#Aeroshells

[johniac]

Attention-Worthy Links for November 27th, 2024

[thestonecuttersguild]

Oshkosh 2023

[nocternalrandomness]

The Aeroshell Aerobatic Team takes to the air in their North American AT-6 Texans

[recoiloperated]

I may just be a parts guy, but I have a big discount on polyken 231/NSN 7510-00-074-4961.

[jjwphotography1990]

The Aeroshell Aerobatic team performing an awesome night show in the famous T-6 Texan! . The 2021 Sun 'n Fun Air Show Lakeland, Florida . #aeroshell #aeroshellaerobaticteam #t6 #t6texan #texan #aerobatics #prop #pilot #aviationphotography #airforceaviation #airshow #airshowphotography #aviation #aviationgeek #airplane #shotoncanon #canon #canoneosr #eosr #canonphotography #photography #aviationphoto #pictureoftheday #photooftheday #sigma #sigmalens #sigma60600mmsports @combat_learjet @airshowstuff @newsairshow @airshowhub @airshow360 @canonusa @canon.photographers @canon_addicts @canoneosr @canonrseries @canon_r_mirrorless @canon_photogroup @aeroshellaerobaticteam @aeroshellaerobatic @lensrentals #mylensrental @sigmaphoto @flysnf #sunnfun #lakeland @nightphotography (at SUN 'n FUN) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoODI-YsPa_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[apexlube01]

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[frogshunnedshadows]

Things, stuff, junk, etc.

[rarund]

Sony A6600 with Tamron 150-500 f/5-6.7 - AeroShell Aerobatic Team, Cleveland National Air Show. September 2023.

[orioncars]

🤭🤭🤭 #turbine #aerojet #oil #aeroshell https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn9xPPEI54W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[livingforstars]

Galileo's Jupiter Probe - December 7th, 1995.

"On this day 28 years ago, at about 5:00 pm EST, this 750 pound probe from NASA's robot spacecraft Galileo plummeted into Jupiter, becoming the first probe to fly through the atmosphere of a gas giant planet. Released by the Galileo orbiter in July of 1995, it had been coasting toward its rendezvous with the Solar System's largest planet. The probe smacked Jupiter's atmosphere at over 100,000 mph, slowing to less than 1,000 mph in a matter of minutes, experiencing a deceleration of about 230 times the Earth's surface gravity. It then deployed a parachute and descended, using sophisticated instruments to profile Jupiter's dense outer layers of hydrogen and helium gas. Pictured here before launch, the probe descent module (top) is suspended above its deceleration module aeroshell (bottom) prior to being joined. The aeroshell would protect the descent module from the initial shock and heat of entry, which initially created an intense fireball, over twice as hot as the surface of the Sun."

[lonestarflight]

Thermal Protection System (TPS) for Lockheed Martin X-33 Venture Star.

Example of the TPS.

"The thermal protection system (TPS) for the X-33 is composed of complex layers of materials to protect internal components, while withstanding severe external temperatures induced by aerodynamic heating during high speed flight. An array of metallic Thermal Protection System (TPS) panels serves as the vehicle aeroshell in some regions using a stand-off design."

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Internet Archives: 2005-L-00553, 2005-L-00558

[nikproxima]

MTV initial study, done by Marshall Space Flight Center, by Max

Revised conceptual study for MTV, circa 1982 design freeze, by Max

MTV Minerva being serviced prior to departure on an Olympus mission, as well as OV-106 Intrepid, by Jay

The Olympus Mars Transfer Vehicle was something of a miracle of science and engineering, and showcased some of the greatest cooperation for the entire program as a whole. As important as landing on the surface of Mars is, getting to Mars is a whole different half of the equation, and ensuring that the right equipment would do the job was part of the uphill battle for the program. In the beginning of the design process, it was unclear whether or not the architecture would be chemical, nuclear, or some sort of strange combination of the two. Highly experimental solar electric or even nuclear electric proposals had been thrown around, but it was unclear whether those would be ready in time for the projected late 1990s landing date. Initially, things were dire, as the Olympus Partners stared down the failures of General Atomics to produce a working Valkyrie engine, the key to a reusable nuclear architecture. Ultimately, Lockheed and Naval Reactors would succeed in flying their demonstrator, Way-Seeker, and secure the contract to produce the propulsion section. Boeing would lead the work on Habitat design, a radical new concept for inflatable modules that would enable much greater volume on a single launch. This inflatable habitat would be augmented by a Utility Node, also built by Boeing, and would contain the life support, air lock, and docking systems that would be utilized by ships visiting the MTV. Two Multi Purpose Mission Modules, built by Thales Aerospace, would join the MTV before a mission was due to depart, enabling greater habitable volume and delivering mission specific equipment for the intended landing site. The final component, the Earth Return Lifeboat, would ensure the safety of the crew if something were to go wrong. This capsule would be a large, Apollo CM derived vehicle built by Lockheed and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (later Airbus), and could seat a crew of 8. 

The MTVs of the Olympus Fleet, Minerva, Prometheus, Hera and Selene, would do their duty well. Each would lead the way in pioneering new triumphs and bring comfort to the crew in times of hardship. They would shelter them from storms, and bring their crews home every time. Even during the disaster of Olympus 9, where all hope seemed lost, Hera gave her all to ensure that her crew would get home safely, sacrificing herself into the inky void of space to throw her passengers home. Towards the end of their usable lives, Minerva, Prometheus and Selene would see continued use supporting Destiny, shuttling cargo landers and crew to and from the lunar surface as infrastructure quickly spread. For the crew of Foundation, the outpost in Noctis, a fleet of new MTVs would emerge, chemical-electric, nuclear and even chemical "cargo sleds" that would push great volumes of equipment. The Americans would lead the charge with their radical Chem-NEP design, the Armstrong class. These would be fully reusable, and leverage design work being done since the start of the program. Japan and Canada would contribute heavily to the Armstrong Class, with logistics modules and robotic arms as their main gifts. Europe's largest contribution would be the Euro-Russian Copernicus Class, a nuclear thermal system based on work done by the Americans in the early days of Olympus. These would be smaller in crew complement but much larger in cargo volume, delivering great aeroshells to the surface. China would also deliver new vehicles, the fully solar-electric Tianzhou class, based on their earlier endeavors in asteroid exploration. These were strictly for cargo, and ensured that Chinese Taikonauts had seats onboard American or European MTVs. This fleet of MTVs would enable a continuous human presence on Mars in the low hundreds throughout the middle of the 21st century.

[thestonecuttersguild]

Full formation barnstormers loop sequence. Aeroshell Aerobatic Team. Oshkosh 2023

[featureenvyproductions]

NEW PROJECT SPAMS

hi 👋

do you guys wanna see the stuff I'm working on for my new animation I decided to do? well I can't hear you through the screen so I'll assume yes and also time for info dump (below, after the drawing, in case you don't care). TLDR version is I'm making a thing where some people go to mars. I think I finally worked out a descent module and the shit attached to it, which I'll info dump about in a sec for now look at my sub par 95% free handed scribbles (I'm too lazy to find a ruler but I used the edge of a book for the solar panels). I do plan to revise this I think but this is draft 1.

K so what the fuck is this. So I have some people goin to mars in my animation - a collab between future nasa and future roscosmos. I know I could literally make this look like anything and absolutely ZERO people would care but like I HAD TO PUT A LITTLE THOUGHT INTO IT OR I WAS GONNA DIE OK. I basically absorbed videos and facts on soyuz capsules until I started dreaming exclusively about plunging into a desert in a tiny metal box and then I figured it was enough and ok wait back up ej we gotta toss some background info out there.

Ok tldr I thought about this mission my people are going on bc even though I'm not gonna include all this exposition in the story, it helps me guide the design of shit bc I'm not that creative lol. The reason it looks so much like the soyuz is basically because in my story this spacecraft is made by Russia and the one thing I notice is that their designs don't really seem to change drastically over time. They're just like "yeah this works" and then they do that really fucking well forever and honestly I get it and this story only takes place 15-20 years in the future so I borrowed a bit

So just a high level overview. The characters are leaving from Earth in this much smaller spacecraft that will dock with a bigger space-station-like vehicle already in orbit around earth that actually does the bulk of the journey. Part of the reason for this is the trade off is a journey 6 months of horrible radiation, near-zero-g, and conventional fuel OR a better but scarier rocket and a much shorter transfer. I went with the better rocket - a nuclear rocket. They'll get there in 45 days but the trade off is if something goes wrong it REALLY REALLY goes wrong. Thus the reason they're not using nuclear rockets earlier to leave the atmosphere.

Anyway tldr they're docking with a bigger ship.

This is the thing they take up to the bigger ship from earth (minus the first couple rocket stages but I won't really be showing that part of the journey so I didn't draw them). There are a couple different parts. The round one is the orbital module bc i figure they'll be headed quite a ways away to dock with the main ship and theyre gonna need a place to hang out and live and whatever.

The next one and the important one is the descent module.

Now I did kinda like I said base this on the soyuz BUT there are some notable differences which you can see in action in the side of the image at the top of this post if you squint. Mars has a tricky atmosphere. It's really thin. I gotta admit like I really have no fucking idea how to design airfoils for this, much less a descent capsule. But I did read a couple papers/watched some gifs of boundary layer separation over airfoils or whatever and I looked at some of the reasoning behind why say the Mars science laboratory aeroshell and the ingenuity rotor blades are weird looking compared to stuff that's designed for our atmosphere. It boils down to it's just harder to generate lift (big shocker).

My guys would run into the same problem coming down in a capsule, but I made it so that it's a little wider/flatter and sharper than the current generation soyuz capsules. I also added more control thrusters to it because these people will have to get themselves out of the capsule and won't have help, so it needs to be oriented correctly. If they're tipping to one side and approaching some weird rocks or whatever, they can blast those things and right themselves a bit hopefully. Yeah having a thruster array on either side kinda fucks up the airflow but like I need these for the plot. More on that later. I mean maybe I don't. I'm still thinking about it. If I decide this is a stupid idea I won't put them there but like I said draft 1 no one roast me too hard

Other than that it's pretty boring. I've got a Massive parachute (though who knows how much help thatll be. ) and some retrorockets that start firing as soon as they get close to the surface to try and cushion the landing.

Oh yeah and the other part here is just the instruments/solar panels/main propulsion tanks/thrusters. This is necessary so the module can power up at the end of the journey after the big ship enters a low mars orbit. It'll separate from the big ship and then perform a braking maneuver to ultimately enter the atmosphere and land.

Anyway I'm sorry I know like .5 people care about these info dumps however I'm not sorry enough to not do it and it will happen again

[jjwphotography1990]

The Aeroshell Aerobatic team performing an awesome night show in the famous T-6 Texan! . The 2021 Sun 'n Fun Air Show Lakeland, Florida . #aeroshell #aeroshellaerobaticteam #t6 #t6texan #texan #aerobatics #prop #pilot #aviationphotography #airforceaviation #airshow #airshowphotography #aviation #aviationgeek #airplane #shotoncanon #canon #canoneosr #eosr #canonphotography #photography #aviationphoto #pictureoftheday #photooftheday #sigma #sigmalens #sigma60600mmsports @combat_learjet @airshowstuff @newsairshow @airshowhub @airshow360 @canonusa @canon.photographers @canon_addicts @canoneosr @canonrseries @canon_r_mirrorless @canon_photogroup @aeroshellaerobaticteam @aeroshellaerobatic @lensrentals #mylensrental @sigmaphoto @flysnf #sunnfun #lakeland @nightphotography (at SUN 'n FUN) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoODI-YsPa_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rainbowriderjt]

Aeroshell Acrobatic Team