Dienstag, April 20, 2010

Erfolgreicher Messflug des DLR-Forschungsflugzeugs "Falcon 20E" - DLR's research aircraft 'Falcon 20E' completes measurement flight successfully

                                                              photo by dlr

Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) hat am 19. April 2010 einen erfolgreichen Messflug zur Vulkanasche-Wolke über Deutschland durchgeführt. Nach einer Flugzeit von mehr als drei Stunden ist die Falcon 20E um 20.45 Uhr (MESZ) auf ihre Heimatbasis zurückgekehrt. Die Flugroute für diesen Messflug führte von Oberpfaffenhofen nach Leipzig, dann über Hamburg nach Bilthoven (Niederlande) und zurück über Stuttgart nach Oberpfaffenhofen.  mehr...

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) completed a successful measurement flight of the volcanic ash cloud over Germany on 19 April 2010. After a flight time lasting more than three hours, the Falcon 20E returned to its home base at 20:45 CEST. The route for this measurement flight led from Oberpfaffenhofen to Leipzig, then over Hamburg and on to Bilthoven (the Netherlands) and returned via Stuttgart to Oberpfaffenhofen.   more...

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National Public Radio: Interview mit Eric Moody, Chefpilot einer B 747, die am 24.Juni 1982 auf dem Flug B 009 von Kuala Lumpur nach Perth, nahe der Küste Indonesiens in eine Vulkan-Aschewolke kam



Transcript bei NPR :

As the volcano in Iceland continues to spew ash, flights are grounded across large areas of Europe. And if you wonder why such caution is needed, you can ask retired British Airways Captain Eric Moody. In 1982, Captain Moody was flying near Jakarta, Indonesia when volcanic ash caused all four engines on his Boeing 747 to fail. But Captain Moody landed his airplane. He joins us now from Camberley, England.
Captain Moody, thanks for being with us.
Mr. ERIC MOODY (Retired British Airways Pilot): It's a pleasure.
SIMON: So your plane's going down. Oxygen bags are deployed. What do you do?
Mr. MOODY: Gosh, we'd been trying  more...

Captain Eric Moody's Website 

Montag, April 19, 2010

Pressemeldung: Vereinigung Cockpit :Ohne Messergebnisse keine Flüge! Safety Information by ALPA - Airline Pilots Association International

Die Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) sieht die von der Deutschen Flugsicherung (DFS) veranlasste Luftraumsperrung bis zur endgültigen Klärung des Verbleibs der Vulkanasche in der Atmosphäre weiterhin als gerechtfertigt an. Der Pilotenverband stellt klar, dass internationale Regeln keinen Zweifel daran lassen, dass der Luftraum in kontaminierter Umgebung geschlossen bleiben muss.
Um die Computersimulationen der Ascheausbreitung zu überprüfen, sind aus Sicht der VC die Messflüge des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) das richtige Instrument. Bis zur Auswertung der dort gewonnenen Parameter sollten die Lufträume für den Flugverkehr gesperrt bleiben. Für die Sicherheit in der aktuellen Situation ist es indes unerheblich, ob ein Flugzeug nach Sicht- oder Instrumentenflugverfahren betrieben wird. „Entweder der Luftraum ist sicher oder er ist es nicht“, so die VC.

Hintergrund:
Was ist das Instrumentenflugverfahren (IFR-Flüge)? Die Lage des Flugzeugs im Raum (Höhe, Flugrichtung, Geschwindigkeit) wird rein nach flugzeugeigenen Instrumenten gesteuert. Der Flug kann auch ohne Sicht nach außen durchgeführt werden. Dieses Verfahren ist das Standardverfahren und wird nahezu bei allen Passagier- und Frachtflügen angewandt.
Was ist das Sichtflugverfahren (VFR-Flüge)? Sichtflugverfahren wird in der privat- und Sportfliegerei angewandt. Das Flugzeug wird nach Sicht nach außen zum Ziel gesteuert.


Information by ALPA
Airline Pilots Association International

Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety
The ever-growing reliability of the turbojet engines of air transport aircraft today allows twin engine extended range operations globally on routes where previously only three- and four-engine aircraft could travel. Threatening that reliability, however, is a hazard capable of silencing these engines under the worst of conditions—volcanic ash.
There are 1,500 known volcanoes around the world, and 600 of them are currently listed as active. Collectively there are 55 to 60 volcanic eruptions annually, and monitoring records tell us that some of these explosive eruptions are propelling volcanic ash to the thirty- and forty-thousand foot flight levels traveled by the airlines. Commercial aircraft encountering ash spread by such eruptions have experienced multiple engine flameouts.
ALPA Safety, through its Volcanic Ash project under the Air Traffic Services Group, has devoted several years to expanding the database of operationally relevant information on this potential hazard and improving the warning system necessary to reduce unplanned encounters of hazardous ash clouds.
The information under this Banner may be useful toward understanding the hazard; understanding recommended practices for avoidance, if possible; achieving survival in the event of an unexpected encounter; and finally, reporting the experience.
A recommended starting point is the video, “Volcanic Ash: An Aviation Hazard of Explosive Proportio."

Update: Image Iceland Volcanic Eruption over Europe



Samstag, April 17, 2010

Airports Europe - Flughäfen in Europa - Volcano cloud - Vulkan Wolke (Asche)

Flughäfen/Airports


Germany:
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Germany 
Basel/Mühlhausen/Freiburg
Berlin
Bremen
Bodensee FriederichhafenDortmund
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach
Dresden
Erfurt

Frankfurt
Hahn
Hamburg
Köln
Leipzig
Lübeck
Münster-OsnabrückMünchen
Nürnberg
Paderborn-Lippstadt
Saarbrücken
Stuttgart

Austria:
Salzburg -Österreich
Wien

Swiss:
Zürich


Sweden:
Stockholm


United Kingdom 
London - Heathrow 
London- Stansted 
London - Gatwick 

Ireland:
Dublin 

Finland:
Helsinki

Danmark:
Kopenhagen- Danmark 

Spain:
Palma de Mallorca-Spain
Barcelona-Spain

Czech Republic:
Praha

Poland
Warsaw-Poland

Italy:
Roma-Italy

France:
Paris-France

LiveATC: Live Funkverkehr Airport Towers Europa- Live Air Traffice Airports Towers in Europe

Radar Virtuel: Luftverkehrradar über Europa - Aircraft Traffic Radar over Europe- Vulkan/Vulcane Island


Full Size

ASH Predicton Zone - Schutzzone  Asche

Flightradar : Flugzeugbewegungen über Europa, während die Vulkanaschenwolke unterwegs ist



Freitag, April 16, 2010

German "Flugsicherung" DFS: INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION - VOLCANIC ASH CONTINGENCY PLAN EUR REGION - Instruktionen für Piloten, die in einen vulkanische Aschenwolke geraten

Here the instructions for pilots crossing volcanic ash (pdf)

DFS Website

News in english by Island Television about Volcano Eruption - Vulkan Island TV

There is considerable ash fall resulting from the volcanic eruption 
under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier.The ash that is falling is composed of
bothfine andcourse particles. more on Island Television ruv

German Weather Service: Newest sattelite image about volcano clouds over europe - Satellittenbild Vulkan Asche-

- New Map about Cloud Volcano Island - Karte Vulkan Vulkan Wolke aus Island-


More Links:





Dienstag, April 13, 2010

AP: Israel tells its citizens to get out of Sinai now


JERUSALEM — Israel issued an "urgent" warning Tuesday to its citizens to leave Egypt's Sinai Peninsula immediately citing "concrete evidence of an expected terrorist attempt to kidnap Israelis in Sinai."
The statement from the Israeli prime minister's anti-terror office took the unusual step of calling on families of Israelis visiting the Sinai to establish contact with them.  more...

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners Investigative Reporting - Purlitzer Preis für investigative Reportagen

Investigated Reporting

For a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).Awarded to Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine, for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. (Moved by the Board from the Feature Writing category.)
And
Awarded to Barbara Laker and Wendy Rudermanof the Philadelphia Daily News for their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal.
Finalists:
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Michael Moss and members of The New York Times Staff for relentless reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food safety issues that, in print and online, spotlighted defects in federal regulation and led to improved practices (Moved by the Board to the Explanatory Reporting category), and Michael Braga, Chris Davis and Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for their in-depth reporting and computer analysis that unraveled $10 billion in suspicious Florida real estate transactions, triggering local and state efforts to curb abuses.

Sonntag, April 11, 2010

Telegraph UK: Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity'

Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for "crimes against humanity".

Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
It emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys.  more...

Spiegel online

Donnerstag, April 08, 2010

Saubere Kleidung Pressemeldung: Lidl betreibt Schönfärberei – Klage gegen die Täuschung von Verbraucher/innen

Die Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg hat eine Klage beim Landgericht Heilbronn gegen Lidl wegen unlauteren Wettbewerbs eingereicht. Sie wird dabei von der Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung (CCC) und dem European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) unterstützt. Das Bündnis fordert Lidl auf, Verbraucher nicht mit „Social Washing“ über die unmenschlichen Arbeitsbedingungen bei ihren Zulieferern zu täuschen. Eine von der Kampagne für Saubere
Kleidung und ECCHR in Auftrag gegebene Untersuchung belegt schwerwiegende Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen bei vier Lidl
Zulieferbetrieben in Bangladesch. mehr auf pdf-datei...

Spiegel Online Artikel

Dienstag, April 06, 2010

WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff

WIKILEAK
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com




German Magazine Mirror - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The New York Times
Reuter Press

Montag, April 05, 2010

Toll Mounts From Quake in Mexico-U.S. Border Region - Erdbeben Mexico und US-Grenze

NYTIMES:
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: April 5, 2010

LOS ANGELES — A powerful earthquake southeast of Tijuana shook Southern California on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in northern Mexico and border cities in California and Arizona and rattling a seismically sophisticated population as far north as Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Chandeliers swayed, homes shook and the earth seemed to slide under the feet of people emerging from Easter church services for well over a minute. more....



Donnerstag, März 25, 2010

NASA: Solar Cycle Prediction - Sonnen Zyklus Vorhersage

A solar flare observed in Dec. 2006 by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite


May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.

"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

 "Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," points out Biesecker. "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013."  more...

Dienstag, März 23, 2010

New York Times: The End of Newspapers? Das Ende der Zeitungen?

By MARIE BÉNILDE
Published: March 16, 2010
 

Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don’t know it.

That was the assessment of a banker from BNP-Paribas at the French national press federation’s conference in Strasbourg in 2006. His words caused a sensation, but the statistics support him: Having lost more than 2,300 jobs last year, the French press is going through a crisis similar to America’s. more...


Donnerstag, März 18, 2010

Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer der DDR im Jahre 1990 - The freely elected People's Chamber of the DDR in the year 1990




Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer


Die erste und zugleich einzige frei gewählte Volkskammer der DDR konstituiert sich am 5. April 1990 im Palast der Republik. Der 10. Volkskammer gehören - einschließlich der Nachrücker - 409 Abgeordnete an. Nur drei Prozent der Abgeordneten sind auch schon Mitglieder der 9. Volkskammer gewesen. Zu ihrer Präsidentin wählen die Abgeordneten im zweiten Wahlgang die CDU-Abgeordnete Sabine Bergmann-Pohl.

The free elections to the People’s Chamber (Volkskammer) of the German Democratic Republic on 18 March 1990 completely transformed the character of that Parliament. Under the dictatorship of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the People’s Chamber had been a sham parliament which, with one single exception, had always rubber-stamped the decisions of the state and party leaders until the peaceful revolution in the autumn of 1989. Now it transformed itself into a democratic parliament, whose members tackled a massive workload to carve out the path to the unification of Germ

Montag, März 15, 2010

CHRISTMAS SOUVENIRS - SOUVENIRS in Cologne, Germany
















When I am on the way to the Televsion Station in Cologne , I am passing the Souvenir Shop of Rahim. His has a partiality for products "Made in Germany" e.g. Kuckucksuhren (watches)from the Black Forest or Christmas angles from the city of Seiffen in Germany. The shop is near by to the cathedrale in Cologne.
If you visit him, say best regards from me "Wolfgang , TV Journalist German TV". Please comment the visit on this blog.









 



 






























Address:
BACHTER ACCESSOIRES
Komödienstrasse 15
50667 Köln (Cologne)
Germany
Phone: 0049 (0) 221 9463806


Location:


Größere Kartenansicht

Donnerstag, März 11, 2010

Three strong earthquakes strike Chile-Earthquake Chile NEW - Neues Erdbeben in Chile




Three strong earthquakes strike Chile

11 March, 2010
Santiago, Chile -- Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing major damage in at least one city.A 6.9-magnitude earthquake at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later,A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
more...

Samstag, Februar 20, 2010

CubeStormer - Roboter löst Rubik's Cube in max. 12 Sekunden


The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements now scanning and solving any 3x3x3 Rubik's cube combination in under 12 seconds

Mittwoch, Februar 17, 2010

Olympicgames Vancouver 2010 Medals' Table - Medallienspiegel Olympische Spiele Vancouver

Dienstag, Februar 16, 2010

BBC: New flaws in chip and pin system revealed - Wissenschaftler der Uni Cambridge fanden einen Weg, um ohne die Geheimzahl einer Kredit Karte zu kennen , Geld abzuheben



by Susan Watts BBC
Most of us do not think twice about paying for something in a high street shop by keying in our pin. It is easy, fast and in most cases it works.
But scratch a little under the surface and there are persistent reports of people who say they have been the subject of fraud of one kind or another on their credit or debit card.
Now a team of computer scientists at Cambridge University has found a flaw in chip and pin so serious they think it shows that the whole system needs a re-write.  more...

Dienstag, Februar 09, 2010

Study: Formation of carcinogens indoors by surface-mediated reactions of nicotine with nitrous acid, leading to potential thirdhand smoke hazards - Studie: Nikonablagerungen in Innenräumen erzeugen bei Luftkontakt krebserregende Substanzen.


"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"


This study shows that residual nicotine from tobacco smoke sorbed to indoor surfaces reacts with ambient nitrous acid (HONO) to form carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs). Substantial levels of TSNAs were measured on surfaces inside a smoker’s vehicle. more...

Sonntag, Januar 17, 2010

Haiti Earthquake Report Via Amateur Radio



When telephones, internet, and power are cut off, Amateur Radio fills vital communications needs. Fred Moore of Florida, callsign W3ZU provides a radio/telephone patch for Jean-Robert Gaillard, callsign HH2JR, of Port au Prince. Audio captured by Brian Crow. Images (c) their respective owners.

HAITI EARTHQUAKE MAPS: DLR- Germany Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information - Emergency mapping & Desaster Monitoring about Earthquake Haiti


Earthquakes in Haiti on January 12, 2010

On January 12, 2010 a severe earthquake took place at the Coast of Haiti with a magnitude of 7.0 causing major damage. The epicentre was registred about 10 km deep and 16 km southwest of the capital city Port-au-Prince. In the city a large number of buildings such as the palace, government and UN-buildings, embassies and hospitals were affected or destroyed. Telecommunication as well as electricity and water supply failed.