Willamette alumnus, Boeing executive Jim Albaugh ’72 appears internationally
Willamette alumnus Jim Albaugh '72, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, was in the international news this week as his company completed its first international test flight for the new 787 Dreamliner commercial twinjet.
The airplane, which one UK news company called "the future of green aviation," flew from Seattle to the Farnborough International Airshow in England. Albaugh spoke with media about the features of the plane.
Albaugh majored in physics and mathematics at Willamette before earning a master's degree in civil engineering from Columbia University. He began working for Boeing in 1975 as a project engineer, and worked his way up through the company to his current position. Read more on the Boeing website.


NUTMEG SOARING ASSOCIATION
Revision February 2000
Note - “}” denotes changes
The purpose of these Operating Rules is to provide for the safe, efficient use of club equipment, and for the consideration of the rights of all club members.
1. GENERAL OPERATING RULES
A. All flights must be made in accordance with FAR and local flying rules.
B. Only members whose assessments are paid are eligible to use club aircraft, as set forth in the By‑Laws.
C. Associate Members may receive instructional flights only if no Full Members or Family Members are on the waiting list to fly club aircraft.
D. Associate Members may not fly solo in club gliders or be towed by Nutmeg tow planes as pilot in command of privately owned gliders.
E. The pilot is responsible for club equipment from the time it is removed from its tie down until it is returned to the tie down and secured, or until it is turned over to another qualified club member.
F. The pilot is responsible for making a proper preflight inspection and, if a cross‑country flight is planned, for providing a qualified ground crew.
G. Aerobatic flight in club equipment is prohibited, except for:
1. Spins (in aircraft so approved) performed with an instructor.
2. Steep banks while thermalling.
H. A club instructor or club officer has the authority to suspend a pilot from flying activities for violation of FAR's, these Operating Rules, local flying regulations, or for any activity which could endanger the life of the pilot or others, the property of others, or the aircraft.
I. A student pilot may not fly solo unless a club instructor is on the field or the pilot has permission from a club instructor for flying on a specific day.
J. No pilot may fly club aircraft if on a given day that the pilot has consumed alcoholic beverages or has taken any drug, including antihistamines, which may affect his ability to fly.
2. ORDER OF OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
A. The order of responsibility for decisions concerning flying during club operations shall be:
1. The instructor on duty.
2. Any other club instructor present at the flight line.
3. The tow pilot.
4. Club officers.
5. The duty pilot for the day or the field manager.
B. The tow pilot is responsible at all times for the safe operation of Nutmeg tow planes.
3. GROUND OPERATING RULES
A. A duty pilot shall be appointed for each scheduled flying day.
B. When not feasible to schedule a duty pilot, an instructor, if present, shall designate and supervise a member to serve as duty pilot.
C. The duty pilots responsibilities:
1. See that all ground equipment is ready for use, is properly used during the day, and secured in the evening.
2. Keep an Operations Log Sheet for the day's flying activities with actual take‑off and landing times, and elapsed times. These should be recorded to the nearest 5 minutes. The duty pilot will collect and record the tow fees and send them to the club treasurer.
3. See that member participation in towing operations (i.e. glider hookup and launch) conforms with standard signals and is conducted in a safe manner.
4. Arrange for prompt retrieval and parking of aircraft after landing by seeing that:
a. The next pilot signed up to fly a glider which has just landed assists in returning it to the takeoff area.
b. After a trainer lands, the next pilot to fly must assist in returning the trainer to the takeoff area as a courtesy to the instructor, who can then devote attention to a review of the last student's flight and necessary logbook entries.
D. During the duty pilot’s necessary absence from the field, the field manager will assume the duty pilot function..
E. If a duty pilot cannot serve on a designated day, it will be his responsibility to find a qualified replacement.
F. Use of Operations Log Sheet and Sign‑up Sheet
1. Elapsed flight time will be logged from start of takeoff roll until end of landing roll to the nearest five minutes.
2. A member must be present on the field to sign up for a flight.
3. If a member cannot be found when his turn comes up, the name will be placed at the bottom of the list unless the member is away from the field on club business.
4. A member may sign up for only one flight at a time.
5. If a Full Member who is not qualified to carry passengers brings a guest to the field for a demonstration flight, he may sign up for a flight and it may be flown by another member who is qualified. This prerogative does not apply to Family or Associate Members.
6. A Full Member and one Family Member from that member's family‑group may sign up at the same time for a flight in club gliders.
G. The tow pilot should mail the day's tow plane log sheets directly to the club treasurer.
H. It is expected that any club member will, when asked, assist the duty pilot in the performance of his duties.
4. FLIGHT OPERATING RULES
A. Local Flight Rules
1. Flight duration, single‑place gliders.
a. Flights in single‑place gliders normally will be limited to one hour when there are other members waiting to fly, otherwise they will be subject to recall by radio.
b. Near the end of one hour of flight, the pilot should monitor the radio for a possible recall message.
c. Exceptions to the one‑hour limit on single‑place gliders may be made for one such glider to be used for badge flight, record flight, or flight to meet the two‑hour duration requirement to qualify for cross‑country flight. The pilot must announce his intention before takeoff
d. A pilot wishing to make a cross‑country or duration flight in a club aircraft shall declare his intentions as early as possible on the day of the flight. Such flight should be declared only if weather and other conditions indicate a reasonably high probability for the successful completion of the announced task.
e. Further exemptions may be made at soaring meets or encampments by agreement among those concerned, including the instructor, duty pilot, and other pilots.
2. Flight‑duration, two‑place glider.
a. The duration of training flights normally is 45 minutes, but can be altered by the instructor, taking into account needs of the student and the waiting list.
b. All flights in two‑place gliders will be planned as local flights, except that one glider may be used for cross‑country training flights.
c. Two pilots may sign up for a single flight of two hours under the following conditions:
(1) Both pilots must be Full Members.
(2) Both pilots must be qualified in the type of glider to be flown.
(3) The time flown must be accomplished in one flight only.
d. Exceptions to a and b above may be made at encampments by agreement among the instructor, the duty pilot, and the pilots concerned.
3. Minimum altitude for local flights is 1000 feet AGL. Below that altitude the pilot’s full attention must be directed toward the pattern and landing.
B. Cross‑country rules.
1. To quality for cross‑country flying in club equipment, a pilot must have logbook entries by club instructors indicating that he has:
a. Had at least one glider flight within the previous thirty days.
b. Had at least fifteen flights in the type of glider to be used.
c. Had five hours of soaring flight accomplished in five flights or less.
d. Had one soaring flight of at least two hours, using thermal lift.
e. Passed and is current with respect to the Private Pilot Glider written examination.
f. Completed the requirements for the Bronze Badge.
g. Been checked out on assembly, disassembly, and trailering of the glider,
2. The pilot must have permission from a club instructor for the specific day and location of any cross‑country flight in a club glider.
3. The pilot must make arrangements for a trailer retrieve crew even if an aero‑retrieve is planned.
4. The pilot must have tie down and disassembly tools in the glider.
5. An aircraft landed off‑field should not be left unattended unless adequately tied down and protected from farm animals.
C. Miscellaneous Flight Rules.
1. Checking out new members,
a. New members with glider rating will be required to take at least one dual flight with a club instructor and receive approval before solo flight in any club glider or tow by a Nutmeg tow plane in a privately owned glider.
b. Sudent pilots and those holding only power ratings must complete the check‑out in the 2‑33 and make five solo flights before soloing the1‑26.
2. Student pilots will be required to take dual flights at regular intervals.
3. A pilot who has not flown gliders in the previous ninety days must take a dual ride before flying club aircraft.
4. Before flying solo in wave or ridge for the first time, a pilot should be briefed by a wave or ridge qualified instructor. It is recommended the pilot also take a dual wave or ridge orientation flight with a qualified club instructor.
5. No club member may operate club aircraft above 12,500 feet MSL for more than 30 minutes, or above 14,000 MSL, without the use of supplemental oxygen.
6. High‑altitude is defined as flight above 18,000 feet MSL. No club member may operate a club glider in high‑altitude flight unless he has been briefed by a club instructor who has experience in actual high‑altitude glider flight or an altitude chamber.
7. A rated pilot may fly the 2‑33 or the Grob from the rear‑seat only after a rear‑seat check‑out given by a club instructor and a logbook sign‑off to that effect.
5. MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING RULES
A. FAI badge, record, and competition flights have priority over local flights.
B. Club aircraft may be taken to a meet or encampment as determined by a majority vote of the Full Members at a regular membership meeting or by the Board of Directors.
C. No instructor will give dual in Nutmeg aircraft until meeting the following requirements:
1. Fifty hours in Gliders.
2. Twenty Five hours in Schweitzer Gliders.
3. Ten flights in Schweitzer Gliders in the last Twelve months.
4. An FAI Silver Badge.
5. The approval of the Operations Commitee.
6. GROB 103 AND HIGH PERFORMANCE SINGLE SEAT (HPSS) CHECKOUT RULES
A. Grob 103. To check out in the Grob 103 a pilot must:
1. Hold a private pilot certificate with glider rating.
2. Have fifty flights in gliders as Pilot‑in‑Command.
3. Have twenty‑five hours in gliders as Pilot‑In‑Command.
4. Take at least five flights in the Grob 103 with a club instructor.
5. Pass a flight check and a cockpit check with a club instructor.
B. HPSS. To check out in the club High Performance Single Seat glider (HPSS), a pilot must:
1. Hold a private pilot certificate with glider rating.
2. Demonstrate proficiency in the Grob 103.
3. Have fifty flights as Pilot‑in‑Command in gliders.
4. Have a cockpit checkout and a logbook sign‑off from a club instructor qualified and current in that aircraft.
5. Every pilot qualified to fly the HPSS also must be checked out on assembly, disassembly, and trailering of that aircraft.
C. To remain current in the Grob 103 or the HPSS, a pilot must:
1. Have at least one flight as Pilot‑in‑Command of the particular aircraft within the previous ninety days, or
2. Take an instructional flight in the Grob 103 with an appropriately qualified instructor.
3. Currency in the Grob does not qualify to maintain currency in the HPSS, and vice versa.
7. TOW PLANE OPERATING RULES
A. Only tow pilots checked out by the Nutmeg Soaring Association and current as defined by FAR'S and the club's chief tow pilot may fly Nutmeg tow planes.
B. Tow planes are to be used only for furthering the interests of Nutmeg Soaring by:
1. Cross‑country ferrying of Nutmeg gliders.
2. Cross‑country retrieval of club and member‑owned gliders.
3. Qualifying new tow pilots.
4. Other soaring‑related flights.
C. Passengers may not be carried in the tow planes except for:
1. Qualifying new tow pilots.
2. Making weather observation flights.
3. Taking temperature soundings.
4. Taking a glider pilot member to or from a glider ferry flight.
D. The Cub will not tow the Grob 103.
8. NUTMEG POLICY WITH RESPECT TO GIVING DEMONSTRATION RIDES
A. Because of insurance considerations, a non‑member of Nutmeg Soaring Association may fly in Nutmeg aircraft only if:
1. He is a bona fide guest and the responsibility of a club Full Member, or
2. He demonstrates an interest in becoming a member of Nutmeg and joins as a Temporary Associate Member.
B. Exceptions to A above may be made in the case of:
1. FAA personnel with proper identification.
2. State Aeronautics Commission personnel.
3. Members of the local aviation community whose familiarity with soaring would enhance the understanding of and the safe and efficient conduct of our operation.


I have a new favorite video. I don’t know if we know if the test was successful or not. Did we alter the asteroid’s orbit at all? I hope so.
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We watched it live on NASA TV. It was pretty spectacular! They’re saying now that we won’t know for a couple of months whether or not the mission was successful. But wasn’t it just the coolest thing?
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Many disc shaped VTOL aircraft designs use the Coanda effect to generate the vertical thrust to lift the aircraft. The cool thing about it, is the not-using of rotary wings or jets. No part of the propulsion system has to stick out of the body. This looks great, but it may also be important for being less vulnerable in certain circumstances, like being in space, flying supersonic, or flying through a city.
The Coanda effect is useful for vertical take off and landing, but will be distorted when the speed relative to the ambient air increases. It only works within the atmosphere (and under water). A disc shaped body can generate thrust for lift, but never as efficient as wings do (although a disc might work better than wings at extremely high altetudes).
It's not clear to me how energy efficient the Coanda effect is relative to a rotary wing or duckted fan. If a lot of ambient air is sucked into the airflow, increasing the mass, then it might be pretty good.
The coanda effect is describing how an airstream gets pushed against a surface, even when the surface is curved away from the direction of flow. No: it doesn't really stick to a surface, that's only how it looks like. The airpressure between the airstream and surface is lower IF the surface is curved away from the flow. The "fast air has less pressure" is a false statement, because there is no such thing as "fast air". Speed is relative.
The coanda effect can be used to:
- Make air flow outside a disc body.
- Adding ambient air to the airstream, thus adding weight and improving efficiency.
The ambient air is pulling the airstream, and the airstream is pulling the ambient air. This causes lower air pressure inside and around the airstream. But soon will this pulling and pushing cause turbulence.
When blowing an airstream close to a solid surface, the interaction of the airstream causes a drop of air pressure inbetween the airstream and the surface. The ambient air at the other sides of the airstream and surface pushes the two together.
Remember the power of sea level airpressure: about 1 KG/CM2
A curved surface causes a continuing acceleration of the airstream, and thus a continuing area of low pressure between the airstream and the surface.
The airstream though, should not be bent beyond 90º. More than 90º would cause negative thrust. But going beyond 90º can be useful if the goal is to gather all air under the disc, building an area of higher air pressure.
DRAG & TURBULENCE
Main trouble of the coanda effect is the airstream becoming turbulent and detaching from the surface, like how a wing stalls. Drag causes turbulence, drag from the surface and from the ambient air. It's a goal to drag as much as possible ambient air into the airstream, but the drag caused by the difference in velocity between the airstream and the surface is just a loss of energy. If the airstream gets turbulent and stops following the curved surface, there's no more low airpressure, no more thrust.
BOUNDARY LAYER CONTROL
An airstream can be "glued" to a surface by boundary layer control, using suction or acceleration.
It literary sucks the airstream towards the curved surface, even when it got turbulent!
A wing full of holes can deliver that sucktion, if the air inside the wing is pumped out fast. Extreme low pressure can be reached this way, on top of the surface.
Boundary layer suction is complex because the amount and position of optimal suction varies. If the airstream is stronger than the suction, and no vaulve is in place, then the air is sucked out instead of in, and that can cause the airstream to detach from the curved surface, turn from laminair into turbulent.
When using a flat surface and a lot of distance between the airstream and the surface, there is no airstream-surface drag. When sucking away the air inbetween, a great area of low air pressure can arise, meaning: thrusts.
The air sucked can become the airstream, but a closed loop would obviously not produce any thrust. The airstream is very powerful at first, and able to suck in many times it's weigh of ambient air into the stream. If enlarged 6 times, sucking in 1 time still 5 times untouched to produce thrust.
Adding "fast air" is easier. The added air accelerats the boundary layer and the airstream already out there. The whole airstream could be the result of many small jets plus a lot of ambient air.
A fan that blows air, produces thrust in the opposite direction.
An airfoil that directs the airstream downwards under the airfoil, will be pushed up and away from the fan.
I don't have real numbers from a coanda test bench, so my guess is that the total amount of thrust is upwards and about equal to the original thrust directly from the fan.
An airfoil that directs the airstream downwards over the airfoil, using the "Coanda effect", will also be pushed up and away from the fan.
My guess is that very the total force will again be about equal to the direct thrust.
The airfoil adds a lot of weight, so direct thrust would probably be more efficient.
ADDING AMBIENT AIR
Adding a lot of ambient air and thus extra weight into the airstream, can improve the thrusting power and energy efficiency significantly. So, the goal is to entrain as much as possible ambient air into the airstream. The area where the airstream and the ambient air are in contact needs to be a very large surface. Working near the edge of the disc is therefore most effective.
An air amplifier, air knife / air curtain, are products that can amplify flows up to about 30 times the input air consumption rate. The input air is of very high pressure though (1.5 - 7 Bar).
LESS DISTANCE, LESS DRAG
A radial airstream, flowing from the center to the edge, loses volume and energy really fast. If the airstream would, for example, start at 30 cm from the center at 4 cm thick, it would be ((30*2)*3.1416)*4 = 753.98 square centimeters.
If the edge of the disc would be at 200 cm, and for now no air resistance, the airstream would at the edge only be 753.98 / ((200*2)*3.1416) = 0.6 centimeters thick.
But in reality there is resistance, which makes the airstream turbulent and discontent from the airfoil pretty soon, losing thrust. I guess this must have plagued the first Astro Kinetics design. The last Astro Kinetics design starts its airstream almost at the edge.
As an airstream flows next to a surface, they interact, which will cause the airstream to become turbulent. One solution is boundary layer control, but a more simple solution is to keep the distance short, so that the air near the surface has enough velocity, all the way.
OPTIMIZING THE COANDA EFFECT
IMPORTANTCE OF GEOMETRY in optimizing the Coanda effect is demonstrated by these shadow photographs. At left is the flow of an undeflected jet of air. With a curved surface outside the slit (middle) the air tends to follow the surface, but with distortions. A step at the exit of the slit (right) produced a better flow but not an ideal one because the air impinged on the surface.
FURTHER MODIFICATIONS showed (left) that too high a step can cause the flow to separate from the surface. With a grooved surface (middle) the flow was undistorted. A well-balanced geometry (right) proved an ideal flow that was tangent to the surface.
"Step near slit proved to be crucial in maintaining good lift"
"The small step at the very lip of the slit is important because it turns the flow from the slit into an eddy, or vortex, which in this [circular] device rings the entire nozzle and therefore forms what is called a ring vortex. It is the vortex—or rather the low pressure generated within it— that causes the stream from the slit to bend and thus follow the contour of the shoulder. The curving of the stream around the shoulder produces a force directly radially outward; this force, tending to pull air away from the shoulder surface, apparently accounts for the relative vacuum, or suction, next to the surface. To maintain the suction, which prevents separation of the stream from the surface and causes the flow to accelerate, the stream must hug the shoulder surface closely without actually impinging on it or adhering to it.
Our experiments showed clearly that the creation of a stable Coanda effect depends on the appropriate adjustment of many factors: the diameter of the slit, the strength of the jet, the depth of the shoulder contour. Particularly crucial is the ratio of the slit diameter to the diameter of the nozzle as a whole. If the slit is too wide in relation to the shoulder breadth, the stream will tend to detach itself from the surface; if it is too narrow, the stream will tend to stick to the surface. Also important is the texture of the surface: a properly roughened surface helps to prevent distortion of the stream flow. In short, it takes a complex set of arrangements to produce a useful Coanda effect. It is no wonder that most investigators of the effect had found it to be an elusive phenomenon.
(source: "Applications of the Coanda Effect" by Imants Reba and Assistant Edward Wohlthausen, which appeared in the June 1966 edition of Scientific American.)
So, according to these tests by Imants Reba it's more efficient to create a "vacuum cell" than to blow the jet of air attached to a curved surface!
Similar to a Spay diffuser, a which one can blow and spay varnish on a drawing.
That makes sense, because the difference in speed between the jet and the solid surface is high, thus causing turbulence and all.
A coanda vacuum cell would be something like this:
Though beware of the air impinging (hitting) on the lower surface. Maybe an automatically adjusting lower surface flap can be made.
Another way to prevent friction between the jet of air and the surface, is to move the surface equally fast. Blowing the jet for example over a fast spinning cylinder. The jet of air drives the cylinder, so no extra motor is needed.
Something like this:
An ordinary propulsion jet pushes a mass of air away, to get an equal but opposite push, with which it can force an aircraft through the air. The rule for efficiency here is: the larger the air's mass, the more efficient the propulsion is. That is why modern subsonic airliners have jet engines with a very high bypass ratio. Turbine driven fans is what they have become.
A Coanda thruster is something different. Its goal is to lower the atmospheric pressure at the side where it wants to go, and let the atmospheric pressure push the craft there. When lowering the atmospheric pressure with a jet of air, the rule is not "the more mass the better", because a large air mass with little speed can't suck a cell vacuum. The opposite seems the efficient way to go here: the faster the drive jet goes, the more suction you'll get, up to a point because I don't think a supersonic jet of air doesn't suck well. I'm just speculating here, have no test data to proof it right.


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With President Trump granted ever more extensive leeway for his military commanders, especially in Africa, African Command (AFRICOM) has begun to massively ramp up its drone war capacity, apparently envisioning continent-wide coverage.
To that end, the US drone facilities in Algeria and Niger are likely to see precipitous growth in the years to come, and have gotten permission to preposition large amounts of jet fuel at those sites to cover the expanding growth.
Niger’s base is particularly likely to see a lot of growth, with the US having just gotten Nigerien permission to launch armed drones in the country. Previously, the drone base was only allowed to fly surveillance drones.
Historically, the US had been very secretive about the sites and capacities of their overseas drone bases, particularly those in countries far from their primary war zones. Lately, however, the expectation is that everywhere is a potential war zone, and having drone coverage everywhere is desirable for commanders.


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The Last of the Final FrontierPosted: July 8, 2011
The final launch of the space shuttle has passed without incident. It’s the last time the U.S. will ever launch humans above the atmosphere. While the cuts and retirement make fiscal sense, I can’t help but feel disappointment for the loss. A the Washington Post so eloquently points out, we were wrong about the future.
Be an astronaut? That’s become somehow – antiquated, like dreaming of being a telephone operator or a vaudevillian. That’s what the future looked like before we knew what the future really looked like. It’s of a piece with the flying cars and food pills and personal jetpacks. The future turned out to be celebrity tabloids and magical personal screens and the continuation of old feuds, not mankind suddenly clasping hands and setting its sights for the beyond. And perhaps we should have expected that.
What’s most astonishing to me is how NASA failed to come up with something better for over 30 years. Now that’s left in the hands of the private sector, which looks pretty sluggish right now. The best designs still fall short of NASA’s achievements in the ’60s, and most are pursuing the tenuous business plan of offering billionaire joyrides. If anyone can still push the envelope, my bet would be on Burt Rutan and Richard Branson, but their Virgin Galactic venture hasn’t produced anything since 2004. That’s 7 years of development, which is reasonable for a product of such magnitude. But in 8 years, NASA went from Shepard to Armstrong without any modern technology. The fact remains that national pride and military budgets are the fastest way to achieve greatness, especially in aviation. I can only hope that the next 30 years don’t see us abandoning space exploration once and for all.


The giant asteroids in space are a potential threat to Earth. History has shown that many asteroids wreaked havoc on Earth. However, these satellites can be used by “aliens”. With the help of these satellites all resources on earth can be destroyed. UFOs can do it before an attack, claims an American professor known as an expert on altered methods of warfare. The shocking claims were made by a professor at the US Air Command and Staff College in Alabama in an interview with Sun Online. But, according to Professor Springer, there is something in space that America does not know or understand. If there was an attack on Earth, it would be the same attack that Europeans carried out on America 300 years ago. At that time, many resources
were lost and the locals were devastated, said Professor Springer. Prof Springer has made a number of other claims. Aliens can be a nomadic tribe. You can spy on other planets to hide their needs. Earth’s nuclear arsenal can be destroyed using special weapons such as lasers and asteroids. Additionally, some of the aliens’ weapons can be highly dangerous viruses that could endanger the human population, Springer has made some strange claims. According to the US space agency NASA, five giant asteroids will come very close to Earth in the first month of 2022. It also contains a bus-sized asteroid that will reach Earth in the first week of January 2022. In particular, the Pentagon released a report in June denying various allegations about aliens.


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A spy satellite was launched earlier this week by the National Reconnaissance Office with a haunting statement and logo on the side. You really cannot make this stuff up.
According to the United Launch Alliance,
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 on Dec. 5 at 11:14 p.m. PST. Designated NROL-39, the mission is in support of national defense.
On the side of this Orwellian Spy Rocket are the words, “Nothing is beyond our reach,” directly underneath the ridiculously evil illustration of an octopus wrapped around the planet.
According to Forbes, the office of National Intelligence was very excited about sending a rocket into space Thursday with a bunch of new satellites and live tweeted its launch. This would usually be a cute display of social media, along the lines of NSA getting the world excited about its Mars Curiosity Rover, except these are spy satellites that will likely be used to gather communications flotsam and who knows what else from people around the world. Dragnet surveillance is a touchy subject these days what with the Snowden leaks and constant new revelations about cell phones being turned into location trackers, listening in on foreign leaders’ phone calls and the vacuuming up any information sent digitally that’s not encrypted. Given that, I was a little surprised that ODNI was bragging about the launch on Twitter putting the mission patch for the rocket on prominent display as it looks like it was drawn by a writer for The Simpsons with his tongue firmly in cheek.
There is nothing really left to say about this mind blowing evil. What is next? How overt must the treachery become before you withdraw your consent?
And now for your moment of zen….


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An aircraft flies at a constant height H and constant velocity V. When the aircraft has flown directly over a gun on the ground a shot is fired from the gun which points at the aircraft at an angle of elevation Ѳ. If the initial velocity of the bullet is KVsecѲ [k >1], and Ѳ =tan inverse[ 1/V√gh/(k-1) ], show that the bullet hits the aircraft directly.
Please if any one can answer me this question I appreciate it a lot.
Last edited by Nehushtan (2014-07-27 00:49:03)
Just solved it!
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Helicopters are used very frequently in today’s world for transportation by average citizens, whereas in the past they were used primarily for military personnel and special operations. Helicopters are now commonly used for corporate transportation, sightseeing, and other recreational activities.
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The latest science music-related publicity blitz concerns the first-ever transmission of a song to Earth from another planet — in this case, Mars. The song is “Reach For The Stars” by will.i.am of the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas.
• Curiosity Rover Plays First Song Transmitted From Another Planet (NASA Press Release)
• Mars rover beams new will.i.am song (USA Today)
• Mars Curiosity rover beams down Will.i.am song ‘Reach for the Stars’ (Washington Post)


Technology to improve military aircraft environmental performance
American company GE Aviation is to provide technologies for mission control systems used in the Boeing KC-46A aircraft, which was selected by the United States Air Force (USAF) for its tanker replacement programme.
The programme calls for 179 tankers to replace the current USAF tanker fleet and GE Aviation was selected for the mission control system because the technology provides the ability to fly shorter flight paths and allows 'idle-thrust' descents which reduces fuel consumption, thereby lowering emissions and community noise levels.
Lorraine Bolsinger, president and CEO of GE Aviation Systems, said:
''The flight management system will enable the aircraft to perform with navigation precision not currently available to the tanker fleet. Our technologies will help enhance operational efficiencies and will enable the aircraft to perform to the demanding mission requirements of the USAF Tanker.''
* The company has also announced that it is investing $60 million to purchase and refurbish a Boeing 747-400 aircraft to convert into a flying test bed for its next generation of jet engines, starting with the LEAP-X engine. The 747 aircraft will be based at GEs facility in Victorville, California facility.
Dom Pitocco, plant leader for GE's Victorville Flight Test Operations, said: ''This investment in an updated 747 flying testbed is exciting news for the Victorville site and shows our commitment to the Southern California Logistics Airport and the Southern California region. Refurbishment of the new flying testbed will take about two years with the aircraft making its inaugural test flight with the new LEAP-X engine.''
The Boeing 747 aircraft was formerly used by Japan Airlines.
Image Credit: BOEING © 2011


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JULIANA AJAYI recounts the Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing crash in 2019, the victims and air safety
“Are you okay? Please respond to this ASAP” was the last question he got to ask his friend.
Dr Aloy Chife recently tweeted on his timeline, “Still calling Prof Pius Adesanmi. Prof, please come; the locusts have eaten all our crops.” Thus Chife did to recall his last conversation with the scholar.
Adesanmi, a Nigerian intellectual, was not only a professor, but a writer, columnist and satirist. He was a Nigerian-born Canadian professor of Literature and African Studies in Carleton University.
Ambassador Abiodun Bashua was United Nations and African Union Deputy Joint Special Representative in Darfur, Sudan. He was described as a perfect gentleman at the time of his death
Adesanmi and Bashua were the two Nigerians among the 157 passengers that died in the Ethiopian Boeing air crash in 2019.
Adesanmi meant different things to different people, including a friend and a mentor.
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Adewuyi Adebimpe said that during her master’s programme in 2018, she sent an email to Adesanmi indicating her interest in applying for a Ph.D programme. According to her, Adesanmi responded, “Complete your masters and let’s restart this conversation then.”
She said, three years since the scholar departed, his life and works continue to inspire her, hoping to follow his footsteps. “He studied French and had great academic records, and my mentors used to encourage me with his story, as I had similar academic records in that line as well. He was a literary scholar and a writer. I also write as well and into literature.”
The Ethiopian Airlines is rated as the fastest growing airline in Africa. Not only is the airline making huge contribution in the aviation industry, it is living up to its slogan – the new spirit of Africa.
In 2010, the airline entered into a codeshare agreement with Scandinavian Airlines. Another one was signed in 2011 with Singapore Airlines and Asiana Airlines. The agreement allows two airlines to share flight number by putting a designator code on a flight by another airline. For Nigerian airlines, this exists between Dana and Ibom airlines.
According to Ethiopian Airlines, the agreement with Scandinavian Airlines provides travellers with better connectivity and a broad range of services between Europe and Africa. Other feats by the airline include Best Airline in Africa more than five times, Africa Lease Deal of the Year 2018, among others.
Despite the successes recorded in the aviation industry, the airline, in 2019, experienced one of its deadliest accidents.
“Ethiopian Airlines regrets to confirm that its flight ET302/10 March in scheduled service from Addis Ababa to Nairobi was involved in an accident around Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) Ejere Wereda Tulu Fera Kebele. The aircraft B-737-800 MAX with registration number ET-AVJ took off at 08:38am local time from Addis Ababa, Bole International Airport and lost contact at 08:44am. One hundred and fifty-seven passengers and flight crew lost their lives in the accident,” it said on its website.
What went wrong in 2019?
The aircraft involved in the accident in 2019 was a Boeing aircraft, which some expressed concerns over. That is not the first aircraft to be purchased by the airline. The airline has a history with Boeing aircraft.
In 2011, the airline received three Boeing 777-200LRs, which increased the number of 777-200LRs to five. Also, in 2014, Ethiopian Airlines received four Boeing 787s, increasing the number to 10. It also received two Boeing 777Fs, increasing the number of that model to four.
An order was also made in 2019 for 20 737MAX8s from Boeing. According to the airline, the order was the largest single Boeing order by number of airplanes from an African carrier.
The Ethiopian Boeing B-737-800 MAX crashed shortly after taking off from Bole International Airport en route to Nairobi, Kenya. There was no survivor from the crash, which claimed 157 lives. The people who died from the accident were nationals of over 30 countries.
Concerns were raised, as the aircraft was less than five months old.
According to a report by the BBC in 2019, the Ethiopian airline, prior to the accident, had always been reputed to be safe. Though in 2020, the interim report was centred on the design of the aircraft. Concerned parties and authorities are still raising more questions as to what happened in 2019.
Significance of investigations
According to the Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria, its fundamental objective is to improve aviation safety by determining the circumstances and causes of air accidents and serious incidents, as well as providing safety recommendations intended to prevent recurrence of similar accidents.
Lookman Animashaun, an aircraft engineer, said, “Any aircraft involved in accidents or any incident deserves to be investigated, and this is why the AIB is created. They investigate what leads to any incident relating to aircraft.
“If an accident is well investigated, it leads to a root of the incident, which enables them to make proper recommendations to prevent such recurrence.
“This is not just for the airline or for the civil aviation authority of that country, it is also for other airlines within and outside to take cognizance of the reports. Investigations on incidents are important whether they involve loss of lives or not.”
Role of NCAA in aviation safety
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority prides itself as an autonomous body, which regulates aviation safety without political interference, in addition to carrying out oversight functions on airports, airspace, meteorological services as well as economic regulations of the aviation industry.
All air accidents within and outside Nigeria are governed by the same regulations, as revealed by the NCAA. However, in cases of air accidents involving loss of lives, the General Manager, Public Affairs, NCAA, Sam Adurogboye, said, “$100,000 per victim is the minimum compensation. However, beyond civil aviation authority support, the Federal Government will be involved because another sovereign nation’s plane is involved in terms of repatriation of bodies. In all these, the NCAA will collaborate with other agencies and other federal ministries concerned. “
Emphasising aviation safety, Adurogboye notes that the NCAA is actively involved in the International Civil Aviation Organisation programmes.
He added, “On safety, we also collaborate with the active involvement of ICAO, share safety information, exchange programmes and so on.”
Air passengers and safety
According to the International Air Transport Association, approximately 100,000 flights take to the sky and land without incident daily. IATA also affirms that getting on an aircraft is among the safest activities, even as flying continues to be of great help to modern life.
IATA recognises safety as number one priority. In its quest to enhance safety across the aviation industry, the association designed the six-point safety strategy to identify organisational, operational and emerging safety issues.
The strategy, according to the IATA, includes reducing the operational risk, which is a basic concern to every airline, enhancing quality compliance, advocating improved aviation infrastructure, supporting consistent implementation of safety management systems, supporting effective recruitment and training and identifying and addressing emerging safety issues.
Some Nigerian air passengers, who fly Ethiopian Airlines regularly, as well as RwandAir, when transiting to Dubai, were interviewed and they explicitly described safety as incomplete without the safety of their luggage.
Another passenger, identified as Florence Adiele, noted that since the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease, health has been prioritised as a key factor in air safety.
She said, “Most importantly, during this period of COVID-19, ensure you have all the necessary travel documents and take every jab that needs to be taken.”
A gold merchant, simply identified as Olaitan, explained that the safety measure she takes on board is by keeping her goods in her hand luggage.
Her words, “Your goods should be in your hand luggage, if minimal; but if not, use a fragile box to pack them and make sure it is locked because of flight theft. This is because your luggage is not secure, if not properly locked and sealed; they will get stolen or removed from your luggage.”
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Image credit: ESA
We’ve always been big fans of space exploration. We are delighted to announce our new song is going to Mars.
European Space Agency and Roscosmos are working on a mission called ExoMars 2020 that will put a rover on the Mars surface. Part of it is a Czech-made instrument – and we are extremely happy that it will carry our song on its hard drive.
Listen to ‘First (Call from Mars)’ by Exit Empire here. We made it to celebrate science and space exploration. See what the song consists of below:
It was fascinating to play with the audio and include real sounds of Martian wind or first gravitational wave ever observed. There are also pictures of the landing location on Mars and the recently captured black hole converted to audio. Lyrics ‘Light will come’ refer to the Czech analyzer with this song on board coming to Mars to study lightning. We also used typical Czech instruments cimbalom and organ.
We’re happy this mission has caught the attention of people all over the world. For the popularization of science, there’s a contest determining which one of the audio files on the rover (11 total) will be transmitted back to Earth. The one with the most votes on the landing day will be chosen.
Even just having a song on Mars in its ones-and-zeros form is an incredible feat. The kid in us who always wanted to be an astronaut would never believe us. You can vote here to even make ‘First (Call from Mars)’ the first-ever song to actually be transmitted from Mars to Earth.
A big thank you to everyone involved in the ESA, Roscomos, Czech Academy of Sciences and Vesmir magazine. Keep looking up!
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In any case in future Mars will be terraformed. Humanity must spread to other planets. Mind must be preserved.
Here I want to share one idea of terraforming Mars with the help of Phobos and Deimos.
Which problems of Mars can be changed?
Mars is very cold. The average temperature is about -60 °С. The average temperature of the Earth is 15 °C. The difference is 75 degrees.
Second big problem is that Mars has no magnetic field.
The third big problem: there is no atmosphere on Mars.
How to make Mars warmer, create an atmosphere and a magnetic field? Different options can be offered. Let's have a look at how Phobos and Deimos can be used. They say it is enough to raise the average temperature by 5 degrees, and the atmosphere will thicken. And it can cause the greenhouse effect. A lot of carbon dioxide will be released into a gaseous state.
When the pressure is enough, and the water can appear in the form of liquid. Thus, it will be possible to inject into the soil of Mars microorganisms brought from Earth. This microorganisms feed on minerals and release oxygen into the atmosphere.
But how to increase the temperature by these 5 degrees, where to get the energy from? Explosions of thermonuclear bombs? Wrap Mars in mirrors? Bomb with comets?
And what if we use Phobos and Deimos for this. Calculations show that Phobos will fall on Mars and Deimos will fly away from Mars. Could they be used to heat Mars?
The simulation shows that if you drop Phobos and Deimos on Mars, the average temperature of Mars will increase by 30 degrees, so you can use this energy. But it is not so easy to do this, no one rocket engine, no one bomb will dislodge them from their orbits. The stones are too heavy with diameters of about 12 and 23 km, and a large circular speed, 1.3513 km/s and 2.138 km/s, Deimos and Phobos, respectively.
If you shoot pieces of Deimos towards its’ movement, Deimos can be slowed down. Then Deimos will fall to Mars. But there is a problem, pieces shot forward, although they will partially slow down Deimos, but will not fall on Mars, they will also become new moons of Mars. This means you need to shoot towards Mars, but then Deimos will not slow down, because you will have to shoot almost perpendicular to the direction of movement. But here Phobos will help us, we will use the gravity of Phobos to turn the pieces towards Mars. If the speed of the pieces exceeds the first cosmic velocity for Phobos, these pieces flying along the hyperbola will turn and fall to the Earth. At the same time, their trajectory can be calculated so that the falling pieces accelerate the movement of Phobos (it loses height, and in the future it can create a big problem for future Martians) and the speed of Mars so that the day on Mars coincides with the day on Earth.
If you manage to drop Deimos on Mars, the temperature will rise by more than 5 degrees. At the same time, several problems can be solved. We accelerate the rotation of Mars, it will be 24 hours a day like on Earth, iron core will probably start moving, the Martian magnetic field will appear, which is needed to protect from the harsh solar wind. Phobos will remain on orbit longer than it was expected, because turning the pieces towards Mars, it itself will accelerate a little. And because Mars now has only one moon left, the rotation of the iron core will be maintained with the influence of only one Phobos.
The minus is that it will take a long time and require a lot of effort, perhaps people will have to be on Phobos to set up machines for ore explosions, to drag and for accurate shooting. The equator of Mars will be a shelled area for many years, unsuitable for visiting. Natural landscapes will be destroyed.
But on the other hand, it is already possible to do today. Machines on Deimos can run on energy collected by solar panels. The second space velocity of Phobos is 11 m/s, which is about 40 km/h. It will be necessary to shoot pieces from Deimos with such a minimum speed, so that the pieces of Deimos that are cut off do not become moons of Phobos. It is already possible to give the trolley a speed of 40 km/h. You will have to shoot off almost 5 percent of Deimos in order to significantly reduce its speed. Deimos will gyrate towards Mars and hit it.
To be continued. More details
08 May 2022


Advanced Mapping for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), builds upon knowledge gained from the GEOS 001 - Basic Mapping for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) course.
In this course, you will leverage skills to advance your UAV data knowledge and interpretation. Learn how to enhance your photogrammetric skills through the derivation of:
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- and Digital Surface Models (DSM).
Gain an understanding of surface development through the processing of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. A process comparison between the photogrammetry and LiDAR process and data is used to generate additional products such as tree canopy models and volumetric calculations. Lastly, you will examine image processing using data derived from multi-spectral and hyper-spectral sensors.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
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- Conduct advanced flight planning and mapping to obtain UAS data.
- Incorporate survey-grade GNSS and ground control points into a UAV mission.
- Plan an advanced UAS mission using current mission planning software tools.
- Use the principals of photogrammetry to process data.
Students must also have access to a drone and a memory card to enable flying of a mission and gathering data in this course. We recommend using any Pix4Dcapture supported drones stated in the following link: Pix4Dcapture supported drones, cameras and controllers – Support.
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Sheppard Air Force Base (Feb. 27) ~ open to personnel with base access
Museum of North Texas History in Wichita Falls (Feb. 28) ~ open to the public
The Texas Historical Commission (THC), in conjunction with Sheppard Air Force Base and the Museum of North Texas History, will co-host two free oral history training workshops. The first, for those with base access, will be held at the Sheppard Air Force Base Heritage Center on Friday, February 27; the second is open to the public and will be held at the Museum of North Texas History on Saturday, February 28. The workshops are the sixth and seventh in a special two-year series of THC-coordinated Texas in the Cold War oral history training workshops around the state. These workshops highlight the real places telling the real stories of Texas’ involvement in the Cold War, including the home front perspective. The workshops are designed for people to learn how to conduct, record, and transcribe oral histories, including hands-on training with digital and video recording equipment.
WHO: Sheppard Air Force Base Vietnam War Commemoration Committee, Museum of North Texas History staff, and THC historians
WHAT: Free Texas in the Cold War Oral History Training Workshops
WHERE: Sheppard Air Force Base Heritage Center – base access required
Friday, February 27 (2-4:30 p.m.)
Museum of North Texas History - public welcome
720 Indiana, Wichita Falls,
Saturday, February 28 (9 a.m.-noon)
Seating is limited, please call 512.463.5833 to pre-register
BACKGROUND: The workshop series When the Lone Star State Met the Iron Curtain: Recollections of Texas in the Cold War, is built on the foundation of the THC’s national award-winning Texas in World War II Initiative. This project endeavors to preserve the service and sacrifices of Texans during the Cold War. Funding for the workshop series was made possible through the generous support of The Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, which also helped support the THC’s Texas in World War II Initiative’s oral history workshop series in 2004.
Sheppard Air Force Base (AFB) is home to the 82d Training Wing—the US Air Force’s largest technical training wing—and the 80th Flying Training Wing, which hosts the world's only internationally manned and managed pilot training program. The Sheppard Air Force Base Vietnam War Commemoration Committee has partnered with the Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemorative Partner Program to plan and conduct events that recognize Vietnam veterans and their families’ service, valor, and sacrifice in the local area. The Sheppard Heritage Center supports the various base training missions through exhibits on the history of aviation and the training of airmen conducted at Call Field and Sheppard AFB from 1917 to the present.
The mission of the Museum of North Texas History is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret the history of the North Texas Area; to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.


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The mystery behind missing plane Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has gotten more complex as investigating officials find further information. The revelation that two passengers were traveling on stolen passports, their tickets purchased by an Iranian middleman, had some speculating that the flight’s disappearance was a terrorist act. Officials, who believe that terrorists are not involved, are using new data to broaden their search for the Boeing 777, which may have been deliberately diverted toward the Andaman Islands by an experienced pilot. The ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines missing plane may provide good research topics in transportation safety and its implications for commercial aviation.
Timeline for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Events related to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 began on Thursday, March 6, when Iranian man Kazem Ali purchased two tickets for the flight for two Iranian men using stolen passports. Though Interpol has discovered the identity of the two passengers, it is still uncertain how their presence on the plane may relate to its disappearance.
- On Saturday, March 8, at 12:41 a.m. local time, Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur. Its destination was Beijing, and it was expected to arrive at 6:30 a.m. There were 239 people on board: 227 passengers and 12 crew, with 5 passengers under the age of 5 and more than half the passengers on board being Chinese/Taiwanese. Other nationalities included Malaysian, Indian, Indonesian, American, Russian and Canadian.
- Around 1:30 a.m., traffic controllers lost contact with the plane after the transponder shut down or was shut off.
- Around 2:40 a.m., radar lost contact with an unidentified aircraft, now believed to be Flight 370. It was dramatically off course, and was flying over Pulau Perak in the Strait of Malacca.
As Ginny Gaylor noted in her iCitations blog post for Questia on March 11, 2014, “The Malaysia Airlines plane—college research topic in aviation history,” initially, it was expected that the plane had crashed, despite the Boeing 777’s “near perfect safety record.”
Change in flight path
As the investigation continued, however, the realization was made that the unidentified aircraft on the radar was likely to be Flight 370, despite being so far from the plane’s initial course. Officials expanded the search into the Indian Ocean, on the other side of the Malay Peninsula from where their search began. The plane executed evasive maneuvers to avoid radar detection, leading investigators to believe that one or both of the pilots—who between them have over 20,000 flying hours—might have been the cause behind the disappearance.
“Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following a route between navigational waypoints when it was last plotted on military radar off the country’s northwest coast,” Niluksi Koswanage and Siva Govindasamy reported for Reuters in a March 14, 2014, article, “Exclusive: Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane deliberately flown way off course.” They continued, “This indicates that it was either being flown by the pilots or someone with knowledge of those waypoints, the sources said.”
The fact that the plane lost communication also indicates that someone turned off the communications systems. But despite the deliberate nature of the changed flight path and the drop in communication, officials remain inclined to believe that it is not an act of terror. “They have found no link between the passengers [traveling under stolen passports] and known terrorist groups and that the plane could have been flown into a densely populated area if the incident was related to terrorism — but it wasn’t,” ABCNews contributors Gloria Rivera and her team explained on March 15, 2014, in “Malaysia Airlines jet made ‘tactical aviation maneuvers’: Law enforcement officials.”
Some investigators have speculated that the plane was making its way toward the Andaman Islands. The small chain off the coast of India does have a runway large enough for a Boeing 777 to land—but how would you hide the landing of a Boeing 777?
Tracking down the missing plane has become an international effort. Kelly Riddell of the Washington Times reported in “Missing Malaysian airliner: ‘There isn’t anything strange about this’,” on March 11, 2014, before the search area was expanded, “About 50 ships and 34 aircraft from nine countries are sweeping the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea near Vietnam.” That includes two U.S. destroyers that are aiding in the effort. “Helicopters on the destroyers capable of nighttime searches also are being used,” Riddell explained.
Despite the dramatic search efforts, officials have warned family members of the missing passengers to prepare for the worst.
What do you think happened on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Tell us in the comments.


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– Member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
– Member of The Australasian College of Aerospace medicine
– Member for The Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine
– Designated Aviation Medical Examiner for Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Dr Feroz has worked in India, UAE and Qatar before settling in Australia. In his previous role he has worked in Airforce and an International Airline with special interest in Aviation medicine. He is a Senior Aviation Medical Officer for Australian Defence Health Services. He is interested in all aspects of General Practice.


Part of the worldwide TAG Group, TAG Aviation are pleased to open their new airport maintenance facility.
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