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GAF CL603 1205 FBS on approach for runway 23 at RAF Lossiemouth May 2005. Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 slide.
This piece was done in honor of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded shortly after takeoff on 28 January 1986. The two faces in the take-off smoke are intended to be composites of characteristics of the astronauts. The quote is from the evening speech President Reagan gave to the nation. (The work was done in 1995, and consequentially I pasted the speech into the work, something I would not do today due to its affect on the overall piece's appearance.)
The 348 Challenge was the first car in the limited edition "Challenge" series, a factory racing program that is still run today. In North America, the cars were converted street spec 348's, modified with a full roll cage, racing seats and harnesses, slick tires, and a few other small changes.
This particular example was at James Fund Exotic Car Day last year, where I was lucky enough to catch a full throttle passenger run of the autocross course. It was a tight squeeze, (I'm not sure I would fit while wearing a helmut due to the intruding roll cage) but it was quite the experience! It pulled very hard on the straights, especially for an older car, and it had an incredible amount of grip through the tight corners of the course.
This is one of those cars that you actually have to drive, too. Even though it is so light and nimble, the owner worked up a sweat wrestling it around the course. Because of the racing slicks and lack of power steering, he said it was "like driving a truck!"
The owner, a gentleman racer, competes in the 348 along with a small collection of other vintage race cars.
This tag is for the Art Journey Challenge. I have used a butterfly from the Antique Engravings set, so I am also entering the Hero Arts Hostess Challenge (use Antique Engravings)
One of the hardest parts of this build was getting the distinctive sloping cab front of the Western Maryland Challenger right. It was Nate Brill who inspired the use of the classic car roof piece.
Still recovering, thanks for all of the well wishes! It's going to be slow uploading for me, not that there's been much of a change of pace anyway. I'm busy at school with graduation coming up and everything.
On a side note, I'm really enjoying my time at labour and delivery!! This might sound surprising to some of you, but I absolutely feel like pursuing obstetrics/midwifery. I can't explain in words just how magical it is to deliver babies...hahahaha!! Ok, I'll shut up now...
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Voigtlander 35/1,2
Fuji RVP 100F
Our Daily Challenge
The Flip Side
*The Jessop's 1907 Street Clock movement at Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego, California with a 'flip side' reflection of some one coming from behind me.
The Challenger '10 is available in black making it a one color only car. It has a real sinister look with the triple black and that Mopar stripe (blue...red or silver) really pops!
Cadets from University of California, Santa Barbara prepare to zero their weapons' during the 8th Brigade Army ROTC Ranger Challenge, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Jan. 26, 2023. Six teams competed in a series of team-based physical events for a chance to be one of the top two teams that will go on to represent the brigade at the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition hosted by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. | Photo by Kailyn Heck, 8th Brigade Marketing & Digital Media
You're cordially invited to: Prince Albert de Monaco’s FUTURYCON Ball
Address: Le Palais des Princes de Monaco
Dress code: SCI-FI Couture
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As Keiko glances down to the man in the cage, she thinks of this song and her lover....But, she is far from being a dove....
♫On the wings of a snow-white dove
He sends His pure sweet love
A sign from above (sign from above)
On the wings of a dove (wings of a dove)
When troubles surround us, when evils come
The body grows weak (body grows weak)
The spirit grows numb (spirit grows numb)
When these things beset us, He doesn't forget us
He sends down His love (sends down His love)
On the wings of a dove (wings of a dove)
On the wings of a snow-white dove
He sends His pure sweet love
A sign from above (sign from above)
On the wings of a dove (wings of a dove)
When Noah had drifted on the flood many days
He searched for land (he searched for land)
In various ways (various ways)
Troubles, he had some but wasn't forgotten
He sent him His love (sent him His love)
On the wings of a dove (wings of a dove)
On the wings of a snow-white dove
He sends His pure sweet love
A sign from above (sign from above)
On the wings of a dove (wings of a dove).♫
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Wings: FR Simi Parthenopaeus
Feathers: Trim
Cage: Marshalls
Male Doll: OOAK Ken
Song: Ferlin Husky
Third generation (2008–present)
The Dodge Challenger Concept was unveiled at the 2006 Detroit Motor Show and was a preview for the 3rd generation Dodge Challenger that started its production in 2007. Many design cues of the Dodge Challenger Concept were adapted from the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T.
Initial release
On December 3, 2007, Chrysler started taking deposits for the third-generation Dodge Challenger which debuted on February 6, 2008, simultaneously at the Chicago Auto Show and Philadelphia International Auto Show. Listing at US$40,095, the new version was a 2-door coupe which shared common design elements with the first generation Challenger, despite being significantly longer and taller. As with Chevrolet's new Camaro, the Challenger concept car's pillarless hardtop body was replaced with a fixed "B" pillar, hidden behind the side glass to give an illusion of the hardtop. The LC chassis is a modified (shortened wheelbase) version of the LX platform that underpins the Dodge Charger (LX), Dodge Magnum, and the Chrysler 300. The LX was developed in America from the previous Chrysler LH platform, which had been designed to allow it to be easily upgraded to rear and all-wheel drive. Many Mercedes components were incorporated, or used for inspiration, including the Mercedes-Benz W220 S-class control arm front suspension, the Mercedes-Benz W211 E-Class 5-link rear suspension, the W5A580 5-speed automatic, the rear differential, and the ESP system. All (7119) 2008 models were SRT8s and equipped with the 6.1 L (370 cu in) Hemi and a 5-speed AutoStick automatic transmission. The entire 2008 U.S. run of 6,400 cars were pre-sold (many of which for above MSRP), and production commenced on May 8, 2008;
The base model Challenger SE was initially powered by a 3.5 L (214 cu in) SOHC V6 producing 250 brake horsepower (190 kW) (SAE) and 250 lbf·ft (340 N·m) torque which was coupled to a 4-speed automatic transmission for the first half of 2009, and was then changed to have a standard 5-speed automatic transmission. Several different exterior colors, with either cloth or leather interiors became available. Standard features included air conditioning, power windows, locks, and mirrors; cruise control, and 17-inch (430 mm) aluminum wheels. Leather upholstery, heated front seats, sunroof, 18-inch aluminum wheels, and a premium audio system are available as options, as are ABS, and stability and traction control. The Canadian market also sports the SXT trim, similar to the SE, but more generous in terms of standard features. Some of these features being ESP, an alarm system, and 18-inch (460 mm) wheels. Starting with the 2012 model year, the SE was replaced in the U.S. with the SXT model.
2015 model year
Changes include:
5-speed automatic transmission replaced by a new 8-speed ZF 8HP automatic transmission,
Power output on the 6.4 liter V8 increased by 15 for a total of 485 horsepower and torque increased by 5 for a total of 475 Ib Ft.
A slightly revamped exterior features a new grille with design cues from the 1971 grill/split tail lights, Quad LED 'Halo Ring" Head lights, LED Tail lights, and a functional hood intake on HEMI models.
Inside, the Challenger gets a 7-inch (780mm) TFT Thin Film Transistor display with over one hundred possible configurations, 8.4-inch Uconnect touchscreen radio with available navigation, and a retro styled gauge cluster.
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10 Apr 11 – Pic of the Day - Challenger’s Last Smoke – Titusville, FL. As some of you know I have been staying at my brother’s place in FL which is directly across from NASA. I realize I’m a bit slow but finally found some spare time to edit Challenger’s last liftoff. It’s amazing how you feel so close to the Kennedy Space Center here but yet the shuttle appears so small in the actual photos (and this was with a 300mm lens).
GP500.Org Part # 71100 Triumph motorcycle windshields
Triumph Motorcycle History
Triumph is a privately-owned British company with over 100 years of history. Triumph has always had its own distinctive character and a history of creating bikes that become design classics since they first came to market in the 1900s. Like the rest of the British motorcycle industry, Triumph went out of business by the 1980s. But the brand was resurrected in the 1990s by British industrialist John Bloor who has built a lineup of cutting-edge sportbikes to nostalgia-themed throwbacks. .1883
Siegfried Bettmann moves to Coventry, England from Nuremberg, Germany. 1884
Bettmann starts an import-export company. He imports German sewing machines and also sells bicycles badged with the name “Bettmann.” 1887
Bettmann changes the name of his company to New Triumph Co. Ltd. (Later it will be changed again to Triumph Cycle Co. Ltd.) His principal investor is John Dunlop, a Scottish veterinarian who, albeit briefly, holds the patent for the pneumatic tire. Nice idea, too bad he didn’t really have it first! (Another Scot, R. W. Thompson, was the real inventor.) In any case, Dunlop is the first to successfully commercialize the invention.
A German engineer, Mauritz Schulte, joins Triumph. He convinces Bettmann that Triumph should design and produce its own products.
1888
The company buys an old ribbon-making factory in Coventry and sets it up to make bicycles. 1895
Schulte imports one of the first “practical” motorcycles, made by Hildebrand and Wolfmuller, to study the machine. Triumph considers making it under license, but under English law, powered vehicles are subject to a 4-mph speed limit. A man must walk ahead of each vehicle waving a red flag. This is bound to limit commercial appeal, and Triumph chooses not to get into the motorcycle business. 1902
With the repeal of those onerous sections of the Locomotive Act at the end of the 19th century, Schulte sets out to design his own motorcycle. First Triumph is produced – known as No. 1. This is basically one of the company’s bicycles, fitted with a 2-hp Minerva engine made in Belgium. 1903
Triumph opens a subsidiary in Germany to build and sell motorcycles there. Better engines are sourced from JAP (the initials of James A. Prestwich.) 1905
Triumph produces its first motorcycle completely in-house. It’s powered by a 3-hp engine and has a top speed of 45 mph. 1907
Annual production reaches 1,000 units. A new 450cc motor makes 3.5 hp. 1908
A new model comes with a variable pulley to help with difficult inclines. To change gears, the rider comes to a complete stop, gets off the bike and moves the belt by hand. Jack Marshall wins the single-cylinder class at the TT (on the old Peel course) averaging about 45 mph. It’s not known if he stopped to change gears or just pedaled his ass off, too. 1910
Triumph makes a big advance with the ‘free engine’ device (basically, the first practical clutch), which allows the user to start the engine with the bike on its stand and ride away from a standing start. There are two models in the lineup, and sales hit 3,000 units! 1911
Most bikes are fitted with footpegs only, not pedals. 1913
Schulte builds a prototype 600cc vertical Twin. 1914
Despite its strong connection to Germany, Triumph is chosen by Col. Claude Holbrook to supply the Type H motorcycle for military Allied military service. Triumph will sell 30,000 motorcycles to the military over the course of WWI. 1919
Schulte leaves the company, with a (very!) generous severance package. He’s replaced by none other than Col. Holbrook. 1920
Triumph produces the 550cc Type SD, the company’s first bike to feature a chain-driven rear wheel. SD stands for Spring Drive – it’s an early version of a cush drive. 1921
Bicycle-style rim brakes are replaced by drum brakes. The new bikes need better brakes, as they now make a lot more power – especially the prototype 20-hp Model R, with four-valve head. It is known as the “Riccy” after one of its designers, Frank Ricardo. 1923
The 350cc Model LS is the first Triumph with an oil pump driven by the motor. (Until then, the rider had to pump oil by hand.) 1925
The 500cc Model P is affordable and a commercial success – at first. Triumph sells a heck of a lot of them, but owners are disappointed by poor build quality and the company’s reputation is harmed. Towards the end of the year, Triumph improves things. 1927
Production hits 30,000 units. 1929
Wall Street stock market crashes. Triumph sells its German subsidiary. 1930
Under pressure from creditors, Bettmann is deposed as head of the company. A small two-stroke, the Model X, is the first Triumph with unit construction. 1932
The noted engine designer Val Page joins the firm. Page quickly creates several new motors, including a 150cc two-stroke and 250, 350 and 500cc four-strokes. 1933
Page’s first attempt at a 650cc Twin is a commercial failure; the public seems to want V-Twins. 1935
A foot-change gearshift is available as an option on 650 Twins. 1936
Triumph’s car and motorcycle businesses are split. Jack Sangster, who had owned Ariel, buys the motorcycle business and immediately hires Edward Turner (who had previously created the Ariel Square Four) as chief designer. Sangster reinstitutes Bettmann as the company chairman. 1937
Turner unveils the 498cc Speed Twin (T100) that has a top speed of over 90 mph. It is the definitive British motorcycle and establishes a pattern for Triumph bikes that will last more than 40 years. 1938
Bill Johnson buys an interest in British and American Motors, a bike shop in Pasadena. (Johnson Motors will later distribute Triumph motorcycles across the American West.) 1940
All motorcycle production is geared towards the war effort. With a new bike in the works, the Triumph factory is demolished in the blitz of Coventry. 1942
A new plant opens in Meriden, England. 1945
Over the course of the war, Triumph has sold 50,000 motorcycles to the military. With the return of peace, the company focuses on three models, the Tiger 100, the Speed Twin and the smaller touring 349cc 3T. All models feature a telescopic front fork. 1946
Ernie Lyons wins the Manx Grand Prix on a redesigned Tiger 100, using a lightweight all-alloy motor that Triumph designed for use on aircraft during the war. (The motor powered a radio generator.) 1947
A rear “sprung hub” is optional. 1949
The off-road 500cc TR5 “Trophy” and big-bore 649cc Thunderbird are released. The Trophy is named in honor of the British team that uses the bike to win the ISDT. It’s powered by a version of the “aircraft” motor. 1950
Triumph sells more bikes in the U.S. than any other market, including Britain. 1951
Jack Sangster sells Triumph to BSA for £2.5 million. 1953
The 149cc OHV Terrier is released. 1954
The Tiger 110 is released, which is basically a tuned (40+hp) version of the Thunderbird, with a rear swingarm.
Marlon Brando rides a ’50 Thunderbird in the film “The Wild One.”
1955
Johnny Allen goes 193 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in a streamliner powered by a tuned 650cc T-bird motor.
The TR6 “Trophy” is the first Triumph built expressly for the U.S. market. It will prove popular with desert racers.
1957
The exquisitely styled 350cc “Twenty one” may be an aesthetic success, but it proves a commercial failure. 1958
Mike Hailwood teams with Dan Shorey to win the Thruxton 500, which is one of the most important races in the UK, from a commercial perspective. 1959
The very popular T120 Bonneville 650 is introduced. It’s an evolution of the Tiger, fitted with twin carbs – something American dealers have long been asking for. It will remain in production until 1983. 1961
Bert Hopwood moves from AMC to Triumph, where he conceives a three-cylinder motor. 1962
Triumph design staff is further strengthened with the arrival of Doug Hele, from Norton. He finalizes the design of the Triple motor (though it will not appear for several years). Hele also designs a stiffer, double-cradle frame for the Bonneville, but it was not adopted. 1963
All the 650 Twins now feature unit construction. With the encouragement of Johnson Motors, a stripped-for-racing version of the Bonneville is produced for the U.S. market only. The T120C “TT” will become one of the most sought-after Triumphs of the period. 1966
Buddy Elmore wins the Daytona 200 on a factory-prepped 500cc Tiger. The Gyronaut X-1, a streamliner powered by two Triumph 650cc motors, goes 245 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats. 1967
Gary Nixon proves that last year’s Daytona 200 win was no fluke by repeating the feat. 1968
The 750cc Triple finally makes an appearance, powering both the Triumph Trident and the BSA Rocket 3. Although the motor is powerful by the standards of the day, it is too little, too late. Within weeks, the world will be buzzing with news of the Honda 750-Four, which has overhead cams, a front disc brake and electric start to boot. 1969
Malcolm Uphill wins the Production TT on a Bonneville. In the process he puts in the first-ever lap over 100 mph on a production motorcycle.
Rob North, an expatriate Englishman based in San Diego, designs a stiffer frame for the Triples, just in time for Daytona.
1970
Uphill wins the proddie TT on a Triple, which is nicknamed “Slippery Sam.” Not because of its well-designed fairing, but because it leaked oil all over Uphill’s boots. 1971
A new frame appears for the Bonneville. It is a Rob North design based on the Trackmaster dirt-track frame and it carries the oil in the large-diameter top tube. 1973
The BSA group, which includes Triumph, posts a huge financial loss. The decision is made to shut down BSA and focus resources and energy on Triumph. Craig Vetter’s freelance “American hotrod” design for the Triple, which was to be a BSA model, is produced as the Triumph X75 Hurricane.
Bert Hopwood designs a modular engine based on an overhead-cam, 200cc Single that can be produced as a 1,000cc across-the-frame Five. It will never see the light of day.
By the end of the year, the writing is on the wall for the British motorcycle industry. Triumph merges with Norton and is put under the control of financier Dennis Poore.
1975
This is the final year of production for the Trident. Bonneville production continues after the workers form a co-op to keep the Meriden factory going. 1977
NVT goes bankrupt. The Meriden Co-op introduces the Bonneville Jubilee Special in honor of the Queen’s 50th birthday. It’s 750cc and has cast wheels. 1980
Although the British government is willing to write off a substantial debt, the Meriden factory is still deep in the hole. There are a few interesting bikes on the drawing boards but no capital to develop them, nor is there any reason to think the work force could or would produce machines capable of rivaling the ascendant Japanese manufacturers, which are going from strength to strength. 1983
After some lean years, the Meriden factory closed its doors. English property developer John Bloor bought the remains later that year, saving the Triumph name. Bloor licensed the Triumph name to a small shop that continued to assemble a couple of Bonnevilles a day until 1985. 1985
Bloor, an unlikely savior, builds a subdivision on the site of the old Meridan factory, but he also acquires a new site, in nearby Hinckley. There, he outfits a new factory with new prototyping tools. 1987
The first “new Triumph” motor, a 1200cc Four, runs on the test bench. 1989
Bloor stakes at least $60 million of his own money on new mass-production tooling for the Hinckley plant. 1990
Triumph unveils six new models at the Cologne Show in September: The unfaired Trident 750 and 900 Triples, the touring Trophy 900 Triple and 1200 Four and the sports-oriented Daytona 750 Triple and 1000 Four. The machines are, by and large, better than most industry pundits expected. That said, they’re a step or two behind the best that Japan has to offer. 1994
The Speed Triple is introduced. It’s not trying to be a Japanese bike, and it’s the first of the new Triumphs to earn several unqualified positive reviews. The under-rated Tiger “adventure bike” also appears this year. Triumph Motorcycles of America is founded. 1995
Exports of new Triumphs to America begins. 1997
The 50,000th new Triumph is produced. 1998
The fine Sprint ST sports-touring bike is launched. 1999
Triumph serves notice that it will enter the ultra-competitive 600cc supersport market by creating the TT600. It will be good, but not quite good enough. 2002
A massive fire guts the main Hinckley assembly plant. The smoke clouds definitely have a silver lining, however. The company’s insurance claim funds a “do over.” The design and R&D shops are undamaged and continue new-bike development while the factory is rebuilt and refitted with state-of-the-art tooling. Triumph releases the four-cylinder Daytona 600 supersports bike. 2004
The Triumph Rocket III is released, which is the first production motorcycle to displace over 2000cc. It works better than most test riders expect it will. Still, it’s an answer to a question that few real motorcyclists are asking. 2005
Triumph bores out the Daytona 600 to 650cc. The change bars the bike from competition in the 600 Supersport class, but it was not having success there, anyway, despite a popular win at the Isle of Man in 2003.) The change makes the bike a great “real world middleweight,” especially for taller riders. 2006
The Daytona is re-released as an all-new 675cc triple. It’s class-legal in European supersport racing (and in Formula Xtreme here in the U.S.). With this bike, the new Triumph company has truly come of age. 2007
A “mini Speed Triple” is introduced in the Street Triple. Powered by the same 675cc three-cylinder in the Daytona 675, the Street Triple provides Speed Triple-type entertainment in a smaller package. Though the similarity in names leads to much confusion. 2008
The Bonneville lineup finally receives fuel injection — one year after Europe. 2010
In a bid to challenge the market normally dominated by a certain brand from Milwaukee, the Thunderbird cruiser is launched. Powered by a 1600cc parallel-Twin, it’s the largest production engine in this layout.
The Tiger 800, featuring a bored-out Daytona 675 engine, harkens back to the Tiger’s roots as a dual-purpose motorcycle.
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Intex Challenger K1 kayak on Pennington Flash.
A more leisurely form of transport.
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Brief History of Challenge - Taken from Challenge Society WebPage www.stchallenge.org
1931 Built for Elliott Steam Tug Co., London.
Lloyds Register of Shipping (LRS) 54844.
Acquired by SHIP TOWAGE [LONDON] LIMITED 1-2-1950. Disposed 1973 Official No. 162549. Call sign MPZB.
31-5-1940 Worked at Dunkirk berthing vessels in the harbour during the evacuation.
1-6-1940 Returned to Dunkirk towing small craft.
1941 Assisted in erection of the Maunsell AA towers in the Thames Estuary.
1944 Towing Mulberry Harbour parts.
3-7-1944 Damaged by V1 rocket in Royal Albert Dock. Repaired at Mills and Knight's yard, Rotherhithe.
1-2-1950 Transferred to Ship Towage [London] Ltd.
1964 Converted to oil fired boiler at Sheerness. Access to aft accommodation moved from the engine room to current position.
27-1-1969 Transferred to London Tugs Ltd.
29-10-1973 Sold to Taylor Woodrow Ltd. for preservation at St. Katherine's Dock, London.
1993 Transferred for preservation to Dunkirk Little Ships Restoration Trust.
CHALLENGE photographed in Southampton Dock system on 20 August 2013
2. umferð Íslandsmótsins í Kvartmílu 6. júlí 2019. // 2nd round of the Drag racing Nationals July 6th 2019.
This is my second entry to the Diva Challenge this week, which was to use Margaret Bremner's lovely tangle, Copada. This one is my favorite one I did.