November 4, 2015
Peter Singhatey
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Aviation, Aviation Safety, Flying, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey, Pilot
So what is it, and how does it affect your plane?
If you want to understand parasite drag, you’ll need a little background on what “drag” is in general. When two masses are in contact, they resist each other’s motion. In the case of an airplane, air resists the forward motion of the airplane. So when it comes to flying, drag is the resistance of an aircraft’s movements through air….
Source: Parasite Drag: What Is It? | Boldmethod
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June 5, 2015
Peter Singhatey
Aviation
Aviation, deed poll, peter singhateh, Ryanair
Student legally changes name because it was cheaper than changing Ryanair booking.
WE’VE ALL HAD a Ryanair experience, but this student’s ordeal might just take the biscuit.
The Sun reports that Adam Armstrong, 19, was due to go on holidays with his girlfriend to Ibiza next week. His girlfriend’s stepfather booked flights with Ryanair and accidentally booked Adam’s ticket under the wrong name.
You see, Armstrong’s name on Facebook had been Adam West, in an homage to the Batman actor, which his girlfriend’s stepfather saw and assumed was his real name.
Once he became aware of the error, Armstrong attempted to change his name on the ticket, but was informed by Ryanair that it would cost him £220 to do so.
And so, he did what any rational person would do and changed his name by deed poll.
After changing his name to Adam West for free, he paid £103 for a new passport and he was sorted, meaning that changing your actual name is cheaper than amending a Ryanair booking…
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March 18, 2015
Peter Singhatey
Aviation
Africa, Aviation, Helicopter Crash, Mail, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey
BBC News – Mali helicopter crash: Two Dutch UN peacekeepers die.
A Dutch UN helicopter has crashed near Gao in northern Mali, killing its two crew members, the Dutch defence ministry has said.
The Apache helicopter made a forced landing during a military exercise, the UN force in Mali said in a statement.
The Dutch armed forces chief, Gen Tom Middendorp, said: “Everything points to this being an accident.”
The aircraft was from the Minusma mission charged with peacekeeping since Islamist fighters were forced out.
One crew member survived the crash but died later of his injuries at a French field hospital, Gen Middendorp told a news conference in The Hague.
Gen Middendorp said an investigation into the cause of the crash was under way…
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January 6, 2015
Peter Singhatey
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Aviation, BAE Systems, F22, Flying, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey
BBC – Future – How to design the fighter cockpit of tomorrow.
If you think your office needs a lick of paint and some new furniture, spare a thought for fighter pilots. Those who fly fighter aircraft like the F-16 or the Tornado are still, in effect, working in a 1970s office – because that’s when those aircraft were originally designed.
It takes a very long time to build a new fighter jet. Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor is currently the only supersonic stealth fighter in active service ‒ but when the contract for the first prototype was signed in 1986, Apple’s top-of-the-range Macintosh Plus computer had a mere 1Mb memory and no hard drive. The F-22 carried out its first combat mission on 22 September this year – three days after Apple released the iPhone 6. Technology has transformed in those intervening 28 years, and nothing dates faster than yesterday’s vision of the future.
Today’s aircraft designers must guess what the world of 40 years’ time might look like – a task that even the innovators in Silicon Valley might baulk at. “At the moment, I’m looking at stuff out to at least 2040,” says Mark Bowman, chief test pilot for BAE Systems at Warton, Lancashire…
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January 3, 2015
Peter Singhatey
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Aviation, Flying, Light Aircraft, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey, Pilot, Plane Crash
Four dead in Kentucky plane crash, girl, 7, survives: police.
A small plane crashed in Kentucky late Friday, killing the pilot and three other passengers, while a seven-year-old girl apparently survived and wandered from the wreckage to find help, state police said.
The plane went down in a heavily wooded area of Lyon County, about 115 miles northwest of Nashville, Kentucky State Police said.
Authorities received a 911 call from a resident in the area who said a 7-year-old girl “had walked to his home reporting that she had been involved in a plane crash,” state police said in a statement posted on Facebook.
“The juvenile was in distress and was transported to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries,” the statement said.
Rescue crews fanned out to look for the plane and discovered its wreckage in a wooded area, police said. Four people on-board were killed, among them the pilot, they said….
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November 2, 2014
Peter Singhatey
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AeroMobil, Aviation, Flyingcar, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey, Pilot
AeroMobil: Flying car.
AeroMobil. Beautiful flying car. Beautifully integrated. Transforms in seconds from an automobile to an airplane. Gives you freedom to move.
AeroMobil is a flying car that perfectly makes use of existing infrastructure created for automobiles and planes, and opens doors to real door-to-door travel. As a car it fits into any standard parking space, uses regular gasoline, and can be used in road traffic just like any other car. As a plane it can use any airport in the world, but can also take off and land using any grass strip or paved surface just a few hundred meters long…
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August 26, 2014
Peter Singhatey
Aviation
Aviation, Flying, Madox, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey
Photo – What do VFR and IFR Mean? | AviationClub.
As a prospective student, you probably hear about instrument training from more experienced students, and you might wonder what exactly “instrument” flying entails.
Instrument flying can seem like an elusive or abstract term if you’re not familiar with flying, but it quickly becomes clear as you learn the difference between VFR and IFR, or VMC and IMC. Even seasoned pilots tend to use these terms incorrectly, so don’t feel too bad if you don’t know exactly what they mean. Let’s take a look at what all of this means…
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June 18, 2014
Peter Singhatey
Aviation
Aviation, Helicopter, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey, Pilot, Research
A Helicopter of One’s Own – NYTimes.com.
If we had our own personal mini-helicopters that were almost as easy to fly as cars are to drive, and we could take off from our backyards, soar over the traffic and peer down at the earthbound masses, trudging along below.
That would be cool.
As it turns out, the European Union is making plans for that very thing. Six research institutions across Europe are studying the feasibility of small commuter helicopters, helped along by a $4.7 million grant from the European government in a project dubbed “MyCopter.”..
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