søndag 31. oktober 2021
Førevarslanding av Widerøe på Florø - VG
Silje Kathrine Sviggum
WIDERØE MÅTTE FORETA BRÅ FLORØ-LANDING
Et Widerøe-fly på vei til Førde måtte søndag lande i Florø etter et kraftig brak og trykkfall i kabinen.
Kommunikasjonssjef Catharina Solli i Widerøe bekrefter omdirigeringen til flyet WF87 overfor VG.
–* Det var ikke en nødlanding, men kan oppleves ubehagelig fordi vi hadde en bråere nedstigning enn vanlig, sier Solli.*
VG ble søndag ettermiddag tipset om passasjerer som skal ha opplevd landingen som ytterst ubehagelig og følt frykt underveis.
– Det er jo noe galt med flyet når slikt skjer, derfor må vi la flyteknikere se på flyet. Det har de i Florø, derfor landet flyet der. Det var en 100 prosent kontrollert landing. Pilotene gikk ut i kabinen og forklarte hva som hadde skjedd til passasjerene etter at de landet.
Det befant seg ifølge Widerøes kommunikasjonssjef 22 passasjerer på flyet.
– Noen passasjerer fortalte om ubehag i øret på grunn av trykket. Det kan så klart føles ubehagelig når landingen er mye bråere enn vanlig. Vi er veldig lei oss for at passasjerene hadde denne opplevelsen og at de ikke kom til Førde, understreker Solli.
–_ Hvor er passasjerene nå?_
– Det er satt opp buss fra Florø lufthavn til Førde slik at passasjerene kommer seg dit flyet egentlig skulle ha landet.
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MPA - Norsk P-8A testes på Boeing Field - Twitter
I tilfelle du ikke vet hvor BFI (King County Intl.) er, så ligger den 4,7NM NV av Renton hvor flyet skrus sammen før det flys over til BFI for å få utstyr og testes før de så flyr over til NAS Patuxent River. Det er planen slik jeg har fått den presentert. Det er imidlertid besetningsmedlemmer på JAX for kursing også. (Red.)
The 1st P8 for returning to BFI after its 1st flight post military component installation at the BFI facility.
Space - Imponerende bilde fra Hubble - Space.com
Hubble Telescope Reveals Farthest View Into Universe Ever
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the farthest-ever view into the universe, a photo that reveals thousands of galaxies billions of light-years away.
The picture, called eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, combines 10 years of Hubble telescope views of one patch of sky. Only the accumulated light gathered over so many observation sessions can reveal such distant objects, some of which are one ten-billionth the brightness that the human eye can see.
The photo is a sequel to the original "Hubble Ultra Deep Field," a picture the Hubble Space Telescope took in 2003 and 2004 that collected light over many hours to reveal thousands of distant galaxies in what was the deepest view of the universe so far. The XDF goes even farther, peering back 13.2 billion years into the universe's past. The universe is thought to be about 13.7 billion years old.
Verdens største Lego- sett - Teknisk Ukeblad
I nr. 0821 kan en lese om dette fantastiske byggesettet som kan kjøpes gjennom bestilling for kr. 6 999,-. Det er en kopi av RMS Titanic i 1 : 200 skala, altså 1,35m lang. Flott den.
Allikevel faller den helt igjennom i forhold til modellen av USS Intrepid, hangarskipet som ligger som et flytende museum i NYC`s Hudson River. I 2015 gikk jeg ombord og fant modellen på hangardekket, altså under dekk. Den er ikke til salgs og finnes heller ikke som byggesett, men greit å få med seg for sammenlikningens skyld; den er 6,7m lang i 1: 40 skala. Bildene under som er tatt av meg i oktober nevnte år, taler for seg:
The real stuff:
lørdag 30. oktober 2021
Forsvaret kjøper flere NSM - Teknisk Ukeblad
PLEnda flere missiler: Ei uke etter at Forsvaret bestilte JSM, legger de inn ny bestilling på NSM
Har bestilt missiler og missilvedliekhold for 5,4 milliarder kroner
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace skal levere flere Naval Strike Missile (NSM) med tilhørende utstyr til Sjøforsvarets fregatter og korvetter. (Foto: Kongsberg)
29. OKT. 2021 - 19:00
I løpet av åtte oktoberdager har det norske forsvaret bestilt missiler for over fem milliarder kroner.
Torsdag 22. oktober undertegnet Forsvarsmateriell (FMA) en avtale med Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) om å kjøpe Joint Strike Missile (JSM) til F-35A for 3,95 milliarder kroner.
Fredag 29. oktober har de samme partene undertegnet to nye missilkontrakter. Denne gangen gjelder det nye Naval Strike Missile (NSM) og tilhørende utstyr samt hovedvedlikehold på eksisterende NSM-beholdning.
Kontraktene er verdt til sammen 1,4 milliarder kroner, melder KDA.
Ubåt - Hevingen av Nordflåtens superubåt Kursk - realclearhistory.com video
Fra en pålitelig kilde nær Oslo, har jeg fått denne:
Good morning.
Du har sikkert god tid ila week-enden til å se på denne imponerende operasjonen med å heve Kursk og få den inn til Murmansk. Helt sikkert altfor lang for podkasten, men uhyre interessant å se hva moderne teknologi (pluss smarte ingeniører pluss et ukjent antall dollar) kan avstedkomme.Sjekk videoen her: https://tinyurl.com/ezv58td6
Kursk hadde vært i drift i 6 år da den sank i august år 2000
Ubåtsaken kjedelig for NATO - Biden innrømmer klossethet - DefenseNews
Biden tells Macron US ‘clumsy’ in Australian submarine deal
By Sylvie Corbet, The Associated Press and Zeke Miller, The Associated Press
Oct 29, 07:37 PM
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron walk to a meeting at La Villa Bonaparte in Rome, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. A Group of 20 summit scheduled for this weekend in Rome is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (Evan Vucci/AP)
ROME — Working to patch things up with an old ally, President Joe Biden told French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday that the U.S. had been “clumsy” in its handling of a secret U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia, an arrangement that left France in the lurch and rattled Europe’s faith in American loyalty.
Biden and Macron greeted each other with handshakes and shoulder grabs before their first face-to-face meeting since the deal was publicly announced in September, marking the latest American effort to try to smooth hurt French sensibilities. Biden didn’t formally apologize to Macron, but conceded the U.S. should not have caught its oldest ally by surprise.“I think what happened was — to use an English phrase — what we did was clumsy,” Biden said, adding the submarine deal “was not done with a lot of grace.”
“I was under the impression that France had been informed long before,” he added.
The U.S.-led submarine contract supplanted a prior French deal to supply Australia with its own diesel-powered submarines. The U.S. argued that the move, which will arm the Pacific ally with higher-quality nuclear-powered boats, will better enable Australia to contain Chinese encroachment in the region.
Macron said the two allies would develop “stronger cooperation” to prevent a similar misunderstanding from happening again.
“We clarified together what we had to clarify,” he added, when asked if U.S.-France relations had been repaired. “What really matters now is what we will do together in the coming weeks, the coming months, the coming years,” he said.
To that end, Macron’s goal for the meeting was securing greater U.S. intelligence and military cooperation supporting French anti-terrorist operations in the Sahel region of Africa.
Macron praised Biden’s “very operational, very concrete decisions” in recent weeks that helped the French military fighting Islamic extremists in the Sahel.
Biden and Macron also discussed new ways to cooperate in the Indo-Pacific, a move meant to soothe French tempers over being excised from the U.S.-U.K.-Australia partnership that accompanied the submarine deal. Other topics on the agenda include China, Afghanistan and Iran, as well as climate change, before next week’s UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
The French, who lost out on more than $60 billion from the submarine deal, have argued that the Biden administration at the highest levels misled them about the talks with Australia and even levied criticism that Biden was adopting the tactics of his bombastic predecessor, Donald Trump. France is especially angry over being kept in the dark about a major geopolitical shift, and having its interests in the Indo-Pacific — where France has territories with 2 million people and 7,000 troops — ignored.
The row challenged Biden’s carefully honed image of working to stabilize and strengthen the trans-Atlantic alliance after Trump’s presidency, as France for the first time in some 250 years of diplomatic relations pulled its ambassador to the U.S. in protest.
U.S. officials, from Biden on down, have worked for weeks to try to soothe tensions, though not so much for Biden to visit France himself to try to reset relations with Paris. Instead, he’s dispatched Vice President Kamala Harris for a visit in early November.
In a concession by the White House, the Biden-Macron meeting in Rome was organized and hosted by France at Villa Bonaparte, the French embassy to the Holy See, which Macron’s office called “politically important.” Meanwhile, first lady Jill Biden was to host Brigitte Macron for a “bilateral engagement’ Friday afternoon.
Biden also praised France as an “extremely valued partner” and a “power in and of itself.”
“There is too much that we have done together, suffered together, celebrated together and valued together for anything to ... break this up,” Biden said.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the two leaders would “literally cover the waterfront of issues facing the U.S.-France alliance,” including counterterrorism in the Middle East, China and trade and economic issues.
Kina ser ut til å benytte sivil flyplass som utgangspunkt for flyginger inn i Taiwans ADIZ - DefenseNews
Nok en gang leser jeg om overflyging av Taiwan. Det riktige er at flyene har fløyet inn i Taiwans Air Defense Identification Zone som ligger et godt stykke fra øya, noe jeg har redegjort for her tidligere. ADIZ er en sone som ikke er anerkjent internasjonalt.(Red.)
Satellite images show China may be using closed civilian airport to launch Taiwan overflights
By Mike Yeo
Oct 28, 10:32 PM
The Chinese KQ-200 is the most common aircraft reported by Taiwan crossing into its air defense identification zone, as of late October 2021. (Courtesy of Japan's Defense Ministry)
MELBOURNE, Australia — China is likely using an unused civilian airport just across the Strait of Taiwan to conduct its overflights near the island, with satellite imagery on different occasions showing military aircraft parked on the ground that correspond with Taiwanese military reports.
Shantou-Waisha airport, less than 220 miles across the strait from the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, has played host to rotating detachments of People’s Liberation Army aircraft since at least October 2020, according to satellite imagery provided to Defense News by Planet Labs.
The mixed civilian and military airport, which used to service the city of Shantou, ceased commercial operations in 2011 when the nearby Jieyang-Chaoshan airport opened to become the city’s civilian airport.
The October 2020 imagery showed two Shaanxi KQ-200 anti-submarine warfare aircraft on what used to be the civil parking apron, with the type’s distinctive tail-mounted anomaly detector boom clearly visible.
1. Resident Chengdu J-7 interceptors seen on multiple occasions. 2. Shaanxi KQ-200 anti-submarine warfare aircraft seen May 7, 2021. 3. Shaanxi KQ-200 aircraft seen May 7, 2021. 4. Six Sukhoi Su-30, or Shenyang J-11/J-16, seen Sept. 2, 2021. 5. Shaanxi KQ-200 aircraft seen Oct. 27, 2020. (Planet Labs)
Two similar aircraft were seen May 7, 2021, with one of these seen taxiing toward the runway in another satellite photo that has been published on Google Earth.
According to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense, two KQ-200s — which it described as “Y-8 ASW” because the KQ-200 is based on the Y-8F airlifter — entered the southern part of its air defense identification zone, or ADIZ, on that day, flying from and returning in the direction of the city.
That type of area is airspace over which the identification and location of aircraft operating in it is monitored for national security purposes, and is separate from and may extend beyond a country’s territorial airspace to give the country more time to respond to aircraft of interest.
China’s KQ-200s have been the most common aircraft reported by Taiwan crossing into its ADIZ. The type is operated by the PLA Navy’s air arm; the nearest known units operating the platform are regiments based at Dachang in Shanghai to the north and at Qionghai on the southern Chinese island of Hainan on the fringes of the South China Sea.
In addition to the above occasions, low-resolution images of the old civil apron showed between one and three aircraft there since the middle of 2020, suggesting these deployments began at least that early.
Planet Labs also provided Defense News with photos of the airport taken Sept. 2, which showed six Sukhoi Su-27/30 Flanker aircraft, or its Chinese Shenyang J-11/16 derivatives, on the northern apron. This was followed by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reporting four and two Su-30s entering its ADIZ on Sept. 5 and 6, respectively, from the direction of Shantou.
While not definitive, the reports by the ministry and the presence of similar types at Shantou-Waisha on corresponding days as well as their flight tracks in and out of the zone suggest the air base is used as a convenient jumping-off point by PLA aircraft into Taiwan’s ADIZ.
The use of the base not only shortens transit times into the zone but also enables the PLA to attain faster access to and conduct training and/or patrols over the southern part of the Taiwan Strait, the northern part of the South China Sea and the Bashi Channel.
The channel lies between Taiwan and the Philippines, and it provides direct deep-water access to the northern part of the disputed South China Sea from the Pacific Ocean. It is also one of the several strategic chokepoints of the so-called First Island Chain.
fredag 29. oktober 2021
SpaceX Starship skytes opp i helgen med The Halloween Four - Space.com
SpaceX
fires up Falcon 9 rocket for Crew-3 Halloween astronaut launch
The
Crew-3 mission is scheduled to lift off early Sunday morning (Oct. 31).
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the pad at Launch Complex 39A during a brief static fire test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 28, 2021, ahead of the Crew-3 mission. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX has fired up the rocket
that will launch its next crew of astronauts toward the International Space
Station this weekend.
The
private spaceflight company conducted a static-fire test before dawn Thursday
(Oct. 28) of its Falcon 9 rocket at
Pad 39A here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The test is one of the last major
milestones ahead of a planned launch on Sunday (Oct. 31).
That launch will kick off Crew-3, SpaceX's third operational crewed mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Crew-3 will send three NASA astronauts and one German spaceflyer to the orbiting lab.
Live Updates: SpaceX's Crew-3
astronaut mission
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Today's
static fire — a routine test that ensures a rocket is ready to fly —
occurred as expected in the predawn hours. Smoke and fire billowed briefly as
the Falcon 9's nine first-stage Merlin 1D engines were lit while the rocket
remained anchored to the pad.
Shortly
afterward, SpaceX tweeted that
the static fire was a success and that the company will be moving forward with
its planned Halloween launch.
Crew-3
is set to blast off at 2:21 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT) on Oct. 31, sending a Crew
Dragon capsule named Endurance skyward. Following a
successful liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage is expected to land on one of
SpaceX's drone ships, called Just Read the Instructions. If all goes as
planned, Endurance will spend just under 24 hours trailing the space station
before arriving at the orbital outpost early Monday (Nov. 1).
Endurance is brand-new, but it sits atop a previously
flown rocket: This Falcon 9's first stage also launched a robotic cargo mission
to the space station in June.
The Falcon 9 and Endurance were rolled out of their
hangar and onto the launch pad at Complex 39A on Wednesday morning (Oct. 27).
Standing 215 feet (65 meters) tall, the pair was lifted upright later that
afternoon.
Secured to the launch pad, teams worked overnight to
prep the rocket for its static fire test. They loaded the rocket with
super-chilled propellants — kerosene and liquid oxygen.
The nine first-stage engines briefly fired at 1 a.m.
EDT (0500 GMT) Thursday, generating 1.7 million pounds of thrust while the
booster remained firmly on the ground. Engineers reviewed the data before
confirming that they would proceed with a launch on Sunday.
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astronauts on SpaceX's Dragon
The
static fire test comes on the heels of a flight readiness review, which cleared the mission
for flight on Monday evening (Oct. 25), and the crew's
arrival in Florida. Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron of NASA were
joined by the European Space Agency's Matthias Maurer as they arrived at
Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 26).
Up
next is a full dress rehearsal for the crew. Currently, forecasters at the 45th
Space Delta here at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station predict an 80% chance of
favorable conditions for liftoff on Sunday morning. The only cause for concern
is a slight chance of flight through precipitation.
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