#Air Force anniversary

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U.S. military planes fly in formation high above the mooring mast at the top of the Empire State Building, August 1, 1947. This was part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the establishment of a special air branch within the Army Signal Corps, which eventually became the Army Air Forces and then the U.S. Air Force.

Photo: NY Sun via the Associated Press

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Moggy by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: The RAF display Typhoon lights the afterburners as it blasts skywards to end its routine at the 2024 Bournemouth Air Festival. The aircraft wears special markings to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Aircraft: Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 ZJ913. Location: SS Shieldhall, Bournemouth Bay, Dorset.

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D-Day 80th Anniversary

Fully marked and bombed up for the historic invasion is P-47D-15 "Arkansas Traveller" (the mount 0f Capt. Dewey Newhart), which carried the name "Mud N' Mules" on the port side, with a truncated mule on the nose checkers. Newhart was serving as CO of the 350th Fighter Squadron when he was one of eight 353rd Fighter Group pilots shot down on 12 June.

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uuhhh in other new that lmk s5 trailer dropped and people are very

mixed

for context the new season is being partly animated by wildbrain i think. flying bark is still working on the show but probably due to all the other projects they've been working on like the atla movie the animation is off.

its understandable that people are upset. lmk has some of the most consistently dynamic and lively animation ive ever seen, and going from that to ok animation kinda sucks. as a culmination of a lot of what the series has been building up to people were inevitably going to be disappointed

at the same time people shouldnt harass animators. like ever. no amount of trying to petition or anything will change the s5, people are just trying to do their job and theres no probably no major changing to the finished product by now. and theres still a lot of that lmk charm in there, and we haven't even seen the whole season yet to judge it. flying bark is still working on it, and even if the animation never reaches the peak of the old seasons it still has the same writers so at least the writing has the chance to live up old standards. idk though we'll just have to wait and see

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keep going 💎🥂🦙

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Veterans Day 2023

On this special episode of the Official Infernal Legion Podcast, the Officers and Legionnaires of the Infernal Legion celebrate Veterans Day and our six year anniversary! We discuss the history of Veterans Day, the phrase “Thank you for your service,” and the founding of the Legion. Featuring submissions from Magus Peter H. Gilmore, Magistra Templi Rex Blanche Barton, Magister Adam Campbell, Rev.…

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Italian Air Force's 100th Anniversary!

Topolino #3120 cover by Carlo Limido, adapted for the occasion by me ^^

28th March 1923 - King Vittorio Emanuele III establishes the Italian Air Force as an independent service separating it from the Royal Army. The air arm of the italian army actually dates back to 1884 with the first aerostatic service and it's one of the earliest air forces in the world.

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वायु सेना की 92वीं वर्षगांठ पर मरीना एयरफील्ड में राफेल, तेजस समेत इन विमानों ने दिखाए करतब

#News वायु सेना की 92वीं वर्षगांठ पर मरीना एयरफील्ड में राफेल, तेजस समेत इन विमानों ने दिखाए करतब

92nd Anniversary of Indian Air Force: भारतीय वायु सेना की 92वीं वर्षगांठ के अवसर पर आज (6 अक्तूबर) को तमिलनाडु के चेन्नई मरीना एयरफील्ड में एक एयर एडवेंचर शो का आयोजन किया गया। 21 साल बाद चेन्नई ने वायु सेना दिवस समारोह की मेजबानी की। इस एयर एडवेंचर शो के दौरान तमिलनाडु के मुख्यमंत्री एमके स्टालिन भी मौजूद रहे। गरुड़ कमांडो ने भी मरीना बीच पर अपनी ताकत और परिचालन तैयारियों का प्रदर्शन किया, जो…

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Aermacchi Arrival by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Aermacchi SF-260 70-44 arrives at Fairford as part of the Italian Air Force 100th anniversary celebrations during the 2023 Royal International Air Tattoo. Aircraft: SIAI Marchetti SF-260AM M.M.55013/70-44 (D-ESMC). Location: RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

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D-Day 80th Anniversary

North American P-51B-10, 42-106472/PZ-D, "The Flying Scot/Vicious Virgie", flown by Lt. Carlton L. Fuhrman, 468th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, Bodney, June 1944.

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NEW ZEALAND - Yuri’s Night 2024 International Space Event at the Air Force Museum.

Yuri’s Night 2024 at the Air Force Museum of NZ, an International Space Celebration; Come along and see Canterbury’s Aerospace on display, completely free; Turn up any time throughout the day (below for some workshop times)

– Planetarium tours – Mars Rover display – Build-Your-Own-Rocket workshops – Static Rocket displays – Giveaways (from stickers to aerospace collectibles) – Astronomical displays – Wind Tunnel exhibit – Build a Shuttle – Send a postcard to space (Really!) – watch a rocket launch (weather dependant) – Touch a piece of rocket that’s returned from Space! – Spot Prizes of cool aerospace swag! – and so much more!

Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space on April 12th 1961. Fast forward 40 years and “Yuri’s Night” was created as an international space party, celebrating everything aerospace!

– Rocket Workshops at 10am and 2pm (spaces limited) – Rocket Launch at 1pm weather dependant – Planetarium tour numbers subject to space constraints

– Therese Angelo Wing of the Museum (hang a left and go past the cafe upon entering)

Proudly brought to you by the Christchurch Rocketeers, Royal Aeronautical Society of NZ, and the Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Event displays volunteered by: – Christchurch Rocketeers – Royal Aeronautical Society of NZ – Air Force Museum of NZ – Canterbury Astronomical Society – Aerospace New Zealand/ Aotearoa Aerospace Academy – House of Science – UC Aerospace Club – SpacewardBoundNZ – Canterbury Astronomical Society

Yuri’s Night 2024 International Space Event WHERE: 2024-Apr-13 @ 09:30 AM - 2024-Apr-13 @ 04:00 PM WHEN: Air Force Museum of New Zealand Harvard Avenue, Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand

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The evolution of GPS: what to expect from global navigation satellite systems in the next 50 years - Technology Org

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The evolution of GPS: what to expect from global navigation satellite systems in the next 50 years - Technology Org

More robust and more accurate positioning systems are needed to meet the demands of the global economy – and Australia is set to enjoy the benefits of its very own system.

Image credit: USAF/Wikipedia/Public Domain

Global Positioning Systems turned 50 years old last year with the ‘golden’ anniversary of the US Air Force being given approval in 1973 to develop the Navstar GPS.

GPS has since become a vital component of everyday life that is largely taken for granted by the billions of people who use it for positioning, navigation and timing every single day.

But that increasing reliance also causes greater risks and experts are warning of the dangers if this important technology can be hacked, jammed or even knocked out completely by a natural disaster such as a huge geomagnetic storm.

More robust and more accurate positioning systems are needed to meet the demands of the global economy – and Australia is set to enjoy the benefits of its very own system.

The SouthPAN system will soon provide a wide range of positioning, navigation and timing services specifically for Australia and New Zealand. Image: Adobe Stock

Global Positioning Systems turned 50 years old last year with the ‘golden’ anniversary of the US Air Force being given approval in 1973 to develop the Navstar GPS.

GPS has since become a vital component of everyday life that is largely taken for granted by the billions of people who use it for positioning, navigation and timing every single day.

But that increasing reliance also causes greater risks and experts are warning of the dangers if this important technology can be hacked, jammed or even knocked out completely by a natural disaster such as a huge geomagnetic storm.

That’s why developments continue apace in the world of GPS – including Australia and New Zealand’s very own multi-billion dollar positioning system called SouthPAN, which is already active and with more and more services set to be made available in the coming months and years.

The UNSW Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) in partnership with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CVEN) will soon host the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Conference to bring together experts, policy makers and tech leaders to discuss important topics concerning the industry.

Here, UNSW academics Professor Andrew Dempster and Dr Craig Roberts give a sneak peek what people can expect from GPS over the next 50 years.

Australasia gets its own ‘GPS’ system

What most people generally call GPS is actually a specific system owned by the United States government and now operated by the United States Space Force. It was started in 1973.

However, other countries have since developed their own systems and there are currently three major alternatives: Russia’s GLONASS, China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, and the Galileo system developed by the European Union. Collectively they are called Global Navigation Satellite Sytems (GNSS).

India and Japan have also been developing separate systems that are not global. Augmentation systems have been introduced by the US, Europe, Japan and others to overcome some GNSS shortcomings using geostationary satellites (satellites that are always in the same place in the sky).

Australia and New Zealand have now added themselves to the list by joining forces to launch the SouthPAN system – designed to meet global performance requirements under the region’s unique service area and space weather conditions.

“SouthPAN is technically a satellite-based augmentation system, which means it is still relying on receiving signals from other satellite systems but then utilises a number of ground stations to process all the data and then correct some of the errors, making it more accurate,” says Prof. Dempster, director of ACSER.

“The stated aim is that by 2028 you will be able to use this system via your mobile phone and it will tell you within 10 centimetres exactly where you are.”

In recent times uncorrected GPS signals in Australia have only been accurate to within around three to five metres.

The effect of SouthPAN, therefore, will be that every major industry across Australia and New Zealand, from transport and construction to resources and agriculture, will gain significant positioning and navigation benefits.

How GPS can continue to improve agriculture 

You may not know that global navigation satellite systems have become vital in the agricultural industry to reduce costs and improve yields.

GPS is used to plan farming areas, map farms and track the yields of crops from different locations, as well as helping farmers to work in more challenging conditions including even in darkness.

So making accurate GPS information even more accurate available and reliable over the next 50 years will only improve crop production.

“On a basic level it’s good to know exactly where you are when you are a farmer in your combined harvester because you don’t want to be inefficient and waste time or fuel, and also you don’t want to drive over your crop and damage it,” says Dr Roberts from UNSW’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

“The more automated it is, via an accurate GPS system, the more productive the process as farmers can reduce fatigue.

“In addition, there is a lot of technical agricultural information that can be paired with the GPS data. For example, grain can be analysed to show the exact protein levels and if you know precisely where that grain was harvested from you get some very useful knowledge.

“And they can do the same for soil moisture and fertiliser usage for each specific location which over time helps to maximise the yields.”

The need for more robust security

A huge number of technological systems would be affected if global positioning systems were hacked or jammed on a major scale – from airliners to electric grids, from stock markets to ATMs, and any other system that relies on GPS to time their operations.

Such events might be caused deliberately by bad actors in the geopolitical sphere, or by a natural phenomenon such as a geomagnetic storm. Many fear a repeat of the Carrington Event of 1859 would knock out every high level Earth-orbiting satellite in an instant by frying their electronics.

“The problem is that we’re now wedded to GNSS and satellite positioning, but it’s really vulnerable. The goal for the future is to keep utilising the systems, but be less vulnerable,” says Prof. Dempster.

“There have been studies done that show that every single sector of the economy that can be considered critical infrastructure, relies on GNSS. So many things need accurate positioning, or accurate timing.

“If you take out a major GPS system then there is an awful lot that can go wrong. But people are becoming more aware of the issue and resilience is becoming a bigger thing.

“There is a lot of work being done on the assumption that at some point a major GPS system will go down.”

One solution is for navigation services to be provided by satellites in low-Earth orbits (LEO). These would sit at around 500-1000km above the Earth – as opposed to the current satellites which are around 20,000km high – and would therefore be more protected by the Earth’s own atmosphere should significant geomagnetic activity from space occur.

Another benefit is the signals are 20 times stronger than traditional GPS systems, although the low orbit means that each satellite’s antenna covers a smaller radius of the Earth’s surface and so more of them are required to provide the same coverage.

“When those signals are more robust from satellites in LEO there are a few benefits,” explains Dr Roberts.

“Firstly, the signals become harder to jam or spoof and so there is an extra layer of security.

“The second is that emergency services may be able to benefit more from more robust positioning systems. When signals have to travel 20,000km up and down from Earth, they get can be very weak, and that is why GPS does not really work indoors.

“But with new systems with closer satellites and much stronger signals, the potential for accurate GPS inside of buildings increases and there are possible important applications there for those involved with search and rescue.” 

Source: UNSW

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Here are the Pictures and Videos I took of the T129B ATAK Helicopter of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) during the Static Display of Military Assets which was part of the 88th Anniversary Celebrations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) at Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo recently