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Aerospace Honeycomb CNC Machining Demo – DMS 5 Axis CNC Machining Center – Video

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The Aerospace Corporation Ranked as 2014 Learning Elite

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El Segundo, Calif. (April 1, 2014) The Aerospace Corporation ranked number 40 in Chief Learning Officer magazines 2014 Learning Elite. Aerospace was awarded in the silver category. The ranked list of Learning Elite organizations were scored using a banding or category system that clarifies the maturity of training practices among the organizations. These categories include: gold, silver and bronze.

Chief Learning Officermagazine's Learning Elite program honors organizations for learning and development. Aerospace was nominated for its workforce development activities performed by its corporate university, The Aerospace Institute. This year marks TAIs 20th anniversary of delivering corporate training for technical and business education, and leadership development. The technical curriculum includes mission assurance, space systems architecting, acquisition, and technologies and engineering disciplines associated with space missions and systems. Additional information about TAI can be found here -http://www.aerospace.org/education/the-aerospace-institute/.

Chief Learning Officermagazine's Learning Elite program is a peer-based program designed and judged by training practitioners. This program recognizes organizations that employ workforce development strategies to deliver business results that benefit their organization, industry and the learning and development field. The Learning Elite program is based upon five dimensions: learning strategy, leadership commitment, learning execution, learning impact (internal) and business performance results (external). The dimensions serve as an integrated framework for managing a learning organization. The program utilizes best practices in evaluation to establish those elite organizations based upon impact, size and industry served.

The Aerospace Corporation is a California nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center and has almost 3,500 employees. It provides technical guidance and advice on all aspects of space missions to military, civil, and commercial customers to assure space mission success. The Aerospace Corporation is headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., with multiple locations across the United States.

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Exxon to Wal-Mart Flying G650 Turn Jet Into Status Symbol

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Ed Dahlberg got 40 calls in one day when he put a Gulfstream G650 up for sale in February. Thats unusual for a private jet -- especially when the asking price tops the $64.5 million on the sticker.

We believe this planes going to bring north of $75 million, said Dahlberg, president of Manassas, Virginia-based Emerald Aviation Inc. and part-owner of the G650.

Barely 15 months after its debut, the worlds biggest and fastest business jet is a corporate status symbol, with owners as high profile as Exxon Mobil Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. The waiting list is almost four years long for a factory-fresh model, whetting appetites among tycoons and chief executive officers when a used G650 hits the market.

Its the must-have airplane if youre in the top end of the spectrum, said Steve Varsano, founder of London-based Jet Business, whos sold two pre-owned G650s since November for more than $70 million each to buyers he wouldnt identify.

G650s are also must-have for Gulfstream parent General Dynamics Corp., the tank and submarine maker squeezed by shrinking U.S. defense budgets. The jets helped boost 2013 aerospace revenue 17 percent to $8.12 billion, while combat systems unit revenue fell 23 percent to $6.12 billion.

The G650 is doing exceptionally well, said Peter Arment, a Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc. analyst who has a buy rating on Falls Church, Virginia-based General Dynamics. The demand for this plane is going to remain very strong.

Large, luxury aircraft are the bright spot in a $21 billion private-jet market recovering unevenly from the 2008-09 financial crisis. While orders remain weak for small, personal models like the Mustang from Textron Inc.s Cessna, corporate fleet managers and billionaires are shopping again for big planes able to make transoceanic routes.

Qualcomms G650 flew round trip between California and Barcelona before Februarys Mobile World Congress in the Spanish city, where then-CEO Paul Jacobs collected an industry award. That jaunt, as chronicled by airline-data tracker FlightAware, was well within the jets advertised range of 7,000 nautical miles (12,964 kilometers), enough to reach Beijing from New York without refueling.

Propelled by Rolls-Royce engines tucked on either side of the rear of the fuselage, the G650 can reach 627 miles an hour at 30,000 feet (9,100 meters), about 93 percent of the speed of sound. It seats as many as 18 people. To ease jet lag, the cabin air pressure is kept higher than on typical airplanes.

On a recent flight from Phoenix on a G650 owned by Honeywell International Inc., takeoff thrust pressed passengers into soft leather seats as the engines whispered.

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Ball Aerospace and Aerojet Rocketdyne Achieve Expanded Operational Range for Green Propellant Infusion Mission

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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Aerojet Rocketdyne exceeded the technical range objective for the main thruster that will fly aboard the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM). This mission will demonstrate in a space environment, a "green" propellant known as AF-M315E, to replace the highly toxic hydrazine and complex bi-propellant systems in-use today.

"This is an exciting program that will enhance both future spacecraft performance and U.S. competitiveness," said Jim Oschmann, Ball Aerospace Civil Space and Technologies vice president and general manager. "The new propellant technology, once demonstrated on GPIM, will raise both the 22 Newton and 1 Newton class AF-M315E thruster readiness for flight, enabling safer and less costly space missions with significant enhanced in-space propulsion performance."

The GPIM team demonstrated in a lab environment that the 22 Newton-class thruster running AF-M135E propellant had an enhanced operation range over traditional hydrazine used in spacecraft. The test continuously demonstrated that the thruster had enough force to go as high as 27 Newtons and scale down to 4 Newtons. The 22 Newton thruster will fire simultaneously along with four smaller 1N thrusters aboard the GPIM satellite to initiate orbit inclination changes and altitude changes.

"The expanded operational range exemplifies the performance benefits provided by the AF-M315E, which enable a broad range of applications from low-Earth orbit to deep space and facilitate infusion across the marketplace," added Roger Myers, executive director of Electric Propulsion and Integrated Systems at Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Ball is leading an industry and government team to develop and fly the GPIM mission. The new AF-M315E propellant, which is a Hydroxyl Ammonium Nitrate fuel/oxidizer blend, was developed by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base. Aerojet Rocketdyne has developed the thruster and catalyst technologies which enable practical applications for space missions. The GPIM project is a Technology Demonstration Mission managed by the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA.

As the prime contractor and principal investigator, Ball collaborates with a team of co-investigators from Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Kennedy Space Center and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base, with additional mission support from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Kirkland Air Force Base.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical missions for national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications. For more information, visit http://www.ballaerospace.com.

Ball Corporation (BLL)supplies innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for beverage, food and household products customers, as well as aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ 14,500 people worldwide and reported 2013 sales of $8.5 billion. For more information, visit http://www.ball.com, or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Victrex Receives As9100 Certification for Its High Performance, Lightweight Aerospace Tubing …

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WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA USA Victrex has successfully obtained the rigorous AS9100C/ISO9001:2008 aerospace certification for its VICTREX Pipes production lines. This certification gives the aerospace industry the confidence to specify the robust, lightweight tubing made from VICTREX PEEK polymer. Today, more than 15,000 aircraft rely on the high performance thermoplastic in demanding applications. By achieving this milestone, the world leader in PEEK polymeric solutions continues to take a proactive approach in providing innovative metal replacement products to help boost the efficiency of today's and tomorrow's aircraft.

With aerospace engineers demanding lighter weight solutions, VICTREX Pipes are an attractive and durable alternative to metal given their ability to provide weight reductions of up to 70%. Based on averages from recent fuel economy studies, replacing one hundred meters of metal tubing with a thermoplastic system made from VICTREX PEEK can deliver up to $3,300 in annual fuel cost savings as well as to reduce CO2 emissions by 11 tons per plane. In addition to being lightweight, VICTREX Pipes inherit the benefit of the base polymer of being non-corrosive, which helps the aerospace industry to reduce maintenance costs. High performance over a broad temperature range and excellent fire/smoke/toxicity performance are additional properties that qualify VICTREX PEEK for the aerospace industry.

The international AS9100 standard Victrex obtained was especially designed for the aerospace industry. It requires Victrex to have a quality management system in place to consistently provide products that meet customer and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Secondly, the standard specifies that the quality management system must establish processes for continuous improvements and ongoing conformity to regulatory requirements in order to provide products that satisfy the needs of aerospace customers. Frank Schemm, VICTREX Pipes Aerospace Market Manager, stated that "all industries we serve benefit from our quality management system and established processes that focus on continuously improving our manufacturing capabilities and products. Being able to provide the highest quality, lightweight products helps manufacturers develop confidence in sustainable solutions enabled by Victrex and its products."

"While Victrex offers straight tubing solutions for demanding aerospace applications, we continue to collaborate with industry-leading companies to develop bent, flared, and jointed systems to fit the spacing requirements of various aircraft platforms," explains Schemm. VICTREX Pipes give engineers the opportunity to create smarter designs to help make the installation process easier for the assembly teams. This has become extremely important particularly with the large backlog of orders that manufacturers have and their need to get aircraft off the assembly line faster. To handle rising demands for new aircraft, it is equally important that Victrex is able to offer stability and security along the entire supply chain.

With 35 years of experience in delivering the highest performing products to demanding industries including aerospace, Victrex will continue to work with leading OEMs and tier suppliers to specify VICTREX Pipes and other VICTREX PEEK material solutions to enhance the efficiency of next generation aircraft. To learn more about VICTREX Pipes for the aerospace industry, please visit http://www.victrexpipes.com.

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Cobham Aviation British Aerospace RJ-100 – Take Off Runway 21 – Perth Airport PER/YPPH – Video

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