Fighting the U-boats
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The Grumman TBF Avenger
prepared by Forest Garner
The US Navy ordered the prototype of the world's first monoplane torpedo bomber, the Douglas TBD Devastator, in 1934. First flown the following year, production delivery of this advanced aircraft started in 1937. Powered by an early 850 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, the TBD-1 was capable of 206 mph. However, aviation technology was changing quickly, and by 1939 the Navy recognized that improved performance was needed. On 25 March of that year the Navy asked contractors to respond to a requirement for an advanced torpedo plane. This decision was fortunate, as by 1942 the TBD would be obsolete.
The 25 March requirements included a maximum speed of 300 mph, a range of at least 1,000 miles while carrying a torpedo, a ceiling of at least 30,000 feet, a take off run in combat trim of not more than 325 feet into a 25-knot wind, and a stalling speed with a torpedo of no more than 70 mph. Additionally, it was required that the torpedo, or bombs, must be carried internally. In response, the Navy received 13 design proposals from six manufacturers. By 3 November, 1939, the Navy had focused on two of these designs; one from Vought powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, and one from Grumman powered by the Wright R-2600. Although the Navy announced its intention to order each design, it took six months for the contracts to be awarded.
Grumman received the order for two examples of the XTBF-1 on 8 April, 1940. This was a mid-wing cantilever design with a crew of three. Externally, it looked like Grumman's F4F Wildcat, but with a bigger belly. The TBF was designed from the start with folding wings, with the folding mechanism patterned after that developed for the Martlet II and F4F-4 Wildcat. Armament consisted of one synchronized "50 caliber" (12.7mm) Browning machine gun in the upper engine cowling firing through the propeller, another 50 caliber weapon firing from a small turret at the aft end of the long canopy, and a ventral flexible 30 caliber (7.62mm) machine gun firing rearwards from a position just aft of the long weapons bay. The weapons bay was large enough to hold four 500-pound bombs, or one 22.4-inch 2,000 pound Mark 13 torpedo. Provision was made for carrying the Norden bombsight, but Avenger pilots found this to be less accurate than other aiming techniques.
The US Navy placed some urgency in replacing the TBD, as an order was placed for 285 TBF-1 aircraft and one TBF-2 on 30 December, 1940, more than seven months before the prototype XTBF-1 was ready for flight tests. The two sub-types differed in that the TBF-1 was to be powered by the two-speed single-stage R-2600-8, while the TBF-2 was to be powered by the single-speed two-stage R-2600-10.
The prototype flew on 7 August, 1941. Several significant problems were identified, but were quickly solved. Development of the TBF was not greatly affected when the first prototype crashed after catching fire in flight on 28 November, 1941, as the second prototype was nearly ready by that time.
The first production TBF-1 was completed on 3 January, 1942. The TBF-1 had a span of just over 54 ft (17 ft with wings folded), a length of 40 ft, weighed 10,080 pounds empty, 13,667 pounds loaded, and 15,905 pound maximum. Powered by a 1,600 hp Wright R-2600-8, the TBF-1 reached a maximum speed of 271 mph at 12,000 ft, although it cruised at a leisurely 145 mph. Internal fuel capacity was 335 gallons, giving a range (with torpedo) of 1,215 miles.
Grumman assembled 1,524 examples of the TBF-1, while the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors built 550 of the virtually identical TBM-1.
The designation TBF-1B applied to 402 aircraft built for the Royal Navy, which the British initially called Tarpon T.R. Mark I, but later called Avenger T.R. Mark I. British Avengers were sometimes modified to British specification by Blackburn Aircraft, including the installation British oxygen systems and gunsights.
The TBF-1C deleted the nose-mounted machine gun and, instead, mounted one 50 caliber weapon in each wing. This variant was plumbed to carry up to 391 gallons of additional fuel in auxiliary fuel tanks. Grumman built 764, while GM built 2,332 of their virtually identical TBM-1C.
The TBF-1D was a modification of the TBF-1 fitting the ASD or ASB radar for locating surfaced submarines or surface ships.
The first of two XTBF-3 prototypes flew on 20 June, 1943. This aircraft featured the 1,900 hp Wright R-2600-20 engine in an attempt to restore performance lost through increased operational weight in later TBF-1 variants. However, no production TBF-3 was built by Grumman. To allow Grumman's factory to focus on production of the critically important F6F Hellcat, production of Avengers was completely in the hands of the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors, which fabricated portions of the aircraft in several cities, and performed final assembly in Trenton, New Jersey. GM built 4,657 of this variant, called the TBM-3, between April 1944 and August 1945.
There were at least 15 variants of the TBM-3, including many modified to carry various types of surface search radar or airborne early warning radar.
In its first combat action at Midway on 4 June, 1942, the TBF faired badly. Six TBF-1 aircraft attacked the Japanese Kido Butai (Striking force) of four fleet aircraft carriers with a powerful screen. Five Avengers were shot down, and the sixth, badly damaged, barely made it back to Midway Island. This attack, like most that day, achieved nothing. However, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers made successful attacks later that day, inflicting fatal damage on all four Japanese carriers.
In subsequent clashes with the Japanese Navy, the Avenger was hampered by the ineffectiveness of its primary weapon, the Mark 13 torpedo. The generally poor manufacture of this weapon was a serious problem, but was overshadowed by its many design flaws. It was slow, and too fragile for release speeds greater than 130mph (increased later in the war). While this slow release speed made the TBF vulnerable to antiaircraft fire, pilots were thankful that the Avenger was a tough aircraft, like all Grumman aircraft of that era. This, and poor Japanese antiaircraft gunnery, saved many American pilots. Later, the Mark 13 torpedo was improved by installing a "pickle barrel" housing around the nose of the torpedo to allow much faster drops. The warhead, initially 401 pounds of TNT, was increased to 600 pounds of the much more potent Torpex in 1943. With the later, more effective, variants of the Mark 13, Avengers played the primary role in sinking the huge battleships Yamato and Musashi, and several Japanese aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and other warships.
Service in the Atlantic Ocean
In the Atlantic, the Avenger was the obvious choice for use aboard British and American escort carriers in screening convoys and hunting down U-boats. Avengers would sight surfaced U-boats, and swoop down on them in a glide bombing approach, releasing multiple 250-pound, 325-pound, or (most often) 500-pound depth bombs. If the U-boat put up accurate flak, the Avenger pilot might choose to circle out of range wait for other aircraft to assist. Grumman Wildcat fighters, with either four or six heavy machine guns, were often effective at subduing the U-boat's flak battery so that the Avengers could more safely make their attacks. Later the Avenger's arsenal included rockets for use on surfaced U-boats and, after mid-1943, a super-secret anti-submarine homing torpedo known as the Mark 24 Fido (also called Zombie). Various versions of the Avenger were fitted with radar for finding submarines or surface ships, with sonobuoys to track submerged submarines, and with flares and searchlights for illuminating potential targets at night. Avengers were known to carry combinations of these devices, such as two 500-pound depth bombs, one Fido, radar, flares, and sonobuoys.
American escort carrier air groups sank, or assisted in sinking, 35 submarines in the Atlantic. Most, perhaps all, of these kills must have been made by Avengers. To this total must be added the achievements of British Avengers. Additionally, Avengers flew anti-submarine patrols from land bases, and laid mines.
In all, 9,839 Avengers were assembled, including 2,293 TBFs built by Grumman and 7,546 TBMs built by Eastern Aircraft (General Motors). After the war, they faded from service more gradually than most aircraft of the era, serving useful roles into mid-1950s.
U-boats sunk by this aircraft type (Avenger)
- Francillion, R. J. (1989) "Grumman Aircraft since 1929"
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD.
- Gunston, W. (1986) "American Warplanes"
Crescent Books, New York, NY.
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The Tesla Model S accelerates quicker than any other production vehicle, which makes it a prime choice for chasing spy planes.
The Lockheed U-2S "Spy Plane" is one of the toughest planes to operate. It's especially hard to take off and land in the 1950's classic, due to its minimal visibility. A trained team must be present to aid the vehicle's ascent, and a chase car is the preferred method of assistance.
Tesla Model S chase car at Royal Air Force
A chase car must be fast and the quicker it can get up to speed is critical in appropriately assisting the U-2S. The Tesla Model S can sprint from a standstill to 60 mph in less than 2.5 seconds, and its acceleration is instant and seamless because of its pure electric drivetrain. There are many cars that can top out at higher speeds, and have more power top-end power, but the Model S' top speed of 155 mph, and its initial burst of power are ideal for the job.
According to Electrek, Jalopnik featured a story about the U.S. Air Force's use of a Camaro Z28 for this same purpose in the past. However, the Camaro is known for its lack of visibility, which is the same problem that the plane has, and the Model S provides an unparalleled view of the road ahead. The Tesla in the video looks like it has the all glass roof option, which would prove even more helpful when assisting the spy plane. Jalopnik wrote (via Electrek):
“The process is pretty simple: The Air Force buys fast and relatively inexpensive Detroit muscle and puts a highly trained pilot in the driver’s seat. Those pilots then act as ground-based wingmen for the U-2s in the air, talking them through runway operations.”
Elliot Langran encountered and filmed the above video showing the successful launch of a U2-S at Royal Air Force Fairford Air Base.
Video Description via ElliotL- CBGSpotterHD on YouTube:
The Lockheed U-2S "Spy Plane"! Dating to the early 1950's and still in active service with the USAF in 2017. We see two example's departing RAF Fairford in true dramatic style.. These things climb like rockets. I zoomed right in on the pre-flight checks by the chase cars (Tesla Model S), please watch carefully as the wingtip wheels trop of on rotate!


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I posted this on my Facebook feed earlier:
I’m sorry, but Mike Pence saying “we will put American boots on the face of Mars…” is really ill-informed wishful thinking!
I’m not just saying that because I am anti-Trump.
I’m not just saying that because Mike Pence’s views on “religious history” of the age of the Universe are at odds with the scientific fact that the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
I’ll admit: I complain A LOT about the aura of “anti-science” surrounding the Trump administration…
…but this is something that I have been saying since before Trump even considered running, so this is not an anti-Trump rant. I want to clear the air on this right off the bat…
This is a long, LONG… rant about how sending astronauts to Mars is basically a slow, horrifying death sentence.
I believe that landing on the Moon was the greatest achievement in the history of mankind. Back in the days of the Apollo Program and the shuttle era after that, America was the leader in manned space flight.
Since President Obama cancelled funding for the shuttle replacement (Constellation Program if my memory serves), America has taken a back seat — literally… hitch-hiking at very high cost on Russian rockets.
Now… consider for a moment that the Saturn V rocket is currently the most powerful rocket ever made and that only had enough thrust to launch three astronauts and two weeks worth of provisions (food and water) to the Moon and back.
To send astronauts to Mars is a much larger endeavor. Given orbital alignments, at their closest points, our best estimates are that it would take between 4-6 months to reach Mars from Earth.
You would need to design a rocket that could launch (say for example…):
-Enough fuel to make the trip and return journey — with reserves for course corrections,
-Enough food and water for a year-long round-trip plus reserves,
-Rowing machines and the room to allow the astronauts to exercise in order to prevent muscle deterioration due to long-term exposure to zero gravity,
-Enough entertainment to keep their minds occupied during a year-long round-trip since “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy…”,
-Backup components in case systems on the vessel fail…
-And other supplies I probably haven’t even considered, but you get the point…
Even if you “Science the shit out of this” to (appropriately) quote The Martian, and grow food and make water inside vessel, what are you going to do? Ask three people to eat potatoes for a year? The novel was very clear on the math for space requirements (no pun intended) to farm enough food to survive, and IT IS A LOT!
Either way: any rocket powerful enough to get three people to Mars and back would be too big to be feasible.
If we did send people to Mars, to keep the weight down, it would probably be a one way trip, and it is morally wrong to order astronauts to die in the name of “progress”.
A slow death due to starvation and dehydration (not to mention probable radiation poisoning, more on that in a bit) is one of the most drawn out ways to depart this life that I can imagine. It’s really scary to me that we could conceivably ask people to accept this fate.
I get that the only limits that exist are the ones that we accept for ourselves. But at our current level of technology, this is too big of an ask.
At least President Kennedy set a timetable when he committed that we would set foot on the Moon and return safely to Earth.
In the case of Mars, it seems to me like we are blindly pushing forward with no real understanding of just how large of an endeavor this really is.
We are developing the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with “the intention of manned missions reaching Mars” and capsules…
—seriously, CAPSULES? We built the space shuttle, and we are taking a step back 40+ years to the days of Gemini and Apollo… Capsules? I’m sorry but HOW CAN YOU FIT ENOUGH SUPPLIES TO SURVIVE THE TRIP INTO SOMETHING THAT IS PLANNED TO BE ONLY SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE APOLLO COMMAND MODULE??? Seriously? The idea that we are planning on using a capsule to reach Mars seems really poorly planned out.
Let’s say that you store the provisions for the trip to Mars in a separate module attached to the capsule, you would require astronauts to make daily spacewalks to get supplies in an area where they have none of the protection from radiation that Earth’s magnetic field provides. That’s that horrible radiation poisoning I mentioned earlier…
What we really need to do BEFORE we commit to Mars is to build and properly test a new reliable Shuttle with large cargo capacity and fuel cells sufficient to make the trip. That’s a tough challenge in and of itself considering that the retired shuttles used up half of their fuel just during the initial ascent to reach the altitude of the Hubble Space Telescope approximately 380 miles above the Earth.
But let’s say we figured out a way to solve THAT problem. Then, you could launch the supplies to make a year-long round-trip into orbit. Pick them up in the new shuttle… and then head to Mars and back.
The success of Apollo 11 was achieved with baby steps from all the preceding Apollo and Gemini missions. Each one tested a vital component of getting to the Moon and back. The Gemini and Apollo missions are actually really interesting as far as how each mission detailed a different procedure leading to our first steps on the Moon, and I encourage you to check out the series “When We Left Earth: the NASA Missions” to understand those small steps in the process.
I just don’t hear a plan like that when we discuss the potential for going to Mars now. And THAT is why I say the statement that we will land “American Boots” on the Red Planet is ill-informed wishful thinking.
Sorry for the long rant…


Saab has received an order from the United Arab Emirates for additional functionality for the advanced airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) solution GlobalEye for an approximate $39 million.
The UAE placed its first order for GlobalEye in November 2015. GlobalEye combines air, maritime and ground surveillance in one swing-role solution. It features a full suite of sensors including the new extended range radar (Erieye ER), the company said in a statement Monday.
Saab completed the first flight of its GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft (AWACS) on March 14 in Linköping, Sweden in March this year. The aircraft, a modified Bombardier Global 6000 jet platform, undertook a 1 hour 46 minutes test flight collecting extensive flight-test data using the on-board instrumentation suite. This data is then used to verify the aircraft performance and associated modelling.
Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for deliveries of the Carl-Gustaf M4 to the Swedish Armed Forces. The new version, Carl-Gustaf M4, launched in 2014, has lightweight design, weighing less than 7 kg
Saab is offering a big data solution based on merging information from satellites, airborne surveillance platforms, ground based radar and battle-management system to generate simultaneous reports for various users. The new solution will allow fusion of satellite data with other products, including Saabs airborne surveillance solution GlobalEye, the Giraffe family of surface radar and the 9LV combat management system
Saab has won approximately SEK 224 million ($27 million) from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to upgrade its Gripen C/D systems. All of the Swedish Air Forces Gripen fighters have been brought up to the latest MS20 standard, which will now be further improved under the contract announced Wednesday
Saab will supply the Sea Giraffe AMB naval radar system to the US Navy (USN) for a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) deal between the US and the Philippines. The Sea Giraffe AMB (designated as AN/SPS-77 by the USN) will be installed on two Philippine Navy frigates: BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15) and BRP Ramon Alcaraz (FF-16), both former US Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutters
Saab has signed a contract for delivery of the multi-role naval radar Sea Giraffe AMB and associated equipment including spare parts. The work for the initial phase of the contract will be carried out during the period of 2018-2019
Saab has received an ammunition order from the US Department of Defense (DoD) for the Carl-Gustaf man-portable weapon system. The order value is approximately $16 million (MSEK 135)
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APOLLO PNCS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS
|Kapton Foil from each of the Manned Apollo Missions: This presentation contains a small piece of Kapton insulation foil from each of the Apollo mission's Command modules. Some have been to the moon and back.
|APOLLO 12 Kapton Foil: This is a small piece of the actual Kapton insulation foil which was trimmed from the Apollo 12 Lunar Module "Intrepid" in preparation for launch from the Kennedy Space Center.
PHILATELIC NUMISMATIC COVERS/SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Here we see two versions of the same presentation. On the left is a special limited edition American Mint Inc (AMI) easel folder with first day cover and special small bronze medal (issued 1969). The medal is a smaller version to the giant AMI medal of the same design pictured on the medals page (qv).
Pictured on the right is the regular version of the same American Mint Inc easel folder with first day cover and information card.
|One of the earliest PNCs made is this Apollo 11 issued by the 99 Company. These PNCs were individually serialized.
|This is th Apollo 12 PNC from the 99 Company who apparently were the first to combine medals within first day covers.
|Here is a 20th anniversary Apollo 7 PNC featuring a medal made from metals flown in space. This comes from a set (see "flown items" link for complete set) and was limited to 2000 covers.
|From the same series as the flown cover above, is this Apollo 8 20th anniversary PNC featuring a medal made from metals flown in space. Production was limited to just 2000 covers.
|This Apollo 11 PNC features a medal made from metals flown onboard an undisclosed space flight. It, like all the others in the set, is limited to just 2000 covers made.
|Here is another Apollo 11 PNC from the same series featuring a medal made from metals flown in space. This one was issued to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It is also limited to just 2000 covers made.
|This is a limited edition Lombardo mint commemorative miniature replica of the plaque left on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission.
|As above this is a limited edition Lombardo mint commemorative miniature replica of the plaque left on the moon with the Apollo 12 mission.
|Here we have another of the flown metal medal PNCs. Like the others in this series, the space flight featured on the cachet is not necessarily the same as that from which the medal was struck. This 15th anniversary of Apollo 15 PNC is again limited to just 2000 covers.
|One of the more unusual items on this page, but one of the nicest, is this 1974 "World Mint" one ounce pewter replica of the Apollo 15 stamp.
|This and the next PNC both feature variations of the same "made in Canada" medal, this one is made from silver.
|This is an unusual Sarzin Apollo 17 PNC that has the medal attached to the outside of the cachet.


Ethiopian Aviation University Graduates More Than 1,550 Professionals - ENA English
Ethiopian Aviation University Graduates More Than 1,550 Professionals
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8/2023 (ENA) Ethiopian Aviation University, the largest aviation university in Africa, graduated today 1,551 professionals, about 100 from other African countries.
The university graduated 160 pilots, 458 aircraft maintenance technicians, 702 cabin crews, 69 hotel operation professionals and customer service agents.
Ethiopian has been providing aviation training for Africans from all 54 countries since its formation in 1956; and today's graduates were from seven African countries, including Ethiopia, Rwanda, Togo, DRC, Tanzania, Uganda, and Sudan.
Speaking on the occasion, Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Mesfin Tassew said the Ethiopian Aviation University graduated 1,551 aviation professionals, the highest in its history.
The CEO congratulated the academic and administrative members of the university for enhancing the capacity to train and graduate so many aviation professionals for Ethiopian Airlines and the African aviation industry.
“This is a demonstration that Ethiopian Airlines is committed to supporting the aviation industry by availing a large number of well-trained aviation professionals,” he noted.
Mesfin revealed that ten pilots from among the graduates were female captains, and stated that Ethiopian Airlines has more than 40 female pilots.
Ethiopian Aviation University Acting President Kassie Yimam said “all schools of the university have trained and qualified significantly more aviation professionals than ever before.”
Schools of the university are Pilot Training, Simulator Training, Cabin Crew and Catering Training, Commercial and Ground Services Training, Aircraft Maintenance Training, and Leadership Training, it was learned.
According to the acting president, “the change at the pilot training school is ground breaking in all parameters such as the number of qualified flight instructors, availability of serviceable aircrafts, flight hours flown per day and many more.”
The university has so far graduated three round aviation professionals this year.


Modeling and simulation tools are essential during every stage of the design and fabrication of electronic circuits --- such tools enable tremendous savings in time and cost. There is general agreement, among engineers who must tackle the issue of radiation hardness, about the urgent need for software tools in this area. The primary customers are expected to be engineers in industrial laboratories, researchers in the DOD and government laboratories, academic researchers, and chip designers. In many of NASA's spaceflight programs, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components are the only components that can provide the required performance, and meet physical requirements such as weight, power consumption, volume, etc. The effects of radiation on COTS integrated circuits are fairly complex. Hence there is ongoing work at NASA in the development, selection or preparation of electronics that can operate in the space radiation environment. This proposed software tool would assist in the aforementioned development efforts, and can contribute to the program on radiation hardness assurance of electronics components.


Harry Mok, UC Newsroom
After traveling 354 million miles and surviving a nail-biting descent to the surface of Mars, the Curiosity rover is finding that the Red Planet was once a lot like the Blue Planet.
Curiosity’s exploration of Mars’ barren landscape is revealing signs that water once flowed freely and that life could have existed on the planet.
“Our findings are showing that Mars is a planet that was once a whole lot like Earth,” said UC Davis geology professor Dawn Sumner, co-investigator for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory team, which is exploring whether the planet ever had an environment capable of supporting microbial life.
Liquid water disappeared from Mars’ surface millions of years ago, leaving behind tantalizing clues about the planet’s ancient past — clues that Sumner has been deciphering since the rover landed in August 2012.
Sumner is working from Curiosity mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena while on sabbatical from UC Davis.
She helped choose which parts of the planet Curiosity should investigate. And she helps lead the team that analyzes the rocks and other geologic elements that the rover encounters.
“All the rocks we’ve seen on this mission are sediments that have been deposited by water,” Sumner said. “We’ve found almost no sandstone deposited by wind.”
Paving way for manned missions
She is one of several UC scientists and engineers who have been vital to the success of the Curiosity mission, which is part of NASA’s long-term plan to pave the way for sending astronauts to Mars.
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Steve Collins, Curiosity's attitude control subsystem engineer, helped guide the 1-ton rover to a safe landing on the planet's surface — a nerve-wracking event dubbed the “seven minutes of terror.”
Using a complex, untried landing technique, Curiosity entered the Martian atmosphere at 13,000 mph, burned off its heat shield, jettisoned its space capsule and then touched down by deploying a landing system that involved a large, supersonic parachute, rockets and a "sky crane" that lowered the rover to the Martian surface on a long tether.
A widely circulated Associated Press photo of Collins personified the drama of the landing. During the seven minute lag in which mission control didn't know if Curiosity had made it to the surface, a tense-looking Collins waits anxiously, his hands clasped as if in prayer.
The complicated landing system was developed to compensate for both the speed at which the rover entered Mars' thin atmosphere and the weight of the craft itself, which is five times heavier than previous rovers.
A JPL engineering team, led by UC Davis alumnus Adam Steltzner, developed the landing solution.
The team’s Entry, Descent and Landing system ferried Curiosity to the ground on a rocket-propelled platform. The landing system’s rockets kept the platform hovering near the Martian surface as cables then gently lowered the rover to the ground. After Curiosity landed, the platform fired its rockets and zoomed away to avoid crashing down on the rover.
The maneuver was precarious and had no margin for error.
Steltzner says that people are dumbfounded by the complexity of the landing, but that each piece of the maneuver was essential.
“When people look at it, it looks crazy,” Steltzner said. “It is the result of reasoned engineering thought. But it still looks crazy.”
With Curiosity safely on the surface, the science could begin.
Findings point to water
The first true color photos of the surface of Mars were shot by Curiosity shortly after it landed.
Last year, Curiosity found rounded pebbles, an indication that a stream once flowed at the site and the first evidence that Mars had sustained water flows and could have supported life.
The rover has since moved to a location about 4 miles away from the Gale Crater landing site, where scientists expect to make even more discoveries. The new location is named Kimberly, after a region of northwestern Australia.
Curiosity has 165 pounds of science instruments on board, including cameras, spectrometers, drills, tools to gather samples and a ‘ChemCam,’ which uses a laser to vaporize rock samples and then analyzes their chemical composition.
The ChemCam was developed with help from Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
“The tools Curiosity is carrying allow you to be a geologist on Mars, which is really exciting,” Sumner said.


As published in AIN September 14, 2017
ForeFlight has released Version 9.3 of its aviation app, which features several additional capabilities. This includes a new preview of route options that allows the user to see all route options for a flight depicted on the interactive map.
The ForeFlight navlog now also supports step-climb flight planning for jets. “The flight-planning engine calculates the highest possible initial altitude, then automatically creates step-climb legs as the aircraft weight decreases,” according to ForeFlight.
Flight planning has also been enhanced with an “add next flight” button that carries forward details such as departure, aircraft information, payload and fuel policy, among others. Flight plans can be exported in ICAO format, saved in ForeFlight Documents or printed, emailed and shared via AirDrop. Users filing flight plans via ForeFlight can now receive push notifications when ATC has issued a revised expected route or when adverse weather might affect the route, the company noted.
ForeFlight has also added a time slider control, which lets the user play back radar and satellite weather layers frame-by-frame. Subscribers to SiriusXM Pilot for ForeFlight and flying with the SiriusXM SXAR1 aviation receiver can now display icing, turbulence and surface analysis layers. The turbulence and icing layers can be viewed at different altitudes using the altitude slider, and small red dots are now used to indicate potential areas of supercooled large-droplet icing.


NASA announced Thursday that it is broadcasting a drone-style rotorcraft to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
The so-called dragonfly can fly over the sky of Titan and occasionally carry out scientific measurements. The mission is being developed and led by the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland. The launch is scheduled for 2026.
"Scientifically speaking, titanium is an incredibly unique opportunity," said Elizabeth Turtle, who will lead the mission mission for the lab as its lead investigator, in an April interview given before NASA's announcement. "It's not just an ocean world ̵
Where a Mars rover can only travel ten or more inches The Dragonfly team, Titan's sky and the drone's nuclear fuel source are the limits.
"We have the capacity to cover hundreds of miles throughout the lifetime of the mission. One of the advantages we have is that we can always explore the next location. We can fly ahead, look at it, see what kind of terrain there is, and decide if we want to go there or elsewhere, "says Dr. Turtle.
Half years in the class of science missions of NASA called New Frontiers, which cost less than $ 1 billion. The contest, which is held between several state and academic institutions, resembles a "shark tank" for exploration of space.
The other finalist of the contest was Caesar – the Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return Mission – with the goal of collecting a sample of the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko and bringing it back to Earth for analysis. This comet was previously explored by Rosetta, a spacecraft built by the European Space Agency, until its mission ended in 2016.


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We rely heavily on space for navigation, communication, and even health care research. Through Space Fence, the U.S. Air Force is significantly improving its space situational awareness to protect our satellites and astronauts from spinning debris and other orbital objects before disaster strikes.


This paper presents a new method to determine the mass of an inactive space object from the fusion of photometric and astrometric data. Typically, the effect of solar radiation pressure is used to determine area-to-mass ratio for space objects from angles observations. The area-to-mass ratio of a space object can greatly affect its orbital dynamics. As a consequence, angles data are sensitive to this quantity. On the other hand, photometric data is not sensitive to mass but is a strong function of the albedo-area and the rotational dynamics of the space object. The albedo-area can be used to determine the amount of energy reflected from solar radiation. Since these two data types are sensitive to albedo-area and area-to-mass, then through fusion of photometric data with angles data it is possible to determine the area and mass of a space object. This work employs an unscented Kalman filter to estimate rotational and translational states, area and mass of an inactive space object. Mass is not observable with only angles data or only photometric data alone, but it is shown in this work that with the two combined data types mass can be recovered. Recovery of space object characteristics and attitude and orbit trajectories with sufficient accuracy is demonstrated in this paper via simulation.
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|Number of pages||15|
|State||Published - Jun 2014|
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
This work was supported through multiple funding mechanisms, one of which was via the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate (ASTRIA) Space Scholars Program . The support of the Space Scholars program at the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate is gratefully acknowledged.
- Mass estimation
- Orbit determination
- Unscented Kalman filter


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Human Space Exploration Update (January 1-12, 2018)
Starliner Update: Boeing CST-100 Starliner one step closer to flight with completion of DCR Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner has cleared the Atlas V Launch Segment Design Certification Review portion of its partnership agreement under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Later this year, the four person Boeing spacecraft is to undergo uncrewed, then crewed orbital test flights. With success, the Starliner is to be certified to begin transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Dream Chaser Update: Sierra Nevada clears Dream Chaser test milestone Sierra Nevada Corp has completed a final contract milestone in efforts initiated in 2012 to develop a crewed version of Dream Chaser. The achievement unfolded on November 11 as the winged, reusable spacecraft was dropped from a helicopter at 3,750 feet and glided to a landing 60 seconds later at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The company is currently working under contract to NASA on a cargo version of Dream Chaser that is to begin resupply missions to and from the Space Station in 2019.
SpaceX Cargo Resupply Mission to ISS: Recycled SpaceX Dragon capsule makes 2nd delivery to Space Station NASA’s latest contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station arrived with 4,800 pounds of supplies for the six-member crew, as well as science experiments and technology demonstrations. SpaceX’s 13th contracted cargo mission launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
SpaceX Dragon Update: SpaceX leases Cape Canaveral home for Crew Dragon SpaceX has leased a previous satellite processing facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will prepare its crewed Dragon capsules for launches to the International Space Station with astronauts. (See also: SpaceX delays commercial crew test flights to latter half of 2018)
Citizens for Space Exploration – a pro-space, taxpayer, grassroots advocacy group (http://www.bayareahouston.com/content/c_s_e/c_s_e) – has traveled to Washington, D.C. the past 24 years to meet face-to-face with Members/staff of Congress to discuss the value of America’s investment in space exploration. In order to sustain that dialogue on a regular basis, Citizens distributes “Space Exploration Update” to Congressional offices on a weekly basis. The intent is to provide an easy, quick way to stay abreast of key human space exploration program and policy developments.


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A short course covering “all pertinent aspects of aircraft icing” is being offered again this fall by The University of Tennessee Space Institute.
Scheduled for Oct. 16-20 at UTSI’s Flight Research Center located at the Tullahoma Airport, the course will include in-flight and ground simulations using NASA icing data.
Richard J. Ranaudo, assistant professor of the Aviation Systems Department at the Institute, which is headed by Stephen Corda, introduced the popular course in 2004.
“A combination of guest lecturers and UTSI staff, who are experts in various fields of icing technology, flight testing, and flight operations, will provide attendees with a comprehensive curriculum covering substantial subject matter,” Ranaudo said.
UTSI instructors joining Ranaudo will be U. Peter Solies, associate professor of Aviation Systems and Aerospace Engineering, and Rodney Allison, an engineering test pilot and instructor pilot.
Enrollment is limited to 17 persons, and the variable stability training flight is limited to ten of these attendees. Fee for the course is $1,765 with an additional $440 for the training flight.
Becky Stines, director of the Institute’s Continuing Education program, suggested early registration based on previous responses to the course. She may be contacted at MS 15, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, 411 B.H. Goethert Parkway, 37388-9700, (931) 393-7276, or by email at email@example.com. Faxes may be sent to (931) 393-7327.
The Institute’s variable stability aircraft is used in simulating actual icing related to longitudinal handling anomalies as reported in NASA’s in-flight icing research program. A one-hour ground-based simulator training session in NASA’s Ice Contamination Effects Flight Training Device is included.
“Corda and Catherine Cavagnaro from the University of the South, also will be actively involved in this course,” Ranaudo said.
Guest instructors will include the following:
Ben Bernstein, a research meteorologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Tom Ratvasky, an employee of NASA Glenn Research Center, and Kurt Blankenship, research pilot at NASA Glenn, Cleveland, Ohio;
Andy Broeren, a research scientist in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Paul Pellicano, icing specialist at the Federal Aeronautics Administration’s Small Airplane Directorate, Tom Tibbals, a senior research engineer for the Aerospace Testing Alliance, Inc. at Arnold Engineering Development Center, and Ralph Woratschek, a lead aerospace engineer for the U.S. Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.


Air ambulance service shuts down operations in Sheridan
SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — A helicopter air ambulance service serving Sheridan Memorial Hospital has left Sheridan.
Hospital CEO Mike McCafferty says Air Methods, which ran Wyoming LifeFlight, left Sheridan for financial reasons.
According to the Sheridan Press (http://tinyurl.com/j9frers ), alternative air medical providers are available in the region and ground transportation is also ready to transport trauma cases between hospitals and respond to trauma scenes.
The company did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Information from: The Sheridan (Wyo.) Press, http://www.thesheridanpress.com/


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Designed by the French Dassault company, the Rafale is a highly maneuverable delta-winged fighter with a full-flying canard. With excellent dogfighting, carrier operations and air to surface attack performance the Rafale has been able to gain worldwide success.
While the FMS 80mm Rafale has attracted extensive attention, we’ve also noticed flight fans wiliness to of collect Rafales of different sizes and trim schemes. After two rounds of voting at home and abroad, the 64mm "NATO Tiger Meet" stood out from all other competitors.
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Like all other FMS aircraft, the 64mm Rafale was designed to reduce build time to a minimum and experienced builders can complete the build process in as little as 5 minutes.
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In comparison to landlines, mobile phones represent a significant leap forward, and the integration of satellite connection into smartphones may represent the next significant technological improvement. It would seem that we are already on the right road, since Apple’s iPhone 14 currently supports SOS emergency communication via satellite. Now, Qualcomm has introduced Snapdragon Satellite at CES 2023. This new technology will make it possible for the greatest Android devices to engage in two-way satellite communication, and it will not limit apps to SOS warnings.
It was confirmed in September by Android SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer that Android 14 will support satellite connectivity. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Satellite will be the enabling hardware component on upcoming devices, beginning with flagships that rely on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform and its 5G Modem-RF system. This will be the first hardware component to support satellite connectivity. The firm anticipates Snapdragon Satellite expanding beyond Apple-like one-way SOS requests from distant areas to support for full-blown SMS back-and-forth communications via satellite, which will be followed in the future by more apps.
Iridium Satellite Communications and Qualcomm have formed a strategic partnership to provide Qualcomm with access to Iridium’s L-band spectrum low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites for use in global communication. In the not too distant future, Snapdragon Satellite intends to offer 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTN). This will be possible when the infrastructure for satellites is improved and more of them circle the planet as constellations. This is what Iridium CEO Matt Desch had to say about it.
Our network was designed specifically for this service, since our cutting-edge LEO satellites are able to reach every part of the earth and provide support for low-power, low-latency connections that are excellent for satellite-based services made possible by the industry-leading Snapdragon Satellite. Every day, millions of people rely on our connections, and we are excited about the prospect of even more millions of people connecting through smartphones powered by Snapdragon Satellite.
According to Qualcomm, mobile devices with the ability to communicate through satellite should become available in the second half of 2023. Additionally, Garmin is already on board with this relationship, with the expectation that upgrades will be made to utilities such as Garmin Response SOS once Snapdragon Satellite is released. In the not too distant future, the technology may find its way into other gadgets that we use on a regular basis, such as tablets, laptops, linked automobiles, and even even internet of things apps.


CHINA is feared to be building its own version of Area 51 in the middle of a remote radioactive desert.
Satellite images of the mysterious site emerged as the race between Beijing and the West to develop secret weapons and super stealth aircraft gathers pace.
Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada, just 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas.
It is the common name of a highly-classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
The airbase is believed to be the home of the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.
Aircraft such as the ultra-fast, high-flying SR-71 Blackbird were built and tested there, say reports.
It has also long been rumoured to be America’s main base for testing captured and crashed UFOs.
Now it appears China has chosen a former nuclear test range in a remote corner of Xinjiang province for its own secret testing facility.
About a dozen buildings are being constructed alongside the pre-existing three-mile stretch of runway, satellite photos of the area show.
"I think we’re observing what appears to be a pretty important facility for China’s military space activities that appears to be growing," Ankit Panda, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told NPR.
The base is located in Lop Nur which is a former salt lake previously used as a nuclear testing site - meaning the area is radioactive.
The runway is at the edge of the testing area, but experts believe China is using it to launch and land military space planes.
China is known to be secretly developing its own strategic stealth bomber called the H-20 'God of War'.
Its 5,000-mile range means it is able to strike Guam and other key US facilities, making it a “game changer”, in the words of experts.
Jon Grevatt, a warplane specialist and Asia-Pacific defence analyst at defence and security intelligence source Janes, said the new plane was a significant milestone in achieving that goal.
“If the aircraft becomes operational, it has the potential to be a game-changer,” he told the South China Morning Post:
The new bomber will reportedly be equipped with nuclear and conventional cruise missiles.
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Director-General of the program SATCART for Remote Sensing (Read pdf), in the image processing area, approved by SFS - NATO, in 1987. This project for digital cartography started within the Consortium SATCART (GEOMETRAL - LNETI - EID). When the final report was written 1993 it had given rise to a number of companies.
- "PO - 833 - SATCART- Upgrading National Technology on remote sensing and image processing applied to the prospection of natural resources and cartography", final report, NATO Science for Stability Programme, F. Carvalho Rodrigues,José Manuel Rebordão (Read pdf)
Of slightly different character is the project of satellite construction and launching in Portugal, the PoSAT1. Although a purely industrial and engineering project it represented a quite important stage in learning about aerospace. As Chief of the Po-SAT Consortium (EFACEC - ALCATEL - MARCONI - OGMA - IST - UBI - CEDINTEC - INETI) built and sucessfully launched Po-SAT1 on the 26 of September 1993.
The Po-SAT1 has a star sensor and with a GPS system (pioneer onboard this type of satellite) that allows an autonomous navigation independent from the NORAD system of the American Defence organization
Posat programa SIC
Space - Published Papers:
- "Rationale for minisatellites technology and policy in Portugal", Technical Conference - Small Satellite Technologies and Applications II, 1691, Orlando’92, 83-87, 21-22 April 1992, F. Carvalho Rodrigues, José M. Rebordão.
- "The Po-SAT1 project",Lisbon Academy of Sciences, on the April, 14, 1993 session, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
- "Detecção Remota", Colóquio/Ciências, Revista de Cultura Cientifica, 4, (12): 43 - 51; 1993, F. Carvalho Rodrigues. Read pdf
- "Campanha de lançamento e primeiros resultados do Po-SAT1" Communication put forward to the Sciences Class of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, on the April, 13, 1994 session, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
- "Modern space guidance, control and tracking for small satellites using a CCD based star mapper in conjunction with a GPS receiver and a transputer processing unit", Conference on Space Guidance, Control and Tracking, 4-8 April ,1994, Orlando, SPIE Proceedings 2221, Miguel G. Leitmann, José Rebordão, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
- "Pequenos satélites e constelações", 9th National Conference on Physics, 19-23 September, 1994, Covilhã, F. Carvalho Rodrigues, M. Leitmann.
- "Tactical Role of Small Satellites" AGARD, 3º Symposium, Tactical Aerospace C3I in Coming Years, 15-18 May, 1995, Lisbon, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
- "Facilidade de integração e teste de mini-satélites", Workshop INPE/LIT’95, July, 1995, São José dos Campos, Brasil, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
- "Low Cost Ground Station For Leo Satellites Apllications "International Conference on Small Satellites: Mission and Tchnology. 9-13 September, 1996, Madrid. J. Cabrita Freitas, João Martins, Fernando D. Carvalho, Victor Silvestre, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
- "PoSAT-1, a field experiment for military applications "International Conference on Small Satellites: Mission and Tchnology. 9-13 September, 1996, Madrid. Cor. Pinto de Castro, J. Cabrita Freitas,M. G. Leitmann, Ten. Cor M. Leitão, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
"Sistema Planetário de comunicações PoSAT-1", Lisbon Academy of Sciences, January 16, 1997, F. Carvalho Rodrigues.
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SIX years ago Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. began to take a serious interest in the design and development of tailless aircraft and today two types arc undergoing research flight testing.
Murray, C.V. (1949), "Full‐Scale Research on a Flying Wing: Some Problems‐Encountered in the Evolution of the A.W.52 Tailless Aircraft", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 21 No. 5, pp. 144-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb031761
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SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) thanked local businesses on Thursday for support with their Air 2 helicopter.
"With their assistance, along with equipment donations from other aviation units, grant funding, and private company donations, Air 2 is ready to supplement the invaluable services provided by the Air Support Unit," said the SCSO in a news release sent to KXLY4 News.
Air 2 will allow the Air Support Unit to respond to incidents when Air 1 isn't available.
Air 2, like Air 1, is an OH-58.
SCSO's Regional Air Support Unit thanked Associated Painters, Inc. and CW Wraps & Marketing specifically for their help with Air 2's new paint and graphics. They also thanked Oil Analysis Lab Inc.
The Air Support Unit provides search and rescue, fugitive searches, fire support, and other services. The unit operates on a limited budget and uses all-volunteer pilots.
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Space-Qualified Fabry-Perot Filter
Instruments such as those proposed for the High Resolution Solar Optical Telescope (HRSOT) mission will require a very high resolution and high throughput device to isolate absorption lines in the solar continuum. Thus, a very narrow passband is required, and sideband contamination must be minimized. An unavoidable effect of any spectral filtering system is to attenuate the signal even at the bandpass centroid, and there is a tradeoff between providing the narrowest bandwidth, while maintaining maximum throughput. The device must also be robust enough to survive the vibration stresses of launch, and be immune to the thermal, vacuum, and radiation conditions of the space environment over a period of several years. The objective are as follows:1. Investigate what heritage from prior Fabry-Perot instruments that the Michigan Aerospace Corporation team has worked on is applicable to the HRSOT instrument and develop a simulation and conceptual design for the filter system with the critical initial trade studies and system development.2. Using existing prototype hardware, demonstrate that a design exists for a tunable, high-finesse etalon that is capable of surviving the rigors of launch by subjecting the existing hardware to an environmental test, comparable to what would be required of HRSOT.
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The aviation industry has seen steady growth for the past few decades as air travel expands across the globe with new airports, more advanced aircraft, and an increased number of travelers. While the industry is quite diverse with many players acting in civil, defense, and private sectors, there are a handful of entities who have established themselves as leaders of the industry as a whole in regard to manufacturing. In this blog, we will discuss some of the top largest aircraft manufacturers in the world that operate in the commercial and private sectors.
If you are versed in the world of aircraft manufacturing, there is a good chance you are familiar with the aviation giant that is the Boeing Company. Recently reestablishing their headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, Boeing operates as a leading manufacturer with large scale production of commercial and military aircraft. One of Boeing’s most popular aircraft models is the Boeing 737, a narrow-body aircraft that serves as the most produced model in commercial aviation. Boeing also produces the aircraft for the Air Force One fleet, those of which currently compose two customized 747-200Bs.
Airbus is a close rival of Boeing in the commercial market, and they are headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands. Under their A2 and A3 series, Airbus offers over 11 commercial aircraft, a sector that comprises around 75% of the company’s total revenue. Airbus has been on the rise in recent years with their bolstered manufacturing and increased orders, and recent years have seen Airbus overtake Boeing in terms of deliveries.
Embraer is a large manufacturer situated in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their speciality lies in the production of military, executive, and agricultural aircraft models. The three most notable series that Embraer has are the ERJ, E-Jet, and E-Jet E2 lines of aircraft, all of which are narrow-bodied jets designed for passenger transportation over short-to-medium flying ranges. In recent years, Embraer partnered with Boeing to create a venture known as Boeing Brasil-Commercial, and this venture is split 80:20 between Boeing and Embraer respectively.
A Canadian manufacturer of airliners and other aircraft, Bombardier is notable for their CSeries jet airliners, Q400 turboprop planes, and more. In recent years, Bombardier has seen overwhelming competition in the commercial sector, so they have put most of their focus on private planes.
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or Comac, is a state-owned company that produces large airliners for 150 or more passengers. Comac was created to rival Airbus and Boeing in the Chinese market, and they have recently been receiving nearly 1,000 orders a year with their aircraft component needs being fulfilled from Western sources.
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation
Known as MAC for short, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Motors that produces various jets such as the 88-set M100 and the 76-seat M90. MAC previously acquired the CRJ program from Bombardier, that of which they plan to use to bolster their SpaceJet program.
United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is a Russian aircraft manufacturer that focuses on airliners, military aircraft, cargo planes, and special-purpose models. One of the notable models from UAC is the Sukhoi Superjet 130, which is a competitor of the Bombardier CSeries and Embraer E-Jet. Additionally, they are also planning on creating a wide-body twinjet that can seat over 400 passengers.
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On Friday evening, Qantas flight QF25 will depart Sydney Airport for the first time, bound for Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. This will be followed on Saturday morning by the inaugural departure of QF61 from Brisbane to Tokyo’s Narita Airport.
“This significant capacity expansion has been extremely well received by Qantas customers and especially by corporate travellers heading directly to downtown Tokyo, who can now save up to one and a half hours on their airport commute by flying into or out of Haneda,” said Qantas International’s CEO, Gareth Evans.
“Customers travelling on the new Brisbane-Narita route can explore Tokyo or beyond with popular holiday destinations across Jetstar Japan’s extensive domestic network, like Sapporo, Fukuoka and Osaka.”
Qantas’ Brisbane-Narita flights will be operated daily using a refurbished Airbus A330 aircraft, with flat-bed seats in business class. The Sydney-Haneda service will also run daily, using a Boeing 747-400 aircraft.
The launch of the new daily flights to Tokyo follows Jetstar’s introduction of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner on the Melbourne-Narita route earlier this month. And the frequency of this service will also increase from four to six flights per week in December-March.


Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Two Russian pilots killed in helicopter crash over rebel territory in Syria - Charles D'Alberto
The Russian ministry of defence said initial investigations showed the aircraft was not shot down
Two Russian pilots have died in a helicopter crash over rebel territory in Syria.
A spokesperson for Russia’s ministry of defence said the Mi-28N attack helicopter came down in Homs province in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
“The bodies of the dead pilots were removed during search and rescue operations and are currently at the Hmeymim Airbase,” he added.
Activists put the location of the wreckage in rebel-held territory outside of Homs city, where Russian air strikes have recently been reported.
Local opposition groups, al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusraand Islamist group Ahrar ash-Sham are known to be active in the area.
The pilots’ deaths bring the number of Russian servicemen killed in Syria since the country’s intervention started in September to at least eight.


IndiGo Flight News: The airline shared a video of the pilot welcoming passengers on the first flight from Delhi to North Goa. It can be seen in the video that the pilot welcomed the passengers wholeheartedly.
Delhi-Goa Flight: Indigo operated the inaugural flights to the new airport at Mopa in North Goa last week, with the first two flights being from Hyderabad and Delhi. The airline shared a video of the pilot welcoming passengers on the first flight from Delhi to North Goa. Another post which was recorded by an IndiGo passenger is now going viral. It can be seen in the video that the pilot welcomed the passengers wholeheartedly. At the end of the longer video, the passenger is heard saying, ‘Will you serve beer?’
- The pilot welcomed, then the passenger asked this question
As we can see in the beginning of the video, the pilot started his address by welcoming the passengers. The pilot asked the passengers – “Are we all excited?” Before the plane took off, the passengers clapped loudly. The pilot continued, “This is what we need on a cold Delhi morning. The scorching sun of Goa is waiting for you.” The first commercial flight to land at Manohar International Airport in Mopa, Goa was an IndiGo flight from Hyderabad, which had landed before an IndiGo flight from Delhi.
- Video went viral on social media
A video is going viral on social media, which has been shared by an account named @walavalkar. In the caption of this video, the user wrote, “Excitement was seen among the passengers of @IndiGo6E flight from Delhi to #MIA when the captain of the flight made an announcement before departure on Thursday.” Till now hundreds of people have seen this video. While many people gave their feedback.


Rud Aero’s mission is to build the strongest and best aerobatic planes in the world. The result of this effort was the RA-2, an unlimited class aerobatic airplane, specifically designed for world class aerobatic pilot Sergei Boriak. The two seat tandem RA-2 exceeds the capabilities of all existing aerobatic aircraft. Its light weight carbon fiber airframe is the strongest in its class able to sustain +/- 13 Gs with a 2x safety factor. Equipped with a 315 horsepower Lycoming AEIO 540 engine, the RA-2’s top speed is 182 kts and sea level initial rate of climb is 3,482 ft/min. It was first flown in February 2013 by legendary combat pilot, test pilot and Reno Air Race champion Skip Holm. Skip waxed poetic in his evaluation of the aircraft.
“The RA-2 new design, new acrobatic plane has arrived.
This machine of muscle and might, envisioned to be the envy of the upside-downside acrobatic world, is here in the make and model of the Rud Aero RA-2 all composite, all ready, all everything, gotta get me one newest plane to come alive in the US of A.
Rud Aero, which had given us a taste of what this magic machine would be like from the days of Oshkosh 2012, has given me the flight test cards, from which we have flown and thoroughly enjoyed the wring-out of this plane at Sebastian airfield in Florida.
Never has a job seemed so seemingly predestined, as we encountered very little obstacles in getting the envelope cleared, to which we have proudly re-established the dream of past years to say that this is the one, this is the one by which you also can meet and realize your dream.
A dream indeed, the RA-2 aircraft.
Thanks for the Flying.”


Civil Aviation Authority
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), is a statutory body that was established by the Government of the Republic of Zambia under Section 3 of the Civil Aviation Authority Act No.7 of 2012.
The CAA is inviting applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill one (01) position of Inspector Personnel Licensing under the Directorate of Flight Safety Standards and reporting to the Senior Inspector Personnel Licensing
To carry out the regulation of Personnel Licensing in order to facilitate compliance by all license holders.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Ensuring that activities within Personnel Licensing are carried out in accordance with regulations, standards and approved policies and procedures.
- Coordinating written examinations for flight crew members, aircraft maintenance staff, air traffic controllers, and ground operations personnel who want to apply for new classes, ratings, or authorizations to their licenses.
- Coordinating practical tests as required for the different specialties and generating the necessary test reports;
- Effectively monitoring service providers’ safety management systems in order to minimize hazards and risks in their operations.
- Participating in the effective implementation of performance management systems in order to enhance individual and organizational performance.
- Coordinating the issuance, validation and conversion of all types of licences and ratings issued under the Zambia Civil Aviation Requirements.
- Monitoring implementation of a system for designees and their oversight.
- Ensuring the approval or acceptance of simulation training devices used for training within the scope of licensing.
- Certification and surveillance of Flightcrew, ATC, AME and Cabin Crew training organizations. (ATOs).
- Coordinating processes for any enforcement action required to ensure compliance by licence, certificate and authorization holders.
Minimum Qualifications And Experience
- Full Form V /Grade 12 Certificate with minimum of five (5) “O” Levels with credits.
- BA in Aviation or related Social Science would be an added advantage
- Commercial Pilots Licence / Air Traffic Controllers Licence with three ratings
- At least 3 years experience.
- Government Safety Inspector PEL Certificate would be an added advantage.
- Must be a Zambian citizen.
- Ability to write Technical reports concisely in English and have good interpersonal skills
- Able to communicate effectively in English
- Computer literate
- Interpersonal Skills
Applicants who meet the above qualifications are encouraged to submit an application letter together with detailed Curriculum Vitae including three (3) traceable referees and day time telephone numbers. All applications should reach the undersigned not later than 30th April, 2021
The Director – General
Civil Aviation Authority
Former Zambia Airways Technical Base Hanger 38/947
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport
P.O. Box 50137


Fear and repercussions for passengers due to severe disturbances on a Delta flight 175 from Milan to Atlanta: Eleven passengers and a flight attendant were hospitalized after the twin-engine Airbus 350-900 landed in the US, according to the US airline. The plane, which includes 292 seats and is one of the most advanced aircraft in service, encountered “severe turbulence” about 60 km from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport while descending towards the airport.
Fog inside the plane during flight and fear among the passengers. The company: “There is no risk, it can happen.”
Severe flight disturbance, 11 in hospital
“DeltaCare team members mobilized to help customers of Delta Flight 175, which experienced severe turbulence, before landing safely in Atlanta.
A company spokesperson explained that our priority is to take care of our customers and crew who have sustained injuries.
It is not clear how many of the 151 passengers and 14 crew members were injured, other than the 11 who were taken to hospital, or what the extent of the injuries of those who were hospitalized was.
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Sophisticated fighter aircraft are expensive to develop, manufacture, and operate. To lower these costs, focus has shifted to multi-role planes that can be used by all branches of the armed forces. The US Navy’s F-14 was one of the last specialized fighters, a heavy and complex aircraft with powerful engines, sophisticated avionics, and variable-sweep wings.
A high sweep angle is beneficial for transonic and supersonic speeds, but slower speeds require the greater lift and stability of straighter wings. An onboard computer adjusted the F-14’s wings automatically to optimize wing sweep for a given airspeed. Our F-14D was the last F-14 to launch from an aircraft carrier on an operational deployment over Iraq. Its final flight was into Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, and it was decommissioned at the NC Air National Guard.


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Boeing Submits Proposal NASA Commercial Crew Development Program
December 19, 2010 - Boeing has submitted its proposal
for the second round of NASA’s Commercial Crew
Development (CCDev) program. Boeing plans to advance the
design of its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100
spacecraft and Commercial Crew Transportation System and
continue to demonstrate key technologies.
NASA’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Program is applying
Recovery Act funds to stimulate efforts within the
private sector to develop and demonstrate human
These efforts are intended to foster entrepreneurial activity leading to job growth in engineering, analysis, design, and research, and to economic growth as capabilities for new markets are created.
By developing commercial crew service providers, NASA may be
able to reduce the gap in
This activity is referred to as Commercial Crew Development, or
CCDev. An Announcement soliciting proposals for Space Act
Agreements (SAAs) is currently planned to be released on or
about August 10, 2009, with proposals due approximately 45 days
"In the same way that Boeing helped launch commercial aviation
more than 80 years ago, we are working to develop what could
become a true commercial space transportation system: a
commercial service to take people to the International Space
Station and other Low Earth Orbit destinations," said Brewster
Shaw, Boeing Space Exploration vice president and general
manager. "We plan to further mature our design and continue the
development process toward our first crewed flight in 2015."
Boeing is proposing an approach that will significantly mature the CST-100 design through demonstrations of critical subsystems. The CST-100 spacecraft is designed to support NASA's primary objective of affordable access to Low Earth Orbit.
It will carry up to seven crew and passengers, is reusable up to 10
times, and is compatible with a variety of expendable launch vehicles.
The spacecraft which is comprised of a Crew Module and a Service Module
draws on Apollo-proven aerodynamic characteristics in a design that uses
commercial, off-the-shelf, cost-effective technologies.
Boeing will build on its efforts performed under the first round of the
CCDev program, which greatly reduced program risk. In October, Boeing
completed a Systems Definition Review with NASA that defined the CST-100
spacecraft’s system characteristics and configuration and established a
baseline design. Other major accomplishments of the first round include:
- Design, build and test of a pressurized structure of the crew module
- Creation of a mock-up of the spacecraft to ensure the crew can enter and exit the vehicle safely, reach control switches and easily see through windows
- Demonstration of manufacturability of the base heat shield structure and thermal protection system to protect the crew during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere
- Development of an avionics systems integration facility to support rapid prototyping and full-scale development
- Development of a rendezvous sensor and associated guidance and navigation software that allows the vehicle to autonomously approach and dock with the International Space Station and the planned Bigelow Orbital Space Complex
- Demonstration of airbag land landing, water landing, post-water
landing uprighting and life-support systems.
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