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The Straining Tower at Lake Vyrnwy.
We use a lot of water for various processes in work, predominantly used for cooling water in heat exchangers. This is usually taken from the Manchester Ship Canal and is supplied directly via a 2ft pipeline that is pumped three miles to site. For key instrumentation we use what is known as Vyrnwy Water or Purified Water to prevent the build up of particulates and organic compounds, mainly carbon. The water from Lake Vyrnwy is so clean it only has to be processed through a small reverse osmosis unit before use, and means instrumentation that required decarbonisation once a month is now done on a quarterly basis.
The Wiki entry...
The Straining Tower at Lake Vyrnwy is an intake tower built to extract water from the lake. The tower stands on the north shore of Lake Vyrnwy, near the village of Llanwddyn, in Powys, Wales. The Lake Vyrnwy dam project was designed to provide a water supply to the city of Liverpool and work on the dam began in 1881. On its completion 11 years later, the lake was the largest reservoir in Europe and water was drawn from it into the straining tower and carried to Liverpool on a 110km-long aqueduct. The engineers for the project were Thomas Hawksley and George Frederick Deacon, although the straining tower was entirely Deacon's design. The tower is constructed in a Gothic Revival style, purportedly based on the tower of the castle at Chillon, Switzerland. It draws heavily on the contemporaneous work of William Burges, whose Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch are clear influences. The straining tower is a Grade I listed building.
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second studio album by English rock band Oasis. Released on 2 October 1995 by Creation Records, it was produced by Owen Morris and the group's guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher.
Noel Gallagher summed up his own perspective on the album's aesthetic in an interview with Rolling Stone in 1995; "Whilst [Definitely Maybe] is about dreaming of being a pop star in a band, What's the Story is about actually being a pop star in a band." The album has a notable anthemic theme to its songs, differing from the raw-edged rock of Definitely Maybe. The use of string arrangements and more varied instrumentation in songs such as "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "Champagne Supernova" was a significant departure from the band's debut. This style had first been implemented by the band on their fifth single, "Whatever", released in December 1994. It was produced in conjunction with the London Symphony Orchestra, resulting in a much more pop-oriented and mellower sound; this would be the template that would come to define many of the songs on What's the Story. In the BBC documentary Seven Ages of Rock, former NME chief editor Steve Sutherland noted that "with Morning Glory, [Noel] began to take seriously the notion of being the voice of a generation"
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is one of my all-time favorite albums.
Helios, Zenith, Horizon, Zenitar, Rubinar ... familiar words? These are the products of the Zenit plant. Krasnogorsk city, Moscow region. Russia.
The sculpture of a boy-photographer is located at the main entrance to the plant.
Сannot enter the territory of the plant without a pass. I climbed a hill and photographed part of the territory. Collage of two photos.
Books have been written about this plant, but I will try to tell you more shortly :)
On February 1, 1942, by order of the USSR People's Commissar of Armaments, a decision was made in Krasnogorsk on the vacated areas of the V.I. Lenin, evacuated in 1941 to Novosibirsk, to create a new enterprise - the State Union Optical Plant No. 393, later - the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant. At the same time, his specialization was determined - the development and manufacture of aerial photographic equipment and sighting devices, as well as photographic, film technology and scientific equipment. In 1944, the FS-2 specialized photo sniper became the first camera produced by the plant.
In 1946, the trademark of the enterprise was registered - the contour of the Dove prism refracting a beam of light. In the same year, the “Moscow-1” camera was released, intended for the consumer market.
By May 1, 1948, the first 50 units of a small-format camera were produced, which received the name "Sharp" in 1949. In the same year, 1949, industrial samples of the EM-3 electron microscope were manufactured at the plant.
In 1952, a small-format amateur SLR camera "Zenith" was launched into production, which gained wide popularity and became the ancestor of a whole generation of SLR cameras, which were improved every year.
In 1957, the AFA-39 camera was the first in the world to survey the Earth's surface from a height of 200 km.
In 1959, the far side of the moon was photographed for the first time in world practice. The photographic equipment AFA-E1, created by the plant, was installed on the interplanetary automatic station.
On April 12, 1961, the filming of the launch of the Vostok spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin on board was carried out using the KT-50 cinema theodolite developed by the plant.
Krasnogorsk Plant named after S.A. Zvereva "is one of the leading enterprises in Russia in the field of optical and optoelectronic instrumentation, which has unique long-term experience and has been providing development, testing and serial production of devices and systems for various applications for decades.
During its existence, the enterprise has solved a number of tasks of national importance, produced products that have no analogues not only in the country, but also in the world. An aerial camera designed at the plant was the first in the world to photograph the far side of the Moon, and the first high-precision astronomical installations for photographing artificial satellites and planets were manufactured.
For many years the company has been one of the largest developers and manufacturers of cameras for amateur photography.
Today the company carries out technical re-equipment and modernization of production, purchases new technological equipment to optimize work processes and improve the quality of products, as well as introduces new technologies and develops promising products for research, industry, construction, healthcare, cameras, recreation and tourism.
Près de Rouen 2020
“I really like this type of music when someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can carry me somewhere."
M. Lanegan
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Instrument panel inside a Kittyhawk warbird , taken at Scone NSW. Obviously this is not all the original instrumentation , I think it looks good though.
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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton helped get the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon. She led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, the team responsible for developing the guidance and navigation system for the Apollo spacecraft and writing the code that brought astronauts into space and safely back home again.
Hamilton’s leadership and work formed the bedrock of software engineering as a whole. In this now-iconic photo, Hamilton stands next to listings of the Apollo Guidance Computer source code.
Messier 51
M 51 o NGC5194, chiamata anche Galassia Vortice M51A è una galassia a spirale , interagente con la più piccola e vicina M51B o NGC5195 , si vedono in direzione della costellazione boreale dei Cani da Caccia. Evidenti regioni di idrogeno ramificate , delineano la particolare forma a spirale della Galassia.
La spettacolare l'interazione fra le due galassie da origine alla formazione di nuove giovani stelle .
Spero vi piaccia!!
Instrumentation:
- Celestron C11 Fastar Modified by Torre del Sole By Davide Dal Prato;
- Starizona gearbox 0,63x;
- Camera Zwo Asi 2600 MC pro;
- Antlia Triband RGB filter;
- Eq6 R pro mount;
- Pixinsight processing software, abbreviations Lightroom;
From the Garden of the house, 19 hours, integration of 10-11-16-19 April, light from 120 and 300 seconds, dark, flat .. More details on the link below!!
Tak Arikushi plays Gypsy-jazz music with a Japanese twist: he fuses the red-hot swing rhythms of Django Reinhardt with rhapsodic Japanese melodies both traditional and contemporary. The music is an exploration of the crossroads of American jazz and Japanese culture, and the historic exchange between the two. His accolades include sharing the stage with Gypsy-jazz giant Stephane Wrembel, a concert I also attended. Inventive arrangements with the acoustic string-swing instrumentation are played with virtuosity and passion for a sound that will have you tapping your toe and simultaneously contemplating zen. I am not sure, if this is the best photo of Tak I have, but it's certainly the latest from a jam session at the Drom's 'Swing Tuesday'. Here he is on the stage with Gabriel- clarinet, Max- bass and Matt Smith- trumpet. Tak is at these sessions quite often and his duels with other guitarists are a real treat. Tak usually plays Gitane guitar (John Jorgenson), but on this occasion he brought his Ibanez.
422. Drom; Taken 2024-Aug 27. P1190088; Upload 2025-Apr 28.
Photographed while exploring with Mari and NJ. Deeley Exhibition, Boundary Road, Vancouver. September 20, 2015.
Until I get me a wide angle lens, I am going to be using Hugin. This is the North Carolina State University Analytical Instrumentation Facility Building.
Three pictures that were stitched together using “Hugin”.
Exposure Time : 1/60 sec
Aperture: f/11
ISO : 100
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Laugh if you will, but the 1969 AMC Hurst SC/Rambler could blow the doors off some pedigreed muscle cars. Too bad AMC had to compensate for its slim advertising budget by making a billboard of the car.
Having dipped into performance with the '68 AMX and Javelin pony cars, Detroit's No. 4 automaker decided to expand into the budget-muscle arena with -- don't snicker -- a Rambler Rogue compact. Directed by Hurst Performance Research Inc., the project followed the simplest hot-rod canon: stuff in the biggest available V-8. In AMC's case, that was the AMX's 315-hp 390-cid four-barrel. A Borg-Warner four-speed with a Hurst shifter and a 3.54:1 limited-slip completed the drivetrain.
Heavy-duty shocks, anti-sway bar, and anti-hop rear links fortified the suspension. E70Xl4 Polyglas tires and the AMC's optional heavy-duty brakes with front discs were included. Inside were reclining buckets. Instrumentation was standard Rogue with the exception of a Sun 8000-rpm tach strapped to the steering column.
The car debuted midway through the model year as the AMC SC/Rambler-Hurst; most called it the Scrambler. Only 1,512 were built, and they were potent little screamers. But that exterior treatment! No one seemed to like it. A "tri-colored nickelodeon," said Car and Driver.
All SC/Ramblers started as appliance-white hardtops with two-tone mags, racing mirrors, blackout grille and tail panel, Hurst badging, and a real ram-air hood scoop with an upthrust snout that unfortunately recalled the nose of a hound sniffing for the scent. About 1,200 Scramblers went full "Yankee Doodle," with broad red bodysides, wild hood graphics, and a fat blue dorsal stripe. The rest made do with only simple rocker-panel striping.
With ETs in the low to mid-l4s, however, some unwary rivals wouldn't have to look at the whole car. "This sort of acceleration," said Road Test, "is going to show the Hurst emblem on the back to a few GTOs, Cobra Jets, Road Runners, and Mach 1s."
Water puppetry (Múa rối nước, lit. "Making puppets dance on water") is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam. Today's Vietnamese water puppetry is a unique variation on the ancient Asian puppet tradition.
The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered. The shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large bamboo rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers, who are normally hidden behind a screen, to control them. Thus the puppets appear to be moving over the water. When the rice fields would flood, the villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play.
Modern water puppetry is performed in a pool of water 4 meters square with the water surface being the stage. Performance today occurs on one of three venues—on traditional ponds in villages where a staging area has been set up, on portable tanks built for traveling performers, or in a specialized building where a pool stage has been constructed.
Up to 8 puppeteers stand behind a split-bamboo screen, decorated to resemble a temple facade, and control the puppets using long bamboo rods and string mechanism hidden beneath the water surface. The puppets are carved out of wood and often weigh up to 15 kg.
Rice, the main staple of the Vietnamese diet, grows in a water paddy. The original water puppet festivals were literally held inside a rice paddy, with a pagoda built on top to hide the puppeteers who stand in the waist-deep water. The water acts as the stage for the puppets, and as a symbolic link to the rice harvest. It also hides the puppet strings and puppeteer movements, improves the musical and vocal acoustics, and provides a shimmering lighting effect.
A traditional Vietnamese orchestra provides background music accompaniment. The instrumentation includes vocals, drums, wooden bells, cymbals, horns, Đàn bầu (monochord), gongs, and bamboo flutes. The bamboo flute's clear, simple notes may accompany royalty while the drums and cymbals may loudly announce a fire-breathing dragon's entrance.
Singers of chèo (a form of opera originating in north Vietnam) sing songs which tell the story being acted out by the puppets. The musicians and the puppets interact during performance; the musicians may yell a word of warning to a puppet in danger or a word of encouragement to a puppet in need.
The puppets enter from either side of the stage, or emerge from the murky depths of the water.
Spotlights and colorful flags adorn the stage and create a festive atmosphere.
Literally!
Colonel Albert Pope was a bicycle manufacturer in Hartford, Connecticut. Eventually he consolidated 45 such companies into a “bicycle trust” that prospered briefly before the “bicycle bust” of 1903 brought on by oversupply undermined the industry. Fortunately, Pope was already thinking ahead. In 1897, he had placed an electric car on the market under the name Columbia, the same used for his bicycles. Columbia electrics, and a few gasoline models, enjoyed a brief vogue before being overtaken by the Stanley-designed Locomobile steamer as America’s best-selling car. In 1903, Pope embarked on a scheme to build automobiles in many cities using his own name.
The first of these was the Pope-Hartford, its surname taken from its home city. A prototype single-cylinder car was running in the summer of 1903 and was introduced to the market shortly afterwards. A runabout style was designated Model A, a tonneau tourer called Model B. Larger cars soon followed, a twin-cylinder car in 1905 and a four the following year. A six-cylinder car arrived in 1911, two years after Pope had died. His brother George took over the leadership, but receivership followed in 1913. Three body styles were offered in 1914, however they were not enough to save the company. In January 1915, Pope-Hartford sold the last of its factories to aircraft entrepreneurs Pratt & Whitney.
This Pope-Hartford is fully restored and bears a 1985 Antique Automobile Club of America National Senior award medallion. It is believed to be one of the earliest known Pope-Hartfords to have survived, built in 1903 for the marque’s introduction the following year. Its single-cylinder engine drives through a two-speed planetary transmission and a single chain to the rear axle.
The body is painted in gloss red, accented with black moldings and double gold pinstriping. The upholstery is black buttoned leather. As the body nomenclature implies, the rear seat passengers enter from the back of the vehicle. The brass lighting is impressive, as is the well-detailed undercarriage. In the custom of the day, the driver is afforded no instrumentation, but a large bulb horn is provided to warn pedestrians and other vehicles of its approach.
Eligible for the famed London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, held each November in the United Kingdom, it is a stellar example of America’s turn-of-the-century automobiles.
An early MGB dashboard - quite typical British sports car instrumentation from the 1960's....
Minolta Alpha 7
Minolta 50mm f1.4 AF Lens
Ilford Delta 400
Epson V600 Scan
© Dominic Scott 2022
isolated thunderstorms is the order of the day here ...dodging these big mamas can be interesting ...given the limitations of a light aircraft with no ice protection or instrumentation for IFR flight !!
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
"The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. When issued as a single in May 1970, a month after the Beatles' break-up, it became the group's 20th and last number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States.
The main recording of the song took place in January 1969 and featured a sparse musical arrangement. When preparing the tapes from these sessions for release in April 1970, producer Phil Spector added orchestral and choral overdubs. Spector's modifications angered McCartney to the point that when the latter made his case in the English High Court for the Beatles' disbandment, he cited the treatment of "The Long and Winding Road" as one of six reasons for doing so. New versions of the song with simpler instrumentation were subsequently released by McCartney and by the Beatles.
In 2011, Rolling Stone ranked "The Long and Winding Road" at number 90 on their list of 100 greatest Beatles songs.
Ray Charles recorded a cover version in 1973
Wikipedia
Cathja
The Cathja is a fully converted and fully mobile 38 metre Dutch Barge. Situated on an idyllic Thames mooring in Old Isleworth, the barge provides space for people who have experienced mental health problems to explore their creativity in a safe and supported environment.
Users determine their own frequency and duration of their involvement. There is no expectation to 'produce' so objects created are not judged, analysed or sold. The creation of objects, whether utilitarian or 'artistic', is an inherently healing and restorative process.
The Cathja service has achieved outstanding results in enabling people to grow away from the dependent, patient role.
The Cathja barge history:
The Cathja is a 38 metre Dutch Barge. She was probably built in the 1930s and her working life would have been on the canals and rivers of Europe. She is not a sea going vessel although many of the inland seas in Holland are such that she had to be able to negotiate rougher conditions than the barges that traded on English canals.
Cathja would have been operated as a family business with a husband and wife team, possibly with their children, leading a somewhat itinerant life. It is likely that the name Cathja is derived from a combination of the names of the skipper and his wife. Living accommodation was minimal and restricted to the back cabin so that the maximum area was given over to the hold for carrying cargo. The sorts of cargo carried would have included grain, fertiliser, coffee beans etc.
The back cabin remains with many original features and currently provides the office space for the charity. The wheel house is a more recent addition and is the 'tea room' for the activity. As the barge is fully mobile, the tea room also accommodates the ship's wheel and all the instrumentation. The wheelhouse is collapsible in order to negotiate the low bridges that are often found on the smaller waterways.
After being 'decommissioned' the Cathja had several short term owners, including a British gentleman who intended to convert her for use as a floating restaurant. This last project foundered as Cathja was damaged by rough seas in the Channel and was rescued and brought to a mooring on the Thames where she lay largely uncared for. She was purchased in an almost derelict state by the charity in 1996.
A mooring was found for her in Isleworth, being the historic wharf where coastal trade took place. The original crane used for unloading still stands as a monument to this phase of the area's history
* All Saints' Church is the oldest parish church in Isleworth in the London Borough of Hounslow in south-west London.
Its 14th-century Kentish ragstone tower and foundations are the only pre–20th-century parts to survive.[1] It faces the Thames before Church Street skirts away from the river to pass Syon Park. The parish itself is pre-Norman. A vicar replacing its rector is recorded in 1290 in records associated with Syon Abbey who gave his family £2 and a new robe each year and daily meat and drink at the upper table in the abbey hall, while his servant was to be fed at the grooms' table. The patron of the church became the trustees of St George's Chapel, Windsor, due to the dissolution of the monasteries.[2] By the end of the 17th century, Sir Christopher Wren was approached to draw plans for a new body of a much-dilapidated building. His project was deemed too expensive until 1705, when Sir Orlando Gee (MP), of Syon Hill in the parish, left £500 towards the work in his will; he is commemorated in a marble monument by Francis Bird.[3] This sum, combined with funds raised through subscriptions, ensured that the work took place (with modifications) in 1705–1706.
Water puppetry (Múa rối nước, lit. "Making puppets dance on water") is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam. Today's Vietnamese water puppetry is a unique variation on the ancient Asian puppet tradition.
The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered. The shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large bamboo rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers, who are normally hidden behind a screen, to control them. Thus the puppets appear to be moving over the water. When the rice fields would flood, the villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play.
Modern water puppetry is performed in a pool of water 4 meters square with the water surface being the stage. Performance today occurs on one of three venues—on traditional ponds in villages where a staging area has been set up, on portable tanks built for traveling performers, or in a specialized building where a pool stage has been constructed.
Up to 8 puppeteers stand behind a split-bamboo screen, decorated to resemble a temple facade, and control the puppets using long bamboo rods and string mechanism hidden beneath the water surface. The puppets are carved out of wood and often weigh up to 15 kg.
Rice, the main staple of the Vietnamese diet, grows in a water paddy. The original water puppet festivals were literally held inside a rice paddy, with a pagoda built on top to hide the puppeteers who stand in the waist-deep water. The water acts as the stage for the puppets, and as a symbolic link to the rice harvest. It also hides the puppet strings and puppeteer movements, improves the musical and vocal acoustics, and provides a shimmering lighting effect.
A traditional Vietnamese orchestra provides background music accompaniment. The instrumentation includes vocals, drums, wooden bells, cymbals, horns, Đàn bầu (monochord), gongs, and bamboo flutes. The bamboo flute's clear, simple notes may accompany royalty while the drums and cymbals may loudly announce a fire-breathing dragon's entrance.
Singers of chèo (a form of opera originating in north Vietnam) sing songs which tell the story being acted out by the puppets. The musicians and the puppets interact during performance; the musicians may yell a word of warning to a puppet in danger or a word of encouragement to a puppet in need.
The puppets enter from either side of the stage, or emerge from the murky depths of the water.
Spotlights and colorful flags adorn the stage and create a festive atmosphere.
1951 Packard Pan American
Designed by Richard Arbib and built by the Henny Motor Company from a 1951 "250" convertible, this show car headlined the Packard exhibit at the 1952 New York International Motors Sports Show and won the show's top award. "The Gold Trophy" was presented for outstanding design and engineering achievement.
Five more Pan Americans were built and displayed at various shows for several years, and the design inspired the 1953 Caribbean. This one was driven by Edward Macauley, Packard's chief stylist for a time and restyled from its original 1952 appearance with 1955 styling and instrumentation by Packard.
Photo taken at the Packard Museum in Warren, OH
Справа аудиторный корпус ФАЭПС (в 1962 - 1975 гг.) - факультета автоматики и электроприборостроения и кафедра Вычислительной техники Киевского политехнического института. Специальности ВТ- вычислительная техника, ИТ - измерительная техника, АТ - автоматика и телемеханика.
Все кафедры, входящие в состав факультета берут свое начало от электротехнического факультета (ЭТФ), который был создан в 1918 году и из которого в 1962 году выделился факультет автоматики и электроприборостроения ФАЭПС. Этот факультет в 1975 году был разделен на два: факультет систем управления и факультет электроприборостроения и вычислительной техники. Отдельные кафедры этих факультетов в 1985 году были объединены в факультет с нынешним названием - "Информатика и вычислительная техника" (ФИВТ).
Первую в Украине кафедру вычислительной техники создано в КПИ в 1960 году по инициативе член-корреспондента НАНУ, лауреата Государственных премий СССР и УССР, доктора технических наук, профессора К.Г.Самофалова, который стал ее первым заведующим и возглавлял кафедру более 30 лет.
State of the art technology? It was in the late 1930’s into the early 1940’s. The instrumentation inside Boeing B-29 Bomber FIFI at taken at Trenton Mercer Airport in New Jersey at an air show held by the Commemorative Air Force whose home base is Dallas Texas. @gothamtomato #developportdev @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @mpbcom @kehcamera @newjerseyisntboring @newjerseyisbeautiful @visit_nj @the_commemorative_air force @caf1957 #olympus #omd #microfourthirds #micro43 #micro43photography @the_commemorative_airforce
Charlie the Control Valve was comfortable working by himself. His new job requires Charlie to work in conjunction with other control valves and he's not confident that they have the same degree of proficiency that he does. Charlie doesn't want to mess up his new job because someone else cracked!
Bakersfield, California 2015
Pavilion No. 7 is located to the east of the main square and closes it along the long axis, echoing the high-altitude composition of Pavilion No. 10. The side protruding parts of the main facade with light towers and the arched structure of the lantern in a single combination create an expressive architectural composition. The building has a rectangular plan. Length 81.5 m, width 40 m. Architects Ihor Mezentsev, Viktor Savchenko, Mykola Gubov.
Павільйон №7 розташований на сході головної площі і замикає її по довгій осі, перекликаючись з висотною композицією павільйону №10. Бічні виступаючі частини головного фасаду з легкими баштами і арочною конструкцією ліхтаря в єдиному сполученні створюють виразну архітектурну композицію. Будівля має прямокутний план. Довжина 81,5 м, ширина 40 м. Архітектори Ігор Мезенцев, Віктор Савченко, Микола Губов.
We took a trip near near Stonington, Maine, on a lobster boat like this one. It had been modified to take passenger day trips. He explained such things as this red nun buoy that marks the right side of the channel when traveling upstream. The green buoy marks the left side. He also demonstrated modern instrumentation that can see through the fog.
In 1949, all the Chevrolets got the first new styling after the war. The Deluxe was the brand new upper-end model for Chevrolet. The cheapest Deluxe was the Deluxe Styleline 6-passenger sedan, costing $1,492. Brakes were 11-inch drums. It had full instrumentation. The front suspension had stabilizers.
The Chevrolet Deluxe coupe, showing updated taillight design starting with the 1951 model year.
The other change was the availability of Powerglide, a two-speed automatic transmission, exclusively in the Deluxe and Bel Air models. It was powered by a 235-cubic inch six-cylinder engine developing 105 horsepower and had a 3.55:1 rear differential; the engine went on to become the "Blue Flame six." Models sold with the standard three-speed manual transmission got the usual 216.5-cubic inch engine, developing 92 horsepower.
Throughout the post-war years, many comfort, convenience and styling options were available. Popular Mechanics rated fuel economy of 20mpg at 50 mph. After the end of the 1952 model year, the old nameplates—Special and Deluxe—were retired, and changed to 150 and 210, respectively, with trim similar to their respective former series. The Bel Air model became a full series, including two- and four-door sedans, station wagon and convertible; and represented the top-end model with features similar to the 1950-1952 models (luxury interior, full carpeting and other features).
The Quandry Chronicles Book One: The Lost Scarab of the Aethernauts! is an illustrated pulp adventure inspired by the tabletop gaming system Space: 1889 and shot in Second Life. Narrated in sessions like a tabletop campaign, QC will post weekly on Fridays, unless I get a bit ahead of myself :)
“My father was murdered?!” Cassiopeia cried out.
Her mentor, E.A. Wallis Budge, nodded grimly, catching the eye of everyone assembled in the drawing room of Halton House, the mansion of the impossibly wealthy Alfred Freiherr de Rothschild. “We’d believed Emmanuel Turner, the photographer who took those provocative pictures, was still at the Amarna dig site. After the fire at the Crystal Palace, I telegraphed him to warn him of potential threats to his safety. But I was informed that he had set sail for Cairo six weeks ago, and perished in the same steamship boiler explosion that claimed your father. It is possible it was an accident, but with the attacks on each of you, murder does seem likely. I am so sorry, dear girl.”
Doctor Singh reached over and took her hand, but his thumb sought out her pulse point, prepared for any fainting spell.
Mainwaring growled, “I don’t understand. From what you said, that photograph showed hieroglyphics that maybe indicated that maybe somewhere under tons of rubble is an artifact that maybe could make interplanetary navigation a reality. That seems far too many maybes to kill for. “
Budge nodded. “I suspect that snake Abbingdon has a piece of the puzzle we lack, something that makes all this either less speculative or a greater prize. Cassie, the young woman you mentioned sounds like the Earl’s daughter, Lady Laura, a most capable woman of particular integrity. She is so unlike her father one might even doubt her parentage. Her advice to make haste seems quite wise: we may lack knowledge, but we can move faster than the Earl, thanks to the generosity of our host.”
“Major, Cassie, I’m confident the two of you can put your heads together to make a comprehensive list of supplies, and to rent the fastest aether flyer you can find. Three days to get under way?”
Mainwaring shook his head. “Depending on the aether currents, we can leave by tomorrow noon. We’ll want to pick up our desert supplies in Cairo anyway, so we’ll only need to acquire some personal weapons and kit ourselves out for aether flight.”
Cassie and the doctor spoke simultaneously, then he deferred to her. “Sir, it will take rather longer to assemble necessary reference materials, and, Uncle Budgie, if I could borrow your archaeological tools – “ Budge shook his head. “No, for this, you should have the best – go to Hunniford and Sons, I’ll write you up a letter of recommendation. Doctor, you had a concern as well?”
Singh nodded. “Similarly, I lost quite literally everything but the shirt on my back in the fire. I’ll need to stock up on medical supplies and some scientific instrumentation as well.”
Mainwaring grumped. “How long?” Cassie and the doctor put their heads together and conversed animatedly. After a few minutes, the doctor said, “ Two days.”
Budge smiled. “Freiherr Rothschild and I will plan a diversion: make purchases, hire scores of workers, and make it look like we’re planning to send a huge expedition out by train in several weeks. Hopefully that will provide some cover, allowing you to depart swiftly, undetected.”
Mainwaring nodded briskly. “Then in 48 hours we take wing for Cairo. Now, let’s make some plans for staying alive in the meantime.“
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
L'Antonov An-2 és un d'aquells aparells que han passat a la categoria especial dels classics, l'equivalent alat dels VW Escarbat, 2 Caballs o Seat 600. Fabricat a l'extinta Unió Sovietica (actual Ucraïna), la seva funció era el transport lleuger o llençament de paracaigudistes en versió militar, o be la fumigació de camps en versió civil. És el biplà monomotor més gran del món, i té actualment molta popularitat. A Sabadell podem gaudir d'aquest exemplar de la FPAC.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXTfcOtsp4&feature=related
La caracteristica més sorprenent del An-2 és que pot volar tant lentament, que amb un vent de cara de 40 nusos, arriba a anar endarrera!!
No he trobat info en català, aquí la teniu en castellà:
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2
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The Antonov An-2 is a classic and very popular soviet aircraft. In fact, it's the world's largest monomotor biplane. Widely used as an parachute platform, or crop-dusting plane. It's most impressive handling is at extremely low speed. In fact, with a 40 knots frontal wind, it can even fly backwards!
This one is part of the airplane museum in Sabadell Airport (FPAC), and is airworthy, as you can see here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXTfcOtsp4&feature=related
Here's a video of an An-2 almost stopped mid-air:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxFxb6u1X0Y
This beast made several 'touch and go' visits to Manchester Airport yesterday. That means it just 'pretends' to land but keeps on going. Apparently, it was testing instrumentation. My first image of a military aircraft from my yard and made a change from mice and robins! It's the RAF’s biggest military transport plane and capable of carrying around 75 tonnes of equipment.
Thanks to all who have visited, commented or faved (it would be nice if you left a comment too) my photos. It is very much appreciated. Constructive criticism welcomed.
It was a double GEO kind of day because in addition to the CSXT Geometry train that was testing the MBTA/Keolis lines the FRA inspection car was also in the area having spent the prior night in the siding at Clinton. A CSXT crew is on board AC4400CW 479 headed to Portland, Maine with the Departent of Transportation/FRA's High Speed Research and Test Car T-16 as they roll through CPF AY on Main 1 of the Keolis/MBTA Fitchburg Route mainline approaching the Groton-Harvard Road crossing at MP 35.5.
T-16 was built in 1968 as Penn Central no. 803, one of the original self-propelled Metroliner cars, which entered service between Washington and New York in January 1969. During 1987-88, Amtrak removed the propulsion equipment and rebuilt it as cab car coach 9642. It remained in this configuration until withdrawn from service in 1996. FRA obtained the car from Amtrak in June 1999.
In September 1999, the FRA contracted with ENSCO, Inc. to convert 9642 into a high speed research car, subcontracting the structural, mechanical, and electrical work to the Delaware Car Company, with KLD Laboratories, Inc. suppling part of the instrumentation. The car emerged from the shop as T-16 (officially DOTX 216) and began research service in November, 2000.
You can learn more about this one of a kind car here: railroads.dot.gov/program-areas/testing-facilities-equipm...
Ayer, Massachusetts
Friday May 23, 2025
My V-Tail Bonanza from when flying was a hobby of mine. I was an instrument rated pilot 1990 through 2000 or so. Great fun and memories. Shown here shortly after being painted, reupholstered and with newly updated instrumentation. Later added tip tanks on wings to enhance range. Sold in 2001. (EXIF below is not accurate for the original photo from my archive prints taken with a Pentax Optio S 6)
ALUK TODOLO is an instrumental power trio performing Occult Rock since 2004. Their music is a methodical exploration of the powers of musical trance. Part occult black metal fend and part snide kraut menace, the band conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings.
The band reduces psychedelic improvisation to a bare, telluric instrumentation, in which dry, spare percussion grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated guitar and bass. The band’s sound is monolithic and stabbing, hypnotic but unpredictable, minimalist yet teeming: a dangerous, noxious coil of all things black.
Built as a P-3A, this truly unique Orion of the Bloodhounds of VX-30 was photographed midday on short final at NAS Point Mugu on 27 June 2025.
The aircraft is a range instrumentation aircraft used in missile launches on the Pacific Missile Test Range. It is the oldest P-3 in the U.S. Navy's inventory.
For my video, youtu.be/fiAxK9t8AkA?si=oCTZSUZLyZ4AuE3w
Annual, KMS Tools, Show & Shine,
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada,
The Gran Torino Sport was offered in two body styles: A 2-door formal hardtop and a 2-door SportsRoof. The Gran Torino Sport included an integrated hood scoop, twin colour-keyed racing mirrors, molded plastic door panels unique to the Sport model, body-side and wheel lip moldings, and F70-14 tires (E70-14 on hardtop models). A revised full body length laser stripe was an option for all Torino 2-door models. It replaced the chrome side moldings and was available in four colours to match the exterior paint. Ford offered an option package for the driving enthusiast called the "Rallye Equipment Group." This grouped all the performance options together including the Instrumentation Group, Competition Suspension, G70-14 tires with raised white letters, and a Hurst shifter. The option group came standard with a 351CJ-4V and 4-speed but the 429-4V and the Cruise-O-Matic were optional. The competition suspension was highly regarded by Tom McCahill of Mechanix illustrated, as well as Motor Trend and Car and Driver as being less harsh than past Torino performance suspensions, while still offering excellent handling. Motor Trend described the suspension as "Unlike the super heavy-duty springs of years past, the folks at Ford have managed to produce superior ride control without harshness. It takes a ride in one [Torino] to truly appreciate it."
USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM-25) is a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship built for the U.S. Navy by VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, Mississippi.The keel was laid during a ceremony on August 13, 2008,and the vessel became operational in 2014. This ship carries a next-generation active electronically scanned array radar system named Cobra King.
66550 works an STP 05.11 Millerhill S.S. to Inverness T.C. Network Rail service with track recording instrumentation strapped to the front of the light engine. Taken at Moy Viaduct, Monday 19.7.21, the last wooden viaduct on the Scottish main line. Built in 1887, it was symathetically restored in 2003, with the timbers treated for fungal growth, and a specially designed reinforcing structure included within the timber structure.
On another note, "50 Years of Phoenix" is now available – click on this link to view a selected part of the book, and perhaps even order a copy: www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15554
Also, why not take a look at the PRPC web site at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.
Full Resolution here:
pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/173368581/original
Close up of the Homunculus here:
pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/173372897/original
Orion Optics UK AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress TRIUS PRO-694 Midi Combi PRO Blue Edition incl.CFW & OAG unit
FLI Atlas Focuser
LHaOIIIRGB = 10min, 60min, 60min, 20min, 20min, 20min Combined total exposure 3.2hrs
Astronomik Deep-Sky LRGB filters
-20C chip temp, no flats used and no dark frames.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.84"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar PRO
Comments
Data collected 4 Feb 2023 Full Moon, good to very good seeing (FWHM 1.4" - 1.8")
Taken from Eagleview Observatory:
pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/eagleview_observatory
Equipment setup:
pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/173097781/original
Some links to equipment used to take this image:
Sidereal Trading
StarlightXpress CCD Cameras and imaging equipment
Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:
Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:
MSB Software & Astroart Camera control and Image processing software
Unter dem Namen "Absolute World" schrauben sich diese beiden verdrehten Wohntürme in Mississauga bei Toronto dem Himmel entgegen: der eine 50, der andere 56 Stockwerke hoch.
Der Höhere ist auch als Marilyn-Monroe-Tower bekannt. Er erhielt seinen Spitznamen aufgrund der kurvenreichen Sanduhrfigur ... ;-)))
Weil ich bei dem Wort "Twist" jedes Mal sofort das Lied Twist in my Sobriety von Tanita Tikaram im Ohr habe, verlinke ich das jetzt hier ...;-) ... Dass der Songtext irgend etwas mit meinem Bild oder mir zu tun hat, kann ich jetzt nicht behaupten aber wegen der Melodie, der Stimme und der Instrumentation gehört das Stück schon seit Jahren zu meinen absoluten Lieblingsliedern. Witzig finde ich, dass Tanita Tikaram in einem Interview zugab, dass sie selbst nicht so genau weiß, was ihr Text bedeuten soll ... :-))) ...
This is the interior of a 1960 Karmann Ghia 1400 Coupe. These were built on the same assembly line as the Porsche 356’s of the 1950’s. Like the Porsche, the Karmann Ghia body is one piece, so there are no fender seams. This car is in mint condition and runs beautifully. As you can see it has the very rare VDO tachometer and complete dashboard instrumentation. I have never seen a Karmann Ghia as nice and complete as this one.
1930 Buick Series 60 Special
The 1930 Buick Series 60 had a 132-inch wheelbase and was equipped with an inline-6 cylinder engine that it shared with the Series 50. It had overhead valves, a 331.4 cubic-inch displacement, four main bearings, mechanical valve lifters, a Marvel carburetor, and delivered 99 horsepower at 2,800 RPM. The Series 40 had a 257.5 CID inline-6 with 80 horsepower. Both versions of the six-cylinder engine used a three-speed sliding gear transmission with multiple disc clutch and floor shift controls. Mechanical, internal expanding brakes on all four wheels provided the stopping power.
All 1930 Buick vehicles received a new dash panel with the instrumentation being both indirectly and directly lighted.
Body styles on the 1930 Buick Series 60 included a Sport Roadster with rumble seat priced at $1,585, Deluxe Coupe at $1,965, a seven-passenger phaeton at $1,595, a coupe at $1,740, sport sedan at $1,760, a seven-passenger sedan at just over $1,900, and a limousine at $2,070. The sport roadster with rumbleseat was a new body style, joining on January 1st of 1930. The most popular body style was the sport sedan with 12,508 examples built, followed by 10,216 of the coupe, 6,583 of the sedan, 5,370 of the DeLuxe Coupe, 2,006 of the Sport Roadster, 807 of the phaeton, and 690 off the limousine. The combined 38,180 examples of the Series 60 accounted for approximately twenty-one percent of Buick's total 1930 production.
Source: www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z13860/buick-series-60.aspx
This finely crafted 1930 Buick recorded at “The Meadows” cruise show, Rolling Meadows, IL. - June 3, 2022.
Hope ya’all enjoy……………….
It was time to return to a favourite of southern hemisphere imagers, the mighty Eta Carina nebula, cataloged as NGC 3372..
Also available on Astrobin plate solved
Location: LMDSS, Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
Date: shot over the Australia Day weekend 26 - 29th Jan 2017.
Scope: Takahashi 130 TOA NBF refractor, focal length 1000 mm
Camera: mono Finger Lake Instrumentation ML16200 with a Loadstar X2 on an Astrodon MOAG off-axis guider.
Acquisition:
Software: Sequence Generator Pro
27 x 180 sec on an Astrodon Lum filter
17 x 180 sec each Red, Green, Blue Astrodon filters
Sensor temp: -30 C
In this ca. 1988 Martin Marietta artist’s concept, two teams of Astronauts have commenced human exploration of Mars. One team is seen embarking via a pressurized rover towing a supply/provisions?, instrumentation/experiment laden?, power-generating? trailer. In the foreground, two Astronauts are exploring the immediate vicinity of the landing site by foot. A communications relay tower has been erected to facility long distance surface communications & I assume contact with earth? The tower also appears to have meteorological instrumentation…maybe.
Although I’ve found no documentation (with similar imagery) pertaining to this specific aspect of such a proposed mission, with minor variations, the lander looks much like the Mars Descent/Ascent Vehicle (MDAV) in other Martin Marietta Mars concepts I’ve recently posted. And if I’m interpreting the photo ID correctly, this would then be from 1988, thus viable as being related. The others concepts are subsequent and may account for the design variation/evolution. IDK, I’m winging it.
That magnitude of relief, talus slopes, exposed strata, etc…gotta be Valles Marineris…like, in it. Right? Rhetorical.
Whatever it is/is called, it's like an 'open-air' Mars Excursion Module (MEM) and the following addresses/explains how it got there…I think:
“A variety of Artificial Gravity/Mars Transfer Vehicle (AG/MTV) concepts were developed by the Martin Marietta Astronautics Group for NASA’s Mars Exploration Case Studies in 1988 to 1989. Each of these concepts used a large diameter (~39 to 46 m) aerobrake (AB) with a low lift to drag (L/D) ratio of ~0.2 for Mars Orbit Capture (MOC). These large ABs required assembly in LEO before being outfitted with habitation, auxiliary Photo-Voltaic Array (PVA) power and chemical propulsion system elements within their protective envelope. By rotating the AB about its central axis at different spin rates and mounting the habitat modules near the outer perimeter of the AB to increase the rotation radius, a range of centrifugal forces can be generated for the crew during the transit out to Mars and back…
However, initial concepts had several drawbacks, to include being very large, requiring significant orbital assembly for the AB and overall vehicle, with large Initial Mass in Low Earth Orbit (IMLEO) requirements. Additionally, problems of the five different concepts developed ranged from incompatible internal arrangements of varying habitation modules, the required movement of major pressurized mechanical joints, large propellant consumption to start/stop a tethered combination along with associated dynamic control problems & possible critical mechanical failures, even the possibility of crew isolation from systems enclosed within the AB e.g., Mars Descent/Ascent Vehicle (MDAV).
To avoid the deficiencies of those concepts, Martin Marietta proposed ‘Concept 6’, an AG/MTV design that used chemical propulsion and carried twin cylindrical Space Station Freedom (SSF) habitation modules whose long axes were oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal spin axis of the MTV—referred to as the Dumbbell B configuration. The hab modules were connected to a central logistics and docking hub by two pressurized tunnels each ~12.5 m long. Each hab module—designed to accommodate two to three crewmembers—had excess capacity so that either could serve as a safe-haven for the entire crew in case of an emergency. Attached to the Sun-facing side of each tunnel and hab module were ~30 and 75 m2, respectively, of PVAs producing ~26 kWₑ of electrical power for the spacecraft’s various systems. Once fully assembled, the rotation radius from the center of the logistics module to the floor of each hab module was ~17 m allowing centrifugal acceleration levels ranging from 0.38-g to 0.68-g for vehicle spin rates of 4.5 to 6 rpm. At a slightly higher spin rate of 7.25 rpm, 1-g could be achieved. The pressurized logistics hub also provided a shirt-sleeve environment and anytime crew access to the MDAV docked to the front of the vehicle.
The aft end Mars orbit capture stage (MOCS) and forward Trans-Earth Injection Stages (TEIS) used four
~25 thousand pound thrust liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen (LOX/LH₂) RL10B-2 engines with an Iₛₚ of ~460 s. The MOCS also functioned as the TMI stage using propellant supplied from six surrounding drop tanks jettisoned in pairs as they are drained. The vehicle IMLEO at TMI was ~710.8 t.”
The above, at/per:
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160014801/downloads/2016001...
The second paragraph consists of my paraphrasing, the rest is direct copy/paste.
Yet another spectacular work by Martin Marietta artist Robert S. Murray. A WIN:
www.paintingsbyrobertsmurray.com/about-me.html
Credit: “Paintings by Robert S. Murray” website
midcurrent.com/art/robert-s-murray/
Credit: “MIDCURRENT” website
A segment of the image:
twitter.com/humanoidhistory/status/1399482585827446790?la...
Credit: Humanoid History/Twitter