cabin suite, which can range in price from around $1,100 to as much at around $3.5 million.
But why is private jet travel so expensive?
Private jet travel can take you anywhere you want in the world, but the key to private jet safety is to keep a minimum distance between you and the aircraft.
To keep the distance, airlines must ensure that passengers and crew are separated by a minimum of 10 metres (33 feet).
If they do this, passengers will be able to access the cockpit and crew without touching the aircraft and can safely communicate with the pilots.
The more distance between the aircraft, the more people and people will be required to board the aircraft for safety reasons.
The cost of private jet tickets can range up to $6,500 a person.
Private jets require a pilot and crew who can maintain a minimum cabin temperature of around 32 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit), which is usually achieved through an air-conditioning system.
To ensure that the cabin temperature is maintained, the aircraft also has a temperature-controlled cabin, which is located on the outside of the aircraft at a distance of 20 metres (59 feet).
When travelling on private jets, you are required to check in at the cabin, or to board at a pre-arranged point outside of that cabin.
Once the aircraft is on the flight, passengers must be allowed to exit the aircraft if they are not ready to fly, and the cabin crew must maintain a cabin temperature within the prescribed temperature range.
This means that if you’re travelling on a Boeing 737-800 private jet that you’re not comfortable with, you should avoid that aircraft.
If you are travelling on the private jet of a private airline that has a cabin suite available, you may want to take advantage of a suite as well.
If your cabin suite is located outside of your cabin, the temperature inside the cabin can be maintained in the comfort of the cabin.
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https://civiltips.com/global-positioning-system-gps/ | 2023-12-09T01:41:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100781.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209004202-20231209034202-00782.warc.gz | 0.881409 | 477 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__231407265 | en | Global Positioning System or commonly know as GPS is a navigation system based on satellites that provide location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the surface of the earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight. Anyone can access it freely if they have a GPS receiver.
The system consists of 24 satellites controlled by the US government that orbit lies 11,000 nautical miles above the earth’s surface and continuously sends signals to the ground station.
Working Principle Of Global Positioning System (GPS)
GPS uses the trigonometric approach to calculate the position. So, each satellite is equipped with very accurate atomic work. GPS receiver uses messages received to determine the time of signals transmitted and compute the distance to each satellite using waves. The time difference for the waves to transmit tells GPS receiver how far away the satellite is.
Components Of Global Positioning System (GPS)
- SPACE SEGMENT:
- The space segment consists of a constellation of 24 satellites.
- Every user is able to access at least six or more satellites orbiting the space.
- USER SEGMENT:
- It generally resembles a GPS receiver.
- A GPS receiver consists of an antenna and amplifier, radio signal microprocessor, control, and display data device and data recording unit.
- The GPS receiver decodes the radio signal from the satellite, calculates the distance from satellite and compares its latitude longitude elevation and time.
- CONTROL SEGMENT:
- These are the tracking stations which control GPS satellite by tracking them and provide them with corrected orbital and time information.
- Each control center consists of a computer center and data injection center.
- There are 5 control station and a major station around the world.
- US department of defense has the sole authority for construction, maintenance and monitoring of other satellites.
Use Of Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Surveying and mapping purposes
- To locate the site of accidents
- For digital photogrammetry
- Navigation purpose
- Remote sensing and GIS
- For military purpose
- For clock synchronization
- Automobile navigation and fleet location
- For navigation of aviation and marine
Also Read: Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM)
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https://www.grand-pianist.com/nasa-says-it-has-finally-located-the-leak-on-the-international-space-station.html | 2023-02-05T03:52:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500215.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205032040-20230205062040-00120.warc.gz | 0.942163 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__206713482 | en | NASA officials said the leak on the International Space Station was from a Russian module on the orbiting laboratory.
Astronauts aboard the space station and flight controllers on Earth have been trying to track down the location of this tiny leak for weeks.
NASA said in a statement Tuesday that the leak, which appeared to be growing in size, had finally been spotted in the main work area of the Zvezda Service Module on the ISS.
“The size of the leak identified overnight has since been attributed to a temporary temperature change aboard the station with the overall rate of leak remaining unchanged,” the statement said.
The leak poses no danger to the crew on board the ISS, NASA said. There are currently three people aboard the ISS: Station commander Chris Cassidy (the solo American) and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.
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Cassidy spent the last weekend sheltering in the Russian segment of the ISS while engineers on the ground searched for the leak in the sealed-off U.S. segment.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted that the leak was located in the Zvezda module which contains “scientific equipment.”
The tweet added that the general atmosphere pressure “rates remain at 1 mm per 8 hours.”
“The situation poses no danger to the crew’s life and health and doesn’t hinder the station continued crewed operation,” Roscosmos added.
The ISS crew, meanwhile, is preparing for the arrival of an uncrewed cargo launch scheduled for Thursday evening.
Excitement is also mounting for the next NASA-SpaceX crewed launch named “Resilience” that’s currently scheduled for Oct. 31. NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker as well as Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will be aboard, headed to the ISS.
SpaceX commander Mike Hopkins on Tuesday spoke about the pandemic, the racial justice protests and overall strife in the nation, saying “Resilience” was the appropriate name for this capsule launching just days before the election. | aerospace |
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Carl Pollard has over 14 years of aviation experience. Carl is in the US Navy where he works as part of a team for the quality assurance of the maintenance of the Navy Seahawk MH-60 helicopters program. Safety is his number one priority so please listen to him. Carl's positive attitude towards life and great personality is why we consider him part of our family and are very proud of everything that he continues to achieve.
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https://easysolution24.com/why-are-all-space-photos-cgi/ | 2023-11-29T14:47:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100112.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129141108-20231129171108-00622.warc.gz | 0.928093 | 346 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__151900836 | en | Have you ever wondered why all space photos are CGI? Well, the first step to understanding this question is to understand the origin of space photos. These images are derived from real photographs, but they are enhanced and colour-coded. Colour-coding allows scientists to distinguish between elements that are not visible. This way, the pictures can be manipulated to look different from their real counterparts. The same concept applies to photos from space missions.
It’s no secret that NASA and other space agencies regularly alter photos of space. But it is important to understand the scientific rationale behind these changes. In addition to ensuring that images look authentic, these photos are enhanced for scientific reasons. Astrophysicist Dr. Paul Sutter explains, space agencies take photoshopped images into account for scientific reasons. However, some people might be skeptical about the scientific rationale behind such actions.
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Kotoka International Airport serves as the aviation hub of the West African sub-region. | aerospace |
http://www.hot-hlghotels.com/2022/09/07/air-service-that-will-really-make-your-life-better/ | 2022-09-25T20:35:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334596.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925193816-20220925223816-00426.warc.gz | 0.969007 | 1,338 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__257456316 | en | Air Service That Will Really Make Your Life Better.
An air service is a company that supplies air transportation services to travelers. An airline company operates aircrafts to transfer travelers and also items. Airlines might function individually or form alliances with other companies. A partnership can include a codeshare contract in between an airline company and also one more company to operate a common flight. These arrangements allow airlines to share prices and also routes. This enables a company to have a larger fleet of aircraft than would or else be readily available to guests. Depending upon the circumstances, an airline might run a solitary flight or multiple flights.
A regional air service committee is a company that works to advertise the growth, maintenance, and retention of air provider services. The team additionally plans occasions for airport participants to involve with air service provider reps, develops partnerships in between the service providers, and supporters on legislative and governing issues. The board works with the Federal Air Travel Administration, United State Department of Transportation, as well as Transport Canada to make sure that the local community is offered. In addition to advocating in support of the neighborhood, the Air Service Board aids to establish standards for airport terminal solution.
During The Second World War, the USA started developing air service routes to sustain the military’s abroad operations. By the end of the war, the USA had the highest volume of passengers in the world, and airline companies broadened throughout the nation and also the globe. In addition to guest transport, air services also delivered mail and also airfreight.
Along with following the agreement, the provider has to run the airplane safely as well as set up the trips in accordance with the agreement. Any modifications to the schedule or regards to the contract have to be reported to the Workplace of Aviation Analysis. If a provider can not fulfill these needs, the Division might pick a different provider. The carrier has to finish all flights in a timely way. Trips that are canceled as a result of lack of web traffic are not compensated.
There are numerous sorts of air service, however the main objective is to improve the level of service. As an example, air service growth can entail opening a new airport terminal, including more trips to an existing airport terminal, or enhancing the variety of trips daily. Each of these choices has various advantages as well as influence on the regional area. Air service advancement can likewise cause new aircraft, which is likewise referred to as new tools in the aviation market. This can include larger airplanes with even more seats.
The United States Post Office opened the very first airmail service in 1918, utilizing Army pilots. The service quickly broadened to Chicago and San Francisco. In 1921, the United States Post Office started a regular airmail parcel solution between Paris and also London. In 1939, the USA began a transatlantic post from New york city to Singapore, with flights through Bermuda as well as Portugal.
Air web traffic controllers path flights according to standards. The controllers get data about the course of an aircraft, and afterwards establish the best feasible trip course by taking into consideration distance, time, and also price. Long-distance flights normally comply with a wonderful circle path. Additionally, all routes start as well as end in cities referred to as centers. These centers are where airlines send out and also obtain guests. They additionally allow pilots to carry out technical landings. Simply put, air website traffic controllers are responsible for making certain that the safety of other airplane is preserved.
Flight was first advertised in the 1920s. By 1921, there went to least 10 air services running in between major cities in Europe. By 1924, there were 17 nations that ran air services. In the USA, there were 14 paths developed, but traveler rate of interest continued to be reduced until Charles Lindbergh’s solo trip across the Atlantic in 1927.
Enhanced air service can suggest an additional day-to-day flight to a city or a new airline company. In either case, each of these choices has its very own advantages and also advantages for the neighborhood. Along with brand-new airlines, the aviation market is also undertaking modifications in airplane technology. Bigger aircrafts are now available to bring more guests.
During the 1920s, the United States started to establish an extensive air transportation system. By 1921, there were at the very least ten solutions operating routes from major cities in Europe. By 1924, a total of 17 nations had air services. In the USA, 14 paths were established. But guest rate of interest stayed low up until the historic trips of Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
The airline company market has several kinds of jobs, as well as some settings need specialized training. Pilots, for instance, usually need specialized certificates of skills. Also, flight attendants have to meet educational demands as well as meet age as well as weight requirements. In some cases, flight attendants are needed to have a specific variety of flight hours prior to they are hired.
Air service is necessary for the business of an airline company. Without appropriate solution, it can become difficult to compete with other airlines. However, airline companies are making modifications to survive in these tough times. Therefore, they are boosting their solution and concentrating on brand-new courses. In the future, the airline company market will be able to use even more trips to their clients.
Nonstop flights are one of the most usual type of air service. Nevertheless, they call for a huge quantity of time and initiative to establish. Unlike the last, continuously trips do not need an adjustment of aircrafts. Furthermore, continuously flights are generally a lot more expensive. This is because they need a great deal of preparation, as the planes should fly from one destination to another.
Moreover, these trips aid preserve the tourism-dependent economic situation of Page. A company that runs Wild River Adventures tours in Page is contracted with the National Park Solution and also operates the flights with the company. The Important Air Service program subsidizes airline companies that supply air service to tiny areas. The regulation was passed in 1978 to aid little areas access the National Air Transportation System. integraair.com
In the 1920s, the USA started to spend heavily in plane design. The objective was to produce guest planes that were appealing to guests. The earliest passenger airplane were transformed from World War I bombing planes. Eventually, American aircraft producers, consisting of Donald Douglas, William Boeing, and Claude L. Ryan, started to build aircraft developed for traveler and products transport. Then, in the 1930s, Ford released the Tin Goose, which brought 13 guests. This aircraft ended up being a standard for all major airlines throughout the 1930s. | aerospace |
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The The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) Dreamliners had been cleared for flying only just a few months ago and the ones that Norwegian Air has, have been facing recurring malfunctions over the past few weeks. There were some hydraulic faults as well as electrical ones and all of these had compelled the airline to ground these planes numerous times. Ray Conner, the Chief of Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) commercial airplanes unit had flown to Oslo and the company has promised Bjoern Kjos, the Norwegian Airline America’s Health affordable-health.info Plans’ (AHIP) President and CEO Karen Ignagni released the following statement in response to the final rule on essential health benefits released today by the U. CEO, some quick fixes.
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The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) is essentially an aerospace company. It operates in 5 segments: Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Capital Corporation, Boeing Military Aircraft, Global Services & Support and Network & Space Systems, Boeing Defense. | aerospace |
http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/page/3246/ | 2014-07-23T22:24:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997883858.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025803-00083-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.949324 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__201052693 | en | Black Box Flight Recorder
The idea of a crash and fire protected device to record both the voices and the instrument readings in the cockpit was conceived by Dr David Warren, a young scientist at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory (a predecessor to the current DSTO).
- A Black Box Flight Recorder demonstrator unit
A demonstrator unit was produced in 1957, and while not approved by the Australian aviation authorities, was received enthusiastically in Britain where the device was taken for further development.
Following an unexplained aircraft accident in Queensland in 1960, Australia became the first country to make flight recorders mandatory in aircraft. Every airline in the world now flies with a flight data recorder or "Black Box". | aerospace |
https://my-dream-vacations.com/ryanair-new-flights-from-athens-to-dublin-and-berlin/ | 2023-04-01T16:59:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950110.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401160259-20230401190259-00504.warc.gz | 0.959852 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__220129447 | en | The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will introduce two new routes in its flight schedule from Athens to Dublin and Berlin next year.
According to Ryanair’s sales manager for Greece, John Alborante, the route to Dublin will start in March 2016 with three flights per week, while the route to Berlin will be covered with one daily flight.
The route from Athens to Dublin will start operating in March 2016 with three flights per week.
Air Tickets for Athens-Dublin flights are now available at 39.99 euros for March, April and May, however, the booking must be made until November 23.
Furthermore, Ryanair announced its winter schedule increasing the number of daily flights from Athens to Thessaloniki from 6 to 8.
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https://www.avasarangal.com/2016/03/air-india-recruitment-2016.html | 2024-02-21T01:55:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473360.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221002544-20240221032544-00246.warc.gz | 0.93142 | 575 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__38051098 | en | ABOUT AIR INDIA Air India is the flag carrier airline of India and the third largest airline in India in terms of passengers carried, af...
ABOUT AIR INDIA
Air India is the flag carrier airline of India and the third largest airline in India in terms of passengers carried, after IndiGo and Jet Airways. It is owned byAir India Limited, a Government of India enterprise and operates a fleet ofAirbus and Boeing aircraft serving various domestic and international destinations. It is headquartered in New Delhi.Air India has major domestic hubs at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi andChhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai and secondary hubs atNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata and Chennai International Airport.Air India became the 27th member of Star Allianceon 11 July 2014.
Founded in 1932 by J. R. D. Tata and later renamed to Tata Airlines, he flew its first single-engine De Havilland Puss Moth, carrying air mail from Karachito Bombay, and later continuing to Madras. After World War II, it became apublic limited company and was renamed to Air-India. On 21 February 1960, it included it first Boeing 707–420 named Gauri Shankar and became the first Asian airline to induct a jet aircraft in its fleet. In 2000–01, attempts were made to privatise Air India and in 2006 onwards, it suffered losses after its merger with Indian Airlines.
Air India Recruitment 2016 Apply Online – Air India Charters Ltd Wishes to engage Airline Attendants, as per requirements and to maintain a waitlist, on a fixed term contract, for a period of three years, for its low cost Airline Air India Express, to undertake flying duties on board the aircraft, in Kozhikode/ Mangalore/ Kochi/ Thiruvananthapuram/ Any other base as per company’s requirement. In case of company requirements, these employees may also be required to undertake ground duties at different stations, at the Airport/Office.
Between 18 and 24 years (Relaxable upto 5 years in case of SC/ST and 3 years in case of OBC categories)
MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION10+2 from a recognized Board/University
A non-refundable Demand Draft for Rs.500/- (Rupees Five Hundred only) in favour of Air India Charters Limited, payable at Mumbai DD should be issued only from a nationalized bank.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates, who fulfill the above requirements, may apply Online Only Candidates, who wish to apply, are advised to log on to Careers Page of our Website and fill in the Online Application Format.
Last Date for submission.-MARCH 21 ,2016 | aerospace |
https://www.khandbahale.com/language/marathi-dictionary-translation-meaning-of-space%20shuttle | 2023-06-05T04:26:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650620.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605021141-20230605051141-00111.warc.gz | 0.801154 | 377 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__282144040 | en | space shuttle in Marathi
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http://bibleinc.blogspot.com/2014/12/missing-airasia-jet-asked-to-deviate.html | 2018-07-19T17:40:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591150.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719164439-20180719184439-00415.warc.gz | 0.953932 | 546 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__110178950 | en | Decent Breaking News, Christian Lifestyle, Bible Studies, Testimonies and More.
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Missing AirAsia jet asked to deviate flight plan
Air Asia said the pilot of flight QZ8501 that went missing between Indonesia and Singapore early Sunday had requested “deviation” from the its flight plan because of bad weather.
“The aircraft… was requesting deviation due to enroute weather,” the Malaysia-based carrier said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.
“Communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control (ATC).”
The Airbus A320-200 with 162 people on board left Juanda international airport in Surabaya in east Java at 5:20 am Sunday and had been expected to arrive in Singapore at 8:30 am (0030 GMT).
Malaysia-based AirAsia said a search and rescue operation was underway.
Indonesia’s air transportation director general Djoko Murjatmodjo told AFP the plane was carrying seven crew and 155 passengers — 138 adults, 16 children and a baby.
Local broadcaster MetroTV reported that the passengers included 149 Indonesians, three South Koreans, including a baby, one Briton and one Malaysian and one Singaporean.
The Indonesian air force said two of its planes had been dispatched to scour an area of the Java Sea, southwest of Pangkalan Bun in Kalimantan province.
“The weather is cloudy and the area is surrounded by sea. We are still on our way so we won’t make an assumption on what happened to the plane,” said Indonesian air force spokesman Hadi Cahyanto.
The aircraft was operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysian-based AirAsia which dominates Southeast Asia’s booming low cost airline market.
– Search and rescue –
An official from Indonesia’s transport ministry said the pilot asked to ascend 6,000 feet to 38,000 feet to avoid heavy clouds.
“The plane is in good condition but the weather is not so good,” Djoko Murjatmodjo told a press conference at Jakarta’s airport, addressing reports of severe storms in the area where the jet went missing.
Murjatmodjo said search efforts were being focused on an area between Belitung island and Kalimantan, on the western side of the island of Borneo, about halfway along the expected route of Flight QZ8501.
Singapore has offered help from its navy and air force in the hunt for the plane | aerospace |
http://angryyoungindianman.blogspot.com/2011/05/airline-whine.html | 2019-04-22T22:07:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578582736.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20190422215211-20190423001211-00487.warc.gz | 0.984511 | 530 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__60704607 | en | I had the ambiguous fortune to visit Phoenix, AZ for a talk. The talk went well (thanks for asking) but this rant is about how I got to Phoenix and back.
Of course, I flew. I took a major airline and things proceeded fairly smoothly on my outbound flights.
This was not true of my return journey. I flew Phoenix to SF, and SF to Boston.
On my Phoenix-SF flight, a part of the plane fell off from the cabin roof. We were lucky that this happened (a) While the plane was on the ground and (b) for a relatively unimportant component of the roof. The pilot came back into the cabin, and pushed the part into its place and it sort of "clicked" back in.
Little did I know this would not be the last time I saw such complex mechanical engineering in action that day.
In SFO, I just managed to catch my Boston flight. I sat in my seat, relieved, and read my Kindle till it was time to turn off digital devices. As the plane taxied I suddenly noticed, to my horror, that the entire frame of my window was detached.
It was hanging, literally by the skin of its clamping teeth. What I'm talking about was a whole window frame and a layer of clear window plastic. It was an inch thick. It did not seem like a trivial issue.
I immediately contacted the airline staff. The plane parked itself near the runway while the pilot announced on the intercom that a passenger had made a "cosmetic" complaint and we'd be delayed. Groans filled the cabin as a few passengers gave me the evil eye.
One of the staff sat in my seat and sort of prodded and pushed the window frame. Sure enough, it "clicked" into position. The entire fleet must be made of Lego.
They made a note of where the damaged part was, and we flew off.
I safely made it back home.
I did a little research, and the aircraft I flew in were first released in the late 80s, and most are reliable workhorses of the sky. I wonder if the airlines are cutting costs and wholly depending on the "robustness margins" built into these old machines. These margins are basically how much the aircraft can fly with "missed" maintenance. Its the sort of thing that keeps your car working when you skip 10k checkups.
I hope that is not true. Anyways, next time you get in an aircraft, scan around and make sure its all in one piece. | aerospace |
https://www.portalfm.rocks/russians-beat-tom-cruise-in-race-to-film-first-movie-in-space/ | 2022-05-18T15:41:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662522284.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518151003-20220518181003-00174.warc.gz | 0.952418 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__257972492 | en | Russia just sent its veteran astronaut Anton Shkaplerov, actor Yulia Peresild, and movie producer Klim Shipenko to the International Space Station to make an original feature film. It’s tentatively titled Challenge and it will be the world’s first-ever movie filmed in orbit.
The plot revolves around a surgeon, played by Peresild, who hurries to the space station to save a crew member who was struck by debris and is in need of an urgent operation mid-orbit. After shooting the necessary footage in space, Shipenko will complete the movie on Earth where he will film any additional scenes that are needed.
The only downside to all of this is that Tom Cruise is now technically in second place when it comes to the modern-day space race.
Last year, he revealed he was working with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX program to star in a $200 million dollar film that will be partially shot on the International Space Station. | aerospace |
https://www.mindmybusinessnyc.com/flying-private-vs-commercial-for-business/ | 2024-03-02T17:00:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475833.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302152131-20240302182131-00817.warc.gz | 0.948564 | 602 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__89160800 | en | Business travelers have specific needs. They need to get from one destination to the next efficiently and on time. They may need to travel to multiple cities in a single day. And they need to be able to keep working in transit.
How much is a private jet in 2021? How does flying by a private jet like a Legacy 650 charter compare to flying commercial for business? There are a few distinct differences.
Available Flight Times
Commercial airlines fly established routes on set schedules, with a limited number of seats going from point A to point B on a given day. That means business travelers need to consider available flight times when they’re setting meetings.
On the other hand, taking a private jet charter Los Angeles to New York allows a business traveler to set their own schedule for takeoff and landing. Private jets may also be able to take a different route than a larger commercial plane, reducing the amount of time spent in the air. The additional flexibility in scheduling allows those flying by private jet to adapt their day to the demands of their business.
Private jet passengers also avoid long lines at the ticket counter and airport security, saving precious time. That convenience combined with a flexible schedule can allow for taking multiple flights in a day, making business dealings more productive.
Travelers flying on commercial airlines have a set list of options for destinations. For those flying into a given state, those options will typically include any major metropolitan area, as well as a handful of smaller, regional airports. Those airports may or may not be close to a meeting location or site visit.
The best private aviation companies are able to fly jets like a Legacy 650 charter in to a wider variety of airports that includes private landing strips, getting travelers closer to their final destination. That proximity eliminates unnecessary ground travel, making it possible to spend more time solidifying business relationships and less time riding in a rental car.
Productivity In Transit
Stopping work for several hours during the day isn’t an option for many business travelers. In a fast-moving industry, it’s vital to stay connected and keep moving, even in the air between destinations. First-class and business-class passengers on commercial airlines will have access to wireless connections, a phone line and enough space to set up a laptop. What they might not be able to find is the privacy needed to conduct business confidently and efficiently.
Private jet passengers are able to continue business meetings and negotiations as effectively in transit as on the ground. The privacy afforded by jet travel allows for confidential conversations and meetings that aren’t possible in the more public setting of a commercial aircraft. Additionally, those traveling by private jet can bring along business associates or potential clients on the flight, making it possible to have in-person conversations and form stronger connections.
In choosing whether to fly first-class on a commercial airline or selecting a private flight on a Legacy 650 charter, today’s business traveler can consider differences in scheduling, convenience and productivity. | aerospace |
https://www.lovelysurgery.com/buzz-aldrin-plastic-surgery/ | 2024-02-21T12:49:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00201.warc.gz | 0.942155 | 364 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__157530356 | en | We have listed all plastic surgeries Buzz Aldrin has and has not done. Could plastic surgery be his secret weapon? Below are the rumors, plastic surgery facts, and more!
Buzz Aldrin is the famed American astronaut who became the second man to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. He set foot on moon 9 minutes after Neil Armstrong. He was an engineer by training, and a United States Air Force pilot, before being chosen for the Moon mission.
In 2007, at age 77, he underwent plastic surgery for a face-lift (rhytidectomy). Claims that being subjected to countless bouts of G-force as a fighter pilot and an astronaut caused his jowls to sag prematurely.
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“During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.”
Buzz Aldrin“We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.”
Buzz Aldrin“Everyone who’s been in space would, I’m sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.”
Buzz Aldrin“Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.”
Buzz Aldrin“It’s real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that’s not very honest.” | aerospace |
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The companies envisage that the direct-to-mobile satellite services will be used for messaging initially, but ultimately being expanded to internet, voice, and video services using regular smartphones. By K Dass.
Rakuten Mobile has exciting
plans to provide a satellite-to-mobile service in Japan starting from 2026.
They’re partnering with AST SpaceMobile, the company behind the first and only
space-based cellular broadband network directly accessible by everyday smartphones.
This innovative service aims
to offer direct satellite-to-mobile communication not only for text messaging
but also for broadband communication, including voice and video calls, using
commercially available smartphones. In a country like Japan, which faces
natural disasters and has many remote islands and mountainous regions, this
space-based communication using Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites becomes
crucial. During the Noto Peninsula Earthquake of 2024, recovery routes were cut
off, causing delays in emergency response. LEO satellites will enable mobile
phone connectivity regardless of ground conditions, ensuring connectivity even
in challenging situations.
By expanding mobile
connectivity across Japan, including remote islands and mountainous areas,
Rakuten Mobile and AST SpaceMobile are taking a significant step toward
providing reliable network coverage through space-based technologies. | aerospace |
https://anticorruptionsociety.wordpress.com/tag/law-enforcement/ | 2021-12-09T07:44:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363689.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20211209061259-20211209091259-00005.warc.gz | 0.970761 | 387 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__41475353 | en | NOTE: THE FOLLOWING STORY PROVES – BEYOND ANY DOUBT – WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENTS ARE OVERCOME BY FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS!
Today the Middle East and much of Africa are subject to attacks by American drones. As horrific as the drone threat may be seen today or even feared for tomorrow, the truth if far worse than ever imagined.
Drones of unimagined capability are being readied for deployment with even more frightening technical advances on the drawing boards. The drones we are seeing today, even the advanced RQ 170 Lockheed Sentinel captured by Iran in 2011, are child’s play.
HISTORY, THE “CAMEL IN THE TENT”
As with the adage of the camel, whose nose enters a tent and soon afterward, the entire camel is a guest at dinner, so America’s drone program began.
The first drones were model airplanes, battery powered, radio controlled, with small cameras able to show troops on the ground what was on “the other side of the hill.”
Then larger drones were built that carried munitions, in particular the 100-pound “Hellfire” missile.
These drones were intended to supply close air support for direct combat operations. Operators were the actual troops in the field, managing target acquisition and weapons strikes, not just using the camera feed from the drones themselves but, in most cases, able to identify targets as close as 500 meters.
From there, drones became “free ranging,” under “rules of engagement.” Those rules, of course, were a joke. A “militant” was anyone who was armed.
However, few in either Iraq or Afghanistan would venture forth unarmed and peaceful tribesmen or even militia members aligned with the US became targets. | aerospace |
http://supermanica.superman.nu/index.php?title=Superman-16&redirect=no | 2022-06-26T04:41:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103037089.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626040948-20220626070948-00087.warc.gz | 0.973846 | 165 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__216764583 | en | Superman-16 aka S-16
The name of the experimental rocket plane created by the US Air Force and named after Superman. The S-16 however doesn't work properly during a test run when the pilot loses control just as he turns its rocket engine on and the plane is sent crashing toward Earth. Thankfully the pilot safely ejected and Superman then manages to grab the S-16 before it crashes and take it "...to its highest range, 100 miles above Earth!" and Superman thinks to himself "Now it can blow up safely!" which it does.
This sequence took place during Superman's feverish dream on Htrae and it is not known if this rocket plane was actually developed in reality by the USAF (Act No. 264, May 1960: "The Superman Bizarro!"). | aerospace |
http://nigerianjobrecruiter.blogspot.com/2010_12_19_archive.html | 2021-01-18T17:41:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703515075.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118154332-20210118184332-00332.warc.gz | 0.932853 | 261 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__9983468 | en | The candidate shall:
• Ensure the timely presentation of fleet technical status and reports
• Coordinate with OCC on fleet status and flight schedule requirements
• Manage and drive maximum aircraft availability.
• Drive Technical Team members to deliver the Airline standards
• Comply with Quality standards and NCAA requirements at all times
• Resolve Technical issues on Arik Air fleet including working with OEM/Suppliers to ensure technical resolution and support.
• Assist with troubleshooting where necessary and ensure ongoing /recurring defects are monitored and closed as soon as possible
• Licensed Aircraft Engineer with Arik Air Type Ratings – preferably EASA Part 66 B1 OR B2
• Maintrol experience 2 years plus-track record of delivery of similar responsibilities
• IT Skills including MS Word/Excel/Project
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team with minimal supervision-drive for results, good interpersonal skills including working with shop floor /senior management
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested and qualified applicants should forward their current CVs to: firstname.lastname@example.org within one week from the date of this publication. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
All applications should be submitted not later than one week from the date of this publication. | aerospace |
https://blindscustomerservices.com/i-3/ | 2021-06-14T03:04:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487611320.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20210614013350-20210614043350-00178.warc.gz | 0.946602 | 794 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__73820048 | en | This case study concerns the impact of deicing of airplanes to the living things and the environment. This topic is important to be investigated because the deicing process caused many problems to the living things and the environment but at the same time this process is crucial to be done for a safe take off.
Deicing of airplanes is a process that removes ice from the airplanes bodies. It helps an airplane to function properly during cold weather. In cold weather, the airplanes need to deal with ice, snow and frost that built up on their bodies. The built up ice, snow and frost may change the geometry shape of the wings of an airplane, disrupt the air flow and thus, decreasing the lift ability. As we know, each part of an airplane is designed to create lift force. Most of the lift force is generated by the wings and rear tail of an airplane. Both wings and rear tail of an airplane is designed or engineered with a specific shape that crucial for the airplane to have proper lift to flight. This shape made the lift possible but the built up ice, snow and frost due to cold weather might change the shape of those parts and this may lead the parts to function in dangerous and in improper way. Besides, the built up ice, snow and frost may increase the drag and restrict the moving parts of an airplane too.
In order to prevent a dangerous take off, deicing process is urged to be done. In deicing process, some chemicals are used. The common one is the de-ice type I. It prevent the ice built up in a short period of time and is used when the temperatures are not very cold or extremely low. This fluid is heated until 80 degrees Celsius before the fluid is sprayed on the surface of an airplane to remove all the built up ice, snow and frost.
The deicing fluid is applied on the along the centerline of the fuselage at the upper part and then over the side of the fuselage. The fluid is preventing from contact with the window. At the wings, the fluid is sprayed starting from the front edge to the trailing edge. The workers in charge have to take precautions to not letting the fluids from getting into the engines and minimize the fluids application at the landing gear and wheel bays areas.
In United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is control and managed for the deicing procedures. The FAA put on some criteria for approving the deicing chemicals while the federal and state environmental agencies are those that responsible to evaluate the impacts of the deicing chemicals or fluids to the environment and to regulate the discharge of the fluids accordingly. The deicing process often been done during the winter storms, so the runoff from the storms will transport the deicing chemicals from the airfield into the local receiving waters such as wetlands, rivers, coastal areas, creeks and lakes. However, most of the federal and state environmental agencies that existed do not include the limits on deicing chemicals in the stormwater discharges. The airports used this advantage to freely discharging the stormwater that contaminated with deicing fluids. This lead to water pollution issue.
As the air travel is increasing over time, the volume of deicing fluids discharged to the environment is increasing too. Thus, the airports are struggling to decrease the impacts of the deicing fluids to the environment while maintaining the safe air transportation.
In history, the airplanes could not fly during the winter. As time flies, the new techniques were started to exist but they need to perform the techniques manually to remove the ice that adhered to the airplanes bodies. Somehow, a series of tragic crashed happened in 80s caused the commercial aviation industry to take more scientific approaches to de-icing.
Deicing of airplanes remove and inhibit the formation of ice, snow and frost at the bodies of airplanes especially at the fuselage, wings and rear tail. This practice, remove all the accumulation at the airplanes bodies before take-off. | aerospace |
http://ar.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Snipergod87 | 2016-05-24T14:27:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049270798.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002110-00031-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.914376 | 103 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__151315829 | en | a speed relative to the speed of sound Mach number is a ratio of the speed of a body (aircraft) to the speed of sound)
Mach is named after Ernst Mach an Austrian philosopher and physicist.
Mach 1 is about 717mph Mach 2 is twice that. The speed of sound varies due to atmospheric conditions and density of the air.
Most commercial airliners fly below Mach 1
#mach#speed of sound. ernst mach#aircraft#sonic#sonic boom | aerospace |
https://garachh.com/space-debris/ | 2023-04-02T06:26:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950383.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230402043600-20230402073600-00155.warc.gz | 0.947655 | 617 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__166764017 | en | A new video from the European Space Agency (ESA) has started pulling the ears of governments, businesses and scientists. Lasting 12 minutes, the ESA warns us of the dangers of space debris in the very near future.
Additionally, it explains how countries need to change their approaches to satellite technology if they want it to remain viable in the future.
On the other hand, a group of scientists published an article in the journal of natural astronomy, calling for the environmental protection of space. So far, it has been difficult to get media, government and corporate attention on Earth’s environmental issues. However, the problem does not stop at the surface of the planet and Earth’s orbit is dangerously filling with space junk.
According to the scientists responsible for launching the statement, this could lead to quite serious consequences in the close future; and worse in the long run.
More than 30,000 pieces of space debris have been recorded and are regularly tracked by space surveillance networks. As our technology improves, we detect an increasing number of unidentified objects. Due to the time elapsed between its creation and our observation, it is difficult to trace its origins back to a specific “fragmentation event”.
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency places particular emphasis on the considerable increase in satellite launches. Specifically, those that form constellations in low orbit of the planet. Among these can be found examples such as SpaceX’s Starlink; and Planet Labs Pelicans coming out in the next few years.
At the moment there are over 30,000 pieces of space junk floating around the planet. However, only the number is known. Other studies show that there could be more than a million coins larger than a centimeter orbiting the Earth.
The Huge Problem of Space Debris
Space debris is another obstacle to overcome in the fight against environmental pollution. However, the problems go far beyond mere contamination and could even hamper human technological progress if not tackled in time.
The biggest problem is space junk collisions. Although these are, in many cases, particles smaller than one centimeter; space junk travels at speeds such as colliding with functioning satellites would lead to their total loss.. This event, in turn, creates more debris particles which are scattered around the orbit and continue the cycle.If we continue like this, we might be impacted by the ‘Kessler syndrome‘, to describe Digital trends. In this situation, there would be so much debris in orbit that it would become impossible to avoid collisions between functional satellites and debris, making it difficult or even impossible to launch new space missions.
According to the researchers in their paper, we should also apply the same Earth protection lens to space. After all, satellites have become the best ally for the progress of humanity, and for the study of our planet. In doing so, we not only endanger public access to the stars but also “the cultural significance of the sky, as well as the sustainability of commercial, civic and military activity in space”, the scientist comments. | aerospace |
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Salary Details for a Forestry Fire Pilot at CAL Fire Updated Apr 4, 2021 United States United States Any Experience Any Experience 0-1 Years 1-3 Years 4-6 Years 7-9 Years 10-14 Years 15+ Years Total Pay Estimate & Range Confident $84,703 / yr Total Pay $77,856 / yr Base Pay $6,847 / yr Bonus $84,703 / yr $68K $106K $56K$128K Most Likely Range . . . . . DynCorp provides airtanker and airtactical aircraft pilot services, and all aircraft maintenance services. Mr. Hunts body was watched over Tuesday night by fire and rescue personnel and was recovered Wednesday morning. Annual/Recurrent training, includingnew hire initial training, starts the first week of March. All pilots will ensure that their assigned aircraft is in an airworthiness state for immediate dispatch during the daily duty period established by CAL Fire. . If so, have the engines been upgraded as well? 50 * AME Turbine powered. . 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The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating the crash of an air tanker that killed its pilot. They are presently converting an aircraft to replace the one destroyed in the October 7, 2014 crash that killed Geoffrey Craig Hunt. . . . show me Find out how you match this company Start Job Company Description Job Description JobSummary All pilots are responsible for the safe, efficient and effective operation of a CAL FIRE aircraft. . Positions include wildland firefighter, dispatcher, prevention technician, fuels management, and more. . . . Click below to listen on YouTube. . . . Continue reading Firewatch Cobras at Redding. . . . Many thanks . . Operating from across California, aircraft can reach most fires within 20 minutes. . . Typos, let us know, and please keep in mind the commenting ground rules before you post a comment. . . . . Job SummaryAll pilots are responsible for the safe, efficient and effective operation of a CAL FIRESee this and similar jobs on LinkedIn. . The average salary for a Forestry Fire Pilot is $64,256 per year in United States, which is 24% lower than the average CAL Fire salary of $84,703 per year for this job. . . . . Details: Eurasia Group is committed to the highest ethical standards in our research projects, the management of relationships with our clients, the protection of client confidentiality, and in all interactions among our employees. . . The normal work day runs from 10am to a half hour before sunset. . . . 75 * Instrument (actual) . . . . "It explored new technology and lessons learned in the aerial firefighting community." DynCorp International's booth . . "Some of the maneuvers that they do, they're truly amazing heroes to our department," said Cordova.. . . . Updated daily. 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. . . The new contract will continue the program through 2014. Under general direction, throughout the State, to pilot a helicopter over all types of terrain; to assist in all aspects of fire prevention, suppression, and vegetation management; to perform required preventive maintenance on helicopters; and to do other related work. . 400 * Mountain (typical terrain) . . For IFR of an kind: Current IFR en route and terminal charts covering the geograpic area of intended IFR operations. Above all, the ability to always fly an aircraft with extreme precision and striveto serve the communities of California is imperative. . DynCorp International is a leading global services provider offering unique, tailored solutions for an ever-changing world. . . . . . DynCorp International is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. . . CAL FIRE hires their own pilots for their 11 UH-1H Super Huey helicopters, but they are also maintained by DynCorp. . o In turbulent air. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The USFS has them outfitted with infrared and other sensors so that they can be used for close-in intelligence support for ground troops, such as GIS mapping, real time color video, geo-referenced infrared, and infrared downlink. Pilot a helicopter in single pilot operation over all types of terrain in aerial firefighting, hauling firefighters and inmates to and from fires, hauling cargo, both internal and external, and dropping water and retardant on fires from helicopter-carried water buckets or tanks; flying routine and emergency missions such as search and rescue, medivacs, reconnaissance, law enforcement, serial photography, and administrative flights; support prescribed burning projects by hauling various serial ignition devices to ignite prescribed fires; be responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the helicopter; perform preventive maintenance plus limited inspections and maintenance on helicopters while under the direction of a licensed aircraft mechanic; act as air operations officer on occasions, which would include special projects, training, and inspecting rental aircraft pilots, plus other aviation management tasks; and perform other duties assigned. . . Search through companies that offer veteran jobs for veterans with tremendous potential. . Learn How to State Your Case and Earn Your Raise, Climb the Ladder With These Proven Promotion Tips, A Guide to Negotiating the Salary You Deserve, How to Prepare for Your Interview and Land the Job. . . Did the authors statement about Feinberg come true? . o f. Recent flight experience: Meet FAR 61.56 and 61.57 for day, night, and instrument recency, regardless of whether passengers will be carried o g. Recent training: Within 60 days of start of duty period, successfully complete a CAL FIRE approved pilot training program. The agency also has one spare that is used to fill in as needed when an aircraft is undergoing maintenance. Hiring by Amentum is done at the end of the calendar year. . The company will provide reasonable accommodation for the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the companys operations. Go to homepage Go to homepage. . . Hunt had a wife and two daughters and. . . . * Crews will be expected to work additional hours during periods of heavy fire activity. . . Photo by Bill Gabbert.3. . . * Low-level flight is defined as pre-planned mission-oriented flight conducted below 500 feet above ground level (AGL) in support of Federal, State or Private resources such as wildlife surveys, telemetry work, ACETA, wildland firefighting, pipeline patrol, 14 CFR 137 dispensing, nap-of-the earth (NOE) flight operations below 500 feet AGL, etc. | aerospace |
https://members.montanachamber.com/list/member/bridger-aerospace-group-llc-belgrade-66720.htm | 2023-12-02T12:53:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100399.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202105028-20231202135028-00282.warc.gz | 0.948109 | 191 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__180271883 | en | Ascent Vision is a U.S. based technology company specializing in precision technologies for the manned and unmanned aerospace industry. In particular, Ascent manufactures and distributes best-in-class Gimbal systems throughout the Americas and Africa. Ascent also designs and manufactures integration mounts and proprietary software programs for its full line of Gimbals. In addition to aerial applications, Ascent pursues integration of its systems into ground-based vehicles, maritime vessels, and other platforms benefiting from Gyro Stabilized camera systems. Ascent Vision starts 2017 with success selling into the industries of aviation, self driving cars, counter UAS systems and ground based military applications.
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https://defensejournal.ph/2018/02/06/chinas-3rd-anti-missile-tests-hits-preset-goal/ | 2020-07-11T23:09:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657129257.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711224142-20200712014142-00136.warc.gz | 0.949174 | 372 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__75549884 | en | China’s 3rd anti-missile test hits ‘preset goal’
China on Tuesday announced the successful launch of a mid-course land-based missile interception test, its third since 2010.
The test of interception technology was conducted on Monday within China’s territory and achieved a preset goal, said the Ministry of National Defense.
The test is defensive and does not target any country, said the ministry.
China Daily said that Chinese military authorities provided no further information, including at which stage the missiles were intercepted. After a missile is launched, interception normally takes place at one of the three key stages of trajectory: boost, mid-course or terminal phase.
China completed two mid-course, land-based missile interception tests in 2010 and 2013, both of which “attained preset objectives.”
Analysts, as quoted by Xinhua News Agency, said the strategic importance of the capability of intercepting mid-course, land-based missiles is on par with being equipped with nuclear weapons and satellites.
Only a few countries, including the United States, have successfully conducted such tests in the past decade.
The latest test came one month after the US military used an interceptor missile to destroy a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean, the first time in six years that the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system destroyed a test target.
China had reportedly conducted two tests last year of “hypersonic glide vehicle,” or HGV.
HGVs are unmanned aircrafts which glide through the earth’s atmosphere at high speeds. China, defense experts believe wants to position the HGVs against the US THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system which shoots down a missile at the descent or reentry state.# Reports from Xinhua News Agency and China Daily | aerospace |
https://lindalcrowe.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/ill-be-looking-at-the-moon/ | 2019-02-23T14:30:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249504746.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223142639-20190223164639-00069.warc.gz | 0.966926 | 972 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__188851888 | en | I’m always a little sentimental on July 20th. All right. A lot sentimental. It’s impossible for me not to remember the high pitch of excitement in our house the afternoon that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
Mom and Dad, like most parents back then, grew up during the Great Depression. My mother still looked up every time an airplane flew across the sky. The atmosphere still boomed regularly as military jets zoomed through the supersonic sound barrier. To her, these remained miracles almost too great to take in, but a man on the moon? It was the stuff of science fiction.
My father, the engineer, was fascinated with the science of propulsion, the calculations of orbit, the use of centrifugal force to propel a spacecraft back into space. He taught us about anti-gravity. “If you drop a hammer and a feather at the same time on the moon,” he said, “they’ll hit the ground at the same time.” Later, when we saw the astronauts demonstrate it, our skepticism diminished as our respect for our father’s intelligence bloomed.
The 1960’s were all about America’s space program. Prince Charming appeared as an astronaut in my 1963 kindergarten rendition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We begged our mother to buy us Tang, the artificial orange drink, because it was developed for the astronauts. My 1968 Sears bicycle was marketed as “The Spaceliner.” And the Russians? They may have beaten us into space with the first satellite, but the moon would be ours, dang it all!
Prior to Apollo 11’s historic flight, we’d watched as many of the other Apollo lift-offs as we possibly could— if not live, then on the evening news with Walter Cronkite. The four Lundquist kids would gather around the television set and watch as Mission Control updated us on the departure time. “We’re T minus whatever minutes from ignition,” a NASA spokesperson would alert us. We formed a chorus for the final ten seconds of count down. Three…two…one…ignition… Lift off! We have lift-off! On one hand, we were completely spellbound by the rocket there on the launch pad, smoke curling out from the thrusters at the bottom. On the other hand, we could barely contain ourselves, wanting to race around the room or simply jumping up and down.
Later Apollo flights lost none of their allure for our family. I‘ve framed a crayon picture my little brother drew of Apollo 13. “Lift Off!” exclaims the caption in the cartoon bubble coming from the capsule. He had drawn this picture before we knew that, “Houston: We have a problem.”
But in 1969, there we were, an entire family gathered around the TV, Daddy adjusting the horizontal hold knob when necessary. Commander Neil Armstrong was about to step out of the lunar module and onto the surface of the moon. Tears brightened my parents’ eyelids.
One month later, Hurricane Camille would tear through rural Nelson County, killing over 120 people, catching meteorologists completely by surprise as more rain fell in 3 hours than they had (until that night) thought possible. America had put a man on the moon, but early warning systems for storms such as this were still years away.
The Viet Nam War raged on, Virginia had yet to integrate its schools, the Clean Water and Clean Air acts were prospects for the 1970’s. Personal computers were decades away. For all practical purposes, NASA engineers used slide rules to send men into space.
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Who could ever gaze at the moon in the same way? Some fundamental hope hung in the air, and we had a new American hero among heroes. Yet here is what he had to say as he stood on the moon looking toward home, “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
Neil Armstrong died last year and it still chokes me up to think of it. Jazz singer Diana Krall sang at his memorial service, “Fly Me to the Moon,” which seemed so perfect. But it’s the last line from another song of my parent’s generation that plays in my head these days
I’ll be looking at the moon…. but I’ll be seeing you. | aerospace |
https://kterrl.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/sir-alfred-ball-british-air-marshal-died-he-was-91/ | 2018-07-17T18:54:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589892.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717183929-20180717203929-00355.warc.gz | 0.986172 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__121832445 | en | Sir Alfred Ball, British air marshal, died he was 91.
(18 January 1921 – 25 January 2012)
Educated at Campbell College in Belfast, Ball joined the Royal Air Force in 1939. He served in World War II flying Spitfires and commanding No. 682 Squadron, No. 542 Squadron, No. 540 Squadron and finally No. 13 Squadron: he was mentioned in dispatches twice. He was appointed Chief of Staff at SHAPE in 1968, Director General of RAF Organisation in 1971 and UK Military Representative to CENTO at Ankara in 1975. He went on to be Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command in 1977 before retiring in 1979.
In retirement he became an advisor to ICL. He died on 25 January 2012.
In 1942 he married Nan McDonald; they have three sons and one daughter.
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https://lucyweststudios.com/ | 2021-05-16T17:50:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991178.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20210516171301-20210516201301-00125.warc.gz | 0.661711 | 124 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__138942519 | en | Fine Art renderings of the cosmos specializing in space art, astronomical art,
space exploration, planets, nebula, galaxies and deep space objects.
Phone: 509-251-9215 Email: email@example.com
Lucy's work featured on
Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory
Lucy's work featured in
"The Art of Space"
Lucy's work featured on Phil Plait's
Bad Astronomy / Sy Fy Wire
"The Brush Strokes of Star Birth"
Space Art, Astronomical Art, Scientific Art, Fine Art Commissions | aerospace |
https://jobs.cssstaffing.com/jobdetails/electrical-design-engineer-secret-clearance-433/lexington-ky/24693 | 2020-07-04T01:29:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655883961.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704011041-20200704041041-00522.warc.gz | 0.793074 | 302 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__252768340 | en | Electrical Design Engineer Secret Clearance (433)
|Job Title||Electrical Design Engineer Secret Clearance EM|
|Residency||US Citizens Only|
|Duration||1 Year or more|
|Per diem||Yes split available|
|Overtime||Unknown details at interview|
|Shifts||Every other Friday off (9x80 shift)|
We are hiring for an Electrical Engineer who will be working on changing and modifying existing aerospace avionics hardware, as well as integrating existing and new components into airborne or terrestrial equipment or systems.
Candidate will be working on developing military specification (SAE, ANSI, ASME) components / system designs based on requirements and interface control documents. After design work is complete, candidate will assist in supporting the fabrication, installation, and integration of the design, helping the manufacturing and installation contractors.
*3-5 years in Electrical Engineering, creating electrical designs.
*System integration experience.
*Active Interim or Secret Clearance; US Citizens only please.
*BSEE from an accredited University.
*Creating electrical designs of aerospace systems, wiring harnesses, components or other electrical equipment design.
*Familiar with Aircraft systems (like LRUs)
*Five medical plans to choose from
*Optical and dental plan offerings
*Direct deposit payroll
*Overtime paid at time and 1/2 over 40 hours
*Per diem may be available for out of town contractors | aerospace |
https://www.dymetrolseating.com/ | 2024-04-13T13:53:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00214.warc.gz | 0.915976 | 285 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__17052315 | en | Dymetrol fabric has become the ideal solution to lighten automotive seating as designers strive to remove weight from vehicles and increase cabin space in electrified vehiclesFind out more
Dymetrol offers unmatched capabilities for lightweight aircraft seating design that provides superior comfort, space savings, durability and design flexibilityFind out more
Arville Dymetrol is a 100% woven mono-material available in four styles ranging from soft to extra-firm. Dymetrol is easy to install, saving time and costs.
Arville Dymetrol suspension fabrics are designed to replace conventional seating materials such as springs, foams, and wires which are heavier and more bulky…
Arville Dymetrol is a robust material which has been proven in use for demanding applications within the aviation and automotive industries. It has been extensively tested and exceeds the robust standards required for burn behaviour, smoke emissions, toxicity, strength and durability…
Arville is a technical textiles specialist with a 65 year history designing, weaving, coating and fabricating engineered textiles. We supply to customers who work in some of the most challenging and demanding industries around the world.
See examples of Dymetrol at work and how it has helped deliver weight reductions, space savings and enabled modern. Lightweight seating designs.More
We’ve built up a useful bank of downloadable Dymetrol resources – everything from product brochures to technical data sheetsMore | aerospace |
https://careers.ncsea.com/jobs/13268416/director-of-mission-operations-0349u | 2020-01-23T03:46:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250608062.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20200123011418-20200123040418-00268.warc.gz | 0.92186 | 1,264 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__34637929 | en | At the University of California, Berkeley, we are committed to creating a community that fosters equity of experience and opportunity, and ensures that students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds feel safe, welcome and included. Our culture of openness, freedom and belonging make it a special place for students, faculty and staff.
The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's leading institutions of higher education, distinguished by its combination of internationally recognized academic and research excellence; the transformative opportunity it provides to a large and diverse student body; its public mission and commitment to equity and social justice; and its roots in the California experience, animated by such values as innovation, questioning the status quo, and respect for the environment and nature. Since its founding in 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world.
We are looking for equity-minded applicants who represent the full diversity of California and who demonstrate a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds present in our community. When you join the team at Berkeley, you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, staff, students and community partners. In deciding whether to apply for a position at Berkeley, you are strongly encouraged to consider whether your values align with our Guiding Values and Principles, our Principles of Community, and our Strategic Plan.
UC Berkeley currently operates multiple research spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbits from its Mission Operations System (UCB-MOS) at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), consisting of the Multi-Mission Operations Center (MOC), the Science Operations Center (SOC) and the Berkeley Ground Station (BGS). Eleven NASA spacecraft have been supported to date including the recently launched Ionospheric Connection Explorer ICON. NASA has not given this level of full responsibility for operations of national orbiting assets at a combined value of more than $500M to any other university. The SSL operations team, consisting of 20 aerospace engineers and programmers/analysts that performs a wide variety of highly skilled tasks, including spacecraft flight operations, mission planning, executing on-orbit maneuvers, space navigation, ground data systems design and implementation, and science data recovery and processing. Communications with the orbiting spacecraft are established via a local 11-m S-band tracking and data acquisition station, as well as a complex network of satellite ground stations around the world.
The Director of Operations manages the UCB Mission Operations System and has overall responsibility to NASA for the success of multiple spacecraft programs during the pre-launch, launch, and on-orbit operations phases. He or she shall represent the UCB-MOS to NASA, other international space agencies, SSL, UC, and the public.
This position involves leading a team of engineers to design, develop, integrate and test ground data systems, including those for processing data from scientific instruments aboard a spacecraft, and highly complex software systems for satellite command and control. The Director of Operations manages a team of aerospace engineers participating in integration and testing of spacecraft science instruments, coordinates their launch and operation in orbit, and ensures spacecraft and on-board instruments are operated safely and to fulfill mission science requirements. The Director of Operations maintains UCB-MOS certification and good standing with NASA, plans for future upgrades or capability expansions to maintain relevancy of the MOS.
The Director of Operations:
Oversees the design of spacecraft ground data systems and their implementation, testing, configuration control, documentation (e.g mission operations procedures) and operation during the pre-launch, launch and on-orbit phases.
Secures trained staff and develops facilities; develops and manages spacecraft operations plans and procedures; oversees the MOS team and spacecraft contractors in support of on-orbit science operations.
Directs the MOS in its collaborations among diverse groups such as other government agencies, commercial, national and international partners on new and ongoing space mission projects.
Develops complete work plans and budgets, monitoring cost and schedule performance. Ensures all operations objectives of projects are met through subordinate managers.
Leads negotiations with NASA in the establishment of ground rules for operating space missions and defining the technical relationship between NASA and the Campus.
As needed to meet NASA requirements: implements risk management procedures, identifies scheduled critical paths, coordinates trade studies, and leads operations-related reviews.
Works with Principal Investigators to develop new NASA mission concepts and proposals. Provides guidance and direction for the achievement of career objectives by MOS personnel.
Advises senior management on controversial situations, customer negotiations, and interaction with government agencies.
Develops and implements plans for continuous modernization (upgrades and/or expansion of capabilities)
Represents the UCB-MOS at technical conferences and workshops.
In-depth technical knowledge of spacecraft operations and ground data systems. In-depth knowledge of managing all aspects of spacecraft operations.
Highly experienced in spacecraft operations projects and operations management.
Advanced expertise in mission operations system engineering such as needed to understand the complex interaction between space and ground systems, and space navigation.
Advanced skills in collaborating among multiple organizations, including commercial, national, and international partners.
Advanced skills to coordinate all aspects of operations development. Ability to conduct engineering trade studies.
Capacity to lead a project operations team, from junior levels to senior field experts. Ability to secure funding from outside sources.
Demonstrated ability to lead a technical spaceflight project, meeting milestones on schedule and budget during the pre-launch, launch and operations phases of a spacecraft mission.
In-depth knowledge of US and international licensing and procedures related to spacecraft spectrum allocations.
Reputation for being current of the field (e.g. publications, conference participation). Meticulously organized, including as pertains to documentation.
Doctorate or advanced degree with post-graduate work in related field (Physics, Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field) and/or equivalent experience.
Salary & Benefits
For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit: | aerospace |
https://heidisco.com/2023/10/10/meeting-for-ukraines-space-industry/ | 2024-04-18T16:57:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00709.warc.gz | 0.936535 | 441 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__24998540 | en | On August 28, 2023, Odessa hosted a critical meeting for Ukraine’s space industry, devoted to exploring aspects of collaboration essential for advancing innovation in the Ukrainian space sector. Despite the complexity of contemporary issues, such as the war, Ukraine continues to actively develop this sector, strengthening regional integration and international partnerships.
The conference was attended by representatives of the following organizations: All-Ukrainian Association of Innovation and Space Clusters, National Space Test Center, Malopolska School of Public Administration, Krakow University of Economics, and others.
Stanislaw Alwasiak, a representative of Malopolska School of Public Administration, Krakow University of Economics, discussed the opportunities for international collaboration under the DISCO project, in which the All-Ukrainian Association of Space Innovation Clusters is a partner.
The support of European partners for Ukrainian space startups, as well as the successful implementation of the Space Agency’s program, was underscored by Oleksii Kozlov, Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Association of Space Innovation Clusters.
The conference emphasized the active involvement of Ukrainian students and young scientists in the space sector, their collaboration with other countries, as well as the receipt of international patents. The conference acknowledged the importance of training high-quality workers for future industrial development.
Sergiy Hrynevetsky, Vice President of the All-Ukrainian Association of Space Innovation Clusters, stated that despite the challenging wartime circumstances, Ukraine should continue to develop its space industry. In his view, Ukraine’s future depends on its economic condition and the capacity to deploy modern technologies to compete globally. Mr. Hrynevetsky also emphasized the importance of ensuring the country’s financial and economic stability, as well as implementing major projects in the space sector, which are presently being discussed. He also noted the need to improve the quality of education and to retain highly qualified professionals in the country.
Volodymyr Prysyazhnyi, Head of the National Space Test Center, spoke about the facility’s operations and ambitions to establish an Eastern European Space Center. | aerospace |
https://www.cabooltureflightschool.com.au/requirements-for-flight-school/ | 2024-04-24T18:02:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00820.warc.gz | 0.970703 | 902 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141291671 | en | If you want to learn how to fly an aircraft, you need to undergo the correct training. Consequently, you will have to attend a flight school to obtain the right qualifications and get your pilot’s licence.
With that in mind, what are flight schools, and what are the requirements to get into one? We’ll answer both of these questions in this blog, along with providing extra information to help you choose the right school.
What is a flight school?
Flight school is an educational institution dedicated to helping people become pilots. As expected, a large portion of the time is spent flying aircraft. Students will have lessons with an instructor, much like you’d do the same when learning to drive. You will be taught all the practical elements and aspects of flying a plane. This includes the obvious concept of how to fly a plane, but also things like communication with others, how to spot warning signs, and so on.
There will also be some lessons that take place on the ground. This tends to happen before you do a practical session and is usually a briefing of sorts. Students also have to undergo some self-study at home to gain the theoretical knowledge of flying a plane.
Obtaining a pilot’s certificate will require you to undergo exams at the flight school as well. There are theoretical exams based on Air Law and the general operation of your aircraft. These exams are multiple choice and you receive the marks straight away.
If you pass your exams, you will be eligible for a flight test. Again, this is similar to a driving test as you will perform certain exercises or maneuvers for the instructor. They may also ask you questions during the flight relating to some of the theory work you’ve been studying.
Upon passing your flight test, you will be issued a flight certificate that legally allows you to drive a recreational aircraft all by yourself. If you wish to become a commercial pilot, you will need to undergo extra training to gain your commercial licence.
What are the flight school requirements?
Generally, there aren’t many requirements to get into flight school.
You have to be at least 15-years-old to obtain a recreational pilot certificate in Australia. As far as medical requirements are concerned, you need to bet of the same medical standard as is required to drive a motor vehicle. This might mean you have to see your doctor to get a medical certificate that proves you are able to fly.
It is also worth noting that you don’t need your own aircraft to attend a flight school. One will be provided for you while you learn, though you are more than welcome to use your own aircraft if you have one.
How do you choose a flight school?
There are various flight schools throughout Australia, but it is essential that you pick the right one. A bad experience can mean that you spend a lot of money on lessons and training without any reward. It can also put you off flying forever!
When choosing a flight school, you need to research their practices and processes. How do they teach? How long will the lessons be? What does their school look like? Will you have the same instructor every lesson? What’s included in the lesson prices? Do they supply study materials for exams? Will you be able to do the exams at the flight school?
All of these questions are extremely important to know more about the flight school and how suitable it is. Of course, you also need to ask the obvious questions, such as: how experienced are the instructors, and does the school have insurance? It’s crucial that the school is insured and licenced to carry out flying lessons. Otherwise, you may obtain a certificate that’s invalid.
How long does it take to pass your flight test?
Honestly, it depends on the student. Flight schools will not rush students into tests unless they are confident of their passing. As such, it’s impossible to state how long it can take for someone to graduate from flight school. It could be a matter of weeks for some or months for others – the length of time taken to pass does not equate to the skill of the pilot. Some people might take longer than others but still be just as skilled, if not more so!
If you are interested in attending flight school and learning to fly a recreational aircraft, feel free to get in touch with Caboolture Flight School today. | aerospace |
http://science-by-paddy.blogspot.com/2008/02/ | 2018-07-19T04:06:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590493.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719031742-20180719051742-00058.warc.gz | 0.922662 | 362 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__32289464 | en | This is Olympus Mons.
As far as we know, it's the largest mountain--and volcano--in the solar system. At 27,000 m (88,500 ft) high, this BAMF of igneous rock is more than three times the height from sea level of Mount Everest, and more than two and a half times taller than Mauna Kea. On Earth, it would reach well into the stratosphere. The caldera at its summit is about 85 km (53 mi) long by 60 km (37 mi) wide, and up to 3 km (1.8 mi) deep.
And now, you can check it out in 3D.
On Tuesday, the European Space Agency published photos from the Mars Express, an orbiting satellite carrying the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which has been taking 3D pictures of the planet's surface for the past three years. Until now, images of Mars have only come from 2D cameras either orbiting or on the surface, and so scientists have had little information on the true contours of the terrain. From these new pictures, the ESA was able to produce a Digital Terrain Model, or topographical playground, to give some perspective (literally) on the proportions of things on the Red Planet.
If you want to learn more about how they obtained the pictures, check out the ESA's website on the Mars Express HRSC. One of the best places to go walk around Mars and get pictures like this one is through the HRSC page presented by the Planetology and Remote Sensing Department, Institute of Geosciences, Freie Universität, Berlin. For tips on navigating around the maps, hit up the "How to use HRSCview" in the left hand navigation. | aerospace |
https://thefinestbubble.com/news-and-reviews/champagne-designed-for-space-travel-has-lift-off/ | 2023-12-09T12:16:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100909.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209103523-20231209133523-00898.warc.gz | 0.922599 | 464 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__208913832 | en | Has the thought of not being able to drink champagne been putting you off space travel? Us too.
The good news is, we’re not the only ones – and those with more money and incentive than us have finally figured out a solution. Having spent the last three years working alongside space travel design agency, Spade, Mumm Champagne will release a bottle of fizz able to be enjoyed in zero gravity conditions in September 2018.
According to Octave de Gaulle, founder of Spade, the major challenge was figuring out a way of actually getting the liquid out of the bottle when exposed to zero gravity. To overcome this, Mumm Grand Cordon Stellar features a specially designed clear glass bottle that utilises the pressure within to expel the champagne into a ring-shaped frame. In zero gravity, this forms a droplet of bubbles which can then be gathered using a custom-made glass.
The tiny glasses have a tapering stem, no base, and a sightly concave cup just five centimetres in diameter that catches the foam. Once successfully caught, surface tension enables the fizz to stick to the glass, ready for consumption.
The project has been described by Mum as “a groundbreaking feat of technology that makes it possible for astronauts and other space travellers to enjoy Champagne in the challenging surroundings of zero gravity.”
In a recent zero gravity test flight (see video), Mumm Cellar Master Didier Mariotti claimed space conditions also altered the drinking experience. “It’s a very surprising feeling… because of zero gravity, the liquid instantly coats the entire inside of the mouth, magnifying the taste sensations. There’s less fizziness and more roundness and generosity, enabling the wine to express itself fully.”
While alcohol is currently not permitted on board the International Space Station (probably for the best), it is permitted on zero gravity leisure flights, which is where Mumm Grand Cordon Stellar will first be served. The house also hopes to supply their champagne on future space missions and commercial space flights.
Although the reality of us ever sipping floating champagne bubbles whilst exploring the solar system seems light years away, it’s always good to know the option is there. Thanks, Mumm. | aerospace |
http://www.hawkworld.com/technical-data-publications/ | 2019-04-21T20:32:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578532882.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421195929-20190421220826-00052.warc.gz | 0.862688 | 512 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__201190792 | en | Hawk’s technical writers are experienced in all facets of Technical Services, and have the skill sets to create world-class products. The capabilities of Hawk’s Technical Services Department include creating Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM), preparing information for page-based Technical Manuals (TM), and the complete development of Modification Work Orders (MWO). Hawk’s customers include various branches of the U.S. military and programs within the Department of Defense (DoD). Our technical writers ensure that all publications are developed and delivered to the approved technical publication standards requested from the customer.
Hawk’s Technical Services Department also develops Repair Parts and Special Tools Lists (RPSTL) and Provisioning Parts Lists (PPL), utilizing the USAMC Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) approved provisioning program, Powerlog J. Hawk has the ability to provide RPSTL data in various outputs; such as XML, HTML, and page-based data. All publication and RPSTL illustrations are efficiently created by the means of our experienced in-house graphic illustrators and meet approved technical publication standards.
In addition to creating Technical Publications, Hawk has assisted Joint Technical Data Integration (JTDI) with their interactive schematics /wiring diagrams and applied Task Mapping to support AMCOM IMMC Publication Services with the development of UH-60 IETMs. Hawk’s Technical Services Department has also worked with Air Warrior on the Encrypted Aircraft Wireless Intercom System (EAWIS), developing MWOs and Technical Manual data for all Blackhawk (UH-60) and Chinook (CH-47) platforms.
Hawk Enterprises’ Technical Data and Publications Team has
extensive knowledge and experience developing and sustaining:
Hawk’s Technical Services Department has extensive knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- Provisioning Parts Lists (PPL)
- Wiring Schematics and Diagrams
- Troubleshooting Tables and Procedures
- Technical Publication Validation and Verification processes
- Technical Bulletin (TB) Development
- Modification Work Orders (MWOs) Development
- Repair Parts and Special Tools (RPSTL) Development
- Operator Manuals
- General Aviation, Avionics, Armament, and Electrical Maintenance Manuals
- Page-Based Technical Manuals (TMs)
- Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs)
- Commercial Off the Shelf Technical Manuals (COTs) | aerospace |
https://www.msteam.club/dhl-aviation-logo.html | 2020-02-23T07:39:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145747.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20200223062700-20200223092700-00044.warc.gz | 0.866373 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__159103787 | en | dhl aviation logo designs requires really hard work and being up to date with the latest trends in design . A simple logo design allows for easy recognition and allows the logo to be versatile & memorable. dhl aviation logo ideas has its own remarkable and quite unique characteristics. Looking for some more dhl aviation logo inspiration? You might also like to check out our showcase of aviation trefle logo, dhl paket logo or farbcode dhl logo.
Below each image are buttons to share the dhl aviation logo images with Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter and Google+. We hope you enjoy dhl aviation logo Pinterest / Facebook / Tumblr images and we hope you share it with your friends. | aerospace |
https://www.industry-techoutlook.com/ranking/Top-10-Defense-Solution-Providers-of-2021/Edmund-Burke-CEO-Founder-space-information-labs-cid-223-mid-26.html | 2023-12-07T07:29:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100650.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207054219-20231207084219-00584.warc.gz | 0.882464 | 1,411 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__236498730 | en | Incorporated in 2005, Space Information Laboratories (SIL) is a California-based small business that develops, manufactures, and environmentally qualifies flight unit products for launch vehicles, missiles, hypersonic vehicles, reentry vehicles, aircraft, and UAS. These products include Li-Ion Polymer Intelli-Pack® avionics, telemetry and flight termination batteries, VBITS Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS), and Space-Based Range Flight Units, IntelliAvionics®, and Chameleon 12U to 27U Flexible Bus. SIL has a complete in-house Space environmental flight unit test capability, including thermal cycle, vacuum, random and sine vibration, and shock. SIL accomplishes this work at the highest quality with an independently certified AS9100D Quality Management System to design, manufacture, and test flight units.
SIL’s first product was the Vehicle-Based Independent Tracking System (VBITS) patented technology (Utility Patent #5,739,787, issued 14 April 1998) GPS Tracking and Autonomous Flight Termination System. In 2006-2007, SIL designed a VBITS unit for the DoD missile program. In 2008-2011 designed a VBITS unit for ULA Atlas and Delta Rockets that enable GPS tracking real-time Range Safety instead of Radar for the Department of Defense programs. The VBITS technology was the first United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Intellectual Property for GPS tracking and Autonomous Flight Termination System for Space Launch Vehicles and missiles. In 2012-2013 via the DARPA ALASA program, we worked on VBITS Autonomous Flight Termination and Space-Based Range System in one consolidated unit. In 2017, Missile Defense Agency awarded SIL a contract in regards to their Vehicle-Based Independent Range System patented technology to transition missiles, interceptors, hypersonic vehicles, and reentry vehicles to Autonomous Flight Termination System and Space-Based Range architecture methodology to reduce Test and Evaluation, and Operations and Maintenance life cycle cost by eliminating ground instrumentation assets. SIL will perform Range Safety environmental qualification of VBIRS Autonomous Flight Termination Unit in 2021 and start flying in the technology on missiles in shadow mode flight tests in 2022.
SIL’s VBITS Autonomous Flight Termination System and Space-Based Range technology reduces the cost to track, destroy, and send high-speed telemetry supporting missile tests by 95%. This cost-savings is achieved by eliminating the need for ground-based launch range instrumentation assets (Radar, Flight Termination System, and Telemetry Systems) for missiles launched from 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg AFB, 45th Space Wing, Cape Canaveral, Florida, and any other DoD launch and test range.
SIL’s VBITS and Vehicle Based Independent Range System (Utility Patent # 10,302,398 B2 issued 29 May 2019) technologies significantly reduce the test and evaluation, and operations and maintenance cost of DoD launch and test ranges by eliminating all ground Radar, Flight Termination System, and Telemetry Systems, thus saving at least $1 million a Space Launch and for DoD missile and hypersonic vehicle test mission in the tens of millions by not requiring significant DoD assets like ships, human-crewed and uncrewed aircraft and ground instrumentation sites to be used for test and evaluation of weapon systems.
In 2011, Lockheed Martin Space selected SIL’s patented Li-Ion Polymer Intelli-Pack® Pack Battery technology (Utility Patent # 9,748,541 B2 issued 29 August 2017) for use on the DoD missile programs. This application saved over 150 lbs by switching out older battery technology (Silver Zinc and Nickel Cadmium), thus significantly increasing missile range.
SIL’s Li-Ion Polymer Intelli-Pack® Battery technology enables a high energy, intelligent and safe battery for Space Launch Vehicles, missiles, strike weapons, reentry vehicles, and aircraft satellites. SIL’s Li-Ion Polymer Intelli-Pack Battery has an advanced Battery Management System in the enclosure that ensures system safety and works in the most extreme mission-critical Aerospace platform applications. SIL’s Li-Ion Battery with an advanced Battery Management System in the battery provides the safest Li-Ion Battery technology in the marketplace to ensure platform power system safety.
SIL’s Chameleon 12U to 27U Nano/Micro Satellite technology (Utility Patent #9,730,339 B2 issued 8 August 2017) enables high-reliability missions in LEO, HEO, and GEO orbits with 3 to 5-year on-orbit design life. SIL’s Chameleon Nano/Micro Satellite Combat Flexible Bus is Open, Modular, Scalable, and Reconfigurable to meet changing customer requirements and designed to work in Space with RF payloads with extreme electromagnetic interference and also during an Electromagnetic Pulse from an adversary. The company’s Avionics and Power system technology is open, modular, scalable, and reconfigurable to meet new customer requirements. SIL’s technology easily upgrades with the latest state-of-the-art GPS L1/L2 receiver, Satellite LEO and GEO modem technology, Li-Ion Polymer cells, and advanced Battery Management System electronics as technology evolves that gives us a key advantage.
The company is providing various solutions to their DoD and commercial Space customers. For instance, for the LM Space DoD missile, SIL provided high energy and reliability and safe Li-Ion Polymer Battery that replaced the existing Ni-Cad Battery and saved over 150 lbs with a battery switch allowing a missile to fly a much longer distance. SIL designed a VBITS GPS Tracking Unit that transitioned the industry to GPS tracking andAutonomous Flight Termination instead of ground Radar to track a rocket for real-time Range Safety and terminating a vehicle with a man-in-the-loop that saved millions a launch not requiring ground based Radar and Flight Termination Sites any longer. For Firefly Alpha Rocket, SIL provided a standard dual redundant battery to increase reliability for all rocket avionics, telemetry, and flight termination system, saving high costs through standard battery interfaces throughout the rocket.
SIL plans to purchase a new facility and triple its existing capacity to design, manufacturing, and environmental test products. Their Li-Ion Polymer Intelli-Pack® FTS and Avionics/Telemetry Battery and VBITS Autonomous Flight Termination System and Space-Based Range technologies have the potential to double their revenue within the next five years. Also, SIL has entered the Nano/Micro Satellite market with their 12U to 27U Chameleon Combat Flexible Bus. This product has the potential to grow significantly once their first satellite is placed on-orbit. | aerospace |
https://www.sunresortshotels.com/en/maldives/infos/paris-maldives-flying-hours | 2020-07-12T08:33:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657134758.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20200712082512-20200712112512-00497.warc.gz | 0.955047 | 880 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__140683029 | en | Flight duration from Paris to Maldives
For those looking to head to the incredible, dreamlike destination of the Maldives, one of the first questions that will probably come to mind is: “how long will it take to get there?”. There are many different factors that can impact your travel time—from your departure location and chosen airline to layovers and delays, that there’s, sadly, no exact answer to this pertinent question. However, let’s look at possible flight durations if you were to travel from a European location, such as Paris, as an example.
The approximate flight time from Paris (France) to Malé (Maldives) can be calculated with a flight time calculator from the nearest airport to Paris, which is the Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG), to that closest to Malé which is the Malé International Airport (MLE), which is also commonly known as the Velana International Airport. However, these calculations are not always accurate.
Many of the more cost-effective flights to the Maldives include one or more stopovers, but this, naturally, impacts the flight time from Paris to the Maldives. For example, the flight time from Paris to the Maldives on Emirates, with a short layover in Dubai, will take approximately 13 hours 5 minute. This is one of the quickest flight durations for a one-stop flight from Paris to the Maldives. With other flight options on Emirates, or on other airlines, you can expect up to 35-hours of transit time depending on the layover destination and duration. It’s important to weigh up the cost vs. time factor when travelling and to remember that the layovers themselves can take from 1 to 23 hours and, in rare cases, longer.
Direct flights from Paris to the Maldives are a little hard to come by. However, Air France has opened a direct route, flights of which are limited to specific days which currently seem to be; departing from Paris to the Maldives on Thursdays and returning from Malé to Paris on Sundays, so if you would like the direct route, you will need to plan accordingly. This direct Air France flight duration will generally be between 9 hours 50 minutes and 10 hours 50 minutes. In this time you will traverse the incredible distance between Paris and Malé which is approximately 8479 kilometres.
Keep in mind that flight durations can also be heavily affected by weather conditions, air traffic congestion, flight paths and wind speed, so the flight times usually serve as estimates. When it comes to travelling and flight times, it’s important not to get too attached to the exact travel time but instead, focus on the wonder of the destination itself. It’s also crucial to remember that times of arrival on tickets will be based on the local time in the Maldives, which is 4 hours ahead of Paris.
The airlines that typically fly from Paris to the Maldives include Air France, Emirates, British Airways, Turkish Airlines and Qatar but there are others. You can use a travel metasearch engines such as Skyscanner to help you find the best prices on flights and all the different flight options which outline their specific flight durations. The low season is a good time to fly to the Maldives, as prices tend to be much cheaper (especially in April and May).
If you are planning to stay on a sensational resort island, such as the stunning five-star Kanuhura, for the duration of your trip, it’s a good idea to factor in the extra travel time from Malé to the island itself. To get to Kanuhura, you’ll have to take a short trip on a seaplane and will be able to take advantage of the Kanuhura guests-only lounge while you wait in the Malé airport.
At the end of the day, your flight time from Paris to the Maldives is influenced by so many different factors so it’s wise to take your time when researching your flights, or you can employ the services of a travel agent to do it for you. That way, you ensure that the flight time from Paris to the Maldives for your once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Maldives fits perfectly with your needs, preferences and budget. | aerospace |
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http://jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=112 | 2023-09-30T22:43:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510730.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930213821-20231001003821-00254.warc.gz | 0.970011 | 135 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__194337791 | en | There have been two well-known Jewish astronauts. One, Judith Resnik, is pictured on the left. The other was Ilan Ramon, not pictured.
Both are dead.
Resnik, still pictured on the left, was part of the Challenger tragedy. Ilan Ramon, was killed in the Columbia disaster.
There have been no other famous Jewish astronauts, nor space shuttle-involved deaths.
We'll leave it at that.
But to you goyim out there, if you're getting on the space shuttle and you see a Jewish person on board, you might want to rethink.
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With only a few more days left in Ramadan, Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor hopes to be able to observe the fast from outer space. Shukor, 35, is the first astronaut to represent Malaysia in the International Space Station (ISS). Blasting off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday, October 10, 2007, he travelled to space in a Russian built Soyuz spacecraft adorned with the Malaysian flag. The deal for a Malaysian to travel to space was reached back in 2003. The price tag for the ticket to space cost $25 million with the Malaysian government also expected to shell out another $300 million to purchase one and a half dozen Russian–made fighter jets.
Shukor will also be traveling to space with American Peggy Whitson and Russian Cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko. His trip to space will last for approximately 12 days during which he will study micro gravity and how space radiation affects living cells and microbes. As a doctor, he also hopes to perform experiments with proteins that could one day lead to a vaccine for the HIV virus, which causes AIDS.
As a Muslim, Shukor must also grapple with aspects of Islam and how to apply them to living in space. Like, how to perform wudu and which way to face Mecca so that he can pray. Malaysian clerics have already agreed that Shukor must only know the location of Mecca at the beginning of the prayer because the space station is in a constant state of motion and it would be impossible for him to face Mecca during the entire prayer even though he will be belted into one position. As a result of Shukor’s trip to space the Islamic National Fatwa Council (INFC) published a 12-page rulebook entitled ‘Muslim Obligations in the International Space Station’. One of the rules stipulates that it is not necessary to perform the entire wudu when traveling in space. A wet towel is sufficient . Another rule states that the actions of the prayer, like bowing and prostrating, are not necessary if they are too cumbersome for the Muslim astronaut to perform. A simple silent prayer is sufficient according to Islamic scholars from the INFC.
Shukor will also bring a taste of Malaysia with him to the ISS, in the form of a consignment of Malaysian food. One item he will bring will be Malaysian biscuits, which are traditional fare to mark the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan. In addition to the food, Shukor had also reportedly promised to make Malaysia’s national drink for his colleagues at the ISS. The drink, called ‘Teh Tarik’, is basically hot milky tea. But the way it is made is quite dangerous especially if it is done in space. The boiling tea is poured quickly between two vessels, one high and one low, in the hands of whoever is making it. The quick action creates a unique foam that floats on the top of the tea. According to the Malaysian government, the purpose of making the tea in space is to see what happens to ‘Teh Tarik’ in space. So, it is more of an exercise in physics than Malaysian hospitality!
Local Malaysian bloggers and citizens seem to be split over the decision to send a Malaysian to the ISS. One blogger writes, “It actually sounds stupid. When I read that PM Abdullah Badawi said “it would be the first step by Malaysia to prove its capability in the field of aerospace.†I mean sending an astronaut to space without our own technology, what’s there to achieve?†Another blogger laments, “What new experiments that we Malaysians could possibly do in space? Something that brilliant scientists in NASA, Europe, Russia and all over the world themselves have not done? The answer is nothing. So, forget about doing some mind boggling, scientifically challenged experiments that even scientist at NASA would sit up and take note.†Other bloggers have simply labelled it a publicity stunt to get more people across the World to take notice of Malaysia.
Regardless of the purpose of sending a Malaysian to space, it is pretty exciting for the rest of us Muslims sitting safely on the ground to see one of our own blast off to space. May Allah bless Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor’s journey to space and make it fruitful. | aerospace |
https://www.housem.nl/2019/07/16/big-city-beats-dj-set-in-space/ | 2022-06-26T02:24:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103036363.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626010644-20220626040644-00752.warc.gz | 0.899702 | 414 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__181050488 | en | In 1969, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins of the Kennedy Space Center, launched into space in the Saturn V rocket. With the aim of putting the first man on the moon, the Apollo 11 mission set off on July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the lunar surface.
Exactly 50 years later, history will be written once again. Taking off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s LC-1 launch area, the Italian ESA astronaut will be taking the Soyuz FG rocket with 26 million horsepower into space on dock at the International Space Station (ISS). One of the mission objectives for the new ISS commander is to complete the first ever DJ set in space, this spectacular mission has gained attention from the likes of Forbes Magazine and other noteworthy media around the world.
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https://www.biv.com/news/transportation/regulator-not-investigating-toronto-bound-air-canada-flight-returned-yvr-8270398 | 2024-04-23T08:54:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00875.warc.gz | 0.965718 | 449 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__175321807 | en | The Transportation Safety Board said it is monitoring, but not investigating, an incident aboard an Air Canada flight that occurred early Monday afternoon.
Flight 114 from Vancouver to Toronto safely returned to YVR after air pressure suddenly changed. The pilot announced to passengers that a cargo door was open and reassured them that the situation was under control.
According to Flightaware.com, AC114, a Boeing 777, departed 35 minutes late at 12:30 p.m. and returned at 1:08 p.m. after flying a figure-eight pattern. The jet took off towards Blaine, Wash., then took a sharp turn toward Tsawwassen and headed west over Gabriola Island, before another sharp turn south over Nanaimo and a turn east over Galiano Island back to YVR.
“Someone didn’t fasten the cargo door properly and it opened during takeoff,” tweeted passenger Randy Govang. “Flight was depressurized and we had to circle to lighten the fuel load to land back in Vancouver.”
Air Canada’s media relations office denied that the door was open. It blamed the incident on a door indication signal that the pilots received.
“At no time was any door open when the airplane was in the air,” said a statement from the airline. “Passengers were rebooked to other flights with everyone re-departing yesterday. The aircraft was taken offline for technicians to complete a sensor change, it returned to service after final checks were complete.”
Transportation Safety Board (TSB) spokesperson Liam MacDonald said the independent agency has not deployed investigators, because it is not obliged to probe all reported incidents.
“The TSB may launch an investigation if there is likelihood of identifying new safety lessons to advance transportation safety,” MacDonald said. “Mechanical issues that do not result in a crash, injury or fatality are typically classified as class 5 occurrences.”
Under the TSB’s occurrence classification policy, incidents ranked fifth on its six-step scale are not subject to comprehensive investigations and reports. However, data is gathered and recorded for statistical reporting and future analysis. | aerospace |
https://radicl.com/radicl-blog/atlas-spaces-john-williams-on-the-space-communitys-evolving-place-in-the-dib | 2024-03-05T13:05:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00715.warc.gz | 0.95992 | 568 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__137158368 | en | EP 2 — ATLAS Space's John Williams on the Space Community's Evolving Place in the DIB
On this week's episode of the DIB Innovators podcast, David talks with John Williams, Chief Executive Officer at ATLAS Space Operations, the leading provider of ground software as a service in the space communications industry. They discuss John's extensive career both in the Air Force and various defense companies, how innovation and business models in the DIB are evolving, and how the space community is becoming its own entity. They also talk about the importance of cybersecurity, what tech investments ATLAS is making to better manage terabytes of data, and advice for entrepreneurs.
- How John's background in the Air Force and various defense companies has allowed him to lead change in the DIB.
- The differences between "old space" and "new space" in terms of speed of innovation and different business models.
- How the space community is "coming into its own" in the DIB, how it's updating old business models, and the challenges it still faces.
- What ATLAS Space is doing to improve satellite communications and moving content from space to ground.
- Where tech investments like machine learning, data management, and better hardware are supporting innovation.
- How ATLAS approaches cybersecurity, including a talented team and third-party support.
- Advice to entrepreneurs to learn more about the commercial world, especially if they're coming from a military background.
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"I see the Space Development Agency trying to make the transition in what they're doing with their tranches, trying to capture that magic that's quicker and more innovative on the commercial side. And I think they're doing a good job of tapping into that, but it really is different. Atlas lives mostly in the new space environment, but we do have a subsidiary, for example, to deploy our capabilities towards the traditional government market space."
"We in mankind have lots of brilliant ideas. The trick for the entrepreneur is take that and converting that into something that has a market acceptance, in a business case and turn that into a real business."
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https://www.hip-hopvibe.com/news/flight-attendant-on-delta-airline-flight-1730-from-lax-to-atlanta-was-subdued-by-passengers-after-trying-to-open-the-exit-door-midair-video/ | 2021-08-01T01:27:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154127.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731234924-20210801024924-00631.warc.gz | 0.963262 | 208 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__161059963 | en | A flight, from Los Angeles to Atlanta, almost had a very dramatic ending. Midflight, a man decided to go into the cockpit, in an attempt to open the plane’s exit door. But, the other flight passengers stopped this from happening.
Since the beginning of the 2000s, airplane flights have increasingly become dangerous. Not even counting the terrorist attacks, there have been many plane crashes. Aside from that, many fights have occurred on flights.
Further reports, of the Delta airlines flight, number 1730, from LA to Atlanta, showed a flight attendant. The flight attendant was the man who tried to open the exit door, midflight. Passengers, on the plane, fought the man, stopping him from opening the door, causing the flight to land in Oklahoma City.
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https://s-bp.com/blog/2023/09/19/philippines-doe-seeks-aviation-transport-decarbonization/ | 2024-04-13T02:20:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816535.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413021024-20240413051024-00432.warc.gz | 0.920731 | 426 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__19762599 | en | The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Monday its active collaboration with the country’s aviation sector and international partners to promote the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). In a statement, the DOE highlighted SAF as an environmentally sustainable and chemically identical alternative to fossil fuel-based aviation fuel.
In the Philippines, the DOE identified coconut oil (CNO) as a potential feedstock for SAF. Generally, biodiesel producers also use coconut oil in biodiesel production. DOE Undersecretary Alessandro Sales emphasized that SAF’s adoption aims to reduce the carbon footprint associated with aviation operations actively. This alternative fuel source holds the potential to significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) while maintaining the highest safety and performance standards. Furthermore, it is derived from renewable feedstock.
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As part of its commitment to creating a sustainable aviation transport sector that contributes to the national goal of a low-carbon future, the DOE is actively working to establish the necessary framework and regulations to support the widespread adoption of SAF, added Sales.
The DOE also highlighted another initiative aimed at decarbonizing the commercial aviation industry. The DOE has named it as the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). CORSIA, established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), provides a standardized approach to reducing emissions from international flights actively. It permits the use of SAF derived from biomass or waste resources to help airlines meet their carbon offsetting requirements.
CORSIA’s timetable mandates that participating ICAO Member States, including the Philippines, must comply with the CO2 offsetting requirements. Mandatory compliance is scheduled for 2027 to 2035, with an interim phase between 2024 and 2026.
Earlier this year, DOE, CAAP, PNOC, and EASA stakeholders actively discussed SAF’s potential benefits for CORSIA compliance by 2027. EASA is currently preparing a proposal for SAF readiness in the Philippines, expected by year’s end. In conclusion, these will lead to a sustainable energy and aviation sectors. | aerospace |
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https://sansarnews.com/136394/ | 2022-05-20T09:59:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662531779.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220520093441-20220520123441-00352.warc.gz | 0.941821 | 265 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__152031067 | en | Feb 2 (RSS), Kathmandu: The national flag-carrier Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has obtained an air operator’s certificate (AOC) by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) to conduct flights for Japan. According to NAC assistant spokesperson Nawaraj Koirala, its new A 330 wide-body aircraft was granted the AOC for Kathmandu-Osaka flights on Friday.
The NAC had purchased two wide-body aircrafts on different dates in the past eight months.
The NAC would very soon seek permission from an aviation regulating body abroad (Japan) towards that end. It plans to launch the Kathmandu-Osaka flight in the next one month.
It dreams of operating the Kathmandu-China flight as well by the end of March. The NAC has already managed human resources to handle the flights in both destinations.
A list of NAC presently available foreign flights includes New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangkok and Qatar. Process is underway to connect China, South Korea, and the Saudi Arabia with the NAC straight flights in near future.
It presently owns two international wide-body aircrafts, two narrow-body aircrafts and one Boeing for the operations of international flights. | aerospace |
https://duquark.com/2019/05/20/radiation-shielding-the-astronomical-problem-of-protecting-astronauts-on-mars/ | 2023-06-01T06:37:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647614.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601042457-20230601072457-00655.warc.gz | 0.909753 | 3,570 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__114549475 | en | Radiation Shielding: The Astronomical Problem of Protecting Astronauts on Mars
By Madelyn Hoying
Radiation is the biggest roadblock for NASA in sending astronauts to Mars and to explore other parts of the solar system. The moon is close enough to Earth that radiation was not a significant factor in the short-term Apollo missions, but any future missions that stray further from Earth or for longer periods of time will require new radiation shielding techniques. This review explains the different types of radiation that will affect astronauts, the current mitigation techniques, and the new research being done on radiation shielding. More work is needed to find a lightweight, durable material to protect astronauts as they explore increasingly distant parts of the solar system.
KEYWORDS: Radiation, space, Mars, boron-nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), galactic cosmic radiation (GCR)
Some of the harmful effects of radiation are well known. Chronic radiation exposure is linked to genetic mutations and other medical issues that lead to severe illness and even death 1. Because of this threat, radiation poses a massive risk to astronauts in deep space exploration. Without the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic effects, humans have nothing protecting them from the constant radiation from the Sun and from other parts of the universe 2. A trip to Mars, to anywhere in the solar system, or even a long-term trip to the moon could prove deadly without employing radiation shielding techniques 3. Humans have already ventured into space without effective methods of radiation shielding, including trips to the moon, but these successful results are not guaranteed to be repeated. During the Apollo missions in the 1960s, the astronauts did not experience significant increases in radiation because the time spent beyond Earth’s protection was so short, and no unusual space events took place4. But as we move towards longer-duration manned space travel, the risk to astronauts skyrockets. This is a pressing issue that must be solved by 2026, when NASA plans to send the first crews to space as part of the mission to Mars.
The enormous risk of radiation poisoning is currently one of the main limiting factors in NASA’s planning for the Orion mission to Mars, where astronauts will live and work on the Martian surface in the Ice Home2. The Ice Home is the permanent crew quarters and laboratory planned to be deployed on the Martian surface. The current techniques used to protect from radiation will not work for deep space travel, because they are designed for use within the Earth’s protective magnetic shield. This review will discuss the different types of radiation that pose a risk to astronauts during a trip to Mars, the current techniques proposed for use in the Orion capsule and the Martian Ice Home to mitigate the effects of radiation, and the research being done on radiation shielding techniques to allow for long-duration human spaceflight.
UV radiation is one type of radiation from the sun that will affect astronauts on a long-term trip anywhere in space. On a trip to Mars, astronauts will be constantly exposed to the radiation from the sun, both while in flight to Mars and while on the Martian surface. The Earth has a geomagnetic shield that combines with the atmosphere to protect people on the surface from harmful radiation. Charged particles that constitute types of radiation like UV radiation are deflected by the geomagnetic shield or absorbed in the atmosphere 5. Since the Earth’s geomagnetic shield extends past the Earth to cover objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), this was not a problem for the Apollo missions or for astronauts on the ISS 4. However, it does not extend far enough to protect astronauts on the trip from Earth to Mars. During the trip to Mars, astronauts will instead have to rely on the materials that make up the Orion capsule to provide a suitable level of radiation protection. Mars has a much weaker atmosphere and magnetic field, meaning that more harmful radiation gets through to the surface 9. Astronauts will need a level of radiation protection on the Martian surface that would not be necessary on Earth’s surface.
A second type of radiation called Galactic Cosmic Radiation, or GCR, is a significant issue for astronauts as well. GCRs are a type of radiation that comes from somewhere deep in space and is constantly all around, but the actual sources of GCRs are unknown. GCRs make it through to the surface of the Earth, but the magnetic shield and the atmosphere create enough of a barrier that by the time it reaches the surface, the GCR becomes secondary radiation and is much less harmful, as is shown in Figure 16. As secondary radiation is an effect of the Earth’s dense atmosphere, this type of radiation poses a serious problem for astronauts beyond the Earth’s protection. Research has not been done directly on what effects GCRs have on humans because humans have not traveled into deep space, but some studies approach the topic by simulating the parts of GCRs that are known. A 2018 study performed at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory showed that exposure to GCRs increases the likelihood of lung cancer 10. This was done by simulating parts of GCR rays and using them to irradiate human lung cells, then comparing the cancer rate of the irradiated cells with that of cells not exposed to the simulated GCRs 10. More research is needed to establish the effects of GCRs on other parts of the human body, but even with research only on the lungs, it is clear that GCR shielding is of the utmost importance if astronauts are to survive their missions beyond Earth.
GCRs have also created serious problems for electronic devices in deep space, as they tend to have much more immediate and serious effects on electronics than UV radiation 7. Electronic devices in orbit need radiation shielding just like humans do, because any radiation or external magnetic field can render them inoperable, much like a cell phone deactivating a hotel room key 11. For example, high levels of this type of radiation have been shown to create subatomic gaps in electronic devices like computer chips that leave the computer chips unable to function 12. GCR levels would only reach such a height if there were an astronomical event that creates GCRs that hit our solar system during the flight. This is unlikely but impossible to predict, since we do not know how GCRs are created 6. This means that the electronics will slowly deteriorate over time with slow exposure to GCRs, with the potential for a sudden and total malfunction at any given time. GCRs are expected to be a significant problem for humans in deep space travel beyond Earth’s geomagnetic protection, both in terms of human health and in terms of computer malfunction. Both factors would clearly prove fatal to the mission in a programmed space launch vehicle. Shielding techniques are needed to protect astronauts from this type of radiation.
CURRENT MITIGATION TECHNIQUES
Water-based shielding is an effective but inefficient method for blocking all types of radiation. This technique involves simply surrounding an object with water, since water blocks radiation in the same way that lead blocks X-rays. About 2 meters of water on each side is needed to reduce radiation exposure by 50%, and increasing that amount to 3 meters reduces radiation exposure by 75% (with an increase in uncertainty)13. NASA has determined that safe levels of radiation for the expected mission duration are within the 50-75% range, making this an effective method of protecting astronauts on the Martian surface 2. However, water production on Mars occurs by extracting water from the Martian surface at a rate of about 0.25 m3 per day 2. While water shielding would absolutely reduce radiation exposure on the Martian surface to an acceptable amount, getting 3 meters of water to surround the Ice Home is not the most practical solution. Water is too heavy to carry in such large quantities on the Orion capsule to Mars, so it cannot be used as the only shielding technique for the trip to the Martian surface 8.
Because of the slow production rate, it would take too long to get enough water in the Ice Home to use that as the sole shielding technique on the Martian surface as well. NASA’s current approach to dealing with excess radiation on the surface of Mars is to place the Ice Home in the location on Mars with the lowest radiation amounts in the general area. There are certain locations on Mars that would work for a human habitat based on landing requirements, water accessibility, dust storms, and a wide range of other factors 2. NASA is looking in these certain areas for the location with the lowest radiation levels. The Curiosity Rover on Mars gathered radiation information for several locations, taking into account different factors such as the Martian weather at the time of gathering the data 3. That way, factors like dust storms that could temporarily lower the radiation levels in a certain spot wouldn’t throw off the measurements. From this data, a radiation map of the Martian surface was created with detailed information on the radiation levels, including even the differences in radiation levels at different times during the Martian day, or sol 8. This will be used to select the ideal deployment spot for the Ice Home to have the lowest possible radiation risk to astronauts from the start, before including any shielding techniques 2. Combining this technique with water shielding, the risk to astronauts can be reduced but not eliminated.
ADVANCES IN RESEARCH
A major breakthrough in radiation shielding came in the form of synthetic nanomaterials. Traditional materials like metals can shield radiation, but each pound of a payload costs about $10,000 to just get into orbit, without even taking into account the cost for the rest of the trip to Mars 5. The increase in cost associated with sending extra metal material to Mars far outweighs the benefits of the shielding effects. Less massive materials like plastics work for very short-term shielding, but GCRs tend to break down plastics very quickly and the shielding effect would not last the length of the trip to Mars9. Synthetic materials that are lightweight like plastics but have the tenacity of traditional metal and the load-bearing capacity needed to support spaceflight are vital to human space exploration. One promising synthetic material is boron-nitride nanotubes, or BNNTs. BNNTs are equally as effective at shielding yet significantly less massive than traditional metals due to their nanoscale 14. BNNTs can be integrated into traditionally lightweight spacecraft materials without a high mass tradeoff. However, these materials are historically not cheap or easy to make. New breakthroughs in 3D-printing plastics with BNNTs embedded in them show promise in using BNNTs for construction of space launch vehicles 15. More research is needed to verify the structural integrity of 3D-printed BNNTs, since the load requirements are so extreme for spaceflight. However, this is a promising advance in a field that has been stagnant for some time.
There is a lot of work left to do to protect astronauts throughout their missions before reaching NASA’s 2026 launch date. Radiation is a huge risk to astronauts, especially as they travel beyond the International Space Station and lose the natural protection of Earth’s geomagnetic sphere. For any long-duration manned space mission, a complete overhaul of the current radiation shielding techniques are needed in order to keep astronauts safe in space. Current techniques like using water to block radiation is impractical on a longer mission, since the amount of water needed to effectively block radiation would be too heavy for a long flight 13. The materials used to protect against GCR for space travel today will be exposed to more radiation than they can handle and will break down, rendering them ineffective by the time astronauts return to Earth 15. More research is needed to determine the safety of recent advances in BNNTs, and to identify other possible shielding techniques 14. New materials are needed for radiation shielding to allow astronauts to safely venture into the solar system.
Figure 1 Secondary radiation formation from GCRs in Earth’s atmosphere. When a galactic cosmic ray (GCR) reaches Earth’s atmosphere, there is an extremely high probability that the GCR will collide with another particle long before it reaches the surface and become secondary radiation 5. This is because the atmosphere is dense, so there are many chances for collisions. The secondary radiation that is formed has lower energy than the initial GCR 7. This makes it less likely to penetrate human skin and cause damage to DNA 1. The colors of the arrows above represent different frequencies, which is proportional to energy. This shows that the GCR has a different initial energy than the secondary radiation it creates, and that the secondary radiation created does not necessarily have an equal distribution of energy in the new particles. One particle can have higher energy than another while both being secondary radiation from the same GCR, but all of the particles have lower energy than the GCR and therefore are less of a threat to human health. Secondary radiation is different from UV radiation, which does not have enough energy to tear apart atmospheric particles on collision.
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Hoying, M. (2019). Radiation Shielding: The Astronomical Problem of Protecting Astronauts on Mars. D.U. Quark, 3(2). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/duquark/vol3/iss2/6
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https://toolkit.tourismnoosa.com.au/member-connect/salt-air-aviation-noosa---helicopter-tour-company--new-members | 2022-05-19T19:28:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662529658.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519172853-20220519202853-00088.warc.gz | 0.9595 | 456 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__301652191 | en | SALT AIR AVIATION NOOSA - Helicopter Tour Company - New Members
Hello and welcome to the home of Salt Air Aviation, Noosa’s only “locally based” helicopter company.
We are locals who absolutely love where we live and believe the only way to truly see the natural beauty of our landscape is from the air. Salt Air was born from our passion for the beach, surf, ocean, wildlife, nature, exploring, travel, and love for the sky. Collectively we have been in the air for the past 12 years and our passion and vision for the aviation industry and absolute admiration of where we live is what led us to start this business.
Creating a company that shows integrity, respect and professionalism in every aspect of business is our genuine goal and we hope to inspire the next generation as we move into the new age.
A little about the owners:
Morgan’s love of helicopters started early when he received a joy flight for his 13th birthday. From there he set his sights on making aviation his career, and by the age of 16, became (unofficially) Australia’s youngest pilot to go solo. Morgan has spent most of his flying career in the Northern Territory, gathering up the skill and knowledge he needed to create his own operation here on the Sunshine Coast. Morgan also writes, maintains and teaches aviation theory for Pilot Practice Exams.
By sheer coincidence Bel (also from the Sunshine Coast) was also running an operation in the Northern Territory, out of the stunning Litchfield National Park.
Bel’s love of aviation sparked from a passion for adventure. Travelling the world, Bel gained skills through different jobs (including being a fire fighter) before deciding to call aviation home. Flying around Australia on a helicopter safari is what pushed her to gain her commercial helicopter licence. Most of Bel’s flying career has also been in the Northern Territory.
Combined we are highly experienced tourism operators, working to build a reputable brand layered with local business partnerships, coastal and hinterland landscapes, surf culture and adventure.
We want our customers to have the most valuable experience possible. Together we strive to make this a possibility. | aerospace |
https://www.airsource-partners.com/project/94-aircraft_leasing__purchasingimplement_a_fleet_strategy.html | 2023-06-02T01:49:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648245.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602003804-20230602033804-00149.warc.gz | 0.876943 | 1,114 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__113670088 | en | PROJECT OVERVIEW - AIRCRAFT LEASING & PURCHASING: IMPLEMENT A FLEET STRATEGY
What could Airsource Partners do to make aviation expertise more accessible to all?
We have conceived the first aviation –related online expert knowledge service connecting actors of the air transport industry with the outside expert world.
AIRCRAFT LEASING & PURCHASING: IMPLEMENT A FLEET STRATEGY
LAUNCH DATE : FEB 2017
PRIMARY TARGET : Airlines
PROJECT FUNCTIONAL AREA : Network Planning & Flight Operations, Aircraft Lease, Others, Contract Management
PROJECT FOCUS : Fleet Planning, Airline Strategy, Aircraft Purchasing & Financing
PROJECT SPONSOR : AEROGESTION
FLEET STRATEGY IS ONE OF THE KEY COMPONENTS OF AN AIRLINE'S BUSINESS PLAN.
Any fleeting decision must take into account numerous parameters such as the airline's marketing & sales strategy, its planned network, traffic forecasts, product positioning, aircraft market availability, etc.
A successful fleet acquisition strategy will lead to the airline having the right plane at the right time at the right cost.
Presentation Aerogestion (en français)
AEROGESTION has been accompanying airlines in their fleeting strategy decisions for more than 20 years in situations as diverse as the launch of a new airline, the development of an airliner's network or the need for the airline for renewing its fleet.
AEROGESTION is able to provide a specific assistance in fleet definition, financing, aircraft research or cabin layout.
AEROGESTION will assist the management of the entire project at each one of its stages, from technical and operational evaluation to fleet economics evaluation, commercial negotiation and contractual advices.
Aircraft selection is an iteractive process to elect the best scenario.
The following components must be taken into account:
- GDP growth
- Connecting strategy
- Competition assessment
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Cabin and market trends
- Passenger expectations trends
- Comfort segmentation
- Competition landscape
- Cabin trends (IFE, connectivity …)
- Airline branding
- Cabin requirements
- Route opportunities
- Traffic evolution on each route
- Capacity versus frequency
- Network and capacity evolution
Fleet mix & fleet plan
- Number of modules and modules size
- Fleet evolution over time
- Fleet plan
Aircraft evaluation is a thorough process to limit the risk of having any post-delivery surprise.
- Product definition (seat type, cabin split, seat width, seat pitch)
- Service requirement (galleys, trolley ratios)
- Other design assumptions
- Detailed cabin layout
Specifications / Options
- Standard spec content
- Cabin options
- Operation options (e.g. CLS, HUD, RNP, ROPS)
- Customized MWE
- Customer changes
- OWE assessment
- Definition of assumptions (Flight profile,
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- Low speed performance
- Payload and mission performance
- Design weights
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- Fuel, maintenance, navigation, landing,
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The ultimate goal of fleet evaluation is to find the most profitable solution resulting from the best compromise between all the different options
- Crew training
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- Initial investment
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- Reconfiguration costs (leased a/c, used a/c)
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Aircraft financing considerations
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- Delivery slots
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Experts / companies available for this project
Aérogestion is an independent consulting practice founded in 1996 by Marc Rochet and Dominique Gretz with the help of former collaborators from the airline industry. Aérogestion has developed a recognised expertise in the industry by accompanying first and foremost the success of French airline in their development or restructuring projects. The practice has developed its services in the international environment and more specifically on the African continent. Parallel to this geographical development, the practice has broadened its competencies, particularly in the field of Revenue Management, which constitutes today a recognised centre of excellence where Aérogestion practices for several airlines. At present, the practice counts more than a dozen consultants with an average of 20 years of expertise in their field and with competencies covering all of the fields of the industry, such as airline management, sales and distribution, airline operations, airline restructuring or change management. Aerogestion's vocation is to become the airline's partner to accompany the airline in each and every key step of its business or of its investments. | aerospace |
https://www.sedgebrookhall.co.uk/things-to-do-northampton/harrington-aviation-museum | 2024-04-22T07:03:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818081.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422051258-20240422081258-00332.warc.gz | 0.953361 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__98102169 | en | Harrington Aviation Museum
The Harrington Aviation Museums is made up of the Carpetbagger Aviation and Secret War Museums. These two museums offer a unique look at the Top Secret base for the 801st/492nd American Eighth Air Force Bombardment Group in the Second World War.
The displays show the history of the airfield and those who were there, particularly during Operation Carpetbagger and secret missions to make deliveries (of supplies and agents) to resistance groups in Occupied Europe.
Harrington Aviation Museum is only ten miles from Sedgbrook Hall so take a look at what they have to offer during your stay with us. | aerospace |
http://readme.readmedia.com/Fredonia-resident-retires-from-New-York-Air-National-Guard-s-174th-Attack-Wing/merit-170136 | 2024-04-23T00:46:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00196.warc.gz | 0.969151 | 502 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__80802478 | en | Fredonia resident retires from New York Air National Guard's 174th Attack Wing
The New York Air National Guard's 174th Attack Wing said goodbye to Chief Master Sergeant Jonathan Brooks during a retirement ceremony December 3, 2023, held at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base.
Brooks has over 21 years in the Air Force and has been with the 174th Attack Wing for the last four years.
Brooks went to Air Force basic training in July of 2002 and, following basic training, remained at Lackland Air Force Base to attend Avionics Maintenance school.
In 2003, his first duty assignment was at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina. There he would be assigned to the 437th Maintenance Squadron, where he worked as a C-17 avionics technician.
During that assignment, he also served two years as a member of the Charleston Air Force Base Honor Guard.
In 2007, Brooks retrained into the Imagery Analysis career field and volunteered for an assignment as a Remotely Piloted Aircraft Sensor Operator. In this capacity, he has dedicated more than 16 years to the MQ-1/MQ-9 community.
Brooks has extensive experience in Mission Control Element operations. He has held qualifications as a multiple aircraft control, launch and recovery, instructor and flight examiner.
He's logged more than 3,800 flight hours, with over 3,600 being combat hours.
Brooks has served in numerous positions within the remotely piloted aircraft community including assignments with the 432nd Wing, the United States Air Force Weapons School, and the 174th Attack Wing.
As a combat mission ready career enlisted aviator, Brooks has provided direct support to Operations Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn, Enduring Freedom, Freedom's Sentinel, Inherent Resolve, Enduring Sentinel, Allies Refuge, and other overseas contingency operations.
For all of his outstanding achievements, Brooks received the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal during the ceremony.
During his retirement speech, Brooks thanked numerous members of his family and friends for being his support system during his military tenure.
Brooks also thanked members of the 174th Attack Wing and said it was a pleasure to work with such an amazing group of people.To view these members click here: https://dmna-ny.meritpages.com/achievements/Fredonia-resident-retires-from-New-York-Air-National-Guard-s-174th-Attack-Wing/170136 | aerospace |
https://www.preplus.com/your-industries/aerospace/ | 2024-04-20T21:57:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817688.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420214757-20240421004757-00753.warc.gz | 0.928607 | 243 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__76217999 | en | Precision Plus has been a supplier of precision machined parts for the aerospace industry since its founding in 1982. Aerospace parts must be of the utmost quality and we deliver defect-free parts that are critical for safe-flying.
Over the years, we have manufactured many delicate aerospace components from remote resettable circuit breakers for aircraft safety systems to sophisticated elements contained in space shuttles.
Our Swiss-made Tornos machines still turn out many of these flight-critical adjusting screws, pins, and guides, while the CNC Swiss lathes tackle the more complex valve components, stems and shafts. The CNC machines allow us to eliminate many of the secondary operations and improve both quality and delivery to our customers. These components are found in many types of aircraft subsystems.
Materials used for these applications include a variety of high strength titanium, aluminum, stainless and alloy steels. We partner with material, heat treating and plating suppliers who understand the aerospace market and the importance of delivering high-quality products to suit the demanding applications of this industry.
When the mission is critical, and you need the “right stuff”, know you have found the right place at Precision Plus. | aerospace |
http://legrosbonsens.net/en/2011/04/05/gettin-high/ | 2016-12-03T11:41:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698540928.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170900-00302-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957906 | 214 | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__75246546 | en | Posted on | April 5, 2011 | No Comments
In the « Free Advertisement » category, Virgin Galactic, a company part of Richard Branson’s enormous conglomerate, has granted the BBC exclusive access to its new commercial space vehicle, Space Ship Two (Space Ship One was built by a competing company headed by billionaire Paul Allen).
This leads me to conclude that Branson, after making its way in the business world by allowing listeners to get high to the sound of progressive rock music, now allows them to quite literally get higher and higher. Space Ship Two made its test flight about a year ago, and should begin commercial service by the end of the year. Booking has already topped 410 reservations, at least according to Virgin Galactic’s web site.
It is undoubtedly a huge step ahead in the democratization of space travel, despite its prohibitive cost: 200,000 dollars. Nevertheless, this could be a clever way to fly out of reach of our recurring electoral campaigns.
How much would you be willing to pay for such an experience? | aerospace |
http://www.hotairballoon.org/nh/rides.htm | 2022-11-28T01:03:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710462.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128002256-20221128032256-00008.warc.gz | 0.942256 | 808 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__233570983 | en | Granite State Balloon Association
i want to go up again.
Many GSBA member pilots offer ballon rides to the public and are listed below. Prices and terms vary but each holds a federal pilot's license and flies a balloon meeting the tough requirements of the Federal Aviation Administration. Bon Voyage!
A Once In A Lifetime Experience
A balloon flight in New England is an experience few people ever know. It can be an "aerial nature walk" where, floating silently above the trees, you may see wildlife in its natural habitat. It is not uncommon to see deer, moose, heron or geese to name a few.
It can also be the most peaceful and relaxing experience you’ll ever know, following the contour of the land or dipping down for a close up view of a small lake, pond or stream. Careful!! You may get your feet wet.
When Do Balloons Fly
Ballooning is a sport of elegance that begins with the first warmth of the morning sun.
Sunrise flights are a tradition, it is the time when the winds are their calmest and the fields and mountains their finest. Afternoon flights can be equally enjoyable. Ascension approximately two hours before sunset will return you to mother earth in time for a splendid sunset. Pre-dawn flights are available from some pilots. Ask your local pilot for availability.
Your pilot will be in contact with his chase crew who will assist you on landing. They assist with the retrieval and packup and will return you to the launch field. Flights average about an hour. From lift off until your return to the launch site takes three to four hours.
Your Balloon, Pilot and Safety
Ballooning is one of the oldest and safest forms of aviation. Balloons flown today are the safest ever made. They are inspected annually by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified repair stations. All balloons carry the required instrumentation and communications equipment. All pilots from the Granite State Balloon Association are certified by the FAA and attend Safety Seminars annually. Many pilots are certified to give flight instruction and would also be happy to help with your promotional needs. This includes tether rides, birthday parties, company picnics, weddings or any outdoor event you plan. Most pilots offer Gift Certificates for that special occasion. Check with your local pilot.
An Age Old Tradition
The tradition of drinking champagne during ballooning began in France, where ballooning, based on the principal that hot air rises, first was launched in 1783. As the story goes, the balloon eventually ran out of heat and descended at a rapid rate. This uncontrolled descent often resulted in the balloonists crashing into farmer’s fields. The frightened farmers would attack the balloons and passengers with pitchforks. To appease the farmers, balloonists began to take along bottles of Champagne and bread as an offering. Today, balloons are safer and more controllable and the tradition of rewarding the landowner with an offering to show appreciation of the much needed field still remains.
What Should You Wear?
To get the most enjoyment from your flight, wear comfortable, casual clothes. Long pants and long sleeves with low heeled sturdy shoes are appropriate. Sandals are not recommended, while waterproof footwear may add to your comfort. It is often warmer in the balloon than on the ground, so dress accordingly. Don’t forget the camera and plenty of film.
If you're not lucky enough to live in or visit New Hampshire, you can find balloon rides in other parts of the world in this directory of balloon rides.
This page maintained by the Granite State Balloon Association. All material © 1999-2019 by the Granite State Balloon Association. | aerospace |
http://designinglightning.com/2012/nasa-social-day-2/ | 2017-04-26T11:53:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121305.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00064-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.971672 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__101605837 | en | It was another bright and early day for NASA Social, with our arrival at the rocket gardens at 9AM. The theme of the day was saying goodbye, having the last few moments to explore Kennedy Space Center and then spend some serious time with the shuttle. This time, however, we were joined by several thousand more people.
I could droll on and on about the logistics, but really it was a day spent with the shuttle. One great moment before we got to Exploration Park (where we could see the shuttle being moved) was a special appearance by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden. He came aboard the NASA Social bus to say “Hello!” and answer a few questions.
To be quite frank, I don’t know much about him. Bolden was an astronaut aboard four flights, logging over 680 hours in space. He spoke a lot about wanting to reengage the public (particularly children) in math, science, and space. The shuttle program may be over, but tomorrow is the future. There are many great explorations ahead for NASA. Bolden also spoke at the movement of the shuttle in Exploration Park.
We spent many hours with the Atlantis today. We watched her roll through Exploration Park and park herself right around a bend in the road. There were so many great photos along the way. It’s hard not to share them all and say, “Hey look at this!” I’m so happy to have got to share this moment with my new found
friends family, NASA Social.
I can’t believe it’s over. Not only my experience with NASA Social, but the shuttle program. I probably said the same thing after the last launch, but this is different. This is the real end, the final goodbye; there are no more shuttle launches, big moves, or otherwise. I’m so glad I got to be there to see it make the final move towards it’s resting place at KSC. | aerospace |
https://garhwapost.com/enhanced-version-of-pinaka-rocket-system-tested-at-odisha-successfully/ | 2023-12-06T21:56:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100603.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206194439-20231206224439-00729.warc.gz | 0.97067 | 208 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__80498231 | en | NEW DELHI: Enhanced PINAKA rocket, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been successfully flight tested from its Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on Wednesday. Development of Enhanced PINAKA system was taken up to achieve longer range performance compared to its earlier design with reduced length.
The design and development have been carried out by Pune based DRDO laboratories, name Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL).
A total of six rockets were launched in quick succession and the tests met complete mission objectives. Rockets tested have been manufactured by Economic Explosives Limited (EEL) Nagpur, to whom the technology has been transferred.
All the flight articles were tracked by Range instruments such as telemetry, radar and Electro Optical Tracking Systems which confirmed the flight performance. The Enhanced version of the PINAKA rocket would replace the its existing version which is PINAKA MK-I rockets which are currently under production. | aerospace |
http://www.directflight.co.uk/category/news/ | 2013-05-21T21:54:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700626424/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103706-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.936892 | 202 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__155845029 | en | May 17, 2013 in News
Hot on the tail of a trip to the arctic Directflight’s ARA team have taken the aircraft to the USA to work in the deserts of Arizona. The aircraft will be based in Tucson Arizona for a month, flying over the southern USA, Mexico and the Gulf of California.
The campaign, titled SALSTICE, is a follow on campaign to the JAIVEx/IASI campaign of 2007 that was based out in Houston, Texas. Working with NASA and the US Department of Agriculture the campaign team intend to calibrate meteorological satellites and add to the data supporting computer climate models for the region.
The campaign aims to calibrate the data received from meteorological satellites by shadowing their tracks and comparing the data received. Operating at 32,000 feet the ARA will be overflown by NASA’s ER-2 high altitude airborne science aircraft at 60,000 feet, with the satellites collecting data immediately above in a near earth orbit. | aerospace |
https://www.tapeark.com/news-press/2018/3/27/tape-ark-appointed-custodian-of-historical-nasa-data | 2019-09-21T17:51:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574588.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921170434-20190921192434-00430.warc.gz | 0.943444 | 698 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__103176777 | en | Tape Ark are thrilled to announce that the company has been chosen to store historical archive tapes containing valuable NASA data from the moon.
There are 173 original 7-track magnetic tapes marked "NASA Manned Space Center”, carrying data that was recorded on the moon. The data and tapes belong to Australian Physicist and former NASA Principal Investigator Professor Brian J. O’Brien, who invented the DDE and other experiments while working with NASA at RICE University in the late 1960’s.
The importance of this historical data has been re-emphasised recently with China’s plans to put a rover on the moon and of course SpaceX planning trips to the surface of Mars.
Guy Holmes, Tape Ark’s Founder and CEO originally assisted in the retrieval of the magnetic tapes, and is thrilled that Tape Ark have been appointed to be the custodians of the data for Professor O’Brien. The data from these tapes are now safely stored in the Amazon Web Services based Tape Ark Online Portal System for easy access and downloading, making the need to maintain and store the bulky original 7 track tapes unnecessary.
Guy Holmes said this week “The Tape Ark storage platform is a perfect fit for these tapes. The bulky original tapes that contained less than 1MB of data each cost over $250 per month to store in offsite vault storage, but in the Tape Ark portal, the entire data set from these tapes costs less than $0.10 per month. Not only is if far more cost effective, but Dr O’Brien no longer needs to worry about maintaining hardware or software to read the tapes again. Add to this, that the data can now be accessed from anywhere in the world, can easily be shared with other space agencies and used for future planning and experimentation, and it becomes obvious why this is such a great solution for the data”.
In addition to storing data from the moon, Tape Ark is also currently undertaking several other data management projects of cultural and/or international significance for several companies which include media/news organisations and international resources companies. Large volumes of aging archive tape media which has until now been slowly decaying and being lost whilst stored in offsite long term storage is now being recovered and migrated to the cloud, where the data is no longer at risk and is immediately accessible for big data and analytic tools.
The data was gathered from the Lunar Dust Detector Experiment (DDE) conducted during the Apollo moon landings nearly 50 years ago. It provides valuable information on dust and temperatures on the moon, shortly after Neil Armstrong stepped into space history in July 1969. The matchbox-sized Dust Detectors were placed on the Moon by US astronauts in the Apollo 11, 12 and 14 missions. These collected many months of measurements and it is a very valuable and one-of-a-kind collection of data.
According to NASA's website Professor O’Brien’s data represented, "the only long-term information on the lunar surface environment, and as such are ideal for planning future lunar missions. Scientists researching future landings and take offs from the moon and other planets such as Mars currently only have theoretical models and guesswork to base their studies on. Neither computer models of theoretical effects nor Earth-based simulations can provide realistic forecasts without actual data from the Moon – which is what these tapes contain.
Recent related coverage referencing Dr O’Brien’s data includes: | aerospace |
https://www.utahsfallen.org/fallen-officers/lieutenant-thomas-s-rettberg | 2023-01-29T13:34:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499713.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20230129112153-20230129142153-00048.warc.gz | 0.976544 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__12959847 | en | February 11, 2000
Utah Highway Patrol
Lieutenant Rettberg died in a helicopter accident. At approximately 2 p.m., the 58-year-old victim and civilian mechanic Thomas Bahoravitch were performing a maintenance check of a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter near 1500 South and Redwood Road. Witnesses say that a part separated from the aircraft while it was performing a practice dive. Instead of recovering from the dive, the aircraft slammed into a muddy embankment killing both occupants. Lt. Rettberg was married and the father of three daughters. He was cremated and his ashes scattered across the eastern slopes of Mount Timpanogos. His bronze name plaque is sponsored by the Utah Highway Patrol Association. | aerospace |
http://www.dairproject.eu/resources/solar-impulse-2-plane-makes-inaugural-flight/ | 2020-05-28T17:50:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347399830.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528170840-20200528200840-00594.warc.gz | 0.944722 | 359 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__82965652 | en | Solar Impulse 2, the long awaited sequel to the first solar powered airplane has made its inaugural flight early June in Switzerland. It is scheduled to be taken on a round the world trip in 2015.
“It’s a great day for all the team of Solar Impulse,” Bertrand Piccard, one of the two pilots that flew the first Solar Impulse across the United States last year told BBC News.
“An aeroplane like this is absolutely unique. And for the first time in history, we have an aeroplane that is flying with no fuel day and night, showing the incredible potential of the clean technologies – all these technologies that the world can also use in order to reduce the dependency to fossil fuel and to be cleaner and solve a lot of problems of pollution,” he added.
The span of the carbon fibre wings stands at 72 meters, which is wider than a 747. However the total weight of the Solar Impulse 2 is of a little more than 2 tonnes.
The wings are covered by 17.000 solar cells that power up the four engines that can drive the airplane at speeds not exceeding 140 km per hour. The same cells also recharge lithium batteries that can power the airplane at night.
The first Solar Impulse plane set a number of world records, including the longest manned solar-powered flight at 26 hours, the first inter-continental flight in a solar-powered plane, and the greatest distance covered on a piloted solar-powered flight. (Autonomous solar-powered drones can stay aloft for weeks).
It is a step forward in the right direction for clean powered airplanes, but many years will pass until the first commercial solar powered airplane may take to the skies successfully and profitably. | aerospace |
http://theoloja.blogspot.com/2017/09/us-issues-65-day-ultimatum-to-nigerian.html | 2019-01-16T10:00:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583657151.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20190116093643-20190116115643-00440.warc.gz | 0.943668 | 351 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__115688916 | en | Wednesday, 6 September 2017
US Issues 65-Day Ultimatum To Nigerian Airlines
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given Nigerian airlines a 65-day ultimatum to resolve specified security issues or risk being barred from flying to its country.
The ultimatum was issued on August 24 following a visit by a team of US FAA officials who recently carried out an audit for the renewal of Nigeria’s category one safety status.
The FAA periodically inspects foreign airports with which it has bilateral agreements to ensure they meet set standards which includes having effective and efficient aviation regulations, operational state civil aviation systems and safety oversight functions and technical personnel qualification and training.
Others areas of concern include the provision of technical guidance, tools, provision of safety-critical information, licensing, certification, authorisation and approval obligations
Aviation analysts are however, doubtful that Nigeria could attain the category one safety status without having its major airports certified as airport certification was compliant to the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations, NCAR, Part 12.6.4.
This carries obligations on the operator to continuously maintain standards and competence in operation and ensuring availability of skilled manpower in sufficient numbers, for the periodic maintenance of the facilities and the system.
The classification of Nigeria as Category one was meant only for the NCAA Regulations and oversight competence the way university academic programs are rated or accredited by the Nigeria Universities Commission (NUC).
NCAA, in spite of its category one status classification in 2010 and even in 2017 after its reclassification, has not been able to give certification to a single airport among the over 28 federal and state airports in the country.
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https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/projects/nasa-global-precipitation-measurement-mission | 2024-04-25T00:37:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296820065.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425000826-20240425030826-00221.warc.gz | 0.814895 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__62600794 | en | Description of project aims
Micro rain radar ground station in Stornoway at Lews Castle College
GPM is an international satellite mission that uses multiple satellites orbiting Earth to collect rain, snow and other precipitation data worldwide every three hours. On February 27th, 2014, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a Core Observatory satellite carrying advanced instruments that improve our precipitation-measuring capabilities and bring all the data from the partner satellites into a unified global dataset.
|Effective start/end date
|1/06/15 → …
- University of the Highlands and Islands (lead)
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA
Explore the research topics touched on by this project. These labels are generated based on the underlying awards/grants. Together they form a unique fingerprint. | aerospace |
https://caribbeanbusiness.com/lawmakers-propose-bill-to-privatize-air-traffic-control/ | 2023-03-25T05:24:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945315.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325033306-20230325063306-00614.warc.gz | 0.948832 | 1,004 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__227290106 | en | Lawmakers Propose Bill to Privatize Air Traffic Control
WASHINGTON – Responsibility for the nation’s air traffic control operations would shift from the government to a private, nonprofit corporation under legislation introduced Wednesday as part of an overhaul of how Washington oversees the aviation system.
The measure extends for six years the authority of the Federal Aviation Administration and continues its role as the regulator of aviation safety, including the safety of air traffic operations. It also prohibits cellphone calls by airline passengers in-flight, and requires airlines refund bag fees when checked bags arrive more than 24 hours overdue.
But the FAA would lose responsibility for day-to-day air traffic operations and the transition from a radar-based traffic control system to one based on satellite technology. A board representing aviation system users would govern the new, federally chartered air traffic control corporation.
The bill would complete the transfer of air traffic operations, hundreds of facilities and about 38,000 workers to the new corporation within three years.
Rep. Bill Shuster, the bill’s chief sponsor, said it was a “transformational” solution and greatly needed because modernization of the air traffic system is taking too long and costing too much. Without an overhaul, the system won’t be able to keep up with growing air traffic demands and congestion will increase, said Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Shuster, R-Pa., told reporters that he also wants to revamp how air traffic operations are financed, eliminating most airline ticket taxes in favor of a fee-based system.
The proposal envisions charging commercial operators – airlines, air cargo companies, charter plane, air taxi services and others – for the services they use. Private pilots and noncommercial aircraft operators would continue the same fuel and other taxes as before rather than service fees.
But the bill doesn’t specify how the tax and fee structure would be changed because decisions on taxes are up to the House Ways and Means Committee; Shuster is working with that committee, a spokesman said.
It’s unclear if this would ultimately result in lower airfares since airlines would presumably pass along the cost of the new fees to their customers, but the hope is that privatizing air traffic control will produce greater efficiency and reduce the overall cost of the system, according to Republican committee aides. The aides briefed reporters on the condition that they not be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., the senior Democrat on the committee, said Democrats strongly oppose the privatization plan, although they’re happy with most of the rest of the bill.
“This privatization proposal gives a private corporation the power to tax the American public to pay for safe operations, and it hands over a public asset worth billions of dollars to a private corporation for free,” DeFazio said. The corporation would effectively become a monopoly that picks winners and losers and decides routes, schedules, and slots based on profit margins, he said.
Airlines, the lobbying muscle behind the bill, have long said the fairest way to pay for the air traffic system is to have all aircraft operators pay fees for the services they use, such as controller-directed takeoffs and landings and government weather reports.
Most other aircraft operators oppose a fee system, which they say would shift a greater share of paying for the air traffic system away from airlines and onto them.
The model for Shuster’s proposal is Canada, which shifted its air traffic operations to a nonprofit corporation about a decade ago. In the U.S., private contractors who provide air traffic control services at small airports general have lower costs than at FAA facilities because they hire fewer personnel and pay lower salaries.
The FAA has worked on its “NextGen” modernization program for more than a decade and says much progress has been made. Lawmakers and airlines say they have yet to see significant benefits from the billions of dollars spent on modernization and are deeply frustrated.
Shuster and Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J., the aviation subcommittee chairman and the bill’s co-sponsor, gained an influential ally Wednesday when the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, which represents about 14,000 air traffic controllers, announced its support for the bill.
The bill also:
-Seeks to force the FAA to issue regulations governing the use of small drones more quickly by threatening to impose its own rules on small drone operations.
-Gives the FAA administrator the ability to waive safety rules for classes of commercial drone operations like limitation on how far and how high drones are allowed to fly and a prohibition on nighttime flights.
-Would continue to bar the FAA from issuing safety regulations banning cargo shipments of lithium batteries on passenger planes unless the International Civil Aviation Organization adopts a ban first.
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https://varmatch.com/the-8-deadliest-plane-crashes-since-1982/ | 2022-01-23T13:06:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304261.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220123111431-20220123141431-00330.warc.gz | 0.965675 | 2,059 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__85855361 | en | There is no shortage of human achievements to that are both inspiring and have shaped the world we live in today. We created electronic devices that have saved lives and made our lives easier. We domesticated fire so that we could cook food, stay warm and see in the dark. Humans created writing as a way to express thoughts and ideas as well as to record history.
Mankind created photography to capture images in a way that words simply couldn’t. We developed theories as to origins of evolution and we have developed vaccines to combat the seemingly hidden forces that would see us sick. Man created language to communicate and developed and mastered agriculture and animal domestication so that societies could form and humans could shift from hunter-gatherers. However, of all the things that mankind has strived towards and created, one out greatest accomplishments was when we learned how to fly.
Mankind has always had a fascination with flight and for hundreds of years has tried to accomplish what then only birds and insects could do. But through innovation, dedication and a lot of trial and error, man seemed to accomplish the impossible and did that with the advent of the airplane.
The airplane is responsible for making a big world smaller and more accessible. It single-handedly sped up travel time, aiding in international business and creating a more connected and globalized world. The airplane has changed the lives of people by allow goods to be transported internationally at a higher speed, allowed politics to truly become global and gave people the opportunity to meet one another, regardless of where on the planet they found themselves.
The invention of the airplane created an entirely new industry, one that has created more than 58 millions jobs across the globe with implications ranging from transport to military and even space exploration. However, like any boundary pushing invention (no pun intended), there are risks, and when specifically referring to airplanes and flight, that risk is often around 40,000 feet in the air, and it doesn’t take much imagination to determine what can go wrong with that.
Many people are scared of flying, and that is likely in part to the fact that planes travel at such vertical extremes that it could potentially make the bravest soul feel a little hesitant, although, from a statistical point of view, flying is one of the safest modes of transport. The odds of a plane crashing are 1 in every 1.2 million flights and the odds of a person dying as a result of a plane crash are 1 in 11 million.
When you weigh those figures against the automobile, which boasts a likelihood of fatality at one in 5,000, it tends to put people’s minds at ease. Especially when you consider that even if you were on that 1 in 1.2 million flights, you still have a 95.7 percent chance of survival. And while the odds are good (great, some might argue), the fact remains that accidents happen, and although unlikely, when an accident involves an airplane, it is usually devastating.
While not intended to scare anyone from flying, rather to educate, we have traversed that annals of history and compiled a list of the 15 deadliest plane crashes since 1982, again, not to frighten a would-be traveller, but rather as a humbling reminder that life is, in spite of all our advancements, precious.
1. Korean Flight 801
Normally, Korean Air Flight 801 was flown by an Airbus A300, however, because Korean Air scheduled flights to transport athletes to the South Pacific Games in American Samoa, the airline choose to fly the route with a 12-year-old Boeing 747-300 delivered to Korean Air on December 12, 1984.
Although the plane was different, everything was going according to plan on August 6, 1997, as Korean Air Flight 801 flew out of Seoul-Kimpo International Airport (now known as Gimpo Airport) to its destination of Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, in the United States territory of Guam. Upon its approach to the airport, the plane crash into Nimitz Hill in Asan.
Investigations revealed that the cause of the crash was the result of insufficient pilot training/pilot error, and of the 237 passengers and 17 crew, there were only 25 survivors – they were only 3 miles from the runway.
2. Air France Flight 447
While you will notice reading this article a surprising amount of different causes for plane crashes, perhaps none is as atypical to what most of us envision than what happened to Air France Flight 447.
The date was June 1, 2009, when Air France Flight 447, a scheduled passenger flight departing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was to brave the Atlantic on its way to Paris, France. Tragically, the Airbus went into an aerodynamic stall at high altitude in which it would not recover from. The plane crashed into the Atlantic ocean at 2:14 in the morning, killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew members.
3. Pan Am 103
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, which was a regularly scheduled flight, was making its transatlantic journey from Frankfurt, Germany to Detroit. After a stop in London, the plane began its trip over the Atlantic when a terrorist bomb was detonated on the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.
The terrorists on board were tied to Libya, and two nationals were arrested three years after the crash. Of the 243 passengers, 16 crew and an additional 11 on the ground, there would be a total of 270 fatalities.
4. China Airlines Flight 611
The date was May 25, 2002, when China Airlines Flight 611, a regularly scheduled passenger flight took off from the former Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now known as Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport) in Taiwan to Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong. In tragedy, however, the flight would never arrive at its destination.
The flight was scheduled to be a short one, just 80 minutes from takeoff to destination, however, the Boeing 747-209B making the flight disintegrated in mid-air due to faulty repairs and crashed into the Taiwan Strait 23 nautical miles (43 km) northeast of the Penghu Islands just 20 minutes after takeoff. It is believed that the in-flight break-up was the result of faulty repairs made on the aircraft 22 years earlier. As a result, all 206 passengers and 19 crew perished that day.
5. American Airlines 587
The date was November 12, 2001, and the flight was American Airlines Flight 587, a regularly scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Santo Domingo’s Las Américas International Airport in the Dominican Republic. Like most other flights on this list, Flight 587 would not reach its destination.
Shortly after take off, the Airbus A300-600 would crash into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens, New York. The cause of the crash would be attributed to “Tail structure failure due to co-pilot error while encountering wake turbulence, incorrect pilot training.” Of the 260 souls on board, there would be no survivors; and sadly, another 5 on the ground would lose their lives that day.
6. Charkhi Dadri
The most deadly crash on this list is also unlike any other crash on this list, and not only by a number of casualties. The date was November 12, 1996, when an incident occur midair between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B en route from Delhi to Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia, and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Chimkent, Kazakhstan, to Delhi – and the incident was a midair collision.
While there certainly were two planes involved in the crash, the cause of the collision was attributed to pilot error for the pilot of the Kazakhstan Airlines aircraft. The crash took place over the village of Charkhi Dadri, just west of New Delhi, Indian. On the Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B, there were 289 passengers and 23 crew, while on the Kazakhstan Airlines aircraft there was 27 passengers and 10 crew. Between the two planes, there would be a total of 349 fatalities with no survivors, making this the deadliest plane crash since 1982 and the third-mealiest aircraft accident in aviation history.
7. Swissair Flight 111
Swissair Flight 111 was codeshared with Delta Air Lines and scheduled as an international passenger flight from New York City to Geneva Switzerland on September 2, 1998. It would never make its destination.
While in mid-flight, a fire broke out on the plane. Following guidelines, the crew shut the power off in the cabin, however, this caused the recirculating fans to turn off as well, which resulted in a vacuum, inducing the fire to spread quicker. Eventually, it would make its way to the cockpit where it would short-circuit electrical, mainly the autopilot. Eventually, further instrument failure would cause spatial disorientation for the pilots and plane, causing a loss of control and eventual crash into the Atlantic Ocean, near St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia Canada. Of the 215 passengers and 14 crew, all 229 souls perished that day.
8. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370Usually,
when there is a plan crash, there is wreckage and a crash site. However in the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, it simply just disappeared.
The date was March 8, 2014, when a scheduled international passenger flight flying out of Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to Beijing Capital International Airport in China. Everything was going normal with the plane making radio contact while it was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff.
That would be the last communication with the place because, at 1:22 am MYT, the aircraft disappeared from air traffic controllers radar screens. The military; however, continued to follow the flight until it too lost the slight somewhere over the Andaman Sea. A truly international flight, the plane went missing carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers from 15 nations; and it is presumed that there are no survivors. | aerospace |
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There has been discussion about people moving from Earth to Mars in the future. An organization called MarsOne (Links to an external site.) is recruiting investors and volunteers for the first manned mission there. The gravity on Mars is 62% lower than the gravity on Earth, meaning that someone weighing 100 kg on Earth would weigh 38 kg on Mars (Williams, 2014).
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• Would some of your daily activities be easier, more difficult, or even completely impossible?
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• How would the gravity or lack of gravity impact your physical activity? | aerospace |
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http://www.northcross.org/crossties-blog/archives/07-2015 | 2017-11-23T05:08:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806736.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123050243-20171123070243-00791.warc.gz | 0.964839 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__105290679 | en | This week the theme at Discovery Camp has been planes, trains and automobiles. The campers worked in pairs on an egg drop experiments and had a blast! Discovery Camp went to Landmark Aviation on Thursday to get a real plane experience. The campers were able to sit tin the cockpit, and tour a plane. The campers were also able to get into a real flight simulator and see what it would feel like to fly a plane. Everyone had a great time!!
North Cross will partner with the Xinhe School in Shanghai, China and provide an American-style education to 50 students beginning this fall
The Crossties Blog provides timely updates about activities from the campus of North Cross School. | aerospace |
https://crownedartistprints.com/blogs/behind-the-art/behind-the-art-f-22-raptor-jet-art-time-lapse-speed-drawing-story | 2021-09-21T13:59:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057225.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20210921131252-20210921161252-00388.warc.gz | 0.952852 | 655 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__254961633 | en | This was my first time drawing a jet. It’s not any different from drawing a car such as Lamborghini's BMW stead of done in the past. Unlike drawing cars that have shadows or grass on the bottom, The jet on the other hand is in the air during flight and therefore cannot add any shadows on the bottom. The original picture of the jet was more of a gray tone colors however I used more of the green light green and dark green colors to make it more of an army vibe to it.
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Today’s art post exhibits something new for our Crowned Artist. Up until now, we have drawn things of normal occasions; we have sketched shoes, vehicles and even a martial arts legend. But viewers of our site have challenged us to illustrate something you just don’t see everyday. In response we present this hand drawn U.S. F-22 Raptor. Comprised of faded metal and silver tones contrasted with muted earthy greens and browns, this fighter jet is beautifully camouflaged referring to its military dominance and background. The tactical fighter’s low observance tech, contemporary avionics, and effective engines make this jet an unmatched U.S. military aircraft. This F-22 art clip perfectly emphasizes the Raptor’s stealth, agility and range thereby embodying the jet’s original purpose, air superiority.
The F-22 Raptor plane is a 5 th generation fighter in U.S. Air Force offering lethal combat capabilities through its use covert speed and maneuverability. The original jet prototypes (YF-22 and Y-23) completed their first flights in late 1990 but it was the YF-22 that would be further developed in 1991 by aerospace companies Lockheed Martian/Boeing (airframe) and Pratt & Whitney (engines) via partnership. This enhanced model dubbed “Raptor” was to replace the old F-15 fighter. The decision to proceed with low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the new jet was approved in 2001. Initial operation test and evaluations endured from April 2004 to February 2005. Due to its multi-mission abilities in both ground and aerial combat, the aircrafts designation was changed to “F/A-22” in September 2002 but would later be renamed the “F-22A” in December 2005. The F-22 Raptor Jet would finally achieve full operational status in December 2007.
Considered by many as the greatest tactical fighter ever built, the F-22 Raptor is an essential component in the U.S. Global Strike Task Force, designed to project air superiority and dominance. The F-22 Raptor, integrated sensor awareness, avionics and weapons provides the jet first strike opportunities against any threat before even being detected. In addition, the F-22’s dual engines produce more thrust than any other current fighter. The Raptor’s sleek aerodynamic design propels the aircraft to cruise at supersonic speeds without the use of fuel draining afterburner essentially outmatching any other known or anticipated fighter jet. Support the mission at hand with his impressive and highly lethal work of art. | aerospace |
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https://www.softscheck.com/en/blog/drone-hacking/ | 2024-03-03T15:24:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476396.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303142747-20240303172747-00628.warc.gz | 0.930988 | 3,339 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__63427264 | en | During this project, we explored possible attacks and countermeasures against civilian UAVs. Cheap civilian drones have not just become a fun hobby for FPV racers and film enthusiasts, but also a danger for aviation safety and privacy. They are used in the field to provide intelligence against opposing forces or to combat them with deadly precision.
- Limitations and Scope
- Setup and Hardware
- Exploring the Attack Surface
- Capturing and Hijacking Video Streams
- Jamming and Spoofing Remote Controls
- Other Attack Vectors
Intelligence is everything on the modern battlefield, and civilian drones have proven to be valuable assets in this regard. They provide spotting capabilities for artillery or carry explosives for sabotage operations and precision strikes. Outside of combat zones, they pose a significant threat to aviation safety and general privacy. These circumstances make drones interesting targets for remote attacks, which we wanted to explore in this post.
2. Limitations and Scope
Due to budget and time constraints, we focussed our research primarily on fairly cheap, Chinese FPV drones. We only conducted experiments using low power soft-kill systems, since hard-kill measures, like net- or projectile launchers or high power jammers would have a high chance of destroying drones or causing collateral damage.
3. Setup and Hardware
The main criteria for choosing the drone, were availability and compatibility with our existing FPV hardware. Specifically, it had to support the FrySky D8 protocol and send video signals over the 5.8GHz band. The final decision was made in favor of the Mobula 6 from Happymodel.
Our FPV hardware consisted of the Radiomaster T8 Lite remote controller and a pair of simple VTX goggles by HGLRC.
To be able to flexibly send and receive data on different frequency bands, we also needed a software defined radio. Because it was affordable and covered all required bands (1MHz - 6GHz), we chose the HackRF One.
Since the HackRF did not offer enough power for some of our tests, we also added an amplifier.
For additional filtering, a 2.4GHz band-pass filter was used as well.
For video transmission/reception we utilized one of the FPV goggles 5.8GHz antennas and for omnidirectional capture/jamming of RC signals a 2.4GHz antenna of an ALFA Wi-Fi card. To get a more predictable and focussed jamming arch, we also purchased a 2.4GHz Yagi antenna.
To analyze and replay RC signals, we primarily used the Universal Radio Hacker. For capturing and (de)modulating video transmissions, we chose SDRangel. Our jammers were constructed using GnuRadio with a few custom blocks. The drone was configured using Betaflight.
4. Exploring the Attack Surface
Most FPV drones offer two primary attack vectors. The video stream broadcasted by the drone and received by the FPV goggles, as well as the RC signal send by the controller and interpreted by the drone's flight controller. Our drone uses the 5.8GHz bands to transmit video and the 2.4GHz bands for remote control. Since almost all consumer hardware using radio signals, which is sold in the US, has to be registered by the FCC, getting specific frequency ranges for devices like our controller is quite easy. They can be found in the official and publically available FCC database using their unique ID. Our controller for example utilizes the 2416-2466MHz range and has a power output of 43.9mW. The frequency for the video signal can more or less be set freely by the operator prior to flight. Happymodel provides a table of recommended frequency channels. Having this information, we can jam, spoof and capture these signals.
Other drones provide additional targets such as GPS or drone location protocols (e.g. DJI DroneID) which can be used to track drone and pilot movement. GPS may also be spoofed to circumvent geofencing or to abuse return-to-home functionality.
5. Capturing and Hijacking Video Streams
As mentioned above, the drone operator can freely choose any band in the 5.8GHz spectrum to broadcast video. So the first step in capturing or hijacking the streaming signal, is detecting the frequency used. This task can be accomplished fairly easily by using a simple spectrum analyzer, roughly tuned to the center of the 5.8GHz spectrum. Now we simply tune the frequency up and down, while watching our waterfall output. Even at greater distances, the video stream signal can be spotted with no issues.
Knowing the more or less exact frequency used in the transmission, we can either capture live video or send our own data to take the operator's vision. Should the operator not have visual contact with the drone, this will, in most cases, result in a crash. He is also unable to change the used frequency band, since this would require a wired connection to a computer. It should be noted, that for this attack to be effective, the antenna used for sending the signal has to be directed at the operator and his goggles and not the drone itself. The smaller the distance to the operator or the stronger the signal send, the more likely the attack will succeed.
Since our drone is fairly simple, it uses an analog signal to broadcast the video feed. Using the ATV demodulator in SDRangel we can demodulate and view the stream. This particular (de)modulator does not support color, even though it would be possible in theory.
Just as we can demodulate them, we can also modulate analog signals from MP4 or PNG files and broadcast the colorless video.
If we don't wish to send our own video, we can of course also just send random noise to jam the drone's signal.
Simple example using Gnu Radio:
For maximum range and effectiveness, an amplifier may be added.
Doing so, we achieved a reliable hijack/jamming range of around 5 meters. At greater distances, the interference was noticeable, but not strong enough to effectively hinder flight. The broadcasting power of the drone, configured by the operator in Betaflight, also influenced the jamming success.
6. Jamming and Spoofing Remote Controls
During our research and measurements, we discovered that the FrySky protocol utilized by our Drone, uses FHSS (Frequency-hopping spread spectrum). This means, that in contrast to the 5.8GHz video signal, which uses one single frequency band, the RC transmission is divided into multiple smaller sub-bands. The signal rapidly switches between these bands in a pseudo-random manner, making it significantly less vulnerable to interference or jamming. The seed used to determine the switching pattern is exchanged during the initial binding procedure with the remote controller. By recording and analyzing the signal, we were able to determine, that the drone communication utilizes 49 channels, with 1.5MHz spacing, adding up to a total bandwidth of around 70MHz. Since our SDR was only capable of transmitting over a 20MHz bandwidth, this posed a significant challenge.
Our first approach was to record different RC commands like disarms (full deactivation of flight systems) or erratic control inputs, which could cause the drone to crash. By analyzing the signals of the remote controller, we determined a handful of channels and their specific frequencies and attempted to replay the captured signals on them in an endless loop. We were hoping to get lucky and hit one of the channels while the drone was expecting commands from that frequency. For this to work, our signal would have to be more powerful than the remote controller. After multiple attempts, we were able to crash the drone occasionally. To make this attack work more reliably, one would have to analyze the full signal bandwidth, calculate the FHSS seed and determine the next channel to be used.
Since our replay attack was unreliable, we attempted a jamming approach next. Instead of sending spoofed RC commands, we would send as much noise, with as much power as possible, to drown out the controller's signal and cause the drone to lose its connection. Depending on the configured failsafe, this could either cause the drone to land on the spot, return to predetermined GPS coordinates or, as was the case with our drone, drop to the ground. Of course, we would be unable to simply jam the entire 70MHz bandwidth, so we had to develop a slightly more sophisticated jammer. The best jammers use so called protocol-aware jamming, which, similar to what we mentioned above, attempts to calculate the used FHSS seed and reactively jam the next channels. Implementing a protocol-aware jammer requires either two SDRs or a single, full-duplex capable SDR. Neither was available to us at the time. We therefor chose a slightly cruder method: sweep jamming.
Instead of jamming on one single frequency, a spectrum is chosen and swept over in a curve like manner, trying to generate as much noise as possible over an area larger than our actual bandwidth. The wider the spectrum, the less effective the jamming. For our attack, we chose 2416MHz as the lower and 2466MHz as the upper boundary.
To have enough power to drown out the controller's signal, we daisy-chained three amplifiers for a total gain of 30dBm.
We first tested our omnidirectional 2.4GHz antenna. It was able to effectively jam the drone up to a radius of around 2 meters.
Jammer activated at 11 seconds (Omni):
We also tested our Yagi antenna. After flying into the antenna's arch, the drone lost its connection immediately. With the correct orientation and rotation, we were able to achieve a reliable jamming range of around 3 meters.
Jammer active (Yagi):
The jamming success was of course also dependent on the distance of the remote controller to the drone. The ranges mentioned above were those at which the drone crashed, even with the remote being fairly close.
While technically possible and useful for reverse engineering, decoding the remote commands from the controller was deemed irrelevant for any attack on the drone or the operator.
7. Other Attack Vectors
Some other interesting attack vectors, which were however not directly applicable to our drone:
Many drones rely on GPS for different navigation tasks. May it be to keep the drone from flying into restricted airspace or to have it return home after an unexpected RC disconnect. GPS however is an incredibly low-power signal, which makes it very vulnerable to jamming or spoofing attacks. In 2011 Iran was able to spoof the GPS guidance system of an American RQ-170 drone and force it to land in Iranian territory.
DJI Drone ID (or equivalent)
To be able to more effectively trace and capture perpetrators using their drones for nefarious purposes, DJI added the DroneID protocol to their products. This protocol constantly broadcasts the exact position of the drone and the pilot. Using DJI's purpose build hardware, law enforcement can decode this data. According to DJI, this data is sent encrypted. Researchers of the Ruhr Universität Bochum however were able to capture and decode it without issues. This is especially dangerous for soldiers using these drones for reconnaissance. A well-equipped adversary would be able to pinpoint the pilot's position and retaliate. It would therefor be advisable to patch the firmware and remove the DroneID feature, before deploying DJI drones in the field.
According to the new EU standard EN 4709, all drones manufactured after January 2024 will be required to implement a feature similar to DroneID (Direct Remote ID).
The firmware required to operate the drone's many systems has to be either flashed by the user itself or is pre-flashed in the factory. This could allow an outside attacker or the manufacturer to flash malicious firmware. This would however require extensive knowledge of the drone's inner workings, but could theoretically circumvent any encryption or FHSS implemented. While an outside attack, due to its complexity, seems fairly unlikely, supply chain attacks are a real danger, especially with many drones being manufactured in China. We also conducted a static analysis of the Betaflight firmware, but concluded that no feasibly exploitable vulnerabilities could be found for our drone.
Since jamming is power intensive and may also interfere with uninvolved devices, it is unwise to have a jammer running for extensive periods. We therefor experimented with different detection techniques, which would alert the jamming system to the presence of a drone and allow it to reactively engage the intruder.
The first concept was to detect the drone or the remote controller via their broadcasted radio signals. This would require a database of known fingerprints for matching. With the appropriate hardware, it would also allow the more or less accurate locating of the pilot. Our attempts at detecting a truly unique pattern in the drone's transmissions were however unsuccessful.
Computer vision based
Since our attempts at radio fingerprinting failed, we chose a different approach. Our idea was to train an object classifier to detect drones via a camera, which could for example be mounted on a building. If the detector is confident the object is actually a drone, it should trigger the jammer.
We chose YOLOv8 as our base detection model and gave it additional training on pictures of drones in general as well as some handcrafted samples of our own drone. For this, we mostly took videos of our drone flying and extracted the frames as JPG images.
After three training runs, our model was able to detect most drones and especially the Mobula 6. We then combined this model with our jammer into a python tool. (Some of the visual candy was left out in the source code below)
import supervision as sv
from ultralytics import YOLO
from jammer import top_block
from time import time
# preparing the jammer (2.426GHz)
tb = top_block()
tb.center_freq = 2426e6
# starting video capture from webcam
capture = cv2.VideoCapture(-1)
# loading our trained weights
model = YOLO("weights/last.pt")
box_annotator = sv.BoxAnnotator(thickness=1, text_thickness=1, text_scale=0.5)
start_ts = 0
# read frame
_, image = capture.read()
# get detections from YOLOv8
result = model(image)
detections = sv.Detections.from_yolov8(result)
# filter detections with low confidence
detections = detections[detections.confidence > 0.8]
# start/stop jammer
if len(detections) > 0:
start_ts = time()
if time() - start_ts > 5:
# draw box around detections
image = box_annotator.annotate(scene=image, detections=detections)
if cv2.waitKey(10) & 0xFF == ord("q"):
Test with a camera attached to our Yagi-antenna:
Because of the many systems and sensors they encompass, drones offer interesting targets for cyberattacks. During our tests, we were able to take over the drone's video feed, watch through its eyes and crash it in the end. Most manufacturers (besides maybe DJI) seem to have little interest in implementing security measures in their drones. While spoofing and sniffing attacks could be prevented, by implementing encryption and/or rolling codes on the drone and the connected FPV hardware, jamming will almost always remain a problem. An attacker with enough resources will be able to overpower most remote control and guidance systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/muki2003/yolo-drone-detection-dataset | aerospace |
https://aaaandsons.com/partners/details/embraer/12 | 2020-04-05T23:10:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371611051.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405213008-20200406003508-00182.warc.gz | 0.930205 | 497 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__128087137 | en | Embraer is one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world, focusing on specific market segments, with high growth potential in commercial, defense, and executive aviation. We have been able to successfully introduce 15 Aircrafts during 2005 - 2007
More than 56 customers in the commercial aviation market all over the world. This international range reflects the quality of our aircraft and also the fact that our jets are establishing themselves as essential tools in the development of world aviation. Our E-Jets, with a 70 to 130-seat capacity, have a strategic function in airlines, helping them to maintain their competitive positions. Around 900 regional jets of the ERJ 145 family currently fly on all five continents, operated by more than 30 airlines, and they have already surpassed the impressive mark of 13 million cycles and 15 million flight hours.
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https://anatravels.org/2018/06/28/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-museum-dallas/?replytocom=1512 | 2022-09-29T09:08:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335326.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929065206-20220929095206-00132.warc.gz | 0.962146 | 797 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__194049248 | en | Dallas has not one but two flight museums. One is the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, near Addison Regional Airport, and the other is Frontiers of Flight Aviation Museum close to Love Field Airport. Both are very interesting, however, the Cavanaugh museum is almost exclusively devoted to military aviation, and Frontiers of Flight includes commercial aviation.
Frontiers of Flight started as a collection at Love Field main terminal building in 1988. Due to increasing public interest, the authorities decided to build the museum we see today. The collections are organized in chronological order, from Leonardo Da Vinci’s inventions to space exploration.
Let me show you around.
For the longest time, African-American soldiers were excluded from leadership roles. In 1940, thanks to the pressure from civil rights groups and the African-American press, black pilots were allowed to fly fighter planes. An all-African-American squadron was formed in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 9141. These pilots, who fought in World War II, are known as the Tuskegee Airmen, and an exhibition is dedicated to them.
There are many military aircraft on display, both originals and replicas, used for fighting and training in different decades. One of the strangest things I’ve seen is the Flying Pancake prototype. To me, it looks more like a manta ray than a pancake! It was developed in 1941 for the US Navy but was never used.
Fans of space exploration will recognise the Apollo VII commando module. The Apollo VII was the first manned flight of the Apollo programme (Sorry, Laika!) Three astronauts flew this spacecraft from 11 to 22 October 1968. I was shocked by how tiny the module was inside, and the fact that the astronauts lay on what looked like canvas stretchers. I thought that the damage to the paint was sustained when the module entered the atmosphere. But no. it was perfectly fine until a TV crew shot a documentary and light from the super strong TV spotlights burned the paint.
One of the displays is devoted to the US Post Office. The USPS practically created commercial aviation in 1918 when they started to deliver mail by air. Back then, passenger travel was almost non-existent.
Southwest Airline, ‘born and bred in Dallas” in 1971 with just three planes, has become the world’s largest low-cost carrier. The company also has the largest fleet of Boeing 737. Their first 737-300, the Spirit of Kitty Hawk, is on display here. I had lots of fun pretending to serve chicken or pasta (I was by myself, otherwise, I wouldn’t have done it). Nearby, the nose section of a 737-200 allows a detailed view of its avionics bay and flight deck.
Do you remember Braniff Airlines? I do! I seem to remember seeing Braniff merchandising at home. The company operated from 1928 to 1982. They flew within the US first and expanded to the Americas, Asia, and Europe in the 1970s. The display cabinets are full of handwritten boarding cards, first class menus and china (actual, real china!), Braniff dolls, among other things. A series of mannequins wear the flight attendants’ uniforms through the different decades. Braniff hired Emilio Pucci to design them at one point, and you can certainly tell which ones are his.
I visited the museum on a regular weekday, it was rather empty. It’s quite popular with families with kids and for school trips. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for 65 and over, $7 for kids between 3 and 17. It opens Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 am and Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm. There isn’t a cafeteria but there are vending machines and a seating area with tables.
6911 Lemmon Avenue, Dallas | aerospace |
http://starvalleyhistoricalsociety-org.web-ois-tech.oisdemos.com/Museums-CallAir/ | 2024-04-19T04:42:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817289.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419043820-20240419073820-00524.warc.gz | 0.974347 | 1,901 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35862177 | en | The CallAir Museum
Located at the Civic Center in Afton, Wyoming, the CallAir Museum commemorates the history of the Call Aircraft Factory founded in 1939 by Reuel Call. CallAir airplanes were designed, developed, and manufactured at Afton from about 1940 to 1970. A prototype airplane was designed and built from 1939 to 1943—the predecessor of the CallAir A-3 cabin plane. In the first years of the 1950s CallAir snow cars were built. By 1955 the A-3 had been converted to an agricultural spray plane—the CallAir A-5. In the early 1960s the CallAir A-9, a larger more powerful version of the A-5, was put into production, followed by the still larger CallAir B-1 in 1968.
The CallAir Foundation is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation, founded in 1992 by Reuel Call. The Foundation has sponsored the CallAir Museum since its inception. The original home of the museum was a larger hangar building located south of Afton. The building was completed in about 1994. Vintage CallAir A-3 and A-5 airplanes were restored about that time. A CallAir B-1 was subsequently acquired and restored. General historical information was gathered, and a picture gallery of personalities associated with the Call Aircraft Factory was created.
In 2005 the museum moved to its current home in the Afton Civic Center prominently located on North Main Street fronting the Lincoln County Fair Grounds. The Civic Center is jointly owned by Lincoln County and the Town of Afton. William Call is the president of the Foundation. Glen Call is the Tour Guide Coordinator at the Museum. For tours you can call Glenn Call at 307-885-3995 or 307-413-5198 during daylight hours, Mountain Time.
Their exhibits follow:
Exhibit No. 1:
CallAir Snow Car, circa 1950
Snow cars were manufactured at the Call Aircraft Factory from the late 1940s into the 1950s. They were an adaptation of the CallAir passenger plane. They were used for recreation and to access remote areas during the extended Star Valley winters. Two popular destinations for snow car enthusiasts were Granite Hot Springs near Hoback Junction (still open today) and Sam Young’s Greys River Ranch (east of Alpine).
A forerunner of today’s snowmobiles, snow cars were used for both winter fun and winter work.
Barlow Call was a test pilot trained in the war. He used airplanes to hunt coyotes and measure snow. He could take off from remote fields and mountain slopes and land “on a dime.” He sometimes took off from the parking lot. He would fly over the landing field, cut his engine and holler down to the people below. On the right day he would fly directly at Star Hill east of Afton where the wind would lift his plane high into the air. Above the intermittent spring he would turn off the engine and soar. Then to start the engine he would put the plane into a dive. When the airspeed reached “max” the engine would “kick over.” Like the CallAir he flew, Barlow Call is an unforgettable legend.
At the time the Call Air Snowcar was built, there was a need for a vehicle to transport people quickly over the snow. The Snowcar provided a practical solution for snow bound regions. Using aircraft-type construction, the Snowcar was strong and light in weight (450-550 pounds empty). The enclosed cab allowed two passengers to ride comfortably; however, it was possible to squeeze three people inside, if necessary. The Snowcar utilized 65 to 85 hp Continental air-cooled engines. With the larger 85 hp engine, options like a starter and generator were offered.
The Snowcar utilized aircraft steel tub construction, but the skis and springs were made from duraluminum. Fuel capacity was 20 gallons. Also offered was a special trailer for carrying the Snowcar on roads and highways. The Snowcar proved itself over and over again throughout the rugged winters of Star Valley, Jackson Hole and the Green River Lakes country.
Exhibit No. 2:
CallAir Prototype, circa 1943
The first CallAir, prototype of the CallAir A-3, was built in 1942-3. In 1939 Reuel Call sat down with his uncle Ivan Call and his brother Spencer Call to plan the design, development, and construction of an airplane that would fly in the mountainous terrain and valleys of Western Wyoming.
This first plane became a reality during the war, but assembly-line production had to wait until parts, materials and engines became available. The A-3 featured a 43 inch, three passenger bench seat, a 186 sq. ft. wing area, and a 6-cylinder 125 hp. Continental engine. Takeoff distance was 500 ft. Climb rate was 1,000 ft. the first minute. The service ceiling was 17,500 ft. The empty weight was 1000 pounds with a useful load of 550 pounds. Cruising speed was 120 mph and the stalling speed was 42
mph. Climb rate at sea level was 1,000 feet per minute and the usable ceiling was 17,500 feet.
Forty of these cabin planes were manufactured between 1944 and 1954. The price in 1952 was $5,525.
Over 50 A-3s were built at the factory, which employed about 100 Star Valley residents. Many of them became skilled technicians—expert at working with steel, wood, paint and fabric. Ken Arnold made flying saucers famous. He first saw them from the cabin of a CallAir A-3! On June 24, 1947 Arnold was flying near Mt. Rainier when he witnessed a series of reflections that came from saucer-shaped objects flying in the distance. Others later made “corroborative sightings.” Since then both Arnold and the CallAir have enjoyed lasting fame.
Exhibit No. 3:
The CallAir A-5, circa 1955
Herb Andersen came to Afton in 1953. He would later become the manager of the Call Aircraft Factory. He converted the CallAir A-3 into a crop duster—the CallAir A-5. He took the turtle back off the fuselage, removed the passenger seat and replaced it with a tank to hold chemicals. He cut down the sides of the pane to improve pilot visibility. He installed a 150 hp. engine and added an 18 cubic ft. hopper. About 200 A-5s were built.
Exhibit No. 4:
CallAir A-9, flying model, circa 1963
About 1960 new factory owners, Doyle Child and Ted Frome of Afton, supported Mr. Andersen in the design of a larger crop duster. The result was the A-9, the most successful CallAir. The plane featured a single-place enclosed cabin, a 290 hp. engine, a wing span of nearly 35 ft. and a 1,600 lb. hopper capacity. About 850 A-9s were built during the 1960s. The flying model is a unique, custom-built interactive display. You’re the pilot. Push the button to make it fly!
Exhibit No. 5:
CallAir B-1, circa 1968
The CallAir B-1 is depicted approaching from the mountains east of Afton. This king of the CallAirs was designed by Mr. Andersen and built in Afton during the late 1960s. It features a 450 hp. radial engine, three-bladed propeller, a 300 gallon hopper, a 44 ft. wingspan and special, reinforced landing gear. Note the wire cutters on the landing gear and windshield (picture down below). They enable flight through - rather than over - power lines!
A total of 35
planes were produced. It was powered by a Pratt & Whitney 450 hp radial engine. With a service of 18,000 ft, a cruising range
of 350 miles and a cruising speed of 115 mph at 75% power and 3,000 lbs gross weight, this was "one of the tough birds".
Pound for pound and power to weight, this B-1A is the top bird in its class. It was a very forgiving plane and presented no
transition problems for pilots moving up.
Afton production line for the Call Air A-5 and A-6 aircraft. Approximately 200 of these planes were manufactured between 1954
Two models of this aircraft, the 150 A-5 and 180 A-6 were produced. A rather unique design placed the hopper and pilot side by
side in the open-air fuselage. The later model boasted a 180 hp Lycoming, an empty weight of 1170 pounds and a useful load of
1180 pounds. Loaded at 2,150 pounds, the take-off run was 550 feet. A photo-mural looking South at the Afton Call Air aircraft plant. Here can be seen a number of Call Air A-6 ag-planes awaiting
delivery to new customers around the world.
Get more info and tours from the CallAir web site: http://CallAirMuseum.org/ | aerospace |
https://museummonger.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/neil-genzlinger-says-enterprise-is-regifted/ | 2018-06-19T06:50:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267861980.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619060647-20180619080647-00264.warc.gz | 0.91929 | 375 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__105190959 | en | Neil Genzlinger says Enterprise is “regifted”Posted: April 26, 2011
Neil Genzlinger’s article on the Enterprise Shuttle perpetuates the culturally corrosive view that museum artifacts and art in general are mere objects for our consumption. To Genzlinger, The Enterprize, a prototype shuttle recently given to the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum, is nothing more than a “federal hand-me-down” or an outdated chunk of trash unworthy of “a prime piece of riverfront property.”
The Enterprise, though, is a bit of a downgrade; it’s a prototype that never actually flew in space, never docked with anything and never harbored Sigourney Weaver and slimy parasitic aliens. From there it’s just a short step to federal junk with no historic value at all — misprinted tax forms, past-date hardtack, obsolete nuclear missiles.
Oh, silly material journalist! Writers of all people should know that the objects themselves are unimportant compared to the stories they can connect us with. No, the Enterprise never docked with a space station, but it was an integral step in the development of shuttles that could. Few people will ever have the opportunity to see a real live space shuttle or even a prototype of one. But the experience of inhabiting the same room as a spacecraft, seeing its scale, its components, materials– THAT physical connection to the history of space exploration could ignite a child’s imagination (hell, it would probably ignite mine).
Mr. Genzlinger, I suggest you get out from behind your Macbook Air and try to gain a little perspective on what our culture should value. It isn’t always the shiniest and newest gadgets that tell the best stories. | aerospace |
https://www.yms.sk/en/we-showed-results-of-research-in-the-space-sector-at-emerging-space-2023/ | 2024-04-14T04:38:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816864.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414033458-20240414063458-00236.warc.gz | 0.940694 | 664 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__130568884 | en | July, 2023 – The fourth annual SARIO conference to support the European space industry took place in Bratislava on May 30. YMS, as a creator of geospatial and technical systems, on the IT market for more than 30 years, was represented by Radovan Hilbert, an expert in satellite technology and director of business development of YMS.
He explained how satellites radically changed the creation of geospatial systems. “We mainly work with spatial data, and before satellites imaging those were quite difficult to come by. The day they were obtained they started to age and lose their relevance, and regular updates weren’t guaranteed,” explains Radovan Hilbert.
“Today, thanks to multispectral sensors on satellites, along with planes, drones, or directly at data collection points, live data is available in real-time, and from the so-called quasi-real time, updated every few days and even automatically,” continues Radovan Hilbert.
This fundamentally changed the work on systems for every branch of the economy. “From such data, we can already create systems to visualize and interpret data, but also interactive systems that recalculate data for the purposes of more accurate decision-making. An example is the erosion calculator application, which automatically calculates the rate of expected erosion after mapping the territory and evaluates how effectively cultivation or agrotechnical measures will reduce erosion,” continues Radovan Hilbert.
Practically everything is visible on the surface of the Earth with a resolution of only a few centimeters, thanks to satellites with advanced sensors, such as multispectral, hyperspectral, and radar. No development remains hidden, problematic phenomena in the country can be detected and measured. Especially those that are invisible to the naked eye, that develop gradually and can do a lot of damage over time.
Figure 1: We use modern systems that have constant up-to-date, live data for visualization and interpretation. We also create interactive systems that help specialists make better decisions by modeling variants and recalculating the effectiveness of measures in real-time.
The fourth annual Emerging Space 2023 featured international speakers and attracted more than 400 participants from around the world. The main goal was to initiate new participants into the space industry and research with fully-fledged members of the global space community. The conference was opened by the Minister of Economy, Peter Dovhun, and the main speaker was the Executive Director of the European Space Program Agency (EUSPA), Rodrigo de Costa.
The key conclusions of the 2023 conference are:
- The motivation to enter the space sector has changed in recent years from the “space race” to pragmatic reasons of innovation, education, economy, environment, society, or security.
- In the last 5 years, new countries have made great progress in the development of space ecosystems and strategies, moving them to the level of partners with great potential and ambitions.
- Europe needs to work even more to foster partnerships between strong and growing space ecosystems because that will significantly strengthen capability, talent, and investment in the space sector.
Report from the conference in English
Video from the conference (Radovan Hilber, starts at 3:15)
Photo gallery from the conference | aerospace |
https://www.orlandiflightcenter.com/about-us.html | 2021-07-28T07:26:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153531.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728060744-20210728090744-00104.warc.gz | 0.929856 | 1,864 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__297002759 | en | MEET THE STAFF:
GEOFFREY ORLANDI DPE, CFI, CFII, MEI Owner, Chief Pilot & Flight Instructor, FAA Designated Pilot Examiner
After instructing part time in Blairstown since April 22, 2011, Geoffrey established OFC on September 1, 2012 to pursue full time his passion for teaching flight and to bring the joys of aviation to everyone he could reach. A pilot since 2000 and a flight instructor since 2007, he is FAA certificated to teach in single and multiengine airplanes, and to teach instrument flight. He is also an advanced / instrument ground instructor and a DPE. Geoff has over 8500 hours across a broad range of flying experience; including flying private, commercial, skydive operations, and airline. He has accumulated over 6400 hours of flight instructing in a wide variety of airplanes, with over 17,000 accident free takeoffs & landings.
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Immediately upon graduating from a four year university Vincent gained some experience in the world of business outside of aviation. But he soon found the lure of flying, combined with the attributes of being involved in the family business at OFC, offered a more promising future as well as a more enjoyable lifestyle. Now a CFI and the operations director, Vincent reports directly to me in running the day to day operations of the Flight Center. Vincent is available for our students and customers to do whatever is needed to assist in making their experience at OFC enjoyable and productive. He also manages our scenic tour operation.
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Joe had a unique "job interview" experience. I met Joe when he was an applicant of mine for his Commercial Single and Multiengine checkrides. I was impressed with his knowledge and skills so when a CFI opening came up at OFC I immediately recruited Joe. He is certificated in all our aircraft so he can work with our vast array of students, from primary tailwheel to advanced multiengine. Joe combines a relaxed demeanor with superb flying knowledge and skill. He eagerly takes on the challenges of producing the highest quality pilots that distinguishes OFC from other flight schools.
Joe's direct contact info: (Cell) 570-972-8215
TRAVIS TRACY CFI, CFII Pilot, Flight instructor
For Travis, flight instructing at OFC is a return to his aviation roots. Travis began his flying career training with me for his private pilot certification during his junior and senior years of high school. He earned the Private Pilot Certificate then went on to pursue his advanced certificates and ratings while attending a university aviation program. During college Travis received his instrument, commercial, CFI, and CFI Instrument credentials. Now Travis is ready to combine the solid foundation he acquired here during his primary training, with his advance ratings, to help guide OFC students as they work toward their own flying futures.
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If you are thinking about learning to fly; DO IT...it will transform your life. You will perceive yourself in a whole new light knowing you can accomplish what you dream. You will push yourself beyond the limits you thought you had. You will forever cherish the experience of conquering the rewarding challenges of becoming a pilot. Learning to fly will be one of the best decisions you have ever made! Go to the Training page for more detailed information about our Introductory Flights, flight training, and our award winning flight school and instructor. Also visit www.letsgoflying.com for more info on Private, Recreational, and Sport Pilot Certification & training requirements.
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If rather than learning to fly you would prefer to just sit back and experience the wonders of flight then an air tour or airplane ride is for you. Escape from your ground bound routine and literally lift your spirits by taking a flight in our aircraft. Tell us what you want to see and the view from the sky will be unforgettable. These flight also make for awesome gifts that will be talked about for years to come. We exist in a one dimensional world until we fly and experience life in all three dimensions. Try it and be inspired! These flights are priced per airplane, not per person, so they are very affordable, and offered all year around.
------ ADVANCED TRAINING & RENTALS ------
If you want to build your skills or use an airplane for travel then become one of our students / renter pilots. Sharpen your pilot technique; travel on fantastic vacations or for business; explore places that take hours to reach by car and do it in one third the time. Our quality airplanes are here to meet your needs; and the ground, simulator, and flight instruction we provide will make you confident in your aviation knowledge and skills! Obtaining a new certificate or rating will allow you to grow as a pilot; and you don't have to worry about ownership hassles and expenses because we have top notch airplanes for rent.
------ COMMERCIAL PILOT SERVICES ------
Commercial piloting services may be what you desire to accomplish personal or business objectives. We can take photos of your home or business with Aerial Photography; reposition your airplane on a Ferry Flight; help you purchase or sell an airplane; and more. Just talk with us about your needs and objectives; our goal is to get it done for you! Take advantage of the services we are prepared to provide and get your personal or business goals accomplished.
------ DESIGNATED PILOT EXAMINER ------
It is the ultimate culmination of an exciting and rewarding flight instructing career to have the honor and privilege of being selected by the FAA to represent it in the testing of pilot applicants as a Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE). As your DPE Geoff will treat you with the upmost professionalism, fairness, and integrity. You will come away truly earning your certification; or understanding that more work is required to achieve the status of a certificated aviator. Geoff is authorized to conduct Checkrides from Sport Pilot thru Commercial for single, multiengine, & instrument ratings, plus administrative applications.
Go to the Student Achievements page to see what our staff has done for others and can do for YOU!
...If you can afford tickets to pro sporting events then you can afford to fly
...If you can afford a mobile home, motorcycle, or boat then you can afford to fly
...If you can afford to go out to dinner or a club once a week then you can afford to fly
...If you can afford skiing, tennis or golf then you can afford to fly
GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE
If you want to experience the feeling of real freedom; the thrill of piloting an airplane; the satisfaction of mastering new skills; a new outlook on life; and an unparalleled sense of accomplishment, then you want to fly.
If you want an activity that can be used like a magic carpet for inspiring recreation; or like a time machine for family, personal or business travel, then you want to fly.
Put simply, if you want to ENHANCE YOUR LIFE in countless ways; from personal growth to practical transportation; even to new careers, then FLY AT OFC, A NATIONAL AWARD WINNING FLIGHT SCHOOL!!!
Wheels move the body.....Wings move the soul
ENHANCE YOUR LIFE.......FLY
ORLANDI FLIGHT CENTER is founded upon a simple mission: to provide you with all the opportunities we can to allow you to ENHANCE YOUR LIFE THROUGH AVIATION. To accomplish our mission we make YOU, our students, customers and friends, the PURPOSE BEHIND EVERYTHING WE DO.
WHY SHOULD YOU FLY? the real question is WHY NOT! | aerospace |
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Galvin Flying has dedicated more than 90 years to providing the best Flight Training and Airplane Maintenance available in the Puget Sound Area. Aviation pioneer Jim Galvin founded Galvin Flying on Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, in 1930 – just three years after Charles Lindberg completed the first solo transatlantic flight. Today, we continue to honor Jim Galvin’s core values of providing the highest level of service and personal attention to our customers.
Renowned Flight Training
Learn to fly with confidence on historic Boeing Field in Seattle, WA – one of the nation’s busiest primary non-hub airports. We have taught the world to fly since 1930 with one of the most experienced operations in the business. Galvin Flying maintains a FAA-approved Part 141 flight training curriculum.
Expert Aircraft Maintenance
When it comes to maintenance, you need a trusted expert dedicated to your safety and protecting your investment. Look no further than Galvin Flying’s FAA licensed Aircraft Maintenance Repair Station. As the largest maintenance facility in Seattle, we remain committed to providing expert maintenance for piston and light-turbine aircraft. Our central location in the Puget Sound region is convenient for flying your aircraft in, or our mobile maintenance vehicle to come to you.
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See the latest news and updates regarding our courses, procedures, recommendations and more! | aerospace |
http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news/astar-invents-new-technology-help-aerospace-industry | 2017-09-24T03:17:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689845.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924025415-20170924045415-00216.warc.gz | 0.940195 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__43025854 | en | In the future, one may be able to pinpoint areas in an airplane engine requiring repair accurately, simply by taking a photograph of the engine instead of going through manual checking, thereby enhancing aerospace safety. Since 2007, A*STAR has rolled out an aerospace programme to help those in the aerospace industry to resolve technical challenges I²R has invented a technology where the staff can simply snap a picture of a part of the airplane, upload it onto a computer which will pinpoint which parts need to be repaired or replaced. This technology has a 90% accuracy, comparable to that of a human.
A*STAR invents new technology to help aerospace industry
14 Feb 2016 | aerospace |
http://timothywcoleman.com/2013/01/24/in-brief-japan-readying-spy-satellite-launch/ | 2014-04-21T07:32:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539665.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00208-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.92176 | 262 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__150721202 | en | A screen shows a rocket being launched from a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, at North Korea’s satellite control centre in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province, in this photo released by Kyodo on Dec 12, 2012. North Korea successfully launched a rocket on Wednesday, boosting the credentials of its new leader and stepping up the threat the isolated and impoverished state poses to opponents. Japan is to launch a new spy satellite on Sunday to strengthen its monitoring capabilities amid concern that North Korea may carry out more missile and nuclear tests.
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency announced that it plans to launch a new spy satellite from its Tanegashima Space Center on January 27 . . . the new satellite will be equipped with radar equipment and will be used for intelligence gathering efforts . . . the decision to launch the spy satellite comes in the wake of North Korea’s successful missile test a month ago . . . Japan also likely plans to launch the satellite in response to concerns that North Korea may be planning to conduct more missile tests or even a nuclear test . . . Japan has already launched four satellites . . . only one of the current satellites is equipped with radar, so the new satellite will provide greater coverage and intelligence gathering capabilities, specifically aimed at monitoring North Korea. | aerospace |
http://www.guyson.co.uk/finishing-applications/shot-peening | 2017-05-23T20:37:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607702.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523202350-20170523222350-00073.warc.gz | 0.917675 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__166663203 | en | Controlled shot peening is regularly being specified by the aerospace, automotive and nuclear industries to enhance component service life. It is a cold working process in which the surface of the component being processed is bombarded with small spherical media. Each piece of shot striking the surface of the component acts as a minuscule peening hammer, deforming the component surface and causing a small indentation or dimple. The overlapping dimples develop a thin layer of metal in residual compressive stress at or near the surface. Since nearly all fatigue and stress corrosion failures start at the surface of a part, the compressive stresses induced by shot peening can considerably increase component service life.
Our Shot Peening brochure covers this in more detail. Download the Guyson Shot Peening brochure here, or call 01756 799911 and ask our Customer Service department to send you a copy. | aerospace |
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Lessons learned from Space Food Production Systems for improved Food Security on Earth!
Humanity is evolving towards a multi-planetary future. One of the main challenges in human space exploration is sustainability, since long duration missions on other planetary bodies will require a high level of autonomy from planet Earth and the possibility to retrieve all fundamental life resources.
The need for efficient use of volume, water, and other inputs for producing food could enable technologies with reduced impact on the resources needed for food production here on Earth, especially in extreme environments and resource-scarce regions. In addition to crops production, there are other advanced food systems that warrant exploration as they can also potentially address some of the challenges of terrestrial and space-based food systems.
The Space Meal Solution is a food production strategy, designed in partnership between COESIA S.p.A. and Pastificio RANA S.p.A., that identifies hydroponics and aeroponics systems as source to produce the ingredients for customized, balanced, nutritious, and palatable meals based on Mediterranean diet.
The food processing system is based on automated and integrated engineered solutions focusing on automation, from blending to cooking, with the goal to easily produce space meals through the Engineered Space Kitchen. The crops processing, the meal preparation and preservation are designed to minimize time, water and energy consumption and optimize human centered design for the crew by building a collaborative environment that combines assessed and innovative food processing and cooking technologies.
Indeed, designing new space food systems, while preserving and enhancing our culinary arts, solves for the scarcity of resources and sustainability on our planet a wonderful spaceship traveling across the universe.
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https://pgtheworld.com/2020/01/04/tapalpa/ | 2021-05-08T19:39:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988923.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20210508181551-20210508211551-00428.warc.gz | 0.982103 | 147 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__86883988 | en | The pilots in Colima had some good things to say about the flying in Tapalpa. Only 2 hours from Colima, I thought it would be worth a trip. Tapalpa is one of Mexico’s many Pueblos Mágicos. The town is located at almost 2,000 m above sea level, and so at night it was quite cold. Coniferous forests and mountain pastures made for some beautiful scenery.
Flying here was a lot of fun. Though I wasn’t lucky enough to experience great weather conditions, I was able to fly half-way to San Marcos. Here I am at the northern Tapalpa take-off. What a pretty site to fly! | aerospace |
http://thebellwetherdaily.blogspot.com/2010/02/astronaut-charlie-dukes-pay-for-going.html | 2018-07-18T08:33:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590074.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718080513-20180718100513-00336.warc.gz | 0.965482 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__104101437 | en | CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charlie Duke is the 10th man after Indian Hill resident Neil Armstrong to walk on the moon. Duke made the trip on Apollo 16. He spoke to cadets recently about military travel reimbursement red tape: "The general joked to the crowd of about 500 about the complexity of space travel versus Air Force travel paperwork.'A trip to the moon is a TDY,' or temporary duty assignment, he said. At the time, Air Force travel was reimbursed at $25 per day, which would have accumulated to a total of $275 for the seven-day trip. However, because the Air Force deemed that the government had paid for meals and lodging, NASA cut him a check for only $13.75."
You can read the whole story about Duke's speech here at the Air Force website. | aerospace |
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