Captain Kirk has officially visited outer space for real.
William Shatner, the star behind the beloved Star Trek character, finally made his own voyage to the final frontier on Wednesday, Oct. 13 after being postponed a day as a result of weather conditions. After lifting off near Van Horn, Texas minutes before 11 a.m., Blue Origin’s New Shepard accomplished the company’s second successful crewed mission to space, carrying Shatner, Planet Labs co-founder Chris Boshuizen, Medidata Solutions co-founder Glen de Vries and Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight operations Audrey Powers.
It was not only a milestone for Shatner, but also a history-making one as the actor is the oldest person to reach space at 90 years old. While it’s an undeniably special moment, it doesn’t sound like Shatner has any interest in relocating. “The thing I really want to do,” he previously told Today, “is come back down.” In a matter of just over 10 minutes, the crew returned back to Earth in their capsule and Shatner got his wish.


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Haze and dust from industrial activity blanket low-lying regions of eastern China and northern India, two latest satellite pics expose.
The pictures, demonstrating the extent of pollution, were captured by two NASA satellites – Aqua and Terra – using an muziekinstrument called the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).
Aqua, which captures pics te the afternoon, took the picture of Eastern China on 17 November, when a gray haze draped overheen the coastal plain around the Yellow Sea and spilled out overheen the Yellow Sea (centre right of photo).
The smog is most likely churned out by the country’s coal-fuelled power plants, smoke from fireplaces te individual homes, and voertuig harass and pollution from nearby Beijing and Tianjin. “This type of haze event is common ter this part of China,” says Jon Ranson, Terra project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ter Greenbelt, Maryland, US.
(Photo&colon, Jesse Allen/MODIS Rapid Response Team/NASA)
Terra, which captures pictures te the morning, snapped the picture of haze along the foothills of the Himalayan mountains ter northern India on 15 November. The haze spreads from the southern Bay of Bengal to the mouth of the Ganges Sea (centre right of picture). But it clears overheen the Tibetan Plateau to the north of the Himalayas (top of pic).
“The Himalayas are certainly acting spil a barrier to keep the smoke and pollution te that particular region,” Ranson told Fresh Scientist. “The smoke and other pollutants back up against the mountains.”
Terra and Aqua, launched ter 1999 and 2002, are “part of NASA’s programme to understand the Earth spil a system”, says Ranson. “We’re making measurements of the atmosphere and the ground and their switches and attempting to understand the factors causing those switches.”
Ter fact, NASA signed an agreement on Thursday to share gegevens from its Earth-observation satellites with the World Conservation Union – the world’s largest environmental skill network.
The gegevens will be made available to the union’s 1000 member organisations – which include government agencies ter both developed and developing countries – to aid environmental policy decisions. It could also be used to ordner the world’s 100,000 protected areas, many of which are difficult to access.
“This chance for NASA to help advance conservation efforts globally reinforces our vision to use our unique vantage from space to improve life here on Earth,” says NASA’s deputy associate administrator for science, Ghassem Asrar.


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The global Military Radars Market size is projected to grow from USD 13.5 billion in 2022 to USD 17.1 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 4.7% from 2022 to 2027. Radar systems are very helpful in the military for a variety of tasks, including missile early warning detection, air traffic control, ground and aerial surveillance, and maritime navigation. Along with cameras that employ ultrasonic frequency and other object detecting systems that use image processing, it is also used as a terrorist scanner radar to increase security at the country's borders. The military radar market will be driven by increased purchases of air defense systems and radar as a result of regional instability and international conflicts. In a similar vein, the expansion of the military radar market during the projected period would be influenced by the development of drones and UAVs.
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The 110-pack launch by the Indian Space Research Organistion (ISRO) saw the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) carry the heaviest luggage of 824 kg into the orbit. The payload included an Indian mini satellite and eight foreign nano satellites weighing under 10 kilograms, besides the 700 kilogram Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite.
This all came after liftoff at 9:20 a.m. local time.At the end of the 52-hour countdown, the PSLV-C9, with a liftoff mass of 230 tonnes, blasted off from the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre and soared into the clear sky.
Fourteen minutes after the lift-off in its 13th flight, PSLV injected the satellites into the 635-km polar sun synchronous orbit. This is for the first time that the ISRO has put 10 satellites into the orbit in a single launch.
This is also PSLV's 12th successful flight. It is for the first time in the world that 10 satellites have been launched in a single mission thus setting a world record.
The previous record for most satellites launched in one attempt was
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The launch was shown on television live by a public broadcaster. ISRO chairman G. Madhavan stated the mission was “perfect.”


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In Southern California aviation is as popular as driving the freeways. There are major airports in Los Angeles, Irvine, Burbank, Long Beach, Ontario, and San Diego. A host of popular municipal airports dot the landscape throughout the region. Whether flying major commercial airlines, small regional carriers, private jets, or small personal aircraft, the skies of Southern California are abuzz with flight.
With such huge numbers in the sky, the odds and statistics predict something will fall…no matter how safe, prepared or careful everyone may be.
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Dr. Petersen joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2022 after being an NRC Research Fellow at the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory where she researched the propagation of space weather events in order to improve space weather forecasting, with the aim of enhancing space situational awareness and protecting space-based assets for the US Air Force and Space Force. Dr. Petersen earned her PhD and MS from the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Dept. at the University of Michigan, College of Engineering.
Dr. Petersen leads the Space Weather Impacts, Forecasting and Transit (SWIFT) lab, which researches the kinetic physics, magnetism and dynamics at play during the transit and interaction of space weather phenomena in the inner solar system, their impacts on spacecraft, and strategies for mitigating the impacts of space weather.
Her research has covered some of the following topics:
- The impacts of interplanetary transit and interactions with magnetic structures on solar energetic particles as they propagate through the inner heliosphere.
- The magnetic topology of the inner heliosphere and the evolution of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections as they propagate out from the Sun.
- Identifying characteristics of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections using Advanced Compositional Explorer (ACE) in situ observations of heavy ion charge states, suprathermal electrons and plasma properties.
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Oxygen reduction fire prevention system to suppress or extinguish fire within a pressurized cabin
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At the end of August, a new way of transporting pharmacy products to customers will be tested in Helsinki. In a week-long trial, the products of Lauttiksen Apteekki pharmacy, located in Lauttasaari area, will be flown by drone to Jätkäsaari area.
The aim of the pilot is to gather experiences on the suitability of drones for the transport of pharmacy products and to test a new service concept with genuine customers. Electric drones have the potential to reduce emissions of the traditional logistics industry. Other advantages of drones are speed and the ability to make deliveries to locations where there are few services on their own or which are difficult to access, such as islands.
The flights will take place from 24th to 29th of August, 2021. The pharmacy products ordered by the customer are packed in temperature-controlled packaging, which is then flown from Lauttasaari to Saukontori in Jätkäsaari. The deliveries are subject to weather conditions.
The pilot is part of Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab project, which is coordinated by the City of Helsinki and Forum Virium Helsinki. The goal of the project is to help companies pilot new services and technologies in a real urban environment. Forum Virium Helsinki currently has several parallel projects underway to test drone transports. The projects explore, for example, how drones can be used to help with health care needs. The City of Helsinki will receive information from the experiments on how to prepare for the growth of drone operations in urban planning and what kind of role cities will play as an operating environment for unmanned and manned aerial vehicles in the future.
Quick delivery from the pharmacy to the customer
Lauttiksen Apteekki pharmacy sees new possibilities in drone deliveries, as they enable the customer to be reached quickly, at anytime and without the customer having to go to the pharmacy to do business.
“The tasks of pharmacies are becoming more diverse all the time. Preparing for future requirements and staying at the forefront of development require innovation, product development and willingness to try new technologies. In the future, drones flying in the sky could be a quick way to transport, for example, pharmacy e-commerce products directly to customers or urgent orders to nursing homes. In addition to speed, the drone’s significantly lower emissions compared to traditional transport are also significant factor”, says pharmacist Risto Holma from Lauttiksen Apteekki pharmacy.
The pharmacy’s customers can order selected pharmacy products by drone transport from Lauttiksen Apteekki’s online store at e-apteekkari.fi. The products are picked up from the drone landing point at Saukontori in Jätkäsaari. More detailed instructions and pharmacy products within the scope of drone transport can be found in the Lauttiksen Apteekki online store (e-apteekkari.fi). Drugs are not delivered in the pilot.
A dense urban environment, such as Helsinki’s city center, poses its own challenges to drone deliveries. Especially in the performance of flights that are beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). A consortium of Finnish companies, led by Third Space Automation Oy, is responsible for operating the drones. The team has paid special attention to flight safety in the pilot in addition to ensuring the integrity and traceability of the cargo.
“We follow the strictest safety regulations and are a team of highly experienced manned and unmanned aviation experts with decades of experience. We are using a commercial grade drone equipped with the maximum level of safety back up systems”, says Arshia Gratiot, CEO of Third Space Automation.
The delivery pilot of pharmacy products is an opportunity for Third Space Automation to test its drone logistics service. The goal is to be able to deliver medical products to even the most challenging locations.
“We designed the ByDrone distribution system used in the trial as a special delivery network for medical products. In the future, we aim to supply e.g. medicines, blood and vaccines, especially to hard-to-reach places that are otherwise difficult to deliver, ”Gratiot adds.
Drone delivery pilot in Jätkäsaari and Lauttasaari
- Drone deliveries of pharmacy products will be tested between Lauttasaari and Jätkäsaari from 24 August to 29 August, 2021. Drone flights take place between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
- The pilot is carried out by Third Space Automation Oy, FutureSky Oy, Flyby Guys Oy and Pinktape Media in cooperation with Lauttiksen Apteekki.The pilot is part of the Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab project coordinated by the City of Helsinki and Forum Virium Helsinki.
- During the pilot, selected products can be ordered from Lauttiksen Apteekki’s online store (e-apteekkari.fi) to Jätkäsaari by drone. The drone lands in Jätkäsaari at Saukontori, where customers can pick up their order.
- Particular attention has been paid to the safety of the drone flights. The drones are operated by professionals. The necessary permits have been applied as well as required insurances.
- Safe areas in Lauttasaari and Jätkäsaari (Saukontori) have been chosen as the take-off and landing places for the drones.
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Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival is a great time for all ages!
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18507 US Highway 98 West, Foley, Alabama
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The Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival, presented by Tanger Outlets, welcomes more than 50 hot air balloonists from across the country. Enjoy the floating works of art as they grace the skies of South Baldwin County on Friday and Saturday morning*. Get up close and personal as the hot air balloons and their pilots light up the evening skies at the nightly balloon glows, held Friday and Saturday night.


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- How much does it cost to go to space?
- What would kill you first in space?
- Who has died in space?
- What does space smell like?
- How much does SpaceX launch cost?
- Can a civilian go to space?
- Can you pay to go to the moon?
- Are there dead bodies in space?
- Who owns the moon?
- How much do astronauts get paid?
- Is buying land on moon legal?
How much does it cost to go to space?
For today’s space companies, it’s anyone willing — and wealthy enough — to pay the steep cost.
NASA said it would cost $35,000 a night for stays on the ISS, and the price to get there is estimated to be $50 million..
What would kill you first in space?
The most immediate threat in the cosmic vacuum is oxygen deprivation. Assuming that you don’t hold your breath during decompression, it will take about 15 seconds for your O2 deprived blood to get to your brain. … Simple loss of oxygen will likely kill you faster than anything else in the vacuum of space.
Who has died in space?
Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski (left), Vladislav Volkov (middle), and Viktor Patsayev (right), the only three people to die in space, are featured on three USSR stamps. On June 29, the cosmonauts loaded back into the Soyuz 11 spacecraft and began their descent to Earth. And that’s when tragedy struck.
What does space smell like?
sweet-smelling welding fumes’, ‘burning metal’, ‘a distinct odour of ozone, an acrid smell’, ‘walnuts and brake pads’, ‘gunpowder’ and even ‘burnt almond cookie’. Some astronauts have likened the smells of space to walnuts.
How much does SpaceX launch cost?
Falcon 9FunctionOrbital launch vehicleManufacturerSpaceXCountry of originUnited StatesCost per launchNew: US$62 million (2020), Reused: US$50 million (2019)Size43 more rows
Can a civilian go to space?
Regular civilians will never go into space, only to low Earth orbit, which is not really true space.
Can you pay to go to the moon?
Cost. Some of the space tourism start-up companies have declared their cost for each tourist for a tour to the Moon. Circumlunar flyby: Space Adventures is charging $150 million per seat, a price that includes months of ground-based training, although this is only a fly-by mission, and will not land on the Moon.
Are there dead bodies in space?
As of 2020, there have been 15 astronaut and 4 cosmonaut fatalities during spaceflight. Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire which killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities.
Who owns the moon?
The Outer Space Treaty means therefore that – no matter whose national flags are planted on the lunar surface – no nation can ‘own’ the Moon. As of 2019, 109 nations are bound by the Treaty, and another 23 have signed the agreement but have yet to be officially recognised.
How much do astronauts get paid?
Astronauts’ annual salaries are determined using a government pay scale, and starting out, typically fall under two grades: GS-12 and GS-13. According the US government’s 2020 pay scales and a NASA job listing, a civilian astronaut in 2020 can earn between $66,167 and $161,141 per year.
Is buying land on moon legal?
Can people even buy land on the moon (legally)? … Buying land on the moon is illegal as per the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, signed by 109 nations, including India. As per the Treaty, “outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”


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NASA astronauts went into space using an agency rocket made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the first time at the end of May.
The crew are now onboard the International Space Station and maintaining their conditioning will be a big priority during their time there, with as much as two and a half hours a day spent exercising.
Due to the lower force of gravity, a human body will see both its muscular strength and cardiovascular fitness reduced significantly while in space if it’s left to waste away.
So how do astronauts workout in space? Built for Athletes takes a look.
Astronauts will generally do continuous and interval-based aerobic training on alternate days, much like endurance athletes on Earth.
They have a specially designed treadmill named COLBERT, which is arguably the most famous treadmill ever made.
It’s essentially a normal running machine with a harness attached to it by bungee cords that the crew members will wear when going for a run, as well as elastic straps that fit over their shoulders to hold them down.
Apparently it feels a bit like running with a backpack on due to the straps. The treadmill also has its own suspension system to absorb the vibrations from each footfall and ensure the whole station doesn’t shake with every step.
Astronauts also have the opportunity to use a stationary bike for their aerobic training.
The bike is secured to the wall of the station so it doesn’t float away and a harness is again used to strap crew members in.
Their heart-rate and power data from the cycle is sent back down to Earth so that an individual programme can be developed for each astronaut.
ARED Resistance Machine
Muscular atrophy can occur quickly in space, so regular resistance training is essential.
To do this a machine called the ARED is used, also known as “The Beast” by astronauts.
It works by using vacuum cylinders, that could be compared to bicycle pumps, increasing the resistance as a piston is pulled in or out.
This allows users to perform a range of exercises but they will be able to lift about twice the weight they could on Earth. So if doing a squat, for example, astronauts could cope with about twice the weight they normally could.


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Los Angeles police helicopter pilot Jeff Walker heard of the idea, he
"Simmons, you have to be joking. You mean you want to go to Nicaragua, which is very unfriendly toward us now, and steal the latest Russian Hind helicopter from a guarded air base?"
"For a million bucks for a weekend's work, why not?" replied Simmons. "We did infiltration missions like this all the time in Vietnam when I was in Special Forces. The difference now is that I need a pilot. That's where you come in."
"I don't know anything about Russian ships. I flew Cobras in Vietnam, and now Bell Jetrangers. I don't even know how to start the engines."
Simmons grinned. He knew Walker would be turning the thoughts over in his mind. "If I can come up with the flight manual, in English, with a checklist, do you think you could crank it up and fly it?"
"If it's got rotors, I can fly it. But like you say, the big question is can I figure out how to start it. Still, you're crazy. It's a pipe dream. We'd get killed before we ever got near one."
"Maybe," said Simmons. "Maybe not..."


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Why Does Mexico Fly the Flag Half Staff on May 2nd? What significance is May 28th?
Mexico joined the allies during WWII as a result of the May 13, 1942 German U-boat sinking two Mexican oil tankers, off the coast of Florida, transporting crude oil to the United States. Thirteen of thirty-five crew members of the SS Potrero del Llano and eight members of SS Faja de Oro were killed.
Dec 12: The U.S. sent support with two squadrons of bombers bringing Mexico's aerial support at ten.
Dec 17: "A high ranking military official said that Mexico expected to get 160 military planes of four types...a supply of planes for the Mexican Army's rudimentary air force has long been under negotiation"
The Mexican constitution mandated that the president obtain permission from the Senate, which would require public support. A former army general, President Avila Camacho knew the army was unprepared, but he also believed that a tactical air unit could be readied quickly.
To sell the idea to the public, the president ordered the FAM to stage an airshow. Near Mexico City on March 5, 1944, more than 100,000 capitalinos watched as AT-6s and A-24Bs blasted a simulated enemy base with live ordnance. The show was a stunning success, and shortly thereafter the president declared that Mexico should fight and that the FAM would lead the nation in the conflict.
"As a result, on May 28, 1942, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved the decree by which it was established that since May 22, 1942, the United Mexican States were in a state of war." May 28, 1942, Mexico declares a State of War. | Ministry of National Defense | | Government gob.mx (www.gob.mx)
It was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, George S. Messersmith, who sent the message to President Roosevelt encouraging an arrangement for the U.S. to train the 400 members of Escuadron 201 alongside American pilots. His letter unknowingly foretold a little-known historical fact "for the actual need or help which such air squadrons would be to us."
A unique arrangement was made for the "Aztec Eagles" by Army Maj. Gen. Robert W. Harper according to his memo
- No U.S. insignia are to be worn by the Mexican trainees
- They would not be subject to the civil or military law of the United States
- They would be subject to only to the codes of Mexican law
- Discipline would be administered by Mexican commanders only, never by U.S. authorities.
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According to the US Air Force website: Mexican Air Force Aircrews > National Museum of the United States Air Force™ > Display (af.mil)
- July 1944 - the 201st Fighter Squadron (Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201) was formed
- 36 pilots
- Over 264 support personnel
- The Squadron was also known as the Aztec eagles, they trained at
- Randolph Field - San Antonio
- Majors FIeld - Greenville, TX
- January 23, 1945 - Second lieutenant, Cristoforo Salido Grijalva, was killed in training
- February 1945
- 201st Fighter Squadron moved to the Philippine Islands
- Total of 33 pilots and more than 270 support personnel
- March 1945
- Escuadron 201 members were attached to the US 5th Air Force and the 58th Fighter Group, based at Porac, Luzon - Philippine Islands.
- Escuadron 201 was merged into the 58th Fighter Group combat operations, providing support during the first combat missions.
- While completing training in air-to-air gunnery in Brownsville - March 10, Lieutenant Javier Martinez Valle a member of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force. was killed in an accident
- Mexican Expeditionary Air Force (Fuerz Aerea Expedicionaria Mexicana) went to the Philippines via the liberty ship Fairisle at San Fransisco, joining 1,500 U.S. troops bound for the Philippines. (March 27)
- April 1945
- U.S.S. Fairisle arrives in the Phillippines April 30, 1945
- 201st was assigned to the U.S. Fifth Air Force
- May 1945
- Escuadron pilots began flying combat orientation missions
- Escuadron pilots were assigned to various other squadrons
- Soon after the "Aztec Eagles" began flying as a unit with initial targets, in the Marikina watershed east of Manila. The U.S. 2th Infantry Division had been encountering fierce resistance
- June- August 1945
- 53 ground support missions flown in support of American troops in Luzon from June 4 - July 4
- 37 training missions: July 14-21
- 1 dive bombing mission against the Port of Karenko, Formosa, August 8,
- 1 convoy escort mission in the Sea North of the Philippines, August 26
- Sept-Dec 1945
- The Mexican Expeditionary Air Force was assigned to the 13th Air Force. With the end of the war it returned to Mexico by November 1945.
- The Mexican Expeditionary Air Force was disbanded by Presidential degree of 1st December 1945. The 201st Squadron returning to the Mexican Air Force.
Detailed accounts of heroism by the Escuadron 201 members and MEAF are found here: World War II: Mexican Air Force Helped Liberate the Philippines
Statistics of Escuadron 201
- Airmen flew 795 combat sorties
- Performed 96 missions along with the Allies in WWII
- Launched 252 general-purpose bombs
- Flew 1,966 hours in combat zones.
- Chapultepec Park is dedicated to Escuadron 201. The 201st Squadron: Mexico's Greatest Generation The Daily Chela
- Mexico City Metro Line 8 station Metro Escuadrón 201 is named after the squadron, it was opened on July 20, 1994.
- The Aztec Eagle pilots flew Republic P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt single-seat fighter aircraft carrying out tactical air support missions
"The outstanding work made my those men (Escuadron 201) demonstrated that good things can only be achieved with leadership, teamwork and sacrifice, fighting side-by-side and shoulder-to-shoulder," said Lt. Col. Jose Nunez, Mexico's Foreign Liaison Officer from the Air Force Security Assistance Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, during the exhibit opening ceremony.
- The National Museum of the US Air Force in Washington DC includes an exhibit "Airmen in a World at War" recognizing Squadron 201 from Mexico
- Gustavo Vazquez-Lozano has written a book concerning the heroism of Escuadron 201: 201st Squadron: The Aztec Eagles: The History of the Mexican Pilots Who Fought in World War II
- Retired Plane details: Warbird Registry - Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - A Warbirds Resource Group Site
- 201st Mexican Fighter Squadron (warfare.gq)
- The Saga of the Aztec Eagles - Mexico in WW2 (stelzriede.com)
- When the Mexican Air Force Went to War Alongside America - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
- Aztec Eagle: P-47D of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force (ipmsstockholm.org)
- Museum remembers 'Aztec Eagles' > Air Force > Article Display (af.mil)
- Latin America in the Air War | National Air and Space Museum (si.edu)
- El Universal newspaper* has a significant number of historical photographs and inhouse content concerning the Aztec Eagles participation in the efforts of WWII.
*"El Universal was born on October 1, 1916 at the initiative of the engineer Félix Fulgencio Palavicini, who was part of the Constituent Congress of Querétaro....At the corner of Madero and Motolinía, in the center of the capital, the first newsroom and the workshops of the newspaper were located, equipped with a Goss press. On this machine was printed the first Political Constitution of the United Mexican States in 1917."
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U.S. President Donald Trump is finding ways to keep himself busy with the Impeachment trial going on. On Jan. 24, he found a new way to grab attention.
Space Force is apparently happening, as a new branch of the military that will do… something in space. Defend US interests there?
It appears to be true. #45 has finally reviled a logo for the United States Space Force. He took to his favorite mouthpiece, Twitter, to make the announcement.
Afterwards, it got a lot of reaction, and had people making comparisons to ‘Star Trek.’
One user above even compared the Space Force design to NASA.
It is not known when exactly Space Force will get off the ground, but they do have a spokesperson, so that shows some promise.
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Air Peace has apologized to passengers for flight delays, conceding that customers come first, but insisting that no matter what, the airline would never compromise on safety standards.
The airline stated this in a statement explaining that while airlines do not profit from flight delays or cancellations, such delays are caused mostly by safety concerns.
The airline also stated that it has contacted numerous passengers whose flights have been delayed recently, as it understands their frustrations.
It went on to say that a recent incidence of a disgruntled passenger, which went viral on social media, was caused by terrible weather and unexpected aircraft breakdowns on the Sokoto, Akure, Ibadan, and Kano routes.
“Our attention has been raised to a social media post in which a disgruntled client whose flight was delayed referred to Air Peace as a vicious operator, among other disparaging statements”.
“First and first, we would want to express our sincere apologies to all of our customers, including this specific passenger, who may have suffered flight delays on the day in question, as well as at any other time throughout our operations, for any difficulty they may have had. When such events occur, we feel their anguish”.
“As a responsible organization, and in accordance with business ethics, Air Peace would generally reach out to unsatisfied consumers at any time to pacify them, whether or not we are at fault. This is exactly what we’ve done. We think that the customer is king. Such gestures are never an admission of guilt, but rather an acknowledgment that one’s clients must be satisfied. It’s never done out of a sense of dread”.
“Flight delays and cancellations help no airline under the sun.” Rather than anything else, flight delays are mostly caused by safety concerns. We would want to reaffirm our commitment to zero tolerance for risky operations. Air Peace will never fly when it is hazardous to do so due to purposeful negative comments, intimidation, or blackmail, nor will we take to the skies to appear good when it is absolutely unsafe to do so due to fear of unwanted publicity from anybody or quarter.
“Flights are delayed due to a variety of causes outside the airline’s control, including but not limited to inclement weather, unexpected aircraft malfunctions, and so on. We encountered terrible weather on the day in question, which resulted in flight cancellations and unexpected aircraft breakdowns during and in the middle of operations. We suffered weather-related aircraft delays at Sokoto, Akure, Ibadan, and Kano. These causes resulted in several delays and cancellations, which the airline had not anticipated. It occurs all around the globe “, according to the airline.
Air Peace reaffirmed that it would never put its passengers’ lives in jeopardy by flying a malfunctioning plane, and it also defended the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), claiming that the body is effectively regulating the industry and that airlines follow best safety measures.


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Driving down New Freeway, which skirts the perimeter of Farmingdale, Very long Island’s, Republic Airport, on the still-warm, crystal-blue Labor Working day early morning in 2006, and glimpsing the tails of the Globe War II B-24 Liberator, B-17 Flying Fortress, and B-twenty five Mitchell bombers, I experienced as soon as once again realized that the Collings Foundation’s yearly Wings of Independence fleet rotation, a lot more than any other calendar year, experienced reworked the typical aviation discipline into an early-forties pocket of time, a hub of medium and significant bomber functions.
The aircraft meant for my mission, the North American B-twenty five Mitchell registered 130669 “Tondelayo” and donning its drab olive-inexperienced livery, experienced been the third parked on the ramp of the American Airpower Museum, each an historical and symbolic placement relative to the two heavier, for a longer time-array aircraft which experienced been preceded it.
Ensuing from a 1938 Air Corps necessity for a twin-engined, medium-array bomber which could fulfill specialized niche roles its bigger, quad-engined counterparts experienced been unable to, and tracing its lineage to the B-10, the B-12, the B-eighteen, and the B-23, the B-twenty five alone, named following the US Military Air Corps Officer Basic Billy Mitchell, experienced been infused lifetime as a self-funded job by North American Aviation in the type of the NA-40-1. The 19,500-pound prototype, featuring a narrow fuselage with a inexperienced home cockpit a straight mid-wing two, 1,100-horsepower R-1830 piston engines an angular, twin vertical tail and a tricycle undercarriage of single wheels, experienced 1st flown in January of 1939, but a energy deficiency experienced necessitated the retrofit of 1,350-horsepower R-2600s. While the modified variation, specified NA-40-two, experienced available exceptional effectiveness, it crashed following a two-7 days check software.
Its NA-62 successor, which experienced been thoroughly modified, highlighted a broader fuselage which in change increased the now reduced-mounted, continual root-to-idea dihedral mid-wing span, 1,seven-hundred-horsepower R-2600-9 engines, sq.-geometry vertical tails, and a 27,000-pound gross excess weight. Accredited in September of 1939, this variation, specified the XB-twenty five, 1st flew in prototype type on August 19 of the pursuing calendar year.
Initially shipped to the Military Air Corps, the aircraft demonstrated directional balance deficiencies, ensuing in the outer wing mounting redesign with the tenth aircraft off the production line, which decreased the motor-to-wing idea dihedral and gave it its attribute gull-wing profile.
The B-twenty five Mitchell, in production type, appeared with an aluminum alloy, semi-monocoque fuselage, constructed of four longerons, which produced a 53.six-foot total size. The cantilever, all-metal, mid-mounted wings, comprised of a two-spar, fuselage-integral middle portion housing integral gas tanks and two outer, single-spar sections with detachable wing tips, highlighted sealed ailerons with each preset and controllable trimming tabs and twin-portion, hydraulically-operated, trailing edge slotted flaps divided by the motor nacelles. Spanning sixty seven.seven feet, they sported a 609.8-sq.-foot location. Driven by two 1,seven-hundred-horsepower, Wright-Cyclone two-row, fourteen-cylinder, air-cooled R-2600 piston engines housed in aerodynamic nacelles which traversed the wing chord and turned 3-bladed, continual-speed, 12.seven-foot, whole-feathering, anti-icing Hamilton Regular propellers, the aircraft could climb to fifteen,000 feet in 11.three minutes and achieve a highest speed of 303 mph at 13,000 feet. The cantilever twin vertical fins and rudders, equipped with preset and controllable trimming tabs, experienced been modified with rounded tops and yielded a 16.five-foot aircraft peak. The tricycle, single-wheeled, hydraulically-actuated, aft-retracting undercarriage, the 1st these configuration used by a US bomber, highlighted aerodynamic door addresses in excess of all 3 wheel wells in each the prolonged and retracted positions, although the major wheels were being equipped with hydraulic brakes. The aircraft, with a 21,100-pound vacant excess weight, experienced a highest gross excess weight of 33,500 lbs ..
Quite a few versions experienced been produced. The 1st of these, the B-25A, included pilot armor and self-sealing gas tanks, although its successor, the B-25B, launched two electrically-operated Bendix turrets, each of which replaced the midship and tail guns and highlighted two .fifty caliber device guns. Moving into support in 1941 with the 17th Bomb Team at McChord Industry around Tacoma, Washington, the aircraft, whose production run totaled a hundred and twenty, also highlighted a separate photographic station among the upper turret and the tail and a shortened, 54.1-foot size.
Driven by two 1,seven-hundred-horsepower Wright R-2600-13 engines, the B-25C, the third variation, launched an autopilot technique and external racks which could have eight 250-pound bombs, and a afterwards gas potential enhance to 1,100 gallons. Of the three,909 make, 1,619 experienced been produced in Inglewood, California, although two,290 experienced been assembled in Kansas City, Kansas, below the B-25D designation.
The singular B-25E and –F variants were being meant as check vehicles of wing and tail anti-icing techniques, although the B-25G replaced the glazed nose with an armored one, the latter containing two .fifty caliber device guns and one 9.six-foot-very long, 900-pound, cradle-mounted, M-four cannon able of firing 23-inch, fifteen-pound shells. While its armament experienced normally adhered to the B-25C conventional, its bomb bay could accommodate an aircraft torpedo. The variant, operated by a crew of four and featuring a fifty.10-foot total size, liked a 405-unit production run.
The B-25H, with significantly increased armament, highlighted four .fifty caliber device guns in the metallic, armored nose, and a further more four on the side, organized in pairs a repositioned top rated turret, now positioned in the roof of the navigator’s compartment the elimination of the ventral turret enlarged, aft-wing, .fifty caliber device gun waistline positions and a tail gun station with two further more .fifty caliber device guns. As Globe War II’s most thoroughly armed layout, it could achieve 293-mph speeds at 13,000 feet and experienced a 23,800-foot support ceiling.
The B-25J, the definitive and numerically most popular variation, experienced been meant for precision bombing. The aircraft, introducing a bombardier who increased the crew complement to 6, reincorporated the glazed nose which experienced now been provisioned with one preset and one flexible .fifty caliber device gun. The largest single Mitchell get, for four,318 B-25s, experienced been put on April fourteen, 1943, and the aircraft, attaining 292-mph speeds at fourteen,500 feet, could cruise at support ceilings of twenty five,500 feet.
Among 1941 and 1945, the Military Air Corps took supply of 9,816 B-25s, three,218 of which experienced been produced in Inglewood, California, until eventually 1943, and the remaining six,608 of which experienced been produced in Kansas City.
The B-twenty five Mitchell experienced many write-up-war purposes. Demilitarized, and specified TB-twenty five, the type, primarily based upon the B-25J, experienced been converted into a trainer with the installation of an observer’s seat in the nose, ahead and underneath the cockpit two pupil seats driving the conventional two pilot-instructor positions and up to 5 seats in the aft cabin. Of the 400 converted aircraft operated by the US Air Power for the duration of the fifties, the previous lively-obligation staff members transport experienced not been retired until eventually Might 21, 1960, whilst it experienced continued to be operated by the air forces of Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Holland, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
A photographic reconnaissance variant, the F-10, experienced highlighted a nose-set up tri-metrogon camera together with other aerial pictures tools, although other non-armed forces roles experienced integrated all those of govt transport, freighter, and hearth bomber.
The aircraft operating my Labor Working day flight, a B-25J registered 44-28932, experienced been produced in August of 1944 by North American Aviation in Kansas City, Kansas. Acknowledged by the United States Military Air Corps on August three of that calendar year, it experienced served in the US in the AAF Flying Schooling Command Software, serving 12 various air bases until eventually January of 1959, at which time it experienced been declared surplus and experienced been deleted from the US Air Power stock. Converted into a hearth bomber, it experienced combated forest fires for another twenty five years.
Obtained by the Collings Foundation in 1984, and restored by Tom Reilly Classic Plane in excess of a two-calendar year time period, the B-25J, the 1st Globe War II bomber in the collection, experienced been flown n air demonstrates in the Boston location for a 10 years, whereafter it experienced been ferried to Chino, California, in late 2001, for a secondary restoration by Carl Scholl of Aero Trader, Inc. Subsequently repositioned to Midland, Texas, it was painted by AVSource West in its latest Tondelayo livery following the B-twenty five which experienced been operated by the Air Apache 345th BG of the fifth Air Power in the Pacific Theater in opposition to targets in New Guinea, the five hundredth BS of the fifth Air Power alone owning been the fourth squadron of the 345th BG to have attacked delivery in Vunapope around Rabaul on Oct eighteen, 1943. The Tondelayo name experienced been motivated by Hedy Lamarr’s character in the 1943 film White Cargo and supplied by the crew of Lieutenant Ralph Wallace. The 3-aircraft formation, comprised of the B-twenty five “Snafu” and flown by Captain Lyle Anacker, the “Tondelayo” flown by Lieutenant Wallace himself, and the “Sorry Satchul” flown by Lieutenant Paterson, experienced claimed 3 ships, but avenging fighters experienced attacked “Sorry Satchul,” hitting its port motor and forcing it to ditch, and “Tondelayo,” detrimental its right motor. Shut down and feathered, it experienced pretty much wrenched alone from its mountings for the reason that of critical vibration.
Flying in excess of Cape Gazelle toward base, the B-twenty five duo, protecting limited formation, experienced been focused by some fifty Japanese fighters, “Sorry Satchul” so poorly harmed that it experienced been compelled to head for shore and ditch and “Tondelayo,” in spite of its individual essential wounds, hovering only thirty feet above the drinking water in which it experienced managed to shoot down 5 further enemy aircraft. Limping into base at Kiriwina, the aircraft experienced subsequently been repaired and patched, acquiring a new right wing, motor, propeller blades, and radio tools. Its crew experienced been awarded the Silver Star.
Squatting below the forward fuselage and climbing the brief ladder into the cockpit portion on that Labor Working day in 2006, I took the right of the two observer’s seats positioned a foot underneath, and driving, the cockpit, although the four other travellers entered the aft portion, positioned driving the bomb bay, by means of the ventral hatch, which experienced been configured with an aft-dealing with, 3-individual bench seat and 3 individual seats. With the ladder now raised and the twin panel folded across it to type a portion of the integral ground, the B-25J experienced been secured for motor commence.
The two-individual cockpit, sporting bow tie regulate yokes, highlighted a throttle quadrant with the two motor throttles angled toward the pilot, two propeller-pitch throttles, and two gas-mixture throttles angled toward the copilot.
Engine commence, commencing with the right, amount two powerplant, entailed turning the grasp ignition swap and right booster pump on, at which point the Wright R-2600 powerplant rotated and the interior grew to become saturated with deep, vibrating, Hamilton Regular propeller-produced noise. Priming and stabilizing them with the throttle to produce among 800 and 1,000 revolutions per moment, the captain used a whole-wealthy mixture, leading to them to settle into a throaty, 1,two hundred-rpm idle. The system was repeated with the remaining, amount 1 motor.
Getting in touch with Republic Ground on 121.six for taxi clearance, and armed with the hottest computerized terminal information and facts support data, the twin-finned bomber launched its brakes at 0845, the thrust produced by its engines, even at idle settings, sufficient to shift it forward in excess of the American Airpower ramp and away from the Globe War II bomber trio. Taxiing parallel to the lively runway, 32, the B-25J periodically jolted in reaction to brake purposes, turning on to the run-up location by implies of differential energy, its slipstream-bombarded twin rudders aerodynamically inducing ground turns. Extending its slotted, trailing edge flaps and advancing its throttles, the medium-potential bomber, assuredly a big in comparison to the at the moment landing Piper Warrior, moved on to the runway’s threshold, just as the B-17 experienced commenced its individual taxi roll from the ramp.
Moving into acquire off placement and aligning its nose wheel with the centerline, aircraft 130669 acquired acquire off clearance from Republic Tower on 125.two, slowly and gradually advancing its two throttles in get to establish original directional regulate. Firmly protecting a straight acceleration roll, the 1,500-horsepower twin-row radials powering the Collings Foundation aircraft exploded with cabin-saturating noise as clean, steady throttle progress pinnacled them into their METO settings of two,600 revolutions-per-moment and 40 inches of manifold strain. Counteracting wind-induced directional variants with delicate rudder deflections, the captain began implementing regulate column back again strain at 75 knots indicated air speed, the now ground-divided nose wheel creating a lift-producing angle-of-attack. The air speed-produced strain differential, bathing the huge, outstretched, upper wing surfaces in a steady stream of accelerated air, taken out all ground restraints and allowed them to peel the gravity-defying aircraft to which they experienced been connected off the ground at a hundred and fifteen knots. Retracting its tricycle undercarriage at the aircraft’s VMC-established one hundred forty five-knot speed, and trimming alone into its original climb, the twin-engined bomber, encased in motor slipstream, rolled into a right financial institution in excess of Route one hundred ten, headed toward Very long Island’s south shore.
Sustaining a one hundred fifty-diploma heading, the now-graceful traveling chicken decreased its motor rpm to 2300 and its manifold strain to thirty, moving abreast of the metallic, erector established-appearing Captree Bridge at 1,000 feet, which stretched across the deep blue floor of the Terrific South Bay from the island to Jones Seaside and its signature lighthouse. The azure of the drinking water, seamlessly merging with that of the sky, melded into a surreal dimension, as viewed from the 270-diploma-encompassing Plexiglas nose.
The energy-to-excess weight ratio, coupled to its aerodynamic layout, experienced been the critical to the remarkably-maneuverable, medium mission bomber. Not like its very long-array, superior-altitude, significant B-17 and B-24 counterparts, the B-twenty five, at 50 percent their acquisition expenditures, experienced been meant for interdiction functions, offering tactical blows to enemy targets nearer to the front. Since of its maneuverability, it experienced been capable to fly reduced-level, tree-top rated strafing sorties, in which it experienced remained virtually concealed, and experienced then dropped parachute-retarding bombs, which experienced enabled it to escape before detonation. While it experienced operated thoroughly in the Pacific, focusing on Japanese air fields from treetop altitudes and skip-bombing enemy ships, it experienced been utilised in all theaters of procedure, and experienced been flown by the Australians, the British, the Chinese, and the Dutch. It experienced been the 1st bomber to have been lend-leased to Russia.
The most famed B-twenty five mission, led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle and occurring on April eighteen, 1942, experienced entailed the launch of 16 aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Of the four candidate aircraft, inclusive of the B-eighteen, the B-23, the B-26, and the B-twenty five alone, the latter experienced been selected for the reason that of its effectiveness. The aircraft, B-25Bs modified at the Northwest Airlines upkeep facility in Minnesota to enhance their gas tankage from 694 to 1,141 US gallons, experienced highlighted dorsal and ventral energy turrets, but experienced been devoid of tail armament. Loaded on the USS Hornet for the sea journey to Japan, 16 aircraft, each at 31,000-pound gross weights, would acquire off from the 467-foot deck at a 450-mile length, close ample to permit them to bomb targets in Tokyo, Yokahama, Kobe, and Nagoya, nonetheless keep sufficient gas materials to proceed the 1,two hundred miles to China.
Encountering a Japanese picket boat for the duration of the early morning of April eighteen, and fearing imminent attack, Doolittle designed the decision to launch the B-twenty five fleet at an 800-mile length, or 350 miles further more, from land, the 1st acquire off occurring at 8:eighteen a.m., which experienced been considerably less than an hour following the boat experienced been sighted. Using solid headwinds and the deck’s sea swell-produced inclination, the bombers experienced just been capable to accomplish the precarious feat, with the previous using off at 9:21 a.m.
Right after some four several hours of traveling, the guide aircraft, flown by Doolittle himself, dropped the 1st bomb in excess of Tokyo, shortly following which it experienced been joined by the remaining fifteen. While all safely and securely departed Japanese air place, inadequate gas, triggered by the previously launching, and deteriorating temperature, resulted in the crash-landing or abandonment of fifteen B-25s in China, although the sixteenth landed in Vladivostock, in which its crew experienced been captured.
Even so, the mission experienced been each a technological and operational achievement, and experienced elevated troop morale and garnered huge notoriety for the aircraft.
Banking remaining to a 240-diploma heading, aircraft 1306669 Tondelayo was carried back again in excess of Captree Bridge by its gull, variable-dihedral wings and its 3-bladed propellers, crossing in excess of Very long Island’s south shore. The B-17 Flying Fortress, appearing specially graceful in excess of the blue floor of the Terrific South Bay, flexed off of the port cockpit windows. Globe War II skies experienced in some way been resurrected that early morning.
Fuel melt away depended on motor environment: at 180 mph, with the engines turning at 1,seven-hundred revolutions per moment and feeding off of 27 inches of manifold strain, the aircraft burned a hundred and twenty gallons per hour, although a 10-mph cruise speed enhance, attained with a 1,800-rpm/28-inch environment, resulted in a one hundred thirty-gallon per hour usage.
Recontacting Republic Tower, aircraft 130699 suggested its intention of “inbound for landing” and decreased energy, now gravity-induced into its descent profile. Sustaining a 180-mph speed and a 320-diploma heading, it prolonged its trailing edge flaps, which delivered air speed regulate, by implies of progressive drag production. Flap settings similarly depended on flight period: 1/four for acquire off, 1/two and three/four for descent, and whole for landing.
The aircraft’s thoroughly clean stalling speed experienced been ninety five mph, which lowered to eighty three mph at highest gross excess weight with whole flaps and undercarriage at 26,000 feet.
Extending its drag-creating landing gear into the slipstream, the aircraft inched toward Runway 32’s threshold, as its altimeter unwound: 600 feet…500…300…100…
Passing in excess of the fence at a hundred and fifteen mph, the olive-inexperienced, twin-engined, twin-finned medium bomber sank toward the blurred concrete in a whole back again-strain regulate yoke-induced flare, screeching on the ground with its remaining major wheel at 80 mph, at which time the friction sufficiently decreased its air speed to permit the remaining two bogies to settle earthward.
Finishing its deceleration roll and taxiing on to the American Airpower Museum ramp, the B-25J Mitchell, as the medium mission bomber, experienced appropriately been the 1st to return to base, the B-17 and the B-24 still plying the skies. If Globe War II experienced still been raging, the sequence would have been exactly the same.


Bengaluru: Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO's GSAT-11 satellite also called the 'Big Bird ' was successfully launched into space today from the French space port of Kourou in South America.Weighing about 5,854 kg, GSAT-11 is the 'heaviest' satellite built by ISRO.
This launch was the second attempt after ISRO's first bid failed in May earlier this year and was placed into space on its 102 nd flight, the Ariane 5 rocket. According to ISRO, the satellite is healthy after the launch.
It is a next generation “high throughput” communication satellite configured around ISRO’s I-6K Bus, and has a designed lifetime of more than 15 years. Post-separation, ISRO’s Master Control Facility at Hassan, in Karnataka, took over the command and control of GSAT-11.
'GSAT-11 is the next generation high throughput communication satellite that will play a vital role in providing broadband services across the country. It will also provide a platform to demonstrate new generation applications,' Dr K Sivan, ISRO chief said.
The Ariane-5 vehicle (Flight VA246) also carried GEO-KOMPSAT-2A for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), along with GSAT-11. The 3,507.20 kg GEO-KOMPSAT-2A is designed to conduct meteorological and space weather monitoring missions.


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One of two 23-ton blast doors that serve as the primary entrance for the North American Aerospace Defense Command's (NORAD) facility inside the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA 10 May 2018. The secret government complex is built 2000 feet beneath the summit of the mountain, in a bunker that can withstand a 30 megaton nuclear bomb, an electromagnetic pulse, and chemical, biological, and radiological attacks. Steve Rose, 721st Mission Support Group Deputy Director, called it 'the most secure government facility in the world.' More than 300 people work inside Cheyenne Mountain, which they access via a two-mile long tunnel, and the two 23-ton blast doors. NORAD is tasked with aerospace control of North America, including the detection of an incoming missile attack.


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On April 25th, 2015, an earthquake struck Nepal, and the helicopter of Luhang flew over the Himalayas to participate in the rescue, which passed on the friendship of the people of China to the people of Nepal. The picture shows the delivery of materials in the earthquake zone in Nepal. Fu Lei/photo
How low is the ultra-low altitude? Some people say that it is "the height of a tree".
Downward, there are tanks and armored vehicles on the ground, and upward, there are fixed-wing aircraft and missiles. Only the gap of "the height of a tree" was left to the Army Aviation.
In 1986, in the prelude to the "One Million Disarmament", China started to set up the Army Aviation Force. Today, the Chinese Army Air Force has gone through 30 years. In the past 30 years, this newly established new combat arm of the army has gradually become one of the backbone forces of the Chinese army to realize nonlinear three-dimensional mobile operations from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong.
Today, 30 years later, when China’s army is once again opening the curtain of reform, people can’t help asking: Can we win at the height of a tree?
30 years of hardship and burden
In 1986, when the China People’s Liberation Army announced the formation of the Army Aviation Force, our international counterparts had already left us too far.
In 1939, the world’s first practical helicopter was successfully tested and began to be widely used in the military field. On the Vietnam battlefield after World War II, helicopters have become the main battle equipment of the US Army. The US military has invested more than 10 types of helicopters on the battlefield in Vietnam, covering armed attacks, aerial reconnaissance, and support transportation, with a total of more than 400 helicopters, which can achieve tactical coordination between helicopters and combat classes.
Today, the number of US military helicopters in active service is close to 7,000. According to the public data in 2015, the number of active helicopters in the Russian army exceeds 2,000, and it has the largest helicopter model in the world: Mi-26 heavy helicopter. This helicopter once showed strong air support ability in the rescue of Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan.
In the China Army in 1986, the number of our helicopters was 79. And basically imported from abroad, the model is complex. China is so big that it is almost impossible to build a complete helicopter.
In the 1980s, the new military revolution in the world rose quietly, and major innovations took place in military theory, military system, weapons and equipment and war forms. China’s Luhang took off in the wave of military reform in the world.
In order to solve the urgent need for equipment, the Army Aviation Force introduced armed helicopters and transport helicopters from France and Russia successively, and on this basis began the road of independent innovation of "equipping one generation, developing one generation, pre-researching one generation and exploring one generation".
In 1985, Deng Xiaoping, then chairman of the Central Military Commission, announced to the world that he would disarm 1 million people. It was against this background that the Central Military Commission decided to set up the Army Air Force the following year.
A paper order came down, and Colonel Xing Xigui, the head of a transport regiment of the Air Force, changed his blue air force trousers and became a head of the Army Air Force. He took several backbones from the Air Force, borrowed 10 bungalows from neighboring troops, and inserted the flag of Luhang: "This is the regimental headquarters!" There is no night flight facility on the ground, so the ground crew painted the lantern in red, yellow and green with paint to guide the helicopter to fly at night instead of the runway light. Every night flight, the ground crew will drive a truck and put lanterns along the way.
At the Luhang Training Base in Shanxi, more than a dozen sheepfolds were converted into offices, and even the tap water was not installed, pilot training and enrollment began. In the morning, I washed my face and brushed my teeth, and colonel and senior colonel lined up to fetch water. Someone summed up a few jingles: "A few rooms are lonely, there is no camp gate and no road, entertainment depends on walking, 10 officers and men live together, and all sleep in bunk beds."
In the past 30 years, almost every development of the Chinese Army Aviation has been "the most beautiful retrograde".
In 1999, in order to deepen the reform of national defense and the army and accelerate the transformation of the army, the whole army was reduced by 500 thousand again, and the number of military academies was reduced from 100 to 80. At the same time, the Central Military Commission decided to set up the Army Aviation Academy, which is the only comprehensive college newly built in this disarmament process.
In 2003, the whole army reduced 200,000 posts again, and the General Staff Aviation Bureau was officially renamed as the General Staff Aviation Department, which changed from performing the functions of the leading organ of the army to performing the functions of the second department of the General Staff Department, and added technical support and scientific research flight test institutions such as the Military Agency and the Flight Test Brigade.
In July 2013, the Central Military Commission defined the main tasks of the military reform from 2013 to 2015. Under the condition of further optimizing the military structure, the Army Aviation once again increased its posts. It is also these four landmark "retrogrades" that the Chinese Army Air Force took off with a heavy load.
The first 30 years.
An armed helicopter violently shook and landed in a paddy field in the countryside of southeast Jiangxi from the air of 1800 meters, riding on the ridge impartially. Test pilots Zhang Zhiqiang and Zhang Yunlei got out of danger, lit a cigarette for each other and waited quietly for the rescue team.
Few people know that this forced landing of paddy fields in 2007 has well preserved China’s first special armed helicopter — — The prototype and test data of Wuzhi-10. Five years later, China’s first dedicated armed helicopter was born.
On the day of installation, a number of aviation equipment experts were in tears at the scene. They all remember that at the critical moment when the introduction of the engine of the Zhi-10 helicopter gunship was blocked and the development of the whole helicopter was in a dilemma, Luhang made a decisive decision to rely on domestic independent design and finalize the design, successfully organized and completed the engine development with independent intellectual property rights, overcame the technical difficulties of the whole helicopter weight reduction optimization, broke the foreign blockade in two years and achieved a great victory of self-reliance.
At the same time, Luhang began to explore ways to improve and tap the potential of active equipment on the "Zhi-9" platform, and implemented three major improvements, which met the operational needs of armed helicopters in different historical periods of Luhang and provided a solid foundation for the transformation of Luhang from auxiliary support force to main battle assault force.
In the past 30 years, the Chinese Army Air Force has not only equipped domestic special armed helicopters, but also trained a large number of aviation pilots, which are close to the world-class in flight technology and level.
In order to "make up lessons" and shorten the gap as soon as possible, the army aviation has made full use of its horsepower. In 17 years, the training base has trained nearly 3,000 qualified aviation pilots, the flight training time has increased fourfold, and the number of trainees has soared tenfold. Therefore, it has to adopt the training mode of "three shifts" and "multi-point and multi-purpose in one field".
At most, the cookhouse squad has to cook 8 meals a day and carry them to the airport to ensure that teachers and students eat and then fly. The coach helicopter "Zhi-11" produced by China itself was directly installed in the army after it was manufactured, and it was taught while flying. The coaching staff didn’t have enough crew members, so they put the female soldiers on the ground and took on the task of maintaining the helicopter with the male soldiers.
China’s army aviation, which is catching up slowly and developing at a high speed, has undergone earth-shaking changes. In 2008, the Wenchuan earthquake rescue came to a critical moment. At that time, Cai Yougu, the head of a certain aviation regiment, took a single hovering way to connect several wounded people trapped in desperate situations to helicopters. The air corridor opened by Luhang has rekindled the hope of life for many affected people. To this end, Luhang also paid the price of his life, and Qiu Guanghua’s crew died heroically.
In recent years, the manned spaceflight project has given China Luhang a try. On the prairie of Siziwangqi, Inner Mongolia, the search and rescue helicopter is always the first to land next to the Shenzhou spacecraft, and send the most timely help to the heroes returning from outer space.
Over the past 30 years, the Army Air Force has formed a series of helicopter types, such as transportation, armed forces and service support, which are active in the ultra-low altitude of "the height of a tree" and play an increasingly important role in the army’s combat sequence.
"Write the poem in the blue sky and pin your figure on the white clouds." This is a poem written by Xing Shuhua, the first female pilot of Lu Hang. Today, the first batch of five female helicopter gunship pilots have been tempered by wind and rain for more than a year, and their wings have gradually grown and formed combat effectiveness.
30 years of innovation leap
In May 2014, northern Jiangxi. A helicopter stopped in the air and fell like an iron weight.
In more than 10 seconds from the height of 200 meters to the landing of the helicopter, the pilot pulled up the joystick weighing more than 100 kilograms with his hands to control the helicopter to rotate and land.
This is not an accident, but a 15-day first flight special course training for the Army Air Force. The training courses include difficult special situations such as engine stopping in the air and tail rotor failure, aiming at improving the pilot’s special situation handling ability and the battlefield survivability of Army helicopters. Participating in the training are a variety of active models such as domestic new main battle equipment Zhi-10 and light teaching equipment Zhi-11.
In recent years, the Army Air Force has always insisted on proceeding from actual combat needs, keeping a close eye on combat tasks and opponents, insisting on how to build troops and how to train soldiers, and developing and training what is needed in combat. It has successively organized activities such as training for aviation captains, pilot training for tactical research and training, and training for tactical application of new weapons and new ammunition, and creatively organized world-wide special training courses such as helicopter single-engine parking, taxi landing, double-engine parking, rotation landing and tail rotor failure landing, actively responding to the new situation of changing combat style and upgrading weapons and equipment, solving the problems of insufficient command level and low tactical training level of aviation units, effectively improving the core military capabilities of aviation units, and promoting the aviation units from fine flying to good fighting.
In terms of tactics, the Army Air Force studied and discussed the application theory of alpine plateau, sea, mountain, desert, urban warfare and night battle, and organized several inspection drills. In particular, in 2013, the Army Air Force organized a live-fire drill codenamed "Assault-2013", which was the first time that our army conducted a live-fire drill with the Army Air Force as the main assault force, and it was also the largest tactical research and discussion activity since the establishment of the Army Air Force.
"Assault-2013" mainly rehearsed six typical operations, such as fire cover, close fire support, special assault, wing-side aircraft landing, fire interception and leapfrog support, during the army aviation assault under the information conditions. The participating troops include land and air brigades and regiments from the former Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou and other military regions, as well as more than 3,000 naval and air force units, using more than 100 helicopters of various types and large-scale equipment such as multi-type ships, armor, artillery and fighters. The exercise verified a number of new tactical achievements, such as multi-aircraft side-by-side fire-gathering attack, and actually shot many types of test bombs. China’s first dedicated armed helicopter also launched an air-to-air missile for the first time and successfully intercepted low-altitude targets.
After 30 years’ unremitting efforts, the Army Air Force has also stepped out of a road of equipment progressive upgrading with adaptive modification, specialized development and serial development, forming a relatively rich series of air-to-ground and air-to-air weapons. The Army Air Force first solved the long-standing problem of "organic non-ammunition" of multiple aircraft types, and then independently developed a helicopter-specific air-to-ground missile. The guidance system expanded from a single wired system to multiple guidance methods. The equipped air-to-air missiles form a series in range and guidance mode, and the helicopter-borne rockets adopt various calibers and warheads, which have the ability to strike various targets.
In the past 30 years, the Army Aviation Force has successively completed the development and installation of domestic helicopters such as Zhi-9 series, Zhi-8 series, Zhi-11, Zhi-10 and Zhi-19, and basically built a main battle equipment system with second-generation equipment as the main body and third-generation equipment as the backbone; Overcome the difficulties in the development of multiple engines and initially break through the power bottleneck.
In the five years of "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" alone, the number of helicopters in Army Aviation is equivalent to the sum of the growth in the first 25 years of Army Aviation. When the curtain of military reform is once again opened, the Chinese army aviation will also usher in a new take-off.