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Reshade 0.18.1 Framework Extreme Eyecancer Mod Testbed 0.2B
Blackfire's mod + TOD + Reli2
Ini tweaks + POM enabled
Lite TOD, light shadows, nohud, dof %25-50, adjusted brightess, contrast and gamma + exposure. MSAA Disabled. SSAO enabled.
80º FoV,
Custom helmet mesh lens texture (reworked)
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Framework Config
SweetFX
{ SMAA
Tonemap
Vibrance
Film Grain
Letterbox }
McFX
{ Fisheye CA }
GemFX
{ LensDirt
Ambient Light + ambient light controls for Bloom, Lens and vibrance + advanced eye adaptation }
& Improved performance again, render mode 8bit
Prototype Sprinter 150002 was rebuilt in 1988 as a testbed for the forthcoming class 158s. Seen at Crewe, with a Derby service, Summer 1988
Airbus Industrie Airbus A340-311 F-WWAI TLS 21-09-10 - now used as a testbed for A350 components. Check out the window size!
Reshade 0.15 Extreme Eyecancer Mod Testbed 0.1A
Blackfire's mod + TOD + Reli2
Ini tweaks + POM enabled
Lite TOD, light shadows, nohud, dof %25-50, adjusted brightess, contrast and gamma + exposure
80º FoV
SMAA (sweetfx+master effect) FXAA (custom settings)
Tonemap
Lensdirt
Vibrance
GPC Dof
Chromatic Aberration
Grain + noise
Letterbox
During the middle of the Vietnam War, the USAF faced a number of procurement problems. Losses to the F-105 Thunderchief community were mounting to the point that it was thought the aircraft might become “extinct,” while the F-111 Aardvark, which was to replace the F-105, was having numerous teething troubles. Another problem was that the Sandy escort units for rescue helicopters were forced to use Korean War-era ex-US Navy A-1 Skyraiders, which, while good aircraft, were not getting any younger. The USAF needed an aircraft that could replace the A-1 and supplement the F-105 until the F-111 finally reached maturity—and it needed the aircraft immediately, and at low cost. After reviewing a number of options, the USAF settled on the US Navy’s A-7A Corsair II. The Navy’s F-4B had been adapted to USAF standards, and it was felt that the A-7 could be as well. An A-7A was bailed back to LTV for conversion to the USAF-specific A-7D variant.
Though externally little different to the Navy A-7A, the A-7D was actually a significant upgrade. Since the reliability of the TF30 engine was a concern, the D model would use a license-built version of the Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan; as the USAF did not use the 20mm cannon that the Navy preferred, these were deleted in favor of the more common M61 Vulcan 20mm gatling cannon. The refuelling probe was deleted in favor of the USAF-plug style refuelling receptacle. The first A-7D flew in September 1968. So successful was the A-7D in testing that the Navy would adopt a modified version as the A-7E.
Though at first reluctant to fly yet another Navy retread, especially one that was considered remarkably ugly—pilots quickly nicknamed the A-7 the SLUF (Short Little Ugly Fellow)—it soon gained a reputation for easy flying and, like its Navy “brother,” pinpoint bombing accuracy. In wing strength by 1970, it was soon deployed to Vietnam for combat operations, mainly to replace not just the A-1 but also the aging F-100 Super Sabre. USAF pilots found that the A-7 was not well suited to tropical operations: hot-and-high conditions meant that the A-7D took ten miles to generate enough power to climb above 500 feet, while a poor brake system caused it to be a real danger in landing on slick runways.
During Operation Linebacker, the A-7s went to North Vietnam, but only sparingly and usually in as Sandy escorts, which the Corsair II excelled at. They were far more effective in South Vietnam. Alongside Navy A-7Es, USAF A-7Ds brought the curtain down on the Vietnam War by participating in the Mayaguez rescue operation in May 1975, and were among the very last USAF aircraft to leave Southeast Asia. They had complied the best loss ratio of any combat aircraft during the war, with only six A-7Ds lost in over 12,000 missions.
With the post-Vietnam retirement of the A-1, F-100, and F-105, the A-7D was left as one of the few USAF attack aircraft, but the USAF planned to end procurement by 1975; postwar budget cuts led to additional Corsair II production to take up the slack. The F-111 had become a long-range strike aircraft, but for anticipated operations in Central Europe, the USAF preferred the development of the A-10 Thunderbolt II over A-7s. As a result, the USAF divested itself of most of its A-7s to the Air National Guard—somewhat to the chagrin of active-duty units, as ANG units began winning the coveted Gunsmoke bombing trophy with their A-7s. A minor upgrade mounting the Pave Penny laser designator to A-7Ds began in 1979.
With the A-10 in large numbers in theater, the USAF chose not to deploy ANG A-7s to the First Gulf War, though small numbers had seen action in Grenada and the 1989 invasion of Panama. At the end of Operation Desert Storm, when the Navy retired their last two squadrons of A-7Es, the USAF decided to do the same, and the A-7D rapidly disappeared from active units in favor of the F-16; the last left USAF service in 1993. A number were passed on to Greece, where it lasted until 2014. Of 1569 A-7s produced, just under half were USAF A-7Ds or two-seat A-7Ks, and today about 18 survive as museum aircraft.
A-7D 68-8222 seems to have spent its whole career with the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, California, operating as a testbed for A-7 flight systems. It flew at Edwards from 1968 to retirement in 1992, and was put into storage at AMARG afterwards. In 2000, the USAF decided to preserve the aircraft, and it was donated to the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot, North Dakota--an interesting choice, since no A-7 unit was ever based in North Dakota.
All the same, it's good to see that 68-8222 didn't end up as beer cans, and definitely a change from the A-7 norm to see one in the overall white test scheme used by AFFTC aircraft. (At one point during its career, 68-8222 actually wore Navy-style gray over white camouflage.) The aircraft was recently repainted, and looks great against a pleasant North Dakota afternoon...which unfortunately wasn't going to last much longer for us!
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
[300 mm - SLIGHT CROP]
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Its size allowed the B-36 to act as a testbed for some very unorthodox ideas, such as carrying its own escort fighter in the bomb bay, or fitting an entire nuclear reactor in the thing (not to power the plane - just to see if it still worked!) Convair also built a single prototype of a cargo-carrying version, with the B-36's wings and powerplant but an all new fuselage - it could carry up to 400 troops years before anyone had heard the word "jumbo jet." Despite all this innovative thinking, the service career of the B-36 was not especially long, with all aircraft retired by 1959 - just five years after the last one rolled off the assembly line.
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Reference shot.
Taken with my Nokia N86 8MP mobile.
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C-FETB - Boeing B-720-023B - Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc.
at Trenton Airbase (YTR) on display within the National Air Force Museum
c/n 18.024 - built in 1960 for American Airlines -
operated by MEA between 1971 and 1985 as OD-AFQ -
operated by Pratt & Whitney Canada as a flying engine testbed between 1986 and 2012
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
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The team fills the Morpheus lander's tanks with liquid oxygen.
Location: Johnson Space Center
Photographer: Kris Kehe
The team fills the Morpheus lander's tanks with liquid oxygen.
Location: Johnson Space Center
Photographer: Kris Kehe
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
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Last Doxford engine to be built in Sunderland. Contract number 477. Shown here on test in 1980, it was fitted into the bulk carrier CANADIAN PIONEER
(from DEFA Newsletter No 16)
This ship is still in service, now named PIONEER (IMO 7925613)
Pushing back at Miami, FL on March 6, 2017. This aircraft worked as a testbed for Airbus when constructed back in 1997.
"S/N" is the aircraft's serial number. "L/N" is a Boeing code denoting what order the airframe came off the production line. "F/N" refers to an individual airline's fleet numbering system. Not all airlines use a fleet number; not all manufacturers use a line number.
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ISS034-E-038211 (1 Feb. 2013) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34 flight engineer, installs Ultra-Sonic Background Noise Tests (UBNT) sensors behind a rack in the Destiny laboratory, using the International Space Station (ISS) as Testbed for Analog Research (ISTAR) procedures. These sensors detect high frequency noise levels generated by ISS hardware and equipment operating within Destiny.
Douglas NB-66B Destroyer side view, originally B-66B (S/N 54-477). Taken Oct. 29, 1965. (U.S. Air Force photo)
This aircraft was used as a landing gear brake testbed with an anti-skid drag chute.
Airbus A300B2-103, F-BUAD, c/n 003, DLR / Novespace (Zero gravity testbed) @ Tag der Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR Köln
Inside JPL's Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Transfer Testbed where MSR Lead Engineer Austin Nicholas shows off a prototype wheel from NASA's Glenn Research Center.
NASA opened its doors to media and social media its annual "State of NASA" event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the agency’s locations across the country, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL hosted 29 digital creators to learn how the center’s robotic missions help future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Participants met scientists and engineers, and went behind the scenes in mission control, an indoor "Mars Yard" for testing landers and rovers, and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where Mars 2020, NASA's next rover, is preparing for launch later this year. www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Enterprise goes through restoration at Udvar-Hazy Center, Dulles Airport, in July 2004.
Enterprise (OV-101) was the first space shuttle built, and named by Star Trek fans. It was not equipped with heat tiles, and therefore could not fly in space. Its role was to test in-atmosphere aerodynamics, so that future shuttles, starting with Columbia (OV-102), could make space flights and return safely to Earth.
The original plans called for Enterprise to be fitted out for spaceflight as the second orbiter. However, due to design changes made for Columbia, it was deemed that fitting Enterprise out would not be cost-effective. Instead, a structural test bed, OV-99, was fitted out as the second spaceworthy orbiter, and it entered service in 1983 as Challenger. Fitting Enterprise out was once again considered an option when Challenger was destroyed in 1986, but due to cost issues, again, NASA decided in favor of using structural spares (built at the same time as Discovery and Atlantis in 1984) to build Endeavour.
Enterprise never flew again, though it served as a goodwill ambassador as it was ferried to Europe in 1983, and also as a testbed during the investigation for the 2003 Columbia disaster.
With the retirement of the Shuttle fleet, Discovery took over at the Smithsonian in 2012. Enterprise was moved to New York City and given to Intrepid Air & Sea Museum. I would return in 2013 to photograph Discovery.
Forecasters evaluated experimental products during NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed 2016 Spring Experiment.
During the HWT experiment, National Weather Service forecasters and broadcast meteorologists utilized GOES-R and JPSS products to issue experimental forecast updates and severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings and evaluated the products and capabilities.
Learn more about HWT at goesrhwt.blogspot.com/.
Credit: GOES-R Series Program
Original Image Source: www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/events.html
F-WWER Aérospatiale ATR 42-500 Paris Air Show Le Bourget 17 June 1995. Originally retained as a testbed, but in 2019 was LY-DAT www.flickr.com/photos/acw367/48366362357/in/datetaken/
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
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Catalog #: 01_00083574
Title: Convair , F-102, Delta Dagger
Corporation Name: Convair
Official Nickname: Delta Dagger
Additional Information: USA
Designation: F-102
Tags: Convair , F-102, Delta Dagger
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
The team fills the Morpheus lander's tanks with liquid oxygen.
Location: Johnson Space Center
Photographer: Kris Kehe
on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, General Electric's B747-121 engine testbed N747GE arrived after a period of storage at Victorville and Davis-Monthan. Was formerly Pan Am's N744PA.
PictionID:44795948 - Title:Boeing B-52 Stratofortress: First B-52E-85 Boeing photo - Catalog:16_005976 - Filename:16_005976.tif - - - - - Image from the Ray Wagner Collection. Ray Wagner was Archivist at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for several years and is an author of several books on aviation --- ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
I created these illustrations for a video that promotes Philadelphia as the perfect testbed for the google high speed fiber initiative. The video will go live on Friday, but I thought I'd get them up ahead of time. To find out more about the public-private partnership in Philly to promote the City of Firsts as a site for this project, please visit gigabitphilly.com And if you have ideas for how Philly could use an ultra high bandwidth data network that connects individuals, industry, and government, please submit your ideas here. You can also show your support by coming to the press conference with Philadelphia Mayor tomorrow (Thursday, March 25) at 2:30 at City Hall on the 2nd floor. A high speed data network in Philly has the potential to accelerate our medical, film production, university, technology, financial services, and community sectors by letting people share massive amounts of data rapidly---that means rich interactivity, problem solving, and communication. Gigabit Philly Videos GigabitPhilly Site GigabitPhilly Facebook Fanpage Follow GigabitPhilly on Twitter Can you imagine Gigabit Philly? ---Jonny Goldstein
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Copyright © 2010 A380spotter. All rights reserved.
The team fills the Morpheus lander's tanks with liquid oxygen.
Location: Johnson Space Center
Photographer: Kris Kehe
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Reference shot.
Taken with my Nokia N86 8MP mobile.
Copyright © 2010 A380spotter. All rights reserved.
The team fills the Morpheus lander's tanks with liquid oxygen.
Location: Johnson Space Center
Photographer: Kris Kehe
Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
Curated higher resolutions with digital enhancement without attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/board/418580/nasa
This is a free download under CC Attribution ( CC BY 4.0) Please credit NASA and rawpixel.com.
Inside JPL's Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Transfer Testbed where MSR Lead Engineer Austin Nicholas shows off a prototype Orbiting Sample canister.
NASA opened its doors to media and social media its annual "State of NASA" event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the agency’s locations across the country, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL hosted 29 digital creators to learn how the center’s robotic missions help future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Participants met scientists and engineers, and went behind the scenes in mission control, an indoor "Mars Yard" for testing landers and rovers, and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where Mars 2020, NASA's next rover, is preparing for launch later this year. www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
ATR 72-600 test-bed and demonstrator visiting Guernsey. It performed several circuits in low visibility conditions before returning to Toulouse.
Airfield: Guernsey Airport (GCI/EGJB)
This is the testbed aircraft for "sustainable bio-fuels" made from animal fats and vegetable waste. It's seen here at Tucson International Airport where test flights are based. Note the #2 engine is very different from the others and that's the one involved in the test.
Kristin Calhoun, week 1 Experimental Warning Program (EWP) coordinator, and Gabe Garfield, Experimental Warning Program operations coordinator at HWT, kick off the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) 2014 Spring Experiment on May 5, 2014. The experiment took place May 5–June 6 at the NOAA HWT in Norman, Oklahoma during the height of the spring severe weather season. The Spring Experiment is a unique opportunity for researchers and forecasters to work side-by-side to evaluate emerging research concepts and tools and participate in experimental forecast and warning generation exercises.
For more information: hwt.nssl.noaa.gov/spring_experiment/
GOES-R Proving Ground at the Hazardous Weather Testbed Blog: www.goesrhwt.blogspot.com/
Original photo source: www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/pg.html