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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
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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)
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).
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Space Shuttle Atlantis as seen from the Mir space station during the STS-81 mission, with Earth’s limb in the background.
Although a striking photograph, note the crappy pixelated resolution, despite my generous, considerate & magnanimous 1200-dpi scan.
Google’s AI-generated declaration states that NASA officially discontinued publishing/issuing hard-copy STS photos in the mid-2000s. By the looks of this – if this is indeed an ‘officially’ produced NASA photograph – it looks like they’d already half-assed their ‘efforts’ to put out a quality physical photographic product…in 1997. At least the online versions are of sufficient quality/resolution.
Further, the date/time stamp presence/format indicates that the photograph was taken using an electronic still camera. Again, according to Google, NASA transitioned to digital photography for immediate transmitability, distribution, analysis(?), etc…with the first flight of the Nikon F4 Electronic Still Camera during STS-48. This allowed for images to be digitized & sent back to earth electronically in near realtime. So…maybe the subsequent expedited processing/printing of photographs, combined with the likely inept & lackadaisical effort by NASA photo processing ‘experts’ yields this level of quality. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I also wonder if the photo processing/development associated with “FUJIFILM PICTRO PAPER” contributed to the disappointing resolution. It shouldn’t have, right? However, in bumbling hands, maybe yes?
www.photo.net/forums/topic/135228-fuji-pictro-vs-frontier/
Credit: photo.net website
Nah…it’s gotta be NASA photo clowns’ buffoonery. Or, NASA just going with the lowest bidder, that is if they’d outsourced the process at this point.
Finally, the image color is much truer (less yellow) in person. However, when I edited it to more accurately reflect that, the white border became an unrealistic pure white. Granted, I only have the stock POS Microsoft photo editing package that comes with a PC. So, this is my best conscientious effort at splitting the difference.
As if the above isn't enough:
www.reddit.com/r/flickr/comments/1nzy9iu/photos_not_fully...
So, who knows what kind of shitty image quality you're currently seeing on Flickr. And, since arrogant, obnoxious, punk-ass Flicker management is probably too busy getting high with their part-time IT pros/bros moonlighting from the local "Computers 'R' Us" shop, there's probably no urgency in resolving the issue.
8.75” x 12”.
The image was featured on the dust-jacket of “Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years – The Astronauts' Experiences in Their Own Words”, by DK Publishing, 2002.
thespaceabove.us/images/ep161_sts-81/s81e5436~orig_hu5231...
Credit: "The Space Above Us" website
E-3G Sentry Boeing AWACS (Airbone Warning and Control System), USAF Oklahoma OK AF 76-1605 on finals for NAS Rota (LERT) from Hancock County-Bar Harbor (KBHB)
960th Airbone Air Control Squadron (AACS)
552nd Air Control Wing
The DRDO Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEWACS) is a project of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation to develop an airborne early warning and control system for the Indian Air Force. It is also referred to as DRDO NETRA AEW&CS system.
Participated in the Aero-India Show 2019 in Bengaluru.
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Gemini 1 at the moment of ignition, 11:00:01 a.m. EST, April 8, 1964, Launch Complex 19, CCAFS.
8.5” x 10.875”.
Note the reddish appearance of the Titan II’s exhaust. A telltale indicator of it being produced by a hypergolic fuel mixture. Even if you have no idea what that is, doesn’t it just look toxic & corrosive? Which it indeed is.
“Gemini 1 was an uncrewed orbital test of the Titan 2 launch vehicle, the Gemini spacecraft structural integrity, and the launch vehicle-spacecraft compatibility. The test covered all phases through the orbital insertion phase. Other objectives were to check out launch vehicle-spacecraft launch heating conditions, launch vehicle performance, launch vehicle flight control system switch-over circuits, launch vehicle orbit insertion accuracy, and the malfunction detection system. This was the first production Gemini spacecraft and launch vehicle.
Mission Profile
Launch of Gemini 1 took place at 11:00:01 a.m. EST (16:00:01.69 UT) from Complex 19. Six minutes after launch, the Titan 2 booster placed the Gemini spacecraft and the attached 2nd stage in a 160.5 x 320.6 km orbit with a period of 89.3 minutes. An excess speed of 22.5 km/hr sent the spacecraft 33.6 km higher than planned. Mission plans did not include separation of spacecraft from the 3.05 meter diameter, 5.8 meter long Titan stage 2, both orbited as a unit. The planned mission included only three orbits and ended about 4 hours 50 minutes after launch with the third pass over Cape Kennedy. The spacecraft was tracked until it reentered the atmosphere and disintegrated on the 64th orbital pass over the southern Atlantic on April 12. The systems functioned well within planned tolerances and the mission was deemed a successful test.
Spacecraft and Subsystems
The Gemini spacecraft was a cone-shaped capsule consisting of two components, a reentry module and an adaptor module. The adaptor module made up the base of the spacecraft. It was a truncated cone 228.6 cm high, 304.8 cm in diameter at the base and 228.6 cm at the upper end where it attached to the base of the reentry module. The re-entry module consisted of a truncated cone which decreased in diameter from 228.6 cm at the base to 98.2 cm, topped by a short cylinder of the same diameter and then another truncated cone decreasing to a diameter of 74.6 cm at the flat top. The reentry module was 345.0 cm high, giving a total height of 573.6 cm for the Gemini spacecraft.
The adaptor module was an externally skinned, stringer framed structure, with magnesium stringers and an aluminum alloy frame. The adaptor was composed of two parts, an equipment section at the base and a retrorocket section at the top. The reentry module consisted mainly of the pressurized cabin designed to hold the two Gemini astronauts. Two instrumentation pallets were mounted in place of the couches which would normally hold the astronauts. The pallets carried some 180 kg of pressure transducers, temperature sensors, and accelerometers. Separating the reentry module from the retrorocket section of the adaptor at its base was a curved silicone elastomer ablative heat shield. The module was composed predominantly of titanium and nickle-alloy with beryllium shingles. Dummy packages and ballast was used to simulate normal spacecraft weight and configuration for systems not required for this flight.”
Above per:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1964...
Credit: NSSDCA website
Also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_1
Credit: Wikipedia
Clifton can have frequent minor and major flooding. The stone wall in the foreground is part of the flood control system. There are flood walls and a swinging flood door to close off the highway in an effort to protect the town. In between the two power poles you can see one of several large flood warning sirens.
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesses
Another interesting frame from this location during my slow speed chase ofPan Am train NMWA-13 across District One. I hiked east about a half mile from the Palmer Road crossing to capture some details illustrating how far the once great Maine Central Railroad's Portland Division mainline has fallen. Here again is the trio of MEC 510, 316, and 7545 (a GP40-2LW, GP40, and C40-8 respectively) with their 4261 ft long train of 59 loads and 4 empties seen smoking as they slog toward MP 80 on the modern day Freight Main.
The goal post signal with searchlights and piles of ties mark the west end of the of one time 6500 ft long Stetson Siding. The propane tank that once provided fuel to power the switch heaters and the signal bungalow still falsely proclaiming CPF80 have been left in place, abandoned with no purpose. The CTC here was installed by the MEC in 1957 and was controlled by the operator at MD tower in a small cabin west of Northern Maine Junction. To see a photo of it I highly recommend this link to a great story: thetracksidephotographer.com/2016/10/06/maine-central-rem...
But with this once busy railroad reduced to only this train up one day and back the next there are no more meets and little need for sidings and signals. Consequently the siding was removed by Guilford years ago, but this hung on as a control point in the woods designated CPF80 until Pan Am finally discontinued the signal and traffic control system as approved on June 15, 2016 per Docket number FRA-2015-0073.
Newport, Maine
Saturday May 14, 2022
Messier 52 (also known as NGC 7654) is an open cluster in the Cassiopeia constellation. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1774. M52 can be seen from Earth with binoculars.
Due to interstellar absorption of light, the distance to M 52 is uncertain, with estimates ranging between 3,000 and 7,000 light years. One study identified 193 probable members of the cluster, with the brightest member being magnitude 11. (text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_52)
This picture was photographed November, 15 2015 in Rozhen observatory, Bulgaria.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg, Televue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
RGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
RGB = 9* 100 seconds, bin.1 each filter. 45 minutes total.
FWHM source in L filter 2.37"-3.02".
The height above the horizon from 67° to 69°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Messier 52 is evaluated at about 35 million years old.
A No 8 Sqn RAF E3D Sentry AEW1 (AWACS) RAF Waddington departs for a morning sortie 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.
The TIE Scythe was an advanced prototype starfighter developed by an Imperial Department of Military Research division under the Imperial Remnant. The prototype shared a lot of characteristics with the TIE Advaced x1 manufactured by Sienar Fleet Systems. The TIE Scythe prototype boasted a hyperdrive, an advanced booster turbine, and deflector shield generator. The Scythe carried heavier firepower than most starfighters, featuring fixed-mounted twin turbo heavy laser cannons, cluster missile launchers, twin blaster cannons at the front, and twin-duo blaster cannons at the rear. Besides heavy armament and numerous advanced improvements, the starfighter’s most innovative feature was its DarkNet control system; an experimental neurolink control system built on Sith technology. The DarkNet system allowed a force sensitive pilot to access the starfighter’s systems through the force, enabling the pilot to react to an opponent's move before it happened.
The TIE Scythe had been developed in total secrecy in the Outer Rim, far away from the New Republic jurisdiction. The Battle of Jabiim proved to be a perfect excuse to deploy and test this new starfighter.
The combined dual ion drive, and an advanced booster turbine provided the Scythe with unparalleled power.
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I wanted to do a Sith Starfighter for a long time, so this category was my favorite. I also got to do a lot of experimenting with DBG on my dropship - this will come in handy for another Imperial ship I have planned. The TIE canopy is a mishmash of inspiration from other great builders - shoutout to @inthert and @brick feeder especially!
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 15.03.2025
A pair of KCS SD70MACe's head north up Track 79 of the KCT North-South Corridor at Old Union Depot Interlocking with a transfer from KCS's Knoche Yard to UP's Neff Yard, which makes a circuitous routing around the West Bottoms in order to get between the two yards.
Both of these former TFM SD70MACs feature retrofitted Mitsubishi inverters and traction control systems, which explains the primer patches on both units. The work has been done by Progress Rail in Mayfield, KY and Patterson, GA.
This transfer from KCS's Knoche Yard to UP's Neff Yard is handled by KCS Job Run 36 now. Previously, UP handled both transfers both to and from the KCS, and UP train YKC49 took care of the transfer from Knoche to Neff. Now, UP train YKS97 delivers to the KCS, and the power will then sit there at Knoche until later that evening when Run 36 goes on duty to take a transfer to the UP. 7/29/17.
Captain Fordo: " All units evacuate the Main Mustafar Control Systems immediately. Were finally leaving this burning planet and all systems are on shutdown. Good Luck"
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This is my build for a contest at the Best Bricker group against Spencer Hubert. Also I know the story and fig is inaccurate, but I liked it and thought it was interesting
Also please look at the Best Bricker group and vote for who's best. It's very fun to compete against other members and I highly recommend joining it :D
Explanation: The globular cluster M22, contains over 100,000 stars. These stars formed together and are gravitationally bound. Stars orbit the center of the cluster, and the cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy. So far, about 140 globular clusters are known to exist in a roughly spherical halo around the Galactic center. Globular clusters do not appear spherically distributed as viewed from the Earth, and this fact was a key point in the determination that our Sun is not at the center of our Galaxy. Globular clusters are very old. There is a straightforward method of determining their age, and this nearly matches the 13.7 billion-year age of our entire universe. (Text: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050627.html)
This picture was photographed June, 13, 2015 in Rozhen observatory, Bulgaria.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
RGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
RGB= 8*100 sec. each filter, bin.1.
40 minutes total.
FWHM 2.25″-2.56″
Altitude from 23° to 24°
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
The water levels are back to normal as the heavy spring rains turn to more hot summer days. This area was well under water a few weeks ago. Construction continues at this lake as they design new trails and a flood water control system.
Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is an example of a grand design spiral galaxy located within the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices. It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, located approximately 55 million light-years distant from Earth and has a diameter of 107,000 light years. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 15, 1781 and was subsequently entered in Messier’s catalogue of nebulae and star clusters after Charles Messier made observations of his own on April 13, 1781. The galaxy was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered, and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord William Parsons of Rosse in 1850. Two satellite galaxies named NGC 4323 -connected with M100 by a bridge of luminous matter- and NGC 4328 are present within this galaxy. (text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_100)
This picture was photographed March, 15-16, 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=34*300 sec. bin.1, RGB= 27*150 sec. each filter, bin.2.
6 hours total.
FWHM 2.25″-2.95″
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Union Pacific SD45 No. 3608 rests between assignments in Provo, Utah the afternoon of Jan. 9, 1977. If you look closely, you can see the Radio Control System antenna on top of the cab for RCS Locotrol 'master' operation. I recall waiting, waiting, waiting for 3608 to move, in hopes of grabbing a shot of the 'Road of the Streamliners' hopper car on a parallel track. No such luck.
U know it,Operators conducting operation with fire danger like electrical welding and gas welding or operators for automatic fire control system, must hold relevant certificates and strictly observe operation rules on fire control safety.
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AUTOMAT
Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed without human assistance.Automation or automatic control is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications and vehicles with minimal or reduced human intervention. Some processes have been completely automated.
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.
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.
“Docking in Space--Artist’s concept of rendezvous of the Gemini spacecraft and the Agena vehicle. They latch together as a result of visual observation by the Gemini astronauts.”
11” x 13.875”.
The above is the ‘verbatim’ caption from the official 1964 reissue (I presume) of the original 1962 (I presume) photograph. Alrighty then, clear as mud.
Yet again, I set myself up for disappointment. I was sure I’d readily find this at multiple “space” sites, miraculously, maybe even at a NASA website. Using logical keywords like ‘Gemini’, ‘Agena’, ‘concept’, in varying combinations – nothing. I even rotated the image, both clockwise & counter-clockwise – nothing.
I know for a fact that I’ve seen this multiple - many actually - times over the course of my life. I consider(ed)? It to be (yes, in MY world) an iconic Gemini/Gemini-Agena artist’s concept. Maybe it was primarily as part of/within documents, manuals, presentations, etc. Who knows.
However, John Sisson’s wonderful “Dreams of Space – Books and Ephemera” website did have the image:
dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/06/book-of-space-adventur...
Specifically:
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As did, unexpectedly:
www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-1965-13.html
Credit: DER SPIEGEL website
And BOTH correctly oriented!
More/most importantly, through a minor miracle, the ‘framing’ of the image includes/retains the signature of the artist – Mr. Arnold Pierce. IMHO, a spectacular WIN. Which, by extrapolation, enabled attribution of at least one other work, linked below.
There is a lot of unglamorous work associated with owning a private observatory. In our case, we had to upgrade the telescope control system about a year ago and thereafter ensued a lot of additional upgrades and testing which revealed other problems we had not been aware of. Consequently we have cleaned the 26" primary mirror, adjusted the polar alignment, fine-tuned the tracking rate, laser-collimated the optical system, installed new dome control, installed a new auto-guiding system, added three new cameras and a new filter wheel. Each step is followed by testing an exhausting number of star images on every clear night available, which commences after our observatory guests have left around midnight.
You might guess that the glamorous part is getting to capture images of the wonders in our universe, but actually it is meeting the wonderful people who visit us and shake our hands when they leave.
Prior to this image, we had photographed the Pinwheel in April of 2021 and by a complete coincidence chose it as our live-stack object for guests about 10 1/2 hours after Supernova SN 2023ixf was discovered on May 19, 2023. At the time of discovery, the estimated magnitude was 14.9 and the object brightened significantly in our subsequent imaging to an estimated magnitude of 11 on May 22.
This image was taken on July 9, showing that the object has dimmed and while not a perfect image, we are noting significant improvement and claiming a bit of success following the work we have done on our imaging train thus far.
Equipment: 26" Newtonian Reflector Telescope f/4.8
Custom Mount with PMC-8 Controller
ZWO ASI6200 MC Pro Camera (broadband single shot color)
Optec TCF Focuser
Imaging: 119 images captured in Sharpcap Pro @ 60 sec unguided
Processed in Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Astro-Flat, StarXTerminator and Topaz
Thank you for reading.
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Maven Homes - The Deja
The Deja home is a home where air and light move freely and every room feels connected.
Living, dining, and kitchen areas blend seamlessly, allowing for smooth traffic flow and conversations across rooms.
Home rezzes from a rezzer box.
There is a separate HUD for color textures of the interior of the home!
Your house comes with a home control system that includes a number of features, including the ability to eject unwelcome visitors.
Fireplace - Built in
Kitchen - Built in
Bathroom - Built in
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Manufacturer Boeing Co.
Operator: USAF, Tinker AF Base Oklahoma
Type: E-3 Sentry (75-55578)
Location: NAS Rota
Comment: The E-3 Sentry is an airborne warning and control system, or AWACS, aircraft with an integrated command and control battle management, or C2BM, surveillance, target detection, and tracking platform.
Day two of the open hanger and fly in at New Century Air Center in Gardner Kansas. Doc show here preparing to taxi down to the runway and get ready for clearance from the tower.
In late 1939, the Army Air Corps issued a formal specification for a "superbomber", capable of delivering 20,000 lbs of bombs to a target 2,600 miles away at 400 mph.
The B-29 Superfortress was one of the most advanced bombers of the time, with innovations such as a pressurized cabin, a central fire-control system, and remote-controlled machine gun turrets.
In wartime, the B-29 was capable of flight up to 31,850 feet at speeds of 350 mph. Designed as a high-altitude daytime bomber, the B-29 flew more low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing missions.
As part of the World War II military buildup, 3,970 B-29s were built during production at four assembly plants across the United States.
Doc is a B-29 Superfortress and one of 1,644 manufactured in Wichita during World War II. Since 1987 when Tony Mazzolini found Doc on sitting and rotting away in the Mojave Desert, plans have been in the works to restore the historic warbird to flying status to serve as a flying museum.
Over the past 15+ years, hundreds of volunteers have worked on Doc and the restoration project. Skilled workers and retirees from Wichita’s aviation industry, veterans, active duty military and others wanting to honor those who served, have spent tens of thousands of hours on Doc’s restoration. Countless individuals and organizations also made financial and in-kind contributions to keep the project going. Below is a brief timeline of Doc’s military service, the restoration effort and Doc’s current mission.
In March of 1945, B-29 No. 44-69972 (now known as Doc) was delivered to the U.S. Army. About five months later another B-29 was used to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, eventually leading to Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II.
In July of 1951, Doc was assigned to radar calibration duty, along with a few other B-29s. The squadron was known as the Seven Dwarfs. In May of 1955, Doc was assigned to target-towing duty and in March a year later, Doc and the rest of its squadron became targets for bomb training at China Lake, California.
For 42 years, Doc sat in the Mojave Desert serving as a target for the U.S. Navy. In 1987, Tony Mazzolini found Doc and began plans to remove and eventually restore the B-29 warbird to flying status. It would take another 12 years before Mazzolini and his team would be able to take possession of the airplane from the U.S. government.
After more than a decade of contacting multiple government agencies and working with volunteers in the China Lake area, Tony took possession of the once target practice plane. A few months later in April of 1998, Tony and his team of volunteers towed Doc out of its 42 year resting place on the floor of the Mojave Desert.
After arranging for an inspection by an expert on aging Boeing aircraft, Mazzolini realized it would take extensive resources and specific expertise to return the Doc to flying condition. So the B-29 returned to Wichita in sections on flatbed trailers in May of 2000. Volunteers began the process of reassembling the B-29 and drew up plans to restore the historic warbird which was now sitting a few hundred feet from where it first rolled off the Boeing-Wichita assembly line some 50+ years before. Dedicated volunteers spent countless hours in the early stages of restoring the historic plane.
In February of 2013, a group of Wichita aviation enthusiasts & business leaders led by retired Spirit AeroSystems CEO Jeff Turner formed Doc’s Friends, a 501c3 non-profit board to manage the restoration project and help see it through to completion.
Doc's first flight after the restoration process was 2016.
Sources: www.b29doc.com/docs-story/
www.airplanes-online.com/b29-superfortress-airplane-nose-...
A couple of photos of the impressive "Deep Explorer" in Bay Bulls. I had previously posted a couple of photos of her but I found these two showed off some neat details. "Deep Explorer" is an Offsahore Subsea Construction and Diving Support Vessel designed for the demanding North Sea / Canada conditions. When "Deep Explorer" entered service in 2017, she was the most modern and versatile diving support vessel in the world, thanks to the latest technology in diving control systems, a 400 tonne box boom crane, a large deck area, a working moonpool, a diving moonpool, and work-class ROVs. Importantly, the vessel features a state-of-the-art 24-man twin bell saturated dive system rated to 350 metres (1148 ft). She is capable of working on diving and subsea construction projects in extreme weather conditions. "Deep Explorer" is 157 metres in length overall (515 ft) and she has accomodations for 150.
We needed the help of the Ae 6/6 on our journey from Brugg to Rheinfelden, as the two small steam locomotives have no signalling control system installed.
A-10 Warthog.
It is literally a close air support aircraft built around a very, very big gun.
That's the GAU-8/A 30mm cannon I am massaging. This thing can take a beating and keep on fighting. Self-sealing fuel cell in the fuselage. Manual systems back up the redundant hydraulic flight-control systems. I love this thing. A-10 pilots say there is nothing that describes the rush you get when you pull the trigger.
Autumn work of preparing soil in South Moravia region
CASE IH QUADTRAC 600 with unique fertibox incl. RAVEN Product Control System and LEMKEN Karat 9 intensive cultivator
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I have been lost in Photoshop. I was having ideas in Lightroom and they led to edits and on to Photoshop CS and from there they are stretching out towards some notion of motion pictures. I have not used this Film Temperature Control System. I have been calling a film cooker. It looks superb and it comes with a three pin U.K. Plug fitted ready for accurate simmering film into tender toner and sharpish shadows and might fine highlights.
I have used two fonts to give °CineStill a look as it has in the packaging.
I forget to mention the soundtrack. Two tracks from those provided by my editing service with no composers and players listed. I have edited tracks individually and together. All errors on me and all praise to unknown originators of music. I wish that I had some names to praise.
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743.002+743.008 are hauling GigaWood wagons from Visnova to Liberec as Mn 84001 train. 743 series loco is called "Eletrkonik" in Czechia. They are so named because they are an electrically and electronically modified version of the 742 locomotive. The most important changes are the use of an electrodynamic brake and an electronic combustion engine control system. At the photo train enters Liberec with 10 GigaWood wagons.
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Lokomotywy 743.002+743.008 prowadzą wagony GigaWood z Visnovy do Liberca w planie Mn 84001. Lokomotywy serii 743 nazywane są w Czechach „Eletrkoniki”. Nazwa ta wynika z faktu, że jest to zmodyfikowana elektrycznie i elektronicznie wersja lokomotywy 742. Najważniejsze zmiany to zastosowanie hamulca elektrodynamicznego i elektronicznego układu sterowania silnikiem spalinowym. Na zdjęciu pociąg wjeżdża do Liberca z 10 wagonami GigaWood.
Yet it drives very well but must be slowed down especially turning. It is designed with a traction control system that prevents wheels from skipping on slippery road such as snow and ice. Designed for winter travel.
Power transmission of an decayed water control system.
Nikon D7200; Tamron SP AF 70-300 mm f/4,0-5,6 Di VC USD
70 mm; f/5.6; 1/30 s; ISO 400
Amtrak train 364, the International, was Canada bound as it ripped through Ogden Dunes behind VIA F40PH 6427 in 1998.
The Canadian visitor was a bright spot on a dreary day along Conrail's Chicago Line. The F40PHs were not compatible with the newly installed Incremental Train Control System, so they were replaced with Amtrak P32-8WH locomotives late in 1999.