AE current events

[shellEy Rosenbaum Lipman]

All,

I've attached the current events that I'll be presenting at tomorrow night's Wing Staff meeting.  Please feel free to use these at your squadron.  Note that I update the current events on the MAWG website -- go to www.mawg.cap.gov, then click on "Members" and log in.  If you're having problems with logging in, please contact Maj Derrell Lipman (derrell...@gmail.com), who will try to help you.  Once you log in, click on Aerospace Education, then click on "Sharing Current Events."

If you have any current events you'd like to share, please forward to me!

Also, while not strictly current events, Maj Yaeger forwarded the following to me.  I did some research, and it does appear to be true!  See http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/kalinin_k-7.php .

Last, thank you to those of you who sent in your reports.  Those who didn't...please do so now!!

Hope to see all of you at the AEO round-table discussion at the MAWG conference.

--shellEy

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From: <RWYa...@aol.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:18 PM
Subject: Fwd: Monster Airplane
To: She...@lipmanfamily.org

Not sure how legitimate this is,but interesting.

 

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From: larr...@comcast.net
To: warner4329 <warne...@aol.com>, Gerald Goodwin <gkgoo...@gmail.com>, Bob Yaeger <rwya...@aol.com>, david rinaldi <rina...@gmail.com>, SALVATORE P PORTA <salp...@verizon.net>, rjtyl...@wowway.com, Richard Tucker <rtuc...@att.net>, Brian Talty <bta...@live.com>, Frank Juli <thet...@verizon.net>, "Edward J. Willett" <ed_wi...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 01:57:04 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Monster Airplane

What would happen if they fired the cannons while in flight?!   No wonder they executed the dude.   The most amazing airplane in History....For the Airplane Buffs. Built in Russia during the 1930s, it flew 11 times before crashing and killing 15 people. The designer, Konstantin Kalinin, wanted to build two more planes but the project was scrapped. Later, Stalin had Kalinin executed. Evidently, it was not good to fail on an expensive project under Stalin. It's got propellers on the back of the wings, too. You can count 12 engines facing front. The size would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on its side, with cannons. And you think the 747 was big... not only a bunch of engines but check out the cannons the thing was carrying. In the 1930s the Russian army was obsessed by the idea of creating huge planes. At that time they were proposed to have as many propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented yet. Not many photos were saved from those times because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time has already passed. Can you imagine what it would be like sitting in this thing when those cannons go off? Looks like something out of a Jules Verne novel.

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"And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut."

[Harrison Ingraham]

In addition, a new potential astronaut booster rocket was recently announced. The Liberty rocket, if built, would look a lot like the Ares 1 family. It would be a joint commercial design between the American ATK and European Astrium. Basically it would have a shuttle derived solid rocket booster for the first stage, like Ares 1, and an Ariane 5 derived liqued fueled second stage.

Here is a BBC article about Liberty http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12394991

-Harry Ingraham

[shellEy Rosenbaum Lipman]

Thank you, Harry!

I've added that to the website (and to the handouts I bring to Wing).

--shellEy