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Five single-seat ST Aerospace A-4SUs on the flight line of Base Aérienne Cazaux, France. 150 squadron of the Singapore Air Force has been stationed at Cazaux (southern France) since 1998. 18 A-4SU Super Skyhawks (in fact modernized A-4Cs) were used for advanced pilot training. In November 2012 the remaining 11 A-4s were replaced by Aermacchi M-346s.
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The ST Aerospace A-4SU Super Skyhawk is a major upgrade project of the Douglas A-4S Skyhawk attack aircraft undertaken by Singapore Aircraft Industries (SAI, now ST Aerospace) in the 1980s. It was used exclusively by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), serving in the fighter-bomber role from 1989 until retirement from front line service in 2005. Since mid-1999, the A-4SU took on the additional role of being the designated advanced jet trainer (AJT) aircraft for the RSAF's AJT training program/detachment in Cazaux, France.
A-4SU and TA-4SU Super Skyhawk
A full scale TA-4SU mock-up on display at the stand of Singapore Aircraft Industries (SAI) at the 1988 Asian Aerospace exhibition
In 1985, as a result of four A-4S being written off in separate accidents, coupled with the low serviceability of the original batch of A-4S. Investigations conducted by RSAF reveal that although there was plenty of fuselage life left, the Wright J65 turbojet engines in use by the Skyhawks was too old and the associated spare parts were becoming both difficult and expensive to obtain. Consequently, the RSAF decided to upgrade the A-4S/TA-4S rather than to replace them.
With SAI contracted as the main contractor for the upgrading project and a non-afterburning General Electric F404-GE-100D turbofan engine selected as the new engine, the upgrading project would later be extended to cover the entire fleet of newer A-4S-1s as well as taking the opportunity to completely modernize the avionics package (newly installed equipment now included a Pave Penny laser seeker mounted in the nose, an Inertial navigation system (INS), a Tactical air navigation system (TACAN), fore & aft Radar warning receivers (RWR) and chaff/flare countermeasures) of the aircraft.
The modernized A-4SU and TA-4SU versions with its new F404 turbofan engine had 29% more thrust, which resulted in a 30% reduction in takeoff time as well as an increase in usable payload, range and maximum speed. The maximum speed now at sea level is 610 knots (1,130 km/h; 700 mph), and maximum cruise speed at 30,000 feet (9,100 m) is 446 knots (826 km/h; 513 mph).
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Hi all, I am back from extensive hibernation. Been messing around with photography setups and photo editing...I'm getting there :P
A Cadet from 5th Regiment, Advanced Camp, practices smooth trigger squeeze with the goal of pulling the trigger without dislodging the washer balanced on the barrel of his M4 carbine during preliminary marksmanship instruction at Fort Knox, Ky., June 25, 2023. Cadets practice the fundamentals of shooting such as stances, magazine changes and immediate remedial action to prepare them for weapons qualifications. | Photo by Jaden Whiteman, Ball State University, CST Public Affairs Office
Shallow depth of field: ceramic mugs, Deep depth of field: plants outside along lit path, Motion blur: Krista spinning prop with glow sticks, No motion blur: Krista along lit path with prop, Wildcard: ceramic busts
A Norfolk Southern geometry train passes through Harrisburg on its way to the fuel pad Tuesday afternoon. "The Brick" (NS 38), a former SD40 locomotive, and Research 36 are paired up to inspect the literal railroad for wear and defects.
I'll be bringing my Advanced Heroica to Brickworld Chicago 2013, and I'm looking for players, new or old!
I will have the same two scenarios with me as last year (I haven't finished creating any more yet), but with some rules tweaks and these new features:
- Two brand new characters from Ilrion (the Prince and the Sage)
- Some new abilities for the old characters
- Fancy, professional-quality cards for all of the hero abilities
Let me know if you're interested!
Alexander Hancock, Georgia Military College, 9th Regiment Advanced Camp, engages his target during the battle, march, and shoot event at Fort Knox, Ky., July 19, 2023. This training teaches resilience and improves Cadets' marksmanship skills under pressure from supported and unsupported prone firing positions. | Photos by Connor Kerwin, Carson Newman University, CST Public Affairs Office
Cadets from 6th Regiment, Advanced Camp, complete a series of obstacles meant to be in a low stress environment at the confidence course at Fort Knox, Ky., July 1, 2023. This event is meant to be fun and create team building among the Cadet platoons. | Photo by Keaton Silver, University of Mississippi, CST Public Affairs Office
ADV.1 Advanced Series | BMW F82 M4 GTS
The Advanced Series is the latest line of Wheels from ADV.1 since the debut of the Competition Series in 2014. With this new Series ADV.1 is raising the industry standard in almost every category imaginable, from aesthetic wheel design & strength testing, right down to the packaging. Every traditional step involved in creating a wheel line was rewritten in order to advance what is currently considered premium in the high end exotic and luxury car world.
To learn and see more visit:
Advanced Series Key Features:
New Spoke Design with Advanced Weight Reduction Windows
Completely Assembled with Lightweight Titanium Hardware
Backpad Weight Reduction Pocketing
BMW M4 GTS Wheel Specs:
ADV5.2 Track Spec Advanced Series
50/50 Exposed Titanium Hardware
Center Finish: Brushed Matte Liquid Smoke
Lip Finish: Polished Gloss Liquid Smoke
Inner Finish: Custom Polished GTS Orange
20x9.5 | 20x11
Vehicle / Installation: HG Motorsports
Performance Tires: Falken Tire
Performance Suspension: KW Suspension
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Kate Shelley, railroad heroine
Catherine "Kate" Shelley (September 25, 1865 – January 12, 1912) was a midwestern United States railroad heroine, and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named for her.[citation needed] She was also one of the few women to ever have a train named after her, the Kate Shelley 400.
Catherine Shelley was born in Loughaun, Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland.[2] Transcriptions of Irish records show her parents, Michael Shelley and Margaret Dwan, married on February 24, 1863. and Catherine was baptized on December 12, 1863.[2] However, United States 1880 census records indicate she may have been born in 1865.[citation needed] Her tombstone says she was born on September 25, 1865 and died January 21, 1912. The family name was originally spelled Shelly, which is how Kate often wrote her name, but the spelling Shelley was later adopted.[3]
Michael Shelley was a tenant farmer in Ireland, living on 3 acres (12,000 m2) and farming another 15.[2] The family emigrated to the United States when Catherine was a baby.[2] They first lived with relatives in Freeport, Illinois, then built a home on 160 acres (0.65 km2) at Honey Creek, near Moingona, Boone County, Iowa.[2] Michael Shelley became foreman of a section crew, building tracks for the Chicago and North Western Railway.[2]
Michael Shelley died in 1878. Margaret was in poor health, and Kate had to help support the family - plowing, planting and harvesting crops, and hunting.[2] The 1880 federal census for Worth County, Iowa showed 35-year old Margaret, 15-year-old Kate, both born in Ireland, and Mary (8), Margaret (6) and John (4), all born in Iowa.[4] Michael and Margaret Shelley had another child, James (also born in Iowa), but he drowned while swimming in the Des Moines River when he was only ten years old.[5]
[edit] The story
1908 map showing the Chicago and Northwestern route through Moingona, the southernmost community on the map. The railroad crossed the Des Moines River between Moingona and Honey Creek. (Red dots on the map are coal mines.)
On the afternoon of July 6, 1881, heavy thunderstorms caused a flash flood of Honey Creek, washing out timbers that supported the railroad trestle. A pusher locomotive sent from Moingona to check track conditions crossed the Des Moines River bridge, but plunged into Honey Creek at about 11 p.m., with a crew of four: Ed Wood, George Olmstead, Adam Agar and Patrick Donahue.[6]
Shelley heard the crash, and knew an eastbound passenger train was due in Moingona about midnight, stopping shortly before heading east over the Des Moines River and then Honey Creek. She found the surviving crew members and shouted that she would get help, then started to cross the damaged span of the Honey Creek bridge followed by the Des Moines River bridge. Although she'd started with a lantern, it had failed, and she crawled the span on hands and knees with only lightning for illumination. Once across, she ran a half-mile to the Moingona depot to sound the alarm, then led a party back to rescue two of the engine crew survivors.[6] Wood, perched in a tree, grasped a rope thrown to him, and came ashore hand-over-hand.[7] Agar couldn't be reached until the flood waters began to recede.[7] Donahue's corpse was eventually found in a corn field a quarter mile downstream from the bridge, and Olmstead, the fireman, was never found. The passenger train was stopped at Ogden, Iowa, with 200 aboard.[2]
[edit] The aftermath
The passengers who had been saved took up a collection for her. The children of Dubuque gave her a medal,[6] and the state of Iowa gave her another one, crafted by Tiffany & Co.,[8] and $200.[6] The C&NW gave her $100, a half barrel of flour, half a load of coal and a life-time pass.[6] The Order of Railway Conductors gave her a gold watch and chain.[6]
News of her bravery spread nationwide; poems and songs were composed honoring her. The railroad built a new steel bridge in 1900, and named it after her.[9] It was the first and, until the Betsy Ross Bridge in Philadelphia was opened in 1976, the only bridge in the United States named for a woman. The bridge was rebuilt by the Union Pacific Railroad from 2006 through 2010. The new structure can accommodate heavy trains, features two tracks and can handle two trains simultaneously at a speed of 70 mph. It was opened on October 1, 2009 as the new Kate Shelley Bridge, one of North America's tallest double-track rail bridges. [2]
Frances E. Willard, a reformer and temperance leader, wrote president Isabella W. Parks of Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, offering $25 toward an advanced education for Shelley. Mrs. Parks raised additional funds for Kate to attend during the term of 1883–84, but she didn't come back the following term.[6]
She became a teacher in Boone County schools until 1903, when the Chicago & Northwestern named her stationmaster at the new Moingona depot,[10] the original having burned down in 1901.[11]
[edit] Later in life
In 1890, a Chicago newspaper revealed that the Shelley home was mortgaged for $500 at 10% and was near foreclosure. An Armenian rug, woven in the display window of a Chicago furniture store, was auctioned for $500, retiring the mortgage, and other Chicagoans donated an additional $417 before the state of Iowa voted Kate a grant of $5,000.[6]
In July 1896, it was reported that Shelley had applied to the Iowa Legislature for employment in the State House as a menial, because she was destitute and had to support her aged mother and invalid brother.[12]
Although there were apparently men interested in her, including the switchman in the yard at Moingona,[13] Kate Shelley never married, and continued to care for her mother until Margaret died in 1909.[6]
Kate Shelley grew sicker and, in June 1911, doctors at Carroll Hospital removed her appendix. After a month in the hospital, she stayed with her brother John,[11] and was reported a little better by September, but died on January 12, 1912 from Bright's disease (acute nephritis).[14]
Years later, the Chicago and North Western began operating streamlined passenger trains, and named one the Kate Shelley 400. It operated from 1955 to 1971, although the name was officially dropped in 1963.[1]
[edit] Legacy
Original steel on the left; new concrete/steel on the right.
The Boone County Historical Society maintains the Kate Shelley Railroad Museum on the site of the Moingona depot. The Shelley family donated a collection of letters and papers of family members of Kate Shelley, 1860–1911, to Iowa State University. The timetable accents for Metra's Union Pacific/West Line are printed in "Kate Shelley Rose" pink.[15]
The original high steel bridge is currently being replaced with a modern concrete and steel span that will also bear her name.
The Iowa poet and politician, John Brayshaw Kaye, wrote a poem in her honor called, 'Our Kate', in his collection Songs of Lake Geneva (1882).
One of Northampton’s Pickups that’s now at WM Allentown, and the only vehicle on site still with AD decals on it.
I'm so bad with flickr these days! :(( I just have no time! Days are very busy, and the busiest days are yet to come! I can't wait for 2011s projects, mostly the creative weddings my wonderful clients are planning to bring together! :)))
I don't know how much time will there be left for some fashion work but it's great to see some of my favourite 2010 shots featured here. :)
readable version on my blog:
www.phototom.co.uk/blog/portrait/featured-in-advanced-pho...
Spc. Jorden Elliott, an instructor of advanced medical training at Exercise Rapid Trident, helps a Ukrainian soldier find the pulse of a simulated casualty June 29. The exercise is a regional command post and field training exercise that involves about 2,000 Soldiers from 13 different nations, that will be held at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine June 27 - July 8, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes/Released)
Work has started on a new £8.5 million state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Birmingham's Advanced Manufacturing Hub.
ADV.1 Advanced Series | Porsche GT3 RS
The Advanced Series is the latest line of Wheels from ADV.1 since the debut of the Competition Series in 2014. With this new Series ADV.1 is raising the industry standard in almost every category imaginable, from aesthetic wheel design & strength testing, right down to the packaging. Every traditional step involved in creating a wheel line was rewritten in order to advance what is currently considered premium in the high end exotic and luxury car world.
To learn and see more visit:
Advanced Series Key Features:
New Spoke Design with Advanced Weight Reduction Windows
Completely Assembled with Lightweight Titanium Hardware
Backpad Weight Reduction Pocketing
Porsche GT3 RS
Owner: Jason Yaco
Wheels Boutique
Champion Motorsport
Wheel Specs:
ADV5.2 M.V2 Advanced Series
50/50 Exposed Titanium Hardware
Finish: Brushed Gloss Champion Gold
20x9.5 | 21x12.5
Title / Titre :
Advanced battery, Fort Henry, Kingston, Ontario /
Batterie avancée du fort Henry, à Kingston (Ontario)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Date(s) : 1871
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : MIKAN 4157421
collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&...
Location / Lieu : Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Library and Archives Canada, e010964553 /
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e010964553