When the Orbital Sciences Corporation Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft was launched into orbit recently, its Antares rocket was lifted to the first stage of its journey by a US-manufactured crane system designed to the highest standards of precision, reliability and safety.
The 70 ton capacity overhead electric travelling crane, built by Whiting Corporation, is deployed at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, from where the Antares expendable launch system delivers payloads of up to 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) to the International Space Station.
The 240,000 kg Antares – which succeeds the space shuttle – made its first commercial resupply services (CRS) mission this year.
The Wallops Island facility’s 90-foot (27.43 m) span main crane is located in its horizontal integration area, where the cargo rocket is assembled on its side, prior to being rolled outside, positioned vertically and launched.
The delicate task of handling the 40.5m rocket called on the extensive crane manufacturing experience of Whiting Corporation, which manufacture lifting systems extensively for applications where safety and reliability are critical, including the nuclear power and energy infrastructure industries as well as public transit authorities, rail maintenance and automotive and general manufacturing.
The Wallop Island crane – which also incorporates a supplementary 50-ton assembly crane –was designed and built to comply with NASA Critical Lift Standard 8719.9, which spells out NASA’s goal for achieving “best class” status as an organization focused on preventing mishaps.
“Given the risks associated with lifting and transporting rockets, we manufactured the crane to the relevant Overhead Crane Standards and Critical Lift Standards, which are very detailed and have stringent manufacturing, document, quality control, and safety standards. These standards are significantly above typical commercial quality, which is a type of equipment Whiting excels at providing,” said Alan Horgan, Supervisor, Crane Product Group, Whiting Corporation.
Whiting Corporation is a member of the Crane Manufacturers Association of America, which is recognized as one of the world’s leading advocates for the safe application and operation of overhead traveling crane equipment and related products. It provides engineering specifications recognized throughout the USA as the preferred design standard for overhead traveling cranes, integrated crane systems, and crane components.
Areas of crane design and manufacturing of particular importance in the Antares project included:
- AWS welding inspections on critical load path welds
- Material Certifications
- Precision microspeed capabilities with state-of-the art Vector and VFD technologies
- Tandem operation from one radio control between two different capacity cranes, either 70 ton or 50 ton or both
- Clean room considerations, including drip pans and debris shields
- Design calculations and report signed by Professional Engineer
- FMEA (Failure Modes Effect Analysis), and safety analysis report
- Considerations to obviate sparking concerns, including use of grounding straps during critical operations when handling explosive materials
- Plus many other reliability and maintainability considerations.
“A major advantage Whiting offered for this project was its depth of experience with US industry, where safety and reliability are critical,” said Mr Horgan. “Whiting cranes and materials handling systems are already deployed in defence and nuclear areas, where we have achieved ISO and nuclear –specific certifications.


Talk Universe - show for Wednesday, April 26th 2017
What's Really on Mars? Part 3
This is the third installment of our six-part series on Mars. In this show we interview astrobiologist Barry DiGregorio.
He presents evidence for biology on Mars and discusses some of the work done by Dr. Gilbert Levin and his associate, Dr. Patricia Straat and how NASA has simply ignored their powerful evidence for what appeared to be microbial action on Mars in 1976.
this is supplementary material for the show "What's Really on Mars? Part 3"


Unmanned aviation is now really taking off. The electric-powered and locally emission-free flying devices known as drones are coming under the magnifying glass of both companies and researchers.
In order to ensure efficient, safe and professional operations, several major challenges need to be addressed. These include, for example, air navigation services for low-level airspace, control of flights when out of visual line of sight, and the possibility of performing several tasks with a single flight. These and many other challenges are being tackled by the Drolo project, which promises to be an undertaking of international significance.
The Drolo project will examine, develop and pilot solutions for traffic management in lower airspace, 5G connections and the utilisation of printed and embedded electronics. The project will test out smart drone services for use in ports, the use of drones in the vicinity of an airport, a drone weather service and the suitability of hydrogen as an energy source for drones. The project will also develop business models for Finnish drone operators from an export perspective. For example, performing several jobs or multiple customers during the same flight improves the cost-effectiveness of drones. The project will involve setting up Finland’s first drone air traffic control test area in the Oulu region. The project’s partners include a number of key drone-related Finnish commercial and research actors. The project will create an ecosystem that will generate innovations and new drone-related business opportunities.
Read the full article here: https://ftnnews.com/aviation/41824-drolo-project-for-drone-use-in-lower-airspace


It’s been a great experience studying at AAA, I’m very glad I chose the best aviation flight school, I’d say it’s really helped me get where I’m at. Very professional and skillful staff gets you going (or flying) as fast as possible and are ready to solve any doubt you have, and the fleet is kept in top shape. Apart from that, what better than to fly in SoCal’s year-round excellent weather? Put all that together and learning to fly in AAA becomes really fun! I definitely recommend AAA for anyone looking to pursue a career as a pilot.Luis Romero,
At AAA I received the best training and treatment, the facilities are located in Gillespie Field airport, a nice place with good weather and surrounded by the San Diego International airport airspace which gave me a great opportunity to develop professional pilot skills and good communications with the air traffic controllers. The school staff always cared for my needs as a student such as housing and transportation to the school. The instructors are very experienced and professional, and they always were concerned for my flight training progress, they allowed me to fly the airplane solo in Cross country flights to many great places in the U.S helping me to develop good airmanship.
I would like to thank them all because I got very confident with multi engine and instrument flying skills and they prepared me very well , so the checkrides were a piece of cake! . I completed my commercial flight training and recently passed my type rating check at simuflite in Dallas and I am currently flying a gulfstream as a corporate pilot. Thank you AAA for some of my best memories of my life!Frank Delgadillo,
Hello my name is Julien Cazaux i’m an Airbus A320 First Officer. I have start my Pilot Training in France with the ATPL Theoretical, then I had the chance to go to American Aviation Training Academy to do all my FAA Licenses ( PPL, IR, CPL SE, CPL ME), and some building hours. The Training here have a very good quality and I was so glad to have choose AAA to do my licenses. This training center welcomes you as a part of the family, and you are not just a number like in some others training center. There you are based in San Diego California, where you can enjoy a really amazing weather who can allow you to fly all the time, all year long.
This experience is still one of the best memories of my life. Then I came back to France did my licenses conversion, and A320 type rating. Now I’m flying the A320 and I can just say that I highly recommend American Aviation Academy in your flight path…Happy Landings !Julien Cazaux, Pilot


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AWI brings its largest ever range of high temperature alloys to Farnborough International Airshow
Alloy Wire International (AWI) is heading to Farnborough International Airshow next week, with its largest ever range of high temperature nickel alloys.
The company, which enjoyed a 20% surge in sales in 2017, is looking to showcase its Nimonic, Inconel, Waspaloy, Rene 41, Phynox (UNS R30003) and titanium material to manufacturers looking for high quality and reliable delivery for use across the aerospace sector where the need for corrosion resistant wire and bar is high.
AWI’s new campaign – ‘Certainty in an Uncertain World’ – is also being promoted, highlighting the firm’s ability to ‘make to order’ in just 3 weeks and its huge stock range that now exceeds 200 tonnes of more than 60 different alloys.
“The aerospace sector represents a huge opportunity for us, with spring manufacturers using our wire to produce compression springs, tensions springs, torsion springs and formed parts for use in critically demanding environments like aircraft engines – where other wire just does not perform under such conditions,” explained Angus Hogarth, Sales Director at Alloy Wire.
“We also offer shaped wire from square to complicated trapezoidal, precision Inconel flat wire for high temperature sealing, aircraft grade locking wire (DTD 189A) for nuts and bolts and straight bars for CNC turned aerospace parts.”
He went on to add: “What we do really well is that we can produce any wire size between 21mm to 0.025mm to close tolerances. There has also been a lot of demand for wire that is certified to an increasing number of aerospace specifications, or produced to the customer’s own special material properties.”
Operating across 55 countries worldwide, Alloy Wire has held the AS9100 Aerospace & Defence quality accreditation for over five years.
All of its 60 different High Performance alloys are DFARS and EU compliant and can be supplied in quantities from 3 metres to 3 tonnes.
AWI completes all wire testing on site and this includes heat treating of age hardenable aerospace alloys to confirm mechanical properties achievable.
For further information, follow @alloywire on twitter.


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Once again, the Boeing Company NYSE BA has highlighted the fact that 62 people fled from radar to Borneo by a Sriwijaya Air 737 plane on their trip on Jan 9. The old 737 plane variant has supposedly sunk into the Java Sea because both black boxes of the plane have been found again.
Boeing 737 Sequence of Plane Crash
In the last few years, following the accident of two MAX 737 planes killing 346 passengers, Boeing has been under immense scrutiny. The first accident was Lion Air 610 and the second happened in March 2019, while the first was Ethiopian Airlines 302.
Both the MAX 737 Boeing aircraft have been grounded around the world for almost 20 months since these accidents, contributing to an immense boeing turnover. The latest crash in the Indonesian airspace involving the Sriwijaya Air737 aircraft was the second crash after the crash.
Keep going to the mountain
Just as the condition in Boeing’s embattled 737 MAX plane changed, the latest event could delay its rehabilitation again. In the last few months, we have continually changed as many airlines worldwide are preparing to fly by Boeing’s 737 again. The organization was also awarded new orders from a better viewpoint.
The Sriwijaya air crash took place only after NYSE: BA had decided to pay $2.5 billion in damages to dismiss the allegations against US security officials over the construction of its 737 MAX aircraft. Sriwijaya Air Crash The BBC’s report tells the families of the 346 victims who have been killed in the air tragedies over 500 million dollars.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could re-examine the 737-productive line after the aircraft had received clearance in November 2020 to revert to America following 20 months of grounding due to a recent collapse involving Boeing’s 737.
The risk that Boeing 737 MAX and other versions would be scrapped and forthcoming orders may be seriously affected as a result of the recent air crash.
Compared to the 7 percent rise in the market, company shares have risen 19.5 percent over the last six months. In the last four quarters eidos posted an overall positive income of 17.57%. In the last 60 days, the Zacks Consensus forecast for 2021 profits rose 0.3% to $6.39.
In the last four years, AAR Corp. has a surprise average positive revenue of 124.61 percent. The forecast of the NYSE: BA Consensus for 2021 profits in the last 60 days has risen by 13% to $1.04. Solid Buys, which have beaten the industry more than 2X by a staggering mean gain by +24.4 percent per year, are now extracted by 7 inventories from the 220. You can check more information at https://www.webull.com/newslist/nyse-ba before investing.


Asteroids are minor planets (small Solar System bodies and dwarf planets) that are notcomets, especially those of the inner Solar System. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids. Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter. They are grouped with the outer bodies—centaurs, Neptune trojans, and trans-Neptunian objects—as minor planets, which is the term preferred in astronomical circles.In this article the term "asteroid" refers to the minor planets of the inner Solar System.
There are millions of asteroids, many thought to be the shattered remnants of planetesimals, bodies within the young Sun's solar nebula that never grew large enough to becomeplanets. The large majority of known asteroids orbit in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter or co-orbital with Jupiter (the Jupiter Trojans). However, other orbital families exist with significant populations, including the near-Earth asteroids. Individual asteroids are classified by their characteristic spectra, with the majority falling into three main groups: C-type, S-type, and M-type. These were named after and are generally identified with carbon-rich, stony, and metallic compositions, respectively.
Only one asteroid, 4 Vesta, which has a relatively reflective surface, is normally visible to the naked eye, and this only in very dark skies when it is favorably positioned. Rarely, small asteroids passing close to Earth may be naked-eye visible for a short time.


by Zen Gardner
Here’s another scientific “anomaly” for which we can’t expect a straight answer. While it is apparently “puzzling scientists” we’re no doubt given hardly any information on what’s going on in the overt and covert space programs.
So what do you expect us to think when we read science reports like this:
“Mysterious ‘night shining’ or noctilucent clouds are beautiful to behold, and this stunning image offers an unusual view of these clouds as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Station. Also called polar mesospheric clouds, these clouds are puzzling scientists with their recent dramatic changes. They used to be considered rare, but now the clouds are growing brighter, are seen more frequently, are visible at lower and lower latitudes than ever before, and sometimes they are even appearing during the day.
There is quite a bit of debate for the cause of noctilucent clouds. Dust from meteors, global warming, and rocket exhaust have all been tagged as contributors, but the latest research suggests that changes in atmospheric gas composition or temperature has caused the clouds to become brighter over time.” Source
Here’s the video from the International Space Station showing a time lapse shot of these “clouds”. Notice the entire atmosphere is incandescent due to the chemtrail bombardment over the years. Is it any wonder these particles would also make it to higher altitudes?..never mind the possibility that the mad scientists are spraying at even higher altitudes?
Meet CARE - the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment(s)
Besides the ongoing toxic chemtrail program, we also know there have been experiments spraying metallic particles in the way upper atmosphere under the name of the Cloud of CARE, some type of experimental aerosol dispersal supposedly to test atmospheric conditions.
A NASA Black Brant XII rocket launches carrying the CARE experiment Credit: NASA
Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Using NASA Sounding Rocket
“A rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere was conducted from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on September 19, 2009. The experiment was launched on a NASA Black Brant XII Sounding Rocket.
The Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE) was conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test Program using a NASA four-stage Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket. Using ground based instruments and the STP/NRL STPSat-1 spacecraft, scientists will study an artificial noctilucent cloud formed by the exhaust particles of the rocket’s fourth stage at about 173 miles altitude.
Data collected during the experiment will provide insight into the formation, evolution, and properties of noctilucent clouds, which are typically observed naturally at high latitudes. In addition to the understanding of noctilucent clouds, scientists will use the experiment to validate and develop simulation models that predict the distribution of dust particles from rocket motors in the upper atmosphere.
Natural noctilucent clouds, also known as polar mesospheric clouds, are found in the upper atmosphere as spectacular displays that are most easily seen just after sunset. The clouds are the highest clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, located in the mesosphere around 50 miles altitude.
They are normally too faint to be seen with the naked eye and are visible only when illuminated by sunlight from below the horizon while the Earth’s surface is in darkness.” Source
Sound Fishy Enough to You?
I personally don’t put anything past these insane bastards. That they’d spray that far out to keep the sun’s healing rays from hitting earth under the all encompassing pretense of global warming, a lie that even fooled their own crowd, is no surprise at all.
At the least, the overdose of chemtrails around the world could certainly have this effect. Something is off and someone knows why.
I don’t know. I’m no scientist or super-duper insider. I just know how to smell a rat in this sci-fi cover up on the planet earth we’re living on. Conveniently, just a few are in charge. Especially in the ministry of information.
See the world for what it is.
That’s all I can say. Find out for yourself, or be enveloped by the lie.


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Airbus to hire 6,000 people worldwide this year
Airbus has announced its intention to recruit around 6,000 new employees worldwide during 2022.
With the aerospace industry showing strong signs of recovery post-Covid, it is expected that about a quarter of the planned intake will focus on acquiring the new skills to support the company’s long-term projects and ambition, notably in the fields of decarbonisation, digital transformation and cyber technology.
A third of the total recruitment will be allocated to young graduates. Further information on the regional breakdown of the new roles, and in which division, is expected from the middle of February onwards.
Airbus recently confirmed it delivered 611 commercial aircraft to 88 customers in 2021 – the majority of the wings on Airbus commercial aircraft are designed and built at Broughton in Wales.
Thierry Baril, Airbus chief human resources & workplace officer, said: “Airbus has demonstrated resilience throughout the Covid crisis, and has laid the foundations for a bold future for sustainable aviation. This can only be achieved by acquiring the right talents in the various domains of expertise that will help us grow our activities as we come out of the crisis, while preparing the long-term transformation of the company.
“Following this initial wave of recruitment, which will take place worldwide and across all our businesses, the number of external hires will be reassessed before mid-year 2022 and we will adjust our needs accordingly. Not only will we look at acquiring the new skills that Airbus needs in the post-Covid world, but we will also do our utmost to reinforce diversity across the company, fostering a safe and inclusive culture reinforcing Team Airbus to be ready to pioneer sustainable aerospace.”
To learn more about the broad range of opportunities available at Airbus, potential applicants can visit the careers section of the Airbus website here.


Earlier today, Ronaldo’s £15m private jet crashed at Barcelona Airport whilst trying to land. Although the footballer was not on the plane at the time, it is reported that the landing gear got obliterated directly upon impact with the runway.
Once news of the incident emerged amongst airport officials, the runway was immediately shut. The Portuguese star often rents his plane out to private companies- which was the case this evening.
A statement said:
“Cristiano Ronaldo, his family or friends were not on the plane. The incident had no major consequences.”
This event comes on the same day as the release of FIFA 17. Of course, Twitter had something to say:
Ronaldo's Private Plane Makes crash landing at Barcelona Airport. Thank God He and his family is save 😢🙏
— Meena. (@BlastItLikeCR) September 29, 2016
Cristiano Ronaldo’s plane has crash landed in Barcelona. It then writhed around on the runway for 5 minutes until it was awarded a free kick
— Mallow News (@MallowNews) September 29, 2016
Thankfully no one was injured.


Duotone D/Lab Unit 2023
Duotone have launched their second version D/LAB – ultralight, ultra stiff, big wind range, the Duotone D/LAB Unit gives you the most wind range per wing size so it handles more wind at the top end and will get you going quicker in lighter winds.
The profile is the same as the standard Unit 2023 model and the canopy is using the new low stretch reinforced fabric – it has a stiffer leading edge handle which stays more upright; the dihedral in the leading edge has been reduced which gives more glide and wing tip stability in both its vertical and horizontal position – it comes in only one colour way – white & stormy weather!
Yes, this wing is expensive but to be really frank its the most lightest and highest performance wing on the market – full of grunt!
You do notice the Duotone D/LAB Unit 2023 has plenty of pumping power to enable you to get up on the plane quickly.
The Duotone D/LAB Unit features:
- Aluula leading edge & frame
- Duotone Fixed Handles
- Two dump valves, wing tip and centre strut
- MOD3 canopy fabric
Weights: 4.0 is 1.98kg / 5.0 is 2.27kg / 6.0 is 2.62kg


The 2022 Luncheon Club summer day out took place on 29th June at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Some 26 members and guests attended what was an excellent day with a very good lunch.
Participants were able to visit the superb aircraft displays, including going aboard many iconic aircraft of the past, and were also able to visit the impressive Land Warfare Museum. There was an aerobatic display plus several Spitfire flights.
Renter Warden Melanie Hampton had bought her husband, Michael, a present for a significant birthday of a flight in a Tiger Moth at Duxford. Michael’s father helped map Greenland in the 1930s from a similar aircraft, so this was his ‘best birthday present ever’. The accompanying image shows Michael in his ‘Biggles’ gear, ready for his flight.
The IWM Duxford is always worth a visit at any time. It is hoped that next year’s day out will be to the historic dockyard at Portsmouth


DJI Matrice 300 drone loudspeaker is a long-range sound transmission equipment. It has the characteristics of clear sound, strong penetration, ultra-high sound pressure, volume up to 130dB, small size, light weight and low energy consumption. Sound transmission as far as 300M-500M, excellent magnetic shielding performance, specially developed for DJI Matrice 300 enterprise drone .
Through DJI SkyPort, it can be seamlessly compatible with DJI M300 RTK, and M200 V2, develop on DJI SDK Payload, and communicate with drone datalink.
- Long-distance transmission
The drone is equipped with an MP130 Megaphone, capable of remote airborne voice broadcasting. The maximum control distance is consistent with that of the drone flight distance.
- Speaker Voice Loud and clear
The maximum volume exceeds 130dB, the effective broadcast range is 300 -500 meters.
The DJI Matrice 300 Megaphone has a variety of broadcast modes, such as text-to-speech, real-time speaking, voice broadcast, and play the stored audio on SD card.
The MP130 uses the DJI SkyPort interface. control and operate via DJI Pilot. The automatic synchronous pitching function can follow the camera of the PTZ to ensure the accurate direction to achieve the best broadcast effect.
Plug-and-play installation, easy to use.
|depend on DJI M200 M300 Drone
|Pitch control angle
|Android5.0 or above
|Via the data link of the DJI drone
|Maximum Voice transmission
|Working Way ( speaking way)
|1:Play the stored audio
2:Real time audio transmission
3:Text to audio


Service center for the newest GE engines
XEOS is a joint venture between GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik. The two leading aviation companies built a state-of-the-art aircraft engine service center in Środa Śląska, Southwestern Poland. XEOS opened for business and inducted the first engine in April 2019. The new facility is overhauling GE engines operated by Lufthansa and other airlines as well as cargo operators.
At the mature state, around 600 skilled workers will be employed here.


Piedmont Community College (PCC) has recently partnered with CrossFlight Sky Solutions to offer training for the mandatory FFA Part 107 commercial drone pilot exam.
CrossFlight Sky Solutions is based in Bluffton, South Carolina and is recognized as experts in the SUAS/Drone technology field. Together, CrossFlight Sky Solutions and PCC are able to provide curriculum and educational training for local industries, businesses, civil authorities, and community members seeking to become FAA Certified Commercial Drone Pilots.
The 23 hour program is an instructor led class covering FAA rules and regulations, airspace classifications, risk assessment tools, aeronautical decision making, airport operations, weather, and much more. Students will also take part in both a manual and automated hands-on flying segment during the class, although it is not necessary to own your own drone.
CrossFlight CEO Jerry Whittaker stated, “We are ecstatic about our relationship with Piedmont Community College. Through this partnership we desire to create a wave of certified commercial FFA drone pilots, ready to begin and carve their careers in the exciting and fast growing drone technology industry. We feel this partnership fits perfectly with PCC’s commitment to excellence in advanced technology and we could not be more excited.”
For more information on the class scheduled for the week of September 17 at PCC’s Person County Campus, contact Jody Blackwell at (336) 599-6622 or firstname.lastname@example.org or Jeanette Godsey at (336) 322-2156 or email@example.com).


Note, this section is a work in progress, but I have a goal of completing it before August 29.
The written exam to receive the Remote Pilot Certificate with the Small UAS Rating is similar to the written exam for a Private Pilot Certificate. There will be 60 questions selected at random. We won't see the pool of questions before the new rules become effective in late August, 2016, but we do have the draft of the FAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airman Certification Standards (FAA-S-ACS-10) which provides an outline of what the test questions will cover.
|UAS Topics||Percentage of Items on Test|
|Regulations||15 – 25%|
|Airspace & Requirements||8 – 15%|
|Weather||11 – 16%|
|Loading and Performance||7 – 11%|
|Operations||13 – 18%|
|Total Number of Questions:||60|
|Written Exam- Sample Test Questions|


Dear Mr. Kalb and Fellow Readers,
The idea at issue is moral corruption not the Shuttle itself. The Shuttle program is the result of morally corrupt scientists and politicians. As a child reader of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics and a natural fixer upper, I knew the shuttle was a mess when I saw it on the launch pad the first time.
I was in graduate school, and I dearly hoped for its success. But I was shocked. The pictures I had seen about five years earlier in the physics department did not hint at the contraption we behold today. The pictures showed just the shuttleâ€”a beautiful, graceful spacecraft as in the delightful 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Immediately I knew two fundamental problems: the solid rocket boosters and the external fuel tank. This was no spacecraft but a device jury-rigged to cut costs. I was appalled. Yes I had read about how enormously powerful the Shuttleâ€™s engines were pound for pound with a Saturn Vâ€™s engines. So what I thought; if they could not do a Saturn Vâ€™s job, who cares? I am not an engineer, but I do fix things; and this thing was not fixable. But I bought into the enthusiasm based on our sterling record of space exploration that had resulted in only three deaths after over 25 years of spaceflight.
So we ended up with the two obvious flaws killing a score of human beings: the solid rocket boosters and the external fuel tank, killing more astronauts per flight than all previous flights over the previous 25-year period. Is it any wonder the last flight had the astronauts cutting pieces off the shuttle so it could return safely?
And why are they sending PhDâ€™s instead of pilots and technicians? A PhD cannot run an experiment any better than a talented technician. You do not put a college graduate in charge of a helicopter when a warrant officer is sufficient. Why are they sending droves of PhDâ€™s up at one time in a grotesque vehicle?
The answer is we are willing to sign on to any project as long as it earns a lot of money or fame. I would not sign on to the Shuttle program in any capacity if I were offered twice what I am earning now. Am I a saint? No, I am just someone with a simple conscience.
All the Best,


In a meeting of the Foundation for Science and Technology on 15 September 2021, the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, set out his vision for the future direction of ESA and European space policy.
In his introduction, the Director- General recalled that the UK is an important member of ESA, with many strengths – on the science side, the engineering side and the project management side. ESA needs this excellence, he said. He added that ESA in turn can provide an avenue for the UK to implement its national priorities. ESA is also a gateway to the wider world because it is probably the space agency with most interactions, through projects and programmes, with other nations.
ESA is active across all aspects of space. That, he said, is unusual: many space agencies are not. It has programmes in space science, human and robotic exploration, navigation, Earth observation, telecommunications, safety and security. It is also engaged on operational programmes, such as the development of launchers. This is, he said, unique and very useful for the achievement of member state priorities.
The overall budget for ESA is around €6.5 billion, 24% of it is coming from the European Commission and the rest from member countries (the UK contributes 9.2% of the total). One of its principles is that almost all the money should go back to the supply chain and research institutions in the member states. That means the majority of the money goes back to the countries to build up programmes and activities in cooperation with other countries and other industries.
Among recent successful projects is the Solar Orbiter. It was launched in 2020, with strong UK participation and leadership. It is one of the most complex satellites exploring the sun, flying closer to it than any previous mission, in order to understand the dynamics and properties of our star. The Plato (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission will be launched in 2026, looking at habitable planets in the universe, planets that have similar conditions to the Earth’s – the so-called Goldilocks zone – where there is appropriate temperature variation, light levels that are favourable to life, and other characteristics which may exist in other solar systems.
He spoke about Agenda 20251 which outlines ESA priorities for the next few years. The starting point is that, in matters concerning space, it is important to take a long-term view. Space developments are not delivered in one year or the next. So what is the world likely to look like in, say, 2035? In the Director-General’s view, space is one of the tools that will get us there. The Agenda sets out some of the immediate steps necessary in order to get there. Five priorities with targets for 2025 are listed: commercialisation; safety and security; programme challenges; ESA transformation; and ESA-US relations.
He recalled that there is a great deal of media coverage of space, but much of it emanates from the USA or China and not from Europe. And that, he said, bothered him. The reason is that space in these countries is developing very quickly, because of investment from both the private sector and also the government side: huge investments are being made to support space programmes. Individuals like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are putting money into space, as are many Silicon Valley companies.
China is rapidly building a space capability, at the same level as the one in Europe, while the USA has capabilities that exceed those of Europe.
Enabling our society
Space is used in many aspects of daily life: Earth observation, telecommunications, weather forecasts and navigation, for example. Without space-based technologies, modern life would not be possible. Space is an integral part of daily life for every single person in the UK and many other parts of the world, he stated.
The commercialisation of space is under way. Responding and participating effectively means being able to act at speed. Access to capital is also needed to make things happen. Talent, people with brilliant ideas who are driven by those ideas and full of energy are another vital factor.
Satellites can also provide enormous amounts of data information in a timely manner both to understand what is occurring with climate change, but also to check how the world is responding. Radar satellites look through the clouds and therefore take images whenever they fly over a region. This is especially important in the case of flooding where the associated bad weather will often result in dense cloud cover. Information on flooding is then immediately available in case of crisis.
There is a rapid response system, with satellites on one side and a telecommunications network on the other, with computation done partially in space. This aids the emergency services, the fire brigades in the case of forest fires, or environmental protection agencies in case of floods, people who need the information very quickly.
Another of the Agenda 2025 priorities focusses on safety and security, specifically safety in space in the context of the dangers of space debris. Satellites are an essential part of society and need to be protected. Knowing the location of space debris enables operators to manoeuvre to avoid collisions. Mr Aschbacher suggested that Europe needs to strengthen its capabilities in this area. So this will be a focus for the next couple of years.
Space weather is another area of interest. Bursts of solar wind can impact power grids, communications networks and infrastructure, causing huge damage. It is estimated that a single event could cause economic damage in Europe in the order of €15 billion. While these are not common, they do happen and ESA is building a satellite which will give some warning when they do occur, in order to give some time to take precautionary action and protect infrastructure on the ground.
Responding, Dr Alice Bunn, Chief Executive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, discussed how the UK might benefit from its membership of ESA. She highlighted the large-scale science and exploration infrastructure. Those huge programmes take many years to come to fruition – she cited the James Webb Space Telescope which was 25 years in the making. It makes sense, she said, to pool our expertise and our funding in order to cover the costs of these huge missions. The second area was civil operational capability. As a nation, the UK has historically under-invested in national capability. Instead, we have participated in EU space programmes. Membership of ESA can prove to be a very useful delivery path to help tip the balance and bring up UK national capability.
Sir Martin Sweeting, Group Executive Chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology, highlighted two particular areas that came out of Director Aschbacher’s talk. The first was the Lunar Pathfinder project. Not only is it an interesting technological challenge to undertake in the so-called ‘new space environment’, but it represents a departure from the way ESA has done business in the past. Here, ESA is setting the requirements and then leaving industry to deliver it. He argued that this was a really important step – one that might not be noticed by many – because in the past, there had been a tendency for ESA to set the challenge and then tell industry how to do it. He saw the balance shifting and this would help ESA and Europe to move more rapidly. He argued that, with the advent of the private sector in space, the tempo has increased dramatically. The private sector is moving out from applications into exploration.
In terms of international collaboration, he noted that Europe is positioned physically between the USA and the East. Each has its own particular vision of how it wants to progress in space. India is an emerging player in space and there are others. He believed that Europe should therefore engage very closely, very positively with these other players because it will benefit from collaborative projects beyond its own individual means.
Paul Bate, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, stressed that space is a team effort. He said that it takes a team to achieve the steps we have made as a country and as a world. While member states are looking at the ESA’s Agenda 2025, they will each have their own priorities too. The UK’s National Space Strategy2 sets out the Government’s ambitions for the UK in space, bringing together civil and defence policy for the first time. This needs to be communicated clearly to other partners.
He added that the UK Space Agency needs to think like any organisation does, identifying and articulating clearly the value that it brings. He noted the need to engage with academia, international stakeholders, industry and Whitehall to make sure the organisation is doing the right things, particularly as the agenda changes in light of the strategy and the world changes as commercialisation of space gathers pace.


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Here is the actual footage of the Mars landing last week:
What are the SCIENCE goals of the Mars exploration program?
Click here to explore the goals: https://mars.nasa.gov/#red_planet/1
- Do you think there is life on MARS?
- Do you think NASA would keep it a secret?
- Do you think finding life beyond earth will change your life or perspective?
- Do you think life on Mars will look like Baby Yoda or Groot?
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Valentina’s life reflects the greatness one can be in her entire life. Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman cosmonaut.
Valentina Tereshkova was born on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile factory. Her father died during the Second World War. Her mother, with three children, went to Jaroslavl. Since 1954, Valentina worked at different factories following her mother.
Valentina loved parachuting. When she had chance she went to the aeroclub and practiced parachute jumping. In 1962 she became a member of the Soviet cosmonaut group. At the age of 22, she had become an avid skydiver. Meanwhile the space race was in full swing. Russia had launched the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into space in on 12 April 1961 with America following closely behind, launching Alan Shepard a month later. This is when Valentina decided to become an astronaut. Her parachuting experience helped her beat out over 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a solo mission at the age of 25. In the world of men she faced lot of difficulties in training and following them, but yet determined to follow the risky procedures to be strong. On June 16th, 1963 Vostok made its way out of atmosphere with Valentina behind the wheel. This day the first woman to travel to space, Valentina called out as the craft took off. It is said that she orbited the Earth an astounding 48 times in less than 3 days. While in orbit, she realized that her capsule was mistakenly programmed to not return to Earth and was orienting itself further and further away from Earth. But she managed to contacted ground control for assistance and navigated back to Earth. Despite Valentina’s success, it took 19 years until another woman traveled to space. Valentina is the second youngest person to ever go into space and remains the youngest woman ever to do so.
Moral: Work hard and you will get there.


NASA’s uncrewed Orion capsule passed its final exam today, surviving a fiery atmospheric re-entry and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at the end of a round-the-moon test flight.
The 25.5-day Artemis 1 mission set the stage for future moon trips with astronauts aboard, 50 years after the last Apollo moon mission.
“From Tranquility Base to Taurus-Littrow to the tranquil waters of the Pacific, the latest chapter of NASA’s journey to the moon comes to a close,” NASA spokesman Rob Navias said as Orion settled in the waters off the coast of Baja California at 9:40 a.m. PT. “Orion, back on Earth.”
Orion’s odyssey began in mid-November with the first-ever launch of NASA’s giant Space Launch System rocket, and traced a route that came as close as 80 miles to the lunar surface and ranged as far out as 40,000 miles beyond the moon. Orion traveled 1.4 million miles in all.
On the way back to Earth, cameras mounted on the spacecraft’s solar array wings sent back spectacular imagery of our planet looming larger in Orion’s metaphorical windshield. Once the spacecraft jettisoned its European-built service module, a set of thrusters built at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash., controlled the capsule’s orientation for atmospheric re-entry.
Mission managers said Orion’s descent ranked among the sternest tests of the mission. As the spacecraft hit the top part of the atmosphere at a velocity of nearly 25,000 mph, Orion’s heat shield had to weather temperatures around 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. After that trial by fire, parachutes slowed the descent further, allowing the spacecraft to hit the ocean at about 20 mph.
Navias said it was a “textbook entry.”
A recovery team — including Navy personnel aboard the USS Portland, an amphibious transport dock ship — went out to pick up the capsule and bring it back to shore.
Over the weeks and months ahead, NASA’s Orion team will evaluate the data collected during the flight. Three mannequins were strapped into the seats of the capsule, wired up with sensors to record temperature levels, radiation exposure and the stresses of flight.
NASA also tested an Alexa-style voice and video assistant, code-named Callisto, which was installed in the capsule as part of an experiment orchestrated by Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Cisco.
The results of Artemis 1 will help mission managers prepare for the Artemis 2 mission, which aims to send astronauts around the moon in the 2024 time frame.
“If all is still go and everything looks good, then our plan is to name the crew in early 2023,” Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, said during a post-splashdown briefing.
Artemis 2, in turn, is meant to pave the way for the first crewed lunar landing in more than a half-century, during an Artemis 3 mission that’s planned for no earlier than 2025.
“This is the program of going back to the moon, to learn to live, to invent, to create, in order to explore beyond,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.
Artemis 1’s finale came 50 years to the day after Apollo 17 landed on the moon in Taurus-Littrow valley during the Apollo program’s final lunar mission. “A new day has dawned,” Nelson said, “and the Artemis generation is taking us there.”


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NASA ground control appeared to ‘cut off’ a Russian cosmonaut as he reported an approaching UFO while abroad the International Space Station - sparking a frenzy of aliens conspiracy theories.
NASA abruptly shut down a Russian cosmonaut who appeared to be describing an incoming UFO that could be spotted moving on the ISS live stream. The cosmonaut seemed to acknowledge the presence of an approaching UFO, that was “slowly moving upwards,” before he was interrupted by the NASA ground control, according to theorists online. The footage was captured on the NASA space agency live camera stream on 21st November.
The Sighting: What Really Happened?
The alleged UFO sighting, picked up by self-proclaimed UFO expert Scott C Waring, has prompted claims that powerful governments are aware of alien existence. Waring presented his findings on his YouTube channel and blog ET Database, where he talked through the video.
He claimed that the footage shows the UFO “uncloaking” which reveals a trio of alien spacecraft moving across the ISS live stream. Waring then points to the conversation between a Russian cosmonaut stationed on the ISS and NASA ground control as further proof of something suspicious taking place.
Waring said: "There is a conversation going on and then once the UFO appears the conversation between the astronaut's changes. NASA shock: ISS stream ‘cuts off’ Russian cosmonaut the moment he reports mysterious UFO
“When the Russian astronaut aboard the ISS said, ‘a ship...’, the NASA ground control cut him off and said, ‘Copy all’, before he could finish what he was saying.
“She already saw it on live cam at ground control. She reacted fast before he could talk about it too much but he already said the most important thing he could ‘a ship!’
"So here is 100% proof that NASA and Russia know that aliens frequently visit the space station.”
Why was he "cut-off'?
Waring also suggested out that the NASA video seems to become "fuzzy" when the so-called UFOs appeared.
The conspiracy theorist argued that extraterrestrial spacecraft is known to cause "electrical disturbances" and even shut down vehicles and watches.
However, skeptics online suggested that the objects were simply asteroids or ice.
GUFON Radio Stream offers a more rational explanation for the supposed UFO encounter, writing: “Isn’t it funny how these objects all move at the same speed?
“Just-ice particles dispersed as ISS corrects its course.”
The bizarre claim follows other strange sightings that Waring claims to have uncovered. These include alien tech on the asteroid Bennu and an alien base on the surface of the Moon. He also claims to have found a "sarcophagus" on Mars and discovered a sunken "Asian Atlantis" off the coast of Japan.
However, the US space agency has rejected his claims, attributing them to the effect of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon where people see recognizable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.
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The Lima Lima Flight Team is a precision formation flying demonstration team based in Naperville, Illinois. The Lima Lima Flight Team is the only six aircraft civilian formation aerobatic flight team in the world!
The photos below are the flight team flying over the Village of North Utica during the 2009 Veterans Day Parade.
All photos are courtesy of Navy Veteran and Legionnaire Dana Hyson who flew with the Lima Lima Flight Team on Veterans Day 2009.
In Memory of Navy Veteran Wayne Hyson, father of Dana Hyson.


Last weekend we were fortunate to attend a community outreach initiative with a friend called “Girls Fly Too”. The event was founded by Kirsten Brazier in 2012. Kirsten is an Airplane and Helicopter pilot from the Lower Mainland who wanted to create an accessible event to educate and inspire women and girls to think about aviation as a career field worth exploring.
The reality is that “of 24,505 professional pilots in Canada only 1356 of them are women. Out of 19,601 aircraft engineers, only 560 of them are women. Less than 3% of the technical positions in the Royal Canadian Air Force, such as pilot or maintenance technician, are held by women. While the percentage of women in many other professions continues to grow, the percentage of women employed in the aviation and aerospace industries remains low.” (Girlsfytoo.ca)
So in celebration of International Women’s Day AND “Women of Aviation Worldwide Week” (I didn’t know this existed.), the back side of the Abbotsford Airport was transferred into a place where anything is possible and dreams come true.


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15: Space X has delayed the launch of the Zuma mission 24 hours to Thursday, Nov. 11) at Florida's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), to help pave the way for the planned Wednesday liftoff of a payload known as Zuma. But we don't know much beyond that; it's unclear exactly what Zuma is, or what it will be doing. "The Zuma payload is a restricted payload," Lon Rains, communications director of Northrop Grumman's space systems division, told via email.
Original story: Space X is getting ready to launch a secret satellite to orbit Wednesday night (Nov. The spaceflight company test-fired one of its Falcon 9 rockets Saturday (Nov. government, in a launch procured by aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman.
Full Story: Space X Delays Launch of Secret Zuma Mission to Thursday | Read our original mission preview below.
Rains did add, however, that Zuma is headed for low Earth orbit (LEO), which extends to about 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers) above the planet.
LEO's most famous resident is the International Space Station, which usually zooms around Earth at an altitude of about 250 miles (400 km), completing one lap every 90 minutes or so. If all goes according to plan, less than 10 minutes after liftoff, the two-stage Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth for a vertical touchdown at Landing Zone 1, a Space X facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is next door to KSC.


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We designed and developed a serious game that simulates the activities of lunar exploration missions in the 1970s. The first video shows the VR version, and the second video shows the non-VR version.
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Question: It is true that there will be asteroids artificially set in Moon’s orbit? In how many years can it be possible? It will be temporary? They will be seen from Earth? Thank you for your answers. — Claudio
Answer: NASA has proposed a project to pull an asteroid into the Moon’s orbit in order to test technologies for redirecting those asteroids that might collide with Earth. Note, though, that this is still just a study, with few firm details for actually placing an asteroid into the Moon’s orbit.


Gregory, and six women, including Sally Ride. Who is this, you ask? She has worked in the areas of computer programming, printed wiring board materials, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, computer magnetic disc production, and reproductive biology.
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If you accept these past accomplishments as commonplace then think of the new horizons that you can explore. During the time when Jemison was in high school, she convinced that she wanted to pursue a career in biomedical engineering.
Embassy personnel included provision of medical care, supervision of the pharmacy and laboratory, medical administrative issues, and supervision of medical staff. Her task of managing the health care delivery system for U.
New York Times Magazine, February 23, Hayes get a unique perspective of the environment during a zero gravity flight. Jemison was a co-investigator on the bone cell research experiment flown on the mission. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.
African-American women continue to demonstrate professionalism, intelligence and unlimited potential as they contribute to our overall struggle for unlimited freedom, access and opportunity in America.
Despite the systematic discrimination, these mathematicians kept calculating. So, he made that comment and I said, 'Wow, that would be so cool. After more than a year of training into the astronaut with the title of science mission specialist.
But in real life one Black woman has accomplished what once seemed like mission impossible: It was a Medical College to work on her medical degree.
First Asian American in Space Onizuka became the first Asian American in space in January of when he joined the crew of the Discovery for the shuttle program's first Department of Defense mission.
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Many among this early generation of astronauts became celebrated heroes in the era, but they were exclusively white males. Bluford, however, was just getting started.
He was modest about his career and achievements, brother Claude told Yoshihashi. Since then she has boasted an impressive flying career, operating combat helicopters and airplanes for the Navy in the Middle East and South America.
It was such a significant moment because since I was a little girl I had always assumed I would go into space," Jemison added.African-American astronauts have visited the space station, but Epps would have been the first to live there.
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Irish aerospace manufacturing leaders gather in Limerick
Irish aerospace industry leaders are in Limerick today for a networking event about the future of this buoyant and important sector. The gathering at Ballyneety Golf Club will have a particular focus on how to combine the strengths in Irish Aviation, Aerospace, MRO and Leasing sectors in Ireland to build on global growth opportunities. Organised by ADS Ireland – the Irish arm of the trade organisation for companies in the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors – the event will be attended by representatives of manufacturing companies and suppliers operating in the aerospace industry. These include sponsors Hard Metal Machine Tools, Almir, Impact, Geo Kingsbury, Doosan, Procad, and Takumi. The commercial sector of the aerospace industry is valued at around $300bn. Passenger flights are expected to increase around 5% per year over the next 20 years, which will contribute to increases in aircraft production. Indeed, the Deloitte 2017 Global Aerospace and Defence Sector Outlook found that production of commercial aircraft is expected to grow from 1,456 this year to 2,045 in 2032 – an increase of 40% in 15 years. Irish manufacturers are significant suppliers of components to the UK aerospace industry in Northern Ireland. The UK aerospace sector is the largest in Europe and second globally to the US. Hard Metal General Manager Thomas Kelly said: “The ADS Networking Event is a great opportunity to share ideas and listen to industry leaders speak about the challenges and opportunities which exist for manufacturers in the aerospace sector. “Ireland has tremendous technical knowledge and manufacturing expertise, and we’re also a world-leading centre for aircraft leasing. This event will allow us to look at how we can harness these strengths to secure work associated with the remarkable growth in the aerospace industry, and make Ireland a global centre of excellence in aerospace and aviation.” Contact Hard Metal for more information.


An Air India flight travelling between Mumbai and London was forced to turn back mid-flight last week after a rat was reported on board.
Local media reported that Flight A1 131 was flying over Iran when someone on board mentioned to a stewardess that a stowaway had been spotted. Having safely landed, passengers were loaded onto a replacement aircraft to continue their journey, while the plane was fumigated and the presence of the rodent investigated.
Rats occasionally board planes carrying catering equipment and other supplies and pose a serious health and safety hazard, with the potential to damage technical equipment by chewing through wires. The airline said that “though the presence of the rodent was not confirmed”, the decision to abort the flight was precautionary and in the interest of passenger safety.
This is not the first time a rat sighting has been reported on an Air India jet. An aircraft was forced to return to New Delhi back in July, after a rodent was spotted on board a flight to Milan.


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PASADENA: US space agency NASA's 900-kg SUV-sized Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is slated to land on Mars on Monday to explore whether the Red Planet had an environment to support microbes and survey it as part of the preparations for its human exploration.
The event is being billed as a path-breaking one which, if successful, promises to be as significant as the landing of humans on the Moon in 1969.
Indian engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ravi Prakash, helping Curiosity to manoeuvre complex entry, descent, and landing, said the mission is full of challenges and requires thousands of events to happen successfully in a matter of minutes.
He said the event is being called "seven minutes of terror" as it will take as much time for the spacecraft to halt on Mars after travelling from the top of the Martian atmosphere at a speed of 21,000 km per hour or five times as fast as a bullet.
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Scientists hope that Curiosity,equipped with a suite of 11 advanced instruments,will better success of the earlier explorations.
It would cover nearly 570 million km distance before touching down on the Red Planets Gale Crater and its heat shield will reach more than 2,000 degrees C as it takes off.
An on-board laboratory on Curiosity will study rocks, soil and the local geological settings to detect chemical building blocks of life and see what the Martian environment was like in the past.
The nearly $2.5 billion mission carrying Curiosity was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on November 26,2011 on-board the powerful 58-m-tall Atlas V rocket as part of Nasas long term robotic Mars exploration programme.
Around 80 pyrotechnic devices will be activated on the spacecraft in quick succession to ensure that it lands safely during the final few minutes of Curiosity’s flight.
An instrument on-board Curiosity the Mars descent imager or Mardi will record a full colour video of the ground below and give space buffs an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars.


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Transport Aircraft Manoeuvre Performance
Military Aircraft Manoeuvre Performance
8. Questions on Aircraft Performance Measurement and Data Handling
The section contains questions on equivalent-weight method, performance data reduction, correction to cruising speed for weight and temperature, engine power law corrections, climb rate corrections for weight and temperature.
Performance Data Reduction
Correction to Cruising Speed for Weight
Correction to Cruising Speed for Temperature
Correction for Temperature due to Engine Power Law
Correction to Rate of Climb for Weight and Temperature
9. Questions & Answers on Scheduled Performance
The section contains questions and answers on take-off performance space available, speed types and safety factors, take-off net flight path, climb performance wat charts, segment climbs, en-route performance, discontinued landing, fuel planning, landing performance space available and required.
Space Available and Space Required for Take-off Performance
Different Types of Speed in Take-off Performance
Take-off Performance Safety Factors
Take-off Net Flight Path
Climb Performance WAT Charts
Take-off Net Climb Performance
Different Segment Climbs
Space Available and Space Required for Landing Performance
10. Questions on Application of Performance
The section contains questions on marketing, fleet selection, performance certification and summary, operational analysis and performance planning.
Marketing and Fleet Selection
11. Questions & Answers on Performance Examples
The section contains questions and answers on cruise, take-off and initial climb, approach or landing performance, flight path performance estimation, landing, weight breakdown and fuel required for mission.
Take-off and Initial Climb
Estimation of Flight Path Performance
Fuel Required for a Specified Mission
Wish you the best in your endeavor to learn and master Aircraft Performance!


世界上最快的人造飞行器是大名鼎鼎的 “新地平线”号探测器。它要踏上一段航程约 50亿千米，时间长达9年半的漫漫征途。
在发射升空大约45分钟后，“新地平线” 号成功与运载火箭分离。它的时速高达约5.8 万千米/小时(约16千米每秒)，这是迄今为 止人类发射的速度最快的太空飞行器。它的 速度来自于美国“宇宙神”火箭，所以飞得 最快的飞行器应该是“宇宙神”火箭!
也许你会觉得制造如此高速的飞行器肯 定耗资巨大，其实一整套的探测计划的总预 算才7亿美元。
The world's fastest man-made aircraft
The world's fastest man-made aircraft is the famous "New Horizons" spacecraft. Itis necessary to embark on a journey of about 5000000000 km, for as long as 9 and a half years of a long journey.
In about 45 minutes after launch, "separation of new horizon is successful with the launch vehicle. It can reach speeds of up to about 5.8 thousands of meters /hour (about 16 kilometers per second), this is by far the fastest human launch ofspacecraft. The speed of it from the United States Atlas rocket, so the fastest flying aircraft should be "the atlas rocket!
Perhaps you will feel making such high-speed aircraft will in fact the total pre exploration program is a set of only $700000000.(责任编辑：最有料)


Air India will rent over 1,000 pilots, together with captains and trainers, because the Tata Group-owned airline is increasing its fleet and community.
The airline, which at present has over 1,800 pilots, has positioned orders with Boeing and Airbus for 470 plane, together with wide-body plane.
The most recent Airbus agency orders embrace 210 A320/321 Neo/XLR and 40 A350-900/1000. The Boeing agency’s order consists of 190 737-MAXs, 20 787s and 10 777s.
The service, acquired by the Tata group in January final 12 months, is hiring over 1,000 pilots, in response to an commercial on Thursday.
“We’re providing many alternatives and accelerated development throughout our A320, B777, B787 and B737 fleets for captains and first officers in addition to trainers,” it mentioned, including that greater than 500 plane will be a part of its fleet. have been
In the meantime, pilots of Air India have raised considerations over the airline’s newest resolution to alter their pay construction and repair circumstances.
On April 17, Air India launched a revised compensation construction for its pilots and cabin crew, which has since been rejected by two pilot unions – the Indian Business Pilots Affiliation (ICPA) and the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) – on grounds that the airline, in alleged violation of labor practices, didn’t seek the advice of them earlier than finalizing the brand new contracts.
The Tata Group has 4 airways – Air India, Air India Specific, AIX Join and Vistara, which is a three way partnership with Singapore Airways. The group is within the means of merging Vistara with Air India, together with Air India Specific and AIX Join.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)


Skookum Aerospace Manufacturing Earns spot in Boeing premier bidder program
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According to MarketandReport’s
analysis Air Traffic Management market is projected to register a CAGR of 4.7%
to reach USD 18.9 Billion by the end of 2026.
Scope of the Report:
The detailed market intelligence report on the Global Air
Traffic Management Market Covers the most effective of each primary and
secondary analysis to weighs upon the competitive landscape and also the
outstanding market players expected to dominate Global Air Traffic Management
Market place for the forecast 2019-2026.
Global Air Traffic Management market research report
provides detail information about Market Introduction, Market Summary, Global
market Revenue, Market Drivers, Market Restraints, Market Opportunities,
Competitive Analysis, and Regional Analysis.
The Major Players are covered:
Management Market Segmentation:
controllers (ATC), Air traffic flow management (ATFM), and Aeronautical Information
management (AIM), Air Traffic Services (ATS), Airspace Management (ASM),
Capacity Management, Communication & Navigation Management
By Airport Type
By End Use
North-America and Europe dominate the Global Air Traffic Management Market
with the largest market share followed by Asia and RoW, accounting for an
exponential value in terms of revenue generation and is expected to grow over
its previous growth records by 2026 with a significant rate of a CAGR during
2019 to 2026.


First Lady Sophia Martelly Visits Haiti’s First Air Ambulance Base
Congratulations to Ayiti Air Anbilans who can now offer aeromedical transportation to the people of Haiti.
Haiti Air Ambulance is dedicated to providing an emergency aeromedical service to the people of Haiti. They fly critically ill or injured patients to emergency medical care. The team who recently flew heir first patient, happily welcomed first lady Sophia Martelly to their base to tour the facility and meet with their aviation and medical professionals.


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Federal investigators said late Monday that it was possible that the bolts that were supposed to keep a fuselage panel in place were never installed before the panel blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 in a near-disastrous accident on Friday night.
That is one of the theories that the National Transportation Safety Board is pursing as it investigates the blowout, the board’s chairwoman, Jennifer Homendy, said at a news conference in Portland, Ore. Her remarks came hours after United Airlines said it had found loose bolts on similar panels on some of its Max 9 jets while preparing them for inspection after the midair emergency, and Alaska Airlines said it had also found “loose hardware” on Max 9s.
The panel that came off the plane, called a door plug, is placed where an emergency exit door would be if a jet had more seats. Ms. Homendy said on Monday that four bolts, known as stop bolts, should have prevented the door plug from moving upward and coming off the plane.
But the bolts were not on the door plug when investigators recovered it, and they are trying to determine whether they were there to begin with. “We don’t know if they were there or if, again, they came out during the violent explosive decompression event,” Ms. Homendy said.
The door plug came off the plane, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, about 10 minutes after it took off from Portland International Airport, subjecting passengers to howling wind and forcing the pilots to quickly return to the airport. No serious injuries were reported. The door plug, phones, toys and other personal items all streamed out of the hole in the side of the plane and fell across Portland.
Airlines have canceled hundreds of flights as they prepare to inspect nearly 200 Max 9 aircraft, which will be grounded until regulators and company officials decide they are safe. Some passengers’ travel plans could be disrupted for days. Alaska Airlines used 65 of the planes, about 20 percent of its fleet, and United used 79, more than any other airline and about 8 percent of its fleet, according to Cirium, an aviation data provider.
United Airlines said on Monday that it had found loose bolts in door plugs in some of its Max 9 planes as it took out seats and sidewall liners for inspections this weekend.
The door plug that came off the plane was initially installed by Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the body for the 737 Max and other aircraft. Investigators said they were looking into whether work had been carried out on or near the door since the plane entered service in November.
Ms. Homendy said on Sunday that Alaska Airlines had been warned three times before the Friday flight about problems with cabin pressure on the plane. Those warnings were significant enough that the airline had decided the plane, a Max 9, could no longer be used on flights to Hawaii.
Investigators may look into whether the installation of wireless internet equipment on the plane by a contractor, AAR, between Nov. 27 and Dec. 7 played any part in the pressurization problems, which emerged after that work was complete. In a statement, AAR said on Monday that it “did not perform any work on or near any midcabin exit door plug of that specific aircraft.”
The accident Friday could have been far more catastrophic, especially if the plane had been at a higher altitude, experts said. Ms. Homendy said on Sunday night that the passengers had included three babies and four unaccompanied children between the ages of 5 and 17.
Ms. Homendy said in a brief interview on Monday that her team was reviewing the plane’s flight data recorder to try to determine if the pressurization warning light could be linked to the door plug. The plane has several backup systems in case one of the pressurization systems fails.
“There may have been something wrong with either the light or that one other unit, but there’s redundancies in the system,” Ms. Homendy said.
Kathleen Bangs, an aviation expert and a former airline pilot, said she believed that the investigation would reveal a failure of the door plug because of the condition of the plane. Typically, explosive decompression incidents happen on older planes that have metal corrosion and fatigue, Ms. Bangs said. In this case, she said, the plane was almost new, which indicates that there was most likely an issue with the door plug.
Anthony Brickhouse, a professor of aerospace safety at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, said a blowout at a cruising altitude of more than 30,000 feet could have been disastrous. “We could have been looking at a situation where more of the structure could have come off and would have been looking at a situation where passengers who weren’t strapped in properly would have been blown out because the forces would have been so tremendous,” he said.
Pressurization starts to affect most commercial planes around 8,000 feet, said Mr. Brickhouse, who previously investigated aviation accidents for the safety board. Not properly controlling the air entering and leaving the cabin can lead to altitude sickness, or hypoxia, among passengers and the crew.
Hypoxia, a condition that develops when the brain is deprived of oxygen, can happen on planes without appropriate pressurization when they begin flying above 10,000 feet or suffer rapid decompression, the F.A.A. says. This is why flight attendants tell passengers to use drop-down masks in the event of rapid decompression, Mr. Brickhouse said.
In a statement, the F.A.A. said the required inspections would concentrate on the plugs, door components and fasteners.
“Our teams have been working diligently — with thorough F.A.A. review — to provide comprehensive, technical instructions to operators for the required inspections,” Stan Deal, the chief executive of Boeing’s commercial plane unit, and Mike Delaney, the chief aerospace safety officer, said in a message to employees of that unit on Monday.
Other airlines with Max 9 planes are outside the United States, such as Copa Airlines of Panama, Turkish Airlines and Icelandair. The European Union’s aviation safety agency announced on Monday that the Max 9 jets operating in Europe were not grounded because they had a different configuration.
The F.A.A. previously said it would take four to eight hours to inspect each plane. Inspecting the nearly 200 Max 9 planes in the United States, according to the aviation agency, could take a few days.
Aviation regulators and Boeing said the inspections were unique to the Max 9. The Max 9, along with the more popular Max 8, was grounded for nearly two years after two crashes of the Max 8 in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people.
In a statement, Alaska Airlines said it could not answer many outstanding questions about the plane and what had led to the blowout without approval from the safety board. The airline said it had asked the N.T.S.B. to share more information and would do so if allowed. In such investigations, parties are typically restricted in what they can share publicly.
Boeing’s chief executive, Dave Calhoun, planned to host a companywide safety meeting on Tuesday to discuss the company’s response to the episode and reaffirm its commitment to safety. Boeing is still working to secure approval of the smaller Max 7 and larger Max 10.
Boeing shares closed down about 8 percent on Monday, and shares of Spirit AeroSystems closed down 11 percent.
J. Edward Moreno contributed reporting.


NEIL Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin junior, do they ring a
bell? They were the first humans to walk on the moon, a colossal feat
conducted in 1969 by NASA, the US's national Aeronautical and Space
Since then, NASA has conducted over 150 missions with humans on
board and approximately 40 unmanned missions and yet, Kwatsi Alibaruho
still managed to carve his name in the list of firsts at NASA.
Alibaruho was the lead flight director for the shuttle, Discovery, which went on a 13-day mission into space.
The shuttle, was also the first to travel into space after the
unfortunate space shuttle, Columbia, broke up after re-entry in 2003,
killing all seven astronauts on board.
What a flight director does
"My responsibility is to lead the team of people in mission control
to develop, plan and execute space missions for a space shuttle and for
the international space station," he says.
Alibaruho explains that during the mission, he directs the flow of
activities in space, the configuration of the spacecraft and the
activities of the teams on the ground.
The American-born Alibaruho, whose siblings were born in Uganda,
says he is tasked with managing several dozen people of varying
expertise. Such include flight controllers and engineers.
He says he also workson highly technical problems associated with planning and executing human space missions.
"I like the fact that this position is a highly technical one,"
says the Texas-based avionics graduate who has been a group leader for
the International Space Station Life Support Systems Group.
Alibaruho has also been the deputy chairman of the Orbital Space Plane Source Evaluation Board's operations committee.
Alibaruho on his work
"Working in this profession is a rare opportunity and I want to
excel in this area," says Alibaruho, who is driven by a passion to work
with space and related operations.
Alibaruho is the recipient of the 2001 Rotary National Award for
Space Achievement Stellar Award and was also awarded with the Engineer
of the Year Award in 2001 from the National Technical Association in
Alibaruho says when he first learned about what flight controllers
and flight directors did when he was in university at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), he immediately decided he wanted to
become a flight director.
"I worked for several years to position myself to be selected as a
flight director," says Kwatsi, who was named after his paternal
grandfather, Mukwatsibwoha which in Rukiga is more of a question in the
context of a contest.
It is a question posed by an opponent, "who will help me overcome the strength of this opposing person?"
Advice for Students
"The single biggest enabler for my career has been my education," he says.
"One should pursue the highest quality education available and
always think ahead to position oneself for desirable career
opportunities," adds Alibaruho.
Both his parents are both teachers and have since settled back in Uganda.
His father, George Alibaruho, an economics maven, is now a Bank of
Uganda professor and chair of the department of economics at Kabale
His African-American mother, Gloria Lindsey Alibaruho, is a
retired history professor, who is now an entrepreneur in Aloe Vera
products in Uganda.
"I tend to be somewhat of a workaholic. Whenever given a task or
faced with an assignment, I always work diligently to complete the
tasks," he says.
The flight director adds: "I strive to be excellent in all that I
do, so the quality of my work can stand out and subsequently, avail the
people on my team the best chance to grow and succeed."
While at MIT, Alibaruho did an internship at AT&T, the
largest provider of fixed telephony in the US, as a software developer.
He has also worked as a software developer at MIT's laboratory for computer science.
He did an internship at NASA in Johnson Space Centre and
thereafter, did another internship at Martin Marietta Astrospace
Division in New Jersey.
On graduation, Alibaruho was hired as a flight controller in
the International Space Station Life Support Systems Group of NASA's
Mission Operations Directorate in Texas.
After six years, he was selected as the manager of the life
support systems team for three-and-a-half years, which, after he was
selected as a flight director in February 2005.


iPhone/iPad Remote Controlled Helicopter
The iSuper Helicopter iPhone/iPad Remote Controlled Helicopter can be flown indoors or outside within a range of about 60-ft. from the Apple device controlling it. It is equipped with self-righting capabilities to take care of itself so it the helicopter always looks like it's floating effortlessly through the air. "Record" and "play" buttons on the remote device screen memorizes flight routes so you can recreate it at some later time. Includes rechargeable battery (AC-charger included).
• Download app to transform all iPhones, iPod Touch and all iPads into a remote helicopter controller
• Helicopter comes out of the box pre-assembled, ready to fly
• Utilizes state-of-the-art wireless technology to communicate
• For indoor or outdoor play
• Has an emergency “Stop” button on the screen to turn off the power engine
• Controllable distance is currently about 60 ft.
• Two or more pilots can race, chase and compete with each
• Hit “Record” and “play” buttons on control screen to memorize flying route for later playback
• Includes rechargeable battery (AC-charger included)
• For ages 12 and up


I'm stupid for flying...I'd go up without hesitation. The celebrations this past year in honor of the 100 year anniversary of powered flight included several attempts to recreate that flight. One of the contenders was powering his rendition hith a nice shiny new Harley engine. I don't recall now how well it flew, but it did in deed fly.
I saw a Harley powered airplane in the Wheels of Time museum in Maggie Valley, NC. They said that an 18 year old built it in his basement, and when he completed it, took it to the airport to look for a pilot. All the pilots said the construction looked great, but they wouldn't fly it. Story has it that is was flown once for a short distance.
By the way, if you are ever in the Maggie Valley area (off the Blue Ridge Parkway), be sure to visit this museum. He has an incredible collection of vintage motorcycles, and a lot of them still run.
But actually I will always remember the words of the HD Chairman and CEO who said a few years ago "If you want a bike with a great motor, buy a Honda, nobody can build motors like Honda, but if you want a lifestyle you buy a Harley! Can you fly a lifestyle....I think not!
Humm, I think the Wing is a lifestyle with a great motor....hey whatever, what do I know anyhow! :shock:
Harley-Davidson ® engines were not developed and have not been tested or approved for use in aircraft.
Harley-Davidson Motor company disclaims any and all responsibility
for damage or injury arising from use of it's engines in these aircraft.
I've read in a number of places, including "The History of Harley-Davidson", that Harley did make aircraft engines at some points throughout the years. 'can't vouch for the authenticy of those "facts".
I have read recently that Honda is testing their engines in airplanes at a Florida site. And how about the Yama-Hopper helicopter, now available?
I'm not fond of flying in anything, so IMHO if I need to fly, I want it to say Boeing somewhere one it!
Motorcycle engines in aircraft are not new at all. In my misspent youth, a couple of us bought a 1935 Aeronca C-3 (called a 'flying bathtub') that needed a recover job and some other work. The engine that powered that plane was on built by JAP (for James A Preston, I think) Machine Works, Ltd, in England, and it was designed for one of their motorcycle powerplants. They also built singles and V-twins.
A year later, we bought a 1937 Aeronca K with a blown engine, also one built by JAP but called an Aeronca E-113 engine built under license. We got it because we had a spare engine that came with the C-3.
Many of those aircraft were converted to more reliable C-65's for more power and parts availability.
So, a Hog engine would be a good one - parts are easy to find. Just follow one down the road....
I work for an airplane manufacturer and in truth, airframe manufacturing is amazingly low tech (notice I did not say airframe engineering). None of the major airframe manufacturers currently builds it own engines and most buy avionics from an outside source. Rather like the V-Rod. Next time major shooting starts, you can see hours of unpaid advertisements for our products on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and your local channels.
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