2016-05-09

Video: "Great Planes - Lockheed P-38 Lightning"

Great Planes - Lockheed P-38 Lightning

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Great Planes
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
by Discovery Channel
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Aerobuzz : Le RSA et le musée d’Angers font cause commune

Le RSA et le musée d'Angers font cause commune

En 1999, la Fédération RSA des constructeurs amateurs a transféré une partie de ses collections de Brienne au musée aéronautique d'Angers. Depuis, elle (...)

http://www.aerobuzz.fr/culture-aero/breve/le-rsa-et…

L'une des plus belles pièces de la collection du RSA exposées à Angers : le planeur MW-20 Chanute construit par Roger Adam

Les Ailes Militaires Belges - Jacques Davoine

Ses premiers contacts avec le monde de l'aviation, Jacques Davoine les a eus juste après la guerre, grâce à un voisin qui possédait un petit avion et qui l'emmenait régulièrement avec lui.

http://www.ailes-militaires-belges.be/index.php?Ite…

[LEcharpe Blanche] Le Caudron 714R exposé au Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace

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Le Caudron 714R exposé au Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace

by Bertrand Brown

A lire sur AeroVFR: le Caudron 714R, avion de course qui n'a jamais volé, dérivé du Caudron 712R mais désigné 714R afin de faire croire qu'il s'agissait d'un développement du chasseur léger Caudron 714, est exposé au public dans le cadre de l'exposition "Restaurer les avions du Musée".

Caché dans une cave durant la guerre, il fut exposé à Meudon pendant plusieurs années puis dans le hall des prototypes avant d'être stocké dans les réserves faute de place.

Lire l'article complet (avec photos) sur AeroVFR.

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[GAR] Editorial – May 2016 – A ramble from 40,000ft

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Editorial – May 2016 – A ramble from 40,000ft

by Elliott Marsh

In the May editorial, Elliott Marsh ponders the ease of foreign travel and why more people don't attend airshows abroad to see rare aircraft that they bemoan never appear in the UK. We also preview the content for the coming month.

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[GAR] Military Exercise – Frisian Flag 2016

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Military Exercise – Frisian Flag 2016

by Tom Gibbons

"Welcome to Fighter Town Leeuwarden" - with these words Colonel Denny 'Trash' Traas – Base Commander, Leeuwarden Air Base, The Netherlands, welcomed media representatives to Exercise Frisian Flag 2016 held between 11 and 22 April. Tom Gibbons was there for GAR, with additonal photogrphy from Kevin Wills.

© Kevin Wills - Global Aviation Resource

2016-05-07

Belgian-wings.be : Book : Het Nest van het Wondervliegtuig

From : http://www.belgian-wings.be/

Het Nest van het Wondervliegtuig

A new book of the air war above Flanders during WW I.

Het Nest van het Wondervliegtuig. Vliegveld Koksijde 1914 – 1918

A hundred year ago, in June 1916, an icon of World War I aerial combat reached
the Western Front. That new fighter plane started its operational life on
the quiet airfield of Furnes near the Belgian coast. The new book of Bernard
Deneckere not only describes the first flights of this mysterious and famous
British plane, but also covers the air war above the Yser River and Belgian
coast. In this air war the airfield of Furnes played a notorious role. Entitled
?Het nest van het wondervliegtuig (the nest of the magical plane)? the new
book shows how the Belgian, French and British (RNAS) air forces behaved
during the five years of severe battles in Flanders. It also assesses the
infrastructure of the air field of Furnes, squadrons and aircraft active
on Furnes, strategy and tactics. This book is full of eyewitness accounts,
official reports and more than 100 large pictures illustrating these heroic
efforts. 170 footnotes, and an appendix with information on the Belgian
Air Force during that period.
Paper back, full colour cover, black and white illustrations, 172 pages
and more than 130 illustrations.
Price 25 Euro. bdeneckere@gmail.com

Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft”

TOICA-FP7 - Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft

Official website of the TOICA project, a European collaborative research project supported by the European Commission. TOICA stands for Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft.

http://www.toica-fp7.eu/

TOICA Stands for

"Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft".

It is a 3-year European project co-ordinated by Airbus that started on 1st September 2013. Its Consortium gathers 32 partners from 8 countries for a global budget of 26.5M€.

Thermal behaviour of aircraft has recently become a crucial subject due to many factors: the increasing number of complex systems required by modern, more electric, commercial aircraft, the introduction of hotter engines with higher by-pass ratios, the increased use of composite material in aircraft structures, and the confinement of highly dissipative equipment and systems in smaller areas to gain space for passengers and cargo.

EASA creates task force to assess the risk of collision between drones and aircraft

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Cologne, May 4, 2016

EASA creates task force to assess the risk of collision between drones and aircraft

The European Aviation Safety Agency announces today the creation of a task force to assess the risk of collision between drones and aircraft.
The task force will:

Review all relevant occurrences including the occurrences collected by the European Member States,
Analyse the existing studies on the subject of impact between drones and aircraft,
Study the vulnerabilities of aircraft (windshields, engines, and airframe) taking into account the different categories of aircraft (large aeroplanes, general aviation, and helicopters) and their associated design and operational requirements,
Consider the possibility to do further research and perform actual tests (for example on windshields).

EASA will chair the task force which will include representatives of aircraft and engine manufacturers. The task force will consult the European member states and other relevant stakeholders as well as foreign authorities. At the end of July, it will publish its results and will organise a workshop with stakeholders to present and discuss its findings and recommendations.

The regulatory framework for the safe operations of drones in Europe currently being developed by EASA already addresses the issue of collision between drones and aeroplanes. A combination of measures are envisaged such as: operate in visual line of sight, fly under 150 m height above ground, be equipped with identification and geo-limitation functions and be registered. Any operation of drones close to aerodromes would require a specific authorization from the national aviation authority based on a risk assessment.

Note to editors:

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is the centerpiece of the European Union's strategy for aviation safety. Our mission is to promote and achieve the highest common standards of safety and environmental protection in civil aviation. Based in Cologne, the Agency currently employs more than 800 experts and administrators from all over Europe.