2015 A great Year.
A British man in Space, the July Pluto flyby, Pictures from a Comet and Mars seen from three views. Most people don't even bother looking up at the sky, day or night. Sometimes its the occasional drunk who claims to have seen more than one Moon!
But for may others it is the closet that we will perhaps for some time yet get into space? Just a pair of Binoculars and you open your eyes to see ponderous things, from nearby planets to distant stars and galaxies.
One may also see the International Space Station and other man made objects. The Moon is the nearest object to view, we only see one side of it because it does not rotate. Venus and Mars are next, followed by the gas giants, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Other wise we can visit the Indian, European, Russian and NASA websites to see the feast of what these many robotic craft are doing in space and on Mars.
Showing posts with label Comet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comet. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Design that changed Aviation. Part-Two.
DH.91 Albatross.
This greatly designed aircraft only saw a short time of service with British Imperial Airways from 1937 to 1943 and no body shells survived. The aircraft helped the British wartime leader PM Winston Churchill to get about the world trying to find allies, supplies and reports to Generals in North-Africa.
On the other hand aircraft design proceeded in the United States with the DC-3/47 and onwards and the Albatross eighteen years later was the blueprint for the Comet Jet airliner. Even Nazi-Germany was influenced by seeing this aircraft and their Condor followed suit to the sleek lines.
This greatly designed aircraft only saw a short time of service with British Imperial Airways from 1937 to 1943 and no body shells survived. The aircraft helped the British wartime leader PM Winston Churchill to get about the world trying to find allies, supplies and reports to Generals in North-Africa.
On the other hand aircraft design proceeded in the United States with the DC-3/47 and onwards and the Albatross eighteen years later was the blueprint for the Comet Jet airliner. Even Nazi-Germany was influenced by seeing this aircraft and their Condor followed suit to the sleek lines.
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Design that changed Aviation. Part-One.
The forerunner to the De'Havilland Comet.
The design of anything is very important, that is how a classic is created. Aviation has made bounds and leaps in the last one-hundred and six years, from a bicycle powered glider to the Space Shuttle, from the World War-one bi- and tri-planes to the Lockheed SR-71 and the MIG-25.
Most early aircraft relied on two wings, one located above the other and they all nearly appeared box or cylinder shaped. But in 1934-36 big changes were to occur in the design of civil aviation with the MacRobertson trophy. it asked for a compatible aircraft to the DC-2, which could carry 1000ib of mail, 2500 miles at high speed. A.E Hagg and Major Frank Halford rose to the occasion and developed the De'Havilland DH 91 Albatross.
This designed body was a pre-World War-II body shell that would be used on the first commercial jet liner some eighteen years later.
The design of anything is very important, that is how a classic is created. Aviation has made bounds and leaps in the last one-hundred and six years, from a bicycle powered glider to the Space Shuttle, from the World War-one bi- and tri-planes to the Lockheed SR-71 and the MIG-25.
Most early aircraft relied on two wings, one located above the other and they all nearly appeared box or cylinder shaped. But in 1934-36 big changes were to occur in the design of civil aviation with the MacRobertson trophy. it asked for a compatible aircraft to the DC-2, which could carry 1000ib of mail, 2500 miles at high speed. A.E Hagg and Major Frank Halford rose to the occasion and developed the De'Havilland DH 91 Albatross.
This designed body was a pre-World War-II body shell that would be used on the first commercial jet liner some eighteen years later.
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