View allAll Photos Tagged Testbed
Ph.D. student Thabiso Mabote, left, and College of Engineering faculty member Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez put caution tape around a machine testbed. Machine testbeds are useful to validate machine dynamics in a time-domain simulation such as was used in the smart meter research. (photo provided by Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez)
12-wheeled lunar rover prototypes in Johnson Space Center. Two spacesuits will be connected in the rear of the cockpit.
11/2014 - Altoona, PA
Inside the cab of NS 1000, formerly Conrail Q1, the SD45 engine testbed used at the Juniata Shops. Built 6/1968.
Solid state pre-dash2 electronics.
Thursday, October 18th. Dual-Polarized
Phased Array Radar
National Weather Radar Testbed Advanced Technology
Demonstrator tour, ribbon cutting and reception.
Michigan Balloon Recovery & Satellite Testbed (MBuRST) members fill one of the high altitude balloons with helium.
Photo: Ben Logan, Social Media Guru – Communications and Marketing, Michigan Engineering
Il-76LL RA-76529 at the 1994 Farnborough airshow. This aircraft was the testbed for the D-236T engine.
Michigan Balloon Recovery & Satellite Testbed (MBuRST) members fill one of the high altitude balloons with helium.
Photo: Ben Logan, Social Media Guru – Communications and Marketing, Michigan Engineering
Michigan Balloon Recovery & Satellite Testbed (MBuRST) member holds one of the inflated high altitude balloons as the team prepares to fill the second.
Photo: Ben Logan, Social Media Guru – Communications and Marketing, Michigan Engineering
From front to back... Enzo, F50, 2 F40s, a 288 GTO Evoluzione (testbed for the F40), and 2 280 GTOs...
The RX-78 Gundam is a fictional manned robot, introduced in 1979 in Yoshiyuki Tomino's and Sunrise's anime series Mobile Suit Gundam.
In the series, it is a testbed weapon for the Earth Federation when it falls into the hands of Amuro Ray, the son of its designer in story (Tem Ray), who goes on to pilot it in the Earth Federation's war against the Principality of Zeon.
As the success of the series began the Gundam franchise, the robot's design was the first of many variations in subsequent works. The design appearing in Mobile Suit Gundam serves as the iconic symbol of the Gundam franchise and sparked the creation of its multiple sequels and spinoffs.
As part of the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series, the company officially announced a project on March 11, 2009 called Real-G planning to build a 1/1 real size scale Gundam in Japan.
It was completed on June 9, 2009. The 18-meter (60 feet) tall statue was reconstructed in Shizuoka Prefecture and was dismantled in March 2011.
It now stands in Odaiba in front of Diver City Tokyo Plaza, along with a gift shop called "Gundam Front Tokyo" and "Gundam Cafe".
The In-Situ Instrument Laboratory (ISIL) is where engineers test spacecraft in a simulated Mars environment. See a model of NASA's Mars lander, InSight, and a Mars 2020 testbed.
Thursday, October 18th. Dual-Polarized
Phased Array Radar
National Weather Radar Testbed Advanced Technology
Demonstrator tour, ribbon cutting and reception.
N861BC
Boeing 777-212 (ER)
Boeing Aircraft Co
Built 2002
C/N 32336 / 422
ecoDemonstrator testbed up from Everett, I believe for autonomous taxi tests and it did a few circuits from the deice pads - we currently have no 200's at YVR and the 2nd of three special 777 visitors in as many days - Euroatlantic yesterday (which I saw but unpostable shots) and Egyptair due tomorrow.
Delivered to Singapore Airlines as 9V-SVL and retired in Mar 2018 when returned to Boeing as N817BC and parked in Singapore until Jun. It then briefly joined Air New Zealand as ZK-OKI in basic SQ colors until Mar 2019, then it went to Victorville CA the following month until the Aug. Re-registered to Boeing as N943BC in the May, moved to Goodyear AZ in Aug, then leased to Surinam Airlines as PZ-TCU in “93% Forest, 100% Surinamese" special colors in the Dec. Retired in Feb 2021 and went to Victorville again in the Mar, then registered to Boeing in Jan 2022 and entered service in the May.
Pima Air and Space Museum
The Boeing 747 began as a concept for a U.S. Air Force contract competition to design a heavy lift cargo aircraft. That contest was eventually won by the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, but Boeing’s failure to win that contract led it to develop one of the most iconic aircraft ever. The first 747 made its maiden flight in February 1969 and the type made its first commercial flight less than a year later. Since then the humpbacked shape of the 747 has become familiar to millions of travelers around the world. The “Jumbo Jet” is the first twin isle airliner and in some configurations could carry more than 500 passengers. This immense size allowed a much lower operating cost per seat and helped bring long distance air travel into the price range of vastly more people. Boeing has built more than 1,560 since 1969. As of 2018, only about 20 remain to be delivered. The era of the 747 as a passenger plane is coming to an end as it is replaced by more fuel-efficient twin-engine aircraft, but it will continue to be in use as a cargo plane for many years to come.
It was built by Boeing Aircraft Company at Everett, Washington and delivered to Pan American World Airways on March 21, 1970. It is the twenty-fifth 747 built. Following Pan Am’s practice of naming its aircraft, this airplane flew with the name “Clipper Star of the Union” until 1982 when it was renamed “Clipper Ocean Spray.” It remained with Pan Am until the bankruptcy of the airline in 1991. In March 1992 it was purchased by General Electric for use as an engine test bed. Since then the plane has flown more than 3,000 hours carrying various test engines for GE as they develop the engines that power many of the planes that are replacing the 747 in airline service. General Electric donated the aircraft to the Pima Air & Space Museum in November 2018.
Wingspan: 195 ft 8 in.
Length: 231 ft 4 in.
Height: 63 ft 5 in.
Weight: 735,000 lbs (loaded)
Maximum Speed: 595 MPH
Service Ceiling: 45,000 ft
Range: 6,000 miles
Engines: Four Pratt and Whitney JD9D-3 turbofans with 43,000 pounds of thrust each
Crew: 3 flight crew, 15 flight attendants, 374 to 490 passengers
Manufacturer: Boeing
Markings: General Electric Aviation, 2018
Designation: 747-121
Registration: N747GE
Serial Number: 19651
This was my first BEAM walking robot, using a microcore controller donated by Mark Tilden. I hand assembled "OTU" Oven-timer unit gearboxes with super-efficent Portescap motors. It was slow, sexy, and ... pretty decent for a first try. I had build the front OTU on a pivot with the thought of making it variable geometry, but never got to implementing a "steep climb" behaviour.
(uh-edited-(sn 45-59479)-As a testbed for rocket assisted take-off, Sept. 24, 1958-Not part of my personal collection
The RX-78 Gundam is a fictional manned robot, introduced in 1979 in Yoshiyuki Tomino's and Sunrise's anime series Mobile Suit Gundam.
In the series, it is a testbed weapon for the Earth Federation when it falls into the hands of Amuro Ray, the son of its designer in story (Tem Ray), who goes on to pilot it in the Earth Federation's war against the Principality of Zeon.
As the success of the series began the Gundam franchise, the robot's design was the first of many variations in subsequent works. The design appearing in Mobile Suit Gundam serves as the iconic symbol of the Gundam franchise and sparked the creation of its multiple sequels and spinoffs.
As part of the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series, the company officially announced a project on March 11, 2009 called Real-G planning to build a 1/1 real size scale Gundam in Japan.
It was completed on June 9, 2009. The 18-meter (60 feet) tall statue was reconstructed in Shizuoka Prefecture and was dismantled in March 2011.
It now stands in Odaiba in front of Diver City Tokyo Plaza, along with a gift shop called "Gundam Front Tokyo" and "Gundam Cafe".
N789FT
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
Boeing
Built 2013
C/N 41989 / 133
UPDATE JAN 2022
Still active as ZK-NZD with Air New Zealand, delivered in Jul 2015 after serving as a Boeing testbed and prototype.
Thursday, October 18th. Dual-Polarized
Phased Array Radar
National Weather Radar Testbed Advanced Technology
Demonstrator tour, ribbon cutting and reception.
Thursday, October 18th. Dual-Polarized
Phased Array Radar
National Weather Radar Testbed Advanced Technology
Demonstrator tour, ribbon cutting and reception.
Tom Rogers, the managing director of Auburn’s new Aviation and Aerospace ID Lab, is pictured left of student worker Krissy Yost as they work on equipment inside a newly constructed lab space that mimics the inside of a commercial airplane.
Pima Air and Space Museum
The Boeing 747 began as a concept for a U.S. Air Force contract competition to design a heavy lift cargo aircraft. That contest was eventually won by the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, but Boeing’s failure to win that contract led it to develop one of the most iconic aircraft ever. The first 747 made its maiden flight in February 1969 and the type made its first commercial flight less than a year later. Since then the humpbacked shape of the 747 has become familiar to millions of travelers around the world. The “Jumbo Jet” is the first twin isle airliner and in some configurations could carry more than 500 passengers. This immense size allowed a much lower operating cost per seat and helped bring long distance air travel into the price range of vastly more people. Boeing has built more than 1,560 since 1969. As of 2018, only about 20 remain to be delivered. The era of the 747 as a passenger plane is coming to an end as it is replaced by more fuel-efficient twin-engine aircraft, but it will continue to be in use as a cargo plane for many years to come.
It was built by Boeing Aircraft Company at Everett, Washington and delivered to Pan American World Airways on March 21, 1970. It is the twenty-fifth 747 built. Following Pan Am’s practice of naming its aircraft, this airplane flew with the name “Clipper Star of the Union” until 1982 when it was renamed “Clipper Ocean Spray.” It remained with Pan Am until the bankruptcy of the airline in 1991. In March 1992 it was purchased by General Electric for use as an engine test bed. Since then the plane has flown more than 3,000 hours carrying various test engines for GE as they develop the engines that power many of the planes that are replacing the 747 in airline service. General Electric donated the aircraft to the Pima Air & Space Museum in November 2018.
Wingspan: 195 ft 8 in.
Length: 231 ft 4 in.
Height: 63 ft 5 in.
Weight: 735,000 lbs (loaded)
Maximum Speed: 595 MPH
Service Ceiling: 45,000 ft
Range: 6,000 miles
Engines: Four Pratt and Whitney JD9D-3 turbofans with 43,000 pounds of thrust each
Crew: 3 flight crew, 15 flight attendants, 374 to 490 passengers
Manufacturer: Boeing
Markings: General Electric Aviation, 2018
Designation: 747-121
Registration: N747GE
Serial Number: 19651
Thursday, October 18th. Dual-Polarized
Phased Array Radar
National Weather Radar Testbed Advanced Technology
Demonstrator tour, ribbon cutting and reception.
Pima Air and Space Museum
The Boeing 747 began as a concept for a U.S. Air Force contract competition to design a heavy lift cargo aircraft. That contest was eventually won by the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, but Boeing’s failure to win that contract led it to develop one of the most iconic aircraft ever. The first 747 made its maiden flight in February 1969 and the type made its first commercial flight less than a year later. Since then the humpbacked shape of the 747 has become familiar to millions of travelers around the world. The “Jumbo Jet” is the first twin isle airliner and in some configurations could carry more than 500 passengers. This immense size allowed a much lower operating cost per seat and helped bring long distance air travel into the price range of vastly more people. Boeing has built more than 1,560 since 1969. As of 2018, only about 20 remain to be delivered. The era of the 747 as a passenger plane is coming to an end as it is replaced by more fuel-efficient twin-engine aircraft, but it will continue to be in use as a cargo plane for many years to come.
It was built by Boeing Aircraft Company at Everett, Washington and delivered to Pan American World Airways on March 21, 1970. It is the twenty-fifth 747 built. Following Pan Am’s practice of naming its aircraft, this airplane flew with the name “Clipper Star of the Union” until 1982 when it was renamed “Clipper Ocean Spray.” It remained with Pan Am until the bankruptcy of the airline in 1991. In March 1992 it was purchased by General Electric for use as an engine test bed. Since then the plane has flown more than 3,000 hours carrying various test engines for GE as they develop the engines that power many of the planes that are replacing the 747 in airline service. General Electric donated the aircraft to the Pima Air & Space Museum in November 2018.
Wingspan: 195 ft 8 in.
Length: 231 ft 4 in.
Height: 63 ft 5 in.
Weight: 735,000 lbs (loaded)
Maximum Speed: 595 MPH
Service Ceiling: 45,000 ft
Range: 6,000 miles
Engines: Four Pratt and Whitney JD9D-3 turbofans with 43,000 pounds of thrust each
Crew: 3 flight crew, 15 flight attendants, 374 to 490 passengers
Manufacturer: Boeing
Markings: General Electric Aviation, 2018
Designation: 747-121
Registration: N747GE
Serial Number: 19651
Foreman 'Cud' Owen at the controls of the 100th NEM Doxford engine during testbed trials. It was contract no 3334 type 70LBD4 which developed 4,800bhp at 115 rpm.
Michigan Balloon Recovery & Satellite Testbed (MBuRST) member holds one of the inflated high altitude balloons as the team prepares to fill the second.
Photo: Ben Logan, Social Media Guru – Communications and Marketing, Michigan Engineering
Premier John Horgan toured the Clean Energy Testbeds Site at the University of Washington as part of a two-day visit to Washington State.
Thursday, October 18th. Dual-Polarized
Phased Array Radar
National Weather Radar Testbed Advanced Technology
Demonstrator tour, ribbon cutting and reception.
Catalog #: 00054934
Manufacturer: Convair
Designation: Model 340
Official Nickname:
Notes:
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Catalog #: 00054935
Manufacturer: Convair
Designation: Model 340
Official Nickname:
Notes:
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
After the production of the T44 March, the UER approved the formation of a mechanized unit, to facilitate this the T51 was developed as a dedicated armoured personel carrier hull.
Extremely modifiable, its derivatives would serve as capable testbeds for all kinds of UER equipment and the units themselves would become vital parts of the UER's doctrine in the 50s.