Model Airplanes

With initial certification in hand, Mahindra plans to address region-specific enhancements to the airplane ahead of first customer deliveries early next year. The market introduction for the new turboprop is being supported by GippsAero, a Mahindra subsidiary in Australia and the original designer of the airplane.

The Rolls-Royce M250-powered model, boasting a useful load of 2,300 pounds (1,400-pound full-fuel payload) and cruise speed of 145 ktas, is a follow-on to the piston-powered eight-seat Airvan 8, which Mahindra’s aircraft business unit in Australia produces. Certified in more than 42 countries, over 220 Airvan 8s are in service.

Article source: http://www.flyingmag.com/mahindras-airvan-10-turboprop-certified

They reside in the seat-back pocket of every commercial flight you’ve ever taken, yet receive only slightly more attention than the adjacent barf bag: the aircraft safety card. Chances are, the last time you glanced at one was the result of sheer boredom because your iPad died mid-flight. A 2003 bulletin by the Federal Aviation Administration lamented the struggle to get travelers to read them, saying, “One way to increase passenger motivation is to make the safety information cards as interesting and attractive as possible.” Such efforts have proven fruitless, with more than two thirds of flyers still ignoring the card. But if surviving a plane crash isn’t motivation enough, there are other compelling reasons to check out that plastic pictograph.

They’re specific to airline make and model.
You’d be forgiven to think that if you’ve read an aircraft safety card once, then you’re covered forever—after all, there’s certain content all cards are required to contain, such as seatbelt and oxygen mask instructions. But cards are customized to each aircraft, which means that procedures can look different from one flight to the next depending on, say, whether the plane has life vests or your seat cushion

Article source: http://www.cntraveler.com/story/things-you-didnt-know-about-airplane-safety-cards

The aviation industry has utilized 3D printing from the very start. It has been used to create mock ups, visualization models, and aids in order to allow those working in the aviation industry better visualization. Airplanes are complex and intricate so having a model can really clear things up.

Boeing Airlines have been using 3D printing since 2012. Recently their patent to produce 3D printed airplane parts has been approved.

Norsk Titanium is working with Boeing to provide 3D printed parts for their 787 aircraft. This can be done using a virtual library containing airplane part designs and their specific measurements. This will reduce production cost as well as increase production speed.

Manufacturing Problems

An issue with the previous method of making titanium parts is the large amount of waste. Airplane parts would be constructed from large titanium blocks which meant that the remainder of these blocks would be wasted.

Another problem that has been facing the industry is the cost of manufacturing. As the industry grows the demand for raw materials will increase. This is especially true for titanium which is heavily relied upon because of its ability to withstand pressure at high altitudes. It also offers a lot of strength without adding as much as others to the weight of the aircraft.

3D Printing Solution

Norsk Titanium keeps the good and eliminates the bad via its use of 3D printing plasma deposition technology. Without going into too many details, this method can produce about 20 metric tons of airplane components in just a year and will save Boeing

Article source: http://3dinsider.com/3d-printing-plane-components/

Eight years ago the U.S. Navy retired:

A) Its only dedicated carrier-based tanker.

B) Its last dedicated carrier-based anti-submarine airplane.

C) A carrier-based plane with more than twice the range of its current jets.

D) All of the above.

With a maximum speed of only 500 miles per hour—many airliners fly faster—the S-3 Viking wasn’t about to be the subject of any movies starring Tom Cruise. However, the long-legged jets proved extremely useful in a very wide variety of roles, whether as an electronic spy, submarine hunter, aerial tanker, cargo plane or even an attack jet. And many of those roles have not been satisfactorily replaced since.

The S-3 Viking was first conceived in 1960s to serve as a next-generation submarine hunter. In the event of a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. Navy’s most important mission would have been combating the Soviet Union’s large submarine fleet. If the war went nuclear, Soviet ballistic-missile submarines could have wreaked terrible devastation on U.S. cities. And if the conflict remained conventional, then attack submarines would have done their best to sink convoys of American troop ships reinforcing NATO forces in Europe.

During World War II, carrier-based aircraft such as the TBF Avenger torpedo bomber played a major role in sinking Axis submarines. However, the diesel-electric submarines of that era needed to surface frequently to recharge their batteries, exposing themselves to air attack. By the late 1950s, the Soviet Union had begun to deploy its first nuclear submarines, which

Article source: https://warisboring.com/the-s-3-viking-retired-way-too-early/

Remains found by someone fishing in Lake Erie might belong to one of three victims unaccounted for in a plane crash that killed six people just off the Cleveland shore last year, a Pennsylvania coroner said Friday.

Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook hopes DNA tests will identify the leg found about 8 p.m. Thursday near the Elk Creek Access to the lake, in Lake City, about 80 miles northeast of Cleveland.

The lake’s currents flow toward Pennsylvania and it’s not uncommon for remains from as far away as Detroit and Cleveland to wash up along the Pennsylvania shoreline, Cook said.

The Dec. 29 crash killed six people, but the remains of only three have been found: pilot John Fleming, 45, of Dublin, Ohio; his 15-year-old son, Jack; and a family friend, Brian Casey, 50, of Powell, Ohio. The bodies of Fleming’s wife, 46-year-old Sue; their 14-year-old son, Andrew; and Casey’s daughter, 19-year-old Megan, could not be recovered. Cleveland officials searched for their remains for about three weeks.

The victims were flying back to Columbus after attending a Cleveland Cavaliers game when the plane crashed.

A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board said John Fleming, a Columbus businessman, had received a certification to fly the Cessna Citation 525 just 21 days before the crash. The NTSB report didn’t indicate why the plane suddenly lost altitude and crashed about a minute after taking off from Burke Lakefront Airport shortly before 11 o’clock that night.

Airplane debris including the cockpit voice recorder was recovered. Federal Aviation Administration

Article source: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/06/remains_found_off_pennsylvania.html