That Time A B-52H Stratofortress Bomber Lost Its Tail Over New Mexico But Managed To Land 6 Hours Later.
That Time A B-52H Stratofortress Bomber Lost Its Tail Over New Mexico But Managed To Land 6 Hours Later.
The story of the first and only B-52H Stratofortress’s tailless landing!
On Jan. 10, 1964, Boeing civilian test pilot Chuck Fisher and his three man crew launched from Wichita, Kansas, for a mission aboard B-52H serial number 61-0023. The aircraft was involved in a test mission whose purpose was to examine the effects of turbulence at varying altitudes and airspeeds. In other words the aircrew would shake, rattle and roll the Stratofortress bomber at high speed and low altitude to record sensor data on how such conditions could affect the plane’s airframe.
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To reflect that the SDA Tracking Layer satellites will be able to directly tip and queue other OPIR satellites in future; and the resumption of the program.
WASHINGTON: The $4.9 billion contract to produce three Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) missile warning satellites seems to fly in the face of loudly touted Air and Space Force efforts to embrace open standards and cut the number of ground stations, receivers and antennas, experts said.
Instead, the new contract awarded to Lockheed Martin includes bespoke ground systems and sensor processing software raising questions in particular about how the data collected eventually will be shared with the Space Development Agency’s ballistic and hypersonic missile tracking sats.
There are many questions coming in regarding the City of San Francisco s rules on outdoor dining. A complaint has been filed after restaurant patrons were seen eating in a parklet outside of Original Joe s in North Beach.
Craft brewers say the split guidance creates an arbitrary and unjust distinction between wine manufacturers and beer manufactures. When it is time to begin the reopening of businesses in 2021, we need to ensure that a single industry is not arbitrarily divided based on unfounded assumptions, said CCBA executive director, Tom McCormick in a statement. We want to ensure that the craft brewing industry has the same privileges and the same pathway as other alcohol beverage manufacturers to reopen, re-employ and re-build next year.
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Small brewers are fighting back against state health orders. (Shutterstock)
UNION CITY, CA California craft breweries are suing Gov. Gavin Newsom, alleging COVID-19 public health orders unjustly target small, craft beer makers operating across the state of California. The lawsuit will impact businesses like Union City s DNA Tap & Barrelwerks. The California Craft Brewers Association and breweries statewide filed the lawsuit Thursday against the governor and California State Public Health Officer Sandra Shewry.
The suit alleges that state officials have unfairly denied beer manufacturers their equal protection rights by requiring them to serve a meal to operate a tasting room when others in the alcohol beverage manufacturing industry don t have to do so.
California craft breweries sue Newsom for discrimination over reopening plans [San Francisco Chronicle]
Dec. 19 California craft breweries have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom, claiming that the state’s reopening orders treat beer producers unfairly.
Plaintiffs, including the California Craft Brewers Association and San Francisco’sCellarmaker Brewing Co., argue the state has discriminated against beer manufacturers by making guidelines stricter than those for wine manufacturers.
“In this situation, we have two businesses, wineries and breweries, that we believe are identical other than the fact that one business makes wine and the other business makes beer,” said Tom McCormick, executive director of the brewers association, which lobbies for independent breweries. “And yet there’s a very different set of regulatory health guidelines for each, and we feel it’s completely arbitrary and it’s unfair.”