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Faster than the classic 74-Z with indispensable more sophisticated control system and basic navigational computer to support the pilot in manoeuvring on top speed
Excerpt from www.burlingtonmodelrailwayclub.ca/about-us:
The Burlington Model Railway Club (BMRC) includes men, women, and families from Burlington and the surrounding area who share the common interest of model railroading, in N scale, HO scale, and/or G scale. Our skill levels vary from "beginner" to "expert."
BMRC was established in the early 1980's as an HO scale modular club. Currently, BMRC members own and operate model railways in three different scales.
We're organized in three Divisions: HO, with a large layout containing both new and established sections, and a Digitrax DCC control system. The N Division is under active construction, and the G Division operates as an outdoor garden railway in the warmer months with both track power and battery powered rolling stock. Many members bring their personally-owned equipment to operate on these layouts (check with the Division Superintendent for technical details) and many also have model railroad layouts in their homes or gardens, but you need not own model railway rolling stock to participate in the activities at BMRC.
Raindale
Raindale - Havendae Gacha Set
@ Cosmopolitan until 30th August 25
after @ Raindale Mainstore
Trompe Loeil
Trompe Loeil - Catia Tropical Cottage PG
A desert retreat, an exotic vacation, a seaside adventure - its all yours in the Catia Tropical Cottage. The Catia is crafted from whitewashed concrete, with smooth curving lines that blend with the surrounding sands. The entry courtyard is guarded by an arched double door system - set the doors to Scan for approaching guests and they'll auto-open - and leads to a sheltered oasis centered by an inground pool. The walkway bridge continues to the slatted wood awning overhanging the front door, just past the dividing wall with arched cutouts. Look behind you - in the corner is an outdoor adobe fireplace for chilly nights in the pool! Inside, the generous space is split into an oversize living room and 2 private side rooms. Don't forget to take a dip - the pool is animated with swimming, hangout, and couples animations for singles and couples in your choice of maturities! Privacy windows, outdoor lighting, locking doors, and our *home control system round out the features.
Raindale
Raindale - Splashberry Set
LM's and More here : SinclaiR Style
A No 8 Sqn RAF E3D Sentry AEW1 (AWACS) from RAF Waddington is on finals to land at RAF Lossiemouth where it will operate on a weeks detachment.
No. 8 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Boeing E-3D Sentry from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. The RAF AWACS fleet was originally made up of seven E-3Ds, with the UK designation Sentry AEW1.
Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 2816 heads north across the trestle at Carmangay, racing a flock of birds toward Calgary. The locomotive was leading a 15-car test train to try out its new Positive Train Control system. September 2023.
From Jewel Lake to Wildcat Creek. Tilden Regional Park. I’m told it’s a disused flood control system.
LDN 1251 - small molecular cloud in the constellation Cepheus. In addition to the dark nebula in this picture is also seen several PGC galaxies that shine through the interstellar dust. Also in this picture I have identified five Herbig–Haro objects.
This picture was photographed during september in Petrivske village, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg with TS 2.5″ 0.95x Wynne corrector. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 37 * 900 seconds, RGB = 28 * 400-600 seconds in each filter, bin.2. Total of 20 hours.
FWHM source (in the filter L) 2.15″-4.72″, Sum in L channel - 2.95"
The height above the horizon from 64 ° to 48 °, scale = 1.25"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Designed by Hamilton Architects of Belfast, the ferry terminal is situated in a World Heritage Site and centred on Liverpool’s Three Graces, this striking mixed-use project at Pier Head was completed in Liverpool’s year as European City of Culture (2008). An innovative award-winning commercial design created a building divided into four storeys linked by three separate vertical circulation cores, along with a number of entrances and a remotely managed access control system for flexibility.
Two image panoramic picture taken with a Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Shift lens on Sony A7RII
Part of the UK's air traffic control system. Looks like something more sinister to me!
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
New from The Green Door, "Portofino Lighthouse" is a new release available at this month's Uber Event. 51mx40 and only a 342 Li, complete with home control system, lighthouse beacon, fireplace and exterior lighting is legit, one of the best laid out homes I have seen. Two garages for us guys to show off our toys and plenty of rooms with incredible texturing throughout. Again, the open, spacious layout is like nothing else I have seen before. Go see for yourself at Uber, open now!
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The Green Door MP:
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The Green Door LM:
Gemasolar is the first commercial solar plant with central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology. It consists of a 30.5 hectares (75 acres) solar heliostat aperture area with a power island and 2,650 heliostats, each with a 120 square metres (1,300 sq ft) aperture area and distributed in concentric rings around the 140-metre-high (460 ft) tower receiver. The total land use of the Heliostats is 195 hectares (480 acres)
The most innovative aspects of the plant, which belongs to the company Torresol Energy, are its molten salt receiver, its heliostats aiming system and its control system. In addition, its storage system allows it to produce electricity for 15 hours without sunlight (at night or on cloudy days). This storage capacity makes its solar power manageable so that it can be supplied based on demand.
Excerpt from www.burlingtonmodelrailwayclub.ca/about-us:
The Burlington Model Railway Club (BMRC) includes men, women, and families from Burlington and the surrounding area who share the common interest of model railroading, in N scale, HO scale, and/or G scale. Our skill levels vary from "beginner" to "expert."
BMRC was established in the early 1980's as an HO scale modular club. Currently, BMRC members own and operate model railways in three different scales.
We're organized in three Divisions: HO, with a large layout containing both new and established sections, and a Digitrax DCC control system. The N Division is under active construction, and the G Division operates as an outdoor garden railway in the warmer months with both track power and battery powered rolling stock. Many members bring their personally-owned equipment to operate on these layouts (check with the Division Superintendent for technical details) and many also have model railroad layouts in their homes or gardens, but you need not own model railway rolling stock to participate in the activities at BMRC.
Excerpt from www.burlingtonmodelrailwayclub.ca/about-us:
The Burlington Model Railway Club (BMRC) includes men, women, and families from Burlington and the surrounding area who share the common interest of model railroading, in N scale, HO scale, and/or G scale. Our skill levels vary from "beginner" to "expert."
BMRC was established in the early 1980's as an HO scale modular club. Currently, BMRC members own and operate model railways in three different scales.
We're organized in three Divisions: HO, with a large layout containing both new and established sections, and a Digitrax DCC control system. The N Division is under active construction, and the G Division operates as an outdoor garden railway in the warmer months with both track power and battery powered rolling stock. Many members bring their personally-owned equipment to operate on these layouts (check with the Division Superintendent for technical details) and many also have model railroad layouts in their homes or gardens, but you need not own model railway rolling stock to participate in the activities at BMRC.
Excerpt from www.burlingtonmodelrailwayclub.ca/about-us:
The Burlington Model Railway Club (BMRC) includes men, women, and families from Burlington and the surrounding area who share the common interest of model railroading, in N scale, HO scale, and/or G scale. Our skill levels vary from "beginner" to "expert."
BMRC was established in the early 1980's as an HO scale modular club. Currently, BMRC members own and operate model railways in three different scales.
We're organized in three Divisions: HO, with a large layout containing both new and established sections, and a Digitrax DCC control system. The N Division is under active construction, and the G Division operates as an outdoor garden railway in the warmer months with both track power and battery powered rolling stock. Many members bring their personally-owned equipment to operate on these layouts (check with the Division Superintendent for technical details) and many also have model railroad layouts in their homes or gardens, but you need not own model railway rolling stock to participate in the activities at BMRC.
new re-edit for 2023
last remaining artillery observation bunker with fire control system for lower New York Harbor, located at Miller Field, Staten Island. up until the early 1950s, when the coastal defense was replaced by air defense. NYC's big 16-inch guns could fire up to six miles out into the lower bay in concert to defend against an enemy attack. All for the most part was kept hidden and out of sight from the public.
CFL 5519 - propulsion by green electric power due to ETCS (European Train Control System ) missing
LEICA M10M
Leica Summaron 28mm f/5.6 mm (2014)
An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and other incoming projectiles at long ranges, as well as performing command and control of the battlespace in aerial engagements by informing and directing friendly fighter and attack aircraft. AEW&C units are also used to carry out aerial surveillance over ground and maritime targets, and frequently perform battle management command and control (BMC2). When used at altitude, the radar system on AEW&C aircraft allows the operators to detect, track and prioritize targets and identify friendly aircraft from hostile ones in real-time and from much farther away than ground-based radars.[1] Like ground-based radars, AEW&C systems can be detected and targeted by opposing forces, but due to aircraft mobility and extended sensor range, they are much less vulnerable to counter-attacks than ground systems.[2]
AEW&C aircraft are used for both defensive and offensive air operations, and serve air forces in the same role as what the combat information center is to naval warships, in addition to being a highly mobile and powerful radar platform. So useful and advantageous is it to have such aircraft operating at a high altitude, that some navies also operate AEW&C aircraft for their warships at sea, either coastal- or carrier-based and on both fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms. In the case of the United States Navy, the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye AEW&C aircraft is assigned to its supercarriers to protect them and augment their onboard command information centers (CICs). The designation "airborne early warning" (AEW) was used for earlier similar aircraft used in the less-demanding radar picket role,[3] such as the Fairey Gannet AEW.3 and Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, and continues to be used by the RAF for its Sentry AEW1, while AEW&C (airborne early warning and control) emphasizes the command and control capabilities that may not be present on smaller or simpler radar picket aircraft. AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) is the name of the specific system installed in the American Boeing E-3 Sentry and Japanese Boeing E-767 AEW&C airframes, but is often used as a general synonym for AEW&C.[4][5]
General characteristics
Wellington Ic "Air Controlled Interception" showing rotating radar antenna
Modern AEW&C systems can detect aircraft from up to 400 km (220 nmi) away, well out of range of most surface-to-air missiles (SAM). One AEW&C aircraft flying at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) can cover an area of 312,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi). Three such aircraft in overlapping orbits can cover the whole of Central Europe.[6] AEW&C system indicates close and far proximity range on threats and targets, help extend the range of their sensors, and make offensive aircraft harder to track by avoiding the need for them to keep their own radar active, which the enemy can detect. Systems also communicate with friendly aircraft, vectoring fighters towards hostile aircraft or any unidentified flying object (UFO).
Miniera di San Leone (1863 - 1963) - Giacimento ferrifero.
Vecchi sistemi di controllo dell'energia elettrica ancora agganciati alle pareti delle officine della miniera.
San Leone mine (1863 - 1963) - Iron field.
Old electricity control systems still hooked to the walls of the mine workshops.
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Arriving from the 'sandpit' , this 552nd ACW Tinker AFB based E-3G staged through RAF Mildenhall on the 30th July 2020.
Excerpt from macaulifestyle.com/city-guide/macau-port-hmz-bridge/:
The Macau–Hong Kong Bridge Port – Passport Control is the first and last spot for people coming and going – respectively – to and from Hong Kong and Zhuhai. Starting in Macau (Green Island area), it is a large project containing an immigration passport control system with separate entrance points to Hong Kong and Zhuhai. Buses depart from Macau every 10 minutes (to Hong Kong) and the border is open 24 hours.
The structure is modern, contemporary and easy to walk around. With vending machines selling food and drinks, bathrooms, changing rooms and some other basic facilities, this is a port serving passengers looking to go to Hong Kong and Zhuhai by bus and by car. Entrance to the port is free, but each transportation leading to Hong Kong or Zhuhai has its own pricing.
Excerpt from www.burlingtonmodelrailwayclub.ca/about-us:
The Burlington Model Railway Club (BMRC) includes men, women, and families from Burlington and the surrounding area who share the common interest of model railroading, in N scale, HO scale, and/or G scale. Our skill levels vary from "beginner" to "expert."
BMRC was established in the early 1980's as an HO scale modular club. Currently, BMRC members own and operate model railways in three different scales.
We're organized in three Divisions: HO, with a large layout containing both new and established sections, and a Digitrax DCC control system. The N Division is under active construction, and the G Division operates as an outdoor garden railway in the warmer months with both track power and battery powered rolling stock. Many members bring their personally-owned equipment to operate on these layouts (check with the Division Superintendent for technical details) and many also have model railroad layouts in their homes or gardens, but you need not own model railway rolling stock to participate in the activities at BMRC.
A pair of former TFM SD70MAC's dressed in the Retro Belle paint scheme with primer panels bring "Run 12", CPKC train YKK12-29, up to St. Louis Ave on Main Track 2 of the UP KC Metro Sub en route from CPKC's Knoche Yard to UP's 18th St. Yard with a transfer. These two are technically designated as SD70MACe's after work done by Progress Rail, which included retrofitting Mitsubishi inverters and traction control systems. This work is evidenced by the primer panels, which evaded being painted for the last 8 years. 1/29/25.
NF-104A s/n 56-0760 posed like the homesick angel it is outside the USAF Test Pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base. The NF-104 was used to test reaction control systems at high altitude where conventional control surfaces no longer function properly.
Sharpless-82 is a small emission nebula, surrounded by a blue reflection nebula. These two nebulae are located in front of the huge and branched dark dust clouds, resembling the wings of an eagle, which absorb light from distant stars. The whole complex is located in the small constellation Sagitta.
This picture was photographed during 2015 August in Petrivske village, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg with Paracorr-II. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 19 * 900 + 49*600 seconds, RGB = 13 * 600 seconds in each filter, bin.1. Total of 19.5 hours.
FWHM source (in the filter L) 2.25″-3.59″, Sum in L channel - 2.67"
The height above the horizon from 58 ° to 35 °, scale = 1.01"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Explanation: Star Cluster NGC225 opened Caroline Herschel in 1783. Age clusters - about 10 million years: this is one of the youngest clusters in our galaxy
With a light hand of an amateur astronomy Rodney Potter cluster called «Sailboat cluster» - sailboat. And indeed, highlighted by young blue stars vdB4 reflection nebula looks like a taut sail, and the dark nebula LDN1302 - on waving black pirate flag :)
This picture was photographed during 2015 September in Petrivske village, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg with TS 2.5″ 0.95x Wynne corrector. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 22 * 900 seconds, RGB = 12 * 400-600 seconds in each filter, bin.2. Total of 10 hours.
FWHM source (in the filter L) 2.20″-3.00″, Sum in L channel - 2.43"
The height above the horizon from 65° to 77°, scale = 1.25"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
This spiral galaxy is located in the direction of Coma Berenices. A type II supernova went off in this galaxy some time ago (SN 1941a). Several papers estimate its apparent magnitude was 13 and absolute magnitude to be around 15.7. From this astronomers would estimate this galaxy to be between 20-30 million light years away. Like many nearby spiral galaxies, NGC 4559 displays bright star-forming regions and dust lanes in its expansive arms. There are also a number of background galaxies and galaxy groups in this image. (Note: by using redshift measurements- the galaxy is 35 million light years distant which is not in terrible disagreement with the SN data.) (Text: www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n4559.html)
This picture was photographed April, 9, 11, 12 and 20, 2015 in Khlepcha observatory, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-660wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 21 * 200 + 30 * 300 seconds, bin.1, RGB = 11 * 300 + 8 * 600 seconds, bin.1 each filter. About 10 hours.
FWHM source 1.67 "-2.80".
The height above the horizon from 52 ° to 67 °, the scale of 0.85 "/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
The Peak Tram is a funicular railway which carries both tourists and residents to the upper levels of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.
Running from Garden Road Admiralty to Victoria Peak via the Mid-Levels, it provides the most direct route and offers good views over the harbour and skyscrapers of Hong Kong.
In 1881 Alexander Findlay Smith first put the project of a Peak Railway into shape and presented a petition for a concession to the governor of Hong Kong. The necessary legislation was passed two years later, and the construction was begun in 1885.
As a revolutionary new form of transport for Asia at the time, the tramway was considered a marvel of engineering upon its completion. It was opened for public service in 1888 by the then governor Sir George William des Voeux. As built, the line used a static steam engine to power the haulage cable. It was at first used only for residents of Victoria Peak. Despite that, it carried 800 passengers on its first day of operation, and about 150,000 in its first year. The tram's existence accelerated the residential development of Victoria Peak and the Mid-Levels.
From 1908 to 1949, the first two seats in the front of the tram were reserved for the governor of Hong Kong, to which was attached a bronze plaque reading: "This seat is reserved for His Excellency the Governor". The seats were not available to ordinary passengers until two minutes before departure.
In 1926, the steam engine was replaced by an electric motor. In 1941 during the Battle of Hong Kong, the engine room was damaged in an attack. Services were not resumed until after the end of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
In 1956, the Peak Tram was equipped with a new generation of lightweight metal-bodied cars, each of which seated 62 passengers.
The system was comprehensively rebuilt in 1989 by the Swiss company, Von Roll, with a new track, a computerized control system, and two new two-car trams with a capacity of 120 passengers per tram. By the time of Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China the system carried some 2 million passengers annually, today, more than 4 million people ride the Peak Tram annually, or an average of over 11,000 every day.
Of prior rolling stock, only two 1956 fourth generation all-aluminium cars survive; one is displayed at the upper terminal, and another can be seen on a disused spur track after leaving Garden Road. No earlier cars exist, but a replica of the first car is displayed in the Peak Tram Historical Gallery.
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EMBER 40 - United States Air Force Boeing E-3B Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) 76-0557 makes a pass over the 2022 Milwaukee Air and Water Show. The Aircraft flew in from Tinker Air Force Base to make teh flyover and then returned home.
Excerpt from macaulifestyle.com/city-guide/macau-port-hmz-bridge/:
The Macau–Hong Kong Bridge Port – Passport Control is the first and last spot for people coming and going – respectively – to and from Hong Kong and Zhuhai. Starting in Macau (Green Island area), it is a large project containing an immigration passport control system with separate entrance points to Hong Kong and Zhuhai. Buses depart from Macau every 10 minutes (to Hong Kong) and the border is open 24 hours.
The structure is modern, contemporary and easy to walk around. With vending machines selling food and drinks, bathrooms, changing rooms and some other basic facilities, this is a port serving passengers looking to go to Hong Kong and Zhuhai by bus and by car. Entrance to the port is free, but each transportation leading to Hong Kong or Zhuhai has its own pricing.
Excerpt from www.burlingtonmodelrailwayclub.ca/about-us:
The Burlington Model Railway Club (BMRC) includes men, women, and families from Burlington and the surrounding area who share the common interest of model railroading, in N scale, HO scale, and/or G scale. Our skill levels vary from "beginner" to "expert."
BMRC was established in the early 1980's as an HO scale modular club. Currently, BMRC members own and operate model railways in three different scales.
We're organized in three Divisions: HO, with a large layout containing both new and established sections, and a Digitrax DCC control system. The N Division is under active construction, and the G Division operates as an outdoor garden railway in the warmer months with both track power and battery powered rolling stock. Many members bring their personally-owned equipment to operate on these layouts (check with the Division Superintendent for technical details) and many also have model railroad layouts in their homes or gardens, but you need not own model railway rolling stock to participate in the activities at BMRC.
SLR Class :- M9
Introduction years :- 2000 to 2001
No of Locos :- 10
Loco Nos :- 864 to 873
Builder :- Alstom
State :-French
Prime Mover :- Ruston - 12 RK 215 T
Mode of Power transmission :- Diesel Electric (AC to AC Power Transmission )
Power :- 3220 hp
rpm :- 1000
Weight :- 100 ton
Length :- 64’
Wheel arrangement :- Co-Co
Brake system : - Vacuum, Air and Dynamic
Max speed :- 110 Km/h
Gauge : - 1676 mm
Type :- Locomotive
Purpose :- Main line Passenger and Freight train.
M9 868 Destroyed due to Fire at Talawa in May 2009
M9 866 and 867 Installed new control system by Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd in 2017
M9 872 Installed new control system by Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd in 2024
Information as at 10.02.2025
The Bancroft House is a two-story home with a mixture of wood, whitewashed brick and shake siding on the exterior. It has 5 bedrooms and one bath/den. A drop-ladder leads to a large bonus room in the attic. It is approximately 27x19 meters and fits a standard 1024 parcel. The home control system allows security for the doors and panel access, as well as changing wall and floor colors. Each room has 6 color choices.
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The Grumman X-29A was an experimental aircraft with forward-swept wings, designed in the 1980s. It featured a General Electric F404 engine, enabling supersonic speeds. Notably, its advanced computerized flight control system managed inherent instability, showcasing the potential for unconventional aerodynamic configurations in future aircraft development.
A No 8 Sqn RAF E3D Sentry AEW1 (AWACS) RAF Waddington taxes out for a departure during Ex Cobra Warrior 2019.
No. 8 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Boeing E-3D Sentry from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. The RAF AWACS fleet was originally made up of seven E-3Ds, with the UK designation Sentry AEW1.
NASA's robotic lander prototype hovers autonomously during the second free-flight test at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
On Thursday, June 16, NASA's Robotic Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. conducted the second free-flight test of a robotic lander prototype. During test, the lander successfully executed its planned flight profile, autonomously ascending to a six-foot hover and descending to conduct a controlled soft landing.
The lander, loaded with 220 lbs. of hydrogen peroxide propellant, operated on two sensors –the inertial measurement unit, which tracks the lander’s accelerations and the direction it's pointed, and the radar altimeter, which measures its altitude. With each test flight the lander is stabilizing, flying longer and demonstrating its control algorithms can maintain a stable attitude and execute a soft landing using the system’s pulsing thrusters.
This test series illustrates the lander team's ability to control the vehicle using pulsed, not throttled, thrusters. One of the key technologies planned for use in the final flight lander design is a set of small, powerful, pulsed thrusters developed for the Divert Attitude Control System (DACS) by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency of the Department of Defense.
Read news release:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lunarquest/robotic/hover_test_...
More about the robotic lander:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lunarquest/robotic/index.html
View all robotic lander images in this Flickr set:
The Rockwell-Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm X-31 was an experimental jet fighter designed to test fighter thrust vectoring technology.
It was designed and built by Rockwell and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), as part of a joint US and German Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability program to provide additional control authority in pitch and yaw, for significantly more maneuverability than most conventional fighters. An advanced flight control system provided controlled flight at high angles of attack where conventional aircraft would stall or lose control. Two aircraft were built, of which only one has survived.
The X-31 design was essentially an all-new airframe design, although it borrowed heavily on design elements and sometimes actual parts of previous production, prototype, and conceptual aircraft designs, including the British Aerospace Experimental Airplane Programme (choice of wing type with canards, plus underfuselage intake), the German TKF-90 (wing planform concepts and underfuselage intake), F/A-18 Hornet (forebody, including cockpit, ejection seat, and canopy; electrical generators), F-16 Fighting Falcon (landing gear, fuel pump, rudder pedals, nosewheel tires, and emergency power unit), F-16XL (leading-edge flap drives), V-22 Osprey (control surface actuators), Cessna Citation (main landing gear's wheels and brakes), F-20 Tigershark (hydrazine emergency air-start system, later replaced) and B-1 Lancer (spindles from its control vanes used for the canards). This was done on purpose, so that development time and risk would be reduced by using flight-qualified components. To reduce the cost of tooling for a production run of only two aircraft, Rockwell developed the "fly-away tooling" concept (perhaps the most successful spinoff of the program), whereby 15 fuselage frames were manufactured via CNC, tied together with a holding fixture, and attached to the factory floor with survey equipment. That assembly then became the tooling for the plane, which was built around it, thus "flying away" with its own tooling.
Two X-31s were built, with the first flying on October 11, 1990. Over 500 test flights were carried out between 1990 and 1995. The X-31 is a canard delta, a delta wing aircraft which uses canard foreplanes for primary pitch control, with secondary thrust-vectoring control. The canard delta had earlier been used on the Saab Viggen strike fighter, and has since become common on fighters such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale and Gripen which were all designed and flew several years before the X-31. The X-31 featured a cranked-delta wing (similar to the Saab 35 Draken and the F-16XL prototype), and fixed strakes along the aft fuselage, as well as a pair of movable computer-controlled canards to increase stability and maneuverability. There are no moveable horizontal tail surfaces, only the vertical fin with rudder. Pitch and roll are controlled by the canard with the aid of the three paddles directing the exhaust (thrust vectoring). Eventually, simulations and flight tests on one of the X-31s showed that flight would be stable without the vertical fin, because the thrust-vectoring nozzle provided sufficient yaw and pitch control.
BuNo 164585, 288 flights, the last one being in 2003. Put on Permanent Display at Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim in Germany.
Pokaz lotniczy podczas szczytu NATO w Warszawie. Przelatuje Boeing E3 AWACS (systemu wczesnego ostrzegania i kontroli) /
Air show during the NATO summit in Warsaw. Flies Boeing E 3 AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System)
After working over central Texas, NOVA17 is seen on final approach, Runway 18 at NAS JRB Fort Worth.
In the UP Steam Shop Roundhouse the DDA40X "Centennial" and E9's wait for their next call to service. Being that they aren't currently equipped with PTC it's unlikely they'll be seen leading on the main until that is complete. That's not to say it will never happen, but the facility's work scope has been consumed with the steam locomotives for the past few years. That is after all, the company's focus for this shop.
Eventually they will likely have their Dash-2 control systems replaced with ZTR's NEXSYS, which is Union Pacific's standard for upgrading older EMD's like the SD40N, GP38N, and GP15N.
Locomotives: UP 6936, UP 951
1-22-20
Cheyenne, WY
202 Sqn "D flt" Search and Rescue Westland Sea King based at RAF Lossiemouth taxing out for another sortie in Feb 2013.
The Westland WS-61 Sea King is a British licence-built version of the American Sikorsky S-61 helicopter of the same name, built by Westland Helicopters. The aircraft differs considerably from the American version, with Rolls-Royce Gnome engines, British-made anti-submarine warfare systems and a fully computerised flight control system. The Sea King was primarily designed for performing anti-submarine warfare missions. A Sea King variant was adapted by Westland as troop transport known as the Commando.
Manufacturer: General Motors Company (GM), Cadillac Motor Car Division, Detroit, Michigan - USA
Type: Fleetwood Series 75 Model 54-7523X 4-door Sedan
Production time: January 1954 - November 1954
Production outlet: 889
Engine: 5425cc GM Cadillac V-8 331
Power: 230 bhp / 4.400 rpm
Torque: 450 Nm / 2.800 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 165 km/h
Curb weight: 2460 kg
Wheelbase: 149.75 inch
Chassis: GM D-body box frame with crossmembers and all-steel body (by Fleewood Metal Body Co., Fleetwood (Pennsylvania)
Steering: Saginaw circulatory hydraulic power
Gearbox: GM Hydra-Matic four-speed automatic transmission / steering column shift
Clutch: not applicable
Carburettor: Rochester 4GC 4-barrel downdarft / Carter WCFB2143S downdraft
Fuel tank: 91 liter
Electric system: Delco 12 Volts 60 Ah
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: Hydrovac powered hydraulic 12 inch Bendix drums
Brakes rear: Hydrovac powered hydraulic 12 inch Bendix drums
Suspension front: independent trapezoidal wishbones, trapezoidal triangle cross-bar, sway bar, coil springs + DELCO hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: beam axle, longitudinal shear arms, stabilizer triangle, longitudinal semi-eliptic leaf springs + DELCO hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live semi-floating type
Differential: hypoid 3.77:1
Wheels: 15 inch steel discs
Tires: 8.2 x 15 6-ply
Options: three-speed manual gearbox, Power Pack (2x Carter WCFB2371 4-barrel carburettor - 309 bhp/4.700 rpm), air suspension, anodized gold grille, anodized-gold “Sabre Spoke” wheels (by alcoa/Kelsey Hayes and standard on the Eldorado model), whitewall tires, a gold finish grille, a four-way electrically power bench seat, a signal-seeking Wonderbar AM radio, electrically operated antenna, Air Conditioning, passenger seatbelts, climate control system, remote-control trunk release, a Continental spare tire kit, (wide) whitewall tires, an Autronic eye, side-mounted spotlights, fog lamps, “E-Z Eye” tinted glass, two-tone colouring
Special:
- The 1954 Fleetwood Series Seventy-Five was available as this 4-door Sedan and as 4-door 54-7533X Imperial (611 units built).
- This fifth generation Fleetwood Seventy-Five "high-headroom eight-passenger limousine“ (1954-1956), designed by Harley Earl, was assembled at the Detroit Assembly, Detroit (Michigan).
The Kendrick Cabin is a cozy wood cabin with one bedroom, a kitchen/dining area, living area and bathroom. Features the home control system for security and texture change. Only 80 LI, copy/mod.
Now available at the main store: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunset%20Rock/95/137/24
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