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Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
I walked this section before and I'd say 90% of the insulators are common Dominion 42s, there were a few CD 152s and spools etc. Someone picked the downed poles clean except for the rubber insulators.
No CD 143s at all, they were removed decades ago.
Removing tree debris
Hurricane Michael tore through the Panhandle leaving destruction in its wake. Its powerful winds downed countless trees onto and around homes, businesses and roadways. One of the ways our officers are providing relief to impacted areas is by removing debris so that residents can better access their homes and navigate through their communities.
Caption: A team of FWC officers clearing roads and driveways in rural Jackson County, near Alford, 10-15-2018.
FWC photo by Tim Donovan
Technician Kelly McDonald smiles in her waders as she finishes pulling up a small mat of Waterchestnut found last week. Photo credit: K.Otseidu/ USFWS
Bold and pointed: reconstruction of the Razumovsky palace in Vienna
(Many more pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Two major art collectors acquired the palais, in need of renovation, from the city of Vienna and installed there an Art Foundation with Gallery, as well as an apartment flat in the attic. The conversion of the listed building required sensitivity. Not authentic components were removed, top floor and staircase completely renovated, an underground parking built - anything in concordance with the Heritage Office.
Architect: Baar-Baarenfels Architects
Location: Rasumofskygasse 23, 1030 - Vienna Landstraße, Austria
Reconstruction of the Razumovsky palace in Vienna, Baar-Baarenfels Architects
Photo: Vera Subkus
The palace was the in time of the Vienna Congress in 1806 built for Prince Andrew Kirillovitch Razumovsky, the diplomat of the Russian Tsar Alexander. Razumovsky was music patron and art collector and his palace is considered a jewel of the Viennese architectural heritage. Architect of the ensemble of three buildings with over 11,000 m² was the Belgian Louis Montoyer. During the Second World War the building suffered damages that were only provisionally repaired and in the postwar period the house fell into bad ways.
In the reinterpretation of the Razumovsky palace it was on the one hand a matter to comply with the historical form, on the other hand to develop a contemporary solution for the new spatial requirements.
The new aluminum clad roof, a steel truss structure, supported by a number of Vierendeel carriers, fits naturally into the existing ensemble. The penthouse apartment is surrounded by terraces and features floor to ceiling vertical glazing. Sun protection slats of extruded aluminum form the original roof shape, provide shade and frame the view to the outside.
The ground floor was, arguably completely in line with the art-loving first owner, converted in a six -meter-high gallery. The two larger rooms were connected by the insertion of a new additional level between two free-standing angled concrete slices.
The staircase designed Baar-Baarenfels completely new with an organically shaped staircase made of concrete, which is not mounted on the wall - a constructive feat, since the shape results from the static flow of forces. Thus, the mass of concrete nevertheless looks slimly and elegantly shaped, almost floating.
The elevator shaft of 13.70m consists of self-supporting glass walls, mounted on steel brackets to produce maximum brightness and transparency. The elevator cab consists on three sides of black glass and though the glass ceiling of the cabin the user should as clearly as possible perceive the vertical movement. The elevator constitutes at the same time the transition from the historical component to the modern apartment rooms in the attic. From there, one overlooks the park of the palace and the adjacent buildings .
The jury of the World Architecture Festival in 2013 praised the work of the architect Baar-Baarenfels: "There is perhaps only once in a lifetime the opportunity to influence a 200 year old building with great historical significance. The architect through his implementation has been successful in the architectural resolution of a paradox: a bold design concept that is in the expression tender and pointed."
For more photos and drawings in the gallery
Wardrobe, Photo: Vera Subkus
All winners of the World Architecture Festival 2013
(Linked Reports in English)
Civic and Community - Women's Opportunity Centre (Rwanda), Sharon Davis Design
Villa - House Namly (Singapore), CHANG Architects
Health - Rush University Medical Center New Hospital Tower (Chicago), Perkins + Will
Production/Energy/Recycling - A Simple Factory Building (Singapore), Pencil Office
Hotel/Leisure - Citizen M London Bankside (UK), Concrete
Sports - Splash Point Leisure Centre (UK), Wilkinson Eyre Architects
New and Old - Conversion of the Razumovsky palace (Austria), Baar-Baarenfels architects
Transportation - Sydney Cruise Terminal (Australia), Johnson Pilton Walker Architects
Culture and World Building of the Year - Aukland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (New Zealand), Frances Jones Morehen Thorp and Archived Media
Future Projects Education - The Urban School in Elsinore (Denmark), EFFECT, Rubow
Future Projects Competition Entries - National Maritime Museum of China (China), Cox Rayner Architects
Future Projects Residential - Blossom Siamese (Thailand), Somdoon Architects Ltd.
Future Projects Experimental - White Collar Factory (UK), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Completed Building House - The Left -Over Space House (Australia), Cox Rayner Architects, Casey and Rebekah Vallance
Completed Building Housing - 28th Street Apartments (USA), Koning Eizenberg Architecture
Completed Building Office - Regional and International offices Statoil (Norway) A-Lab
Completed Building Higher Education and Research - University of Exeter: Project Forum (UK), Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Completed Building Display - The Blue Planet (Denmark), 3XN
Completed Building Religion - Sancaklar Mosque (Turkey), EAA - Emre Arolat Architects
Completed Building Schools - Fontys Sports College (Netherlands) International Mecanoo
Completed Building Shopping - Emporia (Sweden), Wingardh Arkitektkontor
Future Projects Health - New Sulaibikhat Medical Center (Kuwait) AGi Architects
Future Projects House - Meditation House ( Lebanon ), MZ Architects
Future Projects Commercial Mixed Use - New Office in Central London (UK), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Future Projects Office - Headquarters Ecza Selcuk (Turkey), Tabanlioglu Architects
Future Projects Leisure -Led Development - Singapore Sports Hub (Singapore), Singapore Sports Hub design team (Arup Associates Architects + DP + AECOM )
Future Projects Master Planning - Earls Court Masterplan (UK) Farrell
Future Projects Infrastructure - Brisbane Ferry Terminals Post- Flood Recovery (Australia) , Cox Rayner Architects
www.detail.de/architektur/news/kuehn-und-pointiert-umbau-...
The cartridge is full of useful debris. One can be removed while another is installed and blasting continues.
An Inupiaq woman at a subsistence camp uses an ulu to separate the blubber from the hide of an Ugruk (Bearded Seal). The blubber will be rendered into liquid seal oil which is a prized "dipping sauce" for many food. The hide can be used to make rope or cover a wooden boat frame.
Woman uses a rounded knife to cut the fat layer off of a seal hide.
To mount a battery grip, you'll have to remove the battery cover. Some of Sony's consumer models, as the Alpha 100 and Alpha 58, aren't intended to do so. But it works - just unscrew the two screws (mouseover-note in the image) near the cover's mount. The camera's case won't open but you can bend-wangle-press-squeeze the cover out without any damage.
Deboxing my Lone Ranger Action Figure. The front plastic view window has been removed from the box, so he is now in the open. He is still attached to the cardboard backing and plastic spacer by wires, rubber bands and plastic bands.
First look at my Lone Ranger Action Figure, who I got on his release day today at my local Disney Store. I will photograph him boxed, during the deboxing, and fully deboxed, both alone and with comparable dolls.
He is a fully posable doll and is 12'' tall. He has molded dark brown hair, small dark blue eyes that are staring straight ahead, scruffy beard. He has the standard Disney Prince body, which means large hands and feet, a husky torso, and jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, hips and knees (internal). His head can only rotate around, and cannot tilt up or down. His forearms can only bend forward and backward about 90 degrees, and cannot rotate about the elbows. His internal knee joints can bend about 20 degrees forward, and 40 degrees back. He is fairly stable free standing, so I was able to take all my photos of him without using a doll stand. However for displaying the doll, I would recommend putting him on a doll stand, as he would be much more stable that way, and highly resistant to tipping over.
His outfit consists of a removable mask, a white hat, black jacket and vest, white shirt, red neckerchief, brown pants, and faux leather boots. His jacket and pants have fake dirt stains, as though from riding in rough country. His hat is flexible vinyl, and fits his head snuggly. His black mask is fitted on his head with a thin black flexible string, and the two openings are just large enough to show his eyes. I was a little disappointed to discover that his vest is sewn onto his jacket, so is not a separate piece. His boots are pointy toed and ribbed on top, instead of the usual Prince rounded toe boots with smooth surface.
His accessories include two six-shooters and a gun belt with two holsters. The flexible plastic guns have long barrels, light blue handles, and are painted to look well used. They are fairly realistic looking, but are missing triggers. One of the guns was placed in a clear plastic holder, which fits his hand like a glove. Since I didn't want to figure out how to secure the gun to his hand so it looked natural, I left the gun in the holder when posing him with the gun in his hand. The holsters hold the guns securely, and the gun belt has molded silver bullets.
His skin is not as realistic in texture as the DS OZ (Oscar Diggs) doll, and his outfit not quite as good in quality, which can be explained by the fact that the OZ doll is $10 more than the Lone Ranger. However he is a very good looking doll, and seems to be quite movie accurate.
The Lone Ranger Deluxe Action Figure - 12''
US Disney Store
$24.50
Released online and in stores Friday, May 31, 2013.
This is Clio being visible on Trans Day Of Visibility... After going to Goodwill and (I think) The Block.
Transition Progress at this point: On hormones since 8/1 (7.5 months); injections since 12/22 (3 months) [18 so far]. Full-time female since 9/15 (6.5 months). Publicly out as trans since 10/11 (5.5 months). Legally female since 12/21 (3 months). 5 transgender group speech therapy classes taken at GW Speech Clinic (since 2/22). Plastic surgery consults continuing. Have seen endo/primary therapist 6X, and 4 other therapists 10X. Weight down to 144lbs (53 down from 197). Hair removal includes 34 electrolysis treatments totaling 26 hours; 31 laser hair removal sessions (54 area treatments: 17/16/14/13 mouth/goatee/face/neck, 9 armpits, 7 legs/chest/ears, 6 brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (9 months). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (11 months). 2 dental implants, Zoom teeth whitening, pierced ears, dyed/layered hair, hypertrophic scars onarms removed. Female wardrobe replacement up to more than 700 items. Total transition expenditures now over $18,000.
Clio.
SwiftTrans truck, knee brace, skulls dress, white jacket.
funny trans.
back alley, KMart, store, Annandale, Virginia.
March 31, 2018.
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removed the PS pump, AC compressor, carb, fan, radiator, hoses and electrical harnesses. Now I just need to jack it up and disconnect the exhaust and engine and tranny mounts and she will lift right out.
The 2013 Classic Belle 12'' Doll is photographed during her deboxing. The backing has been removed from the box, then the doll removed from the backing. The wires around her ankles, waist and hair bun have been removed. Her skirt is lifted to show the tissue paper stuffing around her legs. Also seen are her rubber legs covered with stray gold glitter, and her light yellow flats.
The 2013 Classic Belle doll has many differences from the 2012 model, but looks very similar, and is a somewhat improved doll. The only major change is to her legs, from fully articulated hard plastic legs to rubber legs with internal knee joints and fixed angled feet. There are a minor changes to her hair, face, dress and shoes. She is also missing her gloves. The features that haven't changed are her head mold, torso and arms. I will provide a full review once I have removed her from the box.
The packaging for the dolls is much improved. The box art has been completely redesigned, with beautiful decorations unique to each Princess (actually for each movie), and a cameo of the animated movie character. The boxes are the same height and width, but are 1/2'' flatter, making them smaller and lighter. Belle's box has rose and Cogsworth images with a yellow background.
The 2013 Disney Princess Classic Doll Collection, released on June 10, 2013. They consist of 11-12'' articulated dolls of the 11 official Disney Princesses, from Snow White to Merida, as well as Princes, Villains and Sidekicks. I now have all 11 Princesses, Queen Elinor, Charlotte and Gaston. I will photograph them boxed, during deboxing and fully deboxed. I will also post reviews and comparative photos.
Classic Disney Princess Belle Doll - 12''
US Disney Store
Released online June 10, 2013.
Purchased online June 13, 2013.
Received June 24, 2013.
$14.95 (was on sale for $10 at time of purchase).
National Museum of the US Air Force
Chrysler SM-78/PGM-19A JUPITER
The Jupiter Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), in service from 1960 to 1963, was an important link between early, short-range rockets and later weapons that could reach any point on Earth. Jupiter was a close relative of the Army's Redstone missile, and its development began in 1956 as a joint US Army and US Navy project. Rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun conceived the Jupiter after the Redstone proved successful, and rockets with a range of up to 1,500 miles seemed possible. Soviet development of similar missiles around the same time underscored the need for Jupiter. President Dwight Eisenhower gave the IRBM high priority in weapons development, second only to the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).
Originally designed for shipboard use, Jupiter was a compromise between Army and Navy designs. In 1956, the Department of Defense gave the USAF responsibility for building and operating all missiles with more than a 200-mile range, but the Army continued developing Jupiter in case the Air Force's Thor IRBM program failed. The first successful Jupiter launch took place in May 1957.
In October 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite-an event that caused the US to greatly speed up missile development to counter the Soviet threat. As Jupiter was quickly made ready, the US explored basing options. The single-stage missile's range of 1,500 miles required bases on the periphery of the USSR. Negotiations with France proved unsuccessful, and finally Italy and Turkey accepted IRBM bases. Italian and Turkish crews trained to operate the missiles, but Americans controlled the nuclear warheads. Two squadrons with a total of 30 missiles were operational at Gioia del Colle, Italy, by 1961; a single squadron of 15 Jupiters became operational at Cigli Air Base, Turkey, in 1962. Due in part to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the US removed its Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey by July 1963.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Warhead: Single W-49 in the megaton range
Engine: One Rocketdyne LR-79 of 150,000 lbs thrust
Guidance: All-inertial
Range: 1,500 miles
Length: 60 ft
Diameter: 8 ft 9 in
Weight: 108,804 lbs (fully fueled)
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Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A TITAN I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Entering operational service in 1962, Titan I was the United States' first multi-stage ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile). Incorporating the latest design technology, Titan provided an additional nuclear deterrent to complement the US Air Force's Atlas missile. Though the SM-68A was operational for only three years, it was an important step in building the Air Force's strategic nuclear forces.
The first American ICBM based in underground silos, Titan I gave USAF managers, contractors, and missile crews valuable experience building and working in vast bunkers containing every thing the missiles and crews needed for operation and survival. These early silos, however, had certain drawbacks. First, the missiles took about fifteen minutes to fuel, and then had to be lifted to the surface on huge elevators for launching, which slowed their reaction time. Rapid launching was crucial to avoid possible destruction by incoming missiles, even though Titan shelters were designed to withstand nuclear blasts. Second, the missiles' placement close together in groups of three-necessary because they shared a single ground-based radio guidance system-made them vulnerable to nuclear attack. All-inertial guidance, which does not depend on ground computers, was not yet perfected
In its brief career, Titan I equipped six squadrons of nine missiles each, in Colorado, Idaho, California, Washington state, and South Dakota. Although Titan I's two stages gave it true intercontinental range and foreshadowed future multistage rockets, its propellants were dangerous and hard to handle. Super-chilled liquid oxygen oxidizer had to be pumped aboard the missile just before launch, and complex equipment was required to store and move this liquid. Kerosene fuel also was pumped aboard just before launch.
Titan I allowed USAF missileers to perfect techniques for efficiently operating strategic missile facilities spread across several states and requiring great coordination and skill. Still, the SM-68A was a transitional missile. Even as the USAF deployed 54 Titan Is on operational alert from 1963-65, it prepared to deploy more advanced Titan Ils in their place. Later missiles, like Titan II, used safer fuels and more advanced guidance, but followed the SM-68A example of underground basing and multiple stages.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Warhead: Single W-38 in the megaton range.
Re-entry vehicle: Avco Mark 4, ablative
Engines:
(1st stage) Aerojet LR87-AJ-1 of 300,000 lbs thrust,
(2nd stage) Aerojet LR91-AJ-1 of 80,000 lbs thrust
Propellants: RP-1 kerosene fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer
Range: 6,300 miles
Length: 98 ft
Diameter: 10 ft
Weight: 220,000 lbs fueled
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Martin Marietta SM-68B/LGM-25C TITAN II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Titan II was the longest-serving ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) in the US Air Force strategic arsenal. The SM-68B, developed from the Titan I ICBM, was on operational alert from 1963 to 1987. For most of its nearly 25 years of operation, Titan Il was the largest and most powerful American nuclear- armed missile. The Titan design also enjoyed a long career as a space launch vehicle, sending satellites and manned spacecraft into earth orbit.
While the SM-68A Titan I system was becoming operational, the USAF recognized that it could be simplified and improved. Using the same manufacturing and test facilities, the SM-68B took shape as a major step forward in ICBM technology. Perhaps Titan Il's most important feature was its quick-launch capability. It could be launched in about 60 seconds from inside its underground silo (Titan I took 15 minutes and had to be elevated above ground first). This speed was crucial in responding to a preemptive nuclear attack before incoming missiles arrived.
New "hypergolic" liquid fuels made Titan Il's quick launches possible. Hypergolic fuels ignite on contact with one another, eliminating the need for an ignition system, and they can be stored at room temperature inside the missile. Partly as a result of using these new propellants, the SM-68B had fewer parts and a simpler design than the SM-68A. Also, a new silo design vented the tremendous blast of Titan Il's improved engines away from the missile, allowing in-silo launching and eliminating the need to elevate the SM-68B to ground level before launch.
Titan Il's advanced "all-inertial" guidance system made the missile less vulnerable to enemy attack. Each SM-68B carried its own self-contained guidance equipment and did not rely on ground computers. This improvement made widely dispersed bases possible, and Titan II sites were typically several miles apart, enhancing survivability during a potential nuclear strike.
At the height of SM-68B operations, the USAF deployed 54 Titan lls at three bases in Arizona, Kansas, and Arkansas. Each base had two squadrons of nine missiles each. The combat crew for a single missile included two officers and two enlisted personnel, but many support troops were required to maintain the missiles, train crews, and provide security.
In 1981, the USAF undertook a missile modernization program, and Titan II ICBM operations ceased in 1987. Spare SM-68BS were converted to space boosters and used to launch satellites. This role was not new for Titan II, since this powerful and reliable rocket had been used for many years in civil and military space programs. Titan lls launched manned Gemini missions for NASA in the mid-1960s, and later Titans evolved into more powerful space boosters with the addition of "strap-on" solid rockets, launching some of the most important US military satellites.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Warhead: Single W-53 in the megaton range
Re-entry vehicle: General Electric Mark 6, ablative
Engines:
(1st stage) Aerojet LR87-AJ-5 of 430,000 lbs thrust each
(2nd stage) Aerojet LR91-AJ-5 of 100,000 lbs thrust
Propellants: Aerozine 50 fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer
Range: 9,000 miles
Length: 108 ft
Diameter: 10 ft
Weight: 330,000 lbs fueled
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DOUGLAS SM-75/PGM-17A THOR Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
The SM-75/PGM-17A Thor intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) was the product of the early Cold War race to deploy nuclear armed missiles before the Soviets. Thor was designed to be an interim nuclear deterrent while the US Air Force developed long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as a top national priority. The IRBM concept called for a missile with a range of about 1,500 miles that would be based in Europe. Great Britain agreed to host four IRBM bases, and Thors were operational in England from June 1959 to August 1963. Royal Air Force crews operated the missiles, but USAF personnel controlled their nuclear warheads.
The USAF developed the SM-75 quickly, in just over three years beginning in 1956. Interservice competition to control the emerging strategic missile mission meant that the US Army developed its Jupiter missile, which was ultimately assigned to the Air Force, at the same time. Thor's rapid design and deployment resulted from having much in common with the Atlas ICBM, which was then still in the planning stages. Thor's engine, guidance, and warhead came from the Atlas program, and only its airframe was new. After three failed test flights, Thor's first fully successful flight took place in September 1957. The following month, the USSR launched its Sputnik satellite-proving Soviet rocket capability and generating much anxiety in the US-and President Dwight Eisenhower rushed Thor into production as a result.
The SM-75 was a one-stage liquid fueled rocket. Powered by liquid oxygen and kerosene, the vehicle could reach an altitude of about 280 miles before releasing its war- head on a ballistic (unpowered) trajectory toward its target. The missile required about 15 minutes to prepare for launch from its above-ground shelter, and could reach its target after about 18 minutes of flight.
Following its withdrawal as an IRBM when the Atlas ICBM became available, the Air Force used Thor as a nuclear atmospheric test vehicle and an antisatellite weapon. The USAF and NASA also adapted the Thor design to a very successful variety of space launch roles.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Warhead: Single W-49 in the kiloton range
Engines: One Rocketdyne LR79-NA-9 of 150,000 lbs thrust; two Rocketdyne LR101-NA vernier engines (for small thrust and direction adjustments) of 1,000 lbs thrust each
Guidance: All-inertial
Range: 1,500 miles
Length: 65 ft
Diameter: 8 ft
Weight: 110,000 lbs (fully fueled)
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BOEING LGM-118A PEACEKEEPER
The Peacekeeper was the US Air Force's most powerful, accurate, and technologically advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) when it served as a deterrent from 1986 to 2005. The USAF began planning for a missile to replace Minuteman ICBMS in 1972, and named the projected weapon "missile X," or MX. It would use the latest targeting technology to deliver many independently targeted nuclear warheads by each missile. The ability to deliver several warheads on one missile is known as MIRV, or Multiple Independently targeted Re-entry Vehicles. MX eventually was named Peacekeeper and designated LGM-118A.
Full-scale development of the Peacekeeper began in 1979, and the first test flight took place in 1983 at Vandenberg AFB, California. It became operational in 1986, when ten missiles were deployed at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. By 1988, 50 missiles were in service there.
Basing-whether in stationary hardened silos or on mobile railways that would keep the Soviets guessing at the missiles' true location-was a major issue during Peacekeeper's development. Funding problems and competing ideas about the wisdom of each basing solution delayed Peacekeeper production and deployment. Eventually, it was decided to base all LGM-118As in hardened, underground silos.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Payload: 10 Avco MK-21 re-entry vehicles
Stages:
(1st) solid fuel, Thiokol
(2nd) solid fuel, Aerojet
(3rd) solid fuel, Hercules
(4th) storable liquid fuel, Rocketdyne
Maximum speed: Approximately 15,000 mph
Range: Greater than 6,000 miles
Guidance: Inertial
Height: 71 ft
Weight: 195,000 lbs
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LGM-30G MINUTEMAN III INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE
The Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM, is currently the United States' only operational land-based strategic nuclear missile. It is one leg of the nuclear deterrent "triad" that also includes USAF bombers and US Navy submarine-launched missiles. US nuclear forces are on alert at all times, ensuring a swift response in the event of a nuclear attack.
Minuteman III became operational in 1970, and is the most modem missile in the Minuteman family. The Minuteman series was the first in the US ICBM arsenal to use solid fuel. This important feature allows the missile to be stored for long periods in its silo, requiring much less maintenance and fewer technicians than older liquid-fueled missiles like Titan and Atlas. It can also be launched almost instantly. Minuteman III was the world's first missile to carry more than one warhead, using a "Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicle" (MIRV) system. Though Minuteman III can carry three warheads, each missile has been limited to one by international treaty since 2005.
The Minuteman system was designed in the 1950s. Minuteman I, the first of the family, became operational in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later, the retirement of the US Air Force's Minuteman II missiles in 1995 and Peacekeeper missiles in 2005 left Minuteman Ill as the only American land-based ICBM. Today, Minuteman III missiles are located in widely-separated, hardened underground silos at three bases-F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming, Malmstrom AFB, Montana, and Minot AFB, North Dakota
We hadn't planed of taking the motor and box out,but decided that it wasn't much more work to do so and it would make it easier to sandblast the chassis, Good job we did as we found that all four engine mounts were broken. So it was only held in place by the drive shaft and gearbox rear mounting.......bit of a worry.
Lower Hutt Oct 2013.
This day I had about 10 moles removed off my body and was only really worried about the one on the foot.
Vi prego di non postare immagini. In caso contrario, saranno subito eliminate.
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Yesterday I finally removed the terrible faceup I gave this guy last year. Ugh it was so bad.😣😑 So if you saw my last post, you know that my Venitu (character name unknown..?) is now on Dev’s body, Dev is now on an old mellowed Soom super gem body, and this guy, is on the DollShe Mystic body, and fits it like a dream. Which shocked me, since he has a pretty small neck opening, but his overall head size is really big, so the proportions are good, and the neck moves really well. Now the only issue is matching the yellower tone head to the very pale body, which I will try to do with the faceup. The other two pics show the difference in resin tone. By the way, this is a really old DIM minimee head, I’m not positive of the actor it was sculpted with the likeness of, if anyone has any ideas I’d be curious to hear who he looks like to you. ^_^
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On Saturday, Sept. 15 a contractor crew from Rock Supremacy had crews rope up and removed unstable rocks from the hillside above SR 11 just south of milepost 12 in northern Skagit County. They brought down about 20 cubic yards of unstable material. WSDOT maintenance crews will cleanup and haul out the debris before reopening the highway.
Asplund's Holy Cross Chapel and crematorium (1935-1940), a stripped-classical affair two decades and a world removed from the vernacular of the Woodland Chapel, but very much in step with the trends of the 1930s. We didn't get inside and my close-up shots were all lousy exposures, so please see Ken's and Seier's shots, which suggest a greater complexity and sensitivity than seen in many works of this style and era. I am reminded also of Eliel Saarinen's late work at Cranbrook, among other things. The spatial sensibility is Modern - think Mies, early or late - but it's divorced from the dogmatic attitude about materials which might grouse at what is obviously a steel skeleton, displaying itself as cut marble. Asplund was of a generation and mindset that could sidestep that quagmire and focus on spatial and emotional effects; later, people like Kahn would struggle to integrate these approaches but invariably come up with something much heavier in their efforts to find "honesty" in spanning openings.
The big granite cross (1939) is also Asplund. See introductory comments on the cemetery here.
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
Zeiss Ikon Mess-Ikonta 524/16. German 6x6 folder produced between 1952 and 1957.
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Now to the other side. Remove the screw which sits in the center of the Rangefinder Knob.
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When the screw is removed carefully lift the Knob. Attention, there is a spring underneath !
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This image is intended as a guide for the more experienced camera service man. If you have no experience in camera repair please do yourself a favor and send your camera to a professional service shop. It would be a pity to lose a vintage camera in a failed repair attempt.
James Perkins of Perkins Timber Harvesting (the awarded contractor for the Isham timber sale) operates a feller buncher to remove unmarked trees for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) Kaibab National Forest, Williams Ranger District's Isham Task Order, in Arizona, on December 4, 2018. A feller buncher can grasp multiple trees and cut mature trees and then stack them for removal. A massive spinning saw blade takes just a couple seconds to cut through a tree trunk.
The 1,273-acre Isham Task Order is part of the broader Four Forest Restoration Initiative, which is intended to treat more than 2.4 million acres of ponderosa pine forest across northern Arizona. The work within the Isham timber sale is just getting started south of Sherwood Forest Estates near Scholz Lake. Current activity includes the use of a feller buncher to cut and then stack trees. A feller buncher then drags the trees to a worksite. There the tree branches are removed in seconds, and the bare tree trunk is cut to the desired length for sale by the contractor to lumber mills. The disposition of treetops and trees too big for the mill remain the contractor's responsibility. The ultimate goal of the timber sale is to improve forest health and reduce the potential for high-intensity wildfires that could threaten lives, property, and natural resources. The Four Forest Restoration Initiative seeks to increase resilience in the fire-adapted ponderosa pine forest by reducing tree stand densities to a more historical level, which eventually reduces the potential for uncharacteristic wildfire. This work also offers greater protection for residents living in and adjacent to the wildland-urban interface, where developments and forested areas merge. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.