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We've never seen anything like this recording of a landing on another world. @fireflyspace
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In the video, this is WAY more impressive (note the missing tail rotor too)
Now there´s an emergency landing: even respecting the stop sign!
Today a helicopter made an emergency landing at a New Jersey cargo port. No reports of injuries on the two aboard and on the ground.
The rotorcraft was on a maintenance flight when the pilot reported a possible engine issue, prompting the emergency landing at Bayonne Pier, as reported by AP.
Helicopter was a Bell 206 Long Ranger IV (Reg. “N217MH”) and is employed by a sightseeing operator. [FlyNYON]
@aero_in FYI
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In case you’re wondering, Blue Ring’s favorite acoustic input signal is Sabaton…
✅ Sound check: complete.
Launch is one of the most punishing environments a spacecraft will ever face. To make sure Blue Ring is ready, our team put the fully integrated vehicle through acoustic testing, blasting it with over 140 decibels of sound for two straight minutes.
Blue Ring passed, proving it can survive and operate through the harshest acoustic conditions of launch.
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Super Heavy moved to the launch pad at Starbase. Booster 22 is the first Super Heavy V3 booster planned to return to the launch site for catch and was used for final catch testing upon arrival, including a suspended squeeze test at catch height
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Check out the highlights from the MAX POWER air show put on at @NASAKennedy this past weekend. This two-day event was a way to celebrate the past, present, and future of flight and space exploration, and coincided with America’s 250th birthday.
The air show featured the @AFThunderbirds, among other military demo teams, and the NASA America 250 F-5 team. Of course, the show wouldn’t be complete without EAA Lifetime member and @NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman doing a solo performance in his MiG-29!
📸 Mike Steineke
#aviation #planespotting #avgeek #MaxPower #NASA
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Talking Artemis w/ @NASAAdmin @rookisaacman! Enjoy an ENERGIZING, insightful and in depth conversation while INSIDE the VAB! A true dream come true for me!
00:00 Welcome to Kennedy Space Center
00:27 Meeting Jared Isaacman in the VAB
01:47 Re-Empowering NASA
05:25 Artemis III
11:09 Ten-Year Vision for NASA
13:22 Nuclear Focus and SR Missions
15:06 SR1
18:51 Mars Transfer Vehicles and NEP
21:36 Resource Allocation and the Mars Race
24:58 X-70
28:21 Stretch Centaur, ML1, and Lander Paths
35:38 Dropping the Exploration Upper Stage
38:54 In-House Manufacturing and Suppliers
42:20 Lessons From Apollo Veterans
44:48 Outro and Thank You
It occurs to me that if SR-1 could carry a laser comms payload we could call it a TIE Fighter (Triple Ion Engines)
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We just want to send a heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended MAX POWER this weekend at NASA Kennedy!
Thousands came out to meet NASA astronauts, watch spectacular air shows, and see NASA technology up close as we prepare to go back to the Moon.
View some of the action here. go.nasa.gov/3VgAmg2
ALT NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center stands beneath a clear blue sky, displaying a large American flag, NASA insignia, and Artemis logo. To the left of the building, two aircraft create a large heart-shaped pattern.
I won’t be surprised if recovering the recordings requires some serious work from the NTSB specialists.
NTSB investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Learjet 60 that crashed on Nov. 1 near Greenacres, Florida. The CVR was located at the site of initial impact. The CVR is being evaluated in the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C. The excavation work at the impact site has been completed.
ALT CVR from the Learjet 60.
ALT CVR from the Learjet 60 at the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
ALT CVR from the Learjet 60 at the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
ALT CVR from the Learjet 60 at the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
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Early this morning, Gold completed its powered Earth gravity assist on the heels of Blue, which completed the maneuver on Nov 7 — a first (and second) for a NASA mission. The twins are safely on their way to Mars!
🌏🛰️🛰️🔴
science.nasa.gov/science-res…
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Slide on Chinese space timelines: Dec. 2027: Asteroid redirect mission
2028: Tianwen-3 Mars sample return, return 2031
2030: Tianwen-4 Jupiter mission
By 2049: reach 80-100 AU, build a full-domain deep space exploration system.
2026-2034: large scale megaconstellation deployment
I can't compete with the big glass used by the professional air show photographers, but I still love these images because they're my own work.
I could probably make them better using an editor.
I hope that when @capeweek_us happens I might have improved a bit.
I also flew the @BETA_aircraft simulator. This had a much more direct control scheme, it didn't feel like flying a drone. And it showed,I managed to get into a pilot induced oscillation as I transitioned to wing borne flight.
Second flight was much better with a mostly vertical landing.
Over at the Up.Summit side of Max Power I had a go at the @boomsupersonic simulator, just an approach to landing, and while I had no problem keeping it on the centerline and glide slope I flared just before landing, out of habit, and floated down the runway.
I'm sure I'll get another go in the future.
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I love how socal has so much aerospace history hidden in plane sight (heh). Just off the end of BUR’s runway 15 is the Portal of the Folded Wings, an aviation shrine where Wright brothers’ mechanic Charles Taylor is buried alongside many other greats of early aviation.
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The NTSB has completed its on-scene investigative activities for the Nov. 1 crash of a Learjet 60 near Greenacres, Florida, with the exception of the excavation of the impact site, which remains ongoing. The cleared areas include Green Acres Mobile Home Community, Reading Truck, Silver Oaks Plaza, Value Store It Self Storage and John I. Leonard High School.
Investigators have recovered and identified portions of the aircraft, including components from both wings, both engines, the flight deck, vertical stabilizer, horizontal stabilizer, left elevator, aileron sections and multiple flap track assemblies. Some of the recovered parts have been sent to the NTSB laboratories in Washington, D.C. for closer inspection.
If you have found or collected any debris from the crash site, please do not keep it or attempt to move, alter or dispose of it. We ask that you contact the NTSB at witness@ntsb.gov to arrange its recovery. Please include a photo of the debris, if possible, in your email. Recovering all available wreckage is critical to the investigation and helping to determine the cause of the crash.
Members of the community seeking information about ongoing recovery operations can visit discover.pbc.gov/.