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F-35s Grounded as Precaution After Crack Found in Engine Blade
(Article by Jim Garamone of American Forces Press Service, 22 FEB 2013. Source.)
WASHINGTON - All F-35s have been grounded as a precaution after a routine engine inspection revealed a crack on an engine blade, Defense Department officials said here today.
Officials call this a “cautionary suspension of flight.” The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fly F-35s.
Inspectors found the crack in an F135 engine installed in an F-35A Lightning II aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. This is the conventional take-off and landing version of the joint strike fighter.
Officials are shipping the engine and its associated hardware to Pratt & Whitney’s engine facility in Middletown, Conn., to conduct more thorough evaluation and root cause analysis.
Officials said the grounding is precautionary. All F-35 flight operations have been suspended until the investigation is complete, officials said, and it is too early to know the fleetwide impact.
“The F-35 Joint Program Office is working closely with Pratt & Whitney and Lockheed Martin at all F-35 locations to ensure the integrity of the engine, and to return the fleet safely to flight as soon as possible,” a Defense Department news release said.
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DUSTOFF dry run.
Tech. Sgt. Christopher Hibben, Combat Aerial Photojournalist, 4th Combat Camera Squadron, March Air Reserve Base, Calif., documents simulated patients being transported for care by a U.S. Army HH-60L Black Hawk medevac helicopter at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana. Service members at JRTC 13-04 are educated in combat patient care and aeromedical evacuation in a simulated combat environment.
(Photo by Tech. Sgt. John R. Nimmo, Sr, 20 FEB 2013.)
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ATR Aircraft ATR 42-500 G-LMRC by George Aldrich
Via Flickr:
Scottish regional carrier Loganair’s ATR 42 ‘Clan Calder’ arrives on short final for Runway 33 at Birmingham Airport, running a Sunday evening service from Aberdeen with LM67. Loganair operates a handful of ATR 42 turboprops alongside the stretched ATR 72 on it’s predominantly domestic network of destinations. Delivered to the airline in May 2020, G-LMRC is an ex- Air Littoral, Air Botswana and Hop! machine, flying as F-GPYB until it’s recent arrival on the UK register. Check out more of my work on Instagram! www.instagram.com/georgealdrichphotography Copyright © George Aldrich
On May 8th 1933 Highland Airways was established by Captain Ernest Edmund “Ted” Fresson.
Highland Airways inaugural flight was a passenger service between Inverness, Wick and Kirkwall. Captain Ted Fresson’s pioneering commercial flights across the north of Scotland revolutionised Highland life and led to what is thought to be the longest-running scheduled air service in the world.
After early training as an engineer, he was sent to his firm’s branch in China in 1911, but following his boyhood aspirations to become a pilot he signed on as a volunteer when the Great War began in 1914. He trained as a pilot for the Royal Flying Corps in Canada at the beginning of 1918.
When the war was over he returned to China, keeping his hand in at flying whist working for his old firm again. He rebuilt or assembled some British aircraft for local dignitaries and then built and flew an aircraft of his own design for a Chinese warlord – to place it in production there. A revolution intervened and Ted returned to Britain in 1927 to begin several years of concentrated joy-riding and display flying, firstly with existing aviation companies, then with his own.
Each year saw him carrying thousands of air-minded passengers on five minute joy rides, at fields he chose all over Britain. During this time he took a great deal of liking to Scotland and saw an opportunity to start scheduled services in the Highlands. This started between Inverness, Wick and Kirkwall on May 8th 1933.
Ted formed his airline, Highland Airways Limited, with considerable help from Macrae & Dick, the motor engineers in Inverness, the Scotsman newspaper, Dr Alexander of Dr Grays Hospital in Elgin and other local traders. His regularity in flying in all weathers became a by-word, and so a year later, on May 29th 1934, his airline was given the first UK domestic Airmail contract by the Post Office. This was to fly mail at ordinary rates by air to Orkney and back. He later acquired the airmail contract to Wick and Shetland.
In October 1933, Ted operated the first commercial charter out of Aberdeen, carrying three salesmen to Shetland. On May 7th 1934 he began Aberdeen’s first scheduled service to Wick and Kirkwall. After this, Highland Airways became the trail blazer for many new services throughout the Highlands and Islands, linking up with Inverness and Aberdeen with Shetland and Stornoway, as well as inaugurating the Orkney inter-island flights and services to Perth and Glasgow.
Ted Fresson could land his aircraft in almost any field in Scotland and frequently did so. He knew the terrain so well that he became one of the principal advisors on airfield construction sites to the Air Ministry and the Admiralty during World War II. The booming regional airport at Inverness is still on the site suggested by Ted to the Air Ministry as a wartime airfield and the Admiralty also consulted him prior to laying the first tarmac strip at Hatston, Orkney. The tarmac was actually Ted’s suggestion. The ‘runways’ suggested by at the old Stornoway golf club so as to create least disturbance and inconvenience to the golfers are now acknowledged as the first runways in Britain.
When his airline became part of Lord Cowdray’s pre-war British Airways and was combined with the Renfrew-based Northern and Scottish Airways to form Scottish Airways (as it became), Ted Fresson played a vital part in running the airline throughout the war years. In 1947, however, all domestic air services were nationalised into the British European Airways corporation and Ted Fresson left the corporation in March 1948, dismissed without compensation for the fine airline he had built up. That Ted Fresson and other early pioneers were so treated by the government of the day is still a shameful episode in the history of aviation in Britain.
The fact that almost all his network is still being flown today is a tribute to his foresight, flying enterprise and efforts to bring air travel to everybody living in these remote parts of the British Isles.
After a period overseas Ted Fresson returned to the Highlands continued to fly the occasional charter in the Northern skies using his own light aircraft. He died in Inverness on September 25th 1963.
If you have ever been to Inverness airport you will no doubt have seen the statue tribute to the pioneer Highlands aviator Fresson.
Check out the link here for remarkable footage from the inaugural flight, including shots from the aircraft as it flies ove the River Ness. https://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/browse-fi…/007-000-002-099-c
Pics are Ernest Edmund “Ted” Fresson, his statue at Inverness airport, and a monument remembering him at Kirkwall Airport, and some of his aircraft.
You can find more pics with info on each on the excellent Ambaiie site here https://www.ambaile.org.uk/search/?searchQuery=Highland+Airways
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On this day in 1977: 583 people died when two Boeing 747 aircrafts collided on the runway in Tenerife, Spain, making it the deadliest accident in aviation history. Find out more here…
Holy Fuck! Is the first shot the two planes just before they collided?!?
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Angels in the Sun
Photo: LDeans
Flyaway Friday
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Because AWACS Wednesday needs to be a thing.
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Blue Angels
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Blue Angels
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Wild Blue Yonder
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Aviator Glenn Curtiss in his ‘Hudson Flier’, readies for take off from Euclid Beach on August 31, 1910. Curtiss was attempting to set a long distance record over water by flying to Sandusky, Ohio and back to Euclid Beach, a dstance of 120 miles.
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Studebaker ‘aviation’ by Adam Johnson
Travelin’ from one home to another! #view #aerial #aerialshot #aviation #travel #bw #östersund #jämtland #sweden #winter #snow #djlife
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Salmson. ca. 1929. Alexis Kow.
42 ¾ x 62 5/8 in./108.6 x 159 cm
Salmson began as a manufacturer of water-cooled airplane engines. Consequently, the poster boasts that the car has the precision of these airplane motors. Their first automobiles appeared in 1921, and graduated from amusing cyclecars to sports cars, and from there to majestic luxury sedans like this one. In 1925, Salmson won 76 races and set 14 speed records for its class. Russian-born Kow created smart and sleek automobile print advertisements and posters. Here, he makes effective use of strong, flat colors, with the Salmon insignia shining above, as the blurry whir of a plane engine spins in the background.
Available at auction June 26. Learn more >>
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Fêtes D'Aviation. 1911. Goth.
47 ¼ x 63 in./120 x 160 cm
Practically the mirror image of Le Petit Parisien’s poster for the Paris-Madrid race, we are here offered the skyline of the small town of Le Puy. The text below advertises a rivalry between Jules Vedrines (who would become the first pilot to break 100 mph the following year) and the Peruvian Juan Bielovucic Cavalié (the second aviator to make it across the Alps).
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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Grand Prix d'Aviation. 1912. Ernest Louis Lessieux.
28 3/8 x 40 ¾ in./72 x 103.5 cm
Military men look on, skeptically and thoughtfully, as a ground crew struggles to manage a Blériot XXVII on the turf outside Angers. This was “the first contest to show the extent to which the aeroplane could be depended upon as an instrument of war” (Looping the Loop, p. 83). In the actual competition, an early summer date proved unwise as terrible rains and winds descended upon the course. Just before the event was postponed, however, Roland Garros landed his Deperdussin “Demoiselle,” winning the event to the consternation of the other 34 pilots who hadn’t been able to compete. “‘It was a moving, at times agonizing, demonstration,’ reported Le Matin. ‘The most marvelous show of valor in aviation,’ chimed in writer Jacques Mortane. The exploit of Garros against a fierce wind had placed him ahead of all the pilots in the world” (p.83).
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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The only certain freedom’s in departure.
#airplane #landing #pune #sundown #casual #fun #photography #cityscape #city #silhouette #dusk #travel #wanderlust #funatwork #workinghard #canon #travelbug #airbus #boeing #gopro #shadow #shadowplay #yinyang #india #aviation #aviationphotography #aviationlovers #planespotter #wtfisthis #imbored (at Lohegaon, Maharashtra, India)
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