Sentences with phrase «aerospace flight»

In my background of 46 years in aerospace flight testing and design I have seen many examples of data presentation fraud.

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One of the company's recent bets on innovation came in the form of its acquisition of Aurora Flight Sciences, a leader in autonomous systems and aerospace platforms.

The Canadian - made regional jet flew its first flight in 1991 and its last in 2010, when it was flown here to be donated to the school, by executives of Bombardier Aerospace.

Also at 10:30 a.m., NYC Councilman Andy King and NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina unveil a newly purchased flight simulator for Bronx Aerospace High School, 800 East Gun Hill Rd., the Bronx.

At 11:15 a.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña will visit the DOE's Center for Aerospace and Applied Mathematics, joining students as they participate in realistic space and flight simulations, 220 Henry St., Manhattan.

PoSSUM plans to use XCOR Aerospace's suborbital rocket plane Lynx; two people fit in its flight pod.

Monika Krautstrunk and Andreas Giez are in charge of flight operations at the German Aerospace Center's (DLR's) flight facility in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich.

The company is in talks with NASA to install a new commercial module on the ISS's sole available unused docking port as early as 2020 or 2021, and is presently planning the module's construction and flight with aerospace manufacturers and launch providers.

«This demonstration is a breakthrough for future deep space exploration,» said SEXTANT Project Manager Jason Mitchell, an aerospace technologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Until now, pyroshock tests to ensure aerospace parts were ready for the rigors of flight had used explosives encased in lead to provide the impacts to parts needed for such experiments, mechanical engineer Mark Pilcher said.

Dave Folta, a senior aerospace engineer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, says they are planning to use Howell's techniques — which he admiringly calls «highfalutin math» — for at least four missions over the next decade, including the Next Generation Space Telescope, scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in eight years.

Aerospace engineers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed and patented a process that can be used onboard aircraft while in flight to produce hydrogen from water and aluminum particles safely and cheaply.

They relied on the same sort of high - tech computer models that aerospace engineers use to analyze stresses induced in aircraft parts during flight.

«Hydrogen produced onboard the aircraft during flight can be channeled to a fuel cell for electrical energy generation,» said lead researcher Dr. Shani Elitzur of the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

The first such map, from just 89 days of in - flight testing, is 10 times better than 3 decades of gravity data from all other sources combined, says aerospace engineer Byron Tapley of the University of Texas, Austin, leader of the U.S. GRACE team.

Ricker's winning team also includes NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., which is managing the mission; MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.; Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md..

Times have changed, says Norman Augustine, the retired aerospace executive who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space flight effort.

Its instrument was built by a consortium including Caltech; JPL; the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; the Danish Technical University in Denmark; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.; ATK Aerospace Systems, Goleta, Calif., and with support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Science Data Center.

Today's aircraft use roughly 80 percent less fuel per passenger - mile than the first jets of the 1950s — a testimony to the tremendous impact of aerospace engineering on flight.

Reductions in the weight of solar technology have encouraged stolid aerospace and utility firms to experiment in earnest (see «Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit «-RRB-; perhaps the space flight moonshots can help them out.

The UCL - led study also involved researchers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Boston University, Observatoire de Paris, MIT, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), University of Southampton, University of Leicester, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and University of Michigan.

Steve Justice, TTSA's aerospace division director and former Lockheed Martin engineer who worked on advanced top secret aircraft for the latter company's storied «Skunk Works» division, speculates that in both cases such incredible feats of flight could be due to the objects possessing some sort of warp drive.

Previously, the aerospace company was targeting a mid-2017 launch date for this important test flight.

New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of research in space and aerospace beginning with NMSU student teams film projects on the first V - 2 flights at White Sands Proving Ground in 1946.

«This occasion will go in the books of Boeing's nearly 100 years of aerospace and more than 50 years of space flight history,» said John Elbon, vice president and general manager of Boeing's Space Exploration division.

«We have flown radiation sensors onboard 264 research flights at altitudes as high as 17.3 km (56,700 ft) from 2013 to 2017,» says Kent Tobiska, lead author of the paper and PI of the NASA - supported program Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS).

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Between 1964 and 1971, he furthered his medical training at Baltimore City Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins University, including a two - year appointment as a Major in the United States Air Force, where he worked as a Neurologist and Flight Surgeon at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine in Texas.

To allow simultaneous ground - based observations, flight operations engineers at Ball Aerospace and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder will perform a maneuver turning the spacecraft around to point the telescope in the forward velocity vector.

«The learning outcomes of Aerospace Studies will get them into one of the apprentice schools, like Aviation Australia or ATAE, where they must get a sound achievement that sets them up to be a flight attendant or aeronautical engineer,» Rolandsen says.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

As an example, an aerospace engineer may know a lot about avionics and flight theory, but this alone does not make him an aircraft pilot.

The museum's new Marc C. Reynolds Aerospace Center for Education will be unveiled at 3 p.m. Wednesday, marking the completion of a six - month construction project that provides a permanent space for northern Utah school children to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math through the lens of flight.

This isn't surprising when you consider that aerospace and military technology is the main industry in the area, or that Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

The 16th Annual Flight for Sight Fun Run & Walk sponsored by Aerospace Machinists District 751 to benefit Guide Dogs of America is set for Saturday, June 3, 2017 in Everett, Washington.

Join NASA, FAA, and aerospace specialists on a G - Force One ™ flight followed by a re-gravitational party.

The property offers guests convenient access to Tanger Outlets, Surf Lagoon Waterpark, National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Gulfstream Aerospace, JCB, 165th Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard, Flight Safety International Inc. and Savannah Ports.

These segments develop solutions for aircraft on - board comfort, on - board systems, and safety on - ground and in - flight, supplemented by the dedicated after - sales business of Zodiac Aerospace Services.

The Intergalactic Aerospace Expo is a celebration of flight, and as much as it is a chance for us at Origin Jumpworks to show off our own ships, getting together with others who love flying as much as we do is equally important.

Japan Prepares to Finally Join Electric Flight Ranks Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA is preparing to make the first manned test flights of an all - electric, battery - powered airplane starting in February.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Source: Goddard Space Flight Center In the first direct, comprehensive mass survey of the entire Greenland ice sheet, scientists using data from the NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) have measured a significant decrease in the mass of the Greenland ice cap.

«With this facility, we can pursue aggressive educational and research flight projects that involve high risk of fly - away or loss - of - control — and in realistic wind, lighting and sensor conditions,» said U-M aerospace engineering professor Ella Atkins.

That data will be passed on to regulators as support for new rules on supersonic flight — which could in turn give the aerospace industry the green light to develop practical applications.

Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take - off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on January 31st, the aerospace giant announced.

Last month, aerospace giant Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take - off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Assistant Aerospace Physiological Technician, 1993 to 2000, Avon Park Flight Training Consultants, Avon Park, FL

It depends on the specialty, but usually an aerospace engineer has to work on a fixed - wing aircraft, missiles, weapons, helicopters, flight simulators or space vehicles.

The specific work elements of an aerospace engineer are: developing anionic systems, finding ways to develop efficient engines, collecting and analyzing flight testing information, supervising the assembly of an aircraft, writing technical manuals or reports, aircraft maintenance, etc..

Successful resume examples for Flight Test Engineer should mention the following job requirements: aerospace engineering expertise, computer proficiency, teamwork, time management, accuracy, detail orientation, and organizational skills.

Key industries in the state include aerospace (i.e., NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville), education, health care, banking, and a variety of heavy industries including — and perhaps most importantly — automobile manufacturing.