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Delta Connection/SkyWest Embraer ERJ-175/LR N255SY lands San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) January 25, 2017 while Lufthansa Airbus A380-841 D-AIMC taxis to depart. SkyWest is operating as SKW 4876 from Seattle/Tacoma, and Lufthansa is DLH 455 to Frankfurt.
People throw coins onto its underwater brick platform, as into a wishing well. I stood on the bridge over the spillway, and pointed my cam down toward the water, to catch this image.
The following info is adapted from the article "Keeping Olmstead Alive: The Biltmore Estate" at landscapeonline.com/research/article.php/5133
The four-mile-square Bass Pond is on the historic grounds near Biltmore House. The Pond has the original flume designed and installed by Fredericik Law Olmsted in 1894 to keep the pond water clear.
The recently restored flume uses gravity feed, no pumps. After heavy rains or when the water is high and muddy, the manually operated release valve is opened and the muddy water is carried through the bottom spillway and pipe into Four Mile Creek, and from there, into the French Broad River. A huge underground pipe made of brick runs under the Pond, which allows one of the valves to be shut off, releasing water to the bottom of the spillway. The recent restoration of the flume system under Bass Pond was headed up by Bill Cecil Jr., the great grandson of George Vanderbilt. Bill Cecil Jr., is the CEO of the Biltmore Estate, a quiet, intelligently run family organization.
LZ-BRB Boeing 757 23A (PF)
ex ASL Airlines Seen here about to land at BHX after operating a test flight from BUD.
WCR operated 46115 "Scots Guardsman" stands at Preston Station having just arrived from Carlisle working "The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express", 1A87 Carlisle - London Euston. Here it would then detach and go on to Carnforth and 86259 would take over for the remainder of the tour. Taken on January 28th, 2023.
Front View
1911 Baker Electric Special Extension Coupe, Model V
In the first decades of the 20th century, electric vehicles seemed poised for primacy. Early internal-combustion engines were rudimentary, dangerous, and difficult to operate, requiring all sorts of pump priming and starter torqueing. Those tasks were uncouth for the wealthy gentlemen who were the automobile’s first customers and downright risky for the era’s women, clothed in voluminous, billowing Edwardian dresses and patriarchal notions of competence. Electric cars, on the other hand, were extremely simple to use. So long as the heavy batteries were maintained and charged, all one had to do was click the on switch, twist the go lever, and roll.
Having founded the American Ball Bearing Company in 1895, Midwestern engineer Walter C. Baker understood the basics of carriage production. This background gave him faith that he could make the leap into car building. Teaming up with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, he started the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland in 1899. Seeing the aforementioned advantages inherent in electric vehicles, Baker decided to place his faith in this powertrain.
“Number one, it’s comfortable, and it’s not terribly difficult to drive,” said Stew Somerville, a volunteer mechanic at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in upstate New York, which holds a 1911 Baker in its eclectic collection. “But part of the attraction of the electric automobile was the fact that it did not emit gasoline fumes, you didn’t have to crank-start the engine, there was no big wheel to wrestle with. It was a very smooth-handling automobile. You didn’t even have a loud, offensive horn. There’s a dainty little bell to warn of its coming.” Period ads were frequently, although not exclusively, pitched directly at women.
Baker’s first car to market was a two-seater, the Imperial Runabout. Priced at a competitive $850, it was first shown in New York at the city’s (and nation’s) first auto show. It attracted a number of notable buyers, including Thomas Edison, who purchased one as his very first car. (Edison designed the long-lived nickel-iron batteries used in some Baker vehicles.) By 1906, Baker was, briefly, the world’s top producer of electric vehicles.
But like many of his cohort in the emergent automotive industry, Baker wasn’t just in it for the business. He was in it for the speed. As his company was enjoying success in the consumer market, he was pursuing his dream by developing a series of advanced, record-setting racing cars. His first, the Torpedo, was built in 1902, at great personal expense to Baker. With its 11 batteries, 14-hp mid-mounted motor, outrageously low-slung 48-inch height, streamlined and lightweight white-pine and oilcloth body, and bizarre webbed canvas seat restraints, it seemed poised to set a world land speed record.
Sadly, in that year’s Automobile Club of America speed trials on Staten Island, the car was involved in a disastrous crash. After crossing the 1-kilometer (0.6 mile) mark in just over 30 seconds, Baker and his co-driver lost control and crashed into a group of spectators. One person died at the scene, and another died later from injuries. The drivers were both arrested and charged with manslaughter but were freed when it was determined that the crowd had pushed past protective barriers and onto the course. (Baker’s innovative safety harness likely protected the car’s occupants from serious injury.)
Further attempts with two smaller, single-seater race cars he named Torpedo Kid were also employed in pursuit of the land speed record but were subsequently abandoned following another, nonlethal spectator crash in 1903. Baker has often been noted as the first person to cross the 100-mph barrier, although his records weren’t official due to these wrecks.
Given this peril, Baker decided to forgo his quest for top speed. As gasoline-powered vehicles increased in popularity and gained infrastructural support, he shifted his attention instead to diminishing the electric car’s liabilities, particularly their limited range. He worked diligently on new battery designs, shaft drives, and other componentry. In 1910, Baker’s new chief engineer, Emil Gruenfeldt, set a record for distance driven on a single charge, taking a Baker Victoria for a 201-mile trip at an average speed of 12 mph. Not exactly Ludicrous speed, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
Baker’s successes gave the company prominence among the elite, and the company capitalized on this publicly. In advertisements around 1909, the brand boldly boasted about the King of Siam owning a Baker. The company made a similar splash in American politics when President William H. Taft’s administration purchased a 1909 model as one of the White House’s first automobiles. (A steam-powered White and two gasoline-powered Pierce-Arrows were also included, Taft hedging his bets on how the battle of the powertrains was going to play out.) Taft later added a 1912 Baker Victoria that went on to be driven by five First Ladies. The Baker brand maintains some celebrity allure today, with car-collecting comedian Jay Leno holding a 1909 model in his expansive collection.
As a means of offsetting some of the powertrain’s inherent shortcomings, Baker made investments in battery-charging infrastructure. The brand announced plans to open stations at every major intersection in Cleveland and to grow the network from there, although this effort became cost prohibitive and never came to fruition. Expansion into the production of electric trucks, police patrol wagons, and even trucks and bomb handlers for the U.S. Army during World War I was not enough to fend off the rising dominance of the internal-combustion engine, especially after the proliferation of the electric starter, first available on the 1912 Cadillac, significantly increased safety and convenience. By 1915, the Baker company was defunct.
By Brett Berk, Car and Driver
A tour boat operated by River Cruise. Pic taken from Sky Garden (on level 51) of CapitaSpring, Market Street.
*Note: More Ships, Boats and Watercraft pics in my Ships, Boats and Watercraft Album.
Operated by the 436th AW at Dover AFB, Reach 045 taxies onto the runway extension via Echo at RAF Mildenhall.
© Samuel Pilcher 2016. Use of this image without permission is prohibited.
I'm operating without my Photoshop, my calibrated monitor, my graphics tablet, or even a mouse, so I have no idea how my work is looking to anyone other than myself. Please let me know if something looks weird. :-)
Highest position: 74 on Friday, February 8, 2008
Operating theater at the former Soviet military hospital at Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany.
This is one of a few film shots I did, I've already posted digital shots of this scene. I go back and forth as to whether I like the digital or the film better. Today, I like the film.
I'll be away for a few days over an extended weekend, and look forward to catching up on my friends' photostreams when I'm back.
Operating on the old C&O Mountain Sub now operated by the Buckingham Branch RR. Passing the west end of what was once a signaled passing siding.
Operating with the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Group, US Air Force Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 60-0024/LA caught on finals to land back at Fairford after a 'Baltops' tasking as 'Pharo 20'
276A3891
Operating a CSA-flight from Prague to Brussels. Plane apparently on lease to Smartwings. On finals 25L
Operated by Acropolis Aviation, Airbus Corporate Jet 320neo G-KELT is seen landing at Farnborough after a short hop from Cork. This aircraft has a full range of 5,500nm and can carry 19 passengers and 6 crew in insane luxury. There are beds for 17, so a few might have to share, I guess... :o))
Operated by Garuda; since March 2020 painted in this special livery and operated on both Garuda and government services
The oldest operating lighthouse in the world, the Tower of Hercules was built by the Romans in the 1st century AD. An additional skin of blockwork was added in 1791 along with a upper storey with a lantern room. The lighthouse is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
N4752C Fairchild C-82A Packet (operated by Northern Air Cargo)
Ex 48-0581, civil registered in 1955 as N4752C. Bought by Northern Air Cargo in May 1970 and flown by them until damaged in an accident in April 1982.
Withdrawn from use in 1985 and purchased in June 1986 by Daryl Greenamyer, who ferried it to the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB on 30th June 1988.
Initially displayed as 45-57735, it has now been re-painted with its original serial as 80581
(scan from my collection - not taken by myself)
Operated by Tour Operator Brigit's Bakery on Sightseeing tours with Tea and Cakes of London. Seen at Elephant and Castle on 4th September 2020.
190/365,
Operated by Kelowna Flightcraft Air
Boeing 737-600
737-6CT
Delivered Aug 2006
YVR - YXY
Vancouver - Whitehorse
Trip distance; 1,293 km,
Trip time; 01:37,
YVR, Vancouver International Airport,
Sea Island, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Published On: April 11, 2022
The new charter airline will fly domestic and international passenger programs using a fleet of B737NG aircraft.
One needs to be cool and comfortable while working.
These are my Birkenstock clogs for the operating room.
David Bowie: youtu.be/gMu_3HmvPG0?si=FJqqf1Mnxb7-Uu6A
Operating from Mojave in 1987 while engaged in GE CF6-80C2 engine testing. This engine variant would go on to power the Boeing 747-400, MD-11, A300-600, A310, Boeing 767, Kawasaki C-2, and (as the F138) the Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy and Boeing VC-25A.
F-BUAD is preserved at Cologne Bonn Airport in its final, "Zero-G", livery.
Operating an Aer Lingus service during a strike, one of several to affect the airline in the 1970s and 1980s. This aircraft had quite a long career and was operated by Southwest Airlines from 1994 to 2012, as N692SW. It was retired and parked at Tucson on 17 August 2012.
The Forward Ranger Operating Group is the elite FROG squad that drops in for the most fierce front line battles.
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It's been a weird retrospective week - As most people know I'm kinda known for not just frogs, but animal mechs in general.
And sometimes it's like It feels like I'm making these stories up... but I'm not...
But on Wednesday - Blair pointed pointed out these cool Frog based Gundam suits... and the SAME day, Same day I wrote the Visor + LEGO Dad article, I get an awesome package from random gift package from Adam, which contained: Frogs and Brickforge Visors.
... I'm not joking. So I started working on this pair, trying to find something that resembled the gundam.
I started doing stickering last night - and 1ssac posted HIS pink frog build and tagged me on IG ... and this morning Someone ELSE pointed out the gundam sets....
... Yeah this is meant to be. :)
ACC6031, ACC6030 operating train 8976 through Brewongle with loaded Manildra flour bound for the Manildra plant at Nowra.
Complications with motive power shortages at Southern Shorthaul Railroad and a delayed delivery of GT46ACe Manildra owned locomotives has seen many Aurizon locomotives off hired to operate Manildra Group trains to make up the shortfall. In the case of ACC6031 & 30, the locomotives have just made the trip from Kalgoorlie to NSW and were put to work within a couple of days.
Operated by ABX Air, this DHL 767-300F (N372CM), on the LAX cargo ramp, was first delivered to Qantas as VH-OGM in 1992.
“MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built (aside from the outfitting) deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.”
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