Canada has the second largest landmass and the longest coastline of any country in the world. Observing Canada’s territory from space, including the Arctic, is a powerful and cost effective tool to monitor our land, water and borders. From space, satellites can provide information on:
- Natural resources
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- Shipping and navigation
- Safety, sovereignty and security
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has been managing satellite station facilities in collaboration with the private sector since 1972. NRCan’s satellite station facilities are strategically located across Canada to ensure coverage of Canada’s landmass and waters. These facilities include:
- Prince Albert Satellite Station (established 1972)
- Gatineau Satellite Station (established 1986)
- Inuvik Satellite Station Facility (established 2010)
Together these three stations provide satellite imagery coverage of all areas of Canada. Coverage also extends into the continental United States and over all three oceans (Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic).
The Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS) completes NRCan’s satellite ground segment. EODMS is a geospatial platform open to the public, which lets users discover and download authoritative Canadian satellite imagery received at the stations as well as aerial photos.
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Jeff has spent the last 18 years promoting owner-assisted aircraft maintenance, holds several STCs (Supplemental Type Certificates) for aircraft modification and recently certified the FlexAlert multifunction annunciator to increase flight safety. Driven by a mission to get people flying more, Jeff is also the creator of SocialFlight.com and the free Social Flight mobile app which maps over 20,000 aviation events, destinations, and hundred dollar hamburgers to support the GA (General Aviation) community in the US and beyond.
Most recently, Jeff and his two teenage boys have begun building a Titan T-51 aircraft kit in the living room of their home. This blog is the story of that exciting journey.


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Company name: Cyberhawk Innovations
Industry sector: UAV Aerial Inspection & Survey
Business activity: Cyberhawk Innovations is the world leader in aerial inspection using Remotely Operated Aerial Vehicles (ROAVs), also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and in the conversion of UAV data into powerful management information in the cloud. An industry pioneer, it has 25 world firsts to its name. Cyberhawk conduct close visual and thermal inspections of industrial assets both on- and off-shore such as flares, wind turbines and electricity pylons. Results are delivered through its innovative software as a service platform iHawk, seamlessly linking GIS and inspection design principles to deliver an intuitive and compelling user experience. Cyberhawk also delivers state-of-the-art aerial land surveying solutions through iHawk, for example using photogrammetry to deliver orthophotos and digital elevation models (DEMs).


Some recent examples of air rage incidents
A cabin crew member of a British aircraft flying from London to Malaga in
October 1998 needed 18 stitches in her arm and back after a male passenger
smashed a bottle of vodka over her head and raked her body with the jagged
A passenger grabbed the hair of a female check-in clerk in Delhi airport and
repeatedly banged her head on the counter.
A man attacked the pilot of a Boeing 707 en route from the Canary Islands to
Berlin in March this year. He was overpowered by crew members and four
passengers before the plane landed safely.
A man was jailed for six months and fined $5,000 last September after
assaulting an airline cabin crew member. A US court was told that he stormed
the cockpit after being denied alcohol.
An agitated passenger attacked the pilot and co-pilot of a
San-Francisco-bound airliner in March this year and apparently intended to
crash the plane. The man was subdued by cabin crew members and passengers and
the flight landed safely at San Francisco International.
A female check-in clerk at Strasbourg airport was punched in the face and
scratched and had her uniform torn by a passenger on May 17. The following
day all Air France ground crew stopped work at 12.30 in protest at the


Possibly one of the most relevant uses of drones for colelge students I have ever witnessed. An Australian company, Zookal, in conjunction with the University of Sydney’s “Flirtey” program are developing a business model for delivering textbooks by pilotless drone. There are no cameras on the drone, but it does have a collision avoidance system. This could be hugely beneficial for towns in the backcountry of Australia as there are many places where it is difficult for mail to reach in a timely manner.
Commercial use of drones is still not legal in the US as the FAA is still trying to figure itself out.


After flying to the edge of space, a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster successfully returned to Earth, deployed its landing legs, and hovered for a moment. The ability, known as a soft landing, could allow the company to dramatically reduce the cost of spaceflight and one day land rockets on Mars. Because it came down at a spot in the Atlantic Ocean, SpaceX’s rocket had nothing solid to land on. It crashed into the ocean and was lost to large waves from a storm before the company could get a boat out to recover it. But in the next few months, SpaceX hopes to reproduce the achievement.Spaceship doesn't actually go into space, then crashes and is lost in the sea. Is Mars next? Possibly not.
You can call flying to the "edge of space" -- you know, like planes have done for generations -- "spaceflight" if you like. You can call crashing into the sea -- you know, like rockets and shuttles have done for generations -- a "soft landing" if you like. You can call a craft lost at sea -- you know, like crafts have done through the whole of recorded human history -- "success" if you like.
I lost my housekeys in the ocean once. It didn't seem like success, particularly. But, then, I didn't have the can-do innovatorial entrepreneurial zeal in the moment to ask the real question demanded by that moment, staring into the foam beneath the setting sun, searching for the keys to my home... Is Mars next?


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This project is the first of six buildings for Pratt & Whitney Canada. This facility is used as a flight testing hub.
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I'm a complicated person with alot of talents and hobbies. However there is one that has always driven me despite anything, and that is space. I LOVE space. I want to spend my life travelling the stars in my own ship, with a small crew, doing whatever. Mining, cargo runs, transport, surveillance. I don't much care what it is I do, as long as I'm in space. I'm so obsessed with this singular thought, that I am in the process of designing my own small ship that I have every intention of building. Complete with the technology necessary to make my personal dream a reality. This includes technologies that don't yet exist, or at least not publicly. I've been designing this for over a year now, and before that spent years learning about everything I need to know to do it right. I also feel now is the best time to get into it. It's the dawn of a new space age for humanity. Russia planning to colonize the moon (FINALLY), SpaceX taking space travel to the private sector, NASA having it's successful Mars mission, and more. There is no reason civillians can't join in as well. Possibly even improve where these other groups have failed. Anyone else share my dream?


SaaS startups have become the darling of Venture Capital investors, especially in the Aerospace industry. Over the past decade, software has proverbially “eaten the world” and SaaS companies have scaled to become unicorn corporations in staggering amounts of time.
In this article, we are examining 2 VC funded SaaS startups in the Aerospace industry.
Organizations may fly their satellites with the aid of Cognitive Space, which uses artificial intelligence to revolutionize satellite operations for mission management, collection planning, and communications link coordination. The economy in New Space is drawing enormous investment and expanding tremendously. Thousands of new commercial spacecraft will occupy space. But for New Space enterprises, developing the necessary "ground architecture" is a huge barrier that often entails a considerable financial investment, a multi-year time commitment, and a high level of execution risk as they grow their business. The plumbing and processes necessary to monetise their constellations are typically unknown to satellite businesses, and they frequently have no clue how to develop the ground infrastructure that will support their commercial goal. Derisking and accelerating their buildout timetable, as well as an operational capability, are provided by Cognitive Space, which is subsequently used to improve their continuing operations. New Equipment for a New Space Advanced SaaS services are offered by Cognitive Space to satellite operators and providers of space infrastructure for maximizing revenue and performance yield, predicting future capacity, and managing collection management as satellite constellations expand and scale. Our efforts will significantly enhance how we keep track of the Earth for comprehending its economy, environment, and national security. Visit www.CognitiveSpace.com to learn more.
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Discover a whole new world of freedom with personal aviation! Every year the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) offers a variety of flight training and post-secondary scholarships to help future pilots take to the skies. Applications will open soon on Wednesday, November 1 and remain open until Friday, March 1, 2024.
Flight training scholarships may be used to cover the costs at any flight training school in the United States or Canada that is not a university program. The Adapt to Fly Scholarship is one of the funds in the flight training category specifically created for people with disabilities.
The Adapt to Fly Scholarship will be awarded to a person with a disability as defined by the ADA and who meets the qualifications for a Class 3 Medical or Sport Pilot Certificate. They must be at least 17 years old, a U.S. citizen with a valid driver’s license, and able to operate the controls of a training aircraft.
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Mike was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force in January 1992. In April 1993, he was assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he worked on advanced space system technologies. In 1996, he attended the flight test engineering course at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Following graduation in 1997, he worked at the 418 Flight Test Squadron, testing C-17 and C-130 aircraft. In 1999, he moved to Cold Lake, Alberta, as an exchange officer with the Canadian Flight Test Center. In 2002, Hopkins was selected as an Olmsted Scholar by the George and Carol Olmsted Foundation. Following six months of language training at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, he moved to Parma, Italy in 2003, where he studied political science at the Università degli Studi di Parma. In 2005, Hopkins was assigned to the United States Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office at the Pentagon, where he served as a project engineer and program manager. In 2008, Hopkins was selected as a special assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he worked until he commenced astronaut training.
Hopkins was selected in July 2009 as one of 14 members of the 20th NASA astronaut class. He graduated from Astronaut Candidate Training in November 2011, which included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in International Space Station systems, Extravehicular Activity (EVA), robotics, physiological training, T 38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training.
Expedition 37/38 to the International Space Station - On September 25, 2013, Hopkins launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan along with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy. They were welcomed to the space station by Expedition 37 commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency. They were later joined by Expedition 39 commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and flight engineers Russian cosmonaut Mikhal Tyurin and U.S. astronaut Rick Mastracchio. During his stay aboard the space station, Hopkins and Mastracchio conducted a pair of U.S. spacewalks to change out a degraded pump module for a total of 12 hours and 58 minutes. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy returned to Earth on March 10, 2014 after 166 days in space. During the expedition, the crew completed 2,656 orbits of the Earth and traveled more than 70 million miles.


Artemis Lunar Exploration Program
What is Artemis?
The Artemis Program will:
- Demonstrate new technologies, capabilities and business approaches needed for future exploration
- Establish American leadership and strategic presence on the Moon
- Broaden our commercial and international partnerships
- Inspire a new generation and encourage careers in STEM
NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) will send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft a quarter million miles from Earth to lunar orbit. Astronauts will dock Orion at the Gateway where they will live and work around the Moon. Read all about it here.


The excitement of travel and exploration is often tempered by safety considerations and the prudent explorer has prepared for medical emergencies and evacuation. How many of us have felt ready for occurrences we can control but experience anxiety about the travel itself? Flying is almost always involved and whether in domestic or international airspace, travelers have at least subliminal thoughts of air safety.
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) statistics for US commercial carriers are highly reassuring. Scheduled flights for US air carriers in 2010 logged over 17 million flight hours covering 7.3 billion miles and recorded 26 accidents with no fatalities. This represents over 9 million departures with an accident rate of 0.152 per 100,000 flight hours. Three of the last four years there have been no fatalities with over 700 million enplanements per year.
Commercial carriers operating large capacity passenger aircraft in other major industrialized countries must follow the strictest safety regulations and their accident rate is also very low. According to AirSafe.com, the most important indicator of overall safety of an airline is how it is regulated by its nation’s civil aviation authority. In fact, the fatal accident rate for commercial flight has not changed appreciably in the past 15 years. However, the number of flights performed in the world have more than doubled. Airlines from the US, Canada, European Union, Australia, and Japan accounted for about three quarters of all airline traffic, but only 21 percent of the fatal events (9 of 43) occurred in or involved an airline based in those countries.
US Civil aviation statistics demonstrate that in 2010 there were 1474 accidents in private planes in which 274 had fatalities, totaling 469 people. Smaller aircraft are not certified to the same standards as larger ones and different factors contribute to crashes.
The most important factor contributing to a crash is improper actions or inactions by the pilot according to both Dr. Rich Williams FN 03, Chief Medical Officer for NASA and experimental pilot, and Harry Brooks, FN 93, former Marine fighter pilot and attorney who investigates air crashes for insurance companies. “Pilot-related errors account for 60 percent of commercial and 70 percent of non-commercial accidents,” says Williams. Brooks adds, “Common sense judgment is often what fails”.
Mechanical failures have gone way down due to modern, more reliable equipment according to Don Matthews MN 01, Chief Pilot for US Airways and a designer of airports. However, mechanical contributions must still be considered, such as in the Airbus whose computers will not let the pilot override the plane, states Brooks. Max Gallimore FN 82, former Chief Pilot for Delta, points out that almost every crash arises from a series of small missteps or factors that add up to catastrophe.
Helicopters have an accident rate approximately 30 percent higher than the US general aviation accident rate. According to NTSB records, there were 197 helicopter accidents during 2005 in over 2.2 million flight hours. After pilot error, physical structures pose the greatest threat due to flight close to earth or visual flight plans, according to Jay Christy, former US Ranger helicopter pilot. “Wires are notoriously guilty. There is little time to react or fix mechanical problems”, says Christy.
SO HOW DOES ONE SURVIVE A PLANE CRASH?
Given that 86 percent of commercial airline passengers and 34 percent of commuter passengers survived crashes over the last quarter century, what advice do the experts offer:
Best position for survival?
All: The “brace” position varies but head pulled down to knees and arms pulled in tight with hands over head; feet braced against a solid structure in front. Backward facing seating is preferred but not often available. Face in the direction of crash to better absorb impact.
Best area in a plane likely to confer an advantage for survival?
HB, RW: The best area to sit in is the rear cabin. If the plane hits at a nose down angle, all the seats are moving forward. When you see pictures of a crashed airplane, you usually see a picture of the tail.
MG, DM: The exit row.
JC: Not applicable to helicopters
Any tips to aid survival and identify exit rows in a crash?
HB, MG, DM, RW: Wear cotton clothes, long pants, shoes, and socks. Read the emergency instructions. Count the number of seats from your seat to at least two exit rows. Know how to open the emergency exit. Stay low to avoid smoke. If the cabin is filled with smoke, you have a very short time to climb over those seats and out the exit. The aisles will be filled with people screaming and trying to retrieve overhead baggage.
JC: Remember to stay low exiting a helicopter as rotary propellers may still be turning.
What should one do after surviving a plane crash on land? In water?
HB, JC, MG, DM, RW: Stay calm, listen to crew instructions, leave the plane rapidly. The military teaches to rendezvous 100m from the plane nose. Someone take charge, attend to injured, activate signaling devices. In water, don your life vest but DO NOT inflate until out of the plane.
Attitude is also important. If you think you are going to die, you may be sealing your own doom. Never give up. The survival instinct is alive and well if you don’t shut it down.
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Some sad news has just reached my desk. Well known South African aviation photographer Frans Dely was killed in a plane crash over the weekend. Frans along with others were en-route back to Rand Airport in Germiston when their plane crashed into the cliffs of the Mamotswiri Peak mountain region due to heavy clouds. It’s a sad loss for the South African photographic community. My thoughts and prayers go out to Frans’ family, friends and colleagues during this difficult time.
From Defenceweb.co.za “Search and rescue officials say they have found the two Piaggio P. 166S Albatross aircraft that disappeared Sunday in the Escarpment area on a flight from an airshow in Tzaneen to Rand Airport in Germiston. The wrecks were found this morning in the Mamotswiri Peak mountain region. All 13 crew and passengers aboard, including noted aviation photographer Frans Dely, were killed.” full story here.


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A Space for Us All (Black History Month)
February 10 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
|On Friday February 10, 2023, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and NASA invite students to join us virtually for an educational experience where we examine and build on the legacy of achievement, connection, and knowledge of African Americans at NASA. Astronaut Victor Glover will share his experiences and ideas about the future of space travel. He will be joined by NASA Directors Clayton Turner and Vanessa Wyche as they describe the needed skills of the future workforce at NASA.
This program will be broadcast virtually on NMAAHC’s UStream and NASA TV channels. We invite students to submit questions for the speakers. Please submit your questions for the presenters. All questions should be submitted by Friday February 3, 2023, at 11:59pm Eastern Time.
- In 2021, Victor Glover finished a 6-month mission aboard the International Space Station where he completed multiple space walks and science experiments. He is now preparing for the Artemis I Missions, which will take NASA astronauts back to the Moon. He was selected to be an astronaut in 2013.
- In 2019, Clayton Turner became the first African American to serve as the Director of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. He oversees nearly 4,000 federal employees and contractors. He has held several roles at NASA Langley, including systems engineer, Chief Engineer, Engineering Director, Associate Center Director, and Deputy Center Director. He joined NASA in 1990
- In 2021, Vanessa Wyche became the first African American to lead the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, TX. JSC is home to NASA’s astronaut corps, Mission Control Center, and International Space Station. She oversees more than 11,000 federal employees and contractors. She joined NASA in 1989.


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HiCam Photography and Filming holds CAA Permission to fly and are qualified experienced uav drone pilots which is a legal requirement to operate UAV’s in UK airspace. Plus ultimately ensuring that we operate legally, have the skills and safety is our priority. We take our safety to the highest standards and this is why we are ARPAS-UK members to ensure all our safety processes and procedures are correct with current regulations.
Aerial Photography has been around ever since planes and helicopters began to fly but the technology has grown and grown in recent years, allowing it to be more available and at a more competitive price.. UAVs are also referred to as drones, uas’s and rpa’s. UAV Aerial Photography enables us to achieve photographs from positions that would usually be impossible to achieve. Not even a helicopter can get into the positions that can be achieved with a UAV.
HiCam’s UAV’s are specially designed to photograph aerial stills and film HD video, 4K if needed also availble. HiCam’s UAV’s are maintained on a regular basis to ensure the upmost safety and reliability. We use DJI multi-rotor platforms with 3 axis gimbals below making them very stable, versatile and capable of flying in strong wind conditions.
Aerial UAV Photography is regularly referred to as RPA, UAS, Drone and others but they all mean near enough the something.
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SpaceX launches first all_civilian crew into orbit without professional astronauts..
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. SpaceX launched four ordinary citizens into orbit Wednesday night without any professional astronauts along for the ride, an unprecedented feat in the history of spaceflight.
The five-hour launch window for Inspiration4 opened at 8:02 p.m. ET for launch from Launch Complex 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center.
Sitting atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket are four private citizens in a specially modified Crew Dragon capsule awaiting to start three days of orbiting the Earth, the first time an all-civilian crew will have orbited the planet.
SpaceX Inspiration 4 spacex launch today space x launch today space x Jared Isaacman rocket launch today
Rather than just climbing to the edge of space
Rather than just climbing to the edge of space and returning to land in less than an hour as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin recently did, Inspiration4 will circle the Earth and do so in a higher orbit than the International Space Station.
Paying for it all is Jared Isaacman,
a 38-year-old billionaire high-school dropout, who is
promoting the flight as a massive fundraising
effort for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
.Isaacman, a pilot who is qualified to fly commercial and military
Isaacman, a pilot who is qualified to fly commercial and military jets, reached a deal with SpaceX in late 2020 for the mission. Neither is saying how much he is paying SpaceX for the launch, though Isaacman has said it was far less than $200 million he hopes to raise for St. Jude.
This dream began 10 months ago,” Isaacman said at a news conference Tuesday, noting how quickly the mission came together. “We set out from the start to deliver a very inspiring message, certainly the opportunities up in space and what can be done there. But also what we can accomplish here on Earth
..SpaceX launches its first
private crewed mission to space..
SpaceX launched four private citizens to space on Wednesday, kicking off the first-ever crewed mission to orbit without any professional astronauts on board. Dubbed Inspiration4, the mission marks the latest private foray into space as companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX compete to normalize space travel for paying tourists, not just government astronauts. SpaceX launches
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on time at 8:02PM ET from the company’s 39A launchpad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, soaring from Florida’s east coast under clear night skies. Inside the capsule is billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, a trained pilot and founder of payment-processing firm Shift4 Payments, and three others he picked and paid for to ride with him: Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old physician assistant and cancer survivor; Christopher Sembroski, a data engineer at Lockheed Martin; and Sian Proctor, a geoscientist and former NASA astronaut candidat SpaceX launches
The crew was buckled inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience
The crew was buckled inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience capsule at the top of the rocket, reusing the spacecraft that sent four government astronauts to the International Space Station nearly a year ago. But for Inspiration4, the capsule won’t dock to the space station. It’s poised to spend roughly three days orbiting Earth at a higher altitude, some 360 miles above ground — the farthest human spaceflight since the last NASA space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble telescope in 2009.
Roughly nine minutes after liftoff, Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to Earth for a landing on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. Minutes later, the Crew Dragon capsule separated from the rocket’s second stage as it was leaving Earth’s atmosphere, sending the Inspiration4 crew further toward orbit. The capsule will spend the next hour and a half gradually raising its orbit via intermittent thruster firings.
“The Dragon capsule and crew are in a nominal orbit,” SpaceX engineer and livestream anchor Andy Tran said. A live camera from inside the capsule showed the crew waving and giving double thumbs up.
The mission serves as a multimillion dollar fundraiser for St. Jude
The mission serves as a multimillion dollar fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Hospital, a non-profit research center that also provides free care for kids with cancer. Isaacman donated $100 million to the hospital and, with the Inspiration4 mission, aims to raise another $100 million. That part of the fundraiser has raised about $30.8 million so far.
Isaacman, bankrolling most of the mission,
won’t say how much he paid for each Crew Dragon seat, but they typically cost roughly $55 million a pop, according to a government watchdog report.
Inspiration4’s Crew Dragon capsule was tailored SpaceX launches
Inspiration4’s Crew Dragon capsule was
tailored for a more touristy experience
than what NASA astronauts have on their trips to the ISs
Months before the mission, SpaceX
installed a massive glass dome, where the capsule’s station docking door normally is,
to give Inspiration4 passengers a 360-degree view of space while in orbit.
Though the glass dome hasn’t been
tested in space, SpaceX’s director of crew mission management,
testing and qualification process before
validating it as safe for flight. SpaceX launches
The crew has a few activities planned during
The crew has a few activities planned during their stay in orbit
onboard as one of the several
sponsorships riding along for the mission.
Proctor brought along poetry and some personal art. And the whole crew is participating in a study on the effects microgravity has on the human body. SpaceX,
Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine and investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine will collect biological samples from
the passengers before the mission and plan to
gather biomedical data on the passengers during the mission.
Exactly where and when the capsule reenters
Earth’s atmosphere after its three-day mission
depends on the weather conditions around the
coasts of Florida. The capsule can spend up to
a week in orbit if need be, Isaacman has said.


SINGAPORE — Retaining your title as Asia’s Best Airline takes commitment, dedication and bravery. Just ask the young flight attendant standing in the open doorway of a Boeing 777 mockup who is about to take a two-storey plunge into a giant wave pool.
The young woman — in full uniform and wearing a bright yellow life vest — doesn’t hesitate. She throws herself into the pool, then swims to a giant life raft, where she lifts her body into the oversized rubber dingy.
I applaud her herculean effort and she flashes me an exhausted smile.
She has completed one of the most gruelling tests required of recruits who hope to become one of the famed Singapore Girls — the most recognized and decorated flight crew in the industry thanks to their unique kebaya uniforms and commitment to service.
Above: Before becoming a famed Singapore Girl, prospects go through rigorous training, even hair grooming.
The path to a coveted career with Singapore Airlines starts at the company’s multi-million dollar high-tech training centre located near this island nation’s fabulous Changi International Airport, the carrier’s home base.
Singapore Airlines’ flight attendants — there are over 8,000 of them and the airline still refers to them as stewardesses — are put through a rigorous 14-week training course where they are taught every aspect of the job by qualified instructors, most of whom have spent decades in the sky with the airline.
The reward for those who graduate is to be outfitted in the kebaya, a sarong-style garment worn by women in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and parts of the Philippines. The kebaya , which is used widely in the company’s marketing campaigns, has served as the airline’s uniform for female flight attendants since 1972. Males wear well-tailored suits.
During their training, recruits are taught the three “S’s” of the job — service, security and safety. The company also puts a high priority on grooming, so both male and female recruits are taught how to style their hair and how to properly put on makeup — it takes the female flight attendants about 1.5 hours to get ready for a flight and they have to be in full uniform two hours before boarding.
The grooming instructor tells me male flight crew are limited to “gentleman’s haircut” — no dreadlocks or rock star long hair allowed here — while the females usually wear their hair tied in a bun.
Because water in the different locations the airline flies to can have an adverse affect on hair, the makeup artist even shows the recruits tricks so they can achieve the uniformed look set down by the airline.
Above: Safety is a high priority at Singapore airlines and mockups help flight crew learn evacuation techniques.
The newest female flight attendants are outfitted in blue custom-made kebayas. Longer serving flight crew get green, red and purple uniforms — the latter is reserved for senior flight managers. Interestingly, the colour of the uniforms matches the colour of Singapore’s money — i.e. $5 note is green, $10 red and $50 purple.
Graduates sign a five-year contract with the airline, which operates a fleet of long-range aircraft — the youngest in the industry, by the way. The contracts are reviewed every five years and maintaining the high standards set down by the airline regarding personal appearance is one of the main requirements for rehiring.
Recruits are also shown how to properly serve meals to passengers — all classes in the aircraft are treated equally — and some take courses in the training centre’s wine room, run by a certified sommelier, so they can help passengers select the vintage that pairs best with their gourmet meal.
On two recent flights with Singapore Airlines, I was struck by how engaging the flight attendants are and how quickly they respond to passenger requests.
What really tests the recruits’ determination to become a Singapore Airlines flight attendant, though, is the safety requirements. Besides the water test, crew members have to jump down rubber chutes used in the Airbus 380 and Boeing 777 — the main aircraft employed by the carrier — and are taught how to take command in a crisis situation.
Once the recruits pass all the tests, they can start flying with an airline that is regularly recognized as the best in Asia — and frequently the world — by industry watchdogs.
The training centre is also outfitted with state-of-the-art flight simulators where new pilots are trained and senior pilots take refresher courses. Singapore Airlines also trains pilots for other airlines. Singapore Airlines invests millions each year training their staff and the end result is that passengers are treated to one of the most pleasant experiences in the sky. On my recent 10-hour flight from Singapore to Tokyo, for example, the service experience was so good I wished we could fly around for another few hours. •


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The Dutch miniature park Madurodam, situated in the city of The Hague, is currently working on their new ride “The Flying Dutchman”. This ride will take its passengers on a flight experience inside a real Dakota DC-3 airplane. On the 30th of April the plane was lifted into the park.
The park has worked on renovating the plane for 1,5 years. It now resembles a 1940s-1950s Dakota plane of the Dutch airline KLM. The plane is 18 meters long and 30 meters wide. It was placed next to the scale model of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
The Flying Dutchman will be the sixth ride in the park, which started expanding their attractions beyond the showcase of scale models of Dutch buildings in 2014. It is not yet known whether the ride will classify as simulator on DRdb, but we will keep you posted!


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NASA shortened Sunday morning countdown exercises for its massive new vehicle, the Space Launch System. A key component of upcoming missions will be to return astronauts to the moon, and the agency said there was a problem with the portable launch tower.
NASA will try again on Monday.
The 322-foot rocket and Orion capsule are core components of Artemis, NASA’s lunar landing program. The system, which can launch astronauts into lunar orbit but will rely on other components to land them on the moon, is billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule.
The weekend exercise, which NASA calls Rehearsal, is the last major test before the rocket launches into its first uncrewed test flight, which could happen as soon as this summer. By simulating a countdown without triggering the ignition of the engines and the ascent of a rocket into space, NASA hoped to solve glitches in equipment and procedures.
The rehearsal, which began Friday night, was “wet” because it involved pumping more than 700,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the massive rocket’s fuel tanks.
On Saturday afternoon, severe thunderstorms passed over the launch site Four lightning strikes Protective turrets around the missile and launcher. Preparatory work on the launch pad had to be paused during the storm, but after reviewing the data, NASA said there was no damage and the countdown could continue.
On Sunday, the rehearsal was more than three hours late. Then the stop occurred before the start of the fuel flow. NASA said the problem was found in the mobile launch pad, or moving turret with many of the systems used to manage the rocket on the ground before it takes off. Fans that generate positive air pressure in areas closed to the portable player do not operate. Positive pressure is necessary to prevent the buildup of dangerous gases, including those that can ignite.
The fan has been running since the mobile launch platform was moved to the launch site last month and has continued to operate through Saturday’s thunderstorm, launch manager Charlie Blackwell Thompson said during a news conference Sunday night.
To load propellant, the fan is switched to a different mode to blow more air. The fan ran in this mode for several hours before the problem occurred.
“We don’t think this is related to lightning,” Ms Blackwell Thompson said.
Then a backup fan also failed, apparently for a different reason, causing the countdown to stop.
“We decided we really wanted to understand that, given that it was the first time the car had been loaded,” said Ms Blackwell Thompson. “And we make a decision to stay.”
The propellant loading is scheduled to begin Monday at 7 a.m. ET with the exercise concluding in the afternoon. If the rehearsal encounters more obstacles, another attempt on Tuesday might be possible.
The first test flight of the space launch system, Artemis 1, could happen this summer as the Orion capsule travels around the moon and returns to Earth without astronauts on board. Artemis’ second flight, scheduled for 2024, will have astronauts on board on the same flight. Artemis 3 will be the first moon landing by astronauts since 1972. NASA has suggested a date for 2025 for that manned flight, but it may face further delays.


U.S. Expands Missile Attacks in Pakistan
May 10, 2010
According to reports leaked to the press, the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to expand unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan.
According to the reports, pilots of the unmanned drones are authorized to launch the missiles without attempting to ascertain the identity of the targets.
Despite previous claims by the administration that only "high-level terrorists" have been targeted, the vast majority of people killed by the U.S. drones in Pakistan have been civilians. According to Pakistani officials, 703 of the 708 people killed in the 44 U.S. drone attacks carried out in 2009 were civilians.
The CIA has already launched 34 drone missile strikes this year.
These attacks are a brazen violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and this wanton murder of Pakistani citizens again shows that it is the U.S. imperialists who are the real terrorists.


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Did you know the first text-to-speech in space was NeoSpeech’s!? Learn more about Kirobo, the robot astronaut powered by VoiceText
Meet Kirobo, the first companion robot to be sent to space. This small robot achieved a feat that most of us have only dreamed about, to orbit high above the Earth. Kirobo did so for 18 months aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Kirobo features Natural Language Processing capabilities, enabling it to carry conversations with humans. In addition to its speech recognition and text-to-speech features, it is also equipped with a camera that has facial recognition abilities and can record video. Kirobo was also specifically designed to be able to navigate in a zero-gravity environment.
Kirobo was made to be a companion robot in space.
So why was Kirobo made?
Kirobo was built by a collaborative effort between the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Toyota, Dentsu, Robot Garage, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
The reason for building Kirobo was to test interactions between humans and robots in space.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed how far robotics has come in the past few years and how much they’re used to help people. Robots are being used to help humans complete complex and/or mundane tasks.
Think of a manufacturing plant that builds and puts cars together. Manufacturers use robotic machinery to automate the building process.
Now, space agencies including NASA and JAXA want to use robots for similar purposes in space. Robots would be able to perform mundane or dangerous tasks (such as risky space walks) that astronauts would normally be required to perform.
While Kirobo wasn’t quite built for that purpose, it still served a very important purpose in testing out how well humans could interact with robots in space. By showing that robots could understand voice commands from humans, and then also relay important information back using text-to-speech, researchers could prove that robots could easily work with astronauts in space.
How was Kirobo built?
The University of Tokyo and Robot Garage built the actual robot. The collaborative team built the hardware and worked on its motion generation so Kirobo could navigate itself in space.
Dentsu, an international advertising and public relations firm based in Tokyo, created the conversation content for the robot.
The two most important functions of Kirobo, speech recognition and text-to-speech, were the responsibility of Toyota and HOYA (holding company of NeoSpeech).
Toyota provided their speech recognition software for the robot. Toyota had been focusing on building powerful voice recognition systems to enable their cars to be smarter and understand voice commands from the driver.
HOYA and NeoSpeech’s superb text-to-speech engine, VoiceText, provided Kirobo’s voice. VoiceText is known to create beautiful, naturally sounding text-to-speech voices without sacrificing performance or quality. Kirobo is voiced by one of our Japanese TTS voices.
How did the test go?
Kirobo was sent into space on August 4, 2013 on an unmanned spacecraft from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. On August 9, it arrived on the ISS. Then, on August 21st, Kirobo became the first robot to speak in space. You can see the historic moment here:
In November, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata boarded the ISS (Wakata would go on to become to first Japanese commander of the ISS). On December 7, Kirobo and Wakata had a conversation which set the world record for the highest altitude a robot has ever had a conversation (414.2 km, or 257.4 miles above sea level).
The experiments were a success. Kirobo was able to understand Wakata’s commands and reply back aptly. Here is a video of one of Wakata’s final conversations with Kirobo before he left the ISS:
Kirobo stayed on board for a total of 18 months. A few months after Wakata’s departure, Kirobo even relayed a message essentially saying it was lonely in space. Kirobo finally returned to Earth in February of 2015.
The experiment showed that it is possible for humans and robots to communicate effectively in space. Being able to communicate with robots by voice will be crucial for astronauts. This will allow them to command robots without taking their hands or eyes away from what they’re focusing on.
As for Kirobo, Toyota has developed a Kirobo Mini that’s available to purchase for around $400. Although you and your Kirobo Mini might not be in space, Toyota promises you can still have a meaningful conversation with it.
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What do you think the future holds for robotics in space? Will you be purchasing a Kirobo Mini? Let us know in the comments!
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"I've tried almost everything," says Dr. Brian Pham, "speed planes, jets, sail-planes, helicopters, war birds, etc., but the thing that gets the adrenaline pumping for me is aerobatics. It never gets boring." This was pretty clear the day we had our Pleasant Encounter on the Hilltop.
After performing a fantastic filagree of spins and loops and rolls, he brought his plane down to eye level, directed it into the wind, turned the nose up to vertical, and let the breeze gently guide it into his waiting hand. "Nice landing," I said.
Brian is an optometrist with his own practice in downtown Long Beach, a business he started five years ago, upon completing his studies. In addition to his profession, his "passions" in life are aviation (full-scale and radio control), racing cars at a track, and Transcendental Meditation.
The light-weight, styrofoam plane Brian holds in the above picture, he built, and is his "fly anywhere, practice plane," one he can take to small parks, the beach, and Signal Hill. But what he enjoys most is performing giant-scale aerobatics, flying planes that are typically 25-50% scale replicas of their full-size counterparts, and require a runway.
One of these is Brian's Sbach 342, shown here. It is 36% of the size of the real thing, having a wingspan of nine feet, a fuselage the length of a minivan, and weighing in at a very light 27 pounds. It is made primarily of balsa wood and is powered by a 111 cc twin cylinder gas engine, making about 12 horsepower. (Brian participates in a forum dedicated to these Flying Giants.)
To perform aerobatics with these behemoths of the radio control world--as well as with the smaller planes--takes a lot of hand-eye-brain coordination. He described these complexities, saying the controls required are each time reversed, depending if the plane is approaching or going away; whether it is ascending or descending. "You need fast reaction, and most importantly, good visual-spatial skills for higher-level aerobatics," he said.
Here's a link to a short onboard video of Brian performing aerobatics with one of his smaller balsa planes. Be sure to turn up the volume.
Our Pleasant Encounter on Signal Hill introduced me to the aviation sub-culture, which seems more inclusive than I had imagined. Brian told me of meeting many of his fellow enthusiasts who are pilots of both full-scale, as well as remote control aircraft. Some have invited him to fly with them on the "real thing."
I'm looking forward to seeing more flying filagrees above the Hill.


Bear Island resident Richard Laronde completed his childhood dream of
traveling to the North and South Poles, but there is one dream he has
yet to make a reality and is something that might just happen sooner
than he thinks — going into space.
Laronde has purchased a ticket
on the world's first commercial space flights, landing him ticket
number 93 aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise, an six-passenger
aircraft designed to touch the outer limits of the Earth's atmosphere.
If everything goes well in respect to testing of the aircraft, Laronde
could possibly be weightless over the world within the year.
the 58-year-old seasonal resident of Meredith, traveling and adventure
have been running through his blood after being charged with losing
weight. Several years ago Laronde learned he was diabetic, which
required him to lose almost 100 pounds. With that goal in mind, he
decided to get fit while doing something he dreamed of doing, traveling
around the Arctic.
Since his initial trip to the North Pole in
2006, Laronde has traveled the world, going Antarctica three times,
traveling in 2007 once by cross-country skis, once to climb Antarctica's
tallest mountain, Mount Vinson and in 2009 by sailboat, departing from
Chile and going along the coast to view the coastal animals. He has also
hiked the Andes Mountains in Peru, viewing the historic Machu Picchu
ruins in 2009.
Having completed an expedition to the North Pole
and then to the South Pole, Laronde doesn't see the sky as being any
sort of limit for him.
"By far, going to the South Pole has been
my biggest adventure," Laronde said. "But in terms of satisfaction, this
trip in to space will be the best trip."
The idea of going into
space popped up on the radar for Laronde after hearing about Virgin
Galactic proposing a passenger spaceship that would take anyone who had
the money into space for a hefty price of $200,000.
Going into space was something he has dreamed about his entire life.
grew up in the 50s and 60s when all the astronauts were heroes," he
said. "That was just a natural thing. I think all the boys wanted to be
He said he wanted to be an astronaut because he saw
them do amazing things, such as getting launched into space and landing
on the moon.
"Back then we all thought everyone was going into
space and that we were going to have colonies on the moon," Laronde
said. "Going into space has been my ultimate childhood dream."
hearing that Chairman of the Virgin Group Richard Branson was creating a
commercial spaceflight program, Laronde started thinking about taking
the trip. About a week after returning from his most recent trip to the
South Pole, he sent the money for the spaceflight.
About a year
ago, Laronde participated in pre-flight training, which required him to
complete a 6G test through centrifuge training, which replicates
gravitational forces passengers will experience during the flight.
rocket I'll be on goes up to 4G and when it re-enters the atmosphere it
goes to 6G," Laronde said. "I passed the test no problem."
Before doing the test, Laronde needed a note from his doctor to participate in the training, which led to a funny story.
went to the doctor, he asked me what I needed the note for and I told
him," Laronde said. "The doctor then said 'Are you crazy?' and I
basically answered, yes."
While in flight, all the passengers
aboard will experience 0G, or the state of being weightless, and will be
able to float around if they choose. Cameras are planned to be placed
throughout the cabin so those paying for the flight can get the most out
of their experience.
Laronde explained how the aircraft that
Virgin Galactic has developed is 60 feet in length and has a 27-foot
wingspan. It has room for two pilots and six passengers, with each seat
having two observation windows so there isn't a bad seat on board.
aircraft will be launched from a special plane that will travel to
50,000 feet, at which point the aircraft will be released and launch
into space. The duration of the trip will be around three hours, with
the total amount of time being in space consisting of only six minutes.
"It's pretty impressive," Laronde said. "It's the first aircraft taking passengers into space."
said after the last stages of testing are done on the aircraft, it will
be fairly soon that he takes flight. Since there are six passengers per
flight, he is expecting to be on flight No. 15 or 16.
"I found out that Paris Hilton just signed up after me," he said. "Maybe she'll be on my flight."
Galactic still has to determine whether or not passengers will need to
wear spacesuits during the flight, but either way, Laronde will have the
experience of a lifetime.
For more information on Laronde's adventures, visit www.icetent.com.


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First published in 1948. This handy book describes the general operation of the jet engine, and goes on to describe the construction of the ram jet engine. The RamJet is probably the simplest of all jet engines to manufacture. It does not have very many moving parts, nor does it suffer from the problem of very high speed moving parts in a turbine jet engine. There is also a description of some of the models that this type of engine can be fitted to.
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Ireland has been an active member of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1980 and our industrial base has benefited from technology development and our society from technology transfer to such an extent that the government investment of tax payer’s money in space has been more than returned through the successful commercialisation of space technology. Many Irish companies (e.g. Parthus, Intune Networks, EnBio) have developed core technology through engagement with ESA and subsequently commercialised technology in multi-million export driven businesses. The striking aspect of the space sector is that it is growing consistently in almost all areas globally. Currently the space sector has a 7% annual growth rate which is four times the rate of average economic growth. The recently established Space Industry Group, including Lorraine Hanlon, is working with colleagues on developing a strategy for growing industry engagement within the space sector.
Space-based platforms support a wide and growing range of infrastructures that underpin navigation, communication, entertainment, agriculture, meteorology and time-keeping. Many downstream civilian and governmental critical infrastructures (e.g. banking and transport) are reliant on these platforms. Development of a European program to protect space assets has enormous societal benefit.


There is one living member of the Apollo 11 team that walked on the Moon: Buzz Aldrin. As the last living moonwalker from this first expedition to the Moon, his words and wisdom have become all the more precious. In Mission to Mars, Aldrin lays out his goals for the space program and how he believes we can get humans to Mars, a vision shared by Obama and one that relies on international partnership.
In Mission to Mars, Buzz makes the case and argues passionately for pushing our boundaries of knowledge and exploration of our solar system and presents his "unified space vision." Aldrin discusses the history of space flight, including a reflective, not nostalgic, look at the people, technologies and steps that were taken to accomplish the Moon landing, and plots future exploration. He says "Do not put NASA astronauts on the Moon. They have other places to go." And emphasizes that the path forward is not a competition; we cannot restart an engine to rerun a race we previously won. This is a controversial notion that causes significant division among astronauts. He also argues another controversial point - that collaboration with international partners will be key, including China, Russia and India.


According to the European Space Agency, something is going to fall to Earth on Friday, 13 November.
The probable piece of space junk known as WT1190F is causing serious buzz online, because WT1190F will approach Earth on Friday, November 13. The ominous-sounding date of Friday the 13th along with the mysterious nature of WT1190F has folks more curious about WT1190F.
The object is said to be the remains of a previous space mission, most likely a spent rocket from one of the recent robotic moon missions or even a relic from the Apollo era.
According to Slooh, even though WT1190F is scheduled to crash land on Earth on Friday the 13th, it might not be a bad crash landing. WT1190F making it back into the Earth’s atmosphere will be an opportunity for scientists to discover how space junk changes and morphs — or burns up — upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
WTF's landing is predicted to be over the Indian Ocean, approximately 62 miles from the coast of Sri Lanka and that area has been declared a no-fly zone. Also all boating activities in that area have been suspended.
According to astronomers, WTF is too small and fragile to be likely to make it to the surface but as it disintegrates, the smaller fragments will rapidly burn up creating a brilliant display of fireballs that may be visible streaking across the midday sky to the south of Sri Lanka.
WTF1190F is not the first human-made object to fall from orbit, nor is it the largest.
All I can say is whoever nicknamed the UFO "WTF" has a funny sense of humour.


Commercial scheduled air travel is among the safest modes of transportation; the lifetime odds of dying as an aircraft passenger is 1 in 205,552. Preliminary estimates of the total number of accidents
involving a U.S.-registered civilian aircraft decreased from 1,335 in 2016 to 1,316 in 2017. The number of civil aviation deaths decreased, from 408 in 2016 to 346 in 2017. All of the 346 deaths in 2017 were onboard fatalities. None of these deaths involved commercial airlines.
Use the interactive chart to explore aviation accident trends by U.S. air carrier category. Major airlines (both scheduled and nonscheduled service) experienced no onboard fatalities in 2017. This contrasts sharply with general aviation, which experienced 330 onboard deaths and a fatal accident rate of 0.931 per 100,000 flight hours.
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How Aeroplanes are tested?
The idea of testing is simple: try the stuff for it’s intended purpose. So that before you sell a light bulb to your customer, make sure it can be lit. And before you give air plane to customer, make sure it is safe to fly with.
Now many people might believe that flight simulators could prove good enough to test a plane, and you can easily guess that they are so wrong. the plane has to go certain hours of flight in certain conditions before it is delivered… yes, every one of them. Beyond that there are many tests to make sure it works in flight conditions it might face once in it’s life time, braking system, the load it can bear and so on.
Some one can start talking here that it is too expensive. Well it is, but is it more expensive than a plane crash with many causalities? Certainly not.
Now you can imagine, how far we should go to test software by making a call in terms of what is the expense of it’s testing comparing it to how expensive it can be if it fails. And such that we “try the stuff for it’s intended purpose”
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The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration team will host the Blue Angels, as well as aerial demonstrations by military and civilian performers, and static military and vintage aircraft.
Gates open at 9 a.m. Flying starts at 10:30
In order to keep possibly dangerous items outside the flight line, ALL bags will be inspected as you come through flight line entry points and all individuals are subject to search. It is recommended that spectators minimize the number and size of authorized items to reduce the time required for inspection prior to access into the flight line area.
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On Thursday in Delhi court convicted a man for enacting a hijack drama aboard an Indigo Airlines plane in February 2009 and threatening the crew and passengers.
District-cum-Additional Sessions Judge I.S. Mehta convicted Jitender Kumar Mohla, 45, under the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982 and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Mohla was charged with endangering human life, criminal intimidation and impersonating a public servant. The court has fixed Oct 30 to award punishment.
Mohla was acquitted of the charges under the anti-hijacking law, observing that nothing incriminating was found from his possession when he was arrested Feb 2.
According to the prosecution, the convict enacted a mid-air drama on a Goa-Delhi Indigo flight by threatening the crew and passengers that he was carrying infected needles and gun.
The chargesheet filed by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security alleged that Mohala’s drama created panic at the Delhi airport. The plane made an emergency landing and was kept in isolation for two-and-a-half hours.
It added that Mohla entered the cockpit and sparked panic by claiming that he had hijacked the plane.


The ‘Star Trek’ (1966) movie actor William Shatner is going to join the crew members of the next space mission with the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket. Shatner is the oldest person to be launched into space.
Shatner has previously expressed his interest to travel to space before. Last year he tweeted a photoshopped picture of himself in a space suit and wrote, “BTW @NASA – just in case; the suit does fit. #LanuchAmerica #AstroBill.”
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) May 20, 2020
William Shatner is all set to break the record of the oldest person to visit space after Wally Funk, who was 82 years old, when she joined the first Blue Origin’s launch. Before Funk, the record was broken by John Glenn, who was 72 years old to be on space and he was the first American to orbit the Earth.
In this space journey with Shatner, there will be three more people to join him, but their names have not been revealed yet.


Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's photograph Sun Visor, 1969 is a black-and-white 11" x 11" (image size), 11" x 14" (sheet size), vintage gelatin silver print on fiber paper with the authentic from the period "A Kodak Paper" watermark on verso (back of photo). Printed: 1969. (A vintage print of Visor is determined by the watermark “A Kodak Paper,” which changed after 1972 to read: "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak.")
An 11” x 14” black-and-white photograph from the original negative of Visor by Buzz Aldrin, the large format (11” x 14”) gelatin silver NASA prints were originally given as gifts to VIPs, scientists, military officials, and business people. Few 11” x 14” vintage prints of Visor are in existence from the period.
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Where art and science meet and what has become the best known photograph of the first manned lunar module landing by the Apollo 11 "Eagle," Neil Armstrong photographs captures Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon.
Apollo 11 Backstory:
Aldrin has been quoted: "As I walked away from the Eagle lunar module," Aldrin remembered," Neil said, 'Hold it, Buzz.' So I stopped and turned around, and then he took what has become known as the 'Sun Visor' photo. I like this photo because it captures the moment of a solitary figure against the horizon of the moon, along with a reflection in my helmet's visor of our home away from home, the Eagle, and of Neil snapping the photo."
During the first moonwalk mission in 1969, Neil Armstrong with a 70mm Hasselblad camera and 60mm lens captured Apollo 11 fellow astronaut whose first words after Buzz set foot on the Moon: “Beautiful view. Isn’t that something? Magnificent sight out here. Magnificent desolation.”
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) was the first person to step onto the lunar surface on the journey and he announced humbly to the world that his victory was "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
The Apollo 11 Moonwalk was about exploration, about taking risk for great rewards in science and in engineering – about setting an ambitious goal before the world. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours 31 minutes on the lunar surface at a site they named Tranquility Base before lifting off to rejoin astronaut Michael Collins in the Columbia in lunar orbit and begin their reentry to Earth...
“A flight to the moon is a long and challenging daisy chain of events," Michael Collins said of the historic mission. "The flight was a question of being under tension and worrying about … what I have to do next to keep the daisy chain in tact. Apollo 11 was serious business. We crew felt the weight of the world on our shoulders. We knew everyone in the world would be looking at us – friend or foe. We wanted to do the best we possibly could, put our best foot forward – that required a great deal of work on our part."
NASA photographs from 1966-75 captured the dusty, rocky, beautiful surfaces of the moon and the lunar experiments conducted by the astronauts. The views of the earth taken from the moon were a scientific and artistic feat, which inspired the popular imagination.
Not only was the achievement of guiding a spacecraft to a lunar destination a miracle of engineering but also the process of photographing and relaying images back to earth was unprecedented technologically.
The Webb Telescope Is the latest milestone for NASA and space exploration. The deployment of JWST in space on Dec 25, 2021 from French Guyana allows a team of international researchers, using the telescope’s revolutionary hexagonal segments, mirrors, and infrared camera, to survey and study the stars, star clusters, and dust from the beginning of time, the early stages of the universe, at the rocket’s destination Lagrange Point 2 (L2), 1.5 million kilometers from earth. On Jan 24, 2022 JWST arrived and parked itself at L2.
The value of vintage NASA photographs from the historic space missions, beginning in the 1960s, is increasing as the scientific community moves forward with innovations to explore distant galaxies, such as the development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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UAH grad student invited to lecture at Space-X | News
A UAH graduate student's innovation in suppressing combustion instabilities in rocket engines has attracted the attention of Space-X.
John Bennewitz, a Von Braun Propulsion Scholar at the UAH Propulsion Research Center who is working with advisor Dr. Robert Frederick, will be a visiting lecturer at Space-X’s facility in Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 27, where he will tell employees of the firm that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft about his efforts in applying band-limited white noise to neutralize combustion instabilities, a major hurdle for rocket designers.
“What can happen is, when you have rough combustion with these instabilities excited at certain frequencies, the oscillations can get so large with amplitudes so great that it destroys the engine,” Bennewitz said.
Bennewitz designed a model liquid rocket engine combustor and fabricated it with the help of senior aerospace student Jake Cranford. Cranford, who was responsible for some design changes to the test stand, said getting such experience has been valuable. “As an undergraduate, I’ve been working with John and he’s been very forthcoming with the science,” Cranford said. The experience has piqued his interest in attending graduate school at UAH.
Next up for the pair is testing narrower frequency bands to identify the most effective ranges for instability suppressions.
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2 edition of Flow visualization in a cryogenic wind tunnel using holography found in the catalog.
Flow visualization in a cryogenic wind tunnel using holography
Alpheus W. Burner
1982 by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, For sale by the National Technical Information Service] in Washington, D.C, [Springfield, Va .
Written in English
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|Contributions||Goad, William K., United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch., Langley Research Center.|
Flow Visualization in Wind Tunnels, Wind Tunnels and Experimental Fluid Dynamics Research, Jorge Colman Lerner and Ulfilas Boldes, IntechOpen, DOI: / Available from: Help us write another book on this subject and reach those readers. Suggest a book topic Books open for submissions. chapter leboostcamp.com by: 1. How are wind tunnels used with scale models? Ask Question Asked 2 years, 11 months ago. the gaps between flap segments are proportionally bigger on a wind tunnel model to achieve the same flow at high angle of attack. is to use pressurized and/or cryogenic wind tunnel. The cryogenic wind tunnel achieves the required Reynolds number by. Jan 05, · Improvement of Lifetime-based PSP Technique for Industrial Wind Tunnel Tests. Surface Flow Visualization Techniques for Analysis on Mars-Helicopter Rotor Aerodynamics. Application of Lifetime PSP Imaging Method to a Cryogenic Wind Tunnel. Toshiyuki Kojima. The National Transonic Facility (NTF) at Langley is a high pressure, cryogenic, closed-circuit wind tunnel with a Mach number range from to and a Reynolds number range of 4 x 10 6 to x 10 6 per foot. The test section has 12 slots and 14 reentry flaps in the ceiling and floor.
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Results of holographic flow visualization from tests made in the Langley meter transonic cryogenic tunnel are presented. The tunnel was operated over a. Results of holographic flow visualization from tests made in the Langley meter transonic cryogenic tunnel are presented.
The tunnel was operated over a temperature range from to K and a pressure range from to 4 atm. Interferometry at the facility may be of limited use at the low temperature high pressure conditions because of the jumbled nature of the reference fringes. Flow visualization in a cryogenic wind tunnel using holography.
Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va.: For sale by the National Technical Information Service], Results of holographic flow visualization from tests made in the Langley meter transonic cryogenic tunnel are presented.
The tunnel was operated over a temperature range from to K and a pressure range from to 4 atm. Interferometry at the facility may be of limited use at the low temperature high pressure conditions because of the jumbled nature of the reference leboostcamp.com: A.
Burner and W. Goad. Flow visualization in a cryogenic wind tunnel using holography / By Alpheus W. Burner, William K. Goad, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
schlieren tests are used often for qualitative flow visualization in wind tunnels, in the same sense as the shadow method, but with a much higher degree of resolution and sensitivity [1,5,6]. Contemporary schlieren devices have a lot of modifications and improvements described in the literature [1,5].
Table 1. flow through slot $2 in favor of a small mass flow into the tunnel. This net mass flow into the tunnel is small relative to the mass flow of the free-stream of the test leboostcamp.com by: 3.
Holographic flow visualization systems at two NASA Langley facilities, a hypersonic blow-down tunnel using CF4 gas and an expansion tube with very short test time, are described.
An application is presented in a 2D subsonic wind tunnel, in which the unsteady wake flow past a cylinder is recorded at high framing rate. In this optical setup, transmission holograms are used. Some Principles of Flow Visualization Techniques in Wind Tunnels Proceedings of 82nd rdThe IIER International Conference, Berlin, Germany, 3 -4th OctoberISBN: using the ideal gas law.
Use the wind tunnel to measure the pressure difference, p. 0- p, at the point of interest. Application in Langley Unita W Plan Wind Tunnel surface flow field indicating both flow direction and the presence of separation.
Equipment used: Boeing VIAS PT Norman power packs, strobe lights and UV filters, UV goggles Cameras and UV filters The exact same technique used. The flow visualization techniques studied are schlieren, shadowgraph, moire deflectometry, and holographic interferometry.
The test beds for this work are a Langley in-house cryogenic test chamber and the Meter Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel. A holographic system used for flow visualization at the Langley Expansion Tube is described. A ruby laser which can be singly or doubly pulsed during the short run time of less than microns is.
Some of the uses of holographic interferometry at Langley Research Center both for flow visualization and for density field determinations are described and tests in cryogenic flows at the Langley Meter Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel are discussed.
Experimental and theoretical fringe shift data are compared. HOLOGRAPHIC FLOW VISUALIZATION FROM THE LANGLEY CF4 TUNNEL The main use of holography in wind tunnels at Langley has been for flow visualization. Figure 1 is an interferogram made at the Langley Hypersonic CF4 tunnel of the Shuttle Orbiter nose in Mach 6 flow.
The field of view is cm with flow from left to right. Cryogenic wind tunnel research: a global perspective* D.A. Dress and R.A. Kilgore NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VAUSA Received 28 April Personnel at the NASA Langley Research Center built the first cryogenic wind tunnel in Cited by: 5.
Nov 16, · Flow visualization using smoke was the primary interest. On the other hand the wind tunnel was made in-house. Simply a Popcorn container. Jul 18, · This report covers the work completed on the research project, "Vapor Screen Flow-Visualization Experiments in the NASA Langley Ometer Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel," during Summer and Summer The work has performed under the NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program.
Robert M. Hall and ~1r. Smoke flow visualization wind tunnel and equipment A small horizontal smoke tunnel (Figure 1) will be at your disposal. The tunnel is an open-circuit design built by Aerolab (Laurel, MD) and powered by a small 1/5HP constant speed electric compressor (Whisper Aire WAC).
The tunnel was operated over a temperature range from to K and a pressure range from to 4 atm. Interferometry at the facility may be of limited use at the low temperature high pressure. Summary. This paper brings together some of the testing techniques developed for transonic cryogenic tunnels using Nitrogen as the test fluid.
It emphasizes techniques which required special development, or were unique because of the opportunities offered by cryogenic leboostcamp.com: Pierce L. Lawing. May 05, · Aerodynamicists use wind tunnels to test models of proposed aircraft. The model is placed in the test section of the tunnel and air is made to flow past the model.
Some wind tunnel tests are used to determine the aerodynamic forces on the model. Some wind tunnel tests are designed to provide information about the flow of air around the model.
The principles governing infrared imaging for aerodynamic surface-flow visualization in cryogenic wind tunnels are reviewed, with emphasis on boundary-layer transition detection.
The applicability of the technique to low temperatures is illustrated through examples of Cited by: 1. and to tunnels not originally designed for flow visualization. Here, an airfoil is tested at Mach in the Boeing Model Transonic Wind Tunnel. A sheet of ordinary drafting grid was placed a few feet in back of the test section.
Stroboscopic backlighting was used to visualize the shock, which appears. Advanced Measurement Techniques for High Reynolds Number Testing in Cryogenic Wind Tunnels U. Fey1, and Flow Technology at the ETW wind tunnel since the beginning ofcryogenic wind tunnel using the 2C-cryoTSP.
Figure 1. Application of cryoTSP to a cryogenic. Flow visualization in a cryogenic wind tunnel using holography / (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va.: For sale by the National Technical Information Service], ).
Flow Visualization in Wind Tunnels 3. Flow visualization using l aser light illumination technique A smoke-probe was utilized to generate heavy smoke upstream side, which then passes over the model.
A section of the flow was then made visible by using a laser-light sheet. This. Flow visualization can be used to show how the air moves over and around the model. The methods below are readily available. Other methods can be accommodated – please contact KWT. A summary of flow visualization methods is included in the table below: Flow Visualization comparison.
The wind tunnel testing was performed on a high speed natural laminar flow (HSNLF) wing, HSNLF(1) A description of the airfoil along with the coordinates are provided by Sewall et al.
[ 24 ]. The airfoil was constructed from aluminum with a chord of m and a span of leboostcamp.com by: 6. Wind tunnels are large tubes with air moving inside.
The tunnels are used to copy the actions of an object in flight. Researchers use wind tunnels to learn more about how an aircraft will fly. NASA uses wind tunnels to test scale models of aircraft and spacecraft.
Sep 01, · Throughout history, flow visualization has been an important tool in fluid dynamics research. It has been used extensively in the fields of engineering, physics, medical science, meteorology, oceanography and sport aerodynamics, to name just a few.
The importance of flow visualization led Professor. Summary. A new high enthalpy arc heated hypersonic facility, called F4, has been recently built at Le Fauga-Mauzac ONERA Center.
The initial visualization equipment of this wind-tunnel is composed of two optical devices: a schlieren apparatus (presently in exploitation), and a multipass holographic interferometer (under construction).Cited by: 1.
cntTSP is a flow visualization technique combining temperature-sensitive paint (TSP) and carbon nanotube (CNT). TSP is a sprayable temperature sensor, and CNT is used as a thin inner electric heater for TSP.
The cntTSP technique allows visualizing a dynamic boundary layer transition on a moving airfoil in the low-speed condition. RISTIĆ S.: FLOW VISUALISATION TECHNIQUES IN WIND TUNNELS PART I – NON OPTICAL METHODS 41 Sometimes, that method is classified as special flow visualization method.
a) b) Figure 2. Flow visualization with smoke from ship chimney in small subsonic wind tunnel T a) b) Figure 3.
Flow visualization with TiCl4 around airplane model (a) and. May 05, · The figure shows five flow visualization techniques that are used in wind tunnel testing; smoke, tufts, laser sheet, surface oil flow, and schlieren photography.
Tufts and surface oil flow are used to provide information about the state of the boundary layer on the surface, particularly to detect flow separation and re-attachment. Get this from a library.
Preliminary experiments on surface flow visualization in the cryogenic wind tunnel by use of condensing or freezing gases. [M J Goodyer; Langley Research Center.]. Oct 25, · Oil fog is used in this experiment to visualize air flow coming from the right. The wake (separation bubble) behind the building captures oil fog, so unsteady vortices become visible.
The. Smoke Visual zation in Wind Tunnels Flow visualization in wind tunnels began with the work ofLudwig Mach of Vienna in leboostcamp.com's indraft wind tunnel had a cross-sectionof x mm and· was driven by a centrifugal fan that pleted a book onthe work ofLippisch.). The Moiré method is also used for water flows.
The state of the flow is checked by obtaining as light and dark stripes the contours indicating the unevenness of the liquid surface. A new technique, the laser holography method, has been used. An optical reference path is added to the optical system of the shadowgraph method or the Schlieren method.
Thermal Design Approach for a Copy Machine by Use of Flow Visualization and a Personal Computer. Carlomagno, Giovanni Maria. Preview Buy Chapter 30,19 € Three-Dimensional Heat Flow Visualization with a Laser Holographic Interferometry.
Pages Kato, Seizo (et al.) Infrared Imaging in Cryogenic Wind Tunnels. Get this from a library! Control of wind tunnel operations using neural net interpretation of flow visualization records.
[Alvin E Buggele; Arthur J Decker; United States. National Aeronautics and .Ideal for small group experiments or classroom demonstrations, the apparatus is floor standing.
A variable-speed fan mounted on top of the wind tunnel produces the air flow through the working section. Air flow is vertically upwards. A smoke generator connects to a comb mounted in the wind tunnel below the working section.Steady and unsteady response of an open-jet Eiffel-type wind tunnel to a shuttering system was investigated using hot wire anemometry and flow visualization.
Vertical shutters (louvers) were installed in the diffuser behind the test section. Smoke visualization revealed a shear layer with large discrete vortices, bounding the test-section core.


Lynchburg was home to several Black aviators who played prominent roles in aviation history
By Jodi Helmer
Chauncey Spencer (1906-2002) was just 11 years old the first time he watched an airplane gliding through the clouds over his home on Pierce Street. He started dreaming about becoming a pilot but faced significant obstacles.
Spencer tried enrolling in flight school at the Lynchburg airport but classes were not open to Black students. Undeterred, Spencer, the son of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer, moved to Chicago where he worked in a restaurant and spent most of his wages on flying lessons. His time in the cockpit paid off.
“It was during Jim Crow when segregation in the South was in full force and African Americans weren’t permitted to fly,” explains Emily Kubota, curator for the Lynchburg Museum System. “Chauncey Spencer did quite a bit to change that perception.”
Spencer joined a group of Black aviators to form the National Airmen Association of American in 1934. As World War II raged in Europe, Black men were banned from serving as pilots. Spencer, along with fellow NAAA member Dale Lawrence Wright, flew a rented biplane visiting 10 cities from Chicago to Washington, D.C., in the hopes of convincing Congress to allow Blacks to participate in a pre-World War II Civilian Pilot Training Program.
One of their stops included a meeting with then-Senator Harry S. Truman. In 1941, inspired by the skill and bravery Spencer and Wright displayed on their flight, Truman helped establish the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, a group of Black military pilots and airmen who fought in the Second World War.
“Even though Chauncey Spencer was one of the founders of the Tuskegee Airmen, he was too old to be a pilot but he was an obvious choice to be a leader,” Kubota says. “He advanced the acceptance that Black men could actually fly planes.”
In 1948, Spencer was awarded the Exceptional Civilian Service Award for service during World War II. It was the highest honor the Air Force could bestow upon a civilian.
Spencer was not the only Black aviator who called Lynchburg home.
Edgar Doswell Jr. (1921-2009) served as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen during WWII. Doswell graduated from the Tuskegee Institute in 1945. It was too late to see combat during the war but the Lynchburg resident, who worked as a flight instructor at Preston Glenn Airport, was part of a historic part of the war effort.
Retired NASA astronaut Leland Melvin (1964- ) also grew up in Lynchburg. He started training in 1998 after working for NASA for more than a decade, flying two missions on the Space Shuttle Atlantis and logging more than 565 hours in space.
Kubota notes that people are often surprised to learn that Lynchburg has such a rich aviation history that includes several prominent Black aviators, adding, “The contributions [of Black aviators] have been momentous, especially when you consider all of the obstacles they had to overcome.”
Jodi Helmer writes about food, drink and travel for National Geographic Traveler, Hemispheres, Huffington Post, AARP and Our State. She lives and works on a hobby farm near Charlotte, North Carolina.
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