TomcatViPNew info reporting an earlier incident :
A British plane carrying 189 passengers came ‘within 1,000ft’ of a rocket as it approached Sharm El Sheikh,
The Department for Transport confirmed the incident took place on August 23 – just two months before a Metrojet plane crashed in central Sinai, killing all 224 on board
Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
TomcatViPAirbus Wins US Army Order for UH-72 Lakota Helicopters.
from february:
Airbus Defense and Space Inc., Herndon, Virginia, was awarded a $220,564,993 modification (P00882) to contract W58RGZ-06-C-0194 to procure forty-one 72A Lakota Helicopters to include forty-one Airborne Radio Communications 231 Radios. Fiscal 2015 other procurement funds in the amount of $220,564,993 were obligated at the time of the award. Estimated completion date is July 31, 2017. Work will be performed Columbus, Mississippi. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.
I understand that the today contract is for the Radio kits (41).
Source:
devense.gov
TomcatViP@SpudmanWP
you see oil, but it’s the water usage that bear some importance here. Being sensibilized with the gestion of a closed water source (that’s where the great lakes comes to), it was not a clever idea from Canada’s representatives to weight itself in this fight against the present US administration.
Obama told reporters, standing in the Roosevelt Room beside Vice President Biden and Secretary of State John F. Kerry. “America’s now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change. […]frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. And that’s the biggest risk we face, not acting.”
but we are OT
TomcatViPThe environmentalists that opposed this are complete and utter idiots.
1. The oil will be used, either in the US or in China.
2. If it’s sent to the US, then it will be in RR cars which just means that it will impose a higher Carbon & Pollutant Footprint (CPF) in the transportation of the oil.
3. If it’s sent to China, then not only will there be a CPF increase due to transportation, but the Chinese refineries & cars will have a MUCH bigger CPF thanks to their crap standards & corruption.Congratulations Environmentalists :very_drunk: , your opposition to the pipeline will actually make the environment worse. :stupid:
The great lakes are a key strategic assets for the US (clean water source). It could have only been a short sighted decision to go for that Pipeline with an US President being fron Chicago. Canada should have devoted more effort to guarantee the clean extraction. Tech is there.
My 2 cents only, obviously.
TomcatViPBoeing protests Northrop’s win of Long Range Strike Bomber contract
Boeing:
Boeing and Lockheed Martin concluded the selection process for the Long Range Strike Bomber was fundamentally flawed. The cost evaluation performed by the government did not properly reward the contractors’ proposals to break the upward-spiraling historical cost curves of defense acquisitions, or properly evaluate the relative or comparative risk of the competitors’ ability to perform, as required by the solicitation. That flawed evaluation led to the selection of Northrop Grumman over the industry-leading team of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, whose proposal offers the government and the warfighter the best possible LRS-B at a cost that uniquely defies the prohibitively expensive trends of the nation’s past defense acquisitions.
Northrop:
“Northrop Grumman offered an approach that is inherently more affordable and based on demonstrated performance and capabilities. Our record stands in contrast to that of other manufacturers’ large aircraft programs of the last decade.”
USAF:
“Although it is every competitor’s right to file a protest, the Air Force is confident that the source selection team followed a deliberate, disciplined and impartial process to determine the best value for the warfighter and taxpayer,” Air Force spokesman Robert Leese said in a statement.
Also:
Before the announcement last week and after a hearing on streamlining defense acquisitions, Thornberry acknowledged concerns over a possible LSR-B protest and the litigious nature of acquisitions in general.
“It’s part of the way acquisition culture has developed that every bid award has protests, and you’re expected to protest — basically with no penalty,” he told reporters. “So, a number of members have had ideas about improving that situation, and it’s something that we will continue to discuss.”
Analisys (Loren Thompson – Forbes):
The Air Force told offerors at the outset of the bomber competition that it was seeking innovations to “break the cost curve” driving military aircraft prices higher in each successive generation. But it negated the value of such breakthroughs by insisting on pegging the program cost to historical data that predated the latest aerospace innovations. So Boeing, the world’s leading producer of large aircraft, got no credit in the scoring of proposals for its revolutionary Black Diamond manufacturing technology aimed at cutting production costs, nor for the numerous innovations team-mate Lockheed Martin has applied in integrating the F-35 fighter.
There was also no credit given for supply chain innovations, system integration skills, and a host of other advanced industrial capabilities in which Boeing and Lockheed lead the world. The reason that matters is because Northrop Grumman lacks similar capabilities, and thus is much less likely to execute the program to the Air Force’s planned budget and schedule. Boeing and Lockheed delivered over 300 military aircraft last year, including some of the most sophisticated combat aircraft ever built. Northrop Grumman delivered only nine military aircraft, all of which were either unmanned drones or propeller-driven planes. By ignoring the massive disparity in skills, facilities and relevant experience between the two teams, the Air Force failed to seriously assess risk.
Sources:
Boeing.com
TheWashingtonPost
DefenseNews.com
Forbes.com
TomcatViPObama rejects Canada-to-U.S. Keystone pipeline
It seems to me that the MyKeystoneVsyour35 match is over. Doesn’t means that someone lost or there is a winner. Either they have come aropund something for a SH buy or it’s a Freeway for a Fr heavily subsidized offer.
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/
TomcatViPI asked before if the ADS-B data showed any discrepencies b/w set departure altitude and real departure alt, just like with the Germanwing 320 lost over SE of France? Anyone had an eye in FR24 raw data and SHS airport map?
Otherwise, pasted from PPrune/User Prada,
A320 antennas
There was a question about ADS-B antenna location.
Actually ADS-B data is sent via TCAS system/antennas. (Traffic Collision Avoidance system) From FR24 we know that TCAS system remained powered for about 26 seconds after initial event.Probably until engines were snapped off and power lost.
is there any connection with tail breaking off? why and when engines got separated?
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Si installe, means that item is an option
TomcatViPU.S. officials […] told NBC News that an intelligence scrub of the passenger manifest and the flight crew aboard the jet showed no one with suspected ties to any terrorist group.
Also:
In a statement posted on its website, the commission said that information from the flight’s data recorder has been successfully copied and handed over to investigators, but that there was “serious mechanical damage” to the voice recorder.
The cockpit voice recorder f[…] is “partially damaged” and will require extensive work to allow investigators to listen to the final minutes of the flight, Egypt’s civil aviation ministry said Wednesday.
“Consequently, no further comment on the content of the CVR can be made,” the ministry said in a statement. “Examination of parts on site is continuing.”
Information from the second of the plane’s so-called black boxes, the flight-data recorder, proved to be more easily accessible and has been successfully downloaded, it said.
TomcatViPI think some fail to understand sothing important: the 35 prog was not set to equal the performances of yesterday fighters but to better those than can be set by the opposing forces. In that, as it remains unclear how a foreign competitor or an opponent could reasonably reach equal standard in performances, in the next decade, the program is already a success.
The struggle has only just started and the major players (Ru/China) have already either failed or taken alternative route that could allow them to equal or better that set of cap only in a specific pattern.
On the positive side, teh prog has also been a catharsis for a deep reform of prog actors from acquisition agency to contractor and R&D organisms. The pattern of evolution is set with a dynamism that have seen the path fron innovation to field experiment shortened drastically.
But this is not really my domain, and I will let others being more explicative around that assertion.
TomcatViPOMG…
TomcatViPRemnants of the old paint. Stripes in the area of the pylon №2 remained since the tests of D-236T, and D-27 engines, were used for visual control of icing in the areas where blown by propfans.
Thank you. Rather crude but works for cheap I guess.
TomcatViPThis sort of ‘respect’ you mean?
I’m sorry, but how dare you lecture me about ‘showing respect’ after posting that?
All you’ve done here is post wild conspiracy-theories about mid-air collisions and ‘altered crash-sites’ without a shred of evidence, apart from some technical-sounding rubbish about forces and damage that you have presumably gleaned from the photographs published in the Daily Mail, and as soon as anybody tries to press you to back-up what you ‘infer’ you respond by telling them to show some ‘respect’!
Thank you…..but I think you’re done here. :rolleyes:
Do you understand english? it could imply a possibility, not the affirmation of a fact. I did add also.
Regarding what I DID wrote:
– remark concerning the damages with an inconsistency in the rear section regarding the mode of failure -> now it appears that the Bomb theory is shared by more than one revealing a more complex scenario than the attive conclusion that predominated the early debate.
– Breaking mode of teh airplane: I suggested that this would have happen at a much lower alt than first envisioned- > there seems to be a consensus around that also
But I understand that you have an agenda here. Have fun.
For those that didn’t do their homework at school:
We use could and couldn’t as the past tense of can/can’t:
To talk about ability:
I could run very fast when I was younger.
She couldn’t get a job anywhere.
To say that something was possible or impossible:
Our teacher could be very strict when we were at school. [= Some teachers were very strict.]
People could starve in those days. [= People sometimes starved.]
You couldn’t use computers in the nineteenth century.
TomcatViPDefinitively, I have a problem with your English…..because I can’t understand what your argument is.
Your English is very good, very good, but I’m guessing that it isn’t your first language? And my problem is, for a discussion that is this technical (talking about force / axis), your meaning is not getting through to me. I’m interested to hear your argument; I may not agree with your argument but if I can’t understand it how can we discuss it?
It’s about 200+ happy living people that had their life axed for whatever reason it will proved to be. Plenty of orphans left behind. Show them more respect. Focus on the subject. Thank you.
I gave you some element to discuss, infer my remarks. Up to you to do so. Be smart and fair. I and others are not here to make our though an academic truth.
TomcatViPWait LM lost a F-104? I didn’t know LM even existed back then…..:highly_amused:
Attention to details, I see 😉
For my defense, I must admit that finger typing on my smartphone, I was too lazy to type in full Lockheed Corp.
Done now… Do I redeem?
For the story, Lockheed Corporation merged with Martin Marietta in 1995.
TomcatViPWhat happened to that SLAT? (see inside pylon position).
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