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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
Military aircraft development made huge leaps in the 50ies, and it was around 1955 that the successful, transsonic MiG-19 was to be replaced by a next generation fighter - which was to attain more than Mach 2. At that time, these speed and performance figures were terra incognita, but OKB Mikoyan tackled the official request for a new light tactical fighter, which was primarily intended to be used against high flying bombers, guided by ground radar.
Since it was unclear which basic wing design would be most appropriate for the new high speeds, OKB MiG hesitantly brought forth several test aircraft which sported different wing shapes, so that direct comparison could be done. These were the Ye-1, which featured 57° swept wings, much like the MiG-19, the Ye-4, which featured a delta wing with an identical sweep, and finally the Ye-3, which featured a very thin but moderately swept wing - certainly inspired by the contemporary development of the radical F-104 Starfighter in the USA, which featured a duty profile which was very similar to the new Soviet tactical fighter's requirements.
All three aircraft did not go unnoticed from NATO intelligence, and since it was not clear whether these machines would eventually end up in front service, all received code names, which were, respectively, 'Faceplate', 'Fishbed' and 'Filbert'. As a side note, NATO expected the 'Faceplate' design to be the most likely to enter front service - but eventually it became the 'Fishbed'!
The original Ye-3 used a fuselage and tail of the other prototypes. Beyond the different wings, it featured a modified landing gear which had to be completely retracted into the fuselage, due to the wings' thinness. Since the internal space inside of these thin wings also restricted internal fuel capacity - compared to the Ye-1 and Ye-4 - the aircraft carried drop tanks on its wing tips, while the armament, two IR-guided short range missiles, would be carried under the wings on two hardpoints. These could alternatively carry pods with unguided missiles or iron bombs of up to 1.100 lb calibre. Two NR-30 30mm guns with 50 belt-fed RPG in the lower fuselage complemented the missile ordnance.
The original Ye-3 prototype was powered by an AM-11 engine rated at 8.580 lbf dry thrust and 11.200 lbf at full afterburner. It was the last of the test machine trio to fly: aptly coded "31 Blue" it made its maiden flight on 4th of April 1956 with OKB Mikoyan's chief test pilot Gheorgiy K. Mosolov at the controls. It was immediately clear that the aircraft had poor directional stability. It tended to spin at lower speeds, and at higher speeds the tailplane became ineffective. Handling was hazardous, and after just four test flights the aircraft had to be grounded.
It took until December 1956 that a satisfactory control surface solution could be found. Wind tunnel test had suggested that the horizontal stabilizer had to be moved much higher - higher than on the other prototypes, which already progressed in their test programs. The reworked Ye-3/1 featured a completely new T-tail arrangement with trapezoidal stabilizers which had little left in common with the other test types and made the aircraft look even more like a F-104 copy.In order to enhance the stability problem further, the ventral strakes had been enlarged and the fin chord slightly deepened. This new configuration was successfully tested on 21st 1956 of December.
At that time, a second Ye-3/1 was close to completion. Featuring the tactical code "32 Blue", this aircraft was powered by the new R-11 engine, an uprated AM-11 rated at 8.536 lbf dry and 12.686 lbf with afterburner. The same engine was soon re-fitted to "31 Blue", too, and during 1956 and 1957 both machines took part in the extensive trials program for the MiG-21, how the new fighter should be known in service.
"31 Blue" crashed on 30th of May 1958 due to hydraulic failure, even though the pilot was able to escape unharmed - just one day before another test aircraft, a Ye-6/1 (a modified swept-wing aircraft) crashed, too. Anyway, it was already becoming clear that the delta wing offered the best overall performance, being slightly superior to the swept-wing design. The straight, thin wing, though, was considered unsatisfactory and a dead end. The Ye-3/1 remained a touchy aircraft and was not popular among the test pilots. Compared to the swept or delta wing, the aircraft's agility was good, but it did not offer any significant benefit in speed, rate of climb or range and its poor directional stability was the biggest shortcoming. Additionally, the fact that starting and landing from improvised air strips was much more hazardous than with the other design types if not impossible with the small wings and tires) the Ye-3 was axed in January 1960 with no further development perspectives.
"32 Blue" survived the test phase, but eventually ended up as an instrcutional airframe at the Kharkov Aviation Institute without wings and fin.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length (incl. pitot): 16.05 m (53 ft)
Wingspan (incl. drop tanks): 8,18 m (21 ft 6 in)
Height: 3.81 m (12 ft 6 1/3 in)
Wing area: 18 m² (196,1 ft²)
Aspect ratio: 7.3:1
Empty weight: 4.820 kg (10.617 lb)
Loaded weight: 7.844 kg (17.277 lb)
Max. take-off weight: 8.625 kg (19.000 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Tumanskiy R-11F-300 turbojet, rated at 3875 kgp (8.536 lbf) dry and 5.760 kgp (12.686 lbf) with afterburner
Performance
Maximum speed: 725 mph (1.167 km/h) at sea level, 1.190 mph (1.917km/h) at 13.000m (42.640 ft)
Combat radius: 450 km (245 nm, 280 mi)
Range: 850 ml (1.370 km)
Service ceiling: 19.000 m (62.320 ft)
Rate of climb: 38 m/s (7.480 ft/min)
Armament:
2× Nudelmann-Richter NR-30 30mm cannons with 50 RPG;
1.500 kg (3.300 lb) of payload on four external hardpoints, including:
- 2x PTB-350 wing tip drop tanks (fitted as standard)
- 2× K-13/R-3S (AA-2/"Atoll") AAMs on underwing pylons
- Alternatively, the two underwing pylons could carry pods with unguided missiles or iron bombs of up to 1.100 lb calibre.
The kit and its assembly:
Another whif, based on vague indications that this Starfighter-like design was seriouly considered at OKB MiG in the early 50ies because there exists a (crude) desktop model which shows a MiG-21 fuselage with F-104 wings and tail. An appealing design, and a good story to tell with a model. Anyway, AFAIK the 'Ye-3' designation was never used in the MiG-21 development phase or anywhere else at OKB MiG, so I borrowed it for the kit. The NATO code 'Filbert' is also a fantasy product.
Basically, this model is a kit-bashing. It consists of a Hasegawa MiG-21F-13 fuselage with new wings. The Hasegawa kit is ancient, I guess it is from the early 70ies. It has several flaws, so it is good fodder for such a project. For example, the MiG-21 lacks any serious interior, the landing gear is not even a joke and the prominent Soviet Red Stars have been molded onto the parts as raised panel lines! The area-ruled fuselage is pretty, though, very sleek.
Much room for improvements and improvisation, though. Hence, I built a cockpit interior from scartch and added an Airfix pilot, since these figures look very Soviet. As a side benefit, the figure is rather voluminous, so it covers much of the primitive cockpit interior...
Another modification is the landing gear - I wanted to incorporate much of the aforementioned F-16's landing gear, so that new wells had to be cut into the fuselage. This turned out to be easier than expected, and I did not waste too much effort on it. The F-16 landing gear is shorter than the MiG-21's, so the Ye-3 is closer to the ground than its real world cousins.
For the new thin wings I considered at first butchering an Airfix F-104G Starfighter as donation kit, but eventually found the wings being simply too small for my taste and for what the desktop model paradigm shows. I eventually ended up with wings from an Italeri F-16, which - believe it or not - have the SAME leading and trailing edge angles as the F-104, you just have make angled cuts at the wing tips and the wing roots... I just had to cover up the original flap engravings and fit them to the fuselage. The F-16's horizontal stabilizers were taken, too, but shortened in order to match the smaller dimensions for a Starfighter-like look.
The fin was clipped on top and a new upper end created from the single MiG-21 under-fuselage stabilizer. The latter was replaced by two splayed fins, an arrangement which was featured on the original Ye-prototypes but were later replaced by the single fin.
The missiles and their launch rails are leftover pieces from my recent MiG-21G conversion (from a Hobby Master kit), they were painted orange as dummies, according to Soviet practice.
As extra equipment for a test airfcraft, a small camera pod (based on real life picture of other MiG prototypes and test aircraft) was added under the front fuselage - for recording live missile launch tests.
Painting:
I wanted, according to the background story, keep this a prototype aircraft. Unfortunately, this means that I'd be limited to a natural metal finish - and I hate such surfaces, because they are a great challenge, esp. with the manual brush technique I use...
But I tried to make the best of it and painted the model with a plethora of metal tones - ranging from Testors/Model Master Metallizer (Polished Aluminum, Polished Steel, Titanium, Exhaust) through Humbrol enamels (Aluminum, Gun Metal, Chrome Silver) up to Revell Aqua Acryllics (Aluminum). Additionally, some service flaps were painted in light grey (Humbrol 64), the nose cone (which would have been a metal piece, not a plastic radome) was painted in Humbrol 140.
The kit also received a wash with black ink - not to make it look worn, but to add to a "metallic" look with more contrast at edges and raised panel lines. To enhance this metallic look further, the kit received a treatment with a 'graphite rubbing'.
To make the machine look even more interesting (but not out of style), I added some phototheodolyte calibration markings on fuselage and fin: simple, black stripes, but, again, based on real test aircraft of that era. Additionally, "31 Blue" received four stars under the cockpit as mission markers - not for shot-down aircraft, but for successful live missile launches.
After the decals were applied - puzzled together from the scrap box and several aftermarket sheets for Russian/Soviet aircraft - everything was sealed under a coat of semi-matte acryllic varnish (Tamiya TS-79).
In the end a rather simple conversion, but quite effective and convincing. I think that this potential MiG-21 layout does not look out of place - but there certainly were reasons why the thin, unswept wings did not make it to the hardware stage at OKB MiG...
Bletchley Park
The nineteenth-century mansion and estate near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire,
has received latter-day fame as the central site for British codebreakers during World War II, although at the time personnel and location of the facility was a closely guarded secret, the estate housed the worlds first code breaking computer. Early personnel on the GC&CS team included Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander and Stuart Milner-Barry.
( thanks to Jeff Wharton for re-enactor photo )( sorry, I have lost my reference for the red van )
I thought Source Code was a pretty slick thriller and decided to attempt a version of the poster.
I went with more of a minimalistic teaser version of the poster so as to try and draw the viewer in.
You can check it out on my blog www.juusmedia.com
On saturday 24th june we woke up, had breakfast and got ourselves ready. Then we marched to our target of the day: the OBA coal terminal of the Amsterdam harbour.
Code [Norway] @ Brutal Assault XIII www.codeblackmetal.co.uk
Open Air Festival Of Extreme Art
(Vojenská pevnost Josefov, Jaroměř, Czech Republic)
August 14-16, 2008
Scandalous in Sept pics 9/7 & 9/14.. No dress code & twerking @ Club Bounce.. We didnt put up all the pics because they were super scandalous lol You just have to be there see it for yourself! Thank you Rico DjSuave Cox and his hold it down radio team for attempting to control the ladies and host the twerk contest.. Its not as easy as it looks! lol Fun night tho! Stay current with our events by joining our email list at www.clubbounce.net/
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CODE square module bench and BLOC litter bin.
RAL 5013 - Cobalt blue
RAL 6034 - Pastel turquoise
Fitzroy & Warren Street, London, UK
Photo: Nicolas Tourrenc
Code was a little jeux d'esprit I concocted in 2001--a magazine consisting of a single 11 x 17-inch sheet printed on both sides and folded down to 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. To read it, you had to unfold it completely. I printed up perhaps twenty copies of the first two issues. I got as far as writing and designing the third issue, but never published it.
Best Buy uses QR codes to gauge how employees are feeling at its corporate headquarters in Richfield, MN.
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Fuji XPro-1 w/ Fujinon XF 18mm f/2 R
Street test of the Fuji X-Pro1 with a 1935 Leica 50mm Summar f/2 and a Fujinon XF-18mm f/2 (28mm equiv.)
Read more about my ongoing affair with the Fuji X-Pro1
w1_02 / iteration 05 / screenshot frame 1930
iteration 5 based on code w1_02
see also video on my tumblr page:
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GDS colleagues participated in 3 introductory sessions to coding at GDS. Students were from the Women's and BAME network. Volunteer coaches were from across the organisation, and included frontend developers, backend developers, and site reliability engineers.
Today I finished the first phase of the PHP code I have been writing for the past week or so, to integrate with MS SQL on our server at work. It integrates with a well known rental management software package which we'll be using at Chequer Mead as an inventory manager. The script I've written allows us to add items and record PAT tests much quicker and will little fuss, compared to the integrated software technique. Let's hope there aren’t too many bugs! :-/
QR codes are a great way to put information right into the hands of the consumer. There are many great uses for QR codes. Ask a C2 rep how to integrate them into your campaign.
QR Code T-shirt at the ISS Show in Fort Worth.
Share and share alike. Credit WikiThreads and link to www.wikithreads.com
Men’s best defense against the monthly Her-ricane.
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When the tracking starts, Code Red will provide special alert messages for every phase in her cycle. There are five different alerts, and each calendar day comes equipped with a wealth of tips and advice to brave even the most violent of storms.
“Every month, women go through the same ups and downs, but the men in our lives never seem to catch on,” said Lisi Harrison, Co-Creator and Author of New York Times #1 Bestselling series’ The Clique and Alphas.
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ALERTS
Smooth Sailing Alert --- Let’s you know when she’s feeling like a team player.
Horny Alert --- Let’s you know when you’re able to score.
PMS Alert --- Let’s you know when to hit the (cold) showers.
Ovulation Alert --- Let’s you know when to sit on the sidelines (unless you’re ready to start a junior league).
Code Red Alert --- Let’s you know that it’s game time and you’re way out of bounds.
FEATURES
Fully automated menstrual calendar
5 special alerts for each phase of her cycle
Dynamic animations for each alert
Helpful suggestions to survive each phase
Links to local vendors for presents, groceries and goods (via Google Maps)
Advanced calendar toggle settings
Code Red is the brainchild of Pro Surfer and Humanitarian Jon Rose, and was facilitated through development by husband & wife team Kevin and Lisi Harrison.
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More than 60 teachers from the Lower Mainland gathered today at the Microsoft Centre of Excellence in downtown Vancouver to learn basic coding techniques from some of the best instructors in the industry – all to make sure BC students have the skills they need to succeed in today’s changing world.
Education Minister Mike Bernier joined teachers in an interactive ping pong ice breaker game. Teams had to create a simple algorithm to guide a blindfolded teammate to retrieve a ping pong ball. The game helps develop communication and critical thinking – vital skills needed for future success.
Learn more:
model: Salomé J.
Styliste: Dress Code
MUA: Cécile le Douaron
Photographer: Cathy Lê Thanh
Editing: Cathy Lê Thanh
At Coding for Kids Camp, young coders used sequences, loops, and conditionals to navigate mazes, solve puzzles and create stories.
Scarabaeus sacer Lin., syn.: Ateuchus retusus Brullé, Scarabaeus europaeus Motschulsky, Scarabaeus impius Fabricius
Family: Scarabaeidae
EN: Sacred scarab beetle, DE: Heilige Pillendreher, Mistkäfer
Slo.: sveti skarabej, drekobrbec
Dat.: May 3. 2017
Lat.: 45.02903 Long.: 14.66077
Code: Bot_1052/2017_DSC7703
Place: Adriatic Sea, Island Krk; west of Mt. Straževnik and south of waste depo of the island Krk, Kvarner bay, Rijeka region, Croatia EC.
Habitat: former fields and pastures, low grassland in patches among rocks and bushes; grazed by sheep; calcareous, skeletal ground: almost flat terrain; open, sunny, dry, hot during the summer place; average precipitations 1.400 -1.500 mm/year, average temperature 12-13 deg C, elevation 240 m (850 feet), Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region.
Comment: The dung beetle Scarabaeus sacer was sacred to the ancient Egyptians. It was found in many old paintings and jewelry of that time. The beetles skillfully and in fierce hurry roll a peace of dung over grassland and sand ground. But this activity is not predominantly transport of the dung from place to place, as it may appear at first, but fashioning of a perfectly round ball by rolling it. Often male and female beetle work hard in tandem in a perfect coordination and mastering of equilibrium. They burry the balls after they are sufficiently firm and spherical in the ground and lay their eggs in them. Dung beetles can eat more than their own weight in a day and are therefore helpful to humans because they speed up the process of converting manure to substances usable by plants and reduce natural loss of nitrogen from the manure of the grazing cattle by burring it under the ground. Experiments have shown that the activity of these beetles on one hectare of a pasture may result in benefit of up to 130 kg of nitrogen (Ref.:2), which is essential for the fertility of the ground.
Ref.:
(1) Fauna Europas, Bestimmungslexikon, George Westermann Velag, Brounschweig (1997), translated to Slovenian, Mladinaka Knjiga, Ljubljana (1981), pp 384.
(2) www.researchgate.net/publication/287573589_Soil_nutrient_...