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The Recreation program office is located in the Annex Building, located at the end of Loop Road below the Undergraduate Building. Here, you can sign up for fun trips and workshops and rent equipment for an outdoor adventure.
Photo: Laura Dutelle
ATOM Pink Tank Program: Empowering Women in STEM Careers | Spring 2022. To learn more about the FIU College of Business visit business.fiu.edu.
The 2012 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships hosted by The Skating Club of Boston and Team Excel
Students, famillies and staff celebrated graduates of the SUCCESS Program at a picnic recently.
Photo submitted by the SUCCESS Program.
The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program hosted a Working in America event, "What’s in Store: The Future of Work in Retail,” at the Aspen Institute offices in Washington, DC, on November 17, 2017. Panelists at the event – including Walmart’s Ellie Bertani, National Employment Law Project’s Tsedeye Gebreselassie, Logan Hardware’s Gina Schaefer, Cornerstone Capital Group’s Sebastian Vanderzeil, and The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip – discussed how changes in the retail industry are shaping the way businesses sell, consumers shop, and employees work.
Photo Credit: Laurence Genon / Property of the Aspen Institute
by Rich Teer. 2004.
Paperback version divided in to the two volumes! Unexpected, but seems quite useful.
The FIU Accounting Bridge program is a 2-day summer program for selected college-bound students. During the 2 days participants will have the opportunity to meet professionals who studied in accounting and now have lucrative, secure, and fascinating jobs.
Pima Air and Space Museum
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM FIXED BASE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SIMULATOR
One of only three advanced space shuttle orbiter simulators used to train NASA astronauts.
The fixed-base Guidance and Navigation Simulator (GNS) represents one of only three simulators once used to train astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Along with the motion-base Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) and the Fixed-Base Simulator (FBS), these complex machines were used to create a series of various mission tasks ranging from full mission rehearsals down to recreating specific exercises such as atmosphere entry or launching satellites.
Predating the SMS and FBS, the GNS was built in the late 1970s and operational by 1982. Initially it was primarily used only to test and verify guidance and navigation software that would later be installed in the SMS, FBS, and orbiters. As such it originally did not have visual computer-generated windscreen displays and much of the interior was unfinished, though it did contain the same complex array of cockpit instrumentation, controls, and computer displays operated by five distinct general-purpose computers (GPC) present in actual orbiters.
Following the Challenger accident investigation, the Rogers Commission suggested that NASA invest in additional crew training simulators to provide increased and expanded training and to handle the higher frequency of missions. However, the cost of providing an additional SMS or FBS proved too expensive, so NASA elected to upgrade the GNS into a full fixed-base crew simulator that was essentially identical to the FBS.
The upgraded GNS flight deck was enhanced to provide a more realistic appearance and a full visual computer-generated imagery system for the six forward facing windscreens. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was a new science in the early 1980s and all the simulators used a first-generation CGI system, rudimentary by today's standards.
For 20 years the upgraded GNS was used interchangeably with the FBS and it is likely that every post-Challenger crew spent time in the GNS practicing launch, ascent, orbit, re-entry, and landing procedures.
With the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the GNS was retired in 2011. In late 2020 the GNS was used on the set of a science fiction movie due to be released in late 2021 [not sure why they’re being cryptic, its Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall]. The filmmakers modified the simulator's external appearance, making the GNS more closely resemble the outer surface of an actual orbiter, along with internal cabin modifications. Following movie shooting, the GNS flight deck was donated to the Pima Air & Space Museum in early 2021.
Duxford Flying Legends 2016.
As is the norm at Duxford based air shows the flying was programmed to commence at 2pm prompt. Early indications were that weather was going to be against everyone, with low cloud, grey skies, strong winds and drizzle. As time moved forward and 2pm arrived the skies miraculously cleared revealing lovely blue skies, sun and fluffy clouds; an aviation photographers dream. Just before 2pm the rousing sound of Rolls Royce Merlin and Griffon engines could be heard along the crowd line as they began to taxi out down towards the end of the grass landing strip and ran up to full power to allow the oil in those V12 engines to warm up and circulate around the arterial passages around the famous pulsating heart of the Spitfire. Once cleared the Spitfire's roared off down the grass airfield and took to the air to form up, an evocative sight arcing back to Duxford’s days as an active airfield during World War Two. Once formed up and all systems checked the Spitfire's launched into their flying display with a sweep in from the left of the crowd line to begin their ''Tail Chase''.
July hails the midpoint of the U.K Air Show calendar, with what some may say is the World’s premier Warbird event ''Flying Legends''. Based at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, The Fighter Collection brings together piston powered aircraft from across the globe to display to the adoring crowds, some of which themselves have travelled half way across the world to see the yearly spectacle. This specialist event displays all the grace, majesty and power these wonderful Flying Machines have to offer. Usually a strictly ''Piston Power'' only affair, this year was slightly different, with the inclusion of Jet Aircraft, but more on that revelation later. Flying Legends is a special kind of event, with the show ground taking you back to the 1940’s with re-enactors attired in period dress, the 1940’s Swing Style Vocals of the Manhattan Dolls, a Vintage Village with deck chair seating and Pimms Bar, and to top it off the mad cap antics of Laurel and Hardy with their Model T Ford.
love has not gone anywhere. Long may it continue.
Sourced from www.airscene.co.uk/airshow-reviews/duxford-flying-legends...