Month: April 2016

High Altitude Operations Ground School

Learn about High Altitude Operations using our ground school manual or ground school DVD ! Chapter 4 Space Life Sciences: Altered Pressure Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Microgravity Effects, Hypergravity Effects, Vision, Disorientation and Illusions, Radiation Hazards Chapter 5 Life Support Systems: Temperature and Humidity Control, Breathing Air Systems, Pressure Control Systems, Anti-G-Suits, Fire Detection and Suppression, Radiation Monitoring & Protection Chapter 6 Human Factors: Noise and Vibration, Movements in …

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Suborbital Space Environment Ground School

Learn about the Suborbital Space Environment using our ground school manual or ground school DVD ! Chapter 1 Divisions of the Atmosphere: A Sea of Air, The Troposphere, The Stratosphere, The Mesosphere, The Thermosphere and Ionosphere, The Exosphere, The Magnetosphere. Chapter 2 The Boundary to Space: Altitude Milestones, Defining Suborbital Space Chapter 3 Space Weather: International …

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Suborbital Space Training Research Flight Video

On Thursday March 17th 2016, pilots Christopher Glos and David LeFrancois participated in a University of Texas Medical Branch led Commercial Spaceflight Passenger Training Study at The NASTAR Center. They experienced simulated suborbital spaceflights using NASTAR’s high-performance centrifuge-based simulator. This simulator generated high onset-offset, sustained acceleration (“G”) forces similar to those experienced in commercial spacecraft. Here is …

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The Tailwheel Conversion Handbook is now available !

See more details at our CreateSpace eStore . The handbook is also available at Amazon.com & Amazon Europe. Welcome to the 1st Edition  The Tailwheel Conversion Handbook can be used as a primary source of ground school information for pilots interested in learning to fly tailwheel aircraft in the Citabria 7ECA. This handbook is required material prior to …

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