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Living Off the Grid - www.thriveoffthegrid.com/ - See how others are living offgrid using the advantages of wind and solar energy plus more for off grid power and ...
Living off the grid you must take advantage of renewable energy. This renewable resource originates from several sources, consisting of sun, wind and water, to start with ...
Researchers are constantly on the lookout for more ways of making green energy. Here are the 2 types you must understand now.
Living off the Grid: - Advantages of Solar Power
i. The energy that originates from simply one hour of sun suffices to supply energy for a year for the whole world
ii. A battery can be used to store off grid solar power for evenings and cloudy days
iii. Solar panels on a roof work when the sun's rays strike the cells in the panel and electrons are released, producing energy
iv. Using solar power will typically provide a saving of $100+ each month on utility costs for the property owners of off grid homes .
Living off the Grid: - Advantages of Wind Energy
i. When wind goes through the blades of a turbine that is connected to a generator, the energy produced by the spin is converted into electrical energy
ii. A single large wind turbine can provide electricity for around 500 off grid homes
iii. Last year, 42 % of the houses that were geared up with a source of off grid power used wind
iv. Unlike most other sources of energy, wind utilizes hardly any water; not only is wind energy carbon neutral, it helps water conservation also
v. There is around 10 times the amount of wind available in the U.S. than is needed to supply power for the whole country
vi. Wind energy is presently the fastest-growing source of renewable energy: - Around two wind farms are set up weekly in the U.S.
For living off the grid, the facts indicate that the advantages of solar power combined with the advantages of wind energy now exceed any advantages that fossil fuels may have had. However it is probably down to individuals to begin the shift to a larger scale adoption, so that we may all enjoy living off the grid.
Built in 1912-1913, this Arts and Crafts-style hotel was designed by Fred Loring Seeley for Edwin Wiley Grove, and is known as the Grove Park Inn. Edwin Wiley Grove, whom had made his fortune selling Grove's Chill Tonic, used to help relieve symptoms brought on by malaria that was then endemic to the southern and midwestern United States, manufactured by his company, the Paris Medicine Company, which originated in Paris, Tennessee, before moving its operations to the larger city of St. Louis, Missouri. Grove had a summer house in Asheville, built circa 1897, prior to the construction of the inn, with Fred Loring Seeley, his son-in-law and business partner, having spent extensive time in the area with Grove and his wife, Evelyn Grove Seeley. The land upon which the hotel and nearby Kimberly Avenue neighborhood was later built was purchased by Grove in 1910, acquiring land all the way to the top of Sunset Mountain, as well as several tuberculosis sanatariums that Grove closed and demolished in order to change the reputation of Asheville’s health-focused resorts. Part of the land, atop Sunset Mountain, later became home to Seeley’s Castle, a large, Tudor Revival-style castle-like mansion built similarly of rough stone, and also designed by Seeley, but featuring more medieval appearance. The hotel went through several designs by various professional architects before Grove settled upon a design by Fred Loring Seeley, which featured a simple facade clad in rough granite stones, with a shingled cotswold cottage-style roof with dormers and curved edges, casement windows, and an all-concrete interior structure. The interior of the building was outfitted with Arts and Crafts furnishings and finishes designed and built by Roycrofters, a firm based in East Aurora, New York, and was opened in a ceremony with William Jennings Bryan as the keynote speaker. The hotel featured a large dining room in the northwest wing, with a tile floor and simple plaster walls, which sat next to the hotel’s original service wing, which housed the kitchen, laundry, and other service areas, a large Great Hall, serving as a lobby and lounge, in the center wing, with stone columns and massive stone fireplaces, a plaster ceiling, and a tile floor, and guest rooms on the upper floors, with a large atrium, known as the Palm Court, directly above the Great Hall, and four stories in height, crowned with a large skylight. The hotel was marketed as a health-conscious retreat for wealthy visitors. The hotel has hosted former United States Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama in its over century-long history. The hotel was utilized during World War II to house diplomats from the Axis Powers, and later by the US Navy as a rest and rehabilitation center for returning sailors, and in 1944-45, as a US Army Redistribution Station, where soldiers rested before being assigned duties in other parts of the army. Following World War II, contingency plans in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States involved moving the US Supreme Court to the Hotel, as Asheville sat far inland in the midst of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a far more defensible location than many major cities, and had very little strategic value compared to most cities of its size. In 1955, the hotel was purchased by Sammons Enterprises, owned by Charles Sammons, and underwent a modernization, seeing the stone columns in the lobby stripped and clad in aqua-colored vinyl wallpaper, the addition of a pool to the southeast terrace, a large two-story concrete motel structure that sat southeast of the hotel along the hillside, and later, the addition of a wing to the southwest, which appears to have only lasted about a decade and a half before being demolished. In 1976, the Sammons family purchased the adjacent Asheville Country Club and Golf Course, before embarking on a major renovation and expansion of the hotel between 1982 and 1988, with the addition of the massive Vanderbilt Wing and Sammons Wing on the south facade of the building, obscuring the original service wing, northwest wing, and heavily altering the hotel’s appearance with their white EIFS-clad facades, postmodern rooflines based on the original hotel, bands of horizontal and vertical black-tinted glass curtain walls, and minimal usage of rough stone. The Sammons Wing contains conference spaces, a parking garage, and service areas for the hotel, with guest rooms along the southern and western edges of the building, with the Vanderbilt Wing containing hotel rooms along the southern and eastern edges of the building, wrapping around a central parking garage, and also containing a large multi-story atrium and restaurants. The original wing of the hotel was restored as part of this project, with the columns in the lobby being clad in oak surrounds, the stonework and roof being repaired, the palm court being brought back to its original appearance, and furnishings from the period of significance for the hotel being re-introduced to the interior. Around the turn of the millennium, the grounds in front of the historic inn and between the two modern wings was re-landscaped with waterfalls, terraces, and gardens, with a new Spa building being constructed below the hotel, partially underground, between the two wings, with the two previous swimming pools on the hotel grounds being closed at this time. In 2012, the hotel was purchased by KSL Resorts for $120 million, whom subsequently sold it to Omni Hotels in 2013, with the hotel being rebranded as The Omni Grove Park Inn. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, though this would not have been possible following the massive alterations the building underwent in the 1980s, as the renovations have significantly and irreversibly altered the historic hotel, and have removed several character-defining features, though this is understandable in that it was done to keep the hotel economically viable in the modern age of larger resorts and economies of scale, which made the hotel in its previous form no longer economically viable.
SAR-QC2 VTOL Aircraft
After going through many changes and cleaning it up. I'll be submitting this SAR-QC2 with USAF as per their solicitation request. Meets and dramatically exceeds requirements. Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered, and utilizing high pressure conforming tank technology I developed.
The underlying tech makes batteries for vtol absolutely obsolete, outright, forever. Also underlying tech results in ACTUAL fuel cell powered electric fixed wing aircraft and commercial aircraft. High pressure conforming tank technology, mixed with fuel cells, and composite aircraft construction. Results in radical advancements in capabilities. Not measured in minutes of endurance, but multiple hours of endurance
Screenshots with the smaller one, ie QC1 gives a size comparison. lnkd.in/e2_2AUV
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Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Hypersonic Aircraft
Utilizing new methods of fabrication and construction, make it possible to use additive manufacturing, dramatically reducing the time and costs of producing hypersonic platforms from missiles, aircraft, and space capable craft. Instead of aircraft being produced in piece, then bolted together; small platforms can be produced as a single unit and large platforms can be produces in large section and mated without bolting. These techniques include using exotic materials and advanced assembly processes, with an end result of streamlining the production costs and time for hypersonic aircraft; reducing months of assembly to weeks. Overall, this process greatly reduced the cost for producing hypersonic platforms. Even to such an extent that a Hellfire missile costs apx $100,000 but by utilizing our technologies, replacing it with a Mach 8-10 hypersonic missile of our physics/engineering and that missile would cost roughly $75,000 each delivered.
Materials used for these manufacturing processes are not disclosed, but overall, provides a foundation for extremely high stresses and thermodynamics, ideal for hypersonic platforms. This specific methodology and materials applications is many decades ahead of all known programs. Even to the extend of normalized space flight and re-entry, without concern of thermodynamic failure.
*Note, most entities that are experimenting with additive manufacturing for hypersonic aircraft, this makes it mainstream and standardized processes, which also applies for mass production.
What would normally be measured in years and perhaps a decade to go from drawing board to test flights, is reduced to singular months and ready for production within a year maximum.
Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle (U-TBCC)
To date, the closest that NASA and industry have achieved for turbine based aircraft to fly at hypersonic velocities is by mounting a turbine into an aircraft and sharing the inlet with a scramjet or rocket based motor. Reaction Engines Sabre is not able to achieve hypersonic velocities and can only transition into a non air breathing rocket for beyond Mach 4.5
However, utilizing Unified Turbine Based Combine Cycle also known as U-TBCC, the two separate platforms are able to share a common inlet and the dual mode ramjet/scramjet is contained within the engine itself, which allows for a much smaller airframe footprint, thus engingeers are able to then design much higher performance aerial platforms for hypersonic flight, including the ability for constructing true single stage to orbit aircraft by utilizing a modification/version that allows for transition to outside atmosphere propulsion without any other propulsion platforms within the aircraft. By transitioning and developing aircraft to use Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle, this propulsion system opens up new options to replace that airframe deficit for increased fuel capacity and/or payload.
Enhanced Dynamic Cavitation
Dramatically Increasing the efficiency of fuel air mixture for combustion processes at hypersonic velocities within scramjet propulsion platforms. The aspects of these processes are non disclosable.
Dynamic Scramjet Ignition Processes
For optimal scramjet ignition, a process known as Self Start is sought after, but in many cases if the platform becomes out of attitude, the scramjet will ignite. We have already solved this problem which as a result, a scramjet propulsion system can ignite at lower velocities, high velocities, at optimal attitude or not optimal attitude. It doesn't matter, it will ignite anyways at the proper point for maximum thrust capabilities at hypersonic velocities.
Hydrogen vs Kerosene Fuel Sources
Kerosene is an easy fuel to work with, and most western nations developing scramjet platforms use Kerosene for that fact. However, while kerosene has better thermal properties then Hydrogen, Hydrogen is a far superior fuel source in scramjet propulsion flight, do it having a much higher efficiency capability. Because of this aspect, in conjunction with our developments, it allows for a MUCH increased fuel to air mixture, combustion, thrust; and ability for higher speeds; instead of very low hypersonic velocities in the Mach 5-6 range. Instead, Mach 8-10 range, while we have begun developing hypersonic capabilities to exceed 15 in atmosphere within less then 5 years.
Conforming High Pressure Tank Technology for CNG and H2.
As most know in hypersonics, Hydrogen is a superior fuel source, but due to the storage abilities, can only be stored in cylinders thus much less fuel supply. Not anymore, we developed conforming high pressure storage technology for use in aerospace, automotive sectors, maritime, etc; which means any overall shape required for 8,000+ PSI CNG or Hydrogen. For hypersonic platforms, this means the ability to store a much larger volume of hydrogen vs cylinders.
As an example, X-43 flown by Nasa which flew at Mach 9.97. The fuel source was Hydrogen, which is extremely more volatile and combustible then kerosene (JP-7), via a cylinder in the main body. If it had used our technology, that entire section of the airframe would had been an 8,000 PSI H2 tank, which would had yielded 5-6 times the capacity. While the X-43 flew 11 seconds under power at Mach 9.97, at 6 times the fuel capacity would had yielded apx 66 seconds of fuel under power at Mach 9.97. If it had flew slower, around Mach 6, same principles applied would had yielded apx 500 seconds of fuel supply under power (slower speeds required less energy to maintain).
Enhanced Fuel Mixture During Shock Train Interaction
Normally, fuel injection is conducted at the correct insertion point within the shock train for maximum burn/combustion. Our methodologies differ, since almost half the fuel injection is conducted PRE shock train within the isolator, so at the point of isolator injection the fuel enhances the combustion process, which then requires less fuel injection to reach the same level of thrust capabilities.
Improved Bow Shock Interaction
Smoother interaction at hypersonic velocities and mitigating heat/stresses for beyond Mach 6 thermodynamics, which extraordinarily improves Type 3, 4, and 5 shock interaction.
6,000+ Fahrenheit Thermal Resistance
To date, the maximum thermal resistance was tested at AFRL in the spring of 2018, which resulted in a 3,200F thermal resistance for a short duration. This technology, allows for normalized hypersonic thermal resistance of 3,000-3,500F sustained, and up to 6,500F resistance for short endurance, ie 90 seconds or less. 10-20 minute resistance estimate approximately 4,500F +/- 200F.
*** This technology advancement also applies to Aerospike rocket engines, in which it is common for Aerospike's to exceed 4,500-5,000F temperatures, which results in the melting of the reversed bell housing. That melting no longer ocurrs, providing for stable combustion to ocurr for the entire flight envelope
Scramjet Propulsion Side Wall Cooling
With old technologies, side wall cooling is required for hypersonic flight and scramjet propulsion systems, otherwise the isolator and combustion regions of a scramjet would melt, even using advanced ablatives and ceramics, due to their inability to cope with very high temperatures. Using technology we have developed for very high thermodynamics and high stresses, side wall cooling is no longer required, thus removing that variable from the design process and focusing on improved ignition processes and increasing net thrust values.
Lower Threshold for Hypersonic Ignition
Active and adaptive flight dynamics, resulting in the ability for scramjet ignition at a much lower velocity, ie within ramjet envelope, between Mach 2-4, and seamless transition from supersonic to hypersonic flight, ie supersonic ramjet (scramjet). This active and dynamic aspect, has a wide variety of parameters for many flight dynamics, velocities, and altitudes; which means platforms no longer need to be engineered for specific altitude ranges or preset velocities, but those parameters can then be selected during launch configuration and are able to adapt actively in flight.
Dramatically Improved Maneuvering Capabilities at Hypersonic Velocities
Hypersonic vehicles, like their less technologically advanced brethren, use large actuator and the developers hope those controls surfaces do not disintegrate in flight. In reality, it is like rolling the dice, they may or may not survive, hence another reason why the attempt to keep velocities to Mach 6 or below. We have shrunken down control actuators while almost doubling torque and response capabilities specifically for hypersonic dynamics and extreme stresses involved, which makes it possible for maximum input authority for Mach 10 and beyond.
Paradigm Shift in Control Surface Methodologies, Increasing Control Authority (Internal Mechanical Applications)
To date, most control surfaces for hypersonic missile platforms still use fins, similar to lower speed conventional missiles, and some using ducted fins. This is mostly due to lack of comprehension of hypersonic velocities in their own favor. Instead, the body itself incorporates those control surfaces, greatly enhancing the airframe strength, opening up more space for hardware and fuel capacity; while simultaneously enhancing the platforms maneuvering capabilities.
A scramjet missile can then fly like conventional missile platforms, and not straight and level at high altitudes, losing velocity on it's decent trajectory to target. Another added benefit to this aspect, is the ability to extend range greatly, so if anyone elses hypersonic missile platform were developed for 400 mile range, falling out of the sky due to lack of glide capabilities; our platforms can easily reach 600+ miles, with minimal glide deceleration.
Tracy Lee Thomas Martial Arts Master Instructor in Virginia Beach utilizes Life Skills that Change Lives in Virginia Beach
My first attempt at utilizing a lightbox and I pretty much snapped anything I had available at hand (literally). Also my first attempt at using my newly purchased flashes.
I used two bare Vivitar 285HVs on either side of the lightbox, both at 1/16th power.
Shot with my 50mm 1.8 lens and with the DIY lightbox that David Hobby used in this Lighting Seminar DVD.
Please let me know what you think :) And be sure to check out my new blog: hypothetic.net/
S93-50645 (1993) --- (Artist's concept of possible exploration programs.) The Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Sample Return (MISR; pronounced "miser") mission will send a small, robotic lander to Mars in order to collect Martian rock, soil and atmospheric samples, and then return those samples to Earth. The key to a low-cost mission is to send as small a mass as possible to Mars. Consequently, the two-meter-tall MISR lander will set down on the Mars surface with empty propellant tanks for its return trip home. Utilizing ISRU technology, a propellant production facility will take in carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and manufacture the needed Mars-ascent and Earth-return propellants. During the approximate 300 day stay required to manufacture the propellants, two small micro-rovers - each the size of a big shoe box - will be teleoperated from Earth to collect the rock and soil samples. By the time the appropriate Earth-Mars planetary alignment occurs, the Martian samples will have been safely stowed in the return capsule and the propellant tanks will be fully fueled. The vehicle ascends off from Mars and begins its voyage to bring the Martian treasures back to Earth. These images produced for NASA by John Frassanito and Associates. Technical concepts from NASA's Planetary Projects Office, Johnson Space Center (JSC).
Teacher Tamene Mengistu runs students through their lessons, who have more time to study now that they are spending less time fetching water thanks to wind powered water pumps provided through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
Staff in charge of IP information dissemination from the IP Offices of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand participated in a Regional Workshop on Dissemination and Effective Utilization of Patent Information.
Photo: Itsumi Hokao, Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE).
This home on Mercer Island utilizes the elemental natures of concrete, steel and glass to create a family refuge. Two concrete structures, which house the garage, mudroom, and a play area, present themselves to the street. Between them runs an exposed steel bridge which leads over a private courtyard and into the main house. A bent plate steel staircase descends into an open plan, double-height living space, which is dominated by an immense concrete fireplace and chimney (in the living room) and a massive black granite-covered island (in the kitchen). Floor to ceiling windows provide unimpeded views of the water from the courtyard or inside the house.
© 2009, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
Questions? Contact Todd Bell: tbell@pbssips.com
Want More? Visit: www.pbssips.com
Utilizing the powers of 3D printing and anthropomorphism, Universal Everything creates a fleet of miniature vector robots. Looking like crystalline rocks that sprouted legs, these creatures are yet another exploration into harnessing the most basic elements of the human form to infuse inanimate objects with the essence of life.
credit: Universal Everything
One of five Amblycheila cylindriformis adults that I've kept alive in a terrarium of native soil since collecting them in the Glass Mountains of northwestern Oklahoma last July. This photograph was not taken in a white box, but instead utilizes a new diffuser I've designed that can be used with the Canon MT-24EX twin flash and longer focal length macro lenses such as the 100mm f/2.8 USM. More details at Amblycheila cylindriformis on white.
Tracy Lee Thomas Martial Arts Master Instructor in Virginia Beach utilizes Life Skills that Change Lives in Virginia Beach
The Suez Canal is 163 km (101 mi) long. The minimum bottom width of the channel is 60 m (197 ft) and ships of 16 m (53 ft) draft can make the transit. The canal can accommodate ships as large as 150,000 dead weight tons fully loaded. It has no locks, because the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Suez have roughly the same water level. The canal utilizes three bodies of water—Lake Manzilah, Lake Timsāh, and the Bitter Lakes (the latter is actually one continuous body of water)—and is not the shortest distance across the isthmus. Most of the canal is limited to a single lane of traffic, but several passing bays exist, and two-lane bypasses are located in the Bitter Lakes and between Al Qanţarah and Ismailia. A railroad on the west bank runs parallel to the canal for its entire distance.
Utilizing the wonderful Jessen type designed by his friend Rudolph Koch, Victor Hammer provided the lay-out, Harry Owen the translation, Fritz Kredel the woodcuts, Jacob Hammer the printing, and Elizabeth Kner the bookbinding to make this marvelous puppet play for the Caxton Club in Chicago. Three hundred and fifty copies were produced in the Winter of 1953.
Times Square New Years Eve Ball Drop in New York City 2015 - 2016
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located atop the One Times Square building in New York City, primarily utilized as part of New Year's Eve celebrations held in Times Square. Yearly at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, the ball is lowered 77 feet (23 m) down a specially designed flagpole, resting on the midnight to signal the start of the new year. The first ball drop in Times Square took place on December 31, 1907, and has been held annually since (except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts). The ball's design has also been updated over the years to reflect new advances in technologies—its original design utilized 100 incandescent light bulbs, iron, and wood in its construction, while its current incarnation features a computerized LED lighting system and an outer surface consisting of triangle-shaped crystal panels. As of 2009, the ball is also displayed atop One Times Square year-round and is removed only for general maintenance.
The Times Square ball drop is one of the best-known New Year's celebrations internationally, attended by at least one million spectators yearly, with an estimated global audience of at least 1 billion. The prevalence of the Times Square ball drop has also inspired other similar "drops" held locally in other cities and towns around the world.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,”
Performers of the 2015 - 2016 celebration
Daya
Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth
Jessie J
Demi Lovato
CNCO
Luke Bryan
Maluma -(Juan Luis Londoño Arias) reggaeton singer from Medellín, Colombia performing Borro Cassette and Carnaval
Carrie Underwood
Jessie J (singing 'Imagine')
For more on New Years Eve in Times Square visit:
www.timessquarenyc.org/index.aspx
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Times Square, New York City, USA The United States of America, North America
12-31-2015
SAR-QC2 VTOL Aircraft
After going through many changes and cleaning it up. I'll be submitting this SAR-QC2 with USAF as per their solicitation request. Meets and dramatically exceeds requirements. Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered, and utilizing high pressure conforming tank technology I developed.
The underlying tech makes batteries for vtol absolutely obsolete, outright, forever. Also underlying tech results in ACTUAL fuel cell powered electric fixed wing aircraft and commercial aircraft. High pressure conforming tank technology, mixed with fuel cells, and composite aircraft construction. Results in radical advancements in capabilities. Not measured in minutes of endurance, but multiple hours of endurance
Screenshots with the smaller one, ie QC1 gives a size comparison. lnkd.in/e2_2AUV
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Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Hypersonic Aircraft
Utilizing new methods of fabrication and construction, make it possible to use additive manufacturing, dramatically reducing the time and costs of producing hypersonic platforms from missiles, aircraft, and space capable craft. Instead of aircraft being produced in piece, then bolted together; small platforms can be produced as a single unit and large platforms can be produces in large section and mated without bolting. These techniques include using exotic materials and advanced assembly processes, with an end result of streamlining the production costs and time for hypersonic aircraft; reducing months of assembly to weeks. Overall, this process greatly reduced the cost for producing hypersonic platforms. Even to such an extent that a Hellfire missile costs apx $100,000 but by utilizing our technologies, replacing it with a Mach 8-10 hypersonic missile of our physics/engineering and that missile would cost roughly $75,000 each delivered.
Materials used for these manufacturing processes are not disclosed, but overall, provides a foundation for extremely high stresses and thermodynamics, ideal for hypersonic platforms. This specific methodology and materials applications is many decades ahead of all known programs. Even to the extend of normalized space flight and re-entry, without concern of thermodynamic failure.
*Note, most entities that are experimenting with additive manufacturing for hypersonic aircraft, this makes it mainstream and standardized processes, which also applies for mass production.
What would normally be measured in years and perhaps a decade to go from drawing board to test flights, is reduced to singular months and ready for production within a year maximum.
Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle (U-TBCC)
To date, the closest that NASA and industry have achieved for turbine based aircraft to fly at hypersonic velocities is by mounting a turbine into an aircraft and sharing the inlet with a scramjet or rocket based motor. Reaction Engines Sabre is not able to achieve hypersonic velocities and can only transition into a non air breathing rocket for beyond Mach 4.5
However, utilizing Unified Turbine Based Combine Cycle also known as U-TBCC, the two separate platforms are able to share a common inlet and the dual mode ramjet/scramjet is contained within the engine itself, which allows for a much smaller airframe footprint, thus engingeers are able to then design much higher performance aerial platforms for hypersonic flight, including the ability for constructing true single stage to orbit aircraft by utilizing a modification/version that allows for transition to outside atmosphere propulsion without any other propulsion platforms within the aircraft. By transitioning and developing aircraft to use Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle, this propulsion system opens up new options to replace that airframe deficit for increased fuel capacity and/or payload.
Enhanced Dynamic Cavitation
Dramatically Increasing the efficiency of fuel air mixture for combustion processes at hypersonic velocities within scramjet propulsion platforms. The aspects of these processes are non disclosable.
Dynamic Scramjet Ignition Processes
For optimal scramjet ignition, a process known as Self Start is sought after, but in many cases if the platform becomes out of attitude, the scramjet will ignite. We have already solved this problem which as a result, a scramjet propulsion system can ignite at lower velocities, high velocities, at optimal attitude or not optimal attitude. It doesn't matter, it will ignite anyways at the proper point for maximum thrust capabilities at hypersonic velocities.
Hydrogen vs Kerosene Fuel Sources
Kerosene is an easy fuel to work with, and most western nations developing scramjet platforms use Kerosene for that fact. However, while kerosene has better thermal properties then Hydrogen, Hydrogen is a far superior fuel source in scramjet propulsion flight, do it having a much higher efficiency capability. Because of this aspect, in conjunction with our developments, it allows for a MUCH increased fuel to air mixture, combustion, thrust; and ability for higher speeds; instead of very low hypersonic velocities in the Mach 5-6 range. Instead, Mach 8-10 range, while we have begun developing hypersonic capabilities to exceed 15 in atmosphere within less then 5 years.
Conforming High Pressure Tank Technology for CNG and H2.
As most know in hypersonics, Hydrogen is a superior fuel source, but due to the storage abilities, can only be stored in cylinders thus much less fuel supply. Not anymore, we developed conforming high pressure storage technology for use in aerospace, automotive sectors, maritime, etc; which means any overall shape required for 8,000+ PSI CNG or Hydrogen. For hypersonic platforms, this means the ability to store a much larger volume of hydrogen vs cylinders.
As an example, X-43 flown by Nasa which flew at Mach 9.97. The fuel source was Hydrogen, which is extremely more volatile and combustible then kerosene (JP-7), via a cylinder in the main body. If it had used our technology, that entire section of the airframe would had been an 8,000 PSI H2 tank, which would had yielded 5-6 times the capacity. While the X-43 flew 11 seconds under power at Mach 9.97, at 6 times the fuel capacity would had yielded apx 66 seconds of fuel under power at Mach 9.97. If it had flew slower, around Mach 6, same principles applied would had yielded apx 500 seconds of fuel supply under power (slower speeds required less energy to maintain).
Enhanced Fuel Mixture During Shock Train Interaction
Normally, fuel injection is conducted at the correct insertion point within the shock train for maximum burn/combustion. Our methodologies differ, since almost half the fuel injection is conducted PRE shock train within the isolator, so at the point of isolator injection the fuel enhances the combustion process, which then requires less fuel injection to reach the same level of thrust capabilities.
Improved Bow Shock Interaction
Smoother interaction at hypersonic velocities and mitigating heat/stresses for beyond Mach 6 thermodynamics, which extraordinarily improves Type 3, 4, and 5 shock interaction.
6,000+ Fahrenheit Thermal Resistance
To date, the maximum thermal resistance was tested at AFRL in the spring of 2018, which resulted in a 3,200F thermal resistance for a short duration. This technology, allows for normalized hypersonic thermal resistance of 3,000-3,500F sustained, and up to 6,500F resistance for short endurance, ie 90 seconds or less. 10-20 minute resistance estimate approximately 4,500F +/- 200F.
*** This technology advancement also applies to Aerospike rocket engines, in which it is common for Aerospike's to exceed 4,500-5,000F temperatures, which results in the melting of the reversed bell housing. That melting no longer ocurrs, providing for stable combustion to ocurr for the entire flight envelope
Scramjet Propulsion Side Wall Cooling
With old technologies, side wall cooling is required for hypersonic flight and scramjet propulsion systems, otherwise the isolator and combustion regions of a scramjet would melt, even using advanced ablatives and ceramics, due to their inability to cope with very high temperatures. Using technology we have developed for very high thermodynamics and high stresses, side wall cooling is no longer required, thus removing that variable from the design process and focusing on improved ignition processes and increasing net thrust values.
Lower Threshold for Hypersonic Ignition
Active and adaptive flight dynamics, resulting in the ability for scramjet ignition at a much lower velocity, ie within ramjet envelope, between Mach 2-4, and seamless transition from supersonic to hypersonic flight, ie supersonic ramjet (scramjet). This active and dynamic aspect, has a wide variety of parameters for many flight dynamics, velocities, and altitudes; which means platforms no longer need to be engineered for specific altitude ranges or preset velocities, but those parameters can then be selected during launch configuration and are able to adapt actively in flight.
Dramatically Improved Maneuvering Capabilities at Hypersonic Velocities
Hypersonic vehicles, like their less technologically advanced brethren, use large actuator and the developers hope those controls surfaces do not disintegrate in flight. In reality, it is like rolling the dice, they may or may not survive, hence another reason why the attempt to keep velocities to Mach 6 or below. We have shrunken down control actuators while almost doubling torque and response capabilities specifically for hypersonic dynamics and extreme stresses involved, which makes it possible for maximum input authority for Mach 10 and beyond.
Paradigm Shift in Control Surface Methodologies, Increasing Control Authority (Internal Mechanical Applications)
To date, most control surfaces for hypersonic missile platforms still use fins, similar to lower speed conventional missiles, and some using ducted fins. This is mostly due to lack of comprehension of hypersonic velocities in their own favor. Instead, the body itself incorporates those control surfaces, greatly enhancing the airframe strength, opening up more space for hardware and fuel capacity; while simultaneously enhancing the platforms maneuvering capabilities.
A scramjet missile can then fly like conventional missile platforms, and not straight and level at high altitudes, losing velocity on it's decent trajectory to target. Another added benefit to this aspect, is the ability to extend range greatly, so if anyone elses hypersonic missile platform were developed for 400 mile range, falling out of the sky due to lack of glide capabilities; our platforms can easily reach 600+ miles, with minimal glide deceleration.
I utilized a 6 F-Stop ND filter with the Canon 85mm f/1.2 L II at f/1.2 to allow the use of strobes which sync at 1/200s.
Strobist:
Triggered with Pocket Wizard PLUS and PLUS II units.
2 x Vivitar 285 at 8 o'clock 1/1 power with a shoot through umbrella
The sun providing rim light 11 o'clock
Ethiopian children riding back home after successfully filling up their jerricans at a solar powered water reservoir, funded by the African Development Bank.
Cross-border solidarity action utilizing Guerrilla Light Projection onto Trump's prototype border walls. Artful Activists San Diego, OLB San Diego, Backbone Campaign's affiliated San Diego Solidarity Brigade and photographer and educator Jill Marie Holslin mobilized this bold action. Their message was clear - "Build Bridges Not Borders," "Refugees Are Welcome," "No One is Illegal," countering the racist and xenophobic policies and rhetoric of the "Embarrassment-In-Chief" and the party of Trump.
On 11/19/2017, under a new moon, accompanied by a gorgeous sunset, a binational group of activists/artist met up at Las Torres barrio, Tijuana, Baja California. Setting up atop 3 vehicles parked against the existing border fence, facing the newly constructed prototypes, our group began projecting light graffiti onto the 30 ft by 30 ft border wall prototypes, located 100 to 150 feet away, on heavily guarded, impossible-to-access, U.S. soil. By using our" Las Torres shortcut", we had perfect access to all the prototypes. Overpass Light Brigade San Diego aimed our 750 watt Source Four stage lamp, equipped with a long-distance lens, at several prototypes, and began projecting. Jill Holslin, Andrew Sturm, and a Mexican videographer recorded the entire event. 5 images were displayed, beginning with a luchador, well known as a fighter against injustice in Mexico. A ladder ascending the prototype was next. In a playful spirit, the 3rd image of a stick figure climbed the wall with the words "LLEGALE" (go for it) below it. Lady Liberty then shown her light. The concluding image was an invocation that we as humans honor our common humanity more than contrived borders, and welcome refugees. The entire event was an example of how borders can bring people together, as UCSD students, faculty, Mexican nationals and US activists all met and created the event in response to the erection of fascist architecture on OUR BORDER. San Diego is and ever shall be, a border town. We are her citizens, and we shall defend her.
Lock arms with Backbone Campaign to be a part of Bold and Creative action! - backbonecampaign.org
A utilization cage highlights wild horse usage in Butte Valley. Livestock has not grazed in this portion of Butte Valley in 15-plus years.
For Mission 24...
I use the word Track almost more than Olympic Athletes do. This is a rail from the Utili-track system of the Nissan Titan, which I sell. I'm actually kind of bummed to have to take this photo, because it reminds me that for 2010 Nissan has entered into an agreement with Chrysler to build this truck for us.
It sucks.
If I wanted to sell a Dodge I'd work for freakin' Dodge.
Meh....
Oh, also taken with my crappy Kodak POS.
Times Square, New York City, New Years Eve Ball Drop, 2012 - 2013
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located atop the One Times Square building in New York City, primarily utilized as part of New Year's Eve celebrations held in Times Square. Yearly at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, the ball is lowered 77 feet (23 m) down a specially designed flagpole, resting on the midnight to signal the start of the new year. The first ball drop in Times Square took place on December 31, 1907, and has been held annually since (except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts). The ball's design has also been updated over the years to reflect new advances in technologies—its original design utilized 100 incandescent light bulbs, iron, and wood in its construction, while its current incarnation features a computerized LED lighting system and an outer surface consisting of triangle-shaped crystal panels. As of 2009, the ball is also displayed atop One Times Square year-round and is removed only for general maintenance.
The Times Square ball drop is one of the best-known New Year's celebrations internationally, attended by at least one million spectators yearly, with an estimated global audience of at least 1 billion. The prevalence of the Times Square ball drop has also inspired other similar "drops" held locally in other cities and towns around the world.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” from American Idol as the host
Performers of the 2012 - 2013 celebration Carly Rae Jepsen, Neon Trees, Flo Rida, Pitbull, with Taylor Swift, in the headliner position just before midnight.
For more on New Years Eve in Times Square visit:
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Times Square, New York City, USA, North America
12-31-2012
OCTOBER Page - (All proceeds from this fundraiser to towards the Miami Baseball + Soccer Field Development)
Rooftop Reds Founder and Managing Partner Devin Shomaker (black t-shirt) utilizes SYNLawn a USDA BioPreferred soy-based synthetic lawn because it is made from renewable reused, repurposed resources. The lawn areas better support the foot traffic and enhance the appearance for communal activities around the vineyard in raised planters, in the center of the roof. Rooftop Reds winery and wine bar has been growing more than 180 varietal grape vines here, for the past eight years, in Brooklyn Navy Yard, in New York, NY, on July 28, 2021.
USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson, left, met with representatives from the United Soybean Board, PoreShield, SYNLawn, New York Corn and Soybean Growers Association, Indiana Soybean Alliance, National Biodiesel Board, and soybean growers at Rooftop Reds, worlds first commercially viable rooftop urban vineyard system.
This is part of several biobased events that United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Deputy Under Secretary Justin Maxson, is highlighting on the 10th anniversary of the creation of the USDA’s Certified Biobased Product Label. On July 29, he unveiled an Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. Biobased Products Industry. The report demonstrates that the biobased industry is a substantial generator of economic activity and jobs, and that it has a significant positive impact on the environment. For more information, go to usda.gov/media/press-releases/2021/07/29/usda-releases-economic-impact-analysis-us-biobased-products.
USDA Media by Lance Cheung.
SAR-QC2 VTOL Aircraft
After going through many changes and cleaning it up. I'll be submitting this SAR-QC2 with USAF as per their solicitation request. Meets and dramatically exceeds requirements. Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered, and utilizing high pressure conforming tank technology I developed.
The underlying tech makes batteries for vtol absolutely obsolete, outright, forever. Also underlying tech results in ACTUAL fuel cell powered electric fixed wing aircraft and commercial aircraft. High pressure conforming tank technology, mixed with fuel cells, and composite aircraft construction. Results in radical advancements in capabilities. Not measured in minutes of endurance, but multiple hours of endurance
Screenshots with the smaller one, ie QC1 gives a size comparison. lnkd.in/e2_2AUV
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Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Hypersonic Aircraft
Utilizing new methods of fabrication and construction, make it possible to use additive manufacturing, dramatically reducing the time and costs of producing hypersonic platforms from missiles, aircraft, and space capable craft. Instead of aircraft being produced in piece, then bolted together; small platforms can be produced as a single unit and large platforms can be produces in large section and mated without bolting. These techniques include using exotic materials and advanced assembly processes, with an end result of streamlining the production costs and time for hypersonic aircraft; reducing months of assembly to weeks. Overall, this process greatly reduced the cost for producing hypersonic platforms. Even to such an extent that a Hellfire missile costs apx $100,000 but by utilizing our technologies, replacing it with a Mach 8-10 hypersonic missile of our physics/engineering and that missile would cost roughly $75,000 each delivered.
Materials used for these manufacturing processes are not disclosed, but overall, provides a foundation for extremely high stresses and thermodynamics, ideal for hypersonic platforms. This specific methodology and materials applications is many decades ahead of all known programs. Even to the extend of normalized space flight and re-entry, without concern of thermodynamic failure.
*Note, most entities that are experimenting with additive manufacturing for hypersonic aircraft, this makes it mainstream and standardized processes, which also applies for mass production.
What would normally be measured in years and perhaps a decade to go from drawing board to test flights, is reduced to singular months and ready for production within a year maximum.
Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle (U-TBCC)
To date, the closest that NASA and industry have achieved for turbine based aircraft to fly at hypersonic velocities is by mounting a turbine into an aircraft and sharing the inlet with a scramjet or rocket based motor. Reaction Engines Sabre is not able to achieve hypersonic velocities and can only transition into a non air breathing rocket for beyond Mach 4.5
However, utilizing Unified Turbine Based Combine Cycle also known as U-TBCC, the two separate platforms are able to share a common inlet and the dual mode ramjet/scramjet is contained within the engine itself, which allows for a much smaller airframe footprint, thus engingeers are able to then design much higher performance aerial platforms for hypersonic flight, including the ability for constructing true single stage to orbit aircraft by utilizing a modification/version that allows for transition to outside atmosphere propulsion without any other propulsion platforms within the aircraft. By transitioning and developing aircraft to use Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle, this propulsion system opens up new options to replace that airframe deficit for increased fuel capacity and/or payload.
Enhanced Dynamic Cavitation
Dramatically Increasing the efficiency of fuel air mixture for combustion processes at hypersonic velocities within scramjet propulsion platforms. The aspects of these processes are non disclosable.
Dynamic Scramjet Ignition Processes
For optimal scramjet ignition, a process known as Self Start is sought after, but in many cases if the platform becomes out of attitude, the scramjet will ignite. We have already solved this problem which as a result, a scramjet propulsion system can ignite at lower velocities, high velocities, at optimal attitude or not optimal attitude. It doesn't matter, it will ignite anyways at the proper point for maximum thrust capabilities at hypersonic velocities.
Hydrogen vs Kerosene Fuel Sources
Kerosene is an easy fuel to work with, and most western nations developing scramjet platforms use Kerosene for that fact. However, while kerosene has better thermal properties then Hydrogen, Hydrogen is a far superior fuel source in scramjet propulsion flight, do it having a much higher efficiency capability. Because of this aspect, in conjunction with our developments, it allows for a MUCH increased fuel to air mixture, combustion, thrust; and ability for higher speeds; instead of very low hypersonic velocities in the Mach 5-6 range. Instead, Mach 8-10 range, while we have begun developing hypersonic capabilities to exceed 15 in atmosphere within less then 5 years.
Conforming High Pressure Tank Technology for CNG and H2.
As most know in hypersonics, Hydrogen is a superior fuel source, but due to the storage abilities, can only be stored in cylinders thus much less fuel supply. Not anymore, we developed conforming high pressure storage technology for use in aerospace, automotive sectors, maritime, etc; which means any overall shape required for 8,000+ PSI CNG or Hydrogen. For hypersonic platforms, this means the ability to store a much larger volume of hydrogen vs cylinders.
As an example, X-43 flown by Nasa which flew at Mach 9.97. The fuel source was Hydrogen, which is extremely more volatile and combustible then kerosene (JP-7), via a cylinder in the main body. If it had used our technology, that entire section of the airframe would had been an 8,000 PSI H2 tank, which would had yielded 5-6 times the capacity. While the X-43 flew 11 seconds under power at Mach 9.97, at 6 times the fuel capacity would had yielded apx 66 seconds of fuel under power at Mach 9.97. If it had flew slower, around Mach 6, same principles applied would had yielded apx 500 seconds of fuel supply under power (slower speeds required less energy to maintain).
Enhanced Fuel Mixture During Shock Train Interaction
Normally, fuel injection is conducted at the correct insertion point within the shock train for maximum burn/combustion. Our methodologies differ, since almost half the fuel injection is conducted PRE shock train within the isolator, so at the point of isolator injection the fuel enhances the combustion process, which then requires less fuel injection to reach the same level of thrust capabilities.
Improved Bow Shock Interaction
Smoother interaction at hypersonic velocities and mitigating heat/stresses for beyond Mach 6 thermodynamics, which extraordinarily improves Type 3, 4, and 5 shock interaction.
6,000+ Fahrenheit Thermal Resistance
To date, the maximum thermal resistance was tested at AFRL in the spring of 2018, which resulted in a 3,200F thermal resistance for a short duration. This technology, allows for normalized hypersonic thermal resistance of 3,000-3,500F sustained, and up to 6,500F resistance for short endurance, ie 90 seconds or less. 10-20 minute resistance estimate approximately 4,500F +/- 200F.
*** This technology advancement also applies to Aerospike rocket engines, in which it is common for Aerospike's to exceed 4,500-5,000F temperatures, which results in the melting of the reversed bell housing. That melting no longer ocurrs, providing for stable combustion to ocurr for the entire flight envelope
Scramjet Propulsion Side Wall Cooling
With old technologies, side wall cooling is required for hypersonic flight and scramjet propulsion systems, otherwise the isolator and combustion regions of a scramjet would melt, even using advanced ablatives and ceramics, due to their inability to cope with very high temperatures. Using technology we have developed for very high thermodynamics and high stresses, side wall cooling is no longer required, thus removing that variable from the design process and focusing on improved ignition processes and increasing net thrust values.
Lower Threshold for Hypersonic Ignition
Active and adaptive flight dynamics, resulting in the ability for scramjet ignition at a much lower velocity, ie within ramjet envelope, between Mach 2-4, and seamless transition from supersonic to hypersonic flight, ie supersonic ramjet (scramjet). This active and dynamic aspect, has a wide variety of parameters for many flight dynamics, velocities, and altitudes; which means platforms no longer need to be engineered for specific altitude ranges or preset velocities, but those parameters can then be selected during launch configuration and are able to adapt actively in flight.
Dramatically Improved Maneuvering Capabilities at Hypersonic Velocities
Hypersonic vehicles, like their less technologically advanced brethren, use large actuator and the developers hope those controls surfaces do not disintegrate in flight. In reality, it is like rolling the dice, they may or may not survive, hence another reason why the attempt to keep velocities to Mach 6 or below. We have shrunken down control actuators while almost doubling torque and response capabilities specifically for hypersonic dynamics and extreme stresses involved, which makes it possible for maximum input authority for Mach 10 and beyond.
Paradigm Shift in Control Surface Methodologies, Increasing Control Authority (Internal Mechanical Applications)
To date, most control surfaces for hypersonic missile platforms still use fins, similar to lower speed conventional missiles, and some using ducted fins. This is mostly due to lack of comprehension of hypersonic velocities in their own favor. Instead, the body itself incorporates those control surfaces, greatly enhancing the airframe strength, opening up more space for hardware and fuel capacity; while simultaneously enhancing the platforms maneuvering capabilities.
A scramjet missile can then fly like conventional missile platforms, and not straight and level at high altitudes, losing velocity on it's decent trajectory to target. Another added benefit to this aspect, is the ability to extend range greatly, so if anyone elses hypersonic missile platform were developed for 400 mile range, falling out of the sky due to lack of glide capabilities; our platforms can easily reach 600+ miles, with minimal glide deceleration.
The AAI RQ-2 Pioneer is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had been utilized by the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Army, and deployed at sea and on land from 1986 until 2007. Initially tested aboard USS Iowa, the RQ-2 Pioneer was placed aboard Iowa-class battleships to provide gunnery spotting, its mission evolving into reconnaissance and surveillance, primarily for amphibious forces.
It was developed jointly by AAI Corporation and Israel Aircraft Industries. The program grew out of successful testing and field operation of the Tadiran Mastiff UAV by the American and Israeli militaries.[1]
Essentially, the Pioneer is an upgraded Tadiran Mastiff which was re-engined to accommodate a greater payload by request of the US Navy. To accomplish this, the original "Limbach" two-cylinder two-stroke engine was replaced with a Fichtel & Sachs two-cylinder two-stroke. The Limbach motor utilized a 71 cm propeller from Propeller Engineering and Duplicating, Inc. of San Clemente, California. The newer, more powerful Fichtel & Sachs motor was outfitted with a 74 cm propeller (which spins in the opposite direction) from the Sensenich Propeller Manufacturing Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The Sharpie Show
“An exhibition by artists who utilize marking pens as part of their craft”
Opening Reception with Beats by DJ Phyz Ed and Live Printing by Two Rabbits:
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 from 6pm - 9pm
In the Graffiti subculture, practitioners are known as "writers" because graffiti is about writing your name on as many surfaces as possible. Although many writers elevate their art form to the level of creating huge and beautiful murals, they all began their journey as an artist by first learning to write and perfect their name. The Sharpie marker is often the first tool a writer acquires in his lifelong journey to hone his craft and in becoming an artist.
The Sharpie Show, an exhibition curated by renown graffiti artist Man One, featuring original pieces created using Sharpies by some of the best known graffiti artists in the country (and beyond). Aside from graffiti artists, work by tattoo artists and known illustrators; Lalo Alcaraz and Overton Loyd will be on display. From stylized hand signatures, to throw ups, piecebooks, stickers, and any other possible object that can be marked upon, this exhibit will demonstrate the level of creativity that can be achieved between an artist and his/her most basic tool - The Sharpie.
***Exhibit runs thru March 1st, 2009***
Participating Artists:
20MG, AFEXONE, ASTEK, AUKS ONE, BENJIE, BLEN 167, BOB MOTOWN, BRANDED, BROOKS B. GOLDEN, CACHE, CAT FERRAZ, CATCULT, COPE2, DASH"2000"FIDEL, DEB (AUSTRAILIA), DENZONE®, DSRUP K4P, DRILONE, DYTCH66, EGR, ERIBERTO ORIOL, ERICK SCARECROW, ERIK DEBAT "RISK", EVAN SKREDERSTU, EVERETT CHING, EZRA, FLYCAT(ITALY), GHOST ONE, GIMIKS, GREG "CRAOLA" SIMKINS, GWEN MERCADO–REYES, HASTE, HEX, HUIT, IMMY MELLIN – THE SHARPIE KING, INDIE 184, JAMES "CASPER" JANKOWIAK, JOSE REYES, KING157, KRASH, LALO ALCARAZ, MAD, MAKE ONE, MAN ONE, MANDOE MAK, MARKA27, MAX NEUTRA, MEAR ONE, MIKE GIANT, MOE RADKE, MR "PUPPET" 201, NICKLU, NICNAK, NOEK, OVERTON LOYD, PEAP (NEW ZEALAND), PHOENIX ART, PHONETICONTROL, PROJECT RABBIT, RANDY KONO, RAWKET, RELAX, ROA(BELGIUM), ROME (CHICAGO), SACRED, SERGIO D. ROBLETO, SHERM, SIMSONE, SLOKE ONE, SRPNTWLF, SUBWAY SUDS, THOR, VANESSA HAMPTON, VYAL, WANE ONE, WERC, ZEN ONE and many more…
A rural Ethiopian villager fills up his water jerrican whenever he wants, thanks to the reliable, clean water now provided by solar power through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
Garages are high in demands in all American cities as this area of the house can be utilized in many ways. Along with parking of cars and other vehicles, garages have also been turned into small offices, play area for kids, entertainment room for the family or even an additional room in the house. It is obvious that the garages need proper doors for safety and security. However, with constant use or for other reasons, the doors might develop various kinds of problems. Springs might bend, rollers might get detached, door openers might malfunction, short circuits and many other problems might take place. Garage Door Pros is a reputed company that deals with all kinds of problems related to garage doors and solves them effectively. The company can be contacted at their 24 hour hotline 888.458.9699 or their phone no (954) 830-9661. Click on www.garagefl.com/ for further details.
The iPhone is a quite cool gadget. It can do numerous features, such as making telephone call, accessing the web, as well as work as GENERAL PRACTITIONER. Although the iPhone is excellent, it deals with an issue that numerous other gadgets of it's caliber suffer, it's use. Lots of people will just utilize the gadget at it's cheapest level, when there's a lot more it can do. You can get even more from your iPhone with the suggestions in the following short article.
An excellent advantage of having an iPhone is that you do not have to buy a GENERAL PRACTITIONER system. The iPhone includes a precise GENERAL PRACTITIONER system. Given that the iPhone's GENERAL PRACTITIONER system currently understands present place, basically in your preferred location, and you will certainly get concise directions, simply as you would with a routine GENERAL PRACTITIONER system.
To obtain the most from your iPhone, utilize it as a storage gadget. You can utilize your iPhone to keep all sorts of files with the assistance of easily offered software application. Aside from the apparent music files, you can keep photos, files and even more. The very best benefit to this is the reality that you constantly have access to those files anywhere you go.
If you utilize Safari to check out the Web on your iPhone, attempt this technique for keying in a brand-new URL. Rather of really keying out ". com," you can hold down the ". com" button. As you hold the button down, it will certainly scroll with the most popular web site extensions, including.org,. net and.edu.
If you type thoroughly on your iPhone, think about purchasing an external key-board. There are numerous cordless designs offered. They make keying files, e-mails and other comparable things simpler. Some key-boards can even serve a dual function, as you can utilize them with your iPad in addition to your iPhone.
Do not panic if your iphone splashes. Phones occasionally slip out of pockets and into puddles or sinks. If this occurs to you, do not utilize a blow clothes dryer to attempt to dry your phone off as rapidly as possible. This might require wetness much deeper into the phone. Rather, attempt leaving your phone in a bag of raw rice over night.
Make an application from any website you see routinely. Initially, browse to the website. When you exist, tap on "Go". Then, you will certainly have the choice of including the website to the house screen. Once it is on your web page, you can relabel it and have your personal app.
Hold your house button for 6 or even more seconds to leave any app. Apps occasionally tend to freeze. Do not lose your persistence and begin taking apart the phone in some aggravated effort to shut the whole thing off. Simply hold down your house button. This will certainly require your iphone to leave the app.
By dragging your finger to the right on your iPhone, you will certainly be required to a screen where you will certainly have the ability to browse your entire phone. Depending upon exactly what you enter, this will certainly raise anything from messages, to conserved notes that you carry your iPhone for the capability to browse your whole gadget.
A brand-new function the iPhone has that lots of people do not understand about is its integrated dictionary. This can even be utilized as you are composing an e-mail or text. If there is a word that you are uncertain about, simply tap on it and you will certainly see "specify" appear-- tap on it!
When texting on your iPhone, you can accelerate the procedure by discovering the faster way for durations. Instead of clicking the "123" button to raise the punctuation screen, you can double tap on the area bar. This will immediately place a duration and an area in your message.
Take pictures with your iPhone earphone cord. The volume buttons, both up and down can now be utilized on numerous iPhones to snap pictures. By doing this, you can steady your hand and press the cord button to snap the picture. Doing it by doing this suggests you do not shake the electronic camera and frame for a crisper photo.
Go to your electronic camera rapidly when your phone is locked. A great picture chance can come and go in the breadth of a heart beat. To prevent losing out on such a chance, simply provide your iphone's house button 2 fast taps. This need to promptly raise your electronic camera or the icon for it.
Benefit from place based suggestions. Among the functions of the brand-new iPhone Fours is the capability to provide you suggestions of exactly what you ask when you get to specific locations. If there is something you do not require or wish to keep in mind up until you get house after dark, ask Siri to advise you about it as you leave from that location in the morning.
At it's base level, the iPhone is excellent, however that does not suggest that it cannot do even more. You do not need to get just the bare minimum from your iPhone. Take the suggestions that you have actually seen in this short article and utilize it to take your iPhone to the next level of power. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OF3PBB6
I utilized a 6 F-STOP (64x) ND filter to allow the syncing of strobes at 1/200s or less and shooting wide open.
Strobist:
Triggered with Pocket Wizard PLUS and PLUS II units
Alienbee B1600, 8 o'clock at 1/2 power with a 48" octobox.
The Army is utilizing its Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) tactical communications network to provide voice, video and data sharing, mission command and situational awareness to the brigade during the coalition-inclusive Army Warfighter Assessment (AWA) 17.1, at Fort Bliss, Texas this month. During the assessment, the Army is using Commercial Coalition Equipment (CCE) to connect to the coalition network over WIN-T so it can share information with our partner nations, enabling multiple nations to fight as one force. (U.S. Army photos by Amy Walker, PEO C3T Public Affairs)
:Of Treasures:
This delightful little wonder is a Gris Gris Bag, also known as a Mojo Bag, JouJou Bag or Sachet. Gris Gris Bags are magnificent little talismans and can be utilized to bring about desired outcomes, protect one against ill will or they can just simply be unique little handmade oddities to decorate your vanity or alter with. Some simply adore the smell alone and use them as pin cushions or sachets to keep linens and lingerie smelling down right divine.
This one in particular was hand crafted and blessed to be a Love, Lust & Passion Gris Gris; meant to bring its keeper much in the way of fiery liaisons of the heart and of the flesh. It has been handcrafted of cotton and silk. Most of the sachet's outer material is a reddish-pink cotton bespeckled with stars. The pocket is constructed of a deep scarlet silk dupioni which has been edged with an embroidered design of flowers with tiny sequins sewn throughout.
Its sultry mix of deep scarlet and pink color shades denotes its use in rites and rituals involving matters of the heart.
It is hand stuffed with a mix of lavish goodies: a tag with runic symbols hand written upon it, fine cotton fiber, various rose petals and parts and a dash of essential oils from Ginger and Jasmine. All in all, a variety of fine magical ingredients have been combined to make this Gris Gris Sachet a potent tool for drawing love and relationship luck.
:Oodles of Magitastic Accessories:
This Gris Gris also has a wonderment of accessories that accompany it: a length of red satin ribbon for binding, a bit of red feathers, 3 pieces of parchment paper onto which you write your wishes & desires... 2 beautifully designed envelopes for tucking your wishes into... Both the parchment paper and the envelopes are emblazoned with Zodiac symbols and such. The larger envelope pictured (with Alice of Wonderland on it) contains a 2.75 Oz. bag of practically divine ritual dead sea bath salts whose aroma is a heady mix of Ginger and Jasmine. This Gris Gris care package will also come to you with a hefty 1 Oz. bottle of "The Patronus Charm" fine Artisan Perfume Oil (The Love and Lust Batch).
:Of "The Patronus Charm" Artisan Perfume Oil:
Dreamed up by the fireplace as the moon was waxing full, this Patronus Charm perfume oil was also created with the sultry and sensual in mind. In that regard, care was taken to utilize essential oils from plants and herbs which folklore suggests bring about aphrodisiac results. This particular variety of The Patronus Charm is composed of sultry Ginger & super sexy Jasmine essential oils, melded with White Tea & a touch of Vanilla. Other components of The Patronus Charm (the Love & Lust batch): sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, hazelnut oil, amber glass bottle and a parchment paper label. It is completely natural, organic and vegan friendly. This perfume oil is also perfect for aromatherapy, meditation, rites and rituals alike.
:Other Details:
This Large Gris Gris Bag Measure 5" x 4".
It is suggested that you add your own meaningful items to your Gris Gris when you receive it. A lock of hair, a fingernail, a small picture, a favorite rock or shell...Whatever you might like to meditate on.
I put a pocket on my Gris Gris sachets for a reason... so the pocket is nice and big to accommodate any manner of trinkets or personal charms you'd like to tuck into it. The Love & Lust Gris Gris will come to you with more detailed instructions on its use, 3 small tea light candles in red, pink and yellow (not shown) and will be packaged in gift-style wrappings with love and care.
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A Caterpillar D7H bulldozer utilized by 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas, provides hasty battle positions in support of defensive operations during Decisive Action Rotation 18-08 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., June 7, 2018. Decisive Action Rotations at the National Training Center ensure Army BCTs remain versatile, responsive, and consistently available for current and future contingencies. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Guy Mingo, Operations Group, National Training Center)
Built in 1949-1951, this Modern building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Marshall Erdman to house the First Unitarian Society of Madison, utilizing a strong emphasis on the geometry of triangles in its design. The First Unitarian Society of Madison was founded in 1879, and two of its founding members were William Cary Wright and Anna Lloyd Jones, the parents of Frank Lloyd Wright, and was comprised primarily of those who followed Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright’s uncle. Frank Lloyd Wright was a member of the church as well. The Unitarians completed their first building in Madison in 1885, which was located downtown, and was the home of the local Unitarian congregation until they sold the building in 1951 and moved to Shorewood Hills, a suburb of Madison located west of the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus. The budget for the church was exceeded by a factor of 3, owing to unforeseen complications during the construction process, and led to members of the church taking on some of the labor to build it. After its completion, the church was widely celebrated as a highly innovative church design, and influenced the design of many Modernist churches in the United States during the subsequent two decades.
The building is a long, mostly low structure underneath a copper and wood roof that follows the topography of the site, with it being more open with larger windows facing towards the adjacent University Bay Drive to the north, and less open towards the parking area to the south. The roof is hipped with low eaves, the lowest of which is about 5 feet above the sidewalk, right at the building’s original main entrance. The exterior is clad in limestone, with both vertical punched opening windows and long horizontal bands of ribbon windows on the wings flanking the “upper meeting house,” which terminate at the entrance at the southeast corner of the building and a fellowship hall in a pointed section at the northwest corner of the building. The most notable feature of the building is the “upper meeting house,” a tall space with a tall triangular pointed roof that slopes to a low eave at the south face of the building, and a facade on the north side of the building that tapers to a narrow point reminiscent of the prow of a ship, which is wrapped by a planter at the base and a glass curtain walls with angled mullions above, and resembles hands folded in prayer. The roof of the space is supported by hinged arch trusses that are supported by being counterbalanced at the eaves, forming a 64-foot span with no interior supports. The interior of the pointed section of the building is home to an organ and a simple limestone altar, with the light from the prow window in the front of the space being diffused by several light shelves. The ceiling features multiple soffits in the rear that have similar triangular shapes to the rest of the building, a glass storefront with a pointed top that contains two doors to a terrace outside, and a stone wall that penetrates up through the roof, appearing much like a chimney.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2004. The building complex has been expanded multiple times as the congregation has grown into one of the largest Unitarian organizations in the United States, necessitating additions to be built to the southwest of the original classroom wing in 1965 and 1990, designed by Taliesin Associated Architects and mimicking the footprint, exterior cladding, window placement, and layout of the original building, but with low-slope roofs instead of hipped roofs. In 2008, the church received a massive contemporary addition to the rear to house an additional worship space and community spaces, designed by Kubala Washatko Architects, and meant to both preserve the historic landscape around the original building and embody similar design principles. The building is maintained under the stewardship of the non-profit Friends of the Meeting House, Inc., which has existed since the 1970s to address the building’s various preservation and maintenance needs. The church today remains in use as an active worship space for the original congregation, which also allows various community groups to utilize its facilities.
Cineaste365 (February 8, 2014 - DAY 119) - The word “REVANCHE” in German means “revenge” but also has the meaning of “second chance”.
Götz Spielmann manages to craft his masterpiece through utilizing these five characters in whose lives are intertwined after tragedy but not going through the cliched route of banality or a theme of built on misanthropy. Each character at their own moral crossroads and each character brings something to the viewer. Alex as a man in love and in a man in mourning. Robert as a man who is proud but broken down by guilt. Hausner as a man who knows he’s growing older but seeing a side of his son that he has never seen before. Susanne as a wife, who will do anything to save her marriage. These characters are all vulnerable and must struggle with their own personal dilemmas. Spielmann uses the theme of “REVANCHE” as a choice the character Alex will need to make.
The Criterion Collection once again brings a quality release. For Spielmann fans, just to see the man in work while he is creating the film via the documentary included is quite wonderful. Plus the addition of his debut short film is another plus in this release. I have also been asked by my readers to let them know in my Criterion Collection reviews if I can mention if the films are family friendly films. In “REVANCHE”, this is definitely not a film to showcase in front of children as there is full frontal nudity and sexual themes in addition to some violence.
What makes this film work for me is that these Australian talents are people that I have never seen before in a film, they play their role remarkably well and the film is well-cast. No one has this image of unbelievability. Spielmann is able to craft a tale that captivates your attention from beginning to end through its characters but also the beautiful cinematography of the naturalistic surroundings of where these characters live but also capturing the seedy underground of Alex’s and Tamara’s life earlier in the film.
Overall, “REVANCHE” is compelling, smart and extraordinary film.
A rural Ethiopian villager fills up his water jerrican whenever he wants, thanks to the reliable, clean water now provided by solar power through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
1965 Shelby 427 Competition Cobra
Lot 156 | $3,000,000 - $3,600,000 USD
Not Sold
From Sotheby's:
A true triple threat: The only Cobra to feature on the Cobra Caravan, in a major Hollywood movie, and in-period competition
Utilized by Shelby as a part of their famous Cobra Caravan publicity tour
Documented as Elvis Presley’s “hero car” in the 1966 MGM Studios film Spinout
First owned and raced in period by the Formula One driver Moisés Solana Arciniega
Retained by the consignor between 1980 and 1993, then reacquired in 2006
It was classic Carroll Shelby, a delightfully mad idea made even madder: Take the already ferocious 289 Cobra . . . and “upgrade” it with a 427. Ford’s engineering department assisted in redeveloping the Cobra platform to take the massive powerhouse, re-engineering the chassis to be five inches wider, and mounting coil springs all around. To contain wider wheels and tires, the body swelled with menacing fender bulges, as if it could barely conceal the throbbing 500 horsepower being produced by the cast-iron 427-cubic-inch V-8 within.
Shelby intended to race the 427 Cobra in the FIA’s Group 3 GT-class, and planned to produce 100 competition cars for homologation purposes. But by the time FIA inspectors arrived at his facility, only 51 of the cars had been completed, and so he was denied their approval. He subsequently canceled his order for the remaining competition cars, with a total of 53 competition chassis produced, of which 23 were completed in full race trim and sold to private teams.
These 427 Competition Cobras feature a number of differences that separate them from the standard street machine, including larger rear brake rotors with heavy-duty front and rear calipers, optional bronze suspension bushings, an external fuel filler, Stewart-Warner “Booster” fuel pump, a special 42-gallon fuel tank, as well as the front and rear jacking points and roll bar. Additionally, beneath the scooped hood, they had magnesium intake manifolds, aluminum cylinder heads, an oil cooler, rear differential cooler, and the intimidating, unbaffled side exhaust. Each was finished in primer, with a black interior, and air shipped to Shelby’s facilities upon completion.
CSX 3011, THE 427 COBRA PRESS CAR
As documented by the Shelby American Auto Club Registry, this 427 Competition Cobra (CSX 3011) was first invoiced by AC on 11 January 1965, and then subsequently completed by Shelby on 14 May. It is recorded as the only example of the initial batch of 19 competition cars which was not pre-sold to a privateer racing team.
By September, CSX 3011 had been painted Guardsman Blue with white stripes and fitted with FIA-spec Halibrand magnesium racing wheels. CSX 3011 first worked publicity duty when it was supplied (along with Ken Miles) to Jerry Titus’ Sports Car Graphic magazine staff, gracing the cover of their November 1965 issue after testing at Riverside International Raceway. In their words, “…the 427 Cobra is a brute. There's no other word for it.”
It was then subsequently included on the famous Shelby Cobra Caravan publicity tour across the USA. Paired with a GT 350 R, GT 350, Street 427 Cobra, Cobra Daytona Coupe, and a GT 40, CSX 3011 and the Cobra Caravan stopped in 12 major cities to celebrate the company’s victory in the 1965 FIA International Championship for GT Manufacturers, and to promote Carroll Shelby’s new book, The Cobra Story.
By March 1966, it was surely the most photographed and widely seen example of the company’s new competition model. Shelby derived plenty of sales from their successes in motorsports, but they also needed to get their race-proven cars out in front of the buying public—in Ford showrooms, auto exhibits, and the media; CSX 3011 was a crucial sales tool of the latter effort.
CSX 3011 further cemented its title as de facto 427 Competition Cobra Press Car when, on 7 February 1966, it was loaned to MGM Studios for the filming of an upcoming movie starring “the King of Rock and Roll,” Elvis Presley. The resulting project was later released in October 1966 under the title Spinout, with a plot involving a single, road-racing musician who finds himself trapped between three different women seeking to marry him. CSX 3011 (then painted white) features prominently in the popular film as none other than the “hero car” of the protagonist, Mike McCoy, as played by Elvis. Having completed filming 10 weeks later, Shelby American invoiced MGM Studios on 25 April for a grand sum of $12,595.
INTO PRIVATE HANDS
In October 1966, CSX 3011 was finally sold into private ownership. On 11 October, Shelby American invoiced Formula One driver Moisés Solana Arciniega for the car, freight delivery, and a compendium of additional racing spares totaling $11,393. The order was placed via Ford of Mexico, and CSX 3011 was subsequently delivered on 15 October to Laredo, Texas in immediate preparations for a race Solana had entered. Interestingly, Solana specified the fitment of a dry sump lubrication system, Koni shocks, and shoulder harnesses.
The talented Mexican driver had previously garnered much success while driving a 289 Cobra, and so this new competition model seemed a natural fit for him. Solana would race CSX 3011 several times in Mexico and the United States until he suffered a fatal accident in an unrelated hillclimb event on 27 July 1969.
From Solana’s estate CSX 3011 then passed to his close friend Juan Carlos Bolanos, who continued to race the car for several years until it suffered damage to its original body. In 1978, the car was tracked down in Mexico by Cobra enthusiast Jim Southard of Marietta, Georgia. CSX 3011 was then purchased on 9 April 1980 by the consignor—a noted Shelby Cobra collector and vintage racer, and brought to Chuck Gutke’s Cobra Restorers of Kennesaw, Georgia for a full resurrection of the highest quality.
This important 427 Competition Cobra was subsequently completed from the bare frame up with new alloy bodywork from Brian Angliss of Cobra Parts/Autokraft fame, as well as a new interior, chromed roll bar, white side pipes, and fresh coat of Rangoon Red paint. Per Southard’s correspondence, the 427 race engine found with the car in Mexico is believed to be its original unit. It was entirely rebuilt and fitted with replacement heads, a dual quad-barrel carburetor setup, and then reinstalled in CSX 3011—where it remains today. The freshly restored CSX 3011 quickly returned to the limelight when it was portrayed by Ron Caudle as the poster car for the 1984 Grand Bahamas Vintage Speed Week.
The consignor retained CSX 3011 until 1993, and then having regretted its sale, spent the interceding years trying to purchase it back; he finally reacquired it in 2006. After exhibition during SAAC 32 (2007) at Miller Motorsports Park in Erda, Utah, CSX 3011 was submitted to a restoration back to its original factory specifications, as shown during its 1965–1966 publicity duties. The renowned specialists Cobra Automotive in Wallingford, Connecticut painstakingly restored CSX 3011 over the course of three years, engaging multiple marque historians and SAAC concourse judges as consultants. A restoration summary totaling nearly $300,000 firmly illustrates that absolutely no expense was spared in returning this important Competition Cobra to a state of ideal mechanical performance and historically accurate presentation.
Newly restored, CSX 3011 debuted in 2011 during SAAC 36 at Virginia International Raceway, and promptly secured Gold Award class honors.
As a carefully treasured prize of the consignor’s significant collection of Shelby Cobras, CSX 3011 has always been thoroughly enjoyed while under their ownership. Today, it is accompanied by a restoration summary, historic imagery, owner’s manual, Spinout movie memorabilia, an original Cobra Caravan press brochure, original 1966 Shelby invoice to Moises Solana, 1965 FIA Homologation Form, 1980 bill of sale, and also copies of its comprehensive Shelby American documentation.
The 427 Competition Cobras have always been the most desirable Cobras ever built, and ownership is a dream of many Shelby enthusiasts. Perhaps even greater than its 22 427 Competition Cobra siblings, CSX 3011 is truly a triple threat of Shelby significance: It is the only Cobra to have featured in the Cobra Caravan tour, a major Hollywood movie, and in-period competition.
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When I returned to Scottsdale from Tucson, I joined Fred on a Sotheby's pre-auction auto tour led by Andy Reid who is considered an expert in European sports and luxury cars and is a respected concours judge.
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This year I was able to escape the snow and join Fred in Scottsdale for sunshine, cars, and music! I also drove down to Tucson to meet Doug for lunch and spend a nice evening visting with Richard and Lola.
Lovingly called “North Carolina’s longest museum.” Enjoy the two-level, interactive museum that utilizes traditional and interactive exhibits to explain how the original canal was built and turned the Roanoke River into a superhighway of commerce during the early 19th century. The canal was transformed from a trade route into a hydroelectric power resource just over a century ago before becoming what it is today.
Along the entire 7.5-mile length of the trail that follows the former Roanoke Navigation and Power Canal, see some of the most impressive and best preserved early 19th century canal construction in the nation, including hand-hewn stone culvert, power canal bulkhead, locks, and an aqueduct that spans 35- feet in a single arch. It's one of the greatest engineering feats of the 18th century. Today the trail offers a free bike lending program as another way to explore!
The portfolio explores a scandalous murder that unfolded sixty years ago in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Utilizing archives as a material source for narrative structure, the images include crime scene photographs, video interviews with survivors, and black-and-white portraits of accused and of witnesses, layering military induction photographs and service records. Raw testimony extracted from the court martial investigation forms a conflicting narrative that runs parallel to the images.
During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy deployed thousands of soldiers for war games on this small island, overwhelming the rural population. In 1953, conflict erupted when intoxicated North American servicemen on liberty leave rioted when a young prostitute who rebuffed them accepted the advances of three Puerto Rican marines. Eight U.S. servicemen provoked a drunken brawl and killed “Mapepe” an elderly bar owner.
These images thus reveal the complicated power dynamics of sexual exploitation, racial inequality, and United States jingoism that collided one night in Vieques
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Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Hypersonic Aircraft
Utilizing new methods of fabrication and construction, make it possible to use additive manufacturing, dramatically reducing the time and costs of producing hypersonic platforms from missiles, aircraft, and space capable craft. Instead of aircraft being produced in piece, then bolted together; small platforms can be produced as a single unit and large platforms can be produces in large section and mated without bolting. These techniques include using exotic materials and advanced assembly processes, with an end result of streamlining the production costs and time for hypersonic aircraft; reducing months of assembly to weeks. Overall, this process greatly reduced the cost for producing hypersonic platforms. Even to such an extent that a Hellfire missile costs apx $100,000 but by utilizing our technologies, replacing it with a Mach 8-10 hypersonic missile of our physics/engineering and that missile would cost roughly $75,000 each delivered.
Materials used for these manufacturing processes are not disclosed, but overall, provides a foundation for extremely high stresses and thermodynamics, ideal for hypersonic platforms. This specific methodology and materials applications is many decades ahead of all known programs. Even to the extend of normalized space flight and re-entry, without concern of thermodynamic failure.
*Note, most entities that are experimenting with additive manufacturing for hypersonic aircraft, this makes it mainstream and standardized processes, which also applies for mass production.
What would normally be measured in years and perhaps a decade to go from drawing board to test flights, is reduced to singular months and ready for production within a year maximum.
Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle (U-TBCC)
To date, the closest that NASA and industry have achieved for turbine based aircraft to fly at hypersonic velocities is by mounting a turbine into an aircraft and sharing the inlet with a scramjet or rocket based motor. Reaction Engines Sabre is not able to achieve hypersonic velocities and can only transition into a non air breathing rocket for beyond Mach 4.5
However, utilizing Unified Turbine Based Combine Cycle also known as U-TBCC, the two separate platforms are able to share a common inlet and the dual mode ramjet/scramjet is contained within the engine itself, which allows for a much smaller airframe footprint, thus engingeers are able to then design much higher performance aerial platforms for hypersonic flight, including the ability for constructing true single stage to orbit aircraft by utilizing a modification/version that allows for transition to outside atmosphere propulsion without any other propulsion platforms within the aircraft. By transitioning and developing aircraft to use Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle, this propulsion system opens up new options to replace that airframe deficit for increased fuel capacity and/or payload.
Enhanced Dynamic Cavitation
Dramatically Increasing the efficiency of fuel air mixture for combustion processes at hypersonic velocities within scramjet propulsion platforms. The aspects of these processes are non disclosable.
Dynamic Scramjet Ignition Processes
For optimal scramjet ignition, a process known as Self Start is sought after, but in many cases if the platform becomes out of attitude, the scramjet will ignite. We have already solved this problem which as a result, a scramjet propulsion system can ignite at lower velocities, high velocities, at optimal attitude or not optimal attitude. It doesn't matter, it will ignite anyways at the proper point for maximum thrust capabilities at hypersonic velocities.
Hydrogen vs Kerosene Fuel Sources
Kerosene is an easy fuel to work with, and most western nations developing scramjet platforms use Kerosene for that fact. However, while kerosene has better thermal properties then Hydrogen, Hydrogen is a far superior fuel source in scramjet propulsion flight, do it having a much higher efficiency capability. Because of this aspect, in conjunction with our developments, it allows for a MUCH increased fuel to air mixture, combustion, thrust; and ability for higher speeds; instead of very low hypersonic velocities in the Mach 5-6 range. Instead, Mach 8-10 range, while we have begun developing hypersonic capabilities to exceed 15 in atmosphere within less then 5 years.
Conforming High Pressure Tank Technology for CNG and H2.
As most know in hypersonics, Hydrogen is a superior fuel source, but due to the storage abilities, can only be stored in cylinders thus much less fuel supply. Not anymore, we developed conforming high pressure storage technology for use in aerospace, automotive sectors, maritime, etc; which means any overall shape required for 8,000+ PSI CNG or Hydrogen. For hypersonic platforms, this means the ability to store a much larger volume of hydrogen vs cylinders.
As an example, X-43 flown by Nasa which flew at Mach 9.97. The fuel source was Hydrogen, which is extremely more volatile and combustible then kerosene (JP-7), via a cylinder in the main body. If it had used our technology, that entire section of the airframe would had been an 8,000 PSI H2 tank, which would had yielded 5-6 times the capacity. While the X-43 flew 11 seconds under power at Mach 9.97, at 6 times the fuel capacity would had yielded apx 66 seconds of fuel under power at Mach 9.97. If it had flew slower, around Mach 6, same principles applied would had yielded apx 500 seconds of fuel supply under power (slower speeds required less energy to maintain).
Enhanced Fuel Mixture During Shock Train Interaction
Normally, fuel injection is conducted at the correct insertion point within the shock train for maximum burn/combustion. Our methodologies differ, since almost half the fuel injection is conducted PRE shock train within the isolator, so at the point of isolator injection the fuel enhances the combustion process, which then requires less fuel injection to reach the same level of thrust capabilities.
Improved Bow Shock Interaction
Smoother interaction at hypersonic velocities and mitigating heat/stresses for beyond Mach 6 thermodynamics, which extraordinarily improves Type 3, 4, and 5 shock interaction.
6,000+ Fahrenheit Thermal Resistance
To date, the maximum thermal resistance was tested at AFRL in the spring of 2018, which resulted in a 3,200F thermal resistance for a short duration. This technology, allows for normalized hypersonic thermal resistance of 3,000-3,500F sustained, and up to 6,500F resistance for short endurance, ie 90 seconds or less. 10-20 minute resistance estimate approximately 4,500F +/- 200F.
*** This technology advancement also applies to Aerospike rocket engines, in which it is common for Aerospike's to exceed 4,500-5,000F temperatures, which results in the melting of the reversed bell housing. That melting no longer ocurrs, providing for stable combustion to ocurr for the entire flight envelope
Scramjet Propulsion Side Wall Cooling
With old technologies, side wall cooling is required for hypersonic flight and scramjet propulsion systems, otherwise the isolator and combustion regions of a scramjet would melt, even using advanced ablatives and ceramics, due to their inability to cope with very high temperatures. Using technology we have developed for very high thermodynamics and high stresses, side wall cooling is no longer required, thus removing that variable from the design process and focusing on improved ignition processes and increasing net thrust values.
Lower Threshold for Hypersonic Ignition
Active and adaptive flight dynamics, resulting in the ability for scramjet ignition at a much lower velocity, ie within ramjet envelope, between Mach 2-4, and seamless transition from supersonic to hypersonic flight, ie supersonic ramjet (scramjet). This active and dynamic aspect, has a wide variety of parameters for many flight dynamics, velocities, and altitudes; which means platforms no longer need to be engineered for specific altitude ranges or preset velocities, but those parameters can then be selected during launch configuration and are able to adapt actively in flight.
Dramatically Improved Maneuvering Capabilities at Hypersonic Velocities
Hypersonic vehicles, like their less technologically advanced brethren, use large actuator and the developers hope those controls surfaces do not disintegrate in flight. In reality, it is like rolling the dice, they may or may not survive, hence another reason why the attempt to keep velocities to Mach 6 or below. We have shrunken down control actuators while almost doubling torque and response capabilities specifically for hypersonic dynamics and extreme stresses involved, which makes it possible for maximum input authority for Mach 10 and beyond.
Paradigm Shift in Control Surface Methodologies, Increasing Control Authority (Internal Mechanical Applications)
To date, most control surfaces for hypersonic missile platforms still use fins, similar to lower speed conventional missiles, and some using ducted fins. This is mostly due to lack of comprehension of hypersonic velocities in their own favor. Instead, the body itself incorporates those control surfaces, greatly enhancing the airframe strength, opening up more space for hardware and fuel capacity; while simultaneously enhancing the platforms maneuvering capabilities.
A scramjet missile can then fly like conventional missile platforms, and not straight and level at high altitudes, losing velocity on it's decent trajectory to target. Another added benefit to this aspect, is the ability to extend range greatly, so if anyone elses hypersonic missile platform were developed for 400 mile range, falling out of the sky due to lack of glide capabilities; our platforms can easily reach 600+ miles, with minimal glide deceleration.
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POSTOJNA, Slovenia - Slovenia hosted Albanian and British Soldiers for situational training exercises as part of the multi-national exercise Immediate Response 15 near Postojna, Slovenia September 13, 2015. Immediate Response 15 is a multinational, brigade-level exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries. The exercises and simulations are built upon a scenario designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen partner capacity and improve interoperability between partner nations. Immediate Response is an annual exercise, and the fifth iteration is scheduled to run Sept. 9-22, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Walter E. van Ochten)
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.