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It should always be recognized, though, that water damage, humidity damage, vibrations, or other disturbances can contribute to the deterioration of non-friable asbestos, and thereby render it dangerous.
On Saturday, November 26, NASA is scheduled to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission featuring Curiosity, the largest and most advanced rover ever sent to the Red Planet.
The Curiosity rover bristles with multiple cameras and instruments, including Goddard's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Martian soil and atmosphere, SAM will help discover whether Mars ever had the potential to support life. Curiosity will be delivered to Gale crater, a 96-mile-wide crater that contains a record of environmental changes in its sedimentary rock, in August 2012.
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NASA image November 18, 2010
The NASA version of I AM SAM. Goddard engineers finishing work on Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that will be on Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover when it lands on the red planet in 2012.
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I haven't light painted since March... I'm back in the US for a short time and decided to light paint a bit. It's so hard to light paint where I moved to so that's why I haven't done much. It's so much easier out here in the countryside where it's dark...
Social media technologies offer the possibility to deeply understand target and to generate several kinds of insight from listening activity. Those insights are used to definea detailed profile for main clusters of communication and marketing initiatives.
During the week of 19 June 2017, 50 scientists and computing experts came together on the DESY campus in Zeuthen, Germany to discuss new analysis and simulation methods for CTA. The talks covered simulation tools, reconstruction algorithms and tools, instrument response functions, high-level science tools and grid tools.
Am I obsessed with this sleep analysis? but see the 78% deep sleep (330 mins) i clocked today.. thats my best so far.. :)
(Orignal pic here: flickr.com/photos/macten/2068155756/ by macten.)
Kind of an inside joke. On an emergency conference call regarding a recent and serious Microsoft vulnerability, we set a very stringent patching deadline. Someone piped up "well, what if it gets exploited in the next 24 hours?". A colleague responded, "Well the data center could get swallowed by an earthquake in the next 24 hours." A very succinct and effective illustration of the likelihood of certain risks.
Sandia researchers are lessening the burden for analysts sifting through massive data sets by developing the science to gather insights from the data in nearly real time.
Sandia researchers worked with students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an Academic Alliance partner, to develop analytical and decision-making algorithms for streaming data sources and integrated them into a nearly real-time distributed data processing framework using big data tools and computing resources at Sandia. The framework takes disparate data from multiple sources and generates usable information that can be acted on in nearly real time.
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KUANTAN, Malaysia (June 6, 2023) - Malaysian and United States Armed Forces service members complete a mission analysis during the staff exercise of Exercise Bersama Warrior 23 at the Joint Warfighting Center on Malaysian Armed Forces Headquarters Base, Kuantan, Padang, Malaysia, June 5, 2023. Bersama Warrior is an annual bilateral joint exercise sponsored by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and hosted by the Malaysian Armed Forces. This year marks the ninth iteration of the exercise, enhancing the U.S. and Malaysian defense readiness and improving interoperability. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Alexandria Blanche) 230606-M-QS647-1061
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Based on the Beijing Flickr Meetup online survery, there is the analysis
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我的excel强迫症又来了, 我总是要很纠结地把什么事情都必须excel量化, 再研究数据, 做chart...否则我就很不舒服。其实真没必要。不过也借此学习了Google Docs &Spreadsheet的使用, 很开心。
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale bearing no publisher's name. The card has a divided back.
Cambrai
Cambrai is a commune in the Nord département in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt River.
Cambrai was the Duke of Wellington's headquarters for the British Army of Occupation, from 1815 to 1818.
Occupied and partly destroyed by the German army during the Great War, Cambrai saw unfold in its vicinity the Battle of Cambrai (20th. November 1917 – 3rd. December 1917) where tanks were massively and successfully used for the first time.
A second Battle of Cambrai took place between the 8th. and 10th. October 1918 as part of the Hundred Days Offensive.
The Reconstruction of Cambrai After the Great War
When the Germans retreated from Cambrai in October 1918, all they left their Canadian successors was a ghost town with a burned-out centre.
The architect Pierre Leprince-Ringuet was given the job of rebuilding the town. He gave Cambrai new squares and streets, and concentrated the administrative buildings and shops into specific areas.
He also designed a brand new town hall. Today the architecture in Cambrai’s centre is a mixture of traditional regional styles and more modern Art Deco buildings.
A Poem About the First Major Tank Attack
'A Vickers Light Gun on my shoulder,
Two machine-gun belts on my back.
Was ever man could be bolder,
A pawn in the first tank attack!
Other details that I carried,
Field-dressing, gas mask, and a pack,
By every impediment harried,
Iron rations, steel helmet alack!
There lumbering over Bosche lines,
Steel monsters use enfilade fire,
Dazed Germans surrend’ring betimes
Cry Kam’rad, as others expire!
Bombers now blast out each dug-out,
As tanks attack the next system.
Capture each strong-point and redoubt,
Prisoners galore! We arrest ‘em!
What of these steel cruising monsters,
Some temporarily halted.
Others still mobile giant ogres.
To Germans, surprised, so assaulted!
How are the Infantry fairing,
Following in the wake of the tanks?
Here we shall need all our daring,
The enemy’s thinning our ranks!
Their third trench system resisting,
The enemy holds our attack.
Fierce fire from machine-gunners raking,
Many tanks made immobile, alack!
Our loved Colonel shot in the leg,
Falls in a near shallow crater.
Too late now, more cover to beg.
Shot through the head seconds later.
At this stage the missiles increase,
Zip! Round my tense body spraying.
I pray for a safe quick release,
Rejecting the idea of dying!
A thump on my right arm, terrific!
Down drops the Light Vickers Gun.
A deep crater shields me, it’s magic!
Comes one of my mates on the run.
Quickly retrieving the weapon,
He hails me with ‘You lucky sod!’
Grabbing the gun’s ammunition,
Vanished, not bothering to nod!
Lying deep down in my crater,
I poured iodine on my wound.
Waiting for our lads to capture,
Finish the machine-gunning hound.
Saddened to lose Colonel Benson,
Comparing our separate state.
The depth of the crater, the reason
For each, and our ultimate fate!
Protecting the wound with a bandage
Secured around the wrist and the thumb.
Consid’ring the size of the damage,
That bullet, no doubt, a dum-dum!
No further resistance from ‘Gerry’,
Quick or you’ll run into a barrage.
From tanks and battlefield hurry.
Now home to ‘Blighty’ you’ll manage'.
Louis Blériot
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, who was born on the 1st. July 1872, was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer.
He developed the first practical headlamp for cars, and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft.
Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control, a system used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces.
Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.
Louis was the founder of Blériot Aéronautique, a successful aircraft manufacturing company.
Louis Blériot - The Early Years
Born at no. 17, Rue de l'Arbre à Poires in Cambrai, Louis was the first of five children born to Clemencia and Charles Blériot. In 1882, aged 10, Blériot was sent as a boarder to the Institut Notre Dame in Cambrai, where he frequently won class prizes, including one for engineering drawing.
When he was 15, Louis moved on to the Lycée at Amiens, where he lived with an aunt. After passing the exams for his baccalaureate in science and German, he determined to try to enter the prestigious École Centrale in Paris.
Entrance was by a demanding exam for which special tuition was necessary, and Blériot spent a year at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris. He passed the exam, placing 74th. among the 243 successful candidates, and doing especially well in the tests of engineering drawing ability.
After three years of demanding study at the École Centrale, Blériot graduated 113th. of 203 in his class. He then embarked upon a term of compulsory military service, and spent a year in the 24th. Artillery Regiment, stationed in Tarbes in the Pyrénées.
Louis Blériot's Early Career and Marriage
Louis later got a job with Baguès, an electrical engineering company in Paris. He left the company after developing the world's first practical headlamp for automobiles, using a compact integral acetylene generator.
In 1897, Blériot opened a showroom for headlamps at 41 Rue de Richelieu in Paris. The business was successful, and soon he was supplying his lamps to both Renault and Panhead-Levassor, two of the foremost automobile manufacturers of the day.
In October 1900 Blériot was lunching in his usual restaurant near his showroom when his eye was caught by a young woman dining with her parents. That evening, he told his mother:
"I saw a young woman today.
I will marry her, or I will marry
no one."
A bribe to a waiter secured details of her identity; she was Alice Védères, the daughter of a retired army officer. Blériot set about courting her with the same determination that he later brought to his aviation experiments, and on the 21st. February 1901 the couple were married.
Louis Blériot's Early Aviation Experiments
Blériot first became interested in aviation while at the École Centrale, but his serious experimentation was probably sparked by seeing Clément Ader's Avion III at the 1900 Exposition Universelle.
By then Louis' headlamp business was doing well enough for Blériot to be able to devote both time and money to experimentation. His first experiments were with a series of ornithopters, which were unsuccessful. In April 1905, Blériot met Gabriel Voisin, who was then employed by Ernest Archdeacon to assist with his experimental gliders.
Blériot was a spectator at Voisin's first trials of the floatplane glider he had built on the 8th. June 1905. Cine photography was among Blériot's hobbies, and the film footage of this flight was shot by him.
The success of these trials prompted him to commission a similar machine from Voisin, the Blériot II glider. On the 18th. July 1905 an attempt to fly this aircraft was made, ending in a crash in which Voisin nearly drowned, but this did not deter Blériot. Indeed, he suggested that Voisin should stop working for Archdeacon and enter into partnership with him.
Voisin accepted the proposal, and the two men established the Ateliers d'Aviation Edouard Surcouf, Blériot et Voisin. Active between 1905 and 1906, the company built two unsuccessful powered aircraft, the Blériot III and the Blériot IV, which was largely a rebuild of its predecessor.
Both these aircraft were powered with the lightweight Antoinette engines being developed by Léon Levavasseur. Blériot became a shareholder in the company, and in May 1906, joined the board of directors.
The Blériot IV was damaged in a taxiing accident at Bagatelle on the 12th. November 1906. The disappointment of the failure of his aircraft was compounded by watching Alberto Santos Dumont later that day flying his 14-Bis a distance of 220 m (720 ft), winning the Aéro Club de France prize for the first flight of over 100 metres.
The partnership with Voisin was dissolved, and Blériot established his own business, Recherches Aéronautiques Louis Blériot, where he started creating his own aircraft, experimenting with various configurations, and eventually creating the world's first successful powered monoplane.
The first of these, the canard configuration Blériot V, was first tried on the 21st. March 1907, when Blériot limited his experiments to ground runs, which resulted in damage to the undercarriage. Two further ground trials, also damaging the aircraft, were undertaken, followed by another attempt on the 5th. April 1907. The flight was only of around 6 m (20 ft), after which he cut his engine and landed, slightly damaging the undercarriage.
More trials followed, the last on the 19th. April when, travelling at a speed of around 50 km/h (30 mph), the aircraft left the ground, Blériot over-responded when the nose began to rise, and the machine hit the ground nose-first, and somersaulted. The aircraft was largely destroyed, but Blériot was, by great good fortune, unhurt. The engine of the aircraft was immediately behind his seat, and he was very lucky not to have been crushed by it.
This was followed by the Blériot VI, a tandem wing design, first tested on the 7th. July 1907, when the aircraft failed to lift off. Blériot then enlarged the wings slightly, and on the 11th. July a short successful flight of around 25–30 metres (84–100 ft) was made, reaching an altitude of around 2 m (7 ft). This was Blériot's first truly successful flight.
Further successful flights took place that month, and by the 25th. July he had managed a flight of 150 m (490 ft). On the 6th. August he reached an altitude of 12 m (39 ft), but one of the blades of the propeller worked loose, resulting in a heavy landing which damaged the aircraft.
Louis then fitted a 50 hp (37 kW) V-16 Antoinette engine. Tests on the 17th. September 1907 showed a startling improvement in performance: the aircraft quickly reached an altitude of 25 m (82 ft), when the engine suddenly cut out and the aircraft went into a spiralling nosedive.
In desperation Blériot climbed out of his seat and threw himself towards the tail. The aircraft partially pulled out of the dive, and came to earth in a more or less horizontal attitude. Louis' only injuries were some minor cuts on his face, caused by fragments of glass from his broken goggles. After this crash Blériot abandoned the aircraft, concentrating on his next machine.
This, the Blériot VII, was a monoplane with tail surfaces arranged in what has become, apart from its use of differential elevators movement for lateral control, the modern conventional layout. This aircraft, which first flew on the 16th. November 1907, has been recognised as the first successful monoplane.
On the 6th. December Blériot managed two flights of over 500 metres, including a successful U-turn. This was the most impressive achievement to date of any of the French pioneer aviators. This caused Patrick Alexander to write to Major Baden Baden-Powell, president of the Royal Aeronautical Society:
"I got back from Paris last night.
I think Blériot with his new machine
is leading the way".
Two more successful flights were made on the 18th. December, but the undercarriage collapsed after the second flight; the aircraft overturned and was wrecked.
Blériot's next aircraft, the Blériot VIII was shown to the press in February 1908. Although it was the first to use a combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control, it was a failure in its initial format.
After modifications, it proved successful, and on the 31st. October 1908 he succeeded in making a cross-country flight, making a round trip from Toury to Arteny and back, a total distance of 28 km (17 mi). This was not the first cross-country flight, since Henri Farman had flown from Bouy to Reims the preceding day. Four days later, the aircraft was destroyed in a taxiing accident. (Taxiing seems to have been a hazardous business in those days).
Three of Louis' aircraft were displayed at the first Paris Aero Salon, held at the end of December: the Blériot IX monoplane; the Blériot X, a three-seat pusher biplane; and the Blériot XI, which went on to be his most successful model.
The first two of the designs, which used Antoinette engines, never flew, possibly because at this time, Blériot severed his connection with the Antoinette company because the company had begun to design and construct aircraft as well as engines, presenting Blériot with a conflict of interests.
The Type XI was initially powered by a REP engine and was first flown on the 18th. January 1909, but although the aircraft flew well, after a very short time in the air, the engine began to overheat. The led Blériot to contact Alessandro Anzani, who had developed a successful motorcycle engine and had subsequently entered the aero-engine market.
Anzani was associated with Lucien Chauvière, who had designed a laminated walnut propeller. The combination of a reliable engine and an efficient propeller contributed greatly to the success of the Type XI.
This was shortly followed by the Blériot XII, a high-wing two-seater monoplane first flown on the 21st. May 1909, and for a while Blériot concentrated on flying this machine. He flew it with a passenger on the 2nd. July, and on the 12th. July 1909 Louis made the world's first flight with two passengers, one of whom was Santos Dumont.
At the end of July Louis took part in an aviation meet at Douai where he made a flight lasting over 47 minutes in the Type XII; the following day he flew the Type XI for 50 minutes at another meet at Juvisy, and subsequently made a cross-country flight of 41 km (25 mi) from Étampes to Orléans.
Blériot's determination is shown by the fact that during the flight at Douai, part of the asbestos insulation worked loose from the exhaust pipe after 15 minutes in the air. After half an hour, one of his shoes had been burnt through and he was in considerable pain, but nevertheless continued his flight until engine failure ended the flight. Blériot suffered third-degree burns, and his injuries took over two months to heal.
Events Leading up to the 1909 Channel Crossing
The English Channel had first been crossed by balloon by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries in 1785.
In October 1908, the Daily Mail announced a prize of £500 for a flight made before the end of the year in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
When 1908 passed with no serious attempt being made, the offer was renewed for the year of 1909, with the prize money doubled to £1,000. It was widely seen as nothing more than a way to gain cheap publicity for the paper: the Paris newspaper Le Matin commenting that there was no chance of the prize being won.
On the 19th. July 1909, Louis informed the Daily Mail that he intended to attempt to win the thousand-pound prize offered by the paper for a successful crossing of the English Channel.
Blériot, who intended to fly across the Channel in his Type XI monoplane, had three rivals for the prize, the most serious being Hubert Latham, a French national of English extraction flying an Antoinette IV monoplane. He was favoured by both the United Kingdom and France to win.
The others were Charles de Lambert, a Russian aristocrat with French ancestry, and one of Wilbur Wright's pupils, and Arthur Seymour, an Englishman who owned a Voisin biplane. De Lambert established a base at Wissant, near Calais, but Seymour did nothing beyond submitting his entry to the Daily Mail.
Lord Northcliffe, who had befriended Wilbur Wright during his sensational 1908 public demonstrations in France, had offered the prize hoping that Wilbur would win. Wilbur wanted to make an attempt, and cabled his brother Orville in the USA.
Orville, at the time recuperating from serious injuries sustained in a crash, replied telling him not to make the Channel attempt until he could come to France and assist. Also Wilbur had already amassed a fortune in prize money for altitude and duration flights, and had secured sales contracts for the Wright Flyer with the French, Italians, British and Germans; his tour in Europe was essentially complete by the summer of 1909.
Both brothers saw the Channel reward of only a thousand pounds as insignificant considering the dangers of the flight.
Latham arrived in Calais in early July, and set up his base at Sangatte in the semi-derelict buildings which had been constructed for a 1881 attempt to dig a tunnel under the Channel. The event was the subject of great public interest; it was reported that there were 10,000 visitors at Calais and a similar crowd at Dover.
The Marconi Company set up a special radio link for the occasion, with one station on Cap Blanc Nez at Sangatte and the other on the roof of the Lord Warden Hotel in Dover. The crowds were in for a wait: the weather was windy, and Latham did not make an attempt until the 19th. July.
However 6 miles (9.7 km) from his destination, Latham's aircraft developed engine trouble, and was forced to make the world's first landing of an aircraft on the sea. Latham was rescued by the French destroyer Harpon and taken back to France, where he was met by the news that Blériot had entered the competition.
Blériot, accompanied by two mechanics and his friend Alfred Leblanc, arrived in Calais on Wednesday the 21st. July and set up their base at a farm near the beach at Les Baraques, between Calais and Sangatte.
The following day a replacement aircraft for Latham was delivered from the Antoinette factory. The wind was too strong for an attempted crossing on Friday and Saturday, but on Saturday evening it began to drop, raising hopes in both camps.
Leblanc went to bed at around midnight but was too keyed up to sleep well; at two o'clock, he was up, and judging that the weather was ideal woke Blériot who, unusually, was pessimistic and had to be persuaded to eat breakfast.
His spirits revived, however, and by half past three, his wife Alice had been put on board the destroyer Escopette, which was to escort the flight.
Blériot's Channel Crossing
At 4:15 am on the 25th. July 1909, watched by an excited crowd, Blériot made a short trial flight in his Type XI, and then, on a signal that the sun had risen (the competition rules required a flight between sunrise and sunset), he took off at 4:41 to attempt the crossing.
Flying at approximately 45 mph (72 km/h) and at an altitude of about 250 ft (76 m), he set off across the Channel. Not having a compass, Blériot took his course from the Escopette, which was heading for Dover, but he soon overtook the ship. The visibility deteriorated, and he later said:
"For more than 10 minutes I was alone,
isolated, lost in the midst of the immense
sea, and I did not see anything on the
horizon or a single ship".
The grey line of the English coast, however, came into sight on his left; the wind had increased, and had blown him to the east of his intended course. Altering course, he followed the line of the coast about a mile offshore until he spotted Charles Fontaine, the correspondent from Le Matin waving a large Tricolour as a signal.
Unlike Latham, Blériot had not visited Dover to find a suitable spot to land, and the choice had been made by Fontaine, who had selected a patch of gently sloping land called Northfall Meadow, close to Dover Castle, where there was a low point in the cliffs.
Once over land, Blériot circled twice to lose height, and cut his engine at an altitude of about 20 m (66 ft), making a heavy "pancake" landing due to the gusty wind conditions; the undercarriage was damaged and one blade of the propeller was shattered, but Blériot was unhurt. The flight had taken 36 minutes and 30 seconds.
News of his departure had been sent by radio to Dover, but it was generally expected that he would attempt to land on the beach to the west of the town. The Daily Mail correspondent, realising that Blériot had landed near the castle, set off at speed in a motor car and took Blériot to the harbour, where he was reunited with his wife. The couple, surrounded by a cheering crowd and photographers, were then taken to the Lord Warden Hotel at the foot of the Admiralty Pier; Blériot had become a celebrity.
The British Blériot Memorial, the outline of the aircraft laid out in granite setts in the turf (funded by oil manufacturer Alexander Duckham), marks Louis' landing spot above the cliffs near Dover Castle.
The aircraft which was used in the crossing is now preserved in the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
Louis Blériot - The Later Years
Blériot's success brought about an immediate transformation of the status of Recherches Aéronautiques Louis Blériot. By the time of the Channel flight, he had spent at least 780,000 francs on his aviation experiments. (To put this figure into context, one of Blériot's skilled mechanics was paid 250 francs a month.)
Now this investment began to pay off: orders for copies of the Type XI quickly came, and by the end of the year, orders for over 100 aircraft had been received, each selling for 10,000 francs.
At the end of August 1909, Blériot was one of the flyers at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation held at Reims, where he was narrowly beaten by Glenn Curtiss for the first Gordon Bennett Trophy. Blériot did, however, succeed in winning the prize for the fastest lap of the circuit, establishing a new world speed record for aircraft.
Blériot followed his flights at Reims with appearances at other aviation meetings in Brescia, Budapest, Bucharest in 1909 (making the first airplane flights in both Hungary and Romania).
Up to this time Louis had had great good luck in walking away from accidents that had destroyed the aircraft, but his luck deserted him in December 1909 at an aviation meeting in Istanbul. Flying in gusty conditions to placate an impatient and restive crowd, he crashed on top of a house, breaking several ribs and suffering internal injuries: he was hospitalized for three weeks.
Between 1909 and the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Blériot produced about 900 aircraft, most of them variations of the Type XI model. Blériot monoplanes and Voisin-type biplanes dominated the pre-war aviation market.
There were concerns about the safety of monoplanes in general, both in France and the UK. The French government grounded all monoplanes in the French Army from February 1912 after accidents to four Blériots, but lifted it after trials in May supported Blériot's analysis of the problem and led to a strengthening of the landing wires.
Along with five other European aircraft builders, from 1910, Blériot was involved in a five-year legal struggle with the Wright Brothers over the latter's wing warping patents. The Wrights' claim was dismissed in the French and the German courts.
Before the Great War, Blériot had opened British flying schools at Brooklands, in Surrey and at Hendon Aerodrome. Realising that a British company would have more chance of selling his models to the British government, in 1915 he set up the Blériot Manufacturing Aircraft Company Ltd. However the hoped-for orders did not follow, as the Blériot design was seen as outdated.
Following an unresolved conflict over control of the company, it was wound up on the 24th. July 1916. However even before the closure of this company Blériot was planning a new venture in the UK. Based in Addlestone, it became the Air Navigation and Engineering Company (ANEC) in May 1918. ANEC survived in a difficult aviation climate until late 1926, producing Blériot-Whippet cars, the Blériot 500cc motorcycle,and several light aircraft.
In 1927, Blériot, long retired from flying, was present to welcome Charles Lindbergh when he landed at Le Bourget field after completing his transatlantic flight. The two men, separated in age by 30 years, had each made history by crossing significant bodies of water, and shared a photo opportunity in Paris.
In 1934, Blériot visited Newark Airport in New Jersey, and predicted commercial overseas flights by 1938.
The Death and Legacy of Louis Blériot
Louis Blériot remained active in the aviation business until his death at the age of 64 on the 1st. August 1936 in Paris due to a heart attack. After a funeral with full military honours at Les Invalides he was buried in the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles.
In 1930, Blériot had instituted the Blériot Trophy, a one-time award which would be awarded to the first aircrew to sustain an average speed of over 2,000 kilometers per hour (1,242.742 miles per hour) over one half of an hour, an extremely ambitious and prophetic target in an era when the fastest aircraft were just breaking the 200 mph mark.
The award was finally presented slightly more than three decades later by Alice Védères Blériot, widow of Louis Blériot, in Paris on the 27th. May 1961 to the crew of the United States Air Force Convair B-58A jet bomber Firefly, crewed by Aircraft Commander Major Elmer E. Murphy. On the 10th. May 1961, the aircraft had sustained an average speed of 2,095 kmph (1,302.07 mph) over 30 minutes and 43 seconds, covering a ground track of 1,077.3 kilometers (669.4 miles).
This same crew and aircraft went on to set a number of other speed records before being lost in an accident shortly after takeoff from Paris, not long after winning the Harmon Trophy for a record-setting flight between New York City and Paris. This flight was 3,626.46 miles in 3 hours, 19 minutes, 58 seconds, at an average of 1,089.36 mph.
The Blériot Trophy winning crew took over the aircraft for the return flight, but were all killed when the pilot lost control shortly after takeoff from the Paris Air Show during some attempted impromptu aerobatics.
The Blériot Trophy is a statuette in classical style sculpted of polished white and black marble stone, depicting a nude male figure of black marble emerging from stylized white marble clouds resembling female forms. It is now on permanent display at the McDermott Library of the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
In 1936 the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale established the "Louis Blériot Medal" in his honor. The medal may be awarded up to three times a year to record setters in speed, altitude and distance categories in light aircraft, and is still being awarded.
In 1967 Blériot was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame.
On the 25th. July 2009, the centenary of the original Channel crossing, Frenchman Edmond Salis took off from Blériot Beach in a replica of Bleriot's aircraft. He landed successfully in Kent at the Duke of York's Royal Military School.
Louis Blériot In Popular Culture
-- In 2002, British train company Virgin CrossCountry named Class 221 221101 Louis Blériot.
-- In 2006 Rivendell Bicycle Works introduced a bicycle model named the "Blériot 650B" as a tribute to Blériot. It features his portrait on the seat tube.
-- A propeller moonlet in the rings of Saturn was nicknamed Blériot by imaging scientists.
-- The pianist and composer Giuseppe Sanalitro paid homage to Louis Blériot with the concept album for solo piano Au-delà (2021).
-- In the Academy Award-Winning 1933 movie Cavalcade, Edward Marryot and Edith Harris, while on the beach proclaiming their love for each other, witness the historic flight by Louis Blériot over the English Channel.
-- In the ITV series Mr Selfridge, Louis Blériot makes a personal appearance as a promotion for Selfridge's department store along with the plane he used to make the historic English Channel flight.
1947 Bartlesvile Oilers: Left to right: Ed Willshaw (LHP), Ralph Liebendorfer (RHP), Nick Najjar (LHP), Lou Tond (P), Ken Galbraith (OF-P), R. T. Upright (1B-OF), Carroll Red Dial (RHP), Ed Marleau-Mgr., Al Solenberger (CF), Elmo Maxwell (C), Lou Godla (2B), Jim Fink (3B-SS), Bill Pierro (RHP), Wayne Caves (1B), Jess Nelms (OF-C), Bill Waggoner (SS) and Charles Stock (3B-OF)--See more detailed analysis of this team in the body of this report.
KOM Flash Report
For week of
June 12—18, 2016
Flash Report and photo at www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27511893266/
Introduction:
Each of these reports is usually started by remembering a former KOM leaguer who passed away. This week Darrell Wayne Caves is that person. He was one of the first guys I ever located when the hunt for former KOM leaguers commenced in 1994. That doesn’t seem like a long time ago but when I first conversed with Caves he had just begun receiving Social Security benefits. It seems that after retirement age is reached the remaining years go by in a blur.
Caves told me in our first conversation that in that era he had a nickname. It was “Ears.”
Thanks to Jack Morris you are seeing this obituary sooner than later.
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www.tulsaworld.com/obituaries/localobituaries/darrell-way...
Darrell Wayne Caves, 88, passed from this life on Monday, May 30, 2016 in Tulsa. Wayne was born April 23, 1928 in Tulsa the son of William and Marie (Birmingham) Caves. He graduated from Daniel Webster High School in 1946. He was a retired insulator for Texaco and a member of Trinity Baptist Church. He enjoyed traveling, fishing, golfing and playing with his grandchildren. He played minor league baseball from 1946 to 1948 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and coached baseball on the Westside from little league to American Legion.
Wayne married Frances Louise Caves in Tulsa in 1947, and she preceded him in death on November 10, 2015 after 68 years of marriage. He was also preceded in death by her parents; and his brother, Bill Caves.
He is survived by his son, Steve Caves and wife, Susan of Broken Arrow; daughter, Terri Slaymaker and husband, Jim of Broken Arrow; sister, Peggy Christiansen and husband, Orville of Bixby; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral for Wayne is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, June 3, 2016 at Trinity Church, 1703 W. 41st St. and burial will follow in Floral Haven Memorial Gardens. An online guestbook is available at www.heathgriffithfuneralhome.com
For those of you who had the perspicacity and funds to purchase my second book, The KOM League Remembered, there is a team photo of the 1947 Bartlesville, Okla. Oilers on page 30 and Caves is in it. While the owners of that book go to their library to get it I’ll tell the rest of you that it is a bit different as far as team photos are concerned. All the players were in the dugout and lined up in single file. The faces are difficult to see whereas some young boys and an adult male in the grandstand are almost as distinct as the player images. To ensure the photo is looked at the question for this week is “How many young boys were in the grandstand?” For those of you who didn’t have the funds or perspicacity to purchase that book the photo is on the Flickr site where this report appears, directly below. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27511893266/
Bartlesville had a roster of 42 young men in 1947 There were five guys I never located namely:, Elton Leo Downing, Jack McDonald, John Moore, Charles Stock and a person without a first name but a last one of Wilson. Of the remaining 37 roster members I can only attest to the fact that Ralph Liebendorfer, Joe Turek, Keith Willoughby and possibly William Waggener survive. Many years ago, at a KOM reunion, a special guest attended who grew up with Charles Stock and he informed me his old friend died a number of years prior to our conversation. Since I’ve never found any evidence of Stock’s death I leave that as “undetermined.”
Confession is good for the soul. Up to the point where I wrote the previous paragraph I knew very little about a member of that team other than his name—William J. Christman-- who played 11 games at first base. A short time later I located the Veterans Compensation files for him and know now that his full name was William Joanest Christman who was born May 21, 1927 in Dreshertown, PA and passed away in Contra Costa, CA on December 28, 1981. The cause of him leaving the KOM league was probably due to Wayne Caves and R. T. Upright playing the bulk of the games at that position and he was hitting .167 when released.
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A current event story --Mantle auction
Thanks to Bob Imperato, President of Boston, Mass. Realty Associates, for sharing the following URL which dealt with the sale of a large Mantle collection. I’ve known the owner of that collection, Randall Swearingen, for many years and have spent time with him at a few events.
www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/Beaumont-collec...
Just to prove I read everything the readership sends, I absorbed every word and selected this paragraph to share. “Neatly spaced on the table were copper Hartland Mickey Mantle statue molds; an autographed bat Mickey had given to former coach Harry Kraft; the antique street sign of Mickey's home in Commerce, Okla.; and the 1948 "Bengal Tales" high school yearbook that pictured the young star before he signed with the most renowned franchise in baseball.’
I spotted the error in that Beaumont newspaper article and sent Imperato this note. “The guy who wrote the story had to be a huge baseball historian. Harry "Kraft" would have gotten a chuckle out of that reference. On the other hand, his last wife, Nell Craft, would have called the writer and given him an earful. “
A day or so later Mr. Imperato shared this link: www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/mickey-mantle-1951-spring-t...
When that article, with Mantle’s photo, first appeared on that site one of the quotes was: “He was only 19 years old, still very much a country kid from Commerce, OK when he arrived at the New York Yankees’ 1951 spring training camp in Florida.” Now, if you pull up that site that same sentence leaves out “in Florida.” How did that happen, you ask? You didn’t but here is what transpired. I noted to Mr. Imperato that the Yankees trained in Arizona and California that year for a number of reasons. First off, Del Webb, Yankee owner lived in Phoenix and he wanted to show off the heir to Joe DiMaggio to his Hollywood friends. springtrainingmagazine.com/history.html Imperato has connections and he sent the correction to the auction site and the correction was made.
Mr. Webb accomplished what he intended and there is proof of it in the many photos some of the Yankee players and Mantle had taken with Hollywood’s biggest stars. I could name them pretty easily for one guy who was in all those photos was Mantle’s Independence and Joplin teammate, Bob Wiesler. Many years ago he gave me a large number of those original 8 X 10 glossy prints and I still think I know where they are. I had a New York collector, a number of years ago, beg me for those photos and offered the enormous sum of less than $50 for the lot of them. I wouldn’t have sold them for any amount of money for I learned at an early age you don’t sell gifts.
In closing, Mr. Imperato had a suggestion as to my next career. “You could do an encyclopedia of baseball facts.” Seeing that I do need work that would be a nice challenge but I’ve discovered when I find a factual item that goes against what has appeared in record books for a half century, or more, I’m ignored.
Once in a while I put my feelings in print and live to regret it. Here is the latest sample of future ‘regretting’ in my last note to Mr. Imperato. “Frankly, the only reason I wrote the Mantle book was at the insistence of his former teammates at Independence, Joplin, Baxter Springs, Kansas City and New York. They all came at me with "Can you write a book about Mantle where the information is correct?"
Too much stuff about Mantle, and anyone else in the limelight, is a lot of here say and regurgitation of the same old same old. I asked Johnny Lafalier, who was Merlyn Mantle’s brother-in-law, what Mickey would have thought of my book. His reply was "John, he would have loved it for you are the only person who ever got it right?" For someone with limited writing skills I took that as a compliment. Any author ought to be able to do their research and not make up stories and most importantly spell names of people and places correctly. And, by the way, learn in what state the towns mentioned are located. Can anyone say “Independence?" In articles and books, since the arrival of Mantle on the baseball scene, that town in Missouri got more claim to his origins that the one in Kansas, where it all began. I try to explain that Harry Truman lived in Independence, Missouri and Bill Inge, the author, was from Independence, Kansas. So, think of “Picnic” and that is where Mantle started. Most every guy, my age remembers Kim Novak who starred in that movie and the gals all fondly recall William Holden. www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&am...
One thing mentioned in an article affiliated with that sale stated that when Mickey Mantle arrived with the Yankees they assigned him jersey #7. That is not correct according to what the late Cliff Mapes told me. It is a story I wrote many years ago but the short version is that Mapes was wearing that number when Mantle returned from Kansas City and thought Mantle had a great career ahead and he volunteered giving that number to the rookie. Mantle had worn #6 before being sent back to Kansas City. Mantle’s #7 was retired when his playing days concluded and #6 had to wait another few decades until it was retired in honor of Joe Torre. Numbers 1-9 have been retired by the Yankees with #2 being the most recent
Until Derek Jeter ended his career #2 hadn’t been officially retired. Some of the big names to don that uniform, other than Jeter were: Sandy Alomar, Paul Blair, Bobby Murcer, Red Rolfe, George “Snuffy” Strinweiss, Wayne Tolleson and last, but not least, George “Yats” Wuestling. . Yats was the uncle of Richard Charles Wuestling Jr., a St. Louis native, who signed a large bonus, $5,000, in 1947, and was sent to pitch for the KOM league’s Independence Yankees. He had a problem. Namely, it was a vision deficiency that prohibited him from seeing under poor lighting and in that era the only day games were on Sunday, the 4th of July and Labor Day. Goldie Howard, was the first guy to figure out his big pitcher was as blind aa a bat in the evening. But, Wuestling was a hit among his teammates at Independence for he invested his bonus money in a new car. And, as they say “A young baseball player, with a car, has many friends.”
George “Yats’ Wuestling was six years younger than Richard Charles Wuestling Jr.’s dad.
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After 70 years the imagine was remembered
Thanks for sending the picture of the Chanute Owls. I could pick out Ken Johnson in a minute. I remember Dodson, Grimsley, Curley and of course Goldie Howard. They were all good pitchers and a good manager. Buck Walz—I946-47-48 Iola Cubs and Indians
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Was he my Little League coach?
Thank you for the Flash Report. The picture you shared do you know much about Bob White? I had a little league coach by that name and he claimed to have played in professional ball. I would have been 10 years old which would have made it 52 years ago. I lived in Oklahoma City then.
Thanks, Frank H.—Columbia, MO
Ed reply:
White was purportedly from Riverton, Kansas. He was born around 1923 and attended Oklahoma A & M. It might have been your coach.
Ed comment:
To know more about Bob White I contacted Mary Ann and Wylie Pitts in Riverton, KS. They are my “go to” sources when I need to know about the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids or anything else relating to Southeast Kansas. I asked them about Robert White and received this answer.
“Wylie couldn't recall anyone by that name. He said he did play with a Bob (Dutch) White when he was in Bentonville, Arkansas, with and against him. I looked in the Riverton H.S. alumni list of graduates and didn't see anyone by that name. “
There are three other possibilities I’ve looked at over the years regarding the start and end of Robert D. “Red” White. I will have to check further on Springfield, MO; Topeka (Delia), KS and the State of Louisiana records to determine if White was born and/or died in any of those places.
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A future Hall of Famer turns down offer to play Ban Johnson baseball in 1941
In last week’s issue of the Flash Report a lot of information was shared regarding Lloyd “Rabbit” Ayers. There was not space to share a lot of things. One of the more interesting items was the mention of Wally DeBaets who Ayers was attempting to recruit. The April 16, 1941 news article, that follows this introduction, mentioned he was trying out for the Albany, GA team. As it turned out DeBaets stayed with the Cardinal organization that year and was on the Sioux City, Iowa; Union City, Tenn. and Decatur, Illinois rosters.
Someone in St. Louis is going to recognize Wally for his given name was Walter Barnard DeBaets. In 1979 he was inducted into the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in St. Louis on May 11, 1920 and lived there until his death on June 28, 2007. His obituary appeared in the June 29, 2007 edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch on page C 12.
Following is the account of how effort was made to have DeBaets play Ban-Johnson league baseball for Iola, Kansas in 1941. For those who document such things, DeBaets was primarily a third baseman who was a right-handed hitter and thrower.
Everyone can pull up one of the following references and for those who subscribe to Ancestry.com they can grab on to both of them.
www.stlabhof.org/hof-members.html
person.ancestry.com/tree/74439940/person/30295344211/facts
You can also find DeBaets on Baseball Reference. With the information I’ve supplied in this report you can fill in the missing blanks regarding his biographical information
www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=debaet0...
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APRIL 16, 1941. TOLA, KANSAS
B-J (Ban Johnson) Club Gaining Strength-- Ayers Announces Two Hurlers Acquired; May Sign Up Wally DeBaets;
Momentum is up now on forming the playing side of lola's baseball team. Parts are being fitted for the model. Manager Lloyd Ayers reports receipt of word from Jim Smith, the astute Illinois righthander, that he will join the lola club. He pitched for Humboldt last season. News that is equally reassuring is the announcement that Everett Bybee, the Uniontown high school basketball star, has stated he definitely plans to come here to join the lola club as soon as school closes. Bybee a righthander, pitches and plays first base, Ayers confides. He is six-foot, three inches tall. Bybee is a cousin of Mrs. Kenneth Abell and the Abells have been influential in inducing him that lola is the place to light. Other towns have been interested in him. ;
Another former member of the Humboldt team who has corresponded with Ayers is Wally DeBaets, the hustling third sacker. He has been receiving a professional tryout in Albany, Ga. Ayers would like to sign DeBaets but thus far the club doesn't know whether he could find the necessary employment here. Although DeBaets played third for Humboldt he is handy at any post. Ayers also has a catcher in-view who is anxious to join either Fort Scott or lola.
After Chuck Turley the manager has been on the trail of Charles Turley, the LaHarpe all-round athlete but thus far has missed him. Turley, however, has told several lolans that he plans to attend the junior college here next fall and probably will be available for the baseball team. The above mentioned possibilities, added to previously considered candidates who are pretty certain to be on hand, gives the club a stout foundation. With them, only a few more dependables would be necessary, in addition to the local rookies that Ayers plans to use. Daily practice sessions will start. Ayers says, as soon as weather becomes favorable again.”
Check here to see what happened to Turley in the remaining 60 years of his life after playing Ban Johnson baseball.. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=365500...
Upon completing the aforementioned item I shared it with Barbara Eichhorst in St. Louis. She and her husband, Rich, know/knew about everyone connected with the St. Louis sports scene in the last half century or more. After reading the item she replied. “Wally was my husband’s favorite player - he rode his bike to Carondelet Park so he could bat boy for him. A "Muny League." (Rich) Thinks he was a postman. When he broke a bat Rich would take it home to nail and tape it to use it!!”
Rich Eichhorst played basketball for Southeast Missouri State and is the only graduate of that institution to have played in the National Basketball Association. He played for the St. Louis Hawks during the 1961-62 season. For a long list of references on Eichhorst dial up this station: www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=Rich...
A researcher’ lament: I shared the foregoing with baseball necrologist, Jack Morris, and he can find just about any obituary ever filed. He found DeBaets obituary but stated “Attached is his obituary. Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention his minor league career.”
A response to Morris on that subject went something like this. When a guy only played in Ban Johnson baseball and one year in the minor leagues, many of their family members didn’t know about that part of their loved one’s life and the guy didn’t think it important enough to mention. To me, DeBaets baseball career merits mentioning and that is why I do what I do. A guy known as “Baseball Bill” has been a long time reader of the KOM stuff. He said in a recent e-mail “John, the people who count read your books. I would wager Ken Burns would see you as an unsung hero of real baseball/Americana! True !”
The foregoing precipitated a reply. “I would wager Ken Burns will never know I existed.” Baseball Bill retorted with “Maybe so. But I'm saying if he did know you and what you've been doing all these baseball years he would find you a kindred spirit. You have kept alive and well a big chunk of America past. Obviously, Burns loves baseball and its connection to America-- sort of an inseparable joining like space/time. You are a good baseball man. Enjoy !!”
And on that note I’d better stop now, while still ahead. Only one more comment. The folks who really appreciate my research are the companies that sell subscriptions to their services, such as genealogy and various newspaper sites.
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John Lee Hooker " I'm Leaving"
KeyBoard Money Mark " No Fighting & Pintos new car"
Phuture " Got the Bug"
Ronnie Foster " Mystic Brew"
Cannonball Adderly Quintet " Walk Tall"
Serious Problem "Mines a Pint"
Paul Raven "Soul Thing"
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PhD student Mario Toubes-Rodrigo is using X-ray fluorescence to determine the mineral composition of a glacier. These results will support understanding of the glacier microbial ecology being investigated by a range of culture-based and DNA-based techniques. The glacier is svínafellsjökull in Iceland.
The top photo series show a vehicle headlight that was not on at the time it was shattered inward by a significant collision. Analysis of the low beam filament revealed that, despite the missing segment, it was still a uniform spring with the high beam element remaining intact. The tungsten was clean with no adhered glass particles, deformations or irregularities.
In contrast, the bottom photos demonstrate a headlamp that was on at the time of the collision. Its element is extremely deformed and jagged, having balled up at each post. As the filament was hot at the time of impact, the inrushing oxygen reacted to form yellow-white tungsten oxide on both the low and high beam elements. Additionally, glass particles from the collision adhered to the hot tungsten.
Col busy analyzing the thousands of DNA sequences generated by the Barcode Wales project
The Barcode Wales Paper: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037945
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The third illsutration for Chrysallis Counselling and Psychotherapy, this image depicts the idea of stepping out of behavioural patterns initiated in childhood.
Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils students conduct vegetation analysis on the South Spit of Humboldt Bay.