Legerhelikopter maakt noodlanding nabij Lessive

Een helikopter van het Belgische leger heeft gisteren in de namiddag een noodlanding gemaakt nabij Lessive, in de provincie Namen. Het toestel was tijdens een oefening in contact gekomen met bomen. Er vielen geen gewonden.
Volgens Olivier Sevrin, woordvoerder bij Defensie, is de schade aan het toestel bleef beperkt. Defensie begint een onderzoek om de oorzaken van het incident te bepalen. De woordvoerder kon niet preciseren hoeveel militairen zich aan boord bevonden, maar het zouden er minstens twee geweest zijn.
Volgens een goed geïnformeerde bron betrof het een Agusta A109, met kenteken H33. Dat is evenwel niet bevestigd door de woordvoerder van Defensie. (belga/tma) 

Coming Event : Memorial Crew Hampden AD975 KM-N 44 RAF Sqd : October 15 2011 : Waasmunster Oct 15,

Thx Dirk

Memorial voor bemanning Hampden of 44 RAF "Rhodesian" SQD on 15/10 te Waasmunster.

In aanwezigheid van ambassaduer van UK Jonathan Brenton, en Canada Louis de Lorimier.

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Video : 1st Boeing 747-8F for Cargolux delivered to Findel (Lux)

Thx Olivier,

The first Boeing 747-8F was delivered this 13/10/2011 in Findel (Luxembourg). The second aircraft will be delivered on Friday 14.

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From: Olivier Orban
Date: 2011/10/13
Subject: Boeing 747-8F
To: yves duwelz <yduwelz@gmail.com>

Le premier Boeing 747-8F est arrivé ce jeudi matin chez Cargolux à l'aéroport du Findel de Luxembourg. Le second appareil arrivera ce vendredi 14.

Initialement, l'avion devait être livré le 19 septembre dernier. Un différent entre Boeing et Cargolus a retardé cette livraison.

Il s'agit de l'entrée en service de 747-8F.

http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/news/luxembourg/story/Le-nouveau-Boeing-est-bien-arrivee-au-Findel-14918361

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4y1cLnFw2ew

 s shared a video with you on YouTube:

Cargolux Boeing 747-8 Delivery

Just got back from this event- wasn't really well known. Read about it at a news website, decided to run down and check it out!

A+

Olivier

Wings Parade at Beauvechain Airbase

On Wednesday October 12th, 2011 the traditional Wings Parade was organised at the  Competentiecentrum van de Luchtcomponent (CC Air)/Centre de Compétence de la Composante Air (CC Air) at Beauvechain airbase.

For the first time, specialists graduating from the different CC Air courses (Weather forecasters, flight engineers, loadmasters, UAV-operators, air controllers and radar specialists) also received their certificates during this ceremony.

Nine new pilots, four graduates from the ”Jet” instruction, four “helicopter” pilots and a single “transport” pilot had their “Wings” pinned up by Major General Claude Van de Voorde, Commander of the Belgian Air Component assisted by Prince Michel de Ligne representing the family of Commander Antoine Prince de Ligne who gave his name to this new promotion.    

DBx 

Belgian firm Barco unveils new Top Gun flight simulator

(Reuters) - A Belgian company has unveiled the ultimate fighter jet training tool, a fully immersive 360-degree flight simulator designed to reproduce reality exactly as a pilot sees it.
The dome is the first flight simulator to give trainee pilots a full unobstructed 360 degree view of the world as they conduct virtual missions, said Barco, a maker of high-definition projectors and displays.
"It's not an improvement, it's a new generation of simulators," Geert Matthys, research and development manager at the company, said.
"If a pilot has a cockpit where he can see 360 degrees, he also needs to be trained in a system which supplies 360 degrees, all deviation from real life can be dangerous," said Matthys.
The simulator can be used in a series, with several pilots working together to play out complex training missions such as mid-air refueling.
"For the first application there will be eight systems positioned next to each other and they will do mission training with each other," said project manager Kathy Verledens.
It can also train up pilots for solo sorties.
The development team has taken since 2009 to get the device just right.
An array of 13 high-definition projectors shine onto the outside of a 3.4 meter diameter acrylic sphere. The trainee pilot sits on the inside looking at the inner surface.
The dome, which can be used to train pilots to use a variety of fast fighter jets, was first sold to Elbit Systems, which is currently installing it with its customer, the Israeli Air Force. The system should be fully operational in 2012.
Barco engineers use lasers to line up the 10 megapixel projectors so that the different projected images are perfectly aligned.
One of the main technical challenges was to replicate the exact contrast that a pilot sees, stopping the brightness of the image throwing too much light onto the darker areas.
"In general use you have 50 percent of your dome filled with white, but in a dome all this white reaches other parts of the dome where you have black, so it's acting as ambient light," said Matthys.
"We take care of the reflections in such a way that the system contrast is kept to a high level and this, in combination with high resolution and high brightness over 360 degrees, is a breakthrough in the industry."

www.anciens-aerodromes.com Magazine 22 – Octobre 2011

The rythm and the quality of anciens-aerodromes.com is growing for our pleasure
Thx Laurent

 www.anciens-aerodromes.com

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Nous célébrerons le 15 octobre prochain notre deuxième anniversaire… Que de chemin parcouru depuis cette réunion de quelques passionnés un, certain 3 octobre 2009, dans les locaux du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers …

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[vintage-and-warbirds] An Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik flew last week !

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik
Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Subject: [vintage-and-warbirds] An Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik flew last week !

 

Who would have thought this possible? Well, wonders still do occur!

Stumbled upon this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jphYnNJQAnw

My Russian is a bit "rusty" to say the least, but this Ilyushin IL-2
Shturmovik must have flown only a few days before October the 7th 2011.

Watch and enjoy!

Regards
Erik Jan

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yduwelz a partagé une vidéo avec vous sur YouTube : "The Mighty Eighth" part 1 of 3 The "Mighty Eighth" began operations in England on Feb. 20, 1942, when Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker led a seven-man advance team to scout the country and prepare for the arrival of American combat flying units. For the next four years, England became the USAAF's "unsinkable aircraft carrier" as they fought the Luftwaffe and Hitler's Axis forces. By D-Day on June 6, 1944, the USAAF had two-thirds of its operational forces in England and by the end of the war, almost 350,000 airmen had passed through the 8th Air Force. Weaved into the green patchwork of East Anglia were more than 130 American bases, about 75 of them airfields. East Anglia appears as the bulge on the map north of London, and it's about the size of Vermont. The Eighth flew from bases with names the GIs said sounded like they came from nursery rhymes -- Bury St. Edmunds, Bassingbourn, Eye, Kingscliffe, Podington, Bungay, Martlesham Heath, Little Walden, Molesworth and Duxford,... plus
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