Mars helicopter Ingenuity during Flight 53 on July 22 performed an emergency landing!
The flight was planned for 203 meters but Ingenuity's ‘LAND_NOW’ software got triggered at the 142-m mark.
The Ingenuity team believes this was caused by loss of image frames from the helicopter’s navigation camera, which are sync'd up with data from the inertial measurement unit.
After a short test Flight 54 on Aug 3, Flight 55 (250-m) was planned for Aug 10/11.
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity was a technology demonstration mission to test powered, controlled flight on another world.
Ingenuity completed its technology demonstration phase after the 3rd flight on April 25, 2021. After another 2 flights, it transitioned to a new operations demonstration phase.
More than 2 years later, Ingenuity has completed 54 flights and is still going strong in support of the overall mission.
Just had five smallish helicopters – sort of four to eight seat size – fly over the croft, not quite in a group but on the same heading – South Easterly, towards England. Not identical, not the same make, not the same livery. A club of rich people, out burning fuel for a jaunt?
Is this morally different from lads who tour Scotland together on their motorbikes? It feels worse to me, because it's MUCH more fuel, but is it really?
if they are riding two-stroke bikes, they are probably worse. ;)
#Flight (and motorcycles) needs to move to #electric like everything else. We need to get #carbon fuels out of our #energy streams.
Google AI: “The first all-electric passenger plane, called Alice, completed its first test flight on September 27, 2022 at Moses Lake airport in Washington. The nine-passenger commuter aircraft can fly up to 250 miles.”
The flight was over 500 miles into it's flight over the Pacific when it happened and it turned around and landed at #Oakland, evacuated. Passengers were only allowed to bring their cellphone, their ID and their ticket.
More ramblings for my recent #flight#journey. There were significantly fewer people in #Incheon#Airport T2; virtually no one was there after 11pm (me among ones requiring an overnight transfer...). Although the airport is 24/7, very few facilities are open after 10pm, so I guess the industry hasn't walked out of the woods yet... But at least they don't jack up the prices: drinks of the same type costs double in #ATL (with only Coca-Cola-owned/licensed drinks!) compared to #ICN ... #travel
Some ramblings for my recent #flight#journey. #KoreanAir does offer a #bibimbap option (with ingredients prepared in South Korea, not your origin airport), but it requires mixing the ingredients yourself... There's also a soup (restored from powder)... So you should certainly be aware if your flight is being quite rough (for me it caused migraines, so imagine how stressed I was trying to eat that meal). #AirlineMealSets#travel
We were driving on a back road into town when we saw four vultures perched on a fence. I had the "wrong" lens for a great capture, but I love the essence of this one as he took off towards the trees. I think vultures are very cool birds.
Air Force funds 'blended wing body' plane design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight (www.popsci.com)
Although funded by the military, this design could one day be applied to commercial flight as well.
OC Nike Flight 89