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Article source: http://djournal.com/news/american-dream-shop/article_2825f88c-f64b-5c8a-99bd-9d5149811aba.html
China’s first domestically built passenger plane completed its maiden flight today.
The narrow-body, twin-engine C919 successfully took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 2pm local time (7am BST) amid much fanfare.
The single-aisle aircraft has been billed as China’s answer to the Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 as the nation aims to take on western airlines.
The C919 flight is Beijing’s first step toward independence from Boeing and Airbus as it attempts to replace all 6,000-6,800 of its western aircraft at a cost of around $1 trillion.
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China’s first domestically built passenger plane completed its maiden flight today. The narrow-body twin-engine C919 (pictured) successfully took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 2pm local time (7am BST) amid much fanfare
The single-aisle aircraft has been billed as China’s answer to Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 as the nation aims to raise its profile in the global aviation market. A view from inside the cockpit of China’s new COMAC C919 aircraft
China’s new aircraft has a large wingspan of 116 feet (35.4m) and can carry more than 150 passengers at time. It took a decade of research to develop costing more than £5 billion ($6.5 billion)
The narrow-body C919 jet – white with green and blue stripes – disappeared into the clouds after taking off from Pudong international airport today in the commercial hub Shanghai as a crowd of thousands cheered, including top officials
New and glitzy: The narrow-body single-aisle plane is set to carry
Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4476430/First-China-passenger-plane-takes-maiden-flight.html
Arn Kind directs GMR student Ben Williamson (not pictured) to turn the propeller of the fighter plane he is having Dylan Heggedal (sitting) pretend to fly. Kind visited the Greenbush Community Center on April 19 to deliver another one of his “Historical Experiences” presentations to a crowd of all ages, this one on World War I.
Arn Kind holds on to a model airplane named the Sopwith Dolphin, used during World War I, as he talks GMR student Dylan Heggedal through a mock fighter pilot lesson. (photos by Ryan Bergeron)
Dressed in green military apparel and a brown military hat, Arn Kind brought up Greenbush-Middle River High School student Dylan Heggedal. He dressed Heggedal in fighter pilot apparel– black jacket, black headwear, goggles, and a white scarf– and directed him to sit down in a chair and move side to side and forward and backward with the motion of his pretend World War I fighter plane. Using sound effects, Kind had Heggedal successfully shoot down two planes, before having him get shot down and fictiously dying, coming up eight shot-down-planes short of becoming an “ace” pilot.
“Anytime you can get people up in front, actively involved in their learning, it’s going to much more efficient then it is reading something out of a book,” Kind said.
Kind visited the Greenbush Community Center on April 19 to deliver another one of his “Historical Experiences” presentations to a crowd of all ages, including David Blazek’s Greenbush-Middle River High Article source: http://www.page1publications.com/2017/05/04/arn-kind-takes-audiences-into-world-war-i/
The first time America set its cap for another world, there was no room for kids. That other world was the moon, the goal was announced in 1961 and the deadline for a landing was before 1970. No 1961 schoolchild would be remotely old enough to go before that date arrived.
Today things are different. America is talking anew about returning to the moon, yes, but the big goal is Mars. That’s no three-day, quarter-of-a-million mile hop like a translunar journey is. It’s an eight month trip to a world that averages 139 million miles (225 million km) away. And the complexity of such a mission means that there’s no quick, end-of-the-decade deadline. The first trips to Mars won’t happen until sometime in the 2030s. That, in turn, means that this time, the kids are very much in the game. Neil Armstrong was 38 years old when he became the first man on the moon; today’s teens will be right in that range when the Mars ships start flying.
The tale of some of those potential Mars settlers is now being told in the new film The Mars Generation, which will be released
Article source: http://time.com/4763121/mars-generation-netflix/
Editor’s Note: This is part 18 of an ongoing series documenting the flights of active-duty US Navy Pilot Ryan Rankin on his journey to fly 52 planes in 52 weeks through the year 2017.
Rankin’s latest flight takes him a bit farther afield, heading to St. Matthews, SC, to fly one of the famous Aeronca Model 7 Champions. A simple tailwheel trainer, the Champ, as it’s affectionately known, was introduced to the aviation market in 1945 as a primary competitor to the Piper Cub, which Rankin flew in week seven of this year. With no frills and minimal gadgetry, these trainers emphasize the basics of stick and rudder work, he says, to the benefit of even experienced pilots. “They highlight proper flying,” he says. “The Champ is no different.”
Though a simple and uneventful 45-minute flight, Rankin says it remains one of his most meaningful yet, thanks to the hospitality he received and the people he met. A big part of the project has always been the human element and Rankin never flies alone, but when he called pilot Steve Hawley—whom he’d never met—about flying the Champ, he didn’t expect to be invited to his house for the weekend, where he slept in the guest room and shared meals with Hawley and his wife, Adele. “These people opened their home to someone they didn’t know,” says Rankin, and he saw firsthand how flying brings people together. Hawley met Adele when he was 16 and her just three years younger. Even then he would
Article source: http://www.srqmagazine.com/srq-daily/2017-05-04/6182_From-the-Cockpit-Part-18-Aeronca-Model-7-Champion
B39 Airacobra flies fast at Concord Park
T. Michael Jennings holds onto the wire as he takes his B39 Airacobra WWII balsa wood plane for a spin in late April at Concord Park.The propellers started spinning and the plane lifted off at Concord Park Wednesday, April 26. T. Michael Jennings held on tightly to a wire as his B39 Airacobra zoomed in circles at 55 mph. Jennings makes 3-pound balsa wood planes with 50-inch wingspans and 1.25 horsepower engines that look like World War II fighters. He and his wife, Elizabeth, travel to wire-controlled plane competitions, a hobby Jennings has only gotten back into in the last few years.According to the Precision Aerobatics Model Pilot’s Association website, control line precision aerobatics debuted as a national competition in 1941 and grew rapidly after World War II.
The retired Oak Ridge engineer is looking forward to the Joe Nall Meet in Woodruff, South Carolina, in the middle of May where he’ll go up against about 25 other pilots who come with about two planes apiece.
“These are difficult to fly,” he said. “We fly them on 60-foot stainless steel lines in a big circle.
We do different acrobatics stunts: wing-overs, inside loops, outside loops, square loops, triangles, figure 8s, square figure 8s, vertical figure 8s, overhead figure 8, hourglass and a cloverleaf. Everybody is judged against the same standards. I call them builders, pilots and crashers,” Jennings said. “You’re going
Article source: http://www.farragutpress.com/articles/2017/05/6166.php
NASA’s flying observatory, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, recently completed a detailed study of a nearby planetary system. The investigations confirmed that this nearby planetary system has an architecture remarkably similar to that of our solar system.
Located 10.5 light-years away in the southern hemisphere of the constellation Eridanus, the star Epsilon Eridani, eps Eri for short, is the closest planetary system around a star similar to the early sun. It is a prime location to research how planets form around stars like our sun, and is also the storied location of the Babylon 5 space station in the science-fiction television series of the same name.
Previous studies indicate that eps Eri has a debris disk, which is the name astronomers give to leftover material still orbiting a star after planetary construction has completed. The debris can take the form of gas and dust, as well as small rocky and icy bodies. Debris disks can be broad, continuous disks or concentrated into belts of debris, similar to our solar system’s asteroid belt and the Kuiper Belt — the region beyond Neptune where hundreds of thousands of icy-rocky objects reside. Furthermore, careful measurements of the motion of eps Eri indicate that a planet with nearly the same mass as Jupiter circles the star at a distance comparable to Jupiter’s distance from the Sun.
With the new SOFIA images, Kate Su of the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory and her research team were able to distinguish between two theoretical models
Article source: https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/sofia-confirms-nearby-planetary-system-similar-ours
