Augmented reality help pilots stay safe

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However, Airbus recently faced difficulties with its software for assisting takeoff (wrong information pertaining to another runway were displayed). It remain to be seen how a passive information display, fishing info in a stored database can yield an increase in security in most flight situation where a simple difference of 10ft can lead quickly to some catastrophic damages.

Source:
AviationWeek

Thank you Flanker_man for the pictures (You should add a copyright).

Do we know to which airframe belongs the F111 escape capsule displayed in the museum? Instinctively, I would say that it’s an early airframe (Vietnam era) given the lezard green color.

time to station is dealt with Ucav relying on their far greater endurance to fly orbits that puts them at short range of any zone of operation allowing them to be in sight in minutes. Several orbits are usually flown 24/24 covering most of expected needs in theater. Those orbits are specifically what structures the OP requirements and not directly the nbr of airframe.
CAS is now a combination of resources (drones, fast jet, helo, orbiting bomber, gunship). The show of force and gun passes do great but defining your response around that would cut you off of many possibilities of response with only minutes of air support available per day. There are now no centralized point of op like it would have been in a cold war conflict. Resources are disseminated all over the globe and you can’t simply sustain aerial coverage just with flights of fast jet patrolling in the vicinity of the FLOT waiting to be called. Forward basing proved also to be insufficient or more strictly inadequate with the expected sustainable losses by the public (you can see here that there are rooms for variability in response and not all countries will sustain the same effort).
So no dedicated ucav for cas as the needs are covered with a variety of platforms but a variety of CAS effort in many drone design: from pure ISR (Shadow) to engagement of target of opportunity (predatoa/ShadowII) or TiC situation (Reaper) for example.

Unusually fast speed for a low level half roll- was it a FBW failure for this Gripen??

Probably not. The plane can be seen rolling back upward just before impact. I would be more on the hypo that the pilot got distracted and briefly lost awareness.

The MiG-25P […] also tangled with two General Dynamics EF-111A Aardvark.

Tangled? Is that the new word to say that the Fox didn’t manage to shoot down two defenseless high value preys?

But truly, in very specific scenario where RoE were favorable, it was a dangerous plane (this is where it didn’t succeed in the decluttered Iranian airspace). With fusion and datalink, this concept has no chance unless wrapped in a stealthy airframe.

@27Vet: u’r wc 😉

[…]China must step up in search for MH370

The cost of the search is unclear but analysts believe it is about $190 million. Malaysia has paid $100 million, Australia $70 million and China $20 million.
China’s contribution has been pitiful given MH370 was a code-share with China Southern Airlines and carried the airline’s flight number CZ748. There were 153 Chinese on board. China needs to contribute more.
The hollow rhetoric of Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tong Lai saying it is an “aspirational goal” to find MH370 simply is not good enough.
Even Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester’s excuse that the new area of 25,000sqkm was not specific enough to meet the criteria set down by officials from the three governments is lame.
In the vastness of the Indian Ocean, an area of 25,000sqkm is very specific and the analysis that has helped pinpoint the new area has broken new ground.

It’s true that China has been constantly behind its obligations. We did mention this fact here early.

Every bit of information gleaned and detailed pieces of evidences found have constantly comforted the reflection around what could have happened, converging always around an hypothesis that only needed slight adjustments and even finding its way through new regulations. Beyond the mourning of families, it is important to close this chapter with hard evidences in order to ensure that this reflection will not be lost in an ocean of doubts [/IRONY] or a sea of rhetoric, leading to zero improvements and yet to be expected another similar disaster. This is all about a technical inquiry and the ATSB has proved itself exemplary.

In the vastness of the Indian Ocean, an area of 25,000sqkm is very specific and the analysis that has helped pinpoint the new area has broken new ground.[…]
Now that we have new facts, including a drift study by the CSIRO […], the search must go on.

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Also (last week):

On Friday, Dutch-owned vessel Equator reportedly raced to an area in the southern Indian Ocean recently identified as being a more likely location for the plane’s debris. It pushed further north on Saturday before tracking back slightly.
[…] “After its run north, Equator has now tracked back south-west at high speed to a point at 35.3 degrees south where it seems that the [autonomous underwater vehicle] is deployed again.”

Sources:
The West.com.au
The Week.co.UK

Royal Thai Air Force JAS-39 Gripen crashes during air show, pilot killed

My own post that followed was botched as well. Let’s call it a day.
To be blunt, with 3/4th of its logistic in need to be outsourced, the least we can say is that the Fr version of MAC might only have been ruled by Nero.