Excited about your summer vacation but dreading the part of the trip where you rush to the airport, wait in line, have your stuff pawed through and then end up just hanging around? There’s no need to sit by the gate and twiddle your thumbs, especially if you find yourself at one of the many airports offering fresh new amenities or special summer programs. Here’s a roundup of what’s in store:
What’s new?
Just in time for summer, Philadelphia International Airport announced that wireless Internet access, once free only on weekends, is now free all the time. The airport also opened a Passenger Chillin’ Zone with sofas, tables, chairs, ottomans and foliage (Gate D-3) and kicked off a summer-long Just Plane Fun program with live music, appearances by mascots from local sports teams, contests and other activities. You can see the daily events listing on the airport's website.
From now through the end of August, Miami International Airport is throwing weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) parties with a different theme each week. This weekend’s theme is Havana Nights and will include domino tables, mojitos, a DJ, rumba dancing and cigar rolling.
At Los Angeles International Airport, passengers are once again welcome to visit the outdoor observation deck on top of the space-age landmark Theme Building in the center of the airport. Closed since 9/11, and during the building’s $12.3 million renovation and earthquake retrofit, the viewing deck is now open weekends, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free telescopes offering great views of arriving and departing aircraft, the airport grounds and the surrounding area.
Outagamie County Regional Airport
It's an experience getting a snack from this machine at the Outagamie County Regional Airport (ATW) in Appleton, Wis.Fans of Pink’s, an iconic Hollywood hot dog stand, are also celebrating the opening of a branch of this popular eatery in the pre-security food court at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX. On the menu: a special LAX International Dog, chosen from among dozens of “recipes” submitted by airport employees.
The big attraction at Outagamie County Regional Airport in Appleton, Wis., this summer isn’t hot dogs, but candy. A giant purple machine with flashing lights is hard to ignore as it draws crowds and dispenses customized cups of brightly colored, mixed candy. Located pre-security, the Willy Wonka candy machine is one of 25 such machines in the country (there’s one at the Mall of America) and is currently the only one at an airport.
Passengers had so much fun at Vancouver International Airport during the 2010 Winter Games that officials decided to try to re-create what the airport authority’s Christopher Gilliland describes as “that magical and engaging experience.” So during Take-off Fridays this summer you’ll find a day-long festival in the Domestic Terminal complete with face painting, DJs spinning music, prize drawings, meal specials and free samples (look for the chocolate) from a variety of airport shops.
Fridays are also when San Francisco International Airport is presenting the summer season of the You are Hear live music series. Performances will take place each Friday through August 28 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at three different stages in the airport. This week the lineup includes Quinteto Latino in the International Terminal, Lavay Smith & The Red Hot Skillet Lickers in the United hub and, in Terminal 1, Threeocracy. Click here for the full season schedule.
More airport amenities for you — and your pet
This summer you’ll also find new shops and restaurants opening at many airports. Healthy eaters will be pleased to find a branch of the quick-serve UFood Grill now open at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport. UFood also has outlets at Dallas-Fort Worth and Boston Logan airports, while General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee now has a new branch of the French Meadow Bakery, a Minneapolis chain offering vegan and organic fare. (French Meadow Bakery is also at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.)
Thanks to a new Department of Transportation rule, pets and their owners are getting new perks at airports in the form of safe, fenced, and, in many cases, nicely landscaped pet relief areas outside most every terminal . Dulles International Airport opened its outdoor pet parks last summer but recently added two indoor ones as well, with a third under construction.
Many airports also have fresh new art. Befitting its location in California’s Silicon Valley, the new Terminal B at Mineta San Jose International Airport is home to more than a dozen pieces of interactive, high-tech art, including a fish tank that watches you and a 26-foot-tall “Space Observer” with propellers on its arms and cameras in its antennae. New York’s Albany International Airport recently opened “The Imaged Word,” a six-month exhibition featuring the work of 11 regional artists that includes an 8-foot-tall arched column of books. And at Fresno Yosemite International Airport, where the lobby “forest” includes a walk-through giant Sequoia tree, finishing touches are being put on display cases to show off digital photographs from around the world sent in by passengers.
Do your homework
If your summer travels don’t take you to or through any of these airports, don’t worry. Airports everywhere seem to be beefing up creature comforts in hopes of making your time in the terminals as pleasant as can be. To take advantage of it all, check your airport’s website and follow the advice laid out in my Well-Mannered Traveler’s Guide to Summer Air Travel . That way, any time you spend stuck at the airport this summer can be entertaining and stress-free.
Harriet Baskas is a frequent contributor to msnbc.com, authors the “Stuck at the Airport” blog and is a columnist for USATODAY.com. You can follow her on Twitter .
it is quoted from :
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38450555/ns/travel-travel_tips/
Friday, July 30, 2010
AIRCRAFT CANOPY
I want to define some specialty of aircraft canopy this day.
Canopy is a material that covers the cocpit ,many of its type is transparent.Canopy is served as protecting and isolating pilots from noise and meteoroligical effects.It increase the vision of pilot and decrease the drag because of that it is preferred by acrobatics planes and battle planes.
Pilots are covered by canopy appropriately so that baloon canopy is started to use in order to contribute pilots vision after World War Two.
This definition which is canopy do not use to define big planes' windows or cocpit windows.
For more information :
Canopy is a material that covers the cocpit ,many of its type is transparent.Canopy is served as protecting and isolating pilots from noise and meteoroligical effects.It increase the vision of pilot and decrease the drag because of that it is preferred by acrobatics planes and battle planes.
Pilots are covered by canopy appropriately so that baloon canopy is started to use in order to contribute pilots vision after World War Two.
This definition which is canopy do not use to define big planes' windows or cocpit windows.
For more information :
http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/library/conf/wuc96/05a_arno.pdf
Here are the some canopy photos...
Here are the some canopy photos...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
AIRCRAFT COMPONENT MANUFACTURERS
Examine the major producers of civil and military aircraft components
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•Component listings and suppliers by aircraft type
•Expert assessment of market sectors
•Seating arrangements by aircraft type
•Aircraft interior suppliers
•Component manufacturers
•Market assessments on fixtures and fittings, seating and aircraft interiors
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Jane's Aircraft Component Manufacturers provides you with coverage of companies and organisations that provide, produce and repair components and major sub-assemblies for fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, for both the civil and military markets. Find out who is selling what to whom, where the market opportunities lie and what technical advances are being made. Country-by-country you will find comprehensive details on more than 100 aircraft currently under production, making this your indispensable market guide.
Key contents include:
•Component listings and suppliers by aircraft type
•Expert assessment of market sectors
•Seating arrangements by aircraft type
•Aircraft interior suppliers
•Component manufacturers
•Market assessments on fixtures and fittings, seating and aircraft interiors
An online subscription gives you full search capability, a minimum five-year archive and monthly updates.
Gain a clear view of the aircraft component and equipment market. Focused on the aviation sector this comprehensive resource is essential for the aircraft components industry as well as aircraft operators and maintenance houses.
Editor: Kylie Bull
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LUFTHANSA CARGO CRASH
As you know,Lufthansa cargo plane crashed in flames yesterday at Riyad.The pictire of crashed cargo plane has been published.MD-11 departed from Frankfurt airport,when it was landing to Kral Halid Airport,she catched fired and her engines systems stopped for an unknown reason and then airplane crashed in to concrete of airport and divided into many parts.Fire departments were send to the disaster area urgently.Pilots were rescued without any wound.Fire departmans extinguished the fire in three hours.
And we publish these photos regrettably..
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Pakistani plane with 152 aboard crashes
A passenger plane with at least 152 people on board crashed Wednesday as it came in to land at Islamabad, Pakistan, during heavy rain.
An official said forestry guards were reporting at least five people had been killed.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, said Pervez George, a civil aviation official. He said the Airblue plane was flying from Karachi to Islamabad and described the weather conditions as difficult.
"The plane was about to land at the Islamabad airport when it lost contact with the control tower, and later we learned that the plane had crashed," George said.
Guards with the forestry service said they had found some wreckage and seen some bodies, police official Mohammad Saeed said.
The army said it was sending troops to the area to help out along with helicopters.
"There were 146 passengers and six crewmen on board," Mubarik Shah, spokesman of the state-run Civil Aviation Authority, told Reuters.
The accident occurred in the rugged Margalla Hills near the Damanekoh resort.
Rescue workers were heading to the scene, but the roads were difficult.
Eyewitnesses saw the aircraft flying very low, local media reported.
"It was raining. I saw the plane flying very low from the window of my office," witness Khadim Hussain said.
NDTV of India reported that the rescue helicopters had reached the crash site and that thick black smoke could be seen rising from wreckage.
Pakistani media reported that thick fog was likely to impede rescue and relief operations.
An emergency has been declared at all hospitals in Islamabad, local media reported.
The Margalla Hills surround the northeast area of the capital city, said Xinhua news agency.
There are anti-aircraft guns and many Pakistani troop checkpoints in some areas of the hills due to security concerns.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
An official said forestry guards were reporting at least five people had been killed.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, said Pervez George, a civil aviation official. He said the Airblue plane was flying from Karachi to Islamabad and described the weather conditions as difficult.
"The plane was about to land at the Islamabad airport when it lost contact with the control tower, and later we learned that the plane had crashed," George said.
Guards with the forestry service said they had found some wreckage and seen some bodies, police official Mohammad Saeed said.
The army said it was sending troops to the area to help out along with helicopters.
"There were 146 passengers and six crewmen on board," Mubarik Shah, spokesman of the state-run Civil Aviation Authority, told Reuters.
The accident occurred in the rugged Margalla Hills near the Damanekoh resort.
Rescue workers were heading to the scene, but the roads were difficult.
Eyewitnesses saw the aircraft flying very low, local media reported.
"It was raining. I saw the plane flying very low from the window of my office," witness Khadim Hussain said.
NDTV of India reported that the rescue helicopters had reached the crash site and that thick black smoke could be seen rising from wreckage.
Pakistani media reported that thick fog was likely to impede rescue and relief operations.
An emergency has been declared at all hospitals in Islamabad, local media reported.
The Margalla Hills surround the northeast area of the capital city, said Xinhua news agency.
There are anti-aircraft guns and many Pakistani troop checkpoints in some areas of the hills due to security concerns.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
TESTING HEAT EXCHANGERS
TESTING HEAT EXCHANGERS
If we want to test heat exchangers we should build testing rooms to cover compressor,tank,adapter which are necessary for testing but also air dryer,filter and utilizing from a bybass line are beneficial for our testing systems in order to raise our air qualities.
Air quality is a vital part of our testings because air quality effects heat exchanger tests directly.We desire to clean heat exchangers with using air if air which we use for the process has some particules can plug our heat exchangers and it may cause some damages on it.To avoid this we should use filter by progressive stages.The first filter can detain more bigger molecules such as dust and the second one protect the systems from more smaller particles such as odors,micromolecules.
We can suppy heat exchangers with using compressor in order to produce enough air to clean it directly.But it is not efficent way because air which is supplied from compressor directly can have variable both flow and output to avoid this problem we can put a tank after the compressor enables us steady flow for the accurate testing.Reserving enough space to operate compressor properly is a important point,we should be informed by the producer of compressor which we have used.Making enough space to operate compressor also is a vital part of maintanence of its.When maintenance time of compressor comes,workers will need to enough space to avoid bug and to protect them from injury accidents.
Ducts should be adequate to carry enough air to the heat exchangers’ adapters which must withstand appropriate pressures.If does not,it may cause some injury accidents.It is also provided from manufacturers.
Good perfomance is dependent on a good installation.Even the best machines will only perform well if they have been properly installed.A poor installation can affect machine performance.It can also create costly service problems.
A good installation requires proper planning procedures which is presented clause by clause at below.
• Do you have enough space in your compressor room?
• Have you made provision for adequate ventilation?
• Do you have the right dimensions fort he air intake ducting?
• Does the air provide adequate flow rate?
• Have you made provision for a proper condensate drain system?
• Are the power supply cables of the right sizes?
• Are the main fuses of correct size?
• Does the compressed air delivery piping have the right dimensions
Finally, it is important to analyse these types of issues with regard to current as well as future requirements.It is then possible to design an installation offering sufficiently flexibility.
If we want to test heat exchangers we should build testing rooms to cover compressor,tank,adapter which are necessary for testing but also air dryer,filter and utilizing from a bybass line are beneficial for our testing systems in order to raise our air qualities.
Air quality is a vital part of our testings because air quality effects heat exchanger tests directly.We desire to clean heat exchangers with using air if air which we use for the process has some particules can plug our heat exchangers and it may cause some damages on it.To avoid this we should use filter by progressive stages.The first filter can detain more bigger molecules such as dust and the second one protect the systems from more smaller particles such as odors,micromolecules.
We can suppy heat exchangers with using compressor in order to produce enough air to clean it directly.But it is not efficent way because air which is supplied from compressor directly can have variable both flow and output to avoid this problem we can put a tank after the compressor enables us steady flow for the accurate testing.Reserving enough space to operate compressor properly is a important point,we should be informed by the producer of compressor which we have used.Making enough space to operate compressor also is a vital part of maintanence of its.When maintenance time of compressor comes,workers will need to enough space to avoid bug and to protect them from injury accidents.
Ducts should be adequate to carry enough air to the heat exchangers’ adapters which must withstand appropriate pressures.If does not,it may cause some injury accidents.It is also provided from manufacturers.
Good perfomance is dependent on a good installation.Even the best machines will only perform well if they have been properly installed.A poor installation can affect machine performance.It can also create costly service problems.
A good installation requires proper planning procedures which is presented clause by clause at below.
• Do you have enough space in your compressor room?
• Have you made provision for adequate ventilation?
• Do you have the right dimensions fort he air intake ducting?
• Does the air provide adequate flow rate?
• Have you made provision for a proper condensate drain system?
• Are the power supply cables of the right sizes?
• Are the main fuses of correct size?
• Does the compressed air delivery piping have the right dimensions
Finally, it is important to analyse these types of issues with regard to current as well as future requirements.It is then possible to design an installation offering sufficiently flexibility.
Monday, July 26, 2010
HEAT EXCHANGER
I am working on heat exchagers on these days,accordingly I want to write about one of the important parts of airplanes which is called heat exchangers.
Generally,a heat exchanger is a device that is used for transfer of thermal energy between two or more fluids,between a solid surface and a fluid at differing temperaturses and in thermal contact,usually without external heat and work interactions.
Heat exchagers may be classified according to transfer process,construction,flow arragement,surface compactness,number of fluids and heat transfer mechanisms or according to process functions.
In the light of these information about heat exchangers we can think that it can be served the heating and cooling the air as using in the airplane.Where is the enough flow, especially air, produced to the heatexchangers to balance the heat? The answer is below.
Heat exchanger has a core assembly with two welded pan assemblies.The core assembly has bleed air fins and cooling air fins that are separated by plates to form hot and cold air passages that run perpendicular to each other through the heat exchanger.Sucking the ram air from the ducts of airplane located at below of the fuselage as shown above and flow comes to the primary heat exchanger that is the cold air which is used to cold enough the flow coming from the engine. After this process,the flow is send to the secondary heat exchanger and this process are repeated there to suppy quality air to the cockpit and passengers.Distrubition of this air is done by air cycling machine.This is the another componet of airplanes.
As a result,heat exchangers are served to decrease temperatures to the adequate values.This type of heat exchanger means air-to-air which is used the exchange of heat through the fins decreases the temperature of hot bleed air.
We think,the first part is the hardest part of a job,considering this issue,we have started to write down because of sharing our experinces and informations which are all about aviation.May it bring good luck!
787 versus 380
At present day the most important news in aviation sector are the presentation of Boeing 787 Dreamliner.Why does this airplane become such some much importance?Let's join to seek the answer of this question together with avoiding going into so many details to make every peope getting something from our writings.
First of all,Airbus A380 with 800 passengers capacity have had an importance seat in aviation sector.But both avionic and adaptation problems to cold weathers overshadowed its reputation when A380 was introduced to the world.
After these bad days,all riggings choosed from solid state to enhace the reliability.The total wires lenght in A380 are enough to turn around world five times.A380 went down the history as all hydralulic parts are directed from computer systems.
A380 and B787 are displaying the difference between Airbus and Boeing depending on the producting philosophy.Airbus desires to gain profit with huge capacities but Boeing wants to make B787 light so that he can gain profit transporting people from place to another in comfort.
On this way,Boeing changed fuselages of 787 contents from mixture of aluminuim and copper to composite carbonfiber.They produced fuselages with using carbonfiber immensely because of that they reduced the weight of 787 .Due to using light materials,they produced more lighter aircraft than its peers so that they invented the most environment-friendly commercial airplane in the world.It will bring the economics of large jet transports to the middle of the market,using 20 percent less fuel than any other airplane of its size as quoted offical Boeing web site.
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