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An eastbound on the B&OCT hits Conrail's ex PRR FT. Wayne Line at Clarke Jct. in Gary, Indiana in the Falll of 1986. Conrail was in the process of single tracking the old Pennsy, and new signals bagged off are seen to the right as well as behing the semaphore. The semaphore was a Wabash train order signal. Eastbound Wabash trains left trackage rights just behind where I am standing and entered the 4th District rails, so grabbed orders at Clarke Jct. The tower was to the left of the semaphore.
Lego MOC of the Pantsir S1 mobile anti-aircraft system, carried by the MAN SX45 truck platform. (scale 1:30)
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Exploring the l-system. Tryin' a bunch of axiom & replacement rules.
Made with Processing.
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Singapore's finest working hard to knock down a fire in a high-rise public housing block.
Units Dispatched: PL112, PL211, LF111, LF112, CP111, IV111
First seen here, but I guess women have done this hundreds of years...
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Konvolut system = saa og saa meget til dit... og dat...og dut og saa ved jeg maaske hvor meget jeg bruger paa hver afdeling :-)
Going from my Nikko integrated, to a new Kenwood system, you can see the system progress. However I downgraded my speakers it seems! I am also showing off my new CD player, a Fisher Studio Standard. LOL The big black box is a lightshow switcher and chaser system, with color organ of course!
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“One Star-Raker takes off as another undergoes airport servicing. With its landing gear extended, Star-Raker ground clearance would have been 1.52 meters (five feet).”
On the landed Star-Raker, note that the door(s) of the main landing gear is/are closed…with the landing gear strut apparently extending through a hole…in the closed door. Interesting, I’d like to see that in operation.
Note also the LAX-like airport.
Above & image at/from:
spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2020/09/star-raker-1978.html
Credit: David S. F. Portree/”No Shortage of Dreams” blog
www.astronautix.com/s/star-raker.html
Credit: Astronautix website
Also:
e05.code.blog/2021/07/08/star-raker/
Credit: “numbers station” blog
Finally:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rockwell-international-s...
Credit: “SECRET PROJECTS” Forums website
Specifically, within the above site’s discussion thread, contributed by user “ozmosis”, 18 April 2011, the image is Figure 2, captioned “Multiple Launch”.
That, and other extracts are from Rockwell International presentation/paper SSD 79-0082, entitled “STAR-RAKER: AN AIRBREATHER/ROCKET-POWERED, HORIZONTAL TAKEOFF TRIDELTA FLYING WING, SINGLE-STAGE-TO-ORBIT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM” by: David A. Reed, Jr., Hideo Ikawa & Jonas A. Sadunas. The paper was presented at the AIAA Conference on Advanced Technology for Future Space Systems, at Hampton Virginia, May 8-11, 1979.
Since it’s so damned cool, articles & reproductions of this (and other) Star-Raker images abound online.
As such, it’s particularly gratifying to have come across this & scan it at a glorious 1200 dpi. That, and to have been able to identify the talented artist of this & many other gorgeous works - North American Rockwell/Rockwell International artist Manuel E. Alvarez.
Yay me.
Nike-Hercules Missile, designation MIM-14 (initially SAM-N-25), was a solid fuel propelled surface-to-air missile, used by US and NATO armed forces for high- and medium-altitude air defense. It could also be employed in a surface-to-surface role.The Nike-Hercules system, a follow-up to the Nike-Ajax missile, was developed during the Cold War to destroy enemy bombers and enemy bomber formations, as well as serve as an anti-ballistic missile system. Western Electric, Bell Laboratories, and Douglas Aircraft Company were chief contractors for the system. Nuclear-armed Nike Hercules missiles were deployed in the United States, Greece, Italy, and Turkey, and with Belgian, Dutch, and U.S. forces in West Germany. Conventionally-armed Nike Hercules missiles also served in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Norway, and Taiwan.The first deployments in Europe began in 1959 and the last nuclear-armed Nike Hercules missiles in Europe were deactivated in 1988. The Nike-Hercules missile systems sold to Japan (Nike J) were subsequently upgraded the internal guidance systems by replacing the original vacuum tube systems with transistorized ones.The guidance and control area (Integrated Fire Control, IFC) was located a distance (about 1 mile) from the area from where the missile was launched (Launching Area, LA). The IFC had an acquisition radar to detect (enemy) aircraft. After detecting and identifying a hostile aircraft this aircraft was followed or tracked in elevation, azimuth and range by a Target Tracking Radar (TTR). An analog (later digital) computer computed a point in the sky where the missile and target should meet (intercept point). After the missile was launched by the Battery Control Officer (BCO) a Missile Tracking Radar (MTR) followed the missile and the computer constantly updated the intercept point even if the hostile aircraft performed evasive actions. Steering corrections were sent to the missile by the MTR. When the missile neared the intercept point a command signal was sent to the missile to explode. To measure the range to the target under jamming conditions the IFC also was equipped with a Target Ranging Radar (TRR).
Il MIM-14 Nike Hercules è un missile di fabbricazione statunitense per la difesa antiaerea. Prodotto a partire dagli anni cinquanta fu in dotazione a molte forze armate che aderivano alla NATO.
Il missile MIM-14 Nike Hercules, fece il suo ingresso nel 1958. Pesava circa 5 tonnellate, con 4 motori ausiliari molto simile al precedente sistema missilistico Ajax.Venne utilizzato anche tra le schiere dell'Aeronautica Militare Italiana, che equipaggiò 3 stormi, complessivamente 96 lanciatori, con il suddetto sistema terra-aria.Al giorno d'oggi i MIM-14, sono stati tutti radiati con cerimonia ufficiale.Originariamente il missile venne chiamato SAM-A-25 Nike Hercules, ma poi nelle varie vicissitudini che ebbero le designazioni americane di quel decennio, venne ribattezzato M6, e infine MIM-14. Nel 1958 esso entrò in servizio, rimpiazzando l'Ajax per le basi a difesa di New York, Chicago e Washington D.C..Il nuovo sistema missilistico era quindi stato progettato per essere un'arma formidabile. Esso aveva prestazioni per l'epoca eccezionali, soprattutto in termini di gittata e di quota, tanto che i bombardieri pilotati stratosferici, anche se supersonici, vennero messi in dubbio, e dopo l'avvento di questo sistema non avrebbero più avuto la stessa importanza di prima.La sua struttura, molto caratteristica, era aguzza e possente al tempo stesso, con un insieme di caratteristiche che lo rendevano unico tra i pur numerosi missili antiaerei dell'epoca. Esso era bistadio: il primo aveva ben 4 motori a razzo con propellenti solidi, riuniti in un complesso chiamato M42, studiato per ridurre la lunghezza del missile a valori accettabili, e realizzato con i motori di accelerazione (booster) M5E1. Esso era dotato anche di 4 ali cruciformi per la stabilizzazione. Questo complesso pesava da solo 2345 kg e dava quasi 80.000 kg di spinta per 3,4 secondi.Una volta finita la spinta, veniva sganciato per non appesantire inutilmente il corpo missile vero e proprio, di diametro minore, e che era dotato di una struttura a 'pallottola allungata', con 4 alette anteriori fisse, 4 grandi alette triangolari posteriori per la stabilità del volo ma anche con elevoni per il controllo della direzione e quota, sistemati nella parte finale.Anche la guida del missile era su comando radio. Non appare infatti che esso avesse nessun sistema di bordo per l'acquisizione semiautonoma o autonoma del bersaglio di tipo radar o IR, ma le alette anteriori erano utilizzate come antenne per ricevere i comandi radio da terra ,mentre esisteva un trasponder per dare la posizione del missile alla stazione radar.
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This logo was designed for the Natural Areas System. It appears earlier in my portfolio as (www.flickr.com/photos/steveczajka/9002115853/). I am pleased to say that it is now being used as the new branding for the Natural Areas System at the City of Mississauga. The Natural Areas Survey is a study which identifies and inventories natural areas within the City including woodlands, wetlands, creeks and streams. These areas comprise roughly 9% of the total area of the City and are referred to as Natural Areas System. The study also recommends strategies and guidelines for their future protection. The study consists of 4 phases: review of existing reports and databases; survey of public opinion on environmental issues; site visits to remnant natural areas; and development of databases for the natural areas. Each year one quadrant of the City is updated.
This is one of the projects that I manage in my professional life, but in this case I have also contributed with a logo design. While I did not create this featured brochure or website, I did help to steer the overall design and use of powerful infographics to simplify the story and make it interesting for the reader. The brochure was created in Adobe InDesign, the website (www.mississauga.ca/nas) created in a variety of tools including esri mapping, and the logo created in Inkscape/GIMP and authentically hand created calligraphy.
I am seeing more often that my professional career is being influenced by my artistic background, and this is one example of that.
Cheers
Steve
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist onboard launches on the Artemis II mission, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft. The quartet launched at 6:35 p.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
You can't travel in the solar system!
Here, grab my beer! 😁
I was lucky enough to visit 6 planets on 21th of December. It all started by chance when I spotted Venus from the yard and quickly unpacked my equipment. It was a great joy when I finally managed to capture Uranus and Neptune for the first time. I didn't plan this adventure, but it turned out very well.
The list is opened by the planet Venus. Its namesake became the figure of the goddess in the 3rd century BC, whose name means desire and charm. We look at it as a star at dusk and dawn, because it illuminates the dawn or early evening hours with its wonderful brightness. Being a planet closer to the Sun, it has phases like the Moon. It is shown in the picture in its last phase.
The planet Mars is the second. From a few lines of poetry that survived, it is clear that it was the patron saint of agriculture. Agriculture led to the symbol of protective masculinity and from there it was only a step to the image of the protective warrior man. Thus he became the god of war and battle. In the picture, if I correctly identified the Arabia terra and Utopia platinum areas, the upper part is the ice cap of the north pole of Mars. Mars has two moons: Phobos (fear) and Deimos (terror).
Thirdly, the mighty planet Jupiter. Iuppiter is one of the most ancient Italian deities, originally the god of the sun and atmospheric phenomena, lightning and thunder, and also the source of all life. In the beginning, he played the role of a war god, and later became the patron of the Roman state and the most revered god. The mass of Jupiter is two and a half times the mass of all other planets combined. Its gravitational force protects the Earth from comets that stray into the solar system. It was visited by the New Horizons spacecraft and is being observed as an orbiter by the Juno spacecraft. It boasts 79 moons, of which the 4 Galilean moons can be observed with a small telescope.
Next in line is the planet Uranus. Uranus is the god of the sky, conceived and given birth to by Gaia without a father, and then became his wife. One of his children was Cronus, who rebelled against him at the instigation of his mother. He cut off his father's reproductive organ with a sickle, deprived him of his power, and took over the world from him. The upper part of the planet's atmosphere absorbs red light, which gives it a pale blue-green color. Its axial tilt is very close to 90°, so one pole is facing the Sun for a significant part of its orbital period. The large axial tilt may have been created by a collision with an early planet-sized object billions of years ago.
Finally, there is the planet Neptune. It was named after the Roman god of the seas because of its color. An ancient Italian deity who was the god of fresh water springs and rivers. His July festival has been celebrated since ancient times, and he had a sanctuary between the Palatine and Aventine hills, along an ancient stream, but little is known about his cult. Unfortunately, Neptune has only been visited by the Voyager-2 spacecraft. Under the atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, there is a mantle rich in water, ammonia and methane. The temperature is between 2000 and 5000 Kelvin. The pressure is tens of millions of times that of the surface of the Earth. Under such conditions, molecules break into atoms and carbon combines into diamonds.
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Dar es Salaam’s new bus transit system (BRT) is decreasing transportation costs, and easing traffic throughout the city. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's commerical hub, is considered one of the fastest growing urban centers in the region, with a population that has been growing rapidly at a rate of 6.5%, up from 2.5 million inhabitants in 2002 to 4.4 million in 2012. It is projected that the population could reach 10 million by 2027, thus attaining ‘mega city’ status.
The construction of the BRT, which was completed in 2015, was financed in part by a from $290 million credit from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries. Photo: Hendri Lombard / World Bank
Photo ID: 20161121-Tanzania-Lombard-01812
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Sometimes I feel like building digitally makes me lazy, and the physical stuff was more challenging.
Then I port something into LDD and that pretty much gets affirmed.
Climbing beans in Rwanda perform more than three times better than other varieties, but delivery systems to get them to farmers are key. Visit: www.pabra-africa.org
Credit: ©2015CIAT/GeorginaSmith
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Sustainable Systems and Green Materials
Sustainable Systems and Green Materials
1) Photovoltaic solar energy system
2) Grey water recycling system - takes water from the -bathroom sinks and showers, and the washing machine, filtering it and pumping it to the fruit trees in the garden
3) Rain water collection system
4) Passive Cooling - uses low windows on the windward side and high windows on the leeward side of the house. Cross ventilation is maximized by eliminating most of the interior walls and aligning windows and sliding glass doors. Ceiling fans are distributed across the ceiling to move the warm air out when there is no natural breeze.
5) In order to reduce the size of the house, we used efficient efficient custom storage system of movable shelves and cabinets runs through the length of the house. This allows for a smaller, but smarter building.
6) Natural Daylighting - uses interior clerestory windows and transoms to allow all of the rooms to borrow light from each other.
Materials
1) recycled flooring for the first structure, patched together and left roughly finished.
2) plywood floors for the second structure
3) Ceilings of both structures are plywood, cut into horizontal boards.
4) Composite decking made of recycled content.
5) All of the Interior doors are made of recycled flooring from the existing house
6) Poured in place concrete countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms, use recycled fly ash
8) Non VOC Paints and Stains
9) All plumbing fixtures are low-flow energy efficient
10) All electrical appliances are energy star rated
-LED and fluorescent lighting fixtures
11) Ductless Mini-Split HVAC system zoned for maximum efficiency
Credits:
Jeremy Levine Design
Designer: Jeremy Levine, Assoc. AIA, Principal
Associate Designer: Jonathon Pickup
Structural Engineer: Micheal Ciortea
General Contractor: Juan Macias Construction
Photography by Tom Bonner
A Delta Air Lines system route map from the fall of 1989. The Atlanta-based carrier grew - a lot - during the seven years between 1982 and this map (they also found better map designers).
Some of the biggest additions are the entire Delta Connection network through partnerships with Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), Business Express (BEX), Comair and SkyWest Airlines; hubs in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City via its merger with Western Airlines in 1987; and international service to Asia.
Delta operated 408 aircraft - 188 more than it did at the end of 1982 - on 1 October 1989, Flightglobal’s Fleets Analyzer shows. This included 130 727-200s, 74 737-200/300s, 52 757-200s, 30 767-200/300s, 36 DC-9-30s, 46 MD-88s and 40 L-1011s.
Also see Delta’s domestic and international networks in 1991, and domestic, connection and international in 2000.