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Mange spekulasjoner rundt denne naturligvis. (Red.)
Tysk politi
undersøker Ryanair-landing i Berlin
NTB-DPA
for 19 timer siden
Flyet var på vei fra Dublin til Krakow og landet
av ukjente årsaker i Berlin i 20-tiden søndag kveld.
Det ble ført til et område bortenfor
terminalbyggene, og de 160 passasjerene måtte forlate flyet. Politiet og
politihunder undersøkte flyet og bagasjen, som ble samlet utenfor flyet.
Det er ikke klart om og når flyet kan fortsette
reisen, men flyplassmyndighetene har midlertidig opphevet det nattlige
flyforbudet som en forholdsregel.
Hendelsen skjer en uke etter at myndighetene i
Hviterussland omdirigerte er et av Ryanairs passasjerfly, som ble tvunget
til å lande i Minsk. Like etter ble en opposisjonell pågrepet.
Ryanair flight between Dublin and Krakow diverts to Berlin after bomb threat
In the evening of 30 May, a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (registered EI-EMO) operated flight FR1901 between Dublin, Ireland and Krakow, Poland with 160 passengers on board. While overflying Germany, air traffic control advised the crew of a potential security threat on board. The captain followed procedures and diverted to the nearest airport, Berlin.
“The aircraft landed safely and passengers were offloaded to facilitate extensive security checks of passengers and all baggage,” Ryanair wrote in a statement, adding that “once cleared by German authorities, passengers travelled onwards to Krakow on a spare Ryanair aircraft after a delay on the ground of approx seven hours.”
Charles Blair bet USAF airmen that he could fly his P-51 Mustang "Excalibur III" from Norway to Alaska with just a $12 surplus astrocompass. He succeeded. Today in 1953, the aircraft joined our collection. More on its record-setting history: https://s.si.edu/2yRPpzC
Space Debris Has
Hit And Damaged The International Space Station
The inevitable has
occurred. A piece of space debris too small to be tracked has hit and
damaged part of the International Space Station - namely, the Canadarm2
robotic arm.
The instrument is
still operational, but the object punctured the thermal blanket and damaged
the boom beneath. It's a sobering reminder that the low-Earth orbit's space
junk problem is a ticking time bomb.
Obviously space
agencies around the world are aware of the space debris problem. Over
23,000 pieces are being tracked in low-Earth orbit to help satellites and
the ISS avoid collisions - but they're all about the size of a softball or
larger.
Anything below
that size is too small to track, but travelling at orbital velocities can
still do some significant damage, including punching right through metal
plates.
hubble punch
An impact hole
left in the Hubble Space Telescope antenna in 1997. (NASA)
Canadarm2 -
formally known as the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS),
designed by the Canadian Space Agency - has been a fixture on the space
station for 20 years. It's a multi-jointed titanium robotic arm that can
assist with maneuvering objects outside the ISS, including cargo shuttles,
and performing station maintenance.
It's unclear
exactly when the impact occurred. The damage was first noticed on 12 May,
during a routine inspection. NASA and the CSA worked together to take
detailed images of and assess the damage.
"Despite the
impact, results of the ongoing analysis indicate that the arm's performance
remains unaffected," the CSA wrote in a blog post. "The damage is
limited to a small section of the arm boom and thermal blanket. Canadarm2
is continuing to conduct its planned operations."
Although the ISS
seems to have gotten lucky this time, the space debris problem does seem to
be increasing. Last year, the ISS had to perform emergency maneuvers three
times in order to avoid collisions with space debris at its altitude of
around 400 kilometers (250 miles).
Ever since the
launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, space debris has been accumulating. According
to a report from the European Space Agency, an estimated 130 million
fragments of anthropogenic material smaller than a millimeter are orbiting
Earth right now. That estimate does not include natural space dust.
"To continue
benefiting from the science, technology and data that operating in space
brings, it is vital that we achieve better compliance with existing space
debris mitigation guidelines in spacecraft design and operations,"
said head of the ESA's Space Debris Office Tim Florer last year.
"It cannot be
stressed enough - this is essential for the sustainable use of space."
Robotics
operations on the ISS using the Canadarm2 will continue as planned for the
near future, the CSA said. But both space agencies will continue to gather
data in order to perform an analysis of the event, both to understand how
it occurred, and to assess future risk.
Recording reveals
possible cockpit alarm just before jet crashed into Percy Priest Lake
ATC radio
recordings also reveal that, when the pilot responded to controllers directing
him to turn, there is the sound of alarms sounding in the cockpit,
suggesting the pilot was struggling to maintain control.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
(WTVF) — A small jet that crashed into Percy Priest Lake Saturday morning,
killing seven leaders of a Brentwood church, began dropping dramatically
just 90 seconds into its flight, air traffic control records show.
ATC radio
recordings also reveal that, when the pilot responded to controllers
directing him to turn, there is the sound of a possible alarm in the
cockpit. Some pilots told NewsChannel 5 that it sounded unusual, while
others suggested such sounds would be expected during takeoff.
FAA altitude data
shows the Cessna C501, a small business jet, appears to have briefly
regained altitude before plummeting into the lake from 2,900 feet in just
seconds in a high-impact crash.
All seven people
on board -- Remnant Fellowship founder Gwen Shamblin Lara, her husband Joe
Lara and five other church leaders -- are presumed dead, authorities said.
Multiple agencies
continued operations through the night to recover wreckage, according to a
Sunday morning update from Rutherford County officials.
Dive teams from
Rutherford County Fire Rescue, Metro Nashville Office of Emergency
Management, Metro Nashville Police Department, and Wilson County Emergency
Management Agency will be conducting dive operations in recovery efforts
throughout the day.
The lead
investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is
expected to be on site midday to join local officials and Federal Aviation
Administration representatives already on site, the announcement said.
According to ATC
records, the jet with the tail number N66BK took off to the northwest from
the Smyrna-Rutherford County Airport at 10:53 a.m. Saturday.
The aircraft
climbed to 2,900 feet as it began turning to the northeast.
An air traffic
controller gave the pilot directions to turn to the southeast.
When the pilot
acknowledged the directions, there is the sound of some sort of alarm in
the cockpit.
Ninety seconds
into the flight, the jet drops to 2,600 feet, then 2,500 feet, before
plummeting to 1,900 feet in just six seconds.
Tracking records
show the pilot apparently pulled the plane back up to 2,900 feet just nine
seconds later, then the aircraft went into a steep dive into Percy Priest
Lake.
When the aircraft
dropped off radar, the air traffic controller began repeatedly calling out
to the pilot, asking: "How do you hear?"
There was no
response.
The aircraft had
been registered to JL&GL Productions LP on March 2nd, 2020, Federal
Aviation Administration records show. That is a partnership belonging to
Joe Lara and Gwen Shamblin Lara.
Joe Lara was
certified as a commercial pilot just nine days later, FAA records reveal.
In addition to
recovering victims, investigators will be attempting to recover plane
debris that may offer clues about what caused the crash.
“With dive teams
in the water, we are strongly urging civilian boaters to stay away from the
public safety boats,” said Rutherford County incident commander John Ingle.
“This is for their safety and the safety of our personnel in the water.”
Ingle also noted
that the Lamar Hill boat ramp and Fate Sanders Recreation area are closed
until further notice.
“Recovery efforts
are ongoing on the lake from the Weakley Lane bridge to the Lamar Hill Boat
Ramp,” said Ingle. “We are asking all civilian boaters to stay clear of
those areas.”
Amerikanske B-52
skal overfly 30 Nato-land på én dag
NTB
31. mai 2021 14:33 – Oppdatert 31.
mai 2021 14:37
Flere amerikanske bombefly av typen B-52
skal fly over store deler av Europa mandag. Foto: Kim Hong-ji / Reuters
Amerikanske strategiske bombefly av typen
B-52 skal mandag fly over alle Nato-land på én dag for å vise styrke og
samhold, heter det.
B-52-flyene kommer fra Moron-basen i Spania og
skal overfly alle de europeiske Nato-landene. Under oppdraget skal bombeflyene
etterfylle drivstoff i luften og fly deler av strekket sammen med kampfly fra
de enkelte landene.
En
tilsvarende øvelse blir gjort i luftrommet over USA og Canada.
– Slike
tokt demonstrerer troverdigheten til våre styrker og viser evne til å håndtere
et globalt sikkerhetsmiljø som er mer usikkert enn noen gang i vår historie,
sier general Jeff Harrigian ved Natos luftkommando og USAs lufthovedkvarter for
Europa og Afrika.
Google Wing’s new quieter drones, set to be rolled out soon (Wing)
Google’s drone delivery service, Wing, will soon be delivering coffee to offices in Logan, Queensland.
The development is possible because the business will soon extend its service beyond residential homes to include commercial business locations in a dozen suburbs – up from just three currently.
Wing first launched in Canberra in 2019 and currently allows for the delivery of packages that weigh less than 1.5 kilograms from a variety of retailers who sell household goods.
The business, a subsidiary of Google owner Alphabet, first launched in 2012 and has conducted more than 100,000 flights worldwide.
On Wednesday, Wing revealed its pilot service grew 500 per cent in 2020, and has now made more than 18,000 deliveries to the Logan community, including more than 1,000 deliveries during the last state-wide lockdown.
“Many people in Logan have contacted us asking for service, and in response to that feedback, we’ve recently expanded beyond our initial service suburbs of Crestmead, Marsden and Berrinba,” said Jess Suskin, Wing’s head of community affairs.
“Wing is now available in more than a dozen suburbs in Logan, including drone delivery to customers in parts of Loganlea, Waterford West, Slacks Creek, Logan Central, Woodridge, Kingston, Park Ridge, Browns Plains, Heritage Park and Regents Park.
“In the coming weeks we’ll also be expanding even further to include service for customers in Edens Landing, Bethania, Holmview, Waterford and Beenleigh.
“We’ve already taken the first steps, adding new merchants and products to our delivery service, including adding Blackout Coffee to our lineup last month, with their fresh salads, sandwiches and baked goods available for drone delivery.
“Additionally, as more Logan residents returned to working from the office, we’ve started delivering to workplaces so that staff from selected local businesses in Logan can now access the convenience of drone delivery at work.”
Wing will also move to introduce quieter drones that it claims almost halves the noise generated.
Once a customer submits an order via the app, the drone flies to pick up the package at the designated delivery centre, before climbing to a cruise height of 45 metres and flying to the destination.
Once there, it hovers and lowers the package to the ground, automatically unclipping the parcel without assistance from the customer.
Denne måneden har det vært mye blest rundt den amerikanske ubåten USS New Mexicos norgesbesøk.
Om det er et svar fra Nordflåten er vanskelig å slå fast, men iallfall har det russiske forsvarsdepartementets egen tv-kanal Zvezda nylig publisert sjeldne opptak fra innsida av sine angrepsubåter i Sierra-klassen.Da atomubåten i Virginia-klassen la til kai i Grøtsund industrihavn 10. mai, var dette første gang på mange år at en slik ubåt besøkte Tromsø, ifølge Forsvaret.
Disse atomdrevne ubåtene med titanskrog (Prosjekt 945 Barrakuda/945A Kondor, Nato-betegnelse Sierra I/II) skal det være produsert fire av, men det er noe usikkert hvorvidt det er to eller tre som er operative per i dag.Militære og sivile fartøyer
Inne i operasjonsrommet er det mye som sladdes vekk, men også enkelte ting som åpenbart er ment å vises fram og som delvis filmes relativt nært.
Blant dette er en rekke plansjer som viser bilder og annen informasjon om amerikanske og norske undervanns- og overflatefartøyer og fly: Eksempelvis P-3 Orion, P-8 Poseidon, fregattene i Fridtjof Nansen-klassen, kystkorvettene i Skjold-klassen, etterretningsfartøyet «Marjata IV» og FFIs forskningsfartøy «H.U. Sverdrup II».
Det er også hengt opp bilder av sivile fartøyer. Blant disse er Havforskningsinstituttets «G.O. Sars» og «Johan Hjort» (se cirka 12-14 minutter ut i reportasjen under).
Inge André Utåker, som er direktør for rederiavdelingen i Havforskningsinstituttet, har sett videoen, uten at han legger så mye dramatikk i dette.
– Det er selvsagt litt pirrende, men samtidig er det helt naturlig med tanke på navigasjonssikkerhet, sier Utåker til Teknisk Ukeblad.
Han sier at «G.O. Sars» og «Johan Hjort» er fartøyer som russerne kan møte på jevnt og trutt i Nordatlanteren og Barentshavet, og at disse ofte har mye utstyr i sjøen som taues eller henger rett ned og går helt til bunn.
Dermed er det fornuftig å kunne identifisere fartøyene raskt for å holde avstand og ikke risikere materielle skader, for eksempel ved at ubåten havner i trålen.
– Dessuten er våre fartøyer svært stillegående. De er bygget slik for ikke å forstyrre forskningsinstrumentene. Når et skip er stillere enn man i utgangspunktet skulle tro, er det også noe som gjør det viktig for ubåtene å kjenne til det på forhånd, sier Utåker.
Han legger til at han antar at Russland er interessert i å følge med på hvor Havforskningsinstituttets aktivitet foregår.
Forskning og etterretning
Teknisk Ukeblad har også vært i kontakt med en forsvarsforsker som påpeker at på seg selv kjenner man andre. I betydningen at Russland ikke nødvendigvis skiller så voldsomt på sivile forskningsfartøyer og militære etterretningsfartøyer.
Det tror Utåker, som selv har tjenestegjort på MTB og fregatt, det kan være noe i. Han forteller at da han selv seilte «i forrige århundre» og de observerte russiske forskningsskip, tolket de ikke dem bare som innsamlere av data for vitenskapelige formål, men også militære.
– Våre skip er statseid, og det klinger kanskje annerledes i Russland enn det gjør hos oss. Det er mulig de regner med at det vi samler inn av data er noe som ender opp på Lutvann, sier rederisjefen.
I går fløy disse flotte maskinene nær hytten til Rolf Messmer og undertegnede. Det er rett under Tau Training Area, øst av Sola. Det fikk oss til å tro at showet den 5. juni går som planlagt. Den meldingen, med tilhørende mulighet for å kjøpe billetter, er et falsum, slik Flydagen Sola redegjør for under.
Flydagen Sola 2021 er fortsatt avlyst. Det eksisterer falske arrangement. Vær obs på at disse ikke har noe med oss å gjøre, og dersom det kommer billetter for salg er det falske billetter.
Vi kommer tilbake med informasjon om vårt neste arrangement på et senere tidspunkt.
