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U.S. Navy photoFire Scout puts to the test its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability during the aircraft's first deployment aboard USS McInerney in early 2010.
A rogue drone flew away from a Webster Field control center into restricted airspace on a test flight earlier this month before control was reestablished and the unmanned aerial vehicle was brought safely back to its home base in St. Inigoes.
The NAVAIR Fire Scout program has been suspended while an investigation is conducted to uncover why the aircraft flew into restricted airspace.
"We are in the final stages of the investigation and plan on briefing leadership next week. We anticipate resuming flight operations in early September," Capt. Tim Dunigan, program manager, said in a prepared statement.
The MQ-8B Fire Scout, one of four based at Webster Field in southern St. Mary's County, was flying at about 1,700 feet altitude during what was described as a routine test flight.
An operator at Webster Field lost communications with the unmanned helicopter 75 minutes into the flight. The drone, which carried no weapons, proceeded 23 miles north/northwest toward the nation's capital.
It was still about 40 miles south of the D.C. area, but within the National Capital Region airspace, which restricts such flights. Any manned or unmanned aerial vehicles must first check with the FAA to fly in the airspace.
Based on that flight trajectory, the vehicle probably did not fly outside of St. Mary's County, according to Jamie Cosgrove, public affairs officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons for NAVAIR.
Operations of the vehicle were shifted to another ground control station, according to Dunigan, and the link was restored.
"The aircraft returned to Webster Field safely without injuries, and without damage to the aircraft or vessel," according to Dunigan's statement.
Cosgrove said the incident happened in the early afternoon Aug. 2 and that it lasted about 20 minutes. Authorities, including the FAA, were notified immediately when the incident occurred, she said.
The Fire Scout looks like a small helicopter without windows and is about 32 feet long and 10 feet high.
The unmanned aerial vehicle has a speed of 110 knots and a range of 110 nautical miles from the launch site, according to a Navy description. It is built by Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems.
The routine test flight exposed a software anomaly that allowed the aircraft to not follow its preprogrammed flight procedures, according to Dunigan's statement.
"We have identified the issue and have aircraft operating restrictions that will prevent this from happening again," Dunigan said, referring to a software modification that has been developed to remove the anomaly.
The Fire Scout is in operational evaluation, still being tested from Webster Field, Cosgrove said.
"It varies, depending what the demand is for the testing," Cosgrove said when asked how often the drone is in the skies around Webster Field. She said that since its first flight in December 2006, the Fire Scout has logged more than 1,000 flight hours.
The Fire Scout is designed to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and can take off and land from aircraft carriers. It deployed aboard the USS McInerney on its first mission last year in October and returned this April on a counternarcotics trafficking deployment, which Cosgrove said had been successful.
The Navy is seeking to give the Fire Scout program a 50 percent budget boost as part of an 89-page "omnibus reprogramming request" submitted to Congress last month. The Navy Times, which obtained a copy of the funding request, reports that the Navy is seeking to shift $13 million to the program to finish operational testing aboard the frigate Halyburton.


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Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903-87) was the undisputed master of Italian aeronautical engineering. He designed over 140 aircraft, including the G.55 Centauro, one of the finest fighters of World War II. His designs carried a G-prefix, and included the G.222, the basis of today’s superb C-27J Spartan ‘mini-Hercules’. In the 1950s, his G.91 design won a 1950s competition to provide NATO with a cheap, tactical support fighter. Following this victory, it was only natural that Italy would enter the next NATO fast jet competition. An epic contest began to equip NATO with a ‘resistance’ fighter, one that could bring the fight to the enemy on day two of a nuclear war.
In the early 1960s, NATO put out a requirement for a common ‘jump-jet’ (though the term was yet to be coined) fighter-bomber. With a strong possibility of all member nations buying the fighter, it became the biggest international design contest that had been ever held. Whichever company won the competition stood the chance to make an enormous profit and become the world’s dominant defence contractor. It was a tough brief, demanding a supersonic jet aircraft able to take-off and land vertically. The requirement, NATO Military Basic Requirement (NMBR) 3, did not specify a technical solution to the problem of V/STOL and the many bidders adopted different solutions.
Fiat’s first stab at NMBR-3 was the baseline G.95 concept. This was relatively small and showed some G.91 ancestry. It was powered by one forward flight engine and two small auxiliary engines with vectored thrust. It had shoulder-mounted intakes and a conventional tail.
Fiat then began studying the use of lift-jets. Lift-jets were auxiliary engines fitted vertically inside the aircraft, which propelled the aircraft during vertical take-offs and landings. Once the aircraft was in forward flight they were switched off. The concept had been around at least as far back as the 1940s and has been attributed to both German propulsion engineers and the British jet genius Alan Arnold Griffith (he had been the Air Ministry’s advisor that had dismissed Whittle’s 1930 turbine thesis, he later led the Conway and Avon engine projects). The rather dainty G.95 was followed by a more butch study, the G.95/3. The handsome G.95/3, which would have resembled the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo, had two widely-spaced forward flight engines and four lift engines and a high T-tail.
The G.95/6: The ‘Supersonique Salsiccia’
This was followed by the G.95/6, an enormously elongated fighter with tiny wings. With its high performance, tiny wing area and dependence on eight engines, the fighter would have been unforgiving and likely to have had a terrifying attrition rate. The /6 concept had two forward flight engines and no less than six lift jets. Eight engines would have presented the G.95/6 with several challenges if it had entered service. The complexity of the design would have made it maintenance heavy and would have reduced fleet availability. The six lift engines would have been a dead weight during normal flight, reducing the range or payload or both. However, if it had been built made it would have certainly been an awe-inspiring machine- combining noisy vertical take-offs (fuel and thrust allowing) with predatorial good looks.
Any ‘jump-jet’ is by nature a compromise and is inferior to its conventional equivalent. Was it worth accepting these limitations? Developing a supersonic jump-jet would have been expensive, risky and led to a less capable aircraft. Was War World Three likely enough to merit this? If tactical nuclear warfare had happened would these doomsday fighters have been able to fight on? The NMBR-3 winner would be expected to operated from dispersed temporary airbases during periods of chaos. A vast logistical feat, which as the RAF found out with the Harrier proved costly and difficult.
By early 1962, the NMBR-3 project was in crisis. The NATO planning group in charge of selecting a design was finding out that no one aircraft type could meet all the nations’ differing requirements, and even if one did, there was no obligation for the air arms to purchase the type. The committee gave up.
However, by now so much time and money had been put into the each NMBR-3 candidate that they carried a momentum of their own. The two strongest projects were Britain’s P.1154 (which was expected to replace RAF Hunters and to a less-likely extent Royal Navy Sea Vixens) and France’s Dassault Mirage IIIV which was getting solid government backing. The G.95/6 was a wild outsider, and seemed to have little chance of reaching the flying stage as it had yet to receive government funding.
By June 1963, this had all changed. Fiat Aviazone had received a contract from the Italian air force for a new strike aircraft (and a transport aircraft to support it). Fiat was given a sum equivalent to £600,000 (at a 1963 exchange rate), today this would be worth around £15 million. This was enough to fund a flying test rig, powered by.
At the time the Italian Government as well as many at Fiat saw that dream of a Mach 2 VTOL fighter was pushing the limit of the current technology (even in 2012 it’s far from easy). They suggested a simpler interim aircraft capable of replacing the G.91. The aircraft, designated G.95/4, would have a top speed of between Mach 1 and 1.3. It was faster than Britain’s P.1127, and was likely to have a longer range. As well as being a sensible idea, the /4 was a tacit acknowledgement that Fiat was unlikely to have the /6 ready any time soon and was even less likely to achieve export orders against stronger international competitors. Lift for the /4 was from fourjets each with more than 2,000 lbs of thrust. Forward thrust was expected to come from two Rolls-Royce/MAN . West Germany and Italy joined together to develop a V/STOL G.91 replacement on April 9, 1964. The competitors for VAK-191, were:
- The British VAK-191, based on the Hawker P.1170
- The West German VAK-191B, the Focke-Wulf 1262
- The VAK-191C (also West German) was the EWR-340 (VJ-101D)
- The VAK-191D, Italy’s Fiat G.95/4
The official statement by the German Defence Ministry named the Focke-Wulf 1262 (VAK-191) as the chosen aircraft; though it hadn’t been announced, it was clear that the G.91/4 was dead. Having already been funded by the air force, it would stagger on as research project, but the writing was on the wall for Italy’s doomsday fighter. The G.91/4’s status at this time is nebulous, but appears to be associated with the VAK-191 project. It also seems to have been a project to keep an advanced aerospace skills set in Italy as by 1965, Fiat had almost finished licence-building the F-104Gs it had been contracted for and was desperate to secure follow-on work. The /6 had disappeared by now and the duplication of efforts of working on the VAK-191B as well as the G.95/4 was clearly wasteful, by 1968 the /4 was officially abandoned as anything other than a research project.
The curse of V/STOL would eventually kill the VAK-191 too. In the end, despite all the thousands of millions of dollars invested in fast jump-jets, led to only two entering service, the British (later Anglo-American) Harrier and the barely supersonic (and very limited) Soviet Yak-38.
B is for Bevilaqua
No nations were willing to accept the compromises and risks involved in procuring a truly supersonic jump-jet. The technical challenge continued to fascinate aircraft designers, but many hard-headed military thinkers saw it as folly. The Royal Navy, USMC and Soviet Navy carried the flame through the 1970s. The US Navy took an uncharacteristic foray into ‘flat-risers’ with the Rockwell XFV-12, which proved utterly useless and further cemented the service’s anti-STOVL sentiments. The Soviet Navy, with no conventional carrier experience, was the last nation to pursue this Cold War dream. The Soviet Yakovlev Yak-41 (141) was a remarkable aircraft, with unique capabilities. It first flew in 1987, but a long development meant it was not in service by the time the Soviet Union was collapsing. Yakovlev embraced a changing world and did the unthinkable, it looked for foreign investors. America, which until a couple of years ago had been the arch-enemy, stepped forward. Lockheed (later Lockheed Martin) was then developing a candidate for the Joint Strike Fighter, the X-35, and cleverly absorbed all of Yakovlev’s relevant research data. The propulsion system of the STOVL X-35 differed from the Yak in one key respect; whereas the Russian aircraft augmented the vertical thrust from a swivelling ‘lobster’ back nozzle with a separate lift engine, the X-35 employed a lift-fan driven by shaft from the main engine. The X-35 won the JSF contest, leading to the F-35 now in development. The STOVL version of the F-35 is the B variant.
The graveyard of aborted aircraft projects is littered with dozens of jump-jet projects; will the F-35B overcome this curse?
Whereas ‘survivability’ had been the word used to force through the jump-jet concept in the 1960s, today the catchword is ‘expeditionary’, but is it worthwhile? With the F-35B set to enter service with the USMC, the British RAF/RN and the Italian Navy in the next ten years, some still question the sense of STOVL. In November 2012 the first F-35Bs were delivered for Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 of the USMC. This event is largely for show as there is still a great deal of work to do before the F-35B will be anywhere near combat-ready. Time will tell if the Holy Grail was worth the long search.


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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for the week is Anything to do With Jets and Planes. The photos in this post were taken at Travis Air Force Base and feature the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. The precision drill both preflight and post flight is impressive and stirring. The flying is amazing and heartstopping as the F-16’s fly at speeds reaching 500 to 700 mph (800 to 1,130 km/h) and getting as close as 18 inches apart.
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What are Drones?
Some may say that it is a surveillance tool used by many nations to watch over the states; others may even mean that it is a gizmo for delivery or that it is a deadly ghost hiding deep in the sky. Possession of drones comes with great responsibility as the United States has dozens of unarmed and armed drones flying across numerous countries.
In this article, we will tell you all about drones and how effective are drones during coronavirus pandemic.
These aerial vehicles are the most superior-tech device one can own as it can be manipulated without a human pilot. We can control it from the floor with the help of a GPS tracking system. The technicality of drones gets better every year as they are always released with enhanced and latest features.
Previously it was used for airstrikes and eliminating terrorist groups overseas, but how did these come into existence?
Origin of Drones
To know how they are actually trendy today, you should look back 100 years ago. These aerial vehicles operated on the system of sensors. You can think of it as a remote control airplane having unlimited range. However, the exact origin is complex to find. World war 1 was the first era when the world witnessed aircraft in the military service. And since then, it has been flourishing in every industry.
How Drones Work?
The military refers to drones as crewless aerial vehicles or RPAS. Drones are highly useful in situations where regular flights can be too risky. They record the imagery situation going on in that area and calculate the risk before taking off after long surveillance. Mechanics of a drone flight are not too complicated once you understand what happens behind the interface, including aeroscope accelerometer, landing gear, etc.
We can say that drones have a small computer in themselves which uses minute sensors for detection of movements, air pressure, acceleration along with GPS information. By all these technologies, a drone is a self-contained flight system. It is mainly used by, photographers, large scale farming communities for monitoring their crops by an inexpensive method, real estate professional who wants to show their property or lands to buyers, extremely adventurous people who go on hiking.
Let’s look at it in a nutshell that how a basic drone takes action-
Can be controlled by smartphone, tablets, or a pre-programmed app with GPS coordinates.
2. Accelerometer and altimeter
An accelerometer is used to provide raw information regarding the speed and direction. Altimeter is concerned with the altitude.
Just like every other electronic device, a drone also needs a battery, propellers (blades), motors. The motor is responsible for the rotation of blades at the highest speed possible. The average rate is 28500 RPM (Revolutions per minute) or 475 RPS (Revolutions per second).
The basic formula for left calculation that every drone follows is- L= ½ ¶V²ACl
- ¶= air density
- V=velocity of air
- A=surface area
- Cl=coefficient of lift
The drone can have its control over just one term, which is velocity, by rotating the blades. All the four motors with their blade are distinguished in two sets. One rotates in the clockwise manner and the other in an anticlockwise manner. All four engines are used for a drone to get it off from the ground, which generates a net upward force more than its weight, and each motor blade makes a thrust upwards.
Once the drone is in air, it may hover. In this case, the net force can have equilibrium if it matches its weight. When the drone turns to the left side, it will generate power on the right hand of the motors. It will increase the thrust and hence will allow the movement. Simultaneously, it reduces the influence on the left side of the engines to lessen the intensity of the push. The combined net force turns the drone to the left side.
Most of the drones come with an inbuilt camera, and if not, then one can be engineered. Of course, high tech drones require the supervision of an expert to control it, but there are drones available for beginners as well, in which it is easy to control the cameras. Now drones come with a memory card so the user can record the footage and later on watch it on your computer. Channel control and transmitter are used to navigate the drones. You can route your drones to a higher speed if the drone has high channel control.
How Drones Can Help in a Pandemic?
Within a few months, the COVID-19 crisis has shut down most parts of the world. It’s challenging to greet each other and almost impossible to go to work and keep educating our children. With a complete lockdown of people, it is an excellent time to use the technologies, including drones during coronavirus pandemic, for carrying out our essential activities.
Also, after keeping in mind no human-contact, now delivering healthcare is the main problem. The current health crisis will improve on its own when the time comes, but until then, how these drones during coronavirus pandemic can help to make our life easier? The relative benefits can be applied to rather than just photography or in a war. To what extent these drones are useful for us to carry out our daily activities for the common man and official officers? Let’s look at some of the money benefits we can have from drones in this time of crisis–
Transportation of Goods
After all, the most beneficial application of drones during coronavirus pandemic is there potential to carry products. The companies are using drones during coronavirus pandemic to transport healthcare supplies and medicines to the required places. They travel mostly from hospitals to disease control centers. However, this work carried out under the supervision of various groups and agencies of the health department and municipal government.
All the proper safety measures are taken for operating the drones. The drones have speeded up the shipment process, and they have reduced human contact to a large extent. These unmanned devices allowed health professionals to stay uninfected and unharmed. According to Network, it was found that drones can deliver goods 50% faster than the roads also while cutting the risk of coronavirus spread. Drones transport has significantly reduced unnecessary physical contact, thereby preventing secondary transmission.
One of the significant applications of drone, even if not in the crisis, was to spray pesticides over the farm for large farming organizations. These were previously used on land for crops, but today they are used for sanitizing and disinfecting public places. You don’t need to put any labors for this work as the drones can do it all without any manual help, which decreases the spread of the virus. Another reason why it is so beneficial is that it can cover a large area in no time as compared to human labor.
As we know that viruses can spread to people by respiratory droplets or by the touch of contaminated surfaces. At such times, a disinfectant can be a mercy to reduce this transmission. Compared to doing manual work for spraying, drone spray has many advantages. It is observed by the drone company that disinfecting using drones is 60% more efficient than hand spraying. All the technical specifications are provided to the local authorities to build up the proper efforts for this use of drones.
Consumer Drone Delivery
This has been a trend in China after the outbreak. For avoiding people meeting each other, they are using drones during coronavirus pandemic as a means of limiting human contact. It was difficult for people in the semi-isolated Islands of China to get their household stuff. Generally, three modes of transportation are required for transporting groceries and other household products. Products are usually ships to the main pier, distributed to each island, and then taken on foot.
But after the outbreak, all these transportation means are stopped. Ensuring the support of local government and other E-Commerce company, the drone team agreed to become a feasible alternative. Together with background service and flight corridor permitted flight tests. Drones during coronavirus pandemic have been able to replace long drives for picking groceries by Just 10 minutes. Just like in China, it would be a treat to see the beneficial application of drones in all other cities as well.
Now, as the virus is spreading beyond our control, there is a great need that we all stay safe by not going at gatherings. Even after being told, many people continue to carry out daily life as before the pandemic. This results in more and more spread and loss of lives. It is essential to keep eyes on crowded areas 24 hours to make sure that the lockdown is in control.
Cctv cameras can only work in their zones, but surveying the whole city can be done through drones during coronavirus pandemic. With the help of photography drones, now we can have an image of all the crowded places in the city any time we want. Quick action can be taken if we find any gathering to keep people safe.
Other than that, another widespread use of drones during coronavirus pandemic is that we can give immediate medical care to the person in need. There is a high possibility that a person may get sick of the virus while he is out for grocery purchases. It will be tough for him to find help if no one else is available at the moment. At the time, this surveillance drone can scan the area and pinpoint the one who needs medical attention.
Another way of surveillance is by using drones with a body detection thermometer equipped with infrared. It can detect people with high temperature and let us know if he is going to be sick. It is, however, not in use for now, but still, it would be if considered.
Due to the lockdown, all the public places, including schools and colleges, are shut down for good. Flying drones during coronavirus pandemic around the infected areas can also be used as a device to educate people.
There is a category of drones in which you can mount speakers or banners for providing safety information to people. Or at least it can be used to give people wanting to go back home if they are staying outside for some unreasonable cause.
How to Make it Happen?
Drones have always been used for the betterment of society, and now it is the time when they can give their contribution to fighting against the virus. However, it has happened in some of the countries. Other ones are still lagging. Influential organizations and official authorities need to know the efficiency of these applications as beneficial for health.
Drones can be very helpful for service improvements, reduction of disease transmission, and cost savings for the overall health system. A proof of all these records should be collected and shown to the authorities about how helpful are drones during coronavirus pandemic. All these data are still considered sensitive by them to be disclosed. But releasing this information can be very helpful to ensure other health systems to learn from this experience.
A well-integrated drone can save a lot of money on unfortunate experimentation. The basic drone can maintain strict regulations for consumer use. The civil authorities must approve the request by health application sectors and let them use this airspace to make their lives much more manageable.
All of this data was just a drop in the bucket. If you would know all the benefits a drone can have, then you would be fascinated. Many other sectors like site survey, aerial cinematography, in search and rescue, drones have been used in almost all the critical areas. In the past few years, interest increase in the drone investment is seen in the consumer sector. But a high time when its application should be meaningful is right now. It can help save people’s lives. This crewless aerial vehicle covers everything from the chipset, software aerodynamics materials, and everything a high tech requires. It’s about time we spread the knowledge and get advantages of the drones in the crisis.
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The East Bay amateur radio club worked with the UC Berkeley ham radio club on a high altitude balloon launch. The balloon went up on March 18, starting on Memorial Glade on the UC Berkeley campus. The payload included a bio-aerosol collection module, a Geiger counter, and a cross-band repeater. I was lucky enough to grab a seat in one of the chase cars despite not having worked on any of the modules that went up with the balloon.
I managed a QSO with W7IV in San Luis Obispo county when the balloon had reached an altitude 30000 feet. After about two hours of flight time, the balloon reached its maximum altitude of 107553 feet just south of Sacramento where it popped and the parachute deployed. Then, the winds pushed the payload to some woods to the east of Folsom Lake where the group retrieved it (with the permission of the property owners).
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My honey and I were interested in the museum because both our fathers were pilots during World War II. The museum is made up of three huge airplane hangers filled with aircraft exhibits from early flight to recent rocketry. We went straight to the World War II hangar to see our fathers' airplanes.
The P-61 has an interesting tail design. Unfortunately, due to where it is placed in the museum, it's difficult to see the tail fuselage. Still, it was a treat for me to be able to see the entire aircraft. Up until now, I had only seen photos, small models and an incomplete version that they are restoring at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum.
It was really great to stop at the museum and on our next visit I hope to spend the entire day. There's certainly plenty to see.
Now, for anyone who's not tired of old planes yet, here's a video I found on the interweb showing the P-61 in flight. I'm always amazed by all that's out there to be seen. Enjoy!


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Ukraine will struggle to operate both US-made and Soviet-era warplanes, the Air Force spokesman has said
Ukraine will encounter difficulties maintaining the US-made F-16 fighter jets scheduled to arrive in the country later this year, a spokesman for the Air Force has acknowledged.
Speaking on national TV on Saturday, Yury Ignat said he was sure that Kiev would eventually switch from Soviet-era jets to Western warplanes, including F-16s and also the Swedish-made Gripen. Stockholm earlier said deliveries were possible, but that it would first have to be accepted into NATO.
However, according to the official, until the Ukrainian military transitions to new aircraft, it will face serious infrastructure challenges as it tries to maintain several types of jet simultaneously – even though infrastructure for NATO aircraft is relatively standardized.
“Different countries have one, or at most two types of planes. As of today, we have four types of Soviet-era planes. We want to take on the Western F-16s and more… It will be extremely difficult to maintain and operate different types of aircraft,” Ignat said.
Western countries announced the creation of a coalition to help Ukraine procure F-16 fighter jets and train its pilots to fly the advanced warplanes last year, with Kiev officials expecting the first deliveries in 2024. The Netherlands and Denmark have spearheaded the effort, promising to donate up to 61 planes of this type.
However, the Danish newspaper Berlingske reported earlier this month that the delivery of F-16s by Copenhagen would be delayed by up to six months. At the time, Ignat cautioned against making a “disaster” out of the report, urging the public to rely on official statements.
Russia, which has repeatedly condemned Western arms shipments to Ukraine, has warned that aircraft deliveries will not help Kiev drastically change the situation on the frontline, while vowing to destroy F-16s along with other foreign-supplied equipment.
In July, however, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the upcoming deliveries a “dangerous development,” recalling that some modifications of the F-16 can carry nuclear weapons.
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Firstly, let us see facts about the snow that falls on planet Mars during fall. It has been indicated time and again that the snows forms on the upper parts of the atmosphere of the planet Mars. They then vaporize before landing on the surface.
Many space science scholars postulate that planet Mars for a long time had large amounts of water on its surface. This kind of hypothesis is based on the fact that there are extensive but scattered water bodies existing on the valleys and canyons of this particular planet.
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The moon that keeps rotating planet Earth is another spectacular phenomenon. Facts about Earth’s moon was first recorded in 1968. The Apollo 8 Aircraft was the first space aircraft that left the Earth and started orbiting around the moon. Other space aircrafts were later launched, such as Britain’s Black Arrow.
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In case you have booked a flight straight to Pori, please check the status of your flights and contact your travel agency. The options for flight destinations are Helsinki and Tampere. From either one of these you can take a train to Pori.


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Damen and SMST have recently signed a new contract. SMST will deliver the helicopter hangar door for the Royal Netherlands Navy’s (RNLN) Combat Support Ship (CSS) Den Helder, engineered and built by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS).
SMST, situated in Drachten, the Netherlands, and employing around 150 personnel, offers a wide range of systems for access, lifting, drilling and pipelaying, through the unique combination of in-house design and engineering expertise, production facilities, testing capacity and worldwide installation & services. The engineering activities and the supply of specific components for the helicopter hangar door will take place in the Netherlands, whereas the steel parts will be produced at Damen Shipyards Galati, where the CSS is being built. The equipment will be delivered in June 2022.
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Onur Air was established on 14 April 1992 and started revenue operations using a wet-leased Airbus A320 with a flight to Ercan in North Cyprus on 14 May of that year. «Onur» means proud, self-esteem in Turkish. Over the next years, the Onurair fleet grew, so that by the end of 1995, it included nine aircraft. Previously its head office was in Florya, Bakırköy, Istanbul.
In 1996, Ten Tour acquired ownership of the airline. By 1997 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 twin-jet airliners had been added to the fleet. Due to a recession,[specify] Onur Air had to reduce the size of its fleet to 13 in 1998, and then to 9 in 1999. Since then the airline has expanded again.
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How I Spent My Thanksgiving (Seven Hours In Charlotte)
This was only the second time that I had done any long distance traveling at Thanksgiving, and the first time that I had flown on a holiday. My previous experience of holiday travel hell had been a drive from Queens to Baltimore on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 1989. What was normally a four hour trip took me seven hours. That seven hour figure returned this year, in a different way.
Early on Thanksgiving Day, I left my home for the short drive to the Richmond airport. My destination was Lexington, KY, and I had a connection in Charlotte. I was due to arrive in Charlotte on US Airways at around 10 am, and my flight on US Airways Express (Mesa Air) was scheduled for 11:10 am, with an arrival time in Lexington of 12:33 pm. It was not to be.
My first flight arrived in Charlotte on time, and I found the gate for the second part of my journey. The plane was already there, so I expected an on-time departure. I was wrong. The plane needed maintenance (for a door), so the flight was delayed. I watched as a maintenance man came, went, returned, and left again. At about 12:15 pm the flight was cancelled because maintenance did not have the proper part to fix the door! An airline did not have a part to fix an airplane at one of its hub airports.
I quickly made my way to the service desk, where I was booked on the next flight to Lexington, and given a $5 voucher for lunch (woo hoo!). This flight was scheduled for a 1:50 pm departure, but it was already delayed until 2:40 pm.
After a fine meal at the airport Burger King, courtesy of US Airways, I found my new gate. An announcement was made that our plane was still on the ground in Montgomery, AL waiting for maintenance. At 2:30 pm we were told that the plane was loaded. At 3:20 pm the plane was in the air, and arrived in Charlotte at a little after 4 pm.
When all of the passengers from Montgomery were off the plane, we were told that the crew had requested maintenance. Next, we were advised of a change of planes (and gates) due to this maintenance issue. At 4:30 pm, the crew asked for maintenance to come to the replacement plane. Finally, at 5:00 pm, a plane full of tired, angry passengers was on its way to Lexington. For those of you not keeping score, I had expected about a one hour layover in Charlotte, and ended up spending seven hours waiting there on Thanksgiving Day.
In Charlotte, I faced six hours of delays, one flight cancellation, three planes, and a total of three gate changes.
As you might imagine, as I arrived at the Lexington airport on Saturday for the trip home, I was wondering what US Airways and US Airways Express had in store for me this time. I immediately saw that my flight back to Charlotte was delayed by about one hour. Let's just say that I wasn't surprised, and muttered some thoughts about the airline to myself. Luckily, I had over two hours (scheduled) between flights, so I would still make my connection from Charlotte to Richmond.
The flight ended up being delayed about 90 minutes, and before boarding, we were told that the lavatory on the plane was not operable. Once we were on the plane, the captain announced that the delay had been due to (wait for it) maintenance issues earlier in the day.
I made my connection, and my flight from Charlotte to Richmond was on time.
The flights that were cancelled or delayed were from US Airways Express, operated by Mesa Air. The service was appalling, and the number of maintenance problems sure doesn't give you much confidence in the airline.
One thing for sure is that I'll remember this Thanksgiving experience long after US Airways is out of business.
Update: I'm really proud of myself for having written this entire post without once saying how much I think US Airways sucks.
Update: Welcome, Instapundit readers, to my very first Instalanche. To comment on what Glenn wrote, I was surprised that an angry mob did not form. As a relocated New Yorker, I'm sure that there would have been quite a scene if this had been a New York flight.


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After earning my BS in Mechanical Engineering I moved to Seattle and worked as a design engineer at Boeing for 7 years. My first role was with the 787 development program where we pioneered the use of model based definition and composite materials. Later I transitioned to the Flight Test Instrumentation group which was responsible to for the design, manufacture, installation and in-flight operation of instrumentation for all flight test programs. Looking for a change of pace my wife and I then started a microbrewery that we built from the ground up into a successful production brewery with a vibrant taproom along with robust keg and can sales. That project spanned 10 years and had me filling numerous roles including: architectural design, permitting, licensing, commercial space build out, brewmaster, sales, marketing, procurement, HR, management and, last but not least, beertender. Having sold the business in early 2022 I'm now doing remote, part time work where I can leverage my wealth of engineering design and hands-on experience to create exceptional value for clients.


Mars Landing Site Selection for Tianwen-3 Mission
Convenors: James Head (Brown University, US), Yang Liu (NSSC, China), Joseph Michalski (Hongkong University, China), John Mustard (Brown University, US), Fuchuan Pang (DSEL, China)
Mars exploration today is at a critical juncture. A series of successful orbital and landed spacecraft missions have revealed a planet with water and various environments that could be or could have been habitable to microbes. Based on this, the next generation of Mars exploration will provide insight into Mars by conducting ground-based laboratory studies on returned Mars samples. Currently, NASA has successfully launched the Perseverance rover to begin the first phase of the Mars sampling return mission. China has also deployed the Tianwen-3 mission, which is scheduled to return the Mars samples around 2030. These missions have the unprecedented advantage of taking the search for potential evidence of ancient Martian life or its organic precursors a giant step forward. How to find a landing site that would enable scientists to make the most discoveries about past life on Mars and provide the most scientifically compelling and diverse set of samples for potential return to Earth is a crucial question for the success of the sample return missions. During this workshop, we will focus on understanding what we can learn from the previous missions for selecting landing sites, proposing the methodology for assessing and exploring the potential biological history of Mars and indicating its implications for selecting landing sites, as well as providing candidate landing sites with great scientific value for the upcoming Tianwen-3 mission.
Mars Space Environment
Convenors: Jingnan Guo (USTC, China), Hadi Madanian (U Colorado, US), Beatriz Sanchez-Cano (U Leicester, UK), Yuming Wang (USTC/DSEL, China)
During the last two solar cycles, observations from orbit and from ground by Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Mars Express (MEX), Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), InSight, and the most recent Chinese TianWen-I etc. have indicated that Mars can be significantly affected by solar activity. How Mars’ magnetosphere, ionosphere or even lower atmosphere down to its surface react under different solar disturbances is still an open question that deserves future studies. The status and disturbance of the Martian space environment, as well as the extent of their effects and impacts on the entire Mars system warrant further investigations that require the availability of dedicated, routine and multi-spacecraft observations at Mars. Moreover, considering future missions especially human exploration activities, it is very important to understand and characterise the space weather impacts and effects on human explorers and supporting infrastructure (communications, power systems, habitat, etc.), both in orbit around and at the surface of Mars. This workshop is dedicated to discuss about 1) the state-of-the-art development in understanding Mars space environment based on existing observations, 2) our knowledge gaps and open questions in the field and 3) recommendations for future studies and mission planning.
New views of Mars and Moon: from surface to the core
Convenors: Ling Chen (IGG, China), Dongyang Huang (ETH, Switzerland), Lu Pan (USTC, China), Cathy Quantin-Nataf (UCBL, France), Daoyuan Sun (USTC, China)
Recently, Mars exploration has witnessed the intense visits of several international space missions with various instruments and techniques, including InSight, MMX, Mars 2020, Tianwen-1 (Zhurong rover), Hope mission, and the ongoing missions of MSL and Maven. With these missions, Mars has been probed from the surface and crust to the mantle and core, radically updating our views of their differentiation, composition, and surface evolution history. The Moon has also been a popular destination of planetary missions, including the Chang'e 1-5 missions and the planned Artemis mission. New views of the composition and internal strucutre of the Moon are also updated revisiting previous observations and datasets with new tools. This session will serve as a platform for the open discussion of these international teams on our current view of how Mars and Moon formed, differentiated and evolved, with emphasis on interdisciplinary discussion from diverse approaches. In addition to the input from the observation from space missions, contributions from the theory, experiment, and analytical studies that help us resolve the new observations are also greatly appreciated.
Observing the Sun-Earth System as an Extrasolar System
Convenors: Siteng Fan (LMD, France), Robert von Fay-Siebenburgen (UoS, UK), Rui Li (USTC, China), Jiajia Liu (USTC, China)
Among more than 5000 exoplanets discovered up to now, around 60 are believed to be potentially habitable. The Sun-Earth system provides a unique example based on which detailed insights into the properties, formation, evolution, and thus habitability of exoplanets could be gained. During this session, we will focus on understanding the critical characterizations related to the habitability of the Sun-Earth system, what we could learn from the solar system as a baseline for exoplanet studies, and ongoing/upcoming space missions for solar system and exoplanet research. The topical session consists of four topics on: 1) Sun as a star: global EUV responses of solar activities, 2) The energy budget of the Earth's climate system and its key controlling factors, 3) Earth as an exoplanet: global and regional characteristics of the visible and near-infrared Earth, and 4) Impact of solar activities on the habitability of Earth.
Planetary Atmospheres: Composition, Dynamics, and Habitability
Convenors: Yongyun Hu (PKU, China), Tao Li (USTC/DSEL, China), Xi Zhang（UCSC, US)
Planetary atmospheres play a crucial role in the habitability of a planet. In this session, we will explore the composition, dynamics, and other key features of planetary atmospheres. We will discuss the factors that influence the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres and the tools and techniques used to study them. This session will include the following topics (but not limited to): 1) Introduction to planetary atmospheres and their role in habitability; 2) Dynamics of planetary atmospheres, including weather and climate; 3) Composition of planetary atmospheres, including gases and aerosols; 4) Factors that influence the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres, such as solar radiation and planetary mass; 5) Tools and techniques used to study planetary atmospheres, including space-based instruments and remote sensing.
Convenors: Chris Glein (SwRI, US), Lei Li (NSSC, China), Jihua Hao (USTC/DSEL, China), Yuangao Qu (SIDSSE, China), Xinting Yu (University of Texas, San Antonio, US)
Icy moons are a large group of natural satellites orbitting gaseous planets in the solar system and usually covered by thick layer(s) of ice. Space missions revealed that some icy moons, like Europa and Enceladus, have long-lasting liquid ocean below the icy shell. Further detection demonstrated considerable levels of organics and reducing gases in the ocean waters, rendering some icy moons to be the hottest targets to find extraterrestrial life. This session calls for any topics related with the icy moons, including but not limited to the origin, evolution, structure, composition, and habitability of icy moons. We also welcome research about detection techniques, mission proposals, as well as ground and onboard test experiments.
Key scientific issues and ground simulations in the study of planetary habitability
Convenors: Peng E (HIT, China), Chao He (JHU, US), Quanming Lu (USTC/DSEL, China)
Habitability of a planet means that a celestial body meets the basic conditions for the origin and evolution of life, which requires the existence of suitable energy sources, the accumulation of essential elements and components for life, the formation of liquid water, and oxidative atmospheric components. The formation of a planet's habitable environment is the result of the complex interaction of space and internal environment through multi-circle layer coupling that ultimately affects the evolution of the atmosphere and surface environment. The differentiation of the planet's inner core and mantle forms the planet's intrinsic magnetic field to shield and protect the planet's atmospheric environment. To provide a possible place for the evolution of early life, internal degassing and atmospheric escape jointly affected the evolution of the early ocean and atmosphere. The photolysis reaction leads to the formation of trace amounts of O2, which gradually transforms the reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing atmosphere. The formation of oxygen and the ozone layer provides the basic conditions for the habitability of life. The ground experiment simulation device provides a means to study the evolution of various planetary environments at different time scales, and helps to reveal the evolution of planetary habitability environments.
Convenors: Guo Chen (PMO, China), Lisa Nortmann (University of Göttingen, Germany), Enric Palle (IAC, Spain), Wei Wang (NAOC, China), Jiwei Xie (NJU, China), Fei Yan (USTC, China)
With the soaring number of discovered exoplanets and the fast expanding of exoplanet atmosphere research, exoplanet science is becoming the frontier subject of astronomy and planetary science. The subject is also one of the main research directions of deep space science. This workshop will focus on topics including exoplanet detection, atmosphere characterization, planetary formation and statistics. The workshop aims at facilitating communications and collaborations between the Chinese and international exoplanet communities and promoting the long-term development of the exoplanet field.
Utilizing Deep Space Explorations to Probe Origins of Matters and Our Universe
Convenors: Martin Kilbinger (CEA Saclay, France), Wentao Luo (USTC, China), Christopher. J. Miller (University of Michigan, US), Emmanouil Sakaridis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece), Misao Sasaki (U of Tokyo, Japan)
The origin of our universe, and the nature of dark energy as well as dark matter have now become the most intriguing issues among all fundamental questions. Many instruments either space-based or ground-based ones are designed to tackle those questions, e.g. JWST, LSST, CSST, WFST, and so on. The data needed for those questions are going to be unprecedentedly large and it becomes critical to address those questions led by the deep space explorations, combining ground based or even moon based instruments in the near future. For example, gravitational lensing analyses based on those probes have the power to test gravitational theory and constrain cosmology as well as the nature of dark matter and dark energy. By virtue of this meeting session, we wish to induce more researches from both theoretical and observational perspectives and to generate extensive discussions to deepen our understanding of those questions.
Black holes in the universe
Convenors: Yosuke Mizuno (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, China), Rosalba Perna (SBU, US), Tinggui Wang (USTC, China), Martin Ward (Durham University, UK)
Black hole (BH) is one of the most mysterious objects in our universe and turns out to be an important research subject in astronomy and physics for decades. The cutting-edge topics such as the origin of supermassive BHs, intermediate-mass (seed) BHs, binary BHs and BH singularity, have not only led to great astronomy breakthroughs in the area of stellar, galaxy and cosmic evolution, but also provide extreme laboratories for testing and exploring fundamental physics. The most advanced facilities including JWST, LSST, TMT, LISA in the world and WFST, EP in China have all selected various open questions about BHs as one of their core scientific objectives. In the era of multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy, performing synergic observations with ground-based, moon-based and space facilities could be the most promising way to achieve crucial breakthrough in the understanding of BHs. Therefore, the conference aims to facilitate the cooperation and communication between Chinese and foreign scholars, and to conceive new ambitious projects which will eventually promote the long-term development of the field.
Interplanetary Structures and their Space Weather Effects
Convenors: Bingxian Luo (NSSC, China), Kai Liu (USTC, China), Camilla Scolini (UNH, US), Chenglong Shen (USTC, China)
The interplanetary structures, such as transient interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) and more persistent stream interaction regions (SIRs), are known to be the direct sources of space weather events on the Earth and other planets in the solar system.The proposed session is to summarize the recent advances in observations, theory, and numerical simulations in our understanding of these large structures.
PNT, communications and resource utilization in lunar and deep space explorations
Convenors: Xinuo Chang (CAST, China), Hui Yang (CAST, China), Xingqun Zhan (SJTU, China)
The Cislunar PNT and communications systems is one of the most important information infrastructures to support future manned and unmanned lunar explorations. The existing ground TT&C and communication facilities and GNSS systems like BDS and GPS can meet the communications and positioning, navigation, and timing needs while operating in transit, around and on the near-earth region of the moon. However, with the frequent and in-depth exploration activities in the lunar polar region and the far side of the moon, there are rising needs for implement Cislunar PNT and communications systems with available, scalable and autonomous capabilities, which also require compatible and interoperable with existing approaches. The discussion of this topic will focus on the following issues in the Cislunar PNT and communications. 1) Navigation and communications requirements for unmanned and manned lunar exploration activities. 2) Navigation and communications capability of ground and GNSS systems. 3) Constellation and orbit designs of Cislunar PNT and communication system. 4) New systems, signals, and services of cislunar PNT and communications. 5) Specifications for cislunar PNT and communications. 6) Cislunar space-time datum and reference frame. 7) New communication and navigation terminal equipment for lunar missions. 8) In-situ resource utilization on the moon and in deep space.
New physics search in Space and Deep Space
Convenors: Haipeng An (THU, China), Xiaojun Bi (IHEP, China), Yifu Cai (USTC/DSEL, China), Ivan De Mitri (GSSI, Italy), Andy Taylor (DESY, Germany)
In fundamental physics, searching beyond-Standard-Model new physics is a significant scientific frontier, including searching for dark matter particles and other exotic particles, studying neutrino physics, and the like. With the steady development of Space and Deep-Space exploration in China, the direct and indirect exploration of new physics in the new environment will play a more unique and critical role in the future. This workshop introduces various searches for new physical phenomena in Space and Deep-Space that have been or will be carried out.
Future spaceborne MeV detectors and related astrophysics
Convenors: Markus Ackermann (DESY, Germany), Felix Aharonian (MPIK, Germany), Yizhong Fan (PMO, China), Jian Li (USTC/DSEL, China)
MeV astronomy, due to the limited sensitivity of current instruments, is regarded as the last underexplored window of astronomy. Indeed, MeV domain observations are related to rich and colorful sciences, such as the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, astrochemistry and low-energy cosmic rays, the merger of neutron stars and the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. Thanks to the advance in detector technologies, now is the right time for the next-generation MeV detectors. In this workshop, we will discuss the design of future MeV detectors and possible Science.
Formation and evolution of terrestrial planetary system
Convenors: Christoph Burkhardt (University of Münster, Germany), Zhengbin Deng (USTC/DSEL, China), Haolan Tang (USTC/DSEL, China), Francois L. H. Tissot (Caltech, US)
This interdisciplinary meeting (cosmochemistry and planetary science) is aimed at understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial planetary bodies in the solar system (Mars, Moon, Vesta, and other planetary bodies). The meeting will be focused on three major but related issues that are crucial in deciphering the history of planetary systems: 1) Accretion and evolution of Mars: proto-disk environment; mechanism and timing of formation and accretion; chemical, isotopic, and experimental constraints on the Martian origin; as well as the evolution of the surface and the atmosphere of the Mars. 2) Formation and evolution of the Moon: Moon-forming giant impact, lunar magma ocean differentiation and crystallization, late heavy bombardment, late volcanic activities. 3) Early-formed asteroids: mechanism and timing of accretion and silicate-metal separation, chemical and isotopic constraints on their parent bodies (inner solar disk vs. outer solar disk), thermal history, correlations with chemical and isotopic shifts.


F196 Mini Foldable RC Drone with 2MP HD Camera Rc Helicopter Optical Flow Localization 20mins Long Flight Time Quadcopter (Grey)
This is a super functional RC quadcopter with outstanding appearance and foldable design. It's equipped with a 2.0MP HD camera with WIFI FPV transmission which provides superb real-time FPV experience, and you can remote control the drone with both transmitter and phone app. What's more, the camera is also tiltable, so that you can adjust the camera angle to get different view. shooting more accurate and more fun.
- Color: Grey.
- Unfold Size: 29x29x4cm.
- Fold Size: 8x4x4cm.
- Camera pixel: 2.0MP (double camere)
- Function: Optical Follow Mode,forward/backward, up/down, left/right, sideward flight, hovering, 3D flips, - H/L speed, headless mode, Wifi FPV, photo taking, video recording
- Remote distance: 80-100m.
- Charging time: About 120mins.
- Flying time: About 20 minutes.
- Quadcopter battery: 3.7V 2200mah lipo battery.
- Transmitter battery: built in battery(3.7V 390mAh).
- Wifi transmission system provides easy and fun FPV flight.
- Double 2.0MP HD camera can take photos and record videos.
- New Function : Follow Me Mode is a new design to make playing more fun
- Foldable design, portable and easy to carry.
- Tiltable camera to adjust view angle.
- Unique fuselage design and high quality painting, outstanding appearance.
- Upgraded 2.4G 4CH transmitter for your easy control.
- The latest 6-axis flight control system, provides super stable flight.
- With headless mode, and one-key return care free to fly.
- High/low speed mode and 3D flip function provide you cool flying experience.
- Equipped with barometer and height hold function, easy to fly.
- Gesture control.


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Outer Space Narrative and Humanity’s Limits: Will the Space Traveler Meet Agamben’s homo sacer
Lena Quelvennec graduated from Lund University with a Master’s degree in Visual Culture. Her thesis focuses on peripheral space, occupations and how landscape definitions are rethought in the Anthropocene visuality. She previously obtained a Master's in Visual Arts at the HEAD, Geneva, researching digital documents and art.
Outer space conquest during the twentieth century has produced new perspectives on borders and the notion of globalization. Space programs have produced extensive images, influencing both representations of the Earth and of humanity. Today, some individuals still wish to represent the whole of humanity outside of its original borders when traveling to Mars and even further. However, behind the question of what kind of humanity was and is represented, the sensitive issue of who belongs to this narrative is raised. As a first step and influenced by the art project I Will Build My Own Rocket, this paper will describe the influence of the space conquest narrative on perceptions of Earth’s borders. The ways in which both NASA and more recently Mars One shape humanity’s representations and its representatives will be analyzed to investigate who belongs to their space narrative. After presenting three different portraits of aspiring space travelers, a parallel between the space traveler's position and the figure of Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer will be offered, questioning how this may interfere with the space utopia of a perfect humanity elsewhere.
How to Cite:
Quelvennec, L., 2018. Outer Space Narrative and Humanity’s Limits: Will the Space Traveler Meet Agamben’s homo sacer. Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, 3(2), pp.53–69. DOI: http://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.47
01 Sep 2018.


Mark NW. Seattle, Washington Pending Approval All crew & pilots should be required to go through color-scan prior to boarding. Those who are darker than an unripe papaya would be questioned by proper-authority before the plane takes off. Those questioning the non-white person would have to be lighter-skinned than a color-coded, off-white kitchen appliance. Safety & Sanity first!


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LEGO®Creator Expert NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander 10266 Building Kit (1,087 Pieces)
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