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Construite en 1921, cette centrale thermique d'Electrabel (originalement Intercom) située en région wallonne produisait d’énormes quantités d’énergie à partir de charbon. Responsable de 10% des émissions de CO2 de Belgique à elle-seule, l’usine a été fermée définitivement en 2007. Étendue sur une dizaine d'hectares, cette centrale est notamment formée d'un bâtiment principal et d'une tour de refroidissement, auxquels se rajoutent des bâtiments administratifs et une annexe munie d'une turbine de secours construits dans les années 60. Aujourd'hui la propriété de la société WANTY, cette centrale et surtout sa tour de refroidissement sont la proie d'urbexeurs venant du monde entier.
The NuTone model 2055-2056 that was built into my house built in 1965, still operates. There is a phono jack I can use to play my own music through the system, or I can use my flea-power AM transmitter to feed music into the AM tuner and play it through the house.
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (Nov. 3, 2021) - Tech. Sgt. Todd Hanggeli, 6th Airlift Squadron instructor loadmaster, and Airman 1st Class Thomas Dodd, 6th AS loadmaster, call out instructions over the intercom during a 90-degree backing training on a C-17 Globemaster III at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Hawaii, Nov. 3, 2021. Four Airmen assigned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix Lakehurst, New Jersey, supported the 535th Airlift Squadron during a quarterly training week. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alan Ricker) 211103-F-JA727-0407
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1995 Rover Mini 35.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"Chassis number: SAXXNYADBBDO94157
It is almost impossible find any rally car that can be driven straight on to a stage on purchase, but this one can. Without exception, every component requiring to be in date per Regulations is in date and not for a few weeks but for years. The seats, belts and fire system are all brand new. The vendor has left everything in it even a clubman intercom. This car is ready to be driven in an event tomorrow. Built in June 2010. The build included a Minispeed engine, straight cut box, non‑plated Quaife differential, seat belts, extinguishers which are all in date, Mini Spares 4 pot calipers and minifins with Bilstein suspension. The car has been thoroughly checked‑over between events. It comes with eight spare wheels, tyres and a box of spares. Described by the vendor as an "on the button, class winner". The file includes current rally stage MSA log book, a file of receipts for labour and spare or competition parts and spare keys. Previously UK registered it has resided in the Isle of Man until recently and will require UK re‑registration."
Sold for £8904 including premium.
Title: It! The Terror From Beyond Space
Year Of Release: 1958
Running Time: 69 minutes
DVD Released By: MGM Home Entertainment
Directed By: Edward L. Cahn
Writing Credits: Jerome Bixby
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Paul Langton, Robert Bice
Taglines:
1. It breathes, it hunts…It Kills!
2. IT!...Reaches through space!...Scoops up men and women!...Gorges on blood!
3. The revelation shocker of things to come!
Alternate Titles:
It! The Vampire from Beyond Space (1958)
The Terror from Beyond Space (1958).
Review Date: 12.12.04 (updated 1.1.10)
The film opens with a thundering musical theme and a title that threatens to bust out of the screen and into our third spatial dimension. After the credits end, we get a view of the Martian surface. In the distance we see the wreckage of a crashed rocket ship. A voice belonging to Colonel Edward Carruthers begins to narrate, relating how the ship he commanded cracked up on landing six months previously and how he is now the only survivor from that doomed expedition, the crew encountering some strange force on the Red planet they came to know only as death. The camera slowly pans over the landscape and a second rocket ship is revealed, albeit intact and standing erect. Carruthers says that he will now be going back to face his superiors on Earth and possibly another kind of death.
Now we see the capitol building in Washington D.C., which quickly fades to a door marked, “Science advisory committee. Division of interplanetary exploration.” No doubt down the hall are the offices for the division on Radiation-Enlarged Insects and Lizards. Inside this room a government official is conducting a press conference and releasing information on the second rocket ship sent to Mars. He talks about how Colonel Carruthers has been found alive, but is the only survivor from the initial expedition. The Colonel will be returned to Earth to face trial for the murders of the rest of the first ship’s crew.
Back on Mars, we see the Challenge-142 preparing to lift off. Before they can depart, Van Heusen notices an open compartment. It seems Lt. Calder was dumping some crates (littering) and forgot to close it. The open hatch is closed remotely, but as it slides shut, an ominous shadow moving about nearby alerts us to the fact that something has managed to get aboard while it was open. We hear a few growls and even get a close up of IT’s feet as it moves about. I gotta say, this guy needs some serious corrective footwear. Talk about a slewfoot! What is even more hilarious is that the shadow we see on the wall seems to be made by the actor in the monster suit, but not the monster mask. His facial features seem pretty clear in silhouette.
After a name check, Van Heusen begins the launch countdown at ten, while strapped into what appears to be a lawn chair! Where was the budget blown for this ship? No trash recycling systems and cheap chairs! The contractor must have spent it somewhere, but it obviously wasn’t on this ship!
Once in space and safely on the way home, Van Heusen (who will henceforth be referred to simply as Van – some of the characters did it, why not me) begins acting like an asshole, ridiculing Carruther’s story of a monster. He tells Carruthers (seemingly with great delight) that they have enough evidence to put him in front of a firing squad. They head up one level and Van shows him a human skull they found on the surface of Mars. Dental records revealed it to be a Frank Kenner, one of Carruther’s crew. The skull has an obvious bullet hole in it and Van says, “There’s only one kind of a monster that uses bullets.” There is an ominous musical cue. Carruthers walks away and the film fades out.
Sometime later the crew is cleaning up after a meal. Correction: the women are cleaning up after a meal. Yes, in this futuristic year of 1973, women – despite being doctors and presumably vital members of the crew – are still assigned the laborious task of cleaning up after meals and making sure all the lazy, fat-ass males have fresh, hot coffee in their cups and are supplied with cigarettes. I wonder if these guys made them cook the meal as well.
So this group has finished a meal and are relaxing. The usual light banter is exchanged before the topic of Colonel Carruthers and his monster comes up. Royce (the other Royce will always be referred to as Doctor Royce for purposes of this review) says that he doesn’t disbelieve or believe the story. Along about that time Carruthers arrives and is greeted with a smart-ass comment from Van. He gets some coffee from Ann and retreats back up one level. Van then states that before they reach Earth, he will have Carruthers’ confession on tape. What is he going to do, beat it out of him?
Some more time passes and Ann brings Carruthers a plate of food. She admits that she has only heard the story of what happened to the crew of the Challenge-141 from Van and would like to hear it straight from Carruthers. He relates to her how they landed, went out exploring and then got caught in a sandstorm. Something in the storm began taking the crew and in the confusion shots were fired, one apparently killing Kenner by mistake. Carruthers was the only one who made it back to the ship. Subsequent searches turned up no signs of his crew or the thing that took them.
Van continues to act like a dick. Ann - with whom he seems to have some sort of relationship beyond work - tells him that he owes it to Carruthers to treat him like a fellow officer and not an animal, and that it is not his place to decide whether he is guilty.
More time passes. Royce and Carruthers are playing chess while Van looks on, smoking a cigarette. Calder is nearby scribbling in a notebook – probably “I won’t leave outer hatches open before lift-off” a hundred times, enforced by Van for his lamebrain mistake. Elsewhere, Keinholz is sitting alone at a desk, looking bored. He hears their stowaway bumbling around the cargo hold. He goes to investigate and is killed, the attack shown as shadows on a wall. The monster lifts Keinholz over his head and brings him smashing to the floor, where he proceeds to pelt the unfortunate crewmen with a barrage of blows…or in this case, cartwheeling its arms and bitch-slapping the guy to death.
Above, Carruthers has heard the commotion and wonders what is going on. No one else seems to have heard anything. He still insists on performing a head count and when Keinholz comes up missing, everyone begins searching the ship for him. While everyone is split up, Gino Finelli is captured by the beast when he stops to pilfer some cigarettes from a storage locker.
Everyone convenes again and Van is in disbelief as there just isn’t a place on the ship a man could hide. Carruthers asks where Gino is and Bob says that he was right behind him. He looks back down the ladder to the deck below and calls out to Gino, but all is silent below. He, Van and Carruthers all go back down where they find Gino’s unused cigarette on the floor, but no Gino. Now everyone is calling out for Gino in addition to Keinholz. Soon after, Keinholz’s body is located in an air duct.
Everyone comes running and arrives as Keinholz is removed from the duct. Bob wonders if Gino is inside the duct, but Carruthers looks and sees nothing. Major Purdue volunteers to go in to look for Gino as he claims to know the layout. He crawls on in, but doesn’t see anything at first. Then he re-orients himself and sees Gino at the end of the passage. Gino is looking pretty bad, like he was in a fight with an Avon lady who applied her make-up samples to him. Purdue yells out that he found Gino and begins to crawl toward him. He shakes Gino, trying to rouse him but Gino just shakes his head limply. Then there is a shadowy movement nearby and IT arrives on the scene, no doubt pissed to find someone playing with his food. IT growls and claws at Purdue, who screams before pulling out a revolver and squeezing off a few shots. This makes the monster roar and outside in the storage room, Carruther’s face is one of dread – he knows that roar all too well, it seems.
Purdue comes barreling out of the duct and Carruthers sneaks a glance inside before he and Van replace the cover over the entrance. Bob, naturally has a fit, upset that his brother is being left behind. He is removed by Royce and Carruthers yells to the cowering women to run and get a head start. A head start for where? You’re on a spaceship, not the open plains of Iowa. Carruthers then spots a crate of grenades and suggests that they wire them up to the hatches, thus blowing IT up if it decides to leave the duct. So Van, Carruthers and Calder wire up these grenades, then gather up Keinholz’s body (which seemed to magically aid them in picking itself off the floor) and retreat to one of the upper levels.
Next we see a table loaded with guns, rifles and ammunition. It looks like a NRA convention! It is at this point that I must point out the sheer stupidity of these people. They are on a spaceship, which is traveling through the vacuum of space. Rupturing the hull of the ship in any way would be extraordinarily bad. I’d imagine that great pains would be taken to minimize the chances that such an event ever took place. Yet these fools insist on firing projectile weapons within the confines of the ship. Not only that, but they have grenades ready to detonate below. Now, what kind of tests did these people have to pass in order to be selected for this mission? Cuz smarts don’t seem to be a requisite. Not once does any one of them stop to consider the chances that such an explosion might actually harm the bloody ship! No, they just fire away. Either these people are colossal idiots, or they are confident in the construction and engineering of the ship – but given the lawn chairs adorning the place, I would not exactly be willing to bet my life on the latter possibility.
So the men are taking stock of the weapons while the ladies apply the most idiotic looking bandage to Purdue’s head. Royce tries to console Bob by telling him there was nothing they could have done for Gino, but Bob is pissed that they didn’t even try to rescue his brother.
Meanwhile, Van is asking Carruthers if he knows what IT is. This must have just galled the guy to no end. Here he was all ready to break Carruthers and get a confession, and now he must admit that the other man was right all along. Time passes and the gang is pacing up and down, waiting for IT to leave the ducts and trip the grenade trap. They all gather around the intercom and listen as IT busts through the grate covering the duct and sets off the grenades. All those grenades detonate and we are treated to an explosion that looks like it was made by a box of firecrackers.
They still hear the monster growling, so they know that the plan has failed. Without a word, they hoist their firearms, open the central stair hatch and head down to investigate further…well, all the guys do. The women stay up above, no doubt prepping coffee. The guys gather around the door to C and open it up. A lot of smoke passes through the doorway, obscuring their vision. Calder, who is carrying the biggest gun, goes in first. Well, actually Van was in the lead, but when he couldn’t get the lights activated, he motions for Calder to go first. Chickenshit bastard. Calder barely gets through the door when IT lunges out of the smoke, grabs his rifle and bends it, Superman-style, over its head. Calder, Royce and Bob then run like hell up the stairs while Van and Carruthers fire their pistols at the beast. They retreat up the stairs, firing all the way, while IT tears the door to C compartment open wide enough to get through. Once safely up the stairs, the crew closes the central stair hatch.
Next gas grenades are used in an attempt to kill the beast. This fails to work as well and Van comes out of the engagement with an injured foot, scraped up something bad when the monster grabbed him.
Dr. Royce has completed the autopsy on Keinholz, discovering that “there is not a molecule of oxygen or a drop of water” left in his body. Blood, bone marrow, glandular secretions – everything, is gone. She theorizes that since there are no puncture marks on the body, that this was accomplished through some type of osmosis process. Keep in mind that the Human body is sixty to seventy percent water. Now, we got a pretty good view of the dead Keinholz earlier. Sure, his body was shriveled, but if all the moisture in his body had been removed, then would not he have looked more like a dried up prune, and been the size of a cabbage patch doll? Van Heusen hasn’t joined the cadaver club yet, though his wound is infected and nothing Dr. Royce can do helps it any.
They open the central hatch and peer down. IT is two levels down, but they can see it breaking through the center hatch onto the level directly below them, which will grant it access to the next level. They realize that if IT can get through the center hatches, they are royally SCREWED. Ann approaches Carruthers and tells him that he was right and they were all wrong. They hold hands and share a Kodak moment.
Royce pipes in about now with an idea he and Bob have worked out. He proposes that two men exit through the control room airlock and then space walk down the side of the ship and re-enter through the airlock on the motor level – below the current location of the creature. This would enable them to surprise the monster, but they aren’t sure what to surprise it with. Carruthers says he’s been thinking and has an idea, so he and Calder suit up and make their way down the hull to the bottom of the ship. They reach the airlock on the motor level and the others above begin talking loud at the proper time, distracting the monster from what is occurring below it. Carruthers and Calder sneak out onto the motor level and set an electrical trap on the stairs that lead to the upper level where IT is located.
The two then take cover behind some induction pumps and open the center hatch, which is noticed by the creature. It begins to descend the stairs and when it gets to the appropriate spot – ZAP. Nothing. The monster is not affected. Carruthers is able to make it safely to the airlock, but Calder takes a blow to the head that tears his vinyl “helmet” and stumbles back, his foot getting caught and the fall breaking his leg. He fires up an acetylene torch and uses it to fend off the monster every time it gets to close to his hiding spot.
Carruthers returns to the others where they try and think of a way to rescue Calder, who can be heard over the radio. Meanwhile the Doctor approaches Royce and tells him that the alien bacteria are attacking bone marrow, resulting in a leukemia-type condition. The drugs she has been using are working too slowly and she needs fresh blood to keep Van and Purdue alive – but there is no more on this level. They will need to descend to the cargo level and retrieve some more.
Royce is preparing to make a run for the blood and Bob decides that it his “turn” now to go. What is this, a ride? I suppose he feels the need to do something in helping kill the monster that murdered his brother. Carruthers decides to accompany them. Calder promises to keep them apprised of the creature’s movements via the intercom. A shadow on the wall tells us that IT is still dragging dead Gino around, and has wandered into the reactor room. After Calder reports this, it gives Carruthers an idea. He remotely closes the reactor room door and asks Calder what the monster does. When no odd behavior is reported, the three men make their descent in search of the blood supply.
Meanwhile Van has awoken again and is trying to get up from his cot. The women try to restrain him but he yells and pushes past them. He has an idea – by unsealing the reactor, the radiation will kill the monster. He flips some controls while the ladies still try and talk sense into him. In the reactor room, the creature is banging on the door to get out when the reactor is unsealed and it gets a face full of radiation. The women call down to warn the men what has happened, inciting Carruthers and Royce to speed things up. Below, Bob is helping Calder up the stairs when IT breaks out of the reactor room. Calder dives back into his hiding spot and Bob fires off his pistol at the beast. He then tries to run up the stairs, but IT is too fast. The monster reaches up and grabs him, pulling him down to the floor and bitch-slapping him to death. Royce and Carruthers haul ass back up the stairs with the blood, having to leave Bob behind. They get back to the laboratory level and then everyone heads on up to the topmost level – the control room.
Everyone is now huddled on the highest level. For some IDIOTIC reason, Carruthers is carrying a bazooka. A bazooka! They pile some heavy crates over the hatch in the floor, hoping to keep IT from busting up through the opening. Nearby Ann and Van are talking and the ever more disconcerted Colonel is remarking on Ann is now “with” Carruthers and how it happened out of the blue. She tries to dismiss it and wants to talk about it later, but he insists that there may be no later considering how their situation is degenerating rapidly. She walks off to help Carruthers and Van continues to mutter to Dr. Royce.
They contact Calder down below, who is still alive. He can see the monster still bumbling around on the motor level. About now IT has decided to find out where everyone else has gone. IT ascends the stairs to the first storage level and begins banging around. Calder warns Carruthers that IT is on its way up. The gang up top makes ready, turning the lights off and preparing for the last fight. Carruthers tells Calder to make his way to the airlock now that IT is no longer nearby and hide there. Then Carruthers picks up the bazooka again and aims it at the hatch.
While waiting, Carruthers happens to glance at a dial on a nearby instrument panel and notices that the oxygen consumption on the ship is far in excess of what it should be. He points this out to Royce and the two theorize that it is due to the monster. With the thin air on Mars it would need a gigantic lung capacity and has thus been hogging all the oxygen on the ship with its Darth Vader breathing style. Carruthers suggest letting all the air out of the ship to kill it. Royce agrees, saying they can build it back up for themselves later.
A mad rush is on now, everyone trying to get into his or her space suit. The monster tears his way up onto the laboratory level, doesn’t even hesitate and then heads up the latter to the top level. IT bangs on the hatch, causing all the boxes sitting atop it to topple over, and then IT peels back the metal of the hatch like wrapping paper and pokes up through the opening like a jack-in-the-box. Everyone has their spacesuits on now, but Carruthers cannot reach the controls to release the air because the monster is in the way. He calls to Royce, who is now holding the bazooka, to drive it back down so he can make his way to the proper control panel. Royce fires the bazooka, but the rocket just bounces off the monster before bouncing around the floor some. No detonation at all! It must have been a dud. Carruthers is trying to reach the controls, but the monster is preventing him from getting too close. Van then jumps up, runs to the controls and hits the correct button. The airlock doors open and the air begins rushing out. The monster has grabbed Van and no doubt given him the squish treatment, as when next we see Van, he is stretched out on the floor.
The ship begins diving. Well, not really…but given that the emergency klaxon blaring away to warn everyone of decompression and air loss sounds just like the diving bell in some old WWII movie, and one can see why it seems like the ship is diving. Everyone hangs on for dear life. Papers start flying around the room, but very few actually get blown out the airlock. The monster growls, writhes around and finally stops moving as the last of the air is removed. Carruthers checks on both IT and Van, but both are still and quiet. I have to wonder how Van didn’t get blown out. Everyone was hanging on, but Van was out cold (or dead). It seems the monster is finally dead. Everyone seems relieved, and the camera zooms in on Ann and Carruthers as they hold hands before fading out…
…Into ANOTHER freakin’ shot of the ship flying through space (number nine). This fades into the room in Washington D.C. that we saw at the very beginning of the film. The same government official is conducting another press release. He has more information to add to the story he gave to the reporters the previous evening. He reads a message from the Challenge-142 received less than an hour ago:
“This is Eric Royce talking. Of the nineteen men and women who have set foot upon the planet Mars, six will return.”
Six? Let’s see…Carruthers, Ann, Royce, Dr. Royce, Purdue and…Calder, I suppose. Calder was hiding in the airlock on the motor level while Van Heusen got beat up by the monster and was laying there pretty still at the end, so I guess he was the one who died. The message continues:
“There is no longer a question of murder, but of an alien and elemental lifeforce. A planet so cruel, so hostile, that man may have to find it necessary to bypass it in his endeavor to explore and understand the universe.”
Well, at least Carruthers has been cleared, but Royce makes out like the planet Mars is so damn dangerous. Excuse me, but were not you guys all safe until you got back on the ship? The planet seemed pretty harmless. It is the native life that proved to be so deadly. Big difference. The message (and the movie) concludes:
“Another name for Mars…is death.”
Fade out. The End.
Structurally, this movie is most similar to The Thing From Another World in that it deals with a small group of people trapped struggling to prevail against a deadly organism from another planet bound and determined to make a snack of them all. Aside from the opening and closing segments set on Earth (which most people conclude were added in order to stretch out the film’s running time) the movie never leaves the crew of the Challenge-142. Once things get rolling, the movie rarely lets up and moves along at a brisk pace, rapidly pushing its characters through one bad situation and into another. While not as intense as later films would be, the approach taken works very well and the viewer begins to detect the sense of danger and desperation that builds as the film progresses.
Sadly, the character development that was so well executed in the Howard Hawk’s The Thing From Another World, is sorely and quite obviously lacking here. We are quickly introduced to a number of people, who for the most part, will be expanded upon very little and examined only long enough to form the vaguest of impressions. With the exception of Carruthers and Van Heusen, who these people are and what motivates them was just not important to the producers. Those two are plainly set up to be at odds with each other, though the conflict is really all on the part of Van Heusen, who is resolute in his belief of Carruther’s guilt. Yet, the film sets up this adversarial dynamic and goes no where with it. Early on during the monster’s rampage, Van Heusen takes a hit and is restricted to bed for the rest of the film, offering up only smartass remarks and a failed attempt at killing the creature thereafter. I suppose one could say that Van Heusen was shown to be in error when it came to the veracity of Carruthers’ story, and that he was pushed aside to make room for latter to take the lead and redeem himself. There could not be two leaders, so one was removed.
While the characters might not be the most fleshed out in film history, they certainly make up for it with their actions. After viewing this movie, one has to wonder what kind of idiots these people truly were. How they ever graduated from some type of training program and granted a position on a ship to Mars is beyond me. In fact, the entire organization seems lacking. There is just so much that betrays them as morons. Like smoking. These people are nicotine fiends who are lighting up non-stop. Someone missing? Have a smoke. The monster kills someone? Have a smoke. Time running out and death looking certain? Have a freaking smoke! I must say that the Challenge-142 must have one HELL of an air recycling system. These folks have the oxygen scrubbers working overtime with all the smoke they exhale.
On top of that, these guys are gun toting, trigger-happy morons who make the Montana militia groups look like the boy scouts. They start squeezing off rounds at the drop of a hat, no worries about ricocheting bullets or friendly fire. I guess the ship, on top of having a first rate air recycling system, also has the sturdiest hull ever manufactured by mankind. It must have, as these guys don’t give a single thought to accidentally rupturing the hull. And they don’t stop with guns! They haul out grenades by the dozen and detonate them and then move on up to firing a bazooka in their ship’s control room!
As far as visual FX are concerned, this film doesn’t have too many. What we do see is adequately done by the standards of the day. The most ambitious shot is the view of Carruthers and Calder walking down the side of the ship as it traverses the stars. Back then it might have looked awesome, but now it is very easy to notice that the actors don’t seem to be covering any ground, despite taking numerous steps as well as the obvious signs of matting them into the footage of the rocket. I’d venture to say that the best looking thing we see, though it is just for a few seconds at the film’s beginning, is the painting that represents the surface of Mars. Sure, it looks nothing like what Mars really looks like, but it is still executed pretty darn well.
Now we come to the one aspect that is both one of the best as well as one of the worst things about the movie: The monster. The monster costume is a glaring source of both potential embarrassment and possible fun. The costume is a rather bulky, rubber affair that bends in all the wrong places, heightening the “cheese” factor and lending a certain air of ridiculousness to the film. The way it lumbers, stumbles and plods around the ship is laughable considering the dire circumstances and danger it supposedly represents. The face is static, except for the tongue that is often protruding from the sizable mouth. This effect was produced by the actor’s chin pushing the “tongue” through the creature’s maw.
Since the movie was filmed on a mere handful of sets, with a single set used to represent the various central chambers of the ship – just re-dressed for each one, director Cahn makes good use of the limited space he has. Thanks to the camera work and the set dressing, the ship comes across as being fairly good sized. Another thing he does rather well in conjunction with cinematographer Kenneth Peach is to hide the monster and utilize shadows to create an atmosphere of dread and creepiness. Whether this was done for artistic reasons or to help hide the often silly-looking monster suit is open for debate, but since the creature is shown quite well on several occasions, and the suit holds up pretty darn well to scrutiny, I personally believe it was the former. There are numerous occasions where all we see is the beast’s shadow on the wall, or a foot moving across the floor. More than one assault on a Human is shown as nothing more than shadows on a wall, which, while lessening the onscreen violence, only makes the attacks more horrifying. This method really helps in firing the imagination, as what the mind conjures up is almost always more frightening than what we ultimately see on screen.
Still, despite all the apparent flaws...indeed, perhaps because of those very flaws, this film has a sizable “fun” quotient. Taking it too seriously will only lessen the enjoyment derived from the proceedings. An enormous grain of salt, along with a large suspension of disbelief will come in handy here, and will help transform the film from an “old 50’s monster movie” into a “classic B-Movie experience.”
Linhof Super Technika IV 6x9
Schneider-Kreuznach Tele-Arton 180mm
Kodak Ektar 100
Seconic L-308 measured at ISO 125
"Sand Dragon 5 to base... Come in please... Situation critical. Over."
"This is UNSC Central, report sergeant."
"It's bad here sir. I lost two of my squad at the Activation booth. Seems Rock Band 3 will include real instruments. It was a mad house!"
"What about the rest of them Son? You dropped from orbit with a full company of troops."
"My recon team never came back from scouting Hall H. We heard rumors of a Ryan Reynolds sighting there. I don't have much hope. I lost three more when they engaged some nerds in a Dirk Benedict vs Katee Sackhoff debate. All I heard was a muffled 'frack you' and a smelly mass of dweebs engulfed them. I had no idea BSG fans had such a swarm instinct."
"What about your Spartan escort?"
"Twilight fans sir. He fought back till then end, but there was just too much black eye liner, fishnet hose, and pouty looks. His MJOLNIR armor was no match for that much glistening and teen angst. No man could have survived that."
"Dear God. It's worse than I thought Son, stay put. I'm ordering an ODST drop to reinforce you. Just stay where you are and whatever you do, don't let your guard down, our intelligence suggests the exhibit hall is crawling with Green Hornet booth babes. Command out."
I was told that this intercom was used on a train for communication between the locomotive and the caboose.
Item 42 - To be auctioned at Cledis Estes Auctions II in Medina, Ohio.
But despite the careful provision of shelter its plastic is yellowing and opaquing. I'm going to order 5 chili cheese dogs and 2 large orders of fries, what will you have.
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In downtown Paducah, Kentucky, on July 21st, 2014, off the northwest corner of Kentucky Avenue and South 9th Street.
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• Paducah (2040656)
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Liechtenstein City Palace
The City Palais Liechtenstein diagonally behind the Burgtheater: Left Bankgasse with the main entrance, on the right, the on the popular garden (Volksgarten) bordering Löwelstraße
Liechtenstein City Palace, paintings from 1903
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Grand staircase in the city palace
The Liechtenstein City Palace is a palace in the first District of Vienna, Innere Stadt, near the imperial Hofburg. It is the Majorat House of the Princes of Liechtenstein and is still owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein. The building is considered the first major high-baroque building in Vienna.
The palace was very extensively restored and 9 April 2013 will be opened by Prince Hans Adam II in the presence of President Heinz Fischer and, with works of art from the Princely Collections, it will be provided from 3 May 2013 on every second Friday to visits during tours als well as for the utilsation by (accomodated) events.
Location
The main entrance to the palace is located diagonally opposite the south wing of the new building opened in 1888 at the Burgtheater in Bankgasse 9, 10 Löwelstraße corner (there is no entrance). The Bank Street was called until 1862 anterior Schenkenstraße; present name recalls that lay at the other end of the alley from 1821 to 1860 the headquarters of the Austrian National Bank. Additional fronts of the building block are located on the Abraham-a-Sancta-Clara -Gasse 1 (side street of Bank Street) and at the subsequent address Minoritenplatz 4 (ministries adjacent). With the south side borders the palace buildings in the neighborhood of the Federal Chancellery .
From the windows of the east front of the palace in the 1786 first mentioned Löwelstraße looked one from about 1861-1863 above this section of the then demolished city walls around the old town. Located behind the glacis, above which one looked at the 1850 incorporated suburb of Josefstadt, was during the construction of the Ringstrasse in part obstructed. In front of the palace was not built because the city wall was moved here 1821 outwards and opposite the front of the Löwelstraße of the palace the 1823 created popular garden was made publicly available. Today are from this front next to the adjacent Burgtheater above the popular garden across the City Hall, the Parliament, the Natural History Museum and adjacent to the People's Garden the Heroes Square in front of the Imperial Palace to see.
History and design
The construction of the palace began in 1691 on behalf of Dominik Graf Kaunitz, led by Domenico Martinelli and using plans by Enrico Zuccalli. Stonemason commissions received the Vienna master Michael Khöll and from the imperial court quarry stonemason master Ferrethi Ambrose and his sons Giovanni Battista Passerini and Martin Trumler.
Prince Johann Adam I of Liechtenstein bought the unfinished palace, 1694, determined it as Majorat House and he had the building by Gabriel de Gabrieli and Martinelli until 1705 finished. On the side street to the bank the first monumental Baroque portal of Vienna was built by Martinelli. The portal side at Minoritenplatz and the staircase are associated with Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt. The sculptural features on the portal, on the attic and in the interiors come from Giovanni Giuliani, the stucco by Santino Bussi. The main staircase of Emperor stone (Kaiserstein) was erected in 1699 by the Viennese masters Michael Khöll and Wolfgang Steinböck, the echelons of the staircase coming from Kaisersteinbruch.
To 1806 was in the second flor the Liechtenstein gallery. Then the palace was leased to the Archdukes Johann and Ludwig, and the works of art were brought to the palace garden in Rossau. Later, the Russian embassy was quartered in the city palace.
Prince Alois II wanted to use the palace himself again and had the house in the years 1836-1847 expanded by Peter Hubert Desvignes inside, with the implementation was Carl Leistler commissioned who as one of several subcontractors Michael Thonet enlisted. The cost of the new equipment should have amounted to eleven million guilders.
In the palace have been installed technical devised on order of the Prince that caused a stir. Among other things, there were doors that were mirrored on one side and could been pulled up and turned, a lift and a house intercom. The greatest abundance of decoration and technical refinement has been undertaken in the ballroom: It is surrounded by three corridors and can be increased to these rooms by raising the side doors, they are also partly mirrored and turnable. The palace was also popularly known as artists care home (Künstlerversorgungsheim) because the conversion work made by Desvignes took nearly ten years to be done.
The Palais equipment by Desvignes exceeded all expectations of the Viennese Biedermeier and is therefore attributable to the second Rococo: elegant bentwood floors by Michael Thonet, flowery silk wall coverings and curtains of Viennese companies, complemented by extremely heavy Parisian chandelier shape after restoration today the interiors again.
Princess Nora Fugger (1864-1945) described the palace in her biography:
The palace has in terms of beauty and magnificence, hardly its equal in Europe. The ballroom is of immense height. When the lights in the candelabras on the walls, in the large girandoles and in the huge glass balloons , the lusters over the middle of the room, had been inflamed the beautiful room appeared as bathed in light. At the ballroom are bordering two side chambers that are separated by glass walls from the high hall. On the other walls high mirrors are attached, which construction is making a truly magical impression. In one of the salons is in the middle of the room a pool with a fountain. Immediately before the outbreak of the Revolution, Prince of Liechtenstein gave the first ball in his splendid palace. In 1851 - after the revolutionary years - again the first, previously described.
The palace was also known for the important collection of paintings of princes, the most important baroque works are since 2004 in the Liechtenstein Garden Palace (until 2011 Liechtenstein Museum ) in Rossau in the 9th District presented.
The royal family moved their residence from 1938 from their castles in Moravia, Lower Austria and Vienna to the Principality of Liechtenstein to avoid contacts with the Nazi regime as possible. The regime could not argue against the fact that the royal art collection was moved in the war for security in the principality, had the principality since 1806 been recognized as a sovereign state. The property of the prince could therefore, as the German Reich was not waging a war with Liechtenstein, not being confiscated by the Nazi regime.
The city palace was by a bomb and and aircraft falling on the building in World War II badly damaged, such as, Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein at a press conference in January 2013, his first visit to the palace in 1953, recalled. In the 1950s on, it was quickly repaired, the ceiling in the staircase in the 1970s according to old recordings reconstructed.
Construction 2009-2013
Since 2009, the planning was carried out by the Viennese architectural office Manfred Wehdorn the general refurbishment of the palace, where, under the courtyard a three storey, 18-meter- deep underground storage for art was built. In the show rooms especially the Biedermeier Art from the Princely Collections at 1,200 square feet of space will be presented. The opening of the museum was originally for 1 December 2011 and on 19 October 2011 for the spring of 2012 announced.
On 15 November 2011, the opening was postponed to the spring of 2013 and on 16 November communicated that (as in the Liechtenstein Garden Palace), the term Liechtenstein Museum no longer is used and no regular museum operation will be provided. The house will be to view on the "Long Night of the Museums" and at group tours and (rented) events.
The in 2013 finished restoration was the first in many decades, in which the historic building structure and the historic technical installations without pressure to save or time pressure sustainably have been repaired; according to the client from January 2013 to around 100 million euros. As of May 2013, the palace and the Biedermeier collection on guided tours can be visited.
Mom & I went on a five day driving trip through Eastern, Oregon.
Some highlights: Outsider Art Monument: Petersen Rock Garden in Redmond (friendliest peacocks I’ve ever met!). The John Day Fossil Area was amazing – the Painted Hills and Sheep Unit. At the latter we went down a trail called something like “Island back in time” and were mesmerized by the strange chalky green rocky landscape with no life growing from it. We were lucking out with 75 and Sunny in a place that can get 110 this time of year. The new Paleontology Museum is very interesting. I became obsessed with touring cyclists and wished I was on my bike. Even saw a group of 4 punk-style riders, with just boxes and blankets strapped to the back of their bikes. We barely made the last tour at the Kam Wah Chung Museum in John Day not knowing that you can only visit with a guide. This old apothecary/store/house set in what once was a Chinatown was really interesting to me. Then on to Baker City, Oregon which is really a great town – I walked around at Sunset and thought about setting up a portable press shop here for a month. We stayed in the Geiser Grand Hotel, which isn’t as expensive as you’d think, and my oh my were those sheets soft. The next day for the firs half of the we visited the National Oregon Trail Interpretative Center a top Flagstaff Hill, 5 miles outside of town. The museum got a thumbs down from me (too general, busy, not into taxidermy horses), But the center and walking trails are worth it and I loved visiting the actual Oregon trail and seeing the old wagon ruts. Mom and I realized that we could visit Hell’s Canyon afterall. I really wanted to go, but we didn’t want to hit gravel roads. We found there was a road to an overlook that we could take on our way to Joseph. We stopped in Halfway, Oregon and I got a chocolate milkshake. At the overlook in Hells Canyon there is a pretty amazing view of the nation’s deepest Canyon. You can’t see the floor or anything, and you feel far away, but it was still beautiful. In Joseph we didn’t like our stinky overpriced smelling cabin or the fact that everyone and their family seemed to be around the Lake in the Wallowas, but I took advantage of the pool/hot tub and beat my mom in Scrabble even though she made two whole words. In the morning we played mini golf at the resort while a couple long haired boys watched us. Mom loves Mini golf! We were going back and forth on whether we should take the Tram to the top of Mt Henry, we heard it was good, but wondering if we should get a move on. But luckily we decided to go. The weather was great and I couldn’t believe the Swiss Gondola style tram went an entire mile up. We were at over 8000 feet! At the top we were greeted by a gopher and a chipmunk, little did we know that we’d meet many more “friends” on our visit up there. We walked around the trails and had a very chipper time. On the way out of Joseph we stopped at the local county museum – I asked the friendly senior ladies what they liked most in the museum. One lady said the electric curler (a scary monstrosity!) and the other lady said a grade school exhibit from the 1905 Lewis & Clark Fair. I myself was amused by the Moonshine exhibit. I gave the one lady a painting I made of the electric curler and she was so pleased! We then drove through a few small towns and headed towards Pendleton, getting loss in La Grande on the way. Pendleton was so much smaller than I thought (all the round-up/blanket hype), but I enjoyed the murals, and my mom and walked on the riverwalk which was buggy at dusk. We played another game of Scrabble where I almost won, until I made a stupid fatal error on my second to last turn. In the morning (Saturday) we walked around town, but nothing was open and we looked like hick tourists. I guess all the action was on Friday night. Finally a few shops opened, but every one seemed to be selling old stuff – some of it good (the Curio shop!) some bad (beanie babies, and romance novel, now really!) And everyone wanted a lot of money for crap. We headed out of town (backtracking a few miles) to go to the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute which in on the Indian Reservation. Right before we stopped for gas, and waited to be served (can’t pump your own gas in Oregon), but no one came, and then we realized, oh on the reservation you pump your own gas! The museum is past the casino that had a full parking lot. The museum lot only had three cars. I was really impressed with the exhibits and design and learned a lot about five Indian groups from the area. Outside it was heating up, planning on getting up to 100, I walked around displays of different kinds of Indian housing.
We then headed down the Gorge towards Portland and watched the scenery slowly change from beige to green. We crossed the toll bridge at Hood River to Bingen to meet my Sister Sarah and 3 ½ year old nephew Andy who were coming on the 6:20 train. They had a long day starting in Mt. Vernon, Washington. We ate at a really good local Pizza place and were glad there was a play area for Andy who had been confined on a train all day with my sister. Sarah and I each had Keylime pie! We stayed at the Bingen School House hostel. Stuart who runs it was very nice and I liked it very much, though the kitchen/common area needs some help. We had our own family room. Unfortunately in the night there was a lot of commotion/terrible human noises which kept me from going to sleep for some time, in the morning we found out that a man was having a life threatening asthma attack. We had no idea what it was, and I got really spooked out. The guy was okay which is good. We had pre-purchased tickets to go on the Hood River Train excursion, not thinking that Sarah and Andy had spent an entire day before on the train. We couldn’t get out of them, so we went anyway. The train ride is pleasant following a river and behind groves the fruit trees and the talk a little about the area over the intercom, but it’s a little pricey for what it is, of course we were in second class (not the upstairs viewing bubble, and trying to keep a 3 ½ year old entertained). But the destination of Parkdale had a secret museum I didn’t know about – the Hutson Museum with the famed rock supper! I had heard about it but never quite figured out where it was. So at last! The museum was run by the collector’s neice, who showed me a fun video of Jesse who was crazy about rocks and wanted to collect one of each kind. Once back in Hood River, we drove around Mt Hood to Hwy 26 and finally hit a huge rain system, the first really on the whole trip. I had hoped to stop in Sandy so Andy could go on a train ride in this man’s backyard, but he was napping, and it was raining, so next time.
Still on the theme of the Oregon Trail, the next day we headed to Oregon City stopping for a brief hike on Elk Island in Milwaukee. The End of the Oregon Trail Museum was such a hit for little Andy. There were so many hands on things, ladies dressed in pioneers, and even the multimedia “Bound for Oregon” film kept Andy’s attention. But it was the Cedar Man who made stuff out of cedar that Andy liked best until he saw the Trolley, which gives free loop rides around town. The driver lady told some stories, let us out to look at the falls, and then we got out up on the bluff to look at John McLouglin’s home (not open) and ride up and down the Municipal Elevator, and then hopped back on the trolley only to hop off again for local cherries for $1 a pound – and good ones at that. The next day, with a free family pass, we headed to OMSI because I wanted to see my nephew Andy in one of the little chipmunk costumes. Andy loved OMSI he ran around from place to place, but especially liked the sand and water areas, and for a little while loved being a little chipmunk. After that I thought it would be fun to take Andy to Sushi World, so he could see the food go around and round. He loved it, Mom wasn’t so into it, Sarah and I enjoyed it. The day ended with my Birthday party in the Park (in a separate photo set.). I sent the family off to the Beach for two days, and they will stop over for one more night before heading back to Minnesota.
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Photo & details: 41 Sqn Unit History Oct 1961, Appendix D
"From the 27th of October to the 1st of November (inclusive) 41 Squadron flew 102 hours and 15 minutes on SAR duties. This is the first time in over two years that the Freighters have been called out.
On the night of the 26th a Canberra from 75 Sqn, Tengah, was reported missing on a navigation exercise to Butterworth. Next day the Search and Rescue Organisation swung into action. The first day brought no reports from the Straits of Malacca where the Freighters were searching but just North of Kuala Lumpur two promising Sarah signals were received. Next day the Freighters were allocated an area much further South with the assurance that it was a 100 to 1 chance that they would find anything there. The 100 to 1 chance came up. At 1134 local time Fg Off Jenks spotted what he thought was a parachute in a jungle tree-top.
Further investigation proved this to be correct, but undergrowth prevented observation of any other details. The navigator, F/O Walker, then set about getting a more accurate position than the DR one. This was no mean feet as to leave the area meant to lose the sighting, K.L. DME was unserviceable, the countryside was devoid of pinpoints and the aircraft was the only Freighter searching with no API. The radio compasses were not giving indications, but after about a dozen lines off two beacons F/O Walker passed his new estimate which was subsequently proved to be only 3 miles out.
Meanwhile Sgt Sig May had despatched a preliminary report to the Rescue Centre in Singapore. An Army Auster was sent in and his report confirmed the sighting and added that there was no one in the harness. About 5 minutes before the Prudent Limit of Endurance and after orbiting the position for 6 hours and 44 minutes, the Freighter was forced to leave due to shower activity and a refuelling stop was made at KL. Unfortunately, for the crew and observers anyway, the aircraft went unserviceable and was forced to overnight. For the greater part of the vigil F/O Stewart was orbiting at 11,000 ft and his signaller, Sgt Amodeo acted as a VHF relay station.
Next morning F/L Barnett picked up F/Os Jenks and Walker and at first light they were over Gemas, about 15 miles South of the sighting area. For almost 3 hours eight-eighths cloud at treetop level precluded all search operations and then as it began to lift the Freighter went in again. After another 3 hours the parachute was re-located and helicopters were sent in and all of the Jungle Rescue Team were in by late afternoon. The Canberra pilot, F/L Peter Bevan, whose parachute it proved to be, walked out and was assisted by some Chinese wood choppers who took him to the local authorities.
From the time of first sighting, until F/L Bevan was found, the Freighters were engaged in three tasks; maintaining a watch over the parachute; relaying radio messages between search aircraft and the Rescue team and participating in an intensified search of the surrounding area. On the 1st of November an Auster sighted the Canberra wreckage and when the Rescue team arrived on the scene they found the body of the navigator 50 yards away.
The navigator was F/O David Finn and both he and F/L Bevan were well known to many 41 Squadron personnel."
John Scrimshaw (75 Sqn) comments 10 Apr 2020:
"With all of your recent research into Pete Bevan's accident I decided to have a look at my logbook. I found that 2 days before the accident I had flown 915 and made a brief landing at Kuala Lumpur. Bruce Tunley was navigator and Doug Allison was a passenger. I have no recall of that flight. I have recorded my activities in the search for Dave. On 29 Oct I went from Seletar to Malacca in a Beverley and searched for 3 hours in a Pioneer. Returned that night and the 31st went back to Malacca and spent 4 hours in a Pioneer searching. I guess that must have been the day the wreckage was found and it was confirmed Dave had not made it."
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10 Apr 2020. W/C John Scrimshaw MBE AFC (retired) recounts the story of the loss of RNZAF 75 Sqn Canberra WF915 on the night of 26 Oct 1961.
The RNZAF had firstly No 14 Sqn flying Venom FB1 Fighter Ground Attack aircraft and then No 75 Sqn flying Canberra B2 aircraft based at Tengah. Wing Commander John Scrimshaw was fortunate enough to have 3 tours at Tengah as well as the deployment of No 14 Sqn flying Canberra B12 aircraft during confrontation. He recounts the events after the loss of Canberra WF915.
"On the 26 Oct 1961 the Squadron had three Canberras scheduled for night flying. I, with Bruce Tunley, was to fly to Kuala Lumpur, make a practice approach, and then return to Singapore and carry out approaches. The flight was to last 3 hours. The other two Canberras, piloted by Pete Granville Bevan and Gavin Trethewey, were to fly to Buttterworth, make an approach, and then return to Tengah. They too were required to complete 3 hours.
The weather was fine in Singapore, but there was visible lightning to the North. I decided to climb out to the west of Singapore and to set heading for Kuala Lumpur from overhead Tengah at 40,000 feet. Both Pete and Gavin made the same decision. I actually saw Pete’s aircraft on my climb out. The reason we all decided to climb out to the West, was to give us a chance of being above the thunderstorms that were obviously on our route.
Thunderstorms were a very real problem for us. In the tropics they were very violent and often were still bubbling upwards at well above 40,000 feet. We were frequently in cirrus cloud with the developing thunderstorms not visible, although at night you could see the lightning flashes. There was no radar guidance to avoid these storms and we had no on board radar, so we just flew into whatever was on our track. Once in the storm, you just had to try and keep the wings level and ride it out. You could not afford to put more power on, as this could lead to the engines flaming out. One night an RAF pilot had both of his engines flame out in a thunderstorm over Malaya, but he did get them going again after he had glided down to below 20,000 feet.
Bruce and I had quite recently been in a very violent thunderstorm. It was night, and a flash of lightning revealed the bubbling tops of the cumulonimbus clouds. I told Bruce I thought we were above them. The next thing, pandemonium, we were in the thunderstorm. It was violently turbulent. Bruce’s Navigation bag was flown into the air and contents were spread everywhere. The Mach number was indicating from beyond the speed of sound to nothing at all as the pressure rapidly changed. There was lightning, and I put on the lightning lights that floodlighted the cockpit and stopped you being blinded. St Elmo's fire was arcing in the cockpit. The noise was very loud as we flew through either heavy rain or hail. One engine flamed out, so I was forced to descend further into the storm. I told Bruce I still had control, but in reality I was just struggling to keep the wings level.
Although it did not happen on this occasion, our aircraft was twice struck by lightning in thunderstorms. On one, I was hit on the bone dome, and had a small burn mark there. It was like getting a small tap with a hammer. On another, which happened north of Darwin, a tip tank was holed and we lost all the fuel in that tank. Often aerials were snapped off and the leading edge of the wings and tail stripped clean with the hail.
All of us were thus very wary of thunderstorms. On this night, as we approached the thunderstorm, it was very bright with lightning and I could see the bubbling clouds stretching well above us. I decided that I could do approaches at Kuala Lumpur on another day, turned back to Singapore and carried out approaches at all the airfields there to fill in the required 3 hours. Gavin and Pete decided to go on. Soon they were being called up on the radio, as neither had checked in as normal at the 100 miles out point. Gavin had been struck by lightning in the thunderstorm and lost his radio. He eventually arrived back at Tengah safe and sound. But there was no response from Pete.
By the time I landed, a full search and rescue was underway. The Wing Commander Flying told me that an RAF Shackleton had seen some sort of signal out to sea and they were investigating that. I suggested they look 100 miles out, where the thunderstorm had been.
A major search was underway. It was decided to photograph the route from Tengah to Butterworth. A Photo Reconnaissance Canberra from 81 Squadron RAF, completed this task. A parachute was found in the photographs. It was in the jungle, and about where the thunderstorm had been the night before. After the parachute was seen on the Canberra pictures, it was located by an RNZAF Bristol Freighter and a helicopter was sent in to try and make a rescue. They advised that the chute was a long way off the ground, it was empty, and there was no one on the ground.
Some days later, Pete was brought out of the jungle by some aboriginals he had come across. He was flown to Changi hospital with an injury to his lower back and wrist, plus cuts and shock. It was several days before the aircraft itself was found, and Dave had not got out. I was given the task of going over to Changi Hospital and telling Pete that Dave had not made it. Not pleasant.
Pete told me his story.
He hit the thunderstorm which he said was very violent. The aircraft became out of control and descending very rapidly. It is possible that the aircraft may have been damaged in the storm, but that was not established by the investigation. The aircraft finished up in very heavy primary jungle and was not worth the effort of recovering. Pete told me he could not raise Dave on the intercom, and when he saw the 10,000-foot marker flash past on the altimeter, he decided to eject. He jettisoned the canopy and ejected into the thunderstorm. (It was thought his lower back injury could have happened as he ejected.)
The next thing, he was suspended in his parachute, obviously caught up in the jungle. To get an idea of how far above the ground he was, he broke off a twig and dropped it. He did not hear it hit, and correctly assumed he was well above the ground. The straps of his parachute were biting into him and hurting. He remembered that he had a razor blade in his Mae West, so he decided to cut one of the straps to relieve the pressure. This caused him to fall out of the harness, and it was only a matter of time before he could no longer hold on and he fell a very long way to the jungle floor. He was unconscious for a while, and when he came too, there was sufficient light for him to see his Mae West caught in a tree well above his reach. In the Mae West was his survival Radio, a Sarah. He took the distress flares from his survival equipment to be ready for a search aircraft. When one did actually fly over, he fired off a two star red distress flare, only to see it hit the jungle canopy and fall back. Useless. He was now in an extremely difficult situation, with no radio and no means of identifying his position to passing aircraft. He therefore decided to try and walk out. He carried his survival gear for a short while, but with his injuries this became too difficult so he abandoned the gear. It was a few days before he fortuitously came across the aboriginals.
Sadly, Pete had severe heart problems and eventually died of a heart attack, 19 Jul 1987 at the young age of 52."
19 Apr 2020, Gavin Trethewey also comments on the crash:
"I was involved in some way with the loss of Canberra WF915 in Malaya and later as the section leader when NZ6104 flew in to the water at China Rock weapons range. I well remember the night that WF915 went down. I had a hammering including a lightning strike on my aircraft in a thunderstorm as I recall about 90 miles out of Singapore. Pete Bevan and I were about 5 minutes apart on the same route. I passed this information on when I got back to Tengah and so the search was directed to that area."
Crash site:
Bahau Palong Forest Reserve, Malaya.
www.protectedplanet.net/palong-forest-reserve
National Archives of Singapore photo of RAF & RNZAF crews on jungle search for the RNZAF Canberra in order to mark grave of navigator.
www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/...
Pathe News movie of the search party in action:
www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA9PAZQFZXPIQQN5CCSL42LSCPL-...
Above photo of RNZAF Canberra WF915 at Tengah by Alan Mudge:
www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/NZ-Canberra/RNZAF_Canberra...
Memories of Singapore
www.singas.co.uk/singas_gallery/displayimage.php?album=3&...
Aviation Safey Net report:
aviation-safety.net/wikibase/20746
Apparently David Finn was initially buried at the crash site. His body was later exhumed and buried at Kranji Military Cemetery, Singapore, Plot 14, Row B, Grave 3. During the repatriation project the team contacted a family member and received instructions not to repatriate his body to New Zealand.
From "For Your Tomorrow", Vol Two by Errol Martyn:
Thu 26 Oct 1961
FAR EAST AIR FORCE
Night navigation exercise from Tengah to Butterworth, Malaya, and return.
75 Squadron, RNZAF (Tengah, Singapore - 224 Group, RAF)
English Electric Canberra B.2 WF915 - took off shortly after 1900 piloted by Flt Lt P G Bevan, at 40,000 feet unexpectedly flew into the violent turbulence of a cumulous-nimbus cloud, struck by lightning and fell out of control. At 27,000 feet Bevan ordered his navigator to bale out, himself ejecting at 8000 feet after partially regaining control only to lose it again. Concussed during the ejection, he descended unconscious into a tree, injuring himself on falling to the ground when a branch broke as he climbed down after coming to. He was, however, able to walk west until striking a jungle track, where he was found wandering by a Chinese woodcutter on the 30th. Bad weather had meanwhile hampered searchers looking for the missing bomber. Over 20 aircraft of the RNZAF and three other air forces, and ground parties were involved. They finally located WF915 on the 31st some 6 miles from where Bevan had ejected, near Bahau, in the Palong Forest Reserve (at position 02°45’29.9”N:102°37’50.2”E). The dead navigator lay 50 yards away, still strapped into his seat, and was buried near the scene. He was later reinterred in the Ulu Pandan Cemetery at Singapore, but because of redevelopment of the cemetery area in the mid-1970s his remains were exhumed and transferred to the CWGC cemetery at Kranji. (Note: WF915 was an RAF Canberra on hire to the RNZAF.)
Navigator: 77296 F/O David Lloyd Finn, RNZAF - age 24.
Auckland Museum Cenotaph Record and photo of David Finn's headstone at Kranji:
www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/recor...
Memorial Wall with David Finn's name top centre panel:
media.api.aucklandmuseum.com/id/media/v/304262?rendering=...
Comment by Alan Chung, 9 Apr 2020:
NZ77296 F/O David Lloyd Finn, age 24, 2 Sep 37-26 Oct 61
Kranji plot 14, row B, Grave 3.
Place of accident Bahau Palong Forest Reserve.
Photo & details: 41 Sqn Unit History Oct 1961, Appendix D
Article by W/C John Scrimshaw (retired).
Taken at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station where the station was transformed into a David Bowie fan's memorabilia dream to promote the Brooklyn Museum exhibit and music streaming service Spotify.
After the power plant and the cooling tower, here come pictures of the offices, including the baths, cafeteria as well as workshops. And, a little farther, a former Intercom coal distributor (big metallic structure).
Après la centrale thermique à proprement parler et la tour de refroidissement, voici un album sur les bureaux de la centrale, comprenant les bains-douches, la cafétéria ainsi que des ateliers. Et, un peu plus loin, un ancien distributeur à charbon d'Intercom (grande structure métallique).
Fotos da condecoração da Professora Maria Aparecida Baccega com o Prêmio Luiz Beltrão de Ciências da Comunicação, categoria Maturidade Acadêmica, realizado no dia 5 de setembro de 2013 no Intercom em Manaus
Fotos da condecoração da Professora Maria Aparecida Baccega com o Prêmio Luiz Beltrão de Ciências da Comunicação, categoria Maturidade Acadêmica, realizado no dia 5 de setembro de 2013 no Intercom em Manaus
Fotos da condecoração da Professora Maria Aparecida Baccega com o Prêmio Luiz Beltrão de Ciências da Comunicação, categoria Maturidade Acadêmica, realizado no dia 5 de setembro de 2013 no Intercom em Manaus
Fotos da condecoração da Professora Maria Aparecida Baccega com o Prêmio Luiz Beltrão de Ciências da Comunicação, categoria Maturidade Acadêmica, realizado no dia 5 de setembro de 2013 no Intercom em Manaus
IDENTIFICATION
Call Sign: LMYV 3
IMO No: 9328546
DnV no: 25984
MMSI no: 258366000
SERVICES AVAILABLE
The vessel is equipped and fitted for the following
services:
Platform Supply
Oil Recovery operations - Dispersant
Good station keeping, ERN 99.99.99.68
MAIN DETAILS
Type: MT-6000 MK2
Supply /Service Vessel / Oil Rec
Class DnV
1A1 Clean COMF V(3) DK(+) DYNPOS(AUTR) E0 HL(2.8)
LFL(*) NAUT(OSV) OILREC SF DK(+)
Certificates
World Wide, SOLAS 74/78
Load line conv. 1969,
NOFO2009
Yard and Registry
Builders Aker Langsten
Vessel built 2005
Port of registry Stavanger
Flag Norwegian
MAIN DIMENSIONS
L.o.a. 85,65 m
L.p.p. 78,00m
Breadth 19,70 m
Deadweight 4248 t
Draught, design/Scantl. 6,0m
GT(ITC) 3331t
NT (ITC) 1212t
DECK SPACE / STRENGTH
Deck areal 58,6m*16m 914 m²
Deck Cargo 3215 tons
Deck strength 10-5 t/m²
TANK CAPACITIES
Ballast water 1012 m3
Drill water 1012 m3
Pot water 838 m3
Dry bulk cargo tanks 397 m3
Base oil (Special products) 170 m3
Fuel oil 1417 m3
Liquid Mud (6 tanks) 653 m3
Liquid Brine (4 tanks) 646 m3
Methanol/Special Prod (2 tanks) 170 m3
Recovered oil 1500 m3
Dispersant 50 m3
CARGO LINE CONNECTIONS
Fuel oil 4” Avery Hardoll male
Pot water 4” Weco female
Drill water 4” Weco female
Brine 4” Weco male
Liquid mud 4” Weco female
Methanol 4“ Avery Hardoll male
Barite 5” Best, female
Cement 5” Best, male
Spec. Product 4“ Avery Hardoll male
Slop 4” Todo , male
CARGO DISCHARGING PUMPS
Fuel oil (el-driven) 2x 0-250 m³/h - 9 bar
DW/Ball (el-driven) 2x 0-150 m³/h - 9 bar
Pot water (el-drv) 2x 0-150 m³/h - 9 bar
Liq. Mud (el-driven) 2x 0-85 m³/h - 24 bar
Liq. Mud (el-driven) 1x 0-125 m³/h - 24 bar
Brine (el-driven) 2x 0-100 m³/h - 18 bar
Methanol (hyd drv) 2x 75 m³/h -7,2 bar
Spec. Prod. (h. drv) 2x 75 m³/h -7,2 bar
Dry bulk Van Alst 2x 100 ton/h wp 5,6 bar
CRANES
One off deck crane 3 T @ 10 m. ABAS
One off deck crane 3 T @ 16 m. ABAS
DYNAMIC POSITION SYSTEM DP-2
Kongsberg Maritime SDP-22
DnV class DYNPOS – AUTR
2 DGPS
Cyscan
ERN Number: 99.99.99.68
NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT
2x Electronic chart system; TECDIS JH 20T04
1x AIS Type: Furuno FA - 100
1x 10 cm ARPA radar type Furuno FAR 2827
1x 3 cm ARPA radar type Furuno FCR 2837 S
1x DGPS type Seatex DPS 116
1x DGPS type Seatex DPS 200
1x GPS type: Furuno GP - 90
3x Gyro type: Plath Navigat X MK1 mod 10
1x Autopilot type: Sperry Navipilot
1x Echo Sounder type Furuno FE - 700
1x Doppler Log type Furuno DS- 80
3x Conning Display
1x VDR: Furuno VR- 5000
1x AIS Furuno
1x Navtex Type: Furuno NX-50
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
The Radio installation are according to GMDSS-A3(World
Wide)
Furuno Felcom 15 Inmarsat C (GMDSS)
1x MF/HF- DSC: Furuno FS-2570 Simplex.
Hospital sett for FS-2721 / VHF
1x Inmarsat Mini M. type: Nera
1x V-Sat Telenor communication.
2x Fixed VHF Furuno FM-8700 With DSC
2x Fixed VHF Motorola
3x Fixed VHF Furuno,
1x Fixed VHF Sailor 6588 DGNSS
6x Fixed UHF Motorola
3x Portable VHF Tron TR 20 (GMDSS)
2x Portable VHF type: Motorola
6x Portable UHF Motorola GP380
4x Portable VHF Motorola DP4401Ex
1x Aircraft Radio: ICOM A 110
1x Helideck Portable Radio Type: ICOM IC-A3E
1x Free-Float Emerg. Beacon Type: Tron 40 S
1x Hand held emerg. Beacon type: Tron 45 SX
2x S A R transponders: Tron Sart .
1x VHF Radio Direction Finder Taiyo TDL1550
1x Inmarsat C. SSAS = Ships Alert System
1x Helibeacon 410 kHz Skandi TS-1B
1x Seatel TV satellite antenna
1x Furuno Sat. F
DECK MACHINERY
One double windlass/mooring winch
Two 10 tonnes tugger winches
Two 10 tonnes capstans
SPEED
Service speed: 14 knots-approx. 16,3m3/24hrs@4 gen.sets
Eco Speed: 11 knots-approx. 9,3m3/24hrs@1 gen.set
DP operation: approx. 4m3/24hrs
Stand by: approx. 2 m3/24hrs (outside 500m zone)
ACCOMMODATION
Total 24 –Persons
12x Single Cabins
6 x Double Cabin
1x Deck Office
1x Hospital, incl. 1 bed
1x Conference Room
The vessel has safety equipment acc. to Solas for 24
persons.
RESCUE AND LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Hospital with treatment bench, stretchers, medicine and
poison lockers, intercom and direct ship to shore
communication
Medical equipment /Medicines in acc. to NMD.
1 x Mob Boat type GTC 700
1 x Mob Boat type
1 off Dacon rescue net
ENGINES AND PROPULSION
Main Engines
4 x Caterpillar type 3516TA serie B
Main Generators:
4 x AVK type DSG 86 M1-4w rated at 2028kVA/ 1825 kW
Azimuth thrusters aft:
2 x LIPS type FS275-S/WN, each 2500 kW
Azimuth thrusters bow:
1 x LIPS type FS175-234/MNR, 880 kW
Tunnel thrusters bow:
2 x LIPS type FT225M-D, each 880 kW
OIL RECOVERY SPECIFICATIONS
Prepared for NOFO 2009 equipment.
Dispersant spray booms
Miros Oil Spill Radar
Arranged and approved according to NOFO 2009
requirements.
QSHE CERTIFICATION
ISM
ISPS
MLC
ISO-9001:2008
ISO-14001:2004
QA QUALIFICATIONS
FPAL Registered
Selliha Registered
Achilles Registered
OVID Registered
IMCA Member
...over the intercom that because of the train's inadvertent failure to proceed at Stalybridge his onward connection at Huddersfield would be missed.
Stalybridge is described by wikipedia as a 'self confident town'. By the time I had read the article and gone down several adjacent rabbit holes of information we were on the move again.
The jolly people in the adjacent seats lived in Majorca but were on holiday visiting family and found the British weather much more agreeable after the Mediterranean heat of there home town.
Saltburn Funicular Railway is the oldest working water-powered inclined tramway in the world. It was built to transport passengers up and down the steep north-facing cliff behind the town's pier. It replaced an 1870 vertical cliff lift on the same spot, and remains in regular use between March and October.
The town of Saltburn-by-the-sea is some 37m above its pier, with a steep cliff between the two. The pier's engineer, John Anderson, decided to build a cliff lift to make it easier for people to access the pier. Work began soon after the pier opened in May 1869, and the lift opened on 1st July 1870.
The lift was a 36.6m high vertical water-powered hoist housed in a tapering lattice timber tower. A narrow horizontal walkway supported on timber trestles linked it to the cliff top. The lift cage could accommodate 20 people and moved up or down by filling and emptying a water balance tank. The structure was roped to the ground for additional stability.
Saltburn Pier Company owned the hoist until August 1883, when it was sold to the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate consortium. The new owners judged the lift unsafe, apparently it tended to stop halfway and much of the timber had deteriorated, so it was demolished that same year.
A new inclined tramway, or funicular railway, opened at the same location (directly in line with the pier) and began taking passengers from 28th June 1884. It was designed by George Croydon Marks (1858-1938), working for Richard Tangye's (1833-1906, knighted 1894) company.
The funicular railway has two cabins that run on parallel tracks each 63m long, set at a gradient of 1 in 1.4 (71 percent). Each cabin accommodates up to 12 people and they feature decorative stained glass windows. The cabins are mounted on triangular iron subframes, which keep the floors level as they travel. The subframes house large water tanks. When one cabin is at the top of the cliff, the other is at the foot.
The tank in the cabin at the top is filled with water until it exceeds the weight of the cabin below and descends under gravity, raising the lower cabin. When the first cabin reaches the bottom, its tank is emptied and the top cabin’s tank is filled, ready for the process to restart.
A nearby spring supplies the necessary water, which is stored in two reservoirs, one of 136,380 litres at the lower station and another of 84,100 litres at the cliff top. It is pumped from the lower to the upper reservoir at a rate of 818 litres per minute. A 4.5kW Otto gas engine, working from the town's gas main, originally powered the pump.
An iron winding wheel also controls the movement of the cabins, with double grooves for the running cables (located midway between the rails) and a flange for the brake system. The wheel is operated from a small building at the top of the cliff.
During the winter of 1921-2, the track gauge was changed from 1.143m to 1.283m. In 1924, the gas engine was replaced with a direct current generator and an electrically operated water pump.
The cabin bodies were replaced in 1955, without stained glass. At the end of the 1974 season, the railway sleepers were renewed. In 1979, new aluminium carriages echoing the original design, complete with stained glass windows were installed.
In 1997-8, the tramway was given a comprehensive refit to ensure it complied with modern safety standards. In 1998, the original winding wheel was replaced and a new hydraulic braking system installed.
From 19th September 2010 to 11th April 2011, the funicular underwent restoration at a cost of £30,000. The carriages were taken off-site in November 2010 for specialist refurbishment, during which an intercom system was added.
Machinery: Tangye Ltd
Cabins: Metropolitan Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Ltd
Gas Engine: Crossley Brothers
Hydraulic Brake System (1998): Skelton Engineering
Aluminium Carriages (2011): Stanegate Restorations
Fotos da condecoração da Professora Maria Aparecida Baccega com o Prêmio Luiz Beltrão de Ciências da Comunicação, categoria Maturidade Acadêmica, realizado no dia 5 de setembro de 2013 no Intercom em Manaus
[en] mop demijohns intercom
inspired by pantena's rubbish collection
ancona, shooting with my friends [buttha] [andrea di gioia]
Went to an auction at this very odd house in a gated neighborhood.
Not the kind of place I can generally afford to visit, it featured retro-fancy features, such as indoor balconies overlooking a sun room, gigantic hot tubs and bath tubs and toilets with no privacy (??), vintage intercom system, fireplaces, wood-burning stoves, etc.