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San Diego Air & Space Museum Receives Museums for America Grant

Award Will Dramatically Increase Access To Museum’s Extensive Aerospace Related Collections

The San Diego Air & Space Museum recently received an Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for America three-year grant for $150,000 to increase online access to its renowned aerospace related collections. The Museum’s project was selected from more than 500 applications.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.16.16): Contaminated Runway

Contaminated Runway A runway is considered contaminated whenever standing water, ice, snow, slush, frost in any form, heavy rubber, or other substances are present. A runway is contaminated with respect to rubber deposits or other friction-degrading substances when the average friction value for any 500-foot segment of the runway within the ALD fails below the recommended minimum friction level and the average friction value in the adjacent 500-foot segments falls below the maintenance planning friction level.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (10.16.16)

Aero Linx: The SAFE Association The primary objective of the SAFE Association is to stimulate research and development in the fields of safety and survival, and to disseminate pertinent information to concerned individuals in government and industry. In addition, the objective is to establish and maintain a meaningful relationship between the SAFE Association and the scientific communities related to safety and survival.

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (10.16.16)

Aero-News Quote of the Day “Shelter is an obvious necessity as we prepare to explore worlds beyond our home planet, but space and weight aboard our vehicles are precious, and taken by the many other resources we will need for survival. That’s why we are seeking the technology to reuse the materials we will already be carrying, and combine them with what is already available at our destination, which is, in this case, soil. We recycle here on Earth – why not on Mars?” Source: Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, adding soem background to NASA's offer of $1.1 million in prize mo