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So, here is what’s happening. I was going to show a different equipment configuration because I am planning on using the EOS70D next time round for another go at the gyrfalcon. That would eliminate the need for the 1.4 extender and possibly speed up autofocus a bit. To that purpose, I was diligently testing at home getting some encouraging results even up to ISO 3200. A bit softer but still quite useable and I actually liked that effect. So, since the light turned dark and miserable today, I abandoned that trip and focused on showing my result with this configuration on a female red crossbill. And then of course, I got sidetracked and came across this little beauty (yes, also the female Red Crossbill) in some wonderful lighting conditions that I was unable to resist. The cool thing here is that the water in the birdbath is releasing some steam that is clearly visible in the early morning sun and the light on the bird itself is something that I could not turn a blind eye to. (yes, bad grammar I know). She is obviously quite captivated by the steam as well. No need to talk about her beak or her non-red color. And even though I suspect that she’s an adult female, just on the off-chance she’s not, she will be one soon.
Dayton, OH
The National Museum of the Air Force
The C-130 was originally designed as an assault transport capable of operating from unpaved, hastily prepared airstrips. The C-130 served in many roles depending upon its configuration.
Twenty-eight C-130's were converted to side-firing gunships, primarily for night attacks against ground targets.
The (relatively) small batch of North East Proms today with Earth for scale, best 30% of 2100 frames in AS2, bin2x2 - very fast moving low clouds and gusty (45mph+) squalls today, hid in the gazebo with the scope and held on for dear life until I got a break. Image rotated 90 deg CW. Skywatcher 120ED Esprit, Daystar QC, Grasshopper 3 (IMX174). Genika software worked for once too without falling over.
Also different configuration for scope, replaced the Diagonal with an 80mm extension tube (UV/IR filter attached to this), then the Quark, then the camera. Seems to work just as well and lets me have more back focus. For a sense of further scale, see here www.flickr.com/photos/76699751@N07/28517451253/in/photost...
The four configurations of cardinal buoys indicate the safe side
of a danger with an approximate bearing. For example, the North cardinal buoy has safe water on its North and the danger on its South side.
Les quatre configurations de bouées cardinales indiquent le côté sûr d'un danger avec un relèvement approximatif. Par exemple, la bouée cardinale nord a de l'eau sûre sur son côté nord et le danger sur son côté sud.
De vier configuraties van kardinale boeien geven de veilige kant aan van een gevaar met een benaderende peiling. Zo heeft de Noord-kardinale boei veilig water aan de noordzijde en het gevaar aan de zuidzijde.
Following the Civil War, the cotton industry industrialized and grew considerably in Waco, Texas. The construction of the Waco Suspension Bridge and arrival of the Waco Tap Railroad in 1870 increased the number of people and goods entering and departing the city. Waco’s cotton market boomed, and by 1885, the city became known as the largest inland cotton market in Texas. When a second railroad connection arrived, it was named the Cotton Belt Route in honor of the large market to which it primarily catered. The Cotton Belt-Brazos River Railroad Bridge itself is of historical and architectural interest, being the second structure to span the Brazos after the 1870 Suspension Bridge. The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas built the steel truss bridge in 1881 as it continued its expansion from Tyler to Corsicana to Waco to McGregor, according to the “Handbook of Waco-McLennan County History, Texas”.
This steel-truss bridge was the leading bridge design in Texas from 1880 to 1930. Constructed of a noteworthy pin-connected, multi-span structure displaying the Parker configuration that consists of 3 seven panel main truss spans and plate girder approaches. It was built as the Texas & St. Louis Railway, which reached Waco in 1881. The line, later known as the Cotton Belt or St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad, ran from Bird’s Point, Missouri, to Gatesville. The Waco Daily Times-Herald reported on June 5, 1907, that the new Cotton Belt Bridge was dedicated that morning to great fanfare, including a performance by the Baylor band at the Cotton Belt station at Third Street and Mary Avenue. The railway, also known as the Cotton Belt, had a depot on South Third Street until it was destroyed in the 1953 tornado. The railroad, which was part of the Southern Pacific system, ceased operations in the Waco area in the mid-1980's, leaving the bridge to sit vacant.
There have been plans in recent years to convert the abandoned railroad bridge to a pedestrian walking bridge but these have not panned out as of 2024.
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Saab 2000 s/n 037 is the first Saab 2000 that has been converted to Cargo Configuration. Converted by Täby Air Maintenance, destined for Berry Aviation
Some configurations somehow turn surreal....... At Goðafoss, a bizarre pattern of constantly moving clouds, periodically changing, diffused, dusk light and a beautiful fall together made a hypnotic configuration.
Odd light configurations untie.
Norfolk Southern 4197 has the point of the Seattle, Washington to L.A. Shops, California intermodal train, as it splits the SP era Tri-lights at the north end of Brock. From here the train will cruise to Sunset Whitney for a sit in wait for a slot at Roseville, only other thing worth a mention in the frame would be the faint shadow of the Sutter Buttes in the middle left about thirty-five miles away from here.
After a minor rearrangement of the locomotives to a 1x1 configuration, and setting out the 17th car in the yard, O-TOPAV08-30 climbs out of Avondale yard heading over the 22,996 feet long, Huey P Long Bridge to be spotted at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal for the week of festivities and entertainment in advance of the Superbowl LIX at the Superdome.
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This is a sculpture I encountered at the Decordova Museum and Sculpture park. According to their website, Saul Melman's "Best of All Possible Worlds" consists of eight vacuum-molded casts of doors, arranged in the exact configuration of the artist’s Brooklyn apartment. The vacuum-cast process creates translucent replicas of the original doors. Traces of paint and small pieces of wood cling to the surface of some of the doors, suggesting their past lives and situating them between the material and immaterial, past and present.
Sniper Configuration: 2Ra / 2B / 2W
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Built for Mobile Frame Zero - a tabletop wargame.
Mobile Frame Hangar (MFZ Community Forums).
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The Citroën DS (French pronunciation: [si.tʁɔ.ɛn de.ɛs]) is a front mid-engined, front-wheel drive executive car manufactured and marketed by Citroën from 1955 to 1975, in fastback/sedan, wagon/estate, and convertible body configurations, across three series of one generation.
Marketed with a less expensive variant, the Citroën ID, the DS was known for its aerodynamic, futuristic body design; unorthodox, quirky, and innovative technology, and it set new standards in ride quality, handling, and braking,[3] thanks to both being the first mass production car equipped with hydropneumatic suspension, as well as disc brakes.[4] The 1967 series 3 also introduced directional headlights to a mass-produced car.[nb 2]
Italian sculptor and industrial designer Flaminio Bertoni and the French aeronautical engineer André Lefèbvre styled and engineered the car, and Paul Magès developed the hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension. Robert Opron designed the 1967 Series 3 facelift. Citroën built 1,455,746 examples in six countries, of which 1,330,755 were manufactured at Citroën's main Paris Quai de Javel (now Quai André-Citroën) production plant.[5]
In combination with Citroën's proven front-wheel drive, the DS was used competitively in rally racing during almost its entire 20‑year production run, and achieved multiple major victories, as early as 1959, and as late as 1974. It placed third in the 1999 Car of the Century poll recognizing the world's most influential auto designs and was named the most beautiful car of all time by Classic & Sports Car magazine.[6]
The name DS and ID are puns in the French language. "DS" is pronounced exactly like déesse, lit. 'goddess', whereas "ID" is pronounced as idée ('idea').
Model history
Turn indicators were mounted in the upper corners of the rear window, tail and brake lights integrated in chromed rear bumper.
After 18 years of secret development as the successor to the Traction Avant, the DS 19 was introduced on 6 October 1955, at the Paris Motor Show. In the first 15 minutes of the show, 743 orders were taken, and orders for the first day totalled 12,000.[7] During the 10 days of the show, the DS took in 80,000 deposits; a record that stood for over 60 years,[8] until it was eclipsed by the Tesla Model 3 which received 180,000 first day deposits in March 2016.[9] The original list price for a 1959 ID19 was US$2,833 ($29,611 in 2023 dollars).[10][11]
Contemporary journalists said the DS pushed the envelope in the ride vs. handling compromise possible in a motor vehicle.[12][13][14]
To a France still deep in reconstruction after the devastation of World War II, and also building its identity in the post-colonial world, the DS was a symbol of French ingenuity.[15] The DS was distributed to many territories throughout the world.[16]
At the 1963 Amsterdam International Autoshow, Citroën presented a DS body as a sculpture, upright like a rocket, on a rotating platform.
It also posited the nation's relevance in the Space Age, during the global race for technology of the Cold War.[15] Structuralist philosopher Roland Barthes, in an essay about the car, said that it looked as if it had "fallen from the sky".[17] An American advertisement summarised this selling point: "It takes a special person to drive a special car".[18]
Because they were owned by the technologically aggressive tyre manufacturer Michelin, Citroën had designed their cars around the technologically superior radial tyre since 1948, and the DS was no exception.[19][20]
The car used double wishbone suspension with L-shaped arms at the front and trailing-arms at the rear, with totally novel hydropneumatic spring and damper units. The car's advanced hydraulics included automatic self-levelling and driver adjustable ride-height,[21] developed in-house by Paul Magès. This suspension allowed the DS to travel quickly on the poor road surfaces then common in France.[22]
In addition, the vehicle had power steering and a semi-automatic transmission (the transmission required no clutch pedal but gears still had to be shifted by hand,[23] with the shift lever controlling a powered hydraulic shift mechanism in place of a mechanical linkage). It had a fibreglass roof which lowered the centre of gravity, and so reduced weight transfer. Inboard front disc brakes (as well as independent suspension) reduced unsprung weight. Different front and rear track widths reduced the unequal tyre loading, which is well known to promote understeer, typical of front-engined and front-wheel drive cars.[24] Although disc brakes had been tried on a car as early as 1902 by British Lanchester, volume production had not been applied until 1949, by USA small car manufacturer Crosley, but without success. The Citroën DS was the first successful fielding of disc brakes on a mass-produced car. Wikipedia
Savoia-Marchetti S.65
The Savoia-Marchetti S.65, was an Italian racing seaplane built for 1929 Schneider Trophy race.
I have always liked the older seaplanes, especially those built for speed, and the S.65 was indeed built for speed with it`s two engine configuration working in push pull. Unfortunately the Italians wasn`t very succesfull with this one; The plane was brought to Calshot England but never became ready to participate, and that way it only gave the British team something to speculate about.
In january 1930 the plane was finally ready for it`s first take-off on lake Garda. Three times the attempts to get airborne was abortet because of excessive yaw. On the fourth attempt the plane got airborne but shortly after, it stalled and chrashed into the lake. Tragically the plane quickly sunk to the bottom with the young pilot Tommaso Dal Molin still in the cockpit, and even more tragic it happened on his 28th years birthday.
You can read more about the Savoia-Marchetti S.65 Schneider Racer here
About the model!
This model has been on the way for quite a long time, but finally I succeeded in finishing it! Design phase started more than two years ago, and one month later a model that doesn`t look much different from what you see today was finished. But then all sorts of more interesting things, like building my Super Sabre, pushed the little Schneider Trophy racer aside. Then at the start of 2020 I began collecting bricks for the model, and in March I ordered a batch of custom chromed bricks from Auri in Poland. Due to the pandemic curse of Covid-19, my order was put on hold until the end of April. While waiting for my order I decided to make a diorama for my model, a new challenge for myself, to put a little more life into the build. So please enjoy the Savoia Marchetti S.65 on the edge of lake Garda before everything ended so tragically.
The Xenon Burn is a strange craft, its bizarre configuration evidence of its alien origin. Comprised of two halves capable of rotating around a central axis, its narrow profile make it difficult to hit. With pods for four standard humanoid bounties located along the back of the cockpit, the Xenon Burn takes few contracts, but so far has never failed to capture a target once a job has been accepted.
The incredibly beautiful Don Phi Phi Island makes a dreamy configuration with a traditionally decorated boat and a handful of scattered clouds!
Brythorn Arxellias
Small front arm configuration
Thanks to Dennis Qiu, Staven Andersen, Graven Jung.
Special Thanks to my beloved wife for the wings :)
Depending on the configuration of the dunes and the amount of water from the river sometimes is created a small lake on the beach Piscinas. Silhouette is reflected on that small lake. Just few meters away is sea.
Each of the modules has at least 3 connection points to create numerous combinations throughout the nation. All of them start with the command center and the auxiliary modules are attached to varying points. The three different options shown are just a few of the possibilities.
Shortly after launch on 14 April, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, captured this image with its Juice monitoring camera 2 (JMC2).
JMC2 is located on the top* of the spacecraft and is placed to monitor the multi-stage deployment of the 16 m-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna. RIME is an ice-penetrating radar that will be used to remotely probe the subsurface structure of the large moons of Jupiter.
In this image, RIME is seen in stowed configuration. It will be deployed in stages over the coming days.
The image was taken at 14:19 CEST. JMC images provide 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots. The images shown here are lightly processed with a preliminary colour adjustment.
*Additional technical information: "top" means +Z side of the spacecraft and the centre of the field of view of JMC2 lies roughly in the XY plane. The -Z side of the spacecraft is attached to the launcher, which rotates around the Z axis during the ascent phase.
Credits: ESA/Juice/JMC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
This pistol is one of the more expensive things from ACW, each pistol has to be custom ordered for each customer and is made by the most precise tools and craftsmen. The magazine can hold anywhere from ten to 15 rounds depending on caliber and the grip has removable wooden plates for different configurations.
(.357 Model made for a hunter is shown)
Cost: Upward of 150,000$ USD.
The unique appearance/configuration of the ½ Command Module on the right has been ingrained in my memory for…as long as I can remember…since 1965 I suppose. I’ve always considered it to be kind of abstract. And, despite its distinctive & memorable (to oddballs such as myself) appearance, I’ve never found a satisfactory description associated with it.
The first two of the following links depict the prevalently reproduced image (P-286) I grew up seeing. And, based upon discernible ‘patterns’ in it & the one in my photo, I’m pretty sure they’re one-in-the-same. The associated description therein is as follows:
“Oven-freezer tests CM structural strength by roasting one side at 600° while dousing other side with liquid nitrogen at 320° below zero.”
Additionally, based upon the photo’s placement within the overall text, I also assume that these photos were taken in North American Aviation’s “Structural Test Facility”. However, the subsequent/associated descriptive text pertaining to the facility doesn’t seem to be represented in my photo. Not that that means anything:
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An extract from the above:
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The same image was featured on the cover of North American Aviation Inc.’s “SKYLINE” magazine, Volume 23, Number 2, 1965. Its associated description:
“Combination oven-refrigerator is used in Apollo module environmental tests at Downey, California.”
Further, within the lengthy article “APOLLO: THE YEAR TO GET READY”, under a section titled “Avco’s Amazing Shield” is the following:
“The tasks confronted by the Avco/RAD engineers for ground testing the ablative heat shield are monumental. It is impossible, at this time, to duplicate simultaneously the heat, the pressure, and gas envelope conditions that will be encountered in the 2000-second re-entry.
Avco’s test approach has been to bury thermocouples in two-foot specimens of ablative material, then bring the temperature up to 5000°F level with radiant lamps. As the test proceeds, the engineers get a series of reading from the buried thermocouples, and they know the recession rate of the charring material on the surface. The data from this is compared with an analytical model devised on a computer. From this comes assurance.
Avco’s task is to block the 5000°F exterior heat that tries to pass through the hottest part of the heat shield and tame it down within a few inches to an acceptable 600°F at the thin-skinned face of the inner-crew compartment. At that surface the North American Space engineers pick up the challenges in distortion of metal. They may have, simultaneously, heat on one side, frigid cold on the outer.
To prove the strength of the material the engineers have devised a new test tool, a combined furnace and refrigerator that sears the base of the module with radiant heat at 600°F while cascading liquid nitrogen down the far side of the capsule at temperatures of -320°F.
So…I’ve italicized the common & applicable verbiage that’s also contained within the previous articles.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how the above correlates with what I’m seeing in my photo. Obviously, the capsule on the right has a bunch of heating elements that are “on”. However, they’re mounted on the interior. I would’ve expected them to be on the exterior, no??? And, both the base & wall of the capsule appear to be being heated…simultaneously. To replicate reentry conditions? Does the plumbing(?) visible to the immediate right/slightly behind the capsule introduce the liquid nitrogen??? Or is it just part of the support structure???
Also, on a separate note and neither here nor there, I originally thought the capsule on the left was possibly dedicated to the cold testing. However, upon closer inspection, it appears to have the same physical components, i.e. heating elements, that are merely “off”. Maybe it’s the backup unit?
So - to me - the ‘mechanics’ of what’s going on here – even now – continues to be as clear as mud.
The photograph was also featured in the wonderful book “The NASA Archives: 60 Years in Space”, by Piers Bizony:
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Credit: “Nerdist” website
Last & definitely LEAST, the image, reversed left-to-right, can be found here. Stupid, arrogant, greedy & incompetent Boeing dolts…ALL of which are applicable descriptors at whatever levels. C'mon...a cursory visual scan of the image readily reveals numerals painted on the supporting structure/girder(s) in the background, providing a “DUMBY-PROOF” clue as to CORRECT photo reproduction. Or so one would’ve thought. Then again...nah:
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A striking & rare photograph, in excellent condition, with superior gloss.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 configuration rocket launched November 19, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This is the first of four launches of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. GOES-R will provide improved weather reconnaissance. This photo taken from The Exploration Tower, Port Canaveral, FL. Nikon D750, 18-35mm @ 18mm, 71 sec at f/22, ISO 100 © Chuck Palmer - 2016 - DSC_5042.jpg
Two of four rock configurations at the main garden of Mirei Shigemori's house. Shigemori (1896–1975) is one of the most important and influential garden designers of modern Japan, and his former residence, a hose dating back to 1789 just a few blocks from the University of Kyoto, is a thing to see. Here's a very short set of photos on Shigemori's House; you can also take a look to the Shigemori House website.