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Crappier twine than my test run with this book, though crap is always relevant.
Some layout reworking. Much nicer as a whole. $2
52 Week Project: Number 26: Explore
The lighting for this portrait was pretty easy. I use my alien bee camera left with a red gel and then to add more red I put a slave flash in the lantern. The slave flash only cost about 30 bucks and its perfect to put behind someone to cause separation. I wanted to keep the lighting pretty simple.
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Pima Air and Space Museum
BRITISH AEROSPACE HAWK T1A
SERIAL NUMBER XX292
Current Markings: Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows, RAF Scampton, 2009
The Hawk is a two-seat subsonic trainer developed by Hawker Siddeley as a replacement for the Folland Gnat in 1968. The Hawk has served as the main advanced jet trainer for the Royal Air Force for more than forty years. The prototype Hawk made its first flight on August 21, 1974, with the first aircraft entering service in 1976. The T1A version of the Hawk Included modifications allowing the carrying of Sidewinder missiles and a gun pod under the fuselage for air-to-air weapons training. Versions of the Hawk have served with numerous military forces outside of England. The United States Navy uses an aircraft carrier capable version called the Goshawk for advanced pilot training and carrier qualification.
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows was formed in 1964 by combining several earlier teams. They flew their first public displays in 1965 with the Folland Gnat. The team changed to the Hawk in 1979 and have flown it since then. The team has performed throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. The Red Arrows last toured the United States and Canada in 2019 performing in air shows along side the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds and the Navy's Blue Angels.
This aircraft was produced by British Aerospace and delivered to the Royal Air Force on November 2, 1979. Its unit assignments between 1979 and 1989 are unknown. In 1989 it was transferred to No. 4 Flying Training Squadron, RAF Valley. In 1996 it went to the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, at RAF Cranwell. In 2000 it moved with Red Arrows to RAF Scampton. In October 2009 it was retired to RAF Shawbury for permanent storage.
Technical Specifications:
Wingspan: 30 ft 10 in.
Length: 39 ft 3 in.
Height: 13 ft 1 in.
Weight: 18,891 pounds (loaded)
Maximum speed: 622 mph
Service Ceiling: 44,500 ft
Range: 690 miles
Engines: One Rolls Royce/Turbomeca Adour Mk 151 turbofan
Crew: 2
The Disaster
On the evening of 25th October 1960 a number of barges were making their way up river from Avonmouth to Sharpness. Amongst them were two vessels operated by John Harker Ltd. of Knottingley, Yorkshire. The WASTDALE H had been built locally at Sharpness Shipyard in 1951. She was a tanker barge and was carrying a load of petroleum. The ARKENDALE H had been built by Richards Ironworks of Lowestoft in 1937 as a dumb (unpowered) tanker barge. She had been converted to a motor barge in 1948 and was later lengthened. Her cargo was Britoleum black oil, a heavy oil which required her to be fitted with heating coils in her tanks to keep the oil liquid.
The barges hit thick fog near Berkeley Power Station and the strong incoming tide was running at 5 knots making it difficult to manoeuvre the vessels for their approach to the lock at Sharpness. Both barges were swept past the lock entrance and the found themselves by the old, disused dock entrance further upstream. The two barges came abreast and the skippers found it impossible to separate them. Whilst they struggled to break them apart they drifted yet further upstream until the port bow of the WASTDALE H hit pier 17 of the bridge. The bridge shook with the impact and the WASTDALE H turned onto her port side and began to sink. As pier 17 gave way under the pressure the two spans it supported fell onto the barges causing the WASTDALE H’s petroleum cargo to ignite and explode. The ARKENDALE H’s cargo of black oil was also ruptured and with the help of the petroleum it too ignited leaving the entire expanse of the river blazing. The two barges drifted on up river before grounding on the Ridge Sandbank. Skipper George Thompson of the ARKENDALE H managed to make it ashore. His engineer Jack Cooper also survived but not before he received a severe back injury sustained by an encounter with the still-rotating propeller of the sinking ARKENDALE H. Skipper James Dew of the WASTDALE H was the only other survivor. The other five crew members were missing.
The next morning the smouldering wrecks of the two barges were left high and dry on the sand with the WASTDALE H standing on her port side. On the following tide she settled back to en even keel. Attempts were made to pump out and search both vessels for the missing crew members but their inaccessible position made the job difficult. All five bodies were later found at various locations along the Severn. On 30th October 1960 the Army blew holes in the bow and stern of both barges to prevent them refloating. They remain there to this day, submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide.
On the night of the disaster the Fairfields workers engaged on the strengthening of the bridge decided to take an early meal break in order to listen to the Henry Cooper v Karl Muller boxing match on the wireless at Severn Bridge Station. Had they not done so the death toll would have been considerably worse as the span they were working on was one of the two that fell.
Within a month of the disaster the Western Region of British Railways had prepared an outline plan to repair the bridge. Pier 16 would be repaired and a new concrete pier would be constructed to replace pier 17. A single, welded mild steel span would then be placed across the top, supported in the middle by the new pier. The projected cost for this was £85,000.
It was found that pier 16 was significantly damaged and was leaning towards the Sharpness bank. It was therefore decided to erect a timber trestle beneath span 15-16 and the contract to do this was awarded to Peter Lind & Co. Ltd.
The bridge suffered further mishap on 17th February 1961 when the tanker barge BP EXPLORER capsized and struck pier 20 causing a further £12,740 worth of damage.
Peter Lind & Co. Ltd. hired the twin floating crane TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE to assist with the erection of the trestle. On the 14th April 1961 the TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE broke away from its moorings on a flood tide and drifted into the bridge damaging the dolphins on pier 20. The crane jib also struck the underside of the bridge. This time the damage was estimated at £6,000."
Hong Kong Transport - Trucks
The Hong Kong Truck Culture
The number of Trucks, Vans* and Special Purpose Vehicles (Light, Medium & Heavy) registered + licenced in Hong Kong seems to fluctuate between 120,000 - 125,000 vehicles and presumably new trucks registered are offset by old trucks being retired or sold over the border in China.
*Vans are classified as Light Goods Vehicles and are not shown in this album
In Hong Kong Trucks are classified as GOODS VEHICLES By the Transport Department - see below
☛Light Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight not exceeding 5.5 tonnes.
☛Medium Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 5.5 tonnes but not exceeding 24 tonnes.
☛Heavy Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 24 tonnes but not exceeding 38 tonnes.
The major truck types you tend to see in urban areas are trucks carrying construction materials or waste, dump trucks, concrete mixers and all sizes of delivery trucks... outside of the urban areas it is container trucks and large trucks carrying construction materials.
The following brands of Trucks can be seen on the streets of Hong Kong and include:-
Beiben ✚ Bell ✚ CAMC ✚ CNHTC ✚ DAF ✚ Dennis ✚ Dong Feng ✚ FAW ✚ Fuso ✚ Foton ✚ Ford ✚ Hino ✚ Howo ✚ Hyundai ✚ Isuzu ✚ Iveco ✚ JAC ✚ Kato ✚ KIA ✚ Liebherr ✚ MAN ✚ Mercedes Benz ✚ Mitsubishi ✚ Nissan ✚ Renault ✚ Scania ✚ Shacman ✚ Sinotruk ✚ Suzuki ✚ Toyota ✚ UD ✚ Volvo ✚ Zoomlion
Hong Kong is a brand conscious place even for trucks (!) hence the popularity of the European brands, Scania and Man are very popular and even the older trucks look the business and they are utterly reliable.
Isuzu is the market leader in terms of sale volume for all types of trucks.
(Source - The Transport Department, Hong Kong Government)
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Item Number: 8064-5
Document Title: Proposed Improvement Plan of El Estro/ City of Monterey, CA./ Monterey General Park/; Scale 1"= 50' [orig]
Project: 08064; Monterey General Parks; General Park Plan; Monterey; California; 01 Parks, Parkways & Recreation Areas; 27;
Location: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED NHS, BROOKLINE, MA
Category: PLAN
Purpose: None
Physical Characteristics: 0000058101 55 1/2" x 42" cyano neg graphite paper
Dates: 10-JUL-1926 [orig]
Notes: E.A. LaVallee, Landscape Engineer Monterey, CA. [orig] / Shows Existing & Proposed Property Lines. Gives general indications of Plantings. [orig]
Please credit: Courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
IMSA Weathertech racing at Watkins Glen - All classes including Continental Tire Sports Cars, Prototype, and Lamborghini Trofeo, Prototype, GTD and GTLM.
Geometric/Scroll
Casemaker: Littlefield, Parsons and Co.
Size: Sixth plate
Krainik No. 267
Available (common)
Accession Number: spa.1017.143
The second March and Rally for Scottish Independence was held on the 21st September 2013. Supporters of a yes vote in the 2014 referendum rallied in the High Street on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh for midday and then marched to Calton Hill via North Bridge and Princes Street. At Calton Hill they held a rally where they were addressed by speakers such as Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Dennis Canavan, Alan Grogan, Blair Jenkins, Hardeep Singh Koli and Elaine C. Smith.
The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
My travels around the UK with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Making our way to our apartment after a wonderful day looking around London.
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station, located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The station is one of the world's largest brick buildings and notable for its original, Art Deco interior fittings and decor.
The building comprises two power stations, built in two stages in a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built between 1929–35 and Battersea B Power Station to its east, between 1937–41, when construction was paused owing to the worsening effects of the Second World War. The building was completed in 1955. "Battersea B" was built to a near identical design to "Battersea A" which provided the iconic four-chimney structure.
"Battersea A" was decommissioned in 1975. In 1980 the whole structure was given Grade II listed status; "Battersea B" shut three years later. In 2007 its listed status was upgraded to Grade II*. The building remained empty until 2014, during which time it fell into near ruin. Various plans were made to make use of the building, but none were successful. In 2012, administrators Ernst & Young entered into an exclusivity agreement with Malaysia's SP Setia and Sime Darby to develop the site to include 250 residential units, bars, restaurants, office space (occupied by Apple and No.18 business members club), shops and entertainment spaces. The plans were approved and redevelopment started a few years later. As of 2019, the building is owned by a consortium of Malaysian investors.
Restoration of the Grade II* listed Power Station is an early priority in the development. WilkinsonEyre was appointed in 2013 to complete the detailed design of the power station. Work commenced in 2013 and plans include the restoration of the art deco structure internally and externally, reconstruction of the chimneys, and refurbishment of the historic cranes and jetty as a new river taxi stop. The plan includes over 800 homes of varying sizes, and sales of residential apartments in Phase 1 of the redevelopment began in January 2013 with around 75 per cent of townhouses and apartments being sold within four days. Construction work on Phase 1, called Circus West, designed by architects SimpsonHaugh and dRMM, is being undertaken by Carillion and commenced in 2013 alongside work on the Power Station. The full redevelopment consists of seven main phases, some of which are planned to run concurrently. Phase 1 is due to complete in 2016/17 with the Northern line extension and requisite new Battersea Power Station terminal anticipated to complete in 2020.
For More Info:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station
Lomo lc-a + Fuji Sensia 100 Cross Processed.
In case you hadn't noticed...
Thanks to the irrepressible knautia for loaning me the Lc-a earlier this summer....
Greater Manchester Police officers form part of the increased security prescence around Heron House or ‘Number 10 North” as it has become known.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has designated the building as his short-term northern headquarters until a new site has been developed.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk
Works number 3788, NCB Monckton No.1
Built in 1953 for the NCB, it started life at Monckton Colliery near Barnsley. In 1963 the loco was converted to underfeed stoker and gas producer system, the most obvious sign being the chimney and the vent disc on the smokebox. In 1967, the loco was transferred to North Gawber, three miles north of Barnsley.
In 1980 it moved into preservation with the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway.
In the late eighties it was taken out of service with leaking tubes and stored until 1997. Work was slowly undertaken and the loco returned to service in 2002, only to be taken out of service again. It was found that the loco required a new firebox, so sadly the loco is "stored", pending funds and volunteer labour.
Unknown photographer, slide in my collection
It astonishes me that every utility pole has a number -- and that the number is on the pole. I'm sure it says something significant about our world.
Our Daily Challenge: DETAILS OF THE DAY
I dolled it up with acylic paint. I started with the background giving it a more weathered look, then I added the white parts and ended with the black numbering.
IMSA Weathertech Sahlen's six hours of the Glen at Watkins Glen on June 29th 2018 (IMSA Weekend Day 1)
Greater Manchester Police officers form part of the increased security prescence around Heron House or ‘Number 10 North” as it has become known.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has designated the building as his short-term northern headquarters until a new site has been developed.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk