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Phoebe has completed her first "A" level. This years "A" Level results day is Thursday 17th August. This is the day that we know if Phoebe has the grades she needs to go to Vet School and the day we are able to start the "Big Move" Scotland it is and after many trips and deliberations the area around Moray, North Aberdeenshire and the Cairngorm National Park will be our new home, god willing.....
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters. One is a 747-100 model, while the other is a short range 747-100SR.
The SCAs were used to ferry Space Shuttles from landing sites back to the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, and to and from other locations too distant for the orbiters to be delivered by ground transport. The orbiters were placed on top of the SCAs by Mate-Demate Devices, large gantry-like structures that hoisted the orbiters off the ground for post-flight servicing then mated them with the SCAs for ferry flights.
In approach and landing test flights conducted in 1977, the test shuttle Enterprise was released from an SCA during flight and glided to a landing under its own control
Lego
Scania R730 8x4
Base design and Instuctions by Michael Wirth
I changed the chassis from 10x4 to 8x4 and build a smaller Tower behind the cabin.
The Truck is powerd by Lego Powerfunctions with a BUWIZZ 2.0
Scania 142M Torpedo
Design and Instuctions by Ingmar Spijkhoven
The Truck is powerd by Lego Powerfunctions with a BUWIZZ 2.0
A 1,000-foot convoy carrying the nonprofit Space Center Houston’s historic shuttle carrier aircraft will journey home on an eight-mile trek through the bay area during the nights of April 28-29, arriving the morning of April 30. Roads will close so workers can dismantle streetlights, signs and utility poles as the convoy approaches.
The portion of Highway 3 (Old Galveston Road) between its intersections with Scarsdale and NASA Parkway will close 9 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Monday, April 28. Then on Tuesday, April 29, NASA Parkway from Highway 3 to Saturn Lane will close from 9 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. (See Route Map)
Thanks to extensive pre-planning efforts, no utilities are expected to be interrupted. The convoy will travel at night for the safety of our neighbors and the workers involved in this complex transfer, as well as to minimize the impact on local residents, the traveling public and businesses.
The project to disassemble and safely transport the massive airplane was done in partnership with 30 private, public, and government organizations, many of whom did the work for little or no charge.
Moving at walking speed, the convoy will carry the disassembled Boeing 747 sections on six different trailers from Ellington Field. The largest section moving intact is the fuselage, measuring 25 feet wide, 35 feet high and over 190 feet long, which will travel on a Goldhofer multi-wheeled, self-propelled trailer.
Zhen Zhen the baby Panda on her first day in her new home! . For more info on this occasion, see the Panda Blog from the San Diego Zoo
I'ts Muon g-2 and it measures the behavior of muons in a magnetic field. Very Exciting! What Exactly is that? I don't know...
But anyway, The experiment isn't actually new, it was built at Brookhaven in the late 90's and had a short run which started hinting to new physics... Then it was cancelled. Without the Tevatron, Fermilab had some spare beam available and has agreed to host the experiment. Most of it was able to be broken down to pieces that are easy to ship, but at the heart of the experiment are 3 large circular superconducting electromagnets. These are single coil magnets 50' wide which would be impossible to disassemble and extremely expensive to build replacements. To get them to Fermilab, they have been shipped on a barge from New York to Illinois and now are undergoing a 30 mile journey on surface streets to the lab.
All of these photos are from the Lemont Road portion of the move. There will be 2 more main days of moving it on the roads, One in which they will temporarily close part if I-355 and one in which they will close I-88.
To find out lots more info, check out the official site of the move at muon-g-2.fnal.gov/bigmove/
And yes, it is sitting on 64 tires...
Union Station construction on Front Street will create underground space for a new transit concourse (a second Union Station subway platform, completion 2015) and a new commuter / retail concourse- - -linked to downtown Toronto’s PATH network.