ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 07.19.10 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 07.19.10 (ANN's
Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: Flying into Oshkosh -
07.19.10 (ANN Special Report, with CFI Bob
Miller)
Receiver Autonomous Integrity
Monitoring (RAIM)
A technique
whereby a civil GNSS receiver/processor determines the integrity of
the GNSS navigation signals without reference to sensors or non-DoD
integrity systems other than the receiver itself. This
determination is achieved by a consistency check among redundant
pseudorange measurements.
Aero-Linx: The Cluster Balloon
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Have you ever dreamed of being carried into the sky by a giant
bouquet of colorful toy balloons? That's the idea behind cluster
ballooning. The pilot wears a harness, to which a cluster of large,
helium-filled balloons are attached. Control is achieved by
releasing ballast to ascend, or by bursting balloons to
descend.
"Objectives Achieved... Congratulations to the
whole team."
Source: From the Virgin Galactic blog, as
Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic moved a step closer to their
first suborbital passenger flights with VSS Enterprise late last
week. Enterprise flew for the first time with a crew of two on
board.
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