The turbulent genesis of the Airbus A400M just got a lot more difficult. An A400M, due to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force within weeks, went down during a shakedown test flight with a crew of six aboard. The aircraft, MSN23, was the first A400M loss. The accident occurred right after departure from Seville's San Pablo airport -- also the home of Airbus Defense and Space’s flight test and final assembly facility.
Differential Motion
Cloud motion that appears to differ relative to other nearby cloud elements, e.g. clouds moving from left to right relative to other clouds in the foreground or background. Cloud rotation is one example of differential motion, but not all differential motion indicates rotation. For example, horizontal wind shear along a gust front may result in differential cloud motion without the presence of rotation.
Aero Linx: The National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education
The National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education is a membership organization that was formed in 1993 when the founding member groups signed a formal charter and established a partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Together with the FAA, we actively promote aviation and space education while supporting schools’ initiatives at the local, state and national levels.
"We were surprised when we won. There were teams that had some really excellent engineering. Our solution met the criteria. It was beneficial to the warfighter and innovative. I had a great team of cadets this year -- the right mix of fun and really hard work. They fully embraced this project."
Source: Lt. Col. Tim Jung, an Academy aeronautical engineering professor, who led a team of 10 cadets who won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Innovation Challenge for the second year in a row with their design of a micro air vehicle that can sniff out chemical concentration levels in an explosive cloud.
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