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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, ALASKA -- Soldiers from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment (Airborne) conduct land navigation training at Training Area 7B, JBER-Richardson, on July 26. Land navigation training instills confidence in the Soldier’s ability to understand the fundamentals of military map reading, combining the use of compass orientation, terrain association, and pace count techniques to navigate while dismounted. (U.S. Air Force photo/Percy G. Jones)
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Nov. 5, 2020, for the 433rd Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
NAVAL BASE KITSAP-BREMERTON, Wash. (Jan. 20, 2016) – Seaman Danya Grant, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., splices new line aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is currently undergoing extended planned incremental maintenance availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility where the ship is receiving scheduled maintenance and upgrades. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Recruit Cody M. Deccio/Released)
(based on John 4:5-42, the Gospel lesson for Sunday, March 27th)
Monday evening (Day 13), several women and I ate dinner at the Elm City Brewery in Keene, NH. (I recommend the Blues Burger.) Sitting on each table was a glass bowl, holding Trivial Pursuit cards. Fun. I like that type of thing in restaurants. We didn’t need the cards, because we had plenty to talk about, but I can think of situations where a bowl of conversation starters might be handy.
In his encounter with the woman at the well, Jesus needed no Trivial Pursuit cards. In fact he never needed a conversation starter. Jesus used the common, everyday, ordinary objects and people to engage in conversation. Granted, it might be funny if he had pulled a few Trivial Pursuit (Palestine Edition) cards out of his pocket. But he had the well, and the water… he conversed with a woman about her story, both past and present.
In what ways can we follow Jesus’ example, and talk to people using the commonplace and everyday stuff? I’m not saying that Jesus would be against our using something like Trivial Pursuit cards—but I am saying that we don’t always need them. At times the tools are right there in front of us, to reach out to those around us.
San Francisco for Frankenstein Ballet, 26 Feb 2017
The San Francisco Ballet presented a ballet based on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Elizabeth and I went to see it.
Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein during the rainy summer of 1816, when she, her husband Percy and Lord Byron were staying in Geneva. They challenged each other to write a ghost story and Mary's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was the only story of the three to be completed.
The book launched more horror movies than Helen's face launched ships, as well as such send ups as Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein, the Munsters, Rocky Horror, and Young Frankenstein, so if you've ever danced the Time Warp, or know who Eye-gore is, you can thank the wet summer of 1816 and a woman with a fertile imagination.
Frankenstein was also one of the first Gothic novels, and Byron was the guy who invented the Byronic hero, eventually becoming one himself, when he went to Greece to help the Greeks fight for independence from Turkey and wound up getting sick and dying without seeing combat. Emily Bronte was probably inspired by Byron's characters in creating Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights.
Byron's daughter was Ada, Countess of Lovelace, who worked with Charles Babbage on his calculating machine and is credited as being the first computer programmer.
It is all enough to inspire an episode of James Burke's old show "Connections"!
We discussed some of this on the train ride to Oakland after checking out the Sacramento station which has just had a dedication after several years of restoration and looks good.
The water in the rivers is still high after the recent rains, but we had a beautiful day for our trip.
We took the train to Oakland, and the ferry across the bay to San Francisco, where we ate outside at the Ferry Building as PCCs on the Muni E and F lines passed by in a steady parade. After lunch we caught PCC 1050 in Muni green and cream to Van Ness and walked a couple of blocks to the Opera House for the show.
The ballet was stayed fairly close to Mary Shelly's story, rather than the Boris Karloff movie that took Shelly's story's name and creature and mostly invented a new story. A great tragedy, most of the main characters were dead by the time the final curtain fell.
After dinner we caught BART to east bay and Amtrak back to Sacramento from there. Elizabeth did some homework on the ride back and I snoozed.
A great day out.
Chief Constable Stephen Watson formally opened our new Tactical Aid Unit (TAU) base in Leigh on Friday 3 February 2023.
Part of TAU has been relocated to provide a better public service in the north and west of the force area, with officers stationed there to allow increased visibility as well as improving the response to crime and anti-social behaviour in the area.
Mr. Watson attended the launch with senior GMP and TAU officers, and MPs James Grundy and Yvonne Fovargue.
Mr. Watson said: “Being able to respond to incidents and emergencies as effectively as we can is at the very heart of GMP.
“Having the TAU based in the north of the force area means we can better serve our communities and keep people safe.
“Operations and critical incidents are the bread and butter of the TAU. They are the team with the specialist skills and knowledge that can support our people and keep them safe.
“This move also shows the commitment we have to ensuring GMP is a force that is attractive to officers from other areas who may be looking for a move.
"It is my absolute pleasure to open this base in Leigh which will allow us more effectively to fight, prevent, and reduce crime.”
TAU carries out high-profile disruption and enforcement, targeting serious, organised, and high-impact crime. The team have specialist skills and are deployed wherever they are needed most, including dealing with public order, tackling organised crime, managing large events, and providing specialist search capabilities.
Chief Superintendent Emily Higham, GMP's Wigan District Commander, said: "TAU are specialist officers who can support Wigan and Leigh with search warrants, trouble hotspots and public disorder.
"They will also be visible in the area and their geographical location which means they will be able to respond more quickly to incidents and support our local officers. I am delighted they have moved into the borough."
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk
Pic from inside the west tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world´s longest railway tunnel. It measures a whopping 57 km and is scheduled for opening in 2016.
Rembrandt van Rijn Four “Oriental” Men Sitting Under a Tree The Netherlands (c. 1656) Based on Mughal minatures from India. This unusual scene is one of a series of drawings that Rembrandt freely based on seventeenth-century Mughal miniatures from India. It is likely that Rembrandt studied these figures because he was fascinated by their costumes. In many of his paintings and self-portraits, his love of costumes and elaborate hats or turbans is evident. Here he concentrates on the textiles and turbans. The miniature that formed the basis for this drawing is probably that in the Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, dated AH 1037 (AD 1627/28). It is interesting is that some of the delicacy of the original miniature, notably in the faces, has been transferred by Rembrandt to his own freely drawn version. This drawing is thought to date from after 1656 when Rembrandt made an etching of Abraham and the angels which was inspired by the design copied here. The drawing has been made on oriental paper that has been prepared with a pale brown wash. The figures are drawn in pen and brown ink with brown and grey wash. Some parts have been heightened with white with some areas scraped out. The tree is freely drawn in wash with the birds and few leaves sketchily added in pen and ink. M. Royalton-Kisch, H. Chapman and S. Coppel, Old Master drawings from the M, exh. cat. (London, The British Museum Press, 1996) M. Royalton-Kisch, Drawings by Rembrandt and his, exh. cat. (London, The British Museum Press, 1992) [x]
These have become much harder to see in the UK in recent years. wearing unpainted black bumpers, this is presumably a base spec car.
Blytheville Air Force Base aka Eaker Air Force Base.
I think it is lost on most Americans that the first time a B-52 was used in actually live combat was in Vietnam and it was the only time a B-52 was lost to enemy fire.
Fifteen B-52s were lost during the 1972 Linebacker II Christmas bombings and three of those B-52s originated from the 97th Bombardment Wing assigned to Blytheville Air Force Base; B 52G 58-0201 "Charcoal 1" went down on the 18th, B 52G 58-0198 "Olive 1" and B 52G 58-0169 "Tan 3" were shot down on the 21st. Airmen from the 97th Bombardment Wing lost their lives and their photos appear on the lonely memorial at their abandoned base in Blytheville; Lt Col Keith R Heggen was in "Olive1", (now buried at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery) Lt Col Donald L Rissi, 1st LT Robert J Thomas and Msgt Walter L Ferguson were in "Charcoal 1" Major Bobby A Kirby, Capt Randall J Craddock, Capt George B Lockhart, Capt Ronald D Perry and 1st Lt Charles E Darr were in "Tan 3". These three 97th BW aircraft were stationed and flown out of Anderson AFB, Guam, as part of the 72nd Strategic Wing (Provisional).
Base of a huqqa pipe of green jade, encrusted with dark green jade, blue lapis lazuli, and rubies, kept in gold cloissons. The huqqa pipe is mounted on a three-footed frame of ormulu and green marble, which was produced in London around 1790 by a French craftsman.
Mughal, India, around AD 1700.
October 4, 2012, Canon 7D.
Front view of Kawasaki T-4 36-5702 (cn 1102), 8 Kokudan, 6 Hikotai JASDF taxiing back at Tsuiki Air Base. (photo 1020-1).
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation is held Apr. 30, 2020, at the 331st Training Squadron’s Airman Training Complex on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
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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.
First snow of the Season at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort in Baker County Oregon
Kicking the ski Seaon off with a picture perfect day at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort for their annual Pray for Snow party. While still not enough snow to open This early November snow day was perfect for playing in and getting skiers excited about the upcoming ski season
This Baker County owned ski resort is arguably the best-kept powder secret in the in Oregon. The Rock Garden chair lift serves twenty-one runs that drop over 900 vertical feet with over 40% of the resorts runs rated expert black diamond . The dry climate in Eastern Oregon, coupled with the 9,000-foot peaks of the Elkhorn Range result in a powder so dry the Anthony Lakes crew has to occasionally water it down around the lifts. Nestled in the Elkhorn Mountains with the highest base elevation of any Oregon Ski Area and an average annual snowfall of 300 inches, Anthony Lakes is powder heaven. If you like to take in the scenic views at a slower pace, you can cross-country ski or snowshoe on more than 30 km of groomed trails through the Anthony Lakes Basin and Elkhorn Range of the Blue Mountains. Want a little something different? A Cat-ski operator and full guide service leads adventure seekers into the backcountry bowls and chutes for a one of a kind powder experience.
Anthony Lakes is also the only ski area in Oregon to offer skiers the opportunity to “own the Mountain” for a day. The entire ski area can be leased for individual groups of up to 50 people on Mondays January through March for private ski parties and retreats.
For more information about Anthony Lakes Ski Area or other winter recreation opportunities in Baker County visit www.basecampbaker.com or become a fan at www.facebook.com/basecampbaker
U.S. Airmen from the 822nd Base Defense Squadron, 820th Base Defense Group (BDG) and British Royal Air Force (RAF) airmen from the No. 1 Squadron participate in a 6-mile march during exercise Desert Eagle at the Nevada Test and Training Range, Nev., March 12, 2011. Desert Eagle is a joint training event with the RAF and the Air Force’s 820th BDG designed to improve interoperability during contingency operations. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth, U.S. Air Force/Released)