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The Wright brothers used the Kill Devil Hills area toward the end of their first season on the Outer Banks in the autumn of 1900, following earlier experiments on Lookout Hill just south of the village of Kitty Hawk. Their first season consisted of only two days of work at the Kill Devil Hills site: October 19th, when they decided not to fly because of high winds, and October 20th, when they made several encouraging glider flights. They returned to the Kill Devil Hills site in 1901, this time pitching a tent about 1,000 feet east of the higher hill and building a rough shed to use as a workshop. They returned to the workshop for the 1902 season and, together with Kitty Hawk resident Dan Tate, rebuilt the dilapidated shed, adding an additional 10 feet to use as a quarters. In 1903, when they began their powered experiments, the Wrights made further improvements to the quarters and also built a second frame shed, measuring about 44 by 16 feet, to hold the Flyer and serve as a sheltered work area. Located a few feet west of the camp building, it is clearly indicated in the Wrights' photographs of that year.
The quarters building and the hangar rapidly deteriorated after the departure of the Wright brothers in December 1903. In the spring of 1908, when the Wrights returned to the site to test their modified 1905 Flyer, both buildings needed significant repairs. John Daniels, one of the Kitty Hawk lifesavers who witnessed their earlier flight efforts, warned Wilbur when he arrived at Elizabeth City about the ruined camp buildings and Wilbur purchased new materials for repairs. The sides of both buildings remained, but the roof of the old quarters was missing entirely and the interior was covered with sand. Wilbur hired two "semi-carpenters" to help make repairs and essentially to rebuild the structures. Largely similar to those in place in 1903, the new buildings still differed in minor ways and constituted new structures overall. Orville reused the buildings in 1911, though again with changes. Following the 1911 season, the brothers abandoned the site, and the effects of wind, sand, and weather completely destroyed the buildings. In 1928, when the National Aeronautics Association placed the first commemorative marker at the site of the first flight, little remained of the structures on which to base the location of the first flight takeoff (this was ultimately established by the surviving witnesses). Currently there are reconstructions of these building located in the approximate location based off of the Wrights’ photographs and the takeoff point. - NPS
1903-The First Flight
Since 1899, Wilbur and Orville Wright had been scientifically experimenting with the concepts of flight. They labored in relative obscurity, while the experiments of Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian were followed in the press and underwritten by the War Department. Yet Langley, as others before him, had failed to achieve powered flight. They relied on brute power to keep their theoretically stable machines aloft, sending along a hapless passenger and hoping for the best. It was the Wrights' genius and vision to see that humans would have to fly their machines, that the problems of flight could not be solved from the ground. In Wilbur's words, "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill." With over a thousand glides from atop Big Kill Devil Hill, the Wrights made themselves the first true pilots. These flying skills were a crucial component of their invention. Before they ever attempted powered flight, the Wright brothers were masters of the air.
Their glider experiments on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, though frustrating at times, had led them down the path of discovery. Through those experiments, they had solved the problem of sustained lift and more importantly they could now control an aircraft while in flight. The brothers felt they were now ready to truly fly. But first, the Wrights had to power their aircraft. Gasoline engine technology had recently advanced to where its use in airplanes was feasible. Unable to find a suitable lightweight commercial engine, the brothers designed their own. It was cruder and less powerful than Samuel Langley's, but the Wrights understood that relatively little power was needed with efficient lifting surfaces and propellers. Such propellers were not available, however. Scant relevant data could be derived from marine propeller theory. Using their air tunnel data, they designed the first efficient airplane propeller, one of their most original and purely scientific achievements.
Returning to their camp at the Kill Devil Hills, they mounted the engine on the new 40-foot, 605-pound Flyer with double tails and elevators. The engine drove two pusher propellers with chains, one crossed to make the props rotate in opposite directions to counteract a twisting tendency in flight. A balky engine and broken propeller shaft slowed them, until they were finally ready on December 14th. In order to decide who would fly first, the brother tossed a coin. Wilbur won the coin toss, but lost his chance to be the first to fly when he oversteered with the elevator after leaving the launching rail. The flyer, climbed too steeply, stalled, and dove into the sand. The first flight would have to wait on repairs.
December 17, 1903
Three days later, they were ready for the second attempt. The 27-mph wind was harder than they would have liked, since their predicted cruising speed was only 30-35 mph. The headwind would slow their groundspeed to a crawl, but they proceeded anyway. With a sheet, they signaled the volunteers from the nearby lifesaving station that they were about to try again. Now it was Orville's turn.
Remembering Wilbur's experience, he positioned himself and tested the controls. The stick that moved the horizontal elevator controlled climb and descent. The cradle that he swung with his hips warped the wings and swung the vertical tails, which in combination turned the machine. A lever controlled the gas flow and airspeed recorder. The controls were simple and few, but Orville knew it would take all his finesse to handle the new and heavier aircraft.
The first flight
At 10:35, he released the restraining wire. The flyer moved down the rail as Wilbur steadied the wings. Just as Orville left the ground, John Daniels from the lifesaving station snapped the shutter on a preset camera, capturing the historic image of the airborne aircraft with Wilbur running alongside. Again, the flyer was unruly, pitching up and down as Orville overcompensated with the controls. But he kept it aloft until it hit the sand about 120 feet from the rail. Into the 27-mph wind, the groundspeed had been 6.8 mph, for a total airspeed of 34 mph. The brothers took turns flying three more times that day, getting a feel for the controls and increasing their distance with each flight. Wilbur's second flight - the fourth and last of the day – was an impressive 852 feet in 59 seconds.
This was the real thing, transcending the powered hops and glides others had achieved. The Wright machine had flown. But it would not fly again; after the last flight it was caught by a gust of wind, rolled over, and damaged beyond easy repair. With their flying season over, the Wrights sent their father a matter-of-fact telegram reporting the modest numbers behind their epochal achievement.
Source: NPS
Again, this began with the buildings just like spring flight kkx 700. And ended up like this.
BTW, this is only a montage. LOL
Made up of so many parts:
1) The beast
2) The girls
3) The clouds
4) The lightning
5) The buildings
6) and purely my imagination
This is just purely for fun - i doubt there would be a need for a lot of these cards :) i just couldnt resist :) its not all work, also a bit play in my studio :)
A macro photograph of a section of a beautiful Amethyst Crystal Cluster (from a Geode) in my rock and mineral collection.
Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz (SiO2) and owes its violet colour to irradiation, impurities of iron and in some cases other transition metals, and the presence of other trace elements, which result in complex crystal lattice substitutions.
Just like my interest in Astronomy, my interest in Minerals, Crystals, Rocks and Fossils (and Geology in general) is purely scientific.
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Nagakura Kenichi treats bamboo as a purely sculptural medium. He creates unconventional, organic forms, sometimes accented with pieces of found wood and coated with finishes of his own creation. Nagakura spent years learning traditional bamboo techniques from his grandfather before innovating his own style. Bamboo, says the artist, is an ideal material to express nature: “Bamboo can be either delicate like a spider web or solid as stone, thus embodying the natural cycles of the world.”*
Sometimes railroad museums and tourist railroads can offer up pretty authentic scenes and its hard to get more purely Southern than this! The details abound in this scene from rolling stock, to structures and even proper uniquely SOU lineside signage.
Southern 6133 is FP7A built by EMD in Apr. 1950 and sublettered CNO&TP. The unit had a remarkable career lasting longer than many of its siblings as part of the excursion fleet most famous for its assorted steam locomotivesm. Finally retired in 1980 it was donated to the fledging museum where volunteers restored it to its original green/ imitation aluminum paint scheme. The fully operational unit is right at home in the former Spencer Shop complex providing rides around the grounds of what is now the absolutely fabulous North Carolina Transportation Museum.
What is now the museum complex was once the principle steam shops of the Southern Railway having been opened in 1896 and named after Samuel Spencer who was president of the new railroad at the time. The Southern had only been formed two years earlier when J.P. Morgan interests acquired the bankruptcy Richmond and Danville Railroad and combined it with the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway. Tapped to lead the new railroad for Morgan, Spencer, a talented civil engineer and former Confederate cavalry officer (who had served under legendary General Nathan Bedford Forrest) became its first president. Under his leadership, the mileage of the Southern Railway doubled, the number of passengers served annually increased to nearly 12 million, and annual earnings increased from $17 million to $54 million. After his death, the Southern grew to become one of the strongest, most profitable, and progressive roads in the nation.
Immediately seeing the need for a modern system shop, a site beside the mainline roughly halfway between Washington and Atlanta just outside the town of Salisbury was chosen. At its peak around WWII up to 3000 people worked at the shop complex. Original buildings included a machine shop, storehouse building, office building, wood working shop, boiler shop, a power plant, and a large 37-bay roundhouse (purportedly the largest surving in the US) and accompanying turntable. Although Spencer Shops survived into the diesel era, the facility was outdated by the early 1970s and shuttered before being donated to the state of North Carolina in 1977.
To learn a bit more about Spencer, who infamously died young in a tragic train crash on his own railroad only a decade after the opening of this shop, check out this link: www.ncpedia.org/geography/spencer
Spencer, North Carolina
Thursday May 28, 2015
Avro Lancaster VII NX611 runs up ready to move off on another nocturnal mission; this time, purely for the cameras. Timeline Events charter at East Kirkby (www.lincsaviation.co.uk/) October 2014.
Found this purely by chance today. It seems to be getting some maintenance, possibly due to the MOT recently expiring.
Majestic flower! How purely beautiful
Thou art, as rising from thy bower of green,
Those dark and glossy leaves so thick and full,
Thou standest like a high-born forest queen
Among thy maidens clustering round so fair,--
I love to watch thy sculptured form unfolding,
And look into thy depths, to image there
A fairy cavern, and while thus beholding,
And while thy breeze floats o'er thee, matchless flower,
I breathe the perfume, delicate and strong,
That comes like incense from thy petal-bower;
My fancy roams those southern woods along,
Beneath that glorious tree, where deep among
The unsunned leaves thy large while flowercups hung!
~ Christopher Pearce Cranch ~
Textures by Temari09 and Emma Cox
Not an easy subject this one, at least to make it a little interesting. This is my first attempt in building a model purely for this angle of shot, and my first attempt at playing around with perspective
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Behind the stone works is the golden folding screen featureing " The Wind and Thunder Gods" ,named Fujin-Raijin-zu 風神雷神図.
The original screen ,Korin Ogata's masterpeace designed an Important Cultural Propery is currently owed by Tokyo National Museum.
location : Kennin-ji temple Cho-on tei Garden ,Kyoto city,Kyoto prefecture,Japan
京都 建仁寺 潮音庭
Kennin-ji (建仁寺) is a historic Zen Buddhist temple in Higashiyama, Kyoto, Japan, near Gion, at the end of Hanami Lane. It is considered to be one of the so-called Kyoto Gozan or "five most important Zen temples of Kyoto".
Kennin-ji was founded in 1202 CE and claims to be the oldest Zen temple in Kyoto.
The monk Eisai, credited with introducing Zen to Japan, served as Kennin-ji's founding abbot and is buried on the temple grounds. For its first years the temple combined Zen, Tendai, and Shingon practices, but it became a purely Zen institution under the eleventh abbot, Lanxi Daolong (蘭渓道隆 Rankei Dōryū) (1213–1278).
The Zen master Dōgen, later founder of the Japanese Sōtō sect, trained at Kennin-ji. It is one of the Rinzai sect's headquarter temples.
―wikipedia
Canon EOS M5/ K＆F Concept FD-EOSM/
taken with an old lens Canon FD28㎜/2.8/
f/5.6 28mm 1/250mm ISO 320/ all manual / no editing
Just a colour version of my last shot. Purely uploading to get support. What are the red specs? The image is literally covered in them! This happens on all of my LE images :(
Purely put up as these are my favourite British bird. Wary, elusive, full of character if you ever have a chance to study them. Such glorious plumage, bill, and eyes too. However much I adore the Owls, and Yaffles these stunner tugs at the heartstrings slightly more. Enough of my waffling, more info on these in my Albums if you wish to know. Regarding favourites, films I never tire of are, The Constant Gardener, The Pianist, and Shawshank.
Loco Number 26
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Purely a gravity racer until our intrepid space girl realised you could roll up hill with the aid of a jet pack. We all like her style.
PURELY DECORATIVE CORN and Fresh Hazelnuts, called cobnuts
Here you see Corn ’Black Aztec’ a delicious heirloom corn said to have been grown by the Aztecs 2,000 years ago. And a Zea mays 'Strawberry’, ruby-red rounded cobs produced in abundance on this highly ornamental variety.
Once dried, the kernels are simply the best variety for popping!
Flint corn (Zea mays indurata; also known as Indian corn or sometimes calico corn) is a variant of maize (var. Linnaeus), the same species as common corn.
Because each kernel has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm, it is likened to being hard as flint; hence the name.
… et voila, Autumn in the studio.
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The red fox is considered a more specialised form of Vulpes than the Afghan, corsac and Bengal foxes in the direction of size and adaptation to carnivory; the skull displays much fewer neotenous traits than in other species, and its facial area is more developed.[6] It is, however, not as adapted for a purely carnivorous diet as the Tibetan fox.
A shot uploaded purely for interest value captures Deltic 55021 "Argyll & Sutherland Highlander", hustling through the centre road at Retford with an unidentified up express to London Kings Cross.
Interest value because Retford was still controlled by semaphores signals at the time, and the down platform and buildings were still intact. Not long afterwards the building on the left was removed, the platform and track realigned for faster running, and colour light signalling introduced - all part of the East Coast Mainline modernisation plan.
In fact the track layout had already been considerably simplified by the time this shot was taken with the sharp turn-out to the Worksop line just in front of Retford North Signal Box presumably clipped and out of use, and the complex structure of crossovers and points from the Worksop line to the Up Fast and Up Platform lines also removed.
Ilford FP4 rated at 125asa
10th August 1975
Amazing raptors these, designed purely for speed, grace, and agility. Look at those wings, built for patrolling the voids, and plucking erratic flyers out of the air, such as Swallows, Martins, Swifts, and Dragonflies. A juvenile here at Lakenheath fen a few days before it departed for warmer shores for winter.
Purely a record shot, and up with the Gods, at least a hundred foot up. Even with an 800mm lens, it would have been distant. But like Hens teeth these days, so any sighting is a special treat. I have got better in my gallery, but this is the first clear shot for a couple of years. If you have never seen one, they are the size of a Sparrow, and this is a Female. Taken in Suffolk.
Purely as the colour reminded me of this weekends Halloween. The falls are in Aberfeldy, Scotland within the birks trail.
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obviously, this is purely photoshopped.
laugh if you must. most of my friends did.
i'm sorry if you find this offensive.
i don't mean to offend anyone. this photo is just for laughs. period.
yess. butt grabbing. HAHAHAHAHAHHA
i got bored.
that was the drawing for the hand dryer you see in restrooms 8D
HAHA HAHAHHAA i couldn't stop laughing while i was editing this one. <3
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Tour of West - Point Cook Coastal Park
Visited three parks in about 5 hours , It's purely a birding trip than waiting for the perfect shot. got lucky spotted over 50 species and captured some.
from L to R :
-Brainiac : just got him today....probably will do some upgrades on this bad boy...
-Black Adam : just painted a scar on him....trying let him looks DIFFERENT from the Lex....
-Catwoman : just changed the gloves....because Lex need the purple gloves.....
-Martian Manhunter : just added a shoulder armour and it looks AMAZING!
and there will be a DC customs group shot in this weekend....
Ashness Bridge is perhaps the most photographed bridge in the Lake District due to its location and stunning views. I paid a visit shortly after a moody sunrise down at Derwent Water and stumbled upon it purely by accident after taking a wrong turn. I'm certainly pleased that I did, as what a gem this was!
I decided to shoot down low to the water using a wide angled lens to really bring out the drama of the flow and the detail of the rocks.
This is purely a fictitious name for this character.
I met this steampunk Lady in Lincoln UK. I mistakingly did not take her contact details , I got carried away taking pictures and some months later I regret not being more organised,
if you know this lady, please let her know that I have a print for her.
The Asylum Steam Punk Festival Lincoln 2015
Sanddorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
Das Iller-Wehr in Mooshausen leitet das Wasser in den linksseitig parallel zur Iller verlaufenden, etwa 22 km langen Illerkanal ab
Oberschwaben, das ist Natur pur in einer herrlichen Landschaft.
Als Oberschwaben wird die Landschaft zwischen dem Südrand der Schwäbischen Alb mit der Donau, dem Bodensee und dem Lech bezeichnet. (Die Bayern sehen lieber die Iller als Ostgrenze Oberschwabens) Das Allgäu ist der südliche Teil Oberschwabens, das Alpenvorland. In Oberschwaben gibt es fast 2.300 offene Seen und Weiher.
Ground water pond with the Iller weir in Mooshausen with river km 53 in upper Swabian / South Germany.
The Iller weir in Mooshausen derives the water in the, about 22 km long Iller canal on the left side running in parallel with Iller
Upper Swabians, this is a nature purely in a marvelous scenery.
The scenery is called upper Swabians between the south edge the Swabian nightmare with the Danube, Lake of Constance and the Lech. (The Bavarians see rather the Iller than east border Oberschwabens) the Allgäu is the southern part Oberschwabens, the foothills of the Alps. In upper Swabian there are nearly 2,300 open lakes and ponds
The translation from German to English with translator
Designed purely for SF operations. However, recently SO19 placed a large order.
The M22 is silent, accurate and above all, powerful.
Designed to drop a target and give the operator the confidence to know his enemy is down thanks to the 7.62x51 round.
I fancied doing a proper build, was pretty slow to start. Anyway, I quite like how its turned out.
Credit to Shock for the trigger and mag release.
Option gets a cheeky credit for that M249 bit on the front end.
Aw, lightbox it.
Wasn’t going to post today because of the earlier Flickr hiccups, but now that its seems to be fixed, what the heck…this was taken this past weekend while hunting for flowers with my Canon.
Taken purely because the sign says Railroad instead of Railway, and also keeping the little GP9 theme going.
Neat little setup this railroad though, almost like a larger scale sugar cane railway we have in Mid North East Queensland. However we started the day in Moses Lakes (who loved Aussies who gamble I found out) expecting a productive chase from Warden east to the BNSF Interchange point at Connell. But alas after staring at idling locos we were excited to see some action take place we soon found out it was for 2x locos to go west. Note to self, not a shortline to visit on a Friday.
After this ordeal was over was a nice drive two states to the east to see what action was happening on the MRL sub.
1626-302 CBRW Moses Lake turn Bassett Junction 25-4-25
Handheld shot with Olympus 75mm f1.8, my fav lens for shooting flowers.
Nothing has been done to the background, it is purely a result of this lens’ natural bokeh rendering.
Yet regardless of lens quality, bokeh can be badly messed up or even mangled in shot and in particular by atrociously poor post-processing!
Bokeh will get messed up when shooting in electronic front curtain shutter mode above 1/1,000s.
Even worse is bad post-processing, just look at those gear forum image threads on kilo class 50mm f1.2 lenses, yet these same lens owners with images showing badly mangled bokeh keep waxing lyrical about their behemoth f1.2 boat anchors!
Conversely, some hobbyists like to complain about lenses being overly contrasty hence affecting bokeh quality. Fact is, contrast in bokeh can be handled via post-processing if required but it’s onion-rings and all kinds of structures within bokeh balls that cannot be easily dealt with in post-processing.
There’s just way too much fallacies being propagated in gear forums. The worse of which are those from certain Nikon “Z”-ealot fanbois shills, no other brands’ fanboism ever reach such ridiculous levels of obnoxiousness and delusion, this is likely a consequence of extreme insecurity over their brand totem!
Some crazy “Z”-ealot fallacies;
1. “Z”-ealots loved to claim that the wider Z mount will lead to more efficient lens designs but what actually happened are Z lenses being bulkier, heavier and more expensive than equivalent lenses from other brands. The “Z”-ealots have largely stopped beating this widest mount drum these days for obvious reasons and have instead pivoted to suggesting that Nikon prioritized lens quality over size but doesn’t this mean that Nikon Z is the new Sigma of old!? Nikon F mount was way narrower than Canon EF but that didn’t preclude Nikon from making the class leading AF-S 14-24mm f2.8 G which Canon had no answer for a long time but yet Nikon “Z”-ealots will poke fun at other brands with smaller mounts.
2. The oft quote that you buy into the Z system mainly for the lenses when “Z”-ealots shills try to convince others (especially Nikon DSLR F mount users) to switch is obvious acknowledgement that the Z bodies are not competitive in terms of features and price. The Z7 series is not pro-spec unlike the D850 which is pro-spec, Nikon said so themselves. Then you have reality being laid bare with irrational exuberance over adapting lenses from other systems per below. If the Z lenses are as great as these shills claimed, why bother to adapt lenses from other mounts!?
3. A rampant Nikon “Z”-ealot fanbois shill with multiple user names on various gear forums was seen hyperventilating over the new version 2 of the Megadap E to Z adaptor recently. Shows how limited Nikon’s Z lens choices actually is and how slow Nikon is at bringing out new needed and interesting lenses. This notorious shill even suggested that “it makes sense to built a system based on a Nikon Z with some Sony lenses”. No surprise here since this was the exact same situation back in DSLR days when Nikon had a noticeably inferior lens lineup, this was Nikon at a much stronger no.2 behind Canon but Z’s current market share is a lot smaller with the Z mount being even more closed off to 3rd party lens makers than F mount ever was! This ridiculous Nikon Z shill even postulated that adapting Sony lenses on Nikon Z bodies will make Canon less relevant as a system when factually Nikon has a long and notorious history of crippling 3rd party lenses via firmware updates! As it is, Nikon already crippled their own FTZ adapter such that their own F-mount lenses get only 3 out of a possible 5 axis of stabilization. There’s no mention of IBIS effectiveness with the Megadap ETZ21 adapter.
As a multiple system user, I would rather acquire E-mount or even M-mount Voigtlander lenses which can be used on both E and Z mount than limiting myself with the same Voigtlander lenses released specifically for Z mount since these cannot be used on any other mounts. I can even get to use an AF adapter for M or E-mount Voigtlander lenses on the Z if I really wanted to.
This is the insiduous nature of these “Z”-ealot shills, always trying to distort reality to mislead others in favor of the brand they worship, have to wonder if these are in fact paid influencers! Nikon “Z”-ealot fanbois shills are truly the worst as no other brand users are anywhere near as obnoxious and delusional in belittling all other brands, such insecurity over just a camera brand, their constant propagation of fallacies are a real disservice to other users!
For beginners, take what you read in gear forums with a sackful of salt especially those forumers who seemed to practically live only in the gear forums and have no decent photo galleries to showcase. More often than not on gear forums, ability and words not only don’t match but the gulf can be really wide, beware of internet hot air!